The New York Herald Newspaper, February 26, 1876, Page 6

| ; 4 G BABCOCR’S ESCAPE. anon Joy Among His Personal Friends and the Political Parasites. CONGRATULATORY MESSAGES “A Night’s Jollification at the Lindell Hotel. COST OF THE DEFENCE. NEW : YORK HERALD, SATU AMERICAN SOLDIERSHIP. New Yorx, Feb, 25, 1876. To rms Eprror or tas Heaaty:— \ In the Saturday Review for the 20th of January, 1876, there appeared an article which purported to be a review of two American military works, which is hb abuse and misrepresentation of the military achievements of the American Army prior to the rebel- lion and of the Northern Army during that war. It is unworthy of a people whe have 4one so grandly to re- deavor to present the truth and allow English prejudice to recoil upon itself, article would be unworthy of notice were it not for the standing of the paper in which it appeared. In the first place, it is simple justice to’take into ac- count the natural dificulties overcome in every war, as well as the number of combatants engaged. The Amerfcan Indians, tirough the crimes Fudge Dillon and a Possible Vacancy on the | of individuals, nave boon almost as well, if Supreme Court Bench, Sr. Louis, Peb, 25, 1876, The St. Louis press, with the exception of the @lobe- Democrat (McKee’s paper), 18 unanimous tn its con- demnation of the verdict. The Globe-Democrat says :— “The great trial resulted in an acquittal, under circum- stanees which render it more than @ verdict of not guilty and exalt it into, the nature of a triumphant vindication.” It goes on to say that the case was at | best but one of suspicion, The Republican says:— “Unquestionably there was a prima facie case against the defendant, but we thigk we are not wrong in as- suming that the pepular verdict of ‘Guilty’ which had settled upon General Babcock was due quite as mach to the evasive, objecting, techuical defence of his attor- neys as to the direct character of the testimony for the prosecution.” The Zimes says:—‘'The Court was or- ganized not to try, but to acquit. The words ‘Not guilty’ were words of ominous import to all who love their coun- ‘try, who have faith in its institutions, yet lose the most ‘that is worth hoping, for the most that redounds to the glory of their citizenship in the presence of a sys- “tem prostituted to the defence ana exculpation of gov ernmental corruption.” “Babcock’s acquittal will be a signal to the whole arid of whiskey thieves to march forward all along the line. This band seems to be as sure now of controlling the judiciary as it has for years the executive power.” ‘The Westliche Post also calls attention to the fact that | salready, day betore yesterday, tho Globe-Democrat | knew of the favorable drift of the Judge’s charge, and | that it said yesterday that Everest’s testimony ‘would “De instructed out of court,” BABCOCK’S LEVEE. Among the prominent men who attended Babcock’s levee on Thursday night were McKee, Bevis and Fra- »wier and a number of the other convicted distillers and | troops were inferior, the actual fighting was, in fact, wevenue officials, who appeared to be most anxious to ‘be restored to Babcock’s tavor, and some malicious | people say with an eye to an executive pardon, Ex- Collector Constantine Maguire, who pleaded guilty of defrauding the government, and McKee, were the chic! getters up of the serenade; the first named friend of The Westliche Post says:— | not as well, armed us the American troops, and the Indians of tho Plains far better mounted for service. The difficulty has never been to whip the Indians, but to get at them. The antagonists of the English stood to meet Ahem, whereas the opponent of the American troops had to be hunted down. It ts no exaggeration to declare that the American cavalry have made campaigns in which they overcame difliculties | minds of English troopers, Is the writer in the Saturday | Review so utterly ignorant of the past that he forgets the tmmense amount of organized life expended by his goverament in various wars against savages or demi+ | savages—for instance St, Domingo? Has he forgotten Whitelock’s failure at Buenos Ayres, or tho disasters in Cabal, or the Maroon war /—or, to fo back a little fur- ther, English failures in North'America, among these Braddock’s defeat? Brave and generous mén would hardly pen such a sentence as this:—‘Lhere is, therefore, a certain ante- cedent feeling of contempt in the British mind for American soldiership,” &, of an Engligh officer, accepted as an expert of the first order by the English. He speaks, in a preface wo one ot his recent works, as follows:—“Of the essays here | republished the last four relate to the great war in | America, the military excellence displayed in which | has been’ unduly depreciated. by comparison with late events on the Continent, There is a disposition to regard the American generals and the troops they led as altogether inferior to regular soldiers, This preju- dice was born out of the biunders and want of coher- ence exhibited by undisciplined volunteers at the outset, faylts amply atoned for by the stubborn courage displayed on both sides throughout the rest of the struggle, while, | measured by the amount of actual fighting he has gone throng, tho most seasoned soldiers of Europe are but as conscripts compared with the survivors uf that con- flict. The conditions of war on a grand scale were illustrated to the full as much in the contest in America as in those more recently wi on the Continent, , In all that relates to the art of feed- ing and supplying an army the Americans displayed | quite as much ability as any Continental Power, while, | ittho organization and discipline of their improvised more stubborn, for ‘no European forces bave experi enced the amount of resistance in combat which North and South opposed to each other. Neither was the frequently indecisive result of the great battles fought in America any tions to the ordinary rules of military sciences These actions were so inconclusive—tirst, from deficiency in cavalry, and, next, because the beiten side would not | | | | | Babcock collecting tho assessment which was levied for | break up. The American soldiery, in thus refusing to this purpose upon Grant’s and Babcock’s friends, and some who desired to become friends of theirs. The re- ception was presided over by Babcock, Storrs, William ©. Avery, convicted of robbing the government, and Levi P. Luckey. Avery, Luckey and Babcock, who have been incessantly together since Babcock left Wash- ington for St. Louis, continued the jubilation to-day in @ quieter manner. THE CONGRATULATORY TELEGRAMS from all paris of the country still come pouring in this morning. Many were from personal friends, but the money spent for this purpose by federal office-holders and candidates for office, as far away as Nevada, must have been immense, Among the depatches are the following :— RIGHT IS RIGHT, WasmixoTon, Feb. 24, 1876, “General 0. E. Baxcock, St. Louii For right is right, as God is goo Das won. Thank Storrs, Porter, forme. Bless them. ‘TRIUMPH Williams and Krum A. R. SHEPHERD, Feb. 24, 1876. General 0. E. Bancock, 5! — Permit one whose faith, as you know, has never end a decent administration of law over political and personal persecution, a malignant press and popular elamor. GEORGE BLISS, Distnet Attorney. GLORY AND AFYRCTION, New York, Feb. 24, 1876. Joun K. ky rage pena ‘ i egards to Babcoc ean 4 HUGH J, HASTINGS. “| TOLD YOU 80.” The following amusing despatch was Bardwell Slote, of the Kohosh district: — Sovruzes Horst, St. Louis, Fel General 0. E. sce t agri sheers! in felt mate W. J. FLORENCE. APTER THE BATTLE 24, 1878. and right the day | yield to panic when losing the day, retiring in good | order and keeping a good front to the victorious j enemy, displayed, let us venture to betieve, an in- | herited quality. In order to pursue there must be | some one to run away, and, to the credit of the Ameri- | cans, the ordinary conditions of European warfare in this respect were usually absent from the great battles | fought across the Atlantic, Hence, partly, the frequent | repetition of the stragg! Imost on the same ground, | of which the last campaign of Grant and Lee is the crowning example. Nor have those who study the deeds wrought by Farragut and Porter, with impro- vised means, any reason to hold American sailors cheaper than our own, or to think lightly of the energy hat raised the fleets they led.’”* | It is all sufficient to vindicate the magnificent soldier- ship of our people Im Mexico to contrast it with what | the French accomplished iu the same country, for | which two of their generals were made field marshals without obtaining a single suceess to compare with | either one of the principal triumphs of the American | arms, Forey was made a marshal for capturing a com- | | | paratively open town, after a long siege, with every ad- vantage in his favor; whereas Scott took Vera Cruz, | strongly fortified and garrisoned, after a siege of alow | days, with the advantages largely m favor of the | swavered to congratulate you on the triumph of jastice | CUEMY. | Aguin, he speaks of Northern successes as duo alone | to superior numbers. In ‘the open’? or comparatively “open,” on equal terms, the rebela cannot boast of a victory. | At Gettysburg the armies were about equal. If either was stronger it was the rebels, not the teder | als, At Nashville the real supertority of strength was | | i 1 Luckey, Avery, Williams and Babcock leave together | to-night tor Washington, and on tho same train, prob- | course followed by the English writer, No Ameri- ably, will be Colonel Brodhead. Babcock looked very much wearied, probably because the jolliication did not break up till three o'clock this morning, according to the festive young Krum. ‘The grand banquet which | with Hood. At Shiloh or Pittsburg Landing the rebels | enjoyed advantages which the victors lacked. These | | we from the Hom, | Ghatt; he three truly decisive battles of the war. At anooga the Union army. stormed and took posi- tions which should have been impregnable, and tue victors had nothing like the odds in their iavor to which they were entitled. There never bas been such downright hard fighting | and honest dying in harness as was exhibited by North- erners in our four years’ conilic. To deny the same | anliness to the rebels would be taking exactly the can gontieman has ever denied imperturablo courage to British troops; and Americans very | seldom seek to throw discredit on their actnevements, | Nevertheless, there were numbers of American regi- | ‘was to be given to Babcock did not come off, as be de- | monts that lost more men in single collisions than the clined it’ The face of every federal officeholder in the city who to be met on the street still retat ‘Deaming expression, Krum states that Babcock’s fence cost him about $25,000, It is reported that Por- {t8 | fuss about it The Northern troo; tle- | calm courage in their attack on Lee’s lines at Freder- English in the Balaklava charge, without making any splayed as much | icksburg, although it ended in defeat, as English troops | ter got $6,000, and Storrs, who has been engaged in | on any of their most distinguished ‘felds of victory. | ing the case since December and bas given all | phe English column at Fontenoy did not suffer more | ‘A very large number of detec- to it, $7,900. eee oe Williams tives and other assistants were engaged, severely or retire more gloriously than Humphrey's | division which came out of the sianghter pit singing, | served without a fec. The costof the prosecution to | to testify that if physically they could not succeed the government will amount to about $6,000. Nove of the convicted members of the Ring will be sentenced ‘until the motion for a new trial in the McKee case is Aisposed of, as some of them would have to be used | Balaklava. i f@guin as Witnesses in a new trial The probability is that the sentences will be pronounced soon after the ‘commencement of the March term, which begins on the third Monday in March. JUDGE DILLON'S PROBABLY REWARD. The intimate friends of Grant and Babcock, who are very numerous tn this cit quiet way about the probability of Judge Dilion’s eleva- tion to the United States Supreme Court Bench in the event of a vacancy during Grant’s term, Dillon is avery ambitious judge, and.one of these men said esterday that Justice Clifford would probably retiro | Boon On account of feeble heaith and that Dilion had shown such transcendent ability in his charge that he ‘was certain to be appointed to the vacancy. Most well informed people think that Dillon will be re- warded in o substantial manner the administration for having saved bis party and government from the stigma which Babcock’s conviction would have cast upon them. District Attorney Dyer bas received @ despatch from Blutord Wilson staung that he (Dyer) had done his duty, his whole duty, and need feci no | regret for what he had done. From the bitter expres- sions of Babcock to ‘some of his intimate friends, after the verdict, it may fairly be inferred that he will leave Mo stone unturned to oust Dyer. Colonel Dyer thinks the strongest part of Dillon’s charge was that declaring that the only motive for Babcock’s participation in the conspiracy which the | wrosecution had alleged was pecuniary gain, and throw- | ing out Everest’s testimony, even if its truth was be- lieved by the jury, because the sending of the letters did not raise even a ‘‘iegal presumption” that they were received, ‘KS CHARACTER, Lawyers say that the old generals and politicians who Bwore to Babcock’s character had a great part in bis | Bequitial, as their evidence gave Dilion a chance to erect Babcock's golden reputation before the jury as an almost insuperable bar to his conviction. Ex. ib Says that under Dillon's charge the jury no alternative but to acquit, and another promi- ‘ment lay ce ‘that he was ready to refuse to receive a verdict guilty had the jury broucht one tn. Certain it is Wat bis extreme nervousness and anxiety to know what the verdict was has beeg commented upon by ‘many Of the observers as very s' ge fora judge usu- ally so imperturbable. M'KEE'’S CASE, AN AFFIDAVIT FILED IMPESCHING TEE COMPE- WENCY OF A JUROR—-THE MOTION FOR A NEW TRIAL ’, Sr. Lovis, Feb, 25, 1876. In the United States Cirbuit Court to-day, Colonel Batch, counsel for William McKee, fled an ailidavit in support of a motion for » new trial Some editorials | from the Republican, which are claimed to have served bo prejudieg the case against the defendant, were also ‘The aMdavit mentioned is made by Watson of Louisiana, Pike county, Mo, who charges H. F. Summers, a juror in the MoKee trial, with hesimg jadiced the case by stating previous to the tri: fiake believed McKee was guilty and that he was the toad in the puddle. The Court ordered that the Soeadans have leave until the 6th of March to file ad- ditional affidavits, the prosecution ten days thereafter answer the same, and the defendant to bave uowl 20th to Lie testimony tn rebuttal, CROOKED WHISKEY IN NEW YORK. Jt. now appears that large seizures of crooked whis- fey were mado if New York city in the early part of “ tnat year, in consequence of the discovery of the frauds im the West, though they were not reported at the | ‘the exact details are withheld by the Firet, Second and trty-second Internal Rev- er who knows Dillion well gives it as his | morally they were not beaten, The First Maine Heavy Artillery in an assault at Petersburg lost more men ina | few minutes without shrinking than all the English at | The, British failed at Bergen op Zoon and atthe | | are talking agood deal ina | | | | | their own people’ { gee more clearly and perver: | {tis to bo hoped that American officers will demon- Redan, and yet uo Americans. ever cast astoue at |, them.’ In the late Ashantee war, if the report of a dis- interested eye witness is correct, the victorious | lish were very glad to “get out of shat” and bai the coast as £000 as pos | Is is utterly impossible for a generous mind to com. | prehend acertain class of English military writing. | ‘These always seem to criticise in aspirit of malice or | envy, oF some such feoling, “It is only since Prussia | has become a very great aud strong Power, which it is that English writers have begun imate upon the decisive induence of Blucher ‘at Waterloo. | They seem to write of the United States—and espe- | cially of the Northern States—in @ spirit of deprecia- | tion, for fear that in the event ofa collision an honest | appreciation of An lor might take the edge of ppetite for fighting. While thus reviewing this reviewer American s01- | diers can afford to look down with contempt on a re- vival of a system which it was to be hoped that com- mon sense had buried beyond resurrection. . In the royal mag nce of grand results without example a bation like the United States can afford to | pass over in silence the barking which once might an- hoy buthas long since lost its power to excite any other feeling than pity for such prejudice and igno- Trance. And with the gincore desire that dull eyes may hearts judge more justly strate their appreciation of the class to which this re- ‘viewer belongs by letting them severely alone, and not | extend to them any esy beyond the strictest hne of duty, Such articles as this in the Saturday Review havo been too often the reward of American magnanim- ity and hospitality. ANCHOR ays in Modern Military Biography, by Lieutenant Col- Chesney, Royal Engineers. ARMY AND NAVY CLUB. The new house of the Army and Navy Club, No. 28 West Thirtieth street, will be opened to the members | of tht club on Tuesday evening, the 29th inst, The re- ception will be an interesting and jovial event, IN POLAR RIG. Foster, i admit that the largest seizures | ‘ourth wards, | they gave their names as William Kyan, James R St the Eastern | Such biting northwest galos as swept this const during Weanesday night and Thursday are even the | winter dread of tho sailor. Their power was evidenced | on allcraft navigating the North Atlantic in iced ropes | and frosted decks. This was eapecially noticed on the | | arrival here yesterday of the Anchor Line steamship | Victoria, Her sides, from stem to stera, were plated With ice to the thickness of four inches, while every- thing ou her deck was covered with the frozen spray, which had formed a skating field bounded by teed bul: Warks and fringed with tho rigging, whose small ropes | were dwollen to the size of with their encasings of crystal and bright pendants of icicles. Cabins, | bridges and boats were all covered with thick {ce The | officers stated that their tmp bad beon pleasant till | Weduesday night, at which time the galo struck them, rolling up a heavy sea, which congealed as soon as it touched the steamer. Great caution was used, and no | | accident resulted. Clad jn her mail of tce the steamer | looked like a swift messenger from the Polar seas come to us laden with the fraits of the Arctic Circle, PROTECTING THE IMMIGRANTS. | Yesterday morning Police Captain Donovan, of Ho- boeken, caused the arrest of three men who were | prowling suspiciously about the Bremen dock. Tho Captain had previously recognized them as New York confidence men, When taken to tho station house nothing else than a mere resumption of the stereotyped | tort inalike strain, All that is necessary is to en- | In verity this Saturday Review | and underwent suilerings such as never entered the | As a set off to this we present the counter testimony ‘| if a mau’s claims to be regarded at a veteran are to be | ‘am | roof that they formed excep- | | Caracalla, 2 years, by r | ton, Clare avd Peter Farrell. They were beid for examina. tion til last night, when, no evidence being fortucom- ‘pe againss them, they were discharsed, COACHING, {From the Forest and Stream, Feb. 24.) Although we think ita generation too soou, wo wish the gentlemen who have undertaken the revival of and in preference to “introduced,” which is the term applied by some of our contemporaries, who forget that we have not always had railroads, and that coach- ing, if never followed purely as a pastime by any of our gentlemen of wealth, ag itis and was in England, was yet. in olden times the only means of travel; and, in fact, this country is still the home of the stage coach and aifords more of that pleasurable excitement to be found “ou the road” than is or ever was té be had elsewhere, Tn many parts of the West and Southwest, notably in California, Nevada, Colorado, Arizona and New Mex- ico, the stage coach is the only means of com- munication between distant points, and our English visitor can not only be carried over the |Slerras by the rocky shores of the Pacific and across great sandy deserts, but we can give him a taste of that variety iu coaching which he has not known since the days of Dick Turpin and Claude Duval. The heroes of Hounslow Heath seem now almost like myth- ical characters, but our “road agents” stiil flourish in Nevada and California, while the playful Apache awaits the traveller in Arizona to relieve him alike of purse and scalp. As for distance, a continuous trip can be made on the Pacitic coast of 1,000 or more miles, and lasting night and day fora week. Or the traveller can remain over at his willatany ofthe stations. Probably no coach- ing trip can be named to exceed in interest that which js made by starting at Gilroy or Hollister, or the fur- thest point from San Francisco reached by the South- ern Pacific Railroad, and driving through the Salinas Valley and over the coast range to Santa Barbara, pass- ing through scores of those beautiful natural parks of live onks, and attwming an altitude of 6,000 fees or more, Thence following tho coast, with the wheels soma@imes washed by the waves of the Pacific, throug San Beneventuro to Los Angelos, and through the lovely San Gabriel Valley to San Ber- bardino, It is generally supposed that the horses used on these Western stage lines are miserable little mustangs, but this isa mistake. The ‘‘cattle’’ generally consists of fine American horses (so called to distinguish them from the native stock). We remember once driving into Gilroy, where the cars were waiting to take us to San Francisco, behind ag handsome a team of six roan horses as could be turned out anywhere, and got- ten up as to grooming and harness ina style that would not have disgraced “the avenue.” Everybody has heard of Hank Monk, the Nevada coachman, who ’ took Mr. Greeley at such a pace over the Sierra Nevadas, and, pretending to misunderstand his petitions for caution, exclauned, “Sit still, Mr. Greeley, 1’ll get you there in time.” And every one who goes to San Fran- ciseo and visits the geysers must have been struck with that remarkable bit of coachmanship where six horses are taken down and around a mountain over a road barely wide enough for the wheels, with a steep precipice On one side. TURF NOTES. ‘The stories current about the bad temper of the race- horse Longfellow are all false. He is as gentle as any stallion in Kentucky and as grand in appearance as any horse in America, The following is a list of the weights assigned to the horses for the four-year-old handicap stakes to be run for at tho spring meeting of the Maryland Jockey Club at Baltimore:— Lbs. Rhadamanthus, Viator.. Ascension 100* New York. 96 Wilhe Burke, i One Knob. 95 James A 3 Theodosia, 93 Add... Retriever.... 93. E£unlister, +. 10L Gray Lag. 92 Papermaker 99 Jest. 92 Leader . 99 Lord Zetland. rt 9 a George Rice lias named his bay two-year-old colt by Longfellow, dam Ringlet, Longbow. The colt isa fine looking youngster, full of racing quality. He resem- bles his sire more than any other of his get that wo have seen. The following horses are now in training at the Louis- ville Jockey Club track :— W. Jennings’ stable.—Ballankeel, 5 years, i Aste- roid—Schottishe; Scramble, 4 years, by Star Davis— Skedaddle; Bengal, 8 years, by Brown Dick—Sadowa; Ashby, 8 years, by’ Asteroid—Belle Brandon; Patriot, 3 years, by Phaeton—Sallie Farrell; Crab Orchard, 3 years, by Australian—Heiress; Baimach Lath, 2 years, by Australian—Bonita; Oily Gammon, 2 years, by Bay- wood—Cornflower; Garry Owen, 2 years, by Glenelg— Crowulet; bay colt, 2 years, by Baywood—Goneril; bay colt, 2 years, by Bayonet—Ave Maria; chestnut colt, 2 years, by Australian—Rosetia, Williams & Owings’ stable—Fair Play, 5 years, by Virgil—Crucifix; Creedmoor, 3 years, by Asteroid—Target; Melnotte, 3 years, by L. Melbourne— Woodford Belle; Schoolmate, 3 years, by Planet— Fuli Cry; Foul Play, 3 years, by Virgil—Stamps; Vera Cruz, 2 years, by Virgil—Regan; Short Lme, 2 ‘years, by Lexington—Inverness; Spring Branch, 2 years, by Australian—Springbrook; Classmate, 2’ years,’ by Planet—Full Cry; Artistic, 2 years,’ by Australian— [verry Farris; Buttercup, 2 years, by Glen Athol—Bay- ower, George H. Rico’s Stable.—Russ Butler, 3 years, by War Dance—Princess Royal; chestnut gelding, 3 ybars, by Victory—A. Tarleton; War Hawk, 2 years, by War Dance—Nora Creina; Odd Fellow, 2 years, by Longfel- jagnolia; bay colt Longbow, 2 years, by Long- fellow—Kinglet; brown colt, 2 years, by Lewis Mei- bourne—Magnetta. The following horses will be trained at Mr. Belmont’s stables, ut Babylon, Long Island, for the com- Z campaign:—Olitipa, 4 years, by Leaming- a; Matador, 4 years, by Gladiateur—imp. Nonp Fiddiesticks, 3 years, by Legington—Fill gree; Killarney, 8 years, by Lexington—Lulu Horton; Bertiam, 3 years, by Kentucky—imp. Bernice; Clema- tis, 8 years, by Kentacky—imp. Fleur des Champs; Ca- rina, d years, by Kentucky—imp. Camila; Dauntless, Sycars, by Macaroni—Artless; Patience, 8 years, by mesan—Patronage; Sultana, 3 years, by Loxing- —Milared; Adelaide, 3 years, by Australian—Dolly Carter; Maznum Bonum, years, by Leamington— Maggie B. B. ; Susquehanna, 2 years, by Leamington— Susan Bean; ‘Hibernia, 2 years, by Leamington—Hen- rietta Welch; Mineola, 2 years, by Leamington— Maiden; Bagdad, 2 years, by Kentucky—Babta; Baroness, 2 years, by Kentucky—Lady Bles- sington; Farina, 2 years, by Kentucky—imp. Polenta; Kingfisher—imp. Camilia, Colonel McDaniel has in training thirty-eight’ racers for coming events. They comprise 0; ysterman, Jr; Madge, Mattie A., tralia, Willie Burke, Jo. Cerns, Big Sandy, Brother to Bassett, Virginius, ‘Vigil, Brag: gelonne, Sue Washington colt, colt by Exchequer, Star of Elkhorn, Minnie, Little Miss filly, Lula B., Sister of Mercy, Helen Douglas filly, Jennie L., Prince: Major Barker, Lady Salyers, Sarah B. colt, Spotted Fawn colt, Bet Ariington colt, Eastern Star colt, Banner colt, ‘Katinka colt, Sue Dougherty colt, Destiny colt, Madume Dudley colt, Phaeton filly, Sea Bird filly, Leisure filly, Canary Bird filly, Minnie Mans- field Olty and Sally Watson filly, The eighteen last named are two-year-olds. The thoroughbred filly Milkmaid, by War Dance, dam Fly, by Mahomet, was killed in ‘a car near Peru, IL, by a switch sogind running into the car. She was a full sister to Big Feliow. Solonel McDaniel lost a filly by Harry Bassctt, out of Sea Bird, last week. The filly was about a month old, and while capering about a paddock fell and fractured | oue of her logs, which compelled her destruction. PIGEON SHOOTING. ABRANGEMENT OF MATCHES BETWEEN DR. TAL- BOT AND IRA A. PAINE. ‘The admirers of this pastime will be glad to learn | that Dr, Talbot and Ira A. Paine have arranged to shoot | | two matches at Deerfoot Park on the 6th prox. The first of these 1s of a novel nature, being styled a “table” match, the conditions requiring each to shoot at 20 single birds from a ground trap, 21 yards rise, 80 yards fall and 14% oz shot. Birds will be found by each, and all are to bo trapped out of one hamper. Each shooter’s gun is to be laid upon a table and got to be touched until the bird is fairly on the wing, and either party touching his gun before the bird is so on the wing will be scored as having missea, ‘The unusual conditions of this event must prove very attractive and draw together large number of specta- to rs The second match possesses equal Interest almost with the first. It is for each man to shoot at 15 pairs of pigeons, Long Island rules to govern, excepting that plunge traps are to be used, Paine to stand at 21 yards rise and Dr. Talbot at 18 yards. Shooting will com- mence at two P. M. sharp, and as each event is for $200 there will be creditable work done by both men. All who have witnessed the skili displayed by tho Doctor at the several reunions this season of the Long Island Club, of which body he fs a member, know full well that he takes ‘a deal of beating,” and Paine, to | win, must be in the very best of form and stop ‘his | bDirds in first class style. BASE BALL RULES. Tho Committee on Rules of the National Association of Amateur Base Ball Players will bold a meeting at the rooms of the Arlington Club, No. 243 Fourth avenue, in this city, on the 27th inst., attwo o’clock P. M. It is | mot expected that many alterations in last year’s code — will be made. The principal changes to be debated a1 coaching in this part of our country every success in | their efforts. We use the word ‘revival’ advisably | BROOKLYN ECONOMY. Yesterday another session of the Committee of the Board of Aldermen of the Brooklyn Common Council appointed to investigate the various city departments with a view to retrenchment and reform was held in the City Hall, Henry A. Aechternacht, Superintendent ofthe Philadelphia and Roading Coal and Iron Com- pany’s yard, Adams street, testified that thas company had four-inch pipe laid in their yard and connected with the water main, which was putin by Water Pur- veyor Rhodes, Witness paid the purveyor the sum of $1,260 in a check on the company for the work; tho amount included the cost of the meter and was fair; the work was done in about two days. Dr. Edward R, Squibbs testified u in 1875, he had a six-inch pipe put in a house as a fire hydrant service, at the corner of Jonn and Gold streets, and the bill was made out in the name of John H, Rhodes; the bill was $1,000, though witness believed, as he hads calculated the cost, that it could have been done for $800; witness thought he could have employed plumbers who would have done it better for less money; Mr. Rhodes had expressed his willingness to correct any errors made, but he had never entirely doue so. Theodore A. Drake, who was in the employ of the Water Board from 1868 to 1885, as inspector, in makin, surveys for the assessments where water pipes beon Inid, and as superintendent of the Gowanus Pipe Yard, at various periods, testified that pipe was re- ceived at the yard for Mr. Rhodes on his private ac- count, of which he (witness) had made no entry; the pipe came on the same boats as the “i, pipe and was stored inthe same yard; when Mr. Rhodes wanted pipe belonging to the city he took it, and when wit ness told him that he was recetving orders at the yard for pipe without saying where it was to go Mr. Rhodes said, “All I need care for was to see that the orders came from him;” witness was told that some of- the pipe was going to Harbeck’s stores, Squibs’ place, the Navy Yard and chee private work; in balancing the accounts they had to send word to the Commissioners that a certain quantity of the pipe wag missing; they knew what had been used {or the city, but the trouble was with the rest, where there was a deficiency. RETRENCHMENT IN BROOKLYN. ‘The democratic politicians are highly incensed over the bill of Assemblyman Ogden, which contomplates a series of amendments to ¢he Brooklyn charter, at a” sacrifice of the interests of the party which was over- thrown at the polls last tall Tho bill, which has been ordered toa third reading, reduces the city payrolls very largely. deducting $65,000 from the aggregate. As the reduction would fall heavily upoh the democratic employés, the hope is indulged that Governor Tilden will withhold his signature from the bill in the event of its ung the Senate, Tho act roposed does away with two Commissioners from the Bocrds of city Werks, Fire, Police and Excise, and places the management of three departments under control of one head, It also abolishes the office of Auditor and hans, yoo f Arrears, Tho salaries of the Mayor, Comptroller and Corporation Counsel will also bo cut down, it is contemplated, from $10,000 per year, which these officials now recerve, to $7,500. The Common Council Committee and the Committee of the Board of Supervisors have prepared bs per on the subject of ries, which, if adopted, will cut down the aggregate amount now paid by the city and county $160, 000. THE STEAMSHIP HERDER, Last evening the Hamburg steamship Herder (for- merly of the Eagle line), which had been detained at Hoboken for upward of twenty-six hours by the oc- currence of a fire on board of her, put to sea, carrying the mails and $651,000 in specie. The following is the statement of Mr. Kunhardt, the agent of the line, with respect to the fire:--The first news received of the fire was from the chief engineer, who notified Captain Brandt that the boiler covering was burning and that the engine room was filled with smoke, There was no flame to be scen—nothing but smoke. My partner, Mr. Meyer, was already on board, and I hastened over to the vessel. We told the cabin passengers that the vessel would not sail for some time, as thero was a fire in the boiler room, and the majority of them ro- turned to the shore. We told the steerage passen- gers to to the neighboring hotels, at the expense oi the company. Meanwhile we had water playing on the external surface of the boilers, but it was difficult to reach some portions of them. To pre vent danger to the mails and bullion we had them transferred to the warchouse and safeiy guarded. We found smoke in an adjoining compartment and played water into it, damaging externally about seventy-five bags of clover seed, worth about twelve cents a pound. Mr. Meyer and myself, having a holy fear of be dey tee had about 850 tons ‘of cargo removed to the dock, but we found nothing to excite our suspicions, The principal ingredient of the boiler felting was cow hair, it has now all been removed. Its use 18 to keep in the heat, It {s not true that it caught fire on the voyage coming out, The value of damages is not, 1 believe, over $600. Our steamers are insured in Hamburg. SHRINE OF 8T., BENEDICT. ‘The Passionist Fathers are about to set up in the monastery at West Hoboken a shrine in honor of St, Benedict, A life size wax figupe of the saint has just arrived from Rome, together with some relics of tho saint, which will be deposited within the statue, Tho shrine will be dedicated with great solemnity on somo | day not yet fixed. The Pope has granted, through the Superior General of the Passionists in Rome, a plenary indulgence to all the faithful who shall contess and communicate on the day of the dedication within the church where the shrine is to bedep@sited. There will be a solemn higk mass, a procession gand a benediction of the blessed sacrament, and the day will be observed as a holiday in the monastery. Bishop Corrigan and a | large number of priests will be in attendance, BERTHA MEYER’S DISAPPEARANCE. A young girl named Bertha Meyer, who resided with her parents on Third street, Jersey City, went to New- port two mouths ago to reside with a family named Mensinger. The chief reason for her departare was the unwelcome and annoying attention of a man | whose attentions she did not reciprocate. Two weeks + ago she leit Newport for her home and was left safely on the train by her friends. The parents have not seen her since, although they remaimed up all that night and made inquiries at the depot, Not the slight est clew to her whereabouts has been found, THE JERSEY CITY BURGLARY. Walters, Williams and Edwards, the three men ar- rested on suspicion of being the burglars who robbed Brown's dry goods storo, in Montgomery street, Jersey City, were again brought up for examination yesterday, Detective Howard testified that he paid a visitto the localities in New York designated by the prisoners as their residences and found no sueh houses existed. It was further proved that nearly every statement made by the prisoners was a falsehood. W. H. Sutton nointed out Walters as the man who entered his store, next to Brown’s dry goods store, on Wednesday and asked what was the rent of the rooms over the store. He remained about an hour, hired one room and paid $10 on account of the rent. Ho gave the name of Boyd, said he was froin Philadelphia and wanted the room fora paper box factory. He obtained the key and said he would call agai next morning. Dominic Mayer, whose saloon the men employed as a base of operations, also gave some damaging testimony as to their movements. There wore five in the gang during the early part of the evening, and the two who left for New York before the police made the raid are sup} to have carried off the nag eed dag The plot was laid in Mayer’s saloon on Tuesday afternoon, when a man pretending to bea cripple was in the gang. ‘The three men were committed for tral, Talson, the driver, being held to bail as a witness. The man who | ve hig name as Edwards is koown by the name of frown in New York, an professional thief, A BAIL JUMPER CAUGHT. Yesterday morning James St Clare, a resident in Main street, Union Hill, N. J., was arrested oy ao tectives of this city on a requisition. tis alleged that he recently committed an assault upon a lady and jumped bis bail (which was of the amount ot $2,000) ‘and failed to appear for trial A TOOTH-PULLER “PULLED,” James M. Foster, a well known dentist practising in Washington street, Hoboken, was arrested yesterday for being unprovided with a diploma, The complaint was made by Dr. ©. 8. Stockbridge, President of the New Jersey State Dental Association, who alleged vhe risover bad no legal right to practise ag a dentist, Mr. Foeter ‘was committed to the County Jail im default of $500 pail by Justice Strong, to await the action of the | Grand Jury. WHERE IS THAT BILL? To Tus Eptror, or tas Heravy:— About the 20th of January Mr. Killian, of New those relating to foul balls, one of which allows tho ranner to ran of a foul catch, after touching his base, the same as on a fair fly catch; and the other al- | press pool selling im cities, York city, introduced a Dill into the House to sup- It was referred to the lows the ranaer to return to his base after afoul bail | Judiciary Committee. Will you ask, through your has been hit, without rauning the risk of being put out. This committec has no power to adopt any rules or regulations; they merely frame a set to be adopted paper, why tbat bill has never been acted upon by sald committee, and whether Kelly, Bliss & Co., and by the Convention which meets in Philadelphia on the | Jobnsoa Bros., pool sellers, appear to have more in- Sth of March, ASH CARTMEN VIOLATING LAW. To tux Error or tus Hxxao:— ‘The ach cartme: months since from removing ashes and garbage from the houses during the day time. 1 think every one was greatly pleased with that law, Recently they have removed the ashos in the mo! day, Gilling many a clean face MPRNLYG BATH were probibited by law a few | Hepburn, selling and thi i bb blish an article on the subject you will receive the rang eae | roughout the og bject y fluence with the Judiglary Committee of the Legis- Jature than the Christian people who ask for the pas- of said bill? F’nerewith give you the names of said committoe:— Messra Straban, New fork; 3 St Lawrence; Gilbert, tes; New York; Schic!’ ; Scfamling. ‘oa bavo sevoral times asked for the eu; of during election times; and if you will again ks of Christian people who would be to see evil suppressed. REGULAR SU | RDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1876—WITH UPPLEMENT. Serr nn nnn TUE US EEE BREWERS’ CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION. | BISMARCK AND THE GERMAN PRESS. “Yesterday afternoon there was an adjourned meet | wig pRINce CHANCELLOR'S OPINION OF THA ing held at the Brewers and Maltsters’ Insurance Company, No, 139 Broadway, of the General and Executive Committee of the brewers and maltsters’ trade organization, which has already been perfected and action of a harmonious nature is taking place FOREIGN NEWS—HIS CAUTION TO DOMESTIC BEADERS—WHAT THR EDITORS AND PEOPLE SHOULD Do. (Paris (Feb. 11) correspondence of London Times}. among the trade all over the Union {n regard to the The following is the. most imMeresting passage ob representation of the brewing business at the Phila- | Prince Bismarck’s speech In the Reichstag on Wednes- delpbia Centennial Industrial Expibition, Mr. H. H. Rueter, of Boston, a prominent brewer, occupied the chair. A resolution was offered that the work on the proposed brewers and maltsters’ buildings to be erected in the vicinity of Agricultural Hall should be es to the architect and the contractors on March 1. ‘he dimensions will be 260x80 feet, and it is that the cost will be about $40,000, The resolution ‘was adopted without dissent, The entire cost of the pro Philadelphia will be $70,000, and already $20,000 have been subscribed by the trade with bu very little solici tation, nota tithe of the manufacturers having been called upon as yet, The failures of the Vienna Exbibi- tion have been regarded and precautions have been taken to avoid a repetition of them by the brewers. Letters have been received by the committee from Aus- trian, Bohemian, German and English brewers, noti- fying the association that they would send specimens of their malty beverages for exhibition, The work yeste afternoon chiefly consisted in the appointment of sub-committees to farther the work in band. A. Schwartz, of New York; Jobn Fi of New York; Dr, Thomas Dunn Eugish, of Newark, N. J., and Louw Schade, of Washington, were appointed a Commitice on Statistics, and Henry Clausen, Jacob Ables and Philip Merkle were appointed a committee to “go West,” state the arrangements already made to the manufacturing brewers and collect subscriptions. The Committee on Machinery, an important one, 4 mill- Dolmen yeeeeey ie sphere ee wright, of Now York; W. ) coppersmith, of New York; machina New York, Ed- rick Spei ward Haas, machinist, Philadelphia; George F. Bark- hards, vat maker, of Philadelphia; John M. Smith, vat Taker, of Philadelphia, and Theedore er, ma- chinist, of Philadelphia. Mr. John A. Be' Philadelphia, was also added to the General after which the committee adjourned. EJECTING THE HEALTH BOARD, The large building on Mulberry street, known as Po- lice Headquarters, is at present the seat of no little dis- mittee, cord. The Mulberry street front is occupied by the Police Commissioners and their various subordinates, while the Mott street front is devoted to the use of the Board of Health, The apartments of the latter com- mission are commodious; those of the former are lim- ited in size and illy arranged for police purposes. For months past the Board of Police have looked with long- ing eyes upon the spacious oMecs of their sanitary neighbors, and the Health Commissioners have smiled at envy of their uniformed frienas. Some three weeks ago the matter was talked over in the Police Board, and a bill for three years’ rent, at $1,500 per year, and another little bill ¢ and fuel during that time, was a eater to Colonel mmons Clar} secretary to tho Health Board, for settlement. Colonel brought it betore his col- ea, The latter grew indignant After delibera- tion they framed a polite note exp! &o., easing regret, > but owing to a want of funds they found themselves unable to pay the gas and fuel bill As to that for rent they lly denied its validity, claiming that they oce! the rooms not as tenants to the Board of Police, but as an integral part of the city government, subject to the Common Council. Yesteri in a meeting of the Police Board, Com- missioner Voorhis offered a resolution requesting the Board of Health to vacate the rooms on or before the 15th of next as the same were required tor ple purposes, The resolution was adopted by a unan- jous vote, A Heraxp reporter called at the Health Office to feel the pulse of the Commissioners on the question, None were present bat Colonel Clark. by a Heratp rester- In answer to inqu reporter y‘ day Colonel Clark stated that the Health Board under- Stand the building to belong to the city and to be under the control of tho on Council, No action will be taken upon the formal demand of the Police Board until the meeting of the Health Commissioners next Tuesday. On the other hand each of the Police Commissioners affirmed that their de- partment need the whole building, which, it is claimed, was paid for outof a fund accumulated from police- men’s ines, exacted under the metropolitan police system. Commissioner Voorhis explained that before the charter of 1873 the Health Bureau was a branch of the Police Department, and that when a separate Board was instituted it continued on in the occupancy of the rooms, without any special assignment irom the Common Council or any other authority. OUR POLICE SURGEONS. HOW THEY ATTEND TO PRIVATE PRACTICE AND NEGLECT THEIR OFFICIAL DUTIES. Two months ago Commissioner Erhardt placed upon trial one of the police surgeons for neglect of duty. It was a proceeding without parallel, and the police sur- geons grew savage at the ‘indignity, A week passed by and another surgeon was treated in a similar man- ner, A decided improvement now soon became notice- able in the work of the doctors, Calls for surgical aid were answered with reasonable promptness and their private practice was permitted to await the perform. ance of their official duties. From every district in the city surgeons flocked to Headquarters to pay homage to the new chief One surgeon who had for years drawn his salary of $1,500 a year while he hved in Yonkers, and professed to answer calls night and day in a downtown precinct, hastily moved into town and commenced giving a little of his time to the Police Department. Another police surgeon was found notto bean M. D. at all, although he had practised for three years as one. Other short- comings came to light, and the Board of Surgeons was placed on the “ragged edge.’’ ° Yesterday Surgeons Walker, Powell, Dorne, Breiner Wade, Cook, McLeod and Ensign were put upon tri before Commissioner Erhardt for failing to answer a call for surgicai aid from the Ninth precinct station house on the 17th inst. Itappears thaton that night @ man was brought into the Ninth ward station house with his skull fractured, the resuit of an accident. The sergeant in command at once despatched an officer for the district surgeon, Dr. Walker. The officer returned, saying he was not.at home. The rest of the defendants were each in turn sent for, but none answered the call. In the meantime the man with the fractured skull grew weaker and weaker. At last a surgeon was found and the patient received attention. In nearly every case the reason given for failure to answer the call was en- [soma in private practice. Ali admitted having | ed of the call on their return to their respective | residences, but yet none answered it for the reason that “they thought some other surgeon had gone instead.” It thus leaked out thatapretty little understanding existed among the surgeons, pleasant enough for them, but very damaging to the poor patient with a broken arm ora fractal skull who might be dying for want of surgical aid. It seems that the custom has been never to respond to a cail unless at when it was made. I{ a police surgeon hap- pened to be absent in his private practice, and on returning found that a policoman had called for him, he paid no attention to the call, as it was the custom always when one surgeon did not happen to be at home for the police to send for the next. When this explanation was made yesterday the Commissioner said:—“Then if all the police surgeons in the city hap- pen to be engaged in private practice at the same time, the victim of an accident lying in a lon house might die so far as the police surgeons are concerned.” The cases wore all referred to the full Board for de- cision. THE POLICE FORCE. The following persons wero yesterday made police- men:—Christopher Wail, James Carroll, David Bartley, Patrick Haugh, Clement Konsman, Michael O°Reilly, pian Metching, James T. Mackinson and Denis eCue. ‘The following wero dismissed: ~Downing, Thirteenth; Welch, Thirty-fourth; Munson, Fighth; Walker, Sev- enth, and Hanwecher, Sixteenth precinet, A POLICE RELIEF FUND, The heirs of the late Officer John Ayres, of the First Precinct station, in Jersey City, being in comfortabli circumstances, have declined to receive the relief ap propriation ($400) subscribed by the members of the force, That sum has been accordingly funded as the basis of a permanent relief fund, tobe swelled by an- nual contributions from the officers. This fund will be applied to the relief of sick or disabled officers, JUSTICE KELLY'S SALARY. Comptroller Green did not appear before Justice Dinkel, in the Fourth District Civil vourt yesterday, toanswerJohn M. Mackey’s complaint that he illegally dotains Justice William H. Kelly's last month’s salary, for which Mr. etary Speed the warrant, Assistant Corporation Counsel Beli represented him and asked for an adjournment of the case und Ta Green was 80 pressed by not appear personally before that uma Justice Dink ad, yourned the case until Tuesday afternoon, at fou o'clock. RAILROAD MATTERS. The Delaware, Lackawannaand Western Railroad will commence work immediately in changing its tracks from wide to narrow gauge, at a cost of $1,250,000. Samuel L, Sloan, the President, says that this is a good time to commence operations, as the seagon is dull and @ number of the employés majority of the veninens will be doas ‘tele on machine sbops. A meeting to Dear tho Prkoot a = ol jew Ori obile and Texas Rail was pad yemorday we tie office ‘ot Morton, Blise & Co. [om report Uf a bagcenen | of Levi P. upon, amended recommitted. eee rena tbe organization of called Orloans a 4 now road to be the New rt of a committee ap- t mortgage bondholders estimated | we shi brewers’ exhibition at | to rewer, of | things, for $2,000 tor home | day on the press clause in the Penal Code bill:— The exaggerated extension of foreign articles and the credulous thirst for foreign diplomatic news excuse ne editors to a great extent. It is the fault of the reading public. Our Parliamentary institutions are new; Jet us hope they will have the effect of at- tracting greater attention to affairs and that not, for instance, be enlightened by telegrams as to a French Deputy having spoken at Carcassonne, whereas it might be of more interest learn what had happened at Bres- lau"or Konigsbet The mewspapers busy them- selves too much with foreign com; with domestic affairs. The only evil of this is credulous people suffer. Peace is now disturbed by newspaper articles, In modern times a war has hardly ever sprung out of such controversies; and even (he French war of 1870, im which the press, but only the Ministerial pres, parently, played a great part, was not occasio: 5 the press, but by the then Imperial French Camarilla. It haunted us even in 1567. Nobody makes war on newspaper articles; not even such as those published last spring by some not altogether officious calculated to unsettle the Bourse. I mean the for which I have never inspired articles, Jeast of all that with the heading “War in Sight”? But I did not blame the article, for, if people feel that in any country a minority is instigating war, they should make an outcry, that the majority may be on tho: alert; for the majority have commonly no inclination for war, ‘ar is always kindled by minorities only, or, formerly, a Ganpatia Santen: by the ruler or Cabinet; but be who ‘first cries “fire” is certainly not guilty of the war or con! ion, Were there really. a Minister who wanted to get up @ war without cause he would begin juite differently than by raising an alarm in the ater jor that would only summon the fire brigade. Before all he would have to gain his sovereign’s approval, without which a Minister enjoying the highest conf- denee cannot make war, Now, what if the Emperor and Minister were agreed not to make war. The Em- ror has _— — i - a hes bes as =made em un’ ingly, wi cu! He has earned. waking up his mind to them. great m them. His y is at an ago seek business; when people generally do not ‘therefore, will believe that he is disposed to 18 being 80, all the talk of war-loving Minis- ters is humbug. (Laughter.) Think of the position if @ year ago I had come before you, and had explained to you, as in 1870, when we were threatened with tho French attack—‘‘We must make war. I cannot give you any hey 4 definite ground for it. We are not in- sulted, Dut the situation is dangerous, We have 9 maltitude of powerful armies as neighbors; the French army 18 being reorganized in such a bond as to be really disquieting. I ask you for a loan of 200, thalers in order to‘ arm ourselves.” Would yOu not be inclined to send for a doctor? (Laughter.) To ask me how, after my Eka I could commit the colossal stupidity coming before you and saying:—‘It is possil we may in a LR ah Me oe opp To anticipate it, let us quickly fall on our neighbors and cut them to pieces before they are perfectly ready.’? It would be something like committing s@icide out of “fear of death, and that in a quite comfortable and tran- quil situation, in which nobody ts thinking of war, It you look at the thing in full daylight you will see the amy ity of aresponsible Chancellor acting thus toward a peace-loving people, as the Germans are when not attacked. We have nothing to conquer, nothing to win; we are contented with what we have, and itis@ calumny to accuse us of any thirst for conquest or ter- ritorial extension. (Loud ¢heers.) To appear before a peace-loving people and say war must be declared would y result in my dismissal. THE PRINCE IMPERIAL. HIS FIRST GREAT PUBLIC MISTAKE—NAPO- LEON’S HEIR USED AS AN ELECTION AGENT. [Paris (Febroary 11) correspondence of London Times. } A telegram received from Ajaccio this evening gives. the following additional contribution to the coutest be- tween Prince Napoleon and M. Rouher:— ~ CaMpen Pace, CurseLnunst, Jan. 31, 1876. My Dear M. Francesconts: Prstri—Prince Napoleon Jerome offers himself for the suffrages of the people of Ajaccio, He comes forward against my will; he relies on our enemies. I am forced to treat him as such. If it were true that he had tried to efface from my | memory past dissensions he would haye withdrawn from the contest, He would have spared me a bitter resolution and you and all our friends a paintul task, I could not make overtures toa reconciliation, but I should have accepted it with joy. An agreement could only be sincere it the Prince gave up pursuing a political conduct other than my own; it would only. have been durable if he had abandoned all idea of | candidacy tor the Assembly, _ Untoreseen incidents of debate would have placed him in presence of resolu. lutions on which no previous decision would have be | come to between us. “His votes would have been the | Source of fresh differences, the more éerious as their echoes would have been greater. When the Emperor was living his authority was not questioned in the bosom of his family — As for me, I have the duty of establishing mine, M, Rouher offers himself at Ajaccio. hope he will be called to represent those generous populations—that falthful town of tne cradle of our family. His long and loyal services, his unshak- able devotion will render him worthy of represeuting the Napoleon ideas in the Napoleon town par excellence. Thi Corsicans have the feeling of duty and honor. It is homage which they will render to those virtues by electing a man who has never been wanting to either | the one orthe other, Believe, my dear M. Frances- | chini Pietr, in my unalterable Geoenens APOLEON, This letter will certainly be read with a sentiment ot ; Sadness. One feels at every line that the young Prince | is makingehimself, in his iack of experience, the passive j instrament of those who direct bis hand. It is | Strangely loworing the intervention of him who claims | the colossal heritage ot Napoleon to make him simp! | the electioneering canvasser of his distressed parti- sans, t SLAVERY IN ZANZIBAR. Tho treaty between Her Majesty Queen Victoria and the Seyyid of Zanzibar, supplementary to the treaty for the suppression of the slave trade of the 5th of | June, 1873, was issued among the Parliamentary | papersin London. It was signed in London on the | lath of July, 1875, and coutains the following articles, among others:— 1. The presence on board of a vessel of domestic | Slaves in attendance on or in discharge of the legiti- | Mate business of their masters, or of slaves bona, | employed in the n: jon of the vessel, in no case of justify the seizure and | condemnation of the vessel, provided that such slaves are not detained on board against | their wil, Ifany such slaves are detained on board | against their will they shall be treed, but the vessel | shall neverthéless not on that account alone be con- | demned. 2 All vessels found conveying slaves (other than do- mestic slaves in attendance on or in the discharge of the legitimate business of their masters, or sla | fide employed in the navigation of the vessels) to or | from any part of His Highness’ dominions, or of any | foreign country, whether such slaves be destined for sale or not, shall be deemed guilty of carrying on the e trade and may be seized by any of Her Majesty’s ships of war and condemned by any British court exer- cising Admiralty jurisdiction. | QCOULTATION BY JUPITER. To te Enrror ov tie Heranp:— At two o’clock noxt Monday morning, according to the American Ephemeris, ‘Beta Scorpionis may be occulted by Jupiter.” The star is already nearer to the planet than its outer satellite, and to the naked eye Japiter and Beta form a beautiful double star, rising ; about half an hour after midnight On Monday morning they will no longer be visible separately with- | out the telescope, but will combine their lustre in one star, Itis probable that the occultation, if it occurs, ‘will onty be visible in the southern hemisphere, and that here the star will pass very near the northern. limb of the pianet, At six minutes to four (New York | time) the first satelite will from behind Jupiter's disk, so that at four o'clock the ts will present inan ordinary telescope a beautiful appear- ; ance, The fourth satellite to the bear its greatest | elongation; the second and third to the west, also near | their greatest elongations; the first satellite to thi | east, nearly im contact with the disk; while Beta, bright second maguitude star, is equally close on the ‘north, Beta is a double star, and its companion, which is of the fifth magnitude, will be seen a little further to the north, Their relative situa- | Hons will not greatly change before the gnorn- | ig dawn; Duton the following morning Jupiter will | have moved so far eastward as to leave Beta beyond | ite third satellite. Tho motion of Jupiter at this time is quite slow, and after passing Beta a short distance it will begin to retrograde and will pass so near it on | April 6 as again to form to the naked eye a beautiful | double star, When it it, after its retro- jo passes Pee on October 12 be ut the ‘ | fame from i Sho fd tho occultation oceur, anabe seen 's a all er rae Uelescope, it ae books gem to | hould it be pearance moon, ) pneaen MS Laren of | filled with clonds to the very top the a: might be as sudden as in an occultation by t as is more But should there clear air to act as ee Maw Yous, Feb 25,1 GEOGRAPHICAL WORK OF THE YEAR. President Daly, of the American Geographical Socie ty, will deliver an address before that society this evening at Chickering Hall, in which howill review the ical work of the past year, givii Hose Fesulte of exploration’ pow D bdon $s o neae over. It is anticipated that this interesting paper from the pen of one so fally competent to {illustrate the subject as Chief J pnd cultured assemblage '° OMY Will