The New York Herald Newspaper, March 18, 1876, Page 5

THE BOSTON EVACUATION. Brilliant Celebration of the One Hun- dredth Anniversary. | [LLUMINATION AND CANNON-BOOMING, @isterie Memories Recalled by Inscriptions and Decorations, ORATION OF THE DAY. Bostox, March 17, 1876, ‘The one-hundredth anniversary of the evacuation of Boktou—vot the least of the stirring revolutionary eveais of a century ago—was generously celebrated ere to-doy and this evening, The weather was the most uppropitivus of the season, the whole day being characterized by storms of alternate raim bail and NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, MARCH 18,’ 1876.-TRIPLE SHEET. e vessels in the cnanneL Masses of valuables were ned, thrown overboard, while fovea ey wore scuttled, The castle ied, but the harbor must be guar meaner cg rycen and reinforcements which were op their way to the town. Still the enemy were compelled to leave behind them ordnance, goods and misceliancous property which were. of great value and which were put to ‘excellent service by the Provincials, General Gage’s chariot, upped off of a whart, was not especially of use, There was just enough of play | from the Provincial batteries to Keep the enemy mind- ful of the value and speed of time, The streets wero barricaded and the inbabitents were warned to keep quiet in their dwellings while critical operations were | in progress. It would seem that only # contrary | wind kept the enemy from Jeaving on Saturday; at any rate there was leisure e ough for the por- petrating of more miss ief and outrage, They | chose the Puritan paturday evening, the midnight and | hours of Sunday for their departure. Keen, | set eyes were watching for the moment when tho guard should be withdrawn trou the gates at the Neck. ‘At sunrise the enemy Were asoat in their dismantled and encumbered vessels, and those which carried the tories were the first to reach and leaye the outer bar- bor. As keen eyes as were avy on the land were also watching from Yankee deeks between the Capes to piek up any stragglers, Officers, men ana marines, in num- ver nearly 9,000, wumen and 1,100 tories and (heir jamilies found their crowded quarters in seventy-eight ships and transports. But would they really sail away | or huger to send back their Parthian vengeance from their guns or desolate the shore towns? And if they | gatled away whither would they go? Only after ten | days was Washington reheved of a part of his anxiety | | vy the final departure of the Heet, leaving only a guard. | To reduce the rest of bis anxrety he bad already de- | spatched a force to New York, ‘the harbor was not | wholly opened till the ?rovincials, by works con- many unserviceable the early pnoe, and sadly Mberfering with the gtandeur and affect of the contemp|.ted outdoor displays. ‘There was the: customary booming of cannon and feoessan\ ringing «{ bells morning, noon and eveving, end many: of the poulic vaildings and points of Fevyointiona ¥ Imjeres| were profusely decorated. A po, th Washington street front of prose Sgouth Chores | said, “Vecupied as a riding aeboa y Brivsh troops, 1776,"” The inside of tS old oi \flee was plainly decorated mia ‘flags and Dentin, stretched along the front of the galleries vad arte woo! jm 179k Peuevl! ital) had over the maim esis ce the motte, “Occupied by British troops, | 176. | The old Slate House o'so bore motives indicat. ing tat the site 3 Ono ocoupied by barracks for | )s im various sections of eiptions vearing revolu- Britiah troops, an’ other She city were covy ent Mel ies dionary in \ t Jo the evening ib wae govprally illuminated, peu <P Bae, The formal exerci: Mi: be were held in Music Het .y the afteray “+ syacious editice being grow cords its fuil cape | interior was beauti- fuliy dogorated, aud (P* * orm was occupied by various distinguiened =~" tly officials, Mayor Cobb presided, aut ary) /S. ina few preliminary and patriotic resnarks * ‘ced the Rev. George B, Bills ag tlie orator f° x REre : ve) Ov uttION, ¥ . Dr. / #0) ee a8 oration, returned Bie, De T boaarwn <1 had been conterred fire’ 28 (low citizens on thie ie gee mene Norte then brieily toth ‘eat } Phi MPL He proweedsa tO give a | avoouh \aoe degeription of Bos- ehiet mart of the | which numbered | Be 235,900, The ine | » alu: 17,000. There were | stone, of which Bag’ thoyrkale retuStams 9 ‘n Beacon and the foor vt Par’ slfeys nfo sag Workhorse, the Poorhonse | mm the site | opposite | vih- oritish tor a e of the present | » State and Court 8 our Bang Wh fle ahi. cor a rvered and lined FeO ay CHAT wet ves of exchange, we house providua she inoy jor the Brit- teh Governor was oppost far back, eiately, Comunodious, WH trees and lawn up to Washington sirest, The Uld Siste Mouse, with a dignity whio} 1% hus wok now, beld the halls of the | Pouncll and the Repremen'atives, wih royal portraits | tadornings. Howie is there here now which fe pairiots and citizens a: the Gla days, if they came beow, would Sy r a My eloquent and elaborate acootne of the #1 i was them given by the orstor, Ba he a jue the siege of boston | the peng of sagacipus ant men Were ougaged in | pore deliberate abet spered efforts Usan those of the | Jongues Of some ardens prators, They were provid- lng Jor that Most urgent of ai social securities, | whether in simes GC peace orof war, the supremacy | of coo civil over the matitary power The royal man- | ale, ip riding over the charter of \'assachusetts, had | dvsiroy cd one branch of its Logislecure and subyeried | | 4 Hie Ole South, standing | | tte judicial courts, Geno ral Gage, 0) proclamation | of “June 32, declaring. the | Province in rebel- | Yes, and. establishing mertial law, with the proneription of puteigt leaders, was held to have | Vecated bis ctyil agtherity over tho provinces that | Might bola tm) ‘vary over Boston, The Provinee, therelor, wag wi te Leristature and an | Excumtiso, UL A magistracy aud a judiciary. Gov. | mt was under med sod ulied, The did royal | eancuion and method of It could oot be revived, aud it | slog the “peepie to decide whether they would dis- | Lor aver! oarghy by constitut- al Coogress, oo May 5, accepted © gauge which the garnsoned Governor had thrown | town, put their own imiorpretaio. vpon it, and re- | polved, ‘Phat Geveral Gage bad, disqeatitied himself tor | serving the eolony in any capaci) the. no ebeaence | whe ia Tupare due to him; thes iw oughijto be guarded | ecatpst a8 ap Unnatural and we cnemy,” With | a view to a0 Mstant prov: lor the emergency, the j Prosweia! Congress liad tho ready resoncee of revert. | u to Me old and boagred Joe» of soif-administra- | tien, bat wisely Waited, «i other provinces, for ad- Vice from the Continental Congress, avout ‘taxing up | and exercising the puwers of civil yovernment,”’ The Provincial Congress at Watertown had occasion, on | May 18, 1775, to say that they “were deurmined to | rve their dignity and power over the itary”?— | their own military, At was jablime triumph of the traditions, princi- — ples and spirit which had trained people of Massa- chusetts tuat, at a temporary and ‘ming crisis, when the powers of magistrates and the functions of judges were suspended, there should have been the least need of them in outbarsts of local disorder, or even in controversies of man with nm: Such was the work | which the civilians of province and continent were doing discreetly and with fidelity, as they cautiously felt their way on to the construction of a nation, dur- ing those eleven months througn which oid Boston | ‘was a British garrison, and a patriot host environed it, first to confine, then to annoy it and finally to drive it away. Reterring toWashington as the “patriot com- | qmander,”’ the orator Said that the great lessen which | be bad to teach individual, officer or private, im his pommand, was to learn (o abate his own personal inde- nudence, that he might secure the independence of is country. There, 00, he learned how to deal with | men, with friends as well as with enemies—with human pature in all 118 workings of impulse and motive, iis dobicness and meanness, And, as his o1 book gives Abundant aud impressive evidence, he was thoughtful Di those strengthening epleebling agencies Which | jo upon health and virtae. He counselled cicanliness, | igh and pure moraity and the devoutness and rever- Puce vi religion im sentiment and observance. As the prisis of the situation was near, while formdding cards | Im the camp, he advised a serious preparation of mind | As 4 security against cowardice, ‘the elaborate and tbrilling account of the pro- | tracted siege of Boston which the orator gave was fol- lowed in turn by an eloquent description of the evacu- ation of Boston, the event which was to-day being so | appropriately celebrated, But the patriots were not | compelled to desolate their own capital, he sai, und neither did the enemy within it wish that its bombarument should include themselves. Washing- | ton would not harm the town if the enemy would leave it, but he did not mean that they should get out | of wand then burn # behind them. He was still ply- Ing the enemy with vigorous blows, and his elaborate | jabs were so Matured and threatening that the Brit- kn forces woula Lave suifered some extreme disaster | bad not a coinpromise been availed of which was ac- | peptable to both parties though deeply mortifying to | the enemy. Through the aid of the selectmen of 1 ton, in conference with British eficers, an impi covenunt—though without signature or seal to ratify | lt—was elected at the Koxbury lines, by the | tacit assent—unpledged. however, of Washmg- twn—that uf the British could allowed, ‘uu- | a reasonable time for packing and em. | would leave the town anharmed. jurmal pledge was acce) ted and substantially | tomplied with, ‘The provincigls might reasonably dave remonstrated and demanded remuneration for she enormous amount of plunder of every kind, furni- jure and goods taken irom the houses and stores, which were broken into and.pillaged by some of the | troops and satiors and the meanest class of the tories. These outrages continued jor a week, ip spite ol the Proclamations of the General threatening instant death upon any one detected in plundering or firing a buiid- ing. Bat on the last day of his stay he himself or- | dered all woollen and linen goods to be seized for the | use of his army, he packing up was a hurried and Critical operati@n, as on tbe last day of the siege Wash- ingivn bad succeeded in plauting efective works on Novk's Hil, the pearest vation to Boston, trom which he could rake Boston Neck, inside, and distress — ui MY and their shipping. It was at this moment | British General was made to realize. whatan | nee and nuisance be bad to dispose of in | ies, who now hung so des; ‘oaly on his hands. Almost demented with dismay and tright, they im; to be put into the veseels lrst, with | all their househoid goods and property, Washington wrote to bis brother Augustine Rares of these bad | coniessed that, “if they thought the most abject sad- | id have procured them peace they never stirred irom the town, By ali accounts there ever existed a more miserable set of bein.s than these wretched creatures are. They choose to commit themselves to the mercy of the waves at a tempestavus bas rather than meet their offended country men.’’ jut several ofthe shrewdest of these wries bad, by money or favor, managed to secure a pagsage to King. land of the West Indies before the came, Thea there were large numbers of the sick and of women and children to ve provided for, The King’s property also, with ali the accumalations of military Supplies, camp equipage and stores, was, as far as ble, to be removed, or, at | destroyed. The shipping was wholly insuffictent, out of trim, without food and water, and the March gales were threatening. qin their bomen “or ou T treight, were ‘passing to about the speaker's desk, | behind which wad Bane map of the town of Boston | | highest lady in the waerta, ou | of the method and action of our Revolutionary war | mmost severely, protractedly and decisively here. Bos: | » | veouves uttered im the House of Lords agai | Creation of all things, and to make 1t independent even | right and fair, then, that Boston should have been the | equally against Ue province and the colomzed con- | heritage of ours been rescued and redeemed; once by iW | allowed to begin with the smaliest numoer, structed on the Shores and headlands, drove away the | last sentinel ship in June, just two years after the Fort | Bil had closed it. ‘Theo ‘our little navy had a revel in | its prize kings, | BOSTON RECOVERED, ‘Vhe old town was again in the hunds of tts eitizens and protectors. This was « glorious day a hundred yearsago, | | but it bad its deep shadows and its dark fears, There was no parade of pomp or procession or festivity or | hight gies, uor much public show of joy ut its frst re- | posession. Charlestown yas a complete desolation o¢ mourniulchimucy stacks while some Quaker sen. | tries stood mockingly m 1) abandoned forutcahions, | There were foul intections let in Boston, which even | the raw air ol the sprivg could not drive away, and dis- ease long continued 18 ravages here. Impedunents and torture traps were sct in the way of these who | should first rust in, ‘The town was serrated with mili- tary works. Many of its homes were emptied, de- faced and polluted, and its warehouses bad been rifled. | | There was a general aspect of devastation, though the | hand of vivience had not wrought so complete a wreck as had been feared, The remuant of its liberty~ | ) loving people showed, by their pinched and haggard | couutenances and their wasted trames, Whar they bad Deen enduring from aiarms and frigQts, from sleepless- ness, from cold and hanger. ‘Toward the close of his address Rev. Dr. Ellis said ;— 1 have not brought this reyal arinorial tablet hero and put it to this use to-M4Y with any intent to do it slight or dishonor, but «3 4 valued relic, suggestive of | days and reiations RE past I do not torget, but rather tenderly remember, that the queenly lady who now bears thay #roud escutcheon, with her lamented | Prince Consors, restrained ber royal power from any | | other exerese than that ofa noble and generous sym- thy during the distractions of our sad ervil contliot, Peingiae crown placed upon her head, on her corona tion day in Westminster Abbey, aud have loved ever since to trace her course of dignity and fidelity as wile, | motber and queen of her magaificent Empire. And if | our story to-day has: dealt, harshly with one who tilled suo TOTShe betore her, lev us not close it without the expression of our projoundest homage and res Queen Victoria, not our sovereign exces wha should be suc phan rts the to all men—but as our ally and our Iriend. Two suggestive thoughts burdened, the one with historic facts, the other with a modern, and, we trust, a perpetual interest, come to our minds alter the re- hearsal of the story of Boston’s humilation and res- First—-1t was right and fair iu the ordering toration, that the brunt of the struggle should have come first, ton bad generated, provoked, invited the coutest with the mother country, Sbe herself boasted in her town moeting that she had been “stationed by Providence in the front rank of the confhet,” Here were first | uttered calm and passioniees but earnest and cogent protests, manly remonstrances, dignitied petitions. As | ‘these were dalled’ with and failed, it was natural that they should Lave been followed, a5 they weretirsthere, | with threats, deflances, insults aud outrages. Truly was the town described, and not detamey, in Parlia- ment as “the hot-bed of disailectiop.”” Truly did General Gage write to Lord Darimouih:—“In this town ¢ arch-rebels formed their scheme long ago.’? With all justice were the sharpest censures and ba the pestilent nuisance, a Boston town meeting, Whose un- Known origin and authority and perpetual vitality by adjournmeut seemed to have giveo a startat the | of a resurrection, because it never died. Those meet- ings originated the measures of concert and action tor the province and continent. Here, 00, was the largest group of clear headed individuals conferring and work- jug together as patriots, by method and progress, us popular speakers and writers, skilled in argument and pleading, reading old laws and learning how Wo put new and betier ones on the statute book. Here, too, were clubs of patriots and liberty men, whose prejudices Were So intense against teapots that they ventured to run the greater risk of punch bowls. It was wholly AFT G oar owgestiol AroRaS form of ques- tion—Why is it hat when dire disaster, by flood or fire, pestilexce or famine, 18 visited upon’ any spot, town or country, of this iar-spread continent, the rst appeal Jor sympathy and aid, as swity as the throb- bing wires can bring it, is to Boston? And why is it that the more distant the sceno, aud the more strange | even the name of the place of the disaster to us, the | nearer and more familiar does Bosion seem to the | sutlerers? The answer made by some will be—Because Boston is rich and thrifty, and its people have a repute | tor kindiiness. Without disputing that, we must avow | that there isa deeper reason, ove that rests on debt and obligauiov. With all the drafts on our purses we have but paid simple intereston a bonded claim, In the dismal aud crushing tate ed upon trading and commercial! Boston by the parliamentary act which perme closed our port to all entrance, exit and trafic, our House of Represeutatives resoived that this tyrannous blow struck against this town was aimed eance it comes” tinent ‘The province and continent took us at our | word, They recognized the trath and acted upon it, The orator concluded as follows:— In deliberating upon a letter received from Boston the Congress at Philadelphia, Qetober 10, 1774, re- | solved unwnimously that if the people of Boston should | find i necessary to leave it and seek the country “all | America ought to contribute toward recompensing them four the injury they may thereby sustain; and it will be recommended accordingiy.”” “The poor of Boston” was a phrase familiar over the continent, aud it Included, for some articles of need, all the inbabi- tants. ‘he letters of sympathy woich came trom the | whole length and breadth of the country, from tow aud city, hamiet and solitary settiement and the r plies to them, fill two stout Volumes. And the sy pathy in these letvers always took the form of in- yentories and manifests of ail substantial gilts, food, commoditics, money. Even these had to Teach the Lown by tedious jand cireuits. Virginia, too, bes.des sending the deliverer of Boston, sent as somo of her ritiemen, as did also Maryianu, to join our pro- | vineial forces tor sharper service than the farmers’ | old muskets could perform, Truly, then, does ail that Jsostun can do tor the yvietims of calamity over the whole Univn urge itself as an entailed obligation recog- nized by admitted claims, Twice in the century has this blessed and privileged ourselves, and then ugasast and for ourselves. 1 have not the heart to recoguize the lugubrious utterances heard among us just now over the commercial troubles andthe wrecks of honor m high places whica haye thrown a shadow upoa our olverwise jubilant centen- nial The times are not dreary; the men who live are not degenerate, ‘Lhe capital stock of our puble wis- dom, happiness and virtuc has steadily inereased. He who because of exceptional cases or forms of evil and Wrong consigns tis own age or heritage to decay, shows ouly his 1gnorance of the truth of history and his distrust of toe divine workings im ail progressive good. The most depraying and fatal imfluence that can possibly work through a commanity ts the allowance, as if unquestioued, of & prevailing decay of public and private virtue. Our brightest hope is in disbelieving | that, and our noblest security 18 In disproving it. As I read the history of our fathers, im all iheir gen- erations, their toil and virtue seem to me to have been the woblest in their sieady regard jor the wellare aud happiness of their, posterity, And as 1 firmly velieve that no single individual can follow the highest pat- tern of an earthly life unless his hope a tb link on to a future, so I tind it provedin all biographies and anpals that ali unselfish, noble and hero; lives are those which parents lead for their enildren and their ecbildren’s chiidren, We have such lives amony os in city, State aud nation, priv humble, The three genera died in this eity of Boston » have wrought with diligence have been protected and controled by wie: laws, have lavishiy sustained all institutions of leurn- ing, benevolence and mercy and have enjoyed in their bomes—under providential limitations only. e meas. | urement and the sum of all carthiy hoppiuess. e © bad able and fathtul magistrates—truly Select meu. And as for pure and upright citizens, jet us venture to jnvite the trial of the old Bible test with whieh the patriarch Abrahain was s0 sorely exercised. He was promised that an imperiliet ¢ity should be spared desiroction if lifty riguteous men could be found im it Agsoou as he accepted the condition he jell a misgiving, and pleaded that the requisite number might be reduced to forty-five. This being yielded, as he (nought more and more of the severity of the test ot righteousness, he begged to be answerable for finding ony forty, tueh thirty, then twenty, then ten, ow, do We not feel that if our honored Mayor was set to answer jor this city after that fashion, and was i y n in all the tasks of duty, he woulit dare to go up on the schedule and be responsible for twenty, thirty, forty, forty-five and Oty? Ehave | known tuat fail number here t1 ery year ot my | mature life, Su, let me closn with a slight expansion of the motto on our city sea’ ‘As God was with our fathers, and hus been and is with us, so may He be with our pos- terity.”” ANOTHER CELEBRATION, } one of the most luminous of all his utterances remarks, referred to three Quincys that have peen identified with the country, and said as we have also seen a Jobn Adams in the Prosidential chair and @ John Quivey Adams in it, too, may we also see one Charles Francis Adams im the same position, A unt versal and long continued clapping of bands attested the popular feelin; and when Mr. Adams was introduced there were hearty cheers accorded him. Mr. Adams said the great ebaracteristic of the New England people was and is that they know how to gov- ern themeelves, and that characteristic has penetrated all classes. He read an interesting letter written two days after the evacuation by Joseph Ward, a younger brother of General Ward, in which the wish was ¢x- pressed that it might stimulate the American Congress to form an independent government immediately, In closing Mr, Adams said he trusted the young of to-day still possess the power of self government. Other speeches were made by Judge Hoar, of Con- cord, and the Rev. Mr, Means, after which the meeting ‘was concluded amid patriotic epthusiasm. MOODY AND SANKEY. At the noonday services in the Hippodrome yester- day the attendance was somewhat scant, owing, prob- ably, to the threateping weather of the morning, There ‘were about 3,000 people in the Madison avenue hall when the meeting opened with the singing of the forty-sixth hymn, “Oh! Bliss of the Purified, Bliss of the Free.” Rev, Dr, Hepworth read the re- quests for prayer. After the reading of the requests Bishop Janes offerea up a prayer. The eighteenth bymn, “Rescue the Porishing, was then sung, and Mr. Moody came forward. He said that he thought Friday is the greatest day in the week for conversions, and he always feels good on that day. Jt is tho day set apart to talk to drunkards, and he felt ured in saying that many of them bad been saved, M who had attended the meetings had come out boldly in the inquiry rooms and said they were brought to the sense of their wrong doing at these meetings. A good wany think these drunkards cannot be saved; but God can heal them, and it He gives them power er their appetites thoy will be saved. Ulten and often they have tried, but the people who call themselves Christians and churchmen nave kopt then down. But God will not keep them down, He will re- ceive them if they come to Him. ‘A layman afterward sang, and a reformed drunkard was brought forward to give his testimony. He was a map about sixty-Ove hg] of age, and seemed: som: what weak in his limbs, but voice was strong. He said;—I stand here a monument of what Christ can do fora sinner. Three weeks ago I kept a hotel anda rum counter, but I have been saved. I readin the Hexabp to-day of people being arrested for helping along the cause of Christ. They were brought belore the magistrate, and the same answer was returned as was returned nearly 1,900 years ago, “lL can find no fault with him,” and they Were discharged. The news- panes may croak and say what they please, but wo a ve God present with us. Another reformed drunkard edifled tho audience for the 8} of ten minutes with his experience, aud Mr. Moody spoke again. He asked the prayers of the congregation for the man who had consumed so much opium and was trying to break off the habit. This {rom the urug lor ninety- ane ead td eee Duck ‘oul of his mind a short eight hours, He bed vee m time, but N6 Was coming around again, “I wonder,’ sae Mr. Moody, bitterly, ‘ifthe papers will get hold of that”? Alter the singing of the Doxology the meeting ad- journed, AT THE EVENING SERVICE the attendance was sufficient to comfortably fill the main ball Mr. Moody repeated the sermon he preached in the afternoon, When he described the scene at the death bed of the despairing and unre- pentant sinner a thrill ot horror passed through the vast assemblage and tears rolled down many a fur- rowed check. Mr. Sankey was visibly affected by the picture, and when he raised his head at the close of the address his eyes were red from weeping. The preacher | concluded by referring 1o the fact that the Ofth week ot his work in this erty would come to an end with his sermon, and by praying carnestly that many might be brought to Christ to commemorate the event. Tho services closed with the singing of Jesus, lover of my soul. PLYMOUTH PRAYER MEETING. Once more quiet and order prevail in Plymouth prayer meeting. The lecture room was filled by seven o'clock. Mr. Beecher opened the mecting promptly at balf.past seven by announcing bymn 1,272 Brother Hill then made a lengthy prayer, and after another hymn Mr, Beecher offered an earnest prayer. He be- gan bis remarks by saying:— We have evidence in the Apostle Paul’s writings that he sufferod a good deal. He speaks of cares, he speaks of his infirmities, of being cast down and in many ways indicates that he had much the same experience that we all bave, and yet the dominant impression we receive from his writings 1s that of joyfulness, and “t say unto you rejoice, and again rejoice.’? One was not enough. Now this searching after joy has been con- sidered as one of the highest Christian duties. A per- son who don’t enjoy his religion up| to have very little, and on the other hand if he has ecstasies of joy he 1s supposed to hav reat deal of Christian- ity, “Now, I have known persons to have these con- tnual bursts of joy, and they also had other thiigs that were not s0 good. kg! yd of this kind does not special amount ol grace, I would not de- y one from rising to this joy by Sppropriate steps and as the result of a lite struggle; but if you think you can kindle into joy just as you can kindioa fire—namely, by going out and waiting fora iittle by catting wood ana bringing it in, and blowing your fire with the bellows to get it going, and sit down before it and enjoy it—if you think you can muke a fire in your heart as you can i a fireplace [ think you will find en are mistaken. We quite miss tho reality of Christian life; we should reap our enjoyments a4 email processes. A good, hearty laugh is weil, but if a man laughs only once a month and another smniles every hour he gets more enjoyment, and that type is far more attainable and more apt to be bene- cial. Now, if you are to realize daily satisfaction in your lite Pet must have the spirit of God in you; you must be bappy where you are; you must accept tne conditions in which you find yourself, It I could only live as well as I preach—suppose | was a waiter, down threo or four degrees (because there is aristocracy among waiters)—but suppose I was a sculli like my duties and run away trom them, it would be no use lor me to go to meeting and a ior joy; my duty is to be happy among y is and swill, for we are placed in different conditions by God to sec if in those conditions faith will shine and joy blossom, and if it does not there it will n anywhere. You must learn to find your joy whe youare. We are not far {rom home; and even if you should die with a cloud over you, what of that? Sup- Sa your last days are days of trouble, what of that? it is but rupning in to the home shore at night. That isail And, ob, when the day breaks, one single glance ot the loving eye pays for all; and then thero is eternity beyond. So dignify your experience, be sweet and joyiulin the common expericuces of life. bie erg Bee again I say, rejoice!” Alter the prayer meeting the Examining Committee met for the purpose of conversing with any who might be desirous of joming the church at the next com- munion. THE MAGGIE HAMILL MURDER. Among the criminal cases noticed for trial during the present term of the Kings County Court of Oyer and Terminer was that of Sarah C. Merrigan for the murder of ber friend, Miss Maggie Hamill. Mrs, Mer- rigan bas been tried twice for the crime, but the jury at both trials failed to agree, and at the termination of the Jast trial Mrs. Morrigan, who had been a year in the Raymond Street Jail, was released on $5,000 bai. Yesterday tho District Attorney sent Uiheer Willams to Mra. Merrigan’s residence to notify her to prepare for trial on the 27th inat., but the officer found the fortu woman on her death bed Her physicians fod Se fond up, and i? ijod her tg Aen mother G better call In & priest, so he might ier to her the last rites of whe Church, bs A TERRIBLE FATALITY. An inquest was held at the Catholic Protectory in } Westchester yesterday by Coroner Hughes on the re- mains of Thomas Murray, aged thirteen, who died the day previous from injuries received the 6th inst, Deceased, it appears, was in the act of adjusting a belt on the machinery in the shoe departm sleeve became entangled with the sti buried round the shait with frightini eral seconds betore engine could be stoy on being extricated it was found t#t both his legs aad one arm were broken and he also bad sustained inter- nal injuries of @ severe character. He lingered in great agony until (he time of his deats. A verdict of accidental death was rendered. NAVAL LIEUTENANTS, To tax Epiron oy tax Heratp;— “A Naval Officer,” in to-day's issue, objects to the “six years’ clause’’ because it places some staff office ahead of ‘every lieutecant who served auring the civil war in battle, storm and blockade,’’, Asa matter of Justice, please state that there is not on the Nayy Reg- ster the name of any Naval Academy lieutenant who has ever smelt powder, except when firii salute, or An independent and jnviting feature of the Evacua- tion Day celebration was the commemoration exercises held at the Old South Charch under the auspices of the Women’s Centennial Cummittes, Voeal and instra- mental music was supplied, and stirring speeches wore made by the Hon, Josiah Quincy and the Rev. James Freeman Clarke, The Jatier speaker, fa closing his who has heard the sereech of an angry shot. This does not apply to the few mustang lieutenants who did serve their country im battle, ke, and who, after hav- ing held appointments as acting masters and volunte: Hentonants, were unjustly reduced to rank of ep- bs ind placed below the Naval Academy gertiemen who had rendered such valuable services at the hops and balls at Annopolis, All, or neaply ali, of the stall olficers of the rank of lieutenant have served in “battle, storm and blockade,”” ANOTHER NAVAL OFFICER. | and continuous | and dis- | } | | | | possibility PENNSYLYANIA POLITICS. | The Political Situation in the Old Keystone State. A SPIRIT OF DRIFT PREVALENT. The Coming Democratic and Republican State Conventions. THE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES. HarnisaurG, March 15, 1876. Within two weeks the State conventions of the democratic and republican parties will meet in this State ro vlect delegates to the Presidential nominating conventions, and yet there is very little open agtivity on either side looking to the contest of the delegations or their ‘setting up” in the interest of any aspirant Old politicians, whose political lives run back to the days of Jackson, claim this uncertainty and quietness is without a precedent. Thero is no strife, and but little discassion either as to delegates to the national conventions, platforms or Presidential candidates, The inclination of political leaders and managers is to drift with the current, and yet no perceptible current has been ovolved by popular agitation or discussion, This | puts the leaders in a bad way, for they lack the courage to strike outaline of policy and bring the | people in conformity to it, So far as the political weutiment of the State ts shadowed forth by legis- lators and politicians at the State capital this is as true of ono partyas it is of the other. Possibly the | spirit of “drift? is more manifest with the democrats than the republicans, simply because the former have vory little hope of carrying the State in any event They have no State candidate for the St. Louis pomina- tion “with any pretensions,” while in the matter of platform, so far as it may concern national finances, they are as irreconcilable as the democratic Congress- men. ‘THE DEMOCRATIC STATR CONVENTION, which meets this day week at Lancaster (the republi- cans will meet a week later in Harrisburg), promises to | be largely attended by local politicians, But few men of prominence or influence in the party will put in an ap- pearance as delegates, although the recognized leaders will doubtless be conveniently near to mould and direct | the . proceedings, WhenI said Pennsylvania has no Candidate of its own for the St, Louis nomination, | took no account of the efforts of a tew politicians, whose ideas range back to the Buchanan régime, to bring out Judge “Jerry” Black as a candidate, A democratic organ in Pittsburg has pitched on the Judge as “Penn- sylvania’s favorite son" for the time velng, And in his own county of York the Democratic County Conven- tion has indorsed the idea; but it has gone no further, | The newspaper adopted it as a hobby to advertise it- self, while the Judge’s democratic neighbors deemed | the measure a fit ono for a personal compliment to his | pre-eminent abilities, Of all names mentioned in the | democratic list, GOVERNOR HRNDRICKS, OF INDIANA, seems tobe the favorite in this State, not as an ag- gressivo reformer, who will bring the power of a Her- cules to bear in disinfecting Washington political and official life, but rathor as a statesman whose capacity as a trimmer and skilful avoidance of any | decisive utterances on the financial ques- | tion brings him in conformity with the average democratic way of thinking in Pennsylvania It would be unjust to say that this is all that com- mends Governor Hendricks to our steady-going people, He is regarded as a safe man, of undoubted purity in public and private life, and with a war record that is | hardly assailable. I have canvassed the Legii pretty closely, and find that Governor Hendricks is the first choice of four-fifths of the democratic members, and this fairly indicates bis strength with the home politicians, This is particularly the caso in strong | democratic localities like Berks, Northampton, Lehigh, Monroe, Columbia, Luzerne and Schuylkill countios in | the east, and Westmoreland, Clearfield, Contre; Fayette and Greene in the wost, Jassing to counties where the democrats are not {a a large majority, as in the coun- ties named, Governor Hendricks 18 not so strong. Still, uu conceded here, and by all the leading pol- itecian: 1 ha met, that go far as tho democrats of Pennsylyania have a-cnoice, the Indiana “Talleyrand”? flis the bill, but it is only w choice based on expediency and not on devotion to hin as a leader or any exaggerated estimate of his qualities as a states- may, Democrats who tully comprehend the needs of the hour are vainly searching for a candidate who will make short work of Washington jobbery—something in the Bristow line—but their lavors have not been rewarded with success, GOVBRNOR TILDEN’S NAMB is brought forward a8 an aggressive reformer, but the Pounsylvania democrats attribute the: cat om Ohio last October and in Pennsylva: in Novem- ber to what they cail the nor’s ““pig- headed bard money crusade,’’ and will have none | of him, unless it can be shown he is the who can float the ship. Success being duty, let Tilden’s friends prove to a mathematical certainty by the World’s arithmetic that he alone of all democratic aspirants Electorel Collego, and the Penn: | | | sylvany,” which 18 tho Alpba and Omega of Senator Cameron’s political creed, as well as Keystone politics generally, CURTIN FOR VICE PRESIDENT. The Hendricks movement has gained considerable headway in this State, owing to the association of ex Governor Curtin’s name with it as a candidate for Vice President. By some indescribable methods, which are not put on paper, it has been made the understanding with democratic politicians, from the Delaware to the | Ohio, that the nomination of ex-Governor Curtin for the second place on tho ticket will be peculiarly ac- ceptable to the Indiana politicians who are managing the Hendricks canvass, Of course it has not taken the shape of a bargain—only a quiet, litte understanding—a proper recognition ot the weight and influence of the votes of the fifty-eight delegates from this State. Ex-Governor Curtin, after several years of coquetting, has finally cast bis political tor- tunes with tue democracy, and the feeling is quito com- mon that an appreciation of this should A few years ago, when he was ouly in qu mpathy with the democrats, they elected him a delegate to the Constitutional Convention ov his return from the Russian mission. It ts claimed his nomination would add largely to the democratic strength, especially with the soldicr element, but others maintain this would be nullitied by Boarbon losses, as the ex-Governor is not popular with the class who ‘pilo up big majorities in “ault Berks”? They point warningly to the Greeley campaign, and insist on a square tight with square | men on square issues, Colonel Aleck McCiure, the energetic and capable editor ot the Philadelphia Times, is managing the Cartin Vice Presidential movement, ‘but his influence 18 not overpowering with the Coues- voga democrats, OTHER PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES. Pendleton, Thurman, Alien, Bayard, Hancock, New Jersey Parker and Tilden \ ag latter for reasons stated) have developed very ithe strength. Hancock was formerly ‘orite son,” but from tbe fact that civil and not miliuary qualifications are now conside: the prime essentials, he has lost hia prominence. Thurman would probably suit tho tempor of the Penn- opine ia democrats as well as Hendricks, weres@not for the feuds in Ohio. Bayard has a few friends among tho | people of the counties bordering on tho Maryland Tine, | but not suficions to create a ripple in the Convention, Tilden, uf he could make bix peace with the Western democrats, would rapidly grow im iavor; but the fact cannot be disguised that the Pennsylvania democracy are in much more cordial sympathy with Ohio ana In- diana on financial issues, and o: wally specie resump- tion, than they are with New Fork, Connecticut and Now Jersey. THE DELEGATES AT LARGE ‘The Lancaster Convention will be composed of 261 delegates, Asa con to electing four dele; vention, and tw distries di tion thoir duty will be confined at large to the 3t, Louis Con- Pi intial clectors at large, The gates and clectors will be reported by the rom each Congressional district. Consider- 'y Maquict way has been developed in the canvass for delegates at large, which is assumed to be a position holding forth greater promise in the event of success than @ mere district delegateship, From art of the State the candidates announced | States Senator Edgar Cowan, of Wost- ty, @ very warm irjend of the Hendricks nomination; voionel J. P. Barr, of the Pittsburg Post, committed through his paper for the Jerry Biack im- id ex-Goveruor William Bixler, o| Clear- Held county, supposed to be friendly to Governor Til- dep ip @ quiet way. From the centre and the east the leading names mentioned are those of ex-United | | States Senator Buckalew, of Columbia county, a friend of Hendricks; Hetster Clymer, of Berks, who socks a personal compliment tor himself rather than to advance any oue’s Presidential aspirations; ex-State Senators Dill, of Union county, and Yerk t Backs, both Hen- dricks men, and 8. 8 Remak and Jonn VU. James, ot Philadelphia, Congressman Randall at o' nounced his purpose to be @ candida Jarge, but ho has rather fallen in favor in th late, and has deemed it prudent to withdri contest which would undoubtedly have beon yery bitter, becauat nited States Senator Wallace would have deemed it a duty to himself and friends to “sit down’? on Randall with a crushing-out emphasia. There is no love lost between thes o Wallace owes Randall a heavy debt for the latte: n dofeating the Wallace programme at the Bi State of from a ns, and fs part Erie Greea- | bam Lent, Jokn De Vries, William @ Irving. | Booth, William H. Gedney, Georgo W. back Convention last summer. Heians underst: nd this, It seems a reasonable supposition that the St Louis delegation from this State will be headed by Cowan, Biglor and Buckalew, with a fourth delegate taken from the other names suggested, possibly State Sena- tor Dili, or Mr. James, of Philadelphia, or Congressman Clymer. The district delegates will be a grade above ‘age run of county politicians, simply because she acceptance of a delegateship involves an expondi- ture of a thousand dollars without any immediate re- tara. The delegates will not be ucted, nor ts it hkely from present appearances a resolution jndorsing Governor Hendricks will be adopted, THK PURVOSE OF THK LEADERS is to prevent any expression of this character, so that the delegates will go to St. Louis unpledged and un- trammelied. They will be frieudly to tbe Indiana Gov- ernor, at least a majority of then, but will not be hemmed in by pledges that will prevent their doing the Dest they cau for the party—or themselves, Frank Hughes, of Schuylkill county, the author of the Erie greenback inflation platiorim, has been chosen a delegate to the Lancaster Convention, but measures have been taken to suppress any financial foolishness he inay wish to inject into the resolutions, and confine them to an arraignment of the administration and lan- dation of the democratic House for its spirit of inquiry and investigation. THE REPUBLICAN PRIMARIES. The Custom House republicans held primary elec. tons last night throughout the various Assembly dis- tricts in the city for the purpose of choosing delogate: and alternates to (he State Convention, which meets at Syracuse on the 22d inst. The tteket voted in almost every district bore the legend, ‘For President of the United States, Roscoe Conkling.” The following are the names of the delegates and alternates elected:— First Assemnry Distnict.—Delegates, William Orton, Salem H. Wales. Alternates, Henry V. Craw- ford, Samuel H. Everett, SEcOND ASSEMBLY District,—Delegates, Morris Friedsam, Pierre C. Van Wyck. Alternates, Denis Shea, Thomas Brown. HikD AsskanLy District, —Delegates, Clarence A, Seward, John H. Draper, Alternates, Thomas F, Geary, James Fleming. Fourrn Assemmiy Disrrict.—Delegates, Nathan A. Hall, Sheridan Shouk. Alternates, Heury Bausher, &. W. Thompson, Fiera’ Asskmuty Disrrict.—Delegates, Hon. ae tor- nates, Austin Leake, James H. Lewis, Heary Von Driehl. Sixta Assempty Distriot,—Delegat DeWitt © Wheeler, Oliver P. C. Billings, Alternates, Frederick Singer, Joseph Lambrecht. SEVENTH ASSEMBLY DisTRicT.—Delegates, Cornelius Van Cott, John D. Lawson, G. Volney King Alter- nates, Rey, Henry Highland Garnett, William forhune, Lucas M, Van Allen, Erauru Assemury District.—Delegates, Bernard Rourke, Dr. 5. V. Pilgrim, Charles Schaper, Altor- nates, John J. O'Brien, John N, Lanthier, Robert G. McCord. NINTH ASSEMBLY DistRicT.—Delogates, James W. ush, Gilbort J. Hunter. Alternates, Andrew J, Campbell, Herman M. Meyer, George W. Parker, William H. Corse, Texta Asskuuty Disrxict.—Delegates, Henry H. Haight, Ferdinand Ebrhart, Charles Schondelmeier. Alternates, Philip Mantz, Emil Burkert, John Hughes, Exevents Assemusy Disteror.—Dolegates, John J Townsend, William Lambier, John H, White, Samuel H. Randall, Alternates, Charles ©. Pinckney, George Wilson, Charles & Peabody, Jr., John Murray. Tweevtn AsseanLY Distacr.—Delegates, John Paar, Victor Heimberger. Alternates, GW. Coflin, J.C. Limbeck. THIKTHENTH AssxMNLY DistRot.—Delogates, Charles 8. Spencer, Hugh Gardiner, Isaac Dayton. Alternates, Samuel Barclay, John H. Van Wyck, William Wade. Founreentu Assemu.y Distaivr.—Delegates, Joseph C, Pinckney, William Hauptman, Alternates, Wil- liam Stuart, William Brummell, Firrsentit AssemBiy Distiiot,—Delegates, Henry G. Leask, Christian F, Tiejen, Dr. H. D. Ranney, Aiter- one John J. Pollock, Thomas Stewart, William Peter- in, Sixteente Assemaiy District.—Delegates, Hugh J, Hastings, Burr W. Griswold, Alternates, Charles E. L, Holmes, Charles N. Tainvor. Seventkenta AssemB.y District.—Delegates, Steph- en N, Simonson, Charles A. Fiammer, Jucob 8, Isaacs, John Curry. ’ Alternates, Jobn McClure, Francis Dastter, Clark F, Whittmore, Louis Brenner. Eicureeytu Assemucy District.—Delegates, Thomas All Pennsylvania poll- Murphy, Horace M. Ruggles, Henry E. Howland. ‘Alternates, Ferdinand $, Wilmerding, Albon P. Man, Thomas B. Odell, NiNcTeENTH = ASSEMBLY District. —Delegates— | Richard H. Greene, George M. Van Nort, Alternates— Charles F. Braden, Wilham H. Bellamy. Twentikti Assgmuty Disrrict,—Delegates—George Opdyke, A. J. Dittenhoefer, Alonzo B. Cornell, Thomas L. James. Alternates—F. T. Hopkins, Jacob Hess, James Millward, Robert H. Boyd. ‘TWENTY-Finst AssemuLy Disrnict.—Dclegates—Rufus B. Corning, James M. Thompson, Robert ©, Brown Henry Welsh, Alternates—Georgo E. Morgan, Moses E. Crasto, Dennis F, Burke, J. E. Van De Carr. The primary elections in all the Assembly districts passed off quietly and without any disturbances, only splits were in the Twentieth and Twenty-tirst Frome | districts, in the latter of which the anti- Custom House party had aticket inthe field, but in both cases the regular republicans carried the day, | The opposition ticket in the Twenty-first district waa headed by William Haw, Jr. POLITICAL NOTES, W. F. Dortch, of Wayne county, is named by several North Carolina papers as a capital candidate for Lieu- tenant Governor, with Vance in advance as candidate tor Governor, The democracy of York county, Pa, have unani- mously nominated Judge Black as their candidate for the Presidential nomination. A poll of the members of the Virginia House of Dele- gates shows that Messrs. Dooly, Simpson, Berry, W. T. | Taliferro, Fowle, Kerrick, Walker and Kallam are for Bayard for President. “By all means let him be expelled, and the sooner the better, for the good name of the State and the wel- fare of the republican party of Florida,’ cries the Florida Union, relerring to Congressman Purman. “Purman, Purman,” reflectingly observes a Western paper, “hasn’t that rather @ Cat-aline sound for a pub- hie legislator?” Does not the “little misunderstanding” between Gen- eral Butler and Richard H. Dana, Jr., date a little further back than the Wheaton controversy? The former was an original old free soil democrat and the Jatter an original old free soil whig, and when thoy wero obliged to work in harness they did not pull very well together. Republican tar barrels are more in demand in New Hampshire about this time than democratic tar boxes were a short time ago, A celestial rovber—The individual who the livery of heaven to serve tho devil in,” No Congres- sional invostigating committee will be appointed in this case, in consequence ofa want of familiarity by the average Congressman with the premises upon which tne larceny is alleged to have been committed. Richard H, Dana, Jr., no doubt thinks the experience of ‘Two Years Before the Mast” to be about as ple: ant as two days before a United States Senate com- * mittee, Comptroller Cowgill, of Florida, has discovered a de- ficieney of over $17,00v in the accounts of the ate State Treasurer S. B, Conover. The somewhat celebrated ‘Natt Head” (who Jost an election because tho canvassers did not know whether his Christian name was Nat, Nathaniel or Natchitoches) was elected Moderator of the town of Hooksett, N. H., on Tuesday last. An interviewer of the Scranton (Pa) Free Press (dem.) has ‘gone through” the members of the Penn- slyvania Senate and House, and finds thata majority of the democrats are for Hendricks anda majority of the republicans for Hartranfe for President, The Louisville Ledger cails Blaine the “Bowery Boy ot Congress.” More likely the “Bow-wowery boy,” Judging from the way he barks and g isthe bone of political contention. The question as to tho right of Colorado to partici- pate in the next Presidential election is being discussed by tho press in that newly clected member of the “glorious galaxy." The subject is an important one, and may involve seriows consequences in the event of a close Presidential election. A democratic paper thinks that instead of the people of New Hampshire being indignant at the Belkaap cor- ruption on election day they were bitten by the bar of pretty much the same dog themselves. A Southern paper publishes, by request, the follow- ing eigrat Midas, we read, with wondrous art of ola, Whate’er he touched at once transformed to gold. This our modern statesmen can reverse with case— They taik of starting a now republican paper in Atlanta, Ga. Tho soil of Atlanta does net appear te be weil adapted to the prosperous growth of wewspapers, some three or four having died there wie a few months past. “Too thin!” Congressman Gaeva, of Arkansas, is aid to be at home spending a few days af “rest” “Now for Connecticut! Sererad repwhtwan papers. The Independence (Kan.) [rvbwar says there is a strong movement on foot to put Jwtge Lowe on the Supromo bench of Kansas in place of Judge Brewor, and the Tribune says {t is willing and anxious for the change. “All the result of bribery and corruption !"'—Several democratic papers. Tt now appears that the Congressman through whese agency Belknap drew apon the Texas post traders was “General” W. T. Clark, # former resident of Norwalk, The | Touch them with gold they'll turn to what you please, | 5 Conn., whose name will be familar to our readers. —~ Bridgeport Farmer (dem.) It is a received tradition that Nero fiddled while Rome was in flames; but the Savannuh News says that in a similar emergency tm our day President Grant, not Knowing how to play the Gddle, went to have his picture taken, A Southern paper finds consolation even in the pres- ent corrupt state of 'things at Washington, and says:— “We are no more disgraced by the Schencks, Belknaps and sucb than a large and honorable business firm would be by finding out a pilfering shopboy. The very shriek of universal exccration that rings out from the whole laud at the infamies recontly brought to light is a sign of returning health.” The Savannah News thinks that ‘‘this investigation business has got to have an end somewhere, The present prospect is, if it goos on much longer, it will result in the total destruction, not only of the ‘gov. ernment,’ but also of the great party of moral ideas itself." What a beautiful spectacle it must be to foreigners to witness the American people in this the centennial year of their existence, washing the soiled linen of » hundred years under their very.nostrils! Some of the politicians are ready to swear @ case of corruption against Franklin because he stole the lightning of heaven to serve mundane purposes. ‘rhey have a strong-minded colored woman in Mont gomery, Ala, who recently held forth as follows:— “Sho declared that she didn’t believe in the 'publican party more’n she did in the democrats, and that the ‘publican party done speudiated Mr, Black and Pinch- ed him cause he is apoor cullud pusson; she insists, however, that she don’t believe a word of that tale on Badeap and Bellnock ‘cause Ginral Grunt’s testify is agen it, Her beautiful pale face turned black with anger as she referred to these latter pussons."’ FINE ARTS. EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS BELONGING TO WILLIAM H, WEBB, AT MINER'S ART GAl« LERY. The exhibition of Mr. Webb’s paintings was opened on Thursday, at No, 843 Broadway, under rather un. favorable auspices, the storm preventing the arrival of the statuary and part of the hbrary. Mr, Miner bas refitted and enlarged the gallery since the exhibition of the Sanford collection, and it now looks very fresh and cheerful in its new crimson hangings and furniture, The pictures, as @ collection, form one of the best which have been offered at public sale for some time, They are mostly works which have been painted by the artists for Mr. Webb, and there is scarcely a poor example of any of them, some being among their best works and many possessing historical interest which sbould give them a place in our national galleries. ‘Washington Crossing the Delaware’’ is one of these, as it is the original by Leutze, from which engravings have been made until every American has Leutze’s conception of the event beforo bis mind's eye tho moment the subject is men- ‘tioned, Kensett’s “White Mountains,” painted in 1851, which is more elaborate than most of his lands scapes, has also been made familiar through en- gravings; so also hag ‘‘Marion Crossing the Peedee,” by W. J. Parmey. “The Page of the White Plume” is one of Huntington’s early works, and the fact of the head being a portrait of Henry Inman's daughter gives tt still greater value. ‘“Florinae,” -by Winterhalter, contains a portrait of Eugéuie and her maids of honor, among whom are two New York ladies, ““Thana- topsis,” by Durand, ono of his early works, evi- dently, contains two figures, Among the pic- tures which are valuable for their seh leat and other qualities, aside from historical interest, is “Tho Ruined Gambler,” by Projessor Geyer, of Munich, which represents the interior of an eighteenth century pages: with a group of noblemen, one of whom, seated at a table, ts pulling toward him piles of gold in the most unconcerned manner ; while the other, who appears to be his partner, judging from his attitude, looks with an exulting expression toward the ruined map, who has risen and stands, with hands clenched, overturning the glasses on a’ tray which a page 18 carrying, in his unconsciousness of anything except his losses The bitter expression of his face is repeated in those of his two friends, who stand behind the cbair of his successful adversary, whiie the seated figure, which separates the groups, foids his hands in evident indifference to what transpiring around him. The picture is fino in tech. ' mique, as itis in expression and composition, ‘The | Flying Dutchman’? is another of the very good pic tures, it is by E. Bosch, and, though entirely ditferent in treatment from “The Ruined Gambler,’’ ‘is fully as expressive. The effects of fear on the different indi viduals, a8 they view the phantom ship approacht them, is seen even in the two dogs. The freedom wit! which this picture is painted, and the suggestive man- ner in which the subject’ is carried out, give if a higher value artistically than if it were carried more into detail. “The Petition to the yo” and “The Belle of the Masquerade” are two fine examples of Carl Becker. Ina “Stable Scene,” by Francois adam, the animal's figure and accessories are all good. ‘The Village inn” and “T' Village Gamesters”’ are twa compositions full of humor and pathos, by K. Vor Enbuber, ‘The First Lesson,”’ by Verboeckhoeven, represents a cwo, with two lambs, which have jusi | seen their reflections in a pool of wal The pleading expression on the face of ol as it looks up for encouragement, and the otbor, as it starts back frightened from the water, shows more feeling than this artist generally puts in his animals, | though he stands at the head of the sheep painters, “The Lady Artist” is by Edward Frére—sketchy and full of nature, as his figures always are. ‘The Con valescent Mother,’ by G. Fluzzen, may be remem- bered as ove of the most popular pictures exhibited at the Sanitary Fair. ‘The Arab Oatpost,” by S. Schroyer; “The Story,”? by Vibert; ‘Convent Wine,” by Bril- Joun; ‘Tho Sailor's Story,’ by Carl Hubner; | “Poultry,” by Couturier; ‘Fruit and Wine,” with the portrait of the artist Preyer reflected ta the wine glass, and ‘Fruit and Champagne,” by the same artist; “Come to Papa,” by Meyerheim; Tne Foundling,”” by Satentin; two beautiful examples o Meyer Von Bremen; “The Pet Dove,” by Willems; “Norwegian Lake,” by Herzog; “Italian Ruins,” by Oswaid Achembach; “The Scaoolmaster,”’ which it one of @ series of six paintings by Hasenclever, thre | of which are in the collection of J, T. Johnson; “Landscape and Cattle,” by Koek Koek, and ex: amples o1-David Col, Escasura, Gignoax, Camphausen, Lew, Zimmerman others are exhibited. The pictures will be sold on the 28th and 20th of March, YALE ALUMNI, The monthly meeting of the Yale Alumni Associa tion, which took place last evening at Delmonico’s, was very well attended. General Joseph C. Jacksor read a paper on the “Relation of Yale to Kindred In stitutions,’’ In this carelully red statement it ‘was attempted to be shown by si yes that Yale has produced a great part of the educational talent of this country. Mr. Bhas also described bis Alma Mater as the nurse of all the other institutions except Harvard, An interval for conversation followed, alter which 4 fine collation closed the meeting. CORONER KEENAN'S FUNERAL, Athall-past nine yesterday morning a train of car- riages left the residence of the Jate Patrick H. Keenan, who has been for a number of years a bolder of various official distinctions under the city government, and proceeded to St. Teresa's church, corner of Henry and Ruigers streets, A solemn requiem high mass was there colobrated for the repose of the sql of the de ceased, and the remains were then taken to Calvary | Cometery for interment. mber of local politicians and Bumorous prominent citizens of the Seventh and Fourth wards attended the funeral ceremonies and accompanied tbe body of one wha had been a respected friend among thein to its last resting piace, WHAT A STARVING MAN ATE, At three o'clock yesterday afternoon a man was seen to stagger and fail in a ft on the corner of Fourteenth street and Broadway, A physician was summoned, who gave him a dose of medicing, While he was drinking the sick man bit a large piece out of the glass tumbler, chewed it fine and swallowed {t betore he could be prevented. Subsequently he was removed to Bellevue Hospital, where hi his name as Edwin Duffy, aged thirty-two years, tated that he was an cngineer, and, berng out of employment, had walked from Boston to this city. At the pital he had po recollection of swallowing the glass, but said ho had been two days out food. He was evidently in @ starving Condition aud partially insane, KEROSENE'S VICTIM. i Between eight and nine o'clock last night Mary Ray, aged twenty-three, an actress, residing at No S23 Bast | Thirteenth street, was fatally burned by the explomen of a lighted kerosene lamp, which she was im the ect ot filing. She presented a fearful mght apoa her arciwal at Bellevue Hospital, the Sesh peeling ef fren searity every portion of her body, The ‘Geto of Tar CRE , old boy, a son of & Mra, Thomsen, whe wan oe ro Ln took oS ba be yay a wR | itis Boped, not fatally bermed Mine Raye wae Ragic Centura, As an across in the RO a ade Aaesas night she was sinking rapetly. ad Pea CHEWING A MANS MAND, Last night Potte Campin, ewitdini we ta, ie Mined Place, Brawklrw, qummoeisinde wiih Melati: unas, te | Camme Qeer Reem Non NUT Aon HM MR, Siri Kary ‘We see Dore, Draatoni: When aa beatrandt ee Me etl inosine ce mi COL GMM alee ONE Hem UI L “saint a See “eae | ame waren, sn eat nay a