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over gentle hamps “thank you marms” that give you a bounce of ten or twelve feet, and soon and on UunUl at last the velocity only expends itse!f when you have covered a (ull half mile, But the com:ort does “THE NEW | DOMINION. A Day at Duflerin Hall—Pleasures of +a Canadian Winter. —— ee TOBOGGANING AND OTHER FUN. ——-+--—-—— Sketches of Lord and Lady Dufferin. notend bere. You have to walk vut a few rods to strike Mhe foot of another toboggan slide, and, ascoud- ing to its top, be carried lke ligntning biek to ihe starting point, My tutor says that a very good idea of the fun of the thing, and a very excellent summer sub- stitute, muy bo by mounting @ tin tea tray or a sufliciently capacious chopping dish, and thus equip- ped sail down a fightof stars. ‘The young Uttowunians, he informs me, keep up their practice in this way, ‘Yo the Iudian, tor practical purposes, the ‘toboggan’? is a kind of suow canoe, its lightness and shape being such that, whatever may be its freight, it glides easily over the feathery counters pane. Tbe reins by which he draws it ure usually passed around 4! forehead, or it may be a dog or two are employed, Comimg toa descent be mounts his vehicle, and so pursues bis wintry Journey, For pleasurable purposes, such as 1 have described, the “toboggan”? Is somewhat more civilized in its con- struction and bears more or less af oroument, If 1 troduced in New York, say at Central Park, the sport could not fail to become as popular as polo, A word i 377, | belore I close that shall be Orrawa, Canada, March 10, 1977. sone hall DO eoxaty Among tho many attractive locahties in and around | 19 the end thut tue eitizeny of the United States may the capital of the Dominion, none presents greater | become better acquainted with the lord and lady who interest than Rideau Hail, the residence of His Excel- | Occupy very nearly the sane relations 10 the 4,000,000 " cople of Canada that President Hayes and bis wile Jeucy Lord Dufferin, the Viceroy. Nor is this resuit ae er iothe 10,000,000 neross tho True. Tho Earl is one to avy peculiarity connected with u mere edilice, the only sou of the fourty Earl of Dufferin, who died so much as to the fact that it isa great hearty Irish | 0b the lst of July, 141, His mother was the beauti- home, whence emanates much of the hospitable 1ul and accomplished daughter of Richurd Brinsley warmth and pleasurabic suggestion that bas goue so Sheridan—Mrs. Blickwood, who#e pathetic bullad of far during the past four years to make the Earl and the “Irish Emigraot’s Lament,” or “I’m Sitting on | the Sule, Maury,’ bas travelied wround the world with Countess the most popular representatives of the Imperial Crown who ever lived in Canada, Every- the exiles of Erin wherever the English lauguage 18 spoken. His aunt, Mrs. Norton, who recently married Sir William Stirling Maxweil, ts too well known tn tho where you find their icfluence permeating soctety, everywhere the effect of their stroug and active ind!” vidualties, everywhere sweet, earuest expressions thay literary world to need further reference, The othe aunt, years ugo celebrated for her wondertul beauty, 18 now the Duchess of Somerset. The present lord wus born in 1826, and at fifteen years ot uge succeeded to y. his father’s honors, He was educated at Eton pay tribute not less to the lady and yeotloman than to | iy eG y, Church, Oxford. With such ap the titles which they so loyally wear, Itis not alone | ancestry it is nota mater of surprise that bis habits are lierary and artistic; that he is cosmopolitan in hos tastes and polyglot ip speech. Latin, Greck, French and German are as famillur to him as his native Eng- lish, While a member of the House of Lords he was regarded as one of the most protising of the rising Euglish statesmen. Transplanted to Syria he there extibited tn bisadministravion of afairs large admin that ferin Hall is the scene of dinners, where assombie once or twice a wock the dignitaries of the Dominion, citizens, soldiers and statesmen, or of charming afternoon and evening receptions by Lady | Dufferin, where everybody present commingles with true republican simplicity, such as is observed | jsirative ability, and since his appoimtment, in 18) at our own White House in Washington; | #4 the Governor General of Cinuda, te nas ioe tor ‘ . | himself tue title of the most popular Viceroy who bas but because the premises and their occupants repre- | over represented the Queen on this soil, He is also sent in every conceivable way that can communicate | the author of « charming volume entitled, ‘Letters ep interest in the bappiness and pro- | from igh Latitudes,” which 18 fall of geutle humor Lo pple dents. ce " * | and jolly passages that will stand comparison with eee She nomen pene: ee cricketers, | tne best thoughts of Charles Lever. , In manner he is skaters, riflemen, the school children und even the In- | best desoribed ag @ perteot gentioman. In 1603 Lord Wost all come in for their stare of | Duflerin married Lady Harriet Georgiana Hamilton, <2 Bea el capone Lrswaxdwlegd of Killyleagh Castle, county Down, She is hkewise Fecognition, and a Dufferin gold medal rowards and en | ditinguisbed as an authoresas, and possesses the ud- vourages whatever excellence may be exhibited in | ditional happy faculty of illustrating her pen picturos their respective fields of strife. In all these compett- tiona there is no gentleman who enters with more with brash und pencil, In person she is petile and graceful; in conversation, quick witted, spirited and hearty zest than the donor. Ho is a born sportsman, THE GOVERNMENT MANSION eloquent; in manner, considerate and unussuming, and the owner of the rare gilt of so throwing a smile that occupies an elevated and commanding position about two miles from the Parliamentary buildings, in the Ww makes sunshine wherever it rests, The official members of the household are the Right middie of a well wooded estate comprising many acres, ‘The house was originatly built for a private Hon, Lieutenant Colonel Littleton, private und miil- tary secretary; Captain Hamilton (brother of tne residence by Hou. Thomas McKay, and received the name Rideau from its proximity to the Rideau River and Falls, the name as applied to the latter fitly sigui- fying “a curtain.” It was purchased some years ago by the Canadian government as a viceregal resideaco, and What with the additions made to the building and the grounds it has become, if not a regal, ceriainly in ite appointments it is the most palauiul home in this portion of Canada, The area of the house, exclusive of conservatories, is 34,900 square feet, fue ceremony observed is quiet and well calculated to maintain the simple diguity of the place, the only matertal differ. ence as compared with New York bemg that the footmen aro bepowdered and arrayed in the conventional British livery. The receptions vy | Lady Duferin, especially when formal, draw together | the best dressed ladies in Ottawa; but whon informal only the usual walking ature is worn, Music is sup- pled both by the piano and a band, In the afternoon the company frequently spend an hour or two in skut- ing or “tobogganning” betore enjoying adance. inthe evening one or two hundred people assemble in a Spacious ballroom, und, after the usual presentations, host aud hostess vceupy the time im making every. body feel deliguttully ut ease. Both are admirable walizers, ‘The children, of whom there ure three or four at home, also come in jor their share of the pieasure, and participate in the general trecdum from restraint, In the interval between the dances the great corridors, parlors and hivraries become a vast prom cnade where one may speud hours in looking at the pictures—twany of them from the pencils of Lord and Lady Dutlerin—or in inspecting the curiosities guthered by the latter durivg their travels in various parts of the world, At one of these EVENING RECEPTIONS, I witnessed a cotillion so thoroughly opiginal in its details that a descriplion of it wili doubles be in- teresting to some of our New York readers, First, a row ol chairs was arranged on the four sides of the baliroom and occupied by all who could tind places. Then followed a Waltz ior perhaps a minute, alter which « young lady took her seat in the middie ot the ‘ballroom and holding a toiiet glass was approached from belind by ope genuleman after another, wutil she recognized her choice, when she was up'and away, Meanwhile, each of the disape pointed aspirants r band was obliged to mount a Chair, wuuil another general waliz succeeded; then a geuueman, being biadtolded, was called upon to select | & partner from 4 lady or @ partser of tis own sex, who | were stealiity placed in his trout. It he chose the | tau the laugh Was, of course, against him, while the lady was wirrled around by oue of tue genial aides-de- camp. A third device cousisted in giving Lin whisties and bolls to gentiemen, and requiring thein to stanu on their cbairs wutil they blew up or rung up some syim- pathene aud considerate feminine partner. In ‘the Jourth instance a mousier dice, us large us a dry goods box, was su ely thrown by lwue players, one of whom was Lord Dufferin, and the person making the highest throw had nis chdice of the lady woo was put us tue prize, In the filth act the Countess Duferin started oif alone on a brisk polka, selected a gentieman, | and then alvernately danced irom one side ol the room | to the other, picking up partners ot bo.h , When the line, vemg in mently long, broke up into | waltzing coupies, n, Aprons aud nightcaps were ferin, who takes coméiort Im the pleasant mcome of £25,000 a yeur)—-all gentlemen sans peur und sans re- proche, THR, EXTRADITION BILL. Orrawa, March 12, 1877. ‘The Government Extradition bill, printed and issued to-day, shows the States with which Great Britain has treaties of extradition, and to which the act appli They aro the United Stutes, France, Germany, Bel- giuin, italy, Deumark, Brazil, Sweden, Austria, Nother- lands, Hayti and Honduras, MEDALS FOR CREEDMOOK MARKSMEN. Kight gold medals have been received by the Domin- jon government for presentation to the succcssiul com- petitors for the Rajah of Kolopore’s prize at the Wim- biedon meeting of 1875. LILERATUR. SUAKKSPRARE FROM AN AMERICAN Point or Vigw, by George Wi'kes (London: Sampson, Low & Co.), tells its mission brietly in its sub-title, “An Inquiry ua to His Religious Faith and His Knowledge of Law, with the Baconian Theory Cousidered.”” To distin- guish an inquiry concerning Shakespeare as “‘Ameri- can’? is primd lacte to characterize it as shrewd, prac- tical and intolerant of the more enthusiastic 1orms of hero worship, Such, ut least, is Mr. Wilkes’ book, though this is by no meays all that can be said in praise of it, It 18 thorougnly practical; displays not merely shrewdness, but legal acumen, and to much analytic keonnoss is added a genuine literary sense, tempering the bluntnoss and making a quality as near to justice as possible, Mr. Wilkes reveres Shakes- peare; he fights zealously and effectively aguinst the threatened usurpation of his laurels vy the ghost of Bacon; he even approaches a rapture at the genius of the bard; but he believes with Butler that Learned commentators view In Homer more than Homer ever knew, Tho method of Mr. Wilkes’ examiuation is as logical as its matter 1 interesting, The plays are scrutinized with scholarly diligence for the minutest evidences of authorship, the mass of testimony being sbown to prove Shukeapeare’s title not only as 4 man to whose deficiency of information the errors and anachrouisms of the plays exactly fit, but as one lacking in the pecue liar legal learning which made Bacon pre-eminent, and also as a good Catholic, which Bacon protessedly was not, The euphonic test, too, is considered, adding force to the argument, We regret that limited space forbids our making extracts in Vindication of the opin- jon that the author is an accomplished student of the greatest of poets, and that he has turued nis accom- plighments to the making of a very ingenious and read- able book. or “HORSE NOTES. Eastern Princess, the dam of the renowned Prince Charlie, died of inflammation at Messre. Barrows? pad- lurnished two of be | cavaliers, | wuo wero re | docks, at Newmarket, England, on the 25th ult, She At taste prin rinaly, ‘Jour, huger | leaves benind her a splendid colt foal by Blair Athol, a ridiculousiy masked individuals, robed ia white, | brother of the “Bonnte Prince,’? which ihe youngster who had been led out by Captain Ward the masters of ceremony, made their appeal Tendered the scene hilarious until the close, As you | iiay Well imagine, 1t was all tun, innocent and eujoy- | In 1858 by Mr. It. Jopes, of Aps Hall, noar Littleport. uble by everybody, aud by hone more than the Karl | She contested a number of races up to the clove of her ana lis youthiur Countess, Among the many other pleasures which Dutlerin Hail ailords, acd which tho | #!%B year, but with only moderate success, and her people of Ottawa fee! proud in being invited to, are the | name will be handed down in turf annals in connection PRIVATE THRATIICALS, | chiefly i is Svinenes : Wiss a ou which cofakions ihe characters. ure personated by | “ilety with het progeny. Hastars sg iny a rie Lidy Duflerin, the immediate members of her house. | VY Surphco, dam Tomyris, grand dam by Gloucus, out oud and two Or toree intimate fricnds Who reside in | of Jo, by Taurus-Arethissa, by Quiz, Subjotnod are the city. These amateur periornances take place once | yhe particulars of ber stud career :— or twice a mouth, and ure attended by audiences in | ff * whieh the officers of the army iz full military aress, | 1864, ch. ¢, Little Port, by Neweustle or Van Dieman, members of Puriiament ad magnificently atti 1866, ch. 1, Little Nell, by Newcastie, ladiew lond a tairylike aspeet to a spectucie that is only | 1887, ch. ¢ Camel (died in 1871), by Thormanbys to be compared With w gitla wight at the academy of | ,,1860, ch. & Prince Charhe, by Blair Athol (foalud in Music, I have seeu many amateur companies, but | France). 3 Dever one iu which proiessionuls were so nearly imi. | 1871, ch. ¢. Thuringian Prince, by Thormanby. tated asin the preseut instance, Great care aud stuay | 1872, eh. 1, Camulia, by Sauntorer, are Lestowed on the preparation of the plays, and with | 1873, b. f Semiramis, by Julius, the superb stage eflecis that ure produced—thescenery, | 1874, ch. f. Duchess of Edinburgh, by Biair Athol. lights and general surroundings—they are more enjoy: » Athol Lacdie, by Bluir Athol, avie than many of the pretentious displays of the . by Blair Athol. large cities, The bail will accommodate about 400 » vy Blair Athol. spectators. Asa matter ol record 1 append the pro- | Eastern Princess was barren 1n 1865, 1868 and 1870. re ee meter rmimnces | The ramains of tho mare wore removed from Messrs, DN Meni geen iy Barrows’ paddocks the day after her death for inter- By J. B. Planete ment at Mr. Jones’ place at Littleport. oy, Shifnal, the favorite lor the Liverpool Grand tional, has been sold to Sir Morgan Crofton, but will not leave John Nightingale’s stables at any rate until after the great racing event, which takes place on the 23d of this month, 4 : | Macomb’s Dam Bridge has recently been thoroughly 4 comic DRAMA IN | For aired, and Harry Bertholl, through W. C. Whitte- faa ae | more, appointed bridgekeeper. It is important that Wart’ 3 t: | this bridge should be kept im good order, as, besides feos | those who have to cross 1t on business, the pleasure We. Col. Litt | seckers of New York, to avoid driving on the hard, | macadamizea avenues of this island, tako delight in One of | very much resembles, being a chestnut with a white nee and | tace and two white heels, Eastern Princess was brea RUARY, 1N77. Le AN ON ACT, Captain Amersfort Fever spyi swyzel Deive (7. esuine Husendaal. Gertrude | secseees ty Kimber, busy. | pt. Hawiiton,a.'D. ¢ C.K, Brodie, Bag uutess of Duiterin, | Mins Advle Kituber, Gardens of « Vilia near Utr Solo on the Fluve by Mr. K, 5 OR, THK WOSK OF AMiaNs. ouR wirk; Marquis de Ligny Count de Brissve Pomaret. Dumout. Muskeveer Rosine. Mariette. Capt F tess at Dutleri iss Augusta Hinswortu. | | a merry spin onthe other sido of the river on Je- rome avenue, Thousands cross tho Hariem Ri daily In light vehicles for pleasure driving, and it 1s abso- | tutely necessary to keep this bridge in perfect order to secure the contidenge of the public, In racing times particularly, When the heavy drags of tho Four-in- Hand Club are out, without a perfect knowledge ot se- curity from accident other routes would be taken to Jerome Park than the one by Macomb’s Dam. But as the bridge is now in order, with a good keeper and superintendent to look after it, there will be no fur- ther doubt about the satoty of the crossing. YACHY CLUB DISBANDED. act t Interior of Pomurette’s Shop in Ainiens, Aer An Anteroom in tie Town 1 God Save the Queen. 1 ought to add that at the beginning ana end of the performance, when Lord Dullerin wkes bis pl pmoug of ieaves the audience, te orchestra play “God Save the Queen,’’ whereat every person present | rises and delerentiaiiy r ns 6 ding dot thestrain | is Hnisbed. An eloquent bang follows these enter. | tanments, Which is spread under a pavilion, tulle fully ornamented with the coat of arms of the several provinces and interwoven with banners. In the day Wme, tue canvas being removed, the apartinent be- comes a tennis court. | “TOBOGGANING.”” This will doubtiess prove vo be a new name to the mujority of HknAL reauers, Lt is the Indian, or now ubadian, Word which describes sliding down bill, but . ‘ot sliding which must not be couiouaded with ne “eousting’” #0 familar to every Yankee boy and irk There je no outdoor pleasure which in winter in@ if More enjoyed at Duilerin Hall than these joug, breegy flights over the snow aod ice; and in order to to the HI of Amions. The Stapleton Yacht Ciub have disbanded, and sev- eral of the yachts of a fleet of sixteen have been sold. Ainong those sold is the sioop Ejizabeth, owned by Com- modore Lyman. e 7 "4 twa ee ee eee rape ieeseneld have bad cur. | THE WAYLAID MILKMAN. siructed an uddition to the natural acclivity of tie bill, vmnanggrege ‘bis consists of a wooden trough, #iX leet in width, 140 No clew has been found to the perpetrators of the feet in length, aud plevaied ong ar ong dlbeddan outrage on Archibald White, tue milk agent at the psig al * Kinch the “toboggans’ ure | Ere Depot, tm Jersey City, Captain Van Riper, of the now seated on @ piece | | Second precinct, 14 sul of the opinion that the parties who robbed and shot Mr. White were New Yorkers who were aware of the fact that he bad in his posses si0n & considerable amount of Money, whieh be was'to a, Imagine yoursell of bred not ri ker vhaw the svule of your boot, eigh- teen or twenty inches wide, 81x feet ip Jength, polisved dike giasz, and turved up the end in the form oi a geroil or litde mere than a halt cirele. Tt 18 neatly usb ioued, se the jolts, and you may have a com- on Sunday morning at the mik depot, and that > 100, on ae. or Aca’ Ge pr enerally take a ey toliowed him to Jersey City, where they lay im | vrder that they may more fiimly held ow, | wait till an opportunity occurred for rovving him. He fo stillin St. Francis Hospital, and i unavie vo give aby description of bis assailants which would lead to their capture, td ben given to let go almost belore y: cap eutch oe are flying vown the wy at Cae To Pr oe a oat ween dows she bul, NEW YORK HERALD, TU Countess) and Captain Ward (a cousin of Lord Duf- | BRAZIL. THE PRINCESS DECENT AT THE ENING OF THE GENBRAL ASSEMBLY. Mosr Wortuy Rerrgsestatives ov Tuk SVRTC e AvGUST ay | Nation ‘The meeting of the Geueral Assembly ufter the long period during which the nation remained deprived of the concourse of your mtellects augments the public rejoicing which this solemnity ever awakens. In the execution, for the second time during a temporary ab- sence of my august and beloved father, the Emperor, { have the pieasure ta expose to you the joy I feel at finding myselt in the midat of the representatives of the pation, ‘Their Majesties have not suffered in their valuable health, and my loved mother, the Empress, has almost entirely recovered trom the ailments which were the cbiet reason of the trip they bave uuderiaken, You will participate, I do pot doubt, in the intimate emotion with which {' announce to you that Gud was pleased to biess my union with the birth of the Prince of Grao Para, a double pledge of iny domvstic bappi- ness and of the stability of our political institutions. ‘Yhe ‘sanitary condition of the metropolis and prov- inces is satiwiactory. Ibe government bas adopted the ineusures at 118 command to cope with the epi- demic which, during the first months of last year, at- tacked some of the cities on the sea coast, and to pre- Vent its reappearance fuller ones will depeud upon your enlightened aid, Public order has remained unchanged. Individual safety, however, requires the revision of the laws in the direction of more efficacious guarantees of the citizens’ rights, And, although the udmivistration of justice bas been improved by the late reiorms, it needs further measures and the modification of others whose inconveniences have appeared 19 practice. Tho expression of the popular vote bad complete freedom in the execution of the new law reguiating electoral proceedings, and public order was pot a turbed tn the course of the election, one or two cuses Of excess or violence being derived rather from private tes than from undue intervent:on of tue deposita- i authority, But you will examine whetuer the ious of the law are guilicrent to insure the sirable and possible purity of the elections, the groun ESDAY, MARCH 13, 1877.-TRIPLE sion, The Anglo Company thinks it can beat the Di- rect out of the fleld, because they have three working cables to one possessed by the Direct Company, but the latter is making arrangements for providing a second Hight cable, which will enable it to despatch its messages quite as quickly as is despotic rival, More. ¢ sympathy of the public is so strougty evinced ‘or ot the Direct Company that the public will put up with some fittle delay and inconvenience rather than play into the bavas of the monopolists, 1 coming Ist of March will be a memorable day in the history of telegraphic science, | REMOVE THE FILTH. A FEW HIGHLY NECESSARY HINTS TO THE STREET CLEANING BUREAU—STREETS THAT ARE IN A DISGRACEFOL CONDITION —THE DANGER TO HEALTH—“‘ARISTOCRATIC” STREET CLEANING, For mouths past the city bas borne the inexcusable neglect of the Street Cleaning Bureau 1p failing to clqva the streets properly, but the matter begins 1o assume 4 threatening outlook now that warm weather is ap- proaching. If the mass of putrescent garbage and dirt which ts allowed to encumber many of the streets is to remain there much longer it must be taken for gravted that this great Bureau is anxious to breed an epidemic in New York, As soon as we have warm weather tho hot rays of the sun will descend upop this layer of filth that encrosts the metropolis in pumerous pluces, aod, decomposing, the foul stuff wilt produce deadly miasma fatal to the health of our uniortunate citizens Any one who deviates from the leading, fasbiovable thoroughfares, like Broaiway and Fiith uve- nue, into the side streets, both on the cast aud west side, may well wouder if this 18 a civilized community which will ajlow such a disgraceful condition of affairs, In- Gredibie us it may seem, there are sirects in which the snow, Ice, mud and siush consequent upon the first snowilall of the winter he still in buge embankments along the sidewalks, or wero only remuved a few work of tue representative system, | ‘The work of ontieting for mibtary service was on the | point of conclusiou, bul uo drawing for ariny aud navy contingencies Was inude. Toe law, thougt tu its cxe- cution encountering some ditliculties explicable by in- | correct knowledge of the principle of equaity which tt adopts, is producing beneficial results, wud fur tue first time the ranks of We army have been compicted vy Volunteers coming forward iu grea: nutabers. Poblic instruction continues to recuive the greatest sohicitude of the government, In the municipality of Rio schoois of the sccoud degree baye been es.ub- lished, and the normal schools, intended for the prep: aration of teachers for the primary schools of both sexes, will soon be opened, In the provinees this branch of service showa evident progross, Itiuited, however, by the luck of invaus ut their disposal, You bave granted assistance tO the material in- provements they nave uodertaken, and any expendi- (ure you wuthorize to aid thut great element of their civilizavion, their schools, wil be as Juatitied. ‘The construction of the Dom Pedro li, Bahia and Pernambaco rutiways is yomg va, and ere long com: | Grande du Sul, Some of the provineml ones are like- wise in progress, but the precurious state of peace in | Burope has contributed to embarrass ober autporized | oues in the obtuiming of tue foreign cupital bey re- uire. Ye ‘The circumstances of our farming are yet troublous. It needs irce labor, adupled to the organization of farm labors, to tide tt over the period of transition at is traversing. Unfortunately the luw of November 6, 1875, Whose purpose was tv allord it relict and re- sources, has noc had the desired efiect, It is plain that attentive consideration of the lot of this industry, the chief source of our pablic and private wealth, is gn urgent matier. The budget tor the year 1877-78 will bo presented to you, The government bus tried to reduce tne ex- ponses, but it Will be mecessary to provide means to remove Whatever inequilibrium muy occur between rovenue and expenditure, Known causes explain why the public revenue has not attaimed its estimated amount, To preserve the national credit we must not trust solely tu natural increase ol income. Railways and other yoicd works require outlays which caunot be met by the ordinary receip:s ulone, apd agit Would wot be prudent to make lurge use of the resource: those improvements wuich cannot be laid over. Our relations with the other States ure friendly. Two conventions have beea concluded and promul- gated—a postal ove with Great Brituin and a consular one with the Kingdom of Portugal. ‘On the 8d of Fovruary, 1876, treaties of peace, vounds and commerce were conciuded, with the ussistance of the Brazilian Plenipotenuary, between the Argeutive and Paraguayan republics, in aécordance with the terms of the agreement of Noveinber 19, 1872, thus removing all motives of divergeucy between Brazil and the Ar- gentine Confederativn us to the interpretation of the treaty of triple alliunce of May 1, 1805, aud restoring ' cordiality between the two nations which is of such advantage to both, The Brazilian forces which occupied the capital of Paraguay havo returned to the Empire. ‘The steady discipline, of which they gave such valuable proots there, and the sacritices they endured thore for years, give them the right to receive from me bere and in the name ol the Emperor a vote of thanks and praise, ‘August and most worthy representatives of the na+ tion, I believe myself in periect accord with tho sen- tments of the nation in cherishing tte grateful hope that the Legislature now commencing will redoand greatly to the prosperity und greatness of our beloved couutry. ‘Tuc session is opencd. ISABEL, THE CABLE WAR. The following circuiar has been addressed by tho directors tothe stockholders of the Direct United States Cable Company (Limited) :— PALMERSTON BUILDINGS, OLD BRoaD StREBT, Loxvox, E. C., Feb. 27, 1877. Sin—In porsuance of the policy which has for some time been directed against sue independent existence of this company the Anglo-American Company hus declared war by lowering their tari!’ \o oue shilling per word. This company has bo alternative but to follow this example, aud the tariff of the Direct United Stutes Cable Company (Limited) wilt accordingly pe reduced to one shilling per word frum the 1st of March, 1877, Tbe circular in which the Auglo-American Telegraph Company commanicate this resolution to their share holders Contains only one paragraph which 1118 ueces- sury for ine to notice, inasmuclr us It inputes to this compavy bad fuiih tu having yranted rebates to cus- tomers. in answer to this allegation I beg to quote the fol- lowing letter trom Sr, Weaver to the managing direc- tor of this company, dated the 27th of November, 1875, by which you will wee that the allegation of bad faith 18 once for all disposed ot: ANGLO-AMERICAN TX 26 OLb Broap praex, 1 My Dak Sin—In consequonee of tac d directors, commuuicnted to me yesterday vy you yerbully, that your eompuny would continue to prant Feputes, com: missions, fuctiities, &¢., 10 the packers, prose and public, which wouid practently nave the effeet of reduetns to any extent, at your option, the three shill tween our two companies, and in furee $i think it uesirable to pat in writing what [have alread, told you by word of mouth, that inthe event of this decl- sion being persisted Iu, the tariff of thix comp ny will be ro duced to one shilling per word, from the Ist o: January, 1876, or from sucn earlier period x my Bourd may deem desirable, Lam, my dear sir, yours ialthiully. H. WEAVER, General Manager, G. vor Cuavrin, Keq., The Dircet United states Cable Company. ‘Tho statement that the system of this company is a “vicious”? one will probavly be considered by the Princess Imperial, Regent. has made our competition su tormidabie us to provoke the determination of the Anglo-American Company, which is announced in their circular, I am requested to advise the shareholders not to yield to any feeling of panic which might be evoked by & temporary depression in the market price of our | valuable property consequent on this decision. They muy be assured that (he uirectors will watch over thelr interests with vigor aud decision. It must be borue 1m mind tuat, In order to compete with a company which hag the right of ail messages in Kngland, France and Germany not specialiy directed | to be sent by this company’s lines, and which bas con- nection with the targest American company on the other side, a small outlay for gathering in inessages Must necessarily ve incurred. As to the statement that my company affords factti- tiew Lo a favored class of customers which are dented to the general public, | am to inform you that, as\a mat: | ter of fact, allowances are made only when messages ure gathered by azeuts, Jn January, 1877, ou a traMic of £15,000, these allow- | aces amounted to less than £200, and th) | the usual proportion. The coustant growth ot our traffic, which has now Feached avout 33 per cent of the gross traflie of the Atlantic, 8 a clear proof that the public do not share in the opinion of the Anglo-American Company, that the proceedings of our company are either impoli- Uc or unjust. My directors aro of opinion that their success is due to the efficiency of our service and to the fact that they do not look upon the entire inessage sending pub- le 4s exclusively created and existing tor the benefit of our cabie, but that they do their best, vy aflording such roasouabie facilities a8 are consisient with w fur re- turp on the company’s capital, to foster the use of their cables. I am, sir, your obedient s t, CHARLES 8. CLARKE, Secretary, [From the Belfast News Letter, ] The Anglo-American Telegraph Company has de- elared war aguinst the American Direct Company, and the tariff of the Anglo is to be reduced on and atter the Ist of March to one shilling per word, ‘This will bo good news for, the many thousands in Ireland who have relatives and friends at the other side of tho Atlantic. The Anglo Company, the capital of which has Leen “watered” by successive Jobs until it now amounts to about £7,000,00U sterling, finding 1 cannot bully the hte Direct Company with tx single «cable into an arrangement whien would be tantamount to a revival of monopoly, hu Tosolved to reduce its charges irom three shillings por, word to one shilling, Well, the Direct Company won't’ object. It will ail be in a relatively beer posit than the Anglo, because it has only to pay dividend on | about £600,000 as against the £7,000,000 of tbe Anglo | Company, ” With tue view of getting wll the customers possible, the Anglo Company Will not charge for the hume and address of the seader and receiver of Tessages 80 long as their cust ers Wil regimver their na at there offves fu Rogiand aud America, The Direct Company will of course make a similar conces- mencement will be given to that oS, Pedro do Rio | ol credit it will be well to attend only to | | rated? sharebo.ders sufficiently disposed of by the tact that tb | ig wbout | duys ago. lo what civtized city would this be tole. Take East Fourteouth street, for instance, ‘This is one of the leading thoroughfares ofthe enty, and is theretore kept much cleaner than are ihe uarrow, obscure side strects im out-of-the-way — localitie: Nevertheless, the uccumulations of snow, slush, we and mud already spoken ol Were oanked Up along its sidewalks in formidable piles untiia very jew days ago, having remaimed there over three mouthe at least, Ladies alighting trom the crosstown cars at Hight Would otten siuinble across these unsigutly heaps, aud many were the bedruggled skirts and soiled drenses Which remained to bear teatimony to the maun- ner in wuich the work of tho bureau was Hot periormed ip this thoroughtare STRERTS THAT SHOCLD RE CLKANKD. ‘The tenement house districts, bot on the cust and west side, are ik 4 condition Which soou may become dangerous to the heath of their Inhabitants, Streets. ike Move strews, on the cast side, and West street, on tue West side, und early the whole Swainp digirict, equire the iminediate and thorough attention of the Bureaa. New street is ia a horrible condition, Lt | would be impossible to name all the streets which should be cleaued without an hour's delay ; vata casual tour yesterduy revedied Ludlow street, Jackson stree udge street Ail the ttle streets running out of 1on, On Lhe east side, and Thames street, Albany Morris street und others iu the nelyhborhood ot the North River in the lower portion of the city as dirty beyond measure, In Tact, as soon us you louve Broadway and Fittheavenus on either side of the c'ty you meet such stenches und accumulations of tilth— some of it of un absolutely puirid charucter—us to al-| iright both vision and smell, third uvenue was tear. fully dirty a short time ago, but the Bureau scems to have taken pity on its uuhappy resiuents apd put it | Into a tutrly decent state of cleanliness for the present. How fong it will lust nobody can tell. “AKISTOCRATIC' CLEANLINESS, This is supposed to be a city under a democratic form of governmont, and yet it is uremarkaole tact that, 1m order to enjoy the pleasure of only decent cleanliness, it is Recessary to live on Murray Hill, or in some other scarcely less select or ‘uristocratic’? quarter, While 1t would be discreditable to see these | uehghtiul portions of the city disigured by three mouths’ embankmenis of mud, dirt, ashes und garb- age, and while it 18 a highly praiseworthy act that they, at least, are kept clean, yet it is a curious ques- tion, which we cannot help asking, Why 1t1s that theso quarters of the rich are never, by aoy chance, neglected while those of the poor systematically ure? Is it, perbaps, because the Police Commissioners live in these ‘fashionable’ localities? And also, perhups, because their influcutil ~ iriends and the big city officials, who might be able to exercise u gentle pressure upon thom, reside there? ‘These are questions Wuieh the respectable but poor people often ask them-elves, And candor compels the answer that no matter how the poorer districts of the city are neglected tor weeks aud months at a stretch, the Street Cleaning Bureau deserves at least this praise—it never neglects Murruy Hill or uny of tho socalities in which the Police Commissioners and the big officials generully reside. Who, tor instance, has seen ei- bankments of slush and snow ov Filth avenue months alter a snow fall¥ A NEW 8YSTEM WANTED. Tne city, which looks to the Legislature for relief from the taladministration of the lust ten years, aud is now promised a comprehensive measure of muni- cipal reform, anxiously hopes that the subject of strees cleaving will not be forgotten by vur re- forming Legislature = at Albany, ois no doubt that botb systems—the contract system and that now in vogue—have proved failures. But how would it do tocombine the two systems and adopt such features of both as seem auvisable in the light of our past experience? It 1 useless to expect an effl- cient cleaning Of the streets by one contractor wuo bus charge of the whole city. By dividing the city into u number of districts, and letting the contract for eack district, with the proviso thutatailure to keep the | streets clean shall immediately abrogate the contract, and that the Strect Cleaning Bureau (which might still be retained 1 a different form for supervirory pur- poses) will at once tuke charge of the work until the contract 1s re-let to another contractor, vetter results would probably be accomplished, more expecially if a compreheusive and rigorous system of inspection by the police is enlorced. DIGGING FOR SAFES. Tne employés of the different sate companies were kept busy yesterday unearthing the safes buried tu the ruins of the Boud street fire. At an carly hour the property of Carter, Hawkins & Sloan was recovored and was opened on the sidewalk, The contents, which consisted of books, papers, money, silver bricks and twenty-dollar guid" pieces,’ were found in excellent coudition, Avother sale of tho same size wax subsequently hoisted to the street, Megsrs, Dominick & Hall, who occu- pied the third Hloor of tho building, recovered one of their sates. Messrs. Robbins & Appleton recovered anotber of theirs. Mr. tT. G. Brown watehed with anxiety for the recovery‘ot bis safe It was found einbedded in the dgbris at the rear of the building, and ag !t contains a very large amount of jewelry the opening will be watched with mack interest, So lar nigetcon safes have been recovered, and about seven- teen oi bers remain in the ruins. RIVER PIRATES. A clew has been found to the river thieves who were near the Pavonia ferry during the gule of last Thursday night. The captaim of tho lighter, bearing the noise, fired several shots and the thieves mudo their escape, ‘Yhey were pursued by the captain of a steamtug, who chased them to pier 41, where they jumped ashote The boat was brought back to Jersey City. A man, giving hts name as Harry Cornelius, made his appear. duce on Saturday at Justice Carr's Court, aud stuted that he lived at No, 31d West street, New York, and tbat he was the owner of the bout which he alleged hud been stoicn from pier 45, An investigation tol- lowed, and it Was found that the license of the boat was inthe name of Michael Finnell, who killed Ned O’Baldwin, tue pugihst. Justice Carr thereupon re- fused to allow Cornelius to tuke the boat away. A trial for the right of property has been set down for to-morrow, and Captain Van Riper, of the Second precinct, expects to find at the trial some parties for whotm he has been looking for severul months, INDICTED FOR RIOTING, The Grand Jury impanolled im connection with the Circuit Court and Court of Oyer and Terminer, now in session at White Plains, Wesichester county, has pre- sented indictments against fourteen persons charged with riotous conduct at Mount Vernon, It appears that the Law and Urder Association of the latter village, in {t8 crusade aguiust the liquor dealers, occasionally secured the services of nop-resiventa tor the purpose of entrapping the unwary violators of the Ex- cise Jaw, and afterward ‘uppearing as a witness against them, This ruse bas gener: ou a Sunday, when the strangers, 1 ellers, would succeed in procuring drinks and Ui possess themselves of conclusive evidence against the country hotel keeper. Having ascertained a few nights ago that two meh, nained reapectively Joseph Mayer and John Dilion, had arrived in the village trom New York, for the porpose above indicated, a crowa of men wayiaid the pa J utter a brik chase caught the two and guve them @ severe beating, Bench warrants were issued yesterday for the arrest of the indicted parties, AFRAID OF THE DEVIL “She was afraid of the dovil,” said Lottie Newell, halt laughingly, to a MeRatp reporter yesterday alter the inquest held on her mother, Mrs, Lydia J. R Newell, at No, 7 James street, by Coroner Woltman, be was afraid of the devil, and had been religiously mad for the past two years; but I, for une, never he'd kill herselt.’” hat the poor od Indy banged hersell froma vail ip the wall of ber own room by moans of a piece of clothesiing aud with the ard of a trunk which she used as a “drop”? She wax found by Loiue at bali-past ten A. M. yesterday suspended ay de- scribed aad stone dead. William K, Neweil, her son, told the Coroner that his mother bad attempted to Kili herselt twice withia the last tyreév months—once with laudenam and an- he guise of trav. other time, a mouth inter, by shooting hersell in the lett breast, Deputy Coroner Cushman’s autopsy declared that doath was caused by asphyxia, caught in the act of stealing pig iron off a lighter lying | ly been adopted | SIFTING THE CHARITIES. The Juvenile Guardian Society’ Appeal to the Law. THE STATE BOARD ENJOINED Grounds for Judge Daly's Order—The St. Jonn’s Guild Trouble. ‘rhe State Board of Charities, who have been investi- gating the aifairs of the Juvenile Guardian Society, and whose report upon the peculiar management of that society has been placed on tile at Albany, will be calied on to defend their action im the courte, The Juvenile Guardian Society affirms that conclusions in the report are unjust and the examination conducted ex parte, The Jnvenile Guardians, ty fact, have ap- peuied the case. ‘They demanded that an injunction be granted against the State Bourd of Charities restrain the society. A temporary injunction was granted by Judge Daly, of the Court of Common Pleas, on the 8th inst., and Was made returnablo on the 19th, when the defendants are to show cause why the injunction should not be made permanent. The grounds ag which the | injunction Is asked are as follows :-— | The plaintifl’ alleges : First—Vbe plaintut 18 a corporation, organized by its said pame under the act, entitled, an Act ior the tne corporation of Benevolent, Charitable aud Missionary Societies,’ passed April 13, 1848, ‘Second—It bsg continuously since preserved tts 1n- corporation and its rights and iranchises, aud has ase siduously and faithiuliy pursued the purposes and duties of Its meorporation for a period under ity pres- ent and prior organization of nearly thirty years. Third. —Yuat David F Robertson vas during that period been generally entrusted by tue scciety with, und had the principal management of its affairs, so that wis good name bas vecomy largely ideatiied with the interesia, Wellare und work of Ubis societ Fourth—That the Stato Board of Charities has for several weeks pust claimed that they have the powor to visit the pluintifl’s institution, to examine into and inspect 118 allurs and the convuct of its officers in all particulars, and, tur that purpose, to hold examina- ons secret and ex prrte, and with closed doors as to the society und.iis officers, These visiiors, so-calied, further, have claimed, end do claim, the power and right to pubii*h or authorize to be published the pro- ceedings betore 1t iu the newspapers of the city, as the t¥ of such secres examinations. Fifth—That they have conducted, at No, 62 Enst ‘Twentieth street, in the city of New York, examina- tions of sundry witnesses, Which examinations have been wholly secret and ex parte, and wholly with deors closed, us to the laroui? and’ he oflcs ‘3, und have wholly excluded the plilntif’ from being present, yy counsel Or other representation, trom all right of op- porvunity to examine or croas-examine the witnesses, or tu produce testimony up its own behalt. And, further, said pretended visitors have conducted said examinations upon pretended charges, thus kept secret from the plamtifl, 60 that the latter could have no means of knowing the natore or grounds of the charges, or the course or particulurs of the testimony so taken. Sizth—That the plain! appeared botore said deten- dints, at No. 52 East ‘Twentieth street, and claimed ant demanded of them to be twformed of and turnished | wich a specification of charges; that said claims and aemands have ocen wholly refused and the platntitt’ wholly excluded from said examinations, and, except as aforosaid, from all knowledge of the particulars thereof, Sevewth—That the testimony as published tends to show that the affairs and business of said plaintit have been inismanaged, the charitable donations and contributious received by it wasted and perverted, its powers abused and its corporate duty. "aud purposes neglected and deleuted, and that this evidence, so far as it charges the plaintit with mismanagement of fts business and aftairs, peor- version or waste of the contributions or donations re- ceived by it, abuse of its power or perversion of its corporate purposes and duties, und so fur as 1 reflects upon the plainuif or said Robertson or its ofiicers, or upon any other of its present officers, is untrue, de- famatory und libelous. Kighth—Vhat the defendants before the commeace- ment of said examinations, avd without cavse, were’ hostile and evilly disposed toward the plaintift and its officers, determined and bent upon breaking up und destroying the society, and confederated to use their supposed powers to’ damage the society and thus remises the good will destroy its good name, Ninth—That by means of th P and name and will of the plaintiff have been impaired, and unless the Court will grant relief, will be taken from it and its resources essentially destroyed or dis- astrously reduced and {ts work und uselulnoss stopped. Tenth—The plaintiff is advised by counsel and bo- Neves that neither the State Board of Charities nor the deiendapta bave any visitorial power over or in respect to the pluntifl; that if they have such power they cannot lawlully use it In the form of such secret and inquisttorial examinations, Hleventh—Plaiwtifl demands a jndgment of perma- nent injunction aganst the defendants and each of them, restraiming tuem and cach of them from the exercise of any visitorial power over or in respect to the plaintiff or tte officers. A permanent judgment restricting the defendants and each of them from making ex purte newspaper or other publications against the plaintiffs or its officers, THE APPIDAVITS, The affidavits for the plaintiff are the following:— David F, Robertson, on oath, said:—I am the superin« tendent and secretary of the plaintill, und one of its directors; the complaiut in this action bas been read to me; the facts alleged in ali the rest of it, besides the thira section, I personally know to be true, with the following specitied exception, As to its third section, all the facts stated therein, besides the faithiuiness attributed to me, are true, and as to my faithiuiness I unhesitatingly Bay thut throughout my connection with the plaintiff 1 have sought alt in my power to do thoroughly all the duty intrusted to me us « corpora- tor aad officer, and to prosecute the work of the socie.y and to conduct my partin its affairs with all faithtule + aed by suid Roosevelt to appear at 52 wast Twentieth street to testity before the com- mistioners, [found taat the visitors, as the delend- apts called themselves, were conducting the examina- tion of Witnesses 1p an inner, private room, with tho doors closed, only one witness ata time being in this room, the other parties therein bemg the defendanis | and several reporters—three reporters certainly, pe hups tour—whom I took to be newspaper reporters: I understood that they were taking evidence against the goct-ty, and aguinst myself as its principal manager, I demanded of the defendants that the examivation should be open and public, on specitic charges furnished to the society—if they had any to make—ard the society furnisied an oppor- tunity to be present with counsel and beard, and I protesied against testilying — otherw On one occasion there Were in the front or ante room a halt dozen persons wating, as I understood, to tes- tity—all of them but ove persons inimical to the soci ely and to myself, aud Who bad been concected with the society as officers or employés and had been dis- charged trom or bad left the society un account of its dissatisinction with them, their bostitity to me arising, d, from the fact that 1 was the principal manager of the society and compelled in the course of my duty to disapprove of them. A few days after tne atioruey aud counsel of tho society and 1 culled together at No, 52 Last Twentieth streot, Mr. | Lunsing was introduced to the Board as the legal ad- viser of the soctety, formally made the protest against | the examioations and pudlications which had been going on und a demand for an open an’ puvlic investi | gation, Roosevelt, in the pre-ence aud bearing of Mrs, weil, one of the deiendants, she standing at his side and he speakiag for the visitors, re used the upplica- tion, saying that there were no charges except what were published by the reporters, and we could ascer- tin the charges by the newspapers, adding, “We bave already determined to squelch the society,” Publication was professedly made of my evidence— but in fuct ina garbled torm—the principal part sup- pressed or omitted; what was inserted, more or less misstated; und because puotished iragmentary jorm, it carried a meaning diflerent from its real one— and unfavorable to the society and to. myself as its officer, My testimony as given justified the society and its officers, One of the New York Heratp publications, ree peated a declaration, made by said Roosevelt, that he bad announced on the part of the deiendants that it Was tueir intention to publixh the testimony, There insert a slip from the Henao of « publication of one Thomas W, Conway as given belore the defend- wants on One of theseexaminations, This Conway is a man of bad character, 1 have seen tim on the street much intoxicated, His testimony, as so publisned, is false. WHY 1k REFUSED, Lester Newell being duly sworn, sald that be is bow a director of the New York Juvenile Guardian So- clety ; that he appeared betore the Board of Charities and stated that he understood that charges had been made against said society und testimony had been luken going to sustain sald charges, and respectiully asked to be excused from testifying until a copy of tho charges aguivst the society and the testimony already tuken be lurnished this deponent for the society, and the deponent further says that this request was re- fused, though one Commissioner said te would tur- nish «copy made by Mr, Dwight in 1872, and these were the same charges that they were now investi- gating, and that if the depunent refused to testily they would compel him todo so. Deponent turther ays that no Witnesses were present when he tostiticd, but that there were several persons sitting at the table besides the Commissioners who were taking testimony, and whom this deponent believer to be re- porter: Livinus 1, Lansing boing daly affirmed, said that he Visited Reosevelt and intermed him that he bad called there with Robertson to protest against the secret mode of examimation adopted by them und the pubh+ culion Of the secret and ex parte Lexiimony 80 taken by them in the public newspapers without giving the said society or its officers auy opportuuity of hearing the testimouy oF cross-exumining the witnesses or being in any wise ropresente | before them op such examina. tons, and depovent also then and there ftormatly demanded the right of the society und its officers to be represented betore them by counsel, or, at all events, by its officers, and to exammne and cro amine all nd to produse wit md to be beard vetore them openly and fully, aud represented to the said Roosevelt and Mra, Lowell that they were doing the soctety and its officers an irreparavie injury by ing them from publishing any reports likely to jure | Lsnoir ox parte and secret cxaminations aud the immo |. ing departmens of the college, | the diate publication of the samo in the newspapers with: out Maree socicty to kuow what testimony bad been given any opportunity to answer the same ‘That the said Roosevelt and Lowell refused the appl cation to aliow said society or its officers to be repre sented belore them, either persouatly or by counsel and claimed to have the right to take such testimony ay they pleased and to immediately pablish tae same, The following is the full text of the injunction af granted by Judge Daiy:— appearing to me from the complaint and the afd of DF. Kobertson, Le: Newell, L. 1. Lansbuy, ia ahorela set inetivor roletead tor 1 der hoeeh9 the stutoments therein set forth or re! ta, 1 do order that until the further order of this Court, in the vemises, the defendants and each of them’ do re- rain from publishing or causing to be pubs lished any false, defamatory and “Mbellous states ments concerning this plaiutit! or ite officers or busl- hess; aud that defendants and exch of them show cause’ at special Term of this Court at Chambers at the Court House in the city of New York on the Ith day of Mut 1N77, at ton o'elock A. M., why this Injunction should ni be mude permanent and why such other o¢ further order in the premises shonld not be wa le as the Court may deem just. Leave is granted to pluntiff to serve further affidavita ‘six davs betore such date. Nothing in this order shall be coustrucd to sontvale the pub licgsien by. fetpndenta st any ful statement in the course of thetr he duties, vere , 3.8, DALY.J. 0, P, Mancu 8, 1877. THE ST, JOHN'S GUILD FXAMINATION, Attorney General Fairchitd doubts whether socletics that are not incorporated are intended to be included in the Jaw defining the powers of the State Board of Charities, and the proposed investigation by that body ivto the affairs of St. John's Guild has accordingly been postponed indefinitely, There was a largo at- tendance at the rooms of the Board yesterday moro- ing at hall-past nine o’clock, when the mvestigation was to have begun, and much disappomtment was ex. pressed when the opinion of the Attorney General and the decision of the Board was unnounced. The wit. nesses who had been notitied to attend were duly im. formed of the postponement, r. Theodore Roosevelt and other mombers of tho Board are very reticent as to the course to be pursued with reference to the Guild; but from the tenor of their romarks it would seem that the investigation has not been abandoned by any means, Gossip says that since the Guild’s ollicers have shirked tho investiga tio, under the plea that it 1s not w State institutio they will be reminded that the society has been alde by State moneys on more than oue occasion, and that the Attorney Generai will claim the right to Inquire ag to the expenditure of the same. However this may be, there 18 a cessation of activity at present, THR CHILDREN’S FOLD. With respect to the Children’s Fold, Mr, Roosevelt states that the State Board hxs made no formal report in the matter, The management of that charity, he says, is now in good buds, and there was no need for any detailed report or any recommendation of changes, RELIEVING THE POOR. A meeting of the New York Association for Improve ing the Condition of the Poor was held yesterday after- noon in their rooms, No, 59 Bible House, Astor place, Mr, Howard Potter in the chair. The report of the treasurer showed that during the month of February the visitors of the society had visited 22,405 persons, or 6,516 fumilics, and had expended for their relie! $10,560 25, which left a balance in the treasury of only about $12,000, A resolution was passed deciding that all general visiting should be stopped on and after the 1st of April, and thut during the suinmer months relief should only be furnished to special cases, ‘This action 1s deemed nevessary owing to the state of the exchequer of the socicty, s KING ALCOHOL DEFENDED, LECTURE BY DR. HENRY A. HARTT LAST NIGHT AT STEINWAY HALL ON THE USES AND ABUSES OF ALCOHOL. Dr. Heury A. Hurtt lectured lust evening at Stein- way Hallon the subject of alcohol, giving a biblical and scientific argument fn its favor, and also in regard to the proper treatment aud cure of drunkenness, The lecture was delivered nuder the auspices of the com- mittee for the proposed hospital for the treatment and cure of chronic diseuses, The crusade against drunk. enness, remarked the lecturer, during the last fifty years will ever bo regarded as one of the most remarkable events in the story ot the worl A review of the crusade was given and the dimensions of the evil to be com. batted described. No time should bo wasted in the ai cussion of questionable issues. In their anxiety to destroy the sin of drunkenness the champions of temperance confound essential distinctions, tramphng upon the records of universal experience, interpreting the judgment of Scripture and distorting the inatsuc- tions of science. PHYSIOLOGICAL ACTION OF ALCONOL. The lecturer attached little importance to the expert- ments from which the inference has been drawn tha alcohol diminishes the quanuty of carbonic acid ex- haled from the lungs, because they have been in most instances made upon subjects who were more or less in a state of narco. tism. Vierdot reports that in four experimenta the percentage of carbonic cid fell, after from half to a whole bottle of wine had been taken, from 4,54 to 4.01, Dr. Prout experimented upon bim- self and took the liquor upon an empty stomach, the effects of which passed off with frequent yawnings and a sensation as if be had just awakened from sleep. The lecturer said ho bad endeavored to show that alcohol 1 a gilt of God, exalted by him to the first rank among carthly substances and fitted to subserve the highest and dearest interests of humanity. In proportion to our appreciation of its importance and worth must be our abhorrence of the depravity and impiety with which it has been perverted froin its be- nevolent design. Dr, Hartt hoped, in conclusion, that the time was not far distant when, both in England and America, the irrational policies of Meense and pro- hibition will be laid aside torever. THR NEWARK RAILROAD TRAGEDY. CONFLICTING STATEMENTS—A SEARCHING IN- QUEST TO BE HELD. Yesterday morning Mr. George K. McVey, accom- panied by Captain Hopper, uf the Newark and New York Railrona, appeared at the Newark Police Station and surrendered himself to answer any charge that might be preferred against him as the conductor wha had ejected Joseph Prinz, the man who, as reported in Saturday's Hekanp, was struck and injured the night before so that he died on Sunday at the German Hos- pital, As no complaint bad been entered against McVey, and it being believed that he could be reached at any time, he was allowed to go, MeVey’s stutoe ment, as made to a roporter, is substantially #e tole lows :— He was conductor on the twenty minutes to seven train trom New York on Friday evening last, In the fourth cur trom the engiife he toand a mau whom he did not know. He thought the man had been drin. ing. His attention was calied to him by passengers, who said be was iodecentiy exposing bimsell, Bong bugy he did not much notice the man then, but s0on another passenger directed his attention to him, See- ing that the charge mace against him was truo thought be would put tho man olf the train at West Bergen, but he did not, as be had no time there, He attempted to sit beside a goutleman, but was not alluwed to do so, When near the bridge the man began ubusing him (the conductor), and said that, as he bud a ticket, be could not ve put off the train, At East Ferry street he was put out by the conductor, as- sisted by the agent at the stsion. The man helped himeelt down from the platiorm and landed easily on his feet. Tue conductor handed him his satehel The train started on and McVey last saw the man walking along the track toward the city. No blows were struck and no violence used further than was necessary to get the man out of his seat, Cupiain Hopper corroborates this statement and says that McVey bears an excellent reputation on this road, both among officials and the travelling public, tor kindness and gentlemanly deating, MeVey urged the authorities to cause an inquest to bo held. Mr. Bumsted, of Jorsey City, and several others, who were Passengers wud wituessed ine trouble with Pring, have Jorwarded assurances ot their readimess to testify to facts exouerating lim from ali blame. Captain Hop- per staves that Pring had walkea along the track eleven or twelve blocks from the Kust Ferry Street depot before he was struck. He states also that tue drug clerk who attended Prinz says he ‘was under the influence of liquor. Alderman Vande’ Veer was acquainted with Pring and states that he used to uct as though he was somewhat crazy. ‘the frienda of Mr. Pring deny that he wos a drinking man and re- fase to believe the stories about him. They insist that he was a highly respectable man, aud nre indignant be- cuuse (he Ch ei of Police allowed McVey to go at line erty. Yesterday Coroner Bassett and a jury viewed bedy and this afternoon will hold an inquest. County Physician Ward made a post-mortem examination of the’ body, and gives his opinion that the Wounds on Pr;uz’s arm were not inflicted with a knite, as Pring 18 said to bave declared, but inight have been done with a conductor's ticket punch.” There was a hole in the right sieeve of Prinz’s coat On this and on the wound there was clotted blood. AU tho ribs on tho left side were crushed in, and the liver crushed also, The head was 4 rely fractured, Mr. Pring was a vative of Russia, was twenty-seven years a resideut of Nowark, sixty-five years of age, und Jenves a wife and eiht children in destitute cir+ cumstances, His occupation was that of a pedier of spectacies, He was a member of the Masonic frater- nity. Dr, Ward un? Coroner Bassett declare their intention t6 nave a full investigation of the facts in Wwe case, OLLEGE, ‘The Normal College was visited yesterday morning by the following distinguished party:—Ex-President of Mexico Seiior Lerdo, and his Secretary of State, Senor Rubio, the Mexican General Esvobedo, General San- guili, Sefior Aldama and Colonel Sanguill, The party was brought to the college by ex-Commissioner Ful- lor, President Wood introduced them severally to tho Young lidies, alter which addresses complimentary to the system aud progress of the college were made by Sehor Aldama and ex-Commisstoner Fuller, The young lwdies of tue college entertaimed the visitors bj giving quotations from some of the standard Engtis! aud French authors aud by music, vooal and instru mental, Betore their departure the visitors wero shown through the vartous class roome and the twain -+ NORMAL C