The New York Herald Newspaper, October 8, 1877, Page 6

A NICE, FAT “PLUM.” How the Coroners Manage to Spend Mincty Thousand Dollars a Year. MHEIR BARNINGS FOR THE LAST NINE YEARS Fourteen Thousand Dollars Per Year for At- tending to One Case Per Day. iene ‘The question of reform tn tho Coroners’ office has been revived by the recent action of tho Massachu- petts Legislature in abolishing the office of coron: "There have been a great many efforts to improve tho sharacter and to reduce the cost of the office in this city, but they have all hitherto failed, Comptroller Green put every obstacle in tho way of paying the @oronors’ enormous bills on the ground that they were excessive and partially even fraudulent, and would, generally only pay them when they were on the eve of obtaining judgments against the city, During the Inst session of the Legislature a bill to make the office of coroner a salaried oyo was defeated mainly through Tammany influence, and the corouers still go on im their old grooves, spending about $90,000 a year and” doing a work which could bo far better done at less than one-filth the cost if it were inirusted to regularly Braduated physicians appointed or detailed by the Boara of Health. THR OFFICIAL INCOME OF THE CORONERS, While the office of coroner was undoubtedly held In former years by some able and competent men, tho sffice appears of lato years scarcely ever to have been bestowed by the political machine,” which confers it with a view to the fitness of the incumbent for the special duties which it entails, but solely as a political reward for services rendored in tho manipulation of primaries, ward mootings, elections, or for some bril- fant exploit in the fine art of local wire pulling. fhese gentiomen themselves (and Mr. Toal, the clerk bt the coroners, stated 1+ in so many words to tho writer) admit that the office ia worth between $12,000 and $14,000 a yoar. Furthor below preciso figures aro furnished of the earnings of our core phers since January 1, 1868, embracing the last pine years, and thoy witl show that out at the eleven incumbents of the office during that pe- fiod the receipts of only throo tell below $14,000 a year, Taking this igure, then—which is certainly not pxcessive—tne coroner, who ig nearly always a ward politician, and whose work is geuorally done for the greater part by a medical deputy, also liberally paid out of the city treasury, receives $6,000 a year more than as member of the fedorul Cabinet, $4,000 a year moro than she Governor of the State, ana $2,000 more than the Mayor of the city, ‘The coroner’s office is, indeod, fat plum in our city goverament, netting its incum- bent for his term of three years the snug little income of $42,000, and this while tho taxpayers are groaning under the crushing weight of taxes, and while honest, capable, industrious and highly educated mon find it dificult to procare places at $2,000 a year or less, TUM EXTRA OFFICIAL INCOME, While the above is the official income of the coro- fers, as gathored from their accounts in the Comptrol- Jer’s office, it is perhaps not improper to speak of the extra official income which is credited to some ot these lucky gentlemen by all woll informed persons who know the ‘inside’ doings of the Coroners! office, It f@ not intended by what follows to make avy charge against the present occupants of the oflice, but only to chronicle reports which havo been floating about in well informed quarters for years past. It nas often been noticed that the cases in the Coroners’ oflico, as returned to the Board of Health and the Comptrol- ler, nearly always occur in the poorest portions of the city, many of them in the slums and tenements where crime is rife and festering, Scarcely ever 13 thore a ase recorded on the returns as occurring in the homes pf well-to-do, reputable people, 1t has been asked, aod with great show of roason:—Are there, then, wo suspicious or puinful cases of death smong the better classes in this city of 1,000,000 inhabitants? No suicides, no stillbirths, &c., under circumstances painful to the tamuy in which they occar? “Impossible |’ ts the answer, and it ts binted that such cases aro generally husned up form consideration, as a wealthy, reputable family would gladly suiler even a heavy pecuniary sacrifice fathor than to allow a crime or indiscretion reflecting armiully upon one of its mombers to be published to ve world, In tho hands of a corrupt or dishonest coroner it is easy to seo that the oillce can be made to urn # handsome extra vilicial income beside the 14,000 a year paid him out of the city treasury, THE CORONKRS’ CHARGES AND BXPKNSHS EXPLAINED. Tue coroners are allowed by law to charge $10 for viewing every body and holding an inquest, $5 jor pummoning and swearing a jury and $5 for making and filing the inquest papers. Here is one great abuse which Comptroller Greon tought against and exposed, but which 1s still carried on as beforo— Ramely, ‘the coroners charge for a jury in every ‘case, although many of the deaths ro from smallpox or sullborn children, &c., where @ juty 1 wholly unnecessary. The writer examined We accounts of the corouers for the last quarter, eud- Ing September 30, and, with the exception of Coroner Eliinger, who returns « few cases as having boen dis- posed of without a jury, twas found that the others Bfe in no Wise ashamed to charge ior a jury in every Single care, The deputy coroners’ tees ure $3 for every external examination and $10 for every Butopsy. Each coroner has a deputy, who 1s styled B “deputy coroner,” although no such uflice 1s recog: nized by the jaw, which simply says that “when any person shall die from criminal violence, or by a Basualty, or suddenly when in apparent health, or when auattended by a physician, or in prison, or in aby suspicious or unusual manner,” then ‘the Coro- per shail subpmasa a properly qualified physician who shall view the body externaily or make an autopsy thereon, as may be required.’’ “fhe oilice of deputy eoroner is worth from $4,000 to $5,000 a year, iu the fees abovo stated. BIGHT CASES FOR EIGHT MEN, It wil thus be seen that there are four coroners and four deputy corouvers do the work of the office in this city, And what i this work? Mr. Toul, tho clerk of the coroners, when questioned on this point, Baid that the average number of cases throughout tno Year was sevon or vight por day. Taking the number to be eght—which 1s the ‘outside” tigure—every one paid cight ofllciais has exactly one case a rtainly this is bard work! Is there any doubt whatever that two or three medical inspectors, at $2,000 0r $ 000 @ year, assigned to this duty by the joard of Health, could discharge it efficiently? Lt should be remembered that the itary inspectors of ébe Board of Health, who are regularly graduated physicians, aro only ‘paid $1,500 year, and there is ne doubt that for double this saiary two or three com ent and trustworthy pbysicians could be obtained Yo'do tho entire work how pertormed by tho four coroners and four deputy coroners, Under the old system, when thero was only one coroner, instead of four, the average expense of an inquest was trom $0 t0 $10, while now (with the feo of the depnty coroner) it ts about $23, Tho following is a tabulated statement, carefully @olinted from the records of the Comptroiler’s otmco, ing the fees and expenses of the coroners for tho Yeats, from 1868 to 1876 inclusive :— WHAT THe CORONERS’ OFVICR COSTS. Messenger, Clerk, "Chemical Fees, tent, ke, Analysis, $52,805 00 00 ” $80 $7,600 00 a se 66,390 00 oo KO 73,906 00 600 1,000 BAIS 00 = d70000 72,816 00 6,808 83 - A 77, 842 08 6,000 00 - 42 68 88,240 00 a 13,546 00 80,065 00 4,050 Ite somewhat diMcul: to arrive at the exact num. ber of cases dealt with by the-coroners during these ears, Mr. Toul, the clerk, when applied to for this Tstormesion, Stated that the yearly number of cases Were not counted up by him, but that the correct ares were on record in the office of the Board of ib. With some difficulty these Agures were ov- tained by tho writer, 8 weil as those given by tho foroners in their revarns to the Comptroller, and both wore compared to seo if they agreed. [twas sound, how that they did notagree, except in the single y 74, and that was the your when the Comptrolicr had every juvestigated. It was found, on the contrary, that the namber of cases re- d to the Comptroller exceeded those returned to ¢ Board ot Health by one, two, three or eveu—as io 1872—live hundred every year. In other words tne | @oroners wero paid for ono, two, three or five hun- @red cases more every year thi they had sat | ‘pon, according to the retarns of the Board of Health, | How this discrepancy came to exist 18 aiflicult to do- termine, Porbapa itis the fault of the slipsbod re. of the Board o! Health, or porbaps some clerical ble errors were mado by the coroners, yeni ii aK those of suicides and homicides sepa. Fatély, from 1869 to 1876 (the figares for 1808 aot Delig accessible) :— Board of Comptroller's Sut. —_ Homi. | Year, Health Hrgures, Figures. cides, —_crdes, eves 2888 P 102 87 10k 45 14 66 14 69 118 a 1x0 59 185 02 8,142 160 76 soeee In the ‘ton tabular statement tho nambers of Suicides and homicides which aro given in toe last two columns are, of course, incladed in the totais as joard of Health's and the Vomptrolier’s NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1877.-WITH SUPPLEMENT. ee | figures. Though foreign to we special purpose of this article, they are highly interesting in tuemselves, WHAT THE CORONERS INDIVIDUALLY RECEIVED. The foilo table shows she individual earnin; of the coroners from January 1, 1668, to December 1, 1876 (pine yearsj:— No, of | ecw etee Ellinger 634 11,416 00 TOMI. «0656 27,120 = $587,126 The coat of the office this year will certainly be not than $90,000, The following were the payments 8 and their ber 30:— le made by Comptroller Kelly to the coron deputies during tue last quarter ending Sep! Number Coroners. of Cases. Fees, Woilalans a Ba bye Fi gan. 2 92 ker 140 2,800 164 3,080 + “979 $15,880 Ths deputy corone: receivea the foliowing amounts:— Dr, MeWhinnie, Dr. Goldschmidt, Dr, Cushman, Dr, dliller... eeeere TOU. ce sereereeeeeeeseee NECESSITY OF LEGISLATIVE REFORM, The above showing renders it imperative that the Legisiature should givo the overburdened taxpayers Telief at {te next session. 11 the office cannot be abol~ ished as it bas been in the weil-governed State of Mas. sachusetts, its cost Can at least ve reduced, though of course not nearly so much as by confiding the work to pbysicians appointed by the Board of Health or other competent authority, As long as the coroners aro elected they must reimburso ves for their election expenses, but even then tho cost of wwe office need not be more than on of what it is now. The fees should be reduced aif, and two coroners with two deputies could do the whole work and have eee of ume to spare, The two ct Oners would sill earn $14,000 a year, and the two dep- uties about $5,000 a year, und those lucky four gentie- men could aiford to pay over a goodly pile of monoy into Tammany’s cagh box. While the office remains Au elective one, however, many people cluim that its worst foatures will probably remain, namely—the low order of the mon who will Obtain it by dint of politi- cal manq@uvring. It would bo better to make the office an appointive one, with a salary of $5,000 oF $6,000a year, requiring coroners to be regulurly grad- uated physicians of good standing in the proiession, It 1s generally believed that the coroners ‘pool’ their fees and divide them equally, Bo this as it may, there are those who contend that it is now govorailly conceded that the office is both jnefllciently and exe travagantly run, and is one of the foul spots in our city government which should as soon as possible be blotted out, WHERE I8 COLUMBUS BURIED? A QUESTION FOR HISTORIANS—ABE HIS ASHES IN THE CATHEDRAL OF HAVANA OB BT, DOo= MINGO oITY? Tue following details have been received respecting the news recently telegraphed from Havana that the body of Christopher Columbus bad been found in St Domingo, Hitherto ail the world has believed that bis vones quietly reposed in the Cathedral at Havana, ‘A Dominican paper, La Patra, published in St. Do- mingo City, describes tho second finding ot Columbus? bones in tho Cathedral of St. Domingo City, as fol- lows:— The tomb was opened with all respect, and the Bishop of Orope superintended the taking out trom it of the leaden coffin, which was then publicly placed upon a table so that all prosent could give testimony, There wore present the Minister of State, the foreign consuls, the municipal authorities, the clergy, the Governor of the province and other public officers, Tne coffin was 42 centimetres long, 2134 wide and 21 deep, and bore the following Inscription on the cover: Qevcereccovoccooerece renocereeenn ee tere noone rene nene D de Ja A Per Ate APOE NOONE TO RLTOI OE OEREEETOLEOE TE DOLIDEDCDLOGOL DE EE On the left side the letter C and on the right the letter A and on the front the letterC, ‘The leaden caso being opened was found to contain some bones, several in good condition, but the majority had become pulver- ized, without doubs belonging to the immortal Colum- bus, for in the reverso of the cover was found the in- scription, in Gothic letters, “Jiére, y Esdo. varon D, Cristobal Colon.’ This inast mean “Lilustrious and esteemed man, Christopher Columbus.” THK TRANSFER TO HAVANA, At the time of making the Treaty of Basilea, in 1795, with France, for the cession of the island, the Admiral Don Gubriel de Aristizabal and the other local authori= tes agreed to send the bones of Columbus to Havana, and tho transier was made With the greatest pomp in tue said year of 1795, At the time, however, there was @ rumor that the Spamiards haa Ueen cheated by the substitution of otber remains for those of Colum- bas, the report being that thoso delivered were the’ remains of Don Diego, son of Columbus, second Vice King and Admiral of the New World. ‘This substitution was alleged to have been perpetrated by a priest. Jn this manuer the remains of Columbus were never removed from the Cathedral of st, Do- mingo City. ‘Tne secret was transmitted trom one per- son (o another wotil it came to 1s last recipient Carlos Nouel, son-in-law of the distinguished Dominican Tomas de Bobadilla, We are assured, on trustworthy authority, that Mr. Juan N. Tejera was also cognizant of the fact, in the works recently executed iu the cathedrai of this city, under the orders of the Rev. Father Bellini, the remains of Don Louis Columba were found, Public opiion then became gave credit to the old tradition about + ‘bones being in the cathedral, and Arcnois id Rev. Fatber Bellini became much iniere: ter and canged @ search to be made, with the result given above, VERY STRONG PROOFS, Prescott and other historians aro now cited by the Spaniards in Cuba to prove that the Spanish authorities in 1795 could not have been cheated in the matter of the remains of Columbus, ‘the inscription “p dela A per AVE,"? the Dominicans claim, iecoverer of the America.”’ The Spaniards maintain that this 1s absurd, as the land discovered in 1492 by Columbus was not then known to Spain by the name of Americe—that name coming from Americo Vespucio, who ts said to havo been the discoverer of the South American continent, The Spanish authori. ties and historians will, ere ave to produce all by their of tho truth of the # at Havana are ihe bond side ones of the daring navigator and discoverer Christopher Columbus. COLUMHUS? LAST YoYAGR, Columbus left Cadiz May 9, 1502, with four caravels, with 150 men, to search for a passage through the sea now known as the Gulf of Mexico to the ast Indies, bat alter much suffering revurned homo, reaching San Lucar November 7, 1604, He lay sick tor some months at Seville aud recovered only to have his claima tor redress rejected by the King, Queen Isabella being now dead, An old man, broken 1n body, although 1a Jull possession of is mental faoulties, having, in his own words, ‘no place to repair to except an inn, and often with nothing to pay for his susienance,” the discoverer of the New World died in tho act of ropeat- ing the words in Latin, “Lord, into Thy bands 1 com- it my spirit.’”’ Seven years afterward a marble tomb was placed over his remains, witu an inscription oruered by the King:— A Castilla y a Leon Nueva Mundo dio Volon, (To Castile and Leon a New World gavo Colon.) Death did not end Ms voyages. His remains, Orst deposited in the Convent of St Francis, wero trans- ferred to 1513 to the Carthusian Monastery of Las Cuevas; wore taken In 1536 to St, Domingo and de- posited in the Cathodral of that city; thenco were con- veyed, a8 i8 generally beheved, to’ the Cathedral of Havana, THE PARIS EXPOSITION, The Duke Decazes, Minister of Foreign Affairs, has, in bebalf of his government, given notice that ail ob- structive oficial rogulations will be waived and Americans admitted to the Exposition upon the simple introduction of our Minister Pienipotenuary. By this action legivlation and appropriations by Congress aro fendered unnecessary, and it only remains for those interested to organizo a general commitico to take charge of tho administration of affairs affectiog the gevoral welfare that have heretotore beon superin- tended by Congressional Commissioners. To this end the undersigned gentlemen havo issued a call tora public moeting at Underwriters’ Hall, No, 166 Broad+ way, at half-past three P, M., on the 11th inst.:— Brown Bros, & Co. H. BH. Lamport. August Belmont & Co, Cazade, Crooks & Rey- Drexel, Morgan & Co. nag Morton, Bliss & Co, Charles Pratt & Co, Moses Taylor & Oo. The Howe Machine Co, John A. Stewart. John Munroe & Co, Eugene Kelly & Oo, ©. G. Gunther & Go. Union Metallic Cartridge co. Joun Jay Clsoo, Albert Weber, Willams & Guion, Domestic Sowing Ma Col e & Co, chine Co. Be jor, Hartley & Gra. Weed Sewing Machine Co, Pittsburg Adjustment ata, Arnold, Constable & Co. Chickering & Sons, Tiffany & Vo, Browster & Co. Gorham Manufae’g Co, Honry A. Uakley. George T, Hope. FLOATING Folding Chair Co. George C. Unase & Co. Libby, Bartiowt & Kims bail, Hagerty Bros. & Co, Chesevrough Manufactur- ing Co, THE HARLEM. The body of & man, apparently about twenty-eight years of age, was found floating in the Harlom River yesterday. Ho is described as having a large mase tacbe and short hair and was dressed in a dark suit and gaiter shoes. In one of bis pockets was found a two-toot carpenter's rule, IN LITERATURE, SWINBUBNE'S EULOGY OF CHARLOTTE BRONTE, Just what good Mr, Swinburne’s “A Note on Char lotte Bronté*’ (Soribuer, Welfora & Armstrong) will do its author or the memory of its subject it would be bard to tell. By it we learn that Mr. Swinburne ad- mires Charlotte Bronté above all writing Engtisn women, her sister Emily next to ber ana George Eilot little enough in comparison. 1t18 no easy matior to Pick out thig plain statement from the labyrintaio sentences that compose the “Nove” Think of ten and a balf lines in ap opening sentence and thas so involved that only several readings bring out its meaning, Mr. Swinburne’s style tn this note 16 ex- cited and extravagant and not at ail elegant, For iu- Stance, he says that “Jane Eyre’ and “Wuthering Heighws” will live ‘when oven ‘Daniel Deronda’ bas gone the way of all waxwork, when even Miss Brough- ton no longer cometh up as a flower, and even Mra Oliphant 18 at Jength cus down like the grass,” That does not sound like the writing of one of Eng- land’s most celebrated poets, Indeed, there is nothing in the little volume to lead one to think i the work of a man of lottera As a criticism it has very little value, for it reads as though the author simply wished you to understand ‘that such and such are his opinions, withous giving the reason why. We quite agreo with bis opinion of Charlotte Brovté, but do not think that he does justice to George Eliot, “Tbat Charlotte Bronté,”” a woman of the frst order of genius, says Mr, Swinburne, “could go very wrong indeed there are whole scenes anc entire characters in her work which afford more than ample proot. But George Eliot, a woman of the first order of intellect, bas once and again showa how much jurther and more steadily and more hopeless apd more irretrievably and more intolerably wrong it is possible for mere intellect to go than it ever can be possivie for mere genius. Having no tage for the dissection of dolls, I shall leave ‘Danie! Deronda’ in his natural place above the rag shop door (whatever that may mean), and having no ear for the melodies of a Jews’-harp, I shall leave the Spanish gypsy to perform on that instrument to such audience as she may col- Yeot,’”? In this connection Mr. Swinburne speaks of “the pititul and unseemly spectacle of an Amazon thrown sprawling over the crupper of her spavined and spur-galied Pegasus.” What sort of language is this from 4 gentleman of a lady, or trom @ poetof a siaver writer? Our critic says that, to bis mind, the figure of Ed- ward Rochester, “Jane Eyre,” “remains, and seems likely vo remain, one of the only two male tgures of wholly truthiul workmansbip and vitally beroio mould ever carved ana colored by # woman’spnand. The other it 1s superfluous to mention; all possible readers will have uttered, before I can transcribe, the name of Pau! Emanuel”? Going back to George Bliot, Mr, Swinburno pronounces the “Mill on the Floss’? the best of ber works, but declares the cbaracter of Sto- phen Guest “the flagrant biemish which defaces and degrades the very crown and flower of George Eliot's wonderful and wost noble work—no ront or splash on the raiment, uo speck or scar on the skin of it, but a cancer in the very bosom, a gangrene in the very flesb,’? Here the critic pauses, but only because be has exhansted his vocabulary of Glthy discases, In the course of bis note Mr. Swinburne pecks a fow mos at the Quarterly, but toward the end he plunges the knife boldiy into the hoart of that magazine by saying that, “fom the earlier days of Shelley, onward to these latter days of Tennyson, whatsoever things are truo, whatsover things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are puro, whatso- evor things are lovely, whatsoover things are of good report, become untrue, dishonest, unjust, impure, un- lovely and iil-famed when passed through tho critical crucible of the Quarterly Review.’”? This note does not raise our estimate of Mr. Swinburne as a critic, He speaks plainly aud calls names when he teels like it, and seems to take a profound pleasure in Durling the javeling of his hatred out to those be hates, It seems to us as though the writer had said to himself:—“Most every literary man of any position has nad something to say about Charlotte Bronté. My opinion is as yot unheard, give ear, O ye people! and listen to what Swinburne bas to say.’ MES. BUENETT'S EARLY WORK, 1. B. Peterson & Brothers have just issued a story entitied “Theo,” by Mrs, Frances Hodgson Burnett, printing in large black type on the cover that she is the author of “That Lass o’ Lowrie’s,”” That Mre, Bure nett is the author of “That Lass o’ Lowrio’s’’ is the reason that the Messra, Poterson bave published this book, The story was written for Peterson's Magazine when its author was but seventeen years of ago, ‘There was no copyright on it and it has been lying nid away in an old numbor of Peterson's until Mrs, Bur- neit’s Lancagbire story agitated the literary world and won the unanimous praise of the critics, Then the Messrs, Peterson reprinted the story and publishea i in book form against the exptess wishes of {ts author, who felt that, at having been written in hor girlhood, the story would not do ber justice, There is nothing about “Theo” for Mra, Burnett to feel ashamed of, 1t ts evidently the work of a young person, and a senti- mental young person at that, but there is promise in it, and it 18 away above the average magazine story, While we do not think that Mrs. Burnett could wrie as well then as she does now, we can see that “Theo”? ig not even charactoristic of hor carly work, for othor stories that she wrote at about the same time have none of her peculiar strength, This was evidently written for the readers of Peserson's, “Theo” is the story of a young girl, fresh from the country and poverty, who is brought to London by a rich and noble aunt. Tho girl is full of sentiment, and worships the romantic, While at hor aunt’s sho meets 4 brilliant young man, & jourvalist and a man of the world, with whom she immediately falls in love, but the course of true love, &c, Ho is engaged to another young woman, a practical literary woman, for whom ho has respect but no groat iove, He sees that he is becoming enamored of Theo, and flees the country. Her aunt conciudes to travel on tho Continent about this time, and of course they mect Dents, He meets with an accident and Theo, regardless of appearances, rushes to his bedside, He raves abous her in bis delirium and s' 18 pierced to tue heart, His fiancée comes over from England, and, sceing how the matter stands, resigna him to Theo, and everything goes merry a8 a marriago bell, While we miss in “Theo” tho rugged strength of Mrs, Burnett’s later stories, we cannot but be sur- Prisea at the clevorness of a girl of sevonteon, who, without training and only a limitoa oxperience, could sketch character with even so pronounced a pen as is found here, Thore 1s no doubt of the popularity of this story, but it will mot be among the readers of “That Lass 0’ Lowrie’s,’* A ROMANCE OF NEW YORK. In “Tho Johnson Manor” (G. P, Putnam’s Sons) Mr, Jamos Kent has woven into an interesting story thi romauce of the early bistory of New York State As a rule, historical novels are dull reading. We resent them, for we havo the fecling that we are being forced to swallow an historic pill with a thin coating of roe mance, Of course thore aro exceptions to this, nota bly Bulwer, Scott and our own Cooper and Simms, While Mr Kent bas not reached the height of either of these, ho bas made a remarkably pretty little story, and no one will begin the book without reading it to the end, A NEW MEMBER OF THE FAMILY, “Tom's Wife” (G. W. Carleton & Co.) has just been added to the reigning family. This young iady—who, by tho way, ie a bride—is rather silly in horsolf, but as a character in a story ts qafte amusing, She is more like a real person than “That Husvand of Mine,” and the book ts much more humorous. It is imposst. ble to read it without Isaghing, while ‘That Husband of Mine” only made one angry that any one could be guilty of such drivel, There aro thousands of young women like Tom’s wife—well meaning litle butterflies, who havo no more {dea of the cconomy of life than they have of Greek roots—to whom shop- Ping is the most important business of their lives, and who only want some real trouble to develop the tre womaniiness that is latent within thom, The desertp- tion of the house when the nurse assam command, and poor Tom is driven from post to pillar and obliged to smoke his afternoon cigar in the street, will be recognized by many men as their experience, And when the baby comes how they are snubbed and sat upon as though it was no kith nor kin of theirs! Peo- ple liko to read a book of which they can say ae thoy read, “How naturail! jsa’t that just like our Sarab,”” and think that there will be a great many to say of Matilda, “How lke!” , LITERARY CHIT CHAT. The ‘Little Lost Volume of Poetry, for Children,” by Charles and Mary Lamb, will be published soon by Scribner, Armstrong & Co, ‘The bandy volume edition of Scott's novels is sold by R. Worthington alone, It is uniform with bandy volume Shakespeare, Mr. William C. Prime speaks by the card when ho writes of old China, and his book, whieh is now in Harper’s press, is going to interest a large and select class of readers. Charence Cook’sarticles on ‘‘Housebold Art,” which appeared in Scribner's, have been collected, and will be issued in a sumptuous volume by Scribner, Arm- strong & Co. about holiday timos. Mr, Lawrence Hutton bas iaid aside bis balf finished second volume of Plays aud Players’ to assist Mra, Ciara Erekine Clement on a work to be called “Artiste of the Ninetoonth Century,’ and published by Hurd & Houghton. Mra Olem ig the author of A Hand> book of Legendary and Mythological Art and Painters, Sculptors and Engravers, The new book belongs to the same series, and will treat exclusively of modern art und modern artists, t The AWantic Monthly’s portrait gallery of distin. guished poets and authors will be enriched this fall by the addition ofa One Iife-size portrait of Whittier, sim- ilar in size apd style and a companion to the ad- mirable portraits of Longfellow and Bryant already published, The November Adlantic will contain a characteristic poem by Mr. Whittier, ontitiod “Lydia Wardwell in the Old South, 1660,” Mr. Scudder’s Bodley books bave made hosts of friends among the young folks, ‘No botter juvenile books are to be tound than these, Mr, Soudder bas a way of amusing children without bemg silly, and ap- peals to their sense without writing over their beads, ‘The library of William Bleakley will be sold at auc: tion by the Messrs. Leavitt on the eveniugs of Thurs. day and Friday next 1t includes a oumber of fue art and illustrated works, A valuable library of Amoricana will be. sold by Bangs & Co, on the 15th, 16th, 17tn and 16th of this month, G. P, Putnam’s Sons have in press a new work by President Bascom, of the University of Wisconsin, An illustrated edition of ‘Othor People’s Children’? is announced by this same frm. The illastrations are by Mra, Morse, NEW BOOKS BECEIVED, The Johnson Manor; a Tale of the Olden Time in New York. By James Kent. @. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, BSkotehes ot Western North Carolin: Historical . and Bi Iiustrating Principally she Revoluttoua 1, Hunter, The Kaleigh Nows, Steam Jol mmission of Fish and Fisheries (Part 8); loner tor 1873~$ and 1874-5, Govern> ment Printing Office, Washington, D. 0, The Publisher's Trade List Annual for 1877, Preceded by the Firs Provisional Supplement to the Amertcun ( . from January 1, 1876, to June 30, 1877 (tfth ye Sf the Publisher's Weekly, Now York, jericho Road; a Story of torn Life. Messrs, Jan> eon, McClurg & ioago. ‘Alcohol and fhe ‘State; a Discussion on the Problem of Law os Appiled to the Liquor Traffic, By Robert ©. Pit D. National Temperance Society and Pablica- York. Hand Book; Chiefly Intended for the re aud Booksellers, Oftce of the eusits yw Yorn, Se’ port Upon the Improvement of the South Pass of the Mississippi River, Showing the Condition of the orks un July 24, 1877," By M. 4 Brown, Captain of En- States Arm: and intellectual, By Joseph Richardson etrolt, Savings tt u islature of tho State of New York May G, 1877, Jerome o Printar. Elements of the Laws; or, Outlines of th and Criminal Lawsin Forco in the United st Several States of the Union. By Thomas L. Smith, exed of the Suprome Court of Indiana, J. B, Lippincous & Fthe latrary Journal, Volume 1. (Se 6 Library Journal. Volume mber, 1876-4 n; 77, anid volume 3 No, 1 Goptember, 877) be Lees poldt, New York, ‘A Handbook uf the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Uhureh, Giving It History and Constitution, 1785, 1877. By William Stevens Vorry, D. Ds, Lis D: Thomas Whittak Report upon the Physics and. ‘fiydraulics of the Missis. sippl Kiver; upon the Hroteetion of the Alluviul Reyion from Overflow, and upon the Deepening of the Moushs, Fropared by Captain A. A. Humphroys and Lioatonant Il L, Abbott, Corps of Topographical Engineers, United Btates Army. Government Printing office, Washington, D. (, Worterlach der Ostfriesischon Sprache (scandinavian Diesionary), two parts, from 4. to Blo. Norden Veriag vou orm Brawis. A Miracle in Stone; of, the Great Pyramid of Egypt, by Joseph A. Seis, D, work which will furnish points for investigation yo the theologians, scientists and doubsert in mattors of fab. It ie pavilshea by Messrs, Porter 3 Contos, of FbiI ia, udge Cov Biblo House, New Yor 8 5: Osten ee Lee ad FINE ARTS, IN THE STUDIOS, Albert Bierstadt te at work on a large canvas which ig so far finished that a very good “idea oan be had of what will be its completed effect. The picturo isa view of Estes Park, Colorado, owned by the Earl ot Duara nd situated some sixty miles from Denver City. It is ono of those grandiose mountain and yal- ley scenes which this artist handies with such com- prebonsive grasp, To the right rises Long Peak, from which the cumuli clouds are slowly drawing off, cov- ered with tho Orat fresh fail of snow capping tho old, On the left more abruptly stands Lily Mountain, and between the two mountains down she vulley, over which bangs the moraing mist runs the Estes Bivor, emptying im the middle distance into the beautiful little Estes Lake, 1n the foreground is @ rocky slopo, witn large, gaunt pines and firs, The atmospheric effect is admirable, and the landscape is treated in Mr, Bierstadw’s masterly stylo, The picture ig being painted for the Earl of Daaravon, There are also some fine color sketches of Bormuda seaside scenery, made during @ recent trip to that island, to which the artist will return about the mid. dle of the winter, Notable among these'ls one of a rising storm on tho coralline const, a fine effect of a huge wave of that peculiar emerald ono only sees in tho tropics, J. G, Brown ts painting into a picture an incident of the wild fishing life which he was sketching on the Grand Menan last summer, A young fisher girl, hurriedly dressed on a morning after a storm, Is lean. ing over & clif, holding on to a branch, and has just discovered a wreck of a fishing smack on the beach, possibly with ber own kindred, A {ecling story and well told. Gilbort Gaul, pupil of the former, has just finished a rocky headland on the Grand Monan, with Swallow Tail Light, on an teland tn tho bluo sea, and a figure of agirlonarock, Simple and pleasing in color, 8. RB, Gifford is in town for a tew days, having just returned irom No Man’s Land, off Martha’s Vineyard, where he went after a trip to the Maine woods, He is working Up @ little effect ne caught at No Mi Lona, Krusemano Van Elten ts back in bis studio irom Pompton, N. J., where he has speat the summer, and brings with him @ fine portfolio of well worked up and leasing sketches, most of them quiet views on tho ynockie, Ho is at work outwo pictures—ouo a cloudy afternoon on the river, with Pompton viliago iu the distance, and the other ‘A Rainy Motniug,” aq exceedingly well managed cloud eflect over mountains and a quiet valloy. Mr. Van Elten has also somo water color sketches of scenery mado this summer, which he tends to work up for the exnibition of the Water Color Society. William F, do Haus is finishing up a sceno off Block Island, fishing boats, with sails up, inside the break. water, and an angry sea and sky without, Frank Waller bas put the last touches to two care. faily painted little Egyptian bits—a tow palms by the Nile, with a fellan beading down to the river dipping water, and @ sceno in the gardens of a moxquo neur Cairo, with the delicate travery of the holy building limned against the sunset sky. A very pleasing litte wir of pictures, With a fine atmosphere in the iret, r. Waller bas just blocked in on a good sized canvas a View of the citudel of Cairo trom tne rim ol the great desert, with the Mozque of Mohemet All toworsng above the ines of fortifications, From the middie distance on each side of the desert way, along which n of camels, reach toward as ries of The artist bas also in hig studioa head excellently treated. Mr, Hardie, in the sal udio, has under way @ crayon beau of Mr. Wal hich promises to bo an excellent likeness. Walter Satiorice has nearly finished “Tho Trysting oo’? An English girl, in the costume ol the 6 go LLL, was King, has arrived too early, and s over the fonce by Whe rose vines looking oat of dA pleasing composition. also a little water color picture, a young girl in tne days of our grandmothers reading on 4 Suaday attor- d10 an admirable portrait Reynolds, who Killed at Gotsysburg, whicd he bas painted tor the oflicers of the First corps, and which is to be placed in the library at West Point, The portrait, a threo-quartor length, i¢ strongly treated anu the coloring exceilent. Kapecially to ve noticed is the skilfully managed background, There are some very pleasing crayon portrait aeads in tue studio. ‘A. BR, Wyant ts working on a little Adirondack land- soaps, A lake among the mountains, which will be pleasing. He has a bright litte moonlight effect, with treos and water, on an easel. ART NOTES. a& nouGgnTom Mossrs, Knoodler & Oo, (Goupil’s) have lately ro- Loved Boughton’s ‘Huguenot Fugitives” (Kecaping after St. Bartholomew), together with « number of proofsand examples of the engraving of it by Mr, Hunt, which they have just published, and which Strikes us as being an exceedingly artistic reproduc Hom of the picture The picture ieelt will be shortly placed on exhibition, On the French coast, © towering afternoon, © Huguonot Unsdeathed, stands determined 1y ages rock, tightens the baudage around a wound ab wrist and awaits tbeissue. By him crouches th young mother, worn with suffering, clasping sleeping babe to her breast, A picture to which on Beart yoar my Samadi treatment, ‘The tgures rif Sympathetic in story and ho litsle group ure strongly touch once seen imiravio is the supe + delicate, jor anothers. a presse: 1H in the strong face and the body of the young father, and sw od, ‘watcniul face, The color mont, is 4! coived an ty oniajnal ty whe Process of phete-enararing, ot Dévatut rat salon pictul be 6 aU: vase, | owned by Mr. Hawk, se Reichard has in bis rooms, by F. Verheyden, of Dusseldorf, “Aftor the Bail; ierrot veing with many ugures, The rea—** Bap meageleh? ket scone, and the inal Limailiah, ' iro, by latter a very pice little bit of cool color, t the Chicago Exposition hi not been very good, to which fact 1s attributabl adverse influence of picture auctions, ‘To o age sale of pictures in Chicago Mise Rose Durtco has issued a circulur to probable iy wilt look atter the intorests of New Yo artiste at the Buffalo Academy of Fine Arts durin; the month of November, w: she will have a speci: exhibition, k ABT SCHOOLS, The Woman's Art Schoo! of the Cooper Union opened on Monday, October 1, with 178 of the old pupils in their places, There were 477 additional ap- Pheations and 310 pupils wero received into the school, This year a larger number of old pupils have returned than evor before. Among tho now features are aclass in pottery painting and portrait drawing from the life three weoks out of the four in each month, three anda halt hours each day. R, Swain Gifford 1s in charge of tho painting class, Wyatt Eaton of the cast department, Mr, Hecker of photo draw- ing, and Miss Powers of the normal drawing, accord- ing to the Walter Smith system. Mrs. Carter ts prin- cipal, as of yore. Thero aro thirty-iour pupils in the school for drawing and cpgraving on wood and pen aod ink work, presided ot by Mrs. Coggeshall, There is in this departmen clementary class for objoct drawing, and—an excollent idea—one for sketeb- figures trom life, Froo High School of Art opens to-morrow oe ‘There will be 60 pupils in tho class tor draw- ing (rom tho cast, 86 in modelling ta clay, 345 in or- dinary drawing, 150 in architectural drawing, 120 in mechanical drawing, 50 in industrial drawing and 10 id perspective, making 880 siudentsio ail, The tow in the perspective class. The ll, except the one organized for the first timo thie year of industrial drawing ana design- ‘og and the perspective class, th ‘ne Art Students’ League has started woll this yoar, B ty students, among whom are somo twenty ladies and a few professional artists, SOCIETY OF DECORATIVE ABT. During the week that the socioty bas had its doors open to the public it has met with a good deal of es couragément, quite a number of sales having been made aud quite a number of articles ordered atter samples, Among the articles noticed during our last ‘Visit was @ bedstead with Ornamentation very artist feally carved by the Misses Johuson of Avondale, Ono; some fine altar cloths and an album containing the well known poem ofthe “Bells ot Shandon,” tn pen and iok, by Miss Lillie Bora, each verse betog in ornamental Jetters, headed by vignottes illustrating the poem, A very creditable piece of work, ART ABROAD, Meissonier made a color stuay of M. Thiers the day after his death, which ho will work up into o portrait, Thiers, painted by Meissonier—what a picture it will be! Truty, asthe Figaro says, he will live again, Théodore Frére winters in Egypt every yer A restoration of the Churoh of Saint Germain VAuxerroia, in Paris, is shortly to be commenced, It te one of the oldest churches in Paris, Destroyed by the Normans in tho ninth century it was rebuilt in the thirteenth and at different datos received many additions, ln it are tho tombs of many celebratod artists. ‘The greatest part of M, Thiers’ valuable collection, it Is shought, will go to the government, It is stated that be leit to Marseil! bis native city, a number of those copies of old masters which he prized so much Jor the recollections they nes ia him of the originals, Fridéric Bozine, author of the monument, with bronze bas-reliets, erected ut Mars la Toar to the y of Metz, bas just been re lonor. wi picture of ‘Reading the Will’’ In the new Pinacotheck at Munich is said to some recent devarnisbing, renovating process, Keble Coll bas received by donation Holman Hunt's celebrated picture, “Lite of the World.” ‘The excavations ut Nineveh are to be continued un- dor autpority of a firman from the Porte, Jacob Jordaens, a pupil of Kubens, has had bis tomb u jon of the Church of the Trinity in Paris 4s nearly completed, Tho most recent additions to tho Louvre are a “Last Supper,” by Tiepolo, and “Ruines prés da Caro,” by Marihai 'A “Catalague Raissonné de l’CEuvre Gravé ot Litho- graphié de M. Alphonso Legros,” by Mil. Malassis bs ‘Thibaudeau, has lately been published by Baur, of aris, IMPOSING RELIGIOUS OEREMONY, TWO PAINTINGS FROM ROME BLESSED IN ST, MICHAEL'S CHURCH, JERSEY CITY, A coromony which is very raro in the Catholic Chureh—the blessing of religious paintings and pic- turee—was performed last evoning in St. Michaol’s Church, Hamilton square, Jorsey City, Bishop Corrs. gan was to officiate, but he left for Baltimore to await the funeral of Archbishop Bayley, and tho Rev, Fathor McQuade, 8 J., officiated in his stead, He was assisted by Fathers James and Thomas, of tho Passionist Monastery, as deacons, and Mr, Croke master of ceremonies. Thero were also present Fathers De Concilio, pastor of the church ; McCarthy, assistant pastor, and Flynn, chancellor ot the diocese, The paintings, which are 1 by 6 feet, aro the works of the cclebrated Chevalier Spano, and have Just been received from lly. They are set in heavy gilt {ramen aod placed on either side of the ganctuary. That on the epistle side represents “Tho Rest in Egypt,” tn which the Blossed Virgin, holding the infaut Jesus, is resting oo a broken coluwn of an Egyptian tomple. On tho gospel side the painting te St, Anno and ber child, tho Virgin Mary. res are life Biz0. The ceremony cominenced with a procession into the church, headed by the master of coremon| About fiay whose heads, faces and aboulders wero white veils, followed, one carry’ vos on either side ot y, Then came boys in surplices aud soutan the clergy, Futher Me je wearing a cop: cons, KLOOd at the foot of the hig prayors proscribed jn tho rubric, alter which (be paintings woro sprinkled with holy water end luce! offered up before ench, When the cero- mony concluded vespers followed, The sermon was preached by Father McUarthy, wno lained tho cause of the Bishop's avsenco, and then delivered a discourse on the subject, ‘fhe Influence of the Catholic Church Upon the Ari The Chureh, be said, rejected (hat most absurd of all ideas—that worship 16 incompatibie wi tho beautios world, that th beoa: a a only BS Catholic = Church fostered the arts that cag give us one only one lon of the origia of the arts, Before this Church was established idols wore worshipped, but alter hor ad- Yont into tho world idolatry was overthrown, Tho grand old monks in their Cloisters devised paintin the ag a mode of instruction—not tho paintings ol Venus and the like, which were more incite ments %0 sensuality, but the sweet facex of Christ, His holy mother and those moral heroes, the gnints, to encourage us in our pilgrimage hero below. Raphael's finest paintings were those of hie yooth, when bis heart wasgpure audybefore his life was blasted by the sin of the world, Tne coremony Just performed showed that painting was also boing Fovived in the churchos, and they would be filled with the aspiration, ‘Lord, I have loved the beauty of thy houso and tho place where thy glory dwolleth,”” FATAL ACCIDENTS, Dantel Carr, aged twenty-two years, of No, 345 Madi- son street, foil from tee root of the bouso No, 349 Madison street to the yard yoster- day morning and was almost instantly killed, In Nowark, on Saturday afternoon, Uliffy Harrison, aged four years, whose parents live at No, 397 Halsey t, Was playing around a bonfire, when hia clothes «fire und oe was burned eo severely that ho died yoatorday afternoon in great agony. Thomas Murphy, an employé of the Erie Railway Com, ere under a locomotive in the round house, in Jersey 'y jumped into the cab and, turning the | engine outside the yard, y was caught under the wheels aud dragged a considerable distance, r celving fatal injuries, Ho was removed to bis rest- dence in Henderson strech, BASEBALL, So far as concerns the League, the season of 1877 fa now virtually at an ena, The summing up of the various records, as is herewith dono, gives a completo and accurate history of baseball matters for the pres, ent year, as woll of the arona outside as-of that inside the League, These tables will make this copy of the Heraup, a8 & reliable referonco, of great value to all admirers of the American game. The League, boing the older of the profossional bodies, will roceive the first attention, This has been the most remarkabie year inthe annals of baseball. In former years suck clubs as the once famous Atlantics, of Brooklyn; the old Red Stockings, of Cincinnati, and the renowned Athletics, of Philadolphia, led off at the beginning of « soason and retained the front position till the end of the year, This time, however, the various clubs com posing the League contained such fine players that, up to nearly the end of the season, it was within the range of possibility for either one to havo won the championship, This makes tho actual winning by tha Bostons a much greater credit to the successful club than would have been the fact if thoir superior skil) had enabled them, really without a contest, to carry off the prize with but little effort or exertion on thois part, This equality among the different clubs, in point of ability, makes the struggle for second and third place in tho list all the more earnest, Of course all could not win tho pennant, and any amountot ex- uses will be mado for cach club that failed; but the fact remains that where each containea first class players victory could only be secured by the one per. petrating the fewost errors, for if none bad erred the contest must have ended with a full list of draw games—that is, supposing tho batting and fielding of each club to be equal to all the others, This contest for the nixher positions, short of the leadorsnip, is what renders important the question of including or excluding the Cincinnat! games, As witl bo bered, owing to the failure club to pay their $100 in ti June. io the difficulty; so the matter can only toe termined by the Judiciary Committee when they meot after the scason is over. Counting all games played t ing is the result: — LBAGUB CHAMPIONSHIP, WITH CINCINYATI GAMEB, Won, Bis bg To Play. Total, 0 6o 8 2. 60 0 60 26 87 3 60 82 69 1 60 33 50 1 60 41 55 6 7) 175 35010300 ‘es only ive gamos to be played to completa the entire series—the Hartfords threo with tha Cincionatis aud the St. Louis and Chicagos oach ona with the Cincinnal proven to be Iu this respect also this hag remarkable season, Should the Ju- in consequence of the clamoring ‘uctionists of tne League constitu. tion, decide to exciude all games pluyed with either Cinolpnati club, on tho ground that no club of that olty patd in the $100 boforo or on the lst of Juao, thon the following wil! be the result: — LRAGUK CHAMPIONSHIP, WITHOUT CINCINNATI GAMES, Clubs, Won, Lost, sMlayed. To Play, Total. Ww 48 0 43 20 43 0 43 24 43 0 48 29 48 0 “3 380 45 0 4a eeeee)2O 120 240 0 240 Having disposed of the League, the next in order 18 the otner proiessional organization, the ‘Interna. tional Association,’’ In tis body thero are several clabs of Canada, besides those of the United States, This body’s clubs have played some dner games within thelr own arena and outside thereof than have the League; in fact, every ono of the Leaguers bas beca beaten by some one or other of the loternationals during the season. One of the moving causes which Jed to the formation of this association was the desire for an absolute reform in everything undesirable that had becomo a part of, or indissolubly connected with, the ball fold, viz.:—Gambling openly in preseace of ladies and’ children; crooked playing, whereby games wore purposely lost by the stronger iu favor of the weaker club; revolving, which was done by unprin- cipied men seliing themselves to cluvs equally void of honor, so that in the midst of a season aman would leave one aud Join anotuer club for the sake of getting higher wages, orina fit of anger or jealousy. How well the reform action of the Internationals has peen received is seon in the radical improvemonta in these regards all over the country. Then within their own circle the Internationals have sot an example of yen- tlemanly conduct well worthy of goneral imitation, to wit:—Although 1t was apparent quite carly in the sea- son thatthe pennant would very likely be won by the Tecumseh Club, of London, Canada, which was calcu- Jated to mortify our national prido, inno instance, in all their travels in the United States, and in their intercourso with clubs on our sida of the line Lave tho Tecumsehs met with apy thing but the kindest and most cordial treatment. It js a Lact, also, that our cluba Were subject to as courte. ous intercourse when north of the line as when at home, ‘This is cortamly no small recompense for our losing the championship. Thero has been a change ia the membership of this body winco the season bogan, in consequence of the disbanding of two clubs, the Buckoyes, of Columbus, Ohio, and the Live Uaks, of Lynn, Mass. This will leave a question of resalts to be settled in this organization, also, by their Judiciary Committee, at the end of the basoball souson, when all unsettled matters will be reterred tor legal adjudica- tion by the men chosen for that duty, at Pittsburg, in February last, by the Convention which organized tho International Association. The following tables yivo the resuit:— PRIOR TO WITHDRAWAL—INTERNATIONAL RECORD, Won, er Played, To Play. 9 6 13 Pt 13 17 7 24 10 7 7 7 24 9 10 ly 6 4 9 buy 20 4 24 4 12 1s 8 a 1 9 10 4 mA Totals... 59 118 5o 163 The rules of the International Association will be applied to this case, no doubt, by the Judiciary Com. to do ple justice to ali parties in- wer ir decision, This will somewhat change the result, ue following tablo shows: AVTER THE WITHDRAWAL—INTERNATIONAL RECORD, Won, va ae bis? ug To Play. Total. i 2 6 6 16 8 24 8 16 8 2 7 9 16 8 24 4 ww 16. 8 24 Buckeye. 2 8 lo 4 24 46 Totals... ...+ 46 92 62 14d Tho record which follows gives tho relative posigons of the seven leading clubs contending for the cham. ptonship of this State, Tho Hurttord record is quiio Jow, but it 18 #o only because the League season ran so far into the autumo that there is now very little time Jeft for them to gain a bigher position in the list The following is the result to date:— NEW YORK STATE CHAMPIONSHIP. Clubs. Won, Lost. Total. M4 40 8 27 16 32 24 3 u q 1 4 9 12 83 166 west number of games in the victors in ouch of the In the the Prospecs Park contest, foregoing contests. however, the ruleis differont, Tueore the pennant gous to the club socaring the larger number of series—bust outot threo, Up to date the following is the result;~. PROSPMOT PARK CHAMPIONSIIP. Won Lost. Hayed. To Way, Total, 4 0 6 4 2 6 0 6 3 8 6 Q 6 3 3 6 o 6 2 1 3 3 6 0 3 3 3 6 0 4 4 2 6 sescccoeeseld 16 32 10 4% is. The championship contest for the American pen- nant bas assumed marked interest since the Tecum- sehs, of London, Canada, bavs carrtod off the interna- tional champlonsnip, Should they succeed in this race algo it will cause Uncle Sam’s boys to pi ally woll noxt year to regain their lost they have worn triumphantly for so many past years, To dato the following 1s the result. AMERICAN CHAMPIONSHIP, Won, t, Played, Allegheny. 8 26 4 Boston 25 89 Chicago. 46 86 Cincinoat, ay oo Cricket, 9 1 Hartfordt 30 68 Inuiapapolis, .. a4 64 36 ” 26 22 23 16 64 25 156 878 4 id kas, of this city, pli nion Ground; the Crystals and Monticello: itoline; Kxcelsiors and Williamsbargs, at Kast burg, and the Torre Hautes and Cincinnatis, at Terre Haute, RECKLESS RUFFIANS, Two well known charactors, James Smith, al!as Cod, fish, and Jobn Connelly, alias Bush, wero arrested in Newark yesterday alter a desperato struggle, in which Captain Boyer was severely bitten, They entered saloon kept by » German named Feller, robbed the place and beat the proprietor and his wite, On being searched at the police sintion part of the stolen prop= found on them, Tho thieves wore locked up jn default of bail. Smith is at present under bonds for highway robbery,