The New York Herald Newspaper, October 24, 1878, Page 6

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Subscriptions aud navertixements will be received and forwarded on the same terms asin New York. VOLUME XL.iII-as--euseeee ++ 000 AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. veseeNO, 207 WALLACK’S THEATRE—Tue J xaLous Wire. FIFTH AVENUE THEA RNIBLO’S GARDEN—Tux Deiucx GRAND OPERA HOU, PARK THEATRE—Ba: GILMORE’S GARD! ACADEMY OF DESIG: FIFTH AVENUE Bal! GERMANIA THEATRE—Dis Dust Lancuannen SAN FRANCISCO MIN HAYMARKET THEAT THEATRE COMIQUE TONY PASBOR’S THEAT STEINWAY HALL—Coxce: AMERICAN INSTITUTES HIBITION. . BROAD ST. THEATRE, Philadelphia—Epwiw Boots. TRIPLE SRW SHEET. YORK. ‘THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24. 1878, — ‘probabilities are that the weather in New York and its vicinity to-day will be colder and woudy, or partly cloudy, with moderate southwest lo strong northwest winds and, possibly, occasional light rains. To-morrow it will be cool and clear- Ing, with strong northwesterly winds, Watt Srreet Yesterpay.—The stock mar ket was active but feverish. Gold was steady all dayat 1001g. Government bonds were firm, States dull and railroads quiet. Money on call ‘was easy at 5 a 6 a 4 per cent. Tue CaTeprat Farr has already proved a gratifying success, and the pecuniary result tanuot fail to produce a large addition to the building fund. A Lesson To ARCHITECTS as weil as tenants is taught ina report in another column, show- Ing how thieves gained possession of a whole block of French flats and carried off consider- able plunder. Jack Frost continues to drive the yellow demon before him. Wherever he appears the scourge disappears. The summer of 1878 will be a memorable one to the people of the South, and many years must elapse before they can forget their desolation and sorrow. Tre Ficnt between the elevated railroad companies and the bill posters is becoming a bitter one. A test case has been made, and it is to be hoped that the companies will win, for apart from the ugliness there is positive danger in having the metal injured by the destruction of the paiut that now preserves the , Pillars from the ravages of the atmosphere. Tue Contest over the Vanderbilt will promises to be historic. It will also’ be famous for the extraordinary range of argument and research. Inganity having been exhausted we are now being treated to a series of experiments in Spiritualism. If the mediums are right in as- eerting that the dead take an active interest in mundane affairs it must amuse the late Com- modore to watch the progress of the litigation ever his property. Tue Funerat Ceremonies at Orleans yester- flay over the remains of Archbishop Dupanloup were in their pomp and solemnity worthy of the great and upright French cleric who loved his country too weil to make it politically a mere appanage of the Vatican, although a churchman of the severest stripe. In all the bishops and dignitaries around his coffin not one was his peer. Hyd. his sagacity led him a step nearer the people it would have been better for his Church and for France. Tue Currennes Have Crossep the Missouri River and are well on their way to Sitting Bull's camp. It appears that these hostiles crossed the Yellowstone a week ago, and came upon General Miles without warning from General Gibbon. It isa remarkable fact that our offi- cers pay more attention to their ‘own quarrels and jealousies than to the important duty assigned them in watching the red men. At least that is the inference to be drawn from the statements made in our Bismarck despatch. Gentlemen who wear the silver star should re- member that they are the servants of the nation. Tue Weatner.—The movement of the cy- tlonic storm along the Atlantic coast has been very rapid and attended with unusually heavy rains and violent gales. The storm area over the land was largely increased by the move ment eastward of a considerable depression from the region of the lakes. When the cyclone margin reached that of the depression the two sreas of low pressure united and formed en elongated trough which extended searly north and south from the Caro linas far into Upper Canada. In the rearrangement of the pressures the violent local gales were exper over Pennsylvania, New York and erally along the Atlantic coast from Cape Hatteras to Cape Cod. West- ward of the storm centre the pressure rises briskly, except in the upper Mississippi Valley, and is high over the Rocky Mountain region southward of Montana Territory. Another de- pression has moved into the region north of Lake Superior and will probably merge with that now in Upper Canada, the whole forming an area of disturbance unusually extensive, The pressure is also high over Newfound- land and southeoastward from that island. This insures a continuance of the gales’ and heavy winds for several days along the New England, New Brunswick and New- foundland coasts. When the storm moves into the Atlantic its energy may be reduced tem- porarily, but it will not lose its dangerous sharacter. The temperature in the Northwest is Jow. Elsewhere it is very uniform. The weather in New York and its vicinity to-day will be colder and cloudy, or partly cloudy, With moderate southwest to strong northwest winds and, possibly, occasional light rains. To- morrow it will be cool and clearing, with strong northwesterly winds, The Foreign Aspect of Naturalizsa- Under the federal constitution the power of naturalization is exclusively in Congress to regulate, and, under the uniform rule established by Congress, naturalization is an exercise of judicial power. In Great Britain naturalization is made by Parliament an executive act, A few of tho State courts of the United States have debated whether, if naturalization be an exercise of judicial power, Congress could or can vest any por- tion in State courts, since that instrument declares that “the judicial power” of the United States’ shall be vested in federal courts, The question was incidentally con- sidered by the Supreme Court of the United States more than thirty years ago in the famous case of Prigg, wherein the old Fugitive Slave law of 1793 was declared to be constitutional. One in- quiry there was upon whom Congress had placed the duty of arresting and delivering up the fleeing bondman, and the Court said—Upon the federal govern- ment, The next inquiry was whether the States were individually under any obliga- tion to actively participate, and the Court answered:—‘“It might well be deemed an unconstitutional exercise of the power of in- terpretation to insist that the States are bound to provide means to caery into effect the duties of the national government no- where delegated or intrusted to them by the constitution.” What is here said of re- turning fugitives applies to naturalization. But later in the opinion the Court adds:— “As to the authority so conferred upon State magistrates, while a difference of opinion has existed, and may exist still, on the point in different States whether State magistrates are bound to act under it, none is entertained by this Court that State magistrates may, if they choose, exercise that authority, unless prohibited by State legislation.” The State of New York has certainly not forbidden its courts of record to naturalize aliens, nor has it specially imparted the authority, but in 1844 the State did regulate and prescribe the fees which the ‘‘clerks of the courts of this State which have jurisdiction in cases of naturalization shall be entitled to demand;” and in 1869, after the Tweed naturalizations, the State made provision to punish crimi- nally any judge or clerk who had to do with a wilfully fraudulent naturalization, It may, therefore, be safely said that no judgment of naturalization, properly entered by a New York court, will ever be set aside for want ofjurisdiction. And yet itis possible that our State and city judges can lawfully ad what the federal judges cannot do, which is to refuse to hear naturalization applications. But if our city judges do volunteer and undertake to a€t as agents of the national government in this important business they should proceed with judicial dignity and deliberation; and if the elerks of the city courts are authorized by the State to tax an alien for due preparation of the record and issuing certificates thereof those clerks ought to prepare and certify to a record which, in Europe or else- where, will not be a discredit to the admin- istration of justice in America. ~Much criticism has been in this country made of certain treaties with German States and with Austria, the negotiation of which Secretary Seward in 1868 authorized. But the fact is that the loose naturalization practices of our city and. State courts im- pelled Germany and Austria to insist that foreign States should be permitted to in- quire and judge for themselves whether the applicant had (we quote the words of the Baden Treaty) ‘‘resided uninterruptedly within the United States of America five years.” That was what those treaties did, and our law requires five years’ residence, If our judges had thoroughly and conscien- tiously tried the issue of ‘‘residence” as they try other issues there would have been no occasion or demand for the+treaties. Our Minister at Berlin reported to Secretary Evarts in June, 1877:—‘During the past year, for instance, fifty applications have been made here for passports for natural- ized citizens. On investigation it turned out that in six of the cases the naturaliza- tion had been obtained by fraud.” Is it to be supposed that when Germany or any other State requires the military service of aman actually living in the land of his birth with his family and never intimating to his neighbors that he can pretend to be an American citizen she will forbear her claim when the man produces a certificate of naturalization purporting to be from one of our courts but which is proved to be frandulent? Our judges have it in their power to put a stop to these naturalization scandals at home and abroad. Secretary Fish repeatediy asked Congress to adopt such legislation as would put a stop to the constant and often trouble- some disputes in which the federal govern- ment is involved with foreign States on the question of naturalized citizens. It is ono ofthe most peremptory duties of the gov- ernment to protect its citizens against wrongs inflicted by foreign Powers; but among the multitude of claims for protec- tion and redress coming from every part of the world, and especially from such coun- tries as Cuba and Mexico, it isthe rule rather than the exception to discover, on examina- tion, that the claimants of protection or re- dress are not legally citizens of the United States, but have procured naturalization papers by fraud and without the required residence in this country, and often even without the intention, to live here or be American citizens in any proper sense. The present administration has also called the attention of Congress to this evil, which not only gives a great deal of trouble to our min- isters and consuls abroad and to the govern- ment at home, btit exposes persons properly entitled to protection or redress to suspicion as probably among the horde of pretend- ors, Congress always acts slowly, though there is some reason to hope that the next session may at least give some attention to this subject. Meantime we repeat that the judges, if they do their duty with the care the question demands, can put an end to these naturalization scandals, and by such action remove all chance of disgrace, which untortunately nowadays is too often in- curred, The right of citizenship in any country should be, above suspicion or re- proach; therefore, the act of creating an American citizen ought to be approached with that degree of gravity and care as to set at rest forever the question of its legality and permanent value to the individual and the State. The Big Blow. The approach of the storm that swept over the Atlantic coast and the Middle and New England States during yes- terday was, as usnal, announced in our columns, and timely warning given of its course and character. The narrow- ing between the lakes and Florida of the zone of high barometer during Sun- day last indicated the advance from the West Indies of a disturbance of consider- able energy. This fact we duly noted, and as the indications of the storm’s approach developed into unmistakable evidence of its movement toward our coasts we gave notice of the danger that threatened. As the phenomena of storm movements on the Atlantic coast repeat themselves it is not difficult to anticipate the changes that will occur and prepare forthem, In this case it was absolutely certain that the storm from the West Indies would hug the coast line, because north and east of its centre an extensive area of high barometer presented @ positive barrier to its movement in a more northeasterly direction than the one it has followed. On the other hand, a depression possessing all the elements of a considerable disturbance was moving to meet the cyclone, and when the union took place between them the region of first contact naturally experienced fierce gales and heavy rainfall. Our despatches from the various dis- tricts affected show how damaging was the storm both inland and on the coasts. The prostration of the telegraph wires, however, limits the area from which reports can be got, and really cuts off communication with all the country south of the lake shore and New York State. Locally the big blow was very severe, as our reports will show. If vessels put to sea on Tuesday in the face of our warning their. commanders certainly took all the risks of shipwreck. Timely notice of the storm’s movement was cabled to our London Bureau on Monday night, and immediately telegraphed to every important port, so that vessels bound west from Europe, and that left on Tues- day, are informed of the dangers they may encounter in midocean. The Fete at Versnilles. It is hard in France to escape historic ground, so thickly-strewn with stirring events is her history. A great féte given by the President of the French Republic to celebrate the awarding of the Exposi- tion prizes must be held in one or other of the great palaces or public build- ings of Pari& or the neighborhood, and where could the multitude gather in these without recalling some mighty pageantry of the past? But in the Hall of Mir- rors of the palace at Versailles a great gath- ering in the name of France brings back so many brilliant memories that it would be hard to choose among them were it not for the prominence of’ one in the near past. In this great chamber, which last night was brilliant as light and color and brave and fair, titled ond honored humanity could make it, and where France, once more mighty and prosperous, celebrated her triumph of peace, another scene was enacted seven years and nine months ago. There, on the 18th of January, 1871, in the hall of the kings of France, a Prussian King, whose guns were even then raining shot and shell on belenguered, starving Paris, stood among German princes, Gorman soldiers and German statesmen, and was proclaimed Emperor of Germany. France, bound and bleeding, with England deaf, Russia deaf, all the world deaf to her cries, saw the sceptre of Charle- magne grasped by the king whose forces she had mocked but six months before; for Kaiser Wilhelm was then master of France as well as ruler of Germany. There was a triumph of war. In the resplendence of Versailles last night, as our despatches describe it, surely France can find comfort from a galling contemplation of the pro- claiming of a Kaiser in that same Galerie des Glaces. England, Spain, Sweden, Den- mark, all the the world now smiles on the land of the Gaul, as the names of the foreign guests bear guarantee. France was not so unfortunate in having the Emperor who was crowned there wear his heavy burden of State outside her borders, Libel Sa grinst Newspapers. A case tried a few days since before Judge Van Brunt has received less attention than it deserves. It wasa suit brought against the Evening Post by a justice of the peace for alleged injury done to his character by the publication of an Associated Press re- port, which gave his name as that of one of several criminals that had been arraigned before him. ‘this was s0 obviously a blunder resulting from mere carelessness that no acquaintance of the complainant could have been misled by it. The Post published a prompt and conspicuous correction of the error, and had the plain- tiff been a reasonable man the subject would have been dropped as soon as jus. tice was done him by the correction. But, by the instigation of some bad adviser, he was foolish enough to bring a suit for libel, In view of the result, his folly cannot be much regretted, It has led toa judicial exposition of the law of libel, which ought to clear away the ignorance in which this subject is enveloped in the popular mind, The substance of Judge Van Brunt’s deci- sion is that where there is no malice in the publication and no actual injury the plaintiff is only entitled to nominal damages. In the case described Judge Van Brunt directed the jury to find a ver- dict for the plaintiff aug to award him six cents, This decision should have con- siderable influence in prevonting frivolous libel suits against newspapers. Its prin- ciple is that if there be no malice there is no ground for what are called exomplary damages, or damages in the nature of a penalty, and that the actual injury done to the complainant is the proper measure of other damages. The award of six conts is so mortifying o result of a libel suit that litig- ious persons will not be encouraged to bring frivolous suits when they come to understand the true state of the law. The War Cloud Leoming Up Aga! When the English Chancellor of the Ex- chequer told his countrymen the other day that he was not sure there would not bea renewal of the war he said a very uncom- plimentary thing to his picturesque master, the Earl of Beaconsfield. If anything would insure peace surely it was the Treaty of Berlin. If anything would make all Europe happy it was, above all things, the Anglo-Turkish Convention, And yet a few short months after Beacons- field and Salisbury were gratefully gartered by Her Most Gracious Majesty, this man, who has to make both ends meet in the English Budget, is not quite sure that all the jugglery and Jingoism has not been in vain. What is worse, he has some reason on his side. The outlook in Europe is far from reassuring. In Asia, too, the signs of the times are ominous of war. It is not the French nowadays'’who are responsible in the eye of England for everything, from big blue flies in butchers’ stalls to the last eclipse of the moon, but the Russians. Something has gone wrong with the Berlin arrangement. It seems Russia is under thé impression that England took some mean advantages therein, and the news from the Khyber Pass and the Austrian bulletins from Bosnia have encouraged Russia to believe that there is a way of set- tling things more to her liking. Austria is very busy in spite of her successes, and England is likely to have her hands quite full with the Ameer, so we hear that the Russians ate not’ marching north toward their homes in the snow, but moving south in Fistern Roumelia. That, under these circumstances, the Northern Power will let go her hold of the territory it marked out as the New Bulgaria in the Treaty of San Stefano, without something more effective than the Berlin parchment, is not as clear as the Chancellor of the Eng- lish Exchequer would desire. Bad news, no matter how it is disguised under phrases like ‘‘irresistible force next spring,” is that which tells Sir Stafford that England dare not cross the Himalayas to punish an Asiatic barbarian for months to come. Perhaps Earl Beaconsfield has another plan. Per- haps he hopes to get the Turks, with the aid of British gold, to try bloody conclu- sions with the Russians again, as an offset to Russia helping the Afghanistans to bar the mountain passes against English armies as well as enfbassies. If he has he is likely to be accommodated. But poor Sir Stafford, who has to find the money, who sees India almost bankrupt and British trade wofully depressed, may be pardoned for'telling the English that there are dark clouds coming up, since he is expected to furnish the sil- ver lining. What Will Be the Vote? As the supporters of the republican and anti-Tammany union ticket base their hope of success on the experience of 1875 it is interesting to analyze the figures of that year and to see how they bear upon the probable results of the present contest, The number of voters who registered on- the first two days of registration this year is 81,396. In 1875 the registration of the first two days was 68,638, showing an in- crease for the present year, thus far, of 12,758. The total registration in 1875 was 144,838, the number registered on tho last two days having been 76,200. If the same ratio of increase in the first two days of registration this year over 1875 should be maintained during the last two days the total number registered this year would be over 172,000. But the registration on the closing days of 1875, under the intense Hackett excitement, was unusually large, and we may therefore estimate the total this year as likely to be not more than 168,000. In. 1875 the vote polled was, in round numbers, 130,000—a falling off from the registration of about 15,000, or nearly; ten per cent. A similar falling off this year would leave a vote of 151,000. The popular movement in favor of Recorder Hackett gave the anti-Tammany party a vote of 27,000 in 1875, and it is insisted by the leaders that they can cast within two thou- sand of that vote in the present election, or 25,000 votes, The careful republicans cal- culate on a vote of 40,000, but more hopeful prophets claim 45,000, their vote having been 44,908 for Dix for Governor in 1874, and a little over 46,000 for Churchill for | Secretary of State last year. The combjned republican and anti-Tammany votes at the outside figures cn both sides would reach 70,000—being republican 45,000 and anti. Tammany 25,000, Ina poll of 150,000 this would leave 80,000 votes for the regular democracy, which was just Mr. Bigelow's vote for Secretary of State on a smaller registration and poll than we are likely to have this year. The Irish Home Rulers. Our special cable despatches from Dublin show that the Irish home rule agitation is taking a new phase. The party which for the past ten years submitted with more or less restiveness to the leadership of Mr. Isaac Butt has at length thrown him over and resolved on a bolder course. The pre- monitions of this course are to be found in the tactics of Parliamentary obstruction which so frequently stopped the course of business in the House of Commons last year. When the government refused to give any time to the discussion of Irish measures the ‘‘obstructionists,” as they are called, under the lead eof Messrs. Parnell, Biggar and O'Connor Power, retaliated by stopping the Parlia- mentary machine. From this course Mr, Butt dissented; but the Irish people, glad of anything that looked like a courageous, a fighting policy, supported the tireless Parnell. Added to this cause of disagree- ment came the support of the tory gov- ernment by Mr. Butt and other home rulers on the question of the six million pounds for war prepara- tions against Russia, Beyond all this arose the conviction that home rule as Mr. Butt interpreted it was a vague, shapeless thing, which England could laugh at, and the leader of the party could not even formulate, If anything that the imperial Parliament coufd grant was worth organizing for it ‘was repeal of the act of Legislative Union as demanded by Daniel O'Connell, or a federalism that would Ireland mistress of her do- mestic affairs. In such a movement, the extreme nationalists have been arguing, they could take a part, and for such an object, they have urged, Irishmen of all creeds and conditions could unite, The plan agreed on for the winter campaign shows that it will be a vigorous one. It does not promise a smooth flow of events in the London Parliament, and it means a lively time in Irish politics generally. ‘leave Secretary Evarts To-Night. Doubtlessa large and appreciative audi- ence will greet the Secretary of State to- night and listen eagerly to his speech. Mr. Evarts has the happy tact nat only to stim- ulate but also to reward the curiosity of his hearers. His last public address toa New York audience was on the eve of the last Presidential election, and he answered then the inquiries of a number of citizens as to what would happen to the country in case Mr, Tilden were elected. ‘To-night he comes to give us all his opinion on the con- dition of the country and to declare the purposes of the administration upon the leading questions of the day. Mr. Evarty once very emphatically de- clared these purposes to’ be to complete the resumption of specie payments, to na- tionalize the republican party and to liber- ate the voters of the country from the con- trol of the politicians.@ It was remarked at the time by a eynical person that the ad- ministration had undertaken a pretty large contract ; but this fact serves now only to add zest to the prospect of the speech we are promised. Mr. Evarts, who is the most charming optimist in the country, will give an account to New York of how admirably matters are going on in the best of all pos- sible worlda, and we shall be disappointed ‘if he does not send his audience home wondering how it is that any of them ever grumbled at the hard times or at the wick- edness of the politicians. The Perils of the Road. The runaway in Central Park, which re- sulted in the death of Mr. Patrick Butler, and, later, ct hisgwife, was only one ofa series of accidents of a peculiar sort which have become too common to escape serious apprehension. On Tuesday Mme. Modjeska narrowly escaped injury by a runaway horse; recently a dangerous upset occurred in Brooklyn, while accidents more or less dangerous happen every day in our city streets. Some of them are due to fast driving, which is practised at Central Park, on the avenues and on whatever streets have a good surface, although there are ordinances known to the police forbidding any rate of speed that is at all dangerous. Why do not the police do their duty? Are they afraid to stop reckless drivers, or do they comproimise such cases instead of reporting them so that they may be brought to justice? And what are the police in the Park doing that they can- not prevent accidents like that which befell Mr. and Mrs. Butler and Mme. Modjeska? The pedestrians in the Park need no watching; the attention of the police should be closely confined to the driveways, so’ that they may be ready either to warn or to rescue. Outside the Park the dangers of carriage riding are more attributable to the condition of the streets than to anything else. It is almost impossible to find a street of any length which is not dangerous in some way to wheeled vehicles. Some of them have de- fective pavements, full of ruts and holes; in others repairs are going on, and a driver turns suddenly from a street or avenue to d a blockade of cross bars or stone heaps, while the obstructions which builders are allowed to accumulate are too numerous and varied to be, specified. The certainty of safety can be found only in slow driving and the closest police supervision of every public driveway, und those who are too reckless to be cautious or to respect the city ordinances upon driving should be brought to justice, in spite of their wealth, social position or any other seeming pallia- tion of their offences. The Indiana atorship. If all the democrats in the Indiana Leg- islature vote for Mf. Voorhees he will still need two votes to elect him, and these he expects to get from the nationals. These number fourteen, and eight of these were formerly republicans and six democrats. The fourteen pretend, it is said, to a deter- mination to nominate a candidate of their own, ond if they should happen to stand firmly united it is clear that Mr. Voorhees could not be elected. But it is difficult to see how the nationals could find a man who better represents their wildest ideas than Voorhees. He has probably the loudest voice, the best lungs and the greatest en- durance of any public speaker now living in Indiana. Hecan make a longer and a sillier and more ignorant inflation speech than any man the nationals could hope to find in their own ranks, A better hope of defeating Voorhees lies in the fact that there are ten or twelve sound, old-fashioned, hard money democrats in the Legislature, who, if they have the courage to make common cause against Voorhees, can sately relegate him to private life. It is to be hoped they will do their duty. ‘he United States Senate is not the liveliest body in the world, and the prospect of six fall years more of Voorhees’ interminable platitudes is one from which Senators and the country at large ought to be relieved as soon as possible. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Senator Robort E, Withers, of Virginia, 1 at the New York Hotel, The Chinese Ambassador at Washingten works from nine A. M, until siz P.M. Mr, Richard Reade, the British Consul at Rustchak, Balgarta, bas been transierred to Philadelphia, Pa. The county tair season is rapidly approaching a conclusion, and the administration will rest lor « while, The Philadelphia Bulletin wishes to know whether we over h Piko’s Pek. No, but w6’ve heard the report The intended sehili, a younger daughther of Baro Is not tho Duc ae Guise, as erroneou: Berlin on the 2ist inst, but olde in of the Duc de Gra) The President and Mrs. Ha: man, accompanied by G. A. ; Major Thomas P. Magay Roth- Rothsenild,, pin, of Vombertand, tet Washington last éveming for Cumberiand, Md, to visit ioe Agricultural Fair as that place. They will return on Friday, A professor of palmistry says thut Jong, this fingers indicates love for song. Bank cashiers is Chicago must love song.—P. . Should think thas subject belonged rather to pralmistry.—Philadelphia Bulletin, Yesterday’s Star say: “‘Hon. Lawrence Jerome ig tn the very stronghold - hundreds of voters from the opposition are willing tu forego their partizan prejudices for the sake of voting for so thoroughly good a tellow. MM Mr. Jerome succeeds he is sure of making bis mare in Congress, tor there is more in him than any publio. office has yet brougnt out, and the contests of the House of Kepresentatives are a capital school for de veloping latent talents that only await a god eppor- { tunity.” Says a tramp:—“l kno’ he hadn’t bad nothin’ to sittin’ aespurt. What do toa big white irame hous an’ asked the lady for a bite o’ somethin’ tocat, She told him she hando’tathing io the house, ‘Well! said be, ‘Madame, will yer please lond me a looking: glass for about an hour?’ She asked him what ne wagted with it? ‘Why,’ said he, ‘l want to see my aclfstarve to death.’ It yer bad a seen that ere feller get out o’ that yard, when sbe called the degs, you'd a thought he was a good ways {rom starvin’.’” The Sun of ys:—'Mr, Lawrence R. Jerome, who nom: Eighth district on Mond: street rly as usual y seen there was a On the floor of the Exchange be rec astic welcome. Business siackened for » minute, and ar. Jerome once more submitted to the handshaking infliction, Whatever may bave been bis sufforings he bore them like a man, and returned each friendly, grasp with a genial smile, Out on the street again he was burely able to move without some congrataistory demonstration, so that when he reached his head quart. Work, Strong & Co.’s office—ne was eome- whi tiguod, Betting on Mr. Jerome’s success has begun already, and 1s likely to continue as long as apyoody can be found to bet ast hinp,?? OBITUARY, THOMAS P. KETTELL. @ Aspecial despatch was sent to the HxRaup from San Francisco, nouncing the death in that city of Mr. 1 as P. Kettell, a journalist, whe at one time was a residont of this city ana conuected with the Hxratp, Mr. Kettell begun his journal istic eareer as @ reporter on the MERALD im the latter part of 1835, and for several years was employed as principal financial writer, Subdsequemly he was engaged as financial writer on Hunt’s Merchants’ Magazine, and while con- Bectod with tbat journal be also edited and published the Democratic Review, His next Journalistic was the purchase of the Dry Goods Reporter, edited and publisned until 1865, when the Commercial Advertiser employed bim as it writer, His health bad bi years, and thinking that benefit bim be started for tng this wip, which was agbt he caught the disease which ath—the Panama fever. He made hi ‘rapcisco and for Ofteen years was the Alta Californian in writing up th Mr, Kettell wrote a bistory ot the re! book entitled *Southera Wealth Protit,” which was published belore the war. Was aD out and out democrat, and although ne took an active part in pohtics nis advice wa sought by leaders of the party. He was ia the eighth year of bis age and icaves tly. bis sons reside in this city and it | to have the remains brought here for interm: Western air California, made by would Dur- DANIEL W. GILLETT. Dante! W. Gillett, a lawyer of this city, died after a short illness on Tuesday evening at the Gilsey House, where he bad been residing with bis family. Mr, Gillett was born at Elmira, N. Y., bis father, Sotomes L, Gillett, being of the oldest and best koows residents in that part of the State. Having bees Clinton, N.Y profes. graduated at Hamilton College, Mr. Gillett adopted the sion and was admitted to rs, Posi ae practised his profess: in this city since 1862, and rs past bad been a member of thi & Stiger. Hi ves a widow EDWIN DWIGHT PLIMPTON, The flags of the Brooklyn Academy of Music wert jay oat of respect to ight Plimpton, une of the that institution, who died ly at his residence, reet, yester morning, of embe- jeart, Mr. Plimpton, who was adeut of age, was a retired merchan’ tne carpet bust pyle 19 Brookiy: iy . He w zens’ Gas Light Cor of tho Rev. Dr. Cha the deceased gentieman is REV. TIPP FOSTER, A despatch from New Orleans this morning ans Bounces the deatn last evening of the Rev, Tipp Foster, of the Methodist Episcopal Chureh, Mr. Foster was a and was gradusted at the cod in charge of the Morcau Street Church by tho Conference, last winter. On the frst appear. ance of the yollow fever all of his friends, including the officers of the beeing urged him te leave tne city, fell as ail good 80) of the Master should ixll—on naaty, watcolag . the post that bad been assigned to him. JAMES SPEYERS, The fings on the Stock Exchange were at balf-mast yesterday ou accouat of the death of James Speyers, The ceceaeed was soventy-one years of age, and aa old momber of the Stock Board, Two weeks ago he ‘was thrown out of his carriage and became paralysed, He lingered until Monday iast, when he died at nie 357 Broad str Elizavet J. He 4 leaved sevoral sons, Who are broke raof the Stock Exebange Mr. at tour P, M. yesterday ir to Elizabeth, RICHARD ©. BEAMISH. Mr. Richard C. Beamish, who for the last four years was guardian clork im the Sarrogate’s office, died of hemorrbage of the lungs on Tuesday night at his ree idence No, 470 Second avenue, Mr. Bo b was well led a pest Court, Caambers, lor bsent from the Surre- in days ou sick leave. He wag forty five years of a REY. ISAAC RILEY, Rov. Issac Riley, pastor of the Westminster Church, Bumulo, N. Y. of the Thirty. jormed Cburch, Ho wus a yesterday 00 lave Rev, Joel Park: NAVAL INTELLIGENCE, hatan, bearing the Howell, trom Ports. Ove United states sto fing ot |. by way ef Bos Od anchorage in tho Ni Twenty-third street, Ta day, depart tor Norfolk, The followin Rear aamirat Jon States naval force, North A: C in Thomas Sdott Fillevrown, com: tat, ‘ Leute: ecutive omer, ant A. J, Iverson, navigator. al oo CO. H. Arnold, W. ler. Midshipmen Waiter McLean and R, T. Multi Cadet Midshipman P, V, Lansdale, Passed stant Engineers RK. B. Hine and @ J. nt Surgeon, W.S. Dixon; Assistant Ashoridge. nase commanding Marines, + P, Bidale, U. 3. a inition; Gum clerks, W. V. B Surgeon, Ru Gupiain i,