The New York Herald Newspaper, October 29, 1878, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, VROPRIETOR THE DAILY HERA: ‘bree cents per covy at nrate of 0 A every day inthe year, facedse “ten dollars per per month for any period ars for six months, Sunday *SOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—Remit in drafts on Jerk or Post Ofice money orders, and where neil ive ar new address. be or telegraphic despatches must le wi RALD. Letters anc pack aves should be properly sealed, Rejected communications will not be returned. PRILADRLPHIA UFFICE—NO, 112 SOUTH SIXTH LOALON OFFICE | cia 225 NEW YORK HERALD— RO, 46 FLEFT >T: PARIS oF FICE = EN VaNvE DE L'OPERA. American exhilitors at the International jm can have Bese ice i postpaid aadreeed to the care of our Parts re free uf 0 Fink OF, K—NO. 7 STRADA PACE. Subseriptions and advertisements will be received and Jorwaries op the same terme as in Nev ‘ik. AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. BRAND OPERA HOUSE. ARL OF Savoy. LYCEUM THEATRE—Josva Wirrcous PARK THEATRE—Lortt. BGILMORE’S GARDE) ACADEMY OF DESIG VIFTH AVENUE BA BERMANIA THEATRE. BROADWAY THEATRE—Mussauina. BOWERY THEATRE: UNION SQUARE THEATK STANDARD TIEATRE: AMERICAN INSTITUTE—Exiiaimos, NIBLO’S GARDEN—Tux Detoce BAYMARKET THBATRE—Vaaie ST. JAMES THBATRE—Vanixrr. THEATRE COMIQUE—Van: ONY PASTOR'S THEATER: TIVOL! THEATRE—Vinwrr, BAN FRANCISCO MINSTRALA, CHICKERING HALL—Arrommas. BROAD ST. THEATRE, ! Philnaelphin—Bowrm Boorn. TRIPLE SHEET. OCT OBER 29, 1878. York and its vicinily today will be clear or partiy cloudy, with lower temperature. To-mor- vow clear, followed by gradually clouding and warmer weather will prevail on the Middle Atlan- fie coast, Wat Srreet Yesterpay.—The stock mar- ket was active and strong. Gold was steady all day at 10033. Government bonds were firm, States dull and railroads strong. Money on call lent at 5 a6 per cent and closed at 3 per cent. Accorpixc To Ovr Reports all the poli- ticians are happy. Every one is certain of his own election. Braz. Seems to be getting along nicely. Night schoois ior adults is the latest step in the march of ii improvement. Ir THE New York Elevated Railroad Com- pany is wise it will stick to the ten cents. Fif- teen cents to Harlem will never do. Ir Wnt Be Sren from our court reports that the fancy of the modern lawyer in these sutumi days generally turns toward habeas corpus writs. Lopsrists and their unfortunate employers will find some consolation in the decision else- where gtven to the effect that claims are sacred. ae against the ruthless receivers. Fortr-one Br Kittep out of forty-two, the feat accomplished hy Mr. Macalister, of the Philadelphia Gun Club, yesterday, is prob- ably the best amateur score on record. Tue Soctety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children is doing some good work just now in bringing to punishment the professional Italian mendicante who infest so many ot our streets. Tue Exormovs Traver on the Third avenne sapid transit road ought to convince the Metro- politan Company that there are millions in the Second avenue line. Why not hurry up the work ? Ir Is Rerortep that the leaders of the cap- tured Cheyennes are to be turned over to the sourts and tried for murder and robbery. Why not turn over a score of agents at the same time? Famous Jumen Tur Case bas contributed another chapter to the prosaic annals of the federal Supreme Court. ‘The decision just given is favorable to the side of that very remark- able woman. Tue Patuetic Story in the courts yesterday of the young man who paid thirty thousand dol- lars for the privilege of falling in love with his sunt has this moral—it is better to fall in love with the aunt of | somebody else. Ax Excerpinciy Invoutant Deciston has been given in the New Jersey Court of Chancery by Chancellor Runyon. The amount involved is not very large, but the style in which the great corporation of the Pennsylvania Railrowl is treated is refreshing. It may not hurt but it will certainly astonish the company to find itself accused of an 1 tempted | fraud. Tuose Wuose Mixps are not entirely clear on the financial question wil! do well to read the summary of Mr. Schurz’s speech in Boston, which is printed on another page. It is short, but it forcibly shows the diflerence between Mr. Butler's ‘“‘fiat” dollar, which is one hundred cents one day and twenty-five cents the next, and the honest dollar, which is always the same. Tue Weatner.—The depression that was moving on Sunday through the St. Lawrence Valley and New England has now passed enst- ward over Nova Scotia, attended and followed by rains and increasing winds from the north- west. The low pressure in the Northwest has moved into the Missouri and Upper Mississippi valleys, preceded in these regions by rains and snow and brisk southerly to southwesterly winds. The high barometer central in the Lower Ohio Valley has extended enat- ward to the Atlantic const, and is being gradually dissipated by the influence of the de- pressions on its northern and southern margins. Hence a barometric fall is noticeable in the Southern or Gulf States. The temperature has goucrally fallen east of the Mississippi, bat has risen again beyond the Lower Missouri on the southern margin of the low pressure in that region. Onthe Middle Atlantic const the dif- ferenee of temperature between Sunday and yesterday ranges from eight to sixteen degrees. A «light variation has occurred in the yellow fever districts, making some places a few dl s colder or warmer than on Sanday. The weather in New York and its vi- vinity today will be clear or partly clondy, will jower temperature, To-morrow clear, jetowed by gradually clonding and warmer weether will prevail on the Middle Atlantic est. A witty English diplomatist of the last century, who occasionally returned from his post to his own country, said, ‘When, in my visits to England, I shut my ears and keep my eyes open I think the country very flourishing ; but when I shut my eyes and keep my ears openI find that England is the most wretched country on the face of the earth.” This epigrammatic saying may be applied to the present condition of ourown country. What every intelligent observer sees with his eyes wherever he goes contradicts the incessant croaking which greets his ears. Any person who doubts that the business of the country is really reviving should make a brief tour with his ears closed and his eyes open. If he believes what he sees he must be con- vinced that we are undoubtedly on the road to comfort and prosperity. Let him begin by strolling through our streets on any bright morning or afternoon. Let him alight from the elevated railroad at Macy’s and walk along Fourteenth street to Broadway, and thence up Broadway to Twenty-third street and beyond, and then down Broadway till he passes Stewart's, through the section which includes the great fashionable stores. He will be less struck with the profuse dis- play of expensive goods in the shop windows than by the crowds of brightly dressed -ladies which suffocate the broad sidewalks, going and returning in the pur- chase of attire and adornments. Let him then consider where they get the money for this brilliant parade of costly fripperies. If our observer transfers his explorations through the miles of less pretentions shops, through Grand street, for example, on the east side, or through the avenues which hem Broadway, he will everywhere bé6 met by a similar spectacle of full shop windows andswarming customers, although the goods and the attire are less expensive. But it is merely more ribbons and fewer laces, with common jewelry instead of dia- monds. This infinite wilderness of gay apparel proves that there is a great deal of money to spend beyond what is requisite for mere necessaries or decencies. Let him next go to our markets and in- spect the profusion not merely of meats and vegetables, but of fruits and luxuries from every climate which is accessible by sea, remembering that what he sees to-day will be replaced by fresh supplies to-mor- row, and that the multitudinous dealers do not maintain such a display without cus- tomers who pay as well as consume. A poverty-stricken community could not in- dulge in so much expense. Let him next thread the narrow and crowded streets which are the seat of the wholesale trade. The array of boxes which encumber and obstruct the sidewalks and the drays which render the streets im- passable tell their own story respecting the activity of trade since the beginning of the present autumn. Our observer will then be prepared to make a wider circuit through the city, and if he takes a pencil and makes memoranda of the new buildings in process of con- struction he will find, when he sends back his coupé to the stable and looks over his notes, that he has witnessed a greater activity of masons and carpenters than was ever before seen in the city at one time. So great an amount of building be- tokens a rapidly increasing population. There are many proofs that this is not a deceitful appearance. One of. the most noteworthy is the crowded state of our pub- lic schoots. Notwithstanding the liberal pro- vision which the city has made in the erec- tion of numerons and spacious school build- ings, the accommodations for pupils have become inadequate. The school authori- ties report that since the opening of the public schools in September more than three thousand children have been turned away for want of room to receive them. The number of children in the city bears a pretty uniform proportion to the number of parents, and the insufficiency of the school buildings corroborates the other proofs of a rapidly growing population. Any per- son who will take the trouble to visit the schools, or who will even stand on the street near any one of them when the pupils are dismissed for the day, will see that they are as healthy looking and as well dressed as at any former pe- riod in the history of the city. The health which glows on the cheeks of these one hundred and twelve thousand children proves that they have as much wholesome food as is good for them, and their whole and comfortable garments attest the abil- ity of their parents to maintain the decen- cies of life in their families. Another proof, though not so incontestable, that the city is. gaining in population, is afforded by the increase in the registry of voters over that of last year. This might, indeed, be at- tributed to a livelier interest in city poli- tics, but we cannot regard this as the true explanation. We believe that there is a great deal of apathy among our citizens respecting the result of the pending elec- tion. Be this as it may, there can be no valid answer to the other proofs of a considerable increase of the city population. An increase of popula- tion implies an increase of business and employment ; for people do not come here, or at least do not stay here, without finding something to do by which they can earna livelihood, Now, what is true of New York is true of every city and town in the United States, excepting those in the Southwest which have been so terribly desolated by the yel- low fever. The stories about the vast number of laborers who can find no employment are gross exaggerations, How many well authenticated cases aro there of people who have died of starva- tion? Nota hundred, nor even one-fifth of that number, within the whole ample boun- daries of the United States, But how have our laboring population procured food and shelter except by their earnings? Laying out of view the tramps and the thieves, those who do not live by their industry must be subsisted by public charity. But if we look into the statistics of the public charities of the country we shall find that they have had no more money to spend than in ordinary years, The fact that all our people eat _ NEW _YORR HERALD, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1878.—TRIPLE SHEET, and do not starve is a eee answer to a great deal of the prevalent croaking. As to the agricultural class, which forms the great bulk of our population, an ex- ploration®of any rural district would suffice to show that it has both employment and bread; nay, that it isin a state of comfort and prosperity. We can reach this conclusion by an easier and surer method than wide personal exami- nations. We have trustworthy statistics of the crops, which have never been so Abundant as in the present year. We have never raised so much wheat, corn and cot- ton as in the season which has, just passed. The raising of these splendid crops has given fall employment to agricultural labor, and the vast exports which are in prog- ress proves that the labor does not miss its reward. We conclude, é¢herefore, that if people will open their eyes to facts instead of lending their ears to croakers they need not take a very desponding view of the con- dition of the country. The Great Burglary. The robbery of the Manhattan Savings Bank was, of course, the principal subject of conversation in the city yesterday. ‘hat so daring a crime should have been com- mitted almost under the shadow of Police Headquarters, and on the most frequented of all our streets, sent, very naturally, a thrill through the entire community and created an exceedingly uncomfortable feeling. We are, unfortunately, somewhat accustomed to crime in its various phases; but a burglary of the magnitude of that described in our columns yesterday morning does not occur many times in a generation, and it is notsur- prising that it should have caused some- thing like a panic among timid people. The developments yesterday throw no new light on the affair. So far, the officers of the bank and the police appear to be entirely in the dark as to the identity of the thieves. The police, it is to be presumed, are en- deavoring to come up to public expectation in the fulfilment of their duty. As to the bank officers, they sufficiently recovered their senses yesterday to avail themselves of the sixty day act, and, in all probability, to change the combination of their vault and intrust the secret to somebody besides a janitor whom they have just discovered to be a fool. This, to be sure, is only the wisdom that locks the stable door after the visit of the horse thief; but it is something, and the depositors have the satisfaction of knowing that the present available property of the bank—the five hundred dollars’ worth of burglars’ tools which the rohbers failed to carry off—is entirely sate. Owing to the non-negotiable character of the great bulk of the securities, and the sound condition of the bank, the depositors will suffer no loss. They may have to submit to some in- convenience; but in the nature of things it cannot be very great, as the bank ought to find little or no difficulty in obtaining whatever moneys may be needed to meget pressing demands. ‘The lesson of the burg- lary is an obvious one to bank officials and others having the custody of valuable prop- erty. The keys of vaults must be given to some one, but it is very certain that weak witted janitors will hardly be their cus- todians in fature. As to the police, we beg to remind them that the public expects at their hands the detection of the thieves. The men who planned and so successfully carried out so daring a crime are not ordi- nary criminals, and our detective system must be bad indeed if they escape arrest. Low-Necked Sermons, Mr. Talmage has been telling us for some weeks past how he went one night as far as the gates of hell and flirted with Beelzebub. If he had gone justa little further we might have lost some pungent sermons, but we do not know thut we should have put on mourning; for he could continue his work to great advantage on the deacons and eldersof the Everlasting Sulphur Springs, and might even have frightened the Pastor himself out of his hoofs and made him trem- ble with remorse to the end of histail. That would bea great gain to the world. We have no doubt Mr. Talmage believes in his modest heart that if any style of oratory could get the better of Old Nick it is that unique kind which bellows and cavorts in the Brooklyn Tabernacle. It is not quite so edifying to find him coming before a gaping congregation, his holy hook baited with choice bits of male devil fish and the wings of the poor, soiled butterflies of the world of vice. Te denounces low-necked dresses, but he preaches low-necked ser- mons. It is not given to every man to see infamous depths of prurient suggestion in the ball dress of a lady, but Tartuffe, look- ing through his fingers, can tell you things about it you do not dream of with your untrained eyes. To see a minister buzzing like a bumble bee around a woman’s clothing and alighting on her grace ‘ul neck with a particularly loud buzz, saying, ‘“Be- ware! this is not God-given beauty, this is accursed flesh,” is revolting. In this style of sermon a gaiter is not a gniter, buta temptation. Not only what we have bnt what we have not is dragged in. “I am told,” says Mr. Talmage, ‘‘that there is coming from Paris a fashion that is shock- ing beyond compare.” Here is the low- necked sermon at its worst, tickling vile appetites by anticipation. ‘The simplest things of life and being aro givon strange meanings, until the fiery exhortation at the end sounds like clap-trap, designed to tone down the fleshly realism of what has gone before—a little bit of doctrinal ribbon around the low-necked sermon. As the Staten Island mystery dragged other crimi- nal mysteries to light so Mr. Talmage has brought forth other low-necked sermon- izers. One reverend gentleman, indeod, has undertaken to describe the vice of London as Talmage has that of New York, for which purpose and to heighten the con- trast he puts the late Argyll rooms next door to St. Paul’s Cathedral! We shall soon have ministers giving ‘‘Night horrors of Paris” and “Vice in Vienna;” but all thia time will true religion be advanced a peg, or will vice, thus exploited by the clergy and paraded in the pulpit, gain or lose in vie- tims? We think it would be better for the youth of Brooklyn if Mr. Talmage had opened his ponderous and marble jaws o month ago and swallowed himself rather than shown them, as he has, how easy it is even for a clergyman to APPR A to ‘the gates of hell. Does he think they will take his word for what he has seen? The Important Issae in the Cam- ae Both the democratic and Cooper-republi- ean county tickets are personally so unob- jectionable that no issue on the score of re- spectability can be made in the approaching election. So far as the city government is concerned the choice between the two May- oralty candidates will turn on the question of supporting or opposing Comptroller Kelly in the policy he has inaugurated in the Finance Department, and of which we have already had two years’ experience. Mr. Schell, as Mayor, would, of course, harmonize with and aid Mr. Kelly’s financial management. Mr. Cooper, as Mayor, would antagonize and obstruct the Comptroller's policy, and might, with Governor Robinson’s concurrence, remove Mr. Kelly and place ex-Comptroller Green again in charge of the department. Mr. Cooper’s course in this matter has been foreshadowed by his leading organs, both of which have charged Mr. Kelly with de- ception in his claim of a reduction of the city debt and have disparaged his financial management, while lauding that of his pre- decessor. The main issue to be decided by the elec- tion is, however, unquestionably a politioal one. Mr. Cooper has long been recognized as Mr, Samuel J. Tilden’s trusty lieutenant inside Tammany Hall. He led the Tam- many branch of the Tilden forces in opposition to Mr. Kelly when the latter opposed Mr. Tilden’s nomina- tion at St. Louis, and left the Tammany General Committee on Mr. Tilden’s account. He has been in close and constant commu- nication with Mr. Tilden for two years past, and has no doubt received the benefit of that gentleman’s shrewd counsels in his well arranged efforts to secure the nomina- tion for Mayor. If elected his task will be to take possession of the Tammany ma- chinery in Mr. Tilden’s name, through the power and patronage of the city govern- ment, This is not denied. The Tribune says:—‘‘Mr. Schell represents conspicu- ously the anti-Tilden wing of his party. Mr. Cooper is popularly supposed to re- present as conspicuously the Tilden wing.” ‘The Commercial Advertiser says: —‘‘Every one of ordinary intelligence must understand that the defeat of Tammany means the res- toration of Tilden to power in the State.” Mr. Hewitt, who is Mr. Cooper's nearest friend and business partner, says to an Evening Post reporter:—‘‘The election of the anti-Tammany ticket is the only thing that will displace John Kelly. Kelly’s power consists in his control of Tammany Hall. Tammany Hall is the key to the situation. If its next General Committee shall be opposed to Mr, Kelly his power will be broken. Tammany Hall has changed hands many times, you know, and it can be made todo so again.” It is very clear, there- fore, that the democratic share in the Cooper- republican alliance reaches beyond the mere question of city offices, and involves the restoration of Mr. ‘Tilden’s political ascen- dancy in the Democratic State Committee and conventions in time for the Governor's election next year and the more important Presidential election of 1880. This issue makes the local election a most important event for Mr. Tilden and his friends. It is in fact their last and only chance of wresting the State Committee from the hands of their enemies. It has been argued that Mr. Cooper could make no such use as is proposed of the Mayoralty without obtaining possession of the Board of Aldermen; but it must be remembered that the power of removing the heads of city departments vests absolutely in the Mayor and Governor, and that appoint- ments for unexpired terms are madé by the Mayor alone. Should Mr. Tilden’s friends, through Mr. Cooper, obtain possession -of all the important departments by means of removals that would assuredly be approved by Governor Robinson, the pew appointees would hold over in the event of a retusal of the Board of Aldermen to confirm such suc- cessors as might)be appointed at the expira- | tions of their respective terms. No person’ who knows of what material the Tammany Hall General Committee is composed can have any doubt of the power of Mr, Tilden’s friends to secure the change in the organi- zation suggested by Mr, Hewitt, provided Mr. Cooper could obtain possession, through removals and appointments, of such of the municipal departments as control the pat- ronage, labor and finances of the city. The Outbreak at 8t. Croix. We publish this morning some details of the recent outbreak at St. Croix, from our correspondent who has visited the island and inspected the devastated region. The amount of damage done to property by the infuriated negroes is, as shown by our pub- lished list of burned estates, enormous, and must paralyze for somo time the indus- tries of St. Croix. Cropping out through the story of this strange affair we note the evidences of injustice to the colored laborers which must account for many of their savage acts, The condition of the field hands on the plantations was scarcely a step removed from the old time slavery, The remuneration of ten conts per day, fixed by law, was a mani- festly unjust one, considering that a central factory paid forty cents, The suspension of operations at this place threw n number of hands out of work at the time when the so-called yearly contracts were being con- sidered, and an effort was made by the la- borers to secure higher pay. The attempt to hold these poor creatures on the island by charging them five dollars for a passport was a oruel outrage, and it is to be regretted that the authorities who sanctioned it were not the only ,sufforers. If the negrocs were free men they had a right to form an estimate of the valuo of their labor. If they wero slaves, then it was ridiculous to offer them passports for five dollars. Given a large number of semi- savage negroes, who have been subjected to all the barbarous outrages that o greedy association of West Indian planters could inflict upon them, let these poor wretches become wholly savage from drinking rum, and it is not to be wondered at that they will act as they have at St. Croix, Our correspondent cites several instances of the cruelties practised by the whites on the innocents well as the guilty. There is more mercy in the breast of a wild Sioux warrior toward his enemy in the hour of victory than in that of a badly scared white man who can safely glut his vengeance on the prisoner from whom he had been but recently hiding in terror. The authoriti now seek to remedy by executions the evils they provoked by injustice, and, although the re-ostablishment of order and security at St. Croix is a necessity, it should not be reached by wholesale official slaughterings and awar of extermination waged by the armed whites against the unarmed fugitive negroes. Who Was the Assassin? One of the latest police theories in regard to the attempted ussassination of Alderman Morris, we are told, is that the would-be murderer was ‘‘an insane man, who ran out into the street with a dirk in his hand, and, Alderman Morris being the first man he met, deliberately attacked him.” Such a theory may save the police a great deal of trouble in looking for the real criminal, and, if generally accepted as correct, may relieve the force from the discredit of allow- ing an assassin who stabs acitizen ina pub- lic thoroughfare at half-past five or six o'clock in the morning to escape detection. But it is to be hoped that the author- ities will not suffér such an im- probable explanation, of the crime to induce them to relax ‘their ‘efforts to bring the ruffian to justice. An insane man who rushes into the streets with the intention of stabbing any one he may meet does not ordinarily display so much dexterity in escaping pursuit as was manifested by the Alderman’s assailant. Besides, it is not likely that a lunatic would indulge in such a freak without the fact becoming known to some one who would before this have explained the mystery. It is probable, as the Alderman is said to believe, that the criminal mistook him for another person against whom he had a deadly enmity. The assassin must, however, in that ease have had occasion to believe that the party he intended to murder would pass the spot wheré the act was committed at that particular hour, as the presumption is that he was lying in wait tor his victim. Another solution suggests itself. Alderman Morris has been in the habit of leaving his home about five o’clock in the morning to go to Washington Market to make purchases for his store. May not some desperate ruffian who knew this fact, and imagined that the Alderman must carry with him considerable ready money tor marketing purposes, have awaited his com- ing and stabbed him in the expectation that he would at once fall to the ground, and with the intention of then robbing him and making his escape? When he saw that after three stabs his victim did not fall he may have deemed it prudent to give up the attempt and to fly. ‘his is certainly a more common sense theory than that of the insane man on a rampage suggested by the police. A Sutcide in Prison. The attempted suicide of John Carpenter, in the Jefferson Market Prison yesterday, was a singular case, The crime for which the man was in confinement was the attempted assassination of a girl named Mary Lyons in St. Francis Xavier's Church during early mass about three weeks ago. ‘The girl was a stranger to him, and his story is that he mistook her for his wife, who had deserted him and whom he had intended to murder. Fortunately the wound was not fatal and the young woman recovered. Carpenter was to have been taken to the General Ses- sions yesterday, and while getting ready suddenly drew a knife from his coat and plunged it into his‘ abdomen, performing the operation of hari-kari. Singularly enough, his’ companion in the cell was a prisoner who had twice attempted suicide, and Carpenter was asked to keep a sharp lookout against a repetition of the attempt. Whether this first put the thought of suicide into his own head it is impossible to say, but the act and the cir- cumstances of the crime for which he was imprisoned prove that the man was of un- sound mind. Some inquiry should be made as to the manner in which he became possessed of the knife, The Jefferson Market Prison can scarcely bo a fitting place for the confinement of would-be mur- derers if a prisoner ean secure, sharpen, conceal and use a table knife at his will, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Mr. Taimage has little bis of eyes, Boston ladies while sauntering carry bouquots. Speaker Randall will go to Washington in about two weeks. Senator Mitchell, of Oregon, has returned to Wash- ipgion. A Nebraska paper is in favor of Grant and Conkling for 1880, Senator J. B, Eustis, of Louisiana, is at the Hote, eK. og English lady finds it profitable to cultivate 6 fern form. Governor ond Mre, Swann have retarned from New- port to Washingtoa. Chevalier, « French writer, says that tepid water is injurious to the eyes. Greece contains 1,750,000 Greeks, while there are 4,324,000 Greeks in Turkey. ‘he +@-be-son-in-law of Bismarck was formorly in b Virgtota will » Mr. E, A. Sot! from playing ot Birmingham by serious tilnosa, Father Byerring, of the Russian Chapel la New York, blessed another Rassian vessel in Philadolphia yontorday, Associate Justice A. B. Om, of the District of Columbia Supreme Court, will soon, 1¢ ts sala, resign on account of impaired health, Ban- House, Newport, dislocating herarm and receiving other in- Jarton Goneral Sherman, accompanied by Mra Sherman, left Washington for Indianapolis last night to attend the re 0 of the Army of the Tennessee in that eiy next,Wednosday. ‘The Grand Chamberlain of the King of Holland is Count Schimmeipenninck. Ligh strike him twice in the same pt lightning was tired, Dean 81 ill not ret Wednosday at Stockbridge Mase, ov Sanday, 1 spond to-day at Plymouth, Visiting the scones of historteal interest. Ho will be the guest of Me, and Mrs, Cyras W, Ficid anti he sats tor Bo giand, Lord Dufferin, iste Governor Goneral of Canada, who arrived at Londonderry yesterday on tho stcamer Polynesian, was welcomed by the Mayor, High Sueritt tf other aentiomen, who hie, city unt presented an address andthe freedom of the city, Lord Daffvrin, in returning thanks, said be had lets Canada as contented and loyal as Great Britain coulg desire, : DIPLOMATIC CHANGE. © Wasuixctow, D. C., Oct 25, 1878. “Letters from Ma¢rid, dated October 13, state tnal the Spanish mission to Constantinople, hes bees rawed to a first class embassy, and that the Marquis Avtouio Mantilia, now Minister te Washington, but at present absent op loave, will probably be trae ferred to Constaxtinople at an eurly date, . OBITUARY, JUDGE JAMES B, COLT. Judge James B. Colt, tormerly of St, Louis, Mo, a brotner of the late Samuel Colt, inventor of Volt’s revolver, died in Wethersfvid, Conn, yesser: morning, at the age of sixty-two years, rere ALEXANDER STEWART. The flag on the Stock Exchange was at half-masi yesterday on account of the death of Alexander Stew. art, ono of its member#, The deceased, who wat fitty-four years of age, Was one of the oluest men bers of the Exchange, baving been connected with the old open Board. He was formerly of the Grm ot Stewart & Madison, but of Inte years nas been by himaoit, baving bis office ut Nx 2 Now street. Mr, Stewart was teunsucting business on the floor of the Exchange on Saturday laat, und th Gon deato was quite a surprise. day vignt, of congestion of UJ dence, Craniord, N. J. Tho ese leaves a widow andtwo.childrob, His doath was jouneed in the Brock Exchange yesterday mornin, dd a committes was cppointed to atieud his tun which takes place tuis afternoon from Crantord, J. SENHOR FIRMINO PEREIRA MONTEIRO. Consethejro Firmino Pereira Monteiro, Minister of tho supreme Tribunal of Justice, died in Rio Janefre on September 25, at the oge o1 geveuty years, Con- selbciro Monteiro was a native of the province of Rie Janeiro and was born December 80, 1808. He ssudied Jaw at Olinda, served as Judge and Chief of Policein Pernambuco, which province ¢eputed bim to attend at the coronatien of the present Emperor, lo 186u he Was appointod Desewbargauor of tne roambuco Relasam or Court of Oussutien, und 10 1856 passed to B President of the Rio Rolasam, trom whiten was promoted in 1874 10 Minister of the Suprema Tribanal of Justice. Averse to politics, he retused om Various oceasious the provincial presidencies offered to bim, and he was noted for the steady periormance of his judicial duties, beimg absent therefrom on¢ month only, upon leave, He was Commander of ing Imperial Order of Corist. GASPARD LACROIX, PAINTER. * The death was announced by cable yesterday morn- rd Jean Licroix, the French scape well known pupil of Corot, M. Lacroix at Turin, about 1820, of French parents. He has exhibited in the Paris Salon since 1841. Among bis earlior works we note “The Roman Campagn: and “A View of, Bonnelles”’ (1841); -“Uatalan Fisber. men ut Port Vendres” and “A Scene in Auvergne” 184: ta Waser Party”? (Li Phe Miser Has Lost ro"? (1847); thr “Views xt Bougival’? rigone” uod “Tho Bathers”? (1850); “ater a Argus to 3: 7 (Ul Moray” (1858): +E Effeow” ana a Green ae way neur Mewux” (1 1861) 863) ; fl a Cloghette 3, and Chk (1868). In 18: Iwiswna (3eine-21-Oiso),” and this year a Atl vernal Mg position he was , wud kepond class Ones to 1843 and 1848. His pictures were hors concours, COUNTS HENRI KERGARIOU, FRENCH SENATOR. Comte De Korgariou, the Legitimist Seaator for the Department of I sailies October 10 at the His term expired with the present year, and ho wasa candidate for re-election in the approaching political campaign. Comte De Korgariou was boroin bretagne in 1807, and belonged to one of the oldost of the nol families many offic: landed estates, was ciation of his dopurt sively tothe life of a vountry novlemun unt crisis Of the Franco German war, when he came ior. ft legitinist opimions, aud al Asuembly in February, esto adhering to the Papal Byllabus, and was 01 the most ardent champions of the re-establishment of the divine-right arcby. At the electious of January 30, 1876, he w: chosen Senator tor hia department, and arow by fot the short term of three years, In sepiomber, 1876, s ee over the Breton Agricultural Congress at 16. CONSTANTIN DESCAT, FRENCH MANUFACTURER AND DEPUTY, M, Constantin Descat, one of the wealthiest manu- facturers of Franco, formerly a Deputy and Mayor ef Roubaix, died suddenly at that city October 14, at the ears, lie was bora at Roubaix, on are of dyestuffs upon a colos from various national and @ highest bouors conterrod branch of industry, UPetehi. | the Crous of tho. ‘Legion of Honor. He was repeated Lah icitlor General of bis dopartment, was chosen Mayor of Kou- baix in 1861, and io February, 1871, Depat, tional Assombly at Boraeaux, 19 which b vin er bnlenapee of the Rignt the Na tod with Since the death of brie! (1872), both emt- litical world, be bad the tories that coniribated~ rity of the city of Roubaix, bscure town toa of the enterprise BIGHT REV, HENRY MACKENZIRZ, D, D., BISHOP SUFFRAGAN OF NOITINGHAM, late Bishop October of the bis resiaeuce, Lincoln, trom conge: lungs, in bis seventy-second year, Dr. Macken- sie was born 19 London, May 16, 1808, educated at Merchant Taylor's school and at Pembroke College, Oxfora, ens BA in I M.A. in I D. D. in 1869. Ho was ord: roe eat #, und in 1870 of Nottiughow. which bas @inee Dee: called the See of South wi eleven ths ago, wh bim to wieh it, Ho Essay o1 Life of Off, Commentary ov the Gospels and Ac” iain ellen tations on the Psatins’ (1864) aud other religious. 8, and was avery active inember of the Luwer House of Convocation iu the capacity of Archdeacon of Nottingbem, FUNERAL OF MAJOK GORDON, Wasmingtox, Oct. 23, 1878, The funeral of Major Goorge A. Gordon, of tne Fitth cavairy, who died suddenly at the Ebbvit House a lew days ago, took pl this mata re deposited im Oak Hi emnetery, where they were escorted by the troops statioued here and followed vy large numbers of army officers on aay in Washington. f ARMY INTELLIGENCE, Waantxetox, Oct. 28, 1878 Major J. A. Hall, military storekeeper, bas been re. lieved trom daty and pot of the quartermanter at that Pl Martin, military storekeoper, Das om duty im epartment of Arizona and ordered to report to commanding sseourt for duty ut Fort fer Department of the avon worth, NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. Wasntnoros, Oct, 26, 1878, Commodore Willlam G. Temple, Captain Henry 4 Pay Direcior John 8, Cunningham have 0, Sagi . Angie is om 0 gineer William II, Newman ts ordored for promouve. aty be oulistment of boys, whea completed to resume thoie regular daties, THE BARTFORD AT RIO JANEIRO, Rio Jaxerno, Oct, 6, 1878, The United States flagship Hartford, Admiral Nichoils, ts io thie harbor, and will leave in @ few daya lor the Rivor Pinte, All well on beard, THE PLYMOUTH AT ST, THOMAS, St, Thomas, Oot. 22, 1878, if Plymouth arrived hora ad will retura about the The United States from St. Croix ‘26th, after taki