The New York Herald Newspaper, November 12, 1878, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD -———+ BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. — Png DAILY HERALD, puld wecd covery day tn the your, died), Ten dollars per rv mouth for any herof these letter. AML . red send r vink of sender diddress © wiledvons, telegraphic despatches must w Yous ieKary. nsure atten d mast give pi Rejected coma 2 SOUTH SIXTH PHILADELPHIA STR . YORK HERALD— LON OFPICE, 0: | STRE VA AMERICAN IN NIBLO'S GAT TONTINENT. GRAND OPERA ILO On NEW YORK AQUARIL p Houses. BROADWAY LYCEUM THEATH Scuoor row Scaxpat, OTHER AND Son. NION SQ STANDARD THEATH oot 4 Lark. Lis OF CORNEVILLE, ABERLE'S AMERICA YOY PASTOR'S TH TIVOLI THEATRE TRIPLE NEW YORK, Ti The probabililies are that the weather in York: and its vicinity to-day will be warm and cloudy, with rain, followed by cooler and clearing weather toward night, with westerly wind: To- morrow it will be partly cloudy or fair and com- paratirely cool, with northwesterly winds. Watt Srreer Yestexpay.—The stock mar- ket was fairly active and steady. Gold was quiet all day at 10015. Government bonds were firm, States steady and railroads generally Btrong. Money on call lent casily at 4 a5 per cent and closed at 3 per cent. THe Repvertion of the initiation and annual fees of the Mercantile Library Association is a step'in the right direction. Ix Roenp Numvers we have now thirty thou- sand post offices, and they are increasing at the rate of about two thousand a Hoxipers or AssicneD MorrGaGes will find in our court reports the chief points in, to them, an exceedingly interesting deci Tne Coxriemation by the Supreme Court of the referce’s report in the excise suits makes a rather blue outlook for the victims of Owen Murphy. Tuvs Far the net reault of private Corbett’s famous wooing is the sum of one hundred dollars which he has recovered from his superior officer, Major Gibson. Ir Mayor Ery and some of the other city of. ficials would take a few leaves out of the books that have just been sent them explaining how Paris is governed we might possibly be able to get along a little better. At a Conrerence of greenbackers, held here yesterday, it was resolved to strengthen “the party.” In view of the late elections the more sensible thing to do would be to hire an under- taker and remove the rewains. Unper THE Decision in the long pending con- troversy in regard to the San Francisco (Cal.) Pueblo lands, just given at Washington, exist. ing titles to property under city and State laws will remain undisturbed. This is bad news for the lawyers. A Few More Verpicts like that given in the courts yesterday against one of the telegraph companies, in suit arising out of damages caused by a rotten pole, will probably convince those corporations that in the end it will be eheaper to put their wires underground, Nearty a Centcry Aco the desecration of graves iu this city by some medical students Jed to one of the most serious riots in our his- tory. It is knowp aa the ‘doctors’ riot,” and since ita occurrence the “resurrection” business in the metropolis has until the present time been considgred a little unsafe. Tue Seventn Reomenr Anmory.—The trustees of the Seventh Regiment Armory Fund have issued another appeal for money to enable them to complete the same. Although the work on the building is in an advanced state the smn of one hundred thousand dollara is still needed to finish it; henee this call for further subscriptions. That the response will be prompt and generous we feel assured, for the past services of the Seventh regimeut have rendered it famous in the history of New York, while in the future they promise tobe of even greater value. A strictly military organization, this re; ent is not only a aplen did sehool for tr our young men to be good soldiers, but it dis to-day the model. militia regiment of the Uniov. Let every mau who loves pe and values good order give what he . and the fund will be soem com- pleted. It will be a safe investment and bear good interest hereafter Tur Weatiter.—The storm centre over New Brunswick on Sunday has moved into the Atlan: He, and the low mmeter then in the Missouri Valley has advan over the lakes with consid. erable rapidity. General and heavy rains have attended this movement, from the Gulf to the lakes. The temperature has changed rapidly over all the region north of Tennessee, and falls behind the depression avd west of the Missis- sippi River. On the Atlantic coust it has risen, with southerly winds, but is low over Ne Brunswick, The winds are chiefly from the northwest in the territory west of the lakes and the Mississippi; westerly to southwest erly in the Jake region and Ohio Vailey, aud southerly to southeasterly on the Middle and East Atlantic coast, Heavy northwest triy gales will probably follow the storm evelopment that is likely to oecur on the soust line when the ceutre of the depression passes into the ocean. The weather in New York and its vicinity today will be warm aad cloudy, with rain, followed by cooler and clear- ing weather toward night, with westerly winds, To-morrow it will be partly cloudy or fair and comparatively cool, with northwesterly winds, \ NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1878—TRIPLE SHEET. The Treasury and the Banks. That resumption can go on successfully and smoothly only by the hearty co-opera- tion of the banks and the Secretary of the Treasury goes without saying. We have on several occasions recently pointed out to the banks and to Secretary Sherman the urgent necessity of coming to a perfect and thorough understanding on all the elements of the problem, and are now reassured by a report from Washington that at a private conference held last week between the Seeretary and several gentlemen repre- senting the New York Clearing House certain points of very great and indeed decisive importance were discussed, and, our corre- spondent reports, substantially agreed upon. Our Washington correspondent recites these points, and if he is correctly informed they include a policy for the Treasury and a policy for the banks mutually co-opera- tive, and, taken together, as it seems to us, admizably designed to make the work of specie resumption certain, easy and with- out disturbance to the country. ‘The banks, it appears, ask Secretary Sher- man to limit the coinage of silver hereafter | to two millions per month, as the law allows him to do, and to withdraw the one and two dollar legal tenders and substitute silver @ollars for them. We should think he would be glad to agree to this proposition, for it will enable him to force his silver dollars into circulation, and would so reasonably and lawfully limit their amount as to prevent their being too severe a burden on the people. The banks, on their part, propose, after the 1st of January, to pay out gold and greenbacks indiscriminately; to discontinue the special gold accounts which they now keep and have for years kept under the law with their customers ; to cease the use of gold checks in the Clearing House ex- changes, and to reiuse to receive silver dollars except as a special deposit, under special contract, to be raturned as de- posited. They will also refuse to use silver certificates in the Clearing House transac- tions, and silver, except in small sums of ten or twenty-five dollars. We gather trom a private source that all this is at the present time not in the form of a positive agreement, but in a tentative shape, to be further considered by hoth par- ties, the Treasury and the banks; but we have a strong hope that the good sense of both sides will lead to its adoption as the conjoint policy of the Treasury and the banks. If this hope shall be justified the country may be congratulated on the speedy and quiet consummation of one of the most important events in our history, and the Secretary of the Treasury will be a very for- tunate mar. What he is asked to do is what he must feel is precisely what he would like to do, He has a right, under the iaw, to limif the coinage of silver doliars to two million dollars per month, and the general and outspoken disgust of the people with this dollar should lead him to coin as few specimens of it as the law permits. On the other hand, as the friends of silver may. urge that the country bas not yet bad a fair experience of its use, if he withdraws the small legal tender notes he will shtisfy the silver men and give the public such an opportunity to judge of the convenience of silver dollars as they de- mand. The propositiqn of the banks meets all the difficulties so far as they and the public are concerned. Resumption being a fact, they propose to pay out greenbacks and gold indiscriminately, and cease, in all their accounts and dealings with cns- tomers or between themselves, to ac- knowledge or make any distinction between the two. As to silver, they will ignore it, precisely as greenbacks have been ignored in California by the banks. The greenback, while it was greatly depre- ciated, was a legal tenderin California pre- cisely as in all the other States, and any one who chose might offer it in payment of a debt, or send it to bank as part of his de- posits at its nominal or legal tender value. But the California banks held that, as they dealt only in gold, and as their capital stock was paid in in gold, and their de- posits in like manner, bound to depreciate either their cap- ital or their deposits by allowing any customer to send them depreciated green- backs. Of course a customer might stand upon his legal rights and require that his legal tender notes be received; but the bank protected itself by refusing any longer to keop his account. In like manner the banks now will easily and effectually pro- tect themselves against silver. And, as in California, they will have the sympathy and co-operation of the whole mercantile public with them, What is proposed for them is therefore entirely practical and ‘easible ; | and if the banks Which unitedly form the New York Clearing House agree upon this sound and safe policy they will draw after them all the other banks in the country, It will no doubt be objected by the friends of the silver dollar that this policy will eliminate that venerated coin from the currency. But the reply is, first, that Secretary Sherman already knows, by abso- lute test, that the silver dollar is not liked by the country. He has faithfully, and indeed with an almost immoderate zeal, tried to inject it intothe circulation ; he has offered special inducements to people to take it; and it is now clear that unless Congress anthorizes him to give a ‘‘valuable chromo” with every dollar the stlver dollars will remain in the Treasury vaults, The withdrawal of ope and two dollar Diils, which is proposed, will not even suflice to create any large demand for silver dollars, for there is now o redundancy of half and quarter dollars, which will be used instead | ot the small bills -for some time to come, Thero is but one way to make silver accept- able to the country, and we hope the Secre- tary will in his report to Congress urge that upon the friends of silver, If Congress will make the silver coins redeemable in gold at the ‘Treasury, in fixed sums, say of fifty dollars, and of twenty five dollars’ worth of the smaller coins, it will nt once call into circulation all the sil- ver now coined. ‘Lho banks will then take it as part of their deposits ; the merchants and dealers, who ate now put to serious loss in getting rid of their acenmulations of small change, will readily aceept all the they were not. silver that is offered ; and the country will easily float all that will be coined for at least a year to come, ‘The silver dollar will then be, by law, what now it is in fact—a token ; not value, but the representative of value; and when it is redeemable st the ‘Treasury it will depend on the people to say whether they prefer it to a paper token—-to a greenback or national bank note equally redeemable. The legislation thus proposed is all that is needed to make the reported plan of the banks and the Treasury perfect and to ac- complish resumption with ease and with- out harm to any legitimate interest. Decision im the Brooklyn Bridge Case. Judge Barrett's decision in the Brooklyn Bridge ease putS the denial. of the motion | for a peremptory mandamus to compel the city of New York to raise money on bonds forthe further prosecution of the work on the broad ground that the Legislature, in the act of 1875, intended to limit and did limit the entire cost of the bridge, when completed and open to public travel, with its debts and liabilities fully paid, to eight million dollars. ‘he decision was fore- shadowed by the questions put and the re- marks made by Judge Barrett at the close of the argument in the case. The charges of waste and extravagance and other poiats raised by* the respondents were not considered by the + Court, the re- lator demanding a peremptory manda- mus or a denlal of the motion, and declining to accept an alternative writ. This brought the Court at once to a decision on the main question of the legislative in- | tent to limit the total cost of the completed work and to a legal interpretation of the | law of 1875. Should Judge Barrett's judg- ment stand the bridge will. receive no fur- ther pecuniary assistance from New York without new legislation, and it is very doubtfal now whether this could be se- cured. It is probable that Brooklyn may, under any circumstances, supply the re- quired funds, but opinions will differ as to the wisdom and economy of savrificing all that has been already expended on the bridge and abandoning the work. Judge Barrett’s decision is, however. as far as it goes, o justification of the New York au- thorities in their refusal to issue any more bridge bonds. A Game of Blind Man's Baft. The result of the search yesterday for Mr. Stewart's body was as barren ag on any of the preceding days. ‘Lhe statement made to our reporters just before the Henatp went to press yesterday morning, to the ef- fect that the whereabouts of the remains had been ascertained, appears now to be an idle boast, for the body is still miss- ing. ‘he police, having rin their heads against the stone wall of St. Mark's Church Cemetery, seem to have lost their wits, and the detectives appear to be playing a game of blind man’s buff. This 1s aromarkable exhibit for the Po!tice De- partment of a great city like New York. A disciplined organization, embracing nearly three thousand men, is unable to discover who despoiled an honored citizen's grave; neither can they find the body or its place of concealment. This is a contessed fact, and the people,of New York are beginning to ask what is the useof paying some three millions of dollars per annum for ‘s0 little return. It is very significant that the teeling is gaining ground among thinking people thet had Mr. Hilton offered a reward simply for the recovery of Mr. Stewart's remains the detectives would have found them before this, In other words, the popular impres- sion is that the police care more about sharing the reward than to arrest the crimi- nals who perpetrated the outrage, We do not say this accusation is a just one; but that such an opinion exists shows the public estimation of our police, and it is a lamentable com- mentary upon the present system. The Commissioners, with their Superintendent and inspectors, will be held responsible for any failure, and it behooves them, one and all, to show the citizens of New York that they are doing their whole duty in the premises, and prove it in a way to silence all doubt or dispute. We are not seeking to throw unmerited blame on the heads of the department or prejudge them in the midst of their search, but we would be false to our own duty if we did not tell these gentlemen that no subterfuge or excuse will be accepted by the taxpayers who support the police and are its masters. The Realm of Stalacta. In developing the rabbit hole on the hill- side at Luray, Page county, Va., the enter- prising explorers have strack a veritable underground .world of wonders. Cavern after cavern, corridors, galleries, amphi- theatres of immense extent, extraor- |-dinary fresks of nature ‘in the fantastic forms assumed by stalactite and stalagmite—all these have been dis- covered at Luray on a scale that probably has few equals in the worid. Our cor- respondent, who has explored these won- ders in order to give the readers of the Henan an accurate descriptions of this vast system of magnificent caverns, sends us with his account of a prolonged subterranean exploration o map of the Luray caves, Both of these we publish this morning. It would be premature to venture an estimate of the extent of these natural wonders, ‘Che explorers themselves are at a loss to describe them, and each day brings new discoveries of surpassing inter- est. The curious formations that present themselves on every side are due to the infiltration of water impregnited with min- eral matter, which, falling through count-- less ages, have deposited the latter and built up the strange shapes that fill the be- holder with wonder and awe. In this dark laboratory of nature the untiring forces have been in silent operation since long before man became an inhabitant of the world. Lighted up by the torch the erys- tallizations that encrust the deporits glitter like diamonds, and the exquisite tints of the rainbow are rivalled by the glorious reflections cast back by the myriad prisms that stud the walls and roofs of this underground palace, ‘Io the geologist and lover of the beautiful the caves at Luray must prove | of foresight. Our government now contends attractive inno ordinary degree, and it is probable that the quiet village in Virginia will soon becomé the resort of curions visit- | ors from every part ofthe country, Among the discoveries of the past few days are the footprints of animals in the floor of the cav- erns. Can these be traces of the mythical gyesticutus ? Let the Halifax Award Be Paid. The amount of the award is about twelve cents per capite for each inhabitant of the United States. ‘Ihe number of our citi- | zeus is small indeed who would not prefer to pay their share than to witness a pro- tracted diplomatic higgling over a subject which touches the national honor, Our government having fully set forth its views we trust it will not pursue the controversy. Weare sorry that Congress rendered it neces- sary for the Secretary of State to make any representations at all. When we agreed to refer the question to arbitration-we virtually bound ourselves to abide by the decision, whatever it might be. We cannot honor- ably take refuge behind any of the argu- ments so skilfully set forth by the Secretary of State; much less are we entitled to take advantage of our own imprudence or want that the award is not binding because it was not unanimous, This is a weak plea. If| utanimity was requisite our government was at fault in not causing a provis- ion to that effect to be inserted in the treaty. Having neglected to do so it is pow too late to raise the question. Bat’ the idea of unanimity is absurd on its fave, It implies that each of the two governments kept the subject as completely within its own control as it would have done in a direct negotiation. What was the advantage of an arbitration if both par- ties retained the same full power to reject every basis of settlement which it would have possessed in an ordinary diplomatic arrengement? It enters into the very idea of an arbitration that the parties to it sur- render their right to be their own judges. An arbitration in which this right is re- tained is an absurdily in terms—a self-con- tradiction. We do not assent to the dictum that the payment of this award would be a waiver of our rights in future negotiations. There ig no real necessity for having another treaty on the subject. In the interval between the termination of the Reciprocity Treaty and the negotiation of the Treaty of Wash- ington we got on very well without any in- ternational arrangement respecting the in- shore fisheries. We were better off then than we are under the present treaty. Onur vessels were admitted to the inshore. fisheries by the payment of & tonnage duty; and we shall doubtless have the same advantage after the present treaty expires. The Canadians can sell their mackerel only in our markets, and when they ure shut out of them bya duty on fish the only way in which they can utilize their fisheries is by a tonnage duty on our vessels. Wedonot see that there is much to be gained by any other arrange- ment. At any rate, we are not justified in repudiating a distinct bargain because the keeping of it might interfere with the nego- tiation of a fature treaty. A bargain is a bar- gain. It concerns our honor to stand by a bargain which we have deliberately made, however imprudent it may prove to have been, Even an imprudent betis paid by the loser unless he is willing to forfeit his estimation among gentlemen. In the Geneva award we received from Great Britain a great deal more money than we have as yet been able to distribute among the sufferers; but there has been no un- manly whining over the subject by the British government. But Great Britain might with as much propriety ask us to return the excess of the Geneva award as for us to ask her to relinquish any part of the Halifax award on the ground that we decom it excessive. In consenting to the arbitration we took our chances, and if, by the unskilful man- agement of our case, we are disappointed in the result, it is more honorable to pay “like a gentleman” than to get up an unseemly controversy over the question whether we are really bound by a bargain of our own mmaking. The Youmg Men and Maidens of Oberlin College. This Ohio institution of learning, whose name and fame are so well known, has met witha mishap which is making it the butt of a great deal of pleasant ridicule. Ober- lin College was the earliest seminary of so high arank to abolish distinctions of sex and race and admit all upon an equal foot- ing. Young men and young women, white persons and negroes, enjoy equal advan- tages of instruction within the walls of its eight spacious buildings, and there have gone forth from its halls, first and last, many able men and superior women. General Cox, who was at one time Governor of Ohio, afterward President Grant's Secretary of the Interior, and is now « distingdished member of Congress, is one of its alumni, and among its female graduates are the wives of many Ohio citi- zens of the highest standing. This institu- tion, which was founded in 1833, has here- tofore been so fortunaie as to escape scan- dals of every description, und hundreds of estimable people in Ohio and elsewhere feel queer and uncomfortable over the recent escapade of some of its male and female students. But really it is a subject for laughter rather than tears. The regulations at Oberlin have always been very strigg and rigorous, especially those relating to the two sexes, ‘The young ladies are required to be in their rooms at half-past seven in the evening, and cannot afterward leave them during the night. ‘here is. similar regulation for the young gentlemen, but the hour is later. What has recently happened at Oberlin is an evasion of these rules. Half a dozen rollicking young men and two or three hoydenish young women have contrived to have night interviews as daring, though less romantic, than the one which everybody has beheld on the stage between Romeo and Juliet. Coming out into the starlight over triendly adjoining roofs, or letting themselves down from win- dows with bedclothes knotted together at the corners, these enterprising young peo- ple have sueceeded in having several clan- destine outdoor meetings under the broad canopy of the night. It is not alleged or believed, nor even suspected, that there has been any immorality or anything more blameworthy than a pleasant little frolic. But the faculty and the community of Puritanic Oberlin have been thrown into convulsions of excitement and horror. They fear that what they call ‘the coeducation of the sexes” has received a fatal blow. They are as much aroused as a Connecticut village would have been in the days of the blue laws by the discovery that a mother had kissed her children on the Sabbath. - We trust that a little reflection will calm their excitement over this piquant frolic. We do not believe in the theory of “eoeducation;’ but if we had any faith in the system this comedy at Ober- lin would not shake it. Everybody has heard of scaling ‘‘a fortress ora nun- nory,” and readers of the pleasant tales of Boceaccio are tamiliar enough with the idea of lovers gaining entrance to those pious retreats. But such stories, whether fact or fiction, were never deemed valid arguments against the separate education of young women in those institutions. If such an accident should occur in aconvent it would | only bea reason for greater vigilance, and the amusing escapade of a few young pto- ple at Oberlin should be judged in the same lenient way. A. Macdonald's Policy.” The conservative leader in Canada having won his victory seems ata loss what to do with it. He has promised a protective tariff for the benefit of Cunadian manutac- turers; but to make it really protective he must make it.an equa! barrier against the introduction of English and American goods. Discriminating duties against the United States would not help the infant manufac- tures of the Dominion, because the mother country would command its markets and break down its domestic industries. Like all other protectionists, those of Canada wish to be protected against low prices, which they can never be if their markets are flooded with British goods admitted at low rates of duty. But if Sir John Mac- donald’s government legislates. against British trade it will incur the ill will of the whole British people. Tvese difficulties give him pause, and it will require more skill than he possesses to frame a ‘tariff which will at once satisfy the Canadian manufacturers and retain the friendship of the mothor country. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Count Brunetti, Secretary of the Spanish Legation at Washington; ix at the Albemarle Hotel. > Mr. Rufus S. Frost, president of the Boston Board of Trade. visited the Produce Exchange yesterday, Lord Justice Christian, of the Court of Appeals, in Treland, has resignod on account of increasing dulness of his hearing. ‘ Alexander Cummings, of Pennsylvania, commercial agent at Ottowa, Canada, who is ill, contemplates ro- turning on leave. Owing to ill health John A, Campbell, formerly Governor of Wyoming and subseqnently ‘bird Assist- ant Secretary of State, has returned from Basle, Switzerland, where he has been United States Consul. Dr. Sandford B. Hunt, a New Jersey editor, who has been very ill for some weeks past, has so far recov- ered that he was able to moye about yesterday. It will be several weeks, however, before he will be able to resume his duties. The New York Hxgnatp tells of ‘‘an American young lady of eighteen springs.” Probably her name is Sofy.—Boston Post. Miss take—Sara Toga.-—Heslon Commercial Bulletin. On the contrary, she wore no toga; she was « trapeze performer. Up to a late hour last night Mr. Theodore P. Howell, leather manufacturer, of Newark, was still alive, but with no hopes of his recovery, although his condition wascasier. Recently he submitted to a painful sur- gical operation intended to relieve an attack of dropay, but it failed of the desired effect. Among the passengers on the steamship Scythia, which sailed from Liverpool for New York on Satur- day, were Lady Thornton, wite of Sir Edward Thorn- ton; Mayor Forwood, of Liverpool; United State Sen- ator Bruce, or Mississippi; General Burnett; John T. Hoffman, of New York, and Milton S. Latham, of San Francisco, Siv John “National FINE ARTS. PAINTIN 5 ‘The season of picture auctions will be opened with a sale by Daniel A. Matthews, which will be held on the afternoons of the 1ithand 15th insts. The ninety oda pictures, of varying merit, which form the col- lection, are now on exhibition at bis gallery. Among them we note A. McIntyre’s “Clearing Away,” R. B. Crane's “Ausable Lake, Adirondacks,” and his well painted “High Peak,” both of them ‘showing talent, but too much of the manner of his master, Wyant; J. H. Dolph’'s “On the Alert ;”’ F, Schuchard’s good monk story, “After Dinuer;” an amusing littl “Chicken Sermon,” by Suess; John Py “Placid Biver,’”’ Pp.» Ryder’s “Horse .” db, O. Wood's excellent little cattle piece; ® pair of breezy water colors, by Hugh Newell, “The Cradler” and “Tho Pedler;” P. P. Ryder’s well painted “Med- itation,”” excellent in tone and sentiment; William Hart's Churpentier’s good and seriously painted “Mother's Prayer; acouple of J.C. ‘Thoms; Arthur Parton’s pleasing ‘Moonlight;” @ bright little view of Castellamare, yy Kuwasseg fils; Cropsey’s “Ruins in Sorrento;” J. H. Dolph’s amus- ing companion panels “Queen Elizabeth,” and “Tho Lord High Chamberlain; D. Simonson's large uca- deznic canvas, “Othello Relating his Adventures;"’ a couple of T, L. Smiths; Arthur Quartley’s “Patapsco Light; A. H. Wyant's good "Gill Brook, Adiron- and his charming ‘Black Mountein, Lake fine Little Bristol, “Lake Champlain;"’ J. peyhound,” and C. Brochart’s excellent figure pieses “La Hamac,” and “Feeding the Birds’ the former with a very sweet face, and en excellent effect of light. ABT NOTES, Over cighteen thousand people have so far visited the magnificent Lown Exhibition at the Academy of Design. It will be closed in a few weeks. ‘The third lecture of the course now béing held at Association Hall in connectioa with the Loan Exhibi; tion, will be given this evening, the lecturer being Mr. William C. Prime, and his subject, ‘The History of Mustration by Engraving.” General di Cesnola’s second lecture of the course rus, Ity Ancient Art and History,” will be delivered at Chickering Hall on Thursday evening. ‘The first monthly art reception and exhibition of pictures of the season will be held a¢ the Union me Club on Thursday evening. he Palette Club announces that its usual sale of pictures, contributed by artist members for initiation fees, wili take place oa the evenings of the 22d and wid inet, ‘Che pictures will be placed on exhibition at the Kurtz Gallery on the 19th inst. There has just been added to the collection of pic- ws at the Loan Exhibition ‘8 masterwork, he Holy Family in Egppt,” which was described at length in these columns on ite arrival in this coun- try home time ago, It was painted for the Em of Russia, who did not take it when it wa» finished during the late Kastern war, as she wised to devote to the succor of the wounded. It was y present owner, Miss Catherine Wolfe, and is now exhibited publicly for the first time in this country. ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. PROVESSOR ALBERT R, LEEDS’ LECTURE ON SANI- TARY SCIENCE IN THE UNITED STATES. The New York Academy of Sciences, Section of Chemistry, met last night at No, 12 West Thirty-first street, President J, 8. Newberry in the chair, Profes- for Albert RB. Leeda, of the Stevens Institute, read an interesting paper on ‘The Present and the Future of Sanitary Science in the United States.” ‘The science of lygiene, the lecturer said, was eminently practical, and, therefore, suited to the genius of the American people. In sanitary actence this country, he thonght, was taking a foremont place, popular knowledge on the subject running almost abreast of the progress of the scienee, Ques- tions of health should be } 8, be cause they depend in a gresi Proper laws should be passed and popular agita- tion would be the best guaranteo that they should not afterwart become dead’ letters, At the beginning of thia coutury there was no reine tration of deaths in this city, ‘The first retiable xta- tistics were only obtained in 1866, after the organiza tion of the Metropolitan Board of Health. Its efi- cy was first manifest in the fact that there were Jess lives lost during the first year of its admin; istration than during the previous year. The Logie tr of anarriages was very difficult, and of births, #0, stration of diseases, especially of those thet ntable, would prove 4 great utility, ‘The authorities should: have more power, more money aud more eflicient mewns given them. They should have officers to register the diseases, investigate their causes. and suggest and promote their rmmedics, besides the power to bring offenders to justice. The agitation for State sanitary legislation should be continued until every one of the States hed eticient health laws. ‘The speaker advocated the use of the public parks as outdoor schools to acquaint children more thoroughly with tle phe- ena of plant and animal life, The subject of tilation, he thought, had made considerable ad- Me highly praised the systems of physical ration in schools and colleges, Instéuctions end lectures on the subject were advised, Professor Leeds concluded by prophesying s bright futnve for the science of health in this country and ei advantages to the lives and welfare of its citizens, vasure on local are MERCANTILE LIBRARY. The thirtecuth annual meeting of the Officers’ Union of the Mercantile Library Association of the elty of New York was held at Clinton Hall, Astor place, on Saturday, the anniversary of the founding of the Mercantile Library, on November 9, 1820, In the absence of the President, John I’. Halsted, the chair was occupied by Vice President A, A. Rayeu, The ‘Tressu A. W. Sherman, reported a belance of $561 88 in his hands, including a United States bond purchused with the donation of $100 made by the late John K. Myers. The report of the Board of Managers, presented by the retiring secrctary, S. Bustings Grant, stated that the Board had concluded io forego the customary an- nual dinner this year. The secretary announced that four ex-ofticers had been removed by death since the last annual meeting:—Timothy Lubey, of the Board of 1860, who, at the time of his death and for several years previons, had held the position of Water Reyia ter in the city of Washington; William H. Marving of the Board of 1862, merchunt, of this city, ged Do comber 15, 1877, at the early age of thirty-nine years; Edwin R. Tremain, of the Board of 1837, vice presi- dent in 1838 and third prosident of the Officers’ Union, died in this city December 20, 1877, ut the age of sixty- one; Asher Taylor, of the Bourd of 1824 and vice presi- dent in 1825, died in this city July 5, 1878, at the ripe ago ofseventy-six: at the thme of his devth he was president of the Market Insurance Company. ‘The following gentlemen were elected officers and directors for the year 1879:—President, A. A. Raven; Vice President, William G. Davies; Correspondi Secretary, Charles H. Patrick; Recording Secretary, Samuel Putnam; Treasurer, A. W. Sherman; Direc: tors—A. Judson Stone, 3, Hastings Grant, William H. Guion, Jr., Charles H. Wilson, Seymour A. Bunce, George D. Farrar and 8, Newton Smith. Mesers, W. W. Wright, D. F. Appleton, James H. Percival, Thad: deus V. Taber and Charles H. Wilson were appointed the nomingting comunittee for the ensuing year. On motion the constitution was amended maki the initiation fee $5 instead of $10. and the annu dues $2 instead of $10 as heretofore. ST. NICHOLAS SOCIETY. At a meeting of the St. Nicholas Society, at Del- monico’s last night, the following officers. were elected for the ensuing year:-—President, Robert G. Remsen. —Vice-Prosidents, Edward ¥F. de Lancey, Abraham R. Lawrence, Nathaniel P. Bailey, John Jay; Treasurer, Edward. Schell; Secretary, John C. Mills; Assistant Secretary, Fred+ erick J. de Peyster; Chaplains, Rev. Thomus E. Ver- milye, D, D., and Rev. Noah Hunt Schenck, D. D.; Physicians, Abram Dubois, M. D, and T. Matlack Cheeseman, M, D.; Consulting Physicians, James Anderson, M. D., and James Wood, M. D.:' Managers, Frederick Asron B. Hays, Augustus Schell, William Remscn, Benjamin H. Field, John T, Irving, James M,, Mc- Lean, Carlisle Norwood, Richard E. Mount, Benjamin L. Swan, Jr., Augustus R. MacDonough, Alexander Hamilton, Jr.; Stewards—Cornelius Vanderbilt, Car- lisle Norwood, Jr., Eugene Schieffelin, John Schuyler, poe ar Beekman, Stuyvesant Vish, Robert Stuy- vesan' OBITUARY. REV. HENRY JONES. Rev. Henry Jones, an old and much respected citi- zen of Bridgeport, Conn., died at his residence on Golden Hill, on Saturday evening, at the advenced age of seventy-seven years. Mr. Jones was born in Hartford, Conn., October 12, 1801, and was the son of Major Daniel Jones, of that city. He entered Yale at the age of sixteen, and was graduated in the class of 1820. He pursued his theological studies at Andover, and was graduated from that institution in 184. He was married September 6, 1825, to Miss Eliza 8, Webster, daughter of the late Noah Webster, LL.D. He was ordained and settled in the Gospel ministry as pastor over the Second Societ; in Berlin, Conn. (now the Firat Congregations society of New Britain), October 12, 1825, He removed to this city im 1838 and opened a school far men and boys, known in its day as the “College School,” which he haa conducted until recently. Mr, Jones was much interested in genealogical researches; ‘was a life-member of the New England Historic Ge nealogical Society of Beston and a valuable contribs utor to its publications, Mr. and Mrs, Jones cele. brated their golden wedding September 7, 1877, which ‘was a most interesting and memorable‘occasion. Mr. Jones loaves a widow, one daughter, the esteemed wite of Rev. Thomas K. Beecher, of Elinira, N. Y., and son, Dr. H. Webster Jones, of Chicago, who in theit deep aMiction have the sympathy of their large circle of friends. Mr. Jones was well known by professors and clergymen throughout the country. —_—_— WILLIAM WAUD, ARTIST. William Waud, a well known artist, died at his resh dence, on Jerscy City Heights, on Sunday evening. By profession an architect, he was better known as a ape cial artist for Harper's Weekly during and since the late civ war, In this capacity he was present at many engagements, und, with the exception of the Henato corcespondent, was the only civilian present with tho flect when Farragut forced the wage of the Mississippi River under the fire of forts St. Philip and Jackson and the Confederate rams and gunboats. In this action he occupied a place in tho foretop of the frigate Missiesippi, maki sketches amid showers of grapeshot. an archi tect he stood high, being one of Sir Joseph Paxton’s most trusted assistants while he was building the Crystal Palace at Sydenham, and subsequently ap- pointed architect to the Westminster Improvements Association, While at the Crystal Palace he was the only mau who escaped alive from a scaffold which fell 170 feet, killing seventeen workmen, Mr. Waud ~ was waved by his presence of mind and gymnastic knowledge. He was of # genial disposition and will be missed by many of his friends throughout thie country and Europe. LLEWELLYN COOPER. A cable despatch was received from Glasgow yesters day at the office of the State Line Steamship Company announcing the sudden death of Captain Liewellyn Cooper, commander of the steamship State of Georgia, of that line. The deceased was born in Hallowell, Me., aud was about fifty-five years of age. When at home he resided in Dunellen N. J., where he leaves ¢ widow and three sons, the eldest ph thirteen years of age, Captain Cooper has been connected with the State line since its wtart, and hus always been in command of the steamship State of Georgia. He has been an old shipmaster, and went to sea when he was uine years of ago, Mr. Baldwin, agent of the line, said yes! thot the deceased was extremely popular among the gers of. his ship, and was o most efficient seaman. It will be remembered that Captain Cooper s few months ago brought the State ot Georgia sufe to this port when he had broken her rudder some fifteen hun- dred miles from New York. He rigged wp a spar to answer for rudder, and by that means brought the steamship safe to this port under sail. For this he was ited with a gold medal, and received a vote of thanks from the passengers. He was the only American in command of # British steamer. Very little is known of the cause of his death, although the captain of the State of Virginia, of the same line, says - that when Captain Cooper left on his last trip he wa troubled with kidney complaint, N. B, JUDD. N. B. Judd, who has been for many years prom’ nently identified with State politics, died at his home in Chicago, Ill., yesterday morning, of paralysis, He had been chairman of the Republican State Central, Committee, Collector of this port, member of Cou- = and was Lg Minister at Berlin by Presi- lent Lincoln. He was sixty-six years of age. GRORGE PHILIP DORN, George Philip Dorn, for many years proprietor of the Louisville Anceiger, the leading German daily of the Southwest, died suddenly in Loniaville, Ky. terday morning. x sia te HENRY W. LARKIN, Henry W. Larkin, formerly one of the proprieton of the Sacramento Union, died in San D'ranciavo om Sunday afternoon, aged fifty-nine years.