The New York Herald Newspaper, November 21, 1878, Page 6

6 n NEW YORK TERALD Se SS BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, THE DAILY HERALD, paddished every day én the year, ‘Three cents per coy . Juded), ‘Ten dollars per month for any goriod . or Sve dollars for six saonths, Sunday edition included, free of postage. WEEKLY HERALD—One dollar per year, free of p OTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—Remit in & «and where neith ey In a re istered can be procured send th money remitted at risk tion rubseribers wish their old as well us 1 All business, news letter mk HeKaLp. os should be ed must Kive ¢ despatches must erly sealed, returned. PHILADELPHIA OFFI . 112 SOUTH SIXTH aTR OF THE NEW YORK HERALD— REET. NUE DE L'OPERA. 7 STRADA PACE. eriptions rded on the NO. 385 CRE OE age Ne LYCEUM THEATRE—J BOWERY THEAT WALLAC UNIO! STANDARD THEAT) 87. JAMES THEATR SIBLO'S GARDEN— BRAND OPBRA HOUS: AMERICAN INSTITUT! THEATRE COMIQU. GERMANTA THEATRE: TONY PASTOR'S THEAT! SEW YORK AQUARICM- WINDSOR THEATRE— fVOLI THEATRE—Va EGYPTIAN HALL—Vanue ABERLE’S AMERIC. gILMORE'S GARDE: BROOKLYN PARK Tl ACADEMY OF MUSIC BROADWAY THEATRE BROAD 87. THEATRE TRIPLE N SDAY, NOVEMBER i, 1 ‘The probabilities are that the weather in New York and ig cieinity to-day will be warm and partly cloudy or fair, possibly with occasional Uight rains. To-morrow it will be cooler aud Juir. RIRTY. RE—Vanistr. Lk’s BeNeriT, ADELPHIA—Hess Orzra. SHEET. Watt Srrenr Yesterpaxy.—The stock mar- ket was fairly active, with an irregular list of prices. Gold was steady all day at 1001g, Government bonds were firm, States dull and railroads irregular. Money on call was casicr at 4 a5 per cent and élosed at 3 per cent. Tur Crarnam STREET Braxcu of the Ele- vated Railroad is at last in a fair way toward completion. Yarr Dyciixes the challenge of Harvard to ® single scull race next summer for the college championship. Tne Amrrvar of more than tour hundred im- migrants yesterday shows that we are still tar ahead of Europe in point of prosperity. No Marentat Cuancr in the election figures has been mado by the County Bourd of Can- ¥useers, which has just finished its labors. ‘Tue Revonrt of the Commiasion of Engineers on the Riverside avenue contract will be awaited with some interest by the pensive taxpayers. Tne Vaice or Dextre as an aid to diplomacy ia well understood. Its value to the cause of education is shown by the testimony in the Van- derbilt case yesterday. Cowrtronter Kexry and the Sinkiug Fand Commissioners have determined to take a hand in the war on the market men, as it is called. The struggle is beginning to be decided)y inter- esting. Iv Wourp Be No Harm for officials generally to turn to the statute towbich u Brooklyn Judge called attention yesterday—the one which makes it a misdemeanor to wilfuliy-neglect their duties. ND MortGaGes, one of the judges.holds, are not asa rule good investments. To avoid liabilicy in the event of loss agents, the Court decides, must eonsuié their clients betore mak- ing the venture. Atrnoven the death warrant of Kehoe, the notorious Molly Maguire, has been signed, his execution is not, it seems, by any meaus certain. His case will again be brought before the Board of Pardons, ‘Tur Sr. Anprew's Socirtt:s are to be given a chance to show their sympathy with the shure- holders of the Glasgow Kank. It has been de_ termined to ask thé Gryganizutions-all over the world for assistance, Ex-Goversor Horrmax, just retarned from Europe, makes his bow this morning in an inter- view on another page. His glance at foreign polities through American spectacies puts some things in a new light. As Lavortant Maxine of oil producers and manufacturers is in seasion here, the object being, if possible, to seenre a higher price for the art and to defeat the alleged railroad com- binations against them. It Witt Be Sees from the repert of their pro ceedings yesterday that the National Association of Trotting Horse Breeders is abundantly satis- fied with the progress made in the past year. The membership of the association is large and cepresentative of every State in the Union. At tne Las? Sreston or Concrrss an appro- priation of nearly forty thousand dollars waa made to satisfy on alleged Indianelaim An investigation shows that there was no founda tion whatever for the claim. Of course there is no way of putting the claimanteia the Peni- tentiary. AccormixG to the official count im Pennsyl- vania the republicans have @ majority on joint ballot in the Legislature of twenty-seven. This is twenty-four less than the majority im the last Legislature, but of course it insures the elec- tion of a republican to the United States Senate, There seems to be some opposition to Mr. Cam- eron, but there is little doubt of bis cleetion. Tux Weatuen.--The pressure contimnes below the mean in all the districts east of the Rocky Mountain regions, particularly over the northern lake region, Manitoba and the extreme Northwest. Rain has fallen over the Jake regions, the Middie Atlantic and New England States amd the Gulf | districts. The winds have been from fresh to brisk on the Middle Atlantic and New England coasts aud in the Northwest. Elsewhere they have been generally fresh. The temperatured have fallen in the Northwest and on the South Atlantic and Gulf coasts. In the other districts they have fallen. The weather in New York and its vicinity today will be warm and partly clondy or fair, possibly with occasional light trains, To-morrow it will be cooler amdsfair. Theories of State Taxation, ‘There was read yesterday be‘ore the Bar Association of the State now in session at Albany a most interesting and instructive paper on the practical working of our tax laws by Hon, James A. Briggs, one of the State Assessors, No subject is more im- portant or more deeply concerns the people of this city, who are unjustly made to pay about one-half of the whole amount an- nually raised for taxes in this State. In fact, the two cities of New York and Brook- lyn pay fully seven-tenths of the taxcs. “Of the $50,224,858 of taxes for all purposes levied in the State last year,” says Mr. Briggs, ‘‘the ‘counties of New York and Kings paid $35,653,834.” The system which works this injustice to these two great cities causes minor injuries which are more widely distributed. The system is false in theory, oppressive in practice and incapable of being enforced without flagrant violations of equity and impartiality. here is indeed nothing very novel in Mr. Briggs’ strictures; but his ex- | posures are more striking and impressivg than any which haye preceded them be- cause they are more specific, go into a wider field of details and are supported by 2 more formidable array of figures and sta- tistics. The blundering inequity of the system has been repeatedly held up to view by able experts on the subject of taxation within the last ten years, The well krown commission appointed by Gevernor Hoffman, at the head of which was David A, Wells, made a pretty thorough investigation, and in its elaborate report to the Legislature it recommended an entirely new system, but a system which proposéd so great an innovation on the existing practice and was so far in advance of the then unenlightened public opinion that it was never made a subject of action or even of debate in the Legislature. More re- cently Mr. George H. Andrews, late Tax Commissioner of the city, published a series of articles on this most important subject, which were deemed by intelligent judges a perfect demonstration of the urgent necessity of reform, but outside of a lim- ited circle of readers they made no impres- sion. The striking paper read yesterday by Mr. Briggs ought to be more successful; but it is difficult to enlist popular interest in so dry a subject, and even when atten- tion is aroused the reform will encounter a great mass of ignorant prejudice in the rural portion of the Legislature. Until the press of the State takes it up and makes it a subject of persistent agitation there will be little hope of accomplishing so gseat a change as is requisite in our method of rais- ing taxes. Mr. Briggs maintains that State taxes, with a few specified excéptions, should be levied on real estate alone, releasing the great mass of personel property. Mr. Wells and Mr. Andrews took substantially the same ground, although Mr. Wells and his fellow commissioners proposed 2 novel and ingenious method of assessing the taxes. Quite apart from all questions of theory on which men may differ it is demonstrable that the lawsof the State for taxing personal property are so widely and grossly evaded as to cause a scandalous oppression of that portion of the community which makes a true return of its taxable property. ‘Ag the laws now are,” says Mr. Briggs, ‘‘and as they are executed by the local assessors, they are a mere farce, a sham and a fraud.” Some of the facts stated by Mr. Briggs in illustration of this monstrous farce and fraud are very remarkable :— The city of Rochester in 1872, with a population of some seventy tho: |, With its millions of dollars im trade and manctactures, and in incorporated com- panies liable to assessment for meremnel Pp rty, with the wealth that has accumulating in the hands of individuals for more than half a cen- tury, has not been assessed as large an amount for raonal property a3 the ussessment against a widow faiy in the town of Ratavia. The assessment of per- sonal property to individuals in Rochester and in Uti in the year 1872 was not cqual to the assessment of two widows in Batavia for that year. In Utica, in 1877, although the increase in the assessed value of real estate from 1472 to 1877 was $15,409,955, the per- sonal property had increased only $1,473,560, only $567,850 more than the bank capital in that city, and $237,150 more than the sssessmenteof stocks to companies. In 1577, in the city of Utica, with more than thirty-two thousand inhabitants, there were only sixty-seven persons assessed for personal prop- erty. The statistics of taxation throughout the State prove that these gross evasions are not exceptional but are merely instances of the prevailing practice. Even in the city of It is rising again gradually in | New York where, last year, $99,000,000 of personal taxes was assessed, $74,000,000 of this amount Was assessed to the banks, these institutions not having the: ordinary facilities for concealment which are pos. sessed by other owners of personal property, But there are some people who render true returns, and are made to bear a burden which is unjust and oppressive because it is grossly unequal. ‘*wo women in the city of New York,” says Mr. Briggs, ‘‘pay more personal tax than incorporated com. panies in this State whose capital stock is 2130,000,00%, and one man, whose name is known far and wide for his beneficent gift to the city, pays moré than twice as much personal taxes as these corporations.” The taxes on personal property which are so generally evaded in the interior cities and throughout the rural counties increase the injustice which is done to this city in the distribution of State burdens. ‘The | other cities and towns pay next to no tax at all on personal property, but only on real estate, which is greatly undervalued by the local assessors. The consequence is that the $99,000,000 of dollars of per- sonal assessments in this city go to swell the otherwise unjust disproportion from which we suffor. It isan outrage upon fair- ness and equity to add personal to real assessments here while the other parts of the State are only agsessed for real estate. The taxes would fall more equally if all personal assessments were abolished. Bank stock is more oppressed than any other species of property, and the conses quence is that bank capital is leaving the city and taking flight from such injustice. Within the last three years more than $30,000,000 of bank capital and surplus have been withdrawn ‘‘and this depleting process is constantly going on.” It may be said that the resources for taxn- tion would be diminished by exempting per- sonal property. Even if this were true it would be no justification of a tax which is not levied equally and uniformly on all property of the same description and of which nine-tenths escape, while but one-tenth is assessed. But it is not true that the exemp- tion of personal property would impair the taxable resources of the State. By exempt- ing it we should draw property hither in- stead of driving it away. Hosts of wealthy men would come here to reside if their tur- niture, money, bonds and mortgages and other debts due from solvent creditors were exempt from taxation. Banking capital would flow hither from all parts of the country and all parts of the world. Man- ufacturing capital which now plants itself in New Jersey and Connecticut to es- cape our heavy city taxes would come here to enjoy the advantages of being at the great centre of distribution and supply. ‘This immense concentration of capital would so enhance the value of city real estate that the resources of taxation would be in- creased instead of diminished, and although this operation of the new system might be Slow at first it would go on increasing forever, British Bounce in Cyprus. The story of the arrest of Major di Ces- nola at Cyprus on the charge of having dis- regarded an order issued by Sir Garnet Wolseley prohibiting excavations in the soil of the island and the carrying away of any | articles that mny be discovered, is told by Dy. Hepworth Dixon in an interesting let- ter published in to-day’s Hrrarp. It is im- possible, without a knowledge of the local laws of the island (which we have no means of obtaining), to judge whether this prohi- bition of the Military Governor has legal warrant or isa mere arbitrary exercise of power. But giving the British authorities the widest latitude and conceding that Sir Garnet Wolseley has not exceeded his right- ful authority, the case as told by a wholly disinterested party, and an Englishman to boot, is not creditable to the new régime and demands explanation, if not repa- ration, Major Cesnola, ‘who is a nat- uralized American citizen, is shown not to have disobeyed the order in question, having censed his interesting explorations as soon as he received notification of its existence. The seiznre of his property ac- quired before the prohibition was made is little better than a robbery, while his ar- rest and incarceration are violations of the rights of a citizen of the United States which may demand redress. The swagger of the young English officer who, acting as acommissary of police, was’ charged with the duty of arresting Major Cesnola, is not worthy of notice, ‘such insolence - being natural to subordinates armed with ‘‘a brief authority.” But the arrest seems to have been made by order of Colonel White, a responsible British officer, a Commis- sioner for a district of the island under the English occupation and rule, and to have been accompanied by aggravating circumstances. Major Cesnola had voluntarily sought Colonel White for the purpose of explaining his innocence of the offence with which he was charged, when he was seized and thrust into prison, apparently without any evi- dence having been produced against him. Of course it is unfair to judge a case upon the hearing of one side alone, But the story published to-day cannot béconsid- ered exactly an ex parte one, inasmuch as it is told by an Englishman, who would not be likely to needlessly or unjustly censure his own countrymen. If it is truthfully related in all its details—and Dr. Hepworth Dixon was an eye-witness of the greater part of the proceedings—the good people on the island of Cyprus ure not likely to find the Englishman as a ruler any improve- ment on the Turk. The Inviolability of Telegrams. In another column we print the paper read yesterday before the Bar Association at Albany by Mr. Grosvenor P. Lowrey, on “Telegrams: Their Inviolability Against Disclosure, Subpwna and Search Warrant.” This, as we have hitherto noted, is one of those critical points of collision between the laws as actually administered and the interests of individuals that is likely at any day to come home very painfully to the whole people. It always injures the moral sense ofacommunity for the law to be the cover and pretext for what seems to every- body a gross wrong, and what in any ease ig an oppressive application of legal rules to facts that have come into existence ages subsequent to the making of the rules. Facts that were not in existence and not contem- plated, and that Gould not have been con- templated by any exercise of human facul- ties when the subpeena duces lecum became a recognized instrumentality of legal pro- cedure, have in our own times exposed to the operation of that subpwna, as the law is interpreted, nearly that whole mass of written communications between citizens which was formerly committed to the invio- lable custody of the Post Office. And this is realiy a piece of legal chicanery ; as pal- pable a fetch as that of the ancient adven- turer who, being accorded as much land as a bull’s hide would cover, claimed that this entitled him to all the land he could sur- | round by the same hide when he had cut it into thin strips. Perhaps no great harm is done when tho exposure of telegrams does justice to a coterie of sharpers in their scheme to buy the Presidency; but the danger here, as in all such cases, is that an apparent present advantage may give the status of a precedent to what in other circumstances will be more justly appre- ciated as a dangerous abuse of power. We are glad to see that the lawyers have their thoughts turned to this topic, even though they show us no glimmer of a way out of the difficulty, Fortunately there are forces in the field that operate more rapidly than the brains of the lawyers. Perhaps before the learned men who interpret the laws get all | the bearings of this topic the telephone will be in such common use that every man who desires secrecy for his communications will be his own operator, and will leave no | copy of his despatches in the office. Doubt- less the time is mot far away when in all the telegraph stations there will bo telephones for the optional use of the public. In that ease the ordinary despatch will only be used by people in different cities to make appointments at the telephone, Such a practice will solve the legal difficulty in re- gard to telegrams, ‘EW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21 , 1878:-TRIPLE SHEET, Report of the Comptroller of the Currency. The annual report of the Comptroller of the Currency is mainly devoted to an elaborate treatise on the national banking system and a defence, or, more properly speaking, & vindication, of the national banks from the objections sometimes urged against them. Itis sought to be shown that the alleged special privileges and heavy profits of the national banks are purely imaginary, and that their capital stock instead of being largely in the hands of capitalists is well divided among the people for small investments, statistical information gathered two years ago showing that the average amount of national bank stock held by the share- holders was then only a trifle over three thousand dollars. The total number of pri- vate bankers und banking institutions in the United States other than national banks for the six morths ending May 31 last, as shown by the semi-amnual returns made to the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, was 4,400, with $205,380,000 of capital and $1,242,790,000 of deposits. On June 29, 1878, there Were 2,056 national banks in operation, with a capital of $470,390,000, not inc\uding surplus, or greatly more than double the capital of the private banks, The surplus of the national banks nmotnted in addition to more than $118,000,000, while their deposits were at the date named $677,150,000. Savings banks, 668 in number, having no capital stock, held at the same period $8@,290,000 of deposits, so that the total deposits in all banks and banking institutions in June last averaged over $2,723,230,000, During the past year twenty-eight national banks have been organized, having an anthorized_ capi- tal of $2,775,000 and $1,598, 800 of circulating notes. Fifteen banks havogailed and forty- one have discontinued during the year, withdrawing capital to the amount of $7,912,000. The amount of surplus held by the national banks on June 1 of the present year was $118,178,000, which was a decrease of $3,389,000 since December 31, 1877. The maximum surplus was reached in June, 1875, when the total was $133,169,000, and there has been a steady decrease since, amounting in the aggregate up to June last to about $15,000,000. ‘ The sound policy of continuing the pro- cess of refunding the national debt is strongly urged in the report, and it is argued that the abolishment of the na- tional bank system would end all hope of reducing the rate of interest on the public debt by depriving the government of the co-operation of two thousand of the:princi- pal monetary institutions of the country. The report has strong confidence in the practicability of resumption at the time tixed by Congress and shows that the banks are in a condition to co-operate with the government to that end, with advantage to themsclves and to the business interests of the whole country. That the banks are well prepared to redeem their circulating notes in legal tender notes in accordance with law is shown by their condition on October 1. Tha amount of legal tender fands held by the banks in New York city at that date was $50,920,000. The total cash reserve of all the national banks was then $142,954,918. The amount of coin now held by the Treasury Depart- ment is $160,000,000, and the total amount of coin and bullion in the country is esti- mated at more than $358,000,000, ‘This amount,” says the Comptroller, ‘is con- stantly increasing, and is to-day a solid basis for circulation. Congress has fixed the day for the restoration of the specie standard, and the legislation needed is that which will not overthrow, but co-operate with, the present well managed monetary institutions of the country in accomplishing this result, When this is done the present banking sys- tem, if then thought desirable, may be modified without danger to the credit or the business and commercial interests of this great nation.” Dwight’s Insurance. Fifteen physicians examined elaborately the dead body of the gentleman up at Bing- hamton who 1s accused by some insurance men of having played improperly the great game in which you have to die to win, by having cheated in the way he died. But the physicians have found nothing to sus- tain the views of the insurance men, It is reported that they have all signed one state- ment of the autopsy, and consequently that there is no disagreement among them on the pathological conditions actually found. It is held by the physicians who attended the gentleman in his last illness that he died otf gastric fever, which originated in malarial cichexia, and it does not appear that the insurance doc- tors dispute this. One of them~ Dr, Dela- field, of this city—is reported as saying that the death was due to paralysis of the heart. Paralysis of the heart is a dynamic rather than an organic fact. It does not make a pathological record, and when death has rendered impossible all perception of the dynamics of the case the tracing such a cause of death must necessarily be subject to much uncertainty. We do not believe the msurance companies can make a case on the man’s death, though they may on those pulmonary hemorrhages which he did not report when he obtained the poli- cies. The Caves of Laray. The county of Page, in Virginia, and es- pecially that portion of it which, from a rabbit burrow a few days ago, has burst into fame as one of the great natural won- dera of the world, is just now the envy of the whole Southland. In their own opinion the good people of Page have discovered a bonanza which will be of inestimable value long after the golden glens of California and the silver foundations of Nevada have passed away. very foot of Page has become more precions than ruby and jasper, and in imagination its happy owners sce all the world streaming in long procession over the hills up and down which generation atter gen- eration they toiled their way to the modest market town, which was all of the great world they ever saw or knew, Already they behold a dozen iron roads converging from the north and the south and the east and the west; the old time cowpaths converted into stately avenues, the frog ponds turned into crystal lakes and the barren crags crowned with villas and palaces of marble. Luray has becomealand of dreams. To-lay no capital in Europe could win one of its denizens from the dazzling halls of stalactite and stalag- mite that have suddenly been revealed to him. ‘here's millions in’ em. No skies are bluer than the skies above Luray, no air is softer, no sunshine brighter, no breezes purer than the zephyrs which sweep sround it. Luray is, in fact, a land of delight, and the only drawback to the happiness of its inhabitants is that the world is so slow in coming to enjoy with them its loveliness and plank down its sil- ver quarters at the entrance to its subter- ranean wonders, It will be seen from the letter of our correspondest this morning that these are all they were represented to be in our previous correspondence. When they are fully and scientifically explored— a task which our correspondent has under- take.—it is not improbable that they may throw considerable light upon some points which sre now involved in doubt and ob- scurity. Meanwhile we trust the golden dreams of Luray will be realized. stan. By the convenient means of pub- lishing 9 despatch from Lord Cran- brook, the Indian Sceretary, to Lord Lytton, the English government de- claves how and why it finds itself to-day at war with Afghanistan, It seems that ‘dn the course of human events” some five years ago the Ameer asked England in what way she would kelp him to repela Russian invasion. The Russian outposts were then so far away from India that Eng- land turned a denf ear. Whgn, however, it was found that Russia had been gobbling up Turkestan and had sent an envoy to Cabul the India Office dug up the old request of the Ameer and fqrmulated an answer, whose alleged terms can be found elsewhere, .The whole trouble hus arisen out of the impossibility of getting this long delayed answer to Cabul The Ameer had found the Russians to be quite respectable people, who gaye him, without the troubleof asking, what he had been vainly seeking south of the Hindoo Koosh. It was now England’s turn to insist. Never was politeness so thrust upon an astonished barbarian; but he was obdurate, ‘Then came anger, Qnjured dignity and an ultimatum. Unless he apologized and received a permanent British «guest at his court he was to be considered a ‘declared enemy.” The barbarian has held his peace, and consequently, as the time for an answer expired yesterday, finds himself at war. All the London news- papers sing battle hymns and the troops are ordered to advance. They are in ‘‘splen- did spirits.” The “spirited foreign policy” has brought them a war at last. Now let us see how the silent barbarian will receive his uninvited gugsts. Glasgow's Relief Fund. Scotland seems determined to do all in its power to redeem itself from the injury its business reputation sustained in the failure of the Glasgow Bank. The total of the losses reached thirly million dollars, and it was at once apparent that under the joint stock system on which the bank was run the unfortunate shareholders would. with ‘scarcely any exceptions Ba ultimately ruined by the successive calls. From day to day distressing stories of widows and orphans reduced from com. parative affluence to dire want, through the crime of the scoundrels ’ of “the” Bank, came to light. Scotland could not wipe away the stain of the crime; its hard-headed businessmen did not desire to waste their sympathies or their money upon the gang of speculators who played the terrific losing game of that ‘‘circle of kite-flying” which came to so signal an end. TYouched, however, by the misery of the innocent sufferers within their reach they resolved to alleviate it. ‘Hence was started a unique relief fund for the benefit of these poor ‘‘rich people,” which is taking mighty proportions, a mil- lion and a quarter dollars being subscribed in less than a month. Nota dollar of this is to go to the creditors, ‘but by some process it is to be drafted over to the unfortunates in handsome sums as fast as ‘the sufferers are discharged from their bank liabilities through bankruptcy, and, pending that event, in such o way as to relieve their pressing necessities, It is as kindly as it is canny, a PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, ‘The Farl of Dunraven is at the Hotel Brunswick. Pendleton is still in the background for the Presi- dency. FAnrunds mullen stalk. ‘Talmage is 2 sort of dry apple; the more water you pour on him the more he swells, How sad it isto say to one’s self, “I disliked him, and here is a notice of his deatl. 1” ‘The Milwaukee New: thinks that Hayes will eventn- ally crawfish himyelf into ntter obscurity. New Orleans Picaynne:—"' The meaning of @ law de- pends upon what the judge thinks about it.” John 8. Newberry, Congressman elect from Michi- gan, and wife are at the Westminster Hotel. ‘When 4 tramp demands @ meal of an Arkansas woman she sticks a pistol under his nose and tells him to “eat that.” ExCongreesman Bingham, who was 40 popular as an orator in Washington during the impeachment trial of Andrew Johnsén, is expected to put in an ap- pearance as a candidate for Governor of Ohio. “Mr. Yoshida Kiyonari, the Japanese Minister, lett Washington yesterday morning for Japan, on leave of absence, after a continuous service in Washington of four years. During the Minister's absence Mr. Yoshida Djiro will act as Chargé d’Affaites ad inderim. Beening Telegram:—“Nobody can imagine the apec- tacle of Jesus Christ, the author of Christianity, as stipulating for certain terms before consenting to de- liver His sublime Sermon on the Mount. Wé do not evince this example from any spirit of irreverence; quite the contrary, But if it be trae that the greater part of mankind are standing upon the brink of ever- lasting damnation, and that many may be saved by preachers who devote theiv lives to the work, then it becomes the duty of those preachers who profess to be followers of Christ to work night and day, in sea- son and out of season, without regard to ralary or to any form of such compensation. His profession is that he lives only to save souls, If the greater part of the world stand in danger of eternal damnation a consistent follower of Jesus Christ has no right to add to the number in it by becoming the father of children who are not less likely to endure the tor” tures of hell than the reat of mankind.” talking with Hayes—s cactus and a OBITUARY. DON MANUEL PARDO, EX-PRESIDENT OF PERU, By mistake it was announced in yesterJay’s Hrmare that President Prado, of Pern, had boen asgassinated ant 4 sketch of his carecr was given. It should have state that the real victim is not Colonel Marianc Prado, but Don Manuel Pardo, President of Peru from 1872 to 1876. Sefior Pardo was comparatively a young man, who came into prominence as a lawyer, politica economist and deputy about 1860, He was Minister of Finance under President Prado, 1866-08, and waa largely concerned in promoting the splendid railway enterprises of Henry Meiggs, When the four years’ Presidency of Colonel Balta was drawing to an endyin the aummer of 1872, Sefior Pardo wag the popular candidate for that post, being opposed by Dr. Arenas, who was favored by President Balts, Sefior Pardo’s election by the Congress wat the signal for the revolution, headed by General ‘Comes Gutierrez, the Minister of War, who. impris oned President Balta and proclaimed himself Dictator. ‘The result was the most terrible episode in the modern annals of Peru, Balts-being assassinated in prison by order of Gutierrez and the Dictator himself, with his two brothers, killed a day or two later by the euraged populace of Lima. Their corpses were swung from the tower of the old Cathedral, where repose the ashes of Pizarro, and eubaequently were burned in the great square. This was in, dwby, 1872) Sefior Pardo, the President-elect, had taken: v OR a veascl of war, and after the death of Balta and retnrned to Lima und was qnietly inaugurated on aan 2, 1872, His Cabinet cousiated of Gonera) . , Medina, Minister of War and the Navy; José de la Riva Aguero, Minister of Yoreign irs; F. Rosas, Minister of the Interior; J, E. Sanchez, Minister of Justice, and J. M. de Lara, Minister of Finance. The administration of President Pardo Gid not realize the brilliant anticipations of his artisane. Imprudence in railway construction brought about a financial crisis, and indefatigable Picrola made two or three attempts at revolution in ‘Arequipa. In 1876 there was w popular revulsion of opinion in favor of ex-President Colonel Mariano Prado, who had been in a sort of honorable exile as Minister in Chili, and he was elected to the p&eai dency for the term 1876-80, Before taking his seat in August he visited Europe to have an operation per- formed for cancer in thé foot, and on his transit vir ited this city as well as the Falls of Niagara and the Centennial Exposition, The latest mail advices from Peru mentioned the existence of great political agite- tion, in which the ex-President who has been asenssiy nated was doubtless iavolved. MRS. FRANCES BRODERIP, DAUGHTER OF TOM HOOD, A Mra. Frances Freeling Hood Broderip, only danghter of the celebrated humorist, Tom Hood, and widow of the lute Rev, John Somerville Broderfp, died at Cleve- don on the 9d inst. She was born at Winchmore Hall in 1830, and received her baptismal names in honor of her father's friend and her own godfather, Sir Francis Freeling, seerctary to the Post Office, whom Hood once etyled “the great patron of letters, foreign, gen- eral and twopenny.”” as hic | Hood was married in September, 1849, to Rev. J. 8. Broderip, rector of Coasington, Somerset, who died several years since, Ju conjunction with her brother, Tom Hood, Jr., the lute lamented editor of Pun, Mrs. Broderip wrote the “Memorials of Thomas Hood’ (two volumes, 1860), aclested the “Early Poems and Sketches” (1 of her futher, and more receutly edited the collected “Works of Thomas Hood.” Mra. Brodeérip “Wayside Fancies’ (1857), “Wild Roses; or, Simple Btor of Country Life’ (1887) and many other volumes of tales and fables of fairyland, written for the publishing honse of Griffith & Furran, She wae a leasant and graceful writer, and had much of her ther’s genial humor snd pathos. was authoress of THOMAS L, POWERS. 4. 4 40 | Adeapsich was received from Philadelphia’ day announcing the death of Mr. Thomas L. Powers one of the leading chemists of the United States.! The deceased was born near the city of Phiedelphis, and ‘was about sixty-five years of aye at the time of his death, He served his apprenticeship to the drug business with the old firm of Smith & Hodgeman), Philadelphia. About forty sent, he ater firm of Farr, Powers & Weightman, druggists, in Philadelphia. In 1848 ‘the name of the firm was ¢! to Powers & Weightman, Mr, Barr retii from business. It has continued so up to the present day, the headquarters of the firm being Phila deiphia, with a large branch house in this tonding from No. 56 Maiden lane ta No, 25. strect. Mr. Powers was an active and attentive ' busi- ness man. He was succeasful in his business career, and was.very liberal ina quict end uhostentatious way. Mr. Powers resided all his lifetime in Phila- delphia. He leaveg a fortune estimated at. more than $5,000,000, The Drng Exchange of Philadelphia will meet to-day to take uction upon his death. FRANCOIS JULES DEYINCK, FRENCH POLITICIAN. Acable degpaich from Paris reports the doath of Frangois Jules Deviuck, » chocolate manufacturer and, &® former member of the Chamber of Deputies, He won medals at several industrial exhibitions fox his chocolate, and was at one time President of the Paris Tribunal of Commerce. He was clected to th¢ Aseembly in 1861 in the interest of the Prince President, and _ his fa. as the al for jubsequently he was el to the Co! sndin spite of the democratic o; , Was Pe elected. In 1863 he was defeated by M. Thiers. He haere a work entitled “Commercial Practice and lixtorical Researches Progress i OXe on the of Commerce and Industry.” THERESA ELSSLER, WIDOW OF PRINCE ADALBERT OF PRUSSIA, A cable despatch from Bertin reports that the widow. of Prince Adalbert of Pruasia, formerly Theress Elsvler, is dead, She was a sister of Fanny Elssler, She was born at Vienna, in 1811, and con- tracted a morganatic marriage with the Prince. sg 25, 1851, and was afterward ennobled, She was one of the most fascinating dancers in Europe previous to her marriage. She was surnamed Theresa the Majestic, being tall, powerful and capable of holding her sister on one outstretched, hand. She shared the success of her sister Fanny. BENJAMIN J. MACK, Benjamin J. Mace, formerly a prominent dem- ocratic politician of New York State, died at Orange Lake, Orange county, N. ¥., on Tuesday night, aged seventy-seven pears. He was Postmaster in Newburg, N.Y. trom 1036. to 1641 Dy appointment of Sils Wright. He was Inspector of 4 Prisons, and se- cured the abolition of the whip and water punish. mentin those institutions. Opposing the extension of slavery, he became a republican when that party wes organized, but for many years past had taken no active part in public ; . MARY E, HATPIRLD, Mary E. Hatfield, wife of the Rev. Edwin J. Hatfield, D. D., died on Sunday last, The deceased, who was an estimable lady, was a daughter of the late Jacob B, Taylor, and the o: surviving sister of Mr. Mosea Taylor, president of the City National Bauk, ‘No. 62 Wall street. Her funeral took place at three o'clock, afternoon, from the Church of the Coven- Vincent's), corner of Park avenue and Thirty. fifth street. VICTOR HARIVEL-DURVEHER, SCULPTOR. Advices by maii bring the intelligence of the death of the able French sculptor, M. Victor Harivel-Dur- veher. His most important works are the large of “La Comadie Humaine,” which forme part of the the collection of the Luxembourg; a statue of “The ‘Wandering Jew,” and one of the Empreas Josephine, = is in the Avenue de l'Impératrice Josephine, ‘is. - matters, ‘There were a large number of new faces seen among the buyers at Messrs. Bangs & Co's, salesroom yeater; day afternoon; where the Odell library is being sold. Whether it was the infusion of this new spirit among the old collectors, or what, it would be hard to nay, but certainly the prices fetched were better than on the two previous days of the sale. The following will give an excellent idea of the day's sale:—Hazlitt’s Old English Jest Books, $13; Heinecken's Idéo Générale d*uneCollection Com- Plete d’Estampes, $22; Hermes Mercurias Trisme- gistus, the first and only translation of the dialogues Poemander and Asclepias, printed in 1650, $9; Hey. wood's The Hierachie of the Blessed Angels, printed in 1635, $15; the Historical Magasin and Notes and Queries, concerning the antiquities, history and biog in theo ‘inted at New Haven in 1814, $15; William Hono’s Every Day Book, $17; first edition, 1472, of Honoris’ De jeaging Mundi, $15; Thomas Hood's works, $9; "8 Miss nae, | and Her Precious Leg, with wixty illustratios ;. Horatius ite emandatus, pritited in 1602, $19: another copy of Horatius, in two volumes, $23; another copy of same, $16 50; Ieon- ographic lopedia of Science, Literature and Art, ® beautiful copy of the Imi- tations de Christi, $20; Artist's edition of Treative on Wood’ Tograving, Wy” vackson’ aod on ‘ot ngraving, a on Chatto, $16; Mra. Jameson's Susred and Art, $10; Mrs. Jameson's Legends of the Orders, $11; Jansen’s Eseay on vin copy of the Aldine edition ot Twonslis, #40 761 © Fn seatce copy of the Kabbala Denudata, i. thenes’ oram, $12 50; Malcolin’s of the Manners and Customs of London, $12; @ Latin edition of Mandeville's pM | Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York, in twenty- even volumns, $43 20; a rarecopy of Matialis, $10 50; Colton Mather’s Magnolia, a book highly by collectors, $33; Menau’s Dance, $10 30; Meursii's Sermons, in Latin, $11; an old and rare of Milton's Paradise Lost, $12; Montesqnieu’s Persanes, one of two copies on Dibdin's edition of More's $6. vellum, $96; 4 | 4