The New York Herald Newspaper, January 2, 1879, Page 4

* the 1 4 NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, JANUARY 2. 1879. NEW YORK HERAL BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. je i JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, THE DAILY MERALD, published every day in the year, Three cent» (Sundays excluded). Ten dollars per lars and fifty ts dollar per mou any period less t tree of postage. WEERLY TERALD—One doilar per year, free of post- “Yorier 70 SUBSCRIBER: er day edition ine —Remit in drafts on New Fork or Post Ottice money these ean be procured send the money in a resi All remitted at risk of ses In order to insure mn ubseribers wishing the Id ax well as their new s vaphie despatches must properly sealed. be returned, ———_— PULLAD LPHIA OFFICE— 0 F TUB NEW YORK HERALD— REET. Ll "AMUSEMENTS TO-NIG STEINWAY HALL—Co; BROADWAY THEATR: BOOTH'S THEAT. FIFTH AVENUE NIBLO’S GARDE) OLYMPIC THEATR! NEW YORK AQUARIU GLOBE THEATRE. GRAND OPERA HO) BOWERY THEATRE—Jasren K THEATRE—Banks 1x THEATRE—Do' WINDSOR THEATRE: TIVOLI THEATR: TONY PASTOR'S. “NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JANUARY 2, 1879. The probabilities are that the weather in New York and its vicinity to-day till be cold and cloudy, with rain or snow. To-morrow it prom- tses to be colder and partly cloudy, with occasional snow, followed by clearing. Kerr On turning over the new leaves. How are the good resolutions this morning? Tue Tame Braves gave the Mayor’s office a pretty wide berth yesterday. In View of the fact that ninety-six men were hanged during the past year the sheriffs can hardly complain of hard tim Srverar of the State Legislatures got into working order yesterday. Maine and Con- necticut dedicated new capitol buildings. Specie Resumprion went into operation with- out a ripple in Providence. At some of the banks the gold deposits exceeded the amount paid out. Tue Srapnine of a member of an uptown so- cial elub and the shooting of his supposed assnil- ant by a police officer yesterday morning was a rather sanguinary celebration of New Year's Eve. Axorner Dantnc BurG ary has been perpe- trated qn Long Island, the victim this time be- ing the postmaster at Mineola. A little vigi- lance on the part of the police in that section is in order. Tue Crack Ririe Snort will have to look to their laurels. At the Washington range yester- day a complete off-hand score, at three hundred yards, was made by Mr. Partello. The feat is said to be without a precedent. Tuosr Wuo Hap Occasion to travel up and down the city yesterday found abundant reason to bless the elevated roads, It was the first New Year's of rapid transit, and the Improved facilities of travel contributed in no small de- gree to the enjoyment of the day. Mr. Beecner’s Receprion yesterday was, probably, more largely attended than that of any one else in the country, with the possible exeeption of the President. In all thirteen hun- dred persons wished him “a very happy New Year,” and among them were several ladies. Ir Is Sare ro Previcr that the city bank- ruptey statistics will not be so large tor years and years to come as those of 1878, elsewhere printed. In all there were nine hundred and seventeen failures, with liabilities amounting to about sixty-four million dollars. The repeal of the Bankrupt law undoubtedly tended to swell the number. Covonet Dwicut’s Witt was all right, espe- cially on the dinner question, but it depends on the insurance companies whether his philan- thropic intentions in the eating line will ever be carried out. According to the present outlook the prospect is rather blue. Only two of the companies have agreed to pay, and the remain- ing nineteen are preparing for a contest. The dinners will probably go to the lawyers. Gryerar Sn N's Lutrenr to the Secre- tary of the Inte: upon the management of our Indian establishment shows that in the hand of the hero of Winchester the pen is fully as deadly an instrument as the sword. Mr. Schurz, it will be recollected, asked for specific information in regard to Indian misgovern- ment, and it will be seen that he has got it in some very plain and very strong language. Neither Mr. Sehurz nor the Indian Commis- sioner, however, is censured by General Sheri- dan. Itis the system he condemns, aud when we remember the millions we have spent and re results we have obtained it will strike the majority of people that General Sheri- dan is pretty near right. Tie Wearien.—During y are fell rapi districts rday the press- ly throughout the central valley the Middle Atlantic States, It is rising slowly in all the districts west of the Mis- sissippi Valley, particularly in the Northwest. Rain fell in the South Atlantic and Gulf States aud snow in all the other sections, The winds have been generally light throughout the coun- try, except in the Northwest, where they are increasing in foree. The temperature las Deen iu the northern lake regions und has rise erally elsewhere. Although the barome has fallen in the eastern districts, the pressure is yet only relatively low, but the in- dications are that the decrease will be more rapid during today and steep gradients will probably be formed over the coast districts north of Cape Hatteras during the next duys. The snow storms reported in the West have been very severe on account of the low temperature that attends them. From the special cable despateh, printed elsewhere, relating to the weather in Europe, it would seem that the me- cal conditions were not very favorable ent of the Christmas and New Year's festivities. The weather in New York and its vicinity to-day will be cold and cloudy, with rain or snow. To-morrow it promises to be colder and partly cloudy, with occusional snow, followed by clearing. The Consular and Diplomatic Service. ‘The House of Representatives has made at every session during several years efforts to reform the consular and diplomatic ser- vice which have attracted less attention than they deserved, and have only in part succeeded, owing to the pertinacious way in which the Senate insists on amendments increasing the public expenses ; but owing | also, we must add, to the somewhat crude j and ill-digested system on which the re- forms and economies proposed have been based. Nevertheless some improvement has been made; but there is room for still more, and particularly at the present time, when the country is awakened to tho neces- sity both of wise economy in public expen- ditures and of efforts to revive our foreign commerce, The place of ambassador or minister has come for a long time past to be regarded among us, and by both political parties, as the reward for a politician out of place—a payment out of the public purse for what are called in the slang of our politicians “cawpaign services.” ‘The proposition, therefore, to cut off useless offices of this kind meets, very naturally, with vigorous opposition from the whole body of place hunters, whether they are now in office or in Congress or not. They regard a foreign mission as a neat and handy thing to have about the house ; nobody can foretell when it may be convenient for him to go abroad at the public expense. What we should like to see, and what would please the Ameri- can people, would be that these places, or such of them as ought to be maintained at all, should be filled not with politicians, but with citizens of real eminence in science, letters or the law; men who would do honor to the place and be a credit and honor to their country abroad. It is very well understood that an American minister at a foreign court has but little todo. Im- portant negotiations, when such become necessary, are oftenest carried on by direct communications between our own Secretary of State and the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the other country, or by specially ap- pointed commissioners. A prudent Secre- tary of State thinks twice before he commits an important affair to one of his foreign rep- resentatives, and the curious fact that President Hayes, on his accession, found notasingle Senator willing to give up his place to accept a foreign mission, even of the first class, and no Representative, either, whose prominence entitled him to be thought of, shows how little importance at- taches, in the minds of the shrewdest of our public men, to these showy posts, If it is necessary to maintain ambassadors at the courts of London, Paris, Berlin, St. Petersburg, Vienna and Madrid, the sala- ries attached to these places ought to be suf- ficient to cover the necessary expenses of a residence there in a public capacity ; and then authors like Longfellow, Bancroft, Whittier, Emerson, Holmes, or publicists like O'Conor or Beach Lawrence, or emi- nent soldiers like General Grant, or Gen- eral Sherman, or General Sheridan, should be asked to accept such places, where they would be an honor to the country, and where their influence would be great, if we need to exercise influence, and their experience would bear ‘fruit in works useful to their countrymen. Why should not a foreign mission of the first class be the retiring place of an ex-President? General Grant would make an admirable foreign ambassador. Why should not Mr. Hayes even now offer him his choice of London, Paris, Berlin or any other of the places we have named ? Why should he not make the same offer to Generals Sherman and Sheridan? They ‘| need not give up their rank and place in thearmy. A furlough during the term they might spend abroad in the country’s service would be in regular order, and according tothe most time-honored practice of our government, and these veterans are not ab- solutely needed to keep in order the little army which composes our peace establish- ment. We do not doubt that when Mr, Hayes leaves the White House he would gladly go abroad as ambassador to London or Paris, and it would be not only a gracious but a sensible act if he were even now tousk General Grant to accept one of these foreign missions. But the most necessary reform is that re- quired in the consular service. We do not need regular embassies at European courts asthe European governments do, who are perpetually intriguing against each other, Onur relations with foreign Powers are chiefly, almost altogether, those of business and commerce. What we require is a body of consuls, capable, industrious and well paid, placed in all the important centres and outposts of commerce the world over, awake to their duty to foster our trade, and to make our merchants and manufacturers aware, by frequent and careful reports, of the opportunities which lie unused and the obstacles which exist to the increase of our foreign trade. Recent consular reports show that Secretary Evarts has wisely en- forced upon American consuls this duty, but they also show that comparatively few among them have the capacity required for this most important work, In spite of the efforts of the Secretary of State the consular reports are by no means what they ought to be. They form no adequate guide for American mer- chants and manufacturers; but they ought to be more than that even, for upon the body of such reports presented to Congress the Committee of Ways and Means ought to be able to base needed improvements in our cnstoms laws. A proper reform of our consular and diplomatic service would not only extin- guish a number of our present embassies and substitute in their place efficient and capable consuls general, but it would raise the pay of many of these officers and of the consuls, so as to draw into the service the best men and require of them the best work. Congress ought to be able at every session to learn from the consular reports precisely the conditions, the advantages and disad- vantages under which our foreign trade is prosecuted and what is needed at every port in the world to give American products a better and larger market. The American people are once more turning their atten- tion to foreign commerve, whieh for eighteen years they have utterly neglected. They will succeed in this, as they have succeeded in building up their manufactures, and in less than a dozen years from now we shall have resumed that high rank among the commercial nations which we held before 1861, But the race of merchants who in that earlier period carried our flag and our fr products all over the world has died out ; the new men, manufacturers and exporters, who are now turning their attention to the re-establishment of our ocean commerce need all the information they can get, and nothing can help them so much as the frequent reports of efficient consuls, Our true foreign policy lies in this direction. To become once more pros- perous we must secure such control of for- eign markets as will enable us to sell abroad our surplus manufactures, or, more cor- rectly, to exchange them for the raw ma- terials of other nations, Tolearn how to do that we need a capable, permanent, well paid and well organized consular service, and if we had that we could get along very well without ambassadors or ministers, whose situations where they are main- tained might well be made the honorary re- wards of faithful public service or of con- *spicuous merit. Congress ought not to forget, in its de- sire for economy, that a penny wise and pound foolish system of saving is neither proper nor popular. It has been held by some ignorant men in the House that the consular service ought to pay for itself and thata port where the fees do not somewhat more than equal the consul’s salary ought to have no consul. Such ignorance is purely mischievous and deserves no attention. The present income of a consulate in fees is no measure at all of the importance of the place, and the disposition to make it so and to higgle about the salaries of consuls is on a par with the similar silly spirit which seeks to cut down the army and which keeps our navy rotting at home in- stead of sending our ships abroad over the world to show the flag and to make our country known to distant nations. Our little army is probably the most over- worked body of men in the world, and it has been repeatedly shown by facts and figures that money would be saved to the country in costly transporta- tion were the rank and file increased. The new Army bill has some good features, but we hope Congress, before adopting it, will do itself the credit of asking the opinions of such men as Generals Sherman and Sheridan. To cut the army down, either in force or pay, contrary to the advice of these officers, would be a blunder which the country would rightfully resent, As to the navy, Secretary Thompson has greatly increased its efticiency, and he has done so without waste. It may be made, as he has suggested, an important auxiliary to our commerce, and our ships ought to be used, and not laid up to rot. Storms in Europe. Our telegram from London reports a storm of wind and rain over Ireland, Eng- land and Northwest France, and thus once more verifies our prediction of the course and destination of a disturbance that left ussome days since. It has been a stormy winter in Europe; a winter as notable for departure from the ordinary standard of weather on the side of severity as with us the other way. In France the snow in the mountain ranges and in the great forests has been such as to drive the wolves to the very gates of the great cities. In Paris they have enjoyed the unusual treat of days of sleighing, more snow hav- ing fallen than in any year since the winter of the siege. All the ‘great storms they have had have been regularly predicted by us and communicated through our London and Paris offices, so that the storms never came unexpectedly to those who cared to notice the news. Some hard- hearted mortals will want to know presently what is the use of our foretelling storms, and whether or no we cannot prevent them. But in time it will be commonly under- stood that there is not much difference be- tween the two; that to foretell a storm five days in advance, and thus enable one to make his preparations to avoid it, is as good as preventing it. People who ‘go down to the sea in ships” understand this already better than others, but all will see it very well one of these fine days. Gold and Silver. By Wells, Fargo & Co,’s statement, given to-day, it will be seen that the metallic prod- ucts of our great mining regions on the Pacific side of the continent reach the sum of eighty-one million dollars for 1878, which isa handsome crop. But this is more than seventeen millions less than what was produced from the same sources in 1877, which difference has by some been hastily attributed to the exhaustion of some of the great lodes, and by others has been more rationally accounted for on grounds less likely to disturb the even temper of stockholders. Readers who will go through the exceed- ingly interesting sketch of the history of the Comstock lode, which we give with a dia- gram to-day, will see that it is possible to account for variations in the yicld of these great deposits of mineral wealth without assuming that the deposit is exhausted. Few stories are more startling to a prosaic world than these chronicles of the product of cnormous wealth; and few inferences seem more clearly to follow from the rep- etition of these stories than the pleasant one that we have as yet in reality only tapped the great deposits of oro that are in the continent. Where the Public Debt Is Held. A return from the Treasury Department shows that of the registered four per cents, which are divided among 16,838 holders, only thirty-six bonds of different denomina- tions are owned abroad or by foreigners. ‘The whole amount held in registered four per cents amounts to nearly one hundred and thirty million dollars; the coupon four per cents, whose ownership cannot be so accu- rately traced, amounting’to abovo fifty-two millions, The best authorities among the bankers of this city hold that over two hundred millions, but less than two hundred and fifty millions, of our national bonds are still held in Enrope. This is a very small amount, and it is likely to be diminished if our exports keep up to the level of last year, or anywhere near there, during the year which has just opened. Free, Canals. On motion of Alderman Morris the Board of Aldermen have passed a resolution recom- mending to “the Senators and Assembly- men elected from this city to use all honorable means to induce the other mem- bers of their respective legislative bodies to enact and pass a bill making the canals free of tolls.” The subject of free canals was much dis- cussed at Albany last winter upon a series of concurrent resolutions introduced into the Assembly early in the session by Dr. Isaac I. Hayes, member {rom this city. The resolutions provided tor amendments to the constitution in manner prescribed by that instrument —that is, that the proposi- tion, after passing two successive Legisla- tures, shall be submitted to a vote of the people; since the canals of the State that are of importance—viz., the Erie, Oswego, Champlain, Cayuga and Seneea—are “constitutional canals,” the constifu- tion providing that they ‘shall re- main the property of the Slate and under its control forever,” and that “the expenditure for collection, superin- tendence, ordinary and extraordinary re- pairs.on the canals shall not exceed in any one year their gross receipts for the pre- vious year.” On this rock the “high toll” and ‘ow toll” advocates split, with the ad- vantage this year decidedly in favor of the latter, for there has been an increase this year over last of 170,307 tons of freight and a gain of $112,091 70 in receipts. Some- thing of this, it is true, is due to the prompt action last winter of the Canal Board and the Canal Committee of the As- sembly, of which Dr. Hayes, a pronounced “low toll” man, was chairman, by which shippers were enabled to make their ar- rangements on a definite basis before the opening of navigation. But this alone is not sufficient to account for the great gain of more than twelve per cent. The action of the Legislature and of the Board was wise over their action of the pre- vious year ; but the main cause is the un- doubted cheapness of canal over railroad transportation, and steadiness of the grow- ing conviction that, with fair management, it must always be so. Yet, if the ‘low toll” sheet, properly applied, yields these satis- factory results, that fact does not furnish, necessarily, an argument in favor of no toll sheet at all. The receipts this year derived from tolls will apparently meet the expendi- tures. Make the canals free by amending the constitution, and these expenditures must be met by direct taxation. Nobody need be told that, with the opening of the Erie Canal (October 8, 1823), the real great- ness of New York as the commercial centre of America first began. Coming through the only real break in the Alleghany rango south of the St. Lawrence, the Erie Canal created a new route for inland commerce, which soon became as fixed as the caravan routes of Asia, the Roman roads, the mule paths of the Andes, or the turnpikes of America half acentury ago. When railroads were invented the New York Central natu- rally took the course of the canal, because the line of traffic had been already fixed there, and cities had grown up beside it im consequence, And there it will remain, and by that route will the Hud- son River continue to receive the vast drainage of Western products to which New York owes its wealth and greatness. We cannot blot out that route nor change it. By wise or unwise legislation we may profit more or less by it. Thetime may come when the canals will be freed of tolls. Has the right time come? In no case can this end be constitutionally accomplished be- fore 1880. Railroad Ballding in 1878, According to a return just published by the Railroad Gazelle the number of miles of railroads constructed in the past year ex- ceeded, but only slightly, the construction of 1877. In 1872 7,340 miles of railroad were built in the United States; in 1873 the mileage fell to 3,883; in 1874 2,025 miles were built, and it was not until 1875, two years after the great crash, that construc- tion of this kind touched bottom with 1,561 miles. In 1876 there was an increase to 2,460 miles; in 1877 it fell again to 2,281, and in 1878 it rose to 2,620, the largest mileage since 1873. During the year 1878 Minnesota built 338 miles; Iowa, 255; Colorado, 193, of which 86 were of three-foot gauge; Pennsylvania, 182; New York, 142; Texas, 118; and at the other extreme, New Jersey, but 3 miles; Massachusetts, 6, and Arkansas, 7. That the construction of railroads has in- creased so very slowly, during a year when money was overabundant and both labor and material unprecedentedly cheap, shows how serious was the blow which the period of inflation and of railroad building ona great scale, antecedent to 1873, inflicted on this business. It is notorious that new roads can now be built and equipped at less than half the cost of the cheapest exist- ing roads in the country; but the credit.of this kind of enterprise has been so fatally shaken that even where new roads could be profitably run capitalists do not venture their money. aa, Libel in France. Jean Joseph Louis Eugino Napoleon Bonaparte, commonly called the Prince Imperial, recently sued the Sitcle news- paper in one of the Paris courts for libel on his father, and gained his suit, It is a case that puts in a clear light tho spirit of French justice, and especially its refusal to take any cognizance of persons in a sense that would deny justice to one or another on account of his history. It was published in the Sidcle that one of the committees of the Assembly was believed to have discov- ered that Napoleon III, had illegally dis- posed of twenty-six thousand hectares of public lands, It was shown in court that no such discovery had been made ; and, in fact, that the money believed to have been ac- quired by such an improper sale had come regularly from the sale of confiscated prop- orty, and consequently the son of the Em- peror sued fora libel on his father. Many piqnant things were said in the arguments; among others, that if the Emperor had not stolen the particular twenty-six thousand hectares referred to he had stolen something else and had been the canse of the robbery of France of two provinces, But to all this, and to the argument that the law did not give the son the right to sue for a libel on his father, the Court responded with a judg- ment in favor of the Prince, while to the politicc-historical arguments the Court said that ‘defamation could not be justified by the misfortunes of the person, defamed.” How hard is the way of the libeller in France may be judged from the fact that people there are not permitted even to libel a dead emperor, New Year's Celebration. The beginning of the new year seems to have been celebrated with unusual spirit all over the country. In our own city and in the cluster of smaller communities that nestle all around it the day was devoted to the discharge of those social amenities and duties which society exacts as the price of its menibership. At Washington, where the day from the beginning of the Republic has been looked upon as the chief holiday of the year, the celebration was, as usual, almost entirely official in its character. The President and the principal officers of the government were ‘‘at home” to their friends and followers, and the uniforms of the diplomatic corps and of military and naval officers gave tone and color to official drawing rooms. There were gubernatorial recep- tions at many of the State capitals, and in several of the leading cities the mayors and other municipal officers exchanged the compliments of the season with their friends and fellow townsmen. In a word, } from Maine to Louisiana and from the Atlantic to the Pacific the day was observed with a good deal of the old time warmth and enthusiasm before the lean years of commercial depression threw their shadows across the new year’s dial. The certainty that these shadows have at length passed away contributed, no doubt, tothe joyous ringing welcome to 1879 that went up from all the land yesterday. It was fitting that the golden New Year's of our second cen- tury should have received such a greeting, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Hamlin hates Hayes. It is so cold in Idaho that the whiskey is chopped up into little chunks. Patti has a house in Wales near the sporting estate of the Prince of Wales. Senator Ambrose E. Burnside, of Rhode Island, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Senator Howe and Mrs. Howe have called at the White House. Is this a make-up? Gaitgnani’s Messenger:—“Fans are worn to match the brocade of a dinner or soirée toilet.”” Justice Nathan Clifford, of ‘the United States Supreme Court, is in Richmond, Va. He will remain several days. Millais, the artist, says that he cannot speak in public; but he has recently made a very elegant, semi-public speech. In consequence of the repetition of police bratali- ties an effort is being made to elect members of, the force to the Liberal Club, Sir Joseph Hooker, the eminent botanist, is sixty- one years old, tall, wiry and calm, with huge eye- brows and‘a wild fringe of whiskers. " The dried flowers which were hung upon Mae cready’s coflin six years ago in the catacombs at Ken- sal Green are there still and are unfaded. A despatch from Newburyport, Muss., says that Caleb Cushing is quite ill. As he is seventy-nine years of age his sickness causes much anxiety among his friends. ‘The established Church of Engiand is solemnizing fewer marriages than it used to do; and the mar- riages before the civil magistrates are proportion- ately increasing. Murat Halstead wants to know whether Grant is ‘‘a biger man than old Washington.” Washington is not now alive and so he cannot dispute with Grant for the republican nomination, ‘The French have a monopoly derived from Danish laws of the codfishing off tho Iceland coast, carrying cod to France every year to the amount of $15,000,000, the poor Icelanders having very few privileges. George Henry Lewes was the friend and aliost master of Herbert Spencer, with whom he used to have many fierce philosophical controversi he was the dear and intimate companion of Carlyle. Ex-Seeretary of the Navy A. E. Borie will sail from Philadelphia to-day in the steamship Hlinois for Liv- erpool, to accompany ex-President Grant on his trip around the world. He expects to join General Grant in Paris. A woman applied for a situation recently at Bel- fast, with her clothes dripping like water spout. On being questioned as to her condition, she said she understood the lady of the house wanted a wet narse,| and she had come ready for service. A United States Senator says:—No man and his family ever enjoyed the Presidency and the White House so much as Hayes and his family do, ‘To them the whole thing is like the first reading of ‘Robinson Crusoe’ to & boy, or a first juckknife or a first pair of boots. They are an innocent, hurmicss people, and, if they gush a little and givo it away, it is only be- canse they are "i low and gree MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES. Miss Minnie Hauk, having entirely recovered from her recent indisposition, left on the ten o'clock train last evening for Boston. ‘The matinées at the several theatres yesterday were generally well attended, notwithstanding tho many social attractions elsewhere. Wilhelm) is ill in Chicago and therefore will not be able to appear this afternoon at Steinway Hall, whero the third public rehearsal of the Symphony Society will take place. It is said that the great violinist is broken down by hard work. Tho soloists are Miss Anna Drasdil and Mr. Franz Rummel, pianist. Mme. Maric Roze is suffering severely from con- gestion of the lungs, and will not be able to use her voice for several days. She was to have been the soprano at the aunual festival of the Northern New York Musical Union at Potsdam to-day and to-mor- row. The manager of the festival telegraphed that unless the Placé of Mme. Roze could be filled by Miss Hauk or Mme. Gevster the affair might prove disas- trous., Mr. Mapleson, Jr., last evening replied that it would be impossible to make either substitation, Booth’s Theatre will be opened next Monday ntght for a season of Italian opera, under the direction ot Mr, Max Strakosch, ‘The opera of the evening will be “Aida,” in which Miss Clara Louise Kellogg will rep- resent the title ro/e and Miss Annie Louise Cary will personate her well known part of Amneria, Mr. Charles Adams will make his first appearance 7 season as Radames. Among the other artists aro Signor Pantaleoni, Mr. George Conly and Mr. Gott- schalk, A grand chorus and orchestra of 100 artists have also been engaged and the impresario has evi- dently not spared pains to make the occasion a suc- cess, Tho ballet will be led by the Minzelli sisters, Miss Maria Litta, the new prima donna, will sing “Lucia” on Tuesday night. A NEW MAP OF IRELAND, So many of our citizens are interested in the Em- erald Isle that maps of the country may be classed among the most prominent of the wall decorations of Irish homes, The ordinary atlas map, being on @ very small scale, fails to give the details of mountain and moor, lough and haven, that would be ‘sought for by those familiar with the old land, Common wall maps of Ireland are either incorrectly drawn or hideously daubed with bright colors laid on thick, so as to defino with wtartling effect the county or pro- ‘vincial boundaries, We have scem the newly ‘pub- lished map of Ireland by Mr. P. O'Beirne-and régard it as the best that has come from the engraver's hand, next to that of the Ordnance surveys. It is in reality 4 careful reduction of the index county maps of that official survey of Ireland, and as such must beas accurate as the original. Numerous well drawn illus- trations of Irish scenery surround the map, giving it avery handsome appearance. OBITUARY. JUDGE CHARLES T, SHERMAN, Judge Charles T. Sherman retired in his usual health at his residence on Prospect street, Cleveland, Ohio, on Tuesday night last, but at about one o'clock yesterday morning he awoke and complained of a severe cough and trouble in the chest, He obtained some soothing medicines, but failed to secure relief, and died in a few hours afterward with- out a struggle. Deceased was born at Lancaster, Ohio, in 1810, - He graduated at Ohio University in 1892 and was admitted to the Bar in 1835, He began the practice of law in Mansfield, Richland county, Ohio, where he resided until 1867, when he was ap- pointed District Judge of the United States for Northern Ohio. He held this position until about four years ago, Judge Sherman gained some prominence as 4 railroad manager, bein; director ol the Petersburg, Fort Wayne ani Chicago and Mansfield and Sandusky reilroada; and for four years he was government director of the Union Pacitic Railway. He filled the office of provost marshal of twenty counties of Northern Ohio during the war and organized as a colonel four "colored iments. He was always a great. reader and fond of social life, and of late years ill health had compelled him to confine himself to his library and family circle, His surviving brothers are General William T. and Secretary John Sherman, Sampson Sherman, the banker, and Hoyt Sherman, a merchant, of Des- moines, Iowa. Judge Sherman leaves’ a wife, two sons—Henry, a lawyer, here, and John, a United States marshal, in New Mexico—and three daughters—Mrs. General Miles, Mrs. Don Cameron and Mrs. Hoyt, of Cleveland, General Miles and wife, Mrs, Cameron and General Sherman are expected at the funeral. It 18 doubtful whether Secretary Sherman can be there, on account of the great pressure of businces at Washington, Tag time of the funeral has not yet been decided, ROBERT W, MACKEY. Robert W. Mackey, who had been prostrated for the past two months by hemorrhage of the lungs, died yesterday at his residence in Philadelphia. Though but little over forty-one years of age he had for several years been a power in the republican coun} cils of this State. He was born in Pittsburg, December 22, 1837. His education was begun in the public schools and completed at the Western University, After serving in aclerical capacity elsewhere he be came cashier of the Alleghany Bank, Pittsburg, and was elected its vice president in 1871. His zeal, ability and sagacity attracted the attention of political leaders in Pittsburg. He commenced his pub- lic career as councilman from the Third ward of Pittsburg, and soon advanced to an influential po- sition in the republican party in his section, In 1869 he was the successful candidate for State ‘Treasurer, _a position —_ then filled by the State Legislature, and he was twice afterward re-elected to the samo office by the Legislature, and once, in 1873, by a pop- ular vote. He was a member of the Convention which nominated Hayes for President at Cincinnati, in June, 1876, and exercised a powerful influence over its delib . He went to Florida in the interest of Mr. Hayes during the time of the excitement over the conflibtin, claims of bo following the last President election. Recently his name had been mentioned in connection with the Collectorship of Phila- delphia, aud it was largely through Mr. Mackey’s influence that the present Governor Hoyt received the republican nomination. Until within the past two years he owned the controlling interest in the Pittsburg Post, His death is admitted to bea serious loss to the republican party in Pennsylvania, SIR JOHN POWLETL ORDE, BART. 5 Sir John Powlett Orde, Bart., who died December 13, at his seat, Kilmory House, near Lochgilphead, Argyleshire; Scotland, was the only son of Admiral Sir John Orde, first baronet, brotuer of the first Lord Bolton, by his second wife. Jane, eldest daughter of Mr. John Frere, of Royden, Norfolk, and was bora June 9, 1803, He succeeded to the baronetcy on the death of his father in 1824. The deceased baronet was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, where he gradu- ated B, A, in 1826, and married first, in June the same. year, Fliza, eldest daughter ‘and co-heit of Mr. Pete# Campbell, of Kilmory, Argyleshire, by whom, who died in June, 1829, he had ao only son, Jotm, his suc- cessor in the baronetcy, and two daughters, Jane . married to the Rev. Frederick ——- Wilkinson, jor of Ruyton, Salop, and Margarct, numattied, Bir John married, secondly, in June, 1832, Beatrice, youngest daughter of Mr, James Edwards, of Har~ row-on-the-hill, by whom he leaves surviving issue an only daughter. The late baronet was a deputy lieutenant of Argyleshire and a deputy lieutenant of Inverness, and for some boyy captain in the Argyle and Buteshire militia. He is succeeded in the bar- onetey (creation 1790) by his only son, John William Powlett Orde, born in Geneva February 23, 1827, and 1862, Alice Louisa, only sister of Sir A. Bart., of Belsay, Northumberland, The present baronet was formerly in the Forty- second Royal Highlanders, in which regiment he be- came captain in 1864, but retired from service in 1857, E. Monel SIR WILLIAM YARDLEY. Sir William Yardley died at Hadlow, Tunbridge wells, England, December 15, aged sixty-eight. He was the second son of the late Mr. Edward Yardley, of Shrewsbury, by the third daughter of the late Mr. James Bowen, of Whitechurch, Pembrokeshire. He was educated at Shrewsbury school, and was admit. ted at the Middle Temple in 1832; he was called to the Bar there in 1837, and went the North Wales and Chester Circuit, In 1447 he was appointed s puisne judge at Bombay, when he received the honor of knighthood, and was promoted to be Chief Justice there in 1852, and held that high legal appointment till 1854, when he resigned. He was a deputy lien- tenant of Pembrokeshire and a magistrate for Bucks and Kent. He twice unsuccessfully contested Lud- Jow—namely, in 1865, when he was last on the polls) and again in 1868, when he was defeated by the Hon, G. H. W. Clive by an overwhelming majority, BERNARD FLOOD, On Monday evening last Mr. Bernard Flood diea suddenly at his residence, No. 460 Eighth avenue, of pneumonia, after only a few hours’ illness. Deceased was @ well known citizen of the Twentieth ward, where he resided for a number of years, Mr, Flood was one of the pioneers in the mines of Ne- vada, and also one of the Argonauts of California, where ho amassed great wealth, and came to this city to reside about six years ago. Many were the acts of unostentatious charity practised by the le and the poor of his district will rently miss him, Mr. Flood was at the time of his ith about forty. two years of age and unmarried. He was a native of Ireland and a brother of Rey, James J. Flood, The tuneral will take place this morning from St. Ge: briel’s Church. i DR. JAMES M. JULTAN. James M. Julian, a prominent physician, died yew terday at his house, No. 125 Washington street, Ho boken, from the effects of pneumonia, He had beem a physician in the New York Hospital in thit city, and at the time of the Franco-Prussian war volunteered as a aoa in the French service. He had resided in Hoboken for thirty years, and at the time of his death was sixty elghs years of age. A few hours later his mother-in-law, Mra, Mount, the mother of ex-Sherift A. W. Mount, who was housekeeper for Mayor Hopper, of Jersey Cityg died of the same disease, PRINCESS MARY OF LIECHTENSTEIN. A cable despatch from London announces the death of the Princess Mary of Liechtenstein, in Styria, She was the adopted daughter of Lord Holland, of Holland House, London, and was an 1 ’ aving made several excellent translations works, besides writing on subjects of English domestic economy. GENERAL DE SALIGNAC-FENELON, General de Salignac-Fénélon, commander of the Fourteenth army corps at Toulouse, died suddenly, December 16, at midday, from an attack of apoplexy. He ent only two days before at the funeral poor wGeneral Baudoin, chiet of his staif, and had delivered # short address by the side of the graves GENERAL THOMAS CORYNDON LUXMOORE. General Thomas Coryndon Luxmoore, one of the senior general officers of the Royal Engineors, died in England early in December, General Luxmoore, who was in his cighty-fourth year, joitied the service in January, 1414, and retired on full pay in 1861. He attained rank of general in June, 1871, MRS, ELIZA BURNS EVERITT, Mra. Eliza Everitt, widow of Bartholomew Jones Everitt, late assistant surgeon in India, daughter of © the late Robert Burns, Esq., of Dumfries, and grand- daughter of the celebrated tof the same died at Bath, England, about Docember 16, ot au ads vanced age. REV. SAMUEL C, AIKEN, Rev. Samuel C. Aiken, D. D., for thirty years pasto® of the First Presbyterian Church, Clevel Oh! died at his residence in ‘cheyeund Sunterany amet ing, aged eighty-cight years,