The New York Herald Newspaper, January 7, 1879, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, —_——— THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. ‘Three cents per es Sundays excluded). Ten dullars per ear, five dollars th do!ars and fifty couts lar per mi for three months, 8, Sunday editio any perind less than three a rée of postage. WEEKLY HERALD—One dollar per year, free of post- age. ‘NOTICE TO_ SUBSCRIBE! York or Most Office money orde can be procured send the mo remitted at risk of sender. I bscribers wishing their addi Id ax well as their new addre Remit in drafts on New f these All he properly sealed. ill not be returned, 2. PHILADELPHIA OFFICE. STREET. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD— . 46 FLEET STR FE DE L'OPERA. RADA PACE, Subscriptions and Jorwarded on the same terms as in VOLUME. AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. *KERING HALL ARMONIC CLUS CoNcERT. STEINWAY HALL—Navritaus Cuvn Coxcenr. UNION SQUARE THEATRE—Tik Bangxn's Davguter, BootH’s THEATRE: STANDARD THEATRI NIBRO'S GARDEN—Davy OLYMPIC THEATRE—Ricua NEW YORK AQUARI GLOBE THEATRE. GRAND OPERA HOU BOWERY THEATRE— PARK THEATRE—Ba! BROADWAY TIEATRE. THEATRE COMIQUE- GERMANIA THEATR SAN FRANCISCO MI WINDSOR THEATRE- THOMAS’ OPERA I10US TIVOLI THEATRE--V EGYPTIAN HALL—Varier TONY PASTOR'S—Vaniery. HEET. NEW k JARY 7% 1879, The probabilities are that the weather in New York and its vicinity to-day will be colder and partly cloudy, followed by inercasing cloudiness and possibly increasing winds. To-morrow it promises to be warmer and cloudy, with snow or rain, Watt Street Yesrerpay.—The stock market ‘was fairly active and steady. Government and State bonds were steady, and railroads strong and higher. Money on call was easy at 4 per cent, aud closed at 2 a 21 per cent. Concress again to-day. Ovr Busrxess Troustes have fallen almost below zero. A Lerrer from Berlin, on another page, de- ecribes the last illness and death of Mr. Bayard Taylor, together with the official and other hon- ors paid to his memory. Tue Pumanturoric Errorts of “Nan,” the newsboy, and his gallant little comrades are in a fair way to be crowned with success. A hand- some sum has been subscmbed for them by the members of the Stock Exchange, and to-day the Maritime Exchange will help on the good work. Ir Witt Be Seen from our despatches that the railroad blockade in this and many of the other States bas come to an end. At Clifton, in Ontario, a large number of passengers, who were delayed for several days, made themselves as comfortable as possible at the expense of the bloated corporations. Among THE UnpLeasant Features of the Cobb-Bishop trial, which will be resumed to- day, will be the appearance on the witness stand of two or three of the children of the alleged guilty parties. The little daughter of Mrs. Cobb, not twelve years old, will be placed on the stand against her. Tue Pantian StorraGe of the Harmony Mills, at Cohoes, which employ upward of ten thou- sand operatives, is not a very comforting condi- tion of affairs, but in the nature of things it can- not be of long duration. The overstock in the market will soon be exhausted, when, of course, work will be fully resumed. Ir Tir Proviston in the new constitution of Georgia requiring the payment of all taxes as o preliminary to voting was intended to disfran- chise the negroes it has utterly failed. At the election yesterday all the colored men were on hand, but a large proportion of the small white property owners failed to put in an appearance at the tax office or the polls. Ovr Desratcres from Omada throw a lurid light on life in Central Nebraska. Several weeks ago two men were brutally burned at a ftake by a party of cattle dealers, and so great was the terror inspired by these Western in- quisitors that the officers of the law dared not attempt their arrest. Their capture, however, ‘has at length been effected mainly through the etforts of the brothers of one of the murdered men, but it took a small army to do it. Central Nebraska must be a pleasant place. Tur Weatner.—tiIn the Herarp of the 4th inst. attention was called to the movement of a disturbance in the extreme northwestern dis- tricts, and on the Sth snow storms during the early part of the week were predicted for that region. The change that has taken place in tho meteorological conditions of the entire North- west during the past twenty-four hours fully jus- tifies the warning. The barometer continued high until yesterday morning, when it began to fall with extraordinary rapidity, ranging in some sections over half an inch inside of eight hours. The wind shifted from the west to southwest and south and increased in force. Snow is now falling heavily in Manitoba and the northern lake districts. The influence of the disturbance which was experienced in this dis- trict on Thursday last has passed entirely off and the barometer is rising slowly, but will probably commence to fall again to-night. The area of highest barometer is now over the central valley districts, the South Atlantic and Gulf States. It is moving gradually southward, Snow is falling in the lower Jake regions and light rains are reported on the South Atlantic coust. The winds have been from brisk to high in the Northwest, West and on the Gulf const; elsewhere they have been generally fresh. With the exception of ao slight rise in the Middle Atlantic States and the luke regions the temperature has fallen throughout the country. Very severe weather is likely to pre- vail over the lakes during the next few days, and aheavy snowfall may be expected. The pressure is falling rapidly on the Luropean coaste and a disturbance is evidently approach- ing. The weather in New York and its vicinity toalay will be colder and partly cloudy, followed by increasing cloudiness and possibly increasing winds. To-morrow it promises to be warmer aud cloudy, with snow or rain. NEW YOKK HERALD, TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1879.—TRIPLE SHEET. Mayor Cooper’s Suggestions. The new Common Council met and or- ganized yesterday, and Mayor Cooper sent ina preliminary communication which is rather in the nature of an inaugural address than of a regular message. In this docu- ment he makes a satisfactory declaration of his intentions, and points out the leading objects which should engage the atten- tion of the city government. Mayor Cooper understands clearly enough that he needs to go more into particu- lars in the various subjects touched upon in what he calls ‘a few gen- eral suggestions” respecting the policy which he will think it his duty to pursue. He will make specific recommendations when he “shall have been long enough in office to have become familiar with the ac- tual condition of the various departments of the city government.” The new Mayor evinces sound judgment in withholding specific recommendations on points which he does not yet understand. We shall re- gard this as a promising indication unless it should’ become apparent with the lapse of time that he lacks capacity to form or courage to assert precise and definite opinions as to the best methods of attaining his ends, We are encour- aged to believe that the tendency of his mind is to act with foresight and prepara- tion by what transpired yesterday in con- nection with his first veto. It was sent to the outgoing Board of Aldermen, and the point was at once raised that Mayor Cooper had exceeded his authority. It was sug- gested that the question ought to be re- ferred to the Corporation Counsel for his official opinion, \But it presently became known that the new Mayor had taken the advice of that officer and that his veto was not prepared until he had been advised that it was within the limits of his authority to negative acts of the expiring Common Council. The combined caution and vigor exhibited in this veto betoken a fitness for responsible duties. But the in- cident is too slight to build much upon, although we are willing to construe it in accordance with our good wishes. The new Mayor has not been long enough in office to warrant predictions of either success or failure. We shall treat him fairly, and must say incandor that his beginning is all that could have been expected from any citizen elected to the Mayoralty without previous experience in municipal affairs or official experience of any kind. We are constrained to approve of the leading positions in Mayor Cooper's first communication to the ‘Common Council. The aims which he professes are such as the Henatp has advocated with unflagging zeal for many years, and if Mr. Cooper is the Mayor who is first to give them practical effect he will find the Heratp among bis warmest supporters. We are pleased to find that Mayor Cooper does not adopt the narrow notion that the mere saving of expense is a proper test of the value of a municipal administration, The Hznatp has always maintained that the city must spend whatever may be necessary for health, ior cleanliness, for an abundant supply of water, for solid pavements in the business portion of the city, and, above all, for proper dock accommodations for the cheap transshipment of products. It would be a penny wiseand pound foolish economy which should aim to lessen taxes by cur- tailing conveniences for the transaction of business, ‘We rejoice that Mayor Cooper, though borne into office on a strong cry for economy, has the good sense and sagacity to insist upon the onward march of needed improvements. ‘The increase of popula- tion and resources,” says the new Mayor, “which has characterized the city during the present century should not be checked through the want of enterprise and wisdom in utilizing the natural advantages with which New York is favored,” We must do whatever is necessary for heading off tho diversion to other cities of business which naturally belongs to New York ; and it will be found in this, as in many other matters, that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. There are some things with which we cannot dispense if we are to maintain our rank as a commercial city, It is not a question of what we ‘‘may” have, but of what we ‘‘must” have. We must have clean and well paved streets ; we must have ample and convenient docks ; we must have cheap and unrivalled facilities for transferring upon shipboard the products wo receive from the West. The con- tinued growth of the city, nay, the very life of this city as the commercial metropo- lis of the Western Hemisphere, is staked upon the advantages we offer for the cheap transaction of business. If the furnishing of such advantages requires the expendi- ture of money we must spend whatever inay be necessary for this purpose, without grudging. We are glad that Mayor Cooper accepts this view. It is not taxes that the city should complain of, but taxes which are diverted and wasted to maintain a vast army of political hangers on instead of being expended for necessary uses. Intelli- gent citizens will not complain of taxes if they get the worth oftheir money, ‘laxes for such improvements as are really made enhance the value of property. We can af- ford to pay the reasonable cost of clean streets, good pavements, abundant water, convenient docks and cheap facilities for. transshipment. Mayor Cooper touches the very pith of our municipal necessities when he insists that’ ‘to develop these sources of wealth and prosperity, to invite and accommodate the interchange of the products of all countries, ani to at tract additional capital, skill and labor, it is necessary that the burdens imposed upon commerce by tolls, charges or ex- actions be lightened ; that the favilities of our harbor and its docks and wharves be extended and adapted to modern cheap methods of handling bulky products; that our streets be kept clean and in proper con- dition for the passage of persons and mer- chandise ; that life and property be pro- tected; that the attractions of our parks and pleasure grounds be maintained, and that in the newer parts of the city the plans for its extension be comprehensively and intelligently adjusted to the uses for which it will be occupied.” ‘The Mayor expresses his opinion that | these objects can bo attained “at a lower rate of taxation than is now imposed, and without any increase of debt.” We trust he sees his way to make this opinion good in the practical administration of the city government; but it is indispensable that the things alluded to should be done, whether they cost little or cost much, The great duty laid upon him is to see that they are done, and that they cost no more than is requisite for the honest performance of thorough work. ‘The city rebels against high taxes for the support of political paupers, but it will not complain of needed improvements if it gets the full worth of its money. Let us dismiss needless officers; let us reduce salaries; let us economize in every reasonable way; let us select the most indispensable things to be done first; but we cannot afford to stay the hand of im- provement if New York is to maintain its pre-eminence and advance in the great eareer marked out for it by its unrivalled advantages of position. Itis easy to mark out a programme, but difficult to carry it into successful execu- tion, as Mayor Cooper will find out before he reaches the close of histerm. The hard- est part of his task remains to be grappled with. It will be his duty, when he has taken a full survey of the situation, to ex- plain the methods by which he proposes to attaid the desirable results to which he stands committed. . The success of an ad- ministrator depends upon his selection of means. It will be the carly duty of Mayor Cooper to explain in detail how he is to carry his admirable policy into edecution. As yet itis a mere wish. Nothing is more futile than unexecuted wishes or abortive food intentions. It is fair to allow the new Mayor time for maturing his plans. We await their promulgation with lively inter- est. The great practical question is, How? If we are at last to have clean streets it is incumbent on him to tell ushow. If we are to keep what remains to us of the grain trade and recover the part of it which we have lost the Mayor must tell us how. If supernumerary officers are to be dispensed with ho must tell us which offi- cers, If salaries are to be reduced he must tell us what salaries. If the Board of Ap- portionment is to give place to some better organizer he must point out and define what the new taxing authority should be. ¢ It is easy to criticise, but hard to invent. But unless the new Mayor has resources which enable -him to devise methods, and executive energy to secure their adoption, his excellent intentions, which we so cordi- ally approve, will be like the barren fig tree which was cursed because it bore no fruit. The. Furniss Homicide—Palmer’s Mis- taken Identity. Everybody can understand how un- pleasant it is for a gentleman of correct habits to be accused of murder. It is even not agreeable for a person fully possessed of his right mind to see himself announced in a daily paper as one who has gone violently insane and exhibited desperate impulses. But though everybody can appreciate the dissatisfaction of the gentleman who in such -circumstances wakes up some morning to find himself un- duly famous, few are possessed of the charity needful to comprehend the remorse of the journalist who has at once done a wrong and made a blunder. It appears that in the inadvertence of necessary haste we have unpleasantly associated the nameof Mr. William R. Palmer, of the Union Square Theatre, with a lamentable occurrence at the Metropolitan Hotel with which he had no connection whatever; and, while every satisfaction that can rectify the trouble is due to him, itis due to ourselves, also, that we should state how the error in identification arose, An insane man at the hotel shot an officer. His name was William L. Palmer, and he was from Stonington, Conn. This occurred on the afternoon of Saturday, the 28th ult. That day we telegraphed to a correspondent in Connecticut to obtain for us at Stoning- ton the antecedents of William L. Palmer. But it appears that the Paimers constitutea large proportion of the population of that place, and given names are an insufficient key to identity, for even a man’s own rela- tives do not remember his initials. Now, Mr. William R. Palmer is also from Sto- nington, and is better known there than the gentleman whose name and origin so nearly resembled his own. In inquiries made late at night, therefore, some confu- sion arose in the history of the two men, and some alleged facts in Mr, William R. Palmer’s history were mingled with the events of the other man’s life which have no foundation. Naturally we regret that a case of mistaken identity so flagrantly an- pleasant should have disfigured our col- umns and offended a gentleman’s just sen- sibilities. ‘ Our News from Central Asia. Our despatch from ‘ashkend, dated on the day before yesterday, slightly varies the intelligence hitherto received by way of England on some of the facts reported. As we learn by the despatches from the Rus- sian agent in Cabul to General Kaufmann the Ameer in his communication to the English, made upon his leaving his capital, declared the object of his departure to be to “submit his differences with England to the Emperor of Russia.” This is rather more intelligible than the despatch from Lahore to the London Daily News to the effect that he intended to lay his caso before a congress in the Russian capital This in- telligence, directly from the Ameer, confirms the previous statement made on the author- ity of Genoral Kaufmann that directions had been left with Yakoob Khan to receive and answer any propositions the English might make, That this was well known to the English appears to follow from the statement that Major Cavagnari had been instructed to hear in a conciliatory spirit whatever might be said on the part of the Ameer’s representative; but for some in- serutable reason English officials or jour- nalists seem to have'deemed it worth their while to misrepresent this simple transac- tion. Precisely what will bo tho future course of the Ameer is not clear, His march, as reported, ‘with all his bat- talions” for the Russian frontier, creates a situation of some delicacy for the coms mander there, who has consequently sought advice from his government. Though Russia has distinctly declared her intention to take no:steps for his assistance, she can scarcely refuse him hospitality; but his battalions decidedly complicate the case. The Injunction Against, Tammany. The most astounding surprise which ever fell upon the Tammany Society was experi- enced in its meeting last evening when an injunction from the Supreme Court was served restraining it from initiating the one hundred and forty-seven new members peste on the 31st of December. The affi- lavits on which the injunction was granted allege that the election of those new mem- bers was clandestine and in violation of the rules of ‘the society, the notice of the meeting having been printed only in an obseure paper called the New York Mercantile Journal, which has no circulation, and which members of the society entitled to participate in the election had no opportunity to see. ‘he election is therefore asserted to be illegal and in vio- lation of the rights of existing members, The officers of the society are required to appear before Judge Barrett on January 13 to shoy cause why this injunction should not be perpetual. When it was served, last evening, ‘'ammany appointed a committee and adjourned, without initiating the new members. ‘The injunction fell like a stroke of lightning ont of a clear sky. We will not attempt totrace the concealed hand by which the machinery of justice has been set in motion against the Tammany Society. We have been expecting, as a consequence of the signal defeat of Tam- many in the last election, that an attempt would be made. to take the control of the organization out of the hands of Mr. Kelly and his friends, but we did not suppose it would come in this form. It seemed more probable that the elements of dissatis- faction known to exist in the society would be played upon to oust the present leaders by a vote of the members. The Tammany chiefs evidently expected the attack to come in that form. They at- tempted to ward it off by holding a clandes- tine election. But by violating the rules of the society they unwittingly opened the door for the legal proceedings which overtook them just as they were on the point of perfecting their strata. gem by initfating the new members, who would have secured Mr. Kelly's ma- jority. If the injunction should be made perpetual the clandestine election will be annulled, and in a new election with all the members present there is achance that Mr. Kelly’s supporters will be outvoted. Unless there is some danger of this it is not easy to account for the clandestine ac- tion against which Judge Barrett’s injunc- tion has been issued. We are about to wit- ness the most virulent rumpus that has ever taken place in that unquiet organization, Distress in England, The London letter which we print to-day sets forth in striking colors the widespread depression of British industries and the terrible suffering which has fallen upon multitudes of British laborers. There are in Manchester alone thirty thousand oper- atives out of employment, and they at one time entertained a purpose of proceeding in a body to London to make a demonstra- tion in the presence of the government. That purpose seems to have been wey abandoned. ‘The government could do nothing to help them. ‘The severe depres- sion and distress proceed from causes more powerful than legislation. Eng- land is losing its markets, and can- not continue to manufacture goods which it has mo chance of sell- ing. The business of England has long been in an unnatural condition. It is wholly dependent on foreign markets, and now that other countries, and particularly the United States, have so improved their manufactures that they can undersell the British, or at least meet them on equal terms of competition in the markets of the world, it is not easy to see how England is ever to recover her former prosperity. The Broadway Railroad. For twenty years speculators in horse railway projects endeavored to secure the possession of Broadway. In that street of enormous traffic—for so many years the one great thoroughfare of the city—they saw bonanza on bonanza of five cent fares, Fourth avenue lines, Third avenue lines, Second avenue lines and Sixth avenue lines made money; clearly a Broadway line would make more money than any of these, if not more than all together. ‘There were about seven lines of omnibuses that used various sections of the part of Broadway below Fourteenth street, and the horse car schemer always saw his way to an annihilation of the omnibus lines and the capture of all those fares, as well as to the capture of a large proportion of the traffic on the side lines, for the people used these lines to get up town with little regard to the precise locality of their homes, and all such travellers would prefer a Broadway line, Year after year, with hungry persist- ency, these schemers came before the Lezis- lature, and it was not the virtue of that body that prevented the passage of their bills. Once tho structure of a Broadway railroad was actually begun, and tho rails wero laid between Thirteenth and Four- teenth streets, and remained there years after the conflict over them was forgotten, Finally the line that now uses the upper part of Broadway and Greene and Wooster streets was accepted as a compromise, and the struggle ceased. All those endeavors to put ruils in the part of Broadway be- tween Fourteenth street and the Battery were opposed and defeated by the property owners. Were the property owners en- tirely well informed in that particular? There 1s room to doubt it, Perhaps the larger number of them have changed their minds on the subject, amyl all havo revised their opinions on the subject of the mutual relations of property owners and passenger carriers, Broadway has lost its su- premacy as the seat of retail trade; its glory has gone to less com- modious and less satisfactory places, and, though the want of a horse railroad ‘was not the cause of this, that want was not without some relation to the result. In the growth of our city population went by regular stages up town. Old Dr. Francis used to say that a physician in good prac- tice had to remove his residence once in ten years to keep near to his patients, and the retail trader was under a similar obligation, Shops, therefore, went with the uptown current; but this movement would never have overcome the supremacy of such a cen- tre as Broadway if the facilities for reach- ing the great shops on that street had kept pace with the need for them. Such facili- ties were denied, and the people contented themselves with the shops near them, They stayed away irom the district that was kept free of horse cars for their accommodation. Now the project for such a railway is re- newed, and we do not see who will oppose it. Indeed, we are of opinion that it would be a good thing to have the experiment of such a railway tried. here are certain distinctly advantageous influences on the street that we believe would result from it. It would deprive wheeled vehicles of the use of one fine street without rails in it, but the heavy vehicles for freight traffic are made to be indifferent to such obstacles, and since the Metropolitan Elevated has proved so great an accommodation it will be far less loss than it would have been formerly to lose the use of Broadway for carriages, General Grant in Ireland: The Irishmen of the north of Ireland, it will be seen from our special cable de- spatches this morning, have amply atoned by the warmth and enthusiasm of their welcome to General Grant for the dis- courtesy which was shown him by their exceedingly silly and foolish brethren of the chief city of the southern por- tion of .the island. He, left Dublin yesterday morning, and at all the stations on his way to Londonderry he was met by thousands of people, who cheered him lustily, and -when possible insisted upon shaking hands with him, At the latter city he. was received by the Mayor and Council, formally welcomed and escorted to the Town Hall, where the honors of citizenship were conterred upon him. ‘These compliments and marks of consideration were acknowl- edged in one of his characteristic speeches, and in the evening he was’ entertained at a banquet. All this is in striking contrast with the bigoted and spiteful ac- tion of the narrow-minded Town Coun- cillors of the city of Cork, and we are ‘vertain that the great majority of Irish born citizens in this country will rejoice that the people of the north of Ireland have had the good sense to rebuke the intolerance of that portion of their countrymen who have always so loudly clamored for toleration, religious and political. Searlet Fever, Every mother has a peculiar dread of this well known disease, and _there is scarcely any malady of those commonly known to the people that she would not prefer to see in the house, There is hardly a family in which there is not some fatal story of its ravages, and the chronicle of two or three or more children dead on the same day is not an uncommon one. Some doctors re- port that in this, as in other diseases, they “never lose a case.” Perhaps they are in the position of the doctor whom an over- sensitive father called for his first born. He wanted a doctor who saved his patients, and he obtained somewhere or another a magical mirror, in which hg could see, as he stood on each doctor's doorstep, the list of that doctor’s victims in their shrouds. Amazed at the processions he saw in his glass as he stood at the doors of the most famous doctors he went from house to house in the hope of better results. He stood at last at the door of a doctor at whose name there appeared only two tender little vic- tims, He called this physician, lost his child, and found by subsequent inves- tigation that when he. called him that doctor had been in practice two days and had had just two patients. If these two had not the scarlet fever he had not, up to that time, lost a case of that disease. Because of the well known gravity of the severo types of scarlet fever it isa malady in regard to the spread of which it would be easy to get up a panic in the city, but in the facts thus far made known we see no reason for great apprehension, and we have no doubt all has been published that is known to the health authorities, People who consider the number of deaths do not commonly consider their proportion to the total of the population. If they did they would see at a glance that there is less of the fever in the city now than there is every winter in the large number of coun- try villoges where there are common schools. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Senator George F. Hoar and Mr, George 8. Bout- well, of Massachusetts, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Count Legenhaupt, the Swedish Minister, arrived at the Clarendon Hotel last evening froin Washington. Aneffort is being made to have the President and family attend a teinperance meeting in Massachusetts next yoar. ‘The Hpoca, of Madrid, publishod last evening an article suggesting the marriage of King Alfonso with a Belgian princess. In some Western towns you seo against a green grocer’s ‘store a sign offering “meaty” for sale, the “‘meate"’ being canned oysters, A member of the English House of Commons says that the sessions have become so dull that he would just as soon spend his time in church. Ex-Governor Jewell, ot Connecticut, will give Gov- ernor-elect Andrews a dinner on the 9th inst., and all the ex-Governors of tho State have been invited, Colonel Robert P. Crockett, the ouly surviving son of the famous Davy Crockett, is living in Texas, old, feeble and poor. A pension for him is spoken of, Princess Louise is very fond of the paintings of tho eccentric Mr, Whistler. It is said that previous to leaving England she called to sce another and emi- nent painter, but received from him a “not at home’ and an intimation that he was not at the beck and call of princesses, Mr, Raskin is very sulky over the result of his deg fence against painter Whistler, and his resignation of the Slade Professorship has not increased his popu- larity. Whistler, on the contrary, sparkles over the Sunday breakfasts that Le gives; talks about the case over hockheimer and Japanese shrimps, and says he is going to write an article as well as punish some more critics, OBITUARY. MORTON M'MICHAEL, Mr. Morton MeMichael, the eminent journalist and orator and for many years one of the representative and active public spirited citizens of Philadelphis, died at his reat- dence in Philadelphia at four ‘o'clock yesterday afternoon, He was in his seventy-second year, and ' with distinction. - ments, and, a6 a Ii a had been confined to his house for « few weeks with rheumagic gout; but, notwithstanding this and his venerable age, his death was not antici- pated, owing to his vigorous constitution and his having conquered this disease before. The an- nouncement of his death will therefore be a greay shock for which his many friends aro unpre- pared, as his condition was not believed to be dangerous. It was only on Sunday night that alarming symptoms set in, when he Was seized with a severe attack of oppression, result ing froim functional weakness of the heart. Through- out the night he remained in a critical state, but yesterday imorning he rallied for a few hours. The patient seemed to improve, aud then early in the io lech, eueetna Ey hasnt * y his sorrowing family, Mr. McMichact calmly and gently passed aways Morton McMichuel was born in Wordentown, Bur. lngian: county, N. J., October 20, 1807.’ His father was @ gardener, and had charge of Joseph Bonaparte’s estate, He was educated at the University of Pennsylvania, where so many distinguished men have graduated. He left his Alma Mater with high honors and embraced the law asa Fe page ‘wap udmitted to the Philadelphia Bar in 1827, While practising law he was elected to his first municipal office as Alderman, serving for a number of years, In 1843 he was chosen Sheriff, serving three years, and assisting in quelling tho -uative American riots of 1844. Tu 1866 the republican party, of which Mr. McMichael became an wc- ive and enthusiustic member, clected him Mayor of Philadelphia. He served his term of three yeers For several years Mr. McMichael was president of the Union League, succeeding Horace Binney, From the organization of the ‘Pair- mount Park Commission” he was president of the body and remained so until his death, doing much to perfect and improve thia beautiful pleasure ground. Mr, McMichael always took an interest in politics, first as a whig, then as a pee song He was temporary chairman of the Re- ‘pul National Convention of June, 1872, and made a stirring speech at the Cincinnati Convention ot June, 1876. was decided upon for permanent , but was compelled to decline by reason of poor health. He was alsoa member of the Constitutional Convention of Pennsylvania oi Fournier: =. be re one Jen’ - ong organizers vf the Centennial Exhi- bition and a member of the Board of Mun- agers. Mr, MecMichacl’s fame is Peet ly associated with his connection with the PI phia North Amerwan, the oldest: daily newspaper in the United States, which was originally started October 28, 1i71, as the Pennsylvania Packet, and no sketch of this accomplished | ian would: be complete without a short history of paper of which he was the head. ‘The Jennsyloai Packet after » number of mergings into other journals and changes of owners finally became the North Ameri can and United States Gazette on July 1, 1847. Mr. Me- Michael's connection with the North American the ni on January 1, 1847, succeeding as editor Robert T. Con- rad, the poet, dramatist, jurist and author. With George RK. Graham, one of the original owners, Mr. McMichael became joint oe of the paper. In July, 1847, the United States Gazette und another able fee, Ale united with the North American and Robert rd became associated with Mr. McMichael in the ownership, Mr. Graham retir. ing. In January, 1844, Dr. Bird died and from that timo Mr. Michacl has been sole owner conductor of the North American, Mr. McMichael was 8 natural orator and was peculiarly fitted for society and public affairs, aud rapidly became a representative man in his community. was the associate of the most dist shod men of his time and was the presiding officer and orator of the day on mauy very important occasions. Many of his ad- dresses attracted wide attention from their eloquence and grace, Mr. McMichael leaves tive sons. The oldest, Colonel William McMichael, is a lawyer, and was formerly United States District Attorney for this district. Morton McMichael, Jr., is cashier of the First National Bank. Clayton McMichael and Walter Mc. Michael have been assisting their father in the publi- cation of the North American, and Charles B., the youngest son, is a lawyer. ‘There are also three br ree Mrs. George L. Harrison, Mrs. Ed. H. Shaw, of New York, and Mrs. Harry Godey. Mr. Mc- Michael had made two trips to Europe and returned only 8 few months ago from a few weeks’ visit. much improved in health. The funeral will take place on ‘Thursday, from Mr. McMichael’s late residence, No, 1,841 Spruce street. REY. DR. ELIAS R. BEADLE. The Rev. Dr. Elias R. Beadle, one of the most diss tiuguished Presbyterian clergymen of Pennsylvania, ied very suddenly yesterday at the residence of his brother-in-law, in Philadelphia, under curious cim cumstances. Dr. Beadle preached Sunday in his own pulpit in the Second Presbyterian Church, Phila. delphia, and was apparently not only in the very best of health, but .also unusually happy, owing to the completion of a work in which he felt gieat inter. est. During the service he announced that the debt of the: church, amounting to $75,000, had all» been. provided for, and that & -portion of this sum ‘had already been paid in, while the re- mainder was all guaranteed. He was congratulated Le app congregation upon the conclusion of the ser- bo » aud it oll never ap) home, and she rounde and nyc streets an icy draught of air struck him and filled him with an intense pain in the bar ag of the heart. When he reached Mr. Pitkin’s be was very ill, ‘aud Dr. Agnew, his friend, parishioner physician, was at once summoned to re- lieve him. All that science an could do for him was done, without avail, except to modify the acuteness of the disease which had attacked him. He ually grew worse, and died at one o'clock, having been conscioun up to the hour whea it was found necessary to use anodynes to relieve him of pain. Dr. Beadle was in his sixtieth year, and leaves a wife, who’ is now in Europe, three sons and two daughters. He became soon raduation st the Divinity School a missionary in Syria. Owing to feeble health he was obliged to return to this coun- try. He was settled as pastor successively at Albion, N. ¥.; New Orleans, La.; Rochester, N. Y.; Hartford, Conn., and Philadelphia, The rigors of the climate in that section, however, compelled him, much against the wishes of his congregation, to relinquish this charge. Whep he went to Philadelphia he was installed as the successor’ of Dr. Charies W. Shields as pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church. Dr. Beadle was a clergyman of distinguished acquire- uist and scientist, was without asuperior in the sbyterian Church. He was a man who won the affections of all who came in con- tact with him by his genial disposition, and his death will be most keenly felt by all who knew him personally, ‘and will be wed by all who had ard of his attainments and gifts as ® minister of the Gospel. Dr. Beadle, among his other attain- ments, was regarded us one of the first conchologists of this country. His collection of shells is very large, various and valuable. Hid lote of natural his- tory was not confined, however, to any sit branch. He was an expert mineralogist, and his geological knowledge would have fitted him to fill well the chair in any of our academic institutions, ALBERT J. STEELE. Albert J, Steele, who for a number of years has been known to the public in connection with the application of electrical therapeutics, died sud- denly yesterday, from supposed heart disease, at the corner of White and Centre streets. The deceased gentleman was sixty-seven years of age, but up toa short time ago was remarkably vigorous for one of his ripe years. He was born in Seymour, Conn, He was first heard of in connection with the curative powers of Meine f about s quarter of @ century ago, at which time he organi: and estab. lished the Washingtonian Home in Chicago, for the reformation of inebriates, which institution still re- mains. After leaving Chicago he founded the Franklin Electrical Institute in Brooklyn, and remained its president for fifteen years. In June, 1815, the Electro College, at No, 36 St. Mark's place, wag chartered and Mr. Steolc, being ite founder, was installed president. Yesterday was the day appointed for the class to commence its studies for the season and sixty students had tei np hows opened Bag bey gel had = cngawed energetically preparing for this event. i$ ret: while in the vicinity of the Bible House, in Eighth street, he slipped on the ice and fell. Being a large, heavy man the i caused him & severo shock. Yesterday morning at halt-past ten he left the college to go down town, Ho had reachod the corner of Centre and White streets, when he suddenly fell in a fit to the walk. At that momeut hoe held in his hands core rected proof of the annual report of tho college. When assistance reached him it was discovered that he was dead, An ambulance was seit for and his body removed ‘to the Fourteenth precinct station house, whore it was viewed by Coroner Woltman snd a permit given for its removal to the college in St, Mark's place, ba the deceased resi . The de ceased has three daughters living in this city. PRINCESS CAROLINE OF HESSE, Tho cable this morning announces the death of Princeas Caroline-Thérese-Mathilde, Baroness of Nidda, This princess was born November 5, 1848, and was therefore in the thirtieth oi herage. She was married to Prince Henry of Heese February 1878, Prince Henry-Loujs of Hesse is a brother Louis IV., the Grand Duke of Hesse-Darmstadt, who recently jost his Grand Duchess, Priucees Alice of England, ‘THOMAS TAYLOR, ‘Thomas Taylor died on Sunday night at the resi+ , dence of his brother, Commissioner William Taylor, in Grove street, Jersey City. He was proprietor of hotel at Waretown, Toms River, N. J., and form kept the “Idle Hour,” & sporting resort in Newarl Bind sere HN. ae aoa S8ka By other s . Taylor jo! fe lor, the pigeon shooter. ws nd ——s ALFRED PEREGO, Alfred Perego, @ merchant of this city, died on Sunday of cousumption. ‘The deceased was a mem- ber of the firm of Ira Perego's Sons, dealers in gen- tlemen’s furnishing goods at Fulton and Nassau streets. This firm was established many years ayo by the father of the deceased, and on the former's pg conducted by Mr. Alfred Rereyo and { i)