The New York Herald Newspaper, January 11, 1879, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JANUARY 11, 1879—TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK HERALD ne wee BROADWAY AND ANN "STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, sain i sae THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the goed Three cents por copy (Sundays excluded.” Ten dolla ear, five dollars for six months, two dollars and 6! y tS for three mont or atarateof one dollar p= (gone why than three months, Sunday cation | "oeinded, reg of nust WEEKLY HERALD—One doliar per year, free of post: money remitted at In Hon subscribers wishing their uddresn chunged must give their old ax welt new address, All business, fers or telegraphic despatches must be addressed Ni Lotters and pack roperly sealed, + be returned, PHILADELPHIA OFFIC! (0. 112 SOUTH ‘SIXTH STREET. FICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD— Tou XL Ve. AMUSEMENTS TO-DAY ——__+____- AN D EK VEN ING, LYCEUM THEATRE—Evanaxuixk, Matinee. % Day't. Matineo. COMIQUE—O'Brren, CounseLtor At Law. Matinee, WALLACK’S THEATRE. Last. Matinee. iKER'S Davoatke Matinee. BOWERY THEATRE: NIBLO’S GARDEN—! OLYMPIC—Mencuaxt 01 NEW YORK AQUARIU. GLOBE—Masewr, Mat’ GRAND OPERA HOUS! PARK THEATRE—Ropinsox STEINWAY HALL—M« TONY PASTOR'S—Vaxn SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS. Matinea, MASONIC HALL—Tom Taums. Matinee. TIVOLI THEATRE—Va‘ Matinee. JERRY THOMAS’ MU EGYPTIAN HALL. ACADEMY OF MUSIC—Puruanwonic Concert. BROOKLYN 4 ACADEMY—La Favonira. Swavanmaux. Matinee. nUSOR. Matinee. "ip pha ‘probabilities are that the weather in New York and its vicinity to-day will be cold and fair or partly cloudy. To-morrow the same con- ditions are likely to prevail, Jollowed by gradual clouding. Wau Srreet Yesterpay.—The stock market was fairly active and steady, the coal stocks showing much strength. Government bonds ‘were firm, States, with the exception of Louis- jana consols, steady and railroads strong. Money on call was easy at 3 a 4 per cent and closed at 2 per cent. Mrs, Cops is still astonishing the natives and puzzling the lawyers, Governor Hampron’s Heattn has greatly improved ; not so his esteem for mules. TwREMEN will find in another column some vigorous arguments against a common practice in arranging races. . Forcrp Curcks are again being offered, but who is fooligh enough to accept checks of avy sort from strangers ? SEC Raa SEE PUES Tur Prosercts Are Goop for a convention of militia officers from many of the States to diseuss a uniform reorganization of the national guard. SEVENTY-NINE fire insurance companies agreed yesterday to convene soon for the purpose of forming a tariff association, with lower rates. There's policy in it. Tue Onto IpEA may be good enough to hurrah about, but it has the peculiarity of not putting its adherents into office; hence the coquettings alluded to in our special despatch from the Ohio capital. Tue Excise Commissioners are reserving their decision upon “Owney” Geoghegan’s case. If it were a question of granting a license in- stead of revoking one a hundred years would be about the proper time in which to deliberate. Tar Nature of railway compacts was never more lucidly described than yesterday, when at the managers’ meeting it was said that “there is no trouble in getting them to agree; the difi- culty is to make them stick to their agreement.” A HearTBROKEN MotHeR was buried yester, day because one man, a stranger to her, teased another and then fired a pistoi at him, missed him, and killed the woman’s daughter.- These high-spirited fellows generally hit the wrong person. ConGressionaL Ts about restoring Will- iam and Mary College, Virginia, was abundant yesterday, but no one would imagine the subject without reading the report very closely. Of what use is it for the real adversaries in the late unpleasantness to bury the sword when two or three hundred Congressmen welcome any excuse to dig it up again ? Tue Cutest Question has been brought fairly before Congress by the presentation of a report by the House Committee on Education and Labor. The report accompanies a proposed bill, which restriets shipmasters from bringing more that fifteen Chinamen into the country on any one trip. The report proper consists prin- cipaily of a discussion of the constitutional right of Congress to enact such a law and a state- ment of the necessity for restrictive legis!a- tion. The constitutional question is discussed from the “higher law” standpoint, while the arguments in favor of restriction are those with which the reading public is already familiar. Tun Weratr he storm centre, which was developed over the Middle Atlantic const districts on Thursday night, moved very rapidly along the New England coast and is now over the ocean, off Nova Seotia, The barometer rose quickly in the Middle Atlantic and New England districts after the storm had passed, It is high- est over the South Atlantic States. A slight de- pression overlies the northern lake regions, but the pressure is only relatively low. Snow has fallen in the Middle Atlantic, New England States and the lower lake regions. It has been very heavy in the latter district, where trains | have been delayed on account of the blockwd- ing of the roads by heavy drifts. In Southern Ohio the fall is said to have been the heavii +i for twenty years, The winds have been brisk | to high on the Atlantic coast north of Cape Hat- teras and geverally fresh elsewhere. The tem- perature has fallen througbont the country, ex- copt in the northern lake regions and on the Guilt coasts, where it has been variable. The fearful storm continues to rage over the British Islands and France. The gales continue to blow, and at times reach the velocity and force of hurricanes, The weather in New York and its vicinity to-day will be cold and fair or partly cloudy. To-morrow the same conditions are likely to prevail, follewed by cradual clouding. grams. A resolution was adopted yesterday by the Potter Committee to investigate the ciper telegrams whose translation and pub- lication have proved so awkward for the senders. We are not sorry that this subject is to be taken up by the committee. If bri- bery was practised or attempted in connec- tion with the electoral vote of certain States its exposure should be sought by all legiti- mate means, and its perpetrators be pun- ished if there are legal means of ascertain- ing their guilt and legal penalties that can be inflicted. If there is no legal punish- ment the odium which attends exposure and the loss of character, which is its just consequence, are penalties which honest men are willing to see inflicted. Let the effect of this investigation be what it may on the public judgment of Mr. Tilden and his friends, no great regret will be felt either in the democratic party or out ofit. But inconnection with this matter there is another question in which the country has a deeper interest, and which de- serves investigation ‘quite apart from the damage which may be done by this in- quiry to individual reputations. We refer to the protection due to the privacy of telegraphic communications. There is mo reason why messages sent by telegraph should not be as inviola- ble.as letters committed to the Post Office. There is no more justification for tamper- ing.with the one than for tampering with the" other. It is a crime punishable by severe penalties to violate private corre- spondence when transmitted through the mails. If he who steals or opens a letter intrusted to the Post Office is liable to be tried and imprisoned why should it be thought a. commendable or even a justifi-, able thing to procure and publish private telegrams? “Do you, then,” it may be asked, ‘object to the detection and punishment of crime?” We are prepared to answer this question and to dispose of the argument supposed to be conveyed in it. It is avery old question, although it Show appears in a new form. The argument implied in it was strenu- ously urged in a former age against the abolition of torture as a means of extorting evidence. There can be no question that when this method prevailed in Europe a great deal of crime was discov- ered and punished which would otherwise have escaped. As Macaulay said in one of his speeches in Parliament against Sir James Graham for violating Mazzini’s cor- respondence in the English Post Office, “There could be no doubt that so long as the English law sanctioned the use of tor- ture a great many crimes were detected by it. It, too, had its advantages, Yes; for the instant Guy Fawkes was shown the rack out came at once the entire story of the gunpowder plot. Even this torture, as well as the spy system, had these advantages ; but then this country had determined long ago that such were pernicious, debasing and dangerous modes of maintaining its institutions. Their an- cestors declared that they would rather take the risk of great crimes being com- mitted than owe their security to that sys- tem or those means which would destroy the manly spirit of the people.” ‘Torture as a mode of detecting crime was abandoned centuries ago, but the spy sys- tem—espionage, as it is called in France— continues to prevail on the Continent of Europe, although it was long ago banished from England and never got a foothold in the United States except for a brief period during our civil war. Wecan imaginé no reason why the spy system is more allowa- ble in connection with the telegraph than in connection with the Post Office. If a man should steal private letters from the mail and publish them he would be convicted and sent to prison. There is no difference between the moral guilt of stealing letters and that of abstracting telegrams. The legal guilt is indeed differont, because by the laws of Congress the former is made a penal offence, and the latter is not punish- able under any statute either State or federal. If the telegraph were within the jurisdic- tion of the federal government nobody can doubt that telegrams would be made as in- violable as letters. Nothing could be more illiberal and un- manly than to coustrue the fact that a tele- gram is sent in cipher as evidence of a guilty purpose. The use of @ cipher in telegraphing is the precise equivalent of a sealed envelope in sending a communica- tion by mail. The difference between a message in plain words anda message in cipher is like the difference between ao postal cardand asenled letter. As it is just ‘as innocent to send a sealed letter asa postal card, so it is just as innocent to send a message in cipher as one in plain language. If the Florida correspondence in December, 1876, had gone through the Post Office, and the letters had beea given up for publication by a postmaster, the recreant officer would have been sent to prison. The law does not permit faithless telegraph managers to be dealt with in the same way, because the telegraph is not, like the Post Office, within the jurisdiction of the federal government; but who can point out any essential difference between the violation of honor in the one case and the violation of honor in the other? It will be the duty of the Potter commit- tee in pursing its investigation to inquire into the means by which the cipher tele- grams passed from their proper custody into the hands of the persons who trans- lated and published them. There has evi- dently been a gross breach of trust some- where, which the committee should ‘as- certain and fix. If the telegrams in | question were stolen, who wero the thieves? If they were betrayed and surrendered by an officer of the telegraph company, who was that officer? Many other people besides the persons in- culpated by the cipher telegrams have o deep interest in this question. There is no business day in the year when innumerable telegrams, in cipher as well as in plain words, are not sent and received, and the community is entitled to know whether it can transact business in this manner without incurring the risk of viola- tions of confidence. It is o question of greater magnitude and deeper interest than the inviolability of the mails, because, as business is now conducted, only minor matters are confided to the slow vehicle ofthe mails. Unless communications by telegraph are as inviolable as le‘ters sent by post the telegraph service deserves in- dignant denunciation. Not only be- tween various parts of our own country, but between this country and Europe, thousands of messages are daily sent in the expectation that their secrecy is to be protected. It is a gross and un- pardonable breach of trust to violate this confidence, It is hinted that the president of acertain telegraph company either gave copies of the cipher telegrams or permitted copies to be made. This seems incredible, and we shall refuse to believe it unless the investigation shall establish it asa fuct. If it be true it was as flagrant a breach of trust as it would be forthe Postmaster Gen- eral to open private letters and permit them to be copied for publication, The business of a spy, always odions and con- temptible, is quite abominable when men in positions of trust lend themselves as ac- complices. The opening of letters in a post office or the putting of a base ear toa keyhole is not a whit more despicable than the betrayal of secrets by the officers and agents of a telegraph company. The Pot- ter committee will be inexcusably derelict if it fails to ascertain and declare by whose breach of trust the cipher telegrams got out of their proper custody. The guilt or innocence of the senders is entirely subordinate to the ques- tion whether telegrams are inviolable. Had the mails been violated in the same manner there would be no difference of opinion as to the enormity of the outrage. The moral guilt, if not the legal guilt, is precisely the same when spies get pos- session of telegrams. The tremendous out- burst of English indignation against Sir James Graham when he violated Mazzini’s correspondence was a foolish frenzy, unless communications by mail and by felesaeh are equally sacred. Nordenskiold’s Voyage. We lay before our readers to-day an ex- tremely beautiful piece of cartographic art— asketch of the line of Nordenskiéld’s voy- age along the Arctic coast of Siberia as far as the mouth of the Lena River. This map was made by B. Hassenstein, of Gotha, for the Geographische Mitheilungen, and is put at ourservice by the courtesy of E. Behm, the talented successor of Dr. Petermann in the direction of the Perthes establishment, For the data from. which the map was made the geographer was indebted partly to the por- tion of Nordenskiéld’s report of his voyage, of which we give a translation to-day, and partly to material supplied by Dr. Oscar Dickson, of Gothenburg, Sweden, the mu- nificent patron to whom the daring naviga- tor was indebted for the opportunity to make the present exploration. This map gives the record of the voyage from July 28 to August 27, and traces the advance around the sotthern extrem- ity of Nova Zembla to longitude 126 degrees east from Greenwich. From Nova Zemblato Port Dickson, at the mouth of the Yenisei, it is only the trace of an ordinary voyage in Arctic waters; but the part irom the mouth of the Yenisei to that of the Lena is an important account of the Arctic coast line. It changes the longi- tude of Cape Tscheljuskin, or Cheliuskin, one degree, and makes important modifica- tions in every part of the outline of the Taimyr Peninsula. In this map is now first given to the world an indisputably ac- curate representation of the coast line of that part of Siberia. With this chart in hand Nordenskidld’s report may be read with great interest. We give with the map in our correspond- ence from Christiania the translation of an important portion of Nordenskidld’s own narrative. This communication was de- spatched from the mouth of the Lena by the vessel that accompanied him to that point and went thence to Takutsk, and was sent thence overland through Russia, In it he gives a hasty recital of the main facts of the voyage so far, and indicates the sfadies made and the material obtained for the more complete study of the sea and shore in that part of the Arctic world. Per- haps this is nota narrative that will take great hold upon popular sympathy or pub- lic attention; for it tells of a voyage with- ’ out adventure, in the ordinary sense of the term; tame in all its incidents indeed, if it be judged by comparison with the recitals of peril and hairbreadth ’scapes that have made famous the history of so many Arctic voyages. In all the part of the voyage here reported there was but little difficulty from ice—indeed, for a great part of the time their way was altogether clear—and their greatest impediment was apparently the dense fogs. It may be thought this was a difficulty of smail account, but when we consider that they were in unknown seas and had to teel their way this obstacle will be appreciated at its true value. That they got so faras we know they did without unpleasant incidents is an evidence of the carefulness and discretion of their advance, and alfords a good augury that, though now 60 long unheard of, they are all right wherever they are. Where Is the Ashman? In our “Complaint Book” the ashman is loudly called for. Where is he? What has become of him? Has he drawn a prize in the great Kentucky lottery and forgot his daily duties? Is he waiting in the City Hall for an opportunity to tell the new Mayor how to handle the city government? Is he one of the one hundred and forty- seven who stand with their noses pinned to the door of Tammany Hall by the awfal force of an injunction from the Su- preme Court? If not, what has be- come of him? It is an experience widespread throughout the that he has not appeared for several 6, and forty thousand ash barrels, fall to the brim, want to know the reason why. All over the city they may be seen. In some places there are three side by side, in some places six. It is an easy labor to count a hundred of them in a short tour. Everybody is long of ashes and short of empty barrels, There is a glut of splendid material for the making of fine corner lots on Harlem flate. or any other flats, if some one will take it where it is wanted; where it is it is an obstruction and a nuisance. Who will take it away ? Legalized Brutality and Torture. ‘Lhe scones at Camden yesterday incident to the execution of the murderer Hunter were fully as revolting as any of the par- ticulars of the dead eriminal’s sin. No one with a spark of humanity in him ean help believing the joering crowd to have been fully as murderous at heart as the man they taunted, while the particulars of the legal- ized life-taking were inexcusably horrible, The murderer’s worst enemy will forever abhor whoever was responsible for the length of the rope that allowed the victim’s feet to touch the ground, while the sight of three men tugging at one end of a rope at the other end of which a man was being tortured to death has few parallels in the history of man killing under the law. The custom of putting criminals to death by hanging, which is the cruelest method in vogue in civilized countries, has, in the esteem of English and American jurists, a place which seems unaccountable when we realize that many other nations execute their criminals instantaneously and with-. out pain. Even in-semi-barbarous Utah, in our own country, the condemned man may be shot or beheaded, but elsewhere executions are almost impossible with- out the infliction of tortura to a de- gree at which any heart not ab- solutely brutal revolts, while blunders hike that of yesterday add to the agonies of the victim and to the disgrace of the community which is responsible for such unnecessary brutality. No lobby is likely to excite itself in behalf of persons condemned to death and no legislator can make political capital out of an attempt to change'the method of execution; but com- munities claiming to be humane and Christian should interest theniselves in this matter until the appearance of cruel vin- dictiveness does not accompany extreme justice and all excuse for torture disappears from our laws, as it already has done from those of some heathen nations and savage tribes. Praying for the Press. Evidently it is an accepted opinion in the clerical world that newspaper men are not yet past praying for, inasmuch as some reverend gentlemen have set apart an especial season for the exercise in prayer of their benevolent intentions toward the press. It has been reported that a certain divine said ig one of his eloquent prayers, “Thou hast seen, O Lord, by the morning papers, how the Sabbath is desecrated,” and perhaps, therefore, the immediate object of the pious interest now taken in the press is to make it worthier of such attention, and thereby to exhibit the activity if not the names of some earnest laborers in the vineyard. It’ will be pleasant to editors everywhere to find the Church interested in their welfare, for the welfare of the Church is a thing they have all had at heart, and eke the welfare of particular congregations and particular parsons. ‘In short, the press has done its utmost to make the Church not merely what it is—that would be a poor ideal—but what it should be, For our part, we have given an amount of our space enormous in the aggregate to the publica- tion of lamentably poor sermons ; not that we believed that poor sermons were great in sonl-saving power, but we had the confi- dent hope that the parsons generally would try to improve their sermons when the in- exorable types came constantly to expose their emptiness. In that and other ways we have labored for the good of this sacred service. We have constantly taken great pains to'admonish from time totime the large numbers of preachers who are con- stantly brought into court for the violation. of one or another of the Ten Command- ments, and all the newspaper press has done the same. If now the pulpit will re- ciprocate all these favors we shall all feel extremely grateful. David Dudley Field on the New Code. We call the attention of lawyers to the interview in another.column in: which that member of their profession who has ac- quired the greatest distin&tion in connec- tion with the forms of procedure explains his views of the new Code. Mr. Field is as emphatic as Governor Robinson himself in condemning it asa mess of crudities. On such a subject no opinion of laymen will have any weight either with lawyers or the Legislature. Governor Rob- inson’s emphatic disapproval of the Throop Code in his Message made it worth while to seek the opinion of the American lawyer who has long enjoyed, both in this country and Europe, the highest reputation in connection with this class of subjects. His knowledge of the question should naturally prepossess the profession in favor of his views; but, on the other hand, he may be biassed by pride of authorship. Be this as it may, Mr. Field’s suggestion of a commission of five eminent lawyers, to serve without pay, for revising the new Code and rectifying its absurdi- ties, deserves favorable consideration. Mr. Field himself should of course be one mem- ber of such a commission. If he has crotchets or idiosyncrasies they would be held in check by any four lawyers of equal standing with himself. The War in Afgha: As shown by our cable despatches pub- lished on Thursday the London journals were all more or less irritated at the tone in which General Kaufmann spoke of cer- tain evonts which they themselves are pleased to classify as ‘‘British victories.” General Kaufmann was rather disposed to belittle these collisions as of great con- sequence, and to believe that if there had really been any fighting in the Afghan war it had not all been as much on one side as appeared by the London reports, At these observations the Londoners assumed a tone ofinjured innocence which might be justified if no English paper had ever misrepresented a military event, General Roberts’ fight with some hostile tribes seems to have been another of the brilliant victories chronicled seriously by the British press, His enemy is now reported at six thousand, and in hattle with this force he lost two killed and four wounded. How desperate the fighting was this list of casualties shows at once. Buta fact reported to-day is significant in this’ connection, General Roberts seems no sooner to have gained this, victory than he started on a run for Koorum, “owing to rumors of threatened attacks by the Mon- gols.” He went to the rear on account of rumors, though the defeat of six thousand only cost him six men. More Indian Bilundering. Our special despatch upon the outbreak and consequent slaughter of Indians at Camp Robinson only details a single scene in a sad drama, The Indians were those Cheyennes who a few weeks ago ran away from their wretched, inappropriate reserva- tion in the Indian ‘Territory to save themselves and their children from starving. Although they deserved public sympathy in their misfortune and abuse they alienated it murdering on the border as they made their way north. Their march was, never- theless, for life, and was one of the long- est and most successful on record in this country of magnificent distances, When finally taken they were so exhausted as to be willing to do anything or go anywhere, even back to their deserted reservation ; but the Indian Bureau, for reasons best known to itself, delayed its decision until a week ago, by which time the savages had enjoyed decent treatment and regained their spirits; so they refused to go and threatened to starve themselves. They were allowed to try the starving process, as any attempt to move them a thousand miles, in the temper in which they were, would have been insanely foolish. Finally, although well guarded, they at- tempted to escape; refusing to halt or sur- render, they were fired upon, and returned the fire from oa few pistols they had been able to conceal. The fimale was just what would have happened at Sing Sing or any other prison where escaping convicts were within range of the guards’ rifles; they were fired upon, pursued and killed as rapidly as possible. The whole affair will seem horrible to every one who reads of it, and to no one more than to the gallant soldiers whom civilian blundering has for a time compelled to be mere butchers, Our Insurance and Savings Bank Sys- i tems, The Governor's democratic ideas lead him into extreme views on many subjects. He recognizes in the establishment of insur- ance and bank departments an instance of the ‘erroneous and mischievous assump- tion that intelligent business men do not know enough to manage their own affairs, and that the Legislature should undertake the task for them.” In the case of savings banks he admits that there may be a pre- tence for extending some governmental protection to the depositors, ‘‘but even this is doubtful.” The number of savings bank failures under an unfaithful Superintendent is cited as a proof that the system is ob- jectionable and delusive, and the Governor thinks that these dishonest and unsound institutions could not so easily have gained the confidence of the poor people who con- fided their money to them had it not been for the fiflse idea that the State was the pro- tector of their interests, As to the Insurance Department, the Governor believes it has done more harm than good, and advises its abolition and. the transfer of a few of its principal duties to the Comptroller's office. It may be true that the Comptroller, through one of his clerks or deputies, could look after the insurance interests quite as effectively as a superintendent, who may use the powers he possesses for improper purposes. But the Governor's idea that institutions in the security and honesty of which the poor, the uneducated and the powerless are so vitally interested may safely be left with their hands ‘‘free from and untrammelled by legislative inter- ference” would, if carried out, be a peril- ous experiment. It would be safer to adopt the Governor's alternative proposi- tion, that if the government continues its control gver life insuramee companies and savings banks it ought to be responsible to parties who suffer through the negligence or malfeasance of its agents. Governor Robinson’s comments on the insecurity of the present State savings bank system are, however, the best argument that has yet been advanced in favor of Post Office savings banks under the protection of the federal government, where the earnings of the provident poor would be always en- tirely secure and safe from the effect of periodically recurring financial panics, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Chief Justice Sanford E, Church, of the Court of Appeals, is atthe Grand Central Hotel. ‘The editor of the Philadelphia 7imes, who iss gar | Geos lunt man, gushes editorially over red-headed girls, Rear Admiral William Gore Jones, naval attaché df the British Legation at Washington, is at the Claren- don Hotel. Sixty thousand persons petitioned the Swiss’ gov- ernment for the restoration of the penalty of capital punishment. Dr. Strousberg, the once famous railway king of Germany, offered three per cent on his indebtedness of $18,500,000, A cable despatch trom Hughenden says Lord Beaconsfeld’s attack of gout has almost completely passed away. Ex-President Grant left London for Paris at nine o’clock yesterday morning and arrived in the French capital at seven last evening. Sir Edward and Lady Thornton arrived at Montreal yesterday afternoon by the delayed Delaware and Hudson train and proceeded to the Windsor Hotel, ‘When a German soldier of the reserve or landwohr is ordered to join his regiment he has but twenty- four hours for the settlement of his private affairs, Saturday Review:—“"There is scarcely any man 6o fair and impartial as togiveno moro weight to a slight or wrong done to himself than to one offered to a stranger or acquaintance,” Mr, Decosmos, member of Parliament for British Columbia, who is at present in Ottawa, has received 8 letter giving particulars of the suicide of Mr. Ros- foe ex-membort of Parliament for Victoria, B. C. Governor Hampton, of South Carolina, has so far recovered his health that all save his regular physl- cian have been dismissed. He spent yesterday in writing letters and sat for two hours in an easy chair in the sunshine upon his porch. —_, London Punch Kxe's a protty go, Dill! See this ‘ere book? It's called “a Life of Potrareh,” the very ons as me and you's bin a layin of owr money on #0 free! And blowed if I ain't bin an’ giv ‘arf a crown for it!’ ‘Well, what then?” ‘Whi, it’s all about a bloomin’ poet!’ ” * Saturday Review:—Some people—and observant neonle. ton. by whom it fa pleasant to be thousht by marauding and | well of—have a knack of putting their friends into very becoming attitudes and placing them well before the world; but these people are not wits. ‘The com- Pany of wits is very delightful, but it involves the drawback that our weaknesses are apt to be the points in us that strike them most and survive all the rest ofus in their memory, ‘The passion for epigram is fatal to many a respectable reputation.” An English major general, who has been in India and loves curry, s: in a mortar, slowly, @ tablespoonful of ery powder, half a small cocoa nut finely grated, small dessert spoonful of brown sugar, half a pint of milk and half 4 pint of stock. Rub some of this into pieces of fresh lean meat, chicken or codfish, and put with the rest of the mix tureinto a frying pan, in which onion shreds have been cooked in butter. Stir all for ten minutes. Then reduce by simmering all in open stewpan for an hour or more, Stir in juice of half a lemon and any other flavor—tarragon, vinegar or gurlic—at the last moment. Rice, boiled dry, is served separately.” OBITUARY. COLONEL HENRY CApy, Colonel Henry Cady, of Virginis, died suddenly on his plantation near Hanover Court House, in that State, at ten o’clock Thursday evening, the 9th, it is supposed of heart disease, He had been attending this week in Richmond a meeting of the directors of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, in which he was a heavy shareholder and with which road he has been prominently identified for twenty years. He built many of the tunnels and heavy grades on the line of that road in the Blue Ridge and Alleghany’ moun- tains, He also built the Washington (D. C.) aquo- duct and waterworks for the government during the administration of Buchanan. He was also a heavy contractor in the construction of the Genesee Vulley Canal, the Chenango Canal, the Hudson River Railroad and -New York Central and Erie Railway. . He Petty the aqueduct that takes the Erie Canal across Genesee River at Rochester, which has awithe Stood allthe freshets there, and is considered the finest piece of masonry in the United States. Mr. Cady was ve at Chittenango, in this State. He was a itive of the late George Daniel Cady, Gerritt Smith and ex-President Fillmore. For years previous to the war he resided at Rochester, where he built a handsome residence on Plymouth avenue, and was for severdl years an Alderman of that city. The war found him in foot mountains Ce heat ee, building a anche when Floyd, old per: ut ‘he had ims that inia, for which better settle uy ag with the State of Vi he was doing the work, and quit. He had not pre- viously thought that the war would last long, sayin; “It will blow over soon.” Having. large amount,o! Southern funds he invested in lands, in plantations and railroad stocks, and took up his residence on the famous plantation “known as “Mount Pleasant,”” in Hanover county, which cue the birthplaces of Patrick Henry and lay. The battle of Hanover Satie Ahan under Fitz John Porter on the one side and General Branch, was fought on this plantation. Mr. Cady and family witnessed it froin the balcony ot his residence, He, shout that time, also had an interview with General McClellan at the court house. Mr. Cady ed to maintain a neutral position during the war—though frequently between the lines of both armies—and the respect of both sides. Mr. Cady derived his title as colonel of a wmilitis regiment at Rochester, in this State, in old times. Ho was at the time of his deathin his seventicth year. He was in business in ey ee with George Law on the eine A ‘Valley Canal, soredncgpes with the late Guyrell Hollenback, of Wilkes! barre, and with ex-Canal Commissioner W. W. Wright, of Geneva, and the late Charlcs Cook, of Havana. For years he was the largest. contractor in the United States. Colonel Cady leaves a widow, two sons and one daughter. , GENERAL NICHOLAS FABRE GEFFRARD, HAYTI. General Nicholas Fabre Geffrard, ex-President of Hayti, died on December 31, 1878, at Torrington, his residence, near Kingston, Jamaica, aged seventy- two, He was born at l’Anse 4 Veau, in the south of Hayti. His father, who took a leading part during the colonial war against the English, under Tous- saint L’Ouverture, then Governor General of the island, and occupied even @ more conspicuous posi- tion during ‘the war of independence, was put to death at Aux Cayes in 1806 by order of Dessalines or Jacques, first’ Emperor of Hayti. Nicholas Gef- frard, under the paternal care of General Fabre, his stepfather, was educated at the Lyceum of Aux Cayes, and came @ large planter in the near the last Sane city. When he entered the army and was s00n preaaes! in the Negtment of Cayes. In 1830 he was married to the daayghter of a Scotch merchant of that city—the well known Mr. eee of South American fame, ee by. th the aid he rendered to Bolivar. In 1843 -Geffrard took part in thesevolation by which the government of President Boyer was overthrown, after an adminis- tration that lasted twenty-five years. At the end of was made # colonel for his gallant vervices, and in 1844 occu- it of Mili Governor of Jacmel. Soulouque 1e Emperor, in 1849, — ta Make then general of division, was created Di la Tabla, as a reward for his bravery at the atti oft that name, Shady near Azua, ane the invasion of the Dominican Republic by Faustin (Soulouque). On the 21st of December, 1858, Geffrard, accompanied by a few friends, left Port au Prince in Samal opel n boat, and landed the day after (the 22d) at Gonaives, where they wero joined by some con- federates (at whose was Aimé Legros), made a revolution against Soulouque, and declared the re- public. Geffrard’ was proclaimed President by the or At the ti revolutionary arm: ‘On the 15th of January, 1! he captured Pos * aw Prince; Soulouque thea abdicated and left for Jamaica, new P called the legislative body, composed of the Cham ber and Senate of Soulouque, and had his title of President tor life confirm a the 13th of March, 1867, owing to the revolution which took place at St. Mate, J Tod ‘by Generals Chevalicr and Nissage Suget, Hated, and left for Jamaica, where he has re- what ever since, save a visit to France and to Hayti. Geffrard was a mulatto of very fine appearance, of mixed blood—negro, Indian and white; he was fairly educated and very friendly to foreigners, Under on administration ‘great efforts were made, some success, to promote education among jt le. It was then that « concordat Bader with the Holy rere He may have com. mitted many errors, but his administration will always Perea enees me of era and card ceful of tl yublic, whose mat ty tras greater then than it haw’ boon wince. ie leave a widow and two daughters. modest fortune, his properties en Hayti havi seized for alleged deficiencics in bis financial oa istration, But by 8 late decision of the High Court of Justice at Port au Prince the confiscation of hie estate was removed. GUSTAVE SCHLEICHER, M, C. Representative Schlcicher, of Texas, died in Wash- ington yesterday afternoon. The greatest solicitude has been felt for this gentleman since the beginning of his brief illness, and his great personal popularity was shown by the numerous inquiries that have been made as to his condition. It waa not thonght, prey! Ad his physicians bt every since Wednesday, chances were to his recovery, oe oe the great Peacart marco on the disorders with Sees he was afflicted. A meeting of both houses of gress from Texas and other friends of the eceared. will be Held immediately to take. proper steps Wragernen | the funeral. A ee oe was born at Darmstadt, Germany, November 19, 1823; was educated at the University of Givsson, in the Grand te 4 of Hesye-Dgrmstedt; was en- gaged as a ct Se “nt grated construction ot several European to Texas in 1847, and, after passit nome fime on on toe ¢ trontiers, located at San Antonio in 1850; was s momber of the Stgte House of Representatives in 1453-54 and of the Stute Senate in 1460-61, He was elected to the Forty- fourth and Forty-fifth Congresses, re-elected to bons Forty-sixth ahaa ae He leaves a wife ‘and left a fed MCARTHY DOWNING, M. P, Aspecial cable despatch announces the desth at Skibbercen yesterday of Mr. McCarthy Downing, a well known Irish home rule member of Parliament, one of the representatives of the county Cork. He was ao soliettor ts in at Skibbereen and Dublin and chairman of the Incorporated Society of the At- torneys and Solicitors of Ireland. He was also a local magistrate and was active in support of local inter. . He was ret at the of the poll as emt. gh we Bad Soranaan professed mise Tony on the pee of tenant Eh He was the second rt. of Mr. Eugene Downing, of Kenmare, coun! Me as pA @ daughter of Mr. Timothy baw pen , M. Rirwtimore in the same county, and was 4. He was wane daughter of Denied MeAThy, of Ais Hill, county Cork, PIERRE ROBINET, FRENCH SCULPTOR, ‘The latest Paris mail advices bring intelligence of the death of Pierre Robinet,a French sculptor of talont. Among his works are the statues of Keller, of Jean. ita ay the Louvre; “Pandora. ie, exhil salons ot 1864 and 1865, he received recompenses, M, Robinet was also awarded a fnstons in 1970, MRS, CELIA ALTMAN. Mra. Colia Altman, mother of Mr, B. Altman, the prominent dry goods merchant, died hope evening, in the seventy-third year of her age, Breles for ber many inostentatious aad Bates e 0 of charity and benevolence, = : -