The New York Herald Newspaper, January 21, 1879, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. aeeibgannioed JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, THE DAILY HERALD, published every day tm the year. ree cents (Sundays excluded). Ten dollars por ear, five do! months, two dollars And fifty cents for three 1 if jar per month for ye yy edition included, ‘of postaze. WEEKLY HERALD—Ono dollar per year, freo of post exe. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—Rewit in drafts on Now ¥ where neither of these istered letter, All jor to insure atten- changed must give e88. All business, news letter: xruphic despatches must addressed New York Hi Letters and packages shou! perly sealed, Rejected communicati be returned. . 12 SOUTH SIXTH DE LOPERA. TRADA PACE, went» will bo received and, in New York, PARK THEATRE—Dot. LYCEUM THEATRE. BROADWAY THEATR' THEATRE COMIQU WALLACK’S—Ovns, UNION SQUARE THEAT RCH AMBAULTS, Gvuarp Bau, ux Bangse’s Dsvcurer. OLYMPIC THEATRE—Nevex Too Late To Musp. GRAND OPERA HOUSE—Tne Contxey Baws, GERMANIA THEATRE—Horxt. Kuxoxpusy. BOWERY THEATRE—Dawa, THOMAS OPERA HO NEW YORK AQUARIU TIVOLI THEATRE— COOPER INSTITUE—B BAN YRANCISCO MIN BTEINWAY HALL—Sor CHICKERING HALL—La: TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1879, ‘The probabilities are that the weather in New York and its vicinity to-day will be warmer and partly cloudy or fair. To-morrow it promises to be cool and fair. Watt Street Yesrerpay.—The stock market ‘was very active and strong until near the close, when there was a general decline. Govern- ment bonds were firm, States weak and rai!- roads strong. Money on call was easy at 203 per cent, and closed at 2 a 21g per ceut. Mr. Snermay’s Pirx of four per cents is com- ing down rapidly—nearly seven millions yester- doy. aii AA ies Accorpine To Our Locat Reports the upper Portion of the city is becoming popular with the thieves. Tue Presipent’s HEsITaTION in signing the Supplementary Pension bill is a pretty good sign that he does not care for a second term. Bostoy’s Fine Insurance Companies suffered 80 seyerely by the reeent fires in this city that an increase iu the rates is under consideration. Tue Report of the Commissioners of Emi- gration shows a large increase in the number of immigrants over recent years. The next twelve months will probably show a still better record. Rent ror Barrie Grounvs is what Mr. Maish, of Pennsylvania, asks for his constituents by @ bill introduced in the House yesterday. Probably they are among those who charged our soldiers tive cents a glass for water while on the march to Gettysburg. Goverxor Hartrayrt, of Pennsylvania, sig- malized yesterday the last day of his adminis- tration by signing two death warrants, making fm all fifty-two that have issued from his hand. He also commuted the sentence of Blasius Pis- torious to imprisonment for life. Tue Scnurz-Suexiran Coxtroversy on the Indian question has probably come to an end, siuce General Sherman in a communication, which we publish in another column, advises “Little Phil” to do with his pen what he has mever done with his sword—drop it. Wuen Askep Aout the proposed union be- tween Tammany and avti-Tammavy Mayor Cooper and Comptroller Kelly reply with the Dlandest of smiles that they do not know a thing about it. The ignorance of these distin- guished gentlemen is one of the amusing fea- tures of the affai Ix THs Oprsicn of the Connecticut authori- ties there is little doubt that the Schulte murder in that State was planned in Europe. So cer- tain are they of the correctness of this theory that one of the alleged murderers will be ar- rested as soon as a steamer now on her way out arrives in port. Tne Moxpay Coxrer : of the Baptist ministers is becoming decidedly entertaining. From the “scarlet woman” and the “beast” the reverend geutlemen got to politics yesterday, when the liveliest kind of a row followed. If this sort of thing is to continue they ought to hire the largest hall in town. Tue Weatuen. ‘The relative positions of the areas of high and low barometer remain nearly the same as on Sunday. The pressure has fallen within the centre ot the depression that overlies Northern New England aud Nova Scotia, owing te the northward movement of a subsidiary dis turbance over the ocean, parallel with the coast line. The barometer continues highest over the ippi Valley and the Gulf districts, ikely to commence falling again in the Southwest to-morrow. Snow has fallen through- out the lake regions, Ohio Valley and New Eng- land. In the other districts the weather bas been generally clear, ‘The winds have been brisk in the Middle Atlantic and New Eng- land States and the Northwest. They have also increased considerably over the enst- en Gulf. Elsewhere they have been light. A decided fall has occurred in the tem- perature throughout all the districts except the upper luko regions and the central valleys, where it has been variable. Jt is probable that the temperature will rise quickly during to-day. The weather of yesterday ‘was very favorable to ao fall in the Bouthern rivers, and it is likely to continue so for a few days. The ice is reported to be break- ing up in some of the rivers, and is destroying valuable floating property, on account of the rapid current. Gales are commencing to blow over the British Islands, and the barometer is falling. This shows that the disturbance pre- dicted by the HeraLp Weather Bureau to reach the British and French coasts between the 20th end 22d is arriving on time. The weather in ‘New York and its vicinity to-day will be warmer and partly Goudy or fair, To-morrow it prom- ises to bo 601 and fair, NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1879--TRIPLE SHEET. Mr. Blaine and the “Solid South.” A political party contains almost always two more or less opposing forces—the one progressive, willing to take up new ques- tions, the other conservative and desirous to remain on the old ground. ‘This is espe- cially true of a party which has long held power. Thus the democratic camp before 1861 was divided between two factions, which were known as hardshells and soft- shells, hunkers and barnburners. ‘The republican party, after that time, had its Seward and Greeley wings, and at present and for some years it has had its ‘‘stalwarts” and “liberals,” It has been Mr. Blaine’s singular good fortune that he was long admired and trusted by both these contending factions in his party. For a good many years he played the difficult game of politics with a degree of skill and success which won him the good will of even his opponents, As Speaker he not only ruled his party in the House, but on many important occasions he over- ruled its bad impulses, It was his care- ful selection of a committee to inves- tigate Louisiana which first brought to light in a manner to fix public at- tention the iniquities of carpet-bag rule in the Southern States. It was he who thwarted General Grant’s purpose to overturn the settled and constitutional State government of Arkansas. It was he who defeated the monstrous Force bill which General Grant and the stalwarts strove to pass. In all this he served not only his country but his party; he pre- served it from policies which would have brought down upon it the resentment of the people; and that he was able'to do all this, which made him the hope and leader of the liberal wing of his party and yet revain the confidence and support of the stalwarts, shows that he was a transcen- dently able manager of meu. But his courage seemed at last to fail him; having defeated the set purpose of the ‘‘stalwarts” to rule the Southern States by force, he at the following session of Congress turned about and in the notori- ous Jeff Davis debate with Mr. Hill made himself the spokesman of the stalwarts, in- flamed the mind of the North against the South, disappointed the hopes of all who had seen in him the man to unite thesections and heal over the wounds of the war, and gave the cue for the republican canvass of 1876, There is now no longer any doubt, we should think, even in Mr. Blaine’s mind, that he thus committed a capital blunder; for while his course alienated the “liberal” support, it failed to secure him that of the “stalwarts,” which he was able only to share with several other candidates in the Convention of 1876— Conkling, Morton and Hariranft. It was inevitable that defeat in the Convention should have followed his abandonment of the pre-eminent and peculiar position of leadership he had won; but itis not al- ways that such a blunder is so clearly ex- posed by the event. The Convention of 1876 not only did not nominate Mr. Blaine, it did not nominate any ofthe ‘‘stalwart” candidates, it chose a “liberal ;” for Mr. Hayes’ political connections and friend- ships were all with the liberal wing of his party, and, so far as his capacity and the embarrassment of his position have allowed him to do so, he has made his administra- tion the embodiment of “liberal” and not of “stalwart” ideas. Mr. Blaine appears to believe that events march backward, and that a political party can successfully do so too. His new bid to recover the leadership of his party, which he weakly sacrificed in the spring of 1876, isa resolution tor another, the twentieth, in- vestigation of theSouth. And yet he ought to remember that the sectional policy he now again fathers has during two Presiden- tial terms gradually reduced the great re- publican majority of 1869 to the vanishing point, and has returned the greater number of its exponents to private life. He might also remember that on this policy he will not be next year, as he was not in 1876, the leader of his party ; and scarcely indeed‘ among the first, for Grant, Conkling, Sher- man, Edmunds and Cameron all come be- fore him. His Southern resolution and speech do not, therefore, give him the controlling posi- tion ; he has sown what others , will reap if the harvest ever ripens, which we do not believe. And he. hus flung away a very great opportunity to make himself the mas- ter of his party and lead it over fresh fields to new victories. He, beyond all the other republican’ chiefs, is liked and trusted by the Southern men, who gratefully remem- ber that on several vitally important occa- sions he stood between them and the fixed purposes of General Grant and the ‘‘stal- warts.” He, moreover, believes in a policy which is very popular in the South—the policy of subsidies and internal improve. ments, Had Mr. Blaine, instead of his new raid on the South, which has fallen dead on the country, declared himself for justice, but also for sectional harmony and good feeling; had he made him- self the administration leader in the Senate; had he boldly demanded the forma- tion of a new republican party in the South, and called into it, as he better then any other man could do, able, influential and honest men; had he announced a new re- publican policy looking to substantial levee and other internal improvements, ocean and railroad subsidies, he would, without losing his hold on the Northern wing of his party, have splintered the Southern democratic organization to pieces, and would have drawn to himself such Southern support as would make him master next year of the Convention and of five or six Southern States in the election. J It is the peculiarity of the present politi- cal situation that the line of policy which has been most marked as that of the repub- lican party in the North has become, as many of the most influential Southern men and a great mass of Southern people hold, the dominant necessity of the South. Any man who, with sufficient politi- cal following in the North, promises the South such measures of internal improve- ment as we speak of, ond with them the assurance of security in their local self- government, will be the controlling spirit in Southern politics. The present political parties and organizations will melt before his influence. If Mr. Blaine had taken the leadership of the administration it needed only his bold and aggressive advocacy of new issues to make it the strongest party administration the republicans have ever had; nor could any of his rivals have with- stood him; sulkily, grudgingly, perhaps, but obediently, they must have followed him, for his party would quickly have seen that he pointed the way to success, - But instead of dividing the South and rallying the larger half of it to his own side and to the republican banners, he has chosen to do that which can only make its solidity more solid; he has helped tho democratic party past its greatest peril, and he has done what he could to injure the country at large by prolonging sectional dissensions. And, after all, he has not ad- vanced his own career, but the contrary. France Safe with the Republic. It is with genuine satisfaction we record the issue of the French Parliamentary crisis in a victory for the Dufaure Ministry. It is not merely a Cabinet triumph which is re- corded in the division in the Chamber of Deputies of last evening, when the Ministry was indorsed by a vote of 223 to 121, but a triumph for the republican form of govern- ment itself. After the Senatorial elec- tions at the beginning of the year it was known that the Republic had become firmly séated beyond the power of dislodgement by its foes. It must be con- fessed, however, that wany of the Repub- lic’s well-wishers harbored a fear that it would soon be put in peril by its loudest supporters; that in fact the extreme radi- cals and other advanced republicans would make such extravagant demands as must either hurry the government into a course that would affright the country, or force France back into the hands of the plotting reactionaries. The ominous coldness with which the Ministerial declaration was re- ceived last week had in some measure strengthened this fear, but on examination it was found that the demands of the Left related mainly to the filling of certain gov- ernmental and magisterial positions by men devoted to the Republic, and the turning out of incumbents devoted to one or other of the royalist parties. This demand must not be confounded with mere office-hunger, though of course the republicans would get the offices vacated. It was most natural that the Republic should at the first opportunity take every precaution against the faction- ists, who have never hesitated to do the vilest work in the interest of their parties, if thereby the Republic could be strangled. The tension of parties was, therefore, ex- treme yesterday when the Chamber met. The factions of the Right, hoping to en- courage a pitched battle between the sections of the Left, abstained from voting. But the good sense which has guided the mass of the republicans prevailed. M. Dufaure, unwilling to be put in the false position of supporting reactionaries in office, announced in his speech that a number of changes had been made, adopted the tone of M. Senard, the opening orator of the Left, with regard to the allegiance due by officials to the Re- public, and finally won a victory which will show all France that, determined as the republicans are on assuring the founda- tions of the government they have estab- lished, they can proceed with moderation. We the more rejoice in this that it preaches aloud to Europe how well the people can govern themselves. Investigate Watson’s Charges. At a recent meeting of the Board of Edu- cation Commissioner Watson opposed a resolution on ventilating the schoolhouses, and based that opposition on an assertion that the agitation on the question had been gotten up by certain inventors of patent ventilators who had resorted to bribery to attain their ends. Now this is a matter that must not be allowed to rest, and the Board of Education should investigate it without delay. When a Commissioner sees fit to make definite charges about brib- ery, as Mr. Watson did, the Board cannot afford to ignore his statements. A public officer stands up in a public body and says that bribery has been resorted to, and by inference makes it appear that this bribery has called out action by the Board of which he is a member, and no effort is made to ascertain the exact truth. The Commis- sioners surely appreciate the fact that ut- terances like these of Mr. Watson ought to be made a watter of strict inquiry, and the people will look to the Board of Education for such action. Let us hope they will not be disappointed. Mr. Campbell and the Death of Max- imilfan, No gentleman involved in the details of an important episode in American history is more talked about and less heard from in these days than Mr. Lewis LD. Campbell, of Ohio. Mr. Campbell, who has served the country in Congress we believe for about ten years, was more or less disposed to serve it abroad in a diplomatic way in the year 1865, and was duly accredited to the Mexican President as a Minister of the United States about December in that year. He did not hasten to his post of duty—for which many reasons might be alleged, some good and some indifferent, It was not always easy to tell in those days just where the Mexican President was. Henatp correspondents always fond him, it is true; but then a Minister is a person- age whose dignity is presumably greater while his energy is generally less than that of the knights errant of the press, Mr. Campbell, however, as the ‘Biographical Annals” inform us, succeeded in getting to the arm-in-arm convention in Philadelphia, and toa soldiers’ convention in Cleveland in 1866, and then he went down to Vera‘! Cruz as cold weather came on, taking Gen- eral Sherman under his arm. But he never went to Juarez, Juarez was not in that neigh- borhood. But when Mr, Campbell was at Brownsville he was not far from the Presi- dent of Mexico, to whom he was accredited, and he could have reached him without danger or difficulty. He did not go to him, however, and the annals of our diplomacy would be the richer if the reason for his abstention were known; for in somo revived discussion of the history of the tragedy of Maximilian it is pretty clearly shown that that prince was slain because Mr. Campbell was not at his post. It is to be hoped that Mr. Campbell will some day recount his version of the facts, and we shall always be ready to give to his defence the same pub- licity we have given to those parts of the story which reflect upon his delinquency. A Brilliant Triumph for Senator Conk- ling. The highest compliment ever paid in this State to any citizen in ihe form of an elec- tion to the federal Senate was paid to Roscoe Conkling last evening by his unanimous nomination for a third election. Even aside from the circumstances which brighten this triumph with so singular a lustre; even apart from the fierce opposition which has been annihilated and the jealousy and passion which have been so remarkably hushed, the election of a Senator for three full consecutive terms is without a parallel in the history of this State. ‘Lo be sure, Rufus King and Silas Wright were each thrice elected to the United States Senate ; but Mr. King’s terms were not con- secutive, and he served out only one of them, while Mr. Wright's whole period of service in the Senate was less than eleven years, although his three elections were consecutive, Mr. Wright was first elected to fill a vacancy, then fora full term, and then for another full térm, but he resigned in the early part of it, Mr. Seward served two full terms, and might have had athird if he had de- sired it, but Mr. Conkling is the first Sen- ator from this State who near the close of two continuous terms was ever elected for a third, : But it is the political history of the last two years that renders this unanimous and most enthusiastic nomination of Mr. Conkling so impressive a demonstration of his political strength and commanding force of character.. An administration of his own political party undertook to destroy him. With all the federal patronage in its hands, with all Mr. Conkling’s jealous rivals as its allies, with a revolution in the Custom House as one of its many in- struments, all that it has succeeded in accomplishing has been to make the triumph of the statesman it undertook to crush the most complete and brilliant ever won in the political history of the State. The manner of the nomination will be as gratifying to Mr. Conkling’s ad- mirers as its perfect unanimity: i The spiteful and futile exhibition by the democratic caucus is as pitiful and ridic- | ulous as the barking of terriers at the heels of a racehorse nearing the goal in full course. The Cipher Despatches. We print an interesting and valuable in- terview with President Green, of the West- ern Union Company—interesting because Dr. Green expresses with great emphasis the opinion held by all honorable men re- specting the sanctity of telegrams, and val- uable because it gives information which exonerates the Western Union Company and its late president irom blame in the publicity which has been given to the cipher despatches. President Or- ton and the directors held out as long as they could against the subpoena ofthe Senate. They at one time contemplated burning the despatches to avoid compliance, but their counsel, Judge Porter, advised against this course, and they yielded at last under Congressional duress. A huge iron-hooped Saratoga trunk was sent to Washington containing nearly thirty thousand telegrams, and delivered through Mr. Whitney, their agent, to the Senate Committee. Six or seven weeks later the trunk was returned with (asthe com- pany supposed) the same contents. Presi- dent Green thinks that the cipher despatches were copied or stolen while in possession of the committee. ‘There is good evidence that some if not all of them were not copied, but stolen outright. Mere copies would not have enabled the possessors to publish fac-similes of the originals. Who stole them is aquestion which Dr. Green has no means of answering, but he is quite certain that the theft was committed while the de- spatches were out of the custody of the Western Union Company. They remained night after night spread out on the table of the committee room, not guarded in any way except by the mere locking of the door. The Potter Committee will lave the means of tracing them backward from the hands of the translators, and will be inexcusably derelict if it fails to probe the theft to its origin. The account given by Dr. Green of the mode of guarding and disposing of the originals of despatches is entirely satisfac- tory. They are never divulged except on legal compulsion, any more than a phy- siciau divulges the secrets of his patients or a lawyer of his ‘clients. ‘They are re- tained in confidential custody for a period of six months as a protection against dam- ages for faulty transmission, and then aro chopped up fine and sent to the paper mill, They are not exposed to be stolen or copied while in possession of the company, but only when forced out of its hands by legal compulsion, ‘there is need of some more efficient provision of law for the protection of despatches while in custody of committees of Congress. The liability of persons who copy or steal them to punishment for conten:pt is insufficient, because it expires with the Congress, and because it may be exercised arbitrarily. It is better that there should be definite , pen- alties ordained by statute and enforced by the criminal courts. When the Potter Committee shall have investigated this theft it should also frame and introduce a suitable law for the punishment of similar offences. The Morgan The democratic Senators adopted in cau- cus yesterday morning a substitute for the Edmunds resolutions offered on the day of reassembling after the holiday recess, The substitute was presented in the Senate by Mr. Morgan, and laid on the table to be considered horeafter, By whomsoever this substitute was drawn, whether by Senator Thurman, Senator Bayard, or some other democratic Senator, the author has had the raro good fortune. to catch Senator Edmunds trip- ping in points of law. Mr. Edmunds, te. it will be, recollected, introduced his resolutions with a very pretty rhetorical flourish, ‘This glad morning of the new -year,” said he, ‘‘when there are peace and joy and hope everywhere, I think is the best time possible to offer resolutions which, ifthey be unanimously adopted, will have @ tendency to cement good will and con- cord and unity of sentiment.” His mind was so taken with this feat of irony that he forgot to attend to his law, and the conse- quence is that the proposed substitute has a great advantage over his own resolutions, The Edmunds resolutions are in plain conflict with a cele- brated ‘judgment of the Supreme Court—namely, the judgment delivered by Chief Justice Waite, at the October term, in 1875, in the case of the Umited States vs, Cruikshank et al. It was decided in that case that the new amendments to the constitution do not authorize Congress to protect the right of citizens to vote, but only to protect them aguinst discrimina- ticns founded on race, color, or previous servitude. It is competent to any State to establish a property qualification or an education qualification, or any other quali- fication it pleases--the only restriction being that it must apply to both races alike. Mr. Edmunds seems to have forgotten that important decision when he prepared his resolutions. He made the second of them declare ‘that it is the duty of Congress to provide by law for the fall and impartial protection of all citizens of the United States legally qualified in the right to vote for Representatives in Con- gress.” All that Congress can constitu- tionally do is to prevent or punish any discrimination on the ground of race or color, the punishment of other violations of the right of suffrage belonging to the State governments. Mr. Edmunds stands on untenable ground, because he ex- tends the scope of the new amendments beyond the narrow limit defined by the Supreme Court. The Germanic Hercules. While Prince Bismarck, armed with the powers of the new law, is stopping socialist newspapers at the frontiers and socialist subscriptions in the cities, as well as warn- ing socialist Deputies who are elected -to the Reichstag away from Berlin, he does not pause in his herculean labor of prop- ping up and binding together the great structure of the Empire. In every new movement it is scen how fixedly he keeps in view that centralization which is his ideal. His latest project of a uniform rail- way tariff for the railroads of the Empire is something that travellers will be thank- ful for, but it is another step toward the obliteration of the frontier lines of the fed- erated States. On all sides the movement is progessing. Even the appeal to the agricultural classes for support in his new tariff scheme is intended to aid the same re- sult. All eyes must turn to Berlin; all actions be regulated by words of com- mend from Berlin, and Bismarck stands ready to direct all, from the conduct of a war to the purchase of a railway ticket, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Butler loves to wear red roses. Baltimoresns love pearls. Is this because of the oyster trade ? Ex-Attorney General Stanberry will live in Cincin- nati this winter. ‘Talmage has the advantage over Levy. Noone can levy on his bugle. Cincinnati Saturday Night says that England has had a great storm sent her. Jeff Davis prolongs the promise of his autobi- ography until Edison perfects the eloctric light. There is no perceptible change In the condition of Associate Justice Hunt, who is still dangerously ill. It was s wealthy soapmaker of thia State who asked his daughter whether it was Shakespeare who wrote the Merry Wives of Brown Windsor. ‘The Marquis of Lorne, Governor General of Canada, has issued cards of invitation for a state dinner, at Ottawa, on February 13, the day on which Parliament opens. Captain Samuel Brooks, of the Inman steamship City of Chester, arrived in port with his ship last evening, after a safe and uneventful voyage across the ocean. Chief Waubauno, of the Delaware tribe of Indians, yesterday presented an address to the Governor General of Canada, He was in full Indian costume, with war paint, &c., and carried Tecumseh’s toma- hawk. Professor Hill, the successor of Senator Chaffee, of Colorado, in the United States Senate, was once a professor in Brown University, went to Wales and worked as common miner so as to learn the secret of separating gold, silver and copper in the same ore, aud afterward locating in Colorado became wealthy, He is about fifty and is quite thin, ‘The London Graphic (December 28) has an illustra- tion of the naval events of 1878, which it divides into twelve, us follows:--(l) The Cleopatra at sca taking the famous “noodle” from Egypt to the Thames; (2) the Hurydice just before the squall struck her as she was sailing before a fair wind; (3) the Eurydice on her beam ends in the squall; (4) the positions of the Groscer-Kirfurst and Konig Wilhelm after their col- lision; (6) the Konig Withelm being towed into Ports- mouth; (6) the Arctic exploration yacht Pandora, now the Jeannette, in the polar regiops; (7) torpedo experiments at Portland; (8) the Royal Naval Review at Spithead; (9) the electric light on the Thunderer; (10) the collision between the Princess Alice and the Bywell Castle; (11) the British fleet in Besika Bay; (12) the Sarmatian at sea, . London World:—"l hear from Gibraltar that Lord Napier and the General became great cronies on the occasion of the cx-President’s visit to that place. ‘They rode and strolled about, and had mess dinners, and there was # review as well as ® sham battle. There was some surprise that the General did not wear lis uniform at the review; but the American Consul told my correspondent that Ulysses had tired of his uniform and sent it home, However, his horsemanship was a theme of universal admiration. Tho soldiers did their best in marching and manwu- vring. Lord Napiet was greatly pleased, and said he had never seen them do so well in his life, and he supposed they were putting their best foot forward for the Yankee commander, It was rather a trial to undergo tho inspection of a man who had commanded over 4 million of meu and taken part, in most in. stances as commander, in fifty pitched battles,” BAYARD TAYLOR. ‘The second aveting of tho united German singing societios, who will hold a grand lodge of sorrow when the remains of Bayard Taylor arrive in this city, was held in the Germania Assombly Rooms, in the Bowery, last eveniug, Herr Johann M, Schmidt, of the Franz Abt Schiller, acting as president, and Max Heyno, of tho Arion Quartet Clab, acting a8 sce. retary. ‘The following societies were repre- sented:—Tho Badischer Mannerchor, Liodertafel, Social Reform, Arion Quartet Club, Alle* mania Mannerchor, Richard Wagner Mannerchor, Hanoverian Quartet Club, New York Sangerlust, Franz Abt Schiller, Rhenisher Sangerbund, Haruga- rara Liederkranz and the Germania Sanyerbund, delegates, numbering nearly two hundred, rehearsed the new dirge, “Aim Sarge Eines Dichter" (by the post's bier), which has been spect composed by Carl yon Sabm, of the Club, | The chorus was directed by Mr. Josept Harrison and tho music sting in a mi it ‘. | Byck street on Saturday TmaMteR’ wy red beagt ge tam re. “OBITUARY.” MARC JEAN. LOUIS FOURNIER; <FRENCH DRAM- ATIST. Mare Fournier, a French dramatist, lately the di- rector of the Theatre of Porte-Saint-Martin, died at Saint Mandé, near Paris, about the Sth inst., in his sixty-first year. Ho was of Swiss origin, having been born at Geneva in 1818, of a Protestant family which ad settled there two centuries ago, at the re- Vocation of the edict of Nantes, He received a good education ut the university of his native city, but when a boy of sixteen had to leave Switzerland in consequence of haying taken part in the wild expedi- tion to Savoy, organized by the ill-tated adventurer Ramorino (February, 1834), He came to Paris about 1838 and plunged into journalism, writing suc- cessively or contemporanconsly for many papers, in+ cluding the Globe, the Figavo and Netioual, spe Glally the Selom anacecetenatin Te me pee odicals, He also wrote literary reviews for the Artiste, In 1847, he became one of the staff editors of the Presse, and in 1848 of the Liberté, « paper starte:l in the interest of Prince Louis Napoleon. He made his début as a dramatist in the same year with # play entitled, “The Liber- tines of Geneva,” which obtained a considerable suc- cess, His other chief dramas were ‘The Pilgrimage in Bretagne” (1849), “Nights on the Seiue’’ (1853), “The Gold Miners of Sucramento” (1850), with Paul Duplessis, “Manon Lescaut” (1351), wit Theodore Barricro, “*Puillasse” (1853), with Philippe Dennery, and “La’ Béte du Bon Dieu’ (1854), with Adrien De- courcelle, He also represented at the Théatre Fran- , “Mme. de Tencin,” a comedy based upon a Wo volume novel bearing the same title, which he ~ had published Mirecourt. He was also author of a political work entitled, ‘Russia, Germany and France, Revelations of Russian Policy from the Notes of a Diplomatist”’ (1844), aud in’ 1855 he made _ his single appearance as a poet with a piece entitled ‘The Tri- wmphal March.” Mare Fournier was best known to the uch public es the director for many years of the celebrated theatre of the Porte-Saint-Martin, He was appointed to that post m July, 1851, and was for a long time successful in his management, though he had not a few lawsuits with authors and actors. One of the celeprated cases of the modern jadicial annals was the suit #occesstull: bronght ‘against Mare Fournier in 1854 by the Société des Gens de Lettres to restrain him trom producing his own plays upon the theatre which he directed. His ment Wass greatartistic success and hu was noted for the splendor with which he produced new piays. After along struggle against adversity he became bankrupt in 1888, when he resumed his earlier profession of jour- nalism, and obtained an interest in a steam pevige tion company. He edited the dramatic column of the Centre Gauche ews} “The Queen of the Washerwomen,” und in 1875 began in the columns of. the Petit Journal a novea of great extent dealing with ree Lafayette and the American Revolution. Mare Fournier married in 1846 the noted uctress und artist, Mile. Delphine Baron, but obtained a judicial se; ion from her in 1856, ‘fhe novels and plays of M. Fourhier are character- ized by undisputable originality and power, and one of the latter, ‘Nights on the Seine,” has popular favorite. His luter years were not prosper- in 1847 jointly with Kugéne de ous and he had lived in grest obscurity at Saint Mandé for several years before hie death. “GENERAL” GEORGE JACKSON. The sporting classes, and especially the admirers of the “P, R.,” have sustained a severe loss in the death of “General” Jacksén, who died in Cambridge, ‘on December 28, 1878. Georgo Jackson was born at Hurley Bottom, near Henley-on-Thames, in the year 1815, and was brought up chiefly at the house of his uncle, who kept the boathouse and yard at Henley ~ Bridge. Whilst a boy there he witnessed. the first Inter-University boat race between Oxford and Cam- ae which took place between Hambledon and enley, the Oxford boat during @ portion of its practice. He was then only fourteen years of age, and had not developed muscle as he did sub- sequently. At the age of sixteen, however, he en- listed in the Grenadier Guards und served under King William IV, and Queen Victoria for fifteen years, ris- ing to the rank of a sergeant. After leaving the Grenadier Guards he was engaged to teach fencing and buxing ut Mahmoud’s gymnasium at Brighton, and it was while here that ‘Com Sayers was placed under his instruction, While at hton Juckson originated “assaults at arms,” organizing the first on the occasion of his benefit. Coming to London, he exhibited his prowess with the sword, &c., before the Company with Gorton Ctiming, celebrated. Aftiean company with Gordon Cum: , Celebre a b praincley and rire Pan ped sony Letico House, 8 juare, where he ‘or his pupils, among others, the late Charles Dickens and Ribert Smith, ‘The former immortalized him by reproducing him as one of his characters in “Bleak House,” and com ferred upon him the title of “General”’ (he being the original of je the Trooper), which he throughout hi ite. In 1855 he went down to Cam- bridge and established » gymnasium, where, by his sons (one of whom—George—temained him to his death), he taught gymuasties, fencing, He boxing. The Marquis of Queensberry, Mr. T. Mil- vain aud many amateur boxers of the present day assed through the instractions of’ the “General.” Patterly Jackson, who in his prime was of maguifi~ cent physique and possessed of remarkable strength,’ has been int failing health. ' VICE ADMIRAL PHILWPPE VICTOR TOUCHARD. Acable despatch from Paris announces the death yesterday of Admiral Touchard, Deputy for that city in the National Assembly. He was born July 21, 1810;. entered the French navy in 18%; became lieutenant und eide-de-camp to Prince de Joinville August, 1839, st the time of, the expedition against Vera Cruz; attained the rank of post captain May, 1850, and of Rear Admiral March, 1859; was in com- mandof the French pen in the Levant in 1861, during the Syrian troubles; became chairman of the Commission on Artillery at the Navy Department in February 1864; Councillor of Admiralty September, 1864, and Vice Admiral November 5, 1864. He was subsequently chairman of the commission for reform- ing the Naval School and of the Council for super- intending Public Works in the Navy Depart. was made Commander of the Admiral Touchard was a great authority on questions ot naval construction and of navigation, on w! sub- jects he wrote much for the Revue Maritime and pub- lished several works. He was “liberal conservative” in poiitical opinions, and was clected to the National Assembly for Paris, October 14, 1877. His death was prematurely announced by the cable a few days ago, AUGUSTE MATHIEU, FRENCH JURIST. M. Auguste Mathieu, an infinential Bonapartiat politician, formerly deputy for Corréze, died in France on the 1st inst. ,Ho was born at Avize, De- partment of Marne, November .24, 1814, educated at the College of Epernay, studied law at Paris and at Epernay, commenced practice at Paris in 1837, be- sper! rated advocate, * celeb secretary to the the then at came. + Claude Delangie, head of the legal profession. He was engaged in many important trisis, and became a member of the council of the Paris Bar in 1349, He was chosen acouncillor general for the Marne, was elected a Deputy for the Corréze in 1863 as the government candidate, was a member of and secretary to several important eommissions, and was the pro x, in 1868, of & very stringent press law. He was decoratet with the Legion of Honor in 1866 and was re-elected to the Corps Legislatit in 1869. Since the fall of the Empire he had held no public position, but had been constantly consulted by the managers of the Bona partist ty, of which he was one of the most stren- erents. MATTHEW T. BRENNAN, Ex-Sheriff Matthew 1. Brennan died yesterday morning at his residence in Harlem, His family were about his bedside during the last moments, but he passed away unconscious, and almost impercepti- bly. ‘The funeral, which is to be very simple in its character, will take place at half-past ten o'clock on ‘Thursday morning, from St. ‘k's Cathedral. Among tho ee ip will be Ji Lawrence, Mr. John Kelly, Mr. Aaron J. Van and Mr. Robert J. Brown. The only flowers will be those furnished A sketch of h the deceased's immediate family. o a Brenuan’s career was published in yeaterday’s /ERALD, MISS SOPHIA C. KEMPER, Miss SophiaC, Kemper, daughter ot Colonel Daniel Kemper, an officer in the patriot army in the Revo- lutionary War, died at Easton, Pa., Sunday morning in the 102d year of her age. Althongh she has been somewhat tecble for the past six years abe was bright and cheertul up to the day of er deuth, and Pos: a vivid memory. The family to which she longed is a lar; ‘one, and many of them had lived to an extreme old age. PETER ANTONY, Poter Antony, of the firm of P. & M. Antony, died of pneumonia a few days ago ut his residence No. 220 East 123d street. Though pry sept a young Mr, Antony was one of the oldest business men in Harlem. Hie funoral took place ree vie ek his late residence. The deceased leaves s and two children in comfortable circumstances. JAMES A, OBTROM, James A, Ostrom, one of the assessors of Brooklyn, died at his residence, No. 144 South Ninth street, Wille jamal , of heart disease, on Sunday evening. He was ‘eck in Ulster county in ies and for irs carried on an extensive distfllery business ia Witltamsburg. He was pl winted Assessor in 1875 and filled his offive acceptably, — HENRY KALLIWODA, Henry Kalliwoda, a nephew of the eminent German of the same natuc, and well known in Brooklyn as @ lingutst and musician, bg his residence in Ten ISAAG A, WILLAARIBON, Isanc-A.-Williameon; # prominent-merehant of New Brunswick, N. J., died yesterday of pneumonia. per (1870), wrote a new drama, . become a+ and it was his boats that he steered’