The New York Herald Newspaper, January 24, 1879, Page 6

eacrines ‘NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, ita EL THE DAILY UERALD, puldished every day in the year, ree cents ver copy (Sunday ded). Ten dollars par niar per month for jay edition included, ubacribers wishing (hel adi i be properly tions will not be returned, UNION SQUARE MASONIC HALL— ovaH. $. Pixarore, EW YORK LYCEUM THE BROADWAY VER | PASTOR'S—Vanii EGYPTIAN HALL—Vani WINDSOR THEAT! TIVOLI TH. COOPER The probabilities are that the weather in New Fork and its vicinity to-day will be slightly cooler and partly cloudy or fair. To-morrow it will be warmer and par ily WAL Srrerr AY.—The stock mar- ket was very active and strong, and there was another general advance in prices. Government bonds were weak, States steady and railroads irregular. Money on call was easy at 2 a 3 per cent, closing at 21g per cent. County GuMBii ‘ has got another “stay.” Ile ought to lay in a couple of years’ supply and have done with it. Ture Members of one of the Florida county returning boards have at last been rewarded, United States Judge Settle has sent them to the Penitentiary. Tue Deraits of another reform plan for col- lecting the revenue are elsewhere printed. The only reform in that respect that will satisfy some people is not to collect it at all. THere Was ForTUNATELY no one in Debar’s Grand Opera Heuse, St. Louis, when flames burst from it yesterday afternoon. It had a narrow escape from total destruction. Is Rounp Ficu four and a quarter million dollars, the Commissioners say, will be required to finish the new Capitol at Albany. If there ‘were any certainty that even this would be the end of it taxpayers would breathe a little freer, Ir Corvoration AtTrorney Borp had the truo interests of his profession at heart he would fail back upon his reserved rights and re- fuse to show his books. His eager compliance with the order for an investigation is a case for the Bar Association. A Dense Foc hung over the North and East rivers yesterday, but for the last week a worse than Egyptian darkness has enveloped the Street Cleaning Bureau, making it impossible for its officials to see even the mountains of snow on every side of them. Evrorean Caprrarisrs, our special London despatches announce, are not very happy over the new arrangement with the Syndicate. They have had so good a thing at six per cent so long that they do not now care to take four. By and by they will get into a better frame of mind. Genera Granv and party started yesterday from Marseilles for home by way of India. His Jast hours in France it will be seen from our special cable despatches were marked by a repetition of the courtesies, public and private, that have attended every step of his long journey. We Are Excerepincty Harry to oblige the managers of “The Widows and Orphans’ Beney- olent Association of New York, Brooklyn and Jersey City,” who requested a few days ago a notice from the Hrratp. They will fiud it in another column, under the heading of ‘Another Charity Swindle.” AccorDING to our special cable news from Berlin a Prussian officer of high rank has been placed under arrest on the charge of having dis closed important military secrets, particularly the army mobilization plans, to a foreign govern- ment. That a foreign government should deem such information of importance is, of course, the most significant point in the matter. The Wearuxr.—The urbance which passed north of our district yesterday morning is moving over Nova Scotia into the ocean. It is followed bya remarkably rapid rise of barom- eter throughout the lower lake regions and the Middle Atlantic States. The barometer is highest in the central valley districts, but is falling slowly over the Western Gulf, In the Northwest a very well marked depression has appeared. There is very little probability, however, that it will affect our district. Rain has fallen in the lake regions, the Galf and New England coast districts. In the other sections the weather has been general) ly, except in the South Atlantic States. The winds have ‘been brisk to high in the Middle and New England States and the Rocky Moun- fain regions and generally fresh elsewhere. The temperature hus risen in all the districts except the Middle Atlantic States, where a plight fall has occurred. There is evidently a flisturbance organizing in the Southwest, which will make its appearance toward evening. Northerly and casterly winds are blowing over Great Britain and Ireland, and the weather is getting more favorable. It will probably change pyain to-morrow, and increasing southwesterly avinds prevail in the north of Seotlaud and Ire- Jand. ‘Ibe weather in New York and ite vicinity fto-day will be slightly cooler and partly. cloudy or fair. To-morrow it will be warmer and partly ioloudy. NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 1879.—TRIPLE SHEET. Our Indian Policy—Jobbery in Human Life. Finally the Cheyennes are *‘wiped out,” for this energetic scrap of trontier speech has been seldom more literally realized in the history of our relations with the In- dians than it was in the practical annihila- tion on Wednesday of the remnant of the band that left its reservation in September last. §eventeen Indians were killed and nine wounded in the last charge in the gully, and as upward of thirty had been killed in the various collisions since their rush on January 9, the whole number—at least of Dull Knife’s band—seems pretty closely aecounted for. Our despatches from the scene of this last charge, supply the reader with a distinct and straightforward history of the final scene in this strange piece of contemporary history. They constitute the only direct and authentic account the public will get till the commanders of the trdops have had time to report, as, indeed, our special de- spatches from the field have formed hitherto the only complete chronicle of the progress of these events, General Crook's remarks to our Omaha correspondent deserve special consideration at this time. Secretary Schurz and General Sheridan have lately exchanged many phrases on the subject of our dealings with the Indians, and as champions of one or another view of what is right and wise in these dealings they were not evenly matched; for General Sheridan knows the Indians personally, as one may say, and knows even more in- timately the men through whom the gov- ernment deals with them, while Mr. Schurz knows both the Indians and the agents in a scholarly way, and precisely as he knows, it is to be presumed, the campaigns of Epaminondas. But while these gentlemen were exchanging their highly colored com- pliments on this side the continent, this drama, so bloodily ended on Wednesday, was in progress on the other side. As they mused the fire burned, and though neither the Secretary nor the General settled a great deal by their letters this tragedy was terribly eloquent in its exposition of the folly of an attempt to handle a reservation of redskins as if it were a plantation of negro slaves; to deal with it through the bureaucratic system, with its inevitable chicanery and fraud, rather than with soldiers whose lives may answer for their own faults, but ought not to answer for the practices of common cheats. About four months have been occupied in the various stages of this Cheyenne hunt. In the early days of September the Cheyennes left their reservation in the In- dian Territory, broke away in open revolt and moved north—to join the Sioux, it was supposed. Dissatisfaction with their agent was the reason, for Red Cloud, who had heard from them, was apparently merely their spokesman, when in a powwow with government officers regarding the escaped savages he said:~“Bad white men stand between the Great Father and the Indians and make his promises lies.” Now, the promises referred to were statistical ones and touched the subject of rations. An outcry was raised at the time that the Indians had been starved and that the flight and defiance was its natural conse- quence; but the agency implicated de- fended itself by a statement that the Indians had not only received all that was due them by treaty, but much more. It was alleged that coffee and sugar rations had been with- held as a penalty because no agricultural labor was done, but that beef and other rations were in excess of what was due, and so much in excess as to more than supply an equivalent in value for the articles with- held. What value is equivalent to any much-treasured article of diet when the article is withheld only an Indian agent can tell. Evidently that report was cooked for the occasion ; for the implicated agency, thrown on its defence, went in too desperately. It proved too much, inasmuch as it showed the existence of an irregularity in the ser- vice of rations that was apparently habit- ual, .It was the stroke of a bungler to declare that within a short period the Indians had had two thousand dollars’ worth of food more than they were entitled to—because if that was possible the fact alleged by the Indians was also possible. Moreover, that agency was charged with misconduct, and its own statement was not a safficient answer. But all the wit- nesses were against it. Army officers re- ported that the rations issued to the In- dians for seven days lasted them only three, and that specific allegation, so completely at variance with the allegation that the rations were in excess, almost necessarily implies falsehood on one side or the other. Certainly the soldiers had no motive to make a false report, and the very nature of the case implies that the agency people had. Troops from Fort Reno were ordered in pursuit of the Indians September 10, caught up with them by the 13th, skirmished two or three days, and seemed to have them at bay on September 27. In a severe fight that day Colonel Lewis was killed, It was said that the Indians had one hundred and thirty warriors in that battle. On the next day it was discovered that the Indians had got away through the lines in the night, and on September 29 and 30 they appeared in the pleasant valley of Kansas, on the little streams that run into the Republican River. In the Beaver, Sapha and Repub- lican valleys in those two days they butchered forty people and _ stripped every farm; nor did they cease their atrocities until, fairly hunted down, they surrendered to Captain Carleton at Chad- ron Creek on October 26. ‘They were marched for Camp Robinson that night. Lhey numbered one hundred and forty- nine persons, of whom forty-nine were “able-bodied backs.” On the way to Camp Robinson they halted and demanded to be told their destination. If they were to be taken to Kansas they declared themselves ready to go, If they were to be taken again | to the Indian Territory they declared their determination to stand and die where they were, No declaration of the bureaucracy, not- withstanding rigmarole, no cooked figures can efface the effect of this fierce resolve of | the Indians to stand and die unless as- sured that they were not to be again handed over to the tender mercies of the agency of their reservation. But while they were prisoners at Camp Robinson it was deter- mined to send to Kansas for trial as mur- derers all who could be identified as actors in the massacres there, and to return the rest to their old place in the Indian Territory. They were held as prisoners until January, when preparations were made to move them under strong guard as ordered by the De- partment of the Interior, They declared they would not go, and food and'tuel were kept from them to starve and freeze them into submission, Put they began to chant their death songs, and later their war songs, j and on the night of the 9th they made their desperate sally. In the two months and ahalf during which they had been con- fined they had succeeded in obtaining arms, and had not been subject to any proper supervision, and the troops were so loosely handled that the sortie was a surprise. Who is to blame for these things will be a proper subject for inquiry ; but as the case stands this whole terrible butchery is a protest against the system of jobbery in Indian agencies, against which the Depart- ment of the Interior seems to be without any remedy. Was it a Piratet The story sent to the British Admiralty by Captain Adams, of the ship Ralston, is certainly the strangest tale of the sea that has appeared in print in years. For,a ves- sel to be burning at sea, and watched by a steamer which warns other vessels away from their distressed companion, savors strongly of piracy or privateering. As there is no European war in progress at present no competent authority can have given letters of marque; but, on the other hand, it seems equally impossible that any gang of pirates could have come into pos- session of asteamship. If the ship really isa pirate she can find no better hunt- ing ground, for the scene of the reported burning is on the south coast of Ireland, and on the direct path of ocean steamers plying between Liverpool and New York. These steamers generally carry, one way or the other, a great quantity of specie and of commodities for which a prompt market is generally to be had, but the passenger fleet is so great that a strange vessel could hardly take the sea without being soon re- ported and then looked after by war vessels. Further despatches on the matter will be anxiously awaited by shippers and the friends of ocean travellers; meanwhile the general public—even the socialists—will hold as very stupid the gathering of men and means to enter so dangerous a pastime as piracy in these days of steam and ocean cables, Horse Cars for Broadway. A significant indication of the change in public sentiment on the subject of a horse car railroad on Broadway is the fact that Mr. P. ‘. Barnum, heretofore one of the most active and persistent opponents of the enterprise, now expresses himself in its favor and declares that his opinion of the advisability of the improvement is shared by the largest property owners on the street who were his former associates in the fight against a surface railroad. There seems to be a general opinion that the public convenience will be subserved by such a road, and that it will greatly benefit the property on Broadway below Fourteenth street. ‘here is now scarcely any private carriage driving on Broadway south of Union square, and a double track railroad would remove the stages, which are the principal cause of blockades. Cer- tainly Broadway property must be improved by a well managed railroad supplied with comfortable cars, The ‘‘L” railroads draw the stream of travel away from Broadway, and many believe that a surface railroad alone can revive and keep alive the business activity of that splendid thoroughfare, The sentiment of the property owners seems now to be almost unanimous in favor of such a road. Limitation of Expenditures. The inquiries made by Mayor Cooper at the first meeting of the new Board of Ap- portionment, in relation to the authority of a public officer at the head of a department or bureau to expend any’ money in excess of the appropriation in the budget, and to the liability of the city for debts incurred in excess of such appropriation, shows that the Mayor is disposed to be something more than a figurehead in the city government. The matter is of importance, and it is just as well that the departments should be promptly advised that they will be expected to so limit their expendi- tures as to make the amount ap- propriated in the yearly estimates last them the full year. The clear inten- tion of the charter of 1873 was to prohibit adepartment from incurring any expense whatever in excess of the yearly sum ap- propriated for its use. The transfer of amounts from one bureau to another in the same department was originally permitted by the charter, but the total sum assigned to the department was not to be increased. Comptroller Green obtained the passage of an amendment in 1874, authorizing the Board of Apportionment at any time to transfer any appropriation which might be in excess of the amount required or deemed to be necessary for the purposes for which it was originally set apart to ‘such other purposes or objects for which the appropriations are insufficient, or such as may require the same.” ‘This loose provision has been interpreted as authoriz- ing a department to violate the clear man- date of the charter forbidding the expendi- ture of any money in excess of the original appropriation. It really gives no such an- thority, and the heads of departments who exceed their appropriations violate the law. The amending law may enable the Bonrd of Apportionment, by # transfer such os is authorized thereby, to pay a claim for work done or supplies furnished in excess of a department’s annual appropriation, but it certainly does not remove the obligation imposed on the department by the original charter—to limit its expenditures to the ap- propriation made in the budget. Any other interpretation of the law would render the ‘limitation meaningless and, indeed, make the work of the Board of Apportionment in passing the annual estimates a farce, “nificant fact. Mr. Blaine’s Opposition to Free Ships. Senator Blaine is an able man who is wasting his intellect. He is aiming to make himself, nay, he has succeeded in making himself the foremost leader at the present time of the same order of ideas of which Henry Clay was the most distin- guished champion in the last generation, Mr. Clay did not waste his intellect and popularity to the same extent that Mr, Blaine is wasting his, because Clay lived in an age when protectionist ideas had not become obsolete. But in spite of Henry Clay’s great eloquence and the practi- cal cast of his talents, his career was, on the whole, a failure, Although he was the ablest man of his party and the most eloquent man of his period Mr. Clay never reached the great goal of his am- bition, the Presidency, and he lived to see his darling theories. rejected by the people. Mr. Blaine is treading in the footsteps of that illustrious statesman at too latea period to win the success which was denied to the so-called ‘“‘American system.” Mr. Clay's “American system” consisted in protection to ‘home industry and internal improve- ments. Mr, Blaine has adopted both branches of the system with such vari- ations as are imposed by difference of circumstances. But being thirty or forty years further behind the ideas of his epoch than Mr. Clay was behind the ideas of his epoch, the ambitious Senator from Maine is certain to be stranded, in spite of his talents and popularity, unless he widens his mental horison and abandons his antiquated errors. Mr. Blaine was born an age too late to command the confidence of the country as an advocate of protection. In his vigorous speech in the Senate on Wednesday, as in his remarks at the New England dinner, in this city, Mr. Blaine made himself the champion of our restrictive navigation laws, which are a servile transcript of the exploded and abandoned navigation laws of England. The British Parliament repealed the navigation laws in 1849, and in the ensuing twenty years the amount of British tonnage was doubled. We wish Mr. Blaine would favor the country with his comments on this impressive and instructive fact. The government of Germany and the gov- ernment of France permit the purchase of ships in all the markets of the world, and in the exercise of this freedom their subjects and citizens have established great lines of ocean steamers which compete successfully with those of Great Britain. We would gladly listen to Senator Blaine’s comments on this sig- The United States, which adhere to the obsolete navigation laws which the other maritime nations have dis- carded, have no great and successful lines of ocean steamers. We wish the brilliant Senator would explain to his countrymen the practical advantages’ of a policy which annihilates our shipping interest, while countries that pursue the opposite policy cover the ocean with great fleets of steam- ers which carry the greater part of our own produce. Mr. Blaine states in his speech that we pay eighty-five million dollars per annum to foreign vessels for freights. How is it possible that a man of his bright intellect should not perceive that this astounding fact is an utter condemna- tion of our navigation laws? In conse- quence of these laws, or at least in spite of them, the greater part of the enormous sums we pay for freights goes to swell the profits of foreign shipowners. What good is done by our restrictive navigation laws when the transfer of our carrying trade to foreign bottoms is their practical result? They have not given to American shipyards the building of the vessels which actually carry our commerce, but they do effectually deprive our countrymen of their share in the large and lucrative business of convey- ing goods and passengers between the United States and Europe. Queretaro. We publish to-day an authentic and ex- tremely interesting account of the last act of the fateful Mexican drama ‘of a few years ago. The defence of Queretaro was one of the few military episodes of history in which the fate of a ruler was dependent upon the success of the troops, and the reader will learn irom our narrative that the defence was worthy of its occasion. With the odds against them to the extent of six to one; a post which would seem to have been naturally almost untenable; making powder from its elements, bullets from the leaden roofs of houses and cannon balls from church bells ; subsisting first upon horses and then upon mules, the unpaid, almost hopeless imperialist army sustained the siege for seventy days, and compelled the honest ad- miration of soldiers everywhere, not ex- cepting the ranks of their opponents. ‘The statement of the prominent tacts of this remarkable defence, as submitted to Maxi- milian by his generals, has never until to- day been published in the English lan- guage. ‘The readers of the Hrraup are, therefore, almost the first to enjoy this page of Mexican history, which is made doubly interesting by the importance of its sub- ject and the peculiar qualifications of its warrior-writers, The Insurance Department, Mr. Skinner's bill to abolishthe Insurance Dopartment will no doubt encounter a vio- lent opposition in the Assembly, and if it should pass that body would almost cer- tainly be rejected in the Senate, Its defeat will, however, be entirely due to political influences and considerations, The present department is in the hands of the repub- licans, and is of great value to the party. This is, however, one of the most conclusive reasons in favor ot its abolishment, A de- partment that can be made of great political importance in an election cannot commend itself to the favor of the people, It is not proposed to do away with tho State supervision over the insurance com- panies of the State, but to transfer such supervision from an independent depart- ment toa subordinate in the office of the State Comptroller, The present Superin- tendent of the Insurance Department is virtually independent and irresponsible, and the temptations surrounding such an office aro necessarily great. An insur. ance examiner in the Comptroller's office would be directly responsible to and subject to the serutiny of the Comptroller, and could be earefully selected for capacity and integrity. The Comptroller is elected by and responsible to the people, and the office bas almost al- ways been filled by excellent mepv. ‘The names of William L. Marcy, Silas Wright, Azariah Flagg, Millard Fillmore, Washing- ton Hunt, Sanford E, Church, Thomas Hillhouse, Lucius Robinson and the preseut incumbent afford fair specimens of the citi- zens who have been chosen to that position. ‘There are many who believe that the busi- ness of supervision would be more effli- ciently and more honestly performed by an examiner attached to the Comptroller's office than by an independent superin- tendent whose chief recommendations are his political sagacity and party fidelity. Mexican Meanderings. Next to going into fairyland the most delightful experience is to be told of some country and clime so unlike our own that fairies could hardly make the difference greater. It isa pleasure of this sort which will be imparted by the telegraphic letter of our special commissioner accompanying the distinguished party of business men now visiting Mexico at the invitation of our sister Republic's Minister to this country. Tropical scenes and sounds are always strange to us of the North, however warm a bond of sympathy may unite the two zones during the dog days; in winter, however, with mountains of snow in our streets, it is doubly wonderful to read of mountains of verdure, and to imagine the cool linen suits of the excursionists after we have made sure that no buttons are missing from our respective ulsters. The series of letters and despatches of which this is the first, and which will touch upon all Mexico’s distinctive features, will, we believe, prove a peculiarly interesting fea- ture of the Hezatp for some weeks to come. That International Park. The Marquis of Lorne’s coming to the viceregal seat of Canada will not have been in vain, even if he does nothing more than aid in the establishment of that interna- tional park of which he spoke favorably to a Heratp representative yesterday. So unique, grand and famous a wonder as the Falls of Niagara certainly de- serves surroundings which shall at least be natural, but these cannot be secured without joint action by the Dominion and the Republic. As the Mar- quis believes that the necessary money will be forthcoming our own authorities will doubtless be too courteous when the time for deliberation arrives to give him any cause to find nimself in error on this subject. The points for reflection upon the proper extent of such ao park doubtless impressed themselves upon the Governor General’s mind during his walks and rides of yesterday and the preceding day, and although ladies are supposed to take no particular interest in international affairs it is not unlikely that a lady who enjoys natural wonders as heartily as the Princess Louise has ap- peared to do during her Niagara trip’may contribute some valuable suggestions on this desirable neighborhood improvement. The Indian at School. While soldiers and civilians are almost unanimous in the opinion that the North American Indian is practically useless ex- cept as ao target another but reputable authority offers an entirely different theory. General Armstrong, president of the Nor- mal Institute at Hampton, Va., and himself an ex-soldier with a good record, has been telling of the experiences of two or three score of young Indians whom the govern- ment sent to the Hampton school for instruction. The General fully admits the lazy, ugly, dirty condition of these Indian children when first received ; but he claims that they have improved greatly since their first appearance at the school, and that they now comport themselves in a manner almost faultless, The difference be- tween the fate of these school-going youths and that of their brethren who intest the Plains cannot fail to strike the observer's attention, as suggesting a safer, cheaper and even speedier method of solving the Indian question than has yet received acknowledgment. Not all Indians can be sent to school, but barbarous people have before now been civilized through the in- fluence of a few of their own people who have come in contact with the better points of civilization. An Obstruction on the “1.” The annoying delay occasioned to a large number of down trains on the Third avenue “L” railroad yesterday morning by a very trifling accident—the breaking of a crank pin of an engine—shows the necessity of adopting some means by which the passen- gers may be released in such cases. Hun- dreds of persons were kept shut up in the cars between stations for an hour before the blockade was removed.. We have already suggested a simple method of relief in the shape of a fenced plank walk on the out- side of the rails, by which the passengers might pass to the nearest station. It is also desirable that better facilities should be provided for clearing the track ofa disabled engine or train, This might be accomplished by multiplying middle rails, with switches at short distances. The engine that broke down yesterday if near a switch might have been pushed by the next engine reaching the spot on to the centre rails and left there, withontt oc- casioning more than ten minutes’ delay on the main track. It is evident that some such expedients for removing obstructions must be adopted or the occurrence of some trifling accident may constantly occasion serious inconvenience, annoyance and in- jury to thousands of passengers, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. ‘The best thing to do with macaroni—cheose it. Mr. Gregoire de Willamov, Secretary of the Russian Legation at Washington, is at the Everett House. Dr. Linderman, Director of the Mint, is danger- ously ill and his physicians have no hopes of his re- covery. Thurlow Weed called upon Mayor Cooper yester- day afternoon, and remained in his private office fur some time, é ‘The Norristown Herald, in @ particvlored argu ment, tries to prove that the peacock bas a highly- colored tale, Now that the scissors are freezing up throughout the country paragraphers are becoming exasperated about the weather, After all, this Lousting country of the Usited States has on its one hand a cold Canada and on ite other hand 4 miserable Mexico. Camilla Urso recently went to play before the in- mates of a poorhouse, ‘Lhe Utica Observer is of opine ion that this is the first poor house she ever had, Norristown Herald:—‘'The New York HERALD say@ ‘Old Probabilities’ never made a speech in his life. He should be sent to Congress ‘weather’ or no.” It is sadly true that to kill pappooses is cowardly, but if a pappoose should live he might, without @ streak of conscience, twenty years hence kill a dozen white girl babies, Secretary Schurz thinks that as mosquito netting will keep mosquitoes away from peopie some sort of a rope arrangement might be made to keep the {nd- jans away from the army. New Haven Kegister:—“Once more Dr. Cumming las advertised the day on which the tinal fireworks of the world will take place; but Dr. Cumming makes a poor advance agent. ‘The show never follows his lay- out.”* Mr, Bronson Alcott's school of philosophy under the trees at Concord will be like the schools of Athens; the philosophers will walk around with their thumbs in the armholes of their vests and the boys will ask questions. Hackensack Republican:—“A Trenchman, on being told that a young lady had given him the ‘mitten,’ said:—‘Me no comprehend vat you call him, Ze mit- ten is zo glove mitout ze fingaire, She no geef me ze mitton, but her fader—he geef me an introduction to his shoemakaire,’ ” Danbury News :—The editor of St, Nicholas thinks Wilhemj and Reményi have wakened the country in the matter of violin playing. ‘The Bridgeport Stand- ard says that Mary Coleman, of that city, was ar- rested for getting as drunk asa fiddler. The editor of St, Nicholas and the editor ot the Standard should consult with cach other when about to dip into musi- cal matters.”” London World:—“General Grant's visit to Ireland will be his farewell to Great Britain, for he returns home by way of the Pavitic. It is pleasant to know that he will carry away an agreeable impression of the motherland. ‘If I were not an American,’ he said toa friend of mine in Paris the other day, ‘I would be an Englishman.’ The General is said to have taken a great fancy to the Prince of Wales, of whom he saw a goo:l deal last summer in Paris.” ‘A young merchant at Waverly, Iowa, when packing eggs about a year ago for shipment to the East, wrote his name and address on one with the request that the person to whom it finally came would write him and advise him of the fact. In due course came the letter from a young lady in New York; it was ac- knowledged, a correspondence sprang up, photo- graphs were exchanged, and the merchant is coming to New York ina few days to take home the young lady as wife. Asa more matter of gratitude they will suck eggs for the rest of their lives. “BNA BERITH, | ‘THIRD NATIONAL CONVENTION OF A JEWISH BENEVOLENT ORDER. (BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.) PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 23, 1879. The National Convention of the Independent Order B'nai Berith, the great Jewish society, will semble, on Sunday morning next, at St. George's Hall, and will continue its sessions for about a week. ‘The Convention will be called to order by Mr. Julius Bien, of New York, president of the Executive Committee of the Constitution Grand’ Lodge, at eleven o'clock. About two hundred and fifty dele gates from all sections of the country are expected to be present, and great preparations are being made by the Committee of Arrangements of the District Grand Lodge for their entertainment. A grand banquet will be given on ‘Tuesday evening, January 28, at St. George's Hall, in which delegates and other guests will participate. On Tucsdayafter- noon a visit will be made by the delegates to the Jewish Hospital and Fairmount Park. The heads juarters of the delegates will be at the Continental lotel. ‘This will be the third National Convention, since the establishment of the Order, one havi been held every tive years. Tho B'nai Berit is a purely benevolent” order for assisting ite members during life and their families after death. Among the questions to come before this . Convention will be the revision of the constitution, the admission of non-Israclites (which will Caprge be decided in the ne- gative), and the question ot making the endowment lan national. This latter Fleyegned it is said, arises y reason of the many deaths of the members in the South from yellow fever, which drained the treas- uries of the Southern 1 » while many of the Northern societies are rich and prosperous, The national plan would equalize the assessments, OBITUARY. COLONEL WILLIAM M. BOONE. Colonel William M. Boone, President of the Mount Vernon Cotton Mills Company, died suddenly yester day morning ut his residence, No, 26 Mulberry street, Baltimore, Md. Mrs. Boone returned from the Cathe- ral and, upon entering her husband’s room, waa startled to find him lying on the bed gasping for breath and evidently in the death agony. A servant was immediately despatched for Dr. Jenkins and a priest, but Colonel Boone had ceased to breathe when they arrived. His death was caused by heart disease. Colonel Boone was born in Lancas- ter, Pa., March 30, 1836, His father, William F. Boone, was # lawyer of distinction, and moved to Pennsylvania from Washington. Colonel Boone was educated at Valla Nova College, Philadelphia, and was for two years a clerk in a commercial house in Phila- delphia. His father having been appointed Commis- sioner to Nicaragua in 1851 by President Fillmore, he accompanied him to that country, but in less than a year %a8 compelled to return on account of il] health. He was admitted to the Bar of Philadel- phia and practiced law there for one year, and in 1854 removed to Fuirfield, Iowa. In 1855, he accompanied his father to New Mexico, but, his father's ith having failed, they returned East in 1860, Mr. Boone died that Pog and the subject of this sketch went to . Paul, Minn., and practiced his proteasion. He returned to Philadelphia in 1861, and, upon the breaking out of the civil war, en- listed in the federal Ag be a second lieutenant of infantry. In July, 1862, he was appointed captain and = assistant jutant general, a position he continued to hold until the war closed. Ho waa twice brevetted—once as major and again as jieutenant colonel—for gallantry at tho battle of Gettysburg. He was attached first to Sigel’s command and later to erg whom he accompanied in his raid up the valley . He settled in Baltimore after the war and daughters and two sous. Colonel ‘ominent place among the laity of the Catholic Church. He was @ man wealth and held many positions of trust and honor, WILLIAM BLOOMPLELD. Williaa Bloomfield, an old and respected member of the Bar, died from paralysis at his residence, No, 28 Dominick street, at the ago of seventy-oue years, yesterday. He was a native of this city and a grad- uate of Rutgers College, New Jersey. He began the practice of law in 1832, and in 1834 entered into part nership with Thomas McElrath and Chicf Justice Daly. “Mr, McElrath withdrew from the firm some time after, aud Cescob ye rag Daly Mey Ie 184d bei ti judge of (ae Court of Common. Pleas. Mr Mloomfleld then carried on the business alone, His funeral will take place from St, John's Church, of which he was for many years a member, on Saturday, at half-past ten A. M. ROBERT BR. WILLETS. Robert B. Willets died yesterday morning at his residence, No, 25 West Thirty-fourth strect, ut the advanced age of seventy-seven years, The deceased came to New York over half a coutury ago and began his carcer ae a clerk in the firm of A, & 8, Willets, He soon became a member of the firm, and when his brother Samuel retired from business became the senior partner, In the cottrse of time he becaine con- nocted with several insurance corporations, and wae vice president of the Willenaiaeg Gaslight Com- y, of Brooklyn. Pueumontia, which brought om an attack of eryeipolas, caused his death after @ com- ratively brief illness. ‘The funeral will take place morrow. The dead merchant wae an .atluential member of the Society of Friends, SISTER LUCY IGNATIUS, Bister Lucy Ignatius, one of the Sistere of Charity attached to the Academy of the Holy Cross, in West Forty-second etrect, died yesterday afternoon at that institution, A requicm mass for the repose of her soul will bo celebrated to-morrow morning in the Church of the Holy Cross, ‘The interwent will bein Calvary Ce: DANIEL HALI., Daniel Hall, a veteran of the war of 1812, died tn Providence, I. 1, om Wednesday, ayed uinety-four years.