The New York Herald Newspaper, January 28, 1879, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD] ew mama BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, ILOPRIETOR, a La lished every uded dollar perm unday edition included, if posta WEEKLY HERALD—Ono dollar per year, freo of post- ag? NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBE York or Post Oftice money can be procured send the istered letter. Al money remitted at risk of se In order to in tion subscribers wishin their nddress cha their old as w their new a All business, news letters or De addre: New Yorx Henan. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be returned. yo ghebaad 0) » Mz SOUTH SIXTH LONDON ‘OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD~ NO. 46 STRE! . in drafts on New phic despatches must FLEET PARIS OFFICE—4 UE DE LOPERA. PLES OFFIC 1 E. Rubscriptions un: forw: on the same terms as in Ne "AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. BTEINWAY HALL—Concent, BOOTHS THEATRE—Tax Danires, NIBLO'S GARDEN—H. GRAND OPERA HO! BOWERY THEATRE PARK THEATRE—Dor NEW YORK AQUARI LYCEUM THEATRE BROADWAY THEATR: THEATRE COMIQU WALLACK’S—Ovrs. OLYMPIC THEATRE) FIVTH AVENUE THE. UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Banxxa’s DavgutTer BERMANIA THEATRE—Horst Kuxaxsuscn. TIVOLI THEATRE—Vatiery. SOOPER INSTITUTE. SAN FRANCISCO MID fONY PASTOR'S—Varinty. WINDSOR THEATRE. x GuaRD Batt. Trarrer'’s Davcurna. rain and possibly brisk winds. To-morrow it will be slightly colder and clearing. REKT YESTERDA ‘he stock market, ‘y ‘ive and strong, with a general ad- vance iu prices. Goverument bonds were quiet, States dull and railroads strong. Moncy on call lent at 1) a 21g per cent, the closing quotation being 11y a 2 per c County CLerk GumBLeron got his regular supply of “‘stays” yesterda; Tus New Ayti-TreatixG LeaGur has become the most popular downtown organization. ~ Here Is tne Pincknry is even worse than the Potter Committee. Mr. SuerMan has a few more four per cents left. Six hundred and forty-six millions. Mr. Davenrort takes the stand this morn- ing. He ought to be asked to take his hat and leave. iy the Birt of Senator Ferry becomes a law we shall have a national militia organization that will amount to somethin, ‘Tur Decision in'the United States Supreme Court yesterday shows that the government has some rights ae against the Union Pacific road. Tue New York Voctunresr Lire Savino Soctery is the latest addition to the loug roll of our humane associations. It ought to be lib erally supported. In tHe Porice Boarp Rumpus ex-Speaker Blaine has taken up his little gavel and decided in favor of President Smith. It is in order now for Commissioner Erhardt to take up his little club. Twenty-Two GENEROUS CONGRESSMEN voted yesterday in the House for the famous bill to loan everybody who needs it five hundred dol- lars Statues should be erected in their honor by a grateful country. Bs A Srrone Cuan or Evipence is being forged around Buchholtz, one of the supposed murderers of the miser Schulte. The produc- tion yesterday of the skull of the murdered man formed a ghastly spectacle. Graxp Juries will have to be abolished. Down on Staten Island the officials of « small town have been prospering in 4 1marvellous manner, but one of those officious and inquisi- tive bodies has wrecked and ruined their flour- ishing industries. Wanren Mitcuett’s celebrated cotton claim, which has been repeatedly thrown out’ of the highest courts, received a pretty good support in the Senate yesterday. In the debate Senator Hill unsuccessfully endeavored to find a new definition for the word “loyalty.” Tue New Spranisu Muvister gives, in another column, some interesting information in regard to the present condition of Spain. Cuba, he be- lieves, was reconquered as much by kindness as by force. The lion undoubtedly thought he was doing a good thing for the Jamb when he put her inside of himself. Tue Weatner.—Although the centre of die- turbance made very little eastward progress yesterday, on account of the extensive area of high barometer overlying the Atlantic coast, its Influence extended eastward and southward very rapidly during the day. The barometer ia below the mean in all the districts except the South Atlantic States and the Kocky Mountain regions. It ia lowest over the central lake re- gions. Rain las fallen throughout the central valleys, the Middle Atlantic, New England and Gulf States, while snow and éleet have fallen in the lake regions and the Northwest. The weatber has been cloudy except on the South Atlantic const. The winds “have been brisk to high in the Northwest, brisk in the lake regions and generally fresh in the other districts. Vai tures are reported from the Northwest, East- ern Gulf aud New England districts; elaewhere they have risen decidedly. As the disturbance advances toward the Middle Atlantic coast it will probably contract very much, so that the eentre will pass north of our district. The ‘weather will be very severe on the New Eng- land coast during the next few days. ‘The gra- dients will become steep on the Middle and South Atlantic coasts, causing the winds to increase, The rains falling throughout the central valleys are likely to cause a rapid rise in the Southern rivers, but, as they are not very high at present, the danger from floods is not very great. The ‘weather over the british Islands is gloomy. ‘Ibe weather in New York and its vieinity to-day will de warm, with rain and possibly brisk winds, To-morrow it will be slightly colder and clearing. able tempera-: Policy—Sitting Bull’s Pa- thetic Appeal. The progress of events has brought us to a stage at which the necessity for recon- structing our Indian policy has become evi- dent to the whole country. Even without the bloody and appalling occurrences of the last three years—the Modoc war, the Nez Percés war, the horrible Custer massa- ere, the recent shocking affair with the Cheyennes—it would be evident to all thinking men that the time has come fora new, forecasting and comprehensive sys- tem of dealing with the Indian tribes. The herds of buffalo and _ other wild game are getting thinned out; our mining and agricultural settlements are penetrating into every part of that vast re- gion; hunger and vengeance on the part of the savages expose these rising settlements to greater and greater perils, and it has be- come an urgent necessity to provide for the security of the settlers by removing the danger of collisions between them and the Indians. This necessity should have been | apparent even without the ever recurring carnage and slaughter of the last few years. But with these fearful reminders, so shock- ing toevery humane sentiment, nothing but the leaden influence of routine and the preoccupation of Congress with questions which are merely partisan could have postponed the Indian question so long. It is a question of great difficulty and ex- treme urgency; but, unfortunately, none of our statesmen who has sufficient grasp of mind to solve it has taken any pains to understand it. The ablest men in public life are so engrossed with schemes of per- sonal or party ambition that no statesman of sufficient force to awaken general inter- est in this question has been willing to grapple with it in good earnest. If Mr. Conkling or Mr. Thurman or Mr. Blaine or Mr. Bayard, or, what would be infinitely better, if all of them conjointly would take up this great and difficult Indian problem witha vigorous purpose to solve it they could easily carry the country with them. Immediate advantage ought ‘to be taken of the feeling of depression and despond- ency which is just now overspreading the hearts of the Indians. We should be care- ful not to drive the tribes to such resistapco born of utter despair as has recently been exhibited by a small band of Cheyennes. The tribes can cause infinite trouble if re- duced to similar desperation, and it is bet- ter not to push them to the last extremity of resistance. A submissive despondency is beginning to take possession of them, and the government will fall scandalously short of its duty if it fails to make the most of this feeling while it lasts. We call the attention of Congress to the significant despatch from Bismarck, D. T., which we print to-day. The once formid- able Sitting Bull sends a message which shows that his spirit is broken and that he is willing to make an unconditional sur- render if permitted to rejoin his tribe on their reservation. ‘‘Oncc,” says he, ‘I was strong and brave, and my people had hearts of iron, but now I am a coward and will fight no more.” There is no reason for regarding this as a ruse, for he assigns, with that touching eloquence sometimes exhibited by Indian chiefs, such weighty reasons for his pro- posed submission that it is not difficult to believe him sincere. Sitting Bull’s implor- ing message is really very pathetic. ‘‘For- ever my people are cold and hungry ; my women are sick and my children are freez- ing. I will do as the Great Father wishes. I will give my guns and my ponies into his hands. My arrows are broken and my war paint thrown to the winds.” If this re- nowned chief is really as broken and sub- missive as this message indicates it would be wise to accept his proffer for the sake of its influence on other tribes. Still, the inherent cunning and treachery of the Indian character make it necessary that Sitting Bull should be kept under strong military surveillance if permitted to return. We must trust the Indians only so far as we have power to coerce them if they prove deceitful, and this creates an obvious necessity for committing them to the con- trol of the military department of the gov- ernment. Things have reached such a pass that moral suasion will not do in the treatment of the Indians. We must not persuade, but command, and command only when we have power to compel. Offers of submission should, of course, be accepted, but not with foolish faith in their sincerity. We must assume that their voluntary engagements will be kept only on compulsion, and must be always prepared to enforce the promises of whose sincerity we can jadge only by the event. But this implies military super- intendence, since civil methods have no ap- plication to cases requiring prompt and ir resistible coercion. ‘This is so obvious that it is astonishing that anybody can be found to dispute it. The vain expectation that the Indians can be controlled by civilians is founded on a total misconception of the Indian char- acter. The Indians are warriors, and have no real respect for anything but the warlike character. ‘hey regard unwarlike occupations as fit only for squaws, and they hold the civilian agents with whom they are brought into contact as little better than so many white women. They would make this contemptuous esti- mate of them even if the Indian agents had been uniformly faithful and honest. They think it a degradation to submit to men who cannot fight, since their own concep- tion of true inanhood excludes everybody bunt warriors and regards civilians as little better than squaws, It hence follows that only military men can exert any moral influ. ence on these tribes, who place the point of honor in ability to fight. They do not feel degraded by submitting to warriors like themselves, but it seems to them an intoler- able humiliation to bend beforo a class of men whom they rank with their own squaws. The atmy possesses qualities which appeal to their respect, and hence the army could accomplish infinitely more by influence and persuasion than the civil- ian agents of the government, even if these had always beon straightforward and trust- worthy. It is an egregious mistake to treat a people who respect nothing bat warlike qualities as if we were dealing with their squaws instead of their warriors. Moral suasion is no doubt preferable to force, but the only moral suasion which cau be effective with the Indians is that which is exerted by the military character, which alone can command their esteem because it alone accords with their modes of judging. General Scott understood this perfectly, and when he was sent by the government to remove the Cherokees from North Caro- lina, Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee to the territory assigned them across the Mis- sissippi he accomplished his mission peace- fully by appeals to their military sense. In the appeal which he made to them he said, “This is the address of a warrior to war- riors,” The success of the appeal depended on the military force with which it was backed. ‘My troops,” he told them, “already occupy many positions in the country that you are to abandon, and thousands and thousands are approaching from every quarter to render resistance and escape alike hopeless. All these troops are your friends. Receive them and confide in them as such, * * * I am an old war- rior, and have been present at many a scene of slaughter ; but spare me, I beseech you, the horror of witnessing the destruction of the Cherokees.” The brilliant success of General Scott in accomplishing the peace- ful removal of the reluctant Cherokees showed how perfectly he understood the Indian character. He knew that they re- spected nothing but military force, and his successful effort at persuasion rested on the irresistible troops which stood behind it. The Ameer’s Movements. The Henaup’s special cable despatch from ‘fashkend shows that while General Kaufmann has been for two weeks anx- iously awaiting news from the Ameer the fugitive ruler has been suffering from an attack of laryngitis, and unable to travel. The intelligence received by General Kauf- mann is up to the 10th of January, and on the 20th the Ameer was to start for Tashkend. Meanwhile the Ambassador from Bokhara, who had arrived at Tashkend to receive in- structions concerning the reception of the Ameer, has been entertained at a grand dinner by General Kaufmann. ‘The General’s advices come from the Russian surgeon who was sent to look aiter the Ameer’s health. The statement attributed to General Rasgonoff that he is more than ever convinced that Afghanistan.is Russia’s key to India is not a very surprising one. A Celebrated Case. The General Term of the Supreme Court is now engaged in listening to the argu- ments of learned counsel in the momentous case which is to decide whether one hun- dred and forty-seven distinguished states- men of New York are or are not to bo initiated in the mysteries of the Society of St. Tammany and to become mem- bers of that ancient and honorable Order. ‘The high character of the Court: is’ a guarantee that the keenest legal acumen and the broadest judicial ability will be brought to bear in deciding @ question of such grave importance; and whatever may be the final decision the coun- try will look calmly on in the confidence that justice has prevailed and that our institu- tions are sate. But the proceedings bid -fair, meanwhile, to present some interest- ing information to people who are not so fortunate as to be familiar with the secret operations of the Wigwam. Yesterday's de- velopments disclose the important fact that of the five thousand members of the society some are republicans and some democrats, while others have “mo healthy political status.” ‘The worthy secretary who makes this state- ment is understood to embrace in the latter classification those politiclans who, by a union with the republicans, have suc- ceeded in electing Edward Cooper Mayor of the city, or, in other words, the ‘‘anti- Tammany” party. But then tho sanitary condition of these gentlemen's status may improve under Mayor Cooper, especially if he accepts their own estimate of their value as public officers, and may become as healthy and robust even as that of the famous Tammany Commissioner of Jurors, who has served the city so long, so faithfully and tor such liberal remuneration. Let the Truth Be Known. If we are to judge from yesterday's pro- ceedings the investigation of the cipher despatches on which the Potter Committee is now engaged is likely to prove interest- ing and spicy reading. In this early stage of the developments we are not willing to express an opinion on the differences that arise in the committee. It is evident that there are to be constant interruptions and wranglings whenever any new addi- tions promise to be made to the cipher or telegraphic literature of the Presi- dential campaign. ‘The fact came out that telegrams passed between Postmaster Gon- eral Tyner and Minister Foster or Mr. Z. Chandler, relating to the sale of public offices and tho use of the money in the election, and were destroyed by orders from Washington before the despatches called for by the Morrison Commit- tee were given up by the Western Union Company. ‘his drew forth a violent opposition on the part of the republican members of the committee to any investigation of telegrams other than those already published, and the singular position was taken by Mr. Hiscock that the present inquiry is one called for by the democrats to justify Mr. Tilden, and should be confined to the democratic cipher de- spatches. ‘here is no reason why the com- mittee’s search should not reach to all tele. grams connected with the Presidential election, and the desire of the republican committeemen to screen their own party does not bear a creditable look. We are well pleased, however, to see that from the beginning the inquiry has taken the direction of a'thorough investigation of the manner in which the telegrams already published were procured. ‘ihe Henaty has insisted that the most important discovery to be made by the committee is of the parties who were guilty of making public telegrams which should be held as sacred as sealed letters in- trusted to the mails. It is to be hoped that the committee will bear this object steadily in mind, and will not cease its ef- NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1879.-T'RIPL#. SHEET. forts to detect and expose the method by which the despatches were stolen and given to the public, The hidden story should be brought to light, no matter who may be in- jured by it, living or dead. ‘The country is entitled to know the whole truth on the subject, and Mr. Potter's committee will make a deplorable failure if it should fail to lay bare the disgraceful history. Plague and Quarantine. How far the plague in Russia is to be ap- prehended as a destructive influence, and what are the probabilities that it will ad- vance westward, are points upon which it would be scarcely possible to form an in- telligent judgment without a fuller state- ment of the facts than hus yet been sent across the Atlantic. Some medical authori- ties in Berlin and Vienna have adopted a tone of reference that might be accepted as a basis for the gravest apprehensions; for, while they do not recount the observations upon which their opinions were formed, their opinions seem to indicate that what has been seen could hardly be worse than itis. But all the allegations made are denied, not merely by the Russians, but by other Ger- man authorities not interested in the result. Russian journals deny the existence in Russia of the plague proper; and, as there is no doubt that the word has been used very often to de- scribe malignant epidemics of typhus fever, it is very possible that it is so used again in the present case. It is, however, far more likely that the disease devastating the valley of the Volga is the true plague, and that the denials are made in that spirit of ignorance or indifference in which, in the early days of last summer, it was strenu- ously denied that the epidemic in the Lower Mississippi Valley was yellow fever. So far as the facts are known they answer to what might be looked for in a history of the transmission of the plague. Soldiers return- ing from a country in which the plague is endemic brought the disease with them, and it was developed in the warm weather in the autumn months in the low, marshy, miasmatic districts at or near the mouth of the Volga. Here are the usual condi- tions—the hardship, the exposure, the star- vation and the indifference to cleanliness characteristic of loosely governed armies, the plague country, and the circumstances that favored the spread of the disease once brought in. Winter has not killed it, and does not kill it, as it does malarious dis- eases, for its germ is of animal origin. Even the cholera has lived over the winter in that country on its way westward. In this re- spect it may be apprehended that the plague will actin the same way and be ready to start on its travels next summer. But an effective personal quarantine will stop it. Plague poison is not carried in merchandise, anda quarantine against it will, therefore, interfere less with commerce than it would in regard to many other diseases. Already Germany is, it appears, ready to mobilize an army for defence against this insidious enemy; but we must not imagine that we shall be made safe by the arrest of the land- ward march of the pest, especially since Mennonites from the Sea of Azof and other districts of Southern Russia have shown a disposition to travel this way. Christian Charity. There is no other form of charity that so fully proves its own genuinenessand purity as that which complies with the injunction, “When thou doest alms let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth.” From whose hand and heart the following epistle and its enclosure came we do not know, though the penmanship is that of a lady; it is with the spirit of it that we, our readers and the subjects of the writer's sympathy are concerned :— To tax Eprron or THR Hrrap:— It you believe that Michael Dunn and his associates are making an honest ee to redeem their lives will you give them the enclosed sum ($20)? Such an effort as theirs professes to be is brave and pathetic and worthy of all encouragement; but if your large ables you to discover anything resem- ir swindle” in this proposed mission add the sum to your fund for the poor. . Dunn and his work eplist my warmest sympathy, and if he and those poor men are sincere in their professions, to help them becomes, I think, an imperative duty. ButI leavo it to your decision. Respecttully, 3. EF. The financial contribution of our un- known correspondent shall be promptly handed over to Mr. Dunn, whom we be- lieve to be perfectly sincere and determined in the good work which he has begun. But the donor's service to the cause does not end with the application of the money to its purpose, Ex-convicts have sometimes heard considerable sympathetic talk, but they have also heard—and learned by hitter experience—that ‘‘talk is cheap.” Newspapers, prison associations and pris- oners themselves get many a letter express- ing the kindest feeling, but always minus the ammunition with which to fight the wolf which is always at the door of the body and soul of the man whom crime, punishment, solitude and ostracism have combined to make friendless and desperate. But when sympathy comes forward with pocketbook in hand its fervor and genuineness cannot be doubted. Every man who has been in prison and who reads this letter, whether or no he participates in its pecuniary con- tents, will understand beyond a possibiliy of doubt that somewhere a tender human heart is sorrowing for him, is stretching forth a helping hand to him, has robbed it- self, and possibly of necessary comforts, that men of his kind may be withheld from their old associations and habits, The knowledge that such sympathy exists has nerved many a man to smilingly endure severe hardship and privations; it has turned brutes into gentlemen, and our un- known correspondent may assure herself that her words, strengthened a hundred- fold by their substantial accompaniment, will sink too deeply into the hearts of many a despondent outcast to ever reach the sur- face again, except in the form of better deeds and purer lives. Ministerial Discourtesy Rebuked. When Christian ministers meet together something more than the ordinary cour- tesies which govern gentlemen in other professions is expected from them. In any deliberative body when one member insults another and of set purpose, not and if this be not given to expel the offender. But what shall be said of o Christian minister who in a public assem- bly of ministers not only does this thing, but in a subsequent interview with a re- porter repeats it, and before a public con- gregation on the Sabbath reiterates it, and then with unblushing effrontery comes before his brethren, as Dr. Fulton did yesterday, and insists that his words were wise and true, and that his brother Samson should be tried before the body as to his loyalty, but offers no apology for him- self? What shall be said of such a man? We do not see how the Baptist Ministers’ Confer- ence could have done less than they did in suspending him from their fellowship. ‘They would have been justified had they gone further and excluded him altogether. And yet, as the vote of the Conference stands, it shows that there are a dozen men in that body who eare more for Dr..Fulton’s companionship than for their own dignity and self-respect, The majority, however, is sufficiently large to give emphasis to the action taken and to deter others who, more tull of zeal than discretion, may hereafter Senator Edmunds’ Proposed Amend. ment. The amendment to the federal constitu- tion offered yesterday by Mr. Edmunds is entirely correct in its professed object ; but he cannot expect that it will ever be ratified by the States, nor even that it will be sub- mitted to them for ratification by this Con- gress. The failure of any ten States to ratify un amendment insures its defeat, and the Legislatures of at least ten of the South- ern States will take no notice of this pro- posed amendment, even if it should pass both houses of Congress by the requisite two-thirds majority. But there are, never- theless, good reasons for hoping that Southern claims for war damages will never be recognized by Congress. The vigorous opposition to such claims recently expressed in the House by Mr. Potter, of this State, and by Mr. Bragg, of Wisconsin, will be strongly indorsed by the Northern democrats, and this, com- pined with the republican opposition, is a pretty effectual security. ‘The country looks with dislike upon perpetual attempts to tinker the constitution for guarding against dangers which are pretty certain to be warded off by ordinary legislative ac- tion. Robbing the Mails. The efficient management of the New York Post Office happily makes dishonest practices on the part of the employés very rare occurrences. Considering the large number of persons employed in the build- ing and the heavy amount of money and valuables sent through the mails, it is sur- prising how little leakage there is. Only the most vigilant and faithful supervision could insure safety to the property passing through the New York office, and it is note- worthy that whenever any dishonesty does occur it is certain not to pass long undetected. The carrier who was found taking letters from the sorted boxes and putting them in his pocket last Sunday night had been stealing only for two months—just long enough to disclose the fact that letters were miscarry- ing—when he was discovered and arrested. He believes that his crimes have netted him about three hundred dollars in money, and for this paltry sum he becomes a felon, con- signs his family to suffering and brings dis- grace upon hisname. His conviction and punishment are necessary, because it is most important that the inviolability of the mails should be preserved. The employés in the New York office will discover in this prompt detection the evidence that stealing letters is a dangerous experiment under the present vigilant management. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. To get up 80 carly makes a man surly. Sigel is fighting mit Chicago's breezes. Captain Boyton is a sort of castor diver. Almost all of us are generous to a fault, if the fault happens to be our own. Mr. Charles Francis Adams, Jr., of Quincy, Mass., is at the Breyoort House. In China one of the delicacies at the tables of the rich consists of half-hatched eggs. Captain Perry, of the steamship Britannic, arrived yesterday and is at the Westminster. From towns where coasting is prohibited we hear of most deaths from coasting accidents. Professor Lubbock resuscitated a wasp in winter and got stung. ‘That was punishment enough, Senator Booth, of California, will lose his best friend by the defeat of Senator Oglesby, of Minois. Captain Boyton and the Henatp reporter found the Bay full of ice. They should never bet on the Bay. “As Senator Ediiunds made a gesture with his right arm some one remarked, “We are struck by another cold wave.” Tho proprictors of the London Telegraph print several copies of that journal on special paper for the royal palaces. Senators Edmunds and Thurman, one a republican, the other a democrat, are bosom friends, They even set their watches alike, ‘The reports that Queen Victoria intends to visit Coburg and Hesse Darmstadt in the sping are semi- officially contradicted in London this morning, Colonel Tom Scott writes from Florence that he “was, at the date of his letter, about to go to Naples and Rome. He has greatly improved in health, and his family are well. ‘The condition of Judge Hunt had so far improved yesterday morning that he was able to have the news- papers read to him, The opinion of his physician is that he is much better, but is not out of danger. ‘The Most Rey. Bishop Medley, of Frederickton, was elected Metropolitan of Canada at the House of Bishops, held in the Synod office at Montreal yestor- day. There were present the bishops of Frederic ton, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Quebec, Algoma, Niagara and Montreal, London Truth :—"One day, a8 he was musing on these things in sore perplexity, he entered his wife's dressing room and saw a box of pastilles on the table, ‘The lid was marked ‘Lavender Drops.’ Mechanically Jenny's husband opened the box and pat one of the pastilles in his mouth. ‘They were large white things like dragées, but instantiy John Armoroy had crunched one his mouth was filled with undiluted alconol of fearful strength. So again he had his wife's secret. She got drunk off these pastillos, specially prepared by @ roguish chemist for persons like herself, and in- nocently styled ‘Lavender Drops,’ ” During the lifetime of Lady Augusta Stanley, Her Majesty was a frequent visitor at the Deanery, and there on several occasions met Mr. Carlyle. Mr. Carlyle (who, by the bye, refused the Grand Cross of the Bath at the same time when Mr. Tennyson de- clined a baronetcy) is no courtier, and his unsophis- ticated manners more than once amused the Queen, One day, being perhaps “hard of hearing,” and wish- by a slip of the tongue at » moment of | ins to hear Her Majosty's remarks distinctly, he came excitement, but reading tho insult from | close to her, dragging a chair after him, and having mace himself cosey by her side, proceeded to question manuscript, there is and should be only | por as to her historical likes aud dislikes, instead of one rule~namely, to demand an apology, Waiting till he was himeelf questioned, OBITUARY. HENRY LINDERMAN, EX-DIRECTOR OF THB UNITED STATES MINYS. Dr. Henry Linderman, ex-Director of the United States mints, died at his residence, No, 5101 stret, Washington city, yesterday, He was a son of J J. Linderman, a practising physician, and wat Dorn in # small village in Pike county, Pa., Decem- ber 26, 1825, Consequently he was in his fifty-fourth year, At that time Pike county was a sparsely settled region, and there were no public schools; therefore Henry Linderman as a boy had no opportunities for education except what his own industry led him te make for himself, He studied medicine under hit father and afterward at the New York Cob lege of Physicians and Surgeons, where he received his diploma. He then returned to Pike county, where he practised three or four years, theu removed to Nesquchoning, Carbon county, where he remained only a short time. He then established himself at Mauch Chunk. His fortunes up to this time were not bright, and he had a harder struggle than most young physicians. Young Linderman re- mained at Mauch Chunk for several years and earned a@reputation as a skilful physician and’ as a self. educated man, He took an active interest in politics as a democrat, and before the end of President Pierce’s term of office in 1855 he received an appointment from the Executive as chief clerk of the Mint in Philadelphia, under Coloncl James Ross Snowden, who was then director. In this offi- cisl position Dr. Linderman remained until 1861, when ex-Governor Pollock was made director of the Mint, and, under him, Dr. Linderman was reap- pointed as chief clerk, In 1864 he resigned from the Mint and went into private business as a partuer in a firm of stock brokers in Philadelphia. In 1868 ex- Governor Pollock resigned from the directorship of the Philadelphia Mint and President Johnson nomi- nated William Millward, who was rejected oF the Senate, whereupon Dr. Linderman was named and confirmed, In thisposition he remained tor about three years. Dy, Linderman continued to take part in politics as a democrat, and was a member of the Presi- dential Convention which nominated Seymour and Blair. ‘This activity in the party, in opposition to the administration, led to lus removal by President Grant in May, 1869, and ex-Governor Pollock was re- appointed to the Philadelphia Mint. Dr. Linderman was u devoted student und had made himself a master of the scientific knowledge which his office required, so that after his removal it was found that his services were too valuable to the govern- ment to be dispensed with. He had made himself indispensable, and was accordingly sent soon atter by Sccretary Boutwell on a niission to California to investigate the San Francisco Mint. In 1871 he was sent to London, Paris and Berlin to observe the workings of the government mints at those places, with a view of making the knowledge useful at home. He was absent eight months. In 1872 he mude an elaborate report upon the condition of the market for silver, and predicted the decline in ita relative value to gold, which’ has sine taken place. With a view to obtaining an advantageous market for the large and increasing production ot that metal in the United States he projected the coinage of the trade dollar, which was subsequently authorized by law, and successfully introduced into the Oriental markets with marked advantages to American com- merce. In the same report he called attention to the disadvantages arising from the computation and quotation of exchange with Great Britain on the old and complicated colonial basis, and from the under. yaluation of foreign coins, in computing the yalue of foreign invoices’ and levying and collecting duties on foreign merchandise at the United States Custom houses. The trade dollar was the result of the investigation and study of Dr. Linderman. He was the author of the Coin- age act of 1873, secured its passage by Congress, and atter its niger was appointed to the office of dircetor of all the mints, having charge of the entire workings of this responsible department. He was ap- pointed for five years, and his term of office expired December 7 last. ‘The attacks of Congress- mun Glover upon Dr. Linderman’s management of the mints (accusing him of spec: 1a a bullion and other public moneys) are declared by the Doctor's family to have aggravated his sickness and hastened his death. The immediate cause of his death was a severe cold contracted at the Isle of Shoals last sum- mer. This developed into rapid consumption, which Spear ge Dr. Linderman for many months. His lemand upon Secretary Sherman for a committee t° investigate the charges of Mr. Glover and the avowal of the Secretary indorsing the Director's integ- rity are of recent occurrence and doubtless well remembered. Nevertheless the health of Dr, Linderman is declared to have been affected by these annoyances. Dr, Linderman was @ descendent of an old dnd honorable German family which has been settled in the southern part of New York for upward of acentury anda half, His grandfather and great grandtather (the first of the name in this country) were large farmers and slaveholders in Ulster county, in that State. Margaretha Linderman, the mother o! Dr. Martin Luther, was an ancestor of his on his mother's side. Dr. Linderman was descended from the well known Brodhead tamily of New York and Pennsylvania. Dr. Linderman married a Miss Davis, of Carbon county, Pa., and leaves one son, aged twenty years. He had a sister and two brothers— Dr. Garrett Linderman, of Bethlehem, a wealth; coal operator, and Albert, a merchant in Philadel. phia. Dr. Linderman was aman of much goodness of heart and great liberality. During the prevalence of the cholera, about twenty years ago, he forsoca his duties in the Mint and went among his old friends and patients in the mining regions and worked faithfully during the continuance of the plague. He dies a poor man, his family hay- ing nothing except his life insurances, it is suid, Since the expiration of his term of office the Presi- dent has no new appointment, and it was under- stood that had Dr, Linderman recovered he would undoubtedly have been urged to recept his office for another term. Dr. Linderman was the first to rec- ommend the adoption of a system of redemption for the inferior coims used as change money, thie for the purpose of keeping their purchasing power on an ip cored with the money of unlimited legal tender. During his official career he published, in 1877, his views on the financjal questions in his book, “Money and Legal Tender in the United States.” His annual report for 1877 was an exhaustive review of the metallic standard and the capacity of the minea of the United States to supply the world with the precious metals. Dr. Linderman was a man of prompt frankness in ali his business relations and his unwavering adherence to the right. CHARLES WALL, Mr. Charles Wall died at half-past nine o'clock on Stinday night, at his residence, No. 43 Park avenue, Williamsburg. The deceased was born in Brooklyn May 14, 1830, and was consequently in the forty- ninth year of his age at the time of his death. He commenced his mercantile career with the firm of Williams & Hinman, ship chandlers, and subse- quently went into business with his father. At the time of his death he was senior member of the firm of William Wall's Sons, No, 113 Wall street, pro- prietors of large rope walks in Williamsburg. His father wax at one time Mayor of Wi burg, be- tore its consolidation to Brooklyn. The deceased was interested in several insurance institutions, was a member of the Board of Directors of the Union Ferry Company, and the flags on the ferry houses are at half-inast in respect to his memory. Mer, Wall had been unable to leave his house since the be- ginning of the present month. JUDGE JAMES D, HALYBURTON. Judge James D, Halyburton died Sunday evening, at Richmend, ‘The funeral took place yesterday atternoon, and attended by members of the Richmond Bar in a body, including the judges of the Supreme Court of Appeals and a large concourse of leading citizens. Judge Haly burton served us United States Jud, the Eastern district of Virginia from President Tyler's administration wntil the begining of the late war, also ax Judge of the Confederate States Court during the war. ie was considered one of Virginia's most distinguished sous. He was woventy-six years of age. EDWARD H. GREEN. Edward H. Green, a prominent citizen and bust ness man of Easton, Pa., fell on the ice near his home on Tuesday last, breaking his left arm and injuring himself internally, from the effects of which he died suddenly yesterday noon. He was aged forty-two years, Mr. Green was a member of the Pennsylvania Electoral College of 18’ partner of Messrs, Stewart & Co., extensive wire manufac. turers of South Easton; president of the Keystone Iron Company, and for several years president of tae Easton Town Council. JOHN B. DILLION, John B, Dillion, an old resident of Indianapolis, Ind., died yesterday afternoon, Mr, Dillion waa Librarian at Washington for ten years and State Librarian for this State for several years, He had just completed & work on colonial law, embracing all the English and French treaties with this country. WILLIAM 8, SMITH, * Mr, William §. Smith, of Yaphank, I. 1, who died on Sunday last, wasin his eighty-second year, Ho was at one time Supervisor, School Commissioner, and for fifteen years County Treasurer, He was also — of the State Assembly in 1834, 1948 and 1856. MRS, CORNELIA S. DANFORTH, Mrs. Cornelia 8. Danforth, mother of Judge P. 3, and General G. E. Danforth, died on Sunday evening at Middleburg, Schoharie county, N. ¥., in the eighty-third year of her age. ‘he funeral will take piace at two P, M. on Wednesday. REV. M. J. MICHELBACHER, Rev. M. J. Michelbacher, a prominent Jewish rabbt for the past thirty years, died at Richmond, Va,, terday. He was wixty-nii oars of age. ined SENOR LEON DE LA COVA, Leon de Is Cova, the Venezuelan Const! at Phile delphia, died on Sunday, after a short illness,