The New York Herald Newspaper, February 25, 1879, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. salts JAMES GORDON BENNETT, TROPRIETOR. saat day in the year, Ten dollars rs and Of an three period less bree of postace. a WEEKLY HERALD—Ono do free of post- are. NOTICE 10 SUBSCRIRERS.—Remit in drafts on New Office money red send , el) as their new address, letters or tolegraplic despatches must ORK HERALD, rs xnd pad ges should Rejected communicatior properly seated. will not be returued, bt PUILADELPHIA OFFICE—NO. 112 SOUTH SIXTH LONDON ‘OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD— 0, FLEET STi THEATRE COMIQUE LYCEUM THEAT GRAND OPERA 1l0U UNION SQUARE THEATRE NEW YORK AQUARIUM—1 SIBLO'S GARD BOWERY THEATR STANDARD THEATRI PARK THEATRE| BROADWAY THEAT BIFTH AVENUE GERMANIA TIVOLL THE AMERICAD x Baxker’s DavcnTer. xp Ripixe Hoop. % Detective. AMuITION, “M.S. Panavorn, M.S. PinaForn. EGIRTEN STUDENTES, BREWSTER HALL-—Pxpxstni TRIPLE W YORK, TUESDAY, F N The probabilities are that the weather in New York and its vicinity today will be warmer and cloudy, with rain or snow. To-morrow it will be warm and cloudy, with rain. Watt Street Yesterpay.—The stock mar- ket was active and feverish, being lower in the morning, but closing fairly strong. Govern- meut bonds were strong. States steady and railroads irregular. Money on call was easy at 2 a3 percent, closing at the former figure. _. Tue Brack Hitts Indians have resumed business. A Revenue Curren has at last been sent to the relief of Sitka. To-Morrow. It is Lent all the ith a good many people. Lest Bec year round Wire a Newnure Pastor was praying in hie church the other evening an enterprising band of burglars preyed upon the parsonage. Is It Nor Anour Time for the Mayor to take the public iuto his coutidence in regard to his imysterious examination of the’ Police Commis sioners? sy ‘Tue Onseg or Bisnor Fo.ry in Baltimore yesterday were of a most impressive character. In his death the Catholic Church in this country has lost one of her most zealous and devoted prelates. Tne Nortiwesr is determined that the East and South shall not monopolize the centennial business. Vincennes to-day celebrates the one- hundredth anniversary of her capture by the Revolutionary fore Tue Lawyers who complain of the exaction of illegal fees by the county officers here ought to live ou the other side of the East River. According to the petition to Governor Rabinson Brooklyn's County Clerk is ahead in this line of business. Srvpents or Pourtican Economy will be in- terested in the article on another page embody- ing the views of the late Mr. John Stuart Mill on the subject of socialism. Mr. Mill contem- plated writing an exhaustive treatise on this question, but unfortunately he did not live to complete i Tae Two Voiumns just published in England by the Duke of Argyll on the Eastern question sre of the highest historical value and impor- tance. The Duke, of course, writes as a liberal aud an oppovent of the Beaconsfield adininis- tration, but he bas not allowed his devotion to bis party to warp his judgment or misrepresent is political adversaries, Tue Weratnnn.—The movement of disturb- ances across the northern and wtral of the United States has caused a ge of the barometer, which presente condit marked contrast with those that prev week ago. Then high pressures dominated, with clear, cold weather. Now the contrary is the case, and frequent areas of low barometer, with relatively high temperatures, are the rule. The depression which was over Canada and the upper Middle and Now Eng- land States on Sunday bas reached the New Brunswick coast and is passing out on the ocean very rapidly. It is succeeded, however, by auother storm centre that has moved into the Missouri Valley from the West, and bas there developed considerable e: Until the centre passed cust of the hundredth meridian from the Rocky Mountains it was unattended by much precipitation, but now that it is receiving the indraft winds from the Gulf of Mexico the snowfall has commenced with the increased at- mospheric } ity. The low pressure in the Gulf bas woved to Florida and is now east of that region. Rain fell on the South Atlantic coast while the depression waw moving over South Carolina and Geor- gia. Temperatures have risen decidedly iu the Lower Missouri, Lower Ohio and Central Mississippi valleys, while immediately north- ward and eastward they are quite low relatively. Such conditions, with those of the increasing hu- midity of the atmosphere, render the develop- ment of severe local storms or tornadocs on the eastern margin of the advancing depression awong the probabilities for to-day or to-morrow. ‘The area likely tobe atfected by these is formed by Northern Missouri, lowa, Southern Ilinois and Indiana, Our special cable despatch from Lon- don announcing the weather conditions on the English coasts last evening confirm our predic- tion of the movement toward Europe of a con- siderable depression, which is now approaching that continent. At Holyhead an cast-northeast moderate gale prevailed. At Seilly the wind ‘was moderate from the northeast, with snow squalls; barometer 29.60 inches. At Plymouta the wind was east, moderate, with snow ; barom- eter 29.70 inches. The weather in New York @nd ‘its vicinity today will be warmer and cloudy, with rain or snow. To-morrow it will be ‘warm aud cloudy, with raim NEW YORK HERAL An Evil That Demands a Prompt Remedy. The statement that our present tenement house system is a serious public evil is not likely to meet denial from any quarter. Its existence is due to a variety of causes. The peculiar construction of the island, long and narrow, has left room for growth only in one direction—northward. Business has heretofore crowded into the lower part of the city. ‘he demand for labor on the docks, in warehouses, factories and stores has been mainly down town, and laborers have been compelled to live within easy reach of their places of employment be- cause they have had no means of travelling rapidly and cheaply long distances to and from their homes, The limited space in which they could seek residences has in- duced the erection of buildings capable of holding a large number of families, and the packing of these together in a manner that has shut them out from t!e chance of light and ventilation, The greed of landlords has suggested two points in the construc- tion of these buildings—one, that they should be put up as cheaply as possible, and the other, that every inch of space should be so utilized that persons may be crowded into every hole and ccrner with- out regard to comfort, decency or health. ‘The extent and character of this speculation is shown by the authoritdtive statement that there are twenty-one thou- sand such objectionable tenement houses in the city, seven thousand of which have been built within ten years, and that their tenants average one hundred souls to each building. In many places similar houses are built also on the rears of lote, thus effectually shutting out light and air from all. In ten years eighty-two million dollars are said to have been invested in such property, warranting the conclusion that it has been remunerative even in the recent stagnant times and that unholy gains have been realized out of the sufferings of the people. The result of this crowding of the tenement house districts has given us in some blocks a population of seven hundred and fifty soulstotheacre. While there arein London’s most densely populated neighbor- hoods one hundred and seventy-five thou- sand people to the square mile there are in parts of the Fourth ward two hundred and ninety thousand, or over sixty per cent more, As a natural consequence of this overcrowding cleanliness has become im- possible. The regulations of the Build- ing and Health departments have been disregarded, laws and ordinances have been violated, and badly drained houses, without the required means of disposing of ashes und garbage, with scarcely the conveniences demanded by common decency, have been supple- mented by filthy, neglected streets. The people who are doomed to live in such neighborhoods and in such homes are pow- erless in the matter and have no choice. ‘They are as much the slaves of their grasp- ing landlords as the Southern blacks twenty years ago were the slaves of their so-called owners. ‘They have nowhere else to go. They are compelled to pay in such dens rents that would secure them a decent home in other cities, because there are no cheap suburban residences in New York, no cheap apartment houses in healthy neighborhoods where working people may live. They cannot board. They cannot find houses at rents within their means. They must enter these tenement, dens or leave the city. Hence the startling fact that half a million of our people live in such places; that sin- gle rooms often contain two or three fami- lies, and that in some buildings nearly two hundred people huddle together, breath- ing the same poisonous atmosphere. It would be difficult to exaggerate the evils and dangers arising from this mode of living. The risk to the public health and life is great, because pestilence knows no boundaries and is no respecter of persons, and the bills of mortality prove that disease is rampant in those terrible districts. Seventy per cent of the deaths last year oc- curred in tenement houses, while only about forty per cent of the population is found in such dwellings. The deaths in New York last year exceeded those in Phil- adelphia, where there are better dwell- ings for the poor, twenty-five per cent on the ratio of population. Among children the tenement house mortality is dreadful. One of the most pain- ful features of the abominable system is its destroying effect on infant life. Ninety per cent of the little ones born and nursed in the foul air of the tenement houses die under five years of age. The poor tene- ment house children make up forty-six per cent of the whole number of deaths in the city, and their corpses num- ber ten per cent of our whole child population. Over twelve thousand little ones under five years old died in those pest houses last year, Sorrowful as this is to contemplate no parent can tell when the blow may strike other homes, for how often do the nurses who attend the children of richer parents come from such places ond carry with them the seeds of the diseases that thus swell the yearly tables of mortality. The risk to the public health is not the only evil of the system. Pauperism and crime are largely increased through the tenement house influence and the taxes of the city aro proportionately swelled. The influence of home is great. A happy home makes a contented mind, a cheerful dispo- sition and draws a man from dissipa- tion, A wretched homeiacites moroseness and brutality and drives a man to drink and other vices. In the tenement house the young man graduates in crime—tho young woman in immorality. Those who live in misery, filth and degradation are easily approachable by the disturbing spirits of society, and become rioters, If men remain reputable and honest through all temptations enervation and sickness follow a tenement house life and make their victims burdens on public charity, Nor should it be forgotten that the tenement houses supply our voters, and what political intelligence and honesty are such wretched surroundings likely to pro- duce? These are the evils that present them- selves to the citizens of New York, and the need of a remedy is apparent, How can it be secured? First, if we are to get rid of this abominable system the poorer classes must be provided with other homes, Next, when other homes are supplied legislation must sweep out ot existence all places not fit for human habitation. The solution of the first problem is easy enough. Rapid transit has liberated the working classes from par- ticular districts, and there is plenty of ground in the upper part of the city that can be leased on twenty years’ leases aud covered with comfort- able, cheap dwellings for one or two families at a good profit to the investor. In London such dwellings are plentiful at from fifteen pounds to thirty pounds an- nual rent, Here they might command a little higher rates, say from one hundred to two hundred and fitty dollars a year, and yet be as cheap as the present tenement house ‘lodgings ‘and within the means of the laboring: classes, ‘Phe® libenil "profits made by the tenement house landlords are a guarantee that such an investment would pay. But we must get rid of the present vile places by legislation, to prevent an attempt to retain the tenants by lowering the rents and to guard against the indiffer- ence of those whom habit might induce to live on in filth and vice, Legislation can sweep them away, for the highest duty of the lawmaker is to prevent crime and to protect the people from the evils of pauper- ism and vice. Itis absurd to say that such legislation would be an attack on property. ‘The owners of this tenement house property have made an attack on the owners of all other property by impairing the health of the city, increasing its crime and im- morality, swelling its pauperism and en- larging its debt and taxation. We insist, therefore, that laws should be enacted which, frem their stringent sanitary pro- visions, would compel the alteration of onr objectionable tenement houses or their. destruction. : The excellent movement started last Sun- day in several of the churches to aid in the overthrow of the tenement house evil will do much good. The powerful influence of the ministry cannot be directed toward any more praiseworthy object. It can, also, as was suggested at some of the meetings, undo the mischief already done by visiting the tenement houses and urg- ing the inmates to habits of cleanliness, sanitary precautions and better care of their children’s health. In such a work the ladies will be most useful allies, while the clergy, by enlisting in it at this time, will evince a proper regard for the appeal which goes up to them from many hearts to take once more active and earnest interest in the wel- fare of the poor and to make an effort to win back the affection and confidence of the people. Railroad Telegraphs for Public Use. The Senate has refused, by a vote of 31 to 27, to strike out the addition to the Army Appropriation. bill known as the Butler amendment, The provision, it will be re- membered, opens the telegraph lines owned or leased and run by the several rail- roads to public use, allowing them to do private) business the same as a regular telegraph company. This insures the retention of the provision in the bill, and may possibly prevent the creation of a telegraph commission. As there are several other points involved in the scope of the proposed commission's in- quiry, however, besides the simple one of ‘monopoly or no monopoly, it is to be hoped that the bill for its creation may yet receive favorable action. An Incidental Advantage. With the stables attached to the Gaff, Fleischmann & Co. distilleries radical and proper steps have been taken in virtue of the authority given to the Governor to deal with such pest places. Cattle actually diseased are killed and sent to the knacker establishments as offul, and cows, now well, but which have been so much in con- tact with the infected animals that their contamination is certain, are sent to be killed for butchers’ meat, while all stables in which the unclean animals have been housed will be burned. Doubtless the little fishes in Newtown Creek, into whose odorous realm the whole product of swill milk has been poured lately, will rejoice exceedingly when it is all over; and the little children of two great cities may have in the summer, that is betore them such, 0 chance for healthy food as they have not had: in their whole lives be- fore. Everybody has good reason to rejoice at thie benefit incidental to the de- struction made necessary by the cattle dis- ease, which of course is a very different thing from rejoicing in that calamity itself, Let us hope that the Governor's commis- sioners will be equally thorough in their methods with all the stables they may find of the same character. Probably it they do we may one of these days be able to con- gratulate the public upon the actual anni- hilation of the swill milk traffic. Should this traffic be thoroughly stopped for a time a great deal of the difficulty of dealing with it would be overcome, for good milk would get generally into the market and the dealers would find their interest in keeping the other out Why Not Go Further? The bill to redace the legal rate of in- terest in this State to six per cent has been ordered toa third reading in the Senate. It is a proper tileasure, as there is no reason why New York should adhere to n rate of interest higher than is warranted by the present value of money and in excess ofthe legal rate in many other Siates, But why not go further and abolish the absurd and inconsistent usury laws altogether, allowing the rate of interest to be fixed by special contract at whatever the money may be worth to the borrower, and inaking six per cent the legal rate of inter- est only in the absence of such a contract? Public sentiment has long condemned re- striction on the trade in money, and it would be easy to show that the borrowers would be vastly more benefited than the lenders by the abolition of the usury laws, If the Six Per Cent bill passes the Senate it should be amended by the Honse in the manner we suggest, if only to clicit discus- sion and test the sense of the Legislature on the subject. D, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1879.—TRIPLE SHEET. Another Instalment. The east side travellers were well pleased yesterday to witness the breaking of ground on Division and Allen streets, between the Bowery and First avenue, for the construction of the Metropol- itan East Side “L” Railroad. It will be seen from our report of the interest- ing event that the work is to be pushed forward with the same commendable vigor that marked the construction of the Sixth avenue line, and that no effort will be spared by the company or the contractors to complete the road by next autumn, It has been feared that some delay might be occasioned on Second avenue in copse- quence of an existing contract for repaving that street, but it seems reasonable that the Commissioner of Public Works would pre- fer, and indeed require, that the founda- tions for the “L” road should all be dug and completed before the new pavement is laid. ‘The pub- lic will feel full confidence that there will be no unnecessary delay in the construction of the Second avenue “L,” and those who travel on the east side will look anxiously for its completion. There is business enough for both the east side roads, and the new line will be a great pablic convenience and advantage. City Hospitals, The report of the Hospital Committee of the State Charities Aid Association is an im- portant document, very unlikely to receive from the public the attention it deserves, or to have much influence in furthering the correction of the evils it points out. They who dip into publications of this nature do not feel themselvis affected personally by any statements of the conditions of edifices mainly prepared for the reception of public paupers, and they whoare practically inter- ested in the condition of Bellevue Hospital, whether as patients or physicians, are the least influential portions of the community and the last to be considered in pub- lic action on topics of this nature. Bellevue Hospital is a disgrace to the city, but then the city has so many dis- graces that if they are to be corrected by the radical processes that would be neces- sary in this case, we should, perhaps, pre- ferto begin elsewhere, It is shameful that our only great public hospital should be such a nest of pestiferous accumulations as Bellevue certainly is. But there is only one remedy—to pull it down and build another; and the people who have to pay the bills would ultimately regard that process as worse than the existing shame. Woman at Harvard. After years of effort, more or less judicious, the young women of America are at last to be allowed at Harvard University all of the facilities for higher education that men enjoy at the same schoal, the more promi- nent differences between their treatment and that of the male students being merely nominal, ‘They are to have the same option and range of study, the same instructors, the same privileges of library, laboratory, &c., but instead of entering the rogulur classes they will be treated as private pupils of individual professors, and will, on com- pleting their courses, receive merely certificates instead of the regulation diplomas. ‘The system agreed upon will disappoint the advocates of the coeducation of the sexes, but so far as the real advantages of study at Hurvard are con- cerned the new plan admits of them all. It has been to even the strongest opponent of coeducation a matter of regret that the spe- cial advantages of the Harvard course could not be enjoyed by young women who are sincere and patient students. ‘The arrange- ments now perfected not only comply fully with this wish, but allow the female stu- dents to proceed as fast as they may desire, without the drawbacks to which they, in common with the more earnest men, would be subjected by the average boys, upon whose supposed capacity the rate of progress of classes is determined in advance, The Sawdust Track. If the ranks of the public pedestrians continue to fill during the year at the rate at which they have increased in the past two months the modest sawdust track will become the path over which humanity will pass to many of its long deferred goals. It stands to mathematical reason that when a set of men and women that in one week may be counted on the fingers increase a week later by scores, and in the next by hundreds, it will be only o matter of a month or two before all the able-bodied men, women and children in the country will be on the track, and leave nobody but cripples to sit in the spectators’ seats and take in the gate money. The moral gain to the country would be simply enormous. It would relieve the crowds on the Third avenue “L” and take the pickpockets off the surface road on the saute thorough- fare; ‘deprive every dyspeptic preacher of a leading cause of poor sermons and thin congregations; give members of boards of education some new ideas upon the uses of pure air; keep the Police Commissioners apart long enough to mako a desirable break in the demoralization which is pecu- liar to any organization with a disordered head; secure to every person a clean path under foot, which is more than can ever be hoped for from the Street Cleaning Com- mission; keep Mayor Cooper and ex-Comp- troller Green apart long enough to give the former a chance to devine some sorely needed reforms of city affairs; keep legisla- tive fingers out of the municipal pie, and prevent a quorum, and, consequently, un- seemly partisan squabbles in Congress. In view of all these possibilities the tramping craze rises from being an affair of the sole beneath to a frenzy of the nobler soul within. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Turner's eyes were dark blue, ‘The carrier pigeon i# a cvorier, Brignoli was wedded to plain soda, Gough says he has kicked his last lecture, A garrulous servant is the friend of the burglar. A bull in a china shop acts as if he were in his cups. As the ice melts the milkman’s labors become easier, “Hl, M, S. Pinafore’ is @ wet blanket to a good many people, Somebody remarks that March will come in like # n ae lion, But it must be remembered that the Hon has @ Very open spring. Mr. Seth Green, of Rochester, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Lord Dufferin started from London yesterday for St. Petersburg. in England Bret Harte is the most popular of American authors. No man finds more fault while riding over bumps on country roads than the phrenologist. Nnglish physicians say that melancholia is always active in the morning aud wears away toward night, Kear Admiral William E, Le Roy arrived trom Europe yesterday, in the steamship City of Brussels, and is at the New York Hotel. London Punch:—“Fair One (during an interval in the valse)—‘You're very fond of dancing, ain't you? Brown—‘Yaas; I go in for it a good deal.’ Fair One— +L wonder you don’t learn!" London Spectator believes it to be far less desirable that woman should directly vote upon political ques- tions than that she should retain those delicate con+ siderations in the minds and manners of men which she now requires, There is a paper out Weat which has been consider- ing, in leaded type, why a lieutenant in the navy, with a good salary, a good wife and two xood vhil- dren should clope with the daughter of 4 boarding house landlady; aud the opinion at which the paper arrives is that the lieutenant must have fallen in love with the girl’s mother’s hash. If Mr. Hayes should go through Chinatown, San Francisco, he would probably be inclined, for several minutes after he came out not to veto the anti- Chinese bill, But, by the way, the authorities of San Francisco are as imbecile about Chinatown as the authorities of New York are imbecile about the Italian tenement houses, There is little or no differ- ence, Beaconsfleld never forgets an affront, but he is patient, His favorite author is Bolingbroke. His voice is loud and grating, unless he warms, and then he grows tuneful. He likes flowers, perfumes, fruits; drinks much black coffee; never smokes; loves dress; seldom reads newspapers; speaks no French and reads it very imperfectly, and sits by the hour reverizing. ‘Three-fourths of all the tobacco consumed in Great Britain is purchased by poor people in half ounces, and as Sir Stafford Northcote’s tax falls heavily, es- pecially on the poor, the'fulling off in consumption in nine months was about a million and a half of pounds, while the income is only $800,000 more than if, to the poor who buy in half ounces, the tax had not been doubled, ‘qt? STANDS AT THE HEAD.” New Youx Txtatp stands at the hoad of the nows- world.— Hastings (Mich.) Republican Banaer, ‘To Tak Eprror or THk Henaup:— Having been a constant reader of the New York Henavp from the frst year of its existence I have noticed its growth and progress in journaliam from that time to the present with admiration and pride. And its low price for the large valuo it conveyed always made it the poor man's paper and not less the poor man’s friend, And, notwith- standing the fact that it is the first paper generally sought after by tho rich, the financiers, tho statesmen and business men on the railways, aud in the large cities, it is also genorally the first paper asked for by people of moderate means, And why is it, Mr. Editor, that while your publishing price is only “three centi and lower than several of the New York dailics, the newseboys on the railways persist in charging more for the Hxnatp than any other paper? Are these newsboys in collusion with the editors of other papers in order to curtail the sale of the Hxnap, or does the popularity of the HknaLp croate a larger demand than you cau supply? Iam led to these inquiries, Mr. Editor, from personal experience lately in my efforts to get the Hxnanp in Washington city and on the railways between Philadelphia and Wash~ ington. In going and coming between Now- ark and Philadelphia £ bought the Henaup for four cents, which is the regular price on rail- ways, and nobody complains of it. But between Philadelphia and Washington both, ways I was required to pay six cents or go without my Henna, while all other Now York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington papers were offered much less—many of them as low as two cents, Andin Washington gen- erally the same discrimination prevails, Why is this thus? The newsboys’ auswors to me were conilicting. some saying, “We have to pay more for the Herat than we do for the World, Times or Tribune,” others saying, “We can't get HenaLps enough.” Now, Mr. Editor, there seems to be something crooked about this discriminating business, which you are desired to straighten if possible, whether you can satisfac- torily explain it or not, and you will oblige many of the TRAVELLING PUBLIC, Mornwrowy, N. J., Feb, 17, 1879. LITERARY CHIT-CHA'l. Books on Afghanistan aro beginning, as might be expected, to crop out in England, just as the war of 1442 brought its dozens of Afghan books, Among the new works is a history by Colonel G. B, Malleson and the ‘Journal of General Abbott in Afghanistan,” which has waited nearly forty yeara for its oppor- tunity. “Picturesque Ireland,” edited by John Savage and published by subscription by Thomas Kelly, of New York, of which the Aith number has reached us, promises, on completion, to be ® comprehensive illustration of the natural beauties of Ireland, its monumeuts of the past and its cities of the present. Parts 17 to 25 of Dr. Bernard O'Reilly's “Heroic Women of the Bible and the Church” are at hand, They complete the series. It need not be said that Dr. O'Reilly's text is well written or that a proper moral is drawn from the life of each noted woman therein described. The illustrations are in colors, one ocea- pying each number, Fords, Howard & Hurlbert, publishers. “Humanity and the Man" is tho titie of a poem in lank verse by William Sharp, M.D., Q. U. L, pub- lished by Hodges, Foster & Figgis, Dublin, It is born of Milton and the apocalypse and treats of the lofty subject of the world’s religious history. The typical man is shown by a seraph, a panorama of Jewish history np to the dread scene wt Calvary, and then is conducted over a region showing the after conditions of souls and is lett by theangel at the gate of Paradise, with the comforting assurance that he will be called for and taken inisde later on. ‘The verse is smooth, Harpers have added to their handy Greek and Latin texts “M. Tullii Ciceronis de Natura Deorum, de divinatione, de Fato.”” The late King of Hanover and other dethroned monarchs will figure in a new novel called “Los Rois en Exil,” upon which M, Alphonse Daudet ts work- ing. M., Zola ia about to publish a new novel in fewilie ton, Cambridge University, England, will probably build a fresh hall of residence for luly students, M. Bychkoy has commenced the publication of the catalogue of the manuscripts contained in the Im- perial Library at St. Petersburg, with valuable bib- ographical and historical notes, An Austrian major has written @ military essay on tho strategy of Moses and Joshua, Mr. Moltke Mo# has beon collocting Scandinavian folk-lore and mythological tales in Nedro Thele- marken, and will soon publish tho result of his re- searches, ‘The Italians are taking @ renewed interest in the history of their country, Cardinal Mavarin's letters (second volume), from 1044 to 1647; Cardinal Retz and his diplomatic mis- sions to Ko Kpinode The Story of Nicholas Muss, an Bartholomew; Parliamentary 8 (1830-1895), and Louis Blanc’s n Years of English History,” are among the re- cont historical publications in Paris, “Fourteen Months in North America” is the title of a Fron k of travel, by Count Louis de Tur- «Lin Paris, ‘by Ernest Daudet, and “La Joueuse,” by Adolphe Belot, ave the latest French novels, “The Geology of Ireland,” by G, Henry Kinahan, M.K.1.A., ts recommended by the Adeneum for ite original views. The late Sir Roderick Murchison was so disgtsted with what he termed the dulness of Tveland goologically that he declared his fret visit in search of ite rocks would be his last, Mr. Kinshan’s book shows that Sit Moderick was not altogether riubt. ot St. OBITUARY. ABRAHAM BRUYN HASBROUCK. Abraham Bruyn Hasbrouck dicd at bis residence in Kingston, N, Y.,on Sunday night, in the eighty. eighth year of his age, He was taken down with Phoumonia about a week ago. Mr, Hasbrouck was born at Kingston, Ulster county, N. Y¥., November 29, 1791, and was a member of one of the oldest families in the Stato, whose history dates back far before the American Revolution, He graduated from the Kingston Academy in 1906, which at that time was @ notod seat of learning, Immediately there after he entered Yale College, and was graduated in 1810. He then went to law school at Litchfield, Conn,, under Judge Reeves. Ho then studied law for a while with Elisha Williams at Hudson, N. Y., from which place be returned to Kingston and com- menced practicing law, About 1817 he formed a copartnership with Charles H, Ruggles, which copart nership existed till 1831, when Mr. Rugyles was appointed Circuit Judge. In 1835 he was elected to represent his district in Congress which then consisted of the counties of Ulster and Sullivan, In tho fall of 1833 he associated with him the Hon. Marius Schoonmaker, of Kington, N, ¥., who ut that timo was a student in his office, In 1810 ho was elected president of Rutgers College to fll the vacancy made by the resiguation of Dr, Mille dollar, which position ho held till 1850, when he ro- signed, After leaving Rutgers he resided in Naw York city tor afew years, whon he again returned te the sceno of his childhood, Sinco then he had lived @ retired life, spending his summers at his handsome summer residence, St. Remy, on the Hud: son, and his winters at Kingston, He was the first president of the Ulster County Bank, organized in 1831, and continued to remain president of that in- stitution until ho went to Rutgers, and has for the past half century been the head and front of nearly every noted society or institution of learning or letters in Kingston, In politics Mr. Hasbrouck was @ noted leader of the whigs, during the reign of that party, and when in his prime was an eloquent speaker, with a voice of almost wonderful musical tone and power to move men. He joined the ranks of the republican party from the outset and has remained a true party man, though Lesage; 7 not actively engaged in their many campaigns. on his return to Kingston from New York city he joined the Second Retormed Chureh un- der Dr. C, 5, Stitt, remaining a membor of the church till his death, Mr. Hasbrouck hada large family of childron. His wife was Julia Ludlam, a sister of Judge G. W. Ludiam, whom ho married about 1820, and who died about six years ago. Among his chil- dren are Jonathan. H., a lawyer, at present in the United States District Attorney's office in New York city; Sarah, the relict of Dr. John Lillie; Caroline, the wife of General George H, Sharpe, and Mary, wife of Judge Joseph 8. Barnard, of Poughkeopaio, 'N. ¥. ee leaves a property estimated at from $100,000 to. $125,000, BAINT-RENE TAILLANDIER, FRENCH ACADEMI- CIAN, Acable despatch from Paris announces the death of M. René Gaspard Ernest, better known as Saint- René Taillandicr. He was born at Paris December 16, 1817, educated at Paris and German universities, especially that of Heidelberg, became professor of literature at Strasbourg 1841 and at Montpellior 1843; was deputy professor of French poetry at the Sorbonne as substitute for Saint-Mare Girardin, 1863-48; became professor of French eloquence at the Sorbontie 1868, secretary yonoral at the Ministry of Public Instruction, Councillor of State and member of the Superior Council of Education, January, 1870. He was for more than forty years an active contributor to the Kevue des Deux Mondes, and author of numerous volumes of poems, essays, philosophy and criticism, which pro* cured him in 1850 the Cross of tho Legion of Honor, He was elected to the French Academy in place of Pero Gratry, January 17, 1873, and caused a Painted commotion in April, 1877, by the energy with which in his sorbonne lectures on French literature and eloquence, at tho time of the Revolution, he de- nounced Robespierre und Danton, Among his worka the most notable were “The History of Young Ger- aany” (1849), “Studies oa the Revolution in Ger- many” (two vols., 1453), “Life and Works of Lermou- toff, the Poet of the Caucasus” (1850), “Lives of the Countess of Albany, Sismondi, Maurice de Saxe (two vols., 1865) and Corveille” (1866), a volume of ramas und Romances of Literary Life” (1860) and “Servia in the Nineteenth Century’’ (1875). ROBERT M, GRIDER. Robert M. Grider died at Hotel Dieu, in the city of Now Orleans, on the 10th ult, A man of the coolest courage, Mr. Robert Grider had led an eventful life, Mr. Grider was in tho ill-starred Lopez expedition that sought the liberation of the island of Cuba, about 1851, and was captured with Will Crittendon and others near Puerto Principe. He met a some. what better fate than his comrades, for while they were shot like dogs Grider was held a prisoner until, through intercession, his life was spared and his sen- tence changed to confinement for life. Ho was then sent as # slave to the celebrated salt mines at Centa, in Africa, opponite Gibraltar, and there confined to work underground for some years, when, through the request of the United States government, he was set tree and returned to this Res Adventurous and courageous, he nursed all _his life hope that the gem of the Weatern soas would at last be from the Spanish yoke, and had a hand in General Jordan's later attempt, but upon its failure again returned to the city where he finally died. enty years old. ISAAC VANDERPOEL FRENCH, Mr, Isaac Vanderpoel French died in this city on last Saturday, The deceased gontloman was a lawyer by profession, and well known as receiver and ret- erce in several insurance and savings banks cases, He was the son of General French, and a native of Albany. Judge James Vanderpoel, of Albany, was a relative of Mr, French on the mother’s side, and Mrs, Van Buren was his aunt. He died of pneumonia, atter a week's sickness, contracted in the new Court House at the time when he obtsined a heavy verdict obs favor as receiver of the Central Park Savings ‘He was nearly seve WILLI8 C, SHELTON, Willis ©, Shelton, a young organist of New York, died at the Grand Union Hotel, of consumption, on Sunday, He was the son of a wealthy New England merchant, who gavod him every advantage in study. ing the organ, an instrument for which be early showed » passion, At the age of eighteen he was considered @ marvel and weat through the country giving organ concerts, For the last two years he has been living in New York, too feeble to study and ina hopeless condition, He was about twenty: tive years of age. HAMILTON M'DOWELL, Ex-Mayor Hamilton McDowell, of Burlington, N. J., who had been afflicted with paralysis for many yours, fell a victim to the disease Sunday night at his mansion in that city, He was a native of Balti- more, and tor many years was a leading practitioner of medicine in that city, where he amassed » large fortune. He retired some years ago and selected a home in Burlington, where ho was ted to the Common Council and to the chief magistracy of the iy, Ho was seventy-five years old at the time of is death, JOHN O'MARA, John O'Mara, @ prominent politician of Jersey City, died at his residence, on Pavonia avenue, in that city, on Sunday night after a brief illn The de- ceased was born in this city, and at his death was thirty-cight years of age. He served as a Director of Kducation from the Second district in the Boards of 1470-71-72, was subsequently an assessor, and ue to the time of his death was a member of the Board of Commissioners of | ssessment, COLONEL WILLIAM H. CADY, Colonel William H. Cady, @ noted federal soldier during the rebellion, died suddenly at his home in Bennington, yesterday morning. Colonel Cady was the manager of the Stark House, in that village, named after Gonoral Stark, of Revolutionary fame, ‘The deceased waa about forty, @ politician of con- siderable local reputation, and took ® leading part in the Bennington Centennial memorial ceremonies & year ago. JAMES 4. PARKER, James 8. Parker, & well known hotel proprietor, died at New Bedford, Mass., on Sunday. Mr. Parker was formerly connected with the Astor House, New York, and was for many years proprietor of the Samoset House at Plymouth, After leaving Plymouth he took charge of hotel in Springfeld, and was last year the taanager of the CHfford House at Plymouth, GENERAL ALONZO JACKMAN, General Alonzo Jackman, aged sevonty, professor at the Norwich University, died at Northfield, Vi esterday afternoon. He was the first graduate a hat university. HENRY E, WALLACE, Henry FE. Wallace, for many years editor of the Legal Intelligencer, of Philadelphia, diod on Sundoy im hig siaty-ACb year,