The New York Herald Newspaper, March 13, 1879, Page 6

& NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, i oe La sthaheat THE DAILY HERALD, published every day tn the year. TPheve cents per copy ‘Sundays oxcluded). Ten dollars per fines for six m fifty conts ths, or at a month tor fans Hare wo tion included, via of postage. » WEEKLY HERALD—One dollar per year, free of post- rafts on Now her pf these 4 letter. All In order to ingure atten- dress changed must give tion subseribers wishin oir old ax well as their ues All business, news letters or tel addressed New Youk Hxiatp. otters and 1d bo properly sealed. Rejected connnui will not be returned. ic despatches must ), 12 SOUTH SIXTH PUILADELPHIA OF STREET. PIC: W YORK HERALD— MONDON 0} NO. 46 ¥) A OFF NAPLES 0. Subseriptio: forwarded on LYCEUM THEAT! “WALLACK'S. GRAND OPERA HOUSE UNION SQUARE THE PARK THEA OADWAY NEW YORK FIFTH AVE: ONAL WALKING Marcn. 18M. SHEET TRIPLE Yo “THERSDAY, MARCH 13, 18% The probabilities are that the weather in New Forl: and its vicinity to-day will be fair and warm, Followed toward night by increasing cloudiness. 4o-morrow it will be clowiy and warm, provably with rain. 8 stendy and railrouds irregular. all was easy at 3a 4 per cent, ad- vanced to 5 per cent and closed atthe’ former quotation. Jersey's Tow dependent voter i TIONS show‘that the in- ound this year. ‘Tue Fasresr Tre in the international walk- ing match is nothing to that made yesterday by the Delaware jail breakers. ‘Fresu Trovn.e is brewing in the English cot- ton manufacturing districts. Reduction of wages and probable strikes form the burden of our cable despate! Wonk is being vigorously pushedion the east and west side rapid transit roads. The Eighty- third street section of the Metropolitan “L” will; it is expected, be open in May. ‘Ose Year in the Penitentiary wastthe punish- Ishment imposed yesterday upon 2-once wealthy ‘Wall street broker. Adverse fortune brought him down to the level of a petty thief. ‘Tur Orestne or NaviGavion on thet Hudson, which has practically taken place, will revive several large and important industries along its banks. The spring labor outlook is exorllent. * AYFUL BLASTER who endeavored to d’Avenue “L” train from the track came very near carrying out his gramme. His fourhundred pound rock few feet behind the cars. Why not ‘<.. engine on him? ai se MPETENCY, carelessness and ignorance are the'serious charges preterred against the Chief Engineer of the Dock Department. If the speci- fications acconipanying them be truc an investi- gatioa not only of the Chief Engineer but of the Conmnissioners is in order. of the condition of ¢ Insurance Company ver is rather gloomy reading for the policy holders. When he took possession there was very little pf any value left, and the lawyers and the tax gatherers are doing their best to get away with even that. Tue Wearner.—The ba t is rising rap- » the disturbance A larg ded over all the country east of the Mississippi River yesterday evening, bat toward ‘midnight it contracted somewhat and moved eastward toward the Atlantic coast and Alleghany region, where it now extends. From the northwest a depression has descended in a southes direction to the region of Lake Michigan, where it is now central, ‘with diminished pressure. Close behind this disturbance there is advancing a rapidly rising barometer, which favors the formation of steep gradients and the occurrence of brisk to strong northwest to north winds. The weather is fair or clear east of the Mississippi River; but eastward and northward of the centxe of dis- aurbance near the lakes the weather is cloudy, with areas of light snow. Pressures are also low fn the Southwest, where they form, with the lake depression, a barometric trough, with light rain on the Gulf coast. The tornado reported from Illinois moved along a very narrow track from the northwest. It was due to marked differ- ences of pressure and temperature which oc- curred in that State and in the same Alirection as the path of the tornado. The at- mosphere in Wisconsin and Minnesota and Da- kota was very cold and dense, while in the Lower Ohio Valley it was warm, with a rela- tively low pressure. Consequently the move- ament of the air flow tended from the former to the latter region and came along a line of least Tesistance, which it cleaved for itself with enor- mus force. The ice on the Hudson is fast breaking up and navigation will probably be goon resumed. Our special ‘cable weather de- spatches state that the conditions on the British cousts last evening were as follows:—At Plym- outh, wind west-southwest, moderate, weather aloudy; barometer 30.10 inches. At Seilly, -wind west, moderate; barometer 30.20 inches. At Holyhead, wind west-northwest, moderate \gale; barometer 3@ inches. Liverpool, wiud west, strong. The British Meteorological Office Shas ordered cautionary signals for northern guests. The approaching storm was predicted ®y the Hexap on the morning of the 9th. The weather in New York and its vieinity to-day will be fair und warm, folléWed toward night by rising temperature and inereaaing cloudiness. Tomorrow it will be cloudy and warm, probably with ruin, area NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 1879.—TRIPLE SHEET. much toward — athletics in the hands | expressed himself in favor of this conces- The Great Walk—O’Leary’s Collapse Followed by the fall of a Crowaed Galery. Philosophers who insist upon cataloguing all human actions under appropriate heads must have been placed hopelessly at sea by the pedestrian furore which, though it broke out long ago, has indulged in such a full blown culmination this week. It will not do tocall it a mania, for thousands of the people who are interested in the walk are solid business men, who have bought as closely and sold as well as ever. Nor can any one claim that a sudden predisposition toward the act of walking has broken out, for horse cars and omnibuses have their usual com- plements of passengers, and the elevated roads are as uncomfortably crowded as ever during the principal hours, coming and going. Yet everybody talks of the great match ; even the weather, that traditional sheet anchor of polite conyersation, has snapped its chain cable and temporarily disappeared from view. ‘The crowd at Gilmore’s Garden is a far greater one than that great enclosure ever before held for sovlong ao time, and, as was proved by the crash last evening, far greater than some parts of the building are strong enough to carry with safety, while the throng in front of the Hyzatp bulletin is as great as it ever was ‘on the Presidential election day, and far less changeable. How many toes have been trodden upon, each with its cursory accompaniment, we shudder to estimate, while the trousers that have been spoiled by the Street Cleaning Bureau’s own darling mud, cast up by passing vehicles, should rejoice the heart of every tailor in the city, What is it all about? Nothing unusual is goingon. Four men are walk- ing as fast as they can on a ten* foot path well covered with sawdust, one of whom, the champion, is literally on his last legs, and finally succumbs to utter physical ex- haustion. But countless fours have walked on flagged sidewalks, of ten feet, more or less, since Broadway was first paved, and nobody has taken their time, or sat or stood by the hour to stare at them, or howled with joy. or disappointment as one or the other gained upon the remainder, nor have any but beggars and tramps—who, tech- nically. considered, are not pedestrians— peered curiously into their dining rooms to see what they fed upon and how they ate it. The meaning of it all must be sought a little deeper than the philosopher's plum- met ever reaches. In spite of the general intellectual development of humanity and the religious idea that the physical man is sorry trash, there is latent in mankind an irresistible sympathy for any one who ac- complishes unusual physical feats, particu- larly if they are such as imply patient, self- denying training of the physique up to its finest possibilities. It is not the step or the time, for the moment, of either pedes- trian that fixes the gaze of visitors to the great walk, for the professional stride and swing is nowhere near as graceful as that of many a dignified citizen on his way to church or business, while almost any one could runa “lap” at the Garden as quicklyas either of the professionals have cared to do. ‘ Nor is it the physiques of the men, for forms about as handsome may be seen in ‘any gymnasium, and without tiptoeing in a mixed crowd, either. But each of the four contestants for the Astley belt had started to do something that seems almost impossible; he has already done more than any of the spectators could imagine them- selves doing under any stress whatever, and that quality of manhood out of which hero worship springs asserts itself in the spectators, perhaps unconsciously, but with a force that is irresistible. Some Americans have heard of the venerable English sage who happened to stroll medi- tatively on the banks of a river where a boat race was impending. The old gentleman was a college professor, a reverend, a D, D. and an abjurer of all unintellectual follies, though in his callow days he had handled anoar. Suddenly the boats and the crowd approached; the dignified pundit eyed them with condescending pity; then the boats drew abreast of him and he dimly recollected that he had seen something ofth2 sort before. Suddenly the crowd hurried by, rumpling the academic robe in most unseemly manner and carrying away the old Professor's well adjusted top ham- per. . Then the old gentleman ran, too; he didn’t know it, but he not only ran but he yelled all sorts of unministerial encourage- ment to the crew of the second boat. Sud- denly both boats approached a bend where dexterous steering was necessary; the cox- swain of the second boat blundered, and a moment later the perambulating Church pillar was shouting advice in langaage that caused the navvies and cads in the crowd to sicken with envy. After all thero was nothing going on—only two boats working dowa stream with four men in each, The failure of O'Leary will prove a deep disappointment to the thousands who daily and nightly thronged Gilmore's Garden to sce him take a leading place in the contest. Many of his admirers had witnessed his triumphs in New York and were thrilled by the rrews of his splendid victory in London, when he won the Astley belt from the best pedestrians that England could pit against him. But he entered this match under con- ditions which, as his utter failure proves, were fatal from the outset to all his hopes of success. O'Leary is said to be completely broken down physically, and the gravest fears wero entertained last night that the prostration which ended his efforts on the track would also cost him his life. He had built too much on a false estimate of his own strength, and, if common rumor does not do him injustice, was extremely imprudent in his preparation for a contest of endurance which would naturally tax his utmost strength. When such widespread and genuine interest is aroused by any contest, par- ticularly by one that has no features necessarily bad, it is of ghe greatest im- portance that fair play shall be mnain- tained, If tho story is truethat O'Leary has been drugged, and that this was in part the cause of his failure, the true men who pro- fess an interest in athletic sports should be unsparing of time and money to hound the perpetrators into jail or out of the country. A single trick of this Kind, followed by no penalty more severe than hard talk, will do of the rowdies who protess to control them, Some of the contestants at the Garden, tov, sion. There ought, therefore, to be no ob- stacle in the way of the voluntary adoptioa deserve more encouragement than they get. | of the cheap hours as scheduled in Mr, Heathen warriors have often cheered hon- arable foemen, and the thousands of gentle- men who mingle in the throng should do as much for either of the pedestrians who seem in need of friends, No American wants to see the Astley belt go back to Eng- land, but the plucky little fellow who is doing his best to win it is a stranger, three thousand miles from home and friends; he has comported himself in the most modest and manly manner possible ever since his foot first touched the sawdust, and he de- serves hearty recognition and applause, even from those who would rather lose the price of the belt than see him win it. ‘The hisses and jeers which are said to occasion- ally greet him should be promptly over- borne by the plaudits of the manly fellows who are too likely to be quiet in such places. .The Yankee schoolmaster, too, who seems to be showing the supremacy of pure grit over bad conditiogp, deserves approving attention, and so, for. special reasons, do the other men, although audiences seldom need to be reminded to be attentive to those whom they know well. But all réspectable frequenters of the great walk should re- member that the dangerous classes are likely to be the most active, and that nothing but vigilance and prompt action can be depended upon to suppress trickery or abuse and secure fair play. * The’breaking down of the crazy gallery at Gilmore’s Garden, under its weight of spectators last night, came near being an awful catastrophe. Happily, only a few persons were injured, one of them very seriously. Galvin’s bill, Lhe “L” companies should | announce at once their intention to run five cent trains during the hours named, and then the proposed law would be un- mecessary. The Broadway Railroad. The Henatp published on Sunday last the tollowing proposition in regard to the propoged Broadway Railroad :—~ New Yous, March 8, 1879. To raz Epiron ov tus HeRaup:— Permit me, as a taxpayer of this city, to protest through your columns against the propositions now before the Board of Aldermen to tow the. most valuable franchise of the Broadway Railroad for a mere trifling pecuniary return to the city treasury. In my opinion, and that of many other taxpayers, this franchise should be publicly sold at auction to the highest bidder, the lty at thg same time to pre- scribe such suitable conditions “as will render the road a first cluss one in cvery respect, I, for one, am ptrntty in behalf of myself and my associates, to agree to all the conditions proposed bycither set of applicants, and, at the same time, to start the bid- ing at such public auction at $1,000,000 cash for tho franchise to Seventeenth street, and at $1,250,000 for the franchise to the Central Park. Other bidders may possibly offer more, I only esk you to withhold my uame trom publication for the present, and to retain this letter meanwhile a8 a guarantee of my perteet sincerity und earnestness in this matter. I have the honor to remain, your obedignt servant, — *****, In the number of propositions that re- ceived the attention of the Board of Alder- men on ‘Tuesday was one that somewhat resembled this, and was put forth in the name of Mr, John B, Haskin. As the public might possibly confound these two we deem it proper to say that the offer pub- lished by us and given above is not from that source. It ig from a citizen whose offer may be safely, contemplated as in every sense bond side; whose own miecans aro equal tothe purchase of tho franchise and equipment of the road, and who represents But such an occurrence js one | a far larger capital than his own ; who does that common care and a regard for the | not demand the franchise because he is an safety of human life should have rendered | anti-Tammany democrat, nor for any other impossible in such a building, The graphic | silly, claptrap, political reason ; does not, descriptions of the crash and what followed | in fact, demand it at all, but makes an offer during the brief period of wild panic that | for it, names the price he will give and seized on the thousands of spectutors which | expects to entounter competition and go we print this morning will be read with | higher if need be. Indeed, this proposi- deep interest. That hundreds of lives | tion isa first bid, and we putit on record were not sacrificed in the yush toward the | as such—an actual bid for this franchise— doors is nothing less thau miraculous. A | and if the Aldermen shall succeed in con- wretched structare of nailed boards was | veying this franchise by jobbery to some put up to carry a moving weight ten times | person who does not pay the city a cent for more than it could bear, and with the in- evitable result. What has our Department | body abuses its power. of Buildings to say about this? Is there no supervision exercised in cases where public safety is at stake on a grand scale? Great Inundations in Hungary. ‘The valley of the Upper Danube—that is | without “consent of the local authoritjes to say, above the celebrated ‘Iron Gate,” whére the river is narrowed in a tremen- dous canyon formed in the chain of moun- tains which unites the Transylvanian Alps with the Balkan range, is 4 great alluvial basin into which drains the watershed of Hungary within the line of the maip ridge of the Carpathians. The ‘‘bottom lands” it the people may see how flagrantfy that Nobody admits, we: suppose, that the Aldermen have the power to authorize the construction of a railroad in the streets of this city; but their consent to such gon- struction is one of the elenmients ofa tile. having control of the street” the right \to build the road would not be valid; but'it would not be valid without other authori! than such consent. Consequently it is im. pottant to have the action, of the Aldermen rightly directed in this case, and we have proposed the plan of asale by auction to determine’ this point—what company or in- are therefore in many places protected by | dividuals shall have the Aldermanic con- dikes or levees, and the stability of these sent. There is- no other thoroughly equi- is » constant mattbr of anxiety during the | tayte way to determine this point. Let all season of freshets. The Theiss River is ono of the corporations or others who want this the principal tributaries of the Danube, and | franchise ‘bid for it at open wale, and yo draina with its minor branches the great | jolieve it would sell fora sum that would ‘Pipteem. of Transyivania and the.cagter®.|inike' a substantial reduction’ of tlie city slopes of the Carpathians. During thé }jaopt, x winter months immense quantities of snow | “qo are not the advocates of any plan or fell over Central Europe, and all the rivers project or proposition, We put forward had risen when this mass of frozen water | the one handed to us that it may receive its began to thaw. Fora week or more the in- | share of attention with the others, and we dications in the valley of the Theiss have | pelieve that if the concession is given to the been very threatening, and the catastrophe gentleman who makes this proposition the described in our despatches this morning | public will be better served than it will be was hourly apprehended. Aided by a high by the authors of any other proposition we wind, the waters have sapped the founda. have yet seen. tions of the dikes and finally of the rail- road embankment which partly covered | - A Good Suggestion. the city of Szegedin, which is situ-| Dr. Potter made a good suggestion at the ated at the junction of the Maros | tenement house meeting on Tuesday even- River with the Theiss. The restrained | ing. It was that tenement houses should waters having burst through this last bar- | be built, not on lots of twenty-five feet by rier have overwhelmed the city of Szegedin | one hundred, but on lots one hundred feet, and cuused enormous damage besides a | oF, better still, two hundred feet square, most distressing loss of life. Such a catas- | These large structures, he thought, could trophe as this appeals to the skill of the | be built by joint stock companies, in which Austrian engineers to prevent its recur. | some of the tenants might themselves be- rence. Tho deepening of the River Danube | come investors, and thus, have an interest at the ‘Irom Gates” scems to be a measure | in the protection and care of the buildings. rendered absolutely necessary: now, and | The great demoralizing agency in the pres- although political considerations may be | ent system is the want of air and light. opposed to the idea of rendering the Danube | The foulness of the atmosphere caused by navigable for gunboats from Buda-Pesth-to | the crowding together of a Inrge num- the sea the interests of the people demand | ber of human beings ina small space, such an important work. the Inck of ventilation, bad sewerage Sn eeete ee tae and absence of cleanliness imperils Interesting Interview with Senater| tho public health, risks a pestilence, Bayard. degrades those who live within its influence The distinguished Senator from Delaware, | and kills off children with frightful rap- who is now in this city, replied, yester- | idity. No sufficient light or ventilation can day, with his customary frankness, to a | be secured in a large building with twenty- series of questions put to him by a Hrnraxp | five feet frontage and its sides enclosed by reporter, relating chiefly to the extra session | other structures, A buildingon o square of Congress and the subjects which will | of two hundred feet could be so planned as occupy its attention. The interview is not | to giveevery room light and air. There is long, and as no person who takes an in- | plenty of room for such houses im the upper terest in public affsirs will fail to read the | parts of the island, and Dr. Potter's sugges- whole of it there is no necessity for reeapit- | tion ought to direct attention at once to the ulating its points. Mr. Bayard thinks that | practicability of getting up a company to Congress will not go into general matters | try the experiment. at the extra session, and that its action will be confined to the two lost Appropriation bills and the repealing legislation which Newspaper reports of the scenes at the was associated with them and caused their | Walking match on Tuesday last relate an failure in the Inte session, Mz, Bayard | incident which, if correctly described, is states with great clearness and cogency his slightly at variance with the programme of opinion. of those laws, and his views, both | ® iviendly contest. It is alleged that Cap- from théir source and the ability with | tain Williams, fancying higself the object of which, they are presented, aro cextain to | Some hisses which were audible as he passed command wide attention. in front of the spectators, turned suddenly -_ on the people, seized a gentleman whom he Legislating tor the “L's.” «| chose to single out as an offender against The “L” Railroad bill introduced in the | police dignity, dragged him trom his seat, Aysembly by Mr. Galvin isin the interest | administered to him a severe clubbing and of the people and does not seek to obtain | kicking and then passed on, satistied that from the companies any unreasonable con- | he had resented an intended insult. On “With His Shirt Of.” cessions. It provides for five cent trains | the preceding day, when Captain Williams between the hours of five and nine o'clock | was ‘indulging in ao liberal battering in the morning and four and eight o'clock | of the heads of those who wanted in the evening, and it prohibits the storing, | to get into the building, a bystander washing or repairing of engines or cars in or | inquired of a policeman on the outside of over any street or avenue. These are not | the crowd what was the necessity for so unfair provisions, but we hope tosee tho | much clubbing. “Oh, none,” was the “L” companies concede all the points | answer, “but the Captain's got his shirt off covered by tho. bill without legislative | to-day.” This is probably a tamiliar ex- order. It is not desirable that the Legisla- | pression among the mon of the precinct, ture should intermeddle with the rapid | and the unoffending citizen who was beaten transit ronds any more than is absolutely | on ‘luesday no doubt encountered the indispensable. ‘(he ronds are popular and | doughty Captain betore he had got his'shirt their managers are men of practical sense | on again, whens and liberal views. There is a very gon- The police are appointed to presetve the eral demand for an extension of the five cent | peace, not to break it. A brate has no hours, and Mr. Cyrus W. Field has already | right to indulge in acts of brutality simply because he wears police buttons which he disgraces and is backed up by a force of uni- formed “‘heelers.” If the citizen who was assaulted and beaten by Williams had been guilty of any cffence or had created a dis- turbance the police would have been justi- fied in interfering, and it would have been their duty to arrest him or at least to re- move him from the building. Caplain Williams made no arrest, but, being armed with *a club, and doubtless with ja revolver as well, simply set upon an unarmed citizen because he fancied himself insulted and beat him like aruflian, Even if the man had act- ually committed an offence against the laws the officer would not have had any right to discipline him in accordance with his own ideas of justice. Tho punishment of an of- fender is left to the courts, fortunately, and not to the police, There may be some doubt whether we have a police comumission at all. Certainly the condition of the streets, the prevalence of vice and crime ond the eusy escape of criminals, unless they happen to be shot or captuged by private citizens, seem to imply that the commission has ceased to exist. If it has any vitality lett, however, its first act should be to remove Captain Williams from the force altogether, provided the charge now brought agaiust him is substantiated. If a patrolman lid committed the outrage alleged against this captain he would have deserved immedi- ate removal as an unfit person to be intrusted | with the duty of preserving the public peace and protecting lite and property. In an officer controlling a large body of men the offence is much more serious and veprehensible, Nor is this the first time Captain Williams has been guilty of brutal conduct unbecoming ao police officer, Many grave charges aro just now made against the present Police Commission, but none of them involve a more flagrant dereliction of duty than the retention in the force of a man of ungov- ernable temper and brutal instincts. Such a man should have not his “shirt” only, but his whole uniform stripped from his back. The Royal Wedding in England. “Arthur William Patrick Albert, Duke of Saxony, Prince of Suxe-Coburg Gotha, and first Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, and the third son of Queon Victoria, is to be married to-day to the Princess Louisa Mar- garet of Prussia, daughter of Prince Fred- erick Carl, the ‘Red Prince” of Prussia. To celebrate this auspicious event Queen Victoria has commanded that her loyal sub- jects should throw aside for a few hours the “trappings and the suits of woe” which have been worn since the death of Princess Alice at Darmstadt. Within the beautiful Gothic chapel of St. George’s, at Royal Windsor,, there will be gathered to-day o goodly number of royal and princely guests to witness the ceremony, which will doubt- less be as impressive and elaborate as the glician ritual and the resources of the ord Chamberlain will permit. And Lon- don will, ofcourse, send many of her couiitless thousands to jine the quaint ts of Windsor, to revel in the glitter of try and processions, the love of which has been greatly developed in England of late years. The marriages of ordinary mortals are generally supposed to be arranged in heaven; the results are not, However, always strikingly happy. The engagements of princes and princesses are not usually looked upon as coming within the province of the god Cupid; but the pres- ent one, besides having-been brought about by the Crown Princess of Prussia, a lady gifted with an eminent degree of womanly common sense, is said to have sprung up in the good old-fashioned mauner—that is to say, the young couple met and fell in love, just as other people do occasionally. The cable will bring us in good time full accounts pf the festivities and sol- emnities; the merrymaking in Eng- lish towa and hamlet; the echoes of the pealing bells, and maybe the effusions of the Poet Laureate, who greeted so charmingly ‘the Sen King's daughter from over the sea,” when she became ‘the bride of the heir et the Kings of the Sea.” As yet we have «nly the announcement of the music selectal for the occasion, and the world will winder if the old minnesinger is silent at the nuptials of the young couple who are expected to win and hold the hearts of Irelénd for the Saxon oppressor. Clarges Rejected. Tho charges against the Superintendent of Insurance vere discussed in the Senate yesterday and rejected by a vote of 17 to 12, Mr. Sessbns, who yoted for the re« moval of the Superintendent last year, sus- tained him thisyear on the ground that the present charge: are trivial as compared with those préerred by the Governor last session, and tint as the Senate acquitted the Superintendent then it is only just to abide by the virdict now. The vote was non-partisan, -atd the ground is taken by the democrats wno supported tho Superin- tendent that itis better to cure defects in tho law by legishtion than to simply turn one man out of office and put another man in withow applying a remedy to admitted faults in the statutes. This is precisely the viev the Governof is bound, in justice and conmon sense, to take of the charges against ho New York county offi. cers.’ A system sanctioned by timo and common consent, jnd followed by the pred- ecessors of the praent county officers for many years back, ii now denounced as ob- jectionable and unsinctioned by law. The remedy should be yought in the discon- tinuance of the syshm, and not in the re- moval of officers whohave simply followed ® common custom, wiile the evil is suf- fered to continue unde their successors, Investigation Needed. A statement of grave mportance is made in a report which hasbeen presented to the Supreme Court by te general adviser and appraiser appointd by the Court to co-operate with the City Chamberlain in the, investment of fuids placed with tho latter officer unter orders of the Court. The appraser and Cham- berlain in the discharge of their daties have: been called tpon to look thor- oughly into. the matter ¢f mortgago loans and foreclosures, and thdreport makes the assertion that great injustice is inflicted upon innocent and unfortunate people by the irregular, unfair and fraudulent manner in which foreclosure ptoceedings aré con- ducted in this city. ‘The Court is urged to take the subject under consideration. The statement isa singular one. The law pro- vides how mortgages shall be foreclosed and sales conducted, and if irregularities and frauds take place they would vitiate the proceedings, Anycourt, upon proof of illegality or fraud, would apply a prompt remedy by setting the salo aside. It would seem as if only very ignorant. or helpless people could be victimized in the manner alleged, It would. be well for the author of the report to make a more distinct state- ment in a matter of such great importance, and toletthe public know just what cases have led to the startling conclusions he hag reached, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Ex-Governor Seymour is in Albany; Many Missouri people are emigrating té Kansas, Senator Francis Kernan is at the Fitth Avenue Hotel. Outside the Fifth Avenue Hotel there are crocuses in bloom, * Seiior Don Julio Carrié, Argentine Chargé d’ Affaires at Washington, is at the Albemarle Hotel. Thomas Jefferson's Virginia country seat, *Monti- cello,” will be sold by the Sheriff on the 20th inst, Senators Thomas F, Bayard, of Delaware, and William W. Eaton, of Connecticut, are at the Now York Hotel. A Wisconsin man solved the problem of what is the plural of a tailor’s goose by sending the follow- ing ‘order to a merchant:—‘Please send me ene tailor’s goose, and another just like it.”” Dr. Woodworth, Supervising Surgeon General, Ma- rine Hospital service, is dangerously ill of erysi elas and pypumoniaé in Washington; though at mid- night hie comdition was considered somewhat better. Ex-Senator Stanley Matthows says that President Hayes never offered him the German mission and that he could not have accepted it. He thinks that Grant will *possibly” and Sherman-‘probably” be: nominated for President. Dr. H, Von Holst, the author of the “Constitu- tional History of the United States,” and a professor. of history at the University of Freiburg, will deliver’ & course of ten lectures before the students of Cor- nell University during the next trimester, which commences April 5. Mr. D. G. Watts, president of the Cotton Exchange, sailed for Europe yesterday on the stéomehip Bothina. Mr. Watts has been in iil health for some time, and intends to remain abroad for six months to recuperate, He received a grand send-off from the members of the Exchange. THE BRINLEY LIBRARY, The sale of tho Brinley Library was continued yes torday, before a large audience at each session. The Didding was good and the prices fetched equal, in the main, to those of the Previous day's sale. Inthe afternoon five sermons of Increase Mather, trans- lated into the Indian language, the first book printed in that tongue in Boston, sold for $110; ‘‘Massachu- setts General Laws, 1672," $130; Massachusetts Charter, granted by William and Mary, $185; John Norton’s ‘Threat Now England,” $110; 172," $130; Increase Mather's **! the Indians in New England,” $20; sermon on the ‘Wicked Man's Portiou’’ Sa; posed to be the first book printed in Boston), Cotton Mather's “Elegy on’ the Death of Nathanieh, Collins,” $205; “Memorable Providences,”” “Magnalia Cloristi Americana, end and Excellent Urian Oak first published work, $300; a copy of the second edie tion of the “Bay Psalm Book,” 1647, $435, anda copy of the original edition, the first work printed in the Anglo-American colonies, $1,200. "The sales yesterday roached $11,000, OBITUARY, ANDREW G. NORWOOD, Andrew G. Norwood, ono of the oldest members of the Stock Exchange, died on Tuesday morning. He was born in this city in 1812, his family being one of the oldest in New York. His father was a well known and highly respected morchant. ‘The deceased was a member of the Stock Exchange for moro than forty years. He commenced his career as a broker in 1838, carrying on business by himself. In 1846 he founded the firm of Norwood & Robinson, and, on the letter’s retirement, continued business with his son as a ‘tner, the firm’s name being A. G. Norwood & Co. 1857 the firm was dissolved, and the deceased formed @ partuership with Mr. Lawrence BR. Jerome,*the firm's title remaining the same. Mr. Norwood re- tired from active business in 1865, He leavés = Mugiier of Colonel Talmage and a granddaugliter | ot Colonel jo and a iter of General Talmage, of the evolution. One of his daughters married J. B. Trevor, of the firm of Trevor & Colgate, and the other is the wife of » prominent citizen of Philadelphia. The deceased had been troubled for some time past with heart disease, which caused his on mo! lust, His funeral will take place at three P. M. to-day, [soon his late residence, No, 236 West Fourteenth street. At the o; of business in the Stock Exc! ws morning President Ives announced ¢ th of Mr. Norwood, and # committee was ap- ointed to draw up suitable resolutions and attend is —— Tho flag of the Exchange was at halt- inast. DR. MOSES BROWNELL. Dr. Moses Brownell, ninety years of age, of No. 95 Madison street, Brooklyn, died sudaenly on Tuesaday night lust of neuralgia of the heart. Dr. Brownell was born in this State ‘and practised medicine for thirty-two — at Troy and twenty-five years at Knox, He been @ resident of Brovklya for two years. MRS, SHERMAN'S DEATH, THE WIFE OF GENERAL THOMAS W. SHERMAN DIES AT THEIR HOME IN NEWPORT YESTER- DAY MORNING--THE LIFE OF THE GENERAL IN IMMINENT PERIL, * (Bx TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.] Newerort, March 12, 1879, As was predicted in these despatches yesterday, Mra, General Thomas W. Sherman did not rally, and she breathed her last at an early hour this morning. Sho was the daughter of ex-Governor Shannon, of Ohio, who, it will be remembered, was appointed Governor of Kansas by tho President ponding the Le Compton troubles in that State. She was married toGeneral Sherman, who wag then stationed at St, Paul, Minn., in 1858, ‘Her father died about a year anda half ago. A sister has been with her during her painful illness, caused by a tumor, which was removed a few weeks ago in Boston} by eminent surgeons. Her constitution was not strong enough to withstand the effocts of the operation, and she has been rapidly failing sinte her return from the hospital, ‘The funeral will probably take place on Friday after- noon, and it is expected that Rev. Dr. Grace, of St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Church, will officiate, the lady being an honored and faithful member of that chureh, General and Mrs, Sherman havo resided here for several years, and owned and occupied a’cosey cottage on Greenough place. A MESSAGE OF SYMPATHY. General William ‘f. Sherman instructed General Vogdes, commanding at Fort Adama, this afternoon to detail an officer to visit his brother officer’ and convey to him his assurance of br apo ond his best wishes for his recovery. He not heard of Mrs. Sherman's death when he forwarded the official despatch. Accordingly First Lieutenant J. M. K. Davis, regimental adjutant, proceeded to | General Sherman's house this evening and bore the Kind message ot the Generalof the Army, but he was unable to see the afflicted officer. General Sherman has been duly notified of Mra. Sherman's death and ho will be kept daily informed of her husband’s health by General Vogdes. THE HUSBAND'S CRITICAL CONDITION. ‘Tho painful nows of Mrs. Sherman's death was not conveyed to her husband until late this after noon. He bore up under the trying ordeal with re- markable fortitude The next forty-eight hours will decide his fate for better or for worse, BAYARD ‘TAYLOR'S REMAINS. Tho Hamburg steamer Gellert, with the body of Bayard Taylgr on board, was expected to arrive last evening at her dock, in Hoboken, but failed to come to time and up to @ late hour had not been announced by telegraph from Sandy Hook. There was every confidence, however, among the officials at the dock in Hoboken that she would put fu an appewrance there at one o'clock to-lay. The remains would then bo taken by the committee appointed for | meer consisting of Cuptain J, M, Schmidt % jor John J. Dichi, and escorted to the City Hall, to ee is State in the hate od room, to ‘orkmen were engayod all day yesterday tn drop ing the latter apurtmont and making other prepara, tions for the reception of the remains,