The New York Herald Newspaper, March 31, 1879, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD HO BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. pene: phic aE Ps JAME JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. day in the year. THE DAILY 1 Tree ce Ten dollars per than diree mo y edition, eig! HERALD—One dollar per year, free of post- Remit in drafts on New ai neit! ted at risk of se Tn order to insure Hbers wishing their address changed must give well as their now addi jose, news letters or tel sed Naw Youk Hwnatp, d packages should be properly sealed. communieati ill not be returned. raphic despatches must O. 112 SOUTH SIXTH 2 OF THE NEW YORK HERALD— DE L:OPERA. ic STRADA PACE. ons and advertisements will be recetved and u the same terms a jew York. NO. 90 AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. LYCEUM THEATRE~—Le Prtit Doc. nar oF PAPKR. T Punwrant. Davy Crocker. BOOTI'S TE NIBLO’S THEATRE BOWERY THEATRE PARK THEAT TRIPLE NEW YORK, M ‘The probabilities are that the weather in New York and ils vicinity to-day will be cool and partly cloudy. To-morrow the same conditions are likely to prevail, followed by rising tempera- ture. Ir Licenses wer ways required for mar- riages the clopement reported on another page might not have occurred. AxoTiHER Man ‘has been killed, and by his friend. No one knows exactly how it happened ; the two men merely took a few drinks with each other. As Marne Wants to make beet sugar she should come to New York for her material ; she ean get beats here at her own figures, if she will take them dead. TALMAGE was upon his own platform yester- d before his friends ; yet instead of saying about his persecutors he talked only of the finally redeemed. Five Prisoners escaped from a Pennsylvania jail on Saturday night by climbing through a ventilator. y nay be grateful that it was not a New York schoolroom they had to leave by such a route. Car Suops may not be able to repair all the: damage done by the “L” road collision; the friends of one of the injured, who lies in a eriti- eal condition, are abeut to sue for heavy dam- ages. Ovr Atpasy Lerrer casts such suspicions on the lobby that shrewd business men with axes to grind will hereafter be inclined to spend their corruption funds direct among the legis- lators, Tue Pr Tt of broken fingers, mashed noses and bi eyes during the coming season may be estimated by consulting our complete list of baseball games to be played by profes- sionals, Whar a Satire on justice is found in the last two lines of our special despatch announcing the conviction of Felix MeCann for murder— “He is poor and friendless and there is no chance of saving him !” Tae Cucrct Orenep upon the theatre:again 5 yesterday, and made some telling shots. If the damaged parts are rebuilt instead of merely plugged the enemy will have less inducementato try additional broadsides. NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MARCH 31, 1879.-TRIPLE - SHEET. Street Obstructi¢us—Public Patience. In the ordinarily understood distribution of the parts of a commereial city the shops and warehouses are for the traffic of the great merchant Or the small chapman. It is there they buy and sell; the streets, be- tween the curbstones, are for the movement to and fro of wheeled vehicles, and that part of the streets on either side known as the sidewalk is for the convenience of the | Unprotected foot passenger, who is com- | monly not shod so heavily as the horses and is tenderer than the heavily tired wheels. We do not refer to this division of uses in the way of news, nor mention it as information; for though it may often be thought doubttul whether it is commonly known what the streets are for, yet it would perhaps be found upon analysis that these conceptions of streets and shops are the elements of everybody's idea of a city. But nobody expects to find the absolute in ordinary life. As in the pretty picture of Theocritus the timidity or effrontery of the girls is said to constantly ‘‘move the landmarks of love's boundaries,” so we know that the demands of an exuberant traffic, the stupendous dignity of the car- man who drives four horses, and the good nature of the foot passenger, happy enough if he can save his favorite corn irom the danger of the impending hoof—all these make movable, variable and evanescent the delicate lines that divide the rights, privileges, immunities and franchises of shopkeepers, dry goods jobbers, four-horse truckmen and the mere foot passenger with his bundles and “his sisters and his cousins and his aunts,” not to mention his babies. Within certain limits we believe the foot passenger to be a reasonab!e creature and not sorry to see those signs of good times to which he is so much called upon to sacrifice his personal convenience. He, perhaps, loves that bustle of the streets which seems musical as the jingle of money rapidly mov- ing from hand to hand, which fills the faces of shopkeepers with glee and fills all the manufactories with that returaing industry which will inspire a strike in ten or fifteen days. Nay, we have known the toot pas- senger to rejoice when, with Washington street so jammed with great loads of mer- chandise on its way to be shipped, and with the jam immovable for a mile, the carmen have had no other resource than to reflect unpleasantiy on the character of their ances- tors respectively and pound one another's heads with cart rungs. Clearly, therefore, the foot passenger loves busy times and loves to see the signs of it in the street, and as to his own rights and conveniences is disposed to make lib- eral allowances in favor of commerce, and his patience in this city is and always has been such that he permits the issue on his rights to go against him by prescription ; he loses all for the want of occasional vigor- ous assertion. He will stay away from the neighborhood of a market for five years rather than incommode the energetic squat- ters who have obstructed to the last pos- sible limit all access to that scene of bois- terous gayety; he will climb over pyramids of dry goods boxes three hundred and thirteen days in the year, and never once demand that the owner shall remove them; he will wade out into the middle of the street, with the mud knee deep, rather than disturb the equanimity of the truckmen, whose vehicles, twelve in a row, are backed up across the sidewalk and close against. the houses for the con- venience of loading and unloading, and he will climb over miles of skids as if life were all one continuous gymnasium. He will do this; and often, we believe, he would not hang these truckmen, all on one lamppost, even if he had the power. Such is his patience and his devotion to the great commercial interests of the metropolis, Certainly the skid nuisance is the great- est single annoyance that the citizen en- counters in the strect. By making a bridge from the tail of a cart to his own doorway the merchant for his immediate convenience deprives the whole public, for hours together every day, of the use of the sidewalk, which he has no right todo. He constitutes hims+lf the sole owner and oc- cupant of the part of the city in which his establishment happens to be situated. He A Srnwow delivered yesterday upon prophe-+! confiscates the sidewalk; he fences it in. cies concerning Rome contained no allusion to the Beast of Revelation or the Scarlet Woman. mentioned in the same book. Are the ancient 4 landmarks to be neglected in this unseemly manner! By Att Mrass let us see ourselves as others. behold only to particularly when ot! e. Our letter quoting a Ni editor on our war ship Trenton and the American colors could not be more flattering to national pride if it had been written at hor Tur Coro 's Jury in the case of Mra. Graham, late an inmate of the Blackwell's Island Insane Asylum, is said to consist of law- yers and physicians, but as it goes to the Island to investigate the treatment of charity patients it would be better fit for business if there were two or three first rate detectives on the list. . ‘Tue Weatier.—The storm centre has passed off the New England coast, but its influence is still felt over the Middle Atlantic.and New Eng- land States. ‘The barometer was rising steadily in the Northwest until yesterday afternoon, when a sudden and decided fall oceurred. The pressure is now below the mean in all the dis- tricts east of the Rocky Mountains and dis- turbances are evidently organizing in the West and Southwest which will become more marked during to-day. Rain has fallen in the Middle Atlantic, New England States, the central valley districts and the lake regions. In the latter district and in the northern por- tion of the New England States the low tem- perature caused it to change to snow. The winds have been fresh to brisk in all the districts except the northwest, where they have been light. A general fall oceurred in temperature except on the Mid- dle Atlantic coast, where it rose a little. Lloyd's agent at Freemantle, Western Australia, reports that three vessels were wrecked during a hurri- cane at Lacepedes. The vessels were totally Jost, but fortunately the crews were saved. A strong southwest wind is blowing at Holyhead, which shows that the depression is moving over the northern districts, The weather in Now York and its vicinity today will be cool and partly cloudy. To-norrow the same condi- tions are likely to prevail, followed by rising temperature, ‘From his shop door the line of the skid bars the way to the carttail, and the cart and the horse fill out the line to the iron grooves down which the horse car comes thundering just at the critical moment when a timid woman venturously endeavors to round the perilous promontory of the horse’s head. Has the average merchant the right to this exclusive use of the whole wf the street in his neighborhood during ten hours of daylight? We do not belicve che has. And if he has not, in €vhat indescribable spirit of impudence did this usage originate, and why should it not be abated? One famous grocer in the city, whose establishment fronts on three streets, occupies the sidewalk all around him, to the actual exclusion of any possible toot passenger; yet he would be the first at any time to head an indignation meeting of the citizens for the forcible removal of all peanut stands from out-of-the-way corners, Now, why should not all these grocers and all other merchants who use the sidewalk as if it were their personal property be com- pelled to model their buildings on the good old-fashioned plan that still exists in the Swamp, where there is a cartway from the street tothe interior, and all loading and unloading is done on the merchant's own premises ? Some other regular obstruction of the streets may plead more fairly the excuse of necessity, and is done only under authori- zation, we suppose; yet the privilege given is always unduly stretched, and the super- vision of the authorities, from whom the privilege issues, should in all cases be vigilant to prevent abuse, and seldom is, Building privileges are in the number of these. In all well governed cities the man who wishes to build or rebuild his house does not thereby acquire title to the whole ground in front of his house as far asa line in the middle of the street, but he is compelled to so deposit his material that he shall cause the least possible annoyance to the public. Here the problem seems to be how the builder shall most annoy the passer-by and most endanger his lite. Street nuisances are not all and exelu- sively tothe inconvenience of the foot pas- senger, and the carman who has packages to be shipped anywhere on the Nor.h River front below Canal street knows how it is himself when he gets into Greenwich street or Washington street on any one of the days when that calm animal, the Long Island Dutchman, hailing from anywhere between Canarsie and Glen Cove, fills all the region with his cabbages, his bee's, his potatoes, carrots, cauliflowers and corn, and perfumes the very mud with the fragrance of dill. What has become of the project to make a permanent stand for the market gardeners on the Fort Ganse- voort property ? Uptown Improvements, Like the ladies, our public parks are just now preparing to put on spring attire to increase their attractions, which (as in the case of the ladies again) are always great, winter and summer. Elsewhere in our columns to-day will be found an account of . all that is going on at Mme. Nature's grand opening, and we have no doubt it will be read with almcst as much relish as the descriptions of the many beautiful things that are promised for the season of sun- shine and flowers by our own accomplished modistes as well as by those of the gay French capital. In the case of the parks nature is to. receive valuable assistance at the hands of art and the Commissioners, and what with new paint, new flower beds, new ornamentation and other improve- ments, we are promised a sort of revival in the charms of our public pleasure grounds, although the customary plaint is heard from the department of insufficient funds for the accomplishment of all that might have been. But there are other attractions in prepara- tion for the people cf New York outside the parks, of which they are so justly proud. The entire upper section of the city, includ- ing the newly annexed district, is to be made to add to the general beauty of the metropolis and to the enjoyment of its citi- zens and visitors. Rapid transit opens up the fine country north of the Central Park to all our residents, and befors long the mansions of our wealthier classes and the picturesque dwellings of humbler householders will make the annexed terri- tory the most charming portion of the city. Already active men who mean what they say are moving to secure a new rapid tran- sit road from the Harlem River to Port Chester, directly through Morrisania and the populous towns of Westchester county. The Riverside Drive is to be pushed forward to completion, the difficulties in the way of the contrac- tors having been surmounted, and will be finished and ready for travel, it is said, by next July. ‘This drive passes along the high land overlooking the Hudson River for three miles, and will, with the Central Park, form a splendid continuous drive of ten miles for those who leave the Park for the drive at Seventy-second street and re- enter it on the return by way of One Hun- dred and Tenth street, taking the west side of the Park going out and the east side com- ing home. We are as yet only in the in- fancy of our uptown improvements, but in a few years’ time the upper part of the city and the adjoining portion of Westchester county, covered with fine mansions and picturesque cottages, surrounded by gar- dens, will form one of the most beautiful spots on the American continent. A Remedy for an Evil. There is a place within the city and yet out of the city, under the law and yet out- side of the law, well known to the people of New York and yet.a sealed book to all except a few public officials, It is called Blackwell’s Island, and on it are located a number of penal and charitable institu- tions. The confirmed criminal goes there ; the victim of vitiated appetite goes there, and it isa resort for the afflicted and the unfortunate who have no money aad no friends. As a rule its story is told only in those pleasant fictions, the reports of the Charities and Correction Department, and its events are seen only in pic- tures painted by comfortably provided for employés. Periodically, however, the out- side people obtuina glimpse of what is actu- ally going on there. Two or three years ago one of these occasions was furnished by the beating to death of a pauper. Subsequently a stout, healthful German, whose brain was affected, was found dead in the asylum, with his ribs kicked or stamped into splin- ters aud driven into his lungs, and this little occurrence raised one end of the cur- tain that hides real life on the Island from public view. Now comes the case of a poor woman, ill treated and starved to death, to remind us that the place has peculiari- ties with which outsiders are not familiar, Of course, disclosures like these are acci- dental, and would not be ailowed to shock the public nerves if the department could manage to keep them secret. But this is not always praciicable, and hence comes our knowledge of the differ- ence between Blackwell's Island humanity as described by official pens and as demon- strated by bruised and mangled corpses, crushed ribs and emaciated human bodies, No person will suppose that the brutality practised on the Island is confined to the instances which now and then force them. selves upon the people’s notice.. Where one such “accident” leaks out one hundred may oceur and never be known. Our large hearted charity, which supplies ample funds to relieve pauperism, to protect and guard the insane and to reform the intemperate or the, slightly vicious, does not reach so far as to see that the money is not squandered on brates and ruffians who treat their helpless victims worse than Bill Sikes would have treated his dog. Our philanthropy is comfortably indifferent as to the character of jailers and hospital attendants and does not care to inquire what inhuman outrages may be practised in the hidden recesses of the Island, All we know is that we give liber- ally in taxes and donations for the support of our splendid institutions ; that our offi- cials assure usthatour money is well spent, and that when a startling story of inhuman- ity leaks out it is immediately explained away by authority or hushed up by some mysterious influence. It is certain that the people who pay liberally for the Blackwell's Island institu- tious are entitled to know truthfully how they are managed. No one can visit them without official sanction. ‘They are occa- sionally inspected by the Grand Jury, but the ‘visit of that important body is made atter due notice, and everything, including refreshments, ig in readiness for such dis- tinguished gentlemen. Of course every institution is on such oceasions found to be periect, and the management is pro- nownced efficient, Christian and exemplary in every respect. There ought to be some plan by which the Island can be pounced down upon suddenly by a competent authority and seen in its everyday suit. A commission of five prominent citizens of New York might be created by law, or the Mayor might be authorized to ap- point examiners from time to time, with power to inspect the institutions at any hour of the day or night and to perform the duty unannounced in such manner as they might elect. Such a commission would serve without pay. It would bea salutary check on the officials who are intrusted with the guardianship of the prisoners and the care of the unfortunates, and whose eccentricities are illustrated by the dis- closures that now and then take place when some obstructive and mischief-making vic- tim chooses to die of too much beating of too little food. Democratic Folly and Republican Passion. In, the great political ferment at the national capital the amount of yeast seems to be out of proportion to the quantity of dough. he democrats. are doing badly enough, but we see no good reason for so much excitement as prevails among their opponents. Both parties are giving undue importance to small matters. Of what real consequence is it whether federal soldiers are permitted to be employed to preserve peace at the polls? It was of considerable importance in 1865 when the act was passed which the democrats are now seeking to repeal, because the work of disbanding the great armies needed for the war had then made but little progress, and a large force was kept on foot for several years after for maintaining order in the Southern States, But our present army is too small to do any harm or good in connection with the elections. General Sherman is year by year declaring his opinion that the army is deplorably in- adequate for the duties required of it in the Indian country. Of our small and inadequate army the greater part is serving in the Territories beyond the Mississippi. There are two or three reziments, or frac- tions of regiments, stationed on the Texas border, and a few companies, or fragments of companies, to man the forts and guard the public property in the arsenals scattered along the seaboard States. Wehavean inert and rather phlegmatic President—more like King Log than King Stork, who has never placed a soldier near any polling place in the United States, and would have no dis- position to do so if the army were as large as it was in 1865. Men of senso look on and wonder what all this furious excitement at Washington is about. Even if President Hayes were the reverse of what everybody knows him to be—if he were a restless, intermeddling, unscrupulous politician—where would he get troops to overawe the voters of the United States at their innumerable polling places? - Is anybody lunatic enough to be- lieve that he is going to strip the vast wilderness on both sides of the Rocky Mountains of the few soldiers that are scattered through it, transport them thousands of miles at great expense and distribute them as far as they will goamong the election precincts of thirty-eight States? If he leaves the army scattered for hard and vigilant service throughout the vast expanse of the Indian country whence is he to get soldiers to station at the polls? Was there ever such indescribable folly and such crazy exaggeration as is made the pretext of this great political hubbub, this ‘‘ntuch ado about nothing,” at Washington? The stupidity of the democrats in raising such an issue and the insanity of the republicans in their ery of revolution about it are equally unworthy of men of sense and judg- ment. There could not be a more frivolous subject for so vehement and inflammatory a debate as that which has been opened on the Army Appropriation bill. So long as the army is so small that the whole of it is needed for service against the Indians polit- ical zealots trifle with the understandings and insult the good sense of the country by pretending that the presence of soldiers at the polls is oither a peril or a protection. If with so piti- fally small an army as ours, with no surplus soldiers out of the Indian countiy and the forts, the President should attempt to control the elections of the country by the use of troops he would act like a cuild with a cupful of salt and a teaspoon trying to change Lake Superior into sea water, And yet this heated and acrimonious debate turns upon this contemptible chimera— upon whether the least aggressive of Prosi- dents shall be permitted to employ non- existent soldiers to keep pence at the polls. No Censure for the Zulu War, The English House of Lords has refused to declare its regret that the Governor General of South Africa did not communi- cate with tho home government before sending to the Zulus the order the savages declined to comply with and which the soldiers were sent to enforce. There could scarcely have been any anticipation that the government would lose support on a point of this nature, or that the Lords would waver in sustaining its policy; but the case was not presented so as to make the adherence to the government policy or the contrary the only issue ofa vote. It was complicated with personal considerations of what was due to Sir Bartle Frore. Gen- tlemen might fairly enough be of opinion that the less Sir Bartle Frere conferred with the home government the better the coun- try would be served, and would not like to express any regrets if he had really not conferred. with it, But also they might be of opinion that the very evil deplored was the result, not of a pursuit of Frere’s own ddeas, but of an attempt to carry out plans laid down by the home government. Sir Bartle Frere did not invent the imperial policy, and the movement for the general absorption and annexation of all loose countries near to British colonial fron- tiers. is a chapter of that policy, There would be, therefore, a spice of absurdity in rebuking » man for want of attention to Foreign Office ideas when a Foreign Office idea had wrecked his administration, And that these notions floated in the parlia- mentary mind seems evident from the. fact that the whole discussion in the Lords turned on the propriety of rebuking Sir Bartle Frere. . Copyright Fancies. Ifhalf be true that is said of the present good disposition of American publishers in regard to an international copyright law we shall have such a law one of these days, be- cause there has never been any opposition to it save on the part of American pub- lishers, and, that opposition removed, the natural justice of the case and the literary opinion of the country will sooner or later foree Congress into the right path. Con- gress would have been forsed there years since but for a potent booksellers’ lobby, which found it not difficult to convince the wisdom of the nation that the end of the world would suddenly come if an American publisher had to payan English author for the right to print anything what- ever that he could Jay his hands on. We are glad that the publishers are convinced at last, even though they have only been convinced by’ the application to themselves, of the tactics they hitherto used against publisfers in Eag- land. But we do not see why a statute for conceding the protection of law to the property of British authors should be per- verted into protecting the industry of American publishers, ‘That, however, is what the publishers want.» For a genera- tion they have opposed copyright with the ery that the people ought to have cheap literature ; now they say we ought to have copyright, if the books may be made here. But if the books could be made cheaper elsewhere why is it not as good now as formerly that literature should be cheap? It is not necessary to have a treaty for an international copyright law, and still less necessary to load such alaw with provisions for the protection of the publishers. In the Revised Statutes there are several sec- tions which define the terms and con- ditions upon which the works of citizens of the United States have the protection of the law as property. Let Congress add to these simply one section, declaring that all the rights and privileges guaranteed to citi- zens of the United States by those sections shali be extended to the citizens of any foreign country whose laws give. similar protection to American authors, and the whole thing is done, Every country in Eu- rope will meet that with suitable legislation, and international copyright will be a reality. Under the system proposed for the protec- tion of the bookmaking trades it will bea mere nursling of two or three publishers. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, The following Americans wero ‘registered at the Paris office of the Henatp on Saturday :— Currie, William, New York, Hotel Chatham. De Jonge, 8. and wife, New York, Hotel Byron, Donohue, Mrs. J. B. and family, New York, Con- tinental Hotel. Gilder, BR. W. and family, New York, Rue de Beaune. James, David H. and wife, New York, Motel de VAthénée. Kissam, Benjamin P., Brooklyn, Avenue d’Eylau. Morse, Miss Annie, Providence, R. ., No. 7 Rue de Beauno. L Reynolds, Dr. E.. Brooklyn, No. 44 Rue Clichy. Rockwell, A. P., Brooklyn, No. 7 Avenue d’Eylau, Toe, Second Lieutenant Charles F, and family, Second United States cavalry, Normandy Hotel. Smith, Wesley and family, Albany, N. Y., Hotel Binda, Stein, Daniel and family, Baltimore, Md., No. 32 Rue Scheffer. Circuses are grass ‘operas. Buttercups are in bloom in theatres. If you have to cat crow eat it in croqueta. Puck calls it an extra-ornery session of Congress. Ex-Congressman Hale is with his family in Florida. Mr. Stockwell, of the Boston Journal, has recov- ered. ‘The Burlington Hawk-Eye says that this country is just full of climate. England has got into the habit of taking too much American meat for repentance. ‘The New Orleans Picayune doesn't want any cham- pion belt. It prefers suspenders. ‘There is a natural soda spring in Oregon. The spring is thero, but the soda is not plain. Capt.in Brooks, of the steamer City of Chester, from Liverpool, is at the Everett House, Many Chicago women are addicted to intemperance in the use of narcotics, especially chloral and opium, It’s about the same thing, as to facts, whether you read about a court reception or about the Eve of St. Agnes. Saint-Siiens is said to be the perfect model of a modern pianist, not noisy, but of the Von Bilow school, An Iilinois girl, with a pitchfork, kills scores of gophers every day. You ought to see her gopher the gophers, = ¢ ‘Tho papers are talking about acertain kind of oyster which emits # sound like a whinc. Is it a blue pointer? An exchange says that the midshipman is a regular and natural lady killer, Yes, ho is @ sub-marine monster. Kearney has one eye single to the happiness of his followers. ‘The other eye is closed on account of a row in the family. Hawthorne's only surviving daughter, Mrs. La- throp, has written a novel, which will be published in the Boston Courier, y Stephen A. Douglas, son of the deceased statesman, has left North Carolina for Chicago, where he will remain and practice law, An Illinois dog surgeon advertises under the name of “Mahomet.” We suppose that if the dogs don’t go to him he will go to the dogs. A contemporary asks “Whether the weal of the republican party is really the public weal.” Well, are there not weals within weals?” There isa man in the Massachusctts Legislature who has such a big mouth that the top of his head would como off but for his back collar button, Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild is a Free Mason, and he recently ran for Grand Treasurer, but was beaten by Licfitonant Colonel Creighton, an Englishman. A Long Island man being told by his physician that he had a dangerous cold, said ho had been in hopes that it was some big thing like plouro-pneu- monia, Chicago Tribune:—"The New Youk Henanp speaks of the Angel Gabriel's farewell engagement. This is advertising it rather early, perhaps, and, by the way, ‘unnecessarily, for, as everybody will be there, it is bound to be @ success anyway.” Boston § Transeript:—""Seene—A South End horse car, Enter an elaborately dressed lady, diamond solitaires, cightbutton kids, &e, Car crowded, At Arst no One moves. Soon a gentleman offers his seat, ‘Thank you; you are the only gentlemen here. The rest is hogs.’ ‘The Texas slayer of the actor, Ben Porter, will either escape s0 as to kill other people, or he will, as he goes to his hanging, receive bouquets of flowers from sentimental ladies and proclaim to the assem- bled multitude that he will, in. an hour or so, be up head in heaven. Horace Maynard, Minister to Turkey, is at New- port, where, by the way, the ocean view from the cliffs during the recent pounding storms is said to have been very grand, as the yray-blue waves rushed and roared upon the shores, Minister Maynard is practically a poet. i The cruel rumor which was started late on Satur- day night that General John A. Dix was dead, it is gratifying to state. was utterly groundless. It was ascertained yesterday that’ the General had been recently confined to his house by a severe cold, but at no time was he so ill as to be compelled to keep to his bed. He was out riding on Friday, looking quite cheerful, and intended yesterday to take a ride in the Park if the weather was prépitious. OBITUARY. OMER PACHA, TURKISH GENERAL. During the last days of February the General of Division Omer Pacha, one of the most meritorious officers in the Turkish army, died at Constantinople, after a life full of service and vicissitudes. He was a native of Mittau, in Courland; was educated at the Military School of St. Petersburg; emigrated in his youth to Hungary, where he made the campaign of 1848-9 on the popular side, and being involved in the catastrophe of Vilagos found refuge, like so many other Hungarian soldiers, on Turkish soil and trans- ferred his services to the Sultan, embracing Islam- ism, and receiving the name by which he was thenceforth known, When the war with Ruasia broke out in 1854 he held a small com- mand on the Danube, aud was successful in the affair at Ce‘ale, Subsequently he was employed at Eupatoria und in Georgia. During the disturb- ances in the Lebanon in 1860 he had the good fortune to capture the chief of the Druses, whom he con- veyed prisoner to Damascus. In 1865 he subdued the insurgents in the district of Deir, between Aleppo and Bagdad, and he reorganized the administration of that sandjak. In 1870 he performed a similar ser- vice in the district of Palmyra, whence he was trans- ferred to Bagdad, where he remained five years en- gaged in resuscitati: the steam navigation in that quarter, In June, 1877, he was maide General of Divi- on, and appointed to & command in Armenia, where almost immediately upon his arrival le greatly distin- guished himself at the battle of Yagni-dagh, But it will remembered the Russians recovered from their early reverses, and finally won the decisive affair of pepe Oo consequence of which Omer Pacha and six of Turkish yencrals became prisoners of war. He was interned at Kieff, whence he returned last October. He was at once brought before a court- martial, for, naturally, there was 4 desire to know upon whose shoulders the blame of the Anatolian catastrophe should rest, und it was Omer Pacha who signed the capitulation. But compromising dis- closures came to light, and, as usual in such cases in ‘Turkey, the inquiry was spun out with the object of either suppressing information or diverting atten- tion. On February 19 Omer Pacha, while actually in attendance on the court-martial, had an apoplectic seizure, which in a short time prove fatal. We was buried with all military honors, a large number of his comrades accompanying his remains to their last resting place, ISAAC PEACE HAZARD. Isaac Peace Hazard died ‘at his residenco in New- port, R.I., on Saturday, He was a member of tho Hazard family whose name appears so conspicuously in Rhode Island’s history. Mr. Hazard was bornin » the old family mansion near Tower Hill, at South Kingston, October 3, 1794. He resided at Peacedale for many years, and took a great ipterest in that prominent manufacturing town. In fact, he may be said to bo the father of that village, the schools, churches, libraries, &c., being supported by the Hazard family. He was in the Rhode Island Senate for many years and was in that body during tho famous Dorr War. His judgment during that time was implicitly relied upon, and his life long maxim, “What is good for the many is best for the one,” will never be forgotten by those who know him. He removed to Newport about 1849, and while there ho was requested to be candidate for Governor, but de- clined. He was instrumental in bringing about the building of the Charleston and Augusta way. Be- ing in the habit ot ee his winters at the South people there laughed at his project, but he persevered and secured the necessary subscriptions and the road was finally built. He had been ill for about six years, and during the last three years of shis life he was & erent, sufferer. His brothers, Thomas R. Haz- ard, wiand G. Hazard, William R. Hazard and Joseph P. Hazard (who is in London) are well known in literary, social and manufacturing circles in New d. His ,two sisters in Newport, R. L. He was never married. The deceased leaves an im- mense estate, and ‘he will be remembered ag plaintif? in the suit just Thomas C. Durant, the Crédit Mobilier and the Union Pacific Railroad, DR. OTTO BLAU, GERMAN ORIENTALIST. Dr. Otto Blau, German Consul at Odessa, Russia anda distinguished archmologist and philologist committed suicide on the 1st inst. He was a man of most varied culture, and printed several hundred brochures, chiefly on Semitic philology or antiquities. To the Journal of the German Oriental Society alone he contributed above a hundred articles, and he was a frequent writer for publications of the Vienna Numismatic Society. He was an enth' coin collector, and issued not long ago a catalogue of the Odessa Coin Collection, which was characterized aa “a model of conciseness and accuracy.” Dr. Blau's favorite studies were Phoenician inscriptions and Mohammedan coin lore. He was an ardent contro- versialist, and his thoeries on Oriental subjects were frequently strained and fancitul, but his laborious enthusiasm for science and his generous aid ex- tended to fellow-workers were worthy of grateful remem! MR, JOHN FRAIL. * After an illness of many weeks Mr. John Frail died at Shrewsbury, England,on March9. Mr. Frail, who was seventy-five years of age, was Mayor of Shrews- bury at the time of his death, and the main events of his long career were in connection with that interest» ing old town. He was mainly known as one of the best clerks of courses and race mee! managers. It is hardly necessary to refer to the high success at~ tained by the Shrewsbury Races under bis fos- tering charge, and, aided by bis sons, who inherit both his administrative — and geniality of man- ner, he put new life into the Northam: meeting, and made those at Huntingdon, Wi ‘Man. chester very pleasant to racegoers. figure of Mr. Frail, his curly gray lock: eurved brim, his scrupulously neat attire, and mach more the sound sense, or stories full of dry humor, dealt forth in measured tones, will be much missed during the racing season now close at hand in Eug- land. EUGENE FAURB, PAINTER, From Paris we hear of the death, in his fifty seventh year, of Eugéne Faure, a well known painter. Born in Seyssinet, near Grenoble, he went to Paris in 1843, and afters a short stay in the studio of Dayid d’Angers, ot Hude. In 1848 he — returned - to Jag for and left for Rome in 1849. He also studied in Venice and Florence, returning to Paris in 1851, Faure was much in demand as # painter of portraits, Of his works we note “Dreams ot Youth,” “Love's Tutelage,” “Les Premiers Pas d’Amour,” “Eve,” which received @ medal in 1864 and was bought by the Duke of Morny, and “La Source,” he lus two resen' the tate Universal exhibitions: when he was awarded a nen he Also received » medal of the second class in 1872, R, 8, BURROWS. R. 8, Burrows, a prominent citizen and banker, died at his residence at Albion, N. Y., yesterday, aged eighty-one years. Two years ago ho fell and frac- tured his hip and was'an invalid thereafter. He was widely known and respected, The funeral will take place on Wednesday next. WILLIAM J, ALBERT. William J. Albert died at Baltimore, Md., on Satur- day night, in his sixty-third year. He was a native of Baltimore and reared a merchant. In 1864 he was a candidate for Presidential Elector and was a mem- ber of the Forty-third Congress from the Fifth Maryland district. DAVID ©. WINSLOW'S FUNERAL, ‘Tho funeral of United States Commissioner David ©. Winslow, of Brooklyn, took place from the South Congregational Church, Court street, that city, yess terday afternoon. The edifice was crowded by friends and professional acquaintances of the de coased, among the latter being Judge Bene- | he. oe ao District Court; United Jommissioner Benedict, misaioner Noah 1. Tibbetts, city "Sulges, Mecue and Rey! is, District Attorney Tenny, ex-Diatrict Attorney John Winslow, Park Commissioner J. 8. T. Stranahan ond United® States Marshal Harlow. funeral services were conducted by Rev. Albert Lyman, ene of the church named, assisted pau = Py ted hs Christ Protestant Uhureh, jo wi entlemen aa i pescomnosomely tek y Moore, . Joshua M. Ven ‘Will » John C. Parsons, Cott, Willtam Coit and Alden J. . ‘The remains were interred in the family at Greenwood Com | v “