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WASHINGTON. Political Results of the Ex- ' tra Session. BOTH PARTIES IN GOOD SPIRITS. President Hayes’ Administration . the Real Gainer. REPUBLICAN MALCONTENTS. The Issues of the Fall Can- vass Defined. [ymom oR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT. ) ‘Wasutneron, July 3, 1879, ‘The remarkable good feeling which manifested it- self between the members of the two parties on the adjournment of Congress showed that both sides were conscious that there was not, after all, much at stake in the long and often bitter struggle of the extra session, and that the three months and « half ‘were spent, not in saving the country or destroy- ing its liberties, but in manwuvring for politi- cal position. The democrats have gone home apparently in as good spirits as the republicans. Tbey whisper to each other, “At any rate we have kept the party together;” while the republicans wink at each other and say, with a quiet chuckle, “Well, we have managed to reunite our party once more.” But neither side is confident of the future, and both are anxiously looking for the result of the fall elections to indicate what the people think, EFFECT ON THE EXECUTIVE. ‘The Prosident has, it is generally admitted, been the greatest and perhaps the only real gainer by the tedious extra session. It has made him a force in his party. The administration has become in the {ast three months the head of the party, and thongh there are still vigorous malcontents like Blaine and Conkling, who stir up a perpetual revolt against the President they put into the White House, Mr. Hayes has now the great body of republican Reprosentatives standing by him, and it must be said that he has never over- ettimated the character and weight of the Senatorial opposition to him. He frequently says that » quar- rel between s President and the leaders of his party in the Senate is the normal condition of Ameri- can politics, It has never alarmed him,. and it will not hereafter inconvenience him even. There are already straws which show that the anti-admin- istration republican leaders in the Senate have car- ried their colleagues further than they will ever carry them hereafter in opposition to the President. There is a growing impression among the repub- licans that Mr. Hayes is a remarkably cool hand; patient, wary, not capable of getting scared, a shrewd and long-headed politician and s far wiser and sater party leader than the irate Senators who have vainly battied against him so often. FEELING AMONG REPUBLICANS, Those republicans who are without an after- thought and simply desirous of the success of their party are going home with greatly increased confi- denee in Mr. Hayes, and the faith that he is on the whole the best leader for them, particularly when elections are at hand. The factious opposition of republican Senators has lost them both influence and adherents of late. Mr. Conkling tried in vain to get the New York delegation in the House to vote against the Army bill. Mr. Chandler met with the seme ill success-with the Michigan delegation. Gen- eral Garfield, who was understood to represent the President, easily beat them both and knows it. * \DEMOCRATIO OPINION OF HAYES. ‘The democrats still underrate Mr. Hayes, which is foolish of them. They say that he does not always perform what he promises, which is probably true as regards offices, for in such matters he is apt to act upon his latest lights. They are naturally irri- tated at the latest veto, but they have themselves to blame for this as wollas the preceding checks they have met with, and when they get cooler the sensible men among them will come to the con- clusion that the President is a more formidable man to have as an opponent than all the suti-administration republicans in a bunch, and that if it should occur to the mass of the republican politicians to frankly accept his leadership and guidance and range themselves along- Side of the administration, a thought which has found secure lodgment in the brains of a number of them since the extra session began, the democrats would have a far more difficult task in 1880 than they have so far anticipated. THE FALL CANVASS. Both parties enter reluctantly upon the fall can- vass. The republicans are a little afraid of their safety on the currency issue alone. They will try to mix little of the “rebel yell” in with the other issues. The democrats are for the present at a loss whether they ought to make troops at the polls or Mr. Ewing’s currency notions the leading issue in their campaign. The republi- cans hope that by the signature of the Army bill they have got rid of the “troops at the polls” issue, but they have for the most part a dread of the whole question of the troops and elections marshals, and would rather have it out of their way. THE PRESIDENT AND THE RLECTION Laws. In this they differ from the President, who, if he could make the issues of this and next year's campaigns for his party, would tell them to bury the bloody shirt and the rebel yell for ever, stop the dreary and useless fight against the Southerners, and, while looking to new questions to engage the attention of the country, take the ground boldly that the supervision of federal elec- tious by federal officers, including both supervisors ard marsh..ls, is proper, necessary, and ought never to be given up; that the prosent federal election laws my need amendment, but that they ought never to be repealed, and may perhaps in some particulars neod to be made more comprehensive and rigorous, He not only believes this, but he believes that » ma- jority of the voters throughout the country agree with him. INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS ARD SUBSIDIES, Aside trom this, there is reason to believe that he ‘would favor, and may indeed take the earliest op- portunity to publicly recommend a comprehensive system of public improvements, including the Mis, sissippi River and its tributaries and other internal navigation works, to which he would add liberal and judicious, though not extravagant subsidies to steam mail lines, which should connect our ports with those of Central and South America, with a view to the rapid and large increase of ur commerce with all the countries south of us on this continent. He would prpbably seek to form advantageous commercial treaties with these coun- tries; he would like to see a North and South Ameri- can commercial confederation formed, and tt would not be surprising if he should address Congress on this subject in December. What kind of » reception such a policy would moet with from the hide bound republican leaders who have spent the winter and spring in howling about the rebellion, it is dificult to foretell; but if one may judge from what is said here in private discussion on such subjects as this, it seems certain that if Mr, Hayes should boldly recommend a distinct policy of this kind in his next annual message ho would not neod to cara for the opposition of the Senatorial malcontents who have hitherto opposed him. There is some reason to believe that the extra sossion has made him strong enough with his party, in his own belief, to venture on such new ground in December, But the result of the fall elections will have s good deal of influence on his mind, THR GRANT REPUBLICANS, Thore is ® rumor current here that the Grant | Tepublicans are quictly prepgring what some of them aro ssid to spenk of as “Waterloo for the administration in Ohio.” Tho plan is, this rumor asserts, not only to beat Mr. Foster, but to let the Legislature be democratic, 80 as to show the purty in other States that the admunistration, though it muy carry 8 con- NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, JULY 4, 1879—WITH SUPPLEMENT. vention cannotelect anybody. It is a little curious that along with this rumor rans snother, undoubt- edly well founded, that the astute Mr. Tilden recently told a Georgia politician that New York would go republican this fall, but that this ‘would not necessarily be fatal to the democratic hopes in 1880, Thus the Tilden movement and the Grant movement peopie would seem to be playing the same little game of ruining in order the more certainly to rale. THE BLOODY sHinr. It shows singularly what diverse ideas prevail in the republican , party just’ now, that while the ad- ministration would greatly prefer such @ policy of new ideas and of good will between the sections as is outlined above, the stalwarts talk of instructing the Bouthern republican leaders next yeir, after the convention, not to organ- nize the party in any Southern State, or atleast in any of the cotton States, but to come North and help to make # ‘solid North” by lectures ‘and speeches, giving bloodcurdliny accounts of Southern terror- ism, bulldozing and negro killing, There is some- thing #0 lamentably barren about such a programme as this that it is almost laughable, but thero is good authority tor saying that this is the “stalwart” re- publican programme for 1880, GENERAL WASHINGTON DESPATCHES. . Wasnrxarton, July 3, 1879. FEES OF MARSHALS AND THEIR DEPUTIES— COMMUNICATION FROM ATTORNEY GENERAL DEVENS. General Matthews, United States Marshal at De- troit, Mich., having to-day inquired of the Attorney General/by telegraph whether he should continue to serve warrants in eriminal cases, the following re- ply was made:— DEPARTMENT OF JosTICE. " Waszrseroy, D. C., July 38,1879. a Marruzws, United States Marsbaj, Detroit, i Ladvise you to form the usual duties of your office, which you are no_way forbidden to do, to the extent of:your power. The law bes those. duties and affixes certain fees as the compensation therefor. No provision for the payment of the fees ot marshals and their deputies has been made, nor can I make any contract or promise that this provi- sion shall hereafter be made; but your performance of your duties, so far as thelaw contemplates that cosulitute's good grauhd of sblugstion against the hel mn agains! United States.. Where the crea deputies are required and ditares are to be I nize the difficulties you may have to encounter. all this matter, however, you will have to rely upon your.ex] jon of future legislation by Congress that be just to you. All other ex; except marshals and their de, at have been VENS, Attorney General. LOSS OF LIFE FROM VARIOUS CAUSES ON STEAM- BOATS—INCREASED EFFICIENCY OF STEAM- BOAT INSPECTION. The following {s a comparative statement of the number of lives lost from various causes-on steam- boats during the years ending June 30, 1878 and 1879:— 1879, 1 12 From explosio1 28 From snags, wreek and sinking 51 From accidental rowing 8 Lt Serene 5 105 TOMS 2.02 c.crcceseesncee ‘The above comparison shows a reduction of nearly fifty-one per cent in the number of lives lost and about thirty-fourper cent reduction in the number of accidents causing loss of life. The increased effi- ciency of steamboat inspection service in better shown by the following comparative statement :— In 1875 the number of lives lost on steamboats ‘was 607; in 1876, 394; im 1877, 294; im 1878, 218, and in 1879, 105. ARMY INTELLIGENCE, ‘TRIBUTE TO GENERAL HUMPHREYS ON HIS RE- TIREMENT—GENERAL WRIGHT ORDERED TO ASSUME THE DUTIES OF HIS POSITION—SEN- TENCE BREMITTED. ‘Wasutnarton, July 3, 1879. In announcing to the army the retirement of Brigadier General Andrew A. Humphreys, Chief of Engineers, after more than forty years of active ser- vice, the Secretary of War has directed the issuance of # general order acknowledging the valuable ser- vices rendered by General Humphreys in the varied and important duties which devolved upon him during his long militaty career. Brigadier General Horatio G. Wright having been commissioned as chief of engineers, United States Army, bso assume the duties of his position as of date of appointment—J ane 30, 1879. ORDERS, Brigadier General Horatio G. Wright, chief of engineers, will proceed to New York city on duty connected with his department, and on completion thereof will return to his station in this city. An army retiring board having found Major H. W. Janes, quartermaster, soa for active service on account of disability in mt to the service, he has been retired from such service. SENTENCE REMITIED. Cr in Joseph Rendlebrock, Fourth cavalry, was tried by.# court martial, which convened at Fort Supply, Indian Territory, March 22 last. The charges against him were misbehavior before the enemy (India disobedience of the lawful com- mands of superior officer, neglect of duty and drunkenness, to the prejudice of gvod order and military discipline. The Court him guilty of the first and third | not guilty of the second end extended the accused on account of his age, long and creditable service and the fact that his physical con- dition showed him tobe unfit for the Ratios of an active campaign; and in accordance with the recom- mendation , in which the Judge Advocate and the General of the Army concur, remits the sentence imposed. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE, PLACED ON WAITING ORDERS—HOLIDAY IN THE. NAVY YARDS. Wasuinoton, July 3, 1879, The following officers of the Despatch, which was put out of commission here yesterday, have been placed on waiting orders :—Commander F. J. Higgin- son, Lieutenants A. Stone and J. F. Merry, Masters J. J. Hunker and T. 8. Plunkett, Ensigns 0. E Lasher and M. A. Shuteldt, Passed Assistant Engin- eer John Lowe and Passed Assistant Surgeon J, R. Waggoner, Assistant Paymaster H. R. Smith is also beer | from the Despatch and ordered to settle accounts. HOLIDAY IN THE NAVY YARDS. Secretary Thompson to-day, by telegraph to tho different com . directed that the employés of the navy yards be granted, in addition to the usual Fourth of July holiday, a holiday on the day following. This holiday will extend to all the em- ployés, including the per diem men. THE ENTERPRISE AND SARATOGA, {Bx CABLE TO THE HERALD.) Lonpon, July 3, 1879, The United States steamer Enterprise, Commander T. O. Selfridge, arrived at Christiania, Norway, on the 28th of June. The United States steamer Saratoga, Commander R. D, Evans, sailed from Teneriffe for Bermuda on June 30, STEALING INDIANS’ HORSES, Wasutnaton, July 3, 1879. The Interior Department is to-day in receipt of official information that white men during the past | fow Weeks have stolon about seven hundred norses trom the Indians at the Red Cloud Agency and run | them across the Nebrasks line. The State author. ities are doing nothing to prevent similar raids upon the a Fa the military authorities, on account of the Posse Comitatus last you! stand by without intercepting or pursui: thi marauders, although the stolen horses are det right past Camp Sheridan and Camp Robinson on the way to market or to the horse thieves’ corrals. NO ARMED FORCK, The Indian Agent having no armed force at his confinand is powerless to a the depredations, and for the present they seem lil to continue. The Indians, notwithstanding their keen sense of injury, ing from this want of adequate protection, mani- no symptoms of instibordination, but remain entirely peaceable, and are beginning to devote them- selves to farming. jpotted Teil Indians within the two year several thousand ia samo way, ot havo horses 1 sentenced him to be dismissed the ser- | be | generally discordant noise, will be the dipping of oars in THE FIERY FOURTH. PREPARING FOR A TREMENDOUS RUSH FROM THE HEATED CITY—EXCURSIONS EVEBY- WHERE—LITTLE FUN FOR THE STAY¥-AT- HOMES. Every indication points to a hot and noisy celebra- tion to-day. The excessive heat of the past two days was doubtless but the forerunner and prophet of that which was tocome. That the city will be well filled to-day by unfortunates who cannot get away and by a countless throng of visitors from the rural districts is a certainty, so that proprietors of soda water fountains, lemonade pails, ice cream saloons and small beer counters will unquestionably find constant and remunerative employment from eerly morn to red hot eve, Although the Heraup had an- nounced the grim decision of the Mayor to the effect that no small boy or miniature man should celebrate the Fourth inan explosive and cannonic way the firework trade report business as excep- tionably good., An amusing und not altogether ra- tional contrast is exhibited between the practice of Now York and Brooklyn. Here, where no display of any sort whatever is to be tolerated, cargoes of fire- crackers have been sold, as have millions of tor- pedoes and miles of wheels, while over in the goodly burg known as the City of Churches, where youths are graciously permitted to toy with the excitable cannon and to set off the irascible cracker, provided he does go in the seclusion that the back yard grants, not a firecracker could yesterday be found for love or money. s 4 THOUSAND AND ONE EXCURSIONS, But while tne metropolitan authorities have re- fused to take official cognizance ot the day we used to celebrate, and have resolutely denied individuals that privilege so far as old fashioned customs are concerned, a glance at the well filled colums of the HERALD will reveal a phenomenal degree of prepara- tion for the delight and refreshment of the million. In no previous yéar has there been such an extent of suggestion from any one source of public cater- ing. , The Columbia aud Grand Republic leave their several North River and Brooklyn piers, from eight o'clock in the m: to five in'the afternoon, So great is the untici rush that the managers of the line have added for the occasion the Adelphi and “ng ARiaS laud a ion i peculiar and ‘unique excursion programnie is provided by « com! jon of cereal Se the services of -the J. B. Schuyler, Eliza Hancox, Colum- bia and Grand Republic for such as care to visit the great iron tubular pier at West Brighton Beach. ‘This work is completed so far as the substantial por- tion of the structure is concerned, and a visit to it means also 4 promenade of 1,000 feet on it. Theso steamers leave the iron pier half-hourly up to seven o'clock P. M. g The iron pier at Long Branch is.also madeaspecial point of interest to-day, and, in characteristic phrase, the m: it of the Plymouth Rock invites thi public to go by hec to the pier. ‘The Plymouth Rock is advertised algo to make a grand moonlight excursion down the harbor siong Coney Island during the display of firework at Nor- ton’s, Brighton and the Manhattan. the Smith line of river and harbor steamboats Rosedale, Crystenah, Idlewild, Sylvan Dell and Riverdale: will:make half. hourly trips. to Norton’s end of ganar Island, Jending passengers in the ceu- tre of attractions by means of the beach line of cars that leave presumably on the arrival of the boats. These steamers leave West Twenty-fourth street, West Tonth street, Franklin street and pier No. 2 from nine A. M. to seven P. M., and return from Coney Island as late as ten P. M. ‘The steamboat Nuhpa, with musical adjuncts, nounces # Hudson River excursion, from Jewell’s wharf and West Twenty-second street, in the morn- ing, to IonalIsiand, and home again at half-past three P. M. The peculiar feature of the Nuhpa ex- cursion is the boat race at Iona Island, in which numerous scullers will participate. It ts somewhat proudly announced, too, that Waabington Market will be ‘on deck’’ to-day, at eight o'clock, at which time the Black Bird will etart West Twenty-second street for the fish- Lines, bait and refreshments to be A TWO DAxs’ TRIP, The Elm City isto make s peculiarly attractive excursion which is to continue two entire days, and embraces # trip to New Haven, Block Island, Rocky Point and Newport, with cod fishing, clam bakes and exquisite scenery thrown in. .The Elm leaves her pier at halt-past nine this morning will re- turn by eight A. M. Sunday. The Long Branch takes in Newburg, Yonkers, Oscawana Island, West Point and Cold Spring, leav- i. Fulton ferry at twenty minutes past eight ‘he Nuhpa will give ® moonlight, ht and electric light excursion, leaving East enty-third street at. half-past eight P. M. Fireworks and music will beguile the time until the Nubpa passes the Coney Island pier. Eben’s band wili play on the City of ‘Troy on her trip to Long Branch. ‘he Palisades await the coming of the Pleasant Valley, Edgewater and Shady Side steamers that leave Canal street a every hour from half-past six A. M, to eleven P. M. Hourly bouts will start up the East and Harlem rivers {rom Fulton slip all day long. A “veteran clambake” will be had at the Hoyt victhe Mstisawan will ply to and fro Keyport, 1° will ply to an m2 » Give a an excursion on the water. a ‘he Old Dominion Steamship Company will send a steamer.to Lewes, at two P. M., returning early to-morrow. The Seth Low goes to the Fishing Banks from the Battery at eight o’clock. The Coney, Island pier at West reached by the Bay Ridge and Locust ances from the Battery. Osseo is the name ot the gentle craft that leaves Harlem at eight A. M. for South Beach and Cedar | Grove, ‘Tho J.B, Schuyler, chartered by Edgar & Fulton, will make @ moonlight trip to-night from West Twenty-second street at 8, ve convey- Sedgwick, which goes to Newburg and West Point from pier 2 North River at half-pasteight A.M. In the evening she will take the public to see the fire- works on tan he The Long Island Railroad has gone into the excur- boss business, and announces » Rockaway Beac! scheme, Adelaide leaves the foot of Twenty-second strect as r schedule, The entertainment is to continue ‘our days. A great report will be Brighton Beach,to which Superintendent Dorwin will run extra trains all day long. The musical and pyrotechnic programmes are enormous, ‘The same is true of the Manhattan Beach, which is now connected by its Marine road with its great rival. IN AND ABOUT THE CITY, Among the pleasant sounds, on » day when all is | the North River, between 107th and 140th streets. There the Metropolitan Association of Ama- teur Oarsmen will hold their regatta, beginning at half-past ten, o'clock in the morning. An interval of half an hour will occur between the races. One mile and a half is the length of the course. ‘A summer yore which gives promise of being an interesting one, wiil be held by the Harlem Athletic Club, at their grounds in Second avonue, corner of 126th street. At their grounds, bo: Van Cott avenue, Greenpoint, the Greenpoint Athletic Club will meet and engage in friendly »; . Their ex- ample will be followed by the A hi Club, tho Letter Carriers’ Club and the Young Ken's Centen- nial Club, The moon was blood red last evening and gave omise that to-day would be ® scorcher. Every epot in the city was packed with fliers from tho loaded. Thero was never such @ rush before and there never were such facilities for flight. — lines of travel have — by = ; preparations for to-day’s |, especially those leading to the watering places hereabouts. That there “will be 150,000 people on Coney Island is not an unsafe pre- diction; that to that place and Long Branch will be Reverend much of our metropolitan fervor is most pro! , THE FOURTH IN CONNECTICUT. (BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.1 New Haven, July 3, 1879. The principal observance of the Fourth in this State will be what is termed the “centennial in- vasion’’ celebration in this city commemorating the 100th anniversary of the occupation of the place by the British during the Revolutionary War. The decoration of the cit; forty-eight hours, ry at inter decorated with flags and streamers, and hundreds of privet resmanes aro similarly ornamented. Karly in the morning the Fifth regiment of Massachusetts militia will be received and escorted throngh the city, and at eleven o'clock a fraud Procession two miles in length will move off ou @ parade of five miles. This will be largely composet ot militia or- ganizations, with representations of the trades, secret | wovietios, ke. At one o'clock will be a brigade | review on tho Green, and afterward a historical ora | tion will be delivered at the Centre Church by Rev. Dr. Leonard Bacon. The city will be illuminated in | the evening, but the contemplated pyrotechnic dis- | play has been abandonod. ‘he principal streets have sls, ie stores are fully CELEBRATION AT WOODSTOCK. PurxaM, Conn., July 3, 1879. ‘The spocial train conveying guests to the celebra- tion at Woodstock given by Henry ©. Bowen, pub- lisher of the New York /ndependent, arrived hore at about six o'clock, There was # large assemblage of ple at the depot, where the party were met by umber of Woodstock Putnam peal on Tiages. Companies and a t, O.N.G., wore present as au oxcort, and headed by the Put- nam band marched through the village and accompanied the party a mile on their way to Wood- | took, five miles distant, All the buildings were gcorated with flags and buntin; At Roseland Cot- taye (Bowen's residence), # brilliant reception in the evening was attended by many notables, including Senators Matthews and Platt, Governor Andrews, Congressman Wait and Bishop Gilbert Haven. The large grounds were lighted by. innumerable Chinese lanterns and there was a magnificent pyrotechnic display, The celebration’ will begin ‘to-morrow morning at ten o'clock, when the hes will be delivered in Roseland Groye, and will with fire- works in the evening. THE SOCIETY .OF THE. CINCINNATI. A SKETCH OF THE ORGANIZATION BY WHICH TRE HEROIC LEADERS OF THE AMERICAN BEVOLUTIONARY ARMY SOUGHT TO PERPETUATE THEIR FRIENDSHIPS AND PROMOTE TEOSE RIGHTS OF HUMANITY BOR WHICH THEY FouGuT, A 7 The anniversary of American independence to-day brings together the members of this distinguished society in the seven States where the State societies are in existence to attend to regular business and then dine together in friendly communion. Major General Heury Knox, of the Continental Army of the Revolution, and Major General Baron de Steuben, are considered to have been the earliest promoters of the Order of the Cincinnati. When hostilities had ceased between Great Britain and the United States, and the American army, after eight years of war, was about to be disbanded, a number of officers of rank met at Buron de Steuben’s quarters on the Hudson River, near Fishkill, on May 10, 1783, in order to perpetuate the remem- brance of the efforts which had becn made by them to secure the independence of the United States, aa well asthe mutual friendship which had been formed under the pressure of common danger, and in many instances cemented by the blood of the parties, by associating, constituting aud combining themselves in the most solemn manner into one society of friends, to endure as long as they should endure, or any of their eldest male posterity, and,in failure thereof, the collateral branches who should be judged worthy. 4 HEREDITARY ORDER. These officers thus founded un Order hereditary ig its character, and as they had generally been taken from the citizens of America and were about to follow the examiple. of that illustrious Ro- man, Lucius Quintius Cincinnatus, by re. turning to their citizenship, they con- cluded they might with propriety denominate themselves “The Society of the Cincinnati.” The prinerples which they declared should be immuta- ble and form the basis of the society were remark- able, and showed the strong national feeling with which that incomparable little army was imbued at the very time when the articles of confederation, under which the United States government was then administered, were weakest, and when the officers hud the most just cause of complaint at the failure of government to settle their own long overdue ac- counts. LIBERTY, UNION AND FRATERNITY, ‘They said the basis of their society should be:— An incessant attention to preserve inviolate those ex- alted rights and liberties of human nature fur which they have fought and bled, and without while the high rank of onal being is u curse instead of » blensing. An unalterable determination to promote and cherish betweom the respective States that union and national honor so essentially necessary to their happiness and the future dignity of the American Empire, ent the cordial affection subsisting ‘This spirit will dictate brotherly kind- and particularly extend to the most substantial acts of henolicence, according tw the ability of the society, toward those officers their families who unfortunately may be under the necessity of receiving it. PLAN OF ORGANIZATION. Membership was confined to regular Continental officers of the army and navy of the Revolution who had served with honor at least a certain number of years or until retired. The General Soctety, as it ‘was termed, was, for convenience, divided into State societies, composed of those members residin, in such States; the General Society to sonsint generals, and five delegates trom each State society, aud to meet triennally and the State societies an- nually on the 4th of duly. On the 19th ot June, 1783, all the provisions of the “Lostitution” having been perfected, it went into effect, CHOSEN OFFICERS. Beg following coustituted the first general officers, viz.:— Resse ern George Washington, of Virginia, president eneral, SSinjor Genéral Horatio Gates, of Virginia, vice president general, Major Geveral Henry Knox, secretary general. Brigadier General Otho Holland Williams, of Mary. land, assistant secrotary general. Major General Alexander McDougall, of New York, treasurer general. General Washington continued in office until his decease, and was then succeeded by Major Alexander Hamilton. In the State societies of their respective States Major Generals Benjamin Lincoln, Nathaniel Greene. Alexander McDougall, Arthur St. Clair and W: Moultrie became presidents, ton can be | The Centennial steam organ is on the General | ‘vhe Long Branch pier will be lighted up and the |\ heat to come. All the boats and cars were over- | has been in progress for | At first there were thirteen State societies and French State society, but because of the very | few qualified members in some of the States, aiffi- culty of communication at that period and lke res- sons, only seven have continued in existence, the General Society meeting at least once in three years, | one month's pay of his rank. ‘This by judicious in- | vestments im several of the societies has become a considerable fund. THE YRENCH BRANCH. In France, Marshal Count de Rochambeau_ bee: president of the State Society, and Louis XVI, special favor, formally recognized the and | mitted such of his subjects as were entitled to mem- bership by service in the American Revolution to become members and wear the ini ia, None be- low the rank of colonel were selected, and the high. est of the French nobility sought to yeni. Ey French Revolution put an end to further mectings of that State Society, which numbered among its h | illustrous members of the nobility six field mar- shals, ten generals, nine eutenant generals, three ad- mirals, three vice admirals, two reaf admirals, two princes, three dukes, eighteen marquises and others of lower rank who, like Count de Segur and the Chevalier de La Perouse, were not unknown to fame. INSIGNIA. In the “institution” of 1783 it was vided that the insignia of the Order should be a eagle, with a medal and certain emblems on its breast, and the ribbon light blue, watered and with whi typical of the alliance betweea and ¢) United States, hereditary members in the United States were made im.Paris at the order of the Marquis de Lafayette when he returned there in 1784. HONORARY MEMBERS, Under the institution cach State society is permit- ted to elect s very limited number of honorary members, in this way Chancellor Livingston, Benjamin Franklin, Commodores tur, Bain- bridge, Stewart and Perry, Chiet Justices McKoan and Kichard Morris, William H. Prescott and Daniel Webster, General Winfield Scott and other eminent characters became members. THE ANNUAL REUNIONS, No State societies have ever been allowed to be constituted in any State except one of the original thirteen, and membership is rigidly retained as set- tied by ‘the founders. In consequence of this ad- | ed he fe a exclusive as that of the Cincinnati, founded by re- ‘of civil liberty’ and nationality. To-day each of the | several State societies will meet, and the hereditary Members come from every part of the country, few in number, but giad to do honor to the memory of the founders and the great principles they enunci- ated. The Massachusetts State Society meets in Boston, Rear Admiral Henry Knox Thatcher, United’ States Navy, being its president. The Rhode Island State Society meets this year in the State House in Newport. Lust year it met in the State House in Providence. Nathaniel Greene is president. The New York State Soctety mects at Delmonico’s, in this city, with ex-Governor Hamilton Fish as its president. He ts also presi- dont general of the General Society. Tho Peunsyl- vania Siate Society, of which Mr. George W. Harris is president, meets in Philadelphia, while the New is president, meets in Trenton. The Maryland State y has always met in Baltimore. Mr. Williams resident. The South Carolina State Society meets in Charleston. ‘This society, in April last, sus- tained ® severe loss in the dewth of its president, James Simous. Wilmot G. de Saussure, vico pres dent, succeeds him, UNDER THR OLD FLAG. As families have become extinct the membershi, by descent has become more ant more limited, and in 1854 the General Society took action by which the proper descendant of a Coutinental olficer could obtain membership, provided his ancestor was cligt- bie, but for some reason never joined in the six mouths after the peace of 1783, ‘This very proper action las broaght in several valued and distin- guished members, the Institution of the Cincinnati has never been disturbed by internecine difficulties, and during the late great rebellion the South Carolina Society met as usual on the Fourth of July, and was possibly the only organization South not separated {rom the main boay by war and political feeling. In several of the sociotics their flags and banners are regularly brought forward wheu they form to march from their Fourth of July meeting todine. The Rhode Island Society has its Rhode ntinental flags used at Yorktown when General Karl Cornwallis surrendered. York Society uses the banner prepared in when Baron de Steuben was its president. Tho Pennsylvania Society carries the flag of Colonel Josiah Harmar's iment of 1775, and the North Carolina Society the flag of Washington's cavalry. A society Which has numbered Washington, Kosciusko, Latayetic, Hamilton, Philip Schuyler, George Clinton and Nathaniel Greene among ite members must continue to have the respect and good wishes of the community for its perpetuation ou the basis they established, of # president general, vice president, secretary, | assistant secretary, treasurer and assistant treasurer | Each original member was Sequited to contribute | Most of the eagles possessed by the | herence to the wishes of the founders there is possi- | bly no Order of distinction to-day in Europe us publican ofticers ardently attached to the principles | Jersey State Society, of which Mr. L. Q. C. Elmer . Conservative 1m its tendencies | HANGED.. | Execution of Nimrod Spattenhube for the Murder of John Ivison. Sad End of a Young German Emigrant's Career in America. READY TO DTE, (BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALDS] :Lepanoy, Pa., July 3, 1879. Nimrod Spstvenlruber, s young German, who was twenty-nine yoars of age ou May 15 last, was hangea by the Sheriff in the jail yard of this quiet little borough to-day before quite a.crowd of people. Two | years ago Spattenhuber arrived in this country full of life, hope and ambition. His home had been in Nieder-Staetten, Wirtemburg, Germany, where he was born, and had with s fair education learned the trade of a brewer. The story of Spattenbuber’s crime is @ love tragedy im the lower walks of life, When he arrived in America he met with » misfortune that is common to many young Germans. Jovial and idle companions led him astray, His exbuberant imagination had pictured America a land of plenty, where money could almost be picked up from the streets. In this he was dis- appointed. He went on a tramp and finally appeared here in Lebanon in the autumn of 1877. Here he saw the first and only young woman he ever loved im America. Her name was Kate Harp. She was comely and industrious, just twenty-one years of age and with very pleasant manners, She was the stepdaughter of one Kleinsmith, a German junk dealer here. Spattenhuber sought and obtained employment from Kleinsmith, and finally tho affection ripened into ardent love between himself and Miss Harp, who returned the feeling with all the ardor of # most intense passion. A new life opened to Spattenhuber and he was prepared to settle down to actual business with a view of making a man of himself, LOVE AND JEALOUSY. Acloud, however, arose and obscured the horizon of nis happiness. John Ivison, alias John Niveryall, was a friend of the Kleinsmith family, He had been absent for a time on Business. He was @ suitor for Kate Harp’s heart and hand, but Kate did not love him, She said Ivison was old enough to be her father. He was forty-five and she but twenty-one. When Ivison learned that a new man had appeared on the scene he became exceedingly jealous, and when ho knew that Kate returned the young German’s love he became very unhappy. Kate Harp never loved Ivison, but this did not deter him from making her numerous presents and in many other ways manifesting a most tender regard for her. Spattenhuber was poor and afraid that Ivison would succeed in inducing her stepfather not only to control Kate in Ivison’s favor, but to discharge Spattenhuber. A LOVER'S TRAMP, The young lovers put their heads together and they resolved to leave home. They had no means to | travel by rail and/no* money to invest in a marriage | certificate. They resolved to be man and wife, how- ever, and their bridal trip was by pike and dusty | highway. Their love in barns and wayside inns made them as happy as if they dwelt in palace cars and the best “hotels, They were absent | four months, and when they returned to Leb- anon Kate’s had removed to Harrisburg along with Ivison. The young couple then took | rooms at a cheap lodging ‘house kept by Harry Peo- | les, in this borough. Shortly after their arrival vison came here, saying that Kate's father had | deputed him to bring her to bury; that the | young couple were not married and that the best thing Kate could do was to go home. She at once refused. Spotteahuber was greatly incense. at this, = he told Ivison to go home and attend to his own jusiness. DIPLOMACY AND HOMICIDE, Ivison was determined to have the young woman and determined to make Spattenhuber drunk in | order that having thus humiliated him he might induce Kate to desert him. On the night of Decem- ber 20, 1878, Ivison, Spattenhuber aud Peoples were together in the latter’s barroom. They drank a great deal of whiskey together, and finally [vison let drop | a remark that insulted Shattenhuber, but quickly perceived hia error and made an effort to rectify it. | Spattenhuber was drunk and would not accept | Ivison’s explanation. Words led to blows, and when the conflict was over John Ivison dropped to the floor mortally wounded. He had been stabbed sev- | eral times in the abdomen with acaseknife. Ivison died almost immediately, and Spattenhuber was ar- | rested, He had several wounds on his head and | face that were inflicted by Ivison with a wooden chair, depatios knocked at Spattenhuber’s cell door. Prieef and prisoner arose from the table at once and pre pared for the journey to the scaffold. Spattenhuber turned pale and trembled, but he crowded back the tears from his bright blue eyes as he reached for hia dark trock cout in the corner. All he desired was a glass of ice wster, which he quickly drank. Father Kuhlmann put on a black gown and royal vet and gold stole, The procession moved down the corridor, Sheriff Deininger and ine Prous leading, toliowed by the condemned, who carried | an ebony crucifix. By his side was the priest re- | peating prayers. Prison Physician Lineaweaver and A LOVE: TRAGEDY: | tore: “tpaccotuver hed asthine co saat he thanked the Sheriff very kindly in & voice not above & whisper. He was cool and collected after the good- | ‘he Sheriff personally adjusted the noose, ng. “Spattenhuber, I will draw the knot very 3; it will be better for you.” The knot was very drawn, DEAD. After the white cap had been placed over his the Sheriff was the last to decend, and when way down the stairs he struck the kuob of the ‘The floor of the scaffold parted and dropped, sad Spattenhuber was feunchen into eternity. His body trembled and shivered as soul went to his Maker. There was no violent contortion, amd the death was very easy, About two hundred people were present. The body was put into # wainut cofim and locked in the base. ment of the Catholic Church. The burial will be private and will take place to-morrow in the Catholio cemetery. Spattenhuber died without a murmur, ‘The prevailing sentiment ip this community is that he should not have been hanged; that it was only another judicial murder. BURREL SMITH AND JOHN HALL CONVICTED OF KILLING MAJOR PUGH. (py TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD. } NasHVILLE, Tenn., July 3, 1879, Burrel Smith and John Hall, both colored, whe assassinated Major Pugh at Murfreesboro forty days ago, were to-day sentenced to be hanged at that place on August 8. When asked whether they had anything to sey why sentence should not be pronounced against them, both rose, Hall sayii with considerable trepidation, “I don’t believe have had justice.” Burrel Smith said with some deliberation:—‘It strikes my mind that I baven’t had justice. Bill Smith has sworn a lie against me. I don’t believe that is right. Ifa man can’t tell the truth he ought not to say anything, because we're all going to meet at the barofGod. Thang you, sir, THE WEALTH OF THE HYDES, OVER THREE HUNDRED MILLIONS OF DOLLAR@ AWAITING CLAIMANTS IN THE BANK OF ENG= LAND—DESCENDANTS OF A COLONIAL CLOTH * DRESSER. ‘The descendants of John Hyde were invited yess terday by advertisement to call st the office of Mr, H.C. Parke, at No. 86 Front street. This invitation is the result of a series of resolutions passed at & recent meeting, at which some thirty-five of the relatives of Mr. Hyde were repre- sented. At that gathering Mr. N. D, More gan was chosen president, W. F. M. Arny and J. H. Duryea, vice presidents; H. C. Parkeand Roger H. Lyon, secretaries, and Messrs. Parke, Arny, Morgan and Lyon an executive committes to collect evidence. Since they assumed the task imposed upon them the committee have been busily engaged, and the result is an almost bewildering mass of material. The object of all this pains is jum said to amount to §300,000,000, and it is thought but thirty-five people now alive can lay any claim to it. These are all Americans, and the money’ isin the Bank of England. It is the accumulated: fortune left by two brothers to a third, who never knew anything of his luck. John Hyde, the heir in question, came to America from England in the year 1732, He was a cloth dresser by trade, and soon after his arrival in this country went to work at that business in Long Island. How long he remained has not yet been ascertained, but it is certzin that he married a Frenchwoman in New York and afterward enlisted. He went to fight the Freach and Indians under General Clinton. He was killed in battle, leaving a widow in New York, with several children. Many of these have been traced, and they are now contributing services and money to get pow- session of the enormous legacy belonging to their ancestor. This money was leit to John by his two | brothers, Joshua and Humphreys, who went to India when quite young, amassed immense wealth and died intestate. Repute, after all these years, gives them the highest claim to be classed as the original “Cheruble Brothers. It is said they were devotedly attached to each other and owed much of their success in lite to honesty and integrity in deal- ing. ‘ THE ESTATE. The estate was all in money and stocks and hag been in chancery for a great many years. It amounted to £30,000,000 twenty-five years ago,and that being the case, it has probably run up to $300,000,000 by this time. By a recent decision of the Lord Chancellor of England, given in connection with this case, the heirs on proving their identity can receive the fortune, This is because it is money. Had it been landed or personal estates it would have gone te the crown, the heirs being aliens. In January last this opinion was given and made public, and since that time some of the claimants have been bi | hunting proof to establish their right. They that tor a few to advance in the ter suddenly would ouly serve pro! to. throw the whole matter back into chancery, where it may remain another century. They have now decided ta TRIED FOR MURDER. Shattenhuber was placed on trial in January, 18 He was penniless and friendless. Counsel was signed to him by the Court. nhuber could not understand a word of Engli te Hart was allowed to testify before the Grand ‘y, but notin court. She could not tell the jury of the jealous disposition of Ivison and how he had followed | up and hounded ner lover from the very start | of their courtship. sey ll, after seven ballots, Spattenhuber was found guilty of murder in the first degree, contrary to general expectation. On | the first ot five of the jurymen were in favor of verdict of guilty of murder in the second degree. Counsel for Spattenhuber immediately filed reasons for a new |, claiming that Spattenhuber did not | kill Ivison with malice or premeditation; that it was the result of a brawl; that Ivison first assaulted Spattenhuber, and that the latter merely acted in self-defence. o~ | SENTENCE AND REPRIEVE. : A motion for s new trial was overruled, and the | young German lover was sentenced to death. Gov- _ernor Hoyt issued a warrant naming June 5 as the day of execution, The gallows was erected and the last prayers were being said when a hasty tel was sent to the Governor signed by District Attorney Adams, who prosecuted and nvicted Spattenhuber, stating that there were sufficient reasons to grant a reprieve in order that the case might be brought before the Board of Par-. dons, Governor Hoyt st once granted a thirty day reprieve, aud this was received at the jail while the condemned man was receiving his last attentions | from Father Kuhlman, the attending priest. The crowd dispersed and the gallows was taken down, VAIN EFFORTS TO SAVE A LIFE. A number of lawyers appeared before the Pardon Board, but they could accomplish nothing. An ad- ditional and ‘voluntary affidavit was presented, sworn to bya woman of Lebanon, declaring that Spattenhuber a week before the tragedy had threat- ened to cut the heart out of Ivison. This virtually decided the case and the Board refused to do any- thing. W. M. Derr, a leading lawyer here, then went to the Supreme Court, in session at Harrisburg, and | made a final effort, but could not accomplish any- thing. READY TO DIE. When this news was made known to the prisoner & few days ago he simply said he was prepared to die. He heard of his first reprieve with a smile, and su he received the final decision that he must dic, Ho was weak, pale and emaciated. ‘The Sisters of St. Joseph wore unremitting in their attentions, as wan Father Kuhiman, Spattenhuber made many friends in the jail. A fewdays ago he was interviewed by the Heimat correspondent, and he was very earnest and sincere in expressing himself to the effect that he was not guilty of murder in the first degree; that what he did he was provoked to do by lvison; that they had a fight i a Ivison struck first. He ad- mitted that possibl{some time before the tragedy he might have said that he would kill Ivison if he | did not stop cre 2 with him and his love. ‘But,’ said the young German, ‘that was said as many other things aro said by young men in the heat of passion who are romantic in their love affairs.” LAST HOURS. Yesterday and the day before Spattenhuber was in very good spirits. Hoe was resigned to his fate, and he iniugled as innocently as a child among his fel- low prisoners. He even wont so far as to lead in song and chorus of the Faetheriand with a few of his fellow Germans in jail. Remembering that he would not be on earth on July 4, he asked Sheriff Deininger for a ack of Chinese firecrackers, With these little explosives he amused himself yesterday in the jail ‘ard, occupying the spot upon which his gallows was erected this morning. Ho bade many of the prisoners goodby and then retired to his cell, At five o’clock he seated himscligat a small table and wrote a letter to his love. It was in German, and it was the last letter he wrote on earth. Whea he had finished he handed it to the Sherifi's son. it was addressed ‘Lo my beloved Kate.” He ate a light supper aud then read the Bible until darkness set, in. On the floor in @ corner of his iron cell was ® mattress upon which he slept. | He rested well during the night, and was up at an early hour and greeted some o: his fellow prisoners, | He said be felt very well. At seven o'clock Father | Aloysius Kuhlmann, of St. Mary's Catholic Church, arrived and remained with the condemned about an hour. Broiled chicken, rolls and pota- toes constituted the prisoners last meal, but he par- took of it very sparingly. He then put on a black suit and white shirt and at nine o'clock Kubimann again arrived and remained with the young man until he was launched into eternity. | To THE GALLOWS. | At thirty-five ginutes past ten the Sherif! and his | gather together all the descendants of John Hyé collect all the documents necessary to ove identity and then march in a body on the bank Great Britain. Attempts were made in former y: to gain possession of this money, but failed. was owing, the present claimants say, to the fact that | these people hunted up the wrong John Hyde and so cleared away a great deal of entanglement for these relatives of the real John Hyde, and, besides, put themselves out of the case. Chancellor Walworth, A. RB. Seldon and many other prominent men took up the matter a few years ago sod fol- lowed it until they discovered they were work me at the history of John Hyde, of Halifax. Chan- cellor Walworth went through an entire genealogy and compiled and printed two enormous volumes on the Hyde family. These are now in the hands of the present claimants, and it is said many of the nearest relatives are not mentioned ‘in the records. These gentlemen were induced to take up the subject through an advertisement that appearedin the London Times on the 6th of April, 1851. Soon aiter 4 meeting of the family was called in Bostor, and there were present on that oc- casion some three hundred members of the then supposed family. All their time, labor and money ended in failure when they went to England. The Hyde family can be traced, it is to the reign of Queen Anne through that of William and Mary. There is a noble family of the same name in England, but they are im BO way counected with the American branch, who own all this estate, and, of course, want to keep it to themselves. A reporter of the HkRaup called on Mr. H.C. Parke last evening in relation to the subject that is on so many tongues at the t moment. Mr. Parke said:—*I ain hard at it, working day and night and doing all I can to get our share of that little balance, My wife is @ de. She comes from John sud 0 do both these ladies you see here, Iam only connected, you understand, by marriage. We are able to establish our identity and claim by two old family Bibies in which the records ot the several members have been carefully kept, and atter that by the certificates and documegts in charge of the authorities. DIGPICULTIES IX THE WAY. “There is some.little difficulty at present in tracing Jobn's whole life here; but we will master all that, ‘These difficuities are not due to our want of ed aud knowledge, but are owing more to change in the names of places and localities and such like. Now, there is Pearl for instance, that used to be called Queen street, an so in lots of cases in the times we are with, Lean setue the enlistment question in Albany and prove the death of John Hyde, and get besides the records of the marriages from 1713 to 1784. We know all about Jobn’s children and William's, and won't have the least difficulty in establishing who weare. Iknew nothing of this thing until about a week ago. Of course I've heard the ladies talk among themselves and bring up their grandmother and Se aunt and all the remainder of the family, but I really took no notice of it. But now that I have gone into the matter, 1 tell you that I am inter- ested. We have it all here before us, and we are going to do everything in our power to help one another. One of the principal claimants is a young lady under twenty. She is represented now by @ lawyer, but we shall all send the same repre- sentatives to England. I was a good deal bothered yesterday by people coming here and taking up my tme saying they thought they were Hydes or had Hydes im their family, but then I suppose I shall have to put up with more of that sort of thing. One gentleman came who may be able to assist, and will, e no doubt, to the best of his ability. Johu Hyde, the artist, of Boston, is one of the genuine family, I think, and there are in Boston many others. 1 ik testimony we req: it is entirely ready— and we feel confident that there can be no mishap— we will despateh our messenger to Englund,” SUIT FOR A MILLION, Saw Francrsco, Cal., July 3, 1879, A suit was commenced to-day in the Twenty-third District Court by John H. Burks, on behalf of him self and all the other Consolidated Virginia stock holders, to recover $1,000,000 from James C, Flood, the Pacific Refinery aud Bullion Exchange and the executors of the estate of W. 8. O'Brien, deceased, This suit has the effect of tying up the esu@e of u'Brien, which was about to listributed, and ia similar in prineiple to those now pending, making four suite now the courts, aggregating Bl. 444,000,