The Sun.
London, England, 1869-06-16 00:00:00

OBITUARY.

The death of Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick
Garrett is announced. This distinguished officer
served in the Peninsular War, and was present at all
the great battles. He received two wounds
at the attacks On the forts at Salamanca, on
which occasion-the command of the Light Com-
pany of the Queen's and some Artillery devolved
upon him. On that occasion he was the only sur-
viving. officer of his column. He was wounded again
severely in the Pyrenees. For his services in that
campaign he received the war medal with four clasps.
Ile commanded
brigade in the Fourth Division
before Sebastopol, from November 1854 to October
1855, when he succeeded to the command of that
division, and held it until the final evacuation of the
Crimea. For his services in this war he
received the medal and clasp, was made a K.C.8.,
officer of the Legion of Honour, and received the
Sardinian and Turkish medals, and third-class of the
Medjidie. Ile entered the army in 1811, obtained
his company in ;1814, was promoted to a lieutenant-
colonelcy in 1845 '' to a colonelcy in 1854, became
major-general hi 1858, lieutenant-general in 1860,
and was appointed to the colonelcy of the 43rd Regi-
ment of Light 'lnfantry in the last-mentioned year.
His death took place at Pall Mall on Sunday. He
was about 75 years old.

(From the Anglo-American Times.)

NEW YORK, May 29.

There has been another grain robbery of that
character becoming so common, but which will as-
suredly act most detrimentally to trade. Messrs.
Scott and Memel), of 91, Wall-street, have been
established over a year in storing grain on the
North Pier of the Atlantic Docks, Brooklyn. Last
week they sold and delivered a large quantity, and
that grain had been already sold by its owners, the
purchasers who came to inspect it being shown other
or the same grain, and thus the firm were enabled to
abscond with $20,000, which, however, was not
one-third the loss entailed on the community. The
well-known confectioner, Mr. Van Nostrand, ad-
vanced $30,000, :believing in the honesty of Scott
and Munsen. They occupied six stores, and for the
rent of these he had made himself responsible. Both
Scott and Munsen were young men, hitherto of good
reputation; the former is a married man, and was once
a clerk with Messrs. Laimbeer, Pinto, and Co. ;
the other, an uninnrried man, for years a clerk with
Mr. Greenkaf. As usual, unfortunate speculations
have converted these men into rascals, and thrown
upon soc'ety as a nuisance and a pest two persons
who, but fur the gambling habit now so prevalent
in this city, might have been useful members of the
community ; indeed could not have failed to be so
from the fortunate start they bad obtained. The
stockholders of the Atlantic Bank of Brooklyn
have been equally surprised and dismayed
by finding a, large deficit in the accounts ou
the investigation of its affairs which followed the
death of M r. W. Rushmore. It may be recollected that
this gentleman wa's among those killed by the acci-
dent on the Long Island Railroad. After this most
respectable individual had been mourned over and
buried, Mr. George S. Puffer thought it about time
to look into the accounts, and the further he looked
the more open became his eyes. The idea of the
proprietors was that next July they were to divide
$35,000 of this prosperous bank's earnings, its
capital of $500,000 being of course secure, and a
considerable sum earned. First it was discovered
that half the capital was gone, and the news spread-
ing abroad a run followed, which was met by the
prompt action of the directors—Mr. Puffer, Judge
John A. Lott, the Hon. Henry C. Murphy, Peter G.
collectively
Hunter,tos jut;
Connell, Henry K. Sheldon, B. Valentine, John
dFirveind—who agreed in-
dividually the shock, and
French, and
dWci
carry the bank through. This quieted the threat-
ening storm, and on investigation it was found
that Mr. Rushmore had been investing largely in
real estate and speculating in railway stocks and
bonds. The title deeds were deposited with the
bank, labelled to secure the bank ; but as it, now
stands they belong to Mr. Rushmore's estate. Mr.
Catherwood, contractor of the Newark and Patter-
son Railroad, has largely overdrawn his account,
but he maintains that the security is sufficient, al-
though the directors do not think so. In the pre-
sent stage of the probeedings, it would be unjust
unreservedly to condemn the late Mr. Rushmore,
who may onlihave been guilty of very great impru-
dence and mismanagement. On Tuesday the hun-
dredth anniversary of the old Dutch Church, the
Collegiate North Reformed, was celebrated in ,Ful-
ton-street. The Rev. Thomas de Witt presided,
The church maintains its old Dutch character, the
services being conducted according to the Dutch
Reformed. Its burial yard was once surrounded
by fields, and when it was dedicated it was in the
Dutch language. It is one of the few old buildings
we have in America, and has a history of its own,
for George was our King when first its doors were
opened, and it has seen the royal troops within its
walls when used as as hospital. This was the day
chosen for laying the corner-stone of the new Dutch
church now being erected • at the comer of Fifth-
avenue and *Forty-eighth-street. It will cover
12,000 superficial feet; there will be three spacious
doors on the Fifth-avenue and one on Forty-eighth-
street, and. the tower will be at the corner, 225 feet
high. A third spire, 85 feet high, will be at the
Forty-eighth-streetextremity; the style is the English
Gothic of the 13th century, the cost over $300,000,
to be completed In two years. Last Saturday
night Wallace M'Daniels murdered Thomas Corwin
with an oak stick at the Rosendale House, the
stopping place of the fast travellers on the Central
Avenue, Morrisabia. Corwin's wife was living with
M'Daniels, in whose name the Rosendale House
was kept, and she being well off supplied the funds
for carrying on the business. She and M'Daniels
were returning from the city,and Corwin was at the
house. An altercation occurred, when Corwin, ac-
cording to M‘Danie.ls, raised a chair to strike, and
he picked up the stick, striking Corwin four blows,
the first of which fractured his skull. After the act
the victim was dragged through the bar-room into
the hall, and Sergeant John Savor proceeded on in-
formation of a fight to the house, where be found
M•Daniels standing by the murdered man, when he
was arrested, as was also the woman. It appears
that a long feud had existed between him and Cor-
win about the latter's reputed wife. A German
cooper, named. Philip Kobel, murdered his wife and
little daughter, but his two sons, seven and eleven
years obi, escaped, and gave information to the
police. Kobel and his wife lived on bad terms, as
he believed her to be unfaithful ; and it was but a
short time ago that the wife caused his arrest for

violent assault. lie appears to have shot with a
double-barrelled pistol his wife and little girl when
asleep. This awoke the boys, who fled for their
lives; but Kobel must have again loaded the weapon
and shot himself in the breast, when he left his
room in his shirt, and was arrested, dangerously
wounded, in Norfolk- street, bleeding profusely from
two gunshots. The man was evidently insane, and
there is reason to hope that although desperately
wounded his wife and child may recover. A feud
has existed between some youngsters in Sheriff-
street and Pitt-street—the former led by John and
William Purcell, the latter under Peter Delany.
On Saturday they had an altercation; and on Mon-
day they again met and vowed vengeance when they
next came in contact. John Purcell borrowed a
single-barrelled pistol from the bar-tender of a
saloon to defend himself against Delany's threats,
and meeting on Tuesday night William Kiernan he
had an opportunity of using his weapon, for lie was
assaulted by that man, when he pulled it from his
pocket and shot his assailant through the head, then
ran, but was captured. The prisoners are of a low
grade, two indictments for burglary being pending
against Tracy, who was one of the body- guard of a
city official, once an alderman, and a useful man in
primary elections. Early on Tuesday morning a
party of Spanish sailors were jeered at while mov-
ing along Oak-street singing national songs. They
retorted, and a fight ensued, in which the Spaniards
freely used their sheathed knives, when Wm. Bradley
and Peter Brynes were dangerously wounded. The
steamer Norwalk, off Pierrepont's Stores, Brooklyn,
was run into by a stone-laden scow when o❑ her
way to Prospect Park Races; down she went,
flop ! but fortunately there were no passengers on
board, and the crew could swim. Messrs. Smith,
Lewis, and Wilson lose $40,000, unless they can
recover from the owners of the scow, as the steamer
was not insured. The Cunarder Russia, in charge
of a pilot, sank.the Austrian ship Figlia Maggiore;
the one was just from Liverpool, the other from
Marseilles, when they collided off Bedloe's Island,
and down went the Austrian vessel, submerged to
her lower yards, whereby somebody loses $lBO,OOO.
The Russia, in avoiding a small boat containing a
man and woman, was caught by the ebb, and sank the
ship. The steam-tug William Parkes was getting up
steam at Pier No. 15, foot of Wall-street, when
the boiler burst, and Captain Ramsay found him-
self flying through the air, under an undue pres-
sure of steam, in a wrong direction. I fear he
is seriously hurt, as are Charles Powell and
the steward, and the vessel, which belonged to
Philadelphia, has had all her upper works blown to
pieces. I regret to record several suicides, which are
becoming an ugly feature in our society. They
say that a dull November in London is so depress-
ing that people drown themselves like kittens i❑ the
Thames ; but I incline, after some travel, to the
opinion that a bright, dry, exhilarating climate leads
to more suicides than your dull weather. It isnot the
down-hearted man that lays violent hands on himself
but the excited man, whose fit borders on insanity
while it lasts. We have an exhilarating climate,
combined with all manner of artificial excitement,
and if our gambling mode of business leads to fraud
it leads also too often, to suicide. But these remarks
are general, and in ne degree have reference to re
cent cases. Mr. B. 11. Val Auken was found in
the office of the Durango Silver Mining Company,
of which he was President, lying on the floor in a
pool of blood, with his throat cur, but not deal. The
razor had slipped from his hand and it lay by his side.
Ile is believed to be wealthy, and no motive can be
assigned for the act which has cawed so profound a
sensation in financial circles and among his friends.
It is feared that the wound will prove fatal. Charles
Starr, 27 years of age, superintendent of the Tarry-
town Gasworks, committed suicide the same day.
Last Saturd Ly, at Brooklyn, Thomas Leonard, a
]ad but 17 years old, hanged himself. The accidents
from explosions re-eorted from all parts of the
country show that we as recklessly blow each other
up. The bursting of a locomotive on the New York
Central at Rochester wrecked several cars, of course
making a wreck of the engineer and his assistants.
A number of me❑ at Cincinnati were wounded, one
mortally, by the bursting of the Cincinnati g.►so-
meter. At Mount Holly, New Jersey, a locomo-
tive exploded, killing Platt and Gaskell, and wound-
ing two other men. It is satisfactory to record the
rie Railroad had to pay Mrs. Carliart $3,250 for
killing her husband, besides establishing this right of
a woman, if the railway companies are thus fined for
the damage resulting from their carelessness, parsi-
mony will be found expensi ve,and we will have fewer
accidents. Cen.Robt. knderson, known in connection
with Fort Sumter, sailed in the Hammonia on Tues-
day for Plymouth, as did our Consul for Ham-
burgh, E. Robin on, and Dr. Schuetz, Consul at
Antwerp. The number leaving daily increases, all
the steamers being full. Senator Chandler has
sailed with his wife and daughter, in the hope that
a European tour will benefit his health. Senator
Osborn, of Florida, has left, but so nu.nerous are
the departures of well known persons that I cannot
attempt to particularize. Some West Point gra-
duates met last Saturday in the College, with Pro-
fessor Webster in the chair, and General Webb, as
Secretary, to organize for social purposes, and a
committee was elected to frame a Constitution.
The Prospect Park races came off this week. This
is the Brooklyn meeting, and it was well attended.
Red Rover was the favourite in the trotting sweep-
stakes, mile heats,- in harness. His time was 2.44
Jeremiah Dacey shot John Mullady during a
quarrel in a Brooklyn cigar store in llicks-street
on Wednesday, and his victim died on Thursday.
James S. Clarke, an actor of Tammany Theatre,
has been charged with and arrested for stealing a
Chickering piano. On Fifth-avenue a kerosene
lamp exploded, with it is feared fatal injury to Mrs.
Franica Blaum, and burnt her two children. Last
Wednesday a tornado occurred between 5 and 6
p.m., enveloping the city in dust, but this was
laid by the rain immediately following. It had been
hot and sultry, but it immediately became cool.
The Comptroller of New York accepted on Wed-
nesday proposals for $1,000,000 street opening and
improvement bonds. The New York Life Insur-
ance Company takes $568,500 at 101.16. Henry
Clews and Co., $200,000, at 101.50 ; the New York
Savings Bank $75,000, and the remainder by vari-
ous individuals, at rates ranging from 103.25 to 105.
A ridiculous story was in circulation that Mr. A.
T. Stewart wanted to avail himself of his place as
Commissioner on the site of the new Post-office, to
do a good stroke of business by selling his store for
the purpose, as if the most profitable business in
the world was thus to be disposed of advanta-
geously. Mons. Chevalier makes to-day his first
ascent in his balloon from Landmann's Park
Messrs. Peter B. Sweeney, Hutchings, and Douglas
Taylor have gone, and Judge Michael Connolly
is going, to Europe. Harry Genet has retired from
political life, as Tammany Hall does not approve of
his way of making money. Mr. J. Townsend Con-
nolly, the son of the Comptroller, was married on
Thursday to Miss Adrienne N. Oxnard, of Pitts-
burg. At Trinity Chapel, on Wednesday, Miss
Clara Jaffray, the daughter of the millionaire,
was married to an Englishman named Ruse ;
a grand reception was afterwards given at the
home of the bride, on Second Avenue. Small-
pox is on the increase, I fear, and it is attributed to
the emigrant vessels. During the voyage of the Leo-
catlia, from Bremen, eight deaths are said to have
occurred, and one in a vessel from liamburgh.
Some steamers have been detained in the lower
bay in quarantine on account of small-pox, chiefly
among Swedes. The Herald is angry with the health
officers, and desires to have the head of the depart-
ment removed. The Charles 11. Marshall was
launched on Wednesday from Webb's yard, in the
presence of a large concourse of spectators. Mrs.
Tenney, widow of Professor Tenney, has succeeded
to the post held by her late husband as librarian of
this State. Captain W. Taylor, with the ship Le tus,
as well as the ship Margaret, both of Aberdeen,
with all hands, were lost at Caribou Island, off
Anticosti, with the exception of the mate, who has
just arrived at New York.

WASHINGTON, May 28.

Perry Fuller arrived last Saturday to answer the
charges of fraud brought against him by a spe-
cial Treasury agent. He has warned the papers in
New Orleans which attacked his administration of
the Custom house that on his return he will re-

quire them to substantiate their assertions or re-
tract them. General Dyer has by order returned
to his duty as Chief of Ordnance; but though the
Court of Inquiry has acquitted him of the charges,
considering that there was no evidence to go before
a court-martial, yet his opponents, beaded by Nor-
man Wiatd, one of the chief witnesses against him,
intend to br-ing the matter before Congress when it
meets. The Judge-Advocate-General received a
letter from Mr. Wiard commenting in no measured
terms on the proceedings, asserting a bias on the
part of the officers against him and in favour of
General Dyer. Cornell Jewett had an interview
with the President on Monday touching the rela-
tions between England and the Republic. . During
the Avar he was in England, and had many inter-
views with leading statesmen there on the subject,
more especially with Mr. Layard, then Under Sec-
reary for Foreign Affairs. Ile desited that jus-
t;ce might be done to England, as he could
positively assert that the wish of the Govern-
ment was to maintain neutrality, and avoid parti-
cipation in the strife. While discussing the subject
Mr. Jewett remarked on the popular belief that Mr.
Motley had proceeded to London without instruc-
tions, whereon the President said that instructions
had been given of which the public knew nothing.
Mr. Thornton bad an interview with Secretary Fish
regarding the Quaker City, which he represented to
be of English ownership, and unjustly and oppres-
sively detained in New York on the plea that she
was chartered by the Cubans. After some inves-
tigation action was stopped by learning that the
New York Courts had issued a libel on the vessel.
Colonel Selleck, on behalf of the Executive Com-
mittee of the Gettysburgh Monument Association,
has secured from the Secretary of War tent accom-
modation for 4,000 persons, to be erected at Gettys-
burg on the 4th of July, so as to help in housing
the visitors on that anniversary. Thirty supernu-
merary officers of the 17th and 44th Regiments
have been sent to Virginia as officers of registra-
tion, whereby the Treasury saves the salaries which
would be paid otherwise to civilians. General and
Mrs. Grant, accompanied by a large party, will
leave next Thursday in the Tallapoosa, to reach
Annapolis in time for the Grand Ball which
will take place next Friday evening. Baron
Watterstedt, Minister from Sweden and Nor-
way, is to go home for the benefit of his health ;
he is now atAnnapolis. The ball to come off there on
Friday is to be given by the officers and midshipmen
of the Naval Academy. Admiral Porter gave up
the superintendency of that institution on accept-
ing his present position, and this is a farewell enter-
tainment to Mrs. Porter. Generals Grant and
Sherman, Secretary Borie, and other distinguished
persons will attend. Mr. S. B. Ruggles his been
nominated by the President as delegate to the In-
ternational Statistical Congress at the Hague. The
Hon. B. F. Wade has not yet replied to the offer of
director of the Pacific Railroad. A Northern route
is to be explored, and the party is now being orga-
nized to pass from Lake Superior to Puget's Sound.
Mr.-Caufield, as agent of the Northern Pacific Rail-
road Company, asked General Sherman for a mili-
tary escort to protect the party while mapping out
the course. 'The Indian Commission met on Wed-
nesday to consider how best to dispose of the
$2,000,000 allowed by Congress to forward the in-
terests of the Indians. Colonel Parker was present
yesterday, but not at the first meeting. Mr. Arney,
formerly Governor and Indian Agent in New Mexico,
thinks all Indian children, from 10 to 16, should be
placed in the industrial schools or the reservations.
The legal status of the Indians, the advisability of
making treaties with them, the cLange in the laws
relating to the purchase of provisions, and the pay-
ment of annuities are being discussed ; $25,000 are
to he set aside for the expenses of the Commission.
There has been a great dinner over Mr. Corcoran's
gift, and I say over, for it was given at Georgetown
Heights, in the house of Henry D. Cooke, one of
the trustees. With the exception of General Raw-
lins, who is, I fear, really ill, so much so indeed
that he may have to retire, all the Secretaries were
present at the banquet ; as were also the President,
General Sherman, the lion. Charles SuMner, Pro-
fessor Henry, of the Smithsonian Institute, Quar-
termaster-General Meigs, and Mr. J. W. Forney.
Colonel T. P. Ochiltree, once editor of the Houston
Telegraph, and afterwards a gallant though a rebel
officer, and lastly a repentant, reconstructed, and
loyal Southerner, is to get the Ttxas supervisorship
of Internal Revenue. Mr. Reverdy Johnson's
household was sold yesterday in his house on Ver-
mont-avenue, without reserve, and the house, as I
before informed you, has been bought by Mr.
Corcoran.

Slll,—lf an American were to look through the
address books at the various Continental banking-
houses, he might be led to think that the greater
part of the military forces of his country were
engaged in travelling over Europe. He might also
imagine that the New York SESOSTI: IS had commenced
already the reformation of America, by sending a
large delegation of females in the service of Mars.
At least, be would find the initials U.S.A. after the
name, and upon the baggage, of nearly all his
country people; and he might not be aware of the
ridiculous mistake that is so frequently made with
regard to their meaning. U.S.A. means nothing
else than United States Army, and is generally used
throughout the military branch of our Government
as the abbreviation for the same. One finds it
stamped upon army goods and equipments ; it is
also printed in official documents. Those who
are members of the army usually place it after
their names ; and they only can lawfully use
these letters.. When, therefore, Americans go
trailing over Europe with the army mark upon their
baggage, they both show_.their ignorance regarding
a subject on which they ought to be informed, and
also make themselves invariably an object of ridi-
cule to those who have the right to use U.S.A.
If the New Yorker or South Carolinian imagines
that the stranger will be at a loss in what country to
locate his little city or State, he might enlighten
him by writing U.S. of A., but not U.S.A. It is
the little word " of " which distinguishes between
the country and the army. But even this would be
laughed at by foreigners as a provincialism. A
Parisian would think the idea of writing the name
of France after that of his city ridiculous. An
Englishman never writes London, England; a Ger-
man, Heidelberg, Baden; an Italian, Naples, Italy;
or an Egyptian, Cairo, Egypt. Surely our large
cities and States are well enough known to render
the addition of United States of America unneces-
sary. It is purely an Americanism, and the sooner
we are rid of it the sooner will there be one subject
less regarding which foreigners can smile. For
my own part, I have always found that giving the
name of my State was sufficient to mark me as an
American, and I have no desire to become ac-
quainted with an IGxortamus who locates Minne-
sota in any country but the right one.

A correspondent raises Mr. Forster's query, "Why
did not the English Government at the outset of
the whole affair issue a proclamation denouncing
all who should engage in fitting out vessels, man-
ning and sailing than ou the high seas, who if detected
or caught should be tried and punished as pirates ?"
lie adds that Lord Palmerston had established such
a precedent in 184 G or 1847 when the boundary
question ran highbetween Englandand America, and
George Bancroft was United States Minister. A
foolish gunmaker on Tower-hill then stuck a notice
in his window, something to this effect—" Antici-
pated war with America ; a vessel sailing under
Mexican colours will ship effective seamen ; good
pay and chances." An AmeriCan happening to see
it, brought the circumstance to the notice of his
Minister ; and our correspondent believes that about
the month of July or August of that year a proclama-
tion appeared in the Times and other papers warn-
ing all taking an interest in such matters to beware,
for if caught they would be punished as pirates.
There would be little difficulty, he believes, in look-
ing up this proclamation, and in verifying the facts.
Our correspondent does not perceive that the Ala-
bama and other cruisers were commissioned ships
as alleged, the property of a belligerent Govern-
ment. The Richmond Government, being recog-
nized as belligerent, once their vessels fully coin..
missioned got fairly to sea, they could not be treated
as pirates like his instance wherein the vessel
would begin to capture and destroy on her own

account. The Queen's proclamation denounced
all interference, warning her subjects to abstain
from all hostile acts against either belligerent;
every act infringed that Proclamation, which
enabled the Confederates to make a naval base of
England. Whether England ought, at every
hazard, to have declared the Alabama a ship
outside all law, we do not pretend to say ;
but it may be doubted whether, if she had beet'
captured by a Uninn vessel instead of sunk, her
crew could have been treated as pirates. This was
certainly not the case with any vessel armed and
commissioned in a Confederate port. The peculiar
character of the Alabama and one or two others
was, that they had never entered the harbour of a
country whose flag they flew, and this is the dan-
gerous point, and the ruinous preceient established
if it stands against England. But, although a most
injurious one for England, it would bea very bad one
for the United States, and the sooner itcan be oblite-
rated the better,and the international law establisLed
that no ship of war can be recognized as belonging
to a Power which is not commissioned in a port of
that Power. It is a pity that the United States did
not join in the Declaration of Paris, fur then the
illegal character of such vessels would have bleu
placed beyond all doubt.

" A Regular Subscriber" asks, " Is there any
treaty between England and America by which the
English Government can legally claim in America
a British subject guilty of fraud committed in this
country ?"

[Certainly; the Extradition Treaty provides for
the surrender of criminals. A curious point was
raised during the Canadian rebellion, as narrated in
the letters of Sir Francis Head. At'Kenzie, a Bri-
tish subject, committed robbery, arson, and, we be-
lieve, murder, and fled to the United States. Under
this Treaty, then just brought into force, Sir Francis
demanded his person, but Air. Marcey, the Governor
of New York, acting under the advice of the At-
torney-General of that State, declined to comply'
on the plea that, although guilty of these crimes,
his acts were those of rebellion, and therefore he Wag
a political offender. Sir Francis argues that any
thief might rob a bank with a grcea banner or
something in his hand, and calling this rebellion on
reaching foreign territory escape the consequences of
his crime. Orsini, for instance, in the atrocious at-
tempt to murder Napoleon, could he have crossed
the frontier of France, might have got off on such
a plea ; and even John Wilkes Booth might bit"
raised it on escaping into Canada when his person
was demanded. British subjects accused of tunrder.
and felony, who are not able to raise the political
plea, will be arrested in America, as was Muller,
and handed over to English officers of justice.--
Ed. A.A.T.]

BUDGET OF PERSONAL ITEMS.—CoI. Freyre, the
new Peruvian Minister to the United States, arrived by
the Arizona, May 25, at New York, and went to the Cl -
re.ndon Hotel. Senor Garcia y Garcia, late Peruvian Mi-
nster, was also at the Clarendon.—The Hon. Samuel Shel-
labarger, Minister to Portugal, arrived in Europe by the
Australasian.—The Hon. Wm. A. Richardson, Assistant-
Secretary of the Treasury, arrived at New York, 311,9 25'
from Washington, and left for Boston the same evening.--
Lieut.-Gen. Phil. Sheridan and John C. Breckenridge were
in Cincinnati, May 25.—Ex-Secretary Seward arrived at
New York from Philadelphia, May 25, and Vat in the af-
ternoon by the Hudson River Railroad to visit his sou, Mr'
Frederick W. Seward.—Professor Blaser of Berlin has
completed the model for a colossal bust of Alexander von
Humboldt for a committee in New York. It has been
sent to Hanover to be cast in bronze under the superin-
tendence of Howaldt. --The naturalist James IlePburn
died at Victoria, British Columbia, on the 15th of
Mr. James M. Mason reluened to his home, Winchester,
Virginia, on the 15th of May, after many years' absence,
and was met at the railway station by numerous citizens.
—Major-General George H. Thomas arrived in New York,
May 22, from West Point, and went to Washington in the
evening, whence he goes to California by the Pacific Rail-
road, to assume command of th Department of the Pacific.
—The Hon. F. W. Seward, son of ex-Secretary Seward,
and lato Assistant Secretary of State, has purchased 3
place at Irvington, and proposes to reside in it permanently.
—The Hon. John Worth, United States Consul at the
Sandwich Islands, arrived at New York, May 23, by the
first train that came home direct through from San Fran-
cisco.—General M'Clellan contemplated purchasing a home
in the neighbourhood of Morristown.--Mr. M'Ettrick,
May 25, accomplished the feat of walking in the Boston
Skating Rink one hundred miles within twenty-four hours,
winning a purse of $350. This time, including rests, wag
23 hours, 42 minutes, and 45 seconds.—Alfred
died on May 21, at West Point. He was one of the or-
ganizers of the Free Trade League, and for many years at
the head of the Loudon and Liverpool Insurance Com-
pany. The Executive Committee of the Free Trade
League held a meeting on the afternoon of the funeral to
pay a tribute of respect to his memory.—General Grant's
house, in Quincy, Illinois, was lately entered and robbed'
The General is credited with the epigrammatic remarkthat
"office-seeking was fast becoming one of the industries of
America." Ex-President Johnson meditates another
speech at Clarksville, Tenn., Saturday, May 29.—E1-
Senator Morrill is named as the probable candidate
for Governor of the " Temperance party" in Maine'
°f
General Dulce, of Cuba, is so dangerously
ill
cancer, that he is hourly expected to die.— Jos. liPLeali,°'
the firm of Grant and M'Lean, leather dealers, Illinois,
has been appointed collector of Customs in Chicago:-
Secretary Seward owns the horses and carriage wineh
were the property of President Lincoln during his ad of
nistration. They occasionally appear in the streets o
Auburn, and Mr. Lincoln's coachman still holds the
reins.—Stedman, the poet, is now a broker, and h. s!
an office at 48, Broad-street, New York.—Speaker
passed through New York, May 28, on his way fr°
A 0. it
Maine to Washington.—S. S. Lewis, formerly tb3
the Cunard Steamship Company, at Boston, died in s,
city on Thursday night, May 27.—Alexander licdille
formerly President of the Old Colony Railroad, died at
l
his residence in Kingston, Mass., May 27.—Major-Genera
Thomas L. Crittenden, Colonel of the lith fantr Y
arrived, May 28, at Richmond, Virginia, eight days
California.—Young Talbot, who attempted to murder 1:t
Scribner, was buried at Forest Hill Cemetery,
Boston, his native town, May 15.—Mr. John -"u-- .s
ra,
Young, late managing editor of the New York; Tribune,
i'l a
it is said, coming to Europe as Messrs. Jay o°°ke atbo
Co.'s financial agent.—Charles W. Eliot has accepted .on
Presidency of Harvard College, and resigned his Ps,' to
ol the Board of Overseers.—Miss Kellogg is sh?rt‘
take a farewell benefit at the Academy of Music in
York.—A. A. Folsom, superintendent of the Boston
an
Providence Railroad, has been tendered the
dency of the Atlantic and Great Western by the Ij.ringi
which has leased it.—Hon. Ebenezer D. Bassett, VIII Ir.
States Minister at Hayti, has had a reception at New
rte"
—Mr. Motley paid a visit to Chatham with a party of Jan
rary friends, and was entertained by General Free 8e
Murray, the commanding officer, on Wednesday.
„jil
witnessed. the trooping of the colours by the
Regiment, and the gymnastic exercises of the garrison•ife
The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle says that Mrs. Adkins,
superin_tau.o
of the State Senator recently assassinated, has been
rested on the charge of being concerned in the murder of bees
husband.—Prcfessor Young, of Dartmouth College, ha
~.
been engaged by the Nautical Almanac Office to assist
be
ton'
taking observations of the coming sun eclipse, and wdl,
stationed at Des Moines, lowa.—Speculation leads to Inen"t
results than ruin, fraud, and suicide ; for two Prninli'
operators in the New York Gold Room had a fight aP
inter-
might have damaged each other had not friends
on
fered.—The General Assembly of Rhode Island met
Tuesday, May 25. Berry T. Eames of Providence was
elected Speaker of the House, and J. M. Addeman war
Charles P. Robinson, clerks. Sumner V. Sherman vi
elected clerk of the Senate. The votes for gen°l.3_
officers were counted, and the usual proclarnat,tioah_
made. Governor Padleford took his seat as pc'.
ing officer of the Senate, Ex-Governor Burnside re
tiring. Newport is getting thronged with visitors:— Genre-
tiring.
Joseph E. Johnston is named as a candidate
Mayor of Savannah.—Mr. Booth, the tragedian, PlaYe.,.
lago at the Matinee on May 29, and then retired from
stage, at least for a time.—The sailors indicted fo beenl
murder of J. W. Jones, mate of the Tava 11., haVs
discharged.

BIRTHS.
ArsTr,t—On the 14th inst., at Bickley, Kent, Mrs. NV.•
Austin, of a sen.
11orE—On the 15th inst., the Lady Ida Hope, of 7, Caven-
dish-square, of a daughter.
Al A RRIAG ES.
BLAGRAVE —THORNTON—On the 12th inst., at Tilehu
J. IL Illagrave, Esqof 01 t•ks to Agges'
aco Park, Jet ,
widow of the late George Smith Thornton, of Marsden'
hill, Herts.
MN-I'OUL —GARBANATI —On the 12th inst., at St. Jaines'si,
Piccadilly, F. Adrian, youngest son of Alex. N. ltiutou
Esq., of 24, Great Percy-street, to Frances AfArianne,
eldest daughter of Paul C. Garbanati, Esq, of 3(1, Glass-
house-street. ores;

DEATHS.
CROSSLEY —On the 13th inst., at Broad Carr House, Elland,
near Halifax, Wilkinson Crossley, Esq., aged 42.
lito—O ncittl3,ealg4ed 14th
3inGs.t., Mr. Geo. King, of 50, Gresham-
street,LAFONE—On the 14th inst., at Hastings, Alexander Ross
Lafone, Esq., of Thingwall Hall, Cheshire, aged 61.

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Wednesday, June 16, 18E2.