New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-11-09
GENERAL NOTES.

The crew of the Hansa of the second Ger
Polar expedition have returned to Germany. and
Queen Augusta has conferred q bounty upon the
beers. The Hansa foundered and her crew obliged
to winter in iceied. Their sufferings were ter
rible thAt Prof. Buchholz who accompanied them. be
came inyne his return and Is in tho Hamburg
Insane asylum.
Steinmetz was disgraced because in three sew
eral battles no deliberately dverged from tho plan Of
action indicated by Won Moltke. At spicheren Hght.
1t found that the French might have been dslodged
by certain flank movement provided for by the com
mandng general but which Steinmetz refused To make
thus involving the loss Of more than was 40
tually necessary The great fault Of Stenmetz WA his
Partially for bayonet charges, the necessity for which
does not so often occur since have come
AS the only condition upon which he would retain hIs
own command.
Rather funny hydrophObia case has just
been adjudicated In Boston Court. The plaintiff tes
titled that after he bitten by the defendants dog
mad at the time he suffered great anxiety Of mind
because he thought that If at future time the animal
should go mad all persons previously bitten by the dog
would go maj also But tne presiiilng Judge maae sot
damages could he recovered for anxiety on account OF
s9eh noSsooS fop hi, bts s sp ~ b
bad pleading; for the jury gave damages 10 tho amount
OF s262.
An awful fate has Overtaken a poor lad in
Nashua N. II. An INSCRIPTIONS woman whose head tho
frosts of 40 Winters had whitened, kidnapped YOUTH
age Is years. dragged the wretched child 10 the altar
morselessly married him and made him marry her Tho
Juvenile bridegroom thus bamboozled into mstlimony.
that he frightened out OF his senses by thu
fair but fierce lady and that he consented tO the fatal
contract. because he really afraid 10 LAY M" He
has friends, however VINO will labor for the rescue Of
the bgbted boy The Justice VINO tied them Is 60 DC IN
dcted aud 1t might DO well. IL he be single, that 10
should be obliged TO marry the woman himself alter 'S
has been duly made single again.
As the elder Weller once pathetically remark
ed "Hcres go The whole land has been agitatcd On
the Chinese question. Gaslghts have burned blue at tho
narrowing horrors described to the faithful by Denocrinc
politicians about ~ Oyerwhem our fair shores IN .n'
shape OF Chinese immigration. Tho great Angooahoh
Celtic TeutOnic to be utterly oyesansned ana
a. for Biddy her domestic hopes were to be nNroweo
down TO marriage with John Chinamsn starvation fe
those fanatics OF the Hub needless OF the rest OF Tue UNI
verse did undertake to ca down the wrath OF he SSs
and ~ import the heather for honsehou selsioo. NJ
for the startling result CiilShsh WOE h
Palmer the gentleman who some time ago ,.
willingness to supply Chinese labor sltee ths ssto,
ing fact his own signature. lie say
the Chinese continue 10 regard us a. OUTSIDE DdfD.a
las we regard the Maors OF New Zealand, among wno
should not desire 10 settle in less nun oeIs tSs
onies Of fifty more. In VAN ne foPioSchTu -,
uxurics of Boston fshbals in private families; ~ s
he offered an extra ration OF pork Win ine h al
in vain he appealed to personal friendship WILL VIA ~.
Young correspondent OF mne OF pressed uen'NIS s
e9nary All upon IN a on Tantng these
touishing premises, there seems 10 be nothing oI "a
to give in adhesion 10 Mr. Psmcrs view @sn az
as premature" This nightmare over there Is o"'
to breathe again.
The notion has been suggested by dlSnn.
euished lawyer OF Ohio, the bench thar m',
good might be effected by the assemblage OF N'uO"'
Convention OF Lawyers. There Is certainly gre'' "
TINT needs regulation about which lawyers knC" "o
than anybody else. As large proportion OF our es
tors are have BEEN OF the legal profession the P"
is somewhat inclined to hold lawyers In geners ~
sponsblc for the laws Hence II would afford ~ e' -
evidence OF proper scnsitiveness their part 10 %
responsibility II gentlemen OF the bench and bar 'n
meet together in solemn conclaye and consider ""'
these things cannot DO managed better There Is Wv"
area for discussion open 10 such conyocaiion sh
every part OF the field there Is need OF reform eli
tional law the relations OF the states 10 inc o and
iZenshp and NATURALIZATION code OF nausat, :, ina
admiralty, are among the "weighter matters VI !.
law which the grayer seignors might plt0h aiu ant
intellectual gymnastics The differences ~ u,hts
States OF the laws concerning real estate wonen
marriage and divorce, corporations Anu ni,vva ca
might serve the purpose OF developing the spsI ,,r
paces of the legal athletes Of lighter Dud osSight
the fray and emuous Of honors There 10 MOI s INT
est doubt that many brilliant ideas would De su ny
In the heat OF such contest and ~ the prs, n cod
gestons evolved subsequently adopteu. S ,snee
might ensue The arst Constituent Assembly o ,'sr
brought together French lawyers tnah W. .bors
before brought under roof The reshso Oh s no
was n Cons titutlon which provided freedom IN an,
10 feudalism and which, had Its PROVISIONS nov ~ tho
persedod by the frantic mockcry or % h,csings
revolution would have secured 10 France tiio ~ ,sme
of Iberty instead Of the crimes oomnltle az ' oi,
N Convention of Lawyers could point oul ~. NJ our
and assist In fastening the act OF doiseiunvh somo
great cities fron tho misgoyornplont ulaof "u'0