New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1872-10-10

iioldCt 'ltcltN ana ID. tfaH brown, the
candidates for the Presidency and Vic
Presidency, As well as Sumner, Trumbul
Doolittlc, Fenton, Julian, Ashley, Eldridge
English, Brooks, and long list of their mos
brilliant leaders.
Obituary.
DIR. Francis LIeber
Francis Lieber, LID. Professor OF Con
! stitutional History and Political Science il
Columbia Law School, and one of the mos
distinguished American writer's on govern
mcnt and civil law, died of heart disease a
his residence, No. IS East Thirty-fouitI
street, in this city, "Wednesday, October >
at .! o'clock. lie had been only Slightly
indisposcd for few days, and was up and
about the house on Tuesday. His death is
therefore sudden and severe blow to his
family, and its announcement will be read will,
| sorrow by multitudes of scholars on boil,
| continents to whom he was endearcd. The
arrangements for the funeral have not vet
! been perfected, but will be announced soon.
| Dr.. iieber was born at Berlin, March Is.
| 1900, and was accordingly in his I'D year.
He entered the PruSsian army at Is as a vol
untccr. His regiment was stationed near the
frontier, and he took part in the contests of
| Ligny and Waterloo, and was severely
ING to Berlin, he was one Of Il large number
| of young Germans who resisted the reaction
airy tendencies of the Government, and was
| arrested as Liberal. Having procured his
release, he went on with his studies at the
University OF Jena. The Government placed
| obstacles in the way of his advancement. and
at the age Of 81, he proceeded to Greece to
be of what service he could to that country
in its struggle for independence. lie travelled
on foot through Switzerland to Marseilles.
After great privations he rcturnd to Italy, and
was 50 fortunate as to be received into the
family OF the historian Niebuhr, who was
then ambassador from Prussia to that conn
try. Here he spent the years 1922 and 1913.
and his "reminiscences of this period after,
ward published are kind of pcn-and-ink
portrait OF the great historian. During this
time he prepared a Journal Of his expert
enccs IN Greece, which was published at
Lelpsic, and translated into other languages.
Encouraged by promises Of safety, he re-
turned to Germany, but was imprisoned at
kopnict. He spent the period of his inn
prisonmcnt in study, and in writing a collcc-
ton of poems, which, through the influence
OF Medium, were published at Berlin under
the name Of Franz Arnold. Annoyed by con-
tinued prosecutions which seemed not likely
to aha!e, he went to England in 1926. and
IL
by private teaching and by contributing to
German periodicals. In 1897 he came to the
United states and delivered q series of lee
lures ON history and politics in the larger
cities Of the country. True to the bcnt-to-
ward physical training which Iii, German life
had given him. he founded Il swimming school
at Boston, upon the system of Gen. Pfuhl,
whose pupil lie had been at Berlin. While
residing at Boston he edited the " I1ncyclo-
p;edia Americana based upon Brock
haus's " tonycrSations-Lcy 1t filled
IL volumes, and was published ut Philadel-
phia between 1920 and 1893. He also trans
lated 4 French work on the revolution OF
July, 1880, and Fcucrbach's life of Kaspar
IIauscr. De Beaumont and De Tocoucvile's
work on the penitcntiary systems of the
United States, he translated in this city in
1892, adding an introduction and notes. He
was next requested by the Trustees of
Girard College to draw up plan Of :nstruc-
tlon for that institution. 1t WAS published
in 49, and in the same year appeared his
" Letters to gentleman in Germany, written
after trip from Philadelphia to Niagara
which was made setting for series of
anecdotes and philosophical discussions sus-
gcstcd by the journey.
His Nicbuhr "reminiscences appeared in
1885, and in the same year he was called
l. u.
fill the chair of History and Political Econo-
my i'll South Carolina College at Columbia.
in that State. He filled this position in 1858,
when he removed to this city, and was almost
immediately called to similar chair in Column
hia College, which position he filed at the
time Of his death. During his residence in
South Carolina he published large number
of important works, among which were the
following: ~ Manual of Political Ethics"
G. vols, Syo., Boston, 1880 adopted as
text book by Harvard, and commended by
Kent and Story; legal and Political Her
mcncutics, or Principles Of Interpretation
and Construction in Law and Politics :"
Laws Of Property; Essays on Property and
Liberty and Self-Govcrnmcnt," & vols,
l2mo., Philadelphia, 1889 Special branches
of civil policy also largely occupied his atten-
ton, particularly the subject OF penal lessla-
ton, OH which he wrote Essays on Subjects
of Penal Laws and the Pcntcntary System,''
published by the Philadelphia Prison Disci-
pine Society; abuse of the Peniteutiary
Power" published by the Legislature OF New
York "Rcmarbs on Mrs. Fry's Views of
Solitary Confinement in England; Letter
on the Pardoning SYSTEM published by the
Legislature of South Carolina. Anon. his
more notable occasional papers are: Letter
lated into German, and annotated by the
distinguished iurist NIttermaier, who also
superintendent 4 translation of civil Liber-
ty," Il paper on the vocal sounds of Laura
Brdsman, The blind deaf mute, compared
with the elements of phonetic language, pub
lishcd in the Smithsonian Contributions to
knowledge - u series of political articles in
PHiaom's .Nonfhiy on Napoleon and Utah."
and numerous anniversary and other address,
Is. Among his valuable writings, since as
stunning the chair in Columbia College, are
his inaugural address, entitled "Indiyidual
ism and Socialism or Commlinism,n in which
he maintains that these are the two elements
on which human life hinges, and that the
problem is to exclude neither, but to ascer-
tain their true limits and his discourse in
troductory to Il course Of lectures on the
State, III the Common Law School, entitled
1.-The Ancient and the Modern Teacher of
Politics." lie was appointed Arbitrator Of
the Mexican Claims, and held that position
at the time OF his death. lie enjoyed the
friendship Of such leaders Of thought as Kent,
story, Woolsey, and others. His wife and
son, Oscar Montgomery, an eminent scien-
tiS., survive him.-Nstc Fork Tribune.
A Miracle in AlsaCe.
\ recent miracle -monGer i'll the province
of Alsace has come to grief, and nearly lost