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The New York herald., 1876-01-24
LECTURES, MEETINGS AND BALLS

City congregations will meet at the Jewish Temple
Emanuel tonight 70 plan the establishment Of
Hebrew college
socation OF thus city will be celebrated Association
Hall this evening
Al chickerns Hall to night MIRA lena Fay Pierce will
lecture.
Dr. John Lord lectures on 'Leo the Great" at Asso-
citation Hall this morning.
The grand promenade ball Of the 'Big Six" will
place tonight at Beethoven Hall
The Centennial lecture course VIII be continued this
evening Cooper Union.
Tho Bachelor Clubs nth season will be celebrated at
Fcrrero's TO night
Company 4 Twenty.second regiment, NGSNY,
give reception this evening a. Lexington Avenue
Tne geological section OF the New York Academy OF
Sciences viii meet this evening al No. CA Madison
The second reception OF the Young Mems Charity
Tuesday.
Tomorrow evening Dr. RobInson's lecture on
"London and Westminster Abbey" will be heard in
the church corner Madison avenue and Fuiy.third
street
The Burns festival and annual ball win take place at
Ferrero'e Assembly Rooms on Tuesday
Tho ladies interested In the Washington Irving honu-
ment fund will meet At the Windsor Hotel TO morrow
The depostors Of the German Uptown Savings
Bank will meet tomorrow at Turtle Bay Hall
The Seventy -nrst regiment reception will occur at
the armory on Tuesday evening
On Wednesday the Commissioners OF Rapid Transit
On Thursday morning the Fenian Convention will DO
| held a. Military Hail.
Or. Robinson will lecture on "London and the
Tower" IN the church corner Of Madison avenue and
The Anti-Tammanv County Convention viii orrans
| ize next Friday
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GERMAN IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS

To rHK EDITOR HERALD:-
Day after day we have searched your paper in vain
for one word regard 10 the German question In the
Board OF Education We must say never expected
this Of your paper you pretend to be impartial and
work for the benefit OF the people Any other Eng
sh paper entertans too much hate against the Ger
mans for to expect a friendly word from them but
the, host Of Germans who read the HERALD always
thought you to be impartial In one of the HERALDs
articles OF last year entitled our Public Schools" you
wanted everything taught in the schools that could be
had for money-viz, German, French, music, draw
ing &c Have you entirely forgotten thsi Or do you
sympathize with Messrs Baker, West Wood and
others, who pale with anger at the mere sight OF
German any thing that Is German9 The study OF
German was introduced in the public schools for the
following reasone
FSrst-To draw into the public schools the great
number OF German children who attended private
schools.
Second-To teach those children OF the poorer class
speak at home, and BY doing this naturally to improve
their English speech.
Th.rd1To give every child who wants TO study Ger
man an opportunity TO do this without being Obliged
II Is mistake Il people think tho Germans will ever
abandon their language In spite Of all the Vests and
Bakers 10 creation they will speak their language a
hundred years from nov and yet be good American
citizens; perhaps Just as good as some who look
with contempt az those who understand German
well as English. II Is mistake 70 limit the German
10 the two highest classes This viii have the
ouenco that thousands OF children who left private
school will return 10 these Institutions Ifyou would
take the trouble TO inquire into the standing OF
German. American schools you would ind that many
are almost ruined from their small attendance
German Was introduced in public schools
SEVERAL GERMAN READERS
NEW YoRK. Jan. Il. lS16
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Is oP1oUE" AN ORIGINAL PLAY?
HONOR TO WHOM HONOR I

HONOR TO WHOM HONOR Is DUE.
To THE EDITOR oY HERALD:-
Last evening, in company with couple Of friends.
visited the Fifth Avenue Theatre for the purpose OF
seeing the 'American drama" 'Piquo." had felt an
amount Of curiosity 10 witness tho play perhaps In
creased by tho rumor that Mr.. Daily had commenced
suit against some alleged sanderer 10 bis author
ship Of that original % production What was my as
tonshment the play progressed TO recognize speech
after speech after scene and situation afer stu
atiou as being bodily taken from Florence Marryats
ndrs Ross church, clever novel Of "Her Lord and
MASTER Mr. Augustn Daily II Is we'll known, Is par
ticularly clever at aoaptation, but I think ho
has been guilty OF about the checklist piece
Of literary thieving which has faea under
nv observation for many year Not content with
boldly taking ano.hers o.@ln WORK ana calling his
rob the original characters Of their proper names and
has substituted his 1msy counterfcits. think this
most contemplate lack OF literary courtesy say tho
least II any Of the many who have witnessed the
plAv OF "Piquen doubts that that ''origna fl playn
ton just let him or her read "er Lord and Master
and compare with tho three first actA do not think
that In those three acts thero s speech which Is
not taken bodily from the novel, Mr.. Daly's t>orgina
play" differs nom the novel in this respect that tho
three acts In quesuonthat H. the portion OF the play
which belongs 70 Florence harryat-is artistic dra-
matte and renncd The two last acts are--what shall
call them "a sort OF sero-comic Charley Ross hodge
podge and probably contain the "orignaln elements
Il has taken "many months" 70 prepare Mr. Day's
play II am not mistaken the novel only pub
shed by Harpers during the last part OF last summer
The scenes OF "Her Lord and haster are laid In Lon.
don and Scotland but Mr.. DAILY has obgingy changed
them 10 America and has kindly rcchrstened the
heroine from Lady Ethel Carr 20 Mabel Renfrew
Colonel cambridge has become, IN the nImbe fingers
OF Original playwright" Captain Arthur Standish
United States Navy and Maggie Henderson has changed
her namo TO Mary Standish. Mrs. Bainbridge Aunt
Lizxie has been prestoed into Aunt Dorothy, &C. &c
Now there h earthly objection 10 honest dramatlza
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ton providing the writer OF the novel does reserve
that right and / think Mr.. DAILY might RESI-
satisfied with that which is justly his due; but 70 take
page after page OF popular novel, simply change tho
names the characters string together its incidentG
and situations and claim the authorship Of play
constructed by such a method, Is piece OF brazen
faced audacity. | think Mr. Dalys glory would be
quite as bright II the play bills announced, Drama
tized from Florence Marryats novel OF Her Lord and
Master This would simply be literary courtesy, 10
say the least and certainly would earn deserved ro
spect for the adapter the time doing only JUS
tive TO clever and distinguished authoress Very
sincerelv YOURS ROSE RAYLAND
NEW loKK Jan % 1876.
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CUPREME CoURT-IN THE MATTER OF THE Pc
- tition Of the New York Elevated Railroad Company
The undersigned Commissioners appointed under aud by
virtue OF orders made In the above matter at the rera
Term Of the Court OF the state Of New York held
the First department. the Court House. in the
New York the LIST day Of December 1873 and tho
other the 18th day Of January 1876 the pro-
visions Of chapter COG OF tho Laws OF 1873 determine
whether the railway referred 20 in said orders ought be
constructed and by the New York Elevated Rail-
road Company over through and along the streets and
referred to In said orders and specified in the pe
upon which said orders made which petition
filed in the Office of the Clerk OF the City and County oNew
York the LIST day OF December 1875 do hereby appoint
the 26th day q January instant II o'clock In the fore
noon the City Hail. In the city Of New York. the
and place when and where they will hear all parties In
terested in said matter.
Dated NEw YORK, JAN Is, 1875
D. H. PALMER,
EVERETT Z. WHEELER
4. u LAURENCE.
Commissioners.
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LEGAL NOTICEs.
LEGAL NOTICES.
TN THE CIRCUIT COURT or THE UNITED STATES
for the Southern District Of Ilinois, January Term
1876.
Abram B. Baylis, Trustee. !
rhe Palm T.,rroln ana D.ca,rr CHANGER
Railroad CnmnnnY At nj

Abram B. Baylis, Trustee.
The Pekin Lincoln and Decatur Sn0nee'y
Railroad Company ct al, d.
To BONDHoLDERs SAID PEKix, LINCOLN AND De-
cATUR RAILROAD COMPANY
In Of the Court rendered the
above entitled cause the 4th day OF January A. d. 1876
you aud each hereby notified produce
Office In the city OF Springfield, ILL., within forty
this date the purpose OF enabling
the accordance with the Of the above
toned decree all bonds held by and ssued by the said
Pekn Lincoln and Decatur Railroad Company" Dated
Springfield, Ill, this 4th day of January, 1876; -
Master In Chancery.
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exhibition. free the Kurz Gallery 23d st. and
Madison square, will remain there until the evening Of
sale when they VIII be removed TO Association Hall 23d 81
and 18th the large hall having been kindly placed the
disposal OF the Artists Fund by the President the Young
Mems Christian Association,
Seats win be reserved for ladies' Parties unable attend
conhde their orders 10 the Board of Control TO ROB
ERT SOMERVILLB, Auctoneer
The sale win take place at S p NJ
on TUESDAY, the 25th inst
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FINE ARTS.
A RTIsT's FUND

ETIsrs FUND
The Sixteenth Annual Sale Paintings contributed in aid
Of the Fund by the members
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NEWS OF THE WEEK.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.


Instead Of realizing the recently entertained
hope Of uniting in one national confederation
the prospect now ia that the little republics Of
Central America viii soon get into general
war. Hoedlitiee seem Inevitable between
Gsutemala and Salvador, and at the same time
Costa Rca and Nicaragua are quarTeling. ,r'
The British revenue for the financial year
ending April I was sss5, 65s, 465. which is e.
5SS, 465 above the estimates, and Ell, O49, 100
more than last year. The actual expenditures
of the financial year were $S65, 1874, $50. lrro.
A billiard match for the three-ball champion
ship Of the world was played at Paris, on the
3lst Of March between Vgneaux, Of France.
and Sexton, of America, and was won by the
Frenchman by score of GOO to 459.
A London dispatch says Home Secretary
Cross has, at q private conference, given the
Home-rule members of Parliament tacitly to
understand that, in view OF their support OF
the Royal-titles bill, all Fcn;an prisoners, in
Guiding military ones condemned by court
martial, win be released. O'Meagher and Con-
don. it is thought, will be released in any event.
The city of Matamoras, Mexico, surrendered
to the revolutionists, under Gen. Diaz, on the
morning of April 2. In the assault preceding
the surrender, eight men we're killed and about
twice that many wounded 1t is stated that
Gen. Toledo, second in command Of the Mexi-
can forces sold ous to the enemy, and there
mainder of the troops, seeing the hopelessness
of further defense, refused to prolong the con-
test.
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Tho kidnapped man Blair, who was run OF
to England from Nebraska few months since
by detectives, on false charge of fraud, insti-
gated by English enemies, has been released
by the British authorities and is now ON his
way back to his western hcme and family. 2h
An early return of the almost forgotten time
when the jingle Of silver coin was heard in the
land is promised in the passage by the House
Of Representatives at Washington Of the 80
called Silver bill. 1t provides for the issuance
OF subsidiary coins of the denominations Of ten,
twenty, twenty-five and fifty cents, in amount
sufficient to redeem and replace the present
fractional currency, and makes silver coins OF
81 legal tender in sums of $50, and lesser
coins in sums Of S25. a s,y -nof geff
1t having come to the knowledge of the
Washington authorities that American resi-
dents Of Mstamoras were being subject to un-
just exactions and expressions in the shape of
forced loans for the defense of the city against
the revolutionists, President Grant has directed
the military on the Rio Grsnde to offer all the
protection in their power to Americans residing
on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande.
1no idiBoet conuactiou VI tno currency eVeI
known in any one month under the provisions
Of the Banking act OF June 20, 1874, occurred
during the month OF March just closed. The
deposit Of g. eenbacks by national banks for
the withdrawal of bonds and the surrender of
circulation amounted to 50, 304, 900. Treasurer
New estimates that, during the remaining nine
months of the year 1876, the contraction of the
currency from this cause will be over $780,
0Oo, 600. iuu $3.50 .nIE paols allr 1
Paramount, W. Va, has been visited by dis
astrous fire. TWENTY-FIVE buildings were de-
stroyed, involving pecuniary loss Of S125, 900.
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POLITICAL POINTS

Republican State conventions were held in
Pennsylvania, Ohio and Vermont on the 29th
ult In the first nsmed State the delegates to
the National convention were instructed for
Gov Har,rsnft Ohio declared for Gov. Hayes,
while the Vermont delegation goes to Cincin-
matt unhampered, houeh they are understood
TO have strong leaning toward Blaine or
Bristow. The Pennsylvania platform is silent
on the fnaucisl question. and calls for high
err tariff. The Ohio resolutions favor "a tariff
for revenue, With incidental protection to
American industry, recognize gold as the true
standard Of values, and the only steady and
safe basis for q circulating medium and declare
that the policy Of finance should be steadily
pursued which, without unnecessary injury TO
business and trade, viii ultimately equalize the
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WASHINGTON NOTES.

The President has had severe attack of
plurlsy. He was confined to his room three or
four days but Is now attending TO business as
usual. h
The Committee on Expenditures in the War
department have stumbled upon another sensa-
tonal exposure. In the examination of a de-
tective named Bel on the subject Of post
trsderships, the committee discovered that he
had story to tell on another subject, He
claims to have been hired by Col. Babcocl,
on the pension Office pay-rolls as a clerk. to
pu'lci4 documents and otherwise cripple Col
Dyer in the prosecution of the Dabcock case At
81 LOUIS that he did surrepsitiously gain
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2sth ~ Of APRIL 1879, the sum Of 81 100: on or
xbo the lea day q June, 1878, the SUM OF 500
u 81 ZOO; "a 8 80 the 22d day OF January,
1874, the sun q 1901; ON or about the 10th day
81 Aprl, 1874 the 9um Of 8, 500; on or about
1he 5th day Il 0c1ober, 1874, the sum OF
!, e; on OF obput - oath day Of May, 1878,
The mn Of s1,60; a Of about the 18th day OF No
vee'ber 1875, the en- Of $3.50; all of which acts
and dongs were While said Belknap was Secretary
Of War OF the United States, rs aforesaid, and
were q high misdemeamor In said office, and the
House Vt Representatives, by protection saving
TO themselves the liberty Of exhibiting at any time
hereafter any furthur articles Of accusation or i'm
parchment against said Wm- w. Beltnap, late Sec
rotary Of War Of the United States and also OF reply
ing TO his which he shall mako unto the arti
cles herein preferred against INN, and oferpg proof
TO the same and every part thereof snd every other
article, accusat on, or impeachment which shall De
exhibited by them as the shall require. do de-
mand that said VIM. W. Belknap may be put to an
swer the high crimes and misdemeaners In once
herein charged againet him and that such proceed
ings, examinations, trials, and judgments may be
thereupon had and given may be agreeable TO law
and justice.
balo. to conduct the impeachment exhibited against
VIM. W. Belknap, late Secretary OF War OF the
United States. -ii 'e.
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acoess to certain papers In Dyes's office and
report the substance Of their contcnts Z Bah
cock md that Levi = Iuckey and Walking
een hwysr need Radly we eoenizsnt Of
>hs pot. Baboock and rucksy depy the hole
story
Oh. D. p. Dyer. the Distriot Attorney 4 St.
Louis was examined By The Committee on War
Department Expenditures on the LIST inst, In
reference to the testimony of @. 8. Bell. He
stated that no first met Bell at st. Louis last
fall, whittier he had gone ostensibly to seek
evidence for the Government, and that his tes-
timony, 80 far ~ 1t related to him Oyer) was
correct that the interview between them oc-
CURED precisely rs related by Bell, the only in
accuracy being that of locating theconversation
at Dyer's Office instead Of at the house OF Luz
cien Eaton, where It actually occurred. In that
interview Bell, as, he testified before
the committee, told Dyer that proposition had
been made to him by Luckey and Babcock to
abstract the testimony in the Babcock case from
the District-attorney Office. The witness had
peen very careful Of his dispatches and letters
relating to the Babcock case, because he feared
some such exploit as was resorted to in the
Avery case. He placed them in q box and de-
posted them in the safe-deposit vault. Before
that, Bell was one day seen in the District-at-
torney's Office, overhauling some papers, and
was informed that nobody was allowed to do
that in the absence of Col. Dyer. Bell excused
himself by saying that he was hunting for a
match to light bis cigar. Dyer said he did not
regard Bell as a good witness to tie to without
corroborative evidence. He would, however,
have placed him on the stand in the Babcock
case for the purpose Of rebutting Levi p.
Luckey's evidence had that gentleman been
called as at one time was contemplated, for
the defense. Col. Dyer was also before tine
special committee on the whisky prosecutions.
He said that at his interview with Atty. Gen.
Perrepont previous to the Babcock trial, the
latter told him to be very very careful to allow
no unnecessary scandal to be stirred up against
the administration, but said thatif Gen. Babcock
was guilty he should be punished. Dyer said
he regarded the letter of the Attorney general
to him concerning the exemption of guilty
parties from punishment in consideration Of
their tesifying for the Government as of very
great service to him 80 long as it was left 30
cret, but that its publication was calculated to
cripple the prosecutions. Dyer made a state
ment to the effect that while the United States
grand jury that indicted Babcock and others
was in session at st. Louis, member Of it
named Fox was supplying the President with
information concerning everything that trans
pired in the jury-room. lie expressed the
opinion that this man Fox made use of his po-
sition to curry favor with the President, and
that he prejudiced the President greatly agains
the officers at st. Louis.
The condition Of the public debt, April l, ap-
pears from the following official statement:
Six per cent bonds. ......$ s4,999.650
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THOMAS Cox, colored brother, who
had been carrying on an illicit still in
cave in the mountains of Tennessee,
near the North Carolina line, ever since
the close of the war, and had very sue
cessfully eluded discovery, has at last
been dragged out and lodged in the
Knoxville Jail.
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on the part Of the House. Bills were Introduce
by Hewitt and Fsrwell 10 provide for the resumes
ton OF specie Reyment bS fforr1son, 70 amsnd the
s %siis Mo sSI ~ e s' 6l,s y
cine Railroad CO 5sny'. HilsesSurh offered .
ToS.s sSs,s ne e March my
have Sssn persosS Il dssnss f from ks seat Of
at any one time, and in what part Of the
United States and also whether any public necessity
existed therefor. Adopted. .Lynde offered reso-
luton calling ON the Secretary Of the Treasury for
information In regard TO the payment Of money 70
newspaper editors aud correspondents IN connection
with the whisky prosecutions Glover offered a
resolution recitng that Kilbourn the recusant real
and extravsgans manner, and directine that he be
allowed only the regular prison fare. The House
refused to suspend the rules and adopt the resolu-
don. - $500
TUESDAY, April 4.-Senate.- THE special COM
mittee TO investigate the Mississippi troubles was
announced. rs follows: Messrs. Boutwell,. Cameron
lwis.), oglesby, Bsyard and Mcdonald (Ind) -.
the senate and presented the articles Of impeach-
ment against william Worth Belknap, late Secreta-
ny OF War. The managers were received and as
signed TO seats within the bar Of the Senate and
when the Sergeant-at-Arms had proclaimed
silence, Lord read the articles ut length.
The reading of the articles Of Impeachment having
Deeu couciuueu, Ucuys the frebiuent pro tempOre
of the Senate, announced that the Senate W uld
take the proper order the subject Of the impeach
ment, Of which due notice would be given. The
House managers then retired. The Senate subse-
quently adopted an order TO print the articles of
impeachment. The Senate in executive session,
rejected the nomination of Richard II. Dana. Jr.,
to be Minister TO England The vote stood: Yeas,
IT; nays, SO.
House. A message was received from the Senate
announcing that the Senate ready TO receive the
Belknap impeachment articles. !. Knott, the chair.
man of the Judiciary Committee, reported bill "a
amend section 1,0l4 of the revised statutes to
provide that "no person shall be prosecuted tried
or punished for any offense, except against the
internal revenue, unless indicted within three
years after such offense has bean or may h
committed" After discussion, the bill passed.
Blackburn offered resolution inouirng under
what law, and by whose orders, Gems. Upton and
Forsythe and Maj. Sawyer, Of the army are absent
in foreign countries. Adopted. schleicher in
troduced resolution providing for tho protection
OF the Texas frontier on the lower Rio Grande,
The House held an evening session, which was de-
voted exclusively, in Committee Of the Whole to
the consideration Of the Legislative appropriation
bill 81
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IHe hiVer anu I1dIpOr Dii mas Deeu Gull
pleted by the House Commerce Committee. II
appropriates 1856, 900, a reduction of $1,000
900 from last years appropriation.
1t is stated that President Grant has sold the
bulk of his Washington real estate, and has or.
dered the sale of his 81. Louis and Long
Branch property.
Bell, the detective, who testified concerning
Babcock, was assaulted in the Ebbitt house. in
Washington, a few days ago, by man named
Mollere, who administered to him severe
chastisement. trt u I'D,
Gen. Henderson was before the House Com
mittee on the whisky trials last week, but
failed to throw any additional light upon the
matter. He testified that he believed the At
torney-general's circular to the district-attor-
neys did harm, as it was calculated to intim-
idate witnesses. He had no knowledge of Bell
or his alleged exploits in abstracting testimony
from Col. Dyer's Office.
Secretary-of-W War Taft is reported as deter
mined to appoint post-traders hereafter only on
the recommendation Of the officers at each mill
tary station. COB
Secretary Bristow has replied to the House
resolution Of inquiry regarding the alleged
payment Of money to newspaper men in con-
nection with the ferreting out Of the whisky
frauds. Mr.. Bristow states that in the early
stages of the investiga in st. Louis, a COM
mercial editor having special facilities for OBJ
tanning knowledge of the shipments Of whisky
was commissioned special agent Of the depart
ment, and charged with the discovery of these
frauds. His connection with the press soon
ceased, and he has continued in the revenue
service. The Secretary says that during the
progress of the Investigations, and the trials
which resulted, he has received valuable infor-
nation and suggestions from newspapers and
persons connected with the press bit, with
the exception named. memo have asked or re-
ceived any compensation from the department
whstever. lf