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Year: 1868

number OF physicians surgeons and medical
students gathered yesterday afternoon in the lecture
room OF the Bellevue Hospital Medical College to
witness the results OF new and what bids fair to
prove wonderful discovery in the way of process
for preserving the human body after death. Two
subjects were on exhibition, embalmed by this pro-
cess, in which death had occurred respectively on
the 18th of February and the 3oh Of April last both
of which manifested TO the casual spectator no sgn
by either sight touch smell, OF the long period
which had elapsed since death.


Professor Doremus, under whose supervision an
experimental autopsy OF one of the bodies was made
in order TO show that the preservation was not con-
fined 20 the surface, but extended 10 the viscera the
muscles and every portion OF the internal system,
opened the exhibition with few PREDATORY remarks,
recting the imperfect and unsatisfactory processes
which had been in vogue for preserving the dead ever
since the days OF the Egyptians.


Dr. Janeway then dissected the BODY which had
been lying thirty days since DEATH kept in the
laboratory under lock and Key. To the scalpe It
presented the naccd condition usual lmme-
diatey after dissolution and the sight and
touch were perfectly normal. As the knife pro-
ceeded with the disembowement of the subject and
thc Vlscera were brought TO sight and removed no
odor was peTcepttble save the strong neshy
smell which Is nseparable from the freshest corpse
wien the internal portion is opened TO the air.
Pieces OF the liver and kidneys were cut out and
passed around among the spectators that a more
minute test might be given OF the thoroughness Of
the process. Dr. Doremus explained that the nuid
with whch the preservation had been erected had
not been introduced through the veins or by cutting
the flesh, which was so greatly objected to by the
friends OF the dead, but by simply forcing IL into the
mouth and other natural apertures Of the body,
whence u subsequently permeated all the tissues,
preserving them In the wonderful manner just re-
veaed 10y the autopsy. Professor Hamilton sue
ceeded Or. Doremns and testified that he had ex-
amined the subject under examination ana
could not distinguish II from one recently
dead. Professor Flint, in more extended
remarks regarding an analysis which he had made
Of the muscles, liver, kidneys and lungs OF subject
treated by the process gave the result OF his observa
tons. The functions referred TO were all in normal
state so far as the eye concerned, but had un-
dergone some slight structural changes as TO their
atomic formation. which, however, were favorable
TO the preservation OF the tissue.


The spectators seemed perfectly satisfied with the
result OF the experiment and autopsy. The body,
which had been preserved one hundred and seven
days and retaiied its naturalness was the object OF
particular interest.


Curousy enough the progress OF the age was ex-
hbited In the presence OF several ladies, who, from
the deep interest which they manifested in the pro-
ceedings, were evidently prospective female "eaw.
Tue " strong minded DersuasoD.v
Year: 1868

Yesterday morning Coroner keenan, was called
to Bellevue Hospital to aold an inquest over the re-
mains OF young man named Richard Butler who
died there the night previous. 1t appears that late
last Tuesday morning the deceased was found lying
on the sidewalk in varick street, near Downing, in
q state of insensibty by an officer Of the Twenty
eighth precinct, who conveyed him to the Greenwich
street station house. Butler bore unmistakable evi-
dences Of hard usage. After remaining for a time
under the Doctors in the station house ne was
partially restored to consciousness, when the ohcer
In command asked him who beat MIN, to
which he made no reply. subsequently ne
said he had been beaten, but 1t was while ne was
among his friends, and he therefore refused 10 give
any Information whatever concerning tine matter.
Being considered In q dangerous condition by the
physician in attendance, Butler was conveyed TO the
hospital where death ensued as stated. A partial
examination of the body yesterday showed that Dotn
eyes sadly dscolored and the nose broken, be-
sides which deceased had received terrible blow
the right eye with some sharp instrument which
fractured the skull that causing death. The origin
OF the ARRAY which resulted Buffers being fatally
beaten and the cause which prompted him to de-
cline telling the oaicer who beat him, also under
what circumstances 1t was committed are yet
shrouded In mystery. In order to give Captain Dick
son, of the Twentyeighh precinct and the officers
OF his command time TO arrest the guilty parties ana
obtain the necessary evidence, the inquisition was
postponed TIL Wednesday next Deceased lived IN
Hudson street, near King.
Year: 1868

Collision Case-C0mpensaft0n Tor reDonai


Injuries.


Before Judge Nelson.


Cn,un rs. TneSeaDaooats Washington ana Anne
Greooyp.-In this case on the application of the
counsel, Judge Nelson set it down for hearing on
Monday, the sth OF June


Business of the Court.


Judge Nelson stated to the bar that on Monday
next he would be in New Haven, and on Wednesday
he would be in court here and take up the appeal
calendar.


Alleged Breach Of Charter-Cross Case in


Appeal.


Ererhard Fnler Us. The Schooner OaTust James
THOMPSON ana Others.-This case being called,
Judge Nelson desired Mr.. George DeForest Lord to
proceed with the opening. 1t appears from the
pleadngs that the lbelant is extensive dealer in
cedar wood in New York, and that in December,
1865 he chartered the schooner Onrust to go to Tor
tugas and bring back cargo OF that WOOD. II
was proved in evidence that after dscharging
her cargo in three days after arrival she
was ready to proceed in the execution OF
her charter, when she was seized by Quartermaster
Peoples, OF Fort JEFFERSON under the orders Of
General Hin, and ordered to go to Key West for
cargo OF coal for government use: This the master
protested against and pleaded his charter as the
reason of his refusal On this the quartermaSter
sent sergeant's guard under arms on board and
compelled him to go as he was directed. The Onrust
was then under compusion sent for the coal, which
she brought from Key West and delivered at TOrtu-
gas, when she was again seized and sent back for
another cargo OF coal, and was not released from
this compulsory service until long after she due
In New York according to the terms of her charter
When released by the quartermaster he proceeded to
comply with the orders he had received In New York
TO take in a cargo Of cedar wood and refused;
but finally, after some remonstrances with the mer-
chant in Tortugas, he got the cargo under protest.
and delivered II in April II she had not been de-
tanned by the compulsory service referred to she
would have completed ner charter duty fully two
months sooner, and during this detention the value
Of cedar wood declined in New York fully fifty cents
per cubic foot. There is q volumihous mass Of testi-
mony in the case, which Judge Nelson said 1t would
not be necessary to read. He would hear the plead
ings in the case and should 1t be deemed essential
to refer to the evidence the portions required might
be read. Decision reserved.
Year: 1868

as MONDAY. The Southern rebels and their
Northern allies ale anxious TO bring to
naught the reconstruction measures OF Con-
gress, and secure admission to the national
legislature without the imposition of any
condition or giving any guaranty whatever
for future good behavior. To show that their
demands may safely and justly be complied
with, and to prejudice the igaoraut and unre-
fecting against the policy OF the Republican
party, they arrange the programme OF a per-
formance such as we are cons idering. 1t
costs them only the exercise of hypocritical
arts of which they have been close students
Tor many years, and of which they are now
the perfect masters.
Year: 1868

We have steadily admonished our poo
pie against leaving North Carolina for the
Northwestern States. We know the times
are hard, money scarce and our political
status anything but comfortable, yet peo-
ple of small means will find that there is
nothing gained by spending their little
means in travelling to reach better coun-
try. If the means Of our people were
abundant, if their Golfers were full Of gold,
then they might with propriety seek a
country free from the present agltatlons
which disturb. or if they had means
enough to remove to Upper California or
Oregon and to purchase lands and settle
themselves there, perhaps they could not
be blamed for going there. We are told
by an old resident of Southern Oregon that
it is the finest country in the world to live
in and grow wheat and other cereals with
little labor. But in the Northwest poor
people find it as hard to struggle through
lite as in North Carolina.


We observe that many families who left
our upper counties some months ago and
went to Indiana and Illinois, are returning
to their old homes. We have really heard
of no one who has gone who is satisfied


After spending nearly all their means IN


travelling thither, they return poorer than


when they left It is better to stand by


the old State and make it what we want 1t,


by labor and skill. We have climate IN


surpassed, and under skillful tillage soils


that can be made equal to the best. Our
Year: 1868

During the past twenty five years the evils of
the Irish Church establishment have been more
eloquently and powerfully set forth in the OBJ
scure publications and thinly attended speeches
of the Chartist reformers, than they were in
the recent debate in Parliament, which culmi-
mated in the antagonistic efforts of Disrael in
defense and Gladstone in denunciatiOn of the
establishment, and in the vote of the House of
Commons by fifty-six majority, which marks
the doom of the Irish Church No new facts
or arguments were advanced, and but partial
Justice was done by the Reform party to the evil
dences of the injustice of the Irish Church. This
was partly, perhaps, because the politicians of
the House of Commons had not really studied
the question as thoroughly as the Chartists, TO
whom they stand in much the same relation as
our Republicans of 1860 stood toward the Abo-
litionists. But this may have been due still
more to the fact, truly stated by Dislaeli, that
every argument against the Irish Church would
apply with equal power to the English Church.
The followers of Gladstone said nothing of the
enormous income of the Irish clergy, Of the
corrupt manner in which they are appointed,
Of the fact that the irish Church was simply
means Of providing for the younger sons OF the
English aristOcracy at the expense OF the Irish
people, OF the utter unspirituality OF the Irish
established clergy, because all these facts bear
with nearly equal force against the Established
Church in England. Mr.. Gladstone is, equally
with Mr.. Disrael politician and not re-
former He comes forward as the champion of
the disestablishment of the Irish Churcb, after
having been the lifelong upholder of church
establishments generally. He does so only after
scanning the complexion of the House, and
ascertaining that the majority were against the
Church, whether he chose to lead them or not.
1t is quite possible that. had Mr, Gladstone been
Year: 1868

We print this morning the full account of
the annual boat-race between the crews of the
two English Universities. From 1922 when the
first contest was witnessed, until within the
last ten or twelve years, nothing like the IN
terest that is now manifested in these races
was felt by the English people. But during a
few years popular enthusiasm has so rapidly
wrought itself into feverish heat that the seven
successive defeats of Cambridge could not di-
minish the anxiety with which the event was
waited for that was to give to Oxford its eighth
successive victory. The race OF this year sur
passed all the Others in the display of popular
feeling That interest extended itself even to
this side of the water. and the details of the
contest will be read in this country with almost
as much eagerness as in England. Here, as
among the English themselves, there was a
generous wish that Cambridge might win, but
scarcely hope that the event would satisfy
this generosity of sentiment. Even Oxford
would scarcely hail for Cambridge better for
tune in q grudging spirit, and the bitterness of
tile past may have in store for the vanquished
O brighter future. The skill apd pluck Of both
Year: 1868




One who begins to read contemporary literature
early in life and reaches a period approx
imating to old age, will probably have marked
the rise, decline, and fall of several great lit
erary regulations. Many who are not yet de-
cned into the vale of years will remember
when the name of "The Author of Wavereyn
was household word as the name of Dickens
is to-day; yet we find in The London Quarterly
"a periodical which Sir Walter assisted in es-
tablishing-the assertion that " few persons in
England under the age of twenty know
anything about Sir Walter Scott or his
writings.r Yet when Mr. Carlyle, In 1887, in
The Westminster, ventured to doubt the per-
manence of Scott's popularity, there was a
universal shout Of angry dissent upon both
sides of the Atlantic. 1t is true that no gen.
tleman's library is now supposed to be complete
without the Waverley series, and the works are
still in demand for cheap as well as for sumptu-
GUS editions but the books which were eagerly
sought for, and as eagerly read, fifty or sixty
years since, aud which were then the constant
theme of literary conversation and criticism,
have now hardly more than a traditional
celebrity, though two or three of them" Guy
Mannering,r and "The Antquary,r and sold
Mortality for instance-are productions of
extraordinary genius. Fame, we suspect,
was something for which the hard working
baronet cared very little; ho thought mainly
OF the acquisition of IN estate, and of
the foundation of family, and ho
would have laughed with hearty and healthy
roar at any one who had predicted his immor
tality. Indeed. it is curious to consider how
perishable, in the nature of things, is literary
fame. Great names, it is true, survive. and
we use them freely and fippantly in common
parlance; but many writers are frequently
spoken of who are infrequently read, and the
proportion of human interest in q celebrated
author always grows less and less as years go
by while his literary or. scholarly position re-
mains the same. The name of Homer for in
stance, is imperishabe; but of the scores of
men and women who may be encountered in
day, how many would be able to give the
least account Of the IliadP Yirgils fame is
still nOminally fresh, but nobody reads his
great work even in the excellent TRANSACTIONS OF
which we have several, except students fitting
for the University. Milton is much oftener talked
of than read; and, indeed to this rule of pre-
OBSTINATE practical neglect Shakespeare seems
to be the single exception. One lesson all lit
erary history teaches as well as demonstrates
the utter impossibility of predicting with any
certainty the future rank of q man of letters
in the great forum of readers, from the success
and splendor of his mortal career. The
Temple of Fame is half pantheon
and half sepulcher--a few monuments
harder than brass are here and there
preserved in their respectable antiquity,
but below the hall Of the remembered
sleep countless candidates for Immortality, slow
ly resolving to dust, and as absolutely forgot
ten as the humblest tenants of the churchyard.
1t would be q consolation if oblivion were tho
Year: 1868

We print to-day an account, by Bayard Tay-
lOr, of forest culture in Germany, where the
management of forests is assumed by the State,
and even when trees are planted and owned
by individuals there are regulations which
prevent more than the annual growth from be-
ing used. This jurisdiction Of the Government
is limited to mountain regions, and does not
extend to lands suitable for growing grain
and it is found that mountains thus cared
for weld revenue as great as the cultivated
plain. The statement viii be noted that streams
which formerly were nayigable have dwindled
to brooks since the forests adjoining have
been cut away. To us the whole sub
iect is of great importance. 1t Is al
legged that our primitive forests are rapidly
decaying because the sun and winds have
greater access, but it seems now to follow that.
having attained their growth, decay is inevita-
BILE, and, as the small trees are not protected.
there is no succession. In no way can we
secure a supply of timber in the future except
by suitable legislative enactments, with, per-
hans. bounties, or, by the State itself entering
upon the business and assuming the part OF an
intelligent and far-seeing proprietor. The time
of generation of the human race Is required
to raise full grown forest from the seed This
is on soil of inferior fertility; on superior soil,
and with good cultivation, growth viii be re-
markaby rapid particularly ON the praries,
anu q man, even IN middle life, can plant
forest and as reasonably expect proht as IRON
any description OF fruit trees.
Year: 1868

The ". y. Times favored us with q column
lecture on manners and professional courtesies
apropoS of THE TRIBUNE and Gov. Seymour.
wherein it compared the matter at issue be-
tween us to the diversity of taste between two
gentlemen, one of whom should prefer to eat
his beef with mustard. the other without. We
received the rebuke with due meekness, and
only ventured, at its close, to PROFOUND the
question, Is it true or is it false that our
Government is now spending $500, 100000 per
"annum, apart from payments on account OF
Z" the National Debt, and that Sl50,0OO,00O OF
this is the cost of holding the South In sub
"jugation by means of a great standing armyP
Hereupon, The Times favors us with another
column of moralities and cOurtesies, but never
a word of answer to our questions. 1t appears
to have no choice between beef UiM mustard
and beef without.


BY way of illustrating its own familiarity
with and reverence for the maxims of Chester
field, The Times says of our assertions with re-
gard to the Eastern (Brooklyn) Judicial District;


"These statements malignant, more out
rageousy untrue and more defsmstory than anything
t r w dc NIT SPR Inf %s
gs q has OI sia sss 90
fact or shadow Of fact 70 give them the slghtest
grained and strengthened BY constant steady vigorous
practicehus to magn and asperse personal character
tons utterly false in point OF fact In this particular In
stance he makes assertions and again, IN the
face Of official documents which give them me e-andte
which he has never yet ventured TO aliude."


We do not see that The Times gains any
thing in politeness to balance its loss in space
by these circumocutions. We stated what we
belieye-what The Times knows we believe
with regard to the creation and management
of that District Court. We do know that
President Lincoln, when urged to appoint az
Judge of that District one whom he personally
preferred, said that he could not do it, because
the place had been made through Mr.. Ray
mond's influence with the understanding that
it should be filed by Mr.. Raymonds friend.
Our convictions with regard TO that business
may be erroneous, but The Times does not doubt
that we entertain them.


The Times proceeds to say of the Editor OF
this journal;


He assas the reputation Of men whose personal char
aeters professional standing and official ability and Ia
egrty are above reproach and makes the public interest,"
the mere football OF his own malignant resentmentMS
And THE TRIBUSE's course this on many other
matters would Its Owa a asos Sssy is Sse Meu
sound tame and meal lymouthed And the whole Press
of the country OF this City adopted the teachings or
followed the example Of THE TRIBUNE In this respect
would be quite unfortunate FOR that journal as for tno
reputation of the country at large"


We take no exceptions to these aspersions
and epithets. We would have The Times use
such terms as most forcibly express its ideas.
We especially beg it not to be "mealy -mouthed'
in speaking of The TRIBUNE. So far from
deeming it unfortunate for Gs that othef
Journals should be abusive, we insist that no
one is ever harmed by any bad language but
his own. .tl
Year: 1868

The view of public morals presented In tho
communication which we publish this morning
touching one of our theaters would be utterly
disheartening were not signs already apparent
that the long predicted and long desired revos
against theatrical indecency is near at hand:
Whether the people are waking to a sense .,
virtue and propriety, or are merely satia'e"
with an indulgence of morbid appetites' we 90
not undertake to say; but there can DO nc
doubt that indelicacy on the stage is losing
it's attractiveness, and a healthy reaction "
almost certain soon to set in.
Year: 1868

ernor, IL win at all events secure the reelection
of the latter gentleman to the Board of Super
visors for another term of six years-an
achievement the importance of which cannot
be over estimated in a tax-paying point of
view. We therefore entreat the Manhattan
Club and the Legislature to save us from any
new issue of City bonds. Let us pay as we go!
Year: 1868

friend writes us as follows:


"a Railway Safety Commission, to be composed Of
three men, experienced In Railroad management, with
salaries so big that they could live without taking brbes
-,cih poer stop the running OF trains tracks that
uere msdfe-could State from such horrors
that near Port Jeryis.


Honest and capable pen could DO found to serve the
people IN this guardian duty.


"They should have power, and be required. TO inspect
every mile OF road in the state-and have absolute
authority to stop passenger trains until the track they
deem unsafe was put Ia good order


"Tho salaries should be assessed pro rata all the
roads


"Ths is the only practical prevention OF Angola and
Port Jervis massacres"


Comments.


In the millennial age when Offices will be
awarded to Nose who are fttest to fill them,
this plan may do good: till then, we distrust
and demur


Suppose such offices were now to be filed
no matter how, OF by which party-how would
the selections be madef


First, those whom the salaries would make
comfortable would get up petitions in their
own behalf respectively, and take them around
to procure signatures. And good men would
sign them; not that they deem the petitioners
the right men for the place. but because they
hate to ALLEVIATE and disaffect them.


These petitions being all numerously signed,
the appointing power will be practically con-
strained to select from among the bOres and
button holders who got them up, rather than
from among those who are really fit fer the
trust And the places being thus filled, the
Commission would subserve no good end. 1t
would prove non-entity or q mere tool of the
railroads.


When, o when, shall we be delivered from
the stupendous nuisance of offce-seeking boresq 7
When shall it be deemed as polite as it is
righteous to kick them down stairs
Year: 1868

crews was admirable, and Harvard and Yah
may learn valuable lessons from either. To ths
crews of these colleges We commend the letter
of our correspondent, in the hope that they
may accomplish all that is attainable from the
example he describes from abroad and the pr,-
dent counsels he enforces at home w W
Year: 1868

The Pacific Railroad has climbed TO the
summit Of the Rocky Mountains ana pegun
its descent on the Pacific Slope A dispatch
from the Chief Engineer of the work an
nounces the laying of the rails upon the
summit, with BETTING ceremonies on the
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