The New York Herald Newspaper, January 6, 1865, Page 3

, i eit i i Flere sete a 4 Hr ie ii EE aF i ir t FE 2 & = i | FE iF Fi He Z i 4 & iu A i z = = H i Sg ae “FS H Es g : = 3 E F: 2 E A jt 3 ir = i ; S & SB. i i of money out of it he is not to pay price agreed upon. The man who he agrees with him to pay bim for it ‘were wold to the government and when ioe og ae pemanes , 00,” Bays Opdy! caunot pay been @ toring concern to me, and you must me,’ That is bis his theory of morals; this calls equity. He would act thus if it was F org! he had borrowed to go into business with, And ‘the business turned out not profitable he would say to iis croditor when he should pay the money, Oh, no, I * y you all back, because the business I entered on prosperous. In equity I lost, and in equity I shall bd et ates What do you think of morality like do you think of the Mayor of our city, an in- man; a rich merchant, coming and ae this is his notion of equity and 3 ‘Bees morality? What would you think of a man gen in this wag; telling his creditors thas will not pay them, because his venture has not been a table une, and that he will not pay his debis because Co agar has net him, Is that equity? But ‘Mr. pS ef thut is his theory of morals, explained by bil 1s is not for me to say whatis ry and what is just and fair; itis for you to deter- this matter, I have presented the case to you ne- ly in a very hasty and cursory manner. There is in it I would wish to dwell upon; much in the evi- would wish to comment upon, but I must leave the able gentlemen who will follow me in address- My time is about expiring, and I will leave the rin your hands, Thé great question which comes you is, whether means have been in- ly taken, means which the law regards as al- fraudulent, moneys out of the city Ragen moneys of the treasury, of which he hinwelf (plaintiff) was trusted gu: Itisfor you wo say whether this ie right. If you do say that it is tight, then I have ing more to say; but if euch should be your verdict, this | will say, that corruption has overturned justice, that fraud has trampled honesty under foot, and that of your destruction is surely near at hand. If these things cannot be exposed without a jury saying (mat they should not be exposed, then I say, and warn ee that op iberties are already gone. ith Opdyke, plaintit in this case—the Mayor of the city—-eomes, when this claim of Wakeman’s is before the committee, fakes part in ite consideration, and votes in favor of it there while his own claim was being tu and makes a great sh ee ‘alling them how he had aut cautioned ‘Bfs con-in-law, Farley, to be ve icular, and as the had cut down other dlaime (heat rire upon they shouki cut down his if needful, knowing all the time the fraudulent system upon which his claim was made out. ‘We had consulted with Jones and Farley, and he knew ‘epen his own showing the whole thing. ‘Yet ho makes ‘SB ahow of great fairness and honesty before the gommittee when his claim is before it, It was not till nwas ted to him that his presence there at such a was indelicate and improper that he leaves the room. tlemen, this ix not my business so much as it is Thave had to present the facts as they were elu- by the testimony of the witnesses in the case, and shall now leave it to you to say whether I have not prevented the facts before you with fairness Qad fidelity, and when I shall have done that I shall have ecoomplished all that rests with me inthe matter, and my lity ends, But, gentlemen, your responsibility Degins, and it is ae and highest responsibility ever cast upon you hitherto in your lives, and probably the greatest that ever will be. All I ask—all I ¢ pon you—fsto do your duty in such a way that when yee go out of this court room you will feel that you have @oue your duty, and that if any one man among you qannot agree with bis brethren, that that man, when he eaves the-oourt and the community ask him! ‘did you Wiok that it?” that man will be able to tell why he messes it right, If you think it wrong, give a verdict for satyagants but if youthink it is ali right you will for the plaintiff, of course, it zou do this tell our fellow men, that if a rich man ie in office and he 6 in a scheme of making money under secret con- weet with the government, he can, by cunning dev: by which he gets back all the money or and keeps it when he gete jt, and that the shall wot expose i Nay, that you shail punish the men who dares to ex} the fraud. If this is what is to follow the hearing of this case, then hush up the news- papers that telis it to the citizens and exposes it to the ‘Tell your fellow men that you are not in favor of commission of frauds by public men in high ences and confidence, ing exhibiteé or punished, Pell them that this thing ie all right, and your despotism Court then took @ recess for fifteen minutes. “ MR. 8 ADDRESS. reassembling of the Court Mr. Emott proceeded address the jury. would be glad to come at once the marrow of the controversy, to the real issue be- th because I know you have no time to to over lengthy speeches from counsel, and I have ‘pet sizength to waste in such an eifort after #0 ‘yacted and exhausting a trial ax this has been, ‘there are some things which may be raid to clear the by which we are to approach the truth in this case. £ ant z a gE : ES HULL bf Het join He i extraordinary manner in which the de fence was opened, and the extraordinary manner fm which the whole case has boen conducted by (be other side, and I may add, after listoning to the ad- dzeas just delivered before you, the extraordinary man- wer in which that address closed compels me to advert te some things which do not belong to the iesue—at icant ee far as to tell re what that issue is, Iam bound to advert to these things, because it was stated deliberately ‘and wilfully by counsel on the other side. i recoliect baving heard or read somewhere of a certain learned gen- Weman of the bar having been applied to by a deputation f his.fellow citizens to instruct or advise them as to the manuer in which they should cast their votes at an ap- hing election; and I remember the advice given wes that the should all go to their elosots, and there fall upon their knees ‘and {mploro the Divine guidance, and when dhey had #0 done to follow the direction they would there receive. No better advice could poswibly be given in that or any other matter of importance. But as to gentle- man who opened this case, I fear, if we could i Jowed him to his closet, if’he was there in preparation of bis speech as he compvsed and delivered it to the public three weeks ago, we should have found squatted close to bis ear the tempter in the midst of his devotion in the of tho defendant here—Thurlow Weed. You, gentiemen of tho jury, recollect that counsel ea ‘the other side, beture they proceeded to n the case, asked and obtained time that y might deliberate as to the manner in which they were to procecd. That opeming was marked by tho sane vindictive tnalice which dictated there Ubeta That opening speech was itself as libellous and atrocious as the tibeia, and marked by all the cunning Growdness and vindictiveness that belongs to either ot Ahose iivels. I teli you adv inet » said the gentleman who firat addrossed the Court in this case, ‘that this trial ls tw be tho beginning of a revolution, and that revolu- Won may be @ bloody one.”” Now, gentlemen, I ask who ww be the Robesplerre, the Danton, the Marat, the Bariore of this bloody predicted revolution? Its victims u have presented to you, grouped together in the pub- cation of this great apostio in June last, the time of the blication of these libels. You see there the plain ff, Opdkye, who must be considered one of the victims im that devoted list of martyrs, You have there Mr. Ketchum, Mr. Hoy, a distinguished lawyer, my aseo- diate in this case (Mr. Field); Mr. Park Godwin, one of the editors of the Aeening and Mr. Horace and the editors of the New York Tribune, and, as my frend informed you to-day, his client, Mr.’ Henderson, ‘ef the Bvening Post, All ihiese men you have had grouped fogether as the first victims of this bloody revolution; all to be crushed and exterminated for political miseon duct and moral dishonesty. Mr. rec, defendant, unisl tere struck his blows to these men, whom he hated because they were in his way. know his motives, You know this, you everybody knows it, the world knows it. This ( the man saat looks to revolution and endeavors to ex- dito revolution #o that ho may use it to hurl from public respect and from private esteem thore men because he Rates thom. But what have you seen in the progress of the case wince Mr. Pierrepont’s lips wore closed threo weeks ‘What have you seen in tho development of yyy through the whole hearing of it, that promises, et tends to arouse the community to violence, orto an @Gort to crush these men? Where js the evidence that gach a thing was to be desired? How many hon jaw. abt men would be foand tn this community to follow the defendant in @ crusade syainst political job. @ery and municipal corruption, conducted as he would @eaduct such a crusade, You as well have pected to have read of Sir Robert Walpole commencing & crusade against rotten boroughs and parliamentary Woels; or, to come to from greater to smaller things, wo might as well expect to see one of the witnesses hore, Thoman ©. Fields, going about preaching jamentary decorum and sobriety in legisiauive assemblien. sf SE; ‘erin court.) I shall not descend tw perwonal abuse ef the defondant; fur be it from mo to do 80, and in avoiding it avoid the example ot by his counsel in that respect. [ know wet Mr Weed, in his connection with politi jw not on trial; his counsel denied our challenge wo ee bir there. Leay what is notorious to every one, Vis commantty would not select him to reform those sbusos which his counsel affects to denounce. The com- munity, before deleting bins wa the champion of their ease, would Ort demand of him to cloar his own skirts of thono offences which they have boldly attempted and mort miserably failed to fix w my client wae al luded to a8 & person pathizing too wrongly with Wwuth and justice, and 24 kuowing his client (the defend. ant) woo well to feol at earnestness or a aympatlty in the case as agoinat him. I disclaim the honor ef ao fect tug, If an honor was Intended mo in the cbeervation of counsel, I do know the defendant as a private citizen and as @ public man, and Ihave agreed with him in many ‘of hin views of public afaire, [ sympathize moet heart- fy with many of the modifications of 1840, and in the devotion of the party io W. H. Seward. | have been, tad now am, and { nuppore aball always continue two be, affliated in sympathy with that branch of the republican y which looks to Wm. H. Seward as its head and ot But these gentlemen know full well that [ havo deen no poiltician. Sitting for the past eight years on the bench, they know that I had no time, nefiber had T tho taste for wich pursuita, T must have learned there, in the pursuit of law and jnatice now te be blinded to the Hats of my friends, or blind to any merits there may be in my advorsarion, =I havo never taker of the yeeoreis of liber party, and) know nothing of private / E g gel BEEE H { i E Sg be e pl ij EH 5 it t 5 | < e i 2 j ni gentle 4s in the counsel, but Aad why did the counset dare to say that Mr. lyke, having raised himeelf from the lowest walke of society, kicked away the dnafon. by whieh he ascended and spurned those he left bel What are the lowest walk: Are they, gentlemen, your ursuits, OF mine?—the mechanics and tradesmen? here isthe evidence that Mr. Opdyke ros these callings, or the men who follow them? Mr. npayke ia man who has risen by energy, capacity, industry tegrity to public fame and to private success—a 8 sistant adherence and fidelity to friends, igh or low, But where do we find the repre- sentatives of the class from which the defendant has sprung, and te whom the defendant is still attached? TI point to, the quarters of ‘the lobby and the legislative Numbers of this claes have crowded court room ¢ince the trial commenced. You must have seen them round you, genllemen, day afier day,’ even within this bar—men rarely see! where excépt in the legislative lobbies and in ical conventions, and hunting up municipal jobs, ures they are that seldom come together except when the carcaxe is pre- pared for them. As wo ion and close intimacy with these men, Mr. Opdyke will enter into mo rivalry with him; he can have them all to himself. The plain- tiff in this cause bas brought his character, his life, his history, his whole conduct during these transactions be- fore the public, and offers it-to the scrutiny of you, gen- tlemen, and his fellow citizens. Now, one of the strongest accurations brought against him s,’that in doing these things, he has been instigated by avarice, But, gentle- men, that is a very common accusation against any succcesful man. If there be among you a man success- fal in life, you must know that when you encounter those lees industrious.and less successful, you are apt to be pointed out as a man fond of money, as an avaricious man. But would any one hero imagine that any body would bring a libel suit against Thurlow Weed for love of money? ‘hy, gentlemen, you know from the common. affairs of life, and from what you have seon and learned during the progress of this trial, that if even Mr. Opdyke recovered the largest amount your verdict.could give it would not compensate him for the anxiety he has endur- ed, and the loss of time, with the cost of the trial for 80 protracted a period. It was as idle to talk, therefore, of avaricious motives in a case like this as it was to talk of ers’ account of young girls being hung in England in 1790, or of De Tocqueville’s comments on the fall of Louis Philippe. Mr. Opdyke came with one single mo- tive—to vindicate his character from the malignant attack ae q a it; and he narod —_ Copsey gr ‘has done it completely, successfully, triumphantly, in every charge brought against him. "And { know that toattain thie object he would cheerfully pay all that it has cost him in. money, as he bore patiently fora whole day, in the presence of this Court, the speech of counsel, fraught with renewed insult I know that he would not touch a dollar of the largest verdict you could give him. Mr. Opdyke does not want, ag he does not need, this money. There are public charities in this city that do need the money. He knew the wary, unscrupulons, untiring antagonist he had to grapple with in this contest, and when he brought the suit he knew all the facts of the case. Do you think he would come here knowing the man he had to deal with, if his canso was not founded on right and ‘justice? Do you think he would eome and invite this man to spread open the map of hie whole life before you, if ho did not know before- hand that he had nothing to fear from the truth, and that he firmly trusted and believed that the jury could not be made to believe a lie? The defendant complains that be has not been invited to testify—a strange com- plaint to come from that quarter. This te not a criminal case in which he would be debarred from The issue you have to try is not whether thi is a libel, @ falee Mbel, bat simply what amount of damages the plaintiff! should — recover—a «verdict which shall not enablo the defendant to say to the commu- poe wach hg a pe character fs worth nothing. ‘That is what tl “ mlepine. T understood counsel to invite your number, gentlemen, to refuse to paras to ady amount Of daimagee whstover” and then to hold out that result to commendation because he had himpelf counselled that result. We seck no trickory, no artifice to get a verdict. If Weed had been brought into a criminal court on an tadictment bis mouth would be closed; there no evidence can come from a prisoner. The plaintiff alwaye mtended and always asked that. his opponent would offer some proof of the proferved against him contained in these libel. ir, Weed could - have gone on tho stand and tokl how pure and how free frum mative his motives were. He could bave testified to the efforts mado him to get to the trath of the matter. He could have ved from what sources of informacion he had learned that George Opdyke, was the baud man he reprerented him to be; but he refuaed to submit himeelf to the ordeal of the witness box, as Mr. Speyre. bad done. Counsel has dragged in the letter of Mr. Opayke of September, 1863, to Senator Harris, which letter, as ap- opi on its face, was a reply to a previous attack, more er and meaner far er agg ay made by omar Weed net George Opdyke. I ray that, for very yo ny quoted ogit int I will not travel out of the case; but it is true that the senior ooun- gel in tho case called this nowspaper pugilism. They testifyin eannot acguse Mr. Opdyke of being a newspaper pugilist for defending hii if againat the charges brought against Dimeelf and hie son. And I dispute the right, therefore, of the counsel to atiribute that character to his own client. Mr, Weed was not the editor of the paper which published these libele, at the time. Ho did not publish them to givo notoriety to a paper with which he was at the time connected, or to enliven a@ poll- tical campaign, or to the morbid taste for slander of the community, But he went deliberately, as any man might, and borrowed column after column of that newepaper, to serve his own bad purposes; and no other men could baye controlled this paper to the extent he did but himself. These articles were published in the most prominent paper in the State, in a most conspicuous manner, in leaded type, and the editorials wore gar nished ’ with the Initials of the veteran editor of that paper, This looked, o8 a great deal in the evidence did look, as an effort to divert your minds from the true fesne at stake, and to fix them upon eomething elae, Defendant charges (hat Mr. Opdyke, in 1863, denied that he bad any contracts; and he wants you, gentlemen, to convict him of being & fraudulent peculdtor on the government—a foresworn public official, a corrupt broker in public oifices—because when charged with being gorged with public contracts he anewered that if ever he had any contracts he fulfilled them to the letter, and that at that time he had none whatever, That statement was true, the letter was true; all waa true in letier and spirit But tis not the issue, The defendont admits the pub- lication of the articles alleged to contain the libele, He admits it with all ite moaning, ‘an we set forth in the complaint; and we charge that he published it and meant what he raid in it. That is the effect of his answer as interpreted from the conduct and the lips of bis conneel thronghont tho case, But what does he say in defence? First, that it was provoked. Provoked by whom? By all theeo gentlemen. Counsel fought to make you bellove that because the Rvening Post editors got into the controversy, and because Mr, Horace Greeley got into it, that he had a right to siagle out Mr. Opdyke and charge him with these acts of corruption and dishonest; He stated that ho acted on information which he thought reliable, Why does he not prove this? Perhaps he is the only man who could have proved it, He had every opportunity, and hé had aright to go on tho stand and testify to this, He said he invest! it, Where is iho investigation? Where is the ovidence of any investigation in faith? ‘There in as little cy feith and public duty and of right motive in publication, and that is none at ail, Defendant could have sworn to all yet he rat in dumb silence all through, when he could have gone on the star vin- dicated himself. I would submit to your Honor ee me autho- rites on libel to show that, in justifying a tibet, the ruie that the jusiification must be as complete and as as the charge—as broad aa all the charges. The Court—Yea. Mr, Emott—That the dofendant must establish every ‘one of these accusations, in that sense to which the law and the ministers under the jaw put it, as true, The Court—If thoy justify any one, that isa justifica- on of that. Mr, Emott—And if they:fail to justify all, the defen- dant pote bimaeif in a position whers he has no right to neck a verdict, by art —Bsacily, Mr, Emott—And if these Ibelo, as published, are not Juetified-—all of them—then the plaintiff te entitied to a Verdict, The question now is, not what is the libel, but what amount of damages the Ui ts entitled to re- over. It will be the duty of the Court to instruct the jury with reference to these publications that they are all iibellouss, Tho learned gentleman this morning made reference to a provision in the vonstitation pro- ‘viding for the law fact of cortain cases being referred to the jury, Jy) fo: pet fan sue (00 cet te ret See. ie ager familiar to his Honor, an a, Guppore, ‘6 familiar t the gentleman, that provieion of the constitution thus cited has nothing whatever to do with civil suits. It will be the duty o! Court to inatruct the jary in this matter, and to point out to them that each and’ every ono of these publications are libela. ‘The Court remarked thet the rule prevailing in our courts is not like the present English rule, which, aa he belioved, rendered it necersary for the Court to wate to the jury, in every caso, what conail- tutes a libel, and to leave it to the jury to whether it was libellous or not, Ho thought the Koj jaw had arrived at this point. We have Yet it is frequently fo in canes where there is anything left to in ‘ion, or where light may be thrown upon the ques by ex- trinsic evidence. Ho apprehended that it was on! cases where the libel is suaceptibie of but ono interpreta- tion that the Judge is called upon t exptain It to the jury. Now, it ta here set forth in one of the charges in the libel, “That this man (meaning Mr. Opdyke) has made more monoy by secret contracts than any twenty sharpers, Jow ot Gentile, in the city of New York.” In some communities at some atages Of society this would impute a libel; in others it would not. Whether or not onght to be considered as imputing dirgrace or con- taining an accusation, or alleging fraud or wrong, Is a question not for the Court, but for the jury Mr. Rrarie—The rule of law being as the Court has ruled, We are ontirely aavefiod; but in ous optulon thore ta 20 000 of, tn these alleged Hoole thet te wr, Emowe “defendant Nex admiued thes artis, their and their both 3 Mr. mot, Wi admitied their of Brae Oortainly '¢ ouly a penalt manner, ns fact of reproducing a libellous nee on the authority of an ibe person is no justification in law nor in fact. The thing itself om which ‘the remark is based must be Laie no mere stesement ig of any avail. here we have a statement—This man has made moro money by secret contracts with the government than any fife, Jew or Gentile, in the city of New oat the alt of any sharpers, Jew or Gentile, in 'yé of New York. If 1 wero to gay to any of you that bad made more ee ee Oey ane or thieves apy pee, or that forty thieves and rogues herd Money than baie tetera any AOS meat ‘and ip ap; would you not suppose matter ay teen yon were brought Into direct comparison thieves? Besides, tm viewing this alone, The way in which sharpors generally make money. opening the counsel you that Mr. Opdyke had that there was a contract with Mr, Churchill, and that he went into the market and bought up all the kind of cloth that was needed, and refused of cloth to the parties who had the contract. Now is this Lp hes ‘Mr. Churchill was placed on the stand, and did ¢ say that Mr. Opdyke refused to sell any of these goods to him? Most certai ny not. Again, we band in the news- ters, with the head, ‘‘A Dyeing Operation,” hat have they shown concerning ft Did they not strive to show that Mr. Opdyke had knowingly bought poor cloths, and worked them up with sdine sort of inferior aye #0 as to make them appear lke superior clothyt My friend hes told you that Mr, Opdyke realized some $172,000 as his share of the gun contract. Now, all the shares that he had in this large. amount of contracts— and I grant you that they were |i -was only four per cont on 000,000, or rather $6,000,000, the whole amount of all the contracts. Mr. Opdyke only had an interest of one-third in nearly all these contracts that have been 0 frequently alluded to and om which the learned counsel hes rut so many changes. It was, undoubtedly, a large business, For my own part Ido not profess to know much about millions oreven hundreds of thourands of dollars, But, at the same time, it fe unusual in this city that where merchants in- vest very large sums of money that they uently make from two to three even four millions of dollars ina single year. But, for all thie, it ig not theircustom to run around the streets and to publish the fact wherever they go. It is a fact that none of the profite which were made upon these contracts would have been made were it not for the large capital and the credit of Mr. Opdyke’s house, which was concerned inthe matter. And who would say that there was anything unjust or unfair in this; aapttng contrary to the law of God or to those of man? Mr. Opdyke was first of all induced to enter into these contracts for the best of motives, Ho did so with the benevolent idea of alding a mah whom he known, but who, through & number of circumstances, been ruined in his business and was unable to meet bis usual engagements. This gentleman was indebted to Mr. Opdyke, and as goon as he saw an opportunity to re- trieve his fortune he came to Mr. Opdyke and said to him, “If you will stand by me now I will be able to retrieve my position; I will not only be able to pay you what I am indebted to you, but I will once more place myself in the same position that I occupied before the commencement of the war.” ir. Carhart ve you the full history of affair, What id yr these circamstances? every good man and merchant should act. He sald “Go on—I will stand by you;” and all that he demanded was that no steps should be taken to gain the contracts unlawfully, nor to perform them except in the manner set forth in the terms of the gov- weak iia is that RARE NG cad SPOOL mattete again, Mr. Optyke charged = with havin He is advised to ox the scope of Ade | qhescration, and 40 taka, int Ue shoddy blankets which bra Has ome in New York and afterwards wor! ip at Phi And this charge ed to government, the house of Op- dyke, and that they were rejected? Tagan not. On the contrary, he sak! that there had been no shoddy blankets at all, and, more than this, that there had been no blankets ted, nor any that he knew of that were rejected and wards worked in in Philadelphia. The evidence in no case shows either secret partnershipor the dealings of sharpera, as the !"bel #0 boldly proclaims, and as counsel has been vo apt to repeat in these hallx. Kvery- that was undortaken in these matters was faithfully, honorably and thoroughly carried out. Nor were there @ny enormous profs as also been alleged, Th ‘were no shoddy goods whatover #i:own to have been pared, nor even was there any defect in the were actually supp! The learned couns that ; there were no blankets rejected, submitted that the defence had utterly fatled to make out one single point of the caso they had attempted to prove; they had still more utterly failed in their Po to justify even one of the leading charges in the libel. He would submit that to charge @ merchant in good standing in this city with the offences and crimes which had been laid at the door of Mr. Opdyke—setting out that, by fraudulent acts and corrupt dealings in his transactions with the government, be had mado large sums of money—entitied be? one so aggrieved to come into court and to claim the highest damages which it is in the power of a jury to give. There.is no evidence of cheat. ‘ng throughout all these transactions; nor, as I said, that any poddy blankets had been even offerod, much less rejected and afterwards worked ‘in. If there be anything of the sort, let the counsel who is to follow me point out where it is to be found. We next come to the gun factory, and in reference to this part of the question there are net less than three Mbels, all of which are false and wickedly atrocious First, they sald that there was a swindle in the case, and to support Unis the counsel, in opening, sald that Gibbs, tho patentee, had declared that there was a large swindle in the matter ef guns, But when Gibbs was brought up here he did not say that there was any ewindlo at all; but, on the contrary, he declared that thero had been nothing of the sort, (Some slight discussion here arose between Judgo Emott and Mr. Evarts as to whether Gibbs had said an thing of the sort on his examination; Mr. Emott sus- taining that he did, Mr. Evarteas firmly maintaining that he did not.) Mr, Kmott continuing—But Mr. Opdyke is not a, ed here for swindling, nor is he to be convicted of t offence, neither upon anybody's views of law or upon the dictum of Gibbs Thero is @ charge of moral delinquency made againat Mr. Opdyke, and it is for those who have mado the charge to prove it. I, however, think that we shall bo able to prove tothe Court and to the jury that the whole amount of the claim made upon the Supervisors war due atthe time it was made. A swindle means to defrand grosely and by artifice, and that is what they charge; and Leubmit that that is libellous in law, and that there is nothing to leave to the jury upon it, We defy them now, as we dic at the opening, to point to any conduct of Mr. yke whick may be set down as a violation of the lawe of God or of man. They cannot do this; for his examination was eo perfect that not the dest effort of counsel could shake it for one moment. I will next allude to the cowardly and base attempt which has also been made here to impute to Mr. Opdyke a con- nce with the destruction of the armory in Second The jor of the libel did not himself venture to make that chargo; he left it to his counsel, who ‘hape with more bol: I will not say wi tery ; and he cannot oxculpate himeelf the odium of that act by anything he has said te-day in palliation of ft, oF an; logy which he has te natant make. We have more than amply shown that the of the factory vas @ most seriou one, cor at atime when it was in its highest state of perfection, having @ capacity to not less than fifty car. bines daily, witha it to the concern of ten dollars on each gin, Nor te it true Mr. Opdyke would to have sold it at me. Ho he was willing (0 sell it at a previous time; but that was when another wan fore- ian of the factory and before But when Keene came th those having the profite derivable from when guns were !o for ita destruction und need Loring Jones, It ia not necr@a y (or me to evidence in this respect; but it means simply that ho went up w the armory and eaw the riot; then he came w the Mayor's office and did not find him there; then he went up to the St Nicholas, where he did seo him; that he spoke to him, and told hii that the police been withdrawn just at the time that their services were of most importance; that the Mayor heard him and said he had no power to do anything in the matter, and then said be thought he would go in and take some dinner. The reat of Jones’ testimony morely shows that several children then came tw the armory, then women, then men, and at last the whole building was fired and reduced W ruina, Now, there la no evider Of any sort to au-port the grors assertions of counsel in opening that there wa any devign on the part of Mr, Opdyke to have the factory deriroyed; nor were the police withdrawn at all from the budding until, upon their own representations of powerlewuess to held the piace, they received orders from the pollve headquarters to leave the Herides {t i well known that by (he lawe of the State the Mavor hae no power whatever the police forces. Weare next caked what could hav been the object of Mr. Opdyke in making this claim on tho city? First, he bad a right te make a chaim for all the property that was in the tmilding that bad been de- ere Aa re chev ~~ Pie Le RAILWAY, COMPANY, NO. 18” WEP Dt Di-the alveetore of ‘le company have thie declared a dividend from the earnings far, months, ending Sist December uliime, of thres ami one per cent on the preferred stock: Benton the common capital elock; bosh (lens fomernment ‘ax of five percent) i ‘the Eraaaarer's afen, s register lock At the ng of te Cook. the registered older of z i aa y, the fost, ‘The transfer books, of both of February. HOKATIO N. OTB, Secretary. will be closed on the afternoon be reopened on the 2d day Jou one—it must B MONE YORK AND PHIL ADELTHIA Nov t Arte P Earnings eleven months to Nov. 30, 1964. gis Pi ILEUM COMPANY. PROPERTY IN HEART OF THE ory | Earnings (estimated) for December, 1664 Linis & of i again with Opdyke tocarry it through. Now, there iano man nor woman nor child in the country who, if they have not, should not have heard of the name of Orison Blunt, the man who has gaved millions of money to the elt; in raising recruits for the armies of the United States; ® man through whose hands there were seven millions of dollars of ublic money passed without one single dollar athe to his fingers. No man, no woman, no child, 1 contend, should be ignorant of the name of this man, ‘for what he bas done; and yet he Is the very one selected out to be put down either as too much of a fool to know anything about machinery— with which he bas been acquainted all bis life—or else that he was @ villain, in league with Mr. Spay ko to do fraud the city. These oe Ea) ag eg that have been i; wi made; not one of the counsel been able to support, much lees prove, The learned gentleman continued at reat length to examine the testimony for tho datence and vindicated the character of Mr. Farleo fn an able manner, showing that he had been brought to the court from the very verge of the tomb, bat that he had testified in a manner that won the .coniidence of all. Referring to the gun claims, he said that the claims were by no means as high as they should ‘have sa age! if he had not with- drawn his suit net clty he (Mr. Emott) felt confident would have been paid not only ail that he had received, but also for the three thousand which had it to be completed for the government, but which in his claim on the city were not charged for at all. ‘The learned counsel hero cited a number of cases from English and American law to show that the elty was responsible for the acts of rioters in every case, The first act of the kind was that passed by the British Parliament in the reign of nike the First. I called the Riot and visite punish- ment upon the “hundred,” or town, for all riots occur- ing, compelling the inhabitants to pay the damage aud losses, is, he said, was similar in principle to the act of this State passed! in the year 1855. He also cited a number of cases nearer home than the English acts, Tn concluding a very lengthy speech Mr. Emott con- tinued to say :—-Now, gentlemen, I would like any one of you won yourself in the place of Mr. Opdyke. Sup- @ that any one of you had had a factory of any ind that was just growing into successful development ; that you had spent large sums of money upon it, and that just as you had got it into profitable order a riot should take place and the whole place be destroyed; and supposing further that you knew that the city of New York was responsible Rover for all the losses, would you for a moment hesi! to demand reparation for your logecs? I should think not, and there is no lawyer in this court who is capable of practsiing at the bar who would mot have obtained much larger damages than those which Mr. Opdyke and Mr. Farlee were entitled to receive, The learned gentle- man then eaid that he would not stop to examine any further into that part of the question, but at once went on to consider the nature of libel against the Mayor of the city, in accusing him of gross peculation and of using his high office and influence to make money frand- ulently by secret contracts with the government. Mr. Opdyke was not a member of the Board of Supervisors, Dut only entered there extra officially on an invitation from the committee itself. And yet besa) sel having been a member of the committee and with having taken that opporiunity to vote on aclaim ia which his son-in-law wae the principal claimant. Now, the fact je thet Mr. (piyke never voted there at all, except wy one occasion, and that was in the caso of Mr. Wekeman’s claim, when the Mayor voted one way and the Comptroller’ yoted another; so that neither of their voves amounted to anything at all. Again, they have made a great deal of comment on the supposi- tion that there was concealment in the fact that Mr, Opdyke had an interest in contracts, This has been fully exploded, for it has been clearly shown in the testimony here that the fact was known toa great many pereons. But this has been the effort of she other ride throughout the whole of this caso, About this stage of Mr. Emott's address he remarked to the Cofrt that it would be almost impossible for him to get through that evening. ‘The Court said he had three-quarters ef an hour more. vi Mr. Emott was aware of that, but ho hada great deal more to nay, and he had been considerably interrupted: ‘The Court would sitjout the rest of the time, and directed ‘counsel to go on. ‘Mr. Emott thereupon continued, remarking to the jury that this was one of the most {inportant cases that ever came up for trial, notwithstanding .all that. had been done deprive it of ite ance, He hoped that the jury would listen carefull to all the details of the matter, and that they would give it that attention which would insure justice, to those who deserved it’ All that Mr. Opdyke desires or demands from the jury i# tho viudieation of @ fair name, which he seeks to 4 down to bis children as a legacy, of an unstained end breve apres character. Ag we go along with the details of the case we feel con- fident that we shall satisfactorily, to your minds and to the court, destroy the whole superstructare which the learned tee on the er hed — £0 hard and #0 gnocesingly wild up. We next come to the charge Mr, lyke, as Mayor of the city of New York, sold the office of Surveyor of the Port to Mr. Andrews for the eum of $10,000. “Now, Jet us see what is the charge that they have made in thet Iibel, and what they have succecded in proving. We were, in the opening of my learned friend, told a good deal About the way in whic! various candidates for municipal offices carry on their elections, One of their plang is to have thelr portraits exposed in public places, and this, it 2“, was also adopted by Mr. Opdyke when he first ran’ for the office af $i in the year 18560. We were told, also, that he was defeated; but two years afterwards, when he wan ad vised or decided to run again, McNell went to bir and suggested that his style of face would not do to put up in the shop windows-that the people had not yet, bean properly educated up to that style of face—concluding by advising Mr. Opdyke to withdraw his portraits and use money, And we were told, further, that Mr. Opdyke became exceedingly ’ sorrowful, for ho was very rich, (Laughter.) Seeing ' this, McNeil was not ata loss what to do, but immediately proposed that a bargain should be made with Andrews, fo that Mr, Opdyke should withdraw bis support from Stanton and give it to him on the provieo that he should raise a sum of $10,000 out of the Custom House for tho purposes of the charter election. This ts all the proof that they have been able to offer of Me. Opdyke's olleged sale of the office of Surveyor of the Port, You heard MeNoi! on this stand, and you heard also (he manrer in which he gave his testimony. It is very eaxy for some eople to lio, but it ts not quite so easy to avoid their ing canght In it, McNeil isa member of the Legisla ture; but [do not know that thero is any exception in this respect #0 far as members of the Legislature are con cerned, Akoow not what the present Legislature are likely todo. When they shall have parsed ali their rai! road bills, and raised the fare on all the lines of twavel through the country, we mey be able to decide—but not Ull then. It has been suggested that if we could keep this suit ng on all winter, the legisiation of the State would not be likely to be very much injured. Then there is a deal made of the bargain which was said to have been made between Andrews and McNeill and Willlamson, at the request of Mr, Opdyke. Does not this bear its own refutation on its face? Is that the way in which polit clans generally make bargains? Do two men who desire to agree on a political bargain get two others payne yeaa to the ar me Pi Mr. yko any agreement of ¢ ind to make with Andrews, was it mot moro lkely that he would send for him and aottle the matter between themeelves, I wonder if Mr. Weed ever made sueh a bargain, with two witnerses knowing all about the trans action? The learned counsel next on to the con sideration of the charger made in the Mariposa transac tion, in which it was stated that General Fremont had been victimized ke, Ketchum, Fiel and cere The getldmoea'' oar the 'olker’’ ade’ hed raid = that, br General Fremont was a high minded = « honorable man, he was #0 innocent of business matters that the gentlemen already named found no trouble in taking him in and bim. 1 think that the ht imo) mig! bave himeelf those remarks. think that the lied by the wold would look you in the eye, and that you would 5 dyke in the ‘The counsel had a great penchant for eyes. Now, | aak you whether you ever saw a man con- duct himself so :calmly before a court, and that while laboring under all the attacks that counsel had thought it proper to make upon him? He was calm and collected throughout, and my learned friend, with ali his ability ja |, and I confess that he stands Saegealind in thas could not draw from him one single word that @ the testimony in chief that he vad given, on the coutrary, every word did get Noah khes in thie way * was more pn A a iT lly ‘ko had {testified to in bis examination chief, It 8 wnnecemary for erty of General Fromont be made available. The ert dence of Gonerat Fremont himself waa enough to dinsl. te all those 54 ideas that had been conjured up y the gentleman on hi bay After few more remarks on Mariposa claim, and the reading ever of a portion of the evidence of General Fremont, !t was announced that the period allotted to Mr. Emott for ek a was on the point of expiring. Mr, Emott ald there were a other matters on which ho had not yet been abio to touch, and asked the Court to grant Wim fifteen minutes thie morning, pro- mining not to exceed that time. Tho Court granted the application. Mr. Evarte addrese.d the Court briefly, asking whother Mt would n6t bo posnible to close the arguments on both sides this day. Tho Court said he would be very happy if It were poani- blo to have the enge concluded w-day, but the ow wan 60 voll tinous that It searcel: gow jo. Mi ‘that for his part he would not occupy nt any lon, hy rn Mr. Wield said tina ho could not promise to got throagh a Se eel H. NICOLAY & CO., & 913,200,000 00 THE VERY REGIONS OF VENANGO COUNTY, PA. LBERT 1. NICOLAY, President, ANDREW MEHAPFEY, Vice President, Aaa ¥. STOUT, Treasurer. Earnings for the year 18D... Expenses to Oct. 3f,....... : (03,06 Expenses Novemberand December. 1,708,00t 18 C. STEDMAN, Secretary. HOE AND LEATHER BANK, Bankers. riketcarnin WILLIAM H. ARTHON, | Gonusel, i. oy ADAM ¢. ELLIS 4 208, TRUS’ FRANCIS A. PALMER, President Broadway Bank, New K, ‘NATHAN RANDALL, ex-President United States Tele- crap ¥ ‘Com jew York. ALBERT H_NIOOLAY, of Albert H. Nicolay & Co., Stock Dividends Juty 1, 1864. . January dividend on pref’ Auctioneers and Broker 10, 82 William street, New York. Surplus. EUGENE J. JACKSON, of Polhamius & Jackson, Bankers | ,S'Fplus. wR D ete aAN Dy Now Vark Petmleum | guy . BT! rel lew Yor! Ma Block Board and Broker, No, 99 road street, New York. _ Surplas aftor payigg dividends. afr ear by ener WENTY-FIFTH DIVIDEND-HANOVER FIRE _IN- SOARET CLAREBON,’ of Dieters @0o., Bankers, Ne. ‘surance Company.—The Hoard of Directors of this Com- 11 South Third street, Philadelphia Ms Pony have declared wscit-annunl dividend & alx (6) per gent, rec from government tax, ofien, Payable an demand at 45 Wall street. 8. WALCOTT, New Youx, January 2, 1865, HIRTY SIXTH DIVIDEND. THE NATIONAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY has JAMES M. CLARK Ol City, Pennaytvania. No. 82 WILLIAM Me Oe NEW YORK ¢ lo ia BOUTH THIRD STREET, PHILADELPHIA. CAPITAL STOCK me Sy rte: ; NOMINAL PAR SUBERIPTION PRICK ONLY | PER SHARE. nual dividend of eight per cent, payable o@ 8TOC OT SUBJECT TO ANY FURTHER ASSESS- ry, Jan. Satis pion Wall street, MEN’ SHARES, 01 100, RESERVED FOR HENRY T. DROWNE, WO! OK Ni rT. 50,000 BRING CAPITAL, TO DEVE! THIS SPLENDID New Yous, Jan. 8, 1865. OL, PROPERTY. eich a arent udvantage ja company possesses over many ff thatall tu magrigeent oll territory has a water fron, being situated on the fumoux Oil creek and the Alleghany river. Tho coal lands of the company are also of the greatest importance, as many works are now idle for the waut of fuel, ‘The company is now vigorously prosecuting its work, and the very eatonaive working capital of $100,(00 is alone & .ACKAWANNA AND WESTERN jeneral Otlice35 William street, New York, Dee. 31, 1364.—Tie transfer books of this company are closed until the morning of Friday, the 20th of January prox- ‘der of the Board of Managers. By order o! 0 i ODELE, Treasurer, NITED STATES INTERNAL REVENUE—THIRTY- HE DELAWARE, Railroad Compat Suflicient guarantee that large and regular monthly dividends STATES INTERNAL REY e: ‘at an earl; FF will cause the second Collection district, New Yor! (o Yapidly rise iano ta UNITED STATES EXCISE SALE. to rapidly rise in value. IMPORTANT NOTICE. Public notice is hereby given that the following to ‘The greater part of the stock of this company having been | wit, Plug und Cut Tob: Snuif and Cigat other already taken in New York, Philadelphia and other pisces: | grélcles too mumerons ta mention, hayedeen distrained wy intoes give notice that the subscription books will posi: | for non-payment of taxes, and tat the same will be sold at blic auction at the storeof L. Appleby Sons, 133 Water Pane Now York city: on the 17th day of Janury, 1800, at 1d o'clock A. M. of thai day. + Bi Catalogues ready on day of sale. . Fon ey TERIDAN SHOOK, Collector, 18) Broadway, New Yous, Dee. 29, 1864. 4.00) WANTED-FOR THREE MONTHS, LIBER, $ interest and « bonus of $40 will be given. Se- curity ample, Address L. E. L., box 6,007 N. Y. Post office, TO LOAN, AT SIX PER CENT INTE. $1 25.000 rest, on Bond and Mor , in this eity or Brooklyn; also $50,000 to lonn on United States Govern. ment Bonds. Apply in the office of the People's Fire Insu- rance Company, to JOHN ¥. CONREY, 66 Wall on, WEDNESDAY, yespary 16, 1865, After which time no stock can be obtained at the subscrip- tion price. SUBSCRIPTION AGENTS: FP. A. PALMER, at Broadway Bank, 237 Broadway, New fork. POLHAMIUB & JACKSON, 43 Brehange lace, New York. iam street, New ‘ork. CLARKSON & CO., 121 South Third street, Philadelphia. MELLEN, WARD & MOWER, Bankers, No. 20 Congress rtroet, Hontdn, BTEUART & CO., Bankers, Washington, D. 0. ENTRAL PETROLEUM COMPANY.—NINTH MONTH- ly dividend.—The directors of the Central Petroleam Company have this day declared a dividend of one per cent upon Uelr capital ntoek of $5,000,000, payable on the 15th | ge 10 LOAN AT SIX PER CENT ON inat., at the office of the company, No. 10 Pine street, New i York cit erty. Apply to "The tranafer books wifi be closed from the 10th to the $300.000 "Rew ore cy Pekan MASON, CLA Secretarv. No, 5% Pine street, rooms 10 and 11. D.—THR SAVAGE MINING COMPANY OF Ban Francisco has declared a lend for the month of December of $75 per share, in gold. This ix the dividend ‘usually declared upon the 5th proximo, to facilitate closing accounts for the year. the Bank of California to Eastern stockholders, leas ex- a by LEES & WALLER, No. 83 Pine street, New HELP WANTED—FEMALES. APEW, WAITER GIRLS WANTED—AT 669 BROADWAY, corn Pi lown stairs, GOOD PLAT OK WANTED FOR A GENTEEL rivate family; abe must be neat and willing to asaist ith the washing aud troning: city referanoes positively re- quired. Apply ut 151 Enact ldth at, near 2d av, ae ©, STEDMAN & CO. ik BROKERS, \° BTOC! 5 80 Broad sirect, New Yark, All kinds of Government Securities, Railway Stocks and Bonds, Gold, &e., bouy and sold on commission. Interest allowed on all deposits. Attention given to the purchase and sale of Oil Stocks at the Petroleuin Exchange. Philadelphia orders ne and re- ooived. KE. C. STEDMAN 5 EDM THOS. M. NEWBOULD. XCELSIOR PETROLEUM CO.—THIRD DIVIDEND. ‘The Trustees of this Company have thie day declared's dividend of four per conk payable Jonuary Ls free of govern Tent wx, at thetr office, No. 8 Brosdway. ‘The transfer books will bo alosed from the 10th to the 16th ARTHUR T. EAD TRIMMINGS.—HAND& WANTED FOR THE Above; work given out, Apply at787 Broadway, fourth the right. AD WORK.—LADIES DESIROUS OF THIS OOCU- in can Obtain it On the secoud floor of private house place, entrance through basement door. De- -IN A SMALL PRIVATE FAMILY 0 perienced aud a good Washer wud ironer; wages $8. A. from 9 to 11 in the morning at 24 West 36th at, between Sth and Cth aves, (9x WANTE three; one OUSEKKEEPER WANTED—POR A LARGE BOARD- ing house; one who understands baking; wages $12 per month. "Call at 176 Bleecker st., between 9 and 12 o'elock, jostant inclusive, URD, Treasurer. JALESWOMAN WANTED--IN FANCY DRY GOODS; also two girls to learn, Oall after 6 P, M, #6 368 Bowery, second door avove 4th at. 1864.—Pursuant to the by laws, the annual élection for Trustees of this company will take place at the oflice of the 74 Broadway, On Tuesday, the 104! the hours of 12.and Y ofctook ihe tn PETE ER ET 1 company, at the banking house of Messrs. NTED IMMEDIATELY—GOO! rman k Co. Will be elosed frex day, the 2d Ww’ {rumen of ladies’ bonnets, either at home or at the junoan, She 0, of January, until Tuosday, the 10th tuat., Incinsi wages for competent persons. Apprentices 2 x FRED. E. ply “ati Bleceker at or a ROKLOFSON, Recretary, | MOPS I NVENTORS’ MUTUAL ASSISTANCE COMPANY AXD ANTED—A GOOD PLAIN COOK, WHO UNDER- 1 Patent Agency.—Capltal, $100,000, in 10,000 |W petit 10 each. OF ts Hedone cereal eopostia' the ae oe ee ry, New York. This company haa been | on _ ju 4 } formed ‘for the purpore ypatente, and assiating inventors (when establish the commercial value of thet: of securing Ame! iired) with funds ANTED—AS NURSE, A 8COTCH OR GERMAN WO- ood color Inventions, as well man; also a good col cook. Apply, at No, 8 Kast ub at, from 9 to 11, Good references required. Sa loprol am the piracy of unprineipled persons, = ss ta de cluves aud every information can obtaines 1 ANTED—AB SEAMSTRI A COMPETENT P! dice, 10 Namau aot? IFWELL HARGIS, Man San, who undemmand, entice apd tng algo pa > machine work. Apply at New York Ii 9, for N A es ro Ttmaront,Daranrigrr, Jan. 2, 188 pm be aed ae hereby given Abit any subscriptions for ten-fo boude main during the coming woek, amounting 10 $18 Fe TUM AN «ori Cute goa cay Htaomune, wal va ve vn n 4 one third on the 7th inel., not less than ‘one-third on the Lath. | ADPIY at 11 Gilford place, Rast 4508 wt ‘and the balance on ‘the 2iet inat, Hoh inntalment must be some rnultiple of one hundred dollars. W. P, FESSENDEN, Recretary of the Treasury, ANTED—A GIRL TO COOK, WASH AND IRON fora small family. City reference required, Apply at 39 Irving place, WAXTED-A COOK FOR A PRIVATE FAMILY, WHO PRICK SW YORK AND PHILADELPHIA will assist in the washing. Apply at Ge Boun'l, bee PETROLEUM COMPANY, tween Mand IZo'dock, Ne. 62 William street. New Yora, Jan. 4, 1865. IMPORTANT NOTICE. An the greater part of the stock of the New York and Phila- Getphia Petroleum Company bas already been taken by the firat cliixens of New York lelphia and elsewhere, and ‘owing to ite great’ deman permanent investmeni, the truntees dentre to give nottoe only @ Nmited numb'r of shares can now be obtained at $2 each, and that the subscrip- Hon books will positively close on WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1865, after which time no stock will be sold xt the subsertption prioo. ALBERT H. NICOLAY, President. A. V. STOUT, Treasurer, &. ©. Sreoman, Secretary ANTED.—LADIES TAUGHT PHOTOGRAPH PAINT. ing for $8, tncludi inted directions; mat found. fxin rerainerative business, Call from t wo4.. 108 Broadway, room 19, second floor. WANTED-A WOMAN TO DO CHAMRERWORK AND nasivt in the oare of ehildren, Apply at 168 10th av., between 224 and 28d nts, TANTED-IMMEDIATELY, GOOD TRIMMERS, FOR frames of bonnets. i it wagos puld to competent Apply at 1M Bie persons. ANTED—A GIRL, TO DO THE GENERAL HOUBE- Ap- WW work of s taunlly of tures. erence requis ply at 15 Bloweker st, from i0 M TANTED—A COOK, IN A PRIVATE FAMILY; SHE must thoroughly understand her busines and come well recommended: Apply at 17 Bast S708 at., between Mad jock. son and 6th avs., before 1 WASTED—A WOMAN TO DO THE COOKING AND housework of « mali family; no wasbiag; must have city reference, Apply ut 24 Weut 23d st, between 7th and ‘Bt ave. PFICE OF THE STREET COMMIBRIONER, NO. 237 . BROADWAY. TO CONTRACTORS.—Proposain enclosed in a seated en lope, endorsed with the tlle of the work, and with the name of the bidder written thereon, will be received at this office until Tuesday, Jan. 17, 1855, at LI o'elock A.M. :— For dredging south side of pier 43 North river, For rebuilding the inner portion of pier 43 North river, Blank forms of proposals, together with the specifications and agreements, can be ob tained at this office. CHAS. G. CORNELL, Street Commissioner. Brewer Deranreenr ik, Jan. 5, 1865. OPES, OF THE OHIO PETROLEUM COMPANY — The Obio Petroleum Company will pay a dividend of two (2) per cent on its capital stock for the month of Decem. ber, payable at the office of the company, No. 4 Broad street, New York, CLASS COOK, WASHER AND mical and trusty wervant, with beat woges will be given, Apply at 136 Kast V J ANTED—LAD! TO LEARN TO COLOR PHOTO. graphs; after on and aiter the bth of Januiry, 1865. wenty-four lessons, in two weeks, work , given ul to ike home” Painting taaght free Wi. it) SHREVE, President, G. KONGSBERG & CO-- 713 Broudway (room I Aunt D. Vorce. Secretary, (OFEICE oF THE pany, No. | Moni 1865.—ixteenth — Seml-A Directors of this company hi annual dividend of teu per cent, free of go payable en demand 3 PAULMIER, BY CITY INSURANCE COM. reel, Jersey City, Janun Dividend-—The’ ‘Nourd” ot thin day declared a semi. yment Beeretary. WANTEDOA YOUNG MAN AS AN ASSISTANT CAR- ver. Apply at Sweeny's Hotel V ANTED—A YOUNG MAN AS WAITER; MUST COME well recommended, Apply at Sweeny's Hotel. J ANTED—THREE DRESSMAKERS, ONE WHO THO. roughly understands tae Wheeler Wilson machi at 27 Boat ith ot " —— WANTED-IWELVE |B dies, for practi bit good fancera need vetwoen 10 and 12 A. pre. PaROLaS 7M STOCK EXCHANGE, 1 Broadway, PECTABLE YOUNG LA- a a re gentlemen. None ply at 724 Broxdway, second floor, A.M ond 2and4P, M prmorsce, THE DUTCHMAN RUN OIL COMPANY ANTED—A YOUNG GIRL, TO TAKE CHARGE OF HAVE PURCHASED 8.000 ACRES OF OIL LANDS. WwW chiliren ina German family; nowe but Amerioan and kein ins Weatern ¥1 nin for $100,000 of the sum cemains to be taken, and can be sub- scribed for at our of.oe IN BUMS OF NOT LESS THAN $1,000. ‘The lands are situated on HUGHEK RIVER ‘and DUTOR- MAN RUN, in the beat oil jon of Western Virginia, THE DUTCHMAN RUN OIL COMPARY. we of the State of New York, and will be formed under the ba Purchasers of the land will receive 000 IN BTOCK FOR EVERY $1,000 SUBSCRIBED. jone who have signitied thelr intention (0 subscribe must do #0 Ing the subsoription list at our ofiee at once, the'books Sill Be closed on or ‘before. the iO of ‘January, German girla need apply at 18) Bast 13th #t, near 2d av, from I 2 e'elock, THE BALL SKARON. ME THIRTY. SIXTH ANNUAL. BALL OF THE NEW YORK FIRE DEPARTMENT, BENEFIT OF THE'WIDOWS AND ORPHANS DECEASED FIREMEN, MONDAY EVENING, "TA MUAY , ANUA! 186, AT TH ae, THE ACADEMY OF MUS Morar, roR en Coal and Ott, Rw nbn sa agama of the Managers, or of the fob lorthern ©. GODFREY GUNTHER, President og Farm, Ne CJ Tiniden lana. JAMES F. WENMAN, Secreta WAGSTAFF &@ GORTCHIUB, 71 Broadway, Foom 29, Y asad RUSSELL FILE COMPANY. CAPITA seoreeee DANCING ACADEME EB GARMO'S DANCING CLASSER—AT TH demy of Physical Culture, @ Woat Fourteen ‘Ladies, Miases and Masters on Wednesdays and Batu: at 4 PM. Privave Classes for ladies and gentlemen at ‘New Classes forming. ACA. street. Li] —— ——- ——— WANGTOR, Baa, BRRERO'S DANCING ACADEMY, KO. 10 IPTH rene. — fe and Nath 4 coi days and Thursdays, at 4 P.M. Porrero’s Roome to tet for our droed sodlables and other private enieriainmenta, Mesere, Poumasnes 2 Jsoteem, t geenenge pibce, ood THOMPSON'S DANCING ACADEMY, $79 BLERORER Mesere, Mivts, K mone! mah b CO, 36 Broad street + #trent, Ia NOW Open for the rece) pupua on Tuce- we eer, y and Friday, Soiree on Monday, Jan. 9, ‘This company having purchased the exclonive of the H, SEARING'S PRIVATE DANCING AO, 7 recent invention for Ing worn out Files, intenderecting | J, ™ Fourth avenue, near Twenty-th La lew a suitable factory, and for purpose offer lor sale, at their forming for ladtes and mas 4 o'clock bankers’ 6,000 shares of their ee stock at $10 per share, | tlemen at 6 . Mr. &. cunt * share © corapany beg to inform evening to those w! 8y thie javention they will be able te. ft — mn of we @ " eqnal to new $0) doze orn FURNITURE. , at the trifling expense of 65 y rion. vied with any of ‘mec will at ogoe appreciate the value of auch an Invention and the large field it offers for nafe and profitable investment. The company beg to refer for further particulars Wo thelr prospectus, which can be obtained at thor bankers’ Monare. MILLA KNICK ERMA ER AO, 6 Aroad at, and POLHAMIUS FOR SALE—A NIC . some aS speia atrad® at 1 floor. AGKSON, pias, Mihanter p43 me: = iS Senece S| Rook Rack somplote TRUSTERA OF THE SRAMEN'S BANK FOR SAV- | street, fret Hoor, ordered that eee NEW PUD CT sae a Ws Ta i ¥oR NTBRNAL REVENOS BROOR: vv yl Baiwore ang Pi ews a dotlare nla on rer the Sth inataot, jem exebange, foot in gold, Pk rogiatared cx Tor dividen: im New on and oun! 7 LURES & WALLER, Tarniture boxed and abt pped ; fest Riavens stvoes. bevwonk No, 89 Pine atreat, end Aiatd Naw Yona, Jan, 4, 1966