The New York Herald Newspaper, September 25, 1868, Page 3

RATIONAL LABOR CCYGRESS. Ae FOURTH DAY’S PROCEEDINGS. Platform of Principles of the Na- tional Labor Party. Bees. Sebuuenvevevees A LIVELY SESSION. ‘The Congress met pursuant to adjournment at tame o'clock A.M, yesterday in the Germania As- sembly Rooms, Nos. 291 and 29% Bowery. The Pre- sident, J. 0. 0. Whaley, in the chair; Henry B. Mul- hall, Seoretary. ‘The Committee on Constitution presented their weport. They recommended that the name adopted be the Internationa! Labor Union, with jurisdiction extending over the United States and the Dominion ef Canada, Mr. JonDAN moved that the name be the National Workingmen’s Party, Tabled, Mr. JUNIO offered “National Labor Congress of Worth America.” Tabled. Mr. James A. BOURKE again opposed this political Mr. ENNIS moved to strike out the words ‘Inter’ and “Domiilon of Canada,’? Mr. CAMERON opposed the impertinence of this @ongress intruding its gratuitous advice to Cana- @ans. The words “Inter” and “Canada” were stricken out. Mr. JaMEs A. BOURKE, of the New York City Paint xs, commenting upon the action of the Congress in endorsing Mrs, Cady Stanton and her woman suf- @age idea, moved that the word “labor,” wherever it occurs in the constitution, be stricken out. ‘Tabled. It was resolved that the National Congress grant mo oh.rter to any body having less than seven mem- bers, nor to any trade union in any city where a ‘Similar craft has a charter, without the previous as- went of the chartered body. ‘The Congress then suspended in order to go into ‘an informal ballot for President, which resulted in ‘the election of Mr. Wm. H. Sylvis, who is aiso Presi- dent of the International Union of [ron Moulders. 7 sai of this city, was chosen First Vice Presi” The Congress next weut into an informal ballot for ®econd Vice President, Mra. Mary Kellogg Putnam and Miss Susan B. An- thony canvassed and caucused energetically while ‘the ballot was being taken in favor of their stand- rd bearer, Miss K. Molony, Troy collar laundry manufacturer, and with good result, as she had an wmmense majority on the frst ballot. On referring fo the constitution it was found that she was meligi- ‘bie, as it was specially provided that the first and tg Vice President should not be from the same Mr. John Vineent, of Typopreniion Union No. 6, ‘of New York city, was elected Recording Secretary. Mr. A. W. Phelps, President of the Joiners’ and Carpenters’ National Union, was elected Treasurer. Mr. CAMERON moved a warm vote of thanks to the utgoing President, which was adopted unanimously, Afternoon Session. ‘The Congress resumed its labors at three o'clock P. M. Miss Anthony, Mra. Putnain and Mrs. McDona‘a were in their usual seats, but the business of the evening called for no display of their oratori- cal powers, At the passage in the platform which Ple¢#gea the individual and undivided support of the Orgpuization to the Workingmen being read they, hegvever, evinced marked signs of approbation by t apping on the floor after the fashion ef their male Yriends. Mrs. McDonald at one time got on her feet @sif about to speak, but resumed her seat again ‘without speaking. An invitation was received from the Association for the Advancement of Science and Art asking the officers and members of the Congress to attend the ‘association’s recular meeting on Friday evening ‘mext at the Cooper Institute and to take part in the 2 hugs. NEW CONSTITUTION. ‘The consideration of the different articies of the new constitution was then resumed. Articles six seven, as follows, were passed without any amendment being offered thereto, — be the duty of euch Jabor Ta of the executive com- month such information ARTIOLE 6--Section 1.—It shalt tion to report to the miiteo of their State at least once a ration of bis term, and moneys per: 7—Sec. 1.—All questions not herein provided for shall decided by s ‘majority whieh aball reyuire ten members to eas and pays. “ine uch local organization represented shall '® per capita tax of one cent annually on ench of fte mem- [iternational and national organizations sball pay direct tax of ‘fifteen dollars and Stale organtzations ten dol- Jara. The tax of all organizations shall be paid on the pre- sentation of the credentials of the delegates and no delegaice ‘shall be permitted to take any part in the deliberatiogs of the Union until the tax is paid. Article eight gave rise to a great deal of discnasion, An amendment being offered to raise the tax irom ene cent each to five cents, Messrs, Hine, Young, Ennis, Gordon, Conde, Vincent and Weish argued the Poaenenase cat for and some against it. Mr. MULLIGAN, of Albany, moved as an amend- ment that each local o1 ization represented in this Oongress pay an annual tax of five doilars, This was also myer sie, oma ges a r capita tax and others being opposed Ihe Poe Waviis said if the President of the United States attempted to carry on the government by a me raised through @ per capita tax upon the le of the United States thig government would up in six months, ‘This amendment was lost. A motion was made then to recommit it to the Committee on the Constitution, This was also lost, the chairman of the committee opposing the motion. ‘The section as presented by the committee was finally accepted, year, commence at A.M. Sec. segpectal meetings of the Natlonal Labor Union shail de called by the President on tl juest of the members of the Executive Committees from five diferent States. ARY. 10—Order 0f Business.—First, report of committee on Credentials; second, roll of members; third, reading of minutes; fourth, rej of officers ; fifth, reports of atandi ‘and special committies; sixth, report of receiving commun| cations and bills; seventh, reports and petitions of local or- ganizations; eighth, unfinished business; ninth, new bi Srp, torth clecion of oflcers; eleventh, good snd weltare ni 3 tweil men ‘ANT, Ii Ser 1--"Tils constitution shall not be altered or ag ‘unless notice be given at least one session priur to action. ALEXANDER TROUP, Chairman, ) W. R. GOODENOUGH, \ WILLIAM 8. KING, } Committee, E. L. ROSEMAN, { |. WALLACE, ! Article nine gave rise to another discnssion. It ‘was moved to surike out the third Monday in Sep- tember and to insert the third Monday in October. Mr. Fincngr, of New York, said the machinisis and blacksmiths held their convention in that mouth and could not attend. Mr. aavee sald 4 the a at ne be eperate on the country as a political party it wouk be better to put the meeting back to August, and he moved that the third Monday in August be Inserted Anstead of the third Monday in September. Tus motion was carried. Mr. SYLVAs, the President elect for the next year. ‘Was here conducted to the chair. On taking hie geat he said:— GENTLEMEN—I made all the speeches this morning lam going w make. The Union will now proceed to O58. The chairman of the Committee on the Platform then read ihe platform of the party, as follows:— PLATFORM OF PRINCIPLES OF THE NATION LAROR BE FORM PARTY. ‘We hold these truths to be welf-evident, that all people are erented equal ; that they are endowed 4 their Creator with ‘eertain jnalienadie rights; that among them are life, liberty gba the purvutt of happ! @nments are inatite ines; that to kecure these rights gore among men, deriving their just pow €re from the consent of the governed. hat there are but two pure forms of government, the au Sooratic and the democratic ; under the former the will o: the Andividual sovereign ts the supreme law, uncer the Initer the sovereignty is vested in the whole people, all other furme Being a modification of tht one or the oiber of these prince! other of these form the design of the founders of the republic was to I tate government upon the principle of absolute inherent sovereignty of the people, and that would give to each witlren the largest political and religious Nberty compatibie with the order of society, and secure to each thi fruite of his labor and taiei destructive of these ends that when 1 mhen iaws are enactod Wy are without moral bindin force, and it js the right and duty of the people to iter: amend or abolish them and institute such ovbers, them the princt; most iikely to effect Pradence will ind tablished should not eauses, and exper! more dieposed chan the forms and laws to which they have been fomed. ‘But when along train of lociaintive abuses, pursuing anvariably the same object, evinces a design to subvert the spirit of aad equality upon which our inatitut r les of equity, am to them rounded ice thom to ret, duty to aboliah au their future security. fen) ions of tunecripnions bi ise and corrupt I hold that yor wealth product ‘or Intellectual ,empioel in. productive in the distribution of the productions of labor; onght, eee eet would, under ® just monetary oF larger proportion Of weetr rc on dosti of the very root and enscice of and all other monopolies, of w Sear be cnet, ae enna 0 ith- prod. classes of the products of thelr vasa. Ce That as government is institated to protect life and secure the rights of property, each should share its just and proper proportion of the burdens and sacrifices necessary for its maintenance and perpetuity, and that the exemption from taxation of bank capital and Capcongng bon. bearing doubie and bankrupting rates of Interest, 1é a species of dan- gerous and unjust class legislation opposed to the spirjt of our iustitntions, and contrary to the principles of sound’no- rality and enlightened reason. That our monetary, tmancial and revenue laws are in letter and spirit opposed to the principles of freedom and equality upon which our democratic repubiican tustitutiona are founded, there is in all their provisions inanifestly a studied design to shield now-producing capital from its just propor- tion of the burdens neceasary fOr the support of the govern- ment, imposing them mainly on the industrial, wealth pro- ducing classes, thereby condemning them to lives of unre- munerated toil, depriving them of the ordinary conventences: and comforts-of live; of the time and means necessary for vocial joyment, intellectual culture and moral improve- iment, and ultimately reducing them lo a state of practical servitude, We further hold that while these unrighteous laws of distri- bution remain in force laberers cannot, by any caysser of combination or co-operation, seonure thelr natural rights. ‘That the first and most important elep towards the establish- ment of the rights of labor is the institution of a aystem of trne co-operation between non-producing capital and labor. That ,o effect this most desirable object money, the medium of distribution to fee ar and labor, must be instituted upon such # wise and just priuciple that instead of being a power to centratize the wealth in the bands of » few bankers, usurers, middlemen and non-producers generally, it shall be & power that will diztribute products to jucers in accord- ance with the labor or service performed in their production — the servant and not the master of labor. done the natn- ral rights of Isbor wi be secured and co-operation in production aod in the distribution of proaucts will foLow The weight will be lifted trom the as a natural consequence, back of the laborer, and the wealth producing classes will have the time and the means necessary for social enjoyment, {ntellectual culture and moral improvement, and the non: producing classes compelled to earn a living Uy honest indus. ry. We hold thet this can be effected by the tssue of tea made a legal tender in the papment of all and private, and convertible at the option of the overnment bonds, & just rate of interest, snflictently below the rate of increase in the national wealth by natural production, as to make an equitable distribution of the products of labor between non-prodncing capital and Inbor, reserving to Congress the right to alter the same wi in their judgment, the public interest would be. promote: thereby ; lving the government creditor the right to take the lawful money or the interest-bearing bonds at bis with the privilege to the holder to reconvert the bon money or the money into bonds at pleasure. ‘We hold this to be the true American. or people's monetary system, adapted to the genius of our democratic republican institutions, in harmony with the letter and spirit of the con- stitution and suited to the wants of the government and Lusi: ness interests of the nation, that it would furnish a medium of exchange, having equal power, a uniform value and fived for the performance of all the functions of money, cuexten- sive with the jurisdiction of government; that with a just rate per cent interest on the government bonds it would eilect the equitable distribution of ‘the products of iabor between non-producing capital and labor, giving to laborers a fair compensation for their products and to. capital a just’ reward for {ta use—-remove the necessity. for excessive toil and afford the industrial classes the time and ws necessary for social and intellectual culture. With te of interest at three per cent on the government bonds the national debt would be liquidated within less than thirty years without the imposition or coilection of one farthing of inxes for that purpose. Thus it would dispense with the hungry horde of assessors, tax gatherers and government spies that are now harraseiny the Industrial classes and de spoiling them of their subsistence. ‘We further hold that it is essential to the prosperity and happiness of the people and ibe stability of our democratic republican institutions that the public domain. be ‘distributed ax widely as possible among the people, a Iand monopoly bein, resaive to the people nnd dangerous to ‘asthe prasent money monopoly, To prevent this the public Iwuds aliould be given in reasonable quantities ‘and to none but actual occupants We further hold that intelligence and virtue tn the sove reign re necessary to a wise administration of j st ice, und that as our institutions are founded upon the theory of soveraignty in the people, in order to their preseryation and perpotuity, it is the inperative duty of Congress to make much wise and just recuiations as shall afford all she means of acquiring the know edge requisite to the intelligent exer- cine oe prises” duties pertaining to soveretnty, and that Congress t ordain that eight hoars labor be: tween the risiuz of the aun should constituce a day's work in all at works and places where the national government has exclusive jurisdiction, and that it in equally imperative tates to make vision by legal enactment. Be it therefore unaniinousiy Resolve ‘our first duty is now to provide as speedily ws possible a syatem of goneval organization in accordance with the priteiples herein more apectically set forth, and thnt each branch of industry shall be left to adopt its own particu- lar form of organization, subject ovly to such restraint as may be necessary to place each organization within line, so ‘as to act in harmony in all matters portaining to the welfare of the whole as well ag each of tho parts, and that it ie the imperative duty of every individualln ench and every branch of industry to aid m the formation of such labor organiza- Hons in their respective branches and to connect themnelven therewith, 0-01 Resolved, That in co-operation, Vased upon just finanoial and reventie laws, we recognize a sure and lasting remedy for the abune of the present industrial #1 and that until the law of thefuation can be remodelled so as to recognize the umanity instead of classes, m of co-opera, tion carefully guarded will do much to lessen the evils of our present aystem. We, therefore, hail with delight the organi- zation of co-operative stores and workshops, and would urge thelr formation in every section of the country and in eyery branch of businens. Resolved, That we pledge our individual and undivided sup- rt to the working women in this land, and would solicit ir hearty co-operation, knowing as we ‘do that uo class of industry is #0 much in need of having their condition ‘ameliorated as the factory operatives, sewing women, &c., of ‘this country. IMPROVED DWELLINGS FOR LAGORERS. Resolved, That we would urgently call the attention of the industrial classes to the subject of tenement honses and im- roved dweiliugs, believing it to be essential to the welfare of The whole community that a reform should be effected in this respect, as the experience of tbe past has proven that vice, pauperism and crime are the invariable attendants of the over crowded and iily ventilated dwellings of the poo: upon the capitalists of the country attention to the blessings to be derived from investing thelr means in erecting suc dwellings. STRIKES. Resolved, That this Congress deprecates what is familiarly known as strikes among workingmen and recommend that every other honorable means be exhausted before any such course is resorted to, INTELLECTUAL IMPROVEMENT. Resolved, That the formation of mechanics’ institutes, ly- coums and'reading rooms, and the erection of buildings for that pa Tecommonded to the workingmen in all cities und towne asa means of advancing thelr intellectual treasury no} debts public holder into 2 ATIVE. and social tmprovemeat. KEMEDY FOR INSUFFICIENT WORK. Resolved, That this Labor Congress would most respect: fully recommend to the workingmen and women of the coun {ry hay in ‘oaue, they are for want of employment, ther proceed tothe puolle lands and become actual settlers believing that {f the industry of the country can be coup’ with its natural advantages {t will result both in individual relief and national advan Renolved, That where a workingman i# found capable and available for any office the preference should invariably be given to auch, Resolved, ran. at under a sound monetary system there could be to oniam between the interests of the work- ingwomen and the workingmen of this country. nor between any of the branches of productive industry, the direct opera- tion of each, wht Pot perverted by unjust monetary la il the others by the production and distribu: ‘and comforts of. life, and that the s national government of the financial policy wet forth in this platform will put an end to the oppression of workingwomen, the means of securing to them an well as to workingmen the just reward of their Innor. Resolved, That we demand the abolishment of the system of dontract labor in our prisons and penitentiaries, and that the Jabor performed by contract shall be that which wiil least conflict with honest industry outside of the pritous, and that the wares manufactured by the eonviets shall not ve put upon the market at less than a market rates. ‘A. C, CAMERON, RY H. MACDONALD, W. Hi. SYLOIS. A.M. PURTT. WwW. L. STOCKER R.TREVELLICK rity report om the plat- PUTNAM. Mr. Hine also read a ints form. Both reports were received and the majority re- port made a special order for this ae Mr. A. T. Cavis, of Washington, then introduced she following resolutions: — Whereas Congress and the political States favor the poiley of nj dusien and Imports, and whereas Legislatures have by legislation en he Introduction of foreign Tabor into the industries of the countey, which when brought here, comes in direct competition with or, whos protection Is the avowed policy of the goverument: and whereas federal and State Legisintures has chartered companies to procure itomigrants, Congress have douatedfiarge bodies of public lands to such Companten; therefore, Resolved, That Congress has no constitutional power + Protect industrial inveatments at the expense of operatin parties of the United American industry by ngress and the State a { emigrant companies isa of home labor, and ia here- direct attempt to control the pri hy reprobated and denoune Resolved, That Congress is invested with no authority to be- corporations, partioular!y vations vse their ranch! to bring the nrope Into competition with the dearer and telligent inbor of the United Staten, These resolutions were adopted, and at five o P. M. the Congress adjourned to meet at nine 0° this morning. THE PIANO MAKERS’ UNION. The reguiar weekly meeting of this ass@ctation took place last night at the Germania Aseembly Rooms, Henry Sievert, the president, in the chalr. A proposition to change the Workingmen’s organ in this city from a weekly into @ datly paper was mooted, and a committee of five was appointed to collect subscriptions for the purpose. (he dispute eiween che association and a certain noted finn of ‘piano makers in this city Was discussed, and it was determined to place the question before the public in the form of a letter setting forth the cause of the dispute and its consequences, The letter is to ve published in the daily press, and a copy of it is aiso to be laid before the Labor Congress to-day. About fifty new inembers joined the society last night, No ovier business of Importance Was transacted THE WEATHER YESTERDAY. The following record shows the changes of tem- perature during che past twenty-four hours, as indicated by the thermometer at Hudnut’s phar- 218 Broadway, Herap Building THE REVOLUTION IN SPAIN. Biogr<pyical Sketches of the Leading Generals and Political Person- ages Engaged Therein. The pablic interest manifested in regard to the present revotution in Spain and the desire no doubt existing in the minds of many to tearn the antece- dents of the leading men engaged therein, in order to base an opinion on the probable success of the movement, warraat the publication of the following biographical sketches. Sketch ef General Prim, Don Juan Prim, Lieutenant General im the na- tionai army of Spain, Viscount del Bruseh; Count de Reus, Marquis de los Castillejos and Grandee of Spain of the First Class, was born on the 6th of December, 1811, at Reus, in Catalonia, and was educated for the army. He made bis first campaign as an officer im the Spanish civil war which followed the accession of Isabelia 1, to the throne of Spain, in 1833, He es- poused the fortanes of the Queen Mother, Christina, then regent, and fought for her with such zeal as to win the rank of colonel, On the failure of her cause and the flight of the Queen, Prim assoctated himself with the party of the progresistas, This party bears about the same character in Spanish politics that the whigs do in English politics, and in the present revo- Tationary state ef the country may be likened to the liberals of Mexico as against Maximilian. The pro- gresistas at that time were opposed to the measures of Don Baldomero Espartero, Prince of Vittoria, who became, on the flight of Christina, Dictator, and sub- sequently Regent of the kingdom, This Espartero 1s the same with whom Prim is now associated in the present revolutionary movements. In 1833, how- ever, he and Prim were bitter enemies, He accused Prim of complicity in an insurrection which broke out in Saragossa in 1842, and the latter was forced to take refuge in France. Here he joined the exiled Queen Christina, and with her engaged in efforts to bring about a restoration. Shortly after his Might he was returned as a Deputy from the city of Barcelona to Cortes, the Spanish Parliament or Congress. The fact of this election ‘was a sufticient protection to his person, and he ven- tured to return to Spain to take his seat. Espartero ‘Was still Regent, but did not venture to arrest Prim. Prim, however, ventured to engage in movements against the Regent, and joined the coalition which was formed between the friends of the exiled Queen and the progresistas against Espartero. In May, 1843, he headed an insurrection in his native city of Reus, from which, however, being speedily driven by Zurbano, ove of Espartero’s lieutenants, he took refuge in Barcelona, While wanting a siege in this city the power of Espartero was broken by the entry of Narvaez into Madrid. The subsequent fall of Espartero and the return of the Queen Mother to power made him a general, with the title of Count de Rens and the post of Governor of Madrid. But this state of affairs was of short duration, A fresh insurrection broke out in Barcelona, which, it was hoped, General Prim would put down; but he so employed the force at his disposal as to keep Catalo- nia in revolt for an entire year. For this he was dis- graced by the Queen and tried for high treason, as well as for complicity in an attempt to assassinate General Narvaez, bat was acquifted on the last charge, while his sentence on the first was reduced to a few months’ imprisonment, From this time until the breaking ont of the Turk- ish war, in 1853, he kept himself aloof from public life, He then jeined the Ottoman army on the Danube and distinguished himself in the affairs of Oltenttza and Suisaia. On his return from the » in 1854, General Prim published at Madrid an acconnt of his military traveis in the Eust, together with a historical and geographical es ny, on the Turkish empire. In 1856 he represenicd Barcelona, for the second time, in the Lower Chamber of the Cortes, and was raised to the dignity of Senator ihree years later. In these several wars te won some distinction, ‘aud in 1358 or 1859 was made a lieutenant general of the Spanish army and Captein General of Granada. In 18.0 he was sent against Morocco and aistinguished himsel( during the short war which ensued. His bravery at the engagement of Castillejos won him the marquisate of that title. In the autumn of 1561 General Prim was appointed to the command of the Spanish expedition against Mexico, and was ordered, m accordance with the terms of the treaty of London, to co-operate with th: French and English forces tn enforcing redress from the Mexican government for alleged outrages com- mitted on the coalesced Powers, His original instructions were by no means objectionable to General , and he entered with great vigor into the war. It was a matter of considerable surprise, therefore, when, in 1862, he suddenly withdrew the Spanish troops to Cuba without orders from the home authorities, This action on his part wave great offence to Louis Napoleon and created considerabie fear at Madrid, where the influence exercised by Napoleon is very great. Prim was re- called and an examination was made into his coi duct. Inthe Spanish Cortes, on December 9, 1862, General Prim spoke in his defence, declaring that while he was not and never had been an enemy to France he was not content to be the tool of her or of any foreign Power. He had been sent to Mexico to enforce certain claims in the interest of Spain, not to conquor dominion for France; and when he saw that France intended to inaugurate an exclusively French policy in Mexico, in violation of the treaty of London, he had withdrawn his ‘The government of Spain would have been duct of Prim, but dared not, at_ the court of Madrid se- cured his dismissal from Madrid and his exile to Oveido. He did not leave Madrid to go into exile, however, until August 13, 1864, When be did leave the populace took occasion to express their love for the man in demonstrations of regret at his de- parture. General Prim will be wel: remembered in this country since his visit in 1864, which made him so familiar to the American public, He was for a time @ guest of the Army ot the Potomac, and thence was escorted over the lines on a tour of inspection of the rebel armies, He wrote some letters on the civil and military condition of this country and the armies of the North, some of which he had an tga of reviewing, and spoke of them in the highest terms of admiration. lle spoke and wrote as a true friend of America and her institutions, and at the same time evidenced his strong progressive and tib- eral opinions. His letter on the United Stat created considerable consternation in Spain and Cub nd it is suspected that ite publication was the crowning offence against monarchcial institutions in France and Spain which decided his fate and made him an extle. The praise which he bestowed on our institutions, armies and ple Was too strong for the digestive powers of his fellow noblemen, aud the old hidalgo anti- ive stock of old Spani<h nobility refused to consider his conduct less than criminal. Disturbances between the democratic or pre ista party and the government of Spain took place in 1865 which General Prim was suspected to have fomented. On the 34 of January, 1866, a military revolt broke out at Aranjuez and Ocana, and General Prim put himself at the head of the insu its, issuing same time his famous proclamation, a8 follows:— SPANTARDS !We have arrived at the terrible mon which revolution is the only reso of the nation and main duty of honorable men. Tam at the head of able military forces, and a great number of armed cow men hasten on all sides to {ight tinder my orders for the of freedom and ov iand. festo of the Progresista Central Committee, With it to 1 band T will fight with my wonted valor against the gove ment whieh dishonore ns abroad and raine ua at home, to the point of making ur a laughing stock among foreign nations fand bringing us to the verge of & abameful bankruptcy. Bo diers—who have already fought under my orders—yon are aware that | have never forsaken yc that if you stand by me in this enterprise I shall know how to lead you, first showing you the path to victory and next remuinerating your endeavors. ow citizens, men of honor, ald ine. you too, to bring to x happy end a political revolution which may do away with the necessity of that social revolution with which we are threatened. Spaniards, hi yerty, for the programme of the Central Progresista Comumittes, (or the ‘copatituent Cores! The atiempt proved abortive and ended op the 220 of June with the bloody suppression of @ revolt in the city of Madrid. Its leader made hia escape to Belgium | Severalfatile attempts at rebellion were made in | the eastern provinces during the year 1867, but the | government troops easily q The present is the most least those under the management of G Prin, wi immediately left his exile in Belgium and France direct the revolution. Personally, he is aman considerably below the middie size, with @ snail and siender, but appa rently wiry and exiremeiy active frame, @ brigtt, lively, intelligent countenance, — witit @ very bad complexion, the visible reaull of that liver complaint. under which he is well known to labor. His eyes are large and expressive; this fea tures toierably regular, with no other marked pect Harity than the high cheek bones, 18 man courteous and winning, he speaks fuently presses himee!f forcibly and not ine tiy hotn in hia native angnage and in French, ite reals bing bsh, but ie not a fluent speaker of it, General EKepartere., Ger i Joaquin Baldomero Eepartero, uke of | Vittoria, was born February 1792, in Granatala. province of Ciudad Real, and has consequentiy reached the ripe age of seventy-six years. He is the sob of a wheelwright; received some instruction in his native village and in the neighboring town of Almagro; enlisted in 180% as a common soldier: sab- sequentiy attended the military school at Cadiz; Was made sub-lieutenant in 1814; engaged in 181d in the war in Venezucia, attained in South America to the rank of general, and in 1824 was sent to Madrid as bearer of despatches for tue govern- ment, He returned to South America the next year only to witness the triamph of Bolivar and Ww be thrown into prison, from which he escaped after a | cavalry, YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 19¢3—TRIPLE SHEET. few months’ deteation, After hie arrival in Spain he displayed *, targe fortune, derived, it was said, | Ment, from g@loling in South America, In 1827 he | and Bea marries the beautiful daughter of a wealthy | and Letona, He was exiled to Teneritte, whence lutionary matters to such an extent that the govern- | something to be done. acting prom} arrested him last summer ho} ié de la Torre, Generals Zabala Serrano, Bedaya gentleman of Lagrono, He was one of the | &™barked to.join the present movement. firat to declare himeelf in favor of the measure brought forward to secure the succession to the throne to Isabel II, and the regency during her mi- nority to her mother, Queen Christina, On the breaking out of civil war after King Ferdinand’ death, September 29, 1833, he took a Conspicuous part against the Carlists, became commander-in- chief of the province of Biscay January 1, 1834, and soon after field marshal and lieutenant general of the royal forces, June 20, 1835. Although not always successful against the Carlists he displayed more spirit and ability than any of his colleagues, and having protected Madrid against the insurgents, August, 1836, he was appoimted General- in-Chief of the army of the North, Viceroy of Na- varre, aud in the following month Captain General of the Basque provinces, Soon afterwards he drove the Carlisis from the position of Luchana, and as- sisted by the British fleet raised the,siege of Bilbao, December 24, 1836, on which ean he was created LD Count of Luchana, In the meantifie revolution was rife in Madrid, resuiting in the lamation of a new constitution June 18, 1837, to which Espartero asa member of the constituent Cortes gave his ad- herence. He forced the army of Don Carlos, whic! had advanced to the walls of Madrid, September 12, 1837, to retreat, and drove it back across the Ebro. On April 27, 1838, he defeated near Burgos the army of the Carlist General Negri, and soon afterward, near Penacerreda, that of General Guergue, aud after gaining new and important victories in May, 1839, he was created, June 1, @ grandee of the first class with the title of Duke of Vittoria and Morella, Skilfully aralling himself of the dissensions and calamities of the Carlists and of his personal acquaintance with their general, Maroto, the successor of Guergue, who had been his companion in arms in South America, he succeeded in concluding a convention with him at Bergara, August 29, 1839, by which twenty-four battalions of veteran Carlist troops acknowledged the supremacy of the Queen. Von Carlos fed to France, the few troops that remained devoted to to him were dispersed, and Cabrera himself, the most formidable Carlist leader after the death of Zumalacarreguy, was at length overpowered and compelled to follow his master to France, July cr 1840, and thus the war with the Carlists was brough' toa close, But the strife of political parties in which Es} ro now took @ more prominent part aunt to distract the country. A law interfering with freedom of speech in the ayuntandientos, or town councils, passed by the gov- ernment and op by Expartero, became the signal for an insurrection, Espartero made a ti- umphant entry into Madrid and Valencia, whither he had been summoned by Christina, who proposed to place him at the head of a new administration. But in the course of a stormy interview with him the Queen suddenly determined to resign her office of regent, October 10, 1840, and retired to France. Espartero became the chief of the government, and was confirmed in his position by a decree of the Cortes, May 8, 1841, by which he was appointed regent of Spain during the remainder of the minority of Isabel, Holy See, as well as those of the extreme republican party, quelied an insurrection in favor of Christina under O'Donnell at Pamplona, defeated the attempts of Concha and Diego Leon to seize the young Queen and to bribe the army, repressed the unruly spirit of the people in the Basque provinces, and on Noyem- ber 18, 1841, subdued Barcelona, the focus of tl revolutionary politicians and the discontented it dustrial population. But within a year the was again in open rebellion. A new and blood: Mict broke out at Barcelona. Espartero tool the town in December, 1842, after a heavy bombard- ment. Violent outbreaks took place in‘many of the provinces, his cabinet resigned and revolution, pro- moted by the agents of Christina and O’ponnell, spread over the land. The junta of Barcelona de- clared the majority of Isabel June 13, 1843, and de- posed Espartero. Narvaez, putting him: at the of the insurgents at Valencia, entered Madrid y 22, and Espartero, deserted by ail parties, was ived on board an English ship of war in the bay ‘adiz July 30, whence he soon after set sail for England, arriving at Falmouth August 19. He re- sided in London until December 29, 1847, when he ‘was recalled to Spain and created a Senator. He soon retired and took no part i the govern-* ment until July 17, 1 when an insurrection broke out which again drove Christina aifd Narvaez from the country and placed Espartero at the head of the governinent. With a view of consolidating his go ernment he had appointed O'Donnell, the prin leader of Christina’s party, Minister of War; but this coalition could not last, and Espartero resigned in July, 1856. His resignation was followed by out- breaks in Madrid and other tewns, in which, how- ever, Espartero, who has ever since lived in reti ment, took no part. He promises now to become, in his green old age, a8 conspicuous an actor on the busy stage of Spanish politics as he ever was in the f his yout Duke de Montpensicr. Among the Spanish revolutionists is the French Duke de Montpensier, Prince Antoine Maric Philippe Lonis Orleans, who was born at Neullly on the 3ist of July, 1824, and is the fifth son of King Louis Philippe. Entering the Third French regiment of artillery he sailed for Africa in 1844, took part in the expedition against Biskara and distinguished himself in the campaign of Ziban, where he was wounded in the | re For his gallantry he was rewarded with the cross of the Legion of Honor and the epaulet of After a visit, in company with his father, to England, he returned in 1845 to Algiers and took part in the campaign against the Kabyles. Thence he travelled to Tunis, Egypt, Syria, Constan: tinople and Greece. On his return he married on the loth of October, 1846, at Madrid, the infanta Marie Queen Isabella's sister, a stroke of policy on the part of Louis Pni- fave. chef Mescadron, Lonise Ferdinand de Bourbon, | ippe which came near causing a rupture between England and France, the revolutionists at one time contemplating making his wife Queen in place of Isabella, After the French revolution of February, 1848, he took refuge in England, and thence went to Holland and finally to Seville, when he was made Infantof Spain and Captain General of the Spanish army. His eldest daughter is married to the Comte de Paris. In July last he was expelled from Spain by a royal decree and went to Lisbon, whence he ublished the foliowing protest directed to Queen jsabella:— MADAME—Through the medium direct of the Captain Gen- eral of Andalusia we received your royal mandate of the ith July ultimo, commanding us with the least possible delay to leave the peninaula and take up our residence without the Spanish territory. | Subsequent tel ws des! the igate Villa de Madrid as the vessel which was to convey us on thi foreed Henving to us the chotce of the country er we might be pi to pass our exile. We will not attempt to inquire into the original causes of the wwe met with at ourdiserabarkation in Portugal threatened with privation of the liberty granted to us at first, that of selecting onr place of baniahment ; but the embarrass: ing situation we were placed in when righting Lisbon, as well as the disrespect shown by the authorities of Cadis to the royal ‘tandard hoisted on the frigate by which we were conveyed, an incident impossible to be understood, must be taken af nneceneary aycravation J i. uipon the atey upon the point of leaving the Vilia de is the worthy representative of foot upon foreign soll, we rve Imposed "pon w proceeding from flop. But if we were to consider it opportune to defena our- selves against imputations hidden under transparent allu- when we are Femiuded of the duties of lovaity whieh it if unnecessary to recall to your Majesty; if unhappy Spain is now passing through « Fitenie * Mion-whnsk wre de- siore with all onr hearia—we are not the generating cause, ‘he origin of the lamentable agitations which serve as a pre- text to condemn us, if it existe at all, must be sought else- Whenever the nallon is agitated it is because it le for there are neither indi- vidualities nor names ‘and to drag a nation after them, againat this manifest violation of th Stain ‘and also, of the eternal principles of int the steps that have been taken by your Majesty's govern- mont, and for this purpose we do not invoke @ come siderations of our rank or of family tier, * * * The coun- try in agitated, the revolutioniats avail themseives of your name as of ® standard and take it as the object of their machinations. Snob are the just considerations upon which vod your extra legal proceeding, a atep derogatory to our high position, of which you have intentionally made mention tw abuse us the inore, We do not consider it compatible with our dignity to direct notion to these points. It ie solely in the name of our righta, ity of Spaniards placed under the guarantee of the of the country, that we protest before your ont the violence ‘that removes us from our be- We expect that the reparation shall be as pubiic emn ae the inamit to which We have been sui. aeeted May (od preserve your Majesty many yanrs. MARIA LUISA FEKNANDA ANTONIO, Don Domingo Duice. ton Dowingo Dulee y Garay, Marquis de Castie- Horite, formerly Nentenant general of the Spanish forces and Captain General of the island of Cuba, ‘was born in the city of Sotes, Spain, in (he year isos, and i# consequently about sixty years of age. He was descended from an old and titied Spanish family, and at an early age adopted the profession of arms and took an active part against the Carlists in the Spanish civil wars, For valorons conduct in de- feuding the bracts gute when in danger he was made Gentieman of the Bedchamber in 1842, and five years after was spbotated brigadier general of He continued to distinguish hineeif, and attracted so much attention by hia acts that, as a reward for the services he performed he was made feld marshal in 1849, being previously honored, how ever, with the post of cominandant of the provinces of Sevelle and Saragossa, In 1854 he was associated with Marshal O'Donnell in the Vicalvaro insurrec- tion, He was Gaptain General of the province of Catalonia, Spain, with headquarters at Barcelona, in the year 1862, and was aiso Senator of the reaim at ine same time. In 1863 he was appointed Captain General of Cuba, which ition he held nti! the early summer of 1866, vious to hiv return to Spain he paid a visit to this country, arriving here in dune, 1 im the Spanien frigate Dofia Isabel la Catolica, He received a warm welcome and was entertained in @ princely manner while in this city. Barly in 1867 he returned to Cuba, where he waa united in im: to the Countess Santovenia, s lady of wealth Sara pounce. The Lott, Tad mony was perf h dne solemnity it pri- vate oratory of her ladyship in her mansion a i Plaza de Armas. He su! ently in col My Liv bride Feturnea {6 Spain, wherd he mised i revo: | torialy waiting for the deeturer ta thew husoeit oF | Lent te ea He resisted the encroachments of the- Marshal Serrane. Marshal Francisco Serrano, Duke de 1a Torre, was born at the close of the last century and acquired his military experience in the war of independence. Devoted to the interests of the government, jie as- sisted in bringing about the fall of Espartero in 1843, After the restoration of the Queen mother Serano coalesced with Narvaez in the attempts of the latter to overthrow Olozaga. Shortly after the marriage of Queen Isabella, in 1546, he acquired an influence over the royal mind which occasioned differences between the King consort and herself and caused Meantime John Allen, the veritable “Wickedest Man,” waa present, and Rev. John Van Meter, the director of the Water street e | prayer meetings, was present, and so were a number of his clergymanic assistants, and so were some thirty of the female pupils of the Howard Mission school, the latter occupying seats on the stage; and busily stirmmg about was the head man of the com- mercial coilege, grasping after notoriety, while everywhere throughout the spacious hall were boys disseminating circulars eulogistic of the aforesaid commercial college. At length the aforesaid head of the aforesaid commercial college announced some singing by the Howard Mission school pupils, These papils sang, and then the aforesaid nead of the aforesaid commercial — coil made a brief speech, announcing the “speedy fort coming of the lecturer, It was evident that the thin audience, mostly dead heads made up of the pupils of the aforesaid’ commercial college, of which he ts some scandal. The Ministry of the Duke de Soto-,| “He aforesaid head, did not pat him ‘In a very pleas- mayor, which attempted to destroy his influence, was overthrown by him while that of M. de Salamanca, which he supported, yielded to the storm of public indignation which assailed it. After this Serrano turned liberal, and just before the accession to power of Narvaez, accepted the Captaincy General of Granada. Having been implicated in a rising at Saragossa in 1854, he was exiled, but returned during the revolution of July in that year and be- came an active supporter of the O'Donnell and Es- irtero Cabinet. In the rupture which followed tween these two he sided with the former, and having been nominated Gaprain Gener ff New Castille—an appointment which placed rid in his power—in the coup d'etat of 1856 he played into O’Donnell’s hands, and in that same year was ated Duke de la Torre, In 1857 he Was sent as Ambassador to the Court of France. In 1859 he was appointed Director and Colonel General of Artillery, and tn June, 1866, Captain General of Madrid, Miscellaneous. The other personages engaged in the movement, of which very little is known in this country, are the following:— Admtral Topete, commanding the naval forces of Cadiz, M. Lopes Dominguez, commandant of artillery and formerly Deputy in the Cortes, General Zabala, formerly Minister of War. Generals Vidaurri, Cordova, Bedoya, Sanchez, Bregnor and Buata. Letona, THE WATER STREEP REVIVAL. Reform in the Rat PitK s Opinion of Hadden—A_ Brutal and S.mewhat Mys- terious Affair. The crowd which assembled to witness the prayer meeting held in the den of “the great incorrigible” yesterday was fully as large and respectable as that ofthe previous day, and was, to all appearances, fully as much disgusted at what they saw and heard, It ts plainly apparent, however, that the head centres of the revival movement are beginning to see the error of their ways, and if they only have the moral courage to cast out the motes of insin- cerity with which their eyes have hitherto been blurred and set to work earnestly in the right direc- tion they may yet do something towards removing the sinful beams which obstruct the mental visions of their erring brothers and sisters of Water street. The congregation of curious respectability assem- bled in the amphitheatre yesterday were left to amuse themselves as best they could for fully half an hour beyond the time announced for the commence- ment of the religions performances, but just as the promising youth who presides over the “regular sports” of Kit’s establishment, and who has a re- markably keen eye for business, was thinking of going round with his hat—a preliminary he never fails to perform before ‘ jucin’ the varmint,” one of the reverend lessees made huis appearance tn the arena, and the introduction of that;ferocious little bull “purp” which plays such # conspicuous part in the ratification meetings was happily postponed until “after service.” One of the leading revivalists started a hymn, and at tts conclusion led off with one of the usual rambling prayers, after which sev- eral more or less reverend gentleman held forth in turn, It is a subject of congratulation that the “good sheplierds’ of Water street haye at last ) come convin of the expediency of paying some muuch to be regretted that their zeal and enthusiasm in the cause of salvation should be saying out in con- sequen Yhey are eminently sensati tians an prayer. of the Water street revival have drawn upon them- selves the censure of all truly religious burlesquing religion. The Water street movement niant brothel Kcepers. it Burns, who was in one of his most amtable moods yesterday, atill glories in his wickédness and refuses to listen to the words of grace, and yet he persists in Paap, J that there is as much if not more religion under lis waistcoat than there ts under the respective waistcoats of his old asociates Alien and Hadden. He admits that of iate “Tommy begins to look awful giiun and pious like,” but says, “he may fool them preachers, but he can’t fool me. No, sir; taint to be done.” On being asked if the money paid by the missionaries for the use of the pit compensated him for closing his bar during the meeting, Kit gave one of his most significant winks and politely asked his visitor to inform him what he took him for. While preparations were being made in the pit for the customary “ratification meeting” one of the bo ten or twenty sanctimonious looking speciinens of sinful humanity who are suspected from thetr regular attendance and peculiar deportment of being subsidized by the religious revolutionists of Water Ktrect, Was rash enough to try a “beat” on the re- markably cute young gentieman who had charge of the gan indignantly—“Why ay. Sanctimonions can’t | pasa?” Gentleman at the gangway, curtly—“Cos ye ain't paid yer money.” Sanctimonious individual, haughtily—“How much do you want?" Gentleman at the gangway, somewhat mollified— “Filty cents.” oo individual, candidly—“Haven't got individual, Gentieman at the gangway, contemptuoasly —“Git out o! the Way, then. Sanctimonious individual, coaxingly—“What's going on, rat killing jeman at the gangway, surlily--“What else’ed 77 ts °° pect for fifty cen ikappointed at not being able to witness the prowess of the famous littie bull “purp” the impe- cunious individual of sanctimonious appearance came suddenly anxious to save the doomed *var- taint” from his deadly jaws, and openly declared his intention of at once ap| the police of the brutal “#port? about to be indulged in. “Better try it!” exclaimed the gentleman at the gangway. evidently meaning the exact reverse of what he said. . Regardiess of the warning the would-be deadhead went outside and engaged in earnest conversation with @ police officer until Kit Burns, who had been hastily apprised of what bad occurred, rushed out and interrupted him by seizing his shoulder and asking the oMicer to arrest him on the double charge of “being disorderly and trying to kick up a muss.” The officer, who seemed to see through the affair, advised the sanctimonious one to clear off, and con- sequently off he went as fast as he could, but, unfor- tunately for him, not faat enough to escape the vengeance of the young gentleman whose acquain- | tance he had made at the gangway, Ten minutes later the informer was discovered picking him- if out of the gufter of an adjoining street, his sanctimonious Visage so terribly altered that his best friend would hardiy have recognized bim, nasal organ, which a few moments previous had been such @ remarkably prominent feagure, now appeared to bave been violently ‘mashed’? and spread ali over his fave, As tie biood was washed away, however, the nose commenced to loom up again, and by the time 1 had done swelling it waa decidedly the worst looking nose that was ever broken ontside a prize ring. On bein us to bow he had received his injuries the fellow ex- pectorated two of his front teeth, complained that could feel another one sticking in hia gullet, and asked if anybody would be kind enough vo tell him where be was. He “came ww’ w litte while his wounds were being dressed to a neighboring sur: we but said he did not see anybody strike him; he uly Sawa fist, Nothing further could be discovered concerning this brutal atfair, at that on return ing to hia post iu the gangway shortly after the de- parture of th monious one, the cute young gentleman previousiy spoken of was heard to say something about somebody having recently under- gone (he operation of being “busted on the snoot,? and that somebody else, on hearing chia, nodded ap. provingly, and exciained, “Served him right: by bog holy poker tt did; like to know what he took as fore ow Pail Seen Abant New York’ ture by Oliver Dyer, the Author of ¢ edest Man Fraud, All the celeprity Oliver Dyer—the fret to bringinto | hotice the Wickedest Man of New York—guined | throug this species of delving biography, all the | additional celebrity of the Water street prayer meet- ings, and ail the eftorts to bring celebrity upon a cer- tain commercial college in this city through the medium of these dai celebrities, failed to bring out ® very large audience last evening at Cooper Inati- tute to hear Mr. Dyer iectore upon the theme, “What I have seen about New York.” For some half hour after the time advertined for the tecture to begin thowe who dxi come were kept purge questioned Wicks Jittie attention to decency and decorum; but it is onal Chris- do not believe inthe efficacy of quiet By their contemptible attempts to gain no- toriety, the unscrupulously enterprising organizers ersons, and the only atonement they can make is R follow the example of their pretended converts, Allen and Hadaen, in so far as to shuf up their dance houses and dog pits and refrain from further attempts at may yet produce reformed “revivalists” a8 well as ant oratorteal mood, for his remarks were specially curt a% weli as brief, Altogether it was visibiy a Speculation and not visibly a paying one. Ataquarter to nine o'clock nh Dyer made hia bow tothe audience, If he was late mace it up in talking late, for he was nearly two hours talking, @ genuine talking from mere memo- randa before him, a siow, easy, indifferent kind of talking, with no ambitious striving for oratorieal effect even if he possesses oratorical talent, Which is very doubtful, judging from the style of delivery he ex- hibited on this occasion, ‘The progress of wie lecture soon revealed that he had geen nothing so very charming or startling in our metropolis, and that ha had not walked about our city with his’ eyes so very inuch wider open than most people of peripatetic proclivities, otwithstanding ail this he was, how: ever, listened to with a Cen deal of attention. He began with regretting his inability to crain within the limits of @ single lecture what he had seen about New York. He had been fourteen years seem what he proposed in part to describe. Much that he might tell would be Incredible. Not long since he wrote an article for @ certain mag: » the aforesaid magazine which we have referred to giv- ing an account of a poor colored woman named Rachel, whom he had found in Fish alley, nearly starved to death. The publisher of that article was incredulous a8 to Fish alley and the reality of the Rachel he had sketched. One day this publisher asked him to take him to Fish alley and show hin this woman, which he did, He would now take the audience to this same Fish alley. It was easy to flud it by going down » Bowery and into Ouk street, and then step into one of a row of ten ment houses, He described the interior this tenement house and the poverty tn coming he of of the inmates and how they lived. There are forty thou- sand in the city sutfering the dame stings of poverty, mostly children, Ail the little children one meets in the streets selling songs live somewhere, ‘They make @ quarter of a cent on each song. He spoke of a lit- tle crippled girl who sells these songs, He went home with this littie girl and in a dainp, dark, dia- mal room of a back ee tenement was the mother of this child, dying by inches of diseases en- gendered by a life of prolonged shame. Yet this lit- Ue child loved her mother. To her she was as pure as an angel. Not longsince this woman dicd. Some Christian ladies caused the dead body to be laid out, and very soon afterwards thieves crept in there and stole everything away even to cutting off the woman’s hair, There was a wake over thai woman bo @ scene of disgraceful bacchanal ‘That child was now in a Christian family in the country. He next proceeded to speak of the forty thousand Impoverished children living in the city, “He described the tenements in which they live and the number of stories, low ceilings, narrow hallways and poor ventilation of these tenement abodes. Often eighty-four persons are crowded inte a singie building. Below Twenty-third street there are 502,000 people living in tenement houses, He could show them one tenement house with 1,200 occupants, and so could Captain Thorn, ‘and so could they at the Howard Mission. How could we account for so many: destituie and degraded ciuldren in the ctiy? Liquor shops were the’chief agency. These shops are now everywhere, lining ali thoroughtare: There are Spit these liquor shops. In the city there are also 647 houses of ill fame. Of billiard saloons there are 1,648 In the city. He considered the billiard ®a- loons aa the most demorahzing places in (he city. They all have bars and their private games of cards, and their inmates generally fetch up at the Water Street dens, and would doubtless have fetched at the wickedest man’s if it had not been closed. During the past year there were 80,592 arrests by the police of this city, Of these 21,589 were women aud 953 men, Of the women 1,056 were arrested assault and battery, sixty-two for felonious assa six for robbery and six for murder. Of the men were arrested for disorderly conduct and 4,700 for in- toxication, After giving more of these statistics, culled f.om the Jag: reper @ of the Police Commission « ers, the grogshops and houses of tll-fame and bil- lard saloons as oe one continuous street, he said they would reach from the City Hail to White Pilatus. Along this row of streets there would nightly be @ murder @yery half mile, a robbery every thirty Toda, sx outcasts at every door, vais nen dividing “swag” which in to $1,481,368, eight preachers among the criminals and thirty newspaper men to describe the scenes of crime and debauchery. How was the way to get rid of this ‘pauperism and crime? Tenement houses must be done away with, the East and North rivers must be bridges, and the city that now is stretch tiself out into country. These criminais were not satistied with good whiskey. Their abnormal xppetites craved “benzine” and the most inflammatory of poi- quors. He ext turned his attention to tue yard, which he pronounced the w: ward in the wickedest city on this Continent, with the New York Trivune bullding on its worthwest corner. While in this locality he gave Tom liad complimentary notice, saying that wicked as le was and as much as he had helped to make the ward wicked, he always kept a private botile of good whiskey for bis friends, “Bucket shops" now cane in for description. This ward, he dl, Was full of these shops, Jobn Brannigan, of 82 Oliver street, being the leading man in the business, He described their patrons, the utensils whieh they brought io have filled with liquor, among which, he said utensils in household ase he would net venture name to ears polite. In tis connection he told of tws former pupils of the Howard—pupils wher th drunken fathers had murdered becatse they ref to get liquor for them. Join Branniga told him that one Saturday night he in payment for liquor he so'd. Poor sewing by the light of the, street gas lamps came m for a few words of condolent sympathy. He now waked whe- ther he should speak upon the subject of abondor women, Several said ‘‘No,"* but the i the au- dience eried out “Yes,” and so he proceeded to ili late at length on this topic. He read first ¢ quies- tions which had been banded in to bin by a dis uished divine of this cily, whose name. ¢ did not meation. 1 i their childhood ¢ Did they come from the higi did they come to faily He did not ay questions categoricaily, but talked quite at random on the subject. He proclaimed that tie mosi of them were children of pious parents, and mi thor childhood were aitendants at Sabbath seneul. le developed the curious way he took to find sts ov He Visited many houses of Ui-famwe, always company with a detective, and througn ing iiro- duced as Judge somebody or Colonel somebody, i a@ny character except that of @ pious tnan, adroit! wormed out the information he soug' He told stories of the young girls, all of whom had b seduced by sons of church deacons. While on this theme he deseanted upon the theme quite m- mediately connected with “Who are going to hell As he had written an article with this title ¢ these of their freshness, He was not very lucit or explic in his statements, but branched off into ser- monizing on the duties of parents. After giving an effective narration about old Zeke, a man and @ brother of African descent and bred and born a slave, and another story about the colored woman Rachel—concernin: whom he introduced his lecture—he recited a song which the latter has been tn the habit frequentty singing for his delectation and edification, of whieh the following is the introductory verse:— Nobody knows but Jesus Nobody knows the troubles T aces. Glory! Hallelujah t times [in up, Sometimes I'm down, Sometimes I'm level with the ground, Sometimes glory gleams around, Glory | Hallelujah | ‘The children of the Howard Mission sang the above song, prolonged to three verses, when Mr. Dyer took up the sibject of Kit Hurns and his dog pit. He wave a decidedly artistic description of the process of training doga, and wound up with Kitty Harns, a sixteen ri. 3 oid daughter of the canine connois- seur, and ber masterly mode of handling the war ciubs, which he pronounced a fall expostiion of the much vexed question of women's rights, The clos- ing theme—last, but not least of the varied themes touched upon—of the lecturer's discourse was John Allen, “the wickedest man of New York.” He be John a handsome notice, all things considered. olin Was not the wickedest man as some interpret. wickedness, His chief wickedness eouststed in the fact of whi | an angel for @ mother and good | tt training, and being a graduate of the Sate Normal School, he shouid go to keeping a dance house. He explained how Jonn ve uj ts bagnio, and particularly the scenes of his clos! nightand the bed Ineetings that have since m held there. ohn Was at heart a re man and meant well, but he had two baneful theories—first, to go on a le ‘uring tour and from the proceeds build a Magdalen pope and second, to take @ drink wiih his oid pals with a view in this way the better to jead theur into Christ's fold. He beilev@l he had been cured of the first, and he aes he would be cured ot the second. With describing the moral effects upon the Water street population of the prayer meetings there now in progress he drew his lecture to u clus. BNOOKLYN RECEPTION OF GENERAL GEORGE B, MCLELLAN. At @ meeting of the Couservative Soliiers ant Sailors’ Association of Kings county, held jast even- ing, over which Brigadier General E. A. Kozlay pre- sided, it was resolved to receive Major General (. B. McClellan in a body, upon bis arrival in New York Europe on the Cuba, which event i# Cipected to take piace on the ain of October. It was also decided to grand er procession of veterans w) the occasion and 1d a ase meeting tational Union Association wi Pal on the evening in _< lo Siocum will preside and @ Mac ia ca.