The New York Herald Newspaper, January 27, 1870, Page 8

8 BOUND 10 THE WHEEL, The Caso of William Mullee, Now in Ludlow Btreet Jail—Is Ne Imprisoned for Life in Default of $2,500 !—Who Has Power to Release Him ?—An Interest- ing Question of Law. ‘The case of William Mullee, which was decided by Judge Blatchford eighteen months ago, and since which time he has been locked up in Ludiow street jail, where he is destined to remain until he can find somebody good enough to pay his prosecutors $2,600, did not atiract much attehtion when it fret came into the courts, Certain circumstances which oc- corred @ few weeks ago, however, have again brought the defendant's name into notice, 1t was alleged that he was imprisoned for life by hig “‘perse- cutors,” as he calls the prosecuvors ip the case, Lhey knowing perfectiy well when he was placed In jail that he could never get $2,500 from anybody. A HERALD reporter called upon him at the prison the other day, wien he told his side of the siory as foi- jows:— Ak QUESTION OF MACHINERY, I worked as a foreman combmaker in the estab- Nahment of a Mr. Dwenger, in T'weuty-fourth street, fw 1857. Poppeubusen & Konig, the representa- tives of the Goodyear patents, assured me that U whey won 4 lawsuit ten pending aguinst Horace H. Day, Oscar Falker, Murphy & Rider and Pwenger & Wauguer, for mfrnge- ment of the patents, tiey Would purchase the wa- ebinery | baa invested in and was using. In 1858 or 1859 Poppenphusen & Kouig uiduced the parties above nentioned to compromise and go out of the bi after they Daa obtained their consent to gewumng out an injuuciion forbidding thew waking use of sulphur in ruober within tue proportions oi from four to sixteen ounces of sulphur vw @ pound of rubber. When Una was accomplished 1 was or- dered \0 stop work, and they refused to buy wy ma- chery. They alterwards bought aad paid tor we Most Valuavie, leaving tie rest on My hands. MULLEE HAS AN IDEA. Thad an idea that i could make bard rubber com- posed of rubber With more than sixicen Ounces of @ulphur to @ pound of rubber. | went to ’eunayl- vania and to work on wy hew idea, Remem- ber that the proportious are wwe only things patented by the Gooayear Company. My luea proved & success. A LAWYER GOES FOR 11M. . In 1859-60 Poppentusen & Konig’s lawyers came to me and iried Co have me compromise the whoie matter. We came to au agreement, and I pulled down all my machinery and sipped it to New York, When | came to this city | was subpmuacd, or rather my brotuer was subpuenaed by mistake for mne, 80 I didu’% appear before the court. They wouldn’t sue me in Pennsylvania. The agreement Twigned bound me not to do anything agaist Ue Goodyear patent. HB APPLIES FOR A PATENT. I went to Baltimore and on rebruary 12, 1867, ap- Pied ior a patent Jor ibe process uf mauulacturing @hard compound of rubber applicabie to jeweiry and dental purposes. Ssuortiy aiterward I applied for another. ‘The Goodyear Vompany contended the hard rubber could not be maue by my process. ‘They said they bad tried it themscives and fuiled, HE DOES NOT GET 17, The issuing of the pateut was refused on that ground vy Yiotessor Hearick. I brought the matter On appeat beivre the Commissioner und Board of Exauuners, aud aso applied ior a warrant for the Professor’s arrest. Tleu iiedrick went tomy factory in Pennsylvania to Witness le process by wich [ claimed to produce the new compound. He pro- mused if | could do a8 i said | could be would issue the patent. He went to my factory, sud went away, taking some of tue uuxture material Wita dim, bat he relused (0 issue tue patent. WAS IT SPRATEGY? After June or Juiy, 1867, a Jew was got who swore that | oGerea bia Combs for sale—sauples. 4 was arrested for selling Combs in Violauon of au in- Juncuon issued some Ume before. JUDGE BLATCHFORD TAKES A HAND IN, 1 was then brought before Jadge Blatchford, and was sued, Poppeanusen & Konig ciaummy tua | had made comos with jess than sixteen ounves of Gulphur tothe pound o: gum. Professor seeley’s g@ualysis was received as good evidence, aud he said ‘that the combs had only iourteen ouuces, Which, oF course, Was iniringement of the patent. Many wit- esses, among them men Who worked in ny factory, tesulled that the combs Contained more ian six- teen ounces of suipour. One of the witnesses oi the osher aide, Damed Viary, told me afterward he naa made & ‘lump job” in swearing me into jal. Tue cause Was assigned to Comimissioner Gutunan to take evidence. The result was my being, im June, 1860, gcntenced to pay Poppeanusen & Konig $2,500 or go ‘to yall and stay there until mic amount wus paid. WHICH 18. WHICH? I would mention thata man named Sandberger swore during the trial that he had got a wraien order from me or my brother telling the latter to @ell him combs of our manufacture, aiter tne in- Junction had been issued. ‘Suis was a lie and he knew it; tor he camo lo me alter I been in prison = and ed me not to prosecute lm for perjury. In bis affidavit against gme he swore that | manu- factured combs with less than sixteen ounces of sul- nur. He afterwards made ap affidavit swearing ai the other ailidavit wasa lie, and that he had been induced by my prosecators to swear as be had, and had been paid $100 @ mouth while wunung after me aud my business. NOT IF HE KNEW HIMSELF. David M. Ropes, one of the Goodyear patent solis, Once made a proposition to me. He wanted me to sign @ paver applying for an injunction against my patent, in which 1 should ackuowledge that { nad infringed, and that then { would be reicased. Never having jufriuged tuelr patent 1 did wot sign the paper. IN A TIGHT BOX. When Sandberger made that aMdavit swearing that ne nad lied in his first one, my counsel took 1b #nd made 4 mouon betore Judge blatehiord vo have me discharged, but the Juage decliued, saylog that he had no jurisdiction in the case, aud that only the President couid release me. And herelam yet. 1 have speut $20,000 in Aghting Poppeniiusen & Konig, and now have notaceut Aly wue bas been drivea iusane. | aim Kept bere because of having made au Invention the success of Which would have dainaged the Goodyear monopoly. THE OTHER S\DE OF THE PICTURE. After leaving the jai our reporter had a conversa- tion with Judge biatcaford at his office iu reference to Muliee’s case, and the Judge, in speaking of him, aid that be wasa “persistent iafringer,”’ and hed fled from ctreuit to cireait, and had attacked the Unlied States Marahal’s officers who had been sent to arrest him in Pennsylvania. As to the merits of the case, he referred to his decision given against Mullee in 1668, In that decision the Judge, after re- viewing all the evideuce, said twat William Mullee and Jobn Miller. the defendants, ‘have been infring- ing the Goodyear patents for several years, at three piacegim Pennsylvama and at New York city, and the various establisnments in which they have been working have been broken up by the process of the courts. In regard to Mullee, it appears that since the injunction was served upon bum he nas made aud sold combs composed of india rubber and sulphur, vulcanized by # high degree of artl- ficial beat, and having the properties possessed by the article describea in the Goodyear’s patents,” and that the “combs made and sold by Mullee are wade of @ substance Which has the properties of the substance referred to in the patents, and 13 com- pounded of the iagredients named in the patents, mixed in proportions within the range covered Ly the patents, and suvjected to the avuling process dgacribed in the patents.” ANOTHER JUDGE TAKES A HAND IN. On the 26th of May, 1884, Judge Grier rendered a @ecision granting au Injunction against Muliee aud owners, and tn the decision said tuat after Uke courts had seitied the vandity of the complainants’ pa tents “Muilee obsunately continued to infringe and Was imprisoned for contempt of court tor such conduct; that in New dork, in consideration that the pants would release him from damages that might ve recovered against him, he covenanted that be would no more contest his title and cease from al) iaterference,” and that “another imjuction ‘was aiterwurd issued” by himself, Judge Grier. The Judge also rewarked that Muilee’s “opera- tives resisted the Marshal m the service of we Seog of his court and Were indicted and punished jor so doing.” MULLER WANTS TO GO HOME. After Mullee iad been in Ludlow street jail seve- fai MoDths and his application taJsudze Blavchford for release had been refused on tile ground of want of jurisdicuon, be applied for a pardon to President Johnson, who reterred the matter to Mr. Evarts, the Attorney General. The latter investigated the case and recommended tue President not to yrant a par don. Mutiee made ao appucation to Presiient Grant shortly after the latter's installation inio office aud had no better success than before. WHO 18 SANDBERGER? Among the affidavits sent to tiie Attorney General when Mullee made his application (or pardon was that of W. J. A. Fuller, of the frm of Abvott & Ful- Jer. In it he says:—‘‘Sandberger was ao old intrin- ger, who had been put under injauction. He orferea Us services to the complainants, aud they employed im, 48 stated in che afiidaviis of Mr, Kopes and air. Hoyt, hereto anuexed. The Court expressly siatea that Mullee was punished independent of Sand. berger’s afflaavit.” MULLER’S FAMILY. In another part of the aM@davit Mr. Faller swore to “| know Mullee’s petition is false wherein he speaks of nis family a5 destitute of the commonest necessaries of life and of the condition of his wife’s healun; his wife has several times told me mince ber husband's imprisonment that it was the ‘pest thing for iim to stay where he was, for as sure as be got out he would C4 at infringing again, and NEW. YORK BERALD, THORSDAY, JANUARY 27, 1870.—TRIPLE SHEET. and that he be fined therefor the sum of $2,600, the same to be paid vo the complainants towards the re- imborsement of their ex; in and about these attachment proceed: and that he stand com- mitted until the said fine 1s paid.” WHO CAN RELEASE MULLER? It has been settied that Mullee’s case comes under the head of those cases in which, alter a certain alone has juris- power to punish by ne or imprisonment, at toeir discretion, all contempts of authority in any cause on hearing before them—24th Sept., 1789, sec. 17, 1 btat., 83, 1 Brightiey’s Dig., p. 189 (contempt), sec. 1.) When a court commits ® party for a contempt its adjudication 1s @ conviction, and its commitment in cousequence is execution. (Ex parte, Kearney, 7 Wheaton, 45.) ‘The attorney General, in reply to the Secretary of State, stated that the power of the Pre- sident to “pardon for a fine of $400 imposed for # contempt” came within the President’s constitu- Uonal “power to grant reprieves and pardons for oifences against United States.” In this cuse the Judges of the Circus Cours themselves joined in recoumending the application to tne President for a pardon. (8 Atty. Gen.’s rpins P. me) As es of this extraor- ‘The public have now both dinary case, and can judge for themselves 48 to Which is the right one, THE DUTCHESS COUNTY MYSTERY, Remarkable Scene in the Court Room at Ponghikeepsie—Mrs. Pratt Identifies Two of the Prisoners—Great Ex- citement—A Butter Robbery Accannted For—Highly In- teresiing Particulars. POUGHKEEPSIE, Jan. 26, 1870. Since I last wrote evidence has accumulated fast against the three prisoners, James and Peter Wil- Hams and James {t. Lee, arrested on the charge of robbing the residence of Robert Thorn. Alvogether during the past year Mr. Toorn has been robbed four tmes—the last robbery, a8 18 already koown, resulting in his death. Previous to the last aitack there were a number of pots ol butter stolen trom his cellar. Believing that a woman named Char- lotte Millard, alias Charlotte Lee, knew something of tue matcer, I procured a conveyance on Mouday and proceeded to her residence, three miles and a haif in the country. Upon my arrival herseif and hus- band were found, and @ conversation upon the sub- ject was at once commenced. Her husband said that during husking tie James Wiliams came to him on Mr. Todd's arm and asked him if ne did not wish to take aride, He said if he would hitch up he woud take him where he could get some butter, but the offer was refuged. I tien questioned both Charlotte aad her husoand closer, when they suddenly became quite reticent, and the mterview ended, Returning 1o town fuext went to Mrs. Kelyea’s Louse, in Ciin- ton street. This woman said that James Williams came to her Jast fall and wanted to borrow five dol- lars to hire a horse to take some butter to Newburg. She jet him have the money, and he went off, teliing her that he got the butter at Robert Taorn’s, and uad secreted it by the roadside til after dark. Some time aiier is occurreuce, according to the story of Mrs. Kelyea and Mrs. James K. Lee, the wie of the prisoner, Willams again made lis eppear- ance, aud in @ Conversation WALL (hei on the sudject sud, “No one can tell of us but you, and if you do Jil cut your throat, and then tne whole gang wou't be cuugint neaber, Mrs. Relyea and Mrs. Lee, having hinted that empty butter tubs, or pots, might be fowsd in ine privy of a house m Chureh street, sormeriy occupied by Mrs. Hannah Decker, oilicer Shicids made a search there on Monday, and did flud a vob. ‘his tub, u Mrs, Kelyea’s story Can be relica upon, Was placed there by James KR. Lee at tae request ol Mrs. pecker, aod was a tub that formerly delouged to airs, Lhora—a little piece of iniormauon toat Was ad important bearing. WHO 18 “Jus?” One piece of intedigence which has been sup- pressed since the lust attack on Air. ‘Shorn’s resi- dence may now be given to the public. During the struggie Octween the housekeeper aud one of the burgiars the ormer made such a determined reeist- wace that the burgiar was forced to cry lor heip, which he did by exclaiming hurriedly, **Come, Jim, quick!’ The police are Of the opinion that the “Jim” referred vo 1s noue other than James Williaius, now 1p jail. A cap Was also lett behind by the bur- glars, aud 1t 18 almosi positively kuowu to woom It Delongs, thouga the person suspected IH still ut large. It1s not now suspected that Richard Aikin haa anything todo with the matier, as late develop- ments point in another direction entirely. ‘There is another piece of iniormation counected With the beauag of Mr. Thorn wiica will do no hurt if told, Previous to his deuth parties called on him aad offered to cause ¢he arrest and couviciion of his assailants if he would pay irom one vo three handred doliars for the service periormed, Tueir in- portunities, according to the statement of @ frieud of the family, made wir. Thorn nervous, and he wi- ways declined tne offer. ‘The men making those of Jers can without doubt be named. The people at Titusville Have an opinion in rela- tion to the murderous affair Wiicd Will ve givea hereaiver. A CLEAR STATEMENT. Yesterday morning, at 9 o’ciock, | nad an interview with Cyrus Woiven, @ boss in the chair sop, wiiere @ number of gizla are employed, Chariovte afillurd, spoken of above, works ior Wolven. He says that When the news of the iast attack on Mv. ‘horn transpired Charlotte came invo the silop, when the conversation turned upon the supjeci, She asked Woilven if he had teara of the wilwir, and, when he repiled im the aifirmative, the ioliowmg occur- red:— CHARLOTTE—Dia you hear about some butter stolen? WoLven—Yes; do you know anything about it? CuaKLorre—Yes; tnree fellows were wo it— James ” Willams, Peter Willams and James Kk. Lee. Tuey took eleven pots of butter. WoLven—Where did they take the butter? CuARLOTrE—Tbey took it lo Mrs. Devser’s, Charch sireet. Wouven—What did they do with it then? CHARLOTTE—Lhey took the butier oui of the pots and threw the pols down the closet, and If We police had appeared at Mrs. Decwer’s tie uexe Gay cacy would have iound the pots. WoLVEN—W here did tae butter go to? CHARLOTTE—Tuey took it @owa wo sew Hamburg, then crossed tie river aad Weal to Newoury witi i, where they soid it. WOLVEN—liow did they get into Thorn’s house? Cuaktotrs—They Wook the cellar window out. There were three of tnem, wud oue had his face blackened. You must be careful what you say; ior taey Lave threatened to cut auy one’s’ throat that reveais wiat | have toid you. The same parvy has stolen chickens aod put them in bags. The greatest luterest was maatfeated early this morning over the eXaminauion of the prisoners who are uuder arrest charged with the several rovberies at Kovert ‘hoTa’s resideuce, on the tackensack road. fhe pour set down for the proceedings to commence was ten o’ciuck, but loug before that tune nearly ail the Space miront of tie Kecorder’s oftice, in City Hall square, Was filled by a crowd of several hundred persons, in the court room the throng Was so dense that the railing avout the ju- dicial bench was pressed down and the miserable hoie calied the “Kecorder’s Courv’ looked ike @ fourth rate gin shop. Jaue Pratt, Mr. Thorn’s housekeeper, came into town between ten and eleven A. M., but at the sug- gestion of George B. Adyance got out of the wagon in Malu street and for some reason or other did not go to the Court House for some time alter. Iu the meantime officer Shields arrived in the room wiih the prisoners, all present rising ou their feei vo caica & glimpse of them. ‘They were escorted to the prison- ers’ bench, where they became seated side by side, Next came Mrs. Pratt, attired in biack, Upon her forehead was @ piasver, which covered a wouud iven her by the burglars on the night of the attack. hear the reporters and muny eyes were riveted upon her. Kecorder faylor took a seat upon the bench, and tien quiet was restored and the proceedings were comaienced. Jerome Witliams said, the cases being of sucha nature, 1t was impossivie to do anything but hoid an examination. There were three or sour persous apprenenued. The character of the testiinony upon the part of the defeuce will be vastiy different in each case, therefore it Was agreed wat tie exam nations sllould be separate. The case of James P. Williams was called frst, THE HOUSEXEEPER’S TESTIMONY. Mrs. Jane Pratt sworn—I kuew Robert Thorn in his itteume; I lived with fun for the last nine montis; {remember tke night of the 4c aud tne in morning of the 6th of January, the time of the last rovbery; Mr. Thorn toid me ve was robbed of two or three hundred doliara; I saw one of the burgiars take the money; it was in pills; hey broke in the house by taking tue cellar window qué; then they came through a trap door to the mnfk room, aad then emered the kitchen; three came in; 1 saw the faces of two of them; | did vow see the face of the one who Leld Mr. Thorn down; | would kuow the otuer two faces Uf I saw them, AN IDENTIFICATION SCENE. Here the prisovers were mingled in the crowd for Mrs. Prats w identify if she vould the two burgiars reierred to, und thon the following occurre Jerome Wiiliatas (counsel for prisoners)—Will you now pick out the two you saw ¢ Mrs. Fratt (poluting vo the prisoner James P. Wil- liams amid great sensation)—ro the best of my knowiedge that’s the inan that took ihe money out of Mr. Thorn’s pocket and counted 1% (Sensaiton.) Jerome Willams (poiuuug to @ stranger)—That that nothing would keep him from it, for she had been trying {or years to make him stopit. I also know thatever since bis imprisonment his family penn ger by the complainants, who pay montaly allowance of a wum which man? Mrs. Pratt—No, sir (pointing again to James Wil- Tams); thet mao, and (pint vo eS ‘ ting Vo Peter Walliams) great interest in the direction of ay pritoaery out stood it unfinch- ly, except perbaps James Wiams, who was 6 pale. hn reget on doudt? ire Pratt lot the eat io the world. I tent: ther to James Wi Mama) ou She maceey by be ‘Thorn’s pant ns ans ting Hee cet ae rae gad cuoked ure while I bad @ light in my hand. Yes, that’s the face that caught me, if 1 should be hung whe next minute for say- so. ‘Mrs, Pratt then gave a vivid description of t! manner in which sne was beaten, bound and gagged. the deraiis of which have already been pubilsued in the HERALD. Pever Wiliams was again asked to stand up. and again he was identified, Mrs. Pratt saymg, “fhavs the face that grabbed me;” and then James Willams siood up once more, when Mra, Pratt reiterated, “That's the man that counted the money.’” Upon being asked if she knew the men before stie Tepiied, ‘No; you are all strangers tome. Ihave never seen these men since that might till 1 saw them in the jaller’s room this morning, when, we moment I put my eyes on them, | recognized them, 1 had a fair view of them that night, and to the 8st of my knowledge, in the sight of God, they Gre the ones. ‘The case rested here, when the prisoner's counsel said the question as it preseated itself was purely & question of identity, and thouga he wouid be able to prove an alibt he should present no witnesses now, as under the present teeling of the people the pris- ouers could not be exonerated. District Attorney William J. Thorn then charged the other two prisoners, James R. Lee and Darius Lee, with burglary in the first degree, in baving en- vered Robert ‘Tnorn’s residence, some time about tue ay CX sha and stolen therefrom filty pounds of yu . Mrs. Pratt testified to the loss of the butter, part of whick Was untit for use; that portion was in & mackerel keg and was to be used for soap fat. Darius Lee, under the law allowing prisoners charged with crime to give evidence, testified that boul the time of the alleged robbery James P. Wil- ams requested bim to take a ride with him; be ac- cepted tie offer, not knowing where he was going; Williams drove out on the plank road, near the 1ate Mr. Thorn’s residence, where he stopped tae wagon aud got out and going Ddenind 9 fence picked up two or three bays and placed tue in the wagon; these bags contained butter; Williams took the reins and drove to Fis kill lauding, where one pot of butter waa sold, and then went to Newburg, where another was sold, after which they returned to Poughkeepsie, and going vo the residence of a Mrs, Decker, on Church street, left there a mackerel keg filled with rancid utter, Darius Lee swore that he did not know whether the butter was stolen or not, It was proved that James . Lee threw this butter down into the privy in the rear of Mrs, Decker’s residence, ‘The above is the substance of the testimony. At its conclusion Recorder Robert &. Taylor held all the prisoners to awalt the action of the Grand Jury on the charge of burglary 10 the first degree. It is quite likely unat District Attorney William J. Thorn whl present a charge of manslaughter against Janes P, Williams and Peter Willams for causing the death of Robert Tuorn. Considerable important evidence has been suppressed, the Disirict Attorney wikshug to bring out only enough to hoid the prisoners. THE PUBLIC HEALTH. Tho Delinquent Doctors—Swinburne on His De- fenco—Attempted Swindle of the Govorn- ment—The Sixty Miles of Dirty Streets— Dr. Harris Denounced—List of the Streets — Swill Milk Dealers to be Prosecuted. ‘The usual weekly meeting of the Board of Health was held yesterday, President George B. Liacoin in the chair. THE NEGLIGENT DOCTORS. The attorney read a communication from Dr. George B. Taylor, against whom the Board last week ordered a suit to be commenced for not complying with te law in reporting a case of smallpox. ‘The writer stated that he was ignorant of the provisions of the 1aw, but had used every precaution to prevent the spread of the disease. The suit was ordered to be discontinued. A FRAUDULENT MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE. Mr. Brown, of the Registry of Viral Statistics, re- ported that, some days ago, & man presented @ certi- ficate of a marriage, solemnized in 1866, by a clergy- man, and asked that it be registered and a certified copy furnished him, for the purpose of securing a pension tn Washington. Mr. Brown was suspicious of its genuineness, and on conferring with the cler- gyman by letterfound it was a forgery, as no such marriage had taken place. It was referred to coun- sel to determine whether the party presenting it should be prosecuted and the facts ordered to be sent to the Pension Uilice. AN ALLEGED NUISANCE. A delegation of citizens Was heara by the Board, protesting against the mull of Mr. Robbins in Bank Street, wiica It 18 said prea od volumes of dark, sickly smeiling smoke and cinders over all the neiga- borhood, ‘Ihe several gentlemen described tne nuisance as most olfeusive, and the matier was re- ferred to the atvorney and counsel to prepare an order for its abatement. THE SIXTY MILES OF DIRTY STREETS. Dr. HAxkIs reported the followiug streets as very fituy. itis an appenaix to his report puolisned in tne UERALD some daysago:—All or part of Wash- ington, Greenwica, Morris, Rector, Cariisie, Thames, Alvauy, West, Fulton, Vesey, Barclay, Robinson, ihomas, Jay, Beach, Hubert, Laigat, vestry, Des- brosses, Watts and Capal streets, West Broadway, king, West Houston, York, Fiith, Fourcn, ‘Tnird, dackson, Scammel, Montgomery, Steritl, Willett, Pitt, Suffolk, Noriolk, Broome, Chrystie, Bayard, lizabeth, Mott, Muloerry, Crosby, Leonard, Worth, Pearl, Division, Oliver, Hamiton, Cherry, Bigbin, Ninto, Tenth, East Eleveath, Kast fweifth, Thir- teenth, Fifteenth, Sixieentn and Seveuteenth, and West kighteentn, Nineteenth, Twentieth and ‘Twen- ty-tirat streets, west of Fifth avenue; East Thiriy- seventy street, First avenue from Fifteenth to Tuirty- seventy, from Forty-fourth to Forty-eighth streets; East Vhirty-eigutn sireet, West Twexty-sixth, Twen- ty-seventn, wenty-eignth, Thirty-first, Thirty.sec- ond, ‘Phircy-third, Vhirvy-sixta, ‘rnirty-seventh, ‘Thirty-eighth, Forty-eignth, Fifueth, Fifty-second, wifsy-third and Filty-fourth streets, west of seventh avenue; East Wifty-seventh and Fifty-ninth stxeeis, Second avenue, irom sixty-lirst to bixty-iifth spreet; hast §=6Kighty-eignth = and 118th, Centre, Franklin, White aod Waiker streets; ty Hail place, Forsyth, Ludlow, Essex, Ride, annon, Greene, Wooster, Laurens, Tnompson, Ciarke, First, Second, Bast borty-seventi street, from Secoud avenue to 1 West Sixteenta and Seven- teenth, Carmine, Chavilon and Vandam streeis, west of Varick, Baxter aud Vandewater stroets, First avenue from Houston to Thirty-fourth, and trom rorty-fifin to Porty-eiguih; Rose, sullivan {rom Canal to Houston, stone, Bridge, Whitehall, Peurl from State w Hanover, Peck slip, South, |. Water, Prot, Vuk, Birmmghan, Pelbam and Frank- fort siveets A very sharp letter was received from the Super- intendeat oi the Street Cleaning Association, m witch he denounces the report a8 unsust and faise, and asserts Luat Dr, Harris is responsible for dirty streets, as he does not preveat tue throwing of ashes on them. ie denounced Dr. Harris as making taese reports for seif laudation, and asserts that he does not clean them like nis predecessor, Dr. Dalton, Who had Clear ideas as tu Wilat was nevessary In this direcuon. Mr. MANIERRE stated that he would sooner believe Harris than the street cleaning people, and moved that the sum of $600 be set apart to cican up dirty ie in Xeventh, Tenth, Eleventh and Seventeenth wards. br. STiLes, Superintendent for Brooklyn, made a report of stables in Williamsburg that sell swill milk in New York:— Michael O°’Hara, North Sixth, between Second and Shird streets, twenty cows, sells milk to Peter Hannon, who furnishes it to New York dealers. James Fogarty, First street, near North Second, forvy cows, overt O'Grady, North Seventh, near Second street, twenty cows. Peter Lemor, 93 Johnson street, six cows. Peter Costelio, North Seveuth, near First street, elgit cows, Joun Henry, Second street, between North Sixth and Seventh, forty cows. J. & H. Middlecamp, 324 First street, forty cows, seli im Brooklyn. E. M. Kahn, 270 Second street, twenty cows, sells in Brooklyn. John 8 Bender, First street, between North Eiguth and North Ninth streets, twenty cows, Tne legal oilicers of the Board were instructed to | prosecute them at once, Quarantine Report. Dr. SWINBURNE, Health Officer of the Port, sub- mitted the following communication, which looks exceedingly hke@ defence, and which was ordered on file:— To THe METRoPoLtraN Boanp or HEALT ‘By the act creating this Board it is made the duty of the Health Oldcer to keep it advised of all cases of diseases at Quarantine and to communicate to it such information as ho may have, lo enable the Board more effectually to, protect the public health of the district within itgeontrol, This duty T have from time to time performed, either verbally or in writing, and have endeavored to keep the Board advised of everytning within my department upon which it seemed necessary that they should be informed. Iregret, however, to be | compelled sny that some of the records of the Board bear evidence "that the {information I have thus communicated has been misunderstood or has been grossly perverted. That there may be no room for mieapprebension Lereaiter so far asl am concerned, I desire In terminating my oficial connection with the Board to submit the following Binal complete report for the past sx years, covering the statistics of disease under quarantine, ‘and [ask that it may be placed upon your minuves aud be- come & part of your records :— PRVERS. ‘The total number of ports injected with yellow fever for the past six years fi ely Pir trom which we have received G11 vernels, 01 of which ad sickness either in port, on the asiaye, or on arrival, and from which 200 cases of yellow Fever were recoived and treated Jn the Quarantine hospitals, ue hundred and fifty one of these reoovered and forty-nine Almost the entire audience at this juncture was on died. ‘Vue total mumber of vessels bringing cholera to this port for the past siz years is 26. &. Jeece venscin 11,507 pergans were exposed if whom died on TeGrcry recived cy jautine hospitals, aud 806 ot wi ‘The number of vessels pringing sh‘p fever to this port for past years 1, fron ich 293 with tt poery Were Pose ihe Ward's Island hospitals. On board of these vessels on the passage 18,:08 passengers aud SMALLPOX. ‘The number of versels bringing smallpox to this port fore six past {9 174, From these vessels persons, ‘on arrival, were sent to the smallpox hospitals ou Blackwell’ Talaud; $8,199 pernons were exposed to thisdivease du, mg the p ‘of whom 84,700 were vaccinated at Quarantine by Dr, Loines; the residue had either had smallpox, or were fully by vaccin An this connee’ioh it 1s a << of erstiteation 10 add thas Guarani ‘show amon; e employes en, atecting nfeation of dunaage, Xe, of whe sick and well, parry by dead and #¢ other sick, burying of t} employments connected with Guarautine but tyree'have disda, record Which has never been equaled Gt this or any other port, ‘This experience of six years alno ahvwa that no case of cholera, emnsl pox of sp fever as cuatrasted froma othe ¥ eas6l uy hich elsher eae dineasca ed aang ab ‘Dassage uiver wuch vessel had been freed freight aud thoroughly 4 und fumnt- -aix vessels bringing o liscase entirely dis- wheu the veasel 14 not excessively ‘Separated from the well and ex from {ts bua! gated, £86, history Of “these twa choiel this port also shows thal Ta after ten da: overcrowded if the aick are par proper sanitary reguiations carried out, the immediate re- moval of ali wao muy be attacked with light diarrhea and the allowance of a liberal diet to those who remain well. Appended {sa table showing the various diseases for the six years. It seems fextly improper to close this report without presenting conclusive data in reference tothe ‘source, Of smallpox infection in the” Metro- poihen, district i ray Be yer wer {hernione resent you wi ‘ull and €o: ice from Various pubilc “Inatitations, and. wile ft ich shows poaltively that it could not have been introduced by immigration. ‘The Samitary Superintendent calle attention to the subject of smailpox uader date of December 29, 1368, In which he states that during the five months previous to Decemt ber, nve deaths from smallpox occurred in New York. In the month of December, however, seven adaitional deaths from this disease were reported. Iie also adds:—“Smallpox bas become fearfuily epidemie throughout California, and is own to. read! ng throughout ‘soine of our ‘and Southern towns, and that the valence of smallpox in the United States is probable.” The common belief, he further ° adds, “that the inhabitants of the Metropolitan ‘district aro now 'well protected from smallpox by vaccination 1a not well founded,” and in view of that urges that @ systematic and adequate effort must be put forth to arrest at unce the progress of contagion in the metropolis, | Now, the appended bles will show that a period of over 1u days wed (from the 17th of September, 1968, to January 1, 1860) since ‘apy emigrant vessel bringing’ smallpox’ had arrived at this port. Whence, thea, came smallpox? Keeping inview the fact thatduring the year 1888 many cases of and for at Blackwell's smalipax had been, recsty cared Island frow the Metropolitan district, and believing also that about 10°,000 persons in this district were unprotected by Vaccination, and that amalipox was prevailing to & very large extenton this continent, and that this disease, of a ‘most malignant type, Was prevailing to w fearful extent in Montreal, I urged Io ty abaual report for 1868 that during the coming year “every ponsible precaution be taken to pre- vent its {utfoduction and spread in this district.” ‘The re- gorda of the amalipox hospitals on Blackwell that in January, 1862, thirteen cases of mun ceived; in February, twenty-one cases, and in Mut five cases, none of which were from Quarantin due to immugration. With these facts in view, on the 22d of February the Board ordered 10,000 notices to be printed and posted ‘coniaining names and iocations of inatitu- ons at which any and all persons may. vawcl- hated free of expense. (See report of Metropolitan Board ot Health.) Dr. Harris reports to the Board under date of March 1, 1869, rom all sections of the State of New York and from c the Wi are informed that vaccination ts greatiy neglected since the war. | Investigations which have been receatly commenced by usin this olty already prove that the worst negligence of vaccination known to Ua on this continent prevails right here im thia great centre of trade and population.” The an- nual report of this Board shows that iu the month of May smallpox had increased to such 4n extent in the Metropolitan district that it was found necessary to appoint alxty assistant sanitary inspectors to aid the oficers of the Board in the im- mediate vaccination of all persons requiring the aume, during which whole period the records of the Sinalipox Hospital on Biackwel’ Island show chat eighty cases of aualipox were admitted from different parts of the Metropolitan district. If we now compare this outbreak of smailyox in the month of December, and its craduas spread and increase in the Metro- politan district until the following Slav, with the records of the Commissioners of Emigration and Qharantine, we shail dnd that from September 17, 1868, to April 14, 18:8 a period of immigrants arrived ti ft ata ed in the report of tue Hour’. mast be dae to otlier causes than Immi- gration, and that it was not until smallpox bad been prevail. ing for three mouths endemically in New York that tho first ela oringing Immigrants to this yanylag report of Dr. Sterling, examining ie Gucden, Curther shows that instead of the rants whom Dr. Harris states were sent site Garden medical oilice directly to the Smail- pital on Biackweil’s Island from January 1 to ecg, only “uwventy-two | in all bad beon to ‘the Smatipox Hospital in thts way, and twenty-one of th had been in the — country from three ‘weeks to four years. Some of these, it will be ween, had contracted the discase in Connecticut, New Jersey, Westchester county, &¢., and that only oue the fe) had been Innded from Quarantine, len to Blackwell's Isiand without communication with the city, at atime when smallpox liad teen endemic acveral inonina in New York. Dr. steriing’s report also shows that this was the oniy irumi- grant with mnallpox who bad been landed from Quarantine At Castle Garien during the whole of the yeara 1968 and 1889. ‘The statement advanced by the Sanitary Superintenient that some persons with malipox weat directly onward to places beyond the city and conveyed the contagion is equaily gex- aggerated -the onlyj instance of the kind being the pas- senger from the bark Anton, who is reported to fave had amalipox at Fort Wayne, Ind. ‘The bark Anton did not arrive, however, until May 20, a(ter amallpox had become epidemic in New York. ‘This veuse! was, besides, detained a full week ut Smee tin where the well pags¢! were vaccinated by Dr. Lomis,'and were not releasad walll he pro- oueed it sufe for them’ to proceed. “This recommendation was fully concurred in by the Saniiary Superintendent, ‘The only other case referred to in the report of the Superintendent or in the abstracted documents is the coaliole case, ubout which so much tnystery seems to be attached and the history of which is simpiy this:—Ihe steamship Erin arrived here in May, after smailpox had become epidomic, ‘The captain and ‘surgeon reported all well, aud a carefwi personal inspection of each passenger verified this statement. The ateerages were then thoroushly fumigated. It was subsejuently ascer- tained, however, that one alecrage passenger wav attacked With sinailpox on the passage, was iroiated all the way, and just before comlng (o Quarantine was removed from his place Of Iaolation and transferred to the coalhole of the abip, for the double purpose of avoiding detection aud to save him from death by asphyxia if secreted in any of the closets adjoining the steerage, Thus be remained uatil all the well peasca- gers hui been removed to Castle Gurden, after which he was transferred to Blackwell’s Ialand without going into the city. Prior to 1867 it ind been customary for tho deasa Ollicer always to take the statement of the surgeon or vilicer In charge of the steamships bringing Immigrants vrihont « por. sonal inspection of the passeugers. Circumstances at int time arising caused us to believe that oorrect reports not given, since which time no immigrant vessels are vi at night ‘when thus arriving. Tuo following morning ihe Passengers are submitted toa personal inspection, and the Master and surgeon are obiied to wake an alfidavit (the form of watch ts herevy annexed), and_ during tho aummer months the steerages are all fumigaied. The resuit has been that during this period eighty one vessels have arrived biing- ing smallpox, of which not more than half having smallpox on bourd reported tue wame. ‘The residue were discovered by personal inspection of the passengers. The appended records show that Dr Harris {a mistaken in stating that the rates of imported eases aiounted to neary halt of the domestis casos. He states that the total cases of smallpox in the city, including 286 sent to hospital, amounted to 694, Our reports aud that of the Commissioners of i:migration show that 153 smallpox cases were sent from Quarantine to Blackwell's Inland. ‘The report ts deceptive, inasmuch a4 it assumes that ‘a large proportion of thee 103 cases were of forelgn origin, when the records of the various public departments ineon- trovertiviy establish that all the cases above spoken of were of domestic origin, except the one before reterred to. The appended tacles also alow that tn 185% 158 cases of emall- Por ae, eeewed, from thie Aisirict at Blackwell's nd “hospital, and 62° from Quarantine; that in 16), 510 cases were received from this disirict and 162 from Quarantine. If those 610 cases of smallpox, received from this district and treated at Blackweil's ininnd be added vo the large number treated in the city, It will be seen that in- stead of one-half of the cases being iinported not more than oue-fith or one-sh<th ure imported, and tuey were went die rectly to Biackwell’s Island, and uid not come to the city; and iam unableto find on ‘the public records an instance OX infection was traced to exposure to recently mmmigrants or thelr effects. Besides, during the py Fiod of seven months, when auallpox Was incubating fa tt no immigrants arrived at this port with amatipox Com ment is needieas, for these facts show that the Sanitary Superintendent are not borne out by the reco: ‘All of whieh ia respectfully aubmitied. JOUN SWINBUKNE, Health Oftcer. QUARANTINE, Jan. 26, 1670, celebrated coalhole ci ad THE PUBLIC DEBT. ». Lette: frum Treasurer Spinner on the Finances of the United States and Proposed Plans for Paying the Public Dobt. WASHINGTON, Jan. 26, 1870, ‘Treasurer Spinner has written the followin@ letter to Mr. Riadie, of Australia, wno has suggested plans for the payment of the debt of Great Britain and this country :— ‘TREASURY OF THE UNITED STATES, WASHINGTON, Jan. 21, 1870, My Drar Sin—Your highiy vaiued letters of the 24th of April and of the 19tu of June last, with te enclosures a8 stated in each, reached me, the first when at my distant home in Central New York, where I had been called by the death of my wile, and the otier at a time when I was very much out of health. But for these uncoward’ events and # great press of oficial buviness ever since they would have received the prompt atten- tion to which they were enutied. I greatly regret that this aelay has happened, and regret still more that the table and the otuer photograph that came enclosed in your last letter have been musiaid or lost. 1 would be Uae d gratified if you would send Me other copies of tuem. There are exciosea you herewith throe graved pictures. There is also enclosed iy last aunual report to the Secretary of the ‘Irea- sury, and the report of that officer made.in Decem- ber last to the Congress of the United states. From these you will be able to judge of the manner and the amount of the reduction of our national debt. On the 25th of February, 1962, Congress passed a law in which i¢ is enacted That al! duties on imported goods shall be paid in coin and that the coin #0 patd shall be set apart ae a special fund ‘and shall be applied, first, to the payment in coin of the in- terest on the bonds aud noves of the 2 the purchase or nt of one per centum debt of the United States to be made in ench tis the Iat of July, 1862, which is to be set apart ada sinking fund, and the iuterest of which in like maauer be applied to the purchase or payment of the public debt, as the secretary of the Treasury shall from time to time direct, During the continuance of te rebellion this law ‘Was inoperative, by reason of tue urgent necessities of the government. Afier the close of the war pay- ments on the debt were at once made, and con- tinued up to the advent of the present admunistra- tion by redemptions of various kinds of the non- funded habilities of the government. In this way our national debt was decreased in leas than three years and eigtit months from a tune in September, 1865, wheao It was at its maximum, toa time in May, cil an amount exceeding $145,000,000. At the last named time the present Secretary of the Treasury commenced to carry out the requirements of the law in leWer and spirit, and has in addition to the reductron of the debt, iu the manner as before stated, bought 8X per cent vonds of the United Statea since the 1th day of May last, for and on account of the euking Sond, wo te ammount af eel en- of $24,043,000. F¢ also purchased during the same | tmnvitef to attend ms raneral, from bis late residence, time, in adgaiom” buck bonds amounting to | corner of and Van Winkle | 70,620,150,“ which “latter bonds are held | N. Ja, on, Prainy Gen ioe oy him as 8 special fund, se he ie . Va) and Zanesville (Ohiop ‘recommends jease copy. report, oe vote “pe alded to the CAnLL.—At East New York, on Tuesday, January sink mg fund, ‘that any further p' thas | 25, CONKLIN CaRLL, 63 Years and ¥ days. ™ ay be made #o added until the gross amount Yet must we part, and parting weep, I consuitute ® fund equal to that wach would Wuat else has earth for us in store: have been oreated if there had beeu no delay tm the Our ferewell how sharp and an Our farewell words, how sau The frienc’s and relatives are respectfully in’ vo atiend the funeral, at his late residence, in Bast Now York, oa Sunday afternoon, at oue o'clock. Conk.—On Tuesday, January 25, at his residence, 649 East Sixteenth strect, bevween avenues B and 0, ryt 8 short lines, Epwarp Cork, in the 38:h ‘yea of his age, se ert 2 friends and acquaintances of the family ara uested (o attend the faneral, from his late real. deuce, this (Thursday) afternoon, at two o'clock, Coonry.—in Brooklyn, at 169 York street, on. Wednesday, January 26, Joun E., the eldest son of Arthur wud’ Rosanna Cooney, aged 2 years and x months. ‘Nouce of funeral in to-morrow’s paper. Davis.—On Wednesday, January 25, SARAH, Only. alia or ‘Albert and Mary’ Davis, aged 1 year and 10 months, A bad on earth, to bloom in heaven, ‘The fricnua and relatives are invited to attend they funeral, froni the residence of her parents, No, 31 East Twelfth street, this (Thursday) afternoon, at two o'clock. Callforuia papers please copy. execution of tnelawa.” The aggregate of ve stocks go purchased and held by the secretary now amounts to $95,273,050, on which there will be received annaally, in he for accrued imterest, $6,716,383, whicn is payable semi-annually. ‘There can be little doubt but Congress will carry ‘out the suggestions of the Secretary of the Treasury by enactment of law. When this ts done, and should the game annual appropriations be made of the sur. plus revenue as has been made in the last eight montis of the year just closed, our whole public debt will be paid in about thirteen years. Inis, you ‘wil concede, 1a quite as (ar ahead, in point of time at least, of your plan for paying & national debt as your's iy of Mr, Giadstone’s for paying the national debt of Great Britain. Whatever plan may be adopted ior the payment Of @ national debt the frat step 1s Lo settle tae ques- tion how to raise the money for the purpose, Pro- cure it as you will, it will in some way ve a tax on the industry of the people; and as the ton i hs paid the esi 1t will cost to pay it, tug peal quéstion Jor an indebted nation to solve Fould seam to be how much can annually be coliccied ior the purpose Without doing iojury to the prosperity of the coun- try? Perhaps of all countries im ine world this De Bary.—On Tuesday morning, January 25, at could best afford to defer large present payments, | her residevce, Junta, wife of Fredertcx de Bary, im the Sth year of her age, after a long and ness. = ‘fhe relanves and friends of the family are respect- full invited ta attend the funeral, trow her late reste dence, 12+ Zast Twenty-seventh strect, this (Thurs by afternoon, at one o'clock. ENI/..t— Im Hudson City, on Wednesday morn- ing, Januavy 26, suddenly, of pneumonia, Mr. THEzO- PHILUS ULNDLER, In the 40ch year of his age. ‘The reiutives and friends are invited to attend the funeral, wis (fhursday) afternoon, at one o'clock, from Clerk street, between Franklin aud because its rapid increase 1n popilauoa and wealth would make it to the Yuture. And yet it 1s, peraps, inore abie than any otier country in the worid to raise large sums of money witout resort to new loaus, It will therefore provably continue as ithas begun, to pay on the public dept down toa point wen, from 118 smaliness and tue low rate of Inierest at wiucn It will then be piaved, it wil cease to give any coucern to any one. confess that 1d0 not clearly understand either your or Mr. Gladsvone’s pian. The diificulty ues right at the starting point. A capital 18 needed to Gowen begin wich, Without it no accumulation can be had. | streets, iludson City, N. J. Now, if 1 gee the two pians correctly, air. Gladstoue DuGgaN.—On ‘Tuesday, January 25, WINIFRBD, ‘proposes to raise his capital oy government sales of | daughter of Kobert and Jalia Dugan, aged 19 years and i. monins. ‘The reinuvres and frienas of the family are requested to attend the funeral, from the resiienee of her territorial annuities, You propose ww raise yours by taxation in some form, Alter vist, as | see them, the pluug are essentially alike, except in tae amounts get apart, aud tae consequent time required to ex- Unguish a given amount of indebieduess. All your plans seen to contemplate the investment of the interest received after terms of years. ‘Tae interest on our six per cent bonds fails due semi-annually, 0a @ part ou the first days of Jauuury and July, and on tue lirst days of May and November on the other part. So soon as interest is due on tuese stocks Leid vy the government 1618 on the samo duy invested 1a tue purchase of otner like bonds, wich in their turn imumediate.y commence drawing interest, which 1s in Like mauner invested, gui so the reduc- mother, 400 Hast Eighteenth street, tis (Thursday) afternoon at one o'clock. ‘On Tuesday morning, January 25, MARY, of Biiza and the late Jonn Dann, ‘The relatives and friends of the family, and those of her brotuers, John and James Daun, and of her uncles, William and James Dunn and Peter Mon- aghan, are respectiully invited to attend the funeral, irom her late residence, No. 200 Mulberry street, tis (Thursday) afternoou, at one o'clock. Fi At Coxsackie, Greene coun'y, on Sunday, Ezxa Frrow, aged v5 years. tion of the national debt is consiautiy going en and |” Frescit.—on Tuesday, January 25, MARTHA A. with @ conslant, accelerated imvvement. Much | FRENCH. 1n the 2ist year of her age. streas has been put upon the idea oi a sinking fund; ‘The relatives and iriends of the iam!ty are respect~ bUL In Most cases itis no beiter, u us good, a pian for extingulshiag a debt as would be tue purchase of the obligations of @ government and their imme- diate cancellation. There 1s wore maphinery ana, of course, more Ifculon, by reason Of vile cost and loss of tune in investing and the danyers of ioss in tue first mentioned mode than in the lacier pian, Wheo @ nation owes a debt aud lutends honestly to pay it, the sunuple and best Way Would seem to be, when it has @ surplus of mouey, to redeem ita bonds and to caucel them. 4 can Wei see tuat where & nation is uWing @ debt that is placed for @ iong tert, Laving many years to rap ‘oO maturity, at a low rave ot interest, and its ponds nos to be hud, except at a large premium, and lsviug @ surpius oa haud to be appled vo the payaicat of the debt, wuich can pe loaned out at a niger rate of interest than its own debt beara, such a loan, so in vested, Wouid be good economy. Lut nour case all the circumstances uce entirely diiterent and agalasc Buch @ course. The race of lucerest paid ou our Joans 18 as sugh a8 the ruling rave for ordiuary busi- less Joaus in Lue money Maracts o1 tue Country, and as it is payaole ia gold whule wie suspension o: specie pay Lieuts lasts it is higaes Luan cae legal race. ‘The most of our Ballonal bouds, accoruimg bo We terms expressea upon tueir lace, bave already run vo the peviod when the governinent dus the option toreaeem tiem by payment av any tne, now or hereaiter. As ab pregeat wey lave uot quite reached the par of gold the government cau do a ittie better by sulliug ius gold at the curreat preimiuia, taKlag 1s own noves la payment and buying tuerewltu its bunds at the rate current in the siock marset. The present currency price lor gold 1s izu4, and the last purcnase of Six per Cent Douds was 1uude at iid LL. ‘The prices of tue two are approxim.auag. So svon as tne currency premium on guit suull be less than chat on tie government six per cent bonds We government will redeem them win goid direct, and NOé by tne sie of gold aud the purchase uf 163 DUNS, ag now. Un a review of ail your letters I am satisfied that your pian of paying off the national debt or Great ‘Britain 18 altogether preferabie 10 tue one proposed by Mr. Gladscone. It 18, perhaps, the very best scheme for Lue purpose that the Uritish goverament could adopt. But even your cheaper and more peedy pian would never satis'y the impatient -go- tread’ Rope # “aig coum ye fully invited to atiend the funeral, trom the > dence of lier aunt, Mrs. John Loughran, 227 h Jersey City, this (Thursdey) afternoon, . ‘The remains will be ken to Green- wood for interment, GILBER'.—On Tuesday. January 25, at his resi- < Grove, East Newark, WinamM GILBERT, 3. arg. | tits (Thursday) afternoon at one o'clock. Cars leave Cortlandt street ferry via Jersey City, ab twelve o'clock M, Gitsey.—On Tuesday, January 25, Mrs. SOPH. GiLsny, u native of Denmark, im the 7th year o' her age. ‘The retatives and friends of the fam'ly are respect- fally Inv.:ed to attend the funeral, tro. ine house of her son, John Gusey, southeast corner of avenue A and ivist street, on Friday morning, at eleven o'clock. HEAL on Tuesday, January 25, ANN, wife of Timothy 'y, and daughter of Wm. McAulife, im the 26t0 veer of her age. ‘The relaitves and frienas of the family are respect- fuily iuviled 40 attend the funeral, from the resi- dence « r brother-in-law, John Croke, 236 East ‘Twent uth street this (Thursday) a!sernvon, at ore Ovlock, Hess ox.—On Tuesday, January 25, at the rest- dence of bis brother, No, 90 East Highty-fourta ye Mr. PATRICK T. HESSION, in Ue Oth year of his age. ‘The remains will be taken from the above number this (fhursday) morning, at ten o’el to the Caurcl of St. ‘ence, where a solemn requiem mass wilh be celebrated for the repose of his sou', thence to the family buria! vault at Catvary Comevery for inter- ment. ‘Tus frieads ot the deceased and those of his brother Juin, ave respectfully invited to attend the funeral. from the above number at two o'clock, Jonra.—-On Wednesday, Janaary 2°, at Ottaw: PLORA JONES, daugiter of Alfred Jones, Esq., Yonkers. N. Y. Notice of funeral hereafter. Li ‘nm ‘Tuesday, January 25, ANNIE, second daughter of Samuel and Catharine Lee, in the 1sth year of lier age. Fricnas are requested to attend the funeral, from her parenis’ restdence, No. 428 Eleventh avenue, be- tween Tiirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth streets, this hlay) after! he one o’clock, Ihe remains Wa CAVE Ootioieiys = mes co. of Whea they make up their minds to ey get nespeg ghour it at once, aud they never resi ail it fs accom- ‘ .—On Tuesday, January 25, ADELE, wife Plisued. ‘nere are elements at work here more nbouse Lindgens, aged 25 years. lavorable to tue speedy payment oi o great debt than lave ever exisied, or that probably can exist, Mn apy other country on the face oi the caruh, ‘Lhe hationalilics of the Hastexn Coutiuent, including Europe, Asia and Africa, Kussia pecuaps alone ex cepted, may be said to be faisued, ‘Tues are all ata “gtaudsti,”? and most of them are deciiaing. There will be lute iwcrease of popuiaiion or general wealth in their future. Not so with this country. fteve the population doubles in less than thirty years, and tne value of the agaregaie property is being mcveased regularly af the rate of more than lou per cent in less than nine years. ‘This gives the United States the advantage of every other country. Favorable financial results can be brought about in this country without much difliculty that would be utterly impossibie elsewhere. ihe civilization of old and nearly wornout Europe, with all its economical appliances, has been transferred here to anew world, with a young and vigorous people, possessing an almost boundless continent of virgin gou, unboundedly rich With the precious metals and all other veluabie minerals—a country that stretches from the AUantic to the Pacific and from the tropics to the Atlantic Ocean, and that spreads over fiity degrees of latitude aud over 100 degrees of longitude, and that has every varicty of climate, soll aud production necessary to the fort and hap- piness of man. Although the laws of political econoiny are porhaps as fixed us the natural laws that govern tue universe, yet the ieachings in that science by the ancients and even those of more modera Europe are applicabie here only in degree, Our circumstances are so different that Luey can ve better seen and understood by contrast thea by com- parison. she aay is not far distaut wiea the world will wake up to the Knowledge of our ualiiaited re- sources and material strength, and consequent abulty not only to pay off our large national debt but im ashorter time than it now dreams of. The bailaing of our great trans-contivental railroad is an earnest of ovuer great achievewents that we snail accomplish for the benefit of our own people and the other peovies of the earth. ihaukiug you for your great kindness in sending Ine your planus and expiansions of tiem, I ara, very respectfully yours, ’, Ki. SPINNE. The friends of the family are invited to attend the Mmneral services, from her late residence, 146 West iil haps street, this (Thursday) afternoon, at one o'clock, Lttirs.—On Monday, January 24. CHARLES Al- BERT Luies, in the 39th year of his aze. ‘The rointives and friends are respectially requestea to attend the funeral, ths (Thursday) afternoon, at ons o'clock, from No. 77 Pike slip. On Tuesday, January 25, WILLIAMS NE the 66th year of his 5 ‘The relatives and {rtends ef the famty are respect- fully inviced to attend the funeral, tus (Thorsday) afternoon, at one o'clock, from his late residence, No, 519 West Forty-third strect. McOngaoy.—On Wednesday, January 26, DENNIS: in the 55th year of his a m mass wili be solemnized, at St. "3 chureh, In Twenty-eighth street, near enue, on Friday morning. at ten o'clock. of the family are invited to atiend witie out furtuer notice. McoDovaLD.—On Wednesday morning, January 26, at his residence, 217 Lorimer street. corner of North Second, Brouklyn, E. D., D. H. McDONALD. Notice of inueral to morrow. MoNuLty.—On Wednesday, Jannary 26, Epwarp McNeury, mn the ssth year of his age. ‘The relatives and friends of ihe family are respect~ Sully mviced to attend the funeral. this (T.ursa morning. st nine o'clock, {rom his late residence, First avenue. O11vrk —On Wednesday, January 26, Joun O1I- Ver, in tho 62d year of his age. His relatives ana friends, and those of his sons, Anthony J., Mrancis V. 8, and James, are respect- fully invited to atvend the funeral, from his late rest- dence, No 90 Madison street. on Friday morning. The remains will be conveyed to St. James? church, where a. requiem mass Will be offered at ten o'clock, and at hui-past twelve o'clock P. M. they will be taken ior interment to Calvary Oemetery. Ru -—On Wednesday, January 25, THomas J. Russzi.1, printer, aged 31 yoars. Friends and relatives are lavite: to.attend the funeral, on Thursday atternoon, at two o'clock, from the residence 413 Hudson street. ‘v.—At St. Joseph, Mo., on Thorsday, ry 20, ResRcoA R., wile of George W. sergeant, former\y of th ‘Treasurer of the United States. Tuomas C. RIDDLE, bag., Gecioug, Victoria, Aus- trahs. city. At Flushing, on Monday, January 24, YG. SILLIMAN. 2 friends aré respectfully invited to attend the funerai, this (Thursday) aiternoon, at two o'clock, orge’s Episcopal church. HIANNAT MCCoon, the beloved wife of igavin, &@ native of county Donegal, Ire~ THE GREAT TORNADO—SINGULAR PHENOMENA.— Kelerring to the recent tornado 1a Tennessee, the Gailatiu Kzamuner of January 20, says:—The roar ot tue winds was absolutely terriilc. ‘To those who looked out upon the war of the cicments, was pre- seated a sight which can never fade (rom ther 1aen- origs, ‘The sky Was not crowded wich thick, impen etrable clouds, for the “‘struggiimg mvonbeams’ Taisty light” iit up occasionally tile iace Of the earth, and the ragged edged ciouds in coulused separate Inasses-scuuded through the heayons uke broken The reiatives and friends of the family are respect- fully invited to attend the funera!, ‘rom her late residence. No, 658 Myrtle avenue, Brooklyn, this (Thursday) atcernoon, at two o'clock. masses Of armed batipiions of meu dashing wiidiy Swyru.—On Tuesday, January Huon D. over the field of batéle, ‘The lightning exmbited | Suyrn equally as singular phenomena. vurdinarily a biaze | ‘The iriends of the family are respectinily requested ig followed by ao intense viackness as | to atten! ‘ne funeral, this (Thursday) afternoon, at wae eyes become blinded wiih the brilliancy | one o'clock, from his late residence, 342 East Six- ot the bolt, but not so on Monday morning. For long minutes ine whole tirmamont was ablaze WILD a Soft, almost violet colored Unt which reu- dered every object as plain a3 at noouday. The lines of the northern ridge, at which (ue writer was gaz- ing, stood out in boid relief, the trees of the forest, even, appearing as distinctly as thouga bat a few hundred yards distant. The earth almost seemed in @ state of repose, meliowed over wii the tnge of the aurora borealis, in vivid contrast to the wild, maddening carcering clouds overlead bearing de- struction in their bosom. Beneai wand of an enchanter had been waved over earth, commanding peace and beauty ani ligai—adove as though the turies and harpies were carousing in wild orgies. This strange manifestaion appeared more vhap once before the cessation of (he siura, teenth street, St. © On Tuesday, Janasry 25, W. H. St. he a Years, 11 months and 2 days. The funeral Will take piace from his late resi- dence. No. 34 Charles street, this (Thursday) after- noon. at one o'clock. The remains will be taken to Greenwood comer for interment. Tav10.: —Suddealy, on Mondey, January 24, Philadelphia. N. Y., James HeNKY TAYLOR, of this oa in tie 40th year of his age. ‘The, ‘tives and friends are respectfully invited to attdusl the funeral, from his tate resilience, 413 West Forty-scventh street, on Friday morning, at eleven o'clock. TWAMLUY.—On Tuesa: January 25, le TWAMLE aged 80 years.” obsess cago ‘The friends of the family are respectfully invited 2 beget ie peta: ae ae late residence, 242 Hast Toirty-seventh st. this (Thur: Ko o'clock. : gigdinieriam TUMALTY.—Suddenly, on Manfay, January 24, Janrs F., son of Mary and the lave Quarles Tumalty, aged 20 years and 2 months. @ fricnds of the family are mvited to attend the funeral to Calvary Cemetery. this (Thursday) after eet La o’ciock, from 87 Union street, Sout! MARRIAGES AND Marrica. Coox—Now1an.—On Wednesd: January 19, by the Kev. E. Jessup, at the residence of the bride's mother, M. MAP£s Cook, of New Jersey, to SUSIz, only daughter oi the late Henry ii. Nowian. Dick—bupp.—on Wednesday evening, January 19, by Rev. Mr. Riley, GkorGe H. Dick to Miss Lacxka W. Bupp, all of New York. Nasd—JouNSTON.—On Thursaay, January 20, by the Key. Mr. Chamberita, at the residence of the groom’s father, F. 4. Naso, Esq., Mr. Joun M. Nasi Ww Miss JENNIB JOHNSTON, ail of Morristania, N. Y, O’CONNOR—MATHEWS.—in Newark, N, J., on Tues- day, January 26, by the Rev. 1. J. Garvey, D. D., Hv@eENE F, O'CONNOR to VinGinia S. MATHEWS. No cards, Port—In this city, on Wednesday, Janoary 0. VaNDERPORL, in the sith year of his ree of se funeral hereafter. t Ww. ak n Tuesday, January HOMAS WAK aged ($ verre’ 2 ne His relatives and friends are respectfully invited vo aitend the funeral, from his late rezidence, 138 Nae sau street, on Friday afternoon, at (wo o'clock, with- out furtner nouce, PORD MoTT.—On Wednesday, January 26, at the Wuirr.—On Wednesday, January 26, Li D. residence of the bride's parents, by the Kev. Sa re, Lat at ‘Tony Pastore, Optve Halsey, LIESTER PURDY, of white Pilatus, to rrr aoe ee ee J., youngest daughter of Israel A. Mott, of urook- ‘the iuneral will take place from his late resiaence, lyn. et 261 Bowery, on Friday afternoon, at two o'clock. Died Wiese.—On Monday, Chante é 24, LILLY ALFA Jed. Wissk, youngest daughter of William and Luciane ANDERSON.—On Wednesday morning, January 26, | Wiese. aged 2 years and 6 months. Fie tng daughter of the late Wiliam and Mary The friends and relatives of the family are respect- fully invited to attend the tuneral, from her late ‘The relatives and friends of the family are respect- { residence, 106th street, between Second and Third fully invited to attend the funeral, trom her late resi- | 8Venues, this (Thursday) afternoon, at one o'clock, dence, No. 65 Third street, on Friday aftern: at Woops.—On Tuesday evening, January 25, halt-past three o’clocd. ‘Tue remains will be taken | Frances Wot 5 i Mary to White Plains on Saturday for interment. r oyearsanataayn n ne aty ~ | Woods, aged 6 7 Cianez—in Bergen, N. 4., on slonday afternoon, Staves nad fitenda tr ts by gen, ‘The relatives and friends of the family are res January 24. at three o’cloc! » ©) the | ft ju pried dou pear et ni kK, JOHN A. CLARKE, in the | fujly inviied to attend the funeral, trom the res\- dence of ber parents, No, 10 Gre street, ‘His friends 10 the railroad business and others are | (Thursday) ‘atlernoon, at Talf-bast one a'aloss oe