The New York Herald Newspaper, February 7, 1870, Page 9

j | THE ERIE RAGLROAD, Ce Observations Here and There Upon the Management—Improvements Made and Contemplated—Opinions of People in the Matter — History of the Atlantic and Great Western Railroad. BurFato, Feb. 2, 1870. The recent report of Jay Gould on the management Of the Erie Ratiroad has doubtless given people a Clearer idea of the condition of this importantline than they possessed previously. Not less instruc- tive was the last strike, which has been a Positive benefit to the company. It has enabled them to get rid of a clas of men who were at all times ready to quit work on some slight pretoxt or other, and 1t has demonstrated to all employed that the present management of the road is not to be trifed with. Asan instance of this spirit the strike Of the brakemen and conductors may pe instanced. They were swept away and 4 new class of men em- Ployed. 1n the matter of the conductors a large pe- cunlary saving was effected—sometning like $70,000 More than the previous average having been turned Into the treasury of tne company the month after they were discharged. Some of the conduc- tors, on salaries of $100 per month, lived @t the rate of ten thousand a year, had their own handsome houses and horses and made their nomi- nal wages run wonderfully far. Jim Fisk I believe tt was who perceived that a healthy change would be that of exchanging one set of conductors for another, and he did so, with consequences of an eminently Satisfactory character. The old conductors, of course, had numerous friends and acquaintances at very pon: on the road and when they were dis- charged they had many sympathizers and the road had many enemies, THE ERIE MANAGEMENT. The management of the road 1s a matter which ts an tmportant corollary of the late strike. At this particular time, when so much attention is directed to the Erie Railway and the report which Jay Gould pas made excites so much interest by the figures it gives of progress and prosperity, the actual impressions. of one who hus travelled carefully over the road, soppping at various points and conversing with People more or less connevted with It may be of ad- Vantage in forming an estimate of what tms great Dighway is like and what has been done for it. There is ho question that it 1s vastly improved {rom what it was three or four yeais ago, and that 448 fature prospects look brighter day by day. One hundred miies out from Jersey City the traveller, standing at the rear of the train ana looking at the track over which he is being rapidly wiitrled, 1s re- minded of an Engltsh railway in the broad, firm and carefully packed road bed and tne high, smooth, ‘solid and unsplintered steel ratis. This is one im- provement of very material importance—expensive, no doubt, in the start, but cheap and every way more profitable in the long run. ‘ ‘Then, there are the cars, which at one time in the history of we Erie Kallway were mean-looking and Vory uncomfortable for passengers, but are now cer- tulnly equal, if not superior, vo those of any other line, There, for instance, 1s the drawing room coach already described, which for luxury on wheels beats enything that I am acquainted with. You fad the g'ation houses are of an improved order, Those at Susquehanna, Elmira and Horneilsville are decidedly fine. Some are of stone, as at the frst mentioned place, aud, on agmall scale, are as luxuriously ap- pointed as the Grand Opera House itself, where the restive Fisk reigus amid the princely surroundings of Walnut furniture pencilled iu gold. ‘fhe bridges and culverts are ‘being overhauled; iron w taking the place of wood, and the length of the donble track 13 being extended. At thts point the Erie suffers one ¥teat drawback in the absence of a assenger depot commensurate with its large and. rapidly increasing trafic. Buifalo bemg one of the principal competing points between the Erte and iw principai rivals, this is a great disadvantage. | Propositions have been made frow time to time construct @ grand union deport for the Erie, Lake Shore and Central roads, and considering that thetr Itnes run side by side bere this would be an admi- rable arrangement and afford every convenience and accommodation to the travelling public. But the Central, being already provides with a pretentious structure, prefers to stand aloof from its dreaded competitor. Nothing remains. then, but for Erie to build a depot of its own, and that has been deter- mined upon by the present, management. If the plan exhibited to your correspondent be carried out in all its elaborate details the projected depot will be one of the architectural ornaments to this city ot ificent intentions. It wil! be a broad gauge par excellence, and the waiting rooms wiil Tival the saloon coaches in the magnificence of their appointments. The existing passenger depot is a atanding reproach on the old management, and the sooner it is improyed upon the sooner tie passenger traic from this point will increase. The Workshops at this point are not so extensive as at Jersey Oity or Susquenanua. ‘They are used for re- pairing disabled locomotives, passenger and treirnt oars, but if uecessary can be adapted vo the original construction of roliing stock. ‘There was a time when the road was so reduced in efficiency that it was necessary to buy and borrow engines in differ- ent quarters, but now this is all changed. They have — capacity at Susquebanna to build all the loco- motives they need, and they do so, and at Elmira cars are constructed on a scale commensurate with ‘the wants of the company. Here they have a car shop where repairs can be carried on extensively. It t8 curious to witness the transformation which one of tue disabled vehicles of travel undergoes in this department. It may be some poor old passenger car bruised, broken and disfigured all over thai to-day comes in to get renovated, and is sent out to-morrow the very counterfeit presentment. Of ita original seif as on the day it lirst left the hafhas of the workmen, They wash, scrap and paint 1t anew, mend the broken places, and take the faded plush seats, and by some process restore the color to amore dazziing crimson than it was origitfally. TNE TRANSFER OF FREIGHT, In his report Jay Gould speaks of the arrange- ments made for exchat of business here with the Lake Shore road. This I flud to be the exchange of freight in bulk from the cars of the Lake Shore nar- row gauge to those of the Erie broad gauge. Hither- to corn irom the West, when not shipped by canal, went by rail in bags, but now it is brought here in bulk and sbovelled quickly from one set of freight cars to the other, as they lay side by side. Another style of transfers 13 from the boats, of which the Erie Company owns twenty-six, by elevator to the cars, The elevator stands by the river shore, towering up a gi heielt in the air and looking like a dismantied cuthefral, Under its ponderous trank—a good name for the apparavus which dips into the hold of a boat and swallows up the grain—tie propellers casi weir moorings and Qischarge their cargoes. The corn disappears from the boat in quick time and crops into freight cars drawn up inside the elevator house. These pro- peliers, twenty-six in number, are each of consider- able size, somewhat larger than the steamers be- | tween New York and Newburg. In the season of their usefulness they ply to every place of any importance on the Jakes, They reach away up to the mines of Lake Superior and bring down these mountain piles of ore that burden the docks around here. They feich down everything of @ commercial value, and are mdeed a great tusti- tution, taken collectively. The ireight thus brought to the Erie Railroad is something enormous, and to the far-sighted vision of Jay Gould is the road in- debted for the addition. Looxing around here, first at the geographical position and next at the concen- tration of lines of communtcation, it 1s easy to fore- cast @ great future for Buffaio. The present concep- tion of the Erie Company is to make tt a great depot tor coal brougut frem their own mines and shipped by their own boats to a thousand piaces on the lakes, To do this effectually they have deterinined to extend their frontage 3,000 [vet and increase the depth of water to Mfteen feet.’ Here the boat will draw up, and by an inclined plane the cars will be made to carry the coal to an elevation from which it will be shot like a flash of lightning into the awaiting holds below. The improvement under way is of an arduous nature, an immense coffer dam having to be erected and a vast body of Water pumped out for the purpose of blasting the Tock in the bed of the river. ‘The freight houses of the Erie Company are large, commodtous brick buildings, the principal one being $60X200 feet, and well calcuddied to convey an idea ef the immense freight business (hat fows this way eastward. OPINIONS OF THE PRYSENT MANAGEMENT. Talking with @ gentleman, who was one of the old directors of the ire road, aud has been living here for the past ten years, as to the former manage- ment, he said, “The men we had in the direction in my time were a@ set of barna- cles; thoy leq the rout run itsell, compro- mised with everyg kind of strike, and never snowed a solitary bit of enterprise. [ could see Bfty ways of improving the road, but they could see none: they were fossilized. The present management is the best the road ever had, and everybody says 80 who knows anything about ir. Jay Gould has given more time, attention and energy ww developing, building and sustaining this road than ali the boards of direc. tors that have gone before iim. I know tus, for I travel over the road very frequently to New York, and can see a great Many things he has done for the Purpose of benefiting it. He has doubled the sup- ply of rolling stock and doubled the coai traffic. In my time we haraly ever got (reight from here to Rochester; now they send idv cars per day, No effort was made under the old management to com- te with the Central at Rochesier, and the receipis From passengers reckoned oniy a lew thousand dol- lars @ mouth; Low they countover tifty thousand. On @very side I see evidence that great strideg have been NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1870.—TRIPLE SHEET. rR lt sehen + Central, 118 @ 11834; Mariposa, 104 & 10%; do, | to attend the funeral, from her late made towards making Eric what it onght to have been long ago, the great highway of the East, but for the number of sleepy old fossils that had the management ; and I think, too, that the people of Albany are standing in their own light in neglecting the chance of incor the Albany and Susque- hanna Railroad wich that of Erie, ana sharing in the enterprise that directs 11.” Others I nave met outside of the men imfediately identified with the road, who speak in a similar way, all going to show that no matier what Fisk and’dou may do in Wall street they have done much of substantial service for the Erie Railway. MISREPRESENTATION OF THE ROAD. ‘The persistent misrepresentation of the condition: and conduct of the road, which certain rival ons have found it their inverest to invens circulate for the purpose of diverting @ portion of the tmmense business of this great thoroughfare to thelr own lines, may have imfuenced such as are far removed and have no opportuni of judging for themse! In New York the Krie Management ts more widely known by its connec- Vion with the recent gold conspiracy, but here in Buifalo tty fame rests princtpally upon the genius and enterprise of its ling spirits. “While Drew had cbarge of the ” remarked @ leading four merchant to your correspondent, “1 would not send @ single barrel of flour over it, much more risk my- self on it. 1 did my business by the Central, but now that the Erte ts in bands I send all my stu over it.” Pointing to an immense pilo of lumber in @ yard near the depot, one of the officials of the roade¢ remarked, ‘There, sir, is a business which is mate- terlally increasing our revenue, and yet it is only about @ year since Mr. Gouid set about developing it. We had no lumber business at all before his Ume, and now, though yet in its infancy, it nas out- grown our present facilities,” and so on. The coal and tron shippers are es] ly loud tn thetr praise of the present management, as thoy have been afforded facilities for shipment and transportation they never enjoyed before, there ts nothin; In conclusion, it 1s fair to say strained in the interesting report made by Jay Gouk le succeed in declarin, to the stockholders, If dividend one of these One days everybody wiil Meve him, The report 1s satisfactory enough, but a dividend would be still more so. Hts enverprise tn securing the carrying trade of the extensive coal re- gion of Carbondale and other poinis in Pennsylva- nia redounds vastly to the benefit of the road, and Ume will prove the correctness and vast pecuniary value of the speculation. When Gould’s plans for making the Erie road rich and powerful are ma- tured, he may bid deflance to advorse criticism, for so far he has suifictently demonstrated the ability to move forward and be successful in spite of almost overwhelming difficulties. The Erie will then no longer be a nh to New York, but rather the brightest gem in her glittering diadem of grand and noble enterprises, ATLANTIC AND GREAT WESTERN RAILROAD. Resume of Its History—A Splendid Enter- prise and Its Early Mismanagement— Visions of the Projectors—The Ruin of the Road—Fisk and Gould to the Rescue— Future Prospects. MEADVILLE, Pa,, Feb. 4, 1870. ‘The history of the Atlantic and Great Western allroad, which has one of its principal stations at this point, furnishes @ curlous aud instructive lesson in commercial enterprises. Iv was projected, under splendid auspices, ten years ago, from the Indian village of Salaimanca, on the Eric Ratiroad, the well known James McHenry being contractor, foster-father, and finally came near being funeral undertaker. Thomas W. Kennard, who came, it is alleged, to this country with hardly enough means to pay his passage, was chief engineer; but when he severed his connection with the road he claimed the wealtn of a Dillionnaire. The stockholders hailed from England, and among them tigured Sir Morton veto, -who freely uulocked the fountains ef his treasure and poured it Into the new enterprise, which the dauntiess McHenry undertook to carry through, High hopes accompanied it. Visions of grasping the whole trade of the West, Northwest and Southwest, the lakes, the Mississippi, and finally the Pacific coast, floated before the fancy of the projectors, while just as it was started came the wildly exciting intelligence that oil of precious properties was springing like a fountain of living waters from the soil almost directly in the path of ats progress. An immense force of men was placed upon the work and it was hurried forward under the inspiring genius of McHenry at as rapid a pace as the Union Pacific, English capital was lavished ‘upon it as Capital was never layished before. Here at Meadville a station was put up rivalling in the style and beauty of its surroundings any of those you may notice on the best railroads in England; charming cottages for the officers of the road; a park at the rear, with winding walks, fir trees, rose and jasmine bushes. A hotel of over 100 rooms and a dining room as long as a train of freight cars were @ portion of the grand enterprise. In the fall of 1862 the road reached here, after creating two towns, named Corry and Jamestown, on its way from Sala- manca. It was pushed steadily along—broad gauge all the way to Dayton—and from there, by laying down a third rail on another road to Cincinnati, ulti- matély reached the Queen City of the West—striking the Onio and aimmg forthe Mississippi. A branch, called the Franklin, was built from bere to Ol City, and another from Bracevilie to Cieveland. The region of flowing petroleum was tapped at tie | opportune moment, and by way of the line to Cleveland the oil was carried to the refineries. Looking ovér the railroad map, which represents one continuous broad gauge road, extending from New York first by the Erie, then Lf Atlantic and Great Western to Cinciwnati, you will readily admit that the visions of James Mclenry and lils eon- tiding English friends were none too sanguine. How much more exalted might the British fancy have become had the two roads at that time been of one construction and management, the Erte stretch- img to the lakes throngh the great State of New York and lapping its branches around the richest coai beds of #ennaylvania, while the Atiantic drew of the abundant and exhaustless riches of tne oil region! Suoh is the state of affairs now, but it was not reserved for Mciienry to be the instrument of its realization, The road started out with really magni- ficent prospects. It opened up a new and*wondertuly rich region; it struck for the carrying trade of the unghty West; it infused a quickening growth into the old and fossilized towns through which it passed, building up an important local trafic and directing a fresh currént of commerce towards the Siate of New York. Notwitustanding all this the road fatled to*pros- per and went steadily down until the beginning of the year 1869. Groasly corrupt and inetficieut man- agement brought this ‘splendid highway to a condi- uon of reproach. The directors and others ideuti- fled with it appear to have shown a strange lack of energy and foresight when a iittie of either might have rescued the concern from the verge of bank- ruptcy at which it arrived. The present manage- ment of Erie, which succeeded in saving that road from bankruptcy or absorption by that hardy mari- ner, the muci-bronzed Vanderbilt, 13 tie, oaly o 1t deems to me, that can bring back the prestige and carry out the destiny of the Atianuc aud Great Western Railroad. WHAT THE ROAD CREATED. That this destiny is one of vast import may be seen by a briet study of the map. The first station of note alter leaving Salamanca is Jamestown. It is situated at the head of the rapids at the outlet of Chautauque iuke, New York Staie. Two steamers ply to Mayville, a Station on what 1s called the Cross Cut Railroad. Vast quantities of umber are floated down to Jamestown, and from thence sent by rail or river fa various diregions. Jamestown was creaped by the Atlantic and Great Western road 1es8 than ten years ago, and 18 @ lively, busting town. ‘The next place of importance ts Corry, ® similar creation to the one already mentioned, but or larger and more earnest growth. Itis the terminus of the Ou Creek Railroad, the Brocton Cross Cut Railroad and the crossing polut of the Phiuadeipiva and Erie Ratiroad, It has railroad cofamunication in five different directions, and will shortly have @ sixth. it has large machine shops, woollen and hardware fa tories, three national banks aud seven churche: yet twelve years ago it was a dreary wildernes: Next comes Meadville, an old village lingering for Years i venerable vegetation, but, touched by the magnetism of the ratiroad, bloomed into willing freshness and prosperity. It has factories, banks and colleges and a population of about 12,000 m- Leite A line of boats run to Plitsburg ana to Hrie on the lake by the Erie Canal, of wuich the Venango river is phe feeder at this point. West of here are other towns on the line of the Atlantic and Great Western, whicn have been either cailed into existence or impelled to prosperous expansion by the road, ONG WAY OF ROBBING THE ROAD STOPPED. Jt should be understood that before tne projection of the line this section of Pennsylvania was a com- phrative lerra incognita, its resources unknown and means of communication rude and primitive in the last degree. Tne measure of development it has received through the agency of this railroad cannot be adequately gauged by figures, but tuat the raliroad itself should have failea to reap the re- ward for the benefits it conferred 18 @ question which resolves itself into the simple solution thas ita management was extravagant and incompetent. I heard a good joke at Salamanca going to illustrate the light in which the former conductors on this road viewed the change of management, which oc- curred over year ago. The road had depreciated so much, 118 Teceipts had diminished so low, that it Went into the Lands Of two receivers, one of whom was Jay Gould. ‘ihe latter set to work with nis accustomed energy, and pursued the same pian of action in striving to resuscitate the failen fortunes of the Atiantic which he had pre- viously used m the case of Erie. He saw one leak 1n the receipts was the stealings of conductors, and ac- otha oo all accounts these were notortousiy whole- sale. hether Amertoan prejudice to many things English got the better of their consciences or not, certain it ts the conductors indulged an easy swing of the passenger receipts and made a beggarly show to the treasurer, ‘Now I don’t see why Jay Gould should Dave discharged us,’ observed an ex-con- auctor shortly after hig dismissal, ‘for if we had not knocked down the stamps as we did he would never have been made recoiver.”” ‘The doings of the condugtors, detrimental as they were to the peountary interests of the road, were but @ tride compared with those of oMolals higher in authority, United to extrav: almost every department was a total or effort towards arresting the Progress of the concern, ceiver was lish capital: But there was really never @ better pros the road than there ia now, and @ -year Or 8o will certainty prove that the wisest thing ita atockholders ever did was to lease it to the Erie. line and let the $wo be consolidated under one vigorous manage- ment, Time will show that the destiny of these liues and shat of the Onto and Missiasippi, the three being of the broad gauge width, is to reach from the Atlantic to the Father of Waters in unbroken union and under a direction. . HE DIVISIONS OF THE LINE AND ITS TRAFFIC, The Atlantic and Great Western 18 made up of fiv ivisions—first, from Salamanca to Meadville; second, from Meadville to Kent; third; from Kent to Gallion; fourth, from Gallidn to Dayton, and fitth, the fahoning branch, which now extends from New Lisbon to Cleveland, and has o out to Sharon. Each of these indent, and we general one for has a supert all, who resides here—Mr. 0. yford. Mr. L. v. Rucker was formerly general superintendent for a term of two years, He introduced an administra- tion of economy which proved very distasteful to many of the old employés, who remembered the haloyon days when the princely Peto ana bis party of reputed milliounaires journeyed over the line and said everything looked lovely, though their money had been squandered or buried in the roadbed over which they rolled. Tne branches or feeders of the line are numerous and increasing in number. ‘The one from Oil City to Corry brings the crude petro- leum in tanks for siipment over the Atlantic and Erie to New York. The Mahoning branch to Uleve- land 18 almost exclusively an oll route, and su) plies the refineries in Cleveland with tue crude oll from the wells, ‘The timpor o a freight like tnis, the bulk of which is every year increasing, cannot be overeatimated. Petroleum is not about to give out, as the popular anticipation would have it, but will continue to form one of our great and permanent staples of export, even as cotton and grain do, The oil trade 1s one heavy item of trailc on tho Atlantic line, next coal, then grain, and Jastly general merchandise, The through passenger traffic has greatly increased since ‘he consolidation with Erie. The local tramMo 18 con- siderable. The increase of 1869 over 1868 on the Erie line 18, according to the president’s report, 302,165 passengers, and this. in a great measure, 18 due to the consolidation, ‘The freight tramc of the Erie shows an tncreaze in 1860 over 1867 of 787,210 tons. Next year will probably exceed this Agure by a qui ter of a million and the year after by over half a million. To this prosperity tne Atlantic and Great Western Railroad has contributed no mconriderable share. AS apassenger route from New York to Chicago and Cincinnau it makes with the Erie ope unbroken broad gauge track to the latter city and Cleveland, THE PRESRNT MANAGEMENT. ‘The Atlantic and Great Western was leased by the Erie company 4at of January, 1809, for one year, and has now been leased again by the same company on “substantially the same terins a8 of the original lease.” The rolling stock of the Erie operates on the other road along with that of itsown. ‘The Atiantic aud Great Western road was wretchedly provided with freight and passenger cars and owned but a limited number of locomotives. The Erie motive power 13 now used extensively from one end of the road to the other. The station hoyses on the line from Salamanca here are good, the trains make ex- cellent time and the roadbed 1s improved very mucl from what it was @ lew yearsago. The future be- fore it is vast and only needs a clear-headed manage- ment to make It certain of attainment, Talking to a gentleman to-day on the prospects of the line, said he, “If they will only leave it 1p its present hands we Atlanucand Great Western will be one of tae first roads in the coon, They may talk as they please about these men, Fisk and Gould, but you've got to fight the devil with fire. You've got to tight Vanderbilt, Drew and such men with their own Weapous, and it’s alta wasio of talk to say a road like this can be made what it ought to be without raising a hue and cry in some quarters.’ But it 1s necessary to penetrate the oli regions before saying more about the great resources upon which ve road may rely for support. THE HELL GATE OBSTRUCTIONS. To Tue Eviror or raz Hera.p:—~ Tn the HERALD of January 30 appeared an inaccu- rate account of Hell Gate operations which | am sure you will most willingly correct when you become ac- Guainted with the facts in the case. Mr. Merriam, of Brooklyn, was too well known for me to say anything of him to New Yorkers. His scientific re- searches rendered his name familiar in every section of the country. Professor Maillefert had been en- gaged in removing rocks tn the harbor of Nassau for the British government, and hearing of the Hell Gate obstructions came to New York for the purpose of obtaining @ contract for their removal. Lieutenant Maxweil Woodhull, of tne Coast Survey Depart- ment, having no authority to do anything in ite premises, introduced Professor eMaillefert to Mr. Merriam, and they commenced conjointly to obtain the wherewith to commence operations, which was done by subscription, to be expended under the supervision of Professor A. D. Bache, Superintend- ent of the Coast Survey. About $15,000 was ob- tained, with which Pot Rock was reduced from eight feet to eighteen fect, and other rocks were operated upon so as to effect a change in the current. Then Congress made an appropriation of $20,000, which was expended under the superintendence of Major Frazier, of the Engineer Corps, with which went ail the private means of Professor Mailielert, with the hope and expectation of reimbursement by Con- gress. Mr. Biunt, Chairman of the Board of Pilot and Harvor Comumissioners, importuued Congress tor an appropriation to continue the work, and by dint of perseverance he and the Professor had introduced im the General Appropriation bill a claim in favor of Hell Gate. General scholleld, the Secretary or War, ordered proposals to be pubiished for doing certain specific work (removal of Pot Rock and Frying Pan); bids opened September, 1863, Sidney Shelbourne offered to complete the work by the 15tn of Decem- ber of the same year for the sum of twenty odd thou- sand dollars. Professor Mauilefert, having experi- euce in the matter, offered todo it for $44 20 tue cubic yard, which, according to the surveys, would have ‘amounted to over $80,000. ‘The contract was awarded to Shelvourne. At the expiration of his tbree months nothing was done on the rocks; but he was experimenting on drills, under the supervi- sion of General Jobn Newton, aud of course General Newton made no difficulty about extending his time Wo the 16th of August, 1869, up to which time a piece of rock as large as a mustard seed was not removed from the chanuel, Learning that an additional al- lowance would be made by the War Deparvment out of the Congressional appropriation Malilefert & Co. appiied to General Rawlings directly for a contract to remove Sheildrake and Ways keef at the rate of their bia for Frying Panand Pot Rock. This was accorded them by the Secretary, when commencea the didiculty with the ngimeer Departmes Maillefert employed surface blasting, and ral Newton, chiet of the Engineer Department Mere, had his head turned with a drilk Generai Newton commenced his operations at Old Fort stephens on the 2d of June, 1869, has expended over $160,000 of government money and has not even re- moved a pevbie from the Hell Gate channgl, while Maiilefert commenced August 2, two months later, and has removed, according to Newton's own re- port, 41,656 cubic yards, reudering navigation just that much legs Gangerous, snd upto this time government has not paid him one cent. General Newton ordered hilm to desist from work about the 19un of December, to aliow him to make his surveys, As soon ay the surveys were completed Malilefert returned to his work to remove the rock that he had blasted, and has beeu more successful within toe last week (nan during any part of the time he has been engaged, and contemplates soon fnishing bhelidrake, whether he is paid for i or not. General Newton 1s disinclined to allow Mailiefert tu continue lus work, under the apprehension that a portion of the $4,000,000 he asks Congress te appro- priate for nis “drilling and tunnelling” may be di- verted to pay Maillefert for removing obstructions to navigation tn the Kast river at Hell Gate, General Newton, in his HERALD report, says, “He (Mailie- iert) Cialis to Nave reducea Ways Keef to nineteen feet depih; Shelidrake aiso to eighteen feet,” Where does be get this ¥ (Maulefert has never mado any reporc to him or Said anything of the kind.) “Yet? he continues, ‘his igures, however, do nov tally with those of the offictal reports to the depart. ment at Washington; and this divergence may be the reagun why his request for a renewal of his con- Wact is held in abeyance.” Very likely, a8 Maillefert has turnished no figares, and Gen, Newton's figares are 1,655 cubic yards removed from the channel while “drilling and tinnelling” have only made an unsightly hole at old Fort Stephens, on Hallett’s Point, on dry land away from navigation, and Grid- iron stands, To use uisown worda, “It is especially Une Gridiron, with its length of avout 200 yards and an average width of about fifty, which makes the navigation of Hell Gate channel so extremely dan- gerous.”’ If the case be as he represents tt, wh: not employ the hundreds of thousands of dollars on tt, instead of Haileit’s Pomty The rocks at Heil Gate can be removed, not by theoretic “drilling and tunneiling,” but by actuai hard work, fadicionsiy directed. Commerce demands that it be done, and tae peopie will consider Congress derelict tn its duty I tt be any longer nexlected. POL ROCK. QUR UN.FORMED GENTLEMEN, To Tuk Epirorx or THE HERALDS Iwant information on one point, namely, what good is in our system of police’for tne detecuon or prevention of crime? From the murder of the German two years ago, at the comer of Broome and Laurens streets, to the present day, the police have not prevented or arrested a murderer during that time, mor have they prevented the destruction of millions of dollars’ worth of property annually by incendiaries, or done any other act to recommend thei to the approval of cjtizens. Tue police forte isthe incarceration of citizens for none or trivial causes. GW. BE At the recent Fat Mon’s Conventica at Lewiston, Me., there were estimated to be fifty tons of fat men. A. G. Haven, of Chelsea, Mass., was the heaviest man preseat. He 1s nineteen years of age, and weighs 354 pounds. The tallest men were A. ‘TT. Jillison, of Otisfleid, Me., six feet five inches and a quarter; Chares Emery, of Lewiston, six feet five inches; Enoch Knight, of Portland, #ix feet three inches, Nine were admitted under two hood pounds weight. FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. WALL STREET, } SUNDAY, Feb. 6—1870. ‘The past weok has included the Istof February—a day on which many business engagements are made and arrangements entered into in the general trade of the city. The tone which has characterized these transactions has been more cheerful, and although in strictly commercial circles buyers are tardy this year and disposed so take smaller lines, we prospect for the spring trade 1s not discour- aging. Gold has had as large a fail as may be reasonably looked for before the funding laws now under consideration in Congress can become operative, while the experience of the great suspension of specie payments in Eng- land has shown that the final obliteration of the Premium on gold progresses with increased alm- culty and reduced rapidity as par 1s approached, It has been demonstrated since last September that the price of gold does not regulate our domestic valued As General Butler said in Congress, we have @ money of our own, independent of the world at large, and its purchasing power is not affected by the outside markets, The latter portion of this is not all true. Our domestic values are affected by the range of the gold promlum, but only slightly. ,Gold within the year bas fallen to 120, Where is the corresponding fall in other commodities, With gold at120 the price of an ordinary pair of boots is now from $8 to $10 in coin, The same articles could have oeen purchased before the war for $3 to $5. The real secret of the higher prices of goods lies im the taxes and an the greater volume of currency, which is now $800,000,000 against $200,000,000 to $300,000,000 (it was never definitely known) Hence we find that, despite the fall in gold, prices tn commercial circles are firm, and~buyers are making larger spring purchases than many of our merchants expected. THB MONRY MARKET, At the same time the plethora of money Inthe banks has made the money market easy, and even second class customers find it not diMcult to nego- tiate their paper. Depositors of Prime standing are accommodated at bank with the utmost prompt- nessa. In the open market large balances have been pressed upon the leading government bond dealers at four per cent, and on Saturday evening the sup- ply was so large in excess of the demand that lenders with heavy sums were unable to place their money at interest over the in- terval to Monday. Commercial paper has been in specta} request and the street ts bare of the “gilt edge” grades, which have been,absorbed long since. The country banks are large buyers. For prime double names the range has been from 64 to8 percent, Single names take a wider range. Occasionally a rare piece ts done at 7, but the general market ranges from 8 to 13, Foreign tape has boen irregular, but in the main strong under the swelling volume of the imports and the increasing shipments of specie. The lower price of gold cer- tainly tempts a good deal of importation. The foreign goods introduced aurmg the week were of the value of nearly six and a half mitlious of dollars. THE GOLD MARKET. Gold at the beginning of the week was steady and strong. but upon the passage of the Currency bill in fhe Senate and the introduction of the Funding bill became heavy and under went a@ decline of one per cent. The street attributds the weaker feeling to the expected contraction lixelysto result from enforcing the provisions of the first, but undue allowance appears to be made for this ‘influence aud too little for the effect of the Funding bill in enbancing the national crec@. The joan market was irregular, but the general rate for carrying gold differed litvie from the general money market. The extreme fluctua- tions each day were as follows:— . ot, Lowest, Monday 21 hy Pues ‘ Wednesday Iabig Thursday 120% Friday. 120% Saturday GOVERNMENT BONDS, The government market was unfavorably affected by the same influences, and ‘the ffsues likely to be redeemed came in for some speculative movement. Atthe close tie ease of the money market asserted its influence and prices reacted, closing steady as follows, the banks who could not place loans favor- ably on call being induced to make temporary tn- vestment in greenbacks:—United States currency sixes, 11134 @ 111%; do. sixes 1831, registered, 118 @ 118%; do. do. coupon, 118 a 118; do. five-twen- ties, registered, May and November, 115 a 19534; do. do,, 1862, coupon, do., 11914 a 11544; do. do. 1864, do. do., 115 @ 1154; do, do., 1865, do. do., 115 @ 115%; do. do., registered, January and July, 114 4 11454; do. do., 1865, coupon, do., 113% @ 114; do, do., 1867, do. do., 11414 11434; do. do., 1868, do, do., 1144 a 114%; do. ten-forties, registered, 109 @ 10914; do. do. coupon, 1124 @ 11244. THE BANK STATEMENT. The weekly statement of the associated banks again reflects the steady flow of currency in the direction of the metropdiis and exhibits several remarkable features, In the first place the anxiety of the banks torid themselves of the glut of currency now in their vaults 1s shown in an iucrease of loans for the week by the sum of more than four millions, although they have really been losers in reserve, te decrease in specie offsetting the gain in legal tend- ers. The deposits have increased over four and a nalf millions. The loss in specie is due to the heavy payments into the Sub-Treasury for customs and the Jarge shipments of specie, The gain in legai tenders isa Yoillion and a quarter, and the increase In circu- jation over thirty thousand dollars. The last two stavements compare as follows: rn. Fed 6. Loans. $260,824, 271 $204,514,119 Specie. 40,475,714 3S, 246 Circulation. 7 85,746,481 Deposita.....- 214, Legal tenders . . The changes in the ditt as followa:— Tncrease in loans. 58,048, 0 ml banks are, in detail, ++ $4,189, 848 Increase tu specie + 1,478,468 Increase In circulation. 34,109 Increase in deposits. + 4,588,266 increase in legal tenders 266,216 ‘The banks now hold $34,924,217 in excess of th legal reservo—a decrease for the week of $1, 7. THE STOCK MARKET. The “bulis'’ nave had almoat undisturbed posses. sion of the stock market throughout the week and the tide of prices has been a food one, The Vander- bilt securities and Rock Isiand have been the ape- cial features, the later rising to 1174 on Saturday upon the announcement that the directors had noti- fied the board of the registration of the two millions overissued atock, The governing committee nave, however, given no sign as yet of their intentions with reference to restoring the stock to the call, The Western railways have been steady, the ease in money counterbalancing the iil effects of reduced earnings. (he bullish feeling has made “a general tour of the tock ist, with the result of giving upusnal activity to the long negiecied miscel- lancons shares, There is hardly a stock on the long list at the board which has not received attention in a greater or lesser degree during the week. In the Southern State bonds there was an active market for the Virginias, the South Caroiinas, the Louisiana levees, the Tenuessees and, toward the close, the new North Carolinas. The Senate Onrrency bill midway of the week temporarily checked the apward movement’ in prices and induced some realizations and doubtless may short sales, but the market s00n overcame this influence and again pursued its course, closing en Saturday evening with the following street prices:—New York Central and Hudson River Rallroad, consolidated, 98’, a 985; do, scrip, 96% a 9643 Harlem, 140 d 141; Erie, 24% @ 244; Reading, 96% 97; Lake Shore, 85% a 85%; Wabash, 473; a 48; Pittwburg, 95% a 95%; Northwestern, 723 & 72%; do. preferred, 8914 @ 89%; Rock Island, lit @ 117 Fore Wayne, 894 a & Mi. and. St Paul, 72% # .78; do preferred, 87% & 87%; Onio and Mississippi, a 27%; New Jersey Central, 08% a 987,; Western Union Telegraph, 36 a 36%; Cumberland, 32 a 33; Quick- silver, 1434 8 14%; Pacific Mail, 41)¢ a 412; Adams Express, 6434 065; Wells-Fargo Express, 1034 @ 10%; American Merchant's Union Exprass, 87)¢ a 38; Cnited States Express, 51 a 52; Canton Company, 5396 @ 5894; Liligols Central, 133 a 155); Michigea preferred, 20% @ 2. BatuRDAY, Feb 5-4 P. M. Covrzr.—The market for Rio wae quiet but firm at former Prices, No sales were reported, Other kinds were also quiet, Dut hetd for full Sgurea, Corron.—The market for tui staple opened steady at yea- terday's prices, but subsequently became heavy and declined ifs. aie. per pound, and closing rather heavy at the reduc- or orite aalne were 1,240 bales, including 604 for spinning, 490 for export, 106 on specuiation, and were in transil For future delivery the sales, wh lower prices, were as followa:—1,100 , hing for March at 24%, a 24 100 do tor July at 2 ‘or Febri 100 do, for &y Ordinary. Good ortinary.. Low mladling... Mi ating Good midd —Recelpts, scorn meal, 360 bushels wheat, 1,000'do. cura, 4,688 do, oF do. peas je lour market ruled dll and except for low grades, which close at quite steady’ pric to Tule dull and nominal. ‘The aules were about 4,000 bble.. in- eluding extra State for export, at $6 10, For Soutbera four the market was quiet, the ‘demand coutinuing light, but ices were without change, There wore diapoeed df 4) bis, Rye flour was slow of suie and prices favored bil Sales 210 bbls, Corn meal was dull, Liroly nominal at ou No. 2 state wig Py 7 7,001 bbls, four, 1,600 bage tay rs. ) and prices were en- notations, We quote: 2 & 4 FE * Extra Minnesota Round hoop Ohio, abipping brands, Bound hoop Ohio, trade brands. ‘st. Louis low extra. St. Loais straight extr i. holes double extra. St, Louis choice family... Southern choice aud famii ‘and exti * aadeosscacasvacn &| Sseeesesnszezze BanSssseseas: PPR SP EP PEE ERE EP meal, Brandy wins a8) . - —Wheat was dull and nominally 1c. a Zc. lower, with bids ot 2. 15 a BL 14 for No. 2 spring in store and afloat, and ¥1 28 for prime amber winter. Small sales wore reported at $1 50 . for white Genesne, the sates peice for choice, #1 45a n and BL) for do, California, Corn was quiet and nominally $1 04 @ 81 05 for old mixed 10 store. ‘The sales were only about 30,000 bushels at $1 O4\g for old mixed in store, 81 07 for do. afloat, 0c, new do. afloat aud Mc. a $1 for white and yellow, Oats were more active and higher, closing at 6c. bia for prime Western in store. The were els at 5040. 8 6c. for Western in store and afloat, 6Uc, a 61 alore and agoat and S0c, a bdo, for Jersey and Southern. Rye was dull and nominal. Of barley 1,0.) bushela State brought Soc. 995. Barley malt was still dull’ and nominal, FarGur8 were dull, the offerings being very light, and rates for almost all articles wel ‘The chartering bus!- ness was dull. The engagements were steamer, u0 bales coiton at Md. 2 boxes 1 flour at and xen cheese en '. the north aide Cuba and. back, $6 60: hhds., to Remedios and back, sugur, at 7, veese! paying port charge. a bark from Philadelphia’ to Gibraltar for orders, with 2,000 bbls, patroleum at 64., anda bark from the sans port to Gibraltar, for orders, with 1400 bla, do. atts, 34) Af 0 Bilbou, 6s. 6d, GUNNIES Were dull, and we heard of no sales. Prices, however, remained steady at 16}¢¢ a Ive, for base and Wc. © Me. for cloth. Hay.—The market was quiet, but prict owing to the light receinta, Shipping was quoted at. 8 We, ; retail lots, BL a F115; long rye straw, #1; shore ‘We. Hovs.—The market was dull, but unchanged, there being no demandexeept for mmali lots. Prices, however, were were quite steady, a steady at Lic. a 28c. for common to choice grades, HEMP was dull, and po sales were eifected. Prices were nominal at Ide, a 14\e. (gold) for Manila, 6igc. (do.) for for Taw; {ite 10Me. 40.) for Saal and Z34c. (do) ond, MOoLASSES.—There were no sales of consequence reported. iL ‘There waa but little demand, and that was only for amal Jota. Prices were heavy and, nominal at the quotations pub- lished in our I 9; NO dales were roported, NAVAL bTORRS.—The market for spirita turpentine was quiet, tha demand atill being light, but hoiders generally de- roanded 483¢c. for merchantable tote and 49!¢e. for atpping ; sales 69 bbls. at 4Se, and small lote at 48\sc. Rosin was quiet, but prices were steady, expecially for the low geadea; sales gant bols od strained and low No. 2 a A 15 a #2 20, do. 0118.) without sales of moment, howe but steady, at former quotatios Faovisions.—Recelpls, 565 pork, 76 packages cut bbls. and 350 kegs lard, 109 dressed hogs, with only jerate offerings, and an improved demand. The market for pork waa rather firmer, especially for future delivery. The butiness was light, however, tho sales being 360 bis. Vi Jota, at 826 60 for new mers and #2525 for thin do.; als 750 bbig. moss for Match delivery at $2650. Dressed hogs were quiet and cloned weakfat 11Mc. a 1Ligc. for We aie. for cliy, Live hogs were qioied at 940 ramon to prime, with arrivals of 1,547 head. Beet t held for full figures. Sales 60 bbi 5 ‘and #14 & ¥17 for extra do. ; also small lous for prime meas, and $27'a $31 for India d mrs, which were stoady in vaine, there were sold 85 bbie, nt $29.0 ¥50 for Texas, and #1 « 8B3¢or Western, Bacon waa quite steady in value, with au improved demand, the sales being 390 boxes, part at 133<c. for Cumberland cut and short.rb on private terms. Of ciit meats there wero sok about 100 packages within the range of Iie. = Le. for ders in 14%c. for pickled hams. Lard heavy. The to prime f was at B10 a 8) ackages at Lic, 3 aldo 260 tlerces, for March del EYROLUUM.-—With comparatively free offerings the mar- ket for crude in bullc w and prices were de lower, ‘There ware seliera at Ib}<c. for spot, and about 18'«c. for next week; but buyers refused to operate except at ‘se. & ‘gc. lower prices, and we heara of no sales of aignificance. On the Upper Creek crude was rather lower: 2,600 bbin. were noid at #4 60, and (into last evening) 5,000 bbia, nellor'a option up to the Sth of July, were disposed of at $4 50. Orud n bbla., which was generally held at 2%e., was in some demi port; but we heard of no transac: tons, demand from all and prices were neavy and nom- 1 white was obtainable at about We beard of n of moment. Naphtha was dall and cominal at about Ll3ge.; we beard of no sales, In Phil- adelphia the market was unusaally quiet, there being no demand of moment; but prices were without change of con- sequence, closing atfabout 29%;¢. ; 19,00 bbs, standard white were sold. Ktog.--Carolina was quiet but steady at 6c. Zac. for com: mon to prime; suvll lota choice were held at Tye. a. ‘Tha aales were contined to small lota within the range of 6g: alk ki —Linseed was steady at about #2 2, gold, duty paid; no sales were reported. Grass were dail but an d, clover being quoted at 13c. @ 13)ge., timothy at @4.60 ‘5, and rough flax at #2 25 & 0. STRARLNE.. market was ve demand, and prices were easier. within the range of Ibe. a 1S4gc. in hhds. and tierces. SUGAK.—For raw there was a slightly improved demand, but the amount of business consummated was light, owing to the increased firmoess of holders, who generally demanded 1c. @ 10ge. for ola fair to good reining ‘There were fold ATF bhus., part ab Wye, for C boxes at 1Wigc.'a lige. Refined was mode and atrife firmer, the market closin for hard, 13%4e. a ldgc. for xoft white, ©, and Ie, wide. tor yellow. We quot C lor to Common renoing, per 10. n 2 yy at ae quiet there being but ‘About’ 10,00) Ibs. were Fair to good grocery... Prime to cholee grocery bi Centrifugal, nhds. and bores. hhds. and box Peeparee prices, de was wold at 10M & Wige., wecording to TALLOW was moderately dealt In ad rf being principally for prime city, w! Sales were about 50,000 Lbs. quaiity, WHiskRY. —Receipta, 967 bbis, The market was stendy nt Kerday'a prices, at whic fair Dusiness trans. , the sales being 365 Guy tar pail, at 94 y act THR SAN Francisco Yacur Chun—NéW Constt- rerio The reguiar weekly meeting of tue San Franciaco Yacht Club, at t lub house on Long Gridge, yesterday, was largely attended. Tue Com. mittee on Consiitution and Bylaws presented pe printed report, Which was adopted with a few amendments. The most important amendment was vhat to article eleven, io which it 1s provided that members can become lite members by tne payment of fifty dollars. As amended the article will read so what after the present indebtedness of the clup fas been paid the fee for life membership will be $100, Some fifteen members Higned the articles by which tuey became itie members,—San Francisco Alta calyornia, Jan. | ae EY ORME ET EATS OAL MARRIAGES AND DEATHS. Married. BeLKNAP—ReMseN.—On Thursday, February 3, by Rev. Dr. M.S, Hutton, RopexT LENOX BELKNAP to MARY PitcNix, daughter of Henry Kk. Remsen, all of this city, LAWRBENC pLam.—On Tuesday, February 1, at the house of the gide’s parents, by the Rev. Joln A. Koche, assisted by tae Kev. George Lansing Tayior, CHRISTIAN S. LAWRENCE, late United states Navy, of Brooxiyn, N. Y., to Miss FANNIB HL 4, stepdaughlor ol S. Squire, New York city. Died. Barton,—On Saturday, January 5, Mrs. N, ©, Bat- ‘TON, of Ienmond, Va. i The fuueral will take place from No, 228 Kast Thir- tietn street, this (Monday) afternoon, at balf-past one o’clock. The remains will ve taken to Green- wood Cemetery for interment. Bwat.—On Priday, February 4, at his residence, Clinton avenue, Hudson City, N. 1. JOUN E late of Shemield, Eng., aged 96 years, deeply rey ved by a large circie of friends. Sneftieid (Eng.) papers please copy. Bkewsten.—On Saturday, February 5, BREWSTRR, aged 58 years, 1 month and 24 Gave. The relatives and friends of the family are respect- faily invited to attend the funeral, from his late residence, 5$0 Paciiic street, Brooklyn, on Tuesday atternoon, at two o'clock, without fiirther notice, Brown.—Suddenly, at Nanuet, Rockland county, on satarday, February 5, JouNn M. Bkown, lormeriy of New York city. Notice of funera! hereafter, Bors ORD.+-On Sunday, February 6, Mary L., wife of Alfred M. Botsford, in the Jad year of her age. ‘The reiatives and friends are reapectiuily invited to attend the funeral, on ‘Tuesday afternoon, at two o'clock, frou her lave residence, No. 79 Pacific street, South Brooklyn. Brapiey.—Iin this city, on Sunday, February 6, FRRDRRICK D. BRADLEY, aged 46 years. ‘The relatives and friends are respectfully invited to attend the faa@ral, from No. 19 Bank sereet, on Tuesday morning, at ten o'clock. Remattis will be taken to New Haven for interment. CoLLat.—On Sunday, Febriary 6, ANNA, wife of Lewis CouLat, 2 aged 22'yoars, ‘The relatives apd frighda of the family are invited residence, 264 West Tolrty-seventa street, this (Monday) afteruooa, at two o’cloct Cakrenren.—In Brooklyn, on Thursday, February a WiLLiaM ©. CARPENTRR, 800 of the late Daniel Carpenter, in the 23d year of his age. Relatives und frienda are respectfully to atteua the funeral, this (Monday) afternoon, a¢ two o'clock, from his late residence, DeKalb avenue, bear Clermont. * Cook.—On Saturday, February 5, after 9 short but Severe lilnesa, Mrs, Jane COOK, the beloved wile of Richard Cook, in the 49th year of her age. ‘The friends and relatives of the family are respect- fully invited to attend the funeral. from her late reai- dence, No. $1 Tenth avenue, this (Monday) alternoon at balf-past one o'clock, to Calvary Cemetery for tn- verment. CossRLYBA,—At Jersey City, N.J., on Friday even- ing, February 4, Pievr ConsmLyma, relict of William Cunselyea, in the 85tb year of her age. Relatives and friend of the family are respectfully invited to attend the funeral, trom the residence of her son-in-law, Henry M. Traphagen, No, 165 Pa- vonia avenue, Jersey City, tis (Monday) alternoon, at one o'clock. “3 OaRNEY.—On Saturday, Fevrnary 5, ELLEN Cage NEY, In the 67th year of her age, a native of the par isn of Lovey, county Sligo, Ireiaud, ‘The relatives and triends of the family are reapect- fully invited to attend tue funeral, irom her late residence, 111 Thompson street, on Tuesday alver- noon, at one o'clock. CONNELL.—On Sunday, Feoruary 6, Gronce Leroa- TON, Son of James S, and Margaret E. Connell, aged 2 years. Rélatives and friends are respectfully invited to atvend the funeral, from the residence of bis parents, No, 110 Plerrepoot street, Brooklyn, on Tuesuay afternoon, at two o'clock. Guines.—On Saturday, February 5, Pareior, GUINEB, In the 51st year Uf his age, ‘The faneral will take place this (Monday) morning, at haif-past nine o'clock, {rom his late residence, 638 Bast Ninth street, to St. Bridget’s churca, Bighth street, corner of avenue B, where solemn requiem mass will be offered for the repose of Mis soul, and thence to Calvary Cemetery for interment, Rela- tives and frienasof tue family are respectfully in- vited to attend, HiaGins.—On Saturaay, February 6, DANIEL Hig- GINS, aged 29 years, His relatives and irienda, and those of the family are requested to attend the funeral, this (Monaay) afternoon, at half-past one o'clock, from his late residence, 141 Kast Broadway; thence to Calvary Cemetery. The members of the Mutual Tontine As sociation and also the members of Engine Company No. od (late volunteer fire department) are tnvited to atten MUTUAL TONTINE AssoctATION.—Members of this association are notified to meet at Walhalla, 50 and 52 Orchard Monday) afternoon, at hale past twelve o'clock, to attend the fuueral of our lala brother, Daniel Higgins. F. GUGUL, President. J, J. MCGOVERN, Secretary, Hayrs.—At 208 East Fourth street, on Saturday, ruary 6, DEBORAM ANN Hays, in her Sith year. Funeral, this meter ) afternoon at two o'clock, Lockport papers please copy. . ivnee On Sandan, February 6, WALTER Evga, infant son of William J, and Margaret Ivers, aged 9 montis, ‘Tue relatives and friends of the family are invited to attend the funeral, trom his parents’ res “nee, S12 Sixth street, on Tuesday afternoon, a) (wo o'clock. NKINS.—-On Saturday, February 5, Grace agree, infant daughter of Wiillam and Sarah M, Jenkins, aged 5 mouths and 16 days. Reiatives and friends are invited to atwend the funeral, from the residence of her parents, 159 Weat ‘Twentv-sixth street, this (Monday) afternoon, at two o'clock, MATrHEWs.—In this .city, on Saturday, February 5, Miss OLIVE Mayragws, daughter of Mrs, Give and the late Captain Joseph Matthews, formerly of Yarmouta, Mass., aged 49 years. Relatives and friends are invited to attend the fu- neral, from the residence of her mother, No. 306 Kast Fourteenth street. this (Monday) afternoon, at half-past one o’clock. Her remains will be taken to Swan Point Cemetery, at Providence, R, L., for m- ‘armen, ; hastern papers please copy. MILLHoUsER.—On Sunday morning, February 6, ANSELM MILLHOUSER, aged 45 years. The friends of the family are respectfully invited to attend the funeral, at half-hast one o’clock this (Monday) afternoon, from 303 East Sixtieth street. Moore.—On Sunday, February 6, Jags Moons, aged 85 years. The relatives and friends of the family are respect- fully invited to attend the funeral, from the rest- dence of his son-in-law, Samnel M lin, No. 217 East ‘Twenty-sixth street, on Tuesday afternoon, ab two o'clock, Paterson papers please copy. McGuxut.—On Saturdays, February 5, of consump- tion, Mary, daughter of Thomas and Alice McGurt, aged 15 years, 6 months and 17 days. McMAHON.—On Sunday, February 6, Hoan MoMa- HON, aed 24 years, C Relatives and friends are invited to attend the fa- nera}, from the residence of Edward McMahon, No, 220 Kast Etghty-second street, between Second and rhird avenuos, on Tuesday afternoon, at two o'clock. MoMULLIN.—On Saturday, February 5, MARY ANN McMuLury, the beloved wife of James McMullin, @ native of the parish of Magherafelt, county Derry, Ireland, in the 49th year of her age. The remains will be taken from her late resid ence, 327 West Fortv-third street, to the Chapel of the Roly Cross, vorty-third street, between Fighth and Ninth avennes, at half-past nine o'clock. where ® solemn requiem mags Will be offered for the repowe ofhersoul. The funeral wii! take place from tue chapel at twelve o'clock. O’Brien.—On Saturday, Febraary 5, MARY ANN O’Brien, wife of James O’Brien, of 181 Third street. Ror,—On Friday, February 4, ALBERT SEeLY, som of Albert S. and Amy A. Roe. aged 7 months. Funeral from the residence of his parenta, 469 Weat Thirty-foursh street, this (Monday) afternoon, at three o'clock, PuRORLL.—On Friday evening, February 4, at 670 Second avenue, MARY TeRFSA, Wife of Dr, Willtain J. Purcell and eldest daughter of the late Josepn Beecham, Esq., of Rome, N. Y., aged 27 years. A solemn mass of requiem will be celebrated for the repose of her soul, at St. Gabriels church, East Thirty-seventh street, near Second avenue, on Tues- day morning, at nine o'clock, whence the faneral wiil proceed to Calvary Cemetery. Rait.—Suddenly, on Tnesda February 1, a8 Ramagate, England, Konerr Kar, of this city, the 63d year of his age. Notice of funeral hereafter, Russ.—On Sunday, February 6, after a short ttf ness, Mra. Louisa Russ, widow of Horace P. itu and daughter of the late Francis Biaacard. Notice of funeral hereafter. SuELDON.—In Bastchester, on Friday, Febraary 4, Mra. MARY A. SHELDON, aged 42 years, 10 months and 5 days. ‘The relatives friends an@ are respectfutly invited to attend the funeral, from the residence of her mother, Vrs. 4. Hustace, on Tuesday afternoon, at one o’vlock. . Trains leave Twenty-sixth street at ten A.M. STELLENWERP.—At Islip, I Jane TRAVIS, Wife of Amos R, Stellenwerf. aged 55 years. Relatives and friends of the family are respectfully mvited to attend the faneral, at St. Mark’s churet, Islip, on Tuesday, at twelve o'clock noon. Cars ieaye Roosevelt street Y., at 8:45 A, M., returaings at two P.M. Srevpsr.—On Saturday evening, February 5, of consomption, F. W. STevBER, aged 41 years, 3 months and 12 day The fanerat will take place from his late restdence, corner of Grand and Fourth streets, Wililamaburg, on Tuesday afternoon, at two o'cloc! inday, February 6, GrorcE, son of ‘wares M. Spear, aged 1 year and 7 Charles and Ma months. Relatives and friends are reapectfally Invited to attend the funeral, from the residence of his parenis, No. 166 West Twenty-first street, on Tuesday after- noon, at one o'clock. Srepeins.—-At Danbury, Conn., on Satnrday, Feb- ruary 5, AMOS A, SrenniNna, son of Samuel Stepbins, in the s7th year of his age. Funeral from his late residence, on Tuesday atter- noon, at two o'clock. Smrri.—On Sunday, Feproary 6, Reswooa Suit, of the county Meath, Ireland. in her 60th year. ‘The relatives ana friends of the family are respect- fully mvited to attegd the funeral, this (Monday) afternoon. at two o'clock, from her jate residence, 438 West Thirteenth street. Srawcen.-—On Saturday, February 5, whileona visit to her daughter. Mrs. A. KE. Suiton. 672 Second avenue, Mra. Evizaerrat StaMia@a, relict of Ubris- amier, {n her 87th year. ‘The relatives and friends are respectfully invited, without further notice, to attend the fanerat, which will take place at the above number, on Tuesday af- t two o'clock. AWN, —On Saturday evening, Febraary 5, e of Henry Von Giahu, aged 49 years and 28 days. Relatives and friends, aiso members of Stenben I . No, 133, I. O, of O. F., are respectfully tnvtt nd the funeral. from her late residen oapect street, Brooklyn, on Tuesday aft ‘0 o'clock. WILiaMs.—At Ravenswood, L. 1, om Friday Tnary 1, Mangaser, wile of Joha H, Williams, ia ico. h year of her age. ‘The relatives and friends of the family are tnv id the funeral, from her late, re~ yon ‘Toesday afternoon, at twoo'clock, Fiera! services at the churen at half-past two. Carriages will be in attendance at the Astoria landing to meet tie Har- 1m boat whicn Jeaves Peck slip at hali-past one, and the down boat which leavea Harlem at the sane honr, WAL ace.—In Jersey City, on Sunday, February 6, James WALLAGH, ta the 44th year of his age. ‘The relatives and friends of tne family, Jersey City Lodge, No. 15, Knights of Pytinas; Veteran Hudson Cuards and members of the Jersey City Fire Depart- ment, are invited to atiend the funeral, on Tuesday afternoon, at gwo o’viock, from the First Baptist church, Grove street. WEEDEN.—At Jamaica. |. 1.. om Priday, Febroary 4, Hester G., widow of James Weeden, Sr. in tae 68tn year of her age. ‘The relatives and friends of the family are respect- fully Invited to attend the funeral, tis (Monday) at- vernoon, at two o'clock, irom her Lave residence, with out further notice. Witmerpine.-On Thursday, Fepruary 9, at his residence, No. 6 West Thirty-first street, HaNRY A. WILMERDING, in the 69th year of his age. ‘The reiatives and friends of the farnily are re- queated to atvend tie funeral, of corner of Fifth avenue and Thirtyilti sircet, ts (Monday) morning, at (en o'clock. ZABKISKIP.—AL Hackensack, on Saturday, Fedral. ary 6, JOHN H. Aauniskia, aged 68 years, 11 montad and 16 days. : Tho relauves and friends are reapectéui invited the funerdi services, Whitt will take place ay, at Rev, Joun ¥. DeBaun’sohurcd, tn Ure Viliage of Hackensack.