The New York Herald Newspaper, February 25, 1870, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. YAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yors Herarp, AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. WOOP'R MUSEUM AND MENAGERIE, Hroadway, core ner Thirtoth vt.—-Mntines daily, Performance every evening, BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery,JENNY Livy—Jaok KaKeraRe—Lavit oy, WALLA THEATRE, Broadway and 13th street. Wine 0, NOOTH'S THEATRE, Evwis Boor as Tad Detween Sth and 6b ave. GRAND-OPE Qht st. Tae comer of Righth avenna and LVE TRMUTATLONS. OLYMPLG THEATRE, Bronaway.—Nrw Version or CAML Viera AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth #!.—Fa0v HOU. FRENCH THE ATR! a Ith at, and 6th av. Comic Orrmmna La Dank Ke ‘ NIBLO'S GAKDEN, Broadway.LNNISYALLED 5 oR, Tie MEN iN + iar MRS, F. 8. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brookivn, ~ Usone Tom's Aur TONY PASTORS OPERA AOUREK, 201 Bowery. Vocatism, NECKO MINSTERIBY, &G. Coma THRATRE COMIQUE, SM Broadway.—Cowse Voost tem, NRGRO Acs, BRYANTS OV SL —LRYAN I'S Tammany Bnilding, Mth BAN FRANCT TRELS, $85 Broa way. —SrMro Plan Minsrxe Aus, dc0.—"HASH.” BELLY & LEON'S MINSTRELS, 220 Broadway. Krnto- Pian MUNSTER LOY, N Avs, kG. NEW Yor: arteenth street. -EQu KSTRIAN AND GYM VORMANORS, &C, HOOLBY'S OPERA rooklyn.— HOOLE YB. DUENBRaELS—TuT MAN A 1) AO, APOLLO HAGL, corner 28th street and Broadwa: ue New GL t { OF ANATOMY, 618 Brondway,— NEW YORK Beiwnxor anv New York, Friday, February 25, 1870. CORTLS OF TODAYS HERALD. Page. I—Advertise meuts. R—Advertsements. B— Advertisements 4—Ediiorias wilag Article Gold SUuli Down ward, Nattonal Securities Upward, the Specie Stand- ard and the Crisis at Hand—The Missing Sieamsiiy Cuy of Boston—Personal Intell genve—A Child Stealer—Instaliation of Dr. Forbes—The Christian Crusade—Ctty Intelll- geuce--A Mysterious Case—The East River Rridge—The Bank Robbery in Engiand— Amusement Announcements. G—Toiegrapiiic News From All Parts of the World: Defeat of tne Olivier Cabinet in int Divorce Case Trtal Argument Capital; Lhe War of the Factions Discussion of the Canal Contract Bill an the Senate—Cuba: End of the Disseniions Among the Patciols—Goid at 1165,4-Business Notices. G—Muweipal Adairs—Pree Traders in Councii— Proceedings io the New York City Courts— Second Vay's Session of the National Tobacco ssociarion—Miscegenation and Panel Crib- Ding—The Cempters at the Tombs—Financiat and Conuaercial Reports—Marriages and Deaths. 7—Inceudiarism in New Jersey—Tired of Alvany— Real Ks ales— Advertisements. S—Washingtoo: A Carper-bagger Cong cumyents His Persecutors; Resigns end Avoids Expulsion: The Senate Opposed te Currency Inflatlon—Vne Lewer- Kranz Gall-—-Fat Men's Keception—Bold Koud bery—Slipping Intelitgence — Advertise. meuts. man Cire Mr, Whiitemore Revers —ioth parties in the Senate are disposed to freeze out the colored Senator from Mississippi. He was discussed a little yesterday without being admitied, He begins to look black about Tae C Inruation Bitt.—The Senate yesterday by an almost unanimous vote declared u further inflation of the currency to be injudicious. This effectually smothers the fifty million bill suggested in the House, and for the present estops any further inerease of oir paper money. on eNCY Peace IN TamMANY,—The muss among the democrats in the Legislature has been happily smoothed over, and a Charter for the city fully as good as one we have contended for is in a fair way of accomplishment, That is all we want. Let the members finish their business and quarrel afterwards, buf leave us not under the ban of misrule any longer, Tax Leostarure YesrerpaAy.—The whole day was consumed by the Senate in discussing a bill abolishing the contract system on the canals, which was finally ordered to a third reading. Jn the Assembly the bill incorporat- fing the Hast % sridge Company came up asa general order, and a lengthy discussion ensued re to pay taxes for the project. finally laid on the table. ive to the right of Queens county The bill was Waspent Poms Artix tik [xptans,— When Alexuader the Great, son of Philip the First, lashed the seas because there were no more worlils to conquer, so Wendell Phillips, ® Massachusetts eloquent Alexander, talks, afler abolishing negro disability, about the Indians being entifled to the same political rights, Phillips is right. Give the Indians a chance, without lesbing them to a war dance, and fet them bave the opportunities of the Dallot—not the bullet, Fivz-Twennies Over Par.—-Yesterday the long six per cents of 1881 sold at 117 when gold was) I1¢ In other words they were over par in gold, At the same time five- twenties in London sold at 90, which, counting exchange, is equivalent to 9, or within one per cent of par. Is this the country whic! few years since was waging & gigantic war and procaring money by selling its bonds at fifty cents on the dollar in currency? Truly, | the American eagle has aright to seream. a Tur Pui VALES IN A Court o# Jts- vice bas given a good account of himself. In his testimony in the Mordaunt divorce ca it appears he has left the impression upon the public mind of England that his familiar associations with different classes of people, whieh have been construed as demoralizing and vicions, have been only thoughtless im- prudences, liable to misconstruction, and that as he grows older he will doubtless be more and more guided by the exemplary life of his worthy father and the teachings of his worthy mother, So we hope it may be, and so we are fncliged to think it will be. a I ng ne name te NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY: 25, 1870 Gold Stil Downward—National Securities Upward—The Spocie Standard and tho Crisis ut Hand, Gold declined yesterday to 116} ‘‘on "Change,” and, including the difference of exchange, our national securities advanced in London to a point within one-half of one per cent of the gold dollar, What doos this sig- nify? It signifies that we are rapidly approaching that great consummation of the specie standard with our paper money so per- plexing to our statesmen, politicians and finan- ciers, and so devoutly wished by all parties and all classes of our people. It signifies, too, an approaching financial crisis, involving a recon- | struction of all the business affairs of the country in all their details and ramifications, public and private corporations, companies and individuals, employers and employés, high and low, rich and poor, capital and labor, producers and consumers, on a lower scale of prices, Our shopkeepers for months past have been “marking down” their goods with the decline in gold, and have been and are underselling each other. They are quick to note the changes in the financial sky. Country farms, town lots and houses have been coming down, and their natural and inevitable tendency is downward, Stocks are falling, the supplies of labor are increasing beyond the active demand, and employés are vainly struggling under tho new order of things to maintain their war prices. From the unsettled and precarious situation of the political affairs of Europe capi- tal in that quarter for several years past has been timid, and is now. The coin in the banks of Englaud and France has been ac- cumulating from week to week by thousands or millions for many months, the last week’s additions to the Bank of France being nine million five hundred thousand francs. At the same time European . capitalists have been casting about for employment for their money, and have been seizing upon United States securities, Turkish, Egyptian and Russian loans, and American railroads, and all sorts of African, Asiatic and American enterprises, as comparatively safe investments ; but stifl there is a steady increase of idle European capital with the general and widening depression in manufactures and trade and the general im- pression of political insecurity. Here we have that secret, that financial bal- ance of power (overlooked by our calculating financiers and short-sighted politicians) which has brought us so unexpectedly and s0 strangely to the verge of the specie standard of payments, The unsettled political affairs of Europe have been the salvation of our national securities. From this general cause our gov- ernment bonds in the Kuropean financial cities have risen to a valuation which otherwise they never could have reached, althougi the gold and debt paying policy of General Grant’s ad- ministration has contributed much to the pre- sent European demand for our five-twenties and ten-forties, Here, we say, isa powerful agency which has been and is working to briug us to the specie standard, and to the confusion of all the calculations of our financiers and politicians. And here ihe combined influences of the press, steam and the telegraph may be partly com- prebended. Through these instrumentalities the wealth, the uurces and financial capa- bilities of the United States are beginning to be properly undersiood all over Europe. It is said, too, on the other side, that the late legal tender decision of our Supreme Court, which practically does not amount to much, has im- mensely contributed to the restoration of European confidence in our government bonds. Atallevents, it is now apparent that if Congress will only refrain from any attempts to improve our financial condition by such tinkering ex- periments as those proposed in the increase of our paper money circulation by hundreds of millions, the laws of trade will carry us through the approaching crisis without any serious convulsion. As a natural reaction from the restraints under which capital has been rendered for several years so inactive in Kurope, an epi- demic of speculation is apprehended. With us, however, this epidemic comes with a paper money inflation like that of 1836, and is followed by a disastrous collapse like that of 1837. A paper money inflation is, therefore, the great danger to be avoided, and we are glad to see this opinion sustained in the vote of the United States Senate yesterday on this important question, The resolution of Senator Williams, which was adopted without a division, covers the ground, and especially upon this point, that to increase our irredeem- able paper currency at this time would be to ‘foster and encourage the spirit of specula- tion, and to aggravate the evils produced by frequent and sudden fluctuations of values,” This declaration from the Senate reassures us against an epidemic of speculation. We have had our speculative carnival. We have been fighting our way out of it ever since the close of the war. We are now within sight of land, and, do the best we may, there will be some breakages and losses as we touch the shore. We must shorten sail, retrench and reduce it everything and on every side, We must prepare, from the wealthiest capi- taliat to the poorest laborer, from the national government to the weakest private corpora- tion or company or employer, for the great change that is at hand in our financial and business affairs. Lands, lots, houses, stocks, manufactures, farm products, groceries, dry goods, &c., must all come down, and labor, in every shape and form, must accept its proper share of apparent loss in this general reorganization of business upon the specie standard. Such are the teachings of the mo- mentons financial events and tendencies of the Tux Postar TELEGRAPH AND THE WestERNn Usiox Monovony.—Mr, William Orton, of the Western Union Telegraph Company, addressed ste Committee yesterday relative to a | proposed Vostal Telegraph bill, He stated that the Western Union could easily take possession of the corporation proposed by Mr. Hubbard's hill, and then they would have one of the strongest monopolies in the country, He made a proposition that the Post Office De- partment control the rates of telegraphing, provided the Western Union Company be allowed ten per cent profit per annum on the value of their property, such value to be ap- praised by a commission, But if the 1 monopoly can 80 easily take possession of tho corporation proposed by Mr, Hubbard's bill why can it not aleo take possession of the commission to be appointed and have its pro- perly appraised far above its value? The Proposition of Mr. Orton is not the one that,ia wanted, but it shows at least that the monopoly is frightened. ° ena! Euglish Protection for Americans in Cuba, We published in Wednesday’s Hrranp an account of another outrage on an American citizen in Cuban waters. It appears that on the arrival of the American smack Fulton in the harbor of Havana a party of volunteers started from the shore with the evident inten- tion of inflicting on Captain Franklin, the master of the Fulton, the same brutal treat- mont as that which their associates meted out to poor Greenwalth in the streets of Havana, The offence which Captain Franklin is sup- posed to be guilty of is that of being suspected of assisting the escape of the man who shot Sefior Castation in Key West. Merely for be- ing suspected Captain Franklin had to leave his ship and flee in a small boat to seek protec- tion on board the British man-of-war Defence. There he was safe. The English commander protected him, and his pursuers were thus baf- fled. The American Consul, hearing of the outrage, visited Captain Franklin on board the Defence and advised him not to ‘‘come ashore or he would be killed.” Recognizing the real situation of affairs, Captain Frank!in resolved to put to sea again, but not without the protec- tion of the English flag, which the captain of the Defence gallantly accorded him. But mat- ters did not rest here, On the arrival of the Fulton at Key West not only was the captain threatened with assassination, but the lives of his mate avd crew were also placed in jeopardy. Here we have the fruits arising from the miserably timid policy of the administra- tion in its treatment of the Cuban question. Every day brings fresh evidences of Spanish hatred for America and American citizens, many of whom are compelled to deny their nationality for sell-protection, Threats of assassination hang over the heads of American Consuls in Cuba if they dare discharge consci- entiously the duties of their offices. Foreign war vessels shelter American seamen and af- ford protection to American vessels, and thus prevent them from outrage at the hands of the unbridled volunteers, whom the Captain Gene- ral is unable to discipline and powerless to control. Even on our own soil, in Key West, we find Spaniards play the bully and the bravo over American citizens; .and yet the adminis- tration does nothing. It cannot see how our flag is insulted and the nation brought into con- tempt, because it willnot see. Why? We are not now pleading for the granting of belligerent rights for Cuba, but demanding protection for American citizens who are unfortunate enough to be brought in contact with the Spaniards in Cuba. Have we a navy? If so, how is it that an American captain is compelled to seek the protection of the English flag, receive his consul on board an English iron-clad, and go to sea under the escort of an English comman- der? Ifthis is nothing In the eyes of the American Secretary, it is something for the American people to reflect upon. It is a de- plurable state of things, and we hope that Con- gress will hurry up matters in relation io Cuba. Let us have more action on this subject and less words. Kaual Justice for Ait, When shall we have justice in this city? This question the people are now asking in a way which shows that the question is a de- mand initself, What we want in New York is not justice go blind that she metes out punish- ment to a certain class of criminals, and at the same time lets another class, equally guilty, go unpurged of their crimes, but equal and exact justice to all without respect to persons, Political influence has made justice a byword and a sneer in this city. It should not be allowed to continue so any longer, and the sooner those most concerned, and at whose doors the whole blame for the thing may be laid understand this the better. A case in point is that of Jack Reynolds. It is true that this man committed an awful crime, that be richly deserves the fate to which he has been doomed ; but then there are in the Tombs nine or ten murderers whose crimes were perpe- trated several months before old Mr. Town- send met his death in Hudson street. They are all politicians or tho special protégés of politicians. Jack Reynolds is neither a poli- tician nor the protégé of one, and in hurrying him to trial the authorities had no political in- fluence to work against, and so he became the convenient victim to appease the popular cry for vengeance upon murderers. The reckless characters of the city are as keen to observe the vagaries of justice as anybody else, Is it not plain, then, that the hurried “way Reynolds was placed upon his trial, while equally guilty politicians were permitted to be forgotten in their cells, will give an enconrage- ment to the political roughs that may be fruitful of very bad resulis? That, instead of being awed by the prompt trial and conviction of the bloodthirsty wretch, they will feel the bolder, knowing that they have a political influence to fall back upon when the worst comes to the worst? We think they will. The authorities owe it to themselves to disabuse the dangerous portion of the community of this idea, and they can do it in no better way than to at once place on trial such men as Jackson, Purcell, Carney, Lee, and a few others who might he mentioned. They have all been months in prison, and the old technical plea that they are “not ready for trial” can have no effect in their cages whatever. Let the people underatund for once that be he who he may that does mur- der in our midst he must suffer for his crime. When the politically influential cutthroats are dealt with as sternly as the friendless mur- derer the cry for vigilance committees will have lost ils strongest hold on the people. Then, and not until then, will the people be satisfied. CrowvEp Cars.—Some of the lines of cars in the city now run go fall that passengers are compelled to stand up all the way. If the con- ductors were not entitled to collect any fare from a passenger who had not had a seat at any time during his ride, would he not refuse to take in more than he had seats for? It seems likely that he would, and we believe that tho passing of a law forbidding him to take fare in such cases is an experiment worth making. The companies will see that conduc- tora do aot cacry vasgengers that do not yay. ‘emancipation of Important News from France~Parllament. avy Reactiva and Defeat of Ollivicr. By cable telegram from Paris we have the highly important intelligence that the Olivier Ministry sustained a very decisive parliament- ary defeat in the French Legislature yesterday. Premier Ollivier, in the elaboration of his plan of franchise and electoral reform, proposed to abolish the present system of official candida- ture at elections, or to do away with the nomination and recommendation of candidates before the people by the executive. This was too much—a stride too far ahead of terrorism and corruption. It roused the reactionary spirit of the Assem- bly. Tho proposition was violently re- sisted and M. Ollivier clamorously in- terrupted during the course of his exposition. The members of the Right moved that the Assembly take up the order of the day. The Premier persisted to speak, nevertheless, as- serting that the government could not disavow its principles, A division having been taken the motion of the Right was adopted by a vote of 187 against 56. ‘This reqult was considered a equivalent to a vote of want of confidence in the Ministry, The announcement produced very considerable agitation in Paris. According to English par- liamentary rule It should cause an immediate resignation of the Ministry. In Paris, how- ever, the questions remain, Can the Ollivier Cabinet resign? If it does what will ensue? Another advance towards radical democracy, another lowering of the imperial ensign, or a retrocession in favor of the ‘tone man” privi- lege and the crowning of the edifice after the original dynastic plan? It is very difficult to say just now, Our Cuban News, Our correspondence from Havana published this morning is rendered unusually interest- ing and important by « letter purporting to have been written to the Marquis of Santa Lucia and captured by the Spaniards. It reeds like a genuine document, and while the source from whence it is derived is none of the the most trustworthy we are inclined to give it credence. Ina very clear style this letter ex- plains the end of the dissensions which pre- vented the Cuban patriots from acting together with that unanimity so essential to the success of a struggling nationality. It seems that General Quesada was the principal cause of this lack of harmony. He was unfit for the position of commander-in-chief; his arbitrary conduct mado him unpopular, to say nothing of his absolute want of military ability, The Cuban House of Representatives appears to have acted with prompt decision in deposing him, and alt friends of Cuban independenco will be gratified by the intelligence that his successor, General Jordan, is popular with the people, and, from the tehor of the letter, has already sueeceded in reconciling differences and in reviving the enthusiasm of the army. Tf, then, this letter be a genuine document it indicates that the Cubans are alive to the im- portance of harmony in their ranks and are willing to abandon personal prejudices for the general welfure of their country, Our cable telegram from Hava vested with some importance. * eral De Rodas has issued a granting liberty to two thousand had been taken prisoners of: war rhired out by the government. They are lared in- vested with all the rights of freedom and are promised the fullest protection. If this action of De Rodas be an initiatory step towards the the colored people, it is a significant indication that Spain is preparing to abandon her pro-slavery policy. At the same time it must be remembered: that by the constitution of the Cuban republic all the negroes were declared free; consequently the slaves referred to were such only by the fact of their falling into the hands of the Spaniards. Itis to be deplored that in the same despatch announcing the promulgation of this proclamation is contained the intelligence of the trial, conviction and execution of eighteen Cubans in Santiago de Cuba on a charge of belonging to the patriot junta of that city. This brutality, however, is in strict accordance with the Spanish barbaric policy towards defenceless Cubans, The Unfortunate Whittemore, The trial of this poor carpet-bagger for selling his cadetships was ended somewhat ludicrously in the House of Representatives yesterday. The few hours intervening between the adjournment on Wednesday and the reas- sembling on Thursday were passed to good effect by the accused, for he succeeded in telegraph- ing his resignation to the Governor of his State and receiving an acceptance of it in time to present it to the Speaker of the House while his case was awaiting action yesterday, This blocked the expulsion game. Whitte- more was sale from the claws of the Military Committee. He became simply an ordinary citizen, and was no longer a member of the House. Then ensued the ludicrous part of the transaction, Logan and his virtuous con- Jréres, hungry for an example, abused the poor fellow withont stint, and denied him the privilege of making any defence, on the very ground which he had worked so hard to secure— that he was no longer a member of the House. In addition to stifing him thus, they passed a resolution, in lien of the proposed expulsion, condemning his course in unmeasured terms, by a vote of one hundred and eighty-tive—not asingle member voting against it—not even the brave and fearless Butler, who had de- fended him so faithfully up to that hour that one could hardly help suspecting that a fellow feeling made him so wondrous kind, It was not so, however. The defence of Whittemore was a mere case at law that Batler conducted on the floor of the House as he might have conducted it in the law courts of Massachusetts. He had a right to voie against bis client if he liked. If, however, he accepts pay as tho counsel of Whiltemore, may he not lay himself liable to a charge of bribery, a8 Whittemore did? We may be sure Butler is too well posted to lay himself liable to any such ch it wags just the other ‘way with the poor carpet-bagger. He did not know the ropes; and such is the case with most of the carpet-baggers implt- cated in these cases. Blackburn, of Louisi- ana, actually confesses that he sold his cadet- ships, and claims that there was nothing wrong about it, except that the man he sold them to swindled him out’ of two handred dollars of the purchase money, Whittemore’s ——— ———__nnnnnnnEnnEEEEEREEEEEEneEnneeneennee es great blunders were, first, in taking such a small bribe, and, next, in boing found out. If he had had the experience of two or three years he would have learned that five hundred dollara is too littto money for a Congressman to touch, and that the easiest and moat necessary thing in Congressional stealing is to cover up the tracks, Tue Law Marxrr.—The only thing for which the world Is not furnished with regular quotations of prices und in which, notwith- standing all business is done in plain buying and selling style, is the law warkot as con- ducted in the State Legislatures, Asa starting point, however, we now have it on record a6 the experience of a Boston lobbyman who has been down South that the Legislature of Ala- bama was the cheapest body of the sort he ever encountered, Doubtless Legislatures are cheap all over the South, and some of them are pretty cheap in the North, but lobbymen ought to construct an exact scheme of prices. Tue Power or Srrona Corporations, —It is said that several Pennsylvania railroad cor- porations which have been notified that they must pay the interest on their bonds in coin, under the late decision of the Supreme Court, have declined to do so, and are now working to get Messrs, Strong aud Bradley confirmed in order to have the decision reversed. The mere fact of their hoping to do this shows to what despotic powers monopolies and close corporations may aspire in this free republic. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Prominent Arrivals in This City Yesterday. Commander Levy, of the United States Navy; Sena- tor Howard, of Michigan; General Sullivan and Major rank E. Taylor, of the United States Army; Judge Kaitell and Judge Balcom, of New York, are at the Astor House, Count Hunyady, of Paris; Genoral T. G. Pitcher, of West Point; Judge B. kK. Curtis, of Boston; Alex ander Clark, Assistant Commissary General British Army; Charles K, Brooke and i. E. P. ‘Thomas, of her Majesty’s Fifteenth 1nfantry, are at the Brevoort House, Colonel C. C. Hany and pr. L. B. Church, of Montana; Putnam Perley and Colonel G, Aiexaucer, of St. Louis; Judge R. Cochrane, of New York; Judge J. V. Witt, of Idaho, aud Dr. J. 8, Jordan, of the United State Army, are at the Mevropolitan Hotel. General A. B. MoCalmont, of Franklin, Pa., aid Colonel George A. Bachelder, of Boston, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. General I. S. Lansing, of Philadelphia, is at the Coleman House. Prominent Departures. 1. M. Bowen, G. R. Hicks and Dr, W. D. Rowland, for Washington; Major General W. W. Averill, tor Philadelphia, and Lieutenant Yorker, of the British Army, and family, for San Franctsco, via the Pacitic Rails A CHILD STEALER. Exciting Chnse tm the Sixteenth Ward for a Three Months Old Buby. A comely looking Irish woman, named Eridget Glanee, about+thiriy years of age, with a litue boy three mouths old in ber arms, arrived m this ity a few days ago from Goshen, Orange county. Though sho was married and had left a husband bebind her, she sald, she had come to this city to seek employ- ment. She applied to the Sisters of Clarity, in West ‘Twelfth street, for lodging, 9% she had no means or friends here, and stayed there for a wign!. She then determined to apply to, the Lubor Bureau at Castle Garden; and on her way there, at the corner of ‘Yweifth strect and Sixth avenue, she met Mary Jane Duly, @ married woman restding in Filty-second street. The two women became comtounicative, and Mrs. Duify took a great fancy to the wiant boy. Mrs, Dutly oifered the hospitality of her humble home to Bridget ena the later accepted 1. On the way Mrs. Duity binted ww Bridget that she coud find a sumptuous home and a rich lady for an adopted tnother for her pretty boy. At this sugges- Uon Bridget only clung more lovingly to her chia and repelled the msinuation by tue declaration that nothing but death should separate her from ner child, Mra. Duffy then changed her tactics and asked Bridget to take a cup of tea with her iu a con- fectionery restaurant. While Bridget was enjoying her lunch Mrs, Duify nursed the voy, and, having got possession, started away with hin. The mother nding that Mrs. Duty and her boy were gone started in pursutt, shrieking out her loss a8 she ran long. ‘he crowd on the s:dewalk joined in the pur- ult, and presently Mrs. Dufty and the infant were stopped at coruer of Kighth avenue and ‘twentieth street, and the former given into custody of officer Russell, of the Sixteenth precinct, on the charge ot Kidnapping. Yesterday afternoon the parties con- cerned appeared at Jefferson Market Police Court, before Justice Scott, when Mrs. Duty was committed to answer at the Special Sessions. Bail was given to the amount of $500, Mrs. Duly is twenty-seven years of age, and is ukely very soon to become a mother. . Duify 1s employed at Brady's touudry, in Fifty-fith street, and was in court, very anxious ‘a8 to the result of his wife’s escapade. Bridget was sent to the (Louse of Detention. INSTALLATION OF OR. FORB:S. Rev. John Murray Forbes, D. D., was last evening formally installed as Dean of the General ‘theolog!- cal Seminary, at the Church of the Trausiiguration, ‘The ceremonies were exceedingly iwteresting, and during the proceediugs the beautiful little church was crowded to its ulmosés capacity, Among the audience were all the prominent Episcopal clergy- meu of the city and the students of the seminary. ‘The address of Dy, Forbes after the instaiiation was very elaborate, one om which he bad evidently ex- pended much Wonght, in it be took occasion se- verely to overhadl rationalism and materialisio which he styled the “iniidelities of the day,” an “the mighty Church of ‘some.’ Jn speaking of the jatter he referred to the many boly meu sue had pro- duced and the great services she had readered lu- manity, but denounced her sor what te catied her Insaviabie lust for power, the bimd obedience she exacted of her own cuuldren, aud the sneers and mockery with which she treated all classes of Chris- Uans outside of her pale. After the close ot the ceremonies the new Dean held an informal recep- tion at the residence of the pastor of tue church, durtog Which all the clergymen and a large number of the laity called upon bun. Lt 18 almost neediess to state that Dr. John Marray Forbes 18 the Clergy2an who, twenty-one years ago, abandoned the Episcopal fata and becaine a Catho- lic priest, and afterwards returned to the former again, for which he was «wnathematized by A bishop Hughes. fle 1s #ixty-three years of age, a man Of fine presence, and ao attractive, bacugh miyt what inay be called eloquent pulpit orator, “THE CHISTIAN CRUSADE, ‘The assoclation styling itselt “The Christian Workers” held & meeting last night at Christ chapel, in Chrystie street, for the purpose of effecting a Permanent orgavization, Mr. Albert Woodcraft pre- sided, and the meeting adopted a constitution which aunotwnces the object of the association to bo the excension of Sunday schools and Church mieston? mi the lower Wards of the city. 1 1s also contemplated to estaviisn a Lay Preachers’ lostituie, a Sunday School Teachers’ Institute, and a Visitors’ Tusu- tute, for perfecting the effectiveness of these re- spective religious agencies, The preamble of the constitution states (uas the design of the orgaviza- tion ts ‘not to create any new eflort of evangeliza- ton, but for the purpose of devising ways aud of preparing plans for making imore effe and use- iat Lhe e:torts HOW at Work Lo these districts.’ A MYSTERIOUS CASE, Coroner Whitentli was jast evening notifed to take the dying deposition of & man named Malachi Mulaoon, at the residence of the latier’s daughter, in Ninth street, near Ainslie, Willlamebury. On repairing to the place the Coroner found Muidoon in an insensible and dying condition, His daugiter says that ne ts a resident of Syracuse and has peen visiting hes for several weeks, On Monday Jore- noon last, after 2 short absence, hc was brougitt to her residence by two or three strange men in an insensible state, with his head cub und bleeding, He was unable to state the cause of Kis injuries, and died a6 nine o'clock last night, SS SS rn inne ee Un Tan en en nn ee ec eee ee amen asm THE EAST RIVER BitDGE. The work on the Kast river bridge ts progressing and is beginning to attract considerable attention. Dredging machines wre at work upen the founda: tion, and it has been found necessary to resort to submarine biasting to remove some large rocks which have becn met with in sinking the bed, ‘the powder, after being sunk, is exploded by a gatvanic battery, [t 1s expected that the ‘oaissous will be completed about Wag Leet Of March, when boy will be jauacked. ees eee ee ent nee een tennant THE MISSING STEAMER, Anxiety for the Safety of the City of Boston. A British Government Vessel in Search of Her. Her Dimensions, Build, Passengors and Cargo List. A Search fnstitated. HALIrAX, N. S., Feb. 23, £870, A government steamer vas been despatched to Sable island to searc for the missing steamer City of Boston, Advance of Insurance Premiums on the Vessel. Lonpon, Feb. 24, 1870. ‘The underwriters aré charging fifty per cent pre mium on the missing steamer City of Boston, The City of Boston, ‘Tho screw steamer City of Boston, of the Inman line, bas not been heard of yet, and much anxiety is felt by the friends of the passengers with regard toherfate. The missing steamer left this port on the 26th of January and cleared at Halttax on the 28th, for Queenstown and Liverpool, She is a mail steamer, and, like other veasels belonging to the inman lino, isa remarkably fine specimen of naval Architecture, been built under special survey, and has received the highest classification at Lioyd’s, and also from the Liverpool Association of Under- writers, In géneral configuration and aspect the missing ship beare a stroag resemblance to the newly built steamer City of London, belonging to the same company. She 1 un tron vessel, and besides being @ mall steamer is designed as a passenger ship of the first order, She ts 306 teet long in the keel and fore rake, and measures 332 feet in length over all; her moulded beam width ts 39 feet, aud she ia 27 feet 6 incnes deep in the hull from the bottom of her bold to the spar deck. She is of 2,278 tons, Old measurement, and 18 propelicd by two engihes of 300 horse power, nominal, but which will be capable Of working up to considerabiy more than double that power. The ribs, beams ana plating of this flue vessel are all exceedingly atrong and of the very best material. The ribs aud beams, indeed the whole of the framing, are securely bound together by heavy stringer plates and ties, and the slip 1% transversely divided into eight com- partments by seven strong and weil secured water tigit buikheads which reach from the Keelson to the upper deck. She is ship-rigged, a large spread of canvas being assigned fer to act m aid of ber propeller in xecuring steadiness und speed im sailing. ‘fhe paxsenzer accoummodation on board the City of Boston is of the very best desoription, audevery care is taken to insure the comfort and safety of her passengers. ‘Iho principal saloon im forty-eight fect long by eighteen feet wide and seven feet tx Inches high in the ceiling. The state rooms connect with this saloon and are very capactous, eieguntly furnished and eflictently supplied with tue Ineans of regular veatiiation. Of ties there are @ sufticient number to accommodate upward of a hundred first ciass pnssengers, The accommoda- tous for passengers of the secoud and third’ classes are aise ample and of the best kind. No cost or labor was spared in the butlding of the vessel to insure the efficiency of every department connected with the management aud working of the ship, which is under the command of Captain Halcrow, whose well known skill as a navi- gaior has secured for him the highest degree of pub- lic favor and esteem, pince the departure of the City of Goston, as far a8 yet ascertained by any vessel arriving here or at any British pot she has not been spoken, and the anxiety with regard to her fate has been painfully mereased by a report made by Uaptain Hackett, of the schooner Charles Tupper, who stated, on lis arrival at Halifax on the sth inst, that he saw & steamer off Sable Island throwing signals of dts tress, but owing to the heavy seas and the aisabied condition of his own vessel was unabie to go to her assistance. This vessel was at first supposed to ba the City of Boston, and the New York ageut teie- graphed to Halifax tor furéher particulars, recelv- ing in reply the following despasch from the com- pany’s agent im that city:—_ HALIFAX, N. 8, Fob. 14, 1879. |. To J. G, DALR, No. 15 Broadway, New York Captain Huckett, of schooner Charles Tuy from Giace Bay [or St. Jago, about seven o'clock on the night of the Jist of January, the weather being moderate and the night ol and'starlight, waa in latitude 43 80 north and longitude about 61 west, ‘the schooner had been dismasied by the heavy gale from the southeast and northwest, and was then without asrudder, having a foresail and jib. aln Was alone On deck,'and saw a white light abead, abouta mile off, whtcle he at first took to be a astar, but afterwards found to’ be the wastheud light of a steamer; he then saw the port light ow her stern side; then gaw the three lights right asteru, Saw ke, but knew it to be asteamer from the ppeared to be golng avout fouror tive kuots. It Ip rigged. She then worked to the ‘of me, and I saw the white light and starboard light, and wae then about a point on my port bow about north. threw up three rockets of different colore—{ think frst white, tout of sight on a z she was second blue, third red, ‘The sieauaat w git on 8 re to northwesi ic was in 108 three hours. ease J. & KR. B, BUTTON. ‘This message 18 regarded by'Mr, Dale as conclu- sive that the vessel in distress was not the City of Bosvon, and no alarm is felt at the office of the com- pany for her satety. It 1s believed that sie has mes ‘with an accident to her machinery aud been obliged to proceed under canvass alone. Captain Brooks, ot the City of Brooxiyn, which arrived in this port on Sunday last, reports easterly and heavy ice tielas on the course the City of Boston must have wken; consequenUy she may have been delayed by ‘this or any one of @ Variety of common causes, and iittle aiarm 1s felt a8 yet for her ultimate safety. In addition Wo her iull crew she carried 112 cabin and steerage passengers, and was provisioned for flity- eight days, independently of ber cargo, which con- sisted in a@ large measure of beel, flour and other articles of food. The officers in command of the vessel are as lows:— (eUeptals, 3 J, Halerow ; Chief Officer, W. Mortimer; Seong Ouest, John Craven; Third Officer, ‘Henry James; Fourth Ollicer, J. Stevens; Purser, W. M. Short; Surgeon, Dr. Kice; First Bagineer, ©, Alexander; Second Engineer, K. Hawks. 4 ‘The vessel left New York with twelve cabin and forty-five steerage passenger. At Halitax forty cabin and ten steerage pi rs were added to the lust, ‘The names of the cabin passengers from Now York have been alreagy published, The following te alist of those in the stecrage:— John Moran, Joln Gibson, A, R. Conk, Moehael Parkinson, W. McCrea, wife and child: 9. Fe . J. Harding, Will Moalsdall, George Fern, George Jennings, ‘Thomas Boulton, Joacph Davis, William Davis, . Threat! M. Dempsey, Charies Grattan, ‘Frances McUarthy, Thomas Fraucis, William Lapsworta, Benjamin Woodbead, J, dwife, Edward Parry, James McDonnell, ‘‘homas Joho L, Ashton, W, Bartley, wife and two children; ‘Gf. Hamsicy, Joba Taylor and wife, John 8. Bayley, n Davis, Juhu Davis, Thoiuss Davis, 3. McCulla, William William Tuompeon add Robert i Curr, Jeraes White, L. Hoyt Kerr. OY INTELLIGENCE, ‘The following record will show tae changes m the temperature of the weather for the past twenty-four hours in comparison witi the corresponding aay of tagt year, a8 indicated by tne thermometer at Hud- nus pharmacy, HERALD Building, Broadway, cor- ner of Aun street:— 9, 1 « 35 Average temperature yesterday 295 Average temperature lor corresponding date JASE VERE. ceweeeeee f 3 ix-Seeretary Seward 14 expected to ariive in thip city this evening from Baltimore, and will take ap quarters at the Astor [Louse Ib te understood that Prince Erio nas offered $600,000 for the ground on which the Protestans Episcopal Theological Seminary stands, ou Ninue avenue, with & view to erect a monster ratiroad depot on tue property. Tie Erie cars, tt ts stated also, are imcndedt to cro#s the river from Jersey by rouning ander the bed of the river in a gigante tunnel. The United States Assessors of the districta tn New York and vicinity, including a portion of New Jersey, met yeeleritay nt noon at the ofllce of Asses- sor Van Wyck, in Leonard street, Mr. Vau Wyck in the cbatr and Mr. Harris weting as Secretary. Among. those present wer srs. Aliahen, Hawthorue, Rob inson, MeCartin, Ketchum, &c. The question whe- ther i person taking out’a ilcense both as a retait dealer and agcdler depended upoa his combined sales for his special tax was referred to Commis sioner Delano, with the request than an answer pe returned ut the next meeting. As to whether atoue- cutters need inchide In their manutacturers' sates the value of stone cat and dressed by them, bub which they do not selt, and which they uae in carry- ing out their buliding contracts under a buuder's and contractois license, it was coustrued that Commissioner Delano’s opinion was that they need nol. THE BANK ROBBERY IN ENGLAND. The London Glove of the 12th of February re. orts:—The bank of England, anxious to. aesist jossra, Barnett & Co. in the recovery of their stolen nows, have printed # new series of notes of £1,000 cach. The Ires issue ia dated 1870, whereas the dates of tue noted for £1,000 up Lo this time in circu. lation has been 2863, AS the average existence of a nove lor £1,000 18 not longer than about a week, it ia, probable that within & fow days Lue whole circata. lon beariug date 1368 will have been returned to bie bank, with tho exception of tae abMeA NOLS. WHER Witt (hua ba Pamiy dotectgd