The New York Herald Newspaper, July 31, 1870, Page 3

THE MYSTERIOUS MURDER. Speculations and Opinions Con- cerning the Criminal. Was the Murder the Act of an Inmate of the House ? The Burdell Tragedy and Nathan Case Compared, Interesting Facts—Meeting of the Stock Board—Rewards for the Apprehen- sion of the Murderer—The In- quest and Funeral To-Morrow, The popular excitement over the brutal murder of Benjamin Nathan on Thursday night has in no wise abated. All day long yesterday the sidewalks on both sides of the street tn the immediate vicinity of tne deceased's late residence were crowded by per- sons who strnggled with one another merely tw get @ glimpse at the house; for indecd that was all they could gets glimpse at. Every precaution was taken by the police to keep curious sightsecrs from getting to near the house, and all persons who presumed to stand for any length of time near the stoop were peremptorily ordered to move on. The shades on the inside of the windows (there are no blinds to them) were kept tightly closed on cvery story, with the exception of that where THE MURDER WAS COMMITTED. The two windows of this story, which face on ‘Twenty-third street, were open from the lower sill tothe middie, and a wire gauze frame had been inserted instead of the shade, thus allowing the air to pass freely through tne room and at the same time render it impenetrable to the curious ones across the way, Jt was positively amusing—if such word can ve used in connection With anything pertaining to the dreadfal tragedy—to witness tl ‘eagerness ana patience of the crowds in the streets am the attempts every once in a while to get a near view of the premises, Many ‘Persons who had ensconced themscives against the Filth Avenue Hotel rating at noon ‘did not leave the neighborhood until tate an the evening, and when they did move ‘about it was only to approach and ada the weight of ‘their views to some little group, who were dscussing che tragedy in all its aspects, The stage drivers as -they passed by hauled up in frout of the house and ‘coolly surveyed the place from top to bottom almost ‘every time they came through the street, while the passengers on the side of the stage turtwest from the ‘dwelling got up from their seats and poked their ‘heads out of the windows along with those on the Wavorite side to see where the murder was done. ‘Even private carriages on their way up ana down ‘the avenue made ita point to turn down Twenty- ‘third street, so that their inmates might satisfy their ‘curiosity, They il knew perfectly well, without ‘Deing told go by the police, who made them whip up ‘and go thelr ways when they loitered too long, that ‘there was nothing to be seen but the plaju exterior of the house itself; that it had nothing whatever ‘about it to particularly Gistinguish it from ‘any one of the immediately adjoining houses; yet the, sted in staying as long as they could in Gront of ft, just as though they were ableto gaze through the walls and feast therr eyes with the ter- mivie siglit within, which Bad made more thai the policeman, used to ‘ F SIGHTS THAT APPALL THE SENSES, #icken when first he beheld it. It was in vain that ihe police exerted themselves, withuut using their sclubs, tomake Lhe hundreds move on who swarmed tabout, hour after hour, and then reluctantly went ‘their ways, only to give place to hundreds of others, ‘who gazed ut the house with open-mouthed won- Aerment as long and with as lutle profit a3 those ywho had preceded them. The crowd never seomed to diminish, no matter how many went away. Those wno managed to scramble upon the fences and ratlings of the adjoining yards, aud to keep at such a distance from the Nathan mansion as guaranteed them from police interference, were ‘very Communicative, one to whe other, as to what he or she knew or had heard of the murder. There were women among tlese groups, and there were not a few of them who had litile children im their arms, and a few not only had babies at the breast, but a couple of ‘toddiers” at their side who were old enougi to listen with rapt attention to a'l the hor- rifying details of the tragedy which their unnatural Mothers saw fit to revamp among themselves. As has already been mentioned, the police had the strictest orders not to admit apy person into the house but the detectives who are working up the case and the friends of the tamily. Even those gen- erally privileged characters, the members of the Press, were not allowed during the day to set foot within the allway; yet whenever the door opened a foot or two to admit a friend of the family or allow one to take his leave, there was_a forward Movement In tne crowd on the street. The women Took their chilaren by the hand and rushed toward te stoop, dragging the {ttle ones screaming afier them, while those on the railings scrambled hurriedly down and hastened in the same direction, all withthe one idea uppermost in their minds of secmg something of the interior of the building. ‘Did you &ee that door inside there?” asked a young man of another, as the hall door closed upon a gea- Heman who succeeded in being admitted. “What door *” asked the other. “Why, when the policewan jet that man in, saw, inside the inner dvor, the en- trance to that room there witt those two win | dows; that’s the door the murderer must ave passed on going into the hallway.’ This wi vidual, ‘who was uot a whit more curious or More desporate/y anxtous to haye it to say that he liad seen something which was more clearly con- nected with the murder than the entrance of the house, knew well that the deed had been done on the floor above, and that the door in question was far from where the struggle between the murderer and his victim tad taken place; yet tt satisfied him that he bad seen a part of the inside of the house that many others had not seen. That, in his opinion, was a great achievement, and he was envied by bis less fortunate friends in the crowd ac- cordingly. To such a stretch can mornid cumosity be strained. ; A MIXED CROWD'S OPINIONS, It is quite poasibie that had the de:ecuives followed the advice which they could have got from the taika- tive ones in the crowd, who entertained one another with their views as to how the murderer got into the house, how he had acted after getting in, aud what he dia when “the deed of blood had been accomplished, they would have had a8 many theories to work upon, ag many different clues to foliow up and as many up- hu] lines of working to study by heart as thers Were men and women in ihe gatherings on the sidewalks, As a general thing it would not be o safe matter for @ police officer, whose especial business itis to ferret out the murderer after a murder tias been done in a Mysterious way, to lay mach stress, m making up his own judgnient, on wiiat a crowd may say or dis- cuss in @ matter of so awful a nature as the manner of the death of Mr. Nathan: but the “shadows” in the crowd did not disdain yesterday to let people speak ireely to them on the subject. They were unknown to the crowd, and so could profit by wuatever was sald—1 anything beneficial to their labors was said. They listened attentively in pasty cases vo what they heard trom people who lived in the immediate vicinity of the house, aud it may be that the gross sutn of ali they did hear from this source will not be without tts due influence at the proper time. For anstance, @ man in the crowd. who claimed, and who was proven to be afterwards what he claimed wservant on Fisth avenue, within a Jew hundred ‘eet of Nathan’s, got into conversation with one of the detectives, without Knowing who he was, ard 4ol\d him he and a friend had siood smoking and Rhatiing nearly in front of the Filth Avenue Hotel Private entrance from one o'clock until very neariy two, and they saw ‘ NO ONE GO IN OR COME OUT of No, 12, Another man sali that he had passed the house at four o'clock. and no person was in the street in its vicinity, All this in itself may not be of much consequence; but it is pia that uf even parts of every hour from the time that young Mr, Nathan slut the door— hall-past, twelve o’clock—up to the tume of the covery of the dead body in the bedrooin ve account- ed for to the same way, a good deai of light may be shed upon the mystery watch now surrounds the murder. And in this connection it may be well to noice certain theories that have grown out of the vast amount Of speculation which has veen in- Gulged in reference to the case. THOSE TWO MEN IN A CARRIAGE. In the first place, the only fact about the case Which bas given rise to a plausibie theory as to wio the murderer was and how he got in tlie house is that furnished by the man Devoy. It wilt be remem- bered that he watches at night tme the house No. 5 West Twenty-second sireet, adjoining whieb are the Mavies of Mr Natbay, Aud be states thal a NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JULY 31, 1870. about ten o'clock the night of the mur- der, ‘drove up in front of the house he Was guarding, and remained there throughout the storia and until half-past one o'clock, when two Men got into it and the vehicle was rapidly driven towards Broadway. Now it would certatuly seem a strange thing for @ carriage to remain where this One is said to have remained for such a length of Ume and in such weather as prevailed at the time; but, then, there 13 in close proximity to where It siodd a house of a certain character, in front of which kind of houses carriages, the police know Well, stand for hours in ail sorta of weather, accord- ing to the whim and wilt of those who hire them, ‘Tins circumstance 13 not a small one in the matter, Buteven if the presence of the carriage where it ‘Was seen and its sudden departure were all tmport- aut to the unravelling of the mystery of the murder, ‘tuere are certain other things which take away {rom them much of their value as @ means of giving the detectives A CLUE TO WORK UPON, A HERALD reporter sattsiled himseif on this point yesterday by entering the building Which is belag Tepatred on the northwest corner of Twenty-secoud streepand Filth avenue, By means ol two tall lad- ders access was gained through the exposed raiters wo the top of the extension, which abuts aguinst the Nathan stables, The cxtension, as far as com. pleied, is about five feet above the roof of the stables, 80, supposing that the two men spoken of by Pavor nad got on the top of the extension by means 0! down on the roof of the stables. This would have been all plain sailing, but then to reach the stable yard they would have had to jump a@ disiance of forty odd feet, on @ stone flooring. unless, of course, they had @ long ladder with them. Ail this ume they would have been exnosed to th e full glare of the gas lamps in the streets and to the view of any per- son in the windows of the houses fronting north. ward. Even i, with the assistance of a lad- der, they had managed to get into the ‘ard and thus gained tie rear of the Nathan dwell- ng, thelr labors would only have begun. The win- dows and door of the basement are heavily barred With iron and solidly locked, and the door leading to the floor above the basement is of iron and was Ughtly closed the night of the murder. In the first place it 18 altogether improbable ihat the men could ave found their way nies lume over tie open rafvers of the extension, and it is utterly tmpossible that they could have got into the stables from the Twenty-second street side and then got out of them inthe yard, ‘There are Rowieabs whatever by which they could have done this. granting that by some way Or another they did GET TO THE REAR from the Twenty-second strevt side and then got into the house, they would have had first to pass where ‘We servant man slept before reaching Mr. Nathan’s room, A burglar who knows his business would have taken no such chances when he could have got In the front way with less risk and trouble; for the very fact of admitting that two men had a carriage tn the strect, and acted ag they ale allegea to have acted, suggests the idea of their being pro- Jessionuls, Thus much for the two men and their carriage, The WAS THE Pee mene iy ADEPT? ta, 1 Mesto which naturally arises next is, pioléptial burglars id pot commit the robbery, ua id? OF Soar F question 5. in its most i portant aspect, a mystery to every! 80 lars {cs conceted ton al sides tn its est Ynnoviich pe lice circies that the 5 itted by @ non- professional, The best evidence in the world of this 4s the ship carpenter's tool, called a “dog.” which did the bloody work. it is a bar of iron, about eighteen inches long, bent at both ends, and 80 shaped that it could not well be used to pry open @ny safe that had anything like a modern lock. What 18 more, it has bee. proven that it was not one Of the tools brought to the house by the carpenters who had been wor! there for upwards ot four days; so it must have been brought there vy the nan Who used it in wie DEED OF BLOOD. It may have been the best thing he could lay his hands on which he theught, unprofessional as he was, would pry open the sufe; but it is ridiculous to suppose that & professional burglar woud have goue to the house with any sucu instrument. Nor 1s it Indubitabie evideace that, because the “dog”? is a ship carpenter’s too}, he must have been a ship car- penter who did the murder, No man with hall his senses about him wouid deliberately run a risk, no matter how sligat it might be, of giving the police a clue to his trade in that way, A shoemaker deli- berately planni & murder would ceriainiy take with bim gom: er kind of a knile than @ shoe- maker's, if knite he decided to use. EXTRAORDINARY CTRCUMSTANCE. This same ‘dug,’ it will be remembered, was +. ween the Outer aud inner hall dvors, us though in going out after his horrid work the mur- Gerer had at the laat moment recollected that he bad dn lus yossession: ‘worst possivie teiMale of his cries, | _..had laid it down on the marble Moor as he stepped out, It will thns be séen tuat, after tne ai tm the bedroom on the second fvor, murderer. had to pass out imto the hallway, down the stairs, over the marbie tiling to the street, and yet tt isa very extraordinary Circumstance that he did not leave a trace of blood from the time he lett the room. Young Mr. Nathan, on euvering the apartinent where he sound his father Tusbed out immediately and down the stairs a1 it into the street, and every blep he took he leit @footmark of blood, Jor, as he tesutied himself, tha du the bedroom was all Sar) WITH BLOOD. Of course on enti he could not but have had his leet hesmeared with it; but now could the mur- derer haye Kept lug feet clear Of tbe stuins 1s a ques- tion Ri 43 sorely ene many Wags ~ . victim own e for ape TD Kim” dead at ite feet, and conuaued his murderous work, probably even after death unkoown to him had made the deceased insensible to his blows, his ‘eet mnust have stood in the blood that was found alter- wards 80 saturating the Carpet for many feet arcund. Af he wore shovs or boots he may have taken tiem olf ana thus avoided in going down stairs leaving a trail beliind Bim; but have any such blood stained shoes or boots been found? and il he left none be- hind, how could he have stepped off from the biooa covered carpet to the hall way and walked to the hall door without tracing his sieps. in blood as did young Nathan aiter lie had rushed Horritied out of his father’s bedroom? It must be for the police to auswer this question to their own sausfuction. Yes- terday they were unable to do it. WAS THE MURDEREK CONCEALED IN THE HOUSE? Now taking every particle of evidence together that they have so far found—evidence which of it- | Self is 1m great part mere guesswork—the police have come to the general belief that whoever did the murder iu the first place Knew the house well, at Jeast that Moor ou which Mr. Nathan slept; and that, secondly, he was concealed in the house during the evening of the murder, However, it may be asked, with # good deai of reason, bow the man could have got in tue house unnoticed? It was an easy matter, and this one fact will prove it. The carpenters had been at work in the house for four days previous to the night of the imurder. A little alter seven o'clock on Thursday moruing one of them went to the house, opened tic basement gate by simply putting his hand behind the iron block and slipping the Jatch. On entering the Kitchen, he asked Mr Kelly, the servant, if Smith (another carpenter) had come, and she replied in the negauve. He went Up stairs On one of the Lop foors and sat down vo read & newspaper wiule waiting for Smith's arrival. More than an hour passed by, whea he got up and proceeded to the carpenter's shop to ascertain why the other had not uppeared. He was informed that ‘Sunith had one to Nathan’s to work,” and had lefta little before seven o'clock. Sure enough, it turned out that aii the tine he had been waitiug for Swith that worthy had been working in the alue, using his bammer vigorously. Now tals ciream- Stance proves two things: first, that the consiruction of the Louse in which Mr. Nathan iived is such tuat SOUND3 ARE DEADENED, ‘80 to speak, and caunot be easily transmitted from one part of it to another; ana, secondly, tuat any man who had watched the carpenters go In and out day after day might huve entered the piace and con- cealed himself without being detecte Would it have been. any more divicult sor a man, who by some means or another became aware that Mr. Nathan was to arrive that night, to have supped in by the basement way, taking ail the pre- Cautions possible not to be seen when he did get in, than for Smfth to enter without taking any precau- tions whatever, and going to Work on One of the top floors and yet even the servant not to Kuow he was in the house? The thing 18 patent on its face, and the police, doubtless, make no mistake in believing Srom ail the tacts m the case that the murderer sneaked in on Thursday after ne nad weil studied the movements Of the men at work in the house. DID THE MURDERER KNOW OF NATHAN’S ARRIVAL? it is the opinion of a great many per- sons who aitect to know a great deal avout the way midnight robbers go to. work that the murderer siole Lis way into the house with the intention of prying ope the safe when night came on, and tuat he was all the time unaware tbat Mr. Nathan was to arrive that nignt. believe otnerw: ud Without going into any specu- Jations as to the reasons which have led them to this belief (and the making public of which might thwart the ends of justice) it ust be said that no matter who the man was, or whether he intended to do murder or not, he must bave been weil posted as to the position of everything on the secona toor of the house betore he planned the robbery. Who could have pested mui? uu anybody tell? IS 1T A CLUB? The detectives There is one circumstance connected with the case which may serve to answer this question for the police, and at the same Ume satisfy them that they are right in the bellef that whoever did the murder knew when he entered the house that Mr. Nathan was to sleep there on Thursday night. A gentleman who came trom Morristowa on ‘thursday morning on the same train with Mr. Nathan, and who Knew him well by Sight, saw a man get in the car at Morristown ana take a seat third to the rear of him. This man he had noticed tne day before standing near the eu- trance to the covered road way leading to the Nathan mansion. ‘Tis covered Way was built by the parties who 1 the Graves mansiou to avoid the danger of carriages crossiug the railroad tiack. ds raiuer It A DARK AND LONELY CUT, thongh not a very long one, and would certainly be an uncomfortable place for a man to meet a desperate character atnigiit time, The man was rather seedily though not shabbily dressed, and had no hair on his face whatever. ‘When he — passed the gentieman near te covered way he touched his hat and weut by, and the iatter, taking him to be one of the Rotel who knew him, paid no more atiention to the circumstance. The gentleman recownized (he man in the car the next day, but as he either siept or pretended sleep all the way to dersey City he did not bother himseif about him. If it should turn out that the police have struck the rigut theory in supposing that the murderer knew Mr. Nathan was to be home on Thursday night, they Way algo be Op tly sigut Yack A auppomg ladders they could have easily dropped | the murderer posted himself ag to tne interior of the house. How easily could he have learned all about it by getting into the confidence of the servants of at Morristown, aud by slow approaches gradually have wormed all that he want to know Out of tuem, and all without their once suspecting THE CHARACTER OF THE MAN, And if after iinding out all that he desired in this respect he had posted himseif as to the ca penter’s going tn and out at the city mansion, and then as to the ay Wien Mr. Nathan would leave Morristown, en? It may have bwen that the robber did t to try the gafe’s strength when the old jan was away, and that he had learned that if he Were concealed in the room when he came in at night he would see the safe quietly opened by its owner, its papers examined, and then—-ne could strike a blow that would leave lim master of all he surveyed, with not even a resisting hand to dispute the valuable booty with him, if he struck the blow Well and deadty av the start, THB POLICE HARD AT WORK. Superintendent Jourdan, Captain Kelso and the detecitves are all hurd at’ work on the case, and Wisely Keep their own counsel as to certain develop. ments the naking public of which might do more harm Vian good to the course of justice. Mayor Hall Nas also taken @ hand in the © working up,’? and 1s lending the police every assistance in lis power, THE REWARDS. The foliowing is tie Mayor's proclamation offering @ reward for (he apprehension aud convielton of the murderer, The Stoc $10,009 rewar. For any information, direct or indirect, or how. which may eventually 'reault in the most inatecka arrest of the murderer, the sum of 5,00. rew; Batty? the informer, and communications tri slight, id to an will be i coniden- For the recovery of the watch or chain or any one of the studs, unless they were found abandoned, and although such recovery may not eventually obtain the arrest of the mur- derer, 32,500 will be paid independently ot the first oder, These otfers ure not only guaranteed by the family of the Jate Mr, Nathan, but the members of { authorize me to offer in addition twice the above specitied amounts in each of the cases, Address Superintendent Jourdan, or ‘JULY 29, 1810, A. OAKEY HALL, Mayor, SORROW AMONG THE HEBREWS. In the Forty-fourth street Synagogue yesteraay the minister, Rev. 3. M. Isaacs, In the course of his ser- mon alluded feelingly to the death of Mr. Nathan, He spoke in fitung terms of the distinguished ser- vices the deceased had performed among all classes of the hep citi und of the high esteem with which he was regarded by his Jewish brethren in particu- Jar, who had received so many substantial evidences of his cnarity and forethought. The speaker closed with @ Jervent prayer, in which he besought the grace of God wo rest upon the afiicted family so ruthlessly despoiled at one foul blow of husband, father and friend, 3 RESOLUTIONS OF THE STOCK EXCHANGE. The New York Stock Exchange at eieven o'clock yesterday heid a special meeting to receive the report of the committee appointed to draft resolutions ex- pressive of the sentiments of the Board in regard to the violeut death of Mr, Nathan, Mr, E. H. Miller, from the committee, submitted the following resolu- tions, which were unanimously adopted:— Resolved, That the members of the Stock Exchange have received with feelings not only of deep grief, but of unsp able horror, intelligence of the decease of their esteemed Ssvociate, Mr. Benjamin Nathan, stricken down in the midst of itfe of honor and usefulness, in bis own home, by the a " midnieht as; in. beh oy re "that Te Those ng associated with the deceased AY but to those having Jens im a ‘ond atu. lo ter needs ug | intimate acquaintance sie he was honorable and upright as aman of businegg— diously conscientious in performing hie duties to others—éver bold and fearless in what he deemed to be the right—an ac- tive and devoted friend, and at all times a reliabl in the midat of an active carver he ever found tin 20 | ae givg the assurance Sa 0c sion to indulge the sympathies of a kind and charitable d ition: and his death will be a loss to many who will mi tho kind advice and prompt benevolence which #0 wnosten- tatiously It was his habit to bestow, Resolved, That the colors of the Stock Exehange be placed At half-madt, and that we bold no session duriug the tlie ap- pointed for the funeral ceremonies, Resolved, That « copy of these be transmitted by the Secretary to the ‘amily of the deceased, with assurance of our sincere condolence ana deep, heartfelt sympathy in this sudden and awful dispensation, Mr. E. H. Miller, after submitting the resolutions, made a few remarks eulogistic of the character of the departed. THE FUNERAL. The funeral will take place to-morrow, and the Stock Exchange and Loug Room will be closed until one o’clock in tho afternoon. The members of the Board, with the oficers, will meet at the reading room of the Fifth Avenue Hotel at a quarter to ten A. M., and there form fa a body to attend the funeral, INVESTIGATION BY ANOTHER REPORTER. Was the Murderer an Inmate of the House t— Important Hints for the Detectives. It ts no doubt true that the detectives havo ob- tained no elue likely to aid them in solving the mys- tery upou which so many are bent at the present moment, While we have in this city neither a Vidocq nor a Henshaw, we nave dozens of young men who imagine that whem nature modelled their brain and distributed intellect tn correspondence with physical development it was with the prime object in view of making them detectives to trace out and punish evil doers, All thess self-opinioned gentlemen have weir own theortes, and while they may think they have discovered the key to unravel the mystery, it Is safe to say that their imagination Jeads them sadly astray. Some there are who openly hoast that if their street car and tncidental expenses were paid they would guarantee to turn up the real murderer in a month, but poor men like them can- not expend money on uncertainties, Others freely express their opinion upon the all-absorbing subject, but declare ihat as they have not been detailed to point out the offender it is none of their business who committed the murder, but they have no objection to give their advice gratis. Another class are those who have been secretly set to work on the murder, who Usten, say nothing, but, as the Georgia crackers say, think “right smart.” Uf anything is discovered it will be by the latter, who keep their own counsel and strive for the possession of the golden reward offered for the assassin’s detection, Among these are the Superintendent, Captain Kelso, and detectives Farley, Eustace and Bennett, The monetary question with the first name’ is, however, a matter of second. ary consideration to the desire to clear up @ horror and demonstrate the fact that there is in the city some detective acumen worthy of energetic toster- ing and development. WHAT 18 BEING DONE, Jourdan and his oMicers are certainly working in- defatigably to accomplish something in the premises. Parties who have recently had access to the res! dence are being followed and watched, the antece- dents of some of the regular or occasional inmates sare being inquired into, the maker of the iron “dog” | 4g being sought for, and every word uttered by cer- tain parties suspected is betng weighed and ana- lyzed. Of course none of the police officials will divulge what they are doing, or in what avenues they labor, but THE MYSTERIOUS CARRIAGE referred to exclusively inthe HekaLp of yesterday is the centre kernel around which all their hopes for a bountiful harvest centre. The story of Patrick Devoy is believed, and while to the outside } World they proclaim that they attach but little im- portance thereto it is amusing to see with what dili- gence they are searching the private livery stables to discover to wiich that suspicious carriage be- longs, and why it would stand in a terrific storm in ® neighborhood where there are none but private restdences for three hours and then depart without any living freigh! other than those in charge. They may assume to disguise it, but it 1s, nevertheless, true that this 1g the clue now being worked up. WHO WAS IN THAT CARRIAGE ? This, next to the stable to which it belongs, Is the question that agitates the police. The general be- lief is that it was not the murderer, but that it was an accomplice who remained outside to play a secondary part for the purpose of warding off sus- picion from the criminal, Some attempt to explode the carriage story by declaring that it is a common occurrence for carriages to stand all night in front of houses of @ certain character; but this 1s met pb: the assertion that there are none but private resi- dences in the block in which Professor Morse’s residence and Mr. Nathan’s stable OPINIONS OF DETECTIVES. A reporter yesterday, with a view of learning the diversity of opinion existing among the police, con- versed with several officers. “Tamm of the opinion,” said one, “that the offender was a professional burgiar, Whose object was rob bery in the first place, and not murder, and I will teil yon why. A burglar always dges’ his work silently; he rarely uses (ivearme lest he should grouse the inmates, and never takes life except when hard pushed and all avenues of retreat are cutoff. He attempted to possess Nathan’s treasure, awakened him irom his slumber a confronted by the owner, and to the dog, which can be improvi: Weapon, for self-preservation, of it.” save himself plied d_ Into a burglars That is what J think A FELLOW BROKER SUSPECTED. “1 differ from you,” said another; “a burglar will never face a man while there is any means of re- treat left. The facts show that in this instauce there Was ample means for the murderer to get away, I tell you T belteye the murderer will be found’ on ‘Change in Broad or Wall street. He is probably a person who Knew Mr. Nathan, and had reason to Suspect that he had jarge sums in the sale—a rapa- cious, desperate man, who perhaps has been at Umes a guest of the deceased, and thus learned the location of the safe, &c., and entered for no other object than robbery. have no doubt that In his bungling he made a noise, awoke the deceased, and, discovering that he had been recognized by Mr. Nathan, was quick to conceive and prompt to ex! cute the deed to avotd detection. How he gained admission there I am at a loss to account for.” AN OCOUPANT OF THE PLACE. “T agree with neliher of you,’’ sald another; “1 told you the man who committed that murder had slept there often, knew every nook and corner and Just how to reach it, and the best means of covering RACKS Bad 1 do noe’ Reve Lis obieg, way Xchange have already ofered } | cused her of stealing this note she told him sie knew | nothing wbout it, and recrimmnated by accusing him —TRIPLE robbery, but murder. He is some one who had an interest in Mr, Nathan's sudden exit from the world, and I believe I could name him, Judging from cer- tain turns things have taken; but it would be iin- politic to do so at this stage of the in quiry. 1 will say no more,” A GLIMMER OF LIGHT. The above are merely given as an example of the differences’ of theories among experts who are | giving the subject their attention, From painful and almost incredible rumors some begin to credit the theory of the last detective referred to, The facts, frst, of the door being found opened from the tuside after tt was closed by one of the Sons; second, that a time was selected for the bloody deed after all the members of the family had entered and retired; third, that the iron dog had been | carried from the point where the murder was com- mitted and deposited between the doors im the vesti- bule, re color to the last theory. It 1s certain that if Mr. Nathan, Jr., could collect suMiclept blood from coming near the body to make FOOTPRINTS TO THE STEPS, The murderer must have collected it upon hia feet also, and left some mark if he left the house. No mark can be found, Again, it is very weil settled that the hands of the assassin were covered with blood by the marks on the walls, The {rout door, Which was found open, shows no sign of bigod, which would have been the case had the muraeter opened the door before washing his hands. The are ho signs about the baths or wash basins that Water was used to obliterate the stains of blood from the hands; but admitting that the assassin did cleanse hls ands vefore making his exit another diMeutty presents itself. It is not at all lkely ~ that the criminal would at the close of th Speration, lit the iron dog from where he had deposited it, at the death of his victim, | and carry it out into the vestibule, unless there was Some cogent reason therefor, Taking ail the cir- cumstances and weaving in all the little threads of | evidence, there are many who suspect that the mur- derer was in the house before, or in the employ of the family, and did not go out of tt after committing the crime until afier the police had taken charge of the house. This is @ startling idea, the reader will Say, but it is not at all improbable, SOME ONE WiO 18 LEAST SUSPECTED. Some one whose friendship towards the deceased may to the outside world appear deep seated may have had 4 secret motive for shortening te life of this excellent ‘gentleman, whose Dawe has never been mentioned acenS Tria respect and iu praise, ‘The carriage seen by Devoy ut the rear, the placing Of the “dog” in the’ vestibule and the leaving of the doors open may be a part of a well considered plan to give the detectives the impression that the mur- derer was @ burglar and had leit the house forever, THE STATEMENT BEFORE THE CORONER of Mr. Nathan, Jr, 18 very concise and intelligible in the matn, but it appears that the Coroner left one point some- What obscure, It seems that the deceased left the residence of his brother-in-law In Nineteenth street about ten o'clock, expressing a desire to go home and spend the night with his sons, who had preceded him. Washington Nathan, according to his testi- mony, left his father in Nineteenth street at halfepast Seven—three and a halt hours before—and aid not reach home until a quarter past tweive in the morn- ing. In his testimony he does not state where he spent the interval of over five or six hours that passed between his departure for home ana his arrival there. It 1s barely possible that his move- ments during that time may have been watched by the assassin to some purpose. THE BURDZLL AND NATHAN CASES COMPARED. Interesting Points of Resemblance. On Saturday morning, January 31, 1857, a little more than thirteen years ago, was enacted at No. 31 Bond street a horrible and mysterious murder, to Which the Nathan tragedy is a singular parallel in so far as the sanguinary details go. The motives, how- ever, are apparently in entire contrast~one murder being actuated by love and revenge, while the other was the work of a mercenary assassin, who despoiled his victim afier perpetrating the terrible crime. Asuccinct account, therefore, of the Burdell mys- tery, which has never been unveiled, will not be tn- appropriate in connection with this terrible affair which is causing 80 much commotion and conster- nation. throughout the metropolis. The victim of this appalling murder was Dr. Harvey Burdell, at that tine @ well known dentist, who was found dead in nis his body being plerced with fifteen wounds and his neck showing evidences of strangu- lation. The boy who attended the work room of the deceased, on going about eight in the morning to the boarding house where the deceased lodged, found the body of his employer lying on the floor of the bedroom dead and surrounded with congealed clots of plo d. " TUE DISCOVERY OF THE MURDER caused the boy much consternation, and when he beheld the doctor lying on his face close to the door and surrounded with blood he got frightened, slammed the door after him and fell on his pack out- side the door, After recovering himself he got up, ran down stairs and informed the cook that the doctor was lying dead on the floor. She ran up cry- ing and told the rest of the family. Mr, Snodgrass, @ boarder, then came tothe doctor's room and ran immediately to Mrs. Cunningham, the landlady’s reom, anu told her what he had seen. She began to ery, and Mr. Snodyrass held her on the bea while he sent the boy to bring nis (Mr. Snodgrass’) prother- in-law, Mr. Bulen, who llved on the corner of Broad- way and Reade street. THE INQUEST. Coroner Connery held an inquest the same day and examined the cook, who testifled that the only boarders in the house were Mr. Snodgrass and a Mr. Eckel, who died recently in prison, where he had been committed for frauds against the revenue Jaws, and who on his death bed stated that he had something important to communicate, but before his testimony could be taken his spirit was with his Maker. This man, the cook said, used oftea to sit with Mrs. Cunningham tn the parlor and pedroom, and between him and the doctor a jealousy existed in regard to that lady. In fact, she stated that she heard the deceased say to Mrs. Cunningham that he had looked through the keyhole of Mr. Eckel’s room door and said he did not like it. This woman also testi- fied that Mrs, Cunningham on a thanksgiving day had a miscarriage of a child, which, gshe said, was by Dr. Burdeil. A Mr, Allen J. Smith, a dentist, de- posed at the Inquest Lhat he was in partnerstup with the deceased, who took his meals at the Metropolitan Hotel, but slept at Mrs. Cunningham’s house. He had heard angry words between the doctor and that lady concerning some papers which the deceased had charged her with taking. These papers, Mrs, Cunnlugiam stated, were notes she had given him on the transfer of a judgment. When the doctor ac- of not fulfliling a promise of marriage made to he! She said she preferred not giving the reason why Dr, Burdell did not marry her, as he had promised to do. She sald sie was subsequently murried, and produced a certiticate which went to show that she was united in the bonds of wedlock to | the deceased on the 26th of October, 1856, by the Rev, Uriah Marvine, of the Reformea Dutch church in Bleecker street. She satd it was their invention to keep the marriage secret until June, 1857, when it would be made public. ACTION OF THE POLICE. Captain Dilks, now Inspector, with a posse of the Fifteenth ward police, were ordered to stop in the premises all night, and had especial orders hot to allow any of the inmates to leave the building. Marks of blood, just as in the Nashan murder, were traced from the room wherein the murder was commit. ted to the stairway leading to the hall. On searching the house a sheet and night shirt, both ained with blood, were found in @ room near the garret. The apartment where the murder was com- initted was the reception room and office of deceased. ‘The death struggle appeared to have taken place in the corner of the room nearest the door, for there the walls were stained with streaks aud spots of blood. It was here, too, that the jugular vein was severed, for a perfect stream of gore Was found upon the wall in that corner of the roo! No shrieks of murder, no struggle for life or th, no stiMed groans or deatt’s rattle was heard proceeding from the chamber wherein the body of the . murdered victim was found, All was and peg within that abode, and feitail “all was quietness and peace” within No. 12 East Twenty-third street. But the light of tho morrow came, and through the casement of apartments in both these houses, @ sight was revealed which might appal the strongest heart and unstring the Urmest nerves. lo both cases the victims were prominent and wealthy men. The walls of the Bond street mansion were smeared with gore, while the entire floor in the neighborhood of the spot where the body was found was oue sea of blood. The mutilated CONDITION OF THE CORPSE led to the belief that more than one had been en- gaged in the horrid butchery, and the condiuon of Mr. Nathan’s mutilated remains gives rise to the game conjecture. Twice the assassin’s steel had pierced the heat. twice the lungs had been reached with the deadly point of the stiletto, while the jugular vein and carotid artery were revered, and lile’s blood ovzed from the gaping wounds, Nine other ineisions bore testi- mony to the desperate struggle that must have taken place between the murdered man and hs assassins, DROPS OF BLOOD were found leading to the Cellar door in the base- ment of the house; but here ali further traces of the blood were lost. Jy appeat tiou of the room), a8 though el had aot been long in tie house; mis shawi was thrown upon a sofa, and he was probably sitting In@ chair by his case of dentat tools, looking over some papers, for blood was first found there and his papers were lying carelessly upon the case, It seems as though two persons had entered the room together to commit the crime. Every nook and cor- ner of the house was thoroughly searchea, and all articles of clothing were scrutinized. The ashes in the cellar was also searched, the grate in the kitchen, the pantries, closets and wash- | stands, Popular opinion was stirred to its depths, Adee UDO G01 Guring We lypg in SHEET. vestigation visited the house and all sorts of | manwuvres were resorted to to enter the mysterious arena. The press then as now Were bitler in ils de- nunciation of the existing state of society, and the Heap of February 3, 1870, made the following comments:—“It may, indeed, serve aa the text, or rather 4s the — illustration, toa sermon on the moral character of New york | society, For, making every atlowanee for the num. | ber of moral ‘and pious Littles in Us elty, both rich and poor, irom Fifth ayenue to avenue A, it is doubtful whether any place In the world contains as | many houses where such crimes as this murde could be planned and executed as this metropolis of ours, Whether any other city contains an equal number of women, In what is Called society, with a vertala kind of mangers and a sort of educatton, but utterly devoid of prineipie and virtue ; whether | any other city, large or smull, 18 ruled socially by a | more wreiched and vile clique—in the shape of | soclety—and more used to worship whatever 13 con- | tempilble and loathsome.’ Soctety is not much better how, and if suspicion in regard to this number | be verified, one might exelaim with the poet, © Lilies ; that fester smell far worse (han weeds.” A COMPARISON OF CIRCUMSTANCES between the two causes celevrés Which is here being } attempted is obvious, and seems vw point to hyher i perpetrators of the crime than 4 professional | burglars. The same desperate stru; which rarely oceurs where the parties are uuknown to each other, and the tong trail of blood, exteuding for con- siderable distances, is observable in both cases. ‘There was fiteen distinct wounds on the body of Dr. Burdell, and the same number can be courted on that of Mr. Nathan, In both cases the carpet, doorposts and sills were bespaitered with blood, and both nen seem to have been attacked while th the active pursuits of |ife—one when leaning over a case of instrumeuts reading some pap and the other while in the uct of drawing check of $10,000 to the order of H. Lapsiey & Co, for subscription to 100 shares of the German American Bank. | Murder was inhaled in every respiration, and fear was suppressed in @ deter- mined struggie for existence which showed the Work was that of no common hand or mere lawless Vagrant. There is a risk, a responsibility in giving expression at this early stage In the inquiry to the Suspicions that ferment the public mind tu regard to tho last murder, and this same opinion dwelt in the minds of many during the proceedings im the Burdell murder case. Those on whom suspicion lurks may be tnnocent; and the carpenters employed on the premises, ike Eckel and Mrs. Cunningham, may be fully exonerated from the crime. In the Burdeil murder many theories were started, and in the Nathan even now diverse opinions are enter- tained: and at the coroner’s inquest public sent ment will have an opportunity of forming conclu- sions and prejudices which may tarn out as sattsfiac- tory as those against Eckel and Mrs. Cunningham. WASHINGTON. The Alleged Forgery on the Pension Bu- | reau by a Tennessee Congressman. Statement of Outstanding United States Currency. Items in the Sundry Civil Ap- propriation Bill. WASHINGTON, July 30, 1870. ry on the Pension Bureau—A Tennessee Congressman in Trouble. It seems that the member of Congress who ts charged with forgery upon the Pension Bureau re- presents one of the Tennessee districts, and his case has given rise to a good deal of scandal Tie | charges are of such @ grave character and have | given rige to sach a close and conclusive investiga tion that steps have already been taken to secure his arrest. The supposed guilty Congressman hap- Pens to be one who was accused at the 1ast session | of being engage! in selling cadetships to West Point | and the Naval Academy, and who came near being expelled, in company with Whittemore, Golladay and Deweese. It will be remembered that instead of expelling Deweese the Honse passed a resolution of censure. The facts relative to his forgery upon the Pension Bureau, a9 stated by the officers of that bureau, are substantially as follows:—It appears that last October he applied for and obtained a pension fora woman living in Ash county, North | Carolina, She was the witow of a citizen of | that State who served as a private in the Union army | during the rebellion, and who was killed while in | the service, When the papers in the case had ail been arranged, and her name placed upon the pension rolls, it was found there was $320 due her for back | pension from the thine her husband was killed, at is alleged that the Congressman forged her name to the Papers necessary to draw this money, and then secured it for nimself. He also wrote out, itis alleged, and signe the receipt. Unfortunately for him, how- ever, he signed his own name to the receipt, where- upon the attention of the Secretary of the Taterior was directed to this irregularity by Commissioner Van Aernam. When the Congressman was called to account for it by Secretary Cox, he said he was in the habit of dotng such things, and that he had a power of attorney from the woman whose money he had drawn. He was told that it would be nec sary for hita to produce the power of attorney to which he referred. He promised to do this, and when he came to draw the pension again he brought with him what purporte | to be a power of attorney, signed by the soldier's widow, an’ also a recetpt. These were written on two single sheets of note pa- per, and the power of attorney bore the oficial seal of the County Court of Ash county, N.C. Th's ina | measure disarmed the officers of the Pension Bureau of their suspicions, and everything went on as usual until the soldier's widow, living in Ash county, and wholly ignorant of the affair, began to send letters to the Pension Bureau, complaining that she did not | get her pension money. Inquiry was of course | made of the Congressman, but that gentleman said there must be some mistake about it, as the money | had been duly and reguiarly sent by him. The | woman, however, continued to complain, ana flnaliy the Commissioner of Pensions ordered the case investigated, The discovered, in the whom the pension to be person detailed to investigate it first place, that the woman to was due lived in an out of the way place on the borders of Tennessee, that she could not write her name, and that she had never heard from the Congressman, except to the effect that her name had been placed upon the pension rolls, and that she was entitled to so much a month. The report of this preliminary investigation aroused suspicions again in the mind of the Com- missioner; the power of attorney was procured and compared with the receipt which had been given when it was first procured. The papers were found to be in the same handwriting, and the single sheets of note paper were discovered to have been parts of the same sheet, It was further discovered that the son of the Congressman is Clerk of the County Court of Ash county, and that he put the seal of the court upon the bogus power of attorney. Of course the soldier's widow had never seen, much less handled or signed, either the power of attorney or the receipt. These facts have all been brought to light since the adjournment of Congress, The Secretary of the Interior was so well satisfed that the Congressman has been guilty of forgery upon the Pension Bureau that an officer was de- spatched to Tennessee to-day to arrest him. Whethe he can make any satisfactory explanation is doubt- , ful. The facts as above stated have all been brougn out by patient investigation on the part or the Com- missioner of Pensions, It is also alleged that the Congressman has been drawing the pension of a soldier who died long ago in the same manner. The Investigation of the latter case, however, 18 not completed. A member of Congress elect from the State of Georgia is also charged with playing the same game as the Tennessee member, but to what extent is not known. It is thought, however, that he has gone into the business more systematically and extensively. His case is now undergoing in- vestigation, The Sundry Civil Appropriation Bill. The act making appropriations for sundry civi) expenses of the government, for the year ending June 39, 1871, contains the following ttems:— For continuing the construction of the butiding for Post OMce and Court House in New York city, 500,000, subject to all the conditions limiting this appropriation in the act of April 20, 1870, Secretary of the Treasury is hereby enter Into contrac for the complet of building in advance of the appropriation of moneys | act of April | contained; and the | Officer assuming the rezponsibillty, adopt as a part of the contract therein provided for any contracts in reference to aaid bunaing, ap proved by him before said April 20; provided that the limitation of cost therein contamed ts not there- by affected; and provided, further, that hereafter, before any new bualldings for the use of the United States are commenced, plans and fuil estimates therefor shall be prepared and approved by the Seo- retary of (he Treasury, Postinaster General and Sec- retary of the Interior, and the cost of the vullding shail Dotexceed the amount ef said estimate, For repairs ana alterations of the Court House tn Philadelphia, P. 000. elt Conunulug the work on the Post OMice and Sun- Treasury Luldug in Boston, Mads,, $210,000, subject to ail the couditions iimiting this appropriation tp the », 1870; aud the Secretary of the Trea- sury is by wuthorized to enter into contract for the completion of sald building in advance of the Sppropriation of moneys suficieut wo complete the same tn accordance with the conditions {n sald act Troviso In relation to the appro- ig the construction contained in the act of April 20, 170, Is hereby so modilied as to authorize the Secretary of the ‘Treasury, i hid discretion, to adopt part of the co! 3 therein pros vided for th any contracts in referenc said build priaton for continalt ing approved by him before said Ap: provided that the limitation of cost there contained 4s nob thereny affected For barge office at New York, $100,000, For enclosing and putting in building for branch mint at D: $10,000, For continuing the work on the branch mint batid- ing in San Francisco, California, $500,000; provided, that the total cost of the batiding, exclusive of the sum paid for the site thereo!, Sua!l not exceed $1,500,000; and, provided further, that it shall be lawful, until after the compietion and oceupation of said branch mint building, to exchange at any mint or Granch mint of the United States, unrefined or unported bullion whenever, in the opinion of the Secretary of the Treasury, it can be done with ad- vantage to the government; provided, that the weight, fineness and value of the baliion rocetved and given in exchange shall be determined by the mint assay; and, provided further, that ihe authorily hereby given shall not be construed 8o as to inter- fere with the rigiits and privileges now or hereto- fore enjoyed by depositors of buliion at said mints, For the necessary repairs and improvements at the folloming navy yards:—At the Navy Yard at Ports- mouth, N. H,, for the necessary repairs of alt ge $50,000: atthe Navy Yard at Boston, for repaars buildings and repairs of all kinds, $100,000; at. the. Navy Yard at Philadelphia, for repairs of alt kinds, $25,000; at the Navy Yard at Wasbin, , for re~ pairs of all Kinds, $50,000; at the Navy Yard at Nor- lolk, for preservation of the yard and the necessary repairs of ali kinds, $30,000; at the Navy Yard at Pensacola, for the preservation of the yard and the necessary repairs of att kinds, $30,000; at the Navy Yard, Mare Island, for completing foundry and boller establishinent, $50,000; for sawinill ma- chinery, $20,000; for machinery of house-join- ers’ shop, $5,000, and fur repairs of all kinds, $60,000; at the naval station at Sackett’s Harbor, for repatrs, and the general care ol the public property, $1,000; at the naval station at Mound Cliy, Li, tor necessary repairs of all kinds, $0,000; for continue the survey of the AUantic and Guif coast of the United States, and Lake Champlain, inciuting compensation of civi- Mans engaged in the work, and excluding pay and emo‘uments of ollicers of the army and navy and petty ofiicers and men of the navy employed in the work, $391,000; for continuing the survey of the Pacide coast of the United States, Including compen- sation Of clyilans engaged in the work, $200,000; for pay and rations of engineers for the’ steamers used in the coast survey no longer supplied by the Navy Department, $5,000; for continuing the publi- cation of the observations made in the progress of the coast survey, including compensution of civiliar + enyaged in the Work, the publication to be made the Government Printing UMices $2,000; for repa: and maintenal f tke complement of vessels uo. | iu the coast survey, $45,009. Two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, ¢ so much thereof as may be necessary, is appropriate t to construct a good and substantial pler of sic or iron in the Deluware Bay, at or near Lewes, in sus- sex county, in the State of Delaware, out o any money iu the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and to be expended uuder the uirection of the Secre> tary of V It may aud shall be lawful for the president, direc+ tors and company of the Junction and Breakwater road In the State of Delaware to extend their riiirgad upon and over said per, and freely to use sald pier {a connection with their said road, subject madition the tus City, Oregou, | to such regulations and charges for maintenance and repairs as the Secretary of War may adopt, Indian Affairs. Reports to the War Department from Kansas state that white mon are making unusually strong efforts to get possession of clans held by Osage Indians, supposing that when the anticipated opening of thetr lands to settlers 1s effected the Irdians will be removed, whether settled on colonies or not, and in tat event the white man on a@ claim will be entitled to tile papers for the same. Several assaults have been made on Indians by lawless white men, which the oficer making the report does not punish by arresting the assaulters, for Ure reason that making arrests without warrants for the same is not wittin oficial mstractions, and would be attended with considerable risk to the The results of these assaults on the Osage Indians would, it was thought, bring about widespread disturbances of the peace, foy the purpose of preventing which a military command has beca stationed near the wency, but With no intention of ucting upon infor- mation from the Ludian Onlce of ejecting settlers, A report from Colonel Gr.erson, commanding Fort Hill, in the Indian Territory, states that the Comanches, Northern Kiowas and Apaches, with a | few exceptions, are commg into the agency with tneir bands, and will bring all stolen stock with them and give assurances that they will cease ull depreaations, Little Heart, of the Kiowas, and Ta- bononica, of the Comane , had gone off and were reportea to have been che leaders of the parties who counnitted the recent depredations in that viemity, Little Heart had five lodges and Tabononica about twenty. ‘The Quihada have lately had a fight with the Nava- , anit lost twenty Kilied. The General Land Office—Legitimate Fees ot Registers and Receivers. ‘The Commissioner of the General Laud Office has decided the following to be the fees which registers ani receivers are entitled to receive for acting upop receiving claims, viz.:— First—One dollar and fifty cents cach to register and receiver for tiling a diagram and receiving the application or a pacent. Second—Tweuty-two and a half cents per, hundred words for reducing te testimony to writing, under the principle laid down im the fourth aud sixth sections of the Homestead aet of March 21, 164, Lf the applicants desire iL to be taken down by the land officers instead of by themselves, or other persons in the presence of those omecers. The only other payments required of appheants for running patents are r ; Thvd—A deposit in favor of the United States Treasurer, according to existing instructions, of the amount estumated by the Surveyog General to the actual expenses of survey aud cost of pub- fon of notice, and Fkourin—Vo the receiver the sum of five ¢ a required by Jaw, for the superficial area o! the claim as suown by the final survey, ‘These are the only charges, fees, or emoluments which, by law or ‘regulations, registers or receivers have any right to exact from mining applicants, and none other will be itted to be charged’ or received under any ¢i ustances. A circular to this effect wil, in a few days, be Issued to all oMicers of the United states Land Department. Bids for New Revenue Cutters, The following bids were opened yesterday in the Treasury department for ihe building of two revenue cutters—one @ sidewheel of wood, 250 tons, for the Pacific coast, and the other a screw propeller for the Atlantic coast, 350 tons, the latter to be of tron or woou, as the Secretary may decide:—Westervelt & Rankin, of San Francisco, the sidewheel, $70,000, coin; B, Marcuecci, ditto, $83,000, com; Middlemass & Booth, ditto, $75,000, coin; ‘Thomas Stack, of Greenpoint, N. Y., sidewheel, $67,760; Dialogue & Woods, ot Camde J., $47,500; J. & J. R. Gray, of New York, $70,000; Harry Whiteaker, of Buffalo, $85,000. For the screw steamer, 360 to! Dialoguo & Wood, iron, for $80,000, wood $64,000; Brycerly, Hilman ‘& Steker, of Puiladelphia, wood, for $83,250; Pusey, Jones & Co., of Wilmington, Del., tron, for $76,000, The latter will get upa@ contract for tne screw, The bids for the sidewheeler have been re- ferred to the special commission of officers of the revenue marine. The Alaska Fur Seals. The Secretary of the Treasury to-day, after receiv- ing the opinion of the Attorney General on the sud- Ject of the meaning and intention of tne recent act of Congress, awarded to the Alaska Commerctal Com- pany the lease of the privilege of taking fur seals on the islands of St. Paul and St, George during the period of twenty years, the bid of said company being con- sidered the highest and best bid offered. The con- | tact ts substantially as follows:—The company Is to pay $55,000 a year rental, $2 62% on eack skin taken and fifty cents per gallo: r each gallon of oil obtained. It is also required to furnish the in- habitants of the tslands of St. Paul and St George anuually 25,000 dried salmon, sixty cords of fire- Wood, a suMcient quantity of salt and a sufficient number of barrels for preserving the necessary supply of meat, 200 barreis of oll, a sufficlent num- ber of seal skins to supply the inhabitants with boats, and a sufficient quantity of sinews and mem- branes to supply them with’ waterproat garmenia jree of charge. The company is further oviiged to ars per sum@cient to complete the same, in accordance with the conditions in said act contained; and the proviso in relation to the appropriation for continuing the construction of sult building contained In the act of Apri! 20, 1879, 13 Hereby 80 Tnodiiled as to autho we Seqretary of the Treasury, Wa Lys dlayeeugns by pay the expenses of matataiming @ scbool in each of the isiands for not less than elgut yjonths of ihe ye ‘ a The coatracting parties are responsible an’ have eon engaged 1 We business ACG the cession © 1 Alaa