The New York Herald Newspaper, January 18, 1871, Page 5

FISKIANA. “Menclaus” Fisk, “Belle Helene” Mansfield, “Achilles” Stokes and “Ulysses” Pitt man in an Infernal Quadrille. How Fisk and Stokes Quarrelled, Fought and Did Not Bleed About a Lady Fair with Jet Black Hair. The Wrath of Erie and the Humors of Stokes—Sage Advice by “Ulysses” Pitt- man—War to the Knife All Round. ‘The “special interviewing” reporter of the HERALD Raving been detailed to wait upon Mr. Edward 8S, Stokes, who is now known as “Achilles” Stokes, from bis recent victorious conflict with the Gorgon Fisk, Jr., paid a visit to the Coleman House, on Broadway, near Twenty-elghth street, which is at present the residence of Mr. Thomas W. Pittman, the consulting lawyer and fast irtend of Mr. Stokes, who has now earned for himself the TITLE OF “ULYSSES” PITTMAN, ‘The waiter ushered the reporter up to the parlor, preparatory to announcing lis name, with a devout obsequiousness that was admirable to behold. After ‘Waiting some time the water came in with a towel im his hand and said— “If yes ‘ill walt the gintlemen wilt be hére ina trifle of time.” In ashort space two persons entered the parlor, the first one saying to our reporter, “] AM VERY HAPPY TO MEET YOU, SIR, and what can I do for you?” The speaker was a gentleman of about twenty- eight years of age, of slender but sinewy build, with dark eyes, dark hair and a charming plack mus- tache, He was dressed in the height of fashion, and looked to be a man of the world, perfectly self- possessed and well-bred, and wearing in his face an expression of savotr faire, which takes Well with the female sex. A black overcoat, with handsome sealskin facings, served to set off the figure of tmis gentleman, whom we new introduce to our readers as Mr. “achilles” Stokes, His companion was a gentleman of medium size, witha blonde mustache and a deeply intellectual head, Tae top of this gentleman’s head was SLIGHTLY BALD, LIKE THE FLOOR OF A RINK, the result, perhaps, of having during life made use | of his silk hat as an express wagon for the carrying of prayer books around with him on his visits. This was Mr. Ulysses Thomas W. Pittman. A magnifi- tent diamond ring sparkled on his wedding finger. Achilles Edward Stokes wore beautiful moss agate sleeve buttons. After the reporter had stated his business to Achilles Stokes in the matter of the dimcuity be- tween him and Menelaus Agamemnon Fisk, the latter having cast himself for both parts during the last three weeks—the interview proceeded as fol- lows:— REPORTER OF THE HERALD—I want to get as many of the facts in the trouble between yourself and Fisk as possible, Mr. Stokes, ACHILLES STOKES—Well, I’m sure I don’t know what to say about the matter. _ FISK I3 WEAKENING VERY FAST. This bin in the Legislature about tne direction of the Erie road is troubling him badly, in addition to the fact that he has been routed in his trouble witn we. a ULysses Prrrman—Weakening! I shontd say so. Itellyou that Sweeny and Tweed are sick of him already. He’s too heavy a load for the democrauc Party to carry any longer. 1 tell you, sir, that Tweed 1s now getting ready to smash him, and the fan of it Is that old Fisk doesn’t know it. I wonder how the newspapers can be*humbugged into believing that there is anything in this bloated fellow Fisk. 1 have tested him, and I’ve found him as thinas a sheet of ice in a tumbler that’s been standing in A BACHELOR'S CHAMBER DURING A FROSTY NIGHT. ACHILLES STOKES—I believe that’s 80. I don’t for the life of me see how men of brains like Sweeny and Tweed can tolerate such a fellow. He’s never had any one-to give hima good square stand up fight until now. Ishall push him tothe wall this time sure. Unless he keeps very quiet I shi Leye him for libel, and then we will see how he likes that. ‘There has been a good deal of humbug about Fisk on those oll drawbacks in connection with the Erie road, and ny ie oe ee pers. dhe GovLb 18 med OF Fike, tor he is always getting Gould into hot water. Of course one day or another Gould, who is the Nestor that impels this fellow Fisk, will kick him out when he has worked him for what he is worth. ULyssEs Pitrman—Fatty Fisk is trying to beg offas ‘well as he can now. You may bet that this thing has shaken him ail to pieces. I gave him a dose inthat row about the “Twelve Temptations” that he dida’t like, and he’ll get more in a few days. He 1s fright- ened to death lest Mrs, Mansfield should tell all she knows about that Erie business. She was over with him that time in Jersey City at Taylor’s Hotel when Drew and he had it, and she can smash him when she likes, It makes me laugh to hear how ready he ia to whine when he’s caught. (Here “Ulysses _Pitt- Man exploded like a barrel of molasses and vainly endeavored to repress his mirth.) This man Fisk is pretty near gone, I tell you. I assure you, Mr. Reporter, he’s just like one of those cheap red balloons that the boys sellin the streets for the use of children. Prick one of them with a pin and all the gas comes out. He has been FEEDING HIMSELF ON BALLOONS for three years past, and now we have stuck a pin in ‘him and he’s shaking like a leaf.” ACHILLES STOKES—Come, Tom, LET’S DROP POOR FISK FOR A WHILE. ‘may say, however, that all my claims have been settled with the firm of which I was a member, and Ican also say that I nave been pald $50,000, as Fisk has been very giad to settle. They put up ajob to arrest me at eleven o’clock at night and to keep me in all Sunday night so as to disgrace me. But what has beg the result? I have come out all right, and New York 1s lat at Fisk as it never laughed before. Judge Dewling issued the warrant for me. Let's: fe down to the dining room. There is one thing 1 am glad of, and that ig that the HERALD 18 willing and able to give the facts in the for there never was a more audacious outrage than that of Fisk going to my partners ang trying to make them betray me like a dog. - ULYsses PirrMaN—I think Fisk is the cheekiest man | ever saw in my life, it made me laugh the night that Fisk went to speak in Tammany Hall. He died himself on the old Wigwam, and they Couldn’t shake nim off. Belmont was the chairman Of the meeting, and he hated the sight of Fisk, and he wouldu’t shake hands with him or introduce kim to the audience, And what does he do? wave Fisk walked out infront of Belmont, completely ble with his great big body, and begins to talk the audience without any introduction of Belmonts at ail. REPORTER—Mr. Pittman, what do you think of the morals and religious opinions of Fisk, Jr. ? Unysses Pirrman—Good God, sir! You are jibing me. Morals! The man never had any; hasn’t got oy nae and will never nave any this side of the jtomless pit. AS for his religious opinions, they don’t amount to a giass of stale beer or an ounce of yy old Dutch cheese. I believe that he pretends KIND OF A SICKLY CONGREGATIONALIST, but he’d swing his coat inside out any day for a bad half dollar if he thought he could play it on a car conductor and beat the poor snoozer out of forty- five cents change in good money. ACHILLES STOKES—You are pretty hard on Fisk, Tom. But I think he deserves it all, when a man takes it into account that he uses every one badly. ULyssgs Prrraan—I have reason to think Pon of Fisk, and so has every decent man in the land. Yes, sir; he has done more to debauch American morals and American youth than any man in the country. Why, every Yankee boy from the part of the country frem which Fisk hails, on hear- ing of this bloat becoming so’ conspicu- ous in the newspapers and gett 80 much money and coming Sardanapalus and Bel- shazzar with bis herlots over the people of New York—why, the innocent lttle boy in Yankee land, With his stomach full of beans and his head full of Ralph Waldo Emerson, wants to go and do like-’ ‘wise, and become another Jim Fisk or a “Prince Erie,” or an ‘Admiral of the Sound Steamboats.?? Faugh! it makes me sick. He'd be shot in any other country. RePoRTER—What do you think of the physical courage of Fisk, Mr. Pittman? ULYSSES PitTMAN—I never knew a bigger coward than shat same Fisk. He'll weaken like a dog if you a but if yeu stooyt to him he'll sit on you, ‘TER—Is {t true that attempts have. been made 2 assassinate you, Mr. Stokes, or that you Sear such attempts? ACmIARS RAOKR Well} Wil not gnewer wat ™ NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1871.—TRIPLE SHEET. question, Of one thing you be sure, and that ts ate ou with ? REPOBTER—Have AcHILiES Bromes—t ve Tocived back my peri the amount of $110,000, but I do not wi io ptei nev ‘anady ake te team hed ont vi fi Know ik” He’ docu like to be midiculed very much. ‘The interview here ended. Mrs. Helen Josephine Mansfield at Heme. After the HERALD reporter had called upon Mr, Stoxes and bis cbunsel @ friend suggested to him that some more light might be obtained on the Svokes-Fisk tmbrogiio by making a personal call upon Mrs, Helen Josephine Mansfield at her resi- dence, in the magnificent brown stone house No, 350 West Twenty-third street, between Eighth and Ninth avenues, The name of the mutual friend, who was also known to Mrs, Mansfield, we shall give as Smith, an inoffensive and harmless name in itself. Tue approach to the hall door by the lofty stoop made the reporter and his friend feel @ sense of awe as they ascended the stone steps, The reporter rang the door bel), and in answer to the tintinabulation a man and brother of the African persuasion, in a very clean white jacket and dark inxepressibles, made his appearance. RerorteR—Inform Mrs. Josie Mansfield that my- self and friend destre to see her, and here are our cards to present to her. Be quick, Francois, FRANCOIS— MY NAME 18 GAWGE, MASSA, Til take de cards, Our reporter and his friend Smith were then ushered into the parlor, which wes splendidly tur- nished, the carpets giving way to the pressure of the feet like damask. “Igay,” said Mr. Smith, “% wonder if Port Ad- miral Fisk didn’t sink a goed many spondullx in these seft carpets and on those gorgeous picture frames?’ “Very likely,” answered the reporter, senten- thously, All the accessories that wealth and refine- ment could suggest were heaped in this palatial apartment with a reckless profusion worthy of a SQUANDERING GOTH OR PREDATORY HUN. The servant in his white jacket soon made his ap- pearance, bearing the compliments of Mrs, Mans- ae to the gentlemen who were in waiting in the arlor. ® “Mrg, Mansfield says to step down into the dining room if you cannot wait, a8 she 1s taking dinnah, san,” said “Gawge.” Down into the dining room we went, encompassed by the cheicest odors of cookery, which filled the dwelling luke an Kastern fragrance, This apart- ment had been FITT&D UP IN THE MOST GORGEOUS STYLE. The celiing and walis were painted and {frescoed in the highest style of art; panels adorn the walls with trophies, game, birds, ish, amd other inaica- tons of a reflued taste were visible in tne apart- ment. Farniture of highly polished mahogany, with bubl work and marqueterie, was as thickly strewed in the room as leaves in Vallambrosa, In the centre of the dil hall was plaeed a table, covered with @ snowy cloth and @ dining service of silver. Tnere were chairs around the table, caparisoned as If they had been intended for hi Wiham, and # sola of royal magnificence occupied » corner of the room. ‘These chairs haa been pressed by the gawky form of Graf Von Fisk, and in the pillowy Tulds of the sofa the luxuriant limbs of the railway tnpresarvo had reclined, and on the mat at its side the modern Menelaus had sobbed his heart wildly aWay beiore the UNRELENTING GLANCES OF THE MODERN HELEN, most-destructive and seductive of her sex. In this saloon Menelaus Fisk had encountered the flery ussault of Achilles Stokes, and had been vanquished by ois death dealing spear, Yes, here he had “weakened” and left the fleld to his victorious rival. It was here that great Achilles had rested on jus ensanguined lance, as his toe, the hero of a buadred ilicit fights, lay prostrate before nim. As the oid ballad says, 1 was a terrible rout— Once more! once more !—in dust and gore to ruin must thou In valu, in vain, thou tearest the sand with furious heel ; In vain, in vain, thou noble beast |—I see, I see thee stagger— Now keen and Cold thy neck ‘must hold'the stern Aleapde’s dagger They havo pipped ® noose around his neck—six horses are bro y Harpado with a loud and joyful ati And away they in. Now stoop thee, Indy, from thy stand, and the ring of price a 0" Ufen Gazul, of Algava, that hath laid Harpado low! In the ire room were two ladies seated at the table, One of these ladies was rcbed in a white evening dress, She was tall and shaped like a duchess. Her skin was as PAIR IN FIBRE AND HUE 48 THE LILY itself. Over a fair.white forenead hung a mass of jet, silky black Ratr, and from her small, seashell- like ears depended a pair of hooped rings. Her hand, white and smooth, which she offered wthe reporter as she rose gracefully from the table, was a hand from which Cd could be taken, The lady’s eyes were of a pi gray, and lambent like phosphorescent streaks of light that follow the Wake of a ship in mid ocean. When she rose the folds of her “dress fell in undulating waves tothe richly ted floor, This was Mrs. Helen Jose- nine eld-Lawlor, Mr. Smith whispered to the reporter, as the lady stood recer her friends ana the former, “You know what Oliver m well said when ne landed tn Ireland and looked a Hien oes ae eu “B THIS IS A COUNTRY WORTH FIGHTING FoR.’ And that was Jim Fisk’s opinion Chere ago about Mrs. Mansfield, aud is now, but ie doesn’t know how to get square.” The other lady who sat at the table was a Mrs. ‘Wiliams, a very prepessessing woman in form and features. Mr. Smith introduced the reporter to Mrs, Mans- fleld as follows:— , of the HERALD, “Mrs. Mansfeld, this 1s Mr, who is desirous of interviewing you in regard to the Fisk troubles."’ Mrs. MANSFIELD (| fully)—Well I don’t know that I can add anything to the comments and state- ments that have been made in the papers for the last few days. There has beena great deal stated that was false about me, and some little truth. I suppose it has made me somewhat notorious, and that | may have lost my reputation by the business. But I cannot blame myself for anything but my ac- qualotance or intimacy with Mr. Fisk. I do not wish to say anyihing unless he provokes me toa quarrel, and then I am perfectly sure that I can de- fend myself, or de more than that. I know Mr. Stokes very slightly, ‘Mr. SaiTH— “ “He's A NICE MAN, HE 18, THAT FISK. Mrs, MANSFIELD—Oh, well, I know you are pre- Judiced, Mr. Smith. He has his good and bad points, but not a great many of the latter, Here Mr. Smith laughed heartily, as aid also Mrs, Williams. REPORTER—Is {t true that this house isa present from Fisk to you, Mrs, Mansfield? Mrs. MANSFIELD—Notning of the kind. The money which bought this house WAS MADE BY ME IN WALL STREET, through a mutual friend, a third person, whom Sdo not wish to name. Mr. SMITH—Was there any furniture in the house when you took possession, Mrs. Mansfield ? Mrs, MANSFIELD—1 believe there was some furniture. ‘The money for the house and iur- niture and irescoing which I have expended amounted, — includin; repairs, to sixty-five thousand dollars and over. I purchased the house through a Mr. Edwards, who was introduced to me by the mutual friend. While acquainted with Mr. Fisk 1 was away pale with silks, wines, food and everything that I could desire; but he would never allow me any freedom. REPORTER—He wanted to keep you dependent on him entirely, fearing he might lose you? Mrs, MANSFIELD—Perfectly. 80. Fisk acted in conjunction with the mutual friend of whom I have spoken in this way. He said one day, “JOSIE, 'M MAKING A GOOD DEAL OF MONBY in the street and I might as well make a dollar or two for you, and 1 can use your money to advantage through @ friend.” And 80 he did, ll say that ior him. But he always wanted to keep me dependent, He had an atrocieus taste in purchasing, and when he made me presents he used to select the loudest shawls and jackets and dresses that ne could find for me. In his own person he was very neat and eo tet ‘Mrs. Mansfield, tha iPORTER—| flansfield, do you think Fisk is Insane from your knowledge or the man? Mrs. MANSFIELD—Iv’s more than possible. The disease is hereditary in the family. His father was Len ot pobin gd bed os from impuise, owever, lat _he caiculates upon every- thing that he does beforehand. i if Mr. SuiTH—I am sure of it. He’s the biggest fraud in the world. Mrs. MANSFIELD—He always has believed in “LOOKING ONE WAY AND ROWING ANOTHER," @ favorite expression of his to me. He keeps nis business engagements punctually enough, but he has kept this table waiting dinner for as much as five hours at a time, and ear evenings he would issue @ lot of the most crazy orders for things that he wanted, and ali the time that he was talking 1 knew that he intended and meant something eise. REPORTER—Don't you think Mentaland ts a coarse person in her way? Mrs. MaNsFigLD—I do not. Ithink she is very nice and pretty.. I was present at her dinner the night hetold her that he could have New York Coren ae if he so desired. That was like nim all over. ‘ Mr. SiTH—The funniest thing of all {s that of his SOBBING AT YOUR FEET TO BE TAKEN BACK. Mrs, MANSFIELD—I don’t Know about that, Smith; I have seen good and noble men cry for a woman, and I knew that Fisk felt itthat night. The funniest thing, perhaps, is about his gum shoes. ‘The papers might have applied their classics to the case tter, 1 suppose, had they known that my first name was Helen. My name is Helen Josephine jauefield, without the Lawlor; I would not give kk Lawlor the satisfaction to think that I bore his name, It would please him too much, REPORTER—Mrs. sield, it is stated that you are a Californtan? Mrs, MANSFIEBLD— NO, I AM A BOSTON GIRL, and was educated at a conventin Lowell. All of our family were Catholicsa—the Mansflelds. I left Boston at sixteen, and was married to Frank ae ‘at seventeen, iu California. My father was editor ‘the San Joaquin Democrat, and was killed in a duel with another editor in I went to Call- step tasnete fornia Vie Aspinwall AD. 20% vo Jaw my gi In days eve, I was a me pose a Tame to New York and Jana! the ‘who was in the house with to buy this house down here, so that he 6 always have me under his hand a near those he . Jay Gould always hat me because disliked ted he believed I bad a0 much influence over Mr. Fisk, I went to California in 1864, 1 believe. Mr. Fisk never gees in the street at all without a man to ‘Watch him, and he always KEPT A MAN IN THIS HOUSE at Reventreae, dollars & month just to watch the house, ‘hen I went to a public place ef amuse- ment there were always at least twenty men whom 1 knew I could put my hand on at a moment’s notice whom Fisk had detailed for the purpose. And when Fisk was in with Jimmy O’Bnen, the Sherif, ne used to say to bim when he was going te any place of amusement, a ball or theatre, if he was afrald, “I want you te send up & gang of the boys to-night, and Vl attend to you and them,” and O’Brien always sent them, RerorTeR—Mrs. Mansfield, can you inform me who were the partners, the men behind the screen Ne) aes Railway during its numerous vicissi- judes: Mrs. MANSFIELD—Oh, yes; you mean the person with whom he has divided the spolls of wart I know all about that matter, but you must excuse me from giving any such information toa news- aper, although I have a great regard for the New YORK HERALD. ReroRTER —From year remarks, Mrs. Mansfeld, I should infer that Mr. Fisk has partners in Erie trans- actions that the public do not see. MANSFIELD—I have nething to say upon that subject, I do not care to betray any confidence placed in me by Mr, Fisk. The interview then concluded, Mra. Mansfield accompanying the HERALD reporter and the very obliging Mr. Smith to the hall door, and there bade all three a gooa evening. As they bade her adieu Mrs, Mansfield said briefly, holding up her finger:— A dont wish to take any step further unless I bo provoked. THEN I AM READY FOR MR. FISK, if he makes the advance against me or lays & anger on any friend. Idon’t need the assistance of the reporters. J alone have sufficient for Jim Fisk.’ And thus ended this strange mnterview. Stokes and Fisk Before Judge Dowling. It appears in this case that the Brooklyn Oll Re- finery Company was a corporation organized under the general manufacturing laws of this State, That it only had three stockholders, and that the trustecs Were composed of said stockholders, one of them, Mr. Stokes, being the secretary, and another, Mr. Byers, being the treasurer, It was claimed that the secretary, in collecting without the privity or assent of the remaining trustees the sum Of $27,600 on the ‘1th day of January, 1871, due the corporation the Devoe Manufacturing Company, and deposit the same to his individual account, was gulity of an offence against the statute relative toembezziements by the servants or officers of corporations, Judge Dowling—It is unnecessary to discuss this uestion, as I am of the opinion that, under the facts proven before me, this company, though in form a corporation, must be treated as between the parties as a private copartnership, and under such @ view of the case the act of Stokes was not within the terms of the statute. The proceedings Will therefore be dismissed. ITALIAN UNITY. King Victor Emmanuel to General John A. Dix. King Victor Emmanuel has sent the following oficial despatch by cable to the Chevalier Ferdi- nand de Luca, Italian Consul General in New York. It is communicated to the public through Mr. Theo- dore Roosevelt, Chairman of the Committee of Ar- Trangements on the occasion of the Italian unity meeting recently held in this city:— Chevalier FERDINAND DE Luca, Italian Consul General, New York:— His Majesty King Victor Emmanuel commands ou to tender his sinvere thanks to General John A, ix, President of the meeting to celebrate Itaian unity, for the kindiy feelings expressed in his tele- gram. Vii NTI VENOSTA, Minister of Foreign Adairs. SOUTH AMERICA. Advices from Brazil and Paraguay—The Revolution in Montevideo and Entre Rios, LONDON, Jan. 17, 1871. The mail steamer from South Amcrica has arrived at Lisbon with advices from Rio Janeiro to Decem- ber 23, A Brazilian military credit of 13,500 contos had been opened. Sefior Rivolo has been elected Prarident. of Para. guay. The revolutions in Montevideo and Entre Rios continued, but there had been no tighting since the date of the last advices. THE LATE ECLIPSE, ‘to Sicily to = if Fn Rea EP nt Description by the Party Sent Observe It. Commodore B. F, Sands, Superintendent of th United States Naval Observatory, has transmitted to the Navy Department the following extract of a let- ter just recelved from Professor Asaph Hall, of the United States Navy, one of the astronomers sent to Sicily to observe the eclipse of the 224 of December last:—“The 22d of December 1s drawing to a close and the eclipse is over. We nave had tolerable suc- cese, The four contacts were pretty well observed during the total eclipse. The clouds covered the moon, making, I think, the physical observations somewhat doubtful. The protuberances were very well seen. They were of a pale red color, and notso brignt as I expected them to be. The clouds inter- fered with my observations of the corona. 1 could detect but very little of the radiating ana curved streamers given in many pictures, and the slight radiation that Isaw might have been produced by the clouds, I need hardly say that the total eclipse Was a very beautiful sight. Professors Newcomb and Harkness have informed you of our telegraphic work by which we corrected the longitudes of Gib. raltar, Malta and Syracuse,’? THE TROUBLES IN SOUIH CAROLINA. Governor Scott Denies Any Portion of the State im Insurrection—The Civil Power Sufficient to Suppress Disturbances and En- force the Laws, CHARLESTON, Jan. 17, 1871. Governor Scott yesterday sent a message to the Legistature in reply to a concurrent resolution ask- ing why a military force for the protection of life, liberty and property had not been sent into the rietous and refractory counties of the State, and why tne outlaws in those counties have not been brought to condign punishment, The Governor While 1 deeply deplore the disturbances to which our resolution reters, { can scarcely venture, as the Executive of the State, te pronounce any of its coun- ties riotous and retactory upon the reported cases of individual outrage; and, while no information has been received in this oftice indicating anytni! of @ county Leh cleat to defy or defeat the law, cannot say with truth, upon any information in my possession, that in any section Of the State the laws are not executed; for not a single case has been re- ported in which the officers of the law have been resisted in the discharge of their duties. ‘There is no Invasion which I am calied upon to repel—no insurrection wnich I am called upon to suppress. But if there.was any portion of the State in which violence and disorder were so general as vo disarm the power of the civil hd maust say frankly that I have no such militia force as would be compe- tent to suppress them, and if I had [ have no means to place and maintain suoh @ force in the field. If by the outlaws who have not been brought to con- dign punishment you mean those individuals who have ly perpetrated the eutrages in the ceunties of Spartanburg and Union I can only say that every effort has been made that could lawfully be made by the Executive to ver those eriminals and bring them to a speedy trial. It 18 my opinion that the civil law the Stave ought to be suill- cient, and it 1s my determination that it shall be suficient to the person rotect nd property of every ‘and any citizen of the Btate’ however humble, friendiess or obnoxious. I cannot bring myself to contemplate the use of an armed force to punish individual violations of the law ina time of profound peace, Such a remedy would be as bad as the disease, and would be a public declaration that Ce was no civil govern- ment in South Carolina and that we are living ina coudition of social anarchy. I am bound by my oath of office as the Executive of this State, and in Teverence for those principles of constitutional liberty which are the vital force of true republican- ism, to see that the law 1s duly enforced before I re- sort to other and dangerous powers. I dare not, and will not, assume that justice cannot be ad- ministered until the effort has been made and the failure evident, It is therefore my inten- tion to see that the law enforced, and when 1 ful in the effort will unhesitatingly call upon you for the extraordinary powers to wluch society must resort for self-protection; but at pre- sent I would call your attention to the fact that all the cases ef feported lence are individual violence of the law; that none of them have as- sumed the Lge ihe public combinations against the law, and that they are all within the regular Jurisdiction of the criminal courts. ‘The Governor concludes by suggesting measures for a more vigorous, complete and eificient organi- gation of the machinery for sha sdsainis- Sration of grimupal 5 ART NOTES. Amortcan ‘The most encouraging feature in American sculp- ture is a growing tendency towards national and fresh, unhackneyed subjects. Tuckerman has said With truth that our local histories abound in favor- able subjects for the chisel; that hero worship is a fervent instinct of the people, calling for statuesque memorials, and that our rural cemeteries and city Darks and squares are not only adapted to sculpture decoration, but fitted to suggest and inspire such memorials and trophies, STATUES TO NEW YORK POLITICIANS. ‘That even New York politicians are awakening to Qn appreciation of ‘statuesque memorials” is mani- fest from the recent proposals to erect statues to “Boas” ‘tweed and Senator Creamer, although in the case of the latter two horses and @ coach seem to have run away with the original Project. CLARK MILLS, That the art standard of our community ts higher than it used to be is happily indicated by the fact that the critics universally condemn the project of Clark Mills to disfigure Washington with another of his monstrosities. All agree that even if an equestrian sculptor should be aMictca with night- mares, he 1s not, therefore, entitled to put them in bronze and saddle the pubiic with the expense, MISS VINNIE REAM, It 18 creditable to the modesty of the Con- gressmen who expressed most delight at the recent unveiling of Miss Vinnie Ream’s statue of Lineoin that they confessed they had nothing to say about the artistic qualities of the werk of this bright and persevering little sculptress, By the way, it is said that Misa Vinnie Ream, who has just been 80 heartily welcomed at Washington on her return from Rome, left behind her in the Eternal City seven other sculptresses hailing from America. AMERICAN SCULPTORS IN ROME, Story, of Boston; Rhinehardt, of Baitimore; Ran- dolph Rogers, of Richmond, and several other American sculptors are alse in Rome. s WARD, THOMPSON 40D OTHE SCULPTORS IN NEW We have previously described at length the fine Shakspeare statue, of heroic size, now standing, ready to be cast, in the studio of one of our fore- most American sculptors, J. Q. A. Ward. itis sur- rounded by his statue, already in bronze, forthe “Seventh Regiment Memorial,” and the studies for his “Indian Hunter,” ‘‘The Good Samaritan,” “Pro- tection,” ‘Commodore Perry” and for numerous busts, Mr. Ward is now busily at work on the bas- reliefs for the Perry monument. We have also re- cently described the studies for the statues Napo- Jeon and General Lat, lei and General Scott, the busts of Grizzly Adams, Bishop Potter, Rev. Dr. ‘Tyng, J. G. Bennett, W. ©. Bryant, Edwin Booth’ and the statuettes and medal- fions =o which fill the studio of another great. American sculptor, Launt Thompson. ‘The conscientious works of Pickett and O'Donovan and George Hess and Buberl and Turia! have been duly recognized. JOHN ROGERS, But to-day we wish to call special attention to the fertility of imvention exhibited by John Rogers, who is now adding three “Rip Van Winkie pronne'! te his marvellous series of statu- ettes, which so triumphantly proves that the great. ness Of @ work of art does not depend on its size- No artist has more vividly illustrated into permanent forms the reminiscences of our civil war than Mr. Rogers, who 1s daily Pla J hold of _tresh elds in American life for the exercise of his genius. The bare enumeration of the titles of his very popular works ‘Will suitice to show how much he has accomplished within a few years. These titles are:—Fairy’s Whis- per, Fugitive’s Story, Council of War, Challenging the Union Vote, Taking the Oath, The Foundling, Coming to the Parson, Courtship in Sleepy Hollow, One More Shot, Wounded Scout, Union Refugees, hice OMice, Home Guard, School Examina- tion, C! Gh Age ase Uncle Ned’s School, Keturned Volunteer, ‘ting Promise, Mail Day, Town Pump, Picket Guard. ‘The groups are of a clay-colored ma- terial, ranging {n price from ten te twenty-five dol- lars and are beim rapidly distributed to points both east and west of the Mississippi, They are doing More than anything else to popularize art through- out the country, Exhibition of Pictures at the Union League Club. A satisfactory proof of the growth of interest in art among our people is furnishea by the custom of several clubs in New York to have picture exhibi- ,Uons at each monthly meeting. Some clubs are be- ginulug tv iuake pormanont ert. collections. The Art Committee of the Union League Club, consist- ing of Messrs, Putnam, Ward, Whittiedge, East- man Johnson, Butler, Baker and Avery (who have been re-elected for this year), report that they have fathered and exniniied fa the gallery of the club daring the past year “ho tess than three hundred works of art, produced by artists who are members or who reside in town, with now and then choice foreign work. Twelve paintings have been added to the collection by purchase or subscription. The latest acquisition is a noble portrait of the late General Thomas, by Eastman Johnson. Julian Scott's fine picture of “The Rear Guard at White Oak Swamp” 1s notable among the recent additions, Several new engravings have been bought to de- corate the dining and other rooms. Great efforts are now being made to secure for the ladies’ recep- ton, on the 25th of January, a collection of pictures worthy of the occasion. Conspicuous among the paintings exhibited at the monthly meeting of the club on the evening of the 12th instant were the following :— Aportrait of General Thomas, by Eastman John- |.80u, which we have mentioned, and ‘The Pension Agent,’ belonging to Josiah M. Fiske, by the same distinguished artist. “Lake Geol ” @ large and highly successful work by D. Huntingdon, ex-president of the Na- tional Academy of Design. “The Plains, Colorado,’ by W. Whittredge; pro- bably his finest production. ‘Autumn,” an exquisite bit of color by Kensett; “Hever Castle, Engiand,” one of Henry’s pictur- — and microscopic gems; “The Harpist”? and “The Promenade,” by J. G. Brown, the former an elaborately Hnished interior, and the latter an effec- tive study, representing a blonde in brilliant winter coatum fume, “Sunday Morning Camp of the Seventh Regiment ea Hill), Washington. D. 0,, in 1:61,” by S. Gifford, member of Company 8, Seventh regt- ment, @ work of never-failing historic interest and richly entitled to a permanent position among the trophies of the regiment in which the artist so hon- orably served. “A Study from Nature,’’ a faithful and unconven- tional picture of a wood in autumn, by T. L. Smith, who also exhibited a capital “Winter Scene.?? “Cupid and Psyche,” small, put in color charming, by Louis Lang. “The Chateau de Cartes,” by Mor- gan, evincing the care bestewed by him on all his works. "Lake Geueva, unusually delicate, by “A& Normandy Giri,” by H. P. Gray, president of the National Academy, a fine example of his skill in the treatment of flesh tints. “A Little Girl with Her Doll’s Carriage by a Gate- way,” by J. B. Irving, one of his most careful pictures. “Waiting for a Bite,” a trifle, but hignly characteristic, by ©. O. Ward. ‘The Wreck of the Em \t Ship,” one of Bradford’s largest and most ive works. A new and faithful version of ‘The Yosemite Val- ley,” by 8. Colman; ‘‘A Stady from Nature” and “A View onthe Hudson,” by D. Jonnson: two “Views Near Fordham,” by Laurie; two large and conven- tional [se pieces, by Angero; “A Summer's Day,” by Hubbard; “The Contraband of Peace,” b; Peary; “A Connecticut Valley View,” by Howland; “Chocorua,” by 4. Wordsworth Thompson, an ad- mirable landscape, “Horses In @ Pasture,” the joint production of Jerry and Fitch; ‘A Seaside View,’ by Homer; an elaborate fruit picture by Miss Wenzler; pictures by ae Duverger, Cranch, Mrs, Seligman and Miss orton. A remarkable interior, by Rielstahl, of Berlin, the property of G. M. Vanderlip, representing a religious precession and full of character, excellent drawing and elaborately finished, and last, but by no means least, either an artistic importance or In suggestive- ness, “The Re Navigators,” by G. H. Boughten; a truthful study of a “Cloudy Day by the Seaside.” On the whole, the show of pictures was the choicest of the season at this club. The members of this very active art association are busily occupied in drawing and painting ex- pressly for their annual festival, which is to take place on the 20th of February. At their recent elec- tion of officers for this year Paul Schulze was chosen President; Victor Nehlig and J. Roy Robertson, Vice Presidents; Dr. J. Wiener, Treasurer; M. Kurtz, Fi- nancial Secretary; D. E. Meineke, Corresponding Secretary; George Hess, Recording Secretary; M. von Mittendorter and L. Reeth, Arohivists; M. Eylan, H. Le Vasseur and F. Venino, Trusteés. The Palette Club already numbers two hundred and fifty members, Its life school is tbe three evenings in the week, and is frequented by many American as well as German artists, New Pictures. James M. Hart is completing a capital brook scene, ‘with cattle standing in the water and sheltered by the trees from the blaze and heat of noonday. It is called “Under the Elms.’” ‘Wakeman Holberton has finished for the Utica exhibition excellent studies of wild game, ‘‘Ruffed Grouse and Quail” and “Brook Trout,” B. M, Ward, who has of Jave been painting por: _ The Artist Fand Sale will take place at the Somerville Art Gallery about the 1st of February. Art Sale Extraordinary in Bosto Besides the articles of antique and costly furni- ture (such as may be seen at Sypher's, on Broad- Way), the Gobelin tapestries and the Sévres porce- Jains which are to be scattered at the approaching sale of the celebrated Deacon house and its contents, in Boston, there are numerous and valuable pictures which cannot fail to excite the curtosity and compe- tition of amateurs, Among these pictures are seve- ral by Boucher; the “Death of Virginia” and “The Shipwreck,” py Isabey; “The White Horse,” by Sal- vator Rusa; Portraits of Queen Elizabeth and Amy Robsart, “The Wounded Soldier,” by Wachamuth; “Returning from the Hunt,” by Alfred de Dreux; “Soap Bubbles,” by Gerard Douw, and four large palntings by Fragonard, THE M'GARRAHAN LAND CLAIM. Officials Mutilatiag Gublic Records—Import- ant Lestimony. WASHINGTON, Jan. 16. 1871, In the McGarrahwn case the House committee, at the instance of the New Idria Mining Company, to- day examined Joseph 8. Wilson, the retiring Land Commissioner, and three of his clerks, viz.:—Messrs, Stokes, Stoeck and Buell, also W. H. Lowery, a former clerk in the office, but now and for several years past an attorney of the New. Idria Mining Company, and employed, as he States, to prevent an issuance of patent to McGarrahan, All of these witnesses wnade last summer voluntary ex parte aMdavits, designed to Justify ex-Secretary Cox, of the Interior Department, in defacing and cancelling the recently discovered record of @ patent in that department to McGarra- han, This was done ta the interest of the New Idria Company, These aMidavits were tu the effect that the record book, volume for, pages 812 to 321 of Califorma Land Olaims, where @ patent to McGarrahan appears on record, duly dated, signed and sealed, could net be relied upon as proof ef an original patent of which it purports to be an original record copy. Mr. Stokes, who en- grossed this record in the book, testified to-day that he did not make it from an executed patent, but from a printed form which had not been executed; but as this patent 13 a very peculiar one, being sué generis and containing mat- ter reciting decisions of courts, field notes of surveyors and opinions of former Secreta. ries of the Interior, which could not be on any printed form or blank for a patent, he seems to have taxed ‘his memory ‘not wisely, but too well.” It Was shown that there could not have been such L sient form, but that testimony and afidavits of his colleagues on the witness stand contradict thig statement. Mr. Stokes at lnst — testifled that he could not say that the orig- mal of this record was not an executed patent. Another witness, Mr. Stoeck, produced to discredit the record of the patent, testified upon his direot examination that ii was the custom of the Land Office to record these Californta land patents in advance o1 their execution, or, in other words, to record them as complete instruments, includin, the dates, signatures and places of ‘the seal, {o anticipation of their execution. In this way it 18 attempted to account for the Tecord of the patent to McGarrahan; but tne record book, volume four, prodaced and examined before the committee, disproved this theory, inas- much as it showed that in no case were tiie date, Signature and place of the seal written until alter the patent had been executed. The record book showed that in every case when the record of a pecent contained the date, the signature of the resident, “per his secretary for signing land patents,” and the piace of tie svals, that 1b was marked on the margin Of the first page of ue record in red ink “exd.,” or examined, and in all such cages {t 1s conceded that the patents were executed. ‘The record of the patent to McGarrahan on this book contains the date, the signature of the President and ie of the peal, Bt also marked ‘exd,” jn red xk, thus showing that thé énly case upon which the custom sworn to by Stoeck was founded was McGar- rahan’s case, It can hardly be velieved, when the great yalue of the property sapcivedsis this pa- enf ia taken into account and the fe which has enlisted thé zea uf tue feuding: sontent of the government, that this exception would make the rule sworn to. This book aiso contained re- corded forms or drafts of unexecuted patents—that 13, patents it seem to have been ordered, but i ver signed—and on these the witness sought to the usage; but in none of these cases were there dates, signatures or places of seal, nor was the “exd.” written in the margin. The wit- nesses testifled that the “exd.,” or examined,” in red ink, were written in the margin atter compar- ing the original patent and the form in which it was engrossed with the record, by three clerks, oue hoid+ ing the form, one the original parchment and the other the book. In Mcuarraban’s casethe wit- ness Lowery, then a clerk in tue Lana Office, now an idan of the New ldria Mining Company, held the book and the witness Stoeck wrote the ‘‘exd.’? on the margin. Lowery aiso drafted the form of the patent, which was produced before the committee with all its interiloeations, erasures and abbrevia- tions, thus showing, a3 previously stated, hat the witness (Stokes) could nut have engrossed the re- cord from a printedform. The record of this patent, as now produced, has pencil marks drawn across the date, the signature, the place of the seal and un. der the attesting clause the words in pencil. “not signed” are written. This was done hy Mr. Lowery, ashe himself tesufled, but he does not remember when he did it, Mr. Buell, on cross-examination, testified that he Was acting Kecorder in the absence of Judge Granger at the time this record was made, and though, in his direct examinauon and im his am- davit, he swore so as to convey tne idea that the patent was never executed, he said to-day that he did not know whether it was executed or not. Commissioner Wilson scemed to have procured himself to have been called to testify for no other purpose than to saddle ex-Secretary Cox with the stigma of mutilating this record, for he aamitted that the record was some evidence of the execution of the atent, and stated that he did not know whether it was executed or not. He swore that he signed the statement written across the face of the recorded patent, which contained declarations tnat it had never beon executed by the written order of the supreme executive head of the depariment; that he never advised Secretary Cox, never sug- gested this mutilation, and that he never contriputed toit except by tbe written order of the secretapy, with whom he never had any consultation on the subject. He also testified that he knew nothing of the truth or falsity of the declarations of tle state- ment as written across the face of the record. He said, as far as he knew, the nistory of this mutilation originated with the written order of the Secretary and that he was innocent of any complicity in the mat- ter, except subscribing his oMicial signature to it, which he did in obedience to the orders o! superior officer. ‘he venerabie Commissiouer could not refrain from telling the committee that for the’ cand Giles, aid hase" wt about to, leave the same or two, his successor having been nominated to the Senate. He seomed be all unconscious of a suspicion, not confined to General Grant, that he was not clothed with every oMcial virwe, There are those, and they are not a few, who believe that he Knows where to find the ofMicial survey of the Mariposa tract, which was abstracted from the Land Commissioner's office for the purpose of defeating Fremonvs claim to that grant. It is said there are several other lost things which it 18 possible he may now find, including the official letters of the Commissianer to the Re- corder of the Land Office from January to June, 1863, which embraced the time when this McGarra- han case was made up, Whose abstraction Judge Granger, the Recorder, testified to in the case at the last meeting of the committee, and which, if found, might afford conclusive proof of the execution of the patent to McGarrahan. The result of the ex- amination fully sustains the record, asa record, of an original instrument which has been signed for President Lincoln by his secretary, W. VU. Stoddard, who has testified that he remembers haviug signed this patent. The case was closed and submitted at the conclusion of the examinatien to-day. WESTCHESTER COUNTY NEWS ITEMS. Three men, named respectively Michael Minton, Wiliam Merritt and Daniel O’Niel, were arrested on Monday and iodged in tne county jail, charged with having burglariously entered the county Poor House and stealing therefrom a quantity of hams, valued at $200. The property was found in possession of the robbers. Coroner Bathgate held an Angyest yesterday on the remains of Mrs, Jane smith, who resided with her husband in Elton street, Melrose, and whose death was occasioned by falling down stairs on the peices evening. Deceased, it appears, waa in the bit Of imbibing an excessive quantity of ardent spirit under tne influence of which she accl- dentally toppled into eternity. a verdict was ren- dered accordingly. Deceased was about sixty years of ag 8. 4 number of the friends of Rev. Father Hughes, itor St. Jerome’s Catholic church, at Mott af oi onaay evening, an prenentod ‘tum ita 8 man on Vv i stylish horse aoa 1 Vi faa ba As the indioated 18 80) rat ns — most with the antiring zea: of Father Hughes evidently intend that he shall not tn too mach pedestrianism » ‘Well as spixisval, Wants of Bis x“ ST. DOMINGO. een DEPARTURE OF THE TENNESSE Embarkation of the Commissioncrs—scenes ang Incidents at the Barge Office and Staten Is. land—Mysterioug Cases Taken on Board, ‘The St. Domingo €o' amissioners, headed by the tk lustrious Western statesman, ex-Senator Ben Wade, have at last embarked on board the good old ship Tennessee, and are now well on their way to that portion of the Antilles whose name the Commision bears, and which has been for so long a time thé bone of contention between President Grant ang the irrepressible Senator from the Bay State. About half-past ten o’clock yesterday morning the indi- vidual members of the Commission began to arrive at the barge oMee, foot of Whitehall street, where they were to go on board two government tugboats, then lying alongside the ricketty pier walting to convey TOP ILLUSTRIOUS PARTY down to tue Tennessee, which was anchored off Staten Island. Dr. Howe, of Boston, was one of tha first to arrive, closely followed by carriages con4 taining Surveyor Cornell and lady, Mrs, Hastings, Mrs. Professor White and a number of geutlemen, names unknown. These immediately swarmed on board the little revenue cutter commanded by Lieus tenant Randolph, United States Navy, who, hoisting THE STARS AND STRIPES andjrunning up the revenue flag, swung off from the wharf and steamed away for the Tennessee, Other carriages arrived now in quick succession, each containing one or more of the Commissioners, secretaries and various other attachés of the expedi- tion, together with a large number of their’ friends and relatives, among whom were Mr, Murphy, Collector of the Port; Mr. James Ter- williger, his private secretary; General Porter, Commodore Alden and a host of others. Professor White, who is a genial, fresh-complexionea looking old gentlemen of about fitty-flve summers, and pers haps a8 many winters, was very conspicuous among the party and conversed freely with every one he met. He gave it as his opinion that their lavors upon the island would require them to STAY AT LEAST SIXTY DAYS, and spoke highly encouragingly of the prospecto of @ good time and a pleasant trip. “There is,” he said, “@ celebrated geologist now upon the island who has been there upwards of two years studying the mineralogy of the country, and as he is a gentleman of unblemished character and reputation they would make use of his experience and thus save them- selves the time and trouble of gathering up and shipping off specimens of stone all over the Island, EX-SENATOR WADE, who was accompanied by his son, Captain Wade, looked quite as fresh and hearty as ever, and ap- peared as serene as though he were only entering upon a trip of an hour's duration, instead of em- barking for an eight or ten days’ yoyage at @ most boisterous season of the year. Just before this party went on board the remain. ing tug, half a dozen fos ne wagons drove up, out of which the drivers and porters began tumbling trunks, carpet bags, satchels, boxes, baskets, boxes of choice Havanas and an almost innumerable num- ber of suspicious looking cases sutd to contain— “the ataif of life,” which must have been the case, s they were all marked “Monongahela,” “Bour- in, ” “OLD HOLLAND GIN" AND “‘ScLINAPPS.”” The urbane Commodore Alden personally saper- Intended the embarkation of the baggage and the “suspicious.looking cases,” after which @ general rush was made for the boat, and soon the emal) cabin, the not over spacious deck, and the diminu- tive pilot-house were ail swarming with a confused mass of stems, doctors, geuerals, representa- tives of the press, ladies, and the genial Tom Murphy, all of whom h@d come to seo fmends of FRED DOUGLASS, “THE FIERY BRUNI id looked and acted well, as did also his son, who ac- companied him, and who ig much darker de cidedly more African than his paternal parent. “All ashore |’’ cried Commodore Alden, and, a8 goon as General Porter and Mr. Murphy ceuld shake hands ‘mit Sigel,” and bid their numerous friends fare- well and wish the expedition a hearty God-s) ly the tag pusfed off, and was soon pu(fing along down the proad and beautiful bay on her way to the staunch old Tennessee. The HERALD representative immediately set him- welt to a ascertaining the names and official po- sitions o1 THOSE COMPOSING THE EXPEDITIONARY PARTY, Which are as foliows:—Commissioners, 6X Senator Benjamin F. Wade, Dr. Howe and Professor White; Cadet Wade, retary to his father; General Sigel, secretary to Dr. Howe; yate secretary to Professor White; Professor Reologist to the Commission; Allan A, Burten, seere~ tary tu the Commission; H. Brumsel and C. rig botanists; Fred Douglass, Sr., assistant secretary the Commission; Fred Douglass, Jr., private secre- tary to Mr. Burton; two oficial stenographers— Messrs, John Foley ang Hilt, A sail of about thirty-five minutes brought the party ALONGSIDE THE MONSTROUS FRIGATE, Qut of whose portholes the iron mouths of the heavy Parrots showed themselves. The gangway, at the top of Asdap se stood a murine, with glitvering bayo- net, was draped in blue and red cloth. Ben Wade Was the first to step upon the deck, where he was received by two of the officers of the ship anda company of flerce-looking marines, who presented arms. on @ drum and fife were heard to quarters, and in the twinkling of an eye evel gun was manned and all looked the picture of di Cipline, The next instant the thundering boum of one of the large guns was heard, quickly followed by fourteen more, the regular salute due to a United States Senator. ‘Bhe work of getting on board the multifarious trunks and other baggage, not forget- ting those “suspicious looking cases,’ was now commenced tn earnest, and in about filteen minutes Was compieted. After staying on board the frigate about nalf an hour, Surveyor Corneil announced nis readiness to ane to the city, aud having shaken hands and Ree WARTING DRINK ALI ROUND, € not going with the expedition turned to the deck of the revenue cutter, and were soon On their way back to New York. At @ quar- ter-past two the Tennessee weighed anchor and put to sea, her commander being desirous of getting out on the high tide, which was at ite full at alf-past two P. M. While going dewn the lower bay the Commissioners held a&meeting, at which they effected a permanent organization. The “tron- ae pe Aaa Peopoutene to all the officials con- ne ith the expedition, after w each presented with @ passport given by rapa hey TRE SECRETARY OF STATS, Tho Commissioners ~ considered the sul y OF to St. Domingo direct, and finally came to the conclusion to Tollow the latter course, touching at the Bay of only. This Cle was siepted because of the missioners’ desire to show & proper regard authorities Of the country, as toey ment Yoel wana justly, too) that they were slighted if the Commis. pital. sion landed at Samana instead of the cay NATURAL RISTORY. Lecture by Professor B. Waterhouse Haw- kins. Professor B. Waterhouse Hawkins, the chief man- ager of the Paleontological Department in the Cen- tral Park, gave the second of a course of lectures on “Natural History,” at the Church of the Heavenly Rest, last evening. A large and intelligent audience listened with profound attention to his discourse, He spoke first of the relations between man and the higher order of animals, He was not in favor of the theories advanced by Professor Huxley and some of the later European naturalists as to what is called simious man, and the close alliance of the human race to the ape species of the brute creation. By copious crayon illustrations he showed the anatomical structure of the gorilla and bear, He said the lower limbs of the bear were more similar to man than those of the gorilla were, and it was hard to discover the difference in the thigh, toe and heel. He said that thougu the hamerus bone of the orilla Was larger than that of tne Irish Giant, ’Brien, and other similarities existed, he was hardly prepared as yet to embrace either gorilla or bear as a man and @ brother. fie afterwards described the structure of other species of the animal creation, showing nshes, reptiles, &c., demonstrating their perfect adaptability to their wants. He was {requentiy applauded daring his remarks for the thoroughness and completeness of his illus. trations. The Professor has & quaint, quiet humor and an easy colloquial manner, which render his supjects, though naturally dry and abounding with technicalities, interesting and latelligible to all big hearers. Gilbert B. Mastin, a well dressed young man, was brought before Judge Cox yesterday, charged by Mary Poe, keeper of a boarding house at No. 908 West Twenty-second street, with giving her a worth- less check as payment for his board bill. Mast had been li in the house for several weeks, and when the landlady insisted on his Mgr ve a te on oe ee x ‘fang r seventy-five owing had no account with sald bank. the bank testified that Mastin had oever iat y funds there. The prisoner's only excuse that he had “intended to make the eheck Sa. the sudce copunities ULM in defeats of