The New York Herald Newspaper, October 26, 1871, Page 5

CAL. The Canvass in the Rural Districts. POLITI Hopes, Fears, Doubis and Difficulties of the Rival Candidates. A LIGHT VOTE EXPECTED. DELAWARE COUNTY POLITICS, Wsolated Situation of Delhi—DiMcalty in Gouing Voters to the Polle—Lo: Cc didates Stumping Their Disteicts—Pollitics in Town Taverns—the Contest for State Seaator—Probable Success of the Repub- lican Candidate—Oac Repudlican and Ove Democratic Assembly mai from fhe County—epublican Majority for the State - Ticket, DELHI, Delaware County, Oct. 21, 1671. Delni, the county towa o! Delaware, 1s situated Qs near as may be in the centre of tn¢ county, and does not yet enjoy the advantages afforded by rail- Toad of telegraphic communication, Ac present it is reached by stage or private convéyance, either from Hancock, on the Erie Railroad, or“ from Qneouta or Emmons, on the Albany and Susqne- Danna. Belore the énd of this year, however, it is expected that the branch connecting It with the main line of the Midiand Ratiroad, and which 18 now nearly fluished, will be in running order. Branches to connect it with other lines are also contemplated, so that hereafter Delhi will not be so isolated as it has been hereto- fore and is at the present moment. The rivalry between the Midland and Erie railroads 18 an ele- ment that enters somewhat into the local elections in the counties interested, This applies more par- Ucularly to candidates for members of the Legis- lature, and hag no special influence on the geueral State ticket. One oi the principal dificulties that Politicians of both parties have to contend against 4s to “get out the vote,” or, in other words, to induce the electors to attend the polls. This arises manly from the fact that the county is very large— having an area larger than the State of Rhode Island and a population of only 42,000—and, in nn- Merous instances, farmers live many miles away from the polling Places, Except on the occasion of n election for President, or perhaps for Governor, many of them do not take the trouble to come into town to vote, especially if the weather should be un- pleasant, and part of the duties of the active poll- Uolans in the several towns is to make arrange- ments to bring voters from distant places io te polls, The political canvass has already commenced tn ‘this county and in this Senatorial district, as ail the Nominations for loca. oflices have been made on both sides, Nominees for the Legislature and for oMces in the county, such as District Attorney, County Judge, &c., are busy visiting the towns and Villages soliciting support from their constituents, and political matters are discussed after a fashion in the barrooms of country hotels. In their stump speeches the candidates proclaim the principles of their respecuve parties; but in the evening, around ‘the large circular stoves or before the blazing log fires in town taverns, the personal qualifications 0} focal candidates are a more favorite theme for dis- sertation than State or national qaestions. There Is very little general excitement, however, about this election, aud the impression 1s that the vote on both sides will be comparatively light, or “short” this year, thongh the democrats, especially, will make a Vigorous eilort to poll as large a vote as possible, because the success of thelr candidate tor State Senator is a douvtful, if not a hopeiess mat Three counties are embraced within (its Senator! dustrict—S :hoharle, Delaware and Chenango. harie is strongly democratic, but the two ot decidedly republican, and the balance ona purey Political issue is ip favor of the republicans by aboutsix hinndred, At the last election for Governor Schohaiie gave 1,624 majority for Loman, while Dejaware gave 996 and Chenango 1,354-majority for Woodford, Thus the district went republican by 606 majority. But for four years the district has gone democratic on the choice of candidate for Madden was twice elected over publican competitors. Thus was owing alto- geiher to the persoual popularity of Madden. deciined @ nomination tor a third term, and the democrats, doeling fully consctous that they couit not find so ay: ble @ candidate as ne was, are very Gudious about their ability to elect thew man this time, They have nominated Samuel Yeomaus, a talented, ambitior and = rising youug lawyer of this town, He has a large circle of personal (tends among both parties, and, it 1s said, recommendations which point to him as a more de- sirable representative than his opponent, all of Which may Neiy his chances somewhat; but James H. Graham, the republican candidate, who is also a resident of Delhi, is a shrewd politician and a mau o means, has been in Aloany In the capacity of Assembiyman, and, itis said, will use al) his efforts to get to Ajbany again. AS matters siand at pres- ent the chances appear to be in favor of the repab- Mean ¢ ndt‘ate, and the impression among calcu- lating members of both parties 1s that he wili be elected; but as itis conceded that the vote in the district for State Senator will pe rather close, the more enthustastic members of the democracy nave the temerity to claim that the result will show a vic- tory for their candidate, Bat such a result would undoubtedly agreeably disappotat the majovity of the (lemocrats in the district. ‘There are two Assembly districts in tuls county, The lower district has always gone republican by a lar'e majority; and now, as pormneriy there 18 10 doubt atall that the republican canlidate will be But in the upper aistrict, -which includes ion of the county, neither side has mauy votes to spare on a square party poll. It is claiwed t be a democratic disirict, Last year it was carried by the republican candidate, Mr. Graham, who 13 now their nouitnee for Senator. He had then 117 majority, Which is explained by nis being a practis cal politician. But this year the democrats feel con- fhuent that they can more than wipe out that ma- jority, The democratic candidate 1s A, R. Hender- son, a popular young Scotchman, whose personal qualifications are ranked much mgher than those of his political opponent. There Is a large Scotch ele- ment In Delaware county, vote 18, generally speak: to & man, it 1s asserted that ender. won, by * reason of his personal popularity, will gain considerably in that quarter. It is stated that some of the republicans who do not like their own candidate wit! vote for Henderson; already one republican paper in the county has come out bolidiy in hus favor, and the democrats feel quite sanguine that he wili be elected. While personalities, petty Jealousies and questions of purely local interest aifect tne v for district aud county oficers on both sides, such matters lave but very little bearing on the general Siate ucket. ‘There does not seem lo be any issue in tbe county that woul materially alier the general vote of re- cent years, The omy diterence in the reswit ot this ejection and that of the last Will be thatthe vote this year will be rather Hyght, aod that cireuinstance ap ples equally to beth political party The Tam Many Hall troubles are Lot considered of any prac- tical importance mn a varty point of view. ‘The dei. crats of the rural districts denounce the dis- sty of the Jeaders of the Tammany Ring, and say they should be punished: bal when election day arrives they all Will vote the straight uemo- cratic ucket, On the other nad, the outcry abore the corruption in the Cusiom Liouse, under the con- trol of the reoubticans, will have very little weigit With the members of that party here in an eiection like the present. In fact, as & prominent republican of this county remarke.l to me, “You will fiad on election day that neither the Tammany Hall nor the Custom House exposures—neitner Mr. Tweed nor Mr. Murphy, nor the Coukcling and Fenton fgne ‘Will make any difference in the general vote of the democrats and republicans. The members of both political parties will quietly vote their respective Uckets.”” Independent of purely tocal matters, the result of the election here will probably be that the arstrict Will return © republican State Senator avd the county one republican and one democrane Assemblyman, While it will give a majarity of frow six hundred to seven Dundred in favor of the repuds Alcan State Uckel. BROOME COUNTY POLITI and although the Scoich ‘ing, republican almost {Axiongular Fight for Assendiyman—< barges t Ely, the Regular Republicao—A ‘landidate Representing the Straight- Out Temperance Men—Doubis ot Ely?» Ree slection=Success of the Hepublican Sensor Cerinin-Rach Party United in Support of Ite Own State Tirket=Sroome County Sronaly Repudliern, . BINGHAMTON, Oct. £8, 1871. « There Will be quite a contest in this county for me mber of Assembly, The republicans have 1wo can Hates in the fleld—the regular republican .can- aidat’s Who 1s now nommated for the fourth ters, and ag.Unst Whom certain charges have been madd and ther enndidate put forward py te witra tem perance hen. Mr, Wiltam M. ly, the present member ak regular nominee, is an onject of opposition among members of his own Party, from the faeb that ne ts enaread with NEW 0) Ee YURK HERALD, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1871. committing divers political offences, all of which he indignantly denies, Besides some minor matters it is charged by his opponents that he purposely played into the hands of Fisk and Gould by voung for the final passage of the bil which gave them complete control of the Erie Rail- road, and that he has also heen in the pay of Tweea aud the Tammany Ring, and promoted the passage of their measares. Hence he ts called a “Tammany republicun.”? The charges and specifications have neen printed by their author, who edits a weekly paper here; but the proofs which ne cites to sustain them are rather circumstantial and indesnite, As the matter appears in print the evidence seems in- sufficient to substantiate the charges, But, judging from circumstances within their knowledge, there are some republicans who believe that Mr, Ely’s political career at Albany has not been altogether spotiess, They say—and this is the most veiling point against him—that he nas uniformly interested himself in measures thav had “money in them;” that he voted for them on occa. sions wien it was Known that money had been paid for votes, aud thac he voted against them when funds were not forthcoming. ‘tne opposition to him ig rapidly increasing. Mr. Ely comes outing card es harges an chica s and notices tne ¢! m Biot ah toe ee on With twenty-two of He explains that, fa Comune his colleagues, he voted for the Erie Railroad bill, ecause it was deemed a proper measure. and that all but two of the republican representatives frou. the counues along te line of tie krie road voted Jor it, He disciaims any sympathy or associa. uon with the Tammany ning, and as fc that he nas doue nothing as @ legise jalor hot strictly honest and honorable and fov the iateresis of the repuviican party and tae peopie oi his district, Notwithstanding tats dis- clanmer. however, there are many akephioat repub- hicans who stil look upon hin with suspicton, and who will refuse to vote tor lum. [he temperance canidate ia Dr. 8, D. land. The State ineor! Asylum stands ona commanding emingned 6 lookin; Rant nears Atte yurat city, Tha that cirs Cuiislind 6 Solid Siimulany’ to the temper- auce wen. Perhaps ‘stmvlant" was not the pro} er word to use im alluding to the stretly temperaice people, but they ever do indulge in such a th the sight of that asylum Is the most harmless and healthful stimulant suggestive of tne liquor line that the teetotallers could take in, ‘he dewocratic candidate is Lewis 8. Abbott, who is popular in bis party im the county—more, peruaps, in the country thanin the city, “Lhe county is re- publican by @ large wmajoriy, It gives from one thousand to fifteen hundred, the larger number de- pending op ctreumstances and occasions, At the last elecuon for Governor the repuslican saajoriiy for the state ticket Was a trifle over thirteen bun- dred, Ordinarily au election of this kind would not bring out the full strength of ‘eituer party, but the triauyzvlar tight for the Assembly will have a ten- dency to increase the vote rather than reduce it. And, a3 is the case in some other counties, this local coniest will add some Votes on both sides to the gene- ral State ticket. The usual regular republican major- uty fur member of Assembly will be considerably re- duced this Lime, frou the fact Liat Ely, on account of the charges nade against tim, will run far behind the republican State ticket, and (hat the abstemious Doctor will take away som of the votes that would otherwise naturally be cast for the regu- lar republican candidate, Yet the straigut-out tem- perance element, like the beverage It advocates, 19 not very stroug, Bad at most will poll only afew hundred votes, ‘here is no possibly Of an anti- liquor man being seat to drink lemonade or ginger beer in Albany, Ely’s republican oppouents and the democrats think tle vole for memver of Assembly wil: be very close, The democrats are delizuced at the split in the republica NAY and te disattec- tion as to Kly. Those circumstances give them hope for the election of their caudidal Such a re- sult is douptial, However, Masmuch as the reypub- licuns have sO large a majority tu this county. ly’s friends believe they can aford voletthe Doctor ruu on his strictly temperance ucket, to lose the votes of the doubtful ana disat- fected, anu still have @ suiticlent majority to re- elect their man over the democratic candidate, ‘There js @ movement on loot to mduce Ely to with- draw, in order that the regular republicans might houinale another candidate, 80 as to ensure Yond @ question the success of a republican Assem- blynvan. The prospect at present is, if Ely does not withdraw, that the figut will be @ close one. Many men on both sides now believe thal until the re- turns come tn the question caunut be considered settied, Broome, Tioga and Tompkins counties constitute the Tweuty-fourth Senatorial distiricy Tuomas L. Chattleld is the repablicau nominee for State sena- tor and Roswel. C, McNeill the democratic. ‘the nomination of the republican candidate is equiva- lent to his ciectuons ~The running of a democrat is little more thau aformality. Bach of the threo counties gives republican majorities, The united majorities of the tiree amount tu about three thou- Saud, The democrats coucede that the coutest for State Senator Is a “lost cause’? to them In this Sepa- torial district, Chatiletd ts certain of his seat. So far as the State tickets are concerned there 13 harmony here among democrats and repuolicaas in favor ot selections made by their respective state Couvenuions. ‘The action of the Rochester Conveu- lon im repudiating te Tammany corruptions, as applied to the democratic party, appears wo be heartily approved by the democracy, not only here but in aii the rural districts. Wherever Tweed aud tammauy are mentioned the democrats in tie couuuy say this ts uot a Tammany bat tne demo- cratic Lickel, aid as such they Will support it. it would seem that the course pursued by that Con- vention, in refusing to recognize we Tammaay deicgates, will have the eflect of sustaining tie regu- lar democratic vole throughout the State. fn tus county the lammany turmoil will have no apprecis- bie influence, Granting that It may affect a lew votes here and there 1t certainly Will not appear as a dis- tunci issue in the ballot, ‘This is not only asserted by democrats, but conceded by repubiicaus, Nor will ihe Conkling and Feuton feud avect the general re- sult dn the other siae, Of course eacii of these tw jegistative lights has his paruisays, and their preiey- ences are shown to some extent tn respect oi local candidates Who happen, as tie case may be, to ve the friends of either Sevator; but 4his will not ope- rate to the disparagement of the repubiican State ucket, he septuneny perg Wit reference tg tha! subject scems fo bé rathér In favor Oi reorganization im the Custom House. Mr. Wheeler =H. Bristol, the democrauc cand date for State Treasurer, wlio resides in the adjoining county of Tioga, wili gain some local popularity in this county lu view of his adroit and successful efforts at Albany to demolish the riug that was running the State Incbriate Asylum here. ‘The republican candidate for District Attorney in this county is Peter W. Llopkins, of the Ruilo mhurder wial fame, and the udility be displayed in the prosecution of that cause will augment the ma- jority m his favor. {nh Broome county, then, the majority tor the republican State ticket will be at least a thousand; the republican State Senator will have about the same, and will be erected from tie district; the Assemblyman ts uncertain, and the success Oi all the other republican county candt- dales may be considcred beyond qgucstion, MING NOTES—POLITICAL AND GEVERAL, A correspondent of the Philadelphia ost, wri- Ung frem Bucks county, Pa, says the county woud even how be repudiican but for the fact that the people in the upper end of it stnl vote for General Jackson. What doos Nockamixon say to this? The Detroit Posi says the proposition of the Mis- sourt Repubtican iat the democrats shall not noimi- nate a candidate for President next year is only “a choice of deaths.” ‘The Richmond Beyiirer asks :—“When Richmona Was burned Who came forward to help her ?—but in her poverty she subscribed ten thousand dollars the other day for Chicago,’ The cases are scarcely par allel, Kichmend was fired by some of her own py ple, and te innocent suffered with the guilty. NEW YORK CHiy,. b Anpa FE. D.ckinson lectures tab Steinway Hall on “Demagogues and Work Henry Sonultz, a German, uurty years of age, died yesterday m the German Hospita enty~ seventh street and Fourth avenue, trou the effects of A Wound in the hand mficted about three weeks 80, Caused by running @ meat hook throug 1. Deceased was a butcher. Coroner Herreaa will hoid an inquest In ine ca ning at emeu.” Mr. Secretary Boutwell will deliver a lectute on Friday evening, at Stelmway Hall, under the aus: pices of the Mereantile Library, on “Present «ues tions Aifeciing Public Prosperity." ne thority on Uns subject ay is Mr, Bondvell shoraia draw togetfer an inseiigent and large audience. If Mr. Boutwell will drop the oficial reserve iys p lecture tay be very vainabie, TOR?EDO EXPLOSION IN WEW ORLEANS, The New York Explosion Repeated—One Man Killed and Several Wounded—The Patent Usion Torpedoes More Dangerous than Nitro-tilycerine. {From the New Orleans Times, Oct. 20.} At tem minutes past ten o’ciock on Thursday morning the community was started by the report that twenty-one boxes of torpedoes, loaded ona dray, had exploded at the corner of Madison and Decatar streets, just opposite the centre of the Beef Market, instantly killing one man and wounding several others, Tne duil clang of the fire alarm brougnt almost instant confirmation to the story. Hurrying through the Recorder’s office, and ob- tulning admission through the guarded gate to the courtyard 1n the rear, our reporter fvund himself 1n presence of the dead, Jt had been a man, a lite above the medium height, but now it lay, baked to the waist, on & Diack dcor, whieh was suppuried by two unpainted benches; ared Januel srt gathered up under his arms aud sprinkled wirh white sand circled a pallid Jace, with a thin, sandy mustache, and thin, sandy Whiskers, lis eyes were closed, 1s mouth wide open, and behind, crimsoning the rade paliet, was @ great gout of blood. One ‘oot was wrapped in a fragment of ciotn, red with blood; a purple stock- ing covered the other, a pair of bine cottonade trowsers covered is Knees and a battered felt hat lay near them, Small knots of palijd men gathered round him, and, shrinking back Som we Mighuw aly voor 10r other men, admitted one ine yard. Seated in an ouken chair, perhaps ten feet oi, was a pale-taced man in a red Nanuel siart and gray trowsers. His head was bound up with adark brown handkerchief and bis neck Was red with gore, The crowd stood apart, for be- side him sat a priest hearing his confesston. Far off in a corner, on @ long, unpainted bench, lay an oud é bundle, wrapped in brown paper and a newspaper, The covering secmed steeped with something moist, and at the ends it was crimsoned with blood. Though the spectators gazed at it from ‘a distance none approached nearer than hall a dozen yards, tor it re f human leg. a * Stckened With t e spectacle dur reporter hurried Into thé Clerk's ofiige £6 learn the Adentity of these wanepey yicuims, ‘The dead man proved to be Tim- otho CQffiors, a resident of Jetlerson parish and a boss drayman for Mr. Morris McGraw. The other as Jaques Coulogne, a Frenchman, thirty years of age, and residing on Frenchmen street, between Josephine and Celestine. THE EXPLOSION, At ten minutes past ten o’clock, as before stated, two drays, each loaded with twenty-one boxes of torpedoes, taken a few minutes before trom the ship George Hurlburt, lying at the head of Hospital street, the first one driven by a party as yet un- known, and the second by Timothy Connors, reached the corner of Decatur and Madison streets. How the accident occurred will, perhaps, never be known, but just as that polut was reached tle neighborhood was starued by a irigh.tul explosion, It is described by those present a more resembling the simultaneous discharge of @ park of artillery than aaything to which they can compare i, The air was suddenly filled with smoke and dust. The building on the northwest corner of Decatur and Madison streets, occupied by Louis Dutrea as a coffeehouse and residence, was siaken to 13 foundation, very article of crockery, every prece of glass, was broken, while the plaster 7 showereu down from the wails and ceilings in fakes, At the coffeehouse on the opposite corner both side-doors were Torced open, and probauly thirty tumblers and bottles were shivered, OF course & palic prevalied througnout the entire heighvoriood, and sume seconds elapsed before even the cause of the disaster was Known. As the smoke Cleared away a policeman running up, «is- covered @ nearly naked maa lying “ead m te imiddile of the street, Just bevtnd him was an axie, a@ broken wheel, & hub and a pile of chips aud mortar. Another man, Jacques Coulogne, was over on the banquette, with almost the entire back of his head blown ou, and a dray loaded with torpedoes was quite near, ' ‘Te nearest spectator proved to be the uriver 0: one oj the vid Levee street cars, Who was about tweive paces behind the last dray—the one on which the accident occurred, He says that his attention had been occupted in looking out lor passengers on both sides of tie street, aud that he had barely glanced at the dray when suddenly he was stupetied by a territic roar ud by acioud of smoke, instinctively he steppes kK into the car; he heard a rattle of tying fragments against the iron dashboard, and then tie with a slight start, continued ou its way until by the ddbris of the dray, A air Were at once procured, and tbe dead and wounded men were carried to the Sec ond district station, followed by an immense crowd, Another young man, wounded in the arm, was taken (o a drug store on Royal street, and the mul- ulude commenced examining the damage. Mi. Biasco, who had heard the explosion and was running to the spot, while passing throush Jackson Square had bls attention attracted by a singu.ar ob- ject lodged, we hear, In atree. Upon closer investl- gation it proved to be the leg of the unfortunate Sounors. twas taken by him (o tue station house. When our reporter reached the market che engines we already on the spot, aud r nad been stretched by the Chief Engineer of Fire Depart- ment across the approaches, dray drivea by Connors, and sll loaded with torpedoes, nad been moved into Aladison street, aud & Dreman Was sai- uraung the boxes with water. Henry Miller, a tailor, residing at 313 Old Levee street, wile passing was struck 10 the right side and arm and severely wounded, 1@ Was conveyed to his resiienc ar 143, of the Levee ana Barracks ine, was at the corner ol Damaine aad Okt Levee when the explo- sion occurred, and the dying missiles strack the det ver, Jonu Joy, with such joree ay to Kngck mim backward some distance upon the floor of Ne car, and irightened theypassengers, Who tacontinently/ted. ‘Tue iroa dashboard of the car was b¢ vutof shape and the forward part of the velucie generaily con- siderably demolsned, August Makon, butcher at stall No. 143 Beet Mar- Kel, Was struck ia the side by @ plece of fying wood aud severely hurt. Le was taken home, John Foster, a laborer in the Street Department, wile at work In the vicinity, was struck on the foo%, but not seriously injured. A Woman occupying astallin the Beef Markec was badly caton the head and curried to her r dence. lienry Datrey, keeper of the coifeehouse corner ot Madison and Levee streets, received contusions wa tne ri le of the chest aud ue eloow jolut of the Figit hof seriously iujured. Several other persons were more or less injured, bul thelr iujuries not belug serious names couid uot bé ascertained. The deadly torpedoes were part of the cargo of the ship Huriburt, lyimg at 10st No. 18, loot of Hos- pital street, 10 which spot our reporter hastened, and Jound the mate of the ship stul engaged in un- loading the cargo, there bemg piled on the wharf already over two hundred boxes, The consignment of torpedoes consisted of 300 boxes, shipped from New York to Morris McGraw, corner of Tcnaoupitowas anu Gravier streets, the Muriburt having arrived at New Orleans on the 9th of Octover, The harvor police soon arriving stopped the work of discharging and immediately placed an oilicer in charge Of the ship and the goods on the lev Yue Mayor, accompanied by Adminis trator Cockrem, reached tne spot as oar reporter was leaving. se ADDITIONAL ITEMS, Upon his arrival at the levee where the Hurlburt. had discharged her cargo, tie Mayor ordered the torpedoes on the levee, vogether with those still in the ship, 10 be immediately removed trom the city by water, and under no circumstauces to be moved eXcept to be put aboard the vessel, Since the above was written we have been called upon by Mr. Morris McGraw, who states that some lume ago he received a vill of jading from Messrs. Kluber & Golasmitn, manufacturers of the “patent Umon torpedves,” of New York. cousigning three hundred cases of these explosives to him. He ut once returned the bit of jading, and 1uformed th firm that he would have nothing whatever to d with the consignment, its storing or ansshipment, ‘The ship arrived, and several cases of we torpedoes were carried out ou the levee, when a represepta- tive of the New York house arrived and took charge or thom, He engaged Timothy Connors to ship them to one of tue barges, and it was walle carry- Ing Ube first oat the explosion occurred, We understand that several of the torpedoes have been given io bre A. W yt, of the Chariiy Hospital, for chemical analysis. Should he tind ihey cao be Mestroyed in that way, itis probable that the entire Jot will be thrown into the river, NEW POBLIGATIONS RECEIVED. pb & Co, Works," new edition, illustrated; Shop and American Notes,” in one volume of the From Appleton “Bryant's Poetical “Old Curiosity “Handy Volume’? monthly part. From Chavies Suribner & Co,:—"'Richard Vaader. mack,” a novel, by Mrs. Sidney 8. Uarris; “Memoir of Rey. Patrick Copland, rector eject of the first projected college in the United States,” by Edward D. New From Francis l. Felt & © or, A Poet's Adventures in the $ dy Kovert Buchanan, From George I. World Made Them, edition; Appletow's Journal, The Land of Lorn; ish Hebrides,’ Putnam & Sons:—“What the by the author of “Travels of an day, tt One o'olock, the corner stone of thet Franklin statue, to be erected in Prinuing House , Square, will be Jaul according to the Masonite ccre- mony ol dedication, by M.W. Joha iL Antnon, Grama Muasver of Masons of the State oi New York and the » All Who desire to honor the great printer Whose nawe and fame the mute bronge. is intended LO preserve should atlend. A gentleman of this city Made to the children off the Five Points House of Industry last evening tni proposition, viz.;—That to each one who had a good mark for lessons and behavior during the week he would give fity cents to be appropriated to the Uht- cago tenet innd, and that Jor each fifty cents thus eared he Would give &@ Uke amount to the House of Industry. ‘The result ts that $150 wiil be sent to Cai cago. Cor Herrman was yesterday cailsd to No, 335 West Thirtyeetghth street to hold an ingest on the body of Francis Bracken, an infant twenty-two montis old, who died from the effects of a gose of pulson, supposed fo have been administered by nus- lake for paregoric. The natare of the potson or Ober Pyruculars regarding the case were nob re- ported we foe Cyroners’ oitiee American Owl” From Hurd & Houghton:—Zanita, a tale of the Yo Semite,” by Therese Yelverton, Viscountess Avonmore. From the Catholic Publication Suciety:—«Life of the Reverend Motner Julia, foundress and firat Superior of tue Sisters of Notre Dame, of Namar.” PENNSYLVANIA CENTRAL RAILROAD, PHILADELPHIA, Oct, 25, 1871, At noon to-day a meeting of the Directors of tne | Philadelphia and Trenton Ratiroad Company was neld. The object of the meeting Was to take action Upon the greai railroad lease thal cedes the compa- wes of New Jersey to the Vveunsylvania Cental. Mr. W. I. Gatzemer, President )0 tem., presided, apd all the directors, except Mr. Bradford and Judge Read, were present. A jeter was recetved frou the latter staung, his entire assent fo the pro- Visions of the lease, The meeting, after some dis- Cussiou, resolved that Mr. Gatzemer be authorized to execute the lease upon the assent of g majority of the stockholders keg Obtatned. For that pur- pose # meeting Is to be held at thé omce of the company on the Lith of November. This is @ vir. tual execution of the lease, it being morally certain tinal assent Will Le obtained ~ ‘OUR PUBLIC PARKS. First Annual Report of the Park C.mmis- sioners—The “Biggest Thing” of the Kind on Record. What Has Been Done to Beautify Gur Breathing Places. The first annual report of the Board of Commis+ sloners of the Department of Public Parks, cover ing the period from the organization of the depart. ment to the 1st of May last, has just been furnished to the press, Itis the most complete document of the kind ever issued and contains in a concise and jucid form a large amount of information which must be of great interest to the public, and espe- cially to the taxpayers and property owners of New York. It consists of the report of the Board proper And th¢ reports of the heads of the various bureaus in the department, THE REPOLT OF THE BOARD PROPER refers to the éxtenalve powers and duties devolying upon the Commissioners, the condition in which they found the late Central Park administration, the organization of the de- partment and the force under its control into bureaus, the state of the roads, walks and structures upon Central Park and of works outside the Park at it8 organ\- zation; the Boulevard, ayenues and streets then in course of construction'and the vast amount of improve- ment accomplished in respect to these duriag the period mentioned. Also the condition and subsequent improvement of igus chy parks, and finally the progress of surveys on Hatem c Bpnyien ban aal T if and the adjonny 3 on ot Wes ter county, prelimlaary « Aabliny- foent of impro u vd Neuter. we fh a eg provements in. th entrusted to the Park Department by the last Legistature. The drives, rides and walks in the Central Park received negetsary and extensive repairs, ‘The constructing of the West Side Boulevard, no portion of which had been tinished at the accession of the department, Was prosecuted with such vigor that the sections trom Flity- ninth to Seventy-urat street and from 103d to 10sth street were open to public travel in Noveinber last, with a prospect of completion in its entire length during the present season. Work on che Sixth and Seventh avenues and on avenue St. Nicholas was pushed with equal vigor, promising in the near futures system of magniticeat roads, conncet’ng the upper part of the isiand and Westchester county with the business portion of the city. ‘The various structures in Central Park designed by the In Commissioners and handed over to the department in an w finished state, such as the #, the Esplanade Fountain, the Belviaere, the stables, the Dairy, were either finished or brought near'to completion, though th several cvses, such as the Terrace and Belvidere, the Commissioners found it neces- sary, in order to avoid enormous and unnecessary expense, to modify the original plans, while others had advanced too far to admit of « desirable change in this respect. One undertaking, the Paleontological Museum, involving an ex- pense of not leas than ), without adequate benefit or tage to the public, and designed for the iLustration of @ science which is in itself vague and incomplete and of no practical use, was entirely abandoned. ‘Tne Arsenal building, which in ite former condition was devoted to a variety of purposes, neither of which it then answered, was fitted up for commodious administrative Offices, halls for the exhibition ot the grand collection of the Museum of Natural History and rooms for the use of the Meteorological Department, ‘Around it a series of ornamental and conyenfent buildings for the zoological collection were erected, afordiag excellent opportunities for the exhibition of the many fine specimens. ‘the report also poinis out the great dilliculties w be over: come in the want of A PROPER SYSTEM OY SEWAGE for the filth from the roads, walks, &c.. which, to a great ex: tent, coliects in the several lakes, rendering ‘them at times olfensive to sight and amell. The police force of the department waa made more effect- ive by the appoiutment of a new chief aud an increase af the number of officers, while the old system of appoiuiment and promotion was retained. ‘The, Commissioners established ordinances restricting the uae of sidewalks and streets adjacent to parks, 90 a8 to pro- hibit unnecessury impediment to wravel, OF the city parks, which, as every one knows, were ina deplorable condition Before they cae unier the conwol of the department, the Battery, City Hall Park, Bowling Green, Tompkins square and the’ minor parks at’ Canal street, Duane street, Beach Ktreet, Park avenue, c., were thorough'y improved ‘and or- hamented, while similar work bas been commenced on other squares of places. Surveys weremade of Morniagsile Park, preparatory to he adoption of plans for its improvement. A derious dificuity in the operations of te cleariment existed 4) the severe drought during the summer of 1470, ‘the Commissiouera are preparing to proce with the im- ovement of jorningaide ant Riverside Parks, the Huriem Kiver aud that portion of Westchester county com: mitted to their care, Also the construction of bridges oF funnels across the Hariem River aud tue estabiishinent of improvements on the east side, involving operations and con- sidurations of the bighest linportance. "An appendix to the report of the joart gives a compilation of the various laws enacted at different tmes in relation to the powers and duties of the department, and will prove in- teresting to owners of real estate ant others, REVORT OF THE COMPTROLLER, ‘The report of Mr. George M. Van Nort, the Comptroller of Accounts In the department, gives a compieie an detailed Stavemnent of Its finances, the amounts recewed from vail Ous sources and the disbursements and expendivures on ac- count of the diferent works carried on by the department and much ether valuable information, such as:—A_ table, showing the races o€ wages paid on the parka during the last thirteen years; a list of all the parks uncer the jurisdiction of the department, with their a:ea; statistics regarding the original cost of the land of the Central Park and subsequent expenditures tor its improvement; 4 topographical descrip- tion of Central Park; statements as to the operaiion of the Eight Hour law; the condition of the ice on the Park lakes during the past winter; the improvement of the sheep flock ; = —TRIPLE SHEET, Hentenant, eight sergeants, ninety-t keepers and forty-four gatencepers, ot "which wo bergeante and thirty-five park keepers: e ployed on ‘te various city parca, The number of by park ofllcers during the year ending Apri! ue of which 129 ation, twenty for es. were for disorderly conduct ‘and int ving and the balance for other of THE REPORT OF THE ARCHITECT-IN-CTIRP ty-two larger and sinalier structures Im pros in of cousiruction within the Central Park. and eght [o e city parki @ number of designs and plaus for a ed. Taree hunur ‘ c rivus designs, plans, r alle ot atene- tures were furnished durmg the year, some of these requir- ing much time and labor, REPO? OF THE DIRECTOR OF THI OBSERVATORY. Mr. Daniel Draper gives an interesting account of the im- provements effected in self-recording instrumenta for ascer- taining the atmospheric changes, sich ax teuperature, fall of raii, direction and force of wiuils, ke. eda of the conuition of the atmosphere were fuinisitel to the Commis- ers of Public Charities and Correction aud to the Health artinent, aa well as to the press. Meteorological tables were also {urnisiied to many other wleorological institutions, and the oliservations were much aight afier in legal controversies ia ¢ uable information was furnish the United States , lately established. pp to this report are tables showing the height of the ‘narometer, the state of the thermometer, the duration and depth of snow, the velocity and direction of the wind, monthly for the year 181); also atable giving the dally re- cord of atmospheric changes, MURDER IN MI HIGAN, A Mau Kills His Wife and Her Child. {Correspondence of the Detrott Free Press.) ANN ARBOR, Oct, 23,1871, A terrible and unnatural murder was committed in this piace last night bevween the hours of ten and twelve o’ylgck, terminating the existence of two buman beings, ‘The victims were Henrietta Wagner and her child, @ little boy about three years of age, and the mar- derer was Heary Wagner, the husband of the for- mer and the stepfather of the latver, Mrs. Wagner was a poriner jn @ fancy store with another lady, Mary Miley. The murderer was a painter py trade, working tor Mr, Tevz. Last night, about twelve o’clock, Wagner came to the jan and wanted to siay there ali night, saying that be was unwell, He came running, and seemed very much excited, looking anxiously belind him, ‘The jatior admitted niin and locket Lim up; as he was leaving Wagner burst out crying, bub would give no cause for his feelings, He was restiess all the night and slept none, This morning, when the jailor called him, he went immediately away and came up town, Here he met a brother of his and said to him:—I don't know what I have oven doing. 1 don’t kuow whether she will live or not.” He wen told bis brother that he had murderet his wife, and together (ney took the key of the house, which they occupied jointly a8 a dwelling house and store, to Mrs, Schlotterdeck, Who keeps @ saioon on Main street, and told her to take 1t to Mr. Rettich, who owns the building, and here Wagner contessed that henhad murdered nis wife. Rettich touk the key to OMicer Leonard, who Went immediately aud opened the house. A spectacle mot his eye that nearly froze his blood. in tne room in the rear of the store, which ‘was occupied by the deceased and Wagner as their living rovum, and in which was their bed, at the side of the bed lay Mrs. Wagner in ber night iar eke on her right side, her feet extending under the bed a short distance; one arm was wniler her and the other thrown over and upward toward ner head; her head was one mass of pounded flesh and bone; fromut had flowed naif a gallon of blood; aroand her Were spatters of blood, and clots of bioody gore covered her night clothes, Near her head lay the murderous weapon, & com uon Latchet, and that, too, was stained with blood, ‘The ollicer had been tn the room several minutes, almost paralyzed by the sight, when be heard a sligt noise ou the bed, and, turning back the clothes, a spectacie worse even than the orer was before him, There lay a little boy, Oscar Wagner, avout three years old, his head ali pounded with the same wea- pon of death, The lite boy Was sul alive, bub the woman was cold and sti, Coroner Reek was notified and took charge of the bodies. An excited crowd svon gathered around the building, aud threats of lynching were made, The pardes are Germans, who lave veen In this country avout three years, and: in Ann Arbor only since Saly jast, They were marricd sluce they came here, ‘They have lived unhappily together at times. Mrs. Wagner was a very preity woman, of slight build and well proportioned form; her head hud been adorved with an abundance of rich, dlack hair, vat te murderous hatchet, when it went crashing into her brain, destroyet ail her peauty forever. Oscar Wagner was the child of the des ceased by a former husband, a brother of the mur. derer, and was born in Germany. He was a remark. ably pretty boy, With fair features, blue eyes and faxen bal Peopic were at their house last night as late as ten o'clock, and say Wey appeared to ve in the best of humor. Mary Miley, the partuer of Mrs. Wagner, says that Waguer came to her nouse last evening and in- formed her wat she need not come to the siore this morping, as she was expected to do wile Mrs, Wag- ner Went to Detroit to purchase some goorls; that she was not well enough to go and would slay and tend the store herself, AN INTERVIEW WITH THE MURDERER, Your correspondent visited the murderer in the jail. He is @ Prussian by birth, asmall man, twenty- Tour years of age, and not at all a bad or repulsive. luoking man, though he 100Ks as if possessed of a fiery temper, He was very wiillug to tell all about NETBOROLOGICAL the aduitions by donation and otherwise to DGTOAL COLLFOLION and tables show he number of visitors xt Central Park, Some of the items contaiued in this report will prove eapeci- ‘The largest number of men employed by the department atany one time was 2401, the smallest number 1,122; the area of Central Park is 172-1,000 acres; of other parka, 145. 131-100), making a total park area 'in the city of 1,097 251-1,00) acres." The total cost of the land for Central j.the amount expended for ite im- 857, to January L, 15.1, $86,380,732 50 ; 4 impr} its ‘to ‘the’ city, ‘The aren of Central dor cultivation 14 es; M42 1 Mw) acres , rides and. Fark was 6.655, 1 77 1 re covered hy re ponds, 13 473-L,002 + 9 431,000 miles ; 00) miles, was in akauing contition during 48 days, The department furnished 125 musical entertainments in’ the yarions parks r Jnst yeur at an average cost of $143 for each ei ninent, The boals db the lake carried 113,082 passeny he re- ceipts from licens to ell refreshments were £4,51 ‘rom sales of sheep and wool clippings, %81,035 33; from sales of grass, $1851, Tne Central Park carriages carried $112,245 passengers, The Park was visited during the year by $421,472 people—an in- ‘crease 01 1,070,470 over the previous Year. An appendix to this report’ gives @ list of the donations during the year to the zovlogical and botanical collections, with the names and f the donors; anotuer contains a schedule of the ils in captivity at the Park, many of which had never before been exhibited. REPORT OF THis RNGINEER-IN-CHIEF, The report of M A. Kelloge, the Engtneer-in-Chief, in charge of the Bureau of Construction and Repaira, contains a detailed and elaborate account of the condition and prog- ress of the various improvements in Central Parh, the city parks and the Boulevard and avenues in courac of ‘construc tion. The enience and danger eaused by the narrow- ness of the east drive in the Park bave been remedied widening the roadway and modifying the ourves; a new ¥ 91 haa been constructed from the main drive to the MO geain Building for the accommodation of visitors to the M' jeam ; around this buflding aod in connection with it 21.20, sqaure feet ol walks were constructed; the floors of &, ‘pumber of fron briages were reluid; work on ‘te Boule- yard was rapidly approaching completion: the Dalry, the sheepoote and stables were Gnished ; the, basin of the Jarge fountain Terrace naving become leaky was re built: 5,000 cuole yards of earth and 1,00) varde of rock were excavated forthe site of the new conservasory and 1,500 cuble yards of masonry Jaid for its foundation; 1,375 feet of verti- cal enclosing wall on Fitth avenue was ‘built, wnile 400 fect of the batiered wall was taken down and rebuilt to adapt it to a change 10 the grade of the Eighth avenue, ranging slong the live of the Orniral Park trom twelve ‘eet below to sev- enteen and three-narters feet above the original grade, In- volving immense and expensive operation to adapt the slopes of the Park, the enclosing wall, and contignous drives and walks to the new grade, In connection with this 1,000 cuble yards of earth and 5,060 CUBIC YARDS OF ROCK were excavated. *5U lineal feet of wall rex cubic yaris of foundation wall built; 10,800. cul wg Were used in grading the kighth avenue, from venth to tighty-Arat street. The report points out tor a more abundan ater for irviga: rainental purposes in m of the extensive Works rriedt on by the depart: jammed irom the fol- square fect 141,40) square’ feet asyhalt, cement aud concrete ‘walks lati, 5,137 sqnaro ards ‘of street’ pavement lald ana reid, 17,225 neal feet of curb furnished and get, 1,170 feet of ‘old curn reset, 214® lineal feet of gutter stone, 1,591 lineal feet of fornished and vata and #2 gas Batiery Park ded and par- Ym cuble yards of filling square feet of waiks graded, Pived, 4,850 square yar syuare teet of atreet pat Tent laid aud relaid, 13,068 feet ot eurb furnished and set 3.490 feet of drain pipe wad Sil feet of water pipe laid, 408 coris of macure and 1,045 yards of garden mold Turaisbed, and 1244 locust posts furnished and ret. '4 proportionate amount of wor at foo. of Canal street, at Five sects, Hench street and West Broadway. Tompkina aquare, Cooper Institut e, Fourth avenue parks and Wasabi ‘of waike on Ln 4 parks ware. d from Fifty-ninth c th avennes norch of Nicholas from the Park to 156th eels and avennes io the upper street to 105-0 street, the Central Park, t atrect, and othe: the departwent, is extraordinary vigor, aud the quantities of rock and earth excavated, earth ‘tilled in, Telford & McAdam pavement laid b furntahed and Iald are immense. done by men employed b of the work on Sixth an i work on the the department, ’ Seventh avenues St. Nicholas are under contract. ‘The total and the aveou length of the Boulevard, avenues and strecte in course of construction by the department «during the over fourteen miles. | They were employed under the imme- diate direction of the engineer-in-chiel, four general fore men, Sftv-hve toremen and 1,958 men, including mecbanica andtcams. REPORT OF THE ACTING CHIRF LANDSCAPE GAR- NER ear 1870 was gives an account of the ope: ations in ofnamenting the va rious aly parks, the Work of trimming out the dense thickets on Central Pare and the transplanting yi shade trees to the siden of drives and walks und to the city parks, This vi uf the Department of Parks furnished the School of in for Women, at the Cooper Institute, with a weekly supp ie ot leaves, (wigs, dowers and frull to serve ae models, hree hundred’ and thirty-ix shade trees were planted in (he vicinity of walks and drives; 437 trees ana plants in other portiogs of the Park: 6878 trees, shrubs and vines were pianted in the city parks, 5,60 of which were taken [rom the Central rk. UKPORT OF THE SUPBRINTENDENT OF THE CENTRAL al PAR burea! D won the condition of nid other impruvemente therein aie care cont end ‘ovemnents therein, an. the vare Maiglenance of the same during tne year,’ wt the care aud REPORT OF THE CHIRF ENGINEER OF THE CIVIL AND iA TOPOGRAPHICAL BURRAT ves an account of the surveys and javestigations belo: carried on under hia direciion, (or. improvements on the east ‘and west sides and north end of the island, the Harlem river and Westchester county, with @ supplemental report on te supply of pure water i Westchester county. R&PORT OF THE CAPTAIN OF POLICE, From the report of she Captain in command of the Park Police we Gnd that the force consisia vi one captain. oue the murder as well as he could, considering that he does not speak Engilsh well. He 8; some (rouble with tny wife, and we quarrels. Once when I accidentaily some wash water on the boy she came at meant caught me by the hair, called me a dog and wold me to leave the house aid never be seen there agatn. Notwithstand- ing these diderences I have always loved my wile very dearly. For the past two or turee days we have lived most happily; she never seemed to love me 80 11) Last might she went * + * 3 e. or lw ved, 1 dont know at what ume, ecu to fick “oud night,” and Wort co th@ bed to Kiss her, when she spat ia my face and Kicked at me, saying, ‘4io away; you area und T can’t live with a crazy nap.” 1 said to her, “Give me my money and i will go.” She said nothing to this, I then weit and got the money ud started to leave, When, she jumped up and sald, “i will cut you in plec 3 pefore you go with that money.” That made m ¢ yery angry, and J tovk the hatchet from the Woo 4 pox and went toward her. She jumped at me aq called me a dog and told me to leave the house. “; xept brandishing the hatchet to frighten her. “she and the clild voth ered fire and inurier, a 4 ag sne clutched me by the throat I it her acclle taily, She fell right down and said, " yy ‘Oh, my!’ * a groaned. When I saw what 1 had done, that ghe was so hurtshe could never get weil, had several Tthough’ g would put an end to ber life and struck her sev? aj umes, After this f remember ngthing. [ seem 4°t9 see my wile before my eyes all the time, { @ grt remember striking the boy at all, If pr'.g rememcer putting out the light and Aking the door. 1 went out in the strect, but 42 cowid not go anywhere where [did not see my Wile just as} strack her, lying before my eyes. T came down to the jal, but I could not sleep or east. I don’t know What T shalt do. ‘fhe murderet Would often stop and cry, seemed very much ex. cited, and said he would give anytning if ne had noi done it Wagner has considerable mouey—about three thousand dollars—a part of which is sttil in Gere many. A short time ago he male a contract, giv- ing her the whole of it. This contract was found this morning ti hts coat pocket, torn in two. By some it 18 supposed that he murdered her to get Possession of the money again, having repented of his former generosity, One theory asto (he cause cf Wagner murdering the ooy 18 that he meant, when he killed the mother, to leave and attempt an escape, and Killed the boy to avold immediate de- MARYLAND JOCKEY OL! of tho Races Yesterday. Bavrimone, Oct. 25, 1871, On account of the rain the racing was postponed today, Itis still drizaling to-night, and the track is in an unfit state for racing. fears are expressed Unat there will have vo be further postpoucment, Postpovement Pool Sales in the City. Messr8. Marshall & Johnson sold pools on two of Miese events last evening. The following fgures will give an idea of the feeling of the buyers:— MONUMENTAL CITY HANDICAP. ‘Telegram. ... $250 85 2 Dosweill’s entry, - 3 DB wh Be - 10 ot 9 8 7 MILE HEATS. i Pd 50 45 3 Field. . 2 Vv iL to 0 SALE OF SCRANTON COAL, A decline in the value to the speculators of coa Was shown yesterday by the spiritiess bidding at the sale held by Messrs. John H. Draper & Co., in Exchange place. The prices given were lower than the lowest daring last month. No very large pur- chases were made, all buyers seeming to be afrald of of # fartier reduction in price, proceeding from some yet concealed cause. All this Is remarkable, as at iuis season of the year It is usual for the specu- lators to make every effort to “lock up’? the aril- cle unuil the need of the people should bring to them enormous profits, The course of the auc- tion was as follows:—The first sale of lump was made at $4 and it then gradually declined to $3 50, The first of steamboat was at % it then fell to $3 52% and $3 50, but rose again to $3 87%. Grate sold at $4 33, the frst lot; It then fell to $450 a $4 25, and the last jot realized $4 27), The first sale of egg Was at $450; it then fell $4 55, at which tie balance Was sold. Stove sold at first at $5 35, but it rose to 40 a 50, and the last lot sold at $5 47%. Chestnut went at $3 80 at first, but the quantity betng comparatively smail, the other Jots sold at $3 3244, $3 8 and $3 57's. The loliowing shows the marked difference in the rates between the September and October sales:— Opens, YELLOW FEVER IN CHARLESTON. CHARLESTON, Oct, 25, 1871, ‘There was one death from yellow lever during the | last twenty-tour hours He manifestly knows something about the insanity game, for he spoke several times, suy- ing hi@Prain runs all tp a whirl and that he must be THE COTTON LOBBY AND THE WASHINGTON TREATY, Behind the Scenes—-Confederate and Radical Ca alition for Spoils—-The Approaching Presi- dential Session—New Issucs—Labor Reformors and the Jariff. WASHINGTON, Oct. 23, 1871, Itis more tnan probabie that the coming winter Will develop the existence of a vast cotton lobby, a# Mr. Benton would say, “in the belly of the Washing- ton Trealy.’’ If so, its ramiffeations will involve Many tnfuentiat men, Whose nawes are not now publicly associated with the formation and ratifica- tion of the treaty. This cotton lobby is but one of the offshoots of a secret coalition between the Con- federates of the South and certain radical republi- cans of the North. This coalition had for its opject from te beginning just one thing—money, The Northern wing was to furnish the poitticel national influence and the Confederate wing the Southern local Influence, and the spotls were to be eqnally divided, These spoils consisted of material ana pro- perty the utle of which lawiully rested in the gov- ernment at the close of the war, in certain ratlroat material and running stock, in grants of lands, and Jast, though not least, In certain cotton claims due toneutral Puropean owners and loyal Souther men, it 18 doubtful tf a committee can be obtained from either the democratic or republican side of Congres to investigate this matter, The ramifications of this Conlederate-radical lobby ave 30 Vast, the amount at stake 18 so Colossal and the reputation and names involved, directly and indirectly, are so numerous, distinguished and influential that nothing short of & Congressional inquiry could reach the facts, These tacts, if ever reached, will be fouad, no doubt, to have been guarucd against by the greatést possinle’ legal adroitness and clreumspection. ‘che most extraordinary feature in this cotton lobby ts to be found in the fact that fritish subjects come in mainly for the largest percentage of profit from both sides, The ‘men, for instance, who equipped the Alabama were at the same time owuers, 48 neutrals, of cotton located within the then Confederate limits. ‘This cotton has to be now paid ior, and the lmperlal government and the mited = States government combine under the treaty to make che payment, the taxpayers of both countries, as 19 usual IM such Cases, have lo foot the bill. 1 wise men of the national republican organiza Vion of this city have arrived at the vague conclo- sion that they have already loo wany votes m the party. Accordingly we see posted over the clty a notice that no man hereafter is to be considered a re- } publican who has heretoiore voted against tat party. ‘Nhe world is familiar with the “s lect lew,” butit is the first ‘ime in American polilics that we hear of the select and exclusive many. ‘fhe national capital begins already to show signs of preparation for the coming winier, This 1s to be an exciting session—a Pres dential session, Into which wil be fused ail the tssucs which are now agitating the public mind, [think it may be pre- dieved with safety, from all I can Jeara, that the labor reformers Wil attack the tari, and that here will originate practically the format alltance be- tween the new organization and the democracy. Whether the ancient and unterrtfied can pars through this assimilation without being absorbed by the new and vigorous New Engtand party remains to be seen, Public men in Congress, young and old, will have to encounter a severe ordeal this winter. Everything indicates a storm in Cougtes- sional poutics AMERICAN BIBLE UNION, Firat Day’s Preceedinas of the Twentye second Annual Anpiversary—Three Sense sions Held—What the Uvion Hrs Done and Is Still Doing—The Proceedings to be Continued To-Day. . The Twenty-second annual anniversary of the American Bible Union commenced at hali-past nine yesterday morntng, In the Mariners’ church, corner of Oliver and Henry strects. Owing, doubt- less, to the threatening aspect of tne weather the attendance was not nearly so large as was de- sired, The President, the Rev. Dr. Armitage, pre- sided anu opened the meeting with prayer. ‘The report of the Treasurer was the first busines? in order aud was submitted as follows:— TREASURER’S REPORT. To balance due last year, $2,858; cash paid fot revision Engtish Scriptures, $6,824; grants and do- naviona, $1,936; Chinese Scriptures, $755; Spanish Scriptures, $311; Bile, Union Quarterly and tracts, $390; publi ation, gpa distribution English Serip- tures, $22,870; books (ox revisers, $451; Bible House account on principal, $1,000; Bible House totes cst, $1,408; iivie House repairs, $59; reduction 1 $f mortgage, $1,256; Insurance, $58; agents’ salaries and expense: ; expenses of officers and speakers, $196; salaries of officers, $2,490; contingent expenses, $2,066; revenue aud other taxes, $554; anniversary expenses, $225; books for customers, 7; specified object: $161; street paving, 7. for ly M8, Receipts, $63,054. Balance due freasurer, $2.34 Tretrar ecnniderable discussion on the part of the Rev. Mr. Wilmartn, the Rev. Mr. Baruita me others the meeting, ‘at half-past twelve, adjourned uutil two o’cluck In the afternoon. The Afternoon Session opened with prayer by the Rev. Mr. Baker. Tithougt the condition of the atmosphere bad — way tnproved, the attendance wis wget greater than in the morning, and many of those resent it was remarked were ladies, ‘Tue first hal hour of the meeting was devoted to 8] erg 2 prayer and singing, and when it ha expired ete regular business was proceeded with, On mo! hg ot Mr. Wm. i. Wyckoil a committee of five, co! n- He ing of the Kev, Franklin Johnson, Rev. Frederick Evans, Rev. Mr. Grinnell, and Messrs. George He Hansell and Alonzo J, Chadscy, were appoinies, on Italian 5 iptures. i The Corresponding Secretary, MF. Wyckom, read is annual report, Which Was a3_ conspicuons for ltt Merit as it Was for its length, which is, indeed, say~ ing a great deal, ior the greater portion of an hour was consumed by its reading. ‘After enumerating the many and manifest evils crazy. He said ne did not expect to get fred, put ‘ si expected to suffer the full penalty of the Jaw, Wired | which might and giten have arisen from the ineor- he came to the jail he haa $100 with hin rect translation ef the Bible tue report goes on to } hate that * in bugiand the King’s printers were once heavily fined for *,he word “not” ina single commandment, and thy “Moa of the Bible disigured by the error w called ™ ages in which the commer @ original Hebrew avid Greek twstances, to communicate the true sense “ten that which f# contrary fo - suda. Millions of cupies are annually sauilun to the reader ia regard ty omntttin,, whole li. in and sippy. English version #0 a8 not, in those ot the original, bat numbered by thous. ulated With no Bute OF . 2 PASS Kes seiene Ye surprising that the con. or people have been awakened tu the , in thid matter ? The Bible Unton se. as the sheet apchor of truth, that wha. should fot be changed by imap. Pf through 1. | Ver'ence, or frou any other cause, men have writing te fault should be rectiled without un. delay--in brief, that God thin principle we nde of the age and to furt of many of Goud jeiple that is involv ‘ed pon this principle * God has written “take or inad- wbanged Hin seceseary On os Among Twlians Rev, ‘Achilily promm{nent among the Koman piient and subsajuemtiy distin ~ gu shed aaa Protestant minister, and Professur ot the Italian Tanguage and literature iu the College alta, Was most strongly recommended to the American aud Fureign Bible Society asthe scholar best qualified to make a faithral aud idiomatic transiation of the New 4 to his mative tongue. He was engaged by th and spent neariy four years tipon the translation, ahi frequently transferred to the Bible Union, and Dr. Ackil im. Froved if by cyusuitiag the books iu out Nib aldedt Us in passing it through the pross et our expense. Ewo'very Aistingished French feholark -Mossra. J. 8. ue X!vrigr anit Koys dn Guay —were engages ‘our agen new, if ‘Devau, to revise for the Bible Union the four pon the principles of the Bible Ui er, an eminent German seb Besides the above the report shows that about thirly of the best and most able scholars both in ins country and In Europe have been enguged py the Union in THE GREAT WORK OP REVISION and translating, and are por proseculing their lavors with the utmost despat Further on the report On the 10th of June the Bible Union completed the twei first year of ite existence. i boriet ‘a aided in the circulation of Siam, Burmah, India many, 1, countries; in Australla, A! sea, An we have directly circulated them lo large numbers in Central Am jem, Mexico, toe United States and the British posses- sious tn America, The gross number of copies thus cireu- lated now reaches neariy # million, The number of tracts aud pamphiets which we have lesned directiy upon the subject exceeds two millions, The effects Of such publications are not confined to one country. The desire of pure revision of the Bible has spread ail over ithe viemand (or the Spaniaa ry M facilities for thelr cireulation enlarge. the wor going on bravely in Spain, Aiter Considerable discussion by the members of the Union and a well-timed speech by the Rev. Mr. Katon the report was unanimousiy adopted. After @ little more speaking by a learned divine from Passaic, N.J., the alternoon session Was adjourned. The Evening Session. Although the rain fell almost in torrents in the earlier portion of the evening the attendance and the jon enlarge, The wors has beeo at the last session of the day was quite wal to that of either the forenoon or afternoon, Several gentiemen, awong others the Rev, Afr, Hogden, ‘of Phuladelpdua, aud the Kev, Mr. Davis, of New York, addressed the meeting on the hevessity and importance of a revision of the Bible. ‘To-day the first meeting will be called to order by the President at hatf-past ten, instead of half-past mine, ason yesterday. There will also be an aiter- hoon aud evening session