The New York Herald Newspaper, October 30, 1871, Page 8

8 REAL ESTATE IN NEW YORK. Beview of the Condition of and Feeling in the Real Estate Market. Réfeet of the Chicago Fire and the Ring Disclosures Upen Values Present and Prospective. MORE BUYERS WANTED, Movements in Uptown Property—What Has Been Bone by the Park Ccmmissioners— Value of the Corporation Real Estate— ‘What the Parks are Worth- Long Island Movements, Among the probiems presented for solution in con- smection with the recent Chicago fire it is often asked ‘What ts hkely to be the effect of this aisaster, and ‘She financial disturbance resulting therefrom, upon ‘New York real estate, That some great effect should follow a cause so suggestive of startling results is ‘With many a foregone conclusion; while there are Others who as confidently poon-pooh such an idea, 48 in most cases of simi'ar opposite conclusions the real facts of the situation, present and pros- pective, would seem to lie between the extreme Views. New York real estate is likely to be influ. ‘enced to some extent by necessary financial dis- ‘urbances growing out of the fire; but this influ- @nce does not seem likely to be very general, or, tm so far as it may be depressing, permanent, Those who hold the rst proposition referred to base sheir assumption, which looks to a great decline im real estate here, upon the enormous destruction ‘of property by the Chicago fire, which they hold must be replaced by us as part losers. But when we come to analyze the property de stroyed, set down in round numbers at $150,000,- 900, we find it difficult to discover where such value has been taken from the aggregate wealth of the country. The individual owners of the build- ‘mgs destroyed in Chicago are, of course, @reat losers, and the insurance companies having fisks on such butidings are also losers. But, taking the whole country, it is but a redistribution of capital, ana where there is no direct connection wih the fire, producing spectal consequences, ®hould not involve any depreciation of values. There is, perhaps, nothing so intangible as this same subject of value. Referred to its original essence, jabor appears as the only real basis 1or determining ite intrinsic character; all else is speculative, or the aesult of exceptional relations of supply and de- mand. Thus the city of Chicago, in its grandeur ana magnificence, represented so many millions of CAPITALIZED LABOR, ‘to which was superadded the extraneous value im- parted to it by the wants of its inhabitants, The | $150,000,000 waich is said to have been the value of { the portion destroyed simpiy represented its con- Veriivie quality, It was labor that brought tne Fuge stone, naiure’s gift, from the quarry bed, | Jashioned tt for use, and placed it tier on tier, until | the stately structure claimed a place in the world’s | Possessions as of so much value, The building 4s now destroyed and the stone aust, but the labor | Femains ready to replace in equal or greater gran- | @eur all its proportions, But, it is repited, that labor must be pald for, and here is at jeast a real loss. | Exactly; and in just so much as the labor expended | upon the city of Chicago and its adornments, and ah the Juxurtes of civiuzation it contained, has been rendered abortive, by jue so much 1s the world the poorer for this fire. But for us there is this law of gomyensation: As the increased demand for labor must enhance its price, so must the price of ali other commodities the product of labor be enhauced; and | as this general advance in prices, reducing the pur- chasing power of the dollar, operates as a contrac- tion of the currency, 60 must there be a generai en- hancement of all values throuzhout the country re- Aatively to such currency. This for the general result of the Chicago fire. Men, however, do not usually taxe such an extended view of a calamity of this kind or are too much afiectea by its IMMEDIATE CONSEQUENCES, which are usually those of distress and embarrass- ment, to take heed of its more remote Influence, Hence the great excitement which prevailed on the Stock Exchange, more than any other place sensi- tive to the feelings of the hour, when the first intel- Mgence of the fire was received, and subsequently, while efforts were being made to ascertain the re- puted joss, This was further assisted, however, by she sudden call upon the banks to relieve the dis- tressed people of the burut city, where business was wholiy suspended, and aggravated by an artificial Movement to make money tight for stockjobbing purposes. With a relaxation in the rates for money and the sober second thought born of reflec- tioa the Stock Exchange has since recovered its | fone, and with a feeling of resiored confluence | prices are generally improved. In the real estate market there have been as yet no signs of any andue disturbance of values, Tnere ie great talk on all sides, such as has been going on for the last two years, of ‘an impending crisis” and general break in the market. It is also contended ‘Uhat in the past two years there bas been an actual decline of twenty-five per cent in city property. ‘This is doubileas true of most high-priced improved Property, but ‘it is equally certain that in that Period property upvown in Fifth avenue, in the Reighborhood of the Park aud the Boulevard, has @dvanced in price and was never more active than uring last spring and sammer. All of this pro- perty 1s held firmly at the present time. ‘One of the causes looked to to produce a decline in real estate values here resulting from the Chicago fire is the expected calling in of THE MORTGAGES HELD BY THE INSURANCE COM PANIES here involved tn losses by the fre. That this has been greatly exaggerated the following figures will show:—The gross assets Of the insurance companies of tnis city amount to $54,249,940, Of this amount only $14,762,264 is secured on bond and mortgage of real estate, the bal- Qnce being represented by governments and | other securities allowed by law. We learn on | Inquiry (hat to meet their liabilities created by the { @esiruction at Chicago tue New York companies | Will not be obliged (0 realize {rom their mortgages | to have occurred. The situatton ts altogether aiffer. NEW YORK HERALD, MON the chars<ter of movements of this nature and the | Wr. induep te = Values of west side improvements:— “gust Belmont sold thi lots on Eightn ave- nve, between Seventy-second and Seventy-third Bireeta, which he purchased the year for Sattonal Bank, for $450,000. Mr. Vyse was subse- gener, rey @n advance upon this igure, which e a ot Toe entre front on the west side of Eighth ave- nue, between 125th and 120th streets, purchased in to Thomas A. Vyse, President of the Nimth | Tals) tae 1858, | 1867. ] 1958) amy ae70. > ~. 8,281,650 savial an 1, nena Youn’) arreateno] aaaace. gt i Ss) aS Ba... <n Bust etd $80,070, «1B wes gralair, — Deauct ‘Va gabon in 1806... Showing a tot increase valuation in these three wards 170" 1856 to 1570 of TIL@ ARRA OCCUPIED BY THE CENTRAL PARK, November last by Thomas A. Vyse for $45,000, Wi | Moreingside and Riverside Parks, Mount Morris *Natianiel Jarviey Judge Brady and John McClave, eC} purchased four lots on tne nortieast corner of Sixty: second street and the Boulevard for $110,000. They Mave since 249 offered $125,000 within two weeka, and refusea Charles G. Hay George H. Peck and Joseph H. Godwin purchased wbout this period four lots oa the nortawest corner of Sixty-second sireet and | thrown out of taxation. tn avenue for $72,000, jonn H. Sherwood and others purchased from ‘Thomas A. Vyse, two parcels, one of thirty lots on Sixth avenue, 116th and 117th streets, and the other of twenty-six lots on Sixth avenue, 1isth and 119th streets, for ian Mr. Vyse paid the November revious $21: *; Four ie on the corner of Eighty-seventh street and Eleventh avenue sold for $20,000, and imimedi- ately resold for $22,000. The first seller purchased ‘them tn April, 1871, for $11, 250, ‘The above are but instances of appreciation re- suluing from @ special movement conducted by shrewd and strong speculators, It is proper to say In this connection, as was remarked to the writer by agentieman of experience in real estate matters, that both Boulevard property so-called and Fiuta avenue property within the lines heretofore desiy- nated 13 FANCY PROPERTY and, to borrow the simile then made, hold the same reiauion to other city real estate that a horse hke Dexter does to an ordinary trotiing horse. There are (hose who want such property and are willing © pay any price for it, irrespective of relative val- ues, hence there 18 always & market Tor it, and as It is ali in strong hands there is no danger of 118 being | affected by the alsturbances which produce a de- preciation in other directions This is true, in fact, of all city property which isin the hands of parues able to carry it, Who, notwithstanding any tempo- rary crisis that may arise to the great loss and berhaps ruin of weaker hoiders, can afford to be in- diferent to its effect and wait for the re turaing tide of appreciation, That there is this ESB AND FLOW IN KEAL ESTATE VALUES, the same as in other departments of speculation, there can be no doubt, and that for a couple of years back real esiate in this city has been on the ebb in respect £0 prices there is @ Very general conviction. Certainly this is true of improved property, as wit- ness the very considerable decline in rents last SPEnE, There is also suMicient cause for this cou- ition, At the close of the war, with a redundant currency apd a new class of millionnaires, whose business being suddeniy dwar‘ed by the termination of operations 1 the field and the disbandment of we large armies they haa ted and clothed, armed and equipped for four years, a great deai of surplus Cup.tal sought employment and investment in vari- ous directions, Part of this went on the Stock E: change, while a considerable portion found its way into real estate, producing & rapid advance and stimulating an active speculative movement. This | continued for some time, the market growing in ex- | citement unul it suddenly dawned upon the minds of operators that prices were too high, when the market collapsed, An eiort was made to galvanize it into further activity by means of bogus sales, which, however, failed, and the condition has since been one of almost complete staguation, buyers growing more bear.eh every day, while owners, where | obliged to sell, were forced to do so at a liberal con- cession. The heavy purchases of the ring in the | meantime maintaiied a degree of firmness in the | market which limited offerings, and with the ex- ception of these operations transactions were on a restricted scale, This has been the condition of the iced for the period mentioned until recently, when THE DISCLOSURES RESPECTING THE RING, creating a suspicion as to the legality of transfers mace to and from its members, provoked increased uneasiness in the market and buyers have almost withdrawn, Such 1s the state of the market to-day, Actual sales are few and bids rarely approach nearer than seveuty-five per cent of the vaiuation of two years ago, The transactions have been too few yet to furnish such evidence as would establish this ag the rule, but such is tue prevalent feeling, In this connection it may be pertinent to remark that the success of the sale of the Spofford estate on Wednes- day was, it 1s satd, Mrgely attributable to the pre- sence of the heirs Who wer@ present to protect their property, as they had a right to do; otherwise in the peste temper of the market such prices could not ave been ontained, - The fuiure of the market ts one of great uncer tainty, ure influences likely to operate, and upon which any judgment must be ve based, being in themselves problematical, Much will depend upon the condition of the money market, any undue strin- gency in which would be severely felt by weak holders. A great deal of the property bought two and three years ago was sold under mortgages of sixty per cent, many of which are now maturing. Of course fresh mortgages can be obtained, bat it ia not likely, in view of intermediate events, that | either the same percentage or tne same valuation ‘will be allowed, A REDUCTION OF TWENTY-FIVE PER CENT Upon the valuation of two years ago will be re- quired, upon which fifty per cent will be the maxt- mym joan allowed. This, of course, applies more directly to improved property, the income from which has decreased in this proportion, but it is likely also to prevail to @ great ae- | gree in the case of non-productive property, | excepting special lots, upon the line of or aujotn- | ing improvements producing constant and steady appreciation. Again, the business of the past couple ol years has been unprofitab.e to most of our merchants. Mr. Boutweill’s extraordinary eiforis to | reduce the national debt have withdrawn so much of tne prouts of ousiness from the shopkeeper and dealer 1a the way of taxes as to leave but little sur- plus income from trade sources. Here, then, 1s one great source of weakness which cannot be got over, and which must eventually work @ decline, ‘There are, of course, those who hold DIFFERENT ViEWS from these, but, except an abiding faith in the pros. perity of New York, they have litttie to support thcir | theory. In respect to the fu.ure of New York real estate, looking bevond the present period of reaction from past igh values, there 13 no room for doubt that in ume another reaction will come which will lit them sul higher, but 1a the meantime the are all too apparent that the market now js a falling one, and that if any activity at all come real estate must go down further vefore it will goup. Weare not likely, however, to feel any such convulsive Movement as the post history of the market shows ent. In the first place tue issue Of government anu national bank currency endorsed by the govern- meat has relieved us «f tne danger ‘that formerly presented itself in the stoppage of a bank, while the more liberal disposition now prevailing in business circles, and which so often enables a man when tn difficulties to enter into such arrange. ment with his creditors, without publicity, as will permit him to continue in business or retire without & crash, reduces the chances cf a panic below con- deration. In our view, then, of @ decline in real tate We se6 NO SIGN OF DANGER, or even excitement, but regard it more in the light of @ gradual shrinkage which must occur and is | necessary to place real estate on @ par with other Values that have uepreciated in turn since the war, | Uptown Property and Public Improvements. | The value of uptown property has increased to | Proportion to the advance of public improvements; | hence it 1s a matter of great interest in this connec- tion to know what ts being done by the city authori- ties to improve uptown property by grading, level. | ling and paving the streets; laying out roads and ; boulevards and preparing for the work of extending | and building up the hitherto WASTE PLACES OF THE NORTH END | of the metropolis, The works now in progress and which are under the management and control of tue Department of Parks are Sixth, Seventh, Eighth and Tenth avenues above 155th street, avenue St. Nicholas (from Central Park to 155tn street), Man- hattan street, from avenue St. Nicholas to North River, The west line of the Park is adapted to the & greater sun than tweaty to twenty-five per cent Of the whole amount. Taking We largest per- | centage, twenty-five per cent, we have $3,690,566 as the amount to be withdrawn from loads on real | esiate Lo meet the present exigency. This, we need Dotsay, 18a Mere bagalelie as compared with the Vaiuacion of the eutire real estate of the city—over ove thousand miilions, at wil appear strange to many who recollect the great Ore in Wis city 1 1837 | and the subsequeut pauic it produced in real estate, that the Chicago fire shoud be so little Uely to create disturbance, but it must be borne in mind Wat st that time (1837) the assets of fire insurance companies were mostly mortgages on city property. Since then, however, the two per ceut tax on mortwages finposed, the Jie insurauce compaules bein Siovue exempt from its operaiion ava the fire under- writers accordingly chauged the character of their assets irom tue to time, leaving only the amount above meutioned on real estate. There can be no soubt that the wiole of this amount, Wit were necessary to call it i, would be readily absorbed by the life insurance cow panics, From this it would ve seen hat, so far as the Cnt- ago tire, considered alone, 1s coucerued, its indu- ence upow realestate values here will be scarceiy felt, Taken, however, onnection with otler in- duences operattig upon men's minds, it is not alto- peae Without its eect, Prominent among these THE FIXED OFTNION felton all sides, aud which has prevatied for the uo years, rat real estate is held too high and Must suder a decline. This, in general terms, ap- plies to the whole city, excepuonal instances of gcuivity and appreciation vetng quoted as serving only to prove the rule, Thus, last summer, while ail otuer property was dull and staguaut, the few sales occurring being forced and siowig a weak market, Filln uue property suddenly wakenea inv @ Sharp active movewet, which, directed by Charics L. Cornish and Grit Kowe, advanced perty from Filty-pivth street to Kighty-second Fireet to double ile fgurce at which it could be purchased two years previously, Again, i Augusi last, BOULEVARD PROPFRTY od Eighth avenue property, woich had stood still e over two years, Wok a4 sudden spurt and Jor Shout ten days exinbited quite a furore of excite- ont. In that period the following transact 3 Muong Others ovcursed. Whicd Will Serye Lo Ulustrave new grace on Eighth avenue, where a large amount Of filling is required, ranging from four to twenty feet in depth. ‘This, of course, elevates the property | On the west side of the avenue, giving it an over- look into the Central Park. It is intended by the Department of Parks to improve Kingsbridge road a3 soon as the report of the Commissioners on | Widening and straightening this road 1s confirmed | by the Supreme Court. The road extends from 155th | Btrect to Harlem River at Kingsbridge. t will de- | velop aad improve the whole district known as the north end of the Island, Including WASHINGTON HEIGHTS DISTRICT, Plans are now being prepared by the Department of Parks for tne Improvement of High Bridge, Morn. ingside and Riverside Parks, It is expected that work will be commenced on them immediately, | of these parks were laid out by the late Central Park Commissioners, by whom proceedings were com- | Menced for acquiring title to the lands included | within those parks and places mentioned. By law 1t became the duty of the successors of the Commis- siovers to continue the work of improving and pere Jecting the public property so acquired. The etiectof the public improvements on pro. erty on the upper end of the island, lying north of uty-ninth street, 18 shown in the following tables of VALUATIONS TN EACH OF THE THRER WARDS for fifteen years past, and in which is contained the Central lark, Riverside Park, Morningside Park, Monnt Morris Park, High Bridge Park, the Boule- Varad, Sixth and Sevenib avenues north of Central Park, avenue St. Nicholas and Manhattan street, now In process of improvement and construction » Wid.) 1456, 1867. | 1838. 1859, 1860, Jach...| 5,149,960] 8,1 | 10,008,725] 11,857,114 10,971,778) 12,621,494] 18,B0.473 W9b.-) HUA, 183 5) 1 11,569,506) 18,261,025, S “i | 8888 624 488, 45 041 Bd... 10:289,002] 1 My 171] 3%, 4 4 54 Tals 926, 429,65 | Wd.) 1861. 1862. ia. |, ub, Deed, 18,194,405 25,070.40) 19,824,286 1,000,960 1863, 1864, 5) 13,100,886) 14,134,825) 15,488,071 16,946,162) 17,908,187) 18,005,452) 20,462 60: 17,666,866) 18,041,867) 18,281,222) 18,956,276 0 pele rarer) sqaare and High Brid, acres, Of course this, subject to taxation. So, then, Tesuit of twelve years’ well-directed in Proving and beautifying the up} part id ny, 0 aor oom spank 3 ped nol we have’ as the im- an tncrease in the value of taxable property three wards of $146,783,050, although 1,057 acres of Jana within the district ‘were in the meantime THE VALUR OF THE CITY AND COUNTY PROPERTY. According to the report of Messrs, Anthony J. Bleecker, Adrian H. Muller and Courtiand Palmer, commissioners appointed by Mayor Hall to assess the value of the city and county property—which ‘Was completed on the istn of July and presented to the Commisstoners of the Sinking Fund—the (otal Value of tne city and county propersy, as estimated by the assessors, is $243,985,499, The following 19 the recapitalation of THE F6TIMA’ TED. Miseeilaneous property, saatdonie Sundry lots 33, 74( Sines 000 6,085,570 1,100,175, 440 arves and piers (hast River’ Croton “Aquadiet ° “ 5,824,4553 90,000,000 218,005,400 QUARFS. Total value of city and county property. KOTIMATED VALUM OF TE PARRY AND Abingdon Park, Bigith avenue. Bowiing Green’. The Battery, bonuded by '# River, Whitehall and Stal atiery place, North te streets, lots an: City Hall Park. ‘ Mission Park, Worth strect: Pari at intersection of Christopher, Grove and Fourth streets. .......esveses scene . 45,000 St. Joun's Park, Canal, Hoboken, West and Wash- ington streets’. + 197,000 Atuyvesant square, Second avenue... = 730,000 Ptuy vesant Pars, Fourth avenue and Sixth street. _ 100) ‘Tompkin's square, avenues A and B. UVaion square Washington Reservoir square Puolle place, Fit ninth streets High Bridge Pai ntral Park, tn and busidin; Total value of parks and squares Long Island Keal Estate. ‘The Long Island real estate market is quite active at present, and has been for a few weeks past. The aegotiations pending between the New York State Camp Meeting Association and the owner of Car- Penter’s Woods, at Glen Cove, have terminated in the purchase of the property for $66,000, It com- prises sixty acres, with a frontage south and east on the Sound, and a steamboat landing. It is lo- cated nearly one hundred feet above the level of the surrounding country, affording a splendid pictu- Tesque view of the country for several miles. Three hundred cottages will have been erected ere the ‘time for the camp meeting of 1872. It is proposed to make it rival Martha’s Vineyard. The natural beauties of the place are many. ON THE FLUSHING ROAD, between Flushing and Jamaica, a company of New Jersey specuiators have purchased of Jeremiah Val- entine 120 acres of bog lands for the purpose of Manufacturing peat a3 an article of fuel. Several large buildings have been erected, and over ove hundred thousand dollars, wortn of machinery placed in operation, AT BAYSIDE the great Lawrence estate of several hunared acres has been disposed of to speculators. Prices in this vicinity fluctuate somewhat In accordance with the Possible chances of more frequent ratiroad commu. nication, This property sold for $350 per acre, Single lots average trom $75 to $150. In Hempstead, quite the dullest of any place on the isiand, there has beea surprising activity of lace. E, A. Cruikshank, W. H. Hewieit, fhomas H, Clowes anu Charles H. Everett have been making extensive sales to speculators, Tnis activity is 20 peta owing to the undoubted ultimate completion MR. A. T. STEWART’S RAILROAD, Prices have advanced forty per cent. The same activity prevatis at Farmingdale, the present termi. nus of Mr. StewarVa ratirnad. ‘Chore waving been considerable talk about the extension of Mr, Stew- aris Tatiroad to Bresian and Babylon the specu- la‘ors are using every device to ascertain the truth of the matter, for the purpose of purcha=ing all the salabie waste land aiong the proposed route, Taree routes have been surveyed; but, excepting Mr, Stewari, no person Knows wihicn of the three will be accepted. In this vicinity the lands have peen condeuiued by agriculturists as worthless for pro- ductive purposes; but @ practical test bas proved these opinions to have been unreliavie and prema- ture. Mr. J. H. Tomliuson two years ago put forty acres under cultivation for experimental purposes. This year the lands have yielded rich Crops, such as White peach olow potatoes, rye at tne rate of twenty busheis to the acre, and black oats at the rate of seventy busiels to the acre; also rhu- barb In great qnautities, Mr. Tomlinson intends to continue Lis tests. Owing vo this discovery land per acre has increased twenty per cent. The greatest activity 13 1n the vicinity of White- stone and College vont, A movement ts on fv0t to anucx Whitestone to New Yor! In the hope of tue consummation of (his movement New York capital- ists are javesting heavily. Lots average $500 each, Haying a river iront ot several mies, it 1s a desira- bie summer resort, Andy Garvey has a large and handsome property at College Point, Jn Long Island .'\¥ blocks of houses are in course oferection, None bat capitalists can own property in tis piace, owlny to the high prices and heavy rates of taxation. Ferry improvements form one of the Most conspicuous features of the improvement of the place. The streets are filthy and disease- breeding. Local enterprise 18 very dull. THE MARKED IN SUPFOLK COUNTY 4s quite dormant, in Centreport a new academy is bem erected, The work Of grading the Smith- town and Vort Jetferson brauch of the Long Isiand Railroad has beea commenced, Property in the locality, though not as yet in aemana, has advanced twenty-five per cent in price. In Babylon sales to a considerabvie extent have been madé. £. V. Brown urchased a lot from Mr. Litchfield for $5,000, Mr. . W. Movray has purchased the residence of Isaac Willetts for $4,500, Floyd Wicks has purchased @ lot from Dr. Wagstaq tor $4,500. Building 1s quite brisk. In addition to the private dwellings in course of construction, the Baptist Society have commenced the erection of @ new church, and Miss Gannon is erecting a seminary and boarding school for young ladies at a cost of $30,000, TRIAL FOR MURDER IN LOCKPORT, N. Y. A Case That Will Command C Sympathy. ‘The trial of Aratus F. Pierce for the murder of Wilitam Bullock was commenced in Oyer and Ter- miner, before Judge Daniels, at Lockport, last Wednesday. Pierce is a young man of about thirty, a@resident of Lockport ull about two years ago, when he went tu Chicago as clerk, He has always borne an trreproachable character, Bullock was a man of the same age, or @ little older, and was en- gayed in mannolacturing in Lockport, where he had lived several years, An intimacy between Bul- lock and Pierce's sister was followed by the seduction of the latter under promise of mar riage (as 13 claimed), and the birth of a child subseguent to tie death of Bullock, Pierce learned of bis sister's condition and came to Lock- tragedy occurred, on the 11th of ast . jut eleven o’ciock in the evening. Pierce had been with Bullock for some time, at the house of the former’s father, and the two walked thence down to Muin street together, a quarter ol a mile, apparently amicably. The street at that hour Was almost deserted, and very quiet, but ilghied by the gas lamps, Wo policemeu standing on the corner of Main and Pine streets, waich is perhaps the Most public place in the city, saw what foliowed, Pierce and Bullock came to one of these corners and stopped, standing quite close together and facing each other, When Pierce drew a pistol aud fired, Bullock turned and fled up Pine street, | Closely pursued by Pierce, who fired three more shota at hin as they ran, in succession, the policemen pursuing both. {n front of the Continental Saloon Bullock fell and lay on his back in the gutter, when his assatiant came up and fired anotuer shot at him, which, it ts be d, passed through bis hat. As Bullock ran he stouted “Murder Pierce im- mediately surrendered himself to the police, and Was takch to the police headquarters and thence to the jail, When asked why he had done wis te an- Bwered, “Time will tell.’ Bullock was also taken to the police headquarters, exclaiming that he was “sot ail to pieves,? and on the next day was re. moved to his home, Where he lingered just seven weeks, when he died, Aprit He had received two wounds—one in the abdomen and one in the back— the first of which was the cause of his death. A re- markable and unusual feature of this dreadful busie ness is that Builock aud Miss Plerce were married while the former lay on Ins dying bed. The child en born @ few days alter tts fatuer’s dea and is living. nets OBITUARY, Rev. Septimus Justin, D. D. Rev. Septimus Justin, D. D., died in Washington on Saturday last, He occupied during many years @ prominent position in the Prosbyterian Church. nd was several times Chapiain of the Senate and House of stad sion ie the United States, He Was an able and accomplisiea divine, ay excelent Mad aud gvod ciwe, - POLITICAL. KINGS COUNTY POLINICS. The Sitantion in Brooklya—The Complexion of the Nominations, Democratic and Repub- Mcan—The Reform Movemeut—The Mayor- alty Question the Most Exciting—Tke Caa- didates in the Field fer State, Couaty and City Offices. The political campaign in Kings county is now at its height, The candidates for the several pesiuons of trust and emolument at the gift of the people have been nominated by the regular nominating conventions of the party ormanizations. The con- tending forces are now confronting each other in battle array, faunting their standards defiantly in the breeze, and occasionally making “charges” and counter “charges” over the ileld, The smoke of combat impregnates the atmosphere, and loud reports of ‘corruption’ are heard at mitervais along the line of the republican army, which are silenced by salvos of heavy ordnance from the undaunted democratic horde, Meanwhile the spectators who crowd the heights of observation and look down upon the struggle applaud either side, as best sults their respective partisan proclivities, and speculate upon the effect of a reinforcement coming up to join the republican corps (which is vastly outnum- bered by its adversaries.) The cdlumn approaching, which, itis beeved by thousands, will decide the issue of combat, 1s known as the “Reform Pha- lanx,’”? and is composed of “citizens, who, irrespec- tive of party, are In favor of honest and tncorrupti- ble local government.” ‘There are many republi- caus and ex-oltice holders of the regular democratic or “Ring” organization serving as leaders in this body, and they have sent their trumpeters far in advance to announce ther coming and to recruit their ranks. They charge fraud agatust the existing administration of local government, and contend that tue annual expendi tures of the city and county goveruments have reached the enormous auiount of $18,000,000, ‘These and other accusations, which 1i proved would place Brooklyn in a similar condition with New York, are tie inducements offered to recruits to join the “reform corps,” which tney pleage themselves to effect if successful. A few evenings ago a mass meeting Was held at the Skating Rink, at which several reformers exhibited figures, which were published in these columns at the time, that retlected fearfully upon the honor and credit of the city. It Was proposed to emulate the action of New York by appointing a comm:ttee to mvestigave the accounts of the departments. The power to appoint the committee, which was to consist of flity, was delegated to the chairman, @ Mr. Back- house, ‘nis was capital made in the interest of their ticker, they contended, and then they waited upon Mayor Kuibdeisch, ihe honest od vacchinan, and requested him to accep te citizens! eudorse> Ment tor re-election in opposition to we exisiny vegun He accepted the houor thus con.erreu, w has girded on his armor ve do baltic with the relor- mers a3 against the “powers that Le.” ‘tae accent- ace of their nomination gives a force anu expres. sion to the Young Democracy movemeut waich they would not otherwise attain, as 1tumalgauates them witu the Rink reiormauouists In the COuMmMon cause Of opposing the regular ilcset of the democ- Jt also creaiey @ fine loophuie or in the ranks of tie latter—whose strength it 1s sought to divide—ior the entrance Ol a few republican nominees into the precincts of office. ‘The turemost choice through this avenue 13 heid by the candidate o1 the Graut party lor Mayor— ex-Mayor Samuel Booth, That geutiewan, who ‘Was the predecessor 0! Mayor Kalbileisch iu eilice, ‘has filled the May oraity Cuair two terms (our years), aud during that time has carned a record ior huncsiy @nd the faithiul administrauon oF oulice second to none. He is at present /ostmaster of Biookiyn anda Prominent church member ol the Methouist wpisco: pal persuasion, Personally he 13 a quiet, agreeavie genueman and stands wel with votn parties, ‘the democratic regular choice bos iaien upon Samuel S. Powell, This gentieman, wuo 13 @ native Of New York State, a of quaker descent, and has (years ago) served ivo terms = a8 = Mayor = =of = Brooklyn, = During the term of his olice taxation, it is ciaimed, re- vealed 1s lowest figure, veg tien $1.0 ou each $100 of valuation of real estave, He as not beea Wentitied with politics for Mauy years, ana is now cailed from tue seclusion ol private iife to vear ine standard of tus par.y in the srout rank from tence. jorvh. He is a merchant by occupauon, avd is somewhat promiuentiy ideatified in cuurch mat- ters as @ pious advocate Of religion, iis past record, ke tat of che DEL Mayor, wartin BALD- fleisch, aud Postinaster Booth, tur strict econuuy and honesty 1s Claimed and admitted vy the cou- Inunity to be unimpeachavie, ‘he lollowing is a list of the regular uouinatious for State, county and cary ofices:— State. SENATE, Dist, Demoeret. ‘2d—James F, Pierce®. Sd—Henry CU, Murphy*. 1—David C_Aitken®. 2-Smith C, Baylis’ 8—Dominick H, xoal 4—Wiiliam W. Moseley’. 5 (Adjourned). 6—Mauritz Kechter. Republican, «John ©, Perty. ‘A.W. H, Vai Sicklen, ASSEMBLY. Waite, Hans Curtstian, Droll. Geo. C. Beunert, . Juco! sees Oliver 8. Leven, County, Rerublican, Willa Colt, Supervisor ut Lary County Treasurer, County Aulitar. Justice of Sessions. Coroners bos. A, Gardiner® ‘Morris Fiizectatd ..Chauacey M. Felt, tephen I. Vuorhees Barnet Johnson. ‘Sumes b. Jones" W. J. i. 8, Smith” and Lawrence Dr. George Little, Wiitenti* (is. D). Comm'rs of Charities, Henry Seller® and Henry Wills and Geo, Coro's Ferguson®. W. Su.well, city. Repwbticum, jam ivel Booth. red Hi. schroeder, Wilitams ‘Nelson Sucurman, Lemuel Burroughs, 6—Jumes Cassidy : Kejorm int Young Democracy. -Martin Kalbitetech,* si Tancis Markey. s. 8. Harden ourg. «William J, Kobunson, ‘The remainder of the ticket will be filled this week, and it will be pushed forward with aii the euerg! which its adherents are capable ol exercising. 4 Temarkabie feature of the present compiexiun of the regular nominations of both partes is that a decided preference has been shown for candidates Who are “native and to the manuer born.” This 19 instanced by the fact that on the democratic side, which is ong trom to be the foreign siae of the house, native born Americans of “ye old ume pedl- gree” are unusually numerous, They are iound in the nominees for Mayor, Comptrolier, Cliy Judge, both Senatorial districts, five assembiy districw out Of nine, District Attorney, Supervisor at Large, Justice of Sessions, Coroneis (Nastern and Western Districts), City Treasurer, Collector of taxes and Assessmenta and two Justices of the Peace out of four. The ratification meetings wiil be held this week, when each party will asserts its superior cialis upon the recognition and support of the people at the polis ou the now rapidly approaciig elecuon day. The democrats ciaim that we majority which Kings county will give on next Tuesday week wiil be be.ween 12,000 and 15,000, which i accomplished Will go far towards wiping out the republica® gains in the weaker Western counties of New York, aud will strengthen the cause iu that unbroken columa whicn the District Attorney, Samuel D. Morris, hag said shall march on Washington in the campaign of 1872, TOMPHINS COUNTY PULITICS, Lack of Political Enthusinsm—Comparative Indifference of Both i’arties—feeling Amon the Conkling and Fenton Factions—tresi- deat White and the Syracuse ¢ Ideas of the Democracy—The County Good for a Fair Republican Majority—Success of the Republican Senator and Assemblyman, iTHacA, Tompkins County, Oct. 26, 1871. Comparatively speaking there is very little politi- cal enthusiasm just now in Tompkins county, Both parties appear to be rather indifferent tuan other- wise over the approaching election, Shere are no questions of eitner local or general interest calcu- lated to call out the fall electoral strength of either side, The indifference of the democrats is owing chiefly to the fact that they have no hope of electing any of their candidates for local ofices, ana they do not seem to appreciate the practical im- portance to their party of making any special effort on this occasion to swell the popular vote for the general State ticket, As the State gave over 33,000 majority for Hoffman sast year the democrats in tue rural distriets consider ita foregone couciusion that the State will give a de. cided democratic majority tis year. They depend upon the city of New York to more than counter. valance the republican majomtes in the country. While they admit thas the Tammany troubies may Operate to some extent in reducing the democratic Inajority in the city, they have no idea that the vow Will fall 80 far short as to wurn the tide in favor of the republicans, in fact, they feel quite content aes W the geucral result, and whavever ex. DAY, OCTOBER 30, 1871—TRIPLE SHEET. citement thf is anywhere ia mainly over local canddaates, with nere and there @ contest Senators in districts and Assembiymen in countie®, ‘This county is considered republican by about, thonsand, Last year it gave a ma- jority of 963 for Woodford. 1t is thought the vote will be smaller this year and the majority lighter in Consequence, Although the county 1s republican there 1s some feeling among the factions; that 18 to say, with reference to the Fenton and Conkling in- lerests. The preponaerance of sentiment seems to be rather on the side of Fenton, and the Congres- sional district of which this county forms a part sent a Fenton representative last year to Congress. Still there 1s a disposition on the part of many re- perisens to ignore all sectional issues and ‘0 unite in support of general repubtican principies, Resolutions to that effect were jopled = by local republican conventions, Some prominent republicans in this vicinity are cissatistied wth ‘the proceed in the Syracuse Convention, and there are some comments in that quarter on tue alleged partuality of President Whive as Chairman of thas Convention in favor of the Conkiing tter- eat. ‘the Cornell University, of which Mr, White 18 President, being located Lere, aud the friends of Conkling, Corned and Waite beng brought direcily in contact with the iriends of Fenton, there 1s more feeling here on that subject tnan in any otler locul- iY In this section of the State, except, perhaps, at Jamestown. President White’s personal populariiy here, however, im view of 18 Mghly estimavic character and his labors aud iiberaily with refers ence to the University, serves to soften the asperity of those who complain of his cuurse in the Convention, In his own case tiey are disposec to paliiate his apparent preference and to look beyond hus politcal prociivities entirely to Lie man. hence while these matters are menuoned in Couversation here they wilt uot enter actively into the canvass, ‘The ouly euect they will have, 1 avy, will be to produce indiievence In sume quariers, 80 that the republican majoriiy ior the State ticket may not be so large unis yeur as tormerly. The de- mocrats claim that they are graduauy reducing tue republican majority in the county, aud by a slow bub sieady increase on their side they hopé even- | tually to bri the county back Lo the side Of the | democracy. This year, however, they concede at | least ivv or $00 republican maority, while tie re- pabhosne themselves believe they cau poll 1,000, It likely that Wf we should spilt tne didlerence the estimate would be more accurate, ‘There was @ continued contest in the Republican Coavention for % choice of candidate for State Sen- ator, ach of the tee counties forming tue Sena- torial district—Lioga, Broume aud ‘Tompkins —nad its tavorite, Broome desired the renomination of Chapivan, WOO was Senator last verm; Lioga Louglit Jor ‘uomas |. Chatfield, who Was npally success- Jul, aud ‘‘ompkins appealed for the promvtion of John H, Selkreg, WNO nas beeu her representatuve Jor tive years in the Assembly, and 13 euitor of the Tepubican o.gan here, Seikreg wouid have re- ceived the nomination for Assemblyman again, but he chose rather to take his chances iu the Conven- tion for the mighber branch of the Legisiature. Alter two days Of iruitiess eifurt the Convenuon ad- journed over for a time, apd alter reassembling Lowinated Chatoeld, the Broome county delegates @ lust transierring their support to hun, But uus rivalry of counties practicaily ended when tue choice of the Convention Was announced, Tue ques- tion o1 locality wul have some sligut iniiuence on the vote tor senator; tuere will naturally be more euthusiasin over Chatueld in Tioga than im ‘Tomp- Kius or in Broome, Lt will only be w matter of ma- Jority, wowever, for each of the three counites .3 re- bubiicag, und Cuatheid’s success ix ceriain by & comvtned majority in the aisurict of avout uiee thousand. ‘Yne county 1s entitied to one Member of Assembly, and the republican canuidate, Auson Kuelies. 13 certain 0. his seat, His predecessor, Selkreg, was easiiy erected fur tive successive years. Anetues 13 & pew aspiant for legisiative honors, and, besiies the sulrages of his consiiigents, ne las the udvan- tage Of au -exXcelleut war record, ‘the democratic candidate, Henry Brewer, may ve said to have ace cepied tue nomiuAtiON Merely Lor toru’s sake, seve- ral other democrats equally available having shown no desire to run, Wica the exception of Assemblyman all the repub- lican candidates 1n the county this year lave Leen renounuated lor weir respective oillces, aud no one On eltoer s.de has any duubt of tueir election. in a word, Tompkins county will send an Assemblyman and do its part in seading a Senator to Albauy this Year, and at the same time Will give for tue State Lickel nearly its Usual Fepublican majority. SCHUYLER COUNTY POLITICS. Rivalry of I'wa towns tor the County Seat of Schuyler the Animosity lt Enaeudered— Effect on the Locat Politics of tae County— Chasces in Favor of the Democratic Candi-+ date f.r Assembly mau—Probable Election a itepublican State Senator—Uopes of the Democracy—A Close Contest for Both Branches of tho Legislature—small Repub- lican Majority for the state Senate. Warxme, Schuyler cqunty, Oct. 27, 1871, Political atfairs in Schuyler county are a littie mixed at present. Ever since the courty was or- ganized there have beeu dissensions, reiating not to political principics but to county matters, the effect of which has been to u.vide the vo.e of the republi« can party here, especially with reference to candl- daes for local offices. These dissensions have ex- | isted for some seventeen years, and though time | and events have served to heal the: to some ex- tent, there remain some traces of them which have thew influence yet, The troubles date back as far as 1854, when this county was tormed out of the counties of Chemung, Tompkins and Steuben, It ia state | that the author of tie evil was Mr. Charles Cook, who is now deceased. Havana, a rivai town, lies three miles north of here, Watkins being situated at the head of Seneca Lake, Cook was one of the Canal Commissioners of the State, and was mainly inswumental in having a ehip canal cut from the lake to Havana, in the pros. perity of which ne was persouatly and particularly interested. When commissioners were appomied to locate the county site he threw ail bis persoual and oiticiat influence in favor of Havana. Notwitn- standing that the seutiment of the citizens of five out of the seven townships, inc.uding a large ma- jority of the people of the county, wanted Watkins to be the county seat, and tvok occaston to indicate and urge their. prefereice, the commissioners has- tly decidea in favor of Havana. This created mach dissatisfaction among a majority of the people and gave rise to @ pitter and ungeuerous rivairy of sec- tions, which continued for several years. Subse- quently tne Board of Supervisors, under a clause in the State constitation investing then with certain powers, took occasion tu cia@uge the county seat to Watkins, but soon afterwaru Mr. Cook, about 186u, suceveded in getting the Legislature to pass an act restoring the honor to Havana. A lew years ago Mr. Cook left the county and the world forever. His death bad the effect of putting an end to anv turther cause for the dispute; tor, aiter the removal of his presence and his influeuce, @ strong and successful eflort was made to establish we county builuings permanently here at Watkins, Which, situated ag it Ls at the head of a beauitiul @nd navigable lake, 1s naturahy their proper site. but the tivary O: the towns nas been all along ull recenily tue source of bitter jealousy and bad feei- ing generally awong the peopie of the county, and it 1ias appeared most promiuenily in ail elections, particularly ior county officers. 1t 1s acknowledged now (har the question is settled finally, and the oid ubinosity 18 gradually disappearing, yet there are some Who neither can forgive nor lorget. such we the explanation of the jong-continued unsettied state ot politics in Schuyler county, ‘The closest contest over aay gucer this year will be for wember of Asseinbdiy, On @ purely party issue schuy.er county is republican. Several years age, NM ‘Mporaut rresideatia Lghis, 1 si0Wed liseif very strongly 80; but more receatiy te republican Majority bas been falling oi aud the democratic voue lus been gradually gaining. Woodward's | majority for Governor last year Was Only 487, bat in the iace of that tne democrats elected their wer ber of Assembly, AS hey did the previous yea yhey feel very sanguine that th y willdo the same | tha me, withough their canuidate has not yet | veen pub in the held. The county convention has | been called bo meet to-inurrow, to set their | standard bearer. [t Was expected that Thomas U. Coon, WhO Was saccessiul at tue last Wo elections, Would be the Candidate aguin, dud he 3 tie first choice of the Members of fis party, and perhaps the strongest they could select, bul i ts anderstood | that he wilt decline to run. Should he adnere io bis Gecision the aemocrais incead to nOMinale Or, Wilam HB. Fish, of te Village of Meckieavurg, 1 the town of Hector, Although lis town 18 wie repubican strouguold of toe county—it having given @ republican majoriily of 310 last fall, while the wuole republican majority in the county was only 7—he was last spriag elected Supervisor vy a smal majority over his re- publican competitor, bis iriends imsist that his own township Will give tity au locreased majority Unis year, aud that that will be sulMcieut to elect him in the county, Bui whether ue or some over shail be the candidate, the democrats fee) quite confloent that they can elect their man; and tndevd te chances seein to be rather in weir favor, ‘The re- pubiicans have aiready made their nomination jor Inemver of Assembiy. ‘hey have chosea Harmon L. Gregory, who is one of the struig@ot men tuey could opvose vo either Fish or Coon, ‘the repuvits cans Complain Wal (hey have lost some strength ab the polls to recent years, through achive dogged 8 of two members of thelr party, residents ol who held sinecure appoiutinents (clerk- New York easy; Bae ney hope that that Influence Will be lost to the dev ores ts year by tue exposure of the matter. With the practical healing of tne jocat jeaiousies .row lng ‘out of the contest of the two towns for the vounty seat, and with vigilance and activity on thelr ae] the republicans express not only We hope, = the benef that they will elect then member of a sembly, Kepubieans say Wey nope, but In vi tuey fear, ering Wat tue democrativ candl- the county, wh ships) under Tweed in ; cost price and selling price, datehad a of some six hundred last fair and that the point to his side Bucy cessful one this year, it natural tovome to the exe clusion that the democrats will in bu = Hang Sresad nt mcnblyman asain, plpceueelns with relerence to State Senator almost exactly the reverse, per thge a and Steuben counties constitute the » at die trict, Dedueting the usual democratic ‘in arity of Chemung, tue district ts Pubiican majority of fro: sand. The republican rally neutral Chemung, leavi to roll up the it so considered good for @ re- my , ar aby to one thou- ty us ter gene- ze8 the democratic Tajoriy or tng Steuben, which 18 a large county, Fepublican ‘majority 1a. the ot which uently has St Su et etn a, to r me. ‘The republicans nav Gabriel S, Harrower and the democrats Gew B. Bradley, both being residents of Steuben, much as the district has not sent a democratic Sen- ator to Albany for the last twenty years the Heans have no idea that the usual resait be: changed this time, Personaily boti candidates are acknowledged to be excelent men. it 18 hinted, however, tuat Harrower was forwerly a a i has » Conciliate, while Pa, reg Spo ey pperiti be radley has none, Couceded that Bradle) personally popular, and some of his most pores admirers even gay le can carry nis own county of Steuben, That would elect mm Senator, tor the republican majority in Seiuyler county this year will be less than ihe democratic majority of Che- mung. But the democrats are tou sauguine over Bradley, although they argue with some force in his favor, They believe the vue for Senator in this county will be pretiy even, aol so it will, with, I should say, a slight majority tor jarrower; and then, with Schuyler count, neutralize, they coutend that the democratic majority of Chewung will more than counterbalance the republican wa ority of Steuben, As they put It the tuing look» very tiue, and, indeed, there may not be niaay votes to spure on elther side, but the chances ut pre enc are in favor of the republicans, and the probavility 1s that they will win, While the vote varies in this county on local issues, When State or naiiona questious or candi- dates are at stake, the pusiisal seatinent of the county is republican. Geuerally speaking, the republican element will ve tinted on the State ucket, but the vote will not be very full, Tho democrats are equally hurmoaivus aud appear to be quite active. The repuolicaus cian to carry the county by 300, Some sanguine democrats declare the republicans will nut curry ita all, but, judging from the opinions of careiul mea in both varties, Mt would seem that the republicun State ticket will succeed In this county, aliough its majority will be very auiall, NEW JERSEY POLITICS. The Campuaiga in Kxsex Couuty—Gemorratio ~ Convention Yesterda,—The Ball Fairly in « Motion. iH The campaign in New Jers>y has been fairly under way for some time past, but it is now that the contest between the two great contesting parties begins to be interesting ani exciting. The HeRALD has already given a faith ut redex of the situation 1a Hudson county, toward which all eyes im the State are now anxiously virectea. In Essex, the adjacent county, the cunvass ix also of a character to excite attention, in tt, thus far, since the Newark charicr election, matters have beep very quiet on both sides of the house, A week ago the Republican County Coaveation assem»ied and placed in nomination for Sheruf Colonel Charles Courtols, @ popular Frenchman, On Saturday the Democratic County Convention assembled in Newark and nominated oy acclamation Colonel dames Peckwell tor the same position, ‘The Colonel 1s & native Jerseyinau, is a iileioas democrat, from @ boy been actively identited with the local militta, and made hosts of Irieads among all parties by lls splendid maaagsweat of the xewark lice force under the Comuission réa me, Me 1s, there- fore, an exceedingly strong candidate, and bis nom- ination shows that the deaiucracy uf Es8ex propose to make a desperate struggle to carry the county for Joel Parker, At the last eiecttun for Sheri the re- publican candtaate, Andrew teed, carries! che county by only seventy five ima,ority 1u an entre vote of about sixteen tuousanl., {¢ 13 aunvunced that a Mr, Henry Price, a strong republican temperance mao, Will run on an nviepenient uckel, As soon as Peckwell’s Domination Was aanounccd on Saturday @ large and “handsome oanuec, suitably in- scribed with the names of *Juel Parker aud James Peckwell,” was streicied across Broad street, Oppo- site the market, amit ihe buvuwing of a salute of Uurty-six guns from or Rovert asker battery. There was much entausiasm over the nomination of Colonel eckwell, ‘tne democracy took @ new and much-neeled departure on the matter of coroners. ‘ficy pla ed on weir tickets the names of Dr. Charies F, Webuer, George Spottes- Wwoode and Judge Am iJ, Dean. The coroners of Essex lavely seein (0 have been selected for theix especial unfitness. A DEFAULTING BUStUN CASHIER. Onk Hall Robbed During Two Years—Free- man (,. Litchfl ld the Thief. (From the Boston Advertiser, Oct, 28.1 ‘The sensation of yesterday was the discovery that acashler for @ large establishment in this city, a man whose reputation jor humor and integrity haa been unquestioned, ana who ha! moved in the bess circles in that part of the city in which he lived, had tor months, and, pe:haps, years, pursued a system ol aliering accounis aud stealing small sums of money from his empiwyers. An Advertiser re- porter visited Oak fiall yesverday and oviained the iollowing particulars of tae defalcation of Freeman . Litcatield, of Mr. George W. olunmous, the senior partner of the firm of George W. simmons & C About three years aso he engaged Litcnfeid ag asalesman. He wus theu about twenty-four years old, of good parentage. of pleasing address . aud good manucrs, itis luiher was dead, and his mother, who Has been unwell tor so:ne time, ds now in @ precarious condition tro. iliness caused by wrief at her son’s misconduct. He was in poor health at the time, being enyayed as a printer in Water street, As 4 sulesmau fe won che coufidence of his employers, Wo made “iti cashier after he had beeu iv the store hardly a year, His conduct in this position Was such as to lucrewe the confidence whici the frm had in hin, ana chey cougratulated tuemselves in baviug such Ainan, He had vecome quite prominent in Last Bostun socie.y, uaving got up one or two Musqueraies Which were quite suc- cessiul, and bad become a geueral iavortiie. He de veloped great Capacity us an accountant, being able to despatch a great deal oi vusiness with speed and accuracy. Thesystem of accounts which ne had to keep was very sitnple, and auorded no possible loop- hole for dishonesty. ‘Nearly ail Lue sales were made for cash, each salesinan having a book with hisnum- ber on it, in which he entered each sale, with the as, for iustan me loliowing:—"Uue =biack ~— Coat, ab,od.!! This book was sent to the casaier, who made the charge and copied the entry into his own book. He balanced this book every might, and that duty being Jone, gave it to oue of the partners. ‘the lab ter would then cali ove uf Lue satesmen and go over the books, seeing that every entry In the salesmen’s books corresponded tv ine entries in Litenfeld'’s books. No discrepaucy was ever ivuud in these, But there was another book, a sort of blotier, in which petty accounts were kept, small caaee which were not deemed of Imporiauce enough to reguiarly posted. ‘Through tus book Litchdeid found an opportunity of stealiug small sums of money because it was never reguiarly balanced. Suspicion was first aroused by tie tact that he seemed t have more inouey Wan could properly be accounted for by a clerk receiving « weekly salar, of $20, ‘To be sure he was a sing.e man, and poard with irienas, but it was noticed (hat he waa spend- ing considerabie money. [n addition to this he organized the Oitizcns’ Course 0: lectures, which Recessitated an amount of ready money for the possession of which tis employers could pot account. The only means of his obtaining money was throug tus “Ddlutter,”” Mu. Sunmons began examining this and huatly took 1b home for a careful investignuox, He found in many cases figures had been altered, daving back certaia l= ments so as to give the idea that they had been properly accountea tor. The trouble cuiminated very s00n, and Weteciive Dearvorn was called to Oak Hall on Wednesday for the purpose of forcing Litchfeld vo an explauauon, No warraut had been obtained for 013 arrest, Litchtield was at bis desk; the detective came in and stood taiking with Mr. Simmons, Wao Was Wail.og tor an opportunity to speak Lo Litentield. he tatver provably recognized the detective, for ne started out Ww the oack of the store, ran up stairs, borrowed a hat (rom one of the workmen, jumped trom te window and made hts eseape. His hat and coat (he nad ona black alpaca coat which he wore wnen at work) Were hanging ow the nati near iis dess, and he having & silp of paper in his hand, Mr. Simmons tavught be bad gone up stairs to gel an account {rom oue of the workmen and wauted lor tis retarn, «tading he did not re- turn, the detective weut to his boarding place, 26 Londoa but ne had pot gone there. Nothing has since been seen of him, aud tie Only thing yee heard from him is the following, whitel haan Mt ceived by the tirm yesterday in an unposiuarke eae Onn Hart, Oot. 24, 1871, - ith a broken heart | pen . st your uioabeas nad Sonndence 8 comand Le mart 08 ON, 1 tondaye ry Raa but Ik His atinle mercy £ hope ingdom. he teachings of my dear de id Cather waeiteing mother, beeause the Waulty of, the wort tempted me; and now I leave ali Watare ie anal. we jhe Thelr faces T'sball aever look upon again unile we me, where Gud's goodness wnd trust will overlook my miniteltte T want you to exaintne ounts ca wt wi Ec wot ane, I will, wan my a ying God will corgive Boy mn winess, pay It'back twoior Wal forgive my r e wrnaced me so long ro qa wand that all who bh et Pe 0 aka wal mau yous From EERMAN Ce ut and | eal 3 ‘The amount of the defaleation can only be ascer+ 24 arelul exams ution Of te book throug waren te tnoney Was cubezzied, Bor can it be fully detevmined until this known whether he recelved any money and ata now mark the account pata on fie pook. It 18 believes, uowever, that if will not exceed $6,000. ile has aiso all the ioney for tha Jecture tickets sold tor the Ciazens’’ ourse, and tha committer Will doubtless be unable to pay the leo turers except at consiverable pecuniary sacrilices A friend of iis said receatly that Litendeld said the thousand Uckets which le said were given to th teachers and clergymen of tue city were pald fot by the head of a well Known publishing firm tn til city. Mr, Simmons, nowever, 18 of the opmiou thy BO BUCK QumMber Ol Lickets Were giVon away at all