The New York Herald Newspaper, January 30, 1872, Page 5

STOKES. The Stokes-Fisk Murder (Case , Again in Court. Argument to Quash the In- dictment. SPICY THT BETWEEN COUNSEL. Appearance and Bearing of Stokes. Decision Reserved Till Thursday Next. NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1872—TRIPLE SHEET, i ie thi i i ki informed and verily be- as this deponent has been informed and believes, and that both be and Mr, Field (who isa lawyer) were active in the jury room in try- the most unfavorable verdict to this deponent could from their previous sympathies with deceased, as this deponent has been informed and verily believes. ‘That, as this deponent has been informed, and veril; lieves,'& proposed verdict was secretly handed to one of or sent be- the jurors the room or Droperet fn advance by one of them and carried In by him, which, if adopied by have in into their finding the words Y aforetbought” | to this knowledge and them, would their jonious,”” “premeditated,” and “malice ‘words, of the most prej this was done with the pwitbstan: ‘the jury were wer and control of th shoul ‘Another day ot exceeding interest consequent | oj), ‘upon the call of the public prosecutor for the ar- raigoment of Edward 8, Stokes for the murder of dames Fisk, Jr., in the Grand Central Hotel, in this eity, on the 6th day of January last, was passed in tue Court of Oyer and Termimer yesterday. Long Defore ten o'clock the doors of the court room were Desieged by an anxious crowd, euger for admit- tance. The precautions of the officers, however, ‘were well taken to prevent an overcrowding, and it was only after the Court was opened that just a saMcient number were admitted to fill the room in- mde and outside the bar. ‘The prisoner was early taken from his cell in the Tombs and conveyed by Sherief Brennan and his Beputies to the Sheriff's office in the new Court House. Precisely at half-past ten o'clock the pris- | ener arrived, and, closely guarded by the Sheriff | and his Deputies, wok the seat assigned to him, clone to his counsel. THE PRISONER ‘was somewhat differently dressed than on the pre- | vious occasions when he was brough« into Court, ‘The gray coat was wanting, but otherwise he was astastefully attired as before. He did not look quite so haggard or anxious as previously, and, throughout the proceedings, frequently looked around the room, allowing his gaze to rest un- abashedly upon the audience in front ana on either aide of him. OPENING PROCEEDINGS, At half-past ten Judge Ingraham en<ered and took Ihts seat onthe bench. Almost at the same moment | the prisoner entered, followed by his numerous , District Attorney Garvin and Assistant | counsel. District Attorneys Sullivan and Fellows were also im attendance. Mr. Garvin having signified his Feadiness to proceed with the case of the People -@ainst Stokes, the prisoner’s counsel rose and pro- eeeded to address the Court in support of his MOTION TO QUASH THE INDICTMENT found by the Grand Jury of the Court of Oyer ‘and Terminer against stokes. He said he had @iven the District Attorney notice of a motion to quash the indictment, and would make pub- Mc @ most atrocious attempt to obtain an indictment, | The Grand Jury were’ given the case in hand before the Coroner’s jury had given their verdict. As to the Coroner, he had used every effort to keep back the facts of whether @r not the deceased was armed, and whether the affray was between a weaponicss man and one with arms. Tne Coroner, he said, acted in the matter in excess of hs authority. On this question counsel Quoted the statute of 1870 reguiating coroners’ in- Quests, He could not find any statute making the Assistant District Attorney counsel for the Coroner, and yet the District Attorney acted in that capacity during the entire inquest. 1t was evident that tne @oroner intended to obtain a murderous verdict. It was only alter three hours’ deliberation that @ verdict was rendered, which showed “that there were some solid men on that jury.” Aster- ‘Wards the Coroner's attention was brought to the Revised Statutes, which regulated that the Coroner ©onid not revurn the papers of the exammation to this or any other court, But the papers were trans- ferred ciandestinely and given to the Grand Jury, and the District Attorney comes into Court in alt apparent fairness and asks that an early day be set for the trial, This statate was to prevent undue haste, but it was passed-over; the hungry maw of justice could not wait a luutle longer ior the sacri Counsel next referred to @ visit which he, to- gether with an associate, paid to Coroner Young at his residence, In the conversation which took lace at the time tne Coroner suid he would en- vor to conduct the examination with ail fairness, and would go over the City Directory to get the most prominent men in the city, and those Mot acquainted with eituer Stokes or Fisk, to serve @n the jury. er, hamed Maunsell B. Field, was introduced into ie jury at his own request, altnough his name did Ot appear on the list prepared by the Coroner. This man knew Fisk, and from his acquaintance with him was prejudiced against Stokes before. hand. A verdict was broagut in vy him which ‘Was almost as iormai as an indictment, and had ip it the words ‘fclonious,”’ “premeditated,’’ and others equally forcible. Counsel then alluded to the vart taken by ex- Judge Fullerton in connection with obtaining ao in- dictment from the Grand Jury. He said he was giad to be able to say publicly that he regarded the action of Mr. Fullerton a8 most outrageous, and that it would not be sustained by any honvrabie member of the bar. Previous to the shooting Mr, FULLERTON HAD SUED STOKES for $5,000 counsel fee, which the latter had refused to pay; and since such refusal Fullerton had been gn enemy to spokes, and lad gone into this matter 4m a way which no one could regard but with dis. trust. the examination made with the view of Imdicting Stokes and Mansfield for conspiracy, Ful- Jerton and a lawyer named Morgan who had been Fisk’s standing attorney lor years, and attoracy for Pulierton in his suit agamst Stokes, gave their tes- tumony, thus showing their connection. Fullerton, ‘who, from bis being counsel for stokes, had become e@cquainted with all his secrets, wurns against and gives his evidence against him. — then read the prisoner's aMdavit as fol- 3 STOKES’ AFFIDAVIT. City and Crrenty of New York, «Edward 8, Stokes, the de- fendant above named, being duly sworn, depoues and aa ‘That, ay he is informed by two of bis counsel, and verily eves, they calied upon Coroner Young at his residence, No, ‘W7 King street, in the city of New } ork, on the afternoon of the 7th inst., afew hours after the death of James Fisk, Jr., to ascertain when the inques. wouid be held upon his body 5 that they were politely received by the sai Whom they apologized for intruding themselves upon him On a Sabbath afternoon, and that he immediately communicative to them to the ich he intended to conduct the inquest ad gone over the “City Directory” and Bimself selected the names of respected citizens or members of the from whom he proposed forming his jury, been pi ‘out with reference to thelr ith either party and their aup- fairness and disinterestedness; that he had himeelf no in the matter elther way; that be meant to perform bis duty imparually and that he meat jet out the whole truth, no matter whom {t affected; that this last expression Tepeated and emphasized several times, some- times using the words “ the truth,” some- times the words “ali the facts,” seeming to want to impress ‘upon this deponent’s said two counsel the conviction that this deponent shonid have the most complete justice done to Bim by that investigation; giving him to understand that he satended to devote ail the Lime tothe Investigation. requisite to bring forward all the testimony which could by any possl- Dility throw light upon the occurrence. That he stated when Be brat became Coroner the Corvner’s office enjoyed a bad Coroner, to the had resoiv he start to per- solely under the guidance of bis official oath; had been in several instances offered or given to underst that he could have m: but that the at- tempts upon bim were unavailing; 16 was com- mencing to dilate upon bis. views or understanding of tue law governin, Coroners’ juries = when he was checked by one of the said two counsel, who re- marked to him that it would not ve proper to extend the con- Versation ‘urther, and whatever further was aid or doae by him, or to or with him, bad better be in the regular course of legal proceedings, when ail parties would be within the view and hearing of the public. And this deponent further saith, that before the testimony wan gone into at ali before the Coroner's jury on the after- oon of the Sth inst. (which was the first day of the proceed- ings), one of tuis deponent’s counsel addressed the Coroner, intending to urge upon him two matters prelimi- narily, one of which, on account of the interruption and sppareat unwillingness of the Coroner to listen to him, as said counsel has informed this deponent, and as he'be- Meves he was unable to sto the Coroner as 5 whey the two matters w ret, the propriety of exhausting ai the evidence attainable as to the condition of the deceased at the very:time he was shot was to place beyond all doubt the fact of whether the deceased was bimself armed at that point Of time ; second, that the statuies did not require the Coroner to make a return of his proceedings tu the first Monday of February next which gave him an ample opportunity To. “proceed with the tn: hi deliberate manner, enabling Quest in the most Bhim to elicit the whole trath, a6 he bad promised he would m conversation of the previous afternoon avove referred fo. That the second of these matters was not alluded to at that staze of the proceeding stated, as this deponent addi the, Coroner, and, leponent ‘urther edule marked before proceedin, the Coroner's noon of jury 8th and 9th instant, as cut from/one ot the datiy newspapers publisher in the city of New York, ‘and that, so far am it goes, it appears to be substantially cor: on the afte: 0 jury thereupon, Gay at ren tee newspapers jpubiished in the ‘ork. And this nent fuxther saith that the annezed schedule marked “CO” contains alist of the names of the elected for the inquest upon tbe dead body of the de And yet, in the lace of all this a law- | deci had been jointly concerned, the justly ‘rested. ‘And this deponent further saith that formed and verily believes James Fisk, maker of more malice and revenge, ignor before the Grand te Decem| Jest ber term, laint against iis & com J ine =Mansteld, for iran exposure of as he has been the deceai in- after paving ry o polation’ Ge aren this deponent by the fi and calumnious statements of the deceased and itnesses to sustain the manufactured charge of conspiracy him and the sa! id lansfeld, they were not a proper b> Ject of the indictment in question, And this deponent that ashe has been in- formed, and verily believes, the manufactured complaint of conspiracy was continued ‘before the Grand Jury after the death of the said , and, as he charges and him under present fodictment e testimony of the disparagu black- to reaurt fo her ass pefare, the Grand e with a view to prejadi for homicide, and de sald Manateld, if she show half under the present indictment, by eningher, 20 that he wou.d not dare witness. "That among other witnesses Jury in reference to this charge of has been informed and realy oe Mr. William = Pulle proceedings before. the iY red as, or was asanmed to be, private counsel against this ceponent ; that this deponent had revionsly employed Mr. Fullerton as a counsel fo the Iife- ime of the deceased in litigations which arose between them, and had paid him a counsel fee of #600, and that sub- sequently a demand was made upon this deponent by Mr. Fullerton for 5.000 additional for professional services, which claim this deponent refused to comply with or recog- ize, tince which time Mr. Fullerton has been unfriendly to him; that on or about the 4th day ot January, 1872, & summons and complaint were served upon this devonent in favor of Mr, Fullerton, of which @ copy js hereunto annexed ‘marked schedule D; that the’ award spoken of in the complaint was only $10,000 altogether. That Mr. Fullerton is possessed of many valuable secrets of this deponent, through bis relation of counsel to this deponent, growing dut of or affecting the rela- tions and transactions of the deceased and thie deponent, and that notwithstanding this and the hostile attitude he bas laced himself in in suing this deponent for an unjust claim, ¢ has been, as this deponent has been informed and verily believes, actively engaged in supervising the proceedings leading to the indictment in question, and preparing the case for the prosecution thereunder. That this deponent can at- tach no other explanation to his appearing in the Grand Jury room as ® pretended witness in the charge of conspiracy above referred to than the opportunity it gave him of exert- img his influence and power asa counsel against him. ‘Aud this deponent further saith that, aa be has been in- fomed and verily believes, an indicts was preferred against him and the said Manatield in this Court, upon the said manufactured charge and conspiracy, on or about the | 20th instant. ‘And this deponent further saith that, as he has been tn- formed and verily believes, and as he understands will appear by the minutes of the Grand Jury, no further wit- esses oF tesumony were or was furnished to or taken be- fore that body, than to or before the Coroner's jury. ‘And this deponent farther saith that, as he has been in tormed and verily believes, a Grand Jury for the county of New York was duly empanelled in. the Court of General Sessions of the pea in and for the city and county of New York, on November 6, 1871, that its sessions were, on Novem- der 28, 1871, continued by an order of Court to December 13, Wil, From Which day they were slmilar.y extended to Decei ‘30, 1871, from which day they were similarly extended to January 37, 1872. ‘That, as this deponent has been informed and verily be- Neves, this Grand Jury were aousally in session on January 12, 1872, the day the indictment in question was ordered against this deponent by the body claiming go be the Grand Jury of this Court. That W. H. be ST the minutes of the Gi cbarge of conspiracy, did heretofore, as depouent is advised and Believes, appear as counsel for said James Fisk, on & motion before Justice Brady, of tne Supreme Court, on the Jat day of December, last past, and made an aldavit against this deponent; that Subsequently the summons referred to in schedule “D,” bearing the name of said Morgan as attor- ney for said Fullerton, was served on depot whose name appears as a witness in rand Jury in reference to the false nent E. 8, STOKES, Sworn to before me this 27th day of January, 1872-Ax- BROSE MONETT, Notary Public, New York city. Mr. JOHN MCKEON asked, at the conclusion of the reading of the ditidavit, whether the District Attor- ney had any affidavits to offer in reply, and was auswered by that gentleman that he had none. Mr. McKEoN—We will then consider them uncon- traaicted? Counsel went on to say that it was very sad that Ro denial could be made of the facts stated in the aMdavit, He would ask sae Court to quash this in- dictment on two grounds; that the act of 1870 regu- lating for the sitting of two Grand Juries was uncon- stitutional; and that even if it were not unconstitu- tuonai that the Court should, in its discretion, make an order to vacate the presentment for homicide, and send the case back to another Grand Jury sit- ting after February 1, 1872, ‘he Grand Jury of the General Sessions could not, he said, give their ate tention to matters sent to them trom the Police Justices without violating their oaths, as the order of the Legislature requires them to swear to one thing, and calls upon them todo exactly in oppo- sition to that oath. Counsei’s argument went principally to the ques- tion of the unconstivutionality of the law of 1870 abn 2 two Grand Juries for the county of New York. It was a local act, and, while appearing to regulate the session of a Grand Jury, in reality it confined the jurisdiction of a Court. Judge Ingraham said:—‘‘rhere was a time when the General Sessions adjourned on the opening of the Oyer and Terminer and did not hold court dur- ing its session.” CouNsEL—The answer to that is, these are sensa- tional times. Judge INGRAHAM—I believe they are. COUNSEL—And sensational law is the greatest evil taat could exist in any community. Counsel next spoke of his not being allowed to raise his voice on behalf of his client on the Coro- her's inquest, and said that if he knew as much then as be had read during tne last forty- eignt hours he would have allowed himself to be transmitted to prison rather than have refrained from defending his client. The statute says that a ioe g has the right to be represented by coun- sel at beet court of justice, and that was a court. He would now give notice that the next time he was employed to defend any man he woula apear before tne Coroner’s jurv, and would not be re- moved except by brute force, nis measure he was determined to carry out at any hazard, and would abide by the event, no matter how far it might take him, The whole tacts before the Grand Jury were garbled, a lawyer being introduced on it who nad not even seen the body of the man on whom the inquest was held; the Coroner having trans. mitted the papers with such rapidity to the Grand Jury; that body being previously prejudiced, and private counsel Stokes being rung in a8 witness, who could only speak as to facts which he learned from the prisuner himseul; aud further, 98 the only evidence beiore the Grand Jury was what was taken before the Coroner's jury without any new facts as to whether the are had been arined at the time or not, he would ask the Court to quash the iudictinent, and hoped It wonld take due consideration of the facts stated in the affidavit, and also of the fact that there was no denial of them. Mr. MCKEON and Mr. BARTLETT both made a few remarks, after which the District Attorney com- Menced his argument by giving a statement in de- tati of the shooting, aud alluded to the case in the Yorkville Poiice Court. During this part of his ad- dress one of the opposing counsel objected to nis gomg. into this question, but Judge Garvin was al- jowed Lo proceed. He spoke of the attack made on Judge Futiertor nd ed Mr. Bartlett if the civil suit brought by him agaiust Stokes had not been discontinued since tne nomicide. CoUNSEL—So much the worse. Judge GaRvin—I am by pocin’ to Mr. Bartlett, and if he does not auswer } shali take it that it was discontinued, After some further discussion on this point Mr. BarrLetr said that rather than that it should be thougat that he desired to keep anything secret he would state that Mr. Fullerton had sent word that he would discontinue the suit. Mr. McKEON, intetrupting the District Attorney, asked why he (the District attorney) did not try Stokes on the indictment for conspiracy? He dared him to do 1, for then this whole thing would come out; he could oring all the prostitutes that were examined before the Grand Jury, If he did not do it be would have it known publicly that the District Attorney had an indictment in his possession which he aared not bring forward for tria ie ot INGRAUAM said ail taat matier was im- material. #£x-Judge GARVIN then took up the rbread of his argument regarding Mr. Fullerton’s conduct, He feli anre that his conduct was quite proper. CounsEL—There was an aifidayit made some ime ago by Mr, Stokes charging Fullerton with petrayiug his professional secret The DistRICT ATTORNRY, continuing, spoke next on the legal question involved as to the cons*itu- tionaltty of the act of 1870. He saw nothing in it to make it unconstitutional. There was no reason, either, that the matter should have been brought before the General Sessions Grand Jury rather than before the Grand Jury of the Court of Oyer ant ‘Terminer. He did not think the Court should quash the indicsment. ‘This conciuded the prief address which the District Attorney considered necessary. Counsel for the ‘ten again addressed the Court, saylog that ali his lear@ed adversary’s re- marks amounted to was that foe, prisoner was guilty, and was not, therefore, ¢1 tps to any of the legal Jorms geverally gray J0 ap accused tie patio ie ‘of this mob to come in and save a He submitted to tne Court that the District Al said little else im substance. After going over some other point of the argument, counsel, in an excited manuer and with great emphasis, continued, “LAM DOGGED DAY BY DAY by detectives; my associates cannot speak to me ‘without seeing some wretch near by, trying to hear eemenees He might as well have gone to the wit- lows ana called upon the all the troubie our conversation, The other before the Coroner,, two sneaks were caught liste: and were only saved from a thrash- ing in a court of jusuce, here e1 rejected, knowing it to be untrue, Ana the prose- cution will put forth evidence which will be false, not, however, knowingly. But there are certaim secret influences at work which the District Attor- ney knows nothing of and which we have to guard against und prevent this unfortunate young man from being slaughtered vy such contrivances.” Coun- sel went on to say that Fullerton’s influence could be seen all through. “And tt was singuiar that he, above all others, should be so bitter in nis enm Tie avert fhe cathe tavaneaes | MUINZLER PROVES AN ALIB eyes looking for the mercy of hia associates, and it does not become him to ve so truculent now. The | admissions made in the case show that the Grand repared to indict with or without evi- we ask that he may go before a Grand oper inquiries will be made, It has come to my nowledge that THE MEDICAL TREATMENT which the deceased underwent accelerated, if it did not entirely bring about his death. There is another man now living in this city, wounded as ‘was volonel Fisk, who is living to-day. There can be no medica! man found to swear that his wounds ‘were necessarily fatal. We nave testimony to show | that the Voroner asked Colonel Fisk if he were armed, and he said, ‘Never mind that,’ Mr. McKeon again spoke of the Yorkville Police Court examination, and made some remarks in re- gard to the deceased which seemed very much out Of place and uncailed for. He spoke of Fisk being the centre of a band of assassins which he feared as he never did before in the course of his | Clermont avenue, oificial career, This closed the argument, and the papers were submitted and the Court adjourned unul Thursday next, when Judge Ingraham will decide the motion to quash the tndicumenv. doors of the court room were kept closed, and none of the spectators allowed to leave till after the WHO MURDERED PANORMO? Coroner Trying to Unravel the Mystery. "FE zed by scoundrels attem ting HE LAT " S palm false evidence upon us, which we have T ‘EST DEVELOPMENT: ye What One of the Prisoners Says of Himself. { | The excitement over the murder of the music | teacher, Panormo, would naturally have subsided to a great extent were it not for the numerous 1n- stances of crime of a similar character which have been perpetrated on the streets of Brooklyn every night smce that shocking Geed was committed, The anxious inquiry now is, who wall be the next victim ? WHAT MILLER SAYS OF HIMSELF, Miller says that on Tuesday night, at about ten minutes to ten o’clock, he lefta lager beer saloon | | on the corner of Myrtie avenue and Wy street, | @nd proceeded at a quick pace to Park avenue. On | reaching Park avenue he walked briskly toward where he lives, On reaching ‘tho corner of Park avenue and Oxford street be | says he found Panormo staggering to his feet. With the ald of a man, whose name turns out to be | Sherry, he took the wounded man to Marvin's drug , store, Being in agreat hurry to get home, instead | exit of the prisoner with the oMcer who had him in | of waiting with Panormo, as Marvin says, Miller | charge, THE NASSAU STREET HOMICIDE. Jobo Glass Dying—Costello Rearrestrd. John Glass, who was so fearfully beaten by James Costello in McElroy’s saloon on Nassau street on Sunday week, is dying, Cerebro-meningitis, une most dangerous symptom in the case, has set in, as was anticipated by the doctors, and all hope of bis | recovery has now been abandoned. He has been delirious since Saturday, and is suffering the most horrible pain. His wife never leaves his bedside, and the doctors are unremitting In their attendance upon him. Had his constitution not been of more than ordinary strength he would have long since succumbed, as his wounds are of a terrible nature. If he lives, which is now almost an impossibility, ne will be disfigured for ite, as his nose 1s slit open with a cut of the Knife Costel!o used upon him. Yesterday. morning, when Judge Dowling heard of the condition Glass was in, he sent Sergeant Quinn to rearrest Costello, who Was admitted to bail, Costello was found im_ bed tn his house, 92 Prospect street, Brooklyn, He said to Sergeant Quinn that he would not for $10,000 have Glass die, as he had no idea of kill. ing him when he used the knife, which he had recourse io in self-defence. He says the occurrence has been @ most unfortunate one for him; he had just succeeded in gaining a position in which he could have realized a compe. tency, and that now all his hopes are blasted. ‘The people who dwell in the same house give him a igh character as a harmless, inoffensive man, and are astonished that ne should have become implicated in any transaction that would oring him into troubie. He has been committed to the Tombs to await the death or recovery of nis victim. THE METHODIST PREACHERS. What the Saviour Kuew About Himself and What Rev. Dr. Curry Kuows About Him— Christ Not God Until He Was Thirty Years of Age. One of the most interesting essays or lectures ever read or delivered before the Methodist Preachers’ Association was that delivere. yesterday. by their unanimous request, by the Rev. Dr. Curry. The Doctor has the reputation among his ministerial brethren of being a first rate analytical theologian, and his lecture yesterday was decidedly suggestive. lt treated mainly of the character of Christ in reference to His humanity and His divinity—a sub- Ject which has been niade so prominent recently by Mr. worth’s secession from the Unitarian fula for His sake. The Doctor gave utterance some new and strange thoughts, which feil on the ears and hearts: of a good many of his brethren with some little suddenness and surprise. Among other things he said he believea that JESUS KNEW NOTHING ABSTRACTLY about His own aivinity unt He was baptized by John in Jordan. Some have asserted that when the Saviour lay a babe in the manger He knew that He was the Almighty God, but the speaker did not be. | lieve it. Tradition also relates of Him that when making clay birds witn other little boys He would make fils fly, while theirs remained immovable. But sucn a thing would be too degrading tothe Saviour to believe. This knowledge of his Messianic character came, too, not by mtuition, but by revelation, and ths rev- elation was made to Him when, at the baptism, “the Spirit descended like a dove and abode upon Him.” Satan kuew Him then as the rigut man. He (the evil one) had been looking for Him before, but how had touad Him and prepared his temptations ‘with special relererce to Cnrist’s Messiahship. How did Satau come to tempt the Lord Jesus? By special or personal manifestation? While otters may see a ‘eat deal of the supernatural in these temptations e (Curry) saw @ great deal that was natural. And ‘as boy or man up to this time there was no manifest difference vetween Him and other boys and men. Its said that this evil manifestation Was spiritual, but in the Loctor’s opinion it might have been psy- chological. ‘The spiritual overcame the physical, as 1t sometimes does with believers in prayer. 1n dis- sectiug the Character of the temptations Dr. Curry saw NOTHING EXTRAORDINARY IN| THEM. Jesus had been forty days without food, and upon recovering from His spir tual or psychological fa- tigue His first question would naturaily be, where should He find food. The devil knew and Carist Himself Knew that He could convert the stones into bread, and if He had done so to appease His own hunger it might have been excusable. He afte: ward red multitudes with a few loaves and fishes, Which was a8 greata miracie as tnis would have been, But in all fis history there 1s no evidence that Christ ever wrought a miracie for His own ben- efit, He never sought or used his ecclesiastical office for selfish or secular purposes, a3 some of His foilowers do. (Murmurs, ‘That's so,”) There ts not a single instance where He used His divine power tor Himself. ‘his was Satan’s first attempt to secular- we religion, He never wrought a prodigy to gratiiy curiosity; though the second temptation, to throw Himself down irom a pinuacle of the Tem- ple or tower, would, no doubt, have secured His recognition as the Messiah among the Jews, who constantly Clamored for a sign from Heaven. The third temptation—Satan taking Christ up to a high mountain—was maniestly a psycnologtcal one. ‘There ts no mountain irom which all the kingdoms of the world can be seen; and some have declared that because tne devil promised to give all these to Jesus if He would fall dowa and worslup him, therefore the devil lied. But he did not he, and he owas this world Sy | almost as completely as he did 1,800 years ago. This was SATAN’S LAST CARD, and, finding Jesus mfexibie, the devil went away vowing ceaseless hostility to Christ and His Churcii. It is evident from these temptations that Ourist was as liable to them and to sin as otner men. But it does not follow, therefore, that God was trying experiments to undo by the second Adam the wrong4ioing of the frst Adam. On the contrary, they prove that God kvew from the beginning tnat Jesus would successfully resist those temptations, and thus give an impulse and a power to ali other men to resist aud tiumpu over them, too. THE RESULTS OF CHRIST'S REJECTION of these proffers uf service of the wicked one were briefy pomted ont, and stress was iaid upon tue statement that us-returned in the power of the Spirit into Gaiilee,” which was a divine exaltation of soul, @ holy enthusiasm for the great work Wat was before Him, The lecture occupied one hour and a half In its delivery, and was listened to with profound atten- tion. scepuc might easily draw the interence from 1t that “God was tn Christ reconciling the world unto Himselt’’ for not more than three of the thirty-three years of His life, and might, with good reason, reject His divinity, At Its close a special committee reported resolutions in regard to the death ot the Rev. A. U. Fields, a member of the New York Conference, which occurred ten days ago. ‘The resoluvions Were unanimously advpted ana en- tered on the minutes, THE RECENT RAILROAD ACCIDENT, Coroner Herrman yesterday held an inquest at the City Hall in the case of Isaiah Lawrence, the colored man, late of 172 Thompson street, who, on Friday last, was run over in Thompson street, near Prince, by car 123 of the Broadway and Seventn Avenue Kailroad Company, and almost instantly killed. Dec: rusued into tue street suddenly, and in attempting to jump on the front platiorm of the car, without notifying the driver to stop, slipped and jell before the wheel, which passed over his head, ‘Ihe jury considered the ovourrence acciden- tal and sugh was their verdict, Beecher’s “Life of Christ’? and Mr. Hep- | to | hi alleges that he walked off, At first he aftirmed tnat | he reached bis house without meeting anybody, but on being pressed he admitted that he met A STRANGE MAN, who hailed him by name and to whom he told the | story of is finding Panormo. This strange man, | Whom Miller says he did not know, turns out to be | | gn intimate friend, who ridicules tne statement | | that Miller aid not know him, Muller then went on vo say that his wife was not at home when he got \ there. The next morning he went over on business to New York, returning about ten o'clock. He then | proceeds to say thatin the afternoon he went over | to New York, with no definive purpose. At Barclay | street he took the Highth avenue cars, Getting off about Twenty-eighih street, he walked seven or eight blocks. He swears that he entered neither house nor barroom, and that he met nobody with | ' whom he was acquainted. Returning in the even- | ing from this extraordinary excursion he says he | | found his wife at home. After smoking a pipe, | without teliing bis wife anything abouc Panormo’s murder, hesays he went to bed. His wife, however, says that after sitting silent for some time he said, | “What a pity a man ever gets drunk.” After | | While he told ner the story of bis finding Panormo, | offering no comment upon it. THE INQUEST. The inquest touching the assassination of Pa- normo was resumed velore Coroner Jones and jury yesterday, and the jollowing evidence elicited: — EVIDENCE OF WILLIAM SCOIT. Iknew Mr, Panormo; he taught me; he arrived at our house on Tuesday evening last at a quarter, pst nine; he gave me a lesson, and afterwards, I asked him to play a Iarch, which he'aid; he then took out a memorandum b90k name down in it and left; [ went as far as tie he was going; I did @ did not show any Hot pay him any money that ni either; I never saw him show a nev; he always gave me my lessons at nigut; bis tine to be there was at half-past eight; wi he jeft he went up towards Myrtie avenue; | saw no one inthe neighborhood; he was aique. EVIDENCE OF PROFESSOR NAVARRO, L reside at 222 Duilield street; I # professor of music; I yrtle avenue car on Tuesday evening last; 1 think | rer past ten; the car was going toward Fwton | street; I got on the car at acquainted | with John B. Panormo by sight: I go before he had blood on 0 gentlemen | crossed r to him; | saw him pay his fare; he did not seem | to me to be very seriously tojured; I am certain that he was | not injured in the car; I got of at Jay street and left him in ‘the car, EVIDENCE OF HUGH RILEY. I reside in Myrtle avenue, No. 323; I am employed in the Custom House stores ; on Tuesday evening, the aid inst, 1 waa at the corner of Cumberland street and Park avenue} I should think it was about # quarter or twenty minutes ten; 1 saw a man named Mier; it was a cold night, | and he 'was walking quick; I said'to Mbier, | “Halloo, | what's your hurry ?”” he said, “I'm going home} he then told me he had seen a man down at the corner ail bleeding; Lsaid, “What corner 2” he anit at the, corner of Oxford atree Fark avenue; I said, “What's the matter with mf he said he didn’t know, but that he was all Dieeding when he came along; 1 said, “I guess Pl take a walk down there and see who it is; 4 went down toward the drug store after bidding Miller good nigut who said be had to get up early in the morning to go to work; when I got to the corner of Oxford street and Park avenue I saw a men standing up bleeding, his face turned towards the drug | store; there were three of four men with bim when I went down} L asked of them what was the matter with bim ; they | said they didn't know; I said, “Why don't you take him into | | the druggist’s and get ‘him dressed /"” they went to tue diug | store with bim, and the man shut the door right in bis face und | | never offered to take him in; the wounded man asked where FP | Myrtle avenue was, and we tuid him, and he turned round aud ed on about iis business; he staggered at first; the night cold and not very dark; there was a light in the dry en I met Miller he agitated; before I saw Miller I saw two c ing off pretty lively on the other sice of the street; I no one cry ior help; Lhave never examined the’ sidewalk where bé had been beaten, either on that night or after; Miller did not tell me where he had been, except that he had come from down town; he was going home in the direction ‘of Clermont avenue, where he lives; Miller 1s T’ve known bim for twelve years, and never sult anybody. EVIDENCE OF MR. WASSERMAN, Benoit Wasserman, being aworn, deposes and says:—T live ‘at 368 Myrtle avenue; on Tuesday evening, January 23, I took a Myrtie avenue car, at Carlton avenue, about two min- | ‘utes to fen o'clock (1 am not sure whetoer it was a Green- | point car or not), in company with my sister; she entered the | car, while 1 remained on the rear platform; on reachin; | Cumberiand street, or just past the corner, the car stoppe | and @ man entered and sat down alongside of a lady, who started at his appearance, which attracted my attention; I ten that the man had a handkercatef to his face and that it was atore all the time; ! COVERED WITH BLOOD; saw the conductor approach him, whereupon the man felt in one pocket of bis ves: and took out one cent, then felt in the other pocket and took out money, which he banded the conductor, receiving no change in return ; I then sald to the conductor that he should not allow a man in that condition on the car; he said the regulations allowed any person on the car who acted propery; a gentleman came irom the otcer side of the car and asked him how he bad been hurt; he repiied he was hurt by some one; on asking bim where and by whom hurt, he could not speal on arriving at Pineapple street be raised his tinger and the conductor stopped the car, and the injured man stepped off without touching the hand rail to support him; the men who came from the end of the car were told by the’ injured man that he had lost bis watch In the car; search was made by the man, but the watch was not found, the injured man was examining ali his pockets and I thought he was delirious; £ told the conductor that this might cause trouble, and if so L was willing to give my address, which I did; I rode to Nass street and then my sister and inyself went to Adams street ; he told one of the passengers that be was hurt by some ersons; Lremember of a gentleman who I unucrstand was r. Navarro, going in from the rear platform and speaking | to the injured man; what he said or the answers I did not hear: on coming out again he the injured man was a | professor of music, giving bis name and residence, saying | also that he was @ perfect gentleman, and not to put him off the car; 1 heard indistinctly from the man or the conductor that ne (Navarro) been attacked the game evening near Cariton avenue; o remember the conductor telling the injured man’ to go into a drug store; he said “No.” he wished to go home: the injured was ery small man; did not think he weighed one hundred pounds; he had no overcoat on; he had biack alde whiskers and mustache; I did not notice nim particularly ull he sat down in the car; aaw no one in the neighborhood of where he entered the car; my father was attacked by three men in front of his own house in Prince street, on the evening of the 15th, about a quarter past nine o'ciock, and was robbed of 10, Bil he had in ils possession ; be wa: ked on his own stoop; he # a professor of languages; Professor Navarro got on the car near Cariton avenue; he not on when | took the car, but was wher the dnjured man got on. EVIDENCE OF HENRY BEHMANN, Henry Behmann, sworn. said—I roaide at No. 214 Myrtle avenue; am joon keeper: was in my saloon all the even- ing on the 28d inst. ; mr. Miller was there; he left at ten min- uutes of ten ; Miller lives in Clermont avenv Jast night to that effect, a0 that 1 could let hi ably of his arrest); I have spoken to Miller asked him about the trouble be had got into, you see how easy it is;" I said, “Where were ihat time of might?” he sald, “L was going home versation was carried on fn Raymond street jni point the jailer took me by the arm and wouldn't allow fo epexk to him any more; when Miller was in my saloon had a gray coat on aud a cap—a blue cap, I think; Miller a pedier; he us horse and wagon; I never saw Mill Quarrel; he was as easy a man as ever came in my place; when be left my place he weat out alone. EVIDENCE OF ‘THE CONDUCTOR GALVIN. Samuel Galvin, sworn, sail:—I live at the Greenpoint vies; Lam a conductor on the Greenpoint and Myrtle Ave- fe line; Lran # car on Tuesday, the 23d Inst,, in the even- ing; 1 remember a man who was bleeding coming on my ou | amined the wound on the side of | Sherif! named William Raynor the car; T asked who had hit him, and he said “A man” he | Washburn, a well known citizen, in Hen ay, wetre; then} eoked fe ht 4 arom, was returning to his nome from New Y¢ answer ; te] Fcipatce eas tho, dates aa gare edad Nea Re PAGED Tag? Rove 1 got off the car ai ; L did not im say | tn ' anything about losing bis watch or ha\ been robbea; inking for a moment the danger which ve don't know if the for stopped the car to let him get of awaiting him. Just as he near the corner at a drug store, and [ thought roan had beep on agpree. Henry street he was app! ed by lour suspicioud EVIDENCE OF MARGARET STILL, looking men, who had just leit a Ly T reside at 257 Cariton avenue; honse there; on liquor saloon, At first Mr. Washburn no lovee J evening last I was down at "el. Cum- tention, but as they came closer to him he saw @ ation An tiaht oad oft ak altel Oak tame amamainied system In their method mode 0! which with Mr: Kuliziers sons he wes at hone thatevening; he Dedéd No good to him. He had @ heavy loaded Was there from a quarter to eight until I left, and him | Cane with him, and he prepared himself for the ex~ e; Tam certain he didn’t go out while { was pected attack by shortening his hold onit. The Louisa Still was next sworn, and said:—lamadaughter fellows struck him, but he defended himself with of the last witness, and was with her at Mrs. Kuingler’#; I iis cane and they fled, heard her testimo ry borat ord of it. Wilham ¢. Kuinzler, sworn, aald—T live at) land street; am a black: the 3d in: wath hal; smith; on the evening of Tuesday, t., Twas not out of my house from eight o'clock past ven; the last two witnesses on the stand were on that evening between those hours, would state, gentiemen of the jury, that Mr. Kuwimnzler was not under arrest on any warrant of mine, DR. SHEPARD was then sworn—Iam a regularly educated physician and surgeon; have a diploma; reside in Willoughby street; I made a post-mortem examination on the body of Jon B, Fanormo, at No. 108 Pineapple street. on the day following hi ; Lexamined the iy externally and found no in. i” body or limbs; I found a scalp wound on the lett top of the head of about three ti anda hal fills wound had been closed, by the ph ng bysician im atlendance before death; one incised wound at the outer extremity of the upper ‘eyelid was also found; on pass ing the probe through this open.ng 1 found the bones of the skull comminuted; 1 removed the scalp, and found no frace {ure beneath the scalp wound at the top of the head, but the bones beneath the littie incised wound at the left brow, consisting of both tables of the scalp, were fractured and crushed in to depth of three-quarters of an inch at the greatest depression; the iregu- lar diameter of this crushed surface was about two inches one way and four # the other, long diameter being from before backward ; I dissecte | the upper lip, and found w fracture of jawbone on th it side, at ite attachment with the cartilage of the nose wound extended throne the optical arch and crossed the face obliquely, fracturing the ‘awbone; this wound must have bee. inflicted with p singe, biow, and undoubtedly with ‘the same instrument which inilicted the scaip wound at the ‘the head, the resistance of the hat preventing roducing @tracture beneath the scalp wound; 1 removed the top of the skull and found a clot of blood about four ounces in quantity, beneath the fractured bones, ‘and preasing on the brain; in my opinion death resulted from compression of the brain, caused by the clot of blood, which was itself proiuced by tue divided vessels at the fractured point; found the other orgaus of the body perfectly healthy ; an unusual absence of organic lesions of any description; 1 think the wound was inflicted by a very heavy instrument an inch or inch and a baif in widih—provably an iron bar; the blow must have been intlicted with a good deal of violence; the wound on the top of the head was given first, and the other one when the victim was down. At this point the Coroner adjourned the inquest ‘until three o'clock. AFTER RECESS, Dr. Joseph Snyder testitied that he was a practising phy- siclan aod surgeon; was calied to attend Mr. Panormo oa the evening of the’ 28d inst. ; found him seated on the sofa face, covered with biood and bleeding protusely; ex- the head and found’ the skuil fractured; I closed it up and arrested the bleeding and he then grew sick at the stomach; aiso detected a fracture of the skuil at the temporal bone; when be vomited it seemed like hemorrhage of the Jungs; there ‘were symptoms of compression of the brain at the stayed with him until twelve o'clock; his statements © ‘the injury were not to be relied upon’ except as to his pain; was called at six o'clock the next morning, when he ‘Was éviuentiy suffering {rom compression of the brain; saw him again at ten o'clock, and then called Dra, Seaver and Crosby ; he was en.irely unconscious trom six o'clock, and died #00n after twe.ve o'clock on the Mth; he repeated three or four times that he had been wounded in the car and was struck by the man who sat next to him; told him he must have been mistaken, WHERE PANORMO WAS FOUND. Hugh Sherry, a machinist, testified that he found the de- | ceased woun ied and bleeding in Park avenue, about ten or twelve feet irom Ox ord street ; the tine wai utea to ten; he was on the south side of bout ten min- street; there | was no one with him at the time; he was in the act of ising, and | was unk, on bis knees; thought he was ‘and was in the act’ of passing him, Ing 80 much blood stopped, took hiny by the arms and What have you been doing’ with yourself 7 he was speak distinctly, and I could not understand bis iy; just then another man came along, and they took him over to the drug store; asked the druggist to see what he could do for the wounded man, and the druggist salt he thought the man had been taking alittle too much; he sald we might find a policeman on Myrtle avenue, for THEY NEVER SHOWED TUKMSELVES ON PARK AVENUE; went to the starion house and was there told a policeman might be (ound about three blocks off; found one at Navy street and was told by him that the wounded man had just one down on a Myrtle avenue car; then went home; the ruggist did not examine the wounds or come within four feet; the woundea man tried to speak but only stammered ; did not wear a il,ht overcoat, ‘The Coroner stated at this point that he had ex- hausted his witnesses and would close the case, or adjourn it and wait for rurther developments if the jury desired. The jury were of the opinion they had better adjourn the case, and the Coroner ac- cordingly adjourned it until Monday next. THE DETECTIVES AT WOXK. It is true that the rookiyn detectives have been thus far unavle to come up with the murderer of Protessor Panormo, but they have done the next best commendable thing in the premises and under the circumstances— i. @, they last evening arrested a@ boy for selling a New York paper containing an account ot the tragedy. The prisoner, John Brady, was caught cleverly by Devectives Finstrouc and Corwin while in the act of loudly bawling, “xtra! Full account of another Lorribie murder!’ ~The “other horrible murder” was a fraud, as the paper proved upon capture to contain stmply the particulars conceru- ing the robbery of @ Mr. Hoyt. The prisoner was taken before the Sergeant of the Detective Squad, Harry Vau Wagner, who lectured him in presence ny of several other secret service oficiais and then | sent him to the station house to await cxanfination. Shall the Police Force Be Increased ? At the meeting of the Brooklyn Common Council held yesterday afternoon Alderman Ripiey Ropes, of the Third ward, offered a resolution requesting the Committee on Laws to report at the next session of the Board whether it 1s really expedient to mcrease the police force of the city; and ifif 1s expedient he desired that tne committee should report the num- ber of the proposed increase. He desired that the Legislature should be petitioned to grant the Com- mon Council the necessary power to add to the pres- ent force, ‘The President, Mr. Bergen, said that it was not necessary to petition the Legislature in the matter, as the powers of the Board were ampie. Un motion, the resolution of the genuleman of the Third ward was laid on the table, . DEATH OF ALBERT EAST. Albert East, the friena of Panormo, who shot him- self through the head at his boarding house, corner of Pineapple ana Fulton streets, on Sunday last, died’from hs wounds in the “accident ward” of the Brooklyn City Hospital, between four and five o’clock yesterday morning, The Coroner will hold the inquest over the body to-day. HIGHWAY ROBBERIES IN BROOKLYN. One Citizen Shot and Another Knocked Senseless with a Siung-shot. It woula seem as if the streets of Brooklyn were swartuing with highwaymen, for scarcely a might passes but some citizen is waylaid and robbed. The boldness with which these men go about their work is pretty conclusive evidence that they have no particular dread of the po- lice, for they call upon men to stand and deliver their property on the most public thorough. fares in the city, or sneak up behind them and smash in their skulls, asim the case of poor Panormo, the musician. At half-past eleven o’clock on Sun- day nignt one of those daring thieves accosted Mr. Walter T. Hoyt, of 90 Middagh street, as he was passing the corner of Henry and Middagh street on nis way home. The villain boldly approached Mr. Hoyt and in the most audacious manner DEMANDED TO KNOW THE TIME, at the same tume laying his hand upon his shoulder, Mr. Hoyt knocked his nand from his shoulder and tola the thef he had nowatch, The thief then raised a revolver he had in his hand and discharged it at Mr. Hoyt, who, divining bis act, threw up lis left arm, d received the bali about four inches above the wrist. Mr. Hoyt cried. “Marder |’? and the would-be assassin fled down the street as fast as he could go. Dr. Kissam was cailed in and dressed Mr. Hoyt’s wound and a description was tnen given to the police of the Second pre- cinctof ms assatiant, It was that of a tail man With a sioucn hat and wearing along mustache. A man vf this description was shortly after founa in the neighbo:hvod, im the person of a Deputy ‘This man was taken before Mr. Hoyt and partialiy identified by | nim as the person who shot him, He was arrested ‘aat Dunn, of the The accused was taken before yaish, but was liberated on his own recog- by Roundsman Phelan and Serg Second precinct. Justice nizance. KNOCKED SENSELESS WITH A SLUNGSHOT, On Sunday night Mr. H. Van den Houten, aged about fifty years, of 156 Prospect street, was return. ing home from @ meeung of the Holland Soctety— of which he is treasurer—at the ly hour of ten o'clock, When he was attacked m benind, in Prospect street, within three doors of Bridge street, and received a severe blow on the head with @ slung car; on my twenty-nine minutes to ten trip from Greenpoint, coming to Fulton ferry; in Myrtle avenue, in the vicinity af Oxtord and Cumberland streets, the car stopped, and » dark-complexioned, small man’ got on, went ' inside and sat down in’ a corner; a lady occupied tne corner Of the car; the amail man came near aitting upon her; the lady saw the uian was biveding, and showed tuere were between tive and eight, p ‘as bleeding, and I stopy the first nil requested the gentleman to get off and bave his wounds aressed ; he made no reply and the car went on; when I got to Canton street he gave ine a five cent piece to pay nix fare; when I got to City Hall} eae & drug store on Fulton street, at the corner of Washington, as THE PASSENGERS WERE EXCITED, and insisted that he should have bis wounds dtessed there; he wouldo’t get out and the car went on, as he sald he'd go home to Pineapple street; just after the car started he com: ots, and satd he had lost bis w: id y car the passengers e atehes and @ search was made, but no watch was found; I told him be bad not iost it in @ car; I stopped the car at Pineapple street and he got out, unassisted by anybody ; 1 went down to the Fulton ferry; ot report the case because it did not bappen ees a eer used bow lacked by two men; he did not +1 did not im where tie haa peed hurt; there was no man sitting alongside of him at all from the time te until he Mr. Navarro tol me that he knew the injured man reputation in very respectable society. born lacdn.at EVIDENCE OF JAMES BURRILI. James Burrill was then sworn and waid:—I live at No, 104 Duilield street; am a outcher; was ona Myrtle avenue car or, Tuesday evening, when deceased got on; he was wounded whan be came 10 (he car; no one siuck or touched him im shot. Before he had a chance to look around for his assailants he received another terrible blow, which felled him to the sidewalk. He cried out, “FOR GOD'S SAKE DON'T MURDER Me, you must have got the wrong man.” The ruMan next put his knee on the poor man’s heart and com- menced feeling him ali over in search of his valu- ables, All the victim can remember after thie 1s that the roboer puiled the ball of the slung shot, Which, he had forced in his victim's mouth .w_ pre- vent his crying out for help, ana struck him another murderous blow on the side of the head, which made him unconscious, It would appear that the miscreant heard sieps p- proacting or was frightened arty, by some mieans, tor on recovering his senses Mr. Van den Houten found his watch and money still in his possession. The Poe Tb at being inter rupted made the brutal wretch give his bieeding victim one more blow. Terribly bleeding and weak- ened by the loss 01 blood, Ww nich flowed so profusely as to drip from his clothing, Mr. Van den slouten reached home, after falling tnree times, altuougn made almost unrecognizable, and ‘png marked for the rest of ls Lue, ‘The fact of nis being Irea- surer Ol the above named Society of Hollanders, and the probability of the yearly payments of the members coming in at this time, itis presumed led to the assault, which was nearly the cause of his death, ATTEMPTED HIGHWAY ROBBERY, At eleven o'clock on Saturday night Air. Harry ‘at No. — Cumber- | DICK TURPIN IN BROOKLYN, ‘The Brooklynites are at present lorcibly reminded of “ye olden times” when Dick Turpin and Claude Duval were wont to infest the suburbs of London, Stop the mail coaches and private conveyances and demand of the passengers their ‘money or their life.” Stil another daring highway robbery is reported witnin the limits of the churchiy city, About eight o’ciock last evening the police of thé Ninth sub-precinct report two sturdy ruMans accosted Mr. Lewis McLauguim, @ collector for Har- rison & Bros,, cerner of Washington avenue and Pacific street, as the latver was seated in a light Wagon, driving along Atlantic avenue, near Clove Road, who ordered him to stop At the same mo- ment one of the men seized the reins and the other demanded his money. Fearful of the consequences should he refuse them, McLaughlin handed them all the money he had—$3 18. POLITICAL MOVEMENTS AND VIEWS. atl NATIONAL. mae Republican, Philauelphia—Junt Literal Republican, cincinpatl—May 1, STATE, ETC. Connecticut, Democrauc—February 6 Ohio, Labor Retorm—February 14. Indiana, Kepublican—Fevruary 22. Missouri, Republican—February 22, Onio, Temperance—February 22. Penvsylvania, Republican--April 10, Fioriaa, Republican—April 10, Texas, Republican—June 11, The Missourl Liberal Movement. {From the St. Louls Republican, Jan. 26.) Tne Missouri liberals opened the Presidential campaign on Wednesday with a shout and @ cnarge. They do not go back nor stand still; they move straight upon the enemy's works, They discern, as if by instinct, who 1s their foe, and their fire converges directly upon him. Thetr artillery is trained upon the White House and the Congres. | Stonal majority, and they do not even attempt to conceal the fact that they aim at nothing short of | the dereat of the administration party and the | overthrow of the unrepablican and undemocratic policy of force which that party maintains, The Massachusetts Temperance Meu on a High Horse. The temperance movement in Massachusetts is becoming more and more intensified. At the late State ‘temperance Convention resolutions were adopted requesting the Legislature to restore the prohibitory law of 1867, with amendments; making | the implements of a liquor store containing liquor | prima sacie evidence of guilt; excluding liquor , dealers as other criminals {rom the jury box; secur ing the right to challenge liquor drinkers from tae Jaty at discretion; making the punishment for ua- lawrul sales thirty days’ imprisonment for the first | offence, sixty days for tne second, aud so on, doub- ing the time of imprisonment for each and every | succeeding offence; avolishing the Liquor Commis- | sion and leaving the State police under the control of the Governor, as tora making every person Who unlawiully sells or gives away liquor responsl- ble for damage arising thereiro:m, Delegates to the Republican National Con- vention. It {s asserted that it is not altogether certain as yet whether the Connecticut delegation to the ike- | publican National Convention are unanimously in the renomination of General Grant. The ; favor of Albany Ecpress doubts it, The delegates are not istructed as to how they shall vote, and some of them are weil known as strong anti-Grant men, The Georgia delegates were imstructed to favor the renomination of General Grant, the State Exec- utive Committee kinaly assuming the whole respon. sibuity of choosing and instructing the delegates, On this subject the Savannah Republican (demo- cratic) saysi:— It seems hard, though, to get the delegation to stick as the committee made it, Wimpey has de- clined the appomument froin the Sixth istrict be- cause he does not live in 1t, and Judge Lochrane, not liking the company he has been placed in, will likely follow suit. Bloagett, too, having attained to sumicient unenviable notoriety, also declines, and Whitely goes in his place, beating Akerman 19 to 1. Somebody else, it is suid, then retired, im order to give the €x-Atlorney General another chance, but whicn put ton vote acolored “man and brotuer'? Deat him just three to one. What che complexion or the deleyauion will be In June next itis inpossibie to say. Perhaps it will have evaporated ennrely, | as the Farrow wing is moving with all power to ups | Set the recent action of the Executive Committee | and secure the appointment of delegates by a regu- lar convention of the purty. Demecratic Movements in Washington. {Washington (Jan, 28) correspondence of the Boston Post—aemocratic.] The democrats in Congiess having decided by a large majority last week that it would be better to postpone definite action upon political subjects: until probably some time in February, in order that they might have the benefit of the further development of the plans of the republican leaders for consideration, the minority of that dem- ocratic caucus, believing that the delay will be in- jurious, and that immediate action should be had by some democratic organization, including repre- sentatives from all parts of the United States, have prevailed upon the National Democratic Resident Congressional Committee to hold @ meet. ing on Tuesday next for a general consultation upon the situation. This organization 1s composed ol members of Cangress and promineut democratic citizens of Washington. ‘The general sentiment of democrats in Congress 13 yet Opposed to organized action, and they are encouraged to persist in this id tor a few weeks longer by the information re- ceived here that througuout the West and Nortn- west there is a movement going on among the con- servative republicans to secure the adoption of a platiorm in Its features resembling that of the Mis- sourl conservative republicans, adopted some aays ago. The New York Custom House. [From tne Boston Advertiser—republican—Jan. 29.) ‘fhe developments in the Custom House examina. tion at New York cannot be regarded otherwise than with sincere regret by the true friends of the administration, and they indicate clearly the duty of appointing as Collector a citizen whose high | standing would amount to a guarantee that every | abuse will immediately be reformed. isi ‘The strain put upon our tmstitutions by the corrup- tion in municipal bodies aud im public and other posts, whica have been lately developed, must be corrected at all hazards, or they will prevail to an extent which will jeopard the safety of free governo- ment. Happily the confidence in the President is not seriously impaired by what has occurred at New York, but it would be unsafe to suppose that it may mot be if it continue. The Indignity to Fred Douglass. {From the Providence Journal (rep.), Jan. 29.) Senator Sumner’s Civil Rights bill, or sometning like it, we must think, is demanded by the low-lived insolence to which colored people who have risen above the common level of their race In culture and refinement are so frequently sabjected, Instances are constantly occurring in which black men and women are denied the equal privileges to which mere money can procure admission for all other people. Mr. Frederick Douglass, on Is return last spring from St. Domingo, though attached to the Commis- sion of the United States, was not suffered Lo sit ab | vhe table with the cabin passengers on board a Po- tomac steamer. He has lately been subjected to @ Similar indignity at a Western hoiel. Colored men less conspicuous than he, but of equally respectable characters, are constantly compelled to undergo all sorts of insolent anuoy- ances in different parts of the couniry solely be- cause of their color. [If equal citizenship is any- ung more than an empty name in this country these things ou, ht to be stopped, and I they canbe stopped in no other way 1t may well be done by an act of Congress passed specially for the purpose. Miscellaneous. The republicans of Buffalo have renominated Alexander Brush for Mayor. The German-American Reunion and Reform Asso- ciation of Cincinnati promises to co-operate heartily with the Missouri liberal republican movement, “PROZEN TO DEATH, Yesterday morning, about eight o'clock, Mr. B. Fs Robinson, United states Assessor, was leaving his residence for the day, at Ridgewood, Bergem county, N.J., when he © ° the naked corpse of @ man lying on lis lawn, Assistance Was sent for, and, on searching the clothing of the man, which lying by pote it Was found that the name of the deceased was Fredrick Vort, that he was bors in Copenhagen and was a United States soldter, There were also checks for baggage belonging to him ying atthe Erie Railroad ottices. From pers Hiwould. appear that be had been disc onl Fort Wayne. Further inquiries sag fim showed that he had been in Ridgewood simce Satur- aay, and that be has relations somewhere in New York. Jtis suppowed taat the Man Was insane