The New York Herald Newspaper, February 13, 1872, Page 3

CITY AFFAIRS. Meetings of the Aldermen and As- sistant Aldermen, Appointment of Sergeant-at-Arms by the Board | aictment, aud upon which it is drawn, are substan- ef Aldermen—Important Action as to the Let- ting of Contracts—The City Markets— A Card from Commissioner Sands— Resignation of Mr. Cornell from the Croton Water Department Board of Aldermen. Phe regular weekly meeting of this Board was hela yesterday. ‘There was a full attendance, and all the newly-elected officers were ia their places, President Cochrane opened the proceedings, and then vacated the chair pro tem. to“ Alderman Van Benaick, the President taking his Aldermanic seat fer the purpose of taking part in‘ the proceedings, Alter the reading of the minutes of the previous meeting President COCHRANE announced that Alder. men Kadde, Falconer and Joyce were appointed a Committee on a resolution offered by Alderman Radde at the last meeting as to the proposed Regis- uy law. THE CORPORATION ADVERTISING. The petition trom the German Reform Association, aa read in the Board of Assistant Aldermen, was read in this Board, and was referred to the Com- muttee on Printing and Advertisins. EXTENSION OF LAFAYETTR PLACE. Alderman MEHRBACH moved a resolauon in ref erence to the extension ol La:ayette place. Alderman CONNOR said he was not prepared eituer to oP be referrs adepted. APPOINTMENT OF SERGEANT-AT- ARMS. Alderman COCHRANE moved that Lous Jacobs be appoinced Sergeaat-at-Arms tor tue year 1872 Mr. Jacobs was unanimously elected. LELTING OF CONTRACTS, President CocHRANE moved the folowing resolu- jon: — Resolved, the Board of Assistant Aldermen concurrin That hereafter no contract be made or let by authority of the Common Council for paving or repairing the pavement ef any street the city of New York depart roby on here- r, without the same, both when fob and supply shall involve the expenditure of more or leas than ove ‘housand dollars, shall Befounded on a previous compliance in every particular ‘with the conditions made previously requisite by section 104 ef the charter as to ‘OF vroposals, as to public Rotice duly advertised, as to the lowes: bidder, as to security, Adequacy, justidcation and approval of the same, an as to tae publicity of the opening of the proposals or bids; and that no proposals or bids for vin avement shalt be received or enter to the Committee oa Streets, which was ade ment of said oity, 0} moto authorized whateve ined, as tue same in thus velag noticed preveut such eom- Pepition among bidders as it is the ovjest of sald section to secure, After a short discussion the resolation was or- Gered to be printed and considered at the next Meeting. PROPERTY IN FOURTH AVENUE. Alderman CoNnNOok moved that the Comptroller be Fequested Lo act as in lis judgment may ve deemed best with regaré Lo properts in relation W premises en the east bide of Fourth aveuue, between I'wenty- seventh and ‘I'wenty-eighth streets, the lease of | regard to Which expired January 16, 1872, and which had been let to the city at a renwal of $025, Tne motion ‘waa agreed tu. ‘The Board, after the transaction of some routine adjourned avout five o'clock. Board of Assistant Aldermen, A meeting of the Board was held yesterday, President Wall in the chair. THE GAS QUESTION. A petition of the Anti-Monopolists’ Association ‘was read by the clerk a3 to the manutacture of gas. This petition was referred to the Committee on Lampe and Gas, CITY ADVERTISING. A petition from the German Reform Association ‘Was read respecting the advertising in the Corpora- tien papers, and recommeading that a digest of the Proceedings be published. The petition was re- ferred to the Committee on Laws. THE PAY OF THE LABORERS. Alderman GALVIN moved a resolution that the Degality of reducing the pay of the laborers of the Department of Puolic Works and Department of Parks oe referred for the opinion of the Corporation Counsel. In supporting tuis resolution Alderman GaLVIN sald that Wwe laws passed in 1864 as lo this question had not been repealed, and he was of an @pinion that the Commissioners of these Depart Menta were over-zealous in commencing their work ef retrenchment With the poor lavorers, the reso- lution was adopted. STREET CLEANING, derman CONNOR moved a resolution as to street aning, recommending that the contracts be given in aistricis, and that tae Algerman of each district exercise a supervision as to tue laithiul periorin- ance of the contract. ‘Ine matter was relerred to the Commitice on streets. THE BUREAU OF MARKETS. Aresolation was adupted requesting the Comp- troller to iurnish this Koard the number of attachés 4n the Bureau of Markets and tne saiaries they each receive, und aiso the daies ol their appointment, and whether. tue clerks of markew have power to lease stails in the markets. » Mr. HALL, the Pre.ident of the Board, presented a resolution to pave with Belgian pavement 1 6th Street, irom Lariem River \o Manhattan street, and Manhattan street, from 125th street to the North River. Kelerred to the Commitiee on Streets, Mr. O'Gorman, Counsel to toe Corporation, sent in his response to a resvlution of the Hoard, nee at its last meeting, asking information trom | im relative to the markets of the city. ‘The follow- tng 18 his answer:— Law DEPARTMENT, OFFIOR OF COUNSEL TO CORPORATION, Feb, 4, era T0 Tan HONORABLE THZ BOARD OF ASSISTANT ALDER, GENTLEMEN—I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your resolution, adopted February 6, as foilows:—\“Ke- solved, that tue Colinsal to the Corporation be requested to communi to this Board as early as possibie bis opinion a to the power of the Commun Council over and 1m respect to markets, making *uch opinion specially and specitically clear on each and every branch of auch subject,” Pursuant tuereto I bag leave to say that by paragraph 2: of section Ll of chapter 137, Laws of 1571, the Common Council is invested With power ‘to make ordinances in relation to the construc repair, care and use of markets, and to enforce obe- @ience thereto by orainary penalties for each and every vio- tion thereof, in such sums as it may deem expe- dient, not exceeding 10. By thie provision | of the Statule the 1urgest legislative authority in reiation to the con- struction, repair, care and use of the markets seems to be cont inc.ading the power to preacri Fents or fees, the moje and manner of dis Stalls, the use to which they shail be devoted, £c. tive power of enforcing the ordinances enacted by mon Council for the regwation of the markets is committed toa “Bureas of ‘keta,” established tn the Finance Depart ment—parazraph 6, section 37, chapter 137, Laws 1870. The revenues arising from the market rents and fees are pledged | tothe sinking fund by an orvinance which by various in relation to the creation of public doc! pose OF support it, and suggested that Ic | NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1872.—TRIPLE SHEED be cancelled. Re- same, in order that bonds = 65 G, CORNELL, spectfully, yours, CHAB! A Card from Tax Commissioner Sands, ‘The following card has been sent to the HERALD for publication:— To THs PusLic:— J beg leave to say a few words to my friends and the public im relation to the indictment found against me by the Grand Jury, on the 10th instant, for negotiating wbat is popuiariy known as the | “Fifteen Mulion Loan.” Tue tacts recited in the it tally the same as | publisned in my card to the pub- lic On the 29th of Ociover, and wuich were trankly and fully proclaimed by myself. It is not shown or claimed im the bill of — indictment that tne negotiation was not entirety | regular, honorable and beneficial to the city aud its treasury, o: that I should have done it for nothing, but a mere technical and legal quibbie ts raised ‘that in consequence of being a Tax Commissioner [ Was debarred irom conducting this lnportant and dificult negotiation, wich was done with so much success thal the advantage to Ue city was equal to nearly one million of doilars. If we have reached ® condition of things in this city when men can be indicted for an honorable business transaction such as Was made by myself, then no business man in this community is saie; it Is only necessary for some enemy or competitor to go before a Grand | Jury and on an ex parte statement procure an in- | dictment, For some months past @ conspiracy has existed in this city, of whieh the New York 7/mes is the mouthpiece, to so beiie, misrepresent and libel me | as to endeavor to force me to retire from pubiic | office. ‘fhe facts in relation to this conspiracy will be developed and proven at no very distant day, when the public will ve able to judge for themselves whois right and who ts wrong. Tne columns of the Times have shown that they endeavored to verrorize and coerce the Grand Jury, and that they antici. pated and announced its action long in advance. shall show in due time what has led vo indicting me for putting @ million of doilars into the oi treasury, and including me 1m the same list wit! men bead are charged with having taken millions Out of it, Ihave labored hard to deserve the support and approval ol our best citizens for many years pas' and I hope to be able to show to ail uuprejudic m.nds that no public act of mine has yet been done | toforfeit their confidence. I have obtained the best legal advice on sections 110 and 115 of the city Charter, upon waich this indictment is drawn, and all \he éminent legal gentlemen unite tn the opinion that I was not aebarred irom conducting the nego- tation in consequence of holding official position, The business community will readily see what @ monstrous and wicked Outrage has been perpe- trated upon me in attempting to punish me for making &@ negotiation which larg? nuvnbers of our | best citizens and many eminent bankers have come | mended in the highest terms. During the recent attacks made upo. me a number of tne presidents | of banks and bunk directors have calied upon me to express their cordial approval of this negotiation. NATHANIEL SANDS. New York, Feb, 12, 1872 FERSY REFORM. The Willinmsburg Ferries and tho Logisia-« tare—Examination of Messrs. George Law and Others Latorested in the Ferries by an Assembly Committee. Afew years azo a committee was appointed by the Legisiature to visit Williamsburg and investt- gate the affairs of the Brooklyn and New York Ferry Company. That committee gave public and | extended notice to citizens to meet them ta Wash- | tmgton Hall, to give such testimony in their ferry grievances as - they saw fit, and the Invitation was cheerfully accepted by thousands. An immense amount of testimony, mucn of 1t damaging to the company, ‘was elicited, and the Legislative Commitee, having compieted their iavestigations, left for the capital. ‘That was about all the good that the people got from the investigation, and there were many un- Charitable persuns heard whispering about being “bought of,” “ihe company has too much money for our poorly-paid legisiators,”’ &c. | In @ subsequent Legislature an attempt was made to send down anotier luvestigating committee; but the belief prevailed in the Capitol on that occasion that it was only for “STRIKING PURPOSES,’? and no committee was sent. ‘his session another committee, consisting o! George U. Bennett, Timo- thy J. Campbell and D. L. Bavcock, all inemoers of the Committee on Commerce and Navigation, were gent down 10 make still another investigation. These gentiemen did not adopt the pian ol their basher pbs by taking a large hall and calling the issatisied burghers wgetuer by pubitc advertise. ment. Tney cailed at THE SMALL PRIVATE OFFICE of the company, near che ferry, at three o'clock yea- terday afternoon, and for three hours asked numer- ous questions of Mi. George Law, Mr. Layton and other heavy stockholders in the company. Tne Vestimony elicited trom ine witnesses was similar to (nat elicited on previous occasions and is not therefore wort: reproducing in the columns of the HERALD. During the investigation there was a ; Sharp display of tact, with some temper thrown in, between Mr. Bennett, the chairman o1 the commit- tee, anu Mr. Georue Law. The investigation closed at seven P. M. and the investigators made prepara- tons to leave for Albany in a late train. i PHILADELPHIA REFORM. The Bondsmen of Marcer and Yerkes Ousted from Office—Their Ignorance of the Law—Decision of the Supreme Court=Cor- ruption of All the Departments of the City .Governmeut—Reasons tor Colonel Forney’s Resi, ion. PHILADELARIA, Feb, 12, 1872, Philadelphians have begun to show in good ear- nest what they are “gos to do about it.” The | Consignment of Yerkes, the broker, and Marcer, | the City treasurer, to the Eastern Penitentiary nas been quickly 1ollowed oy the dismissal of Messrs, Huhn, President of the Council, and Allen and Shane, members, for going on Marcer’s bond, an act expressly prohibited by statute law, as pub- lished in the HERALD some two months since. There were many politicians who doubted if the | law would be (ulfilied in the cases of these men, be- | Cause they were ignorant of the law. Men occupy- | ing the positions they did are supposed to be con- versant with the laws that govern them; and the Supreme Court took this view o1 it and ousted them from their positions, The case was prosecuted by the “Reiormers,”’ and there is much rejoicing in their camp to-night over the resuit of this trial. | They are equally cauitled to credii for the culm!na- tion of the Yerkes and Marcer trials, for under their supervision tue indictments were tound and prose- cuted to tne bitter end. Yerkes and Marcer have the sympathy of the pub- lic, Jor no une deemed them guilty of criminal in- tent. Anexample had to be made of the glaring } corruption that lofects ail tne departmenis of the city government, wulch must ve stopped, and they | had wo suder for the benefit of the public, POLITICAL MOVEMENTS AND VIEWS. The Presidency—Letter from Vice President Coliax in Regard to the Nomi le Wasuineton Crry, Feb. 7, 1872. My Dear Sin—I have just read im the Chicago Tribune of the Sth the following special despatch from Indianapoiis:— sibahtsnes Ira Fain: anes onset for the Presidency. Ido not know who ts the author of this telegeam, Dut trust that you will allow me space in your col- umnsto say that no such “effort” 18 being made anywhere by my wish or autuority, Pub- licly and privately, in speeches and in let ters, I have ituvariably declared myself 10 favor of President Grant’s renomination, ag Well to those not friendiy to it as to those who Were, and have so written to every trend in Indl- na who asked my opinion, When the ticket of Grant and Colfax was elected in 1563 { determined there suouid be no alienauon bes:ween them grow: tug out of the distribution of Presidential patr nage—in regard to which | resolved not to ovtrude— or irom any lack of friendsaip or good will ou my part. And lam glad to state that this was most cordially reciprocated by the President, so that there has never been Lue sligatest disturbance of our most desirable personal and political celations, Nor can @uy discord in the party be traced to any real or even pretended antagonisin between us. 1 teel deeply the ovligations 1am under tu the repubii- cans of ladiana and the matiou tor their long-cen- Unued confidence, and political duty to a party Whose record for the last ten years is the nobiest ever lade by any pariy in any country or any age Induced me to say that if the National Convention deemed it wisest to renominate ie Lor the office 1 now hoid I would accept. But my interest in the continued ascendancy 0} republicanism !s far greater than any rsonal considerations, and if the Convention pre- ers some one else tor the Vice Presidency (and Shere are many abler aud worthier), no man in the United States shail exceed me in the curdiality and earnestness wii Which 1 siall support him. Lak not acandidate for the Presidential nomination, being just as decidedly as ever in favor of President Grant's repomunation, and hope our Canveatioa on the 22d with So deciare unanimousiy, Ibeg ior the Bake of harmony poiitically, and to save me per- sonally trom the suspicioa of bad faith toward oue with whom ny relations are aud have always been 80 Cordial, Lhat my Rame may not be mentioned oy any one iu our state Convention in opposition to General Grant, whoin | believe tu be the first choice ol avery large majority oi the republicans of the | United states, Truly yours, SCAUYLER COLFAX, Ben W. P. Fismpack, Editor ludianapolis Jour- nal. Referring to the above, the Journal editorially says:— The effort to antagonize Grant and Colfax will fail. Tuey are irieuds, and wiil remain 80 in splie ofthe busy bodies who have been seeaing for Months to sow tne seeds of discord between them, Nor nave the triends of Mr. Collax tn Indiana, who have nawed nim to connection with the Presidency, done so with a view to piace him in an attituae of Opposition to Grant, What has been sald ts, in effect, that if wnen the National Convention meets At sail be deemed advisable, in order to secure the success and harmony of the republican party, to witharaw the name of Grant, that Mr. Colfax should then be nominated, for the reasvu that he has not been mixed up inany of the unfortunate dissen- bring to his support all tne elements of which the party is composed, Mr, Colfax makes it very clear that he does not wish to be considered as a candi. date in opposition to Grant, and this 1s the sum and Substance Oi his letter, Chief Justice Chase Out of the Field—Trum- bull che “Coming Man.” (From the Cooperstown (N. Y.) Freemann’s Jour- Bal (democratic)). Chief Justice Ghase has dismissed all thought of being @ candidate for President this year, and gin favor of she nomination of Senator Trumbull 4s the opposition candidate, Mr. Traumball is un- derstood to be @ revenue tariff man, und opposed to a@ high protective tariff, The health of Judze Chase 18 not sucieutly restored to admis of tne excite | ment of a political campaign such as we are likely | to have unis year, a fact which he fully realizes. Most of the leading democrats of this State are at present inclined to accept Senator Trumbull as ote coming man,’’ but oppose any precipitate action. The Resignation of Colonel Forney. (Wasnington (Feb. 11) correspondence of the Phila- delphia Press—Forney's paper.) While he (Colonel Forney) was Coilector of the Port, if he wiote an article in favor of President Grant’s adminisiration, some “superserviceable knave’’ would hasten to exclaim that the Colonel Was pald for his praises of power; and if he ven- 18 | WHY FORNEY RESIGNED FROM THE CUSTOM HOUSE. Fendered frrevocable, save with the authority of the Leglsla, ture--Kevised Ordinances of 1806, page 202. 1 have th stated my opinion “as to the power of the Common Counelt over and in respect to markets,” and be happy to ‘answer specially and specilically any further questions as to which you may desire information, on any branch of the sub- Ject 0. which you may specially direct my attention, Re- Spectfully submitied, HAKD U'GORMAN, ‘Counsel to the Corporation, The communication was received and reierred to the Committee on Markets. THE COLLECTOR OF ASSESSMENTS. The Commissioner 0! Public Works sent In a com- Municauion, at the request of se Collector of Assess- ments, relative to the fees of the vollector and Deputy Collectors; also the way 1a which business is transacted in tnat Bureau. Stack weatoer, Coliector of Assessments, in his stat@ment said that he desired to call attention to certain Satements of th Peart J. oe minutes of tne peseennies lor the purpose of correcit i ¢rroneous mpretsion which bal batementt ite Sikely to create, A resviution had been presented to repeal certain ordinances relative to the collection of assessments, md that the fees allowed to the Col- lector are two and one-balf per cent on a!l moneys which ne docs not collect. He denies the trutu of the statement made puulic last week, giving the Gmounis received by him aad his deputies, wuich, according to the report, were $500,000 and upwarus. Tne ordinances provide that the Collector and his deputies shall each receive as compensation for their services an equal part of two and a hail per cent on all the items of assessments collecied vy the Bureau during the term of ofice for which the; ‘were appointed, and of two per cent on ail unpat items of assessments for whicu two personal de- Manis for payment have been made; each deputy receives $2,500 per aunum, but en equal share of the fees with tne Coliector, be tney more or jess, All moneys received are daily Geposite:l 1 the city Treasury, and iuil monthty re- turns of all receipts have beeu made to the head of the department and by nim transmitted to tne Com ptrotier. It was moved and adopted that in future all meet- ings of the Board shall be on Mondays, at three o'clock P. M. A resolution was adopted that hereafter all notices of meetings of committees shall oe posted on the bu.letin in the Clerk’s oflice instead of adver- Using the sume in the newspapers. Department of Public Works. Commissioner Van Nort yesterday remoyed from Office Mr. H. P. Whitney, Deputy Collector of Assess- ments, and appointed in his place Mr. Jonn A, Kennedy. Commisstoner Van Nort has also received the fol- lowing letter of resignation of Mr. Charles G. Cor. nell, Water Register; and an examination of the accounts of the Bureau 1s now being made:— DEPARTMENT OF FuELIO Works, BuReav oF WATER KEGISTER, NeW York, Feb. 12, 18/2 my on mae M. Van Norv, Commissioner of Pnbilo DEAR BIRT hereby tender my revignatt Water Re- gleter' In this departineny; 1 taka elfect upon the avpolut- Meat of my successor You will plem Aad recelvie in horize an examination of the books Bureau. and, if found correct, certify wo Colonel Forney desires 1t to be distinctly under- stood that he 1s # iriend of President Grant’s aud | thathe will aid him with his paper and his voice, | The reason given me by himself tor his resignation Was & desire to give his whole atvention to his Paper, the Press, and he informed me further that the assessments made upon him for political pur poses ate up his salary and allthe money he could to join the scandal against a statesman ‘ike Colonel McClure, an older and a bewter republican than many who have been hunting him down, be would be characterized as an iugrate to that same power, Thus he had to choose bevween the shame of being a slave or a parasite. He has decided to be neither. Many persons suopose that Colonel Forney’s resignation means opposition to General Grant. 1do not think the President has to-day a more grateful or than Colonel Foruey, and General Grant Knows it. But he 1s at the same time a iriend of Mr. Sumner, a irlend of more than twenty ears’ standing, and of others who do uot favor ine resident’s renomination, This fact was known to the President when Coionel Forney was appointed Collector of your port. His great desire 1s to unite the republican party of Penusylvamia, and to tis end he wiil work steadily 09 his return to nis edi- torial duties. He feels that it is time to cry “Halt!” once moreto the desperate meu who are trying to use the name of General Grant to keep thein in or help them to offices, He believes in the concilia- tuon of the old diasatistied ant-slavery leaders of the couutry. He pleads for good relations between Grant and Sumner, between Grant and Greeley, be- tweea Grant and Fenton, and insis's that wnat Mr. Lincoln did with the mea dissatisfled with his ad+ earnest friead men dissatisfied with bis, Tne President invited jonel Forney to call aud see him this evening, but as the Colonel leit in the early train ior Philadeipnia in order to attend a business meeting at the Mint a morning, he could not accept tne mvi- on. The Liberal Kepublican Movement in the Hands of “Bold Men.” [From the St, Louis oie (passive democrat), ‘eu. The liberal movement 1s in the hands of bold and able men, who will certainly make 1 a formidabie revolt if the democracy will so for favor it as to yield to it the ground to fight on. Its fate is not in the hands of Mr, Trumbull nor any other distinguished republican who 18 supposed to stand half way between it and the regular party. Solar from it, ic may oe said that rumbuli and other eminent repub- licans 13 in its hands, provided the democracy will afford it the opportunity tor development, which alone it needs, it ts to be noted that che movement ig nota voit of maleontents irom the regular re- publican convention; it 1s a bold, defiant deciara- tion of war against that convention in advance, and for this reason more formidable and stern than the fate of Mr. getirom his other business. In a word, he said, “L Tegigned to save myself tinanciaily.”’ COALITION BEfWEEN GREELEY AND M’CLURE. The coalition between Greeley and McClure 13 Said to have for its object the nomination of the Sage or Rages for the Vice Presidency, provided Grant is not nominated for the Presidency, ANNUAL ASSAY AT THE MINT, ‘The annual ussay at the United States Mint began | to-day. Tne Commissioners will report to-morrow, everything being satistactory. ba DEATH OF SonN crass, Investigation Before Coroner PosteMortem Examinai John Glass, after lingering between 11fe and death since the 22d uit., that being the time he received his Injuries in McEiroy’s saloon, 109 Nassau street, died yesterday morning in Centre Street Hospital from the violence inflicted upon him by James Cos. tello, full particulars of which nave heretofore been | published in the HeRaLp. Coroner Keenan, who | has the case m Charge, notified Captain Ward, of | the Second precinct, to secure the witnesses and have them at the (try Hall on Wednesday afterncon, | when tue investigation will take pee Only one or two persons, it is suid, witnessed the fatal affray, and that velag the case only a shors time will be re- quired to couc.ude the inquisiaon. POST-MORTEM BX AMINATION, Yesterday afiernoon Surgeon Van Denatie, of the Centre Street Hospital, assisted by Deputy Coro- ners Wooster Beach and Jcseph Cushman, made a | Dost-mortein examination on the body anda found | an incised wound on she outer aspect of the leit leg, about four inches below the knee joint, four incies long; also a wound on the same aspect ot the thigh, one inch in length; the leit olecranon (bones ot (he eloow) process was cut off, with the skin and ts- sues over It. There was oae incised wound on the | top of the head two and one-half inches long: | neath it tne outer table of the skull was fraciuret; | under this, on the vortex, was a Wound an inch Jong, and near this were tne scars of several re- | cently healed wounds; incised wound, two inches jong, exteuding !rom the outer side of the wrist to ; the middie of the palm of the hand, on the left side. Meningitis and pyemia, in the opinion of the physiclans, were the cause of death, FIRE IN WEST THIRTIETH STREET. At five o'clock yesterday morning a fire was dis- covered in the engine room of 366 West Thirtieth street, Which Was occupied by James Gillies as a stone yard, The damage done to the machinery Aud Haliding amouns to about $4,000, ‘Ane cause ‘Of the Lire could Wot be asceriaincd, Keenan= 1 | and the following organization was eflected:. @ bolt would be. It means nothing snort of a oril- liant Presidential campaign against the dommant party and whomever the Philadeipuia Cunvention may nominate—a campaign watch it rests witn the democracy to say shail be successiul or a fallure. OPPOSITION TO “LOCAL = OPTION JERSEY. IN Denunciation of the Movement by Newark Germans. Among the measures now before the Legislature of New Jersey is one Known as the Local Option law. Its object 1s to allow citizens in townships, wards and counties to determine by vote whether the Mquor trafic should be aliowed or not, Such a law was passed last winter, and is now in force in the townships of Chatham and Maalson, in Morris county, The legislators and the politicians regard the subject as a very delicate one to handle, and so in its ciscussion thus far have observed the greatest caution. Were it not for the vigorous movement now making by the temperance men the whole subject would be sure to have the cold shoul- der of the Legisiature turned on it, but a8 it is the temperance men are getting too powerful to be ig- nored, ‘The measure now before the Legislature is @ Dill providing for local optioa in Camden county. ‘Tne subject will be the special order of the day in ‘Trenton to-morrow. Yesteraay afternoon some two bundred German citizens opposed to the movemeut held a meeung at Waldmann Hall on Markel street, Newark, to take aviton looking to the deieat of the measure, Mr. Eugene F, Hoffman Called the meeting to kc Charies F. Ziegler, & lawyer, Chairman; Wiliam Droner, Secretary; Rudoipn Fingado, Treasurer. On taking vhe chair Mr. Ziegier made a brie! speech in German, im the course of which he said local option affected not oniy the giquor interest, but those of every other cailing or profession, | The law, he declared, was contrary to the spirit of the Coustitution, as it Watrantea @ gross interference with the civil liverty of the citizen. Remarks in & similar vein Were aiso made in the German tongue by Mr. Hoffman, ex-Alderman Goeken and Mr. Fingado. The sentiment of all the speakers was that the measure was a species of Koow-Nothing- ism, and one chiefly designed to interfere with the social customs of German citizens, The speakers were warmly endorsed by those present, A com- mittee was appointed to proceed to Trenton to- Morrow and use every proper influence to defeat tured to denounce some local politician or to refuse | ministration General Grant ought to do with the | TEE NEW YORK PRESSYIERY. Mecting Yesterday—Three of Its Churches in Trouble—Dr. Hall on the Warpa' An adjourned meeting of the New York Presby- tery was held yesterday im the University place | chapel. The great purpose of the body was to hear @ report of a special committee appointed at a pre- ' vious meeting to inquire into the condition and pros- | pects of the Alexander Presbyterian church, in | Seventh avenue, near Nineteenth street, formerly the mission of the Filth avenue Presbyterian charch, | of which Dr. Alexander was formerly and Dr. John Hall now is the pastor, But previous to call- | ing up that business Rev. Or, Hastings re- | ported for the Committee on Hamilton Gollege, | Tecommeuding that institution to the sympathy | and aid of the several churches within the jurisdic- tion of the body, The college is Located in a thor- oughly Presbyterian district of this State, and fur- | to Audurn Theological Seminary than any other college in the East, and more to the Union Seminary in this city than any owner except Amherst, The State of New York, the report said, contains A PRESBYTERIAN POPULATION OF 108,908 SOULS. ‘The report, alter some verbal explanations, was | adopted. A large number of visiting brethren from other Prespyieries and of other denominations, who had in this meeting, were present, and, on motion, were inv.ted to sit as corresponuing members. The Committee on Benevolence and Finance re- ported resolutions regretting that the General As- | semoly Committee of the same name had refused to | allow its treasurer, Mr. J. A. Stuart, to receive the | Several church subscriptions and disburse the same | tothe diferent boaras and objects for which the | Same might be designed. Hence sysvematic be- | mevolence and collections would prove a failure. | The report was adopted. A lavorable time for the report of the special com- | mittee on the Alexander church naving arrived, Dr. | Alken reported for that committee, | per and the consequent debates it appeared that | Unis mission was organizediu March, 1865, butit has not bad @ very turtity existence ever siuce, and last summer the Church appied to the Pres bytery lor pecuniary aid. ‘The i'resbytery’s Church Extension ‘treasurer was authorized thereupon to pay $400 to the church to liquidate its debt and thereaiter the congregation were to be dissolved and Urs, Maclise and Burcuard—the former being tuen, as now, ils pastor—were appointed to give | letwers of dismissal to tne members. ‘I'nereupon, as De Hali showed by documentary evidence, the Wus- | tees of HE FIPTH AVENUE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, | who owned and held the aission building and pro- | perty, Look steps to obiain possession of the same. ‘They had leased the buliding, or a poruon thereor, tothe Alexander cllurch, irom year to year, at tho nominal rental of $1. But as soon as they at- le..pied, upon the prospecive dissolution of the Mission church, Co gain possession of their property, | the Mission men ‘got ueir backs up” and sent a very haughty letter to the Fiftn avenue church | trustees—which lewer Dr, Hatl read—asserting & s10n3 that Weaken our party, ana oecause he would | properiy right in we jois, the vuilding and the fur- | | Dicure of the Alexander church. It then became a ; Water of law und justice lor the Filth avenue | church trustees to aispossess the trespassers WhO had Uhus turned a privilege into a right. ander Church peopie Were therefore notified that at the expiration of thelr anuual lease, in March, they would have to get out, Last week tne diit- culty came up before the Presvytery, and Dr. Macilse read @ paper, contalning very coarse in- sinuations and aturibuiing vase motives to te Fuch avenue churca, and the rresbytery appointed facts. That committee reported that it met tne Alvxander couicn people on tie sth inst. and ascer. tained that the ciurch contains flity-two mombers and au average atiendaace of 150 persons at every Sabbath service, and bvetween thirty and forty at the prayer meetings; that its Sabbath collections almvunt to $7; that it culled Dr. Maciise at a salary of $2,000 per annum, toward which the church can raise Oaly $000, aud that the Church 1s Opposed to | 163 oWu dissoluuion or that ol the pastoral relation | Ol Dr. Maciise w it, The special committee, tnere- lore, made uO recommendation, but simply reierred the Presbytery to chapter 10, section 8, “lorm of governmenv” of the cuurch, for guidance, Dr. Join Hall took the warpavi tn defence of his own church, He Was not pastor here WHEN THE ALEXANDER MISSION WAS ORGANIZED, nor did he know On what conditions that society held the butiding until tis controversy calied his atteauion to it, Yet last week he ana his brethren inthe minigiry who have established missions in the city were accused of seeking divcesan powers aud oi doing this work from base motives, And the Presbytery bad no more respect for itself or its memoers than to allow these remarks to pass un- rebuked, He hoped it woula be more careful in fu- ture and not allow suca a spirit as was tuen mani- fesied to eater und divide the Charch here. ‘tne Doctor got quite Warmed np in his speech, and evi- dently had tue syinpatny of the house with him, Dr. Mactise wished to reply, but the Presbytery re- fused, considering that his remarks last week were outvolorder, The matter was disposed of, so far as the Presbytery 1s concerned, by acceptng the special } committee's report and laying we resoiution look- | ing Lo a dissoluuon of the society on the table in- deiinitely. Mi Anoiher “rumpus,” connected with the Harlem Presoyterian cuurch, came belore the Presoytery. ‘There are two bodies there, one of which rents a charen edifice aud the other rents @ bali over the murkel, @ block or two away. [he seceders took tne pastor off with them, aud the Charch Extension Comunittee had pledged the United caurcn $10,000 towurds tne erecuon of a new ediace; but the pastor failed to apprise them of the fact until he and twenty-eigut inembers nad goue. ‘Then the Church Exieusion Committee withdrew its promised aid and the old cuurch Went ahead buliding a lecture room, which will be compieted about May, but without this alu it cannot proceed further, THE EXTENSION COMMITTEE WERE ACCUSED by Dr. Reia, tae delegate from the vid church, with being 1n Collusion Wilh the seceders, to tne ine Jury of the former, This was denied by Dr. Hastings On behall Of the committee, Delegates from the se ceding body were p: ut ynd presented their side, | and ihe ma#er was re.erred to @ committee to hare mouize the factions i possible, But still another churci diticulty came up before the Presbyvery lor redress, Under its auspices the Rev, A, Gore has for sume time past been conduct- ing religious services in the Union Theological Seint- nary for French people, She enterprise was known as the “French Evangelical Church.”’ A short time ago the congregation, Without the presentation of charges or the delay of wrial—tndeed, without assigning any reason whatever—dismissed Mr, Gore and very coolly handea him a notice to read on Sabbath morning to the cnuPco announcing that Rev. A B would preach there thereafter. This being so irregular, Mr. Goré appealed to the Pres- bytery, which appointed Drs, Hail and Adams and Elier Glatz to inquire into the facts and the expe- dlency of sustaining the French mission aay longer, And thus were three cuarch iguts partly disposed ol—enough ior one day, | p THE METHODIST PREACHERS, Is the Methodist Itineracy in Danger ?—Piea for Settled Ministry in Special Cases. Yesterday the Methodist preachers discussed the question, ‘Is 1t desirable that the rule of the term of the pastoral relation be so altered that the bishops may return pastors to charges for more than three years?’ Dr, B, F. Adams, of Brooklyn, opened the discussion, taking the affirmative of the proposi- tion, He showed that the standard of success now set up by church trustees and stewards is to fill tne church and make it pay expenses, and the minister who can do thats the most desirable, Hence he said the churches tnat are fliled are filled mamly through BUFFOONERY AND FUN, and this tendency has almost ruined the churches of Brooklyn and New York, He urged pastoral work from house vo house as the most efficient means of accomplishing the Master’s work, but then, as soon as a pastor has made himself familar with the homes and the membership of his congregation, the three years’ rule of Providence manufactured by the General Conference steps in and severs his re- lation, sends him adrift, and injures, if 1t does not destroy, his usefulness, He believed the pastors | mises more students for the Presbyterian ministry | } Deen attractea by the interest of the cases involved | From this pa- | The Alex- @special comiaiites to Luquire into and report on the | the question it was continued for next when Dr, crawford will lead the beara Son it Rev. Dr. Nast, Spend zak yet: by made some remar! ness, fo tne possession ‘of wnich he has recently attained. wiina, of the Book Committee, there Teapoctive fields of labor ich the meeting adjourned, Drs, Bannister and spoke briefly about t tn the West, alter wu ANOTHER AMENDMENT. The Constitation To Be Chr More Bad Rulers. A meeting was held last evening im the Third Reformed Presbyterian church to consider the “Re- gious Amendment to tue Constitution of the | United States” and to endorse the action of the | conventions lately heid tn various parts of the coun- try. Mr, MCALLISTER, the General Secretary of the National Association, opened the meeting by some | | account of the Cincinnati Convention and refer | ence to the alms of the association and to the op- poertion of various classes. He stated the aim of the movement to be substantially an effort to coun- | teract the attempts to obilterate the Onristian | features of our civilization. The atrempt to keep the Bivie out of the schools and , the recent proceasion of Internationals on | Sunday were referred to, To meet thts so-called “in- | flidel? movement the association proposes to au- | thenticate in the fundamental law the Christian | features which the opposition element is trying to | |, obliterate, . Mr. McAllister was followed by the Rev. Mr, MILLIGAN, of New York, who relerred to the work as under the direction of Goa, and ex- pressed his confidence in ultimate success. He believed one with God to be a majority. Was there ever atime, he asked, when the coun- | | clls of our nation were so composed of vile men | | apd when our journals so teemed with the doings of | ' vile men elected by the votes of a Carisiian people? | Now, to-day the wrath is felo as never before that | we MUST HAVE OFFICERS of a.better kind, men who will stana temptation. It has been found impossibie to get the right man in the right place. Now we want to change the con- slitution so that if the wrong man 18 in office ARSO Narrow Escape of a Tenement Hoase from Destruction. istlanized—No | 7, Train of Benzine—A Deoply Laid Plot Catv ried Out with Ingenuity—Arrest of the Supposed Incendiary—Confession of the Owner of the Property. On Friday evening last the inhabitants of the tenement house 171 West Sixty-second street were astonished by the strong odor of benzine that per+ vaded the building. At first it was supposed that some accident had occurred on the stairway and | that one of the inmates of the house had spilled olf or something of that nature in one of the halls that caused the offensive smell, As the nuisance con« tinued to increase some of the women went dowm stairs to consult with the people whol were living on the opposite side of tha hall to where the nuisance came fromj and they found the family there suffering 80 much from the effects of the smell that it was resolved tq call in the assistance of the police. One of the men{ who lived in tae house went to the Nineteenth Pre~) cinct station house and soon returned with two! oMlcers, They BURST INTO THE APARTMENT ' from which the smell proceeded, and, upon exame ination, discovered that most elaborate prepara« lions had been made to burn the place. Benzing had been most extensively used, and the whole floor, was so disposed that the smallest blaze would have caused a fire tha. must, of necessity, have car- ried away the entire building. The front room of the apartment, which was on the ground floor, was) used as a shoemaker's workshop Immediately be: | Re cmay be: lmupenoned. A BAD any RA hind ths was a sleepfig room, and again tn the read count @ certain number of votes he may be | of that two other bedrooms. hype enous the en¢ | elected. “We want better rulers, and God | fire depth of the house, from the ttle bedroom it | 18 preparing the way. ‘There ougnt to be a change Ls ‘a het! Sate wen” Rs sare a ou dm connection with oaths, ‘The decadence has vecn | Hite y thee hed . ane nec are | going on till now there 18 nothing go fMippant, Bo | SUTnIY Meh ai thing Poould have, sav Godless and profane as the oaths administered trom the President down ¢o the coustable, What 18 the Oaths are taken | fruit of taat kind of swearing? without ary idea of their sacredness—taken to-day | and violated to-morrow. To-day we have no oath | that binds the conscience, and there is no fidelity in the structure. fhe carpet wae saturated with the inflammable fluid, It stood in pools under the zinc, when ic was raised, and @ basket of clothes thal stood beside one oi the beds was: LITERALLY SOAKING with it, The fire had evidently been started somd | | cathe Miiguay God, tue searcher ‘of all hearts.” time previous to the arrival of the police, but the ‘And God is going before us, showing that uniess this | ere that Pie Reka Le creer i8 done justice is injustice and fidelity is in. | tM eee a Kg een ice | tidetity, “God 18 preparing tae way before | Sa etvedh and ite eee pyr se 58 ured us in reference to the Sabbath. A bill has | 5) en fm e tt pa Oar Pi Li nat es been introduced into the New York Legislature to | ‘Me afta hey to possession oi reinstate travel on the Sapbate, any procession on God's holy day, What will be | done with these bills the speaker did not kuow, but | he knew that the infidels mean to destroy every | vesuge of a Sabbath and bring about a i REIGN OF TERROR. We mean that Cnristiapity shall be the law of this land. \ | be a new class of politicians, The constitution 14.4 great living teacher in tnis land, and tue people sow that they have been good pupiis. We have Tam glad to say | | that ancther bul has been introduced to prevent | Rev. J. H. Boaes, of Brooklyn, said there was to | | rooms and remained there in the hope that some or; the guilty parties would turaup. ‘Their expecta , fons were tully realized, for a gentleman named; | Jones, against whom some very serious charge! | Nave stuce been made, shortly put in an appearances Mr. Jones was asked what he wanted by the police, aud he repiled that Mr. Uieske, the man who hadi lived im the piace, was a@ friend of ms and was making a pair of bvots for hime To induce Mr. Jones to enter the buliding the police: man told him a rotbery had been committed, and, ag a lurther inducement to him to say WHAT HE KNEW OF THE FAMILY who had lived in the rooms, Mr. Jones was invited! . be a Lo a Ae eee eel pale to the station house. Nothing of any consequence, gpg Fete tao tie | however, could be got from him, and the polio our streets, ‘that procession was no meaning | were compelled to let him go, Some threa | less thing; there was danger in it, We are to | hours atver that’ the Cieske family ap- go back and teacn the constitution that the powers | peared, ‘the husband and wile were arrested that be are oldained of God. In the Sunday HERALD | of February 4 there is an article styled the ‘Korce ; oF Conscience,” in which the pastors at the Conven- | tion are advised to go home, and remember that “the letter killeth and the spirit maketh alive.’”? In | the Christian Union of this week there are some | discouraging words, — saying that the movement is altogether impracticable. We are glad of this opposition. ‘Tne great truths are | | not discussed. These papers dare not enter into a full and fair discussion of this matter. The iogie of Christianity 1s all against them. We cannot expect co-operation from mauy departments of the Christian Churen, nor from outside men. The Convention at Philadelphia was @ wonderful success, but there may future Conventions more opposition. If so, let us rally around the cause with greater earnestness. ‘This 1s the great question of the hour; we must load and fire, load and fire again, every man in lus lace. Pitev, FRANCIS KENNEDY expressed himself as heartily in favor of the whole movement, and as endorsing the resolutions passed at Cincinnati. | He considerea Young America a3 @ big boy, who needed a wholesome Christian education. close of his speech the meeting adjourned, THE DEATH OF MR. KLUMP, Not a Homicide—Discharge of Mrs. Holland. Coroner Schirmer yesterday morning held an ine quest, at ais office inthe City Hall, in the case of John Klump, the agea German who died at hia house, 604 East Seventeenth street, late on Satur- day afternoon, a3 was alleged, from the effects of violence received at the hands of Mary Holland, one of his tenants. She went into the yard to split some kindling wood, when Klump tusulted and assaulted her, and she, in return, struck him on the head with a small piece of wood. Klump was in @ great passion and the excitement acceler- ated the disease with which he was suffering and he fell dead. A very brief synopsis of the testimony may be round below, Elizabeth Kalser, daughter of the deceased, testi- fled that about five o’clock on Saturday alternoon she was on the top floor of house 504 East Seven- teenth street; she heard her fatner's voice in the yard, and looking out tue window saw Mrs. Holiand cpus woud; she went towards the house and shook & hatchet in the face of deceased, but did not strike him; the witness then ran down stairs and found her father lying in the haliway; Mr. Join Kielly had deceased in his arms and death ensued soon aiterwards, Bertha Klump, @ young daughter of deceased, testitied that her tather, hearimug Mrs. Holland splitting wood onthe flagging in the rear yard, went down and took the hatchet from her; Mrs. Holland attemptea to recover the hatchet, and in doing so caught deceased by the hair; she got tne hatchet, and with it struck the deceased tn the nght side guite a heavy blow with the flat side ot the | Weapon; deceased aled a few minutes atterwards. | Mis. behalf, and said she went into tne yard to choo a litue wood, and while there deceased appeared and kicked and struck her, besides pulling her by the hair; he took the hatchet from ner and threw 1t aside in the yard; deceased also jammed her bead between the door and Lne casing: sie then gathered up her wood and went up stairs; did not strike de- ceased with the hatchet, but struck hin on the At the \ Holland, the accused, was called in her own | | by Officer Retnesch, of the Tire Marshal’s oifice, | Cleské was taken to the Yorkville Police Court, and | While there, becoming frighiened, he made a con-< lession to the oilicer, in which he stated that Jonos; | was the man who bad planned and carried out the | project of burning up the place. Upon this inforins | ation Oficer Reinesch arrested yones and locked ain; | up to await the further action of the Marshal, and | he will be taken to the Yorkville Police Court this: morning to obtain THE NECESSARY PAPERS | for an indictment against him. Cieske and his wife are also heid as witnesses in the cuse, Jones seem to be an expert in the arson business, for this ts the fourth case In whion he has been engaged. Marshal’ ' Mespedon tunks that Lois time he will be able ta put a stop to his operations. ee CIESKK’S STATEMENT, The following is the statement of Cleskt, made tol OfMicee Reinesch in German, and translated under oath lo the Fire Marshal:-— About four years ago, when 1eame to this country, T got | acquainted with a man by the name of Anthony Jones. He visited me frequently atimy house. le came to my shop in Clinvon street, near Grand, Avout the time 1 opened, twa years ugo, he ‘carne and ordered a pair of Boole. Atte: that e visited me usdally three or tour times a week, From Clinton street I moved my shop to Morris avenue, Klizabeth, N. J. Jones visited me there, also, at intervals. I was in . about’ tour months, “when & ack to’ the city, to No, "100 Prince atreet, where Jones used ,to come to see me also. From Prince street 1 moved to Myrtle, near Bedford avenue, Brooklyn, in December, 18/1. On Sunday, the 7th of Janu: ary, this year, said Jones came to my residence u Mott street, between Grand and Heater, and propose to open a halt business in partuership with my wife in Sixty-secoad atrecty, the same piace WHERE I Live Now and keep a store. He haa made the same proposal before af several times. He first spoke about it wen I lived in Prince aireet last year. On this day, the 7th of January, I retused to ‘isten to bis proposal, wai ne went away feeling inatgnant, Next morning, when I cama j to tore in Elizabeth street i touad that some one had broil nto it from the rear, and robved me of about three hundred dollars’ worth of govds. 1 seat for inv wife, and when she arrived [sent her to the resiieace of Jones, 19 Second atreet, near the Bowery, to TELI. HIM OF THE ROBBERY, When my wife returned she said that she fo bed, and that ke repited to her that it was not not 'be so. Jones soon after came to my store at all I toid him about the robbery. A day aiter th of I moved to 161 East sixty: street, piace 1 keep now. Jones mr) | up tue day following my removal and propored to me to get my things insured aguinat fire, He then remarked, 4 maa who would rob might go and burn me ont too.” f refused, Dut at last he persuaded my wire to it and THEY WENT 10 AN AGENT on Third avenue and procured $1,000 insurance, for which | she patd $7 60 premium. A day or two after Jones came to my house again and proposed to me and my wile to takel another insurance for $1,000. I remonstrated against it t without result, 48 he persuaded my wile, and they wen| again and got anoiher insurance at the same piace. Avout three days ater that Jones came into my shop where 1 was | working. He sent (or some drinks, and after we bad them he proposed to me to bura my place up, as I had suffered such # severe loss by THE ROLBERY ' fo Elizabeth street; and now that | was insured, I would get everything straightened if I would burn my place. My wite | was not then pres I remonstrated with him and told | him to leave my house, as I would not have anytning to do with bim as 1 was partly under the influence of the ar! did aot suecred in getting him out, hen said I need not bave anysbing to do with it, as be id take all that upon bimscif. Ali Lwoud have to do ‘was to leave the house and he would fix it. He came to my house again on several occasions and made the same propo- sition, but I did not want to hear anything avout it. On Sunday, the 28h of January, Jones came | to my house while 1 was absent at Haverstraw j with my children, He then proposed to my | wife to burn up our place for us, He told er tu go to some | place of amusement in Broadway, and in her abseuce he ‘would set the p'ace on fire. My wife put bim out of the head with a short stick of wood, house. He svon 6 again, and spoke Dr. Cushman then gave tue result of the post mortem examination. He found no marks of vio- lence whatever on the body, and In us opinion death ensued irom serous effusion of the brain and apoplexy of the rignt lung. ‘Ihe case was given to the jury, who found @ verdict corresponding with the medical testimony. Coroner Schirmer thereupon discharged Mrs. Holland from custody, and she lett tor home with her trends, THE SIXTH AVENUE SHOOTING AFFRAY. The Wrong Parties Arrested—The Assailant Delivers Himself to the Police. On Sunday morning, at the Jefferson Market Poilce Court, Thomas Bennett and John Garvin were locked up for shooting John Henry, a bartender fcr the HERALD, attracted the attention of Daniel Bigley, aged sixteen, of 440 Eignth avenue, who called upon Captain Caffrey, of the Twenticth pre- cinct station house, and informed him he was the party who had done the shooting. He further stated thaton Saturday night he had been at a dance house, kept vy George Harman, over the Swimming Academy, corner of Thirtieth street and Sixth aveaue, Alter the dance he, in company generally would prefer @ songer stay m their charges, and ne thought the people would prefer the same algo, He had one charge hunseil, how. ever, Which he wished to escape from before wis tert had expired, and as a solace lor his woes ne used to sing with’ his wie every day,’ “The Con. Jerence year {s roiliug round,’’ &c. THE THREB YEARS’ RULE 18 INVIDIOUS, It measures a man as to his time and to his work. It limits his usefuiness, and shuts him out trom any Participation in temperance and other movements Of the day, because he knows his time is short and itis not Worth his Waule to engage in them. It isolates his influence with the young, and children very soon jeara to know and to love the man who hasacnild heart, But many ministers forget that they ever were babies. ‘the consequence 1% that When the minister to whom the youth of a church have vecome attached leaves, after his three yea they leave aud go elsewhere also, Dr. Adama elted several Instances of this sort within his own knowl- eige which have occurred in Brooklyn, It breaks the pastor's hold on the church and on the family, and he contenied that no man can go to work Jor God with an undivided heart with the knowledge that In one, two ora dozen years be may be sent adrilty He, therefore, favored a modification of this rule, The near approach of the quadrennial MEETING OF THE GENERAL CONFERENCE, this year to be held in Brooklyn, makes this & ques- bei bas geod io ah to Metnodists. ~ Mr. BORNE, While complimenting Dr, Adams on his effictency as a pastor ana prencter, the measure now be.ore the Legisiacure. The | Was decidedly opposed to any I committee appointed were:—Messrs. Goeken, | the pastoral term He would have it permanently Edward schuckhaus, Charles Voiz, Josep Secker, | fixed at two years, Rev. L. 8 Weed aided with Dr. Frederick Waldmann and Mr, Ziegler, ex Oficis Adams, and as other ministers desired to discuss with Harman, Bennett, Garvin and severul others, visited Heury’s saloon, or the purpose of geting @ glass of lager. ‘ine party, with ception of the one who calied lor tne drinks anu another, had been waited upon, when Henry de- Mmanded payment for the drinks furoished. ‘The; informed him they would not pay unui all hands had been waited upon, which caused a good deal of grumbling on both sides, Bigiey states he was leaning on the counter, stupidly drunk, when tne barkeeper came towards him and struck him a powertul blow im the mouth with his fist, after which the proprietor rushed key in his pocket. ‘The party, they were made ads agpy commenced jumping through the wivdows, ana stood not upon tne order of going but got out tne best way they could, While this was going, on he states he saw the bar- tender advancing towards him with @ club in his hand, and, feeling a revolver placed mm hi by Harman, he drew it and dred at him. Captain Catfrey, upon Foveiving the above iniormation, de- Spatched one of his oficers and had Harman con- veyed beiore him, He stated he did not give Bigiey the pistol in the saloon, but did so about 41x o'clock that evening. He admitted being tn the saioon at the time the shooting took place. As the snootin took place in Vaptain Barden’s precinct, and Benne! and Garvin were arrested by lis men, they were both sent, in custody of two officers, to the Thirtiech precinct station house, and Jocked up. Yesterday morning they were e-corted belore Justice Cox at the Jeflerson Market volice court, and locked up to await fhe resuit of (he injuries inficced on Henry, Whois at present conniued 1a bellevue Mospitai. | Benuett and Garvin are still Dold as AccomMDilcet upon finding his brother George, at 496 Sixth avenue, | wiso pointing @ pistol at the latter, The facts of the case being published in tne ex- | from vehind | the counter, and locking the dvor, placed wie | hand | ABOUT BURNING MY PLACE, He sent out for drinks, and while | was under the influence of Ii ted to allow him to burn the place, provided he di iy were absent irom it. Jones came to m: and I told him ovilee 1 bring my children down to to was go up to ‘Haverstraw and the city, as they anawored all right, that he would ‘hx everything, have no fear. [then got frightened, and told bi better not do ft, and he repile that 1 WAS TOO GREEN, but to mind and say nothing about it, for would put a bullet throuzh my head, I would do it, and he an my business.’ By all this was to burn my shoj could get the insurance. tne re je was to cel tor his services we were to speak of that afterwards. lie ex- lained that by burning my place I could gain more than if ‘fat at my trade for years, fore I started for Haverstraw Jones came to the house und asked me how long we intended to be away, 1 answered him that if the child was ABLE TO TRAVEL we would come back directly. He said ail right. Tthen started with my wife about noon and returned the next day. When E got buck 1 vent my wite and the sick ehild over to Jersey Cit ; to the house of a friend of mive by the name of Jurkosky. | went to Jones’ house with the rest of the children. I axked him it he had done anything to my house, and be said “Yes, it is ail over.” He then went out, and returned in ABOUT TWO OF THREE HOURS. When he came back he stated to me that things looked bad up in Sixty-second street, und that he came near being ar- Tested. He desired me to go and not to tell had been tix his house, and if they should usk anything to say that [ bad been robbed of of boots belonging to, him, and that I had taken ble measure for another par. He told | my children that if they ever said they had been to his house he would Kil! them. I then went over to Jersey ty, got m wife and child, and when we arrived at Sixty-secdud street was arrested and taken to the station house. Cieske’s wife was also examined by the Fire Mar. shal, and sie corroborated lis story in every pare ticular, Probable Arson in West Twenty-ninth Streets At haif-past two o’clock yesterday morning a fire, which was supposed to be the work of an incen- diary, broke out inthe basement of the three roy were sick. and I need im he bad Mt ever I did he asked him how he that was none of it was under and dwelling, | so | prick tenement house 436 West ‘Iwenty-nintn sirect, | the property of Mrs, King, of Long Island, rhe | damage done to the building amounted to $400. It was fully insured, The furotiure vp the first floor, | which was occupied oy Wiliam Arien, was damage to the extent of $100, No insuraace. _ CAPTURE OF HIGHWAYMEN, Patrick Lynch, residing at 261 West Twenty-nint® street, charges that while passing along Twenty~ seventh street, between sixth and Seventh avenues,/ at one o'clock yesterday morning, he was seized by! tour young men and rau into an alieyway, where: they “held him and jorcibly took Irom him nig, watch, valued at $15, his walle containing pawn tckets aad jewelry, 6 $12 jecting Univer ‘Thompson, the Nwenty-niatn precinet, he stated his loag to pim and) gave a description of the parties. The oiticer suc-; ceeded in arresting two youug me! ‘no names as Jono Russel aad Willing Margi conironting them before Lynen he fully them as two of the party who bad robbed nim. ‘They were arraigued betore Jusiice Cox, at Jeers son Market, yesterday aiternoon, and denied we charge. but were Luly COMmuAed [OF Urabe