The New York Herald Newspaper, November 28, 1872, Page 4

4 - THANKSGIVING DAY. How the Day Will Be Oclebrated Through- out the City and How Our Forefathers Oclebrated It Two Hundred Years Ago and Prolonged the Feasting with Profit. The Joyful and the Sad Memo- ries of the Day. ‘The Hungry Poor to Have a Good Dinner and the Needy Children To Be Clad and Cared For in the Charitable Insti- tutions—The Services in the Churches and the Ob- servance Generally, enn THE FAMILY REUNIONS. In accordance with the proclamation of the Pres- dent to-day will be observed as aday of thanks- ving and prayer throughout the length and readth of the land. It may not be generally known that the setting aside, so to speak, of one way out of the 365 every year by public proclama- ion of State or other authority, when the people Sshouia inasolemn manner return thanks to God Yor all his blessings, can be traced back far into the emote part of American history. It is justly con- Bidered a New England custom, and there are Whose of us, who are not yet by any means in the Bere ana yellow leat of life, who can remember well awhen the custom was strictly observed in New England almost exclusively, The first Thanksgtv- fng we have any authentic knowledge of took pune at Plymouth, Mass., in the year 1621, ALITTLE TRIFLE yf 251 years ago, It was brought about jy the remarkable success of the harvest hat year. The good Governor (Bradford) indtul of the misfortunes he and his followers, or ‘ather his companionsin misery, had gone through, ud thus made all the more thanktul in his own fheart forthe blessings of an excellent crop of everything that had been sown on the “planta- ‘tions,” sent, as his frlead Edward Winslow tells us du aletter dated December 11, 1621, “four men on fowling, that so, after a special manner, we might ‘ejolce together after we had gathered of our la- ors.” The “fowling” turned out a decided suc- ess, for “the four in one day killed as much fowl ps, with a little help aside, served the company almost a week.”’ Of course, it cannot be stated as | historical fact, but it is reasonable seemingly to | puppose, in the absence of anything to the con- ftrary, that this fowl expedition gave rise to the | fustom now so prevalent of fhaking towl THE PRINCIPAL DISIL jon the Thanksgiving Day dinner table. What the wood and truthful Winsiow meant by “the little | help aside” which had the excellent effect of mak- | ang the game last an entire week is rather a mys- jtery. It may have been some good, substantial | fide dish that came as near bemg of the pumpkin- ple order as the pastry and vegetable knowledge of | the “Fathers” went at that particular time. At all | events, it must have been ot a quality to fill a fel- Jow up to the muzzle, so that the ‘iowl” was really the smaliest portion of the victuais consumed. We i a NEW YUKK HERALD, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1872—TRIPLE SHKET. al on Thankagiving Day. And truly it isa pekutital custom. Nothing could be nobier, nothing more touching. Christmas and New Year have but Thanks- giving Day" putting ail religious ideas out-of the Vv ay, ng Sucat on, The day of all days for Americans. It is ever hailed with a heart-felt joy ag no other day is hailed, and yet it is not alwaya a happy one for every family. And how couid it be otnerwise ? THE W. longs to be at the old fireside on that day, once more to sit at the table with the father, mother, sister, brother he probably has not laid cyes on in a tweivemonth's time; but chance or fate, call it by what name you wiil, does not always assure him 4oy, unalloyed, happiness untinged with sorrow. How often does it not happen that as the fath and the mother and the children—who chitdren no longer in anybody's eyes but theira— Seat themselves about the family table, and a prayer of thanks 1s raised to God for His mercies, the voice that utters it is broken with sobs, the eye suifused with tears, the heart bowed down with anguish, because there is a beloved one that comes not; a beloved one that was of the joyous, the most joyful only a year before; whose bright eyes and ruddy cheeks and cheery voice betokened many happy returns of the day, and who now sleeps hia last sleep beneath the churchyard sod, It is, indeed, well to be able to say, with the vacant chair at one’s side, “THY WILL BE DONE: but they atone who have fett the loss of the loved one when all but he could answer the mother’s warm greeting, “Thank God we have mot again!’ can tell what sorrow Thanksgiving Day may bring to a Christian family. Let us, then, who can rejoice to-day without sorrow, be mindful of the sorrowing cuens for we know not what a twelvemonth may bring. TO-DAY AMONG THE “CHARITIES.” At all the charitable institutions the day will be celebrated by substantial dinners for the inmates, and at several.there will be appropriate religious exercises, The managers of the Union Home and School for the Orphans of Volunteers, at 1b1st street and Eleventh avenue, propose to make the occasion a happy one for their wards. To-day will he observed as @ holiday, and an extra treat will be provided. There are now about 250 at the Home, all the children of soldiers aud sailors who lost their lives in the late war, A dinner of turkeys, chickens, pastry, confection- ery, &c., will be furnished at the Water Street Mission and Home for Women, 273 Water street, first to the fumates, and, alter they have iinished, toanumber of the same class who are invited, ‘There will also be entertaining exercises of various kinds, but, owing to the nature of tue institution, no visitors will be expected, At st. Josepl’s Home for the Aged, No. 209 West Filteenth street, about one hundred and fifty old people will be treated to an excellent dinner, be- sides which there will be the customary religious exercises, ‘The children of the Protestant Half-Orphan Asy- 1nm, No. 65 West Tenth street, will, if the weather be pleasant, attend service at the Church of the Strangers in the morning. At two o'clock a gene- rous dinner of turkey, chickens, pie, pickles, &c., will be furnished them by Mrs, Charles §, Spencer. A welcome is extended to visitors. There are about two hundred chilaren now in the asylum. The little children of the Shelteriag Arms, at Tenth avenue and 129th street, will be treated to a bountiful feast, and will in other ways be made as happy as possible, t the Home for Training Young Girls, at Sev- enth avenue and Thirteenth street, a nice dinner will be provided, and a sociable time will be had in the evening. Fifteen girls, otherwise homeless, are now supported at this institution, The old people of the Samariten Home for the Agei, in Fourteenth street, near Ninth avenue, are to have an extradioner. The inmates number about forty men and women, The service of the holy communion will be ad- ministered in the morning at the Midnight Mission, No, 260 Greene street, by the Rey, Thomas Gall det, D. D., of St. Ann's Protestant Episcopal Caure A capital dinner will be served at half past twelve | P. M. to the tnmates of the flome, twenty in num- ber. Active preparations are making for a social time in the evening, with games, music, refresh- ments, é ‘The Assoctation for the Benefit of Colored Orphans will vide a Thanksgiving t for about 250 children in the asylum at 145d street and Tenth avenue. The Protestant Episcopal Church of the Holy C munion, at Sixth a and ‘twentieth str distributed on Wednesday evening bountiful supplies of poultry, meat, pies, &c., to about eighty or ninety of the poorer families of the church, that they may have their Thanksgiving dinner at home, Dinners willbe given at the Home for the Aged counected with the church, No. 330 Sixth avenue, and to about sixty children of the parish school; 400 Of 500 persons altogether will be provided for. At the House of Refuge, Randall’s Island, ser- vices will be held in the chapel at half-past ten a. M.. with singing by the children and addresse: m- gre led to take this view of the matter from that Jact that not only did the sturdy Bradford and his frlends live thanksgivingly on the fowl and the | “little help aside” for several days together, but, | Jike their descendants nowadays, they couldn't forego the idea of having company. Winslow re- | marks on this poin “At which time among other | recreations we exercised our arms, many of the Indians coming among us and among the rest their greatest King, Massasoyt, with some ninety men, | whom for three days we ENTERTAINED AND FEASTS! The good people who nowadays make it a do- Ynestic point to invite their friends to dine with | them under similar Teanksgiving circumstances mught not find it so expensive to entertain and | feast tiem if they followed the example set them | by the solemn Thanksgiving oiiginaters, It was, | Indeed, quite an undertaking for the Plymouth rompauy satisfactorily to stu not only themselves, | but ninety redskins besides, each one of whom had | BR good natural appetite, made keener than usual | by long travel, and, no doubt, if they bad depended entirely upon the fowl the four men had shot and | that “little help aside,” the feasting would have | been of very brief duration. But, to use a vulgar | expression, they were up to snuff, end it’s just in | the way they made the feasting day that the enter- | tainers of ‘72 might find profit by close copying. | “The nimety Indians went out,” says Winslow, “and killed five deer, which they brought to the plantation and bestowed upon our Governor and | upon the Captain and otheis.” Just think of | It, ye HOUSEWIVES OF TE rEnIOD! You invite Mr. Jones and Mr. Sniggins to din- ner, aud the turkey runs short, (You know you must be certain to buy a very small one, or the Pil- grim plan won't work.) Straightway Jones looks at Sniggins and Sniggins looks at Jones. They un- derstand their duty. Out they go, with many ‘dows, to the nearest poultry stand, and each comes back, anxious to be the first in, with a turkey un- dereacharm. Of course, once the custom is fairly established there is no squeamishness on either | side, and then, to be true to historical example, with what hearticlt sincerity you can ask Jones and Suiggins to come the nexi day and help EAT THEIR OWN TURKEY! One thing is certain, If the custom once gained a Footliold those Who would be invited would far outstrip in number those who wonid invite, and which, besides reversing the presentgway of doing things, would give large families a®good deal to thin) out for a week A wikegiving. But the ing hi hy time after that im | 1621 thanksgiving, how- € one, It Waspre- ce a feast. a punishment | for their having indulge in the feasting | ofthe first occasion that the Pilgrims’ good luck abandoned them a jtitie over a year aiterwards, A ship sent out with men and supplics irom En Jand went to the bottom; a drought prevailed, and | the crops turned out bad. It was then that the | Governor, by proclamation, “called upon EVERY 6COD MAN privately to enter into examimation with his own estate between God and his conscience and 40 show humiliation before Him: but also more solemnly to humble ourselves together before the Lord by | fasting and pri ? is," says Winslow, “brought down th at , and out of gratitude another day hd appointed | Jor thanksgiving, wherein,” saya he, e returned glory, honor and praise, With all thankfulness, to our good God, which dealt so gracionsiy with us.” | From that time to the present, With but jew, ifany, known interruptions, Thanksgiving Day in New England, and later in ail the States, became one of the institutions. It was, however, left tothe , reat war of the rebellion to make Thanksgiving pay a decidedly national day, lustead of the Gov- ernor of each State, as theretofore, fixing by pro- clamation a day of thanksgiving for his particular State, regardiéss of what day might have becn | chosen by any over Governor, it became the cuss | tom, alter President 1 ‘olu's firs! proclamation relating to : dent issucd heirs, calling upon States to actin ac. | promulgated order, | or, rather, request, to speak nm definitely, | Stull it) may be of interest to — note that as far buck as 175% there Was a national cal forat which call was made “by | wvess,"” the day being the Lith of | days after the met armed “Brite | had bidden farewell to the United States, | THE FAMILY RECNIONS, | AS We now look upon it Phankayiving Day has a Bighificance more thin national. It has become a fort of annual family festivity, Lb is te that it et hos inany of its oli-ine clurel actions— hat (ie good and the pious of all sects religio Tegard iv 2s @ day joy cuuren-soing aud extraordl- nary prayer; but for al (ual, itis now everywhere in the Union looked upon as the day par exoevence, of | all the days in the year, when the family circle, so Jar as may be, should We unbroken. ft isin wequence of this p m that y find every New En, hot only as of od, . but” every man, women pnd child | r be may | = the Union, no matter Where ye from home, @ Week Or so be e day comes | about, sacridcing businesd interests and every IMGs Abies Gad by DG wt ue Jauuly table at tig wide | / | children may present | Eve. the Chaplain, the Kev. J. R. Nichols, the Rev. G, H. Smnyth, of this city, and others, An extra dinner | of chickens, mince pies, &c., Will be served at noon, and the children will amuse themselves with | games of ball and other sports during the after- | hoon, In the evening each child will be liberally supplied with nuts, apples, candy, raisins, ginger- bread and tea, At the Five Points House of Industry, 155 Worth | street, there will be exercises by the children, con- sisting of singing of glees and antheins, light gym- nastics, recitations, addresses, &c., to be followed | by a ine dinner at about one P.M. The children, to the number of 500, will be fed first, after which | the doors will be thrown open to ail who come, Provision will be made ‘or about one thousand per- sons, and it is earnestly hoped by the officers that the pubtic will generously furnish supplies for this purpose, so that none may be turned away hun- re ve At the Ladies’ Five Points Mission, No. 61 Park strect, extensive preparations have been made for the enjoyment of the children, of whom there will be seven hundred or eight hundred. The exer- | cises of the day will begin at two o'clock P. M. | with singing, recitations, dialogues, calisthenics, | &e., by the children and addresses by visitors, A dinner of poultry, pastry, confectionery, &c., in abundance, will be served to the little folks at four | o'clock, when every one will be supplied. That the | & good appearance new | clothing was distributed yesterday to about four | hundred of them, | At St. Barnabas’ House, a home for homeless | | women and children, at No. 304 Mulberry street, religious services will be held inthe morning, aiter , which a dinner of turkey, mince pies, &c., Will be iven the inmates of the House, the children of the day school and their mothers, the Sunday school | scholars and the boys who attend the free reading room—about five hundred in all. The day will be observed at the Howard Mission and Some for Little Wanderers, No. 40 New Bow- cry, With the usual festivities, At eleven o’cloch the children will sing anthems, Songs and glees, and addresses are expected from the President, A. 8. Hatch, and various Visitors. It is anticipated, also, that a number of the former children of the | Home will be present on this occasion, Dinner on | a large scale will be prepared for from eight pun- | dren to one thousand children and adults, | . The Female Guardian Society will give the five | hundred iumates of the Home for the Fricndless, at No, 32 Past Thirtieth street, a dinner suitable to | the oceasion, in addition to which there will be in- teresting exercises, consisting of singing, ad- dresses, &c., in the chapel, at half&past two and hal-past six P.M. An extra repast will also be | furnished to the children of the various schoois, | 2,000 in all. | At the Wilson Industrial School, at St. Mark's | place and avenue A, the day will ‘be observea in| accordance with the usual custom, | The Children’s Aid Society will make the day pleasant for its beneficiaries. The gir! t seventy in number, at their lodging hous Mark's place, wil ceive an extra din turkey, pas ., in plenty, and have a little sociable party in the evening, with music, plays, reiresihments, &c. At the Newsboys’ Lodging House, 49 Park place, nothing will be done til evening, when the boys will be feasted with turkey, chickens, pies, fruit, { coffee, after which they will be entertained with esses by visitors. About three hundred and fifty boys are expected. The sovtety will also provide for the boys at the lodging how 337 ington street, 709 East Eleventh street and 211 West Eighteenth street—in all apward of three hundred—and, if possible, for several of the indus- trial schools, of which there are twenty-two, A fair for the benefit of the Hebrew Orphan Aay- lum will be held in the basement of the Ahobath Chesed congregation, corner Fifty-filth street and Lexington avenue. At Si. Vincent's home for homeless boys of all oceupations, 53 Warren street, under the direction of Father Drumgooie, eighty to ninety boys will be given @ good dinner, | SERVICES IN THE CHURCHES, | 27 St. » With In addition to the usual everyd: ervices there will be a high mass at the Catholic churches at halfpast ten o'clock. At the Cathedral the Catholic Union, or at least as many of them ascan get into the building, will end the services. Bishop McQuade js to deliver mon on the occaeion, There will be divine | also at the Orthodox Eastern chapel, 951 avenue, ir Filtieth street, this morning | o'clock. After the Liturgy, which is partly | att the at elev in the English and partly inthe Russien language, a “Te Deum” wiil be sung byt hoir in the Russian | language, The new St. Pat '# Cathedral will be thrown open for public inspection during the day, and there will be a band of music on hand to en: liven the scen THANKSGIVING EVE AT THR MARKETS. So long as the organ devoted to the annual thankssiving is the stomach so long will the mar- kets be the great pivoval point of Thangsgiving No thanks are 80 hearty as those of a inil stomach; no heart overilows with aratitude so ireely as that which beats side by side with a satis. fied ‘appetite, and no charitable suggestions are so free as those that COME AFTER DINNER. John Bull picking his teeth is the onty national representative under the san that ts co dangerous, and his growls are to be woll: pandering to hia appetite. Ali other peop! the better lor good dinners—more charitabie, more Kindly, more hopeful. Thanksgiving being’ eape- | claily established with @ view to the aanual foster. | ing of chayitable feclings, it 1s meet therefore that dinners should be the central ovject of the testival, | for dinners have becofac the central object of ail charitable conventions and all peaceful cele. brations, Arbitration, haying put aside the sword, has taken to dinners; and as it has been shown, as Iichelieu said, that States can be saved without! the sword, dinners must be deponded | upon for (iat consaamation. For THE PURPOSKSY OF DINNER Markets ake wo Bre MEGednty. We caauol uae | be | Henry Rawlinson said that the judgment of the | | Livingstone himself, Sir Henr: | engaged in exploring the Arctic regions and to without marketing any more than the Egyptial could make bricks without straw, and for ree of marketing we have half a dozen of the most ricketty old market buildings in the world, which were the centre of attraction yesterday for all the housekeepers in the pity. Theso dingy structures, however, were mos‘ richly lined inside with the rarest ‘INSIDE LININGS," with which the agin yom of our city and her sub- urbs propose to line their own insides to-day. Turkeys, chickens, prize beef and vegetables were piled in magnificent profusion along the stalis and about the sidewalk, and ruddy-faced butchers, with fresh white aprons and hoarse voices, worn with replying to the inqutries of customers, stood man- ful "t to their tasks and nobly battled for the honor of dining New York. meee sat like fat gho ts ail in white, with colored rosettes upon their breasts and gayly colored ribbons confining their legs, walting pensively for their turn. Chickens hung hopelessly from their hooks and patiently submitted, being dead, to the ruthless handling of every stray customer, The recent ornicepitalzy- mosis, by which the feathered creation had hoped to make a diversion in its favor during the pre- vailing season,-seemed to have made no impres- sion upon the customers, and so long as the TURKEYS WAD THEIR HEADS ON 5 the purchasers were prompt. In Fulton, Washing- ton and Manhattan Markets the crowds surged all day and late into the Syeningy and the street cars were crowded with women, baskets and bundles. Altogether the Thanksgiving of to-day bids fair to be as hearty and as well catered to ag any that have gone before. THANKSGIVING DAY IN BROOKLYN. No city in the United States, perhaps, taxes more Pleasure in keeping that holiday of peculiarly Amer- joan origin, ‘Thanksgiving Day,” than Brooklyn. It only needs that attention be called to the date upon which it shall be observed to excite in the feelings of the people an ardent desire for its due celebration. Hence it was that the worthy Mayor of the churchly city had only to briefly announce that Thursday, November 28, should be set apart for the festival, and the people, like Barkis, “were wiilin’.”” It is true that a gloom was cast over the ardent fowl lovers by the accounts given, a couple of weeks ago, iu the New York journals, of the ap- pearance of the “epizooty misery” among the tur- keys, as it was feared that that fearful malady would curtail the number of those national birds of praise on the festive table. But more recent investigation and research considerately made by the Heratp dispelled the doubt engendered upon this head and there was a decided Improvement in the stock of anticipation taken in the enjoyment in prospective. Certain it is that yesterday, the eve of “the day we cele- brate,” there were premonitory symptons of very general ‘foul play’? about the markets of Beecher's Burg. No henfluenza, no terrors of dis- appointment were noticeable about the markets, On the contrary, the hooks of the stalls fairly strained with the loads of luscious turkeys, geese, chickens and wild game which they bore, and the buyers and birds alike looked well. The prices of prime turkeys ranged from twenty-two cents to twenty-flve cents per pound; but money was apparently no object with the pur- chasers, Turkeys must be had for Thanksgiving dinners, and so they were. The result is thata festive meal will be enjoyed upon all sides in Brook- | lyn to-day, Rich and poor alike grow glad because of the return of another nauonal Thanksgiving, and well they may, To the less fortunate in the possession of the good things of this life such holi- days are a special souree of joy, as, such of the wealthy as are wont to refrain from all thought of the lowly upon other Gays of the year “remember the poor” upon such occasions, and the latter are giaddened by the remembrance. The orphans come in for donations of fowl, pies, cakes, candies, Kc., the inmates of the several charitable institutions are regaled with viauds to which they have long been. pd! and jollity commingles with gratitude on every side, 4 . Vincent's Home for Boys, No. 10 Vine street, one of the most commendable institu- tions in the city, the inmates will be feted on the fatted turkey. Donations in that line will be received for the celebration at the “Vine Street Home" up to noon to-day, The reader will, there- fore, have an opportunity to help the boys to ex- | plore Turkey in a “sage”? and “timely” inanner, n the Poplar street house the inmates will hold high carnival in the very heart of Turkey, grease (geese). So it appears to be all round the circle, ‘There will be services in most of the churches to- day. Flowers of rhetoric will bloom in the pulpits; | the choirs will make the “welkin ring’ with choice notes of praise and thanksgiving, and the shepherds will tell the flocks how much they have to return thanks to a good, merci- fal and omnipotent God for. Charity, which is love for our neighbor, will animate all well-disposed hearts as they move through the household, and if it but flourish evergreen for the time to come, defying the natural inclination of poisehous weeds to spring up and rankle until it chokes out that heaven-born sentiment, then, indeed, will the people ever have occasion to’ look back to this bright and holy day as one of true thanksgiving. There will be matincées at all the places of amuse- ment and periormances in the evening. At the Academy of Music two gala performances will given by the eminent comedian, ‘Bil Florence,” when Falconer’s drama, “iileen Oge’ and the “Ticket of Leave Man” will be produced, ‘rhe members of the companies of Wallack’s and the Union Square Theatres will take partin these plays. Hooley's Opera House, Court street, offers | afine bill, J. K. Campbell, John De Angelis, R. W. | Smith, Archie Hughes, Bernardo, Hooley and | Christy will do the funny business, | Mrs. Conway's, Brooklyn Theatre offers “Sheep in Wolf's Clothing” and “kverybody's Friend” tor the | nent Of their patrous to-d: ‘theatre and Donnelly’s also put forth sources to catch customers “upon this | tal The Par mpanies and ragamuffins will wend their Way tirough the principal streets of the city, add- ing their quota to the enhancement of the pleas- ures of the carnival. Last evening balls were held in every public hall in the ¢i parties were innumerable, OF MAYOR POWELL, Mayon’'s Orrick, Nov, 23, 1872, ence tothe recommendation of the President, ced States and of the Governor of the State of . recommending the observance o! the 23th day oF November asa da eneral thay ing, Lrespect- | fully request the cit their to sue ns of Brooklyn to abstain trom ary ocenpations on that day and devote it will manifest thelr gratitude for the joy. : they enj ‘. POWELL, Mayor. THE LIVINGSTONE EXPEDITIONS. (From the Pall Mall The opening meeting of ti Geographical Society was helt | Henry Rawlinso: the Presid inaugural addr night, | » delivered the | 28, His first topic was the explora- tion of Atrica, In deating with this subject Sir Henry reviewed the relationa between the Society | and Mr. Stanley, and took the opportunity of again bearing testimony to the high character of Mr, | Stanley's services, He said as the Council honestly | considered Mr, Stanley's journey to Laxe Tangan- | yika to be in its results the most important geo- raphical achievement of the year, they had oniy | discharged their strict duty in awarding him the ictoria Medal for 1873, while at the same time | they were doing honor to Livingstone and pro- | moting tie great end of Atrican discovery. With respect to Lieutenant Dawson's expedition, Sir | Search and Relief Committee, which was generally | concurred in by the public, had since been greatly fortified by letters received from Dr. Livingstone, ju which he depiores the breaking up of the expe- dition, and shows how valuable would have been to him the arrival of the oficers at Unyanyembe, and how he proposed subsequently to have utilized their services. At the same time Sir Henry held that it was only fair to Lieutenant Dawson to say that no imputation whatever rests upon courage or his honor, He seems to from the fleld owing to a wrong impr Livingstone’s character, as well as under a mis+ taken view of his relations with the soctety. As to awlinson said that the Geographical Society never doubted of his well being, since continuous native reports of his wan- derings in Manyema were transmitted to them by | Dr. Kirk, and since tacy had inherited from their late President a belief in the Doctor's vitality as a standard article of faith; but their confidence was hardly shared in by the public, and hence aro: © unjustifiable ‘sneers | and doubts with wiich the announcement of Mr. | Stanley’s success and the first publication of the Livingstone despatches were in some quarters re- ceived, It should be understood, however, once | for all, that there was not the remotest ground for questioning the accuracy oi Mr. Stanley's state- ment. Sir Henry Rawlinson then discussed at some length Dr. Livingstone’s geographi:al discoveries, and stated that Mr. J. Young, oi Kelly, had taken upon himself the expenses of the proposed “Liv- lugstone Congo Expedition” to the extent of £1,500 or £2,000, and, if necessary, this grant would be suppiemented by subscriptions from the public and by a contribution irom the funds of the society. He also mentioned that, in the hope that some means may be found of opening a direct communication with Livingstone while Sir Bartle Frere is at Zan- zibar, the Council had decided upon giving Sir Partle a discretionary power over the relief fund to the extent of £1,500, to be applied in furtherance of Livingstone’s explorations and in facilitating luis return to the coast. In order further to strengthen Sir Bartle’s hands it had also been re- solved to aceept the services of a young naval omicer, Lieutenant V. Lovett Cameron, who offers to go ont at once to Zanzibar and there hold him- sellin readiness to conduct stores and supplies into the in jor, The remainder of Sir Henry Rawlin- son's address related to the Polar expeditions now other topics of geographical interest, At the close of the discussion which followed the President's address the hearty thanks of the meeting were voted to Mr. Young for his liberality ta equinping bus mew Westera expeditioa, | discernible, THE SCAFFOLD. The Inhuman Fiend Moore Hanged at Ebensburg, Pa. A HORRIFYING CRIMINAL RECORD + A Faithful Wife Brutally Murdered and Burned After Eleven Years’ Separation. A Fox Hunter Accidentally Discov- ers the Burning Body. THE ASSASSIN TRACKED IN THE SHOW Bigamy and Lesser Crimes the Primary Cause. His Savage Ferocity in Prison and Efforts to Escape. FIRED UPON AND WOU! BY THE SHERIFF An Affecting Meeting Between the Culprit amd His Child. The Execution Accomplished— Moore Refusing to Confess. EBENSBURG, Pa., Noy. 27, 1872. Michael Moore, one of the most hardened crimi- nals of the present age, was legally strangled here to-day for the murder of his wife, Annie Moore, at a remote place called Mineral Point, on the 1st of March last. I think that Cambria county, where the execution took place, has about as good show- ing of dark, bloody deeds as any piece of territory of its dimensions in the country—the Betsey Hold- en tragedy, that occurred upwards of twenty years ago, when an old, feeble woman of that name was most frightfully butchered by two brothers named Flanagan; the beating out of the brains of Mrs, aul and Mrs, Munday, in Croyle township, in 1865, by the notorious flends, Buscr and Hauser, and the cowardly shooting to death of Edinboro Smith, in Jackson township, in 1865, All these are weil re- membered here for their heart-chilling character- istics. But these horrors are more than paralieled by the brutal and unnatural killing of the woman Annie Moore at the time and place already men- tioned. THE SCENE OF THE MURDER, Mineral Point, is a station on the Pennsylvania Railroad, about seven miles east of Jonustown, On the morning of the 1st day of March a young sportsman named John Shiron was out fox hunting. The trail led to the sum- mit of a neighboring mountain, where his foot- stops were arrested by the presence of copious quantities of blood and marks in the snow of two persons having engaged ina violent strug- gle. There in the snow Jaya piece of flesh, which the young man turned over with his foot, and found attached to It a switch of woman's hair, with two hairpins in it. On the ground close by lay a broken pair of spectacies, a set of artificial teeth and Pieces of combs. The place was dismally silent and gloomy, and Shiron was seized with terror and started to go away, when he saw a pile of brushwood slowly burning and what appeared to beahuman body in the flames. He went off to | Mineral Point, told his story, aud a party of eight men, headed by young Shiron, returned to the spot. On the way thither they picked up a piece of a scarf, @ garter anda white stocking. The men, on reaching the fire, smothered it with snow, and dragged out the body. It was burned black, and presented a horrible appearance. THE LEGS WERE BURNED ore from the knees down, as were the feet, and there was only a small piece of clothing on her person, and that over her abdomen, ‘The men knew at once that the body was that of a woman; and over the surface of the snow the footprints of a man and also those of & woman were They were unable to distinguish her features, as her face was burned :o a crisp, her tongue protruded from her mouth and her hair was burned completely of The sight was cnough to make a man of strong nerve shudder, and many of them did so as they gathered up the remaims and prepared them for burial, FOOTPRINTS IN THB SNOW. These were very distinct, and one of the men | it to be eleven mches in length, ‘The marks of the | ones, tor the trade mark was distinct in the white | surface. Some of the men started to follow up the tracks, aud they were traced and found to lead to the residence of Michael | Moore, a disreputable character of the neighbor- hood. His house was invaded, but the man was | not to be found, An inquest was held in Johns- | measured the imprint of the man’s foot and found | woman showed that she wore rubbers, and new | ! of the prison managers alighted upon it. town over the remains by Coroner Harrold, and a large number of witnesses examined. The delibera- tions of the jury resuited ina verdict to the effect that Michael Moore, the accused, was the author of | the murder, and subsequent testimony developed | the fact that the victim was Annie Moore, Michael's lawiul wile, ‘Ihe country was scoured for the | | | murderer, but no clew to his whereabouts could be obtaine Finally Chief of the Police of Pittsburg, John Irwin, came out and was put on the track of the murderer, He effected his arrest soon after, and conducted his prisoner to Ebensburg, where he was safely lodged in the jail at that place. He protested his innocence of the crime to the oMcer, and made not the least show of resistance, intimating that at the proper time he would clear his skirts cise Ag of the charge some one had trumped up against him. Just alter his arrest he was visited 4 @ merchant from Jobnstown, named J. J. Murphy, who knew | Moore quite intimately and wiio had gained | his confidence by numerous favors he had | time and again done jor him. To this gentle- man the prisoner handed a baggage check, siating that he had a trunk at the Altoona station; that he wouid be under obligations to Mr. Murphy if he would go down and secure it and keep tt safe in his possession until he got out of prison. This check secured the trunk, which, upon being opened and its contents examined, fully convinced every one that Moore was the murderer of the wo- man. WHY HE MURDERED HER. In October, 1853, Michael Moore was married to Anne Boyle, They lived together for almost two | years, when Mrs. Moore leit her husband, on the | gene of brutal treatment. She told her neigh- hors that she intended to go to Philadelphia to live, and this she did, assuming the name of Lizzie Stevenson, under which name she re- sided in the house of a gentleman named McFetridge for the period of eleven years, Some time aiter she had quit her husband, perhaps four or five years, Moore made inquiries of some of her friends as to her whereabouts, but they knew nothing of her, and thereupon he seemed to settle down to the fact that she was dead. At least he so reported, and early in the year 1864 was married to one Miss Connor, with whom he lived up to the time of hisarrest and by whom he had one child. In the latter part of last year Rey. P. Garvey, a Catholic clergyman, who had performed the last marriage ceremony, received two letters, addressed in his care, to Michael Moore, One of the letters the Priest read at his request. It was addressed “My dear hus- band’ and signed “Anne Mvore’? and dated “Philadelphia.” The good clergyman thereupon began to question Moore, who declared that this thing had been put up on him; that his first wife was dead; but the priest following him up at length made nm admit that the woman whom the letter was from was his wife, but that he had been Jed to believe her dead for many years, Subse- quently Rey. Mr. Garvey was visited by MOORE AND TIS SECOND WIFE, and at this time he told them that they were not | legally married, dnd that uniess they separated the rites of the Catholic Church would be withheid from them, On the sti Of January last a genticman wrote, ab emma ee ——™ | men repaired to the cell of the condemned man, | sober second thought. the instance of Moore, a letter, which was dressed to Mra, Anna Moore, Dean strect, bee: a fa spetny aed _ re Lg ert ceive m her the previous November. stance of this letter is that he was in need ba and if she wanted him to come to her she Would have to send him some funds, PRBY 19 CAUGHT. that his Teste favorabt ded to by his letter was favorably responded to by faithful wife, for we next nest of Km at the house on Dean street, at which his wife, known as Lizzie Stevenson, was engaged as head of the domestics. On the morning of the 24th January, Moore made his appearance at this house, and on the afternoon of the same day left, the house- keeper accom; him. She informed some members of the family who were by when she left that she would return next day, but none of them ever her » In the ast days of that month Moore and his first wife made their appearance in Osceola, Clearfield county, and here they remained in the house of Miss Saille Goepiel until the latter part of February, The villain at this time had laid his plans to kill the woman, for he refused to give the landlady his true name, but his wife insisted upon it, and her liege reluctantly complied. While at this place Moore seems to have treated his unfor- a4 gv tunate wile with his old-time cruelty. She was for a part of the time confined to her bed and the ser- vices of @ physician called A MURDEROUS PROPOSAL, The murderous intentions of Moore were here ps plainly yee ‘ He told the physician — his woman was fair way to him, out of tho road, fering m all right with the doctor if she should dic. e man of medicine posed the person to be drunk, and said nothing, Evidently the woman had been taken to the lace with the worst of purposes; but being thwarted in the aitempt to secure a physi- clan suitable to his design, Moore determined to carry his victim to some lonely spot and carry into execution his bloody purpose. Following the chain oft evidence wound around the prisoner by the Commonwealth, I find that on the evening of Feb- ruary 23 Moore aceqgens at the City Hotel, Tyrone, registering as * Moore and wiie, Phila- delphia.” Next day they purely ickets for Johnstown, and that night left the train at Mineral Point. On the morning of the 1st of March the body of the murdered woman was found and the tracks of the murderer led directly to the door of Michael Moore’s dwelling, while the boots he wore measured exactly the length of the assassin’s tracks. The Spectacles and other arti- cles found at the scene of the tragedy were identi- fiedas the property of Mrs. Moore, alias Lizzie Stevenson, The trunk which Moore. alleged was his property was proven to have belonged to Mrs. Moore, while its contents were identified by many witnesses. The chain against the prisonor was complete, guilt was clearly demonstrated, although no human ear was by to hear the last despairing cry of his confiding victim. THE MURDERER’S CAREER. Michael Moore is about fifty years of age, of Irish birth, but came to this country when he was quite young. He has lived in Cambria county, in various sections, for the past twenty-live years, his last residence being tn the near neighborhood of the scene of the murder, His genera! reputation has been bad, and his name is not unknown to the criminal record, In 1852 he was tried for the at- tempted murder of Joseph Daly at Lilly’s Station, on the Pennsylvania Railroad. The prose- cution in this case was founded on the stab- bing of the latter by the former with a bayonet at a row on the preceding New Year. He was convicted and sentenced to the Penitentiary for @ term of years, but was pardoned out before the expiration thereof. He is also accused of other murders, but the proof was not suficient or comprehensive enough to convict him. He is of medium height and size, iron gray hair, beard and mustache of a reddish hue, and has a bullet-shaped head, His eyes are deeply sunk in their sockets and overhung by shaggy brows, and his general makeup, both intelectual and physical, is similar to that class of people known as “prize fighters.” RIS TRIAL commenced on Tuesday, June 4, and lasted about ten days. In court, though excessively nervous, he maintained a bold front and returned stare for stare. The court room during the trial was greatly crowded by persons anxious to see a man charged with such a fearful crime ashe was. Since the commission of the murder fears have been enter- tained that the terribly excited state of the public mind would cause it to break out in some unlawful act, but happily the laws of the land have not been broken and justice has been dignified by the expiation of the ‘criminal in the manner and form commanded by the Commonwealth. THE PRISONER IN JAIL. After the finding of the jury, which was “Guilty of murder in the first degree,” the prisoner was placed in a strong cell of the jail at this place, Which is a structure of no great pretensions. If he was sullen and brutal before his trial he became doubly so now, and would allow none but one of the Sherift’s deputies to visit him. If a visitor would approach his cell door he would likely get a rap on the head from a broom handle or a basin of reiuse water thrown in his lace. The Rev. Father Christy, a mild, even-tempered priest, commenced to pay the culprit visits alter the Court refused to grant his application for a new trial. The holy man for a long time failed to make any impression on the desperate animal, but at length succeeded in making him realize his terrible ition, and eventually heard him ask the Almighty God to par- don his sing and cleanse his sont that it might be worthy to appear ut the bar of heaven. This was before the receipt of his death warrant, and a delay of the document caused a return of his old ferocity and insubordination that caused the prisoners in the adjoining cells to wish Moore safely hanged, and the prison officers heartily approved of the gencral sentiment of the jail. HOW US RECEIVED HIS DEATH WARRANT. Upon the arrival of the prisoner's death warrant he professed great contrition fer hig wicked lite, admitting that he was a bad man, but most posi- tively und persistently did he deny the crime of the murder of his wife. Before the dreaded docu- ment arrived the culprit, at the approach of any person to his cell, would be discovered on his bended knees, his eyes elevated toward Heaven and his lips moving as if in prayer. This prostra- tion was a feint, as it was alterwards discovered, to misicad the jailer as to his real intentions. For | nearly a week it was observed that he kept his cot | standing uprigiit in one corner of the cell and this at once led to the suspicion that he was ENDEAVORING TO EFFECT HIS ESCAPE from his narrow dwelling by digging through the wall, An cxamination of the locality revealed an entire absence ot the plastering that adorned the cell walls, and. furthermore the mortar between the masonry had been carefully scraped away, leaving some of the stones quite loose. The instru- ment Used by tie prisoner in his work was a piece | of iron about four or five inches in length and iess | than aninch in diameter. This he had secured from the metal ventilator of his cell, and to secure it must have cost him a deal of application and labor from the fact that is was post dimcult of access and required patient skill to effect its dis- lodgement. A further search brought forth from lis straw mattress a portion of the metal water pipe that rans through the celis of the prison. ‘This was nearly ayardia length and about two inches in diameter, and so carefully had it been eucealed that a groan of vexation and despair «i the prisoner the moment the hands eo hen the death warrant arrived the Sheritl, who was only awaiting Its coming in order to more securely cee the prisoner, determined to eitect his re- moval. FIGHTING LIKE A FIEND. Another cell, in a more formidabie part of the stracture, had been properly fitted for his recep- tion, the Sherif pg oes that now that the dread day liad been finally determined upon he should take every precaution to secure him. Ac- cordingly Sheri! Bonacker summoned to his as- | sistance his three deputies, and these four gentie- where their wish to remove him to another apart- went was made kuown to him by the | Sheri, From this proposition Moore very em- phatically dissented, and as he very foolishly had been allowed to retain the murderous piece of pipe before alluded to, threatened to take the life of the first person who entered. The desperation | of the man, whose face was livid with rage, made the officers afraid to approach him, and therefore it 18 not strange that the party withdrew for con- sultation and to give the prisoner time for the The next visit soon after was met, however, by Moore in the same spirit, and, a5 moral suaston seemed to be of no avail, it was resolved to try THE Ei FECT OF COLD LEAD. Armed as the criminal was, the ferocity of his disposition and the numerous brutal threats he had made towards the keepers of the prison had a aeeaer to make them fear to approach him, Seeing that he was determined that none should is cell, und fearing that if not atonce re- he might by sowe means effect his escape, the Sherif fired three shots at the prisoner from a revoly The first, intended to intimidate him | merely, did not take efect; the second and third | | snots, fired tor the purpose of wounding, struck him respectively in t high and wrist, but neither bul- let produced a very serions wound. Moore, instead of endeavoring to avoid the shots, as he could have | seemed to court death, and even bared his breast and invited Bonaker to shoot him through the heart, Seon aiter, however, he was induced by Mr. Myers, one of the deputies, and the only person of the pe ofticials that dared go near 1m, to succumb to his fate, and, walking out of his cell, he permitted the latter gentleman to take him in charge and conduct him to the strong and gloomy apartment he never quitted until to-day, when he emerged from it forever, In this cell, after being securely placed in irons, THE DEATH WARRANT WAS READ TO TIM, he receiving the dread announcement with a levity and want of feeling that was certainly remarkable, not to say shocking, Bad as the man was at the time, the reckless shooting by the Sheriff is nut ap- proved of, and he has incurred the censure of all | good people of the village. That Moore was icter- | mined to die rather than yield there can be no | doubt, but the Jecling that prevailed among rea- soning people was that he should have been starved out if he could not have been conquered by other similarly moderate means, AS BACH DAY PASSED, bringing Moore nearer to the gallows, he lost much of the defiant air, and last night [found his eyes inflamed with weeping. His littie son had just had an interview with his condemned father, and before the child was removed he clung te himand kissed him like @rond mother would her eartiest babe, and big tears fell from tis eyes on the hard stone floor of t ell. Te was airaid to die. ‘The mon. ster who kad butchered and burned ter whom he had aworn to cherish and protect, who sent her iuto elorvuity wituous vac youent's yarplug, WoW | | very fast but unfortunate with prcenats his innocence, man did not sleep all last mornil he got an hour of repose, front whisk tea awake ened by Father Christy. He refreshed, and was more cor and beams ot cerly puashioncrees coming @ narrow a) re and making golden bars on the stone floor. “HOW DID YOU PASS THE NIGHT t” “How did you pass the night, my dear sont saia he felt very muck it the asked the priest, To which Moore replied, “Not well; I scarcely any at ali; and have to die to-day,” added, looking searchingly into the clergyman'’s eyes, you have," replied the other, “and I hope, Michael, you are ready and prepares: to mect your forgiving Father in heaven to-day.”” ‘They both kneeled down and prayed earnestly for upwards ofan hour, He seemed then to have forgotten all earthly ties, and clung affectionately tothe priest, fearing that he would leave him. Sisters from the seminary by had arrived, and, kneeling ae eo corridor, th yed there till the Sher! nounced that Al was in readiness for the PROCESSION TO MOVE TO THE GALLOWS, The scaffold. was a P psi unpretending atruc- ture, with an elevated platform of about three feet, with a trap three feet aquare, held in its place by a col ron bolt, which could be drawn by a lever, ‘The procession moved from the cell of ene condemned man about twelve o'clock, as fol- W8 ~ Sheriff Banacker. . Father Christy, Michael Moore, Sherit’s Deputies. te As they moved out the cries of two female va- grants incarcerated in Gy rent the air. They threw up their lands, feil ou their knees, tore their hair, nd carried on in such an extravagant way that he oflicers were obliged to remove them to another part of the prison. Moore walked on to the gallows with a firm step, and tooka seaton a chair placed on the trap. ‘The sun glistening om the snuw was too much for his eyes, and he closed and opened them convulsively. ‘The prisoner CLUTCHED AT THE CRUCLEIX in his hand, and muttered the responses to the litany which the priest recited, and now and then said, “Oh, God, be merciiul to me; forgive my sins!"* All being in readiness lather Christy retired, aa did also the deputies, Then the Sheriff asked him if ho had anything to by saying, “‘Now is the time for it.” loore replied, “No; lhave nothing to say, un- less to ask all present to pray for me.” He then bowed his head for the black cap, which was at once placed over it. At twenty-two min- utes aiter twelve tho drop fell, MOORE DROPPED HEAVILY, a sound as of the breaking of his neck being heard distinctly Oy those near the gallows, body swung round rapidly several times, but he died almost instantly. His puise ceased to beat at nineteen seconds afterward, and life was entirely extinct in tweaty-tive seconds. He was cut down and buried in the Catholic Cemetery, alongside of Hauser and Bonser, who were executed here in 1866 for the murder of Polly Paul and Mrs, Mundy. From the fact that Moore promised to declare innocence on the scaifold, and there refusing to do 80, the conclusion arrived atis that he was guilty of all the crimes he was ever charged with, an ee ns only confession made. was to Father Jhristy. LITERARY CHIT-CHAT. IN MANCHESTER, ENGLAND, the Pubtic ree Library had over two million calls for books in the past year, There were 14,337 volumes added to the library. THE EPHEMERAL BOOKS of pictures that used to be issued for Christmas presents are every year giving way more and more to handsome editions of books of permanent value, ONE OF THE LEADING wants of the past few yeara has been a collection of the constitutions of the States, which were not many years in arrears. The last edition published was in 18é4, and even this has been some time out of print. We now have the promise of three rival publications to supply this want. First, and already issued, is Dr. F. B. Hough's “American Constitutions,’ with elaborate introductions and notes in the case of each State, embracing an account of each successive constitu- tion adopted, and the vote upon the rejected ones, This work forms two bulky voluines of nearly 900 pages each, illustrated by the engraved seals of the States, and published by Weed, Parsons & Co., Aibany. Next, we are promised a collection of alt the constitutions in one volume, to contain, like the preceding, the latest fundamental law of the reconstructed States, and to be issued shortly by A. S, Barnes & Co, And still another edition of American constitutions is in the government press at Washington, which is to contain, in a quarto volume, all the Colonial charters and successive constitutions of cach State, from the earliest period to date. THE FOLIO has so far disappeared that hardly anything is now published in that shape in Eng land except Blue Books, and the folio editions, even of the best writers of the last century, are sold in the shops for about the price of waste paper. “\ CoMEDY oF Ternors,” by James De Mille, forms the twenty-fifth number of Osgood’s library of novela. It is a remarkabie story of love and adventure, in which are two heroines and twa heroes of very strongly marked characters, wha play at crosa purposes and frighten each other ta death in the most harrowing manner until they find out the truth, and so gct happily married in the good old orthodox way, OWING TO THE Boston Fire the publication of the magazine, Old and New, is postpoued until the 28th of December. FATHER BURKE intends to publish his lectures in answer to Mr, Froude in book form, P. My Haverty wiil be the publisher of this book on his own account. Father Burke hopes that no other publisher will deprive him of his royalty in the book by printing rival editions. HORSE NOTES. . BE American Girl is in Winter quarters at R. J. | Anderson’s Winfield stables, Filtieth street and Sixth avenue, splendidly. Mr. Erastus Corning’s brown gelding George Pa'mer will spend the Winter at his owner's stables in Albany. It is highly probable that this trotiing horse wili be She fs in fine condition and looks retired from the turf, Thomas Cable, of Brosdway, has lately returned from a tour in Europe, and every pleasant after- noon finds him beliind his favorite fast brown mare May Myrtle. Few can beat this mare when she i called on, and Mr, Cable handles her with great skill, The market for road horses has beon very dau for some time and very few horses have changed hands, Dealers are looking forward to a season of sleighing, which usually brings purchasers to the surface and makes business for a class oi horses too tender-footed to trot on the ground, but well dtted for snow work. Mr. Thomas P, Wallace‘s trotting horses Henry, Triumph, Heather Bloom and Coleman have gone iuto Winter quarters at their owner's magnificent rivate stables, in Sixtieth street, near the Grand oulevard, ‘The trotting horses Crown Prince and Doubtfal will Winter at Barker & Chase's stables, Thirty- ninth street and Broadway, John Lovett’s horses, Gazelle, Lulu and Youn: Bruno, are quartered for the Winter at Browo Van Fieet's stables, Thirty-ninth street, Mr. William Humphreys’ chestnut trotting horse Judge Fullerton has gone into Winter quarters at his owner's private stable in Fifty-third street. Mr. J. Q. Laws is driving his splendia team again upon the road. They are in flue fettle after taeie aliments with the recent epidemic. Mr. Daniel Garrison's celebrated Patchep mare Lady Anua will Winter at her owner's place, Rhode Hall, N.J. Mr. John Morris’ stable of trotters and Mr. Kirk’s mare, own sister to American Girl, wilt Winter at the same piace. Frank Ferguson owns a very flue big bay mare, by Iron Duke, She is catled Miss Miller, is five years old and can trot low down in tue thirties. James K. Polk, formerly Cloudman, is vow owned by the same gentleman. t is said that Lady Thorn, through recent sick- has become so much emaciated that at prem he is little better than a skeleton, She is at Bristol, Pa. Lottery's grave is just behind the Fleetwood track, ina quiet nook, : In Fifty-fith street, near Fifth avenue, some very fine private stables have been built recently, The lemon owners are indicated by the way im are set back, 80 as not to prove t property. WON'T SOMEBODY ENLIGHTEN HIM? New York, Nov, 26, 1872. To THe Epiror ve rok fiskaLo;— Will you be kind enough to inform me by yout paper whether Charles O'Conor accepted the nomt nation for the Presidency which was offered him, and you will exceedingly oblige, Yours respect: tuity. ~G, W. MeGOWAN, 8 Liberty ateeet, Clive a nuisance to adji | } ; sien