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Pm DISCREDIT MOBILIER. a James Brooks Again Rises to Explain to Poland’s Committee. COLFAX LOOKING OVER HIS PAPERS. His “Friend and Counsellor” will Preve that the $1,200 Came from “Another Source.” HOAX AMES’ ERRATIC MERIORY. The Distinguished Patriot Wants Garfield to “Get Off Easy.” A SETTLEMENT WITH KELLEY. NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, JANUARY 30 that he regarded the transaction between you and Rin ava loan? A. Oly i cane remembers 1 have had two or three conversations with Mr. Garfleld; he wants to put the transaction ow the basix of a loan; ho says when he came back trom Europe he was short of “unds Andealied onme ora loan; 1 can’t remember about these things, there bas been so much said-about 4 1° a and all that; 1 (old him he never called ou me to burrow money and f knew nothing about him being short; he never asked me to lend him any money. Q. Well, go on, Mr. Ames, and give us his statement. ¥ er al Mg ry ronversations t liad re @. Did he make any Foquest of you to omit any s ment in regard to it? A. rit my impression is that he wanted me 10 s8y, As c a , Seid tia Be a caTeeating tthe trans wand Mr. Garfle eran Mr Amer then produced a piece of pay upon which were the following figures— 1,000, 1,00), 400; (V—and testified that the figures were made by Mr. Garfield; the first 1,000 referrea to Union Paeitic bonds, the second to Credit Mobilier stock and the 400 to something else he could not remember now, G. Was that what ho received or what bo was entitled to? A. What he 1s entitled to, though I think he is in er- about the 400, 7 7A"Did. he put this down as his recolicetion of the transaction between yout A, Yes, sir. Mr. Merrick—I understand in substance he wished you to state as little as possible about it? TK WANTS TO SAY AS LITTLE AS POSSIBLE, Mr, Ames—Yes, that is my desire, too. Mr. Merrick—Well, Mr, Ames, allow me to state that we want you to state all you know. Mr. Ames—I have stated to the best of my memory all 1 know; the figures were made on a piece of paper nm the table In my room at the time of the conversation; 1 did not pay aiy attention to them for three or four days atterward; when I found there was a conilict in our tumony I preserved them; witness did not remember when Mr. Garfield went to Europe. he Dad you understand by the conversation you had with Mr. Garfield that that gentleman conceded your statement to be right and true? A. Well, lcan'tsay; ho wou'td not havo been very apt to recalt to hismind the Ames Trustee for the Vice President and the Others. HOAX OFF TO RAISE 600,000. Proceedings of Wilson's Committee—Joseph B. Stewart Refuses to Testify—No Newspa- per Correspondents Involved— Horace F, Clark Examined. WASHINGTON, Jan. 29, 1873. Judge Poland’s special committee to inquire Into the distribution of Crédit Mobiller stock among members of Congress resumed its session this morning. Mr, James Brooks appeared before the committee. Mr. Brooks desires to make record of the fact that in the rinted exbiblt of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, january term, 4868 No. 19 equity, in the suit of MeComt} Moplt ¢ ‘vs. The Credit Mobilier of America, was filed and_sworn o olders, dated Decem- H. Nelson, 100 nearly three r of Congress Mobitier stoc, shares, 0 shares; und that, there months before Mr. Brooks became a me or government director. it was a inatter of notoriety In the bighest court of Pennsylvania that Mr, Neilson owned 19 shares in his own name and right. A LIST OF THK GOVERNMENT DIRROTORS. Mr. Brooks also desires to make a matter of record the mames of all the governmen ctors when he was 0! 01 m, such ni as Hon. George Ashmun, of Massa- husetts; Hon. 88. Rollins, of Missouri; Hon. Jesse Wilson, of Indiana, and Hon. Benjamin Wade, of Ohio, id others, anc tyon the record in the Union Pa- - d the ifle Railroad books that these directors generally, If not ways, were in accord with hit (Mr. Brooks) us to the futics they owed to the government and to the road, and at during that tine Hon. Jolin A. Dix, Governor of New ‘ork, Was President of the road, and the late United tates Senator, Hon. E. D. Morgan, ot New York, one of trastees of the bonds of said company. . Brooks also calls attention to his resolution of the Retober ‘meeting, 1872, of the Union Pacific Railroad di- ctors, In which'he demands the revocation of the Wy- pming Coal Company contract, and that his resolution prevailed with but one dissenting voice. IN ANSWER TO QUESTIONS Judge Merrick Mr. Brooks testifled that in 1867 he was pointed a government director and held his commis- lon one year; he never heard of the paper of the Credit jobiller irectors authorizing the Issue of fifty shares ad- tional; never saw it until yesterday; witness claimed he fifty shares additional asa right or Mr. Neilson by irtue ‘of the previous contract he (Mr. Brooks) had ith Mr. Durant; witness supposed his name was {used in the paper authorizing (he issue on account of the revious arrangement with Durant, bef 0 shares ere transferred to Neilson ; as to the $5,000 loaned Mr. eilson by Mr. Dillon, witness had no knowledge as to ho paid it; was sure he did not, but supposed Mr. Neil- n did; the check book, ulready exhibited, showed no uch check was given, Sidney Dillon was recalled, and testified that he kept 9 Memorandnm of his transactions; he remembered joaning the $5,000 to Mr. Neilson, who gave him collate- 1, consisting of Union Facifi¢ stock and bonds; sup- oses the money was repaid by Mr. Neilson; has not the ocK oF bond 1 his possession no’ (. Ex-Representative Robert & liale, of New York, ap- pater the committee aad stated that he was resent as HY FRIEND AND COUNSELLOR OF VICE PRESIDENT COLFAX, find, first, no desired to say. on behalf of Mr. Coltax, that 0 Was low engaged in making a thorough examination fall his papers and letters, and upon concluding such Ramination he would appear beiore the committee, to ‘testify in his own behali; and he would also ask that jsome witnesses be exami Mr. Coltax had requested ‘the euransr. to say that to the $1,200 check de- sited to his credit, as appears by the’ books of the irst National Bauk, le would show that that was de- rived from another source. Mr. Hale satd he desired to it Swain, and he would then ask the fee unul Mr. Coliax should lete the examination of his papers. Mr. H.C. Swain was then recalled and examined by Mr. Hale, as follows :— . State whether your books show any debits to Mr. Coliax's account on the 224 of June? A. They do. Q. Whi hey? A. I can’t detail them all; among others a ebeck for $ paid on thatd 0, Q.. Have you that check Produced it, and it wast he witness here .. Tune 22, 1S, | Ifor bearer $1,000. UYLER COLFAX.” . L have “Pinst Nationa Bank. Q. How wasit paid? A. 1 thin York. Witness then produced t nk of New York, pay uyler Colfax, and endor Indianapolis: Witness te subsequentiy paid in New Yo Fr. Ames—Ihe day he deposited $1,200 he drew out ‘Md remitted itto New York! A. Yes. Mr, Ames—Ot course. : Mr. Hall-—I shall desire to witnesses as soon as he makes ar of his papers. Sudge Voland—Very well, sir; you shall have th portunity. Judge Foland then asked Mr. Ames if the books and pa- | pers he expected had arrived Mr. Ames replied that they had not. behind, but he expe 4 them, Judge Poland then read the following by a drait on New siraft on the ¢ le to the ord ‘ ) Mr. Colfax and other sonable examinsion | +} op- | The mails were fi te hieen hundred “OAKES AME “Sergeant-at-Arms United s es tives, pay to J. U. Patterson or bearer Aolla‘s and chiurge to my a: “Endorsed J. W. Patterson.” . For what was this thirty shares of Credit M . Did you take did: have it already, e @. Have you any other receipts from Mr. Patterson ? Ac Thave. following :— ther stoe t from himt A. Witness produced t “Received of Oakes A Pacific Railroad Comp: eighty per cent in bond: Atmerica, held by him as tru ds of Union dividend of Mobilier of ft RSON." 0) bonds at 97, e made at the ot remember | on or himselt; F500. | n would like to ome further ex- ithe would Lt) CAME TN. Mr. Ames then stated § Appear betore the committee to pPlanations, and he wou Mr. Ami datsome length in regard to some checks give ergeant-at-Arins. marke June 22, 1863, was dum of wiiness | Id) to pay the sixty ‘of Credit Mobitter stock. ek for $329, dated June | bearer.” Witness tes: | hom that was | y himself and | it; itimay have | is on the Credit | veir dividends. | Q. Was there any other gentleman who received $329 | except those who have been named by your A. I don't think ot any, sir. Q. Do you remember whether THE PAYMENT OF THREE WUNDIK LARS TO Mit. ‘was made by check or whet A. L don’t know; it I did pay hi from the Sergeantat-Arms on ac Judge Poland—On June 22 there given by you on the Sergeant-at-Arins, There is no name on it, Can you say to whom that was given ? . No, sir: I don't know asl can; it may have been to pay a bill or something el: Laisa Q. There 1s another to pay a draft of $1,200; to whom was that given? DAWKS' LITTLE MOIRTY. A. I don’t know ; I suppose it was a draft I got on New York or Boston. 9. Did Mr. Dawes receive any money from you by a check on the Sergeant-at- A. Lthink he Q. Did you find anyt books given to Mr. Judge Poland read anothe 22 and payable to ¢ tified that h jiven; he anded it AND TWENTY-NINE DOL- | vuRLD | 1 paid him in money ? in money 1 drew it Dawes? “A. On my memorandum 1 have Mr. Dawes $000, less $200, 2. You think you paid him $400. Was it by a check on the Sergeant at-Arms? A. {can't tell; the books will show; L think che a ain hink T paid it by acheck omthe Sergeantat OU 8a) nit Mo you hold stock and certificates of bonds due ilier TAL Yes, sir. . been any dividend paid on Union Pacific Scofield, Dawes and Logan went out Vidend of 60 percent, Mr. Kelley was entitled to dividends, and witness expecied ; Pe figgidends. and witness expected to settle with Mim ; Q. And Mr. Colmx, do atyidenas? A. do } Aud you hold them in trost Mr, Allison, he senthis stork back pothing more to do with ir ‘on consider he is entitled to the A. Ido: hum? there Was an tate and he preferred not ed the stoel . man wok being re: 1 no agr transacuon and cement w fot a nominal one ; had ha rf atter though he received the bond ar ‘ «Leash divi- | tock corliticates witness still ‘Do vou think Mr. Allison ever returned to vou any ‘of the money Vou paid over to hunt A. He mney Se ook ie returned Htness had no recollection him the $829 dividend eluded that amount in dend, but the sieck and held. w Mr. Allison returning no recollection that he in- t on New York in the settle. | T; had had no correspondence lémen, except Mr. Patterson, tion had Lee in progress; had 4 CONVERSATIONS WITH SkVZWAL OF THM, t all of them. yof these gentlemen, | i differently trom what ied before the committee? A. Well, L don't OW. O. Btate if Mr. Garfield claims in a conversation with eh) 1800 paid? A, Dividends on | ¢ | make up the total ind was acheck for $272 79 | ™ amount due him unless he agreed with my statement, 9 And the statement you made to im in substance is the one you made to us? A. Yes, sir. ‘A SATISFACTORY SUTTLIEMENT. Mr. Ames further testified that he bad a conversation with Judge Kelley about the transaction; Mr. Kelley suid he called it « loan, and had so stated, and said to witness ted to pay ‘that loan; witness replied he did not der it; Mr. Kelley sald he would give me a check ‘on his bank, and wanted to know when he should date it; I told hit it would make no difference; he gave me a check; that was before this mvestigation commenced, and [tore it in halt and handed it back to him. Q. What did he say when you tore itin twoand handed ithack? A. Both of us appeared to be satistied with the transaction. Q. Was it done in nent of passion? A. No, sir; it was done very good-naturedly; I did not consider that he owed me ‘anything, but | owed him and told him s0; he did not deny it. Q. He wanted to call it something elso ? A. That is the way I understood him; he wanted to be clear of the transaction. Mr, Ames said {t was important that he should leave here for his home to-night. ‘Tho tinal payment on his ex- tension of time came due February 4, and he had to raise $6W),000 by that time, The committes could get along Without bim now, as the question of bribery had been settled, and all the committee wanted to know now was whethér he or somebody else lied. Adjourned until to-morrow morning at ten o'clock, THE WILSON COMMITTEE. Joseph B, Stewart Recalled and Ex- amined—What was Done with the $250,000!—Mr. Stewart Refuses to Answer the Questions Put to Him—No Newspaper Correspondents Bribed— Horace F. Clark en the Prospects of the Union Pacific. WASHINGTON, Jan, 29, 1873, The Wilson Committee met at half-past eleven o'clock, when Joseph B, Stewart was recalled, The chairman reminded him ot his former testimony; that he stated that Durant and Hallet bad paid hin’ a very large amount of bonds, said to exceed two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and that from one hun- dred to one hundred and fifty thousand dollars of this amount was in Union Pacifle bonds, and that | this was in the latter part of Juno, 1864, The witness was then asked to state the naméa of those to whom he paid them or any part thereof. Witness said the question assumed what was erroncous; it covered two quantities of $250,000, and as- sumed that he received as pay (his amount; he’ did not state that it was paid to him. ‘The Chairman—Iin your former testimony you said that Durant and Hallet together paid you a large amount, to exceed $250,000 in bonds. ‘4 QUARTEE OF A MILLION FROM DURANT. A. Instead of pald you should say 1 received; in my former testimoy I received money and bonds ex- ceeding two hundred and fifty thousand dollars tre Durant and Hallet; that I received the money and bonds as counsel to adjust matters for my client, acting some- times in a aaa, CARRS. and sometimes as nego- tiator and umpire; that! appropriated the money and bonds so received in discharge of such duty as counsel, and that ithad no reference and had not by me been ap: lied to any ono connected with the government ir legislative or executive capacity, and thatthe matters per- formed by me as counsel Ido Mot mean to state to this committee. ‘The Chairman—T ask yon to state to whom you paid the bonds of the Union Pacillc Railroad Company or any proceeds thereott RETICENCE AS TO CLIENTS, A. Lwill not speak of dealings with iny clients, Q: You retuse, then, to state to whom’ you paid or de- livered the bonds of which you bave spoken or any part thereof? 4. [repeat and now state I will make no state- ment about the business ot my clients. . Do you retuse to state to the committee to whom you delivered the bonds or state what you did with them? A, To do so would place me ina position in which Ldo not desire to be placed. Q. [will give you another opportunity to answer, Do you refuse to answer? A. Ihave answered ay [ mean to answer. Atter further colloquy Mr. Hoar moved that Mr. Stew- by the Chairman that in the opinion of an ol the per ivered the bonds or mon the comutitee whom he e having had this matter under consideration, it is their opinion that this is not such an answer as you have ight to withhold. A. 4 presume T have the same nas had ia the discharge mpare: for me mile dissatistaction ce now existing be- ire into subjects ulalirs, been asked as to what kind of bonds Mr. Hay Teecived, suid, (o the best of his judgment, they were of the same description and part of the bonds jensive that, in answering the ques- the effect would be to create 1 satisfied such would b. d you deliver the bonds to any news respondents? A. That ts re ng Your quest for the eredit of the Laid ne t aper cor. ny but Q. they ty purpose of this « We DECLIN¥S TO ANSWER. Q. Do they live in Washington! A. I answer n reply to remarks by M rad he telt it to be his cuty to his elie uesiions. adhere to your ner than have al James ¥, Wilson hore said he had te decline to he witness to retuse to an (& Tcannot use graphed tod. M, veflect that Mr. Spence yester 5) nee to give Wilson a‘e ed the gentlemen to retire, consultation, evidently ie committee then req ay roiwal of Mr. Stewart to answer the questions CLARK EXAMINE After the ad suined {ls session, President ot the Un testitied he had held the office hover connected with the Credi ce Ft ¢ Railroad Company.’ be since March 6, 1872; was Mobilier; made september last; ith regard to the items which piedness of the company. ‘Tho as about $2,000.00) in notes, held wholly for different ‘amounts; he kiven by the company to the W, but as the conditio felt satistie part ot the in floating debt by the present au had heard of a Credit Mobiller tor which it was given to omitit from bil debtedness of the com: un The witness was asked by the Chairman what would company i the support of Jenditig it money should be the € ject on the railro: the persons who have b withdraw fron of interest, as House a day o company in si to meet its oblig by the The tn 80 Ag. c hacase would not be i sre m1 ns. THE PROSPROTS OF THE UNION PACIFIC ROAD. Be was asked a number of questions involving tural opinion: the tutu: ts of the ri believed that with th asta ase of popuint ontana, Colorado and other sections there rily be a large increase in the traiic of the roa Mr. Hoar asked the witness whether, it the directors 0 the company had had the cash, they could not have built the 667 miles built under the Ames than it was by Oukes Ames, f the company. The witness replied wight that Was the wildest contract ever civilized man. At this point the committee adjourned until ten o’cleck to-morrow. ANOTHER Wi he made by 8 FOR THE WILSON COMMITTEE. nn Mr. Edward Simmonds, Superintendent of Rolling Stock, Speaks a Picce—More Swindling Exposed. The Wilson Investigating Committee, at Wash- ington, can have another witness to throw some light upon the workings of the Union Pacific Rail- road by sending for him wo New York. A HERALD reporter called yesterday upon Mr. Edward Sim- monds, of 349 broadway, who was cennected with the railroad from March,’ 1865, to March 1871, in the capacity of Superintendent of Rolling Stock. The reporter asked :— “What was the character, Mr. Simmonds, of your duties on the Union Pacific Railroad?” “It was my business,"’ he replied, ‘to look after the rolling stock of the roud; to receive it and report on it to the company.’ Where was your office * ‘At No. 20 Nassau street.” “When did you first receive roliing stock for the o ortly after the close of the war Ireceived & humber of second hand locomotives, which were sold to the company by P. G, Butler, of Boston. they were brought mostly from the South, and Were repaired by Barney Moore & Co., of Cincin- atl. ‘They were so.d to the company as first class engines by Butier. A first class engine at that Ume was worth from sixteen to seventeen thou- sand dollars. When I saw these engines I wrote @ report to the company, a copy of which Ihave at | at 187 P home, and told them what these engines were like— that thoy were dear at $9,000 and unit for any de- cent road, “Who was P. G. Butler 1” “Fle was a relative, | think a nephew, of General pan Butler, and he held stock in the Crédit Mo- rt “What was the result of your report ?” “It was never attended to, Second hand rollin: stock, cars and engines continued to be receiver and the full price allowed for them. I went dewn to Alexandria in the Fall of 1866 to look alter some stock Butler had there for the Union Pacific road, I found & worn-out government engine, several cara, switch stands and ptier truck.’ “Did you know of anf other sort of second hand bod bonne for the road and charged at first class “Yes, there was a good deal bought and paid for of a very inierior kind, but i cannot just now re- collect. At another time, when, like Oakes Ames, Lretresh my memory, 1 may be able to recall some other matters.” LITERARY CHIT-CHAT. THE Athenwum vigoronsly denounces Mr. H. A, Page’s recently published “Life of Hawthorne” as a literary imposture. “When we have said that the book is utterly worthless we have said noth- ing. It is much worse than this. The task which Mr. Hawthorne's wife feared to attempt a writer who disguises himeclf under an assumed name rushes in to undertake.” The book, so far as the memoir is concerned, is cribbed from the note books of Hawthorne himself, from Mr. Ficld's “Yesterdays with Authors,” and from an old paper by George W. Curtis, There is not one fresh inci- dent in the book, which is padded with some stories from “The Old Manse,” reprinted, with the titles fraudulently changed by Mr. Page. Mn. RusKIN has at length consented to allow the two volumes of his ‘‘Modern Painters,” which have been long out of print, to be reprinted, MEssks. BLACKWOOD have in press a book of poems by Owen Meredith (tne Hon. Robert Lytton). Dr. AbDOLF WuTTKE’s “Christian Ethics,” in two volumes, containing a history of ethics and pure ethics, has been translated by John P, La- croix, and will be issued by Nelson & Phillips. TnE Story oF BEATRICE CENCI has been again treated by the Canonico Antonio Torrigiani in a work entitled, ‘Clemente VIII, e il Processo Crimi- nale della Beatrice Cenci,”’ intended to refute Guerrazzi’s novel. The work is written as an apology tor the Papacy. Mr, WALTER BESANT has in press a new work on the French humorists, Tue Kev. Mr. ORWALD is to publish a book on the inexhaustible subject of the clergy, under the title of “Bishops and Deans.”” ‘Tue Spectator prints a conversation with the late Bulwer-Lytton on Spiritulism aiter he had written “A Strange Story.” He advised his inter- locutor to have nothing to do with mediums or table-turning. “There is something in it,’ be said, “but nothing, in my judgment, to benefit mankind,” i F. 0, BuRNAND, in “Happy Thoughts Hall,” thus hits off the alliterative school of title-makers, who are making modern literature bristle with cheap sensations :— Good Hebdomadal Alliterative Series—Sayings for Sundays, one vol. Mysteries for Mondays, ditto, Tales for Tuesdays, ditto. Wit for Wedne days. Themes for Thursdays, Fun for Fridays. Sonnets for Saturdays. And then all, in a monthiy volume, a8 Medleys for the Month, Mr. James Grant's third volume of the bulky “History of the Newspaper Press” ts even more roughly handled by London journals than the first two. It is described as notable for blunders and bad grammar, THE SECULARISTS OR FREETHINKERS of England have a literature of their own, among recent issues of which are the following:—‘The Bible: What It Is,” by ©. Bradlaugh; “Christian Mys- teries: a Dialogue Between a Missionary and a Chinese Mandarin,” price 2d.: “Haif Hours with Freethinkers,” 2s, 6d.; ‘“Hume’s Essays on Mir- acles,’? 2d.; “Sunday Rest,’? by Victor Schoelchee, 2d. ; “The Scripturian’s Creed,” 2d.; ‘Moral Physi- ology,’? by Robert Dale Owen, 6d.; “Holy Scrip- tures Analyzea,”” by R. Cooper, 8d.; ‘The Uscless- ness of Prayer,” 1d. A New Digest or “TELrararn Cases Decided in the Courts of America, Great Britain and Ireland,” edited by Charles Allen, of Massachusetts, is to be published by Hurd & Houghton, THE PUBLICATION OF GUBERNATI'S “ZoBlogical Mythology” is a symptom of the new revival of letters in Italy, Some Apprt10N8s OF IMPORTANCE will be found in the new edition of Mr. Carlyle’s “Life of Schiller,” which will appear in February or March, Ropert Browntn@, in his last poem, sneers at Byron, and ridicules his ‘here let him lay !” in the apostrophe to the ocean, which, of course, is shocking from the Lindley Murray point of view. A CORRESPONDENT in the Athenwum calls atten- tion to the fact that considerable portions of Mr. Charles Reade’s last novel are paraphrased from Dean Swift's “Journal of a Modern Lady.” Mi. Dents HOLLAND, editor ef the Zrishman newspaper, has just died at the age of forty-five. Iris a Cuntous Fact that, while Austria exports paper largely to England, Herr Lott, who has un. dertaken to print the Vienna Exhibition catalogue, has to go to England for the roil paper required for the catalogue. A PROPOSED CUDAN EXPEDITION, ities Patriotic Cubans Endeavoring to Raise a Fund to Invade Cuba from New Ore leans. A meeting of patriotic Cubans was held yesterday earl street, upon the call of Messrs, Lean- dirigt Camilo Leiro, J. A. Betancourt and etano Mila, to discuss matters of importance in the Cuban struggle against Spam, Alter the meet- ing had been called to order Mr, Leandro Rod- riguez was elected President, and Mr, C, Federico de Armas Secretary. The President, after thank- ing the meeting for the honor conferred upon him, spoke of the struggle being made for liberty, the abolition of slavery and the encouraging signs of the times, and conciuded by saying that he begged to suggest that a minimum collection of $10 be made aimeng the Cubans in the United States and Europe to get up a large expedition to pro- ceed to Cuba to help the straggling patriots. Mr, Rodriguez then stated that he imated the collection in New York of from three thousand to four thousand Cubans engaged in the to- bacco trade at $30,000, He in conelusion, that the matter of “On! ib: 8 being im- mensely agitated by the New Yc HERALD and papers, and that a chan ygton Cabinet might > of policy from the Wash be drily hoped for, Mr. ©. KE. Gato. then followed, and dwelt upon the sympathy shown tie’ Cuban pa triots by the iniabitants of this country. Before the meeting adjourned it was resolved that another meeting should be held as svon as funds began to pour in for the expedition, and to consult what are the best means to be taken for tne fitting out of said expedition and its point of departure. From current indications it 13 supposed t New Orleans wili be the port chosen, owing to the friendship of the Louisiana Legisia- ture to th@ Cuban cause, and also that all the colored people there are unanimous for United States intervention. ‘The following Committee have beén appointed :—) Armas, Cayetano Mila and Benjam eres. address wul be probably issued to-morrow, A BROOKLYN HOMICIDE. Acquittal of the Accused. James Sweeney, indicted for manslaughter in causing the death of Peter Cannon, of No, 364 Hicks street, was tried yesterday in the Court of Sessions and acquitted. The facts of the case were in brief a8 follow: in the night of November 18, 1872, the deceased was in Sweeney's liquor store, corner of Hicks and Pacific streets. He was intoxicated and became disorderly and abusive. Sweeney ordered him to ieave. He refused to go, aud Sweeney forcibly ejecied him. te returned ana kicked against the door, whereupon Sweeney opened the door and struck him in the face. Cannon fell back from the force of the biow and struck his head on the sidewalk, Causing a facture of the skull, which resulted in his death, A BROOKLYN GRAIN SHOVELLER SUFFO- CATED. Yesterday morning William Connolly, @ grain shoveller, employed at the, Union Stores, at the foot of Irving street, South Brooklyn, met with a terrible death, While the grain was being run into abin oa the first oor throngh ashnute, Connolly who was engaged in shovelling it, was drawn in by the suction, One of his companions caught alm by the arm and attempted to rescue him, but came near being drawn in timself. The macninery was stopped and Connolly was taken out, but expired a moment thereaiter. The deceased was forty years of age and had been employed in the stores jor the past ten years. His body was taken to his late residence, 534 Court street, where he leaves a wile and whree children. MODERN MODELS. Characters of Credit Mobilier Mistory---Nice Examples for the Rising Generation. Pen-and-Ink Sketches of Several Notoricties. The Chaplain of the House as an Electioneering Touter. BROOKS, AMES AND ALLEY. WASHINGTON, Jan. 26, 1873. One of the Dillon party, Bushnell, is a square set, coarse looking man, with a patronizing swag- ger. McComb says that he is a blower and nothing more. He came voluntarily before the committee, took a chair and in paroquet fashion rattied off his conception of morals and the Providence which guides the universe, He said that 1t was perfectly legitimate for Congressmen to have Crédit Mobilier stock, and that any of them who had been promised it ought to come forward and make a demand that it be rendered to them, He said that it was lamentable how little moral pluck they had, and then intimated that because of this outrageous publicity given to the respectable affairs of a pri- vate mercantile corporation $50,000 worth of his stock had been thrown out of bank at New Haven as worthless, It is alleged by McComb that there stands upon the books of the Union Pacific Railroad $400,000 of first mortgage bonds and $112,000 worth of certificates for government bonds debited to Bushnell, he having become possessed of them and ne ver having accounted for the sume. HARLAN, The testimony is clear and conclusive that Durant gave James Harlan two checks of $5,000 apiece, in order to put Harlan in the United States Senate. McComb says that if Durant had told the whole truth he would have counted up to Brother Harlan nearer thirty thousand dollars than ten, It must give a twinge of discemfort to the Rev. Dr. Newman, pastor of the Methodist Metropolitan church in Wasbington city, that while Durant was paying this $10,000 a3 a cor- ruption fund to Harlan, Newman was writing circular letters addressed “Dear Sir and Brother” to the Methodist clergy of lowa, asking them to turn out and work and lobby for Harlan’s re-elec- tion. Since the days of the Rev. John Newland Maiflit, who was also a chaplain to Congress, no clergyman has done more unclerical things than this Newman, He had arranged to be made a bishop at the last General Conference; but some public description which was made of his offensiveness in this city properly prejudiced him in the suffrages of the Northwestern Methodists, and after getting @ hundred votes or more he fell away, and he is now, 1 believe, without a church, but praying very beautifully at the opening of Congress every day. Mr. Harlan is a sauntering, unkempt, stony sort of man, with an unhappy countenance, and his personal popularity is far beneath his ambition, so that it is said he has lost ail points with the Prest- dent, both-as @ quasi editor and as a politician. He brings with him that cloud which generally lies upon the brow of one not serene in his mind; for Harlan began life in a kind of ministerial capacity, aud was a@ teacher in a Methodist theological school, &c. Working along in politics, with all the application of a demagogue onthe ground floor, his success was very considerable, and he found a place in the Cabinet of Abraham Lincoln. While Secretary of the Interior invidious things were constantly said of him, but he had grimucss and grip, and a matrimonial alliance Which his dauguter made with the President's family gave him renewed con- sideration, The charges, now fully proved, as to his purchase by the Union Pacilic interest have been made here tor at least four years. As the time approached for his second candidacy Harlan became one of the most oosequious apologists and promoters of party despotism, and signalized him- self by attacks upon Charles Sumner and by other unrequited bits of mendicancy. He is utterly un- pitied here, and the only regret with the people is that this man’s name must unfortunately hold some relationsiip with that of Mr. Lincoln, DURANT. Dr. Thoma'C, Durant is a tall, gray-haired man with a goatish face. He was born in Western Mas- sachusetts, dud studied medicine, but was too rest- less to practice, and took to speculation, He is & stock Operator chiefly, with alternations of work as a contractor, He built a large portion of the Mis- sissippi and Missouri Railroad, which is, L beli an extension of one of the Chicago lines. Hen’ S. McComb was making cart wheels at Wilinin; ton, Delaware, when Durant took this contract, about seventeen years ago, and McComb furnished Durant with stock and equipments, Durant may be called the parent of the present Pacific Railroad, Hi took pp the idea many years ago, and lectured, wrote and lobbied upon it extensively, His gifts are very considerable, and he has many of the qualities of genius. Although of a restiess nature, and con- sumed by his propensities, he has a luminous mind, an unusual Vigor of expression and ciearness of sight. His magnetic powers are notable, and he generally made a convert to his design of every- body whom he met. COMB has none of the qualities of Durant; he is a con- servative speculator, with a very level head, and many times, during the construction of the Union Paciflo road, he led Durant as a_ capitalist and as the leading spirit in the construction. Durant, it is alleged, has squandered millions of money, and he is now worth less than one million, whereas, @ few years ago, he was worth not less than six million of dollars. It was Durant who des atched George Francis Trai with whose fumily he sustains certain rel: tions, to the Pennsylvania Legislature to get a charter, under which a contracting company could operate. Train had been in Burope much of the time and had picked up two of the pet phrases at the French Bourse, viz.—Crédit Mobilier and Crédit Foncier, The Movilier charter was employed to cover the operations of the construction company, while the Crédit Foncier operated in some way in Omaha town lots. Durant made for Train a very onsiderabie sum of money, and made for Mrs, ‘Trai, in one operation, $50,000, THE LOSTON SHAKE DURANT. Durant, alter being occupied witl» his specula- tions for about twelve years, conciuded, once on a time, to pay a visit to his famutiy, who were in Europe, and he leit the country for just fifty-seven days. In that interval the Boston interest revolutionized the Union Pa Railroad and the Crédit Mobilier, aud James Brooks, who had been generously treated by Durant and helped to ail his interest in the company, forgot his iriend and joined the new coalition, At that time Me- Comb, Josiah Bardwell, H. eweomb, Benjamin BE. Bal Cisco, ‘tracy, Ebe: pr Cook and some others were left out. FISK AND BARNARD AS HERODS. The new gang derived a great deal o1 sympathy and goo@ will irom the suit which Jim Fisk brought against them in Judge Barnard’s Court, and it was made to appear that they were a number of saints in jight, Wao had not gone to Boston voluntarily, but nad been run away by the terrible judiciary of New York. Bad as Fisk and Barnard were, it seems probable that the new coalition was scarcely better, l they had the design to go to Boston at any rate; for, being all New bugianders, they pre- ferred the genial atmosphere and the codfish diet of New England. In one of my conversations with McComb Lasked him this question, which he was rather loth to answer, for he is a puilosophic man without particular provincialism. Said T:;— “Colonel McComb, you have had a good deal of dealing with New England men; do you tnink that they trade with as much highmindedaess as New Yorkers and Middle State peopler” He said, “No, They will do almost anrthing to get the advantage, and although they are clanoish and like to congregate together and exclude people from otlier States, they cheat each other unconscionably, There is a lack of tone and of the principie of chivalry amoug them, and tuey seem to have trained themselves to truckls aud bear contumely in order to make money.” Ile then gave an instance in the case of John B. Alley, in whose jace Durant spit once on @ time, and threatened to pull his ears off his head, An hour or so afterward Durant, in one o1 his impul- sive moods, satd, “Boys, I am ing to vane Jou outin my yacht. I wonder if old Alley would go it I gave him an invitation?’ He did invite Alley, and that meek creature wiped the spit off his lace, smiled a pecuniary smile, pocketed the late afront, and, altuough the sor of millions, Went out on the yacht with the man who despite- fully used him, It would appear that the only re- ligious quality about Alley, except hypocrisy, is to turn one cheek after he had been smitten on the other, ALLEY. To look at this man as he limps around the com- mittee room, with a shoemakery face, Is to form very contemptuons notions of the ennovling power oi money, Nature never made the least effort to ry any dignity in John B. Aliey’s face, Art went yy on the other side as well. ere if & ne Sn) look about him, ag of one used to being b feted | nulty of the defence get veovie 1873.—TRIPLE SHEET. and willing to be for the sake of profit. His hatr ts white, but there is a sort of dirty stveak tn it; the only sort of resistence in his face is that of resist- ance to compromise and to a generous impulse for the roreiveneas of his debtors. People irom his district have told me that he possesses the best establishment in the town of Lynn, and that his main delight is to go about ronizing young men, saving to them, When I was your age 1 $25,000, and you haven’t got mnt thing,” thereby pusting the jast of Mammon—if it 4s possible for such a man to inspire anybody with his exam nto ardent youth, Oakes Ames 1s roiphey to have been nearly recip- rocal at times with Congressmen and others who aid him pro aad, in one of his letters he says:— In view of Washburne’s movement towards in- vestigation I go for maxing one pond dividend in full, aud the only opposition to it comes from John B, Alley.” The facts were that Alley had sold his stock at $200 per share toa man named Butler, in Boston, and expected to be able to take ap stoc! from some of his confederates in New York for $150. When he got to New York and found nobody willing to sell he used his sition as trustee to oppose any dividends until Durant gave him a written paper—what is called a stock option—od#ering to sell him 150 shares, When Alle’ got this paper and was satistied that a dividend would be to his advantage, he immediately changed tune, and made a motion that the same be declared. It 1s the unanimous opinion of all per- sons who have watched this case that all the mo- ney of which John B, Alicy may ever be possessed will be dearly purchased at the price of the reputa- tion he has gotten during this trial. He has all the cowardice of a cripple, and knows that nobody will give him @ castigation because of his infirmity, and he thereiore hired a lawyer in Philadelphia, b, the name of McMurtrie, to prepare $e 1, full of inuendoes, libels and lies about McComb, and the committee eae this illegitimate pa- per to be read by ti old man. He said that an eminent New England jurist had told him that if he omitted one word of it it would be to his prejudice. He was under oath when he made this remark, and Judge Merrick asked him the name of that New Engiand ee He replied that it was Mr. McMur- trie. McMurtrie has never resided in New England, and is a native of the Gane Soy So perjury No. 1 began the evidence of John B. Alley, of the town of Lynn. ar Winter this person comes to Wash- ington city, and creeps into the House and hobbies over the floor, although he has not been a member of Congress for quite a while. He hasbeen a stand- ing candidate for Governor of Massachusetts, but we apprehend that hereaiter he will have some dif- ficulty in being madean Alderman, ORIGINAL SHAREHOLDERS, The following is the amount of stock taken in the Union Pacific Kailroad by some of the persons now prominent in the public eye:—Thomas ©. Durant, $400,000; Oliver Ames, $250,000; John Dutt, $150,000; Oakes Ames, $150,000; C. H. McCormick,’ $100,000} Benjamin kK. Bates, $100,000; Josiah Bardwell, $100,000; Bushnell, $100,000; Henry 8S, McComb, $100,000; Samuel ‘Hooper, $50,000; James Grimes, $25,000; John B. Alley, $25,000; James Brooks, $10,000, McComb says he thinks he made $2,000,000 in eight years in the Union Pacific road. rr. Brooks’ $10,000 is charged to have brought him about $300,000, The dividends in the Crédit Mobilier “ground Moor’ gave above 1,500 per cent. THE STOCK SUBSCKIBED to the Union Pacific Road amounted altogether to only $2,260,000; had it been called in not only eighty miles of the road might have been built, but then the government bonds would have built eighty miles more, which in turn would have enhauced the price of the stock in the market, so that it would have stood above par all the time, and made about one thousand per cent in the end for the original subscribers. Interest could thus have been kept down, income bonds would nave been unnecessary, and the stock would have made 100 per cent per annum, so that ashare which cost ut $100 would have been worth $1,000 when the road was completed. According to the estimate of the wisest heads in business it is better to have one share of stock advanced to $1,000 than ten shares worth $1,000, According to Aliey’s testimony the income of the Union Pacitic road is $8,750,000 per annum, of which one-half is protit. The interest on both the first mortgage and the government bonds amounts to $1,400,000 a year—a respectable profit of nearly $3,000,000 per annum, THE RIVAL INTERESTS. The Ames and Dillon interest own 20,000 out of the 37,500 shares of Crédit Mobilier stock. The present assets of the Crédit Mobilier consist of $12,800,000 Union Pacific income pone worth eighty-four cents on the dollar, several hundred acres of land around Omaha and Council Bluits, and a large claim against the Unien Pacific Rail- road. Business men who have been watching this investigation are unanimous in ailirming that so far trom Oakes Ames and his friends having shown such abilities in building and handting the road as to entitle them to immortality they have been habitual blunderers and their in- sincerity and duplicity rete, them from being anything else. ith all their swagger they have at present no practical control of their own road and cannot issue a free pass overit. In order to give the corporation more character they have een compelled to callin successively as President Thomas Scott und Horace F, Clark, paying the large salary offrom twenty-five to thirty thousand dollars per annum, One has to look by way of contrast at the Central Pacific Railway, which is a Western extension of the Union Pacttic, to see how vastly superior were the business qualifications of THE MEN OF SACRAMENTO to the railroad men of Boston. ‘the former held to- gether, showed sacrifice, geniality and sagacity, and their stock is now quoted in the market at par and their bonds above par; while the Union Pacific stock has been down as low as 9, and at no time above 81, while its bonds stand at only 85. At the same me there has beena very extensive emigration on the line of the Union Pacific, and its rich landsin Nebraska have been occupied for two hundred miles or more west of Omaha; while the Central Pacific, owing to the distance of the country it traverses from the great reservoirs of European emigration, has found its land rants of relatively little advantage. it is not clear, however, that the Central Pacific Road has been more scrupulous than the Union Pacific, but its corruption has been of a diferent character. It pays the election- eering expenses of Senators and Congressmen from Nevada and California, and sometimes even from Oregon, pays its lobby the whole year round and does no dickering of the five-penny bit char- acter, such as Ames undertook with impecunious members of Congress, There is a large and grow- ing antagonism to the Central Pacific corporation on the Pacific coast; but it always manages to con- trol a majority of the representation from the Pacific States. These contracting companies, such as the Crédit Mobilier, are now ia vogue in nearly all the new railways, and at least two of the Northwestern Senators are charged to have stock in the Northern Pacific contracting company. The name of the Crédit Mobilier of the Texas Pacitic Railroad is “The California and Texas Uon- tragting Company.” If a decision were rendered against the legality. of @ contracting company within a corp FaAslOn, parasitical in its charater and preying upon the earnings of the larger body, there would be an end, probably, of these corrupt concerns, One of the Ames party was illustrating the other day the casy virtue of these big specu- Jators and contractors in the case of Durant, of Whom it was charged that he would borrow mouey when in'strajts at usurious rates, and then coolly call togetier the lenders and remind them thac they had violated the law and were entitled to no interest whatever, but that faith would be kept with them if they would grant such extensions as the dashing debtor demanded, This might be called “whipping the devil around the stump.” THE AMESES. Oakes Ames is sui generis. He has ali the shrift of New England, and boards in this city at a $13 tavern chewing away at beelsteak which might break the jaws of an alligator, Yet he appears to digestif. Ofalike toughness of texture are his sensibilities, He has no spirit, and will take any number of hard names, He is not indifferent about Iriendship, and tas been restrained from exposing the poor rats iu Congress who nibbled at his bait in part by kindness and partly also because his imperiect sagacity could not quite see whether he himself would lose or gain by the disclosure. But nobody doubted irom the first that if he were to lose any point whatsoever he would tell tue whole taic. ‘Lhe brother, Oliver Ames, is admitted to be aman Of more sensibility and worldliness. Oakes Ames has been groping throughout this entire inves- tigation aud utterly unable to decide upon a course oO! action im his own deience, leaving the pro- gramme to James Brooks and John B. Aliey. Alley has some cunning and a good deal of ‘oiliness, while Brooks has pomposity and assumption with- out nerve, Between tuem these icllows rushed upon destruction by the course which they adopted. THE CONSPIRACY, This course was arranged at the Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York, where the whole crew were in the habit of meeting, Brooks and Alley first urged Ames to publish a card denouncing McComb and denying everytiung, Ames halted and considered the matter until 1t was too late to take that step and: then he issued an address to his constituency, wherein he told the monstrous whepper that he had never given @ share of stock to anybody in Congress, Mr. 8100k8, meantime, was en- deavoring, jointly with Mr. Alley, to in- terview mankind consecutively and denounce McComb, so as to forestall public opinion. ‘This sort of game always fails, because it is out of the power of a few persons to see everybody, and in these days worldly men are very loath to take a voluntary statement from one person against another, particularly where the deuouncer is evi- dently out of temper, and the person he interviews cares nothing about the issue. Mr, Brooks had a way of saying that “McComb’s name was very bad on the street; but the person who heard him make his remark would generally look into Mr. Brooks’ own haggard face and wonder why he took so much pains to establish another man’s character as to whom there was no inquisitive- ness. As there seemed to be no other course, Oakes Ames finally acceded to the designs of Brooks and Alley, and soon after the Crédit Mobilicr investigation began with closed doors, Ames got together, in written form prepared by his lawyer, McMurtrie, a series of slanders of McComb, and while he was reading this mess to the committee Breoks rose on the floor and defamed Colonel McComb as @ man ee never was defamed by any member of ‘ongress before. But it was all overdone. Mem- bers gathered round and people looked down irom the gallery and wondered wut itallmeant. The point which Mr. Brooks endeavored to establish was a resemb.ance between the late James Fisk and McComb, and he rang ia with ae the old story of Fisk's suit against the Union Pacific, and beled ah it to MeComb’s present suit against the Crédit Mobilier, On this slender fabric the en- tire deience but the very —inge- to think. rested; ing, and __ th turned to other and remarked, ry! McComb is anything like Fisk, if is strange we perce) Ler pea him before!” Before pet yy , ie haronacs Coney man, loorkeeper and page al Congress held him to be Re. dos implicated moi tuan any had believed. In view of these late ex- osures One is tilled with astonishment to remem- er the audacity with which Brooks cited Hu vertiser, ‘ashington, when cha Brooks with Position in ress tO en rich himselt in the Union Pacnfic ad More than one year ago. And now we see the great dis- proportion between Mr, Brooks’ audacity and hia nerve. He looks like a sinking man, ‘and attends the committee after throwi his head upon the table and putting nis arms before it. WHO PEACHED UPON, CONGRESS, The assaults upon McComb have all been based upon the assumption that he has endeavored to “strike” the Crédit Mobilier fora large sum of money, helding in reserve the letters Oakes Ames wrote to him asa matter of intimidation, Tite tn- ference is thus sought to be established that the resent investigation is merely & part of McComb's lackmailing operation. How unjust this assump- tion is can be seen froma letter which has beem quoted here, the original of which 1s now in my hand, letters of Oakes Ames would never have been produced but for Ames himself, who at- tempted to bluff McComb, believing that the latter’s sense of delicacy would prevent him from making these documents __ public, McComb had waited upon Ames and tendered the letters and the memoranda upon them, pro- vided Ames would agree in writing te accept the Yerdict soon to be rendered trom the Courts of Pennsylvania and make the suit final there without more litigation. Ames, whose obtusencss 18 now fully baa ee the notion that McComb was sen- sitive about those letters, because he (M jcComb) had not put the o1 Dut had flea preter Le ie The contederates also thougnt that it would be thing to demand the originals themselves steal them, seas to deprive McComb of a case. Accordingly the coun sel.of Ames and on made the follow: demand that the o1 be putin. There was no evading this dem: ind the consequence was that every one of the Congressmen now on the atool of remorse finds himself exposed :— w’COMB V8. 0, MOBILIER. PHitapetrata, May 21, 1872. Dear Sin—On Thursday, the 23d, you have appointed to close the cross-examination of Mr. McComb, and to proceed with your evidence. Allow me to remind you Of promises made by, your client at the prior meetings, many months since, to fur. nish or produce the papers or documents from opie which he spoke, or referred to, or memoranda taken from them. Some at least were to be sent to me next day; none have been sent. He stated the other day they had been withheld for a purpose. I must ask that you Wil require him to produce at the meeting on Thursday, if, ho.) lesire me to cross-examine, the following :— Letter from Oakes Ames in reference to the distributiom of 345 shares as gi'ts to members of Congress; is books showing the original entries and dividends, or sums, stated to have been received as dividends— April, 1863; July, 1863; September, 1866, December, and January, 1363. T would also like to have a copy of Mr. Ames’ lettery April Ls, 1807 (exhibit No. 2, A. W.N2. Very truly 10 James E, GowEN, Esq. . C, MeMUKIRIE, THE UNTRIED MURDERERS. What Recorder Hackett Has to Say About the Great Criminal Scandal—He Would Try All the Murderers in the Tombs in Thirty Days—An Alteration in the Gen- eral Sessions Law Required— Prompt Action of the Leg- islature Necessary. A reporter of the HERALD called upon Recorder Hackett yesterday at his chambers in Broadway. The speech the Recorder delivered on the previous day at the Board of Supervisors had been com- mented upon very freely by members of the legal profession particularly, and by the public gene- rally, and it was with a view of obtaining a more explicit statement than that which was incident- ally made on the previous day that this visit waa sought. After a few observations on general topics the reporter said :— “Recorder, I have called upon you more partic- ularly in reference to aremark in your speech at the Board of Supervisors yesterday as to the untried murderers now imprisoned in the Tombs.” “Yes, I shall be glad to give you any information Tcan. I think if the Heraup will follow this mat- ter up this scandal of our criminal law can be re- moved, The attention of the Legislature must be directed to it, and the section in the Generali Ses- sion act that is the great cause of this trouble could be repealed In one day. I merely alluded to it yesterday; but 1 will give you the authority, and those who care for this matter can refer to it. It is this:—‘Writ of error from the General Sessions or the General Term of the Superior Court, from conviction of murder cases, or for one punishable by imprisonment for life is a matter of right.’ Sea sion laws, 1855, ch. 337, sec. 8; Laws of 1853, ch. 330; Walter vs, The People, 32 New York, 147; 31 How., 140.” “You would ask for the repeal of that section and thus practically give the General Sessioas Court the iri appeal as the Court of Oyer and Termi- neer “No, I would go further than that. Any appeal from the General Sessions Court, under this sec- tion, I would send to the Court of Appeals. Any Judge of the Court of Appeals should have power to grant a stay and the argument shouldbe belore that Court. It is practically so now, as in the Fos- ter case. Supreme Court Judges, who are not ger- erally very familiar with crimimal law, are applied to for a stay, and in a case where it is a matter of the life and death of a tellow creature, if there is the slightest reason to believe that_ there has been an error, any Judge with humanity would grant the stay. would go to the Court of Appeals at once, without the intervention of the Supreme Court. it may be sald that this is sup- posing avery high class of judges on the General Ses- sions bench; but | say that that supposition, without saying anything about myself, is one that is ve natural, and ought to be sustained. Associates with myself are Judge Brady and Judge Sutherland, and I think we are qualified for the trial ot all the criminal cases that are likely to be brought beiore us, “In the present condition of crime in the city, Recorder, it seems scarcely likely that the Court of Oyen and Terminer can dispose of the large arrear of criminal business ea! S its attention.” “Certainly not. It was the practice in the days of Barnard and Cardozo to take great criminal cases up, such as Foster's, id it had the effect of turning public attention away from the ordinary civil business of the Court, in which these Judges were more particularly interested. The trouble ia that these fd) cases, like that which are being tried now—Tweed's, for example—are made to last four or five weeks. It is a great consumption. of Seine time, and is partially owing to the Judges cing more familiar with civil business than criminal.” “You think, then Recorder, if this section of the law is repeaied that the present arrear in the trial of murderers could be disposed of very promptly ?” “] don’t say it boastingly, but I have no hesita- tion in saying it, that give me effective assistance from the District Attorney’s office, and an ordinary intelligent jury, although in New York there is reat dificuity in getting @ jury to agree where & death sentence 18 involved, and I would try all the murderers now !n the Tombs in thirty days.” “That, Recorder, 1s a consummation devoutly to be wished, and one which I shouid think the Legisla- ture will only be too glad to atd in bringing about.” “One step has already been taken, On Monday we shall have two Courts sitting, and if the Legis- lature will repeal this section we can go on and try the murderers. It is a matter of simple justice to the men who are eet Me with this crime that they shoula be put speedily on their trial, and by the proposal that is made for the alteration in the law Thae which oceurred in the Parcell case cannot be repeated.’ xpressing a hope that the Legislature would see the necessity of prompt action in this matter, the reporter thanked the Recorder for his courtesy and withdrew. ART MATTERS, American Society of Painters in Water Colors. The sixth annual mecting of this society was held on Tuesday evening in the National Academy of Design, The following oMcers were elected:— James D, Smillie, President; J. C, Nicoll, Secretary ; Louis C. Tiffany, Treasurer; R. Swain Gifford, Gil- bert Burling, J. 0, Eaton, A, H. Wyant, Board of Control. Present membership, sixty, The treas- ury is in a flourishing condition, SERIOUS ACCIDENTS Charles Sennett, aged forty-two, of 160 Leroy street, fell into the hold of the steamer Minnesota, lying at pier 46 North River, yesterday, and was seriously wounded abeut the head and back. He ‘was at work on the vessel at the time. The police of the Twenty-cighth precinct had him conveyed to Bellevue Hospital. John Gray, of 681 Greenwich street, fell into the hola of th eamer Stella yesterday and was in- jured avout the head. He was sent to Bellevue Elisha Hall, thirty-four years of ave, of 40 Hamil- ton street, Brooklyn, tell on the sidewalk in Eighth avenue, near Forty-eighth street, yesterday, while intoxicated and was severely injured about the The surgeon of the Twenty-second t attended to the wounds and ordered the patient to be sent home, Frederick Bragha, twenty-five yoars of age, @ window shade painter, living on the corner of Stagg and Leonard streets, Brooklyn, feil from & Window on the fourth foor of the house 421 Bast 112th strect to the sidewalk, yesterday, and was dangerously injured. He was sent to Bellevue Hospital by Captain Walsh, of the Seventecata vie~ , lnet police,