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WASHINGTON. Senator Conkling in Defence of the Kansas Corraptionist. AN ATTEMPT TO LIMIT DEBATE. Report of the Civil Service Ex- amining Board. a od APPOINTMENTS TO OFFICE. Scientific Ring After $100,000 Appropriation. + OUR NEW WAR VESSELS. Wasuneron, March 19; 1873, An Unsuccessful Attempt to Limit De- ate im the Senate—Conkling in De- fence of Caldwell, ‘The Caldwell case is not finished yet; neither is the Millennium near at hand. Ifevery Senator who has not yet spoken is fired by the same ambition what has actuated those who have tried their pow- ers Of circumlocution in this case, it is probavle that Caldwell’s term will expire before the knotty question is settled. This, perhaps, would be the only way ont of the tremendous diMecuities which the intcliectua) giants of the Senate have created for themselves. Wright, of lowa, who is not so long winded as the rest, not for lack of will, but lack of ideas, committed a heinous offence to-day, and was jeered at by ulmest the entire Senate. This smooth-faced stripling of fifty-five had actually the audacity to submit the proposition that Sena- terial debates, which heretofore had been without limit, shoufd be contracted, ina measure, out of fegard to the brevity of human life. He was in favor of adopting the ruies in relation to limiting debate and calling the “previous question” that are now among the by-laws of the House of Rep- resentatives. It is needless to say that the rash proposition of the Iowan Senator evoked thunder- bolts of wrath all around the chamber from the old standbys, each of whom is good tor fourteen col- omns every time he gets on his legs, Thurman was espectally indignant, and blew ferce nasal blasts of defiance upon his favorite red bandana as he denounced this measvre, which he thougnt would detract {rom the dignity and power of the Senate. He said that the House signed its dcath warrant when it adopted rules limiting debate. According to Mr. Thurman, then, the left wing of Congress is ® corpse—a proposition which Speaker Blaine will most emphatically gainsay, for he found the corpse lively enough last session. There was, however, a ring of true eloquence in Thurman’s speech as he alluded to the despotism of the majority. Bayard ‘ade some remarks in a similar strain, The finan- tial genius of the Senate, the incorruptible Sher- man, agreed with Wright. He wanted some rules that would prevent Senators from talking about the man in the moon. Carpenter made some pointed, sensible remarks against Wright’s propo- sition. After this by-play of talk was finished a fnge majority rapped Wright on the head, and he withdrew in his shell and remained there in si- tence. ‘The Caldwell case was then taken in hana by the great and mighty Conkling, who, contrary to his sustom, was in full black. Many of his Sena- torial rivals had made elaborate speeches be- fore him in this case, and he, so versed tm legal lore, who, it is said, is waiting with long- ing impatience for Chief Justice Chase to die, 80 ‘that he can have his place, felt that this occasion was not one to be unimproved. His speech, Sivested of its pomposity, excess of common place and diffuseness, would have becn, perhaps, of in- terest and value in this debate. But as it was it proved to the disinterestea spectator nothing but wanity and vexation of spirit. Report of the Civil Service Examining Board. The Civil Service Examining Board of the Trea- wury Department have made their report to the Advisory Board, in which it 1s said that last June they visited the city of New York under instruc- tions from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, for the purpose of preparing, in connection with the officers of the Customs service and of the Sub- Treasury, @ plan fer the application of the rules and regulations for the Civil Service so their officers, the Collector and sur- weyor of Customs, Nava: Officer, Appraiser of Merchandise and Assistant Treasurer. Eacn appointed a representative to meet the members 1 the Board and to aid them in the preparatien of a set of regulations applicable te their offices. The examinations are conducted by 4 Board in each of the offices. Those of the Collector and the Sur- weyor being considered as one, are nominated by the head of office and appuinted by the Department Board, with the approval of the Advisery Board. The Boards are. under the supervision of ® Board of Revision and Appeal, consisting of their chairmer, This supervisory Board was deemed essential in order to secure, asfar as practicable, uniform methods of action and of examination among the subordinate boarus. The chairman of the Board is Mr. Silas Burt, Deputy Naval Officer, The Board place on record an expression hf its appreciation of the zeal and judgment which the members of the several boards dn New York have brought to the discharge or their @uties, and o! the conscientious fidelity with which Shey have adhered to both the letter and the spirit ofthe rules. To the chairman of the Board of Re- vision and Appeal, whose duties have been of the most exacting and delicate nature, the friends of reform are largely indebted for the success which the measure has gained in New York. The oficers mentioned are the only ones connected with the Treasury Department out- side of Washington to which the rules have been applied. The Board have been prepared to extend them to other cities amd other branches of the serwce for several morths, and on the 10th of October, 1872, 1t notified the Secretary in writing ‘that the rules were in operation in New York, and Of the readiness of the Board to extend them to other places, but the Secretary deemed it prudent; to test the system thoroughly at New York before extending it elsewhere. The Board says that the question of examina- tion in different States will require attention after a time and makes suggestions how these could be conducted. ‘The report contains the ‘statement that, notwithstanding unauthorized and biased reports of the failure of the system in this regard, the Board. has no hesitation in saying that, on the whole, it has secured a much higher order of capacity than has lately entered the De- partment, and has been suficiently successiul to rove its utility and justify its continuance, The Scientific Ring After a Big Plum. Professor Henry, with the other scientific old moosters who feed in the Coast Survey, Smithsonian Qpeervatory. and other coops at the public ex- pense, are greatly exercised over an appropria- ‘tion of $100,000, now at the President's disposal, Sora series of experiments illustrating the ex- \Plosion.o! steam boilers, Those who had the ap- Propriation made expected that the experiments would be conducted by practical engineers; but dhe scientific ring want the money with which they could enjoy themselves at pleasant sea-side Sesorta, Where some nominal experiments can ve made in the true scieatific Smithsonian style. Nominations by the President. The Preaidext sent the toliowing nominations to ‘the Senate to-day :— John I. Bailey, to be Collector of © 5 H.; Samuel H. Elbert, of Governor of Colorado, vice Mcvook, Wright, to be Receiver of Public Moneys at Carson City, Bev Eugene Gillespie, to be Consul at San Jose and Cape Collectors of Titernat Rerenve—R, M. Proud, Thitd distric . M. 4 et of Maryland; Henry Barnden, Second districtor Wiscon- 4H. C. Hunt, Fourth district of Texas; U, B, Gibso Uregon; F. 8. Hill, Fourth distriet of Kentuaky: W' B, Sapp, Thirteenth d f Ohio; H. E. Nuilley, district of North Caroll ¥. Johnson: The a resigned; 8. C. FOU NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 1873—TRIPLE SHEET. : (th distriet of Sakray of oaltormiass Ls Mieke; % Teen, Yours Btates Attorney for Kai wer gia Broth to Re ted Attorney fer Kan- Ark. jReptetars Land Offices. F. Stet at Mobile, Ala, ; jam H. reliors, at Duluth, Minn. ; John P. Owens, at 1., Cass, at Jackson, Miss. Mexico; Lewis Lewistor inn. radin, at Litchfeld, Minn. len, to be Collector of Customs tor Fourth B Wei Tift at Sante Renew at Duluth, aan ‘The Senate in executive session has conirmed the nomination of Frederick A. Sawyer, of South Carolina, to be Assistant Secretary of the Treas- ury. Ip accordance with the usual courteous and complimentary treatment of nominatious of mem- bers or ex-members of the Senate, this nomina- tion was confirmed without referring it toa com- mittee. Our Sightseers Extraordinary to the Vv na Exhibide The artisans and scientific men, in all number- ing fifteen, recently appointed by the President to attend the Vienna Exposition and report their doings and observationa'te him, are to have their actual and reasopable expenses paid, not to exceed $1,000 each, to be defrayed from the $200,000 appropriated in February last to pay the ex- penges attendant on the display of American con- tributions. The honorary commissioners are to receive no pay for their expenses or otherwise, fHoax Ames Anked for the C, M. Books. ‘The Attorney seneral has written to Oakes Ames for the books of the Crédit: Mobilier Company for the use of the government in prosecuting its suit against that corporatton. The Fight for the Baltimere Collector- ship. Five delegations trom Baltimore soliciting the appointment of Washingten Booth for Collector of that port, and four delegations representing the interests of the present Collector, Thomas, were at the White House to-day and had interviews with the President. Altogether about three hun- dred delegates, representing both sides on this question, were received by the President to-day. All the delegations represented merchants and business men of Baltimore, ex-Union soldiers and citizens generally. The Prestdeat thinks he will determine the matter to-morrow. Several of the delegations afterwards visited Secretary Richard- son, at the Treasury, and button-holed him on the momentous question. The Murderer O’Brien’s Sentence Commuted. The President has decided to commute the sen- tence of O’Brien, who was convicted of the murder of Cunningham, in August last, to imprisonment for hfe. The official papers bave not yet been re- ceived at the Department of Justice, but will be made out in aday ortwo. It is understood the commutation of O’Brien’s sentence 1s made upon petition of General Butler and other prominent persons and upon representations made by Chief Justice Carter, of the Supreme Court of this dis- trict. General Butler recently made an argument for a new trial in O’Brien’s case before the Court in bane, the motion for which was, however, over- ruled, Judge Carter dissenting, The Middies at the Inauguration Ball. Medical Inspector Lonsdale, of the Naval Academy, has, as directed, made a report of the treatment of the cadet midehipmen on the 4th of March, There were sixty-seven cases on the sick list the day after inauguration, yet no cases of sickness resulted from the fatigue and exposure incident to the occasion and the weather, a result, in the opinion of the Inspector, remarkable, and testifying to the high physical condition of the cadets and to the judicious arrangements made tor their comfort and protection, Back Pay tor the Washington Monu- ment. ‘The cantankerous Corbett, whose term as a Sen- ator-from Oregon has just expired, has notoriously prociaimed that he will not soil bis pockets with the back-pay grab, but that he intends to donate it to the Washington Monument. As Corbett’s slice of this back pay, after deduction of his mile- age, stationery and newspaper accounts, is only $130, the government will mot be much benefited thereby. . The New Steam Sloops-of-War. Proposals will soon be invited for constructing the engines for the new steam sloops-o/-war, six of which will be of wood and two of iron. Three of the wouden steamers will be of 1,500 tons each and three of 640 tons each. The wooden steamers will be built at the Portsmouth, Charlestown, Brooklyn and Philadelphia Navy Yards, and tbe two iron steamers will be built at private yards, Ku Klux Pardoned. Sherrom Childers and William Montgom- ery, of South Carolina, convicted and sen- To Be crimes, have been pardoned by the President. Ministcr Mori on a Vacation. Mr. Mori, the Japanese Minister, has left Wash- ington for hishome, and will, before his return to Washington in that capacity, visit the Vienna position. cessor has been appointed. His duties here have been so arduous that he feels a vacation of six or nine months to be necessary to his health. The China Mission. It is again reported that Mr. Frederick F. Low has resigned his position as Minister to China. It is known that Mr. Low’s request for leave of ab- sence was sent him a few weeks ago, which fact is supposed to have given rise to the report. Treasury Statement. Internal revenue receipts to-day... Outstanding legal tender notes... ‘Treasury balances Af Legal tenders on GENERAL FREMONT AND THE MEMPHIS AND EL PASO RAILROAD. Card trom J. Q. A. Warren. To THE EpiroR OF THE»HERALD:— March 8 an article appears headed ‘Line of De- fence,” which embodies some statements relative to the information wluch the paper was supposed to have obtained in the abeve transaction. Some of the statements are so grossly false that I desire to contradict them. The paragraph reads as fol- lows :— It is claimed by Fremont’s frends that the | arrest was made in the Spring of 1869, before his (Fremoat’s) visit to Paris in July; that on Warren's return to this country he consuited a Wall strect lawyer in reference te beginuing an action awainst General Fremont for talse imprisonment, but which been served with any summons or complaint in such an action. It is said that Warren has since made an offer to General Fremont or to one of his personal friends to settie the case for $500, In reply | would briefly say :— First—That General Fremont was in Paris as | eariy as June, 1809 (and admits it), and was ac- | tuallyin courton the first day of my trial for libel, and, when pointed out to my attorney there, disuppeured suddem Second—A suit Was commenced and papers finally served on General Fremont, at the Fifth | Avenue Hotel, alter tollowing him up for neurly two weeks, A copy of the originai papers in the suit, as well as the eral Fremon., | through lis attorne. re, dudge of the | Supreme Court, are y lawyer's hands, Thira—\ have never offered to setiie the suit for any such sum mentioned, with General Fremont since bis visit te my apart- ments in Paris, in June, 186%, when he tried, un- successfully, to purchase my silence in the matter and to have the circular suppressed, Which | had published under the sanction of all the American ankers in Paris, exposing the fraud in the sale of the bends. I have no intention of compromising the seit, but am only waiting the arrival of legal papers from my attorney in Paris, which will, J Jeel confident, place General Fremont and the personal iriends, whose names I can give, im rather an unpleasant position beiore the public. Respectinily. . Q A. W. uN. New York, March 19, 187: indies rary CONGRESSMAN POTTER'S BAOK PAY. WALL STREET, New YORK, March 19, 1873. To rie EDITOR OF THE HeRaLp:— Your article this morning, about what you styled my “predicament” about back pay, is founded upon the misapprehension that I had paid the money to the Sergeant-at-Arms. But it was not paid to him. I simply refused to sign the Speaker's warrant, by which alone, as I understand it, the money can be drawn from the Treasury. So that the money remains in the United States Treasary itsell, where you desire to have it. Your obedient | Aervany CLARKSON N. POTTER, teuced to two years’ imprisonment fer Ku Klux | He himself denies that a dipiomatic suc- | NEARING THE END. How William Foster’s Fate Closes About Him. eee ONE MORE DAY OF LIFE. The Devoted Wife and the Felon Husband— Photographs of the Little Ones—Sheriff Brznnan Tells the Prisener of the Fi- nal ‘No”—Foster’s Visitors—A Crowd of Gaping Criminals. Jae hae, THE SCAFFOLD TO BE ERECTED 0-DAY. “All hope has fed !”” So think nearly all the friends of the doomed man, William Foster, who is to-morrow to expiate the greatest of crimes by the severest penalty under control of man, And’in all this great com- munity there is probably no one but the prisoner himself who thinks otherwise. If he has relin- quished his expectation of Executive clemency, he fails to show it in his physical demeanor. He passed a day of tolerable quiet yesterday, notwith- standing the knel: which sounded in his unwilling ear when Sheriff Brennan about four o'clock an- nounced to him that the Governor had declined to interpose his prerogative of mercy even upon the last appeal—the petition of the seven stultified jurymen, ‘The prisoner’s wife, a model of devotedness and attention to the unfortunate husband of whose misfortune she heroically bears a part, though in- nocent of its cause, was the FIRST TO VISIT ITM. She arrived shortly after nine o’clock and re- mained with him in converse and wifely ministra- Sion until late last night, and veteran prison oft. cials have but one remark in relation to her:— “She is a-wife among a million—I am sorry for ber.” Foster’s father next called upen him, and re- mained with bim a short time; and next came Rev, Dr, Tyng, his pastor, who was with him irom two o’clock till three, Shortly after Dr. Tyng’s departure Foster's sister, a modest, ladylike young woman, visited her unhappy brother, accompanied by her husband, and her presence must have proved a pleasant relief indeed to Mrs, Foster, who has spent so many days in the grim corridor and cell with so little that is gentle in companion- ship or surroundings. ‘Iwo or three other relatives and friends also came, with hearts full of sympathy alike for the fated victim of to-morrow and for his guiltless partner in sorrow, Deputy Sheriffs Thomas J. Cummins and Wil- liam H. Burns were on watch duty from seven o’cleck yesterday morning until seven o’clock last night. During the morning a photographer at- tended at the request of the prisoner's wife to take FOSTER’S PORTRAIT. ‘The prisoner was remeved from the prison building accompanied by the deputics to a room in the Centre street face of the building, where the requisite light was obtainabie, and here, aiter five sittings, two satisfactory portraits were obtained, one tull-faced and the other a prefile, The window co: the apartment was open at the time and Fos- looked with singular and deep meaning in- rest at the busy sights and roystering groups of children upon the thoroughfare. It was is last glimpse of the bright world out- side the sombre gray confines of the prison, He was then returned to tae corridor, “That is the first time I have had my picture Lee im sixteen years,’ said Foster to Deputy urns. At the request of the prisoner Mrs. Foster yester- day brougit nim the portraits of bis two little sons, aged respectively aboat five and seven years, They are BRIGHT, PRETTY LITTLE CHERUBS, attired with a taste that shows the care and attention of a good and chilé-proud mether. ‘Tae prisoner looked at the photographs many times, and must have felt decply the heritage ol bitter- ness he bequeaths them. He has jour children in all, but they are not taken to the prison to see their fathe! He says he has no desire that what- ever recollection they may retain of him in the pl shall be marred by reminiscences of grate walls, Rev. Father Duranquet, the veteran chaplain of the scaffold, was in the prison yesterday morning and engaged iu conversation with Foster ter some time. The interview took place in the prisoner’s cell, as did also that between the prisoner and Rev. Dr. Tyng. A THIRD CLERGYMAN, a tall, dark-skinned gentieman, whose name was unknown to the deputies, also conversed with Foster during the afternoon. The prisoner spends the greater portion of the day in the corrider outside his cell, where a group In the columns of one of your contemporaries of i | head dropped slightly forward. hands with Foster and left. of three or four armchairs are placed for the ac- cemmodation of himself and his family and friends, Foster was attired yesterday in a suit ef dark clotting and wore a hat of the deerstalker pattern. His conversations with his relatives and friends, and occasionally with his keepers, were carried on with a quiet, earnest manner, but ke well conceals every indication of iear or depression. He is calm and sedate, without any sullenness or betrayal of nervousness, At four o'clock Sheriff Brennan, accompanied by Warden Johnston, called on mim, and the Sheriif broke as gently as possible to Mrs. Foster the in- telligence that the Governor had again deciined to interfere, The news was intended for Mrs, Fester only, but the condemned mau overueard it and asked its import. “T telegraphed to the Governor to-day,” said the Sheriff, “asking bim if he had anything furthe: | to say to me on tue subject of a stay or commuta- | tion, aud he answered me back with THE SIMPLE WORD ‘NO.’ | That is all he said in reply.” Foster said nothing. His eyes drooped and his He betrayed no surprise. she does not deserve to suffer. ‘The Sheriff remained a few minates longer, shook It was the time of re- xation with the prisoners, when their cell doors are uni d, and they are permitted to walk upon pik galicries Of the upper tiers of cells in the cor- ridor, 4 ON THE BRIDGE of the first tier King, the murderer of O'Neill, sat talking to Simmons, the man who hacked “Nick” Duryea to pieces in Liberty street. Kobert Bleak- ley, Who sot his ows niece, Maud Merrill, in Neil- son place, Walked the long gailery with petulant step atid expression, Scanuell, Tom Dononoe's fateful Nemesis, leaned on the railing and uo his never Was begun at that time, nor has the General | fingers throug his long, yellow-hued whis! le Sharkey, who sent a pistol bullet through the heart of nis whiiom ‘“croney,” “Jimmy” Dunn, walked calmly up and down the narrow Walk, and Rosen- zweig, the obese butcher of Miss Bowlsvy, dressed im a sort of morning gown, showed his round, ugly head at the corner of the bridge. They were ali jooking downward to the ground floor, where Foster, his irtends and the oficiais stood, and di- rectly over Foster’s head the railings of the three ters of galieries were fringed with the shaggy | heads amd the brawny arms and shoulders of two or three dozen criminal pariats, al! tent upon the scene below. By and by there was A CREAKING OF HINGES, a clank of doors, the shuiling of feet in the galle- ries diminished, and a few minutes later the thugs (over three hundred and fifty of thein) were again shut up in the solitude oi their ceils. The remainder of the afternoon was quieter, and Foster and his group of tnends continued their sad communion, his wife and sister, heads, locked arms and aching hearts, almost mournfully, corridor. pacing, the distant portion oi the LAST NIGHT, at seven o'clock, Deputy Sheriff Cummins and burns were relieved by Deputies Baird aud Galli- gan, Who willin turn be relieved at seven o'clock bis morning. As an instance of the truth of real | Ife that is stranger than fiction, it may be men- tioned that Deputy Sherif Baird, who watched the prisoner last night—the last night but one for him of lite—was years ago a piaymate of the now doomed man, and has known him jor twenty-eight | years. ‘rhis morning the erection of the scaffold will be commenced, and the finai preparations for the ex- ecution will be completed by sunset. It is pro’ ble that the last scene Wili be developed betwi hall-past nine and haif-past ten o'clock to-morrow morning. The Governor's Final Answer. The Governor has received a despatch trom Sheriff Brennan, asking him if he had any further communication to make concerning the Foster ease, The Governor has replied in the negative, He considers his letter to Dr. Tyng his final action in the case; so the document sworn to wy the seven jurors, and submitted yesterday bi Juage EAwarde Pierrepont, has proved of no avail. The execntion must take place, How Gevernor Hoffman Acted in the Case of Buckbout—An Implied Analogy to Foster's Case. ALBANY, March 19, 1873, Inquiries were made at the office of the Secretary af State to-day im regard to the three cases re- doors, or the sombre gray gloom of prison | But his good, true wife telta pang that | with bowed | ferred to in Governor Dix’s letter to the Rev. Dr. Tyng, in which Governor Hoffman refused to re- gard the recommendations to mercy which accompany verdicts of murder. These inquiries have broughs to light a case in which Governor Hoffman refused to regard the state- ments of jurors under circumstances closely re- sembling those of Foster's case. It is as follow! Isaac V. W. Buckhout was sentenced to death for murder on the 8th of Juty, 1871, and the time fixed for his execution was on the Ist of September en- suing. On tho 2ist of August the following letter was addressed to Governor Hott by the jnrors:— ‘To His Excellency Joun T. Horrwan, Governor :— ‘The undersigned jurymen, who tried and found guilt Isaac V. W. Buchhoat of murder in the first degree, commended him to mercy on account of the doubts ot his sanity by one of the said jury from the dence in the case at the time he “committed the homicide, and we beg further to state that the said jury would not have axreed upon & verdict of murder in the firat degree without its being coupled with a recommendation to the mercy of the Executive, and the undersign respectfully ask that Your ix." cellency will commute the sentence ‘of the said Isaac V. W. Buckhout to ingppisoninent io ee Bia Oe for THOMAS J. AVCARTY, CLARK DAV. S$ Avcusr 21, 1871, E. G, DAVISON, There were other letters, one of which, from W. H. H. Baker, one of the jurymen who signed the foregoing letter, contained the following passage From the start Mr. ou was ready to vote for murder in the second degree and stood by it until ho concluded that with murder in the first degree, with the recod theretoro. inwas cduivatent torwturder in the wecastd do. was equivalent to murder in the seco gree when he united with the eleven. Qn the 20th of August Governor Hoffman Trespited Buckhout until the 16th of Septem- ber—seventeen days—to give time for a further examination of the case. Ou that day he was hanged, The resemblance of this case to Fos- ter’s is very remarkable :— ‘The jury would mot have agreed on a verdict of muraer in the first degree without ats being coupled with a recommendation to the mercy ef xecutive, and the objecting Juror ou til he” con. jed degree, that with murder in the first with the recommendation to mercy Buckhout would not be hung. and therefore it wasequivalent to murder In the seco degree when he uni the eleven. It will be ebserved that the statement of the jurors was made to the Governor in less than seven weeks after the sentence of Buckhout, In the case of Foster years intervened, Juadge Pierrepont On the Case, To His Excelleacy Jouw A. Dix, Governor of the State of Now York Whether William Foster shall, within a few days, be put todeath, nm accordance with the judgment of the Jaw, or whether his sentence shall be commated to im- prisonment for life, Is the grave question presented to Your Excellency, The record of your pastlife assures the public that, when the case shall have been fully examined, you will proceed to discharge your duty, however paintul, and that you will shrink from no just responsibility to escapo the temporary censure of unjust criticism. ‘The highest tribunal in the State has decided that, upon the case presented by the “Error Book,” the conviction was not unlawiul; and, in my judgment, the legal ques- tions upon which that eminently just and able Court have passed are not open to review by Your Excellency. According to a promise, mpde when you were in New York several days ago, I have given the entire case the ‘most careful investigation, and have brought to bear upon it the best judgment of which I am capable, The racrs. On the evening of April 26, 1871, Mr. Putnam, the de- ceased, was riding up towm in a Broadway car, having under his care Mrs. Duval and her daughter. At Seven- teenth street William Foster, a total stranger to Mr. Put- nam, stepped upon the forward platform of the car, alongside the driver. As they reached the Gilsey House, about Twenty-ninth street, the daughter's attention was called to the new clock on the building, and she went to the forward door of the car to look at the clock, and Mrs. Duval went also to look at Helmbold’s new store in the same building, and as Mrs. Duval sat down Fuster, from the front platform, as she says, “looked dow a the win- wered at ny daughter and laughed. is Foster opened door several times and ir. Patnam went ia the door and ladies to be st ; 'y care, sir.” Mr. Putnam, conti is his re- ut upon (he piamere and closed the door and a war reation took place. Mr, in car, jy soon after, Foster nil so behaved thag the conductor cams up and pater to sit down be quict. He toek his seat, and began “laughing ring.” ':—"Had | known you have spoken to you,” and Foster retorted by a vulgar to Mr. Putnam when he jet 4 The car soon reached Fo street, and Mr. Put- nam (hag out, and as he was ing Mrs. Duval and her daughter to alight Foster with the car hoek upon his head, causing a we he three days after. Soon after thi F admitted that he made the assauit dew said “he guessed he did not hurt fim-mueh.”” Foster was arrested, at his own house, the same night, between two and three v'clock, with all his clothes op, and still beastly drunk. Within twenty daysafter Mr, Putnam died Fester was indicted by the Grand Jary, ant put on trial before the peut jury for the crime of mu: ‘Th re out * jury we: y, all night and until half-past ten o'clock ing, morning, “whe the jury rendered a ler in the it degree, with a recommen. Judge Cardozo led at the trial. The prisoner's counsel, Mr. Stuart, asked that the jury be polled. “The ‘jury was then polled, when each of the jurors din the affirmative that such was his verdict. ir. Start—Belore this jury is discharued J Court to interrogate them to this fact: dict has wot been arrived at upo nd upon the condition ould be made? part or one di ‘on the follow verdict of mi dation to mei ask the & compromise that a recom- y rec 7 By our statute fe Cael of murder in the first degree is punishable with death. The crime of murder in the second degree may be ex- piated by suffering imprisonment tor ten years. The jury were wellaware of this law. They did not believe that Foster had “premeditated designs to effect the death” of Mr. Putnam; they feared, that if found guilty of murder in the second degree Foster would be pardoned after a short imprisonment and the ends of Justice deteated; and they were assured and believed ‘that if the prisoner were found guilty of murder in the first degree the sentence of death would be commuted to imprisonment for life if a recommendation to mercy ac- companied their verdict. Upon this theory they agreed upon their verdict, and, without such understanding, it is entirely clear thi verdict ot guilty of murder in the first deqree could not have been obtained. The jury believed that a verdict of murder in the second — degree bring a punishment quite too light tor the crime committed. They knew that a verdict of murder in the first degree, which in- volvea a finaing of ‘‘a premeditated design te effect the th” of Mr. Putnam, was not in accordance with their view of the tacts in the case atall. But under the belief, and a lawyer's assurance, that a rec mercy accompanying their verdict of degree would necessarily result in it risonment for life, they rendered the verdict which stands recorded. Alldoubt upon this question is removed by the aMfidavits and statements of the jurors, which we will presently consider. Under the law there can be no sach crime as murder in the first degree, aniess it rear, appears, beyond all rea- sonable doubt, that the homicide “was perpetrated from t [Po i pen elo design to effect the death of the person | killed.” Anid in this case the Court lald down the law in these rords :— “Before the jury can convict the prisoner of murder in the first degree they must find from the evidence that the prisoner had a specitic, premeditated design to effect the death of the deceased ; that they must be able to say, hevond a reasonable doubt, that such was his ypecitié fi nh It the jury find that the prisoner, when he struck de- ceased, intended to inflict bodily harm upon deceased only, the death resulting from such assault does not amount in law to murder In the first degree.” “It the jury have a reasonable doubt derived from all the evidence as tw what intent the prisoner had in assauit- ing deceased, they are bound to give the prisoner the benefit of that doubt and find the lesser intent.” To make out in this instance a case of marder in the first degree one kind of malice is essential, viz., a pre- meditated design to effect death; no other species or quality of lice is sufficient, amd this malice must be proved, aflirmatively, to have existed to the satistaction of the jury beyond a reasonable doubt.” “Whatever the intention of Foster in assaulting Put- nam may have peen, if it was not a premeditated design to take Putnam's life, it matters not_how long the inten- tion had been entertained, it does not constitute murder in the first deyree.”” The fact that the prisoner came for' voluntarily, ve his Name as that of the unknown man who , is one proper for the jury to consider, as bearing upon the question whether he had apy inten: tion to make # fatal assault.” Before tho Court of Appeals nothing went but the sim- ple record of the trial amd the final verdict of the jury; and the Court were to determine whether any error in law had been committed on the trial, demanding a reversil ot the judgment below. The Court found no such error, and it judgwent is conclusive, so far as the legal questions raised the record are concerned. But outside the record, and since the record was made up, e come to light which, had they appeared upon vould certainly have reverséa the judgment. ute, that the jury did not be- ‘oster intended to kill Putnam at that the homicide ‘was per- | & premeditated design to effect | death ot the and that the person killed; after being out all night, agreed to bring in a ver- etot murder in the first degree, with a recommenda. tion to mercy, under the full beliéf that there was “no remeditated design to effect the death” of Mr. Purnam, nit under the influence uf @ credited assurance of une ol their number, himself a lawyer, that such a verdict would necessarily carry with it the imprisonment tor lite of the accused. Suppose, when the jury came into Court for further in- structions, atter being out all night and unable to agree, they had asked the Judge whether, if the jury believed | that when Foster struck Putnam he had no premeditated desig) ffect the death of Putnam, but to cruelly beat him, they with that conviction — on | their minds, in a verdict of marder in the — first , accompanied by a recom mendation to mercy, which would result in Foster's Imprisonment ‘for lite, and the Judge had waid yet, and the verdict had followed. which was recorded in this case, itis entirely certain that the Court of Ap- peals would forthwith, upon such facts appearing upon the record, have pronounced the verdict illegal, Nothing of this kind was belore the Court of Avpeals; precisely this ts betore you. J apyend the affidavits and statements of the jarors and of the Assistant District Attorney, who carefully watcher the trial ef the cause. ese show, beyond all perad- venture, that noe of them, with the exception of a single juror, beli¢ved that Foster, who bad never seen the deceased in. his life until a few minutes before the fatal blow, committed the act with “premeditated design to-emfect the deagh of the person Killed." The Assistant District Attorney say: “While | was Assistant District Attorney, I watched the trial and wen f this case with great in- terest; my epision, formed from the evidence discl upon the a | has never changed, and I have no hesita- tion in expressing It to y 18 one particle of evidence to justi ou. Ldo not believe that chere tole of f the eliet that For ter ‘or cont murder—or, indeed, muel Dowding, ene of the jurors, swears :— deponent and Kobert Usher, Jr. another of sav ~, = jury, were fi convinced, wy Haly'vonas nsvek intenton'ts Wivaceaseh neers Be Putnam, for the murder of whom he then on trial, and only consented to the verdict rendered under the imps that ‘tion to merey which accompanied it would necessitate the ition upon sree Sacenaeeet br tte i ist jegree, n had learned their error belore the rendition of said vere dict ay would never have to it; that during such deliberation deponent George K. Chase, Sone pane iat oe oor Oban nse whoi her, before God, they ae pe deceased, and they said they not think so.’” Mr. Robert Usher, r of the jurors, saye:— was, as Tam now, of the ndant did not inte: “In, le JOFy rooms opinion te the de- for whose. th that the said ceased, Avery D. Patnam, upon trial; and that daring ty adhered to the opinion that the defend was not guilty of any greater crime than murder in the second degree; that my opinion was soared with others of the said jury—hir, Dowding ana Mr. Chase being of th ber; that certain of the wa 4 also that they would find a verdict of murder in the second degree, if they did not feel that ernment was not to be trasted, and that defendant would be doned “out of Btat loose upon the commani r. Rogers, on awyer, and that a verdict coupled e of murder in with a recommendation to mercy, would ensure to said defendant a rehearing of his case plore: the Gov- ¢ first degree, mn of myself the impre a of murder in the ve said defendant remediless and necessarilyresul execution, was removed, and jury rendered the of murder in the belief that norernar Hoffman would have an opportunity to cor- cet reet and remedy any error they might in their ignorance ‘The decision of the Court of Appeals affirmed the Jud; mentof the Court below, whereby William Foster was condemned to be hanged forthe murder of Avery ), Put- nat Bat that decision would have been preciscly the sane if Mr. Putnam had red in Court and proved that he was still alive away by those wh he Court of ry) nly pass upon’ the record, aad must ¢ Co! ation to death of Foster tor _ Appi ry he vote yet ey them. ae Fig rules of law do. w an Appellate Court to loa! bey vine ythouch Put record, even though the Court micht behold the Ih man for whose murder the accused was con- dem die. At is for this: een and to meet cases like the one before you, that high Executive is clothed with ex- traordinary powers adeqnate to correct all such mis- takes and to consider all facts and circumstances out- legal record in furtherance of the highest {us ond the functions of @ court of law. It is a maxim that it were better that ninety-nine uty, men should escape than that one innocent iD jeuld yand also, that where a human life is 1 volved, every doubt should be resolved in favor of the ac- cused and of mercy. if William Foster is put to death for the premeditated murder of ‘utnam very few of the reflecting com- munity will believe that he was executed tora greater crime than he, in act, committed, and to avoid the repetition of such un act of injustice the aggrieved sentiment of the public may demand the abolition of the death penalty entirely. Foster was convicted @ tew days after Mi died, while the public mind’ was fevered and alarmed, and the verdiet was not im accordance with the real con: victions of the jury nor in harmony with any reasonable deductions frem the evidence. t careful examination of the whole case I ‘am con’ that this drunken man, who had never seen the deceased until ten minutes before he made the fatal assault, had no “premeditated design to effect the death of the person killed,” and that in view of the mis- taken ideas under which ‘the jurors rendered their ver- dict it would se in furtherance of justice to commute the sentence of deuth to imprisonment for life. pproached this cuse with ® prejudgment quite ist the prisoner. Having read of the brutal assault 8 circumstances the first impulse was to feel that Foster ought to be hanged ; but when I came deliberate! to consider the law and the subsequent revelations whic the jurors had made I became convinced that the hanging of Foster would savor more of vannoance than of justice, in which no grains of mercy could be found, and the re: action likely to take place in the public mind might cause a repeal of those 1aws which are now a wholesoine restraint upon evil men, 1 Foster ix imprisoned for Ife, public justice would be vindicated; if he is put to death’for a crime greater than that of which he is guilty, it will be too late to retrieve and the intelligent public will not be execution, Even were it doubtful ruck the blow with a premeditated de- joubt should, upon every ‘ation of civil justice, be resolved In favor of commuting the sentence ot death to Imprisonment for life, “Very respeettully yours, EDWARDS PIERREPONT. agai an THE ST, ALBANS SUIT. First Testimony in the Vermont Central Case— Examination of the Treasurer and Superin- tendent—Money Alleged to Have Been Paid for Lobbying and Other “Outside” Purposes. Sr. ALBANS, Vt., March 19, 1873. The taking of the testimony in the trial of the Managers and trustees of the Vermont Central and Vermont and Canada Railroad companies was commenced to-day, eceupying seven hours. THE PACIFICO RAILROAD FUND. Mr. Samuel Williams, who was Treasurer ef the road from 1866 to 1871, testified that one-quarter ef the receipts of the sleeping car fund went in pay- ment of bills for what was called “‘secret service,” and im relatien to the charge of expending money for lobbying purposes in Congress he said:—I dis- bursed funds of the road in connectien with the Northern Pacific Ratlroad; some of it was delivered to the Governor personally and some paid on drafts he asked me to take care of; I think the a@mount was some $22,000; part of the time this sum was held by me as a cash item, and shortly before I left was charged out on the general vevks; 1 think the greater portion of this fund was carried along as a cash item for years; I kept only @ cash book; the general books were kept by others; while I was carrying this | along im this way, the Governor from time to time held @ receiver's pete for money due him, and 8 per cent was paid him. Ne interest was charged upoa this Northern Pacific fund. ‘Cross-examined by Mr. Fifield—I understood that Mr. Putnam was dismissed by Governor Smith, oe ‘fees always understood it was ler getting runk. OPERATIONS OF THE CAR COMPANY. F, Stewart Stranahban testified—I am Secretary and Treasurer of the National Car Company; the original par value of the stock was $100; the original stockholders paid im $50; the aver- in is $70; the div- age that has been paid idends since I have been Secretary eave been ten per cent per annum on their par value; there never was u stock dividend; when J went there the company were [pede twe cents and a hal! a mile for box cars and two cents for platforms; they are now paying twe cents; there are only five plat- form cars; the rate for the cars when first put on ‘Was three cents; the cost of the cars was $1,000, that of ordinary cars, $750; the Passumpsic and Connecticut River roads exchange cars on the basis of twe and a half cents per mile; some roads exchange on the basis of tonnage—tour milis per ton; the National Car Company make the repairs o these cars (namely, the roads on this line); it ia usual to run the cars of the car cempanies on other roads at two and a half cents a mile; the yearly income of a car is $160; the cost is $78 a car; the life of a car is about seven years, or was on the changeable gauge plan; on the colored lines, when the rate is one cent aad a half a mile, the | roads pay the repairs, SUPERINTENDENT MERRILL ON THE COST OF OPERA- TION, Gites Merrill testified :— ent of the Vermont Cent: think it costs a larger jad tage to operate the read now than it did ten years ago; percentage varies from seventy to eighty-five per cent of t gross earnings, or an average of about 779; am somewhat familiar with other New Eng- think from seventy to eighty per cent is the cost of eperating; our roads are free from taxation and seme of the other New England roads are not; don’t know about the pro- portion of the earnings paid as taxes; don't recol- lect any payment of $56,000 te A. B. Foster in con- nection with the Montreal and Vermont Junction road, but so much was paid to Clark and Smith as acontribution, the only consideration being the getting of the line. TESTIMONY OF LANSING MILLS, In the afternoon testimony was taken, witha view to showing the mature of the National De- spatch Company and Mr. Lansing Mills, President of that company, was examined, with a view of obtaining information in that respect. This evi- dence went to show that the adjustable gauge atent Was a failure, but that the car comparmy had proved a blessing to the Vermont Central Rail- road. The Court granted an order for the produc- tion of the books o1 the trustees and receivers for inspection, when an adjournment was had till to- morrow morning. ve been Superintend- for fourteen years; land roads; KK K The United States Discontinaes the Cases Against the Political Rioters of the South, Razian, N. C., March 19, 1873. The following instructions have beer issued dis- continuing all further proceedings against alleged Ku Kia. MAR- OFFICE OF UNITED STATES MARSHAL, RALEIGH, N. C., Feb, 21, 1873. IsaaC A, PEARSON, UNITED STATES berury SHA Sm—You will not execute any mere capiases or subpoenas in any cases wherein the defendaats are char; Ku Klux, None of the witnesses for the next Court need attend, I refer only to Ka Klux cases, 8. T. CARROW, United States Marshal, OFFice UNITED STATES DISTRICT ATTORNEY, WSSTERN District OF NORTH CAROLINA, ASHEVILLE, March 13, 1873. To ALL Wom It May CONCERN :— All persons summoned, recognized or otherwise bound jor their appearance as witnesses at the United States Circuit or District Courts, either at Greensbor behalf of the United States against parties indicted under the Enforcement (Ku Kiux) act, are hereby excused from any further attendance as witnesses, and they are also hereby discharged from any fur- ther duty as witnesses in any of said indictments unless resummoned. V. 8. LUSK, Distriet Attorney, Western District North Carolina, ‘This is a virtual endorsement by the government of the recent Amnesty aot passed by the Legisia- tore heres with violations of the Enforcement act— | Statesville or Asheville, N. C., on the | 8 THE TOMBS. Report of the City Sanitary Inspector of the Condition of the Building, IMPORTANT SUGGESTIONS, The following repert of an inspection of the City Prison, made by the oMeers of the Board of Health, was sent imto the Board yesterday by Dr. Janeg and placed oa file :. On entering we were immediately convinced of an overpowering olor, such as is never found. except where animal exhuiations are long pentup.a stale, od smell, indicative at once, Without further investigation, of a crowded apartment'and defcieat ventilation.. Tue aumber of inmates of this building varies very much, but averages about four hundred. ‘There are 101 cells occue pled by prisoners, xiviny an iiverage of four persons to & cell. Bach ceil is Il teet high by 11 long anc ide, wiv- ing a cubic capacity of 726 feet, which is no more tham sufficient for a single person wher the ventilation is good. At the top of the outer wail of th i ae window, a inches by 5, which admits light, and ig posed to adinit air when open, but in Winter it is gen. erally kept shut, re are two doors to each cell, the outer one with wns and the inner one with » small trap, 8 inches by 5, which is also often kept closed, Near the floor is one end of a small ventilating shaft, which gpens to the extermal air, but which is also kept cioued in inter, hall extemds from top to bottom of the building. with the cells on each side, and in the root are provided five large ventilating windows, which can be opened with ropes. On the floor of the hall are the stoves used for aaa the building. It the ventilators are open and the doors or windows of the calls el all or neurly all the heat escapes through the roof, and the cells are’ cold. If the ventilators are open and the doors and windows of cells are by the ascending carrents of heated alr from the steves n cireeey to the roof, and currents of cold air rush im to take tacir place through the cells, rendering the cella cold and exposing the prisoners to draughts of cold air. if the ventilators are closed and the doors and wii of the cells open the air of th air that y over again by hundreds of visitors, and uniit to breathe when it enters the cell Th rangements for ventilation are excc@lingly cannot easily be remedied. The resuitant of these cuitics, in fact, is that the ventilators are all kept closed. in the cells and ont of them and so the atgnosphere ig always stale and odoriferous, The westerly side of thig building is not mach exposed to the sun on account of ti height of the external wall of the enclosure, which is not more twenty feet from the building; as a conse- guenes it exceeding}. damp. Upon the three lower tiers the nit of the cells tecls to one entering like the air of an underground vault, itis so damp and Keel Although the walls are whitewashed once a wee! they are discolored and streaked with the maisture o! Atmosphere that s rarely changed and never exposed to sunlight. Upom the easterly side the cells are drier and r more salubrious. loset facilities are also defective. Instead of @ te soll-pipe runnimg down to the sewer trout 11, and properly trapped, as there should be, there large soil-pine running around each fier cells, connected with those above and below, and flushed several times a day, aud emptying by a single discharge pipe into the scwer, the whole being entirely without raps. Thus there frequently occurs an escape of sewer es into the prison, and if 4 malictous person throw anything which obstructs the pipe there is great d lay 1n finding the obstruction, and cells are sometimes overflowed by the damming’ up of the water used tor jushing. In the ‘emale prison the ventilation is better, and there {sno dampness discoverable. There is mainly the same arrangement for closets here as in the male prison. In the boys’ prison the number of inmates varies ex- ceedingly, ranging trom six to thirty-five. The cells aro in the centre of the building, and surrounded by a nar- row corridor. There are cight cells in the upper tier which alone have facilities tor ventilation. ‘th Is usually occupied, unless an uncommonly large number prisoners crowd some of them into the lower ter. The cells measure 7 feet by 7by 6 in height, and are hout any ventilation, excepting through the door, which is of strong wire The upper cells have a small ventilator, $ inches «ure, opposite the door. and immediately over the privy basin. The privy basins = merely upright funnels, about ten inches wide at th top, provided with a movable wooden cover, and flushed only by a single fuucit about two feet, above each, which ag discharges a straixht, sinall stream of water as near possible into the centre of the soil pipe, descending the bottom of the funnel-shaped seat, ‘This stream Water Is totally Inadequate tor the purpose, and be spread out into a conclike shower im order to clean the basla properly. There is the same stale odor In this prison as in the first mentioned. The basement of the uilding, occupied by the Court of Special Sessions, i9 used a8 @ lodging place tor socalled “ten day men,” who are to be transferred to the Workhouse. This basement wa large, low hall, probably S0xd) feet, and lias no meand of ventilation excepting the entrance, 735 feet by bis. This place is occupied by the dithiest and mort degraded class of our criminals, filled with @ nauseous odor. i rc musty, and at high ‘tide becemes, partially filed. with water. This place is of no uso and should be filled with dry sand. The soup tor the dinner ot the day appeard to'be of good quality and appetizing. When examined itwasthick with meat and vegetables, in good tions. ‘The bread is from the bakery on Blackwell's Island, is of fair quality and served without stint. The prison is kept in admirable condition xo far as it ites in he power of the officers. with the defective means ai their command, and the faults of construction, with which they are constantly obliged to conten The slight amount of disease among the prisoners is Astonishing when the unsalubrious influences to which ropor- they are constantly exposed 1 taken into consideration. Dr. Neal informs me that there is very little bronchatis + that he has had only six cases of rheumatisns | during the Winter and only one case of pneumonia for | the pust five years, and yet it must be remembered that & large part of the prisoners are transient occupants of the prison, aud their subsequent history as regards health or disease is not likely to be known. It tuust also be re- might or might not recover on the removal of the causes. F be estimated or even conjectured how many jortened, how many robust constitutions are sapped eir vigor, how many healthy bodies rece the seeds of disease, which may not deveiop tar month afterwards, by incarceration in such a place. It is cer- tain thatin the construction of the Tombs, besides its } limited capacity, sanitary laws have been frequently vio- lated, as | have endeavored to show, and ve are un- | able to trace the evil consequences with absolute cer: | ity and in comerete examples, it is presumably be: se We are finite in our knowledge. pe follewing additional report was sent in by the Engineer of the Board:— The cells, being restrictedly designed for one person, have not sufficient internal volume to be occupied by two, avis necessary at times from the insufficlene: their number; and their floors being enclosed on their inner side by 4 high sill amd on their outer by a ventila- tor of equal height with the sill, there is restricted that free subsidence to the external air of the ponderous gases which a regard to the sanitary condition of the quires, Further, from the want of an interce!lul in the extermal walls of this building and im the absence ofa burring upon their inner face, they are remdered | very damp from the condensation of the moisture of the internal atmosphere. The ‘ing of the cells is effected by stovesin the court, or inner space, enclosed by the cells on all side and, as a consequence of such & method, it isso amsut ficient thatitcan only be attained in cold weather at the cost Of their proper ventilation. [tis clearly shown Ge currents of air are inverse to the requirements of them. ‘the closeta in the cells are simply connecting with and common to. $lig! pipes, of which there are but two for ea open receptacle tly inclined sil ‘an adjoining street, and, as faras my my. persistent’ inquiries extended, there trap of any description in the’ eniire es or drain. Hence, ezereta voided im sewer of | tons am is not a length of soll c i the initial cell ina ter makes a semi-circuit of the build- ing at a very low augle of depression betore it falls into the vertical pipes communicating with a drain that runs for halt the width of the block and_ street betore it is dis- sewer. The exhalations there- | charged into the adjoin; from, and ot this sewer sis cell in the build rangement, the acc : the lateral pipe, as it often occurs, involves # regurgita- tion of its contents into the cells next above the location of the obstruction. The same general construction and conditions as to closets and soil pipes existin these apart- ments. Under the court room there isa ground enclosure, in which a certain class of inmates are confined, of the con- dition of which enclosure iny associate Nas so fully treated that | haye but to express my concurrence 1 his views Under this there is « cellar, the floor of which ig quagmire, the exhalations from which are offensive and noxious. Referring, then, to the elements submitted, T am of the opinion. First—That all the wards should be warmed by radiated heat from steam pipes. Secound—That an opening at the level of the floors of the cells should Le permanemtly maintained with the ex- ternal air, Third—That the ventilator at the top of the cells should be so hung that it can readily be opened or closed by their occupants, ' Fourth—That there should be a trapped closet in eacts cell and a soll pipe toeach vertical range of them. | Fyth—Thatthere should be @ branched drain in the cellar communicating with the street sewer, and that the Detween its present surface and the ceiling. densely filled with clay. he existence of the system of warming and Of soil pipes, it is due to the Commission rection this building is confided to state that able features are integrant to the design to whose these objectionable and construction of I. he inference to be drawn from these reports and from joms, as well asfrom an by the Aldermanic committee apj for the purpose, scems to be that, not only is t struction of the building, as regards the sanit teresis of the occupants, faulty in the extreme, nature of the ground upon which it is located is such as torender it totally unfit for \ts present purpose; that the only permanent improvement to be recommended ts to vacate the building as a prison, devote the property to other uses, and to select In some tore salubrious local- ity a site upon which to erect a prison building, to be constructed 1h accordance with the present ideas of sanitary architecture. All of which ig respectfully sub mitted. b, H. JANES, M. D. ___City Sanitary Thspector. PUBLIC INSTRUCTION. Meeting of the Board of Commissioners== Music a Regular Stady im the Schools The Commissioners of Public Instruction met yesterday afternoon in stated session, and, after | disposing of a large amount of routine business, received @ report irem the Committee on the Course of Studies, propesing a plan for musical education in the public schools; | making music @ regular study in the various | grades, to taught the special teachers now employed; directing the s | teachers to participate, so that they may be enabled to instruct their classes in the elememtary | or rudimentary branches, and to have & | kept of the efficiency and deficiency, a8 1D studies. ane Lge gh giving rise te debate, was laid over under the rules. * Mr. James Murphy was appointed Vice Principa’ of Sehool Ne. 18, of the Nineteeath ward. The Committee om Finance reperted adversely the sularies of professors in the Nor~ it reported in favor ef continuin, the salary of Pretessor Redfield durisg bis leave absence on account Of Ul Reality inspection sub- inted e con= y previous inspec sequently made