The New York Herald Newspaper, July 24, 1873, Page 3

0 LIBERTY! Justice Grasping Philadelphia’s Blackest Criminals. “Mediums” and Abortionists Ex- posed and Arrested, ANOTHER HERALD CHARGE. A Commissioner of the Press Ahead of the Law and the Police. Vile “‘Doctoresses” Sapping the Moral Life of a Great City. God's Brightest Beings Misled, De- ceived and Destroyed. NAMES AND ADDRESSES. Miss Temple’s Ben—How a Non-Existent Sis- ter Was Found and Located. Mrs. Doctor Jennings’ “Unfailing” Curse to Humanity. FORTUNETELLERS, TOO! “Mrs. Wilmarth” Tells the Com- missioner’s Fortune. How Unsuspecting Young Ladies Are Decoyed and Doomed. MAYOR STOKELEY’S PROMPTNESS. The Contaminating Sorceresses in the Hands of Detectives. Quaker City Authorities Ready to Assist the Herald in Crushing Out the Evil, PHILADSLPHIA, Joly 23, 1873, “O Eben Bonabben,” cried the young Prince, “thou hast revealed to me much of the wisdom of the earth; but there is ove thing ol.which 1 remain im ignorance and would fain be iniormed, Tell me, then, 0 thou most profound of sages, what is the nature of this thing called love,” Eben Bonabben was struck as with athunderoolt. He trembied and turned pale, and {elt as if his head ®at but Inosely on his shoulders. To those of us who are familiar with Irving’s Quaint and graceful story the astouishment of the ld philosopher is easily accounted for—shrewd, subtle, cunning as he was, tamiliar with every Getail of crime, and discerning that more than one- half the ills of life were brought about by a silly and maudiin sentimentality, of which there were everywhere friends, both male and femaie, to take advantage; and, moreover, fully under- Standing the natural tendency of a young mind, aroused by peculiar circumstances into @ state of temporary madness, to seck the Qnat culmination of its desires by means of for- tune tellers and others of Spiritualistic cast. the eld man nad secretly withdrawn the young Prince from the fascinations and aliurements of the Court, and conducted him to a quaint old castle, standing by itself, where, until the Prince had attained a certain age, he was to remain in per:ect ignorance of the thing called love. THE OLD PHILOSOPHER had good reason to be surprised, for he well knew that once out o{ thraidom, the puppy love of the young Prince would vent itself in ail sorts of indiscretions, tor the walks of that age were dark with charlatans and magicians, ali of whom moved here and there in every path, and all of whom by work- ing upou the superstitions of persons, younger and Biller thap themselves, claimed to’ control the affairs of love and to satisfy the minds of all who sought tueir aid. Young women and young men, of every class and of every cailing—the p:ince with his purse of goid, the peasant with his meagre earnings—all crowded wituin the chambers oi these so-called seers, and, alter the fulfilurent of numer- ous ceremonies, gradually developed amid fame and smoke, ‘elt their spirits so awed that these Magicians could use and handle them at their will. FORTUNE TELLING, Above the doors of these fortune-telling vaga- bonds the phrase oi Dante could weil be inscribed, for to many of the innocent who entered therein future existence was @ misery andacurse, All these things were identified with an age that was @ark and foul, when the armed knight and the hooded priest swayed society, and When the State stood in awe of the Church. We lvok upon the is- sues of this era as relics of barbarism, of which the more enlightened ages are entirely free. The Claim that those feelings of superstition and awe which caused even kings and queens to kneel at the shrine of the ancient magician, a higher type of civilization and @ more Mberal religious government have entirely re- Moved, but when | reflect upon the developments made to my personal endeavors during the past two weeks, | am inclined to imagine that a certain element of our society 18 grovelling in deeper ruts, and pandering to vices of a lower, more inhuman type than the elements of any society in any by- gone years, PHILADELPHIA'S MORAL SLAUGHTER HOUSES. We, too, have our sages, our fortune tellers, our magiciai nd our seers, At certain hours of the day young men and young women throng their chambers, and upon the face of cards and dice are Content to read their destiny in precisely the same manner as did the young of cen- turies ago, while the pure and the inuocent, the goed and the bad, now, as then, finally yield to this same mysterious power and drag out their existence in the same ignominious shame, Ihave been among the healing mediums and spiritualistic doctors of the Quaker City. Ihave writien to and have interviewed them all. Under ® maze of deceit and @ multitude of disguises, I have sought their abodes, became acquainted with their measures and gained a faint idea of the ex- tent to which their infamous operations are car- ried on, until, by the aid of the Mayor and hts po- lice, I have brought to immediate judgment all whom I have by any means been enabled to ap- proach. MEETING THE CRIMINALS WITH ARTIFICE. Let me state at the outset that I have been obliged to resort to deception of every form in or- der to entrap those who, by mcans of fouler mis- representation than that of mine, daily and hourly engnare others. Their deceit is such as drags from the paths of virtue the pure and the innocent, While mine has had no other end in view than to break those tendrils which pind the young and the guileless, and bring to immediate judgment the gulity and the unclean. This deception upon my part has not alone consisted of cunningly worded lasters, imainary Incidents ANG Hag, pisifyl stpries, | NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, JULY 24, 1873—TRIPLE SHEET. but hes found irs aévelopment m sumerous interviews and in all sorte of disguises, For in- stance, at ten o’clock in the morning I calied upon one, simply as a gentleman who had lost a watch; at mid-day 1 called upon her again dis- guised as a negro, and at five o'clock in the aiter- noon I visited the same woman, for the third time, dressed in female attire, representing myself asa poor woman, I began by the following letter:— ADDRESSING MISS TEMPLE, Miss TeMPLR:— My DEAR MaDaM—Piease let me state at the onset that I have but \ittle confidence im the pro- fession to wich you ciaim to belong, and that I apply to you simply for the sake of returnin; home with the message that no means untried to I believe to be lost. circumstances are these. Between Christmas and New Year my: sister ed. away trom home. Whether she went away of her own tree will or whether she was led away by some unknown hand we cannot tell, She was engaged to a young man named Batnelies and she was passionately devoted so him, are all residents of Newark, N, J. Since her absence Rey noids has re: apparently under deep aifitction, ver exhausting every other means but with no hope that any happy may be attuned, Oh, if there is any virtue in Spirituausm, assist me! I have never before been reduced to the necessity of seeking such aid, and J assure you that for ever nee, “hing ou do for me you shall be abundantly paid. e to me at once. Let me know when and where | can see you. For the sake of avoiding the many who cali upon you 1 wish you to visit me here at hotel. Kn- Closed please find the amount rei first jnterview, and believe me, your hai 40 4 ROBERY STUART, ‘The principal defect in the above letter is that I have no sister, and, as @ matter of course, having none, she could not very well have wandered irom home. Consequently, I claim that were Miss Temple a regular first class Spiritualist, as she claims herself to be, she would have detected the fraud and censured me severely for my attempt to thus grossly deceive her. On the contrary, she ac- cepts my letter in perfect good iaith and responas as follows :— THE STIRITUALIST’S REPLY. Mr. Roperr Sruart:— DEAR Sin—If you will please call upon me I will do ail that I can for you. 1 cannot get the clair- voyant examination withovt your infuence. Be- ing, a8 lam, a Spiritualist, | require yourself and spirits. [fam myself lame, and cannot travel aoe Meter dirped ola lretarn hea bea fe sent, and shal 0 see you. ctftly : and Vise TEMPLE.” The woman states in this letter that to find a sis- ter who was never lost and who, indeed, never had an existence it would be necessary to have my own Personal presence, as well as that of my attendant spirits. A{ter due reflection I determined to afford the lady precisely what she did not desire, and hence detailed a friend to interview her who rep- resented me and my efforts to learn of the where- abouts of my ideal reiative. AWAITING THE RESULT OF THE INVERVIEW. Touer street is away out of town comparatively, and tt was not until an hour’s bard work that my friend and myself arrived there. I waited on a neighboring corner while he wentin to go through with the rites, Whilel was standing there the heavens. suddenly grew black, bright fires leaped out of the clouds, the thunder rolled and crashed fi In confidence the ot Ce pone. ly to you iA tnd her, result and the rain jell in torrents. I was com- pletely drenched to the skin, and heartly wished that. I were imdoors with my friends. lt was the most furious thunder storm that I ever beheld, and tne trees, lashed this Way and that by the wind, moaned and creaked like @ thousand criminals at the rack. Suddenly there tore around the corner @ team of runaway horses attached to a soda water wagon, and at every leap of the steeds the bottles New in promis- cuous disorder. They popped and they squirted, they crashed and they sizzled, just like flreworks upon the Fourth of July. It seemed as if my friend would never come out, and I really began enter- taining some tear for his personal safety. Alter an hour’s tedious waiting, uowever, he came, “She’s an infernal humbug!" sald he. “As a matter o! course,” said 1. Please bear in mind that during thisinterview he had impersonated myself, the author of the letter given above, “fhe house,” he continued “was miserably furnished, and general disorder prevailed. There was no sign of tidiness, while the chairs were dusty and the carpet worn. MISS TRMPLE’S HUMBUG EXPOSED, “After 1 had seated myself the woman clasped her hands, tied up her siender body into ever so many knots, and, in a drawling, stammering tone, began her long and ridiculous address. The first thing she told me was, “that Reynolds knew just exactly where wy sister was.’ ‘The Jast thing she said was, ‘that Reynolds was virtuous and honorable young man, and knew nothing whatever about her.” She sald that ‘my mother was neither long nor short, nor fat nor lean, nor young nor old, and that my sister was sale in a distant land, ina city she could not see, and in a street she could not name, but at no far-off day she would return, and that all woula, eventually, be well.” These are the main points she touched upon, bat between them was an immenss amount of unintelligible nonsense and detail of not the slightest interest to the reader. ‘Ths interview was sufficient to convince us that Miss Temple was, as a clairvoyant, a iraud; that she had failed to detect our deceit; that she had taken our money in payment for information which she couid not afford, which were all the jacts that we needed to secure her arrest. HOW SHE ROBS POOR GIRLS, And yet this creature, this low-lived, contemptible vagabond does a large business and manages to live comiortably upon her ill-gotten gains. Up fromthe public thoroughiares, out from the factories and the dollar stores, datly and hourly trudge the weary shop girls to,assemble in her room and spend the greater part of their day’s hard earnings in listening to the base fabrications and downright lies of this coarse, lazy, vulgar woman. Even whe we were standing there several passed us enroute for her abode, and patiently waited in the midst of the storm for the opportunity of an | audience in which they might learn their future and ascertain at how remote a day the spirits had fixed their marriage, and yet, in face of this, we smile at the uniimited superstition of the past, and in glowing sermons grow eloquent concerning the glory and grandeur of the present century, as though their maudlin sentimentality did not exist an4 as if the mountebanks were, indeed, all dead. Oh! Eben Bonanben was right when he said that it was this love, this gross animality, for which there Seems to be no other name than love, was danger- ous knowledge, was the cause of half the Ills of earth; that care, sorrow, weary days and sleepless nights were its attendants; that it withered the bloom and BLIGHTED THE JOYS OF YOUTH and brought on the griefs of premature old age. All these things are not, of course, the result of the turning of a card, the upturned face of a die or the Ingubrious dissertation of a vulgar female with closed eyes; but the cards and the dice and the empty speeches of these sinful women are not used simply as the medium through which a few silly girls may discern, as they fooltshly imagine they do, the mysteries of the hidden future, but they are in reality the means by which healing mediums and others of a similar class drag down to the lowest ranks of crime and prostitution many of the giddy- headed maidens who suspect it least, and who, all unaware, come there simply to have their fortunes told. Ispeak from positive proof when I say that almost all of these fortune tellers are prostitutes themselves, and that they are employed by a cer- tain class of men, who pay the rent of their nomes and the amount of their advertising bilis simply for the sake of the chances afforded to ENSNARE INNOCENT GIRLS and entice them from the paths of rectitude and virtue; while in case of difMicalty these same women act as abortionists, and then, conceal from the law and from what few relatives the victims may possess all external evidence of tneir misery and disgrace. This is most certainly a diMcult statement to be trusted, but we feel sure that it will be most substantially corroborated before this letter draws to its close. NOW POX “MRS, DR. JENNINGS.’ Upon arriving from our afternoon call at the house of Miss Temple I found a letter awaiting me from Mrs. Dr. Jennings, who resiaes at 1,910 Brandywine street. In addressing this woman I Was approaching one of a different class than she to whom I had sent my first letter, and, as a mat- ter Of conseangnce. jig Wording wag constructed on an entirely different mode}. It was my endea- vor in writing this letter to render it perfectly plain, and atthe same time confine it within the limits of strict respectability; ina word, every line was penned with the view of its reproduction afterwards, and I sincerely hope that I have said nothing which will cause a blush to mantle any cheek, for though it is absolutely necessary for such persons as those with whom I am dealing to be exposed, and perfectly silly to ignore the ex- istence of them, | would indeed regret to bave it said that the exposition, in point of vulgarity, surpassed the acts of those parties Iunveil. My letter to Mrs, Jennings was this :— My DEA MADAME—I write to you in the midst of deepest trouble. I trust you know what I mean. ‘The lady is strong and aes and [ assure you that I will spend any amount of money to arrive at my desired resu ts. Please do not enter into any unnecessary detail, Will you or will you not do the work which I desire? ‘Tell me plainly and dis- tunctly- for the moment is critica), and I must use all haste. If you cannot | wilt apply emsewhere. Enclosed please find fiity cents. 1 beg you answer at the eurliest possible moment. Respectfully yours, ENRY WEST. When I showed a copy of this letter to the police Iwas told that my plans were all knocked into the head, and that I could never get a woman, even if she were such as 1 imagined her to be, to answer it. Their arguments were so strong that I almost conformed to their opinion, and heartily wished that | had opened a continued correspond- ence which would eventually terminate in their Willingness to do ‘or me what 1 had so impetuously urged in the letter given above, Still, despite my conviction, and to the great surprise of the police, in a remarkably short space of time the following answer was received :— THE “DOCTRESS” REPLIES. Mr, West;— Yours of to-day I have, in reply to which Ihave to say that 1 unaerstand the case and can give medicine that wilt meet tt. I should like to see the vind or yourself. I will be home to-morrow until six P. M., and to-day until seven P. M. Please be sure to bring this Ictter when yon come, and oblige Mrs, JENNINGS, P.8.—While I read your letter 1 clairvoyantly saw the young man who visited me to learn of a diamond pin last Winter, I called upon her the day following the receipt of the letter, and she, too, resided in a locality which seemed to me to be ‘ar away from the prin- cipal thoroughiares. As I came up to the Louse in which she lived a bright and sweet faced little girl, with light eyes and pink cheeks, bounded ahead of me, opened the front door, and, with a graceful bow, bade me enter. I wondered if that pure, innocent child knew gught of her motner’s guilt, and whether she was at an age sufficient to understand ber mother’s crime and shame. ‘There was no hallin the house, The door opencd Girectiy into the sitting room, and the first thing We saw Was a monstrous show billupon the wall, anpouncing the fact that cancers, tumors and felons were removed there. INTERVIRW WITH THE OGRESS, Atter waiting for some time the lady came down, She was lean, lank and lantern-jawed; dressed in @ greasy, threadbare silk; her hair was red, her face was pale and her figure was as tall and thin as @ billard cue. “You understand my business?” I said. “Periectly,” she answered. “And you will do tt tor me if I pay you well?’ “1 will,” was her reply. “But, sir,’ she continued, “we are near the street; come up stairs, into my of_ice.”” Iwentup. The piace smelled like a deadhouse, and signs of poverty cropped out everywhere. She asked me to tell her all the circumstances, I invented them at the moment. “But, madame,” said I, “you must assure me that you have had experience, or 1 will in no wise en trust this case to your hands.” You readity discern my object in this. get a confession from her; she gave it. “Never fear,” was her answer, “My medicine has never failed. I have never resorted to m- struments.” “By the way, madame,” said I, ‘the postscript to your letter was somewhat peculiar, was it not {”” “Just what I was going to speak of,’ she replied. “7 was informed clairvoyantly this morning of the mistake I had made. It was not the mistake of clairvoyancy, however; it was my own mistake, There came up betore ine at the reading of your letter a face resembling yours so much that I mis- took it for your face. I meant to tell you of is when you first came in,” Let the reader analyze this and ask himself how @ woman could mistake a face she had seen forone she had never seen, and then let him regard Mrs, Jennings consistent with his own conclusions aiterwards. Her reason for assisting me was because she had been clairvoyantly advised to act just the same as i it were her own sister or daughter who was in- volved, and the woman claimed to be of the most sympathetic disposition, deed. I cannot tell you more concerning our conversation than this; but leit her with the understanding that “my party” would be at the door about ten o’clock on Wednes- day morning. Of whom that party consisted let subsequent developments show, LETTER TO MRS, KUEP, NORTH FOURTH STREET. ‘The next letter [ wrote was sent to Mrs. Kupp, 1,933 North Fourth street, It read as follows:— Mrs, Korr:— My Dear Mapam—I have seen your advertise- It was to ment, and though you express yourselt rather | | certain vaguely I still uuagine you to be the person I re- quire. I am in doubt, however, and if | make a mustake in addressing yon | sincerely beg your par- don. Uiiicuity stares me im the face. ‘to remuve it there is danger. You know what 1 mean—— Dou’t put me to any unnecessary trouole. Enciosed please find money, tor which answer plainly and distinctly the following question :— Can you effect such results and will you effect them jor me f Respectiully yours, THEOVORE BREMAN, In response to this the following ans'y>r came :— MR. TrEODORE BREMAN:— My Dsak 51R—I received your communication of the 17th instant aad I heartily thank you sor your great generosity. I am periectly sftished that I can afford you ever satisiaction. Call and see me personally. Respectfully, MRS, F, KUPP, I called upon her at once, and such a loathsome and disgusting creature I never betore beheld. She was in every respect a member of the “great unwashed,” and her abode was over one of the dirtiest stores you ever saw. She came to inter- view me from her washtub, and said that I did not know how nicely she looked when she had on her good clothes. She said:— SHE HAS OTHER FISH TO FRY. “T can’t do this thing for you, but I can find some one who can,” and here she mentioned the name of @ Indy and that of @ doctor, both of whom I failed to find at home afterwards. “My business is of @ different order,” she went on, “Ido not relieve young ladies, but I arrange Matters 80 that young men can meet about what young ladies they choose by placing the arrange- ment for the meeting iu my hands. I never fail, sir.’” “How long does it take you to effect this meet- ing ?”” Tasked. “Generally about nine days; sometimes not so long,” “What are the means you use? “I give a kind of a liquid to the man,”* “And what does he do with it? I asked. je manages to get the lady to take it.’ “But suppose the lady is a periect stranger to him; one, for instance, to whom he has never spoken, and upon whom he dare not call? “Well, then, I take the matter in band myself, and effect a meeting.” “What are your charges for this!’ “Only $5." I was anxious to get away from the vile beast, for the littie room in which we were talking was hot and dusty and the appearance of the woman wae disgusting tome, I told her that I might call again some time, and paid her for the interview. MME. WILMARTH, 1,222 GREEN STREET, A letter, very similar to the one sent to Mrs. Kupp, was addressed to Mme, Wilmarth, who resides at 1,222 Green street. As her answer is a curiosity in @ great many respects, I reproduce it as I received it, The penmanship was horrible; it Tead— is Mr. Watrer Davis:— DEER Sin—If you will call on me I will bid ie for On oe time o’clo Yours w! M. ADDIE WILMARTH. Upon calling, however, we were very disagree- ably surprised to find her out on three occasions, and very agreeably surprised to find the neatness and taste displayedin her dy jittie home, Despite jo the ten | Jar attended your rule, | feel sure that I need but the spelling of the above letter her conversational powers were really remarkable, and never for one single moment was her tongue still, She was short in figure, had a handsome face and was neatly dressed in a suit of brown linen, The small parlor into which we were ushered was really a little curiosity shop, and the room was filled with the odor of plants and flowers. The windows were screened with handsome blinds, through whieh the sunshine stealing fell in a mellowed and subdued flood upon the carpet, I did not even have ume to introduce myself, for coming forward she caught me by the hand and said. A GLIB TONGUED DEMORALIZER—THE INTERVIEW. “Oh, Mr. Davis! I really thought that I would | never see you. Ihave just this hour come from your hotel. ‘They toid me you were in and then they told me you were out, and, of course, under such circumstances, I was coniused and came home, Take achair. Aint it warm; awiul, isn’t it? Did you ever see such hot weather in your 1ife? Here, take a fan,’”? Inever heard a woman talk so glibly in my life She positively did not give me a chance to say a single word, until I persistently insisted that my time was precious and that 1 wished to arrange matters as speedily as possible. This woman has perhaps done more of tuis business than any other in Philadelphia, I judge so, simply from the dozen cases she recited in which the efficiency of her as- sistant physician had always conducted every- thing successiuliy, and I judge it from her power of rendering herself an agreeable companion to all who might be in trouble, HER DISGUSTING SPECIALTY. Two young girls had just ieft her house a few months ago, who had come in trom the country, and who, unknown to their friends, had been boarding with her. Her charges are $16 a week for board, and the physician who aids her in her operations, she told me, was @ certain Dr. Logan, of Walnut street, or upon a street running of Irom it @ short distance, who has never failed in one single instance to do all that he agreed to. I Went up stairs to another apartment, which Mine. Wilmarth uses as an office, which was furnished with the same neatness and taste displayed in the parior below, and which, also, as the parlor itself, was quite curious in its way. In the centre of the room there was a table, and upon its suriace a pack of playing cards was‘ distributed, “Oh!” said I, “you use the cards at times.”” “Oh, yes indeed, sir; my regular business is with them.” “How do yon mean?” “Why, fortune telling, to be sure,” she answered. Here in itself were the very grounds so much needed for arrest, and I told the Madame to tell my fortunne. THE HERALD COMMISSIONER'S FORTUNE TOLD. Oh, such nonsense! ll not try to describe it. 1 can’t, She did not utter one single truth during the entire hour she was talking—not one single truth, Her tirade was a pack of lies from begin- ning to end, but was delivered in a way which Clara Morris could not imitate to save her lite. If the woman had studied for an actress instead of for a fortune teiler her treasury would have by this time become larger and she would have been saved also the humiliation of her arrest, because her face, figure, |, Voice and gesticulation were admirable, and had Tbeen less cold-hearted and cynical than I was at that moment she would have most assuredly stulfed me up as full as a sausage. This bosh cost me just two dollars, ‘The conversation of this woman I cannot repeat. It was one long, continuous review of the past, in which she showed me how successiul she had been in cach mstance she had tried. It almost sickened me, and I was only too glad to get away. MME. GOORMAN, NO, 2 SANSOM STREET. I next called upon Mme. Goorman, of No. 2 Sanson street, and found her in, She was sitting upon a pile of furniture stacked in the wildest confusion upon an uncarpeted floor, and I was conducted up stairs Where more quict and order prevailed. 1 had My iortune told bere again, and patiently submitted to another mess of nonsense. It was enough, I did not care tor any more. A day amoung brutes und abortionists 1s sufficient to sicken any man. And now I wondered what’ was tu be done. It was one thing to find these parties, but it was quite another to bring them to judg- ment. THE MAYOR ADVISED. There was only one thing to be done, und that was to lay the subject before Mr. Stokley, the Mayor of Philadelphia, and get his advice in regard to it, ‘The next morning we addressed him as fol- lows :— Mayor STOKLEY :— My Deak Sin—I address this letter to you in the Dame ol the New YoRK HERALD tor the purpose of cailing your attention to certain criminals, con- cerning the operations of whom | ieel sure you are unaware. it 18 quite natural in an administration which hag been 80 commendably aggressive as your owo, and in wich you have aimed at suca liberal reform, that a tew things siould escape your personal ob- servation as well as the vigilance of your police, but irom the very happy results which have thus mention my business in order to secure your hearty sympathy for its full and perfect consum- mation. For many days have been addressing letters under ficticious names to parties who advertise themselves as healing mediums, spiritualistic agents and the like, and by means of much adroitness I have at this time in my personal possession certain pipers in which all the women whom I have ud- | dressed trankly confess themselves to be abor- tionists and express periect willinguess to do all | that | ask, while my interviews with several have acquainted me with their move of treatment as well as the extent to which this friguttu business is Carried on, Captain Hines, of the police, i8 familar with ali that I have obtained thus far, aud seems to think that I have sufficient documentary evidence to se- cure the arrest of all these partes how, and I sin- cerely hope that you will at ouce make Known your wishes in this matter, ior it will be consistent with them that I shall act, The noble position which you have taken in be- half of the health and morality oi this city deserves the warmest commendations, while vhe efficient manner tn which you have c:osed all the houses of gambling and th fame is worthy of imitation by every public officer in our Jand, while I nh assure you {iat from no quarter will your generous work meet with kindlier recognition than irom ‘he great journal which, in a very humble way, I represent, Kespectiully, yours, &c. STOKLEY EQUAL TO THE HOUR. The Mayor immediately detatled an officer to lead me to his chamber, and immediately upon my entrance said: “Sir, lam glad that you have called my atten- tion to this matter and have given the Captain of the police special orders to follow out yoar wishes in every particular. You will, therefore, arrange all matters with him, and any action upon your | part will mect with my approval, My policy, as you have been pleasea to call it, has, indeed, been aggressive, and we shall follow it unfinchingly to theend. We receive many threats from those who are our enemies, but they’serve only to show that practical benefits are resulting from dur labors, and that in their development a great many evils are being strongly combated and greatly inter- fered with.” We were im the chamber during the next half hour, in the course of which Mayor Stokiey in- formed me that only afew hours before a girl had been brought before him, enticed from the country by a female flend, where a hearing would fake place at two o’olock, Alter leaving the Mayor, in order to make the evidence doubly sure, I called upon several abor- tionists another time, and by a complete change of dress, along with the removal of my beard and the substitution of jalse whiskers, led them still deeper and deeper into the trap. PILING THE NECESSARY OATH BEFORE A MAGISTRATE. I then went to an Alderman, filed an oath against them, and an hour ago the corps of de- tective police Went out to secure their arrest, so that by the time this letter reaches you, and many hours before ft appears in print, there will be a liberal number of abortionists arrested, confined in the station house over night and will have their hearing to-morrow at two o'clock. THE CONDITION OF HON. JOHN P. HALE. Dover, N. H., July 23, 1873. John P. Hale’s surgeons deem it advisable to attempt to set his hip, and it is considered doubt- jul if he can recover. He suffers extreme pain and is able to he in only one position. He had re- WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON, July 23, 1873. The Cable Monopoly and the Newfound- land Government. The following was to-day received in Washington from a semi-oMetal source :— The New York, Newfoundland and London Tele- graph Company was incorporated by the New- foundiand Legislature in 1854. It gave the com- pany the monopoly of fifty years for the constrne- tion of telegraph works, overland and landingjocean cables. The charter provided that the colony should have a right of purchase of the poles, wires, works and apparatus of the company after twenty years, which will expire in April or June next, By an act of 1857, in amendment, the company was authorized to amalgamate with the Auglo-Amert- can or any company for the’ construc- tion =and = = landing of cables as if under the original charter, and with the retention of the rights and privileges which the colony or any other colony, or Great Britain could claim under the origi charter. There has recently been agitation in England by gentlemen connected With the press with the view of getting rid of the monopoly and peraitting the free landing of cabies on the Newioundland coast so as to lesson the present high tolls for messages. The opinion of eminent counsel has been taken, who had advised that the colony has this right of pre-emp- tion, and that the colony is obliged only to pay for the wires, poles and materials, and not for the good will or profits, ‘The charter prescribed that an appraisement was to be made by arbitrators. Mr, Cyrus Field, for the company, nas also taken the opinion of counsel, who have advised that the right of pre-emption was abrogated by the act of 1857, and that, if it could be exercised, woula be bound to pay, as for a going concern. The Legislature of the Colony of Newfoundland imsists on the right of the colontal government to purchase, and the government has made aun order, in Council, of the tollowing sub- stance:—The colony will surrender the right of pre-emption if the company will forego its monopo- ly, and, if 80, all cables to be free to land, the com- Pany’s cables and others being subject to a certain toll, to be paid to the colony; but should the com. pany decline to forego the monopoly the govern- ment will exercise its right of pre-emption after the expiration of the twenty years, To this, so far as can be ascertained, no reply has yet been given by the company. The Postal Treaty Between Germany and the United States. A statement having been extensively published to the effect that the new postal treaty be- tween Germany and the United States is so iramed as to discriminate against the German-American press, the object being to discourage the circula- tion in Germany of American newspapers pub- lished in the German langnage, it is proper to say that the same is without any foundation in fact. The existing postal treaty with Germany makes no such discrimination. It expressly provides that, except a small local currie:s’ fee, 80 long as it exists in tue rural districts of North Germany, no charge whatever, otherwise than is therein expressly provided shall be levied and collected on the letters and other correspond- ence exchanged, American newspapers addressed to Germany, prepaid at the rates prescribed by the United States Post OMice Department, cannot proporly be charged on delivery with any tax ex- cept the small Jocal carriers’ fee above mentioned, The attention of the Postmaster General having been called to the circumstance that in the King- dom of Prussia a law exisis which impcses a tax not only on newspapers published there, but also on ifore.gn newspapers, in the German language coming into Prussian territory, and that this tax, when the newspapers come by mail under cross-band, is a one-fourth silver groschen, equal vo seven-twelfths of a cent ior every single number, he has addressed an offictal | communication to the General Post Omice at Ber- | lin, stating that the levying and collection of such a tax, not being in any sense a local carricr’s fee, is, in his opinion, a violation of the provisions of the postal treaty, and requesting that the collece tion of said tax in the Kingdom of Prussia on pre- paid newspapers from the United States may be discontinued. The New Trade Dollar. A despatch to the Treasury Department from Su- perintendent Hetrich, ot tne Carson Mint, dated Carson, Nevada, July 22, states that the dies fur the new trade dollar were received on the 21st instant, and that four meits had been coined on the 22d. leStates ior the week ending July 6 were $1,500,000. Arrival of the Tigress at St. Johns. submitted the 3 FIGHTING THE FILTH, Destruction of the Booths Around Wash: ington Market by the Health Au- thorities Last Night. VACATION OF THE INJUNCTION. Beginning and Progress of the Work and What the People Thought of It. WATCHING THE WRECK. i. * Scenes and Incidents in the Streets in the Vicinity of the Market. ROUTING THE RATS. The long threatened action of the health author- ities in the matter o! the booths and stalls in the vicinity of Washington Market was carried into effect last night, and the structures are by this time completely swept away. In view of the muitiplied interests involved, and. the jeopardy in which these interests were placed through the proposed action of the Health Commis- sloners, it could hardiy be otherwise than that the Courts should be evoked to give to the controversy its final decree of settiement, With a a view to this purpose the aggrieved marketmen secured the services of Mr. Abraham R. Lawrence, Jr., and the: latter, addressing himseif to the exigencies of the case and the interests of his clients, resolved at once to apply to some Supreme Court Judge for an injunction, restraluing the health authorities from their work of demontion. Having prepared the Necessary papers, tia application was made yes terday before Judge Pratt, holding Supreme Court Champers, As the basis of the application was ° COMPLAINT OF THE MARKET MEN. This is a somewhat formidable document in length, but the gist of it can pe given in very few lines. Some of these booths and; sheds which the Board of Health now sought to have removed, it is stated, have been rented by their present occupants thirty years, They are rented from the city and the pro- ceeds, some $20,009 a year, are turned over for the benefit ofthe Sinking Fund. It is stated further that they furnish employment for some twelve hundred persons; that from here 2 great portion of the city 1s furnished with its pouitry and other meats and fruits and vegetables; that the gross sales are $5,000,000a year; that a great deal of money has been expended in their construction; that the geod will and profits are of great value, and that their removal would be the destruction of their business. The last allegation is that they are not a nuisance. Messrs. Leonard and Richard H. Tnorn, Henry Combs, EB, Harrison Reed «nd M. M. Dorhan are the particular complainants, but claim to represent all the others, THE INJUNCTION ASKED FOR was directed against tie Board of Uealth. the Health OMicer of the Port and the Police Gommis- sioners, cnjoininy these public oficials, as. stated above, from tearing down the premises the com. plainants are now occupying, contiguous to Wash- ington Market, for market purposes, and trom in any Way tutericring with their business, Mr. Lawrence enlarged at eloquent, not to say feeling, length Upon the poluts set iorth in the complaint. To his remarks Judge Pratt listened wich his accustomed patience and serenity, and then, alter scanning the papers to set ar rest any doubts he might have in the matter, signed an order for a temporary injunction and aiso for an order to show cause why the same should not be continued, the Jatter being made returnable at hali-past ten o'clock this morning. These proceedings, it will be understood, were all ex parte. Up to this point, as far as the Courts were concerned, matters ha progressed most favorably tor the aggrieved mar- ket men. Victory perched on their bannefs, The misfortune of it, or rather good fortune, was that there are two sides to a law question. OPP ISITION TO THE INJUNCTION. Ir. Delafield Smitn, % The following despatch was received at the Navy ee she ae ie prelate Hakan ala pay ete ho N. F,, July 28, 1873 Board of Health, soon got wind of what Secretary Roneson, Washington, D.C.:— ’ —s | ad been done. They were quickly on hand Arrived viis morning all well, Wall sail Saturday | to-day and upset the injunction. Mr. Smith morning. MES A. GREER, A West Point Cadet Drowned. Atelegram from the Commandant at the West Point Military Academy was received at the War Department to-day announcing that Cadct Israel | W. Peunis, of the Third Class, was drowned last | evening while bathing. The body has been re- | covered, Cadet Pennis was a native of llinois.'| and represented the Fifteenth Coagressional dis- trict in that State at the Academy. A Murderer of an Indian Women To Be Hanged. The Attorney General has retused to recommend € pardon in the case of James Pickett, of idaho, sentenced to be hanged in that Territory on thurs- day. in Angust, 1872, Pickett deait a biow witha mine pick on the skuil of an Indian woman, kiuling her almost instantly, He was arraigued | and tried by (he Civil Court of Idaho and sentenced | to death, it being the first case in which @ white man liad been sentenced to suffer the extreme penalty of the law for the murder of an indian. Customs Keceipts, The customs receipts throughout the United PADRONE SLIONE, i Italian Children Held in Slavery—Arrest of the Accused and Proceedings in Court—Slione Likely to Suffer. New Haven, July 23, 1873. A case of no little interest occurred before the City Court here this morning. It aruse in this | way :—A few days ago Mr. Potter, a member of the State Board of Ecucation, came here to see if any Italian boys were employed by taskmasters as street musicians, intending to prosecute such masters tor a violation of the Education jaw, which formds masters employing boys under fourteen who have not attended school for three months in the year. He found one Giovanni Stione employing four Italian boys whom he had recently brought from New York, and he caused his arrest, The examl- nation took place this morning and attracted much interest, The accused was charged with the viola” tion of tion law. Mr. Cassali, editor of the Meh a'italia, was present In behalf of the prosecution, as well as a representative of the Itailan Association in New York, formed to prevent traffic in Italian boys. The State put in evidence tne recent act of the Italian Parhament making tilegal contracts, selling the service of boys by their parents, and by the boys it was proved tnat they were badly treated aud fed, were threatened with arrest if they attempted to run away, and were sometimes beaten when they did not earn enough, The de- fonce put in evidence the CONTRACTS MADE BY THE ACOUSED with the boys’ parents, under which he was to have their services a# musicians, and it was claimed that the italian Pariiament conld not an- nul a previously made contract nd turther, that the coutract was in the nature of an indenture ap- nticing the boys. Prfne-Court round that the contracts were void in this State, as contrary to public feeling; that they were not in the nature of indentures; and, further, tarned trom a ride to Great Falls previous to the accident and felt upuspally well, dweit on the importance of regarding the public health above any private considera.ions. He asked that the injunciion be set aside and quoted at learned length the statutes applicable to the case. He based his application to have the injunction vacated upon the statute of 1867, Judge Pratt said that he understood that the new charter repealed this statute. The chief ques- tion involved was, in his view, wiether the com- plainants had received eight days’ notice and had had the opportunity of being heard before the Board of Health as to the necessity of the demoli- tion of the stands. He thought tnat unless there was imminent danver such notification should have been made and an opportunity given of being heard, Mr. Smith thereupon submitted two aMdavits— one of Kdward &, Shafer, Superintendent of In- cumbranc:s, stating that he gave the marketmen notices on the 11th of July, issued by the Board of Health, as to the removal of their stands, and the other of Mr. Ohandier, President of the Board of Health, tat the market men had been heard through counsel before the Board of Hedith. Upon this state of facts Judge Pratt directed an order to be made vacating the previous injune tion. but letting the order to show cause stand. The argument upon this order will be heard this morning. As soon as Dr. Chandler found the Court had vae cated the Injunction he posted to headquarters and sent out in search of aman who would undertake to pull the booths down at once. His messenger soon returned with the individual desired, and @ conference was ever, was undertake the job rather frightened the health authorities and they applied to the police for protection. slorers oi Police assured them that a strong guard held, carpenter found he — reiused the building. As how- what to This soon, asthe wanted of him and left The Commis. of police would be tent to watch for them while the work was Leing conducted. President Chandler then went in search of another man, and had con- siderable diMcuity in finding one. time the Hoard of Police sent for Inspector Wall- ing, and desired him to selectas many officers In the mean, THE PERSONAL LIBERTY LAW from the different precincts a8 would h a violation of the be necessary to help the health authort- Lebigarenadeineylentd pat pale ties and preserve the peace during their perations. Inspector Walling issued instructions to the captains of the several downtown precincts and awaited the return o! President Chandler. About six o’clock in the evening he putin an ap- pearance, and iniormed the poice authorities he would be ready at eight o’clock. Inspector Wall- ing telegraphed to the captains to meet him at the Third precinct station house at that hour with their commands. Close upon seven o'clock a num- ber of CARTS AND WAGONS, ‘ing men, arrived in iront of police head quarters, and created @ commotion, eer. were the carpenters employed to tear duwn the buotus, and they were evidently prepared — tor the work. Captain Yule, of the Sanita Police, took charge of them, and direct their movemeuts, At the appointed time Captains Ulmen, Van Dusen, Kennedy, Cattra: Wuliams, Lewes and Garland, with two at and about twenty-dve men each, arrived the Third precinct station house. They were received by Captain John Whilltamson and anon sitions in the street until the ot evidence showed that the boys were de- ispector Walling and Copelans vnveacr ther liberty by the accused. Tne Court When these officers got on thé gro continued the cases one week, and gave notice | @ consultation was held and the several captaing that at that time it would require the accused were assigned positions around the market, At TO APPEAR BEFORE THE SUPERIOR COURT eight o’ciock the column of moved fr for trial, and that the cases were continued in| the station house, Captain an in ‘the order to give time to make arrangements to have | van, and immediately took up positions the boys taken care of until the time of trial. The | around the market. A pum! ‘ot accused had his bounds of $4,000 continued, and in | ward detectives were assigned for duty on the deianit of bail was committed, It is generally | sidewalks among the crowd, and these were believed he will be convicted under the Personal | headed by Detectives Fitzmorris and Van Buskirk, Liberty law. ‘The penalty is two years in the State | The police had been on the ground nearly half an who had large mi iy a ia ‘ Dioyed ja New Gort. CONTINUED ON TENTH PAGE,