The New York Herald Newspaper, August 21, 1873, Page 5

THE COURTS. —_———- MORE OF THE MENDICANT MINSTRELS, —_—_—_ Kidnapping Italian Children, and the Treat- ment They Receive—The United States Court Authorities Examining Into the Case in Earnest, ie THE POWERS OF NOTARIES. Their Enlarged Powers Under Recent Legislative Enactment—Important Decision by Judge Davis. TRUSTEES OF SAVINGS INSTITUTIONS Interesting Question as to Whether the Trus- tees of One Savings Bank Can Fill at the Same Time a Like Position in a Similar Bank, LITTLE NELL. The Nitro-Glycerine, Galvanic Battery Sensation Scene—Testing the Question of Copyright. MORE MANDAMUSING. A Water Meter Inspector Gets the Best of Comp- troller Green. Im the United States Circuit Court yesterday “Little Nell,” the actress, filed a bill! of complaint charging that George C. Charles has been pro- ducing, at Wood's Museum, the ‘Nitro-Glycerine, Galvanic Battery Sensation Scene,” and that this ls an infringement of her right, as she claims to be proprietress of the scene in question. On this bill it is intended to apply tor an injunction against Mr, Charles to restrain bim from producing tle Scene referred to. A suit has been commenced in the United States District Court by the United States vs, Solomon N. Wolt!, Alphonse de Riesthal, Moses Amberg and Albert Amberg, to recover $75,000 in gold ior alleged violations of the Customs laws. ‘The capias 4s returnable August 23. Messrs. Stanley, Brown and Clark have appeared as counsel for S. Haas in the suit instituted by the government against the firm for alleged under- valuation of goods, The goods have been bonded, The suit is nominally for $70,000, but the actualsum js @ moch less amount. Hugh McCallogh and Michael Doyle were yester- fay held by Commissioner Shields to await the ac- tion of the Grand Jury on a charge of attempting bo pass a $10 counterteit bill on William Cregner, 465 Third avenue. The examination into the charge preferred against Vincenzo Motto, 45 Crosby street, of Kid- sapping Italian boya, sending then out in the streets to play musical instruments and beating them cruelly, was resumed yesterday before Com- missioner Osborn. The evidence of the boy Joseph was taken in support of the accusation, after which the further investigation pf the case was ad- journed till this morning. An important decision touching the powers of notaries public was given yesterday by Judge Davis, of the Supreme Court. The material points of the opinion embracing the decision will be found below. A question of no little public interest—as will be seen by the report elsewhere of proceedings yes- terday before Judge Daniels, holding Supreme Court, Chambers—has arisen in the courts as to the right of trustees of one savings bank to be trustees at the same time of other savings banks. The de- cision in the matter will be looked for with inter- est. Comptroller Green was made yesterday the sub- lect of another court mandamus. This time he bas to pay the salary of a water meter inspector. KIDNAPPING ITALIAN CHILDREN. A Cruel “Padrone’—A Boy Kicked, Beaten and Bitten—Important Investi- gation in the United States Court Un. ‘der the Civil Rights Bill. The examination of Vincenzo Motto, of No. 45 Crosby street, who is charged, under the Civil Rights bill, with having kidnapped several Italian children in Italy and brought them to this city, compelling them to go out in the streets as wander- Ing and mendicaut minstrels and earn money for him, was resumed yesterday before Commissioner Osborn in the court room of the United States District Court, The defendant, it is alleged, has on several occasions beaten, kicked and bitten the Doy Joseph because he did not bring home enough money as the result. of his musical performances. Two of the boys stated to have been stolen by Motto are quite young, between six ana eight years of age. They do not know the names of their parents nor the places of their residence. A recent number of the HeRALD contained an extract from the Gazetta del Popolo, of Turin, quoting the words of the Reforma, of Rome, and showing the enormous proportions to which the traffic in children be- tween Southern Italy and New York has reached, The attention which has been just drawn to this subject, through recent exposures, Will, it is to be hoped, put anend forever to this scandalous and imbuman commerce. ‘When the proceedings were resumed yesterday, Mr. A. H. Purdy, United States Assistant District Attorney, with Mr. John N, Lewis, appeared tor the prosecution, and Mr. Ausbacher lor the de- ce. ‘Mr. Celso Cesar Moreno was sworn as an inter- preter, and the boy Joseph having been called as bo ‘witness, he was examined and deposed as fol- WS i— I am twelve years old; I came to the United States three years ago, and have been here during that time; I came to this country with my mas- ter Vincenzo Motto; I used to live at Cavielli, Italy; the defendant is here (points im out); left Naples to come to this country; I first met the defendant at My mother’s house; the defendant asked me to go from my mother’s house to his house; he Said to me, ‘You come tomy house, and I will let you come back in the evening;” he made me walk all might to Naples, and tnere I was put on board the steamer, andI came to New York with the de- fendant; as soon as we got to New York I was taken to Crosby street, and he kept me one day at the house; defendant brot hree more boys with me; alter the first day he sent me out in the Streets with other children to play the triangle; he told me to stick with the other children; he ver wards told me to bring home money; he told me this the next week; he sent me out as carly as seven o'clock in the morning; he gave me bread for breakfast and tola me to come back with the other children at ae? I never came home with- 0 id not give me ; the a @ any clothes; kind to fre because I brought home little money; he beat me in the morning and in the evening;'he beat me and kicked me; he tied me up with a big cord; he Kept me in the cellar all day} bit me; he bit my 7 because I did not bring home much money; I left my master one year ago be- cause I had no money to bring home; { went to sleep in the cats at the depot; a ny £ Mra. McMonoho, now present, took care of me; I do not remember my home. ‘Crogs-examined—I lived at Cavillo; I do not know how far that 1s irom Napies; 1 rs old when I was taken @ 3 I do not know t year I was born in; my father told me I wae eight years oid; Vincenzo Was .his nam the master came over with me and other Italians; J went with Motto and otner Italians to 45 Crosoy street; the master did not sieep in the same room me; I siept in the basement with Other little children; I slept up stairs the first Might; I went there th other Italians; I sleot upstass tl tp end of the home $1, and the first week I was told that I mus! bring in fity cents; I brought over a pair of kind ‘of knapsack which contained ‘on ‘ OW PT tad that bundle popes and brought it to 45 on Br shon i; Isaw the Beoner a iby street; the things bel pemcuer were brought on a horse from ‘aples ; no one rode the horge, w! rope; the clothes 1 have on I rot iy t 8 for me; he theg set Italy ; my father had |. HO conversation with me before came here about Q. How aid you come to go with Motto? A. He said he would give me some: nice—to come’ to him that day and he would allow me to return inthe evening. Q. Was your father or mother aware that you were commg away with Motto? A. No; I do not know how old my father 18; I never saw my father in this city; the last time { saw him was in Italy; I cannot tell when that waa Q. When did Motto strike you the first time? A. Alter the first week I was with him; he struck me on the back with a stick as thick as my ir. Q. Why did he beat you? A. Because I did not bring in enough money; I only brought in forty cents the day he beat me first; he asked me how much money I had; 1 said I had forty cents; then he beat me. Commissioner—How much were you to bring home that a Witness—Ninety cents, Q. How much were you to bring home when you ot.the second beating? A. Sixty cents; 1 was to ring home $1 when I got the third beating; I only brought home sixty cents; I only brought home forty cents the time I got the fourtn beating; Motto had told me that I must bring home a doilar, Commissioner—Did any one see Motto veat you ? Witness—No ; he locked the door; thero are other Italian padrones living in 45 Crosby street. (Witness went into the body of the Court and Pointed out @ person whom he described as one of thein, . Commissioner—Can you read or write ? Witness—No, sir; my master never tried to teach me to read or write. * Commissioner—Did he ever speak to you about deatn? Witness—No. Commissioner—Did he ever speak to you about the Bibie? Witness—No. chun DCG ge is better to ask him about the jospel The Commissioner—Yes, ask him. Q. Did he teach you the Christian catechism? A. No. At this stage of the proceedings—it being nearly one o’clock—the Commissioner suspended the heare ing in consequence of another engagement then coming on. The case went over until this morn- ing. THE FUNCTIONS OF A NOTARY. Recent Legislation on the Subject=-En- largement of the Powers of Notaries— Important Decision of Judge Davis Defining the Scope of Such Enlarge= ment. The Legislature at its last session passed a statute defining the powers of notaries in other counties other than those in which they were ap- pointed. This law provides that any notary public in the counties of Kings, Qneens, Rich- mound, Westchester or Rockland, or for the city and county of New York, upon filing a cer- tifled copy of his appointment, with his autograph signature, in the Clerk’s office of any other of said counties, is authorized to ex- ercise all the functions of his ofilce in such other counties with the same effect as he now possesses by law in the county for which he is appointed. Some time since an assignment of a mortgage to Simeon Wormser was made in New York county before James M. Bywater, @ Kings county notary. ‘The latter put on it the usual oficial acknowledge- ment for the purpose of having it recorded; but the Register, General Sigel, declined to re- cord it, as not having been made by a notary in his own county and as not being certified from the County Clerk of Kings county. Upon this state of facts, and acting under the statute referred to above, a motion was made before Judge Davis, holding Supreme Court, Chambers, on benalf of Wortser, asking for & peremptory mundatmus against General Sigel, to compel hiin to receipt the assignment for record, As will be seen the only question was as to the con- struction of the law. Judge Davis gave yesterday a lengthy written opinion in the case, of which the material points will be iound in tne extracts given below. OPINION OF JUDGE DAVIS. ‘This act took effect on the 8th day of July last. There seems to be no room for doubt as to its purpose, The Legislature designed to clothe the notaries of the several counties named, who shall have complied with its re- quirements in respect to any other of such counties, with power toexercise their offielal functions in such other gounty. And it was especially designed to relieve them from the necessity of having their official character and signature certified from the county of their appointment by providing that evidence of those, facts should be filed ‘with the clerk ot the county {0 which their KNLARGED FUNCTIONS might be exercised. * * * ‘The facts required by the reconl ne nets to be certified * * are this to be pro- Vided 1m advance in the several counties named, and in Fespect ioact done Ly the notary in the county where snch evidence is filed it takes the place of the former ‘he Janzuage of the act could not be iricate.”” answered by construing it to confer Fower on a notary of King, who has comphed with the act, \o take a acknowhagment in the city of New York, which de Frocurims a certificate | of and signature trom the Olerk of Kings county Ys ause that wi not be an exercise of his official tunctions “with the same effect as he now professes by law” in the county of Kings, ‘the effect of his acknowledgement there is to secare the recording of the instrument with no other certificate, and that effect 1s intended to be given by this act when formed in the county in which he shall have filed the dence above named, It is to be observed that the act ertormed only in the have filed” the copy ot his appointment and his signature. It does not enlarge the effect of acts done in his own county. So that a certificate of acknow- ledgment taken before a notary of Kings county in that county must be certifiea to by the Clerk of Kings before it can lawtully be recorded by the Register ot New York. He siands in respect of that act, although he may have filed the evidence named in the act, a mere local officer acting within his territorial jurisdiction, and as to such action the recording act remains in force. The new act simply RNLARGES 118 POWERS so as to permit under the specified circumstances their exercise in another county, and it de- clares their elect when so exercised. The certificate should, therefore, indicate where the duty is performed and ot what county the officer is a notary. Both these things are done by the certificate betore me, and lawtul evidence of the right of the officer to act was on file in the office of the Clerk. It was the duty of the Register to have received and recorded the assessments. The re- lators are entitled to the writs, but the question is a new one of so much importance that the Register was quite Justified in requiring it to be presented to the Court. The mandamus is, therefore, awarded with ut costs, TRUSTEES OF SAVINGS BANKS. The Right of the Same Parties To Be Trustees of More Than One Savings Bank at the Same Time. A suit has been brought by the State Attorney General, in the Supreme Court, to enforce the law passed in 1870 by the Legislature prohibiting trus- tees of savings banks from acting as trustees of otner savings banks or directors of banks of circu- lation and deposit. The action was in the name of William Floyd et al., trustees of the Me- chanics and Traders’ Savings Bank, vs. Robert McMurray, trustee of the People’s Savings Bank; Charles Peck, of People’s Bank, and also the Central Savings Bank; J. Rosenberg, Har- lem Savings Bank; Thomas Woodward, Chatham Savings Bank, and A. T. Conkling, Eighth National Bank, ail trustees of the Mechanics and Traders’ Savings Bank. Some time since an order was ob- taine’ to show cause why the parties named should not be enjoined from acting as trustees of the Mechanics’ and Traders’ Savings Bank. This order came up for argument yesterday betore Judge Daniels, holding Supreme Court, Chambers. Ex-Judge Davis claimed that, by the cl ir the Mechanics and Traders’ Savings Bank and tne general law as to savings banks, the trustees of this savings institution are prohibited from being officers of other banks, and that McMurray & Peck have violated this law by becoming officers of the People’s Savings Bank, and Peck of the Central Sav- ings Bank; Rosenberg by becoming connected with the harlem Savings Bank, Woodward with the Chatham National Bank, and Conkling with the Eighth National Bank. He read aMdavits showing, as claimed, that tne defendants were acting in vio- ion of the law of 1870, Mr. Abraham R. Lawrence, on the part of defend- ants, read their aMdavit, Thomas Woodward, Jr., states that he was appointed trustee of the Mechanics and Traders’ Bank by the Act of Incor- ration, 1852, He was elected director of the jatham Savings Bank, but did not act, and is not now a trustee, Robert McMu has not been interested in any other bank for three years. Alfred T. Conkling, President of the Mechanics’ Bank, was elected director of the Eighth National Bank, January, 1871, without his knowledge ; at- tended but one meeting, and sent in his resigna- tion, A similar aMdavit tro: read, He insisted that ei days notice was required before the application could be entertained; that tiis being in the nature of a quo warranto to determine whether the defendants were lawfully in office, @ preliminary injunction should not issue, before trial; that it would be unfair to the parties to confirm Judge Di liminary injunction on mere affidavits ‘thirty-six notice; that the d oem fondant ghar and Rosenberg, were appoint to the other banks by the Le; tare; that each of the deiendants, by resi ig his tion in another bank, was reinstated in the hanics’ ; and, finally, that the act of 1870 only contemplates the removal of trustees a vlolgsion of age acting 1a : bard- them A. Smith vs. George W. Quintard, m ‘rich “the de: Bar ; 3 but it wae ‘held that. ba ac cepted the oflice, ty F-4 After some further argument Judge Daniels took thie papers, feserving bis deciaioa, A QUESTION OF COPYRIGHT. Littie Nell, the California Diamond, tn the United States Court—Alleged In- fringement of Her Copyrighted Nttro- Glycerine, Galvanic Battery Sensation Scene, Some considerable interest was created in the United States Court yesterday afternoon by the appearance of the famous comedienne, “Litue Nell, the California Diamond,” who appeared be- fore Commusstoner Ke! i. by her counsel, Mr. Wwiinamn % weee tee esther and a host of witnesses. The pretty, petite actress swore belore the Commissioner to ber bill im allege September she purchased the original dramatic composition known as “Fiteiin, the Fire Waif;”’ that she is u®W the sole proprietress of the sane; that this drama contains, amongst its Punt tte wei ai oprah ‘nas which she 1y according to act Glycerine, Galvanic and ined for her mu dis and high encomium, and that the same had recently, in the performance of a play called the “Skeleton Bl by one George ©, C1 been infringed upon. She, therefore, pray for an order in equity inst Mr. Charies and the Proprietor, of Wooa’s Museum, restraining them y an injunction from copying, imitating or plagiarizing the scene above described. The com- plainant and her witnesses submitted lengthy depositions setting forth the nature of their coim- plaint. Documents were issued ready for ser- vice in case the copyright is again interiered with. MORE MANDAMUSING, Salary of a Water Meter Inspector—No Getting Over an Audit of the Board of Audit. Applications for mandamuses, that used to be confined to the Supreme Court, can now, since the enlargement of the powers of the other State Courts, be made in the latter Court. The result promies to be that the Comptroller will have his ands fuller of business in the mandamus line than ever. Application was made yesterday belore Judge Robinson, in the Common Pleas, Special Term, on behalf of Henry Vandewater, assignee of Lout Benel, for a mandamus against Comptroiler Gre to compel the payment o1 $600, alleged as due in ayment of salary as Water Meter Inspector, ‘rom the papers it appeared that Benel’s claim Was audited by the Board of Audit, of which Mr, Green was a Member, but that he had refused to it. The return of the Comptroller was that he had since discovered that during some of the time for which the amount was allowed no services had Lege jc ta by Benel, and that his remedy was yy su Judge Robinson held the action of the Board of Audit to be in itself a judicial determination not reviewable by the Comptroller, and ordered a per- emptory mandamus to issue. BUSINESS IN THE OTHER COURTS. SUPREME COURT—CHAMBERS. Decisions. By Judge Daniels. Tanelae vs. Langdon.—Memorandum for coun- sel. Sistard, Jr., vs. Cushing.—Order for allowance granted. By Judge Davis. The People, &c,, Simon Wormser et al, vs, Franz Sigel, Register, &c.—Mandamus is awarded, with- out costs. SUPERIOR COURT—SPECIAL TERM. Decisions. By Judge Sedgwick. Noe vs. Durrow and Another.—Order that answer be made more pene Carpenter vs. Engelskucker.—Order denying mo- tion 1or a retaxation of costs. McCullough’s Lead Company vs. Strong.—Order fixing the amount of undertaking on appeal. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS—SPECIAL TERM. Decision. By Judge Robinson, Join H. Hillyer vs. Andrew K, Roessler.—Sce memorandum. TOMBS POLICE COURT. Capture of Four Alleged Burglars. About a quarter after twelve o'clock yesterday morning Officer Stephen McManus, of the Foer- teenth precinct, met Charles Heslin, Thomas Monahan, Michael Doyle and James McQuade in Hester stre near the Bowery. He heard Doyle ask He: here did you go?” He heard Doyie answer, went to put that under the stairs, where the rest was.” Ofmecer McManas, knowing the men to be thieves, after hearing the ‘above conversation suspected that a burglary had been committed, and notified the officers on the adjoining posts to try the doors on their beats. He also made an examination him- self and found one of the windows of the premises 28 Crosby street open. These premises communi- cate with the store of Cochrane, McLean & Co., 462, 464 and 466 Broadway. He at once set about searching for the men he had met, and about _half- past four A. M. discovered Monahan and Hesiin sleeping in a hallway in Baxter street. In the mean time Officer Maurice Glynn, of the Sixth precinct, had arrested Michael Doyle and James McQuade, whom he found in a hallway corner of Waiker and Baxter streets, and where he also found, under the stairway, a bag containing thirt yards of waterproof cloth. The cloth was identi- fied by Edward D. Howell as the property of Cochrane, McLean & Co. The four men were arraigned before Judge Dowling at the Tombs Police Court, yesterday, and each held in $2,000 ball to answer. Stripping a Sailor. Charles E. Dudley, keeper of a sailors’ boarding house at 378 Water street, was brought to’ the Tombs yesterday morning on the complaint of a French satior named Charles Celestine. Celestine charges that having made an engage- ment to ship without Dudley's knowledge was as- saulted by the latter on his learning the fact and stripped of his clothing, besides ing severely beaten and maltreated, The sailor was sent to the House of Detention and Dudiey held in default of $1,000 bail for trial. The papers were immediately sent to the Special Sessions, where the case will be tried on Saturday next. More Car Pickpockets Arrested. Ex-Ofticer John H. Dalley, while riding on a Third avenue car, about half-past five o’clock on Tuesday atternoon, captured Frank Clark and Geo, Hatzel, whom he detected pitied Adrian Bergen, of New Utrecht, L. 1., of a pocketbook, containing uinety- seven cents. He handed the prisoners over to Officer Blair, ot the Second precinct. When in the Station house one of the men dropped the pocket- book on the floor, which was at once identified by the owner. Yesterday they were brought before Justice Dowling, who immediately recognized the prisoners as old offenders, They were each com- mitted, in detault of $1,000 bail, to anawer. Another Fight im the New Post Office. James Biglin, a mason, employed on the new Post Office, was arraigned yesterday for striking & fellow laborer named Peter Cunningham, of 517 East Thirteenth street, in the breast with a four- teen pound siedge hammer and severely injuring him, Officer Walsh, who arrested Biglin, said the prisoner had been whys go up already some thir- teen times on charges of assault and battery. iv ‘Was held to answer at the Special Sessions. COURT CALENDAR—THIS GAY. SuPREME CoURT—SragciaL TERM—Held by Judge De he Sah iia i chee iB, 116, 117, 121. Call to 125,” i agnaatumiaaaa THE HOBOKEN POST OFFICE. For so me time past the citizens of Hoboken have been agitating the necessity of letter carriers in their city. The law requires that a city possess a Py keg a of more than twenty thousand to en- itie it to letter carriers, and Hoboken hes | more requisite number. At present voluntary carriers deliver letters and newspapers at two cents eacn, but persons can obtain their letters ny of such charge by calling f the more necessary to * a8 been industriously ru- mored by pothouse politicians that the Postmaster charges for delivering letters. On the contrary, he has frequently inconvenienced nimself fer the benefit of many citizens, and he Is now endeavor. ing to obtain regular t carriers to meet A HAPPY FAMILY. Meeting of the Republican State Central Committee. Brief Proceedings, and Everything Settled for the Coming Convention in Utica. . THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 1873—TRIPLE SHEET. convention as tne trump card; bt and all the time if suek be the ba ore potted publican party. Cwsarism, he thinks, is ‘a snyde;”” other poster a In other words, it ts @ nebulous ‘and pre} us MR. JOHN N. KNAPP, of Auburn, is satisfied with tne p: to stand by it through thiek ‘and, dames d W. W. RICHARDSON, #.J he Third district, thinks everything looks MR, JACOB gPATTERSON, of the Seventh district, thinks the same, MR, WILLIAM N. ROBERTSON, of the Eleventh district, thinks the same, MR, IENRY 8. VANDEVE: of the Thirteenth district, thinks the same. MR. STEPHEN B. FRENCH, of the First district, thinks the same, WIS J. PHILLIPS, Exciting Chase of a Herald Reporter ef the Eighth district thinks the same, After the Committee. Their Several and Individual Views on Cesarism. Grant First, Last and All the Time. ‘The Republican State Central Committee had a brief and @ brisk meeting yesterday at tho Fifth Avenue Hotel avd settied the matter of holding MR. LEVI BLARESLEE, of the Twentieth district, thinks the same, MR. JAMES SMART, ofthe Sixteenth district, thinks the same. The committee of the State Genoral Committee forms, on the whole, about as happy and harmo- Bious a family as benevolence itself could desire. POLITICAL NOTES AND OBSIRVATIONS. A It seems to be settled that Horace Maynard is to be the republican candidate tor Governor of ‘Tennessee, William Allen, democratic candidate for Governor of Ohio, Was once a saddler’s apprentice, but alter- wards became reduced in circumstantes and was obliged to accept a seat in the United States Senate. ‘The Massachusetts Demoeratic State Convention the State Convention by selecting the 24th of Sep- | will be held tn Worcester on the 3d of September. tember, the pent-ap city of Utica and the Hote) Baggs Wherein and whercat to despatch the whole business of nominating State oMcers, minus Gov- ernor and Lieutenant Governor, for the next term. It was a quiet litte affair and, save that, the marble-tiled promenade—deserted by the fash- tonable idiers at this season of the year—was en- livened by the appearance of a score or so of rural September 2 Vermont elects State officers. Sep- tember 8 California elects members of the Leg- islature, September § Maine elects Governor and other State oficers, With a total representative population of 83,115,611, and with the number of Representa tives in Congress, fixed by the act of March 4, 1862, @t 241, the rule for the apportionment prescribed Joungers, Who broke the reigning desolation by | by the act of March 23, 1850, is found to entitle the their festive presence, as likely to happen out of the ordinary course, The Nothing coutd be detected | several States of the Union to representation as followa:—Alabama, 6; Arkansas, 3; California, 4; loungers were the rural members of the State Com- | Connecticut, 3; Delaware, 1; Florida, 1; Georgia, mittee, good and true republicans, every man of 7; Uitnois, 16; Indiana, 11; lowa, 7; Kansas, 2; them. They had pretty much the whole hotel to | Kentucky, 8; Louisiana, 5; Maine, 4; Maryland, 5; themselves, and they passed the time waiting for the entire complement of the Committee to come Massachusetts, 9; Michigan, 7; Minnesota, 3; Mis- sissippl, 5; Missouri, 11; Nebraska, 1; Nevada, 1; together by breaking a few hundred toothpicks, | New Hampshire, 2; New Jersey, 6; New York, 28; calculating huge arithmetical problemas, as, for in- stance, the number of marble tiles, such as they were standing on, might go to cover an acre; the number of toothpicks to a foot beech log, and so on and so on. Some fresco | North Carolina, 7; Ohio, 17; Pennsylvania, 22; Rhode Island, 1; South Carolina, 4; Tennessee, 8; Texas, 5 rmont, 2; Virginia, 8; West Virginia, twenty | 3; Wisconsin, 7. painters are at present administering « few dainty | THE WAWASSET INVESTIGATION. touches to the cetling of the hotel baliway, and as a rs these artistic operations are seldom observed in | gusther Examination of the Superin- the rural districts the ruralists had a powerful and refining attraction in the Work going op over- head, There was ANOTHER OVERPOWRRING ATTRACTION & hundred feet away, where for a small investment the rural members were delighted to be enter- tained at the marbie front of the hotel laboratory by the curious manipulations of a chemist in a linen coat, Ils tests were approved of with smiles all round, tendent of the Potomac Ferry Com- pany—The Gencral Supervising In- spector’s Opinion of the Disaster—‘Ab- A Y be ahah if DYING SPIRITUALISM. A Celestial Picnic of Soul Love at Pleasant Valley. The “Spooks on a Jamboree’—Absence of the Pantarchs, Stephen Pearl Andrews, An drew Jackson Davis and the Great Lights of the Trance World—Ts Spir- {tnalism Dead or Only Sleeping #*— Failure of the Festivities and Flight of the Fairies and Spooks Homeward. PLEASANT VALLEY, N, Y¥., August 19, 1873, ‘Yhis Uttle pleasure resort, famous only from its Nideous old of Tillietudiam, tame which has deem lately changed to the more euphonious one of “Pleasant Valley,” has been made a focus of interest by the announcement that a grand picnio of Spirit- ualists would be held here on the 19th of August, 1873, and that three different steamers had been engaged to transport the light and airy ‘cusses’? up the noble Huason to this spot, where, as Nelse Seymour would say, ‘the festivities were to ~ eventuate.”” The peopte who live in this place and in the con+ tiguous localities of Fort Lee, Leonia, Engelwood and Shady Side—once called Bull’s Ferry—are aly quiet, well-to-do-familles, who have, seemingly, ad little interest in the great hive-swarming down the river as if they were transplanted to Kansas or Colorado, Originally the district for five miles fronting on the west sido of the Mudson and fox three miles back in the country was settled by English families about sixty years ago, and until some time ago the district was Known as English Neighborhood, There are but s few families of the sect Known as Spiritualists in the vicinity, and it created quite a sensation among the more orderly people to hear that the band of spooks, gnomes and mediums were to pay them a visit. And it seems so contrary to their doctrine to have any carnalor physical enjoyment that many persons did not believe tn it at all. THE BAND THAT DIDN'T “BEGIN TO PLAY.” The excursion had been vigorously heralded, and was, to all intents, a miserable failure. It had been started by @ little, sandy-haired and sandy-whis- kered man named E. 0. Townsend, who ekes out an existence by selling Spiritualistic literature at a counter in Robinson Hall, in West Sixteenth street, in New York city, the place in which the spooka congerie meet every Sunday afternoon and even ing to discuss and fight over subjects that would evoke shouts of laughter from the silliest school sence of Discipline, Order and Proper | poys’ debating society in the land. It was at Authority.” WASHINGTON, August 20, 1873, Captain Gedney, Superintendent of the Potomac Ferry Company, testified before the Wawasset Commission to-day. The license for that vessel called for 139 cabin and twenty steerage passen- Finally ail the members disappeared up statra | gers; this was received from the Georgetown Cus- and their business was in full blast vefore a cur- ous world outside Knew anything of the matter. A HERALD reporter, who had gone IN QUEST OF THE CONSPIRATORS, and had just turned the corner of one of the car- | mistaxe peted avenucsof the hotel, was barely in time to tom House ; the last inspection allowed only thirty cabin and twenty deck passengers; he afterwards obtained ission to carry 500 additional passen- ted number of excursions on the Po- the witness had no idea how the 0 the imitation of the number of pas- seugers coourred On the last inspection, only these tomac Wi perceive in the dim distance a number of stove- | being aliowed. Captain Wood, recalled, said the Superintendent pipe hats issuing from a far-off chatmber and disap | never gave instructions to hun to exercise the pearing pellmell down a back staircase, The waiter in tront of him, who draggea his left leg along as if it was fastened to a ball and chain, | interrupted for an instant the onward march of , the reporter, as with hope in hie heart and speculation in bis eye he made for the last vanishing stovepipe. the hat was the vener form of Mr. Henry D. Lapaugh, of the Ninth district, Though boarse il, ee genteman, ta PROCKEDINGS OF THE COMMITTER, Mr. A. B. Cornell, of New York, presided, and Mr. Jonn N. Knapp, of Auburn, acted as secretary, Beptoumet. ir Wm.siaw, Jr, ma September, at eleven o'clock, be agreed upou, | Time, 2:10, Under | ae with a kindness equal to ted the entire secret of the con- adden, of the Twelith district, moved that | the Convention be heid at Cuca in the month of | servation, such w & motion thatthe 26th of | hazarded no danger to life and pro) | almost broken bearts the orew tn fire drill. Arter further testimony had been given Captain Smith, the General Sapervinng Inspector, said that he little theaght five weeks ago, when he leit Us elty for observations on tne Western lakes, he would #0 soon return to meet here, as 4 juror ip a court room, the gentlemen now pres- ent as a Commission, and under such painful ctr- cumstances, the facts attending the disaster to the Wawaseet being under investigation ; yet their dut: to the law and justice to those who mourn witl loss of Kindred de- wanded tne inquiry. He trusted that tne Commission would make o thorough investigation, *o that the guilty might be punished and the inno- cent go free. Some persons thought anybody was fit to take charge of @ steamboat, steam engine or a steam bowler; but, from his experience and ob- not the fact. It required the utry—those whose proficiency rty. He napectors best men in the c trasted all connected ith the Board of Carried, would be very particular in licensing only men ‘Mr. Blakeslee moved that the committee meet on | the right stamp, both as to skill aad private ch that day at Baga’s Hotel, at the hour of sine | oe From the evidence of the Super- o'clock. Carried, intendent of the Potomac Ferry Company Here & despatch was received from the Mayor of | 4nd the Captain of the ‘awasset, it Utica, tendering the fown Hall ior the holding of the Convention, and the favor was cordially ac- cepted, The next thing was adjournment, wh» was unanimously carr Thus it happened the meeting Was short and sweet and without any extraordinary significance. WHT THR M The members of the State Central Committee are not all as Jearned as Roscoe Conkting nor as witty as Mark Twatn, but they possess in the aggre, ve a volume of common seuse which must ever save | them irom incurring the awkward compliment which the late Horace Greeley once paid to the distinguished lights of the Union club, At ie marbie bar the = Fith Avenue Hotel, where they suv and spoiled several more gross on they exclaimed With one voice that the republican party of would carry the State thie Pali as sure as fity cents | make half @ dollar. There was ence inthe opinion that Mr, would receive from the Convention a renomination for his present office as Secretary oi State. The: was not quite so unanimous an expression of fain in the ikeinood of Attorney General Bartow be) renominated, and there was a lively repudiation any chance for State Treasurer Kames, because acted last Fali with the liberals, Of the thirty-two members of the committee only nineteen attended. ME. A, B. CORNELL, the President, is not of the class of men disposed to unbosom themselves on the # topics of the hour concerning either local tional politics, His mind to him is a cup wherein he locks up all the treasures of tw experience, and what Views he may entertain as to the future of the country, or what his private horoseope reveals as to the intentions of Grant and the likelihood of hi repeating here the cuapter that tells the tragic story of how the iiberties of aeral cotpeid- jaently clustered, | Hilton Sermbner | evident there wae an absence of discipline, order and proper euthority on that vessel; whe- ther they coute have saved the boat or life by ne- cessary Preecantions he was unabie to assert. He would not , i his impertect knowledge of the testimony, who Was to blame, but he would repeat that everything posstple should be done to obtain We trath, in order to form @ right judgment, and act ngty. he made these remarks to the Commuasioncra, because they were all steamboat men, and, in conclusion, he expressed bis hearty sympathy and condolence for those who had lost their nearest and dearest, He would not attempt to | oture thelr distress, but they might imagine the jue @uxtained and the joom cast over many ® family cirele, He entered tuis room with a deep feeling Of regret and sorrow, not only because of this oecamion, but because it shortened his Ly to the Western waters. He was anxious to be here before the Commiamon closed, to give such ald to the investugative as might be uired and to ex- press his yupetey for those who lost their friends aud rela y the disaster, ‘The Commission adjourned until Friday. MELANCHOLY FATE OF TWO YOUNG JOUR. HALISTS. The melancholy tidimgs of the drowning of George P. Rowe, the representative of the New York Times im Drookiyn, and George T. Keiller, of the Onion, im the waters of Great South Bay, near Centre Moriches, L. 1., which reached Brook- ao extensive circle of acquaintances of the de- | ceased, both of Whom Were young journalists of the Romans were overthrown, are matters net to | be learned by every way/arer who comes across the distinguisned Speaker of the Assembly. MK, HENRY D. LAPAUGH, of the Ninth district, judging from the steady glance of his eye, can peretrate as tar into the future as many men. He de clared himself profoundly convinced that the re paplicas party would Win not alone now vat im ai ture time. He was satisGed that if General Grant ran for @ third term General Grant would be overwhelmingly elected. He would say candwliy that, as far as his knowledge went, no uoderstana- ing existed in the party to bring forward General Grant for renomination. As to whether the country was drifting towards Cesarism he was unprepared to say. He wanted to know who was Cmsar, Cer tainly General Grant was not, and be thought it wise to say that the country is sale. WILLIAM HAW, JR, of the Tenth district, knows avout all that is worth knowing this side of Jordan, fie says the repab- lean candi for next President, whoever be may be, will be elected by every State of the Union; in other words, it Will be quite & aman mous affair. for Grant. He is the right man in the right and he hopes he may be kept there. MR, WILLIAM TYRRELL, of the Thirtieth district, is as sanguine and true republicans should be, that the cy clad in an impenetrable coat of mai. If ral Grant be renominated, ft is none of his business. His duty would be to vote for hits as the standard bearer of the party, and there’ end on"t. ‘MK. JAMES FEETERS, of the Twenty-first district, belongs to the traiy rural cli to whom the ways of the father are tue ways of the son. tie admires President Urant, thinks it will be hard to Gnd a substitute, and looks upon as acreation of the poets—a vug- bear to frighten children to sleep. MR. B, 8. MADDEN believes the State is entirely in ihe hands of the republican party for years to come. He would like to be as sure of reaching the top rung o: Ja cob’s ladder as he ts of the party keeping the reins of government at , Albynu till junior democrats of of the present generation are in the sere snd yel- low leaf. ‘MR. SETI P, REMINGTON may probably never reach the dignity of President, but he hi nevertuetess, a projound admiration for the office, and he considers the present in- cumbent lendsa lustre to the chair. As to the cry about Cwsarism there is nothing to be apnre- — even if Grant had six terms in place of one. MR. HENRY 0. LAKIN, of the Thirty-second district, is not afraid to give Grant another term. He has done so well so far that he can’t be expected to do worse. No man can tell what an hour may bring forth, and as it is three years before the next election he thought it time enough to bid the devil good morning when he made his appearance. MR. SAMUEL 1, CARLISLE, of the Second district, will vote for Grant or who- ever else the republican party nominates. His studies in Roman history are not fresh enough to enabie bim to form an opinion as to whether there is an analogy between us and the ancients. MR. BENJAMIN V. WILSON cannot say whe mey turn Up at the next pational | to remain a couple of we8. He sees no objection to @ thire term | place, oe ae Sie evlity in their provwession, Mr. Rowe, who has been an attach? of tne Times for several years, was & tative of Bartades, West Indies, the son of porter. wallties and hie future was auspicious, day last he started for Moriches, L. |, intending being o8 lis Vacauon, There be wae jowed death st the kame time and it Stestas. The latter genteman, who Was born in Scotland, Was twenty dve years of age, came to Amer ta @ few voars ago whee he ovtamed & pomiion im the City Department of che Memato. He shoruy after le't tals journal. and, removing to Brookiyn, eptered upon the duues of & law reporter for the newspaper to Which he Wer attached at the tune Of bis death while oD bis fata! vacsuon tour Respect to the Memory of Mestre. Rowe ond Ketiter. At @ Meeting of the members of the New York Presa, in Rrookiyn, held ast eveuig, the follow {hg @&preamons of sympathy for the rei@tves of the | ourkaust were drowned at Centre fons ‘nes, LL, Were un enmeousty adpted — | w it hes pleased te bivine Kalen to from vor muon ru saromen gemmcisten, wecrge Perch howe an! george T Reser tm the etjoymmemt uo heath, 20} happiness, be it ». Thar white ue bow te the denrees of ap ait Tu eee WE Caanet herp wheh 4 FATAL ACCIDENT IN BROOKLYS. Mary Conners, a gil nine years of age, employed was" cat between the rollers and instantl the parents of t Voroner Was oerayman, apt & bright, energetic re- | He was mach respected for his excellent | On Mon- | ty Mr. Keller, who met tis | | everything,” the old lady sa! wwe | start his picnic or “feast he residence body was ag Ae uJ u \ kobinson Hall that the flerce combat took place, aa reported in the HeRALD in last Monday’a issue, between the adherents and op ponents of the Woodhull-Clafin clique, and reasonable conjecture made it possible tha the row would be renewed at the proposed pientc, Gilbert’s band, of Brooklyn, nad been engaged to discourse strains, musical or dig- cordant; but when they came tothe dock, at Spring street, it was discovered that there was no money among the spooks, and as there were only about nine or ten Spiritualists on tke dock the band was discharged and they went awayinavery angry mood indeed. SPIRITUALISM GOING DOWN. HILL. After taking on board the small squad of spooks the steamboat, which was comfortably filled with excurstonists of a more practical character, steamed up the river toits destination, The day was cloudy, but gave promise that it would clear up ‘and the river wore o radiant appearance. Circulars of a deep yellow color had been scattered among the passengers, giving a list of articles of lood which were to be procured at pretty high prices on landing at Pleas- ant Valley. These rascals printed a small catechism for the secular use of the elect, in which specific details by question and answer were given of the manner in which the place was to be reached, how to take caré of hats and coats, and overshoes and umbrellas, all of which details should be mere prarienee to @ true Spiritualist, who is suppost ‘o be always in communion with beings of anotnes world, None of the great lights of the New Jeru: salem putin an appearance at the festival, and con. sternation was visible on the faces of the conductors of the celestial ‘jamboree.’ ANGUISH OF THE SPIRITS. “Alas,” said a stout, masculine old lady to the writer, who was sitting on the forward part of tha boat, “alas, the palmy days of Spiritualism hava gone forever, hever to return, l’m afraid. You never gee any oi the great lights of other dayd present at our gasherings now. What has become of the Foxes ? Why, one of the gals is married to @ worldly person tn England—I think it was Kate, and the other has leit the spirit world for Ce Where, oh! where are the Edmondses, tne Dex+ ters, the Tallmadges, the Lintous, the Tutth Prof. Howe, Robert Dale Owen, 8. B. Britain, an B, W. Richmond and Andrew Jackson Davis{ Where is the great Pantarch, Stephen Pearl An« drews, and where 1s Commodore Hatch t Why, she’s been married ‘our times and lately has eloped with another man’s husband. The only man whom wa have left is Dr. Hallock, and he likes to hear him- self taik too much. Ah, these are dark dayg in-+ deed for Spiritualism. There is left to us Dudley Spriggs, a great heaven-born intellect, and Anthony wigs ns, ol Jersey City, whom mother nature haa moided tn her choicest and most beneficent man- ner. But the Spirit ism of to-day, where is it! Why its in the hands of that family who have brought so much trouble on us, It is in the hands of old Mrs. Claflim, and her daughter, Mrs. Wood- bull, Mrs, Sparr, and Tennie C. Claflin, Mrs, Brooks has gone to the soul-land and darkness ig coming down on us.”? “Well, madam,” said I, “trom whom do you take your precepts and teachings, if T might be so bold as to ask you the question?’ “DID SWEDBNBORG DANCE?’ MascuLine WoMaN—“Why, from Emanuel Swe- denborg and his ‘Heavenly Arcana’ and trom the ‘Doctrines of the New Jerusalem,, written by that great scholar and pure-minded man, whose spirit seems to have foreaken us altogether in these dia mal days of the devil and his cohorts.” Swedenborg believe in picnics and danc I ventured to ask the sturdy old woman. AScULINE WomMAN—I don’t believe he ever at | tended a picnic in his le or danced a quadrilie, | although thev do say that the minuet de la cour was Very fasnionabie in his time, But Swedenborg delighted in ail rational enjoyments, and espe- ciaily iu conjugal, or soullove. But he was not carnal in his conception, and ne despised money— so unlike the Spiritualists of this day, who are on the grav-ail principle. There is now no refuge {or Spir. walism but in the bosom of the Roman Catho- lic Chureh, and if things go on as they have don | L wil fold myself in its capactous bosom. TUE SPOOKS AT DINNER. Half an hour after the boat had been fastened at | the Pleasant Valiey dock I saw this same celestial, unvetied lady was engaged in punishing a beef. | steak and onions at 4 tabie in a restaurant with ag much gusto as if she bad never heard or dreamed of the philosophical doctor of Upaula, The small squad of spooks kept together, and as there wag dancing giong on among the “worldly minded,’ | ey maniested a proper disdain for the sport. “Please mention in the HERALD, will you, that the excursion is postponed until Monday, Septem- ber 2, at same me and place, and same price for who was leaning on the of the platform, where a wild waltz wae Ddeimg perpetrated vy the “‘scoffers,”” THE SPOOKS GO HOME DISGUSTED. Townshend, the head Kk, Was down on the dock, vainly endeavoring to muster enough of hid tribe from each boat Lge grad at the dock to of soul-love,” as the — denominate a picnic. No one came of the —eword of the Lord and of Gideon people—but of scoffers and merry-makers with stard: and rosy cheeks, flocked upwari the huge city to dance and sing and drink, regardless of Swe. . te New Jerusaiem Spiritualism pelect bane of an eag aasting tele | s, iadignant and gnasbing thet indhgerence of the world-servers and of the power of the devil and his powers and principalities. And ag ‘ne but foor dollars and a half in the squad, js considered to be rather smail ta the deferred picnic, which is to take place teeny 2% & success, But on Sunday next, af Hall, the subject will be discussed in all g always that the gathering THE UNHAPPY HATTERS OF NEWARK it was the Newark Savings Institution, cornes of Broad and Market streets, and not the Ameri can Trust Company, in whose care was placed the | unde of Nutria Loage, the hatters’ benevolent ~ | aasociation, which, as recorded in yesterday's | Menace, was Seeced out of about $3,000 by absconding president = and a ames Kyan and George Ashley. A nes named Disbrow, recent trom "Pitts: asserts that he saw take wi batters calla “turn”—/. ¢ @job—in that Thursday, and #® there employed now, ie are very reticent yg profess to be in a fair detauiters, make the