The New York Herald Newspaper, August 22, 1873, Page 3

i "FOUND DROWNED,” Jorrible Revelations from the Philadelphia Morgue. the Corpse of a Wealthy Pittsburger + Fished from the Schuylkill. ROBBING THE DEAD His Watch, Chain, Pocket- book and Papers Gone. "1,000 Reward Offered by Afflicted ' Friends. The Timepiece Found at a ' Pawnbroker’s. GHOULS IN OFFICE. A Morgue Keeper and Deputy Coroner Involved. Munce’s Body Taken from the Spirit Vats of Pennsylvania Hospital. Alleged Burial ‘of the Deceased by the Coroner. - PHILADELPHIA, August 20, 1873, The unknown man found drowned at Sansom et wharf, Schuylkill, yesterday morning, age venty yi has dark hair, and wore a dark gray st and pants, white shirt and laced shoes; about aix eee high.—Philadelphia Public Ledger, July 4, Thus the throbbings of a human heart were Stilled, and thus closed the last volume of a human history. After all, what was it? Only a childish ld man washed ashore; only a furrowed face and a faltering frame cast up by the tide. There are so many persons drowned nowadays that the eme- tional sympathies which such deaths would arouse were they less frequent, in this particular instance were’all unmoved. ‘here is scarcely an hour of the gay in which some poor unfortunate is not fished ap from the waves of some of our principal rivers, Brought into such frequent contact with death in all its phases, the human heart becomes shrived, and the circumstances, the pathos, the tragedy involved in it are all too apt to be ignored. It seems to be a necessary product of modern stvilization that heartstrings should be suddenly geverea, the human soul probed to its deepest depths by cruel and unnatural occurrences, and that our gray haired and our loved should, in the passing of an hour, become lost. It seems wholly consistent with the progressiveness of our age ‘Rat a man should leave his home at midday and Jook upon his kimsfolks nevermore, Would to eaven that all thingselse were cheap as human Wife—the poor might live in castles with battle. ments made of gold. “AN OLD MAN—THAT’S ALL.” The man was very old, his face wrinkled, his boay crooked, his limbs stiff andmaimed. No one asked how long he had slept in the water, no one knew or seemed to care tor his history. To every &uman soul who gazed upon him at the Morgue he Was neither a friend nor a foe, and as the visitors passed from the rude bier to the glad and brilliant wunghine they leit his body to be carried—they vared not where. A savant exploring the dingy faverns of the earth suddenly falls across a muss bf human bones; an adventurer penetrating within “pur solemn forest shades unexpectedly strikes his Soot against a skull, aud a civilian wandering upon the banks of the Schuylkill spies a foating human and drags him to the shore. From whence the dones, the skull or the body? Ah, who can venture to assert? There be was, and that was the moit of it. He lived; he suffered; he was drowned. How, when or where, under what conditions, at what moment, amid what scenes, were deep and inexplicable mysteries to which, circumstance fur- mished no key. His departure was another “mys- terious disappearance’’—his death, to those who Jound bim,a secret whose solution an all-wise Providence cared to withhold until the day of judg- ment. All at once this old man’s body was carried off-- Just as his life—the public knew not how. The world asked nothing more, and the peculiar sig- nificance of the above item, at each moment of the Investigation put very imperfectly comprehended, amid the whirl and bustle of a great city’s uproar, as very soon entirely lost. INQUIRIES OF THE POLICE. By a peculiar train of circumstances, however, great mysteries have unexpectedly unwound them- selves, and to-day a little light seems dawning upon this. The first ray penetrating the clouds Moulds itself in the form ot a telegram from the Bhief of the Pittsburg police, reading as follows:— PirrsBuRG, July 5, 1873. Thomas Munce; insane man, six teet high, sixty- ive years old, r above right eye, left here on ednesday for Philadelphia. Detain him and teie- graph me. All expenses will be paid, jOHN IRWIN, Chief of Police. To this despatch the following immediate answer Was returned :— PHILADELPRIA, July 5, 1873. ‘We have an iusane man, calling himself Alfred Kendall. Six feet high, forty years ola, black whis- Kers, scar above Jeft eye, somewhat stooped shoul- @ered. He has a Harrisburg pass. , W. R. HEINS, Captain of Police, Strange to say, no reply whatever was sent.to hus telegram, and thecircumstance was, Ina day or two forgotten; but upon the morning of July 31 She subject was again revived by this unnsual postal card:— * ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS REWARD! ‘The above reward will be paid ior the apprehen- sion of or Information leading to the recovery, dead or alive, of Thomas Munce, Heds seventy years oid, large, spare frame, stooped shoulders, unsteady walk, hair Sian, gray, scar on the in- side of right eye, hard o! or gy Lad ey 4 de- ranged, one of his hands crooked. le had a hunt- ing cage watch ana chain; number of watch, 3,415, with “Thomas Munce’’ engraved on cap. Address RJ. or W.J. MUNCE, Washington, Washington “county, Pa, Any one could walk upon the streets of any city and lay hands upon an individual answering to the above description. Ola men are numerous, and they are almost always deaf. There was absolutely no clew in what at first seems te be a very care- fully drawn picture. Had the postal card contained simply this it would have been almost tmpossible to take even the first step in the direction of any Satisfactory conclusion. And yet there was upon the little piece of paper a single sentence relating .to & watch, which, I really believe, will finally bring sil things to light. The case was placed at once into the efficient hands ef Detectives Meurs and Gailo- way, who immediately circulated in proper places the following printed circular. Desiring to conceal @s far as possible all circumstances which the fecovery of the watch would be likely to divulge, they dated the circular upon a day long gone by :— THE WATCH OPENS THE way, Stolen, July 1, Py Ra gold hunting case watch, et 8,415; name of Thomas Munce on eap, Pawn: rokers and others Will please consider this notice and send word immediately to W. P. Mears and William Galloway, detectives, Mayor's oMice. Ali advances paid if recovered. This circular was generously distributed, bus of itself brought back no return. The two detectives next searched all the pawnbrokers’ shops in person, and after many disappointments and delays, found fg Watch in the possession of a certain fsaac Cowen, who advanced money upon diamonds, &c., at the corner of Tenth and Parish streets, which answered to the description. FIVE DOLLARS LOANED ON IT. Mr, Cowen’s story was about as follows - NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, AUGUST 22, 1873—TRIPLE SHEET. July 16, @ young man came in to see me and wished me to advance him money upon this watch. I saw that the watch was a handsome one, and asked him how much he wanted. He said $5. I was astonished, for I would have given him $50 as quickly as the smail sum he asked for. Still he said that he simply wanted a little money, and that the small sum would be suf- ficient for all his purposes. I gave him the money, and that is the last I have seen of him.” There could be no doubt as to the identity of the watch, for there was the name, “!homas Munce,” Plainly and neatly engraved upon the cap. But while the mystery opened at one point it deepened in another; for while the watch was of foreign manufacture, its movements inside were Ameri- can, The old works had been taken out; new ones had been substituted in their place. Let any one reading this ask why this had been done, and let him conjecture concerning the circumstances which threw this watch in the hands of him who Pawned it. Did the man who delivered this watch to Mr. Cowen murder Thomas Munce? Was it he who robbed him and led him to the river? Or was Thomas Munce neither murdered or robbed? There were no marks of vio- lence found on his person, The mau who a him shoreward found him standing upon hie feet, Jastened firmly in the mud. He had entered’ the tide, in one way or anether, when it was in its full, and its ebb disclosed his bald and hatless head. A GUARD OVER THE PAWNBROKER’S SHOP. At this moment, however, the two detectives had nO grounds whatever for placing the discovery of the watch and the finding of the unrecognized body in either close or at all sympathetic connection. There was but one thing, however, to be done, and they did it. They went. to Captain Heins, their superior officer, and they told him all the circum- stances, when he, with characteristic promptness, detailed a special oMfcer in citizens’ dress to watch that pawn shop night and day. The guardian took his post. ‘This mission was estab- lished two weeks ago. The writer was present at the Central Police quarters when the petition to effect it was sent in by Messrs. Mears and Gallo- way, and since that moment he has permitted nothing to escape his inquiry. Until a very recent date the special officer has kept his virgil from the opening of the shop in early morning until its closing late at night. Prior to a recent date his efforts were truly allin vain. Still Captain Heins kept him there, and it is indeed well that he did so, Had the arrangements been otherwise the death of the old man would have been a mystery still, « THE MAN WHO PLEDGED THE WATCH IN CUSTODY. Yesterday to the store of Alfred Cowen came a man—dozens of men come there every day; but this man was addressed as one with whose face the pawnbroker was tamiliar. It was this very identical man who had pawned the valuable watch and who at last had returned to redeem it, The officer outside was beckoned in, the arrest was immediately secured, the culprit was hurried to a station heuse, more secluded and quiet than the Central, and one in the quarters of which no in- quisitive genius woula under any circumstances be likely to appear. Once within the power of police authority, the criminal told the following remarkable story :— ROBBING THE DEAD, “My name is William McEwen. 1am the driver of the ‘dead wagon.’ I carry dead bodies to any place thatIam Ordered to take them, I rode the old man from where he was found drowned to the Morgue. Me was pot the only one I carried that day. In the same wagon was a body much decom- posed, and it was this persen that was put in a box. The odor arising from this corpse was dreadful, though the box was securely closed. I carried the old man outside. The box took up so much room that there was scarcely any left for the one found drewned. His head and sheuiders were under my stretehed out legs all the way. The wagon was small and the load was a double one. When I ar- rived at the Morgue I lifted the oid manup. Asl did so something jell from his pocket, and, stoop- ing down, I sawa watch. I picked itup. I said nothing about it, The works had become rusty from the water, and Ihad them changed at Spring Garden and Eleventh street. At last I pawned it. WHERE ARE THE CHAIN, THE POCKETBOOK AND PAPERS? Such was the story. Let me analyze it closely, for it bears the most vital relation to all subse- quent developments. He said the watch fell from he old man’s pocket, but where is the chain? Why did he who took the chain not take the watch itself? Itis absolutely impossible that the chain should have been detached from the watch by the ebbing and the fowing of the tide. Where is the old man’s pocketbook? Where are the papers which a gentleman always carries with him, and which, along with all things else found upon his person, should have been promptly forwarded to the Chief of the Police? How is it that the Coroner or his Deputy brought nothing in from this old man to the Central Headquarters, and how can this story of McKwen possibly become true? It is known that the unfortunate wore achain. It was as expensive and elaborate as the watch. Where is itt? The writer saw with his own eyes the troubled face of the Deputy Cor- oper yesterday at the office of Captain Heins. He heard him beg OMicer Mears to tell him the story, and he heard that gentleman refuse. Has there been an illegitimate proceeding here ? Has anything been kept secret which should have been divulged? The man found in the Schuylkill carried papers of no little import. Where are they? All these questions are put when the writer knows not and in an hour when even the most shrewd and calculating detective is ignorant of their cor- rect answers. THE BODY WAS CARTED TO THE MORGUE. While there no ohe came to vouch for its identity- From the deadhouse It was carried to another quar- ter—where? And here was another mystery to be fathomed. Runners were scent owt among all the thoroughiares of the city. At every conceivable place thorough investigations were instituted. How would the lost be identified, even supposing that his body was found? THE DEAD MAN'S PHOTOGRAPH. A letter came to Officer Mears. It read:— Str—Enclosed find picture of the missing man, Thomas Munce, which may assist you in finding him or his remains. Yours, WILLIAM 8S. MUNCE, Washington, Washington county, Pa. Upon receipt of this the matter brightened up. The oMicers had his portrait. It wasa good one. Its dead substance could readily be recognized. For a long time no clew was found, however, and the wuereabouts of the dead man were unknown. At last a house at the corner of Spruce and Ninth streets was gravely suspected. It is one of the buildings of the University ef Pennsylvania. Yes- terday morning Captain Heins and Detectives Mears and Gailaway, engaging a closed carriage, sought the suspected spot. A negro guaraed the hall, Fera moment he contested their entrance. They were persons of authority, whose pectliar conditions enabled them to go where they chose. ‘The African was thrust aside, the house was thor- oughly searched, and the end arrived at seems to be more than the officers noped. A HORRIBLE DISCOVERY, I shudder as I tell you what they saw, It is all pertectiy proper that for the fulfilment of scien- tific purposes our medical students should have their subjects for dissection, but for one without the fraternity to suddenly confront a multitude of these subjects 13 a sight to appal the soul, Ina vat filled with liquor, of the composition of which the oificers were ignorant, they found twenty-five human beings, of every condition and of both sexes, They were held there in soak. The sight was revolting and sickening in the extreme. I defy any one ether than @ physician to look upon such a spectacle unmoved. They were arranged in mo particuiar order. Had they been tumbled in promiscuously they could not have been more irregular and confused. Men and Women were floating there with intermingled limbs and with faces horribly distorted. The Starved, the butchered and the suicidal in that immense vat together waited the keen point of the dissecting knife. The officers sacrificed their feelings in this matter, smothered their emotions @nd executed to the fullest extent their sworn and solemn duty. They descended into the vat, THE orf} MAN IN THE DISSECTING Var. One after another they fished up the dead bodies, And fgally paused oves # corpse, older but more fresh apparently than all the rest. He was very aged. His frame was large and spare, his hair was gray, one of his hands was-crooked, and ever his right eye there was a scar- The face of the cerpse and the face of the picture corresponded perfectly. ‘The young man arrested for pawning the watch, when brought in contact with the set features cried— “lt swear that he is the man I carted to the Morgue!” * The oMcers returned to the headquarters and left the body where it was. The Députy Coroner earnestly asked for the particulars, but tney were denied to him, as they are at this date aenied to me. At once over the wires to William 8, Munce Captain Heine sent a missive. It simply related the circumstance of the finding of the body and urged the party addressed to come on. Who can tell what a day may bring forth? It needs but an answer to this telegram—a prompt appearance of the party addressed—to prove the identity of the body beyond a doubt. I cannot help wondering whether the party willcome. Every- .thing is so uncertain; all hangs suspended by such wfrail thread that it seems as if a breath of air would shiver the affair to atoms. Let me lcose this day’s work with the concluding phrase of “Monte Christo,"? which in more senses than one 18 the saddest in our literature, “Wait and hope!” MUNCE’S BODY RECOGNIZED. Statement of Captain Heins, of the Central Office. PHILADELPHIA, August 21, 1873, To the telegram of Captain Heina the following answer was returned :— WASHINGTON, Pa., August The Munces are on their wi bog 9 wil by to-morrow m Ys train. SH. LITTLE. At the time indicated the parties arrived, ana | they consisted of two bruthers and a sister of the unfortunate man. They accompanied Captain Heins to the building where the twenty-five bodies were in soak, when, strange to say, they failed to recognize in the body shown them by the officer the face and the form of their lost brother, Then up from the depths of those vats other bodies were fished, and in one of them they saw the form and features of him for whom they sought and they were satisfied, The information thus far, in its real trath, had been kept secret until to-night, when, before the representatives of the press, Captain Heins made the iollowing startling statements :— CAPTAIN HEINS’ STATEMENT, Omitting what has been said abeve his remarks were these—“Thomas Munce was aman of large means. His farm at home comprised 500 acres. He “was unmarried. He left home the latter part of June. He was traced to Pittsburg, whence he found his way to Philadelphia. Mis relatives are all rich. When found drowned he bad no coat. It is thought that he had none when he left nome. When I went to the Morgue one of the gentlemen in service there, under the authority of the Coroner, Thomas Baxter by name, told me that the body, which had been drowned, had been long ago burted. When I asked him for the pair of old spectacles which I know the drowned man had worn, Baxter said that he had given them to Deputy Coroner John Sees. When | asked Jobn Sees for the same he told me that Baxter bad never given them to him, and that he knew no- thing whatever about them, Returning to Baxter and questioning him once more he positively and emphatically denied that he had ever told me he had given them to Mr. Sees, THE BODY NOT BURIED. “When Jehn Sees was questioned concerning the disposition made of the body of Thomas Munce he also said that ic had been buried, and a burial cer- tificate was at the office (produced) dated July 6, 1873, When I went to the burial ground they said that there had been no body buried there July 5, 1873, When 1 questioned the driver of the dead wagon, William McEwen, he said that Baxter had informed him that he (Baxter) had held the body, so I searched the medical college an@ finally 1873. arrive THE BRICKYARD MURDER. ‘Vain Attempt of a Jersey Coroner and His Jury to Unravel its Mystery—The Verdict. The Coroner’s inquest on the body of Simon George, an employé of Russell & Vonnelly’s brick- yard, near Little Falls, who died in the St. Joseph’s Hospital at Paterson, last Monday morning, was concluded yesterday. That the man was mur- dered there seems to be no doubt, The story of his death, as elicited by the evidence adduced at the inquest, is substantially as fdllows:— On Saturday evening, August 9, a large crowd of Irish and French laborers in the several brick- yards at Singack, near Little Falls, assembled at the wayside saloon of Arthur Bunn, in the vicinity of the kilns, and which depends for its patronage upon the brickyard employés. All hands had several drinks apiece, and when the saloon was shut ap at ten o’clock, and the crowd were turned out, they were evidently just in the condition fora fight. When they got outside, the Irishmen, who had been evincing an enmity towards the Frenchmen for some time, made an attack upon the latter with clubs and stones, which they had armed themselves with. Some of the clubs were heavy pieces of cedar, with the knots upon them, making 4 fearful weapon, ‘Thus armed they made a sudden attack upon the unarmed French- men, and before they knew what was the matter several of them were knocked down in rapid succession, “hey would ask, “Are you a Frenchman?” and then, without watting for an an- swer, would level him to the ground, Those who were not stunued lost no time in escaping from the neighborhood, and ong or two, who saw what was going on, tried to get out of the way by sheak- ing up the road, One of these TRYING TO ESCAPE up the road was Simon George, one of the French- men. Several of the Irishmen saw him and yelled out the fact, whercupon a dozen or so, armed with fried, who ob him up the road. One of George’s friends, who observed this, ran for assistance, but when they returned they found nothing of him and the crowd had dispersed, George’s friends hunted along the road, but could find nothing of him. The next morning the search was resumed, but it was not until nearly noon (Sun- any, August 10), that George was found lying in & Held some twenty-tive feet trom the roadside. His bead was covered with dry leaves, he wus minus his pants, and the shirt which he wore was torn to tatters. He bore hehe gee of having been pee severely handled.’ He was alive, but sense- He was removed to the shanty occupied by the brick hands at Singack, where medical attendance Was summoned and the usual remedies applied. There was no appearance of the severe wound on his skull, and the doctor thougut for some time that the man was only suffering from the effects 01 the liquor he had drunk the night before. But not ca better, he was removed to St. Joseph's lospital, at Paterson, on ‘uesday, August 12, where he remained in A SEMI-CONSCIOUS CONDITION until last Monday morning, when he died. .It was not until a short time beiore he died that the hos- fists physicians knew the circumstances attending is injuries, which they learned of another man who was brought down to the hospital sick. After death a post-mortem was held on George's body, when it was discovered that iis skull was crushed in, apparently with some blunt instru- ment. An inquest was accordingly commenced by coroner Amirau, at Paterson, on Tuesday last, but tor want of witnesses ic was adjourned until yesterday, Severai witnesses were examined yesterday, and the above are the facts elicited by the evidence, ‘There is no doubt George met his death at the hands of the crowd who pursued him on the Satur- day night in question, although who commutted the deed Was not found out, nor, in fact, the names of those who were concerned in the Iracas. One ot the witnesses, however, swore that a man named Nu- gent, employed at McDonald & Lewis’ brick yard, was in the crowd who were fighting, but there is no evidence that he struck the blows which re- sulted in George’s death or had anything to do with it, Further than that George died from the effects of injuries sustained in i THE DRUNKEN FRACAS will, pernaps, never be known. Aiter spending the entire day in the investiga- tiov of the matter the above were all the details of the affair that could be ascertained, and the jury Were compeiled to return a verdict in accordance with those Jacts. An effort will be made, how- ever, to get the names of some ol the parties en- gaged in the dronken fight, so that, 1 possible, they can be brought betore the next Grand Jury, which sits in September. found it.” THE DEPUTY CORONER'S POSITION—VIOLATION OF STATUTES. “There is a spectal statute,” continued Captain Heins, ‘in this State which forbids that the body ofa stranger should be sold under any considera- tion. This statute in this case has been violated. There is another statute which requires that all bodies at the Morgue shall be exposed lor the space of seventy-two hours. From the time the man was carried to the Morgue and the time Professor Hodge viewed it at the medical college there inter- vened but forty-eight hours. Of course this statute has been violated. There is another statute which requires that the clething of the dead under such circumstances snall be kept for the space of one year. This statute has béen also unconsidered. Such were the remarks of Captain Heins, veri- fied in every particular, by the Detectives Mears | and Galloway. . In relating this whole affair 1 have | sifted the matter to the utmost extent and cur- tailed all the detail that I could, because it will all come out at the Police Court more full and com- plete than I could give it now. . MR. SEES ATTEMPTS TO EXPLAIN. Thus far the evidence is damaging against Baxte: & Sees. When the Captain had concluded | his statements regarding the whole matter from beginning to end, Mr. Sees himself came up and essayed a few re marks. ‘They were altogether iointless, | and presented nothing but a few unimportant con- | tradictions. Mayor Stekely has taken the matter im hand and will penetrate it to its deepest depths, It 18 perfectly evident that there isa mystery in | the affair which is yet undiscovered. The officers | dare not state it, for then would the ends of justice be defeated, SUCH, THEN, ARE THE CIRCUMSTANCES, The body has been tound, and the body has been | identified. How terrible it must have been for | those relatives to see their loved one insucha place, fished up from that loathsome brine. How | did he get there? Who carried the corpse | thither? Where is his watch chain? Where are his valuables? With the exception of one unimportant letter addressed to him at New Or- | leans, nothing else is at present in the hands of the | police. The detectives will never give this matter | up until it is silted to the bottom. The chain must | be found, the papers must be found, and woe be to that man in whose possession they find them. During the next two days all We trust will ‘pe brought to lignt. ; How did the old man meet his fate? Was he pushed in? Did he walk in? Was’ he robbed and thrown in? Or did he fall by accident in an un- guarded moment? ANOTHER CASE IN POINT. innit PHILADELPHIA, August 27, 1873, Early this morning the body of Thomas McMena- min, of No. 2,517 Callowhiil street, was found by a party of fishermen floating in the Schuylkill River. From bruises and cuts around the face and head he is supposed to have been badly beaten and thrown in the river, Upon his person was found | @ warrant for the arrest of one H. M. Afilick, | charged with obtaining goods from the deceased | under false pretences, and it is supposed by the de- tectives that AMick knows something of the affair. They are now after him, and when secured Coroner ‘Sees will hold an investigation. * LIEUTENANT WHEELER'S EXPEDITION, SALT Lake, August 21, 1873. One of Lieutenant Wheeler's exploring parties, in charge of Lieutenant Hoxie, United States Engi- neers, has been greatly delayed in this season's Operations by the desertion of two packers, who took thirty-two mules and horses, stripping the Party of transportation. Lieutenant Hoxie imme- diately started in pursuit, aided by the Sheriff of Beaver county, and after travelling several nights succeeded im capturing both men and animals. This delay prevents the party from making the ren- dezvous at Fort Wingate, New Mexico, as was con- templated, but it will not impair the results of the season’s work. Lieutenant Wheeler, with tle jain force of the expedition, is between Fort Win- and Camp Apache, Arizona. Lieutenant Mar- ll, in charge of the party which started from | vo turn over his papers to the Commissioners, Denver, is near Fort Wingate. The general results of the e: ration are satisfactory. The national astronomical observations at Ogden, under Liea- denant Wheeler, are approacling completion, THE BROOKLYN POLICE SUPERINTEN. DENCY. pennies 20> <a oaeo Chief Campbell Removed and Then Temporarily Reinstated. There was quite a commotion throughout the length and breadth of the Police Department of the city ef Brooklyn yesterday forenoon when it be- came generally known that Chief of Police P. Camp- bell had been removed from office by order of the Beard of Commissioners. There had been whispers rife for @ day or two previous that it was the inten- tion of the republican Commissioners, Messrs. Jour- dan and Jensen, to ‘oust’? the democratic “Chiel” and put in in his stead a sturdy member -of ‘the, party of moral ideas.’’ The rumor was not credited in all quarters, however, inasmuch as the President of the Board of Police, General Jourdan, had re- | peatedly asserted that partisanship should have nothing whatever to do with the selection of | officials; that in all appointments or reappoint- ments they would be actuated pureiy by a desire to promote the eMeiency of the Police Wepart- ment, in appointments thus far made sixty-iour have been republicans and fourteen of the de- pleted ranks of that which was once known as the Majority party of Kings county, the democracy. It | would thus appear that efficiency cannot easily be discovered outside the administration party in Brooklyn. This is regarded as rather severe upon those whose political opimions are not running in the same groove with the “powers that be.” Yes- terday Ulief Campbell received a letter from the Commissioners informing him that “there was no such office as Chief. of Police’ under the new charter, and his services were no longer required by the Board of Police Commissioners. The charter provides jor the appointment of a superintendent, nowever. The depesed then walked up stairs to the Commissioners’ room, where he found Messrs. Jensen and Briggs, and stated that there were a number of letters touching the Goodrich case in his possession, and that these, together with other | records, were of importance to the depart- ment. He desired to have a_ receipt jor these records, in order to avoid confusion in the future which might result from their joss. Mr. Jensen said that fact had net occurred to them be- fore, and they would like him to remain in office until to-morrow, when President Jourdan would return to town, he being absent since the day pre- vious. The Chief said he couid mot take the respon- | sibility while he held their letter relieving him irom furtuer duty, Mr. Jensen at once recalied the jetter referred to, and Mr. Campbell returned to business. The aspirants for the position of Su- perintendent are Enoch Jacobs, ex-captain of po- lice; Major Samuel Richards, chief clerk of police; ex-assessor O. B. Leich and Captain Charles E. Morten, all republicans. Meeting of the Board—Chief Campbell Decapitated. Last evening the Board of Police Commissioners of Brooklym met and resolved that the order sent to Chief of Police Campbell, intorming him that bis services Were no longer required, was in force, and he 1s, therefore, ex officio. He was instructed His Another successer Was LOU appointed, however. BROOKLYN TRUST COMPANY. Ex-Receiver Chauncey Waives His Claim to Fees Amounting to $20,000. Ata meeting of tne Brooklyn Trust Company's Board of Directors the subjoined communication was received from the late receiver of that re- organized financial institution, declining to receive the fees allowed him by law for services :— BRoogLYN, August 9, 1873, Hon. Rirtey Rorks, President Brooalyn frust Com- ity 2— Mo Dear Sin—I have the pleasure to enclose herein a detailed account of my receipts and disbursements as receiver of the Brooklyn Trust Company, as rendered to aud approved by the Supreme Court. ihe amount oF collections and receipts ts $1,115,823 40. ihe amount of disvursciuents, as per voucliers, 3 70; amount (of cash pald to you Sites Ty totale Siytigiys dyes (2 YOu ow this da Ue account of disbursements you will netice there is ho charge made for counsel and attorney's feos, and {deem it due to Mr. Edgar M. Cullen, who was recained by me, and has from the first acted as my coun- sel in this matter, to state that apon my calling upon him for his bill he at once signified ais intention to make 00 charge tor his services, Ttake this occasion to tender of the Board of Trustees my ¢ the resuscitation of the company and its resumption of business under circumstances so favorable as to secure an early restoration of public confidence, and, I trust, a Jong career of usefulness, In conclusion I beg to add that no charge bas been or Will be made by me ‘or tees or services rendered in con- aieiien winter ig Bert it at es for the success of your administration and the prosperity of the compagy, y remain very truly yours, ANIEL CHAUNCKY, A series of resolutions were adopted returning thanks to Messrs. Chauncey and Cullen for their Re to the Trust Company, Mr. William R. unker was sppcinted secretary, vice M. T. Red- a resigned. Messrs, A, B. lis and Charles R. Marvin were chosen members of the board of ‘08 and to our associates ial congratulations npon THE SILVER WEDDING Private Celebration To-Day of Pres- ident Grant’s First Quarter of a Century of Married Life, A FAMOUS FAMILY FETE. Particulars of the Preparations for the Brilliant Occasion. The Romance of the Career of the Republican Warrior and Ruler---Love’s Young Dream in the Old Dent Mansion When the General Was Only a Captain, Domestic, Influence Upon the National Destiny. To-day at Long Branch will be celebrated the silver wedding of the President. Just twenty-fve years ago the present head of the nation; thena simple captain in the army, was wedded in St. Louis to Miss Julia T. Dent, daughter of Frederick Dent, a farmer, who, taking the world placidly and contented witha moderate competence, lived a simple, quiet life on a small farm within seven miles of St. Louis. Captain Grant had returned six months before this event from the battle flelds of Mexico, where he won' inan humble way the soldier’s guerdon, In the courtship of this simple- purposed, practical man, whose every line of character antagonises the romantic ideal, there Was no doubt just such golden threads of poetry as run through the more showy episodes of LOVE AND MATRIMONY. The story that relates of how he first saw the woman who was afterwards to become his wife is but one of the countless round of chapters iilus- trating the dependence of men’s destinies on the caprices of fortune. Lieutenant Grant, then be- longing to the Fourth regiment of infantry, was ordered to report at Jefferson Barracks, near St. Louis. It happened, as affairs similar so often happen, that in the same regiment he met an old classmate, now Brigadier General Dent. Thrown together in what was then no very congenial sta- tion for West Point cadets, accustomec to a wide range of cultivated society, they became naturally attached—in fact, more attached than they had ever been before. They occupied the same room and grew to be inseparable companions. There was that chatty cheerfulness and negative bril- liancy about Lieutenant Dent that had a charm for his shy and undemonstrative room-mate, Mr. Frederick Dent’s farm was not far away, and when off duty hither both the young ofMicers would re- pair, and to them it was a veritable elysinm. At that time Miss Julia Dent was a young girl of about fifteen, not regularly handsome and little versed in the ways of the fashionable world, but she was AN EXTREMELY SENSIBLE YOUNG ‘LADY, kind of heart and devoid of the coquetry and non- sense so characteristic of the girl of the present period. Her chief deligut was tne discharge of household duties, and the innumerable things that enter into the daily routine of domestic afairs had her loving attention. Her mother, according to the authority of Mr. Abel R. Corbin, of Elizabeth, N. J., who was then editor of the Missouri Argus, published in St. Louis, and a great friend of the Dent family, was a gracious and a graceful woman. Aided by her daughters, she made tie farm house the wonder of the surrounding country. It was not very large, but it was a model of comfort and unpretending elegance. Imported carpets in those days were rare in the country parts. The old familiar rag carpet was as high as the ambition of most far- mers’ wives aspired; but in the Dent mansion the looms of Kidderminster contributea to render one chamber, at least, as attractive as any to be found in the city of St, Louis. To this room all the favor- ite iriencs of the family were invited. Mr. Corbin, when the fatigue of his editorial labors im- pelled hint to seek rest and solace, hied himseif away to this blissful abode, and in that carpete apartment, with his feet to the glowing embers, he says some of the brightest ideas oi his life came tohim. It was in the Winter, however, when all the bleak and but semi-cultivated landscape made lite cheer- less out of doors, that the room of Kidderminster carpet put on its most bewitching airs. Then the two young officers would make it their most earnest tusk on earth to secure leave of absence from the dull and dreary routine of barrack life and betake themselves to the pleasant parior and the cordial hospitality of old Mr. Dent, Here they were accustomed to play CHESS BY THE HOUR, and when that exhausting pastime cloyed there was singing and dancing and all manner of mirth- ful devices to pass the Winter nights. ‘The young gir of fitteen, it is natural to suppose, took a kindly interest in her brother's companion. He was young and, according to those who knew him at West roint, shapely and prepossessing. He was exactly the type of young man to meet the fancy or a lady Whose innate aversion to show and affectation was one of her strongest if not most udmirabie points. Here it was the foundation Ol that courtship waslafd which fonr years subse- quently ripened into the enduring bonds of matri- mony. It must have been with a heavy heart that tne young licutenant in the early Summer Of 1844 paid his iast visit to the home of his compnion-in- arms. So many things had contributed to make ita pleasantretreat chat it is easy to conceive now painful the prospect must have felt of having to leave the SEDUCTIVE ALLUREMENTS of a hospitable board and the looks of affectionate regard irom female eyes to tace the dreary, fever- breeding swamps of Louisiana. He was ordered to Natchitoches for thé purpese of being in readiness to carry out the policy of the gevernment toward Texas. It was here he smoked Ms first cigar, and who will say but that the habit which he then con- tracted was superinduced less by the absence of active employment than by the influence of the mystic and tender passion which had of late wrought the conquest of his soul ? In the course of time the Mexican war broke out, and Lieutenant Grant plunged into it with an ardor foreign tothe normal caimof his nature, Who knows—and here is where the romance should properly come in—but that the young officer, when storming the heights of El Molino del Rey, had, at the moment when the bullets whizzed around nim net ape in @ hurricane, his thoughts upon that PAR OFF FARM HOUSE, where one at least in all the wide, wide world was praying for his safety. He went gallantly through the war, and let it be asked again if it may not have beep so that the soldier's heart and arm were sustained through all the flers ordeal by the assurance of one woman’s love? He was at this time only twenty-five years old, had served two years in camap and garrison under the best officers of the army, had accompanied Taylor in his brilliant cam| m irom Corpus Chrsti to Monterey, and finally in the double capacity of staf and company officer had shared in the labor and honor of Scott’s memorable conquest. THE MARRIAGE TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO, In August, 1848, after four years since first they met, Captain Ulysses 8. Grant was married to Miss Julia T. Dent, eldest daughter of Mr, Frederick Dent, in the Methodist church of St. Louis. The marriage was as undemonstrative as the court- shbp. ‘There were only four persons present at tne ceremony, but there was something that made up fer the absence of pomp and shew, and where that is all things else may saiely be dispensed with—true love. After a short leave of absence, Captain Grant returned % his regiment at Sack: ett’s Harbor, whither he also brought his wife, and here it is only fitting to drop tne veil. Since first he became of commanding notice be- fore the American people to the present hour, HIS DOMESTIC LIFE has been befere the public as under a glass shade, plain for all to see, It has been 4 delightful picture, of conjugal and filial love, faith and happimess, and it will surely be ‘wished, by friend and. foe alike, that whatever may be his fortune asa politician, he may live to celebrate his golden wedding, too, ABOUT THE PRESENTS, So far as can be ascertained there will be but few irene made to President Grant on this occasion. here are plenty of place-hunters and office-holders, in the elementy of good taste and breeding about as well provkled as a conker is with brains, who would insult the Qhtet rate on this festive and hallowed event of his life by sendin; their Vamped favors, but they are afraid of meeting with the withering rebuke of the people. In order that there might no ground whatever for sus- ting taat the Custom House people meditated this Was the Dret he knew of such an event oc curring, and although he had noticed some allaé ston in the ne’ rs of the President's celebrat- ing such an anniversary, he presumed that, if the affair partook of any public nature, invitationg would have been issued to @ number of friend and in this instance such was not the fact. As as he was concerned, he had not prepared any. present of any kind to be given tothe President or to Mrs. Grant. Furthermore, the Collector ht that owing to the recent death of dent's father no party would be given a& cottage, nor any public reception. Mr. Tedooksr and Postmaster James, on asked the same question, Save substan tial, Very sane answers. Mr. A. H. Lafiin, Naval Oficer of the Port, who came into the Colleotor’s ofice while this interview was progressing, and who ibe | ‘also interrogated on this point, formally state that he knew Lageony! about any contemplated presentations to the President on this occasion, either public or individually. General George H- Sharpe, Surveyor of. the Port, and a personal friend of President Grant, also ignored all knowl- edge of any testimonials being presented to the Chief Magistrate of the United States at this event. If therefore it had been contemplated to evince such demonstrations of regard towards Gencrag Grant, the above named gentlemen, eomenying the highest places of trust within the scope of the President to bestow, would certainly know some- thing about the affair, and have no hesitancy im giving the public the fall particulars thereof. ‘There Was a present at Tiffany's yesterday, cong sisting Of a silver Waiter, pitcher and goblet, elab- orately decorated with satin tintsh and beautilully+ engraved. The waiter was highly finished, hand. somely chased and the edge was a marvel of grace= ful decoration. The goviet, which was perfectly the unique and one of the prettiest things ever sold at ‘Tiffany's was gilt on the inside, The pitcher is in| the modern style, and after the most exquisite model of the Etruscan vase. The handle was plain and without: any eluborate ornamentation, Tne quality of the silver is English sterling in its fnest manufacture, and the set is one of the most superb ever seen im this city. It cost $1,000, The donor’s name is not known. PEOPLE TO BE PRESENT. All the Cabinet officers have, itis understood, been invited to be present and a number of private friends. The affair will be of an informal character, and much merrymaking is anticipated. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. WASHINGTON, August 21, 1873. Information has been received at the Navy De» partment that Assistant Surgeon Adam Mackay, Jr., died suddenly of apoplexy, on board the Ticon- deroga, off the coast of Brazil. The United States steamer Ossipee will be ready, for her officers at New York about the 20th of Sep- tember, and orders for her preparation for sea have been given. Orders bave also been given for the preparation of the Kearsarge, at San Francisco, fon sea service. She will be ready in the course of @ month, The Ticonderoga, of the South Atlantic station, will leave that station for the United States about the Ist ot December next. Lieutenant Commander D, W. Mullan is ordered to the Asiatic station; Lieutenant Joseph G, Eatom is ordered to the Boston Navy Yard, @s assistant to Executive Lieutenants Zera L, Tanner and Isaac J, Yates; Master Edward D. Tausig, Ensign Henry 0. Handy, Gunner John D, Foster, nave been detached from the Narragansett and ordered to return home and report arrival; Second As- sistant Engineer H. N. Stevenson has been detached irom special duty at the Morgan Iron Works, New. York, and ordered to the Frolic; Second Assistant Engineer A. S. Moore 18 detatched from the Frolic and ordered tothe Washingten Navy Yard. Despatcnes have been received irom Rear Admiral Case, commanding ths European station, dated July 31, at Coriu, Me proposed to sail o September 5 on a cruise‘among some of the islands o1 the Archipelago, Cephalonia, Zante, Cerigo, Candia, and Milo, which have not been visited for some: time past by our vessels of war, and reach Atnens about the 15th of September. The Wabash and Wachusett are the ouly vessels of our navy that have visitea Corfu jor thirty years, That port is frequented by the national vessels of other countries and is a stopping place for many mail and other steamers, and the point to which all goods for supplying the Turkish, province of Albania, opposite and but five miles distant, are brought for rearrangement for trans- portation on horses and mules. ‘The merchants of ‘Albania sometimes come there to make purchases. ‘Three or four cargoes of petroleam are brought to Corfu annually from New York, and, when by mer- chant vessels, return cargoes of olive ol! or fruit are taken away if any are to be procured; if not, they go to the fruit rts for them, Of late the petroleum has been brought to Corfu in Austrian vessels. ‘The United States steamer Richmond arrived at Rio on July 7, after a picasant passage of filty- eight days from Key West. She made some reren? coaled and sailed again’ on July 26, for San Fran- cisco. ‘The officers and crew were in good health. Rear Admiral Jenkins was at Shanghae early im July, to proceed soon to the coast of Japan, A marine general court martial meets at Norfolk, on the 25th inst., for the trial of private marines, The following is the detail of the Court :—Captain Joseph F. Baker, First Lieutenant Charles L. Sher- man, First Lieutenant V. t Mannix, First Lieutenant C. P. Porter, Second Lieutenant Frank Scott and Lieutenaht G. C. Reed, Judge Advocate. Despatches have been received from Rear Ad- miral John Rogers Taylor, commanding the South Atlantic station, dated at Rio Janciro. He reports the health of nis command good throughout. The yellow fever had entirely disappeared irom Monte- Be and there were only occasional cases at Rio janeiro. w The Lancaster is expected to remain at Rio until the latter part of August. The Ticonderoga lett Rio for the Platte River on the 11th instant. ‘The Wasp was at Montevideo July 16. ARMY INTELLIGENCE. WASHINGTON, August 21, 1873. A Board of Engineer ofMicers, to consist of Colonel James A. Simpson, Major Godfrey Weitzel, Major Wilham E. Merrill and Major Charles R. Suter, has been appointed by the Secretary of War, to meet at St. Louis, Mo., on the 2d of September, or as soon therealter as practicable, to examine the construction of the St. Louis and Illinois Bridge across the Mississippi: at St. Louis, and report whether the bridge will prove a serious obstruction to the navigation of the river, and if so in what manner its construction can be modified. The following circular has been issued :— Wan Devanrurent, Wasuixoton Crt, August 19, 18/3. The attention of the Secretary of War having been called to the fact that officers of the army frequently re- quest advertisements to be inserted in newspapers, which, it isevident, will not reach the class of peopie to whose notice the advertisement is directed, it 1s here! ordered that in all cases where an officer recommen the advertising of any official matter he suggest only t Ramies of newspapers that from their location or circu lation are do the greatest service to the Depart- ment. officer considers that the interest of the government requires the publication of an Tnent in any locality where there 1s no official per or in any newspaper not on the offic request for authority to advertise should set forth that fact. By order of the ag yt AS War. W. T, BARNARD, Acting Chief Clerk, ST, DOMINGO. Progress of the Cavil War=—G Luperon Again Driven ‘from Daj: bon—Invasion of the Haytian Fron- tler—Capture of the Vice President of St. Demingo by the Rebels. Port aU PRincB, Hayti, July 30, 1873, The following is the correspondence to hand respecting the civil war now raging in St. Do- al mingo:— The ernment forces, 400 strong, have at- tacked Luperon at. Dajabon, who was found with only thirty men, he ge Td the majority of his revolutionary forces to Sabanetu, Guayubin ana Mane Wet struggle at Dale To struggle at Dajabon he retreated towards the Haytian frontier, tollowed by the troops of President Baez. General Luperon crossed the frontier, followed by the Dominican troops, when the la:ter were at- tacked by the Haytian troops for invasion of terri- tory and in the conflict a Haytian general fell mortally wounded. Meanwhile General Palanco, hearing that an en- ement had taken place at Dajabon, sent a rein- forcement of men to Dajabon, and the town again fell into the sion of General Luperon and Lis Tebel force of 100 men. AN EIGHT DAYS’ FIGHT. The government troops then returned to Daja- bon, which they besieged for eight days, and finally captured, iorcing Luperon to retreat to Altamira, which he held at last accounts. CAPTURE OF THE DOMINICAN VICE PRESIDENT. The Dominican forces of the government lost, if is computed, 200 men killed and wounded. Caceres, Vige President of the Republic and a most efficient Geheral, was captured at Altamira. By the capture of this town all communication between Santiago de los Caballeros and Porto Plato is stopped. It is reported that Los Ranchos has fallen into the pos- session of the rebels. A HAYTIAN WAR VESSEL SENT TO ST. DOMINGO. ‘The Haytian war vessel Union has been sent to the coast of St. Domingo to protect the interests of the merchant marine, it being reported that ves- sels had been illegally seized by the Dominican government. THE OIL EXPLOSION, FP STANDARD OIL CO., 140 PEARL STREET, haga New YORK, August-21, 1873, } To THe Eprror OF THR HERALD:— us offensive method of showing thetr gratitude or their lively sense of nice ec to come In the futute, a HERALD reporter asked the Collector had Directors to fill vacancies, It was stated that on); twelve per cent of the deposits have been with dyawa since the resumption af business, he prepared any WEDDING GIPTS FOR PRESIDENT GRANT on tne w ghoted occasion for which such might be tendered withou offence giving. the replied that In to-day’s HeraLp you say “An oil explosion occurred yesterday at Standard Oil Works, Long Island City.’ This is not correct. The explosion occurred at the Empire Oli Works, owned by Burke & Co, Please correct in to-morrow’s issue. WILLIAM ROCKEFELLER, Vice President,