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4 “THE ARMY. | THE ARMY REGISTER FOR 1874. Vacancies, Promotions, Reappointments, Transfers and Casualties. —__-—— DDFFICERS ON DETACHED SERVICE, mp (List of Aides-de-Camp, Professors of Mili- | tary Science and Tactics, and Acting Signal Officers. Register of General Officers and Field Officers for 1874. | WASHINGTON, Feb. 3, 1874. The Army Register for 1874, which is in type and ‘was expected to be issued on the Ist tust., will not be ready for distribution for about two weeks. By | ‘the time it reaches the officers in Alaska and other outlying stations it will be somewhat stale. Though superior in many respects to the registers of ante dellum days, it is still defective in uot showing the stations and duties of oiicers, except those de- tailed a3 assistant and acting assistant prolessors at West Point, professors oi military science and | tactics at colleges and universities, and a few ord- | wance oMcers who are in command at arsenals | pnd armories, This defect should be remedied in future Registers, as it might easily be without ma- terlally increasing the bulk of the volume. | There are at present 2,077 commissioned oficers | on the active list, of whom 534 belong to the stam | departments and 1,543 to the line of the army. Compared with last year’s Register this showsa pet decrease of 18 stail officers and a net increase of 7 line officers. The tabular statement of the organization of the army will show that under the act of March 3, | 41873, a commissary sergeant has been appointed for each post or place of deposit of subsistence Bupplies, with the rank and pay of an ordnance Bergeant; and that no more appointments of com- pany quartermaster sergeants will be made, as these non-commissioned officers are not enumer- ated in the act of May 17, 1872, and are not en- Aitled to its benefits. (This fact does not seem to have presented itself to the war authorities until April, 1873, when an order prohibiting future ap- pointments of these sergeants was issued.) VACANCIES, The total number of vacancies is 177, of which 5 are in the Engincer corps, 48 in regiments, and 24 in those staf departments in which promo- tions and appointments are tadooed by act of Congress. Several bills have been introduced in both houses repealing in whole or in part the pro- hibitory enactment of March 3, 1869; and, no , doubt, some measure of relief will be vouchsafed to those disconsolate staff officers whose promo- tion has been so long deierred. Meantime the staf corps is being depieted at a rate that fills the respective chieis with alarm. The de- Partments most affected are the Medical Depart- ment, sixty-five vacancies; the Ordnance, twenty- five vacancies; the Quartermaster teneril’s, eleven vacancies, and the Pay Department, eighteen vacancies. In the case of the medicos the difficulty is temporarily surmounted by the employment of contract physicians, or acting as- sistant surgeons as they are termed, at rates of pay varying from $100 to $150 per month. Ord- mance, quartermaster and commissary duties are pertormed by line officers specially detailed, but in the Pay Department this is not practicable. Uncle Sam’s nephews must be paid by regular pay- Masters or not at all. PROMOTIONS. The past year was a comparatively good one for promotions, Including those that will follow when certain officers whose seniority entitles them to advancement to fill existing vacancies Bhall have been ‘carried up” the promotions in esse and in posse number upwards of 100, as fol- | lows :— | To the rank of brigadier general, one; colonel, four; lieutenant colonel, seven; major, ten; cap- | tain, thirty-one, and the balance first lieutenants, | The offcers already promoted, above the rank of captain, am Lieutenant Colonels Crook, to brigadier general vice Cooke reured, and Henry j D. Wallen to colonel Second infantry, vice Craw- | ford retired. Majors E. A. Carr, Fiftn cavalry, and | John P. Hatch, Fourth cavairy, succeeded to the Ueutenant coloneicies of their respective regi- | ments, (Colonel Carr was originaliy carried by promotion to the Fourth cavalry and Colonel Hatch | fo the Firth, but they exchanged so as to remain with their old regiments.) Captains H. C. Bank- head, Eignth cavairy, and James Biddle, First cav- alry, were promoted majors of the Fourth and Sixth cavairy respectively, vice Hatch promoted ‘and Norris retired. The vacancy vice Carr pro- moted was filled by the reappointment of Major Gordon as noted below. Major Bankhead was twenty years in the Filth infantry and would still have been a captain—at this date he would have stood No. 8 on the list of intantry captains—had he ot been transferred to the Eighth cavalry on the consolidation o/ regiments in 1570, As 1t is, he has served longer than any of the twenty-eight cay- alry majors who rank him. lajor J. D. Wiikins, 8th infantry, took the ieu- tenant colonelcy of his regiment, vice Wallen, pro- T™moted, and Major Richard J. Dodge succecued General Crook as lieutenant colonel of the 23d, Jn the place of Wikxins and Dodge, promoted, Captains Thomas L. Dunn and Henry L. Chipman ‘were made Majors of the 8th and 3d imiantry, re- spectively. ‘The promotions consequent upon the retirement of Colonels Cullum, Engineer corps, Granger, 21st tnfantry, and Doubleday, 24th intantry, have not been announced. The seulor officers in the line of Promotion i Lieutenant Colonels Z. B. Tower, Engineers; Alfred sully, 19th infantry, and Joseph H. Potter, Moth infantry, | Majors Q. A. Gillmore, Engineers; William H. Lewis, 7th imiantry, and Joun 5. Mason, loth in- | fantry. Captains Jared A. Smith, Engineers; Guido Iiges, 24th iniantry, and N. W. Osborne, 13th intantry. REAPPOINTMENTS, The following officers have been reappointed during the year:— Major George A. Gordon, 4th cavalry, honorably mustered out January 1, 1871; reappointed major bth cavairy. Captain George B. Hoge, 12th infantry. wholly Fetired August 20, 1571; reappointea captain 12ta infantry; again examined by a retiring board and pronounced not invapacitated lor active service; Fesigned January 31, i574. Captain William M. Kilgour, 41st infantry, wholly retired December 16, 1807; reappointed captain 24th inlantry, and since retired under sections 16 and 17, act August 3, 1561. Captain Louis H. Sanger, 17th infantry, dis- missed July 24, 1872; reappointed captain i7th in- fantry. with his former rank. Gustave H. Radetzki, Lieutenant Ninth cavalry, @ismissed October 17, 1872: reappointed January 6, 1873; dismissed November 19, 1573. George W. Smith, Captain 18th infantry, resigned Decemper 31, 1869, appointed second licutcnant th cavalry. Vinton pi Goddard, Lieutenant 6th cavalry, re- ®igned January 17, 1873, appointed second lieuten- wut 4th artillery, Augustus G. Tassin, Captain 12th infantry, dis- charged December 1, 1870, appointed second lieu- Genant 12th infantry. Charles H. Lester, Captain 8th cavalry, resigned 1809, appointed second eutenant 24th infantry. W. 0. Cory, Lieutenant 24th infantry, honorably Mustered out January 1, 1871, appointed second lieutenant 1th¢infantry. (A bill is before the House 0 restore this officer to the rank he held | when mustered out. If passed, it will place him No. 9 on the list of first lieutenants in bis regi- Ment a5 soon as a vacancy occurs.) | Alexander H. M. Taylor, Lieutenant 17th infantry, discharged Decemver 1, i870; since hospital steward; appointed second lieutenant 19th In- dautry. TRANSFERS. Captain L. T. Morris irom Sd infantry to 8th cav- airy; Captain Charles Hobart trom sth cavairy to 3d Infantry; Lieutenant J. F. Smailwood from 2d cavalry to 9th injautry (since resigned); Lieuten- ant John H, Coate from Yth iniantry to 24 cavairy; | ‘Lieutenant Charles A. Vernon from 4th cavalry to | Ath infantry; Lieutenant H. 8. Crews irom 19th ine fantry vo th cavalry; Lientenant Harry ©, Joun- fon irom the 2d to the 1st miantry. | CASUALTIES. Including withdrawais from active service there Nave been 119 casualties, ‘viz. :—6v resignations, 45 deaths, 6 dismissais, 6 Cashiered, 1 dropped tor | @esertion and 9 retired. Among the Fesiguations the most noticeable 1s of Colonel James L, Donaldson, retired, late | | 6th infantry, Assistant tmaster General, he betng the first officer on hope list who has volanteriiy quite ted the service—an example not likely w be very extensively followed. ‘The Indtang are credited with causing seven of the Aye deaths, viz, :—General Canby and Lieu t Jacob J. Aimy, Sth cavairy, murdered; Lieutenant Sherwood, 21st infantry, died of wounds received while meeting a flag of truce, and Captain ‘Thomas and Lieutenants Cranston and Howe, 4th artillery, and Wright, 12th iniautry, killed ta bat- | tle. Paymaster John 8. Walker and Lieutenant H. | C, Dodge, 2d artillery, are supposed to have been lost at sea, and three officers committed suicide, OFFICERS ON DETACHED SERVICE. Abovt one-fiith of the line officers are on de- tached service. The recruiting service absorbs at least sixty, the Military Academy twenty-five (in addition to engineer and oranance officers), the Signal service a dozen, disbursing duties another dozen, while thirty-six are on the personal staffs of general officers as aides-de-camp and about eighty on leave oi absence. proportion of the duties incidental to the Quartermaster and Commissary departments is performed by detached line oMlcers, and one (Lieutenant Syoms 3 H. Bradley, 2ist infantry) has been “duty in the War Department during the whole period of his service in the regular army (May, 1866, to the present time) and for some time Previous, while an officer of volunteers, A list of aides-de-camp, projessors of military Sctence and tactics and acting signal officers is subjoined :— AIDES-DE-CAMR, The subjoined list of aides is not given in the Rogisier, and ts now published for the first time :— ‘Yo the General of the Army.—Major William D, Whipple, Assistant Adjutant General; Major Or- lando M. Poe, Kugineer; Captain Joseph 0. Auden- ried, 6th cavalry; Captain Jonn M. Bacon, 9th cavalry; Captain E. Tourtellotte, 7th cavalry; Lieutenant James C. McCoy, 4th artillery; all with the rank and of colonel. To the Lieutenant General—Major George A. Forsyth, 9th cavalry, mlivary Secretary; Captain M. V. Sheridan, 7th cavalry; Lieutenant Frederick D. Grant, 4th oavairy, all with the rank and pay of lieutenant colonel. _ To Major General W. S, Hancock—Captain John 5S. Wharton, 9th intantry; Captain lam Q, Mitchell, 5th infantry; Lieutenant George Ss. L. Ward, 22d infantry. Schoflela—Captain To Major General John M. Wiliam M. Wherry, 6th iniantry; Lieutenant Wil- liam Ennis, 4th artillery, » To Major General Irwin McDowell—Lieutenant Jonn H. Coster, 8th cavairy; Lieutenant James H. am, 4th cavalry; Lieutenant Charies King, 5th cavalry. ‘To Brigadier General John Pope--Oaptvin William McK. vunn, Jr., 2d artillery; Uaptain Charles T. lsley, 7th cavairy ; Lieutenant William B. Wetmore, | 6th cavalry. To Brigadier General Alfred Terry—Captain Ed- ward W. Smith, 18th infantry; Captain Robert P. Hughes, 3d infantry; Lieutenant Kugene B. Gibbs, To Brigadier General Edward 0. C. Ord—Captain Henry G. Litchfield, 2d artillery; Lieutenant Hugh G, Brown, 12th inantry; Lieutenant Placidus Ord, 19th infantry. To Brigadier General C. ©, Augur—Captain George B. Kussell, 9th infantry; Lieutenant Jacob - ana 5th cavalry; Lieutenant Colonel Augur, 2d cavalry, To Brigadier General George Crook—Captain A. H. Nickerson, 23d infantry; Lieutenant William Ross, 21st infantry; Lieutenant John G. Bourke, 3d cavalry. To Brevet Major General William H. Emory— Captain William W. Sanders, 6th infantry; Lieu- | tenant Edward M. Hayes, 5th cavalry; Lieutenant Charles King, 5ta cavairy. to Brevet Majhr General Jeff C. Davis—Captain E. V. Sumner, Ist cavairy; Lieutenant William B. | Bosle, 21st infantry; Lieutenant Frederick K. | Ward, 1st cavalry. PROFESSORS OF MILITARY SCIENCE. The following lieutenants are on detached ser- Vice as professors of military science ana tactics | under the act of July 28, 1566, authorizing the President to detail not more than twenty officers for this purpose. Nine et these officers are gradu- ates of West Point, six served in the volunteers and one was appointed from the ranks. | . Lancaster, 3d artillery, Bishop Seabury | Mission, Fairbault, Minn. . P. Sanger, Ist artillery, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Me. | ote W. McMurray, 1st artillery, Cornell University, aca, N. Y. bli L. Huggins, 24 artillery, Minnesota State | University, St. Anthony's Falls, Minn. E . t, 2d cavairy, Kentucky University, Lexington, A. H. Merrill, 1st CE Bed Agri- cultaral College, Amherst, M. C, Wilkinson, 3d infantry, Howard University, Washington, D. | Wiliam B, McCallum, 5th artillery, Western Uni- versity of Pennsylvania, Pittsburg. E. L, Zalinski, 5th artillery, Massachusetts Insti- | tute of Technology, Boston. | J. T. Webster, Ist artillery, Cornell College, Mount Vernon, lowa. | Thomas Ward, ist artillery, Union Oollege, Schenectady, N, Y. 1—Wm. B. Royal, 5th ca: 2—Elmer Otis, Ist cay, No AL Me G—A. W. Evang, 3d cay. 7A. B Latiner, Ath cay. D. 6. Mekibbin, luth cay. 19—J. G. Tilford, 7th cav. ‘ th, 10th cay, wis Mereili, 7th . ide, 9th ca —M. A. SoAwD Alexanderstheay, SIT K Misney. dha 10—Wm, Rt. Price, 8th cay. B—K. M. Baker, a cay. L . a V. Du Bois, 34 ca 2—A. K. Arnoid, 6th cav. 2—Geo. G. Huntt, Ist ca 29—H.C. Bankhead, 4th cay. 30—Jas. Biddle, 6ui cay. ARTILLERY, eee gemen aa ete On Ma ee ne eee Colonels, Swan remem ed are SopmgreUBlON: Bek Art, SR. B, Ayres—3d art. ar Majors, 1—William Hays, 5th art.» 0—7. Seymour, 5th art 2—J. M. Brannan, Ist art. 10—John H ton, Lst art Sit cates stare ant amin. 4—A, PS Howe, sch art. WH. G. Gidson, 34 art 5K. G, Beckwith, 2aart, Is—deO Mabatie ad are 140. organ, 4th art. 6—Joseph Stewart, 4th art. . A.M 7—G, A. De Russy, Mi art 15—R. V. W. Howard, 3d art, b—Geo. P. Andrews, Sib art. INFANTRY, Colonets. 1—Jas. V. Bomford, 8th inf. 14—P. R. De Trobriand, 13th 2—John H. King, 9th inf. inf. &—Thos. @. Pitcher, Ist inf. 15—Chas. H. Smith, 19th int. 4—G. Granger, 15th int, 16—T. L. Crittenden, 17th int. 5—John Gibbon, 7thiné, 17D. L. Floyd Jones, $d int. Jett C. Davis, 23d inf. 13—George Sykes, 2)th inf. 70. B, Willcox, Biking IWF Be Punt deh int 5—D, 8. Staniey, 22d inf. 2%—Henry B, Clitz, 10th int 9—Win. B. Hazen, 6th inf, 21—Wm. i, Wood, 1th inf 10—Thoa H. Ruger, 1th inf. 11—G, Pennypacker,|6th int, 12—John E. Smith, ‘lth inf, 13—N, A. Miles, 5th inf. Lieutenant 1—Alfred Sully, 19th inf. 2—J. H, Potter, 4th inf, | 3—Chas K. Woods, Sth inf. 4—A. V. Kautz, loth int, 5~-F. Wheaton, 2ist int. 6—( A. Woodward, i4th int. #2—Geo.L, Andrews, 25th inf. 33D. Wallen, Sih int a ot ist inf, 5— 24th ine. P. ¢ . 14—P. Lugeubeel, Ist inf. 15—A. D. Nelson. 12th inf. 16—L. ©. Hunt, 2th int. i-phase C. Gilbert, 7th inf, 19—D. Huston, Jr., T—W. it, Shatter, Mth inf. 07. C, English, 2d int, | S-J.'R. Brooke, Sd int. 2A—L. C. Bootes, 25th ini, | 9-L. PL Bradley, 9th inf, 22—Jas. ‘Van Voast, 16th inf, | 10—Geo. P. Buell, Ith int, 23—Wm, P. Carlin, 1th tnt | aoe & si eee: alcingen ine | A. Morrow, 13th inf. . Dodge, 384 inf. | 13-A! MoD. McCook, 10th int. saa Majors, 1—Wm. H. Lewis, 7th int 14—T. M. Anderson, 10th inf. | 2—John 8. Mason, 16th inf. 15—K. F. Townsend, 9th int. 3. N. G. Whi: a inf, 16—R. E. A.Crotion, 17th int 4—James P. Koy, 6th int. 17—R. tte, lth int 5M. M. Blunt, 1ith in IS—HLAHambrightluih int 6—P Swaine, 2d int. 19—A. J. Datias, 23d inf. 7—0. A. Mack, Ist in 20—H. R. Magner, 12th inf. Hy Douglass, 11th inf. 21—Wm. H. Brown, 18th inf. >. Merrial ean 22. ), Mason, 2ist inf. im hambers, 4 —8°A. Wainwright 16th int Yard, 2ith in 24—Thos. 8. Dunn, 8th inf, bli 2-H. L, Chipman, 34 so, 25th in ge Gibson, 5th a Four Tracks in Centre of the Avenues, with Bridges at the Crossings. To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD :— Having read with much interest the various plans submitted by your correspondents for a means of “rapid transit’ through the city of New York, I should like yqur indulgence while I propose sti!l another. Besides the enormous outlay for an iron structure, the objections to an elevated road are so numerous as to render that plan almost imprac- ticable. The objections to an underground road- way, though different, are equally numerous, and | a road built on either plan would most likely fail to attract passengers—the former on account of its | actual or apparent danger, the other on account of its discomforts, As this is an era of compromises, I propose a compromise between the elevators and the sub- terraneans. And, first, let us suppose, we are to build a railroad and nothing else—leave out of our calculation all systems of docking, Wharlage, sew- erage, &c., each formidable in itself, and not to be thought of in connection with this enterprise. This road must have four tracks, a down and a return track for through trains, ditto tor way trains, Nothing less will tully meet the exigency. This will require twenty-eight feet of the street. Now let us select an avenue, say Fourth avenue, 100 feet wide. Deduct sidewalks, 22 feet; roadway, 28 leet, making fifty feet, and we have fifty feet leit, twenty-five leet on each side, enough for a@ thoroughfare, though narrew., The pavements will be narrow likewise, but we cannot be too lib- eral with pedestrians, and if any are disposed to complain they should get in the cars and ride, The cars to be used should be similar to the street cars‘now in use, with seats Se along the sides and about ten feet high above the track. Now | propose simply this :—Dig a trench through the avenue twenty-eight feet wide and seven feet G. P, Colton, 1st artillery, Military Academy, Chester, Pa. | E. S. Curtis, 2d artillery, Arkansas Industrial University, Little Rock, Ark. | F. Robinson, 5tn artillery, University of Ver- mont, Burlington, Vt. H. H, Pierce, 21st infantry, West Virginia Unt- | versity, Morgantown, W. Va. | B, D. Boswell, 11th infantry, State Agricultural Coliege, Cornwallis, Oregon. | There are also four retired officers on this ser- | vice, viz.:—Colonel H. B. Carrington, at Wabash | Coliege, Crawiorasville, Ind.; Colonel A. Tres- ton, at California Military Academy, Oakland, Cal.; | Captain James Thompson, at Indiana University, | Bioomington, Ind.; Lieutenant Charies A. Curtis, at Norwich University, Northfield, Vt. ACTING PROBABILITIES. | The following are actin; signal oflicers under the | orders of ‘Ola Probabilities.’ Captain Garrick Mallory, 1st infantry; Lieuten- ants R. P. strong, 4th artillery; H. H. C, Dun- woody, 4th artillery; Robert Craig, 4th artillery; E. E. Kilbourne, 2d cavalry; D. J. Gibbon, 9th cav- | airy; G. 5. Grimes, 2d artillery; William B. Weir, 5th artillery; Henry Jackson, 7th cavalry; C. C. Wolcott, 3d artillery ; Theodore Smith, 15th infantry (temporarily). THE RETIRED LIST. If Senator Logan’s bill making it obligatory upon the President to retire army officers upon their arriving at the age of sixty-fve years be- comes @ law, the following officers of rank will be shelved during the current year:—Commissary General A. B. Eaton, now in his sixty-elghth year; | R. A. K. Whiteley, senior colonel of ordnance, | who Will be s.xty-live next May, and Major Frank- lin E. Hunt, senior paymaster, who will be sixty- five ina tew weeks. ‘the act limiting the number of retired officers to 300 will have to be modified be.ore such an obligatory law can be carried into effect, as there are already 298 invalided, maimed and superannuatea officers retired from active service, as follows:—Eleven major generals, 13 brigadiers, 56 colonels, 23 lieutenant colonels, 32 majors, 89 captains, 64 lieutenants and 5 chaplains. The retirements during the year were Gereral | Philip 5t. George Cooke, Colonels Cullum, of the Engineers; Crawford, of the 2d intantry (who has petitioned Congress to be retired with the iull | Tank Of major general, which he held when wounded) ; Kobert 8. Granger, of the 2ist infan- — try, and Abner Doubleday, of the colored 24th; Lieutenant Colonels Montgomery, Deputy Quar- termaster General, and Duncan, of the 5th cav- alry; Major Morris, of the 6th cavalry; Captain Kilgour, 24th infantry, and Lieutenants A. B. Brown, Ist infantry, and Rice, 17th infantry. Register of General Officers, Heads of Staff! Departments, and Field Office for February, 1874. GENERAL OF THE ARMY. ! Wiliam T, Suerman, War Department, Wash- ington. LIEUTENANT GENERAL. Philip H. Sheridan, commanding Military Dtvi- | sion o! the Missouri. Headquarters, Chicago, Ll. MAJOR GENERALS. | Winfield S. Hancock, commanding Miltary Di- vision of the Atlantic; headquarters New York city. John M. Schofield, commanding Military Division of the Pacific; headquarters San Francisco, Cal. Irvin McDowell, commandiug Miltary Division and Department of the South; headquarters Louis- ville, Ky. BRIGADIER GENERAL John Pope. commanding Department of the Mis- souri; headquarters Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Oliver UO, Howard, awaiting orders, Alfred H. Terry, commanding Department of Da- kota; headquarters Paul, Minn. Edward . ©. Ord, commanding Department of the vlatte; headquarters Omaha, Neb. Christopher C, Augur, commanding Department of Texas; headquarters San Antonio, Texas, George Crook, commanding Department of Art- zona; headquarters Prescott, Arizona. The following officers, though not officially, may properly be #tyied ACTING BRIGADIFR GENERALS :— Colonel William H. Emory, 5th cavalry, com- manding Department of the Gulf, headquarters New Orleans, La. volonel Jef «o. Davis, 23d infantry, com- manding Department of the Coiumbia, head- quarters Portiand, Oreg: STAPF DEPARTMENT. Adjutant General—Brigadier General E. D, | Townsend. Senior Inspector General—Colonel R. B. Marcy. Judge Advocate General—Brigadier General Jo- seph Holt. tinier Signal Oficer—Colonel Albert J. Myer. Quartermaster General—brigadier General M. C. Meigs. Commissary General—brigadier General A. B. Eaton. Sui General—Brigadier General J, K, | rnes, Paymaster Generai—Colonel Benjamin Alvord. Chief of Engineers—Brizadier Genera: A. H. hreys. aN or Ordnance—Brigadier General Alexan- der B. Dyer. fli as Lineal Rank of Field Officers, deep and wall it up; lay therein tour tracks, bridge the cross streets, raising the bridges four feet above the street level, and then raise the streets to the level of the bridges, which will cause short inclined planes. Butif the planes should in prac- tice be founa to interfere too much with the streets let the tracks dip at the bridges two feet, by com- | mencing half way between the crossings; then the bridges need only be raised two feet. ‘Two leet fali in hail the length of a square and its subse- quent rise would hot be noticed by passengers, and would cause no perceptible strain on rolling stock. The ouly reason for raising bridges at all 13 that the cars may be partially above ground and have the advantages of a surface road. A bandsome light iron railing would, of arse, surmount the wall, pass around over tue ridge, and connect with its fellow of the opposite side. | And this 1s all, unless you must arrange tor street cars. In that case 1t will be necessary to bridge in from one street crossing to another ‘the whole distance, but only about fourteen feet wide, one- half the width of the trench, and enough for two tracks, The cars could stop at the crossings as well then as now, the only objection being the great expense of making the road. think, more in accordance with the natural order of things—viz., that the heaviest objects should gravitate to the bottom. Without going into details I mignt add that where stations were required smali spaces could be excavated from the streets sufficient for wait- ing rooms, with platiorms, staircases, &c., each in charge of a careful watchman. The advantages of this plan are—First, a pertectly solid roadbed, walled in; second, a daylight ride, without smoke, | dust or vitiated air; third, moderate cost. short, aroad at once safe, comiortable, with fewer objections than any plan if seen advocated, HARRISBURG, Pa., Feb. 4, 1874. Opposition to an Elevated Cross Town Road. To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD: Ata meeting of a number of the residents of the In pleasant, have yet AY. CG. | upper part of the city, held a few evenings since, to oppose the running of an elevated road across the city, it was resolved that as large a remon- strance of the people as possible against such road should be presented to the Legislature. The fol- lowing is the remonstrance now being circulated. | Respectiuily, J. P. FITCH, Chairman of Committee. New York, Feb. 6, REMONSTRANC TO THE LEGISLATURE OF A CROSS TOWN ELEVATE . The undersigned, residents perty owners in the city ot New York, ‘having t med that the Legts- lature has been ‘asked to xrant autuority to extend a branch line of the Greenwich street and Ninth Avenue Elevated Katlroad across the city, tro the Grand Central depot or its vicin: Specttully, but most earnestly, the grant of such a right by LROAD, that avenue to y. beg leave re- to remonstrate against honorable body, and for the following, among other, rv J. An elevated road ot the c: structed in Ninth avenue. ot this ¢ cross street at any point on 1 over its central portions, wouid by } would depreciace the value of property in the street where erected at least flity per cent. It would be a sh and ly dist ity. | ng Up igh to interdict construction of d south, to rapid city d effe te ‘ould contribu jack runnin ¥ little, if a northern and’ sou hits of Uh direction in which increased facilities for are urgently required itis not demanded by any exvression of public sen- ment (hrough the press of o . To grant the priv lege of bu peraung such A road would be to inflict alike a great public and pri- Yate Wrong, Without reason or justification tounaed in any public necessity. While your remonstrants, in common with all the people of this city, desire that facilities ior rapid passen- ker transit up and down the city may be provided, they most earnestly and emphatically prowst and remon- strate against th by your honorable body of & right to erect an e New Lorw Crry, CHEAP TRANSPORTATION, The Importance of Terminal Facilities Endorsed by New York Merchants. The following correspondence was yesterday re- ceived from the merchants signing it by the officers of the New York Cheap Transportation wilroud across the city. 7A, Association, endorsing the action of that body in urging the necessity of betrer terminal facilities here lor the transaction of the great inland trade oi the country: New York, Feb. 3, 1874. The undersigned, grain merchants and members of the Produce bxcuange, have noticed with pleasure the | efforts of the “New York Cheap Fransportation Assoeia- tion,” and thelr general endorsement by the public press to awaken our capltaiists and railway managers to the Kreat need of elevators at (he termini of our railway lines from the West. We heartily endorse the movement, believing that ca- Ppacious elevators so located wili do much w relieve the | at present overburdened avenues. of trade, ata will greatly conduce to the commercial prosperity of our city. Jowmah M. Fiske, CAVALRY, | Wm. J. Preston, £0, HL. Grierson, 10th A Franti ea jt . Fi |, 5th cay. . H. Grierson, cay. | rank lin Bdson. J—) TP teynolte dicey. Tyumen Oakes, 6th co H&G. L, Ballard. 3A. ©. Gillem, Ist cay. 8—R. 5. Mackenzu on | janchara. 4—John 1, Grigg, 3th cay, 9—Innis ¥. Palmer, 2d cay. | wd & UO. HICkOX & Co. S—Edw'd Haten, heavy, 10—8, D. Sturgis, 7th cav. win & Co. er & Howland Lieutenant Coton | L. Roberts & Co. 1—Cuvier Grover, 3d cav. T—A. G. B 8—Thos. H. 9~B. A. Carr, 4th cay, 10—Jolo FP. Latch, 6th cay. cay. 3—Geo. A. 4—-T.¢ Bth cay O-W. L, Eiltotwt. lst caw, Sawyer, Wallace & Co. B. F. Baker & Co. Jos. &, Pringle. Wim. Wallingterd. W. RB. Preston & Ca. JN, Haldar, A Compromise Open—Sunken Road of This would be | a reversal of Mr. Church’s plan, whose sensible | suggestions first prompted this statement, and, I | NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET: YACHTINC. The Annual Meeting of the New York Yacht) Ciub. RESOLUTIONS ON MR. MORTON'S POEM The June Regatta To Be Sailed Without Time Allowance. ‘The annual meeting of the New York Yacht Club was held on Thursday evening in their club rooms, on the corner of Madison avenue and Twenty- seventh street. There wasa@large attendance of members, presided over by Commodore J. G. Bennett, and Vice Commodore W. P. Douglas and Rear Commodore G. L. Kingsland were also in at- Yendance. Alter hearing the minutes of the pre- vious meeting a motion to amend the constitution and bylaws, 80 as to make the Regatta Committee act during the year, instead of only at the June regatta, was proposed and carried. By this amendment ail races and matches sailed during the year under the auspices of the New York Yacht Club will be governed by the Regatta Committee. ‘The meeting then went into the annual election of officers, and Messrs, Joan H. Draper and James 0, Proudfit were appointed tellers. Tne following officers were unanimously elected :— Commodore—James Gordon Bennett. Vioe Commodore—William P. Douglas. Kingsland. Treasurer—Sheppard Homans. Measurer—A. Cary Smith, Fleet Surgeon—L. de Forest Woodruff, M. D. Regatta Committee—William Krebs, Edward E. Chase, Wiliam B. Bend. House Committee—George W. Kida, T. T. Law- rence, J. G Beresford, Fletcher Westray, N. D. White. On motion of Rear Commodore Kingsland, Baron Adolphe de Rothschild and Sir Robert Peel were elected honorary members of the club. The Treasurer then presented his report for the current year, which showed an extremely favor- able statement of the club finances. The Committee on Classification of Yachts then reported, and on motion the following rule was adopted :. feet and over. Second class schooners, all measuring less than 7,000 cubic feet. First class stoops, all measuring 2,000 cubic feet and over. Second class sloops, all measuring less than 2,000 cubic tee. The old rule, as regards the number of men to be allowed im a@ race, was partly restored, 80 as to allow an unlimited number to the two classes of schooners and first class sloops, but confining second class sloops to one man to each 200 cubic feet and fractional part thereof. A regulation as to size of small boats to be car- ried was adopted as follows: First class schooner—Boat not legs than 16 feet in length. Second class schooner—Boat not less than 14 feet in length. First class sloop—Boat not less than 12 feet in length. Second class sioop—Boat not less than 10 feet in length. In connection with the above subject it was re- solved, a3 an experiment, to sall the annual re- gatta, which was fixed for the 11th of June, with- out time allowance, but according to the new claasi- fication; prizes to be awarded to each class. Mr. Bend, as Chairman of the Committee on Re- vision of Signal Code, reported progress, and the committee was then empowered to have 200 copies printed at @ cost not exceeding $600, Mr. E. M. Wright then offered his report which pronounced in favor of accepting Mr. Arkwright’s donation of land at Warsaw Sound, near Savan- nah, Ga., which was offered for a winter station for | the New York Yacht Club. The report was adopted and Mr. Arkwright’s donation accepted. Commodore Bennett then called the attention of the members to a communication from Mr. Hamil- | ton Morton, the late Secretary of the club, On motion the letter, as follows, was read by Secre- tary Minton: To JamMES GORDON BENNETT, Esq., Commodore of the New York Yacht Club:— DEAR Sin—The undersigned has great satisfac- tion in dedicating to the “New York Yacht Club’ — whose impvrtant interests have been lang and most efficiently promoted, in various ways by your- seif—the accompanying contribution, mtended to aescribe with measurable accuracy five interna- tional races upon ocean and bay arenas, between the British schooner yacht Livonia and the Ameri- can schooner yachts ‘Colampia and Sappho, which constitutes an event in their nautical history of general interest and regarded as suspeting an effort to secure for it a permanent record. Such dedication to the New York Yacht Club ts of obvious propriety, and due to it as tue first or- ganized institutio® ‘iitiating in the United States @ yachting navy, which has become wortiy of the country by numerous and fourishing kindred as- | soctations. The present occasion is availed of by the under- signed to express his unfeigned imterest in a con- tinuance of the uninterrupted high character and material prosperity of the club, Of his unchanged conviction of its eminent usefulness as an instru- mentality for rendering impossible any dan- rous complication between nations, janguage, morals and arts,’’ that require but to be better acquainted to remain fast friends, Of its value a8 an incentive to improvement in marine architecture and to make good seamanship a valued accomplishment, and as tending to enhance general popular favor towards that maritime fea- earliest conflicts for independence,” and pre- sented by her gallant “naval service afloat." A presentation to the club, through its Commo- dore, of the volume referred to will confer @ favor upon yours, very truly, HAMILTON MORTON, NEw York, Feb. 5, 1874. The following resolutions were then offered and unanimously adopted Resolved, That the New York Yacht Club are gratified to acknowledge the honor done to them by a dedication of a nautical poem reterred their former and ¢ ed officer. Kesolved, That t ‘al knowledge, decuraey and taste. . That the obligations of the club be con- veyed to Mr. Morton, through the Secretary, by furnish- ing a copy of the proceedings of the meeting relating to this subject, and further Resolved, That the work be placed in the library of the New York Yacht Club. Mr. R. W. Cameron then suggested the propriety ofthe club establishing a life membership, ana after some debate, in which various views and suggestions were advanced, it was finally resolved that all members of fifteen years’ standing or up- wards shall have the privilege of becoming lille members on the payment of $100, which shall be in lieu of any further payment for dues, and that the money thus obtained be placed asids as a sink- ing fund for the redemption of the club bonds. On resolution of Mr. W. Quincy Morton @ com- mittee consisting of W. Q. Morton, W. P. Douglas and G, L. Kingsland was appointed to draft suit- | able resolutions in regard to the late Anson Liv- ingston and William H. Major, and report at next meeting. On motion the meeting then adjourned. ENGLISH YACHTING PROSPECTS. ssa {Prom Bell’s Life in London, Jan, 24] In course of a recent visit to the yachting build- all hands an unwonted amount of business and activity even for this season of the year, the Cowes, Gosport, Lymington builders being all deep in new work or otherwise. Taking Southampton first in order, and judging by the number of yachts in winter quarters there, | the Itchen this year nearly divides honors with the Medina, the great mail port, from its close proximity to the metropolis, and with every requirement for fitting out easily obtainabie, venue for lying in ordinary. Fay’s yard, at this port, has grown into @ wonderiully extensive es- tablisiment, a fleet of upwards of thirty yachts now massing there. ordered or more convenient premises for the pur- high and dry, several of the most famous of the racing division. ‘he signs of the approaching season are rapidly becoming manifest along the Itchen banks, several of the cracks—notably the Cetonia, Egeria, Arethusa, Lizzie, &o.—being in hand, undergoing that operation familiarly knowa as “being improved upon,” while the Vanguard, Kriembiids, Arrow, Norman, Glance, 4c. are, wa First class schooners, all measuring 7,000 cuvie | “one, in | | | | | ture of our country’s greatness ‘‘coeval with her | | to in the communication of | ing yards in the south we were pleased to find on | and Southampton | being probably now regarded the most convenient | We have never seen better | pose, and we here had the pleasure of viewing, | hear, also ised like treatment. The Cet who burst like a meteor on the racing world the close of the last season, ia exchanging lead for iron ballast, her timber space, Ae, boing filled in with the moulded metal, and with a few other alterations one may reasonably expect he wil come out @ greater flyer this season than i Her weak Pins, as illustrated at Torquay, was & tendency to heel up overmuch ; but this, of course, could not be wondered at, if the fact that her ballast was merely pitched down under the latform be taken into consideration. She has euctgniy round and powertul lines, and, with the additioaal artificial power the lead will impart, there will be no future fear about her keepiug on her ‘egs in any weather. The famous Egeria is, we are informed, to undergo some very extensive alterations, involv- ing even & modification of hull. Her after vody about the water line, from below the runners to the extremes, is to be filled out to the extent of Several inches in some parts, and in the forebody 4 little flat suriace is be rounded by bipping. Her keel, which is now straight fore and ait, is to LA saree and the a eri cane, With a +, We suppose, of reducing tonnage, the "Rgeria is to be shorn of her mouided cutwater and given a “Pantomime” stern, and we hear the. masts are to go back to their original rake, The Arethusa has been stripped for Recopper: , &c., although now filled out with lead bolted on from garboards well righ to bends. She is yet to have a “little” more out- side and all lead Inside, We heard, too, that the doors and inside fittings are tocome down, and the main Cabin is to be converted into a sail room. An arrangement of this sort is, no doubt, highly con- ducive to speed, and now-a-days a yacht with no more fittings than @ bathing machine is allowed toenteras in “cruising trim.” The Kriemhilda, We hear, is to have more outside lead, and the Arrow is promised, before the commencement of another season, to be put on an equal footing with Count 2 ny'S Crack by giving her racing old story—lead ballast: a lead keel Ol, and at is said that her mast 1s to be shifted eighteen inches further forward. ‘The Vanguard ts also to be altered, but the ductors, it ig rumored, cannot ee whether her midship section should be filled out or her rather heavy quarters tucked up, Last season, except at the earlier part, she did not get her weather, but tne later sixties, such as the Mabel and Jona, are so good that some improvement is an absolute necessity if the old Vanguard is to hold her own among them, The old Wizard, whom we remember to have oni seen matched against the clipper Puyrne, is re- coppering and bound up to St. raga tne first open water, ‘he Heron, fifty-five tons, has been converted from a cutter to a yawland is fitting dut for commission -at the end of the month. The Urania, schooner, built by Katsey in 1854 for Lot Rodney, 18 having new decks, topsides and refas- tening. The Flying Cloud, we heard, is again in the market, her new owner having failed to secure a single prize with her. In addition to the afore- named yachts at Fay’s Yard, we noticed, side by side, the fastest twenty and fifteen tonners of the day :—Vanessa and lie, Dudu (cutter), Niobe (cutter), Count Batthyany’s (s.) tender under re- pair, Mona (s.), Ariadne (schooner), Bird (yawl), Dream (Lopsall schooner), Waring (schooner), Mamgu (schooner), Florence (schooner), Claymore Pomorie Madcap (cutter), Phosphorus (cutter) Hornelia (8.), Rosebud, &c. At Hatcher's yard we were disappointed in not finding a racing craft or two down, but we had the pleasure ot inspecting a fine yawl of sixty tons. She is up in frame, and being built to the order of Mr. Chichester Fortescue. At the same yard are the Lizzie, Norman, Gtance, Astarte, Rainbow, Will o’ the Wisp, &o. ‘The Lizzie has this winter been opened ai both ends, and had her lines some- what fined, and the rake of her stern post taken out, She is thus longer on the water line, and should consequently reach and run better than before; we have, however, an opinion that tae Vanessa will be able to keep A 1 position 1o her class, at any rate for the present. A. Payne has a steam yacht in @ forward state, built to the order ot the Marquis oi Exeter. She is of wuod, about 150 tons measurement, with engines by Day & .. Of Southampton. Among a large fleet of yachts at Payne’s yard we noticea the schooners Hornet, Lady Evelyn, Zouave, &c.; cutters Scorpion, Foily, Terpsichore Fox- found, &c., Mayfy (8), and yawls Gertrude and Miranda. Tne last named has been purchased this week by Mr. Marvin, of Cowes. Walter Luke, of Itchen, is Puilding a steam yacht of about 100 tons ior Lord rington, and is tul! of launch and government work. ‘The Pironelle, 80 tons, which was built at this yard by Captain Hans Busk, as one of a proposed flotilla of sea-going life ships, has at last left her bulider’s hands for London, ANOTHER DOMESTIC HORROR. The Alleged Malepractice Case at Mott Haven—Conclusion of the Coroner’s In- quest—Selt-Destruction of oa Mother and Her Unborn Offspring. At the Morrisania Town Gall, yesterday af- ternoon, Coroner Miller resumed the inquest touching the demise of Hannah Murray, a mar- ried woman, aged thirty, who dicd suddenly in the house of a female physician at Mott Haven on From the testimony it appeared that deceased was living apart from her husband be- cause the latter could mot support her in the way she wished to live. In the absence of her husband deceased earned a livelihood by sewing for various families in the city. About two weeks @go she called at | the house of Mra. Dr. JosephingSmith, in Denman street, Mott Haven, whom she had known previ- ously, and requested to be treated for a uterine complaint, at the same time saying that she had no money to pay for medica! treatment, but would | do whatever sewing the Doctress might require. ‘This offer was accepted and deveased took up her temporary abode with Mrs. Smith, at the same tume exacting a promise trom the latter that she would not inform her relations in New York as to | her whereabouts. | Deputy Coroner Joyce made a post-mortem ex- amination of the remains, and found that the | uterus contained a fortus of about three months? ; growth. He also testified that all the organs were | in a perfectly healthy condition, although he dis- covered unmistakable evidence of the presence of | Oil of tansy in the abdominal viscera, He testified Wednesday last. ;) | that deatn was occasioned by cerebral hemorrhage | or apoplexy, superinduced by the drug named, On examining-the brain «clot of coagulated blood was found on the right | Mave been caused by deceased falling to | the floor immediately preceding her death, as testified to by another witness. Dr. Joyce also | testified to having examined the remedies kept by Mrs. Dr. Smitb, and found among tuem neither medicines nor instruments whica could be used } to bring about @ miscarriage. Mrs. Dr. Smith in her statement testified that | she was a practising physician, and had graduated | from the New York Medical College for Females; | Of her pregnancy; thai she bad treated her for a | uterine disease, and had never given her oil of tansy or any other medicine for the purpose of pro- | ducing a miscarriage, ‘The last witness told her story in such an tn- | genuous and straightiorward manner as left no | doubt upon the minds of her auditors that she was entirely innocent even of an intention to commit acrime. Her statement was made to the jury at | the request of her counsel, James R. Angel. it further appeared from the evidence that a vial containing oil of tansy was found in a valise | owned by deceased alter her death; and the jury, | | belteving that the drug was self-administered, | rendered a verdict exonerating Mrs. Dr. Smith | from all culpability in the matter. EX-SHERIFF BRENNAN’S RELEASE. He Is a Free Man Again To-Day—He Declines to be Feted on the Oc jon of His Departure from Jail. Sheriff Conner sent an order yesterday afternoon to Warden Dunham, of Ludlow Street Jail, to dis- charge ex-Sheriff Brennan and ex-Deputy Shields at twelve o’clock last night, when their term of confinement was to expire. A HERALD reporter called at the jailand saw the ex-Sheriff, who looked quite as blooming as a rose and very much fatter. | _ ReroRTER—May I ask if you intend leaving these festive quarters to-day ? | EX-SueKirr—I could go to-day, but want to stay | up to the very last minute, [do not want to teil tats when | shall go, as I want to avoid all pub- city. RerorTer—Your friends will give you a hand- some reception, will they not? -SHERIFF—Several arrangements of this kind Were on foot, and I heard that even bands of music had been envaged, but I have insisted that all these projects should be abandoned at once, as I wish to go out quietly and without any publicity or demon- stration whatever. When I go away {rom here [ shall go home and spend a few days quietly at my | house trying to obtain rest and seclusion. RerorTek—Has the confinement affected your health ? | _ EX-SueRirr—Oh, very slightly. A few days of | rest will do me good, however. | | The ex-Sheriff iheu nodded good-by, and went | to join iis family in the room formerly occupied | by ex-Warden racy. As the door opened, a lovely | Vista of huge baskets of Mowers, fruit, &c., met the reporter's eyes, and a delicious fragrance was wafted toward him, THE MAN WHO SLEPT WIILR GENET VANISHED, ex-Deputy Shields, stated tothe reporter that he and the sheriff would probably leave to-day, but he would preier not to state the exact hour of their departure, as they wanted to avoid all publicity. Mr. Shields looked rather pale, and seemed to be suffering from the effects of the confinement. | remarked that, having always been accustomed to Much physical exercise, the confinement had sligitly impaired his health, The ex-Deputy also pressed his sense of gratituae for the kindly tinent which he had received from tne press, and conversed quiite unreservedly in regard to the escape of Genet. Warden Dunham, of Ludiow Street Jail, said the two prisoners would not take their departure until to-day, and that all demonstration had been Stopped by the energetic protest of the ex-Sherii. THR PINES PAID, While Mr. Sparks, the Cierk of the Oyex and Ter- Miner, was engaged in court yesterday afternoon, he received @ check tor $500 from ex-sherif Bren- ban in payment of the fines imposedpy the Court upon bi and Mg. Shields. He | rontal bone, which might | | that deceased carefully concealed irom her the fact | WHO IS BRIGHAM YOUNG? His Original Wife—A Queer Chapter in the Life of the Prophet. {From the Northern Echo (England).} Ifthe parish authorities of Stockton would but make @ formal application to the President of the Mormons for the money spent in matataining his first wife, we might hear Mr. Brigham Young’ own views a8 to the claims of the Mrs. Brigham who aow resides tn Stockton Aimshouse. Mra Brigham is too old now to journey to Utah to claim her rights, 80 that we fear that this interesting problem will never be authoritatively decided, The claims of Mrs, Brigham are soun stated, and it must be admitted that there is at least a com siderable degree of plausibility about them, Ne apology is needed for discussing the subject such ag is required for discussing the ‘Tichborne case, for the Mormon President is @ man who has left his mark on the history of our age. Anything tending to throw light upon his origin and identity is » matter of interest to the bistorian as well as to the general public, to whom Brigham Young 1s a mach more real personage than the Emperor of Bras or the King of Siam. The story which was told by Mrs. Brigham to uur Stockton representative is clear and straightfor ward, Although the old lady is now verging upos her eightieth year she 1s in full possession of all her faculties. She seems as brisk and as cheerful as she was when, half a century since, she won the heart of her husband, concerning whose identity controversy is now raging. She says that on the 27th of February, 1820, she was married to 4 man of the name of William Brigham, at Stockton Otd Church, by the Rev. Mr. Gilpin. This man, a cooper by trade, worked for many years in Stockton, both before and after his marriage. He was the illegit. mate son of @ man named Young, his mother's name being Mary Brigham. It is in these twe names that there 18 the first ground for suspiciom that the “William Brigham” of Stocktom may be none other than “Brigham Young" of Salt Lake. Nothing would be more natural thaw that @ man seeking to disguise himself trom pursait should do so by assuming the surname of hig father and by prefixing that of his mother. Mar. ried when he was but nineteen years old William Brigham became @ lather in less than a twelve month, and beiore he was thirty-four years of Mrs. Brigham bore him nine children, In 1834 he went on a voyage in the Griffin to the South Seas, and for twelve months a certain proportion of hig wages was paid over to his wife. After that time the owners of the Griffin, not knowing whether Brigham was still engaged on board that vessel, discontanued their payments, and Mrs. Brigham im consequence Was thrown upon the parish. A yeas and @ hall alter tuis, however, Brigham turned up again, sued the owners for £19 19s. Gd., the balance ol wages due, got the money, and found himself confronted by a claim for £10, made by the paro- chial authorities, who haa been maintaining hia wife. The prospective loss oi half nis wages seema to have decided his course. He relused te pay a farthing, and without seeing after their tong separation he left London. At this point Wilham Brigham vanishes from the scene and is never heard of again. Mrs. Brigham says she heard through a friend that @ man who knew Brigham Young, the Mormon Prophet, had said that he haa worked with him as a cooper tm London. This rumor, together with the iact that the Mormon President bore the names of her hus- band and his father, caused Mrs, Brigham to en- tertain the suspicion that the long-lost William Brigham was actuaily ruling at Salt Lake. She backs this up with another reminiscence of their married life, which we coniess. throws consider- able doubt upon the accuracy of her nurrative, She says—at least so it is reported, and it is pos- sible there may be a misunderstancing—that “be- tore Brigham left home at all be frequently said he should. go to Sait Lake City, and asked her to accompany him, but spe steadiastty relused to do 80.” ‘This is wanilestly and on the face of it absurd. Brigham left Stock- ton in 1834 A’ that time Joe Smith, alter numerous migrations, had settled at Kirkland, om unis side of the Mississippi. It was not ui three years later, 1n 1837, that the first “foreign mission” was projected by Mormons, sv that William Bri ham could hardly have been converted to tne fatt in 1834; and it was not till thirteen years after- wards, 1n 1847, that the Mormons, under the lead- ership of Briguam Young, settled near the great Salt Lake, “Sait Lake City” did not exist w 18343 it was, in fact, the creation of Brigham Young ntm- sell, so that either Mrs. Brigham’s memory has played her tricks or else she has been misreported, Accepting the latter alternative there is notutt in her narrative that in any way conficts witl what we know of Brigham Young, while in points it coincides remarkably with the ee the Mormon Prophet. [t was in 1836-7 that WH- lam Brigham disappeared. It is not will 1844, when Joseph Smith was murdered, that Brigham Young appears as theichieltain ot the Latter Day Saints, From that date the doings of the latter nave been matter of history. William Brigham, of Stockton, in addition to being @ cooper, acted for a short time as landlord of the Castle and Anchor. Brigaam Young is a teetotal- Jer and enlorces teetotalism; bat, of course, @& publican may, in other circumstances, become am apostie of the Maine law. The vanished William Brigham 1s descrived as being quiet in his man- ners, studiously inclined, very craity and smart—a description which needs no alteration to fit it to Brigham Young. in questions of identity evi- dence as to personal appearance is of the first tm- portance. In this case the evidence is singularly strong in favor of the claims of Mrs, Brigham to be considered the first wile of the famous Mor- mon. William Brigham was @ man of fair com- plexion, five feet eight inches or five feet nme inches in height, broad shoulders and a slight stoop. The last visitor to Salt Lake City, whose accuunt we have before us, describes Brigham Young, in 1871, as being about ive leet eight inches: in height, thick set, with Wulskers of light orown halr meeting under his chin, He has smali blue eyes, & slightly aquiline nose, a square business-like head, a light Set mouth and a strong jaw.” A por- trait of Brigham Young, Mrs. Brigham says, bears considerable resemblance to her lost husband, while it was identified at once as ‘father’ by her eldest daughter, who cannot have been more than thirteen years of age When William Brigham {eft Stockton, There is also an extraordiuary simi- larity between the portrait of Brignam Young and the photograph of Willham Brigham’s son. The; look as if they were portraits of the same man ai diferent ages. All this evidence points in one direction. An indignant ‘Latter Day Saint’ de- clares that several persons who Knew “Bille Brigham” says that he does not resemble Brigham Young’s portrait; but his asseverations are worth little beside the instantaneous recognition of the portrait of the Mormon President as that of her lather by Mrs. Brigham’s daughter. The evidence is certainly suficient at least to justify the benef that 1t is not only periectly possible, but by no means improbable, for William Brigham, of Stockton, to be the same man who now bears the title of “President of the Church of the Latter Day Saints all over the world.” Mrs. Brigham, however, con- tributes evidence that ought to be conclusive, one Way or anotaer, about the identity of William Brigham with Brigham Young. Her husband saw very badly with one eye; he bad a large mole on One of his shoulders, and on one of his fingers, own; to @ cut @ little above tue first joint, a nali use to grow, which frequently required cutting. “This last peculiarity may have been removed by time, but the mole on the shoulder and the dim-sighted- ness of one eye Ought to be suilicient to settle the question. If Brigham Young has sucha mole, if | he 1s nearly blind in one eye, and, above all, it his | finger exhibits the curious excrescence to which Mrs. Brigham swears, Bille Brigham, of Stockton, and no one else, 18 the Prophet of the Mormons. Some of the American papers migit take up this investigation with protit to themselves, if they do | We hope they will send us the result of their in- juiries, The ordinary story runs that Brigham oung was born o! New England parents in the ‘State of Vermont—anorher account says in Ohio— and that he was brought up to be a patnter and glazier before he became a seer and a revelator. Americans would natarally rejoice if the States were relieved of the odium of having given birth to Brigham Young; while, if it 1s fairly proved that Mrs, Brigham, oi Stockton, 1s the only legitimate wife of President Brigham Young, of Utah, the Moimon Seer may, perhaps, deign to apply me of his vast weaith to save Mrs. Brigham Young No 1 from the state of poverty in which she now lies. TOMPKINS AVENUE PRESBYTERIAN OHUROH, BROOKLYN, The new and spacious edifice erectea by the congregation of the Tompkins avenue church, corner of McDonough street, Brooklyn, will be formally dedicated on Thursday evening next, February 12 The dedicatory sermon upon the occasion will be delivered by Rev. John Hall, D. D., and the subject announced ia “Our Church—Its Strength ana Beauty.” The building, which gs 100 feet each way, cost $80,000, It is built of PnTladelphia brick, with stone trim mings. The pastor is Rev. Frederick C, Clark. A SIDEWALK OBSTRUOTION, To rar Epitor oF THE HERALD:— I was pleased to notice an article in the HeRanp a few days ago, under the head of “Sidewalk En- oumbrances,’”’ and was glad to know that the au- thorities had taken action in the matter, 1 would call their attention, through the columns of the HERALD, to a certain nuisance which they seem to have overlooked, as I have failed to see any change since such orders were issued. ‘The nuisance [refer to is a truck which stands continually, every morning and afternoon, in front of the store’ of Titus & Co., No, 7 dames sip. This being the thoroughtare leading to one of the prin~ cipal ferries on the East River the sidewalks are very much needed by the people who cross said ferry, but who, in consequence of the above ob- struction, are obliged alw: to take to the atreet much to the danger of life and limb, at such how of the day. This is @ continual obstruction and ougnt to . ¥¢ &C., wr Youn. Fob. oc 1874, JAMES HL, DOWNEY. his wife,