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THE WENERY LEGISLATURE | Marshal Packard on the Mechanics’ Institute Order. TESTIMONY OF MR. J R. BECKWITH, Durell Finds a Precedent in an Order of Lord Bacon. In the HERALD of yesterday we presented the testimony of Mr. E. 0, Billings on Judge D:rell’s famous order suppressing the McEnery Legtsla- ture. The following is the evidence of Marshal 3. B. Packard, President Grant's brother-in-law, on the same subject :— Question. Are you holding any official position? Answer, | am United States Marshal for the dis- trict of Louisiana; I was appointed in April, 1369, and hive held tt ever since. 4 You were United States Marshal on the 15th of mber, 1872? A. Yes, Bir. Q. State whether or not, a8 Marshal, an order was placed in your hands, under which the seizure Of the Mecnanics’ Institute building was made in she case of Kellogg vs, Warmoth and others. A. Yes, sir; 1 seized the building under that order. is that the original paper? (Paper nanded ees.) A. Yes, sir; that is the paper that was delivered to me on the evening of the 6th of De- cember, and executed the same night. Q, Have you made any return of that to tho Court? A. No formal return, Q. Is there any reason way that was not re- turned? A. No more than thav the paper waa mislaid in the office; | supposed, until inquiry was made, that it had been returned, @ Were yon present +, WHEN THB ORDER WAS DRAWN UP? A. Yes, sir. Q. Who, beside yourself and Judge Durell, was sent atthe time that the order was drawn? . ‘he two solicitors, Mr. Billings and Mr. Beck- with, and one or two of my deputies; this paper isin the handwriting of my deputy, Mr. T, W. De Kiyne. State the circumstances of the issuing of that ler? A, About nine o'clock that evening vudge Durell sent to my office for me to come to hisroom; his room was at the corner of Bourbon and Custom House streets; 1 went to his room with Mr, De Klyne. Q. When you reached his room who was there? A. I think there was no one in the room at tne time; If any one was there 1t was some person who had been left there as a sort of guard to prevent assassination; I had sent one or two persons there to guard the hallway, as there were great tears that, Juoge Durell would be assassinated; when I got to the room be told me that he wanted me to send jor Mr. Billings and Mr. Beckwith; that he ‘oposed issuing am order for the occupa- mm of the Institute building, which is the State House ; I sent some one of tue men for them; they came Very soon and he told them the same thing; they set about preparing the order, aiter consulting over the matter; the Judge, I think, dictated the order, and Mr. Biliings sat at the table writing it; that is my recollection; of course I may ve in error on some minor points; alter it was completed my deputy, Mr. De Klyne, satdown and made @ cieau copy of the order, to which the Judge attached his signature; it was then handed to me, aud } immediately sat abouw to execute the oruer, which I did by ae on General Emory for a detachment of troops, and oc- oupied the puilding that same night. Had you received any information before this time—at the time you went to nig room that aight— that any such order was to be issued, or any ac- tion of that kind was contemplated? A. No, sir; I haa no knowledge of that kind until I arrived at the room. Q. How long were you there at the room? A. I am unable to say; probably an hour, possibly an hour and a hulf;‘l eft as soon as tue order was placed in my hands, and | did not return, Q vid Judge Durell make any statement to you there as to who had instigated the proceedings? A. No. My iniormation was that ‘it was his own motion; 1 thought that none of the solicitors had Inatigated it, as they expressed some surprise when injormed about it; I think they asked the peel 4 he had considered the matter; the judge that he had, and ne was determined on it. JT WAS ALL ON HIS OWN MOTION; we hid no knowledge of anything of the kina about the Custom House or aout our political headquarters, ran i saw Governor Kellogg that evening, and fe knew nothing about tt, #q I pre- sume it was with the Judge himself; if one ted it to him 1 do not know it. cn aa intimately acquainted with Judge Durell? Yes, sir. Q. Often about the Conrt? A. Yes; Imeet him socially, but not very frequently. Q State what was his condition tnat night as to sobriety. A. Perfectly sober, 80 Jar as there was any apparent mdication; there was no evidence of anything to drink about the room, that I saw at all, and am ite certain that he had not,been out of his reom; it was not swe for him to go out unattended, and 1 think be has. told me since that he dined that day iis tnla paper ® part of the order? (P is this paper of the order ‘aper handed witness.) A. Yes, sir. Q That came into your hands along with the order? A. Yes, sir. Q. What was the oficial character of those per- sons that by this order were to be prevented from assembling in the Ivstitute builuing? A. They are the individuals that compose whac was known as the McEnery Legislature; it was not, as I un- derstood it, the purpose of the order to interfere with the egress or ingress of persons who had been elected to the Legislature, or who occupied offices Of the State government; on the coutrary, the qua e's verbal order tu me was not to interiere them, and he sata that the object of the order was to hold the building so that If ne wished to issue orders therealter he conid get into the building; he thought the Govornor might barri- cade it so as to prevent access, as he had done be- fore, and prevent the entry of deputy marshals, ie at he gave you in addition to this order? ‘es, air, Q. There were returns of election in the building which the Court wanted to control? A. Yes, sir. Q. Who are those persons who are mentioned in this paper, attached to this order—what official ca- city A. members of tne Senate and House of presentatives, as returned by the Wiitz-De Feriet returning board, promulgated by Governor Warmoth, Q You say, pursuant to this order, you did take possession of tie Institute? A. Yes. Q. I will ask you whether or not on the day suc- ceeding the issuance Oo! this order it was under- stood that these parties would assemole in Mechan- ics’ Institute building asa Legislature? A, A large number of these persons on this list were aiso re- turnable by the other Keturning Board, but Ido Dot know what was understood with reference to the matter, for we had no knowledge at the time ‘what woutd be done; the fact is, they did not at- tempt to assembie, that is, those who were not Teturued by the Lynch Board did not attempt to oy Mr Klared e—Q. Was th day fixed y Mr. Eldredg as there any day fixi by the law that these people were expected to as- sembie? A. The governor had issued prociam- mation convening the legislature in extra session, 4 9th of December, following the date of this order. Q. How long did you hold possession of the building under that order? A, Until Governor ye ee inaugurated, Q What was the date? A, In January, about the second Monday. Q, Has that order been rescinded, as you know fo A. Of record I think not, although I do not Ow. Q. Were there any further orders of the Court to you? A. Ycs; 1 applied to the Court 1or permis- Sion to remove my officers irom there, and it gave me verbal permiagion to dqso. Whenl removed my officers I also removed the posse of troops. When you left Judge Durell’s office, on this occasion, where did yougo? A. 1 went to the St, Louis Hotel; 1 went to see General kmory, . You say woe took possession of the building under this order? A. I did, Q. What did youdo? A, I went to the St. Louis Hotel and made a REQUISITION ON GENERAL EMORY for a company of troops, and an arrangement was made at once, and a staff officer was sent with my deputy to give the necessary directions for the troops and put them under the direction of tie deputy. After that was arranged at the St. Louis Hotel the deputy went to gev the troops, Q. Was that a part of the order of Judge Durell? A. No, sir; he had nothing to do with that. Q Dia you and he talk over the manner in which ss were to take possession ? A. 1 do not recollect ry} me paxe any instructions avout whe matter. Q. Did he and you talk over the manner in which jou were to execute the order? A. From recollec- on I could not say, bat very likely 1 did, because Tintended to use troops. Q Did he ana you talk over the fact that you were to make ‘a requisition for United States troops? A. I cannot say whether { did or not; I think it very provable I did. Q In what form did you make a requisition for troops? A. In the usuai form; that | requested a large Humber of troops for the purpose of aiding my Gepaty in executing the process in my hands, Q. Have you @ copy of the requisition? A. | may have on my letter book; but, as it was made in amet may not have preserved a copy. ardesed 1 0. ‘Generali see wmoreeauing Ldn 4 mor; jorm of a letter, Lacey smd, a ghee ions alt rw feanisition in your own name as ie ir; signed by me as Marshal. Q. You had # personal interview with General be ay fi Yes, it T le then sent a member of his xt rg the orders of the Deputy Mereualt ae es, Bir. What deputy Marshal of yours was t! q { think Goionet De Kiyne; I sent Colonel De kiyas and Mr. Long, also one of my deputies, to occugy the building. Q What time did you have this interview with General Emory? A. I may state somewhere from ten to eleven; it was T I lett the Judge; I went from the Judge’s room to the hotei where General Bmory was stopping; I there made @ re- @ wsition and these gave the orders, Q@ Did she member of his stad go with you? A, No, sir; I went home from the hotel. 7 Was your some way ore the time you made th 181,00 . Yes, sir. Q “and ihe meuber of his staff went with your br eR eG what time t took posses- 0 you kna sion of the butiding’ A. It was, ites between twelve and tw o’clock; the precise hour J am unable to state. “yr niet yl 1 ser me owl “1 a. tates treo} . Lbave no of that, W 0. mM Pe % puttin tea: I 8 ry - Caer gy ae ya cannot pay, BP ave gone Bp some ume the follow! ig day; 1 ant not certain, - Q. Was the building then in) the possession of your deputy? A, Yeu, sir, Q Were the United States troops there? A. Yes, sir. 1 had information all the time of what ‘was going on at the building. Q. UO you knuW, a8.& Matter of fact, whether the troops soopinpenied oar Sopake whan. they took pone of the building? A. 1do not: know. T have no doubt that they did or came very soon r. Q. Where was your deputy to Lig to get the troops? A. My uoderstanding was that they were to go to the Mobile and Ohio Railroad «epot, and the General said there were some troops on the way from Florida, ard were expected that nignt. They went to the depot and found them there and fei. a detachment right irom the depot to the In- atitute, Q. How many soidiers accompanied them? A, I do not know. How many were there when you went there? A. Ithink ) was an arullery company; I think there was @ company, possibly there might have been a part of two companies; | should think 150 men}; there might be more and there might be less, Q. Did whey have their artillery with them ? ‘ No, sir; they were armed as iniantry, I be- eve. ; Q. Who was occupying the butiding at the time your deputy took possessiony A. The Governor and State officers. What Governor? A. Warmoth. What officers? A. ‘The Secretary of Stave had RY Office there; 1 thisk at that time it wes General erron, R, What else? A, Lieutenant Governor Pinch- back had aroom in the building; I inink the Re- turning Board that was nanied in this proclamation were using some one Of the rooms 1p the. building, & Which Returning Board was that? ie Wilts De Feriet-Keturning Board. Q Were these person there at the time your deputy took ion? A, My deputy made a re- port of the occupation, he stated that there was no one there but watchmen or policemen ; they were policemen acting. a8 watchmen for the butiding: how many were tuere | do uot know. Q. You didnot understand whether'any of these perens, claiming to be oMicers of the State, were in the building at the time? A. I understana that there were none at the time; some of them ¢alled some time afterward, Q. Did your deputy take possession of such doc- uments ag were ip the bul tA. No, wr; he took possession of nothing; he simply occupied the building without interieriog with anything. Were those persons allowed to go in and out? aves, sir; that was his instructions, and he re- ported that he did not interiere with them. Q. Did they continue in the building? A. Yes, sir; some time alter ward. Q How long did they remain tnere? A. They remained until after tiie Impeachment of the Gov- ernor, Q When was that? A. The 9th of December, when the Legislature met; then Governor Pinch- back occupied the Executive peo he re- mained there until Governor Kellogg was imaugu- rated. Were they nov instructed by Judge Durell to tame posession of the returns? 7 No, sir. NEW "YORK | HERALD, ‘SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1874.-TRIPLE SHEET. 2: Were some of the parties remonstrating it this order? A. ‘ihe soheitors were inquiring WHETHER THE JUDGH HAD CONSIDEXED it well, and I think they also asked whether a Motion had not better be nade im open court than to have the order issued in chambers; the Judge's object, as appeared to me in the conversation, whieh I fit not cogage i particuiarly, Was to oc~ cupy 1¢ immediately in this manner, and not to wait until the Court opened in the morning; and it impressed, me, ior he himself must have bad some information which led him to Selieve that Warmotn intended to barricade the building at once, which accounted for the haste in issuing the order; all that was said about the object of the orden. Ane purpose of it was while it was being Q. You are sure that his attention was called to the fact that it would be better to tssue this order in open court than to issue it ex parte? A. I am ascertain as | can be when I cannot repeat the conversation; the impression is on my mind that it was. . at, too, by the solicitors for the prose- cutis A. The presumption is that it was; they were engaged wit tne J in draiting the order, Q. Now, when you abandoned the possession of the batiding undor this order by what autnority did youdoso?. A. Lsaw the Judge in referenoe ro the matter and learned from him that he had oo objection, and | got his verbs) permission to do so, t Where did you see him? A. My recollection 1s that 1¢ was in nis chambers, at the court uouse. Q Whats day? A, i cannot recoilect the tame; it was somewhere about the 13th of January; Low long after we took pi mn of the building I am unable to state; the oflicerim commana of the de- tachment came to my office and stated that he hud leit his wile im Florida, and they had just made arrangements there ior housekeeping, and soiune domestic affairs there needed his attention, an@ he asked that, if I had no objection, he would like to be relieved and return to Fiorida; he said that General umory vélieved that there was no occasion Jor the troops being there iurtuer; I went to the Judge im Chamvers to get his orde? & What conversation did you have with him? A. Tasked him if there was any objection to my Teheving the Marsbal and hia iorce trom the State House, which | was still pccupying under bis order; he stated that there was none; then I recailed the deputy. rs There was nothin; witharawal? A, No, sir. Q. ‘The order was not rescinded? A. Not to my pester ae \Q. And you have kept the order eversince in your possession until you brought it here to-day ?" A. Yes, sir; a copy Of the order was in the record, jor | had @ transcript made Jor the Attorney Gen- eral; copies of it were made the same day, but the original order happened to be miigiaid among the japers on the desk of my deputy, and {did not Dow where it wus; 1t was overlooked. o Have you ever made any revurn of your dot tgs Une that order of the Court? A. No, sir. hile the troops remained there in posses- sion of the building, did you have any interviews ‘with Judge Durell? A. Ido not recollect of any; I, of course, saw him frequently, Q. Didhe inquire of you what vou were doing and how. yon bad executed the order? A. No, sir. Q. Did you not inform him of what you nad done un‘ler the order? A. I may have possibly in- formed him afterward to what extent the order was carried out, Q. Did you or did you not? A. I do not remem- ber doing it. Q. Did you at any time inform him that you had Withdrawn irom the possession of the building? A. Ihave no recollection of it, Q. Were you at anv time remonstrated with by any citizens or others ior holding possession of the buliding? A. No; 1 do not remember having any re- monstrance to me with reference to the matter at all; 1 sawin the newspapers articies id you have amy conversation with him.) criticising me—in democratic newspapers. abdut them? A. None that I recollect of; I have stated to the best of my recollection the only in- structions 1 received, Q@ Dia you not say that it was expected that you should find the returns there? A, I stated that the returns were there, and it was expected that we should get them 60 that they id be under the control of the Court ii wanted. Q. in what way were you controlling them? A, Tne Court had-ordered the Governor to bring the returns into Court and he had not obeyed these orders up to that time. Q. What did the Cout expect yon to. do with these returns? A. Nothing whatever; he gave me no instructions in regard to the returns. ai You stated that the Judge gave you verbal orders not to inter.ere with the Legisiature going in there? A, No, air; 1 did not state that; he sai only not to interiere With the State officers; tuere was no Legisiature meeting there at that time. What instructions, if any, in addition to those in the order, were given you about the removal of persons there? A. None at all. Q. Then all that he said relating to those State officers was independent of the order you have mentioned? A. Lt was all embraced in the written order upon which he gave me verbal directions. Q. What instructions, if any, did he give you about persons Claiming to be ejected to the Legis- lature? A. I have no recollectton o1 his menvion- Ing it to me at all, Q. Then you were leit to this part of the order—*But the Marshal is directed to.aliow the ingress and egress to and from the pubiic oftices in said building of persons entitied to the same ;” you had Do special instructions in re- gard to who these persons were entitled to pass in and out? A. | have no recollection of any; 1 can state what my impressions were. ‘Then you considered, and do now coneider, that you were left to your own discretion 10 deter- mining who were entitled, under that clause of the order, to go in ana out of the building? A. Yes, sir; thatJs the way I understood it at tae time and 80 understand it now. Q. How long did you HOLD POSSESSION OF THE BUILDING under that order? A. Until alter the inauguration of Governor Kelloyg. Q. Give us the date? A. Icannot tell the date that the troops were withdrawn. Q. Did the United States troops remain there in ear pe with your deputy during that time. A. they did. Q. Subject to the command of the deputy all the timer A, Yes, sir; they were quartered ip the loit of the building, with a guard down by tile door; the guard stood there With the deputy marshal, down by the door; after the first day or two there Was no attention paid to who went in or out. Q. Did any person spply for admission to the building who was refused? A. 1 understood that Governor Warmoth, when he first applied, was re- fused, at least until the deputy was called, and as soon as he was called he passed the Governor in; Lalso understand that General McMiliau was stopped at the door when the building was first occupied; he was Senator at the time and he was detained at the door until the deputy arrived, when he was admittea; I recollect these circum- stances because it has been called to my attention a ee. examimation last winter; Irecollect none others, Q. Was there any effort of those persons who claimed to be counted in by Warmoth and his Board to assemble in that building aiter you took jon? A. Yes, sir; some of them went there; they were returned by the Wiltz-De Feriet Board, but the: vanes who were also returned by the Lyncl oa! Q. Did any that were returned by Warmoth slung apply ior admission? A. None to my knowl- edge. Q. Have you any information of that kind from your deputy? A. None at all. he Were any members of the Legigiature per- mitted to assemble during the time you held the building? A. The Legislature assembled on the 0th. What Legisiature was that? A, The state Legisiacare ; the Legislature known as the Kellogg Legisiature as distinguished trom the other. Q. Waere old they assemble? A, The members of the House assembled in the hall on the second floor and tne menivers of the Senate in the hall on the first floor. Q. Did they sit ore the time the building was in possession of United States troops? A. Yes, sir. Were the doors guarded by United States troops at the time? A. There were troops insight; they were standing on eitner side of the door, bu not interfering with the ingress or egress of the eople. a Or Was the general public allowed to go in and out? A. Yes, sir; 80 lar ae they wanted to. Q. Were no distinctions made? A. Not to my knowledge. Q. What doors were guarded by the soldiers? A. The iront doors of the main entrance, Q Did that front door open immediately into the legis re hall? A. No, sir; lt opeued into a pas- sageway; that passageway, or @ continuation ofit, went to the door of,the Senate Chamber ; then upon either side of the Bon adel a few leet irom the door, were stairs Which lea upto the hall of the House of Representatives. Q. Were there any sOldiers inside of the ouild- ing? A, Yes, sir; on either side oi the stairway. Q. Did they pass up and down going to and from their quarters? A. Yes, sir;,they went up the same stairway that the members of the House went up; but they did not pass through tne hall of the House oi Representatives, neither did they pass through the hail of the Senate. Q Don’t you know from Ju Durell that it was understood between you and him that the War- moth Legislature was not to be permitted to as- semble there? A. 1 had no understanding of that kind at all. Was not that the purpose of this proceedin, topecrens that Legisiature from assembling? <7 It it was I did not understand it so, for at the time of the issuance of the order we had no expectation of the Legisiature assembling as they did aiter- werd: as Led ete i, Le BL was that e purpose oF urt in occupyiny uilding was Eo tave it so as they could get atit. Q. Did he tell you that was the purpose? A. I cannot say that he said that in woras; that was the impression leit on my mind; perlaps be may have said it in so many words, Q. Was that impression from what he saia? A. ‘The impression was from what I learned while in ‘tne room, Q. Did the Judge say anything that gave you that impreasion? A. I cannot recall any conversa- tion with reference to tt at all. Have you any reason to believe that the Judge toll you anything that led you to infer that was the object? A. I have @ receliection that when tne order was being drawn, in @ conversation with some one in the room, that tte Judge in insisting upon iasuing the order, stated that his purpose was to occupy the building, and that at once, for fear that Warmoth would and barricade the building, so that his officera could not get in and make rvice ; for if he issded an order which re- aired an officer to go into the building and serve it upon the Governor he might be denied admis. sion and it would cause bi Q. That the Judge stated? A. I recollect some- thing os that Kind being stated in the room, 793, discretion upon | e Q But no appeal was made to you personally as Marshal? A. No, sir; almost as soon as the bulld- ing was occupied! at once took measures to put the troops where they would be out of the way of all the ofcers who had offices in the building, and instructed the deputy not to interfere with them, Q Would you have had any difficulty in execut- ing. that order without Procanne too 2 A. T could not have executed it without; Governor Warmoth resisted everything except superior lorce. y. But you say there was nobody there but watchmen? A. There were policemen there act- ing as watchmen of the building, Q. By what authority did you assume to make requisition for troops? A. [had @ process in my | hands and was unable to execute it with the force of my office. Q. Did you make any effort to execute it? A. I ‘was well aware that I cowd not execute it, Q Did you make any effort to procure a posse comitatus of citizens? A. No, sir, Q. You sent in the first instance for troops? A. By law the troops can be used by the Marsnal jor enforcing an order without making any call upon the posse comitatus. ‘By Mr. Wilsou—Q. I understand you to say that Governor Warmoth had issued a proclamation calling an extrasession of the Legislature for the HL of December, 1872? A. That is my recoliec- on. Q Do you know whetber the parties who had | been declared to be elected by the De Feriet Board did afterward attempt to assemble as a legislative body; and, tt so, where was it they sought to as- semble or did assembie? A. I only know it from pubiic report, Q. Where was that? A. They had their seasions at the Odd Fellows’ Hail; the first time, I believe, at Lyceum Hall, Q. Do you know whether injunctions were served upon members or reputed members of that | body, individually, as they went there? A. In this case there was @ restraining order issued against a great many persons; 1¢ was-given to the deputy to serve; the manner of the service, the time of service, 1] have no knowledge of, except by reier- ence to the returns. Q. This particular order of which we have Spoken Was not then served upon the individual members of that body that assembled at Lyceum Hali? A. J think they first assewbied at Ly- ceum Hail; the deputies, when this re- straining order was first placed in their hands, went about the cityyto tind the persons mentioned in the order and make service On them; what par- ticular day they served it | cannot say; Ican say that one of my deputes told me that he served several about the City Hall on Monday morning— the morning that the Legislature convened; | rec- oliect the circumstance that one person, when he was handed the paper, ture it up with some re- mark derogatory to the United States Court. THE TESTIMONY OF MR, BECKWITH. As @ still turther description oi the scene on the night whem the order was issued, we print a part of the testimony of Mr. J. R. Beckwith, wno was of counsel with Billings and Hart in the case :— av Who drew the bill in the Kellogg case? A. I . What was tke first step taken in that case after the bill had been prepared? A, lt was sworn to by Mr. Kellogg; I took the bill to Judge Durell, in his room adjacent to the courtroom, and sub- mitted it to him. Q. Was itin that proceeding the Mechanics’ In- stitute pallet was seized by the United States marshal? A. I hardly know, sir; I never saw the order alter tt was signed; 1 do not know in which case that order was issued. Q. What connection, il any, did you have in the issuance of that ordery A. 1 stated the matter tuily in my testimony beiore the Committee on Privileges and Elections of the United States benate, winter, when my recollection was more fresh than it is now. The statement that you made then, and after- ward published by the committee, is substantially correct, sit mot? A. 1 never read the report; I presume that it is, Q. Did you make any application to the Judge to issue any such order in that case? A. None, Q. Who was associated with you on the part of Mr. Kellogg? A. My impression is that my name appears as the only solicitor and counsel in the bul; but @ short time aiter the bill wus filea Mr. Mea H. Hunt and Mr. Billings was associated witu me. Q. Did you, or either of those gentlemen whom you have named, with your knowledge, make any @pplication to Judge Durell for such an order, or jor any order in reference to the seizure of the Mechanics’ Institute building? A, I did not. ©°Q. Wnen did you first know that such an order Was to be issued, or that any order was to be issued? Please state all the circumstances, and also state the time of day or night it occurred. A, Some time in the ight; my recollection ig that it was about ten o’ciock, or in that victnity—I know I was about to Tetire—when some one came to my house and stated that Judge Durell was anxious to I somewhat demurred to going out at that night, but was told that it was an act of some im- portance. I then, as soon as [ got on my clothes, went to Judge Dureil’s room, and my recollection 18 that on my way there I met Mr. Billings, I asked him what was the matter or occasion of calling us Out at that time of night, I think he answered me that he did not know; at ieast I got no idea trom him as to what was the matter, and [ jpposed tl it Was something growing out of Juuge Durell’s apprehension of personal danger, which was great. Ireached his room and found there Juage Durell, Mr, De Kiyne, Mr. Packard, half dozen other peopie, sors of body guard posted about there to re- lieve Judge Dureli’s apprehension of violence; some one, 1 go not know who it was—I think it was J jurell—asked me to look at an order that he had made and to make some suggestions about it; @ rough draugnt of the order, which was substantially the one I have seen printed since, was lying on the table; Ldo,not remember now in whose handwriting it was; 1 read it over, and Judge Durell announcea that he was going to issue it; we did not think there was other course for him, if they persisted in detying his court; I then made some modification of the terms of the order; [ added these words, “The Marshal ia directed to allow ingress and egress into the said building of persons entitled the same;’’ that amendment seemed to be satisfactory and was accepted; I was unwell, and started to leave for my house again, and as I left Judge Durell stopped me at the door o. his room and made some remark about the constant threats of violence that were being made, and the fact that they were utterly disregarding his orders; that he yp the order was proper, and my recollection is that he stated the fact that LORD BACON MADE SOME SUOH ORDER, while chancellor. or took some such senae Q How long were you there that evening? A. I do not think I was there ten minutes; I atate in this connection that when I leit some person ‘was engaged in copying the order; the original Sraugut of the order was im ratuer an illegible ale Q, Did you leave before Mr. Billings did? A. 1 could not tell you, Q. Was anything sal to who had suggested | the issuance of such an order? A, Notoing; I had been urging in tie court proceedings against the delevdan's tw the bill ior contempt; stuting a8 @ reason ‘hat the order ongnt to be literally en- , forced, and I propounded interrogatories to the dejeadan's, and had some trouble to get answers, and Tnev'r could get the matter heard; it was con- | Stantiy postponed, . Did you have a persona! interview with the | Judge after you went in the room aside from the other? A, No, sir; no other than the one t have detailed. Q. Did you notice Judge Durell’s condition that night? A. He was then, ag he had been for some seven OF eigiit days, under a state of considerable exeitement.. My imprgssion then was the sume which tt had been for several days—that he waa laboring under bodily fear. ‘The times were very serious then { suppose I received from ten to elve threatening letters, and it was sald tn some of them that if | appeared on Canal street, 1 would be shot in ten minutes. I used to take my over- coat and start immediately fur Canal street, and did not meet with any difticulty. It was a horrible. state Of public excitement, and men were appa- rently encouraging violence that should have known better, Q.—What was his condition as, to ight that nignst A.—lhaven’t any idea that he wus lntoxi- cated at that time. In bis conversation with me he was periectly clear. He is @ man of very pow- erful memory. Iremember in that cony rsation with me he alinded to some matter that had been povitened in the newspapers, wherein it was al- jeged that he styled himself the “vicegerent of Al- mighty God,” and he complained that the journals misrepresented what he had said, He algo reterred to some letter of Lord Bacon upon the conduct of judges, and tn his conversation with me he ap- eared periectly clear and lucid, although he jeemed very much excited, as he had been jor ten days past, DURELL AND NORTON t gin the court directing the | Management of the, Bankruptcy Business in Louisiana. Norton Keops All the Proceeds of Bankruptcy Sales for Fees—A Complete Analysis of His Methods of Doing Business. NEw ORLEANS, Feb. 17, 1874. That extortion has been practised to an enor- mous extent in the United States District Court at New Orleans, the Congressional committee lately in session in this city must be well satisfied of, or at all events, that “just cause” for preferring arti- cles of impeachment against Judge Durell.has been shown. The forty-flith section of the Bankrupt act makes extortion a criminal offence, It reads ag follows:— And be it farther enacted, That if any judge, register, clerk, marshal, mesonger, assignee, or any other officer of the several courts of bankruptcy shall, for anything done or pretended to be done under this act, or under golor of doing anything thereunder, wiltully take, or appoint, or allow any porson whatever to take for him or on his account, or for or on account of apy other person, or in trust for nim or tor any ollier person, any fee, emolument, gratuity, sum of money, or anything of Value whatever, other than 13 allowed by this act, of which shall be allowed under the authority thereof, such person, when convicted thereo!, shall iorielt and pay the sum ot not less than $3, and not exceeding $500, and imprisoned not exceeding three years. CHOICE OF ASSIGNEES. Section 13 of the Bankrupt law of 1867 recog- nizeg it to be the right of the creditors, they shall gee fit, to choose one or more assignees, Indeed, it makes 1t imperative upon them to choose, but as it was impossible to force the creditors to ac- tion, an alternative was provided :—‘“If no choice is made by the creditors the judge, or, if there be no opposing interest, the register, shall appoint one or more assignees.” “All elections or ap- pointments of assignees shall be subject to the ap- proval of the judge; and when in bis judgment it is for any cause neediul or expedient, he may ap- point additional assignees or order a new election.” It will be seen from these quotations of the Jaw that the whole matter is at last in the hands of the Judge. It may be true that in Northern and Western cities, no judge would attempt to ex- ercise any improper power or influence over cred- itors of bankrupts end their counsel, but it is also true that judges in .rome of the Southern States have availed themselves of the impoverished condition of those communi- ties and their political affiliations, not only to dis- Tegara the ‘rignts and feelings of parties before them, but to ride almost “roughshod” over them and practised under the color o1 law and through the power and influence of their office an oppres- sion unparalleled in any part of the world. Wil- liam the Conqueror did not govern the English pev- ple more ruthlessly than Judge Durell! and his favor- ites have trampled upon the rights and feelings of parties interested in these bankruptcy proceed- ings. Mr, Freeman, in his late remarkable history of the Norman Conquest, makes some observa: tions pertinent to this dsicussion. At page 37 of his fourth volume he says:— “The process of confiscation is well worth study- ing. Almost every detail illustrates the way, in William’s policy, wrong contrived to assume the mask of right, and how the plunder of the conquest was gathered in with all the forms of a legal process.’” That is precisely what has been done in Judge Durell’s Court ever since he opened it in 1863. The proceedings in cases brought before him under the Confiscation act of Congress show that all kinds of advantage, exactions and extortions were prac- tised ior the sole benefit of Court ofiicers, favors ites and hangers on of the Court. To understand and fully comprehend how this was done one had to be on the spot and familiar with the history and character of the men engaged in carrying on these confiscation suits. It was necessary also to comprehend the conditions of society here—the transactions of the people in the past—to know the facts surrounding this business, to be enabled to form @ correct idea of what was goingon. In 1863, 1864 and 1865 there Was no real estate market in New Orieans. Tne majority of tue property owners and A people of means were ab- sent in the Conlederacy. Sales of confis- cated property by the United States Mar- shal must necessarily have been for nominal prices, and the truth is that such was the fact, It has been asserted, and can easily be established, that out of the millions of dollars’ worth of real estate and personal property confiscated and sold by the United States authorities not one-fifth part oi the value of tue same ever went into the Treas- ,| ury of the ems I know or properties soid in New Orleans for one-third of their value, and the price, uf ever paid, Was eaten up by costs and charges, and much of this property was purchased by officers o1 the Vourt or persons near the Court. It is not asserted that Judge Durell personally ever purchased, directly or indirectiy, any of this prop- erty; but it 18 asserted and is undeniable that he i) several men known to this community quite rich who before had been quite poor or in limited cir- cumstances, Sales in bankruptcy as conducted here are only another form of confiscation. AD analysis of the testimony and the law ap- pucene to it enables me to say that no estate in ankruptcy, in Judge Durell’s Court, has ever been administered Ou, ander the law, solely by an assignee selected by the creditors. Im each and every case where the creditors have elected an assignee under the provisions ot the law, without the expressed consent of the creditors and without their solicitation, has been joined as their co-assignee by order of the Court and has custody of the junds of the same. No bankruptcy administered by assignees has ever taken piace in Dureil’s Court, wherein the official assiguee has not veen ap acting assignee with full power over the estate and junds. The appointment of a general oficial assignee to estates in bankruptcy, and especially in estates wherein the creditors have elected an assign and an action of the Court not authorized by any of the provisions oi the Bankrupt jaw, is repug- nant to its spirit and amounts to malfeasance on t of the Judge, and that all iees allowed by the Judge to such an officer eis appointed under the law are within the prohibitions of the forty-fAfth section of the Bankrupt act. Out of the 1,100 to 1,200 estatea in bankruptcy in Juage Du- reli’a Court there are not more than twenty in whicu the creditors @ elected assignees. The remainder have been administered py E. F. Norton, the official General Assignee of the Vourt. In cases in Which the General Assignee has sold prop. erty subject to mor: he has retained and ap- Ppropriated to himself tue whole of the price of the property received by him. ‘Thus, if a piece of Five erty of the value of $15,900 was mortgaged ior $10, and the price for which it was soid was $6,000, sub- ject to mortgages, the General Assignee retained ‘and appropriated this money—say $! to him- self, and the same was not accounted for or dis- tributed among the creditors, In such case the custom of assignee Norton has been to make an ex parte application to the Jydge, without submit- ing vouchers and otten without his affidavit that he, the penemee be allowed the whole of such price received by him, 8 compensation for his services, claiming it to be due to him, and that the Judge has invariably approved the claim and granted the prayer of such applicauon, and pronopaced judg: did nothing to secure the ends o! justice, but made | lemand or’ oficial and general assignee of the Court, acting | had the chie! administration of the estate and | ee, 8 an act of favoritism | 5 ment thereon tn favor of the assignee, giving to parties in interest no opportunity to object to these applications. In these cases of sales of mortgaged property at private sale Norton would represent to the Judge that it was moarigeged for mere than its value, and that he had iiad a great de.l of troobie, that the creditors had no interest in this fund reaiwed, aud he (Nor- ton) was thercore enttiled to the whole sum as his Compensation tor makrng the sale. Mark, that these suies were made privately and not at public auction as all judicial sales ought to be, which gave him every opportunity to manage tne business for his own benefit, Mark again, that Nortou’s aver- ments in these ex parte petitions to Dureti for com- pensation were never supported by vouchers or any eviaence, They were mere naked statements of ns own, supported, however, in some cases, by his affidavits, quali‘ied by the precautionary meas- ure ol swearing not positively, but “to tue best of his knowledge and belief, Such proceedings are clearly illegal and unjust, and are opposed to the intent and spirit of the Bankrupt act, which recognizes and protects the riguts of both debtor and creditor. Such enor- mous compensation to the General Assignee con- clusively proves a javoritism towards him on the art of the Court which is culpable and exposes the udge to the penaities of the forty-fith section of the Bankruptcy act, and renders inp also liable to impeachment for misdemeanor. There 18 Doth- ing in the Bankrupt act which authorizes the al- lowa ‘ce to an assignee of the whote price received for property sold by him, subject to mortgage, but, on tie contrary, only @ air compensation, The agereg mount of appropriations like the above largely exceeds $80,000, the furegoing being cited a8 mere examples, An inspection of the ac- counts of the Geueral Assignee siows that these unreasonable and extravagant allowances are not set forth at all in these accounts, but that in addi- tion to them the General Ass gnee has charged and received Jarge sums set down ascosts and fees, which are excessive and exorbitant, and that very many ol these charges are clearly fictitious, and never were iccurred by the assignee. further, that these charges generally absorb and swallow up the entire funds of the estate, leaving nothing for the creditors. The evidence given by many proaiinent members of the par of New Orleans, peiore the Cougressional committee establishes the facts— First—That a long and very close intimacy has existed between Judge Durell, E, E. Norton and bis Jawyers—Billings and Hughes. oe Second—Taat the orders of Judge Vurell in bankruptcy cases had the tendency and, con- sequently, the purpose of preventing inquiry in relation tothe exorbitant charges of the General Assignee, Instead of opening wide the door of his juré to all com ts on this score, he steaduy and roughly shut tne door to such com- piaints by orders and devices of various kinds, Third—That. very soon after this policy of the Court was manifested, and atter many ineifectual attempts to counteract the extraordinary in- fluence of Norton over the Judge and make oppost- lion to his rapucity, parties to these bankruptcy proceedings came tO the conclusion they pad eiter make the best terms they could with Nor- ton, and his accounts on file in the Court show that the attorneys employed by him are charged with large sums of money. In the most trifling cases there ure attorney's fees charged from $100 to $500, in cases oO: magnitude irom $1,000 to $15,000, These services were mostly nominal, and the money was paid to silence Opposition or for some otier fraudulent or illegal purpose, That in one ‘nstance, at the beginning of No: ton’s administration, and in a case in which the assets realized the sum of $3,655 84, the whule Was swallowed up {n costs, Charges and tees, real and fictitious. It was divided out among Norton and bis retainers th Small charges. ‘Taking inventory ‘Three lawyers o} the assign ‘700 00 United States Marshal, Clerk, Commissioner, fees 199 26 Charge of auctioneer 627 26. Comunissious of auctioneer, 25 per ce! 772 63 ‘Norton's personal services.......... 1,080 19 There was no dividend to the creditors in this case. These figures are taken from Norton's ac- counts current with the estate of the vankrupt, which are on file in the office of the Clerk of tne’ Court. And this is one of the very smailest ex- ampies of the assignee’s rapacity, but it is,a “specimen brick,” and the maxim applies—"“£r uno disce omnes.” THE MASKED BURGLARS. Sweeping Conviction and Sentence of the Outlaws—“Larry” Griffin and “Patsy” Conway Each Sentenced to Twenty Years in the State Prison. The trial of “Larry” Griffin, another member of the masked band which in the dead of night broke into and ransacked the residence of Miss Lydia H. Emmett, at New Rochelle, was commenced yester- day morning in the Court of Sessions at White Plams, Westchester county. There was no diminu- tion im the numerous attendance which formed a | feature of the preceding days, each seat within and without the bar enclosure having been eagerly | occupied long before the proceedings commenced. ‘When the Court and counsel had been seated District Attorney Briggs arose and moved that the case of the people against Lawrence Griffin be taken up, and suggested that the Court assign 4 Colonel J. B. Fellows, who was present and was familiar with the case, to the defence o! the pris- oner. The counsel named then addressed the Court, explaining the misunderstending which seemed to exist in regard to his professional rela- tions towards Dan Kelly, exXonerating bimeelf from any apparent remissness mM not being present to deiend that individual on Thursday, and concluded by saying that if the Court so wished he would do the best ue could for the prisoner at the bar. The Court then, with the consent of Griffin, assigned Colonel Feilows to defend tum. A few minutes only were consumed in the em- anelling of @ jury, the first twelve names drawn faving proved mutually satisiactory to the op- | posing counsel, Tbe evidence for the prosecution was tuen rapidly presented, the prisoner’s counsel dweling very briefly on the cross-examina- tion of each witness, who rehearsed the same conclusive statement as that given at the trials of Conway and Kelly. ‘The identity of the accused as having been seen tn the vicinity of Miss Emmett’s house on the evening preceding the bur- giary, of vis having, with six or seven others, been jerried across Long Isiand Sound on the tollowt: morning, and his subsequent passage to New Yor! on the steamer Seawanaka, was testitied to most positively by several witnesses. This closed the case on both sides, as the deience did not produce | a solitary witness. Knowing that he was ¢ 4 in & hopeless case Colonel Fellows disclaimed all mtention of making @ speech to the jury, and stated that he had a few requests to solicit of the Court in behalf of the pris- oner. We then asked the Court to.charge the jury that ii they had any reasonable doubt on the whole case that the identification. of Griffin was not proved, that doubt waa legally his and the jury must acquit; also, that if thé jury were in doubt as to Whether the prisoner committed either the burglary or the sarceny with which he was charged in the indictment, they must give Griflin the ben- tix of such doubt and only convict him ot the lesser offence. When District Attorney Briggs had briefly sum- marized the leading facts brought out in evidence aaune the accused the Vourt charged the jury, which, after an absence of about three minutes, came into Court and rendered @ verdict of “guilty as charged in the indictment.” Previous to being sentenced Griffin, in answer to questions propounded by the clerk of the Court, satd that he was thirty-one years old, born in Ireland, @ stonecutter by trade, and refused to say whether he had or had not ever been in a State prison or penitentiary. Upon being asked by the Court whether he had anything to sa sentence should not be passed upon him, Griffin ejected a quantity of tobacco juice upon the new carpet and nonchalantly replied in the negative, whereupon he was sentenced to be confined at hard labor in the State Prison for twenty years, “Patey” Conway, alias Uonroy, was brought from the jail into Court during the day and sentenced to twenty years "imprisonment at hard labor, The Court then adjourned until next Thursday, on which day the trial of the remaining “masked bur- Lt John Burns, alias “Billy” Woods, will take place, WASHINGTON’S BIRTHDAY. Which Day 1s the Legal Holiday—The NEW ENGLANDS POOR, Condition of the Operatives and Laborers in the Manufacturing Towns, ACTIVITY IN THE MILLS, Deserving Poverty in Lawrence, Mass.—The Work of Relief—A Pitiful Case. LAWRENCE, Mass,, Feb. 19, 1874. Lawrence is now one of the drst manufacturing cities of the Kast, and was incorporated some Unrty years agoat a time when business opera- tions were commenced on a small scale, which have since considerabiy developed, There are at present over 10,000 operatives employed in the Lawrence cotton and woullen mills, and though a¢ present tuere 18 not any increase in the demand The following 1s @ partial list oO: the cases re- | ior jabor, there ig tu ferred to above, with the sums received by the al 10 prospect Of») am General Assignee :— abundance of work during the next two or oo | three months, There ‘s also considerable 00 Pdistress in Lawrence, but it is almost entirely con- 00 | finé’to the laboring classes, Many of the mills 322—Kstate of Sarah A. Scott. 11875 09 | bave been putting in new labor saving machinery, ph Estate of etl 2,000 7 which would naturally throw some out of work; state Ol H, Marks 350 1a7—estate of BB Simms’ 2,812 50 but stilb the statistics do not show any important 607—kstate of N. B. Trist... 1,400 00 | decrease in the number of hands employed, It ap- dpzrobsiate re £ BR Hitepell 700 e3 pearsthat although many mills are turning out ute of Murrell... 1,200 a 626—Estate of W.'T. Oiver. 877 00 more goods with less labor, they are all the tme 824—-Estute of Spencer Selden 1,900 09 | imcreasing thelr capacity, aud consequently re- Estate of J. H. Cunningha: 1,000 00 | quire fresh hands to manage the new machinery, Estate of Campbell & kckio! 500 00 LABOR REFORM, e Estate of C, W. Phillips 4,000 00 ‘ 706—Estate of W. W. Chapi 700 00 The labor question in the East has of late been Ketate of Higginvotuam. 176 00 | considerably agitated, and the labor reformers are — jt Total. . $20,001 60 going to make a hard fight in the State Legislature lor @ ten-hoar law, The corporations, however, are prepared for this, and havé so arranged their tariil of wages as to have it proportioned by the hour, so that in case of a reduction of time there would be @ proportionate reduction of pay. At present these mills rum sixty-two and a half nours per week, that is to say, eleven hours per day for five days and seven and a half hours on Saturday, The operattver go in to work at half-past six, quit at twelve, commence again at one P, M, and quit at half-past six P.M. On Sat- urdays they commence at half-past, six and quit at two P. M., whicn gives them the whole afternoon for shopping and marketing or whatever they may have to do, This arrangement appears to meet with the general approval of the operatives, TABLE OF LABOR STATISTICS, The following table will show the labor employed in January, 1873 and 1874:— 7 560 10 Lawrence Woollen Co, _60 65 45 50 Lawrenve Duck Co. 160 90 160 90 Pemberton Uo. 600 = 250 600-250 Washington Mills 922 1,001 623-675 Atlantic Mills. . 850 450 800 425 Totals......s....00-.5,742 8,816 6,718 3,700 A BUSY ESTABLISHMENT. The Pacific Mills is, perhaps, the largest corpo- Tation of the kind in New England, and occnpies thirty-tive acres of ground, twenty-five of which are covered with machinery and ten with buildings used as storehouses, They are at present running full time, sixty;two and @ halt hours per week, and turning out more goods than they ever did Before. When ail the other miils in last November made some reduction in their wages, the Pacific Mills kept up their original pay roll, and although they were obliged to warn their hands to ‘expect some work at three-quarter time they were never forced to catry out the warning, and now state that last twenty years they have not stopped work ten days. This corpo- ration pays out about $40,000 per week in salaries which are graded at eleven cents per hour to the femaies aud fifteen cents per hour to the males. They also take particular interest in the comiort of their hands, and have established a reading room and library for thelr especial benefit. The agent of the milis speaks with pride of thesanitary _ condition of the hands, and says that mortality does not average more than a haif per cent, and also that forty per cent o! their employés own their own houses, BRISK WORK IN THE MILLS. The Everett Milis are running about the same force that ne employed last year, but in Decem- ber they found it necessary to decrease the pay- roll about tem per cent, ihe Lawrence Wooilen Company have Made no reduction in their salary list, but are empioying only three-fourths of the number of men on their books in January, 1873. The Lawrence Duck Company employ about 260 hands, and have made a reduction of about eight per cent in the wages uf the men 1n their eg ‘The women’s’ salaries have been untouched. At present this company is overrun with business and is working nights, thus making about ten hours per week additional time, This, of course, is a benefit to tne operatives, as they are paid al- moat entirely by the hour er the piece. The Pem- berfon Cotton and Wooilen Mi are running about 756 hands, which is a slight decrease on their muster roli for 1873, They huve also taken about ten per cent off their pay roll, but anticipate plac ing it on the old basis when business livens, LABOR SAVING MACHINERY, The Washington Cotton and Woolien Mills is the largest corporation of the kind in Lawrence after the Pacific. They have not been doing, ver; much lately, a8 they stopped work in November ii order to put in some new labor-saving machinery. They are at present employing about 1,800 hands, which is over 1,000 under their usual complement. This will probably account for the appearance in Lowell and the neighboring manutacturing towns + of a number of mill hands seeking for work, EFFECTS OF THE PANIC. The stoppage of work in these mills i@ more especially confined 3° the woollen depart- ment, and to bé mainly attributable to the panic, Large wholesale houses at that time were Jeft with a heavy stock of goods on hand which they were unable to dispose of, and consequently the mills became crowded With goods which they iound no market for, and had to stop work until business resamed its ‘ugualcourse. In November thus corporation re- duced the Wages of their employés about twenty percent. At present their cotton mill is running With new machinery that turus out the same amount of work asin 1873, and 18 operated with fif- teen bands less tian were required last year. The Atlantic Cotton Mills 18 avout the only cor- poration of tne kind in Lowell that carries out the ten hour principle. They reduced their wages in January about ten per cent, and are now running tull time, but with about seventy-five less than the number of hands they had employed last year. This ts mainly owing to the new labor sav- ing machinery, as they manufaciure the same quantity of goods as they did jast year. THE DESERVING POOK—A PITIFUL CASE, There 18 a@ great deal of distress in Law- rence, notwithstanding the comparative pros- the — manulacturi interests, I entered the office, occupied jointly by the clerk of the Overseers of the Poor and the City Missionary | witnessed a case well deserving of charity. A mother Was asking for clothing ior her nine children, drawn up tn line beuind her, and ranging in age irom about fiteen tofour. it appears that her husband ts a panper and has been sent to the State Farm, vat this woman ig willing to work, and said, “1 will feed them all if you will assist me with clothing and put some boots on their feet.” Neither oi the officials, however, had any boots to give away and the lite ones went bareiooted out in the cold, The cierk of the Overseer of the Poor said that this has been a remarkably hard season, and that in January he assisted 274 persons who were really deserving of charity. In i873 he assisted 614 persons, so that it will be seen that in one month O1 1874 the applications for relief were more than were made in five montha of 1873, The destitute appear to be nearly ail laborers, as the Operators and mecnanics out of work have mostly gone to other i im search of employmem®.) The city missionary superintends @ private oharity that d great deal of good in Lawrence, in 1873 he assisted 1,830 persons. or an average of about 150 per month, ana in January, 1874, he aided 410 persons, sow!) that the appl- cations for relief were nearly trebled. ‘The labor question in the East appears to be one rather hard to solve. Mechanics and ekilied arti- sans have comparatively .iltie difficulty in obtain- ing employment, but thirty per cent of the com- mon lavorers are out of work. A CASE OF DESTITUTION AT NEWPORT. Newrort, R, I,, Feb. 20, 1874. Mary O’Brien, who will be remembered by the readers of the HERALD a® the lady who was the victim of & brutal assault by @ backman in New Law Stated. There is some doubt existing in regard to whether next Monday, February 23, 1s to be alegal holiday or not, According to tho statutes, the 22d day of February is designated as among the legal holidays, Chapter 870, of the Laws of New York York recently (the offender now serving a twenty years’ sentence for the sane), has arrived In this city im search of her relatives, whom she be- Ueves will give her home until she is able to find employment. In vain have the been in search for her relatives, but up to to-night have tound no possi- ble clew to their (ON per arg and the un! Di for 18% evifies that “when such holiday shall | girl will be obii to-night, as well as last occur on Sanday, the foliowing Monday shall be be cared for at the fe station. To add to deemed # pubiic holiday ; and any bill of prea cup of sorrow she has lost her trunk, in which bank check, or promissory note, made after the | were all her effects, and also the check to the assage of this act (April 23, 1870), which but for | same, Her case has awakened aym- this ‘fact would fali due and hes) on such Sunday pathy, and the Daily Pas al thro ite columns Seoehtvint tn Sader cy ale Saran | era een as cee nat tals oe Jollowing 8 5 er ib procuring money ana clot! two attest @ Matter not well leratood, an y veme sue M4 destitute, important 1