The New York Herald Newspaper, March 6, 1874, Page 4

GOOD SAMARITANS. a Seen The Ministry of Comfort to Those Who | Are Ready to Perish. -} GENEROUS AND GRASPING LANDLORDS, its by the St. | John's Guild Volunteers. ——. MRS. WORSTELL AND THE GROCERS. Fourteen Thousand People Fed at the Soup Kitchens. THE SOUP KITCHENS. About 14,000 persons yesterday were provided with an excellent soup made of beef and vege- tables at the diferent soup Kitchens under the | direction of Mr. Delmonico. The system now es- tablished at the different soup kitchens is working | very smoothly, and many hundreds of our best | known citizens, ladies and gentlemen, have visited the Kitchens, and as they have watched the long lives of thankiu! women und children they have had reason to promoance the sys tem the best that nas ever been known | im New York of a like nature. The soup isex- | tracted in the proportion of eighty galions of Water to 160 pounds of meat, in addition to tae dest pees rice and bariey that can be pro- eured the market, under the personal super- vision of Chef Ranhofer. Yestervay over 3,000 gallops of soup were distributed to the peopl and the majority o/ the applicants also receive bread. To-day 240 gailons of the vest fish chowder will be provided at the Sixth ward soup kitchen, | {n Centre atreet. | PICIURE3 OF POVERTY. Ladies Rallying to the Assistance of St. John’s Guild—Noble Gifts from the Merchants—Leaves trom the Notebooks of the Visitors—The Terrors of Life | Among the Lowly. At St. John’s chapel yesterday there was a con- | stant procession of the hungry and halJ-clad who | came from all quarters uf the city for food and clothing. Many ladies arrived before twelve o’clock, | and requested that lists of the poor who lived nearest their homes might be given them, They | wished to visit them and take such as tuey should eve! three children to be gtd by her suffering from a bi n arm, whieh her helpless for eleven weeks. SUNSHINE IN THE 8H. One of the most nineteen families, all of whom Dad apphed t: previous at St. John’s apel for this or that particular shan’ tne wild district around Tenth avenue, penetrated to settiement, she found the shanty Jaque, whom she discovered to be in no way in need of assistance, put who had applied with the ly thorough visitation by volunteers, whose hearts pee the work and who do it iaithrully and lear. eas! This lady also reports the extreme destitution of @ family Tmemed Smith, where there are three children, two of whom are helpless and cripples, ‘The father is outo: work and the mother ts dead. ‘This ts a case that should appeal to the charitably disposed, wane visitor found the following families destitute aud deserving of aid Duane, No. 443 West Thirty-second street, with- ut food, and every thing available pawned, ‘Mrs. Ross, at No. 809 Seventh avenue. This poor woman earus money to support @ family of chil- dren as a street pedier. There ts much in the case that will lead generous bearta 60 assist ber when they know the ay A isdy reporta Mra. Boyd, of No. 431 East Nine- teenth street, top floor back, as in great destitu- tion, She has two children and ts enceinte. Her husband has been out of work for five months. They were without food or fuel. Still another lady reports as follows:—“At No. 18 East Fourteenth street there ts a family living in the greatest poverty, There are ‘oar children. } o | | The father ts sick; the mother ia dead. They are | to be turned out of the house to-morrow (to-day), and they need help,” A GENEROUS LANDLOBD. Mrs. Worstell reporta that Mr. Hine, of the frm of Hine, Cole & Gray, Sixth uvenue and Thirty- second street, yesterday gave to Mra, Rosanna Priody a receipted bill for ber rent, due for tour months past, and also tor the month of April next, for rooms at No. 599 First avenue. The Guild 18 also assisting this poor woman, who ts a cripple, = bapa it is said, belongs to a wealthy family in city. Mrs, Worstell yesterday collected the following jonations irom among the grocers :— Hollister & Chamberlain, five bags meal. cey & Co., one chest tea. Lewis Fisher, provisions. Bock, Stcine € Co., ove darrel smoked beet John'L. Hasbrook & Sons, one barrel suar. Mahoken & Morehouse, one barre! beans. George P. (rigg & Co, hams and fish. E. A. Grele, one barie| potatoes, Marten & Stier, one tub butter. Fisher & Lansing, grocenes. Lewis Rosenstein & Co., groceries. W. K. Howard, provisions. Willet & Doolitde, one barrel bread Delvarge & Uo., ten doaen eggs ‘Treadwell & Sons, two barrels crackers, Town Bros, one sack salt F, A. & H.,one bushe! beans. Ranges & Glinn, one bag meal. a Koberts, Curlysie & Co., provisions. Hyatt £'Mouut, one bag'of meal. James Olwell & Co., one vag ot coffee. Romer & See, one bag ot meal. George H. Beyer & sons, ono barrel of four. become interested in under their own care, Other | ladies came to volunteer as general visitors, and still others to offer their services in sewing for the clothing bureau. One old lady, Mrs. Jessie Wil- | lard, of Greenpoint, brought on ber arm a basket of children’s underclothing. She comes with a well filed basket regulariy every day. The /oliow- ing are selected irom the reports of visitors :— DEAF, DUMB AND DEFORMED. Mr. Hodson reports Mary Ann Norman, living in a cellar at No. 79 King street, with her children and a sick husband, who has not worked for months. He pushed open the creaking end.dilap- \dated door, he says, and looking into the dark || cellar saw five little children scattered about, lying listlessly upon the floor, with dull, sad iaces, } {a which there was no gleam of childish mirth or playiuiness, The eldest, eleven years old, was holding in her arms an iniantof ten or eleven months. One little thing lyimgin @ wooden cradie attracted his attention, She had no covering, scarcely any clothing on her person, and seemed to be about eight years oid. She is deaf, damb, idiotic and deforme. She caénpot walk. She was Attended for some time last summer by a physician of St. John’s Guiid. Mr. Hodson asked the oldest child where her mother was. She answered, “Mamma has gone out to try and get us something to eat.” “Where is your father #” asked the vistor. | “Papa is sick,” said she. The child by degrees told | the visitor that ‘Mamma gave them some bread and | tea, that she got for them yesterday, before she went out, and they were not very hungry, They were oiten hangry and cold, but she (che eldest) didn’t care much (smiling), but the otuers cried | sometimes.” Mr. Hodson supplied their imme- diate wants with bread and milk and cakes from a neighboring bukery, and the happiness of the poor | little suffering children seemed compicte. He | called again during the day and found the mother | at home(!) He leit am order on tue Guild for groceries, and aiso submitted with his report some suggestions to the ciothing bureau. THE FRAUVS—THR SICK AND DYING. Mr. Denny reports that among jorty-Nve families which he visited yesterday he found twenty-six more or less worihy ol assistance. He also found three families where they were drunk, and a, woman who was ashamed to accept assistance, though sbe had personally applied at the Guild. One Southern lady had received from the Guild Oatmeal, which she ‘*couid not cook,” aa she had ever seen any used before. Mr. Denny found at the rear of No. 39 Sullivan street a German and his wife. The former bas been sick with consumption Jor the past two years: and has been unable to leave his bed for the last | twenty-two weeks, He cannot live much longer. His wise earns $2 a Week by washing, but while sue is OUt he has Lo one to take care of him. Mr. Denny gave them $1 to procure miik, At the rear of No. 67 Sullivan street the same visitor found @ white Woman living nime steps | underground, with @ colored busvaud and two | chudien, The husband was sick in bed trom rheumatism, In fact, the Inmates of these damp ceuars have alla release within a few years irom their misery by Oue or the other of the maladies which are carrying this poor German and negro to their grave. kLD THE MOTHER AND SISTERS OF AN ACTRESS! Mrs. P. C, Talman, who, though living m New Jersey, 18 One of the volunteer visitors who are in daily attendance at the Guild office in St, John’s chapel, reports a case W!ich she considers worthy ‘he generous action oO! the public. An actress, well kuown In New York and Brookiyn, having been connected ior several years with Mrs. Con- way’s theatre, took her turn in making room for “a fresh iace’ and was out of an engagement. She finally procured one with @ traveilil company, Which 18 doing very poorly au in consequence tails to pay ber salary regularly. She is now in a distant-city, and in the meantime | Ler mother and two trie sisters are im extreme want. The Guid is providing them with jood, and itis hoped some generous soul will assist herin paying her rent, $17 now being due, aud the land- ord unwiling to let ber remain, She has else no home but the sireet. FAINTING BY THE ROADSIDE. In front of the gateway of the Guild, in the crush of yesterday, a woman suddenly fainted. The writer went out to s er, and found her pale aud hollow-eyea trom vunger. Another womaa, Who was stoul and hearty, s\ood over her, dashing water in ber face iromatincup, Two empty bas- kets nad jallen to tue sidewalk, and one of them had been Kicked into ¢ utter by a passing street Arab. The stout woma: ained that they had come ail the w ‘rom Thirty-sixtn street, and wuen tuey reached the gate her 4 companion had said to her, “What ii they should | refuse as?” “Ah' then,” adaed the stout woman, | “she simply tarned just like ash: #t, and dropped | over like @ lump i lead.” tt s#emed, from the poor Woman’s explanation aiterwards, tnat she bad eaten nothing in two days, giving the few | morsels of food she secured to Ger chudren, She | had waiked from Thirty-sixth street wo st. Jobu's chapel, and the sudden Jear that wok possession | ot ber mind, that she might be turned away empty | hauded in her weak coudition, overpowered her, bhe and her iriesd were each supplied, aad went on their way rejoicing. READING A DULL NOVEL TO WIN FORGETFULNESS OF HUNGER, One of the hundreds of letters addressed to the editor of the HERALD and forwarded vo the Guild jor Visitation was placed Im the hands of a lady volunteer a day or two ago. The letter told a sad | siory of bunger and hopelessness, and, for a | wonder, gave the address of the writer. Tag Ieay ' Visitor called, and Jgvad the number giyen a nice | house in a fashionable elobbothood. it me | misgiving she rang and inquired for the person Whose address had been given, and was at once | sllown toasnug, prettily furnished room on the | second floor, w ¢ a lady arose politely to receive | ner. The lady or began an apology for the in- trusion, saying ste bad been directed to that num- ber ior the purpose Oo} assisting some persons Who were destitute of food. The lady jaid down the novel she had been sing | (it was Farjeon’s “Lon- don Heart’) and answered quietiy that she bad | been withoat anything to eatfor the past two | jays. “My husband,” she continued, “is search. | jug tor employment.” Alter @ while she added, | ovtly, Wolle a tear glistened io her eye, “1 could not keep my mind from dwelling upon the fact ‘vat 1 Was very hangry, and So I sat down to read ‘tls novel, to get mysell interested in the imagi- | Lary mistortunes of otuers, 80 that for a time I night forget the reality of my own.” TWO MORE GERMAN FAMILIES IN WANT, Mr. li. Delmar reports a case of “gente!” destitu- tion in Forsyth street. A German mechanic—a gaa fitter—out of work Jor five months, the wife in very delicate health and four children hungry, but Meat and cleaa. thong needing clothes badly; | Foang.& Van Alstyne, one barrel of dour. Joseph Allen & Co., ofe barrel of flour. Through New York Froduce bxchange, one barrel of oat meal and twenty-five pounds of saug H, W. Shotwell & Co., one baz of meal. J. 8 Sutphen, one baz of meal. There was, in addition to the above, sent to the office of the Guild trom J. W. Burt, one package of shoes. Miller & Co.. one package of shoea Heatrice Walters, 100 loaves of bread and five tons of nut coal. George Destow, one box coffee, one chest tea. one bag tapioca ‘through Mr. Elivin A. Bower—From Clark, Chapin & Holly, provisions, W. H. Perego & Co., nimety pounds corn starch, sago and hominy. A Worthy Woman Who Wants Work. New York, March 3, 1874. To THE EDITOR OF THE HBRALD:— Piease allow me to call attention to the case of a | worthy woman, with two young children, who are destitute and suffering tor the merest necessaries of life. The mother is a competent seamstress and dressmaker, but owing to the very great strin- geucy of the times has been unable to optain employment enough to support herself and her children, She is a Womun oi education and refine- ment, who shrinks from making her distressing position known to the general public. The charitably disposed who desire to aid ber can obtain her address and particulars by calling at the rooms of tue Women’s Educational and Indus- trial Society, No, 47 East Tenth street. THE RELIEF FUND. Donations for the poor recolved by the HERALD and not previously acknowledged :— A. Leadbeater, for Widow, care H. & W., No. 607 Fulton street, Brooklyn...... Cates J., for the “Accidental Revelation” by St. John’s Guild visitor. ” Id. 4. D. RB. tS e rer sss 8 Help for the Sick. The ladies in charge of the Educational and In- dustrial Society, at No. 47 East Tenth street, an- nounce that the destitute sick can be provided with beef tea on application. This charitable or- ganization has just remoyed to its present location aud fas there increased facilities for usefulness in | the relief ol women by making them capable to earn a livelinood. St. John’s Guild and the Poor. ‘The following additional contributions were re- ceived yesterday by Rev. Alvah Wiswall jor the poor of the Fifth and Eighth wards, and handed to the Almoner of the Guild, Mr. Henry C, De Witt: Downtown (Those desiring to visit the office of the Gaild | | will remember tnat it is in the school buildings at- | tachea to St. John’s chape', Varick street, between Laight and Beach streets.) Through the Rey, 8, H. Weston, D. D.— Cast . z $2.00 For Littie One. 200 Cash for Mrs, Howell.......+6 200 Through Mrs. ¥. P, Earle— Mrs. E. A. B. sstesceeceeeeeeeeesenes 50 Through C, V. B. ustrander— Miss M. L. Rathbone....cecceee ceeereeee 5 00 Sent to Guild Otice— Anonymous, Pierrepont House, Brooklyn 20 00 A Lady. 100 6 0 Total... ecevesvese $42 00 Previously acknowieuged 7,487 24 | Grand total.... seen $7,529 24 Contributions to this fund may be sent to the HERALD office; Mayor Havemeyer, City Hall; 0. V. | B. Ostrander, President of the Merchants’ Fire In- surance Company, No. 149 Broadway: Andrew W. Leggat, Collector of Assessinents, New Oourt House; George Wilkes, M. D., No. 16 North Wash- ington square; G. K. Lansing, Earle’s Hotel; G. J. N. Zabriskie, Cashier of People’s Bank, corner of Canal and Thompson stre:ta; J. L. vavis, Sueldon & Co., No. 677 Broadway, and Rev. 8. H. Weston, D. D., No. 3 East Forty-Gith street, or to the Rev. Aivab Wiswail, Master of St. John’s Guild, St. John’s chapel, Varick street. Packages 01 clotning, groceries, &c., should be sent to st. Jonn’s chapel, Varick street, between Luight and Beach streets, or ii an order be sent a messenger wili cali (or any packages, Mrs. Judge Brady, No. 19 West Thirty-third street; Mrs. Joseph Delafield, No, 475 Fifth avenue, and Mrs. F. P. parle, No. 34 West Filty-second street, have kindly cousented to receive éubscrtp- tons. SEVENTH WARD. Gifts of Bread and Fish for the Poor. New Yor«, March 5, 1874. To THe EpiTor oF THE HERALD: — The following contributions bave been sent this Gay to the soup kitchen for the relief of the poor:— | One barrel ot potatoes from an unknown friend in Pike street. Turee barrels of fish; being one barrel each from Noolley & Camptield, H. M. Rogers & Uo. and Rogers & Edwards, all of Fuiton Market. RKe- spectiully, JOUN J. MOUNT, Captain of Seventh Preciuct Police. i WARD, FIFLEENTH Contributions for the Citizens’ Soup coorreneren Hous FHADQUARTERS FirTRENTA Wand ) RELIEF COMMITTER, 219 MERCER STREET, NEW YORK, March 4, 1974. '§ We thankfully acknowledge the receipt of the following donations :— Messrs. Lewis and George Leland, of Sturtevant House and St. Charies Hotel, half barrel neat. several instalments of bread from Simpson, baker. Washington street grocer, name requested to be suppressed, 150 pounds o1 sugar. Wasnt Ly Market Association, third instal- ment oi fifty pounds of meat, Farrington, 72 Bieecker street, one sheep, one basket of vegetables. mn John Poster, Cottage piace, one lot of men’s clothing. Mr. Currier, dining saloon, Fulton street, one barrel of hard Dread, We also take vleasure ip acknowledging the re- | To rae Eptror or Tuf HERALD;— hing pawned and $9 in debt for rent. At No. | ceipt of thi 160 Worth street (rear bouse), Mr. Deimar found | Arcularius & Co., Fulton Market, Mrs. Peters, a worthy German woman who has | bied us to serve the third fish cnowoer this day. , and who is | We have been feeding mumbers of people irom tie }» corper of Mercer street and Tegular transient rendered ANTIRS, generous and industrious of the lady visitors of the Guiid yesterday called epee. ne day assistance. Among these addresses were several descriptive of the rocks, tn street and third 100 pounds of fish from Messrs. Free Labor Bureao, Ciinten place, exclusive of the poor applying here tor relief. JAMES M. HEATHERTON, Chairman. THOMAS HASTINGS, Treasurer, ALFRED KE. S EJ. MEATHERTOM, Sapeniarendent. NINETEENTH WARD. Bread for the Famisning Poor. Mr. James McCabe, the well known Clerk at the Tombs Police Court, under Judge Morgan, having . doubdties eee a eae ae ioecoeast: been informed that # soup kitchen ts abovt to be ba & Blace aroun be visited. 1 “ad i ron established in the upper part of the Nineteenth unde ly reported, the inestt os Jeg Tare ey systematic and ward, stated yesterday that he will give to the use of the soup kitchen when established, or to the order of the HERALD, 600 loaves of good bread, to ve delivered free of char, t any piace the editor of the HERALD shall de: te. air. McCabe, who Was born and has always resided ip the Nineteenth ward, stated his belief that there is more modest poverty snd a greater number of honest working Men and women in the eastern and upper portions of the Ninteenth than in any other uptown ward, and that very many of those who are in need of food will not ask for {t umiess tuey are visited by & committee Of citizens. A CHARITY FOR CHILDREN. i] Defects of the Asy!uam Plan and Evils ot Apprenticeship. Nzgw Yorx, March 4, 1874 To THE Epiro® oF THE HERALD Permit me to introduce myself as former chief editor of the Augusta (Ga.) Constitutionaltst, and to say that I have been for two years in England, seeking to perfect myself as a writer, but only in English. And, firat, I should be giad to have the aid of the HERALD in organizing ® charity for children in | New York as near the perfection of the Catholic Institutions as possible, Protestants are not likely as I know; for I have preached as & Protessnt since I was eighteen. Ido not like the common agyium plan of pens for idle ehildren, BU) | tated loose with no money and uo vocation, I do not like the children’s aid pian of giving away the poor of New York as slaves to Illinois jarmers, But 1 want a home of industry, where each child will learn @ means of living hewn whetuer rl or boy—cooking, sewing, shoemaking, shop- eeping and the many trades beyond dressmaking and tesco ing, My wife and I would like to work in such @ reformatory at low wages. Second, I v ‘reat nor wise Dor strong. Faithfully, ba HENRY W. CLEVELAND. THE CHARI(Y EXHIBIT. Below will be found several additional reports of charitable institutions reported to the Bureau of Charities. These and those already publisied in the HeRaLp comprise all the institutions in the city with the exception of twenty-five yet to be Reard irom, viz. :— Association for improving the Condition of the Poor, Association for Relief of Respectable, Aged and Indigent Femates. Bloomingdale Catholic Association. Home (or Mothers with Iniants, No, 24 Clinton lace. ‘ Home for Women with Children. Hariem Dispensary. Industrial Home for Jewesses, Ladies’ Relief Association, No. 120 West Sixteenth street. Leake & Watt’s Orpnan’s Home. New York Diet Kitcnen, No, 372 Seeend avenue. New York Hospital tor Skin Diseases, New York Homeopathic Mspensary. State Dispensary tor Nervous Diseases, Old Ladies’ Asyium, No. 40 Grove street, Presbyterian Hospital. Reliet tor Homeless Children. Roosevelt Hospital. St. Francis’ Hospital. Society for Kelief and Employment of the Poor. St. Mary’s Hospital. Society for Relief o/ Indigent Cripples, St. Josepn’s Orphan Asylum, | , The iniormation sought has not yet been ob- tainéd trom the above societies, which have vos reported to the Bureau of Charities, The following are in continuation of the ex- hibit:— Actual disbursements.. | German Hospital. Fourth avenne | and seventy-seventh street, and | No. 65 Highth sire 3,464 00 = $28,464 00 4,914 83 | a cose $21,549 17 Manhattan Eye and Ear Hospital, East Thirty-tourth street $15,5% 30 $13,336 68 Actual relief... eksatees test anecetnesdne oR RTO Institution for the Instruction of Deaf and Dumb, I6zd street and Bloomingdale road $160,080 93 $173,425 64 Salaries 52.878 37 $120,547 OF Net expenditures........ Orphan's Home and Asylum of Protestant Episcopal Church, | Forty-ninth street and Lexing | $14,781 8L 1,659 43 | _ Net expenditures se $15,122 88 St, Joseph's Industrial School, East Eighty-first street and Madison avenue. 1697 28 $27,654 34 Salaries. 11760) Net disbursements........ seeeeeesseeee $26,518 94 Shephera’s Fold, Eighty-sixth street, near Second avenue..... $8,105 00 $0,718 86 Salaries... ater * Nothing. ‘ “THE PROBLEM OF POVERTY.” Meeting at the Church of the Strangers for the Purpose of Discussing the Question. A meeting was held at the Church of the Strangers, No, 4 Winthrop piace, yesterday after- | noon, the object of which was announced to be “Tae Discussion of the Problem of Poverty and originated im the offer of Mr. J. H. Keyser to donate 4,000 acres of land in South Carolina for the purpose of colonizing and utilizing unem- ployed labor, provided, of course, that sufficient means could be raised to put the colony in working order. It was a philanthropic offer, with a cash proviso. After the meeting had been called to order Dr. Willard Parker was made chairman and Rev. J. W. Kramer secretary. Letters were read from Rev. Dr. Howard Crosby, Mr. Jonathan Sturgis, Kev. Dr. Potter, of Grace chuch; Mr. J. Le | Graham, Rev. Dr. Chapin, Mr. Brainera and Rev. W. H. Boole regretting their inability to be pres ent. Mr. J. H. Keyser said that the great problem to be solved was the permanent relief of the poor. Soup houses and temporary relie! committees were well enough in their way; but such charities, tf dispensed with too lavish a hand, encouraged pauperism. This colonization project of his was the only method of affording permanent benefit; but it was useless to begin at a unless $50,000 or $100,000 could be raise The subject of discussion became immediately as to the best means of procuring the above amount. Several addresses were made, but there was no philanthropist to offer to head a subscrip- tion. ir. Keyser then aunounced that he had chosen @ number of gentlemen to be a board of trustees of the iand and fund when it should be raised, These gentlemen were announced to be Dr. Willard Parker, Rev. C. F. Deems, Jackson 8. Schultz, Walter Bishop, Stephen Cutter, John W. Edmonds, Dr. Elisha Harris, Smith Sheidon, Rev. H. C, Potter, Jonathan Sturgis, laudet, Howard Potter, Rev. Howard Crosby and | pr. John Wall. There was absolutely nothing | practical accomplished, as the gentiemen nomi- nated as trustees have not yet signified their will- ingness to serve. The meeung adjourned, subject to the call of the committee. TRE CHURCH on The Prospect of Saving St. John’s Not so Bright—Only About $15,000 Reised So Far—Marvellous New York Donors. The prospect of rescuing St. John’s church, AT ORANGE, cheering as it was a week ago, when the credit- ors and the Catholics and some Protestants of Newark came forward so generously to its aid; and it seems certain now that only the most de- | termined effort in the diocese and aid from without will save it irom eventually going under the hammer of the auctioneer, None of | the parishes outside of Newark city have, | up t this date, done anything in propor- tion to those inside it, Up to yesterday the emounts contributed were as follows:—St. Patrick's, Newark, $7,500; St. James’, Newark, $5,000; Greenville, $400; Belleville, $467 07; Mad- ison, $540; St. Henry's, Elizabeth, $100; Bergen Point, $158; Passaic, £116 76: Kather Snyder, of which has ena- ported until idieness is a fixed habit, and then | would like any work that ® man can do who is not | feet amet, | tures. Chnrch Mission for Deaf Mutes, eam No, 9 West Eighteenth street, | tor the year ending Uct.2 1-73, $4,717 90 $4,717 99 Expended in sularies......... pie 1,525 00 | Actual disbursements........0005 sesees S310 | Association for the Benefit of Col- | —ored Orphans, for the year (S73. $23,790 00 $23,790 00 | Expended in salaries ..... .....0 5.87 39 $18,202 61 | How to Deal with It.” The call for the meeting } Rev, Thomas Gal- | Modesty of Two Orange, from its slough of debt is not near so NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET. Passato, $60; Camden, $212 50; Bt. ark, $500, with promise of $600 more; St. Mary's, Elizabeth, $395; Morristown, $500; Hackettstown, $62; St. Mary’s, Trenton, $1,000; South Amboy, $200; Father Connolly, of South Amboy, $60; Princeton, $160; Gloucester, $170; St Mary's, Jersey City, $600 These amounts, with others received, will well the total so far subscribed to only about p00, The Bishop has said that $70,000 m be raised in order to save the oh so that it 1 obvious the x6 three weeks will have to witness some hard work on the part of collection committees and & most enerous spirig on the part of contributors. At t, Patrick’s enurch, Newark, on Sunday, there | was collected 6 the’ doors no’ less chan $3,400 im | hard, or rather soit, paper greenback cash, It is suggested that if the outside parishes would emu- late those in Newark, and if some systematic aid movement was set on foot in New York, the saiva- tion of the church would be assured. As it is, | there are fears that unless New York puts ont its hand with characteristic liberality the diocese of | Newark alone will not be able to save tue church, As it Dow stands the saving process is IN A CRITICAL CONDITION. Yesterday t elderly gentiemen from Ne’ York, who, like Mary Cleary, bad read about t condition of the church in the H@RaLo, called at | the Bishop's residence and handed over to Rev. @, | H. Doane, Vicar General, $100 each as their con- tribution, In the true spirit of charity, which vaunteth not itself, they firmly but respectfully declined to communicate thetr names, even to the ‘icar General, They leit wishing Godspeed to the collection work. BYiS00PAL APPOINTMENTS, Bishop Corrigan has just made the following pa- rochial appointments :—Rev. H. P. Ponike carer of St. Join's charch, Orange; Rev, S. J. Walsh, late of St. maar Jersey City, pastor of St. Mary’ church, Mount Holly; kev. J. McKernan, late of East Newark, assistant priest at St. Mary’s church, Jersey City; . T. J. ‘foomey, to replace Father Fleming, a8 assistant priest at the cathedral; Rev. D. S&S. Dagnauit, late of st. James’, Baskingridge, pastor of the Churcu of the Holy Trinity, Westfeld, | and Rev. G, Misdziol, of Westileld, tirst ee of | St. Joseph’s church, Mendham, Father Fieming, the new pastor of St. John's, is bighly spoken of as @ prudent business man as Well as zealous churcn- A SAD CASE OF HYDROPHOBIA. Death of Ads Clare, the Actress, from the Bite of a Pet Dog. Some five weeks ago Mrs, Ada A, Noyes, a well knowa actress—better known as Ada Clare—was | In the office of Mr. Sandiord, dramatic agent, at No. 9 Amity street, and while there commencod petting a black-and-tan dog belonging to Mr. Sandiord, whereupon the brute, which snbse- quently provea to be rabid, sprung upon her, and seizing oer pose between his teeth, bit clear through the nostrils, causing the blood to flow freely. Mra. Noyes wus promptly attended by | physicians, and by care the wound gradually | healed up, ttle more being thought about the cir- | cumstance. The afternoon of the occurrence Mr. Sandford, finding thas his dog, which occa- sionally performed on the stage, was rabid. sent him to @fancier’s down town, and that night he ; died. | Some fifteen years ago, just before the war, New | York had a most brilitant group of literary people, | Whose wit and wisdom sparkled in the journals and magazines of the metropolis, They formed a | social coterie known as the Bohemian Club, and irequently had their game dinners at a Broadway | restaurant, Of this club Ada Clare was the ac- knowledged queen: Among the members were Fitz James O’Brien, the poet; George Arnold, poet and littérateur; Ned Wilkins, critic and journalist; Mr. Clapp, of the Saturday Press; William Stuart, theatrical manager, and Miss Anue Deland, the aciress, This club was the originator of what are | now common under the name of surprise parties, | it having been their habit to provide entertain- | ments by each member contributing some article, | the whole being usualy served under the super- vision of Ada Ciare, at that time @ most sprightiy | writer and the associate and friend of the brightest lights of the day. She subsequently went to 1exas, | where she remained several years prior to her a) | pearance upon the stage. Mrs. Noyes had at tue time of being bitten an engagement to play in Rochester and Auburn, and | while im the latter place, on Monday last, syimp- toms of the terrible malady developed itself and increased so rapidly that friends {felt compelied to take her in charge, and notided her husvand by telegraph. Mrs. Noyes was Jastened to her home, | No. 166 Bleecker street, where she languished in Mary's, New- ¢ | Would lit your drowning child irom tie great | to be dead, I should have believed myscl! acting great agony till Wednesday evening at nine o'clock, when death ensued. Coroner Kessier was notified, and held an m- | quest over the remains, Mary M. Simon, with whom deceased boardea, testitied to the fact of her being bitten on the 30th of January last, and was taken tll while on the stage in Auburn, were she Was playing an en- | gagement with Luciie Western. | Dr. Eliott testified that ne treated deceased for the bite of a dog, and, she being plucky, her nervous system did not seem to be disturbed, and she Wace a good recovery in less time than usual, ap- | pearing on the stage again in ten days; on her | return Bick last Tuesday night the Doctor met Mrs. | Noyes acjthe Grand Central depot and 1ound ner de lirious and presenting a most ghastly appearance, | she being under the impression that the peopie | aboard the train wanted to kill her; she was im- | mediately placed under treatment, but could not swallow, and breathed only with the greatest difficulty; tne cola air blowing on her face while riding im the coach gave her the greatest | | agony; her symptoms partially improved tor about twelve hours, but returned again | with renewed force; the spasms became more frequent, semi-conscious delirium continued all the time and her only prayer when rational was | to be killed; the culabar bean was employed for some time with considerabie success; se was un- able to bear the use of chioroform, as it suffocated her; finaily she became exhausted and died as stated; Dr. Elltott says he saw the dog shortly | alter the occurrence; he nad not been well Jor | Some days previous, suffering from want 01 appe- tite, pay rimking water, and not appearing to be mad. The jury rendered a verdict of death by hydro- | | phobia. | Mrs, Noyes was arti de | native of Charleston, 5.0. Her remains wiil be taken to New Jersey, near i’hitadelpuia, to be | buried beside her ctulld, wuo died some years ago. ears of age and a HORSE NOTES. ‘The roads have been in an “impossible” condi- tion for a week past, but the bright sun and balmy air of yesterday enticed hundreds of the lovers of speed to take their pets out jor am airing, and the Park and Loulevards were alive with fast horses, gay men and happy women. Dunn Waiton’s gray gelding Gray Frank is a very speedy antmalon the road, and should he be eu- tered for the purses nextsummer he should make | enough to pay Jor oats and things, James Galway, formerly Fire Commissioner of this city, purchased the Goshen trotting track iast eon, and has established there a breeding farm, _ He owns some very fine brood mares, among which | May be named Young Highland Maid, Young High- Jand Queen, Belle of Oneida, bred to Rysdy Hambletonian; Mul’s Mare, bred to Middletow Brook’s mare, bred to Blackwood, and a capital mare, bred to Eureka, Mr. Gaiway has also a very promising five year old gelding by Volunteer. The | stud farm is under the management of Abner Bar- | rows. | . The fast trotting mare Lady Banker has been brought trom her winter quarters, and her owner, G, N. Ferguson, 18 giving ber some preliminary jogging on the road, Great speed is expected om ber next summer, She is looking well, and ) will no doubt trot down low in the twenties be- fore the dogdays, | Mr. Autfmorett has a very fast bay mare that | makes a fine display on the road. Mr. Auffmorett | | 48 also the owner Of a magnificent roan carriage | team, which are much admired by connoisseurs | Of that style of horse. The following are the weights imposed by the Maryland Jockey Club for the Handicap Stakes, to | be run at the coming spring meeting at Pimiico | course, Which commences on the 26th of May, The | race is ior jour-year-olds, of $50 each, half forfeit; \ omy $10 1, declared out; the club to add $600 for the first horse and $100 for the second; mile heats; declarations to be made on or belore April 3: ! | 1. J. F. Chamberlin’s b. 2 Joseph Donvhue’s b. hy 19 | | & Oden Bowie’y b. b. Caiesby. i | 4. M. Jordan & Co.'s ch. h. Mar 16 | foseph Donohue’s gr. m. Lay | & Peper Pb i Bale W’ +105 + . J, Crouse’s ch. m. Satire. f 13 | 9 Ka Harrison's ch. g. Fred Bonnabei. 103 | 10, M. H. Saniord’s b, g. Milton. 103 11, Durhem & McCleilan’s b. m. Th 1 12, Thoms W, Dogwells bg | 18 gen Howie Oh. Bi 8 | ye | 17, W. H. Gordows ch. g. Jack of Tramps | 18, B. Blandy & Son's ch. m. Fannie Boston = A PEARFUL DEATH, The dwelling house of Mr. Cyrus G, Force, near | Drakesville, N. J., was burned down on Wednes- day morning at an early bour. Mr. Force had | | barely time to escape with his wife aud child, but | his father-in-law, Mr. Strawway, eighty-six years of | age, was burned within the ruins, In their eforts | to save him young Force was badly burned. ANOTHER SUICIDE IN NEWARK. Yesterday morning the body of Jacob Baner, watch case maker, of Carlstadt, was found floating in the Passaic River, near North Belleville. On January 11 he left home, He had been thrown out of employment. It is believed that inability to find work induced him to drown himse! He leaves a wile and two children, | marvellous and past beliet. | With your /riend, | | frequently communed with me. | He is a Prussian. | Moravian Brothers, in order to enter the service | setlies, had Occasion to visit Anum, and Was taken w York, March 3, 1874. To THE Eprron or THR HERALD Dare you publish the enclosed? Yours, &c., J. W. EDMONDS. {From the Boston Banner of Light, Feb, 28, 1874.) WHAT 18 DEATH? ‘The erroneous ideas on this subject which have for 60 long # time veen inculcated by the theology of the day and the consequently false opinions which have prevailed among men will evidently require muon time and many teacuings to correct. Such teachings, however, are now and ior a quar- ter of @ century have been coming with increasing frequency, and’ it seems to me to be the manilest daty of those who receive them to give them to the worid. Acting under that impression I have already made public much on the subject, and now add to the number the ioliowing, which I have lately re- ovived trom oue of the victims of the late collision &t sea between the steamer Ville du Havre and @ British sailing vessel. Judge Peckham was a member of the Court of Appeals of New York—the highest Court in the State—and had acquired a high reputation as a Jurist. He took pass: with his wite in the Steamer, and died in the bloom of tis manhood anc in the full vigor of his intellect, so that ho Was fully competent to comprehend and relate all that occurred around him. His spirit came to me lately, and, identifying himseli to my satisiuction, gave me the iollowing commantoat:ou, which 1 how transcribe in the precise ianguage in whicn I bag od 4. W. LDMONDS, Nsw Yous, Feb. 14, 1374, ‘HE SPIRIT LETTER. My Dea FRIKND—I shall waive all ceremony with you and enter upon this, our interview, Lob assuming but knowing that you are aware of my Presence almost as tangibly as when | last met you in Albuny, ip the court room, wiere you und had listened and tried to be stiil, out of respecy to the majesty Of the law. You left the court room in advance of me. 1 tried to see you again, but you left that eve; . We meet again here under different circumstances, { will uot say I au irom the Higher Court to-day, for as yet I have found no court or sphere into which your thougits, which Tepresent your spirit, do not come. Hence there | are nv severed Links in qur friendship, when we Stl stt in Council with those we knew and loved. Had I have chosen the mauner oi my departure from the body I should not have seiected the one to which I was obliged to succumb, However, L Ond no fault, now that I realize the life whicn has opened before me so suddenly, so atrangeiy. _1n the dying moments | lived my lile ull over. Every scene, évery act passed beiore me as vividly as if written on py he with living light, Nota iriena that I had wn in early or later lie was Jorgotten, Ieaw, as I sank, with my wife folded to my heart, my mother and father. ‘the former liited me out of the wave witha strength which I can at this moment feel, and 1 have no recollection Ol sudering, From tue moment that knew the waves would | engulf us I had no sensation o tear, of cold, or of suffocation. 1 did uot hear the waves break, T period wile Bae which pe ay boay, and, with r arms, followed mothe watther she led mer) fe ‘i ‘the tirst sad thought was for my dear brother. This my mother saw and ielt, and a> once said, “Your brotner will soon be with you!” From that moment sorrow seemed to fade away, and | sat down to look avout upon the scene turough which 7 had so recently passed, I felt solicitude for my iellow passengers; looked for them and saw them being liited out of the Wavesin precisely the same Mhanuer that your strong arm, nerved by love, waves which would swallow him up, For a time this sppeared so real that, had it not have been tor the presence of those whom (knew as rescter with the spirits, 1 write plainty to you, hoping that you will send words 01 comfort to those Who imagine that their friends suffered mortal agony in drowning. There | Was a 1uifiiment of that glorious triumpi of fatta, and the shadow o! death became au illumination, | Which enabled 80 Many to say that death’s waves were swallowed up in the victory which love bath | beonguy vo light im the ministry of angels and pir I need not tell you the greetings which awaited me when the many whom youand | knew and Joved welcomed me to the realins of the life im- mortal. Not having been sick or sutfering, | was ready at once to accept facts and to move forward to the attractions which, if on earth’s plane have the power to charm away sorrow, how muca more enchanting here, where the scene has | Changed su quickly, #0 gioriously that we do Dot murmur at the haste, nor think that itis disap- pointment or accident that summoned us uncere- moniousiy hither! lam aware that many will ask, if we could be helped to pass out of the body without pain, why could not the accident have been prevented? in our investigations we have learned this tact— namely, tbat the oMfcer in charge was so enurely | cadence and wrongs. CUBA. EFFECT OF THE LATE DECREES The Natives Among the Spanish Volo teers Deserting to the Insurgents, Families Fleeing to the Mountains. — Cuban Successes—The Conduct of the War—Bare parities of the Spaniards in the Inte- rior—The Financial Question, MANZANILLO, Feb, 23, 1874. The recent grave events which have during the last week transpired in this vicinity, brougnt about by the recent decrees of the Captain General, re- quire some mention, The revolutionary reaction within the short period mentioned has been most astounding. The country people are returning by hundreds to the ranka of the insurgents, from which they have kept away for the last three yeurs, and although taking no active part with them, have not been acting against them, But now they return armed to their brothers in the fleld, with their spirits and passions aflame, and ia many cases an assassination or personal wrong to avenge. Unhappy lesson for Spanish despotism t DESEEBTIONS FROM THE SPANISH CAMPS, About two days ago, from the Spanish encamp- ment called Campechuela, some 160 Cuban volun teers, armed with Remingtons and provided with 15,000 cartridges, deserted and joined the insurgent forces; from the Yara camp forty-two, fully armed, disappeared, and the Palma Atlas camp has lost thirty-two of ita garrison, bound in the same direo- tion; from El Horno eighty-two, and from various other Spanish encampments, such a3 Blanquizal, Guamo, Jiguani, Batre, &c., the desertions of the pressed Cuban volunteers are constant. In all cases they carry olf their arms and a8 much am- munition as possible, making a valuable acquisi- tion to the insurgents. ‘heir families in many instances flee in bands to the mountains, flying trom the gaunt spectre of famine which threatens to overtake them in the towns and Villages. Meanwhile the Spanish government can do nothing but look on, powerless to remedy the evil or calm the new storm arising about it. THE ARMY OF THE LINE VASTLY DEMORALIZED. The demoralization of the army has reached suck an extent that about eighteen days ago Lieutenant Colonel Campoamor left for the Cauto with a col- umn of about 600 men, and feil intoa Cuban am- buscade of about 100 men. At the very first volley the Spanish column lost eighteen, but rallied to charge, receiving a second volley from their am- bushed antagonists. The commander, Lieutenant Colonel! Campoamor, himself fell wounded, ana as it was then impossible to induce the Spanish sol- diers to make another attack, they abandoned | arma, horses and everything, and, aiter a disgrace- ful retreat, took reluge in the Bequita encamp- ment. The insurgent pickets and auvance guards make up their fascines and perform other military duty in full view of the town, and the Spanish bat- valions are satisfied to say that they are not sirong enough im numbers to go out to attack them, REVIEW OF THE SPANISH SYSTEM OF RULE AS IT Is, ‘The conduct of the war generally, or rather of all military operations, follows the usual course marked out for ali nations that strive to shake of the yoke of tyranny. Two causes oblige me to show clearly to the loreign peoples and to govern- ments oforder the existence of terrible abuses, o! unqualified excesses, which chaip this people to misery and bury a generation in an abyss of de- ‘There 1s noching more pain- | tui and deserving of punishment than the empioy- deceived in regard to the distance between the | Loch Earn and his own vessel that no power on earth, or that which tue spirit world could bring to bea", could have prevented tt. collision was tnevitable. There are conditions of sight, particularly on the water, when the water Will seem tu possess & power of deception almost The abiest and best are liable to these conditions, particularly at just the position that these vessels must have been’ in. Hence there should be nu blam@ at€acned to thas man. It is done, and the survivors most need sympathy, and I know o( no way to give it more Hence the | direct than to assure them that their loved iriends | are not slumbering in the caverns oj the deep, awaiting the Ogal tramp to sound; bul tuat at all times they await and look for the proper channels | through which to echo the unmistakable evidence | of eight, ten und twelve years of age and send of iite immortal. My thanks are due to our mutual (riends, Tall- ment of such sysiems of degradation to ensiave mau and rule him without allowing bim even those usual rights of liie—that 13, refusing him even the noble and simple precepts diciated by common courtesy. Tnus Spain has ruled conti. America and still rules in Caba, ane her magistrates, composed mostly of slavers; ber institutes of learning, directed by inquisitorial hypocrites, all cling to the penalty of death or the chaingang for ali political offences, aud thus make away with everything tuat aves not bend belore the monopoly anu the power of those wno live of the labor of others. 'wo causes compel me to break silence on this subject, and one, the more lament- abie, asit does not refer to men, women and chil- Greu who groan out their lives confined in a filthy jail, butto * CHILDREN, who are forced to periorm the labors of criminals on the pubic roads dressed in the garb oi galley slaves, The police of Manzanillo now arrest boys | them to work on the streets, generally under tue madge, Van Buren, Hill* and many others, for | this delightful reunion with you; nor can lend it | Without thauking you ior afaith which, although silent between us, Made me torespect you tue more, I have come now into that nearer circle of friendship which | shali cherish as I know you will—sacred as the love which rakes us to rejoice in oe and All- wise Father, who doeth ail things Well. Craving pardon for the length of my Ictter I promise you and myself still further intercourse RUFUS W. PECKHAMm, * The allusion here ts to N. |. Tallmadge, United states Senator; President Van Buren, and Nicholas Hill, tor- merly aneminent lawyer at Albany, all ot whow, ha @ THE CAPTIVZS AT COOMASSIE. i = Sufferings of Herr Kahne, Mr. and Mrs. Ramseyer and Mons. Bonat. TO THB EDITOR OF THR iERALD:— S1x—A slignt error occurred in the otherwise interesting article in your estimable journal of Monday last, entitied “Ashantee.” I take the liberty to point it out, because I know you aim at accuracy and also because the rectification may interest your readers, Mr. Kthne, whom the King of Ashantee deputed to visit Sir Garnet Wolseley, 18 not from Neuchatel, Leaving the society of the of the Société des Missions of Bale, he started in 1868 for Anum, upon tie confines of the kingdom of Dahomey and the Ashantee territory, where that society desired to found @ commercial estab- lishment in connection with the Evangelical Mis- sion, which followed them there six months after- wards, Mr. Kihne, though a zealous misstonary, was hot an ordained clergyman, but a merchant; and it Was in the latter capacity that he was to take charge o/ the estabiistiment. Mr. and Mrs. Ramseyer were originally from Neuchatel, Switzerland, They lived in tue same | house and Worked in Airica in the service of the same society as Mr. Kulhne, but fuifliling the duties of lay missionaries. They were thus all living to- gether io June, 1869, when they were surrounded by @ company of Ashantees, who, after having lorced open the doors and broken the windows of their dwelling, in order io seize whatever they conceived to be the most valuable, stripped the | their wages an residents of their clothing and conducted them as | prisoners to Coomassie, thelr capital, where they endured along and cruel captivity. The simple siory of their confinement inspires one with deep horror. it was not alone the dangers, privations, bad treatment and outrages to which the bar- barians subjected them. Human beings on one Occasion were disembowelled under their eyes, and they were forced, by whrpping, to plunge into the warm blood of these victims, being led to un- derstand that they in turn were to be slain, the sole object being to amuse the audicnce at the expense of the agony which such proceedings Occasidhed thé poor captives. Mr. Bonat, agent for house of business at Mar- to Voomassie with the others; but he managed to gain the favor of the King and his counciliors; being, moreover, a good sculptor, mechanician, tailor, pork butcher, as weil as a commercial Than, he executed s ‘al pieces of fancy work in ivory for the gentlemen of the court, repaired their clocks, Watches and musical boxes, their ordinary aud court sults, preparea puddings and sausages jor them, and otherwise so well pleased his Captors that orders were given that ve should be treated with more kindness, as a man ol supe- Tor talents. Kut notwithstanding all the offers | made to them they would never consent to release | the prisoners, Perhaps the preseut war will com- pel the Ashantees to tisten to their overtures. aim, sir, yours, &c. £. BOREL, Minister, No. 72 West Eleventh street, THE NEWARK SHOOTING AFFRAY. In relation to the shooting affray at Newark pub- lighed in yesterday's HERALD, in which one Davis, & Jersey City oMicer, figures prominently, Owen Davis, an ofiicer in the Second ye ota Jersey City, desires to make an explanation. He says he is the only man bearing the name of Davis in the whole poiice force of Jersey City, that he does not know Detective Becker, that he has not Leen in Newark wishin two years, and rain: that he Knows nothing about the case alladed to whas he read in tue D&DETH command oi the most brutal taskmaster they can find. And ior what crime no one kuows, but che reason is clearly shown, sy these means the bpaniards tatend to brutalize and degrade the growing youth of the poor-r classes, gratilying a8 the same time their national spite and brin; up & generation stupid and abject, without shame, without opinions, without, im short, any of the virtues, and endowed wito the most abominabie vices. This social crime, worse than any of moa- ern communism, shows the means employed by Spanish domination in all ite possessions in the New World and the origin of that savage character which every war for independence in Spantsh- America has assumed, THE FROWN AND PUNISHMENT of all enlightened peoples ought to fall upon & Nation which seeks to establish its power Upon the ignorance and degradation of the provinces it bas to rule over; the consideration of all just governments should disappear for that nation which, scorning the law, im- prisons young children, and, amid their tears of ignorance, forces them into the path of evil, in | order to ruie them in the future, throagh the ove- dience of ignorance and the tendency to crime, | Ragged children, recalling the tales of “Martin, the Founaing,” till the streots of this own, engaged in the duties of the chaingang. Thisis the “Ouba Espahola,” so civilized and 80 beloved of Span- jards; this is the youth which “generous” Spain prepares for the future of this unhappy island, THB FINANCIAL QUESTION. Asecond pomt to which {wish torefer is the financial sitdation through which we are passing, and the unviushing impudence and arbitrary means employed by the governors and other Spanish man- darins to remedy the ihsupportabie lack of means, The stores in the village of Cauto have been sacked—that Is the word—by the pore 01 the gov- ernment to jurnish themselves with UML ed which merchants ad refused to give them without they were paid for them, but which they were obliged to yieid through iorce, receiving in Pay mient bonds worthless to them, and which the creditors will bot accept, as they consider them uncollectable. Other villages and camps have suf- fered in the same way, The military administra- tion {8 an insolent debtor, which, by simply saying “{have nothing,” thinks to pay @ multitude of uniortunate ones, from whom it keeps the price of wares The authorities build works of fortification and eniorce “voluntary” subscriptions from the reheat 80 frequent and so pressing that many merchants seek to wind ap their business and go away, through fear oi being overwheimed, {i not by the attacks of the Cubans, then by the “voluntary” exactions of the govern- ment- GUERILLA ACTION, All this district has been overran lately by the Cuban guerilias, They even appear at the out- Skirts Of the town, to the spite and impatience of the Spamish troops, who can only contemplate, without imitating, the daring of their adversaries. THE OONWAY HOMICIDE. Investigation Before Coroner Croker. Coroner Croker yesterday aiternoon commenced an investigation into the circumstances attending the death of Joseph Conway, late of No, 48% Mul- berry street, who a few nights ago was found lying insensible on the pavement only @ few doors from where he lived, It was alleged that Conway, whe died in a few hours after being found, had been as- saulted and beaten by Patrick Pickett, who, it is alleged, had a grudge against him. John Keeley deposed that late on the nignt of the ist inst. he saw two men fighting in Mulberry street, and deceased walked towards them, but pefore reaching them they were separated; one of the men then turned upon Conway and knocked bim down with his fist or open hand; one of the men then ran away; don't know who the men ‘were; deceased jell on the broad of his back whem he was strack. Jobun Morris, @ lad, saw Patrick Pickett and his protner fighting, and after they were separated de- ccased came up, when Patrick Pickett struck and knocked him dowa, he talling on his back. At three o’clock P.M. tue case was adjourned till twelve o'clock today. Mr, James Oliver ap- peared as counsel for the prisaner Pickett. FIRE IN SOUTH BROOKLYN, Abont noon yesterday a fire broke out in the one | story frame house foot of Columbia street, and the structare was entirely destroyed, The flames communicated to an adjoining building, which was beyoud | ance, caine also consumed, The property was owned vy Louls Heneman, whose losa'ts Geist. There is no insur ‘Tho origin at the Gre conld ant be asoer 1,