The New York Herald Newspaper, March 9, 1874, Page 5

NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MARCH 9, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET. i ‘winter as best they could, the father’s salary as a CHEDNESS [ teacher be: swallowed up by doctors’ id ° apothecaries’ bills and debts accomulating. Last Additions to the Muster Roll of the City’s Destitution. REPORTS OF VISITORS. Hundreds of Families without Food, Clothing and Fuel. NOBLE DEEDS OF CHARITY. Contributions for Relief by Leading Merchants and Cthera. THE SOUP KIICHENS. Yesterday being very bieak, dismal and chilly, | there was a muci larger demand for soup than on tne two previous Sundays at the various kitchens. | Cold or chilly weather, particularly like that ex- Derienced yesterday, which penetrates to the bone god marrow, makes a quart of good hot soup & very acceptable dish to the hungry stomach aud old body. Yesterday morning a litue girl, very thinly clad and looking very weak and sickly, her lips blue | with the cold and with only one stocking visible | @bove her sogged shoes, applied for soup at the Eleventh precinct soup kitchen (Captain Mur- | phy’s), in Second street, and stated tuat her mother, a German, who resided with two younger children than the applicant, was very sick and the children also, and that none of the iamily, sick as they were, had had anything to eat since friday | he ‘The mother isa widow woman, and they have had no fire in five days, and consequently have had to lie in bed to keep themseives warm. | ‘The little girl got four quarts of bot soup and Went to her desolate howe in Fourth street re- Joicing ‘or the time being. The applicants tor soup discredit any assertion that there 1s as yet any resumption of work to any considerabie extent, and the soup 18 doubly grate- tul to those who have large families and cannot obtain bread or fire for the littie ones. Over 11,500 persons yesterday applied for and received soup, and of this number 3,000 were furnished with bread. Shoulda cold spell succeed to the last five or six days of changeable weather it is very certain that the demand for soup will be greater than it has yet been; but the poor will be guaranteed for some time yet from all danger of Starvation by tie soup kitchens. PIC1IURES OF POVERTY. Wour Hundred of the Hungry in Line— ‘What Merchants Did Who Saw the Sight—Consumption—Eight Hundred Garments Received and Distributed— Details of Destitution from the Notes of Visitors. St. John’s Guild was the recipient of several | donations on Saturday which were unexpected. During the morning a number of merchants who had occasion to visit the great freight depot opposite tne chapel or to pass through Varick street noticed a long line of men, women and children in front of the Guild office. Learning the nature of the gathering curiosity led them to inspect It. There were in the motley assemblage scores of in- firm, aged people of both sexes; there were half clad and meanly clad women, some grown careless im their long conflict with hunger and cold and Some as neatly as they were pcorly attired; thero were little children, with pinched, sad, wistiul faces, and brown, bare feet. Nearly all had empty baskets. There was no disorder—no pushing, werambling or crowding—no talk or laughter. There were FOUR HUNDRED HUNGRY PERSONS im the long line. Among the spectators was one of the firm of Crandall & Godley, 195 Duane street. When he went to his office he said to his partner, “My God! did you see the crowd in Varick street?” The other replied that he had seen it. So they put their heads and hearts together and sent to St. sohn’s chapel 500 loaves of bread—bread that is twice blessed; tnat will be cried over and prayed pver and eaten by hungry children, whose happy pearts will beat a blessing though their lips mur. mur it not, By ten o’clock the first line had been furnished with provisions and dismissed ; but new lines con- Mnually formed till noon, when they came in | groups, and were aligned Inside the vestibule. Mr. Robert Floyd came, bringing @ donation of “prepared flour” from R. M. Floyd. He intended to stay but three minutes and remained three hours, visiting the packing room, where ten men are engaged from morning till night in putting up groceries, and the clothing departinent, where EIGHT HUNDRED GARMENTS CAME AND WENT fluring the day. Two hundred persons went away unable to procure clothes. Many of them were sick people—men who have no peed to sleep but the Streets, and women with babes, half covered, in their arms, A gentleman (who would not give his name) tame to offer, in behalf of himself and @ number bf ladies and gentiemen, the proceeds of AN EXHIBITION OF RARE AND COSTLY WORKS OF ART trom the best private galleries. This exhibition, all the expenses of which are paid vy the generous contributors, will open at the Somerville Gallery. torner of Filth avenue and Fourteench street, on Monday evening next. REPORTS OF THE VOLUNTEER VISITORS, Mr. Palmer reports the case of Mrs. H- of Thirtieth street, an American lady who lost her husband three weeks ago. She has one child here | snd two with her mother in Boston, to whom she | wants to go. She has pawned all her clothes, She is too sick to work, but can find a home with her mother if she can get to Boston, Mrs. B. reports a French family living at No, 73 Carmine street. The family consists of a man dying ‘rom consumption, his wife and three chil- | dren. The poor wile had pawned everything in | the room and the underciothing from her person, in order to get food and to care for her husband. They were utterly destitute. A DYING BALLET GIRE. In the same house this laay found a dying ballet girl in the last stages of consumption, This poor creature was formerly employed at one oi the theutres of this city, and the salary she earned was barely enough to support iiie. She has a mother who has stripped herself of everything | that would bring money atthe pawnbroker's to | care for her. When the French tamily above re- ferred to were prosperous they used to add to the little comforts of their friendiess neighbors; but now they are us destitute and hungry as they. Again, at No. 312 Kast kighth street, tuis lady found a woman—a Mrs, Ryan—a skeleton, eaten away by some devouring malady that 1s taking of the other two. CONSUMPTION, BUT NO COVERING. Miss Upham reports that at No. 142 Wooster street she found Mrs. Demata, with a husband sick of consumption, lying on a bed with little or no covering. They were destitute of every article of clothing and without food. On the same floor she found Mrs. Boyd (colored) pnd three other women and two children. The three women were in bed to keep warm. No food pad passed their lips since the morning of the day before. From an address given in a note to the HERALD Mr, Deimar found 1p Sixth avenue a young Ameri- can couple who were tn great distress and entirely without food or fuel. They had been supported by the charity of their immediate neighbors and knew soothing of the application for relief, They shun publicity. MUSIC DON’T ALWAYS WIN BREAD. Mr. Delmar also called on a French lady, resid- Ing in Twentieth street, Whose address was sent to the HkRAaLD oilice. He reports as follows:— “This case is that of a well bred and highly edu- cated French lady, with two interesting little daughters, She has decidedly ‘seen better days,’ but is now forced to live in a rear tenement. She can teach French or music and will take in sew- ing. A delicate and retiring lady, who shrinks from all publicity. The Sate visitor found in Mrs, Fairlong, at No. 16 Kast Twenty-eigntn street, a very deserving Person and very poor. She is’ a widow with two children to support. ‘Until the panic she was able vo take care o1 her family, but this winter ane has been unable to procure work and she has suffered from rheumatisin; has pawned everything and is threatened by the landlord with ejection. y A STARVING SCHOLAR, One of the saddest cases developed during the Winter is that of Prolessor ——. ‘This gentle- man, Who was resident of the South and wealthy revious to the War, 18 master of seven or eight uguages, Ruined by the “late unpleasantness,” he came from Pennsylvania to this city in 1872 to take charge Of @ parish school. During the Spring and summer of that year he, together with his wife and aix children, was suffert: + "om ague and fever. He describes the scenes house ag like those he bad witnessed in hospitais, for since that time one disease has succeeded another | with the following liberal donations:— | | Seventh street, in the Seventeenth ward:— autumn the father succumbed to ill health and was forced to abandon his situation. Then they began THEIR DOWN BILL COURSE im earnest, Furviture, watches, jewelry, every- thing save scanty bed covering, was disposed of to gave them trom starvation. Delicately reared children found themselves hungry, hall naked and bhoeless, and the whole family became little less | than wrecks 0! what they had been, They made it | @ point to pay their rent promptly as long as they could, wishing to conceal their poverty, and olten, in doing this, they went without food. | » Even whea they could no longer pay rent and were faling rapidly in arrears they were tvo sensitive to make known their utter helplessness. ‘the Professor has tried every way he could conceive of to get empioyment, even aga street laborer, He will be deeply gratetul for any means offered him to get a respectable livelihood, He said to the writer, ‘1 have leit so desperate at times that, were it not for my childish faith in the goodness oj God, I Know not whatI might have done to escape irom my misery, and then,” he addea, “I always thought of my poor wile, and | what could she do With my jielpless little ones alone in the world 7? The Prolessor tas extoried from the writer & promise that bis naive shall not | be given to the general public, but will be grateful for any donation sent him through those author- ized by the Guild. AN ARTIST IN WANT AND DYING, Miss Upham reports the case of a young artist named Bolles, who lives in an attic room at No. 128 Woosier street. ‘The poor ellow, who is a painter in vil and water colors, is dying trom lung disease, His wile bas sewing to do for a society Which pays ler fifty vents @ week, Their rent is $5amonth., This gentieman is a sensitive, culti- vated person, Who hus lived abroad. Now he hes on a poor straw bed supported vy an iron bed stead, no sheets or bed ciothes, no food and no fuel. In the case of Mrs, Peters, the distressed and sick Gerinan woman mentioued in Friday’s HERALD, the address sould be No. 160 instead of No. 100 Worth street, as published. The piace 13 in the rear oj a jow wooden tenement, near Baxter street, It 18 @ very distressing case, OTHELLO IN NEED. Charles Othello, a native of Zanzibar, Africa, who. has been in England some years, and was also under steward on board the Galatea wien under command 0: the Duke of Edinburgs, applied at the oftice of the Guild for assistance Saturuay night. He lives at No. 208 Wooster street, and says his last tarthing 18 gone and he knows not where to turn, ANOTHER UNKNOWN WORKER, A gentleman culled at the Guild ofice on Satur- day evening and left a large package of business cards, on the backs of which he had written doua- tions made by the firms represented. He refused to give his name. The ioilowing is the list:— William J. Still & Co,, 1 box coffee. Charles f. Goodwin, 1 barrel of egg crackers. “H, Oo” bag of rice. Jolin i, Bond, 1 bag flour, 1 bag meal, Bade & Schluter, I bushel beans. 4. J.D. Wedemyer, | box coru starch. Martin Y. Bunn’ & Co., 1 bag rice. Rosenstein Bros, 1 barre! beans. Lomion & salverg. 34 bushel beans, Lewis DeGroft, 5 W. D. Harries '& C hys, 10 dozen eges. mann & o., | barrel oatmeal. aan 48. HW. Davenport, | barrel potatoes, 1 dozen B, jelly. ‘Schumann & Behrman, 1 bushel beans Bacharach #ros., 1 bushel beans, A Behre, 34 bushel beans. ‘Augustus Marsh Co., 1 bag rice, Dohrmann & Co., 1 bag oat meal, Glimm & Korner, 1 box hominy, CG, HW. Conrad, 2 barrels potatos ©, Stegmann & Sons, 1 bag ric Fisher & Van Campen, 50 pounds rice, @, Abrens, 1 vag tour, W. W. W., Guit’s London chocolate, H. K, Howard, | barre! turnips. RM. Floyd. 1 case prepared dour, E: Titus, | barrel eracke Secor, Bosworth & Co., | barrel potatoes MRS. WORSTELL’S VISIT TO THE GROCERS, Inacarriage kindly iurnished by s. H. Mason, Nos. 10 and 12 Kast Twenty-first street, Mrs. Worstell visited the grocers: and was presented —— J. M. Fiske & Co., 7 barrels flour, G, A. & J. McMurtry, 1 bag meal. James W. Hardand, I bag meal, George W. Grin, I bag collec, | half chest tea, John Wakeman &'Co.,1 barrel beans. Bartram Bros., smoked beef and hains, Schauitheis & Mensing, provisions. Hannekamp & Co.,1 box prepared flour, Kamp, Kie! & S.,.1barrel flour, A. M. Coitin, | bag oatmeal. J Bond, L barrel flour. & Baldwin, 1 bay meal, Brown & Gorham, raisins, J, M, Johnson & Co., | bag meal. Boden & Bro., 1 bug meal, Richardson, 1 bag ine: Campbell, I'barre! to Cragin & Uo., provisions. F, Link & Bro., provisions, W. A. Murray,'l bag meal. Norton’s Express, No. 67 Maiden lane, volunteers to carry packages for st, Joun’s Guild iree of charge. FOURTH WARD. Liberal Contributions of Bread. New YORK, March 7, 1874, To THE EDITOR OF THE H“RALD:. The following contributions were made this day for the benefit of the poor of the Fourth ward :— James Gill, No. 125 Chatham street, 100 loaves, ‘weekly. Andrew Horn, No. 449 Pearl street, 100 loaves, weekly. William Hughes, No, 26 New Bowery, 50 loaves, weekly. Patrick Doran, No, 149 Chatham street, 50 loaves, weekly. Nienolas Brown, No. 123 Roosevelt street, 100 loaves. Respectfully, CHARLES ULMAN, Captain Fourth Precinct Police, SEVENTH WARD. Bread for the Hungry Poor. New YORK, March 7, 1874, Mr. Rhody S. Brassels, oyster house, No. 81 Fast Broadway, generously donated 200 loaves of bread for the use of tne soup kitchen, Aiso, David Hays, druggist, No. 207 Division street, kindly sent filty loaves oi bread ior the above purpose. Respectiully, JOHN J. MOUNT, Captain Seventh Precinct Police, Contributions to Mr. Oscutt’s Free Eat- ing House. New York, March, 7, 1874. To THE EDITOR CF THE HERALD:— Ibeg leave to return thanks through your col- umns to the following gentlemen for continued contributions to our iree eating house at No. 17 To John Springer, Christian Hiver, Henry Lahn, George W. Farington’s Sons, Wiliam Doubleday, John Byrnes, Thomas O’Brien, Lemuel Valentine, William P, Woodcock, A. S. Pratt, John Donovan and Andrew wdell, all butchers and provision dealers in Tompkins Market, ‘To U. A. Baden, baker, 266 Broome street, for 200 loaves of bread each week, ‘To J. F, Miller, Washington Market, tor 200 pounds of meat each week. To J. G. Biackiord, Fulton Fish Market, for 200 pounds of meat per week. ‘Yo William De Box, West Washington Market, for two barrels of potatoes. ‘To my brother and business partner in the Ru- doilph Restaurant, ior $500 in cash, iso to Officer Daniel Sullivan, of the Seven- teenth precinct, for his indefatigable services in preserving order and aiding in all manner pos- sible to the success of the enterprise, We are now ieeding about 600 persons at the kitchen and nearly 300 families outside daily. Yours truly, RUDOLPH 0. ORCUTT, ELEVENTH WARD. A Balance ot $413 71, Given by the Re- lief Association to Police Captain Murphy, for the Use of the Poor, New York, March 6, 1874, To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD :— Will you please publish the following report of, the Eleventh Ward Relief Association? The asso cation was organized November 24, 1873, and com- menced to give reilef January 6, 1874 It was dis- solved March 6, 1874. The following shows the receipts and expenditures of money, amount of money subscribed by citizens and asociations:— November, 1873. $130 00 December, 1873. 889 00 January, 1874, 849 00 February, 1874... 521 26 March, 1874..... eves «= 285 00 Total collected....... tee eeeees cone eo B2,0T4 25 EXPENDED FOR CHARITY. January, 1874. $1,570 27 February, 1874.. 690 27 Tot $2,200 54 The balance of $413 711s given to Captain Mur- phy, of the Eleventh Precinct Police station, to be disposed of by him according to directions by a committee of three, appointed by the Chairman of the Executive Committee. LEVY COHN, Chairman, JAMES MCGOVERN, Treasurer. Davip OstTugiM, Secretary. New York, March 8, 1874, To Tug Eprtor oF THE HERALD:— Ihave received from Coroner Henry Woltman, President, and James McGovern, Treasurer, of the Eleventh Ward Relief Association, the sum of smong the children, embracing thove seourges of in- lantile humanity, diphtheria and scarlet fever. One shud died, They struggled through the succeedin: $413 71, with power to dispose of it ancre the worthy poor of the Eleventh ward. Re: ous ly, M. J, MURPHY, Captatm Eleventh Precinct Police, g A Week’s Gift of Bread from Citizens, New York, March 7, 1874 To THR Epiror oF THE HERALD :— The following donations have been made during this week for the benefit of the poor of the Thir- teenth precinct to be distributed through the soup | house No, 224 Delancey street :— Henry Theobold, No. 61 Pitt street, 100 loaves of bread, William Sebloss, No. 101 Attorney street, 400 loaves of waits Searle, No. 121 Delancey street, 200 loaves of Conrad Klein, No. 55 Ridge street, 100 loaves of bread. ‘ob Hecht, No. 105 Attorney street, 00 loaves of bread. b aut Hoffman, No. 131 Delancey street, 100 loaves of read, Andrew G. Case, No. 397 Grand street, 100 loaves of read. Din Zimmer, No. 147 Delancey street, fifty loaves of bread. Edward Funke, No. 80 Clinton street, 100 loaves ot bread. b Eeipcet Walters, No, 191 Delancey street, 6 loaves of read, Hiram Bechtel, No 449 Grand street, 50 loaves of bread. Patterson & brother, No. 125 Leiancey street, 1.0 loaves of bread, v. J. McLaughlan, corner Broome and Clinton streets, @ loaves of bread. Henry Bertrand, No. 149 Delancey street, 100 loaves of read. + Ausust Kanenbly, No. 35 Columbia street, 100 loaves of read. 8, D. Halsey, No. 58 Pitt street, £0 loaves of bread, Yours, &«., 5 HENKY HEDDEN, Captain Thirteenth Precinct Pouce. FIFTEEN!H WARD. Relief at the Citizens’ Soup House Dur- ing the Past Week. C1T1zEN8’ FIFTEENTH WakD Soup font 219 MERCER STREET, NEW York, March 7, 1874, To Tne Eprror oF THR HERALD:— The Governing Committee respectfully beg leave | to submit the following weekly report of the num- ber relieved by the Filteenth Ward Association— viz, :: No. Persons No. Families Retieved | Date, No. Meals, elieved, by Clothing. | March 1.. 606 10 10 4 1 20 9 12 3 | 22 5 30 3 18 2 Total... 39 . 4,073 2 We also acknowledge the foilowing donations— viz. Mrs. John Lynch, second instalment of tea. Alderman Join J, Morris, 8 bbis. vegetables, J. W. Collier, 840 Broadway, cash, 0, | Baley & Beakes, 206 Mercer street, all the milk | required. | Mrs. Bur‘nett, 13 Cottage place, one lot of cloth- | ing. Very Pees | JAMES M, HEATHERTON, Chairman, NINETEENTH WARD, Dramatic Performance on Saturday Night at Terrace Garden. The Relief Committee of this ward was formed at the Windsor Hotel in the latter part of January. Acommittee was appointed to collect subscrip- tions, A depot was opencd at No. 800 Third ave- nue, where supplies of tvod and other necessaries were dispensed. For this purpose $1,200 were collected. A statement was lately published by the Executive Uommittee showing the disposition of the funds and the reliei atforded. Over 500 families have been relieved in their dis- tress, Several have been saved trom eviction into the street by payment of tueir rent by the committer A number of landlords have abstained from jorcing the collection of rent through the intercession of the committee, Walt ing tor better times. Several persons have been bur.ed at the expense of the committee, Mr. Washington R. Nichois proposed that a dra- Matic entertainment be given tu aid of the poor of the ward, and a committee was formed, composed of @ number of the representative men Oi the ward, as follows:—Euill Sauer, I’. Sigel, Theodore Cc. Pohle, Charles G. Bull, Thomas W. Conway, Sashington R. Nichols, ‘Tne Murray Hill Amateur Dramatic Association offered their services, without reward, to aid ine ie Movement, and selected “Morning Call” verybody’s Frieud” for the perlormance, which was witnessed by upwards oi a thousand people. It was reported that over $800 haa been received, The representation was excellent, and joudly applauded. The amateurs have already contributed, since their organization, upwards of $9,000 to charitable purposes, TWENTIE{H WARD. Bread Contributions Acknowledged. New York, March 7, 1874, To vue EpIToR OF THE HERALD:— Ihave the honor to inform you that I have re- ceived the following donations of bread, which was forwarded to the soup house, No. 151 West ‘Thirty-first street :— From John Crawford, No. $9 Sixth avenue, 1 barrel of bread. From Joseph Niess, No. 479 Sixth avenue, | barrel of read. a mond Thorne, No. 425 Sixth avenue, I barrel of bread. (rom George Berg, No. 373 Seventh avenue, 10 loaves of brea From Louis Bock, No. 652 Sixth avenue, 25 loaves of read. ‘ Mr. Bock agrees to donate 25 loaves daily. Very respectfully, JOHN K. McCULLAGH, Cuptain Twenty-ninth Precinct Police. TWENTY-FIRST WARD. Report on the Destitation of the Ward and the Efforts to Relieve it. This evening the executive committee will sub- | mit to the Twenty-first Ward Relief Association, in Thirty-first street, the following financial exhibit :— CASH BECRIPTS, Edward Kearney. Hon. John Kelly Darling, Griswold & C Coroner Croker. ....... herland. 8. Brennan. Balance in hands of Treasurer Croker... The following additional contributions have been received :— Matthew Olwell, $15 in groceries. . H. Shultz, $19 in groceries. John MeArthur, $$ 1n groceries, A, anders, $1 in groceri W. D, Bruns, $5 in groceries. John Vouht, 20 pauids teat. John Connolly, 40 pounds meat weekly till Ist April. J. Essig, 10 pounds eat, 8 Cunningham, 40 pounds meat. halenburg, 15 pounds meat. ra, 18 pounds meat. ‘arlan, (0 pounds meat Weekly as long as wanted ney, the same. Nollins, 4 bags flour. .1 barre) dour. ll 4 tags four. ‘The James A. Brady Association, 100 loaves bread. G. Glock, 25 loaves. The Asniand House, 1 ton cont. ‘ A large quantity ot clothing of all descriptions has been received and distributed. “4 THE COMMITTBE ON RELIEF AND DISTRIBUTION, consisting of Josiah Sutherland, Richard Croker, Thomas 8. Brennan, Hugh F. Farrell and James A. Brady, have visited about 100 families residing in the various parts of the ward, most of whom were discovered to be in wretched and very needy cir- cumstances, Of this number about 100 families have been substantially relieved by a judicious distribution of groceries, coal, flour and clovuing. Funds for the purchase 0! shoes have been given | to those in want, and in some instances cash for the arrears of rent has been advanced, Some few of the families visited have not yet applied for relief, but are Hable to present them- seives at any moment. From the superabupdant indications of distress and destitution which have presented themseives, say the committeemen, ‘at the commencement of their operations they are of the opinion that some weeks must necessarily | elapse before they can thoroughly canvass the ward and complete the work assigned to them, and which | has thus far met with so much encouragement. In poor families, found thetr means inadequate to do all that 19 expected of them, But, knowing the charitable disposition of the director of the Ger- mania Theatre, Mr, Neuendorf, Mrs. Moses Hy- man, one of the committee, appealed to him, and, it appears, not tn vain, for, he at once seconding the object, placed himself and his talented com- pany at the disposal of the society, and gives a eli ionay red for its benefit on the 18th inst., at ‘errace Garden, on which occasion, “Fortunio’s Song,” operetta by Offenbach, and “The Boarding Schooi” (Pensionat), operetta by Suppe, will be produced. The Benevolent Society has been in existence for some time; its means, raised entirely by yearly subscriptions of its members, are altogether dis- bursed to poor, sick and uniortunate families, which the members make it their business to dis- cover, That, under present circumstances, their treasury should want replenishing cannot be sur- prising, and it is thereiore hoped that this benetlc periormance will be liberally patronized by the enevolent and the public generally, THE NEW YURK JUVENILE GUARDIAN SsoclELY. Ae SESE To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD The following is a brief report o: the New York Juvenile Guardian Society for the year ending December 31, 1873, given in accordance with the general form approved by State Comptroller Hill- house :— REORIPTS, Appropriation from sioard of A! ment, New Yore city From other sources........ Value of articles contribute Total.......... pportion- DISBURSEME “Support,” or relief, , General salaries 4 Cash on hand December 31, 1873. «$16,274 65 4,081 67 83 60 MOC i iisindessressenses eae seeeeee 21,039 92 Besides general sctioo! aid, 1,564 children received direct rehet, including 980 hnewsboys and boot- blacks, Who received bounti(ul warm dinners «ur- ing tue months of January, February and March, 1875, at No, 25 Park row, ‘The above report does not include the downtown relief, Or souphonse, established at No. 14 Dey street, where thousands of hungry and suffering poor have received relief. Very respectfully, D. F, ROBERTSON, Secretary. New York, March 6, 1874, THE PROPOSED CATHOLIC PILGRIMAGE. aS aS Many of the most prominent clergymen and lay- men in different parts of the country have signi- fled their purpose to participate in the proposed Catholic pilgrimage to Lourdes and Rome, but very many of the latter desired also to be accom- panied by their wives. The ladies, too, were anxious to visit the holy shrines, and they poured | such @ flood of epistolary correspondence and brought such influence to bear upon the commit- | tee of arrangements that the latter have been induced to relax their previous order and permit Jadies to take part in the pilgrimage, as will be seen by the following:— CARD FROM THE COMMITTER, As the impression seems to obtain that the time for the deparcure of the proposed piigtimage of Catholics from the United states to Rome has not been definitely determined the committee deem it due to those who have already signified thelr Laten- tion o1 participating in its exercises to state thas with regard to tie time they will conform to the programme which has been published—which pro- poses that a pilgrimage shall start irom the port ot New York not jater than the middle of next May. Since many ladies bave expressed their will- ingness to incur all the inconveniences incident to g ¢ the committee are pleased so far to modily tweir original programme as to invite such ladies, properiy escorted, to participate in its exercises, The natne of the steamer, the day of saliing and all other necessary inforination, will be communicated to those enrolled so soon alter the 20th of March as the committee of arrange- ments will have completed the contracts. ‘The committee propose to secure the pyssenger room in @ first class steamer of one of the favorite lines Irom this port, and the point of landing in France may depend on the line selected. Where there are so many lines entitied to and sharing the pud.ic favor equally the committee recognize the delicate task they may have to en- | counter in their desire to harmonize the wishes of all; but they are encouraged in undertaking the discharge of that duty by the reflection that eaca pligrim will be prepared to sacrifice his per- sonal preierences for the successiul accomplish- | ment of the common object. But since the pil- | grimage will disband in Rome, and it is not desired to impose any unnecessary sacrifices on the part ol those composing it, the committee have deter- mined to leaveit to each pilgrim, immediately after he shall have been advised by them of the steamer selected, and the provable cost, both with and without the return ticket ior the ocean part ol the trip, to cuoose whether he will avail himself of the advantages of the former or will elect to take a ticket as far as Rome only, As the committee may not be able to provide tor all Who propose to take governed in its formation by selecting those who, | contorming in all other respects to the require- ments embodied in the original programme, shall have flist transmitted their deposits to the credit of the Committee of Arrangements. Mr. Kugene Kelly, banker, No. 45 Exchange place, has kindly | consented to act as treasurer. Kemittances may be made to his order, JOHN D. KEILEY, Jr., Chairman, F. H. CHURCHILL, P.M. HAVERIY CHAS. N. MORS! THE SUICIDAL EPIDEMIC. et ani eae aS A Colored Ship Steward and a German Bartender Shoot Themselves—A Mulatto Girl Causes Jcalousy. To the suprise of everybody in the Park Hospital James Cooper, a@ colored ship steward, who shot Mimseif on Saturday night in the head, alter taking Committee, living yesterday morning. At seven o’ciock he was visited by Dr. Flunrer, the house surgeon, when the following conversation took place :- Doctor—How do you feel this morning, Cooper ? Cooper (rubbing his ears)—A little bit deaf, sah; | but nothing of any coasequence, sah. I don’t want to commit any more suicide, boss! This with an uneartuly grin and showing his ivories from ear to ear. At about noon the wife of Cooper, from No. 71 Varick street, came round, but as soon as he saw her he buried his head under the bed clothes and would not allow himself to be inter- wreathed with smiles when the doctor told her that ne thought her better half would live. Cooper asserts that he snot himseif in both ears, and to confirm this points to the coagulated blood to be seen in his ears, The only aperture the doctors have discovered 8o far is the hole in the back o1 his mouth, The cage is considered a very curious one. AND STILL ANOTHER, Last evening, at a quarter past five, the amb lance took to the Park Hospital a young Ge: commit suicide at @ house in the city frequented by negroes and Indians, Fortreader, it appears, had become Jealous of a handsome mulatto girl, to whom two negroes were paying their court, and, thinking that he was not cared for, put a pis- tol to his leit eye, meaning to blow out his brains. He fired, and the shot, after knocking the eye to pieces, lodged in bis nose, When he was awaiting removal to the ambulance a iriend of the wounded man came in, bringing the mulatto girl in his arm, and in a quast sympatnetic tone said to the Mee f wretch, ‘John, don’t pe alarmed; your iriend Arthur is with you.” Heavy hemorrhage has taken place, and Fortreader is in a most critical condition, He was formerly 4 bar- tender at the corner of Thompson and Grand streets, When taken to the hospital he begged Dr, Fluhrer to put iim out of bis misery, A River Captain Cuts His Throat and Jumps Overboard—A Farmer Disperses H Brains with the Contents of a Shotgun—Woman’s Frailty—The Shad and Herring Season. Norrour, Va., March 7, 1874, Captain James Turner, of Petersburg, command- the meantime, however, your cordial and con- tinued co-operation is heartily invoked, in the frm belie! that no nobler or more philanthropic object could more fitly claim whatever spare time you have to devote to this charitable enterprise.” The relief association has thirty-one visitors, who re- port upon cases daily, and which are subsequentiy reinvestigated by the Relief Committee, whose | names are given above, | More junds and provisions are urgently required | to carry on the good work inaugurated on the 2d | of this month, Charles H. Chandler, No. 103 East Thirty-first | street, is Secretary of the Relief Assoctation. | The meeting will be called to order this evening, atthe above mentioned place, at eigdt o'clock, when the Chairman or acting Chairman of tne As- sociation will preside, A resolution will probably be passed to the effect that no relief shall be given except the applicant has been visited by one of the lef Committee. YORKVILLE. | A Dramatic Performance for the Benefit | of the Poor. The ‘lady managers of the Hebrew Ladies’ Be- nevolent society of Yorkville have, after untiring exertions to alleviate the sufferings of many of our ing the steamer Isis, of the Roanoke River line, committed suicide to-day by cutting his throat and then jumping from his stateroom into the river, He was crazed from drinking, John Peal, @ farmer, residing at Welch’a Mill, Chowan county, N. C., blew us brains out yester- day with a shotgun on account of the frailty of his wile, He also tried to snoot his wife. The shad season is at its height here now. At Captain Hart’s tisnery, on the Albemarle Sound, | $00 stad and 5,000 herring were taken at a singie haul yesterday. Eighteen thousand shad were shipped North to-nignt, ALLEGED ARSON IN BROOKLYN, Upon investigating a fire in the dry goods store of Michael O’Keele, yesterday, at 586 Grand street, E. D., the Fire Marshal came to the conclusion that 1t was the Work of an incendiary, and last night he caused the arrest of the above named gentleman on suspicion of arson. ‘The Marshal took his affl- davit at Police Headquarters, and he stated he leit the store shortly beiore the fire broke out. He also stated that he nad $9,000 worth of goods in it vite @nd had an insurance of $8,000 on the The Marshal says ti w rent Giemsa tae mune he fre was in three diffe | part in the pilgrimage they have determined to be | an ounce of laudanum, was still in the land of the | viewed by her. The good woman left the place | man named John Fortreader, who had attempted to | AMERICAN COMMERCE. Decrease of the Aggregate Tonnage of Our Shipping Since 1872—Statistics of Exports and Imports, WASHINGTON, March 8, 1874. Monthly Report No. 4o0f the Bureau of Statistics now in press, contatns the statistics of our foreign trade for the month ending October 31, 1873, and for the nine months ending at the same period, as compared with the corresponding time of 1872, The following 1s @ synopsis :— "| Domestic. Periods, Importa, | [snorts fm Values). Month ending Onder $57,338,202) $51,770,698) $1,897,216 54,424,970] 46,158,982| 8,003,858 550,357,511} 488,217,474] 21,067,443 591,594,084) 437,237,576] 21,504,500 The portions of the imports aud exports for the nine months ending October 81, 1573 and 1872, which consisted of specie and buition, and of mer- handise, respectively were as follows:— exports ‘combined by $41,o4 | same period of 1572 the ports was $128,561,2 Of the total loreign trade for @ nine months | ending Octover 31, 1873 and 1872, the following values Were carried in American and foreign ves- 715, while for the ‘88 of imports over ex- | sels. und in cars and other land vehicles respect- | Ively:-— | Domestic Exports | Foreign Gtixed’ | Exports Values Amer'n v | Foreign ve | Land venic | Amer’n ves: 5 | Forengn vessels | An examination of the foregoing table shows that of the total trade by water during the nine mouths ending October 31, 1873, only 25 per cent was in American vessels, and for the correspond- | ang period of 1 23 per cent was carried in Amer- ican vessels. The following tab:e shows the number ana ton- nage of veasels eugayed in the foreign trade, which entered and cleared irom the United States during the twelve months ending October 31, 1873 | and 1372 respectively :— Entered, No. | Cleared. Tons. Tons. American ves Foreign vessels. Totals... 185.3 | American ve 724,751 )11, 028) 3,715,108 | Foreign vess 392, '359(19' 162] 7,381,807 mea Eye merce In ddition to the usual summaries, this report contains a table showing the value of the imports anu exports of the United States (distinguishing specie and bullion trom merchandise) annually, irom 17¥0 to 1878 Laciusive; also statements show- ing the trade oi Great Britain for 1873; statistics of Bremen exports from the consular tricts of Chemuitz to the United States for the year ending September 80, 1873; prices of tea in Japan; trade of Cuba, and importations of silk into New York rom 1866 to 1873 inclusive. TRE TRAINING SCHOOL FOR NURSES. go ee Employment for Educated and Con- scientious Women—Ten More Nurses Required. ‘The first annual report of the Committee on Training School for Nurses, has recently been pub- lished, and contains some particulars worthy of the attention of that “large class of conscientious and laborious women whose education and early associations would lead them to aspire to some higher and more thoughtful labor than household service or work in shops; such as the daughters and widows of clergymen, professional men and farmers throughout New England and the Northern | States, who have received the good education of our common schools and academies, and aro, de- pendent on their own exertions for support.” The training school for nurses 18 attached to Bellevue Hospital, and under the charge of Mis3 Bowden, an English Jaay, for many years attached | to the well known school at University College | Hospital, London, has proved eminently success- fal. In @ summary of the progress of the first year’s work, the report says:— Our next trial was the almost jmporeibility of finding women capable of acting as head nurses Advert mens, applications to doctors, and in fact all availat means only brought us tour—one of whom we were soon torced to discharxe tor inefficiency, Could any stronger proot be found, were proot required, of the great need felt Urrough ihe eftire community for’ trained nurses. We Were at first disappoinied at the tew destrable applicants Who presented themscives to be trained, but, as the Knowledge of our school gradually spread over the country, we received, either through personal interview | wich the superintendent or by letter, many. applications from women offering themselves as probationers. Some were enureiy unfited by incapacity, physical weak- Ness, or because belonging to the ignorani, uneducated chass thev ieli below our standard of admission. But the majority were unwilling to devoce two years to gaining @ carecr, seeming to care little tor really pertecting themselves in their procession, Filled us the land is with che ery for woman's Work, this indifference to taoroughness is the stumbling ‘block in the way of ull educators, and has proved one of our most serious ditliculuies. We exact a less eriod trom our the year of trai ug Is so cosily that it surely is not asking too muc tat they shouid in return give one year to training oth: These applicanis, numbering’ seventy-three, were | from ali parts of the the Middie w Englani tory, Minnesota and ‘Caluoraia, ‘Twenty-nine have | Deen adimitted to the training school; dismissed on ac- | count of ill health, 3; for inediclency or unsuitablencss, family claims which we could not in conscience op: pose, 2, leaving 19in the Home. This is, for the present, our limit, but prebationers are constantly applying, and now,.as Hew Wards are opened to us in the hospital, we must enlarge our Home by taking floors in we adjoin- ing house. Of course ihis ‘would necessitate increased expenditure, but our friends have been -so generous heretotore that we stall trust with grateful coniidence to their aid in the 1uture, The committee now desire to state that they are ready to assume the charge of the lying-in wards; placing ten nurses where there are now six, and that this will be done at no additional expense to the city. The following extract from the rules may be useful to those who may contemplate dedi- cating themselves to this wok:— ‘The pupils will pass through the different wards, serv- ing and being tiught tor one year. ‘They will board and lodge wichout charge at the Home, and will be paid. $10 (ten dollars) a month for their clothing and personal ex- enses. nis sum is in no manner intended as wages, it wing considered that their education during. this tine Will be a sull equivalent for their services. Atthe expir. tion of the year, they will be promoted to such positions as they may be found capable of holding, with a propore tionate increase of salary. When th years Js ended the narses thus trained will be at liberty to choose their own eld of labor. whether in hospitals, in private iamilies, or i district nursing among tho poor, On leaving the school they will each receive ® certificate of ability and good character, signed by. the physicians of the committer aud the superintendent, hese certificates will be required to be renewed at fixed periods, in order to prevent the public from being im: posed dpon and to keep up the nurse's Intorest in the ome. Tull term ‘of two. IMPORTANT NEWARK MUNICIPAL MATTERS, For full half a dozen years @ number of Alder- men of Newark have driven a nice trade with the city in clear and spectic violation of the municipal and State laws, which provide that no member of council or other city oMcer shall be, directly or in- directly, interested in any contract, supplies or | Materials furnished to the city. Sixteen years ago, when the first City Auditor, Judge Hewson, was in office, this matter arose a8 a questton. He refused to audit the bills, and opinions from him. bency of the offices, has ignored the Jaw and con- | tinually countersigned the bills drawn in favor of | @idermen, fhe matter was brought to Mayor Perry’s attention, bills and has been sustained by a fresh opinion of the city council, There is much dissatisfaction in aidermanic circles with the law and a strong tucll- Nation to abuse those who have brought avout this reform, TROUBLE AMONG THE POLICE. Newark is spread over about 130 miles of street. The enormous increase of taxes upon them and the panic have caused an economic strain, More | es are Wanted, but that would require an out- jay. It was at first thought to cut down the pres- ent rate of pay, and with the docked money pro- vide more men, To this the men demurred stoutly. They argued that if all city officers’ pay ‘Was reduced they would not object; but to single out them, the poorest paid and hardest worked of the city servants, was too much for good nature. lar opinion’ agreed With them, and the cut fing down was abandoned, Next the chief con- cocted a plan, He arranged that each man did two or three hours more duty aday. The men object stoutly to this also, They held ® meeting and remonstrated, but it seems the leaders in the meeting were promptly suspended by the chief. The matter came up in Council, and the chief was styled an autocrat for*thus denying the men the right to protest. Alter considerable debate the subject was referred to a commit Sn ee ee | Domestic aM Exports ign Import. | (Secia | Imports. Values). Specie andbul-) | $23,030,201! $19,439,032! $6,720,307 lion oe 1873 SPU sar zr7.a20l 438.777,802| 14,947,136 15,075 343) 987] 7,678,259 | i 13,831,040 The value of foreign commodities rematning in warehouse October 31, 1873, was $68,606,604 against | $69,075,725 on October 31, 1872, | Allowing for the ditference in the warehouse ac: | count the imports for the nine months ending Oc-- | tober 31, 1 exceed the domestic and foreign Be ble | Stutes and the tar West, even including Colorado Terri: | Chancellor Runyon and Governor Vroden sustained | Auditor Dawes, during mis six years incum- | He vetoed the next batch of | 5 THE COURTS. ESSEX MARKET POLICE COURT. Kit Burns’ Widow Arrested. Before Justice Otterbourg. Shortly after the late lamented Kit Burns, ot Water street rat pit notoriety, gave up the ghost, some three years since, his widow Mary started business for herself at No. 119 Chrystie street, The house soon became notorious as being the resort of abandoned characters, and the hitherto quiet neighborhood was made noisy by the nightly revels which were carried on by Mrs. Burns and her visitors, At seven o'clock yesterday mornin; Detective Dyer and Sergeant Webb, of the Tent! Precinct, with a squad of men, made @ raid on the house, The inmates were just retiring from their orgies, Sixteen persons, all told, were captured— ten women of bad character and six men, They Were all locked up for examination, and Mrs. Burns was put und > ‘disorder pemind put under bail for keeping a ly A Bopeful Young Man, John McGetterick, who resides at No, 304 Henry Street, was held in $1,000 bail yesterday, charged with stealing wearing apparel from a relation of his named ‘Macng wep ore! sume House, Ue Acuetterick, residing im the FIPTY.SEVENTH STREET POLICE OOURT. Alleged Forgery, Before Jastice Murray. John Sullivan, of the Star Twine Company, Twenty-second street, between First and second avenues, preferred a charge of forgery against Thomas Rothrock, a iormer salesman of his, The defendant, 1t is alleged, collected a bill of $259 from a creditor of the company by representing him- self as Mr, Sullivan, Whose uame he signed to the receipt. The check he received for the $259 was on the Nassau Bank, and the defendant recetved the money by simply endorsing it With his own name und that of Mr. Sullivan. At the bank he | also represented himsel! as J. Sullivan, He was held for trial in default of $2,009 bail. COURT CALENDAR—THIS DAY. Supreme Court—Cuamsers—Held by Judge Donohue.—Nos. 48, 52, 71, 77, 78, 83, 88, 89, 90, 94, 95, 100, 102, 103 3g, 109, 111, 113, 115, 180, 144, 153, 165, 114, 177, 151, 183, 194, 195, 196, 197, 199, Call 202. SUPREME COURT—GENERAL TERM—Held by Judgea Davis, Daniels and Lawrence.—Nos, 131, 134, 136, 107, 141, 143, 145, 146, 147, 148, 150, 151, 102, 154, 105, 168, 16934, 159, 160, 161, 162, 163, 164, 165, 166, Surneme Courr—Cincurt—Purt 2—Held by Judge Van Brunt.—Court opens at 1049 A, M.—NoB, 77634, 1180, 237, 1906, 480, 12: 1670, 2806, aah i114, 112 | 1216, 1734 1136, ‘2 | 308 115 Part 3—Nos, 2117, 285, 037, 427, 75, 2067, 1327, 991, 178, 455, 1215, 805, 2049, 729, 1205, 445, 1095, 807, 1301, 1227, 3113, SUPERIOR COURT—TRIAL TERM—Part 1—Held by ‘ourt Opens at eleven A, M.—Nos, 741, 1023, 871, 731, 469, | i ‘art Held by Judge Freeda | man—Court opens at eleven A. M. 866, 830, 898, 1494, 650, 870, 1490, 878, 874, 678, 16, 722, 896, 688. ‘Counn OP COMMON PLEA3—GENERAL TeRM—Held by Judges Rovinson, Larremore and J, F. Daly. Nos. 34, 43, 41, 57. Court OF COMMON PLEAS—TRI4L TERM—Part 1— Held by Judge Loew—Court opens at eleven A, M.— No8. 3988, 68, 2077, 1369, 2726, 2420, 2499, 2173, 107, 18. Order NOs, 6167, 2423, 1060, 3819, 463, Part 2.— Adjourned until first Monday 10 April, MaRINK CoURT—IRIAL TeRM—Part 1—Held by Judge Spauldin; Sourt opens at 10 A. M.—Nos, 8335, 4363, 2570, 233544, 2422, 3344, 4538, 4658, 4478, 1608, 1664, 1665, 3440, 3442, 3450, Part 2—Held by Judge Silea.—Court opens at 10 A, M.—Noa, 8359, 3116, 3423, 3427, 3313, 2157, 3306, 3289, 3311, 2982, 3273, 3391, 8293, 4479, 8453, 3455. | Part 3—~ Held by Judge Joachiinsen—Court opens at 10 A, 9, 4495, 4108, 4589, 4014, 4374, 4059, 3203 da, 3290, 4394, 4332, 437¥, 4494, 4440, 445: HORRIBLE MURDER IN WILLIAMSBURG, A Drankard Murders His Wife—Captare of the Murderer, About three o'clock, yesterday afternoon, an Englishman named Thomas Lowndes, about forty years old, ktiled his wife, Margaret Lowndes, with butcher’s knife, at their residence, in a low hovel | in the rear of No, 245 North Fith street, Wiihame- burg. The murderer and his victim have both led a life of dissipation for years and are well known to the police. From a statement given by the olcest son, @lad of about nine years, it appears that Lowndes returned tome ¢@runk about nine o'clock yesterday morning and laid down on a | lounge and went to sleep, and upon getting up | about two o'clock accused his wife Of ab- stracting money trom his pockets while he slept. This the woman denied, aud a quarrel ensued. During the adray he seized @ butcher's kuile from the muntel-shelf and plunged it into her left side, in the region oi the heart, He then leit her and jay down on the jounge again and siept for half an hour, Alter getting up again and Jearning trom his son that his wife was dead he left tne house. Mrs. Mary Ann Armstrong, a@ lady living on the floor above, coming down stairs at Lhis time, discovered the body of Mrs. Lowndes lying on the floor and immediately gave the alarm. Captain Wogiom and Sergeant Brennan at once sent out the reserve lorce and guarded all the ferries to prevent the escape of the murderer, About halt ast seven o'clock last night Oficer Kelly espied Powndes 1m the Vicinity of the tragedy and at once took him into custody and locked him up in the Fourth street station house, Coroner Whitehtil will empanel a jury to-day. THE ORISPIAS, A Strike Decided Upon. The Cutters’ Protective Association of the Order of Knights of St. Crispin held a special meeting yesterday afternoon at Military Hall, Nou. 193 Bowery, for the purpose of taking some decided action toward a rigid enforcement of the eignt | hourrule, The meeting was attended vy a large number of delegates, James McDonaid, President of the association, in the chair. The report of the Strike Committee was received, stating that the employers running second class establisiments re- quired their cutters to work ten hours per day, and thar, although they mad been urged to adopt the eight hour rule, they had as yet reiused to comply. The committee also recommended that a suike be made without delay, which in their opinion was the only remedy that would prove effectual. The report was accepted, and, | after a spirited discussion, it was resulved that ail members who had been working ten hours should suspend work until the employers hada adopted the eignt hour rule. The ussociation passed @ resolution two years ago demanding the uuqualified adoption of the eight hour ruie, Which about one-halt of the em- ployers in the city immediately acceded to, some having previously Worked their cutters but eight hours, Whue the otver half have held out against it untii the present. About one-halt of the members of the association have been obliged to work ten hours per day, and, as «he organization has 300 memoers, in the neighbordood of 160 mea will strike to-day. THE LABORERS’ UNION, The delegates to the Laborers’ Union from the various divisions oi New York, Brooklyn, Jersey City and Hoboken held a special meeting yester- day aiternoon at the Fourteenth Ward Hotel, cor- ner of Grand and Elizabeth streets. The purpose o1 the meeting was to consider the expediency of forming new organizations in Brooklyn, Willams- burg aud the adjacent cities on Long Isiand. The increasing meuwibersiip of the societies already formed demands this action, as the meeting rooms now used are not large enough to accommodate all the members who wish to attend, and it is ih also that @ wider distribution of the bral which in this and adjacent cities has 5,000 mem- | bers. A commitvee was appointed to take the | matter in hand, and the meeting then adjourned, THE CAPMAKERS'’ NEW STRIKE. The capmakers employed tn the house of Messra, Marks Bros. & Thompson, South Fifth avenue, are again reported on strike. It appears that when payday came round the tirm, it 1s said, broke faith With their operatives by deducting certain amounts from the workpeople’s wages, contrary to the echedule of prices aud regulations signed by the manufacturers on the 25th of last month, It is also stated that the above nouse has adver- tised ior 100 new hands to learn tue trade of cap. aking, promising them ® compensation of from | $3 to $4 per day. The old capmakers indignantiy denounce this oftei a say that were it possible to | make anything like such Wages they Would remain in the shop, They think {tt impossible for the | Marks Bros. to fill their orders by work from new | hands; also that jovbers would not accept the kind of stock Which learners might turn out. THE PRESS AND THE PULPIT, The Rey. Marvin R. Vincent, D. D., pastor of the Church of the Coyenant, Park avenue and Thirty. filth street, at the morning service yesterday, in | announcing the usual collection for the Presby- terian Board of Pubiications and the American Tract Society, and referring to their claims in pre- senting a vast work in the diffusion of Christian literature, said, in substance among other things :— ‘The press ts the great power tn the tand, and it has taken the pace of the pulpit in its religions instruction and in the dessemination of religious truths. We cannot change it, nor would we if we could; and so the better Way is to take all the pos- sible advantage of the fact that we can in the dif- fusion of the Knowleage of Christ and Christianity. here cannot be any more effective way of reac {ag the hearts of the multitudes, not only in tnd cities, but in the wilderness, than by she press.