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. MORE MISERY, Tho Suffering Poor---Their Needs and Their Helpers. A DAY AT THE SOUP KITCHENS, Details of the Work of Kind Hearts and Generous Sympathizers, The possidtiity of a new issue of tnconvertidie paper Iregard with amazement and anziety, and, tn my judgment, such an issue would be a detrt- ment and @ shame,—CHARLES SUMNER. The Soup Kitchens in Charge of Mr. Dele monico, Fourth precinct, No, 327 Water street, Captain Ulman, Sixth precinct, No. 110 Centre street, Captain Kennedy. Seventh precinct, No, 79 East Broadway, Captain Mount. Enghth precinct, No 114 Wooster street, Captain Williams, Eleventh precinct, No. 285 Second street, Cap- tain Murphy. Thirteenth precinct, No, 224 Delancey street, Captain Hedden. Fourteenth precinct, No. 53 Spring street, Cap- tain Clinchy, Fighteenth precinct, No, 302 avenue A, Captain Tynan. Nineteenth precinct, Second avenue, corner of Sixty-third street, Captain Gunner, Twentieth precinct, No, 511 West Twenty-ninth Sirect, Captain McElwain, Twenty-first precinct, No, 218 East Thirty-fourth street, Captain Allaire, Twenty-second precinct, Tenth avenue, between Sixty-second and Sixty-third streets, Captain Kal- lilea, Twenty-ninth precinct, Thirty-first street, near Seventh avenue, Captain McCullagh. Other Soup Houses, Juvenile Guardians’ Society, downtown relief, No. 14 Dey street. Mr. Orcutt’s soup kitchen, No. 17 East Seventh street, Dear Third avenue, Howard Relief Association soup houses, old police station, Leonard street, and No. 61 Thomp- son street. Industrial Senool for Women, No. 47 East Tenth street, near Broadway, gives meals and Jurnishes bee! tea for the sick, g Filteenth ward citizens’ soup house, No, 219 Mercer street. Twenty-third precinct police soup and lodging ouse, Kighty-sixth street, corner of Fourth ave- nue, Bread and beef house, No. 306 West Fifty-second Street, near Eighth avenue, Sparta Club soup kitchen, oppostte the Court House, Fiity-seventh street, near Third avenue. ‘Twelfth ward citizens’ soup house, Harlem Mar- ket, 125th street, Manhattanville, *30th street, near Broadway. Tweuty-third precinct police lodging and soup house, hourth avenue and Eighty-sixth street. Soup Kitchens In Brooklyn. Fourth precinct temporary retlef soup house, Vanderbilt avenue, near Myrtle avenue. Tenth precinc, soup house, corner Bergen and Pearsall streets, Helping Band, Atlantic avenue. The Soup Kitchens, The soup kitchens yesterday gave relief to the thousands of the sutfering poor whose only relief is in this charity. The sunshine and fresh, soft air of the day were so healthful and full of the vigor ana impetus of life that in the rush and hurry of ‘business, hopefal now after the long stagnation, few there were, if indeed any, who cast a thought upon the families still suffering because the effect of better times had not yet come to them. But the quiet work of charity nevertheless went on, and the daily increasing numbers of applicants for food were still further increased at all the several kitch- ens. Scarcely a day passes even yet in which the demands on Mr. Delmonico’s corps of cooks are not greater than they were the preceding day, @ fact which shows that the need for charity, open, tuil and generous, was far more general and un- equivocal at the first cry of distress than was then generally imagined. There is not now such an outward show of great poverty as was noticeabie when tne first alarming veril of starvation drove the poor people almost to madness, Then there was a wailing call ior food; uow there 1s a cheeriul acceptance of the food sup- plied and a better and higher feeling in regard to the soup kitchens. A visit to the kitchens a month ago uncovered @ most painful picture. fathers, mothers, little children, strong men but hangry’ ones, and weak men who were feeble at their best, crowded <he rooms, with an apparent feeling of desperation that otherwise would have been shame. ‘Ihe very word “charity” had a harsh, a gratingly harsh sound, to the ears of these stricken Bares Poverty was depicted in all their faces. ‘hat they felt ashamed to take soup they had not earned was also plainiy told by every motion. But @ month’s reflection has shown them that this isa very hard world, with heavy clouds sometimes in the skies, and that the poor man can no more con- trol the activity of @ nation’s business than the Tich man can prevent bimself from being sick, mis- eravie, affiicted with family troubles, and, in a gen- eral way, dyspeptic allover, And so the picture hes changed. Now the little children, no longer with poor, pale, cramped and crying. laces, bring their cans to the helpiul kitchens. They come smiling and happy, jor they have been eating Delmonico’s best soup jor many weeks past. The women, the working- men’s wives, are no longer ashamed to call twice a day to have tielrcans filled with soup, for they know that where they go they are welcome, and tuat the season is so exceptional as to warrant them im doing so, all things considered. The sturdy, uardy young fellow out of work goes to the kitchen and eats his dally soup, too proud to beg in the streets, and glad of the feeling that he has, by this ministration of Ci chance to wait awhiic and maynap to learn a lesson of life hith- erto unknown to him. Yesterday at the kitchens everything was cheer- ful, ‘the Fulton Market Fishmongers’ Association contributed 2,000 pounds of fish for the day’s fish chowder, There was not a single instance of fraud attempted, thanks to the careful, constant watch- ing Of the police. The perela who applied were the people who needed aid. Families received their daily sustenance as a matter of course, but pot one 0. them without being in sore need of it. The charity, as it appeared to any observer, could not Jail to show the extraordinary distress which still prevails among the working Classes of the city. Pictures of Poverty—The Work Done at St. John’s Chapel and Means To Do it-—A Dying Paralytic and Her Chila— The Starving of All Nationajities—Hid- ing Her Misery. Yesterday 1,800 persons thronged the courtyard of St. John’s chapel clamoring for food. Fiiteen hundred loaves of bread were given away betore two o’ciock in the afternoon, and, while only $45 was received, $98 was expended in cash tor the immediate relief of cases which would bear no postponement. To-day St. John’s Guild 1s known to every poor person on the island of Manhattan, 4nd at its gates the poor of every ward and street Knock, and While it has funds they never ask in vain, SPEECHLESS, HELPLESS AND FRIENDLESS, Among many eases reported yesterday is that of Mrs. Burke, of No, 563 Third avenue (top floor). Mrs. Burke, who was visited by Dr. Langdon, is a widow, she has two children—a little girl of four- teen and a boy of nine years of age. Formerly she supported herself and her little family by wash- ang, but last week she had a stroke of apoplexy, aud When her consciousness returned found she was completely paralyzed on her right side. She as siNce remained unable to move and 1s speecn- Jess. She is without @ friend save her children; has No means of subsistence, and owes her land- lord reut for the past five months, There is no chance of her being able to support either herself or Cuildren at least lor a long time to come. per ‘tine feria FAMILY STARVING. ote was yes y the Guild office :— “i graeme Kev, Auvait Wiswant— * A very old woman and her daughter, Fi ; cannot 9 wish. They are in’ the most wretelied stave of destivation that I have ever seen, even thelr clothing 50 bad that ther cannot a ppear on the street in the day. [| use r in the sume miserable cellar, dalnp, alin wad oot yes bring this case before you, and hope you ma: relieve them. Yours, respecttully, unm ———, Mr. Martin Walker, who visited the above men- tioned farmily, reports :—'*Mrs. Tach and daughter, residing in a rear basement. Mother, aged sixty, an invalid—incurable, Very destitute. Dependent and cold, to Ly be able to On dauguter for suRQOrt, Laughter thrown ont of Luneng and mother denied the necessaries of ie e Miaugneer would undertake any work whereby she could @ livelihood jor hersell and Mother. They are without any kina of bed cover- ing.” AN AMERICAN FAMILY DESTITUTE. Mr. Perine reports a family by the name of Mil- drum, living at No, 366 West Thirty-sixth street, ‘There are eight in all—father, mother and six chil- dren. The father has had no employment in the past four months, being unable to obtain work of any kind. The visitor found oy inquiries that they were very sober, upright people, and deserving of assistance. When he entered the house they had not so much as a crust of bread. DYING BY INCHES, Mrs. Bills returns & memorandum of the case of family by the name of Blue, living at No. 345 Riyington street, There are six children—the eldest nine years and the youngest eight months of . The house was neat and clean. The father has been unable to work for three years past owing to disease of the heart. They were sup- plied with food, but are greatly in need of clothing, Anything sent to the Guild for them will be for- warded at once. HIDING HER MISERY, Some months ago & neatly dressed and pretty oung mother Dramas her babe to be baptized at zt Jonn’s chapel, Yesterday several ladies of the rish called upon her, and to their great surprise Found wer upon the verge of starvation, Her hus- band, a truck driver, had lost employ- | ment through the dull times, and she be- came ill. The husband sought odd jobs, carrying coal and working on the docks, but was only able to earn a shilling or two at rare in- tervals, ‘The mother tried to conceal her poverty, but when pressed to accept clotung said, ‘You may sena something for ba! ee Baby was nearly naked, and the warm-hearted visitors hastened to | clothe it. As the family will not accept assistance, the ladies are most anxious to get employment tor the father of ‘that baby.” The Relief Fund. Donations for the poor recetved by the HERALD and not previously acknowledged :— | R. HL, for Mrs. Coon, No, 333 East Thirteenth street. In work, tor St. John's Guild, fi J. L, T., Red Bank, N. J... St. John’s Guild and the Downtown Poor. The following additional contributions were re- ceived yesterday by Rev. Alvah Wiswall for the poor of the Fifth and Eighth wards, and handed to the Almoner of the Guild, Mr. Henry C, De Witt:— [Those desiring to visit the office of the Guild will remember that it is in the school buildings at- tached to St. John’s chape!, Varick street, between Laight and Beach streets.) THROUGH MRS, TAYES, Henry Bradstreet. $10 00 L. Haligarten 20 00 Cash........ 5 00 George H. Sheeve. 5 00 Cash......sseeee 5 00 $45 00 13,903 60 Grand total. teemerereeesteees + $13,948 60 Contributions to this tund may be sent to the HERALD ofiice, to Mayor Havemeyer, City Hail; C. V. B. Ostrander, President of the Merchants’ Fire In- surance Company, No, 149 Broadway; Andrew W.. Leggat, Collector of Assessments, New Court House; George Wilkes, M. D., No. 16 North Wash- ington square; G. K. Lansing, Earle’s Hotel; G. J. |. Zabriskie, Cashier of People’s Bank, corner of Canal and Thompson streets; J. L. Davis, Sheldon & Co., No. 677 Broadway, and Rev. 8, H. Weston, D. D., No. 3 East Forty-iifth street, or to the Rev. Alvah Wiswall, Master of St. John’s Guild, St. John’s chapel, Varick street. Packages of clothing, groceries, &c., should be sent to St. John’s chapel, Varick street, between Laight and Beach streets, or if an order be sent a messenger will call for any packages. Mrs. Judge Brady, No. 19 West Thirty-third street, and Mrs. Earle, . 84 West Filty- second street, have kindly consented to receive subscriptions, The Probiem of Poverty. New YoRK, March 24, 1874, To TE EpIToR OF THE HEBALD:— In reading the letter of “Climax,” in your issue of Sunday, March 22,1 was struck by the sum- Mary manner in which he settles “The Problem of of Poverty.” He dismisses “the South Carolina (or almighty) pen, and asserts that a certain amount of people always have been and aiways will be poor, and the only cure he recommends 1s “to grin and feed them.’ Now, can it be that a writer So well read and posted as “Climax” ap- pears to be cannot give us a practical pian to alleviate the poverty and wretchedness in our midst. 1 believe that at ieast two-tifths of the poor of this city are able and willing to work, and if | taken out ofthe city and “dumped” (even in South Carolina) upon ground capable of being tilled, and assistance given them to start with, they woula make respectable and well-to-do citizens. I believe more, that these people will not require to be “dragged out of the city,’ but, 1f the necessary assistance was forthcoming, would be ready and wiiling to go. Would to God it were possible “to sweep poverty and crime from the face of the earth.” But can we not alleviate both ? Will “Climax” or some other practical man tell ‘us how it is to be done? ABAKUK. Tenth Ward—Contributions of Food. New YORK, March 24, 1874, To THE EvITOR OF THE HERALD:— Ihave this day received the following contribu- tious for the poor of the Tenth precinct :— William Bischoff, No. 94 Allen street, 25 loaves of bread. Gustav Lauter, No. § North William street, 80 loaves of eae Mr. Kilgore, No. 6 Bayard street, 40 quarts of milk, Hen junther, No. 73 Bowery, 15) loaves of bread. Charies Kopf, No. 139 Bowery, 59 loaves of bread. eri} Wanninger, No. 100 Essex street, 100 loaves of ead. Franz Kastner, Henry Weltner, lewark, 100 loaves of bread. ‘o. 21 Forsyth street, 100 loaves of bread. Frank Strobel, No. 99 Canal street, 100 loaves of bread, b re G. Henry, No. 120 Forsyth street, 10) loaves of read ad. T. L., £0 loaves of bread. Heriian Fatkenbers. No.74 Forsyth street, 100 loaves ot bread and 100 pounds fresh meat. Assemblyinan George Sherinan, No. 91 Orchard street, 200 loaves of bread. JOHN J. WARD, Captain Tenth Precinct. Fifteenth Ward—Donations to the Mer- cer Street Soup House. New York, March 25, 1874. To THE EprtoR OF THE HERALD:— | We take pleasure in acknowledging the follow- ing contributions :- Messrs. Arcularius & Co., Fulton Market, 100 pounds of fish (ninth donation of like amount). Louis Kiemm, 136 S ollivan street ,50 loaves of bread. Messrs. Lewis & George 8, Leland, st, Charles and Stur- tevant hotels, 1 barre! ot meat and / barrel of bread, peak: Curticr, of Ful.on Street Hotel, ¢ barrels of pilot read. ¥. Link & Brothers, corner of Hudson and Christopher stréets, fourth donation ot pork. John Shuler, of Tompkins Market, 20 pounds of meat. A, Simpson, corner of Fourth street and Bowery, 50 loaves of bread. JAMES M. HEATHERTON, Chairman Citizens’ Relief Association, No. 219 Mer- cer street, Sixteenth Precinct—Donations of Bread, New York, March 25, 1874. To THE EpIror OF THE HERALD:— The following contributions of bread have been made for the poor of this precinct :— Henry Ranges, baker, No. 192 Eighth avenue, 50 loaves, sgits, stephen Angeviae, baker, No. 309 Kighth avenue, Otto Kerns, baker, No. 346 West Twenty-fifth street, 30 loaves, Patrick McMahon, baker, No. 280 Tenth avenue, 20 8. loaves oem) Bundscnuh baker, No. 256 Tenth avenue, 50 loaves. John Warner, baker, No. 194 Ninth avenue, 25 loaves. John Watson, baker, No. 295 enth avenue, 25 loaves, Frederick Byer, baker, No. 270 Seventh avenue, 25 joaves, e Frank Morgan, baker, No. 285 Eighth avenue, 50 loaves. Adolphe Schimkel, baker, No. 324 Eighth avenue, 5) loaves. THOMAS CHERRY, Captal nth Precinct Police, Twentieth Ward Bread Donations. NEw York, March 23, 1874, To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— I have received the foliowing contributions for the destitute families of tue Twentieth precinct: 10) loaves of bread trom John Ross, No. 353 West Thirty ninth street. 100 toaves of bread from John Barnett, No. 372 Eighth avenue 5) loaves of bread from L. Baureis, No. 459 Ninth ave- nue. 1U0 loaves of bread from L. Brannigan, No. 626 West Thirtieth street. 350 loaves of bread trom Daniel O'Farrell, No, 410 Eighth avenue, CHARLES McDONNELL, Captain Twentieta Precinct Police. Twenty-Seventh Precinct. To THE Epivor oF THE HERALD:— New York, March 24,1874. The contributions received at this station for the relief of its poor families were distributed this day by the Ladies’ Aid Assoctation of this district, and about 2,000 families were reiieved. Also 200 loaves Ol bread were distributed from the desk, Respect tally, WILLIAM B, LOWERY, Captain. The Brooklyn Poor. There were 4,032 persons fed at the Fourth pre- cinct soup house, Vanderbilt avenue, yesterday. At the Tenth precinct kitchen, corner of Bergen and Pearsall streets, 2,399 persons were fed on soup, bread and meat. Contributions are earnestly so- Neited by the captains in charge of the station houses named. The possibility af a new issue of inconvertidile paper I regard with amazement and anviety, and, in my judgment, such an issue woud be a detri- GND @ SNA ham GAB Les SEMI” dumping ground” with one sweep of his mighty | | Ment, Gave orders to have all the boats lowered, | a year; when I shaped the course from Madara the be! THE PACIFIC MAIL STEAMER RELIEF, | vicem silat Official Inquiry Concerning the Cause of the Loss of the Vessel=Decision of the Court—Assent of the Assessors. YokouaMA, Japan, Feb. 23, 1874, I informed you in my last letter of the loss of the Pacific mau steamship Reller on the night of the 19th ult. Since then a court of inquiry has been held at Nagasaki. The iollowing is a condensed summary of the CAPTAIN'S STATEMENT. Left Kobe January 16, at twenty minutes past two P.M, Experienced head winds and adverse tide through the Injand Sea, Passed Straits of Simo- neseki on the morning of the lsth, a hard gale blowing trom westward. On accoant of the sever- ity of the weather anchored at forty-five minutes past ten A. M. in Whitshed Bay. Remained there till quarter past seven next morning, when che gale had abated. At thirty-one minutes past six P, M. passed Madara Island and steered for Obree Channel; night moderately starlight, Left the deck im charge of second officer, with orders to steer southwest halt west. Returned on deck & jew minutes before eight, Night extremeiy dark. Isaw land which | at first thought to be the high land of MHirado, which soon knew to be the peak of Dosima. Immediately gave orders to “starboard” and then ‘“hardsa-starboard.’? I then saw a streak upon the water which excited my fears. Ran to the pilot house and pin | three bells, Iheard the engines stop and atthe first clock of reversing [ ordered the lelin “iard-a-port.”? A lew moments afterward she struck heavily and remained immovable, Soundings were taken about the ship and the Bump. well was sounded, The chief engineer reported that the engines were reversing at iull speed and that the ship was not making water. A few minutes later the chief oficer reported the “steam ail goue, about fifteen plates badly bent and the ship’s bow lying over a | Shelving rock.” Ordered the engines stopped but steam to be kept up. Chief engineer reported that she Was all right abaft the forward compart- and sent passengers and mails ashore toa town where we saw lights. Sent the second officer with another boat to another town for buats und assist- ance. During all this time the whistie was blown at short intervals, and the gun was ired several umes. About eleven o’clock the water in the ship had increased to iour feet. At three A. M. the ship lay over so badly as to completely disable the engines. 1 then gave orders tor ali hands to pack up their | traps and then sent them ashore. At daylight the Golden Age was sighted, I sent on board and re- | quested the OCgptain to return to Nagasaki with the passengeré, mails and treasure. Took out the cargo and janded it, On the night of the 21st the ship broke in two, EXAMINATION, Question by Court—lIs it usual to take the Obree Channel on dark nights ’ A, That depends; I have been in the habit of using Obree Channel jor over night was starlight. Q Do you consider it a safe passage? A. I do; it is used by the Pacifl Mail steamers; also by the pilots with the heaviest men-ol-war vessels, Q. Do you attribute the vessel being out of her position to unknown currents? A. Yes; the tide, instead of being at the last quarter flood, was probably neariv full and setting to the westward. DECISION OF THE COURT, From a careful consideration of the circum. | stances attending the loss of the Pacitic Mail | steamer Relief on the night of the 9th inst., in | Obree Channel, I am clearly of the opinion that it was due solely to an unknown current driving the | said steamer Irom her course upon the land, which being a low point, but a tew feet above the water, and the night cloudy and very dark, it was impos- sible to see in time to avoid the accident; that no | blame can be attached to Captain Corning or his | officers, and that the skill, energy and sound judg- ment displayed by them after the steamer struck, in saving the passengers, crew, mails, treasure and cargo, are Cee ap high commendation. W. P. MANGUM, United states Consul. Assented to and signed—Captain J. U, Smith, Captain A. 8S, Arnold and Captain D, R, Spedding, Assessors, BAD LUCK. The Pacific Mail have had terribly bad luck for the last two yours. Besides the loss of steamers— | three on this side alone—several minor disasters | have neen encountered. Besides, 1or the year 1873 | only three vessels arrived here from San Francisco | on time, ‘This may not be altogether owing to bad | luck. It seems that if the company’s officers would be a little more strict and pay for a little more coal | happier results might ensue. The management at | this end of the line has been all that could be de- sired, but the head office at New York isnot spoken | of favorably out here in Japan. The possidility af a new issue af inconvertidte | paper I regard with amazement and anetety, and, | in my. judgment, such an issue would be a detri | ment and a shame.—CHARLES SUMNER. THE TEMPERANCE AGITATION. [From the Saturday Review.) The temperance agitation is only another variety of the emotional °B demic. A wild fanatical out- break of tus kind is in itself a form 01 dissipation not far removed, either in its moral or physical | consequences, from that which is indulged in by | the frequenters of the whiskey bars. Ifthe raid | on the liquor shops is only part of a general re- vival, it can be readily explained, and may be ex- pected in the end to contribute very considerably to the prosperity of these establishinents, If pub- lic opinion in the districts in question is realiy in favor of suppressing the liquor tratiic, it might be leit to die out trom simple starvation, since public houses would not be kept open if there were no customers to support them. On the other hand, it people are determined to have drink, the prohibi- ‘Uon of the sale of it will soon become a mockery. What chiefly deserves to be noticed about this agitation ts that it is simply a form of mob intimi- dation which, in any country where personal | rights were respected and reasonable freedom maintained, would be suppressed at once by the authorities, Ifthe people who are now praying | down the rum shops and whiskey bars really be- | lieved in the eficacy of prayer pure and simple they would be. content to pray comfortably at home instead of going out into the streets, The | mere fact that the prayers have to be delivered in the presence of the saloon keeper or in front of his door poaisien ye proves that the prayers are directed, not to Heaven, but at the persons who are to be coerced. The Times, in that faddy | doctrinaire spirit which has of late un- happiiy become its second nature, warned the publicans ot England that if they do not take care, they may come to be handled in the same way as the whiskey dealers of Ohio. It ‘NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 1874—TRIPLE SHEET. REAL ESTATE. The Effect of the $400,000,000 Bill in This Market. Curious Contusion WRe- specting Values. Danger of European Discrimination Against American Investments. ANALYSIS OF THE SITUATION. The possibility of a new tssue of inconvertidle paper Iregard with amazement and anxiety, and, in my judgment, such an issue would be a detri- ment and a shame,—CHARLES SUMNER, The action of the Senate on the $400,000,000 legal | tender bill on Yhursday produced its full share of excitement in the real estate market, as in the other departments of business activity. Among many the feeling was one of jubilation, the dawn- posseenton of choice lots will be as keen, if not ner, than it ever Was before.” ‘True, only the character of the recent legislation eGniidence vet longer to ue iaereaaiSe coenmess 5 ry trimen' of real estate. 8° a There were no public sales yesterday. In sup- port of the presentation made above the following irom the Post of last evening, the conservative real estate organ, is significant :— ‘The market for real tortion ofa Sates al sufficiently pressed to acce, offered bY most of the capita: as buyers, niet, and sales are Jing are not as yet fketite low Prices that are ts who are in the market BALLROOM FATALITY, Sudden Interruption of a Colored “Hop” at Mott Haven—Music Changed to Mourning—An Accidental Push Results | in a Broken Neck, A colored ball, at which some fifty or sixty couples participated, was held in Kodecker’s Hail | situated ut Mott Haven, near Harlem Briage, on Thursday night. The dusky dancers enjoyed them- selves in a hilarious although harmonious manner | until half-past one o’clock yesterday morn- ing, when the band struck up a march, | which was the signal for each happy Lothario to’ escort his partner to the supper table, | The repast was spread in an apartment under- neath the ballroom, which is reached from the ground floor by a flight of stairs some eighteen or | twenty feet in length, This leads directly from | the street door and is the only means ot ingress or ing of ‘a new era of prosperity,” after the manner | of the gushing enthusiasm of Western eloquence, | but the more thoughtful regarded it with grave | anxiety and realized that it but precipitated upon | us a crisis in respect to real estate values that has been long impending. there were those who prepared themselves for the exhibition of a sudden stiffening of values, with perhaps a sharp advance, and that much desired bull market for which they have been waiting so long. but the more cautious saw beyond that the danger of even a more serious reaction than any yet encountered, in realizing how hollow must be the activity or in- creased valuation which rests upon national dis- honor, and how dangerous the inflation that is built upon repudiation, promises to pay—which, uttered in violation of the national conscience, in deflance of the national pledge given more than once to its creditors at home and abroad—carry with them NO ELEMENT OF VALUE whatever, and while because in the multiplication of the token of exchange iv takes more of them to purchase anything, from a pound of butter to a corner lot, it is not because the pound of butter or the corner lot is worth any more, but because the token Itself is worth so much less. And as men | who have fixed incomes suffer loss in this connection, and it is largely from this class that | Tenutads are paid, real estate is apt to suffer more quickly than other species of property the disas- trous consequences likely to flow from this evil legislation. Besides, there is much foreign capital invested and seeking investment in New York real estate. This capital will only be frightened away by the introduction into real estate transactions of @ new source of danger in the uncertain conse- quences that may flow from THE GUSHING SYMPATHIES OF AMERICAN CONGRESS+ MEN WITH COUNTRY STOREKEBPERS. The Senate even refused to commit itself—after Aixing che limit of the legal tender circulation at $400,000,000—to a declaration that this should be the ultimate point of legislation now and for ali future time, and there is no guarantee that a further limit of $500,000,000 next year, $600,000,000 the year tollowing, and so on, ad injint- tum, may not be issued. Start a ball rolling down hill and there is no determining where it will stop, but it may safely be assumed that it will not stop untilit has reached the bottom. European capi- talists will be quick to recognize these facts, not- witnstanding that they failed to reach the intelli- gence of the average Congressman, and there is likely to bea reaction there against American se- curities of any description, whuch will senously hamper our industrial development, real estate 1s menaced with the serious danger of A WITHDRAWAL OF FOREIGN CAPITAL upon to bear the anticipated ills resulting from a languid trade im other depart- ments, a3 @ consequence of the caution sure to be exhibited in all other forms of Awmeri- can investment or speculation, because of the quaint possibilities o: our financial legislation. Congress has broken faith with its own people; what is to prevent its breaking faith with the lor- eign bondhouider? And thus the shadow of repu- dilation looms up in the face of the foreign inves- tor todeprive him of all confidence in American values, Keal estate cannot escape its share of de- terioration growing out oF this new state of things. A fictitious exhibition of higher values may be the first effect of this reckless inflation, but it wil be PURELY FICTITIOUS, and real estate owners would bear this in mind do well to lest they be carried away | beyond sound judgment by the appearance of a prosperity Which has no basis to rest upon, The whole nature of this bogus statesmausnip Was shown in the course of speculation on Wail street anticipatory of that legislation. Mail and Western Union, two stocks concerning which the least is Known Or attainable as to their | real value, were the teatures o! the list, while in the raulway shares speculation ran mostly upon stocks that have not recently paid dividends, or only in scrip. Paper stimulating paper. An Ussa of non-dividends paying stocks upon a Pelion of grecnbacks. And this is the “new era oj pros- perity” promised. Keual estate should not seck to share in this delusive dream, else the awakening ‘will be of the most serious consequences, hag | BEAL ESTATE OWNERS HAVE LARGELY THEMSELVES TO BLAME for this disastrous situation, They failed to exer- cise a great conservative interest in fashioning 1g impossible to suppose that the writer distinctly realized in his own mind all the conditions o! a | movement which, in point of fact, amounts to an | absolute subversion of social order, In some parts | of the United States there is a law against tne sale | of intoxicating iiquors; in other parts the sale is free and lawiul. Where the trade is prohibited it | is for the authorities to put it down; but that it | should be possible fora trade which is perfectly lawful to be suppressed by mobs of howling women im the streets 1s clearly a violation of one of the | first principles of government. | It is periectly plain that this is really not a sex- vice of prayer, but @ noisy physical terrorism, and that it ought to be suppressed 4 the authorities | 48 & violation of public order. The women have, of course, a right to pray as much as ener like, but they have not a right to pray just where they like—in anybody’s house or tn front of bis shop- | door, blocking up all access to it. Tne democratic and fanaticai idea that the end justifies the means, and that the will of the people must be carried out omthand, without the tedious constitutional cere- monies of passing laws and entrusting the execu- tion of them to responsible authorities under strict | regulations, has perhaps made some progress in | this country since it nas been taken up by the | Times ; but we trust that we are still far off from the tyranny of the mob in this biasphemous and disgusting form. Agitators have no more right to pray in the streets in order to intimidate private persons than to hold meetings there jor a similar | object; and itis necessary to remember that a weapon of this kind 1s capable of a great variety of uses besides that of crushing one set of shop- keepers. The Movement Ridiculons or Futile. {From the Nation.) | Praying and singing by ladies in front of low | taverns have thus far been a spectacle suiliciently | odd to dumbfounder the keepers, and there 1s sul- | ficient halo oi association and feeling about prayer und pra.se to impose respect on the bystanders, But neituer prayer nor praise can very long stand the strain which this conflict is imposing on it. In fact, We are surprised that either has stood it | so long. Botn have owed their efficacy thus far largely to the tradition which makes them the | direct address to the Deity by a human soul of its inmost feelings. ‘They wiil retain the benefit of this tradition for a limited period | only. After they have been used for awhile in the | strects aga weapon of mundane wartare against | a semi-criminal ciass the popular reverence tor | them must rapidly die out and the theory which gives them their sanctity perish in tie minds of large numbers even of those who gone in them, and then of course the end is not far off, That the | movement has already reached its limits is shown | in its failure in the large cities, where local opin- | ton cannot be concentrated, ‘the very utmost that | can be expected from it is, in our opinion, the in- | tensification, greater or less, of the feeling that | bars are disreputable resorts, and that drinking at | them is degrading; but the value of this result even will depend on the effort not being pusned far enough to make it ridiculous or futile, and thus ins ure a reaction, THE POST OFFIOE OIVIL SERVICE. New York, March 27, 1874 To THE EpiTor oP Tie HeRaLp:— My attention has been called to an article in the HERALD of the 2ist inst. relative to the ex- amination passed by David Nelson, a colored clerk in the Post Office. Itis there stated that he was wholly self-educated, ‘This ts an error. Was @ pupil of Colored Grammar School, N the Fourteenth ward, for jour years, passing through ail tue grades. I know you will see that the mistake 18 corregted and give credit wuere it longa, a ATEAGHED, J. Va the solution of the financial problem aud shaping it by the impress of a higher morality. We are tuught to believe, even by the early philosopners, belore the dawn Ol the Christian dispensation, tiat no sin goes unpunished, and this sin of indifference on the part of the real estate interest has surely met its complement of revenge in the graver sin of Congress that reduces the income of every workingman in the country, as well as every | salaried clerk or professional gentleman, to the advantage only of the mere speculators. As was said belore, NATIONAL PROSPERITY CANNOT GROW OUT OF NATIONAL CRIME, and real estate, with those other languid interests that falled to avert that crime, must share im 11s enaity. 4 by which all mankind were subjected to | punishment, even unto the end of time, 1s not | its complete fulfilment than more certain of that for the later sin of revellion agaist the very lirst principles of morality committed by the peo- ple’s representatives—the whole nation and every | business interest in it must sufer until atonoment be made, These words of caution are uttered to counteract the danger likely to develop itsel! in the real estate as in other markets of a new specu- | lative period, THK VALUE OF NEW YORK REAL ESTATE IS AKIN YO THAT OF GOLD, intrinsic, stable; ana beyond tat of gold, of cer- tain ultimate appreciation. But like that of gold it is subject to the fluctuating results which grow out of an irredeemabie paper currency, and is a3 easily influenced by the currents ot speculation which surround it. The administration o: Mr. Green as the chief fiscal officer of this city has resulted in placing an undue burden upon , real estate here, which 18 not lessened by this intlation action of Congress, but, on the contra increased. While there is no market for real ¢: tate, as is the case now, these burdens press heavily, and this recent jegisiation, while it may ; bromote activity because of tue apparent increase | | Ol value, also operates to deer dealings by frightening away real estate investors. ‘Thus stands the real estate of the city to-day. Firm and indifferent where there is uo desire or | necessity to sell, but UNEASY AND UNSETTLED WHERE A SALE IS SOUGHT or required, In other words, it 1s the seller wio must make his market, not the vuyer. The buyer | can afford to wait, .but — the seller "is pressed for funds, <A writer recently in one of the morning papers—the one, by the way, which derives more profit trom its real estate than it does from its advertising columns—repeats at | Some lengta the familar arguments concerning | the growth of the metropolis, our commercial greatness, &¢c., and cites imstances of real estate transactions in tue past to liiustrate what they may | be inthe iuture, ‘(his is all very true; yet the | writer of the article referred to makes a grave | mistake in the jollowing paragraph, when he | says:—*The prices obtamed for lots on Fith ave- | nue at the gales which have recently taken place snould not be considered asin any Way indicating the actual vaiue of such lots.” What value are these pices if not the actual value—that is, the basis at which they are convert- ible into cash? ‘They may not represent past values or prospective values, yet they cortaimy do represent the present market vaiue whether the | explanation be made as above or not that that mnarket is subjected to abnormal influences which deteriorate vaiues, This the same writer quoted he admits, im w succeeding paragraph, as 10l- “Tn conclusion, tions all favor the dimcuity has been settled and trade has been re- stored to what it was a year or two ago real estate transactions wiil become brisker than ever. Be- fore the close of the present year confidence wit have been completely restored, and in 1875, unless WO Ore MreaLy julvtaken, te CQMUPLIsION Jor the we would say that the indica- As in the stock market, | These additional paper | Thus, white _ from real estate investment, it 1s likewise called | Pacific | The sentence uttered in the Garden ot | iden Jor man’s sin in eating of the iorbidden fruit | , 80th inst, at halpast pine , Robert A. Coon, in the 31st year of her age. | wife of Joun J. CUMBERSON, aged 36 years and 4 opinion that after the mnancial | Oh Suudays March 2%, at bw RM, J ubekial ete ) egress to and from the ballroom, While a majority of the company were eagerly discussing oyster stews and ham sandwiches, a heavy weight tum- bling down stairs caused a temporary suspension | Of gastronomic operations and a general rush on | the part of the guests to see who was hurt. colored man nained Thomas Brien lay insensibie and bleeding from his mouth wnd nose in the hall | way v. | _ Alter glancing at the dying man fora few mo- | Ments most of the company returned to complete | their supper, while two or three irlends carried Brien to the sidewalk and tried in vain to restore him by an application of whiskey and water. These agencies proving useless the man was again | carried into the house, where he expired ina few | minutes. This broke up the ball, the parties scat- | tering in all directions for their homes. The police authorities were quickly op the spot, and arrested some ten or twelve persons of both sexes, who were taken to the Tlurty-third precinct station house | and there detained as Witnesses, Mf subsequently transpired that the deceased hed been pusbed toward the head of the stairs by aanother colored | man named James Williams, who was acting as doorkeeper on the occasion, Williams lett at once for his home in Harlem, and while the police were endeavoring to discover his whereabouts he went | to the Twenty-second precinct police station and | surrendered himself, He was subsequently taken | ty the Morrisania police station, where he was locked up. | | , An inguest was held by Coroner Miller, at which | | Deputy Coroner Joyce having made a post-mortem | examination of the body, testified that death was caused by Comoression of the spinal cord, near where it enters the brain; and that the injury proceeded Irom a fall, and not irom a blow. Sev- eral of the colored people were exammed, but | | none of them witnessed the pushing by the ac- cused, and, of course, could throw ao light on the | | matter. | . games Williams, the accused, stated tothe jury | that the deceased commenced to fight with one Joe Teamer, and, alter separating them twice, ne | took him by the shoulder and told him if he wanted | to fight he had better go outside; when about | eight feet irom the door he pushed deceased with votn hands, when the latter stumbled against the | door, which few open; he immediately stumbled | Over a stool and feil down the stairs; deceased and | he were always friends, and he had no intention of | hurting nim When he pushed im toward the door. | Wilhams also tried to restore the deceased, and, fatling in this, ran for a doctor, The jury were convinced of the truthfulness of Williams’ story, and rendered a verdict in ac- cordance with the facts, adding, “nut we do not | think that said Williams had any intention to do injury to the deceased.” Upon the rencition of | this verdict Coroner Miller held Wiiliams in $600 to | await the acctton of the Grand Jury. Deceased was | about twenty-iour years old, and lived in Harlem. THE Meet ties AS A TRANSPARENT | BA [From the Sun. The greenback as it stands is a transparent and inexcusable fraud, Jt is sometimes suid to rest on the property of the nation and the good faith of | | the nation. This 18 all a chimera. it rests on nothing. It has nothing behind it, and there is nothing pledged to redeem it either now or iu the future. It 13 alying, frauduient promise. ‘Tne | government does not pay and will not pay. The reenback is nothing, therefore, but a fauntng lie, It is @ paper token merely, made a tender ior the payment of debts. Butno paper tender can stand, none has ever stood, the shock of a great national calamity. ‘The possibility of a new tssue af inconvertinie | paper I regard with amazement and anciety, and, | in my judyment, such an issue would be a detri- | ment and a shame,—CHARLES SUMNER, MARRIAGES AND DEATHS. Married. Cnarin—AcHEsON.—On Thursday, March 26, at | | the residence of the bride’s grandmother, Mrs. J. | Culbert, by the Rev. J. D. Wells, D. D., WILLARD P. | CuaPIn to ANNIE R., youngest daughter of the late | Dr. J, J. Acheson, all ot Brooklyn. | Horkins—Davis.—In_ Brooklyn, on Thursday, March 25, 1874, by Rev, Albert J. Lyman, Brace HOPKINS to MARTHA M., daughter o1 George Davis, Esq., all of Brooklyn, | | _ MaksH—SomERs.—In West Haven, Conn., on | | Saturday, March 21, OLIVER A. MARSH to CARRIE | A.. daughter of E. H. Somers. | MacDoNaLp—Hanby.—On Tuesday, March 24, | | by the Rev. A, H, Partridge, Cartos F. MacDon- ALD, M. D., of Flatbush, to ALICE M. Harpy, of | Brooklyn, E. D. No cards, | _ Prenck—Saira.—On Thursday, March 26, at the residence of the bride’s parents in Brooklyn, E. | D., by Rev. A. H. Partridge, rector of Christ chureh, | FRANK M. Pizrce to TILLIE M. SMITH. All of Brooklyn. . _—_— | Died. | ATKINSON.—On Wednesday, March 25, BATEMAN ATKINSON, in the 67th year of his age. His iriends are respectfully invited to attend the funeral, on Sunday, 29th inst., at two P. M., from | his late residence, No. 268 Navy street, Brooklyn, | BANNAN.—At_ her residence, No, 48 Forsyth street, on Thursday, March 26, MARGRET, beloved wile o/ Michael Bannan. in the 29th year of her age. | The relatives and friends are respectfully thy ited | to attend her tneral, Her remains will he coa- veyed to the Church of Transfiguration, Mott «treet, this (Saturday) morning, at nine o'clock. where a solemn high mass will be offered up for the repose of her soul; thence to Calvary Cemetery at twelve M. for interment, Baxtrx.—On Friday, March 27, 1874, ELIzaugrn, | relict of John Henry Baxter, aged 87 years. ‘The relatives and friends of the tamtiy are re- spectfully invited to attend the funeral from the | residence of her son-in-law, R. McVey, No, 317 Leon- | ard street, Brooklyn, E, D., on Sunday, March 29, at two o'clock P. M. | Besse.—In Brookileld, Mass., on Saturday, March | 14, ALFRED A. BESSE, of St. Dennis, C. E., aged 22. | Montreal papers please copy. BLEEKMAN.—On Friday morning, March 27, Jessie | Gertrupe, daughter of H. L. and Jane K. Bleek- man, aged 8 months and 21 days, | Relatives and friends are invited to attend the | funeral services at the residence of her parents, 644 Hudson street, (this) Saturday evening at halt- re seven o'clock, The remains will he taken to New Durham, day, ut half-past one o'clock P. M. BowbDgEN.—On Friday, March 27, ELL aged 74 years, widow of Charles Bowden, Funeral services will take piace at No. 173 West Twelltn street, on Sunday, March 29, at one o’ciock. The remains will be taken to Newark for interment. Bure.—On Thursday, March 26, 1874, Carrere, | eldest daughter of Join and Ann burr, of Dublin, Ireland, aged 14 years. Dublin papers please copy. CLARK.—On Friday, Marca only son of Captain Willtam aged 1 year and 3 months, The relatives and friends of the family are re- spectfully invited to attend the funeral, on Sunday, | ‘arch 29, at half-past one o'clock, irom the resi: | dence of his parents, No, 54 Tenth avenue, C1irt.—On Friday, March 27, of pneumonia, EMMA AvGuSTA, wife of Smith Clift, Relatives and friends of the family are invited to attend the funeral, at Grace church, on Monday, o'clock A. M. EN BOWDEN, | , WILLIE CAMERON, nd Jessie H, Clark, Coon.—In Milan, Dutchess county, N. ¥., on | pa tag March 26, 1874, at the residence of ner father, Rensselear Case, Esq., EMMA L., wile of CovGuLAN.—On Friday, Murch 27, of pneumonia, BRIDGET, reilet of James Coughlan, aged 76 years, ‘The tuneral will take place from her late resi- dence, 396 Van Buren street, corner of Marcy avenue, Brooklyn, on Sunday, March 29, at two | cam ‘fhe iriends of the family are tnyited to attend, CUMBERSON,—At Lafayette, Ind., on Monday, March 16, of typlotd pneumonia, Mary Gregory, months, Remains tnterred at Lafayette, De Prysrer,—Suddenly, on Friday, March 27, RICHARD V. DE PEYSTER, Notice of ruueral hereafter, Dewky.—In Hoboken, on Tuesday, 1874, aiter a long and severe filness, JamEs H. Dewty, sr., aged 61 years, 1 month and 16 days. The relatives and friends, also Hoboken Lodge, No, 35, F. and A. M., and Eagle Lodge, No. 53, F. | and A. M., of Jersey City Heights, members of the | old Firat regiment N. J. 3. M., also members of the old Independent Guard, Twellth regiment, N. Y. S. M., are respectfully invited to attend the funeral, irom his late residence, No, 48 Third street, | teenth street, Philadelphia, on government proimises to pay on its face, but the | | Vited to attend the | “Atolatives and friends of the famny Fourti March 24, | 24, Roi ‘ at the Methodist Episeo, Pe “the remainn will be untored is daveees Comiladeiphia and Western New York papers please copy. Norice.—Hoboken Lodge, No. 85, A. F. and A. M.—The members are hereby to attend at the lodge room: street, Hoboken, N. J., on Sun next, March 29, at one o’clock sharp, to attend the funerai of our late brother, James H. Dewey. f f. A. ANDERSON, Master, Joun P, Seymour, Secretary. Exuiorr.—On Thursday morning, March 26, Wn LIAM ELLIorT, aged 56 years, Funeral services at the Church of St, Mary the tag West Forty-fifth street, betweer broadwa: and Eighth avenne, this (Saturday) morning, Marc 28, at ten o’clock prompt. FirzpaTrick.—On Thursday, March 26, Mary FirzPatRicr, aged 60 years, The Jelatives and jriends of the family are re- spect.ully invited to attend the funeral, from her Jate residence, 296 Fourth street, Williamsburg, on Sunday, March 29, at wo o'clock P. M. ; from thence to Calvary Cemetery for interment, AENGER.—In Paris, on Saturday, March 7, ViR- GINtA, Wife of Jules Glaenger and daughter of the late J. F. Brette of this city. Norio! a New Orleans papers please copy. Hamrirox.—On Thursday, March 26, THOMAS HAMILTON, aged 43 years and 6 months, The relatives and friends of the family are re- Spectinily invited to attend the funeral, from the residence of his brother, James Hamilton, tn Thirty- sixth street, between Madison and Fourth ave- nues, on Saturday, March 23, at one o'clock. HaMicton.—-On Friday, March 27, of heart dis- ease, R. L. Hamivroy, M. D., aged 49 years and 6 months. Funeral on Sunday afternoon, at four o'clock, from the house ccrner of Frank'in and Fulton ave- nues, Brooklyn, Friends will please accept this invitation to attend funeral, HARRISON.—At his residence, No, 221 South Figh- Friday morn- fog, March 27, 1874, Joseru Harrison, Jr., in the 64th year of his age, His male friends are respectfully invited to at- tend the funeral services, on Monday, tne 30th inst., at one o’clock P. M., at the Church of the Holy Trinity, Nineteenth and Walnut streets, HeTrigLD.—On Wednesday, March 25, Joun W. HETFIELD. The relatives and friends ot the family are re- spectiully invited to attend his funeral, from the residence of his father, 8. A. Hetfield, No, 185 West Forty-ninth street, on Saturday, the 28th tust., at hall-past one o’clock P, M. Hvrenzox.—On Tharsday, March 26, WALTER HUTCHEON, in fhe aah year ot his age. Relatives and triends of the family are respect- fully invited to attend the funeral, on Sunday, March 29, at two o’clock, trom the residence of his | parents, 257 Hoyt street, Brooklyn. Jounson.—In Brooklyn, on Friday, March 27, GEORGE W. JOHNSON, aged 61 years. The relatives and friends of the family are in- vited to attend the funeral services, to be held at the Church of the Holy Trinity, corner of Montague and Clinton streets, Brooklyn, on Sunday, the 20th inst., at halepast one o’clock P. M. J On Wednesday morning, March 25, 1874, FREDERICK WILLIAM Jost, of Elberfeld, Prussia, in the 38th year of his age, Relatives and friends of the family are respect- fully invited to attend the funeral, from his late residence, No. 07 Jersey avenue, Jersey City, on Saturday, the 28(h inst., at one o'clock P. M. Lown.—HELEN Lowy, widow ot Philtp D. Lown, 87. Relatives and friends of the family are invited to attend the funeral, on Sunday, at half-past one o’clock, from No, 156 Third avenue, Dutchess county papers please copy. ManleR.—On Thursday, March 26, after a short iliness, JAMES MAHER, @ native of Monasterevan, county Kildare, Ireland, in the 64th year of his ‘The friends and relatives are respectiully in- vited to attend his funeral, on Sunday, at one o'clock, at his late residence, 122 West Nineteenth ence to Calvary Cemetery. H.—In West Haven, Conn., on Monday, Maxey 23, OLIVER A. MARSH, aged 21 years and § months, MFYER.—On Thursday, March 26, Ametia C., wife of John Meyer and daughter of Charles D. and Catharine Meyer, aged 21 years and 3 months. The relatives and friends of the family are re- spectiully tnvited to attend the funeral, from the Stanton street Baptist church, this (Saturday) morning, at nine o’clock; also the members of New York Lodge, No. 330, F. and A.M, Her remains will be taken to Orange, N. J., for interment. Moran.—In Jersey, on Thursday morning, March 26, ELLEN, the beloved wife of William Moran, aged 35 years, The relatives and friends of the family are re- spectfully invited to attend her funeral, from her Jate residence, 383 First street, on Sunday, March 29, at half-past two Pp. M. MornissEY.—On Thursday, March 26, BRIDGET, relict of Richard Morrissey, formerly of Graig- namana, county Kilkenny, aged 68 years. The relatives and friends of the family are re- spectiully invited to attend the funeral, from her late residence, No. 284 Third avenne, on Saturday, March 2s, at half-past one o’clock P.M. Interment in Calvary Cemetery. NEISON.—At Austin, Texas, on Wednesday, ‘ch 25, CHARLES W. NELSON, attorney-at-law, | late of this city. Nuc —-In Brooklyn, on Thursday morning, March 26, of convulsions, DOLLIE, hte ap daugh- ter of Edward and Mary Nugent, aged 2 years, 4 | Months and 2 days. Relatives and friends are respectfally invited to attend the funeral, from the residence of her parents, 532 State street, on Saturday, 28th 1ust., ‘at half-past one o’clock P. M. O'CoNNOR.—On Friday morning, March 27, DENIS O'CONNOR, in the 63 year of lus age, born in Fra- leigh, county Kerry, Ireland. The relatives and frienaa of the family are re- etek invited to attend the funeral, on Sunday, larch 29, at two o'clock, from his late residence, 825 East ‘Twenty-first street ; from thence to Calvary Cemetery. Pirr.—On Wednesday, March 25, of consumption, ISABELLA, Wife of CHARLAS J. Pitt, aged 82 years. The relatives and frienas of the fi are in- vited to attend the funeral, on Saturdi th inst, at one o'clock P. M., from her late residence, Eighty-eighth street, sixth house west of avenue A. ReYNARD.—In Brooklyn, on Thursdav, March 26, of diphtheria, CLARA Harriet, youngest child of Adolpha and Harrict Reynard, aged 6 years and 5 The relatives and friends of the family are re- spectiully invited to attend her tuneral, irom the residence of her parents, 274 President street, on Saturday, March 28, at two P. M. RILey.—On Thursday, March 26, 1874, MARY s native of the parish of Kilbraghen, county Cork, helena), widow of Patrick Riley, in the 75th year of her age. The relatives and friends of the famtly are re- spectfully invited to attend the funeral, from the residence of her sisters, 151 Cherry street, on Saturday, March 28. The remains wiii be taken to St, James’ church, where there will be a solemn high mass at ten o'clock, and leave for Calvary Cemetery at two o’clock P, M. Rrorpan.—On (ily March 26, 1874, ANNA J. RioRDAN, wite of Daniel Riordan and daughter of Pe and Anna Eliza Cole, aged 23 years and 11 months, Funeral will take place from her residence, No. 1,643 Second avenue, on Sunday, March 29, at one oiclock. “Relatives and friends ere invited to at- end. Roystox.—In Brooklyn, on Thursday, March 26, at the of & years and & months, LOUISE BLANCHE, second daughter of Geo. D, and Ada Royston, Scort.—Suddenly, on Thursday, March 26, Wat- TER, son of Euphemia and the late David Scott, of Jersey City, in the 19th year of nis age. The relatives and iriends are invited to attend his !uneral, at the residence of his mother, No. 161 Base a hes Street, to-day (Saturday), attwo. o’cloc! * M. StzerL.—On Thursday evening, March 26, 1874, MarILpA, the beloved wife of Lewis Siegel, in the 29th year of her age, The relatives and friends of the family, and Members of the Temple Beth El, are respectfully in- funeral, from her late rest- dence, No. 684 Lexington avenue, on Sunday, March 29, at ten o’clock A. M. Norice.—The memoers of Temple Beth Fl are requested to attend the funeral of Mrs, MATILDA SIEGEL, from her late residence, 684 Lexington ave- nue, on Sunday, March 29, at ten A. M. ©. N. JOSEPHSON, Secretary, HEBREW LADIES’ BENBVOLENT SOCIETY, YORKVILLE, New York, March 27, ised MATILDA SIEGEL, member of our society, died om Thursday aiternoon, March 26, The funeral is to take place next Sunday, the 29th inst., at ten o'clock A. M., from her late residence, No, 684 Lex- ington avenue, between Fifty-six and Filty- seventh streets, to which the members of the society are respectfully invited to attend, F, ZUCKERMAN, President. ean MEYER, epee ning, March 1GI8ON.—On Thursday morning, 187; Euiza, relict of Thomas Sigison, aged 78 rents “ Relatives and miends are respectiully invited to attend the funerai, from her late residence, No. 142 Chrystie street, on Sunday afternoon, March 20. at hali-past one o'clock, without further notice. Sovrawortu.--On Friday, March 27, WILLtaM, only child ot Joseph and Cassie Southworth, aged 8 pepe ae 4 days, nie Funeral services on Sunday, March P.M, at the residence of his wha None ahd Me TE hg a 'URNBULL.—On inesday, Marc! dence, 67 West Forty-sixth streor, “aa ine BULL, @ native of Danse, Scotland, ad city forty-three years, in the | months. JAMES and resident of 80th year of his attend bis funeral, from the yt jurday, o'clock P. M., without further notes oe © WeaTHERBY.—On Wednesday, March 25, HANNA WEATHERBY, widow of Peter Weatherby, in the Rola ww aaa Rts ds of the family vited 8 jends of tl to attend her funeral, from the Methodist ‘suaroe at Sing Sing, on Saturday, rr eleven o’olock A. Carriages will ying Gepot on arrival of the 9:10 train from Ne ork, HITMAN.—At Aiken, S.C. on Tuesday, March wate St asin Rey aoe Ud at tat ut, eee Se T-in-law, it, street, Brooklyn, on raay,' Maren "a ac two OWirciaaad-seuahl Si ome .—Month’s 5 H. WILLIAMS, at St. Mano eR iti and Second avenue, x mine o'clock A. M. to-day Reet arch ‘The xelatiyes Cuends are Invited to attend. ony me