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(> THE STATE CAPITAL. Final Adjournment of the Legislature. The Debate on the Police Com- mission Bill. SOENES AND FEATURES OF THE END. Addresses by the Speaker and Lieutenant Governor. How Eastman’s Rapid Transit Bill Was De- feated—The Condtion of the Transit Bille—The Character ef the Legisla- ture—The Work Accomplished. ALBANY, April 30, 1874. Both houses of the Legislavure adjourned sine de at half-past three o’clock this afternoon. The, closing hours were remarkable for nothing beyond @D unusual crowd in the galleries and a atiff muster of iobbyists on the floor and around the skirts of each chamber. In aeclaring the House adjourned Speaker Busted spoke as follows:— Asseuacy :—Th - by a joint resolution of the Senate ymbly is at hand. ¢ stroke of the gave) which summoned us to our Work will in a moment declare that work accomplished. Before the last adieu ts spoken I cannot let pass the opportants to thank you, of @ most sincere grati- GENTLEMEN OF THE @ hour of final ad. it designated Sod Asoombly i w pean Ife ‘tet id the le, yr the uniform courtesy, an je un: numbered acts of kind hands, The soc! official intercourse has with me ripened into a sentiment of warm friendship towards every member of this floor, and enables me to carry into private life the remem- brance of a delighttul association. Never has it been my good fortune to be connected with a deliberative body composed of so many able Re ‘atives and 80 moted for the fairness and generosity of iw members. But it is not by virtue of its qualities and char- acteristics alone that this Le; ture has won golden opinions. To it has been entrusted the grave question of perfecting and submitting for popular action amendments to the organic law of a most important character. It has met that and all other at issues that have come up for consideration bias and has reached its taking and tions, Tested by the crucible of public judgment, wi universal approbation. It has achieved a reputation for Integrity, for faithful discharge of duty, for honest devo- tion to the rights and Interests of the people which have caused its names tobe nonored and respected through- out the confines of the State. Gentlemen, the session of 1874 deserves to be treasured up in remembrance by every one of us.as “a thing of joy 9 come.” Wishing you a tomemory in all the years t safe return to your homes and @ joyous greeting trom nts, I bid you farewell. aes our friends and constitr in obedience to the requirements of the constitution, pronounce this House of Assembly adjourned sine die, Several rounds of applause greeted the con- clusion of the address, which was delivered with nis usual vigor and not without plain evidence of emotion making itself visible in his eyes. Of the late presiding officer of the House at may be said that few men could have discharged the duties of the position he held with greater energy and zeal and with more unfailing courtesy and impartiality. In the Senate there was barely standing room ‘when the hour fixed upon adjournment arrived. The address of the President, Lieutenant Governor Robinson, wae as follows:— Senatogs—The hour fixed for the adjournment of the Legislature having arrived, I congratulate you on the termination of your labors tor this session. You will leave this; chamber with the consciousness of having faithfully “discharged your duty to your con: ents and to the State. Not for many vears hi jislature convened in this Capitol which 8 so tally meg the expectations of the people. Your prosipr response to the ‘met of the Governor in | adopting resolutions gsnaaneing A schemes for the in- fiation of the gutrency has mét With universal approval, and the later aciion of the President has relieved the citizens of this State from all anxiety on that account, e Vigilance of the different standing committees and the scrutiny with which they have examined the bills submitted to them is commendable in the highest degree. Few measures of doubtful expediency ve been ma- tured, and the amount of sperial _. jation has been much less than usual Instead ot censorious criti- cisms 80 often applied to @ retiring Legislature, the pub- press and men of all parties speak im terms of praise of your action, At session many’ of ws We; to ower) but, however muc! differ on questions ‘of public ‘We shall part sincere personal friends. The Presiding officer is often one of perplexity at all times shown a disposition to assist barrass. Any errors I may have committed generously overlooked, and your courtesy and ness uring the whole session merit my grateful acknowl- edgment. In the performance of the duties devolving on me I have been governed by an earnest desire to do equal and exact justice to all and to show no par- tiality or favor to anyone. In this I trust I have suc- ceeded. It I have in any degree failed it has been un- ‘wittingly and not intentionally. For the resolutions you have adopted approving my conduct as President of the Senate I return you my heartfelt thanks. Wishing you all a safe and happy return to your homes I bid you I cow declare the Senate adjourned without day. 1t was also greeted with hearty cheers, and in a few minutes afterwirds the staircases and corridors were filled with the departing members of both houses, “GOODBYS" WERE EXCHANGED and a sort of festival feeling spread throughout the multitude that crowded the narrow ways of the Capitol butiding. There were exceptions, how- ever, to the general joy. Saa hearts were numer- ous enough. Slaughtered bills filled many souls with sorrow. It was vain to soothe the ruffed temper of a man who, having spent perhaps his last dollar to pass his favorite bill, saw it expire with the session, FAR LESS DISORDER marked the end of the Assembly than was usual in josition of + but yoy have and pot to ém- been recent years. A fair exhipit of decorum prevailea vo the last, No unseemty quarrels were indulged, and save the brief bitterness of yesterday between democrats and republicans, party feeling through- | Out the entire session Was never once invokot All sorts of people attended the close of the “egis. lature. Two-thirds were pita fis, rus», distehee and at least a thica ffoiil ‘ork, “some were looking after piirtioular bilia, 80/6 wore there for mere CUxiosity, some were hangers on, tide waiters of for.ahe, waiting for something to turn up; some were lawyers and & great many were non- “descripts in character and means of livelihood, Tae prominent men were the lobbyists, They had no time to spare for frivolous conversation. Phe moments were precious, and they made the best or worst use of them. One of the tribe who turned up at the last moment remarked that the times were bad; that Wall street was a better fleid than Albany; that public opinion was less agreeable than in former years, and retired, exclaiming, like Sir Charies Coldstream, ‘there's nothing in’it.” Tne small fry lobbyists poked themselves into all cor- | pers of the Capitol. It was their last grand chance, and they made the most of it. THE PASSAGE OF BILLS . yroceeded uninterruptedly in both houses. The bs kept back to the iast Were driver’ forward by ‘whip and spur. Some were tmpaled on the pass- age, others tell short of the closing hour, and more jumped the fence and were declared passed. The event of the morning im the Assembly was the pending question, THE POLICE COMMISSION BILL. Mr. Lincoln moved the Committee on Cities be discharged from its further consideration and that it have a third reading. The rules in the mean- while having been susperded the democra there was little use in opposition, and in ‘when the roll was called many of them stood up to expiain their votes and poured red hot shot into the republican ranks, it had uo more effect on the result than bombarding the moon. Lincoin’s motion was carried, and the bill being recom. mitted and incorporated with the improvement bill, was reportea to the House. Weed, who struggled with unavailing gallantry to the end, then moved that the dill ve again re- committed so that the mayor shall have power to remove at pleasure as well a8 to appoint but it was lost, and, though Mr. Beebe came to the rescue with a fire of eloquence that would have burned into but less callous bearts, the bill passed py @ strictly party vote amid an overflowing bouse. Mr. Bliss shook hands with everybody, and the Custom House representation retired from the scene in @ frame of surpassing bliss. The democrats forgot their defeat very Quickly. There was more immediately important business on hand and tt must be attended to, THE PASSAGK OF BILLS Jollowed, and was only interrupted to offer a vote eens a jeakor and Clerk of eeacaeers ee} this graceful part of the day’s rated iets le paola Sats le © le and kept uy) the close. 4 » hay THE RAPID TRANSIT BILLS that have died are Vanderviit’s, Third Avenue, New York Quick ‘Transit, Mackin’s, Biglin’s and Eastman’s. Those that passed are Beach’s Broadway Underground, peer’s § Traveliin Sidewalk, Gilbert’s Elevated and the New Yor! Rallway and Warehouse Water Front roads. The manner in which Eastman’s was treated in the Senace was simply disgraceful. The story is not creditable to the Railroad Committee and shows up Selkreg and Madden in even a worse light than Lo Weed. It may be interesting to tell RASTMAN PROJECT WAS FINALLY STRANGLED in the Senate by the influence of railroad monopo- lies and bited tools, On April 24 the bill passed the Assembly by & vote of 70 in favor te. 31 against, In the Senate it was sent to’ the Committee on Railroxds, and they—composea of Sepatore Seikreg, Madden, Wagner, Tovey and bill at once. the 2 were oecasion measure ar force, Eastman, Judge B. Field Wight, of Wi chester, urged upon the committee its immediate report without amendment, a further adjournment ‘was proposed by the Chairman ior @ late hour on the same aay at which a final hearing shouid be had. The Chairman of the committee, who was 80 tybody, did not put in an appearance. The Third Avenue Ratiroad, through their counsel, them urged their o! gctions and submitted certain _ propose: endments. Judge Field, who appeared in favor of the bill, claimed, if any amendments were made, they should be those which bad been prabared by friends of the measure, and which it had been in- tended te preaapt in Assembly. Senator Wag- ner then too! @ papers to deliver to Chairman Selkreg. At the evening session of the Senate it ally expected the bill would be reported by the Chairman, but he alleged that he wanted time to examine the proposed amendments, Te WAS TAIMEN: AGED UPOM Hie that this wag equivalent to killing the bill When the Senate met this morning he was again quested to present it, but he said that, not hav’ examined the amendments, he wopld not do # and gave it to Madden. Subsequent! y the bill cou! not be foun After an hour's search the bill was discovered and handed to Senator Madden, and, in Mr, Eastman’s presence, Madden promised to present it. In the confusion of the last hours of the sesaon Madden himself mysteriously disappeared. Search was made for him and he was found at last smoking a cigar in Congress Hall. Time was very short, and Madden, under the impression that the adjournmen! Would taxe place in @ few minutes, consented to go over and perform the duty asked of him. When he reached tne Senate a postponement was announced till half-past vhree o'clock, and again Madden vanished, Then Selkreg made a lawe explanation about the bill, and said it had been found impossible to consider and report it this session. dwith, at this juncture, moved the committee be dischatged from the further con- sideration of the bill and that it be ORDERED TO A THIRD READING. But the motion was lost and a further motion to reconsider also. In a few minutes the hour of t- and adjournment came, and the object of the monop- olies, through their faithful henchmen, Madden and Selkreg, was accomplished. One of the amend- ments proposed by the Third Avenue attorney w: to compel the city to buy their road, and as it now stands, THE FIFTH AVENUE PAVING BILL was killed in the Senate. Alarge number of jobs expired with the session, and whatever have gone through must now be leit to the skilful discretiun Qf the Governor. The Head Money bill was lost, and the Riverside Park bill also, though it was said Commissioner ‘Van Nort came to resurrect and push it through. THE EVENT IN THE SENATE was the report of the long deferred Supply bill, and the principal feature is the retention of the resent mmission; but substantially the Con- lerence Committee agreed upon the amendments adopted in the Senate, which have been al- ready published. The defeat of the Fifth Avenue Paving bill was unexpected on the part of its prometers, and it fell like @ mmbshell among them. They were never more sure of anything than of the passage of this bill, In fact, they were too sure, andif Lieutenant Governor Robinson had not been absorbed in committing his speech to memory there might have been a chance of its slippin; shrough; but President Robinson took no heed ot the bill, and started off to make his farewell speech, regardless of the agony of the paving com- pany in one corner of the chamber. The Legislature which has just adjourned was of average character. It was hot so bad as some of tbe predecessors, nor was it so good as it might be. was HONEYOOMBED WITH CORRUPTION, and there were two-thirds in the Assembly, or sixty-five men, who could at any time be pur- chased. This was plain to the whole world trom the votes cast on the rapid transit swindles of the Third and Fourth ayenues, which were never meant to pass. The monopolies bought up these men and ordered them to kill whatever was in conflict with their interests, and they consequently defeated Eastman’s bill. The ate, a8 a whole, had @ far better char- acte: in that body there were, according to bt aa 9 at least thirteen men who were willing to take the wages of corruption. The one happy re- flection is that both howes have adjourned and no further mischief can be done, LAWS PASSED. The following laws passed during the session of the Legislature which closed to-day, and which Ero Stel iteed by the Governor, relate exclu- iv. ADA cou! Chapter 102 pony ane hereafter made in the ¢ ind county York under the decree and judgment of any Court made ey the Tefei may be or bya ree Ap inter for that purpose. by such judgment or de- reé; but when any sale is made by any officer other than the Sherid, no greater sum shall be charged or allowed as iees than as prescribed in section 2 of the Act (which repeals section 3 of the Act of 1869, which gave the Sherif various other eS). Chapter 228 makes all laws applicable to the Reet courts and police justices of the city of New ‘ork; shall apply to the police court and police justices of the sixth police district of the city, and \u addition to the five clerks now authorized by law to be appointed in and for the city and county of New York, a police clerk shall be appointed in the same manner as such officials are now SP inted for the police courts of the city, and sn assigned to the Sixth police district, and shall be subject to and governed by the same laws and regulations as are ppbtica De wo such officials of such other courts. The act also provides that the police justice of the Sixth police district shall be a member of the Board of Police Justices, Chapter 34 Pepe 8 the act passed in 1873, which provided for the location and erection oi a new ey ero “place for holding certain courts @ City. Chapter 27 1s a law for the relief of Sarah Ann Whaites, formerly widow and devisee of John Playfair, deceased. The releases to Mra, Whaites, her heira and assigns, forever, the right, title and Interest of the people of the State in all lands or premises within the State of which Play- fair died seized or posseased. Chapter 94 is a similar act to chapter 27—the pea oe Frederick Rauss being the party in- erested, Chapter 82 repeals the act of 1873 which estab- lished @ commission in and for the city and county of New York, known as the Commission or bi od Sekar i ap ter amends the act which incorporated the lebrew Benevolent Sociéty of the city of New * ‘Chapter 181 ratifies and confirms the proceettings to incorporate the religious courts known @& “the rector, church wardeng and vestrymen of the Church of the Heavenly Rest,” and lewalizes and confirms its acts. Chapter 86 incorporates the Butter and Cneese Exchange of this city. Chapter 78 authorizes the sale of certain lands aud premises situate in this city belonging to Ne- hemtah Denton and his issue. Chapter 147 is a very important law. It provides for the payment of the quota of State taxes im- [ee upon the city and county of New York. The jaw provides that for the purpose of enabling the city and county of New York to make payment of the quota of State taxes which may be imposed upon and chargeabie to the said city and county, at the same time or times that other counties of this State are or may be ee to make pay- ment by layw—to wit, one-half thereof on the 15th day of April, and the other half thereof on the ist day of May in each and every year—the Comptroller of the city of New York 1s authorized and required, unless the money for the payment of the same shall have been otherwise provided, to issue revenue bonds for such amounts as may from time to time become necessary to meet such quota of the State taxes at not less than their par value, and ior such periods and at such rates of interest as the said Comptroiler shall de- termine, not exceeding seven per centum per an- num, and from the proceeds thereof to pay to the State Treasurer the amount of taxes which the Comptroller of the State shall have apportioned according to law, and whieh may be required to be paid, in pursuance of such apportionment, to the tate by the city and county of New York at the times hereinbefore stated; and the amount o! said State taxes for any year, so imposed and chargeable, shall be levied, raised and collected in the then next annual levy for taxes in the suid city and county of New York, in the same manner as other city and county taxes, and the money collected thereon shall be applied to the redemption of the revenue Bonds go issued. The bonds author- ized to be issued in pursuance of section 3 of chapter 96 of the Laws of 1873 shall be oe nated New York county bonds, for the State sink- ing fund deficiency; shall be signed py the Comp- trolier and Mayor of the city of New York and sealed with the seal of the Board of Supervisors of the said county, attested by the clerk ¢] ae coe shail be issued as therein provided, or the Comp- troller of the city of New York may, 1m lieu thereof, issue the same lor a term not exceeding thirty years from their date. In the issue of said bonds there shall be included the sum of $256,107 14, the amount of interest which has accrued on the amount of tax for which the said bonds are author- iged, in accordance with existing provisions of law, unless moneys forthe payment of such inter- est shail be otherwise provided. It said bonds shall be issued for a period not exceeding five years, to provide tne means for paying the same at their maturity, the said comptroller may issue other bonds of said county for a like amount, at a rate of interest not exceeding seven per cent per annum, for a period not exceeding thirty years. The Board of Super- visors of thé county of New York are hereby authorized and directed to order and cause to be raised, by tax upon the property by law subject to taxation within the ci and county of New York 1m each year, commencing In the year 1876, a sum equal to one-tenth part of the princi; of sald bonds, to be paid the commissioners of thi sinking fund of sald city, to be held and kept ti veated by sald commissioners as @ fund tor jayment of said bonds at or before their Perostty. ‘i tax and interest in this section referred paid to the State Tre: ron the 16th day of Ww April last. Chapter 194, an act to prevent extortion by gas , | cam to fill the vacancy created b; ; NEW “YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, MAY 1, 1874—TRIPLE SHEET. companies in the counties of New Yort and makes it aniawtul tor any corporation e! im the manufacture or sale of gas in the counties of New York or Kings to charge 1,000 feet for gas.suj one consumer or of consumers than other consumers, but the rate must be uniform to all consumers. Nevertheless, companies are not prohibited from charging city or ites, 3 municipalities a less sum than may be charge to private consumers, or from making & special rate for any: building used for chari 4 penis or sareaniee purposes, nor from charging & duced rate to those consuming large quantities; rovided in ail cases that tne charge per 1, et to those consuming equal. qoacenee. shall be vhe same. Jf any corporation violates the pro’ ions of this act it is able to pay a penalty of tor each 1,000 feet so overcharged, to be recovered in an action by the person or persona against whom such overcharge % made. on i Chapter 90 relates tO thé Court of~ Geherai one deputy clerk, ag now rovided by law, and one assletant clerkrand shall be responsible for the faithfui discharge of their duties. The clerk of the court shall receive @ Salary of $5,000 per annum, and the deput, clerk shall receive 9 salary of 000 yr annum. and th inted by him ll receive @ salary of ,000 per annum, and the Comptroller of the city of New York is authorized and directed to pa such clerk, deputy clerk and assistant clerk suc! salaries in monthly instalments out of the county treast The assistant clerk so appointed shall possess the same powers as the deputy clerk. Chapter 134 provides tor a lease of land to the Samaritan Home for the aged of the city of New York, and by it the commissioners of the sinking fund are authorized to lease to the Samaritan Home tor the of this city, a parcel of ground belonging to the city, bounded cantetly by. Third avenue, westerly by @ line parallel with and dis- tant eighty feet westerly therefrom, southerly by Sixty-sixth street, and northerly by Sixty-seventl street, for the charitable purposes of the home, upon such terms and conditions and for such a term of years, and at such an annual rent as the other portions of said block of ground between Third and Lexington avenues and Sixty-sixth and Sixty-seventh atreets have heretofore been leased to other charitable institutions. THE POLICE BILL SIGNED. The douvle-headed amendment to the charter kuown as the Police bill, and which was passed by the Assembly only yesterday, was signed yester- day afternoon by the Governor. This law reduces the number of the Park and Police Commissioners to four on each Commission, the terms of a Police Commissioner (Russell) and a Park Commissioner (Ball) expiring to-day. Therefore it witl be seen ‘here are really no vacancies in either Board. The law’s special feature is that which gives the Mayor pore to appoint heads of departments without he “necessity” —as the law terms it—of a confir- Mation by the Board of Aldermen. BILLS NOT SIGNED BY THE GOVERNOR, Of bills concerning New York city and county that have pereed both houses, but have not yet been signed by the Governor, there are the bili to enable the Board of Estimate and tame pey et to make a reapportionment of the estimates and of the taxes for the present year; the bill to provide for the collection of vacated assessments, which forbids the setting aside of assessments on mere tecnnical irregularities, and limits the proceedings to set aside to a summary application to the Su- preme Court; bill to consolidate the city and county of New York, with an explanatory amendment that nothing in the act snall interfere with the statutes of the county 10 the matter of electing county officers the same as all the other counties of the State; bill to amend the charter of the Brooklyn Bridge Company, the same as already published in the HERALD, with an amendment that the rights of private stockholders shall be deter- mined by the amount paid by each, with interest from the time of payment; bill’ to authorize the Board of Estimate and Apportionment to divide half the excise money among the charitable institutions of the city; bill to amend the charter so as to make Westchester part of the Fighth Senatorial district, for the purpose of electing an Alderman; bill to amend the Annexa- tiun act, providing for winding up the affairs. of the new territory and making 1t coniorm to the government of the city ot New York; bill to char- ter the New York Rallway and Warehouse Com- pany amended so as to authorize the Dock Commission to lease ten piers to the company and to prohibit the construction of the elevate Toad arouad the water front until 500 feet of the new sea wall is completed (it further provides that the engineers to locate the route shall be ap- pointed by the Governor, and that the company shall build iron warehouses); bill to amend the Election laws of New York, which provides tor the redistricting of the Seventeenth and Twentieth Assembly districts and for redistricting the an- nexed towns on a basis for the popiiarion of 18725 bill altering map or plan of New York by provid- ing for the reopen! and extension of part of Bloomingdale road, Manhattanville; bill for the construction of a street railway from Vesey street tothe South ferry; bill allowing $250,000 to the Park Commission ‘for the expenses of the parks; bill allowing the Metropolitan Drawing Room Car Company to contract for running their cars QW the street railroads and to charge ten cents. additional to the ordinary fare; bill defining the duties of the Board of Health; bill to Grane the publication of legal notices to Datly charging to the fity }15,000 for publishing the court calendars; bili oo ghana mpkins square mto.a park when the Nationa! Guard are rovided with a suitable parade ground; bill defin- ing the power and jurisdiction of the Marine Court; bill incorporating the Soctety of United American Mechanics; bill amending charter oj Founding Asylum of New York and in he per to ten cents; bill railroad from the ope oe or North River, to f baths, af 8 fotal by Golitract; bill for extension of the Eastern Bou- levard from avenue A, at Fifty-seventh street, across to Fifth avenue; bill to extend Lewis street from Eighth street to Fourteenth street; bill to pave Worth street and Bank street, to be done by contract; exempting the property in actual use by the New York Hospital from taxation; bill for opening ana finishing Kingsbridge road; bill ena- bling the Mayor to construct telegraphic connec- tion between several of the departments and the annexed territory of restches- ter: oill allowing the Eighth avenue road to extend its tracks to Macomb’s Dam bridge; bill declaring publication and dissemination of false news a crime, and providing for its punishment by fine and imprisonment; bill to amend the charter of the American Institute. Altogether there were 1,396 bills introduced in both houses. Of these 1,096 were considered on general orders, 671 passed the Assembly and 293 sed the Senate. Two-thirds came under the ead of special legislation, Nearly 700 bills passed both houses, THE MAYOR, THE POLICE AND THE PARKS. Yesterday was a very busy day with Mayor Havemeyer. Callers of all degrees were so numer- ous and so successful in gaining an audience that it was after four o’clock before he could enjoy the frugal lunch set before him on his desk, He had just finished it when a HeRaLp reporter intro” duced himself and announced* confidentially that the Police and Parks bill had passed the Assemoly, “So I see,” said His Honor, REPORTER—Oh! you've had a despatch yourself from Albany, sir? Mayor HAVEMEYER—NOot at all; oh, no. I’ve only seen the statement in the evening papers, which, I suppose, can be trusted for that much. REPORTER—I only asked you because I thought Comptroller Green might have telegraphed you the result of the vote. Have you got acopy of the bill you could let me have, Mr. Mayor ? Mayor HavEMEYER—No; I have not seen the thing myself, andI can’t even tell what it looks like. I understand, however, that it. reduces the number of Commissioners of Parks and of Police to 1our each, instead of five, and gives the Mayor the power to fill vacancies by death or resignation ‘without the consent of the Board of Aldermen— something of that kind, REeEPORTER—You have protested strongly against the latter clause, sir, and, as you said to me be- fore, you consider such @ measure peter wrong. What do you propose to do now that they have ignored your protestations and passed the bill ? Mayor HAVEMEYER—Well I can’t yet what I ‘will do, or whether I shall feel called upon to do anything at all; I don’t know until I see the bill, NO BARGAIN WITH THE CUSTOM HOUSE, REPORTER—You must be aware, Mr. Mayor, that statements have been made in some of the news- papers and elsewhere that you have madesome sort of a bargain witn the republicans, an HAVEMEYER—No such promise in the world ; at least, none that I can remember. I have given them no intimation whatever of what I would do in such matters or what I would not do— t is, except in @ general way. I told them, as I have always told everybody, that I still stand on the reform platiorm of the Committee of Seventy, and that I will appoint to all offices and commis- sions both democrats and republicans. 1 mean re- form democrats and reform republicans, That is all they have had from me. As for my filling aouma” with ba i ata His PR eet} laughed ve! artily)—why, you is the very offices in which their own men would be entitied to the vacancies tuat ham | have just abolished. Poltce Commissioner Russel and ‘« Commissioner Hall CY out to-morrow. They are both mg and in fairness, pe pare they mt have republican successo: but the republican Legislature has just voted that they shali have no successors at all. What funny things there are in politics, are there not? REPORTER (lionestly joining in the laugh)—Yes, indeed, sir. ju will have only three Police Com- missioners to-1 row, by the way. How are they divided—politi , 1 mean? Mayor HavemMeYeR—Two of them are republl- cans and one 16 & democrat, RePorTsR—Then if the Custom House men in- tend by this bill that you shall appoint a repubil- Smith, be OY sony tee Henry Smith, they must be looking jor a pre tisive majority in the Board, musi they? Mayor HAVEMEYKR—It would certainly seem 80, ‘ta KIND OF A DEMOCRAY.” REPoRTER—TWwo republicans and one democrat in the Police Board, you say? perhaps it would be Mayor HaveMEYER—Wel sabes correcs to any ywo demooratoana ome repab- REPORTBR—Who are the democrats? Charlick, I is one—who is the other? "iver r HAVEMEYER—Weil, Bea es SATENEr ~ , Duryee is supposed to e REPORTER—Do you think, Mr. Mayor, that, con- sidering your strong protest and clear and forcible arguments against the bill, the Governor will it? *Hiayor HAVEMEYER—Ab, I don’t know anything about that, and I'd rather not give my opinion as to what the Governor will do about it, THE CATSKILL TRAGEDY. ee The Condemned Murderer, Waltz, Brains His Keeper. His Execution To-Day for Killing the Scis- sors Grinder at Albany. Hupson, N. Y., April 30, 1874, Waits, the condemned murderer of Harmon Hoicher, the Albany scissors grinder, who ts to be executed at Catskill to-morrow, made an assault upon his keeper, Charles Ernst, at about two o'clock this afternoon, with a bar of iron which he had wrenched from the flooring of his cell. Since Tuesday last, when Waltz was taken to the farm for the purpose of pointing out the spot where the organ grinder, wo, he asserts, he killed about three years since, is buried, he has been left in shackles in the cell, ana Officer Ernst bas had bim in charge. His demeanor has usually been quiet, and, although he had made repeated threats against Ernst, no attgption was paid to them. After dinner to-day Ernst returned to the cell, and must have been attacked within five minutes aiter his entrance. The weapon used by this young flend was about twenty-six inches long, two and a half inches broad and three-eighths of an inch in thickness, It was doubled over at one end about seven inches so as to add weight to it, and had paper atuffed between tne doubled parts so as to prevent any clanking of the tron. Taken in all, it is one of the most formi- dable weapons conceivable in the hands of a man intent upon revenge and liberty. Ernst, when found, was lying upon a lounge, having been bit four times over the head, each blow crushing in tne skull, PREPARING TO ESCAPE, The prisoner secured the key with which the omicer locked himself in, also his revolver, and was. attempting to unlock the door into the hallway— and, had he succeeded, his escape would have been easily accomplished—when Mr. George Olney, accompanied by a reporter of the Albany Times, rang the bell of the outside door. This summons was answered by the Deputy Sheriff, he admitting the gentlemen who had visited the jail to see the prisoner. On lookin; throngh the grating they saw no one, bui heard groans proceeding {rom the. further corner, where the murderer had dragged his vic- tic, He covered the spots where the blood had spunted With oid newspapers, so that any casual observer would not have noticed anything out of the ordinary course of things. They immediately calied Ernst by name, but received no reply, At this juncture Sherif Coonley arrived, and immedi- ately forced the door, and with the patios present pushed into the cell and carried the dying Man outside. It was then discovered that the officer’s keys and revolver were missing, and the Sherif lyons entered the cell (at the risk of his hey and disarmed the prisoner, who, when he saw @ determined attack made upon him, cowered down in one corner and gave no answers to the question as to why he nad committed this last crime, to CONDITION OF THE KREPER. In the meanwhile medical aid had been sum- moned and was soon on the as The physicians proceeded to do all they could to relieve the un- conscious sufferer. hey found his skull cut through from the forehead to the back of nis head and the lett temple crushed in, Tney removed many pieces of the skull, one of which was two and a half by three and a half inches, and reported that he could not possibly survive, He was re- moved to the oper story of the jail and laid upon @ Mattress, and his family, consisting of a wife and four children, pent or «_ SZhe’ news that ‘Walth hag killed “Charlie” Ernst Spread with lightning rapidity, anda soon the whole bee with whom he was a great favorite, locked to the jailin crowds, blocking up the en- tire street. of “Lynch the scoundrel” were he and it was by the utmost exertion oi! the omMcials that the crowd were restrained from king in the jail with axes and crowbars, with which the maddened mub had speedily armed themselves. a eae “NO REPRIEVE.” Mr. R. H, King then telegraphed Governor Dix as follows :— Waltz has killed his keeper, A large and excited crowd about the jail with impiements to hang him. Word ls recelved that his reprieve is, granted Probably be lynched ; if not reprieved the crowd will be ikely to disperse. In twenty minutes the followin, characteristic despatch was received in reply :— R, H, King:—No reprieve. JOHN A. DIX. The excited assembly were then told the con- tents of the despatch and that Ernst was not dead, and that only perfect quiet would enable him to recover, an Pik gradnally dispersed. Sherif Coonley, as an additional precaution, telegraphed Governor Dix for military aid in keeping order. In compliance with this request two companies of the Ninth brigade, ee aay Tenth regiment, and Compan ‘twenty-fifth’ regiment, under command fof Brevet Major Charles Davis, left Al- bany at eight o'clock this evening for Catskill. ERNST DYING, A visit to the jail at eight glock found Ernst still et but still an lous and breathing heavily. The phy atetay Say he cannot live till morning, The murderer Waltz sat in a crouching position in the centre of his cell, staring into va- laconic and cancy. Excitement prevails in the village but good order maintained, Excited crowds are gathered in front of the Irving House, waiting for, the military to arrive, Ernst | was ‘an _ excellent officer, and has a largé circle of iriends. He 13 about thirty-eight years of age, and leaves nis family in almost destitute cirmstances, He was the one who first arrested Waltz and has had since his sentence. He has as @ boy, little dreaming of the wicked designs of this young geen ad ad been poker | Cautioned against reposinggtoo much confidence in his prisoner, but always replied, “Joe won’t hart me.” He to-day spliced the rope and made the fatal noose that is to aid to-morrow to usher the murderer before his Maker. HOW HE MURDERED & GERMAN, Waltz has made what he claims to ve @ full con- fession of his crimes, which appears to-day for‘the first time. Among other things he says:— to our house Leame here. He was a German who has travelled far and wide with awkward machine, with which he was very familar. I was at work down in the lot and came home to dinner, but could not eat, tor I was tired. Tsaw this man’s machine standing there, outside the house, aud as I entered I saw the man. Isaw him be- fore. We tall Weieme for some time. My parents ‘went out a short time, I think, and room. When came out very hard, bnt after all I seemed. to have no strength, put the man was dead Instat I took him up, carried him out to the long, deep ditch northeast of the tower, and then went back to the house to clean up the floor. I think there were some & sponge which e ft in a hole in the ground. 1 took the machine and broke it to atoms and hid it in various places, and atterwards took some of the parts of the machine trom these places and went off with them. I was very tired when I buried the man, but the spirits would mot let me rest. wrote # letier at night and went off and had a nice time, but it was nearly day- light when T was through. 1 think pa was trim- ming or pruning grape vines over the river; can’t sa; certain; I am sure he was not there when killed the man. My mother was somewhere in the rapes, | guess. She is always somewhere out of sight tilting to herself. I went down to the creek at the end of the farm to wash and hide there for atime some things, but afterwards took the books and buried them in @ large rock and covered them. This story has many believers. Judge Osnorne, the prisoner’s ay Lg to the Governor for a reprieve at‘noon t but that official re- fused to do anything in case. Shortly after Judge Osborne returned the news of this last ter- rible murder was received. Every Be cote is made tor the execution, which will take place promptly at ten o’clock to-marrow morning. The Sheriff has selected his jury. Arrival of the Military—A Scene with the Scissors Grinder’s Wife. CATSKILL, Apri] 80—11 P. M. ‘The military have arrived and are on patrol duty about the jaih At nine o’clock Mrs. Holcher, the wife of the scissors grinder, accompanied by her sister, ar- rived at the jailand saw Waltz in his cell. She was greatly excited, and upbraided, him tor the murder of her husband and also this Jast deed of his flendish barbarity. Ernst was a Hpi friend of her femiiy. He is still living (at eleven P, M.), but cannot survive the night, MURDER BY A DENTIST. CINCINNATI, April 30, 1874. At Shawnee, Ohio, yesterday an unlicensed den- tist administerea to Miss Sullivan eighty grains of brothide of chloral. She died in # few minutes, The dentist fled, and has not been arrested. THES BENDER | MURDERS. Sart Lake, April 30, 1874, A girl, supposed to be Katie Bender, and an, supposed to pe John Bender, have been ted near this city and will be heid for identification, wards. buried | QUINTUPLE MURDER. A Dreadful Tragedy at Home- - stead, Pa. A Whole Family Butchered - and Burned. The Alleged Perpetrator a German Farm Laborer. PrrrsBunG, Pa., April 90, 1876, A quintruple murder ts not an everyday occur- rence by any means, and In consequence of a re- Port of @ tragedy of such dimensions having taken Place to-day caused a great deal of excitement in this city. The victims of this dreadful butchery are John Hamnet, his wife Agnes, their daughter Emma, aged four years; Robert Smith, a boy raised by the family ; and the eldest daughter of Mr. Ham- net, Ida, aged eignt years. The particulars of the tragedy, as far and as correctly as can be learned during the excitement attending the discovery, are as follows :— . THE SCENE AND THE VICTIMS. John Hamnet, a well-to-do farmer, aged about forty years, lived on the Lebanon Road, about a mile and a half pack of the village of Homestead, on the Monongahela River, and situated so as to overloak Munhall Farm, where the government boiler experiments were made last fall. The house 1s @ pretty little one (or was once, before a fiend reduced it to ashes). There is a grove of peacn trees in the lawn in front, where the vlossoms to- day were just bursting. The grass was of the deepest shade of green, and the premisesalto- gether showing more thrift and care than any within miles of it. The farm consisted of seventy- two acres of well improved land, and on which, among other improvements, was a substantial brick house of two stories. John Hamnet came from England in 1853, and was mar- ried some ten years ago, He was considered well off, and was supposed to have considerable money and government bonds in the house at all times, He wasa good, quiet citizen, at peace, so far as was Known, with all his neighbors, never having any quarrels, but being, on the contrary, @ man whose chief characteristic was the settled Plan of minding his own business. THE BUTCHERY ON THE THRESHOLD, Last night Hamnet ana mis wife had been visit- ing ip the village of Homestead, about @ mile and a half from their residence, and it was in all proba- bility fifteen minutes after eleven o’clock before they returned. They must have been stricken down immediately on entering their house, as from the appearance of their bodies they had not yet laid aside their outer wrappings. It is possi- ble that the murderers were in the house on the return of the parents, and, finding themselves discovered, killed them also in order to escape. A bloody hatchet was found which fitted exactly to the wounds on the head of the boy, whose throat ‘was also cut from ear to ear. BURNING THE HOUSE AND THE DEAD. There isa blank in the story from the time the Hamnet’s left Homestead till three o'clock tnis morning, when Frank Ackerman, 8 coal digger, ‘was awakened by a bright light beaming in the windows of his bedroom. He aroused a companion and they both hurried tothe scene of the fire. When they arrived the roof had fallen in, but the brick walis were still standing, and out through the glassiess windows the glare of a bed” of. burning coals within gave forth an intense heat and dazzling light. No living souls but these two men were there, and they stood for some time in silence, looking upon each other speechless with horror. ‘When they had recovered from the terror that for the nonce had almost paralized them, they gave an alarm and in a few minutes the neighbors for miles around were flocking to the scene. Itsgon became apparent that the dread fears which first fallen upon the minds of the two discoverers ‘were but too well founded. The sickening stench of burning bodies filled the air and gave an inde- scribable feeling of tear to the spectators, DRAGGING OUT THE CHARRED REMAINS, It was daylight before the ruins cooled off, and then as soon as possible @ search was commenced for bodies. The first body dragged from the ruins was that of farmer Hamnet. It was a charred and almost unrecognizable mass of human flesh. Portion#of his partially consumed clothing were, however, still, in places,clinging to the unconsumed Tematns, The face was blackened and charred, The search was continued, and in a few moments the horror of the people was increased upon the discovery and the dragging out of another body from the ruins. This was Robert Smith, the apprentice, who was badly disfigured. His right hand ‘only was whole, but shrunken and shriveled. The left arm was dislocated at the shoulder, the member lying across the breast. ‘rhe feet were entirely burned off, the shin bones protruding from the burned and steaming flesh. The throat was cut in three places, the horrible gashes gaping open at those who gazed upon the horrible spectacle, A third body was believed to have been that of Emma Hamnet, four years of age, but her features were totally unrecognizable. The lower members were entirely destroyed from the ends of the small ribs, which protraded through the back near the spinal tolumn. A fourth |, body found was that of Agnes, the wife of Mr. Hamnet. She was recognized by portions of cloth- ing which were still: clinging to the re- mains, Her outside dress had been burned, but the underclothing was not entirely consumed, The wires of her hoopskirt were still about the bouy, furnishing the proof that she had not retired to bed when she met her death. Ida Hamnet, the eldest daughter, eight years old, is still missing, but it is supposed that she also fella victim in the wholesale slaughter. THE AUTHOR OF THE TRAGEDY. The supposed author of this most unnatural tragedy is Ernest Love, a young German of about twenty-five years of age, who has been in the em- ploy of farmer Hamnet from midwinter up till the time or the tragedy. He has not been seen to- day, which is something, indeed, very unusual, and though search has been made for him by sev- eral detectives, up to midnight to-night no clew to his whereabouts has been obtained. Love isa stout young man, with a florid complexion, and whose dialect would at once betray bis nationality. He has not been 1m this country any great length of time, but he proved a vaiuabie assistant to Ham- net, who at all times spoke well of the young man as being sober and industrious, The police and citizens in the neighborhood of the crime are out scouring the wouds in search of the fugitive, and bis escape will prove a dificult undertaking. THE ELDEST DAUGHTER MISSING. When your correspondent left the ruins of Hamnet’s house to-night all the charred rubbish haa been removed, and yet @ most minute examina- tion failed to bring to light any portion of the bones of Ida, the eldest daughter. What has be- come of her ia now a source of much gossip. It is rumored that she was murdered and her body con- cealed in the woods, and parties are in hopes of discovering them. They are now actively search- ing beneath the bush wood and are also exploring the river banks, Others argue that Love has car- ried her off with him, and that plunder was not the exclusive object in this infamous ti Y, Two Evaro examine? the bodies of the vic- tims this afternoon and iound that the throats of all the children were cut, while the skulls of the older persons had been orushed in with an axe, @ portion of which had been taken from the ruins, The remains ot Mrs, Hamnet are fearful to behold, and strong men turn a with hudder at the sight, The imprint of the murderous axe ts plainly observ: ble, while the spinal column is covered with fused mass of feathers from the bedclowhes, THR CORONER'S INQUEST. ‘The Coroner Sy ry a jury this afternoon, but It at once journed until to-morrow morn- ing, in order to Gre the physicians an Cpportunity to examine as the character of the wounds. The tearful ciime causes much excitement throughout the county and trains laoeew the scene of the murder were to-night thronged with Persons whose curiosity led them to closely crowd at the windows to see the ruins. LIVINGSTONE'S FUNERAL, The Remains of the Explorer Laid {a ' Westminster Abbey. The Procession in the Streets and Reception at the Church, Pallbearers, Chief Mourners and Weep- ing Personal Friends. Lonpon, April 18, 1874, ‘This morning, Saturday, the mortal remains of! the great traveller and missionary in the cause of humanity, David Livingstone, were removed from: the house of the Geographical Sociéty, in Saville! row, where they have iain since their arrivalin’ London, and were deposited in Westminster Ab-’ bey among the ashes of the departed great. The funeral cortége was timed to start at a quarter past twelve, and, passing down Waterloo place’ about that hour, I found s small fringe of crowdi lining the street, while the statue of Charles the Firat at Charing Cross was beset with intending onlookers. Trafalgar sauare, being a/ little out of the route was empty, and there were, fortunately, no London gamins astride the Landseer lions, which wretched animals have already been‘ seriously indented by hobnailed boots. A few police sufficed to keep order, and though most of! the shops were half closed, there was no official recognition of the ceremony—no military, no flags. half mast high on the various government ofices— nothing to lead a stranger to imagine that any: public duties were being discharged, THE PROCESSION ‘ consistea of the hearse and twelve mourning: coaches, the private carriages of the Queen, the{ Prince of Wales, the German Ambassador, Baroness Burdett Coutts, Lady Franklin and others, SCENE IN THE ABBEY, It did not reach the Abbey until past one, o’clock, and long before that time all available; space in the neighborhood of the grave was occu-({ pied, and there were even persons in the clere/ story and laaies on the top of the screen. Tie space around the grave, which isin the centre of the west part of the nave, was covered with black: cloth, THE GRAVE IN THE SUNSHINE. The grave itself is very shallow, the soil being so" sandy that it is unsafe to dig deep in it, and, as it was, the sides had to be shored up to prevent then from shpping in. In its immediate vicinity are thet last resting places of Telford and Stephenson, the! engineers. The busts of Outram, the great soldier, and of Generali Wade, who commanded im Scotland in George the Third’s time, and of whom the distich was written— If you'd seen these roads before they were made. You'd have learned to be grateful te General Wade e/ look down upon it. I noticea, too, that during th performance of the service a ray of sunlight, partie colored in its passage through the magnificent stained glass window erected to the memory of Branel, the engineer of the Thames Tunnel and the Saltash Viaduct, fell upon the coffin, THE PROCESSION IN THE CHURCH, Five minutes past one and Dean Stanley, in hig full robes, with a purple cap on his head, and the red ribbon of the Order of the Bath, of which he is chaplain, round his neck, is standing at the door of the west nave, attended by the sub-dean and’ canons, waiting for the body. Now we see the Procession slowly filing through the cloisters, First came the silver mace bearers, then the choristers, then THE COFFIN, @ new one, of brightly polisned oak, in which the Metal shells have been enclosed, On the brass plate is the inscription, nenenene ere ne enee ne: 4th Mey, 1873, Ie dametenatedaaenetenn and the lid is covered with wreaths of white came- Mas and branches of palm, sent expressly ty Baroness Burdett Coutts. THE PALL BEARERS were Mr. Stanley and Jacob Wainwriguc, whe walked first, one on the right, the other on the left of the coMn; Thomas and Oswell Livingstone, Dr. Moffat, Dr. Kirk, Kalulu, the boy brought home by Mr. Stanley; the Rev. H. Waller, Mr. Young, Mr. Webb and the Rey. F, Stecle, Them follows Born 4 HOST OF CELEBRITIES. The tall man, with the thin face and fair, rough beard, is the Duke of Sutherland; the short, stout, elderly, grizzled man is Lord Houghton, the poet; tne Duke of Manchester is here, the Bishops of Lincoln and Sierra Leone, and the Lord Mayor and Corporation of London. This tail, homely: ee man, with a long head and a gaunt figure, faintly recalling the remembrance of Abraham Lincoln, is Lora Shaftesbury, one of the greatest philanthropists that England has. ever known. The stivery head of Colonel Grant, the explorer, towerg above the crowd. Here 1s the well known facé of Mr. Moran, the popular American Secretary of Legation. Here are the chiefs: of the Geographical Society, Sir Bartle Frere, Sit . Rawlinson, Sir Rutherford Alcock, and here is, & contingent irom the Navy, tough old Admiral Sir William , Sherard Osoorn, Codrington and, Ommaney, all gallant fellows, who have done their work of exploration in different latitudes. Tne: Peninsular and Oriental Company ts represented by its genial Southampton superintendent, Cap- po cla (i oy Ae, 4 officer and doctor of, the Malwa, w! burgh and Glasgow send their Lords Provost and’ oe olay oi coe. the little Sootch,_ Ours of} ton, of whic was i ry burges ed "societies send ary tes food all sorts learn deputations, and Mr. George Sauer, the don | ent of ine’ HERALD, attends a8 vepresentacive of . James Gordon Bennett. CHORAL SERVICE. ‘The service is choral, is sweetly chanted, and is Tread by Dean Stanley with deep religious fervor. WEEPING FRIENDS. ¥ Dotted in among the group round the grave aro’ very many ladies in deepest mourni some are greatly affected and can scarcely drop the wreaths) and flowers which they have brought with the: upon the lowered coffin, .At the commencemen' of the service curiosity had been rife amoi spectators to have Mr. Stanley and Dr. i pointed out to them, but ere ite close every voice, ‘was hushed. AT REST—HIS TRAVELS cause of truth. born Scot Hes in the Abbey which England designated as the last resting Po of her poet her statesmen and her kings. Such honor as be done to Livingstone is now accom! , and as the last swelling notes of the organ foat mourn- fully through the sculptured aisles we turn aside, And in the vast cathedral leave him; God accept him, u! receive him, SUMNER’S SUCCESSOR. : Ex-Governor Washburn Leaves Boston to Take His Seat in the United Statea Senate—His Letter to the Legislature. * Boston, April 30, 1874. | Ex-Governor Washburn, the successor of the late Senator Sumner, left for Washington to-day. Be« fore his departare he wrote the following Mtter, ' which was presented to the Legislature this after< noon :— other than selfish oot sign the oMce of Governor,