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4 A CRISIS IN ENGLAND. The Agricultural Lockout in the Farming Districts. RURAL LIFE IN ENGLAND. Distressing Picture of Ignorance, ‘Want and Disease. THE LEADER OF THE UPRISING. NEWMARKET, April 11, 1874, “gngland w now standing on the threshold of a greater political change than any she has expe- Tienced since the days of Cromwell,” was the re- mark made to your correspondent only the other day, by one of the shrewdest and most far-seeing of the English working class leaders. “Our agri- cultural laborers,” he continued, “have at last awoke toa sense of their serfdom, and are de- Manding the political privileges which should be the birthright of every citizen. The friends of national progress have been waiting almost de- spairingly for this day, but it has dawned at last. ‘The ball is now rolling and it cannot stop till the laborer 1s righted, and he cannot be righted till the ‘whole land jurisprudence of the country has been thoroughly and absolutely remodelled.” The Statement of this leader may be partial vand exaggerated, but a glance at the story of the present “agricultural laborers’ strike,” now being detailed at such length in the columns of the leading English journals, wil! show to how great an extent there is a basis of Tact for even more alarming predictions than that Of the overthrow of the land tenure of the coun- ‘try. Over 4,000 of the tillers of the ‘soil of the ‘eastern counties are now on strike. They ask for @ higher weekly wage, for better cottages, for the privileges of education for their children, and they raise, a8 an issue which is inseparable from ‘these complaints, the cry that until they have the right of “voting” their prospect of complete re- Gress is hopeless. ‘The case for the laborer, even on the showing of the special correspondents of the London press, who do not usually write with- out due reverence for the vested interests of the country, is @ remarkably good one. Your corre- spondent, however, has visitea the headquarters of this great rural rising, in order that he might give the HeRaLp readers the results of personal interviews with the men on strike ana their leaders. This labor revolt originated six weeks ago at the small village of Exning, near Newmarket, and has since extended over the greater part of the coun- ties of Suffolk and East Cambridgeshire and is still extending. The wages of the laborers at Exning were thirteen shillings per week, and they asked a Tise of one shilling, owing to the high price of pro- visions, They were told by the masters that they could not get the rise and that ir they did not give up their tickets of membership of the National Agricultural Laborers’ Union—under whose dicta- tion they were supposed to be acting—they would be “locked out.” The laborers responded that but for the union they would still have been working Jor ten shillings a week ; that they believed it their best friend and therefore they would not desert it. A “lockout” immediately followed, not only of the Exning men, but generally of the “unionists” over the two counties. This step was taken by the farmers im the hope of breaking the association by throw- img more idie men on its hands than it could sup- port. The trade unionists of tne towns, however, have rallied to the support of their agricultural brethren, whose union, having been only some two years in existence, has neither the funds nor the machinery to cope with a counter-check of such Magnitude and of so unanticipated character. This intervention has enabled the laborers to adopt as defiant a position as their masters, and at this moment both parties are holding aloof the one from the other, each persuaded that nis opponent must be the first to give way. RURAL LIFE IN ENGLAND. Meantime the fierce light of publicity is fal!ing on @ state of rural distress in England which is in iteelf a disgrace to a civilized country. At Exning families of six or seven are housed in hovels scarcely ten feet square, and whose ceiling does not permit of an ordinary sized man standing up- Fight. The walls of these abodes, as seen by your correspondent, are damp and covered wtih blotches of green moisture, Children are left un- tenaed at home by mothers who must earn their precarious existence on the fields and high- ways. Loathsome vermin crawl on these tnfants, and their arms and legs are 80 speckled with fleabites that they look as if afflicted ‘with measies. There is no school. The Squire, an octogenarian English gentleman, thoroughly ante- diluvian in his politics, has not much faith in schools and has hitherto denied a school “site” to the villagers. The nearest place of instruction ia two miles distant and is overcrowded. The weekly ‘wage earned by the laborers is thirteen shillings a ‘Week, out of which threepence is paid as contribu- tion to a sick club. They pay £4 year as rent for the hévels they inhabit and find the money for the rent at “harvesting,” when they earn something like £10 by their extra labor at that season. One and all of them are more or less in debt to the small provision stores. Hitherto, when they have made complaint, they have been told to go where they would do better, and until the formation of the Agricultural Union, two years ago, they have not dared to complain for fear of dismissal, They: have had no funds to take them elsewhere, and their debts to the small shopkeepers have deprived them of ail freedom of action. Despite all these depressing circumstances the men are wholly untainted with the seditious talk not uncommon im some of the Working class quarters of the large towns. In- deed, such littie adornment as they have bestowed on their wretched hovels is generally an engraving of Her Majesty or the Princess of Wales, while here and there cards with texts of Scripture, not always Very apropos to the surroundings, are nailed to the walls, A sum of nine shillings per week is all that the unions can pay these men, and at present they are really suffering martyrdom in shape of semi- starvation in vindication of their rights. They are on as short rations as the besieged were in the last days ol the siege of Paris. THE LOCKOUT Meetings are held once a week in the market place here for the purpose of infusing spirit into the men, The Moses of the movement in the eastern centre is ome George Ball, a@ Lincolnshire laborer, whose speeches never fail to awaken the greatest enthusiasm among his brethren. Joseph Arch, of whose mission to Canada your readers are already aware, is now on sick bed, and George Ball acts as his deputy. Ball, like other leaders in the movement, has been @ local preacher in the Methodist connection. He speaks with more force and possesses greater in- tellectual power than Mr. Arch, and is likely to come speedily to the front as one of the legislators | of England. He is not 4 man of education, and is apt to speak somewhat crudely of some of the ab- | struser questions arising out of the vexed prop- Jems of capital and Jabor. He possesses singular lucidity of expression, and his oratory, impas- sioned and energetic as it is, betrays but littie of that jack of education of which he himself often | bitterty complains, He and the masters are natur- aily at “daggers drawn.” The employers of labor have been stigmatizing bim as @ paid agitator, whose word would be as readily avaliapie om behaif of the masters against the men, should the former choose to buy him. Stung by this taunt, which was openiy flung at him by some farmers, a few days go, on the High street of Newmarket, as he was returning from addressing a laborers’ meeting at the race course, Ball obtained per-niasion from NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY. MAY Gress the farmers and others in the market place, which he did tn the following pointed manner:— a be the farmers, they had hig biame for it, If they were and burned with excessive fault. They had it was their own had political power, and the little use they had made of it stood to their dis- grace. had sent people to resent them who were trically | Place burdens on the farmer and tase’ thea or e them of Phetr own shoulders. (Cheers,) 0 was it that ty. not for the expense ‘would soon said the rs were but he (Mr. Ball) the steps the: were only steps towal wl Of the farmers as well as the la- borers, He believed no class could render such Valuable assistance to tne farmers as the laborers, if they would only take them into Pag eg in this matter of reform. (Cheers.) the farmers Would unite with tne laborera no earthly power just demands. The ie Was Seaetienid ste wat eee such men 4 = as woul these peasants ht not have gram- England. (Cheers.) The: mar or | or philosophy, tae yy had common sense The farmers must be Common eneray. in earnest and have their representatives in the House of Vommons, and they must the la- borers to send theirs; and they must stand side by side in St. stephen’s. If they did that they woul soon have the Game laws abolished and have a better understanding between landlords, farmers ‘end laborers. (Cheers.) They asked the farmers to meet them fairly on equal grounds and discuss their grievances and arrange a settlement, When the agricultural laborers of England have Men ameng them who speak with such pith and point and good sense the day has gone when the governing classes of England can afford to treat them with indifference and contempt. No less an authority than the Bishop of Manchester has issued through the London Times the follow- ing indirect pastoral to the peopie of England :— A BISHOP TO THE RESCUE. ‘TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES: Smm—May I ask for your insertion of a few lines—not about the Bengal famine, with which my name has been associated far more foe nently than I desired, but upon a subject of hardly secondary importance, and which may even bri the fact of e, OF, at least, of dearth, muc! closer to our doors than some of us, perhaps, are ig of as possible f Are the farmers of England going mad? Are rig ‘about, to add ee eee to the adage, “Quos Deus perdere, prius » mentat?” What can the; f ggeweds imagine will be the issue of this suicic lock-ous, which has already thrown 4,000 laborers on the fund of the Agricultural Union, and which s 38 to be 8] iz like @ pestilence in the eastern es? Can they, as reasonable men, able to read the sas of the times, suppose that this measure will stave off for any appreciable time the solu- tion of the inevitable question—what is the equitable wit to pay the men who till their ‘ound, tend their stock, gather in their harvest? @ lock-out could be at any time regarded as a Tational mode of attempt to evade this difficulty, what @ moment have the farm- ers of the eastern counties chosen for it? With tmuch of their spring corn still unsown, with all their root crops needing to be prepared and all their harvests to come, no wise man would counsel them that this is the time to agitate the labor market with a disturbance of its equilibrium, And what can they hope to gain by this ill-wdvisea procedure? They may drive their best laborers either to the other side of the Atlantic or into some new field of employment; toey may fill the workhouses with able-bodied men and: women, stripped of their homes and all that has made life, amid their many hardships, still dear to them; but will they have settled the wage question? Will they have improved their own condition or ying mig Will they have conquered? * * * re the demands—even the highest aemands—of the agricultural laborers, when all the surround- ings of the situation are considered, really unreasonable and inordinate? & man, at the ee prices of the necessaries of life, maintain imself and his family, I will not say in comfort, but even with a sufficiency of food, fuel, and cloth img to enable him to put nis fuil strength into his work, on asmalier income than filteen shillings or sixteen shillings a week? And if farmers say they cannot afford to pay this rate of wages with their present rentals, and can prove the truth of this statement, then rents must come down, unpleasant thing even to contemplate for those who willspend the rent of a 300acrefarmon a single ball or upon a pair of high stepping carriage horses, but nevertheless one of the things inevit- abie. Iamno lover of the principles of trade unionism; but they have been forced upon the working classes by the mequitable use of the power of capital. * * * I appeal to the intelligence, and even to the self interest, of a body of men who certainly have as much good sense,and kindly feeling as any other class among their countrymen coun- to avert the dire catastrophe. I remain, str, gone obedient servant, CHESTER, SUSPENDED FOR PREACHING ON BEHALF OF THE LABORERS. Among those whose sympathies for the op- pressed have helped to push the laborers’ hardships prominently before the public is & young clergy- man, the Rev. C. E. T. Roberts, of Exeter College, Oxford, lately one of the Curates of Ely. This manly young fellow, finding that union laborers would not come to church, determined to go among them and convince them of their errors in neglecting the ordinances of Christian worship. He discovered that they had been told that to be a unionist was treason to religion. To satisfy him- self of the character of their meetings he asked to be invited to the first union meeting held in tne district. The invitation was given and at the meeting the laborers honored him by voting him to the chair. Next day the cloistered clergy of the quiet little cathedral city of Ely were afire with excitement over their young brother daring to set foot within the unhallowed precinctg of such a communistic assembly. He suffered social ostra- cism at once. @ sermon from the pulpit of Ely Cathedral against the iniquities to which the labor- ers were subjected. Some of the farmers rose and left the Cathédral, and next day six of the leading parishioners petitioned for his dismissal, A counter petition was signed by the bulk of the congregation. The six, however, pre- vailed, and Mr, Roberts was asked to resign. This was shortly before the resignation of Mr. Giad- stone, and to the honor of the ex-Premier it should be recorded that he, on hearing of the circum- stance, presented his fellow member of Oxford University to the vicarage of Brindsley, Notting- bam. Your correspondent had a conversation with Mr. Roberts at Ely two days ago. AN INTERVIEW WITH A CHURCH OF ENGLAND CLER- GYMAN. Mr. Roperrs—I understand that you represent the New York HERALD, and as I have been an active promoter of emigration to North America I wish to direct your attention to a placard indus. triously circulated in the following terms:—‘“Forty thousand laborers are out of employment in New York, and will return to this country if their pas- sages are paid. Apply to Mr. Archibaid, ©. B., British Consul, New York.” Does that, think you, really emanate from the British Consular service ? CORRESPONDENT—I am satisfied that it does not, and, moreover, in any case, it isa false statement. I shall sena’ the handbill to the Hemaip’s London bureau, and steps will be taken to procure an authoritative contradiction of the same, even if the intervention of the American Miaister is neces- sary for the purpose. PS Mr. Roperts—Thanks. Iam glad to see the press of other countries bestirring themselves as to these crying social grievances of England. CorresPonpent—I have heard of your petty Martyrdom, and should be glad to have your opinion of this struggle. Mr. Roserts—There can be no doubt thatéhe laborers of this district are cruelly uuderpaid and badly housetl. They are nearly all of them in debt, and are the helpless slaves of their masters and the smali shopkeepers. Not long ago I asked a farmer why he would not allow his laborers to keep pigs, and his reply was that the Lord had said, “Lead us not into temptation.” Permit my laborer to keep a pig and he will steal my turnips !”” The laborers (said Mr. Roberts) are looked upon ag Chattels, and at best as sudjects of charity and anti-mendicity societies. They are sing against {t, The penny press is teaching them their rights. Ifthe movement goes on it will head against the Que Of the stall Keepers to mount his stall and ad- land tenure and ultimately against the Church. Of that I am satisfied. 1 have taith, however, in the Nothing daunted he preached |. permanency of the Church of Eaviand as an instl- tution rooted in the hearts and affections of the great body of the people. The Agitator Who Has Found Out the Difference Between a Monarchy and a Republic. SPaLDING, Lincolnshire, April 12, 1874. I have come here for the purpose of interviewing Mr. Ball, whose home is in this town, Arriving in the evening I find the market place crowded, and the agitator standing on @ chair singing an agri- oultural hymn, in which some five hundred farm laborers are joining with all the fervor of religious devotees, One of the hymns they sing is a8 fol- lows :— Lord, as Thoa did’st invite of ol We - hi y ; ™ is A eavy-laden, come ‘Kad tnose with hopeless benold, dumb. Panonth onal Set we tread by & le, ‘That our great w: design, ve in want should Ive and ‘nile others share the corn aad’ ‘wine. Crowned Justice | hear our cry of wronz; wees Love! attend our id (4 pain; couse against the strong, ‘Who serve as god, the Moloch cain nt, as Thou art, Frous tatadtias vemanmnicn Narpeach heart— Tustice and love are both divine. More men, more manhood now accord, Make us ‘more worthy to be free; Where dwells the spirit of the Lord, There is the home of liberty. As your correspondent stood in that assemblage he could not help remembering that he was in the country which gave birth toJohn Wesley, and one of whose towns (Boston) has given its name to the Athens of the United States. Something of the old noncomformist spirit seemed to play around the solemn visages of these weary-looking farm laborers, and he could not nelp thinking anew of those acts of oppression in the distant past which had so much to do with the colonization of the New World. When the meeting was over! had an interview witn Mr. Ball, Our lengthy con- versation brought out little that has not been al- ready stated in this letter. One incident, how- ever, 1am bound to mention. Mr. Ball said to me, “You will scarcely believe it, that only a tew years ago I did not know the difference betwixt @ monarchy and @ republican form of government. 1 have sung, again and again, ‘God Save the Queen’ at the close of festive meetings. But,”” and he said this ina sorrowful tone, “1 cannot now sing ‘God Save the Queen.’ We want an elective Chief Magistracy— notahereditary one. We need the abolition of primogeniture and the reform of our land laws. ‘We need laws enforcing the proper cultivation of our farms as well as of our waste lands. This country seems to me just now in 4 sad state. I cannot tell you how much I was impressed the other day at Newmarket when I heard the agent for New Zealand say that in that southern colony they were founaing a new British Empire, with all the good qualities and none of the vices of the Ola Country. On, that we could have such anew Empire here!” AMERICAN JOCKEY CLUB. Weights for the Handicaps. The Fordham Handicap bad opera of $50 each, * h. f., and only $101f declared by the 20th of May, with $500 added; the second horse to receive $200 out of the stakes. Weights to be published by the 1st of May. Winners, atter the publication eof weights, of $1,000, to Say five Ibs.; of $2,000, seven lbs, extra. Closed Ist March, with forty Dominations. One mile and a quarter. Be. 1. D, D, Withers’ imp. bh. Minstapl, 4 years, old. iby Mt ¢ of Marohioneas, Marquis 92 2 ArBetmonvs grb. Gray Planet, 6 years oli, bY ‘Planet, out of Bagless............. a 4. Belmont’s br. c. Oakland, 4 vears oid, by Leamington, out of imp. Babta.. 100 4 A. Belmont’s ch. c.. Periwinkle, 4 yea: Kentucky, out ofimp. Fleur de Champs. 100 & Hunter & Travers’ bik. h. Strachino, 4 years old, by Parmesan, out of May Bell, by Hetman Platoff..... ie 2 6 H, Blandy & Son's ch. c. Tom Frank Boston, out of Prelude, 7. RB. W, Walden’s ch. h. Long Bi 0 ek, dai imp. Scythian. ag 108 10, P. Loriliard’ f, Vaultress, 8 years old, by Van- , dam b: tide Harold............ dard’s Carriboo, 4 years old, 0; xington, out of Alice Jones... =i . . vl 12, W. Cottrill’s b. m. Sallie Watson, . bs aniel Boone, out of Maguie G., by Brown Dick 100 13. R. W. Cameron's b. f., 3 years old, by Warminster, ‘out of Lady Spang, by Gazan. .. : 14. B. W. Cameron's b. or rn. ye rinster, out of Sophia, by Borinie Scotland ..--.. 15. Thomas Puryear’s ch. g. King Philip, 4 years old, ‘by Eclipse, out of Jessie 16. James McKee & Co.’s ch. m. by Planet, out of Edi 17. William Cox's "ch. h. Bo Eclipse, out of Vanity, by Revenue. 18, 8. D. Bruce’s ch. h. Galway, 4 years old, cord, out of Maudina, by Austral 19. D. MeDaniel’s b. h Tubman, 6 Dance, out of Lass of Sydné 2. D. MeDaniel’s ch. h. Springbok, 4 Australian, out of Heste: xOn. Mii rs 104 no by Gon- ‘years old, by 1 PY ane Lexington, out of D 22, D. McDaniel’ b. Etta Shippe 23, Joseph Donabue’s «: by Australian, out of Eagles 2%. Joseph Donahuc's b. h. 4 TO} 25, Joseph Donahue’s ch Revolver, out of Syren. 2%. John Funk's b. h. St. George, Dance, dam by imp, Knigh hn_F.' Chamberlin's b. h. » 4 Years old, by War Cot St. George. Survivor, 4 ‘old, by Dance, out of Lass of Sydney, . 8 29, M. H: Sanford’s b. h. Preakness, aged, by Lexing- ton, out of Bay Leaf. 125 30, M. H. Sanford’s br. h. trailian, out of Mattie Gross 23 $1. M. H. Sanford’s ch. out of Mildred... M. H. Sanford’s ‘br. c. srigand, Planet, out of Britannia Fourth 83. M. A. Littell’s ch. h. Felloweratt, ‘Australian, out of Aerolite.... “ %4. M.A. Littell’s br. n. Wizard, 4 years old, by Gon- ‘cord, out of Doliv Morgan.. z . i Milton, 4 years old, by Planet, . Western old, by France, out of Kitty Wells, by andi 105 37. B._G. Thomas’ b. ui. War Reel, 4 years War Dance, out ot Disie, by imp. Sovereia 102 88 Odeh Bowie's b. h. Catesby, 4 years old, by Eclipse, out of Katie, by Two Bits 104 89. D. Swigert’s ch. c. Egypt. 3 years oid, by Planet, out of Barry, by imp. Emu . ” 40. Thomas G. Moore’s ch. h. Foster, aged, ‘ton, out of Verona, by imp. Yorkshire The Jockey Club Handicap Sweepstakes, of $100 each, h. f., and only $20 if declared by the 20th May; with $1.000 added; the second horse to re- ceive $300 out of the stakes. Weights to be pub- lished by the lst May. Winners, aiter the publi- cation of weights, of $1,000, to carry 5 Ibs.; of $2,000, 7 Ibs. extra. Closed ist March, with thirty- three nominations. Two miles, Lbs. 1, Hunter and Travers’ imp. bi’k h. Strachino, 4 years old, by Parmesan,out of May Bell, by Het- man Platoff..... os osee pry 109 2. Jordan and Wilso: . h. Mart Jo! mee x A by Revolver, out of Mattie C., by York- 100 shire .............. bce ae vanes % Lawrence and G. ‘Lorillard’s ‘b.’ . Shylock, 5 years old, by Lexington, out of Edith . 12 4. P. Lorillard’s 'b. h. Stanford, 06 14 Pi r, out of Lark, by Lexington. 7 88 BW, Cameron's bf. S years oli, by “Wariiae 5 wnt ipse. 10, 8. D. Bruce's ch. h Galway, 4 year: cord, out of Maudina, by ‘Austr IL D, Mebantel’s ch. h. Abd-el-Korce, 6 ‘Australian, out of Rescue, by 12, D. MeDaniel’s b. i "ears old, rthune d, cb. m. Cora Linn, 4 years old, b; it of poy Carter, tu Hi a of ka heath ‘f jan, out of a eatham.. 16. D. J. Crouse’s ch. m. Satire, volver, out of Syren . 17, Joseph Donahue’s gr. m. Lizzie Lucas, 4 years old, in, out ol ages: . 3 hue’s b. h. Artist, # Asteroid, out of Fai soe . 19, Joseph Donahue’s ch. h.’ Business, 5’ years old, by evolver, out of Syren. 20. Babcock & Ransom’s b. h. Rans: Asteroid, out of Banner 2 John Funk’s b. h. St. Geor ny 4 years old, by t St. George... 4 years old, iy’ "teiig- vy x10g" ay War Dance, dam by imp. Kni, 2, John h. Survivor, mberlin’s b. ton, out of 4 af... % M. H. Santord’s b. h. Monarch Lexington, out ot Mildred... 2, M. A. Littell’s ch. h, Fellow , BAG. Thomas’ b. tH, 28 3. 4 Grinstead's gr. . As Grinstend's gr. by Jaghtntn War og Xie, by imp. Sov f Dodéad Vat Jeane Seas f Sequin, by imp. Lexington, out of Coral, by ¥ 90. Oden Bowie's. h. Ontasby,” 4s cal Kelipse, out of Katie, by Two A. Hafrison’s ch. g. Fi elligat ‘est, cut of Emeline, & Migs. out of ste eo MEMPHIS AND OHARLESTOW RAILROAD. Mami Tenn., April 30, 1874, The stockholders of the Memphis and Charleston y unanimous vote, decided to lgore's ch. ti, Foste ‘erona, by itp. Yor! The Story of the Marriage and Death of Margaret J. Gamble. A Quick Disposal of $100,000 Worth of Real Estate, The Body of Mrs. Gamble Ex- humed and Poison Found. WHO SHOT MATILDA HUJUS? Nyaocx, Rockland County, N. i} April 80, 1874. Rain, lightning and thunder are not unusual in Rockland county and along the river. We find that a concentration and confusion of the elements is more than apt to make the air clear for some days after. But no thunder storm that has ever occurred in this vicinity could have produced the effects that have resulted from the revelations made in the HgeRALD of yesterday regarding the murder of Matilda Kujus and the shooting of Rob- ert J. Gamble by two unknown assassins. The outery that was made at first againat the brothers Murphy is just now beginning to sober down, and people are reasoning with each other as to the cause and motive for the atrocious deed. Such a crime ‘was never before committed in Rockland county and the community are thoroughly aroused, Thave visited New City, distant about an hour’s ride from here, to see if I could obtain admittance to the cells of the prisoners who are here con- fined on the charge of having killed: the woman Hujus. This woman had some bad characteristics and never allowed public opinion to stand in her way when an object was tobe gained. Evil deeds will trouble the perpetrators somehow or another, and itis singular that since the death of poor Margaret Gamble, away from home and friends, everything has gone wrong with Mrs. Hujus ana her associates. It is said that when she was once asked why she was not afraid of what might be said about her that she snswered with sudden fury, “What the —— do 1 care for all of the people around here.” I have had four or five persons to come and tell me, while at Nanuet and Suffern, that Matilda Hujus had been in the habit of beating Gamble lately with any article of furniture that came readily to her hand, and there is no doubt but that he was completely under her influence, for better or for worse. When Mrs. Gamble died, on the 24 of August, 1868, it was dis- covered that the rings were taken off her fingers, and all other articles of jewelry were removed from her person, and were afterwards worn in an open and flagrant manner by the woman who was foully murdered on April 19, nearly two weeks since, And, to add to the sname of the thing, within ten days of Mrs, Gamble’s death I believe it was on the 14th of August or thereabouts, an alleged deed claimed to have been. made by Mrs. Gamble to a man named Dickinson, residing at that time in Clarkstown, Rockland county, who ‘was a brother of the then District attorney of the county was produced to make a justification m the property for Gamble. Six years have passed, and it seems that the dead woman walks again and comes to life to testify; for, as the man in the play said, “the apparatus can’t lie,” and all that has been done and said in these years comes to light again. By this deed, which is claimed to have been made during the week before the sud- den and mysterious death of Mrs. Gamble, a brown stone house and lot in Fiftieth street, New York city, valued at $35,000, was deeded to Gam- ble finally for the consideration of $1, by his wife; and at the same time Gamble claims that his wife caused another deed to made’ of a valuable piece of property, No. 141 Cedar, corner of Washington street, in ‘our city, Which was made over toa man named rederick G, Wheeler in consideration of tne sum of $1, and was immediately after the death of Mrs. Gamble conveyed to her husband, property was valued at about $40,000, and is now ‘werth much more. Wheeler lives in this county, and it is here that the sharpest work known in the annals of the State of New York has been done. A day or two after he executed a deed to Gamble of his Fiftieth street property and thus there came into his hands forty-eight hours after the death of his wife $75,000 of realestate. Besides this Mrs. Gamble owned property in East Twelfth street, New York, and in two or three other places, Some of this last property consists of ten- ement houses, and Gamble produced a power of attorney alter his wife's death, empowering him to collect all rents therefrom accruing, While Mrs, Gamble lay dead 1a her house at Nanuet, Rockland county, Gamble came to New York city, recorded the deeds alleged by him to have been made by Mrs. Gamble to Dickerson and Wheeler, and on the next day Gamble, on his way fromthe funeral of his wife, seve ped at the Register’s office in New York city and recorded the deeds from Dick- erson and Wheeler to himself, showing an unfeel- ing and unseemly haste about the property. Henry Dally, the counsei for the family of Mrs. Gamble, called on Gamble a few days aiter her death and the latter denied tnat his wife had made any will. Mr. then informed him that those deeas would be attacked in the courts anda legal test would be applied to see whether they were fraudu- lent, and Gambie, becoming very much alarmed, luced & will, which he said had been made by 18 Wife on the 24th of July, 1868—a week before her death—in which it was stated that the testa- trix had bequeathed all her property, both real and personal, to him forever. the deeds were good & will was not necessary. Mrs. Gamble had one. child by her husband, Which only lived five weeks, and it was tes- tified on the trial of Gamble and Mrs. Hujus for the murder of Mrs. Gamble, by a Miss Julia Maguire, who at this time had come from Eighty- fourth street, bd city, to live with her friend, Mrs. Gamble, at Nanuet, that Gamble had treate his own child worse than a dog, One day, in Miss Maguiré’s presence, he came into the room where the child, then only three weeks old, was lying on the sofa, wrapped up, and, taking it in a brutal manner, slung it behind the stove. Had not the child been wrapped in & thick covering its poor little brains would have been scattered on the floor, and yet it was tne birth of this child which has enabled Gamble to draw the rents of Mrs. Gamble’s property ever since her death, the law holding that a receiver cannot be appointed to collect rents Where the wile bas had issue by her husband, MARRIAGE AND DEATH. In the latter part of 1866 Margaret J. Fulton, then the widow of James Fulton, married Robert J. Gamble, who had kept @ liquor store corner of Centre and White streets, New York city, and after their marriage lived in one of Mrs. Gambie’s houses in Cedar street until the spring of 188, when mrs, Gamble was induced by her husband to purchase a@ farm near Nanuet, Rockland county. ‘ro this farm they moved in April, 1868. Very soon after they had taken up their residence on this farm Mr. Gamble brought into hig household Matilda Hujus, wno 1s now dead. She continued in the house with Mr. Gamble and his wife until the death of Mra. Gamble, on August 2, 1863, On August 2, 1868, Mrs. Gamble died very suddenly at the house, on her farm, and Gamble, without any funeral service whatever over her, buried Mrs. Gamble in Greenwood, con- cealing her death and burial from her two broth- e18, Michael Murphy and Thomas Murphy, and her sister Mary, At the time Mrs. Gambie died and was buried her brother Thomas and sister Mary resided in New York and her brother Michael in Hudson City. The first information that these rela- tives of Mts. Gamble had of her death was by read- ing it in one of the ci pers ers alver her burial. The brothers then called upon Gam- ble in Rockland county, and made in- quiry of him a8 to the cause of their -sister’s death. jamble refused to give them any information, and said he ‘should not say anything avout it, and they, might find it out as best they could.” The relftives then employed counsel, Henry Daily, Jr., to investigate the cause of Mrs, Gamole’s sudden and mysterious death. Mr. Daily called on Gamble, and asked him the cause of his wife’s death, and he reiused to give any information concerning her illness, death and burial. On the 16th of August, 1868, iourteen days aiter Mrs. Gamble had been buried, the counsel of her relatives caused her remains to be disin+ terred and brought to the dead house in Brook- n, where an autopsy was performed by » Shepherd, of Brooklyn, in the presence of Professor Doremus and three or four other per- sons. Professor Doremus having been employed by the counsel to make a chemical analysis of the stomach of Mrs. Gamble, in order to ascertain the cause of her death, Dr. Shepherd removed all the necessary Peon de of the body and gave them to Proteasor Doremus for analysis. on em ya Sago POUT cable jay of August following Gamble ani Matilda Hujus were, on the complaint of Mrs. Gambie’s brother, arrested in Rockland inty, on the charge of having sed her deat! ie Magistrate who issued the warrant was John\ A. Bogert, of Urangetown. A hearing was - mediately commenced and continued until tne October following, On that hearing the evidence disclosed that died suddenly at about three o'clock on the morning of the 2d of August, 1968, at her fi house, in Rockland county, and her cot mained at the house until the morning of the 4th of Au when it was conveyed to Greenwood and buried in the presence oi Gambie and Matilda Hujas, the death, removal and burial having beca This piece of | ; éines. 1, 1874--TRIPLE SHEET. i i BF ar BF 8 i Hi Doremus and was examined as to the result as far as he had gone. From his evidence he found morphia and meconic contents of the stomach and small Surgeon General Hammond was ex- amined as an expert, and he entirely cor- roborated Professor Doremus. It appeared on the hearing before the magistrate tha immediately after Mrs. Gambie’s jewelry and clothing of Mrs. Gam! wu jamble lay dead at her house Gamble forcibly removed from her rs some of her rings; that before Mrs. Gembfe’s death and subsequently this Matilda Hujus and Gamble were seen together un- der suspicious circumstances. From the time of Mrs. Gamble’s death down to the hour of the death of Matilda Hujus she and Gamble have lived together in the same house, Coorbyiee: Te. lations of the most questionable ciiaracter. Notwithstanding that poison was found in Mrs. Gambie’s body, and that she died from the effects of poison, and that Gambie ‘ave her the last administrations before her death. he magistrate, atter he had declared that he must hold Gamole and Mrs. Hujus to await the action of the Grand Jury, suddenly, while the prosecution was proceediug with the evidence and before it had rested, directed Gamble and Matilda to go, and discharged them. MICHAEL MURPHY’S CHARACTER, Tt has been asserted in some newspapers that Michael Murphy some years ago was indicted tor arson, charged With burning his house to obtain the insurance, which was ailegea to have been 000, The fact i#,in the month of June, 1809, lurphy’s house in Hudson City was destroyed by fire, and at the time of the loss was insured for $1,700 on the house and $300 on forniture in the International Insurance Company of New York. The company after making offers of settlement, declined to Pay, and Murphy sued the company on the policy. The company set up the deience that the property was burned by Sarpy to get the insurance. The company then made dil- nt efforts toindict Murphy in Hudson county, jew Jersey, for arson, and succeeded. Murphy, in the month of December, 1869, was tried before Jadge Randolph anda jury, in Hudson county, New Jersey, and alter a trial o1 three days was acquit- ted by the jury, alter an absence of a few minutes. Then the action on the policy was tried, and after along trial before ex-Judge Clark as referee re- suited in judgment in favor of Murphy for the full amount claimed, interest and costs, Professor Doremus’ Analysis. A HERALD reporter called last evening.on Pro- fessor Doremus to ascertain his views on this re- markable case. It will be remembered that Pro- fessor Doremus analyzed the contents of Mrs, Gamble’s stomach, and testified at the trial of Gamble. He said that he distinctly remembered having made an analysis in this case and having found a small quantity of morphine in the stomach— not laudanam, as it had been erroneously stated. He had no hesitancy in saying that the case was @ very suspicious one and that the statements alleging it to be *@ tramped-up charge’ were ‘without any foundation. The quantity ofmorphine found was 81 aly but it was frequently difficult to find evidences of morphine only @ few days after a person’s death, because morphine was a vegetable substance and changed more easily than arsenic or Other poison. Professor Doremus declared that he nad nothing to do with the question of whetber Mrs, Gamble was poisoned or not, but as a chemist hiss sole duty was to submit the result of his anal- y CONFESSION OF A MURDERER, A Husband Killed at the Solicitation of the Wife. Batauest, N. B., April 30, 1874, Gallian, who murdered Poulin, in Caraquet, has made a confession. He says he was incited to the act by Poulin’s wife, who importuned him to kill her husband, that they might consummate their Haison by marriage. The night before the Tourder she sharpened a knife and gave it to bi telling him to be on the lookout for her husban when he went to the woods tor rails the next day. He promised to do so, and secreted the knife on his person, When he met Poulin in the woods next day ne said, “Poulin, I am going to kill you.’? His victim, on bended Knees, implored him for time to confess his sins to his priest, when he would be willing to be killed at any time or would leave the country. While Poulin was in this sup- plian¢ attitude the prisoner struck him on the head with a stick, stuoning him, and finished his bloody work with an axe. Poulin’s daughter testified on the ‘a that her mother went to Gallian’s bed one night and told him that her husband was asleep in the next room amd there would be a good chance to kill him, but that she awakened and warned her father and prevented the carrying out of the design. MEETING OF THE SUPERVISORS. The Armories and Retrenchment—Coro- ners’ Fees Ordered To Be Paid. The adjourned meeting of the Board of Super- visors was held yesterday aiternoon, at four o’clock. In the absence of the Mayor, Supervisor Vance presided. Supervisor MoNHEIMER offered a resolution in- structing the Major General commanding the First division N. G., 8. N. Y., to carry out the order of the Board transferring the Seventy-first regiment from its present armory to the armory corner of Thirty-fiith street and Broadway. The resoiution ipomared to the Armory Commitiee by a vote of Supervisor OTTENDORFER presented the follow- ing resolution :— Resolved, That from and after this date all liabilities incurred in the interest of the different organizations of the National Guard of the State of. New York, located in this county, shall be restricted, as provided by law, to provide thém with convenient aril! rooms or, places’ for he safe keeping of their arms, uniforms, equipments and accoutrements, and to the payment of the armor- ers, which was adopted. Mr. Ottendorfer stated that the object of the Tesojution was to stop regiments from purchasing ornaments and articles of display at the expense of the county. The Commissioners of Accounts were authorized to expend $2,500 for clerk hire in their examina- tion of the financial condition of the county. A bill of Dr. Moreau Morris, amount! ng to $3,178 22, for services and expense incurred by him while acting as Assistant Commissioner on Cattle Diseases under the act of April 20, 1866, was laid over under the rules, + The upper floors of the build! on the southeast corner of Broadway and Fourth street were by parpesens vogth ds ae niece for armorial urposes, for two ye: at $7,500 per annum. The commitvee on ories and Drill Rooms reported in favor of paying J. A. Wood, architect, $607 for examining bills submitted oy the Commit- tee on Armories and Drill Rooms. The report of the committee was adopted. Supervisor KeuR moved to take from the table the bill of-Jacob Webber for work on the Centre Market Armory. amounting to $20,004. Several members objected, and stated that the bill was a fraudulent one, ‘and the Board decided Not to take it up, The bull of Sheriff Conner for fitting up his offices, amounting to $4,929 73, was reported by the Com- mitiee on Uounty Offices, reduced to, $3,000, By a vote of 9 to 4 the bill, as reduced, was audited, The Committee on County Uifices reported in favor of paying the Coroners’ fees for the firat pom vtnad of the year 1874, &8 follows :—Coroners ‘oltman, $3,480; Croker, $2,900; Eickhoff, $2,820; Kessler, $2,580, which report was adopted, ‘The tees of the Let Coroners, amounting to 010, were also allowed. fter auditing a large number of bills an ad- Journment was taken, Commissioners of the Sinking Fand, The Commissioners of the Sinking Fund were to have met yesterday to open bids for ferry iranchises, but in the absence of the Comptrolier, who was at Albany, no business was transacted, paint dtm dis Bit on FATAL AOOIDENT. FISHEILL LaNpIna, N. Y., April 30, 1874, Charles Hoag, of South Dover, was killed on the Housatonic Railroad last night. His team of horses became unmanageable and ran upon the ciel in iront of a train, The animals were also illed, iceman THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY. Nasavitis, Tenn., April 30, 1874, During the session of the Board of Trustees of Vanderbilt University yesterday the Secretary of the Board read @ communication from Mr. Van- additional $100,000 to be used ase eaaiee teed ie Cir My the Universi jeted in accordance wit! the plaga and ayecit jons heretofore approved by bim. SS re REAL ESTATE, THE SALE OF THE MOTT ESTATE A Large Attendance, Spirited Bid- ding and Fair Prices, DEDUCTIONS. _—— The sale of the Mott estate yesterday justified all the suggestions that have been pointed out here in reference to the turning point in this market that would grow out of the President's estoppel of inflation. It was the feature not alone of the market this week and yesterday, but the most important incident of that character within two years. Of the causes which produced a spe- cial interest in it i¢ is not necessary here to speak, as they have been already suMcientiy pointed out; and that they are understood and appreciated was shown in the LARGE ATTENDANCE which early awaited the auctioneer'’s presence, That auctioneer was Anthony J. Bleecker, the veteran figure of the market, whose years ait Ughtly upon shoulders unbent by time, and whose voice, a8 it resounded through the vault-like @partment in which the sale was: held, had in it nothing of the expected weakness of over threescore years and ten It has been said that the attendance was large, but not the less noticeable was it in regard to the character of the attendance, which, while having the appearance of a mass meeting, in that great room under the Trinity building, now known as the Exchange Salesroom, filling at one time fully one-half its space, comprised, with others, many of our most respected citizens, known in monetary circles as “heavy men,’ among whom it 1s worth while to enumerate as PRINCIPAL BUYERS Messrs. E. S. Higgins, 4. W. Dimmock, F. C. Law- rence, F. H. Cossitt, J. M, Conway, B. P. Fairchild, R. V. Harnet and vohn Wilson. Names of oher buyers are given below. The bidding throughout the sale was animated and spirited, exhibiting @ sharp competition which fully bears out recent remarks here in regard to the future of the market, Of course the prices obtained were not extravagant, but they were fair, and, what is far more encouraging to the market than even in- flated prices would have been, showed AN EARNEST INVESTMENT INTEREST, born most evidently of the conviction that bottom had been touched in this market in the matter of prices, and that from henceforth these would be appreciative. At balf-past three the referees and executors who had charge of the sale ordered an, adjournment for one week, the lateness of the hour warning them that they would have but scant time to gather in their ten per cents ere darkness would close upon their day’s labor. Taken all in all the sale was an undoubted and a surprising success. To those, however, who have watched the progress of events in this market through the columns of this paper 1t was only a foregone con- clusion. Independent in pointing out the con- dition which the market was in some few weeks ago, ana quick to recognize the CHANGED INFLUENCES . surrounding it, the Witthaus and this sale of the Mott estate are simply illustrations of the views here expressed immediately previous to both sales, There is a larger satisfaction in the present, how- ever, in view of the improved tone it will give the market; and while it would be foolish this spring to look for any great activity, there is justification enough in yesterday’s results to anticipate hence- forward a firm market. The followimg are par- ticulars:— NEW YORK PROPERTY.—BY_ J. BLEECKER, SON AND WHITE, 146m. f and iol 25 ‘fark place, n. 8, running through to No. 22 Murray st., 8. s.. $8.4 tt. e. of Church st., building covering entire pl ani . Toldrd and 08d at, together $.9x125.9, and all right, titie and interest of the estate in lot 'No. 14, in rear oh" Nos foil and 1 and inansion house, ou is. ‘and 1 an : Tobener of Houlevard and 99d stench lot 28.41 ¥. HL Cossitt... 52 £85,600 Lot No. 5, on 8. @. cor: 94th st., 25.2x116.9; F. 11,500 Lots Nos. 6,7, 8and 9, adjoining the ‘each 25.2x113.7; #, H. Cossitt; each $9,000. Lots Nos. 1 n, e.corner Grand Boulevard nd 2, on and 9th at together, 83.6x113.6x31.4x1147; F. 0. mee th “st,, 116.9 LotNe Bron he sof Bd ety IO te of Gi No. 13, on. 8. oF : @ of Grai ‘Boulevard, 31,6x100.8x30; F. i. Coasitt... Lot No. 27 and cottage, on 8. w. corner of ‘Boulevard and 93d st.,'30x100; Sylvester Brus! ts Nos. 53 and 54 and cottage, on s. 8. of 93d ft. w. of Grand Boulevard, cach 25x26.7; E. Lots Nos. $5, 56 and §7, adjoining the ab 25x24.8; Max Weil 9; on & Ww. corner of Grand Boul ich lot 25.2x100; E. 8 Higgins... Lot No. in it, Boulevard, 25x100.8; B. 8, Higgins. + 6,100 Lot No. 86, adjoining the above on the Ww. &., 2x 100.8; BE. &, Higgins. + 4,300 Nos. 37, 38 and 39, a 100.8; &. 8. Higgins; $4, 13,050 Lot No. 40, ons. e. corner of Lith av. and 94th st , '25,2x100; Patrick Cassi 6,080 2x) v Lot No. joining the al o Nairchiidee sn Vv. Hai NORE. eevee 3.850 Lot WG 45, adjoining the above, 25.2x100; RB. V. Har gins. 60, 5i ‘and ‘62, ‘adjoining the above, 108; Jobim, Wilson; Saou eaet 21ots, Nos 28 and 29, Boulevard, n. Bt. plot 363x100; K. ins. 1 lot, "No. 84 West’ 94th st, in. 8., 1001 Ww. of Bou! vard, 25x38.7; E. 8. Higgins. 2 Iota, Nos, 33, and, 82 Wost Sith st. i. above plo ; EB. 8. Higgins oat uth at. D8, adj Lot, uti joing above, 17xIt E. 1 gore lot, No. 59 llth av., 6. w. Ecos a i? wee i: ot, No. 60, on n. a is ore lot j bore, tomether, 96.10x4.5x4.7; T. each.. Lot No. on 8. w. os aeioor s ©. Clegs ts Nos. 62 and 63, ad Tr, 54.2x100; J. C. Clegg, Lot No. 6 on 8. 6. Oth st I L. J. Philly Lots Ki we lhe » 2x76. joining on m Charlick; $2,700 each... 5,500 6; W. F. Owen 2,750 above, SSRI 6: WC ‘esch"Ox ts Nos. al Feta Nos ahd 18a 73.1; W. F, Owen Lots Nos. 71 to 75 in Lote Nok Ti fr and bi above, each 25x67.6; Lewisohn iy the above. Lot No. 79, adjoining Lat No, 646i 8 ©. corn at ‘6x26x88; Lewisohn & Bro . 19 Ne Sa Ca leaiee the above. on @ 6, 27x88x25x; ir. NABEO..- «+ Lot No &, adjoining ‘i. W. Newman.. Lot No, 90, on &. €. 95th ver Phillips. above, ons. Lou . F. 0% each . Lows Nos oe anf cadjoinin the abov '60.11x96.1x92.1, J. R. Terry, $8600 each . Lot No. 8 and House on n.c. corner R. Vard a d Path St, 26,6%59.9292.10, J. Lot Ng ri on n, side 94th st., 89.9 feet e. R. Lot No. aeait Rey ide, 36x 100.8, ei 0. + Me Beis ’ 4000 Lot No. 1“ s. 7,000 3,000 3,700 Lots Nos. 108, a P. Fillman, $3.35) eac! a On PA ible 8: E. 8. each. Lot eo adjoint ie u 26x00. gin: ose 108 adjoining the above, on n. %. rregaiar, &. 5, Higging.. AY., 9.8%159.8x37,9x151; E. 3. t, No. 10 Lot, No. 95th st, & &, joint the 253x151; B. 5, Higgins. ... bi epereanden 3 bi Noa. 112 113 and 1i¢ lot, No hoo w. i61; E. 8. Higgins... . No. lit ‘S6th st, 8 8. Ove. each 26x10): 8 Higeuns, $8900 ’