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FRANOK. Politica! Fealty to the Lonapart'st Royalty>a Republican Candidate Uneasy Under Defeat, Paris, May 26, 1874, M. de Bourgoing, the member elect from the Department of the Nievre, tas gone to Chiselhurst to pay homage to the ex-mpress Eugénie. WON'T ACCEPT THE CITIZEN BALLOY DECLARATION. The republican candidate for the Assembly in the Departmeut of Nievre will contest the seat of M. de Bourgoing, the Bonapartist, who was de- clared elected. SPAIN. Diplomatic Relations with Mexico—Press Opin- ion of the United States Ministzr. Mapnrip, May 26, 1874. Diplomatic relations between Spain and Mexico Were resumed yesterday by the presentation to Marshal Serrano of the credentials of General Corona as minister {rom the iatter country. PRESS ACCUSATION AGAINST THE AMERICAN ISTER. Several Madrid newspapers accuse Mr. Cushing, the American Minister, of being present at a ban- quet given by the opposition aeputies, including Figueras and Castelar. The editors suggest that Mr. Cushing must be ignorant of European dip- lomatic usages as well as the significance of cer- tain names. MIN ENGLAND. The Dukedom of Connaught Drly Gazetted— Liberal Gain at an Election. Lonpon, May 27—5:30 A. M. The official announcement of the new title of | Duke of Connaught conferrea upon Prince Arthur Sppears in the Gazette to-day. PARLIAMENTARY GAIN FOR THE LIBERALS. Mr. Ashley, a liberal, nas been returned to Par- ament trom Poole, Dorsetshire. WEATHER REPORT. ‘The weather throughout England yesterday was ITALY. The Ministry Again Deieated in Parliament. - Rome, May 26, 1874. ‘The Italian government met with another defeat to-day in the Chamber of Deputies. THE POPE. Rome, May 26, 1874. ‘The Pope has nearly recovered from his recent fines. CUBA. Sudden Storm and fad Consequences. Havana, May 26, 1874, The stone building on Duranona’s plantation was destroyed by a whirlwind yesterday. Five laborers Were kilicd and twenty wounded vy the falling walls, all belonging to a chain gang employed in | the builaing. THE BESTLES$8 REDS. A Large Portion of the Tribes Reported ‘on the Warpath. Wicuira, Kan., May 26, 1874. Parties just arrived from the Cheyenne agency Yeport that a large portion of the Kiowas, Chey- ennes, Comanches and Arapahoes are on the war- | Path. They are consolidating their forces on the orth fork of the Canadian River, and intend to make it red hot for the whites this summer. A few days ago they murdered a son of wr. Holloway and stole five horses from the Southwestern Stage | * Company and three mules from General Morri- gon, an old settler of that vicinity, and com- mitted numerous other depredations. They cut ap the lodges and shot the ponies of those In- dians who refused to join them on the warpatn against the whites. The parties who bring the imformation are reliable, and say that a general Indian war is inevitable. BEPORT FROM THE LOUP COUNTRY. Omana, May 26, 1874. General Ord and staff returned to-day trom the Loup country. Everything is peaceiul and that section of the country is rapidly filling up with set- ters. TEE BLACK HILLS EXPLORATION. St. Paut, Minn., May 26, 1874, The expedition to the i Territory is organizing at Bismarck to start about the 20th of June. The Black Hills are supposed tobe rich in gold and silver, but nothing positive is known, as none but Indians have explored them. @ustar Preparing to Move Into the Black Hills. Stoux City, May 26, 1874. “The Journal this morning publisics information Teceived from the Upper Missouri that General ustar is preparing a large force at Fort Abraham Lincoln to move into the Black Hills about the Ist of June. et THE ARKANSAS LEGISLATURE, Litre Rook, May 26, 1874, ‘The Senate to-day passed the House resolutions thanking President Grant for sustaining Gover- nor Baxter. The House to-day, after four hours of discussion, passed a bill giving amnesty to all parties con- nected with the late rebeilion, except those hold. in; ‘oe in the legislative, executive and judic jal departments, who used their positions to forward the rebellion. ; MINERS’ STRIKE IN OHIO, Riotous Proceedings of the Strikers=-The Governor Appealed To. CoLuMBUS, May 26, 1874. Atelegram received at the Executive Depart- ment to-day from a large coal operator at Massil- lon states that the coal miners employed near Massillon have been on a long strike, and last Dight, when it was proposed to put new men at work, the miners fired the trestle work and build- ings, and threatened the lives of the proprietors’ outside men and the guards, and shot two men. Anticipating an extensive riot, the government ‘was asked to send help as soon as possible. The telegram was forwarded to Governor Allen, at his home tn Chillicothe, but it is understood no troops will be sent until the Sheriff of Stark county ofl- Clally asks jor help. WEATHER REPORT. WAR DEPARTMENT, OFFIOR OF THR CHIEF SIGNAL, OFFICER, WASHINGTON, May 27—1 A. M. Probabitities. For New England generally clear and cool ‘weather will prevatl, with north to west winds and stationary or rising barometer. FoR THE MIDDLE STATES GENERALLY CLEAR WEATHER, LIGHT, VARIABLE WINDS, SLIGHT RISE OF TEMPERATURE AND STATIONARY OR FALLING BAROMETER, The Weather in This City Yesterday. The following record will show the changes in “the temperature for the past twenty-four hours, in comparison with the corresponding day of last ear, as indicated by the thermometer at " narmacy, HERALD Building” ae 1873, 1874. 1873, 1874. 68 3:30 PL M..... 85 62 61 OP, 61 66 OP. 55 12M. 70 12 P.M. 33 rage temperature yesterday dsey Averexe temperature or corresponding date bie Black Hilis of Dakota | NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 1874—TRIPLE SHEET. A NEW METHODIST CHURCH. Lzying the Corner Stone of the Sixty-first Street Methodist Episcopal Church—Ad- dresses by Rev. Drs. Eddy, Ganse and Tyng, Jr.—What Dr. Tyng Thinks of Methodism. ‘The corner stone of the Sixty-first street Metho- dist Episcopal church was laid yesterday afternoon in Sixty-first street, near Third avenue. The congregation of this church has been worshipping | tor the last four years in a temporary wooden | structure, but now they will soon have one of the handsomest cditices to be found in the Methodist Church of New York, The new building will be 100 by 130 feet and capable of seating 1,100 persons. It will be of a novel design, the lecture room being in front and the church in the rear, At the junc. tion of the lecture room and the church a steeple | will rise 150 jeet high. It will be. built in the middle-pointed Gothic style of the fourteenth cen- tury—oi brick and stone. The roofs will be open- timbered throughout, The parsonage, adjoining the church, will be 25 by 60 feet. ‘The entire cost opened before next Christmas, ‘rhe ceremony 01 Jaying the corner stone took place yesterday, in presence of a small audience. Bishop Janes presided, and was assisted by sev- eral well Known Methodist ministers. Short ad- dresses were delivered, and a most pleasing spec- —one suggestive of the millennium—presented itself on tie occasion. Clergymen of various de- nominations which have too frequently been at logyerheads took part in the ex 3 with the utmost harmony and without the smallest appear- ance of rivairy, Rev. 5. Tyng, Jr., delivered a humor- ous address:—“[ came here representing the Church of the Holy Trinity, and simply as a Protes- tant Episcopalian,” he suid, among other things, “and i: you are ready to receive tne hand of tel- lowship from that church J am here to end it, A good many years ago Lreceived a little of the Methodist spirit, and it has been working in me ever since, is Spirit Works not towards the few, but towards the many, and it was well expressed by Wesicy when he said, not ‘We go to those who need us,’ but, ‘We #0. to those who need ns most.’ Ireimember a good story” (the reverend speaker told it with the greatest gusto) ‘about a horse } Which was lost in this State and which was found atlast by an idiot. The idiot declared he would find the horse if the owner wouid tell him where | he saw it last. When he brought the horse back he was asked how he_ had discovered it, and he replied, ‘Well, you see, I went to the place where yon told me you saw it last, and when 1 got there Il said to my- elf, ‘Ifyou were @ horse now where would you gov (Loud laughter.) Then I went whither the spirit moved me and found the horse, (Laugh- ter.) And this 18 the true sptrit of evangelical work. It is a mistake to think that outward forms attract a congregation. The only thing that Manly heart overflowing with the love of Jesus Christ. Ifa church is full or such manly men and | of Curistian people, It may not become a congregation of big men, but will probably be only one of the people; and by the people Ido not mean the thieves an rascals, but the men of trade, of shops, of honest toil, for of such men the Caureh of Christ was com- posed at first, and for such men was it first created. if any Church is true to the people it is the Methodist Church.” Rey. Dr. ‘tyng then tola another funny story, which created much laughter :—‘A man in Jerscy had tour oxen. One he called the Baptist ox, the other the Presbyterian, the third the Methodist, @nd the fourth the spiscopalian, He said he Wanted them all; the Methodist ox was flery, the Presbyterian steady, the Episcopalian magnifi- cent, and the Baptist ox was very peculiar in this: if he saw water, he was sure to go to it. (Laughter.) I wish it to be distinctly understood tnat in the work of evangelization all the sects are needed. If there be too much spirit in the Metho- dist Church, let Bishop Janes send some of his oxen into the Episcopal Churen to set it on fire. (Laughter.) I'd like to have some regular roarers. | Sweaters, fighters, tearers—none of your very | eloquent men, who use long words, for I heard one suc last summer, and he preached me deaf— | (laughter)—and | should like to set these men to work.” (Laughter.) Dr. Tyng concluded with the words:—“God bless the Methodist Church, Amen! ‘and the word ‘‘Amen’’ was re-echoed by scores of 1ervent voices, Bishop Janes then laid the corner stone, spread- ing the mortar with a silver trowel. The benedic- tion closed the ceremony. THE CHURCH COUNCILS, The Presbyterian General Assembly= Sharp Debate on the Consolidation Question. | Sr. Lovts, Mo., May 26, 1874. | The Presbyterian General Assembly this morning resumed the debate on consolidation. Rev. Dr. | Eels, of San Francisco, said the people in his part of the country were decidedly in favor of consolida- | tion. He thougat the Sustentation and Home Mis- stons boards could be united with good effect. The | facilities of the colportage work should be in- | creased. Dr. Aikinan, of Detroit, agreed with | What had been said, though he represented no particular section. In regard to missionary sal- aries he thought there should be a uniform system, instead of the present mode, wherein the salary 18 fixed in one place and in another depends upon tie caprice of the congregation. THE ORY OF CENTRALIZATION he did not fear, believing the day was past when it could have any permanence in the Church. Dr. Willam CU. Roberts, of Elizabeth, N. J., spoke in | favor of sustentation ana the Board of Home | Missions, which he thought were one work and should be together. There are two or three points in which they dider, but that could be easily remedicd. The sustentation fund would have in the Board of Home Missions—Rev. Mr. Paxton and John Paxton, D. D. While they are separated there is friction, for the reason that porn Qpbarments are the same. Unite them, and is disappéats. So with the missions jor the | freedmeu; they all should go together. A recess was taken, followed by an afternoon | Session, at which the debate on consolidation was | continued until the adjournment, The American Sunday School Union— Report of the Society’s Work. PHILADELPHIA, May 26, 1874, The fiftieth anniversary of the American Sun- day School Union was held in the Academy of Music this evening in presence of an immense audience. Hon, George H, Stuart presided and addresses were made by Rev. S. H. Tyng, Sr., D. D., and Rev. John Hall, D. D., of New York, and Rev, John Peddie, of Philadelphia, The record of the society's work for children in out-of-the-way places ts most gratifying. It has organized 61,299 Sunday schools and brought into them 2,650,717 scholars and 404,242 teachers, thus averaging 1,225 the day of its organization. ‘A similar meeting will be held in the Broadway Tabernacie, New York, on Thursday evening, and will be addressed by the veteran missionaries, 8. W. Chidiaw, Stephen Paxson, John McCullagh, M. B, Lewis and F. @. Ensign. The Southern Presbyterian Assembly. COLUMBUS, Miss., May 26, 1874, In the Southern Presbyterian Assembly to-day the report ot the Committee on the subject of a General Federative Presbyterian Council was pre- sented, recommending that this Assembiy co-ope- rate ae the formation of a General Advisory Counoil. The report on evangelical labor showed that the contributions are less than $7,000, an average of | six and one-hali cents per member. The American Unitarian Association— Status of Rev. W. J. Potter, of New Bedford. Boston, Mass, May 26, 1874. At the meeting of the Amejican Unitarian Asso- ciation to-day there was a long debate on the status of Rev. W. J. Potter, of New Bedford, whose name had been dropped from the rolls on account of his assertion that though a Unitarian so far as his relations to Trinitarianism were concerned, he no longer considered himself a Christian. The controversy was carried on in a eee way, and Many resolutions were presented, The iollowing, offered by Rev. Dr. Cordner, of Montreal, was finally adopted :— Inasmuch as the term “Unitarian,” as used in the’ title of this association and in its publica- tions, has always been held to carry a distinctively Christian meaning, our Unitarian ministers being held and regarded by us as public teachers of thi Christian religion ; and as the action of the Assist- ant Secretary, sustained by the Executive Com- mittee, in omitting from the catalogue the name of @ minister who says he is no longer a Christian, has been in harmony with the common usage of the term among us— Resolved, That the said action be now and hereby is approved and ratified. The Methodist General Conference—Res- olution of Thanks for Vanderbilt's Muntificence—The Question of Fraternal Relations with the Northern Church. LovIsviLie, Ky,, May 26, 1874. The General Conference of the Methodist Church South adjourned to-day, after naming Atlanta, Ga., as the next place of meeting, four years hence. The following, among otber resolution ‘was adopted in relation to the donation of Com: modore Vanderbilt to endow Vanderbilt Univer- sity at Nashville, Tenn. :— have heard with pleasure of the munifi- one gut < ‘ol tr. “Cornelius Vaedernin, ‘of New York, of will be $60,000, and the church wili probably be | attracts men to the Gospel 18 the true spirit, the | men, then it always attracts the | faved long ago had it not been lor two gentlemen | new schools a year, Or 3 3-10 schools per day since | | | | | | Epis | tion, and Lot the parisa, it was deemed over half s million dollars to build and endow a unt. versity under control of the Methodist Kpiscopal Cuurch South: therefore be it Resolved, ‘That we are thankful to God, from whom is every good gitt and every perloct sift; for this insunce of enlarged beneficence; that we tender to Mr. Vander- bilt the expression of our appreciation ot his noble gene- rosity, and that we will ever pray that the richest blessings of Heaven may rest upon him, THE RELATIONS WITH THE NORTHERN CHURCH. The following was adopted in regard to estab- lishing fraterual relations with the Northern Church :— Whereas the discussions and votes of this Conference on the subject of traternal relations with the Methudist opal Church and its coxnate subjects present an Appearance of essential differences which do not exist; therefore, Resolved. That upon the subject of fraternal relations with the Methodist Episcopal Church upon a proper 18 # unit. re also a unit upon the propriety ointing a commiss’on, empowered to mect a like nission irom the Methodist Episcopal Church, to all questions of diMcuity between us, and thar such ment is essential to complete fraternity, ved, That the only points of ditference betwee n Us on this whole subject are the best methods ot accom- lishing this desired end. Episcopal Convention of New Jersey. ‘The ninety-first annual Convention of the Epis- Copal Diocese of New Jersey was begun yesterday | in Grace chureh, the handsomest of the Newark | Episcopal churches, ‘he forenoon was devoted, as usual, to “morning prayers,’ in the conduct of which Rev. Messrs, Petit, E. K. Smith, H. S Bishop, J. N. Stansoury, H. V. Degan, Dr. Hill and Willtam Putnam participated, Rev. H. H. Weld, ol Riverton, near Burlington, preached the ser- mon, and the Right Rev. Bishop W. H. Oden- hetmer oMciated at the holy communion, The service was not conducted according to the ritual- istic custom of Grace church. As the latter be- came for the time being the church of the Conven- roper by those in charge to dispense with the lighted can- ales on the altar and the surpliced choir, Besides @ large congregation and @ iull lay delegation there were present at this service between forty and fifty clergymen from all parts of the State, Mr. Dante! Dodd, one of the trustees-of the Eois- copal fund, reported that the receipts were $52,915 62, or $100 more than last year’s, A resolu- tion was presented by the Finance Committee, and adopted, that each parish pay seven per cent on | the rector’s salary for the support of the Bishop, | and one and a hal! per cent tor the payment of the Convention expenses. Rev, Dr. Boggs presented | @ memorial in regard to the establishment of the ew diocese, Which was read and referred to the commitice. | RITUALISM. Rev. Dr. Schuyler presented the fo:lowing pre- | ambie and resclutions, which were accepted. They are to be discussed to-day aiter the division of the diocese has been considered definitely. The read- ing or them caused quite a stir in the Conven- 10n :— Resolved, That, comprehensive and tolerant as the Church is and ought to be towards the diflerences that prevail in respect to both the matier of doctrine and ritual, this Convention believes the time has come for the assertion of her authority, e:ther legislative or ju- dicial, as the case mi seem to require, in order’ to the suppression of unseémliness and irregularity and in | behalf of @ greater uniformity in the conduct of public worship, and, more especially, in the administration of | the holy communion. Resolved, That the deputies | General Convention be and | to present the foregoing preambles and resoludons to | that body, and they are earnestly desirea not to lose | Sight of the end proposed therein til in some wise way | it be accomplished. THE JEWISH CONVENTION. Annual Convention of Board of Dele=- gates of American Israelites. The annual Convention of Board of Delegates of American Israelites met last evening in Forty- fourth street synagogue, Judge Joachimsen Presi- dent and Mr. M. 8. Isaacs Secretary. Prayer was offered by the Rev. George Jacobs, of Philadelphia. THE REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE was read by the Secretary. It represented that the condition of the Roumanian Jews has been greatly improved, and the thanks of the Convention was due to Consul Peix- | otto. The tide of emigration from that | country to the United States has diminished, The Executive Committee;have appropriated from time to time the sum of $1,172 70 to the Rouma- nian tand. Gratiiving results were reported aiso from Persia, Palestine and elsewhere, and the commit- tee dwell with pleasure upon the failure of tne efforts tounite Church and State in tnis country by introducing a recognition of Christianity mto the constitution, ‘The following oMcers for the ensuing year were | then geared :—President, Hon. P. J. Joachimseny First Vice President, lion. S. Wolf, of Washington, D. ¢.; Seconda Vice President, J. Binswarger, of Philadelphia: Treasyrer, L. Bamberger; Secre- tary, M.S. isaacd, An Executive Committee of fifteen and a board of five trusteés were also elected. A committee was also appointed to bring tne case of Mr. Leipsker, an Amertcan Israelite, | murdered in Peru in 1870, before Congress, that justice may be done to the widow and children, | ‘Adjourned. PROBABLE MURDER IN LONG ISLAND OITY. | Late on Monday evening, after it became known that the passengers by the steamship Idaho would arrive at Hunter’s Point some time during the night on a special train over the Central Railroad, an agent of the Williams & Guton line was despatched to Long Island City to charter a ferry- boat for the transportation of the emigrant pas- sengers to Castle Garden. After a long hunt, failing to find the Superintendent of the Thirty- fourth street and James slip ferries, the agent at last succeeded in finding tne Assistant Superin- tendent, Mr. McGowan, and arrangements were made with him, It being necessary to have an exira number of deck hands, Mr. McGowan, at the request of the agent, procured the services of several men, among them @ young man named James Rogers. After await- ing the arrival of the train until midnight, and it | then being understood that it would not arrive for | some time, Rogers, with a number of others, went to a liquor saloon in Ferry street, kept by Patrick Hennessey. where they drank to excess, and con- tinued drinking until a late iiour yesterday morn- ing, Rogers becoming considerably intoxicated. White in this condition an altercation was begun between him and Hennessey regarding some money matters, and finally Hennessey threw him over a chair, and, while he was prostrate, drew a heavy slung shot from his pocket and struck the almost helpless man twice on the head, cutting bim ‘dreadiuliy ‘a@ cach blow, and inflicting, it is believed, fatal injuries. The wounded man, who has since iemained insensible, was conveyed to his residence and attended by Dr. Denniee, Hen- Bessey was arrested and lodged in the jail at. Astoria. THE MURDER OF WILLIAM BELFORT, Capture of the Alleged Assassin—Coro- ner’s Inquest and Verdict. Oficer Schelwald, of the Sixth sub-precinct, Brooklyn, accompanied by Sergeant Nicholson, from information obtained, proceeded to Jamaica at an early hour yesterday morning and succeeded in capturing Philip Klinemer, the assassin of , William Belfort, in Moore street, Williamsburg, on Saturday night last, an account of which has al- ready been published in the HERALD. Klinemer was found by the officers secreted in a piece of wood near the depot. He made no opposition to the capture, being very weak from want of food. Klinemer was conveyed to the Sixth sub-precinct, | and from there to Headquarters. At an interview with Captain Kaizer the ae Stated that the stabbing was done in self- efence. Yesterday aiternoon Coroner Whitehill held an inquest, and, after hearing a large amount of con- icting testimony, submitted the case to the jury, woo, after deliberating about half an hour, ‘ren- dered the following verdict:—‘‘That William Bel- fort ¢ to his death by compression of the brain irom a@ stab of a knile, inflicted by the hand of Philip Klinemer, in Moore street, near Graham avenue, fp Hd 1874.7? Coroner Whitehill thereupon committed the ac- cused to the County Jail to await the action of the Grand Jury. The prisoner's son, who nas been in custody since the night of the tragedy, was also held as a witness, the Coroner refusing to take bail for him. THE SPEER MANSLAUGHTER TRIAL The trial of Alfred Speer, the owner of the build- ing which fell in Passaic in December last and killed George McLean, was resumed yesterday in Paterson. | Dr. R. A. Terhune, of Passaic, testified as to the | death of deceased; that he was crushed to death by the tall of the building, &c. Edward McDonald testified that he saw the building fall and kill Mr. McLean and Mr, Barkley, who was with him. The rest of the day was spent in examining William Howe, architect, and Jonn aH, Postand John McGregor, ait relative to the strength of the building tnat had fallen and how such buildings should be constructed, From the nature of the cross-exam- ination it seems evident that Mr. Speer’s principal defence will lay in the fact that he has ‘since re- erected the building in Passaic the same as tne One that fell, and that this now stands, although not yet to the re reached by the.one that fell, at the time of its collapse. It may be added that the building now in course of erection is a source of terror to the people. ‘the Passaic City Council, by authority vested in it by the last Legislatur directed Mr. Speer to put in adaitional braces an supports, which he has thus far, apparently, failed @ People generally place little faith in the big of the architects and carpenters who say the building is safe, for the same carpenters and architects still insist that the former building which fell and killed two men was periectly atropg. of this diocese to the | y are hereby requested | complaint came from the late Mr. Clark, and was | went down to hard pan for the joundation. | When the dam was vompleted there was some | the work, but it was on account of some iittle de- | MILL RIVER DAM. Damaging Developments at the | Coroner’s Inquest. tenet CONFUSED Responsibility of Proprictors, Contrac- tors and £uperintendents. Norrwamrton, Mass., May 26, 1874, The Coroner's investigation into the cause and responsibility of tie Williamsburg reservoir va- lamity continues to reveal! a degree of ¢: ness and negligence on the part of proprietors and con- tractors and builders which it is almost unpossi- ble to believe. Thus far every witness ¢ nined has given testimony which goes to prove almost conclusively that the whole structure was nothing but a frailsham, and the great wonder is that it | Was not swept away before. 1t appears that the | reputed superintendent of the work was only a Myth or an ornamental official at the best, and that the contractors went avead wir the work in the cheapest manner possible and without much regard to the specifications of the contract. | SPBLLMAN, OF THE RESERVOIR COMPANY. | When the Hrnatp’s report closed last evening | the examination of Mr. Spellman, one of the chief proprietors and oiicers of the Reservoir Com- pany, was ip progress. His conduct on the stand, aud the confused, incoherent and nervous man- | ner in which he made his contradictory state- | ments, Made & most unfavorable impression upon | the spectators present, and probably his evidence will be regarded with a good deal of discrimina- tion by the jury. Mr, Spellman is an Old Hamp- | shire county button manufacturer, and an admir: | ble specimen of that classof New: Engiand Yankees | whose chief ambition is to make money and save | it, All through his examination at the inquest he has betrayed AN UNWILLINGNESS TO TELL what he is generally believed to know about the flimsy manner in which the dam was constructed. ‘Towards the close of his testimony yesterday aiter- noon he was cailed upon to produce the books of the company and read the recordgiu order to | show who were the building committee and who | was In charge of the work; but out of mercy for Mr. Spellman’s evident inability to do it Mr. | Delano took the book and went through the records (including the act of incorpora- | tion, constitution and bylaws of the com: | pany) from May, 1865, to May, 1870, without find- ing any appointment of a building committee, though he found an entry stating that Joel Hay- den was added to such @ committee. Mr. Spell- mun said he Knew of no record on the subject; did not know who were the building comuittee, but believed that Mr. Dimock, Mr. W. M. Clark and Mr. W.G. Clement acted in such capacity, and Mr. Hayden was subsequently added; the contractors did their work on specifications; he (Speliman) himself bought the reservoir | | | land in bis own name; there were no prepecasioas made for building before that; ie was up there perhaps not as olten as three or jour times @ week, but was there very often; he had nothing to do with the contract with Mr. Bassett and Mr. Wells, but understood that they were bound by specifications; he almost always met the contractors there; the work was beguo early in the summer of 1865, and completed eituer in January or February, 1866, he thinks; he was secretary ODd treasurer and the nearest miill- owner, and he had an interest in it because he | needed the reservoir so much, for before it was | built he had no power at allin the sumer. This long roll ol answers was in continual attempt to avoid the suspicion of having had any special au- pene or responsibility in the coustruction of the am. TURSDAY’S PROCEEDINGS. The first witness called at the session to-day was Mr. Isaac Stone, of Northampton, clerk of the old | Mill River Reservoir Company, since consolidated with the ary, Company. Mr. Stone said that in 1873 the late Lieutenant Governor Hayden said something about the Williamsburg dam need- ing rip-rapping, EME he did net sive ie Ae at the ir Wag unsaf@ ‘The chief part Mr. stond’s tegtimnon had reierence to the incor- poration of the company, the amount of capital in- vested, &c., and was not of puviic interest. STORY OF ONE RESERVOIR CONTRACTOR. Joel Bassett, of Easthampton, one of the con- tractors for the building oi the reservoir, was next called. Mr. Bassett read the specifications and contract under which the reservoir was built, ad- ding that the only superintendent of the work in behali of the company was a Mr. Fenn, and after- ward @ committee of the company consisting of Messrs, Clark, Diunmock and Clement. There was | afterward another contract submitted which he refused to sign, and for reasons which he would explain when called upon. The contract | which he id sign required the wail to be 46 feet high, 2 feet wide on top and 6 leet 9 inches wide at the bottom. The second contract, which ne refused to sign, arrowed and reduced the strength of the wall, and he would not sign it Jor fear his reputation as a builder of a reservoir might be affected after- wards, There were other objections, which the contractor will explain at a future session. THE FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE COMPANY. W. T. Clement, the first President of the Reser- | voir Company, testified that the work as done by the ‘contractors differed very materially irom what was required by the specifica- tions. The further testimony went to show that various plans and estimates were submitted besides those adopted. Those who looked aiter the contractors and their work, he said, were him- self, George Hayden, Mr. Dimmock, Mr. Clark and Mr,’ Spellman, the latter gentleman offering to | look specially after the matters of construction. on account of living near the dam. Mr. Hayden also offered to look particularly alter the work, but Mr. Clement said that himself and all the gentlemen he had named were, above all others, RESPONSIBLE FOR THE WORK. He himself was not Peevens during the construc- tuon of the dam, only occasionally, on account of | other business. He said that there were several complaints made by him and the other gentlemen while the work was going on, but he could not give any definite statements of particular com- plaints, except in one instance, and then he thought that complaint was uncalled for. The to the effect that the contractors at one point were butiding on the soil instead of on hardpan as the contract required, The contractors offered to coniorm to Mr. Clark’s ideas, but Mr. | Clement thought it was not necessary. | The ground, he said, was very firm there, and that portion of the dam is still Temaining. on the west side of the dam tne soil was hard, but on the east it was soft and mucky, but the Scan re | Hayden, he said, occasionally expressed doubis about the thoroughne: ith which the contractors | were doing their work, but his fears were general | rather than occasioned by any special supposed | faults. The witness said he hada large amount of business on hand at the time, and he couid not | remember about events so jar back. He wished it understood, however, that he had | NOTHING TO CONCEAL. hesitation among tue contractors about accepting tails about how the work should be paid for, | whether by the day or by the piece, and not on ac- | count oO! any incompleteness of the work. Mr. | Clement said that he never knew of the County Commissioners examining the dam except by what he had seen tn the papers. Once, when at | the dam, he saw water oozing out from two or three eo in streams as Jarge as @ man’s arm, | and it seemed to come from the bottom of the dam or artificial embankment; at the time | the dam was built springs were found, but he did | not remember whether any pains were taken to divert the streams running from them, so that they would not . upon the walls or embank- | ment; he never heard any mull owner say that the dam was unsafe, and six months before his death he heard Governor Hayden express himselt better satisfied with the dam than at any other time since it was built; the Superintendent of the build- ing of the dam was there only a portion oi the | time, and the reason of this he explained was the general confidence of the proprietors in the tatth- | fulness and bok | of the contractors; as the ruins of the dam look now, it seems to ‘him as if the stone was never laid duwn to the hard- oe ag it should have been, and, furthermore, he hought that the cement that was fised was not what itshould have been. If he had seen and fully understood how the foundation was laid he never would have approved it for a moment. Some of the cement used appeared to him to nave | been mixed with six lpg of sand, and it never ought to have contained more than two parts. | Even though the cement had been properly mixed | he did not regard the dam as saie with | such @ foundation as owas to seen at the scene of the break now. | When the matter of butiding the dam was talked about some of the manufacturers advocated the building of it without walls, using plank spiles, although some were in favor of nothing for the embankment, and it was his own | opinion that the wall, as ouilt at the Williamsbur; Reservolr, was not an additional element of strength. The rejection of some proposals and the adoption of another, he said, was on account of the matter of expense, in the matter of stone and earth dams he thought one was as likely to break away as the other. THE 8UPERINTENDENT—‘‘l CAN'T REMEMBER.’ It was reserved for Eugene 0. Goodwin. of Springfield, to disclose the terribly careless man- ner in which the dam was constructed, He did not show un the matter | tended down tato the hard | 1m this morning's papers | ment. | the volumes of Professor Heeren, on the civiliza- | fluence with the recognition and growth of Cnris- by BBY posiuve atate: | | ments, but rather by a confession of bis own igno- rance and wilful neglect of the duties which were intrusted to bim, . Goodwin is an architect by profession, and when the dam was butit he was employed to superintend the work and take the measurements. According to his testimony to-day it woutd seem that he was not only incompetent, but wilfully, if not eriminally, negligent. le said thas he was employed to look after tatters as much as he could while there. He was | present on an average, he said, twice a week from one to two hours on each visit. He did not seem to know much about the stone work or any otber matters connected with the construction of the cam. “I don’t have any special recollection,” was | lus atmost invariable reply to every question pro- pounded, He sald he received $158 ior what he | had done, and he gave services according to the | amount of compensation. He admitted that he didn’t Know anything about building dams and | that he never saw one built im his lile | betore this one, He also acknowledged that he didu’t know what his duties were or what the proprietors expected | o! him, and bis opinion was that the importance | of the work required more time and supervision | than he gave it, To one of the juryman Mr. Good- _ Win said that he never thonght he was qualified | to take the supervision of the work, and, 1urther- | More, that he knew nothing whatever about engi- neering. He denied ever having any financial | transactions with the contractors, and this was | about the only point which he nad any positive avout, In other matters his memory Was so terribly de‘ective that the Coroner aud his | jurors were obliged to give up his jurther exam- imation, ANOTHER BAD MEMORY. Lucius Dimimock, a Northampton manufacturer and & director of the Reservoir Corporation, had a memory equally as treacherous as that of Mr. Goodwin, fo almost every question at the begin- Ding of the examination he answered that ‘he didn’t recollect.” He even said that, notwith- nding he was one of the first projectors of the m, he did not know how the dam came to be Dalit, When it was budt, how much it cost, or, in fact, amyihiug about it. He made a feepie attempt to be iurny when the questions were put to him by Mr, Delano, but finding that he was a failure in that direction he fell back upon his memory again. OPINION OF A SPRINGFIELD ENGINEER, John RK, Smith, a Springfield engineer, whose Plan was among those rejected by the company, thought that tie foundations of the reservoir were not properly made, There should have been a bed | Ol concrete, and this concrete shoula have ex- | an, and the walls also should have been thicker, ‘There were many other apparent deiects in the structure which he would bave uvoided if he had been the builder. THE THOROUGHNESS OF THE INQUEST. There 18 much public satisfaction at the thor- ough manner in Which Coroner Wright and his Jury are investigating tne cause and responsibility ot the terrible calamity, and an almost universal opinion prevails that the verdict rendered will be a severe one. It is provable that the investigation Wil be concluded this week, Aid for the Mill River Victims. New York, May 26, 1874. To THE Eprror oF THE HERALD:— Our receipts for the relief fund of Mill River flood are:— William Alien Butle H. A. Kohn & Bros... rs, H. & F. D, BLAKE, 79 and 81 Worth street. THE LOUISIANA SUFFERERS. More Aid Solicited. The following despatch from the Mayor of New Orleans was received by Mayor Havemeyer yester- day :— New Orteans, M. 1874, To the Maron or New Yore:— mos By request of the Relief Committee and leading citizens I again cail on American cities in behalf of 45,000 victims of the great floods tor such aid as your prosperity may permit or your philanthrop; prompt you to grant | Contributions ‘in cush and ~ provisions in thirty-five ) have been less than $180,000. In fifteen days our means will be exhaused. The demand for relief will continue great and urgent for many weeks. Daily Fations have been. distributed to about 45,000 ‘persons. | ¥izht thousand rations have been distributed by govern: Yours truly, Painful anxiety as to the resutts is general. Nothing but a large increase of, resources ‘can prevent | the horrors ot famine and great loss of life. We need $1,000,0W oF more. Details wall be given by mail, LOUIS A. WILTZ, Mayor and Treasurer of Relief Fund. Mayor Havemeyer has sent to New Orleans some $2,000, received in small contributions to date for the sufferers, He will await full details by mail before taking official action in the matter. LITERATURE. “Tho Four Civilizations’—Mr. Henry Wikoff’s Exposition of History.* Any book which has for its theme the exposition of the history of civilization, rather than the mere narration of the events of history, is a work to be | welcomed and read. Pernaps the most remarka- ble study of this kind which has yet appeared are tions of Asia and Africa. A like service was needed for our own civilization, which came with the birth of the Christian religion, and has extended its in- uanity in Europe. This want 1s in a measure sup- plied by an historical retrospect by Mr. Henry Wikoff, entitled “The Four Civilizations of the World,” which Nas just appeared. The three earlier civilizations, according to Mr. Wikofi’s classification, are those of Asia and Africa and of Europe during the Greek and Roman eras, The first two of these are almost identical, and the third only differs from them in its intellectual su- pertority. They are all so well understood and have been so elaborately and exhaustively treated by other writers that Mr. Wikoff did well in passing them over with such references only a3 were necessary tor the discussion of the fourth era of civilization—the epoch of Christianity. It is to this era that the body of his work is devoted, and his book affords a rapid glance at the history of the Papacy and of #rance, England and the United States which cannot fall to gratify every one who cares to study the logic of events. Mr. Wikofl’s style 1s clear and concise, and though the reader May sometimes differ with the suthor’s conclu- sions he will recognize in these outlines of history @ well drawn ptcture of our modern civilization, After a rapid review of the origin of Christianity and of the dark ages, which followed the aestruc- | tion of the Roman Empire of the West, Mr. Wikot® begins his more thorough exposition of history with a sketch of France from the Middie Ages till the final downfall of the monarchy. The establish- ment of the feudal system is the real beginning of | modern civilization, for, under the lords of the castle, was the first permanent organization of so- ciety, and without a permanent society Christian- ity was practically invperative. Early England as regards the feudal system was only a copy of early France, and in both countries the struggles of monarchy with feudality and of the people with monarchy were carried forward as they began, tne French always leading the English, but not | building so securely, though overturning the old | order of things more completely. The influence of the Papacy was over both countries, and entered into the political struggles of Europe till the Treaty of Westphalia put an end to the religious wars, Lastly comes the history of the United States, which is the history of the sovereignty of the people. It will be perceived from this that Mr. Wikoff’s groupings of events are excellent, and that the exposition of history which he makes is equally valuable whether or not his conclusions are ac- cepted. In closing his work Mr. Wikof indulges in some comments on the present and prognostica- tions of the future, irom which we quote :— In denoting the perturbations of European s0- ciety for so Many centuries I have assigned as their principal causo the efforts of the lower class o1 inferior intelligence to obtain from the upper class of superior lg an exemption irom unjust oppression, and the recognition of their equality before God and the law. I have shown that this ground swell, so to speak, dates from the Christian era; and it may now be said to have nearly extausted itself in three of the leading countries of the world. In the United Stavss is seen & society con- structed on the basis Of absolute equality, re- ligious, legal and political. Such social distinc- tions as exist flow irom the inherent differences between men, and are accepted as inevitable. All that remains to be tested ts the fitness of the mass for self government, which must be soived by the example of the United States, Everything has javored the experiment in that country, and if it be proved that the popular control exercised there over goverament cannot preserve it ivom corrup- tion, folly and crime—then all hope must be aban- doned of arriving at perfect government. But happen what may—be {t the fate of the American Union to republicanize the world, or be it its fate to establish beyond all question that the laborious, majority is unable to carb the more intelligent minort ates it cannot be doubted that never il it be possible to restore the ancient civ- ilizations. which gave all to the upper class and nothing to the multitude. No govern: Fr will be durable or strong w! ps i to guide it, know they have t1 - wae it, ey have the strength to over: In England a state of society virtnally similar exists, since no obstacies are ta joned to th Claims of genQiNe larulliaence, , The TPDes laa | Louis Na: enjoys no privilege bey: ascends by regular grad ion Lo As in the United States, Tel lepreninalcaaea law equal, and the government, choice of the majority, is administered in its ine terest. To give the inajority the control of gove ernment belore it ts competent by education and experience to exercise it would be, as has been said, to involve society in confusion.’ In France, at the present day, the lower class is in plenary possession of the absolute equality pree valling in the United States, Nay more, not con- tent with this, there are fanatics, ealled Gom- munists, who would despoll superior intelligence of its acquisitions, to bestow them on those with- out claim. Though it {8 true that the lower class has achieved its complete emancipation in France; though It is true that power, wealth and knowledge, a3 in the United States, are denied to none; yet society is unsettled and fre quently falls into disorder. The reason is to be ascribed to the fact that the lower class having, | through the blmd arrogance of the upper class, obtained sudden independence by revolution, is unfitted by education and experience—which the United States possess—to preserve it. In conse- quence the people abandon it at one time in de- spair and at another seize upon it with fury, Time, with its discipline, can alone provide a reme ba and insure ultimate stability. tis plain that ali Europe is drifting1o the direc tion ofthe fourth civilization. The abolition of serfdom in Russia, the r rrection of Italy, the consolidation of Germany, the anarchy of Spain— all attest it. * Tux Four Ctvttzations or Tae Wortp; An Historica’ Retrospect. 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