The New York Herald Newspaper, June 27, 1874, Page 6

intg thay mesh, and so We had “crowded him” at talerd i 6 CHARLICK AND GARDNER, Motion for a Suspension of Judg- ment Denied. 3 ee Arguinent of Counsel—Was It a Felony or a Misdemeanor? Sentence of the Court—The Com- missioners Fined. ‘The verdict of guilty rendered by the jury tn the case of Tue People vs. Police Commissioners Char- lick and Gardner, In the Court of Oyer and Ter- miner Thursday evening, and the desire to bear the argument of counsel for a stay of judgment and the decision of the Court thereon, drew an immense crowd in and about the Court House yes- terday. The case seemed all at once to have as- g@umed a prominence and a public interest which it had in all its previous stages iacked, when John Kelly, the people's tribune for the occasion, pressed the proceedings single handed and alone wp to the point that brouglt the two Commission- ers face to face with the stern reallues of the law they were charged with violating. Al) previous apathy dissolved in the presence of the new revelation that the autocratic Board of Po- lice Commissioners were amenable, like other men, tor a violation of law which in their sacred persons seemed to de no offence, or, if it was, that they at all events were above the penalties attaching to such. Tne successiul pros- ecution of Chariick and Gardner tor violating the sacred rights of the citizens in the exercise of the | elective franchise will give a new impulse and a | Fight direction to the efforts of the people to se- cure good government m the future. ‘This, in fact, was evidenced im the imterest mantiiested yeste: Gay to learn the decision of the Court as to tne | dilatory motions that were anticipated to be made | for a stay of judgment and the ruling of the Court | thereon, and the final sentence, should | the Court overrule these motions, The Court | had not much discretion in the matter of the time | within which it should pass sentence, the statute Fequiring that sentence should be delivered within ten days from the date of convicuon, Judge Brady properly remarked that argument of coun- gel could not be heard Withiu that time, and that therefore the present was, perliaps, the right time to sentence the defendants. An unusual quiet prevailed amid the crowd which filled the court room {rom tue doors to the bar and inside up to the bench while counsel on either side pressed their views upon the attention of the Court, and not a single demonstration or expression of ‘fee. mg Was made or exhibited when at last the sen- tence was proncunced. 1 Commissioner Gardner was present, but his fellow Commissioner, Charlick, Was conspicuous by | bis absence, Mr. Charlick, it being understood, bemg seriously indisposed and confined to his home. The stalwart iorm of Jonn Kelly, who has go successtully fought the people's fight on this | contest for the purity of the ballot box, occupied | his modest seat among the spectators, apparently | the most disinterested of that anxious crowd, al- | though the people's triumph ts in this case really | his, he having been the moving spirity-the Banquo of the schemes of Gardner and Charliek, who up- ‘ared in the Oyer and Terminer aud retributively eprived them ot their “stools” orseats at the Police Board jor their violation of the law of ele ton. OPENING ARGUMENT. Mr. Hall, in opening the argument, asked that | the counsel be allowed to argue different points. ‘The request was granted. His first point in arrest of judgment was that the indictment charged felony, repeating again ana @gain the word “felomiously’’—that is to say, with wicked intent. The prosecution might have, perhaps, withdrawn tue Word before the verdict, uthad not, The record, therefore, stood that they were convicted of a telony, involving many Gisabilities RO attaching to a misdemeanor, and the charge against the deiendants was oniy a mis- demeanor. He cited a Maryland case, where, on @*imilar motion, such @ variance was held fatal. Whatever might be the understanding no terity, which looked at records, not unders Mags, Would find that the defendants were guilty Of felony. Mr. Fullerton argued that the offence was the re- Moving of au mspector without notice on the 3d of November, which the Court bad charged was a protibited act. They were indicted under the sec- Uion of the Revised Statutes which provided that the doing of a prohibited act, where no other pen- alty was imposed by any other statute, should be a misdemeanor. It beg assumed that this was a pronibited act it was necessary to inquire whetver Some statute did not provide specially for the pun- ishment. He relerred the Court to section 3 of e 17201 the Revised Statutes, which provides r the punishment of omissions of duty under any election law, aud claimed that this provided a punishment for the offence, and, therefore, the genera) section did not apply. The indictment Was, therelore, void, aS being under the wrong stacote, Mr. Fellows began to answer Mr. Hall's point, | when Justice Brady mformed him he need not argue that point. ir. Fellows then proceeded to argue Mr. Fuiler- ton’s objections. He directed tue Court's attention to the fact that the law o! 1872 was long posterior to the provision of the Kevised Statutes, and that this general act was the only one which could Feach the Police Commissioners. The other act oniy reached inspectors or inferior ofjcers. They haq not indicted them jor a wilfal neglect or cor- “Fapt Omission, bat tor dgjng a proniblted @ tte é TOME ir. Fullerton said he though? thé t5 Would |! e. Ye y domnsé) had pressed the other ‘ound, and the Court had mainvained him in it, at this Was a Willul neglect. The dejendaats | could bave been more easily convicted on yester- @ay’s testimony o! a neglect than of an act. ustice Brady said that as to the use of the word “feioniously” there were two answers, the course | 01 trial, the charge of the Juage and the stateme: of the Attorney General that was a misd meanor, which together were equivalent to a with drawal of the word “‘leloniousty;” the second answer was that the word “feloniously” was always considered surplusage in this State. As to the other point, there was no punishment eet in the act of 1872, The section of the vised Statutes applied to wilful negiect or cor- Tupt conduct, and did not apply to this case. The Motion was, therefore, denied. Mr. Hall here asked, as a matter of substance, What the verdict be entered as “guilty of a misde- meanor.” After some discussion the form of the verdict to be entered was “Guilty of the misdemeanor charged in the indictment.” Mr. Hall then moved for a stay of jndgment | under the statute permitting a stay for the pur- | pose of an appeal. | Juage Brady called his attention to the act re- | quiring that judgment in election cases should not be stayed for more than ten days. Mr. Hall argued that the old statute being re- medial could not be repealed by implication, and there was nothing directly repealing it for these | cases. Another interpretation couid be given to it, that It was intended to prevent, what was often done in other cases, the genera! suspension of sen- tence. and not to iuterfere with the orderly course Of appeal. Mr. Fairchild rep. fact that this law wa in these election cas This offence mitted nearly a year ago, and it was only now t hey were asking lor a senten: nem, after a trial in which tne defence was ignorance of the jaw. In an English case be had recently read the Coroner Who had offended was said to ‘have been “provably a weak and silly man, but weak and filly men should not imtrude themselves into public om ’ Ignorance of the law uid not execu any man, and no ignorant fan should intrude himseif into ofice. Mr. Hall replied it wag the first time he had ever beard a representative of the State attack men after conviction, He argued that as there was a meeting of the G ep days—tiis cours Mr. Fellows spoke length, dwelling on the importance o nee, and defending him fel! irom having done anything except woat nis duty to the people required. JSadge Bray said the oniy thing the Conrt could recognize Was the statute and the facts. THE SENTENCE. Judge Braty then detivered Jows :— My views of the laws of 1872 render {t incombent pon me to pronounce sentence within ten days. ‘There is not the slightest hope that this case can be heard on appeal in ten days contemplate the delivering of the s not mteriere with the liberty of the they cannot be harmed by having 11 p at once, | have said so much about this case dur- ing the argument om che Various questions that arose, and also in my charge vo the jury, that it seems to me annecesgary DOW to dilate upon the character of this offence rther than to say that am election Inapector is a man Who holds a bign and responsible office, He is an Officer of the State, aud, under the law of 1872, is obliged to accept and discharge 118 duties. His re- moval is a very serious matter, and tt ought to be Tegarded as 4 very solemn proceediag—one that ihould not be contemplated without due respect and due observance of the rules and regulations Prescribed by jaw. but the circamstances dis- closed in this case, in my judgment, do not justify More than a fine, becanse in its prosecution there Was 0 proof of wicked or wilful intent to do wrong. The sentence of the Court, therefore, is that each of the defendants pay a fine of $250. There was no expression of maniiestation of Seeing when the sepleyoe wag delivered, It ai Term next uld do no harm. w in sentence, as f0l- ntence will jelendants NEW YORX HERALD, SATURDAY, JUNE 27, 1874—WITH SUPPLEMENT, merely found the men guilty of the very ferious offence against the public weal with when they had been charged. The sentence, Wimout the term of upprsenment, which might, with the fine, have constituted the full legasentence lor the offence of which they were oOnvicted, but which the Court did not indict, Was accepted as a triumpb o/ the right, and that is ali the people in their magnanimity ever look for, even from the trivunals before which their oppressors are some- times arraigned. The fines were paid into Court, and without any disturbance whatever the crowd deit the court room, The Mayor and the Police Commis- sioners—Rumors of New Combina. tions—Are There Further Doubts to the Law? Mayor Havemeyer feels the disgrace of the con- vietion of Police Commissioners Gardner and | Charlick very deeply, 80 much #0 that he is loath to talk about it. The very mention of the case seems to irritate bim, A HERALD reporter called upon His Honor yes- | terday, immediately upon the adjournment of the | Boara of Estimates and Apportionment, to obtain | his views upon the subject, The Mayor, on being | questioned upon the subject, replied that jor the present he cannot say anything. He would have to await further develop. ments of the case before he could judge ot the action he would have to wke. In the | meantime His Honor is earnestly engaged tn | searching the law bearing upon the matter with Colonel M. J. Farrell, his late private secretary, and he will doubtless take other eminent legal advice velore he Will proceed to take any definite steps. Mayor Havemeyer would not say whether | he would remove the above Commissioners or not, | P! lt is currently rumored around the City Hall that | & number of combinations have already been | formed to have the expected vacancies filled; but thus far everything im this respect 18 mere specu- lation, aud even if the Mayor does remove Messrs. Gardner and Charlick he will not make pubic the | names of their Successors untilne is ready to Vand them their commissions. John Kelly's View of the Situation. A HERALD reporter called last evening on Mr. | Jonn Kelly, at his residence in Lexington avenue, to obtain his views on the political significance of the conviction of tne Police Commissioners, “| think its moral effects will be good,” Mr. | Kelly said; “but I don’t think 1t has any political | significance. As to the manner of filling tae now | vacant positions 1 don’t think it makes any ditfer- | ence whether the Mayor gives the places to repub- © | licans or to democrats, if he only appoints good men. He unforiuuately does not appoint the rigut sort of men for offices in bis gift.” What do yon think of the sentence ?? “1 think it Ought to have been more severe. As an example to others, these men ought to have been sent to prison for thirty days any way. In | fact, I think they iully deserved the Jull term of twelve months. The evidence taken betore Judge Donohue shows that there was a conspiracy be- tween Smith, Charlick and Gardner to aid some of the inspectors in committing frauds. Charlick’s particular object was to defeat Ledwith m te Senatorial district, and he only accepted the posi- tion of Police Commissioner so that it might enavle hum to get the nomination for senator. He wanted to become Senator, with a view to certain objects which he wished to attam in regard to the Long | Island Ratlroad.” “Will the conviction have any effect on the re- | reorganization of parties 7" | “Ono; I don’t know that there are any demo- cratic organizations now of any consequence out- | side of fammapy. 1| should like you to correct the | popular error that this was Charlick’s and Gard- her’s only offence. About sixty men were re- moved by them in a similar manner,” “Does the conviction vacate their offices?” “[ have not the slightest doubt on that point. | Whatever they may do now is illegal, jor they are no longer Police Commissioners.” Judge Brady was also called upon. He received the reporter with great courtesy, but declined to express any opinion upon a subject which might | come beiore hun for Judicial action. | peecrrni | o4 his polte | Commissioner Charlick Very IN—Doubts Entertained as to His Recovery. | The state of Commissioner Charlick’s health is a subject of additional anxiety just now Lo his per- | sonal friends, to whom, in fact, bis public and political troubles are but a minor source of unhap- piness. Mr. Cuariick has enjoyed a life of almost exceptionally good health, and stories of his physi- cal pluck and prowess are told with great unction by numbers of our citizens who nave been the companions of his earlier days. Bodily suffering he always despised, and the idea of per- sonal danger Was something of which he never had the least comprehension. Mentally aud , corporally he Was irom his boyhood “a worker,” as he himself used to express it, aud, uutil the day his present ilineas overpowered bim, he never lost a single hour’s work that happened to be necessary or even desirable for him to perform, During all the excitement of a very busy and | enterprising career nobody could even invent an | annoyance or series of annoyances by which a | wrinkle could be hastened into nis lace. At least nis was true until he had the misfortune to have his ambition to become a Police Commissioner | { gratified. About four months ago, however. during the progress of the investigation by the special com- | mittee of the Legisiature of the alleged abuses in | the Street Cleaning Bureau of the Police Depart. | Ment, it was observed that the bodily strength’ of | 1 Commissioner Cnarlick began to decline; the lines | in his tace grew deeper, a pallor rested upon his cheeks, ana the once erect figure became bent within a single month as though he had lived | through a quarter of a century, The great change was, of course, noticed by his | Jamily aud personal friends, who naturally attributed it to the difficulties then surrounding | his public position. One after another they be- sought him to abandon political life and fetire from the troubles of business. They found, how- ever, that all suggestions of that nature only added to the irritabilities which preyed upon him, and many Of bis friends are now of opinion that their well-intentioned importunities in that re- spect, only had the effect of making. him hold tast | to a ling of life which he might otherwise have cut | | bee BR Datos ago Commissioner Char- | lick was regular in attendance at the usual haunts where business or pleasure Was wont to require his presence, aud those who saw him had their as- tonishment increased day after day at the fact of a man whose SOEaTREC etokened so much ev dent physical and mental suffering, being ‘able to get arotnd.” The day arrived, however—ear; ip. the present week—when he came ng more to busi- ness, and the announcement that he Occupied a sick bed was only what all his acquaintances were Neeares to hear, At the very hour on hursday when the jury of the Oyer and | Terminer’ were making up their — verdict | Oliver Charlick’s physician was treating | him tor hemorrhage of the lungs and giving him | but faint bopes of ever rising again from the bed | on which he lay. He suffered severely all through | y and Thursday night, but when the doc- it Hllp at noon yesterday he was able to re- hat bis patient showed signs or considerable improvement. Mr. Charlick was, of course, not present in court yesterday when the Judge sen- venced him to a fine of $250; but his counsel, Mr. A. Oakey Hall, promptly drew his check for that | amount, 4 The Duty of the Jury. [From the New York World of yesterday.) Of course the Police Commissioners who were convicted yesterday of violating their oaths and breaking the law will try to have it understood, as their counsel tried yesterday to make it appear, | that their offence was merely a “technical” offence, and that they never used their trosts for the purpose of defeating that full and fair expres- sion of tne will of New York which they were ap- pointed to protect, It 18 true enough that the technical offence they committed might have been committed by fair-minaed men who really meant to do their duty, That the offence was so com- mitted by Charlick and Gardner is a hypotuesis which will only be beid, except by the counsel who are retained to hold it, by persons very young or very oid in New York politics. if Gardner and Charlick were pure and high-minded men, who had aiways made |tevident to the ieilow citizens that they to do their public duties and vo arrive the honest decision of the majority of their iellow citizens, then the presumption would be that their offence was an inadvertence, arising from the ardor of their zeal in behalf of the purity ons. If, on the other hand, Charlick and were two altogether notorious and rather scurvy politicians who were known to cherish a warm zeal for the personal and political interests of Gardner and Charlick respectively, and had not | even been suspected of cherishing any zeal for * anything or anybody else, tien the pre- sumption would be that in every technical offence they might be convicted of commit- tung they meant, at least, to commit a real | offence, and were actuated by the impurest motives. And as we say, nobody not very young in New York politics can doubt, and nobody not very old in New York politics can pretend to doubt, under which of these two categories Onar- | lick and Gardner fall. It is true that the jury had no choice under the law but to convict them, whether their offence was | suostantial or only technical. The aw omicer had a choice. It was not his business to draw an indictment if he found that Gardner and | Charlick had been, by the indictable offence, striv- | ing Lo preserve the purity of the ballot box. Ir to do @ great right they had done this little wrong, the pubtic prosecator should not have drawn an indictment against them, and should certamly | have certified himself to be “unwilliog to prose- cute” alter the indictment was found, if he nad | n convinced that their offence was not a sub- | stantial offence, Cause for the removal of Cuar- | lick and Gardner from the posts which they havi Upon the whole, failed to adorn, is now offered; but when we reflect that upon Mr. Havemeyer will | devolve the pamning of their successors, according | to his unaided lights, we cogitate dot | Whether it be not better to bear the Gardner and | Charlick we have Wan By to others that we know not ol, | | the company is | miums received, can boast. | of policemen. LIFE INSURANCE. The New California Law and the New York Life Companies—The Old Policy Holders All Right and the Companies’ Explanation. The life insurance companies of this city and vi- cinity have of late had a good many growls with the Legislatures of the various States in which they do business; but the biggest hubbub yet bas been created by the passage of a law by the Legis- lature of California, requiring all outside compa+ nies to appoint each an agent of the State, to reside there, and whose actions shall be binding on the companies. The passage of the law, it seeins, Was looked upon as a disaster by the Cali- jornia policy holders of the New York and otner companies, a8 it was generally believed that the companies Would Witndraw their busimess from tie State. All the companies have withdrawn, but they have determined to let tue old policies stan, but not to enter into any new business in the State, This determination was come to after aii the companies had consuited one another on me subject, and ‘.e result is the following cireular, which has been sent vo the policy holders:— To tux HoupERs or Poxicixs ov Live Insurance ry THE State oF CALIFORNL ‘The Legislature of vour State, by acts approved March 28 and 4, ‘has inade at impossible for respectable lite imsurance companies of cther States to transact aew business in Caliornia, The acts in question seem to have been passed in haste, after no adequate deliberation and no public discussion and under no demand trom the peopie. They are still but litte understood, except by the insurance companies which have received ofhcial notice of them trom the State authorities, and most of you will, doubtless, be sur- rised, as We have been, to read their provision: Section 616 requires évery insurance com other state doing business ‘In California to app agent there, who shall have all the powers of the exc tive officers’and trustees of the company, to bind it in matters relating to its business. The law deciares that “any act, statesment, representation or agreement” made by in “Snail have the same force and etfeet as if done or made by the principai”—that is, by the company Indeed, this agent is made superior to the compiity it- selt. For its trustees and execuuve officers are strictly limited by its charter, which compels them to ivveat only in securities of the highest character, and to do equal justice to every policy holder wherever he may reside, Put this charter is a law of the State in which organized, aad is not a law of Caiilor- and the new act of Your Legislature requires that olicles sball hereafter be made and issued in m0 ws to be sudject to the law of thas state other. nd ot n Such a provision can have no etfect but to set aside the charter of the company itself, so tar as contracts in Calitorn'a are concerned, and subject the company, without qualification to every risk which is fnourred In 4 business conducted at the discretion and he credit of a single man yan agent can Issue company in aby r lots or mining stocks, at any val Invest its funds on aby or no security its polite’ the hospital tor incurables. Ope agent with these powers might imperil che solvency of the strongest co. pany betore his errors could be detected, and any com- pany which should consent to appoint such an agent Would lorieit every clanin to confidence. 11 the princi- es of the Celifornia law were adopted throughout the 0 that no company coukl de a general business zh forty or thore plenipotentiaries, scat- the United States, there would evidently f lite insuranee. To adopt sucli an Stale would be to sacrilice the whole system of che and balances on which the security of the business depends and to mvite every State to adopt similar measures. ‘This law also requires every such company to agree that, in case of litiwation with a citizen of California, the Courts of the State shall have exclusive and final juris diction; and that it will not remove any such case to the Courts of the United states, It thus requires us to be- cone parties toan agreement or conspiracy, to nullily tution and iaws of the United states, aud to nds we hold in trust, the pro by the national laws and Courts. o doubt that such an agreement would be an neither the State of Calitornia nor an destroy in any way the jurisdic- of the United states. But, however jon, He ban He can distribute s through the condemned Cells of the prison or e may. be, it 1d willingly substitute tor the unitorm adjudicatic of the supreme tribunal of the conntry the condicung and often imperiectly considered ferently constituted © io less than those of eve! This provision, urts Would imperil your interests other polley holder in the land. eqilires us to be parties, eitaer Kery—d contract without meaning or » toa criminal breach of trust. Another provision of the new quires us to pay to any policy holder on the surrender liey a surrender value of three-fourths of its re stimated by a technical rule. This arbitrary serve, rule, founded apon No principle ever recognized by any | y or by any government in America or Europe, ly without equity in its application to diticrent policies. but, Kenerally applied. in practice, would demonstrably drive into ‘bankruptey every com: pany subjected to tt. Neither our chariers nor the rights of our meibers in other nor the duty of selt-preservation, will y holders of one State & is not kines oF mit us Heged and mp ore evident that no lite insurance company 4“ Staie can continue to do business in Cali- fornia under the p it forfeiting its claims to public confidence, abandomng the principles of equity between its members and entering on the Way to ruin. Should we accept the conditions there imposed on us our policy holders in other states would be justly aiarmed and the Staies which have granted our charters e good reason to revoke them. names are subscribed are, ies compelled to The ov \ your State. laws do not and every pany of ib that the vat na Lite ins ly to policies alre: will be intormed by oper inethod of communteation with tt, ity of his policy may be mainiained. anes Company, Brooklyn Lite’ Insur- er, g holder ly issued 5 his com? ance Company, Charter Oak Lite Insurance Company, Connecticut Mutual Lite Insurance Company, Conti nental Live In’ New York, Equitable nee Coinpiny of Lite Assurance society of the United siates, Lite Insurance Company, Globe Mutual Lite, Insurance y fe Company of New York Life fasurance Company, North America Lite Insurance Company, Northwestern Mutual Lite Insurance Company, Penn Mutual Lite insurance Insurauce Company, Washington Life Insurance mpany. The New York companies, by the way, are just | Dow laughing in their sieeves over a bill that was passed by the Maine Legislature lately. The idea of the bill was to make companies not residents of the State pay a certain amount of tax on the pre- The bill was pagsed, however, with ap amendment tacked on to {i should be ‘‘sabject to the legal reserve.” reserve 1g always irom, thpee to five per cent as large as the premium feceived in ay year it re- quires no argument to show that the wise legisla. _ tors builded better than they knew for the com- panies; for, in fact, they actually passed a law which, intended to place a tax on premioms, really prevented any tax being imposed at all. It is not to be wondered at that the New York com- | panties should be just jaughing heartliy over tue blunder ot the Maine law (+) makers. The blunder 1s but another evidence, in the opinion of many, of the stupidity of members o! our State Legislatures | in generai who attempt to legislate upon matters they Know nothing avout. THE BOSTON ARTILLERISTS. | The Drill and Review of the First Mase sachusetts Battalion of Artillery, at Tompkins Square, Yesterday Aftere noon. i There was an immense concourse of spectators yesterday afternoon at Tompkins square to wit+ ness the drill and review of the First battalion of Massachusetts artiilery. Nearly every regiment in | ich guns, and the others carry fifteen and eleven * the National Guard was represented by a few members in citizen's dress, who were anxious, doubtless, to see for themselves just what the fambdas Bostonians could do in the way of drill, If they came with the idea that any battery in our own militia service could outdo the strangers tney went away convinced that the visiting battalion was far ahead of any battery even the First division Their vrill was perfection itself, and from the beginning to the end not a single serious mistake was made by either the men or the of ficers in the various evolutions that were gone through with, although at times It was quite no- ticeable that the men were rather siow in mount- ing or dismounting trom the carriages and the caissons, However, when it is taken into consideration that they had experienced all the fatigues of a formal reception tue night previous, and tuat dur- ing the drill the heat was intense, this was a very slight weakness, The handling of the guns and the various cuanges of positions, the formations— every mancnyvre, in fact, was executed with won- derful precision and exactitude. were given by bugle. In the whee ngs the men occasionaily lost a little of their exactitude, and | wag held yesterday, at which a large number of | in several instances their anxiety to do their work with rapidity was the very cause ot gon here and there not being in position at the proper time. It was evident, how. ever, that the men had been not only tramed to work with rapidity and regularity, but also with the utmost care and regard tor the weneral salety. it oiten happens that in the firings, for instance, by mulitia artillerists acci- dents more or less severe occur by the gunners getting over nervous and pulling the lanyard be- jore the rammer is entirely withdrawn irom the | piece or the second gunner in saie position to the | | right. Still this driil of the Bay State battalion dia not end without an a matter, how victim of 1t wards the satis cident. It Was hot a serious er, and the member who was the only lamed slightly, and had aiter- ction of witnessing the fine ma- | neuvrings of lis ‘ellowa from a comfortable car- riage seat. hen the drill Was over the guns were parked and the men went to their hovel, where a good bath and sometuing for the inner man put them in good trim for the review, This wok piace at two o'clock, and by the time the pieces | ‘were got,into position the crowds surrounding the square bad become so large as to necessitate the cordoning out along the north, south, cast and west borders of the squarg quite a jormidable number General Shuler, accompanied by his stal?, all in uniform and mounted, arrived on the ground and took up 4 position on the west side of the square. The bettalion was then drawn up 10 order of battle and was thas formally inspected by General Shaler. Afver the General and staf? had taken up their old position, the battalion passed in review, two guns abreast, and then afterwards passed the point of review in double quick time, the men maintaining their respective positions magnifi-« cently. The pole of one of the gun carriages broke @nring tre dash, right in front of the re- Viewing officer, and two of the mep were sent u- | Mahopac and ordered to ri ion | certain that any company which | decisions of forty dit- | laws 18 that which re- | ates, as Well as in Cali- | ermania | Insarance Company or the | npany, Jravellecs’ insurance Company, United states | oO Ali the orders | whirling to the ground. Forsanately: the nce of mind of the gunners and drivers did not forsake them, and the horses were kept well in hand. Had they succeeded im breaking away the results would have been eertainly trous, as a dense crowd of spectators were in the immediate vicinity. While the review was going on the rain began to fall m vorrenta, but seemed to be nore welcome to the wearied and overheated Hubites than otherwise, NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. Wasurnoron, D. C., June 26, 1874. Lieutenant Commander Jonn W. Philip is ordered to command the Naval Rendezvous ‘at Boston, Mass. ; Lieutenant Thomas ©, Terrell to the receiv- ing ship New Hampshire at Norfolk, Va.; Midship- man J. E. Roller to the Roanoke; Passed Assistant Sargeon William G, Farewell to the Narragansett at Mare Island (Cal.) Navy Yard; Commodore Charles H. B, Caldweli, is detached from the com- mand of the Naval Rendezvous at Boston and placed on waiting orders; Captain Thomas Patti- son from the command of the Saranac and ordered | tocommand the receiving chip Independence at Mare Island Navy Yard; Captain Walter W. Queen from the command of the receiving ship Independ- euce and ordered to command the Saranac; Licu- tenant Adolph Marix has reported his return home, having been detached from the North Allantio Station on the 16th inst., and has been placed on waiting orders; Ensign L. L. Ramsey has reported his return home, having been detached trom the Worcester on the 13th inst., and has been placed on waiting orders; Passed Assistant Engineer a. J. Kenyon 1s detached from the Ajax and ordered to return home; Passed Assistant Engineer G. M. L, MacCarthy irom the turn home; Passed Assistant Engineer Absalom Kirby from the Man- hattan and ordered to return home; Passed Assistant Engineer J. P. Kelly from the Canonicus and ‘ordered to return home; Passed Assistant Engineer Hiram Parker from the Saugus and ordered to return home. THE BROOKLYN NAVY YARD, The Work on Hand—The Tennessee, Montauk and Torpedo Boat—Vessels on the Stocks—Scarcity of Sailors. On entering the York street gateway of the Brooklyn Navy Yard one cannot fail to be struck | with the impression that there is nothing on the | surface operations at this station tending to show the slightest regard for an adherence to the pa- triotic admonition, *In time of peace prepare for war.”” Quiet reigns supreme, and it requires some time for reflection on the part of the visitor to realize that this is really the greatest naval depot in the country. The huge piles of rouna shot and shell ranged in pyramids; the anchors, of all sizes, pendant from the racks; the cannon | tiered on the ordnance wharf; a few untinisned war vessels; sentinels walking lazily on their posts | and glancing jealously at the cubby, blue-coated | watchmen, are the sole reminders of the great fact | that in the event of a war witha foreign foe the | | metropohs of North America would of neces- | sity be compelled to rely upon the constructive | resources of this Navy Yard. After the Spanish- | American-Cuban war, in which so much ik was uselessly shed, It was hoped that the government | Would protit by the lessen taught as to the inex- | pediency of being again caugnt so unprepared in case Of a sudden emergency. Such is not the case, | however, and dry rot and barnacies again resume thelr wonted and destructive sway on THE WOODEN WALLS OF AMEBICA, Millions for extravagance, not one cent tor needed repuirs, appears to be the axiom oj Uncle Sam's legislators, During the past winter and spring about 700 men have been employed in the various | departments of the Navy Yard. barely suficient to keep the shop fires lighted and totally in- adequate to meet the requirements of service: on twbis station, funds applicable to the construction and engineering departments. Congress turned a deat ear to the advice of skilled aud veteran ser- vants of the nation,and the Western members, actuated by selfisn backwoods sentiments, and being devoid of patriouc pride in the supremacy ol our flag on the seas, refused to make the appro- priation required for the navy repairs which were The cause was, no instituted at a period when New York was said to | be literally at tne mercy of Spanish men-of-war. wien acoupile of hundred mechanics and liborers will be taken on at the Navy Yard, and some little spirit will be infused into the present dead-and- alive order o! thing on this station, THE TENNESSEE. The United States steam sioop-of-war Tennessee, lying at the main dock ol tne yard, 1s the principal | object Of interest noticeable, Her enyines, which have been constructed by John Roche, of Ne |. York, on contract, will ve tested by the govern- ment preparatory to their acceptance. chief and nine assistant engineers have been or- | dered here to make a thorough examination of the | work, and upon their report the Navy Department will act. Her engines are of the compound order, and similar in thut respect to those ol the Swatara. THE MONTAUK. | The third-rate sloop-ol-war Montauk is on the dry dock undergoing repairs at the hands of work- men from Koche’s yar’. Her wooden deck beams are being replaced by tron. THE 10RPEDO BOAT. Grave doubts are entertained as to the success of Admiral Porter’s torpedo boat, many imperiec- | tions being said to have been discovered in tne construction of that crait, of which so much was Promised in the event of a war with Spain las | winter. The craft in question will undergo a close inspection at an early day by naval scientists, THE NEW SLOOP-OF-WAR which was commenced last September is still on the stocks, and the work 1s progressing very slowly | owing to the inadeguacy of the Jorce of workmen avaliable at present. MISCELLANEOUS, The gunboat Gettysburg, laden with ordnanc | Stores, leit the yard jor Portsmouth, N. H., last Thursday. Several embellishments have recently been made to certain sections of the Navy Yard, among which may be mentioned a park, that‘has been laid out in the vicinity of the officers’ quarters, |. Captain Shateldt, Executive Officer, wo 1s now temporarily assigned to the auty of examining ensigns jor promotion to the grade of master, at Annapolis, Md., wili return to duty at this station next week. rotting on the stocks, an iucumbrance to space in the yard and a monument to the ineMiciency of | Federai legislation for the navy. There are very few sailors on the receiving ship at Vermont at present. when in these latitudes, finds bis way to the lakes in the summer season. ne THE MONITOR ROANOKE, The United States Monitor Roanoke, Vice Ad- | mniral Rowan’s flagship, ts lying off pier No. 1. Sheis three turreted. The forward turret has two fifteen i ich guns respectively. There are fourteen brass | howitzers on board, which are used as a saluting battery. She was originally a Irigate of the same class as the Colorado and the Minnesota, but un- cerwent a compiete metamorphosis during the | war. She was cut down, plated with four inches | of armor, and went imto commission last January. | Her crew numbers 160, The following 1s the list of | officers:— Commodore—George H. Cooper, commanding. Lieutenant Commanders—A. T. Snell, Executive | Officer; E. 8. K ator, | Lieutenants—\ ibson and J. T. Sullivan, | Ensigns—M. C, Dimock and C, F, Emmerick. Midshipman—A, A, Michaeison Chief Engineer- Laws, Paymaster—H. V. B. Harris, Assistant Surgeon—G, H. Young. Boatswain—T, P. Rich. Gunner—J, Gaskins, Salimaker—J. C. Br: MUNICIPAL AFFAIRS. Our State Taxes. | Another session of the Board of S'ate Assessors ford, taxpayers were present, among them Nessrs, Peter Cooper and A, T. Stewart. Both these gen- tlemen said that the State taxes were much higher than they ought to be by right, and that tt was an- fair so large @ share ieli to the lot of New York city. ‘ The following statement was read by Mr. Briggs, | one of the State Assessors, which Is virtually a | reply to that of Mr. Andrews, published in eztenso yesterday morning:— | _ In 1855 the State censns made the cash value of | the farms in the State $799,355,367; cash value of Stock, tools and implementa, $26,927,502; acres of improved land, $13,657,1923 value of dwellings in the State, $664,599,967; value | of dwellings in the city of New York, $275,481,811. | . Owners of land in the state in 1855 by deed, con- tract or perpetual lease, 10-41 percent of the popu- | lation, Of 1865, $02,349,331; cost vaine. Of stock, $127,072,554; Of tools and implements, $21,181,099, | , Actes_of improved land in the State, census of 1865, 9-77 per cent of proportion. By the same census New York city has only 1-67 per cent and Kings county 4-45 per cent, | By the United states census of 1870, the value of real and personal estate in the State was | $6,500,541,264, of which the city is credited with | $8,484,268, 700. in the very long,’ elaborate report of Juage Pe- ters, in 1863, be says of New York ctty : | Of reai ostate in the city of New York I estimate at $1,000, 000,000,."" In the valnation of real estate in the State, made by him at the same time, it appears that the | amount was $2,169,065,000' If Judge Peters was Tight the city then owned one-hall, or nearly 80, of the real estate vaiue of the State. The Board will receive Jacte relating to alleged the | The new fiscal year will open July 1, however, | ghree | The sloops Colossus, New York and Java remain | The navy being tar from popular, Jack, | Lost value of farms in the State by census | ‘The value | unjust valuatic, ‘August. ‘@ at any time up to the Ist of The City Finances. ‘The {Car members of the Board of Estimates and AppOstionment met yesterday morning, at halt passé eleven o'clock, with the Mayor in the chair. Alter the minutes of Thursaay’s meeting were read and approved Mr. Vance stated that although he has paid every possible attention to the items in the city budget he was unable, thus tar, to go on with them, and he therefore proposed that a further recess be taken and that he would come tmily prepared to go on to-day and make substan- ual progress, Mayor Havemeyer likewise remarked that he ‘was very busy in his office and he would rather not remain at the meeting. Mr. Green observed that on Monday the time expired when the levy must be completed, and it was probable that a night session must be held to finisn the approprianions. A resolution to take @ recess until one o’clock this alternoon was oifered and adopted, whereupon the Board adjourned, PHELPS, DODGE & C0. Ginnie General Butler’s Charges Answered by the Firm, To THE EDITOR oF THE HERALD:— In your very fair and able comments of the 22d | inst. on the ate speech of General! Butler reference is made to certain charges against our firm which we have thought it well to notice in the following, which please give @ place in your columns :— Alter the full statement heretofore published of the aifficuity of our firm with the customs authori- ties, and the subsequent exhaustive examination of the whole matter by the Committee of Ways and Means, which resulted tm the entire remodel- ing Of the Moiety and Seizure acts, we had not supposed it would be necessary to add anything further in the way of explanation. But sds the brutal and cowardly attack made upon us during the closing hours of Congress by General Butler, certain charges were preferred by him, in his character as a Representative, upon the floor of the House, against our firm, so aetinite and with 80 Much of apparent authority, that we feel called upon, in justice to ourselves and the public, to make once more a brief statement. Hee charges, specifically preferred, were in the main :— First—That we had as a firm attempted to de- fraud the governinent and evade the revenue by importing metals in the form of works of art and statuary. Jn reply to tnis it is only necessary to Bey that the importations to which General Butler referred were made betore the firm of Pheips, Dodge & Co. came into existence, and before any one Of the present or late members of the firm be- came connected with the metal importing bus! nessa, the senior member of the firm. William EF, Dodge, being at the time engaged in the dry goods business, Second—That in the Tariff act of April, 1864, which temporarily increased the rates of duty on imports fifty per cent, “Mr. Dodge went to the Treasury and had a comma taken out in one place and put im anotuer, and thereby cleared $2,250,000." ‘The exact facts in respect to thia charge are as foliows:—In the very fuii revision of the tariff, as embodied in the act of June, 1864 (and not the act of April, 1864, s0 specifically mentioned by Gen- eral Butler), it was decided by bota houses of Congress, after full discussion, that an increase of duties on tin and terne plates would imperil the large industries already taxed under the internal revenue in whici tin was used tor the packing of fruits, fish and vegetables, meats and the lke, and so tend to reduce, rather than increase, the re- ceipts of the Treasury. At the same time it was decided to increase the duty on sheet iron, gal- | vanized with an admixture of tin—which article | had been imported under the name of ‘tin plates galvanized,” and so definitely and distinctly named In connection with and at the same rate as ihe vanized iron” in every successive tariff since 1857, | The bill was passed on the 30th of June and went | into operation immediately, On examining its pro- visions we found, that while the duty on ‘tin and | terne plates’ remained unchanged at twenty-five | Der cent ad valorem, the addition of 4 comina alter the word “plates,” in tue clause “tin plates gal- | Vanized,”’ rendered the whole paragraph ambigu- ous if not absurd, and apparently imposed a new duty of two and a half cents per pound, an increase | of 100 per cent on existing duties. Seeing how | | impossible it would be to enter our invoices at two | conflicting rates tor one and the same article, we | applied at once to the Collector for a decision in respect to the course to be followed. The Collector | saw the dtiticulty, and referred us to Mr. Fessen- den, then in New York, and just appointed Secre- | tary of the Treasury. We called upon him and he immediately stated to us and to the Collector that | he had been chairman of the Senate coinmittee | and also of the conlerence committee which had | | charge of the Tariff bill in question; that he fully | remembered the discussion as to tin plates, in | which he had taken part; that the fuil sense of both committees bad been that tin-plates should | remain at twenty-five per cent ad valorem; that | | the “comma’? had evidently been added by mis- | | take 1n the haste of engrossing, and could not be | | considered as the true interpretation oj the law. | goods ut twenty-live per cent, and stated that on | nis return to Washington he would issue a special | order making the construction official, and this he | did under date of July 22, after taking full time for | consideration and consultation with his jormer | colleagues in Congress and the experts of the | Treasury Department. As finally inverpreted by | | Mr. Fessenden, moreover, the law was notin our direct favor; but, on the contrary, had the tecn- nical error been allowed to stand and to entail a | very exccssive increase of duties, the advance in | | the price of stock on hand would have yielded to us, | | in common with all otber importers and dealers, | @ very considerable profit. The tacts, therefore, | | were exactly the reverse of those stated by Gen- | | eral Butler. Third—General Butler states that in our large | and complicated business every invoice brougat day by day by us to the Custom House was wrongly stated, and that we were consciously and con- | tinually guilty of fraud. General Butier knows this to be untrue. He knows, on the contrary (for as the paid attorney | of the informer he has given attention to the sub- ject), that Chere most Cay ae merciless eZ amination of some thou 8 of 91 voices by Jayne and his experts, Fhe by rita oWn clerks, bribed to injure their employers, with the full of our books and papers, there were found only some fifty that could in any way be made the sub- | ject of controversy; and that in the case of some | | of these, of from $20,000 to $30,000 each, the ut- most possible ioss to the goverment could not have | | been in excess of from eighty cents to $1 per in- voice. And, furthermore, that the total loss claimed by the government on all the invoices was only about $1,600, out of an importation of some He accordingly ordered the Collector to pass the | t youngest son of John 0. and Sarah H. Buckley, 8 and 19 Relative and trlends are respectfully Invited to- attend the funeral, from the residence of his yerenee Coney Island road, Flatbush, on Saturday, june 27, at half-past two o' June 25, JASPER E. Crorsey.—On Thursday, Crorsey, aged 7 years and 2 days, Funeral services will be hela at St. Loke’s chureh,1 Clinton avenue, Brooklyn, on Saturday, 27th h at half past three o'clock, CuNNiNGHAM.—On Friday, June 26, 1874, PATRICK CUNNINGHAM, @ native of the parish of Morne, county of Down, Ireland, in the 65th year of his itis remains will be removed from No, 262 Mon- Toe street to St. James’ church, James street, on Monday morning, at nine o’clock, where a solemn. mass of requiem will be offered up for his soul, and: from thence to Calvary Cemetery at one o’ciock P.M. His friends and those of his brother, Dantel, are respectfully invited to attend the funeral, Dempsry.—On Wednesday, June 24, 1874, at his: residence, No. 522 Third avenue, JosErpH F, Demp- SEY, in the 35th year of his age. A solemn mass of requiem will be offered for the repose of hig soul, on Saturday morning, June 27, at ten o’clock, in St. Gabriel’s chureh, East Thirty-seventh street; after which his re- mains will be removed to Calvary cemetery for in- terment. His relatives and friends and those of his uncles James and John Dempsey, are respecte. fully invited to attend, ANDREW JACKSON CLUB.—The members of the Andrew Jackson Club are requested to meet at the club honse, No, 161 Lexington avenue, on Sat- urday morning, at half-past nine o'clock, for the purpose of attending the funeral of our late fellow member, Joseph Dempsey, from his late residence, No, 622 Third avenue, at ten o'clock. ROBERT B. MOONEY, President, MicuakL T. Day, Secretary, Dunn.—On Thursday, June 25, Exiza, relict of John Dunn, ‘The relatives and friends of the family, and those of her brother, Peter Moneghan, are invited to attend her funeral. from her late residence, No. 49 Macougal street, on Sunday, June 28, ab one o’clock precisely, n DusterkoTren.—At Kingston, N. Y., on Friday. June 26, Miss Louisa DUSTERKOTTER, Notice of funeral hereafter. EGGrrs.—On Thursday morning, June 25, 1874, at half-past five o'clock, Mrs, ANNA EaGers, wife of Henry Eggers and daughter of A. Scnierenveck, aged 24 years and 4 months, The relatives and friends of the family are re spectfully invited to attend the funeral, Irom the Lutheran church, on Fourth street, near Green- point avenue, Greenpoint, on Sunday, June 28, ab two o’clock P. M. Fisu.—At Montclair, N. J., on Thursday, June 25, ALBINA DaaGetr, wile of Thomas D, Fish and coaheee of the late Dr. Leroy M. Yale, of Martha's vineyard, Relatives and friends are invited to attend with- out further notice the funeral, at the residence of her brother-in-law, Mr, Stephen W. Carey, Mont- clair, on Saturday, June 27, at fifteen minutes past twelve. Carriages will be on Waiting on the are rival of the 1°:45 trains from Barclay and Chris- vopher streets, New York. Return trains at 1:30 FITZGERALD.—On Thursday, June 25, at her resi~ dence, ALICE FirZGERALD, widow of Edward Fitz gerald, glass cutter, of New York. ‘The relatives and friends of the family, and also- of Robert D. Burnham, of the Jersey and New York Pitots, are invited to attend the funeral, from 140 Maiden lane, on ‘Sunday, June 28, at one | o'clock P. M. Fry.—On Tharsday, June 25, MARY ELIZABETH, eldest daughter of John W. and the late Louisa P. Fry, aged 17 years. elatives ana friends are invited to attend the funeral services, at the residence of her grand- parents, No. 3 Sylvan place, 120th street, between Third and Fourth avenues, this day (Saturday), at | half-past one o’ciock P. M, GILFILLAN.—On Friday, June 26, Thomas GIL- FILLAN, aged 52 years. Relatives and friends of the family are respect- fully invited to attend the funeral, from his late residence, 986 Second avenue, on Sunday, at one o'clock. Grgve.—On Friday morning, June 26, after a short and severe illness, TARESA JANE. the beloved | daughter of Frederick and Mary Greve, aged & years, 1 month and 4 days. Friends of the family are respectfully invited to attend the funeral, on Sunday afternoon, at half- past one o’clock, from the residence of her pa- rents, No, 251 West Forty-first street, HEFFERNAN.—On Thureday, June 25, 1874, Pat RICK HEFFERNAN, aged 88 years. A wvative of Nena, county Tipperary, Ireland. The friends and acquaintances of the family are respectiully invited to be present at the juneral; also the ex-members of Franklin Hose Compaty, No. 18, from his late residence, No. 80 Frankfort street, op Sunday, at two o'clock. HigGins.—On Friday, June 26, MaGGtg, the be- loved wife of Thomas Higgins and daughter of Philip and Mary Nasi, in the 23d year of ner age. Notice of funeral in to-morrow’s (Sunday’s) pa Howe. —On Friday, June 26, Jann, beloved wife of James Howe, in the 51st year of her age. The relatives and friends of the family, also the members of Polar Star lodge, No. 245, and A. M., are respectiuily invited to attend tie funeral, from her late residence, No, 133 avenue C, on Sun- day, the 28th inst., at one o’clock P. M., jrome ence to Emanuel Chapel Presbyterian chureh, Sixtn street, near avenue D. KEKGAN.—On Thursday, June 25, 1574, OLIVER KEEGAN, native of the parish of Grancord, county Longford, Ireland. The funeral will take place from his late resi- dence, No, 411 West Sixteenth street, on Sunday aiternoon, June 28, 1874, at one o’clock. LeMAN.—On Friday, June 26, CasoLing, only daughter of M. L. and Fanny Leman. The relatives and friends of the family are in- vited to the funeral, at eight o'clock A. M.,on Sun- day, the 28th inst., from Mount Sinai Hospital. MUHLER.—On Thursday, June 25, 1874, ADELHEIT, only child of Jona and Catharine Muhler, aged 4 months and 7 days. Relatives and friends of the family are respect- fully invited to attena the funeral, from the resi- dence of her parents, No. 235 West Twelith street, on Saturday, June 27, at one o'clock, without fur- ther notice. MULROONEY.—On Friday, June 26, at her rest- dence, 326 Kast Sixtieth street, MAkY MULROONEY, uged 28 years and 10 months, Notice of fuueral hereafter. McCavsLaNv.—On Friday, June 26, ALEXANDER McCavsLanp, aged 40 years and 9 months, Funeral services will take place at nis late resi- sence, 784 Nihth avenue, on Sunday, at two Oc.ock. = McCoRMACK.—On Thursday, Jone 25, 1874, sud- denly, Wi.LiaM, youngest son of the late Ellen McCormack, Relatives and friends of the family are respect fally Invited to attend the funeral, from his late residence, 309 East Fifty-first street, on Saturday, | 27th inst., at two o’clock P. M. McFARLAND.—In Brooklyn, on Thursday, Jane 25, | $40,000,000 and covering the space of five year: We believe General Butler further knows, but wilfally conceals the fact, that the same error and misunderstanding of the intricate law which com- pelled us, under severe penalties, to invoice our | goods both at cost price and at market prico, led to invoice their value above cost, and sa resulted ina gain to the revenue and a loss ta ourselves immensely greater than the government claims to | have lost. | Finally—Looking at all the cirenmstances and | the character of this speech, its constant faisifica- } tions and perversions of truth, and its brutal per- aict as to its effect to any who have jairly looked into the matters of which it treats, PHELPS, DODGE & CO. NEw YORK, June 26, 1874. +2 ___ MARRIAGES AND DEATHS. Married. ALLIN —LITCHFIELD.— On Thursday evening, June 25, 1874, ut the Rtrong Place Baptist church, Brooklyn, by Rev. B. E.L. Taylor, D. D., assisted by Rev. Galusha Anderson, D. D., GEORGE A! ERT ALLIN and HELOISE MaRIe, youngest daughter of ¥. B. Litehtield, Esq. FERGUSON—KRUGER.—At Jane street, United Presbyterian church, on Wednesday, June 24, 1874, yA Rev. H. H. BLAIR, Mr. DAVID FERGUSON to Mrs. MARIANNA Kruger, daughter of William Reid, ail o! New York. HOOLE- A Jn Wednesday, June 17, 1) atthe Reformed chureh, Linden, N. vusgar Gesner, W tam E, HOOLE to rot W. H. Craig, Esq. .—On Thursday, June 25, the Rev. Bellows, D. D., at ) the bride rents, ALFRED KIMBER, to LUISA, danghter of J. Andresen, NeEGus—Leavirr.—In Brooklyn, on Thursday, | June 1, i874, at the residence of the brid father, by Rev. A.J. Putnam, Witt Invi Nevus to PMMA L., second daughter of Charles F. Leavitt, Esq. PACKARD —D¥NI30N.—In Brooklyn, on Thursday, June 25, 1874, at the resideac ol the bride's parents, by the Rev, N. P. Pearce, D.D., Josep | C. Packarn, of Elizabeth, N.J., to s+ | WOLD, second daughter of RF. cards, | THorxe—McGrorry.—On Tuesday, | Metuchen, N. J., by the Rev. Levi W. GEORGE A. THORNE tO Mrs. M. A. W. Mc WALDRON—FREBMAN. ‘Thursday, 25, at the St, James M. E. church of Harlem, by the | Rev. Dr. Mandeviil, BENJAMIN F. WALDRON to ANNIE F., daughter of Thomas C. Freeman, all of | this city. YOuNGS—BURLEIGH,—On Wednesday. June 24, yy the Rev. J. F, McClelland, Mr. Josava | Youncs and Miss MARY EMMa BURLEIGH, all of this city. FANNIE Gi Denison. Died, ACKERMAN,--On Thursday, June 25, HeLEn, wife of Matthew V. B. Ackerman, aged 76 years. Funeral services wil be attendea irom her late residence, at New Hackensack, Dutchess county, N. Y., on Sunday, June 28, at three o'clock P. M. BRavy.—In this city, Thursday, June 25, Cata- ERINE BRADY, aged 20 years and 6 months. Funerai from 200 East Swenty-ffth street, Sun- aay at two o'clock P. M. RONSON. ~At Morristown, N. J., on Friday, June 26, at the residence of her son-in-law, W. 0. Hor- man, Sorukonia Bronson, widow of Isaac H, Bronson, of Fiorida. Funeral at St. Peter’s church, Morristown, on Monday, 29th inst., at two o'clock. ‘Trains leave Christopher and Barclay streets at 12 M.; return. ing, leave Morristown at 3:25 P. BUCKLEY.—On Thursway, June 25, 1874, Harry, us, in the case of a great number o! impertations, | sonalities, we are quite willing to leave the .ver- | ATE, eldest | v the residence of | Mary J., eldest daughter of Elizabeth and the late Robert McFarland. | The tunerai services will be held in the Church } of Our Father, Clermont avenue, between Atlantic | and Fulton avenues, on Sunday, the 25th inst. ; . O’BRrex.—On Friday, June 26, 1874, MICHAEL. Jonny, only son of Timothy and Catharine O’Brien, aged 11 months and day. | ‘The friends of the family are respectiuily invited. to attend the funeral, from the residence of his parents, 186 Cherry street, on Saturday, June 27, at two o'clock P. M. R¥ep.—On Friday, June 26, MARGRET, the be- | loved wife of John Reed and second youngest daughter of the late John Fianagan, Ratnmaiien, county Meath, Ireland, in the 27th year of her age. ‘The friends and those of the family are respect- residence, 606 Second avenue, on Sunday, June 27, | bs hall-past two o’clock P. M., for Calvary Ceme- ery. | Dublin and Drogheda (Ireland) papers please co} | | . | EYNOLDS.—At Jersey City Heights. N. J., on | Thursday, June 25, N, H: W. ReyNowps, in the 55th year of his age. ‘The friends of the family are invited to attend | the tune from his late residence, Academy street, Jer’ City Heights, on Sunday, June 28, at. half-past two o'clock. | SaLisspury.—On Friday evening, June 26, of con- | suinption, RoBeRT HOULAND SaLisBury, only sure viving son of Elam C. Salisbury, aged 20 years. Friends of the family are invited to dttend the funeral services, on Sunday atternoon, at three from the residence of his father, 333 West ond street, without further notice. SELrzek.—On Priday, June 26, at five P. M., after | Ashort illness, ISaa0 SELTZER, at his residence | 51 West Fifty-sixth street, N, Y. | Notice of iunera! hereafter. | SHay.—On thursday, June 25, WitLiaM J. SHay.. The relatives and friends of the family, also the | Members of the Musical Protective Union, of New | York (of which he was @ member), are respect- fully invited to attend the funeral, from his late residence, No. 53 York street, Brooklyn, on Sun- day, June 28, at two o'clock P. mM. | (SULLIVAN. —On Thursday, June 25, EMIry M.. | NoLron, wite of Maurice F. Sullivan, aged 27 years and 10 months. ‘The fanerai will take place from her late resi- dence, 198 Mott street, on Saturday, June 27, at one o'clock, TayNron.—On Thursday, June 25, Asa TAYNTOR, in the 71st vear of his age, | _ Relatives and friends of the family are invited to attend the iuneral, from his late residence, 46 Leroy street, on Saturday, 27th inst., at two P. M. F ‘THOMAS.-—At Newark, ie | 24, Joseruine EVERETT, infant daughter of Han« | son A, and Malvina P, ‘Thomas, aged 5 months, Relatives and friends are respectfuily invited to attend the funeral services, from the residence of her parents, No. 693 High street, on Saturday, at | three o'clock. | _ Turets.—On Wednesda: nine o'clock, Horrense Emma Reuina, wile of Je | Turgis, aged 38 years, ‘The friends of the family are respectfully re- quested to attend the funeral, which will take lace irom her late residence, 332 Garden street, | Hoboken, Saturday, 27th tost., at elghi o'clock A. evening, June 24, at M., and thence from church of St. Vincent de | Paul, twenty-tnird street, between Sixth aud venues, at half-past nine A. M, —Suddenly, in Harlem, on Wednesday, , CLARISSA A., Wife of Caleb D, Weeks. | Relatives and intends are invited to attend th funeral services, at the Methodist Episcopal irch, Washington street, Hoboken, on Sunday next, at three P.M. YounG.—On Thursday, June 25, 1874, MARGARB M,, relict of Witham Young, aged 70 years. | The relatives and friends of the tamily are re- spectfully invited to attend the /uneral, oD Satur. day, 27th inst., at one o'clock, from ber late resids ence, 108 Kast Lhirty-fith street. WEEKS | June 24 | fully invited to attend her funeral, irom her late- |. J., on W ee June: --