The New York Herald Newspaper, July 3, 1874, Page 3

GARDNER-CHARLICK Reappointment of the Convicted Commissioners. HAYEMEYER’S HOCUS-POCUS Covernor Dix’s Views of the Situation. THE OFFIOIAL OORRESPONDENCE. What the Mayor Says About Him- self and His Folly. ‘The all-absorbing topic of conversation yester- @ay in relation to the Gardner-Charlick case was the determined action taken by Governor Dix. The Mayor was provably more surprised at it than any other man in the city; for, judging from cer- $a facts which were brought to light during the Week, he had been led to believe and really did Delieve that he could patiently wait and do nothing im the case until Governor Dix had called upon Dim, and he made himself believe that the Gov- ernor was anxious to call upon him, It turns out now that the funny old man hada nice little Plan of his own cooked to order in which the Gov- ernor was to play @ nice little part all unknown to himself, and which, had he not taken the course he did take, might have resulted rather strangely. ‘The plan was simply this:—Mr. Havemeyer was to ‘Wait unti) the Governor called upon him (why he expected him to call is a mystery, for, as will be seen hereaiter, the Governor never had the remotest idea of calling upon him), and then, after the visit was made public, to promul- gate his flat, maximg two certain parties Police Commissioners. This was with the view of hood- ‘winking people into the idea that the appointment was the result of a compromise which had been Drought about by the conference between the Gov- ernor’ and the Mayor. But the funny old man’s Plans went agiey when he heard that the Governor ‘was to visit him, notin person, but tn the form of adespatch, deliberately opening his eyes to the fact that he (the Governor) believed that Charlick and Gardner had violated their oaths of office, and that, asin his belief their conviction in the Oyer and Terminer had established that, therefore the fanny old man should appoint two other per- sons in their places, After this what could he do? It was useless to walt any longer for the Governor and the congequent culmination of his own little game ; 60 he made up his mind to pretend to wait for the oMficial communication before taking any action whatever. It will be seen, then, what a shallow device this was irom beginning to end, of the Mayor’s, when it is taken ito consiueration that even beiore the receipt of the Governor’s no- tification he bad determined that his friends Gardner and Chariick should succeed one | another, come weal, come woe. As late | as five o'clock last evening he gave tt | out that he had not made any appeintments, and yet hours before that time he had not only re- appointed the two convicted men, but had actually Aimself sworn in Gardner. The existence of tie documents which relate to the reappointment farce was not made known until about nine o’clock | last evening, and consequently the intelligence of the old man’s freak will be a surprise to not a few to-day. ‘Tuese documents consist, in the first place, of the separate letters of Gardner and Char- hek, resigning their positions, which letters are dated June 27 ult., and a long communication of the same date, giving their reasons therefor and signed by both, which communication was pub- Mshed in full in the HERALD last Sunday. Then ome the following, which tell their own story :— The Correspondence. THE MAYOR ACCEPTS THE RESIGNATION. MAYOK’S OFFICE, NEW YORK, June 29, 1874, Bon. HUGH GakDNER:— My Dean SiR—1 have received your note of Baturduy, the 27ta imst., tendering your resignation Of your Office as one of the Police Commissioners of the City, and the communication which accom- panied it assigning your reasons for such action. While | viicially place your communication on file in this office, 1 do not consiuer .it preper for me at this time to reier to the proceedings which induced you to take tnis step or to express any Opinion respecting them. he motives which prompted the prosecution referred to in your note must satisfy every person who shall take the pains to examine and criticize them that, whatever may have been the judgment of the jury under the instructions of the Court, no | fair-minaed man in this community will hesitate to atrribute the animns behiud that prosceution to fom other cause than a desire to protect the in- terests or the peopie from oilicial wrongdoing or to secure the purity oi the ballot box. Yours truly, WwW. F. HAVEMEYER, Mayor. [a letter in similar language and to the same t was addressed to Mr. Oliver Cuarlick.) THE CERTIFICATE OF CONVICTION. COURT OF UYER AND eae! CLERK’S OFFICE, July 1, 1874. Thereby certify tnat Oliver Charlick and Hugh Garduer were on tue 25th day of June, 1874, duly tried and convicted by @ jury in the said Court of Oyer and Terminer of imisdemeanor, for whieh they had been indicted, for having, on the Sd day of Noveuiber, 1874, at the city and county of New York, while being Commissioners of Police and members of the Board of Police of said city, did unlawtally remuve one Join Sheridan from his oifice of Inspector of Klectl n, without no- tice in writing to the said Join Sheridan setting forth the reasons ior the said removal being by them first given to him, the said John Sheridaa, Inspector oj Kiecuion, as aloresaid; and in manner and jorm aforesaid unlawiully did do an act pro- hibited by the (hirteenti seciton of an act of the Legisiature of tne State of New York, in relation to elections, passed May 14, 1872, and were thereupon, to wit, on the 20th day of June, 1874, severally sen- tenced to pay a fine of $250. J. SPARKS, Clerk. ‘The next letter 1s the Governor’s notlfication to Mayor Havemeyer of the removal of the two con- ‘Vioted Commissioners, aiready published. THE CORPORATION COUNSEL'S OPINION. Law DgraRTMENT, OFFICE OF COUNSEL TO THE CORPORATION, NEw York, June 29, 1474, Bon. Winutam F. HAVEMEYER, Mayor of the city of New York:— Sir—You have submitted to me the resignations of Mr. Hugh Gardner‘ and Mr. Oliver Charlick from the oftices of Police Commisstoners of the city of New York, with @ letter explaining why sach Tesignations are made, and you have requested 1; inion whether the recent conviction of Mr. Gard- er and Mr. Charlick of a misdemeanor in the Gourt of Oyer and Terminer renders those gentle- men ineligible to reappolytment to the ofiices irom ‘which they have resigned. The indictment against Mr. Gardner and Mr, QOharlick was found under section 39, of title 6, of chapter 1, of part 4 of the Revised Statutes of this Btate, which provides as follows :— “When the periormance of any act is prohibited by any statute, und no penalty for the violation of such statute is imposed either in tne same section containing such prohibition or in dny other sec- tion or statute, the doing such act shall be earn misdemeanor.” See 2 Edmonds’ Laws, Pitre rohibited act alleged in the indictment to have been performed by Mr. Gardner and Mr. Charlick is to be found in .section 13 of chapter 675 of the Laws of 1872. That section, among other Visions, contains the tollowing :— “All Inspectors of Election and Poll Clerks in the City and County of New York shall hereaiter be gelected and appointed by the Board of Police, who hail also have power to make all necessary re- movals and transiers, and fill all vacancies which irom any cause arise.” At 1s farther provided in said sections as follows :— «The iuspectors of election appointed under the provisions of this act shail hoid office for one year, unless sooner removed jor want of the requisite qualifications, or for cause, in either of which cases such removal, unless made while the inspector is actually on duty on the day of registration, re- Vision of registrapion, or eiection, and for improper conduct as an election officer, shall only be made after notice in writing to the oMcer songht to be Femoved, which notice shail set torth ciearly and distinctly the reasons for bis removal.” It was charged in the indictment that Mr. Gard- Ber and Mr. Charlick, as Commissioners oj} the Board ot Police, removed a certain tnspecior of elections, Without giving him the notice in writ- required by the above-cited provision of law, Under such indictment a trial was had iu the Court of Oyer and Teriminer, before His Honor, Mr. Justice Brady, andajury. Mr. Gardner and Mr, Oharlick were convicied and sentenced to pay 4 fine of $250 each, and such fine Was thereupon paid by those gentlemen respectively. You will observe that tne section above cited, under which the mdictment against Messrs. Gard- mer and Charlick was found, does not prescribe any punishment ior the offence which was thereby de- Clared to be a misdemeanor. This being the case, the provision of law as nut | the punisnment for such misdemeanor, dnd under which the sen- tence was imposed, is to be found in section 39 Of title 6 of chapter 1 of part 4 of the Revised Statutes, and that section is as follows:—‘Every pereen 0 Bball be convicted of any misdemeanor, ¢ punishment ef which is not prescribed in this or some other statute, shall be punished by im: Prisonmept im @ county jail not exceeding one year, or by fine not exceedi er by both buch fine and imprisonment.” It thus be seen that the maximum Leeeanmant to which Mr. Gard- mer and Mr. Charlick were liable was one year’s imprisonment and $260 fine. His Honor Judge Brady tu his charge to the jury stated that there ‘Was ho evidence befere the Court that the defend- ants had acted from wicked or corrupt motive din Ing Sentence he stated that he did not think the Court would be justided im inflicting any punishment by imprisonment, and he therefore simply fined the derendants, as above stated. Section 40, as above cited, is the only law under which Mr. Charliek or Mr. G an be punisied. There is DO statute of this State which provides that persons convicted of the offence for which | those ope conned were indicted shall be thereby | disqualified from appotntment or reappointment to any office. Im the absence of such irmative pro- vision of law, tnere is no doubt what. | ever that Mr. Gardner and Mr. Charlick are eligible to reappointment to the offices | of Polee Commissioners; and it is because such afiirmative expressions are necessary to ex- clude irom reappointment that the charter use: them when intesding that city officers who in- fringe charter probibitions shall be directly dis- qualitied, It has been suggested in some of the news- Papers pubiished in tnis city that, under the vro- vistons of the charter of 1873, Mr. Gardner and | Mr. Charlick were forever exciuded from recetv- , img or holding eny office under the city overument. Such statements have un- joudtedly originated in & misapprehen- sion of the matter. Mr. Gardmer und | | Mr. Charlick were not indicted for any offence | prohibited by the charter, nor have the provisions of the charter, in relation to the conviction of officers of the city government, for violations of its provisions, any application whatever to the cases of those gentlemen. They were indicted under the above cited provisions of the Revised Statutes, and the puntshment for the ollence of which they were convicted is-prescribed by the Revised Statates, and they certainly cannot be punished for an offence for the commission of which they have not been convicted, nor even indicted. Inasmuch as Mr, Gardner and Mr. Charlicx have placed ther resignations in your hands, the ques- tion whether their conviction caused vacaicies in the offices held by them has now but little practi- cal importance; but, as previons to receiving such resignations, yoa requested my Opinion on this int also, I briely refer to the provisions of law earing upon the subject. Section 34, of article 4, of chapter v., of Part I, of the Re- vised Statutes prescribes in what cases ofMiccs shall become vacant, and one of these provisions is “that every ofice shall become vacant on the conviction’ of the incumbent of an iniamous crime or of any offence invoiving a violation of his oath of office.” (1 Edmonds’ Laws, page 112.) It {g further provided, in sections 35 and 36, that whenever any officer shall be convicted of an in- famous crime or of an oftence involving a violation Of his oath of office the Court before which such | conviction shall be had shall tmmediately give | notice thereof to the Governor, stating the cause of such conviction, and that the Governor shall imme- diately give notice of the vacancy created by such conviction to the body, board or officer in which the appointment to the office is vested, or whose | duty 1t may be, by law, to order or give notice of | an election to supply the vacancy. Under these provisions the vacaucy in the office 1s, in my opinion, caused by the conviction itself, and not by | the action of the Court giving notice thereof to the Governor, nor by tne action of the Governor in giving notice to the appointing power. But the | question whether, 1n any given case, @ vacancy has been caused by @ conviction, must, in case of dispute, be determined by the courts in the usual manner. that “the term ‘infamons crime’ shall be construed | as including every offence punishable with death or imprisonment in a State prison and no other; but there is no definition of what shail constitute an offence involving @ violation of an oficial oath, | ‘the Revised Statutes declare | lt, therefore, the imecumbent of any ottice jis convicted of an offence other than | an infamous crime, and claims that such | an offence does not involve a violation of bis oath of ofice, and refuses to surrender or vacate such office, the only way in which the question could | be lawiully determined would be through proper | proserdiogs, In the courts, If, therefore, Mr. the Court had given notice to the Governor, an the Governor had given notice to you, as provided | in the statute, it would have then been necessary for you to consider whether the offence of which they were convicted involved a vfolation o/ their oaths of office, and thereby caused vacancies, which it would be your duty to fill, Their resiz- nations, as above stated, relieve you irom tue necessity of considering this question at all. You will observe that, even if the conviction of | Mr. Gardner and Mr. Cnariick did, in fact, cause | vacancies in their respective offices, this was the | only effect thereby produced; and that, while the | | statute declares that oftices shall become vacant upon the conviction of their incumbents of certain crimes and offences, it contains no provision ex- pressly or impliedly indicating that the oficers so removed are thereby disquaiified to hold the same , or other offices. ‘i I, therefore, advise you that there fs no ate of law which renders Mr. Gardner and Mr. Char- lick ineligible to reappointment to the office of Po- lice Commissioners aud that you have, in your dis- cretion, the power and lawful right to inake such reappointment. 1 am, sir, witn great respect, your obedient servant, GEORGE P. ANDREWS, Assistant Counsel to the Corporation. HOCUS POCUS NUMBER ONE. Whereas, Chapter 300 (section three) of the Laws of 1874, peing “An act toamend chapter 335 of the Laws of 1873, entitled ‘An act to reorganize the local government of the city of New York, passed April 30, 1878, and the acts amendatory there- oj,’’? authorizes the Mayor of the city of New York to fill any vacancy or vacan- cies which may occcur from death, resigna- tion, or causes other than the expiration of the fall term in any office to which, by the provi- | gions of the twenty-fiith section of chapter 335 of the Laws of 1873, the Mayor of the clty of New York | ‘was empowered to appoint, by and with the con- sent of the Board of Aldermen, and, Whereas, I, William F, Havemeyer, Mayor of the city of New York, have been olticially satisfied that , a legal vacancy, for a legal cause, is now legally existing in the office of Police Commissioner ot the city of New York, lately held by Hugh Gardner, I | do hereby appoint | OLIVER CHARLICK @ Police Commissioner of the city of New York, to fill that vacancy and to hold office until the | first day of May, 1876, the same being until the ex- | piration of the term of office tor which said Hugh Gardner was rst appointed and confirmed. And in pursuance of such power I do hereby | issue this certificate of ey. and have | | technical fault—don’t you see??? jardner aud Mr. Charlick had not resigned, and | turb him with a question, as he felt that the old offices, their resignations, of course, amounted to THE BROOKLYN SORROW. a 7? “Then, a8 you understand the law, sir, Mr. Gi ner an ir lick cannot be’ legally reap- porn jo not think there can heir conviction made Board, which must be opinion. Td be any doubt about it that t! ane, vacancies in the Police An Official Explanation from Mr. Tilton. “Suppos! your natification, should, as it is. amo tends to do, reappoint Messrs. Gardner a a Ci! be ore ‘that not bring on @ conflict o: author- G “It certainly would.” “Have you not the power to enforce the position you have taken tn the matter f” “If the Mayor should reappoint the two con- victed Commissioners, the question of the legality Ol the appoiarments being made, notwitastanding my notification, would be brought beiore tne Courts to be decided. in notifying the Mayor a8 i have done L haye done my duty according to law.’ ‘The conversation which the HEkaLD commis. sioner had with the Governor was in no sense of the word a set interview; lor the Governor i6 Dot favorably disposed at any time to interviewers. During the conversation the Governor remarked | that he had noticed in some of the papers the | statement that he intended to have a talk with the Mayor on the subject of the appointinents OD his | arrival in town, and added :—"There was no foun- dation for ths’ statement. I bad nothing to-do with the Mayor,” 4 And thus it will be noticed that the ‘conference’ idea, as has already been mentioned, was not by any means the result of any understanding be- tween Mr. Havemeyer and tne Governor; in 1act, | that the Governor nad no intention, at any time | since the police muddle.first began to be a subject | ol discussion, to pay @ Visit to the funny oid man ore city Hall to taik over that question or any other. What Mayor Havemeyer Says. AHeRaLp reporter paid a visit last evening to | the Mayor at bis residence in West Fourteenth street, The old gentieman seemed to be In ex- | cellent humor with himseli and more than usually | courteous. “Mr, Mayor,’ said the reporter, “I understand that you have reappointed Mr. Gardner and Mr, Charlick?”? “That's a fact,” he replied, looking quizzically over his gold spectacies; “it’s done and no mis- | He Would Not Add a Pang to Mr. Beecher’s Heart. THE PRESS STILL LAMENTING. An Official Appendix. The Golden Age of Saturday next will contain the yaledictory of its former editor, Mr. Tilton, who re- signs his charge to the hans of nis former assist- ant, Mr. W. T. Clarke. The Golden Aje con- tains the following articie in relation to “the great scandal” :— MR, TLLTON’S POSITION, Mr. Tilton’s letter to Dr. Bacon has met with | quite as favorable reception as he or his iriends. could reasonably expect. 1t diu not raise an un- }easant controversy trom the grave in which 1b d been buried, ior (he controversy had uot died and was never more truly alive than when the letter in question was penned. Lt is not our in! tion to enter the list of combatants on erie bat two or three of the genera: criticisms on Mr. | Tilton’s letter show an entire misapureliension of | | 1ts character and purpose, and cai or correction, He has been Dlamed ia some quarters tor publisning | the letter at ail, and in others for act yoimg further | and saying more. One Class Of critics censure lim | jor trying to injure Mr, Beecher at the expense of his own family, and another class is evidently | piqued because he did not utter sometaing that snould fix an incilaceabie stizina on Mr. Beecuer | and bis own household too, A caretul study of the | letter would remove the grounds tor any mistake; | bat perhaps it is too mucn toexpect the nurried | writers of the daily press toread a document s0 caretuily drawn up aud so loug as tue letter in | question with sufficient cure to see 1ts precise in- | tention and bearing. take.” tall ares tase THESE MIBAPPREHENSIONS 1 “”y be a mistake in the matter, Mr. all that we have in view. ‘The letter stands on Sepa isa its own merits and tells its own tale to whoever | Mayor. | will read it with sufficient patience. It was no | “Well, if there is I'll take care of that,” he | answered, good humoredly ; ‘‘we’re all human, you know, and we will falt sometimes. But I guess Pve done about right this time,” “Can you give me a copy of the certificate of ap- pointments? I would like to see whether you have accepted their resignations or not in the first place, or, considering the resignations of no account, appointed them as if they had never before held the positions of Police Commissioners?” “[ reatiy cannot; but I teil you what it is. You will get the documents concerning the whole case, | so far as my appointing them is concerned, in less than an hour; they are in the hanas of the printers.” “Then you have given your reasons in full for your action ?”” “Yes—no—well—that is, the documents show everything, the law and the facts; and—yes—the | facts—All about—why, their conviction was for @ | part of Mr, Tilton’s purpose to ventilate an ola | Scandal or drag an offensive theme trom its hiding pecs into publicity. He intentionally avoided | ringing any specific charge against Mr. Beecher, | and only alluded to his offence—and in the most | indefinite possible terms—because 1L was abso- lutely necessary for him to do so in sell-vindica- | tion, He had been assaiied directly and in the most explicit terms by Dr, Bacon—a kind manand a just one, too—who undonbdiedly supposed from | what he had learned through Mr. Beecher and his | friends that Mr. Tilton was a Knave and a dog, the | creature Of @ too lorbearing pastor’s magnanimity, | scandal monger and faisitier, who had tried to | rain the most veloved of ministers. Such asper- sions from the pen oi Gne of the leading and most | eminent divines in America, published in a relig- | lous paper of large circulation und commented on | by the press of the whole country, were of too | serious @ character to be borne in silence or | passed by. MR. TILTON’S CHARACTER AND STANDING a8 @ Mun among men were involved, and silence | on his part was a tacit acknowledgment of the | justice of Dr. Bacon’s aspersions and the correct- | ness of the erroneous statements by which they were supported. One sentence from Mr. Beecher’s lips or pen would have drawn the poisoued arrow | and healed the smart, Mr. Tilton cailed Mr. The Mayor at tais point sat down, and, leaning | }euners attention to the offensive state- back in bis chair, complacently watched the move- | ments, and im the presence of two wit- ments of a fly on bis law bookcase that was | nesses told him that unless he corrected the . | misrepresentations in his way it would be vainly trying to enter through the key | necessary for himself to correct them in hole, but was prevented by another fy | his own way, which would be severe, Weeks that stood in its way. It was evidently | passed and nocorrection was made. Longer a fly secking for legal ght on some knotty sub- | #lence on Hid pare was tinpossiule, ject. The Mayor !ooked so bappy in his contem- plation that the reporter hadn’t the heart to dis- In replying to Dr. Bacon he did what any other innocent and hon- orable man who cared for his reputation and had the courage to defend it would have doae under the circumstances, And the reply was not printed thil it had been submitted to Dr. Bacon, who failed to suggest any other method of righting tie wrong gentleman might possibly be \ | comparing the law- | | loving fly to one of his reappointees | that bad been done, though he was asked to do so. {and the other to Governor Dix and MR, TILTON’S PURPOSE, the keyhole to the Police. Commission. Mr, Tilton is accused of intending to strike Mr. | But even Mayoral reveries have to end some time, | and so did this revery of the Chief Magistrate. ‘| Suddenly bracing up in his chair and adjusting his | spectactes, he exclaimed, “Yes, just as we were | saying—tuey have been reappointed. The docu- ments give the Corporation Counsel’s opinion and--and everything.” Then you have been posting yourself up on the ct | Yes, somewhat; I’ve given the matter a good deal of consideration—a good deal, avery great deal. 1 didn’t want to act hastily, and | wanted to do justice.’? “To whom, Mr. Mayor 9? | “fo whom? Why, to Mr. Char—-}; yes, to every- body concerned—everybody.” | “You, then, took good legal advice before taking | final action Beecher a staggering if not a fatal blow, Whoever | peaas lis letter with care will see that he studi- ! atthe thick network of calumny and misrepre- sentation that had been adroitly woven Jor his own entanglement and ultimate destruction. sole purpose was to save himself, aiter years of silence and endurance, and when a longer s.leuce | frained from mentioning Mr. Beecher ut all except | as it was necessary to do so in order to set him~ | self right. His reticence in this respect deserves | commendation. I, in order to vindicate himself, he was obliged to lift the curtain and ex- } Transactions. it certainly was not his fault, Ii Mr. Beecher wishes toexculpate himseli, 1 Plymouth | “The very best I could get.’ And the Mayor | pastor, the way is open and the world will turned in his chair as he uttered this assertion | await the issue with anxious solicivude. But so | and looked up jondly at his law book case; but | iar was it from being Mr. Tilton’s purpose to injure | he quickly wheeled about again, probably be- | Mr. Beecher in any way, his sole hesitation to pub- } cause he discovered that the law-séeking fly had | not yet overcome the scruples o: the other fy that stood defiantly in its way. “Yes,”’ he continued, casting a furtive @) | lish the letter was the Jear that it mizht injure Mr. Beecher. He said to personal friends who urged its publication, that he shrunk from saying one word thatcould add a pang to Mr. Beecuier’s already pierced and tortured heart. He said, “I would nut lay go much as a finger on that sad and sorrowing head. J would not rise by his ruin if I could.” ‘This has been Mr, Tilton’s prevailing tem- per of mind and way of speech. He regretted nothing 80 much as the necessity which forced him to say anything about the matter whatever. If Mr. Beecher 18 smitten, he has only himself and his irtends to blame for the blow. THE SKELETON IN THE CLOSET. But the essential point in this whole controversy remains untouched. With the scandal itself we | have nothing to do. that ts a matter for Piy- mouth church and its pastor to deal with, If there isa skeleton in their closet they will pronably | hasten to open the door and jet daylight siine | through its dark places, Webster said that sut- | cide under the weight of an accusation was con- | fession of guilt, There are circumstances in which silence is suicide. But one thing in this whoie matter {is so conspicuous and grand that it de- | reappointment and signified their acceptance?” | serves a notice it has not recetved. We reier to “On! bless you, yes. Why, Gardner was sworn | the toleration, the sympathy, the sollcitude o! the ; in this afternoon, and I swore him in myself.) | American people for a great and useful man under Here the Mayor indulged in a little quiet laugh all | a cloud of suspicions thick and heavy enough to vo himself. | crush an ordinary character beyonu recover: “What about Mr. Charlick?”” Had this thing tap vent twenty-five years ago Mr. “Well, he'll be sworn in time enough; he'll be , Beecher would have been dragged beiore an round all right.’? | ecclesiastical tribanal for trial in less tian a | nce at a shelf where the New York charter and a huge | Cred of the Revised Statutes were ranged side by | side, “I took good legal advice before acting.” | Bed about the resignations? Did you accept | em “Well, now, I'll tell vou, Don’t you see, it’s like a policeman. He's alraid of something and he sends in his resignation, and if it 18 accepted he | aon’t get kicked out, and——” Here the Mayor | came toa dead halt, and, looking up at his book- case, again remarked, *‘No, that isn’t exactly the comparison, but you know it is this way. If you’re uncertain about your plan, and afraid | you may get put out and can resign, why, it’s the | thing to resign, ain’tity 1t may be, alter all, that | you’ve been scared about nothing; but then if you've sent in your resignation to @ party who Won’t act too hastily, why, there/s no harm done, | And then if there was something to be scared | about, there’s your resignation, anyhow.”” “Have the Commissioners been notified of their caused the seal of the Muvoraity to be alixed | hereto, this second day of July, 1874. W. HAVEMEYER, Mayor of the . .ty ol New York. | HOCUS POCUS NO. TWO. | Whereas chapter 300 (section 3) of the Laws of | 1874, being “An act to amend chapter 335 of the | Laws ot 1873, entitled ‘An act to reorganize the lo- | cal government of the city ol New York, passed April | 30, 1873, and the acts amendatory thereof,’ au- _ thorizes the Mayor of the city of New York to fillany | vacacy or vacancies which may occur from | death, resignation or causes other than the expi- Fation of the full term in any office to which, by | e provisions ol the twenty-fifth section of chap- ter 336 of the Laws of 1873, the Mayor of the city of New York was empowered to appoint, by and with | the consent or the Board of Aldermen; and, | ‘Whereas I, William F, Havemeyer, Mayor of the city of New York, have been officially satisfied that | a legal vacancy for a legal caase 18 now legally » existing in the office of Police Commis*ioner of the city of New York, lately held by Oliver Charlick, L de hereby appoint ‘k, to. HUGH GARDNER, & Police Commissioner of the city of New Yor! fill that vacancy, and to hold office until the first day of May, 1878, the same being until the expira- tion of the term of office for which said Oliver | Charlick was first appointed and confirmed. | And in pursuance of such power Ido hereby | issue this certificate of appointment, and have | caused the seal of the Mayoralty to be aiixed | hereto, this second ba aa 1874. | PF, HAVEMEYER, | Mayor of the City ot New York. | Governor Dix’s Views. The Governor's arrival in town yesterday was not generally known, and it may be that he was right glad of it, for had the politicians been aware of it he would have had a very sorry time dur- ing his brief stay in the city. Many of them, | under the impression that he would call upon the Mayor when he would come, have been, as it were, lying in wait for him for the past two days, and a t strict watch had been kept for him by the more anxious on the arrival of every Albany train at the Grand Central Depot, It so happened that he came down by the boat, which arrived in this city early yesterday morning, and at once drove to the residence of his son-in-law, in West Twenty-first | street, thus escaping the calls and importunities | of the patriots, Who would have pounced upon him had he stopped at a hotel. A HERALD commissioner | calied upon him during the day, just belore he left | town jor his country seat on Long Isiand, and liad | a short talk with him goncerning his action in the | Gardner-Charlick case. 1t was quite early when | the HERALD representapive made his call, but the | Governor bad apparentiy risen with the lark, and, looking fresh aud hearty, was busily engaged por- ing over lis correspondence. He received his visitor with his usual urbanity. During the con- versation which ensued, which was qui‘e an in- | formal one, the case of Gardner and Charlick was | touched upon, and the reporter rémarked : “Notwithstanding your notification to the Mayor | that there were two vacancies in the Police Board, Governor, there are afew people who contend that | the Mayor haa the right to reappoint Gardner and | Charlick or accept the resignatious.”” Tam willing that issue should be made if they want to make such an issue,” he replied, ‘As I understand it your notification implies that the conviction of the two Commissioners invoived @ violation of their oaths of office ? “I never had a doubt on that point.” “Then you believe that they could not resign un- der the circumstances of the casey"? “As ther conviction deprived them of their | | “Ifyou accepted the resignations, then, you be- | month alter the accusations assumed a definite lieved that their conviction did pot deprive them | shape, and had he tried to preach betore.a trial he of their offices per se 2” | might have been mobbed, ‘'o-day there 1s scarcely “The whole matter is this,’ and the Mayor again a man or woman in America but hopes he is inno- | cast a sly glance at the two flies on the bookcase, | cent of any wrong, and tries to believe him so ia “they were convicted ofa technical error. ‘ney | spite of circumstantial evidence confirmed by his did everyting right so far as thev could. I'd iike | oWn course. His name is @ precious househoid somebody to tell me when [commit a fault like | word. He has the sympathy of 15,000,000 of people they did. Pm liable to do it any day | who in the transaction of public business, and yet not wilfally commit a crime. I think if Lheard 9 man | who was an inspector, who had no character and | who had boasted that ne would stuff the ballot bend forward to save and bless him, THERE Is SOMETHING ALMOST SUBLIUCE in the spirit and attitude of the American peopl who refuse to condemu and degrade a great an usetul man, even tf in some moment of temptation 7 boxes, and { was a Police Commissioner, | Or Under the heat of an impulse only the strongest | Vd get rid of him soon, They told matures understand he did what he ought not— | Hasbrook to have him removed, and atleast until compelied to do so by the necessities they thought it was done legally. Do you suppose, | of the case. They see the terrible injustice of | then, lam going to condemn men jor trying to | Weighing a whole llie of unequalled serviceable- prevent {ratids on the ballot box, Besides, they've | ness against momentary infatuation, and throw- got families, Why, Charlick, for instance, has got ing thirty-five years oi consecrated effort for ihe two grown up daughters and as pretty'a boy as | iighest ends utterly away for what may have been | ou ever saw, and these things have to be taken | done ina fitof frenzy. And if they condemn him | into consideration sometimes, for it wouldn't at all, it will be ior efforts to evade and conceal | be nice to have people say to them, “Oh, your | what should have been fmunkly acknowledged, to | father was convicted and kicked out of the Police | his own people at least, and his willingness to | Board.’ 1 did not want anything like that if [ | shield himself by allowing the imnocent to suffer , could help it. L thought they hadn’t com- | for his offence. So much has justice gained. So | mitted a wilful wrong, and did not , Vast the increase of charity. His greatest mistake | want to see them disgraced in that | hasbeen in not trusting himself to a people wno | ‘ay. Better, you see, do the other thing. | are proud ot lus iame and jealous of ls repute. | tion, by a courageous statement of the facts when | it was found that the air was lull oi rumors and | surmises, An ounce of siucerity 18 worth @ world The Governor declared that there were vacancit to be Milled and I have filled them, and that’s the end of it, They are back again, and, of course, they may resign; yes, they may resign’— | of cunning. | ani tho Mayor looked very wise just ‘WHAT MR. TILTON DEMANDS, at this point—“and if they do, why, it | All that Mr, Tilton agks for himself, and all his | can’t be said that they were competted | friends demand tor him, 18 justice. He conceals nothing that duty to others and the natural delt- cacy of his manbood does not require him to lock in tis own breast. He tas been guilty of isnt | but too great confidence im unworthy people an mistakes of judgment that were prompted by an impulsive temperament and a warm, kind heart. The act for which he has been most severely blamed was prompted by a desire to save and help others, and was done under the heat of a generous | -by a conviction in a court of law by twelve men to disgracefully leave positions of public trust. It would be rather hard for men only committing 4 | feataicat fault against the law to be deait with so jarshly.” This ended the conversation, and, as the re- porter rose to go, he remarked to the Mayor :— “well, Mr. Mayor, | dare say as you have ap- Out of Whole © oth, eins | A Heranp reporter yesterday calied on ex-Dis- oro | trict Attorney Samuel D. Morris, of Brooklyn, to | ascertain the facts in regard to a long interview alleged to have taken place between Mr, Morris and Theodore filton, at the Kings County District Attorney's office, the previous day. Finding the object of his search seated aione in his hbrary room at his lew ofiice, after passing through the pointed everybody to office now that you care to a some Ahatt to ome, you feel a ites aed in impulse which made it impossible for him to count | mind.’ | the cost to himself, He irankly Confesses a mis- | “Yes, yes,” he replied, langhing, “1 guess 1 have. | take Jor which he has paid fuildear, He asks net- | Pye got the last load of my shoulders anyhow, ther toleration nor pide but simpiy for that and Lsuppose Vil feel easier for it uf t don’t get justice which ts so aatural to the heart of the indicted myself.” | American people, and which in the iong run they And as the reporter was going down the stone ,#re sure to render to whoever confides in them steps he heard the Mayor iaughing over this last; Without 3 raply of his, which heconsidered apparently a cap- | CONCEALMENT OR DOUBLE-DEALING. ital joke, and the last words that came to his ears, They will not publish an error of judgment, as between the chuckles, as ho passed down on tue , Wougl 1t were a crime, and crash & briliant sidewalk were “If I don't get indicted myseli.” | Writer, an eloquent speaker und an author of ua- a apicinhaaapernpeedationcibon usual Brome, as Mery he had cies all Va a 7 cencies and broken all the Commandments, They THE DEPARTMENT OF OHARITIES AND wiltsee to it that justice 1s done (o him, as weil CORRECTION, as to another Who stands on a pedestal of over ‘ - | twenty additional years, and has a powerful church The Commissioners of Charities and Correction | and denomination at his back. They will protect met yesterday and took the action indicated in | pie Brae, hairs Crd ee te cron coasts * me: oble service pleads tor him as no human tongu the folowing resolations: can speak, and if he goes down at all it will be by Resolved, That the steamer Bellevue be laid up on tho | his own act or the folly of his advisers. They wiil $4 inst. until turther action of this Board, and that tho | not shut the tuture against another of splendid boat be turned over for safe keeping tw Captain'Kuapp, future asi ' ro 1 Supervising Engineer. promise who has nothing to be iorgiven, and only | solved, That Captain Erwin be assigned to the | @8k8 an open fleid and even-handed justice, steamer Minnahannock, and that the pilot and engineer of the nelloviie be granted a leave of absence, without pay. until further action of this Board. csolved, That the Warden of the Penitentia structed tO withdraw fiity prisoners from In Kandall’s Island and fifty prisoners trom Ward's from this date. The last clause is necessary, as after the with- drawal of the Bellevue there will be no means of | transporting t! ponvicts to and from their labor. No repairs, the commissioners state, can be made to the butidings under the charge of the depart ment, and ubies# something is done to remedy the state of things one or more of the bospitais will have to be closed, | ments made a direct charge of crime or immor: Weaving legal meshes to entangle Jonn Doe, or constructing curiously worded documents to se- cure the enlargement of Richard Roe, the repre- sentative of the press addressed the well known pleader at the Bar with an inguiry as to the nature of the long talk with the poet-journalist whose name has recently so olten appeared in juxtaposi- tion with that of the great Plymouth preacher, “Why,’ said the ex-public prosecutor, “there's nothing at all init. I met Mr. Tilton casually yes- terday at the office of Assistant District Attorney Moore, Mr. Tilton isa friend both of Mr. Moo’ and myself, Our talk was simply that of acquatin' ances casually Meeting on general topics, and had no significance whatever, Asa@ citizer of Brook- lyn and an American I should that the ‘ame of Mr. Beecher, which belongs to the whole country, should suffer from this controve Mr, Tilton has not mm any of his published sta\ ity against the distinguished pastor. He may con- siaer as grave offences what the public, if entirely evlightened on the subject, would not decisively | conde sn. Ido not believe the whole matter, if exposed, would seriously injure Mr. Beecher in the pubtic estimation.”” ‘Thanking Mr, Morris for his courteous reception, the reporter leit him with Kent, Blackstone, Chitty and Wheaton, in whose soclety he seemed at home, in congenial company, and retired with a be very unwilling | next season have already been engaged at from $300 to $1,000 a night. An Original View. [From the Chicago Post and Mail.) It 1s true that the conviction of Henry Ward Beecher of serious wrong would be @ blow struck only at the root of Plymouth chureh, but at Cpristendons, It would cause wailing in heaven | ahd inaugurate a Fourth 0: July to bell. Mr. Beecher Has Faith in God. {From the Christian Union.) Living as we do in a world so mysterious as to battle all our researches and 60 full of temptation, | trial and perplexity as to iorce upon us at every | turn a sense of our weakuess, how consoling !s the | faith that in God we have a friend and helper, who loves us with infinite tenderness and on whom we may implicitly rely in every emergency! The God who is revealed to usin the face of Jésus Christ, by whom we are taught to cail Dim Father, 1s re- | sponsive to our every need, and bids us come | bolely to nim in heurs of darkness and disappoint- ment and lean upon him for support. Blessed 1s he who, when the waves of sorrow or temptation | are sweeping over ulm, ts able to find the hand of God and calmly to rest in His infinite strength. | feeling of regret that a newsvaper writer had for | | churca and amon speaking terms with both Mr, | | ously refrained irom striking any biow at all, save | His | and endurance would have been fatal; and he re- | pose @ Series Of disingenuous and inexcusable | | Chureh wishes to vindicate the character of the | , litte one, so we Cavnot but wis | Stones? His peace tis like @ river, and joy is with him ap abiding guest. paws Henry C. Bowen’s Explanation. [From the Independent.) Inasmuch as the use made by Dr. Bacon of the | Independent in giving his views of the Brooklyn | Council has been made by Mr. Tilton one of those grounds of complaint which have jed nim to re- open the “scandal,” we can hardiy avoid a very unwilling reference to nis letter to Dr. Bacon, Mr. titi undertaken to make & mountain from @ mole- | Let Justice Be Done. To THE EpiTor oF THE HERAL! Tam a steady reader of the HERALD these many years. Iam @ irequent attendant at Plymouth Beecher and Mr. Tilton, I naturally feel interested ir the controversy, and, as one of the public, ask ADNOE 1h, JOE, COBDS. 10D) RIP. LOIRE. ‘Tilton writes the letter, as he asserts, in his own In the first place Lam surprised at the tenor Of | J dieation, He distinctly charges Mr. Beecher your to-day’s article. It seems to throw the blame | with having committed a grave offence against on Mr. Tilton and has a tendency toward the | him. The irequent iy agree he gts 1 ti rofiting by Mr, Beecher’s mag nity he r 35 destrableness of suporessing tuguiry. This isnot | Phygectures that the magnanimity has been all ob the usual HERALD policy. I have always thought pig side, Part of a document is quoted in which that the HERALD motto was “Let us have Light.” / Mr, Beecher makes to Mr. Tiltona very humbie Ibave always seen you aavocate the theory that con‘ession of some wrong ee bre Lonohyoyia rae > resent it seems likely thal trath never suffers by inquiry, but rather by that ne were dead, At silence, That cause must, indeed, be weak Mr. Beecher and his church will take no notice of which is best matntained by reticence ana the scandal, uniess compelled to do so by pubiic sentiment, The impression which was prevalent mysiery, and I am surprised that you should | 80 far depart from your usual course @ year ago, and which a card of Mr. Beecher s was calculated to foster, that the ‘‘source”’ of all this as to imply that Mr. Tilton’s tardy outspokenness in this matter 18 reprehensiole, whereas Mr. trouble was somebody else, would seem to have been rather rudely dispelled by these later revela- tions, Beecher’s silence is justifiable, The things done in the corner must be proclaimed on the housetop, otherwise there is no justice for the individual, |, no salety for the general. Let there be no mistake here. Iadmire Mr. Beecher as much as most of his hearers; but he is not a Pope, not infallible, and I approach him with none of that slavish LONG BRANCH RAGES, Pools were sold at Johnson's last night on the Jersey Derby, to be run to-morrow at Monmouth | Park. The following are a few of the pools, show- ing the estimation in which the various stables are held by speculators :— Lorillard’s Saxon $28 adulation which will prevent my putting out my | mcGrath’s Aaron 25 hand to touch him and see if he be really fesh and | Baimonys BE ae = aniord ee blood. Mr. Beecher has done the State good ser- | Hennison & Crawiord’s Rutherford. 10 vice; his Christianity is of such a robust, manly | Morris’ entries. . - 10 8 sort that It embraces and includes all Ite; no Chamberlin’s entries. ee ie seventh day affair, out good for daily use, to be | Cty bs seus Horr hails ast! worn constently and to be carried into Wail street ‘The field in the first pool comprised Littell’s, Cof- or to Saratoga just as well as into the prayer meet- ing or the conventicie. His Scripturai interpreta- tion is no dry husks of wordy commentary, as un- | saustying a8 a schoolman's thesis or a politico- | economical axiom. On tne contrary, he brings | | Ris people nearer to the footstool than any man [ | fee’s, Withers’ and Swigert’s entries. HAMILTON TURF OLUB RAGES, HAMILTON, Ont., July 2, 1874. ‘This was the second day of the Hamilton Turf | have ever known, and in his outwelling love and | Club races. | alfection for the Father and the divine Elder | #yrsr Race—A steeplechase, purse $300. Kelso | Brother famuliarizes us out of all fear and trembling | 11 at our own imperiections, and gives us peace | Won In 6:17. Sxconp Rack —2:40 trot, for Canadian hors purse $600. Varcoe won in 2:43%, with Little Sam second, fuirp Rack—Running, for Dominion horse: purse $400; two-mile dasn, Vanual came ip irs and Alzora second. 1 14839. Fourta Ra Kanning; purse $500; mile heats; { open to all, Macon won the race, with War Cry ; second. ‘Time, 1:47 HORSE NOTES, Colonel McDantel’s chestnut colt Springbok after making his quick mile the otner day at Utica was | where betore ail was trouble and uncertainty. | But this is not to say that he isinfailible. My sense 0! his usefuluess to me aud to others has not been impaired by what L have heard (not just now, | , for, as you are aware, thes: things have been | whispered for some time). 1 only wish it had not, been 50. But toerris i:uman. Elijai was a man | with like passtous as we are, and so} presume it | does not disuonor Beecher to admit that he is a littie below Eujjab. Tae man nas notorious virtue: he 1s honest, truthful, courageous, great hearted; | i bis earnings are liberal nis generosl:y is proiuse ; | above all, he has not @ point of littleness in his | | doctrine; his charity is broad and ail embracing. | | We can forgive some siades and blemishes in such | | ree Velde Ee ee all bi taken with cramps, and it was feared for some my irtues; Why not a tincture of the manly | ts igenc: vices? The mistake is to suppose that a theologi- time that he had run his last race. Intelligence {cal eurrtontam or the ministerial profession roots | from Saratoga yesterday announces that the colt out the vid Adam. Ciergymen are a little better | has entirely recovered, and would be ready to than most other men, but ‘not so very much. | meet the areav Tom Bowling in the race jor the i er sare fo nhen Jpaaed by their needs | toga Cup. an e ations, je seven mortal % % . the winner of the Bins are scattered among them and dourish more | yediea! Stakes at Jerome Park, 18 reported 10 ne , Or iess rankly, An itis asmali matter if Stvlites u : favorite be chaste and temperate when he has no induce- See te it ee wale att a ; Ments irom within or without to be otherwise, and | Mr, Cottrill’s colts First Chance and Harry | whea his ‘‘dariing sin, the pride that apes humil- | Peltor have greatly improved since their urrival at ity,” leaves no room in the narrow garden of his | Long Brauch. ‘Chey will run in the Jersey Derby | cramped soul tor the growth of avy other noxious — against Saxon, the winner ol the Belmont Stakes, weed. To men who know the world tne conu- | yhe latter will probably be the favorite; yet wagers nelice of popular preachers is a wonder, They are | have been laid that Saxon will not ve placed. tied to the utmost, especially tf young, good look- | Rutherford and Aaron Pennington will not ve ing and what the world calls *tmagnetic,” and = jixeiy to go off and make the runutog the same as must have @ hard siruggle to Keep the natural | they did in the Belmont Stakes. Ditferent tactics man in subiection. I wouid not nave you inier | ‘e antici that 1 prejudge Mr. Beecher. We have no evi- | Siteds adopted, and. diterent resuiys/ate sates | dence, and no man of ordinary judgment will ac- cept scandal for evidence. But continence and discretion being the subject of the ones accept the possibility, and meet it as stated, I should not admire air. Beecher the more for his siniul- | ness, but he is nearer to me than one of those impossible saints of whom ome reads doubtingly YACHTING NOTES, The following yachts passed Whitestone yester- day A. M., en route for Oyster Bay :—Vision, B.Y.C. Mr. Alexander, from New York; Vindex, B.Y.C., and unsympathetically, Our best teachers have Mr. Center, from New York; Silene, B.Y.C., Mr. H. have been those Whom sorrow and remorse have , §, Wood, irom New York; fdler, BLY Mr. Col touched. That was an ugly business of Batusheba, | gate, from New York. The yacht 1a, B.Y.C, but without it siould we have had the penitential psalins, the spring of comfort and consolation to so many of us. Happily, in this Beecher business there is no Uria. So I think it would be vest for ite Gieat and for Mr. Beecher himseif to have an inquiry. Poor Tilton! I am really sorry you pitch into him. He is more sinned against than sinning; but, as when we see a small boy yelling and howling while he ts pommelied by a big one, though we drive off the big iellow we don’t care very much about the that Tilton had continued to keep quiet, and had not squawked so abominably because Mr. Bacon pinched him. His | first course was magnanimous. as he himself claims; lis latter procedure altogether pusillani- mous. Nevertheless tiere is some excuse for him. Every one admires if they don’t love Keecher. No one either loves or admires Tilton, and it 1s rather hard for bim to carry his burden. That burden, by the way, is not all made up eitner of | his own domestic grievance; he was saddied with | the tripartite compact Beecher-Bowen-Tilton, in | which, while Bowea was the aggrieved party, | Beecher forgave the other two, the one tor Mr. G. L, Haignt, trom New London, also passed the above station bound for Brooklyn. BOATING NOTES. | James McKay is at work on & new single shel! or one of the members of the St, John’s Club, of New Orleans, | The Friendships will nave a four-oared crew at the regatta at Pleasant Valley to-morrow. Well, | the river ia wide and the course is a broad one. David Roache, of tne Nautilus, 1s going in tor s Pleasant Vaitey locket on the Fourth. Having iost the “diamond sculls” and “consolation cup” on the Harlem, he believes he may be abie to capture a locket. Nothing like try.ng. Tom Keator, of the Harlems, still pursues the even tenor of his way onthe Harlem every even- ing. Thomas is one of the most grace/ul as well as one of the best oarsmen on the rive! being aggrieved, the other for talking about | Henry Mills, of the Gramercy, 18 the junior it. Add to this that Tuton was hor- | champion tora month to come or his club, For Tibly fooled by the notorious Woodhull, whom | that length of time he wears the badge. Wao comes next? Licatenaut Walsh or President At- kimson? Frank Yates has pulled up his stakes and de- parted for the West with a vallse full o( mugs. By all means let us nave a few more regattas, with prizes sudiciently inviting for young men from the country to take home. The Saratoga Rowing Association was started in the tall of 1871, the year of the great international regatta, when the Ward brothers won: their fa- mous victory. The association has made rapid atrides sinca then. Jonu Guaster, who pulls stroke in the Williams College crew, Was & member of the original crew who represented their college at the great bouting review at REpye ‘The Williains College Club was tormed in 1871. to appease and keep quiet he wrote her iife and | made himseit ridicuious, ‘filton, my dear editor, | has his own troubles, without your flinging your big rock at the miserabie wayiarer. Besides he was poked up by the Council and the clergymen | Shire tenet Pca Shearman, who seems | to have been adroit enough to turn his very accu- Sations into wordd ol Rati ana Peweet. We other Christians set little store on the | clerical vices of intoleranve, pride, meanness, envy, | scandal and vindictiveness. They do not touch us; our Withers are unwrung. But we rely on the continence of clergymen and physicians. They are received into our families, e trust them im- plicitly with our wives ana daughters, of whom we are flercely jealous in other men’s cases, If there be offence in this matter in o congregation it must | be purged out. Tne ulcer is dangerous; hiding it} _ Lievtenant McNair has been directed by the Will not heal it; let us have free lancing and let | Saratoga Rowing Association to tnake pag the nasty stuff runoff, A Kalloch story was bad | sary landmarks by which the college crews may enough, even in Boston, and there they investi- | direct their course during practice. The Rensselaer and ratoga Ratiroad manage- ment has subscribed $750 toward the regatta fund, and will pass all college clubs, with their boats, to and from Saratoga, e ‘Yhe Dauntiess Boat Club Is trying the materiai from which it is going to pick a four. The boys mean business. Men with shotguns about High ¢attord to hush up | Those of our clergymen who are | 80 charitably desirous of seeing the Plymouth | house swept and garnished will use ail their efforts to bring down a young Tobias, who will ex. pel the filthy Asmodeus. Until they achieve suc- cess they will permit us no rest. Let us have it gated 1. We Brovklynites can’ such matters, over and know ‘he worst. Iam, baat hg obedient | Bridge are positively required not to fire during servant, pid SEMPER. the progress of the race, uf there is going to be one. BROOKLYN, June 29, 1874." The friends of Hutchinson, R. P. lL. Boatdluo, and Lattrop, of the Beaverwycks, of Albany, are Who Shall Pass Judgment? anxions to bring avout a match race between these two oarsmen, and are striving hdrd toward that end. SEIZURE OF A HAVANA STEAMSAIP. Previous to the departure of the steamship City of Havana, belonging to Alexandre's New York and Havana Mati line, she was seized py Customs Inspector Abell, for violation of the United States Revenue Steamship law, in having carried, some months back, more passengers than her certificate allowed her to do, After being bonded by her owners she was allowed to proceed on her voyage. In conversation yesterday with a member of tie firm that gentleman stated:—“We look upon this seizure of our steauier as a simple atiempt to ex- tort movey irom us, The vessel in question is capable of carrying With comfort 200 passengers; but, by an oversight, we merely nad tier capacity | stated as lor eighty-five passengers. We have had the Matter oviore the Secretary of the Treasury, and he will see that we are not guilty 0! any real iMfraction of the law. Abell has seized other Of our sutps for carrying petrolenm, which will bring him as smail @ ‘nolety’ as this seizure of the City of New York jor carrying too many passengers, The whole thing’s # farce, and may be stigmatized as a persecution of American shipping interests."’ THE OENTUNNIAL BUILDINGS. Award of the Contract tor Their C straction. Puitapeputa, Pa., July 2, 18 | The Centennial Hoard of Finance have decided to award the contract for the erection of the Me- | mortal bailding avd the main Exposition build | ing jor the Cenvennial to Mr. Richard 4. Dovbins, | the well knowa vutder of this city elmg the t bidder, His contract will amount to over {From the Albany Evening Journal.} One single lapse in thought, mayhap, four years ago—who shall say there is not an explanation? Who shall say that, if there were a false step, it has not been repented in anguish through all these | later years? Who shall venture to say that it may | not have been forgiven on high? Who shall dare to say that then it ought not to be iorgiven here onearth? And with all these multiplied sug- gestions trooping around us wno shall undertake | to pronounce final juagment and proceed to cast | Why?t [From the Cincinnatl Commercial.) If Mr, Beecher has done nothing that can not be honorably explained, why should he wish bim- self dead and out of his misery? Reaily if Messrs, Burleigh and Uarpenter and Tracy and the rest of them speak by the card, there must be & parcel of | dunces making 4 fuss about nothing. Was There a Pistol? [From the Portiand Press.) As to the letter of contrition, a correspondent gives a version that Tilton became insane witl jealousy through the imsinuations of Bowen, and that with an equally sensational friend he called on Mr, Beecher and “played Ingh tragedy at him ‘until he lost his common sense, if not fis reason, A pistol was pointea at his head, and under the mad excitement of the hour, in the apprehension of @ tragedy and a dénouenent, he signed the document which has ever since been held i ter- rorem ever im." Mr. Beecher’s Lectures. [From the Boston Sunday Times.) All the lectures that the Rev. Henry Ward Ww | business rooms where industrious clerks were Beecher will be able to deliver in New Hogland | 100.000 on these On lidingss