The New York Herald Newspaper, July 18, 1874, Page 6

) ae - Te | Tor the Ninth Election district of the Eighteenth REDI ih! Assembly district, named Daniel Hugues, i y v sNhe | The third is ior the removal of Joon J, Crowley, ap election inspector of the Fourteenth kiecuon meer | district of the Eighteenth Assgmbiy district. AS on the Oceasion of their previous indictmeat Upok whict the ex-Pollee Commissioners came into the District Attorney’s oMfce and gave ball, the great indicted will, nO doubt, appear to-day aud wive bail for their appearance for trial upon any day the Court of Oyer and Terminer may select, Gardner and Charlick Again at the Front. WDICTED BY THE GRAND JURY. An Important Document from the Mayor. Mayor's Orricr, New York, July 17, 1874, | Im accordance with a request made by the Commissioners of Public Charities and Correction in a resolution adopted on the 7th day of May last, vo “Inake @ tull, thorough aud compiete mvestiga- tion into the alleged charges implied in the pre- | sentment of the Grand Jury of the city of New | York, April 20, 1874,” I proceeded without delay to | comply with that request, and named the 20th day of May for that purpose, giving due notice to ail | paruies who might throw light upon the subject to | appear and be presenton tne occasion, and, ac- | companied by Mr. Jonathan Sturgis, whose pigh meyer’s answer to the Governor will be ready for reputation and long experience in business emi- she Governor on Tuesday—that is, itis tobe sent nently fitted him to share that duty with me, we | ‘him on Monday and “the newspapers will be commenced the investigation on that day, and I permitted to have a copy the day afterward,’’to | regret that the absence of Mr. Sturgis from tne use the expression of the oficial himself. Still, city prevented his being present during the re- ‘the Mayor does not seem to know exactly bimsel! mainder of the sessions. when it will be ready, and when questioned about | Ideemed it due to the high character of the the matter he prefixes his promises with so many Board and to the gentlemen who compose it, ip “is” and “buts’? that Many persons have been led | whom I had every reason to place the greatest con- Ww believe that be has not had as much todo with fidence, to appoint as early a day as possible, 11 Phe Charges Against the Commissioners of Charities and Correction. GREEN ON THE SALARY QUESTION. according to a City Hal) oMcial Mayor Have- the preparation of the answer as certain | order to give them an opportunity to refute the | gentlemen of this city whose names aud refections and insinuations indicated im the | actions bave, of late, been the town presentment of the Grand Jury. It ts true that no | talk. He, however, persists in asserting direct charge was made in that document against | any individual, and its terms were 80 vague that | the District Attorney did nov find it expedient *o take any action upon it. However, the vagueness | and Indefinitepess made it the more sweeping and “POR THB SAKE OF THE C)TY’S WELPARE!? general, and lurnished the partisan press an op- it may be that the three additional indictments | portunity to magnify the implications contained | Which the Grand Jury of the General Sessious | therein, and shake the confidence of the people in brought in against Gardner and Charlick yesterday | a@nnmber of pupiie officers, whose appointment | ‘will have some influence upon the Mayor and pos- as always been a source of satisfaction to me. sibly convince him that Gardner and Charlick were ‘The proceedings before the Grand Jury upon mot indispensable to the city’s well being. The | which the presentment was based were carefully | maictments found by the Grand Jury are examined, and the action which secmed to furnish three IN number, and are based upon their the ground for the charges contained therein | Violation of the election laws, and, except | turns upon a transaction of the Boara in giving | 4m the matter of details, are similar in language to orders direct to one Louis Sternbach for the supply ‘the indictment found against them in the Sheridan of aline of dry goods, instead or effecting tue pur- case. | chase through the Supply Clerk; it is also charged | One indictment concerns the removal of two that the Board paid a higher price for goods fur- | Tammany inspectors of election in the Ninth nished by said Sternbach than could have been ob- Election district of the Eignteenth Assembly dis- | tained anywhere else. This transaction seemed trict, and in order that | tojustify the Grand Jury in asserting that since THE OF¥ENCE COMMITTED BY THE TWO COMMIS- | ‘the Ist of May, 1873, the dry goods bought by the SIONERS Commissioners of Charities and Correction have may be the better understood, itmust be borne in been purchased in a manner at once wasteful and mind that the Apolo Hail and republican tickets | extravagant, leading directly to corruption, and Were identical; that is, the two factions by a com- | which In the interest of the reputation of the bination had agreed before election to support the | Commissioners, as well as of the city of New Yor, Same candidates. Thus it can be seen at a glance that wherever a Tammany inspector was removed | BpONN ems Cea Ea ae ned:y an? an Apollo manu Was put in his place the act was Examining the evidence as given before the Grand equivalent to making the Board of Inspectors stand | Jury, in which a certain William P, Lampson, the three republicans to one democrat, The two mspec- | former Supply Clerk, Who Was discharged by the tors in the Ninth Election district alluded to were | ti i James McCartney and Yaniel Hughes, The former | Board for good and sufficient reasons, figured as was removed on the 28th of October. He was, in | the princ.pal personage, I must confess that I apg aS the law, fies areeece cet failed to discover any substantial reason jor the ay dee bak Reptiles, Bea bad S eeroven | presentment subsequently made. There is cer- | tainly no wrong in the chief pnd only responsible see Charlick anu found that he had been removed op the strength o! afidavits made by men of bad character, who bad mude false charges against | oiicers of a public depar(ment assuming the periormance of the duty ysually intrusted to # | | pubordinate, if by so doing the interests of such bim. He was unable to get any redress, although department are served thereby. The Supply Cierk that, when the answer is once made public, people wil! see that he has been condemned wrongly, and Bhat, instead of censure, he should have been awarded praise for doing what he aid he offered to make au afidavit that the charges against lim were lies. Gne Thomas Barrett, an Apollo Hall man, was put in bis place, thus lesy- img oniy one Tammany inspector, Hughes. | charged with the performance of a certain vraucn ap the Board, But he, it seems, was 6; work, aud the Commussioners themselves are one too many, for he also was removed, | yitimately responsibie for the proper discharge of it did not, in accordance with law, get the proper Rotice of his removal on the day bejore election. Ap Apollo Hal! man (William J. Boylan) was ap- pointed in his place, and thus the Board was really | Made up of four inspectors Wio were partial Ww tue wuccess of that portion of the work. They may think him best capable of attending to one branch of the business and unfit jor another, The Commission- | ers periorm their duty best by examining aud at- tending personaily, 1f possible, to the devils and | | Toutine of business, and no suspicion need be at- | | tached to their actions because they judge it best in the interest of the public to attend to certain labors themselves instead of leaving them alto- gether to subordinates, The appomtment of commissioners was con- ferred upon gentlemen whore position in the com- munity is one of acknowleaged rectitude, of ca- pacity and willingness to undergo the arduous and responatble labors connectea with their sev- eral offices, Should this trust be forfeited upon the fpuupie charge of a subordinate, after his dis- charge trom office? Yet, solety upon such acharge Was the presentment of the Grand Jury based, as far as I could ascertain from the written procecd- ings before it. | ‘The investigation, at which an opportunity was | ven to all parties to be heard, convinced me | that not the slightest toundation existed ior the | THE DOUBLE-HEADED TICKET called Republican-Apolio Hall. He was removed on the strength ofan affidavit purporting to have been made by one Joun J. Dawson, ab inspector io the same Board with him. it turned out aiter- ‘ward that there was ho such inspector, tuus prov- | ing that had the Commissioners given Hughes the ‘sual legal novice Of lus removal they would bave been cognizant of the traud that had veen com- ted, and 10 which, by neglecting their duty, they became a party. The second indictment was found because of the ihegai removal of Jona J. Weish in the Fourth elec- won district of the Eighteenth Assembiy district. Wt was from this district that Sheridan was re- | moved, his place and that of Welsn being filled by | Apollo Hail men, it will be remembered that Sheri- @abv Was removed on the receipt by the Commis- mouers of an affidavit signed by Dr. Parker Woos- | implications indicated. ter, be having been requested to sign it by that | jt appears that one of the Commissioners, soon honest man, Jimmy O’Brien. The Doctor did not | giter the assumption of office by the new Board, Kbow at (he time, as he testified alterward, that found that the prices paid for dry goods by the he was Signing an affidavit. He beiteved it to ve department were higher than necessary ana many @ petition of some kind, The affidavit whicucaused | 9; (nem entirely unsuited for the purpose for whieh Welsh’s removal was made by one Jonn E.Mur- they were purchased. ‘The Board found that phy, who, by the Way, was indicted on the 22d of | ajmost the entire supply of dry goods was obtained October ior § from one firm. According ‘to the extracts pro- FRAUDULENT PRACTICES AT THE, ELECTION, | duced from the official records of the department and which indictment Mr. Honesty Phelps, the and sworn to by the storekeeper, John E. Fiagier, | District Attorney, apparently cares very little for, and on close examination by the Commissioners of as le cannot be prevailed upon to put Murpay on | accounts, the amount expended for dry goods | tial. from May, 1872, to May, 1873, wWaS $62,933 45, of | The third indictment was Dased on the removal | wyich amount one firm larnished over $47,000, and | of John J. Crowley, a Tammany inspector of the jrom January to July, 1873, that same house alone Fourteenth Election district of the Eighteenth | jurnished ail the supplies of dry goods, with the Assemoly district. The affidavit on the strength exception of a few bills of comparatively trifling | of which he was removed purported to be that Of amount. The Commissioners considered it suspi- Charles Woodhall, another inspector in the same cious, and justly 80, that all the goods were ot | election district, When Woodhull, aiter the ei€c- tained irom one house, indicating that tne Supply tion, heard about the matter, he called upon Crow- Cjerk simply delivered to that house his requisi- | dey and told bim that he would make bis affidavit | tious, or that he received @ commission on the that be had never made the affidavit which had purchases which he made. caused his (Crowley's) removal. Of course au | “The nrst step taken by the Board to improve Apollo Hallman (Thomas '. Bagnell) was put a this condition of things was to adopt a resulution | his place, 3 ‘ offered by Commissioner Stern, on the s0th of | ‘The Mayor, when spoken 0. yesterday concern. | MAY, 187%, which reads as voter en D a my | _ Resolved, That ali supplies tor this department amount- ing the indictweuts, said, “I know nothibg about | y.bSw\’ “y F ther,” and, in answer ta question as to whether | SDE in.value,to $50n and upwards, per sopam shall be | advertised in the City Kecord,in the usual manner, tor y wouid have any effect upon his answer to the — sealed proposals, which proposals shail be opened before ernor, replied with Lue question, “Why should the Board of Commissioners ut such time as the adver- they tsement states. THE NEXT MOVE. It was found, however, that such a course was No oMecial notice of the indictments was sent not practicable, as the law required that certain to Garduer or Charlick yesverday afternoon; | torms of a complicated natare should be complied but they will be notitied to-day, when it 18 ex- | with, and first class business houses would very pected they will appear and give bail to stand | seldom, if at all, go to the necessary trouble, and trial, Assistant District Attorney Lyon, who {8 the result proved that the bids received were at now doing the work of Mr. Phelps, seemed to be | higher prices than the goods could be bought for guite put out by the finding of the indictments. | in the open market. ‘At jeast le refused to give any iniormation as to | It appears that Louis Sternbach, a dealer in dry } the exact facts upon which they had been based. | goods, was injormed, among others, that if he fur- The HkRALD reporter, therefore, had to go else- | nished samples of goods of the quality required, where for the desired information, and his prices compared favorably with those of | | other houses, he might get an order ‘rom the de- partment. He furnisued such samples, and the prices proved much lower than those offered to the | department jor goods o/ a similar quality. | homas K.*Fletcher testifies that he has been in | | Revenge Frustrated. The friends of Messrs, Gardner and Charlick have been unceasing in their efforts to drag Com- | missioner Duryee into the same mire tn which they themselves bave foundered, On Thursday, when it was found that the Grand Jury had de- cided to make no preseatment against General Duryee for violation of the Election laws, but sim- ply to indict Messrs. Gardner and Charlick for an Additional violation of the laws for which they had already been convicted, the powers tha Assistant District the dry goods business ip tais city for over twenty | years, and that he happened to come to tne office of the Commissioners on some private business, Several samples of cloths, fannels and other aiy goods were lying on the tabie, The Commissioners | Wook the opportunity to ask his judgment as an exper. His opinion was that the sample o! flannel | mrnished by Lows Sternbacb, and for which he charged forty-five cents per yard, Was worth fiJ- teen or sixteen cents @ yard more than a sample furnished by another house, the price of whici con- sisting of Attorney Lyons was fiity-five cents a yard, and the price asked jor aud Commissioner Davenport—went to work | the sloth offered by Mr. Sternbach was decidedly and did their beat to bring about a reconsidera- Selousonets by a aet woe, subiitte the tion of the your of the Grand Inquest. more was pressed into the service, with i It appears, then, that Louis Sternbach offered | the goous required at the cheapest price, and he r ved ap order irom the Board for them. 1t was | tions to see and “talk over” George Law. Jr, while others were instructed to take care of and ® tin ousiness transaction, above board, and one converse with certain other members of the Grand ¥Y Which @ saving Was ellected to the department. Jury, with a yiew to ure a reconsider: When, subsequently, the Supply Clerk Lampson the whole matter a8 regaraed tne indictmeats jor 98 “ischarged for dereliction of duty, he took the violation of the lection laws. troubl ascertaib the price at which Sternbact Ww, nears, so far fulfifled his in- boUgut the goods, and found that the iatter made qametons” Ae eek co to the terry, at ® Prout of ton ceuts @ yard on the cloth. The the foot of Murray street yesterday morn. /eard endeavored to obtain goods at the lowest ing and await the arrival of Mr. Hugh Aucnin- Possivie price, and it certainly could not enter into cows, the foreman of the Grana Jary, to #2 investigation of the original cost which the Whom he communicated his instructions re ved | Werchant who furnished the goods paid for them. from te repaviiean p when it Was arranged | 2%@ price was much lower than that previously ano subseqnently carried out in the Grand Jury | Paid ior goods of a similar kind, and the goods w jon of the who mmatter | Proved, according to the testimony of the various | “ District Attorney Lyon, officials, satisiactory throughout. IJ can seo sport, argued in nothing blameworthy in that transaction, noth- indicted ; but the gor ing iat would give rise to suspicion, though ‘(rand Jury. prevailed, it furnisned the basis ior the presentment of the venting any suc mpt at satisfying a pur Grand Jury. ‘The evidence given before us estab- | yudge OF per chge being consummated, | Hshed beyond a doubt the fact that te new Board | he min proceedings of the Police Board | appointed by me has proceeded with great intelli | fail to subst the charges brought against | Bence, econumy and circumspection in the aamin- General Duryee by Mossrs, Gardner and Charlick, | trawon i) odd department, and that the pur- that he voted in r of the removal of Jonu | chase of Arygoods, the subject inquired into, has Sueridan as election in tor. Po eee (aR Wish Gonsideravie care abd sa- | | gacity. v { From the statement received from the Commis- | The New Indictments Against Charlick and Gardner. sioners of Accounts there seetis to have been ex- pate BF — tag ead f. goods irom 5 n oa to Genera ay, 1872, to May, 187: 2 i, While the suta ps eleperes pe Myelin ipaeetag expenaed irom May, 1873, to May’ 1874, was only Court at one o'clock yesterday and handed in new | $49,864 90—a waving of over $14,000; and at this re- mmdictmenis agaiust Messrs, Cuarlick and Gard- | duced expenditure over ones. carnenls were ner. Gne, that on the Sd of Noveraber, 1473, tho | !urmished than tue year previous, while the aver- ss | ber of people excees by nearly 1,200 @ame not being @ day Of registration, revision ot | thee of abs previous yee. ‘This rH certainly no registration or election, one James Waish wasan | evidence of exvravagance bf ie nay . ae ctor of election for the Fourth Elect | investigation has convinced me ful 6 prego Bight 7 ape Assembly district. ray bers | administration of the Department of Public Chari- stmt pekien eee y district, duly ap- | ties and Correction is in the best hands; tuat it is pointed by the Board of Police, and that Oliver | conducted honestly, conscientiously and in the «hariick, Hugh Gardner and Henry Smith, of the | interests of the public, and that I have full cause Police Board, while the said Walsh Was not on duty — to repose the highest confidence in the gentlemen on a day of registration, &c., unlawfully and Jeloni- | composing the Board. Lest, however, in the | ously removed him for cause (rom nis ofice Without present unsettled, feverish and deiuded condition motice in Lge of the public mind, in expressing my opiuion of The jurors fad said Charlick and Gardner guilty the presentment of the Grand Jury, when consid of misdemeanor in Violating the thirteentu sectiok ered in connection With the Investigauon it eli ot the Blection jaw. rged with taking a more iavor- The next indictment is against the came parties rranted. wr uplayial emayal vo! an inenecvor wf eleckvn n before toe Sessions | subMUticd ai Lhe | Combustible Burean of Fire Department | is but a suboraimate officer, a mere empioyé, | 4, | ton aqueduct, reservoirs, mains, 4c., on March 31 | about six per cent, making the annual interest on | to be held this afternoon at one o'clock. | Liverpool; the Algeria, of the Cunard line, for | explained to Coroner Woitman by UMicer Law, of | the (wenty-eighth precinct. NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JULY 18, 1874. gether with the presentment of the Grand Jury, | the evidence tuken beiore it, the report of the | Commissioners OF Accounts on the questions in- | volved, to Messrs. Wiillam A, Booth and Howard | Potter for examination and report, whicd, having | received, I Lereto appena. ve HAVEMEYE R, Mayor. NeW York, July 15, 1874. Hon, WILLIAM F. HAVEMEYBR, Mayor:— At your request we have carefully examined the papers r ived from you in relation to charges against Messis, Laimbeer and Stern, Commission- ers of Charities and Correction, including the tes- timony taken by the Grand Jury and that taken by you, with the statement of the Commissioners of Accounts, and see nothing in them to justly the imputations to which they nave peen subjected, nor mconsistent with an honest purpose to do the mblic faithiul service im a difficult and résponsi- | je position, Yours truly, | WILLIAM A. BOOTH. HOWARD PUTIER. Comptroller Green “Rises” to Explain | the Reduction of Salaries. } Comptroller Green issues the following “General | Order, No. 19,” headquarters County Court House, ' whence he proceeds to throw red-hot shot into | the ranks of Messrs. Vance and Wheeler, on their reduction of his estimates for the balance of this year: CIRCULAR, NO. 1% Ciry or Nw Yorn, Daranrment or Finaxcl i Comprronien’s Orrice, July 15, 1874. statement is necessary to explain the reasons ‘action respecting the compensatich and hours of | duty of the employes ot the Finance Department A lew days since two metubers of the Board of Appor- tionment (Messrs. Vance and Wheeler) were understood to assume the position that uness certain changes pro- posed by them were made in the tax budget for 1374 no reduction of the budget of last fall, which left the rate of taxation at 3.40 per cent, would be made. Inasmuch as the law requires the vote of every member of the Board it ts plarn that these gentlemen had the power to ‘at the reduction of the taxation as proposed by the mptroller, unless their lil-considered terms were com- plied with. ‘The Comptroller thought It better to accede to the proposed modifications, though they were not in accordance with his judgment, than to prevent a reduc- tion in the taxes, # mater in which every citizen is so much interested. Amoug the reductions they proposed were the follow- ng — Supplies for the hospitals, almshouses, &c........$103,000 | 13,684 | } Saluries of the Fini © Department, being equal to a reduction of $66,000 per annum $3,032 Contingencies Mayor's office 7,00) To pay off mortgaxes. &e. es Fire Department buildings in Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth wards...... | Departinent of Public Parks.:. 4 20,000 | aud embarrassing restrictions upen this department. ‘On the other hand the following increase was proposed by them :— To pay tor gas in the Twenty-third and Twenty. $124,000 fourth wards. . . tee : Making an lncrewse ‘over the Amount proposed by the Comptrolier of $74,000 tor gas in these wards. An item for a lawyer's bill of. ee 1,225 The City Record appropriatio 2 creased by 2,500 ‘The salaries of the employes of the Board of Aldermen were increased, though it is evident that three-dths of the amount alloted would be cutirely adequate to carry on the business. Every item in ihe Department of Public Works that had been previously redueed was increased by Messrs. Vance and Wheeier. Ic is well Known (o most of vou that the business of the Finance Department nas increased under ihe pew charter nearly threefold, and thai the energies of the force have, in some of the bureaus of the deparunent at Teast. been most severely taxed. ‘Tne insufticrent appropriations for salaries of the | Finance Department wiil cause difficulty and embar- | rassment. Any reduction of the force, except perhaps | temporarily m the Tax Oftee during ull season there, will involve a neglect of the necessary public | business. ‘he salaries of these temporary ¢ Tax Office will not average $1,100 each for the whole | | cur. aoe public business must be attended to and kept up. This cannot be neglected or omitted without occasioning | great disturbance in the transfers of real estute and in other business imerests, The revenues of the city are to be coll d daily and accounted tor, The wages of labor and the biils of merchants for supplies must be h ANnnot be omitted for a day. ¢ got to do increased work with less men, conse- uties of those who remain must be added ww Who must be discharged. Few ean be mpensation must be reduced. | sary — {be reduced where possible. | Of Isbor must be increased. | Third —S R In order that we may see with what justice these re- | ictions are made | Nave caused ab average of Salaries mance Department to be made, and also of id tw the clerks of the Boara of Aldermen, | which were raised by Messrs. Vance and Wheeler over | the amount proposed in the budget, and also those paid | in the Department of Taxes and Assessments and De: partment of Public Works. The following is the result:— The salaries o1 the Vinuuce Department average to each of its employes. including the Comp- cx Of the Department of Taxes und Assessments (Inciuding the Com- missioners)... The salaries of th then (excluding the Aldermen)... ‘The salaries of the Department 0 \inctudiug the Commissioner) It thas appears that the ave the Finance Department prior to any, reductions by Messrs. Vance and Wheeler, Isless than the average in other departments, while the nature and responsibility of the | duties is greater than in any of them. Not les than $50,000,000 of money have to be, received and disharsed i annually, and much of it comes in the form of bank bills, | Teouiring care in its receipt and custody. 1 have aretuily considered the whole matter and ap. preciate the hardships that ft is to impose on the clerl cal force of this department as well as in other depart. | ments that have been so inconsiderately reduced ; and in order to keep within the allotted amount, and yet keep up the public business as nearly as can be accom- plished, have concluded as follows:— Trst—All temporary clerks in the Tax Office must be | suspended for two months without pay. ‘Seona—The office hours Will hereafier be from nine to five o'clock instead of from nine to four o'clock, except on Saturdays, when they will be from. nine to four c every person will be expected to re- alter flve o'clock 4s 18 necessary to keep | RB up his work. Third—A reduction on all salaries of all employes of | the department equal to twenty per cent is directed as a necessity to keep within the appropriations. Fourth—Besides all this some removals will have to be | made, and the work of those yved must be done by | the extra hours imposed on others. | Fyth—the usual summer vacation will be shortened to one week instead of two as heretotore. I very much regret this state of things, as It will operate with severity on’ some of the employes of the depart- ment, Bat the situa:ion must be accepted; it is imposed upon you as well as upon the employes of certain other | departments either through ignorance or design. The | burdens that are involved musi be accepted. Let us see | that this department continues to be the department of | the city foremost in system, punctuality and readiness to respect the requirements of the law. “Very respectfully, ANDREW H. GREEN, Comptrolier. Proportion of Revenue Water to the Water Debt. Commissioner Van Nort states that the outstand- ing indebtedness of the city on account of the Cro- frem Croton Outstanding Croton last Was $16,270,155, bearing interest at the rates of five, six and seven per cent, the average being the debt $976,209, The revenue from Croton water Tents, penalties and tapping pipes collected by the Department of Public Works in 1873 was $1,428,931, being an increase of $221,842 over the receipts of 1871. To this should be added the amount of Cro- ton water rents returned in arrears, $50,640, which 1s a lien upon property, and wili ultimately be col- lected, Making the total revenue for 1878 $1,479,571, ving nine and one-tenth per cent on the debt, aking six percent as the average rate of inter- est, the revenue for the year 1873 would leave a sarplus of $503,362, During Commissioner Van Nort’s administration the increase in revenue has been more than suficient to pay interest on the in- crease of indebtedness incurred for the extension of the Croton main system, the construction of | reservoirs and the alterations ofthe aqueduct. if the revenue, therefore, was applied to the pay- ment of interest on the Croton water debt, and the surplus paid into a sinking fund for its nedemp- tion, it would be extinguished in eighteen years, City Hall Gossip. Rumor says that @ call has been tseuea for a | special session of the Board of Assistant Aldermen It is un- derstood that the resolutions condemning the Aidermen, which Assistant Alderman Healy did | not introduce last Monday, Will then be brought | forward by hum and Assistant Alderman Clancy. In order to induce the Mayor to sign an ordi- nance for the grading and paving of Filth avenue, from Ninetieth street to 120th strect, a number of | property holders called upon nim yesterday, | among them Messrs, L. F. Barry, William H. Ray- | nor, Theodore E. Tomlinson and others. Bis Honor | promised to give the sabject his earnest consider- | ation, Al a meeting of thé Board of City Record, con- | ul sisting ¢ Mayor and Commissioner Van Nort, heid yes Jay, a few bills were ordered paid, STEAMSHIP DAY, Upwards of 4,000 passengers will leave New York for ope to-uay by the following feet of ves- seis:—The White Star steamer Celtic, for Liver- pool; the City of Brooklyn, of the Inmgn line, for Liverpool; the Greece, of the National line, for Liverpool; the Utopia, of the Anchor line, for Giasgow; the Main, of the Bremen line, for Bremen; the Schiller, of the Kagle Une, tor Ham- burg. Passenger rates are still falling; @ Dumber Of steerage pussengers were yesterday taken at $13 and $14, The cabin rates are also falling. The Broadway policemen are making excellent com- missions from many of the steamahip offices by piloting purchasers of steerage ticketa to the offices of commission paying companies, A HERALD reporter watched the proceedings yesterday, and was considerably edified. ‘The Ponce Commission- ers will do well to pay their men regularly for the | future, and prevent their being “ticket tonters’’ any longer. The Celtic and City of Brooklyn will each take out about 500 steerage passengers. A MYSTERY EXPLAINED, The mys‘ery surrounding the case of Henry Bond, the man #1xty-fve years of age, who died in Belle- vue Hospital two or three days ago, was yesterday | Bond, who was aman pears fell into an area Watt street, and fatliv ipiured | | Rev. Father Fariey. | fail to render inteligivie,” mation of Mrs, | Church, Jamaica, will this afternoon, NEW YORK CITY. OMcer Savercool, of the Twenty-eighth precinet, shot himsel! in the ankle, yesterday morning, by the accidental discharge o/ a pistol! in his pocket while running to auswer @ Call ‘or help. The body of Patrick Dillon, of No. 85 Gouvernenr street, who has been missing for several days, was found by Officer Leary, of the Seventh precinct, at pier No. 47, East River, yesterday alternoon, On Thursday night Louis Muller, of No, 121 Hester street, accepted the invitation of Rosanna Smith to accompany her to No, 85 Chrystie street. He did so, and on entering she snatched irom him his pocketbook, containing pawn tickets for $41 worth of jewelry and wearing apparel. Rosanna was held in $1,000 bail to answer. The saloon passengers of the steamer Greece presented to Captain Thomas, of that ship, when of Sandy Hook, on Wednesday last, a compli- mentary letter expressive of “his kindness, | urbanity, skill and watch ulness” during the trip, which Was an exceedingly stormy one. The letter ‘was signed by all the saloon passengers, BROOKLYN. ‘The tncorporators of the Brooklyn Gilbert Safety Elevated Railroad are taking measures toward forwarding the enterprise. The plans for the road have attracted a number of offers from contractors and others who desire to have a share in the work, It 8 expected the road will be completed iside of three years, There were 267 deaths in Brooklyn last week, de- ing an increase of 66 over the record of the pre- vious week. Of the deceased 28 were men, 41 women, 92 boys and 106 girls. Cholera infantum carried off 96; consumption, 26; diarriicea, 8; dys- entery, 5; smallpox, 2; scarlatina, 6; croup, 2; baer) 3 There were jour deaths by drown- > The Brooklyn Fresh Air Fund is now ready to receive the contributions of the well disposed in furtherance of the philanthropic object im view to give recreation to the pent up, over-worked poor ot the city. Four hundred and thirty-five doilars have thus Jarbeen subscribed, James W. Kiwell is president and R. D. Dougiass manager of the 09 | organization. Judge Moore, of the Court of Sessions, yester- day sentenced Frederick Strauss, alias Sigismund Krauss, to the Penitentiary for four years and three months, the prisoner having been found guilty of bigamy. The testimony showed that the prisoner marricd Fanny Horn in New York in 1871, the ceremony having been pertormed by Rabbi Eckstein in the Eighth avenue synagogue. ‘Ibey had one child, which was duy circumcised, In June, 1873, he married Margaret McCarthy, the ceremony being performed at the cathedral by the Beiore the latter unlawful marriage Strauss was baptized and received into the Church. Belore passing sentence the Judge inquired whether the prisoner had anytiing to say, to which the latter replied :—‘'I have only to say these two women have put their money to- gether to convict me, no matter what it costs.” THE GOODRICH MURDERESS, Kate Stoddard’s Serious Objections to Her Commitment by the County Court. The irrepressible Lizzie King, alias Kate Stod- dard, the alleged murderess of Oharles Goodrich, who was committed by Judge Moore, under the new Lunacy act, to the Asylum at Auburn, N. Y., | continues to protest against the action of the | Court, She says, ‘The Judge told me that it was | not his Guty to pronounce whether I was guilty or imnocent of the charge brought against mie, only upon my present mental condition; and yet, in nis the charge, aud qualified it in a manuer which I Kate denies the inti- Merrigan that sue dyed her tresses with French shoe polish upon the occasion of her last appearance in public, LONG ISLAND. Snipe shooting has fairly commenced at the east end and on the south side of the island. The birds are reported to be very plentifal. Michael, son of Mr. Mortimer D. Howell, while fishing at Westhampton yesterday afternoon, fell from @ boat and was drowned before assistance could be rendered him. The Rev. George W. Smith, rector of Grace at five o’clock, lay the corner stone of the proposed new Church of the Resurrection (Episcopal) at Rich- mond Hill, On Wednesday evening last Mr. and Mrs, Hayte, residing at Queens, attended the wedding of a lady friend at Foster’s Meadow. On their return home, | late in the evening, and when near their resi- dence, the horses became frightened at some ob- ject lying in the road, and, startiug suddenly tor- ‘ward, Mr. Hayte and his wife, who were sitting on the back seat, were thrown backward from the wagon. Mrs. Hayte struck on her head, which was badly hurt, and she received internal injnries besides, which caused her death in @ few hours. Mr. Hayte was also seriously injured, but wiil doubtless recover. CRIME IN OANARSIE, Bloody Encounter Between Negroes at a Negro Ball. George Pool and Henry Williams, two colored young men, were among the dancers at a negro ball held at Lehman’s Hotel, Canarsie, on Thurs- | day night last. Growing weary of the giddy mazes Of the light fantastic toe, the gallants named witn- drew to indulge in a “liquid smile’ and a game of draw poker. The liquor appears to have been stronger than their friendship, and the proprietor. | ship of a certain trick led to an angry exchange of words, Which culminated in heavy blows, Cries of “Kick him out!? were heard echoing along the corridor leading from the ballroom to the card tabie, and simultaneously there appeared upon the scene @ party of stalwart guests, who threw them- selves between the wrathy Pool and the worsted Williams, Soon after Williams withdrew from the hotel and sent for Pool, who responded to the sum- mons. Henry no sooner encountered George in the dark than he drew a razor and cut him twice— once on the right side, the wound being sixteen inches in length, and the other gash cutting of a portion of the Mesh ofthe right hand. Williams was arrested, and was committed by Justice Semler to await the result of the injuries inflicted, his victim being in @ precarious condition. CRIME IN WESTCHESTER, Drugged and Decoyed to Her Ruin—A Young Woman Brutally Maltreated by “Roughs” and Afterwards Robbed. The particulars of a brutal outrage on a young ‘woman, supplemented by the additional crime of robbery, transpired at Yonkers, Westchester county, yesterday morning. In the City Court were arraigned Jonn Fitzpatrick, Bernard Feath- erston and Thomas Foley, three young men not <anknown to the police, charged, in the aMdavit of Ellen Bi v - , with having, on | Ellen Egan, aged twenty-three, with having, on , ame full of bitter agony, tue previous day, participated in the perpetration of a criminal assault upon her person. According to the testimony of the complainant she arrived in Yonkers ou Thursday, irom New York, Waving being engaged to do housework tor @ jamily living in the former city, Being a stranger, she began making inquiries at the railroad depot as to how she should reach ber destination, and While doing 80 attracted the attention of Fitz patrick, @ hack driver, who told her to wait a short tume and he would take her to the house of her em- ployer. He subsequently induced her to enter @ drinking saluon near the depot, where she acknowledges having drank two or three glasses of aie and some Wine, after which Fitz patrick put her in his back, apa, taking Featn eraton with him, drove out to @ secluded portion Of the City, and in an Opposite direction to that tn Which her empioyer hyed. Here, she testified, Fitzpatrick committed a felonious outrage upon her, while she was being securely held by Feather. ston, The latter, according w her evidence, was about repeating the offence, when her screams were heard by three laborers who were approaeh- ing, seeing which, Fitzpatrick and Featherston threw her out of the vevicle and drove rapidly away. Foley, it appears, Was One ol the ostensi- bie rescuers, aud the testimony of complainant aiso charges him with throwing ber to the ground @nd hoiding her there while one of his companions, Who 1s still at large, assaulted her in the criminal manner aiready indicated, and who, in addition, robbed her of a pocketbook contaiming a few dor tars in currency. The accused parties were represented by coun- sel, and during the examination the witness was subjected to such @n avalanche of technical in- terrogatories that she almost appeared to be the only offender in court. Fitzpatrick and Feather- ston were held in $500 each to answer at the Gen- eral Sessions, the first named on @ charge of as- sault with intemt to violate, and the latter for as- Aault and battery, A furtuer hearing tn Foley's case Was set down for next Tuesday, as the com- plainant became so befogged by the legai density of the atmosphere that 1t Was found impracticable to proceed, STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. A sad occnrrence took place at South Am- poy, N.J., about five o’ciock on Thursday after noon, Two young men, Smith Bloodgood, aged eighteen, and Charles Dey, aged twelve, were in a boat oystering In the bay, close to shore, when they rere both suruck by lightning and instantly killed, ocked at the same ume, | commitment of me, has pronounced me guilty of | Two others on the saore near by were | | work, and downhearted at being always reiused; | I'm very feeble; it’s growin’ on me, sir, of late. [ THE FLOATING HOSPITAL. Great Need for Its Establishment Opinions of the Doctors. VISITS TO THE SICK CHILDREN. Contributions in Reply to the Herald’s Call. Every day shows more fully the great need for the floating hospital, which was proposed in the HERALD to be organized under the charge of St. Joun’s Guild. The daily death reports are in themselves powerful pleadings for the earliest pos- sible adoption of this humane system of relief for the little sufferers perishimg hour by hour during this hot weather in the confined air of the tene- ments, Public opinion is as nearly unanimous in favor of this project as it ever is upon even the most popular issues. The fact 1s that all our business men, who are compelled daily to pass througn the crowded. districts where the poor have their homes, see enough of what children are compelled to endure, and inhale enough of the gas they are compelled to breathe, to satisfy them of the reality of the tortures in store for those who become too sick to remain in the streets, It ts, doubtless, owing to this fact that the first generous response to the appeal for aid comes almost wholly from the well known merchants whose names appear below. WHAT THE DOCTORS SAY. Visits made to the Demilt and Northeastern dis- pensaries and interviews held with leading phy- sicians throughout the city elicit the unanimous opinion of the medical faculty that the floating hospital is a much needed measure for the sani- tary safety of the city and the prevention and cure of contagious and epidemic diseases, just now prevalent among children. Dr. Darkin, the House Physictan at Demilt Dis- | pensary, states that children are now bronght { there daily to whom medicines would be of no use, but who are dying by inches trom want of pure air. This is also the statement of the entire medi- cal staff of the institution. Similar opinions are | expressed at the Northeastern Dispensary and at the dispensary tn Waverley place. Dr. Kreitzer, | who treats large numbets of charity cases, is eio- | quent in behalf of the proposed plan and has tendered his services on the medical staf now organizing. Dr. Billington, who has devoted a { great deal of time to the consideration of this and similar plans of overcoming the diMiculties the | tenement house sick have to encounter, gives a most unqualified indorsement to the system of excursions upon the water. THE SIOK aT DEMILT DISPENBARY numbered yesterday something over thirty among the children alone, The cases were treated by Dr. Kreizer, and among them were tiree where no | local disease had manifested itself, but where there ‘was a gradual wasting away ot. all the vital forces. They needed pure air—invigorating breezes—and probably three or four days upon the waters ot the bay and rivers would completely restore them, giving them vigor and a new lease of it!e, Without @ change of this kind they are doomed. Eighty per cent of the other cases were derangements of the bowels and debilitated systems, resulting from the injerior quality of food taken into the system and lack of proper air, In one case the mother explained that she took her little one in her arms oul upon the streets at five o'clock in the morning and walked about with it till she was forced to return to begin her daily labor. She asked the Doctor, in a shy, nervous way, if he thought it would ‘benefit the baby it she carried it out late in the evening when her work was over.” The Doctor promptly replied that babes were best in bed alter sundown, Tone and health might be given to all these vitiated little systems by one or two days’ sail in a pure atmosphere. CHILDHOOD AND AGE SHARING MISFORTUNE, In a tenement house in Sixtieth street a visitor of the Guild jound a sad picture of sickness and destitution. There were in the househoid two sis+ ters, aged respectively eighty-nine and seventy- one years. The son-in-law Of the youngest of these two was out searching for work. On the bare floor, their heads pillowed on their arms, were the half-orphaned children of this man— the grandcuildren of the woman of seventy- one. They were both sick with tever. There was another member of the family, 30 the old lady said, her son, Who was also out searching for employ- ment, The room was. destitute of furniture; the cupboard was empty of food, There was not so | much as a crust of bread in the place. From time to me the cnildren drank eagerly {rom an old tin | bagin, half filled with water, ‘Can you send any one tothe Guild office tor food?’ asked the visitor. “Yes,” said the youngest of these aged women; “lll send my boy when he comes home. He'll be very tired, Sif, wandering about all day asking for but he’s had hothing to eat and—neither have we, sir—and he'll be glad to go, ti only FOR HIS POOR OLD MOTHER'S SAKE, Td go to save him, sir, but it’s @ long way and used to be strong and hearty as a young woman before my daughter died and both my sou and my son-in-law lost work.’? ey ‘At this Moment the old woman of eighty-nine came tottering to the side of the visitor, She bent | forward slightly, looked at her sister, then at the | visitor, Whose arm she clutched. Her eyes were | lighted up with a peculiar fire; there was a bungry look in them and @ nervous twitchin, aboat her lips, Suddenly she whispered, “I wouic be so much obliged to you, kind sir—1 would like @ bone to make some soup, if you could send it. It’s only an old woman’s notion, sir. You won't think hard of my asking it, but I thought I'd hike | itso much. I dreamed of soup last night.” The visitor Matters himseli that many journeys among the poor by night and day have rendered his nervous systein proof against sudden shocks and uncontrollable twitchings, but some way bis hand went suddenly to his pocketbook and his face tothe door, while he became aware that meat markets possessed for him an hitherto unsus- pected interest. As he reached the door there was a knock loud | and authoritative. He opened the door and a police | officer stood before him. Tne younger of the two old women came forward and the oficer suid, “Yon are Mrs, ——.”! “Yes,” the old woman tremblingly. “Your 6on was found,drowned in the Kast River at noon to-da, “My son!” ‘said the old woman, staggering back from the door, and the two wrinkled and leebie sisters, who had clung to each other through nearly three-quarters of a century of light and shadow, fell weeping upon each other's bosoms. “My son! My boy! Oh God! my boy!” wailed the mother, and even the police oMicer fell back soft- ened and abashed by the terrible woe he had brought to this starving woman’s heart. No more thought of food, no more thought of the morrow, came to the minds of these two, locked in each other's arms and crying, oh! so bitterly. Alter atime the oMcer asked what disposition should be made oi the body. The answer, tn the end, There was not even a clean shirtin the house in which to dress the corpse. ‘there was no room in the house in which it could lie. Reluctantly the reply was forced through the thin trembling lips, “We must let you take our boy to the Morgue.” When the visitor left the first pangs Of grief had passed and their simple story had. been told. Every article of apparel, even to the children’s shoes and underclothing, had been pawned to buy food. There are now“in the possession of the Key. Alvah Wiswall, Master of the Guild, some twenty-five pawn tickets, being half the number in possession of the old women, which represent the most needful articles of their scanty wardrobes, This family will be taken on the first excursion of the hospital barge, DESTITUTE SICK CHILDREN’S RELIEF FUND, Below we publish the first generous reponse the public to the appeal of the Guild:— Through Howland & Aspinwall— Wit Aspingwall....... $100 hough David Saio- DEON evraeevesss-c, Throgh “Win, Wood Ona Mrs. it, M. Browne....... Sent to Kev. Alvah Wiswall, Guild oftice— Mills. vom : nn. 4 . Pober, HM. Galloway. J. F. Copeott.. Beadleston, = Pri i. M. White & Co Woerg.. » Martin Kalbiteiscli J. M. Tettord. Mrs. D. L. Seymonr. A. L. Compton . J. Roach. .. 8. T id W, & Dotke DW Kicharda., Contributions to the fund are earnestly solicite onee, and may be sent to Mayor Uavemeyer, City Hall, Arnold, Constable & Co.. No, 486 Brosd way | scantily draped at this season of the year. | ctled in the Fourteenth wad. ——————— DA &Co., No. 581 Broadway. Au a ete ont # Co., No. Wy Nussau street. sh M Barlow, No 34 Wiiham reat all, Black & Co., No. roadway, rs Judge Joha R, Brady, No. 19 Wesi Thirty-third street Heury Bergh, No. 190 Fourth avenue Henry Clews, No. 2 Wall stree. Frederick 4. Cons ling, President Attna Fire Insurance Company, No. 172 Broadwa H. B, Claflin & Co., No. 140 Chureh street, Chittenden & Co., No, $28 Broadway, kering & Sons, No. 1 East Fourteenth street. 1 J, No. 244 West Thirty-fourth streey D., No. 14 east Thirty-third ah No. 90 John street 7) Union place. . De | R. Ogden Doremus, | @Francis P. Furnald, No. 47 Warren street Joun P. Faure, No.'2s3 West Eleventh street. Howland & Aspinwall, No, 54 South street Harper & Brothers, No. 331 Pearl street Hatch & Foote, No.’ 12 Wall street. Hoyt. Muranuies & Co., No. 170 franklin street, R. Hoe &@ Co,, corner heriff and Grand streets, Francis H. Jenks, President New York Sale Depust? ong AStiet X62" saa der, No. 432 Broadway, 4. 4. Low, No.3 Burling slip. Lord & Taylor, No. 899 Broadway. Wine eer. No. 73 William street. mer & Co. T. Otis Leroy & Co., No. .No. 75 Leonard streek ‘Andrew W. Deputy Collector of ndtier: ri ouegeas epuby lector of Assessments, Gouverneur K. Lansing, Earle's Hotel, ‘Theodore Moss, Wa! ackis Theatre, Maller & Co., No. 3 Union square. William B. Geden, No. 214 Broadway. ‘Tilford, No, #21 Broad way. ane G dake No. 177 West street. . ins, lay ‘arks, coh ner Sixteenin street'and Yourts avenues ayy ase German-American Bank, No, 120 Jackson S. Schultz, No. 63 Clifr stre: Tifany & Co., No. 13 Union square. William BR. Tri gers Ne 19 Madison avenue. Bekins Wuleen WB: Ra Wapemercayy a seh Wiley, Wicks & Heude streets uaF D. Wings, No, 100 Wid Watson Co. No. td Church at %0., NO. ure mode §, aortic, People Bank, pee Gacal anes ‘nompson streets. Or Hey. Alvah Wiswall, Master of St, John’ 2 Varick street, 2 Gulls, Ho. THE CHILDREN’S PICNIC, Distribution of Tickets for ‘the Four. teenth Ward Poor Children’s Free Bx-. cursion—Three Thousand Given Out. Mulberry street is not the abode of wealth; neither are its homes “replete with comforts,” It | has variety of arcnitecture, but makes no boast of beauty Itis densely tenanted by the very poor, and its ratted pavement and broken footwalks reek with filth, Many of its citizens earn the bread of industry at home, being shoemakers, blacksmiths, stablemen and the like. Quite | @ large proportion industriously draw beer or mix toddies. Dense as ig the adult population the proportion of infancy and childnood 18 im ap astonishing ratio. thereto, They are dirty, ragged, barefooted, hat- less, olten shirtless, and, as to the females, very About the only fine buildings in the street are the Cen- tral Police Office, the Cathedral and the new police station house of the Fourteenth precinct, These are exceptions to the general character of the vas in the strect, and, with these excep- tions, the street is a pretty fair SAMPLE OF THE POURTESNTH WARD, Having seen better days, when New York la; below Union equare, it 1s now the middle round between reputable dwelling i, “egg is and the exclusive basiness localities. Its houses, built for one famiy, bave become tenant hives, made to shelter a family on every fluor or sometimes twice that number, while often the basement serves as a small grocery or shoe shop. Ail nationalities which claim New York a8 tueir home are domt There is no need to leave Mulberry street to hear all the languages of Europe and find representatives of antipodal races, while the descendant of involuntary emi- grants from Africa, in full black or variously watered by miscegepation whitework, is seen in every street, his picaninnies as dirty as their Caucasian playmates. A RAGGED PARADE, All these kinds, varieties and admixtures of humanity were raustered in mass in Mulberry street yesterday aiternoon., At three o’clock the whole street between Captain Clinchy’s station house on toe west side and the Metnodis: Book Voncern’s printing building on the east was filled with @ solid, surging congregation of dirty, but bright-eyed children, reaching nearly @ block im length and numbering fully 5,000, There were all ages and sizes, trom tue baby, who walks with the uncertainty of first steps, to the strapping voys of | fifteen. But these last were there for naughi cept to see the crowd. They came for tickets to to-day’s Free Excursion Picnic. By the exertions ot baif @ dozen policemen a line was formed, which walked in single file past the station house door. Here each, except the too big boys, recelved @ card for admission to the barge Chicago lor the excursion, Raving received the precious bit of pasteboard the little creatures would secrete them in the folds of their clothing and scamper away home, or in some instances steal back through the crowd to come @ second time along the thin, Tagged, dirty line with open hanas for a second ticket for @ little brother or sister athome, In some cases these REPEATERS WERE DETECTED and sent to the rear in ignominy and temporary disgrace. Lt was believed they were the offspring of ballot stuffers, but in consideration that their appearance indicated need of @ salt water bath their original and honestly acquired tickets were not confiscated, and to-day they will have milk, lemon- ade, cake and ice creain with the rest who easayed no trick on the credulity of Colonel Williams, who distributed the cards. In less than an hour all the tickets provided, 3,000, had been given away, and though the continuoas line of applican mad’ been sappiied, children continued to come every mo- ment. These were told to be ready to fall into line ateight o’clock this morning, and they would be received on the barge even though they had no ex- | cards. The Governor's Island band will lead the procession to the poat, From the indications | yesterday the number taken on this day’s excur | sion will largely exceed those on the two preced- | ing ones. Tne boat will to-day be decorated with the flags and banuers presented by Mrs. William Butier Duncan, and no doubt the excursion will be as full of profit and pleasure to the litte boys { and girls of tne Fourteenth ward as the former | ones were to those of the First and Fourth. God bless the little wails and taose who help them! OUR RUSSIAN BAPTISTS. Arrival of Four Hundred Mennonites— They Bring $120,000 in Gold with Them—Interesting Interview with Da- rius Walter. Yesterday morning upwards of four hundred Mennonite emigrants arrived at Castle Garden from the Crimea. The women all wore blue calico gowns, with # biue handkerchief thrown over their heads, aud no signs of rib bon or earrings or brooches or even wed- ding rings were visible, these things being al) considered too worldly, The children were dressed like their mothers, with this exception, that some of their caps were surmounted with a kind of topknot or ornamental tassel. The men were all dressed like ordinary German peasants; but, in spite of the seeming poor. ness of their apparel, they had well filled wallets, One of them had a draft for $26,000 in gold, another had a draft for neariy the same amount, while many of the others held letters of credit for sums varying irom $1,000 to $2,000, Up to five o’ciock last evening tne agents of the Hamourg steamer had paid to the Men- nonites over $120,000 in g Id. THR HISTORY OF ONE OP THRE NUMBER. “We left Simpheropol, in the Crimea,” said Darius Waiter, “about the end of May, and trav- elled by rail across Europe to Hamburg. We made halts at Kerlinand Hamburg. Three of our little ones have died on the road. Our foretathers have lived in the Crimea jor upwards of one hundred years, and we are leaving Russia because they Want to make us Greek Catholics and liable to military service. Tie law ordaining = this does not take effect for four years yet; but we are taking time by the forelock and leaving the country as fast as wecun. It is possible that jorty thousand more of our numver will be here ere long from Russia, Weare fying from that country cecause they want to rob ws of our religion, We have some of our number here who | live in @ community and have ail worldly things tn common. My son is their ‘Father,’ and he has been elected to that oMce for Ife. The brother- hood 18 called the ‘Hurtische Community.’ We all work at agricultural pursuits; we don’t smoke ; if we drink too much we erie tee reproved in our religious meetings. ‘e do not use wedding Tings; we have no aivorce; il man and wile separate neither is ever allowed to marry again. 6 had our own courts for smali matters in Rassia, but | had to go before the Russian courts in matters of appeal. We have & large number of famiites here, some of them being large a8 eight or ten chil- dren, There are always some very old people among 0s, like great-grandmother Hesterstahl, who 18 about eighty-two years of age.” B NKXT ARRIV. THB Ni IV ALy A Vag of nine wealthy Mennonites are now ex- Rey ing the country about Nashua Falls, Kansas, for the establishment of a colony of five hundred families, They arrived in this city this week by the German steamer Schiller. They will probably icave Castie Garden to-day for various puints ia the West. Last evening the Rev. C. P. Scnafter, ae sisted by the Rey. J. P, Lestrade, of the New York Biole Society, gave each of the Mennonites a Ger- man Testament, THE BATHING NUISANOR A correspondent asserts in @ commanication to the HSRALD that the article in regard to “maked bathers” on the river front ia tn no manner exag- | gerated. The assertion is made that,ladies are nstantly insulted by these river rowdies, bat th rrespondent charges sat itis nosso much th lanit of the police Ulat the nuisance is not abated, As aiter bey have made arrests the bathers tn- Mode d a l'scl arged when arraigned before | the volice magistrates rr.