The New York Herald Newspaper, July 28, 1874, Page 4

4 4s of the committee. A witness so fluent as | Reis stands at a sertous disadvantage pelore & stenographer. Both where be answers and where je refuses to answer be seems incapable of any re- Every question tempis lim into a speech full of phrases and metaphors, whieh ja 2 an indisereet light upon the history of his troubles. ‘Tue tacts Whien come out most sirongly trom his examination are that he admits a perfectly inno- cent explanation of some of the compromising roumstances, detailed with such pal ticularity in 3 formal indictment; that he shows @ haziness of sollection (2 regard to some important matters, id involves himself in absolute contradictions in Nerence to others, which throw the gravest ount upon all bis assertions which are not sus- tained by other evidence; that he gives serious ground for delleving that his fight against Mr. Beecher began with an effort to recover a claim | against Mr, Bowen, and that the destruction ot nis domestic peace Was in bis eves a far less im- portant matter than bis dismissal irom the frookiyn Union, and that, for a man “tempest tossed,” as he calls himseil, he extubited singular cooiness and adroituess in taking shorthand copies, for purposes of hostility, of att che letters Mr, Moulton showed him tin the interests of cu nb r di No Christianity Involved in It, {From the Chicago Tribune.) rhe real enemies of Christianity in this matter are those Who seek to involve religion somehow tu the downfall of Beecher; and let us say right here chat, up to the present time, we have not heard one scotfer, one infidel, attemp: 9 doso. On the contrary, the ovly ones Who have sought to con- struct a yoke between Beecher and Christianit 0 that ii the one falls the other shall go down | Wise, are proiessed Christians, We bave no words to express our contempt for that sort of Chris tianity which couples the fate of religion with every rasca! Who has stolen Its livery to serve the devil in. The duty of the gepainé Christian in such a case is to thank God they are rid ofa kuave. Beecher’s “Nest-Hiding.” (From the Milwaukee News.} Really Mr, Henry Ward Beecher bas been very aneceasiul in “nest-hiding.”? His hypocrisy as been triumphant for almost thirty years. He has been during that time the head man ot the osten- tatious, pretentions, popular religious class in the United States, He has left bis pulpit to dabole in politics. He was a “God and humanity” high priest of the repablican party. ‘‘Another rite’ was his cry in Kansas-Nebraska times. “A lituie healthy bidod-lettmg” was bis cry in war times. He was always a demagognue in voti politics aud religion. He abandoned his congregation and took to the stump in political Campaigns. He set himseil up as the model of perfection, as the pattern of a Christian minister, a8 a Man Who could teach both his disciples and the people at large all rheir duties both to God and the State. During all this ume le appears to have been a consummate, practised, successial hypocrite, who interlarded all his pubic theological and political discourses with private sermons to the wives and mothers in lus congre- gation, tn Which be argued that to submit to nis lecherous embraces Was 00 moral wrong; that his gospel, “Thou stalt commit adultery,” took prece- dence of the commandment forbidding that crim All this in the expressive vocabulary of Mr. Beecher 1s “nest-hiding, Henry Ward Beecher toll ws the path which Col- fax, Henry Wilson, Garfield, General U, 0, Howard, Dawes, Jay Cooke and the rest of them have travelled, The “Christian Statesman,” tne “Cor tan Soldier,” the “Christian Banker,” have eac Jailen, Tueir crimes were diferent from his, or were added to his. Corruption, fraud, rascality, bribery and, finally, a brutal and unbounded | ery may well go hand in hand, and all the detected and exposed scoundrels in bigh places may be re- garded as members of one inlamous class of con- Spirators against the laws, the good name and the virtue of the country. But the trouvle {ts that no- body but Beecher Knows how many cuckolds he has made in the Plymouth church, for it is not possible that he should have limited his experi- ments tn “nest-hiding” to a single case. Since he, misnamed the Morning Star, Nor man hor fend hath Cailen so Car, Too Much of It. (From the Atlanta Herald.) Mrs. Tillon’s statement, made this morning, is quite remarkable, it is also quite anfortu- agate for the lady. It is proper for her to deny the charges made against her by Tilton, bat she accompanies her denial with a ma- lignity towards wer husband and a tender deyo- tion to her alleged paramour that goes to prove the debauchery of ler min and soul, it not of her body. It would have been beiter lor Mrs. Tilton had she contained berseli and simply or diyguifiedly de- tied (he Moustrous assertions, Beecher Must Shut The Book. (From the Loutsville Courier-Journal.) This company of pious rogues, fuli-witted and rich, may crush Tilton ; they may drive him to in- sanity, suicide, or flight: they may throw around Beecher a network Of plausible sophistries; they may encircle Mrs. Tiltou with a bribe of glittering pseudo gallantries; they may do what men of re- sources may always do With an antagonist who 1s without resourges—sit on him, But one thing they can not do. iaise pastor and the wicked wte. may a3 well shut toe book. tn the world, he is cut down tn the spiendor of bis usefulness and glory. If he be innocent it is God’s will, aud he must bear the cross that 13 put upon hum, u0% the frst martyr. A Moral Newspaper. [From the Cleveland Plaindealer.] We thought we were publishing a measureabiy pure and respectable paper until we began print- ing, periorce, accounts 0! the pranks of Theodore ‘Tilton, late editor of the Golden age, and Henry Ward beecter, editor of tne Christian Union, both religious papers. publish a paper which panders to the baser tastes aud passions, but the demanus upon a newspaper are arbitrary. It must publish the news, especially the record vi events that everybody is interested and i clergymen and religtoas editors will per- sist in getting into bawdy scrapes, just so long we shail have to defile our columus with the accounts Mr. Beecher thereol, There 18 no middie course: the paper | must do th s tf it would be a newspaper. If there is to be # reiorm in his respect it will rest largely | with these gentry, a3 they are about the largest contributors to scandal and moral devauchery that the editors have to deal with, Lame, Very Lame. (From the Memphis Appeal.) Beecher aud Mrs. Tiltcen nave both spoken, the atatement of the latter appearing this morning in another part of this page. Both documents are lame, very lame, and {ar from being satisiactory. ‘Tuey are geveral in their denials and will utverly fai to shake the public jadgment aiready made up ou Tuton’s sic We say this with regret, espe- cially .or Mrs, Tilton’s sake, though, a8 we have Said before, we are not unmindsul oi the terrible Stock to society irom the fail of the great preacher. Call Susan. (From the New Haven Palladium.} If Misa Susan 8. Anthony knows anything about the Beecher scandal, with which her name is now becoming mixed, Sue shouid be asked to testify belore the commitiee. Whoever les, that good oid girt will tell the truth. The Disgrace of Disgraces. [From the Sunday Democrat and Weekly Catholic Advocate, July 26.) We have studiousiy abstained from making any PIBERtS OD that Most nOvorions Of al! scandals. we mean ihe Tilton Beecher shame. It is none of our funeral, and in Christian charity we thought it better to cover it witn the cloak of stlence, It strikes us, though, that there ls a kind of retrivu tion—a Nemesis —in the whole affair, A few years since Mrs, Stowe, Beecher’s sister, horrified the community and outragea public decency by drag- ging from the obscurity of the tomb everytning prurient ip relation to Lora Byron and his wiie, and in fact prostituted facts and her own woman- hood to make the whole affair palatabie to the most debased appetites for scandal. Later again, Mr, Beecher Ogured as officiating minister at the marriage of Mr. Richardson, on bis death bed, to the wile of the man who bad murdered nim, Mr. Tilton has, in like manner, fallen irom grace, and fondled as his ideals of wo- manly perfection those foul Delilahs of soctety, the sisters Wooduil and Clania. He has, in his writings, painted these Jezeoels as the representatives 01 ail (nat was sabiime in tue philosophy of womanbood. Mrs. Woodhull states nersell that she lived with Mr. Tilton in the closest relations, such a8 none but a wie should occupy. ‘Taking the sianderous and uncthristian conduct of the whole party into account, it must be a biow to religion which Piymouth Church, at least, cannot survive, There 18 something about the whore con- duct of Mr, Tilton weak, vacillating and corrupt, tha: almost makes us shudder. He patieatiy bears with a terrible wrong (according to his own state- meat) for years, and instead of redressing it mies to the arms of the notorious Clafin ‘amily for re- dress and consolation, befouls his own family, tries to $a pimwelt at one honorabie ana manly. Mr. Beecher's conduct, on the other hand, |s cer- tainly not above reproach. Whatever hia relations with Mr. or Mrs. Tilton may have veen, be lias placed himself in @ position which no gentleman or minister of the Gospei shouid occupy, It is sad to see Mr. Tilton throwing odium and disgrace on landers his wife and rifice Of ail that is bosom and the mother of his chil- arom on ‘ores ni vidence, a3 & per- jurer. like a knignt of oid, hel deteuds the reputation of the ‘siandered” wiie. We lave beem woth to say anything oa the sub. They can not restore the fame of the / The greatest preacher | It 18 rather hard to be obliged to | NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JULY 28, 1874.-T'KLPLE SHEKT. ject, bat when we fina the press of the country still sang mane men and holding them up a8 examples be honored and revered in the Church, tn the name of common decency and pure religion we must protest against sucn projanation. The Tribune says:—‘‘Uniess this (rightiul exposi- tiou is answered promptly and fully, the most famous puiptt the world ha¥ ever seen, since Paul preached on the bill of Mars, ts silenced. Just think of comparing the saintly St. Paul with Henry Ward Beecher, & man whose doctrines are founded oo Pagan mythology, and whose teachings might suit the uanoliness of the Pantheon better than the Cortstian (tt Chris- tian) congregation of Plymouth church? = “It is almost too painful to dwell on these t says the pious HeRALD, The “class! ‘superd-Englished” World describes ‘Tilton as “koprophagous,” which beats Sneridan’s abuse of his landlady, The Advertiser denies that ‘It was necessary to keep open the wounds already given for the purpose of spreading the virus through the system of an already suMiciently contaminated community.” The Golden Age says:—"Our idol has been broken; the richest jewelin our casket g Of paste.” @ gross scandal occurred in tne Catholic Cuurch, what a how! of pious indignation would rise trom the Purttan ’harisees on all sides | | We, though, instead of rejoicing at the fall of such a man a8 Beecher, deplore it, (or, however high he stands, stul his fall is only that of an indiviaua and the transgressions of the most elevated person cannot injure the teacuings of Christianity or the stabuity of @ church founded upon rigat and the doctrines of Christ. We regret this whole scandal, for it will have & terrible debasing influence on ‘society, and what- | ever Beecher’s errurs may bave been, he is # man of liberal ideas and transcendent qualities, aod his lail would be regretted by ali pai ties, whether Catholies or Protestants, who admire talent and appreciate the liberal spirit and projound erudi- | the state- | tion of the man. If we are to beileve ments of the parties concerned lu this disgracetul affair, Beecher stands branded a sort of clerical Don Juan, &@ man who prostitutes religion to gratity his Own base passions, and who swears to false stacements to suteid his own infamy. As to | ‘Tilton, we will simply judge him by the following | ticipate ‘a extract from bis own statement, He said:— One great grievance of my wite was that [ was not 4 clergyman. Thank God, Cam not a minister! [ want you titdown, Mr, stenographer. I despise the Church, vise crecds. Not but that I am @ religious man, thou Lam aretigious man. [love God, but | despise the Churen, I saw the cowarai the Church in the great anti-slavery ght, and it has always been ‘alse. But Glizabett has always Nad a reverence tor the Church. and she has been greatly disturbed because [ could not receive the doctrine of the divinity of the Lord wo Lae Jesus Crist I could not eit, Lhad to reject it, and it disturbed her very much. | Itis a sort ot keystone to her whole faith that Chriat isdivine, and my retsal tw believe it has been the subject of many conversations and many of ber prayers, As we have said, it ts none of our affair; but we | must come to the conclusion that both morality and religion would be served by @ terrivie con- | demnation of men, no matter how great their tal- ent or high their position, who nave so heimoualy | sinned against morals, religion and common ide- cency. A Quiet Hint for Husbands. [From the Troy Budget.) Whenever you find a stout, healthy minister of the Gospel hanging around your wife, with a “holy and sincere admiration and aifection,” which sen- timent is reciprocated by your wife, baving a “loity, spiritual, religious yearning piatonte love for that priest’? that attracts her irequently to his side, ao you, unsophisticated young husband, just go right Out to the nearest cobvier and buy a heavy pair of pegged stogy boots. Put them stogy boots right on, ang whe next time that mtutster calis at your resideuce to pedale his “spiritual essence” take him gently by | tue coat collar, make a siiort oration, whereo! the peroration shall be, ‘get out!’ and then clinch the argument a postertori with them stogys, the best way to get along with an intimacy, inno at thougn it may be, that sometimes brings a “neap of trouble’ in tts train. Kicked Out of Court into a Horse Pond, (From the Norfolk (Va.) Landmark.; ‘The wretched creature Tilton, in tis examina. | tion, sketched himself at {ull length in the follow- | ing declaration, made in answer to a quesiion by | Mr. ‘Tracy :— One great grievance of my wife was (hat | was nota clergyman: thank God Lam hot a muister; Lwant you to putit down, Mr, 1 despise creeds though; Lam a religious man; 1 tove God, but I despise the Churen; I'saw the cowardice of the Church in the urea anti-slavery Sight, and tt has always been tatse; but Elizabeth has always bad a reverence ior the Church and she has been greatly distin because C could not eive the doctrine of ihe divinity ot the Lord Jesus | Christ: Leould not receive it; {had to reject it, aud it disturbed her very much. | Such a fellow as this, the only witness ta the | prosecution of his own wile, deserves to de kicked | | Out Of court Lato @ borse poud. but that Tam a religious man. A Needed Lesso [From the Albany Argus.) In the fall of Reecher—for, whatever may be the | extent of his sin, his fall is complete—we have the inevitable ending of that reckiess radicalism ot which Mr. Beecher has been the chiefest and | most conspicuous example, Will society, and par- | ticularly religious society, heed the lesson, and | insist upon maintaining inviolate all tue conser tive securities of social order—that is, of te order of organized society—in all its relations ? | | The Sceret of Beecher'’s Love for Tilton— Am Affection that Equalled that of | | David and Jonathan—Tilton in the | Role of a Govenor. | | [New York Letter to the Ohicago Times.| | | As an evidence of the friendship that existed be- tween Beecher and Tilton, f wiil relate the ivliow- ing incident :— | ! Oue of the first regiments formed in the city of | Brookiyn tor tue defence of the Union was the | Long Island Phalanx. Among its officers was one | , of the sons of Henry Ward Beecher. While the | army was being organized under McClellan, young Beecher committed some breach of discipline and was placed under arrest, The affair greatiy alarmed and agitated his father, who immediately | counselled with Tilton as to the course he showd take to shield his son from disgrace. | Tilton asked Beecher for his (Beecher’s) | pocketbook, and took from it $50. He took the first train for Washington, and on reaching there went direct to the house of Secretary of War Cameron. Mr. Cameron was dressing, prepar- atory to encertaining a breakfast party of gov- ernors of States. ‘Tilton ascertained ‘this fact from the servant, and, of course, announced him- seif asa governor. Hemet Cameron, challenged | his admiration, enlivened the table and when tue | guests had departed importuned for a commis- | | s10n for young Beecher in the regular army. Tu- ton would not be satisfied with a promise, and i after ap inferview with President Lincoln secured the desired commission. H's subsequent inquiries at the camp of the regiment jussinied the wisdom of his course. He returned by the next train, handed Mr. Beecher the commission, at whicit Beecher fell upon his breast and wept teara of grativade. Theirs was no ordinary friendship seemingly. Beecher’s light reflected on Tilton and he was happy. Susan B, Anthony Interviewed. (From the Rochester Union} | In the article on the Beecher scandal copied yes- terday from the New York Graphic, it was stated, not a3 @ fact, but as something tnat had been al- leged, that the story of Mrs, Tilton’s unfaithfulness first became public through Susan K. Anthony, who obtained it from Mr. and Mrs, Tilton them- selves, while stopping at their house, and ‘‘retailed | it to all her female assoctates tn the clique of wo an suffragists.”” While the channel through which the scandal leaked out ts not of much importance, we thought this allusion to Miss Anthony's agency in the matter might tnduce her to reapond by re- vealing sume of her knowledge of the “great sor- row,” which is generally believed to be not a little, and so despatched a reporter to ber residence, in Madison street, with tustructions to cali her att tion to the article and see what she had to say avout it, He was courteously received, and in re- ply co his questions was given this for answer:— Miss Avtuowy—During my whole public career I have er answered any oersonal newspapor allusion to my selt—any scandal, charge, gossip, or mean thing; not qyen the charge’ that I was drunk on the platforin in New York last May. And now that T am fifty-ive years of age. on the second turn toward the centennial, | shall not comm and pure | ls | tenographer; Ldespise the Church, | | found quantities of Paris green scattered about in THE MAYOR'S RESPONSE, The Document Delivered to the Gov- ernor Yesterday by Special Messenger— His Excellency’s Ideas of its Publica- tion and Reticence Concerning its Con- | tents—Eighty Closely Written Pages. West Hampton, L. £, July 27, 1874. The Mayor’s special messenger, L. 8. ‘Tarr, ar- rived bere at eight o'clock this evening, and pre- | sented to the Governor the Mayor’s answer to the | Charges preferred against him. The document | was accompanied by a format letter, in which the Mayor announcea the purport of this remark- able State paper as being a reply to the | charges preferred against him. The Mayor's ; messenger did not start alone on his trip, but was in company with a number of reporters of the | press, who hoped to obtaim a copy of the docu- | | ment'from the Governor. The Governor took the | document and told the messenger to iniorm the Mayor that he would read ti over at his earliest couvenience and convey to him his further action as soon as he tad made up his mind, To your cor- respondent the Governor stated that he would not furnish a copy oi the Mayor's answer until he had time to peruse it fully himself. He thought the Mayor was the proper ‘party to send a copy of his auswer to the press, The Governor would have no objection to the Mayor pursuing that course \ feel that the original ‘hud peen placed in his hands, The Mayor will be ofticiaily advised by ten o'clock to-morrow morning ot its sale delivery, and tne Governor thought Mayor Huvemeyer shouid feel rather anxious than otherwise to have the docu- ment laid before the public at the eariiest mo- ment, His &xcellency is { ABSOLUTELY SILENT | as to the course he will pursue after having read the Mayor's answer, In reply to a question of the correspondent as to wnat the Governor ought to | do in case the Mayor's excuse does not prove sat- isfactory, he said he was not prepared to an- anything 80 unpleasant, and could not | therelore give au opinion on the subject belore- | hand, He had glanced cursorily over the docu- | Ment, which contains about eiglity closely written , Pages. and it wii take him at least two days to | have tt properly studied. Meanume he hopes the Mavor will be able (o consider it advantageous to | publish his reply to the charges. CORONERS’ CASES. John Toomey, a boy thirteen years of age, died in che Park Hospital from the eects of injuries \ received by a bale of goods falling on him froma | track on which ne was riding @ few days ago. | Deceased lived at No, 65 Mott street. Coroner | Woltman was notined, Coroner Woltman was yesterday called to No. 211 Eighth avenue to hold an inquest on the body of Oscar A. Erehenbeck, a child four years of age, whose death reauited trom scaids received on Fri- day last by acvidentaily failing backward into a tub of hot water. Yesterday morning Coroner Woltman held an | tnquest on the bedy of Jonn Gibbs, who was drowned at tne 1oot of Catharime street, Kast River, on Mriday tast, by acciaentally failing over- | board. Deceased lived in Brooklyn, whither lis remains were conveyed. Deceased was a bridge- | | man io the employ of the Union Ferry Company. | Henry Henke, the young man whose deavh in | Beilevue Hospital hag feretofore appeared tn the HERALD, died from natural causes, as Was shown by @ post-mortem examination mude on the body | ib pressence of Coroner Wollman. Dr. Suine yesterday made a post-mortem ex- | ammation on the body of Dr. John Washington, who was ‘ound lying dead on the floor of ius room, at No. 48 Cortlandt street. Death resulted from | heart disease. Coroner Woltmau has cuarge of ) the case. | Mrs, Honora Leaby, a woman fifty-two years of | age, died yesterday in Rooseve:t Hospital, Irom in- juries recelved last Thursday morning near ver | residence in Ninth avenue, vear Sixty-eighth | street, by being run over by 4 horse attached toa pedier’s wagon, the driver or owner oi whicu Is ‘ unknown. The occurrence 13 said to have been accidental. A OASE OF BABY FARMING. Death of the Child of Unkaown Parents from Mai-Nutrition—Upinion of Dr. Johnson. Dr. Lawrence Johnson, of No. 319 West Twenty- aixth street, yesterday certified to the Board of Health that Jobo Josepa Graham, an in‘ant only twenty-one days old, nad’ died at No. 220 West Twenty-ninth s(reet, from mai-nuirition, probabiy from improper food. The case was accordingly reterred to Corouver Woltman for investigation. On the back of the certificate was the following, ' Brother Telliow algo requests societies and other | Teiusea to surrender the property when her em- | | Yonkers, where he expired shortiy-allerwarcs. addressed to Dr. Harris, of tne Health Board, by by, Johnson, He sayz:—“l was called to gee the ~ Sine eke sw a child just as it was dying, He was wasted lo skin aud bone. He was brought to Mrs, Malloy tm ansWer to an advertisement two weeks ago, and the wan who brought tim can no longer ve found. Mrs. Malloy says she has 1ed the child on condepsed milk, @ teaspoontul to half @ pint of water. 1 con- sider bim a victém to the system ol! vaby jarm- ing which prevails excessively in our city. L frequently find illegitimate children placed with careless and iguorant women for the apparent purpose of causing their death. 1 sup- pose there is no remedy. believe Mrs, Maloy has done nearly ag well aa she knew how with the | child; still, trom the babe’s appearance, [ have no | doubt he has suifered sod uted iu the manner L have indicated,” Coroner Woitman will make efforts to find the parents of the child, but probably he wili not suc- ceed, aa there seems to de no clew to them, THE SUICIDE OF Mi8s DEWELL. Miss Nellie Dewell, the young woman of 109 Kast Eleventh street, who, on Sunday night, took an ov- erdose of hydrate of chloral and died at Bellevue hospital, was @ woman of refinement and intelli- gence and bas received a good education. Nellie, it is alleged, had been abandoned by aman whom she admired very much, and her nervous system was very badly shattered. She purchased and swallowed the poison with suicidal intent. Sie was well connected and has relatives of wealth and position in Washington. Corouer Woltman took charge of the case and will hold an inquest over the remains, which will then be claimed by | the relatives ior interment, THE RECENT DEATHS FROM POISONING. Poison Foand in the House. Some further lignt bas been thrown upon the death of the turee persons alleged to have been | so mysteriously poisoned at No. 8 Hast Thirty- second street last Sunday week. Aday or two ago some member of the family who had been ab- sent in the country returned home, afd im closely examining the kitchen where the servants worked, different parts of the room, where it is presumed to bave been leit tor the purpose of killing rats, On learning these sacts trom the owner of the premises, Coroner Woltman and Professor Doremus Fepaired thither and found portions of the poisou which had been gathered up and thrown into au asb barrel. Whether John Powers, nis sister Anna A, Powers and Ellen Burke, the cook (tne two latter were employed in the nouse), died Irom the | effects of Paris green must be determined by the resuit of the analysis, o1 Which Proiessor Doremus has charge. {t 1s possible that gome of the poison jound in the kitchen may have become accidently mixed wiih the food partaken of by the deceased parties. LOOKING FOR THE ELEPHANT, On Sunday night Christopher Marwig, a Norwe- gian satlor, lately arrived from Liverpool, made a tour of the Eighth ward in quest of the far-tamed elephant. As he was saan g through Mercer street, when near West Honston street, he was accosted by a dashing young woman, who in the biandest manger said that she was eaphoniously named Carrie Smith, and that she lived in Wooster | street, near Bleecker, It did not require much : ener, persuasion op the part of Carrie to induce And that was all Miss Anthony would say for Marwig to accompany ver to her domicile publication. Ii we failed to obtain from her a + ie Statement of knowledge concerning the Beecher. Marwig knows nothing, further than that he Tilton business, we may with pardonabie pride boast of the achievement of a triumph unparal- jeled tn th» annals of journsiism—aseertained, and that authoritativeiy, the precise age of a maiden ast her teens! Misa Antiony tells us, and we vio+ ate no contidence in telling the world that she is fifty-tive, “The Lion Guarding the Dove.” (From the Titusville (Pa.) Heraid.| There is something quite remarkable in the gen- eral tone of Henry Ward Beecher’s reply which we gave yesterday. All his solicttude seems to ve to save harmiess Mrs, Tilton, It is the very essence of Ouristian chivairy. it is the lion guarding (ne dove, Free trum anger, or even reproach, tia scorn of bis assailant seems tempered vy his pity, It is like an angel on che battlements of heaven te nerable in pis velestial armor of purity, plating with a sigh of sorrow the remorse! ings of a lost spirit. A BOGUS CONFESSION OF MR, BEECHER, | aL WEtihe Mempuis, Teon., July 27, Considerable excitement was created here this afternoon by the appearance of an extra purport- ing to be the confession of Heary Ward Beecher, admitting his gulitof the charges made by Tilton afd attempting to defend his action from a Bibli- | cal standpoint. The article was well written, and thousands of the extra were sold before (ne | deception was discovered, A number ol newsboys | were arrested tor selling them, and the pouce are | trying to fad the author, The newsboys say they | | bone (eds ous a tau lu Geairy Aley calied tor a ws ey cocktatl lor hunself and a sherry covbler for his new-made acquaintance, At ab early hour ye epg a morning le was radely awakened by a police officer in Washington square, who told him that be Would Jake tim up if he siept | on the benches, Marwig was dumbfounded, and couid not understand how it was tat he should be jound asieep in the park When he went to bed in Wooster street, but he soon comprehended the whole affair when be entered a jiquor store in the neighborhood and ordered a drink, This he drank Wit a relish, and smacked tis lips. Then he or- dered another, aiter which he asked how mucn ‘The barkeeper said jorty ceuts, upon Norwegian inserted his hand into bis pocket with the tatention oF abstracting his pock+ etbook in which he carried iis money, but imsted he joand a roll of newspaper. His gay young com- paniou ad dragged hun aod robbed him of tus cash, He returned to bis ship a sadder and wiser man. A SOPT-HEARTED OLD GENTLEMAN, Ada Finley, Kate ¥iorence and Milley Harvey were arraigned beiore Judge Sherwood yesterday ona charge of acting in @ disorderly manner on Third avenue at an Wuseasonabie vour on Monday morning, Milley argued ber case with so much fluency of language and earnestness of manner that the Court discharged her out of pure admira- tion of ber abilities asa taiker. The Court thougnt it @ pity thal such a girt sould be a castaway, The other two were fined $5 each, Which a bene vor lenroid gentieman who Was present paid, on diniog that they woult reorm thei lives, 1 promised, and werg iet go. KUag ichow's cauoceage | away. | yet tried, This receptacle is under the village | | very good place for a Morgue, but that asa place | | Orient on the east, isin a fair way soon to be an NEW YORK CITY. sdiceiemercier Elizabeth’ Nabn, of No. 266 East Fourth street, preferred a charge of assauit and battery against Solomon Freed, betore Jadge Kasmire yesterday, She accused Freed of striking her on the nead with a shoemaker's last, inflicting a severe wound. The defendant was committed to answer at Spectal | Sessions. General order No. 9 has been issued from Head- quarters, G. A. R., Department of New York, that the semi-annual encampment of this department will be held at Penn Yan, N. Y., on the 29th, s0tn and Bist of July, 1874. Encampment assem: | bles at twelve o'clock M. on the zim inst., at the “Yates County Court House.” John Coyle and Peter Carr were caught in the act Of stealing a quantity of Inaia rubber hose from the steam canal boat D, R. Williams, on Sat- urday night, by James Gorman, one of the hands employed on the boat. Carr and Doyle were ar- rested by Officer Girvan. of the Sixteenth pre- cinct, and committed by Judge Murray yesterday in $1,000 bail each to answer. Patrick Ryan, of No, 416 East Seventeenth street, while stepping irom a steamboat to the pier foot of Leroy street, Sunday evening, was robbed of his watch by a man named James Quinlan, who, together with another man unknown, jostied against Mr. Ryan as he crossed the gang plank. OMicer Munson, of the Twenty-eighth precinct, arrested Quinlan, ana Judge Murray yesterday committed him tn deiault of $1,000 bail to answer at General Sessions, The rector of the male department of the Catholic Protectory, at Westchester, desires to re- turn hts sincere thanks to the many friends who, by their exertions, contributed to render success- jul the picme held at tha place last week. co-operators to make prompt returns of the tickets soid by them to the office of the Protec- tory, No, 29 Reade stieet, New York, in order that the butidings proposed to be erected may be com- menced unmediatety. BROOKLYN. vais Mary Noonan, fifty-five years of age, died sud- denly at her residence, No. 30 Carlton avenue, yesterday, About two weeks ago her daughter, while javoring under a fit of temporary insanity, cut her throat. A mandamus has been issued by Judge Barnard against Supervisor Guuner, of the town of New Utrecht, to compel him to show cause why he has not appointed three commissioners to grade cer- tain streets in said town. The Fire Marshal is engaged in tne investigation | ofan incendary fire that occurred at Kast New | York, on Henry street, near Liberty avenue. yes- | terday morning. The structure burned was a / frame house valued at $3,000, The Health autuorities were notified yesterday of the death of Mr. Morrison, of No, 483 Smith street, who died yesterday morning of sporadic cholera, This is the third fatal case of cholera re- ported withia the past two weeks, Dr. Jouh C, Bleecker, a resident cf Bond street, gave his bank book, watch and chain to his house- keeper, Maria S. Jackson, some time ago, for safe keeping, a8 he believed he was about to die. She ployer got well and called for it, Application was made yesterday for are-exeat, before Judse Bar- nard, to prevent Maria irom leaving for Europe, as she inteuded doing. The Judge Look the papers and reserved his decision. WESTICHES ' ER, Several families are already occupying tents on the grounds oi the Camp Meeting Association, | hear Sing Sing, in anticipation of the season of | prayer and praise, which will commence there on the 18th prox. An inquest was held at Yonkers yesteraay by Coroner Bassett, on the remains of John Corrigan, aged nineteen, who died from injuries sustained on the Hadson River Railroad last saturday afternoon, Deceased, it appears, stole a ride irom Thirtietn | street, New York, on an express ireight train to | Spring Hill Grove, aud in attempting to jump | 01 pposite that place i" cL Ang L wheels, which SéVéred both his lower limos ; above the kuees. He was subsequently taken to A verdict was rendered tu accordance with the above tacts. Deceased iived in Thirty-erghth street, New York, Last Sunday morning the residence of John J, Heleker, at Hartsdale, was forcibly entered while | tne family were at church, and: silverware and other property, to the value of $800, carried | A son of the party named during the afternoon took & Hariem Raliroad train jor New York, in order to notily the metro- politan police of the robbery, but was agreeably surprised on seeing & youth get ou Load at Scars- daie, having in Bis possession two well packed va- uses, One O1 Which he immediately recognized ag his own. Op the arrival of the train at Bronxville | the young burglar and bis plunder were turned over to the Yonkers police. The prisouer, who gave his name as Jonn Morley and his age as nineteen, was arraigned in the City Court at Yonkers yester- day, and alter a briet hearing was fully committed to stand his trial at the pext Court ol Sessions, All of the stolen property was recovered. Frederick Fogg and D. Emery Holman, aged re- spectively thirty-two and twenty-one years, and having in their possession two horses, regarding which they refused to give any account, were arrested in Yonkers last Saturday as suspicious persons by Police Officer Patrick Whelan. The strangers were dressed in biue flannel shirts, without either coats or vests, wore black slouched. hats, and in other respects presented to the casual opserver af appearance of old roadsters, such a8 innocent country farmers would desire to give a wide berth to. On being brought to tne sta- tion hoase the prisoners sti! maintained a strict reticence as to their identity or pursuits, and ac- cordingly they were taken “down stairs.’ A gen- Ueman named Flagg, however, having accidentally heard of the circumstance, visited the police sta- (ion and recognized im the “suspects” two fellow students at Yale College, whom tie had last parted company with during the exciting boat races at Saratoga, An explanation followed which re sulted in the prompt hberation ot the jolly stu- dents, who rode out o1 the city laughing at the capital joke in which they had participated. LONG ISLAND. Workmen are making preparations to proceed with the work at Hell Gate. it is believed the bd Wiel be resumed tus week or the beginning of next, Great complaint is made in Newton that there is but one common receptacle tor bodies found drowned and otherwise dead and awaiting the disposition of the Coroner, and for such unfortu- hate individuals as are accused of offences but not Court House, and is characterized as ‘the damp dungeon underground.” 1tis alleged that itis a | for the confinement Of human beings it is abso- lutely unfit, “dangerous to beaith and iie."’ The North Shore Railroad of Long Island, hav- ing its termini at Richmond Hill on the west and accomplished fact. Authorized representatives of fLuropean capitalista in this country have already, , Wu it 18 understood, guaranteed sufficient capital to secure the construction of the road, the security being the bonds of the company, and it 1s prob. apie that the work of grading aud laying the rails wili be commenced beiore the close of the present | month, Considerable grading has already been done at the western end of the line, The im- portance of the proposed line of travel may ve Judged when it 14 stated that {tis propo: 0 establish regular stations at ‘orty-chree diferent towns and villages on the route. QUEENS COUNTY AGRICULTURAL EXHIBI- TION. From present indications the annual extibition to be held under the auspices of the Queens County | Agricultural Society in October next promises to be unusually successful. The attractions are large, and the entries will, doubtiess, be numerous, At @ recent Meeting Of the board of officers it was agreed to add (0 the regular list of premiums a bench-show of dogs, roi O the horses to be exhibited will be Prospero, Mineola, Blackwood, Bismarck, Pictator, Feariui and others, IMPORTANT TO ESSEX COUNTY TAXPAYERS, | Meeting of the Tax Rate Assessors— Toning Down the Sum Total—A County Worth Yesterday at the ‘ourt House in Newark a Meeting was held of the Easex County Board of | Assessors, the object being the very important | one of adjusting the valuation of the various cities and towuships of the county, and the apportioning | of the State and county taxes, Thompson ©, | Muon, of Hast Orange, presided. Mr. 1. 0, Wade, of Irvington, acted as secretary. Montclair was the Ouly township not represented, After discus. sion it Was resolved t consider the polls the same figure as (ast year (of Montclair) and increase the value of real and personal property trom $2,147,000 10 $3,000,000. Milburn’s last year's list of polls waa reduced trom $04 to 277. Herea(ter separate lists | | vf real estate and personal property are to be made, THR RETURN of (he Quianber Of Holly iu the GguNnty aud {he valu. instituted | # I | of the wooden vuiding ation of real and personal estate were as follow: Orange —Firat ward, 447, $1,190,000; Second ward, 467, $1,666,000; Third ward, 747, $2,036,000; Bloom- fleld, 929, $3,141,000; Belleville, 520, $1,355,000; Cald- well, 567, $1,651,000; Livingston, 242, $58,000 ton, 311, $1 Millburn, X East 1,105, 12,000; ' West Orange, 606, 082,000; South Orange, 519, 634,000; Mont- air, ’ 36, $2,300,000; Franklin, 62,000; Newark city, 20,467, $04,692,000, Thus the total number of polls tn the townships out- side of Newark is only 7,547 to Newark’s 20,467, ‘The valuations are:—Townsbips, $23,152,010; city, | 104,692,000 ; a total county valuation of $152,544, in 1873 it Was $129,615,840; 1872, $123,520.00) $112, 042,000, ‘Ten years ago the vaiuation of Newark was only $35,646,000 compared with $105,000,000 now. county and State purposes was decided to be | $980,000, and the rate 71%, nearly twenty per cent less than last year, NEWARK'S RAILROAD TROUBLE. The City Authoriti Begin Operations Against the Railroad—The Latter Pur- suing “a Masterly Inactivity.” There were widespread fears yesterday in New- ark that a@confict of authority endangering the lives of citizens might be brought on by the deter- mined action of Hin- | nearly | The amount to be raised for | the city authorities in the | THE POOR OHILDREN’S EXCURSIONS, The Arrangements tor More Picnics, Owing to the numerous private excursions Mr, ; Williams will not be able to give any more pic- nics for poor children until Saturday next, when the sixth picnic of the present series will be given. | On this excursion the children from the Eleventh | Ward will be taken to Oriental Grove, on Long Island Sound, Captain Murphy 18 now actively engaged in preparing for this excursion, and he Will furnish Mr. Williams with a very large party Of boys and girls, On Monday, August 3, the seventh excursion will be given, When the newa- boys, bootblacks and the street working boys will enjoy @ day's holiday and go to Oriental Grove, No girls will be permitted to go on this ex- cursion, and the ages of the boys will range from 81X to tiiteen years, with & few older boys, at the discretion of the superintendents of the lodg- ing houses, For this picnic Mr. Williams has se- cured the co-operation of Mr. Charles O’Conor, Superintendent of the Newsboys’ Lodging House, Duane street; Mr. George Calder, Superintendent of the Rivington street and Mr. Johu Gourley, Su- perintendeat of the Eighteenth street lodging houses, who will act in concert with Captain Leary, of the City Hall Police. The tickets will rly be distributed by these gentlemen to the | boys. The Governor's Island Band, twenty-eignt in number, have volunteered their services for the matter of cutting through the embank- | day as their contribution to the fund, and this ment of the Newark and New York Ratl- gensroalhy on aber Bart, Ful enable a Williams ; 3 BC ands ior the amuse. foud track at’ Fillmore and St. Charles | ment ot tne boys, it is estimated that streets, but the attitude taken by the company 13 | fuily 2,000 boys ~ will on this plenic, that of “a masierly inactivity,” and hence, though the work of opening up was pushed forward by the | Street Commissioners and a gang of men, there has been no trouble or conflict whatever 80 far. Tne company ‘have, in effect, said that should any accident occur they will hold themseives vlear of all res;,onsibility. Newark legal lights as ground most untenable, in view of the tacts which have brought on the presen* ‘‘onpleasantness.’" THE FACTS are that when the Newark and New York Railroad Was chartered by the Legislature of New Jersey, it was with the express understanding that it was tobe a home road, run and managed by local Officers, and be controlied by Newark capitalists. Instead of that tt has passed entirely’ irom the belore the charter was obtained have been broken or kept as best susted the interests of the com- pany. from May, 1871. ‘Sneir Counci ordered opened fill. | more street. In August St. Charles street Was or- dered opened. ‘to the Ordinance the company paid no attention, but filled in their emvankment. ‘the Councti awarded the contracts ter opening, grading, curbing, &c., 10 Patrick McTague, wio proceeded with 018 nice, mealy job. Then, when | the railroad men saw the city meant business, | they approached the city and begged hard Ww have | the coutract withdrawn. Not a draw would Pat | MctTague draw un.eas the city would let him draw | $4,000, THIS THE CITY REFUSED and Mctague went on with lis work. Notices were served on the company to build the bridges at the points in controversy. They acknowledged | their obligation and promised to bunid the bridges, | but, as usual, utterly disrega~ded these promises. | The city paid the contractor his Jat estimates, but let the work remaio unfinished until the property owners moved on their works, reiused to pay their asyessments, and hence the late acttou o! Council. ‘rhus it will be seen that the cause o1 the trouble ig on the rgilroad company. They say they will take no steps to brace up the embankment, so that if the city authorities are not caretul, or the com- pany do not desist trom their present do-votbing- put-run-the-trains-policy, - ~~ “A TRRRLALG Disaster, may take place one of these days, Yesterday some ol the railroad magnates rode to the scene 01 the excavation, looked on quictly for a ume, said nothing outside of among themselves, and then rode away. A GANG OF BURGLARS CAPTURED IN JER. SEY OILY; Yesterday morning. about two o'clock, the sa- toon of Mr. James Roche, at the corner of Hender- | sou street and Newark avenue, was broken into, | and the thieves secured several boxes of cigars, SIX potties of wine ae L some rare coins witch the | proprietor had collected during his trip in Kurope. | | By chance OmMcer Sterling came across a gang of | youths lying upon a stoop in Steuven street, near Esemee and he inquired what they were doing . ere, sieep for the remainder of the night and the oMicer consented. He had not passed many steps away, however, when he stumbied on @ large bunch Ol cigars, and he reported the case at Police Headquarters. Captain McHorney, Ser- ant Lee aud oficers Sterling, Kelly and Bavier surrounded the gang and took tiem into custouy on suspicion. The coins stoien from Mr. Koche’s saloon were found on ove of the gang. They gave their names as John Reilly, James Leahy, Join Kilroy, Joseph McDermott, Joho Dennin aud Jo- seph McCormack. In addition to ten coins, two watch chains and a small drill were ‘ound on the person of one of the squad, besides several | bunches of cigars. ‘The coims were ail identified, and toe prisoners were committed for trial. THE NATIONAL BOARD OF FIRE, UNDERWRITERS, _-__— . Its Action Relative to thé Late Confia- grations in Chicago—S weeping Changes Recommended. The National Soard of Fire Underwriters have been greatly exercised over the repeated disas- trous conflagrations in Chicago, and, concluaing that on the principle of self-preservation a thor- This, however, is cousidered by | The origin of the present difficulty dates | ‘They asked permission to be allowed to | F. A. } Amount previously acknowledged go | In order that’ the boys may mot lose any | money by the DOunAT: arrangements have beett made with the publishers of the evening news- papers to dispose of their five o'clock editions on board the barge, and the papers will be delivered to the boys purchasing the orders, on the dock. The day has been specially selected because the tides { rua rapidly up and down, thos securing rapid transit for the party, in addition to the powerful | tug chartered. | On Saturday, August 8, the Eighth ward children will be given anexcursion, Furtuer arrangements will be announced liereatter, THE CHILDREW’S FUND. The HERALD ofice has received through Mr, Bergh, tor the benefit of the children’s excursion arties :— control of a Newark board of officers and is now | Parties | completely managed and near!y completely ‘owned | eran Ie ao H $3 oo Oo eee eed peor tee eromises | ‘the sum total of sinall contributions now belong- made the people ani the — Legislature | ing to this charity in the hands of the HERALD is $26 25. i FREE EXCURSIONS FOR THE OLD FOLKS, Now that sweet charity has enfolded in ita blessed arms the little waifs of the city streets, and the jubilant voices of childhood may be heard on the rivers and in the groves as well as im the narrow and filthy lanes of the town, it may. be aa well to remember that the aged pour of New York have some claims on the bounty of the rich. The free excursions for poor children was an admirable and progressive step tn the direction of practical benevolence, and 118 good effect, both morally and physically, cannot be over-estimated, Now let us have a broader charity, which shall em- | brace the aged or infirm, and blessings from almost dying lips Will no< be less sweet than from vhe lips of youth. Baltimore has commenced the | good work; now let New York—the mother of nearly all American chartties—take ft up, and the excursions for the aged poor will become an ac- complished fact. It will not do to say that the | proposed floating hospital will meet the case, for | this would embrace only the sick; there must be a | day of jubilee for those whose infirmities artse only from old age, and the good work of free excursions Wili not be rounded or complete until the suffering Of all classes and all ages is embraced in tae benefi- cent scheme, FLOATING HOSPITAL. Destitute Sick <Gbildren’s Excursion alia thy ja Fund:* , The following additional contributions have beet | recéivea by Rev. Alvan Wiswall, Master of St. Jonn’s Guild, in aid of the above fund:— B. f J.T, Van Re A &D.¥ Ronn Sig TW J. Finley it H. U, Bernard & Co. | Baudoine & Willis. O'alle & Pinkus. J. Paret.. Convers, Davis. Dexter, A' John Byers... Hardt & Lindg ‘Total .. Grand total... : Contributions to the fund are earnestly solicited at once, and may be sent to the HERALD, Mayor Havemeyer, City Hall, Arnold, Constable & Co., No. 885 Broadway. W. Appleton & Co, No. 351 Broadway. ace uae Belmont & Co., No. 19 Nassau street. S. L. M. Bariow, No. 35 William street. Ball, Black & Co., No. 665 Broadway. Judge Joun R. Brady, No. 19 West Thirty-thira street. Henry Bergh, No. 100 Fourth avenue. Henry Clews, No. 32 Wall street. Fred. A. Conkling, President Aitna Fire lnaure ance Company, No. 172 Broadway. i. B. Clafiin & Co., No, 140 Church street. Ss. B. Chittenden & Co., No, 328 Broadw: Chickering & Sons, No. 11 East Fourteenth street. eae J. Courtney, No. 244 West ‘tbirty-fourca street, one E. A. Chapin, D. D., No. 14 East Thirty-toird stree Or Rev. Alvah Wiswali, Master of St. Joho’ Guild, No, 52 Varick street. THE NEW BROOM, ‘The oMce of the Superintendent of Police id now ough investigation of the subject was demanded, they, through the Executive Committee, in June last appointed a committee for the purpose of investigating the basts upon | which the Chicago Fire Department stands; | its strength, general efficiency, to whom and wo | what extent its respousibiiity. aud to report | } | Suggestions of evidently needed improvement. | The report of the committee was presented to the | Board on the 21st inst., but only made public yes- | terday. It condemns in unmeasured terms the entire system of the Chicago Fire Department, | which it Characterizes as a portion Of tne political | machinery of that city. The department ts \ nominally under the superintendence of a Uhief | Marsnat, who is in fact powerless to resort to any decided measures looking to ite improvement, | being completely at the mercy of the political | powers that be. The rank and file, to yse a mild | term, are completely demoralized, and are tgno- | rant and careiess of discipline. The committee urge the necessity of a complete overhauling of the present organization, and a Board of Fire Commis- siouers, on the New York plan, who shall be the | head, eotirely independent of political infuence. The totlowing is the report submitted by the Execative Committee ou the 24th instant Whereas it appears from a report presented to the Na- | tonal Boura ot Fire Underwriters, through its Kxecu- tive Committee, that the condition of the Fire Depart | mentot tl city of Chicago, as to eificiency and reliabil- | to cause alarm to the members of this | engaged in the business of underwriting | jand, whereas the recent disastrous confia- | ve tully proved the necessity tor greater and ediate protections, safeguards and guarantecs | wiereas itisevident | be gratic ance can bo longer be prosecuted in again endangerlag the capital of the therein, and thereby entailing upon bouh stockholders and te public great loss; therefore, be it | Resolved, ihat the National Bourd of Fire Under. | h a view tu a protection of ity members fro! 4d overwheim te hereby ear: | oar’, to discontinu ce in the city ot Chicago of day ot October proximo unless the iollowing protections and retorus be at once in said city + he establishment of permanent fre limits co- extensive with the corporate limits of the city, and the Vesting in suitable persons the enforcement of the laws relating to the erection of wooden buildings and the ex clusion from the business distriets o} the city of such manufacturing and other establishments as endanger not only the property in sucl districts, but the safety uf | the entire city. Seconda’ nactment of a stringer the government of the city, und its petent bureau, as in other c ude requirements that all ware neediess nestly re ¢s oF stores shall be providea with proper tron shutters or di all front, rear or side openings; that parayer walls of such height (say five feet) shall be erected bee tween the buildings as will preven: the rapid spreaa of fire; the prohibition of all. Mansard roots or stories and cupolas trom buildings, uniess they be constructed wholly of fireproot material; and a regulation limiting height of Duiidings to jour stories or sixty feet, un he save be constructed wholly of fireproof omplete reorganization of the Fire Depart- yy, under the c missioners or @ Competent head specialy charged with its care; the eradicauon of politica, mbtence or tavorit ism (rom the department; the introduction of a thorough | and etfcient mulitary discipline among ss 11 : the augmentauon and improvement oi ts fire apparatus: the organization within the department of a corps ot and miners, to be trained im te use of explo- fed to arrest confagratie pating engines for Use Ui and the intros lew mH nthe river and duction lake fronts, Fourth=Uhe tthmediate in of the Water mains and. pipe ease of the ize and number as weil a Ure hydrants, lites where property is exposed by wooden buillangs. especially in loc special hazards and cows Fith—Vhe establishment of & Vire Marshal's Bureau, charged with investigation into the orgin of all fires, | and with power to secure te punishnent of incen diaries, izth—The passage of a law which sball secure the gradual removal of the lumber yards aud special hazards which tow threaten the city upon the southwest and | Northwest to isolated localities, a9 well as the removal nd unlawtal structures now, | ngering vaiuable sections of the basiness j | oity. en u On motion the report was adopted unanimously | and the President o1 the Board directed to forward a copy to the Mayor of Clucago, a4 Well as to all Nehoual Beard mepvers, | last no cottoa below waat | @place of absorbing interest to the public. It ta universally admitted that the present incumbent secms to be fitted for the place, and the people are watohing and waiting for the results of his pro. motion. The organization of the department is proceeding quietly, and how effectively tne follow. ing scene will show. All tne captains of police call on the Superintendent every morning for the purpose of reporting any important matter that may have occurred during the nignt aud to re- ceive instractious and special orders. As one of the captains war leaving tue ofiice yesterday morning the Superintendent said to him, “By the way, Captain, are there any bance games in your precinct?” ‘A-h, 0-0-8, sir, not that I know of,’ ‘Who is your special duty man +’ “So and 80.” “Does he know Of any ?”? think not, sir.” ‘Has he reported any to you?" 0, sir. “Lhe knows of any and has not reported them he 1s not Mt to be there, ana {f he bas reported them and they are there you are not fit to be there.” “Well, sir—oh, Mr. Superintendent, give me a ell, chance, “Yes, sit, I will give you a chance to come here to-morrow morning and tell me inere is no suciy thing in your precinct, Good morning, Vaptatu.’” “Thank you, sit.’ VAN ETEN AGAIN, Louis M. Van Eten, the notorious bond tanipus lator, 18 again in the hands of the police. He waa arrested by Detectives Sampson and Farley the day before yesterday und locked up at the Centrat Office. ‘This time he is charged with passing a forged government bond for $10,000 on the Bauk of California, Van Eten has been out of State Prisom but three weeks, His release was procured from Governor Dix on account of some services rendered during the recent troubles in Sing Sing. The day he arrived in New York irom the prison he presented himsell at Captain Sampson’s honse aud offered limsell to auswer the Calttorma charge if they wanted him. Since that ume he has been calling regularly on Captain Sampson, and when on Saturday last he was told the Cai forma authorities wanted him he surrendered anu Was detained, Captain Lees, the Chief of the San Francisco detectives, arrived in the city yes- terday. He lias come on to take charge of, Vaa Kten and remoye him to Caifornia, where they intend to put him on trial for the passing of the bond. Captain Lees has aie ready travelled over half the Uontinent alter Van Eten, Four years ago he came to New York tor Lim, but he Was tried of an Old indictment here and swept out ol the Captait’s grasp, This time there is but little doubt he will make the trip to Califorma, The bond on which Van Eten’s tate now hangs is the same that 8. W. Chadwick travelled to Auburn Prison lor ten vearson, Van Eten expresses his willingness and readiness (0 go on to Calilornia. He says that is aow the oniv Charge against lun, and he wishes it rabbed out va he wants to become an honest man once wore. THE OOTTON EXCHANGE, A special meeting was held atthe cotton tx change yesterday alternoon to discass the pro- priety of amending cule No, 1, by removing the restrictions on the quantity of “ordinary cotton”! deliverable on @ contract. Mr. Hentz presided. It would appear that up to the end of December is Known as “good or* pred on certain contracts dinary" conta be aelt | The result appeared to be that while some grades above the class reierred to obraine Che grades below “good ordinary” had litte or no demand, The subject wad discussed at lengtn yeoee and the amendment was adopted by @ arge majority, It may be mentioned, however, that tne rnle as amended does aot go’ tata eiteck unt bie Degimning Of ueXxt Year, J goad prices,