The New York Herald Newspaper, August 4, 1874, Page 8

THE COAL REGIONS. General Prevalence of Riot, Rob- bery and Murder. BODIES HORRIBLY MUTILATED. Ku Klux Notices Served on Ob- noxious Citizens. Vigilance Committees Or- ganized. SCRANTON, Pa, August 3, 1874, Years ago the anthracite coal flelds and the ad- Jacent cities and towns were almost constant ecenes of the most terrible lawlessness; but by the intervention of the strong arm of the jaw the outlaws, Who committed the most fiendish out rages, were either driven out of the region or captured and immured within the walls of a NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, AUGUST 4, 1874.—TRIPLE decided on reducing their workingmen’s wages ten per cent, and s@ announced it, The employés atonce quit work, and to-day they received no- tice that Mf they did not resame work before Wednesday next they would be paid the wages due to them and be discharged, To-day they hela | 4 meeting and resolved not to go to work as long 4s the reduction was insisted oa. About but they strikers, GREAT FIRES AND THEIR REMEDY. @ dozen of the men refused to quit work, have been in no manner molested by the A communication has been received by the HER- ALD from a member of the Chamber of Commerce, Chicago, in which he states that the epidemic of fires with which the Garden City has been visited has now thoroughly aroused the citizens trom their dreams of security, and compelled them to ener- | etic efforts for future protection and prevention, | “Incendiarism,” ne says, “bas been rampant | Numerous fires have broken out under circum- | Stances which prove beyond cavil over-insurance to have been the cause, Several persons have deen indicted, and some of the miscreants, it ts to be hoped, will be visited with the severest penal- ties of the law, Fires are becoming more and | | more numerous, This is owing to the growing thickness of the population, the growth of | idleness im cities, the temptations of over- | msurance ana the general apathy on the | part of the puble im _ the enforcement of the laws. The causes of crime should o@ more earnestly looked into and the proper remedies ap- prison, and many of those receiving punishment by this means are still languishing in the @ark cells of the Luzerne County Jail, med- tating upon the many atrocious crimes they have committed. While the Lackawanna and ‘Wyoming valleys were made notorious by Drigandish transactions, the Schuylkill region ‘Was quite as notable for the horrivie crimes committed within its boundaries, and even to the | present day certain districts of Scouyikill county witness the most bloody deeds. Centralia, Locust | Gap and Shamokin are the central points of law- Jessness, the features being murder, assassination, Q@ttempts to throw rauroad trains irom the trac! and GENERAL RIOTOUS DEMONSTRATIONS. Recently at Centralia a number of persons were shot, severai of them fatally. Shamokin last week ‘Was the scene of a brutal murder, the victim be- img Mr. N. Diedeman. The supposed murderers have been arrested. Almost every day some citi- wen receives a Ku Kiux notice to the effect that be must govern his action in such a way as ts mentioned or leave the country, his ilfe to be forfeited unless he does. All these Outrageous proceedings are attributea to the “Molly Maguires,” a band of cutthroats who are said to ply their trade of robbery and murder in the mining country. The time nas been, and not long since, too, when it was dangerous fora eitizen to go unarmed upon the streets in many of the coal towns, terrorism was so prevalent, ‘This state of affairs was more peculiar to Schuyikill county than elsewhere. Numerous instances have been recorded where mine superintendents and bosses have been despatched im a bloody and Maysterious way, and although the authorities have labored assiduously to bring the perpetrators of the crime to the tribunal of justice, the mystery | remains veiled to this time. Since the depression began in the coal trade in the northern coal fields CRIME HAS BECOME PREVALENT, and the law-abiding citizens assert that in varions parts of Luzerue county the deeds of bioodsbed and violence are similar to those enacted in the times gone by, when @ man’s life was considered ‘to be worth nothing if he ventured trom his home @lter nightfall. It has always been a noticeabie fact that the desperadoes, who generally travel in 4quads of three and upwards, attempt to assassi- Date mine bosses. Why they should want to kill these men, who are nearly always respect- able and honest, but not wealthy, is @® mystery. Two attempts at murder were Made last week, the parties being L. E, Judd, Superintendent of the Elk Hill Coai and tron Com- pay: Dickson, and Alired L, Green, mune e8 Of the collieries of Mr. Jermyn. In the case ol Mr. Judd the attack was made by a young Man, a stranger to the assailed, who jortunately escaped being shot. alr. Judd is a good and reputable citizen. He was the first president of the Father Mathew Society of Dickson, and as the association has many enemies in the region, some parties attribute the attempted assassination of | ir. Judd to his connection with tt Mr. Green was less fortunate than his friend. He was fatally snot, but not untii the miners who came to his rescue had kilied one Of his assailants. What could have been the pur- | pose of the gang 1s dificult to conjecture. A | strong force of citizens, armed to the teeth, are Of the track Of the viilams who escaped, and it is getermined to take them dead or alive. Upon the information of & woman, Who lives on the out- ekirts of Perymon, a shanty in the woods, which has been known to be the headquarters of the ‘Danditti, was reached, but nothing was discovered ‘that would furnisu a clew to the horde that bad eccupled it, TERRIBLE RIOTS have occurred at Providence, in which scores of ruM@ans have engaged, and several persons have Deen shot and stabbed. These outlaws have no fear of the police or laws, as was fully evidenced in+, there Was an oration by the Rev. John D. Bagwell, ‘the riot which OMcer Netzell, of the police force of ‘this city, undertook to quell at the town here al- Juded to. When Netzeli went to arrest the ring- Jeaders and quell the disturbance he was attacked ‘With ail sorts of Weapons, and almost driven from the place. Timely assistance arrived, aud a num- ber of arrests were made. Thomas Duggan and geveral others were shot. Duggan has since re- covered. A man named Gillespie is under arrest for the shooting. John Kavans, an employé of the Daily Repud- Hoan, this city, which speaks of these outrages | Without fear or favor, although the editors have Feceived what are known as ‘coffin notices"—a@ gocument emblazoned with a coffin, and skull and cross-bones, aud warning the recipient to leave the territory under penalty of dei tacked near the railroad bridge, on Scranton ave. Bue, on Friday last, and wouid, no doubt, have been murdered had he not protected himsel: wita a@revoiver. Several bodies dreadfully mutilatea, bearing every evidence of murder, have been Jound within a short time on the Susquehanna | River and‘aiong the roads leading to the moun- tams. At Taylorville MURDER AND HOUSEBREAKING are Of frequent occurrence. The city of Oarbon- dale, the ventre of the coal trade of tue Delaware and Hudson Company, is threatened by the incen- diary’s hand, and already a breaker, valued at about $50,000, belonging to the Delaware and Had- | son Company, besides other valuable property, has been burned. The citizens. headed by the Mayor, have organized a Vigilance Committee to procs the city, and the Delaware and Hudson mpany have offered a large reward lor the de- tection and apprehension of the incendiaries, Pittston and Wilkesbarre, and other cities and towns, lave aiso been the scenes of much out- jawry, Which increases in the number of crimes perpetrated daily as well as in horror. In the valieys, where the lawlessness is most revalent, the citizens, who are dissatisflea with @ tardiness of the law, are organizing VIGILANCE COMMMITTEES and preparing to give sach transgressors as are caught a quick trial and speedy punishment, or, iu other words, the justice of Judge Lynch. tis | & noteworthy fact that in some «districts of the regions where the outrages have been perpetrated the officers of the law have been ratuer siow in pursuing tbe brigands, and in some cases no gearch nas been made at ail. This is attributable vo the influence the malelactors exercise over all eater who have been raised to official position politica, Tne criminal classes have the power to control all elections in the coal country. Hazleton, in the Upper Lebign region; Mahanoy City, Shenandoah City and Asiland have also wit- messed riotous outbreaks. Reports come in irom the mountain towns that bouies are found ire- quently, snowing fearful brutalty at the Lands of we fiends that roam unmoiestedly the surround- ing country. The people are becoming aroused, aa the enormity and increase of these deeds of biood | need ap immediate check, or, as has been the case in the past, every man will be forced to pay tribute to the Vandals, sothat his life and prop- erty may be safe. TO pay this ‘blood money” @uarantees protection, but to refuse means an | early and terribie death. The Attack om Mine Boss Green—Arrest of an Assassin—The First of RuMans Killed. WILKRSBABBE, Pa., August 3, 1874, The detectives of Scranton on Saturday last arrested Denuis Sharkey tn his cabin on the moun- tain back of that city as being one of the despera- does who made the assault upon Mine Boss Green atJermyn last Tuesday. He had been skuiking im the woods since the affray. At his examination he denied the charge, bat a putlet hole through his Jeit leg, above the ankle, bespoke him the same Man Who was shot and fell down during the affray, He re peceent to this city and lodged in prison on Sunday. To-day Mr. Green was able tocome here, and | Sharkey was brought into his presence, when te | ‘was identified as one of the gang. The one who | was shot in the fight turned out to be Patrick of Dunmore, and his wife claimed his body | after it had been buried. The other desperado is | still at large, but he is known and detectives are on his track. These affairs have become quite fre- nent in the mining regions, and this is tue fi dine that any of the ruMans have been killed or cangnt, 80 well have their plans been laid and gecretakept, IRONWORKERS STRIKD, Refusal to Submit to a Reduction Wages. WILKRSDARREYPO., Angnst 3, 1874, The Yulean jron Works, of this city, Jast week of —Wwas at- | | tary authorities. plied. Stern laws regulaung insurance should be enacted, No insurance company should be per- mitted to take any risk beyond one-half or at | most two-thirds of the actual’ vaiue of the prop- | erty insured. Nota dollar should ever be paid be- yoni the actual loss absolutely proved, whatever | "may be the amount specified in the policy. Such rulés as these Would save miliuons of property annually (rom destruction. People do pot burn buildings for amusement, In ninety-nine cases in | a bundred money is the object. No doubt can be entertained that thousands of houses have been burned tor the sake of the insurance, but more especially for the insurance on the fuctuating (or easily removable) stocks and furniture, the loss on | which is 80 dificult to be ascertained and com- | pater These wide open doors of fraud shoud be | closed, and until they are closed no reliable se- | curity can exist.’? | A METROPOLITAN POLICE BAND, There is no metropolitan band in New York; no Musical association that the city authorities can | Gall upon, at any moment, to represent them on | occasions where, as in other cities, some organiza- tion of the kind is under compiete control, efM- | cient, and, at the same time, ready for every | emergency, A few days since a correspondent of | the HsRAaLD set forth nis views in regard to estab- | lishing a band in this city which should be specially devoted to the interests of the police. The idea intended to be conveyed was that the large body | of men attached to our police force merited some representative musical organization, | which should ve maintained at the expense | of the citizens, and by way of return ior the expenditures necessarily incurred sould agord such entertainment in the pupiic parks, and, in fact, upon all public occasions where any | musical demonstration might be required. Every | Country bas a representative band, and, though | poseensiny the best material in the world, it may e as well to mention the fact that tue Empire tate has none at all. To be sure we bave scores of regimental bands, but the city of New York ought to have a band of 18 own, and to the police | authorities belongs the task of supporting and Tegulating it. Several correspondents have writ- ten earnest letters on the subject. It 18 forcibly | stated by one of these writers that “At the pres- | ent time there is no band in this country | which can compete favorably with ‘our brethren’ abroad, and particularly those who | visited us some years ago, including, among others, the French ‘Garde Kepublicatne’ and the English ‘Coldstream Guards.’ for the reason that bo harmony exists awong musicians on this side of the water. They invariably go to | Various watering places, and, occasionally in the winter, when large bal's are given, members of one Military band join others, just for an evening, | thus creating dissatisfaction.” “In order to evade | the above,” continues our correspondent, it is | necessary to organize @ regularly salaried corps | connected with our Police Department and haviag as its leader or ‘captain’ a competent musician who will select @ Dumber of thorough musicians, to be termed patroimen, rehearsals to occur daily; their duty to consist in playing every day in some of the city parks apd on police parades or on other public occasions 10 Which tue municipal authorities would have some interest.” Alter the Commissioners get through with the ponderous | duties in cleaning the streets it would not be ul wise to turn their attention to a matter in which = ofthe taxpayers are evidently much inter- ested. EMANOIPATION CELEBRATION, | The festival at Myrtle Avenue Park, Brooklyn, | yesterday, in memory of the emanctpation of the colored race of the United States and British West India Islands, drew growds of the colored popula, tion both of New York and Brooklyn. The dancing | | floor of the pavilion was early occupied by the | lovers of Terpischore, the belles and beaux trip: Ping ‘the light fantastic toe’ with a spirit and gtace peculiar to themselves. At three o’clock queystesy se todeg onp s1nIUE TNOW “A “M ABd 0} 19110130 M0, | which was an eloquent tribute to the pioneers of ) emancipation, the names of William Wilberforce , Charles Sumner and Abraham Lincoln eliciting | loud cheers from ihe assemblage. There was & | “Punch ana Judy” show on the grounds, which de- | lighted tbe emancipated, various trip games to be- guile the tedious nours—and the money trom the Visitors’ pockets—while Professor —— ‘somevody, | of the London Atheneum, performed with his | “dumbactora” (a8 the bills had it) seventeen | comical acts that amused the audience with “laughable, comical, farcical, operatical, tragical, meiodramatical merrioneites.” The celebration passed oi very creditably, aud excclient order was preserved. IMPURE WATER, | The frequency of cholera morbus, diarrhea and other stomachic disorders in New York and the | adjacent cities at the present time, and the num- ber of cases which have proved Jatal, seem to show that pnblic apprehensions of a serious epi- | demic are not without just foundation, The cause | usually attributed for the occurrence of these dis- eases at this season—excess In eating (ruit—can hardly be allowed as the real and only reason. Such May, no doubt, act injuriously to a consider- able extent, but the main, underiying element of harm is the mecessitated use of impure water, | | The influences of poisoned water daily used are so | subtie and yet so pervading that it is not easy to | trace the eflects, but of the muscuief caused there can be no doubt. A supply of pure and wholesome | water in such cities as this 18 as indispensabie as lignt or air, Numerous complaints ou the subject trom sufterers through this cause have been ad- ; Gressed to the HERALD, and @ matter of such | essential importance to the comtort and well- | being of the community especidily demands the earnest attention aud prompt action of the sani- MONDAY’S RETURNING TIDE, The tnevitable compuiston of the great city’s | business, from which the lull of Sunday granted a snort respite of rest and recreation, brought back yesterday morning the multitudes who had escaped on Saturday for a short speil from the tou and heat of town. From all quarters—up the river, the different seaside resorts, the quiet coun- try—every conveyance, by jand and water, was crowded with passengers returning to the ‘city, ‘The rush from the seaside Was extreme, and the early trains aud steamers were filled to their ut- most capacity. From Long Branch so great was the retiux that the New Jersey Southern Railroad had to provide an extra steamer, and with even that addition it was found necessary to keep back the luggage till the ast train boat bad been de- spatcued, EMIGEATION 10 NEW YORK, ‘The following is a stavement, recelved from the | officials at Case Garden, of the total uamigration — | at this port since January 1, 1674:— de 27,558 March, 625 J saa | ¥ + £64 July, 42 | April... i Ade = | Total. ‘ eater pene $8,775 | Of the above 1,225 were citizens of the Untted | States, dedueting which shows the number of | | aliens. | STEBRAGE PASSENGERS LANDED AT CASTLE GARDEN | | JULY, 1874, Nationalities, Wationalties, | : United States 264 Austria, 8 Hunger 46 ce, Switzer! 159 Ireland. England. 207 Wales... Beotiand.. 734 Sweden 1,90 Norway 40 Italy. Total.. 02 M'ENTEE'S REPLY TO A QUESTION. About twelve o’clock on Sunday night Martin Graney, of No. 99 Tenth avenue, approached Francis Mcintee, at the corner of Ninth avenue and Sixteenth street, for the porpose of asking him a question. By way of reply McEntee drew a ; Knue from his pocket and struck at Graney. The latter parried the stroke With his left arm aod in ooops 4 himselt received @ severe cut, McEntee, no 18 | % laborer, aged twenty-nine, denied the &ssaulit, but was Lela by Justice Morgan yesterday, if mm Market Court, in dei@uit of $1,000, for j | that Is, as many of the few bodies ag were visi- wor 5earrants Drawn. Se June Pye BUTLEBPEOBIA, paar Cie be « 6,826,207 888,767 {From the Springfield Union.) sala a Pace Ha Butleriam was bad enough, but Butierphobia, ir | Street cleaning under Police De- ei tee cas | ee 80 oan SHlosnamies| , preeoely as much | Charitable institution ao eae” eallae | CE BUREneS. Bor a few people) and Fourth Avenne Improvement find:> $83.96 — | Rewspapers in this State that, whenever they Seventy-seventh street. regulating, look, see Butler only and him continually, Butier if ‘opriation 1 > 34,034 Pa y uisccllaneous z saa 36,77 49,303, \ is the one refrain murmured in their ears by the . oe , whispered by the rustling foll: Total payments from taxation.....$16.08,Mi $2,300,005 | Tuuning stream, wi age, C., uttered by the voices of the night, and heard in NEW WOKKS, arlene cae ROM 188Ux OF | the: roar at the fempent, Every dymptom and | Public works—Street openings, J | movement in $18 ascribed to Butler, nor is provements, &..... $3,023.978 $1,270.49 | jt thought that anything can by chance happen | City parks smi tovernen 396, $5,059 | without nis co-operation or opposition. ‘The ti a age val ities 101,365 29,257 | ei CEM! a ony place ae under every | | Docks ‘and slips 61is27 = 137,679 | form asc! eee alee oe arale to that omnipresent all-snstaining — enc: ie ane Pare 28,351 6,101 | Poche ey, See eoan te atien ane soul Of nature. onsoiidated debi ‘ne one touchstone in politics, the one snibboletn, Vacated... 1,017,900 381,100 | the one criterion of soundness with these people ‘ it $739 000 p pe a r judgments f +399 | 18, “What think ye of Butler” There has really State Sinking fund deficienc | been quite enough of this sort of thing. The im- Total ments from { f vie kind. of talk, Fig nomics, by thes ae | ‘otal payme from issue 0 8 . His enemies, thus ab- WME oc sesssccences $1914 416 sardly magnifying bis importance, have done far | Redemption ofc $100,099 | More to increase the prestige of the man than his | Miscellaneous. 10.767 | Iriends ever could have done. They have played | Revenue bonds issued 1872 and 18; 4 attachments), n UpOB your Jom: (posiuon as ‘we extend to you eurty and earnest on- different political views xpress to you our _gratife cent appointment to the responsible MUNICIPAL AFFAIRS. Sooner of the Police Department Dull Outlook at the Clty Fa nat i en or iar ae A the Various Heads of Departments Are ftivre | mately eesocinted With 7O8: ee Pipronend Doing—The City’s Financial Machi; Te et Guat miagovernment, nd ge of Yo Never before in the history of New York have Ne ase iaistrovion as Compuiiasloue® affairs presented suct a duli and dreary aspect at Excise, that the interests of our city, the City Hal! as was witnessed there yesterday, The general stagnation cannot be ascribed to the heat, for the weather Was lovely and everybody— o | as connected with the ‘Police Department so far Bb ‘our influence extends, are committed to effictent bands. ne who bas faithfully executed the trusts reposed in him should be commended, and, as our fellow citizens eneraily have not had equal opportunity to know you, ‘is your due that we give this assurance of our con e om 4 ability. We tor 0 Police with yourself in ail measure Tue venerable Mayor was A his poet bright apa | the srd.a fale Wl. dcrarent and comuequant early. He devoted the entire day to signing war- Genent and security to our city. es rants for the payment of monthly salaries of the TaNILAH M, SMITH, Fire apd other departments, Very few callers, if and others. any, disturbed him during the hours he spent at his office. Most of the members of the Common Council are absent from the city, the Aldermen being scat- tered all over the country, even in Europe, while the majority of the Assistant Aldermen are at Saratoga waiting for the races tocome off. Alder- men Gilon and Falconer were the only two mem- bers of their branch of the Common Council who put ip ap appearance yesterday. Commissiouer Van Nort is at his post, working ltke a Trojan, Notwithstanding bis suffering with | an attack of asthma the routine daties of his oMice preclude him from availing himseif of even @ short vacation. Uiseniplosés have not been paid for the month of July, but their warrants are ex- pecies to be ready about the latter part of this week. Toe Comptroller was in earnest consultation with Chamberlain Lane several times during the da: It is supposed that he has been prepar- ing his apswer to the several suits which have been instituted against the city within the past three days, It will be interesting Jor the citizens oi New York to know that among the many suits for claims pending tn the various courts the 1ol- loping have been ordered to be paid by the various ribunal NEW YORK CITY. eee Rails are being laid for horse cars in Eighteenth Street, to connect with tracks at various pointe in | the city. Comptroller Green reports the following dis- bursements and receipts of the Treasury yester- day :—Claums paid, $162,394; receipts, $26,729. Chamberiain Lane reports the city finances to bein the following condition:—Balance July 25, Reem receipts, $518,036; payments, $705,887, lance July 31, $2,483,478. Mr. James Doyie and several otners have come forward to exonerate ths members of the Wiam Barry Association from any pasticipanen, in the shooting and wounding of John Donovan on Sun- day night last. The attention of Mr. Bergh, or other person hav- ing power to correct the abuse, may with advan- tage be directed to the brutal treatment of their | horses by the drivers of the freight cars between | the Centre street and Grand Central depots, A newly invented fire escape was tested yester- day, consisting of a rope suspendea from the roof of the New Court House, on which @ fireman de- scended with apparent ease. He had a belt fas- tened aroand his body, to which was @ brass tackle running on the rope and regulated at will Oon- siderable of a crowd witnessed the perilous feat, James Traynor, one of the lately appointed dog catchers for the Fourteenth Assembly district, was sent down t© the Mayor’s office yesterday by Judge Kasmire, from the Essex Market Court, charged with receiving $% as an incentive to re- | lease a dog he had captured, instead of taking the canine to the Pound. The complainant being un- able to substantiate the charge the official was admonished aot to induigein such practices in facure. Yesterday morning, about nine o’clock, the body ofan unknown man, forty-five years of age, five feet eight inches in height, light complexion, with | short side sandy whiskers and mustache, was | found in the dock at the Wall street ferry. De- | ceased, who was a thick-set, stout-built man, wore | a white shirt, dark pants and gaiter shoes, He had what appeared to have been a fresh cut on the jeft side of the head, which may have been caused | bya tall. 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J., yesterday afternoon. The body was not recover ed. The body of Andrew B, Smuth, of No. 260 Graham | avenue, who was crowned on Sunday last, was found yesterday in the river at the foot ot Twenty- sixth street, Gowanus. Deceased, wio was about forty years of age, Was removed to the Morgue, Coroner Jones was notified. Mrs. Neimery, residing m the rear of No. 500 Clermont avenue, was seated on the stoop of her residence on Sunday night in company with her child Joseph, aged two years, when an Iniuriated goat attacked the child, its horns lacerating the little fellow’s cheek and throat. The injuries are serious, Ellen Booman, of No, 444 Warren street, at | tempted to commit suicide yesterday morning by swallowing @ quantity of laudanum, Medical aid Was summoned and the stomach pump had the de- sired effect, Family trouble was the cause as- | sigued jor the rash act, The Coroner wu not earn a Jee in this case, During the month of July 86 carriers were em- ployed, 356,621 mail letters and 35,500 postal cards | were delivered and 215,120 letters were collected, The postage on matter put into the oftice for local delivery amounted to $4,427 61; the total ex- egate to $50,704 67, lor Various Objects, such as a Fece pay 0 ee palance due to sweepers, to enses Of the Office were $6,444. Compared with | contracts for regulating streets, &c., have been | ar rdieed increase in the number of pieces handled Le fina! sujnaication. fo, USNS Pe E OO One Alderman O’Riely, of the Twelfth ward, a promi- Paymaster Moore Palls recelved a large amount nent member of the Common Council Committee ORIN OY | Yee eEay Ate ice) tomes: sey el on Parks and Bridges, informed the reporter yes- terday that there was no doubt that the ma- Ployés on the Croton water pipes. Sherif? Conner intended to reply to the asper- jority report recommenaing subscriptions by Brooklyn independently of New York would be sions of the Comptrolier and his Auditor, but has | concluded to awalt events and the payment of his presented and adopted at the Aluermante meeting | which 16 to be held to-morrow (Wednesday), ! Just and Jegai claims, THE DEBI STATEMENT. = an yew LONG ISLAND, DuPARrMent OF FIXAXCK, Comprrouten’s Orrice, One hundred bonds of the North Shore Railroaa New Your, August 1, 1874 The following is the monthly statement of the amount a ea aue ed against the city treasury, January 1 | Of Long Island, numbering from one to 100, inclu- to July 31, 1874; also @ comparative statement of the | 8!Ve signed by William H, See, President, have { city debt on December 31, 1873, and July 31, 1874, to- | LCD, tt 1s Said, Improperly taken from the office y del " : " of the company. 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IN SBILOY, Mf 10; UeMepTy ON.SUT Mang Jo jnauisEda, “qnomieded ety {q osn Ul JeppR B ‘Op ‘unDID fo U0Nd)Wwseq ‘coy 1 ‘oy AaunUR, “PLET ‘A “q1ai0 Sujsso18ug sv ‘ude, JO 3NO FUNOMS 38q9 BIEUT uy uvdmog 4007 £18: “dapsNO9 AJOX MON UI SLST “TL8T at “PLSL U} ‘SUOTSSAS TBIOAd, “6981 “TE 0} “east ‘I Joqmieidag wWoI “Qin0g so1NIETq NANT ‘rouse oe JOATY U1IIBA 01 onMeAR puOdeg E28 MiIZTT ELST DI) PIB PUTOIIS-AINAALT, Oy SBUy) Besides the above, claims amounting in the ag. gether with a statement of and for what purposes stocks have been issued :— | tuto his hands 6o completely that it would almost seem @ covert friendship had governed thetr Total payments from special and trust ACCOUDES............ $12,670,273 | $110.767 | course, General Butler 18 an indefatigable poll- Total amount of warrants drawn in July. $4,525.279 | tictan, but he is not a miracle worker, and his suc- Add amount previously drawn in 1574.. 39,029.29 | cess in Massachusetts politics Reto not 1 mo been such as to justily the unreason: anic | ‘Total eenount cf warrants deswn to Gate... $65,000) SRRn the mention of hie neue excites te Beng City Debt. | quarters. Dec. $1, June 30, July 31, Ca ag are een, ed 1873, 1874, 1874. THE BEID HOMICIDE CASE. Funded debt, payable trom taxation” and Sinking tund....... Temporary debt, pave, bie wholly or in part Miss Nellie A. Tighe, of No. 72 Henry street, | the young lady who was engaged w be married to Joseph Reid, the man Killed in a Pearl street bar- $107,802,617 $15,022,194 $115,773.719 from assessments... 21,927,372 21,)86,372 21,586,372 | } Ravenne bonds, ge | room on Saturday evening, yesterday appeared | Laws igi bs 2.034 3.700 | before Coroner Woltman and made an affidavit, ON ad 172,547 = | She said the deceased lived at No. 117 Second Revenue bonds of I vm 14,082,400 | street, Williamsburg, was twenty-nine years of Totelt.es<+0s . $131,204,571 $160,204,067 $is2,02,02 | 8, @ Native Of Canada and by occupation a brass. Less Sinking tun 4,844,100 "26,258,990 26,306,099 | founder. , As esterenned hed “yd Tejatives nearer | $106 364.471 $124.35 O71 Slup ea, | than Cincinnati, Unio, Miss ‘Nghe took charge of Net Bede... ++ 106,363, 471 $124,035, 671 9125.996 998 his effects and is to have his remains buried, | Cash incity treasury . $1,049,707 | Reia nad been tn business for himself, but not | Cash in Sinking funds. sees ne ‘98,71 Stocks and bonds haye been issued in 1874 for the fol succeeding he became despondent, and of late lowing purposes :— ee ee RUtas SLTLED | For public works, Croton water, sewer re- Mi No. 2 | , ichael H. Butler, of No. 307 Pearl street, who Fit lnid damages te wrascount of opening *'°™ | stands charged with causing the death ot Mr, | Northern Boulevard and Lexington avenue, 233,000 | Reid, was yesterday brought irom the Tombs and | For city parks unprovements......... capes 20 | released on $2,000 bail to await the result of Cor- For Museums of Art and Nataral History bulld- oner Woltman’s inquisition, which is named for | ings. ‘ sate 00 Friday next, Mr. Schirenbeck, of John atreet, | For laying out streets" and monu northern part of New York city For public school buildings and re For County Court House. For docks and slips. For assessments vacated... For payment of short bouds iss! debis For liquidation’ of ‘cl For Stave sinking fund For Departinent of Building For current expenses, reve anticipating taxes of 1874., Total.....10.+ ‘The tollowing bonds have been became bondsman for Butler. THE HICKEY HOMICIDE, Coroner Elckhoff yesterday took charge of the | case of Mrs. Catharine Hickey, the woman sixty- tive years of age, whose death, at No, 230 West Six- teenth street, on 1 cial a It 1s alleged was caused by injuries received by being knocked down @ fight of stairs during & quarre! between her son and another man, who had forced an entrance to the room. The cause of death will be determined | by an sutopsy to be made on the body by Depaty sm | Coroner Marsh. THE SUSPENDED METAL MERCHANTS, Messrs. Holmes & Lissberger, the Pear street metal merchanta, who suspended payment on Thursday, have not #s yet made public the extent of their liabilities, The clerks were engaged in overhauling the books of the concern yeasterda: and the frm Pay they will be @ble to make @ state. $33,570,516 iid off in 1874 310 pay ol Revenue bonds of and payable from taxes 147: Assessinent bonds. rt Department of varks improv treet Improvement bonds. Water stock of 1870, Total . ement bonds... EXPRESSION OP REGARD, | Assistant Alderman Thomas L. Thornell has far. ished the annexed copy of a letter sent to Police “ ment soon, eir largest creditors are under. Commissioner Voorhis, the same being an acknow- stood to be the New Haven Copper Company, lJedgement of his services as Excise Commissioner | Whose agents the firm are in this city, Mr. Holmes, junior member of the firm, expresses the and congratulatory on his promotion to hig present reaponsibie oMce:— | Nuew Your, July 2, 1974, | they wili be able to settle their in- and resume business as usual at no very distant day. He says they would not have suspended nad they not failed to make a large sala Of copper last Wednesdee ‘ hope thi debtedne' Jonn R. Voonnrs Fsq. — sin—The undersigned, your neociatos in the “Ninth Ward Council of Vyiitical Kelorin’ and inends of we | | lodging? That it | charcbes of San. ; ernment. Thus Vicar Apostolic, the disavowing ol the authority of the Sovereign Pontif, the errors and impieties in which for years the ofMcious press and public | Peter to Ptus IX,, Chrysostom to those other renowned confessors of | }oaded with tired out pent the ee ed of Germany, or Switzerland, of | Whom, nevertneless, will be hei | of God until SHEET. CHURCH AND STATE. stora) Protest of the Archbishop of Caracas Against the Ecclesiastical Laws. The Contest Between the Fpiscopacy and the State of Venezuela. Canacas, Venezuela, July 20, 1874, We are on the eve of a revolution. Caracas plays no minor part, fhecity, even the country, is full of Venezuelans who are awaiting the sig- nal Guzman Blanco has ordered the chief officer to expel -ome of these Venezuelans. I forward a | translation of the pastoral letter which haa just been issued by His Grace the Archbishop of Ca- racas:— PASTORAL LETTER OF THE ARCHBISHOP OP CA- RACAS. We, SILVESTER GUEVARA, by the grace of God and the will of the Holy Apostolic See, Archbisndp of Caracas and Venezuela, to the clergy and faith- ful of our Archdiocese—Peace in our Lord Jesus Christ:— You know well, beloved children, that a black calumny has been launched against our episcopal honor, This the government of our country bas wade use of in order to discharge upon the Church, its tndependence and its rights, muiti- lied and successive blows, which have reduced it To the lameutabie state In’ whlch 1t groans to-day, without an suthority which governs freely au openly. Separated by official declarations and legisiative acts from the divine truak of the Roman Catholic Uburcb, with its temples razed or deso- lated; its seminaries and convents abolished; the Levites of the sanctuary and holy virgins dis- persed; its liberties, its properties and its re- sources Confiscated; its clergy exiled or groaning under the hand of the oppressor, which fetters or debases them, a wide breach opened to public morality by the heretical and !mpious law of civil marriage, crown Of the priesthood by the enacted law of the sacrilegious, conjugal union of the clergy; in fine, against the repose of the grave, whic she has ways covered with love and respect, they nave disturbed and cast forth from the protective shades of her altars the venerable relics of our ancestors. PERSONAL DEFENCE, In order to inaugurate this crusade of destrucy tion which they call the great work of regenera- tion and progress, it is said, with all the cynicisny which always characterizes falsehood, have conspired against the peace of the Republic; and yet it is wel! known that the cause of our ini- quitous exile was the petition we presented to the government for a more conclilatory measure, which would have made peace more effectual and solid. Yet we sull C pq in beheving that i! at the time we solicited a political amnesty the Presi- dent had been inspired by a sentiment of justice and a sense of the public welfare, and if, lollowing the dictates of a sound administrative policy, he bad restored the liberties instead of confiscating them more, the effect wouid certainly have been the cessation of the war and the security of tho public tranquillity by general contentment, while the obstinate persistence in a system of vengeance and of violent arbitrariness produced the civil con- tests which succeeded those that have cost 80 much of ruin, tears and blood to the country, and that have finally leit but an ephemeral peace, as generally happens where torce of the most violent nature 13 the groundwork. We believe, at least, in thus acting we obeyed an luspiration of patriotism; and no one hasa right to crimtnate our Intentions, Nor, how deny toa bishop the right to form an opinion and express his thoughts In @ cause of so rave @ national interest, a right that in cases ike this becomes a duty, to point out to hs chil- dren the abysses into which they are running. FUTILE PRETEXTS FOR PERSECUTION. Everybody in Venezuela knows, even our perse- cutors themselves are convinced of the futility of that pretext for persecution. Then, alter having formajly convicted it of falsehood, the govern- ment has not been able to adduce a single proo! to show our pretended interference in the political commotions of the country. Our only crime has been the resistance we made to the present time, and which, with the divine assistance we will con- tinue to make till death, ugaiost the unlawful Measures of the government the constitution, laws and discipline of the Holy Church, and against the authority with which we are invested by the grace of God. That such 18 our only crime 18 brilliantly proved by the | yeny fact that the selfsame persons who yester- ay dence of the government have begun to experi- ence violent persecutions, losing all favor trom the moment they came to bend to the caprices of power. And, on the other hand, who is not con- vinced, until the evidence ts otherwise, that it is the entire destruction of the Catholic Church in Venezuela which the government of the Republic contemplates and now executes with manifest ardor? Will it be said it is omly to punish the supposed culpanility of the Archbishop tnat the minaries of the Republic haye been closed and forbidden, their properties confiscated? That it is | with sach an end in view that the convents are abolisned, their rents sequesirated and a number of Christian virgins flung on the streets without food or shelter, uoder the unjust and cruel prohi- bitton of assembling more than four in the same is with such an object that civil Marriage, obligatory, has been established { terms that attack the dogina, the jurisdiction ani the laws of the Church? {} 4, We presume, for this reason that the il!us- trious Bishop Mériae, an octogenarian and sick, | Was cast forth from hia country in such a manner that he rendered up his pure soul to God on his way to exile, and equally for this motive that six temples of the capital have been destroyed or ap- Plied to profane uses, and that the remains of so Many of the faithful piously deposited in the Jacinto, San Francisco and San- tissima Trinidad, and three convents o! religious | have been ruthlessly thrown out of the holy sanc- tuaries. No, beloved children, all these acts and @ thousand others which you weil know, but which we here omit in order not to be repeating such demonlike acts evince the spirit of the gov- the recent expulsion of the documents of the Chiefof the Kepublic abound, ernaeae, this horrible message to Congress the present year, in which he went go | during far ag to deny the necessity of the worship and the aivinity of our Lord Jesus Christ, thus reveal- ing the inflamed batred, the hatred of doctrine, | with which the present government of Venezuela is animated against the Catholic Church, THE INTERCEPTED ARCUIEPISCOPAL CORRESPOND- | ENCE. fest with which the government Menacing the glorious and splendid | that we | itself sagainst | merited the sympathies, eulogies and confi- | But, nevertheless, the ciearness is very mani- permits © se penalties expressed in that right, pretended presentation before the Holy See of q new candidate for the Archbishopric of Caracas is nothing but @ vulgar farce, wnich will by no meana deceive your good sense. Horrible sarcasm woula it be for our most Holy Father the Pope, to de- liver the Venezuelean Cuurch tnto the hands of those who have already ruined tt, of those who ‘eingulted and disavowed the Apostolic dele- gate, of those who deny the Pontif’s jurisdiction, of those who reduce the Catholic worship to a mere remembrance of Jesus Christ, whom they recognize simply as ‘“‘hombre-Modelo |” CITIZEN DUTY. We are obliged in conscience to obey the civil power, but that only in which {it does not show it- sell manifestly unjust, gor go beyond the limits of its faculties, When it exceeds that, when it in- vades the spiritual jurisdiction, when it decrees | things Contrary to the laws of God and of His Church, tn these thiugs we cannot obey, we have ab absolute rignt to resist peacefully, saying as the posties and martyrs formally did to the Sanhedmm and to the tyrdnts, “We cannot do what you com- mand because we have to obey God before men.” Such is the ruie of Christian obedience, by which our conduct ought to de ruled, as Chris- tans, which we are, to “render to bwsar the | things that are Cvesar’s,” but not to deny to God that which belongs to God, In this manner we cannot fail In a due respect for the civil law. Such, then, 1s precisely what we have denied and what you should deny—to obey the ecclesiastical laws dictated by the civil government, FAa‘TH AND HOPE, If till now, beloved children, the Catholic faith, which you happily pro‘ess, appears dormant, and. public confession and the ptous practice of it donot. correspond to the attacks which our rulers pretend to destroy, we hope that God, our Lord, will in- crease that faith in your hearts by the blows daily levelled at it; that you will not delay to follow ve brilliant exampies which the Catholics of Austrii of North Germany, Switzerland and other nation: Ge us at this very Moment Of persecution of the hurch; and, rememvering the words of St. Augustin, that you will fee from the great punish- ment which the rebels of human Justice merit, and that you, by your excellent conduct, per- severance in good, will aspire to that rewara | promised to those who resist, patiently in suffer- | ing but firm in good, all injustice, placing the | divine truth before tear or seduction, even hie itself. Bis pei abbilep Bib gp legibus tmperatorum, que contra voluntatem Jeruntur obtemperare non vult, Acguirit grande ‘premium ; quicumque an- tem legibus trperatorum, qua pro Det voluntate non vult, Aoquirtt grande supplicium.— | (Ep. ad Bonifac de Correct, Donat.) Fray, without intermission, that God may have Maroy on Our peraecutors and euligiten them, SILVESTER, Archbishop of Caracas. Dated Puerto Espafia, June 24, 1874. SEA CLIFF SAINTS’ REST. A Grand Finale to the First Camp Meet- ing of 1874—Scenes and Ingdents. Sea CLiFF, L. 1, August 3, 1874, | Contrary to the expectations of many persone | Sea Cliff camp meeting closed last evening amid @ halo of unexampled glory, 80 that this morning 1t | is the chief topte of conversation in the hotel and | around the grounds. It is the almost universa opinion tnat the final meeting was the best that has ever been heid on the ground. General Inskip preached a “new salvation’? sermon from the words, “Behold, now 18 the accepted time; be hold, now is the day of salvation.” Three classes | were embraced in his invitation to accept the offer of the text—namely, Christians who wanted “fall salvation” or sanctification, apostates or | backsliders who desired restoration, and sinners who wanted justification or par. don for their sins, The Tabernacle was | well filled, and it was estimated that at least 3,500 persons were present during the service, At the | Close of the sermon the front seats were cleared | for the “sinners” to come forward as seekers 0! pardon, and those who cesired “a clean heart’ were invited up on the preacher’s platform and to such seats as they could find among the “mourn- ers.’ The scene and the occasion were what is | described as “a grand hallelujab time.” There was a good deal of | SHORT, PITHY AND POINTED PRAYING done, and the brethren and sisters were kept | within the limits of a specific object for prayer, Tne result was @ general gathering forward o! | those who had any desires God-ward, and when at ten o’clock the meeting was jormally closed about twenty persons stood up and for the first time conlessed their faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, | while many others who had sought the blessing of Sanctification acknowledged that they had ob- tained it. | Bat the meeting did not end here, Those who were 80 disposed left the Tabernacie and went to their respective places of abode, while hundreds remained to pray and be prayed for until the mid- | pigat hour arrived and prudence dictated a cessa- tion of effort for the night. The meeting was one of remarkable “power.” The people had been for more than an hour praying earnestly for “‘the bap- tism of the Spirit,’ or ‘the baptism of fre,” as it | jsinterchangeably denominated. They had also | sung with much feeling and faith the choras— My all is on the altar; I’m waiting for the fire; Waiting, waiting, walting—I'm waiting for the fire. The firé Came, and one after another, here and there throughout the Tabernacle, fell under its | lorce, and the vast edifice was filled with confused sounds of prayer and song, ol groans and rejoic- ings. Hall 4 dozen or more at this time entered into what they call THE REST OP foro and one or two sinners, awakenéd by this mant- Jestation of divinity, were converted. For a um the euthusiasta of the audience ran high, and have no doubt that if it were advisable hundreds would have continued singing and praying until morning. But the way for tuese grand results nad been prepared by the previous services of the day, More especially by the sone popes prayer meeting at half-past six o’clock P, M., which con- tinued up to the commencement of the preaching service. Tne ‘experiences’ were of a marked re- ligious character and were uttered by the lad or lassie of twelve or fourteen years of as well as by the matron of forty and the man of fifty or the grandpa or granduame of sixty or seventy. ny of them will be remembered long by those who heard them. | _ In the morning & subscription was started to re- Move the debt of $3,000 of the Old Ladies’ Home, and about $700 was raised. The project was car- Tied forward in the afternoon, and the balance of the entire amount, less about $200, was taken up. Mr. W. H. De Pauw, of Indiana, and ‘Uncle’? | Daniel Drew, who have been on the ground, gave | respectively $25 and $20 publicly, but at the close ofthe subscription two friends (without name) those of its school to misie were announced as giving $500 each. These con- of the ineautious, to continue | to. falsify San venient Iriends were generally supposed to be the calumniate the truth in order to make us ap- | gentlemen named. But hesides these Mrs, Adams Pear as conspirators and thus in the presence of | Started the scheme with $100; Mr. D. ©. Weeka the people put @ good face on the most oppressive | seconded the motion with another $100; Dr. Rich- Means, which cease not to cry out against the | atdson and ©. U. Leigh “boosted” it still higher Church, cepted a large seditious ourrespondence of the It 13 said that the government has inter- | with another © each, and a few modest “friends,” | Who did not care to let their names be blazoned Archbishop of Caracas; but it took good care not | abroad, gave similar sums, and the balance of the to publish any of the documents. Every Uently awaited, but this formidable correspond- ence has never been given to the public, RESOLVED IN THE RIGHT, We challenged lish the document tims, we owe it, nevertheless, to the cause of our good name, for which reason we are always ready to give here, as we have solemuly given it before, a | 40 be named “Clit” among new and public dental to this calumny lately forged. ‘We know, beloved children, what we owe to the character with which, although unworthy, we are invested. We know to what point it is allowed us to resist the enemies of the Church. From St, , from Athanatus and St. Jo! Brazil—who to-day suffer like us in prison or in exile for the defence of the liberty of the Whurch, we have examples enough to understand where to begin and how far to push our resistance. To suffer patiently persecution, awaiting the justice it pleases Lim to decree ana the chastisement ceases; to take from us the unjust burdens which We ourselves bear, and to oppose the attacks of the persecutors by the Gear adirmation of the doctrine of the Church, This is what Wwe ought to do; this is what we have done, This we did once before, in our protest of the lith of April last to the Congress of Veue- suela, fey the vacancy of the Metro- politan » and also against the election ofa tivular, a8 neither one or tue other belonged to the functions of a political body, It was our duty to sustain the right which the Pontiti institu. tion gave us to Occupy the Archiepiscopal chair of Caracas, from which no ctvil authority could drive ua, and to affirm the right, and that exclusive of the Holy See, tO eatablish and depose bishops, This | aoqument was sent to the President of poe Congress any copies to Caracas. But, Jo! all our cor- Fespondence with which the government became oaseased, according to its accustomed means, vio- lence and intrigae—means 1n this case carried to the most odious aud unheard of example, in defiance of law, and by imprisoning two ladtes and three chil- dren (orphans) of most respectadie families, plunged to-day into a common prison and in com: pany with condemped criminals simply because a few copies"of our protest Were directed to them— was suppressed. In like manner and for a similar cause were some most worthy and excellent fathers of families treated, Thus far can this Wetctant i ae hg Mabel tent leception go which domineers in our disgraced Fatherland, and which is particu against the Church. Lemma aegis THR PROTEST RENEWED, * This protest, purely ecclesiastical, we renew to- Gay before you, with tus remark, that we are and will continue to be the only Archoishop of Caracas, until the Supreme Pastor trees us ‘rom that sacred tie which binds us till death to that Metropolitan Church; that Congress haa not veen able under any pretext to declare our chair vacant, and much leas to choose @ successor; that these acts are, 80 Jar, radically null and abeolutely of no effect. How Absurd and deplorable is the abuse of power! That all who dare to enter tn the exercise of our juris- diction, without our delegation or tnat of the Holy See, must be considered sehismatic and are in no manner ta be obaved: incurring also the terrible one pa- oppression and | amount Was taken up in lesser sums o1 $25, $10, $5 } and downwards. Dr. Corveil offered as his dona- vion to pipe the Home and supply it for one year with “solar gas’’—an offer which is estimated as pabitcly. our persecutors to pub- | the equivalent of $600 or $800, they have taken, and although this alone will suffice to convince every man of | j Judgment of the perfidy to which we are still vic- | this morning Was @ German named steen, whose THE FIRST BORN BABE AT SEA CIIPP. The:happtest man on the ground last. nfght and ; first birth at che young hopeful is is many titles yet to | dauguter brougnt forth a son—eni | Sea Clif—in honor of iY come. | The encampment to-day wears a comparatively Geserted look, though the hotel still contains some | fifty or seveuty-five guests, and the cottages and: | tents occupied increase the number on the ground | to about 300, The boats cityward to-day were followers, many of re again at the end Of this month, and who, meantime, will attend any | other meetings within a reasonable distance of , New York. The Germans will open camp here on | the 12th, and when they have cleared out another Engjish meeting will be held. Mr. Inskip and most of the other clergymen who were here have leit. bond ground and gone to visit encampments else- where. | PERILOUS CONDITION OF FOURTH AVENUE, | A correspondent, signing bimself “Civil En- | gineer,”” writes to the HERALD, stating that an | @xaggerated account has been published of the danger of persons, and especially children, from | lalling into the pits. There 1s no Place from | Seventy-ninth to Ninety-first street where a per- son could fall into a pit, except by the most wanton carelessness. Ali pits are guarded durin, the day time by proper fences, and night ae ditional guards are put up. Night watchmen are employed, whose duty it is to see that no travellers ap in dangerous places, Such an acci- dent a8 @ child falling into @ pit never has been heard of since the work commenced. The article above mentioned also sald that “a man fell off the sidewalk at Eighty-first street, and was killed.’? A man was found dead tn the bottom of a pit near ; Eigtity-first street, out he could not have fallen from the sidewalk, as tt was thoroughly protected by 8 strong fence.’ The Coroner’s jury rendered a verdict o accidental death, and exonerated the railroad conipany and contractors from all blame. | The work on Fourth avenue is carried on with exe ceptionaily few injuries to workmen and othera, | This is the natural result of a general system of | Caution adopted at all pointe of the work. The improvement ts being driven ahead as fast as cire cumstances will permit, and at an early date will | be open for pablic use. JAIL DELIVERY, All the men and women arrested on Sunday night at the dance house No. 96 Greenwich street were brought to the Tombs yesterday morning and committed by the Judge in default | aa ot: yyt case, “4 ieee n the afternoon & man of very re appearance, who refuses to give his Tame, came to Court and paid ali the fines, and the party, about thirty in number. were release: ?