The New York Herald Newspaper, September 10, 1874, Page 3

LIBERAL CONVENTION. Obedience to the Behest, “Come Out from Among Them.” ARRAIGNMENT OF THE OLD PARTIES The Extravagance, Corruption and Tyr- apny of the Administration, . OPPOSITION TO A THIRD TERM \an Adjournment to Await the Action of the Other Conventions, ALBANY, Sept. 9, 1874. ‘The Liberal State Convention met in Tweddle Hal) at fifteen minutes past twelve P. M., aud was cated to order by General Cochrane, who ad- dressed the Convention at great length, criticising the republican management of public affairs, He said :— ADDRESS OF GENERAL JOHN COCHRANE. ‘The very general depravity noticeable in the conduct ‘of public affairs is the inevitable precursor of destruc. tion to the aystem by which the government has been It is the extravagance of taction, urged by the opportunities of unchecked power to. grailty un- chastened appetites and unscrupulous ambitions. ‘ihese causes are pregnant with social anarchy. The mildest Government in tneory becomes oppressive by maiad- minstration. Such is the invariable consequence of the Possession of power by venal and selfish ruters, The discharge of moral responsibility from the obligations pf public ite inevitably begets corresponding contusion in the relations of private morals. ‘The man who with- out compunction enriches his private store with the public treasure will hardly be restrained from tamper- Ang With his neighbor's goods. The example of one in- fects numbers, aud a moral degoneracy resulting trom ‘the iniamous practices of government officials 18 gradu- ally encroaching upon the integrity of the American Character. We have been taught that ours is, a govern- ment of the people; but expericace tells us that it bas become the governthent of the office-holders. In the simplicity of the former time the virtuous sanctions of the domestic hearth reached the functions ot the public servant. There was only one rule then for the officer and, the man—the homely rule of honesty. Then pe- cuniary competence was the product of private enter- Brite. Moderate incomes waited on public employment. idelity to trust was the chief instrument of economical government and frugality of expenditure the result. No ‘rlevous system of imposts oppressed; no craftily ad- justed scale of excise taxed; no legislative trapslurked ; No detective pitched official toils to catch and squeeze ‘is own coffers the coined terrors of his victims. All this is changed. Contentment with moderate and honest gains is an obsolete virtue. The extravagance riotous living has banished the thrift of the better days. The toilsome pursuits by which our fathers sions, accumulated their trugal store have been aban- doned for the brilliant schemes of the political advent- urer, Where one yet plods tie laborious path of legiti- mato employment thousands are pensioned on the pub. Hc purse. The goverument ts the fruitiul parent of numberless sinecures and the sole dependence of num- Dberless parasites. Of the 14 collection districts in the United States, in eight of them, during the fiscal year ending June fo, 1873, the collectYons were $51,581, and the cost $55,763; in seventeen of them the receipts 'were, $27,875, andthe’ cost $9,339; in fourteen of them, the re-" ceipts were $1,995, and the cost $72,546; and in thirty. stwo of them there was not a dollar collected, but $75,259 was paid out to sinecurists, idlers and political vampires. Kighty six thousand six hundred and sixty federal office holders are the jovern- ment. Their commissariat is rated at between $50,000,000 and $100,000,00) of the people’s money annually, with a potentiality of expansion by the perquisites of’ pecula- tion and plunder to untold millions more. In these hands, thus prepared, the power of improperly influ- encing popular elections iy enormously multiplied. ‘The caucus and the Convengion, with ali their ascribed awer, are their obsequious agents, and the government conics an casy prey to the Venal horde. What wonder. then at the wlements and pecuilatious of the public tunds, at the betrayal of public trusts, at venality in public offices, or that public perildy has expelled public virtue. The very tirst step of the po- Jitica) junta is into rascallty, and at each remove the disgraceful machinery of a corrupt government revolves, ‘Hence the primary obligation of Its chief oficer to the Dretorian band of oflice holders who made bim. His service is their service, and disubedience unmakes him. The public employment throngh all its grades is distorted Yo this shape, The tenure of office is bt the expedient pol a to his principal. From highest to lowest, from th chief of the Republic to the placeman of yest Gard for self presides above the Kengral ‘welture, whole tissued body of the public service coheres by the Power of plunder. Hence come jobs, contracts, private Vales and personal gratifications. Hence the advance of unwholegome adventurers, spies, informers and detectives eurreputiously to criminal facilities tor enriching them- selves and robbing the public, Hence concealments, suppressions, and lies, frauds, perinnie and thefts, (From these have come the Sanborns, the Jaynes and Greens of the Treasury. Bupped like dogs trom the fed- eral Kenne! they sank their fangs in the body of the national commerce and lapped its life currents, “Within the limits of a decade $4,804,383 of fines, penalties and forfeitures have been wrung in New York and Boston alone from terrified merchants. Out of the one-half of this sain the moiety system, viciously worked with handeufs, enadiea the operators to amass colossal for- tunes. Jayne, Howe and their kindred company within Your brict years divided $491,342, The poli ‘of the port of New York divided $173,180; and enduring naval officers divided $158, Gnnocent and, absiemious surveyors divided $159,395, ‘Thua, within the single term of an administration, there have'been seized and confiscated of the goods of citizens, and appropriated to opu'ent government officials, $976,504, a sum which, when considering the ralaries se- Cured t6 them by law, may be truthiully pronounced a corruption fund of formidable dimensions; and when, considering the torture which extracted it, as the in: famous product of extortion and duress. ‘Now comes “the mysterious man.” Sanborn, and, with Treasury contracts and the rank adrofily applied, squeezes $427,000 from the plethoric public within the space of a Zest and forty-eight days, $213,500 of which drop, into 3 ig own pockets, gaping for a moiety more of the 15,000.00 within ‘the possibility of the 3,000 or 3,590 ad- ditional cases embraced in his contract.’ And all this Drigandage 1s wreaked upon a people hot exuberating with wealth, but laboring with taxation, In itselt of generous, if fot impossible burden. New York's quota ‘of contribution toward the taxes which constitute an- hually the United States revenue is correctly compused at one-seventh part of the whole, or $47,000,000. Her local taxation for the same object 1s $54,000,000, that is, $101,000,000 of taxes annually, or $100 to ©) adalt male Anbabitant of sound mind ‘and ordinary good health. Her corresponding, proportionate liability tor the na. tional debt is $315,000,000, The amount of her local city and town indebtedness is $200.00),00), and her State debt 2,000,000 more; $547.000.00 of public Indebtedness by the people of the State of New York, or more than $5 for each adult male inhabitant of sound mind and ordi- nary good health When, therefore, upon this com- dined burden of $60) ver man we come to impose the dead weight of the Jaynes and the Sanborns and the Custom House moiety millions, the problem is not how much more each adult mate can dear. but ‘whether the load is not even now too great to be borne. { up @ plattorm of pr: | unnecessary for him to repeat approved by the usefulness of the supordi- | | each Assembly district and’two delegates at large | the And here, perhaps, it may be well to bear in mind that | these are Not unusual occurrences, ‘They are hardly ex- eeptional, and are, without dispute, directiy attributable to the republican party, fresh from the deliberations, and charged with the boastful guarantee of the Phila: delphia Convention “that the revenues shall he care- fully collected and honest!y applied.” But they by no meins complete the catalogue of its oifences * * * Consider, then, the customs and excise systems, rotten with moietics, Iniested with spies, and whose bribery Diistered wiih biushes even the eeks of a Jayne. Con- sider a whole commerce at the prey of greedy poli- licians; respectable mercantile firms stretched to the torture, their boo ud papers seized without process ‘ot Jaw and themselves dismayed by a terrorism dili- yentiy studied and caretully applied. Consider the vust pockets out of the merchants of Consider the financial distress engendered by ignorance and precipitated by crime. Consider the armed interference with the sovereign rights of one State and the culpable rotusal to interpose constitu- tional protection of others. Consider the demand for purified civil service and its refusal; the need ot integ- rity In office and its want; the ‘security required for the public treasures and their abstraction; tho faith expected in the public servants and its betrayal; the necessity of the punish- ment of the public peculators and their, pardon. Cousider all these things, and answer to what, base uses jhas not the republican party come. How quickly this Diight has fallen upon volitics and morals, how rapidly thas reached men and manners, and with what ma- Jurious breath it has infested all intercourse, public and private, let the brief years of the Grant administration answer. Its early, disregard Yiolation of constitutional “sgnctions aud breach wt their traditional safeguards Were magnanimously ex- ensed and even partially forgotten. The exponents of its Inter policy seem to ave been Jayne, Simmons and Sanborn. Ciphers though they were they expressed a feariul quantity at the side of the Presidential unit and did not tail to suggest an easy sequence of sluggish cor. ruption and stagnant decay. Tine was when Washing- tou's refusal of a third term of office, impliedly received as of equal weight with a constitutional inhibtuon, waa arded with unqaestioning faith, But the parasites of of popular rights, its Grant couple his hame with a third Presidential term, aud are eauerly pressing his claims to the Nonor.. It is by no means singular that their efforts should be rein- forced by the London Times, “There can be no doubt,” says this inveterate ‘but consistent: enemy, of the United States, "that the clection of President Grant to a third term of aftice way have important consequences—consequence s ptended by those who have suggested it, -A third ential terin be foltowed by # fourth, and the ft power be again renewed, und until it is ter- ed by failing health, or the terinination of the lite the holder of (he office. | ft may well come in this way to be an understood. thing that the American President shali be elected tor life, and that his te-election, taken at the end of each four years of the period, wili be merely nominal, or at most asm saioguard against the perpetra- tion of day scandalous abuse of power. tt would be a Great and ‘important ehange if this were to occur—one hat would not fail to largely influence the general state es In America,”? Ulysses 3. Grant—tortu nate chieftain—General of the Army~Hresident of the United States for oue term—two ferms—three terms—tor life | Indeed would such a change “inthenco the general state of politics in America.” * * * It should certainly seem that the most urgent na- Honal need id the resumption of our i tions with the commercial world—specie resumption; the Girect way to which is clearly through. the eradual Fo- ticement of the legal tenders. Their employment in the offices of gold, relieving gold of its uses here, necessarily reruitied (¢ cisewhere to the foreign market. Upon their Withdrawal trom circulation gold must as iitevitadly re- turn (rom abroadas supply is inevitable npon. demand. Thus the graaual Teappearance ot gold would necessa- rily follow the disappenrance of the legal tenders in the natural path to specie Fesumptiont, without violence to the menciary interests, which would insensibly adjust themsotver fo the change. With a gold currency the rocess of banking may bo safely ‘committed to les im. mutable laws. The statute should not trammel it, Gold will Not fall to. How "wherever ite wiesenes is required to increase. the local & Ror ret the most uptrammeclied systern of tr Klug to maintain & paper enrrency ‘excess of the gold with which the community believes its vaults are supplied. * * * It is needless to extend inquiry into other neasures equally necessary to the general inter ests. Moro essential, just now, is the guaranty which the people shotild ‘exuct of Administrative reform—« uaranty evidently wishin neither the power nor the Sixpost not elther of (Xe old parties to make. Hence perceptilte loss of contidence in them and the popus ‘Var tendency observable wo new poliicat combinations, ver be able | supported Kernan in 1872, and he Jelt that Ker- | 1793, abriiging the freedom of spéech and the press, | an | even. NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1874.-TRIPLE SHEKT. ‘These may not be shaped present year, Ir heverthe certain o throw the organizations which now divide our political World, and to intench themselves in populartavor. In the meantime our disposition should to serve to our utmost the principles which uphold constitutional gov- ernment and patiently to await that general move- ment of the people which years of successful intrigue, chicane and peculation are sure to precipitate at last upon the unscrupulous demagoguc and scurvy politi- cian, On motion of FRED. CONKLING, Lemon Thom- son, ot Albany, was made Reapor bey, chair- man. He was conducted tothe chair by Messrs. Conkling and Dorsuetmer, when he addressed the Convention ag fol.ows:— Gxytieamy oF Tax Convention—I thank you for the honor you have dove me in electing me to preside at your temporary organization, Lam happy to be agso- clated with such men as I gee before me, many of whom have honorably served their country either in her councils or upon the tented field. I see men here whom the democratic id republican parties in paliniest cays ave delighted honor. take it, gentlemen, we have not come together to help build Be either of the old parries—par- ties whose days of usefuiness have gone by and whose organizations have to @ large extent fallen into the hands of weak or wicked men. The questions which have divided these parties in the past. have ceased to di- vide them any longer. Kach party has been year by ar joud in its prom good governinent and Fetorm, ut when the people have trusted them in most cases it has only been to be betrayed and wronged and robbed. What the people want 18 not only good promises, and good principles bat able and honest men to carry them out. ‘They want the corruption and extravagance engen- dered by the war to cdase. They want less taxes and more economy. They want the government administered not in the interest of monopolles and political parties, but fo secure the greatest goo LP tte react number. TI ey ant @ sound financial policy adopted, which shall ensure a speedy return to cie basis, ‘They want home rule to prevail im the management of our State and municipal firs. I doubt not that these prinotples are entirely in harmony with the sentiments of this liberal republican Convention. We have only to satisfy the people that we mean real reform, and they ‘will most heartily {ndorse our action here to-day. The care ery litue for yaw, names. ener have no relish | jor fighting over again the dead issues of the past. Again thanking you, gentlemen, for the honor you huve con- ferred, I await the pleaaire of the Convention. On motion of Mr. breci¥, Mr. Bellows, of Kings, snd ur. Chapman, of Oneida, were appointed sec- retaries, ‘On motion a committee of one from each jadictal district was ordered to select permanent officers; also a committee of one from each judicial aistrict and three deiegates at large Was ordered to draw inciples and resolutions. The Chair announced the following COMMITTEES :— On Permanent Organization—T. E. Stewart, of New York; A. N. Biiss, of Kings; G. R. Hitt, of Al- bany; W. Rockwell, of Warren; J. C. Collins, of Le L, Caldweil, of Chemung; T. T. Hoyt, of Steuben; C. H. Saerrill, of Aliegdny. On Resolutions—Cojonel F. A. Conkling, of New York; W. W. Niles, ot Westchester; L. Filkins, of Albany; General EB. A. Merritt, of St. Lawrence; W. W. Dewey, of Lewis; E. F. Jones, of Broome; Clark Bell, of Yates; and W. Dorsneimer, of Erie. At Large—John Cochrane, Samuel Glassey and Robert W. Lowber. Un Credentials—George H. Mackay, of New York; James R, Alladin, of Kings; Jobn Swinburne, of Albany; John Parkhurst, 0! Easex; Henry Ney, of Oneida; Ira L. Wales, of Tioga; A. J. Switzer, of Stewben, and Colonel H. W. Bowen, of Orleans, The Convention then took @ recess until four | 2 Afternoon Session. The Convention reassembied at half-past four P.M. T. E. Stewart, from the Committee on Permanent Organization, reported the name ot Charles E, Hughes, of Washington county, for per- manent chairman, which was agreed to. Ex-Sen- ator Haight and General Palmer were appointed to conduct Mr, Hughes tothe chair. On taking the chatr Mr, Hughes addressed the Convention. He said it was customary Jor the chairman of a convention to make a set speech, yet he thought the indictment uttered by General Cochrane ex- pressed nis sentiments 80 Ha that he deemed it them. Nevertheless, he could not retrain from asking why it was that labor and business was, at this season especially, lying prostrate. The people, he said, were demanding bread and will it do togive thema stone? They want something more substantial than mere platitudes, mere words; they had had enough of that. This Convention, then, must not only declare its principles but live up to them. Doing that you will satisty them; doimg iess you may ex- pect no favor from them, It was not for him to say what the Convention should do, If it should | enunciate principles, progressive principles, or if 16 should nominate candidates, well ana good; he | kad nothing to suggest, but would leave it to the good sense of the Convention. Mr. STEWART, from the Committee on Permanent Organization, reported the tollowing for Vice Presidents, which report was agreed to:—First twrew oll upon the troubled waters, remarking that there wasno necesrity for the Convention | drilting off to sea in extended debate at this time. After a slight amendment to the last resointion relative to supervisors of election the resolutions were adopted. Mr. Samuel J. Glascie, of New York. commended the pore bil as it passed Congress tu 1870, but added tha’ the amendments of 1871 made it Iniquitous aud gave unlimited power to super- Visors ol election to carry any men into oifice they desire, Not one section of the present law is just or an aid to honest elections. ‘The system is unnecessary and oppressive. Mr. BAERMAN, Of Albany, then obtained the floor and advocated making nominations, Colonel Jones, | fj Binghamton, foliowing in a similar strain, General VOLE, of Ailegany, offerad the jollowing RESOLUTION, Resolved, That it is not only expedient but the part alike of policy and principle to proceed at once make nominations for Governor and Lieutenant Gover- Nor, and that each member of this Convention, having a condidate for Governor, rise in his place and’ name his candidate, and that when all the names shall be pre- sented we proceed to take the vote on such candidates, In support of this resolution he said that the | Convention shoutd not for one moment entertain | the idea of going into the democratic camp. (Loud and continued applause.) That party deserves only defeat from the liberais, Vhat have the liberals to hope for from democrats or ‘republicans who had gone back on all honest principles? There are other men 10 the State, such as John Ganson, of Buffalo, who voted for tie congtitutional amendment freeing slaves, al- though a democrat. He would adorn any office in As for filden and Dix, the the giit of nope libera!s wanted no such old grandmas in the gu- Dernatorial chair. E. L, Sanderson,. of Brooklyn, deemed it nex- dient to Make nominations at this, tume, Judge thian, of New York, argued that it wouid be un- wise to nominate a ticket at this time, party lines were sharply drawn and they could not expect to draw voters from etther democrats or republicans. He favored waiting @ few days, and when botn tickets are anounced the liberals can choose the best men and give them 8 hearty suppers, WwW. W. Goodrich, of Suffolk, did not want this Convention used as @ cat’s- paw for the democrats, He favored delay until alter both the other conventions has met or leay- ing the entire matter to the good judgment of the Liberal State Committee. Colonel Lansing, of Kings, sald he was one of a delegation from that hotbed of liberalism, every one of whom came here Jor business, and that their duty was to nominate |. a ticket to be supported by ltberals, This party should not be used to further the schemes of either of the two other parties. He would be asnamed to go back to Brooklyn hike a harlot that could be bought. It was the bounden duty of the Convention to nominate a ticket. Mr. K. 8, JENNINGS, Of New York, claimed to epeak for the entire New York delegation in de- manding that @ full ticket be nominated. He con- tinued to make this assertion, though denounced by other New York delegates, and in Keeping the floor, though ruled out of order by the Chair. Dr. Sheldon, of New York, was recognized by the Chair. He proceeded to teil how he had started out as @ democrat in California mung years ago and of his swinging around the entire poittical cir- cle until he now found bunself a liberal fo the real gense of the word, His remarks were cut short by erie for the question, E. N, SANDERSON, of Brooklyn, then obtained the floor and moved a recess until eight o'clock, (Ories of “No! no!’ and great contusion.) The motion was put and lost. General MERRITT then moved that the Conven- bined take a recess for an hour and pressed his mo- lon. A SCENE OF WILD CONFUSION followed, amid which the Chair put the questton, but ie unable to tell how tt was decided, owing to theconfusion, The question on a recess was again put, the members rising, when ninety-five voted in the affirmative, thus carrying it. Evening Session. TNe Convention reopened at the appointed hour. | Mr. WELCH, Of Saratoga, moved that when the Convention adjourns tt adjourn to meet here at twelve M. on the 29th of September. Mr. COCHRANE called attention to the fact that there were resolutions on the table undisposed of, The CHAIR stated that the question pending was upon the resolution to proceed to make nomina- tions, and the previous question on that had been moved, General Cog said he could straighten up the | Matter by withdrawing his resoluuon to make nominations, which he did. The CHAIR then stated that the question was on ene original resoiution not to make any nomina- tions. General MERRITT sald the oommittee on resolu- tions had instructed him to supmit a resolution to | the eflect that when the Convention adjourns it adjourn to meet at the call of the State Committee. district, E. D. Culver, New York, and (bris- topher Pullman, New York; Second, EK. S, San- derson, Kings, and G. C. Deane, Richmond; Third, Dr. T. S. Deewes, Ulster, and Phiip Bearman, Alnany; Fourth, George Stewart, of Saratoga, and | Wilham A. Hawkes, of Clinton; Filth, 0. BE. CG, Guelick, of Oneida, and Jonathan ©, Collins, of lewis; Sixth, P. P. Rogers, of Broome, and | William T. Post, of Chemung; Seventh, J. M. | Hurd, of Cayuga, and Charles T. Wads- | worth, of Livingston; Kighth, A. W. Cole, of | Allegany, and Rodney R, Crowley, of Chautauqua. Mr. Stewart reporied the following names for Secretaries, which was agreed to:—First, P. J. | Stuyvesant, of New York; Second, E. B. Lansin of Kings; Third, George W. Spencer, of Columbia; Fourth, Neill Cook, of St. Lawrence; Fifth, Worth | W. Dewey, of Lewis; Sixth, James Calhoun, of Delaware; Seventh, S, Malley, of Steuben; nap en John Walls, of Erie. resolution of General Cole, providing that the State Committee hereafter consist of one member from each Congresstonal district, and that the State Convention consist of three delegates irom to the state Committee, as suggested by Mr. Pull- b, Was then adopted. As the Committee on Resolutions had not appeared as yet, repeated cails were made for a SPEECH FROM ISAAC H. HUNTER, of New York, a colored man; and, finally, at the request of the Convention, that gentieman ap- peured upon the plattorm. After thanking the delegates he said he supposed the object in calling jor him Was to learn his views, which, he doupted not, were very aifferent trom those heid by many other delegates. While there are many opposea to making any nominations, he coniessed be Javored naming candidates for Governor and Lieu- tenant Governor, (Great applause.) The liberals have anopportunity ot doing something no other | pody of men ever had—viz, nominating honest men for office and denouncing the | frauds, dishonesty and chicanery which pre- vailed on every hand, and in giving people an opportunity of voting for pure men for high offices. He felt assured the people would elect such men could they but have | an opportunity to vote for them. Jn tho itberal ranks were competent men to represent that party inany department of State government. Men must be nominated who do not understand addition, substraction and silence. We must not | at this time lose the opportunity to do that which 1s right for the people. 1t would be unwise in us to nominate for Governor such @ man as Sanford E. Church—(great aud prolonged applause)—and tor Lieutenant Governor Thomas E, Stewart, and if the latter refuses to stand then General Fred. Conkling or Henry R. Seiden, He (Mr. Hunter) nan’s friends could be magnanimous now and jom hands with the liberals and support Church. At this point some of the delegates in the rear of the hall stouted that the committee on resolu- tions were ready to report, when Mr. Hunter re- jnctantly retired from the platform, promising the Convention to address them at some future time, “when the committee on resolutions were not ready to report.”’ General Merritt, from the committee on resolu- tions, reported the followmg RESOLUTIONS, Resolved, That the liberal republicans of the State of New York stand for the defence of constitutional liperty, tor the right of local self-government, for the restoration of delegated power, for a strict accounta- bility on the part of public ones for the realization of the ‘constitutional currency, and for the rights and in- terests of the masses of the people. Resolved, That the ndininistration of President Grant has failed ‘to fulfl the reasonable expectations of the people, that !t bas pursted a vaccillating and imbecile Anancial policy, which has plunged the business of the country into disaster and bankruptcy; that it has invaded the fights of Sovereign State: y imposing upon them governors by means of the bay: onet. whom ‘the people” had rejected "at the ballot box; that t has employed sptes and informers to, plunder our merchants and’ established -a system of terrorism paralyzing enterprise; that it has conspired with corrupt men and monopolies to prey upon the Community, and has Kept in existence. ‘in the District of Columbia, an infamous ring, in whose thetts, although | caretully screened by their confoderates in Congress, high oficers of the government have been proved to be participators. Resolved, That the liberty of the press is essen. tal to, the security of freedom ; that the Sedition law of was an infraction of the constitution which a justly exasperated nation resented by exiling forever from power the party respons ihie for {ts enactinent; that the Poland-Frelinghuysen bill of 1874, under which immediate "attempt. was made to pro- the indictment | of an obnoxious editor, measure of like character, involving | greawr peril to qnr liberties, depriving us in many cases of the benefit of trial by jury, and transporting the citizen away from his home and from witnesses by whom his innocence might be established, cure is a to a distant piace to be tried for pretended offences: that its precedent is to be sought in the tyrannical acts ot the King of Groat Britian, as enumerated in the Decla ration of 1 ndence, and that its enactment can ni only be eitectively met by expelling trom power both the inen and the party guilty of the treason. ‘ Resolved, That while we believe that sound policy re= quires that no President should be re-elected, we turther declare our uhcompromising hostility to every preten- sion towurd perpetuating power in the hands of the © De beyond & second term. Such pretension J nd should receive the indignant condemna- tion of the people, Who should demand ot any party @x- pecting their votes an explicit deciararion against we claim of any man to become President of the United States for a third term, or against the conduct o man tolerating the use by others of his name for su candidacy. Resolved, That the return of the country to a specie basis is an object of paramount importance; that as the great purpose of money 1s to-serve as 01 hange, the national integrity demands a speedy turn te the common standard o1 the world, and the ness interests of the country require that A free banking system should be established. Resolved, That the acts of Congress providing tor sn- pervisors of elections are oppressive and should be amended or repeaied. Kesoived, That experience demonstrates tho injustice of governing the cities of the State by legislative com: missions, and we advocate the restoration to them of the right of selt goyernment, General Merritt remarked that the committee subinitted a resolution for consideration declaring it inexpedient for the Convention to nominate a ticket, At this point many delegates were on their feet ciaiming recognition from he chair when Genera Vochtane obtained the r and Dist, 1—David Rogers. | dorse him, The CHAIR put the question on the resolution that it was inexpedient to make nominations, and it was adopted. Mr. WELCH’S resolution that when the Conven- tion edjourns it adjourn to meet here on the 29th lust, was adopted. ‘The following STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE was then named :— Dist, 15—3. D, Crykendant. 6 —John Kershoe, Alanson Welch. 3—A, M, Bliss, i7—John H. Sanborn W. Goddard, 16—Wiillam Hl. Daniels. Joukling. Sollins. 22—R, M. Sherman. 7—Thomas 5, 8=k, F. Manierre. $—Benjamin A. Willis. —Clark Bell. M—Frederic 12— Willian W. 2 1—Morgan L.'F L—cyrus W. Macy. At \arge—Freeman J. Fithian and E. A, Merritt. The Convention then adjourned, Worth Dewey. Kem nes, arews. Gugel, Jr. 108. 32—Jonn Walls, Liberal Leaders Exultant Over the Prob- able Nomination of Judge Church— Tilden Certain To Be Defeated if He Continues the Fight—How the Conven- tion Was Managed. ALBANY, Sept. 9—11 P. M. The itberal leaders feel quite jubilant to-night, as they bave assurances trom the democratic leaders assembled here that Church will be nom- inated at Syracuse next week, and they can in- It is said also that the democratic platform will be liberal enough to suit the most outspoken liberals. Even going so far, probably, as to the use of the words liberal democrats on the caption of the democratic ticket next fall.. The democratié ieaders here fgom the central, south- ern and western parts of the State assert that Judge Church’s quasi consent to accept the demo- cratic nomination for Governor, if tendered him, wili certainiy force Tilden and his supporters to | cease their efforts tu secure ‘ilden’s nomination. or if, on the other hand, Tilden conunues the struggle to secure the nomination, there will be A MOST BITTER FIGHT in the Convention next week, which they assert will end in Tilden’s discomfiture, General Mer- ritt’s prompt and bold stand this afternoon, in forcing a recess in opposition to the advice of General Cochrane, meets the hearty approval of the liberal teaders, determined to nominate Church to-day, which would, it is said, have obliged the democrats to throw him overboard and go for Tilden, as they could not follow the hberais. During the recess wiser councils prevailed, with the result reported above. Judge Fithian, Governor Fenton and very many liberais went West on the late train to- night, General Cochrane will go to New York to- morrow, THE NOMINATION OF JUDGE CHURCH. Proposition of the Democratic Leaders for the Withdrawal of the Other Can- didates—Correspondence with William F. Alien. ALBANY, N. Y., Sept. 9, 1874, Yesterday a number of democrats from New York and the West met at the Delavan House to discuss the makeup of their State ticket, and, after much. talk, 1t became the unanimous expres* sion of those present that Sanford E. Church must submit to the necessities of his party and accept the nomination, Of the correspondence that transpired the following has been secured, be noticed that the memorandum obtained from Jadge Church ts written in the third person:— LETTER TO WILLIAM F. ALLEN. ALBANY, Sept, 8, 1874, Hon, Wrouaw F. AnuEs:— Dear Sin—Desirous of promoting harmony in the democratic party ot this State, and concentrating all its strength upon the enemies of good goverament, T have | tuken the liberty, with the concurrence of friends, to consult with several gentlemen whose names have been mentioned in connection with the ofice of Governor, vanced by their withdrawal from the prelminary yass in favor of the Hon. Santora E. Church, On Satur. day last J had the pleasure of meeting Judge Charch at his residence, he consented to place in my keeping a memorandum stating his position, which 1 am per- mitted to show you, and a copy of which I enclose. Hon. Samuel J. Tilden telegraphed that be will be here this afternoon. All other candidates heartily ac- cept the proposition, | ‘ ; Awaiting your reply, Iam, sincerely your rs JOSEPH WARREN, THE MEMORANDUM, He (Judge Church) has declined unqgualifiedly, and, so faras mere personal considerations are concerned, we cannot blame him. He would not and ought not to be a candidate against any one who has been named tn connection with the office, either one of whdm he regarded as eminently ft for the position; but i notwithstanding the Convention, with the cordial conearrence of all the candidates of the party, demand he change his present position for that of Governor we do not see that jie can refuse, ANSWER OF MR. ALI Away, Sept. 8 1874 Joscen Wannes, Eso. ‘ Sim—I am in receipt of your fayor of this morning and hasten to say that I have at no time beon desirous of the Nomination of Governor, preferring greatly to remain in the position in which the electors of the State have jaced me, but have said at the instance of friends, What, i nominated to the ofice mained, 1 would not decline. It gives me great pleasure to acquiesce In your sugges. stion, and I do so cordially and cueertully. [ presume that ali the gentlemen who have been famed as cand) dates for the office of Governor occupy the saine posic tion and will consent as readily as ido to the withdrawal of their pamespw ith the view of the unanimous nomin, finn'of Chief Sudue Uhureh he could not. 1 think, da- The more ardent liberals were | It will | | eline a nomination thus tendered, and the people heartily unite non aod triumphantly elect him. respec’ . Your obedient servant, . iki W. F. ALLEN. would Very | —— ‘The primary elections for delegates to the Demo- cratic Gubernatortal Convention of New Jersey | were held last evening throughout all the coun- ties of the State. In Hudson county the vote was | almost unanimons for Judge Beale, The Sixth district siands divided, Perry naving some friends _ there, Morris county 1s usanimous jor Bedle, So are Bergen and fassaic. In ten other counties there are large majorities for Judge Kedle. POLAND'S DEFEAT. He Now “Withdraws” from the Con- test—Reasons Therefor. RvuTLaND, Vt., Sept. 9, 1874. Jadge Poland will pubiish a letter in the Rut- laud Herald wo-morrow morning withdrawing his name from the contest tor Congress in the Second district. He states at some length the causes which have led to his political defeat, and says that if he haa known certainly that Mr, Denison had tntended to be a candidate ne should have witbdrawa his name before the Convention; but as the Convention was fairiy conducted and he received a nearly unanimous nomination he sup- posed the contest was ended. He denies emphati- cally the uge oi improper influences to secure an election, and says that his course upon tue mat- ters stigmatized as salary grabbing, Urédit Movi- lier, Whitewasuing and press gagging wili bear the closest scrutiny and he hus no desire to change it, He refers to his Jaborious career in Congress and says that i! he could believe that the district had lost confidence in nis integrity it would give him great pain. He expresses his gratitude for the long continued favor and confidence exnibited by the people of the district. If that confidence 1s no longer feit he has the consolation of betiev- ing that ite withdrawal has not been merited by @ny act or omission of his. MASSACHUSETTS DEMOORATIO CONVENTION. Nomination of a State Ticket—Federal | Interference with Elections De- mounced—Opposition to Sumptuary Laws. WORCESTER, Sept. 9, 1874. The Massachusetts Democratic State Con- vention met here to-day and was largely attended, Leverett Saltonstall was chosen president and delivered a brief opening address. NOMINATION OF CANDIDATES. After organization and preliminary proceedings the Convention nominated Willtam Gaston, of | Boston, for Governor, and William L. Smith, of” Springfleld, for Lieutenant Governor. Following @ recess the ticket was completed as follows:— For Secretary of State, Benjamin F. Wills, of | Williamstown; Treasurer, Nathan Clark, ot Lynn; | Auditor, ©. Usgood Moree, of Newburyport; At- torney General, Waldo Colburn, of Dedham, THB PLATFORM, Resolutions-were adopted which declare devo- tion to the constitution; demand equal rights for all races and colors; denounce federal interfer- ence with eleetions, and condemn all lawless acts or violence against colored men and persons who | have settled in the South; oppose sumptuary laws, especially the Prohibitory law and its accessories; advocate a stringent license law; déiiand @ vigorous reform in State afairs, Ad the abolition of rings, commissions and State constables; favor lostering with care the interests of labor and of the industrial classes, and commend the candi- dates nominated to the sulfrages of the people. The resoiutiona were adopted by & Mnanimous vote, and after choosing State Central Co m- rile for the ensuing year the Convention dis - solved. ARKANSAS DEMOORATIO CONVENTION, he New Constitution Approved—Baxter Nominated for Governor and Declincs— The Chief Justiceship. LitTLe Rock, Sept. 9 1874. The Democratic State Convention effected an { organization last night, electing D. L. Kilgore, of Columbia county, permanent President, and C. | GQ. Newman, of Jefferson, Secretary. | Resolutions were adopted approving of the new | constitution recently framed, calling upon all order-loving citizens to favor it at the coming election, believing if entorced it will restore peace, | harmony and protection to all citizens, and | pledgmg the unabated exertions of the Conven- ton to secure its adoption. NOMINATIONS FOR GOVERNOR. In the balloting tora candidate tor Governor Elisha T. Baxter received 51 votes. were 11 scattering. Governor Baxter was then declared nominated, and a committee was ap- pointed to notily him. He responded by letter, indorsing the platform, declaring nimself in sym- ey. with them, but declining the nomination, ‘ne vote by which he was nominated was then made unanimous, amid some excitement, and a | committee was appointed to again tender him the nomination. | on, E. H. English, the present tncumbent, was | nominated for Chief Justice by acclamation, and ; the Convention adjourned until to-morrow moru- ing. | | Nominations for Congress and State Ofi- cerseThe Platform. OMAHA, Sept. 9, 1874. The Independents met in Convention at Lin- coin to-day and made the following nomina- tons:—J. W. Davis, of Douglas county, for Con- | gressman; J. F. Gardener, of Richardson, for Gov- eryr and Henry Weib, of Buffalo, tor Secretary of State. THE PLATFORM favors the resumption of specie payments as soon as possiblé, and Cheap trausportation; opposes | lurtuer tand grants to railroads; Javors a reduc- | tion of taxes and a tariff for revenue; is against the patent Monopoly and favors & uniiorm iiceuse aw. | Withdrawal of the Democratic Candi- date tor Congress. YANKTON, Sept. 9, 1974. | Dr. W. A. Burleigh, democratic and anti-monop- | oly candidate for Congress, has withdrawn from the contest, assigning as a reason the want of support of the democracy, and the uselessness of | ranning without the united support of the anti- monopolists and the democrats. GEORGIA CONGRESSIONAL CONVENTION, No Opposition to Mr. Stephens—Entire Satisfaction of the Republicans of His District. Avausta, Sept, 9, 1874. The republicans of this district met in conven- } tion here to-day; nine counties out of sixteen | were represented. J. Heard (colored), of Green county, was elected President. The Convention, after being in session about five hours, adjourned without making any nomination tor Congress. A resolution was adopted that it was not deemed expedient to make & nomination. Mr. Stephens is understood to be entirely satis- factory to the republicans of this district. JOSEPH VANDRESSA’S DEATH. In an editorial article yesterday on the discharge of Charles F. Barnard, who had been charged be- fore the Coroner’s inquest and the Grand Jury with causing the death of the little Italian boy, by a cruel whipping for an involuntary offence at the Five Points House of Industry, the Hvening | Post, $ay8:— Barnard was not a fit person for the position | whieh he occupied. Aman with more experience | would have inquired more thoroughly into the facts, and wonld not have punisued tué boy untit he had satistied himself that there Was no justi- fication for the act committed by him. In an i- sutution like the Five Points House of Industry | there ought not to be any doubt concerning te heaithor any of the inmates, or their fituess vo undergo punishment, least of all im a case where lite or death is involved, It 1s satisfactory to Know that the history of the institation Gen- tains very few, if any, instances ol similar neglect, and it is only lair to assume that the | | punishment of Vandressa must be ascribed solely | to an error of judgmens on the part of aman who was only temporarily appointed to a poaition of trust. Itis most uniortanate that the noble his- tory of this charity should be stained by the Jaint- est blot: but it would be manifestly unjust to argue that the uselulness of the institution can be im- paired by a single error. Good yery often comes out of evil, and the death of little Vandressa will, we belleve, incite the managers to still greater watchiulness and care. It was utlucky that Charies F. Barnard should have been selected to | fill the temporary Vacancy caused by the absence | of Mr, Smith. A Mother’s Appeal for Vengeance, To THe EviTok or THR HeRaLp:— Will the jurymen who exonerated the brutal schoolmaster, Barnard, of Five Points Mission, from all blame relative to the killing of the Italian child please inform @ constant reader of the Heracp if the said heartless jurymen would have compelled the vistrict Attorney to reiease the | murderer i, instead of the poor italian boy, it had been one of theiy own children that Barnard has so unmercifully crushed into the gravey lama mother, and if tt had been my child who now rests in his livtle grave, with the never to be forgotten Marks Of the brute’s whip, | would relieve this beautifal world of the murderer of my sweet, in- nocent boy, fl was put to death the next moment, JUDGE BEDLE AND THE JERSEY DEMOCRACY. | | finda permaneot home. | toeir class, ‘rhere | | taird | part II Waltz, Fantasiebilder, Strauss; Finaie, | AMUSEMENTS. os Waliack’s Fall Season, The regular season of Wallack’s Theatre will commence On the 6thof October. This manage- | ment has now steadily held the first place im the publte estimation for a quarter of a century, since the year when the father of Mr. Wallack com- menced his managerial career in his theatre, below Broome street, and estabdlished a character that was carried even higher under Mr. Lester Waliack, New York looks to Wallack’s Theatre as the pilot and safeguard of the drama—the theatre where the higher and better ciass of dramatic works His company is always selected with @ view to the most perfect cast of legitimate comedy. It is very seldom, we can truly say, we bave seen a good play badly acted at Wallack’s Theatre. In saying so much we do not intend to praise, but to ve just. If nis com- pany lacked anything last year {t wassomewhat | copy weak in what is termed the leading juvenile man—the young lover of the stage—and ia the | gvand leading iady. ‘The present season wil! open | with the production of “Partners for Life.” a bril- | liant comedy written by Mr. Byron for Mr. H. J. | | Montague, the leading juvenile hero of the English stage, who has been engaged by Mr. Wailack, Alter the runof this comedy a new and original Insh Grama—another “Colleen Bawn,” a twin sister to “Arrah na Pogue’’—will be produced, in Witch sir, Boucicanlt, the author, will appear. Itisentitied “The Shaughrawn,” and its produc- | | tion is to be one of the features of the season. Alter this comes comeay season, and Mr. Les- ter Wallack mak@® his entrée, Three old come- gies will pe put on tie stage with as much splendor as fitness will allow. Chief of these will be the “School for Scandal.” | ‘This play has been revised in such @ way as to ud- mit of its performance in tableaux, Advantage | has been taken of an attempt of this kind lately | tried with success at the Prince of Wales’ Theatre, London, Mr, Wallack despatched his oMcers and painters to exaiine tne production tuere, and gain whatever service it might afford, After the comedy season will be produced Mr. | Tom ‘Taylor’s new play, “Clancarty,” the great | success of this year in London. The remarkable 8cenic effects of this entertainment at the Olympic | ‘Theatre in London was also one of the objects , Studied by Mr. Wallack's artistic emissaries. Fol- lowing “Clancarty’’ will be produced a new ro- mantic Kdewrt written by Mr. Boucicauit, in which ir, Wallack will appear. A comedy, by Mr. Rowe, will conclude the Season. | ‘This is & rich and varied biil of fare, and we know | how carelully the dishes will be cooked and set on the table. With sucn artists as Mr. Boucicault, Mr. A. J. Montague, Mr. Gilbert, Mr, Becket, Mr. Polk, Mr. Floyd, Mr. Arnett, Mme. Poutsi, Miss Effie Germon, Miss Jeffreys Lewis, Mr. Lester Wallack | and @ number of others, among whom is a new and | oung leading lady of whose success the most bril- | lant hopes are entertained, the season proiises | a least of wit and a flow of soul that will equal, if | jt does not excel, any preceding one. The “School, for Scandal.” Sheridan has justly been called a dramatic star of the frst magnitude shining among the writ- ers of the last century like Hesperus among the lesser lights, and his ‘‘Sekool for Scandal” is per- haps the most faultless of English comedies, and contains scenes and {ncitents among the happiest t and most highly wrought that comedy in its brill- | fant range can boast. Hazlitt, one of the most | accomplished and voluminous of critics, says of it | that, “deside its wit and ingehuity, there is a genial spirit of irankness and generosity about it | that relieves the heart as well a8 clears the lungs. | It professes faith in the natural goodness as well | as the habitual depravity of human nature. While it strips off the mask of hypocrisy it inspires a confidence between man and man, and as olten as 1t ig acted it must serve to clear the air of that low | creeping pestilential fog of cant and mysticism | which threatens to coniound every natural im- | pulse or honest conviction in the nauseous belief of a perpetual lie and the profession of systematic | hypocrisy.” he superexcellence of the piece 13 attested by the fact that in no writing of such imited extent have the creations Of lancy so | largely become the historical representatives of | Joseph Suriace, Mrs. Candour, Lady | Sneerweil and Lady Teazle are expressive names in the vocabulary of every poitte writer, and have their representatives in’ every community, and will rematn as houschold words while the Eoglish 18 & spoken language, and human nature retains 318 active principles and is swayed by its wonted motives, Other things being equal, the play which has the highest aim and best moral influenc the best. This being so, and seeimg how Brocklyn and New York have scones themselves of | Jate, there is, perhaps, no play which deserves from the people of boih cities a more attentive | hearing and serious application tuan the School jor Scandal.” Taking nlm ail in all, too, there is | just as little doubt that Mr. Daly with his unique company will so give the play as to bring but into boldest relief 113 lessons of wisdom as Well as its irresistible charms of amusement, morally and payee health-giving in its sarcasm and auguter producing sallies, helping to clear our atmosphere irom the pestilential belief in the power of lying and hypocrisy to accomplish any good thing. Central Park Garden—Gala Night. A very remarkable bill will be offered to-night at Central Park Garden on the occasion of the bene- fit of Mr. Jonn Koch, the manager, A military band will be added to the orchestra of Mr. Theo- | core Thomas. The programme 1s as foliows:— Part I. March and chorus ‘Ruins of Athens," Beet- hoven—Orchestra and “military band. Symphony, No, 6, Pastorale, Becthoven—i. Allegro ma non troppo—awakening of cheeriul feelings on arriving tu the country; 2 Andante molto moto—scene by the brook; 3, Scherzo—merry meeting of ped- | sants, interrupted by (allegro) a thunder storm; 4. Allegretto—Shepherd’s Song; glad and — grateful feelings after the storm. | Between parts first and second, promenade music | by the military pand. Part IL Selections irom | “tanuhdaser )? Bacchanale, shepherd song; first | Chorus of the Pilgrims ana finale, first act; March | and Chorus, second act; Introduction, second | Chorus of the Pilgrims; Prayer of Elizabeth, Ro- | inance of Wolfram, jinale, third act; orchestra | and military band. Between parts second and | romenade music by the military band. third act, “Ernans,” Verdt: orchestra and miltary | band; allelujan Chorus, *“Messiah,’’ Handel; orchestra and military band, Musicai and Dramatic Notes. Mrs. William Vincent Wallace has returned to , New York, \ “The Princess of Trebizonde”’ is the feature at the Lyceum to-night. A Rose-bud blooms since last Thursday tn the Eytinge-Butler nursery. Mr. Maurice Grau proposes to visit all the prin- cipal cities of Europe this winter in search of | attractions for his theatre, Miss Blanche Grey, the new leading lady at the | | Park Theatre, Brooklyn, divides the dramatic ; Works of the great masters of the past, he will | toan undertaker’s establishment in Washington KLEANOR. honors with the clever Lamb, who is manager. | Downing's Ninth Regiment Band will give nu- merous concerts during the winter. “The Millen- | nial Hymn of Iceland” is announeed for the con- | cert at Jones’ Wood Colosseum on Sunday next, | ~ with grand band effects, commencing at three | o'clock. During the eighth season of the symphony con- certs at Steinway Hall Mr. Thomas has decided to | give one full publicafternoon rehearsal two days | in advance of each concert, The orchestra will | number trom seventy to one hundred players, as the different works may require, and the best available solo talent, both vocal and instrumental, will be engaged. The general character of the programmes will be the same as heretofore, They will contain only compositions of the highest or- der, While Mr. Thomas will select freely from the not neglect the living composers who represent | tue growth and effort of our time, THE LATE F. B. CONWAY. ntiniernen wennner 9a Funeral of the Deceased Actor to Take Piace To-Day—Protessional Tribute to the Memory of an Accomplished Artis Yesterday morning the remains of the late Fred- erick B, Conway, the popular actor, who died om Monday evening at his country seat in Manchester, Mass., arrived in Brooklyn. The bo@y was taken street, Where it will he in state until one o’clock i this aiternoon, when the funeral services will take | place at the Church of Our Father (Universalist), | corner of Atlantic and Clermont avenues, The | services will be conducted by the pastor, Rev. W. H. Nye, who wiil also preach upon the occasion. There was a special meeting of the actors and employés of the Brooklyn Theatre held on the stage of that place of amusement yesterday after- noon, for the purpose of taking action expressive of their respect for the many commendable attri+ butes of the deceased, Mr, John BF, Sinith was chosen chairman and Mr. A. Kennedy secretary of the meeting. Among those present were Frank Roche, Walter Lennox, A. H, Hastings, B. FP, Taylor, F. Peterschen and Harley Merry. after the Chairman had oalled attention to the solemnity | T. L, Donnelly, J. J. McClaskey, J. ; seem to. be | would not fall to Mr, | and attention which 3 the Secretary read the following resolutions, which were unaaimously adopted : — Resolved, That it is with sentiments of the deepest and most profound sorrow we realize the truth of the kad and unexpected Intelligence which has borne to us the fact that our late beloved friend and patron, Frede- rick B. Conway, is ho more, Kesolved, That in the death of one so weil and de- servedly enleared tous all we lave each sustained a personal grict and common Joss whlen we cannot re- pair; yet, while we deplore our individual misfortune, we remeniber that in the death of Mr. Conway the stage has lost one ot * useful and not Plished artist, a Fi was generous, whol tious in all His e » scholar and ap honest man. and conscien- nded de: tather, an affectionate lean model to all wo admire true manhood and seek to dig- Hily those greatest of public teachers—the drama and nder our sincere and heartfelt icted and bereaved ones whom he ind in wid h owhood and orphanage, whose kenue hands and unweurying eyes ever watelied and Intnistered beside is sick and. sleepless pillow, for those padoris and uomnurmuring ones, We pray that He who 80 long sustained Will keep ‘the o 4 has 40 long sustant iil keep ‘them in their bereave: tre Resolved, That papers of this cit in the news- se resolutions be prin Youk (Treato, and that a id the New You! t be Gacrossed ant traceni leat eet i Hehy cnareot ve éazros A transiatted to his family. memento of our res Conway, the actor a it Resolved, That the inembers of the Brooklyn Thea! proceed in'a body to the tuneravuf Me, Conneye ee A committee Was appointed to attend to the funerals arranzements, and the meeting adjourned, At the Park Theatre @ meeting was also held in the reception room, ‘The meeting was called to order by Mr. Gabriel Harrison, and Edward Lamb was chosen chairman. Among the professionals present were J. 4. nittle, Connor, Josepn Proctor, Frank Mrs. Bratone, Mr. and Mrs. H. Mer: Wiiham ©, Hudson, A. G, Eaves, William Harris, Thomas Hind and A. H, Hastings, Suitable reso- lutions were adopted by the meeting. speeches were made, and tt was resolved to attend the funeral services to-day. MARK 8MITH AND THE THBTA DELTA OHI FRATERNITY. In view of the expected early arrival from Paris of the remains of the lamented actor, Mark Smith, & meeting of the Theta Delta Chi Fraternity is called for this (Thursday) evening, at the Astor House, under the auspices of Mr. Stetson (who Ig an old member of the society), for the purpose of taking steps to assist in doing honor to the mem- ory of their late associate. Mark Smith was among the members of the famous Lambda, or Metropolitan Chapter of this widespread college fraternity, which embraces in ita mysterious told 80 many distinguished person! journalism, art, science and the learned profes. sions generally, In this chapter he was a confrere of Jonn Brougham, &. G. P. Wilkins, Fitz-James O'Brien and like spirits, and made one of the yg of that brilliant coterie of wits and Littéra- urs. As the members of Theta Delta Chi are found on the Bench, at the Bar, on the stage, in the sanc- tum of our great newspaper dailies, in the pulpit, at the Stock Exchange, and, in act, in every prominent walk of life, the representation of the fraternity at the funeral promises to be a most imposing one. “a DANGEROUS GAME.” Letter from Mr. Edmund Yates. To THE EpiToR OF THE TRIBUNE:— Str—I have seen several allusions in American journals, which bave been forwarded to me, accus- ing me of having given personal descriptions of New York celebrities, and having repaid much kindness by great ingratitude, 1 took no potice of these observations, as the journals in which they were printed and the sources whence they emanated were equally unknown to me. Bat [ have this morning received @ copy of the Pribune, dated August 4, and, looking at the position of the journal, and at the fact that from you, tts con- ductor, I received not merely the courtesy of @ brother journalist, but warm personal friendship, lat once take up my pen to reply. Betore entering upon my defence of either of the charges brought against me, let me say & few words about the book itself, It 1s simply @ sensa- tional story, produced expressly for the require- ments of & jovrnal having a larve class of readers who }ook less to the manner of composition than to the matter placed before them, and for wnom the writer must seek to provide power of interest Tather than g) of style. 1b Was written plece- meal, at intervals of MERALD work 10 London, Paris, Vienna, Munich, Frankfort, Madrid and St. | Petersburg, and indeed there is scarcely a Euro- pean capital in Which a chapter of it has not been concocted, Such a course, as you will see, is not | very 1avorabie for literary composition, and as the | proofs ior the English collected edition were | corrected by a {friend during my absence 10 Russia, | and as 1 have never lovked at the book since and | have not @ copy me to refer io, I am | unable to speak with exactitude as to any indi- | vidual charge of personality, except oe. may | say generally, however, and Ican pledge my honor o the assertion, that whatever faint 1emin- iscences of acquaintance made by me in New York May ve found reflected tm the characters of the “Dangerous Game," I had not the remutest ides of ving the slightest offence to one or any of them. Had I received the least ill-treatment, had my public appearances been unpieasantly commented upon and my social career Veen a tallure in Amer- ica, Ishould, had I taken the suggested mode of venting my spleen, have been suiliciently base; but had [not ocular proof before me it would be impossible for me to understand how such charges could be brought against me when it is Known, as it must be i the circle in which these charges spread, that publicly and pri- vately everything possibile was done to render my visit @ prosperous and a@ happy one, and that publicly and privately I lost no opportunity in ex- pressing my yratitude. I have said that [am on- able to speak with exactitude to any individual charge of personality, except one. Ina New York evening journal I read that I had depicted Mr. Wilham Winter, of the 7ridune, under the name of “Willie Webster.” To this I reply that, 10 my Knowledge, | only saw Mr. Winter once at one of tne dinners of the Lotos Club, that beyond ex- changing salutations at introduction, I do not re- member ever speaking to bes! and that, if 1 mis. take not, the character of ‘Willie Webster” is in- troduced as coming on board the ship to interview the arriving passengers—daties which | imagine ‘inter’s position, and which, in my case, at least, he certainly did hot fulfl. In treating of the first charge, that of pergonak. ity, Ihave, I tuink, said all that it seems necessary or Me to say in regard to the other, that of ingrat- itude. Such of my American friends as I have | had the pleasure of meeting since my return home will be my bes? witnesses as to the manner in which tam in the habit of speaking of my visit and of my treatment in America. The pleasantest | Six months of my lie were passed tn whe United States; the greatest personal kindness, hospitality have ever experienced were received there. This is not said with any view ta the future, for there is no present prospect of my again visiting America. Itis simply @ repetition of what 1 have continually expressed orally and m print since my return, and tt is the protest which { desire to piace on record in a@ prominent American journal against Qn unfounded charge oy which [ have been very much distressed. ‘ I therefore ask you, if you think fit. to give this letter a place in the columns of the Tribune, or at ail events to let 1t be seen by the gentlemen inter- | ested and by my brother members of the Lotos Club, from whom I expertenced such a generous reception and such constant kindness. Faithfully yours, EDMUND YATES. No. 14a, Upper Wimpole street, London, W., Wednesday, August 19, 1874, THES FLOATING HOSPITAL. Destitute Sick Children’s Relief Fw The foliowing additional contributions have been received by the Rev. Alvah Wiswall, Master of the Guild, and handed to Henry ©. De Witt, Al- moner :— + THROUGA Ray, 8. |. WESTON Mr. Gitlespie..... $5 08 THROUGH ARNOLD, CONSTABLE AND CO. is W. P. B, Poughkeepsie G. Cieri P. W. Amount previously ackaowledged Grand total.. Mr. Ira Brown Kindly donated the use of a coach to lady volunteers tor visiting the sick chilaren, Contributions to the fund are earnestly solicited at once, and may be sent to the HERALD omce; Mayor Havemeyer, City Hatt; Arnold, Con- | stable & Co,, No. 885 Broadway; D. Appleton ¥ Coy No. 551 Broadway; Augnst Belmont & Co., No, 19 Nassau street; YH, B, Ciafliin & Co,, No. 140 Church strect: b ” Chittenden &” Co., No. 928 Broadway; Chickering & Sons, No. 11 Eagt Fours teenth street, or Rey, Alvan Wiswall, Master of St. dohn’s Guild, No, 62 Varick street. ‘The sixteenth excursien takes place to-morrow (Friday), the barge leaving piers at the foot of West Tenth street, Market street and Twenty- third street, East River, at eight, nine and hail+ past nine A.M. ‘The employés of H. B. Clafiin & Co, have Kindly offered to defray the expenses of tuis excursion, THE WEATHER YESTERDAY, The following record will show the changes im the temperature for the past twenty-loar hoars, in comparison With the corresponding day of last year, asindivated by the thermometer at Hudnut’s pharmacy, LekALD Butiding:— AST. LsTd 67 «8:00 P. M. 66 66 P.M. 70 9 P.M. 7% 12 P.M. raturo yesterday... of the event which had thus called them together, tenperatare lor corresponding date last Vear... - 4%