The New York Herald Newspaper, September 20, 1874, Page 6

THE UTICA CONVENTION, — The Probabilities as to the Action of the Republicaus Next Wednesday. GOVERNOR DIX UNOPPOSED. | Rumors as to the Fate of the Pres- eut Lieutenant Governor. Possibility That the Ticket of 1872 Will Be Renominated in Its Entirety. | | Position of the Custom House Party. | Tilden. Urtca, Sept. 19, 1874. Although the Republican Convention will not be held here until Wednesday next there are in town already a number of delegates from the rural re- gions and gentlemen from the ‘canal districts” who are not delegates, but who will have a great deat to say as advisers to some of the members of the Convention when tt shall have begun its patri- otic operations, However, none of the grand | masters of the party have as yet put In an appear- ance, but it is rumored that A. B, Cornell, Chester Arthur, Tom Murphy and Geofge H. sharpe doubtless, of spending the entire Sabbath in religious exercises, which will have Jess to do with the unraveling of Gospel traths than to the fixing of plans and plots for the Conven- | An Old-Line Democrat’s Views of the taon’s benefit and consideration. General Husted, | the Speaker of the Assembly, s0 @ despatch sent to a gentieman here says, Wili also be up to-mor. | row. Gay with GOVERNOR DIX, who ison his way to Albany, where he and Mr. Husted are to have a private talk. This reierence to a consultation between them is, however, mere Speculation, but as Mr. Husted is on the Ust of candidates for the Lieutenant Governorship it may be a little more than @ comeidence, if the | the Speaker. It is yet too early even to conjecture a3 to just eXactiy what ticket of the Convention will be; butone thing that is Dow as certain as anything can be Is, that it will renominate the Governor. A few weeks ago there was, it will be remembered, oo small amount of trepidation among some of General Dix's friends at the rumors and even more than rumors, that lew thick and fast in political circles as to the inten- tions of some of the republican leaders; but now anybody being even mentioned in the Convention — a8 a candidate against the General. The little job that was set on foot a month ago in which Mr. Fenton was fixed upon as the chief cook and ad- ministration bottle washer 18 now pooh-poohed here by one of the very men who was credited with having been the first person to suggest the manner by which the job could be made successful by the time the Convention met. The complexion 9f the delegates selected day before yesterday by THR NEW YORK REPUBLICANS show that the Custom House, which was in dead earnest in its undernand opposition to General | Dix’s renomination a month ago, has been able to get absolute control of almost every district; but {ts opposition to the Governor was knocked out of it for good over a fortnight ago, and so it matters very little now, in those opinion of those country | republicans, who have all along been in favor of the renomination idea, whether the deiegation trom New York comes here unuer the name of Custom House or Ant+Custom House. Indeed, I may go so Jar ag to state that, a3 matters have been arranged tmas far, the reuominanon will be proposed by a New Yorker, and that the vote of the aele- gates irom your city will be cast solid for DLx, with: out apy apparent reluctance. A gentleman from the extreme western part of the State, wnoisa wer in is party is now here, with his eadquarters at Bagg’s, Las all his ground wires laid and his batteries prepared for the furtherance of the designs upon the Lieutenant Governorship of @ friend of his. General Batchelor, Of Saratoga, tells me tnat the New York men will be tue very first to work against OPPOSITION TO DIX, were it to be shown by any number of the country delegates. Of opposition to hum coming from any rural member of the Convention Of any prominence there is but little tear; still I heard it rumored btw on pretty good pen that Senator Woodin intended to get up a tight against the Governor; but a gentleman from Auburn states that the rumor has no foundation jor truth whatever. Even if Mr. Woodin ever bad any Botton of opposing Dix, the fact of a strong Custom House delegation coming from New York would be enough to turn him into the right track; for he had @ close shave of it in bis district last year, and bat jor vhe timely aid of the Custom House induence he would have been elected to stay at home. Senator Conkling has Bow too, ! hear, given up ali idea of defeating 1 Dix, and will use his “powers of organization’ wo have the renomination made by acclamation. And yet right bere I may add that there are afew republicans whom I have spoken to on the subd- ject and who are known ww be strong sopporters of Senator Conkling, who suspect that Cornel! may be sprung upon the Convention and elected by underband engineering of certain New Yorkers, who will on the suriace appear to be in favor ot Dix down to the very moment before the vote is taken.. But this suspicion, I think, does not amount to much. It was the strong feeling of indignation which burst fortnin the country dis- tricis, on their bearing of the August piotungs io the southern portion of the State to kill Dix, yo finally compelled tne anti-renominationists PULL IN THETR HORNS, Itis not possible, in my opinion, judging from what I have heard (rom gentlemen to-day who are familiar with the haymow itentions of the re publicans in the (uterior, that the Custom House, even if Willing vo try its hand once more in the old plot, could win over a sufficient number of Tural delegates to deteat tue Governor by any promises of any kind of loz-rolling im the making up of vhe ticket; lor if the interior counties are so are said to dé, It 1s hey send will all ivention even to be With, You can set down the old war fore, as safe tor @ renomination, with- @ jorinality of a vote by counties. THE LIEUTENANT GOVERNORSHIP, BY Tuesday next, when the New York delegation wil arrive, and pcssibiy a majority of the deie- ates irom the interior wili be on hand, there may some sure indication as to who will be Lieuten- ant Governor: jor 1 there 18 to be any contest over aby nomination it will over this one, Judge Kobers-on and General Butcheller, it 13 ex- pected by 4 few, will be the two strongest cand dates; but as the former bankers alter the Gc ernorsiip itself, and on Dix getring it will be co: tent to wait, it is believed, till 1876 rather than outspohen tor Mr. Dix as the: fully certain that the delega be too strong tor tim in ¢ Mecdiet cept the second piace on the ticket this ear, he may not be mentioned in the Conventton one way or the otuer, There la unquestionably a strong desire on the part of some strong republicans to get rid ot Lieutenant Governor Robinson, and | heard it manifested to- day (n no very courteous language by a Well known member of the Legisiature, who says if the Castom House party should deciare against tim the Generai will run @ poor chance of a reuomina- tion. In view of the rumored present deter- mination of the Custom House party to support General Dix against all comers the supposition of some of the Wiseacres In this county, and elsewhere, too, I learn, is that they have bargained, in consideration of this mag- Danimity, for the second piace of bonor on the ticket, and that Mr. Cornell is spoken of as the man who will secure the prize. The idea ts that if Us should be accomplished Governor Dix could go to the Senate, and that Cornell would then be- come Governor, and thus everybody be made happy, even Mr. Conkling. Tnis story, however, [ give Simply for what itis worth. It 1s one of the RUMORS OF THE HOUR, and as sach may or may not be worthy of a second thought. [ inciine to the belie! myseifthat not only will Governor Dix be re-nominated by acclama- ton, but that the entire ticket which he beaded in 1872 will be put up again. This idea, I am in- formed, has grown into a strong velief inthe west- @rn part of the State, and asa majoricy of the pres- ent eighteen republican Senators are said to be in favor of it, General Robinson may not, after all, be sacrificed to gratiy the whims ana’ tancies of a mere clique, who care less for the success of their party at large than for that of their own little schemes ol profit and political notoriety, From ail I can hear now, the coming convention will be one ofthe strongest that tas assembied in tne state | for years. The ist of delegates snows tie, and wf the determination is realy | arrived at on _ Wednesday to renom- inate the entire ticket of 1872—the Associate Judge of the Court of Appeals, of course will be a new | piace on the ticket—tne party Will go into tne campaign with ao undivided strength in every part ol the State and with the certainty of win- ning the day bya handsome majority. Yet, as f said before, there may be a hitch in the macnivery of the wire-pullers not now d:scernible that may do mischiel on Wednesday, at least so far as lowed the charves which Mayor Havemeser now stigmatizes as dishonest and irandulent.”’ peed “Bow can you explain the discrepancies in the of the places on the ticket is concerned, and 13 | £gures’* there is there may be trouble for a part of the | In conclusion, 1 will add that | NS Lereabouts and the polibieal visit- ors to the Convention, whom 1 aave elsewhere ticket in November, the repubite aduded, look upon ‘TILDEN’S NOMINATION as avery weak one. such @ Weak one that I think we coald now pu Said one of them:—"It 18 1 up “Very easily. Take, for instance, the number of convictions reported to the Secretary of State. Now the Mayor makes it appear that we reported 60,000 more convictions than actually took place in the respective periods. He forgets the con- victious an oat-and-out republican and elect him.” This 1N ALL THE POLICE COURTS remark was meant to convey the ison, 3 ee, ~ which the law, for tne purposes of these reports ae Reem wae DO8 aD ONE SRE OO Tn democrats | tO the Secretary of State, makes equivalent to k a strong man tt was but policy lor | the republieans to. 100k DIx as their only the republicans to 100k upon sure hope of success at the electi thusiastic rura ill have bu m. But this Wednesday, and will learn that be considered next November. The Two Candidates. (From the Evening Mail) Mr, Tilden has succeeded. No man ever worked harder to get the nomination for Governor. man ever entitied himself to the primacy of party more than he has, 1s worthy to contest the highest hr State with such a man as Governor Dia Tilden Was in doubt as to the reception of uation of the York ring. has been sin was not quite sure this elty would triumph over their oppressors. Governor Dix had no fears as to Seventy. the humself with it, Late Democratic Convention. To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— Iu your issue of September 19 you refer to the It states that he started trom New York to- | platform of this voay and say, in substance, that it sa very good platiorm, but the next moment | admit that there is notuing explicit in tt except the declaration in favor of payment of the federal You refer tothe flith paragraph— the longest of the thirteen—and admit its obscu- rity and lack of point. This was but a sample of debtin coin, the rest, Now, let an old-line democrat say what he thinks Aespatch speaks truly, that the Governor left West | of that Convention, its nominations and its plat- | Hampton just in time to be on the same tratmwith | orm, It was composed, in due proportions, of the the mercenary, piebald crowd whose trumpet the the | windy Cochrane biows, and of the old party hacks tm the democratic ranks who have so long and jew followers on yeneral Dix Will au out-and-out republican’? and the sure fiope of the party’s success at the polls Whatever force the dem- ocratic party has in this State as a party of hon- esty it owes to Mr. Tilden more than to anybody | else. All this we are ready to concede But we are not prepared to say that he rs of the While Mr. | the Tweed delegation to the State Convention, Gove nor Dix had no hesitation in avowmg wis condem- Ne fie was then, and .ayowed and open and undi guised enemy 01 the politicians who were running the city government at the time when Mr. Tilden that the honest people of to Mr. | the result of the War that was begun by the Committee of He was sustained by an unlaltering | trust in the mtegrity and courage of the people, and Was as sure O/ the triumph of the right at the | beginning of the struggle as he was at its end. will arrive to-morrow for the special purpose, | was not until the movement which was begun by vommittee of Seventy Was virtually successful | that Mr, ‘Tilden bad the woral courage to identiy convictions in the Court of Special Sessions, There is the entire discrepancy. Mayor Havemeyer might search the records for every other Sherifl’s term of office and fod the very same state of | atfuirs, The convictions in the police courts are | always put down under the head of “Special Ses- sions,” and there are, of course, a great many | more of them than there are im the last mentioned | court alone. We have just the same trouble now eh: NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, SEPT | with Comptrolier Green, Auditor Earle sent | | up to the Clerk of Speciai Sessions lor No | the number of convictions in that Court for his | the first threa months Of the year and the number | returned Was about siX hundred. Now, the num- | ber o: convictions in all the police courts for the first three months of the year (which are included under the head of “Special Sessions’’) was not Jess than six thousand."? “low can the figures upon which Kelly’s charges | are based be proved to be correct “We can prove them to be correet by the recoras of the police courts and the trapseripts of those records in the Sheri’s ofce. Some ot the papers— it being so long ago—may have been misiaid, bus | L think there will be no difiiculty, upon the wuole, | to establish THE TRUTH OF WHAT I SAY | by the documentary evidence which | have alluded | 10. We have two or three clerks speciaily detuled to gatoer ibis iniormation in regard to the con- | victions in police courts, Tney are supplied with | blanks with some twenty columns for the regis- | tration of every detail connected with each case ol conviction.” “How about the charge of summoning over sixty housand ‘imaginary’ jurors, Mr. Cummings?” “That is susceptivole of explanation, The Mayor It | takes only two courts, the Oyer aad Terminer and the General Sessions, and his figures fall, of | course,: Jar beiow tae mark, i@ ought to | have imciuded the jurors summoned to the | Supreme, Superior and Marine courts, and he | would have tuund that Kelly’s figures were cor- rect, aud that there was not one ‘imaginary’ | juror in the number charged. ‘The whole letter bristles with ialsehoods prompted by malevolence. ‘Take, ior instance, the charge ‘or hanging Jere- miau O’Brien in 1867, $940. That charge the Mayor \ contrasts with the very smail charge tor the exe- cution of James Stephenson in 1859. But is the explanation not apparent? In 1867, when the war had been fought, everything had risen enormously in its price. The carpenter who could be birea | for the erection of a scaffold in 1859 at $1 50 a day | had to be paid $5 a day in 1967. Of course the con- | trast 18 superticially effective, | BUY THERE 18 NOTHING IN IT | after all. There is the charge of $200 for watchers at the execution of U’Brien, Well, that is reason- able, as we nave to keep two men alternately to watch the prisouer nigat and day for ten or twelve | days, and, dividing the amount between four watch- ers, you will find that the charge is only about $6 per day for each. “How as to the alleged overcharge for convey- ing prisoners, seventy-five cents eaca ?”" “Tpe Board of Supervisors raised the amount | from seventy-five cents to $1 50, and as they hada submissively followed their leaders from | | rect might to do that there can be no doubt avout one departure to another, each one more | tne legality of the charge. Afterward they raised shameful and disastrous than that which | jr to $1 75, and this tucrease figures in the Mayor's | preceded it, until ali ended in the in- | statement as an ‘overcuarge’ of $1 tor each pris- famous abandonment of all acter or principle in 1372, bring the democratic party back to conduct tt to victory. thts Convention? solentl Hau. nA pretence of char- Such leaders will never | rinciple or And what was the action of Jp ali things it submitted to the there does not seem to be the slightest chance of dictation of the one man power, which so in- and proscriptively rules in Tammany the nomination for Governor it sur- rendered to the railroad monvpviists and the | | onér. The Board of Supervisors could nave al- lowed $10 if they liked, They had the authority | to MX the charge. and nobody else.”? “How about the overcharge fur summoning over 21,000 ‘alleged’ jurors at thirty-five cents each ¥"? “The Board ot Supervisors raised the amount allowed irom thirty to thirty-five cents each. ‘Tbat disposes of this charge. Theo there is the charge of ‘pretended’ attendance at the drawing aristocratic fossils of the Manhattan Club. In the | of 713 jury panels not drawn, $1 each. Here the nomination for Lieutenant Governor it surren- | Mayor leaves out the paueis drawn for the Su- dered to Cochrane and tue anti-Irisn spirit. In its | preme, Superior and Common Pleas courts. Then platform it surrendered to Beimont and the bond- holders, All Lue other parts of the platform were @ string of pointiess political platitudes, reveaing throughout tue hand of that lalsest of preteaders, And what did it say in behalf of {| the down-trodden sovereignties and oppressed Not a solitary Droresy | the Manton Marbie. people of the south? | against negro and bayonet rule, or even | Jeeblest and faintest dewand ior justice to our common white race, and ignoring the grand rid them- uprising of & whole people to there is the charge of summoning over 23,000 ju- rors, NOT SERVED AS REQUIRED BY Law. Well, there is a statute that if more than fifty | out of 100 jurors are not personally served the | Clerk of tle Court shall not allow the Sherit’s | charge for the service. Perhaps some five or six aneis in these many years were served in this | faulty manner—that is not impossible—but then it | | Was the duty of the clerks of the respective courts | to report the fact to the Board of Supervisors, who hall the time | | Selves of the most flagrant usurpation and | scandalous system of robbery ever known in his- | tory, aud the threatened suppression of this sub- | lime expression of the popular will by jederal | bayonets, since shamelessly carried into execuuon., | No, they did not dare even to whisper the faintest | murmur against that “bill of abominations,” the proposed Civi Rights Bill. But what better could have been expected, when the gentleman at the head oj the Committee on Resoiutions is remem- vered as having, as Governor Of this State, in 1863-4, cowered before the Jederai dictator at | Washington, and shaken, as if in an ague tt, at the | | Dare mention of @ provost marshal. Out upon | such pretended democracy and snen false, cowardly leaders. Is it not time for true men to | comoine “ior tue pubilc salety.”’ UNTEREIFIED, | Republican Delegates from the Annexed | Wards. | The republicans of the First Assembly district, | | Westchester county, comprising the Twenty-third | | ward of the city (old town of Morrisania), and | | Twenty-fourth ward of the city, or old. towns of | | West Farms and Kingsbridge, the city of Yonkers | and the town of Westchester, held a convention | @v Morrisania yesterday for the purpose of choosing delegates aud alternates to the State Convention at Utica; also five delegates to the Congressional Convéntton. The fonowing are the aelegates and alternates :— Delegates—Hon. G. Hiiton Scribner, of Yonkers; | dames R. Angel, of Morrisania; W. &. Davidson, of | West Parms, | _Alteruates—George A. Henshaw, of Morrisania; | E.G. Bell, of Yonkers, and George H. Foster, of | Kingsoriige. The following were appointed to the Con; - | stona) Convention :—J. G. Peene, of Yonkers: John | A. Henry, of Murrisania; George H. Foster, of Kingsbridge; James L. Wells, of West Farms; | Thomas Wilson, o: Westcnester; George H. Foster, of Kingsbridge, and Ernest Hail, 0! Morrisania, | Tne Hon. G. Hilton Scribner, ex-secretary | of State, brmefy addressed the meeting | in which he reviewed the political career of | Samuel J. Tilden, whom he described as the mutual | driend of the old Tammany ring, and condemaoed | | his political career throughout. Several other | Speakers addressed the Convention. | KELLY’S CAUSE. He Will Probably Sae the Mayor for Libel—Under Sheriff Cummings Ex- plains Kelly's Charges—The Nomina- | thon for Mayor To Be Forced Upon | “Honest John.” | Speculation was rife yesterday among politicians | of all stripes as to the course Mr. John Kelly would probably pursue in relation to the arraignment of bis oMcial mtegrity by Mayor Havemeyer. Mr, Kelly will not return till Monday evening. He Jeft syracuse on Friday noon for Mexico, inOswego | county, where his only sister, Mrs. Tuomas, resides, and where he will spend the Sabbath. Before leaving Syracuse he satd to an intimate friend, who requested that his name might not be mentioned, that be was not certain as to the course he would pursue | in regard to the charges of Mayor Havemeyer, bat | that he intended to cake legal steps against him. He plainly intimated that he would sue Mayor | Havemeyer jor slander; and although he would give his reply to the charge to rhe public he would seek iis redress beiore a legal trivunal. WHAT TAMMANY THINKS, This determination of Mr. iy being bruited abont among Tammany politicians caused a great deal ol gossip among them. They aii expressed to the HenaLp reporter their firm belief that the Havemeyer expose would not injure Keily in the least, but that, on the contrary. it might induce them to force the nomination for Mayor upon Kelly, 80 48 to give him @ signal mark of their unimpaired contidence, One of his friends who had conversed with some of the leading Tammany chiefs said pos- itively that this was the feeling with which Have- meyer’s attack had Inspired them, and that it was bow probable that Kelly, despite ail his oppositjon, | would be forced into the contest for the Mayoralty. | “Everybody who has lived in the city apy length of | time.’’ he said, “knows that Jon Kelly ia the em- | | bodiment of honesty ana that the Mayor, in mak- | | ing up bis figures, must have resorted to ijalse- | | hood, They know that Jon Kelly is incapable of | committing a dishonest act.” | Defending His Former Chief. | The reporter ©: 4 upon Under Sheriff Cum- | mings, who occupied wwe same position fora | year and a hall under Sherif Kelly, and who, it | was thought, couid tell whether the figures ad- } duced by our worthy Mayor could be explained so Las to disprove the charge of dishonesty. Mr, Cammings, who was very busy, showed the re- porter a number of brief memoranda which he had made to disprove the allegations of the Mayor. | “phe entire array of facts, as he calis them,’ sald Under Sherif Commings, “is nothing but an elaborate tissue of falsehoods, I have examined every one of them and ican say that there is not one which is not in accordance with the law; fur- ther, and that there is not a dollar which was nota legitimate charge against the county. The best proof of this is that the Board of Supervisors, | who Were reauired by iaw to andit the bills, al | of preparation. I haven't got through with him | | will be it 1s impossible to foretell, | hydropbobia at stould not have allowed the cnarge. ‘That's ail | there is about tnis. I cannot, of course, pretend to meet every charge in this voluminous arraign- Ment; but the foregoing explanations will give you @n idea of its glaring falsity and malevolent: muisrepresentations. I leave Mr. Kelly to iully ex- pose the Mayor’s skilful tissue of Mes.’ A Talk with the Mayor. The reporter enjoyed subsequently an interview with our jolly Mayor. He was in very good humor, evidently relishing his victory over his accusers. “What do you think of Waterbury’s letter, Mr. Mayor?’ said the HERALD representative. “Oh, Idon’t think anything about it. If Kelly | wants to arrest him or me, I suppose he’s wel- come. I don’t know whether Kelly will reply to my letter or not, and I don’t care. There are the facts. Can he disprove them?” “] suppose they have been collected with care?” | The Mayor smuled complacently, “Well, Iam generally pretty careful. I can’t say whether there isn’t a flaw in them. I suppose | the records of tne Secretary of State are correct, and I suppose those of the clerks of the courts are correct, That’s | all I have to say about that. ‘There may be a mis- | take in my figures, but 1f there is I don’t know it, (The Mayor burst into a fit of laughter.) He pos itively imprisoned his own friends, so that when | he couldn’t get enough convictions to charge for | he made it appear as though almost all the crimi- nals were Irish. Ha, ha, na, ha!” ANOTHER BOMBSHELL TO ba SUDpORS you are done with Mayor 7 “No, not yet. BURST, him now, Mr. T have something new in course yet. [always like to have ready something of that | sort. but I don’t know whether IJ shail publish tt.’" | “Are you not afraid that John Morrt: will challenge you to @ pugilistic contest, Mr, ‘or, and that you will have the worst of it ?”* “I am never afraid to speak the trath, Here is this man Kelly, who bas hounded me because I put Charlick and Gardner back, and he wanted to Send them to State Prison—for doing nothing. What was his motive? Ah, he wanted to show his power (with a dramatic flourish) and to pre- vent the Police Commissioners in the future under- taking to interfere with hts (it would be impossi- ble to exaggerate the malicious emphasis which | Hits Honor laid upon thts pronoun) inspectors of | election. ‘Don’t you dare to interfere with my in- eer This 18 what he meant to say to the world, The Mayor was then asked about Mr. Kelly's chances for the election to the Mayoralty, but po- litely declined to express any opinion on that sub- ject. What the new disclosures about Mr, Kelly A NEWARK MANSLAUGHT! MYSTERY. Was Noll A 1ted or Killed by a Fall? A Trio of Boys in Custody. Last Monday a German dame named Noll ap- peared before the Newark police authorities aud made aMdavit that her husband, Peter Noll, a man about sixty years of age, had been feloniously as saulted tne previous Saturday night by George Lippert, Jacob Lindeman and George Bail, | all youngsters of eighteen or nineteen, and, luxe Noll, residents of Lillie street, The details of the alleged assault were not given, but warrants Were tssued for the arrest of the boys and duly executed, They were let go on bail, how: ever. Subsequently Noii’s condition became dan- gerous, and the boys were rearrested and lodged in the county jail, where they now are. Mean- while on Friday Noll died, The heavy storm melted @way the papler mache sort of house in which the Noils lived, and a portion only was left standing. Hence the corpse had to be removed to @ neighbor's pend- | ing the inquest, which 18 orderedJor to-day. As Noll never spoke after being picked up, a8 his wife speaks English very imperiectly, and as the boys around all declare themselves innocent, but on the contrary that he was drunk and fell, thus fatally injuring himself, the case is in great doubt, the question being open as towhether he was killed vy being assailed or through having fallen. THE HYDROPHOBIA INQUEST. The inquiry by Coroner Woltman jnto the death of R. 7, Entwistle, who died, as supposed, of | No, 12 Bedford street on | whe Ist of July last, being set down for yester- day, many witnesses put in an appearance at the hour appointed. The unavoidable absence, however, of tue physician who, with Dr. Thomas Knox, had attended deceased be- | fore his death, compelled an adjournment | of the inquest antil another day not yet specified, It will be remembered that the deceased was bitte by a Newfoundiand siut belonging to a man named Mellen. This slut Was shot belore the symptoms of hydrophobia had an opportunity to develop them- selves, aud theresore it waa atthe time doubted, even by the friends of deceased, that bis death was the result of the bite, Jor no evidence could be produced that the dog ; had the disease. Subsequently, however, | a single pup retained by Melien, which had been suckied vy the slut, died in great agony, as some people assert, of hydropoobia, while Mellen is al- Most willing to swear that tts death was ¢ue to its having eaten too much meat, The death of the pup is to be brought forward as evidence of the mother’s madness by those who believe that | Eutwistle died of uydrapuobia, EMBER 20, 1874.-QUADKUPLE SHEET, ° | SHAKESPEARE AND BACON. the Modern Stage. Scholars. Reviewed. Opinion of Professor Hiram Corson. Sweet Swan of Avon! what a sight it were | To see thee in our waters yet appear, Ds And make those flights upon the banks ot Thames ‘hat so did take Elza anit our James! But stay! I see thee in the hemisphere Adyaveed, and made a constellation there! Shine forth, then, star of poets! and with rage Or Influence chide or cheer the drooping stage; Since which thy filght from heuce bath mourned like night, And despatrs day but for thy volume's light! BEN JONSON. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERAL! ure the views of the justly eminent Professor Cor- son, of Cornell University, on the Shakesperian controversy. Professor Vorson has made the life, character and plays of Shakespeare the study of his the Shakesperian scholars of America, Your cor- respondent was granted an interview in the Pro- fessor’s study, and, in addition to his conversa- tion, had the privilege of reading the full and com- prehensive notes Professor Corson had made upon the subject. The Professor said :— After giving the Shakesperlan controversy much taought I had finally dismissed iv from my mind, Rever naving been able to discover any basis of facts in the controversy and deeming the question but an idle one, Yet since such men as Judge Nathaniel Holmes and others have at- | tempted to pluck the laure!s from Shakespeare gud add them to the already burdened brow of Lord Bacon, it may be well to examine closely and ascertain if there can be any facts that will justify sucn Rob Roy dispensation and exchange of liter- ary honors, had borne unquestioned the bright honors toat his genius had won for him, but shout the middle of this century one William Henry, of the family of Smiths, writes a pamphlet in which he attempts to raise a doubt in regard to the authenticity of the plays which had been for so long attributed to William Shakespeare, of stratford: upon- Ayon, gent, Tne date of this pamphlet was Septemper, 1856, Brompton, and bore the wondrous title “Letter to the Earl of Elles- mere,” suggesting whether the Shakespertan plays were not really the prodactions of Lord Bacon. Its true that this question had been an- ticipated by one Delia Bacon, in an article contrib- uted to Putnam’s Magazine of January, 1852. Thus originated a controversy, amusing at first, on ac- count of its perfect absurdity, but growing in in- terest as men who professed to be scholars adopted the Baconian theory, until, in the year 1856, @ writer In the London News says:—‘l know the vapors will soon pass away and the steady glories of William Shakespeare blaze forth again, but in the meantime we shiver under the passing cloud.” The cloud did pass away, the question died out, but for the second or third time again assumes the form of a controversy among Ameri- can critics. ‘swo characters stand prominently forward in history and furnish indisputable proof of Shake- speare’s claims to the works attributed to him—Ben Jonson and the Earl of Southampton. the character and disposition of Ben Jonson bet- ter than the Character ana disposition of any writer of his period; and, knowing him as we do, we know he would not wink at the fraudulent ap- propriation of one man’s fame by another, oreven permit him to wear plumes stolen from another. He was a man of wonderfu! seltf-conceit, and this tact bears evidence to Shakespeare’s merit and greatness when we find him paying wulung nom- age to the superior genius he was forced to recog- nize in his,contemporary and addressing to him the beautiiul lines from which tne above passage is taken. In 1619 Ben Jonson visited brummond, or Scotiand. Drummond, during bis visit, played the Boswell and noted lown many of Jonson’s conversations, among which we find these allusions to Shakespeare :—“But he re- deemed his vices with his virtues. There was ever more in the man to be praised than blamed.”’ And again, “I remember the players often mentioned it as an honor to Shakespeare that in his writings (whatsoever he perused) he never biotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted out a thousand, which they thought a malevolent speech. I had not told posterity this but for their ignorance, who choose that circumstance to com- We know mend their fnend by wherein he most faulted, | and to justify my own candor, for I loved the man and do ‘honor bi8 memory (on this side idolatry) a8 much as any.” Had Jonson been the Iriend of Shakespeare only, and not of Bacon, then the be- levers in the Baconian theory might have some ground ior pronouncing the lines of Ben Jonson in the jolio edition of Shakespeare’s plays false; but we find bis admiration and appreciation of Bacon almost as great as of Shakespeare. Speak- ing of the tormer he says, “But I have and do reverence for the greatness that was only proper to fimself, in that he seemed to me ever by his work one of the greatest of men ana most worthy of admtratiou that had been in many ages. 1p his adversity 1 ever prayed that-God would give him strength, for greatness he would not want, Neither could I condole ina word or aytiable for him as knowing no accident could do harm to virtue, but rather help to make it manifest.” Not only do these few passages cited from Jonson prove him the friend of his two great contemporaries, but evince that strict in- tegrity and purity of character that have ever | been awarded him, and render 1t tmposatble tor him to have been ignorant of or winked at such a monstrous iraud anc deception as the Baconian theory would attribute to Shakespeare. If fny further evidence is needed we have but to turn to the “Life of the Karl of Southampton,” for the only two letters that have come down to us of Shakespeare's are two dedicatory letters to this nobleman, one rank in May, 1504 with the publication of “Rape of Lucrece.” It may be interesting as well as important in determining tne position of Shakespeare a8 @ dramatist and poet, to know something of his noble and honored patron, Moa- ern researches prove beyond @ doubt that this young nobleman not only loaned Shakespeare money, and presented him with a handsome token of bis appreciation in the form of £1,000, but even interested himself im the alfairs of his theatre, as is shown by a letter discovered by J. Payne Coilier among Lord Ejiiesmere's MSS. at Bridgewater House. This letter was written in 1608 and ad- dressed either to Lord Ellesmere or tosome person In authority, in benalf of the King’s players whom the Lord Mayor and Aldermen endeavored to ex- pel from the Blackfriars. This letter may be found in‘‘New Facts regarding the Lise of Shakespeare’! by J. Payne Collier, These facts alone would seem suificient proofto all who were not wilfully blind, et they are not a tithe of what can be brought jorward to coniute the Baconian theory, The first folio edition of Shakespeare’s works, published seven years after his death, and of “which many fac stmile copies are extant, atforas incontrovertible testimony to its being the product of the mind of William Shakespeare and not of Francis Bacon. This folio was published in 1623 by his friends and fellow actors, John Heminge and Henry Condell. To the pious care of these two lovers of the great poet we owe the preserva- tion of his great dramas, Our knowledge 01 these two men, though not extensive, cannot be denied, since it is derived from public documents stil existing. The knowledge of Heminge’s connec- tion with theatrical affairs extends back to 1596, so that we know jor twenty years at least he must have been personally and intimately ac- uainted with Shakespeare, In this year of 1596 eminge, Shakespeare and six other actors peti- tioned tue Privy Counctl of the city of London that they te be permitted to repair and en- large the lackiriars -Theatre. In 1699 the omce book of the freasurer of Queen Elizabeth’s chamber shows that @ war. | rant was made out jor the payment of money to Heminge, he representing the Lord Chamberiain’s theatrical servants. Our knowleage of Henry Condeil 18 equally certain, hig irom the same source—the public documents, In 1698 of the actors in Ben Jonson’s “Every | he was on Man tn His Humor,” ard in the tolto edition of that play, published in 1616, Henry Condeli’s name 18 iven as fifth in the list of ‘principal comedians.” lenry Condell, we Know, was an acquaintance of Shakespeare, for in the patent granted by James L, in May, 1603, by which he constituted certain players bis own theatrical servants, we find the name of Heury Condell as sixth and Shakespeare | second; Condell was still a member of the com- pany in 1619, when James J. confirmed the patent of 160% These tWo persons Shakespeare mentions in his will in those quaint but kindly terms:—"I | give and bequeath * * * to my fellows, Join Hem- faze, Richard Burbage and Henry Condell, twenty- six shillings eight pence apiece, to buy them rings.” SuMicient evidence has been shown to prove the reliableness of what these men afirm in the dedication of their first jolio of Snake. speare’s works. All who are interested in this controversy are doubtless acquainted with this edition and tott let them turn ti yet more evidence | ts reauired to prove Shakespeare's claims to the The Relations of Shakespeare to Opinions of Shakespearian The Great Authors Contrasted and All lovers of truth, whether lovers of Shake- speare or of Bacon, or of both, will read with pleas- | mature years, and now stands in the first rank of For more than 250 years Shakespeare + guihoranip of the great dramas contained in this The friendship that existed between the Earl of Southampton and Shakespeare has been clearly shown and also that honorable mention was made vy this well known peer oi the manager, actor and poet to a third person; the testimony of Ben Jon- Son, Jolin Heminge and Henry Conuell has been added, so that tt must ve concluded that the Ba- conian theory is an absuruity, and yet it is clung to by many real lovers of Shakespeare. This 18 perhaps due to the demolishing character of the age—an age in which everything not solved by the Analytic iacalty 1s suspected—an age in which scientific men would reach the goul with the dis- secting knife. The leaders in this demolishing age are last to believe that aman, who had not gone through the curriculum of Cambridge and Oxiord, who had not been trained in gerund-grinding and all rhetorical rules, could have written these great dramas, but preier to attribute them to the founder of the inductive system and the auther of the “Novum Organum.: It 1s also urged against Shakespeare that he was not in @ position to acquire the learning that ts evinced by iis plays; such men recognize but one avenue onthe = Which one may enter the temple of Knowledge—the analytic intellect 13 made to over- riae everything else, and that other grand source through which oer obtains its knowledge is leit out of view. In their opinion the Elizabethan pases furnishes but one man who has this un- imited analytic power, and they make him the “protagonist in the arena of poetry.’ But in the dramas of Shakespeare there 1s little learn- ing, but @ rich storehouse of that very kind of knowledge that comes oniy through “mediumistic’’ powers—power3 so pecuhariy be- longing to Shakespeare’s impressive nature. Two men may waik through a forest a beantiful land- scape, or one of the grand gorges near ithaca; one {a scientific man) Watcnes the vegetation, ex- | amines the rocks in his pathor the spiders baild- | ) ing their nests, his intellect is analytic and he may | add facts to his knowledge of botany, geology or minerology; but the other man is a Wordsworth, he has @ highly impressible nature, and drinks in the whole beauty and grandeur of the scene and their relations to the human spirit, that the other | has probably not noticed, and obtains more real wisdom. He is more negative, the scientific man more positive, and proportionally less impressive. Yet granting that Shakespeare obtained his knowl- edge in the usual way, bis position was much more favorable for this thau the majority of writers of his a He was connected with the two thea- tres, be was a stockholder, an actor and an excellent business man. His knowledge of princely characters has been questioned. A man Of Shakespeare's genius can obtain more knowi- edge of court life in one hour than an analytic in- tellect could in a year's residence at court. Edwin Booth once said that the author of the plays in question must have had an intimate knowledge of stage business, and such knowledge must be the result 01 actual theatrical experience. It is the want of such knowledge on the part of many writers of merely literary plays that has been the secret of their failure on the stage. Some in their blind suppert of the Bacomian theory even affirm that Bacon furnished the material and Shake- Speare made the artistic construction; but this cannot be, the two are so Inseparavly connected that they must be born of the same grand genius, Parallelisms of thought have been cited trom the dramas and trom Bacon’s works to prove the iden- tity of their wuthorsnip. They are amusing, as showing bow infatuated aman may become with @ favorite theory. Any one who has read the dramatic literature of the reign of Elizabeth and James will easily recognize this general coloring of thought and even of peculiarity of diction. Yet for this reason he does not conclude that it was & period of literary plagiarism in which one | author was constantly pillaging from another. | The meagreness of the knowledge that we have of ena t erates character, save that shown by bis works, has been made a point of by the aavocates | of this bizarre theory. Itis true that of many men | not to be compared’ with Shakespeare we know much more, but of many who rank next to him our knowledge 1s much more meagre, ‘This ignor- ance of the great poet's character is not peculiar to Shakespeare alone, but to all literary men of tne Elizabethan period. The in- difference in regard to the lives of these great men ts owing to the political convulsions following the death of Shakespeare and also to the degen- erated taste of the school that came in with the restoration of Charles Il, and prevailed for so many years, This indifference in regard to the private lives of poets, painters and scientific men continued among people of allages and countries up to within the last 150 years, We kuow more of Shakespeare than the Greeks knew of their great tragedian, Sechylus, or of their comedian, Aris- tophanes, two centuries after their death, Of Moliere, the greatest of French dramatists, who lived fiity years aiter Shakespeare, there 1s almost total ignorance. Not @ page of his manuscript is Known toexist. The personal history o1 Bacon is extensive and well known, but had he not been | the King’s Attorney General, Sir Francis Bacon, Viscount St. Albans and Lord Hign Chancellor of Enzland, Bacon might have written his essays in unobserved obscurity. Of Beaumont and Fletcher, both born in the ranks of the gentry—one di scended Irom a judge, the osher from a bishop—we kuow less than we do of Shakespeare. Tne only clew that we bave to the year of Uhapman’s birth is the mark that time has leit upon his portrait, while the minor stars of the Elizabethan galaxy | leave hardiy a trace which ts not made by their own pens, And Ben Jonson himself owes the favor that history has snown him to the longevity of his life, for over lis eariier years hangs the same dark clouds that shroud the lives of his great contempo- raries. druaca, N. Y. Sept, 16, 1874, Opinion of L. Clarke Davis. PHILADBLPHIA, Sept. 18, 1874 Ihad a very pleasant imterview recenuly with Mr. L. Clarke Davis, managing editor of the Phila- delphia Inquirer. I called upon him as @ matter of course In relation to the present Shakesperian discussion, and confess myself glad to become the medium through which to express his very bright and interesting opinions, I don’t suppose that any furthey introduction of this gentieman ts needed beyond the simple mention of his name, for the little Uterary coterie composed of himself and his accomplished wife, Mrs, Rebecca Harding’ Davis, {8 so well known, and among the readers of magazine lore so highly apprectated, that to almost every one who reads this will be suggested @ dozen reasons why the views given be- | low are entitled to very considerable weight. I discovered Mr. Davis away “aloft,” where editors are usually found, up to his elbows in his Manuscripts and proots, and after climbing sey- eral pairs of stairs, I learned that access was much easier to his thonghts than to his whereabouts, | The hour of my arrival was exceedingly inoppor- tune, and the interview of necessity conducted in an off-hand sort of a way; but yet I was in his | presence just long enough to secure some very | happy thoughts, which, { am sure, will be re- | garded as rich contributions to all who defend the authenticity of the plays. “You have read Mr. Holmes’ work?! I queried, “Yes,” was the response; “and Delia Bacon's also; the latter is not quite as large as our city | qirectory, but very nearly so. Despite the fact | that Iam only middle aged, I deem It, however, a very felicitous circumstance that I have digested | the volume, sentence by sentence, and still sur- vive.” “Then you do not consider the work a powerful one,’ 1 asked. “No, not powerful,” was the response; “Arch- bishop Whateley once wrote an essay in which the claim was made that no such character as Napo- \| leon Bonaparte ever bad an existence. I defy any | unprejudiced mind o1 the present generation to | read this work without having his taith shaken in | the identity of Napoteon L But Miss Bacon’s book bas not the clear, strong, and ic ie ben'g A logical arguments that characterize the work of Whateley, The style of Della Bacon’s book is very obscure, and in her arguments she does very little else than beg the question.” “You are not a Baconian, then?” was my next | question. | “No, l am not,” was the emphatic response, “and 1 will teil you why. Mosg of us admire Shakespeare for what he has said; for the terse- | ness, strength and beauty of his diction and for the solidity and comprefiensiveness of his style, But there are other qualities in bis plays equally deserving our astonishment and admiration, Sup- pose We sacrifice, for instance, every word in the great tragedy of ‘Macbeth,’ suppose we curtail ‘Midsummer Nighv’s Dream’ of every syllable it contains, and what is the result ? | Why, sir, we have @ comb:nation of situations and attitudes that would render both these plays emi- nently successful as pantomimes. 1 mean to say that everything in Shakespeare shows a consum- mate knowledge of stage business and dramatic effect thay Lord Bacon conid never have pos- sessed in the dull, isolated lie which we know that he led, Recall the murder scene in ‘Mac- beth.’ The crime has been effected, and the hanus of the author of the deed are stained with blood, Suddenly there comes a loud knocking on the outer gate. Why, the eflect of this simpie | Stage trick upon the audience ts terrible; {t signt- fies dotection, and this litte thing must be ever regarded as one of the greatest incidents in the entire play, The prompter produces it by pound- ing upon an anvil located in one of the wings, and | | yet it conveys more to the audience, more excite- Ment, constervation and terror, than could be conveyed in volames of words, Think you Hal Bacon woula haye known anytuing of 1s 2 “But, Mr. Davis,” said J, “don’t you think that Bacon or some one else might have furnished the language of many ot the plays, and that Shake- Speare might have adapted it to his knowledge of Stage ettects? “No; 1 do not think 20," answered Mr. Davis. “There 18 @ uniformity and consistency between the language and tne situation tnas conclusively prove to me that the author of one was the origi- nator of the otuer, The language ty aiways con- | sistent with the situation, and nothing out the | situation can explain the force, vigor, vehemency or else the grace, sweetness and purity of the great dramatist’s most remarkubie lines, Once ad- mit that Shakespeare devised the situation—i, ¢., the stage effects, and I believe that you rust also | admit that Le must of necessity have oriinated peer ey Tl ee language in which they are em- the ine are taow semneening abont Francis Bacon, Ol his ive, surroundings and associations, and all we know of him directly contradicts the assertion that he could have had the consummate mechani- cal knowledge which 1s everywhere characteristto of Shakespeare's plays, and in which can in & great measure be discerned the conditions of their success, And,” continued Mr. Davis, “the bige tory of the stage and the drama Is directly against the theory of the Baconians. We know Bacon waa never an actor, and we know also that he was not a regular frequenter of the theatre. Show me @ single example of any great playwright, from Shakespeare to Boucicault, who was not either an actor or else a constant devotee of the green room. Shakespeare, Jonson, bi aumont, Fletcher, Colly Cibber, Mackhn, Knowies, all prove this, “But bow about Bulwer?" I ventured to observe, “Nay,!’ Mr. Davis went on, “I will not even except him, “Bulwer wrote for Macready, and | do not doubt for a Moment that without Macready’s ex- ae tn stage business Bulwer would have found pimself unable to produce the plays now ts sued under his name. I believe a great deal of Bulwer's popularity as a dramatist is owing to Macready’s great and exhaustive knowledge of the stage, which he placed, of course, at Buiwer’s disposal.’ “You say, then,’ 1 continued, “that the history of the stage is against the arguments of the Ba- Cpnieere Do you recall anything else against them? “Yes, the history of Bacon's own life. Bacon was ambitious and avaricious both; the charac- teristics of the Man are against the supposition that if he had written the plays he would not have been glad to have claimed them, especially since in those days the dramatiss ranked high in social standing, aud bacon, without means, and without reputation, was starving in chambers. Bacon is not the man tonave kept his authorship of the plays a secret. If the author- ship had really belonged to bin, such an act would have been an absolute contradiction of all we know of the character of the man from bis birth to his death, Shakespeare had his iriends constantly near him, Had the production of the piays been beyend the limits of his geutus his contemporaries wouid have known it, and so would we of to-day, But they all regarded him as the author, No one in those days questioned it, and those who then proclaimed him the great dramatist that posterity has ever since regarded him must have had in their possession all the assurance necessary to rightly proclaim what le Was and 13 and always shali bo. I believe I have nothing else to say, Had I anticipated your arrival 1 might have been better prepared to have spoken. You find me pow tn the midst of my work, and [am only sorry this circumstance renders it very unsatisfactory to both of us. Good evening.’ And there the interview closed, THE COURTS. Patrick McCormack was yesterday arrested om bench warrant, and taken before United States Commissioner Shields. He ts charged with aiding and abetting, in 1872, in the smuzgling of a quan- tity of silks and other goods. Ho was committed to answer. THE DOOTORED BOND. Naultner Discharged and Colonel Wood Arrested. The examination in the case of FE. Naultner, charged with attempting to negotiate a $1,000 United States registered bond which had been tampered with and the name of the payee erased, came up again yesterday, before United States Commissioner Osborn, Deicndant’s counsel moved for a dismissal of the complaint and the discharge of Naultner, on the ground that the government had tailed to show any guilty intent on the part of Naultner, which was a requisite to holding a person for trial. Commissioner Osborn said the guilty intention on the part of Naultner had not been established, and he would grant the motion for his discharge, especially as Colonel Wood, while on the stand on ‘Thursday as a witness for the defence, had sworn the case upon himself, and snown that he was really the guilty party. The District Attorney then preferred a com. plaint against Wood. The Commissioner satd he would entertain the complaint, and @ Warrant and complaint were made out tor Colonel Wood. Mr. Courtney, his counsel, moved for a dismissal of the complaint against Wood, on the ground that the attidavit was imperfect, The Commissioner denied the motion and lowed the Assistant District Attorney to amend the afidavit. Mr. Courtney then demanded an immediate ex- amination for Wood. Naultner was then discharged, and the Assistant District Attorney moved for the committal of Colonel Wood on a charge of having in his posses- sion a stolen United States registered bond, the name of the payee of which had been erased and the figures tampered.with. The Commissioner said he would treat Colonel Wood the same as any other person brought be- fore him charged with crime, and would consult the Interest8 o/ the government and the convent. ence of the District Attorney, to whom he would allow a reasonable time to prepare the case. ‘The Assistant District Attorney said he wanted only @ couple of hours, it was, however, finally settled to set down the examination jor Tuesday at ten o’clock A. M., Uolone! Wood being allowed to go on his parole in the meantime. ‘00d at. tempted to speak, but Commissioper Osborn sala he would hear bim only through his counsel. BANKRUPTCY CASES, Petitio Max Hamburger, Caspar Jacobs, Abraham Ly. ons, Isaac B. Abrahams, Jotun Taylor, Charles A, Stetson, Jr., Norman G. Kellogg, John A, Wood. ruff, David Vrooman, Samuel Strickern, Timothy F. Sheehy, William A. Sheeby and Daniel Jackson, voluntary petitions. Juiius Jones, Lewis P. Levison, Henry Newland, Louis,fenne, Henry J. Leland, Theodore F. Myer, Edwin Meade, Jr., John W. Cook, Charles H. Fair- banks, Lemuei G. Biglow, Patrick Maher, David Colden Murray, Lindisy M. Ferris, Jr., Robert M. Ferris, John a Thompson, Louis Feist, tnvolun- tary. Discharges. George A. Carpenter, Fitz Roy Page, Willlam 0. Kimball, Marsnail C. Barker, Annie M. Whitcomb, Sheppard Gandy, Warren J. Roberts, William 3. Fanshawe, George ©. McDougall, Jacob Coaen, Sylvester P. Bert, Mahlon S. Frost. SUPREME QOURT—CHAMBERS, Decisions. By Judge Westbrook. Wilder vs. Diggles; Myers vs. Plattsburg and Montreal Railroad Company.—Memorandums, Murray vs. Holyoke; Christie vs. Clements.— Motions denied without costs.—Memorandums. Rice vs. The Tivoll Brewing Company.—Injane- tion and receiver granted. Shaw & Wilcox Company vs, Godfrey.—Optnion, FIFTY-SEVENTH STREET POLICE COURT. A Desperate Man. Before Judge Sherwood. William Greer was charged with knocking OM- cer George W. Smith, Twenty-first precinct, down in the station house while in front of the desk as @ prisoner. The officer had arrested him at Berry's Opera House, where he had cut one of the ushers in a terrible manner in the band, The usher did not, however, appear in court to make a com- piaint and the accused was heid simply for the assault on the officer. Beat His Mother with His Shoe. A young man, named Wiiliam Dunn, was ar- Taigned on complaint of his sister Mary, who lives at No, 218 Fast Forty-second street, and on whom he committed an unprovoked assault. She also swore that because his mother had awakened tue prisoner and endeavored to make him rise early and go to his work he had beaten her in 4 mos¢ brutal manner. She, however, refused to come to court to make a charge, aud he was held for trial on that of the sister, Larceny of s Watch Michael Collins was charged with stealing a sil- ver watch from Ellen McGuire, Michael went to see her in her room and took the watch from her by force, She was sent to the House of Detention to insure her atvendence at the trial of Michael, who was committed. HARLEM POLICE COURT. Homeward Flight of an Old Prison Bird. Before Justice Kilbreth. Thomas Long, of Ninety-first street and Fifth avenue, was yesterday committed in default of $1,000 ball by Justice Kilbreth, at the Harlem Police Court, on a charge of stealing a watch from Mr. Charles McGovern, of No. 16 East Ninety- second street. Long is an old prison bird, and but @ short time since was released trom the Peni- tentiary. COMMISSION OF APPLALS CALENDAR. ALBANY, Sept. 19, 1874 ‘The following ts the Commission of Appeals aay calendar ior Monday, september 21:+Nos. 191, 19244, 201, 202, 208, 208, 209, 210, 211, 185, DISHONEST DOMESTIO, For eleven years past Mrs, Hannah Spiro, of No. 260 Eighth avenue, has had Mary Ambrose in het employ, and has always regarded her as & faithiul, nonest girl Yesterday, however, she missea $280 trom her ved, where she had it secreted, and ho one but Mary was in the room during the da, she haa hor arrested or the then, of Ai: mon Mat says she is entirely innocent. i leased her on vail to appear for triat at the Gene eral Sessions,