The New York Herald Newspaper, October 4, 1874, Page 9

vs GREAT SCANDAL, THE Rev. Henry Ward Beecher on the Aggressive. His Accusers, Theodore Tilton and Francis De Pau Moulton, Indicted by the Grand Jury of Kings County. Yesterday morning, petween nine and ten @eclock, Kev. Henry Ward Beecher, who received such a flattering reception froin the people of Ply- mouth church the evening previous, repaired to the Kings County Court Honse in company with tis faithini friend, H. B, Cleveland, and his son Henry, and alighting, entered tie oitice of District Attorney Join Winslow, Alter a brief conversa- tion the party proceeded 10 the ante-chamber of the Grand Jury room, on the third Moor of the building. ‘They were not kept waiting long ere Mr. H. §E. Simmons, the foreman of the jury, requested Ms. Beecuer to enter. The reverend gentieman was briefy questioned by the august body, who read to him an tndict- ment which they had found against Theodore ‘Tilton, and also an indictment against Francia D. Moulton. Mr, Beecher aflirmed as to the truthol documents read, and then withdrew, Mr. Cleve- | land was then summoned before tne Jury, and re- mained in the room about filteen minutes, when he joined the pastor of Plymouth church and they left the nail of justice, The appearance of Mr. Beecher in the Court Mouse gave rise to much speculation among all who caught a giimps of him, and, strange to say, If was at once acceded that there was trouble brewing for the “Temp Tossed” Tilton, Shortly belore eleven o’clock the Grand Jury of the Court Of Sessions entered the court and presented @ baton of indictments. Among them were the “true bills’? found against the “mutual friend’? and Mr, Tilton, Belore the adjournment of the Court District Attorney Winslow moved that both cages be transierred to the City Court. The fol- lowing is the text ot the TNDICTMENT FOUND AGA ‘he People v: theodore Peeve of the Stace of New York, ta and for U fhe county of Kings, upon their oaths presen That Henry War.’ Beecher, at the sever il Uies herein stated, resided and hath since couutued to reside, and now resides in the city ot Brooklyn, im the county of Kings and state of New York, and Was am Man ad aclergyman of pure ind chaste charac! and of good name e eredit and repuiation and that one if ‘Iilton, now or late of the y of Brookiyn at , unlawinlly, wickedly aud Malicionsly, with inteut to injure, Getame and scan- dalize the said Wenry Ward Beecher in his good name, | fame aud credit, uid to sw fim to contempt, ridi cule and disgrace, and to provoke hin i his trends to commit a breach ‘oi ihe peace at the city of Brooklyn Aforcsaid, on or abont the isch day of september, 1874, id compose, write ani publish, ant cause and procure 9 be composed, weitien ond’ published it Public newspaper culled and known as the Laily 6 of large circulation in sata eity of Brooklyn and where, and which newspaper thereatter was large tireulated in suid c.ty of brooklyn, a certain lalse. weandaions, malicious and delamatory ubel of and concerning — him, the said Henry Ward Beecher, thereby unlawiully, wick Isely and muaiiciously intending to desert and iv to be believed that the satt Keary Ward her, in the month of October, 18.8, had been guil tery with and then had criminal sexual int Elizabeth R, Tilton, who in Gctober, 188, the tine of ibe Wrong atoresaid, was'a married woman, | and was the wile of him, said “hea are J ilton, cause ito be believed that said Henry a i had adwitted the fuct of such agulierous intercourse to him, said tilton, whieh sara Hbei was, in words and figures and characters, of the ject following, Mat is to say—"“shortly atterward 4 jmeanine said Milton} sent “for Mr. beecher come fo my house 10 hold an" intercourse me oon it subject’ which 1 shrink — trom here, | et Which the iruth compels me to siace! in June, 1869, a child had been born to Elizabeth Ril ton, in'view of Mrs, tilioa’s subsequent disclosures to me, made J aly 3, 187 —namiely, that sexual reiations e+ tween Mr, Beccher and herseit’ bad begun October Wi 1868—I wished to question Mr. Beecher as to the #uthen: tieity of thai date, in order to settle the doubuul pa- ternity of the child. ‘This interview he beld with ine in my stidy, and during @ portion of it Mrs. Lilton was resent. "They |the said Henry Ward er and Klizabeth K. Tilton] both agreed on the date ac whicl their eexnal commerce had begun—namely, October W, Anbs—Mrs, Tilton herseit being the auiherity, and reter: Finz again, as she hai done betore, to her diary. Which said taixe, scandaious, malicious ant defaming libel the sald Theodore Piston atier ward and ou the Isih day of Seplemter, W874, wt the city ot Brookiyn, in manner and Jorn aforesaid, did sendand cause, permit and procure to be circulated and read by divers persons to the great damage, scamial, intamy aud disgrace. o him, the said Henry Ward’ Beecher, contrary to the statlite in such case made and provided, and avainst the Deace of the peope of the State of New York and their ‘ST THEODORE TILTON, Hton.—ihe jurors of the body of v edly, can Py to wih mentioning dignity. | Beoen! SKCOND COUNT. And the jurors aforesaid on their oaths aforesaid, do furiher present that at the timo ot the publication ot the Jibel nereina ter set forth, the City Courtor Brookiyn ‘was a courtot record extsiing in the Oity of Brooklyn, county and =tate atoresnid, and had jurisdiction of bout the persons of ‘Iheodore ‘ition ‘and Henry Ward Beeclier, now of said city of Brooklyn, in w certain wction Which said Theodore ‘Tilton, as ‘plaiutin, had eretofore. commenced in said Court against said y Ward Beecher, as defendant, and which said action was then pending am said Court, wherein said Theodore Tilton by his complaint, duly inade and ver- Sted by his oath hud m substance alleged that suid Henry Ward Becher on the Ith day ot October, 1568, had debauched and carnally known one uizabett & Tile ton, then and ever since the wife of said Theodore Tilton, and to which complaint the said Heury Ward Beecter | had mide answer in due form of law, whereim he had denied the said allegations of suid complaint and had Verified the said answer in pursuance of the same in wuch case made and provided, by having taken bis oral oath to the truth thereat betore one Harry Bing- ham, Who was then a justice of the peace in and for tute ot New Hain pshire, duly authcrized by the laws of that State to aAuminister oaths, suid Court all the while having furisdicuon ot the public matter of said action. ‘And the jurors atoresaid upon their oaths aforesal! do further present that at the time ot the publication of the hvel hereinatter, set forth, the said henry Ward Beecher resiacd and still resides in the suid city of Brook yn and county of Kings, and was a person of good name, fame and ¢ w : friends ana’ neehbors, and thataaid 1h ‘or late of the city of Lrooklyn, unlawiully, wickedly and maliciously devising, coniriving aud Luiending ty scandal ize, vilify und deiame the sald Henry Ward Beecher, and to cause it to be believed by his “sald friends, neigh Bors, acquaintances and others that he had in’ yer ing his sald answer to said complaint and the verill Mon thereat, committed the erie of perjury, ot his creat Baired, malice ava ill will toward the said Henry ward Beecher, at the city of Brooklyn atoresaid, on or about | the ISth of september, 1874 uulawinily. ‘wickedly and | maliionsly dud compose, write, print and publish, ang cause and procure to be composed. printed and published of and concerning the said Henry Ward Beecher certain jase, scandalous, maliciois and detamatory | Mbel, containing therein among other tuings, the ia.se, scandalous, malicious, defamatory aud Libellous words | and matter following, that is to 7, t (meaning the said ‘Theodore Ti ton) close this section Gneaning the section of the writing ana publication) declaring | with a solemn sense of the meaning of my words, that Mr, Beecher’s recent denial unger oath is known to tim | quid Wenry Ward Beecher) and tober (saul blizabeth | K. Tilton) and to several other persons tobe an act ot | erjury." | PWnich said false, scandalous and malicions and defarna- tory ubel he (the Said Theotore Tilton) did atterward, to wit, on the isin day of September, 1874, at said city of New York, pubsish and caused to be ‘published, in a | Certain puplic newspaper called and knowa ‘as the wuly Graphic which newspaper Was largely circulated in suid ciiy of Brooklyn and elsewhere, with the in- | tent that said libel so, printed in said " newspaper, should be published, circniated and readin sud ci: of Brooklyn, w the great damage, scandal and dis race ot the’ said aenry Ward Beecher, contrary to | ainie in such cas’s made and provided and against | the peace of the yea) ple of the State of New York aud | their digmity. OEN WINSLOW, District Attorney, | Shortly alter Cmef Clerk Faron reached the bis- | triet Attorney's Ollice with the above document, | Mr. Tilton, wearing a very serious aud trouoled expression of countenance, entered in company | ‘with his taitb/ul and zealous counsel, ex-Judge Ss. | D, Morris, who Came up smiling to the desk and bad a few words of conversation with Mr, Wins. | Jow, aifer which counsel and client withdrew. Tne District Attorney, who was, it will be r membered, One Of the Most prominent memoers oi the Plymouth Church Investigating Committee Jast summer, appeared in the best of spirits, and Temarked (Oo a reporter that Mr. Beecher, who pro- | nounced the accusauions “atrocious falsehoous,’? ‘was uoW decidedly aggressive. INDICTMENT OF FRANCIS D.. MOULTON, ‘The Jurors of the people of the State ot New York, in aud for (he bouy of the county of Kings, upoa their oath esent :— ‘That Henry Ward Beecher now and at all times here- snatter mentioned, and ever since residing inthe city of Brookleu, in the suia county of Kithge aud state of New York, is duu Was at the Umé and (ines Leceumatter mm Hioned, and at the time oF the coimposiug, writin prinuig and publishing of the false, seandul ous, Malicious and detamatory Wibels herein: afier mentioned, a clergyman of pure and ¢ character, # married Man and A person ot Goud name, fame, crediCand reputavion.and as such was esteemed respected by and minong all good and worthy citizens of the State of New York to whem he Was in any wise known. Aud the Jurors atoresaid upon their oaths aforesaid do further present ‘That one Francis D, Moulton, now or late of tne city ot Brooklyn, county of Kings, well Knowing tue premises, then and there unjustly aid maheiously devising, con driving and intending as tuch as in the said Francis D, Moulton jay to detame, asperse, scandatize and villity We character of the suid Henry ‘Ward Beocher, and to { insinuate and cause it wo be beleved that the suid Henry Ward Beecher had been guilty of and “immoral conduct, and My the time of the “said analicion | commitied adnitery with one then and now sue wite of Theodore Ttiton, her hush Deing living at the time or the commitung of such tery, und to provoke the said fenry Ward Beecher and | his iriends to commit ab: of the p id onor | About the 11th day of September, insthe year of our 1 4, at the city and county of New York and sad State New York, uunlawiully and mabciously and wickedly and scandatousty compose, write, print and publish, and Hid cause and procure to be composed, wrnton, printed and published as atoresald lia certain. pabhe. yews paper entitied the Daily Graphir, printed in the said erty. at New York, but widely circulated in the said connty of | huings and elewhere, «certain talse, wicked, malicious and scendaioas libel of and concerning the said Henry Ward beecher, which said wicked, ansehievous and | scandalous libel, which the said Francis Lb. Moulton so | menaing and contrivine as aforesaid, did, on or about | the day and Year aforesaid, also maliciously and aniaw- | fully utter and publish, and did vanse and procure to he po atiered aud published, In the city of brooklyn, in said. | founiy ot Kings, a4 tothe tenur and effect following, that is to sy — THE LIBELOUS MATTER, | “1 [the said Francis D. Moulton meaning) have before stated that ihe frat comsexston | meaning a contession af | NEW YORK OCTOBER 4, 1874.-QUINTUPLE SHERBET. adultery dy the said Henry Ward Beecher) was mace on the ng? |ineaning the said Francis D. Moutont went for the retraction ol Mz. Tilton (the said Euzabeh kt. ‘Titan, wite of the sala Theodore Tilton meaning}, that I the said Francis D. Moniton meaning) there wid niin, the said Henry Ward Beecher meaning) ‘Mr. jeecher, you have had criminal intercourse with Mrs. Tilton finesning that the said Ueory Ward Beecher had had sexual intercourse and committed adulier with tbe said Elizabeth Jt. Tilton, wate of Theodore il. ton a5 aforesaid), and you have done great inur to Tilton otherwise; an! I [the said Francis Uv, Moule ton meaning) say turther in my publisned _ state- ment that he confessed and demed not, but confessed [ineaning that the sad Henry Ward Beecher | then and there confessed tothe said Francis D. Moul- | tone that he, the said Heary Ward Beecher, had | criminal intercourse with the said Elizabeth kK. } Tilton, wite of Theodore Tilton), ashe (the said Menry | Ward’ Beecher meaning) did not deny this charge 60 explicitly made by me [the said Francis D. Moultoa Mewiuns', Whatever inferences { {he suid Fravels D. } Mouiton meaniug! may have drawn trom his words at other times, be certainly could not have mistaken mine at this time. and a Woman criminal intercourse bas but one lecal or Dterary meaning, even to a clergyman, It, however, seems necessary that 1 should go sali farther, which i do, aid 1 \the sid Frameis 2, Moulton meaning) say thaton thateventng he (the said Henry Ward Beecher Meaning) contessed to me (the said Francis D, Moul- ton meaning} bis the said Heury Ward Beecher mean- ins ns with Mrs Tilton [the said blzabeth i, | tilton, wie of Theodore Tilton meauing| in language so vivi that [ (the said Francis ), Moulton meaning] could not possibly lorget or mistake it (meaning thereby that the said Henry Ward Beecher confessed (o the said Francis D, Moulton on that occasion. the tact ot lus bay ing had sexual relations with the said Bivzabeth ts, Til | ton, then ana at the time of such pretendad ve tiovs beng a married woman and te wite o1 the suid ‘Mheodore Tilion}. He (ihe sald Henry Ward Beecher | Meaning) sald my (meaning the said Henry Ward | Beecher’s| acts of Intercourse and aduitery with that woman jthe sald bligabeth R. ititon, wate ( of said Theodore Tilton meauing] were as natural and sincere au expression of my love for her [meaning the said Henry Ward Beecher’s love tor the said Hiiza- beth & Tiiton] as the words of endearment which 1 ad- dressed to her (meaning the words addressed by the suid | Menry Ward Beecher to the said #heabeth it Tilton). | ‘There seemed to te nothing in what we did taatd could not justiiy to mysell on the ground of our iove for each other, and I think God will not blame me for my acts with her. [know that at present it would be uiterty un- posible for me to justity myseif betore man.’ ‘Lis is lnpresed upon my mind because it was the first enan- ciadon OF a justification of the ooctrines T bad ever heard." Reecher then and there, and in the ¥ jus:itied to the said Francis 0. Moulto: prom roourre bewwer the wi rimen.} the said Francis D. Mouton then ant there mea to charge that the said Henry Ward beecher did 88 to him the commission of adultery, {9 manner aud torm as alorestid, and that such CONiessiOn Was true as & matier of fact, And so the jurors aforesaid, on their oaths aforesatd, say that the suid Francis D. Moulion an the mauner and torm atoresaid, did umustly, maticions.y, unlawfully 1 wickedly Write, pruit, utter and publish ay afore= the taise, scandalous and malicious matters, a3 aid, Weil Knowing the sine to be laise, to the ‘andal and disrrace of him, the’ said | cher, and against the form of the statute in suc cases made and provided, and against tae peace of the people of the Stave of New York aud cheir dignity, _ SHOOND COUNT. And the jurors aforesaid, upon their oaths aforesaid, | do further presen That Henry Ward Beecher now and at all times here- | inatier mentioned and ever since residing in the city of Brooklyn, in the said county of ings and Siate of New York, ts and was atthe ume of the composing, writing, printing and publishing tie false scandalous, malicious ang defamatory libeis Lereinatter mentioned, a ciersy | imap of pure and chaste character, a married tun and a person of wood name und fame, credit aud reputation, and as such sasesteemed by ald among all Kool and wortiy citizens of ihe state of New York to whom he was Iii anywise known. | And the jurors aoresaid, upon their oaths aforesaid, do further pre Thac the said Francis DB. Moulton, well knowing the premises, and aalawtuliy and unjustly and muliciousty contriving and intending 48 much asin the said Fraucis. Bb. Monlion lay co defame, asperse, scandalize and ¥uity the characier of the said’ Henry Ward Beecher, and. to a8 utoresaidy the doctrine of n one mun and a nry charge and cattse to be bebeved thatthe said Henry Wart Beecher did carnully know and debauch ® Woman woo Was not his wite, and to provoke him and his friends to commit’ a breach ot the peace, did on or about the eleventh da Seyteiober, in the year of our Lord one thousand e hundred and nty-jour, at the city ana county of New York aforesaid, uniawtuliy and malicto Wickedly and. seandalously compose, write, priat publish, and did cause aud did procure to be ‘compo: writen, prinied and published as aforesaid, in a tain public newspaper en ited Deily” Graph printed in the saia ciiy of New York, but widely circu inthe sald county of Kings’ and. elsewhert ntalse, Wicked, malicious ana sca of and concerning the said Henry Ward Beecher, Ww) said wicked, mischievous and scand lous’ libe which the sald Francis D. Moutou, so imiending and aforesaid did, on or ab year sid, aio maliciously and uatawauly” utter ant publish. and did cause and procure tobe so uttered and pub.ished in ghe city ot Brooklyn, in said county oi Kings, 14 to the tenor and effect folowing, that ix to shy Bee! suid b Moulon meaning} tor what purpose b and mennioned the nawe of the woman [1 er (the said was in Reecher, me the said Franc was DINE 2 Henry Ward ’s house; told me Woen speaxing of the relations ot a man | exual relay | resnited vom tujaries received on Briday night | by tailing from a second story window while sup- | Iree love that | (Meaning that the said Henry Ward | | address a large audience, , | \ | | | senor by ten years, tain Woman Who was not then or at any time the wife | who he | ot the said Henry Ward Beecher} henry Ward Beecher meaning! said ing wave lnm [the said Wenty Ward Beecher. we What he suangely termed @ paroxysmal kiss neve heatd that Word betore, which causes ue to remneinber 1 Vivid), and thar bemg tempted by te wot Imeanmng the said woman, not then or at any tume, beng the wife of the said Henry Ward Bee the said Heury Waid Beocher meaning} had s ne said | intercourse with her, He |the said ienry Ward | be meaning) Knew she [the said Woman meaning | was Not iy aud described to me amr id Henry’ Ward Beecher described to the silt Moulton} his means ot knowing that fact, the pre mo; which { jin said Fran on Meaning) trust Rix [ine saad Henry Ward Beecher meaning) tteuds will excuse me trow repeating” [meaning what the said Henry Ward c described the ineident in coarse and indecent language, unfit tor pub feedlot She said Francis D, Moulton then and there meaning to charge not only that the said fenry Ward Beecher made the same communications 1 coivesstuns to b the said Francis . Moulton, but also that the § 0 Ward Beecher did iu ict lave sexual intercourse with & Woman who was not then his wife, he at the same time being a married man, And so thy jurors aforesaid on their oath aforesatd suy that the said Francis», Moulton, in the mauner and torin atoresaid, «4 UNJUSTLY, MALICIOUSLY AND UNLAWFULLY write, print, utter and publish, as aloresaid, the false, scandulons ‘and maliciots matters as aforesaid, well knowing the said scandalous and defamatory sibel to be faise, to the great injury, seandal and disgrace of hin, the sud Henry Ward Beecher. and agaist the form of the statute im'snch cases made and provided, and 4, the peace of the peuple of the State of their dignity. JOHN WINSLOW, District Attorney. The deiendants will not be arrested, but will be notitied to appear at the District Attorney's ollice on Monday (to-morrow) and give bail, which wiil be fixed at $8,600 each. Yesterday Mr. J, P. Rob- insu, Moulton’s partner, justified before Judge toat the Franew D. ) Neilson as one of Mr, Moulton’s bondsmen in the suit or Miss Edna Dean Proctor. Both deendants declined to converse upon the subject of the in- dictuwent when called upon by reporters, MR. TILTON’S REPLY To xR, BEECHER, No. 174 Lrvinaston BROOKLYN, SATURDAY Nicut, Oc! To tne Epiror oF THE HERALD: 1 have just learned from the Brooklyn papers (but not as yet in any other way) that Mr. John Winslow, District Attorney, member of the Piy- mouth Church Committee of Investigation, apd author of their untrue and un- just report, has used bis oficial prerogative TREET. ) jy 1874. f | to procure against mea criminal indictment for Mibeliing his citent, the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, Tne public will recollect that in the spring of 1873 Mr. Wiliam FP. West, a member of Plymouth chureh, formulated and propounded against me the charge of slandering Mr. Beecher, Specifically in this—that 1 had accused him ot “a ertminal intimacy with Mrs, Ehzabeth R. Tilton.” Mr. Beecher had then an opportunity and invitation to convict me of libel if I was guilty; but instead of accepting the challenge, he declared to his assembled con- gtevation that ne ‘had no charge to make against me.” Again, the accusation of Mr, Beecher's adultery was repeated in my ‘sworn statement” to the investigating committee in July last; but it cid not elicit a prosecution for lipel, Aygain, last summer Mr. William J. Gaynor, a stranger equally to Mr. Beecher and myself, for- Matly lodged a criminal complaint against me for | Ubelling My. Beecher by exposing his guilty intimacy with Mrs.-Tilton; but instead of seizing this occasion to test the truth of my accusation Mr, Beecher and his District Attorney exerted themselves to suppress the unwelcome prosecution, After these successive opportunities, carefully avoided by the pastor of Plymonth church, to prosecute me for libel, [am now justitied in ask- ipg the public to attribute the present tardy in- dictment against me to the tact that the Plymouth committee's report, drawn by Mr. Winslow, has failed to command popular credence, and that Mr. Beecher and his District Attorney bave round that they have now ho refuge save the desperate attempt to place me in the position of an apparent criminal, and so to discredit me in the trial of my case by loading me in udvance with the obloquy of an in- dicted witness. In this exigency I deem it my duty, solemnly and with a fuil sense of my respon+ sibility, 6 readirm the literal and ab- sviute truth of my charge against the Rev, Henry Ward Beecher, and to reassert the literal and absolute falsity Of the special pleas by which he has vainly sought to exculpate himself, 1 promptly accept the issue thus reluctantly ten- dered me, and, to the end tbat there may be no delay in the decision of the controversy, { de- mand au immediate trial, THEODORE TILTON. CONSBORATION BY CARDINAL CULLEN, {From the Londou News, Sepr. 22.) Cardinal OmMlen yesterday with great pomp con- socrated the Kight Key. Dr, Crane Bishop ot Sand- burst, Australia. ‘The new prelate 18 an Augustin. ian monk anti Was Several years Chgaged im mis sionacy work In America. ‘The ceremony was periormed in the Cathoie cathedral, Malborough street, Duvlin, is tue presence of a lurgo con. eregation | church at Peeksk! ‘The police arrested 2,009 persons during the last week, Eight recruits were made members of the police force yesterday. ‘There were 585 deaths, 499 births, 199 marriages and 46 still births during the week, Marsha) Conklin granted 1,012 licenses and re- | ceived $2,001 26 lor the week, ending at noon yes- terday. Nearly all the old documents of the Board of Aldermen have been indexed by order of General Pinckney, and deposited In metallic voxes, The Inspectors of Police are in tuture to be sup- Plied with horses and wagons for the purpose of Making tours of the station houses, Sergeants | bad better not go to sieep. The rule entorcing the constant wearing of the unilorm among the police is to be modified at the next meeting of the Boara, Captains will be al- lowed a dixeretuonary power lor purposes o1 de- tecting crime. Coroner Woltman was yesterday called to No. 46 Laight street to Lold an inquest on the body of | Patrick Moore, six!y-six years of age, Whose death vosed to be suffering irom ab attack of deliriuin remens, At a mecring of the Eighteenth Assembly district Tammany Hail committee, held at National Hall, No, 535 Third avenue, on Friday evening, resolu- tions were adopted denouncing Mayor Havemever and Net.oa J, Waterbury for “their malicious and uniounded charges” against Jonn Kelly, and pledging him their “affection and rehance.” Next Sunday the Right Rey. W, H. Gross, Bishop of Savannah, Church In Her Combats.” The large ball of Cooper Union has been hired for the occasion, as it 15 ex. | outh will pected that the yonog Bishop (rom th ‘Nekets are the seXtons ol the diffe:ent churches throughout the city, Police Commissioner Voorhis has introduced a system for cleaning the streets at night, which Will go into operation on Wednesday next, In- structions have been sen! out under resolution of the Board directing all ciuzens to put out their ashes and garbage between six and eignr P. No ash boxes will be allowed on the sidewalk n o'clock In the morning, rd of Police rewwsed to pay the claim of Samuel Lowden yesterday, The amount ts $3,000, and {s claimed for the building of a stable ordered by the previous Board, present Bourd, Ward 01 the contrac. to Mr, Lowden was made in an tmawinl manner, and the Commussiouers do uot lect they Can justly pay the demand, The body of an unknown man, forty years of age, was found floating in the East River, near pier 60, Deceased was about tive leet nine inches in height, | with black bair, cut short, and brown wh mustache, He wore black pants and ve wooilen undersiuri, white overshirt, brown socks, gaiter shoes aud blue necktie. The body Was sent to the Morgue and Coroner hott noufied, Ernest Smith, aged sixteen years, year ago in Albany, Bridget, his wile, kers and ty plud honey, and Ernest played truant. Bridget pur Sued Nim to this city and placed a warrant for his arrest in Deteetive lil.ey’s hands, who yesterday placed the boy husband saiely in the embrace of ms spouse, to be by Nur carried back tu tue conju- gul home. Anrico Angustino, Bertila Guilsmona, Manual Gousali and Gocardt Giovani were arrested by De- | tectives Von Gerichten and Muilea yesterday. of emigrants, Augustine of the gang. They are present locked up at tie Central OMece and wii be arraigned at the Tombs | Police Court on Mond BROOKLYN. There were 628 persons arrested by the police of Srooklyn during the past week. The receipts. of the Internal Revenue Collector | tor the past three months ending September so were $1,015,480 81, ‘he City Treasurer’s werk the amount on deposit in the cay 15 $625,410 58. The receipts at the office of the during the past month were $109, celpts during te past Week We several banks of the 36 98, Miguel Charimonti, the Italian, who was ar- rested ten days ago on suspicion of being con- which | occurred on the nicht of August 12, was brongns | cerned in the murder of Saivadore Torr betore Justice Morse for exkuauation yesterday’) alternoon, but owing to the absence of Important Witnesses the case was adjourned tor a hearing ‘ until Friday next. LONG ISLAND, ees The October term of the Long Island City Court | commences to-morrow. After October 1 the Hunter's Point Post OMce will close at seven P. M. Laborers in Long Island Clty receive onty $1 50 per day, with no demand tor their services, The Suffolk Conuty Sabbah Scacol 4 will meet at Port Jeferson on th inst. Ine Right Rev. John Loughlin, D. D., Bishop of t of cone Bresiau to-aaye Superintendent McGee, of the Long Island City | tom House, and schools, will adopt the system of grades estah- lished in the manual of the Board of Mducation of Brooklyn, will adminisier the sacrame brmation in the Catholic caurch a New York. ‘That Western pest, the Colorada potato bug, has. made its appearance on two farms at Jamaica | and Nicholas Rider. Tne vines of the potatoes have | been completely stripped ot their leaves, over | South—tnose of Messrs, Nicholas Elder a, Will deliver a lecture on “The | resale by | It is put forward by the | 48 a reugon jor its action, that the | was married a | being his | . + py the Brie and Morris and E They have not found ite an | PY the Brie ren an hey are charged with being concerned with John | Cesno, arrested a lew days ago, in the swindling is said to be the leader | report shows that x Collector ‘The re- | oclation 7th and 2th east shore of tne island, The gas company have | 10 be overdone like that ham. There is one Centrat now about sixty miles of pipe laid through the | Park and the dairy ts ils profit, Allah be praised, different villages, ‘T'uey supply 763 private con- sumers and 394 public Jamps. ‘The Richmond County Jul! now contains abont twenty-five prisoners, among them the notorious | Joun Short and his coniederates, who have been a | constant source of annoyance to Sherity Denyse | | and his deputies, in consequence of thelr frequent | attempts to break jail, Tho next Court of Oyer | and Terminer will have a ieavy calendar of boul The Court convenes | eriminal and civil business, ou Mouday, the !2th nat, The mission chapel and Sunday schoo) of Dr. | Rockwell's church (Presbyterian) was recently | destroyed by an incendiary tire while the Doctor | was absentin Europe, sines which time the Sun- | day school has been held in the church, Measures | are now being taken to build a new Fehoolroom, | anda commencement will be made npon tt with | out unnecessary de! Dr. Rockwell Nas re- | vurned from his European try and resumed bis pastoral duties, The annual parade of the Fire Department of Edgewater will take place on Thursday next, the | Sth inst, ‘The companies will iorm at Washington | Park, Stapleton, at nine o'clock A. M., and, after a | long march tarongh the principal streets, will take the cars at Vandervilt Landing aud proceed to | the Bay View Club Grounds at New Dorp, where there will be a trial of the steam fire engines. A small admission tee will be charged at the en- trance, and the proceeds will be devoted to the ben ae of the widows and orphans of the depart- ment. NEW JERSEY, Tne water in Hope Creek, Salem county, Ras be- | come unfit for the support of piscatorial life, All | tue fish, crabs, &e., are dying by the thousand in | | the stream and the shores are lined with the dead. | At Dover, two days ago, @ little girl, named Cur- | rie Sharp, aged six years, Was shot by her brother | Frederick, @ youth of thirteen years, and was probably fatally imjured. ‘The boy was playing With a gun at the time, nob being aware thatit was loaded, Jersey City, is to be taken in charge by Rev, J. | Johnson, of Hoboken, Rev. W. Binet having re | signed. Rey. Mr. Johnson, With an assistant will preside over both parishes jn Iurure, Ser- | vices will be held on the Heights every Sunday evening. A virulent type of smalipox ia beginning to manifest itself ia Hoboken and the northern town- | ships of Hudson county. There have been thre sufferers reinoved from Hoboken to the hospital at Snake Hil, and one young man nained Heary ners, Well known iu Guttenburg, has died o1 the malad A young boy named Murphy aiso died in | Jersey City. | In the Cireutt Court at Paterson yesterday the | sult for $10,000 damages agains> Ricardo, of Hackensack, for maipractice in the treatment of @ boy’s broken arm, whereby the boy lost ts arm and neariy Jost his ive, was concluded after being on (or five days, and given to the jury | tmsevening. Alter about a hall hoarts absence | the jury retmrned with a verdict of $5,000 damage: } sor the plac Much agitation prevails among the passenge: SeX railroads, in © sequence of the falling in of a rock of several tons weight in the wnuel on Friday aiternoon, by which a freight train was almost entirely demol- isbed aud trains delayed Lbours., The pe |) ple ave clamoring tor a secure archway through | the entire tunnel, before the loss of uiany live compels the company to constroctit, ‘The time of greatest dauger is while the trams are passing Tirongh, When the rocks are affected by the V! tons caused by the cars, { | corner of New York avenue and South street, ns | FEDERAL OFFICE AFFAIRS. | a a EIN Postal Matte ‘The report of Postmaster James ending September 30 was 1 to the Postmaster General. sale of stamps, stamped env for the quarter nsimitted yesterday Tae receipts trom the elopes, postal cards, wrappers, &c., were $620,491 27, which is about $27,000 less than for the previous quarier ending dune 30, But it must be taken into consideration that the quarter just elapsed | hasbeen @ vory @ull season, with many of one people irom town, ‘fhe reduction of the register- | ing lees irom fifteen to seven cents has cost the | wovernment over $100,000 per quarter iu this city, and Lis AmounL must be deducied from the gross receipts. The amount of letters despatched to Eu- yope on the id Inst. was as soliowsi—Ly steamer Only of Coesier, 22515 letters; Amerteau, via Southampton aud Bremet 41S, and by Pereire, to Havre, 2.237 letters—or & total of 50, ‘The Weekiy return of unmaslable letters from the New York Post Ofice, sent to the Dead Letter +| Glee, ior the week ending October 3 were: Domestic letters held for pastaze . 769 | Foreign tetters held for postage. : 335 Wlanks dr te address . tg | Maedirected wa Total. ai | The aove amount is large cnoughas it ts, but | there have been as many as 1,500 letters sent from us to the bead Letter Onice. Correspondents are by no mmeans particalar enough with their | addresses. Many fail to attach a staimp to the en- Velope: others stamp a letter insuficiently, while | yet others have an idea that an internal revenue stamp 18 Of the same Utility a8 a postage stamp, and seera to be unaware that the letter ander such ‘ cirenmnstaneces is as Inu stump at all on, AT THE CUSTOM HOVSR everything 1s very quiet. On the last day ot September there was a little ripple of excitement prevatlug there, witch was caused by the United states Treasury Depariment at Washington, appears that the usual draiy for ol the month failed to reach the Cus- the empioyés were fot att on the regular day. Collector Arthur eit very indignant and telegraphed several times to | ihe department. Finding him so determined the | Assistant Secretary instructed the sub-lreasury in New York by telegraph to pay General Arthur's dra.ts. So much for the red tape sysiem in vouue at Washngton, by which over 1,000 persons were disappointed and compelled to lose more time than necessary. twenty bus having been taken from a single vine. | TWO SUPPOSED SUICIDES, At the ingnest held upon the body of the man found in Jack’s Creek on Friday tne jary yester- | day returned @ verdict of death by drowntng. a black coat, From a card | bers street. bed that he tad | been a patient in Demttt Hospital, New York, and The deceased had on, when found, brown pants and diagonal vest. Jound on his person it Was ascert under the care of Dr. Exmersoa, Mr. Benjamin W. Downing, of Flushing, who has served three terms (nine years) as District Attor- ney of Queens county, and who has been regarded as a probable candidate for another term, has Withdrawn in javor of Mr. Wiliam H, Onderdou 0| Great Neck, Who will donptiess be ponunate by the democ held at the Court House at North Tuesday. the loth mst. fled his williagn repu 8. Cogswell, of Jamaica, James Moat, an Irishman about fifty years old, employed in a brick yard at West Ne walking toward his home, from the village Huntington, ou Friday evenint, was ron over b runaway team of vorses attacned to a hed Hempst Mr. Oncerdons na: wagon, belonging to Mr. Conkin Kelsey, anu tt- His appearance indicated that te stantiy Killed, Ss hitin the fy large portion of ty brain, and a Coron verdict to that effect. Deceas family or relatives tn this country, by the pole ol the wagon, as Skull Was erushed in upon th “WESTCHESTER, The Presbytery of Westchester will commence First’ Presbyterian its annnal meeting in the on Tuesday, Margaret Tierney, aged at reside in Mulford street, Yonke | flight of stone steps, on the corner of High street and Oak Hii aveuue, in that city, last Fridayeyven- | she | ing, aud sustained a fracture of ihe skull was taken up unconscions, in Which state sue re- maiped up vo lass evening, little nopes beg en- tertamed ol her recovery, While attempting to get on a Huason River Rail- | road train at-Dobb’s Ferry, last Friday evening, a man named Charles George tell under the wheels and was literally cat in two, An ingnest was held by Coroner Bassett, and a verdict rendered set- ting tort that death was accidental, Deceasod was Jorty-nine years old and hved at Tarrytown, where he leaves & wise and lamily. STATEN ISLAND. ee Mr. Hepworth’s yac'! stock, and the Prosper, Captain Kennedy, their anchorage off stapleton yesterdays, with a select purty ot Jadies and geotiomen lor & fishing cruise along the Southern coust, The members of the Stapleton Yacht Cinb will meet at their rooms in Stapleton on Wednesday t Nettie, Captain Com- evening, to devermine upon thg day of their fal | regatia, and also upon tie course 10 be sailed, as Weill as to Make other preliminary Arrangements. The race tis time wall pe sailed in the upper bay, inside the Narrows, Gas has veen introduced in the village of Mari- ners Harbor, on the nurth sbore, 1% 15 supplied Jrom @& mara ten miles distant, at Ciliton, on the at tie County Convention, to be i, OM Sunt to accept the nomination. The ican caudwate Will probably be Mr. Willan ck, while of r’s jury yesterday tendered & 1 Was without een, Whose-parents | dowa a | leit | Yor three days past a Mr. McKinley, concerning whont litte or nothing seems *o be known, has | been stopping at the Cosmopolitan Motel, Uham- Yesterday morning, Mr. McKintey not appearing as usual, bis }oom was entered, when be was found dead im bed, On the stand was # bottle which had contatwed Jaudanum, from Which Lact 1F 18 supposed he had committed sut- | cide, The body was sent to the Morgue to awatt a arrivai of friends und Coroner Woltman not tied, Vaul Fremont, aged twenty-nine years, a native ot France, was found dead in bed yesteraay arter- noon at the New kngland Hotel, No. 30 Bowery, Beside the ved of the supposed saicide a bottice contara Jaudanum was tound, ‘ae deceased had lodged theve since Wetnesday evening. On the huay of deceased @ discharge from the United States “Navy was found. Coroner bhickaof was notiiied to hold an inquest and tne bedy Was sent | to tne Morgue, DEATH BY TAKING POISON, On Vriday evening, about seven o'clock, Mr Jonn Mecready, forty years of age, a nauve of New York, returned to bis home, No. 136 Eignin avenuc, somewhat under the intluence of liquor, and, going to Mis room, swallowed, as ts believed by mistake, Several ounces of fusil off which he pad been Using LO relieve rheumatic pains, As OOH a8 THe Mistake Was discovered a doctor was. summoned, but he eould render no permanent ree , and death occurred two hours subsequentiy. Coroner Kickhom was notified. Deceased, who wis a ing ‘iiman, had been out of employment Jor soe Lime past. OENTRAL PARK DAIRY. A Southern Family's Collation and Its Cost. To THE Evrron oF THE HeRaLot— The Central Park if a lovely place to all New | Yorkers, but especially to strangers, who, apart irom the Park, find great amusement in tne mu- seum and all appertaining to it, But, above all, there is one place of interest which all strangers should not fil to visit, viz.:—“Ryan’s Dairy,” which, 1 understand, is connected with his exten- sive Central Park larm., Much has already been said concerning this farm and its energetic man- ager, to Whom strangers owe much afterthought Jor his thoughtfulness, “san south” visited the Park ¥ ing, They saw the elephant; saw the animals, valive and stufea; saw Hawkins’ ol the ex-hydrosaurus; saw the jackass, but heard tt not; saw snake: this time our party suddenly discovered they were hungry. Happy thought, “The Dairy. They | entered; Uie order given, two cups of comee and OLE glass of milk lor fittle boy, then three sandwiches, ‘These good things were soon put tur away and the usual “How much’? tendered by | Paterfamil ‘Tbe Modest bil of $2 40 was ti answer, Our friend does nov roll in wealta, bat Unis charge, so reasonabie, caused him (pater- | Jamitias) a pang of delicate uesitation: he d murved aud the Waiter, witha giatice of pity ana a smile, said, “Well, $226.? My iriends then d | parted, the littie boy asked w was the matter, | the lather muttered something about Seelpg an- | Otser laughing jackass, Our iriends will certainly recominens ther (rieods tO Whe dairy im Central | Park; they detestespensive places, but can’) boar ke, By | dent The Protestant Episcopal church of St, Paul's, | } with the heart disease, | Smith was also me rec! Dr, Norton ©, | vas | unpaid as if having no | the salaries , Frienas of tine from the | terday morn | | Were are “no appropri | have any pro JOUN BANC Up to a late hour }ast might the t Pp itty | | Were deep in long and snort division as to now they got $2 50 into two cups of coffee, onc giass of mik and three sandwiches, bat could not do it, althougl they had been done, iB | Ocroser 2, 1874, THE WELLSBORO BANK ROBBERY. The Boldest and Most Successful Rob- | bery on Record—& Wistory of the Outrageous Crime and Its Surround. ings. WELISHORO, Pa, Uct. 3, 1874. Quaint and old fashioned, staid and demure, are the inhabitants of this snugly sett com. munity, with an occasional Rip Van Winkle ex- ception in the shape of the well known tavern Jounger, who has at Dis fingers' ends all the Jatest interesting, gossipy particulars of that which, on the morning of the 4 of September jast, shocked all the eitizeas and has ever since kept the vieiulr in such a state of excitement as tt never belore es perienced, A résumé of the bold crime which is the cause of @il tits comment may not prove uninteresting. About eleven o'clock on the night of the 16th ult. j the family of ©. T, Robinson, President of the First National Bank, were s Men, whose faces were mi dres-ed each other as Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. They bound and gagged President Robinson, Cashier Robinson, his son; Mr, Robinson and Mrs, Smitn, a marmied daughter, who Was paying her parents avisit, They then led the cashier to the bank, which adjoins the residence, and compelled bim to unlock the sate, and then helped themselves to a large amount of currency and United States bonds, in all of the value of $60,000, Return: | ing to the house they seated the Presi- and his son in two chairs, back | to back, and then bound them, To Mrs. Robinson they were nore considerate, as she had luinted during the proceedings and was troubled tied by & gang of tive up their minds not to gag her, but so that she could not assist the others they tied a rope around hey legs aud fastened it to the bed post, Mrs. ipient of an act o! gallantry on bhe part of one af tue robbers, who was abous fo fake trom her finger a ring; she toid him that she valued it dearly as a Keepsake, “Very well,’ responded the cavalier burglar, “take it of and throw if under! tye bed, or cise No. muy come along and take {6 from your finger aud nob be 80 chicken-hearted as T oam.’? Having, as thought, nade every one sceure ‘hey took their departu It two car which Were awaiting them, tree o’clock the elder Mrs, Kobinson ded im untying the otuers and a ch ce imstituted, AS the might had . Y noticed in the road that of the horses had been shod with a round si and ims clew enabled the pursuers to lohow the | trau, whicn led to the direction of Corning, New York State, 4 telegrapmic tispatch Was at once sent but, for some unaccountable reason, delayed About & tor bwo nours at Corning. Ln the meantime the | toboers had conninued to put spas time ne- tween themseives and their pursuers, and Lt Was not until taree days Jollowing that inquiries ealed the fact that the teams driven ly the maranding band were tired in hh a DY A Man named Pat Curley, who tas since Further rey he thieves » at Waverley, sixty miles jrom the scene of tue roboery, and tere they suc- coeded in capturing a noted characier named Cosg.ove, alas Howard, Wao, under the name of MeMuasters, Was Well known a3 tequenting the hburhood and engaging tn various de | tons. On searciing fim $1,000 In currency and | $12,000 in Unitea States and town bonds were lund on lis person, and a watch, which was identified as belonging to President Kobinsou, Cosgrove was takeu to Wellsboro, and there, waiving examination, Was cumuutied jor trial without bail, Aman named Cook, who drove one ov the teams, Was aiso arrested as accessory, aud 13 confned 1 an adjoins cell. Your correspondent, through the courtesy of Sheri Bowen, saw Cosgrove, and waile talking to Mim he Was Visited by Mis whe, a respeccabdle %, neatly tired lady,” Who seemed { keeny her position, Cosgrove’s lawyer it protracted interview with Cosgrove and armed to New York night, as the trial not hkely to take place until the last week of tais month. Besides the arrests here mentioned Constante Sawyer yesterday. ¢ med George Fraitéx under the siauces:—At the me of the robbery the tnieves puiled off then boots aud entered the nv steastnily. The rain soaked the boot vgs and they | were cutoff and thrown on the ground. in (he one Jeg Was the name “George Fralick,” and this | lea to his discove Fralick er, protests under tious Se been placed farm hou ptured a 1 DyOWINE circum | ils utter innocence, erday on a i eluminary ¢xXamin 7 elsewhere ¢ the Ume the deed Was committed, He was, | however, neld tor tr: SLAUGHTER HOUSE |THE NEW YORK é | A Serious Compiaint Against the First Avenue Perfume Factories, | To THR EDITOR OF THE UPkALD:— | Ibappears that the Board of Health has proposed sweeping measures tor the reguiation of slaughter houses, This action 1s nof at all too ear bat is | the Board really in earnest? It should have been tuken many months ago, a8 thousands have been stated, suflocated and sickeued during the summer months from the disgusting eMuvia emitted trom iue slaughter houses, When, a few days ago, I | arew the attention ofan old and influential Ger- | man citizen and @ very particular Inend to the a | tion of the Board he gave & most significant smile, nd commenced to rub his (hump andindex fuger in a very remarkable manner, vrterpret this dumb language, I asked its mean- ing, which changed bis smue into a laugh. He | evidently considered me “green. He imiormed me, however, that about this season of eaca | year relormers and reforms are im great abundance, and that something whlch ne | called “palm oil? governed nearly ail men's | acuons in our honest city, 1 hope tus is not the case, but if the Board of Nealtn hesitate | jonger [shall be unwillingly compelied to think so. Lhave already, in w& private manner, drawn | the attention of tie Board to the question. Jn re- | ply vo my last letter the courteous Superintend- ent, Dr. De FB, Day, said thac “the Board hope some day to concen rate the slaughtering oj ani- mals into suitable abbatoirs, remote wom thickly populated districis, but you can readily imagine | Gatan mdustry mvolving the support of thou- | sands, and 1m Which willions of dollars are in- | vested, cannot be moved avout like a peanut | stand. in my letter to Or, Day I drew his attention—and now through your influential columns L draw public attention—to the slaughtering houses stouated on Virst avenue, between Korty-ffth and Fo. ty-stxtte streets. The neighborhood OL those streets, ex- tending even beyond Second avenue, 13, every week, sometimes ior a day and even two day not only sickened, bat actually choked with ti raost horrble miasma. For hours there 13 no ces- ation fo it, and windows have to be closely shat. ‘'Ybss 18 really monstrous in such a populous dis- trict, and should not be permitted if there wer millions instead of millions invested Init, uniess eile of the poor is of no account, My Iriends wo reside in the locality having asked my ad- ce, | have recommended the following action ;— ’—To communicate with the Board of lat L have done on their benalf Seoond—To lave ali cases of sickness tn the neighborhood strictiy imvestigated and their avigin discovered. fhird—To make aMdavits declaring the emuv to be poisonous, and tue slaugnter house proprt tors and the Board of Health accessories to the crime committed npon thousands of poor people. Fouurth—In case no Immediately by the Board of Health, to issue cireu- ‘lars to sil the property owners in the neighbor- wood, stating that ® monster meeting of tue In- habitants will be catled and steps taken to nave me locality abandoned uuless the property owners take up the quesiton. There should be uo procrastination over this matter, and tt the Board of Health do not destre to be swept away With the sliugiiter houses wey Will insert dategin their proposed ordinance ana see that it ts catried out, Mis bad enough tor the working classes lo live in miserable rooms, for which they pay exorbitant rents, and to be’ w employed and tnii ot trouble, put to pay faxes for the support of a city goverument that aiiows therm to be poisoned ts beyond forbearance. Wilt the Board ot HW hact? Je STOPPAGE OF WORK AT PIER NO, 1. Fir Heaith. In consequence of an order signed by General | Graham the work at pier No, | was suspended yes. terday, and all the hands were engaged stowing in the construction of the pier, Over sixty men are thus thrown suddenly out of employment, No one on the pier Wad any idea of whe reason for stopping work; but inquiries mide around the city Hall make it appear that Mr. Green alleges Ons."' Kew of the men Made for the winter, and, em- ree everywhere, iw ix likely tston being ployment lucy Wili Mave a hard time Of it Searcely any Work Was done yesterday veside the putting away of such things a4 woud vot ba sae ou eS ew blucks oi Concrete (hat had been already be- gun were Mnisned, afew large stones swung into | yneir res Oy the derrick and some other Unim- porta pings attended to. ‘THe whole place Was sWept up aud ihe men Muished their last day’ work on pier No, Lor some Wine to come. ed, and who ad | They accordingly made | reda. Not being able to | practical action is taken | 9 <a AVENUE PUNCHES. THE THIRD A Conductor Explains the Situation, To Tax Epiron oF THE HERALD: — In a late Issue you pretend to give an account of now the bell punches are received by the condnetors of the Thira Avenue Ratiroad. In tact your reporter is qfl'e jocular on the matter; but his description, I think, 18 farfetched; else he has been unfortunate in meeting with the most | Nltterate and stupid of our much abused class. | There is no doubt but that among car conductors | Youcan find men who are not able or prepared ) fo taik to newspaper inen, but it don’t follow that they are all the same; and { believe, above all other roads, the Third avenue bas had tne best and Most respectable class; indeed, men of intelli- gence lar above the position they occupy. We have not ail been born lucky or rich, and I think it is far better for a man to take the position of a conductor than to eke out an existence by begging, borrowing or steal- ing; for, although there are a great many who | Judge us by themselves and think that, because , they could not resist tho temptation that we have, stilla say there are a creat many among us who ave far above appropriating what is not thetr own. | I shall not presume to take up your valuable space in defending the conductor, but shall cone fine myself to a few comments ou the articie in Friday’s HERALD, 1 think the remarks relative to the punching of the recording stip are entirely an invention of your reporter. I don’t believe such an idea ever entered the mind of any conductor on Third ayenue. Nor is if out of humanity the said slips are given us; neither is it to expend our wrath upon, but merely as a “eheck’’ or “recording shp'’ to show how many fares are collected. You call the attention of the public and invite them to take notice of the + us » chev brag down the ham- manner’? with wht or. Now, 1 am positive no one has seen this | “vicious” behavior but your reporter, Way, the | very {dea tg uonsensical, and, I should sav, 1s put | forward by some one Who has a grudge against & sass of men by one of whom he may have been used L think “the younz, the lair, the roughly. good,’ .&¢,, miseall the punch when they say i 1s the “rmaing brand of dishones y,"’ for tare received 18 recorded even before the eyes of alt. ve punch, certamiy, is an ugly tuing to carry, for it KUbJec(S us fo Impertinent and idle inquiries from “inany ssengers, If 18 also huimil- ialing to think that the company had not sutticient conidence in their men to try the easiest ~=metnod first of — inereasing their wages. It now costa them over $5 per day jor a conductor and hts punch, besides the other expenses, such as increasing the number of clerks in the oflee, the amount of paver used up davy (re ording slips}, aud other incidental expeuses never dreamed of betore their tacroauction. Now, sir, the loquacious conductor wih your reporter “interviewea must have been a man of very little common sense or he would not Dave talked as he is alieged to have done. se has evi- dently advanced a. idea of tls own When he said ‘at the tutroduction of punches was opposed by either the superintendent or any of the direc tors, as L presume vey did not make a confidante orhim. He must nave drawn largely on tis Imagi- nation for such au issertion. As far as Mr, Hart is concerned, I believe he and Mr. Lane were the prime movers in the matter: however, no will be surprised at that. All | Mr. Hart's money was made by squeezing the poor; and, although he has given up pawabroking as a business. wiy shoulda he give up hs old ‘habits’ I never see him or bts Cha*ham street house butt think of Dickens’ “Carisunas Caro)" whi Marl t appears to Scrosgs. Imagine Mr. Hart calling out of tits window In Chatham street ior some one to go for a Christmas turkey to give to @ poor family, or yet imagine him on meeting day going beiore the direciors of the ‘Vuird avenge, and requesting them to increase the pay of their employés! i Now, Mr. Laue is the gentleman of the Eighth ional Sank notoriety, who, T pelieve, 18 at esent under $5 ail tor an alleged conspiracy ud the depositors of sacd Dink, au account ol Which Was giv our paper some time since, You Know the o.d saying that, “as a wan lives, 80 he generally judges his neighbors; but Mr. Lane comes forward to msni honesty tito the Third avenue conductors, judging Mat they ure iot able resist the temptation that he mmsell, as has snalleged, conld not withstaad—Vviz., appropri- ting: what is not one’s Own, Naw, sir, to conclude—I ior one, and many other conductors that I know, have not the 1 leeching to- Ward the inventor of the puch that you aseribe to us, We think IU 18 a very Ingenious invenston, bub we do not believe it wil answer tae purposes for which it was inteuded, tor a conductor wishes to steal the punch wii bot interfere with him, | bave Heard from the men ewpioved by Mr. E te agentol the Punch Company, that it ss ¢ nd a gurer Way of making moncy taan the ‘old way.” [believe itis the fulention of Mr. barris to have all the old men removed trow the road. In rach, any one wham he toinks has the least objec tion to the punch must Men who have deen here for years, of good reputation (although con- cuetors), Who have been unortunate in business and obliged to turn thelr atiention to anytning to support tuemselves and familtes—these are the men thas will sulter, who from their loug experi+ ence at ratlroading have become uufitied for any other position, Aiso young men Wiom dumess of business has oreed into the service, who come well recommended and have done everyting in their power to retain their positions, ‘These are the men Who wil be discharged to advance the interests of apnneh company that wi!) thrive off the profits of the road. The ultimatum of this Wiil be that none but the lowest and most iguorant class of Men Wil hold the position o} conductor. whe public at jarge will be the saierers as weil as the compan They wii find that benetit hele by the chang “A new proum sweeps © wil! ine punen company. They will ad of any respectable men that may be on i % done and the puneh estab. lished the railroad companies will fad t their reecipts wih be siwalier than ever, : A THIRD AVENUE CONDUCTOR, pt, BO. 1 clean, first clear the NF York, $ | "OBITUARY, Judge Rufus R. Merrill | The Marysville (Cai) Appeal, of the 230 of Sep- tember, reports the occurrence of the death of dudge Ruafos RK. Merrill, fue eveut took place in Marysville on the 22d ult. The deceased was born in Massachusetts, and removed with Mis father’s Jamily to Pennsylvania at an early age. He re- ceived his education in the latter State, ana in Vermont and Ohio, He studied law with a rela- tive, Judge Hardin, In Tinos, aud crossed the plains to Caiiornia in 185). Unsuccessiv, in min- lug ventures upon the Yuba, he settied tm Marys- ville in 1854, aS boukkeeper ina mercautile nouse. With the exception of an absence of a tew mouths he has resided in Marysville tor twenty years, ca- joying the complete conddence aud good will of jis sellow citizens, Who elevated him to lugn posi- ions as & pubic man and jarist { Robert Hunter, of the Irish Turf. Mr. Robert Hunter, one of the best known of the oMcials connected with the Irish turf, died at his residence in Dublin, on the 18th of September, after a lingering iliness, By Mr, Hunter's deata the lish sgorting World has suffered a severe loss, AS ahandivapper he Was unrivalled in ireland, aad leaves nO one to take Us place, Yhe Count de Chambis—A Sorrowful Celebrity, ‘The Paris Figaro ot vhe 18th of September an- nounces the death of the Count de Chambis, jormerly the equerry to the Duke of Oricans, and indirectly the canse of his death. He had never ridden of horseback since 1842, to account for which peculiarity the following story is told:—in his capacity of equerry it was bis businesa to at- tend to the eMeent managemert of the royal stables, See the horses were properly eared for, and, above ali, that t were iree from vice, By some unfortdnate mischance or carelessness two horses which had been condemned as vicious aud unmanageable were never removed from the stable, and were harnessed to the Duke of Orieans! carriage on the fatal 13th of July, 1842, | with what resaits everybody knows, and consternation his death caused th Prance is still fresh in the memory of the p 5 | Reneration. It may be easily imagined how tne | unhappy Count, in despair at having been the in- | nocent cause of the tearful catascrophe that had placed the whole of France in mourning, sent tn his resignation, and never dared tu appear before tue King or Queen, One day, however, ne was passing through the Tuileries gardens. when ho saw them both on a bale | cony, ressed in deep mourning, Overcome | by remorse and emotion, he {eli on iis knees before them, and on being summoned to the presence was ireely pardoned vy the royal | pau. M, de Chambis was Dorn tn 1794, and though | @ retired general oMcer and Katght of the Legion Isnguing | away the different implements ana materiai ased | Of Honor, and one of the plilara of the Jockey vlad, he did not disdatn the profits whiten accrued | to tum from the hotel of the Grand Cerf ab Chan- | Dily, of witch he was the proprietor, and from | Which, 1t 18 said, Ne dertved a cousiderable fortune, Lady Dilke. | Lady Dike, wife of Str Charies Dilke, M. P., for | Chelsea, Bogland, died tn Lonuon on the dist alt | Her Ladyship gave birth to a son on Saturday | evening, September 19, and appeared to be pro gressing satisfactorily toward recovery antl Sun | rlapse 0 a from that | day, when @ relapse took place, am time she sunk gradually and expired. Lady DiIk¢ | had attained only her twenty-sixth year. she wat the danghter of Mr, Arthur Gore svel! and grand: dangiter of Sir Richard shel, and was warried uw (sir Cuaries Dike tm 1872