The New York Herald Newspaper, October 9, 1874, Page 3

J 5 : ‘ INDIAN WARFARE, The Redskins Chased to the Staked Plains. Concentration of Troops and Supplies near the Washita, PREPARING FOR THE ADVANCE Expected Accession of MoKen- zie’s Forces. A HEROIC RECORD. Progress of General David- son’s Detachment. BIVOUAO ON THE SWEETWATER, HEADQUARTERS DETACHMENT DAVIDSON'S COLUMN, Sept. 22, 1874, Availing myself of the first opportunity to com- mupieate the operations of General Davidson’s column, officially known as the Sill column, I ‘Write from this point, lat. 35 20, lon. 100 30, whither We came in order that Generals Davidson and ‘Miles.might have a consultation as to future oper- ations and compare notes of what had been done in the past. With the poor light of a candle in our shelter tent, while it is raming heavily, I will en- Geavor, under dimculties, to give you rapidly an imperfect outline, which ts made so owing to the fact that 1 am limited to an hour’s time to get this througn by courier to Camp Supply, favored by a Scout of General Miles’, The Davidson or Sill column, after having marched to Fort Cobb, thence ‘up the Wasbita River, on the divide between it and the North Fork of the Red River, finally, after | twelve days of marching without event or a meet- ing of the Indians, camped on tno North Fork of the Red River to rest the men and give them an opportunity of washing their clothes, &c., a3 they had been continually “on the go” since our departure from Bort Sill on the 10th of September. Saving the ordinary fatigue both men and horses were in splendid condition, the latter, indeed, being better tnan when we started. This is mainly due to the fact that from General Davidson down to the ranks the oMicers are mainly experienced in the require- ments of the cavalry branch of the service which a hard campaign on the plains at once demon- strates to be absolutely necessary. A MILITARY CONFERENCE, During the operations of our Indian and citizen Bcouts Lieutenant Pratt, commanding them, dls- covered yesterday in the Sweetwater, whence 1 write, an encampment of a detachment of troops from Miles’ column. ‘This being reported to Gen- eral Davidaon, he regolved, for the furtner eMeacy Of the movements, to confer at once with Miles, and with that view he communicated with bim at his camp, some thirty miles of, through Still- well, one of the daring scouts of this region and who was with Custer when Major H. Elliott ana cavalry were surrounded and Massacred by the Indians, he going through their lines for relief and fulfilling his mission, At the Yequest of General Davidson, accordingly, General Mules signified that he would meet him at this point, and hence lam here. The trail where Miles first discovered the Indians is about four miles from this place, abd this is about ten miles in almost @ due northerly direction from where Davidson's troops are camped, on the North Fork of Red River. for his object to see if he could not obtain some additional rations from General Miles, as we started with only half rations for twenty-two days, nd had been already out on the prairies some eleven days. He couciuded that if he could effect this he would immediately swing as far as he could into the Staked Plains, where the Indiaus are sup- posed to be, and where we could strike their vil- lages, which ts about the only offeotive way of gel- ting the best o1 them, as al aost all the pirouetting and skirmishing about the plains which has got to be fashionable among some people in commana of columns which they are not used to or can only handle badly with utter disregard of the loss of stock, wearing out of men and simply plunging bout proves in the end to amount to nothing. Concentration, co-operation and well concerted movements, witn occastonaily effective dashes, will be the only means whereby tne Indian war can be properly settied; and in this General Sneri- | dan was right when he said that he simply wanted to stir up the Indians now, get them concentrated somewhere by winter, and then STRIKE THEM ONCE AND FOR ALL. Generals Miles and Davidson met this evening, the former escorted by the dashing Lieutenants Wetmore and Pope, with a detachment of the Sixth cavairy, and the latter with Colonel Carpen- ter, already known in Indian fights, and Lieu- tenant Orieman, the engineer of the column, and Lieutenant Smithers, A. A.G. of the command, Long and earnestly these two commanding officers conterred, but tue result was that General David- gon could not secure any agreement tp get ® part of General Miles’ supplies, which are expected in the next four or-five days. On all other matters they seemed in entire accord. Hence it only remains ior General Davidson to press forward as long as his supplies will last, which will be about ten days, trusting to be able to get, as he willendeavor, some from McKenzie on our way soutn irom MyCleilan Creek to the Staked Plains, White Fish Creck aid elsewhere through the “Llanos Estacados,” where we expect to get at the Indians, either at their Villages or in ‘war parties, as iortane may favor us. Which will be the resuit is a mere matter of conjecture. It is apprehended variously nere by those who diag- nose the situation that the main body of the Indians wili possibly go on to the borders of Kansas, and again op the other hand to Chihua- hua, in old Mexico, Thank fortune that we now have the majority of those BANDED TOGETHER YOR THE WARPATH outside of the Indian Territory, numbering, a8 va riously estimated, from 700 to 1,000 well armed, determined, desperate warriors. {We are now in the panhandle of Texas, @nd the rasca&lly cat- throats are exiles and refugees out of their own proper realm, and bence the milk and water hu- manitarians cannot say that the Indian is being persecuted or even molested in his own abiding lace by the distarbing and violent hands of the nited States Army. THE FIGHTING ON THE SWEETWATER. But to return to Miles’ column. Doubtless ere this the HERALD has had the full detaiis of bis stir- ring and proceedings on the march, crowned by ee separate fights which bis col- umn and parts of it have bad with the Indians. His firat fight was on the Sweetwater, where Major Price, Eighth cavalry, was attacked by about 260 Indians, and tho next where his train Was e- Sieged and engaged ior four days in fighting these devilish assailants, finally ending with the engagement of the united redskins, numbering between six and seven hundred men, with his whole force—iniantry. cavairy and ariillery—in a line of battle some five miles long, in which some splendid fighting and charging were done a eXcellent service performed by the ten-pound Parrott and the two Gatling guns, which quite de- moraiized the Indians, as they could not quite un- de! id the rapid firing and the bursting of the shells im their midst at long range. In the general ie eg t not much loss was sustained, Indians were evidently driven in confusion, as they left their pans, cooking utensils and lodge Be behind in great profusion and Ry arent aste, just getting their families out of the way barely in time to escape destruction. About two thousand lodge poles were destroyed. ‘These are among the most Valuable of their possessions, as ten of them fit for winter use are wortt a pony. I learn irom Lieutenant Frank West, who was in command of the cavairy escort of the train at. tacked, the following details:—The train was first attacked alter Reheat the Canadian by about twenty Indians, about 160 being to their right who did not join in the attack unttl the first small party were driven some twelve miles on, nearly to the Washita River. The ground was a ievel plain where the attack Binnie The emai party rye mancuvring to Cort on to t enction ot ‘tha latwe Dart and Ldentenant Ss General Davidson had primarily | West’s detachment was deployed to tne front as skirmishers mounted, mi ‘4 SPLENDID CHARGR, driving the Indians before them, Major Lyman had hail of nis detacnment placed on the right of the train, deployed at intervals, and the other half in the rear of the train, commanded by Lieu- tenant Lewis, There were about fiity Indians ip signt on the right, apparently preverisg fora charge, and about seventy-five in ‘the rear, who were charging the train te that direction and oc- cu me very steep bluffs ining. The train vas immediately parked in two lines, obliquely. The tniantry on the right fired into the Indians, which stopped their charge, and from that time forward, 1% being then two o’ciock P. , she fire was kept up on both sides. The detachment under Lieutenant Granville Lewis, in the rear, delivered its fire upon the Indians, and shey. with a dash and swinging around ina circle, opened a volley in return, wounding Lieutenant Lewis in the knee, from which loss of the leg OF death may ensue, ana killing Sergeant D’Army, Abons this time cltizen Wagonmaster Standford, who was in the corral, was shot through the bo He possibly may recoyer. The escort then lay down, fring a8 raplaly as possible, the Indians meantime circling around continually and firing, and the scene for the time, as Lieutenant West states, very mach resembied @ circus. This lasted until nightiall, when the eacort dug rifle pits parailel witn the train, the Indians doing the same—tne first time they Were ever known. to do t about 200 arde distance. The firing was renewed at day- ight from the rifle pits, and continued without intermission for three days and nights steadily, and every night they advanced their rifle pits, until they reached within Mfty yards of the train, bome of the Indians jeft on the morning of the 13th of September, Company Sixth cav- airy, Lieutenant Kingsbury commanding, from Camp Supply, appea pe: Z on the morning of the 14tn, the lew remaining savages 4a 1 the! the train proceeded join mand at the Washita, about moule: the 100th meridian. lt is thought that the escort detachment killed few Indians, owing to their peculiar circling on horseback, it is dificult to get @ sure aim at them. The loss of the detachment was one killed and four wounded of enlisted men and three killed and seventy-five wounded of mules, one horse kilied and two wounded. The arrival of the company of cavalry was due to the fact that one of the scouts, named Samalgone, went through the lines of the besieged train and bravely worked his way into Camp Supply with ews of the imperilied conaition of Major Lyman, Lieutenants West and Lewis, succeeding in get- ting Colonel Lewis, Nineteenth infantry, com- Manding the post at Camp Supply, to send, as he did, very magnanimously, évery available man he had to rescue the train and its defenders, leaving himself almost without means of dejence and ex- hibiting a praiseworthy spirit of self-denial. The, men and Officers defending the train were four days without wood and water, and spent SLEEPLESS DAYS AND NIGHTS, during which their sufferings were intense and almost entirely exhausting. The Indians com- posing the attacking column were the same a3 those whipped by General Davidson as the Washita. Agency ht, composed of Kiowas, Comanches and some Oheyennes, with Lone Wolf in' command, ‘rhe Indians were all armed wita the latest im- proved breech-loading arms. After Miles had driven them, as I learn from his officers, some fifty iniles {nto the Staked Plains, his supply of ratiuns becoming exhausted, which indicated that there was miscalculation somewhere, he was obliged re~ luctantly to withdraw and seek a channel of com- Mupications to secure additional rations from his base, camp. Supply, whither he despatched his e train on 17th of September, under Captain Lyman, and in the meantime he marched his column to the south bank of the Washita, latitude 35 deg. 40 min. and longitude 99 deg, 45 min., where he is now and will remain tor four gr five days, when he wili strike for the west up the Sweetwater and Washita along the Staked Plains. Some 0/ the events in the ope- Tations of General Miles’ troops baffle in adventure all attempts at description, and excel, as was remarked by one of the officers engaged in some 1 the encounters, THE MOST THRILLING EVENTS. The heroic action of Amos Chapman and Dixon, the scouts, with two citizens, a sergeant and one enlisted man, who, lying in asand hole surrounded and attacked by 180 Indians, defended themselves for a whole day, one of them, the sergeant, being Killed and all the others being badly wounded, vies in the terriple details of the event and their irightful experience, with anythin, tnat Kit Carson ever dreamed of or Ne Buntline eyer attempted to describe from his mythic brain and sanguinary imagination, Not less so was the experience of Lieutenant West and his associates with the train, and the climax was capped to-night, when the doctor of the de- tachment commanded oy Colonel Bristol told me that he and his associates lived two days on acorns, It 18a well known principle of military science that you must have @ good commissarlat to fight weil and long; but, im his experience, Miiea and hig poor men seemed to have been lost sight of in the provision of this great necessity; and how It ts to be explained 1 wilt leave to those who know more about it than I do to determing; but it ought to be louked into, and men should “not ba made to suffer uanecessarily. General Miles bas issued a general order to-day, in which he highly commeuds the bravery and de- votion of ail those who distinguished tnemselves in the recent encounters of his expedition with the Indians. THE L088 OF HORSES in the Miles column has been immense, amount ing, a8 one ol his oficers informed me, to over 150, and they literally strew the line of his march, The dead carcasses are frequent to an offensive de- gree. This shows that nelther men nor horses nave been spared. Genera) Miles hus undoubtedly made a grand circuit and accompanied his opera- tions with brililancy, but, perhaps, just now a slower aud more cu-ope:.ntve movement might have been more productive of resulta. and on whole more to the end desired by General Miles. He is certainly a first class fighting soldterand a competitor of General McKenzie for the coming vacant Brigadier Genera)sbip in the United States Army in the event of Howard's being retirea, which Grant was said among army men to have been very anxtous Howard should accede to about the time of nis going before the Court of In- quiry. But Howara’s friends opposed it an‘ pro- tested against 11 strenuously, and he determined to resist the President’s wish, Thus the gentle- man who 18 familiar with and deals out at a price post traderships and is surrouuded by 4 money- making ring, commonly accepted as General Bel- knap, Secretary of War, was no less disappointed in being rendered unable to give the anticipated vacancy to General McKenzie, to whom he openly promised it, than was General Sherman, who had uetermined to secure the Dice little plum for his kinsman by marriage, General Miles, Now, between them both, the Indian war is expected to settle tue claims of the two competitors, and it is gener- aily beheved that McKenzie will be tne lacky indi- vidual, though Miles has great merit and a national reputation well earned during the war. leave here in the morning for camp and cross the north fork of the Red River, going for- ward rapidly to McClellan Creek and thence south- waraly on the Staked Plains, scouring everything, an HOPING TO MEEL M'KENZIE, whois coming up on the Pecos or Red Kiver. What our subsequent programme will be events must determine, Suffice it to say that the column 1n every way ts in good fighting condition and witl give @ good account of itself, with about 500 fight. ing men, two howitzers, an excellent corps of about forty Indian and @ half dozen of the best volunteer citizen scouts which the country cai afford, all inentire “rapport”? with their officers and disposed to do all they can fo help close up the Indian war, Miles will lay by for about ten days to recuperate and get remounted, We shall in all probability open communications with McKenzie in about a week at furthest, if he ts moving up, &8 We suppose. Between us and Buell, who is marcuing toward both, obliquely, we shail strike the Indians, no doubt; but it may not be looked for as anything eise but ANOTHER QUASI MODOC WAB and an all winter cam with all the available force we can get mustered together, and the whole ‘Vbing, if 1t be possible, one of surrounding or such concentration that wé can strike from co-operat- ing radil and reach the Indian every time. He Will, at all events, get such a “whirl” as willsettie the conviction in bis mind that we are in earnest and between McKenzie and this column he Will get his most positive first dressing as soon as either comes upon him, But it must be remembered that as the Plains grow broader the stories will grow longer as to what we are doing and wnat the public expects us to do. But in my next, to satisfy the dear, good public, which does not like expense, I propose to show authentically that the tact of the xg) being in the field is actually @ vast saving to the government, I will also ven- tilate the Secretary of War and the post trader- ships, a3 well as pre (what I believe that dear public is waiting for) some of the funny and hu- Morous scenes we pass through, which in the ae of Sor percent 8 We can es ies gle aughter and side-splitting appreciation; but I can assure them that fighting ing Tndian or’ SOLDIERING ON THE PLAINS is No fun, Outside of the artificial kind manufac- tured from bravé hearts, gallant hangs ani 1 souls, who smile &t danger and make th of it in the reflection of being “free and happy still.” But those cold chills of apprehenston, soltcitade and nervous anxiety when one Is out on this ocean of “terrain” and some object always supposed to be Indians comes in sight, Would worry tne flesh off your 200-pounder Fat Men’s Cind if they were here; and these events, until explained, always make you fee] you don’t know what is coming next, and until either a buffalo, or clump of trees, or wild pontes are ciphered out, you are in a de- fighttal” state of uncertainty’ whether tne not ing to be your will agree, is very pleasant when it borne in mind that the In- dian is an elegant sharpshooter, crawis you steattmly, or ‘Yamps” you, Li idiom”? has it, and then skedaddies like a flash of lightning behind the crest of a nill, when with a fleet horse he 1s off some kaif to three quarters o1 a mile from you, The water on the North Fork Red River 18 not goo dly drinkable, and the weather is tie ‘This place, as its name implies, is beautiful—indeed, like everything about it, ite carpet of green, sandy banka, trees with elegant foliage and all the evidences of a vernal Spring, or, more truly, an ‘Indian summer,” with the Indian part as we “get it in ours” more desirable to be left out; but we have to ta it “al Tra and hence we say, on the whole, “au plasir.” 1 shall join McKenzie’s colamn fs soon asi can Teach it with a scout, and my next despatches will be from his lines. Tis country has never been ac- COTA surveyed, 8nd most of the maps are at fault, that compiled py Lieutenant L, A. Orlemgn, Tenth cavalry, under the aunervision of Gener: NEW ¥ORK HERALD, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET. 3 Davidson, betng considered and actually proving, in our experience, to be the best, The Alleged Swindling of the Sioux by Thelr Agents—Opinions of Commis- stoner Cox. WASHINGTON, Oct. 8, 1874, In answer to a note of wquiry respecting the charge of swindling on the part of the agents of the Sioux, addressed by General Cowen, Acting Secretary of the Interior, to Dr. ©. ©. Cox of this city, one of the Commissioners recently appointed to visit the Sioux country, Dr. Cox say: “During my sojeurn at the Whetstone and-the Red Cloud agencies I heard nothing of irregularities or frauds on the part of the agents, In tue councils held and the private conierences with Indians the usual com- their needs and unjuifillea promises on the part of the Great Father and his ofictals, but no attention was paid to thelr marmurings, Which are constitu- tional and chronic, and doubtless without tounda- tion in fact. Idid learn at Cheyenne that the flour furnished by the contractor was generally of @ Very infertor quality, and had been condemned by Colonel Long, the military inspector, but know nothing of any impropricties or trauds on the part of the agents, THE REGISTERSHIP. A Lively Time Expected in the Tam- many Convention To-Morrow—The Conference of the Republican Leaders. There were all sorts of rumors afloat yesterday in political circles as to the final result of the struggle going on between the various aspirants for the democratic nomination for Register, and it was given out late in the afternoon that the name of Hayes would be withdrawn in the Convention. This rumor, however, had no foundation in fact, and It is now a dead certainty that Morrissey will not, under any circumstances, concede an inch to those who have been endeavoring during the past fow days to have a German put on the ticket In- stead of the man of John’s choice, So it may be set down as beyond. doubt that Wickham and Hayes will be nominated. It is said, however, that the nominations will not be made without having a row over them, and that Senator John Fox, who heads the delegation from the Firat As- sembly district, and who, through the influence ot Morrissey, was taken off the State Central Com- mittee at Syracuse, will DENOUNCE THE NOMINATIONS in Convention, If he does there will be @ lively time, and the result. may be of a character by no means conducive to that spirit of harmony and good will which John Kelly is anxious should pre- vail among the rank and file, and especially among the delegates in the Oonvention, It was: an- nounced on authority during the day that Richard Flanagan, who has been strongly pressed by many prominent democrats for the Registership nomi- nation, nada withdrawn from the canvass, and that his friends. have made @ combination with a num- ber of delegates who will urge Ed. Donnelly for the position, and it is understood that the latter has consented to allow bis name to be used in the Convention. In this Convention it may be stated that the parties who are actively at work to put Ottendorfer in the field as an anti-Tammany can- didate for Mayor intend to run Flanagan for Reg- ister On the same ticket. Jt is now a certainty that Ottendorfer will run, as he is reported to have said that he would be a candidate against a ticket with such men on it as Wickham and Hayes, even if be lelt convinced beforehand that he would omy get one vote, ‘The republicans, meanwhile; are delighted over THE SQUABBLING AMONG THE DEMOCRATS, and Bre Gaiety: watching every move on the polit- ical board so ag to be sure to profit in the end by the’miistakes and blunders of the Tammany wire- puliers, that the conference between the Cus- It seems tom House and other republican managers did take place alter all on Wednesday night. It was held in the private room of the State Central Com- mittee, at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Among those present were Collector Arthur, General Sharpe and George M. Van Nort. Mr. Murphy was ex- pected, but did pot putin an appearance. The: was no formal discussion on the situation, but simple interchange of views took place as to what was best to be done to secure a victory jor the re- pudiican ticketin the county, The subject of the differences existing between the various demo- cratic factions and the Ottendorfer movement tormed the chief theme of the talk, and it is under- stood ‘that not one of the genuiemen considered it to be in any way advantageous to republican interests to join forces with any one of the jactions, Another thing that all agreed upon was that a man popular with the Germans should be nominated lor Kegisier, but the general opinion prevatied that no definite conclusion could be arrived at as to what should be done concerning the other offices until! Tammany had put her candi- dates in the fleid, for somehow they had en idea that some change may yet be made by the Tam- many leaders in their county ticket between now and Saturday. ouak ere uranic na cy rr er does not m a@ week after the Tammany Convention: eng tho- republican managers, therefore, will have plenty of time before deciding definitely upon their can- didates to study THE DRIFT OF PUBLIC OPINION, and to ascertain just wo what extent tne masses of the democratic voters ure satistied or other- wise with the men put up to secure their votes. The announcement made in the HERALD to-day of the strong probabilit; that Charles E. Loew would be nominate: by the republicans for Register, though he tg @ democrat, created quite @ furry among the-politicians, ‘The ‘'ammany democrats were in & great state of perturbation over the news, and the backers of Ottendorfer, who believed they had in their candidate a sure guarantee that the Ger- man vote was theirs beyond a doubt, were quite set Dack by it. It 1s contended by some of Loew's democratic friends that, as he is indebted to Tam- many Hall for all the political successes he has ever had, he will not allow himself to be used as A REPUBLICAN OANDIDATR. There are those, on the other hand, who assert that he nas noé been fairiy dealt with by the demo- cratic magnates of Jate and that in & local contest i he, @ democrat, is considered a worthy candi- date by republicans he ought not to refuse. What the upshot of tits new feature of the contest will be it would be very hard to tell before the Tam- many people have tiad their convention, ag there are many republicans who are benton ha' a ticket made up of out and out republicans, no matter what the chances of defeat may be as the resi A GERMAN COUNTY OONVENTION, At the Beethoven Macnnercnor HBll the dele- gates lately elected by the German citizens’ and reform associations of the different Assembly dis- tricts held a meeting to organize a County Con- vention jor the nomination of 8 Mayor and other candidates for the county ticket. A full delega- tton was present jrom each Assembly district—six from each, The Convention was called to order by Magnus Groos, and Oswaid Ottendorfer was called upon to preside, who, In assuming the chair, stated that the organization constdered it a duty to compel by its action other organizations to put honest and able candidates in the field. Os" car Wendt and Charles:Eybel were appointed sec- retaries, and a committee composed of Marcus Otverbourg, Charles Guentzer, Henry Schienl, ex-Alderman fd. Schitchling, Joseph Kuntz, F. Eur- ing, Am. Petshaw, {sar Wolf, F. Friend, Bernard Hybdel and Adam Weber were appointed to ex- amine the credentials, A committee on resolu- tions was also sappoin composed of Magnus Gross, Morris Ellinger, Oscar Wendt and others. A Committee of Organization was appa, com- oe of Judge Michael Gross, Dr. Phil. Merkel, N. utenschoyen, G, Bauch, Charles Weltz, Herman Hanscheit, George Kuntze, G. Knebe, Tebast Kohihep, "W. Gruenthel and H. Junghaus. Tue Committec, after @ recesa, Dresented tue following names for the permanent organization of the Con- vention, wnich were at :—President, Morris Ellinger; First Vice President, Julius Korn; Sec- ond Vice President, George Burghardt ; Secretaries, James Schmitz, Adolph Dengler, A. M. Petshaw. ‘Resolutiems were presented by the Committee on Resolutions,’ h, after a brie! debate, were adopted, I tat the Convention shall en- deavor toinfuence other parties and to compel them to nominate able and trustworthy candjdates, and that for that purpose conference committees shall be formed to confer on tho’ subject with the nominating conventions of the. different parties, with Tammany Hall, with the repubitcans, the re- } further, that no cand dates shali be supported or nominated by any party for the office of mayor, register and aldermen, who have no other qualifications than party amla- tion; and that independent nominations ghall b made, if no nominations by the existing partics are made for mayor, register and aldermen on which the independent voters can unite. REPUBLICAN MEETING, A large meeting of the Dix and Robinson Vam- paign Club was heid last evening at Mulier’s Hall, ‘No, 2,313 Third avenue, Mr. James M, Thomson, President, in tho chair. Some of the most in- fuential republicans of the Twenty-first Assembly district were present, The chai announced the following committee, to act in conjunction with a corresponding number of gentlemen of the associauon, for the pw of getting at an carly date, d Up, ar ratification mecting:—Messrs, John A. on, B. W. Beyea, William Starritt, Charles W, Johnson and Adolphus Borst, There was also appointed a standing Committee, consistin Be followin, 1 Mentlomen. to atiand to the a! tha pris 4 plaints were made of imadeguate provision for | zation Saring the campaign :—Messrs. Clarence Heidelberg, Robert Mccuristie, Edward D. Con- nery, William H. Clark and Eugene F. Brundage. Mr. Heury U, Rovingon made a stirring speech, in which he advocated allegiance to the party and the election of the entire ticket. R. Anderson Schaffer, Dr. Goldschmidt and Jonn F. Zelby also mace speccies in & similar strain, Tae mechan adjourned amid enthusias: EX-ALDERMAN “TOM” COMAN. EY % His Arrival from Exile—What the Poli- ticians Say About It—Curious Rumors— Has He Made « Gurgain with the Re- publicans? The. advent of a former light of our city government—absent as a reported refugee for several months—is something of nnusual oc- currence. “Tom” Coman, of the Fourth ward, late Alderman and late acting Mayor, 1s once more in our midst. A8a@ municipal ruler ke is said not to have been a success; as a (ollower of the late aistinguished“‘Boss” William M, tweed, and ap tmt- tator of his peculiar eccentricities of government, | he is reputed to have been a close and energetic | student. The tongue of sarcasm, severe criticism and condemnation has followed him into extle. Whether or not the man deserves this outpouring of general il feeling rematns to be seen. The facts are still apparent that he was jormerly an Alderman of this city, and for a short time acting Mayor. A resolution was even passed tn our Common Council advocating | that his portrait as acting Mayor should decorate the walis of the City Hall, Tue Ring frauds being exposed ex-Alderman Coman came in for alarge amount of vituperation. He was at the time, in connéction with Messrs, Ingersoll, Norton and Walsh, one of the New Court House Commission- ers, That gigantic Job already began to fee) the weigt of public censure and criticism. Whether or not he Was one of the parties instrumental im robbing the tax-payers and pocketing the alleged stealings, remaing to be proved before a jury of his countrymen, Several months ago seven indictments were found against Coman—six for prising bes signa- ture to bills for work done ou the New Court House, knowing those bills to be traudulent, and one On & Charge of bribery while seting In his oificial capacity, Those indictments were found lust December. The ex-Alderman, being called upon to plead to the indictments, was not to be found, The crier of the Court of Oyer and Terminer, in Stentorien tones, called again and again upon the name of Thomas Coman to come forward or forfeit nis recognizance. Like the redoubtable “Prince” Harry Genet, he considered discretion the vetter part of valor and took his | CO ghee for parts unknown. t 18 now Over nine months since the train, steamboat or cab bearing the illustrious form of | our ex-acting Mayor and ex-Alderman departed trom our hospitable shores, THE BXILE’S RETREAT, It is understood that the exile of the Fourth ward took up hts abode in Canada, where he had varied and various opportunities of studying mu- micipal law in all its bearings. No attempt was made to capture him, and the fate and credit of his former political allies prevented any sudden or hasty visit on his part w the home and triumphs | of former days, WHAT THE POLITICIANS THINK. A reporter of the HERALD yesterday travellea through the Fourth and Sixth wards in search of information and particulars relative to the sudden arrival of Mr. Coman, The haunts of his former greatness and political achievements were Visited. An inquiry as to the whereabouts and probable future of Coman was met with a vacant stare or a sentence of exclamation. Nobody seemed to give his arrival & phougnt, and his dame, which in | former days in this vicinity was considered a household word, last night seemed to cause sur- prise, A weil informed politictan of the Sixth ward being questioned by our representative rel- ative to the supposed reasons which brought back without ceremony the ex-Alderman entered with spirit into the subject. “Do you think there 1s any political significance in the sudden arrival *” he was asked. “Well there is considerable,” was the response. “why the repudlican party have a good deal to do with it. They want ‘Denny’ Burns elected !rom the Second Assembly district, or they wish a third candidate of their own choice to slip in be- tween two democrats, Burns, of course, will not | get- the Tammany nom!nation, a8 he fs a Brennan man, John Kelly and Brennan being at daggers’ points. Oontrol of the Legislature will prove the § struggle of both parties in the next election. Every vote counts. We are to | have en election for United States Senator next session, and bott parties with anxtous eyes. look toward o majority in the Assembly. You can, therefore, see the great necessity tnat exists | for energetic work on both sides of the house. Money flows like water from the coffers of repub- Ncan and democratic leaders tn the tntertor of the State to carry the Assembly districts. It is a ques. | tion of lif+- and death in this Senatorial struggle.” These were the expressions of @ man who seemed to know @ good deal about the wirework- ing of political affairs in his district, The free and easy manner exnibited by the fugitive in his return home gives some reasonable ground for these rumors. At the District Attorney's office the reporter was shown tue various indictments found against Coman. Information was asked as to the probable time when the trial would come off, but no definite answer could be obtained. TIFEY BANNER BAISING, Despite the inclemency of the weather last even- ing @ large assemblage congregated at No. 635 Second avenue for the purpose: of raising an elab- orate Tilden banner. The meeting was called to order by Mr. John J. an. the President of the Samuel J. Tilden Campal Club of the Eighteenth Assembly district, er a few remarks by this gentleman, several others'spoke in glowing terms of the Syracuse nominations, and earnestly urged ail true democrats to emter the coming campaign with activity to overthrow the prese: raling power, THE JERSEY DEMOORAOY. Two democratic conventions were heid tn Jersey City yesterday—one & Congressional at McPher- son Hall, the other a county convention at Library Hall, In the former ex-Mayor O'Neill was nomin- ated, The latter was not quite as harmonious, but it was an improvement on former gatherings. Mr. Charles H, Keenan was elected Chairman, Robert Hutton Secretary and Peter Donahue Ser- geant-at-Arms, Mr. Leon Abbett was nominated jor Senator, Patrick H. oa 4 for Sheriff, J. B. Cleveland Register, James Brann County Clerk Re Messrs. Lynch, Whelan and Reinhardt corone MANHATTAN OLUB, Election of Officers for the Ensuing Year. Ata meeting of the Board of Managers of the Manhattan Club, held last night, the following named gentsemen were chosen as officers of the club for the year 1874-5:—President, August Bel- | een Vice-President, John T. Agnew; ‘Treasurer, | ‘iliam Butier Duncan; Secretary, Manton Marble. | THE OONNEOTIOUT BLECTION, The Vote On the Constitutional Amend- ment=The License Question. New Haven. Oct. 8, 1874, ‘rhe amendment to the State constitution giving to all towns of 5,000 inhabitants and upward two representatives in the lower house of the General Assembly, was adopted at the election on Monday by a heavy majority. The amendment benefits} only five towns and cities, most of the | larger ones being entitied totwo representatives already, while the smaller towns with two repre- sentatives retain their old time status. Completo returns are not yet in, batit is probable not over 34,000 votes were polled in the State, and the negative vote will not reach much over 5,000. The gregate vote by counties, as follows, Will not be materially changed:— : Tolland. TOtA19. «+ serersrerens +++ 80,953 YHE LICENSE QUESTION. On the question of license about one-half the towns ln the State voted aA ee Of these sixty- five towns voted for and rag against. The resuli is claimed by the temperatice people as a victory lor their cause, and they are everywhere in great jubilation. It was effected by a “catch’! in the wording of the measure, not understood py the liquor deaiers and their friends. hen the towns yoted on the Hquor question in 1872 “No” meant the free sale of liquor; “Yes” meant license, This year the towns voted under @ different , and the thing was reversed—"‘Yes”” meal }@ BAle Of liquor; “No? penne prominin Tt is belteved that many citizens vo “No” this year under the supposition that the effect of it would be the same as in 1872 This apparent mis- take is @ point to be thougnt of, and care ought to be taken by temperance men in construi the real significance of this vote. ve CONGRESSIONAL NOMINATIONS. BINGHaMTon, N. Y,, Oct. 8, 1874, The Democratic Convention at Oswego yesterday nominated Edward 8, Esty, liberal, of Ithaca, for Congress. OORRUPTION IN CALIFORNIA. SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 8, 1874." Dr. Rice, the Coroner of this city, has been neld A GIGANTIC FRAUD. The Central Insurance Company of Philadel- phia and Its Operations. Arrest of Cantor, the Bond Forger, in Brooklyn Yesterday—His Connection with the Company - A Marvellously Organized Company. Joba W. Cantor, alias Charles Ripley, allas Oliver Ostend, was taken into custody by two Brooklyn detectives on Wednesday night, at the instance of Detective Pinkerton, of Philadelphia, on charge of swindling on a most extensivescale. The prisoner bas been boarding Jor the past two weeks at No. 266 Washington street, Brooklyn, where he had a suit of apartments. From what can be learned of the transaction in which the accused is tmplicated from the police, it seems that by the laws of Penn- syivania upon the organization of an insurance company in that State the Treasurer of the company must deposit with the State Comptroier a8 collateral bonds representing the | value of $309,000, Futeen thousand dollars was the amount of capital possessed by the Central In- surance Company, with which Cantor 1s connected, The company was formed avout three months ago, and the cash capital was placed at $300,000. The $15,000 was invested by the conspirators in the purchase of railroad bonds of tno Central Pacific and Reading and Philadelphia Railroad companies and Western Union Telegraph Com- pany. The prisoner, tt is alleged, was employed to alter and increase the figures on the tace of | these bonds so as to make them represeut the | amount required to complete the collateral to be deposited with the State Comptroller. The operations were, for the greater part, carned on in the Keystone state, and the headquarters was in the Quaker City. Cantor came to Brooklyn, where he hoped to gain an tmmumity trom observation, vainly supposing that the scandal would absorb all attention from nhimin that quarter. There tt is supposed that he completed the work of alter- ing the bonds, which wete auly forwarded to the Comptroller at Harrisburg for examination, and presented with an application for acharter. The State Examiner readily discovered the fraud, and placed the working up of the case witn the Pinker- ton Detective Agency. The detectives of that bureau at once suspected John W. Cantor, and traced him to his poarding house in Wash- ington street, Brooklyn. Betore taking bin into custody Mr. Pinkerton. called on Detectives Folk and Corwin to accompany them to Cantor’s apartments. He made no resist- ance when arrested and expressed no surprise. Concealed beneath a bed the officers found a small printing press, bond paper, dies, Ink, plates aud other paraphernalia of a counterfeiter, ali of which were taken possession of by the police. There were also found seven Westchester County Rail- Toad bonds, all traudulent, and eleven bonds of the Mexican Repablic, trandulent, coupons which had doubtless been used by confidence men ior years. When Cantor was told of the evidence Against him he voluntarily returned to Phitadel- phta, on Tuesday, at midnight, in charge of Pinker- ton’s detective, and was kept at Pinkerton’s office there, Two other arresta were made at Philadel- phia yesterday. ORIGIN OF THE FRAUD. Early this year the Centra! Fire Insurance Com- pany of Phila@elphia was organized, with Mr, W. D. Halfman as President sworn testimony of tts 0! the original subseribers:— W. D. Halfman, 600 shares. . ¥ D, Haltman, President, and according to the cers the Jollowing were It is alleged chat the cash book showed $200,000 paid in on account of stock, but which, tt has since been ascertained, merely represented checks | which had never been paid b: following Were the principal officers :—W. D, Half- Mud, President; H. W. Halfman, Treasurer; W. Moodie, C. A. Duy, P. Thurlow, W. H. Biberly and others, Directors. They shortly afterwards opened an office in Chestnut street, Philadelphia, and employed about ten clerks, Their managing man was a Philadel- phian, named John Nicholson Bibert, a member of tne Board of Trade of that city, higbiy re- spectably connected, his uncle being @ prominent banker. W, D, Halfman, tue organizer and Pres- ident, Was & Man Known to be wealthy and highiy respectable. The company was ready for business in August, but, according to the State laws of Piiladeiphia, an investigation was made by J. M. Foster, State Insurance Commissioner, concern- ing the securities of said company. He found tue securities to consist o1 the following, viz. :— A mol b any banker. The J a! ¢ of $30, 3 Philadelphia and Reading Railroad v Central Balirond of New Ji es 100 shares Union Companies, New Jersey, under cou- trol of Pennsvivania Central. 2.000 shares Lebanon Paper Company. 18) shares West kind Raliroad of Philadelphia. Alt of which were said to be absolutely owned by the company, except the Delaware, Lacka- wapna and Western stock. Ona note secured by 600 snares of the Pennsylvania Railroad a loan of | $19,000 had been made. The certificate of the Patladelphia and Reading road stood in the name oj Caroline S, Elbert and B. Elbert, and were for 20 and 300 shares reapectiveiy. The securines were all placed Im thy hands of the Fidelity Truss Company, SUSPICION OF FRAUD. It was discovered at the office of tue Reading Rail- road Campany that the certificates were De aed issued for one share, and had been raised to 200 and 800 shares respectively, the alteration having been made by forgery. The par value of Reading is $50 each, The Lehigh Valley certificates for 500 shares, 250 shares and $00 shares stood in the name of the Contral Insurance Company. A letter, however, irom Mr. Chamberlain, Treasurer of the Lehigh Valley Railroad, states that the certificates in ques- tion were for one share each, Of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad there wis issued one Certificate, which was raised to $00 shares. Iniormation was obtained that W. OD. Halfman’s name stands against the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad for 500 shares, and that the certificates bad been made to somebody eise and Halfman’s name inserted. The information was found to be the same respect the Central Railroad of New Jer- sey and the rest of the stock mentioned, On August J there had been a transfer of one share of stock to J. N. Elbert and to another person, end the shares bad been increased to 100, Mr. Foster, aiter he became aware of the worthiessness of the stock, notified the Insurance Commissioners, WHAT THE INSURANCE OFFIORRS SWORE. Mr, Haifman swore, when examined—I am Pres- ident; I subscrived $128,000; I paid it to the Treas- urer by check; the check was on W. T. Elbert, Walnut street; I am also President of the Penn- sylvania Boiler Company; I subscribed 200 shares of sald Boller Company. W. H. Halfman deposed that he was Treasurer, and’ that he Kept no books; that he receive $20,000 iu checks and gave them to the Fiuauce Committee; did mot deposit the checks; held 100 shares Of steck; paid $5,000 for them by check on the Peoplo’s Bank. W. J. Moodie aiso swore that ne held 300 shares. ©. A, Day stated that he was a Director and member of the Finance vommitie checks were all handed to the Finance Committee, W. 'T. Elbert, uncle to J. N. Elbert, testified that he was not @ banker for Mr. Halfman; Mr. Eloert was never authorized to draw on me; he Is not in my.employ; he used desk room In my office; no checks were deposited with me; 1 had confidence ip him. W.T. Elbert was subsequently held in bat of $20,000, After the investigatiun in the end of August it was found irom J. N. Elbert. tne man- aging man, that nobody had deposited auy stoc as collateral or borrowed any Woney. As soon as this became Known the Union brat Oompany, of Philadelphia, came forward and said that they had lent $10,000 on 200 suares of Reading Raliroad stocks, and on examination by microscope found that they had been altered, and that tue, been victimized to the extent of $9,960, the shares being $50 each. ‘ne case Was then put into the hands of Detec- tive Pinkerton, of Philadelphia, wno put a watch on all oMcers of the company, and Elbert's rela- tives at Detroit, St. Louis and Ohicago, Elbert 1s said to have hid away for three weeks in Pniladel- phia. In tne meantime the company tried to com- promise the matter wito the Union Banking Com- and other parties, The idea was held out | Rhat bo prosecution would take place, to get Bibert off his guard, and he was captured about three weeks ago. When Elbert was arreated and taken tu Pinkerton’s office he is said to have confessed that it was a conspiracy and all implicated were equally guilty. He stated that the insurance com. y was Originally started on one share of stock of each com, , Which were raised py forgeries to the above mentioned amounts. The frst loan ‘Was obtained on one share , in she ft Caroline Elbert, to 200 shares of ee iit Rallroaa, from the Umon Banking Company yy, Abert, acting under orders from the company. With the mone: realized they started in in oe pl the other single shares and clerks, It was proposed that all the money pteg A received for policies they would keep and go to law for the pay- ment of big amounts and then fall, They also in- tended to sell the 1,660 shares Of stock of the com- pany heid in trast the President, They never intended to defraud the Umion Company, and in- tended to buy back the forged cer tes, the idea being to defraud Only the stockholder acne. ath- to answer bofore the Granda Jury for embezzlement and miademeanar in afice, Cantor, Who Was arrested yesteraay, is erner, fifty-reven years of age, and bas for years been acounterfeitor, He forged old State Bank bal d has just served fourtecn years at sing While there he became bookkeeper. Nelson’s time, by the nse of chem- he altered the books of the prison 80 “long-time” convicts, by the payment of a fee, had their sentences altered, and ed five, six and seven years on their time. has travelled all over the world, and 18 credited with | speaking eight foreign languages. Hie has been out of prison two years. He will aiso be remem. bered as the individual who ts implicated with Dr. Blaisdell (who i# to be tried next week), now in the Tombs, on a ‘charge of betng concerned in the Treat railroad bona forgeries. In his ba, was found a lock of hig dead cbila’s hair, Hes “Eddy’s hair.’ He is a photographer, doctor ot | Medicine, stenographer, druggist and machinis¢ | by trade, He claims to’ be able to write eighty | Words a minute long hand, A fortnight ago be called at sing Sing and showed @ $600 bond of the Harlem branch of the New York and New Haven Railroad. Cantor lived formerly at Mount Ver. non, Westchester county, The jing Railroad Company Is now carrying ‘on the prosecation, and Mr. Jones, the Vice President, {s determined ta | fone all the swindling gang who tamper with its bonds hay: pefor€ | by @ man called Horton, = oo ae bi THE GLENDENNING INQUISITION. The Judicial Committee Close Theix | Lmbors=Poor Mary Pomeroy’s Last | Hour as Described by Justice Al« | arid ge—Seo: of Witnesses Not Ex- amined=—The Case To Go Before the Presbytery To-Day—What Miss Clin« ton Saw in the Church, | The Judicta) Committee of the Presbytery of Jere sey City resumed their labors yesterday morning at nine o'clock. They remained in session the previous night till eleven o’clock, and Mrs, Miller had not completed her testimony. She bad gone | over the transactions of six months, and when she | Was Called yesterday morning she resumed her | Darrative and continued till she recounted the | transactions of two years. Mrs. Randail’s testimony was to the effect that she lives next door to Mrs. Miller and that on one occaston, in the house of Mrs. Metz, before Miss Pemeroy made the complaint befeve Justice Al- | dridge and long before there was any suspicion of | trouble, some one remarked that Glendenning | visited Miss Pomeroy frequently. Mr. Howeil, one of the elders of tne church, denied this, and as- Serted positively that Mr. Glendenning did not vistt Miss Pomeroy atall, Mrs, Ranaall was de- termined to find out. She watched Mrs. Miller’a | house till a quarter of an hour before midnight, when she saw Glendenning part with Miss Pome- | roy at the door in a most affectionate manner end he walked off toward his home, The question was here asked whether she had ever heard Miss Pomeroy mention the name of Thomas Jones, Mr. Miller’s brother-in-law. The witness replied that she asked Miss Pomeroy, while the latter was ill, & she had ever been in- tmate with Mr. Jones, Misa Pomeroy replied with an emphatic denial. Mrs. Randall was then gues. tioned as to the character of Miss Pomeroy, and Witness replied that she was a8 pure a girl as ever lived in Hudson City. The committee questioned the Witness very minutely on the point whether Miss Pomeroy was quite sane when on her dying bed, and witness repited that she nad not the slightest doubt of her sanity. rs, Ug Le testified that she remained at the bedside of Miss Pomeroy on the night previous to ber death, and she was fully satisfied tuat the dying girl was periectly sane up to six o’clock in the Morning, at which time witness leit, She also testified that Giendenning visited frequently at Mrs. Miller’s house. Mra. Graves and Mrs. Reeves, who live near Mrs, Miller’s house, also testified to Gleddenning’s ire- quent:visits at Mrs. Miller’s house. Justice Aldridge was eXanjined very minutely in Tegard to Miss Pomeroy’s Banity when she made | her dying statement. He answered as follows :— When sent for to go and see Miss Pomeroy in order to take her dytug statement I refused, except on condition that she expressed a desire to see me; 1 was soon after sent for, and was injormed that Miss Pomeroy wanted to see me; meanwhile, in ‘order to satisfy myself, I called Dr. Burdett, who Oss 5.000 | was acl the street, and asked bim 10,000 | whether Miss Pomeroy was dying; he replied that 10,000 | she was; 1 said, “How long ao think she will On | live fhe replied,’ “se will hardly ive the day out,” 1 then went to Mrs, Miller’s house, and was brought to the bedside of Miss Pomeroy; Mrs. Miller was sitting on a chatr, with her elbow rest lng on the side of the bed; Miss Pomeroy appeared to be slumbering; Mrs. Miller said to her, ‘Mary, here’a Mr. Aidriuge;’’ Mary then raised her band a jew inches and omeaee her eyes; She appeared to be sinktug fast; i asked if sue knew je, and she replied in a very weak voice, “On, yes, 1do;” I then asked her ifshe wished to make any statement, and she answered, “Yes, | Know | have not long wo live,” &c, Justice Aldridge here produced the authenticated statement seiting forth ‘that the Rev. John 8, Glendenning is the fatner of my ; child, He may deny it, but | say now on my dying bed that he aud no one else is the tather of my child. He may have papers, but these will not | clear bim.”? Chairman—Have you any objection to let us have | these papers? | . Witness—Certainly; they are documents relating | to @ public matter, and 1 am responsible ior their Ley: keeping. You can, however, nave copies of tem. Chairman—Would you have any objection to ap- ; pear before the Presbytery if your presence were |. acsired? A. None Wuatever, Q You say, Mr. Aldridge, that she paused sey- eral times while making her statement. Do you suppose thas was for the purvose of Uae 4 you lime to write as she spoke? A. 1 couid not tell what was passing in her mind. Q. Did you notice any incoherence tn her re- marks? A. Not at ali; on the contrary, she was very collected, Q. Was the statement given entirely of her own volition, or was it partly voluntary and part): drawn out by questions? A. It was entirely vol | untary; asked her no questions in relation to | any part of it. | o. You have no doubt, tnen, that she spoke with | mull consciousness and sincerity? A. Not the | siightest; 1 was deeply impressed with her sin- cerity. | & Sia you consider her to be perfectly sane at the time f A. Laid. Q, Did any person in your hearing put questions to her or offer a suygestion while she was making her statement? A. No. This witness was under examination for one hour and twenty minutes, Toe dying statement having been signed by Mr. Dudley as a Witness that gentleman was exam- ined in regard to it, and he corroborated tne testi- | mony of Mr. Aldridge. He also testified as to the | excellent characte: of Miss Pomeroy, At three o’clock in the afternoon the Chairman of the Judicial Committee emerged from the room and stated to the witnesses in waiting that the committee had already taken suficient testimony | to enable thei to arrive at a conclusion, and that, | theretore, they would examine no more witnesses. At this time there were ten ladies in the church, and they at once tcok their departure. The committee will report to the Presbytery at ten -o’clock this morning. 1t was rumored last evening that they nad tound a true biil oj indicte ment against Glendenning. If this rumor prove to be well founded tue Presbytery will at once ap- oint a day lor trial. The accused pastor will e first notified of. vhe charges against him, and he will be entitied to select a member of the Pres- bytery to conduct bis defence. No legal advisers will be allowed in the case. The Presbytery will in the next place appoint a pastor to occupy the pulpit of the Prospect avenue church till the trial | be concluded. The question will also arise whether the trial is to be conducted publicly or privately. Allthe lay members of the Presbytery and many of the clergy are in favor of an open trial, as the | most satisfactory to the Church, to the relatives of Miss Pomeroy, to the accused pastor himself and to the pubiic, It is Ribak od of note that all the witnesses before the Judicial Committee were subjected to a rigor- ous examination as to the sanity of the deceased young lady, Some of the witnesses who were not examined have very important testimony to offer. Miss Clinton, who was prepared to appear before the committee, states that one Sunday aiternoon when passing Prospect avenue church about hour aiter the Sunday school euildren had ai persed she beard music and she went in; Miss romeroy playing atthe organ and Gienden- ning was sitting apparently asleep in the vestry; when Miss Canton advanced to the door he startes up saying, jh, how sleepy am! I iell asieep;’? | she replied that he was not asleep, only “made belteve.” One of the pointe of Glendenning’s defence te | that during six months of the time embraced tn Mr. Milier’s aed he was never in company with Miss Pomeroy. ‘This will be met by the evidence of Mr, Joseph F. Talson, of West End, and his son, both of whom.say that they repeatedly saw him in | her company during that timez* The witnesses who wiil come forward to testity to the char- acter of Miss Pomeroy number oyer one hundred, all beionging to respectable families on tha Heights. ‘The trial will necessarily be a protracted one, if all the witnesses having testimony to offer be examined. 4 PATHETIO STORY, Strange Disappearance of an Old Man. Patrick Madden, a resident of No, 223 Wayne street, Jersey Vity, disappeared from his home on the 234 of last month and has not since returned, nor has he been heard from by any of his (riends, He was seventy-four years of age, wore o full Wh beard, cuit short, and had on dark clothes. ‘here was @ bandage on his right leg, which was broken six weeks ago under very singular circum. stances, About that time he disappeared from his home, and his poor wife was distracted jor several days. A friend called her attention to @ para graph tn a New York paper, sett forth that an old man named Patrick Madden had been run over by one of the New York street cars, had hi broken and was taken to Bellevue Hos ‘Thither nis friends repaired, found nim énd bronght him home. He bas been faving for man; ths gaoout returning to Leland, where he sal iewaa bt t irl bones should rest at it was bis wiek nig wi lant,