The New York Herald Newspaper, November 20, 1874, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET. may be remarked here that about this time (or | Jogized for indulging tn a little sentiment. early in the spring of 1870), Some officers irom the taif of the KING OP PRUSSIA came to Heli Gate tor the purpose of using a re- cenuy discovered element of destruction called “DUALIN,”? Said to possess powers as superior to nitro-glyce- rine as the latter is superior to gunpowder. ‘The results of the experiments were Lol satisiactory, and the charges, laiiing to ignite by the electric rs, had tobe withdrawn, It may be stared here incidentally that the Prussian gentlemen | who initiated the experiment exhibited a want oF | conkdence (or, perhaps, an over contidence) in the ReW explosive by dechiving to assist inthe dan- | gerous operation of Witidrawing the charges, and he workmen having refused to approach the shalt where the dualin remained, it bad to be | removea. | HELL GATE. Removal of Obsiructions at | Hallett’s Point. | | Extraordinary Subterranean Operations. PROGRESS OF THE WORK. The total number of feet of tunnel on tne 3d of June, 1874, was 6,751. The work was suspended ior | Want oj junds about the middie of Noveinber, and | was not resumed again until July, 1874 ‘The lineal feet of tunneis excavated during 1878 was 896; the number of cubic yards excavated in | | July, August, September, October and part of | November, 4,048; number of jeet of holes drilled | a | 3 av ber of feet of boles to each bs pee Dollars Wanted | $10) ctuvremoved, vc; average number pounds | or ear. How the Interests of Commerce Are To Be Subserved. | of nitro glycerine used to each cubic yard of rock | | removed, 1 1-10 Ibs, | Of the appropriations made for the removal of | onstructions in the Bast River, including Haliett’s Point, @ considerable amount was used for the construction and operating of the steam-drilling scoW at work at various periods on Diamond and Coenties reeis in the East River, and upou Frying Yan und Pot rocks in Hell Gate, Coeuties Kee!, Which 18 behevea to be entirely broken up, re- quires but a small sum to complete its removal to the depth ot twenty-four ieet. It 1s considered econo‘uleal to keep the scow at work on account ofits necessary deteriviation and trom the prog- ress oi decay, Whtch 1s equally rapid whether we apparatus is kept at work or not. GENERAL NEWTON Wants AN APPROPRIATION OF | In 1866 Lieutenant Colonel Joho Newton, of the Cuited Staces Engineer corps (Brevet Major Gea- eral), received orders from the War Department to make an estimate ior the removal of obstruc- tions a: Hell Gate, to subserve the wants of com- merce. The first thing be did was to study the reports of surveys upon the impediments in the pavigation of Hell Gate alreasy made vy the United States Coast Survey. Among these reports was one from the Advisory Council of the State nye rs olish+ , Commission of 185¢-7 im regard to the fous cape for operations at Hell Gate during the next dscal ment of pier.and bulkhead lines of the harbor a: year, The amount annually granted ($225,000), 18 New York. All these reports pointed out very proved to be entirely too limited, ior the 200 | nomical and rapid progress of the tmportan' Plainly what the impediments in Hell Sere ears oerations to which this sum is applied. ‘There is but they recommended tue removal only of some | considered no reasonable doubt that the work at of the smaller rocks which lie in the channel, | Hallett’s Potnt will be a complete success, and puch as | thereiore bother similiar Work, intended tor tue . ? | removal ol tue middie ree!, which tmetudes rocks, POT ROCK, FRYING PAN, WAY’S REEF AND SHEL- | onder various designations, as Blood Rock, Gr.d- DRAKE ROOK, | tron, Hen and Chickeus «nd Nigger Head, should gnd a smull portion of the reef at Hailett’s Point. | be early Sommacced. By the enniotal oF cps mud. t . | dle ree! the width o/ the cuannel would be in- Tuere was no mode suggested in any of these re- | oe ie irom 600 to 1,200 feet, at an average depth ports for the removal of these rocks except under | of 2 teet, and the most lormidabie obstruction to the general term of “blasting.” Prior to these vavigation gi exists in Hell Brivo cuales be 7 ade to | ovliterated. hen the work wiil be finally com- Feports there had been an attempt made to | Davey depends alinost wholly upon the liberality remove Pot Rock, Way’s Reef and Frying Pau by | 6 Congress in makioz appropriaiious, Memoers means Of @ process known as Jrom the cily snouid take early steps to lacilitate SURFACE BLASTING, on undertaking in waicu the commercial interests vad O! tue Metropolis are sO cate counected, a6 first practised in this country by Maillefert, It 1s proper to state that General Newton 1s ably This suriace blasting consisted in simply placing sided in bis great work ny Captain Wiliam Hi. | ewer, corps of Assistant Engineers, assistant at peeceee oF eaeay oy ae bap the suriace of the | Hojcti’s Point, and Mr, Julius H, streidinger, as tocks and exploding them. This process was very sistant engineerin charge of the drilling scow, with successful at Pot Rock wiium certain limits, re- gangs ol mad heen Reticy hone foreign | " miners, under competent ies 0 prosecute moving the rock to a deptn at low water of about the work with energy and despate twenty feet. But it suoula be noted that the rock removed within those limits was more of the /orm * of@ square pillar, witn @ moderate base. The ARNIM AND Bi:MARCK. process of removal was rapid, until the reef was reached at a depth of eighteen or nineteen tect, | The Ex~Ambassador to France Denies Here the process became very slow and costly. the Rumors Concerning His Specula- The appropriation being expended nothing iur- tions om the Bourse. ther was done at this time. The following letter has been received by Herr ‘The merchants of New York subscribed about | Von Arnim Criewen, from his cousin Count Harry $14,000, and Congress appropriated $20,000 for tne | Arnim, in reference to his alleged speculations on prosecution of this work. | the Paris Bourse while acting as the Ambassador | GENERAL NEWTON COMMENCES WORK. | of the German Empire aud appears in the Preus- Under the light of these reports General Newton | siche Kreute Zetung:— oe re became convinced thut the scheme of improve- BALIN, NOV: T1916. imp! DEAR FRIEND—I sec that you are annoyed by menis therein recommended was no: extensive | the inventions of the newspapers recently pab- enough to fulfil the ovjects, aud that while it was Peper heme fete me oa aloe er | investigation- 9 vin e uecessary to remove those smaller rocks noted in | soeculutor on the Bourse. ‘nese siupiu state- the early reports 1t was likewise necessary to ex- | ments scarcely please mo any more than they do heme by the totai removal of | you; but who is getting themup?t Fura long beara gigas ede: a, cde 7 4 | time this calumny has been spreading 1n obscure + HALL BET's PORTE but privileged quarters, but Wituout my having Bnd the removal of what may be cglled the Middie | ever discovered a single fagisidney whom I) 2 g |} could cail to account for it. esides in | Aa pb Rect apes BIOOE motes te sii the present case the Jaw suit is diMcuit | Hen and Cnickens and Negro Head, emoracing 82 | enough to mainiain; the intention to calumniate | Area oi about aix acres, The cause of jormerre- me is eviden', but their dealing on the Exchange i ig not an act prohibited by the penal code. The | ports being limited ia their scnemo of improve- erson who speaks of My specuiations on the ments tu the removal o! the smaller rocks was UO- | jourse will aiso be able to allege that he has never doubtedly the littie Gevelopment that had been heard oF os He bad por eae ae me, but, on tie | 2 | contrary, he tas Irequently eulogizea me. br hocis eget, Arse eel Oughilattempt a bold reiutation of thts false. | See ee ee hood spread abroad by the press? That would We may state here that the proportion of the | prove nothing. fi ae is trae, oe the maa a who accuses me ot “dabbling” on the Exchange a Gines paensens to ‘he Seneret: SS ee eet piece oi gold for every cent that he could- prove I Focks would only Lave beea about two percent of fad made by such speculgtions. By so doing I tne bulk of Halett’s Pot and Middle Keef, Tne | shouid risk bg lor een { might on al . oie 10 procure with the product of my speculations { | Application of a superior process to that whieh | cod’ ea: on Good friday without breaking the had been in vogue was necessary to accomplish | pyjes of tue Church. the great additional result—viz., the removal of Hallewt’s Point and Middie Reef, There are now | This whole affair is a piece of infamy, and you | can, without any breach of politeness, affirm to | tue whole world tuat he who tirst staried this mean insinuation bad more regard jor the effect it TWO METHODS | would produce than for the truth of his state- | for the removal of rocks under water, One tsa | 00h. .2 Stock spechating that even after be rill from the sarlace of the water. A number of | fead tio words “report deport and’ primes, Disst poles are drilled in the rock, Whica are then have absolutely forgotten their sigaiticance, Who- | fillea With explosives aud the suriaco of the rock | ¢VeF Chooses ro interest himseli as to my fortune | bas only to go to sl. Hanseman, who has knowo broken up and the dévris afterward removed by my “condition” for upwards of twenty-4ve years, Taking, 1 the water is deep uround the real, or by | — Soins oe sheen than I ae rs ny this moment, to accounts verified, | Faising It to the suriate by menus of steam grap- | have ever deiaulted it certainly 18 Lot through the ples, or, again, by ioading buckets at the bottom by means 0. divers. For the purpose of drilling Banque a'Escompte, and I have frequently had to | overcome francis! embarrassment General seWtou invented what ts known ag the STEAM DRILLING SOREW. This machine cousists essentially o: a foat in the form 01 4 scOW, Waicl Das & weil bole in itof wirty- two ieet im diameter. The scow is very strongiy built, and, to procect it agaiust coillisi nich Ws ap inulspcebsa die Condition of its work! ia pro- tected by a guard or ove:hang, like @ monitor. cag beere esseutial part o: this machine pete dome of thirty icet in diameter, lurmed o! oviler iron, properly strengthened. nis dome is open atthe tne ds of @ general director who ‘“arms’’ und ttom and has eu aperture of tweive feet ndiam- | Operates them with a capital too sera for uny one eter at the top. The object of the dome, when it is | person to succeasiully compete with him. OD the bottom, 1s to fur. | ‘ale. HARRY, i oe rel id a The Herald and Count Arnim. the ariils in periorating tue rock. ine dome is algo juruishead Wita a namber of movadie legs at | The Allgemeine Zeitung, of Augsberg, in an arti- | @’Escompte, and which couid be eaaily traced, | ye That will depend upon the man who borrows his | | creased or Tam not aware, a3 yon seem to fear, that an; | em trom journals which direct ‘public opinion.” e | would be geen by the accounts in the Banque thing Will result irom these miserable caiumnies. Journais with us here are for the moment in | | its lower circumerence. The operation oi | these legs 18 a8 loLows:—When the dome Clé devoted to the liberation of Count Arnim on | ie not in use tue legs are triced up dall,says that the opinion it had formed some | Within the dome, apd are so arranged | days previousiy a8 to bis political” capacity and | mechanically that they can ali be tripped at once. Whea tie dome 18 lowered (which is done by four Chaids, synimetrically placed), tue moment it ap- general character had been confirmed by recent | | Public manifestations. ‘From ali sides,” says the Proactes contact with the rock, the legs are let | Zeitwng, “the telegraph has announced revela- | fence, beiore the part along Tremont ogee vont seeniene oe jacilitate | friend = of Saag Arnim has written to, rape gircwe Se aatie be supecoritet oe ue operation Of driliimg. The ariilengines are the New YORK ERALD, stating that the U) i Bupported on a frame work directly over the well | other than its present healibiul and pieasing pur- Dole. They raise the drils, which are previously | Superiority the Count showed in dealing | poses, Now | with the Churcn question bad go annoyed Prince | | Bismarck that bis passion had lea him into an act | of personal vindictiveness. Regarding the matter inserted ig tue drill tabes, and aiow them to Jali by tel own Qt pou the rock. During the Operation Of driiing, wud as the drili tubes are fixed in position, wile toe scow changes its reia- tive position somewhat by the operation o1 the | Mirly, Count Arnim’s friend has not done him a) carsents, the congection ‘between tae. dri | good’ turn, soe er ubsve. eivtainne cue dhen. engines’ aud tue drills must be by | enemies. tert ge pa Pent gs Bl ee tat meuus of w rope or other dexible attachments, | cellor capable of abusing Nis power to satialy per” | Yhe drill itself is a steel bar, weiguing | 800al vengeance. Besides, the so-called euperiority dor at Rome over Bismarck is which exists only in the minds of the ex-Ambi simply @ chime: about 700 or 40 pounds, the cutting edge o1 which is in the Jorm of u cross, Ihe millrevolves with a ‘ay i certain angie with every stroke. The drilingen- | Of the Counts irlends. Those who attempt tO gurrounded on tue occasion, and the presence of gines are provided with a leed gear to compensate ‘ce this conviction concerning his high pe | the police was required to keep the erawa at bay. With the rise aud Jail o. the tide. | Iso render him but poor service. Bis- | Ail cusses, sexes, ages and colors were repre- OPEKATION OF THE MACHINE. | given too many prools ee intelligence | geate he clergy and the mechanics and the When not wm use the dome is suspended in the aay Bot to smile with pity at all suck | iaborers and proiessors were ou hand in strong well hole o/ tue scow, all or nearly ail ot its sur- mie force. Among the celeviated men present face being above the Water, ihe scow 18 fist au. Chored in position with siX, sometimes wito eigut QOd suMetimes With fourteen anchors, depending Upon the strength of the curreut, the anchors Weighing irom 4,000 to 6,000 pounds each. The dome is then iet dowu to the bottom, the legs are let gO, \be arilis are introducec into tLe drill tabes, the rope couuections are made fast to the driil ines ubove and tae operation of drilling com. | Biences. Holes ol ve inenes in diameter ana irom | “On account of the extraordinary interest mant- | aeaaar inant seet im ag are heey fly & | fested in the Von Arnim aifair, we venture to pre- | eriod of tweive to Hfieen uours, The dome is en raised into the welluole oy the cuaius, the seitehituinice ee tert tame the blast noles, Which are charged with | the belief that the accusations have so Jar been | Von Arnim’s Personal Conflict with Bismarck. The Prewssiche Neue Kreutz Zeitung of Berlin recently published a lengthy articie concerning the Von Arniin affair, apparently from an intimate Iriend of the tmnperial ambassador, It says:— drilliug screw is removed /rom 100 tu 200 fee from | NITRO-OLYCERING | unsupported, and that an ultimate acquittal is | contained in long tin cylinders, which are placed | in the holies by S vers, tue wire connection lerne possible. By publushing this communication we then made With the electrical batteries ou the Bcow, and the explosion tien occurs. Tue charges ©! Litro-giycerine in these holes are viteu as much Qs flity or sixty poundseach. ‘Tne effect oF & dis- charge of ninereen holes driiled with the circum- ference ui the bottom of the dome is sufficient to break up the whole surface, au area of about 900 Bquaie leet, or veariy 10u square yarus. Owing to the great irreguiarity of (ne rocks it is seldom hecessary or possible to drill a full battery of holes for every portion ot the dome, THE SURVEY AT HALLETT'S POINT was commen the 28d of June, Colone! Joun chan (at present 0) tue Dock Lee partment im the city Board of Public Works), cannot be held to udge whether the suit is | Je-ai or otherwise.’ Frets communication {8 as | | foliows:— | “The comments of the press generally are based | upon the idea that tne documents which Count Arnim retnses to give up are oficial, and that he has no rigat to retain them. Count Arnim, tue: Say, las Dot toe right to declare the letters pri- ii the Foreign Office ares them oficia that the Foreign Ofice must be the sole judg ; @ in this matter, aud that if Count Arnim asserts hi Opinion in opposition to that of the Foreign OMce ne is liabie to punishment, The fact, how- ever, is quite different, Count Arnim by no means Aduits the subordinate and offictal character of ander the immediate direction of General News the aioresaid papers, He says simply, doce ton. By the end of September tn that year uments do uot béloug in the archives oi the em- the =muchinery (Burleigao’s drills, derricks, bussy, aud never have « Cota ki with them, and | &c.) were put in operation, ana were Iamof the opinion that | ought not to aeliver then worked by steam, bat since thea | them up, jor tney relate especialiy to my conflict | compressed air has superseded Dperations, as in the case of the Mt. poder the Alps initaly. ithe first operation was the sinking of tne vei tical shait which, was Oo! an area uf 100 by 180 feet. Frem this large suatt, Which reached nearly loity feet beneath mean low water mark, @ series Of tunnels radiated out the leuge Of rocks whici it was tue ouject The Maximum tunnel was 200 feet in ana vamed by courtesy “General Moviel- he Minimum tunnels were named severally “General Grant,’ “General Meade,’ “General ‘@”’ and alter other United states officers, | With tue Prince Chancellor, and the personal cuar- acter of the papers is so apparent that I feel bound to retain them for my own defence. Lf my position ts erroneous the Foreign Office cannot be both & | Judge and @ party to the suit; but the civil ‘authorities, or if that be Imadmissivie, a eaiust him by the Imperial | He saya:—‘l believe there papers belong to me. When it is proved that | am wrong they will be at Lhe disposition of the Foreian Office. * 9 2 docoments eld peither iM Violation of the la ention of the rutes of rvice. | m Qitered, damaged nor abridged; aciean shirt every day aud aid the insinuations ply the rigut o: possessin waich is Under | made by so well known a caterer to puvlic amuse- ued Jor the pai isp! | Gispute. “By invoking ‘ne law on its side the | meat and lor public patronage were 4 for. Ba we have Vefore stated, uitro-glycerine bus been | Foreign Ofice hee certainly surrendered ite Arst, depp its 1@.) ir. Guild then adverted to the claim the principal agent employed for that parpos®. Lt | absolute claim.’ | the Common sould give way to commerce, | whose waters were once derived from a living | “training flela.”” During 4 COMMON COMMOTION, | TERRIBLE EXCITEMENT IN BOSTON. Shall the Common Be Cut Up for Business Purposes? Poets, Authors, Editors, Actors, Merchants, Hod-Carriers and Other Great Men Engaged in the Fray. SIOUT PATRIBUS SIT DEUS NOBIE. | Boston, Noy. 17, 1874. Heeald such had brought mo: the Common was Historical ground, aud ag money fo the city thaa the | interest on 80 uch jand would bring. | | Why, the oid Hancock imausion would have | brougat money enough in to have paid | tor itself many times if it bad been allowed to stand as av oid landmark, ins'ead of being ruble | Jessly torn dowa. In London they have cousider- | able sentiment about historical localities, and they find it helps their city. It brings them money | rom curiosity seekers, and Boston certainly should have alittle, The Common was a neces- sity. Here you will see the men irom the press- room, the engine room and te mauuiactor! and they all enioy it, The poor man has a rr to express himself here for himselt and his chil- | dren, and.if they could give expression to the thougits and ideas which crowd upon their minds their arguments woula be conclusive. He was surprised to hear any Bostouian call # man a “bummer” because he enjoyed the Common, and he considered tne charge of insults to passers-by & mere point jor argument. The speaker did not believe that such @ state Ol things could exist under our police regula- tions. As far as ‘Punch and Judy shows,’ “gas-blowing,” apple stands and other means of earning a livelihood were concerned, he would simply Say tbat the widening of the street would Not result in driving these people away, but would only pusn them back. He ridicuied the statement | Boston {s threatened with civil war! Real war, | with gore flowing through the strecis, the | churches and school houses turned into hospitals, | and the air filled with the sad moans of the | wounded and dying, <A diabolical plot to seize the historic old Common for commercial purposes has | been planned and an attack made upon the wise Street Commissioners; and the ancient Solons of | the city—those who nave summered and wintered here tor a century or lesi re up in arms against | the bold invaders of the sacred territury. The throwlog overboard of the tea in 1773, the battle of Bunker Hill in 1776, the Burns riot, the war of the rebellion, the dedication of the great organ, the pandemonium jubilees of Gilmore, the big fire, the late political revolution—all these dwindle into utter insignificance when compared with the feeling which has been stirred up by the attempt to capture a portion ofthe old Common, to aid in the widening of I'remont street. Men, women and children are aroused, and the authorities are irightenea and dismayed at the serious and threatening aspect of affairs. Even General But- ler, as Communder-in-Chief of the State militia, is alarmed that he and his forces may be called into action {ithe invaders are not early intimidated by the popular voice of the people, and Mr. Wiard | 16 seriously contempiating getting his heavy guns on Nut Isiand into a position to bombard the town | in case actual hostilities are commenced, THE DISPUTED TERRITORY. In view of a probable war and in order that the readers ol the HERALD may fully understand what it 1g all about I will give a brief account of the territory which some propose fo occupy and whose occupation some others propose to resist, It 1s to be assumed at the beginning that every- body bas heard of Boston Common. Of course it is one of the most delightful promenades in the world. It comprises about seventy-five acres of land of variegated suriace, including the “Public | Garden,’ on the west side of the city. These | grounds are beautilully shaded by trees of various kinds, particularly the walis and walks which sur- round aud extend through the euciosure. Some of these trees were PLANTED A HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO, and there are more than 1,000 of them on the | ground. They consist of the English and American elm, maple, ash, lime, hornbean, button wood, &c., with @ solitary jingo, a native oi Java, There 18 only one other jingo in America, and that is in the Gooryard of the residence of a wealthy manufac- turer in Fali River. Tue larger proportion of tae trees onthe Common areelms. Near the centre of the charming spot is THE CELEBRATED FROG POND, | | \ | | | | | spring within itsown Losom, but are now sup- plied with the aqueous fluid of Lake Cochituate, | tn Natick, the home of Vice President Wilson. In | the summer season the youth of Boston gall toy ships across the placid surface, and the poodles of Beacon Hill playfully disport themselves among 1ts tiny billows, Oa the Fourth of July, 1874, an unknown man got drunk and fell into this irog ond and was drowned, and a journalist name: jarien dragged him out the next morning. The inquest was held by Coroner Foye, In close | proximity to this beautiful saeet of water stands a Majestic native elm, whose height 1s sixty-five Jeet and Whose brabehes xpread eighty-six feet | five inches. The initiais “G, W.,” sigalfying George Washington, are cus in the bark of this lofty elm—a circumstance denoting tuat tne Father of bis Country could back away at aneim as Wellasa cherry tree. The girth of this tree, two anda hall feet from the und, the point where Wasiington cut nis initials, is twenty-one feetand eight inches, Although this nobie elm bas withstood the oblasis of 150 winters | ite mind and body are sound and brawuy arms are apparently «8 hale and hearty asever. Upon arising eminence uear thie tree 1s a magnificent wooden structure, octagon in style, which is frequently resorted to by those who seek the Cummon for recreation on a pleasant | Moruing or aiternoon, In the southwest corner of the enclosure, near Governor Cliffora’s and ‘Mr, Folsom's railroad, is what {s known as the the period from May to October, inclusive, it is occupied by ball _playe! except wien interrapted by Luther Hoide Fourth of Jaly balloon ascension aud the annual election of the Ancient and Honorable artillery. In Ue corner near Park and Beacon streets is the «Brewer fountain,” which was presented to the city by Mr. Brewer on the condition that while playing the clear Cochituate it should be led the Brewer Jountain. In the winter it is carefully covered witn canvas. Along the Boylston street side for 2 considerable distance there is an ancient graveyard, and just east Of 11 & small space is fenced off tor the accom. modation of the innocent deer which were pre- ited to the cit y by the corporation of Philadel- ia some ye ince. It is related that on th occasion of the presentation both the committee giving and receiving, in behalf of their respective municipalities, got gloriously drank at the ex- euse Of Boston. All of this magnificent enclosure erewith described, except that part along Tre- mont streut, is surrounded by au iron fence. This ) | | \ / THE WaR OF VANDALISM has commenced and Bostonians are aroused, The infamous ieader tn the offensive movement 1s Moses Kimuail, an eniunent capitalist, a shrewd fiuancier, and an old and succes.iui showman. It ‘Was he who headed the petition for the widening of Tremont street by slicing of from the Com- monall the way from Park to Boylston street. Aiter the obnoxious petition had been presented to the Street Commissioners they assizned a di for @ pubilc hearing. The city Hall wae thed and were Dr. Oliver Wendell Hoimes, who will prob- | ably write & poem on the subjec: for the BRRALD, | Dr. Dio Lewis gave up his praying crusade against the rum deaiers o1 tne West and came on to be | heard, ana nearly all the ex-Mayors apd the | editors of the city were in attendance, DIPLOMACY OF THE INVADERS. The hearing o| the Wicked petitioners was frat in order, and then came the plaintive remon- strances 01 the outraged and indiguant muititude, The arguments of the petitioners were to the effect that the public demands of business reat juire the widening of fremont street, aud that sentiment | should not stand in tue way 01 improvements for business purposes. The demolisning of the old Hancock residence, the residence o: Webster and birthpiace Of Franklin as commercial necessities | were eloquently ulluded to as casesin point. Mr. Kimball made the chief argument tn javor of the project, and in hig remarks said that the Tremont gireet side of the Common was merely @ piace jor Punch and Judy shows, for the electric mun, id the seats ond amused themselves by insulting passing women, THE GENERAL OF THE OPPOSING FOROR is General Samuel M, Quincy, 4 direct descendant 0! old Jonah Quincy. ip his arguiwent he com- mented on the beauty of the Common, saying It does not belong to trade to bulid brick on brick, ethe rich richer, It does not compa! with the elegant park at a distance, t which pt ple can truudie tn Carriages. It is the poor man’s Common. it is ior the enjoyment of everybody. He quoted an opinion of Jere/uiah Mason, given ib 2 ating that the Oity Council had no law.ul ty vo seli the land in question ior any other than the uses to Which it was dedict yu can be put into a street th city can legaliy put the whole Common into streets, stoue and buildings, Whether this land a 18 & question which will probably be given to Supreme Court to. ecide. ) A BENTIMENTAL SPEECH. Curtis Guild, eaior 01 tne Commerctal Bulletin, replied to the argument o1 Mr. Kimbali a * every poor iellow Wuo couldn't afford to Wear | nue, are holding a jair to aid in discharging a debt | thodox Jews. the and | & that the Common was waste land, and closed by declaring tuat the people o! Boston could not atford to spare a square inch of its public parks. TH) SITUATION. ‘The present situation 1s precarious, and the cominunity awalts with ieverisn aoxiety the de- | termination of the powerful Board of Street Com- missioners. If the old Common 18 to be cut aud slasied it will pot be without a desperate struggie | of re tance, and those wno go ito the war lor ite m: enance wil inscribe upon their battle. flag the motto of the city:—‘sicut patribus 8 Deus nodis’—As God was with our Jathers, may He be with us.’’ CHURCH FAIRS. ‘The fair at St, Stephen’s Roman Catholic church, the proceeds of which are to be applied to the re- duction of the church debt, will terminate on the evening of the 21st inst. ‘The ladies’ fair for the benefit of the new St. Bernard’s church has been in success{ul operation | for several Gays past in the hail of the church, West Fourteenth street, between Eighth and Ninth avenues, The supply of fancy articles is almost unlimited; but, aside irom the opportunity | presented of purchasing holiday presents, it isa charming place to spend a sociable evening. The bazaar which was opened for tne benefit of the St. Francis Hospital, No. 609 Fifth street, will end witn the present week. On the lith | inst, the drawing for 2,000 valuable prizes, to be distributed among ticket-holders, and which | | proved one of the chief atiractions, was com- menced. Financially the bazaur has proved emi- nently successful. The fair now being held in the Dominican Church of St. Vincent Ferrer, on the corner of Lexington avenue and Sixty-sixth street, is inthe | fall tide of its prosperity. The object is to raise | sufficient funds to pay for an organ, which !s now im the process of construction. The fair 1s most | complete in its arrangements and appointments, | Everything possible to enable the visitor to passa | pleasant hour has been provided. Music, billiards, juMeboard and shooting gallery, together with tavles loaded with jewelry, bijouterie, oli paint ings, oratories, &c., are among the attractions. There are five tavies, each one being under the supervisory control of one of the clergymen. The Jair will continue for ten days longer, The ladies of the Churen ot Our Saviour (Uni- versalis!), Filty-seventh street and highth ave- of $40,000. The pariors of the churen have been elegantiy decorated, and the display oj rich fancy goods 1s most elaborate and com- plete. ‘here 18 a flower stand, presided over by two charming young ladies; a fountain covered with eXotics, which scatiers periumes; stanis laden with jadies’ garments, With gentiemeao’s iuroishing goods and With baby clothes, anu bootns filied with bon-bons. “There ‘Was au old woman who lived 1 ashoe,’’ says the nursery royme. She, her shoe and her torty children nave Leen secured for the ian. A Punch and Juay show furnishes amusement tor the iittie ones, The restaurant, witch 1s not tue least attrace tion, is a model of cleanliness, aud is well worth a pee The Jair will be continued as long as prac- cable. Afair under the auspices of the ladies of the Caourch of the Holy innocents will shortly be opened and will continue up to the Ubristmas holidays. The first fair of the ladies of the Church of St. Agnes, in East Forty-third street, near Tuird ave- nue, is being heid in Croton Hall, over Croton Market, in Forty-second street, between Lexing- | ton and Fourth avenues. The hall is open trom | four P.M. until ten P.M. The proceeds are ior the benefit of the church, LADY WASHINGTON TEA PARTY. 4& Novel Entertainment for the Benefit of the Brooklyn Maternity. ALedy Washington tea party upon a very grand scale, illustrative of the social life of the “court circles’ in the earliest days of the Republic, will take place at the Biooklyn Academy of Music, next Tuesday evening. Tne event has been looked forward to with most pleasurable antict- pation by belles and beaus of the vnurchly city for long weeks past and will, indeed, in- | angarate the festive season in the interest of a most wortby charity. The auditorium of the Academy will be floorea over and carpeted, and the decorations will be appropriate and el2- gant. The republican court of Washington will be reproduced as nearly as possible, tne character oi General Washington and | his revered wife being represented by & wellgnown philanthropic couple. The “Continental” style of dress wil) be worn so far ag practicable, and the uniform of the Hartiord “Phalanx” has been borrowed for the occasion. Costumers are busy also in pleparity outits for the tea party. Officers of the army, navy and National Guard are expected to wear their full dress unliorm, Upon a platiorm raised on the leit band side of the auditorium the General ana her ladysnip will be stationed, and the guests will be introduced to them by ushers ag they encer. On thirteen tables, pamed jor the origimal States of the Union. will be spread a bountiful repast of tea, coffee, oysters, chicken salad, sandwiches, biscuil and cakes of every description. Bapper will be served from seven till twelve o’¢lock, when the band will play “Home, Sweet Home.’ Dancing will be continued from nine to midnight. About thirteen hundred tickets, at $5 each, have thus far been disposed of, and it is expected that 2,000 persons will be present. The receipts will ve de- voted to the maintenance of tne Brooklyn Ma- | ternity, one of the most deserving of the charita- ble institutions in the city. Among the ladies on the Reception Committee are:—Mrs. Willlam 0, Kingsley, Mrs. A. B, Bayliss, Mra. Jasper W. Gil- bert, Mrs, S. B. Chittenden, Mrs, A. 3. Barnes, Mrs, J. 8. T. Strananan, Mrs. A. W. Beccher, Mrs, Franklin Woodrud, Mrs. Henry A. Moore and Mrs, General Slocum. FUNERAL OF MR, MIOHABLS, The funeral of Jacob L. Michaels, Senior Grand Warden of the Grand Encampment of Odd Fellows of the State of New York, took place yesterday af- terndon trom his late residence, No. 238 Seventn street. The body had been prepared for the grave | in strict accordance with tne customs or the or- | At the head of the coffin, which was | placed in the back parlor, stood a burning taper, | while @ bowl of water, @ towel and an upturned chair was placed beside it, At haif-past twelve | o'clock the different lodges and societies of which Mr. Michaels had been a member began to arrive, and sooi the entire block between avenues O ani D was filled with mourners, who, passing in by the iront door, filed past the remains, which looked quite 1. ke, and leit by the basement door, The funeral was in charge of Worshipiul Bro Goodheart, of Dirigo Lodge, No. 30, nd Marshal. 1,000 men ol which he was € habiliments were eat implest design, ia accordance with the te je Jewish iaith, THE TUGBOAT LILY EXPLOSION, Yesterday morning Mr. Matthews, United States Local Inspector of Steam V. is, went to Bellevue | Hospital and took the deposition of John Hogan, the freman of the tugboat Lily, which was blown | up of Hell Gate in tne East River last Tuesday | afternoon, Hogan, it may be remembered, ta suf- fering from a compouna fracture o1 the leg. He gamitted that the boiler bad been worked up to a preswure of eighty pounas to the square inch, al- | though the permit issued by the steamsnip inspec- | tors allowed only a pressure of seventy-Nve pounds. The following 18 @n abstract of the sworn state- ment 01 the engineer :—"1 have to report that at three o’clock and twenty minutes on Tuesday afternoon last, the 17th day of Novemver, while coming through Heli Gate, Kast River, with a | schooner in tow, loaded with lumber, tne boiler of | the tugboat Lily expioued, by which three persons lost their lives; 1 was acting as engineer at the time; there was @ pressure of seventy-six pounds on the bolier when the explosion took place; there Was no glass to the water-cock.” r. Will be re-examined shortly, thore W Ww the expiosion, by toe jo ‘no tl ‘4 te he Lily wa tbo | tivoP ia ti MX years vid and of twenty-five tous bur iF Doller Was abapected on the | | of the pante of inst fal ; floor; first story halls and diningroom wainscoted. | the 27th ult. REAL ESTATE. |-Novel Offering of Six Elegant Brown Stone Frout Houses Up Town. Attention was called @ short time since ip these columns to the character of downtown building improvements as illustrating the unshaken conf. dence which, rising above the ephemeral incidents of @ panic, our people have in New York real estate in’ ments. Further proof of this could be adduced trom the record of uptown improve. ments, which, differing from those down town in that the latter are for business uses and those up town for residences, have yet in tneirdae propor tlon the same solidity, the same suostantiality and the same air of being built to last not one generation alone but many. These BUILDING IMPROVEMENTS UP TOWN, like those down town, have gone on in spite being not confined merely to the immediate demands of current in- quiry but preparing to meet later a greatly in- creased want. Hence 1t 1s not a matter of sur- prise that with the frst signs of reviving cond- dence in busines, so marked during the last couple of weeks—in fact, since the result of the recent elections seemed, whether with or without reason {t matters not, to lit a great incabus of diMidence, distrust and torpor off the shoulders of the nation and give promise of a new depar- ture in financial and commercial circles—to find already offerings of elegant up- town dwellings inviting investment. Anong these may be cited six clegant new houses, com- prising four houses on the north side of East Forty-fourth street, between Fifth aud Madison avenues, being Nos, 3, 5, 9 and 11, and two houses on the south side of Hast Fifty-soventh street, be- ing Nos. 18 and 20, between the same avenues, As everybody is not familiar with what constitutes an elegant New York mansion in the sense spoken of above, 4 SHORT DESCRIPTION, IN THE NATURE OF AN IN- VENTORY, of the advantages these possess may be of inter- est. hus the four houses on Forty-fourth street are here referred to, All of the masons’, car- penters’ and cabinet-makers’ work has been | done under the personal supervision of the | architects, by their own men, The hall | partition walls are of brick from cellar | to roof; the floors double and deafened with thick felt paper. all of the plumbing done by gay’s work, Basin slabs of statuary marble, ana china wasn-basing of decorated patterns, Mirrors over Wash-basins, Stairs of hardwood from bare. ment to top floor; wardrobe work of hard wood; bathrooms fitted up with sard wood. Hinges and fittings to those portions trimmca with hard wood of oronze metal. The houses are heated by @ patent moist warm air wrought iron furnace, Hot air registers up to fourth floor, | Speaking tubes on each floor leading to kitchen, also tube from basement entrance to kitchen. Front door bell rings at fourth story, as well as kitchen; street washer provided at side of stoop; linen closet and housemaid’s sink and closet to each house. Coal bins and shelved wine room fitted upin cellar; billiard room in basement, The basement Hall and first floors finished in hard woods, part polished and part finished with a dead gloss, Elegazt conso) mirror and frame in parior; hard wood mantels in basement, first and second floors; stationary marble mantels on the third Waste pipes are provided for reirigerators. These houses are to be disposed of after A SOMEWHAT NOVEL METHOD IN THE REAL BSTATR MARKET, , viz., somewhat after the fashion in which the government sells its goia or the Comptroller the city’s bonds. Sealed bids will be received up to a certain date—viz., noon of Tuesday, November 24— when the bids will be opened and the several houses awarded to the highest bidder. The bids, however, must exceed a certain upset price, placed upon them by Messrs. Duggin & Crossman, which they claim to be greatly below the figure at which the lots could be purchased and similar houses built at this time. This reservation as well as the published estimate of the owners, con- cerning the real value of the houses, gives a pe- cullar interest to this manner of approaching the market, putting itin the light of an experiment which may or may not be extensively followed, should it prove s. cceasful, THE MKENNA MURDER, About twenty ofthe witnesses who gave teastl- mony before Coroner Woiltman in the McKenna murder case met the Coroner last evening by ap- pointment at the Twenty-first precinct station house for the purpose of signing their aepositions, which had been written out by the official steno- gtapher. As the evidence of the other wit. ne 1s completed they also will be notified to Meet the Coroner at the station house and sub- scribe to their aM@davits. James O’Brien, who did not meet the Coroner at the police station on Wednesday evening yesterday called at the Cor- oners’ Ofice and completed his testimony by afix- ing to it his signature. Stephen O’Bries, a brother of the wbove, was also at the Ooroners’ Ofice, but was requested to call at the station house last evening, a8 his testimony was not then written up, The Croker-O’Brien Case. The case of Croker vs. O’Brien, for assault and battery, which was sent down irom the Yorkville Police Court to the Special Sessions, was to have been tried at that Court yesterday, buton account of the non-appearance of the deiendant and com- a the case was adjourned until the frst ‘ueaday in December. OORONERS! CASES. Coroner Woltman yesterday held an inquest in the case of Thomas Burns, a boy eleven years of age, Who received fatal injuries on tue 30th uls. by being acciaentally knocked down by a team of horses attached to alager beer wagon, driven by z Joseph Beinheiser. The accident occurred between | Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth streew, in Ninth avenue. Charles Wieth, a man who was accidentally in- jured on the 28th ult., died yesterday morning in the Park Hospital. Coroner Woltman was called to hola an inquest on the body. Shortly before tweive o'clock yesterday morn- ing George Feigal, living at 110th street and Tenth avenue, while excavating, corner of Ninta avenue and 110th street, found a box containing the skele- ton of an infant. The remains were sent to the Morgue and Coroner Kessler notified, Yesterday afternoon Coroner Kessler held an in- quest in the case of Patrick Dunne, a boy, seven years of age, recently of No, 243 Mulberry street, ‘Whose death was caused by the kick of a horse on Alter listening to the testimony the case was submitted to the jury, six of whom found that the kicking was acci juror dissented, and in his verdict censured the he horse for allowing him to be led by all boy through the streets, tal, but the seventh | } 4 BRUTAL HUSBAND, Acase Ofassault and battery was called yester- day morning, at the Court of Special Sessions, which in its progress developed into a sickening narrative of brutal treatment, Louisa Mader ap- peared against her husband, whom she charged ‘with havitval violence toward her, Louisa wasa poor cripple, with a humpback, who has borne her husband, William Mader, the prisoner, three chil- dren, She swore, when put on the stand, that her husband took advantage of her crippled con- dition and every time he went home abused and Maltreated her in ashameful manner, She dis- layed cuts on her arms and face which she said villiam had made with his boots. About two weeks ago he went to her room and dragged her three children from her and put them !nto the Five Points mission school as paupers, The | little ones, she said, became nomesick, and have | been in the hospital ever since, Jf the Judge would only make him vring back the little ones she would not usk to have him punisned. n an- swer to the Judge’s inquiry as to how she would be able to do without hig support, she sald, “He has never supported me, up and I have tne little ones I will be able to do sewing and otner work, which I could take now if 1 had not to be in bed nail the time suffering from his avuse.” The husband, who 1s @ waiter, said that he had never beaten her, and that she was continually drunk. He acknowledged that he nad been sen’ Up three months jor avusing ber, and also chat he had to give bonds for her support ac Essex Market Police Court. ‘ihe Judges decided to d nim up for three months mure, and as Real's the oourt- See aald to bis Wife, “i'll S% you when age, and tf he is locked | | CRIME IN THE COAL FIELDS, Horrible Deeds of the Molly Maguires. Women Outraged in the Streets. Attempted Destruction of a Citizen’s House with Powder. Mauanoy Orry, Pa., Nov. 18, 1874, Since the denunciation of Molly Maguirism by the Catholic clergy the members of that terrible secret organization have becomingly determined to perpetrate still more flagitious crimes, purposely to terrorize the communities where the priests who denounced their outlawry reside and officiate. Not a day passes but some new wand iright{ul diabe olism 1s committed, and the law-abiding and re spectable citizens are becoming more than ever alarmed for the salety of their lives and property. Recently Daniel Dougherty, the notorious Molly Maguire who murdered Chief Burgess Major, waa removed from here to the Schuylkili County Jatlat Pottsville by OfMficera Stauder, Lamberson and Leittenberger, The Molly Magui: ened @ rescue anda general massacre of gl op- posing them, crowded the | armed tothe teeth, but were checked from in eugurating @riot by the presence of the Shamo kin Guards—a large body of troops—whicn had been telegraphed for by the authorities, Dough erty has been tried, the Vourt finding 4 TRUE BILL against him for murder. Since that time the ex- citement has visibly increased among the danger ous classes in Schuylkill county. The Moilies in and spout Mahonoy City loudly assert they will destroy the town and everybody in it if he Is convicted. A prominent clergyman, who has been particularly severe in his condemnation of the party or par- tles, under Dougherty, implicated in the assassina- uon of Burgess Major, has received a notification to leave the place, while others, who deprecated the flagrant operations of the outlaws, have been the recipients of Ku Klux notices, warning them to beware, as they will meet with @ speedy and dreadiul death if their denunciations are con- tinued. The people, apprehending tnat @ bloody and extended riot 1s soon to occur, are arming themselves tor THE EXPECTED CONFLIOT. In all sections of the Middle Coal Fields of Schuyikill county does the lawlessness previ and thrilling accounts reach here o! the ieari atrocities perpetrated by the red-nanded despera- does, A frightful and sanguine outbreak occurred at Larrigan’s Patcn, in this region, on Saturday night. One mau was Killed outright, his body being periorated with shots and stabs and presenting &@ horribly disfigured 8p earance. Several others of the contesting Mollies were seriously, if not fatally, wounded. Previous to the above occurrence Josepn Mc@laughiin shot Frank Shevlin at Mount Laffee. During Saturday night Robert Gardner stabbed Henry Fisner near the “slope” of Mitler, Graem & Co., Lower Ranch Creek, ‘The Molly Maguires, having penetrated to the upper Lenigh region, ‘ave already committed yarioas atrocious acts, and the citizens Ivar that horrors similar to those enaciea during the well remembered “long strike’ are to pe perpetrated again. A most dustardly attempt was made te biow up @ house with powder, at Hazleton, on ‘Tuesday night, The building, which is situated on North Wyoming street, 18 a double block, the occupants being Thomas Morgan and Jona McMaster, Both men are noted for betug quiet and inoffensive and their families respectable and orderly. The fiends who attempted this terrible outrage went about thelr work Syatemacically, showing they were acquainted with mining ex .oding operations. ‘They deposited a keg of ieavy proof powder in the cellar of Morgan Douse, in such @ manner as they expected would compass the demolition of the structure, and then by means of a fuse, ignited the blast. A GREAT EXPLOSION occurred, which shaitered the giass inside and outside the building. The house was raised, bul settled into ts former position after the concu® sion, Mr. Morgan, who was in his apartment at the time, was Iiited from the floor and thrown violently against the ceiling and received slight injuries. The house was badly damaged; but, fore tunately, no one but Mr. Morgan was hurt. This is the second attempt made to destroy the premises. Mrs. Morgan was sick in bed, she having been con- fined on Saturday. The Molly Maguires per- formed a similar deed during the “long strike” at Mount Carmel, only in that case a dying man was blown to atoms. THE BRIGANDS are piyin their nefarious trade in Luzerne county, Where they roam unmolestedly. On Sune day Michael Kearney, a miner employed by the Lackawanna Iron and Coal Company, was found the base of an eighty foot embankment between | the Delaware and Hudson and Lehigh and Susquee banna railroads, at the foot of Scranton, horribly mutilated and breat his last. He was carried to the hospital, but died ime mediately aiter his reception. 6 ghey is that he Was fret murderously assaulted and then thrown down the embankment to conceal the crime. This is anotuer added to the many mys ous assassinations now recorded in the immort Ristory of Scranton. The law-vreakers are st despoliing women upon the principal avenues of Scranton. A few evenings since ® young lady, @ Stranger im the City, while on her way to tue Lehign and Susquehanna depot, was bru: tally assaulted. After her despoliasion the outlaws were about to add murder to their crime when the victim’s piercing shrieks brought to her age aistance a number ot the employés of the Morning Republican, whereupon the fiends fled. The Molly Maguire McGuire, wno slaughtered ten McKinney @ short time ago at Parsons, if jeading ‘4 BAND OF ORGANIZED DEPREDATORS at Pine Brook, but no attempt has been made by the authorities for his capture. Andrew Lenahan, the assassin of Captain Join Reiley, at Wilkes- barre, 1s also reported to be the chief of a horde of Mollies in the Schuylkill region, with nis hi Peri Me! near Mahanoy Plain, @ dark, loneso: elf in the Broad Mountain, just above here. influence of these malefactors is so great tat t law officials are seemingly powerless to effect their arrest and tucarceration, Elsewhere in the coal country the outlawry is great. From the Clarion county bituminous work. 1ng comes the intelligence of the perpetration of muon diavolism in thutregion. On Sunday night ten Moliies took possession of the Evangelical chureh in the township of Farmington, and reiused to permit the congregation to leave the building alter the conciusion oJ the services. When remon- strated with they responded with the most vile @buge against the church and people. On Mon night a larger force visited the cuurcn and mai BU indiscriminate and murderous attack upon ti worshippers with pistols, clubs, bludgeons favorite weapon with the Molly Maguires), ston and other death-dealing things. A numbel of the congregation were seriously wounded, and at last accounts some of them were momene arily expected to die. ‘The RINGLEADERS OF THE MOB are sald to be Thomas Nee! d John Gilfillan. These miscreants are ho doubt some of those who recently went trom Schuylkill county to the ee part of the State, Where miners’ strikes were in progr It is understood that among the Italian coll now workiug in the Pennsylvania mines there a Members oi the Italian secret organization known as the ‘‘Accoltellation” (cutthroats), and the Molly Maguires are reported to have taken an oath t¢ exterminate them, Since it has been announced that the coal combl- nation has deermined to reduce the miners’ wage al toeir December meeting in New York there a some manuestations Oo! dissatisfaction among the workingmen, a3 it was generally supposed tne epcrent wages would be continued tnrough 1876, 'he representative journals o/ the coal regions, in speaking of the subject, particularly the Miners Journal, advise the colliers not to strike a the proposed decrease, but to watch that the reduc Won is not Made too much, Although no defluite action has, as yet, been adopted by the working: men in regard to tpe matter, from what I cap Jearn in official circies there 13 & very strong prob- ability Of a “stand-out” being inaugurated about January L. THE COAL MONOPOLISTS nave immense quantities of anthracite fael piled Up at the various seaward ports wad in the proe ducing centres. The so-called leader of the combl- nation, the Philadelphia and Readiug Ratroad Company, has more than 200,000 tons now stacked In its Various depots, 128,000 tons alone lying at Port Richmond, Philadeipnia, The coal supply it being rapidly shortened. The decrease, so iar thif month, 18 33,236 tons, and lor the year 860,961 tons A twenty-five per cent reduction in tne Neder, has just gone into effect, while shippers Sarong a inden street, 3 out the coal fields have received structions to curtail shipments at once There is no truth in the report that the price of coal will tail in eee out, on the Con trary, the present figures will possibly be ad- vanced, The spring, however, may show @ de- cline in prices. ‘tne combiuauionists havi ranged their pla jo an elevation of whole at any time at the exp and easily swindled pubite. At Will not be long before tne retailers in the citi Will be jorced, thiougi the agenvy of the operator aad carrying companies, to raise their prices dollar or two, ‘hose dewiers Who do not come to vhe terms ol the ring and do not exact extortion ate rates from the consumers are made to feel the ion level of Oppression acutely in various ways, but more especially ip shortened supplies, the cara being held back tn the region, the Lg ee | Blue by the unscrups ous combination tI aupply Of trains is shox, ar