The New York Herald Newspaper, November 25, 1874, Page 4

£ NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, | alter we Nad fred the salute,” y LOS? AND GAINED. As the Seventh last month took the trouble to Walk down to the Battery, on the occasion of their semi-centenniel, and the veteraus of the commend hh hoisted the old tegmental fag ou the stad, tt ts Hot likely that it Will, as a body, do any of the | houors to-day, At ail events, velevrativn or DO , celebration on the part of the regular militia, every | American, good, bud and tndiderent, can Console | bunseit with the thought that there Ss an | Evacuation Day long ago that was celebrated | im @ jason that was nov ultagether to fhe king of Dame Britannia, and that in ail probability had | dt not been sor that sudden getting out of harm's | way o/ our old Euglish cousins we would ali of us | to-Gay be dukes, marquises, caris or barovets of How the English Marched Ont and the | some kind, compelled to Jaugd and grow tat at other people's exp . ms ” | year having a primary election or getting elected Americans Marched In Again. | to the Board of Aldermen. THE REFLUX OF EMIGRATION. Ninety-one years ago to-Gay the lish, Who | ———»——_$—— at one period during vwheir unpMMsant stay | yore Returning to Tham Coming from on this side of the great duck pond came Europe—Sale of the German Lloyd’s very near whipping our pious forefathers outof steamers. their well patched boats, were by force of a little | circumstance, over which they had no manner of control, compelled to step out ot Gorham, at during this fall more German people have re- bie more to retarn in full Preis turned to their native jand than have come Lng o though, strange as it may seem, | these United States within the same perio present in the elty any well injormed person who reporter of the HERALD inquired of the Consul bad the happiness of bidding the red-coated gentry | (onorai tor the German Empire, Mr. Hinkel, the ®giad goodby when they took to their boats Of | C1y.os or this phenomenon. Mr. Hinkel rephed the Battery trom whom @ thoroughly reliable a-ha: the causes were mataral enough. “Bad count of the maguidcent “taking of” of the Brit- | jo,» saig ne, “4m this country are diiving thou- ‘shers can be obtained, yet enough can de gleaned snag pack who bad any little money to spare, from the personai nistories of the doings 804 | piey can live so much cheaper in Germany and Sayings on that day to know that there W@3 | tne passage money over 1s 80 much less than “a igh old time” all round town, and that | usual that itpays toreturn, A man who bas the temperance people were, as usual, made | O11 9 jew pundred dollars saved and 1s EVACUATION DAY. Ninety-first Anniversary of the Britis Departure from New York. THE DAY AS IT USED TO BE. annals of emigration from Germany to America to wonder why It was that most men when they oor gr employment cannot live long here on such | fee! particularly good about anything come to the | savings, but in Germany the case is different, vonelusion that @ taste of brandy and water Onegin the amonut necessary in America to makes themu feel a great deal better, It Was made | carry g man over tue winter Will sufiice for him in Bgetieral noliday, by Common COnsSN#, 1s seenis, Germany. Then there ls more and better empioy- and the authorities made the most of it In getting ment at home than ever beiore. ap an uposing procession, and they gotit UP OR | LReporreR—Is there any truth for the state- such a graud scale, (00, that tae gentlemen in red ment that the German government bag inter- Who Wanted to go home no doubt fel that 1t WAS for.4 tocneck rhe tide of emigration? alter ail # much easier aud pleasanter thing io be | CONSUL GENERAL—Noue at all. There is hardly RERED OEY OF SEN | @tamily la Germany but has some relative or by Americans than it Bad been for them to get | s-quaintance in this country. An extensive cor- into a town without American invitation, Butit respondeace is, of course, always going on, aud must be confessed that the glories of the day seem | th. Germans at this side bave only uplavoravie to bave become dimmed to the eyes of the patriots reports to send back, Then, all those who lave Sr the present by the achievements of the late | returned auring tue year have taken home vad war. Before that little unplesantness broke im | #ccoUuts, and in thal way every lie village and apon us and raised tne price of stage fares, REPORTER—it has been said that the imperial Joublea breasted overcoats aud horse feed, government, to tab Pidaae dake’ bas called out jt was religiously celevrated by the people | Oe ee lay agen Unanie cat: renerally as a grand and memorable occasion, tain age a law Ol old standing permits a native of We have militiamen who, like Job’s war horse, Germany to go wheresoever he pieuses; but when smelt the battle from afar, and the firemen, who | ue reaches the term of jie that his services to tie sed to run with the machine before horses were country in @ military capacity are demanded he must notiy the authorities and give satisfactory \ntroduced as @ lively part of the Fire Department system, never allowed the day to pass without a | reasons lor emigrating. The law is ap old oue, though pervaps it muy be a littie more strictiy en- grand parade, which gave the old women food enough jor lorced now than it used to be, Leaving the Consui General the reporter called on Mr. schwibe, of THE NORTH GERMAN LLOYD'S LINE of steamers between this port and Bremen, threw all the maie youngsters just emancipated | “ Re poxreR—is it true, Mr. Schwabe, that in cone Tom their petticuats into a war fever for a month | sequence of the falling of in emigration irom Ger- aud turned the back kitemen of many a peaceful | Many your company is compelled to sell half its household ito a recruiting depot for a score or | Bet of vessels 4 WHOLE WEEK'S GOSSIP, Mr. SchWabE—To a certain extent I believe two of juvenile military companies. Even the | there ts joundation for the statemant, though we great mass of the people, it Will be remembered, | bave not mabey mere Sreeanely Jouaee observed the day as a hal! holiday, and storekeep- | year it happens there has veen a large falling of ers, Whose love for the old Nag and the American | in treignts. ‘Ihe crops in Europe nave been singu- le, Whose shriek bad go of ven the | iarly abundant, and there is less required in the om . a rs tot bas - x! bieadstull jine irom tis country. Emigration, loreigners atrophy, Was Mot to bestified by love | oo, nas fallen off. With all thas, however, there 1s of money-making, allowed thelr clerks @ leave | uo pressure on us to sell any oo eacrerse Four { absence, But, a8 has been said, ry | Vessels im all may be disposed of. hese are old = , _— p ey abe tipple and more or less vf an ancient model. Orders are to Lave change: ali tis, and it 18 bighiy probable ) ont ror the constiuction oi other steamers, wnica that the neading o! this arucle will be to thou- | is good proo! that we nave no fear of the future, sauds who have a vivid recollection of the old | ie seporter sone cae Frey wiih Yea ‘Gis 5 a i ler: time Way of doing honor to the occasion the first | mans, but also the irish and ngiish, this decrease reminder that the 26th of November is rather | im emigration is observable. A great many Bnz- more (ban au ordinary day in the calendar for | a Ace Revarning tee Pperneey tie amas a Americans in general and New Yorkers 1 partic- | mand and wages are up to the highest standara ular. JWo years ago an effort was made to revive | over attained. A strong temptation to return 1s @ hersi interest iu the day, and to that end the | the very iow rate ol passage. Which in some cases Seveuth regiment (Uived out, warcoed Over th | hag peen knocked down to $10. The Baltic, leav- groune che procession 01 Diucly-sue Years A¥O 18 | ing on saturday last, and in such a season as this, wald lo have passed over, and finally marched up | With as wany as 370 passeugers for Liverpool, is broadway ana then marched down again, | air 3 in company with the First Peunsyivania | ey Wa eenare” aa aie. going tack | iS ae ee aeecieiaeee ‘hate Stoves | 1 Buch large numbers come from all parts of the | certs for. tue day, the servant girls, who were | Union, Very may hati irom the Western States, where the ravages of the grasshoppers have ‘eid misery and destitution among the larming 8. ‘The falling off in the irish emigration may be put aown to just such causes aé have been meDiioned in regard to German emigration. CHILDREN’S AID SOCIETY. of duty anu tue youngsters whose mammas be- | lieved them Sale at scuool. But the efiort, souie- | bow, did not arouse any of the old time entiu- | Bas, a0 So last year, ajithongb ikere Was a cer. | tain kind of a demoustration, (he oid iukewarr- | ness Sef asain. Tere seems no iikelinood that | there will be to-day any Celebration worthy of the daue. The veterups of 1312, bowever, wilido ther best to keep Cle event iresh in the minds or | 4 the people, and — be uined and wined — | Annual Meeting of the Trust expeuse o! one of the city regiments after a short | parade. From ail accounts tue evacuation, agit | Toe annual meeting of the Children’s Aid actually took Be Lalas ao interesting Society was held at the Metropolitan National business to everybody but the aniortumate gea- day . Mr. Boot Hewen wuo couid'at, lor tue lle 01 them, bear to | Denk yesterday aiternoon. Mr. William A. Booth, Dear tha: hovfid alr of “Yankee Doodse,”’ which | tue President, presided, and the Secretary, Mr. 0. obe Of them bad co. posed withtue malicious pur- L, Brace, flied his accustomed position. Mesars. Benjamin J. Howiand, Howard Potter, pose oO! Upsettina the equauimity of our patriotic ¢ graudacuers, aud “es G@BEAT-CRANDMOTHERS. E, P, Pabbri, Theodore Roosevelt and Alexander anion con bei ary one to #0 Into eer to Van Renaseiser were elected trustees in the place jo tae Various Was Bld peace measures Whic! had ‘pired, ludueed tae Lritisvers to take their ieave ior | 0! *ose whose terme of office pi eae country wore conducive tu Eugush ivogevity; but | B.C. Van Cott was also elected a trusted in’place eee ee of the exact Seeee bind of Mr, M. f, Huot, deceased. ay Wl be ©. ipLerest to tue gene! reader. ss One of the live.y chrouiciers oO; the time, WhO, DO | ine SEER Tepe E tren prenvmres ur way Scere doubt, judging irom bis brilliant description of | tary and gives a very favorable exhibit of the con- the eo the departure and the Vigor of his | ditton of the society. The receipts for the year alyle of wrtitg, wust have been the HERALD re- | amounted 10 $224,480, of Which $1,057 remaina in forter par excellence O1 ui8 vay, States that the tye treasury, starung pot ol the military procession was Har- | ‘Tne roils; the schools this year show 10,238 lem, the iine of march beg thence to the names, a gain over last year o! 704; and the aver- “Bowerse lane,” Wuere the troops took up their age attendance, 2656, ad against 3,477 of last year; dvsiiions, General Kuox being in command. He gain, 70. The cost oi maintaining the tpirty-iour duds That ‘4a Re Meantime the citizens, Whi | schools for tue last year is as follows, viz. — » LegUu to imong the thoroughfares, | vent ot rooms ituess the departure of their couuiry’: Salaries of supe: les aud io participate in the joyous excrement | Food, clothing, of the occasio About tem ofviock un Ameri. rintendent and eighiy-six teachers 342u2 uel, &¢., &c ~ 19,052 cub gilard relieved the Lbritisn guard at | Total. . oo “ Vue Lily Prisop (the present Halli of Records) } This agg! , divided among the 3,556 pupils. who «cre then Ou purade on Broadway, and who | shows the annual cost of each one to be but Wheeled iuio piatvous aud marched down LroaGway to whe Latlery, wuere they embarked | $19.83! inclnding not only salaries, but cloth ior | Trments, sbor aroitar 101 coal, and ih boats aud Went on Vourd their ships, then | act “yy oneiel em on tsa head } jaily meai. lying at gucuor jg the North River, “At ‘about | on RESOURCES, Obe U'C.OCa, the Eritish soldiery baving entirely | The Children’s Aid Fgoiety owns real estate (fou: deseried their Various posts, tle American troops | | lodging houses) of the estimated value of Moveu donb the Lowery aud took possession 1 the | Itewbs personal property, do city.’ the public eutry of General Washiugton Raa Goverbor George Clinton chen took place. ‘they, with tue stiles, Were on norseoucs, aud | were luilowea by the Lieutenant Governor and | ir ‘Poti . Against a total btedness of. Included in the report is a ful, account of the Beuators, jour abreast. General Knox and ihe | S¢veral lodging houses, together with remarks piivers ol the army “joimed in eight abreast, and | UPON pauperism, emigration, &c. In reviewing the tbe Speaker of tlle Assemoly and citizens ou joot | Year's work the report says, ‘The labors of charity foux abreast.” ‘The procession thea started, aud | Of this society have become so extended and on (he Bactery belug reacned it was discovered MUiti/arious that it 1sexceedingly difMficuit to give ‘Usigh Was Still floating irom the , @By satisiactory pieture of them. Each principa! AS Ally red coats Raving uGsiven the | #04 often her assistant, in our twenty-one in us: Qaiyard and siushed the stad, whica ther had also | tTial schools and fifteen nignt schools has become deprived of lis cleats, The Euglish vessels at the | 81 €xperienced missionary among the poor, hay- tithe, 845. the sarcwiul chronicler, “were spreading | De ber own litle parish, jnfduencing from 100 to thelr canfas to the wind, and it was quite desir. families, conversant with a thousand histories Abie tuat they should Gave the gratification of | Of Crime und poverty, and acting incessantly on a seeug most destitute and tempted cl It would be | lmpossibie, iu many volumes, to detail the experi- 1 |.ence each year of these invaluable iavorers | Among the “poor, Together these schools have acted upon an average namber each day THE AMERICAN STANDARD Waving over tue city before leavlug the harbor. One account tes very minutely that 4 sailor aud attempted to climb up | the pole, but, ioding Limsell waaole to, gota lau. | Ol 5,566, and an regate pumber of der, Which was placed against the ‘stati to Which | 10,288. A most valuable jistance Das been the A sMldller Ohe velny superacded, ‘ne was at last | Work of seventy volunteer teac! These jadies Pnabled to reach the top, When ne tore down the | Produce resniis of which they hi ho adequate Britisa fig.” ihe Sturs and Stiipes were then | 4@@themacives, Our great want is more voluu- Doisted, ue Says, ulbid The roar ol artulery and the | teer worke: Tn the lodging houses the olen theera ‘or the ‘multitude, the band suriking up | 'eRdents aud matrons have vecome exceedingly aukee Doodie” ior the benelit of the departing | ¢Xberienced in thelr Jong-continued efforrs for euewy, who Were yet Within earsuot of tue | Vasrant children. Tnese hoases, wich their Sun- American Fejoicings. Ju the evening General | “@Y Meetins, night schools, gympasia aud work- Washington aod over penerai ofivers of tue | !Dg Classes, their lessons {n Order, industry and Army, it 18 said, sat down to # public dinuer given | Cle@u/iness, reach during the year some 12, dit. by the Governor ut Fiaucis’ Tavera, at the corner ‘J€Tent wails of the streets. Tae emigration agents oi Wai aid Nassau strees,’ “tuen,” ag | tansier over 3,000 children, besides aduita, to the chronicler ualvely remarks, “one of | country howes,’ {he “sick Children’s fund” the most respectaole vy the city.” | blesses some 1,400 more; the “Flower Mission” The fewti:ivies of (us day closed by @ vrilliant dis- | S¢atters its sweet rokens among several hundred ; play of f.eworks in the evening, and the citizeus | te iree reading rooms imfuence 300; and, fnaliy, retired to Leu Lappy im the thougit (hac the iast | (Ne Chidren’s Country Home brings a ek oO remuant Of royaily had jeit toeir shores, aud, | COUULrY air and good fare to some 1,300 destitute Bads tae clironicier, tuere “lay spread out veiore | Mttle ones. Soon the society will be asking its them but the eujoyimeut of all tae heaven-born | Tends to help to pay something like $30,000 Jor ac | privileges to Whici a ree people were entitied,” | COUUT Of the Italian school vullding in Leonard 1 is ravver hard on the desceudants of the sauor | Street. Then, when 1 is accomplisned, that val- Uavie and useiul estate, costing apout $65,000, | Wil become (mainiy througn tie active agency Qud generosity of Cue of the trustees, Mr. E. 1. Fabbri) the permanent property of the Onlidren’s Aid Society, devoted to the education of italian children, The society will then own real estaie 49 10/10W8:—Newsvoys' Lodging House, on Duaue, -witbess of the bing Was performed vy | r Was ove Captain Van | Dyke, who, over forty. r years ago, ina letter | concerning certain ueroes Of tue Revoution, Alluded to the ruising oi tue day at the Battery as vene, cial little boy. This chronic! jollows:—"l was in Fort George and wituo ywo | Wiliam and New Chambers strecia;’ Sixteenth feet Ol the flagsvad. ‘ue ualyatus were uureeved, | Ward Lodging House, West Eighteenth stre the. clears were Kuocked” ol, ‘the staf was | Rivington street Lodging House, Rivington etre: Slushed, and a sailor voy tried three times ana | @itls’ Lodging House, ist. Mark's plage; Italta ot Up about three i¢et, when he sipped | S¢hoo) Bulidiog, Leonard street, jown, When some persun gor a tandsaw, ne EET ge nee Y a4 hammer, gidiler Gud Golls; one sawed THE SUIOLDE OF ME. DETMER, Coroner Eicknom yesterday held an inquest on the body ol Mr. Godirey Detmer, the man, sixty- five years ol age, who committed suicide at his residence, No. 230 West Tenth street, by hanging fengtiis across the Uoaru, one sylit the cleats aud é bured wut they had pieuty of them, The boy then tied the ldivards arouud his walst, filled bis outside jacket pocke's iui! of cleats, then be- yan to vail them va (rom the ground, on the right nnd leit of the stad. As be ascended he nailed che then Ved tue laiyards, aud whea | Noy? g was cnpemied a salute o: thirreen zane wae | himseli, The evidence showed that deceased had ven.’ He them addsielt took a nearly aa | loag been in poor health, added to which he was wur before we Gould hoist the standard. While | we were prepariug GO hoist it che river waa coy. ered With su: ping that i@y at anchor in the Norta iver, The si poate al the same tine lay on their oars, sterns to shore. out Oo! employment aud saw notning in tie juture jor himsel aoa jamily but want wud extreme des- ulution. Toese jacts made Detmer very de It Lientvoant Glean sence he teeminated an existence which had be- then h@ was not there at 4 8 Adder was used ¢ Me lutojeravie to mim. Ou @ jormer occasion a for hauling doWn thw Bnglsh fag, there | Mr. Detmet attempted to take nie ie with the ‘Was LOne to LAG down, They kebt periect uence | same rope which Le used on Monday, | while we were hoisting the colors, and rowed of euse, With no hope of once a | It i@ ap actual and unprecedented fact in the | town in Germany is posted on the state of affairs. | { however, and say tuey will triumph in the end, spondent, and taking advantage of nis wile’s ab» | [ THE ’LONGSHOREMEN. | The State of Affaira Yesteraay on the | North and East River Fronts. The bracing air of yesterday was altogether pleasanter for the squads of unemployed ‘long- | shoremen who like to remain around their old places af labor, than thatef Monday with 118 vio- lent storm, aa there were hundreds of the union men lounsing about South aud West streets, spec- uiating upon the result of the feud between themselves and the agenta and owners of the steamship lines in this city, Groups of twenty and thirty were on every cor- ner discussing the question, and, so far a8 observation extended, were not inclined to puage | an inch from their position, While they were com- | suming precious time in argument she meu who | have supplied their places Were working promptly | apd cheerfully and gaining experience every honr, | rendering the objections against them and in | favor of “skilied labor,” or, in other words, the | | striking laborers, fewer and more feeble, At pier | No, 20 Bast river it Was noticed that the green | hards placed there on Monday were working quietly and quite etfectively. Conversation yith | Those connected with the firm ot Messrs. G HL Mallory & Co,. whose New Orleans and Galveston steamers oad and discharge at this dock, found these gentlemen satisfied with the change and thet, their work bad not been tuterrupted per- ceptibly. ust below, at the Savannah pier, the Cleopatra was being prepared for sea, and the last of her treight rapidly stowed. While one of the more important or the dock clerks felt inciined to make some discrimination setween the manner of the old and vew hands in Going the work he was sausfied they could get along with the men now with them, and in a jew Gays longer it Would be the pleasure aa weil as the duty o! allin the company’s employ | to forget that whey bad ever bad anything to do with the avion men. ‘The ageuts of the Anchor line referred with evident pleasure to tbe work of the green hands during tue past two days, ieeling that it bad been as quickly and as we'l done as any ever per- formed upon their pier, They had mow the | Utopia, Italia and = Kuropia “in port, and it was not diMcult to fina al! the men ot the right | stamp they wanted. “As for us,” summing up the case, “we are satisfied and shail suck.” ihe Inman live, the White Star line, Willams | &Guion, National line, Bristo! line, Pacific Maii, | Alexandre’s Havana line and others are employ- ing the non-union men to their satisiactaon, One | | point tn lgvor Of the seceders, however, is the yielding of the French line, whose steve- dore went back to the ola prices yester- day. The result of this bas not bau any | perceptible effect upon the combination, as the actiou 18 attributable to the fear oi the captain of | the France, who felt the cargo, which ts o! a pe- cullar nature, would suffer in the hands of the “outsiders,’? During the afternoon Messrs. Walsh Brothers were busy in making settlements at their office, West and King streets, with those who had been in their employ last week. A squad of policemen kept the eager throng in order, and as one aiter another descended the stairs with his money well secured they were met with many inquiries as to the amounts received. | The Strikers in Council—A Committee of Conference Appointed to Confer With the Steamship Qwners and Agents— The Union Threatens a G ral Strike. The delegates of the several branches of the | 7Longshoremen's Protective Association met in } council last evening in the basement of St. Jumes’ | school, corner of Cedar and Church streets. Mr, Roger Burke presided and William | Ashmore acted as secretary. It being | submitted to vote, the members present, not del- | egates, were allowed seats in the room and per- mission given them to ventilate their views of the | subject matter under consideration by the Con- vention. Whereupon half 8 dozen oi these de- | sired to know what their rights were. By the | action of the Convention of last Saturday evening \ | they could not work under a ‘stevedore or for am owner who paid two rates | of wages. his was merous and it gave some of the members more privileges than othere. Mr. St. Clair, a foreman, thought the only way to bring about a satisiactory result Was tobave @ general strike, and all put upon the Same looting. Something should be done at once. The summer just past has been a dull one, and he, | jor one, hadn’t laid away much money, Others | Were in the same predicament, and if work wes not soon had they should require aid. An OvrstpgR—Damned shame for a fareman to y at! | Other members desired a general strike to- day, one remarsing that the ‘longshoremen fizzle would only be brought to an ‘end in this way. | | Still another indorsed this sentiment, and felt as- | | Sured taat when the merchapts found that the | men who are posted in the mechauical matters | | that desire attention around a ship cannot be ob- | | tained they would soon be brought to te! “It | isn’t the Italians that will hurt you,” he added, | ‘but the srish-Italiang that are doing and will do all the harm.’? At this juncture the regular work of tze Conven- | tton Was proceeded with, and the resolution laid | | on the table last meeting relative to a Commuttee or | Conierence with the merchants taken up. After | much Useless discussion and a thousand remarks having bo bearing upon the case the resolution Was carried. It is but just to say that the com- mon sense remarks o! tne President and Secretary | did much to secure thisend, The comamittee ap- | pointed 18 as follows: No. 1—Wiliiam Wall, William Ashmore No. 2—Roger Burke, W. A. Sims, No, 8—George McCoura, Joun Sillick. BROOKLYN—Beruard McGram, John Keese, HosokeN—James Marlow, Peter Sullivan. Bel Ciry—Thomas Cornell, Daniel weeny, The question then arose as tothe power to be vested in this committee, and it was finally sug- ested that if the merchants would not do any | better they could accept forty cents per hour tor | day work and sixty cents per hour Jor night Delegate MAXWELL—Yes, forty cents aud cents but forty centa anu sixty cents if ig discarded. ANOTHER DELEGATE—That’s the talk, Heave | | overbogra Walsh ana we'll work for forty all | through. | SEVRRAL VOICKS—No, we won't. ‘The trtends of a geueral strike now came to the | | | , defence of their pet scheme, and tated | it so seriously that the Chairman felt con- — | Strained to say that the matter was @ very | | Serious one, and tuere Was but litte use in taking such action jast now when it can be effected with- | out turning the men now at labor on the street. | It Was lound difficult to appease the ‘general strike’? delegates, but at last they were willing to await the result of the coalerence of the committee with the merchants, but that one of the instructions given to that committee sould | be that if tue steamship men cid nos accede to | their ultimatum to-day the strike should become | generalto-morrow. These instructions were given, Spas Convention adjourned to meet again to- night, | *Longshoremen’s Strike in Brooklyn. Parsuant to private information coming to the | police the night previous a detachment of eighty men, under command of Inspector Waddy, was drawn up in the vicinity ofthe Empire Stores at an | early hour yesterday, ready to contend witn any Tiotous force of ‘longshoremen that might desire lo measure prowess with them. It had been re- ported that the strikers premeditatea not @y as. sauiting the green jands who had taken sheir | Pp at the reduced rites, but also contemplated the destruction of property, About seven o’cloek @ barge, couiaining thirty men, Italians, Duten, I and Americin, who had been hired to load @ hip iying at Harbeck’s stores, came up alongside the wharf ani landed tne passengers, amid the shouts 0: derision of ine “knights of the hook” who stood in the vicinity, Lwo of the novices at the ‘longshore business strayed away from the ken of the police, and, falling into the clutches Of the strikers, received very barat treatment, though taey were not dangerously | hurt. The steamer will be ready to sail on ‘Thurs. Gay. The unloading of the steatnsi.p Ontario, at Martin’s wharl, was commenced yesterday. Work of discharging the cargo of the Dhuleep Singh began at Hoon, under direction of the Walsh Brothers, The ‘iongshoremen are hopesul im tone, RETRILULION, An Italian Stabs u ’Longshoreman. At last an Italian has resented the injuries which the “striking” ‘longshoremen have been | Visiting upou bis countrymen during the past two weeks. The lirst case in which one of the strikers | has been hurt vy the person he and his fellows had selected to ve the victim of their wrath curred last evening, when Michael McCormack, & ‘Nongshorcman, whose residence ig No, 74 King | | street, was stabbed in the lei thigh by an une | Known Itauan, whom he and some associates gornered at Hudson aud Cuariton streets, The Italian escaped arrest. McCormack, whose Wound | is Severe, Was seu! to Bellevue Hospital, ATTEMPTED SUICIDE IN THE TOMBS, | Warden Quinn, of the Tombs, reports tnat | | Charles Socta, the title deed Jorger, attempted to | Commit suicide in nig cell yesterday afternoon. He infiteted two severe gushes in, bis neck with a | smail penkuile, neither of which will prove fatal. | | | | | that command unless you are satisfied that | ants to | ie anybody doubt ita reiiaoiuty? Arguments of Counse} on the Application for the Appointment of a Trustee. A QUESTION OF CONSTITUTIONAL LAW. Anxiety of the Corporation Regarding the Vested Rights of Policy Holders. New Haves, Cona., Nov. 24, 1874. The Superior Court room was filled this morno- ing by bankers, lawyers and insurance men from this city and other parts of the State to listen to the arguments in the case of Commissioner Sted- | man ip bis application ior the appointmens of a | trustee vs. The American National Life and Trust Insurance Company, before Judges Bradley and Beardsly, sitting as a special Court. Messrs. T. E. Doolittle, John S. Beacn and Dexter R. Wright represented the company, and Henry B. Harrison the Commissioner, Mr. benjamin Noyes, President, and the oficers and Directors of the company were also present. In opening the argument to sustain the plea that the law under which the application for a trustee was made Was unconstitutional, Colonel Wright said: — ARGUMENT FOR THE COMPANY. The statute proposes to seize our property and franchise without due process of law. He did not deny that tne corporation came within the corporations that might be proceeded against under the statute, nor aid he deny that the commissioner was regularly appointed, but he did claim that the petition is brought under and upon the twenty-ninth section of the act of 1871. His tuterpretation of this sec- tion was, that ifit appears that the assets of any NOVEMBER 25, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET. PTE DOUBTFUL TRUST COMPANY, company are less than three-iourths of its liabul- | ties the commission must forthwith draw his pe- | tition end file the same in the Probate Court, A mandate is also Jaid upon the Court, The language of the statute is that the Court shall thereupon appoint a trustee, leaving tue Court no discretion in the matter. No hearing as to the facts is re- quired, and the statute does not that the defendant ebail be notitied of tne application. The proceeding 1s one* which contemplates the taking of property without due process of law. two things: First, notice to appear, and second, @m Opportunity to be heard when you do appear. | A statute which does not give the individual or a corporation @ Chanve to be heard when property 13 at stake comes in conflict witn the fundamental law of the land and 1s void. The General Assem- bly cannot deprive one of his property by legisla- tion, There must be a judicial determination of his rights, if the Legislature does attempt sucn a thing it is the right, it 1s the Gguty, of the judiclary to declare the act void. A different construction would render constitational restrictions and prohibitions wholly inoperative, ana inves: the Legisiatuve with su- preme power, If, therefore, he was right in his Construction of the tweaty-ninth section of this statute, that there ts no provision lor a heariug, and | that that fatal omission canuot be cured by @ vol- untary offer of suca heariny, then the proceedings Whica have been inaugurated here are without due process of law, and therefore void, A milion of assets is to be transierred {rom a Board of fifteen 3] t id put mto th | responsible directors aud put ito the hands of an | strychuine, irresponsible trustee to manage, destr olivit ‘This proceediny or affects vested riguts. Seven thousan ave been issued by the American National Inguran ny in strict ice | ie Th aaxanca Company Jo Atrigt SeSpenAnce wish | Tre rom disegue;is that RU pAtlants Wiio are Lelp welay. ‘inese policies Were issued betore the act of 1871 was passed. The rights thus vested Cabot be iniringed upon in a manner to do injus- | 105 pounds to the square inch and allowed 70 provide | Due process of law consists of | | lice or commit a wrong. The Legisiature virtually , says:—*We will lay our bands upon you and seize your Property unless you have twice as much Capital as We said you might have im the progecu- tion of your business.” If this does not affect Vested rights, then asalawyer hedid not know what @ vested right was. He quoted numerous decisions to show under What circumstances vested rights might be dis- | turbed by State authority, and claimed that the law in guestion impaired the obligation of contracts, and ior (hat reason was un- constitutional. Jt i8 proposed, he sald, to pppoins @ trnstee to take possession of all the books, receive all the moneys of the company and procure the reiusurement of tue policy holder in otber companies. It 1s proposed © say toJoun Smith, “We will make a new con- tract ior you.” Instead of paying John Smith the sum of $6,000 when he dies 1¢ 18 proposed to secure him a fractional purt of that sum in another com- pany, if one can be found to take the risk, He Claimed that 1t wouid be contrary to justice and Q00d polity to concede that auch a power existed, and he further claimed that a Legislature had no | power to arbitrarily dissolve or crush out a cor. poration once established. The right to amend aud repeal a charter exists witn limitations Which must be observed and respected. Iu cone clusion Ne said:—Firat, that it ia proposed to take our property and iranchise without due proce; of law; second, that it disturbs vested right third, that it impaiia tue ooligations of contract fourth, itis in violation of natural juatice, an lastly, that tothe power to amend or My te charter there exists certain well-defined limit: sions, REPLY OF THE COMMISSIONER, H. 8. Harrison, ior the Commissioner, said he Was called on to answer grave questions, prepared and elaborated upon at leisure. Stull, he bad no doubt he could establish certain principles upon which the case must be determined. The General Assembly has said you must do euch and such things ‘and you ‘cannot reiuse to d Statute 1s unconstitutional beyond all reasonable doubt, He cited authorities in support of this Proposition. It was important that the Court shouid understand just whas the case la. the General Assembly has seen iit to adopt @ certain pou in reierence to tnsarance corporations, which policy is seen in the statute of 1871. that statute a State officer is empowered to iw- quire tuto the standing of such corporativns; and ii it shail be tcund th any instance that the asaets By | are less than three-iourths of the liubilities then | that company shall pass into the hands of @ trustee, his is the policy of the | State. It was adopted to protect the widows and orphans. The procecdings insti- tuted areentirely coustitucional Acplicution ts micde to the Judye of Probate, notice 1s given, and @ hearing gYanted--not, perliape, by any express Provision of the statute, but by necessary implica: Uon. The Insurance Commissioner has presented Dis petation to the Court of Probate, asking the Court to make thereupon a notice tu the deiend- appear and be heard. On filing bis appli- Cation the defendgutg came in and said the Court should not wear the application. Taey claim that you bave po ete in the matier, We say you haye, This principle should be borne in mind, that if a statute is open to a construction which would make {¢ constitutional, and is also Open to a construction which would inake it un- constitutional, Youf Honors must hold to the con- struction which makes it Constitutional, There vau be no question oO! the right of the General Ar- sembiy to repeal the charter of a corporation, It is intimated by counsel for the company that if a | corporation is organized, aud somebody ts found to wake a contract with It, then it is above we power of the Legislature, All contracts with cor- porations are made subservient to tue action of the Assembly. The power of the Legislature, by rivate act, to alter or repeal a ciurter is abso- lute. {t may exercise such power arbitrarily, but it i not to be presumed that it will, What Jol- lows this general principe? ‘The company may be dead, but the property existe, and it becomes a trust fund, ‘dhe Cin have rigats in such funds of Which it is notin the power of the Legislature to deprive them. ‘Ihe | ower of the company may be taken aWay, but tie vested rights of the trust iund remain, The power to dissolve a corporation involves the power oO! appointing a trustee. The appointment follows as a matter of necessity. The trustee holding the bare legal title to the fund Must distrioute the fund, {here ore the General Assembly May lawilully provide for its dis- tribution. All the various powers sought to be exercised ny thls statute result ultimately and jogicaliy from the power to repeal and amend ‘he charter o/ this corporation, even to its dissolution. My, Harrison quoted many authori- tes Iu maintevance of his theories, and, in re- Viewing the stutute ns it related ty this case, | ehrongn the hatchway of No, 88 Reade street from the third floor to the cellar last evening and | eloquently demonstrated iis constitutionyslity, FURSHER ARGUMENT FOR THE COMPANY. Mr. John S Beach, tor the company, said the Jaw Was plaimiy Ghcvustututional aad the Court could not grabt the application, He gave authort- tues by way Of proof, He declared that jaw absurd which would take away the charter of @ Corporation because its assets might happen to Tate less than its liabilities, In that view of the case the £108 Insuranc. Company, of Hartford, one Of the #lanchest institu'ions of its kind in the world, bad many times peeu imsoivent. But Aud would any’ lature or Court deem it consistent with duty to tal Way ita charter’ In the nistory of banks of Aiscount there ‘were times, thougi the public might not Kuow oi it, when t.ey were not able to meet liabilities, And “what court could be found who would rule that in conse- baby they must iorieit their charters’ He aimed the Court of Provate had, and a8 this law is interpretev, Lo junadiction, under the law, | | strack Thomas Smith, At if thought that socia was uot earnest im DIS ut | The company were entiticd toa trial by jury, and | tempt to ta when he haa razor in his cel, Aillast bight he | wae Set sorts watched vo prevent him from doin, | humeell iurther injury. Ur. Becks dows pot thin! \ Fee ou aay Ganger to ve apprenended in boewe’s @ lis life, tov be used the small kuie | he We authority, He quoted irom the State cons stituuon, article 11, und explained the signifi cance oi the sage Which speaks of “powers legisiative and which executive, pow Famers adil de inimes the Legialavare had no Gut ous li the particular matter | arraigned before Judge Wandell, at Resex Market | gauge was detective, showing bey | not “be ae | and 1am calied to the witness avand, as if | had boen her oI insurance corporations, making them subject, in some sense, to the caprice of one man or one set of men. At the conclusion of Mr, Beach’s remarks the Court adjourned tll to-morrow moruing, when Mr. Deolittle wili make his argument and the Court pronounce its decision, THE HELL GATE EXPLOSION. The License of the Engineer of the Lily Revoked=A Short Story Showing How Providence Was Tempted. The following report, addressed by the United States Local Inapectors of Steam Vessels to Cap- tain Addison Low, the Supervising Inspector, re- specting the recent explosion of the tugboat Lily &t Hell Gate, tells ita own story and points its moral :— Orvicy ov tux Locat Ixsructons oF Stean V! : SEW Yous, Nov, 23, S1n—We hereby report to you the Fesuit of un investi- gation beia by this Board, commencing on the wih inst, into the cause ot the explosion of the boiler of the steamtug Lily, which occurred on the I7th iust., whyjie pussing through Heil Gate, in the East River, with @ schooner in tow, ‘ It appears trom the evidence that just prior to the ex- plosion there was a ae eXcess of steam in the bolier be} ond that allowed by her ceruficate oi anspection, Shari. Warren, the engineer, states shat he had “1X pounds pressure, and the hare) ong oo ked ‘KSSELS, } x Hogan, sWoars that jugt betoré the explosion he at the stews gauge dud that it indicated between eighty and eighty tve pounas pressure, with short water in the lower t turther appears that there Was No ceriiicute of inspection oa board the boat, and the engineer way guided im carrying steam by what Captain Mavens told aim. — Tt ts also proven that the less pressure than ac- tually ted in the boilev, and that they were tn the habit ot sccuring the satety-valve lever so Unat the valve could not be opened. In cousideration of the fe are clearly and ene lecided)y oF the opinion that ine wecident was cau by reckless conduct on the purt of Oharles Y. Warren, the envineer, in consequence of His not informing him self, as he should have done, of the amount of steam he was alowed to carry; for using a defective sicain gauze, whieh would cause him tw carry more steam thao it in dicated, and tor obstructing the operation of the satety valve, which Wouid have relieved the boiler of any @x- cess Of pressure beyond that allowed, had it not been tampered with, as it was proven that it was carefully set vy the inspector when her inspection was made, In ‘view of the foregoing facts we revoke the license of Charios 8. Warren as engineer, and it is so revoked ton Unis date, und so eniered upon the records of this office. We consider David A. Havens, who was owner of the tug, eauaily culpable in not having lifeate on board the boat and exposed to view as the Jaw requires, in misleading the engineer in regard to the pressure the boiler way allowed, and in giving his instrucdons to carry more. But he has passed beyond the power oi earihly tribunals aud sulered (he peiulty o1 his own recklessiess. : ‘The bouer was built in 1805 and thoroughly repaired in Tt was last inspected on the minth day of June, 874, when it Was subjected to alydros.atic pressure of pounds of steam. Jn this cunugction we would state that thers was @ short crack in the shell of the boiler, at the base of th ain dram, which appears to have been properly patched on the [ith inst und wag considered ag sate as auy other portion of the botier. : ly this explosion threa persons lost their lives—viz., David A. Havens, master: tue cook of the tug and a per- son Who had come on board trom a small buat prior to at, Shree other porsoms were more or less in- ngineer, the fireman and also another | $0 come on bourd the tug 1rom the r oat above mentioned, 600. Allof which, with a the vessel Was valued at copy of the evidence tuken in the ease, is herewith sub- mit Very respectfully, your obedient servants, 7 respectfully, SOULS ie: MATTHEWS, JER. SIMONSON, United States Local Inspectors. -, Supervising Inspector Second jew York. To Appison Low, Ei United States district, A CORONER'S CENSURE. Dr. Schielerdecker Explains the Action of a Coroner’s Jury. Dr. ©, ©. Schieferdecker, tue proprietor of the hydropathic establishment in Twenty-second street, send’ the HERALD @ atatement of & case where, & young woman having died, the Coroner’s jury rendered @ verdict censuring bim, Ha card is too long for insertion in iull. Below will be found quotations giving his main allegations :— During the past season a person called at my place tour or five times, and under the ialse pre- tence that hig daughter was suffering severel from bysteria, rheumatism and overdrugging wit! induced me to take her in. Arule of my establishment, whicb is not a hospital, but simply @ house tor the hygenic and bydro- pathic treatment of ladies and gentlemen suifer- | sess Irom thelr troubles, must have their own pri- vate nurse. 1 had, of course, irom the begin- ning questioned her closely to make up my diagnosis, and among otuer questions askea if she bad any sores on ner person, She satd emphatically, “No,” and in that direction of course 1 could Ko no lurther ; but she was deceiving me, provably irom tear that, if 1 knew all, | would send ner away, asked her if sae were well cared fur and she Ways said “Yes,” and expressed herself im that pleased, kind, devoted way that made her seem to be one Of the most friendly patients 1 ever had. She said, Oh, 1 am 80 much better I can write!” and irom time to time, “How kind everyone is!” “How much better I am! At last the parents came, and, without see- tng me, installed themselves in my house. They also brought a young doctor to take charge of the case, whose name I learned, some nine days jater, was Leale. He took entire charge of the patient as physician, came dally, sometimes twice a day, without consulting with me to know the patients state or what he was treating, and waa probably deceived by the relatives as I had been. Well, the poor girl died— must die, dhe was “an incurable,” and With @ disease out of man’s reach. If her life were shortened or not by the treatment she nad for Jour weexs alter I threw up the case is not for Me to gay. Some six days alterwards 1 was sum- moned to the Coroner’s office; I found a jury, the Coroner and the doctor aasempied. ‘This doctor Was placed upon tue stand, and, 1m addition to most of his testimony, which I am ready to die- rove at any moment, if could have the oppor- ‘unity, Said, “I lound the patient water-soaked,” as if abe had been a sponge—might as well have said he found a cobble stone permeated with light. And again, ‘sores caused by the debilitating influence ot several weeks’ application of water.” Now his treatment and food tor this patient, whom he had under his charge for the last month oi her life, was for the most part, as I hear, ontons, alco- holic drinks and drugs! ‘The disease was Tabes Dorsalis (gray Gegeneration of the spinal marrow), sores.” Under bia ministration the poor patient sinks into the eternal rah physician, aud put upon the defen- sive, sick, without my lawyer, Without my wit- esses, of whom 1 have a dozen to prove all this, and the broken Engush of myself and my iriend, a Ger: hysician, pooh-poohed aside, misrepre- sented and misconstrued, That it the Cor- oner’s intention todo me an injustice I do not ip the least believe; only think that he was himself deceived with regard to the animus ofall this, I could not explain myself well in English, but asked for delay and permission to have my lawyer. it was not absolutely relused, but I was told it ‘Was of no consequence, not necessary, and a judg- ment, 80 to speak, sprung upon me, with the im- pression leit upou the pubic mind that the tent had died through my neglect, Why t might a8 Well have placed it upou the shoulders of the Khan of 1 y Or Bismarck. But they did, however, leave an jmpression upon tue public mind as false a8 dicera’ oaths. NEW YORK CITY. A Sire occurred yesterday morning at No. 12 Wall street that caused a damage of $250, A fire occurred yesterday morning at No, 501 West Fifty-Qret street in the apartments of Mer- man Aromes, It caused a damaye of $50, At seven o’clock last evening an officer of the | Eighteenth precinct found an abandoned male child, ubout one month old, in the area of No, 134 East Twenty-second street, Anold lady named Ann Jane Hill, aged sixty years, of No. 453 West Twenty-etghth street, died suddenly last night at her residence. The Coro- ner Was noutled to hold an inquest. During a diapute last night in the Hquor saloon | No, 277 Avenue B, Adam Tasset, the proprietor Hicted a severe scalp wound, Alderman George B. Dean, Jr., Edward Gilon, An- drew Blessing, J. J. Morris, I. ©, Billings, and Civil Justice Charles M, Clancy, took the oMicial oath yesterday beiore the Mayor, These gentiemen Wili all go into office on the ist of January. Charles Beal, nine years of age, residing at No, 196 Mott street, while piaying yesterday afternoon in Mott street, near Spring, Was struck on the Lead with @ Club tn the nands of Edward Clatfy, of No, 44 Spring street, and was severely injured. Michael Lynch, of No, 1 Vandewater street, {ell received severe internal injuries, lle was sent to the pak Hospital by tue police of the Third pre- cinct. Frederick G, Sonneider, @ resident of Union Hill, N. J., a boarder at the Grand Union Hotel, committed suicide last night vy shooting himself through the bead witha revolver. Coroner Keus+ ler allowed the body of the suicide to be taken to an uudertaker’ Alired Mangels, aged twanty-three years, having no home, was seriously injured yesterday morning while at work on the steamship Galltc, lying at er No, 62 Norton River, He was struck o2 the head with @ pair Of wkias that were being lowered into the hold of the vessel, hugh Brown and Charles Laremore, both canal boatmen, became engaged in a fight last night at the corner of South and Broad streets, Brown, who was the weaker, was thereiore the victim of the encounter. He was knocked down and kicked by Larremore, and@ bis head badly cut and Lruised, | Samuel Vohen, of No. 127 Rivington stree Ww Key | of No. 601 East Sixteenth aireet, ou the head with a bung starter, und in. | Police Court, yesterday, charged with stealing a valued from Mr. breastyin and earrin; tb 360, No.’ 100 Allon arege, Conen Frank Bowman, of pleaded guilty, and was held in $1,000 bail ta answer, ‘The Catholic Unton of New York will celebrate Thanksviving Day by two solemn high masseg— one at St. Francis Xavier's church, Wess Sixteenth Street, and the other at the Church of the Transe Aguration, Mott street. Sermons will be delive ered by eminent preach + aud the music wit be more than ordinarily grand. At a@ quarter past two o'clock yesterday aites noon James Burke, of No. 185 Greene stre nd James McLoughlin, of No, 79 West Twelfth street, became engaged ina fight in @ lquor saloon at the corner of Wooster aud Amity streets. Durt the scuMe Burke bit a portion of McLoughiin’s om and then escaped with the savory morsel. Last night the Croton Hall, East Forty-second street, presented s beautiful and brilliant appear« ance, At elgnt o'clock it was filled to its ut most capacity by fair ladies and generous gentie- bazaar on its benevolent oduan ri Benjamin Wins, Congressman aicce ihe ‘The lady managers of the Five Points Mission, No. 61 Park street—site of the old Brewery—are making arrangements for their twenty-fourth an- nual Thanksgiving festival. A good t! lo pected, Six hundred children re to Se aupplicd with a good dinner at three o'clock. ‘The exere cises in the chapel commence at two o'clock. Donations are solicited aud the public tavited, The five A. M. inward bound train from stam« ford, Conn,, on the New York and New Haven Rall,’ road, ran off the track at Williams’ Bridge at about hali-past seven o’clock yesterday mo: switch being accidentally misplaced, eyo hone trivial injuries to the locomotive and b: car, @ general shaking up of the passengers and a des tention of about an hour, no damage was done. As Oiicer James Murphy, of tne Fourth precinct, was returning to the atation house after dinnes yesterday, he attempted to get on the front plat form of car No. 61, of the Fourth aveaue line, tront of No, 86 Centre street. He accidentally fel under the wheels ofthe car and had his leg se verely injured, He was taken to the Sixth pré« hhok Stution house and thence to tne Park pital. The annual bail of the Theatrical Mechanical As- sociation was held last evening at Ferreroa Assembly Rooms, Tammany Hall. The officers of the association—President Charles Buscall, Vice President D, MeQuien, Recording Secretary R. J. Orr, Financial Secretary H, J. Clarke and Treasurer William Speiker—were on hand early, but the iua did not begin until late, after the theatres were closed and the ladies putin an appearance. The attendance was upusually large and the bell proved quite successiul, At a meeting of the Commissioners of Emigrm tion, held yesterday aiternoon, the report of the Castle Garden Committee, recommending the re« newal of the floor of the rotunda, with two inch | Spruce, the contract to be given to the lowest bide der, was adopted. Messré. Mosher, Forrest and Quintard were appointed a committee to conter with the Governor elect and present to him @ statement of the embarrassed condition of the commission’s tinances, ‘The treasurer reported the total receipts to date for 1874, $201,781; for corresponding period in 1878, $414,168; Jor 1872, $417,951; for 1871, $351,950, The number of allen’ arrived trom January 1 to November 1, was for 1874, 127,426; tor the same time in 1878, 241,835; ior 1872, 258,241; for L871, 200,179, Toe arrivals rem November 1, this year, to yesterday, were &896, BROOKLYN, Treasurer Cunningham reports the amount re~ Maining in the several banks to the credit of the city at this date as being $501,863 44. The entertainment in ald of the Church of St Mary Star of the Sea will be given in the hall of the Parochial school attached this evening an to-morrow. The programme inciudes a series novelties. For the sale of ales, wines and liquors 2,243 licenses Lave been issued by the Board of Police and Excise Commissioners since the 1st of May, | last. The income derived therefrom amounts to | about $136,000, ‘The attorneys for Theodore Tilton, Messrs, More | ris and Pearsall, have waived their right to except | to the sureties inthe undertaking furnished by Mr. Beecher on appeal. They nave given his coune 8el notice of argument before the Court of Appeal jor Tuesgay next. {| Patrolman Lewis, of the Third precinot, arrestedk MichseWwMartin, of No, 201 Nevins street, at twa o’clock yesterday morning, for burgiariously en- tering the butcher store of Michael Dwyer, ocraes of Boerum and Atlantic streets. Justice Dei committed the prisoner to await examination. The assessments on the Sackett street Boule- vard will exceed in the aggregate $1,000,000. Yesterday the Comptroller gave the President of the Board of Park Commissioners @ check for. $30,917 15 toward the payment for surveys and other disbursements on the improvement in quese tion, Mr. Philander Bennett, residing at No, 411 Cum berland street, was riding on the rear platform of an.Atilantly avenue car on Monday ht les a ade, ace when @ man, who was standing at bi do a od the at the thier denly seized hold of bis watch ani tearing them from the owner, le: andran @way. Chase was given, caped. LONG ISLAND. Incendiary fires have become so frequent in the village of Glen Cove that the authorities have offered a reward of $1,000 for the arrest and con« viction of the 1 endianies, ‘The fires no doubt e! with have in many cases yn chused by tramps Who, Wo ss in the barns jout permission of the owners, On Monday night the barn of Mr. Charles Colwell, @ dairy farmer at Westburg, was fired by incendia= ries, and, with most of its contents, totally de stroyed. In the barn at the time the fire was did- covered were thirty cows, a of which, valued | @t $100 each, perished in tne fames. Losson bara and stock, $9,000; insured for $5,000, ‘ The new Episcopai chapel at Flatbush is now completed, and will be opened for divine service for the first time on Thanksgiving Day, at hal& ast ten o'clock A. M., when the Right Rev. A. oa Attlejohn, Bishop of the diocese, wil be Breen | | | | | | | and preach the sermon. The Key. J. W. \d@ Dy who took charge of the parish on the of se tember, will commence his labors ia the new e fice next Sunday. The Boards of Education of the various town | throughcut the island are making preparations for | carrying out che provisions of the Compulsory Edncation act, le goes into effect on the lst of January ne: n ip advance the law seems to have had lutary effect, a8 in some O! the towns the attendance at the public schools has ene increased during the present season, notadly il Jamaica, Hempstead, Flushing and other places, The introduction of water into the village of Flushing by a public celeoration, which was to have taken place to-morrow (Thanksgiving Day), has, owing to the incompleten of the work, been postponed uptti the 8d oi ember. ‘ihe work, 80 far as completed, has been put to the | severest test and found to be satisfactory. Some twenty miles of pipe have been luid and fitty | hydrants placed in position, Water ts supplied by | the Holly system. The cost of the entire works, | including ponds, Will not tull far short of $200,000. STATEN ISLAND. — There were four square-rigged vessels, eight | Sandy Hook pilot boats and thirteen fishing smacks at anchor yesterday off Staten , Island riding out the northwest gale, " Toere were two more fires on Staten Island on | Sunday night last, one at the tomato cataup and cauning establianment of Myers & Gilbert, at Springville, which was totally consumed, with most Of it contents, and tne other at the old homestead of Mra. Fellow! ra, which Was also entirely consumed; | $6,000, and only partiaily insurea, | The North Shore Ferry Company have for some time been negotiating with parties in Stapletoa for the purchase of a site tor a ferry landing, and | tt was stated yesterday that a bargain bad beep closed with Mr. William J, Staples fora water Jront Of 126 Jeet at the Loot of Water street, on the east side Of the Staploton ferry ae and ade joining It, the purpose being Lo establish an Oppo- wition Jerry between that point and Whiteball dock, New York, at ive cents fare, NEW YORK HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN. A brilliant entertainmenc was given last even. ing in the New York Hospital for Women, on the corner of Tiirty-seventh street and Lexington avenue, The afair was arranged by the Ladies' Hospital Association, and given with a view te assist In paying off the debt of $90,000 that remains on tie property, Tae oi of the association, Mrs, Parke Godwin, President; Mrs. Joi 4 Sturgis, ors, Horace F. Clark, Mra, Wiliam Ble Kingsiand, Mrs. Josiah M, Fiske and Mra. Salem H. Wales, Vice Vresidents; Mev, Willlam A. Ogden Secretary, aud Mra, Wiliam L, le easurer, may be congratulated oD we } attending thelr iabors, as the iooms were crowded with. Se agg sg of tae leading tauniies of New York. The prog! mw | pA Rl aed om rene eee = @! et 1 eseur Ups ad ro ly ory, | |