The New York Herald Newspaper, November 28, 1874, Page 3

THE 'LONGSHOREMEN. The General Strike Ordered by the Union. HOW IT WORKED YESTERDAY Opinions of the Owners and Agents of Sailing Vessela—The Steamehip Men Consider “the Game in Their Own Hands.” ‘The ’Longshoremen’s Protective Association, in the pursuance Of a previously expressed determ) mation on Wednesday evening last, decreed that all the members Of the organization should refase to work, either on sailing vessels or steamships, yesteraay morning, and continue thus to stand aloof from any employment along the docks until ‘netr demands in regard to wages shall be complied ‘with by the agents and owners of both European ana coastwise steamships. In other words, the Jeaders of the union compelled the willing laporers about the sailing vessels to surrender their liberty 1m order that the owners of such craft may urge ‘the steamsbip companies to recede from their | position ana accept the compromises offered hy the | Nongshoremen’s organization. The river fronts were proof sufficient that the rulings of the leaders were fully complied with, At pler 20, East River, Messra, 0. H. Mallory & ©o.’s work was being proceeded with without | perceptible interruption. This firm, though among | the last to join the steamship combination, is now Getermined never again to employ union men. Many of those who leit this employ had worked for the senior member of the firm for over twenty years, and now seem to lack the intelligence to see that such severance of their rela- tions will result disastrously. The mnon-so- ciety men now on the pier are mostly Americans, and have, with little instruction, suc- ceeded in doing the work of loadiug and unload- | ing promptly ana satisfactorily. Of the new hands | many were glad to find something to do on any terms, and are anxious to continue on the dock. On the Savannah line pier, 16, East River, there ‘Was but little doing, owing to the absence of the Yegular vessel, 80 Soon as work begins, however, the ‘green’? men who have been in the employ of | the line since the commencement of the strike ‘will again go to work. Theyearly “got the hang” ‘of things and pleased their employers. How mucd trouble the general strike has occasioned the sailing craft remuins yet to be fully seen. Operations on many of the docks along the East River had ceased, but only in one or two instances were complaints made about being seriously embarrassed. The agents and owners were showing @ vast amount of pluck, and were considering whut steps they had better take to protect themselves now and also in the fulure. it must not be forgotten in this connection that all the “longshoremen employed on sailing vessels had been paid the old wages, and there was not ‘the least inclination to cut them down; but now the owners {eel that this is the time ior resistance, and they hope to so arrange matters that they may never again be similarly placed. essrs. ©. H. Marshall & Co. were a@ little Hoyed at the attitude of the strikers, but telt able | to surmount ali diMculties. Many of their old | hands bad been with them fully twenty- five years, and would now willhngly | continue at work ww they coulc 80 | ith salety. One of their vessels was leit haif dis- id, aNd the stevedore was ordered to employ nhon-society men and resume operations at once, A gentleman o! the firm expressed it as his opi fon that the “strikers would fail in their objec! there were too many idle men in thé city anxious to work, who, with proper instruction, would soon become competent ‘longshoremen.” On pier No. 17, Bast iver, where Brigham’s New Orieans and Ward’s Havana packets are | loading and discharging, work was progressing | Jairly, “Outsiders” were getting their hands 10 | @nd succeeding better than had been expected. — | Messrs, Sutton & Co., who have seven chartered ships up for sailing, aud over 2,000 tons of assorted | estes On the dock beside them, which they were | Unable to stow yesterday, felt somewhat aggrieved | Bhat their old hands had jeit them. ‘The alternoon ‘was passed in considering the situation, and this | morning they will have the work proceeded with An some sbape or other. Messrs, Howland & Aspinwall have no ships in or’ Polcesra, Grinnell, Minturn & Oo. have but one vessel up for departure, and sie has most of her cargo aboard, so that they are not particularly in- Yerestea in the movement o1 the strikers, Messrs. Tapscott & Co. were awaitin, Their ships in port are such they can hvid oi for a while and not suffer much inconvenience. They ‘Were not fully deciied, jate in the afternoon, what steps they woula take, even i they moved at all in the matter. From an official source it was learned that all hope of a compromise with the steamship men 18 futile, The action of the union in oruenug a eneral strike, they think, has placed “tbe game & their own hands,” and there Will be no yielding. ‘The East River iront was pruperly policed, and Mf the ‘iongshoremen had any desire to raise a row they would have met a warm reception. The | q@etectives under Captain Irving were patrolling | South and West streets under special instructions. On the North River side there are but 1ew sail- ing vessels, 80 that the lock-out presented in the main but iew new features. ‘he most in- teresting fact in connection with it yesterday Was the action of the ‘longshoremen’s union as reg: the French line. The position of tnis Mne has been rather doubtiul ever since the be- Repeated statements jt the French line had gone back tothe old union rates remained uncontradicted, and it was also known that the Captain of the France, which is now lying at pier No. 50, reiused to allow the Italians 10 proceed with their work, on the ground toat they would damage the cargo. Con- B®equently an exiraordinary scene Was witnessed yesterday morning. rome of the union men who ‘Were at work loading the [france were suddenly ordered to stop by the President of the society, but after they nad marched away they turned round and returned to the wharf, declaring, that, a8 the lock-out was general, they could pot by rigbts work for any rates, but as the Cap- tain of the France had discharged the hated, ae- Vested itallans, they would load his sp for noth- ing. Mr. William Perzell, the Superintendent of the French line, 1b seems, had also endeared bim- Bell to tue ‘lunzsuoremen by DMs agrecabie man- ners and hiualy demeanor, 80 Wat many declared that even ti 1% were not for the Captain they would certuimly not leave the Superintendent im the lurch, ‘ihe men then went to work with @ will, and a number oi ‘lougshoremen probably ever worked better at the Old migh rates than id these suikers at their gratutious task, While on board the Frauce the reporter was requested by one of the men to tell the Captain in French that “1 he wanted 5,000 men lie could have them,” ne Captain, who is @ Sspiendid type o1 the polite Frenci seaman, touched his cap and replied:—“I am very much ovliged to them, but I don’t want any more.” Mr. Perzel says the Italians coala not stow or discharge the cargo properly, more especially a8 much of it consisted of goods easily Gamaged, sucn as bronzes, clocks, laces, silks, &c. He gave it as his opinion that the Italians would never be such good workien as the regular union events. en. At the pier of the Inman ine, No. 45, the City of Moutreal was being discharged. Many of the Jaborers were Italians, who seemed willing enough but bungled somewhat. However, the stevedore and the officers said they were doing the work Satisiactorily aud were improving fast. The ship ‘will probably not complete her siipments before Tuesday next. There seems to be no disposition on the part of this line to re-engage the old men, Mr. Dale, the agent, being well known as an ex- tremely Stubborn Englisnman who never recedes Jrom any position he has once taken, At pier No. 44, of the National line, the Canada ‘Was discharged by mon-society men and a lew italians. The work here also proceeded satis- factorily, and no union men were employed. At the otner pier of this line, No. 47, The Queen was being loaded, ali the ‘longshoremen being nou- union men, She will gail this morning. At plier No. 52, of the White Star line, the Gaelic ‘Was being loaded by about 120 non-cnion men, She is to sail this morning at nine o’ciock. The Strike tn Brooklyn. The ‘longshoremen on strike assumed a more sbreatening attitude than heretofore in Brooklyn yesterday, and kept the police on the alert for a breach of the peace. The shipping was greatly giscommoded by the state of affairs extant. At the Empire stores the men who had agreed with Mr. Shaw, the stevedore, to unload the steam- ship Lord of the Isies, refused to go to work, and the crew were compelled to set to work up on the cargo. The process of unloading waa, therefore, slow and unprofitable to the owners, Hugh Muller, toreman tor Waish Bros., was stabbed in the lace with a Knife wile at the bar o! the Empire saioon, Main street, yesterday. His Assailant made good his escape, and the police jave uot been able to find the ruMan, who ts sown to be one of the “strikers.” {+ 1s but com mou justice, however, to atte that the union men generally denounce, in uumeasured terms, all acts of violence, hey contend that, when tne shipowners are iuily apprised of their case and the inexpediency of refusing vo grant them tne old Tates a8 4 acter Of mutual interest, the old or- dei of business will be resumed once more, The strike in Hoboken. The steamship docks at Hoboken yesterday were the scene of an unusual spectacle, Crowds of the men who Want on strike hovered noar the river | } efit of it to the prisoner. | Mr. Paddock or Mr. Leach 1 NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, ; NOVEMBER 28, aN aay, some &@ stolea] appearance and others muttering fence On the heads of the companies. it not bein; ‘steamer day” there was Very little occasion an active demonstra- tion. The police, however, kept a close watch on the locality, Another enthusiastic meeting of the laborers was held in the alternoon, when the ac- Uon of the brother organizations was indorsed 4nd a firm spirit of resis! manifested. THE COLLINS CASE, How a Man Was Pronounced Innocent— On the Jury—A Strange Verdict in Face of the Testimony. Mr. Timothy 8. Holton, who was foreman of the jury before which August Major was tried lor com- mitting a felonious assault on the person of the young woman known as Eliza Collins, lives at No. 63 West Thirty-first street. He was visited yes- terday at his residence by a representative of the HeRatp in reference to the case and said:— “When we left the Court at the close of the trial and went to the jary room I asked the gentlemen on the jary whether they wished to discuss the matter a little first or whether we should take a ballot, They decided to take @ ballot at once, and I proceeded todo so. I found the jury was elght to acquit Major and four to ind Kim guilty. These tour were Mr. Norcross, Mr. Paddock, Mr. Healy and myself. We then talked the subject over, and after some time took another Vote. On the second ballot we stood 10 to 2, Mr. Paddock and I being the two. We then, Mr. Pad- dock and myself, discussed the matter together, and I said to him, there are ten against us, and these ten minds are certainly less likely to err than we are, and though I feel firm enough in myself and conscientiously right in the position I hold, I am inclined to yield, as there are in my miud some things that almost amount to & doubt He was pretty nearly in the same situation as myself, and after a time we grew to consider the others well entitled to @ concession from us, as many of them seemed to have arrived at a direct conclusion almost im- mediately. Mind you, this would have had no in- fluence over me il were had not been some doubt | in my mind. There was that doubt, and we were charged where there was a doubt, to give the ben- Thad watcned and weighed the evidence carefully, and before leaving the Court | asked the Judge for the exact words of Dr. Day as vo the CONDITION OF THE GIRL before and after the assault and the answers of the accused to the questions put bim about that part of the evidence also. I intended to take these into the jury room with me, in case any of the jurors wanted to refer to them; the Judge did not consider them necessary and explained the point to us before leaving. The doubts in my mind arose irom tbe fact that the girl failed to report or say anything te any one about the offensive famuliarities of the ‘Major’? until after she had left the Island. He had been guilty, sbe complained in her testimony, of ap- proaches offensive to her and she had not re- ported him. He confirmed her testimony as to these approaches, but said they were allowed and courted. You see if these had been going on dur- ing the five daye she was in the hospital, and she had not complained of them to the oilicials, it rather sbook her case, or at least we thought 80. The evidence of the woman Rosina Demarest we threw out altogether. Sne told so much too much; and there was @ (eeling 10 the jury she did not resist allshe could. Aforgey which, re- minded us 01 the giri’s long tiiness and weak con- dition, She certainly looked weak and ili during the trial; but an impression crept in somehow 1rom the evidence that she liked the man. There was a feeling, too, among the jury that they were charged tor acquittal, though I took the charge to be as fair and able a one as Ihaa ever beard, I think Judge Barrett was a8 much astonished as I was at the verdict, and I assure you I never more surprised in my iiie, of Other things, but I don’t care for that. 1 be- eve that wan was guilty. I believed so at the tume I conveyed to the Court the opinion of the jury that he wus not. I believe so still, aud { am convinced of the Woman’s truth and imnocence, 1am not a public censor, and it is not my place to say what I tnink of how the girl’s case Was con- ducted, but I will say what I thought at the time of the trial, and that is that Mr. Laambeer must have had very litte to do when be could spend so much 0} his time around that court. At the Jast ballot in the jury room, after the Judge had sent up word that be would wait but ten minutes for us, Lasked for a show ol hands and then we went back tothe court. I thought all had put their hands up, though one of the Jurors says now he did noc; at ali events it was un- derstood he assented, and we went out. We were desirious of going into court with a verdict, ve- cause the greater part of the jury had been ona case the previovs day and disagreed. For that reason We were anxious to come to an under- standing, Mr. Patrick Healy, of No. 111 Monroe street, was another of the members of the jury called on. He said:—‘l was not sausfed with that verdict, sir, and I did not agree to it. [saw as plain as day irom the evidence that man was guilty. While we were talking over the testimony in the jury room word Was sent that the Judge would only wait ten minutes for us, and some, Who did not want to be locked up all night—1 suppose that is what they Would have done with us—began to hurr: us up. A call of bands was demanded, and all held up their hands but me, d persistently put mine into my pocket so tuat there should be no mistake about it, but that did not avail ine as the thing turned out. We were Jed into the Court. All were ed 11 they agreed to the verdict. Some said yes, and others said nothing. I held down my head and refused to agree to it, but they did not understand me, it seems. { was entirely mistaken in the verdict brought. 1 expected to hear Mr. Holton teli them we could DOL agree, as Was done in the other case, but he told them we had agreed, and acquitted the man. I was completely dumb- founded. I did not know what to do; my conscience was sorely disturbed. I ielt in my heart the man was guilty, and the evi- dence proved it; but Iwas afraid to speak, for I dreaded it I said anything at that moment | would be committing a disrespect to the Court, and I would not do anything of that kind, I thought of speaking to the Judge about it—I know he be- eves the man guilty, and so does Mr. Paddock— but { put it off irom day today. My iriends kept keeping me back, and sol letitgo on. My con- science was not easy, and 1 determined to settle ube matter in one way or another. Then I saw the HERALD, and that brought up the whole thing. I bad not reaq a line oi it before I knew what it contained, and the thought rushed through my mind that the man was acquitted, although guilty, and the girl was sent away with an awiul stain upon her she did not merit. The Judge told us if we sent him away we threw guilt on her, and that was what was done; yet she was innocent and pure. Dr. Day said so; said so strongly, and gave us all the reasons. He is a gentieman, and told the truth directly; but yet, m spite ofall that, a guilty man slipped through the fingers of men who Were satisfied 0! his crime.” SPORTING NOTES The Waras’ four cared shell was won by Mr, Waiter Mann, of the argonauta Boat Club, Mr, Bowie, the well known Canadian amateur pedestrian, runs a mile to-day at Montreal against Mr. Allen. Both gentlemen are in good condition, and the distance will probably be run in about 4:49, The National Grand Chess Tournament now veing played at the Café International, on the Bowery, is progressing slowly. Thanksgiving Day Was 00t aevoted to chess, a8 the players appear to have confined themselves to home amusements, heme Mason, Pertin, Barnard and Diil stil head € List. Protessor Judd evidently means busine: five hundred mile walk against time, He 1 very great care of himseli, and doing stead; every day, so that wuen tue time comes he will start as fit as @ man can, and with the aetermination of fairly testing the endurence owers Of & man in perfect physical condition. ‘he irteuds of Mr. Judd ieel very confident that he will accomplish the feat, and the members of the Athletic Club and other amateur athletic associa- tions anxiously await this great trial ol pluck and endurance, HORSE NOTES, Dan Mace will winter bis trotting stock in Forty-eighth street, near Broadway, where he has built a fine walking ring for exercising horses, and where he will keep the following good ones:— Brown gelding Vanity Fair, bay gelding Uncie Bull, black mare Blanche, black gelding Arthur, chest- nut mare New Berlin Girl, gray horse Plato, bay gelding Myron Perry, the two-year old stailion by Etoan Allen, dam the celebrated running mare Charlotte F., and a number of others, Ben Mace will winter the following trotters in Forty-first street, near Seventh avenue:—Gray gelding Hopeful, black geiding No Name, bay geid- ing Sensation, bay mare Clara G., brown mare Lady Angte, a two-year old filly by Jay Gould, a three-year old Hambletonian stallion and a pair of bays, Winch are very fine trotters, Mr. Bonner’s last purchase, the bay gelding Wellesley Boy, by Godirey’s Patcnen, is trotung very fast, Mr. B. drove him bali @ mule over his new track a few Gays since, the wind biowing hail a gale, in 1:07 34. eliesley Boy was five years ola last spring, and can wot in 2:20. He is one of the Lost promising young horses in this country, He was cheap at $15,000. & Joho Murphy has made arrangements to keep the club house, grounds and track open ana in saod ordes «i Pigetwood Park uptll pext spring, in his ak ing work I may | be called inconsistent aud wavering and a number | for the of trotting horses whenever the Weather is suitable. A large Bumber of horses ‘will be wintered there, Mr. G, N. Ferguson has just commenced to build & Mammoth stable in ey eewond street, near Sixth avenue, It will be 100 feet square and four stories Bigh. Among the very best road horses in the cit: W. B. Harbeck’s new purchase, @ black gel ing by Henry Clay. He is strong, smooth gaited an wonderiully fast. Mr. Onaries Barker is driving a fast bay team that are bard to beat at any distance. John Langan drives @ very fast and promisin; oung black gelding, that is nicely gaited, goo King and is a perfect horse for a genticman, David Bopner has sold his pretty gray mare by Hambietonian, dam the dam of Lettery. Mr. Bon- ner has quite @ number of fine young horses of fashionable strains of blood that are very promis- Goldsmith sold a very Sine colt by Volunteer, dam by Rysdyk’s Hambietonian, and a yearling filly by Volunteer, dam Volunteer Girl, to Mr. Richard Richards, of Racine, Wis., last week for @ good price. Gvoa stock for tne West. ‘he managers O' trotting tracks in the East have decided to bold their spring meetings on the fol- lowing 4: Philadelphia, commencivg May 25; Prospect Park, June 1; Hartford, June 8; Provi- dence, June 15; Mystic Park, June 22, and Beacon Park, June 29. All the purses and c asses to be the same at each ooking. and the entries will close on the same day. Delegates from each of the above tracks will meet at the Everett House in this city on the Sth of December to complete arrangements, Mr. John Harbeck, Jr., drove the black gelding Gilt Edge a mile to & road wagon over the Fleet- wood Park track on Thursday last in 2:3934. AMUSEMENTS, Italian Opera—Last Night of the Season. The regular fall season of the Italian opera closed last evening, on the twenty-seventh sub- scription night, before an overwhelming audience, with a very fine performance of “Lonengrin.” Mile. Emma Albani confirmed the good im- Pression she created on Wednesday, and pre- opera charming in its naturulness and simplicity, emotional in its delimeation of pure love and hol ith, vocally perfect even in passages in which there was a strong temptation to exagger- ate, and conscientiously earnest im every scene. ‘the Lohengrin of Carpi was ae nobie a vocal performance as on the first evening, and was dgevoia of dramatic fire. Miss Cary Del_ Puente gave effect to the roles of Ortrud and Telramund, and the chorus and orchestra were generally satisfactory. escapades on the part of the latter, especial among the brass instruments, and some unsteadi- ness in the concerted music with the former were observable. The Concert Season, There were two very interesting orchestral rebearsals yesterday afternoon at the Academy of Music and at Steinway Hall, At the tormer house @ small audience attended the first Philharmonic rebearsal for the second concert. The following works were rehearsed:—Symphony, No. 3, in Eb. major, Schumann: 1. Allegro; 2. Scherzo; 3. An- dante; 4 Allegro; 5. Presto, Andante, from the Trio, op. 97, Beethoven. instrumentea by Lisat. Overture, “Les Abencerages,” Cher- ubini. Overture, “Carnival Romain,” Berlioz, At Steinway Hall there was one of the largest audiences of the season assembled to hear the rehearsal of Thomas’ orchestra for she second grand symphony concert, which takes place this evening. ‘The programme was as follows:—Suite, in B minor (first time), Bach: 1, Grave—Fugue; 2, Sarabande; 3, Polona et Doubie; 4, Badin- erte; Mute obligato by Mr. Oarl Wehner. Adagio and Rondo Brillanre, in A major, op. 66, Hammel; Mr. Henry C. Timm and orchestra. Symphony, No, 1, 10 B, oP. 88, schumann: 1, Andante un poco e maestoso—A! 0 molto vivace; 2, Larghetto; 8, Scherzo; Allegro animato e grazios Trio, “lremate, empy tremate,” op, 116 (first time), Beethoven, for soprano, tenor and bass; Miss ‘Clementine’ Lasar, Mr. Charles Eritsch and Mr. Franz Remmertz. Symphonic Poem, “Die ideale” (nach Scoiller), Liszt, Mr. Mills was to ted the Raff concerto, but, having notified Mr, ‘Thomas on the night before the rehearsal of hi inability to appear, Mr. Timm was obliged to take his place at short notice, Gilmore’s Band celebrate the anniversary of their organization by @ concert this evening, at the Twenty-second Regiment armory. ‘The s0lo- ists will be Miss Violetta Colville, Mme Jule De Betnee Arbuckle, Lefebre, Letsch and Heim- erger. Carl Formes gives a farewell concert at Stein- Way Hall on Sunday night. THE ACADEMY oF DESIGN.—A farewell gala ma- tinée will be given by Strakosch’s artists to-day. The programme will comprise the first act of “Traviata,” the first act of ‘Norma’ and the third act of “Faust.” The second act of ‘‘Dino- rab” will also be given in French. Nearly the whole strength of the company will be brought out, In order to increase the attraction the management have adopted popular prices. Performance at halfpast one P. M. THE FirrH AVENUE THEATRE.—‘The Heart of Mid-Lotnian,” @ Scottish drama written by Dion Boucicault, which has met with much favor, will be given at the matinée to-day. Performance at two P. M, Watack’s.—The second matinee of Shaughraun,’? Boucicault’s most entertaining play, will be given at this house to-day. Perform. auce begins at hali-past one P, M. BooTH’s.—Jefferson gives his last performance of Rip Van Winkle in his present engagement, at vhe matinée to-day. It begins at hall-past one P. M, THE LYCEUM THEATRE.—The last matinée per- formance of “La Fille de Madame Angot” takes place to-day at baif-past one P. M. THe PARK THEATRE.—Mark Twain’s drama, “The Gilded Age,” mamtains its hold on the pub- Me attention. The Colonel’s hospitality 1s un- friends to a turnip feast at the matinée perform- ance at two P. M. Tue GRaND OPERA Hovust.—The first matinée of the revived “Black Crook” will be given at this house to-day. Performance at haif-past one o'clock P, M. NIBLO’s.—‘‘Pizarro” will be presented at the matinée performance in this house. Begins at half-past one o’clock P. M. Roman HipropRomE.—The Fete at Pekin” will be repeated at the Hippodrome for the benefit of the public. Periormance at two o’clock P. M. MRS, CONWAY’S BROOKLYN THEATRE.— Miss Clara Morris appears in the rdle of Lady Macbeth at the matinée at this hcuse to-day. It will be her last appearance but one during her present engage- ment. Woop’s MusEuM.—A highly flavorea sketch of metropolitan life called “Twice Round tne Clock” Will be given at the matinée. Periormance begins at two P. M. i METROPOLITAN THEATRE.—A strong bill of at- tractions Is offered at this house. Lola and other Javorie artists appear at the matinée. Perform- ance at two P. M. THE OLYMPIC.—The Dutch militia parade, un- der the command of Gus Williams & Co., at tne matinée to-day. Performance begins at two P. M. Tue GLOBE THEATRE.—“The Four Prophets’? will amuse the public with their ratiocinations tms aiternoon. THEATRE CoMIQue,—Seizing on the events of the day the management presents ‘The Lock-Out; or. The ’Longshoremen’s Strike.” Even this sad in- cident is not without its funny side, and the com- edians naturally prefer the jolliest view. The “Regular Army” will also be reviewed at the mat- inée periormance. March begins at two P. M. ‘THE SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS Will give their usual family matinée at two P. M. Bryant’s OPERA Hovse.—The holds out at this house. It is an excessively amasing burlesque. It will form part of the pro- gramme of the family matinée given to-day at two P, M. Tony Pastor’s.—The ‘‘Boulevard Brigade” have their headquarters at this house. They appear on parade at the matinée to-day, “Deluge” still Dramatic Notes, Jefferson's engagement at Booth’s terminates this evening. On Monday we may look out for the “Widow Hunt” and Major Wellington de Boots, alter playing Old Nick at Niblo’s Miss Julia Seaman essays the rdle of Hamlet to-night at Booth’s. Miss Margaretta Moore will appear at Associ- ation Hall on Tuesday next in her dramatic read- ings, Which have already won her # generous, popular appreciation. Both the talente and beauty of this lady entitie her to true success, Miss Bessie Darling and a govud company are meeting with great success im the drama calied “Her Face Her Fortune,” at Scranton, Pa. She next plays in Wilkesbarre, same State. The Scrantou press speak exceediagly well of her acting. sented @ portrait of the heroine of Wagner's | A few | “The | bounded, and he will be glad to welcome Dis — - WAR OF THE CHURCHES. Monsignor Capel’s Reply to Mr. Cladstone. How He “Turned His Back to the Light.” LORD CAMOYS SUPPORTS THE EX-PREMIER Mgr. Capel has replie1 at great length in of London Weekly Register to the strictures of Mr. Gladstone on the decrees of the Vatican Council. We are enabled to lay before our readers extracts of the more important passages of the reply. Referring to the more immediate motive of the ex-Premier’s “political expostulations” the Ro- man prelate remarks:—He had been contending with the champions of an opposite Church party recently in Parliament, end in his desire to help the Ritualtsts he has, per- haps, inadvertently proclaimed a common crusade of Protestants against the Catholic Chureh. The masked battery exploded at once and naturally caused some coniusion and annoy- ance, yet he seems surprised at finding that he had opened a new line of attack and defence at the same time, and that he had advanced further into neutral territory than the laws of fair courtesy Warranted, Qué s’exouse s'acouse. accordingly he now justifies his aggressions on Catholicity by try- ing to deface the first wound by means of new scars equally undeserved, and whico call for the indignation of all fair and can- aid persons, whether Protestants or Catholics, He had to discuss, ag he avows, ‘the question whether a handful of the clergy are or are not engaged in an utterly hopeless and visionary ef fort to Romanize the Church and people of Eng- land; but he betook himself to a wholly different matter—the abuse of 4 Ponti and a Church who had done him no wrong. How tar abuse of the Catholic Church will in the end beip the ritualists is a question which only persons 0! bold specula- tion will venture at present to solve. We think that his zeal, if the term is appropriate, has exceeded his discretion, and that he has done the itualists much damage.” Mgr. Capel goes on to say:—‘‘Our first thought on ascertain! ng the purport of Mr. Gladstone’s pamphiet, was followed by a desire to learn what reasons he Would assign for arriving at the ex pos- Jaco conclusions be has been so slow in pubilsh. ing. Que tanta Roman tivi casua videndit The answer is, perhaps, sufficiently obvious, He is, tngeed, it seems, the victim of ‘expostulation? in more senses than one. ‘More than one friend of mine,’ he says, ‘among those who have been led to join the Roman Catholic communion has maae this passage the subjeot, more or less, of expostula- tion.) A second and larger edition of his opinion was, it seems, suagerten by this remonstrance; Dae oetone of its being pacific, it 1a much more warlike. for the battle, and spends his force mainly against converts, though while in office he viewed them as no unworthy associates in his administration. ‘This is one of those laudable instances in which a man’s practice is better than his theory. In every page, however, the reader finds an ex- empiification of Cardinal Wiseman’s beautiful illustration of a person looking at a statned glass window from wituout, Hesees nothing but dis- tortion and deformity, while those inside regard it as a thing of beauty, and a brilliant evidence of the artist’s genius,’? Referring to Mr. Gladstone’s observations ON THE CHARACTER OF CONVERTS to Catholicism, Mgr. Capel says:—“Notwithstand- ing the Protestantism of England, which from time to time finds such flerce and bitter expres. sions, there is an interest awakened in the faith and doings of tne Catholic Church. There is a spirit of inquiry—our literature constantly bring: the Church, {none or other of its aspects, beiore men’s minds. The records of the past are studied. Catholic urt and architecture are revivea, Our very works of fiction, our operas and dramas, deal with sudjects connected with the Catholic religion. There is less ignorance, less bigotry, in personal contact with Catholics a1 home and abroad. This has done and is doing much to dispel prejudices; yet more, the High Church clergy in the Angiicdn communion are doing much, It is true that they are opposing and even assailing their true mother, but, at the same time, they are imbuing the minds of man. With those very doctrines of the Catholic fait! which tueir forelathers rejected. They are making them accustomed to the idea of the sacraments ot the definite truth of @ life of devotion. The spirit of God is at work in our midst. All these things indicate growth and progress. They seem to show that the hold of the Catholic Church on the country is becoming stronger and firmer, that God, in His great mercy, 18 again offering to our countrymen that great giit of the true taith which was cruelly rent [rom them 300 years ago. May He, in His mercy, grant them grace to receive it, and then we may say that England will accomplish her true mission in the world.” Alter an elaborate argument, intended to prove THE PERFECT ALLEGIANCE OF ROMAN CATHOLICS in Great Britain, Mgr. Capel concludes his article as jollows:—“Tnere are milions upon millions,’ says Mr. Gladstone, “of the Protestants of this country who Would agree with Archbishop Man- ning he were simply telling us that divine trath is not to be sought from the lips of the State nor to be sacrificed at its command.” Why does not Mr. Gladstone say that all Protestants are of one accord on this matter? However, the next sentence 1s ebvi- ously contradictory of the one just quoted, for ne adds:—“But those men would tell him in return | that the State, as the power which is alone re- sponsible to the external order of the world, can alone conclusively and Onaily be competent to de- termine what is to take place in the sphere of that external order.” Now this language is rather vague and inaccurate. No single state is respon- sible ‘ior the external order of the world.” the argument moves ina circle. To whom ts tne State responsible? To its subjects. And to Wuom are the subjects responsible? To the State, which “can alone conclusively and finaliy be competent to determine its province.” Duty, then, is to be learned from the State by those to whom alone the State is responsible. Surely Mr. | Gladstone ought to know that conscience is re- garded by Protestants as supreme in ali matters, and that if, as he alleges, it is not to be taught by a Church still less isit tobe taught by @ State. The reason why Catholic teaching bind- inj on us is because it is first cepted by the individual conscience. Our conscience leans us to accept the doctrine of an authori- tative and intallible Church, which after- ward amply repays this adhesion of conscience by guiding it aright on future occasions, just a8 the value of the syllogism is first ascertained sub- jectively, and that imsirument of reasoning 1s atterward used without turther proof, though the evidence Of its truth and use as a standard of ratiocination, may be torgotten. But Mr. Glad- stone would merge all moral and religious obiiga- uions in the blunt precept to bear the State in her own sphere, while he has admitted in a hundred pend that duty and conduct are inseparable. ‘he obiigation, however, which imposes the duty Ot allegiance upon Catholics is derived from the natural as well as the revealed Jaw, that all power is medial from God, though mediately through the forms of monarchy, aristocracy and democracy. Lord Camoys Assents to the Gladstone Exposition. (From the London Times, Nov. 14.] We bave been requested by Lord Camoys to pub- lish the lollowing lette HENLEY-ON-THAMES, Nov. 18, 1874. Deak MR. GLaDsTONE—In your “Expostulation” you have appealed to those Engiteh Roman Catho- lics who concur in the views you have therein ex- pressed. ASI am one of those who so concur, L am bound to say 80. No one is more entitled than yourself to an expression of confidence Irom those who have benefited by the great principles of civil and religious liberty by which you have been invariably guided. I concur in the proposi- tion you have stated, though I regret in reference to the reign of Queen Mary you should have con- sidered it Necessary to use the term “bloody.” It 1s unnecessary to argue upon the accuracy of the expression. That word has always been and {s offensive to the Roman Catholics, and was not heeded to support your assertion, { believe it to be perfectly true, since that reign it was not possible for the party to whom you allude—l presume the Ritualists—and you might have added for the Roman Catholics, and I add for both combined, though they might tend to overthrow the Katablished Onurch, yet could never make this @ Roman Catholic country. Lord Acton and yourself have drawn attention, and quite appropriately, to the language held by the Komau Catholic clergy and laity previous to emancipation, when the distinction between the civil and spiritual duties of Catholics was elearly defined and intallibility emphatically denied. Had any Catholic of importance then said, am @ Catholic first and an Englishman after,” and that without the slightest reservation, and had that expression been deiended by a Catholic Archbishop of that day as it has been de- Jended by the Arohbishop of Westminster, I very mveh doubt if Catholic emancipation would bave been granted. In noticing your ‘“Expostu- janon" the Archbishop of Westminster 1a his tp i ‘x wentg that there pn no change in the obiigations of e Roman Gatnotles vo the civil wer in consequence of the publication of the Vatican decrees. Now, ts this sof Ii is not likely the pres- ent Pope Will adopt against Queen Victoria the course pursued by the then Pupe against Queen Ehzabeth, but here 18 no telling what edict might be issued by the author of the Syilabus, Assuming an edict were now Issued tending to weaken or destroy allegiance, what a dil- ferent position a Roman Vatholic woukt be in now irom what he would have been in then! In- ywibuity Was mot then # matter of compulsory beliel, and he would have bean at libarty to refuse L While crying ‘Peace, peace,’ he prepares | ck. ‘hen | | speculations, 1874.-WITH SUPPLEMENT. compnance with such an edict; Dut what would be the effeot of nis belief in the personal in He must either withhold his alle; hand, or risk bis salvation on not this new obiigation To be com- pelied to believe under severe penalties now to what we were at liberty disbelieve then with = fmpanit is surely a new obligation. As an independent English Roman Catholic, | con- sider it my duty to m this iponse to you Much may be said of the serious dificui- | members of the Roman Catuolic hout the world will be placed in by Hed to believe tn the Vatican decrees, that bistory, common sense, Deing com, For myself, I will say and my early instruction, forbid me to accept the astounding and novel (novel, at least, its ent promulgation) doctrine of the personal Firanpuley of the Pope, though limited, as as- serted, to the large domain of faith and morals, 1 remain yours faithfully, CaMoyYs. THE SUNDAY LAW. The following communication signed by many well known citizens 1s an indication of popular interest in the Sunday amusement question :— To Tux Boanp or Poutce Commissionnes:— The undersigned, citizens of w York, respectfully call your attention to the flagrant and increasing viola- tions of the law of the State which pronabits theatrical «i other entertainments on the stage on Sundays; and is law may be prompuy and impartially en- torced against all offenders:— Jonathan Sturges. L. B. Woodruff. E. D, Morgan, John BE. Parsons, Jas. Brown. Danie) Parish. Jas: Lenox, Royal Phelps. Joho Jay Ciseo, Moses Taylor. Norman White, Bamael an. ae kn Fred. G" Foster. Wm. f. Podge, a L. rancher. fas, M. Morrison. as. Tracy. Horace Gray. fiternon ‘ suulivan, Win, C. Jenkins, as : fontah 0. Low. ‘burlo ‘Wm. H. Neilson, John D. Jones. ex. Stuart Thos. B. Acton. weary Q, Marquand. joseph Ogden. David Dows. Wm. A. Booth. Winthrop 8. Gilman, Samuel B. Schieffelin. ‘m. M. Evaris. 2. G. Holland. . K. Corning. Willard Parker, M. D. las. M. Brown. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr. © Howard Potter. R. L, Kennedy. John C. Havemeyer. EC. Benedict. Saml. B. H. Vance. J. Pierpont Morgan, Alex. Van Rensselacr. Valentine G. Hall. John Steward. Robert L. Stuart. Saml. B, Babcock. A. 8, Hatch. . C, M. Paton. Charles ©. Colgate. N. eS D. F. Appieton. Crosby Brown. ¥, G. Sellew. . t, Morgan. John H. Earle. Charles Butie! James B. Johnston. MK seseap, Paton & Oo, Jeremiah Skidmore. Harvey Fisk. Henry B, Marshall. D. Willis James. Russell Sage. Frederick sehack. Jeuse Hoyt Frederick Schuchardt. Carlos Cobb. C. &. Rosenmiller, M. D, E. J, Wilthaus, i 8. A Sawyer. E, 4. Kent, W. S. Wallace. George W. Smith, HH. swirt Shepherd Knapp. D, M. Rollins, Josinh M. Fisse, Al G, Swifh ©. R, Robert. Charles Lamer. Lester Wallack. jathan Bis! ‘mm. G, Lambert, George D. Puffer, 2. T. cords. Cyrus W. Field. lon. Dion Boucicault, orimer Graham. Arch Baxter, loodito. Daniel Quig. juand. LT. Hoyt. ard. Benry Parish. John T. Terry. Frederick Sturges, . Agnew, M. D. George A. Crocker, Wim. Barbour. bert Jafray. Alfred Ogden. W EL. Moore. ai, K. Stearns. Ebenezer Beadlestone. Roswell Smith. Nathaniel A. Williams B. B. Atterbury. Joseph Thompson. B. W. Flo; John P. Cumming. Robert Carter & Bros. Anson W. Hard. James McCreery. Wm. E. Dodge, Jr. Thomas ©. Doremus, Wa, Vigelius. MR. Friabie. D. Jackson Steward. ALY. i Stuyvesant, P. C. Schuyler, ‘Otis B. Swan. Isaac Odel J. W. Pinchot. Hatch & Foot. 3.N. Fhelpe, John A. Stewart, Wilber: elon William Dowd. J. Wavemeyer. M. Turnure. J. E, jawrence Turnure. J. Requa. Henry & wiley. E. Wheeler, Benjamin B. Sherman. B. id. Loyal 3. Pond. J. X. W. Chater. c ‘W. H. Howell. P. Stephen M. Knevals. D. Horace A. Foot Richard i, Bull. Ww 5 ©. Burkhalter. Carlisle Norwood. George K, Lansing. Clarence A. Seward D, B. Keeler. J. M, Halstead. George N. Titus, J. H. Pinkney. John Jacob Astor. A. D. F. Randolph. Henry B. Renwick. ‘Thomas L. Thornell, A. H. Lafin. Francis C, Barlow. George H. Sharpe G. V.-B, Oxtrand Walliam Jaitray. Frederick H. Betts. “MODERN SCIENTIFIC THOUGHT.” eee eee Lecture Before the Xavier Union, at De | Garmo. Hall, Last Night, by Cornelius M. O'Leary, A. M., M. D., Ph. D. DeGarmo dall last night presented a brilliant Scene, the occasion being the gathering of the | not get Catholic wealth and intelligence of the city to listen to ©. M. O'Leary, A. M., M. D., Ph. D., de- liver a lecture on the “Tendencies of Modern Sci- entific Thought,” The lecture was given under the auspices of the Xavier Union, whose invitation | the Doctor accepted to address the Catholics of | | New York on what is popularly known as Tyndall- | ism. Notwithstanding the prefatory excuse, “1 ‘Will of necessity be sketchy rather than profound, discursive and disjoiuted rather than logical and orderly,” the lecture was a model of construction, The brevity to which the pregnant subject was confined in a iecture added to the | terseness and pungency of some of the truths enunciated, and made them patent to many who | would not otherwise have appreciated ‘them. Throughout the whole reading a wWeil-sustained eifort to be neither popular nor technical was | and the very abstruseness of the | noticeable, subject Was invested with interest, After ap interesting narrative of the causes wuich have led te the new (as ft 1s called) school oi materialism of which Mill, Huxiey, dall and Darwin are the champions, the | Doctor traced their modes 0! reasoning to | ‘Tyn- | grade of civilization there is & corresponding m- provement in woman’s position, and ber rignts are better defined and protected by law. Thusit is claimed the consideration and influence women bold in any society is @ fair guide as to Its degree ofctvilization. This was fllustrated by a reference to ancient Egypt. The position of women in Ori- ental conntrics was noted, showing that it was but slightly above that In savage life, AD extract from an Old legal treatise on Hindoo law showed She low estimate placed on woman’s fidelity and virtue. The legal position of women in Greece and Rome was relerred to. In the former woman held a very obscure place in public Ife and were in perpetual _ tutelage, the son, even, being a guardian to his own mother; and whie Greece was fertiie in great men there was @ remarkabie scarcity of reat women in her history. In Rome women eld & more conapicnons place in ber social, pub- lc and religious Iife. The establishment of Chrise Wanity exercised a most favorable influence om the elevation of women. The common law was shOWD to be, to & great extent, influenced by the vast system Of feudalism, and hence under ft the roprietory rights of women were denied. The legal Oction of the unity of the married pair was @ controlling principle of that law, and the hus- band was the representative of ‘this legal untt. Women under this law suffered many hardships in their personal and property rights, We adopted the English law, but have considerably changed i¢ by legisiation, Vermont taking the 1840, id New York in 1848, olished many of the old ais- tinctions, and under our law at present 8 married woman has an equal capacity to acquire, own and Gispose of property with her bnsbeng ; and cap enter into any trade or business on her own ac count, and use the income, Iree from her husband’s control, She can act ip the capacity of executrix or administratrix without her husbanii’s consent, On the whole, her position ts iree and indepen- Gent as the most ardent reformer could desire, PLYMOUTH PRAYER MEETING. Different Rules Required for Ordinary and Extraordinary Experiences. Mr. Beecher entered the well filled lecture room earlier than usual last evening, and had @ very Pleasant chat with one of the brethren and @ stranger, whom he had brought with bim, before ascending the platform. after the singing of @ hymn Brother Shearman prayed, and in bis prayer said, “Oh, God! we bless Thee for our triais that sre past and for those yet to come ;we rejoice in darkness when Thou art in the cloud.” After another prayer and hymn Mr. Beecher sald:—We have ruics laid down for the ordinary experiences of life, but sometimes there come extraordinary circum- stances which demand extraordinary treatment, Thua, we have rules that govern our common life, but im times of sickness, or any extraordinary cir- cumstances, these rules fail, and men must adapt themaeives to extreme circumstances by extreme methods. Now, in casting our care on the Lord as we are commanded to do, we are directed tm regard to the ordimaty flow of life, but now and then there will come something to shatter ali ordinary experi- ences, and tt 1s quite tn vain to command a per- son to do this, that or the other for the time veing. It is notin regard to the extraordinary experi- ences { will speax, but of the ordinary. We suffer from the ordivary troubles, from want of faith. Life loses its life and favor from reasons which, when we look closely into them, ought to make us asbamed. We smile to see cnildren enjoying their little illusions, and forget it is ourselves all over again on a larger scale. If we could imagine an angel as much more ex- Perienced than we a6 we are than our chil- dren we would get some idea of it. There are three elements absolutely indispensavle to patience and enjoyment under trouble. One is the invincible belief in a divine and special Provi- Gence, a personal and particular Providence. It does not follow thatit 18 ab arhitrary power, but We must feel that there is a living power and thas We are copvoyed by that power. The next thing, we are to regard the events of this life as preparatory to another, just as @ school is the prep- aration for a university. One more thing, aside jJrom Providence, the sense of the divine, the pres- ence, real to us, of divinity—God present with ns—and we must imagine our God as a person, Not an abstract government, and Be muss be our Goud, He must be digested by love with our per> sonality; He mast be my God, The sense of ap- proctison is indispensable to the sense of bene fit that is to accrue to us, IN THaT TRINITY OF TRUTHS ft seems to me,@ man may build a life of great Dappiness. Thus, it a man would live happy and cheerful, he must make oF his mind to doit. Say, “f mean to be happy.” If a man makes up his mind to have a roofover his house he hasit. It he cannot have copper be will take tin; ii he can- mot get tin he will take shingles; i! he can- shingles ne will shatch = it— aaything to keep the storms out. I! a man says, 1 recognize my immortality, I recognize that ser- vice to God 18 pod gh ts service, Iam contented to take what God gives me, my business. is. to svand here and be huppy; tnat tsetd say, not exbil- erated nor flashing, but contented, trustinl, | am willing 1o bear what he sends, Suppose it is pain, God wished somebody to bear pain without mur- muring, and I will do it. “Thy will be done.’’ A sok dier feels highly honored i! hig superior picks nim out for some dangerous duty, Gots a it may carr, him into the midst of death, and if he ialis his friends are proud of him. We are the Lord’s, and are dearer to Him than to our. selves. Greater love hath no man_ than to give his iife. God cares for yon all the time. If He calls you to suffer take tt from the hand of the Lord and say nt Wilt be done,” and that ends it. We say “Thy will be done,” but our own will is what we want. The same Lord taught us to pray, “Give us this day our dally bread.” Say I'll work for it, and if 1 cannoy &st iv Il lve without it. No, you won’t; you'll die; and, glory be to God, that is the BEST OF ALL, What ts there in that but honor and joy and giad- ness? This is enough. Perhaps yoo will want te ask Some question, and I'll give you a chance, the conclusions at which tbey had _ arrived, and then returned to criticise the same, | Their repudiation of ail & priort evidence 01 pecessity made their conclusions at best mere ‘The forms of research which they ooserve in science, he said, they brought to bear | On religiun and spiritual things. The injustice of the means was too evident, he thought, to afford much room for moot. Why not measure water by | ‘vhe yard and itnen by the gallon? THK SPIRITUALITY OF THE SOUL. In speaking of mental phenomena which the Progressive scientists ascribe to the nervous sys- Tem, the lecturer said, “They mistake the mani- lesting medium of thought fur thought itself and | confound the buman soul, by which we are likened to the Deity, with the gross and cated bouy in which it ts imprisoned, and through wnich it Ioost imperfectly reveais its glorious existence.” ‘The lecturer scouted the idea that religion retarded Science, in these words, “Sound physiology cannot inveigh against the soul on the ground that it hampers its inquiries or circumscribes the field of its operations. Tne physiologist may localize every khown function irom mere sensation, ‘up to the subtiest intellectual process, in complete | consistency with the admission of spiritual sub- stance as their active principle.” THE RELIGION OF BOSH. In speaking of the effect of destroying the beilef | in the spirituality of the soul the lecturer made | use of these words—‘Emotional and sentimental , religion, the dogma of convenience, the only | reilgion these men deign to countenance, will one day shrivel hke a scroll before the roaring Name of Rouse Passions, let loose from the leashes of moral accountability; and the stronger the hold Tyndall’s and his confessed opinions take on the public mind, the greater the favor they meet with, thinner ana thinner in proportion will vecome the crust on which even now we walk over a seething mass of maddened humanity.” THE MUTUAL BATTLE GROUYD, Orthodox people, the lecturer said, had become | 80 terrified at the nae and cry of materialism that | they refused to have anything to do with it. ‘They | shunned it as a blight, and retired into security | behind the bulwarks of faith. They seemed to | avoid a contest in the open neutral fleld, which imagination locates as somewhero in the plane between the citadels of religion and sctence. They challenge the man clad in the armor of science to come and measure lances with them iu their own flela—the fleld of theology. They ask him to fight witn weapons with which he is in @ measure quainted. If this foe is to be defeated he m be met on the open plain, and, his late succes: haviag made him bold, he wil! not object to a chal lenge. His defiance to religion to discuss subjects relating to the soul on the scientific heath is already published, The orthodox warrior must equip himself with scientific weapons—all the latest developments of science in physiology and psychoiogy—and, with his armor of theology tightly duckled on, sally jorth to meet and van- quisb the arrogant invader. The lecture occupied two hours tn the delivery, and at the close the lecturer was enthusiastically applauded, It sald that the Doctor will soon again meet ti @udience to discuss subjects kindred to the one of laat evening—subjecta which he was constrained to merely allude to in the “Tenaenctes of Modern Sclentite Thought,” owing to the brief limits to which he was confined. He as circamscrived only as regards time, for no dience, no matter how indulgent, would care to Sit and listen for more than two nours, WOMAN'S LEGAL POSITION. There was a large attendance last evening at Piympton Hall to hear a lecture on “Woman’s Legal Position” that was delivered by Mr. Jonn Proffatt, of the New York Bar. The lecturer spoke of the inferior position of woman in barbarian Ife, arising from her natural feebleness, where might determined right, It is a law of social de- Volopment that as sociely advances to’a higher As no one responded to Mr. Beecher’s invitation be resumed. It is a very good thing in conierences to hear men talk of how much they enjoyed the praying and the meeting; but nine-tenths of them lon’t tell the real things they se That door yonder 18 a very good door now tt is shut; bat open it and it will squeak every time. Some eople are like that door, all right till you open hem, and then there is a squeak somewhere. MEDICO-LEGAL SOCIETY, The monthly meeting of the Medico-Legal So- ciety took place at the building of the College of Physicians and Surgeons jastevening. There was @ good attendance, and Mr. Clark Bell, the President of the. society, read bis inaugural address upon his third elec- tion to the presidency of the society. He said that the present roll of resident or active members contained three hundred and forty-eight names and Of Corresponding members twenty- nine. He referred to the changes which had taken place in the laws of the State dur- ing the past year concerning the treatment and trial o: the insane, and assigned the dis- cussion of the question in the Medico-Legal Society as the main reason O! these changes, There was & Pee conviction that gross abuses might have been and were sometimes practised, and there was a general demand that greater safe- guards be thrown arouna the liberty of the citizen and that it be practically impossibie to cause the incarceration of @ person as an alleged lunatic Who was of sound mind, Mr. Bell concluded his able address by alluding to the purposes and aims of the society and to its success, Subsequently Dr, James O's Oo! Staten Island, read & Vaiuable paper, entiti Special Causes of Suicide.” He traced the several workings oi the mind of the would-be suicide and considered the several causes, such as hereditary influence, education, literature, domestic trouble: intoxication and occupation, which would lei the untortanate being to attempt self-inflicted death. The paper was avery able one, and was listened to with attention. Aiter this the meeting adjourned, THE EXOQISE DEPARTMENT. Business was of the briskest character in the Excise Department yesterday. There were more apphoations made for licenses, and, consequently, there was more money rece in the depart- ment than during several months past. Through- out the day the oMicers of the department were crowded with liquor dealers, many of whom have hitherto been kept from applying for licenses by the hope that the Liquor Dealers’ Agsociation would be able to overbear the Excise Oommis- sioners. That hope was destroyed by the result of the Schwab case; and, in the fear of being treated itke Schwab if they persisted in violating the Exctse laws, they flocked to to the Commis- sioners and gracefully handed in their applica- tions and money. The Commissioners say that they will act generously toward most of the liquor dealers whom they have had in- dicted if they now bi san They must, however, take out licenses they Keep respectabio Places; of, if their houses are resorts for the dis- orderly and vicious, they must close them, other- wise the Excise Commissioners will press the in- Gictinents sturdily. They regard many of the liquor dealers who have been indicted forreius- ing to take out licenses as the mere tools and dupes Of the Organizers of tue Liquor Dealers’ As- Soctation, every one o: whom, the Commissioners Say, was refused @ license. rhe number of appifcations for licenses made yesterday was avout 140, and the sum disbursed RROD @pplicants was in the meuhborhved of 10, 000,