The New York Herald Newspaper, December 15, 1874, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD, TUESD. AY, DECEMBER 15, 1874.-TRIPLE SHEET. ae woiskers and mustache, five feet nine incnes in ight. His features were decidediy unpreposse: ing, rtion Of bis nose being eaten away by can. cel @ Hirst jolut othe Gra: fuger of the right band is missing. In bis pocket was found a caustic pencil, and a few matches. Douglas, who was @ desperado tn appearance, was about thirty-five years old, had carroty red hair and mustache of the same hue, crooked nose, but otherwise regular features, He had evidently enjoyed a fairer share Of intelligence than bis elder companion in crime. At an early hour iu the mornin; THE COUNTRY PEOPLE, among whom the story spread with the rapidity of wildfire, red about the scene of the tragedy and pee: uriously et the dead bodies ou the porch. Among the curious spectators Was a sere vant girl, who recognized in the deceased two men whom she had seen tn her master’s yard during she pight. A map named Van Riper, who keeps saloon, distant about a mile from the Van Brant Property, recogniz*1 in them two men who has rtaken of reiresnments at his place at a late Pour on Sunday nigut. Both men were very shab- Dilly dressed. DOUGLAS IDENTIFIED A8 A CHILD STEALER. A domestic in the employ of Justice OC. W. Church, of Fort Hamilton, identified Dougias as a man who had attempted, in July last, to abduct Charley Church, aged five sears, and The man, the woman satd, had fondied the boy CHARLEY ROSS Boy Shot Dead Yesterday at Bay Ridge. ‘a BURGLAR’S DYING CONFESSION. How the New York and Philadelphia Detectives Obtained a Clew. uni he had gained his entire coufisence, and then, taking him by the hand, was abou: to lead the child away. The wom D says a8 sOon as she missed she proceeded aiter the mas, in company ha gn, and, overtaking him, had considerable trouble beiore they coulu regain pos- session of Chartey. This remarkabie recoguition of the dead enhanced the interest of the rustics in the tragedy and drove out all feclings 0! su:row for the fate of the deceased, Constable John Hoilund, of Bay Ridge, took the Van Brunts, Scot and Frank, tuto custody to abide tue result of the Coroner’s inquest. is, 0! course, nothing more than a matter of form, as they were entirely justifed in their cours: THE BAY RIDGE TRAGEDY. Justice Church reached the scene at an early how | ana telegraphed the tucts to Coroner Lawrence Whitemill, of Brooklyn. Unaertaker Coay to remove the bodies to the “ity Morgue, where toey were taken In the atternoon, Arrangements have veeu made by Coroner White- hill for holding the inquest on Wednesday. Dr, A, M, Shepherd wili hold a post-mortem examination over the bodies to-day. THE TELEGKAPH CALLED INTO REQUISITION, Justice Church sent tue following telegram to Superintendent Walling, of New York Two burglars, Willlam Mosher and Jos were killea here last night Do Douglas declared, when dying, that Charley Koss. WHERE IS THE CHILD? Superintendent Walling’s Suspicions and the Way They Were Justified. ‘The public interest in the Ross abduction case | ‘was revived and the identity of the men who ab- | ducted the child established yesterday beyond a doubt in a way that was as tragical as it was un- expected, 11 would seem that ever since the de- scription given by the little brother of Charley Ross of the “two men in @ buggy’ was made | public, Superintendent Walling of the Police feit certain that it answered the description of two burglars, named Mosher and Douglas, who gener- ally “worked” in company. Starting out un- hesitatingly witn that conviction, the police have with the greatest secrecy ever since, under his di- rection, been laboring day and night in order to trace the scoundrels to their lair. From a variety of causes they fatied, but the dying statement of one ofthe two men, botn of whom were killed yesterday while perpetrating a burglary at Bay Ridge, near Fort Hamilton, shows conclusively that Mr. Walling’s suspicions as to who the abduc- tora were were well founded, and that his starting | MOsber, but they had some quarrel, w ‘year or | two ago, over the division Oi the spoils ina potnt was the correct one. What bearing the death | Keyport burglary. They got away with about Douglas, ‘ou know them? losher knew about ©. W. CHURCH, Douglas told the truth. ever since the boy was stolen. Will send an of knows them. G. W. WALLING, superintendent. Detective Sellick arrived about ten o’clock and immediately identified the bodies as those of Mosher and Dougias, two notorious river thieves and burglars. 1p conversation with a reporter ve been looking for them | the Ross abduction case, he said:—‘Mosuer has been @ bold and active thief all his li-e, and he is forty-lve or Mlty years cold, Lie used to Work with bis’ brother, Jotun id | @ aon o: the Justice. | ‘This acuon | That official ordered City | cer Who | upon the subject of Bul Mosher’s connection with | or the abductors, who died without giving a clew as to the child’s whereabouts, will have upon the chances of the discovery of the boy is a question which depends now, seemingly, upon the willing- | ness of @ third party, who was an accessory alter | the fact in the abduction, to produce the child, or | pon the skill of the police in ferreting out this ourty’s niding place, if unwilling to produce tue | voy voluntarily. But as to the tragedy and what | crought tt about. THE TRAGEDY. | About ope mile from Fort Hamilton, and just | adjoining the little cluster of houses which form | the village of Bay Ridge, is located the summer | residence—@ Landsome irame structure, sur- rounded by ample grounds—of Judge Van Brunt, of the Court ot Common Pleas, of New York. The building ts not occupied in the winter season, its care devolving upon a brother of the Judge, Mr. J. | H. Van Brunt, who is @ farmer and resides with | his famuy in a buildiag distant about two hundred | feet. Between the two houses stands a stable, | where William Scott, a laborer, lives, The Judge, | last summer, recognizing the exposed position of | the place, which overlooks the river, caused bur- | giar alarms to be piaced on the window sills and doors of bis house, and the wires were connected | witn an alarm bell in the sleeping apartment of | Mr. J. H. Van Brunt. About three o'clock yester- day morning the latter named gentleman was aroused from his slumbers by the sharp metallic RINGING OF THE BURGLAR ALARM BELL. He at first supposed that the noise was due to tLe fact that as he bad been in his brother’s house | that day he might have left the windows raised, | and the wind doubtless caused the alarm to | sound. On second thought he determined upon sending his son Albert, a young man twenty-four years of age, to close the windows in the house, Albert proceeded to obey the order of bis father, but before doing so called the servant man Scott, who was sleeping in the stable, to accompany him. On approaching the house they discovered | @ light {nm the upper part o! the domicue, and at | once determining that there was something wrong within they quietiy withdrew. Albert said, on returning to his home, “Father, there is some one | in the Judge’s house.” The old gentieman, spring- | dence that he mi | $6,000 in tbat burglary, and, alter a .ong search, | we found them and arrested them in Monmouta, | | N. J. They were locked up in tue Jail tuere, and we told the authorities o1 the place they nad bet- ter be very careiul, lor the two brotuers would most likely break jull. They only laughed at us, and sald they guessed their jail was strong enough to hola them. Bless you, they Were out beiore | morning. They tvok away the whole side of the | jau. Then, as I say, the two Moshers hud a guard | over their swag, aud did not work together, Bill Mosher took Dougias for a partner, and he and | John were ready to give each other away. We | got a clew to the Ross abduction, and | have been working with Joon Mosher for six months trying to get bold of Bul lve been up and down the river in a steamer for filteen days trying to find | Bill, but haven’t had the good luck to find bim on- | tilnow. This is a mighty good job.”” DOUGLAS CONFESSES HIS CoMPLICITY IN THE AB- DUCTION, Ayoung man named Theodore V. Bergen, who resides & short distance frum tne house of Mr. Van brunt, and who rao to the assistance of his neighbor, gives the 1ollowing interesting state- ment in relation to an interview which he had with Donglas whtie the latier lay dying of ns wounds:—‘l was asleep, Waen I Was aroused by the discharge of firearms. | sprang out of bed hastily and went to the window. I threw up my window, and could tell by the sound that it was over at Judge Van Brunt’s house. I called as loud as I couid, ‘Do you want any help over there?’ The answer came at once, ‘Yes,’ in Mrs, Van Brunt’s voice, 1 remembered at once tne chicken scrape they bad over there, and | thought perhaps there were thieves over there and tney might need help to captare them. As soon as I got the word yes, I burried on my clothes and called to my oe Thomas, who I iound was already up, an WE SEIZED OUR GUNS AND RAN OVER. “Ag B00D as We got over we found taat the two men were both shot. Mosher was dead, having | received two wounds in the back, one 01 which, | | think, must have gone straight AE his lungs, Douglas, however, was alive, although horribly mangied with the gunshot wound, and lay in mortal agony down by the lence where he had been shot. 1 weottobim, and he asked for whiskey. I got some whiskey for him, and he pushed it away alter tasting it and called tor water. | got bim some water, and he drank it. I asked him who he was, and he said that nis name was Joseph Douglas and that he was a single man, having no relations, except a brother ana sister, whom he bad woé seen for twelve or fifteen years. Mosher, he said, was @ married man and nad five chiidren, Then he said, ‘it’s no | use lying now. I HELPED TO STEAL CHARLEY R083,’ “when I heard this 1 sent rigot away to get all the people together that 1 could, so that the evi- nt give would be fully estab- lished. He said that ne helped Mosher to steal | ing out of bed, proceeded to dress himsel! rapidly, fad said, “Get the shotguns, my son, and call up Herman Frank,” another Jarm laborer who slept | on the premises. When they had seen well to the loading and priming of their pieces the four men eallied fortn quietly to protect their property and punish the daring robbers who had invaded the premises, The forces were tiously and quietly by Mr. Van Brunt, Sr., who, in company with William Scott, lay down in the grass on his belly, ia ihe rear of the Juage’s house. Albert Van Brunt and Herman Frank went to the | front of the building, Frank screened himself from view and Albert boldly shook the front door, Making a racket which at once alarmed the burglars within, as they blew out the light in- stantly, In a moment he heard them moving down Stairs, and, peering through a window, he saw two men, one of wom lit alacifer match to | They then made their | pass across the par.or. way down into the cellar and were emerging from the cellar doorway in the rear when the men who Were iying in the grass covered them with their Jowling pieces and CRIED OUT “Halt! stop!” The only response was two pistol shots which the fleeing burglars fired in quick succession, One of the men uttered an exclama- tion of pain, indicating plainly that he had been Wounded bya snot which was fired at the same moment by Mr. Holmes Van Brunt, Both vur- giars turned to run up an alleyway at the left oftue house. Albert then came up and fired a shot at the man first hit, and turning upon the other fellow shot at him. The elder Van brunt came up to the assistance of nis son, who was engagea ‘With burglar No. 2, while No.1 ran out into the yard. The man Frank fired @ charge of shot into the latter fellow, who fell down upon his face. The fellow who was in combat with Albert fired two shots athim from a small Smith & Wesson re- volver, aud again he raised the pistol, pointing the muzzle inthe young man’s face. Quick as thought Albert clubbed and raised his musket, striking the burglar with such force on the right foreaim that the stock of the piece was shattered to splinters, the pistol fell from the hand of THE WOULD-BE MURDERER, and, turving about with a yell, he ran away. Albert then drew @ pistol from his pocket and bred three times at the fleeing man. Two shots took effect and death was almost instantaneous, The defenders of the Van Brunt house then being Masters of the situation proceeded to examine the condition of their game. Tne man who bad been brought down by Frank’s shot was dying, but still conscious, A light was procured, and, bending over him, Mr. Van Bruaot, Sr., sald, ‘Young man, your time ts pretty short now. Ifyou have any- thing to say you had better be about it at once. Who are you? What is your name? and where did You come from?” The dying man replied, THE REVELATION. “We came from New York. My name is Joseph Douglas. That man iying over there is William Mosher, He lives in PI Tanelpiitas end a wile and mx chidren. Superintend Walling would give @ good dea) to get noid of man. Ii haa Dot been killed outright he might have told you ‘where that boy who was stolen irom Germantown ( ey 1s to ve four “Have you any reiatives about. bere?” inquired M! Brunt, “I have,’ was the answer, “two sisters living somewhere, but ihave not seen them for more thao ten years, You will find inmy pocket $40, and ali l ask OL you 1s to see that | get & bl gatd paras or Pougias lingered for upwa of two hours in agony, | id expired about hali-past five o'ciock. ie was faliing in benea! were carried out of the cold rain which the shelter of the poren of tue house whieh ae wo rob, ‘ein description the counterpart of the abductor ot Charley Ross. He is @ man sbout lorty-five or Alty years of age. of stout build, sandy hair, lene deployed expedi- ; | Charley Koss. That he was in the buggy witn | | Mosher when they stole him, ‘Mosher knows all | about it,’ said ne. I told bim that Mos! dead, and asked him to tell me tue pi 5 ‘Inspector Walling Knows,’ said he, id the boy | will get nome all right.’ J questioned him further, | but could not get anything more out of him, as he Was suffering so terribly that he would not talk.” it 18 generally believed that Douglas was a stool-pigeon, notwithstanding what ne himself | said—tuat he was about to give his companion | | away, in poiice pi nce, a8 800N as @& iavorable opportunity should present itself to him. | HOW THEY LANDED AT BAY RIDGE. The burgiars came over from New York early in the evening in a small sloop, which they anchored at a point about half a mile below the Van Bruot | farm, and then puiied ashore in a rowboat. The | sloop, which bears no name, 1s painted biack. The men, on lauding, proceeded to Winant's Hotel, | Bay Ridge Dock, and drank several glasses of | liquor, maintaming @ Short conversation ina low | tone of voice. They effected an entrance by tne | celiar doorway and had ransacked the piace when they were alarmed by the Van Brunts. As the servant woman came up and, addressing nim, said, “It is just good for you!” He replied, mourn- fuily, “Ob, madam, I have been a very wicked man.” There was a great deal of BXCITEMENT AT POLICE HEADQUARTERS | when it became generally known that the two | men nad been in some way connected witn the Ross case. ‘There were but very few persons evea in the detective oMce who had been let into te confidence o/ the Superintendent relative to their | bemg concerned with the abduction, and it 1s more than probable that most ot the dete: ere a8 much surprised at the news as a | nad never beiore heard of y | Joe Douglas. The first Superintendent Walling | neard of their death was about nine A. M., when, on arriving at bis office, he was handed a despatco | by Mr, George Hopcraft, his secretary, who bad | received it a few minutes before. On opening it | the Superintendent found that it was from Justice | Church, at Fort Hamtiton, informing him that two | men had been killed at Bay Kidge in Judge Van | Brunt’s house, which they had entered while per- petrating a qty A description of toe men were given, and then followed the question, “DO YOU KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT 1 HEM?” It should ve also added that the Justice stated in the despatca that one of them, named Douglas, belore dying hud confessed that his companton, Mosher, was the man who stole Charley Koss and | kuew what had become oi the boy. ir, Walling at once telegraphed back to the Justice | that the men were the very two he and his officers | detailed tor the purpose had been in search of ior | some time in connection with the Ross case. He also immediately sent a despatch to the parents | ofthe missing boy Philadelphia, telling them of the death of Mosher and Douglas, and ordered Detective Silleck to proceed to the scene oi the tragedy for the purpose oi identilying the dead bodies, A HERALD reporter called upon Superin- tendent Walling yesterday afternoon and had a long conversation with bim concerning the burg- lars and their connection with the stealing of Charley Ross. Before the conversation was heid Silieck had not returned from Bay Ridge, but it may be premised just here that when he did re- turn he stated that the men who had been killed were, sure enough, Mosher and Vougias, whom he and other officers had been trying to get hold of tor the past four or five months, THE HERALD ON THE TRACK. 1t @ fact, Mr. Walling,” asked the HERALD reporter during the conversation he had with the Superintendent, “thas the two men who were killed at Judge Van brant’s were connected with the abduction case?’ “I$ i @ fact,’ was the reply; “and, I tell you what it js,” be added with a mischievous twinkle in his eye, “we managed to keep that fact away from you ne’ per people with the greatest suc- cess. Not or day’ has since I put my men on their trail it 1 feared lest some news- Paper might spoil our plans. Tne ogy Hg near perung hold of it one time, I remember. It had been arranged that some of the Ross family and myseif and a few others should meet one evening at the Metropoli- | tan Hotel, to confer about these very men. Imag- | ine my surprise that aiternoon on beine accosted by & rf {ALD reporter who asked me if there was not to be a ‘conerence’ about the case that night. I really fora moment thought t the HBRALD had obtained information a6 to the parties we were after, but it fortunately had not.” “When did you first suspect Mosher and Doug- las of being hand in band in the abduction?” “Weill, L will teli you, S001 ver 1 received the description as given by the boy Walter and others wuo bad seen the two men in the buggy wua man Douglas lay groaning in his deain agony a | | SOok little Charley away, after a conference with * Captain Headen id the Soeniatng of other , iniormauon, J kn men, You will re- | member that that description said one of the men | Wore goggiea and bad ‘@ monkey nose,’ as the chil- dren called it, Despite th gogaies, the detailed descriptuon of the man’s deformity of nose and | the description given of the other man told us who the men were. t me show you how quickly Mosher was recognized, 1 ed in Deseo | Silieck one , and alter describing Mosher a: the peculiarity of bis nose, mentionin alias of Henderson, I told him F want of him, but did pot tell bim for Suleck at once exclaimed, ‘Why, I know him; that's Bill Mosher.''’ “Then from that time forward td have nad men secretly, and looking ‘or Mosher and Douglas “Yes, We arranged our plans very no ove kuew anything about them, with the excep- tion 0! the officers engaged in the hunt and some of the members of the family, with whom I have been in communication about the men (or four or five months by pe and Selograph." this city?” “Was the search made “In this city? I should say it was. There was to get hold | never made in my experience so thorough a | | search for anytning a8 bas been made by us in tl | case. Officers have been secretly detailed every Where—at the ferries, at the Genes, wherever, in | tact, we had an tdea we coui a clew to the _mnen. The city was thoroughly searched, and our oMcers wave been tn almost every city in the Union. The country, t 0, has been undergoiwg A THOROUGH SEARCH, | and for two weeks or so | had a steam launch en- gayed in prowling in the bay and on the Sound." | “What was the idea of the launch on the Soundt?? “tknew the men's habits. It was one of their | Customs tu go Irom place to place in a sinali coat Ou their visits for spoils, and 1 came to the con- | clusion that they might be come across im that way. You see, Pe theory 1s borne out by the dis- | covery that the fellows went down to Bay Riage ina satiboat, and that one of their old habits had not been set aside. A-cat-rigged boat was stolen at Bridgeport some time ago, which I got thiormation about, and it may be that the buat ! the men used to get to Bay Ridge is that buat, | showing that our iaunch on the Sound was not 80 far out o! the way alter ail, a8 yet obtained a description of the boat at Bay Ridge.” “Then Mosher and Douglas were not unknown | ‘They were not. Both of them were bad men. Mosher used to live in the Thirteenth ward and | OEE, in the Eleventh ward of this city. They a | WORKED TOGETHER FOR YEARS, | and for some time Mosher, under tue alias of | Henderson, lived in Philadelphia, and Dougias | lived witu him. Mosher had anotuer alias, that of Jonson, and Douglas was Koown by the alias of Clark, Mosier was @ married man and had three or four children, He was, Il dare say, weil on to filty years of age, and bis mustache anu side whiskers were quile gray. Douglas was @ smalier man, With sandy hair @nd-mastache. They were both very rough ielows, They were kuown as | ‘vad eggs’ always. Douglas at one time was em- ployed as ahand on a railroad on Long Island. Mosher Was a smart man, and for one o1 his kind quite well read. He foimerly kept a saloon in Grand street, near Laurens street. Mosher was the man who wore goggles and who tmduced Charley Ross to get mto the buggy.” “Now, Mr. Walung, what do you believe was the object o1 these men in abducting Charley Koss?!’ “It was simply to make mouey, ‘They undoub | edly had an idea that Mr, Ross was @ rich mao; ° | and but for that tdea they would never have | | taken the cnild, One oi their pabiis wag to go | about with | A HORSE AND BUGGY through the country sei:ing all sorts of things, patent articies aud all that, and under this cover occasionally ‘crack a criv.’’ They were evidently on a jaunt like that some time belore they took tt into their heads to abduct Charley Ross, When they began to have letters dropped here and | there, addressed to Mr. Ross, telling tim unless he paid so avd so the child would be kuled, he ; and other men:bers of the {amily were naturally | very much alarmed, and wrote to me about it. But I fe:t certain by the way tne two men man- aged to elude my officers tuat they knew 1 sus- pected them, and that that would deter them irom harmiug the boy, and I always told tue family not to be frightened by their tnreats.” “With all the search made for them were you never abie to bunt tuem to close quarters?’ “The lact that they were seen but once in this city or any place else after the abauction shows pny couclusively that they knew they were ing looked for very closely, and, consequently, did not venture out much irom. wherever they nid themselves. The last time their whereabouts in this clty was known was shortly atver abduc- tion, A man who keeps asaioon in this city was asked by a certain private -citizen_how long since they had been seen at his place. This citizen was geen to speak to an officer shortly afterward by this man, and Mosher and Dougias dropping 1n some time afterward he told them an inquiry had been made for them. They evidently got iright- ened and were never seen aiterward. Two men were never hunted to the death with greater zeal than were these same two scoundrels; and it is pretty certain they never ventured into the city by day, and il they did by night it must have been for only avery brief term, and then got away in their boat.” “Mr, Walling,” the reporter here asked, “what effect will the death ol Mosher and Douglas have on the Ross case?’ “Ii the boy was in their care may be not have been concealed in some place un- known to any other person, and thus starve 7” “It isarather hard que: in to answer,” was the Superintendent's reply, ‘whether the death of these men will havea i or @ bad effect upon the case; whetner it wil FACILITATE CHARLEY ROSS’ DISCOVERY if in the hands of other persons or not. My opinion is that it will be all right now,” and Mr. Walling spoke in quite a cheerfal tone as he said this. From the way he evaded any turther questioning as to whether he knew of any other parties being connected with Mosher and Douglas in the abduc- tion or rather in the concealment of the boy, the reporter came to the conclusion that there are persous who, now that Mosher and Douglas are dead, will be able, without fear, to oint to his whereabouts; thet, in fact, the Super- intendent’s suspicions have not covered Mosher and Dougias only. In answer to the tt as to whether he knew where Mosher’s wife was, he | Teplied, “1 know she used to live in Philadelphia, andi know where she was last Saturday night. She has moved three times within a month, and, unless she has moved since Saturday, | know of her whereabouts, I would rather not say any- thing more about other parties who were some- | what connected with Mosner and Douglas in this | Ross business, This woman may, in sli probabil- | ity, be able to do @ great deal that will serve to unravel the mystery which now surrounds the fate of the lost child, JERSEY JUSTICE, The Superintendent and Captain Hedden, who happened to drop into the former’s office after the above conversation was held, were of the opinion | that Mosher and Douglas kept out of the way of the police as much from the lear of Jersey justice as anything else. Captain Hedden, who Knew the two men well, says that some three years ago they committed a burgiary at Freehold, N. Tested for it, and, while awaiting trial, bro! of jail and escaped. They were a(raid of recapture, and ever since that time nave been fitting about here and there under all sorts o/ disguises, PHILADELPHIA VISITORS. About five o’clock in the evening, while Super- intendent Walling was in his ofMfce modestly telling to some reporters part of what ne had known of the doings of the abductors of Charley Ross, Captain Heins, of the Philadelphia detec- tive force, entered, accompanied by Mr. McKeen, managing editor of the Public Ledger, of Philadel- phia. Immediately a secret conference was held by the Superintendent and his new visitors, When it was over Superintendent Walling and Captain eins observed a strict silence in respect to its topics and results, and Captain Heins and Captain Hedden, formerly of the Tmrtieth precinct, who first broached the theory that Mosher and Douglas were abductors of the child, started out and sent a despatch to Philadelphia calling for several persona to come on from Philadelphia to identify the dead thieves. Among the persons called for were young Walter Ross and several women who saw the abductors talking to the children before the abduction of little Charley. The two officers went together afterward to Brooklyn to view THB BODIES AT THE MORGUE. They returned at half-past ten o’clock and am- nounced that they were unable to find anything at the Morgue on the men’s persons in the way of papers, c., that would indicate the piace of concealment of the lost child, they not having the right of search before | the Coroner’s arrival. About the same time that | they returned to headquarters, two citizens, one of whom was pointed out as Mr. Frank Lewis, of Philadelphia, @ relative of Mrs, Ross, and the other as a@ relative of Mr. Ross, Oaptain Hedden was now more communicative than ever before during the day. He informed the reporters that the robber Mosher was probably a nativ New Haven, Atailievents, he said, Mosher and his brother Gilbert, who has been a deputy sheritt in this city, came ‘om bah paves years ago and ‘ard, settied im the Thirteent: z BR PAMILY used to live ie Wtioaton street, 0} ite the blie school, near Pitt street. Bil her was pu thoroughly acquainted with the shores of both rivers, the and the Sound. He and Douglas used rob the stores of the villi along these shores. After having met the relatives ol the Ross family, both captains leit t with bd iP he Headquarters Very soon after their departure Superintendent Walling returned to Pe Central Office, and went directly to the detectives’ ome. Alter @ short consuitation with Detective Golden, and an inquiry after the Philadeiphia rty, the Superintendent started away agein. four detectives speedily followed him, but they Went in @ direction opposite to that taken by Mr. Walling. It was surmised that some decisive action toward THK RECOVERY OF THE LOST CHILD was about to be undertaken, but the idea could not be verified. Lata in the evening Datastive Sallenk @who wag him by his | However, [ have not | { sent to Bay Ridge twice during the day, returned finaly, He had nothig new to communicat: how relative to the death of the men whos bodies had officially identified on his first visit. THE HISTORY OF THE OAsk. Tt was on the aiternoon of Wednesday, July 1, aas Kee oo, Brews 20ee, ee Cr vue of age, while playing with bis elder brother, Wal- torewas abducted from the immediate vicinity of | his father’s residence, on Washington lave, Ger- | mantown. Two men in a buggy approached the children and invited them to take aride. The children into Kensington by @ circuitous route. There Walter was sent by the kidnappers to astore to buy reworks, and when he returned from his errand the wagon was gone, Walter was taken home the same evening, but little Charley was seen no more, Then began the search for the missing child, which has been almost unparalleled in similar annals, Mr. began by informing the Ca of the abducuon and by offering a re- | ward of $300 for the recovery of his son, Numer- ous arrests were made in Philapelphia of suspectes ersons, Men and women, but Dothing came oO! ‘hem, and there was even ® universal search in- tituted, every house in that city being visited by he police. Meanwhile numerous anonymous | letters were sent to Mr. Ross by the kid- nappera, and advertisements appeared in the daily papers, emanating apparently from the same source, all ofering to treat with the father for the restoration of the child, on the basis of @ large money 80m. Mayor Stokley, at the instance of numerous wealtby citizens, issued a prociamation offering & reward of $20,000 for the arrest avd conviction of the abductors and the restoration of the child. ‘This proclamation bore a likeness of the cnild, to- gether with a aescription of him and such detalis concerning the appearance of the abductors as | had been gatnered. It was scattered all over the Conunent, and resulted in the starting of | almost imnumerable clews, every them that afforded the | for hope balttt, vigorously | On the 224 of August the private detective agency of Mr. Allan Pinkerton was enlisted in the | cage, he relinquishing ail claims upon the reward | of $30,000 in case of nis success, being remunerated | for bis services and expenses out of a separate fund raised by leading citizens for the purpose. From the Pinkerton Agency circulars were also scattered over the Continent, containing descrip- tions of the parties and an excellent photograph of the child. The clews to the child’s whereabouts which were followed up have been too numerous for enumeration, and we can notice only ine ju most important nd promising. On 25 @ telegraphic announcement was re- ceived that “a suspicious, apparently crazy, 8, man,” giving the name of Myron Leasure, had been arrested at Richmond, Va., while on the way to Baltimore, with the corpse of a child that had died at Dayton, Ohio. But it was found that the deceased chiid was only ten months old. Op Au- Sake a Mea Jackson was arrested at the Wei niladeiphia depot, witha child strongly resem. bling Charley Ross, and it was deemed expedient to jurnish her with letters which would prevent further annoyance. Immediately afterwards a Mrs. Frederick Hamilton was arresved at Bennington, Vt., @ child re- sembling the stolen one. Joseph Lewis, Mr. Ross’ brother-in-law, went to Vermont, an ascertained tuat the child was an adopted son of @ man in Mr. P, T. Baruum’s employ. io August 18 came tnteltigence of the arrest of two men and @ woman at Odell, Ii, with a cbtid resembling the last one, but, on investigation, he proved to ve the son of dames Henderson. Then came the operations of @ mythical Pittsburg detective, who was alleged to be tracing ‘‘suspicious parties,’’ and on September? came news from Washing- ton, D,©., of the arrest of an Englishman anda woman, who proved the child in their custody to be theirown. Soon alter the counterpart of The next important clew came, on September 20, from Lincoln, Neb., where a man named Jackson was arrested, On Ovtober 4 there were reports from New Haven, Conn., to be followed up, and a few days after a child discovered with a band of gyps pear West Chester, Pennsylvania, who had to be followed up by air. Lewis. On November 12 a woman named Hazard was arrested in St. Catherines, Canada, without avail, THE FIRST CLEW to the abduction was discovered by Superin- tendent Walling, who was visited by people hav- ing @ knowledge of tne affair. From the stories afloat at the time of the (et RS concerning the horse and wagon used, the Philadelpnia and New York police jointly got on the right track, as the sequel siows, A long correspondence was carried on between Chief Heins and Superin- tendent Walling, whicn was Kep! quiet at the time. One o/ the letters from Mr. Walling, which, tn its character, is to the point, read as sollows:— Octosgr 17, 1874. wW. TNS :— . R. HEINs : Since writing you yesterday I have received further information. I am now positive that we are on the right track. The man you were tomeet at this office would have given positive information w! we could get Mosher and Clark. He sald to me last night that if we got them before we got the child tne parties having the cbild in custody would fear ‘‘a squeal,” and would probably Move the child, so that we could not find it. ae | after he left, a man whom I know well came to me and told me that he knew who stole the child. “Go on and tell me what you Know about ley Ross.” He said, “Bill Mosher, a man they called Ulark, and another man stole it, and a man who lives in Philadelphia has the child. They know you are arter them, and they would be pen to give it up if they could do so without being caught.” They would like to get anything they could and assure: Fosecuted, He said they were in his pia, y night, the 9th inst., and that a man who had been before me was with them in his piace (a lager beer saloon) at that time. I said, “Who?” and he gave me the name of the man. Iam certain he tells the truth, * * * GEORGE W. WALLING, Superintendent. THE NZWS IN PHILADELPHIA. The Detectives’ Story of Their Search for Mosher and Douglas—The Excite- ment in the City. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Dec. 14, 1874. Intense excitement has prevailed in this city oli day long, owing to the unexpected news, which at anearly hour flashed over the wires, that two burglars had been killed on Long Istand, one of whom, immediately before expiring, confessea that he was implicated in the abduction of CHARLES BREWSTER ROSS. Tne intense furore which this announcement created cannot well be described, inasmuch as the people not only clogged the sidewalk In front of the builetin boards, but around the Mayor's office fillea the street from curb to curb. AS each additional particuiar was communica- ted in glaring letters upon the “planks,” general rejoicing was indulged in, and ever and anon the air was rent with cheers. To be sure, the child has not yet been returned, but all feel confident that within a few days Charley will be once more in the arms of those who love him, I have in connection with recent developments but little else to communicate than that which appears in the admiravle narrative of De- tective Charles Wood, which 1 reproduce in his exact language. Detective Wood’s Statement. Detective Charlies Wood, of our Municipal De- tective Bureau—an officer who has been unusually zealous in his endeavors to recover the lost child — this morning made, in 8 conversational way, this statement concerning the efforts to ferret out the villains who committed the aie We give it e delivered it, He commenced by ing:— ON THB TRAIL, ‘ For a long time we knew that the men who com- Mitred this act were in and about New York, and during that time, together with the officers of New. York, who a entered into the work, we have’ been hunting down these men. We were cruising avout Long beat pd foc a long time, 7 CRUISE. We started from New York. Officer Sellick (the man who was over here concerned in the Hilt case) was the pilot. He was ordered by Captain Walling, the Superintendent of the police of that city, to go and secure the boat, He is a first rate omtiger, but nad been formerly a seafaring man and knew all apout coasting. We were further ordered to go up the Sound, and along the canal, because we knew that these men Mosher and Clark had been committing burglaries, and then takin, reiu; on some of the isianis in an about the piace. We got the boat down or hear Long Branch, at Long Branch It was a little tugboat, that arew three feet of Water, and just big enough jor the occasion. There were six in tne boat, all officers but the en- gineer. Sellick was the head of the concern. We started, and steamed along under the power Ol & five-horse engine. TACKING ABOUT. We first went up the North River, examining all the islands and occupied and unoccupied house: and woods whien lined the shores. We wen! up as far ag Poughkeepsie, and then returned, di- recting our course along the coast of Long Isiand and the Conneoticut store. I suppose we searched thirty or forty islands in the Sound, containing from jour to five acres to a hundred acres each, and found them almost all unoccupied, except a few by squatters, THE SUSPECTED PARTIES. We bad information that these fellows had com- mitted a burglary and got to one of the islands io @ catboat, and that they moved avout from place ti could best ae- ma oe just a8 phos Fhougne the cure ves. é nad further informa too, thas had the child in this catboat oy there be was concealed. We searol er little on. fioers 1 towns, too, in the hope of H mo and | mast say that the New York irked ‘d to the that it was his way to comm lary, then to these islands and hide in one of the unoccupied houses, We were cruising about twelve a but did not ; but we were alter the right men w hs ago, and these were the right men. We to return, however, without having ie eT @ny positive trace of the men. Wo found out all about the Lig! and we found Out to oUF satisiaction that vis Was the way the abductors were living. ‘They bad no means. and had to commit crime to live. We heard nothing of the child, and came to the conclusion that they secreted him on some of these islands while the ‘were offon their burgiaries, Tne way in whic! we first learned of the probable whereabouts of Charley waa irom Captain Walling, of New York. {nvitation was accepted, and the men drove the — On the 224 of July | the missing child was found in Jeffersonville, Ind. | | He sent us word some three montns ago that be knew who did it—that ts, who carried off the chil d. was only a hild Was taken from this city, When this intelligence was optained from him we went to work and jound out where the men lived 1m this city, and where toey had their horse and wagon, and what their business was, and all avout it WHERE THE ABDUCTORS LIVED. Mosher, alia; Johnson and Henderson and Doug. | Tas3, allas Clark or Dunlap, and Mosher's », ved in Monroe'street, above Second, It was @ irame house, Mosher rented the house, Clark lived with him @ part of whe time only, and Mosher rented out the third story to another family. I ha’ pa ‘ou Mosher’ allases. He was @ fugitive irom untington County Jail. le commit- ted a robbery 1n that town, which is in New jersey. and was arrested and placed tn that jail. was nearly two years ago. About eighteen months alter ne escaped {rom that place, and alter sailing | short time after the c! round @ litile came to this city, He was a burg. jar, notwithstanding the opinion some people that this crime of kidnapping was not done by ro‘essionals. Mosher, since his escape, was here in Philadelphia of and on. He wasa pedler, and | had a horse and wagou, and used to peddleswith 1t, He was assisted by Clark. Their business was to peddie and steal, Mosher took tue house In Monroe street about a year ago and vacated thé house alter the child was taken away. It was wich this horse that the child was driven away— the same horse they did their peddling with, ‘The Child was stolen on the 1st of July, you know, He was at once driven to New York by Olark and Mosier, wno kept on going until they arrived there. This they did jp @ manner to Avoid sus- picion. They went through Trenton on the day afcer the abduction. It was not until the 19th or 20th of Juiy that: Mosoer’s wile went off, They did not keep the child here. at all, but drove it rgut away, leaving Mosher’s wile to fix up matters, ward 0 picion and then follow them. We sus- pected these parties and knew that two men from this ‘nouse had suddenly left in a wagon and un- der circumstances which justified our opinion of their being concerned in the case. Alter tuey went §the oMfcers here watehed Mrs. Mosher, to endeavor through her to trace the two men, 1b 18 known that Mosher was the man who wrote THE ANONYMOUS LETTERS. He sent that one about the: proposition for the restoration of the child tor money consideration well a8 some Others, and we kK that he sent @ number of the wife here in Philadelphia, and that she posted them, Mosner and Clark unswered the descriptions published of the “two men” who were seen to drive off with the boy. The best description of the former was given by Dr, of German- who said that man ‘seemed something the matter with his So he did; the cartilage was partial! eaten away, I ought to tell you that we foun out that on that drive to New York, After tne Peed tbe | from Germantown the child’s hat was lost. We always thouglit tuat there were four men concerned in this aflair. We know of these two, but not the others. All our efforts have been to iocate, t! possible, this GANG OF FOUR MEN, but these two, Mosher ana Clark, particularly. Our first information was this that the colid was Stolen by Mosher and Clark and taken to some place and secreted; and we are not certam as to the complicity in the affair of the two other men. But we were always certain about these men (the former), from the fact that Mosher and Clark left the city with the horse and Wagon, and that they corresponded with the ae- seription whico Was publisued soon siter the crime was executed, They answered in almost every articular. We know there was @ reason way osher should want to keep out 0! the way, because he had broken out of jail; but there was oothing “down” on Clark at the time, and there was no earthly thing why he should secrete himself, except, as we concluded, he had a hand {n the ‘matter. They were told that Walling was after them, whiicin New York, ior stealing this child, by parties who were “playing double,” and fading that out they leit New York except to return Occasionally, commit a burglar: and then retreat to some sale piace in the Sound. The question was usked the detective by tie HERALD correspondent :— “Are you nearer the child now than before ?”” Derective WooD—I don’t think they can keep it out of the way. Either the “two otner men” have got itor Mosner’s wile basit, 1 don’t thnk she can keep out of the road, She has no means—nel- have the other two men—ior we know that the whole gang are reduced so low that they had to make foraysinto the town and commit house robberies. It was while upon such an errand that last night Mosher and Ciark were killed, They had to steal to live, and to steal to be able to hide the child. Another question :— ravtaips any likelihood that they wilil kill the cht Detective Woop—No, no: I don’t think that, They may ‘drop it.” By that you mean set down in some place where it may be picked up? Detective Woop—Yes; something of that kind. ME. ROSS, the brother of the lost child’s father, appeared at the station, and was asked if be thought the child | would be recovered. “As to that 1 cannot say. I can only hope it may be so. At least this development shows one tning, that the oMicers were on the right track, li the wile nas the child 1 believe sne will be found. 1 have just received from Superintendent Walling this despatcn :— To tax Fatnun or Cuantry Ross, Germantown, Pa. :— ‘Ihere were two men kiiled this morning at Bay | Ridge. near this city. One, betore dying. contessed that they stole Charley, Hoss, and the other man had him concealed, but did not Know where. Both are burglars, known to the police. THE QUAKERS IN NEW ENGLAND. Their Annual Conferences to be Per- manently Held at Newport—Value of their Church Property in Rhode Isl- and—Next Year’s Gathering. Newport, R. L., Dec, 13, 1874. At the last annual meeting of the New Engiand Society of Friends, held here in June last, it was decided in the fature to hold the annua! meeting alternately bere and in Portiand, Me. There was at the time a good deal of opposi- tion to the arrangement, and it was not belleved that the transfer could be legally made, Within a few days it has transpired that such ts the case, and it has been found that by taking the above mentioned course they would be obliged 10 forfeit their valuable church property here and also the more valuable sctiool property in Provi- dence, R. L., known as the Friends’ School, where so Many Of all religious views have acquired an education for many years past. The pegauances of “Quaker meetings,” as they are called, at this place is known throughout the length and breadth of the land, and “June meet- ing Sunday,” with all its holiday aspect, is a household word in New England. Here tne fol- | lowers of Penn and Fox have annually assembiea to worship from different parts of the land for more than two hundred years in America, and the gratifying intelligence that they are to assemble here uninterruptediy, as of #ore Wil be hailed wit! a the citizens of hode Island, who have ever been brought up to look upon these good L sit bg with feelings of great respect. Pecuntarily it @ good item jor this fashionable watering place, a8 the advent of a couple of thousand of nds prior to the com- Mencement of the ‘‘season” gives the botels a chance to pay expenses antil the rush of the world’s people commences & week or two later. The beadquarters of the leaders of the meeting will be at the Aquidneck House and rooms have been secured at this early date for the leading members, a tact which confirms the above im- (daca: announcement. The ‘property in this late owned by the society is valued at $600,000, THE LIQUOR DEALERS, The Association Confident in Its Strength and Determined to Appeal to the Legis- lature. The Executive Committee of the Liqu or Dealers’ Associatiqn held a meeting last evening and elected the following members to be added to the committee:—Harry Cunningham, Colonel B. Schwartz, John Cary, C. Hilkemyer, James Moore; to fill vacancy, Edward McGovern; to fill vacancy, John Hay. The mecting was very largely attended, Herz- berg, Lanigan, Frers and the other leading mem- | bers being present, There was an informal dis- cussion about the excise outlook, during which | the sentiment Was expressed that the association | ‘was ready and willing if the license was put down | to the uniform rate of $50, to atd the £xcise Board in securing licenses. They were opposed to the high tariff system however, and deciared ' that it was ap are that infamous saloons should be licensed while respectable dealers were hampered about their business. Gen- eral confidence was expressed th. through the iafiaence of th association, which now numbers among ite members a iar; ropor: tion of the respectable Geaiers in this city, and which daily gaining tm strength, the next Legisiature would pass @anuorm and just excise aw jor the Avhole State, Meanwhile they were levermined to stand firm, and as they had em- joyed eminent counsel to look out for their in-. sts, evi member of the association might ree! Sasured that ‘bis rights would rovectede WESTON'S FIVE HUNDRED MILE WALK IN BEWABK. At 12:05 yesterday “morning Edward Payson. Weston started, at the Rink in Newark, on bis. third attempt to walk 500 miles in six days. But few persona were present to see him strike out. He walked the first mile in 13m. 272, the second in. 12m. 038, Including two halts, of five and sixteen minutes, he made his first fifty miles at 10h, 24m. 80a, yesterday morning. Throughout the day he walked with snap and vigor. Although he de. clines to say anything ankind on the subject, there is no doubt but he feels Leg noouraged ov tis Professor Judd's failure. During tht attendance af citizens waa quite large, ee ET RELIGION AND SCIENCE, Lecture by Rev. Dr. Howard Crosby on “The Bible om the Side of Science.” Last evening the Rev. Dr, Howard Crosvy de livered the introductory lecture on the above sub- Ject before the ‘New York Association for the Ad- vancement of Science and Art,” in the church of which he is the pastor, Fourth avenue Presbyterian charoh, corner of Twenty-second street. The house was well flied by a highly respectable au- dience, ‘The lecturer commenced by saying that the “confict vetween religion and science” and the “confitct between the Bible and science” are not equivalent expressions, Religions are manifold, the Bible ts one, Religions are largely subjective, the Bible in ite letter is objective. Ib its contest with religion, as religion has represented by courts and councils, science has often gained a decided victory, tor sne had been the advocate of truth, while reli- gion was the advocate of error. Such a contest bas frequently taken place, and in these the world was indebted to science for deliverance from the bondage of superstition and ignorance, But be- tween the Bible and science we deny that a con- flict ever existed. Scientific men assanit the Holy Scripqures, but the Scriptures make no counter @ttack on science, Tne Bible is on the side of science. ) The lecturer divided his discourse into four parts, viz.:—The fret was a consideration of the fact that ali scientific institutions, both tn Europe and America, had their origin in the energy and tne money of Bible men. In this connec tion the lecturer referred to the endowments to diferent universities, both here and in Europe. As discoveries multiply, much more do inventions multiply, for every new principle may have a thousand applications, and so the means of gettling and civilizing the whole earth have given our age an energy aud growth utterly wituout a parallel in the history of mankind. can doubt that in the advancement of sci are obeying tné-command given by our Maker to the race at the be; Cad oc the earth and subdue it." ‘ne men @! the Bible jounded all the great institution: learning and science, at Prague, Vienna, Heidel- berg, Leipzig, Tubingen, Jeua, Halle, Gottingen, Berlin aod Bono. Also at Salamanca, Oviedo an Valladolid, at Oxford and Cambridge, at St. Ao- Grew’s and Aberdeen. Tn bis second part, tne lecturer argned that the very first scientific minds, marked in tne annals of science ior tueir discoveries, ha’ been Bible men. Newton loved and craved tue Biple. Faragay, Forbes, Carpenter, Hitchcook, Vana, Torrey, Were in nO hostile position to the Bible, If the Bible 1s opposed to science, how serange it is that these acute men, who knew or have known the Bible from constant study, should Dever have perceived it, while it was lett to othera who do not know at all to make the important discoyery. A man might make a mistake in his iyslcs, but God never. toird fact in tae lecturer's proof that the Bible a scientific book is tis express allusion, bold state- ment and facts of science which have only lately become known to scientific men. A careful examination of the Holy Scriptures will convince any candid searcher that the God of Nature is Speaking in the words of grace; that He who made each atom of matter and each joint in causation ts the direct inspirer of a phraseology that had no support in the general knowledge of josupbers, but that has been confirmed the discoveries made thousands of years aiterward by the investigators of nature and her laws, A number of instances were adduced in support of this position, particularly from the Book of Ecclesiastes, the 139tn psalm, the Second Epistle of Peter, &c. Instances of the solentiae accuracy of the Bible migut be indefinitely multi- lied. Pin his fourth part, the lecturer claimed that the Bible supplies the luks in the scientific chain which our experimental science would ever: jail to reach. Experimental sctence rig finds itself at last upon the border of the great unknown, modern civiliza- tion rests upon the Bible. All the discoveries and appliances of art and pikantiropy for the elevation and well being of manxin which make modern civilization so contrasted with tne pseudo civilization of Anyssinia, Babylon and Egypt, sprang from the sible. Tne lecturer left the subject with the confident expression that our experimental examination of nature’s at- tractive field will always be best performed by the devout mind that recognizes d and His Word in the investigation. I THE ODONTOLOGIOAL SOOIETY, The New York Odontoiogical Soctety yesterday held a special meeting at the house of Dr. Bronson, No. 8 East Thirty-fourth street. Mr. A. E. North- rop acted as chairman and called the meeting to order, The roll call showed that there were twenty-six members from the different cities in the Union present, together with avery fall quoram from New York. Before pro- ceeding to the reading of the papers which were made spectal orders for the meeting, the President said he had to make announcements of the de- parture of two members since the last meeting of the society. On November 26, Asa Hill, @ cor- responding member of the society amd resident of Norwalk, Conn., had departed this life, and yesterday (Sunday) Dr. E. Parmley, one of the oldest practitioners of dentistry in the city, had ceased from his labors, A motion was made and recorded that the President should appoint a com- mittee of seven to araft resolutions expressing the regret of the society at the lossit had sus- tained in the persons of the two gentlemen spoken of. In compliance with the motion Dr. Northrop appointed the following gentiemen to drait such resolutions us the motion suggested. Committee on Resolutions—Ben. Lord, of New York; ‘. H. Chandler, of Boston; Louts Jack, of Philadeiphia; Robert Arthur, of Baltimore; E. J. Dunuing, ot New York; W. H. Bronson, of New York, and J, Smith Dodge, of New York. Dr. Bonwill read a paper regarding his electro- maguetic mullet and several other improvements im mechanical dentistry. Dr. Jack, of Philadel- phia, then read an essay on bis electro-magnetio mallet, in which the Patent Omice received some hard hammering. The rest of the eve ing was pass.d in inspecting the new appliances with which the parlers were crowded. The meeting will be continued to-day in the parlors of the Presbyterian caurcb (Dr. Crosby's), corner of Fourth avenue and Twenty-second street, with the following programme :— MORNING, nine o’cluck—Materials for filling teeth. Paperson amalgams, by Dr. Cutler, tae late Professor Thomas B. Hiccbcock and Dr. Bogue, embodying the results of the latest inves- tigations, On gold, by Dr. Black. AFTEKNOON—Dr. N, W. Kingsley, on “The Causea of Irregularity in thé Development of the Teeth.’ EVENING—NO, 34 West Twenty-eighth street, Dr. Lord’s.—Vental Education: Pi by Dr. Garret- sop, Dr. ‘iruman and Dr. Chand! ABT NOTES Copley’s equestrian portrait of the Prince of Wales, afterward George IV., is on view at Will- jams & Everett’s art gallery in Boston. This work belongs to the artiat’s descendants, who reside in Boston, The December number of the Aldtne contains four beautifully tinted landscape engravings rep- resenting the seasons. They are by Maurand. The Montpensier collection at Boston still at- tracts public attention. When will our public DATO.AD-ODDORFARINY to those works i New Yor! The preurepciitae Museum of Art holds a recep- tion this evening. jart bas just completed a large picture of Keene Valley and the Ausable River, with “The Gianv’ tn the distance, The artist has introduced into this work @ group of cattle, which are admir- ably executed and evidence the result of his sum- Studies. He 18 also eng upon a golden gray sunset scone of great strength and beaut: Mr. J. B. Bristol is ting a view of the Ho: ; tonte Valley, in which the rendering of the broad expange of Champlain is very fine. irs. E. Greutorex now Mains the studio in the Association Building vacated by Mr. Swan Gifford, ‘This lady is busily ep, ary upon the series of etchings illustrating “Old New York," in which she will preserve many of those fast decaying monuments of antiquity which the ruthiess hand Of progress will soon sweep away. Tne serics ‘Will consist of some eighty xX etchings, of which it ts probable that Aity will be published soon after Christmas, . Greatorex has also obtained panels irom the woodwork of the various old Mansions in the city and purposes to paint pic- tures of the buildings or these relics, so that the works of art will havea douvie value. Mrs, Great- Orex is engaged in an interesting labor of lov And will de greatly assisted by the loan of rare old prints (Hustrating the city in early days, AMEBICAN JOCKEY OLUB, The spting meeting of the American Jockey Club will begin on the first Saturday in Jane, con- tinuing the two following Saturdays and interven- ing Tuesdays and Thursdays, making seven days in all, extending trom the Sti to the 19th of the month. There will be given in added money $23,000, 8 much larger sum than ever before offered by a racing clab or association in this country. The autumn meéting will begin on the first Saturday in Uctober, continuing the two fol- lowing Saturdays Cer the ‘Tuesdays and Thurs days intervening, seven days, extending trom the 2d to the 16th of the month, The American Jockey Club will give the same amount of added money as af tha spring meeting.