The New York Herald Newspaper, December 16, 1874, Page 4

4 —— Where and How the Police Are Hunting the Lost Boy. rm July he puta handkerchief up to bis face, This HARLEY ROSS. | formity of his uose, recognize the body, how- | ever, tauy.” aod exclaimed, tn his quick, boyisu way, “Obl L know that man; he drove tue horse and gave Mme | the man’s face was exposed, as,0¥ing to tae | Irwatiu) wound im the sromach by which he bad par hid it, L suppose he did it to hide the de- | brought im from the vault litle Walter sturted candy, tou,” and this, notwitustunding that ony | been killed, the bod, fromthe neck down was So covered with a cioth, Ic will thus be seen that E BURGLARS., | there can no longer be any doubt avout one act THE DEAD * | tn this wonderful case, aud thats that the real ra pi etait 4 ele | abductors of Charley Ross were the burgiars | Moser and Doulas Satisfed of tis tae police set to work to bant them up in the c.ty., Mosher at that time lived ia Maugin street, near Delancey, and was in the habit of moormg bis boat, whenever he did moor her, in a dock close by, His brother ree sided tn Rivingtun street, but worked at boat building or anything of the kind he could | get to do along the water side, Mosher’s wife aud | her four eniidren remained ior nearly @ year in Mangiu street. The locution was a good one lor her ha*band’s business. It was near the water, quet and littie irequented, From Mangin ! street she moved into Houston street, | and ‘rom there went into the Sseven- teenth ward. She has moved recentiy to two differeut parts oi the city, completely doub- lng on herself once, and this hus led to tne sup- tiwi iti ti position that oo this last occasion she pat the voy Constant Activity of the Authorities in the | Grarey Russ into a place tor safe keeping. Tnere Unravelling of the Mystery. | Were originally tour orothers in the Mosher fam- lly. Three of these are now dead and the other is | still in the city, One of tue family has the repate oO! having been @ straigntiorward, honest man, and the ove now remaining 1s said to have been a hard working man lor years, Officer Parish, of the Thirteenth precinct, who has lived for half a century within two biocks of the station Two Mysterious Women at the Brooklyn Morgue. Cieakeniaed THE MOSHER FAMILY. Identification of the Kidnappers by Walter Ross. * 2 ie a STRANGE STORIES Post-Mortem Examination of the Bodies. The tragic death of the twomen who were en- noure, knew the whole family. He watcued gaged in the abduction of Chari¢y Ross was the their goings and co:inys into his district chief topic of the city yesterday. Somucn has carefully, and was always able to give been said and written about the Ross case during Superintendent Wailing what Information he the past five mouths that many people have been wWwalteu about them. Ihe night before last Oficer led to believe that the police really never knew Parish saw something that led him 'o waten a anything about the parties wno took tne little boy house in his ne ghborhvod pretty narrowly for a away from tis home, it isan old bapitof the or- time. Not feeling quite certain even then he dinary detective detalied to work upacase, and went to who fails to ‘ollow tne clew given him by bis su- THE CENTRAL OFFICE perior, to publish his failure as asuccess when the 82d¢ had an interview with Superintend- object of bis search is no longer among rhe living. ¢@2t Walling. At nine o'clock in the This idea seemed to prevail yesterday amoag ¢Yenlog Captain Irving, accompanied by many veople, Wuo sheerea atthe reported work ‘WO detectives, appeared in the Thirteenth of the police im the hunt alver the lost boy ward. They meton tue corner of Delancey and Columbia streets fora moment and then disap- peared, At hali-past five o’clock yesterday morn- ing Captain Irving returned to the Central Oftice and immediately telegraphed to Superintendent Wa ling, who had but jus: returned to his bome from a search in one of the uptown precincts. Itis evident the police velieve they are on the right track and have some good f{vundaticn lor the supposition. They are not looking for Mrs, Mosher, they are simply looking alter her, Tuey can find her at any moment; in fact, there is not even some O/ the detectives were ignorant of the the slightest douor they have not lost signt of her circumstance that the men they bad been in- , Jor a lovg time. Jt was her husband structed to hunt jor were they were Wanting, but his death has turned 1HB ABDUCTORS OP THE CHILD the current Of their inquiry mto avother channel, shows couciusively that the Police Superinten- that of Charley Ross, At the outset they nad dent kuew Wat be Was about irom the very be- tWogreat odjectsin view, to Ond the thief and wien they were told that the identity of the abductors was ascertained only when they had been shot to death. Woy not have captured them belore? llow was it tnat the two men were able to go to Fort Hamilton unhindered on the Sanday eveuing when every ferry aud every rau- road depot was guarded by detectives who “gnew their meu?’ such were the ques- tions which were bandied about from mouth to mouth. tin justice to the New York police it may be said that the very fact im this case that ginning. His letter 10 Vaptain Heins, of Philadel- the chiid; the thies is now disposed of, but tne doy phia, in Ocrober ast, exclusively published 18 Still missing and the police are straining every in the HERALD yesterday, bore such an herve togetat him, Tae reward has ootuing to impress of (be truth of the police work- 40 withtt, Superintendent Walling says. ‘Several ings curing the past five months tnat he pevple,’” he said yesterday, “have come to me with Proposals tuat, if they should fad the child they would do so aud so witn tne reward. [ tola all these people, and [ say it now for everybody, who- ever discovers the child will get the reward—aii of it 1 dou’t want any of it, but | do want the boy. I Thad had the lite steam launcn (ne con- yesterday were of litte moment; in fact nothing tinued) a couple of weeks lL nger I am sure I coula new resuiied [rom te activity of the detectives, have caught them. My mon had been down the who were all day long—tnose specially detailea— Sound, up the East River, in and out of all the hard at work wo reach the end of the case, the | litte bys ana inlets looking, and it was ouly a delivery of little Chariey ‘rom the parties whohave Question of time. We were sure to catch them. lum now coucesied. A HERALD reporter had a , Their boat was a olack one, drawing little wa er, conversation with superintendent Walling about | aud 1 had to keep my taunen hunting her the case, and was imiormea that he felt certain 1M quiet nooks all the time, 1! would have got that the missing voy would be recovered. Mr, | them here intown but for the stupidity o: the Walling is | policeman i sent there. He went tothe bar and A MAN OF CANDOR, | asked lor them. The next time tiey visited the He never pretends to know what he does not | house tne ba:kKeeper told them av and so, naming know, and, unl ke some great men Who are sup- the officer, has been looking for you. Oi course you posed to dictate at the head of a mighty police | kuow as soon as they learned ne was the way ordinary people shall walk and move aud | INQUIRING PUR THEM have tucir being, be beueves, apparently, that they gnew I wss looking jor them. Since that there are some things which the public have a | night they have not beeu to the saloon. ‘The right to Anow someting about, so long asthe ends = jaunch | haa was paid jor by the Puilade puia peo- of justice are not deteatea by the revelation. | pie. I spent ail their Mouey and $100 oi my own. What he ts doing to reach the parties who have They paid me back, naturally, and I would like Charley Ross iu their power isa matter of his own, | to have cootinued that hunt, but it was ex- nd he keeps his secret to himself. But that ne is | pensive.” Altbough the police generaly are at work, he and tis officers; that he ex. ects to iree with what iney have done they are very get the boy; that he believes the death of Mosher Stil there is guarded wit!) what they are doing. Wili facilitate the search for the cbiia, he no doubt but that for the accident whica liappened does not hesitate to assert in the most emphatic to tue two men overtures sor the return of tue manner. in answer to @ question of the | chiid to its parents would have been made sour, reporter he said:—"i do not think the boy is con- | Mustof the arraugewents, it appears, were per- cealed in this city. Tobe trank with youl never jected, aud the persons who weie to make believed that Ye was couceaied in this city. Itis the firs: prop sition nad been se.ecied, not for me to teil you ail | Kuow about the case in § Charley Ross 1s now among these parties, and they it3 present aspects, vutlam of the opinion that are naturally in a better position to guard bua We are still | from the public than the Moahers, ON THE RIGHT TRACK,” | SCENES AT THE MORGUR. Mr. Walling adaed cuat he did not believe Mrs. | The remains oi the dead vurgiars attracted a Mosher had tie child, as some people Lad given | gense throng to the Brooklyn Morgue yesterday. Out that he did beleve, This woman, he said, Nad Mosher’s body was placed in an ice box aud was heard of tne death of her busband; he knew exposed on the eievator used for hoisting bodies Where she was, and if by any circumstance 8n@ | srom tue vault, where during the heated terms could learn anythiug about Charley Ross’ where- corpses are generally kept. The body of Douglas abouts he would nave no trouble in securing the lay im the vauit beneath, to wich access was child. One thing can, therefore, be set down gained by tie descent of a steep iadier. Fron as certain, that Mr. Walling knows the parties an early nour crowd succeeded crowd. those as- Who were counected with Mosher and Douglas | ceyaing irom the vauit being glad toescape the after the aoductiou, and that they are under po- | norripie spectacie which the corpse veiow pres- lige sutveliiance, or, at least, that the police are | enied, Mosher, Who Was filty-two years oi age on their trail; that they, not having anything to | ang who received the fatal wouud a little to the fear trom an arrest—tue real steaiers of the child right of the spinal cord, lay at juli length, being dead—wili pat no obstacie in the way of | witha guastly lvok, jor the eyes were still open the detectives Who are endeavoring to secure | any many who gazed jor & moment revoued in him. “My idea is," sud Mr, Walling to the re- | norsor, ‘Ihe face, nevertheless, preserved u natu. Porter, “tuat the Doy may be picked up Dow.” In | rai appearance, as was pruved by the readiness answer to 4 question as to what be meant by this | with which ‘ne remains were Idenufied during the he said:—‘‘You see, there is no hope of reward | gay, jt was noticeable, however, that tue cartil- any more than there is for fear of @ conviction Of | jage which separates tne nostrils was absent, and the parties who may now have the eniid—and [| tis, it may be observed, tends to corroborate the think 1 kuow what |’m talking about—and he wil description of one of the parties suspected of the be a burden to his keepers; of no use to them, i0 | gy genom of little Ross. The body oi Douglas, fact. How eury will it be jor them to ‘set nlm | wie must have been a poweriul young man, few afloat, put b m out in the streets, with the knowl- | cared to look upon, His abdomen nad been com- edge tuat be would s00a ve | pletely ridaied with shot, aud, a8 the bowels pro- TAEBN UP BY THE POLICE | traded, iew couid witness the sight without a uor- asa‘lostch laf’ Thearrival of Walter Ross at | rinie snrug. It may be mentioned tnat each Police Headquarters yesterday, accompanted by | garment belonging to the deceased was thoroughly Who ran could read. Mr. Wallingand the police detectives o/ Philadelpita, it would seem, were all the time in accord, and the result Is that, now that the principal in the stealing of the chid is out of the way, they are hand in hand in the effort torecover the missing boy. ibe developments his two aucies, created quite alively sensation | examined, The keepers went so lar as to among the detectives. No oe was allowed to | tear the lining irom the cloth in the converse with tim, and while he wasin vie Super- | pope that some clew might be discovered intendent’s office the greatest care was exercised by the attendants to prevent the littie fellow being spoken to by the reporters. The reason for this, a3 given aiterward, was that Mr. Walling was anxious that the buy should see the dead bodies of Mosler and Douglas belore any one could Speak to him about what uad taken place at Bay Ridge on Monday. This idea was certainly the correct one, as before the boy was taken to the | that would aid in the recovery of the stoien boy. ven the ragged clothing, saturated witu blood | and perforated witn spot and bullets, was piled in # horrid heap in the corner uf the room where Mosuer’s ty lay. bVen these unsigutiy rem- Dauts atiracied the earnest atieuou of curiosity seekers, aud again and again tue tragedy was recited Witu Incuueravie dramatic situations auded bo toe original story. Amoug the pew incr dents set iori® Was Oue to the efect that Loug- jass actually surrendered Morgue in Brooklyn be was kept in per- BEFURE THE FATAL SHOT fect ignorance of the object of his visit | was fired, and chat in vegeing for his life he said or the tragedy which had necessitated | he could tell someching worta hundreds and thou- Sands of dollars to the peopie 0: Brooklyn. *Bat,” a@cded the uarrator, “they were # good riddance anyhow; they were two desperate coaracters.” it. Detective Lusenoury and the boy’s two uncles, and Valiahan, the gardener, were with him when be entered the Morgue. The bodies had been stowed away in a vault the nigut belore, and the first one brought out was that of Mosher, the man who, according to Waiter’s account, wore goggles when he and his companion in the buggy took him and his little brother away, The moment the body was brought out Waiter exclaimed, “Why, that’s (ne man Who gave me candy in the buggy)? When questioued as to how he recog- nized him so easily, he saia:—"l remember bim by his nose; I never Saw @ nose like that before | Baw him that day.” Callahan, the gardener, woo jooking oid gentleman entered the Morgue and made anxious inquiries as to whether Mrs, Mosher, the Wile ui the dead burglar, liad come or was likely to arr.ve. He subsequently stated to one of tne officials in attendance that about turee months ago, while (ravelling in one ol the street whose family be was acquainted, in the company conversion. provided her with accommodation Without ac qnainting her of the suspicions he entertained, ‘che old geniieman Jurther stated that he notilied Superintendent Wailing, who, however, paid an and chila were allowed to go, ‘his, however, had also seen the two menin the buggy the day | vous somewhat stianue, since it 18 hard: they stole poor littie Onarley, recognized the body | ly probavie that the woman, Wf iully cognie of Mosher as that of one of the men Wo Were in | Zant of the Ross excitement, ani ‘ing in her charge the chijd to which public attention was then so universally directed, would trust herself to @ stranger, tow be it, this was oue of the stories afloat at the Morgue. During the day the littie brother of Cnarley Koss arrived in com- pany With some iriends & detective. in the the buggy; but he said, after LOOKING AT THE PACE carefully, “1 am certain that he was one of the men from bis general appearance; but whenever Latcempted to Jook at hm when | mat him, last When the body of Dougias waa | Avout two o’ciock in the aiternoon a respectable | cars of this city, he saw littie Charite Ross, with | ola Woman With whom le promptiy entered into | Statuwg sie Was a stranger, he | libule or no attention to the staiemen', and wom- | | and Michael McGuire, the keeper of the Morgue, had his haods fall, Avout biali-vast two o'clock two women entered the Morgue, accompanied by Offle r Lawler, of the Harbor Pulice of New York, and were et oo the threshold by Patrica McGuire, the xeeper. They asked to be permitte! to view the bodies of the two men Who Were SHO at Bay Kioge the night previous. Ove of the women was dressed in 4 Neat green dress of merino, with Jasnionable dark je!t nat, trimmed wit biue velvet and @ leather, and a red shawl, Lhe other womaa was in deep earning and hada wedding ring upon her finger, which she displayed con- spicuousiy in the presence of the crowd of men who gathered about them on their entrance to We dead Louse, . THE FIRST WOMAN, who bad Gark brown, wild, expressive eves, wore lavender kid gloves and Was excessively avitated, | while her companion, Who was aoout thirty-five ' years old, or ten years ber senior, was quite cool and collected, {he visitors we @ showu ito tie rear room, 10 WhiCQ, 10 4M .Ce0oX or savll coflla, re- posed tue remains Ol Wiliam Mosher. ihe vomen Wazed upon the leatures oO the dead maa ior & moment and turned ghastly pale. [ne smaiier and younger ol the (WO wWoinen trembled like an aspen leal, aod ber eyes ussumed @ sturt.ea ex- pression as 8.e turned to her iemae irieud, woo was less adected by the signs 0 the dead man They spoke a few words th whispers, and [ younger woman asked tuat she migut ve permitted tosee the remains of tne other man, Douxlas, The Morgue keeper ten ordered the men wno were indulzing tueir curiosity 1. tue lower vauit, Which was reached by # iiteen oot deep step ladder, to ascenu at ones, so as to Clear the apari- Went beiore the Woman waue the descent. The sigbiseers scampered up hurriedly, and Officer Lawier descended ‘o the vauli, loilowed by te young Woman in the green dress, the older female said sie hud seen suficient aut hed bo desite to go below. A bystander advised the younger jemale that she had better not descend, as the sigut was @ very offensive one ior a Woman, but sue paid no atiention to the Warn ng and descended (ne iad. der. Ajter the iapse ol ive wisutes she eme:ged irom the Vault huichWas, Waste ud @ ghost and sbasing wituculd aud excite nent as sue ¢iared from side to side, Sue Woutd communicate noth- ing as tu her identity Or the object ui her visit. Omicer Lawler when upprogched upon the suyject Said tiey Were relartVes oO} the dead men haied from New York, but uidn’t wisi Chaat their names should be mauve public, He would Siy, Dowever, tha! the young 40min was @ relative Oo Dou ias and hér imend #483 ac Nuect.Ou of Mosner, ney were shown iuto the office 0: the Morgue, where, by the suiail s*Ove there, tuey Warmed their iect . and then .eit tue place ita their police yuiue, About half an hour aiter their departure @ Tall, Piaia-lookiug Woman about twenty-nine years Oi age, culicd ab the Morgue and iwqyired Whether two Wouwen Nad beeu there to see tie bodies o1 the Luryiars, Mr, wcGuire, toe keeper, Who answered t)@ si uidous, repited that there | bad been no Women tuere tiut Gay, a piece ol Ibe | formation whicu scemed to astonish the visitor. A s0U ol the Keeper, a boy 1 ten years, who was Standing by at tue time, ROT being Cognizant of the biduen object Which Mis iather Mick’ dave 1a Mind in Concealiag the tact, 8,0Ke Out and said, “Yes, lather, there Were two ladies uere a litle While ago; Gou’’ you recolect them ?” “Un, yea,’? said the heeper, “100; but those women Wanted to see some one in the hospital’ The visitor asked wuether sie Could see the remaius, and, upon being answered iu the afivinative, pressed in througa the crowd to we thyesbuld of tue ruom 1a which THE BODY OF MOSHER reposed. She grew paie as she glanced at the body and rediurked, “that 18 the oldest one’? Then sue turued avout aud made aer way to the oice, Tiere, wulle seated oy the stove, in cun- Versation With the reporter ior the HERALD, sie Made the Jolowtug interesting statement con ceruing the deceaseu burgiar, Willig Mo-aer:— 1 ain @ sister-.a-iaw of Wiliam Mosier, the dead | man whow i lave jus¢ seen in the comin; tam | tie wile of Aivert Mosner, tne younvest vrotuer of the Mosuer ian tuere were fifteen sous of iy: , that tamu) ; 1 am married aud nave ve children; the deceased is filiy-two years ol age; ue would be filty-three had he lived unui next Christmas Day; I have nut seeu Williaw for the just six years, jor the reason that our fawily bas not veen on govd terms with hia, My bas aad Knew ol the dis- reputable course of lie wien he was leading aud would not, therefore, recoguize bim in any way, Shape or 1orm. He Would wot perdnt nim to come to the house, as he did wot Wisa tu give cozmizauce | to bis discreditabie cvreer, 1 first read o: this | a@wiul occurrence in a New York evening paper Wuile Crossing ob the ferryboat on Monuay even- ing. Iiesive in New York city, but do not wish tostate my place ui resutence; have lived tnere Only since Last election day, wien We moved irom Jamaici, Loug Isiaud. 1 wish you wouid piease make @ correction O; & MissialeMent—aud tiere | have been mauy—which appeared in to-day’s papers. The deicctive oillcers Keep talking svout Jounin Mosher as uaving worked Wilu his brother ib the comunssivh o the crimes with waich tuey conarge Dim. they must mean “Gu, or Gilbert, Mosher, instead of Joun, because Jobn, woo Was a yentieman in every sense o1 tue word, has been ucad these six years past. Tout Know myself, wud it isnot rigatto tarnish lis Tuemory in such 4 MAuner witsout uny cause. Taouga I have gut secu avy of William's family for ) several years, when iast I heard of them (they were residing 10 Mauisou street, New York. Tnat Was avout (wu weeks ago. boat builders vy trade, Abou; ex years ago Wil- ham was KFEPING AN OYSTE@ SALOON in Grand street, pear Wooster street, New York, | and Would have got along there wad he only been let alone by sume partes; but hy lost a child wuile | j there, and business troubes beset him sorely. He has veit a wile and tour chudien—ne nad six culidren, the oldest boyis eight years and tis name is William, ‘Then there 18 George avd auother boy, Whuse name 1 jorget, and # atte girl 1 tuoagnt cere tainly bi bouy, This is # mourn visit, 1udeed, tor me, ior though we uid not recognize Him living lor ) ears, now that he is dead it is put right Lo pay sume | attention to tie remains. 1M sume vu! those per- Sons (the uetectives) Wao »ave had sv Muca to say about bim woud put tueir hand over tue moutos they would, peruaps, ind more Gearer home than they have had to say avout tio. | think, from the descripuion 1 nave bad, tuat I know tie two women wiv Were here uwuie ugo., Ihe youuger Woman was Mary Vouius, at seast sue Went vy that ame, wud be salu sie Was his sister, Doug- las was avout my age, (Weuty-nine years, I kuew him waen ft wasacuild., [ue aiosiers were porn in New York, but ther iather and wotuer jailed jrow Little Neck, L. L fhe vider woman, the per- 800 Who Was Uress-d iu back, 1s forty years of age aud is tne wiaow O Jola Mosher. Had trey beep lere When | Came I i suOUld Dot Dave taken aD) LOLice Of tuem, a8 We have uot been On Sspeuk- ing leruis (or a lug Uae, Mary Douslas resiues in Columbia sircet; but sne iy Not Murried, a8 iar a3 i kuow, I met Dougias jast six years ago, Woke in company With Wy v/Ocver-iuelaw, Gilbert Mosber jives in Delaucey street, and is Hity-seven Yeurs Ofage. Ido nov Wau wy Dame mentioned, ‘ag there is no use 10 KaKING UP OLD SORES. Iwas told by a neigioor that Lwo women had cailed at my bouse anu iefi word for me that they Were going to Bay Kidge, and irom Lhe deseripuon Limierred tuat they were Maury Vousias and Mrs, Jonn Mosaer, Oo yoiug out there L learned (bat | they ad come fere, Ww Lhe worgue, whch ac. | ior wy presence, J nave not i unybong | the police on this case and came here y unscliited, Wiluam’s wile is a stout, | rovust Woman, My ausband would nut accompany We, thougii ie never jor a Muweut beieved that his brotuer had anytaimg Wuatever ty do with the stealing of that boy, Cuuriey Russ. 1 uun’t believe he did Inyseii, but dead men tell no tales, and there i8 Low no Way of disproving the cuarge as far as he 1s concerned, He Could but bave stuien awnyvoay’s child, a8 ve Was lar tou loud oj ais own offspring and of imy tet chid vo do such tang 4s that, no matter What his iaults way have been gS lu other respects. id@ was us good & man as walked the earth, but stealing Was His Jauit, aud everybody fas me faults, Wiluum Mosher reidom Of Dever drugk jiquor, never smoked vor used prolate or obscene iauguage. He usa a good eaucation Withal, abd While, 4s Wy busvand says, ibis wei that he is oUt Of Lue Word, [tis Very Sad that pe should be taken vil io such a terme manner.” At this polut the loquacious sisier-in- law Ceased tu talk, aud, biduing tue writer good | day, lef. tue Morgue aud Weut on ber way. PULICK RECORD UF MOSHER. The police coniirm tue previous report as to the baa character of Mosuer, Who was arrested in 187 tor robulng a Vesse) on Whe Fiver, but He Was acquitted because of Cue iuaviity oO) tue captain of tue crait to ldeotily him, fuey state taat oe inst became acquain'ed with Douglas, a Hebrew, 1 Greenpoint, avout nine years ayo. He ipduced Douglas to ieave nis home aud take up lis abode with bun in the Eleventh ward, in this city, where together taey pauued and plovted rovoenes, Last February vouglas obtained a situatiun as driver on (he Atlantic avenue cars, In Br oxlyn, Out avon avandoned fis laburious Work at tue sulicitatiun | Of 613 companion lu crime. ‘The two men tueu re paired (o Philadelphia, waere they resived tu Mons Toe street, uear Second, until tue auduction of Charley Rows, ta July last, THE PUSI-NOKTEM EXAMINATION, The keen, biting Wiud dia not prevent the at- teudanc« of a iarge crowd outside the Morgue in | the aiternoon, wal ing, as the purase yi jor fur- ther developments, tuward three o'¢.ock & pla- toun Of police arrived, anu the passage ways to the | Gloomy dead-house were made clear, Tne ghasuy work incident to @ post-mortem examination was Commenced without delay, aud to (ue disagreea- bie task Dr. A. W. shepuerd promptly appued, aud with the ciaracteristic sang Jroid ol & prac+ Used hand proceeued to dissect tne mains of the two uniortuoates, there were present, Drs, Stone, Fields, Colton and Simm: Coroner-elect, revresenting tie surgical prove #100, While curiosity prompted men of diverse Walks Of Ife to tue Cuarne: house, An odor of tobacco permeated the atinuspusre; but oo sach | @xpedient was essential, as the bodies were in | good condition, velog aitoyether iree irom any oensive odor. The first vouy laid on the marole siad tor dissection was that of Mosher, upon which Dr. Shepuerd set to work. Alter @ very curelul @ud minute examination it was found that deati resuited from a bullies whicn eu- tered tne leit shouder biade, about jour inches to tle left of the spinal column, passing vetweeo the fith and sixth ribs wo the right of the medue jin, The bail was discovered near the ski, tO the leit of the heart, though which it had passed, On examiniog tne body of Dougias tae avdomen | Was iound to be Ccogpletely periorated with gun- shot, the main woukd, througu Which the intes- te aiternoon and evening arowda keot vouring im | tines protrudes, beina iour wanes and @ pall jo | pt Coe Mosh-r boys were | wie Would Gave Leen Over Co see his | dtameter, and a little above the navel, to the right, Toe external appearauce of the body was likened by Dr, Coiton to a Creedmoor targes alter a heaw day's shooting, The bodies were sewed up upd consigned to the:r temporary resting places, where (uey wil be viewed Dy the Coroner's Jury (iis morning at hall-past ten o'clock, alter which the tquest wil ve proceeded with by Cur- oner Jones. Among the jurors impanelied ure ex-Mayor Poweil, .ugene Berrie, Timothy Desmond | and othe: promivent ettizens. ‘The investigation ds looked forward tu with great interest. A CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE KIDNAPPERS, It may ve remembered that when the excite. menis regarding the abduction of puor littie Charley Koss was at its heignot a weulthy gentieman of this | city Was Moved by motives Of sympathy as well as the Misery Which the sad case Vougut to nis own happy Ureside, to oer the mouey considerauion asked by the thieves uf the child woutd be rr uolarmed, The offer was set forti in an adve! tisemeut which appeared in the HERALD on July 26, aud which was reprinted extensively throughout the country, Tae offer was made in the vest of faith, and nad the kidnap ers suggested @uy reasonable method of exchanging the catid for the mouey the boy wou.u douvtiess have been jong since in his mother’s .rms. But, like all the letters sent to tue parents ol tue culld, the epis» tes which reached this gentieman were marked by the absence of any realty rational congitions. As Detective Wood remarked in regard toe the terms proposed to the polive—namely, the meet- ing at @ bridvye op (he country fats, “foe scoundrels did not offer ao honest man @ living show jor his life.” The only methoa by Wauicn the child could have boen exchanged tor the ransom was suggested by a Mr. Worcerter in an iuterview with # HERALD correspondent. Worcester proposed, tt will be remembered, to advertise tor or write to the abductors, asking them to meet a respon-iole man at Cliftou, on the Cauada side oO: the Niagara Kiver. This was the only raional plan, Why it was never adopted the egede of Monday morning ut Bay Ridge readily explains, criminals, and either of them could have been arrested upon the cnarge of burglary, The crime of Kidpapping 18 not recognized in the Extra- dition jaws, and the treaty could have been cun- cluded with perfect safety u the scoundrels sur- rendering the boy were not in danger oi indict. Ment for some otuer jeiony, It is now evident that Mosher and Douglas oad no coniaants tn | wWnom they cou'd trust; aud, a8 @ consequence, | tuey lound themse® ves de eated in the only object wruich they could dave had in ihe abduction of the OY» WHY ALL NEGOTIATIONS FAILED, All efforts on the part of the detectives to come to any sort of terwa witu (hese desperadoes ulterly failed. The undertaking of the New York gentieman to ransom the boy would seem io have been equally fruitless, for in August he advertised his withdrawal of the terms of settiement and de- ciared his inability to come to any fair and reasonable uuuerstandrtay with tie abductors, A long correspondence nad been opened with the | kidnappers Oi UNariey Ross, whica resu.ted, as bad ali the communications between the abduc- tors aud the iather of the boy, tu ieaving the case in deeper mystery than belore. As 4 matter of Cuurse the jetters received by this gentiemin were devoid o/ all tne bitterness which was characteristic of the commu- uications addressed to tue parents, and were written ib & simple, scraigitiorwa:d, business manner, Their siguificance, however, could not be misunderstuod, Tbe wording of the letters Stamps them as tae Work Oi experts, the chirog raphy and Composition being in every respect in- , teilgivle, THE MYSTERIOUS LETTERS, After consiveravie truuble ou the part of the reporter he succeeded in obtaining irom the gen- temau—who desives that is nume shall in no Wise appear—copies Of the twe most significant and characteristic of these episties. The trst re- ply iu auswer to the aaverisewent read ag ol lows:— New Yor, July mi isms, Siz—As soon as you give your right name and locality 80 that itean be ascertained whether you are respon #10.e 4 plan will be ‘orwardead. \on't give this away. the Job isnot now in the lands ot the ortanals. ‘The boy fs well and happy. Arf® attempt to tite in this matter willbe met by sile: address X. X. through Hekap personals and sign It snouid be said inat this letter, Ike all the others subsequently received, was written on note paper, {rom which the water mark in tue leit hand corner was cut. ‘he auvertisement giv- ing address aud reierences was published as re- quested, and the foliowing reply, written in pen- cil and mailed in Brooklyn, was received :— New York, July 30, 1871. S1n—T am unable to devise a pian by which 4 nove can reach us salely. Iwiil say this much, however. The check wust be on a certain bank in Sew Yors which wil be mentioned hereatter), certied and payabie to bearer, to be left with pertectly responable parti ‘The check musi be coup ed oy with) # paper goiten up i periect lorin and mtzned by each and every person concerned gran ing immunity from arrest or persecu- tion in any way, slape or manner for sixty days alter tue delivery oi'the boy and payment of the check. Check must be payable on demani to bearer, Each signature to the docutaent must be attested betore acom- nulssioner. | Aul this tnust be printed in the personalsand signed vy the person holding it, whose signature 1s aiso ailested. Ihe papers, beiore printing, must be examined by (here the name of w weil Known lawyer appears), of this ciiy, and pronounced correct. “Yae person w ceives the papers wiil produce @ fac-simile of a letier writien t youn ink on the opposite page ot the same sheet and cut from itin such a manner that ite identity cannot Le doubted: three (3) partl-s to accompany the bearer of the check io the bank: as svon as payment will instantly (eiegraph to a certain spgt. THB KIDNAPPERS IDENTIFIED. The following is « copy of a letter sent from this city to Puiladeiphia yesierday: — Naw Yorx, Dee. 1 To Jonxs, Chief of Police, Philadelyma:— spit Walter Koss ideuuties both the dead men positively. The other witness, one of them sure. | WILLIAM R.* HEINS, Captain Detective Police ot Phuadelphia, The witness meutioned ts Peter Callahan, who is employed im tue resideuce adjoiming that ot Mr. Ross. It wiil be remembered that ue saw one of the Kiduappers in the neighborhood of the house before tue abduction touk place. THE SHOULING OP MR. LEET, In the case of Mr. Joun B, Leet, who died on Sunday morning o! pleuro pneumonia, following a pistol shot wound o/ the chest, received on the Dight Ol the 25th ult., at his residence, 110th street ana Boulevard, Uoroner Eickiol yesterday took the testimony of Edward Devoe, George K. Leet, brother of deceased, and Dr. Finley, who had at- tended the wounded mau, ‘the examination tvok place at the resiuence of George K. Leet, 130vu Street, betweeu kleventih and Twelith avenues, aod most o1 the testimony went to show that tne shouting was accideutul. Deceased, wno appeared to have no motive jor taking his own aiter the occurrence to luis sister-in-ia : was purely accidental, He said thaton going to bed tie took the pistol ‘row bis hip pocket, where ue always carried it, aud was examiuing it to see Whether it was hall-cocked or nol, when it went off, the bullet taking effect im his left side. Pre- vious Co iis deat deceased repeatedly stated that the shco'ing was accidental, The case is not vet conciuded, owing to the llimess of Mrs. George K, Leet, wiio Was unable to give her testimony. POLICE AFFAIRS. A Little Discussion on the Advantages of Country Over City Candidates tor the Police Force. The Board of Police Commissioners met yester- day morning. The principal communication pre- sented to the Board was from the Counsel to the Corporation, advising the Commissioners that legally they had no authority to make charges to citizens for any expenses incurred by the Police Department in testing steam boilers. The Board then considered the cases of members of the police force, the charges against whom bad been triea, and dismissed the following person: Sergeant David J, Hughes, of the Twenty-sixth precinct, for intoxication; Patrolmen John Hesse and Patrick Fuibam, of the Eighth precinct, wad Jobn Mitchell, of tae Eighteenth, ali of whom were convicted of ipioxication. Detective Jonna H, Aicott, recently cierk iD the Letective office, Was also dismissed for intoxication and conduct unbecoming an officer, Aller disposing of the delinquent oficers the | Board proceeded to fill their places with new meu. The tollowing named the fore liam F, Hansee, George i, Hewitt, Lewis Connor, Michael J. Connoily, kdmund Garey and Emory D. Parker. ‘dhe last named | person's a, pointment caused some discussion among tie Commissioners, Commissioner Dis- becker Was bis sponsor, und Commissioners Mat- sell and Duryee voted for his appointment un- hesitatingly, Wheo Mr. Vooruis’ name was calied ue declined to vole, and remarked toat not ali the papers necessary to ve filied out aud given to the board were hauded in to vouch tor Parker, | The other Commissiovers stared ut Mr. Voorhis, | and Mr, Mateeli inquired whav paper was missing. He Was liiurmed that it was the document usually | filed up by the Captain of the precinct in which the applicant for appoiviment to the force resides, Mr. Disvecker explained that Parker live t | Naples, Ontario county; and that, as no police | captain has jurisdiction so far intu the interior of | the State, ifae had seut to Napies for the paper spoken ot by Mr. Vooriis it could only have been fled up by the very persous whose names were on ovner Feguiar papers as | Parker's character. Commissiouer Matsell said | that still the paper should bave veen sent. Nr, | Disvecker responded that the discussion Was dis- re- | tastelul @ wm, and added, in effect, that it would | | carry pain to the souls of Assemblyman Cyril S. Lincoln and the otner vouchers for che charuc- ter of Parker. le then announced that ne would wi the discussion; but Mr. Huw.ey, chiei clerk to the Board, solaced the Commuissionei’s ieart by tell. ing him that 18 canuidate had been contirmed be- jore Mr. Voorhis hau an opportunity to speak about the wbsence o/ tue paper. Mr. Voorhis finally, to set himself rigat on tue record, voted wgall the appointineut ot the policeman trom the country. Aiter the Board had adjourned Commissioner Voornis remarked that under the new charter an applicant irom the country would have a much easier way to the police (urce than one resident in the city, He would only need to be piwsicaily Capable; for the rest his iriends woul (# able to provide. A ‘esident nominee for a pace on the police force would, however, have to, saisty the Upprejadiced captain of his préevinct, that he was iE Lhe DOB ee ihe abductors were both weil known | ersuns were appuinted to © vouchers ior Mr, | draw Parker's name soouer than continue | NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1874.-TRIPLE SHEET. ASTEAMER'S WONDERFUL ESCAPE. Statement of Captain Greve, of the Steamship Auguste Andre—Blown Of the Shoal, of Sunday night the ocean fe André was stranded on the Romer Shoal in the Lower Bay. She was biown of tne said al by the combined esort of the wind and tide Monday night and yesterday, and arrived at ber wharf, at Harbeck's Stores, in Brookivn. A HERALD reporter conversed with her commander, Captain Greve, last evening, and the following 1s his version of the affair, The captain 1s a Hollander, whose reputation asa sailor stands nign, He jormerly commanded the ship Free Trade which ed Out Of this port:— CAPTAIN GREVE'S STATEMENT. 1 am commander of tue ocean steamsh!p Au- guste Anaré, hatiing ‘rom Antwerp and belonging to the White Cross une, The following Is a nis. tory of our strandiog on the Komer Shoal:—I | Was on the bridge of my steamer at hail-past | eleven on Sunday night, with my second omcer, | Mr, Malfaisant, and the Sandy Hook ptiot, Mr. Isaac Gaylord, wiom we had taken on board about fiiteen miles to the east of Fire Island, We up the Lower Bay. The weather was cloudy and thick with rain; the wind was trom south-south- west, The frat thing that 1 noticed which caused me to timk that we were going eut of Sur course was a buoy on the port side. I sang out to the pilot, informing him of tt, The heim was put hard @ starvoard, | | Dut tt was too late, and we stranded on the Romer Shoals. Isala:—“Pilot, we are ashore;’’ out he | replied that ne could not believe it. There are | $wo ligh's on Staten Island to steer by through the ash Chanuel, One tight, the lower one, | was considerably to the south when we struck. They ough’, I believe, to be a very little open while ging up the said channel. Although Imake this remark I do not profess to understand the pilot groups, Tae ship channel, nearly always used by vessels of heavy draugnt, is not considered a8 dangerous as the Swash Channel, up which the Pilot was taking us, The Swash 1s, however, a | suorter cut. We drew about seventeen Jeet. BKFORTS USED TO GET OFF THE SHOAL, | Directly atter we struck we tried to back at full speed, then tried to go ahead, and made Onal efforts to back; but we were hard and fast, and at @ quarter to One on Sunday moruing we ceased making further attempts in this direction, I tven called my oficers and several o/ the crew into my cabin and we held @& consultation as to what was the best thing to be done ander the circumstances, and the unanimous decision was that we should commence lichteulng the vessel by throwing cargo | overboard, We then opened the middie hatcn, and ‘all the oMcers and crew, likewise firemen, stewards and others, lent 9 williug hand in thiowing overboard beetroot sugar, of which we threw avout 700 bags—say seventy tons—which kept us busy tll dayligut, During the dark hours | I threw up rockets a8 @ signal of distress, to which the tugboat Meyers responded, and I en- gaged ber captain to stand by me till daylight, I subsequently engaged the steamer Crawiord to take up the thirteen St. Franciscan nuns and the two other passengers to Brooklyn, so that, what- ever happened to the steamer, they might be out ol danger, Lhe nuns bevaved noviy. hey are nearly ali from AixX-la-Chapelie. We went oa the shoal at higa water, and wien the tide nad failen, about six get, [tuimk, the vessel Keeled over con- siderably to tue vort side, TUG3 HAULING AT THE STEAMSHIP, At flood tige on Monday morning, at nine o'clock, We put op two Cugs astern and moved the engine astern at ial speed. At uali-past ten A, M. BaW that No progress was being made und engaged @ iuird tug 10 combine with the otwer two; out, aiter breaking Our haweers 8»veral tines and the resolved to abandon furtuer attempts the time being. About this time the Coast Wrecking Combauy’s Sieamer came alongside and offered us assistance; but, as the water liad fa len, Wus unable to avail myself of the company’s se: vices. A PEARFUL GALE. In the afternoon the wind blew @ fearful gale from the nortn west, , Everything was snug aloit, and we lost uothing, At two o'clock iatters to Tecelve carzo came alougside, sent down by Messrs, Fuach, Edye & Co, the steamer’s azents, They were under the charge ot the firm's steve- dvre, Mr. Howard, Who Lad bromght & large iorce Of men With Him; bat, Owing to the prevaleace of the gale and whe heavy sea rauning, coulda not stay aiongside. The wind increased in violence hour by hour, still coming irom the nortnwest, | THK GALE BLOWS THE STEAMER OFF THE SHOALS! | ‘Night came upon us, with a heavy sea anda very stron ebb tide, At hali-paat ten, to our greut joy and sorprise, Our steamship bezan to duat, and we felt giad that we had heiped the saip by lightening her, which had made ner @ few incies tiguter draugit, The engines wee backed, and aiter gviug astero for avout half a Mile we anchored in SIX lathoms Of water in the Swasa Channel and awaited daylight. A LEAK DISCOVERED IN THR AFTER HOLD. While we were strandea we repeatedly tried the pumps, but we ouly discovered a leak of an incon- wigerable extent in the after hold, and which I do not think Wil damage the cargo to any extent, Jor tue .ower part ol the cargo there consisis of glass. PROCEEDS UP THE BAY. At nine o’cluck t m ruling (fuesday) we Taiseu our ancuors and steamed to New York and auchored off the Battery, and at one O'clock Went to cur dock at Harvevk’s Stores, in Brooklyn, con- gratulauag ourselves upon the saip’s wondersul escape. Our voyage Was a very rough one at the commencement, aud our cook Wus struck by a sea which Caused the breaking of his leg. Another sea struck @ steward agd threw him down, caus- ing a Wud scaip wound, If the Auguste André had not veen a solidly but crag with a good strong buttum, she would pave bumped herself to pieces ou the Romer shoal, She was built at La Sevne, in Vouon Bay, in the Mediterranean, under the insvection of the French Bureau Veriias. Sue is of avout 1,400 tons burden, 14 2/0 feet loug, 32 leet broad, and tas 21 feet de) ta of hold, and ts prin- cipaliy owned by Mesars. Steinmann & Ludwig, of Autwerp, Belgium, WHAT PILOT COMMISSIONER BLUNT SAYS. | Upto five O'clock list miwnt the puvi of the | Auguste Audré, Mr. Isaac Gaylord, had fatleu to | make any report to the Pilot Commissioners of | bis accideni mranning the vessel asho:e. Pilot | Comuissioner Bian’ expressed himse.! as aston- Disned at this omission of duty. of said pilot, and said, further, that Mr, Gaylord ranks as one o1 vovir very best pilots. Mr. Gaylord will, doubt- less, make bis stavement to-day, aiter wick the matter will ve Oficially examiued into vy the Commissioners. It is reported that the beetroot sugar thrown Overboard came consigned to Messrs. Fuidler & Aldama and Havemeyer & Elders’ sugar re- , fuertes, WESTION’S WALK. Nearly Two Hundred Miles In Two Days—Ten Miles Inside of Two Hours— Hopes of His Success, At iour minutes and two seconds past tweive o'clock yesterday morning (vr Monday night) Weston completed his first day’s labor a: the New- ark Rink, having then completed his 115th mile of the 500 he proposes to walk witiin sixuays, This ‘Was just Hity-eight seconds inside the twenty-lour hours be set out to walk the 115 miles in, He was immediately wrapped up in his greatcoat, placed on his bed, rolied up in coverlets, and then borne to bed. Hix physician, Dr. Taylor, declares tiat Weston never was in better condi- tion aller @ hard day’s walk than alter this, and expresses himself entirely satisiea that tue plucky pedestrian will succeed this time, Weston siept only an hour and a@ half, and at hali-past three yesterday morning arose, dressed and had break- | fast; but, owing to the Rink not being heated, tt | was nearly five o’ciock when he re-um-d his | Weary walk, He walked tili twenty minutes to eignt, when @ rest of thirty-nine minutes was wken, and @ second meal of vatmeai, cold roust | | beet und nourishing fluids. He tien walked tui = boon. At tweive o'clock he ielt very sieepy, and, by advice of tue doctor, took @ rest, taking advantage of the Jact (nat he was eleven miles ahead of his tie in New York at the sume hour, He siept an hour and then took thirty-three minutes to dress and dine. In the | Morniug be sent for a new pair of shoes, The: at noon were changed for the Old ones, During | the alternoon be kept On at a good gait, makiog his mies in ao averaxe of aboul i2)gin, His first five miles were inaue aiter one o'clock in bv 498. tue Next five in 1h. 7%, Making the ten mt | io ib, 69m. 56s. The next five miles were walked in 1b, 2m, 258, and the next five in 1b, bin. 188.— | tne ten veing in 2h. tm, 38s, At mix | o'clock neé had walked altogether a trifle over | 164 miles, and Was tuen making no allowance for the two hours an twenty-one minutes’ rest he took during tne morning and forenovn, six miles aiead O/ his time atthe same hour io hus New York walk. Though not making as rapid time as he did on Monday, te walked firmly, steadily and at an easy gait, evident); ing nis sivength tor the great strain of tne Closing days, uring the evening, $he Visitors Came in amd the band piayed enlivening airs, be ortga! up consider: ably and waiked With sarprising elasticit: At tne closing Of this report there ‘was Lo doubt but Weston would have walked Qy midmyrit 200 Tolles in ine two days, within six or seven iniics. On retiring at midnigay he will sleep wll four o'clock this morning. had just passed Sanay Hook ana were heading | Vol step. | FORSTER’S ADIEU. —_+—_—_ An Interview with the Right Hon. W. E. Forster on American Affairs, - Washington Viewed by a British Statesman. The House of Representatives and the House i of Commons Compared. Public Opinion, Newspa- pers and the South. The Right Hon. W. &. Forster salts for England to-day. At the Filth Avenue Ho‘el, last evenim | S large number of bis iriends called to bid bim | “ood-by,”” aud although Mr. Forster was very much occupied with preparations for bis voyage ; he courteonaly and coralaily received all comers, Among these callers was @ representative of the HERALD, with whom Mr. Forster held rather a | lengthy conversation, sitting before the glow! ag | Grein the open grate of room 43, Mr. Forster | spent afew diys in Washington lately, and tne HERALD reporter was desirous pi obtaining irom | the distinguished British statesman an expression of bis opinions as fo the proceediags at the capi- | tal, ana more especially as to the effect produced on his mind, in this conuection, wnea he mentally contrasted the House of Representatives and the House of Commons. In reply to a question of this im- port Mr, Forster sald:—“I only spent a partol two | days in the House; only heard a kind of incidentas debate ou the currency. I don’t think J am quite competent to express auy very determined opine ion. But there was one thing that made a marked impresst)n upon me, a8 & contrast between your Proceedings and ours, You have no cheering. There was certainly none whue I was there, and I ami told that it 1s oply on very rare occasions that it is induged in. Tne only indication that a mem- ber has that he is interesting the House 1s thata number of members gather around hiiu—s:anding, indeed, in front of the speaker. That is never allowed with us. Members must retain their seats In the House of Commons during a speech, Tuey are free to go out and in, but tuey would nos be allowed to surround a speaker, That was one of the things that surprised me,”” “May I ask if there was anything else?” in- quired the reporter. “Yes, tuere was another matter, I found that ll parties were willimg @ bill could be put througa all its stages with much greater rapidtty than could be dune with us, For example, I saw @ bill pass through ali its readings ina few min- utes, That could not occur in the House of Com. mons. We could only do it by suspenuing the standing orders, aud that of itseif would suggess &n alarm, and would only be resorted to tu cases of great emergency.” “How did vhe speaking strike you, Mr. Forster?? “Well, I oniy heard four speeches, and those were delivered by Mr. Phelps, of New Jersey; Mr. | Blaine, General Butler, and Mr. Kelley, of Pennsy vania. Lthought Mr. Pyelps’ speech was admira- bie in manper, and that Mr. Blaine indicated indisputably that he was avery able man. But think there {s much more evidence of preparation on the part of your speakers than there 1s shown by us. I don’t say that disparagingly. It has ite advantages, and gives prooably @ floish to your public utterances that is not so generally obtained amongus. But itis not our way. Our public mem talk more under the impulse of the moment, I think; that is my impression, as far as my very limited observation has gove. There were several of your prominent men I had not @n opportunity of hearing. The Senate was not in session, I met Senator Conkling, and from woat I saw of tim I had a very strong desire te hear ium speak. He seemed to me a remarkavly able man. 5v lar as I had an opportunity o1 judg. ing your mode, or. rather, your machinery of leg- isiation seems well adapted to the wants of your ; Country.” i tiles pak don’t share the impression that is en- | tertained here, Mr. Forster, lu some quarters, that repubiican institavions are on the decine?? “1 would rather nut say republican institutions, becuse tiat is to some extéat a matter ol acci- dept, 1 would ratuer say iree ‘wou popular insti- tutions, and in Luar sense | certainly dv not think they are on the decay wita you. itis true that there 18 conswerable political corruptioa—that I take jor granted tuere 13, for I hear @ great deal avout it; but you have a large coun- try, and, Waar is more, a uew conutry, and Chere. fore there are bumerous Opportiuities Quad many temptations to men in ofice to turn aside irom the rigit. But Lumuk you wiil correct this—indee 1 think you are fast correcting it already. No, dou't despair o/ iree and popular institutions, tue contrary, I think my Visit bere vas increased my faith in them, if it were possible jor any it crease to be made. [ bave always oad an aviding and ap unstakeo falta nat America would work outall rigat.’” . ink of our methods of forming “What do you th Pubic opinion? “‘vnere | cuink you have an advantage; and it is also here, iuimy Juagmenu, Where tie great re- spousivinty of vour newspaper men comes in. Youare, alter all, the great moutders of public opinion, 1b aber | beiors Lhe peopie that which is Wougat and said. I dou’) think buat your news. papers are more influeniial than ours are; bat Your people vu a great deat more readiug thaa ours do, Everybody, certainly, does read news. papers in your couatry. Whe ever Ll have been [ have seen that. You are empiatically a reading people. Ltiink, to, 'his is & lacie ol very great | encouragement for you; Jor li tats power is rignely used 1f Wil 0 tae loug rua correct all your abuses, In consequence 0 this universai reading you cam Fevch tue mind OF your people quickiy; I think more quickly tian we can.” “| wus rather surprised to hear you speak last evening so confliently and so lavoravly of the Soutn, Mr. Forster 1” “Well, [sp ke as Tielt. Ldon't think there ta 80 much troubie as one Might suppose from What one bears in tue Nortn, When ft was in tie South I neiher saw nor heard vi very muca trouvle. There .s certutuly very little difficulty as to laour, Cowred peopie are quietly and courtinuously em- ployed, and seem to word with cordiality with the Wiltes, The possession Of tne franchise by tie colored peuple does not seem to have been abusec, 1 was in New Urieans, on clection day, aud was ex- ceedingly gratified to see iong fies of co.ored people depositing thew bailots at tne polls Wituout any unnecessary excitement or dis- turbance. Taen | was told that the colored vote Was pretty equaily divided between the demo- crats and the republicans. 1 was xlad to find this | Was tne case, because it Will show to the uemo- cratic party that it will be worth while to make tuese people toeir Iriends, I went into the state House and | saw there colored men who were Ofivers there, aud many of them were polt men, Icould not hep leeling how great was the social Chanve Wrouscht, Jor t was toid that this State House was on the site of a uotel where slaves were once bought ant soid. it is no doubt true that tuere has been great political corruption im these reconstructed plates: it was natural that these people. Who were slaves, should impliciuy trust the party that redeemed thew, and tuat this trust hus beea abused, there is no doubt; but the democratio party should remember under whose admiuistra- ton It Was that ueariy all the evils Of Slavery were Wwrougat, No; 1 think the South haga greay (u- ture betore 14; always thougot so, aud | am more impressed with tue Sos onshore of this conviction duce L nave visited the Sot Tue arrival ot Mr, Forster's friends brought this Pleasant and instructive conversation toa clove, aud the reporter of the HERALD rose tu leave. Mr. Forster shook vauds very cordially and good wishes were exchanged on both sides. A COMPULSORY MARRIAGE, A Wedding For Which There Were No Cards. Rev. Mr. Newman, the pastor of the emigrante at Castle Garden, performed a marriage cere- | mony yesterday, Which was made ratuer | interesting by the circumstances surrounding it, The bijidegroom was & young emigrant who had come over with the bride, and she being tll he was firs. desirous of turning her over to the care of the Emigration Commissioners. ‘However, Mr. Jackson, the Secretary of the Board, told him that she would only ve received in "he { hospital if he married her, as he declared that he would consent to no such proposition he was quietly iniormed that ne would be arrested, im order to be compelled to give security for | the maintenance of the young stranger who WAS | avont to make its début on this mundane stage. | This determined announcement brought the youn | to hig Sefses; he consented to marry the girl who ts rather pretty and seemed to be very Jond o! lim, and now sue ts In the hospital of the Butera. tion Commission, ‘This is Not the only Loatance ot the kind to wuich Mr, Jackson has, indirec tied the murilage knot, Ivis almost ueediess ty state that there were no Cards tor tis wedding cere- mony and that the young husband has beet somes | what reconetied to his uew rala, |