The New York Herald Newspaper, December 18, 1874, Page 6

——— THE INDIANS. ry Life and Law in the Indian Bot found Territory. THE FIELD ARMY RATION. For? SILL, I. T., Dec. 10, 1874, Since my last, on the 6th inst, that portion of | Davidson’s column composed of Carleton’s, Nor- vell’s ana Keye’s companies, Teuth United States cavairy, and Sanderson’s Eleventh infantry, with jen Indtan scouts, mustering in all about 150 | nfies, started, on the morning of the 7th inst, | from this post under command of MajorG. W. Bonofield, This will be the last scout made by Davidson’s column this winter, according to pres- decision, General J. W. Davidson, with the approval of Major General Augur, (commanding department now here), remains, to conduct the management of the intricate questions which will arise on the approaching and decisive | adjudication of she Indian matter, according to the uirections of Lieutenant General Sheridan, | which are expected to reach here by to-morrow’s mali. Everything done by General Davidson thus far meets the unqualified approval of his depart | ment and division commanders, and General Augur in bis yearly report bestows large attention and approving consideration upon the Wichita agency battle in August !ast, which was conducted by General Vaviason, and proved the initial de- velopment of the Indian intention to take the fleid, and drew the !ine of demarcation between | the hostile and (riendly Indians, which had been, | up to thal, so cunningly couceaied that all were | treated alike, and the efforts of the government to punish the guilty rendered entirely abortive. GENERAL SCHOFIRLD’S DESIGN. Major Schofield wiil pursue the line of march up the Wichita, as omginally laid down iu the delib- | erations held between Generals Augur and David- son, as aftording that most likely on which Incom- | ing penitent Indians may be met, With a purpose | to surrencer, and small lurking bodies of hostiles a8 wll be found yet under the banper of revolt, but receiving supplies from their friends at the agencies and | thus enabled to gratify their Indian doggedness | by “staying Out’ to gain cclat among their so- | called more inglorious brethren who have yielded | to a sound discretion, The era of diplomacy aud countercurrents among the Indians who wish to stand well with the government still continues and will grow more {nteresting from day to day. Indeed, it will be quite as well worthy of notice apd study as their pusillanimous operations in the field in the reflection of Indian character. The tilt now going on in part first ts between the Kiowas ciceroned by that “William H. Seward of the Plains,” the bon, Jonn ©. Kicking Bird, as Shey are proposing to call him, in the strategic | movements for a “peace policy,” and the Co- | manches, who affect to despise the Kiowas. | THE OLD TiME INTERPRETER here, Mr. Horace P, Jones, nimsei! almost in feel- | tng a Comanche, acknowledges a no less amiabie Seeling to the iatier tribe; but mean as they are they bave iriends and I watch the joust with | Infnite interest; for tusignificant as it is | now, it may assume broader signifi- cance, and “Kicking Bird’ is not to be outdone while stanaing up for his peopie even by an interpreter with all the powerful Comanches bebind him, claiming as does the Kiowa chieftain the ‘neus conscius recti,” and a desire to serve his people faithful. No later than this morning he sent word to Gen- eral Davidson through Indian Agent Haworth that he bad some iniormation to convey to the Govern- ment concerning the movements of the “hostiles in the feid,”’ but be warily adds that he desires to give it so that it will not immediately be known by the Comanches, and suggests a channel througo Which it shall go to protect it from such tmter- ference as he apprehends if it went through the ordinary one. in due time I snail know the intelligence thus imparted, but for the present it is forbidden. As soon a8 the “military commis- sion” ier the trial of the Indian prisoners, now | here, amounting to fifty odd, will have been con- | vened, the place will be rile with rumors and mo litte excitement will prevail. in the release of the tweive Indian prisoners last Week irom the “ice house,” ten being of the Comanche persuasion and two Kiowas, I was imformed by General Auj to-day that it was only tor the purpose of getting rid of the least criminal, or those who it 1s contended in a meas- gure are innocent, and to make room for the guilty. Bot as a matter of leniency, he assured me, one would be permitied to go until THE INSTRUCTIONS OF GENERAL SHERIDAN were received, and that it was the positive in- tention of tue government to severely punist, | them after iair trial and proof of guut, a8 an ad mon}tion to the Indian against his fashion or pro- | pensity w raid and murder. General Augur: | While disposed naturally by his temperament and | large experience to Sreat tue lodian in a fair and temperate mannes, % still impressed with the necessity at this time of administering severe punisnment to the vad Indiaus who have year alter year Lory in their reckless ferocity and a@pparent obstinacy against remaining quiet and peaceavie under the laws of the government, There is no doudt but that the finai disposition made of them under his directions and the man- agement of Genera! Davidson will be such as to commend itself to our whole people. [t is evident in the daily routine of the questions as they arise that no two generai officers could ve had vetter adapted than these gentlemen for the handling of the difficult and delicate issues as they come up. Their consideration and decision upon tue least as Well as the most important of them is controlled by a comprehensive appreciation o. e necessity Of treating them in @ oroad, just and deliberate manner, with a regard for what is due in @ civil as | well as military point of view. 1t is fortunate, alike for the government and the people at large, that at this ime, when the contest between those | favoring civil jurisdiction op the ope band and | Military on tue Other, is reaching the culminating | point that the agencies turough which it is to be decided as a reference are such a8 can ve regarded With confidence, aud the assurance tuat only what 4s rigat will ve done. BSTALLISHING A COURT, In addition to what your corresponaent has al- ready said in regard to the advisability of estab- lishing bear here or (ue Wachita Agency a United Staves District Court, or sometning which has the sembiance of law or justice about ot, witn | paraphernalia enough to make it feared, seit and | | Fespected among the jawless aud aimost outlawed Classes which abound in this country, white, la- @ian, negro and mixed. A perwanent military commission, it might honestly be said, shouid ve authorized at once by Congress, wita power to try civilians a8 we,l a8 soidiers for the infraction of military discipime and police reguiations. There $s,no fear entertained of tue civil law, because it fs remote and its machinery for prompt action perfectly ineffective; therefore itis in a measure ignored by the iaw breakers. The military law in most cases is powerless, except to act, through ite officer, as an intermediate agent in banding over offenders for tue farce of a trial, which, in nme cases out of ten is not even gone through witn by the civil authorities, the Criminals veing released from jaii on anolie prose- qui lor want of evidence. Besides, the United States Marshal or his deputy should have power to Call OB the military as a posse conttains, 60 that he could go into tue camp of any indian tribe on the reservation wuere a criminal or strongly sus- pected party bas taken refuge. This he cannot do at present, because he has pot the force nor autuority bebind hi to execute ius warrant nor the act of arrest. TRO! OP SECURING WITNESSES. This, with 4 Las been said avout the dim- culty of securing witnesses, because they are not ‘Willing to go 80 great a distance as Fort Smith, will conclusively demonstrate that there should be some provisions made by Congress forthwith at this point for the execution of tue law, making it respected that this section would be ren- dered perfectly safe for travellers, and not Fequire the homiliation, as Lieutenant Gen- erai Sheridan said to me, “of baving an escort or Protection to go a short distance from this post on ® shooting excursion.” An opinion entitied to credit prevails with many who know the wants of the piace that there should be, on the other hand, @ome kind of verritorial government, witn Proper officers and in a working condition, with due regard to our treaty obligations with tne In- dians, which—en passant, it may be said—bave mever been {fully observed, but rather ignored in cases too bumerous bere to mention, from the @ays of Cass, Everett and Bell, in regard to whom and the indian, the humanitarian and student ‘Would do well to consult the able discussion of ge indian question in that excetient work of De neville on ‘Democracy in America.” Apropos merai Sheridac he remarked to me that he ‘was going 0 make ‘this country sale enough for any one to go throug it without danger or moles tation.” But why should the Indtan, much less the white man, asked to respect civilization end ite laws wien none of its surreundings are pisced by the government to look up out side of the military, aud that, salutary as tt is, meets the objections of the so-called civilizing element, LIPE AND LAW IN THE INDIAN TERRITORY. General Davidson concurs with me in the views here: taken, and informs me that a sergeant, whom he had sent to Camp Avgur asa courie reports on his return yesterday that he met larg Bumbers of white men here and there, apparent: loitering about within Gfty miles of this post. t fair to assume they are lawless Vagabonds, bent Qpon some mischiel and are veritable rowdies of the plains. A lew weeks ago one of them stot a worthy and unoflending men jor bis money, the bal vassing direntiy throne pis bead trom vemvle | vo temple, | the German or French armies. | by the judges, But on complaint of one of tne | first decision, especiaily as they Knew that Mr. | | the | SiX pawn tickets and a lady’s handsome NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, D fortuna’ Bad been working at season and saving his earnt have them about his person, $7 taken from him, but the in the hung e ageucy during the baying was known to of which re balance being of nis coat was by the plunderer. The wounded been saved through the uptit- mg exertions of the skilful post surgeon here, Dr. D. Lown and his able assistant, Dr. Hatch. He ig still im the post hospital and is convaiescing. His name is Downer, tnat of nis assassin Keiley. The latter, gavimg been shot in the back belore he would surrender, is neld at the guardhouse in irons a Indian Territory, or it might as weil belong to the gon — ee ARMY RATION, THE 5 Referring to the army ration in the field, alluded to heretofore in these despate! an inquiry was recently directed to be made by the senior medi- cal officers at the posts on the frontier, to deter- mine its sufficiency. For some wise or ipecruta- ble purpose the inves: jon has been directed to be withheld for the present, But the positively expressed opinion of Surgeon Town, United States Army, the experienced and able medical oMcer here, i8, that it is not sufficient, and in this the officers of experience with whom I have con- sulted fully concur. This, added with the poor policy of Making the animals subsist on bail rations, necessitated by the working of the uartermaster General’s Department at ashington, will serve to show with what diff- cuity, pemalties of disease, death and untold cx- pense a hard campaign can be conducted on these boundless prairies, side bills and streams, wnere the military work 19 marching and endurance is tenfoid what it 13 elsewhere in army iife. 1 men- tion the matter that the mvestigation may ove made to go forward, Our brave and hard fighting, batte-experienced army is not half as well fed as sib go? TROTTING AT FLEETWOOD PARK. A match between Blind Boy and Buteher Girl apd a sweepstakes between Pet, ice Cream and Van’s Black Pacer were decided yesterday at Fleetwood Park. The track was very fair for the eeason of the year. Neither of the races were timed, however, as judges had been put in the stand without watches, The first race decided was that between the Pacer, Pet and Ice Cream. The tormer was at first backed over the fleld, but he behaved so badly in the first heat, which was won by Pet, that his friends lost confidence, and hedged out by backing Pet. In the second heat the horse did so Weil that he won the heat and subsequently the race. In the maich between utcher Girl and Blind Boy the former had the call, She won the first heat, but was beaten in ali the others, the race at first havin; been decided on the fourth heat, and so aeclaied backers of the girl, who claimed that Mr. Snarpe, the driver of Blind Boy, had not properly brought his weight baek to the stand, they (the judges) ordered the horses back on the track to trota fifth heat, saying that the fourth heat was a ‘dead beat.’ The decision was highly amusing to some, but very annoying to Mr. Sharpe. ‘the point taken was @ sharp one; but, as the judges nad waived all rules m the preceding beats, no time nor result of heats was announced, nor had Mr. Sharpe been weighed in alter winning the second or third neats. They should have adhered totheir Sharpe nad carried his proper weight, Fortunately he wou the fifth heat, so toat his oversight did not change the result of the race. SUMMARY. PLEETWOOD PaRK, N. Y., DECEMBER 17, 1874.— Sweepstakes $500, mile heats, best three in five, in harness; catchweights. M. Van’s Black Pacer J. Murphy’s b. g. Pet. J. Roger’s s. m. lee Cream. No official time. Match $200, mile beats, best three in five. George Shar b. g. Biind Boy, 1m har- DeSS..... q . 101 Ben. Wilson’s b. m, Butcher Girl, to seer eeeeereeee -12202 No oticiai time: HORSE NOTES. A German correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette | writes:—*“The Committee for Horse Breeding of | Fises, uncovers his head and prays not piercing hisbrain. He! TAKING THE WHITE VEIL. RECEPTION OF EIGHT NOVICES AT THE CONVENT OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD, YORKVILLE—DE- SCRIPTION OF THE SOLEMN SCENE—THE CERE- MONY IN THE CHAPEL-—AFFECTING OONGBAT- ULATIONS. Yesterday morning the ardent aspirations of eight novices received the white vell at the con- vent of the Good Shepherd, Yorkville. Owing to the long and dangerous sickness of the Superioress this event had been postponed from time to twme for the last month; but the Angel of Death at last withdrew the shadow of hia wings and the whole community of 100 white robed women entered upon their annual solemn retreat of eight days, closing the spiritual feast with the impressive ceremony of yesterday mornin; Ateight o’clock the lady iriends of the expect- ant brides were admitted to the chapel, where they could await, with suppressed eagerness, the entrance of the procession, which came in the following order:—Black veiled religious and novices, bearing lighted candles; then the postu- Jants, two by two, clothed im white cashmere dresses, white illusion veils, wreaths of orange blossoms, white gloves and white shoes, followed by their saintly Superioress and her assistant. The religious retired to their stalls in the choir, singing the “Ave Maria Stella,” while the postu- lants passed between their ranks, and, conducted by the Superioress and her assistant, approached the grate that divides the choir from the altar, where they remained until the hymn was finished, and then ai] kneit while the oficiant prayed for the spirit of charity to animate all the actions of these asptrants to the title of Daughters of Our Lady of Uharity. A lighted canale was then pre- sented to each postulant, with the words: “Receive, my daughter, this exterior lignt, sym- bol of the ecclesiastical light to which Jesus Christ calls you, by withdrawing you irom the darkness of the world in which you were envel- oped. Put your confidence in He will be your light and your strength.” The oMciant then rayed for the light of love of God and Christian nowiledge to be enxindied in the hearts of bis suppliants; and, being vested im surplice, stole and cope, he then addressed them on the im- portance of their choice in lile; exhorted them to continue faithful to that choice, and to let their daily life correspond im thought, word and aeea with the divine example of their heavenly model, Jesus Christ. He then intoned the ‘Veni Crea- tor,” the choirs replied from side to side in this invocation of the Holy Spirit, and at the close of the hymn the ofictant offered another prayer. The postulants kuelt before the grate, the reli- gious stood face to lace, while the jollowing inter- Figen Were made aud answered :— Mclant—My daughter, what do you ask? Postulant’s reply—My Reverend Father, I solicit the habit of this holy house and the favor to be triea in the practice of the Christian virtues aud in the observance of the holy constitutions, One thing I bave asked o!f the Lord, and will never cease to ask of Him, is that | may dwell in tue house of the Lord and of His holy mother all the days of my life, The beauty of TI house I have loved, Oh, Lord, and the place where Thy glory dwelleth, and 1 bave preierred humiliation, overty and mortification in the house of the ord rather than to dwell in the tabernacies of sin- ners. Officiant—Blessed be the Author of all good who has inspired you to make 80 good achoice as to take the Lord for your inheritance, for better is one day in Thy courts above thousands, Happy are suey, who dwell in the house of the Lord. They will praise Him eternally. Hearken, then, my daughier. Give ear to the words of the Holy | Spirit. Forget thy people and the house of try | father that thou mayest draw down upon thee the Javorabie looks of thy beavenly spouse, ED ba persevere in the demand you have maue Postulant—Yes, reverend father, 1 persevere and renew the demand I have made, hoping | through the infinite goodness of God to obtain the | grace of belug faithiul to Him, and to bonor and accomplish His divine will to this holy house.” Tue choir wurns toward the altar, the officiant | for the posiu- | lants, that God may direct them and finally clotne | them in the garb of immortality. Landes-Oekonomie Collegium, now sitting at Ber- lin, has unanimously agreed that government prizes are indispensable if the home breeding of blood horses and racing is to be preserved without the corruption involved in the English betting sys- tem. The committee has also resolved that the breeding of biood horses is not only a gentlemanly Sport but that itis the most necessary condition for the proper development of all norse breeding, that of jarm horses included. The committee pro- | nounced further in favor of the establishment of ptate committees for horse breeding, especially of ® Prussian committee. | ARREST OF A NOTED HORSE THIEF. In Newark yesterday Chief of Police Oliver, of | . New Brunswick, and a Newark detective arrested | one William Wilson, @ noted horse and wagon | thief, who has been operating in Brooklyn and | peruaps tn New York as well as New Jersey. His arrest was made for the alleged theft of a rig from a New Brunswick livery man. He confessed to | theft, and said be sold the rig in New York for $160. He also confessed | to stealing a rig m Jersey ‘City and | another in Brooklyn. On his person were found ol chain, besides other articles of jewelry. The tickets were for diamond rings, watches, Sc. At the moment of his arrest Wilson was oiring (?) @ Rorse and wagon at Compton’s. His arrest was effected at the instigation of a woman claiming to be Wiuson’s wile, who declares Wilson bas a diamond ring of bers. As an accomplice Paulina Winterbaum was arrested also, They will be taken to New Brunswick. CORONERS’ CASES. Sebastian Mangold, a German employed in Sehaffer’s brewery, Fifty-seventh street, near | Eleventh avenue, on Wednesday evening fell | through the hatchway and received injuries from the effects of which he died soon afterward in | the Roosevelt Hospital. Deceased, who leaves @ widow and seven children, lived at No. 415 | West Fifty-third street. Coroner Woltman was notified. Coroner Woltman was yesterday called to No, | 327 Bast Forty-seveuth street, to hold an inquest | on the body of Mrs, Elien Creamer, @ woman filty- five years of age and bornin Ireland. She died from an injury to the spine, the result of an acci- dental ial). Eariy yesterday morning Log’ Sullivan, thirty- four years of age and born in ngiand, employed | as domestic in the family of Mr. Graham, No. 418 East 116th street, was taken suddenly ill ana died soon aiterward, By permission of Mr. Jonn T. Toai, Secretary of the Board of Coroners, the re- | mains were removed to No. 68 East Houston street, where an inquest will be held by Coroner Woiltman. Officer Dalton, of the Fifteenth precinct, yester- @ay morning found the body of @ stillborn child in the front yard of No. 10 Cottage piace and con- veyed the same to the Morgue. The body was first discovered by Mr. Donaidson, living in the | same house. Coroner Wolsman was notified, Coroner Woitman was notified to hold in- est at the Morgue on the body of Thomas Taylor, ity-five years of age and born in Ireland, wno | was found dead in the doorway of No. 229 Tenth | eee by OMicer Clark, of the Sixteenth pre- Cb. THE DEATH IN THE TOMBS. A CENSURE AND A RECOMMENDATION BY THE | CORONER'S JURY—COMMITTAL OF THE INSANE CONDEMNED. Ooroner Kessler yesterday afternoon investi- gated the case of Robert Visia, a German, who died in the Tombs on the 8th inst., to which he had been committed the day previous by Justice Maurtay, on a charge of insanity. Deceased had had @ room at No.7 Goerck street and was a liquor dealer, Warden Quinn and two of bis assistants testi- fied to the commitment of deceased for insanity. | Dr. Becker, physician of the City Prison, testified that his attention was called to Vista soon after he entered the prison, and from she diagnosis then made be was of the opinion that his Patient was suffering irom delirium tremens or ther sickness and not from insanity. Dr. Becker prescrived for Visia, but theught be would not re- cover, woich Was true, as the man died during the night in the ceil where he had been placed, The doctor thought that in the condition he found Visia he was @ more fit subject for the hospital than ior @ prisov. Deputy Coroner Leo made a post-mortem examimawon and found the internal organs of deceased indicative of an excessive use of aicoholic stimulants, to which death was n0 douvt mainly ae. The case was then given to the jury, who ren- dered the foliowing verdict:— ‘That sald man came t hrs death by cerebral apo- plexy, apparentiy induced by an excessive use of aico- holie stimulant, at the Tombs, on the 8th day of Decem- ber, 1374. And "while it appears the said man was com- mitted to prison by 4 criminal magistrate as insane, there is no evidence to warrant any such conclusion, and we take occasion to censure the practice of sentenc: ing people coudned in the Tombs for any apace of Ume | without first ascertaining their Ye eo condition and cause of ailment. custom of committing insane people toa prison is an outrage, and we strongly urge that care should be exercised th affording a thorough pee oar ak all ee saan ryan | call ta the tonne ir somoying’ em to 4] The | re-entrance of the postulants clothed in the nabit At the end of this prayer the postulants left the chapel to change the bridal dregs for the white habit of the novice. The officiant then blessed the | white robes whica lay at hand, and they were im- | mediately carried to tne postulants, and while tue | latter were being clothed in them the officiant | blessed the veil, Mantle anu rosary; and tue choir sang im joytul cadence, ‘How lovely are | thy tabernacies, O Lora of hosts! my soul Jongeth and iaimteth for the courts of the Loerd;? continuing tue psalm until the guiunp and littie veil. When these latuer ap- proached the grate they sang, “I have despised the kingdom ol this world, and all the vain spien- dor of tue age, for the love of our Lord Jesus Christ.” They then knelt wile tue officiant blessed them, saying, ‘‘May the Lord Keep thy coming in | nd thy going out.” Reply, “From nencefortn and forever.” Alter another prayer the oMciant presented to each postulant the scapular, as the embiem of the | ight and amiable yoke of Jesus Corist; then the white veil, as the symbol of that purity and | modesty that should ever charactertze the true | spouse of Christ; the rosary, as a mark of devo- tion tothe mother of Jesus Christ, and the long Waite mantle as a sign of that worn by the tollow- ers of the Lamb; while last, but not least of giits, the new name promised by the Lord of hosts to the victorious over sin, self and the allure- ments of an enticing world. Alter praying fer- | vently for the new novices the officiant leit the sanctuary, the superioress retired to her stall at the end of the cnapel and facing the altar; the reti- gieuses, appointed for that office then conducted the Dew DOVices One by One to the mother whom | they so dearly love and respect, where they em- braced her, asking her prayers, With the tender- ness of w true mo*her she returned the embrace, Saying, ‘Sister, God give you His peace,” and the novices passed up one rank and down the other, carrying the Kiss of peace to the assemoled com- munity, the choir singing the oft-repeated anthem, | “Behold how good and how pleasant it ts ior brethren to dwelt together in unity,” and con- clnding with other appropriate psalms and alie- | luias until the kiss had been bestowed upon | all, At the singing of the “‘Laudate” the religieuces | formed in procession and retired from the | chapel, After the signing of the reception by tue novices they joined their friends in the parlors, where the most genuine congratulations were showered upon them. The music, as usaal, was euppited by the Sisters, | with the addition of Miss Sayers, who sang 4 sold | in her best voice. The names of the young ladies who received the habit are Misses Mary Meehan, Sister M. of Venerable John Endes; Nettie Mo- Cann, Sister M. of Loretto; Rose Spiilam, Sister | M. of tne Divine Heart; Mary Moxham, Sister Margaret Mary Alcoque; Kate Sammons, Sister M. Oi the Angel Guardian; Mary Cullito, Sister M. of St. Sebastian: Maggie O'Donnell, Sister M. of St. Florence; Mary Ryan, Sister M. of the Immacu- late Heart. TAMMANY GENERAL COMMIT- TEE. THE LAST MEETING FoR 1874—rThE TREASURY SOUND—A FEW RESIGNATIONS AND A LITTLE TROUBLE. The Tammany Hall General Committee held a Special meeting last night at the Wigwam in Fourteenth street. it being generaily known that it would be the last meeting of the General Committee of 1874 the attendance was very large. Hon. Abram S. Hewitt, Vice President, called the meeting to order, Mr. John Chanier oveing still severely indisposed. Messrs, Smith Ely, William G. Conner and Henry Hughes, the committee ap- pointed at the laat meeting to examine the ac- counts of the committee’s Treasurer, reported that his accounts had been kept correctly and that the sum of $2,454 87 remained as a credit balance. The report was accepted, The following members tendered their resigna- | tions, which Were, On motion, accepted :—Na- thaniel coeeaey, and William McManus, from the Twenty-first District Committee, and Jacob Seitz, from the Sixteenth District Commictee, The Committee on Organization reported ¢ they had selected Tuesday, the 29th inst., e Gey on which the annual primary election was to ve held, Mr. Peter Woods, from the Sixteenth district, Made objection to the committee’s report tn rela- tion to the inspectors of election selected for that district, also submitted aMidavits of men whose votes, as alleged, were bought on electron day by his opponent for Assembly honors, Mr. Jonn T. McGowan. On a vote being taken, Mr. Woods was beaten on every point and on every Motion be made, On his offering to resign ube chairman decided he was out of order, Alter the Sixteenth district fight had been dis posed of the committee adjourned sine die, THE INFANT ASYLUM BALL. ‘The season of grand charity balls is now near at hand, and the managers of the worthy institu- tions for whose benefits they are given rejoice at the prospect of obtaining through this medium the aid they so sadly need. Among these charity undertakings there is none more deserving of success than the annual bali in aid of the New York Infant Asylum, to be given at the Academy of Music, on January 14, 1875, The tickets are belng rapidiy disposed of and there i: = tured society of this city, om this occasion, will be equal to that in forme seasons, Tue list of Managers comprises the names of many of the frst ladies and gentlemen of New York, id their names are quite & sufficient guaran most brililant and enjoyable that has been given hese for a long timd. no doubt | that the crush of the elite of the refined and cul- | @ that no | efforts will be spared to make the bali one of the | STRANGE MURDERS. An Old Virginia Parmer, His Wife-and: Boy the Victims. A YOUNG NEGRO ACCUSED OF ‘THE .CRIME. MONEY OR REVENGE SUPPOSED TO BE THB MOTIVE, Manassas, Va., Dec, 16, 1874 Since Friday, the 4th inet., the people of this county have been excitedly discussing one of the most brutal human butcheries that has ever been recorded in the annals of crime in Virginia, That your readers may better understand the facts of the case @ brief description of the character of the victims and the scene of the feariul tragedy are here given. . HISTORY OF THE VICTIMS, In the southwestern portion of this county, near the Fauquier line, in alow log building, contain- ing two rooms, lived an old man named Jeremiah Herndon, whose age was bordering on eighty, and his second wife, aged about Ofty-five. Surrounding them were their pos- sessions, consisting of 1,700 acres of land, Upon these lands lived the ola man’s six sons, each of whom paid him $100 per year rent, Living with the old folks was a dark, copper-colored negro boy, aged about eighteen, employed as a farm hand, named Jesse Fouks; and as @ house boy, a little darky ten years old, named Addison Rus- sell, the latter the son of one of the most deserv- ing and industrious colored men in the State. DISCOVERY OF THE MURDER. A little after sunrise on the morning of the 4th of this montn, Sommerfield, one of the sons living near the dwelling of old Mr. Herndon, went to the house, and finding no one stirring, an unusual thing at that hour, walked to the stable, and, find- ing that locked, started back to the house again. On entering the yard he discovered BLOODY FOOTPRINTS, and, following them up, saw that they came from the house and across the porch, 1m the middie of which iay a bloody axe-bandle. Shocked at these tokens of murder he cautiously and fearfully opened the unlatched door, when a ghastly scene was presented to is view. In this room, about ten by fourteen feet, the turniture of which consisted of a bed, four old splint-bottom chairs, a table and a rickety bureau, was enacted the night before the bloody tragedy I am about to describe. Lying across the bed, with her ciothes on, was old Mra, Herndon, weltering in her blood-stained gar- ments, but still alive. In the corner near the door, on @ gray army blanket, lay little Addison Bussell, coid tn death, his HEAD CLEFT IN TWAIN and a blood-stained axe lying at his feet. These two persons lay there dione, the spirit of one nay- ing gone to its final account and that of the other just flickering out its last taint spark. The old man, the head of the house, was not to be seen, and trembiingly the young man sought the other room, expecting there to find the mangled re- mains Ol bis father. On entering be tound the room si , With the exception of a couple of barrels filled with short corn. It quickly flasned on bis memory that bis father and bis step-mother had frequently quarrelled and that as sometimes their quarrels hi ended in plows, it occurred to him that it might be the old man who haa, in @ quarrel with his wile, committed the bloody deeds, and his absence lent probability to this view of the case, In a very short time the neighbors were notified and an effort was made to discover the whereabouts of the old man, Which soon resuited tn his discovery about a half mile irom the house, bareheaded and in his stocking feet, trembling ‘with cold and COVERED WITH BLOOD, which had flowed from wounds in his head. On being questioned he could give no account of the alfair, nor how he came to be wandering in tne | fields. He was carried to the house, and then, re turning to consciousness, related the following story as HIS DYING DECLARATION :— “Jesse Fouks, the hired man, bad been hauling wood during tue day. He (Herndon) had been to Bristow station, on the Virginia Midland RaJiroaa, | and coming home about three o’clock learned that tne little boy, Addison, had found a piece of chine (pork) hid im the hired man’s basket, and Mrs, Herndon had recognized it as belonging to | the family. When Jesse Fouks came in at night | he was accused by Mrs. Herndon first, and after- ward he aud his employer bad @ quarrel about it. | Mr. Herndon drove the man away, but in about | an hour aod &@ half he came back and demanded his handkerchtel, which was wrapped around the | meat, and said to the little boy if Mr. Herndon | would say nO more about the meat he would let it drop. man, who replied, ‘he did not settie such matters in that way.” Fouks then entered the house in @ very excited manner, and sald, “It would not take me two minutes to kill two such d—d old wretches ag you are.” At this the old man picked up an axe, which he said in his deciaranon was a borrowed on¢, and brought it into the house to prevent its being stolen, ana said to Fouks, “Il | you do not leave the house I will split you down.’? ‘At this juncture MRS, HERNDON’S DYING DECLARATION comes in, which says, wnen her husband picked up tne axe she ran in between him and Fouks and id, "Dont strike with that axe or there will be jurder here,’ She says she pushed Fouks out at the door. Tne last she remembered of that Right’s horrors was tb: Fouks had a club or axe raised over her. The old man’s memory closes here also. Inquiries were now made for Fouks, and it was ascertained that he was at Mr. Jonn H, | O'Rear’s, hig former owner, engaged in butch. | ering hoge. He was arrested and taken back to | the scene of the bloody work. In order to heip to | hide his guilt, nis garments, that must have been | sprinkled with tue blood of nis victiins, were now | deeply SATURATED WITH THE BLOOD of the animals. This otherwise damning evi- dence was thus ingeuiously wiped ont, and at this | time, notwithstanding the story of the old man, | many persons, his former master more treely than | the rest, expressed @ belief in the innocence of the negro and, coincldiog with tne first reflections of yous Herndon, thougut the old man the real | culprit, DEATH AND INJURIES OF THE SURVIVING VICTIMS. ‘Phree days alter, when the old lady had recov- ered in @ degree her senses and become abie to | talk, she told almost the same story as her hus- band. On Wednesday evening following the trageay Mrs. Herndon died and a post-mortem ex- amination disciosed the fact that she had recetved two cuts with the edge of an axe, one over the forehead four tches long, extending to the brain, and the other in the temple; either of which, said the doctors, was sufficient to have Killed an ox, Mr. Herndon died on the Friday night following. A post-mortem examination was held, and it was found that a biow jast above the right eye had fractured the skull in two different directions—one across the iorenead and the other extending to the ear. The boy’s head was crushed into a shapeless mase by two blows with the back of the axe, and his body laid where he had retired to sleep on that terribie night. Fouks was committed to the jail at Brentsville at the time of bis arrest, and to-day he wus brought out for a hearing, when he wes fully com- mitted to await the action of tue Grand Jury at the January term of the Circuit Court. If the dying testimony of Mr. and Mrs. Herndon are ad- mitted as evidence on the trial Jesse Fouks will pay the penalty of this bloody deed on the gallows, On the night of the tragedy there was in an old bureau in .he same room, in one of the drawers, 800 in gold and silver and $235 in greenbacks. e coin was wrapped in old rags, and the paper money Was 1n two piles in the drawer. The latter was taken and the PRINTS OF BLOODY FINGERS ; showed that it was taken at the time the murders were committed, and snows that ad tas incited the murders and was deliberately planed by Fouks before his return to the house after having been driven away. A WEALTHY MISER, Herndon was a native of Fauquier county, but has lived most of hislife in Prince Wiliam. He ig reputed to have been worth between $80,000 and $50,000, in real estate. outstanding debts and cash. He was sienderly built and about six feet high, wore homespun clothes and long hair, not enerally well combed. He attended all the Sounty Bourts, where he had considerable busi- ness, and between business hours could be seen about the hotels, where he made bimsell couspicuous Leeppicy 3 about his finan- Ciai affairs, which consisted in loaning money in chotce tracts of land. ums and purchasin as the abode in which He lived vi roughly, au he met bis death pi Wy Indicates, was not aur- rounded by any of the luxuries that money will afford, and, indeed, few of the necessaries of life, Si pan regret during his suffering was that | of the loss of q ‘THR STOLEN ‘MONRY, and as ne lived be died, worshipping money as hisgod. His six s0n8, his only heirs, have posted to-day written notices, advertising the personal effects of their father, and, like Lim, seem to have bust the almignty dollar in view. It is said they will 0 tO No ex! hor make any effort to prosecute he murderer of their parents. Mr. E. E. Meredith, who was employed by Mr. O'Rear, Fouks’ former owner, vo defend him, after hearing the dying | declaration of tae old people read to-day, aban- doned the case aud siated that uniess ordered by tne Court he would not desend the prisoner, DESCRIPTION OF THE MURDERER. Fouks, the accused, is slenderly built, about five feet tour inches in Ean id weighs 120 pounds, | At his examination he had a wild and vacant stare and did not seem to understand what was going on around him, his attention Paine slid by the SUT g tne ayy COmmISAg MEgistrate to the reading gf This was communicated to the old | ECEMBER 18, 1874—WITH SUPPLEMENT, dence. He seemed only to had been brought out for trial and offered toxicated spectator who gat near plead his case. It ts believed by many confess his guilt before he is brought to ATTEMPTED MURDER. ATTACK ON JERSEY OFFICIAIS—THE ALLEGED PERPETRATOR IN CUSTODY. midnight on Wednesday Freeholder F. Rub, Councilman Fritz A. Meyer and Street Commissioner Hansen were walking on Union street, on Union Hill, when they were fred on by some person who layinambusb. Therufian escaped, and a search was made throughout the Beighborhood, but without success. Several friends of thease gentiemen scoured the whole vicinity yesterday morning at an early hour, and, trom information obtained by them, the three gentlemen appeared beiore Recoraer Morgan and had @ warrant issued jor the arreat of one John Mulvihill on the charge of attempted murder. Constable Brown started in pursuit, caught Malvibill and lod; him in the jounty Jail. The prisoner declined to make any statement in regard to the case except to declare his innocence. His place of residence was searched, but there were no firearms found, nor were any ound on his person, ‘There are two causes assigned for the act. The firs; is that Mr. Rub had Mulvihill arrested some time since for being drunk and disorderly, Mul- vihill was heard to make threats that he would About Cha “get square,” but this he denied yesterday. The second cause ts that Mr. Ruh, by his untiring activity in the Boara of Chosen holders, had @ committee of investigation appointed to unken- nel the corruption that existed in connection With the administration of the affairs of Hudson county. The investigation elicited frauds that had been im existence for years, and that were posi- tively startling in their charaoter. Tne frauds were brought to the atiention of the Grand Jury, who visited them with a severe presentment, which was published in the HERALD at the time. Mr. Ruh’s name has since been a source of terror to corruptionists. THE STAMFORD OUTLAWS. THE FATHER OF THE GANG TRIED AND HELD FOR BURGLARY. Sramrorp, Conn., Dec. 17, 1874, The excitement incident to the capture by the Military on Saturday of Michael Mackey, father of the four desperado sons, the aged wife and the daughter, Bridget Mackey, and the consequent vreaking up of their abiding place in the “‘Rox- bury” district, has in a large degree subsided, but the interest taken in the affair by all classes 18 as great asever. ‘This was tustanced by the crowds in attendance at the trial, just concluded, of the elder Mackey, in the Stamford Town Hall, betore Justice Benjamin J. Daskam. The accusation agaimst Mackey was burglary, though other and quite as serious charges could have been preferred. Many witnesses were examined during the trial, which began Monday ternoon and continued three days, aud while nothtng was developed to make the character of this veteran in crime darker, it was established conclusively that his house has been for years the rendezvous and biding place of law breakers in this locality, and that about all the ourgiaries, thefts and possibly some of the incendiary plots of late could be traced there. Mrs. Mackey, who shows in her face that she was ouce in better cir- cumstances, Was not pat upon the stand. Bridget, the daughter, was also not called on, and was, at the close of the trial, set at liberty. Mackey was bound over to the Superior Court for triaL He failed to procure bonds in the sum of $200, and to- Morrow will be sent to jail. ‘This afternoon a rumor became current that one of the Mackey sons had been seen at a point in tue northern part of Fairfield county. Deputy Sheruf Newman, with detectives, set out ror the place. At a late hour to-day he had not returned. THE AUSTRIAN POLAR EX- PLORATION. A FINE COLLECTION OF PICTURES PRESENTED TO THE GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY. The Chevalier Hugo Fritsch, Vice Consul of the Austrian Empire in tuis oity, bas just received from his friend, Count Wilcyk, an autograph letter to the Geograpbical Society of New York, present. ing them with a very large collection of Arctic and Norwegian views, taken by the Austrian North Pole Exploring Expedition, and also by him- self while on board his yacht, the Isbjorn. Tue collection is unique in its character, and of the greatest interest to the scientific world. Item | braces striking views of the midnight sun and photographs of the snow-covered and rugged Mountains of Nova Zembila, rare pictures of the savage grandeur of the land of eternal snow and ice. The portraits ot habitants, botn male and temate, of the Arctic wildernesses are curious in the exe treme, Ice and snow, of course, form the most prominent features in these pictures. The exquisite dreariness of life in the Polar regions is most graphically depicted, and the mind tnstinc- tively turns tothe weary duys and nights spent the brave men who ris their lives for the ad- cement Of science in that Jar off land for the ization of the fond idea of reaching the navi- UIAIMA THULE, THE NORTH POLE. A striking picture is that of the exploring ship Tegethor frozen in an immense icefield, the smail, dark bulk of the vessel appearing a mere atom in comparison with the broad expanse of dazzling whiteness surrounding her. In the background is &@ range of mountainou aks. The only evidence olnuman ile ts a sailor plodding bis,way across tae Te gators | ice to his ship. In addition to the loregoing | are. pictures of quaint landmarks of many Kinds on the Norwegian coast, from Bergen northwaras, visited by Count Wilcyk while in nis acnt bound for the northern waters. ‘Fhe collec- jon is therefore composed of scenes visited in these bigh latitudes ieee Count, and also of the Tarer ones taken on board the Tegethof,, which vessel, 1t may be remembered, was fitted up at the expense of the millionnaire Count in question, who, like Prince Surbey, his he age 18 a& de- Voted stadent of geographical science. The yacht used by Count Wilcyck, aud of which there ts & photograph, was the same vessel which had been Previously used by Captam Weyprecht, and the Army Lieutenant Payer, of the Austrian sci- entific Corps. The wonderiul adventures of the Tegethot in the Polar regions, which vessel, it may be remembered, was till recently looked upon as ost, she having been absent | two years, was lately told in these columns, Count Wilcyk hag also torwarded to Chevalier Fritsch a printed description of his experiences on board bis yacht, the Isbjorn. Another very carious affair 18 a small banabook containin; letters to the officers and crew of the Tegetnolt | when she was supposed to be lost. These letters | were distributed vroadcast by thé Count to all vessels bound to the Polar regions. On the recent Polaris expedition some very ar- tistic aketches were taken by First Engineer Emil Schuman, now of this city, and which are now in the hands of Secretary Robeson at Washington, GRAY—HARRISON. To ras EpiTor or THE HERALD:— In your tssue of this morning, December 17, the announcement of a Gray-Hoidane marriage isa mistake. My daughter, Miss Datsy Harrison, and Colonel J. Howard Gray, were married on the 5th {nst., a8 announced in your paper of the following | HABRISO) day. Mrs. ’ No. 104 East Thirty-eighth street, MARRIAGES AND DEATHS, MARRIED, Ds OHOISHUL PRASLIN—FORDRS.—At Geneva, Switzerland, at the Mairie, afterward at the Catholic church, the Duke DB CHOISEUL PRASLIN fo BLUE Wa daughter of Paul Forbes, of New ‘ork. FRELIGH—CALDWELL.—On Tuesd: December 15, at Trinity church, Saugerties, N. Y., Rev. Dr, Robertson, LRoNORE, daughter of J. S, Caldwell, Esq., of Brookiyo, to MYNDENS FRELIGH, of Saugerties. INGRAHAM—OROWELL.—On arora Decem- ber 16, 1874, at the Summerfield Methodist Episco- ai church, by the Rev. Thomas H, Burch, assisted yy the Rev. J. M. Bulkley, GEoRGs INGRAHAM to — R., daughter of Stephen Crowell, Esq,, all of oklyn. Kinsy—Nasn.—On Wednesday, Decemver 16, 1874, at the residence of the bride’s parents, yy the Rev. Thomas G. Hastings, D. D.. EuGEnn E. Kirby to Eva J., daughter oi John Nash, Esq. Lgwis—Cox.—On Thursday, December 17, 1874, ee ERT LEWIS, to Mania, by the Rev, A. B. Hart, daughter of the late Cox, MoCoy—AurTsn.—In mira ag on Wednesday, December 16, by the Rev. A. S. Huns, D. D., at the residence of the bride’s parents, Groror B. Mc- Coy, of Orange, N. J., to Emma P., daughter of Jonn G, Auten. TAYLOR—BALDWIN.—On Tuesday, December 15, 1874, at the residence of Wiliam M. Raymond, Esq., Brooklyn, E. D., by the Rev, H. Partridge, rector of Christ church, assisted by the Rev. James S. Bush, rector of the Church of the Ascen- sion, Staten Island, Haay TaYLon to MINNIS BALDWIN. pay KAY—TAYLOR.—On Tuesday evening, December 15, by the Rev. Dr, Millett, WiLLIAM E. WRaY to Miss ALLIZ TayLoR. No caras, DIED. Buocu.*-On Wednesday, December 16, after @ long and painful iliness, ABL BLOCH, in his 67th year. Relatives and friends and the members of Man- hattan Lodge, No. 156, I. U. B. B,, are requested to ttend the funeral, from his late residenoe, 464 rd avenue, on Friday, becember 18, at nine o'clock A. M, MANHATTAN LopGB, No. 156, 1. 0, B. B.— Brothers, you Afe respectiully requested to at! 1 ra Javer of amt many of the in- | by the | | county Cavan, | December 18, Dr. Hanvey W. com ber | Unt tary raptor, aged Funeral this Gay, at 9 o°0}00K A. M., from Ri inte resldemce, Se Taleo aven0®. WILLIAM A. GANS, President, JoserH M. COHEN. Secretary. Casiz.—On Thursday, December 17, Hanry GIL- ‘BERT, child of George W. and Nelly H. Cable, ‘2 years, 4 Months and 5 days, Relatives and friends are invited to attend i. St the residence of his parents, No. 19 East street, on Saturday alternoop, Lecem~ ber 19, at one o'clock. CLaRE.—On December 15, 1874, 5S. FRaw SUARE, wile of William Clark, aged 24 years and Relatives ana friends ef the family are respect= fully invited to attend her foneral, on Saturday,, December 19, at two o'clock, rom her late reai-: dence, No. 62 Skillman street, Brook! Also the members of the Eagle Lodge, No. 368, I. 0. of 0. F., are respectiully invited to atiend. CLAUSEN.— In Hoboken, on Tuesday, December 15, HENRY H. CLausEN, the beloved. son o1 J. De, aad Maceenen Clausen, aged 3 years, 9 months and Relatives and friends of the family are respects fully invited to atiend the foneral, trom the resi- Caseor hey ra ag: a of te and Jeffersom December 18, at one dtaiocn. © Bert Meee LOFFIN.—On Thursday, mn 1. 1874, of malignant scarlet fever, Prats lag Ral Bit oa Bing “ ane Anna Coffin, aged 14 years, 3 months: The relatives and friends of the fami! spectfully invited to attend the og eg the: residence of her parents, No. 404 West Twentiety street, on Saturday morning, at eleven o'clock, ConNOR.—EDWARD CONNOR, @ native of Queen's county, Ireland, in the 26th year o! his Foneral will take place from the resiaence of Baturday"becember 16 1814) ae ball-pase ose turday, December at without further notice. sa CrumP.—On December 17, HANNAH Bowen, relict: of the late John Crump, ip the 74th year of her age. Funeral December 19, at one o'clock P, M., from the residence of her son, Dr. 4. H. Crump, at Wil- Mamabridge. DopBin.—On December 17, of consumption Hanry Dossin, Jr., aged 34 years, The relatives and friends o! the family are re~ Spectiully invited to attend tne funeral from the residence of his parents. No. 367 eee ee on Sunday, December 20, at one o’ci The re- mains Will be taken from there to Noriolk Street. Methodist Episcopal church, and thence to Green-. wood cemetery for interment. Do.an.—On Thursday, December 17, at one o’ciock, at his residence, 551 Ninth avenue, Wiu- LIAM DOLAN, aged 51 years, @ native of the parish. of Clonegall, county Wexford, ireland. His friends and the friends of his family are re- spectfully invited to attend his funeral, from his he Fenidences on Saturday, December 19, at one o'clock. DonBaR.—On Wednesday, December 16, InENB HELEN, daughter of the late William Dun! and Mary Theodosia Sloan. ‘The friends of the family are invited to attend the funerai, at the residence of her brother, Thomas J. Sloan, No. 14 Prospect place, East Forty-first street, on Saturday, December 19, a& twelve M. FOwWLER.—In Brooklyn, Wednesd: morning, 16th inst., Mrs. ANNIE E, STURGES, of Ander- son W, Fowler. ‘The friends and relatives are invited to attend her tuneral, {rom the Second Presbyterian church, Clinton street, near Fulton, this Friday morning, at half-past nine o’clock, maing to be taken to Bridgeport, Conn. HAGAN.—On Wednesday, the 16th inst., JANE M. SHEEHAN, beloved wife of Joseph F. Hagan, in the 30th year of her age. ‘The relatives and frienas of the family are re~ spectfuliy invited to attend the funeral, irom her late residence, No. 77 Second street, on Saturday, the 19th ins! one o’clock. Interment in Cale vary Cemetery. HALLORAN.—On Thursday morning, December 17, Mra. BLLEN HaLLoray, in the 60tn year of her *eaneral from her late residence, No. 26 Beach, street, Saturday morning, at nine o’clock, and trom thence to St. Peter’s church, Barclay street, where there will be a solemn requiem mass offered for ere one. of aes Her remains will be taken to,Calvary Cemetery. Howg.—On Thursday, December 17, of diphthe- Men io H. Hows, aged 3 years, 10 months an ays. Relatives and friends are invited to attend his. funeral, from the residence of bis parents, No. ae pees avenue, ou Friday (this day) at one o'clock, Hunt.—On December 17, JosepH Hunt, son of Samuel L. Hunt, in the 45th year of his age. ‘The frienas of the family are invited to attend the juneral services to-morrow evening, at sever o’cluck, from his late residence, 1,563 Third ave- nue, IRELAND.—At Rutherfura Park, N. J., on Thurs- day morning, December 17, 1874, SaBaH, the veloved wiie of Robinson Ireland, ‘The relatives and friends of the family are re- Spectiully invited to attend the funeral, to Cedar Lawn, on Saturday, December 19, at hall-past two . M., from her late residence, Mountain Way, Rutnerturd Park. Erie trains leave Chambers street, New York at syeine Ca at amar ies or ayo ret P. M. eliast (Ireland) papers please . ‘ AP the: bel write of Michaeh JACKMAN.—JULIA, the beloved Jackman, a native of the county Killkenny, parism 1 Grovine, Ireland, aged 54 years. Relatives and friends of the {amily are requested to attend the iuneral, from her late residence, corner of Forty-second street and Lexington ave- nue, on December 18, at one P. M. JACKSON.—At Dix is, L, L, on Thursday, December 17, Miss CORNELIA A. JACKSON, aged 85 years, ‘The relatives and friends of the family are in- vited to attend the funeral, from the church of the Holy Trinity, Clinton street, corner Montague Heda oe on Saturday, December 19, at welve M, JACKSON,—At Dix Hills, L, L, on the 17th inst., - CORNBLIA A. JACKSON, in the 85th year of her age. Notice of funerai herealter. Linpgy.—On Thursday, December 17, after » long and severe illness, Hon, HENBY A. LINDBN, im the 25th year of his age. Notice of funeral hereafter. Looxwoop.—At Rockaway, L, 1, December 16, 1874, at eleven o’clock P. M., MARY ELIZABETH, daughter of Benjamin and Sarah ©. Lockwood, aged 4 years, 6 months and 19 days. 7 jatives anu friends are respectfully invited to. attend the funeral, on Friday, the 18tb inst., at oe Wks P. M., at the Episcopal church, Woods- urg, Ls I. MANSUR,—On Monday, December 14, very sudj denly, of hemorrhage of the lungs, STBPHEN U. Mansur. Eastern and St, Louls papers please copy. 7 MARSELLUS.—December 16, 1874, at Paasale, N. J., J, C. MARSELLUS, aged 43 years, ‘rhe relatives and iriends are invited to attend his funeral, from the North Reformed charch, of Passaic, on Friday, the 18th lost., at one o'clock P.M. Trains leave {oot of Chambers street, via Erie Railway, at 12 o’clock M. Mooas.—At New Hamburg, SaMvugL S, Moors, in the 87th year of his age. Relatives and iriends are invited to attend the. funeral, on Saturday, at half-past ten o’clock A. M., at the Reformed Dutch church, English Neigh- borhood, Ridgetield station. Train leaves foot of Chambers street at 9:30. MoRkiLL.—On Thursday, December 17, at her late resiaence, 149 West ihaa eat street, JULIA C., wile ef Jesse L. Morrill, M. D. Notice of tuneral hereaiter. MORITZ.—LE0 MORITZ, infant son of Moses and Fanny Moritz, aged 4 months, Funeral at eleven A, M., to-day, from residence, | 160 Bast Fifty-sixth street. NYELAND.—Un December 17, CHARLES Ff. NYE- LAND, aged 3 years, 9 months and 26 days. Funeral on Saturday, December 19, at one o'clock. Friends aud relatives respectfully invited at No. 460 West Thirty-third street, OLWELL.—On December 16, 1874, MaTTHEW OL— WELL, aged 85 years. The relatives and friends of the family, also of his uncle, James Oiwell, are respectfuliy invited to attend the funeral, from St.Gabnel’s charch, Thirty= seventh street, near Second avenue, on Saturaay morning, at hali-past nine o’clock. Rypgn.—On December 11, 1874, JaMES RYDER, aged 84 years, Hake of the parish of Kilmore, reland. Relatives and friends of the family are respect- ruly invited to attend the funeral, on Sunday, at one o'clock P. M., {rom his late residence, 822 Sec- ond avenue. Cavan papers please copy. SMiTH.—At bis residence, Mount Vernon, Ohio, Smit, formerly of thie city, im the 49th year of his age. Litchileld eounty ( Bt papers piease copy. Smirn.—At Hoboken, N. J.,on Thursday even ing, December 17, Davip SMITH, aged 45 years, Further notice of funeral hereaiter. SQuines.—Suddenty, on Tuesday, December 15, bist a of John A. Squires, in the 48th year of her age. A ‘ The relatives and friends of the family are re« spectfully invited to attend the iuneral from her late residence, 271 Seventh street, on Friday, De- cember 18, at balf-past one o'clock. Srratton.—On Tuesday evening, December 15, of croup, GEORGIE, Only son of Amos B. ana Rose Stratton, aged 1 year and 11 months. ‘The relatives and friends are invited to attend the fune on Friday, the 18th inst, at tem o'clock A. M., from the restdence of nis parents, No, 408 Bast Fifty-third stree! StinsoN,—On Thursday, December 17, after short fliness, MARY STINSON. The relatives and iriends of the family are re~ spectfully invited to attend her funeral, which wilk take place on Saturday alternoon, the 19th inst. from her late residence, 202 Broome atreet, at hait-past one o’cloe! Swain.—At Galveston, on the 18tn tnst., Ep WARD GEORGE, aged 8 months, son of Richard D. d Anna M, Swain, TAYLOR In New ashetla, pe Wednesday morn- 16, THOMAS TAYLOR, Bon Of Jacob 16 years. PT thn Nan i, ectan teens “aps. o'clock, ah iter rates res anienn Fate of ane a of Mount Pleasant, Westchestor seta sAbasiak Gay Sac eee neral services at the Legg A - ace No, 208 etreet, on 5