The New York Herald Newspaper, December 21, 1874, Page 6

6 Ee = sae r ~ | their own they will not be able to rise to an esti- \ > ry y RO | mate of its importance. wily Vb v WOW. | Superintendent Walling 18 satisfed that the A Sensation New Intelligence. FEMALE DETECTIVES Yrs, Mosher to be Sent to Look for the Boy. THE NEWARK DISCOVERY. A sudden fit of activity seized the police yester- day. They began to work with their early vigor tn the Ross case. It was quite evident some new idea of the mystery had been developed, and the police were working it out to ascertain its value. Mrs. Mosher was seut Jor by Superintendent Walling, and so were two other members of the Mosher family. They were closeted with Superintendent Walling for a long time ana he doubtless went over the whole story with them. or not could not be ascertained, Mosher suddenly changed her restdence last night, and as she seems anxious to do ail in her power to assist in the recovery of the boy, that looks significant. She was to nave gone to her husnhand’s grave yesterday, but the weather Kept her back. as it 13 likely she Will have to go out of town on business for the Superintendent, she is desirous to get the body removed from the vault and buried as soon as she can, Her children have been a great impediment in the way of here use- fulness to the poli¢e so far, She has been able only to tell them what she knew or suspected, but now it appears she 1s going to lend her assistance in looking for the missing boy. This will be valuable ald to the Superintendent; for, althougn Mrs. Mosher retains a strong reserve over many of the ways of her late husband, it is sale to conjecture she was well ac- quainted with them, He is dead. She is confident he stole Mrs. Ross’ son | and professes she would do anything tn her power to repair the loss caused by Mosher. There is nothing then more likely than that she would prove @ most valuable agent tm ascertaining his Movements at the time of the abduc- tuon. Mrs. Mosher knows where he worked at that time, how long he was away from her, what distance he could probably go in the time, and she ts just the person to send alter him, The cue wanting previously was the disposition in her, and now that bas come to tne proper pitch, She knows exactly when Mosher and Douglas left Philadelphia, ana when tney re- turned there. Mosher, according to her, was ado- | mestic man, and he would naturally go to his home immediately on arriving in the town where nis wife was living. She was in Philadelphia then, and [rom her statements on this point a very fair estimate can be made of the distance he carried the chiiu to get ria of him. If the police have not torlowed \y this chain before they have been very much at fault. The route they took on leaving Germantown has been ascertained. Superinten- dent Walling is of opinion THEY DROVE OVER the ferry and across Jersey to Raritan Bay with the child, At. that point Douglas became sepa- rated from Mosher and the child. He (Douglas) Was left vehind to get md of the buggy. It was found in Jersey City two months afterward—a cir- | cumstance whicn bears out Superintendent Walling’s theory, and the ouly point wapung lu the chain here is the time they were a@bsent from Mrs. Mosher. She can suppiy that. She is an inteilgent woman, {ull of resolve and nerve—a Woman that {f sue once took a matter in hand would devote all the energies of her nature to fatpom its dept. she 18 beside a womanly woman, full of sympa- thetic, Kindly, jeminine ieeling, capavie of appreciating @ motier’s sorrow piaced in the position of Mrs, Ross, That Mrs. Koss was placed tm that position by her husband Mrs. Mosher seems to feel keenly, and there can be no doubt, i the pretences are real, that she wiil make a strong effort to undo his wrong. se loved Mosher devotedly there can be no doubw Strunge a8 it May appear, with ter knowledge | \ tones ove of the little girls in particular to speak | of his crimes and the great diderences in their ages, and that she should feel deeply burt at lis committing @ crime so foreign to her estimate of nis character is very natural. ‘Taking these things in view, there is no doubt the police wu find @ competent instrument in her— a thing they have much needed from the beginning. Superintendent Walimg is devoting all the results of his long experience to the case, end they are valuable. His detective kuowledge cannot be questioned, but he Is in sore waut of Intelligent aid. He isin the position of ap able abu experienced geueral at the head of an unuis- ciplined, disordered soidiery. force that he cannot trust, either to carry out his commands » Keep his secrets, and the re- Sulit is he is compelica to do ali the heavy work of this burdensome case lumself. It ts ceiling seri- ously on bis health, aud there is danger iu his labors are not crowled with good fruit in due time serious consequences May result to wim. Female detectives are being urged upon him, aad if they are good ones and cab be made to understand the work the sooner they are sent to help Mrs. Mosher the better. An arrgngement has been proposed to put ber childrén into an institution in the city, but her consent has not yet beea ob- tained. The mat who caused the renewed EXCITEMENT IN POLICE CIRCLES arrived in this city on Saturday night, He was closeted for a long time with Superimtendeat Walling, aud then he is said to have gone to the Futh Avenue Hotel to see Captain Heins aod Mr, Lewis, Mr. Ross’ brotuer. His tne formation Was Of that staring nature that Super- intendent Walling Was unable to think it over under fis Own rool. He paced the block in whicn bis house 1s situated till bear daylight on Sunday moruing in deep meditation, Some of the points communicated by this man are said to be that hike Douglas, was simply an agent forathird party. Who this parcy is and What bis object may be in stealing the boy no ose knows, but the theory that such a) view oftue case is possible is quite natural kt 1s said that this mao employed Mosuer and Douglas to carry off tue chid, and ne ‘Was wailing for them to deliver him over to nim | 1D 4 boatin Raritan Bay. Mosher and Douglas gov their MONEY FOR THE BUSINESS then and were despatched. Ine man, they say, babiy crossed the vay alone with the child, or uy be that he allowed Mosher to ac- hin, leaving Dougias bend, 8 «much more likely that took Mosher across the vay the and kept up col @ couple oi days What this man’s object Was des not appear, but it was, in ail |. robabiity, mouey, 20d he Was 4 Class Of scoundrel higher in tue scale of criminal ile than Mosher, A man Was arrested oy the police last week, but whether be is in any Way connected with the otner 1s not yet kLoW: This Man was arrested in connection with the Ross case and jocked up in the Thirteenth in boat, precinct station bouse, where he has been closely | guarded since bis capture. He was not conducted W Ucadquarters and confined there, because the autboriues were airaid his arrest would become known, and that tact getting abroad wouid give intelligence to people outside the city, with Woom he 18 supposed to be in connection. It is pow knowhb—having been ascertaipea since bis arrest—tiat bis counection with the affair im- pucated but himsel!, so toat the (act of his confine- ment canpot im avy Way injure the movemens oO! (he police at this stage. The Philadelphia au- thorities are still in towa, and that cireumstance goes to Show all the mysterious workings of the case centre here, 1t has ail along been believed lle boy was concealed in Jersey or close to it, trom tre jact that Mosher hovered arouad there so constantly, but it 18 now suspected has been been conveyed West, and that would account tor Mosher’s trip to Chicago, Mrs, Mosher can give vaiable iniormation on this puint— | Created by! Whether he was satisfied | but Mrs, | That | He has @ police | ne | municanon with him at least | tue, boy | NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, DECEMBER 2], 1874.—WIT body of the boy found drowned m Newark Bay, | near Bayonne, ts not that of Charley Ross, The | defectives sent from Headquarters to investigate the matter returned and made their report yes- terday morning. Chief of Police Whi ney, | Bayonne, who was questioned in reierence to the eniid fo} Sta'ed that it was not more | than three zpere old, had biue eyes and very short light hair. The Ross boy, although in reality but four years old, was large jor his age, and wouid give the impression of being full five. The color of the eyes, wo, would seem to setue the question, as those of Chariey are almost, if not quite, black, The statement o/ the chief was cor- roborated by that o! the undertaker and others woo had seen the body. NOT YET IDENTIFIED. A New York police oMcer called over to Speer’s Morgue, in Jersey City, he with bim a& pho- | tograph of Charley Ross, which Dr, Buuneil, the | Superintendent, scanned closely. tace of | the boy he interred was too decomposed to enable hun te make @ comparison intelligently. The hair of the boy on the photograph was sa ana curly, that of the dead boy Was short and cropped oy some un- | skilled person, The clothes on the dead boy were of the home-made stamp, nothing neat in | their make up. {t was clear that when the shoes | Were purchasea the boy was not taken along to be fitted, lor they were much too large. | These points were superficial in the officer's estimation, but they pussess a great weight with Jerseymen who have studied the case. The cropping oi the hair and the altering of tne cloth- ing would be the very first devices resorted to by kianappers. Dr, Bunnell informed the officer that 1 a demand were made for exhuma- be complied with, but it that decomposition has to leave a possibility | Mdentification. As to the vaccination on the right arm, the officer said ne would make ingutry. He | concluded, however, from tue whole description, | that the body was too small to ve tbat of Charley | tion it would Ross, | the matter, jest it might embarrass the oficers | already in pursuit. | A SAD DROWNING CALAMITY. THREE CHILDREN GO THROUGH THE ICE AND ARE DROWNED. A drowning calamity almost as sad as that | curred at a place named Browertown, anout turee | miles from Paterson, N. J., on last” Saturday aiternoon. The victims were three children, Katié, Ellen and John, aged respectively eight, seven ana six, Of a widow named Mrs, Eliza Vreeland, who had left them in charge of an ola man named Thomas Moore while she went to the Paterson market. She also left a fourth one, four years old, the only one that he was able to take care of, and it also had a narrow escape from being with its brother and sisters when they came to their death, | Tne house of the widow is separated from the Morris Canal by & very narrow roadway. The children went out to amuse themselves on the | tce despite the remonstrances of the old man. He | did not believe, however, that there was much danger, a3 ali the neighbors about had been cross- ing the canal that morning and even the previous evening, and several boys ; bad been skating upon it about the time the children went out; yet mobody saw the accident. It seems the old man had forgotten } ail about the children Jor nearly three hours, and | When he intimated his iears to the neighbors tne whole vicinity jor pearly a mile around was care- | tully searched before ever suspecting tne canal. This probably arose /rom the fact that 1t was supposed to be so firmly itrozen, ice being about two inches in toickness, At length a mi named Henry Lamovert perceived @ red shawl beneath the Ice, and, vy this indication, Was convinced of the Jate of the children, He broke up the ice at toils piace, and in spite of the freezing cold immediately un. dressed bimsel! and plunged beneath the ice. Ata lew ieet from the opening he found at the bottom the two littie giris irmiy locked in each other's arms, Dearly opposite their own dweill- ing. The body of the boy was found about filty Jeet from tae breach, further up the canal Curiously enough it wouid | seem that the boy had swam this distance under | the ice. It does not appear that the current had | anything to do with it, jor the bodies of the girls | Were carried tn the opposite direction. The | Mother returned from market just as the bodies of her children, whom she left in heaith a few | hours previously, Were being recovered irom whe | bottom of the canal. Her grief was uncontrollable, | and ic was with some difiiculty that she Was ree | strained irom plunging beneath the tce. | A HERALD repo.ter accompanied Coroner. Ami- / raux co the scene of the calamity yesterday mora- | ing. | plorable picture than that presented py the Mother, the very personification of anguish and despair, standing over the dead bodies o! her three | chiudren. Her grief seemed to produce temporary Insanity, and she impiored in the moat pitiful | just one word to her. ‘the child looked Jovely in | death, with her eyes bali open and her Ifps gently parted. She appeared to be awakening irom soit slumber in obedience to the imploring invocation oi her heart-broken mother. The Coroner, aiter investigaung what was known about the acctdent, did not consider it necessary to hold @ formal inquest, The Jather of | the deceased children aied about four years ago, and left his wife and children a smail competence, the Rev. Father McNulty, of Paterson, being ap- pointed their guardian. CRIME ON LONG ISLAND. DESPERATE FIGHT WITH A BURGLAR. A desperate fight with a burglar took place at | the house of Mr. Robinson Betva, at East Jamaica, situated on the turnpike, only @ short distance from the first toligate east of Jamaica village, on Saturday nicht. The family had moved into the village for the Winter, but had left @ part of their nonsehoid goods bebind. It was ascertained that some one had entered vhe house on Friday aight, and on | Saturday mght young man named Beverly Rob- | tnson, @ relative of the family, volunteered to | watch there alone, arming himself for the occa- | sion With a sootgun and a revolver. He purposely | left one of the Goors Untastened and stationed | himself in a convenient postcion. | | Between eleven and twelve o'clock he heard footsteps cautiously a pproaching, and presently the door opened and @ man appeared, at whom | young Robinson immediately fired witu his shot- | gun. The burglar turned to fy, and Robinson pur- sued, discharging his revolver as he went. Find- | ing that he would probably be overtaken or digabied, the man suddenly turned and grappied with nis pursuer and a terriole struggle ensued, in the course of waich the burglar suc ceeded in getting possession ofa Heavy stone, with | which be struck Robinson a crashing biow ia the | face, which knocked him down and confused tim for @ Moment and enabied the burglar to make bis escape. By this time the residents of two or three houses m the neigivorhood, aroused by the firing, began | to arrive at the scene of the cunflict, but too late | to intercept the desperado, who left behind him a dirty canvas bag anda bat somewhat tne worse | lor wear, whicu may lead to his identification, | . Robinson bad several of bis iront teeth loosened, bot otuerwise was not serioasly injured. He | thinks be hit the burglar the first time he fired at him, apd he believes also that the man had an aecomplice, as he is positive that he heard some one cry out, “He is killed!” Officers are busy bunting tor the hatless and possibly wounded jugitive. | REPUBLICAN | PROGRESS IN WASH- INGTON. HOPEFUL VIEWS OF A REPUBLICAN ORGAN. character, and proceeds to say:— With the inger Workings and the plans that the | Condition of affairs bas rapidly tinproved since the meeting of Congress ; that the republican majority are Dow Well united and harmonious; that they appreciate the importance of a positive, straignt- forward aud sagacious policy, and that, maturely considering and deliberately deciding what can that is, sbe ought w be able to—and the and ought to be done, they will make tt a party police should lose no. time im putting her | matter and putit through. ‘This is particuiariy kuowledge to use, Mosher has been re-| true of the most important and diificalt orced travelling & good deai about Long | question of ali—that of the finances. Tuere sland and Staiea Island, and it certainly can- | is strong hope, as we know, that a not Le @ very dificult matter for the police to follow in his footsteps there, He was moving toe vicinity of wuere Obariey Ross was con- cealed: there can be no doubt about that—at all events for a tuwe—and if Superintendent Wailing can find proper men to work it out, the public be- fore long will have an opportunity to applaud bia | @pplication and sagacity. Taikauve ‘ OLD-DAME DETECTIVES Won't do tt, and the longer he continues those he has of that oraee on the night watcoman rolls, the better 10 will ve jor his service. The detective sorce i# Low so busily engaged discussing ttseli— Dol tO M8 Own advantage--poiltics and the prob- able changes of the in-coming rulers that it bas no time for the detection of crime. What the detectives, with just a lew ex- | ceptions, ‘e to Spare from their gossiping hours is little enough for their own “outmide business’? apa the private errands of the Commissioners, itis @ new feature Ol the service to keep oMcers in the Devective Bureau for the accommodation o| @ Commissioner’s country political acquaint ances who desire to Visit the Siumsof tne city. M Mosher wil prove a better itmpie- ment in toe hands of the Superintendent than these men, and the public will be gad to know ashe, or amy one likely to e forth definite resu! is e Jabebed upon it. re is adeep and anxious rest felt in the recovery of the child, and untdl the authorities understand e@ man and woman in the co TAvLIY 18 taking lus case to heart ag if it we good and satisiactory measure will Le developed and adopted. * * * In the reconcilement of conflicting views we must give and take. So jon as the proposed measure rests upon the righ: principles and points in the right direction we should not be anduly tenacious respecting details. For our own part we are disposed to trust to the | fidelity and judgment of the true men who are on | the spot, and who are best able to discern what ia practicable and what is not. They are in contact with every opinion. They know how far the dil- ferent interest will yield, and if they suc- ceea in giving us’ @ fatr and moderate measure they will render incaiculable ser- vice. The agreement of the republican majority upon such a bill and its adoption during the present session would greatly brighten the whote aspect of affairs. It true party wisdom. It would show the country—what 1s always wise—a direct and positive Fa . Jt would rend confa- jon among our politic adversaries. Ii they scarcely dare do—tney would expose the bollow- ness of their protessions and go to the wall ; i! not, they would suffer every objection its development might encounter, and at the same time would prociaim that the r got ed, alone was ca- pable ul producin, national policy, Above all, it would saoserve the best interests of the country and put iton the path to reatored and solid pros perity. We welcome these efforts of our repre- | sentatives at Washington,,and bid them Wed speed } i (he wood work, » of TO- | of The Jersey police have taken nQ steps in | which happened at Preakness @ week ago oc. ? the | It would be dificult to imagine a more ae- | The Albany Evening Journal (republican), of | Saturday, professes to have private advices from | Washington of the most cheering and gratifying | | | We are assured from sources entirely famillar vould undertake to reverse it—as they would | ALASKAN IMMIGRATION Our New Territory the Future Home of Icelandic Settlers. Favorable Report of the Commission of | Their Countrymen Sent to Ex- | | amine the Country. The Commissioners who were depnted by the Icelandic settlers in Wisvonsin to visit Alaska and Teport on its qualifications a8 @ home for such of their countrymen who may choose to migrate thither, have completed their examination of the Territory, and have sent the following communi cation to the President of the United States, They are delighted with Alaska in every respect, and strongly recommend it as the land intended by \ Providence for the I elanders who desire to leave their native island and seek for fortune under tue | folds of the American flag:— REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS, To His Excellency Unysses S Gxawr, President of the United States:— Sin—ihe committee of Icelanders who were deputed by the leelunders ot Wisconsin to examine alaska, with a view to a settlement therein, beg to submit w Your Biygetteces ee oho Spore — 5 ith elt © first of all wor ank Your Excellency with a! our hearts for the Kindness you have shown. tine Teeland- rs in granting their request that they might be afforded | tactiiues oy your government for making this examina- ton. We offer you thanks in behalt of all the country- men of ours wio deputed us to go, Icesanders will not jorge: Your elency's kindness, After a voyage of twenty-four days we sighted, on Oc- tober 9, the island of Kadiak, of which the tops of the mountains were covered with last year’s snow, and ap- peared to us much like the mountains of Iceiand. espe- cially on the northern and eastern coasts ot Iceland. Yroceeding toward the main land, up Cook’s Inlet, we saw great forests on the western shore of the inlet.’ On the mountains here we saw comparatively wuch less snow, and there is aiso very little lowland on that side , of the inlet. Further up, aud approaching kort Nicho- las, we saw @ fine-looking country, covered with ferests on both sides of the imlet, but with snore lowland on the eastern than on the western side. On October 15 we went on shore at Fort Nicholas and were kindiy received by the agent in charge of the government ouildings, who also gave us | Useful information, he being an ola resident. Here salmon are plenty in the rivers snd lakes, and they are | also very large. the agent told us that once he had in one hour caught sixty-three salmon, of which the biggest | Weighed ninety-five pounds, but the average weight | was fifty-two Rnd oue-quarter pounds, Otbers wid us same. One day we went to THE KAKNO RIVER, which flows south of Fort Hiahalass toa qpot where the | river had last summer overtiowed Its bunks, and there had consequently been poois tormed in the low place: and afterwards the pools had dried up, and heaps oi dead salmon lay in the dry ped, so that it was half up to our Knees wading through saluion. Several of the ship's officers also saw this, Jater bere begins in tne middle of November aud ends in the middle of March. A Rus- sian who had lived in Alaska some twenty years told | us that cabbages, potatoes and oiker garden Vegetables were the only thinys that nad been sown here; but he | said that no one had ever triedto sow anything else, He | told us that about forty miles south there was a settle- | ment caiied Noodshick (Munina), where rye raised. | The first morning we were on sbore th jometer stood at balt past six o’clock eighteen degrees above zero, Fahrenheit. We first exvlored in an easterly direction. We passed through rolling and hilly country, covered with thick forests, The soil was Garona, mossy, with very lit- tle grass but much heather and many bush trees are high, trom seventy to eighty teet, and in diameter. ‘They are mostly spruce. Further from the coast we found swamps. We think these could be ous drained, and they would then become good grass ry Ma ‘Afterward we went in a northerly direction from Fort Nicholas, We found there drier soll, more grass and forests of larger trees. | diase” breast hig much land ol vegetable matter, bein; 1 fo to one composed of very rich and fertile and trom one-halt fale fon Bei this comes mould, from six Inches to a foot dee, ‘and with fine sand. Next below this 1s a layer enacted with iron, as a strong taste Under this layer is sand and under the sand a We could of iron. sort of sandstone, beneath which comes elay. observe these layers along the beach and on the banks ot the streams. Lu very my where along the beach, brana” (lignite?) in judge, the quality of the land seems any places, indeed almost every- are layers of coal and of “surtur- | Ag tar as we | best nearest the coast, and again—according to what we | conid learn trom others—on the other side of the marshes aud nearest to the mountains, where the grass is said to grow from five to six feet high. On the western side of | | the inlet there is much less lowland, and we all have | | Rood reason to believe that the land is drier and better on that side in many ocr but as @ WAS no One on board who knew the landing pl there, we were not able 10 go over. itis said there are no fish in the inlet itselt, and we think the cause is that so many rivers pour into the inlet, some of glacial torrents, which carry with them sand and loam, and that, as the bottom of the imetis | | muddy, the water becomes turbid in stormy weather, | and this drives the fish away. ralmon are very plenty | in all the rivers and lakes during the season. Game was | scarce in the imme.iiate neigiborhood ot Fort Nicholas, | exceDting wild geese, of which there was an abundance. It is said there fs a great dexl of kame In the mountains, | east of the lowlanas—bears, foxes, land otter, erminc, Marten, sable and the lixe. | _ Cur general impression ot Cook’s Inlet is that although | we would earnestly recommend our countrymen to set- tle there later, it will not be best adapted to a coloniza tion direct frou Iceland, because it would be more dif. | cult to begin there than in Kadiak. The chief means of subsistence for the settiers would for the first year neces- | sandy be salmon, and in order to make the most of the | salmon fishing the settler shouid be there in April or | | May, and this would ve next to umpossibie if one came | direct from Iceland. For a second reason, although | | there is no doubt that stock raising cau succeed weli in this portion of Alaska after a time. still the soil here needs previous preparation in order to support large herds. As the summer in that portion is said to be very warm poe Fahrenheit have been reached), and as the rain is comparatively mach less abundan' north of the sixtieth parallel, it can hardly be doubted that agricultare will be profital here. ‘The winter is often very cold (the temperature falls sometimes to forty | degr low 2 ero, Fahrenheit), and the snow falls six or seve! deep in ‘the iow country, and twelve or four | wen teet deep on the mountains. Sut shoula Icelanders settle at Kadiak Island (tor example), to begin with, we think it not only likely, but quite certain, that an off shoot of the colopy would find it advantageous to settle, from there, at Cook's Inlet, Tae countRy AbOUT COOK'S INLET is also not go well Known and needs to be explored, in order for us to become acquainted with its natural re- sources, and this would be done as soon as Kadiak stall | be settled with elvilized peopie. | After a three days’ voyage from Cook's inlet we ar- | rived on the 24th of October at Kadiak | {slana. ‘The Custom House officer received us kindly and offered | us house room, as also for the two of us who were to re- maim all the winter at st Paul. explored the peninsula which runs northeast from | St. Paul, and also the country porth of the peninsula, round Devil’s Bay, where we found the ground mostly 2 'e | | | { | respect well atapted to them ana answers com- all our expectations. Acriculfure is woolly untried here, so thatitts not tively corta.n how fur the country ia adapted there! | but inis circumstance has for the Icelanders, who at home ave not accustomed to ornare not a importance which it has tor people ot 0 ry tos, who Will vet for many vears find land to their taste; not yet settled. tarther east. We cannot, therefore, do otherwise than express the | nope that thé American government will do all that lies in its power to encourage the inmigration of our coun tryimen to Alaska. Since that land seems to have bee: d just for them, in like manner we th at men ra adapt country and to utilize the natural resources with which it is tur- nishec | Both for the reasons above stated and also for other rea~ons, founded not merely on physical advantages, but which we shall not detain Your Excellency in specify. ne a { ing, we are convinced that Alaska will suit owr country- men better than any other land on earth. We have the honor co be Your Excellency's obedient servants, JON OLAFSSON, (Who also $9 authorized to subserine the names. o1 the absent committeemen.) OL 478 ChAresoN, Naw Yous, December 15 1874. CITY MISSION WORK. CELEBRATION OF THE FORTY-EIGHTH ANNIVER- SARY OF THE NEW YORK CITY MISSION AND TRACT SOCIETY. Notwithstanding the inclemency of tne weather last night a large number of ladies and gentle-- men were congregated in the Broadway Taber-. nacle church, corner of Sixthavenue and Thirty- fourth street, to¢take part im the cele- bration of the forty-eighth anniversary of the New York City Mission and Tract Singing; reading from portions of the Scriptare;: prayer by Rev. S. Ireneus Prime, in which he earnestly appealed to Almighty God to soften the hearts of the citizens of New York and to lead them to forego all work and amusements on the Sabbath day and keep it holy; mtroductory remarks by the President; addresses by the Rev. Drs. Taylor and Chambers, singing and closing prayer by thy pastor. The President, Mr. Whetmore, stated fn his remarks that the directors of the City Mission had thought fit to invite him to succeed the late President, Rey. Dr. Dewitt, who, for almost thirty years, was deeply interested in the operations ‘of the society, Mr. Whetmore stated that he had himself labored for forty years under the direction of four of the presidents of the go- cilety—Mr. Lewis, Hon. Theodore Frelinghuysen, Dr. Milner and Rev. Dr. Dewitt, Mr. Whetmore then proceeded to give a brief review of the last forty years, as follows, and to show how wonder- fully the labors of the society nad been productive of good :— In 1833 its chief work was the distribution of Teligigus tracts by voluntary visitors. In 1833 a mussionary was sustained in the Eighth ward, and in 1884 another in the'Fifth ward. In 1835 twelve missionaries were employed and in 1873 forty mis- sionaries were found necessary. He then gave the following résumé of the work of the Mission for forty years from 1834 to 1874:— Years of missionary labor, including each man’s service, 1,044; missionary visits, 1,983,489; tracts distributed, 41,295,893; Bibles given away, 39,1215.) Testaments given away, 45,581; volames bvuund, ,, 164,592; children led to Sunday school, 106,733; children led to day school, 22,970; persons induced to join Bible classes, 13,197; persons induced! to attend churcn, 207,701; temperance Pledges obtained, 48,353; religious meetings held, 102,725; backsliders returned, 2,946; converts anited with churcnes, 12,413, Total ex- penses in forty years, $850,000. In addition to the above, expended in the regular missionary opera- tions of the soctety, more than $100,000 have been used in building and purchasing mission stations and chapels. He begged to state that the chapels wero all established, the Christian ordinances fren and the entire work put on a permanent asi, An address was then made by the pastor, Rev. Dr. Taylor. He stated that he belteved nowhere could Men gaim such education and such knowl- edge as in great cities, and yet he thought then. the most dangerous places for men to live, and especially were they dangerous places to bring up tamilies im. it was to cor- rect the evils that abound in large cities that churches and missions were established, but he did not believe that they slone could remedy the evil, it needed the soul work and prayer of every wellwisner. ‘The Doctor stated that many people were of the opinion that edacation would remedy evil quicker and more effectually tha! anything else. He believed im education; but it would not accomplish the work desired of {tseif. He stated that @ short time since he visited Auburn State Prison and was surprised to find that out of the 1,200 mmates some iorty of them were college graduates. Most of une had good | common school educations, and not above 100 of them but could read and write. Some Peopte considered that temperance would break up the sins of @ large city, He believed that intemperance was a great curse and caused its {ull share of misery, but temper- ance needed help. It was the same story of the man who, when his neighbor went abroad and the weeds grew rank in the uncared ior grounds, rather than go and pluck them ont allowed them to grow ana the seeds to be scattered by the winds over bis Jair garden until it wastortured bythem. Just so in the rearing of families in large cities; to bring them up pure we must elther move from our neighborhood or go out among the vicious and teach them what they should do, The field was wide and workers were in need, Education, no doubt, was @ great thing, and now, ina COMPULSORY FORM, tt was about to be tried; bat would that alone eradicate the great curse of profiigacy and Ncentiousness that was running riot in this great end peautitul city? No; todo that people, good and earnest workers, must go out among the lost and downtrodden and try and reform them by gentte and tender means. It was weil enough to educate them and get them to sign temperance covered with excellent and heavy timber, especially spruce and pine, and wherever there was atl open space | there was an abundance oi grass, nigh and of good qual- | ity. andthe soil was rich. ‘Yhere are many laces and | streams, all full of salmon and different kinds of trout. Next we examined the mountains in the neighborhood | of st. Paul, and the country north of the mountains, | about Chiniak Bay, und the mountains are mostly like | | each other. There is hardly any lowland, but the moun- | tains are covered with bireh tre reen grass to | their summits, There are no lands! rock is rare. | | We travelled a long way In a westerly direction on the | mountains, and Jap Ulafweon went further northwest until he came to Marmot ‘The most inviting coun- | | try wag there and excellent pasturage, bat the forest | | trees there were smaller than turther south. We visited | THE ISLANDS AROUND ST. PAUS. | | and found them nearly all inbabitabie, ‘The timber on | Woody island is bigger than any we have seen in Wis- | consin. Goats run on the islands without any care be- | | Ing taken of them. The whites who have cattle teed them in the winier, but the natives do not feed their | cattle at all, being too lazy to cut hav for them, We crossed over Chiniak Bay and ianded on the north- ern side of Cape Greville, where Paul Bjornsson went in | a westwardly direction along the bay, but the two others | the peninsula, and aiterward around itin | ction, A large and Leautiful grass coun ry Was tere and some forest. Here we found some 1108), e 183d meridian Kadiak Island ts covered | here 1x hardly any forest west of that 1 tobe excellent all over the he coast; but the upland is said tw be wet Sill there is no doubt of there bel: pasturage for a long way in trom the coast in the mi valleys seading up from the bays. Salmon fstiing at Kadiak is avout as good as at Cook's Inlet, except that the saimon are smaller. Ina lite while the satiors from the Portsmouth caught over fitty in one of the rivers, althougn it was at a time out of | season, and they got these by catehing them with their hands or by striking them on the head with a stick, or by shootimg them as they leaned up out of the water. There is an abundance of codfish and halibut all the year round, und we caught aay number of them with- | out a bout,’ fishing trom the wharf, We will mention | | here that the Icelanders cure fish better than other peo- | plein surope. Ana 1, Jon Olateson, have in Norwi rd merchants who’ had traded in Spain with Ice. and Norwegian fish, say that they could not sell the Norwegian article in the market until the Icelanuic | fish had been sold out. Many persons in Iceland also | well understand the art of smoking salmon and pre- | serving itin tin cans. ‘There is considerable game on Kadiak, both birds and other creatures, Fur, seal and sea otter are caught not far trom the island, ‘There is no navigable river tn Kadiak by reason of rapids, but many of them have sufficient power w drive machiery. At Woody Island t wild rye (el Fast of th rnopuers, the ice company raise oats, | but cag use them in the same manner as fre- quentiy is seen in Opsitoraie cueing off the tops ha and feeding them to the cattle y. Not much care is taken in raising them; but still they get almost | ripe. Potatoes grow and do well, although the natives have not the slightest idea of how they should be calti« vated, which goes to show they would thrive excel jently if property cared tor, Cabbage and turnips and the various garden ver have great success. And tw judge from the soil and the climate there is prind facie no reason why everything that succeeds in scot land should not succeed in’ Kadiak. Pasture land is so excelient in Kadiak, and the hay har so abundant, that our countrymen would here, just as in Iceland, make sheep breeding and caitie rais ng thetr chief means of livelihood, The quality of the rass is such that the milk and the beet and mution must excellent, and we also bad an opportunity to try these at Kadiak. In time the Jeelanders would, 10 ‘Alaska, bring to the American market these ariicles in Great abundance and of good quality. Ww ‘@ what we have found out about pecially in Lieutenant Dail’s book, with | that Kadiak f the is excellently fitted for stock ratsing, sheriesare abundant all the year round, and there pty of timber for frewvod, ior housebullding and poathuilding, everywhere east of the Iud meridian, and itis only a ‘little dixtanee to the Kenai peutu Where thnber suitable ior building iarge ships grows, ‘The island hasin neurly every respect advantages over Iceland, and the climate expecially is milder in the winter time without being warmer in summer, and sui: mer is a great deal longer than in Iceland, RMIGRATION KKCOMMENDRD. We therefore do not hesitate to recommend those of our countrymen Who are minded to emigrate that the come hither if they can, and we fo thiy alter & minute and conscientious deliberation, in rhe firm belief that it Will be jor thewt advauiage, as the iqud seems iy | of them re Pledges, but the good work shou!d not stop there. Dr. Chambers was next introduced and spoke at some length upon religious faith. He said that even after John had baptized the Saviour he doubted that he was the Curist, and sent his friends to ask Him who He really was. Jesus said to the! “Look around you and see for yourselves. ‘the bund see, ‘the lame walk and the sick are made whole. Let that be your answer.” And just so 1t should be with us when we are asked the question, Who are the people around us? It should be in our power to truthiully answer, The blind and tne lame and the sick we have rescued from lives of sin and | inisery and directed in the right patn. Bat this could not be done without we are ourselves firm in our religtous beliefs. There could be no half way in the matter, We must look to our Heavenly Father jor strength, lest we faint by the way, and like Jonp, ask, Who is He who spake as none other ever did? He believed 1n churches, chapels and mis- sions; there could not be too many of them; it was through their influence that religious faith was made to take a fra bold on the hearts of the peo- le. eitne following extract from the annusl report of the Mission will be of interest to many of the RALD readers :— Number of benevolent societies, 40; of the Order of Masons and Sons o! Temperance and similar or- ganizations, 50; trades unions, many of them benefit societies, 50; religious and chari- table societies, 315, Of the ones 80- cieties are the American Bible Society, the American Tract Society, &c. Forty ted last year an aggregate of $7,025,021 or excluding proceeds of sales, nearly $6,000,000, The local charitable societies and in- stitutions receive and disburse annually $2,500,000, Tne New York City Mission and Tract Society at present employs forty missionaries (maie and {e- male), has eignt mission stations and hoidg 100 meetings weekly. The total num- ber of city missionaries in New York 18 266 and they make #00,000 visits a year. The churches, chapels and misstons tn the city have a seating capacity for 360,000, 250,000 of which are Protestant. There are 240 regularly incorporated Protestant churches, with an average membership Of 200, giving a total of 72,000 communicants, ‘rhe total number of Protestant missions in the city Is 140, A NEW PASTOR'S WELCOME. A social festival is tobe given at the Church of the Messiah, corner Park avenue and Thirty-fourth stroet, this evening, the principal object being to form more intimate relations between the congre- on ‘and the new pastor, Rev. William R, Alger. least of good things is expected. Tne society, as also occasional attendants at the charch ser vices, are invited. WESTON AFTER HIS WALK. By bis perseverance and pluck as well as his success in fairly Anishing his contract to walk 500 miles in six days Edward Payson Weston has lite: rally walked into the unbounded admiration of the citizens of Newark, who are especially proud over the fact that it was on the soil of Jersey that he achieved his greatest triumph. As u token of their appreciation the citizens to get up # hanasome and purse, for bi feo” Heldeye Gener 4. Orton ai in ir ex-Congress- Plume, Colonel Abeel, Mr. J. De nd ten other gentlemen have been Damed as @ committee ot fifteen on ar- Tangements and subscriptions, The affair will come off at the Rink, when probably Weston wiil ugain give @ short exhibition walk. He SUPPLEMENT. REAL ESTATE. Effort in the Market to Shape the Policy of the Incoming City Government. PRESSURE FOR ANDREW Hf, GREENS REMOVAL, A Joint Session of. the Boards of Aldermen Sought to Hear the Appeal of Real Estate, There has been no timo in the history of this country when the voice of the people spoke with such loud enunciation tn favor of a new departure 1n the whole policy of the representative adminis- trative system of the government, The effort to create public apprapation of a third term chance has been supplanted by an agitation in favor of one term, The party of the war and sectional- ism has given place in the popular judgment, yet to be entorced, to one of conciliation, friendship und nationality, Submission, long enduring, to extravagance has been supplanted by a demand for retrenchment and economy. This is the national situation to-day. Locally conditions are Society. The order of exercises was as follows:—4 much the same, We are approaching a new year wii ome PROMISE OP A NEW ADMINISTRATION im our local affairs. Ordinarily, people would think that in a city like New York, which casts such an overwhelming vote in favor of the demo- cratio party, the advent of the candidates of that party to power would be looked forward to by the general pubiie with satisfaction, confidence, hope and expectation of relief from all existing is, Bat, unfortunately, this is not the case. The democratic party, notwithstanding the late elec- tions, bas been simply put upon its country fop trial, ana the verdict has to be delivered in 1876, In the meantime it ts before the great inquest of the country, to be judged according to its merits, Now @ proof that that verdict has not yet been |. rendered, and that counsel have yet to be heard, is to be found in arecent movement in this market, and among that class of people who are known as Teal estate men, to bring about A JOINT SESSION OF THE TWO BOARDS OF ALDER. 5 as now organized, to hear an argument in favor of @ more liberal policy in respect to city improve. ments, and, if possible, procure the passage of an ordinance requiring the forwarding and comple- tion of those already commenced. It seems strange at first sight that such an appeal should be addressed to a decaying body, when the new body, elected apparently upon this very issue, ts just on the eve of power, But here comes in that very feeling of distrust which is a factor the demo- cratic party will have to get rid of between now and the next Presidential election if it hopes for: success then. This distrust is naturally an out- growth of the confused condition of our local politics, since the dethronement of the “Boss” left Matters and individ- uals astray alike in respect to policy as to duty and allegiance. Thus convulsion, which ‘resulted in the choice of a democratic Mayor with @ republican (quasi) policy, since, by the sudden death of the regular incumbent, resulting in the acvession to office of @ republican Mayor with a good, sound democratic policy, has, notwithstand- ing the latter fact, or perhaps because of it, cre- ated mach anxiety among the people whose INTERESTS ABOVE AND BEYOND POLITICS look only to the prosperity of the city. An appre- hension, doubtless mistaken, exists that the in- coming Mayor, Mr, Wickham, may not deal de- cistvely with that element of municipal suffocation, Andrew H. Green, who is to the real estate Market What Jay Gould is to the stock market. There May be a difference in their pracuce, although none tn the practical results, fhe trouble with Green is he is too Much trusted—over trusted, in fact, to such on extent thatthe cily i8 in danger | of bankruptcy from the enormous credit it gives him, Again, our EXPRCTANT REAL ESTATE OWNERS who have been waiting certainly patiently enough for some years past, deiraying the expenses ol a government that has veen destroying their sub- Stance and 14 now selling them out because they decline to take the word of Mr. Green against the logic of years of facts and pay for improvements | not yet commenced, and which tt is almost cer- | tain will not be commenced in his time, are in- | formed that Mr. Tilden is a friend of Mr. Green, ‘The inquiry with them in this connection fs, Has Mr. Tilden ambition? It ae bas ne had better not let his friendship ior Mr. Green prove a bar to his success. The prospective possibility of that man becoming Secretary of the ireasury would prove Worse to his aspirations than the third term did to Grant's. Nothing could happen in this market to lift city real estate out of the existing depres- sion (except specie redemption) like the elimina- taon of Mr. Green from the city administration. It is doubtful tf even specie resumption would give the same impetus to speculation that Mr. Green’s removal would. But that gentleman must not | only be removed. He should be retired, and ail the traditions that belon; the affairs of that office to his administration of jestroyed, MR. WICKHAM HAS HIS CHOICE. He can play King. William to Green’s Bismarck and Van Nort’s Von Arnim if he likes, or he | can play Alexander of Russia to a great purpose of legitimate expansion, with proper transit facilities, He will be quickly jaaged by the event, and our people are very sharp critics. The people who are urging the joint session of the Boards of Aldermen reterred to above have in view, of course, the effect of a tailure of such joint-| session resulting in apy ordinance. great point they think, liowever, Will be gained in their oppo- sition to Mr. Green in putting on record the ad- mission of the outgoing boards that they under stood the meaning o! the popular yerdict at the last election—viz., that the people demand rapid transit and an enlightened system of city improve- ments. For instance, Judge Donohue, of the Su- reme Court, has just confirmed the award of the Jomuussioners of Estimate and Assessment in re- gar THE KINGSBRIDGR WIDENING. The total assessment 1s something over $1,000,000, of which leas than one-half falls upon the city ; but, inasmuch as in many cases the awards are also to assessed, the disoursements required are ratively light. ‘the preparation for this work havin; e thus far, there should be no power vested in any individual executive oficer of the government to place himself as a bar be- tween the desire of the ties inverested, the wish of the people, the will of the Legislature ap- preved by tne chief executive of the State, the honest purpose of &@ citizen commission, with the order of @ Supreme Court Judge, und the accom- lishment of the work. Yet tnis is precisely what in capable of doing, and here arises the chief Opposition to tim. People dispute about his honesty, which, after all, 18 @ matter of very little moment just now, and does not require to be burnished and polished so frequently as his friends are in the habit of doing, Mr. Green has, however, succeeded la spending @ good deal of money. other point to which the attention of the next Legislature is likely to be called, pubiic ieeling on the subject having been strengthened by the con- tinued corporation sale of last week, 1s the pres- ent penalty imposed upon deiaulting creditors of | the city for UNPAID ASSESSMENTS. These parties are now mulcted in damages to the extent o/ fourteen percent interest upon suck unpald assessment, U1 course, this isa penalty | upon non-payment—a fine, as it were, for negli- ence. Yet in many cases there is no negligence, ‘ne people pay a considerable amount of taxes to maintain different bureaus whose business it ts to advise them of any accruing liability in such se- spect, which duty 19 olten neglected. Bestdes, | there is a , provision in the coustitution that no citizen shall be deprived of his liberty or estate without due process of law. Yet if a man is fined for neglect to pay assessments of which he had no knowledge, and to gain 9 knowledge of which he had done his best in contributing to the support of @ department that should give him suca knowledge, it is very clear that he prived of his estate in punishment an offence the commission of which he ignorant of and without ever having been heard in nis defence. Tne effort now iy? made is directed to procuring the passage of a law requir. ing the Comptrolier to receive assessments with only the legal rate of interest added thereto and ing the party assessed six months to make such payment belore confiscation. is a reform sought for in the interest of real estate ownersitp, which 18 really undaly hampered with restraints such a8 no other property is embarrassed with, Should this pass there will be SOME ENCOURAGEMENT to look forward to the time when the unjust tax now imposed upon realty in the shape o! a tax on mortgages may be removed and some simpler form of conveyance devised, which will stimu- Jate transactions oy reducing the expense of Investment, With these reforms we may hope jor free money and indulge in the confident expectation that some day real estate,in the great race for the javor of the capitaust, may get Tid Of the burdens of maladministration and hos- ule legisiation which now handicap it, No other interest but that o1 realestate could have matn+ tained itseli with the game front against the pres- sure 01 the last two years; and it is ooly th superlative confidence Of the great owners an their supreme belief in the soundness of their { parti compa! Weston is in excellent condition and does not scem to feel any ili-effects from the severe ordeal he has undergone, investments anyhow that makes them indifferent to the efforts of more active and jess securely ———————e. ore speculation, and denounce it almost as be it were criminal, These people should beas io mind thac SPECULATION 18 THE PIONERR OP INVESTMENT. It is to the latter what the border iife is to’ complete civilization. There may be irregularities im it, but as Bret Harte nas shown us in some of his best sketches that there is the same kin on the border that there is in the city, the “one touch of nature,” 80 the culative demand and the investment detnand real ‘are twin and of Siamese-pattern, so closely connected that when one sickens the other languishes;: wh! past two nis arket bad been a period: Of liquidation and settlement in which the wei holders had been silted out to the great improve- ment of the substratum of the market, 19 is borne out by information received from one of the largest tasurance companies of this city holding @ great Many Mortgages, that interest payments were never More promptly made than now, aod that there Was even an increasing disposition to lift mortgages entirely. This bears out what has been previously said regarding tne strength of present holders o! realty, The ordinary transac- tions of the past week presented no new feature, being mainly made up OF legal settlements. TERRIBLE PISTOL ACCIDENT. angen Sigh ef ; POLICE CAPTAIN 18AA0'8. BOURNE sor DEAD BY A NEWSPAPEE REPORTER—WHAT CAME OF A TROPHY OF THE BAY RIDGE TRAGEDY, Amost shocking affair occurred shortly after noon yesterday in Brooklyn, in which the life of a much respected oMicer was sacrificed and sorrow and trouble brough: upon two families, those off the deceased and of bis uuintentional slayer, The victim was Isaac S. Bourne, Captain of the Seconds Police precinct, and the man who shot bim is Jona Crawiord Pollock, a reporter employed by the ! Brooklyn 4rgus, The shooting was entirely acci- dental, and, strange to relate, was brought aboug through a discussion of the Bay Ridge trageays! It was while an inexperienced man was handling loaded pistol that the fatal shot was fired and a fellow being, without a moment's warning, in the full vigor of early manhood, hastened into eter~ nity. The facts, as elicited by the BERALD repre- sentative, are best told, perhaps, by the individu- als who came in close contact with the actors in the tragical affair. SERGEANT CARROUGHER’S STATEMENT. Sergeant Carrougiier, Whu wept while speaking: of the occurrence, said:—I was seated in a chair by the side of Captain Bourne, between the desk and the window, iu the front office of the station house, at the corner of York and Jay streets, about noon to-day, in conversation with the Cap- tain, when Mr. Pollock cametn., Lewis Lewis, am onicer of the District Attorney’s office, was also in the station house. Mr. Pollock came in from the Church of the Assumption, on the opposite corner,, where he said he hud-been to get the programme of the music, &c., ior Christmas Day, in order to publish it in the newspaper upon which he is em- ployed as areporter. Upon entering the statiom house he accosted Captain Bourne in the most Irtendly way, and, a ter some conversation, Pol~ lock said, “Captain, 1 have got something. which I want to suow. you,” and at the same time be took out of his pocket a small pistoP cartridge, and, showing it to the Captain, said: — “This is similar to the one that killed the cuild. stealer and burglar, Mosher, at Bay Ridge on last Monday morning.” The Captain took it in his hand, and, looking at it for @ minute, handed it Lack to the reporter, and taking out of his pocket & peculiarly formed pistol, a Derringer, upon which was inscribed “My friend,” exhibited it to: Poliock. The latter examined it and returned it to the Captain, who put it in bis pocket again.. Then they bota arose, at the Captain’s request,. und Went into the private otfice. The Captuin, as. they went in, said ne would show him (Pollock) something else, ‘ney had not disappeared across. the thresuoid more than two minutes when [ heard the report of a pistol, and Pollock came Foahing: out, hoiding a pistol in bis hand, and exe ciaimed, “MY GOD, UVE KILLED HIM!) I rushed from my seat lnstantly, and catchin; Pollock by the arm took him_ back to the room. saw (be Captain seated on the floor between the Chair and his desk, Wuere he had sunk down, found that the ball had entered the left breast, hall an inch beiow the nipple. The ball passed Ubroagh the heart. The pistolin Pollock’s hands Was a@ six-shooter, belonged to the Captain and was presented to hin by his friends short aiter his appointment upon the police. It had four chambers ‘loaded; it has a six- inch barrel. Whey had no angry words at any time, and irom first to last seemed vo be om the most iriendly terms. The shooting oveurred about two minutes alter twelve, and he diea within turce minutes alter; 1 tried to get him to speak but he ..as unable to articulate, Dr. Bodkin, of No. 108 Sands street, was summoned, but Captain Bourne was dead when he arrived 3. tae ball Was probed Jor but was not recovered. searcned Pollock, woom I arrested at once, but jound no pistol, und in tact nothing more than. lead pencils aud’ jetters of introduction trom his ollice to clergymen. EXCITEMENT AMONG THE POLICE. The gad news spread like wildfire, and the tele- graph lines Masued the fact near and sar over the city, Within bali ao hour after the occurrence the President of the Bourd of Police Commission- be Renared senes sarah, Sees onal 4 jpector orge F. Waddy, Captain Crate on kno Fourth precinct, Coroner J. B. Jones, and many other citizens and officials had assem- bled at the station house. Intormation. was sent to the widow, who, being com- letely overcome by emotion, faintea when: iniormed of the terrible —_ occurrence. Men who have been under the command of de- ceased gathered about the piace and many of them wept in the excess of their feelings for the: sudden death of tlctr commandant. Permission was given by the Coroner to remove the budy to vhe residence Of the amily, corner of York and Bridge streets. The tuneral will, it is believed, take place Wednesaay. Tuere will be a meeting, Of police captains held this morning at nine} o’clock, at Headquarters, to take action in respec. to tue memory o) the deceased, AN UNLUCKY CURIOSITY, It is somewhat singular that the ball cartridge: to waich Pollock cuiled the attention of the Cape tain, alluded to in tue Sergeant’s statement, 1a. One of the cartridges which remained in the unex. ploded chambers o/ ihe revolver which was so- effectually used by Albert Van Brunt in the deadly conflict with the burglar Mosher. The introauc- tion of the Bay Ridge affair ied to the exhibition. of pistols, MR, POLLOCK’S STATEMENT, John Crawiord Po.ock 18 about thirty-four years of age, an Englishman by birth, and is represented as almost over tne umortuuate occurrence, but the authorities wili not permit him to be seen by any newspaper men. They state, however, that Poliock svys that when he went into the Captain’s private ollice deceased opened a drawer in nis di and tovk oat @ pistol. This weapon was not loaded, and Pollock says he cocked it and Snapped it to try the spring. The Captain then. said, “Now, Poilock, itl show you a pistol that is a. a and handed bim the revolver. Pollock, hinking that this pistol was also uncharged, cocked and snapped it also, It went off, and the ball therefrom killed the Captain, Mr. Pollock ‘Was, some years ago, employed on the Union, He Was &.promiuent witness in the Dr. Irish alleged poisoning case two years ago. He is also a drug- 1st, and basa wife aud jour children residing at (0, 163 Sands street. CORD OF THE DECEASED. —_, Captain Isaac 5, Bourne was # native of Connec- ticut, He was tulrty-seven years of age anda man of fine physique. He was for several years: employed a8 salesman in Whitenouse’s shoe store, And took @ very active part in the political. management of the republican party affairs of tne Fitth ward, being at one time a delegate to tne gen- eral committee fron that ward. Five or six years ago he was @ patrolman and subsequently geant in the Brooklyn police, but resigned 4 t ter position to resume his occupation in the shoe trade, In July, 1873, he was appointed Captain of the Second police precinct, and has since entering upon hs responsible duties given very ponerse) satisfaction. Assemblyman Bradley, of the First. district, speaking of him to a reporter last evening, sald:—‘Captain Bourne was very popular in bis precinct and performed his duty well. 50 pleased were many of the leading citizens here with. nim thas they had just. started a subscription to present him with :§ id. Watch and chain duriag and $200 had been collected for that purpose.’* He leaves a wile and two daughters, the elder of whom 1s seven- teen years of age, Un iast Saturday deceased re- turned irom Danbury Conn., where, in company with his wile, he had been attending the juneral o! big father-in-law, and two weeks ago he varied @ child four months old, so that Mrs. Bourne was suffering an accumulation of anguish con- sequent upon family bereavements. Deceased was treagurer, for his precinct, of the Mutual Benefs Fund, of which he was an active member, His samily will, reiore, receive about $1,220 from, that fund, ptain Bourne was also an active member of Vommonuweaitn Lodge, F. and A. M. THE MUBDER OF MR. STUART. ly yesterday, at. she Morgue,, made @ post-mortein examination on the body of Mr, John Stuart, the man who is alleged to have been fatally beaten on the night of the 8th inst, while in tne porter tiouse No, 215 West street, as already reported in the HeRaLD, Dr. Early tound two scalp wounds on ‘he left side of the head, re- sulting in @rysipelas of the scalp, face and neck. Death was due co edema of the glottis following jarene o or age Loita to the in- juries, Coroner Woltman ‘@ jury in the case, and alter viewing the body the further investigation was adjourned esse fixed peop help the ulative movement b; securing t ier npocen oh They proiess day. In the meantime the convicts, rf Gors, remain yn the Pegitentiarss