The New York Herald Newspaper, December 29, 1874, Page 4

4 NEW YORK: HERALD, TUESDAY, Shortly after Mr. Smith’s death the door frame of | the house was hung in mourning, and it wiil re- main 80 until after the funeral. SKETCH OF GEKRIT SMITH. | Gerrit Smith was born at Utica, in this State, March 6, 1797, He wasthe gon of Peter Smith, a man of prominence fn his day. The eider Smith early in life was a partner or yohn Jacob Astor in the fur business in this city. It was not yet the | tume for Siberian gables and Alaska sealskina, the | fur trade at that time being contined to ourowR | Northern forests ana streams, The two traders. Astor and Smith, had little money, but they had plenty of energy and pluck. In the summer they | penetrated the interior of the State for the furs | which the savages vad gathered during the previous winter, and assisted by the Indians brought them on their backs aud in canoes to 5 Albany, whence they were shtpped to New York, We Gerrty DEED SA REDS AMR Se Alter some years they dissolved partnership, eral John Cochrane, No. 00 Chinton piace, a6 | Asior continuing in the (ur business and Smith es- twenty minutes to one o'clock yesterday after- tublishing Dis home in the interior ol tne State. noon, The body was soon alter givenin charge 4; (nar time Utica, where Mr. Smith at first made of the undertakers, who placed tt om ice and pre- jis nome, was a small collection of houses and pared it for transfer to the casket in which it Wil Oneida county was swill unsettled. be interred. Preparations for the funeral will be ey ioe gest ps. RR eS made ou Wednesday, and on the afternoon Of FhAE ane pons estate operations of the elder Smith day the remains wil be conveyed to Peterboro, have particular interest at Unis time, because bis accompanied by General Cochrane and the rela eariy investments in land subsequently formed tives of deceased, Mr. Smith arrived at the house p46 yuk of the fortune of his son Gerrit. Soon in which be diea on Christmas sve. His wie bad | arer removing to Oneida county Peter Smith been there off and on ior the past two MOnEnS. “ 44. 0n+ 89,000 acres of laud from the State, paying Being in a delicate stave of neaitt she was desi | 47 1, at tne rate of $3 per acre, This was only the ous of remaming as near the physteans under |b eiuning of his purchases. Taking up his reai- whose care she had piaced herself a8 possible, genoe in the new county of Madison he continued and she made Genera! Cociirane’s house ber home, | to buy land in that and neighboring counties, Mr. Smith, hearing very good accounts of the I~ | sometimes purchasing whole townships at a time, provement in Mrs. Suiich’s health, desied to pass 4s gn tustration of toe extent of his landed pos- Christmas and ihe holidays with her and the gossionsit may be remarsed that when hs gon other memvers of the ‘amily, For that purpose Gerrit came of age he gave bim a deed for the en- | he came to the city from Peterboro on Tharsday 11+» township of Plorence, in Oneida county, Much evening last and spent the time, up to the moment oy che tang acquired by Mr. Smith was purchased he was attacked, wiyuin tne family circle. He W@8 4+ sales by she Comptroller of the State for unpaid in his usual excellent spirits on Christmas Day | pares It embraced trom 1,000,009 to 1,500,000 nd seemed to take almost a new interestinthe sores and was so widely extended that aigiapel beatmamnraercars | the real estate whicn afterward came to bis son At four o'clock In the aiternoon the entire family was situated in fity-six out of the sixty counties sar down to dinner, and wien the cloth Was Fe- 1h tne sate. Peterboro was for many years the moved they continued around the table recalling § }ome of the father as well as the life-long rest- and discussing pleasant memories of anniversaries gence of the son, The elder Smith had early ac- of the day long rolled up in the past, Mr. Smith Guirea great influence over the Iudians, and his Tetired early to bed, alter making arrangements | 1 ose was often the séene of councils of the great with Genera Oochrane for several visits to Old oat importance to the irontier, Mr. Smith actung friends during the following Cay. One of thes® 4. moverator over the deliberations of the savages, ‘Was to be to Mr. Thurlow Weed, who is about the | re kitchen oor at night was often strewn with same age as Mr. Smith, aud another was toMT. | sieeping Indians, and the cowucil dre oiten blazed Chartes O'Conor. When he reached his room MF. | anong the frees of the lor It is noteworthy | Smith retired at once and slept soundly until | thar one of Mr. Smith's sons, the well known Mr.) shortly after six o’clock on Saturday morning. Peter Sken Smith, was so named in honor of we Bins SEH SOR BEC Mee ney oles, cern wreat Oneida chief, Shenandoah, with whom a firm | vious to that a fire had been lighted tn the room, and intimate friendship was long muintained. and it was burning brightly when he got out of Peter Smith died in 1837. TG, Tes, DEEN we AES, BOO SOREN NEE ame | GERRIT SMITH’S BUSINESS LIFE. in bed, and they chatteu pleasantly for nearly an | Garris Smit was educated at Hamilton College, hour. During that time Mr. Smith shaved at the | from which institution he was graduated in 1618, glass In the dressing bureau and partially dressed | Louring off the honors of his ciass. Early in lie he | liumsei, He bad pulled a chair showed a great deal of literary taste and was al- bono egeer! ways @ careiul student, but upon leaving college and appeared to be in the act of drawing on his | | and coming of age the gift of his iather claimed a undergarments, when Mrs, Smith noticed that his bor, of nis attention, aud 1t was besides nis hands were working without producing any effect. a rnerts desire that he suould become the manager Feartog some momentary distress had come upon or toe immense landed interests of the family. He | him, she quickly let her bed and went to his agsist- | ¢1ys vecume, while very young, one of the best | snce. He complained w her of belng very weak, pasiness men in tne State, and is father had been and with her help returned to his bed. From that dead only a few months when his capacity was | ‘Moment he never spoke or appeared to return 10 | taxca to the utmost. It was the year of our first | eonsciousness. eat historical nic. Vaiues were depreciated Mrs, Smith called tor assistance as soon as she | © - is | GERRIT SMITH. | Death of the Life-Long Abolitionist in This City Yesterday. HIS LAST MOMENTS. A Sketch of the Life of One of Our Most Re- markable Men. and business was at @ standstill, Most had placed her husband im the bed, and several pysiness men who were in debt went | members of the ‘amily went promptly to answer | gown with the crash. ‘The will of her summons. Genera! Cocirane had gone outa | nis father, while it left him, per- Short ume before. He was engaged | haps, the most extensive landowner in wsit Mr. Charles O'Couor with Mr. Smith the United States, placed lum in a position where goon after oreaklast, and he went to it was next to impossibie to withstand a shock so great and 50 unexpected, Much of the lanu which bis lather leit him was poor and unproductive. Besides it was charged with debts toa consider- abie amount and with heavy legacies to other heirs. For the first time in his Ife Mr. Smith was without money. Tue banks had suspended pay- | ment and it was impossible to borrow, In wis | emergency he sought the advice of Daniel Caay, | long one of the most eminent lawyers in the State, | @ brother-in-law oi Peter Smith, and for many years the principal legal adviser of ooth tather and son, Mr. Cady counselled an assignment ior tie | constant pressure upon which produced the benent of creditors, and though Mr. Smith hest- paralysts in the side o! the body. All that could raieq to take this course he saw that unless relief Possibly bc doue jor the invalid was done by MIS | was obtained from some quarter it would become a friends, but | necessity. There was, however, one resource pos- sibly open to him, and that was through the assist- ance o! Mr, Astor, bis father's old-time partner and friend. He at once wrote to Astor, informing bim of bis situation and asking fora loan. In re- | Spouse Mr. Astor invited him to the city that they order a carriage to convey them wo Mr. O’Conor’s house. When he went back to the nouse he found Mr. Smith in the comatose condition from which he never woke to the moment of nis death. The attack struck bim at about haif-past Seven o’clock. Dr. Bayard, of No, 8 West Fortieth- Street, the family physician, was at once sent for, and wituin an hour he was at the house, Dr. Bayard ‘ound his paiient as Mrs, Smith had Settiea him and his entire right side paralyzea, It was apparent, in bis opinion, that there bad been an effusion on the right lobe of the brain, the HE NEVEB RALLIED. He was almost precisely tu tae same condition Until Within about an hour peiore he died, when be showed symptoms of sinking, and at twenty Minutes past one o’clock yesterday alternoon be passed away. ' There were present at the moment of dissolu. | ™Meht talk the matter over. Mr. Smith was asked tion, Mrs. Smith, Mrs. Miler, Mr. Smitn’s ‘© “immer by the venerabie miliionnaire, who was Gaughter; Mrs. Ellen Walters, bis niece; ra, {ul Of anecdotes of his adventures with Peter Smith in the valiey of the Mohawk. At length the subject of Mr. Smith’s embarrassment was re- jerred v0, Astor asking him how much oO! a loan he wanted. ‘Two bundred and fifty thousand dollars,” was the answer. ‘Wo you want it imme- diately and ail at once ?” Mr. Astorasked. “Ido,” Gerrit replied. This was a large demand, even upov a mulfonnaire, and Mr. Astor's countenance jeli for @ moment, but recovering immediately he deciared, “Then you shail bave it.” About 1828 Mr. Smith had purchased some water power, paying lor it only $14,000, the income of which now represents a capital of nearly $1,000,000, It Was agreed that Smitu should execute a mort- gage on this property to Astor as security for the loan, and after it had been properly recorded among the records of Oswego county it should be forwarded to the mulionnaire, According to this agreement Mr. Astor gave Smith his check jor the amount and Smitu executed the necessary instru | ment, seading it to Oswego to be recorded and then sent to Mr. Astor. After some weeks, when most of the money was expended, Mr. Smith re- ceived ® mote from Mr. Astor saying he had not yet received the promised security. Upon inquiry 1t Was found that the mortgage had been properly | recorded, but had not been sent to Mr. Astor ac | cording to instructions. Thus for several weeks John Jacob Astor apparentiy had no other security for the loam of $250,000 that the word of Gerrit Smith. BEGINNING OF MR. SMITH’S PUBLIC CAREER. Mr. Smith always took a very active inierestin , pubite affairs, and very early in life began to ad dress political and other gatherings. He was among the ardent admirers of De Witt Clinton and warmly espoused the canal policy of tuat dis- tinguished leader. it was in consequence of his attachment to Clinton, quite as much as to his taste for politics, that ne entered upon what may be cailed his public career. Olinton’s removal irom the office of Canai Commissioner vy a demo- Kemeys, anotuer niece; General Cochrane, nis Dephew and J. W. Cochrane, the Generai’s brother. Owing to the precarious state of Mrs. Smith’s health General Cochrane used all bis endeavors to Keep the Knowledge of Mr. Smith's illness strictly within the family circle. He was successful in doing this up to Sunday night, when tue hope- Jessness of Mr. Smith's recovery becoming established it was resolved to avoid any {urther conceaiment. All the immediate iriends of the family at present in town cailed at General Cocn- raue’s resideace during the afternoon, when the news of Mr. Smith’s death was announced. Those Who were not avle to be there in person tele- graphed their condolence to the widow, avd Gen- eral Cochrane was eugaged up to a late hour last Light receiving those messages. Mrs, Smith was at Orst, as will paturally be supposed, very shocked at the sudden striking down of her husband, but she hed grown much calmer last evening. The bed in which Mr. Smith died was removed by the undertaxers, In its stead the remains, Placed in an icebox on tresties, flied up the space yesterday. A white winding sheet nid the entire Dox, leaving but the face visible. The countenance Was Very white and transparent, anmarred by A MARK OR STAIN ofthe fierce blow that struck the strong man down. Nothing could be more calm or peacetul than the rest tne dead appeared to be taking, the closed eyes and smiling mouth giving an idea more of reposing life than immovable death. The fow- | ing, whitening beard tnat iramed the face hung outside the shrouding, giving to the quick sem- biance an additiona) illusion, Mr. Smitn’s death, though very patnfal to his friends, who stood beside his bed day and night watching and waiting, with anxious, hoping hearts jor a mMoment’s supremacy of bis mental faculties, if only long enough to bid bim a last farewell, was to him a painiess, peaceful passing away, and when he rested out of nis wife’s arms a calaTRAtise had aedahiok oe taken upon the couch which was 10 be his last, nis | Cratle State erat S oTaV Mar dear nintint ee EAS Ce eee eens rane 6 med vate Bint 15 pale Governor Yates ia had patties with the giant, Disease, ngnte ‘? Bomina’ 5 “ ‘ some recompense to nm for the indiguity. The ing at every point, but yiciding by degrees . eet 2 and growing weaker with tne struggling | CoBvention was held at Utica in the summer of a : . : 82 3 ny w Weed, unt, at last, death ose supreme and 1824, Mr. Smith betng a member. Thurlo e Who was also a member, is the only man now claimed his wn. Two days and two nights this ‘ auve who took part in Its proceedings. distressing struggle lasted, torturing the friends Jt ’°wan se “tine Pwhen political oratory who {vllowed its every phase, suffering more in this = country was in ite = =goden hemseives th he e e age, and it Was always claimed for Smith that ne | pennants angry olor Darl tor they juade tue most eloquent speech delivered in that | Were so muc bound up. The physician’s warning § Convention. In 1526 another Svate Convention | That dissolution was approaching was of no avail— was heid lay: lor beta dod hace WP yin the | sy hope election of Jobn Quincy Adams to the Presidency, they hoped against hope, grounding on their de Coin Mr, smith Was also amember. The Con- sires 4 Lelief that science would be deceived, At vention Was a notable one, velng composed of the jast the imminent moment came, and the great most distinguisned men in the State, and the ad- gman Who bad fought so many and fierce batties | “ress to the people, which was both elaborate and during life in tne cause of the suffering and op- able, Was written by Mr. Smith. Some time aiter- pressed passed within the veil. His religion was ward Mr. Smith was a candidate for State Sen- ator, but he was Geieated aiter an exciting con- one of reason, ail sects and denominations being part aitke to him. So far bis career had been strictly within y bounas, but Nis thoughts had taken a new airection, and as the bg ge Cf al tne Rev. E. T. Howthen, of Syracuse, will meet tiere was no room for bim in either party. In “ ae dy at Petervoro o i Wednesday and | tose days opipions hosule to the existence of oe oe “Pil slavery were considered little short of sacrilege ; conduct it to the grave. He was a trosted friend of Mr. Smith during iife, and will but it Was not till some years after he espoused the cause of the colored 7 Aa Mr. Smith be- servic | came an out-and-out abolition! be charged with the funeral services. No lying iM | "ow GeRkiT SMITH BECAME AN ABOLITIONIST. state or public exposition Of the remains will be | As early as 1825 Mr. Smith evinced his, ew! in { emancipation by a scheme he de- permaisied ‘by te ee ~All de hei oath Vieod for stg $100,000 1OF the American Colon- Smivi was strongly opposed Ceremony 8t | 7aiton Sock 'AS a matter of course he was him- Jonerais. | self the principal contributor. After this be ores its last restin, appevred a8 speaker Mt the anniversaries Of the by anh eer beg Ae ig tiariient maoe | eonsty, advocating colonization as an abolition Place will be cafried out in the "F measure, In this he Was iat in advance of nis possiple, and no one will be expected to be pres | % but the immediate relatives of the family. General Cochrane 1a superintending all prepara: | (onc) AntkSiavery Society Mr. Stitn con- tions necessary for the burial, and he receives all tinued for a year or two to sustain the coioniza- callers at bis residence with courtly urbalil, | Wonscheme, and bis abaudoument of It as an | time, most of those Who acted with him caring oniy to rid the country of the presence of tree negroes. Even aiter the organization of tue | philanturopic. He guve freely as well as talked | and | Harper's Ferry, thous] | the New Orleans Picvyune, avout the same ime | aboutionists been like him the emancipation measure was precipitated b; ace cident, In the (all of 1885 a convention was held at Utca for the purpose of aby} @ State Anti- slavery Society. It was attended by all the prom- ment aboutionists of New York, Mr. Smith was also present, but only a8 a specta- tor, The Convention was broken up by & mob, and tnis circumstance s0 incensed Mr, Smith that he at once invited the members to Petervoro, where ie Welcomed them In one of the best speech: of his life, The next year he publicly abuudoned the colonization scheme and ever afterward acted with the American Anti diavery Society uniil its dissolution consequent upon the adoption of the Hiteenth amendment. In 1888 he was deputed by the society, vogether with William Jay, to cate- chise the candidates for Governor and Lieutenant Governor on the slavery question generally and especially upon the duty Of the tree States to sur- render fugitive slaves. Willtam L. Marey and John Tracy, the democrauc candidates, made no re- spouse. William H. seward, who had been nomi- bated by the whigs, wrote an evasive repiy, while Luther Bradisn, the whig candidate for Lieuteaaunt Governor, gave au entirely satisiactory answer, In consequence Mr, Bradish led his distinguished ass te on the ticket several thousand votes. About this time Mr. Smith contributed $10,000 to the junds of the society, and wrote much in expo- #1U0n Of his Views on the subject Of abolition, be- sides speaking !requently on the same subject. MB. SMITH AS A PHILANTHROPIST, Among all the disunguished abolitionists which this country has produced Mr. Smith was, per- haps, the most practical, and certainly the ost PACIFIC MAIL. The Investigations of the Sub-Committee of Ways and Means Into Mr. Ir- win's Bank Account, POSTMASTER KING'S CHECK FOR $115,000 A Mysterious Stranger Gets $275,000 for His Share, | IMPORTANE = RBVELATIONS = EXPECTED = 'N0-DAY. “Tt Is Not Well to Have Such Long Memories Sometimes.” boldly. No sooner haa his worldiy fortune veen retrieved than he began to give it away, and i the course of bis ute ‘ne pave as much a 200,000 | The sub-committee of the Ways and Means Com- Pay ol isan at cis dg! white abd Diack wed, | mittee of the House of Representatives resumed javios OF eobar ule Pease die ant ae ist jutd | their investigation into Pacific Mail affairs yester- ol, While other parts Of Nis estate were alienated | Gay morning at the Fifth aveuue tiotel, They in the same manner, No runaway slave ever | came on to New York im order to be nearer the Game to Uls house and went away empty-handed, | witnesses they wished to examine aud the books | they proposed overhauling. Walle the poor and the needy ali had a claim upon | terday was held in parlor No. 1, the first door to him which was fully recognized, Indeed, us pala- lal residence at Petervoro Was not only the beadquarters of practical philanthropy, but | the very temple of social as well as polu | ‘He Tight on entering by the Twenty-third street ca] equality. Among bis tashtonable guests | door, The committee comprised Mr, Burchard, from a pects sete ae ‘here | the chairman; air, Beck, Mr. Kaasen, Judge Nib- was almost always a sprinklmg of negroes from the suany South, who were equally weicome lack, Mr. Dawes and Mr. Fernando Wood. Mr, with the more refined visitors, But Mr. smith’s | Rufus Hatch was also present in company benefactions were not contined to mere charities, During the present year he gave $20,000 to Hamil- ton College and some time ago he presented Vor- nell University with one of the finest collections of stuffed birds in the country. Among the recipients of bis bounty was John Brown, to whose smgular und iil-iated expedi- tion against Harper’s Ferry Mr. smith con- tributed a considerable sum of money. This gift led lo many bitter charges and hard words, ive alter the war, when it was announced that, together with ‘Horace Greeley and other persons, he tad gone on Jef Davis’ bull bond, the Uiicago Tribune puolished an articie more bitter than any- thing urged against him by the slavehoiders while @bolitionism was held 1D the flercest detestation. | As that article is now something oO! a curiosity we reprint 1t8 opening paragraph as ap Ulustraiion of | with Mr. Clark Bell, who watched affairs in the | interest of the Pacific Mati Steamship Company. ‘The investigation commenced at half-past ten A. M., and proved very interesting, as facts were elicited that on further development will provably | throw considerable ight on the way Colonel Irwin | got rid of $750,000, The evidence of Mr. Duncan | Clarke, Assistant Cashier of the American Ex- | change Bank, King, Posimaster of the House, in such @ direct find it a diMcult matter to account for his the blind hate waolch sometimes guides the pen. | receipt of that sum and yet maintain | It was as follows :— bis very direct denial of ever having Gerrit Smith stands indebted to his sire for a fecbie | received any such money, that he made intellect and a large fortune. By dint of a Liberal e: Peuditure of his large lortuue in pufing and advertising the productions of his 1eeble intellect he very nearly places Lumseifon a par with those who are inversely e- dowed with a good intellect and no tortune. Gerrit Smith's strength is pertected in his weakness His torte is in his lack of fortitude, He has none ot the stui! of which men are . While hus compassionate purse bied for the suiferinus of the slave he stiii declared that were he a slave himself, he would serve as such all his life sooner than use force or shed a drop of blood to gain his freedom. “He was an abolitionist, and yet when in Congress would not sit up after nine o’eluck to vote against the Nebraska bill, that beimg bis hour tor gotny to bed. His money sent’ Jolin Brown to Kansas, elped him liberally while there—perhaps also at the latter has never been | at a recent examination to which he was subjected | in Washington, Mr. King’s $115,000 appears to | have been divided up, and $5,000 of the amount was paid ona check to Jobn A. Rice, an ex-mem- | ber of Congress. A friend of Mr. King’s, whose | name has not come out in evidence yet, received $275,000 the same time that Mr. King received his share, making $390,000 of the $750,000 deposited by | Colonel Irwin that was drawn out at one time, There does not appear to be any direct clew as to | | proved. Yet, on the arcest of Brown, his tender-hearied | Where the balance of the money went, but the patron becathe insane, fled trom the wrath of Buchanan | bank cashier velleves that it was drawn out by | aud the slaveiolders, who then ruled the government, Colonel Irwin personally. PRESIDENT COLE'S TESTIMONY. The first witness examined yesterday was Mr. Cole, President of the American Exchange Bank. He | | Said:—I have been acquainted with Mr. Irwin for | the past five or six years; he has lad an account with our bank during the greater part of that | time: he had an open account with us before the month of February, 1872, I may here ‘be allowed | to state that relations between banks and their customers are generally confidential, but in tnis | instance, as Mr. Irwin in previous examinations | has given such a full account of his affairs, I shall consider it my Guty to answer all questions that | the committee deem it nevessary to ask me. | On February 13, 1872, Mr. Irwin nad a balance of | $15,000 to his credit; he closed his account with | our bank on November 19, 1872, and the balance to bis credit, some $300 or $400, was remitted to San Francisco; if the committee think it neces. | sary I will submit the account showing the trane- actions of Mr. Irwin with our bank; this is a copy | of the paper which Mr. Irwin requested to be made of bis account; 1 believe it has been care- fully verified. At this point Mr. Kassou informed the witness | that there is an express statute which makes tt imperative upen a witness to answer a question even should it render him inlamous, The witness then continued, saying, I here sub- mit a statement of Mr. Irwin’s bank account be- took refuge in a lunatic asylum, and remained there until Lincoln was inaugurated.” He then came torth clo:hed, but not im his right mind, and has since been en- gaged in publishing, at his own exbense, und circulating among the press, which never print them, and the people, who never read them, periodical batletins, recommend: ing both the abolition of siavery out of tenderness for the negroes, and the cessation of the war out of mercy to the whites. Yet few men did more real good in their day than Gerrit Smith, and we have only to recall the esteem in which he was held by some of tue bit- terest of his political opponents to appreciate the injustice of this attack. Once in nis life Mr, Smith consented to sit in Congress from 1853 to 1855, Speaking of his short service in Congress that the Chicago Tribune was thus berating hun, gave Mr. Smith this excellent character :—“At Washington his accompshed manners, enter- taming conversation and liberal hospitality at- tracted notice by contrast with the lower grade of vlack republican members. He was mucn es- teemed by some Southeru members ior his purity of cuaracter and his accomplishments as @ scholar and an orator, and they doubtiess believed that he would have been a great man except ior the Purt- tanic infatuation of abolitionism. He soon re- signed, somewhat disgusted wita his Northern conjreres, Most of whom were as iar below his level in learning and morals as they were bis superiors in political trickery.” Gerrit’ Smith was entirely philanthropic in disposition, and might have accompilshed great works oO! real benevolence but for ihe manta for negro emancipation which possessed him. He was also Wholly sincere and honest, His letter to Judge Chase illustrates both these traits. Kman- cipation accomplished has realized the dream of his Hfetime. Satistied with the resuitof the war, he pleads eloquentiy ior fair dealing, charity and magnabimity toward the conguered. Had all atter would have beéf settled eel pol F 4 There Bo douby that it was owing to the gad fate oye Ly Brown Hyg Sinus mind was beciouded tor @ time, and the accusations of his enemies will be iorgotten while tne remembrance of his virtues continue to be cherished. 1¢ 1s aiso noteworthy im this connection that one of the captors ot Cook, one of the John Brown pay was Ulaggett Fitzhugh, @ nephew of Mr. Smith, and this iact also Could not Jail vo weigh heavily upon hfs mind, ME. SMITH IN CONGRESS AND AT THE BAR. When Mr. Smith was a candidate for Congress in 1852 he reveived a very large majority; and in the town of Smithfield, where he resided, he ob- tained a unanim vote. While in the House he Was exceedingly active and made many speeches, which were alterward gathered into 4 volume | and published, But he soon tired of the routine en the teller ‘came and told me, and at first Of the daily business and resigned at tue close or | ¥™ Sy his first session, His experience at the Bar was | fancied there was going to be an attempt to lock not unlike his career in Congress. Late in life Mr. | up greenbacks, and that this was part of the Smith, who had always paid great attention to legal studies, applied for admission to the Bar, that he might defend a poor and friendless Ger- man in Madison county, wno had been indicted jor murder. He was admitted to practice by the Supreme Court and dejended his poor chent with great abduily, securing his acquittal. Once alter- ward Mr. Smith appeared at the Bar—tiuls time to secure the discharge of @ recapturea runaway; but im this he was unsuccessful, as were mad; greater lawyeis Who made the ilke attempt WME. SMITH AND THE REBELLION. Though Mr, Smith was a member of the Peace Society, and had always opposed a resort to arias also produce the checks deposited, by Mr. Irwin with the bank; the total amount is $750,000; the checks marked 21, our Clearing House number, went through the regular deposit, through what we callthe recetving teller, aud the other two were deposited with the note teller; the checks | were deposited by Colonel Irwin in person; he | came into the bank, and after making some re- | marks to, me in my room, he went out and as he passed the receiving telier's window he threw down his bank book and deposited the $750,000 in | a very off hand manner; Iwas | VERY MUCH ASTONISHED against my views I told the cashier to watch the operation and who drew the checks; to my astonisument, however, nothing was drawn against the deposit during the next two days; this fact lent additional interest to the afatr; @ check for $125,000 was drawn on Y the 27th of May, and also two others, | each tor $100,000; the paying teller paid $225,000 of the amount, and the note teller the remaining $100,000; the only explanation I under any circumstances, yet when the rebeiiion | can offer ts that the note teller was asked to pay broke out none were more Outspoken in favor ol a it; the deposit of $750,000 was made on the 25ta of vigorous prosecution of the war. Too ola to gO May, and the above payments on the 27th of May; | into the army himself, he sent bis only sou, Greene on the 29th of May two gentlemen came into the | Smith, who aid good service in the feid, and bore bank, who were unknown to any one there 5 they @ perilous part in the storming of one of the forts | presented themselves at the paying teller’s desk beiore Petersburg. As Soon as the War was Over, and handed over two checks—one for $275,000 ana however, Mr. Smith became an advocate of con- the other for $115,000; [ believe that both checks cliation. Ina speech at the Cooper Institute, in were drawn to Colonel Jrwin’s order and indorsed | 1965, he deciared the punishment Of treason tobe by nim; they asked for currency for the checks; the meanest crime of the age. The pext year he | the paying teller, went on Jeff Davis’ bail boad, During the first | ASTONISHED AP THE MAGNITUDE years of reconstruction he was very active in ad- | of the face of the checks, refused to cash them un- vocating clemency toward the Southern people, jess toe gentlemen were identified; the two gen- but oe did not sympathize with the Greeley move- tiemen were ultimately referred to me, and I ment in 1872, ana to emphasize his dissent irom | asked them to sit down and explain the matter; toe liberal policy, of which bis nephew, General , they merely said, “We have two checks on your John Cocnrane, Was the leader in this State, he bank, and your paying velier refuses to psy them ;” even consented to become a delegate to the Phila | 1 then examined the checks and said, “You know, Gelphia Convention, which renominated Grant. rentiemen, that these checks represent a very Since’then he seldom appeared in public, and now large sum Of money ;’ the gentleman who heid his work is ended iorever. | the larger check then said, “This ts not a very | MR, SMITH’S FAMILY. | la sum of money;” I replied, “In New York Mr. Smith was twice married. His tirst wife | $275,000 18 considered was a daughter of the Rev. Dr, Backus, then Pres- A VERY LARGE SUM OP MONEY, ident of Union College, pnt she lived only @ year | and I adaed, “shere is generally a certain aller their marriage and died without children. courtesy among gentlemen which they feel to be Subseqnentiy he married a daughter of Colonel Fitzhugh, of Livingston county, who survives due (o @uch other for their own protection ;” as they positively deciined to be identified and as him. He leaves but two children—Greene Smith, | they nad @ perfect right to maintain their incog- already mentioned, woo Is a naturalistof some = ito, | found myseli in. rather an awkward pos- distinction and an occasional lecturer at Cornell tion; | finally thought that i might get out of the Mrs. Elizabeth Smith Miller, wife Charles D. Miller, of Geneva, His liter- scrape another way, and I asked them if they wisted to vay the money into a vank; the gen- y progeny have been gathered together and pupushed in 1861. In the family there is a tleman wit) the $275,000 check said that he did; I then repned, “We can certly it here and hold Look Of rhymes, in which there are !re- you can pay tt into any bank that you please; the quent proofs tiat Mr. smith Was sometimes a suc- | Check was then certified and given to the gentle- cessful wooer of the muses, He Was @ man of man; the other gentieman said tuat he wanted whom it can well be Said that the world is Letter the money for nis check, but that he dia nos care because he lived tm it, and his death will be sin- anout drawing it vefore the next morning; they rely uourned Sy others besides a large circle of both came in next mosning, 4nd when the check relatives and iriends. | was presenter I told the teiler to pay it. DOGGING A BANK'S CREDITORS, In the meantime | told our police ofticer, Mr. Mac- | dougal, a tan in whom [haa great confidence, to ascertain whether the person who had just received the cash jor bis check Was a respectabie man; the oMcer followed them and returned shoruy afterward, saying that “the gentieman went wo sue Park Bank and had soue conversation with the bank oMfctais; he then paid @ note to the note teller and alterward Went out and down to the Equitatie Building, where | lost him,’ I then sent # coppddential note to the Park Bank in order vo ascertain i the gentleman was a responsible per- sob, aud we received aD answer that the gentles man was MR, KING, POSTMASTER OF CONGRESS; somebody having said he had some connection with the Northern Pacific Ratroad, I sent the officer to see if he Was there, aad the latver re- turned saying he had seen mr. King sitting in tue A JERSEY AFFRAY. There came ,within a hair’s breadth or so of beiug a full biown tragedy in Milburn, N. J. on cbristmas Day, It appears that one Joseph Lei- ber, a turbulent character, entered the hotel kept by one J. 8. Parceli and invited those in the bar- room to drink, Parcell, fearing unpleasant con- sequences because of Leiber’s character, refused vo let him have the drinks, and @ war of words broke ont, which ended in Leiber being put ont | by Parcells, In the struggle Leiber, as Parcells Supposed, struck the latter with his fist on the breast. The surprise Of hyn and those around May be imagined when, Upon examination, it was ofice of the company reading a paper; I received | found that be had been stabbed, the cut extend- 4 notification on the morning of the Slst of May img some four imehes. At once a dvc- that the check Jor $275,000 had been deposited in tor waa procured, the wound examined and the found to have nearly penetrated the jung. At | MARINE BANK} first the case Was considered a fatal one, bot I then sent @ Confidential note to ascertain yesterday Mr. Parcells Was declared to vave a good cot of living. Leiber was arrested aud im the Essex County Jail at Newark. Andrew Meyer, the Newark youth who was siubved on Christmas night by George Bondietto, en account O! the possession oO] a German pretzel, is #tt!] alive and in a fair Way of recovery, 80 tuat Bondietro bas been liberated on $500 bail. dietto deciared he struck in geil-deieace. @re mere vOym Whether the person depositing the check was a re- sponsible person; the answer came vack that he was 4 thoroughly respousibie man, and that the money was wanted jor certain important pw poses; | du not know how the smailer chec! were paid: Mr. J. L. Worth is the name of the teller of the Park Bank; [do not remember ever Both that ail the other checks were paid to Mr. Irwin | Wumseil, it Would be rather dificult to deseriba ‘The examination yes- | was very explicit, and placed | | $115,000 of the aoove to the credit of Mr. W. S. | manner that the latter gentleman will probably | tween February 12 and November 19, 1872, and I . scheme; as that kind of business was entirely | Bon- | discounting any paper (or Mr. Irwin; I believe | DECEMBER 29, 1874.-TRIPLE SHEET. the two gentlemen who came with the cheoks; they were both STOUT AND BUBLY men, and neither of them could be characterized by anytning peculiar; 1 do not think my powers of delineation are suificiently brilliant to enable me to describe them to this committee; I think that Mr. King, who received the ‘$115,000, was a litte the younger and the smaller of the two; be was pleasanter in manner than the other, who was rather abrupt; the man who remarked | “THIS [5 A SMALL SUM’? was the one with the large check; my only justif- cation in retusing payment of the checks was be- cause the sum Was unusually large, and! did not luke their refusing to be identified; I think that any one presenting a check apayanie to bearer can | take objection to veing challenged in regard to identity, but, again, some precautions have to be taken to guard against forgery; when Colonel Irwin called on me he sald nothing about his foun to deposit $750,000, and tt ts a sum suMicient) jarge to absorb a man’s attention; all checks that come to us from the Olearing Honse are listed on slips, showing the banks from which they come, and thig slip that you have now came from the Marine ‘Bank, and was taken from the packet of the slips of the different banks of that date; it is dated May 50 and refers to the check for $275,000; Mr. King would know the name of the gentleman with him, ag they appeared tolerably intimate; | when they called they stated that they had PARTIOULAR REASONS for not wishing to be identified; I think I would Know Mr. King again; he came into the bank about a year after, and some one came with him to identity him; our assistant casnier, Mr. Clarke, said, ‘That is unnecessary, as we know him,’? and I addea, “Yes, we know Colonel King. pay the check;” I was aware that the Pacific Mull Steamsnip Company were trying to ger a subsidy through, and I Know Mr. Irwin was lepositing Checks Jrom the Pacific Mait Steamshi} ‘Company; when | heard that Mr. King was Pos! master of Conzress 1 confess I fancied things ap- peared a@ little strange; I do not know that I should have recognized Mr. King unless my mem- ory bad been reiresued by the assistant cashier; his name does not appear on our books; the first letter certities the checks on our bank. The second witness examined was Mr. Dumont Clarke, the assistant cashier of the Amert- can Exchange Bank. He said:—I have been assistant cashier of the American Exchange Bank for some time and during the time em- braced in the bank accounts furnished by Mr. Cole; Ihave a clear recotlection of the time Mr. Irwin made that large deposit, as the teller came upto me and made some remarks abou it; 1 remember going into Mr. Cole’s room and speakin, to him about tt; the deposit remained in the ban about two days, when these checks for $125,000, $100,000 and $100,000 were paid. Witness then de tailed the visit of Mr. King aud ‘friend ior the pay- ment of the large checks. The gentleman refused to be identified. One of them picieeee quite lustily that was not r King; 2 took them to ir. Cole; one gentleman said {t was not worth while to make such a fuss about it; he had seen larger sums than thet; the gentieman who had the $275,000 check said he Wanted to pay it into a bank, whereupon our cashier certified the check, and it was subse- quently paid mto the Marine Bank; the other gentleman had the money, next morning; | took the note to Mr. Worth and inquired about Lim; he said it was Mr. Wiliam 8. King, POSTMASTER OF CONGRESS; he said he thought the gentleman was connected with'the Northern Pacific Ratlroad; the other check came in the day aiter; I went down to Mr. Delamater, the casuier of the Marine Bank; ne declined to state the name of the depositor, but gave me his assurance that the gentieman was all right and the transaction was cor- rect in every way; Isaw Mr, King about a year afterwara; I said, “We don’t want Mr. King to be identified; we know him already.” “Oh, yes,’”” said Mr. Vole, “we Know Mr. King;” thereupon the latter turned away with the remark, “It is not well to have such long memories sometimes ;”” Mr. Irwin had only a small account with us ea: in 1872, before he made the la deposit; Ido not believe our paying teller could tell to whom he paid the checks that were presented on May 27; 1 bave asked him about it, and he satd he did not recollect who tne persons were to whom he paid the money. | Mr. Wood then asked Mr. Cole if he recollected the conversation he had with Mr. Irwin on the morning that he deposiied the $750,000, Mr. Cole replied:—I cannot; it was very commonplace; in fact, when I thought of it afterward I felt sur- prised that he conversed on sueh tdifferent mat- ters when he was about to make so large a de- posit; it 18 a very Unusual thing for a check of such magnitude to be held over; it struck us as very remarkable; indeed, the’ whole thing from ie ja to end was very peculiar. he examination of Mr. Clarke was then re- | sumed, He cuntinued:—Mr, Delamiater, cashier | of the Marine Bank, dectined to give me the name of the man, simply because he said it was not necessary ; the cashier of the Park Bank gave his | hame promptly; Mr. Delamater declined to give | the name because he was trying to protect a | depositor’s account; the check was presented and | certified by us on the 29th; it was then held out and deposited in the Marine Bank on tie 30th and returned to us on the 3lst; itis very seldom that anybody holds a check of such @ sum as $275,000 over tor a day. The examination was resumed at two P, BL, and Mr. Samuel F. Harriott, of the firm of HARBLOTT NOYES, was the first witness examined. He was gues- tioned by Mr. Burchard and stated as foliows :—I | am a member of the firm of Harriott & Noyes, and we have been doing business for about | five years; I know Mr. B. Stockwell and did considerable business jor him im | 1572, buying and selling stocks, ehiedy Panama KRauroad;in regard to the checks of Mr. Irwin dated May 241 have no recollection, and on that date we received no money or checks from Mr. Stockwell or the Paciic Mail Stcamsnip Com- (en Shy the 2ist of May I find @ credit in our OOKS Of $228,756 95 ior 4,700 shares of Pacific Mail; in fact we delivered Mr. A. B. Stockwell the above uumber Of shares and he gave us that check; that is alll find in the books up to the 1st of June; I state that no sum of money or check was received by my firm from the Paciiic | Mail Steamship Company, A. 8B. Stockwell or Rk Irwin from M 24 to May 3i, 1872, inclusive (the last statement was made 1D aswer to @ question put by Mr. Kasson, as the check books of the Pacific Mail Steamslup Com- any showed that the $650,000 check o; the 24th of ay Was caarged to the account of Harriott & | Noyes); [ tind that on the 15th of May we de- | lnvered | FIVE THOUSAND SHARES | of Pacific Mail, for which we received $433,000 in checks of the company; our firm received anu ex- | changea checks with the Pacific Mail Steamship Company on che 9th of September; they gave me acheck on that date for $500,000 and we gave them @ check lor $507,547 953 on the following day we re- | | ceived a@ check for $7,547 95 that balanced the account; we made the exchange at tie personal request of Mr. A. B, Stockwell; the Pacitic Mati Steamship Compuny’s check was dated Septem- | ber 7, but we did not receive it antil the 9th; ldo not know Mr. Irwin at ail; | have never bought or soid auy stock tor Mr. Irwin; J can give no reason | jor Mr. Stockwell askmg us to make that ex- change; | could not say whether Mr. Stockwell | made money or not during the month of May; | Mr. Stockwell’s account was closed with a3 on this ledger in November, 1872; PACIFIC MAIL was between 80 and 90 during the month of May; | on the 15th of May the highest price | findin the books was 65%; on May 21 the entry is 8344; on May 24 1t is $1!¢;0n May 27 the nighest price was 7743; On May 31 it was 75%, and on June 15 1t Was 69, showing @ (fall of nearly sixteen points durtug the thirty days between May 15 and June | 16. There were other parties interested with Mr. | Stockwell in his stock transactions; { will write out their names and submit them to the commit. | tee, as, Unless absviutely necessary, | would preler them not being made public. ‘The committee shen went into PRIVATE SESSION, and after consulting togetner jor about half an hour the press were again admitted, and Mr, Dawes statea tha’, after examining the list of | names turnished by Mr. Harriott, the committee | had conciude4 to ask some questions about two or three of thém. in relation to the account of Mr. R. S, Parsons | the witness then testified in tall as to the stock they bought and sola ov his account, but the com- mittee did not elicit any important toformation, Mr. Dawes then asked avout the account figuring unuer the i MYSTBRIOUS ENTRY of A. B.S, The wituess stated boat It was an ac- count opened by Mr. Stockwell on the z5th of Oc. | | i | tober, 1874, and closed in March, 1573, that re- | Sulted in @ los8 Of $2¥,527 73 to te avove geantle- man; Mr. Noah Brookes, the witness stated, was then on tue New York Prilnene, and nis account was opened on the 1ith of May, 1872, and closed June 4, 1872; when closed the profits, $5,156 96, were placed to Mr. Brookes’ credit. The witness then said that he belteved the first iniormation given him of the fact thai $650,000 had been charged against him ou the Paciilc Mail books cume through MR. HATCH; he dia not take much notice of the matter then, | but When it came up belore Congress he referrea to his books aud found no entry there showing suchacredit; on the 16th of May the firm re- ceived checks amounting to 50me $433,000 irom tne Pacific Mail Steamship Company, wita wlica 6,000 shares of Paciiic Mail were parchased for the account of Mr, Stockwell; the eutry on the’ Pucific Mall books, crediting the firm oi Harri With $650,000 is, to the best of my bei! FALSE ENTRY as we never received such an amount. Some f hedged were then put to the witness by Mr. awes, based On imiorination obtained irom some of the Pactic Mati books as to the accounts of Eldridge and irwin aud Marklam, but notning of importance was elicited, Mr. H. G. Merrill waa then put on the stand to testily as to the correctuess of a Copy 0! quota Uons Of prices of Pacifie Mail from May 1) to June 1s, 1872. He stated that the paper contained a cor- Tect trans¢ript of the market prices, and it was appended to the rest of his testimony. rhe next witness was Mr. Deiamater, tie cashier of tue Marine National Bank, and as be was we individual trom whom the committee expected to | obtain information im regard to the gentleman , connected with the $275,000 check there was quite @ BUZZ OF EXCITEMENT when he made his appearance. Mr. Delamater 18 quite an elderly, gra)-uaired gentieman, and he a@ppeared a litle nervous during the progress of the examination. He satd;—lam the cashier of | the Marine Napional Bank, and have been in that pi since 1861; [do not recollect the ciream~ 4 Ce family drunkenness was brought to light. , Store. 27 but I see oy the gen that Beet “tarou the hae ae Parke’ ‘caste ony was’ then re: witness, cominttece did everything tm their "powel to refresh Taine? s Mr. Del appeared pet et obitvious transactions connec! with check and ghook bis bead mournfully when thay Portion of Mr. Clarke’s statement was read, is which he gaid that Mr. Delamater had told him Ws acquainted with the person who had broughi the check; after considerable fencing Mr. Dela mater said that he would come up next day noon and bri y Les a conta the necessary books with im, 8 REFRESH HIS MEMOBY, as to the facts counécted with the check tn quem. The next witness was Mr. Worth, the casnter the Park Bank. He suid ne had Been cashier the Park Bank since 1862; ne had met Mr. King, thé Postmaster of the House, and had seen him on tw or three different occasions; ali | know in regurs to Mr. King’s transactions with our bank | learned from Mr. Ellis, our note teller, who is present it this room; Mr. King had no account with our bank committee thea concluded to examin The Mr. Thomas Ellis, the note teller of tn Ba and be Was put on the stand, Mr, ia evidence in avery He end he ae ranee TIED ANION le 8: Was the note teller of the Park nd that he remembered meeting Mr. King ian ine 30th of May, 1872; 1 received irom him $i12, which was disposed of ag followa:—$4noue Ww pee to the credit of the State National Bank inneapolis, Minn.; $15,000 went to pay a nove Mr. King’s, that came due on May he) $1 was placed to the credit of the Firat Natic Bank o1 St, Paul; the balance was divided tuto sia certificates Of deposit, as follows :— DIVISION OF THE SPOILS, ‘No, 2,547. - $25,000 10 No. 2,55).. ‘$5,000 OF No. 2.588. 10,000 0) No. 2551 No, 2569. 20,000 0) No. 2,553. 459 Total. Of the above, No. 2,647 was W. 5, King and indorsed by was drawn to the order of and indorsed by them and W. S, King; came back to us on a remittance from them an¢é we placed the amount to their credit; No. 2,64 was drawn at the same time as No, 3647, maki $35,000 in all; of that $30,000 was taken b; King and $5,000 placed to the credit of the National Bank oi St. Paul; certificate No. 2,560 wat drawn to the order of Griswold, Darling & Co. ané indorsed by them and W. 3, > No. 2,561 war drawn payable to the order of JOHN A. RIOR, gud mdorsed by him, payabie to the order of Jax Cooke & Co.; it was then indorsed by Jay Cooke & Co. and deposited by them in the Bank of Oom- merce, New York; the last Cregg tee 2 was drawo to the order of Griswold, Darling Co., aud indorsed by them and W. 8. King; I nave no idea for what purpose Mr. King wanted his money in those certificates, as he gave me no ex+ planation what he intended to do with them, Tne committee then decided to adjourn until hall-past ten this morning. DISRAELIS HEALTH. THE SUCCESSION TO THE LEADERSHIP OF THY BRITISH CONSERVATIVES. (London (Dec. 16) Correspondence of Manchester Courter.) While the rumors as to Mr. Disraeli’s health and possible complications ensuing on nis retirement were confined to newspapers which exist by treat ing subjects decorously ignored by journalists whe Tespect themselves, they did not command much attention. But when a serious journal like the Paul Mat makes them the text of a jeremiad, and en- deavors to frighten us out of the tranquillity whick we thought had Veen earned by our revolt against the late IN EO it 18 ume to protest. The Pau Mi ig much disquieved by the supposi- tion that both parties may bave to rub through next session without a leader. As far as the con- servative party goes there never has been even @ shadow of such @ contingency. There is n0 more reason for apprehension in Mr. Disraeli’s case than in that of any other member of Paritameut who Is verging on seventy—indeed, there is a good deal less than tm sume cases one could mention— but supposing that he were compelled to retir there would not be a moment’s hesitation abou! his successor. Every! who knows anything about the conservative party 1s well aware thas that matter bas been settled years ago, and not merely settied but accepted as & recognized tenet of the party. To reason on the supposition that the transier of the command would lead toeven @ momentary embarrassment or dissidence argues an ignorance wnich puts a writer out of court, oF betrays the cloven foot of @ would-be mischiel maker. FREE CUBA VS. PROVINCIAL CUBA, To THE EDITOR OP THE HERALD:— Yesterday a weekly contemporary published @ correspondence irom Washington in reference t¢ the attitude assumed by the United States govern. ment in ite relations with Spain respecting the Island of Cuba. The correspondent transcribes, whole phrases from despatches, which ne assures us have peen written by the Secretary of State to the American Minister in Madrid. Among other things he affirms that Secretary Fish demands of Spain, turough Cushing, the following reforms for Cuba:—“A free provincial Legislature, chosen by the inhabitants without distinction of race; this Legislature to have the general control of inter: affairs of the island and of its inuabitants an regulating taxation.” “The separation of tne military [rom the civil jurisdiction and the sub: ordination of the former to the latter.’? “Loca municipal ger ecg and limitation of th¢ number and powers of officials by the Madrid government.” Whatever may be true as to the assurances given by the Correspondent of your contempo+ Tary, and woatever the purpose that the Wash- ington governmfent imtends to follow tn its policy toward Spain, L, as Diplomatic Commissioner of Cuba, must deciare that the republican govern- ment of the tsland has never thought of acceptt reforms of any kind that Spain shoulda give eish mots proprio or under the pressure of the diplo- macy of tue United Staves; that the Cuban repre- sentatives in this country have never made to the government at Wasnington the least imsinuation by whica it might be deduced what Cuba would accept any Kind of provincial ‘‘status,” however liberal it might appear, under the dominion of Spain; and that the oniv and unconditional object O! the revolution ts absolute independence, to ob- tain which Cuba has made and 18 making such bloody sacritives. |. A. ECHEVEKRIA, New York, December 28, 1874, A HEARTRENDING BUM STORY. rawn to th W. 3. King; order of Lewis Jouuson & 0g) INDUSTRIOUS CHILDBEN FORCED TO HAVE THEIR DRUNKEN PARENTS ARRESTED. In the Newark Police Court yesterday afternoon one of the saddest and most heartrending cases of Before. the magistrates appeared a bright-looking youth of seventeen, Daniel Heartgel by name, and upop oath declared that his father and mother, Peter and Catharine Hedrigel, of No. 193 Chariton street, were habitual drunkards, and that they squandered ¢ earnings of Daniel and his brother Charles and the beggings of several younger children. David declared he could neither read nor write, nor even decipher the alphabet; that every penny he and his brother earned was spent for liquor by their parents; that the latter were Cee ee Intoxicated and that the only food the family hi was what the younger children brougnt in by begging [rom door to door and from the relief Charles took the stand and corroborated his brother. A warrant was at once issued for the arrest of the drunken pair. They were brought into court. Thetr seedy appearance, fithy garments bloated, distorted features, red eyes, &c., stamped them as rum drinkers. The boys declared that they had done their utmost to reclaim their jetted but in vain. They prayed that they might @ placed for a season where they could get no rum. The Court so ordered, and the wretched couple were sent to jail, According to the magis- trates tt 1s the worst case of rumrumation they have ever witnessed. SABBATH SCHOOL FESTIVAL A holiday festival and sociable was held in the Sixth avenue Union Reformed church, opposite Amity street, last evening, by the clergymen, patrons and members of the Sabbastn school be- longing to the chureh, Among those present were the pastor, Rev. William B, Merritt, and Mr. Henry Dayton, superinvendent. Parents and children assembled 1p goodiy numbers to sing thanksgiv. ing hymns for the many benefits and blessings be- stowed npon them during the past year, expiration is already at hand. selections were ohiefly from those bearing upon the great mystery incarnation, such 48 “A Saviour 1s born,” ‘Hark! what mean those loly voicest" “That sweet story,” “Gather them {nto the ‘old’ and “The bright and morning star.” Afver the conclusion o: the singing of the jast hymn, “We praise Thee, O God,” addresses of congratulation were made by the Rey. Mr. Merritt, whu devotes 60 much of hie time to the Interests of the Sabbath school? algo by Saperintendent Dayton and ovners® The services were finally ciosed by benediction and the singing of the Doxology. The exercises throughout were Very pleasing and attractive. New Haven, Conn., Dec. 28, 1874, James Carleton, the youthiul Post Office thief ‘who recently—by a most ingenious device—rov>ed the Post Office of this city of # letter addressed to D. P. Calhoun & Co., containing a check for $150, And other valuable letters, has been released trou the County Jail on @ bond of $800 to appear for trial hefore the nextterm ot the United States | Cours, to be beld om she fourth Tuesday in Feb Ol the presemtation of this chegk for | ruary, 18st