The New York Herald Newspaper, February 9, 1875, Page 5

g you weuld have been lixeiy to make so! ee that avy? A. Quite likely; I don’t say for | rtuio wnat he came that morning, but the proba- | Wity is he came that morning, BOWEN AND TILTON AT LOGGERHEADS. iE 2 Now he came around to see you in your own ofice, | suppose? A, He aud 1 togetner, Q, Now tell us the first word of tnat interview? & 1 cou’t know the first ching, Q. Do you know who spoke first? A, No, | don’t; Mr. Bowen was in @ great state of excitement; nis luce wuite as a wall, Q. Now do you mean to say, on reflection, that gota word Was said about the delivery to Mr. Beecher and bis reception of this note? A. I re- member eXactly the suostance of it; 1t was that if 1 divulged to Mr, Beecher anything that Mr. Bowen had said against Mr. Beecher he (Bowen) Would close all nis reiations with me; that | never ‘gain shogid crogs the thresvold of ‘the ofce or his house; he said it with great emphasis; tl Was ie substance of tne conversation; he gave me n» time lor questions of anv sort. Q. And be leit without giving fh &n opportu. Dity to say anything? A. 1 think the substance or it was to return pride lor pride, scorn ior acorn; that | would noy be deterred by hia threat | from telling Mr. Beecher or any other person With | out the ‘ear of the denunciation of any man. i Q. And you bad no curiosity about tue delivery eae note or its reception? A. f bad a good Q. Why did you not ask Mr. Buwent A. Because Ko Was not the man to ask any questions of at ‘Yhat time; he went out of the oifice and slammed the door; the only persons to ask about it were Mr. Beecher or Mr. Bowen, and I could not see either oi them, | Q. Mr. Bowen was tnere? A. Mr, Bowen lett. Q, Now when you sente-when you wrote this @emand on Mr. Beecher anud.sent Mr. Bowen to deliver it to Beecher or to communicate your jolt act, as you have stated. what was your ob. ect in sending it and what result did you expect | rom sending 1? A. My desir’ was to STRIKE HIM RIGHT TO THE HEART, “To strike bim right to the heart,” The answer Of the witness was given in sucn a high key that all attention was arrested. The Judge turned and Yooked at the impassioned face of the witness, | ‘Fhe audience glanced irom vhe face of the plaintia | to that of (he defendant, “Did you mean it? said | Bvarts. “Yes, sir, I did,’ avd the reply jell in the profoundly silent court like tne revelation of some horribie deed. A rustle and a hum of low voices Jollowed, The Judge glanced around, and asked fy bis look for slience. Tilton was at red-hea', His face was iuf':med to carmine; fire and his jrame was agitated. It way a dramatic moment, and one Intensely relished by the audi. ence, for it ts something of the kind they camu to | tee, | | | Q. Now, what result did you expect? A. That 1% Wou'd prick and wound Him, as he has been, . Notuing more? a, Nothing more. . You oid not expect that he would be driven from tue pu:pit or irom Brooklyo? A. Yes, i diu, and he wid be, (Laagater.) . ihen you did? A. I certatnly did. ‘Toat, irom the delivery of thot message to him, he would be driven trom tne pulpt t and irom ld be di Brooklyn? A, Mr. Bowen said he coul riven | out o1 bis pulpit in twelvo hours, | You believed then he wi do it? A. I} thougit Mr. Bowen would do it, Q. By tnis method? A, J don’t think by this; Mr. Bowen said he would drive him out of dls pul- pit in twelve hours. , Aud you believed it? A. Yes, sir. . And you together sent as your joint act this letter? A, Yes, sir; we did, that result fromit? A. Q. Aud you expected Yes, air, I did. . Now, Mr. Tilton, how goon did you go to your houre that day alter this interview with . Bowen on that subject? A. I dv not remember, ik Your usual ime? A. Idon’t say my usual time. Q, What was your usual time in going from your oftice to your house? A. At the termination of the day’s business, Now, sir, when you returned to your house that day were you excited, and did you extibit @x-itement 10 your house to persons other than your wiie, to whom [leave out all relerence in this | questiony A. I do not remember that, sir; I do not remember being tn the house at all, 9 Did you that day at your house, on your first visit to 1t aiter your interview with Mr. Beecher, bay tu the nurse and to perzons other than your wife that you were ruined’ A, No, sir. Q. Hosuing, of the kind? 4A, No, sir; Ll was not ruined. Q. I did not ask you that, sir; I ask you whether you toid the nurse ana persons other than your whie—whom { leave out of the question—that you | were rained? A, Lanswer you, 00, Q. Don’t you remember being under excitement At Goat time and having an impression that the re- sult of this attempt on Mr. Beecher was guing to be disastruus to you? A. Not at all, sir; low pouid It be disastrous to me? | Q. Ileave it to you to answer the question. Don’t you remember on that occasion in your pouse, getting out your valedictors, pacing up nu down with great excitement and immediately oing to Work On papers connected with this suby ect? A. No, sir; nothing of the kind. Q. Did youiniorm Mr. Moulton of tuis angry in- terview with Mr. Beecher? A. 1 tnink I did, sir, Q. Did you theo, sir, plan any step in counection With Mr. Beecher thereupon? A. No, sir; none at Bl, that I recollect. The witness Was crogs-examined as to whether | Be knew the exacr time Mr, Beecher’s paper, the Aristian Union, was establisued, He said he aid jot remember the exact aate when the paper was tablished. q. Don’t you recall enough of the ei:ua‘ion to know that Mr. Beecher’s newspaper had been es- | Jablisned beiore tue Month of Decemoer, tn which your connection with the Independent had termr- Qateat A. My impression is that Mr. Beecher was Wriling editorial urucles at the time: as to whether the Christian Union had been then estab- ligaed | could not say. Q. Do you recall enough of the events of the year 87) to kuow whether Mr. Beecher’a Christian nton was in exisience that year? A. I think his Dection was with the Ohurch Union, not the ‘nristian Unton; | do not remember the name tne aver bore beiore that time; the only recollection | have 1s that some time in 1869 he resumed edi- soriai labors; it was a part of the conversation, in regard to the letter of demand on Mr. Beecuer, that Mr, Beecher should cease writing I tne Christian Union, but that demand was left out of the request. Q. How iarge at that time had the circulation of r, Beecher’s paper become, and how lung belore thar, if you Kouw, had there been a rival paper Marted out West whion interiered with the Chris» dan Union? A, 1 knew ot the estabiishment of a payer out West calied tue Advance; tt uppeated for support; that was in 1863 or 1869; ldo not thing tue establishment ol one paper ever injured | gnother. Q. And did you know that It was established ve- cause Of Missa istaction waich had been expressed by sume persous as 10 the course pursued oy the Independent? A, Yes; the Independent was woo liberal; the other was more ortnodox; the Ad- vaiwe bad been established to represent the Cougregativnalists; the Independent had 8Wubg Clear O!| (hem: they wanted such an organ ln the West as tne Advance, and they established it Luere; that is about the only account | can give di the starting o: the paper in the West; aiter I wr te that nore to Mi. Beecher Mr. sowen said that Mr. Beecher sh..uld not write in the Christian Un.on; L said nothing more. Q. Now, sit, you have stated that in an inter- view with Mr. Beecher on the 30tn o: December you had narrated to him, as communicated to you by your wise, certain reiatious between your wile abd him? A. Yes, sir. Q. And you gave us as a part of what you stated to Lim thar this communication bad come to you lo July, 1870? A. . Now, sir, between July, 1870, and the 30th day | jecember, 1870, had you spoken iu any terms to amybody concerning the relations between Mr, Beecher and your wife? A, Yes, sir. Q. Have you named, in your direct examination, all the persons to whom you had said anything in ‘oat interview concerning the reiauons between Mr. Beecher ana your wile? A. [think I have | named several persons to whom I did not tell the Woole of the story. Q. Did you speak to any other persons about it? & Members O| my Own jamily, Q. Members of your own family? A. I believe I | May cali my mother-in-law a mber of my own | jamily; lL spoke tu Mr. Richards and Mr, Rigaards?’ Wlic. Q. You have in your direct examination spoken of those last named Persons as persons to whom you had spokeu on the subject? A, Yes; fey had been spoken to oy Mrs, Morse, and then spoke to them on the subject; I did not speak to them originaily aoout It. Q. In Nee, mterview you had spoken in general terfbs of imputation of Mr. Beecher in Fespect of your wWile’s reiations with bim, and useu severe linguage regarding Dim? A. 1 bes lieve | hud once or twice spoken severely of him; but words were ajierwards brought to me as having Leen used by me in regard to Mr. Beecher, and | think it quite likely that I usea them; i ceter to the remark about his preaching to bis mis- tresses; | believe { did make tnat remark, . Q. Diu you say that he preached to iorty of his mistresses? A. 1 might have said that. 4 cer- tainly said he PREACHED TO HIS MISTRESSES. It was stated to me ina letter that! nad said he hag preached to twenty oi his mistresses, Q Now, Lunders:vod you to ans that you | could not remember you nad stated tuat number O: mistresses, out that you uid express that sent. meut during this interval? A. 1 donot rememver making sucn a rewark, but IL was attributed to me, and it 1s very likely (nat I did give utterance | to & remurk of that kind, Q, Atacertain interview in January, 1872, be- | tween you, Mr. Mouitou aud wr, Beecner, a letter | containing such a charge was presented to you to know whether you had said soy A. Yes, sir; tian | \s correct, I had seeu that letter in the previous November; in January the question was put to me Whetuer | fad not in the preceding July made these imputations against Mr. Beecher; it was resi in my mind that | bad said these things, had spoken roughly of him, and probably [ Kd 80; Lhe probability 18 that during that sum- mer | made use of that expression in regard to Mr. Beecher or its equivalent; 1 think | made that Matement to Mrs, Morse or Mr. Richards; [do not remember making 1, but as it was brought nome 0 we | \hink the chances ail are that | said It Q You have scuted that in ap interview, on De-+ vember 30, you told him of your knowledge of the | relaueas between your wifé and him, as told you | | unrilyou handed tt to Mr, Moulton at NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1875.-TRIPLE SHEET, (M- | Dy her, and said that this communication was made by her in July, 1870? A, Yes. sir. Q Did you speak to anybody cise on the sub- ject? A. Yes, from July. 1870, | spoke my mind very iree Was mot then under the re- straiping influence of Mr. Mouito: think I have sald in my statement tat | toid ‘Mr. Francis D. Moulton, Oliver Jonnson, Mrs. Bradshaw ; I think 1 | had a conversation with Judge Morse also on the | matte but 1don’t kuow whetner I told him of the exact relations: 1 bave spoken to several members of my family;I did not tell the story originaily. Now. sir, you remember going before the ghares committee and your answers there? A, eg, Bir. Q. You remember being there, that questions were put, and that you made answers to them, do younot? A. Yes, sir; I answered the question with regard to what | bad told Bowen about Mr, Beec! and I said Mr, Bowen wanted me to speak More in tho paper about Plymouth church, aud he ‘Wanted to kuow the reason o! my not going there; T told Mr. Bowen that Icould not go there because Mr. Beecher bad made “uuhandsome proposals’ to my wile; this was (he sum aud substance of what I answered. Was the sum and substance of your ans’ that Mr. Beecher had made uuhandsome proposals tu your wite? A. That is alll eaid; the third per- sons are those to whom I originaily told the story. Q. When you Orst spoke to Mr, Moulton on the sudject of apy relations between Mr. Beecher and your Wite was tt all you toli him thut Mr. Beecher had made “unhandsome proposals” to your wile? A. Yes, sir; that was the first time I ever spoke vo him on the subject. Q On this church examination, 1D newer to this question, “Have you not frequently asserted the purity of your wile?’ did you reply. “I nave always used words that conveyed that impres- sion’ A, | can’t say those are my words; | won’s say those were not ny words. . Do you say you did not make that answer? A. [have always used Words to convey that Im- pression, togive the idea that she was a proper, good woman, Q. Yon bud at one time tn your jossession a note or memorandum written oy Mra. Tilton on the 29th of December, 1870, watch you gave to Mr. Moulton when you Went to sce him, and got him to bring it to Mr, Beecher? A, Yes, sir. Q. Gn What part of that day, the 20th, was it that that paper was given toyou? A. I don't rev memper, 4. Don’t you remember the occasion and the | scene? A, No, sir Q. communicate is contents ro any other person i183 house and asked him to go to Mr, Beecner with itt A. It remained in my possession intil then. Q. What sort of paper was toat written on? On erainary note paper? A, My impression ta that 16 Did tt remain in your possession. and did you | Was Witten on note sneet paper; a smiuil piece of paper. Q. And was that note in an envelope when it Was given you? A. Yes, Sir, it Was enclusedio @ white envelope. Q Aud that envelone was ol .the ordinary size, wasitnot? A. 1 don’t remember, sir. Q. You received both the uote and the envelope together, did you not? A. Y sir, my recollec- tion 1s that 1t Was unaddtessed and unsealed. Q. When you went to Mr, Moultun's bad you | prearranged the transaction that vou proposed to Carry on un the s0thol Dececuter? had you pre | conceried with Muulcon iim the iorce of your proceedings on that night? 2, No, sir. Q Toon What you said then was thé dret and all you said tohim on the suvject? A, Yes, sir; | had uo conversation witn mm abour the matter | before that night; { had no conversetion on the Rudject Oo: an interview with Beecher between tne | 26th and 30th of December; | went to Moulton’s | house with tig note inside the enve!ope, Q. What did you say when you gave him the note, Mr. Tilton? A. Lasked him to go to Mr, Beecheron 4 matter of great importance to my family ; he said he would, and [ told vim it was of the greatest importance; I invited him to see and take that paper ia Dig pocket; Lsaid Mr. Beecher will come, witnout doubt; butifhe aid not come he mignt show bim thé paper; 1 made a copy o11t first on the back o: the envelope irom which I haa taken the paper. Q. And you got a copy of it on the envelopa? There was no other writing onit? A. lmadea cony in short hand notes. Q Now vetween the time that Moulton went away and Mr. Beecher came did you rats any- thing at all on that envelope?’ A. did, sir; Imade some dates on it; these were dates in encil connected with Mr. Beecher’s matter and iis letters and oi what I wanted to say to Mr. Beecber when he came. Q. Did you make the entries from memory or from notes in your possession? A, From memory, sir. Q. Now during tnis interview with Mr. Beecher, from \ts commencement to tts close, nad you an) other written paper than this envelope on whic! you made these notes? A. No otner. Q, And that has been destroyed, I believe? A. Yes, sit. Q hen did you receive the original of Mrs. Tilton’s note? A. I received it back shortly after the signing of the tripartite agreement, in April, 1872, 1 didn't wish to die leaving it in ex- istence. I gave it to Mrs. Tilton and she destroyed | Py mas destroyed that night and the | niession was destroyed two years after- it. The co; original co: ward. When Mr. Beecher came into Mr, Moulton’s house that night 1 told nim thats presumed he had received the letter. I Know it was the paper | Thad thac nignt. Q. Tnen every original paper or every copy or McMorand4m that was before you at this interview of December 30 has veen destroyed? The witness undertook to explain, when the counsel repeated chat “every paper tnat you had that night in reference to this interview and every memorandum of the interview has been dostroyed?” A, Yes, sir. Q. When Mr. Beecher came to Mr. Moulton’s what did you say to bim on the subject of the de- | mand you bad made upon him? never sent it—to consider it as though it bad never been writren. You had not then the disposition toward him that you had the previous Munda; wrote the letter ? T bad not the tion that I had when I wrote tt. Lteld nim I | wanted him to consider that demand as i I had | | 2h. 14m, 683.5 internal contact at egress, 40. 2m. Q. Do you remember whe ber in that interview | you were situng or standing whlie Mr. Beecner | Was present? A. J think 1 stood part o1 the time | and sat part of the time. Q, Belore you entered on the subject to Mr. Beecher concerning his relations with your wite there wos wome other tuple of conversaiton broached, was there not, alter you told nim wiat Mr, Bowen had said? A. I tola nim trom memory the substance of what Mr. Bowen nad told me about him. Q. Aud uot until you were through with the re- citul of this suoject did you s:eax of the relation of mr. Beecher with your wite? A. Yes, sir; 1 in- troduced the subject belure. Q. Then with this memoranda before you you Went on with tae discourse which you have given? A, [can’t recall this statement distinctly to me; he made an aitempt to interrupt me walle I was speaking and { told him tu near me to the end; £ do not remember the precise parc o! the interview where the aitempt to interrupt me was made; [ think it was at the outset o1 the statement; | read him this lecter of coniession, q When you had got through did he not say, “This is surely @ dream?” A. As near us 1can now remem ef, lie said, ‘Theodore, [am hike one 1D @ Grea ;" | am more than certain he said that, and he made an allusion to Dante's “Inferno,” Q. Are you sure he made this aliusion ? A. Lam not sure, Lam ceriuin; 1am sure that to-morrow wil come; lam certaiu of things that are passed. Mr. Bvarts—1 am not “sure” that you are right, (Subdue 1 merriment.) Q. Do you remember Mr. Beecher expressing to you at thas interview doubt and surprise as to | Whether Mrs. Titon had ever written such a pa- per? A. I aim quite sure that ne did not express doubt a3 to wnetuer she wrote the ietter. q. Don’t you know that in that expression of doubt and surpriée concerning Mrs. Tilton’s hav- ing written such @ paper as that, you said to Mr. Beecher, “That it 18 but a few squares to my wrote that letter ?? A. I don’t remember having Made use of such an expression; where did you wet that information irom to which you refer ? Mr, Evarts—We will snow you where I got tt from belore | get through, nd he express douvs that she had written that paper? A. He expressed surprise that sne should have written it; tnere is | a difference between an expression of douot and surpi ise. ‘ou say, “Itis buba few squares to my and ask ver if she wrote that letter? A. Idon’t remember the precise words; | may have said 80. Q. Now, Mr. Tilton, thereupon @id ne not indi- cate a purpose of going to your nouse? A, No, sir Q. Did you not know when he left you that he was going to your house? A. 1 presimed that he would go there. Q ae not understand that he was going tnen and there to the house’ A. He asked me tuen aud there if he migat go; he and Mr. Moul- ton went out together and { understood that he went to my house. Q. What did you say to Mr. Beecher when he caine back that vignt? A. I was in when he came back and did ‘hot sve him at ail; I had a conversation wit Mr. Moulton, not witn him, Q. That, then, terminated the transactions be- tween you and Mr, Beecher that nignt? A. Yes, sir. MRS. TILTON’S HEALTH, Now, Mr, Tilton, Woat was the condition of Mrs, ‘Lilton’s healin rom the 24ch of Decemver to the isto: Januaty lollowing? A. She was growing better every day. Q. Her illuess at that time was caused by a mise carriage, was it not? A. Yes, sir, Q. Had she auring the preceding summer or autumn a simuar liiness from miscarriage? A. L ee heard of her having any illness o1 that Kind elore, Q. Who was the physician in attendance? Do you remember? A. Di. styles attended her. % Was tuere any ofe ese ip attendance? A. I don’t remember anybody else; I don't recollect what nurse attended her at that time; I aou’t |, kuow thay any nurse attonded her, Q. What was the condition of Mrs. Tilton’s heaitn ooJanuary 1? A. Sie was on her way to recovery at that time. Q. Sv, during thig Whole period, from December 24 to January |, sue Was confined to ner bed, was she not? A, She was adie to de about her room; she Was under tne doctor's care, Mr. Evarte, remarking ‘that ts ail,’ took his ry as though fatigued, at two minutes betore four o'clock, and the vourt immediately adjourned until eleven o'clock this morning. the parior | | midale than along the limbs of the sun and | | Planet. The more deepiy shaded portion of this | TRANSIT OF VENUS, The ‘Scientific Army at the Antipodes. BRILLIANT SUCCESS AT SYDNEY. Two Thousand Photographs from Aus- tralasian Climes. TheContacts as Seen at Tasmania and New Zealand. Theories Crumbling Beneath Ex- perience. SYDNEY, N. S, W., Dec. 28, 1874. In the events of the past month the transit of Venus occupies & prominent position in the scien- Ufo world, go that what has been done in Aus- | traug in the way of observation 1s certain to be received with interest. In no part of the globe H has the transit been seen under more favorable | Circumstances than at Sydney; not a cioud | interposed to prevent @ full and complete record | ofevery pnage of the phenomena, The results | may be thus briefly summarized:—The first ap- parent break upon the face of the sun occurred three minutes later than was calculated by tne the astronomers. There was no appearanco of a Sarellite, and there was no black drop. TRIUMPH OF THR FRENCH SCIENTISTS. In the latter the French school obtain an advane tage over the English by proving their theory that the supposed black drop resulted {rom using an | imperiect instrument, At the temporary onserva- | tory at Woodford something lik> the black drop | was seen by one of the Surveyor Genoral’s party, | but the observer iniorms me that he 18 certain it | was ap optical delusion caused by the inferior teleagope used. The government astrgnomer saw the pianet gradually meet the edge of the sun clear and well defined, gurroundcd by what ap- peared to him an atmosphere, which eutirely van- ished when Venus was fully on the sun’s disk, DENSITY AND HEIGHT OF VENUS! ATMOSPHERE. This halo or atmosphere reappeared at egress, tts diameter being about one second of an arc The photographs taken number 1,310, and iuciude about 500 at ingress, 460 at égress and 350 of the two podies complete during che transit. It is also remarkable that when ouly a portion of Venus wason the sun the remainder wag clearly de- fined in the sky. The distance between the solar | cusps was smaller and the cusps sharper than wan supposed, DHGORIPTION OF THE TRANSIT PHENOMENA. Mr. Tebbat, a distinguished amateur astronomer, says :—"A few seconds afterward it was obvious that the apparent contact had taken place, the planet's limb being seen slightly within that of tne sun, but connected with itbyadusky Mgament Whose breadth was about one-fourth the diameter Of the planes. Instead, however, of the solar cusps being squared of by this hgament they were rounded, the convexity being toward the ligament, in other words the iigament was contracted ia | the middie. It was also a shade lighter across the | | ligament resembled in color the limb of the moon when entering the earth’s dark shadow during eclipse. The distance between the limbs of the sun and the pianet—for the solar limb at the | point of contact could be faintly seen—could not | at tms time have exceeded a second of arc. Duriug two or three beats of the halt-seconds chronome- ter I noticed that tis ligament vibrated or trem- bled, and at the same time reso!ved tisell into sev- eral shaded streaks parallel to tne limb of the sun | and planet. They were then gradually, but quickly, | avsorved, partly into the dark disc of Venus and | partly into tne black margin o! sky lying along the gun’s limp. Venus was thea seen slignily within the solar lim, with the space between the two limbs as bright as the other portion ot the | soiar disc. The disappearance of the shaced | streaks, Wolch phenomenon | regard as the real | internal contact, occurred at On. 22m, 653, local | mean time, the counting o! the chronometer half seconds being careluliy verified by carrying it up to the next integer minute alter the observa. tion.” THE TRANSIT AY BRISBANE, At Brisbane, Queensland, the time of internal | contact Was adm. 218. past noun; middle contact, | 40s.; external, 40. 32m. 10s. VENUS SEEN PASSING THE MOON, On November 12 Venus was observed at Cook- town passing Luna, the first indications being at six P.M, AL& quarter-past six Venus appearea entire near Luna and midway between the upper | and lower borns of the creacent, tarowing prisms | of Ligat all round the Queen of Nigut. THE OBSERVATIONS AT MkLBOURNE. At Melbourne the party in charge of the great | telescope had a glimpse of tne sun just at the mo- ment of contact, aod were enubled to tuke about filty photographs ere the clouds again covereu the face o: Old Soi, obscuring aim for three bours, The first actuai injernal contact took place at lorty-five seconds past noon, instead of iin, 57m. 82s., a8 caiculated irom previous data, while the last of the external contact 01 egress was tuirty- | Jour seconds earlier than computed. PHOTOGRAPHIC PICTURES TAKEN AT HOBART TOWN. Oablegrams wilt have apnounced that Provessor Harkness, stationed at Hobart Town, was unaole to ovtalu any observations of either coniact, out ob- tained 113 phoio,s of Venus on the sun and at egress. From New Zealand news ts to hand that the weather was most uniavorabie, THE SUCCESS AT BLUFF HARBOR, At Bluif Harbor, however, the American observers were imost successiui in Ootaining full observations, the weather being much more aus- Picious tuan at some af the otner American sta | tions. | | | | THE NEW ZEALAND OBSERVATIONS—VARIED 8UC- CE8§ OF THE SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITIONS—IN- TERESTING DATA PROCURED. QUEENSTOWN, New Zealand, Dec, 11, 1874. I bave thougnt that a few words touching the fate of one at least of the porties sent ou: by the | United States to ovserve the transit of Venus | mimht be interesting to the scientific world, even | though it were only semi-official. The party com- | | manded by Dr. C, H. F. Peters arrived at Biuf house, go and ask Mrs. Tilton whether or not sne | | alter the first half hous was, as it were, wrested | Harbor on the 16t4 of October, and Queenstown, our present position, on the 23d of October. Queenstown is beauti(ully situated on the shores oi Lake Wakatipu, & magnificent sheet of fresh | water seventy miles long by five or six broad. We immediately selected a site on @ broad terrace Overiooking the town and began the setting up of houses and instraments. By the 13tu of Novem: ber everything was in working order and our first pictures of tue sun were taken. ‘Tue Weather Was | extremely rough aud but lew five days afforded | an opportunity for protracted practice. ‘The 8th | of December was squally, and vut little hopes were entertained 01 a Jairday for che transit, which | was to occur on the following day, Une 9tn, ‘The 9th did not belie its predecessur in any way. Heavy storm-clouds overtiung the whole sky, and occasional light seemed but the usuat precursors | o1 a New Zealand storm, A SMILE FROM JUPITER PLUVIUS. We all waited grimly, fuwever, at our places, | The transit was (o begin at two minutes past | one by our curonometers, Wearily were tuo | seconds counted unl one o'clock, and then but a few more nike a | higotning flash, the sun trom | behind & cioua, and ivr some loriy minutes all | persons were hard at work, jvytul as birds, Then | uld Sol hid himseli again and the rest oi the pho: | tographs Were really “wing sols” between the clouds. Pelegramea came in in bushels, ana to our astonishthent we learned we were the ouly party in New Zealand taat had succeeded in photograph ing or ooserviug ‘he first contact, the most im. | portant plienomenon, You can imagine with | what vim we gave Loree cheers to our success aud three times turee to tae gigrious Dag Wat foated 80 proudly aoove us. Our success Was not entire, as the last contact was invisible, but every picture from nature, and neurly seventy-five were taken. We start by the end of the month and expect to reach the United States about May. THE EXPEDITION IN WELLINGTON. WELLINGTON, Dec, 23, 1974, The event of the month bas been the transit of Venus, ana the most successful observations were made vy Professor Peters, the American as- | tronomer, who was more fortunate in the weather | than the British observers, As a whole, however, the weather was unfavorable in New Zewand, Ob- servations could not be made in Tasmania, it having rained continuonsly in that tslwnd co.ony | on the 9th, On the At ian mainland, however, the sky was unclouded and the observations at all | nearly a monta siuce, but at ut date o: latest aa. points were successful, Douptiet be high y important to scteuce. CORDIAL KECEPTION OF AMERICAN OBSERVE! Tne American party are great favorites tm Otago, waere their station was fixed. They have been entertained at a banquet by the local autnort- fies and the inhabitants of Queenstown, and Pro- jessor Peters spoke enthusiastically of the re- sources 01 Utago, the southern provinces o1 New Zealand, i the result will THE PLANET EYED AT TASMANIA—USEFUL BE- SULTS OF THE EXPEDITIONARY LABORS, UNITED STATES STEAMER SWATARA, Hosaxt Town, Tasmanta, Dee. 15, itis. The great astronomical event of tne century has at length transpired, and the members of the transit parties at this puint and at Campbelliown are busy making their final observations for lati- tude and longitude preparatory to dismounting and packing their batteries of equatorials, helios- tats and chronometers ready for transportation tothe United States, and I havo no doubt they | are all delighted to know that their trials and tribulations are over. Fora year they have been engaged in making Preparations for the great event, Months were spent in teaching and driliing the members of the parties at Washington. Many months were spent on the voyage out, and weeks and weeks ot pre- paratory exercises servea to keep them busy witer the observatories were in position. One can easily fancy their interest | im the success of the expedition, and with what | earnestness they must have prayed for pleasant | Weather and sunny skles on the 9th. Professor Harkness and Captain Raymond, the chieis of the parties, must have experienced for | weeks precediog the transit emotions akin to those felt by a speculator with large interests at stake, The members ol the partes wero not the only persons interested ig the success of the ex- pedition, EXERTIONS TO MAINTAIN THE NATIONAL RBPUTA- ‘TION, Byery one in and about Hobart Town seemed to think that the glory and reputation of the couutry were indissolubly iinked with the success of the astronomers, Tasmania would be disgraced, they thought, in the eyes of the world, if the expedi- tion aed because of the weather, and the biue jackets on board the Swatara drew very long faces | inaeet When they siw the morning o: fe gen | open witn dark, gloomy weather and a heavy downpour of rain thar jvdked as though It bud get m lora Week. Hverybody «2 board snip, trom the Guptuin to the jack-ui-the-dust, Indujged iu cursory remarks. AN OUTBURST OF FEMININE INDIGNAYIQN. The very bumooat Woman alvngsive said Uitat it was ‘ta beastly sell to come so Jur to sve Veuus and then be disappointed vy them bloody ciouds,’? aadiny, pareuthetically, that thece was no hope ola chabge until the end of tbe wees, Wocn we should have a new moon, GET ReaDY. At the Obgervaiory, in barrack equere, eye- pieces and micrometers were im periect adjast- mont. Chrouograph and photoheliogeaph were ail 1D COMpiets readiuess; but when tue hands of the clock pointed to eleven, then to balf-past eleveu, and fually to ten minutes to 1welve—tne calculated epoch of external contact at ingress— | of the worthiest people in New York, | ing stains to sell. With no sign 0! 4 breax in the heavens, all hope | Was abandoned, and there was a iceling of sup- pressed rage and disappointment amuag tie golentists aud the officers of the Swatara tnat | were present to assist them that could only have found expression ina general smashing up of the whvie concern, It was too mucno ty be sold in this manner atter all that had been said aud done, and alter coming 16,000 or 16,000 miles, And dobar Town, too, had been chosen by Pros fessor Harkness—the only one, by the way, of the | mombers of the American ‘Iransit’ Commission that came out in charge ol a purty—as the oue | Parucular point at woich good weather could be | counted upon. PARTING CLOUDS AND BR GHTER HOPES, However, about twelvo o’ciock, rhe wind hauied a littie to the nortnward, and shortly aiterward | the clouds began to break away, so that the sun could be seen “indistinctly.” Later atill it be- cume clearer, and presently, when the transit was about bwo hours old, the sun came out With great brilliancy. Instantly the photoheltograph was brought into action, and in forty-three minutes tolriy-nine large photographs were taken, excel- | lent pictures ail of them. ‘These were caugnt in | the intervals of bright sunshine betweeu the | pagsiux clouds. Alterwards, as Venus approached the sun’s rim, the quick exposure apparatus Was brought into requistiod, abd seventy-iovr pice tures, iMvludiug a photograph ol coe last contact, were taken belween ten minutes to tour and twelve minutes pust four P. M., besides some lily or sixty pictures that were more or less sanity, On account of tie light clouds and scud crossing the sun, At twelve minutes past iour the tinal Cunlact tovk piace, and at the same instant a | heavy, dark cloud obscu.ed the sun ent.rely aud | thus ended the observations Had the 800 deen distiact througout the whole period of the transit 1,400 pictures would proo- ably have been secured. Professor Harkness was unable to note any of the contacts With bis equae torial telescope, but he iy very weil satiefled with the reauits obtained, MEASUREMENTS AND PICTURES IN CAMPBELLTOWN. Captain Raymund, 10 charge of the station at Campbeiltown, eighty tiles in the interior of Taemauta, was rather more saccesstul, He suc- ceeued IM puotographing the last contacts, exe ternal and interual, and caught 125 pictures of the jatter part oi the transit. He obtained sev- eTal Micrometric measurements and noted the last contacts wiih his equatorial. VARIED OUSERVANCES ELSEWHERE. At Melbourue Observatory, the prinvipal English Stution in tuis part o! the worid, they met wita | abuut (he Same success as our parties (the first | contact not having been phe but alter the first opservations tue vay was splenaid, and good re- sults were obtained. At Beechworth, near Mele bourne, good views of the urst coutact were ob- valued. At Adelaide, Australia, Dons of the con- tacts Wee observed. The information that has been obtained so far is very meagro and uasatis(actory; but judging irom the little we have heara irom the Kogiish stations aoc our knowledge o1 what the Aier.can parties have accomplished, enougn data have been ob- tained to 1uraisn one very periect set oi ooser- vations by chousing the most desirame resuits from ail tue stations in this region. Tue voservations at Meivourne, Campbelltown | and Hobart Town are ali situated ou nearly te same merivian oi longitude, so thatthore wiil be litte difficulty iv reducing the results to the same | point. tis expected that Professor Harkness and Cap- | tain Raymond wil have fluished thetr astronomie cal aud photographic work by the middie oi Janu- | ary, bob parties being very much bdenindhand im | | their star observations for position because of the cloudy weather of tne last week. Tne paoto- | grapuic work will be the duplicating oi the places taxen on the day of tae transit, so that in case one set ve lust they will still bave a plotograph.c record of the event. WORK OF THE WAR STEAMER, While they are going ahead with this work the Swatara 1s lo be enguged in pickiog up the transit Parties at Queenstown, New Zealand, and at Port Hull, Chatuam Island, making a flying visit tu tue Auckland Isl:nds en route to lok aiter the welinre ol the German transit party stationed there. Con- siderabie anxiety is ielt with regard to their | saiety. They sailed from Sydney avout three Tunrns since in the French bark Alexandrina, aod No tidiugs of them have veen had. ‘The SWatara will then returo to Hobart Town and take of board the Tasmanian parties, transier them to Meloourne, whence they will take passage Via mali Steamer to San Francisco, This vessel will then proceed upon the work assigoed ner—that of determin.og the latitudes and iongitudes of tho riuctpal points between here and Yokahama, japau, AMERICAN CHIVALRY ABROAD—AUSTRALASIAN PRESS COMPLIMENT TO THE MAGNANIMITY OF OUR OBSERVERS. During the stay of the United States steamer Swatara at the Australian ports an article ap- peared inthe Melbourne Age, which waa copied luto the Mercury, and ran as follows:— On the 4th of Uctober # party of German astron- omers and scientidc men satied irom meloourne in the Frencn park Alexandrina for the Auckland | Islands, wuere they were to vbserve the transit ot Venus, Lt was expected that tne vessel would have returned (0 one of the New Zealand ports vices from the coiony she had not done so, and some auXiety is felt in reference to sue | safety and weilare of the purty. Ou ascer- tuning tils lact Captain Chandler, of the Swa- tara, With that kiudiy consideration that has marked the conduct of that gentieman and ms brother oMvers since the arrivaio: their vessel here, Called at this ofice, and, an intercolomial Mail being expected next day, begged taat he migat be informed 1 any inielligence Was brought ito! the Alexandrina. Having learned that bo w Zealand papers were receivea by that maul, and that tne Meibouroe and syaney papers made Ho mention of the missing Vessel aud party, Cap- tala Chandicr \elegrapheu to Mr, Adamson, United States Consul General, Melbourne, as lolluows:— “Has the German Cousul any tears regaraing tne sulety Of the bark Alexandrina, which conveyed the German party for the vbservation of the transit of Venus to the Aucklunu Islands‘? ‘Yo unis Cap- tain Chaniler received an answer, stating that the German Consul has great fears for the saiety of the German party. Immediately on receiving this infor. uation Captain Chandler resoived on altering his preseut arrangements, under which he would have | remained here jor some time yet. Every effort is betag made, and Captain Chandler expects ng able to leave tis by Wednesday moraiue, proceed: ing direct to Wellington, Whence he wii proceea to the Chatham islands, picking up the American party stationed there in passing, Tne Swatara will t proceed tor a Stintiar purpose to the Biud, and from theace to Dunedin, where, 1 there is no word of the Aiexandrina, he will steam to the Anckiand Isiauds, aiter whien Captata Cnan- dier will return to slovart Towa, Lhe simpie mention of the tact that the capiain of the swa- tara bas thus so promptly taken action tor the relie! of the Ger: party will be accepted with a feeling of universal satisfaction, it isin the higas , kett, Levi Stockuriag | Frabune, ©. 8S. Seread, R. C. Robinson, F. | Sairley. | M. Bennett, ex-Governor | wouid only be $850,000 “the feat is not to be accomplished in a day, Geogr creditable to the individaar to wh With all (hat ts Known Of him and bis oMicers since their arrival in Hobart Town; aod we (rust their conduct will be made mention Of, not only in these cojouies, but in England and througout Europe, 48 well as in the United States. GRASPING TELEGRAPH COMPANIES. In striking contrast with such magnanimity 13 another circumstance that has come to our knowl edge. Regarding the matier as one of humanity, the messages were (ransmitted along the Tas- macian and Victorian land lines free of charge, but the manager o/ the company that owns the submarine cable connecting Tasmania with Vic- torta (for the credit of the colonies Dot @ local but #b English company) insisted on payment of a paltry item of 148. 24, The amount does not, of couise, give Captain Chandler a thougut; but ifs exaction isin keepipg with the whole manage- Ment Ola company Wiose arasping and {liberal conduct has been suoject of bitter complaint ail through its career; and it is elt that tne con- tract that gave the company such & withering mo- Nopoly ts as disgraceiul to the government oi the day a8 disastrous to Tasmania. THE CENTENNIAL, THE FINANCIAL ORGANIZATIONS IN THE VARI- OUS STATES—WHO HAVE BEEN APPOINTED TO RAISE THE MONEY, The diMicuity of raising twenty-five cents in these nard times, and, in tact, frequently in good times, has probably been appreciated by many The other day the writer sat in an office with about a dozen well-to-do business men when an agent came in who had some wonderful preparation for remoy- He had it in bexes, which he offered at ® quarter of @ dollar apiece, although every one of these well-to-do gentlemen | lent him awiilng ear not one of them had as much money as twenty-five cents about him, They were all willing to ask numberless ques- tions about the merits and peculiar qualities of the preparation, but when it cae to buying they one by one exclaimed, *I’d buy it, but I haven’t a quarter of a dollar with me,” which is absolutely true, gives one an idea of the diMcuities which the Centennial Board of Finance would have met if they had desired to raise twenty-five cents to defray the expense of the Centennial celebration. As it is, the amount they wish to raise 18 not twenty- five cents, but about $2,000,000; and although the Object is One very different—being inspired by the purest patriotism—it can easily be imagined that That the financial organization, however, is in good hanas cannot be doubted. The Board of Finance have appointed committees tn every State of the Union (with the exception of the Southern States, Whose financial condition is yet too precarious to admit of their aiding the euterprise) for the pur- pose of receiving subscriptions for Centennial stock, The following list of the committees in most of the principal States will show that these committees are composed of men of the highest position and honor who nave thus identitied them- selves with the enterprise. The list 1s not com- plete, owing to the absence of certain books in Philadelphia, but gfforda, nevertheless, ample Proof that the men who are to raise the money will accomplish their task before long:— MAINE. ©. P. Kimball, the wealtny carriage manufac- turer; Joshua Nye, Frederick Shaw, William B. Simpson, James McMulion, Edwin Sprague, Enoch Knignt. NEW HAMPSHIRE. Governor James A, Weston, ex-Governor EF. A. Straw, ex-Governor Fred Smyth, James A. Briggs, Attorney General; Lewis W. Clark, Mason W, Tappan, Edward D. Baker, RHODE ISLAND, George H. Corliss, the noted manufacturer of machmery; Jobo Gorham, Samuel Powell. VERMONT. This State is divided into two districts The Board at St. Johnsbury is composed of Horace Fairbanks, the scale manufacturer; Hon. L. P. Poland, Henry Chase, C. 8, Dana, David Beinton. The other Board, at Barlington, consists ot Gen eral William W, Henry, General P. P, Pitkin, Mid- aieton Goldsmith, Mayor D. L, Lindsay, Colonel R. C. Benton. MASSACHUSETTS, Firat Board at Boston—John Cammings, Prest- | dent of Shawmut Bank; J. N, Chadwick, William B. Spooner, Curtis Guild. Artnur Cheney, J, P. Pau'. Second district—George B. Loring, James A. Butin, J. C. Hodly, Wiliam Clafiin, Hocam Hos- Jord, William B, Brown, Tuird district—c, L. Lov- ering, Charles Stickney, Thomas J. Borden, F. B. Noys, A, Hobart Braintree. Fourth district, at Worcester—Aden Thayer, P. 8. Moen, J. H. Walker, A. ‘I, Mules, T. Lasnall, J. 8, Needham. Filth dis trict—R. I. Mason, N, M. Polllipps, George S. Plun- Luke Lymarts. ONNECTICUT. James Lioyd Greep, present nominee for Gover- nor; Jobu F. Slater, N. S. Osgood, Charles A, Con- verse, NEW YORK. Auburn—D. M. Usborne, Hon. J. Beardsiee, William G. Wise, Grenins Wheeler, Wiitam Kiroy. Rochester—Guprge G, Clarkson, Hiram Sibly, Marun b. Pacey D. D., Hon. Henry R. Selden. Hon. Edward M. ‘smitti, Hon, James Brackett. James Vick, Patrick Barry, D, M. Dewey. Butfalo—G. W. Clinton, E.G. Spaulding, Pascal P. Pratt, B. P. Dorr, Oliver G. Sreele, KF. A. Alberger, Philip Berker, F. S. Pease, Martin ‘lay- jor, Mayor L. P. Dayton. New York city—Peter cooper, Joon Taylor Jonnston, Wiliam BE. Dodge, James M. Brown, S. B. Coittenden, Junathan Og- den, Wiiltam L, Strong, Fred. S. Winston, Willtam E. B. Morgan, A. | L. Pomeroy, Justus Tiemann, J, Pierrepont Morgan, Eugene Kelly, L. P. Morton, George T. Hope, Tneo- dore Rvosevelt, and Samuel Hawk, MICHIGAN. Governor Jobn J. Bagley, 8S. D, Bingham, Mayor | Wituam P. Pierce, A. B. Turner, General James Burney, George Jervume, ex-Governur Henry W. Balowin, George 0. Lathrop, Benjamin Veraon, E. B. Ward. MINNESOTA, ‘ General H. H. Sivley, General R. W. Johnson, Hon. W. R. Marshall, Hon. W. 8. Banning, Hon. H. M. Rice, General J. B. Lamoorn, Palip 5. darris, R.- Blakely, Winthrop Young, P. Gibson, 0. P. Whitcomb, W. L. Wilson, ILLINOIS, J. P. Reynolds, Carlyle Musun, Amos 8, Spafford, Francis Colton, General |. ©. Smith, Auxillary Boura at Chicago; J. B. Drake, C. 4. Gilbert, I. B. Lawrence, W. ‘. Movormick, the reaper manul turer: H. Demery, Jonathan Perrin, H. Rumley, ©, J. Blair, D. B, Gilhand, David Taompson, W. H. Patterson. oHTO. Ohtef Justice R. P. Rancey, ex-Governor E. F. Noyes, ex-Governor k. B. Hayes, General R. Burns, General George W. Mcvoox. There are twenty-five auxiliary organizations in Ono, INDIANA, Judge A. S, Roach, Juage &. B. Martindale, Dr. H. &, Allen, 5. P, Nurgtey, General B. Harrison, Dr. W. C. Thomson, T. EB. Gavin, Professor E. 8. vx, Colonel » Williams, J. F. Campbell, F.C, Johnson, Governor Canvas Baker. KANSAS, Colonel G. A. Crawiord, Jonn A. Martin, Captain George F. Authony, Colonel E. W. Dennis, Proies- sor E. J. Evans, 5, T. Kelsey, A. J. North. ARIZONA. A. C. McCormick, Jonu Wassory, C. H. Lord, L. Baspiord, George F. Weed. CALIFORNIA, Hon. James Otis, A. 8. Hailidie, Charles Mayne, W. I, Coieman, James Patrick, T. Parrutt, H. M. Newhall. COLORADO. Wiliam M. Byers, M. D, Tuatcher, J. A. Thatcher, Jonn A. Colter, A. Q Wiliams, Jonn A, Kuntz, J. O, Garcid, KENTUCKY. Auxillary Board jor Louisville.—Professor J. L. Smith, H. U. Newcom, W, Hamilton, Elon WEST VIRGINIA. A. R. Butler, Alexander J, Sweeney, Jonatnan Francis dd. Pierpont, Colone! R. Shenard. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, Hon. J. ©. G. Kennedy, George W, Riggs, Law- rence A. Gobright, James E. Venter, Horatio King, Coionel J, F. Cake. le will be observed that Pennsylvania does not figure in the ubove list. However, as she nas al ready contributed infinitely more than her share, 1% Wul suMce to say that some sixty auxiliary committees, boside the Central organization, are actively engaged in-that state. ‘There are also committees in Missouri, Wisconsin, Oregon, Nevada, Utah ana other States, the names of Whose members could Not be ascertained, As to the quota 01 contrioutiva of eacn State the Jollowing estimate made by the Centennial Board oi Finance wilt be oi interest, 1b was made ou the basis of & capital of $10,000,000, and is, con- sequentiy—as the necessary amount has been re- duced to about $7,500,000—rather too hign, Now Yors’s quota, for tustane ays Governor Bigier, all events he would be Satistied if he raised that amount im this state. The tollowing Was the original esum: North Carolina Wisconsin Jabama ny 133 00) 162,009 145, 139, 18.000 nation to which he belongs, and is but in keeplug and, | This incident, | rederick P. James, A. P, Darling 8 RAPID TRANSIT. How Much Money Can Profitably Be Invested in Building a Road. A LESSON FOR CAPITALISTS, If it ts true that capitalists have not hitherto tm | Vested money tn schemes to hasten the birth of | rapid transit, only beca' they could discover nc proof that a speedy ratiroad through the city would | bring them a good interest upon investments, tne | doubts of those gentlemen are lkely to be re solved into nothingness very soon. The report which was recently made bya committee to the American Society of Civil Engineers, and which is soon to be made public, will have as appendices two sets of tables, worked out by different gentie- men, each of which will demonstrate that a rapid transit railway, if butit with proper care as to, the | expenditure of money, will prove extremely profit | able to the holders of its stock, These taples are the results of extreme assiduity and vigilance, In preparing them the sum of $400,000 has been | taken as the greatest sum necessary to build and | equip each mile of the roadway. With this ex. | penditure it ts estimated that 3,500,000 passengers must be carried over each mile of roadway during | the year, and that each “passenger mile” tra elled must bring to the railway company one and | one-fifth cents, In other words, & rapid-transit | raliway of ten miles long must be patronized py | 8,500,000 persons, each of whom must pay twelve cents fare, else the ratlway will be unprofitabie, Now, when it 1s considered that the horse. car railways oarried during the year 1878 more than 114,060,000 passengers, the most confirmea “Doubting Thomas’ must be convinced that a rapid-ruanivg and sale railway will attract to ts as passengers, at the very least, 4,000,000 of people during a year, each of whom will be willing to pay twelve cents fare. There has been @ very | queer kind of reasoning employed by some people | Who have been over-anxious to prove that rapid transit will necessarily be wonderfully profitable, | The results of this reasoning indicate that after | rapid trains shall have begun to run over elevated railways there will be nu need for horse cars; that | ail the present patrons of the latter vebicles will then be diverted trom them and led to the rapid | transit railroad. Toan this belle! nothing can be | more fallacious, it 1s lair to assume that the | Somewhat expensive rapid transit railway will not be paronizea regularly by tnose people who live | below Porty second street. Yet if ail who hve above that imaginary boundary patronize a sys. tem of speedy railways, it must yield large incomes to its controllers, Several engineers who read Mr. Evans? letter tm | the HERALD of Sunday commended the ideas ex- | pressed m it to the reporter yesterday. ‘I'he idea. of having @ second sidewalk of glass, between the | elevated raliway and the sides of the houses ap- peared to parricutarly please them, They look upon it as a briage over the objections made by Storekeepers to having their stores darkened b. coverings meant to shield the trains as they paag | along frum the eyes of Umid people. There were, ; however, some ideas expressed in the letter | which gave occasion ‘or discussion among engt- neers, As such ideas huve no relation to the im | Mediate subject of rapid transit the objections ta | them and the arguments in their Javor must be | passed over in this article. | The subscriptions to the fund for starting the construction 01 a ratiway in accordance with toe pian Oi some responsible Company are reported | by Messrs. Roosevelt and Drake to be coming in | With encouraging speed. Messrs. Join Haven and Jacob Cohen reporied yesterday that they aad procured a pumber of pledges to the proposed inud, No statement of the names of subscribers | Wil be made, it 1s now sald, until $1,000,00) are | Diedged. | , There will be & meeting of citizens of the Nine | teenth ward on Wednesday night, to discuss the | Important subject of rapid trausit. Mr. Jacob Cohen says the minds of the members of *d beeples barty” in that section are greatly moved | by this pregnant idea. | OPERATIONS AT HALLETT’S POINT. | Ihe Chamber of Commerce, through its speciay committee, transmitted yesterday the Jollowing ; Memorial to Congress, urging that body to gramt | the full amount of the appropriation asked for by General Newton, to enable him to continus his op- erations fur the removal of the rocks at Hallewte Point:— To THE HONORABLE THE SENATE AND HOUSE oP | REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STaTSS:— ‘the undersigaed, @ special committee, appointed by the Chamber of Commerce of this city, respect. Juliy represeut— that tue public work now in progmpss in t harbor, unacr the engineering care 4! Gen Join Newton, 1s one of great magnitua' peculiar @ud exceptional character, It ts @ works that cannot be intermitted without great loss, since the eXcavaticns under the rook ved of the Tiver are liable to All witn water by the pressure of water Jrom above. ‘To prevent tnis pane and engines are compelled to work oto nigbt and vay. Bestdes this pecullarity, ti workmen employed are, for tbe most part, men brought irom the mines of England and Wales, and ure retained nere jor this special sei vice, and ‘heir detention, if allowed to remain tdie, must impose considerabie loss, Beyond both of these cousiderations, it should be stated that the special boats and machinery, as well as the engineerin; Jorces whitch are now engaged on the work, can only profitaviy employed when the work Is vigor. ously aud continuously pushed torward, For these reasons we urge that tne lull appropriation asked for by Geuerai Newton should be granted, and that no spirit of false econumy should induce ite curtaument even by ove dollar, Genera! Newton is an arwy oMcer of great merit, and it 1s only just to him to say that he will pot in any tmportuvate way urge the SRRFORTRNOR, but leave the whole sunject to Congress, |. The undersigned would further represent that there are two or three reeis in the River which wholly prevent that impoctant stream irom being used by vessels drawing over from niueteen | to twenty-one feet water. These reeis have been | hartially removed, but the harbor 13 suffering @ | diminution of tts tuli capacity by these remaining | impediments. und now that ships are made te | draw fully twenty-four to twenty-six feet the East River and the extensive docks which bound | ib are rendeved useless for this Class of vessels, aud ali by reason o/ these remaining reefs, which | can be removed at an inconsiderable expense. We, vie undersigned, in view of the important Interests we represent, respectiully urge a fallaod | oe compliance with the requisition of General | Newton. JACKSON 8. SCHULTZ, | AMBROSE SNOW, | pat slr EK. i President, ice President, ROP, Treasurer, GEORGE WILSON, Secretary, Special Committee of the Unamber of Commerca, New York. New YOuk, Feb. 8, 1875. THE LIQUOR DEALERS. The Executuve Committee of the New Yorm Liquor Dealers held a meeting yesterday afternoon, at which the following resolutions were passed:— Whereas at the quarterly meeting of this union cer tain mob congregated for the purpose of creating distare | bance and to do great injury to this union; therefore, x yihat Hichard (Grady, James Kelly, John iniah Driscoll and NM. G. Landsberg, tiie'ieaacrs of this mob, be ana hereby ave expelled from this union. | Resolutions were also adopted indorsing the action of the President at the recent meeting Wwiere the expelled members endeavored to over. awe the union by bringing tn strangers to bream up the proceedings. Mr, S. M. Lederer offered @ resolution to inquire of counsel in what manner the constitutionand py | laws of this anton must be amended to entitle the union to a charter under the general laws of the State. eral Jt was decided that no meeting of the body will be held at present ior the reason that {t woutd greatly injure the chances of getting the bill passed, wnich is now belore the Legisiature, if there snouid be any cisturbauce at that meeting, The Legisiative Committee reported that re is every provability of the bill now pelore tae Legislature bemg reported favorably from the Committee on Iniernal Affairs in both the Asseme biy and Senate, and that it will be acted upon ip both houses within the next ten days, Alarge number of the opposition members o the Union assembled at Putnam Hall, corner Third | avenue and Tweith street, Mr, John C, Cassia; | calied the mootiug to order and James Rolly wat elected President pro tem, and Mr. Cassidy re: tary pro tem. ‘The Chairman noped that the division would pot break up Une organization at thie atage Of Lts eXistence, When they had reached the crisis, ‘Yheir bill beore the Legisiavare Was progressin, | very favorabiy. Tne joint committee nad heal | the Nquor dealers and were ready to report it Javoravly, Lt would stili requite watching, Dut folthtul men were working to secure Its passage, Mr, Cassidy, One Of the committee appointed to wait on tie Excise Board to try to arrange & com. | promise, reported that the Board would not lower | the license fee at present, as about 6,000 dealers had paid their sees and tuere were oniy 1,600 still holding out. The Commissioners would, however, awiter tne ist of May make a material reduction | Whether the bill passed or not, Aresolution confirming the action of the las meetag in removing Mr, A Hagverg from the Presidency Was again passed unanimously. An | rangenepts were made for hoidi bd | meeting on tne 16th Inst. to Peorgauine ‘aid olsot new oilicers.