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Moulton—a world too good; I never r coming to my house, with Em iy ougnt Qe bts ou express This (@eling, or opinion, to wr. Til), “Mr, Beecher told me that he boped what tp two lad es (referring to Mrs, Tilton avd irs, poalton) would be aole, with our help, to iold Mrs. Woodbull under kindly obligations to 18, @10 that he hoped that neither of them would make any objection to her coming either to wy house or to Mrs Mouiton’st” Did you say any- pilpg of tuat Kina’ A. I did not Q. Well, now. did you ever say to Mr. Tilton that ou hud an interview with Mré, Moulton on the jubject and requested ber to invite Mrs, Woodbull to lev (Mrs, Mouitou’s) house? A, Never. Now Mr. Mouiton states this, Mr. Beecher, as 2 part of av interview alter the publication o; this tard that he suw you avout it, “1 told him f | shonght it would bé vecessary,in some way, to influence thut woman against the pubucation of the stories; that L thought J ought tosee wer; he | uid he hoped | would, and I did se her in con- yequence of my consultation with Mr. Beecher.” | Dia that occur? a. No, sir; that I bave iad a | sonversation with him 18 very possible, but there — Wasn’l @ step taken in consequence o! counsel jaken with me—not a step. | Q, At the time of this consultation, this conver- lation or consultation with you, had Mr, Mouiton already seen Mrs, Woodhull? A, Ldon’t know. Q. When was the first time, Mr. Beecher, and | where, that you saw Mrs. Woodhull? A, some hime iu the midsummer ot 1871, WHERE MR, BEECHER FIRST SAW MRS, WOODHULL. And where? A, At Mr, Tilton’s house. How did that meeting come about? A, [ was walking ove Sunday afternoon with Mr, Moulton and as we strolied along at bap-hazard we came down In that neighborhood, What neighborhood? A. Mr, ‘litpn’s house; nd he said, “LOOK here, let’s go in and see; Mrs. oodhull is going to be there thm atternoon;" that was the first intimation | haa of her pres- | ence; | declined to go in, but he satd he thought | it would be better, that | had better doit; and 1 ponsented, alter his urging, and went in and saw | her Well, how did you find the people when you went in the house? A, 1 saw somebody in the back parlor, Q. Where were Mr. and Mrs. Tilton? A. I aon’t now ;1 don’t remember seeing Mrs, ‘Lilton at all; irs, Woodhull was up stairs—in the receiving room up stalls. Q, Aud how did you get into her company ? who took youup? A. Idon’t Know who took me up; pres escorted there and left there alone, per- aps — With Mrs. Wooanuil? a, With Mrs. Wood- bull; she was walting tor me apparently, Well, sir, What passed between you? A, Weil, she received me with a most cordial greet- ing, bota bands shaking min ad long desired to Bee Me; counted 1b foriunat ‘Mr, Beach—I aon’t perceive the aamissibility of the interview between Mr. Beecher and Mrs, Woodhull. Judge Netlson—Toe conversation is not admissi- Die. I don’t think tye counsel propose to give it. Mr. Beach—Well. fe asked lor 1. Mr. Fullerton—He hes given it. Mr, Evaris—And you had—— n. Did you bave anytoin say to her during mk interview on tne subject of these diMcuiries of Mrs. Titon? A. Nota wora; not the slighiest Allusion to it. SS veniee by her norbyyou? A, Neitherbyner yr by mes Me Now, when did you next see her? Do you re- member the occasion of an excursion? A. Ido. Q A warehouse Or yacht racing excursion? A, | Yes, sir, both. Well, how did that occur? A, It was a trip down the bay with @ number of gentlemen from the press to see the Livonia, wasn’t it? Mr. Beach—Yes, Witness—Tue English yacht, beaten by OUR AMERICAN SAPPHO, nd back again to ive warehouse of Woodruff, obinsen & Co., and then we were landed in rooklyn; it had got to ve betweeu five and six in the evening, | tnink. Q. Whose pleasure party was that? By whose Invitatiun’ A. i was invited oy Mr. Moulton; L unserstood b.m to say the firm was at the head Of It; Woat was represented Was the pieasure of seeing the yachts, but the main object they had — Was of disciusing On What @ scale their ware- | housing business was carried on; @ very pleasant | aiternoon tt was. | Q Was Mr. Tilton there? A. Mr. Tliton and Oliver Jonnsb ana others, assets aug Mrs. Woodlull was not on ursi . NO, Bit’, Well, r the excursion? A, When we lanaed at Montague Serre. OF near, Mr. Moulton asked moe to dine with him; | am pot certain whether my foiks were in town, but at avy rate I consented, aud went to his house to dine with vim, aad jound Mrs. Woodhuil there, or she came goon alter; 1iound tt was quite a dinuer party; he bad said notning abou’ that to me, and I sup- posed it to be @ family dinner, and went around | Gud found myself put at the tadie next to Mrs, Woodhall; THE DINNER Was VERY GOOD. (Laugnter.) Q Ww t that interview with Mrs. Wooaball was anything sald ween you concerning— A. No, sir; we had no talk except at the table, and Wery little thea, Q. Weil, now, when again did you ever see her ? A. I think the only time alverward | ever saw her, to speak with ber, was when she came to have me | preside at ihe Steinway Hail meetin; When was that? A. Tuat was in the fali, 1871—November | think, tI am not mistaken. The Court then adjourned tll eleven o'clock tals morning. BROOKLYN PRESBYTERY. THE ROTARY ELDERSHIP ADOPTED BY A VOTE or 18 To 7—LICENSE OF CANDIDATES. This body continued its session yesterday in the Clinton street churen, Rev, Arthur Crosby pastor. The examination of Messrs. Brydges, Lloyd and Loder was continued before Presbytery; and as | sue first named is already a licentiate, and will | soon graduate irom Princeton Seminary, arranges ments were made for bis ordination and installa- | tion as pastor of Greene avenue Presbyterian | shurch, to whicp he has been called as pastor. prs. Van Dyke, Duryea, Wells ana the Moderator Were appointed to attend to the several parts of | this service, which ia to take place on Taoursday, May 20. The other candidates were licensed to preaca the gospel. Their trial sermons were In striking contrast as any two compositions perhaps can be. Mr. Loder’s was classical, ornate and full of HIGHFLOWN OR “MIPALUTIN” PHRASES end expressions, analogi from nature for — Spiritual life, bat was altogether of the style | and character that not five in a nundred | lo apy «rdinary congregation would compre- beod or apprecia‘e. In criticising tuls composi- tion aiterwuras, the members of the Presby- tery aid freely in the preseace o! both candidates, this brother was aavised to prune ols siyie, and | as bis Work 18 to be one of soul saving he shoaid | G0 Straight to the keroel of the Gospel at tue out- | Set. But they were otherwise very mucu pieased | With tue Giscour-e, and, as Dr. Duryea remarked, | Ye Was glad the b otuer was NOT A STUMP, BUT A GREEN TRES fhe would vear prunwg. Brother Lioyd ts a Man, a studeos 1 Union Seminary, im this City new York), who has received a call during bis -Gsmer vacation to preach to a Welsn con. greva Wisconsin. His sermon was the op- posite Of we other. Lt was simpie and direct, and et evincea reat thevlugi thougot, and, as a | ember of Ne Presbytery remarked, there were ouly leur WOrdein 1, tuat coulu not be understood by a ordioarily inteligent catia, Tne Presby- tery showed t ippreciation of Brother Lioy’s composition by listging patiently to nearly the Whole sermou and oy expressiag their readt- | Qess to hear bim py jack ib io any of their [oo ae While these brturen were unanimously wensed, they were DOU Me that they must stand | @ becte, eXaimination on Clyrch government and | Gacraments in iuture than mes pad doue. Miss | Moore, a member of Tompkim aveuue Presbyte- | rian cuurca, ‘wemorialized the ebytery for jus- | tice against certiim members OF trai evuren Who bad wWrooged ber 12 Unavcial Maters, fier me- mortal was referred to 4 committee, Wo reported advising her to make her COMPLAINT TO THE CHURCH SESStOr. | ‘yod in that Way 16 would come jegi'imately wefore whe Presbytery, but 1t could not be entertainea tcomes at present, Aiter remarks vy Drs. Cuy | er, Van Dyke, butier, Crosoy, Prores-or Eaton aud pthers, the Asseaibly overture on the eldersii tera: of service Was adonied by a vote oO: Is to 7. | Dr, Van Dyke, on behals o) tae minority, entered a Writien protest agaiast it, aud tule drotest will fo to the Assembly tovether with tue vou tue resbytery, The ground’ of protest are threo, | osameily:—Phat (be overture gives @ charcn session tue Tivht lo send to Presbytery @ man who is no: | & member Of it, and Who may ve opposed even to | the imterests avd rights Of the congregation; that twill be productive of perperual cousustn, and astiy, that the overtare is inconsi ent with sections 6 and 7 of ariicl { Churen Government. A rom wenty-five Presbyterians asked to ve organized and recognized as Grace Presby- ‘erian ciurch., ihey are located on Monroe stieet sod Lewis wvenue, and mre than hall amie trom any otuer i’resoyterian coureh. Dr. J. U. Preneh | said be Could stand on the roo! of his churca and | shoot 4 nau from seven churches around nim. So | that the matier of distauce Tied no weight Whatever witn it Dr, Cuyier added that he could | Yo Into some churches aaa shoot a pistol around cr N KE A CHATSTIAN LIFE, | Jbristians wre so ew and iar beiweea in them. de, \ov, favored (he organization vi this chure Several otavr memuers of the Presbytery and the Pastor and Committee Of the NEW eaterprise Were heard on tye sugject, The svcieyy bas erected a very neat ch pel, ut a Cost 0: $5,000, early ali of Whicn fas been par’. Tuere ave but $#vy due, aod ths amount ceen pledged, Anu ail this awe Dovn done Wittin oue sear, The application was 13 memorial denied, vat x Commirtee Wus aopormted to advise wiih Wie new ety 10 go OF AS A MIsston eF tere price /or wn eer ye fue parrative oO. the staie OL Lhe Chu. cles Was preseated aud an eveniug SeRSIOD Was 1 to receive aud examine Kev. M WOWtUE), VI Pittsueid, Mass, Who aus accepted a cull LO the Mewrorial caureue | Boara oO; Baucats | secular sua NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7, 1875—QUADRUPLE SHEET. THE NEWARK METHODISI CONFER- ENCE, The session of the Newark Methodist Confer- ence, at Jersey Vity yesterday, was the most lively since the commencement of the proceed. ings. Pending tne regular orierof business the Committee on Centennial Celebration presented a report recommending that the occasion ve cele- bratea fo all the churches of the district. The Gill heresy case was then taken up, and a lively debate took place for and against the report of the investigating commitcee. During tne de- bate a decide {eeling Was manifested among tne audience, and tne Key. Dr. Porter hoped that no such manilestations would be repeated. Bishop Bowman said that such exuivitions could not be permitted, at which & pious brower remarked that. be couldn’: nelp saying “amen” once in a Wiilie. ‘ Kev, Mr, Gill then arose and opened his defence by avowing fis implicic faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, 11 Loe Wah of mura les and other tueolugi- cal tenets of the fuiti. The proposition he put to the orethren was a very plain one. It they did not like the book they Could reject it, He held that there was notoimg in tt, in his belief, not tn ace cordance with tne tenets of the Methodist Church, and he claimed the right to undersiand his own book. He proposed, iowever, to search after truth wherever it may be found, whetuer the Conlerence be‘ieved it was truta or not, He old not believe it was [he DusiLess O1 the conierence to puss judgment as to what Were the truths of science, His voos was written accord. lng Lo new ideas Which have been evoived, and ne said that to-day the evolutionists nave the u} de the Chur He vantage pliilosophically over . thought old ideas ougat to ve tad agile when God furnishes mew ones, Mr. Gil Uben spoke of the pain he felt because he was Inis- undersiood, and vroke down as he saidit, He said, however, that, aithough he is wisunderstood, | he sctll deemea that be was right. He thanked God that he was a dletnodist, and hoped that tbe eyes oO: the brethren Would be opeued to more ad- vanced ideas, and that they will receive more coniidence. As to the report of the committee, ult was adopied he did got know whetuer oe woud be vole to give entire satisiactton, Rey. Dr. Crane putd a glowing triba e to the re- ligious character of the Rev, Mr. Gil, but thought that ihe vane and the antidote in the book were too far apart. Rev. Mr. Atkiuson argued against the adoption of the report, very inconsistent fur the Conference to seau lorth & minisier to preach a gospel which lis nook utterly destrovs. After remarks by other speakers the question Was put on the adoption of the report, and it was carried, uod the character oi tae Rev. Mr, Gill Was passeued. IMPORTANT ECCLESIASTICAL CON- FERENCE. Yesterday the clergy of the Catholic dtocese of Newarn, which embraces te eutire State of New Jersey, held their second conterence with closed doors at the hall of the Catholic Institute in New- ark, Right Rev. Michael A, Corrigan, bishop of the diocese, presidiug. {te coulerence was closed vo all lay or profane ears, but it 18 understood that the chief subject of discussion was Caurca and state, whic subject was opened a coupe of weeks ago ata previous conlerence. Vhe su ject called jorth abie argue ment proand con, Ib was urged that tue Church belug engowed Witn 1.mediate authority irom Gods. Was in spirtual Matters superior to toe State, wLose authority was derived .rom the will ot men, ‘Cue Unurch oad jurisdiction over man’s soul; the State over temporal affairs, The aim of hoy men — shuwd be to pre- vent any clashing. Pots of a dogmatic character were considered yesterday by Ke: Wigger, of Madisyp, wud morais by Rev. Corrigan, of Jersey City, Jon pout ..mb! basuan sm D., of Ranway, on rubrics, | Fatacr Da Coucillio, of Jersey City, was elected Moderator; Rev, Patner Siaum, of Ked Bank, Vice Mode ator, aud Kev. Ciuries A. Reiley, A. ML, B.S. f., as Secretary ‘THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 4 FULL REPORT OF THE SECRET MEETING ON MONDAY--TWO IMPORTANT PROPOSITIONS SUB- MITTED BY THE CATHOLIC COMMITTEE. ‘Toe g: catest interest has been manifested during the last twenty-/our hours by tae people of this city irrespective of religious belie!, as to toe result of the secret confereuce bacweea the Committee of the Board of Education and the memoers of the Committee on Catholic Parochial Scnools ap. Pointed by Vicar General Quinn. At four o’clock on Monday alvernoon the Catholic committee, consisting of the following named geatlemen, met in the hall ol the Board of Educa- tion, up stairs:—Heory L. Hoguet, No. «3 West Twenty-eightn street; Frederick E, Gibert, corner of Fiitu avenue and Thirty-first street; John EB, Develin, No, 95 Madison avenue; Frederick R. Cou- Gert, No. 135 East Foriy-thira street; George V. Hecker, No. 273 Madison avenue; Rigaal T, Wood- ward, Fort Wasuington, and Rev. Edward J. lly, No. 28 Attorney street. The Rev, Jono ¥. Kearney, a clergyman convected with Si. Par ‘3 Cathedral, represented Vicar Generali Quinn, who was unfortunately prostrated with sickness aud unable lo attend, Presideat W. H. Neilson, of the Board of Educa- tion, and wo was also Chairman of the Board | committee appointed to meet the Catholic com- mitice, Was present WIth Mls SiX colleagues, and greeted the gentiewen Of the otuer committee cor- Gualiy, Prestaent Neilson said, Was gias to meet geat o of the high secial standing whom he 8aW belure cim who were ua- douvtediy enaeavoring to produce a harmomous result between both parties, and be wes gad to know that such good iceling existed, ho matter What wight be the resuitol tueir final deliverae tigns. substantially, that he Henry L. Hoguet, Chairman of the Cathotic committee, responued 1 a concurrent spirit, and stated tat ther only! ovject ia appearing Was on benail Of Ene 30,000 oF 40,000 Cathole children be- ng to the parocuial *cuools, and that all they Gesired to sce Was proper educavioa for there clildreD, as Was Understood by the sachers and Moliers of the pupils Who were now paving for their iustraction. Wiue they were wing to nave them receive. as ry ohe kuew, the beneit ola Comwon school educavon, yet they deemed that tucy SloUld Also Oe FerM.tted to recelve some religious tea to imteriere With (he céminon sedool system. DIPOBTANT PROPOSILIONS. get teen mah, On onal: o: the Catbolic . LWO propettioas to the Commutiee of rd of Educutbn as the groundwork of Mr. Hog co. ut FIRST MOPOSTTION. That the parochial schvoi buildings shall be Jeaseu to the Buar ucaiion Jor sehoui pur- Doses sudject to the rics aud reguiatious of th» School system anu tO (he consideration Of the SECUND IROPOSITION, That the teachers mw empioyed in paroctial Schools shal! be retuned whea wuad qaalilied, apa ail Vacancies suall oe filed according 1o the JAWS O1 Che present COaweR scnoul system. Mr. Jonn &. Veviin thea said that to see Such Coratlity miu suc Maullested DY votu Cosmic that ais committee was i her play and wiih & hop mien be mamtaned. Mr. FregericS &. CoWers satd that be believe! the time fad come to waive both s stems, and that the delects of eifer system woniu fod a sure ond efficacious reardy in a common unioa of tue CoOMMOD SCHOO! ANd be parocua scnool; and Spirit of fair @ vest ol harmony he tiougat ail (nat wis neces-ary was candur, ends of irankness and lity both parties, Woo 4 1 course, determ Werk for the colamon use of good edu When a sviution Was artved at he firmly that it Would be found 9 satisiy tue the people of the city ant state of N Ri ity to suvecrve the titeved majoruy of ew York. FATHOM UO RECLLY. remarks, stated that i wo in the course o! be did pot suppor: maintain tawt it i postive system of reigns bebel, be taat be! either Cutnolle or Protestut, ile velleved tuat the commo. school syste Was imtended vy ite founders so trata Lue MULeCts Of enidren yin & ation; HUCthat it Was HOt tended by 118 founders to Oppostany jorm of worship, or to ene or fostel imuiferentism to the the Jaws = Gov, which are more Immuiaple than wey proess OF human Teasoning. Was prepared yminissiouers iOWnsGu and Kelly Made Oriel addresses iM @ Spit O Armouy and good leellug ni declared hop that the propositions would be received witi di dae consideraiion and calmness, Commissioner Nelisonon behalf of the Board, then asked thas the Cugvlic commiitee should subat), ab an eariy da, tueir propositions ia detail with @ roll of teacers and @ jist of pupiis iM the parocuta senovis, rhica we Catuolic com mittee promised to do. Tne meetiog tuen ad journed. PROBABLY FATAL AFFRAY. At balf-past eight o’cioc | affray occurred in tae (enty meit street, Brooxsiva, named Mrs. Mary MeCue Bridget = @aivin. The aiMeuiry from some trivial hoteh ad used very dyer uiey Gaultd tevening a serious t house N stween two women, and) Mra, origitated larho he Bar mepately jute KeHossitai, Waere hat fer skull is irae Movue Was boda Lulu cusiuuy. Wa proven eo an tm the surgeon at tite Co. Galvin Was removed, te tured. ali He thougat it wouid be | ng, Wilkous in any Way attempting THE CENTENNIAL, “ADMIRAL” SEMMES DENOUNCES THE IDEA OF ALABAMA BEING BEPRESENTED AT THE ‘‘BADI- CAL LOVE F£AST"—A CHARACTERISTIC LETTER. MOBILE, Ala,, Maren 29, 1875. The interest in the Centennial celebration bas been revived nere to-day by a remarkably strong letter, puvlishea by Raphael Semmes. It ap- peared in the ster this morning, ac- companied with an editorial, which reads very much ¢s though written by the editor himself, John Forsyth. Semmes, as might be expected, denounces the scheme from a parely “Ooniederate” standpoint, but his denunciatton will have the effect of drawing public attention to 1t here more than anything that has yet appeared. ‘The comment on tue letter 18 much more mode- rate, and closes:—“Philadelphia nas been an ex- treme radical city, but few of us reflect that in a vote of more tian one hundred thousand people (nearly hall of the vote of Alabama) the ma jority against the democracy 18 but 18,000, Pennsylvania bas been the home of Thad, Stevens, but that State with her vote of more than half a million gave the democracy | last year a majority upon general ticket and a | Legislature which has sent to the United States | Senate one of the brightest intellects and firmest | | spirits ofthat body, The Legislature of Penusyl- vanta, which control the management of the Cen- | tennial Exposition so far as apy guvern- | mental power can supervise a private cor- | poration, Lave, im the election of Wal Jace to the Senate, spurned the very legisiation | to which Admirai Semmos and the entire south oojec’ so indignantly, They staud ready to aid us in removing the last badge of inferiority and to Welcome us as a State equal in power and honor with themselves, Far better, 1: seems to us, would it be to stand shoulder to shoulder with them, to continue the battie which is not yet over fora restoration of the Union upon the basis of co-equal States and for an objiteration of the bitterness and animoxities which strike blindly at friends and foes alike,”? SEMMES’ LEITER, Tn view of its cuaracteristic tone I deem itof | suiicient iaterest to produce the letter entirt To Tax Enrtor oF re RxcistER:— mspora mutantur, ef ngs viutamur in its, Alabama 1s to be present at the Centennial. Asa com- mentury upon the act by which she proposes to degrade hersetl, permit me to glance at a historical tact or two. When, in the year lad, while holding the rank of a Lom: wander in the United States Navy, 1 was seated in the Liguthouse Bureau at Washtnuton, in the discharge of my duties, a telegram was flashed ‘over the Wires to me, of Which the folowing 18 & copy :— r MontGomeny, Feb, 14, 1801, Srt:—On behalf of the Committee on Naval Affairs, T beg leave to request that you will repair to thts place at your earliest convenience. ©. M. CONRAD, Chairman, Commander Rarnaty Seumes, Washington, D. CO. ‘The sovereign state of Alabaina hat seceded trom the federal Uniou, and a war being imminent, she s ood in sore need of the services of all her sons. Hence the his tamily, hasiened to obey the summons. All he knew or cared to know was that his stave was crying aloud to her anguish, and this cry was enough, What eds not to be told in this communication, ay that the great principle of the sovereigniy of the states, as read by the lightsot the federal constitution, in which the ptates were the ertain weil defined powers and no others, involved in tae oc st, and bana deemed that the was fighurg not enly tor her ite but jor her honer also. In concert wich her sisier Btates of the -outh she fought long and man: fully, and, in the words of the late Mitchel. “all the best mien’? of tue suite were Conieverates. But she ‘was beaten in the contest by (he sheer force of numbers, and alter being heaten was spit upon wath contumely grantors of Wi bie and euduring the tundamental law itselt was changed, and the odious ai niemptivie Fours teenth amendment found a place im the same constitution which the rebel, George Washington, had sumed. By the third section o: this amendinent itis rovided that certain persons who shalt have “engaged 1 insurrection or rebellion” against the United states (meaning the late war) suail be ineileible to hold qtiice under either the federal or State government, unless Congrass, by a twoeliris vote of each Uouse, “remove such disabiity.”” ius are ci izens of the state of Alava ma to day brinded as “insurrecdonists and rebels” by the constliution of the United states. In ovher word.. tue | sovereign stave or Alabama ishumbled and degraded throug a cercain class of her cituzens. who, it they be- came “insurrectionists and rebels,” became so by her commuud. Jo sv nothing of o.bers, the unsersigned, who came toher at her bidding, as has been suowa, 1$ still under the ban of this consututional proscription. and has recently been insulted in adoition by an in- famous slander, puolished agaiast him on the | floor of the senate the of the United States, in of a. committee, And in facts—in view of the brand of intamy and shame whica hasbeen burned, as it were, into the very forehead of the staie—the once proud Alabama—what have her reoresen.atives, assembied at Montgomery, recentiy done? Her Legislitura, a demo. er vernor, a dem ‘atic | that she shail stand, b; | om certain representa’ s—chiet of whoin is to be te Goversor himself—at this radi- cal love teast, the Centennial, side by side with certain other soveroiga States, whose equal | she is, out who have branded ler as described. A pa- |r nd. wn ou-east, branded like a felon. with ti | brand's ili burning mto her brow, she consents to me. kdmunds and others, who have so recent son, On terms of ‘amity | degraded Alubamat When that, tele | brought your son to your ald in y | of wial and tribulation, flashed ‘over the wires from Montgomery to Washington was there an howorabie man within your cheek would uot hawe of shame at the bare sucg What say e there any of y 8 tat you will aécept nimission $9 tainted with dishouor ? t tbat at this great meeting if it were prope a yut, Would far outshiue any meeting of sovereigns ber tofore held —your own State shall stand crouonig and bumbied, a branded felon: branded by the very fundamental law to which you are expected to sing hosano 1th u beet said that we lost every. thing by th septour honor. Are we prepa éd ty surrender this also 1 Whatsay You, men of Mobile ? Will you sa jon tals infamy? OF must you drink of thiséhalice? if it may not pass irom your lips the sooner You level with the earth the proud ‘battle monu- suffused with whose blu been re: a sen which, gad the ooming of cannon. but a few months ago, Ler. Will you dare permit it to stand, and at the same time admit, by the presence of your represeutatives at Phila- | delpbia, on the 4'n of July, 1876, tnat Coose who sleep In their bioody winding sheets beneatt it. were rightly A by the constitution of the United States a uurrectionsts and rebels?” To pr: eption, of rather misrepresentation, | Lam sincerely 1a favor of an earnest aud honest recon- ehiation witli the peopie of the North) We must i at the policy and interest of States = tre the siaudpo nt of statesmen, and in doing so we must bury many fathoms dee our private griets. whatever the may be; batno solid and lasting triendsiip can grow up between the sections unless it be based upon good fauth uA But no people can m another Who do Rot esteem themse will be a representa ot 8 at «this pretended —festi' n who will not own corn upon the emaseul te tive of any thern State whieh has had so little respect tor itself as to pormit hima to be there. while her eilize ribed and ted and scorned for de hich it com Jed them to do. ihe meanest pr thing and most cowardly act of which a Stace can be uilty—one waich = h boen frowned — upon in all to when it has make sep- IF this be odlous among @ State which abandons her ind Makes a -eparate peace, brands her and them with infamy at \ne sa’ What say you, Governor Houston, will vou meet Lamunds and other men of that siripe to celebrate ina social «athering of (he States the fact that the “nation” has lived a hundred yours, when the constitution of ot whieh yo he and they live terns tae state Which you represent as being an urrectionist and a rebel!” You dare not. this stain upon our honor is wiped out of the fan mental law no man of honor, in my poor judgment, c coment to any such humiliation. RAPHAEL SEMMES. A CENTENNIAL MONEY SHOW—ONE OF THE IN- telegram. Her son thus telegraphed, whose only | fortune consiste: ot his t@lerai’ commission, Wihowt @ moment's thought for the tuture of THE CONIUM CASE. POST-MORTEM EXAMINATION OF MR. WALKER'S BODY—SOME OF ITS RESULTS. The cause of the death of Mr. F, W. Walker is Dot likely to be definitely known until a week or More goes by, por is it likely to be announcea untilit has been proved by accurate investiga - tion, Inthe meantime speculation isand mnst continue to be rife as to what the cause really was, The circumstances of the decease o/ the uniortupate gentleman give the winest latitude for speculation and physicians and others not versed in meaicine boldly enter the fleid, The latrer express their opinions openiy and decidedly, whtie the former discuss their theories only in thelr own ciicies. Thovgh it 18 certain that mauy physicians [eel as- sured that the contum was the single cause of Mr. Walker’s death, they do not seem to be willing to openly assert it as a positive con- clusion, Throwing out of view the tact that but jew medical men are even shghtly acquainted with the effects of the drug, and so do not feel as much at liverty in forming @n opinion as a non-proiessional dves, there appears to be a sentiment, a rule of etiquette, so to speak, in the medical professiou which debars physicians from openly criticising the metnods of practice of their iellows. When a case such as sibility that a physician may have committed an error of judgment, every other medical man resolucely closes his mouth, aod, for fear of being considered discourteous, refrains from saying any- thing on the subject. The writer tried yesterday to obtain some expressions of opinion from quite a@nomber of doctors, but not one of them was found wiliing to re(er to the provable cause of the death of Mr. Walker, Nofoue of them had ever, it szemed, used conium in bis practice, and when asked what they knew fects of the drug they one ana all re- ferred the questioner to the pages of the “United States Dispensatory.” There was a re- markable unanimity of opinion to the effect (the amount which Mr, Walker took), ought not to kill @ pealtny. man of his build, Yer, woen the idea that the 180 drops which the deceased gentle- man had previously taken bad remainea latent until excited by the second series of was broached, no medical genticman would ex- Press bis opinion on the sudject, All ielt then that tt is necessary to await until the results of the post-mortem) examination are published, be- fore expressing adefinive opinion, This exam- ination was begun at noon yesterday, in the late residence of the deceased gentleman, No, 300 State street, Brooklyn. There were presenta whe dissection a number of medical several of whom are members of the jury. but tue medical gentlemen were adwitied, Dr. Shaw mane the exawiuauon for Coroner Simms, and Drs, Minor, of New York, and Drake, of Brookiyn, assisted him, The autopsy was ended yesterdvy and some of the orzaus 0: the deceased were taken by Dr. Shaw tor micr scopic examination. What was determined by the | examination so far as it went could not be learned precisely. Corgner Simms sald | that be did not know himseli, and thati he bad results untii aiter (he. were sworn to and pre- that the state | sented to tue jury a8 evidence. Stil, the writer | in part what was done at | the autopsy. In conversition with a member | did discover | andcomtempt. To make her degradauon more paipa- | State of | er’s family. ment you unveiled, amid the plaudits ot the multitude | | Ne streets of this city portends an TERESTING FEATURES OF THE CENTENNIAL | WHICH BANEERS HAVE AT HEART. ‘Tne representatives of the associated banks of Philadelphia last November held a meeting in ity and passed the following resolution :— tonal and other banks, and all be and they are hereby ing, to be held fo form an assitying and States from the earliest settlement of the country to the daie of the exhibition, together with suca statistics of ig and finance generally as will make that de- tatiractve. of f isto erest, and tilustrative Jopmen: aud progress of the country. It has now beea decided that this meetung shall be helt nexcJuae, ana Colonel J. BE, Peyton, ot Had- donteld, N. J., Who has been appointed to repre- sent the committes, is now on a visit to this city with the view of impressing apon the bunkers and others engaged in banking business the importance of the odject which is sought vo be attained, Alter leaving this ety he wil Viste the Various cities im the various States. It will oe econ by the reso.ution passed by the Philadephia bankers thet if the bankers in tve Union take 1 aoly to the idea suggested by them mooey exhiditioa will oe one of the most interesiing Jeatures of the Uenten- nial, It snould be stated that in addition to the collection aud eXbiotcion of specimens of our na tional coms and currency, it has been deemed ap- propriate ant desirable by tue bankers to coilect aod eXaibls specimens oj all the ancient and mod- ern coins Of the worid, #8 far as practicable. THE FIRE COMMISSIONERS. the It was rumored yesterday that Governor Tilden had sent to Mr. Wickham the certificate of the Mayor’s removal o! the U the sp oration Counsel and Fire Commisstoners, out the Mayor when 60 10 of tue subject, said he oad got received sai. However, ibis beueved twat tne Lior ducaiment will be res eu bere pse of tne week, Ut said toat Richard Pianevaa, iate Presideat of the Board or Aider- men, has been induced to reconsiver hs celermt- HAL Bot LO Take ADF PUluie position, and thas | he Will be appointed a Fire Commissioner and | Presiaent of the new Board. | that Oi Mr. Walker’s jamily he was informed tha! rhe | doctors had first examined toe deceased gentie- | man’s brains and hud found evidences o: larmiul | effects Uvon it, but whether these were the resulis Of disease OF Ol the Creatment oF pnysicians could not be immedia'ely determined, Toe truuk o: toe | body was afterward eXaumed, and the hears was fouod to be heaitay, but the lungs | greatly congested. ihe genticmaa who imparted | this information was certain that his relative, | Mr, Walker, haa beea Kilied throuza the careless- | ness of nis physictun, “Why,’? said he, ‘ust ook at the facts. His pnvsiclun gave bime drag wnich ougut only to be administered in the pres- ence of a medical man waliins to observe its el- fects aud ready to promivit the patient trom j taking any o: it alter the desired symp toms were produced, Yet they permitted imi to take this med.ciue in the p.esence merely of bis wife, Who Koew nothing at ail about its effects. They say DOW that te dose he toon ought not to kul a man like bim, but they leave | Out Of question ine quantity of contam’ wuica w | Ur. Walker took before s¢ came home.” ‘This gentleman appears to express the sentt. ment of the more intimate relations o| Mr. Walk After leaving him the writer met | another gentleman who was at the autopsy, {und procured irom him some further im. | formation about its results. This gene | tieman did not remain, however, after | the brain was examined. He said tuat tiis organ | was very large, and proved, of itsel. that its | owner Was aman Of eXtraordinary intelligence. | Its vase, he said, Was sligotiy marked, either by | disease or by the effects of conium, woich re- | mains to be determinea by a microscopical exam. imation to be made by Dr, snaw. The janerat o1 Mr. Wai: will take place at two o'clock to-day irom S'. Peter's cuurca, BOARD OF HEALTH. A DECREASE OF MORTALITY LAST WEEK. The weekly meeting o/ the Board o/ Health took place yesterday afternoon at three o’ciock. A petition irom the citizens of ihe Twenty-third and ‘Twentyefourth wards protesting against the lo- cating of @ police court in a building near the Fordham depot, under a resolution adopted by the Common Council, on the ground that tue building should ve condemned, was reierred to the Su,erinteudent to report upon. The jollowing ts the report Oo: tne Santtary Su- | periatendent sor the week ending April 3, 1875:— Diseases March 3i. aprita ‘Typhus tover. 1 = | | Typhoid teves 4 io Scarlet tever: “ “6 Measles. = 6 Dipnther: 6 7 Sunaiipox. - 9 oT Cerebrospinal meningitis. 5 pac The following is the report of the Registrar of Vital Statistics — There were 505 deaths reported in week that ended om saturday, the din thy ling week. this city Laat | the 3d inst, against .05 feuse Of Inor- a the list of 4 croup and whooping n with ien less deaths (hau in the preview en. The death rate, which, in the fourth week of March was at 30.55 ver 100) snbavitants was diminished to 28.25 per 1 v. $8 dontus in the public ii 17.08, amd 1 nuually, last week there were 107 and nh the successive * ubel more numbered 281, and constita ed mortaliiy; and those unver five y age numbered 4%, and equalicd 4213 per cemt ot the total mean temperavire the fourth week in March was Ab ‘UL7 deg. Fahrenhett, or that of midwinter. The mean of last Week was Lis Sen higher q/.2 deg.), and the y force of the winds Was only half as great as in the pre- ‘vious week. FILTHY STREETS CONSIDERED FROM A SANITARIAN POINT OF VIEW. Dr. Moreau Morris has made the following re- port to the President of the Board of Health :— ouR | C.F. Cnaxpuer. President of the Health Department: R—The present feartuily fl hy condition of tue pub+ sruning inerease in of our civic popu doth the sickness and deat ta tion. The almost inealeuiab; bie filth now underzoing the process of / by the ai ofthe temperatare and moisture is inpregnai- ing every breaih of air our citizens are compelled to breathe. ‘Of what use is it to ventilate our dwe! ings or those of the thesiy populated tenement house districts when the very air Which 1s sought is #0 laden with poison as fo make it dangerous to breath uth and uncieanness, in whatever form, Is incom- patible with heaith, and the more nithiness the more unbea thy. several sears of official respovsibility in watehing the sources of disease of a public characier w t me im caling your @=peciai aiteniion to the | t danger to the e me to address you as one + tive si Wiil bring about the neck remedy at once. he inevitable law of epidemics and of endemics ts that every porson thattffects health has a central point from which, ike the pebdbve's ripple when crop the water, it spreads from centre One p with its con Such i+ the experience taucht ecHoUs diseases The more central poiats are, the more rapiciy do the concen Of olson colieses and inten. ng sh A UUIVErSA! Infection of those browgAt tiuence. the history of that teartuliy rapid and terribly fatar epidemic, cerebro-spina: which destroyed 701 lives’ in ten monch: y, only three years since, following the aliuo: ditions that now exist in this city, Warns as of What we ma sonably expert Within the next few months, not tt uniess a thorough and immediate cleansing of our public s.reets is won ort Which I made to the Health Devariment in Apropos Wo the pres His ome of tin wiileh tl by the negioct of the tree cleanin DIF vev or ia its manieipal histor: a disgracerul condition existed 40 of the city is now no better. or new ment had suca DY comlition on avong conseque icc had wer and ty of arian, f 1 bad be on products of Suen were the to that outbreak, aud in view we possibility of preventing the occurrence of fatal imacacty nor others well kiown as resuitants, by a thorough cleausing of oar Augean elem: tions. vast 3 a oven f chemteal and urgani¢ decowpontion.” coudi1ons antecedent ot the present occurs, in which there is abare pos- | of the ef. | that 150 minims of Dr. Squibb’s extract of coniam | doses | | known it would be impossibie tor him to state tue | WO } tram reached West Bua it was leit on stable, it would seem an imperative duty ot those in authority to do it at once. ina pecuniary aspect alone, lovving out of the question the public health, i815 easily shown that it would be» matter of economy at Whotever extra cost mizit be necessary A‘suml that the pecuniary value to che State of evéry man 1s, be- tween the axes of twenty forty years, ho more than matc—we have the exbibit he productive industries ) in the veaths of those persous mentio im. ten months. were seventy males killed between those ages at that time of that disease alone ani which was entirely preventible by proper civic Cleansing. It we add also, which is furly chargeable, the loss of the subsequent years of productive value to this city of these same persons, we find that itamounts to over 81,00.0W. It may be asked. then, with emp ass, Doos it pay to allow su -hcivic neglect in the item of cleanliness? The fact that oue member of your Board is also President of the Police Hepariment affords an opportunity of impressing upon that Board the great And urgent necessily of having the city put into a cleanly and healtay vonaition. A tow days ot hot sun will renter the atmosphere of the more denseiy populated portions of the city almost intolerable, and must assurediy increase the present phealthy condition of the city. With the assurance that you will take such action tn your Board as will effectively Impress the treet Ciean- ing Bureau of the Police Department, I remain, very re- specitully, MOREAU MORRIS, M."D. New Yous, April 6, 1874. A HOTEL BURNED. to, tuere DISASTROUS FIRE IN WILLIAM STREET—ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY PERSONS IN DANGER OF SUFYOCATION—ONE MAN SUFFOCATED TO DEATH AND TWO OTHERS SEVERELY INJURED. At half-past two o'clock yesterday moraing the night watchman of tie Frankfort Hotel, No, 202 William street, whtle walking on the seventh floor of the building, noticed smoke issuiug in a dense volume from one of the unoccupied rooms, No. 189 on that story, Breaking opea the door, he dis- covered that the furniture in the room was ablaze. He qaletly communicated the in telligence of the fire to the clerk on duty, aud it wa’ immediately decided to arouse the in- mates of the house, of whom there were perhaps 150, by rapping at the door of each room, without giving @ general alarm. This course of proceed- ing was undoubtedly instrumentai in savieg many from injury, 1! not death, because a general alarm of tlre would most likely have produced @ panic | among the lodgers, and the interior of the build. | ing is 80 constructed that a@oy unusual crush woula inevitabiy result in disaster. Alter some little delay ali the occupants were awakened, and they vacated the premises in a quiet and orderly manner, The engines came promp'ly to the spot and were hard at work in a | very short space of time, While s)me of the fire- men Were engaged on the seventh story they dis- unaccountable carelessness, had failed to be awakeoed, They were insensible and almost suffocated by the smoke, which was exceedingly deuse. The men were quickly removed to the Park Hos- pitai by Foreman Frank Burke, of Enazine com- pany No, 7, agsisted by otuer firemen, and every- Uning that medical skill could suggest was done | for them. The condition o: one of the men, whose name Was subsequeatly ascertained to be W, | Mor toircy-ise years o: age, raupidiy grew rse aud in a short time he fad breatned hi | last, DOF having spoken or recurged to consclous- ness siics) «M3 arrival at the bospital. |The other two patients after while | began to rally and it was decided | to Bellevue Hospital, where tne re accordingly | conveyed, and Where, Under medical treatment, the, continued to improve antl the doctors jro- | Bounces! them Out of danger, a | oceupation a iarmer, and resideace in Unio, and Thowas Harigan, of chis city, The boay o: Mr. Morris was taken to the dead | house, no One Claiming it, aod the Coroner was | botidea to hold an tnquest. | Burke, o: Busi e Company, No. 7, who was eariy on hand, together with Fireman Dwyer aod Fir man J. Driscoil, of tue same company, 43 Well Alired Connors, of Hook and L.ader Compauy No, 10; the ture oF ga@ilant te lows dome all they could to as: vreman burke, Who took poor Patrick Lavele out oi the St, Audrew’s disaster, ta this last acvident, Foreman Karke found J. H. Monce iu bed on tie ewoth door in a thick smoke, and ulso discovered fuomas Martzan, und helped to carry (beuwi botw OUT, as Well ae Wiliam Morris, | Who nas since ¢ted, Hartigan and Mouce were | Just saved in good time, A reporter calles ayon Mr. SC, Smith, the man- ager and proprietor of the Frankiort Hotel, to | ascertain farther particulars; but that genvieman | could give no information as lo how the taree | lodgers cume to be overlooked by the watchmen wheu they aroused the inuates, hali an vour belore the tre Was di-covered the | nigat Watcoman had been on the seveutn story O1 the building, and had noticed nothing wrong, He did not reue jor toe mgnt until nal past one o'clock, aud bad been asieep out avout an hour whea he Was awakened and acquainted | Of tue exXisience of the tire. He immediatety despatched haifa dozen of the employés all over | the house to arouse the sieepers With the resalt | above given, How tie dre originated was a mys- tery to lim, Dut he intended to wake a thorough investigativn, ‘ne buliaiag 18 Of brick, elgut stories in ght and built on a peculiar plan of hitecture. ‘tne stairways are | Very perrow ani especialy is the deiect noticeable in the exit passage wo tne | street, wnich woulu undvubtealy prove @ fata: trap O¥ereason O1 L's Steepuess as Wel & Crowd endeavor to lores its Way Into & t in case of fire, and it was exceedingiy iortunate that no alarm Was sounded yestercay morting Waen the Himes Were uiscovered, e1se & disasier @poailog perhaps as Lue recentone at St. Andrew's might have to be curontcied, Toe total loss to the luruiture and building does Not exceed $2,000, Which is covered by Insurance in the Wesicaester aud Royal London Companies, THE HiGH SCHOOL EXERCISES. The closing exercises of the New York Evening High School were held lest evening in Steinway Hall. Mr. Wiliam HH. Neilson, Chairman of toe Board of Education, presided, An im- mense audience was present and the usiers had consideraoe trouble trying to get seats for the ladies, The orators of the evening were Messrs, | Samuel Kuorie, James Hamilton, Stepien J. Henry, James Keonedy, U. W. Hidebrand and Francis J, Walsh. The speaking a8 @ rule was very good ava Mr. unedy’s oration on “The Manhood ot Bu elict.cd |ue Warmest applause, Toe prizes were giveu vy Mr. Joun K. Brady aad between the vralious some pretty selections Were played by asiring band. foe \ollowmyg gealiemen received aipiomas:— James A. Mehenua, Kovert 5. Stewart, kaward Rowan, Jowu Carey, Patrick FP. Gilaooly, Bawara 5 y, dacvd tivean, Juha J, Hopkins, Kemhoid Glock mana, ge &. L. Meoil, Kictard J, Coay, Theodure Meyer, Wiiiam M. U'Donogaue, Shepard A. tusnul, Warren M. Ruse. Jonn df » baw d. Sutpoia, Jotu B. Quering, Ulamore Alea, Cbaties J. O’Keeie, Henry Saylor, menry Stevert, | Franalim sete, A + Giockm@ann, “ever 0. 4. O'Uarrol, Alexauder Toruos, Bwerck Kiss, jerence H. Wovuncily, Francis J. Connory, James E. Biactey, Edward Olt, Meyer ve | Rotusehid, Joun Murpay, David Re Gray, Jouu Heary = Soortan, ‘Maurice D, Guiry, George RK. Senneider, James J. MoUioskey, Jacob Unmer, Coaries Kurz, George J. Kenuedy, Louis Ma?, Wi. H. Lutvima Sheridep, Joun Hienry Cullaway, James badier, David Haig, James J. B. Alexander Loewenstein, e Kedder, Joap C. I. ead- Maguire. Caaries ay Hoenl, Charies J. Conwell, Wiliam J. stewart, Richara P. MeCor- mick, George M. Datiey, Cuaries Bach, outs F, Herwig, Davis Glicnrist, Sauae: Kutme, Joseph Fe Marpuy, sigmond Feoch«wanger, David G. Gruck, dames F, Doyle, Mors UO. Ezekiel, Wilam Johnson, Tne avards were made by Messrs, A. J, Mathew: son, Taomas Boese ant Thomas Hunter, FATAL RAILROAD COLLISION. Among the dangerous places on the Pennsylva nia Railroad is the Bergen Cut at Jersey City, Great precautions are require’ against collision, and loss of ile bas irequentiy resulted jrom the accidents at tois place Yesterday morning a coili- sion Occurred neay West Ead wich resulted in the dean of one Man and in the serious dawage of severaicars. The Millstone ireght teain, whicn leit Jersey City at tweety-1wo minutes past three o'clock, fav iOLO @ ireight trai waren bad pre+ ceeaed it twenty minutes. Whea the latter tie main trick, While the engine Gacced on @ siding Ww et some avatiional cars. Io the meantime Che tlistoue treignt came out, and the enwiueer ot it Giscovered the other tray, OUt too fave to prevent the coilis He and 8 fireman suved teem selves by Jumping ‘row the engine. Charies Hac: ert, the lorward brakeman, remained at bis post aud was Killed, beg crusaeu between the Lender and the firsteai. jravel Was delayed tor several hours. The Coilisiou was the resait of coutusion in the signals, MITCHEL'S IN MiMJai AM. (From the London ‘Telegraph, March 26.) A great demonstration to tie memory of Jonn Mireuel, ‘ook place at innis, Irewud, on the Wt instant. f) priocipal feature was an open car- Tiage, Orawa vy sour horsts, coutatuimg a figure ofa Woman clad in deep mouruing, and embie- m aio} Brim wee The t » gutlus, with bangers atied aot draped im black, t pert im the p ocession, and tie trades’ vaad, payimg “Adesce fieles," with muillea arums, lohowea the lay figure. | 1 @ ators in U'Conued square. | covered three of the lodgers who, through some | )» remove them | The patients gave | their names us J. H. Mouce, aged 1octy-six years, | Great credit shoald be given to Foreman Frank | He stutea that | Audresses were delivered to thousands of spec: | 7 THE DE VERNON CASE. Beginning of the Inquest Yesterday. KEEPER POWERS AS A MODEL ATTENDANT. He Strikes the Man With a Bed Slat. At ten o’clock yesterday morning Coroner K: Jer began an inquest in the case of the Frenchman, Gustave de Vernon, who died at the Insane Asy- jum on Ward's Island on the 29th ult. The inquest was continued until about two o’clock, when it was adjourned tillone o'clock to-day. The first witness cailed was Uficer Micbael Collins, of the First precinet, who testified :~I remember arrest. ing @ man on the afternoon of the 23d of March; went on post at six o’ciock; while going to State street, opposite No. 6,1 meta man who was walking toward me; HE ACTED VERY STRANGELY; saluted me, shook bands, and addressed me in a language I did not understand; my roundsman and I thoaght he was insane; cannot tell whether he was drunk or insane; he said, “French Consul No, 43? took him to the Consui’s oMice, but it was closed; then toox him to the station house and got a walter irom Delmonico’s to act as inter. preter; the deceased said he was a doctor or an ofMicer in the French Navy, and sald he resided at No. 134 Wooster street; I arrested the man bee cause he acted so strangely; I was afraid he was | insane; the deceased’s wife made an aMidavit and the Judge committed him, A physician was called to the station huuse half an hour after the deceased man was arrested and pronounced bim uuaer the influence of liquor. Judge James T. Kilbreth being sworn said:—Ire- member the circumstance of a Frenchman being brought before me, on the 24tn of March ona charge of insanity; I now exhibit a commitment lor insanity granted on the application of some one representing herself to be the wife of the de- ceased, THE COMMITMENT. (Form 10.) Potice Covrt—Frasr District. State of New York, City and County %, New Fork, Cioul le Dore De Vernon, ot 4W duiv sworn, deposes and Vernon, now present, 15 nd: that for the last turee Weeks ‘said Gustave has been acting in a very unusually excited manner, talsing incoherently; deponent prays that said Gustave way be committed to the care of ihe Commissioners of Public Charities and | Correction for examination as to his sanity, OMINQUE! DE VERNON, Sworn to this 24th day of March, 1475, before me, C. T. Kinuneta, Police Justice. Judge Kilbreth (pointing to Mrs. De Vernon)— I THINK THAT IS THE LADY who claimed to ve the wife of the deceasea; the action oi De Vernon white in court was so violent that | bad his case called out of order; I was satise fied the man was not in a Condition to be aliowea to go ut large; it took two officers to remove him | from the court room, and before he was taken { . away HIS WIFE STOOPED DOWN AND KISSED HIM; I requested that his wite and the boarding nouse® | keeper be taken before tne Commissioners; I only committed the min to the care of the Commis. Slouers oF Charities and Correction for their ex: amination, Sergeant Wiltlam J, Linden, of the First pre. cinct, Was calied and testified as tollows:—I was | atthe desx when the man De Vernon wa to the station house; there was a cuarge cation made agutost him; tne officer wao broagnt bim in said he did not kaow whether the man was intuxicateu or was 1usane; @ bottle or liquor was ) Jound im one of his pockets; he couid talk a jitue Engusa, vot [ could not understand him, gv — Went to De monico’s and got a couple of Freach. men to act a8 Mterpreters; he tod tuem be was anemigrant, and that be had ariived bere two days beiore on the Canaca; | sent for nis w: ab |tumes he would act rational and then conduct himsel( in @ Very strange manner again; we had @ great deal of trouble in pijacipg him in a cell aiter We got him there and had leit him he wi Very noisy; suddenly the noiso ceased and I went to the cell to ascertain the cause of it, when I found HE HAD BANGED HIMSELF | with a handkerchiet id was already inecestiaes we cut him down and I sent tor an ambulance the purpose of having him removed to the hos- pital; when the amoulance arrived I toe parciculars ot we geon, woo examined and then said he i aud therejore he could not remove bim to Park Hospital; aites the doctor left De Vernon became more nowy than ever, so T piaced an officer in charge of hint; he caught the officer by the turoat and choked bin, 8 that he called for beip; at one time te Wrenched @ knob of an iron door and torew It at & window, Dr. David Bre: of No, 269 East Tenth si tesifled tuat ni 8 the Tombs physician, an that on the 24m o: March he found De Vernon strapped down In one of the cells at the Tomi he having beeu exceedingly violent; | examin the man, aud came to the conclusion that he wat insane, as dia Dr. Wright, oi (he Park Hospital; I thought the best place ior him was ON THE IsLAND; could not ascertain tue degree of insanity at the time, but believed it to be acute Munia; We pave about twenty such cases eacd month, and they are ail sent to the Island, James Finn, 4 keeper of the Tombs, followed Dr. Bickes to the Wituecs stand anda testified to the fact of De Vernon having been taken to the Tombs; that be was very violent; that it was found necessary to tie him down in his cell to prevent pim nurting almseil; that Dr. Brekes wae sent lor, and that (he wan was inaily removed to the Isiand in a wagon. Warden Richard M. Lush, of the City Asylum for the Insane, was called and testified: af Was on the alternoou of the 240 oO: March that De Vernon was brought to the asyinin; When be got in the large hall be Was sO Vivieut thas ail the peopie rusced to see What was up; I never saw such a violent mad as he Was; he was taken to the examinatiog room and placea under examination by Dr. Kier ban; | Gniocked One of [he HAnvecUns in LHe recep hon room, and noticed abi asion on ots arm, aiter his examination took Pp nile we were getting the “cud? of he tried to get huld ot a hammer, which was lying near, with tne evident intention 0: STRIKING SOMEBODY; the man making @ great noise chman to jovk out for tim; he Was paced in Ward Hy t neXt morning some one toid ine there had been a row in ward i dure Ing tee night; 1 did Dot need 1), paving to attend to other Mutters Just then; I aiterward ascer- tuiued that (he man had struck the Watcoman on the head with @ bed stat, cutting the scalp badly; the Mev Was removed trom ward H to ward ater nis remova: my atreation Was again call to him by the doctor, who pointed vut orawes on his (De Vernun’s) side, lee and shvuder; tne v S$ on the shoulder and leg were very parent, bemg biack and ole; teudant, Von Hannock, who 8 near by, and asked him What the bratses meant: | said co him: chs between you and the other attendants who had charge of this maw, aud | pro; to probe the matter co the bottom ;” Von Hannock denied having hit the man; Dr. Kiernan theu sad to me that one of the attendants named Powers haa tit the man with @ board; i sent 108 Powers, who came, and at first denied having hit the map, but finally acknowledged that be had nit him two or three times with a lath; I suspended Powers at once and then wens ino the cell Where De Vernon had been confined and where the scaMe between himself and the ate tendapts had occured; | never saw such de tion inga ceil in ail my fourteen months’ experience at toe dsyiam, Tae Man had broken the grating, pulled down two iron bars wad vent t grating at the top and bottom; t While he Was alone in the cell; there Was a doudig bottomed dvor on the & td he bad ripped of | One of the boards—torng that seemed impossiple. yes he did it; he tore THE STRAIGHT JACKET cailed th vr. games New York City Asyium for the Insane, & the condition ol tie deceased at the tim brought tothe mstitution, He sad he ex: his iungs aud thoagat he detected th bropemtm and pneawonts ae history of case AS OVE 1 AtleINpted suicide and therejore d iim placed in @ siranght jacket; | Weut inte ward H ot tae moraing of the 25th and found toe Man With # Severe cut over the right eye; Tt heurd he dad been struck With a stick ; on questiot jug De Verhon he appeared quite ration and told me a tail man had struck bim; I calie Vou Haunock, but De Veruon said he was not the man; I tuen called Powers, and when he came Qj De Vernon said, “*Phis 1s the man who has a Wit the 8 1k; Lexaminued the man’s wounds, and found a fracture o1 tue ieit scapula, Dut cowd hot detect way iracture of the ribs; thought I huviced te loss of puwer in the thie 18; the bruise On the shoulder Was aouull an inch and a hall long: there Were three or jour tha ormises, waled seemed to have veen made by beating; taere was aso) 6@ )6(fbraise =6om )6«6 the |= chest and =f cut over the eye, as bere stated {tele satisfied ‘irom the statement De Ve non tha: ne had been foully ovaten by P wers; suppose some violence must have veen Used 1 pul ing Ou astragnt jacket; | should suppose any one Kneeling vo a person's chi ia PUL. OO Astra Jackel Was great Violence; : Ure uf The rivs utitat be caused by sca FIO e; I noticed the patient hausied, so | orderea colorai and toe 28ch Ldet-cred unmistakable sigt | monia; on the morning of toe 2th 4 the nao aud vecame satisfied taere Was a fracture oi the secund and turd ribs. P