The New York Herald Newspaper, September 18, 1875, Page 11

“SMUGGLING. Its Extent and How It Is : Frustrated. SMUGGLING AT HOME AND ABROAD Devices, Tricks and Dangers of the Trade. Smuggling appears to have been practised asa fine art as far as the records of history go back. There seems to have always been a government which de- sired to add to its income by putting a tax upon articlos Smported into the dominions which it governed, and this tendency seems to have been always accompanied Dy @ strong desire on the part of somebody else to get these articles into the dominions without any regard to the feeling of the government or their imposition of the tax, and despite the severity of goveruments, de- spite their precautions, despite their penalties, smug- glers have always existed and been successful more or Jess as circumstances permitted, SMUGGLING NOT A SIN, And a curious feeling has reigned in the human mind regarding smuggling. By the average man and woman it bas never been looked upSn seriously as a crime, The most severo moralists have winked at smuggling as being justifiable under some circum- stances, Even to-day what friend cavils at passing through something for another friend, even though he knows it is lawless and punishable, and so the best of us think that the cigar which we aro informed by a friendly tobacconist has been smuggled always tastes ewootest, even though it may have been manufactured fn the Tenth ward of our own good city. Almost every one has read and enjoyed in youth the TALES OF SMUGGLING, of which Marryatt was so good a raconteur, the perils of the coast of Ireland, the watchful guard of the Yoyal ships and the terrible chances taken by those engaged in tho traffic. These days aro of course past, and the thing is now done in more civilized fashion. The regular smuggling boats have disappeared since the invention of steam, but on the other hand steam is put to the use of the smugglers, and that it is done effectively may be seen from the fact thata New York Custom House official lately estimated that during last year $30,000,000 worth of dutiable goods had been introduced to the United States without adding to tho revenue of the government. This, and several pub- lications on the subject, are cause of the increased sur- yeillance lately exercised and the severity with which scizures are treated by the Custom House authoritics here. It was recognized as a permissible indulgence up to within two years past that every one having afew dutiable articles in hisor her trunk ‘after a visit to Europe should not be molested. But the system grew to such proportions that the thing had to be stopped .by some means and a new eystem was originated, and the officers had orders where anything ‘was possibly liable to duty to make it pay. It was then noticed that Custom House officers were themselves not always angels of purity and were quite willing to collect the customs dues themselves; so THE DOUBLE SYSTEM was then put in force, one set of men being detailed on the incoming vessels to take declarations, while another did the visiting. This is probably as perfect a plan as can well be devised, and yet the higher officials are still convinced that it is not all it might be, and they certain- Jy never will be at that rate. In many respects the Custom House regulations of New York are equal to any others in force, even the French, which are supposa- Diy perfect. The same system of espionage exists here which made the French plan so much of a marvel to those who did not understand its workings—that is, on every ocean steamer and Havana packet there is some person in employ who is at the same time the devoted servant of the Custom House, In gome cases there aro two and three who do not know each other, The stewards are usually the ones who undertake the work aud do it best, as their opportunities are so much better than would be those of a sailor, for instance, It has been known that a subordinate officer has not hesitated to increase his pay by the same means. It is simply the duty of these people to closely watch the move- ments of passengers, to observe anything suspicious in heir movements, to overhear remarks meant for pri- vate ears only, to BE TAKEN INTO THEIR CONFIDENCE if possible, ‘These wiles may only be practised on tho amateur smuggler, who likes to tell the device vs oe he will outwit the customs men to every one, The pro- fessional smuggler will never let anything of the kind out; but then, on tho other hand, the rpy knows him, most probably, and he. can be ypotted, and will be searched until his hidden goods are found, {f already, however, he has not been too smart for them. When the steamer approaches land and tho customs officers board her communication with them js easy and the smuggler has his secret known. It often “auto the rural mind howitis that such singular « finds are made, when usually passengers are allowed to go after the merest cursory examination of their bag- gage. Some few weeks since, for instance, a large lot of cigars were found by the customs officers in a Havana steamer concealed beneath 500 tons of coal. There was no chance work about thie Why do the customs officers visit the ehoes, the coat linings, the kets, &c., of some people, while others they leave Jrvact? The reason has m suiliciently explained, and when they do resort to these extremities it is seldom but what they find that whfch they seck for, About @ year since some $35,000 worth of uncut diamonds were found on the person of @ passenger from Europe, and the seizure probably ruined him. And yet, nodoubt, it ‘was indiscretion that was the real cause of his mis- fortune, Had he kept his own counsel he would have Deen enabled to pass his diamonds unscathed, ‘THE INFORMERS In these cases are paid one-third of the value of the seizures thus made, and it may be well understood that ene little haul like the one mentioned would set a steward up in pocket for some time. diamonds, silks, satins, velvets and all man- ner of sind | are’the articles most commonly muggled from Euro) Immense quantities of laces are annually passed through without seizure. Tho writer knew of one case last year where two ladies, one a Dominican nun, succeeded in smuggling through some $10,000 worth of Irish laces, They were to bo sold for the benefit of a charitable institution down South, and this made the thing justifiable in their minds, the ir getting the benefit before the government. One of the ladies had fully $5,000 worth of these laces ina Dustie, and they served the Purpose exceedingly well. The method of smuggling from Havana has already Deen described in these columns within the past few weeks, but has been resorted to now for beg years— the throwing indiarubber sacks into the bay, they being picked 3 by small boats. Nor js this plan by any means broken up; and the smugglers have actually taken ‘the risk lately of going out in surf boats from Loug Branch to secure a few thousand cigars in these bags, A SINGULAR FRAUD, where tho biter was bit, has come to light of late in con- nection with the administration of the customs on the steamship wharves, It is well known that otlicers are on the watch from the time a vessel comes in until ehe out again. But of Jate there have been a number of xwindlers who have personated Custom House officers with much success, eir modus *operandi 1s to wear an imitation inspector's badge beneath their clothing, which they only show on aconvenient opporta- nity. ey lounge around the docks, watch unsuspect- ing passengers, and when they see a moment when no danger threatens they demand the surrender of the par- cel or baggage tho person carries. A rather amusing ‘nstance occurred lately to the Captain of a Karopean steamship, He had bought two silks in Europe for some lady friends, and a couple of days after his vessel bad arrived in port he put them under his arm and qui- etly walked off the wharf When some four blocks away he was accosted by a man who demanded the sur- render of the goods, at the same time showing his badge, The Captain did not hesitate # moment to give them up, only hop! he was not personally Lonny the stravger saying if there was anything wrong to call at the Custom House and would be surren- dered, Two days after the applied for, and the information was given that they knew of no auch ed It was a bold stroke to try it on a@ captain, jut with pas@engers new to the country it may be easily understood how successful it might be. The SOUND AND HELL GATR were always famous in ancient days, and in the ro- mances of Fenimore Cooper, for their stories of smug- gins and piracy, It is anticipated when the rocks of ell Gate shall have been blasted and European steamers may choose the inside passoge aa being more convenient that smuggling willbe facilitated and that the Custom House ollicials will have enormous difficul- tes in vas Boba | to it, the shores of Long Island, and, indeed, the mainland, offering such numerous nooks and crannies where the ing may successfully work and escape observation, But possibly by that time wo shail have reached the millennium of free trade and smuggling will have become one of the lost arts, Outside of New York the most popular and successful lace for smugglers is the neighborhood of jagara, It is particularly in spirits and liquors that this is the case, Thousands of barrels of English, Irish and Scotch spirits are annually passod across tue Niagara River in small boats, eluding Use vigilance of the officers, who are on the lookout at 2)! times and keep careful watch for these petty dealers in smuggling. Some are caught, but the many escape, the liquor in all cages being taken to Buffalo, ' Niagara has always been # favorite spot for GENTERL SMUGOLI who exercise {t for porsonal reasons only, also one of th tates, and th the moat Sollow the Detrott Is ‘oat smuggling spots of the United e8 of Detroit have the name of being accomplished smugglers The; calling almost from pleasure, and jt lends ® NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER daily and always possivie excitement to the usual monotony of a woman's Life. abroad Onexgiing is much more ofa trade than it is here or ever will be. Between France avd England in the days of the Empire and before free trade became @ fixed fact the profession of smuggling, as the statistics tiblished show, was followed by over 2,000 persons, These were known and how many were not known is an open question. Ali these succeeded in making a good living by PASSING TO AND FRO between the regular Channel ports, The living must have been prey good, ag the fares backward and for- ward where high and’ the dangers of no uncommon kind. In France smuggling was punished, and still is, by imprisonment in addition to confiscation. The writer knew of a husband and wife, named Dowling, who lived very handsomely in the Rue d’Augan, St. Honoré, Paris, on the profits they both made by smuggling English cloth goods to France. It lasted for several years, when at length the husband got caught, the wife committed suicide and the carver of both was ended. But bundreds of others were more fortunate and retired on a compet- ence. Diamond smuggling from Holland to France through Belgium is very common and almost impos- sible to stop, The frontier is 80 extended, with nothing but a ditch to separate the countries, that the prof sional smuggler necessarily succeeds, LACE SMUGGLING _ {s also one of the great industries’ among this interest- ing class of people, The proof of the dificulty that 1s met in stopping anything of this kind is shown in the circulation of Rochefort’s Lanterne when it was pub- lished in Belgium and copies were passed into France by the hundred in spite of the most strenuous efforts of all the Emperor’s horses and all hig men. In the same year a famous entry of laces was made, They were con- cealed in a wagon filled with vegetables and some of iste had actually been hollowed out aud the laces put in. Now that free trade is abolished and the duties have once more come into play smuggling has again attained ascendancy, and the French customs officials are com- plaining that it is more formidable than ever and that the utmost surveillance is necessary. Other European States @ copied the French method of customs; but it is doubtful if there be any system so perfect as our own, Certainly there is none which leads to so much detection. On the other hand, the French are more honest than ours, for it is State prison and hard labor for any of their customs oiticers to be caught accepting a bribe or compounding a crime, and the law is there rigidly carried out. Here we al know the weakness of the system in this respect and the apparent impossibility of making it otherwise. JACK CANTER. HE REITERATES HIS CHARGES OF, CORRUPTION IN SING SING PRISON—WHAT HE THINKS OF THE DENIALS OF HIS STORY, Paiwapernta, Sept. 14, 1875, It was to be expected as a matter of course that the statement of Jack Canter, ‘the accomplished convict,’” accusing certain ex-ofllcials of Sing Sing.Prison of the most disgraceful villany, should not pass unquestioned, Some of the implicated persons made haste, after the publication in the Hera, to attempt to dispose of the: whole matter by affecting to consider the charges un- worthy of consideration, because they emanated from a convicted felon, If the bad management and corrup- tion of Sing Sing Prison were not notorious, this policy on the part of the accused officials might set the matter at rest, but there is too much reason to fear that what he alleges is truo, In a second conversation with Cantera day or two -ago, ho reiterated his charges with increased earnest- ness and repeated that he is willing and anxious to prove all that he charges and more, by an examination of the forged vouchers in the Comptroller's office, by which, be claims, all the dishonesty: and corruption in the offices of the Agent and Warden. of Sing Sing Prison can be easily shown. Concerning the denials of Nelson and Childs, as published in the Heraup, Canter said :— NELSON'S DENIAL, ‘The Hon. Henry ©. Nelson, late Agent and Warden fo that bar sinister in the escutcheon of the State, the Sing Sing Prison, as the report of the Whig Commission of 1864 not inaptly terms it, on Weing interviewed by a HeRaup reporter, says concerning the charges against bim:— “I have read them in the Herap with surprise, but emanating from the source they do, they are scarce worthy the trouble of refuting. I would state, how- ever, that when Canter speaks of his failing health, through excessive work in the office in September, 1869, that that was the time when he was discovered substi- tuting fictitious commitments reducing the sentences of convicts.” So, in answer to the reporter's query he has simply nothing to say. Mark, he admits that September, 1869, was the date of the discovery of men being illegully dis- charged from prison, and in reply to the reporter’s next question he mentions the date of his taking charge of the prison as January 26, 1869, eight months before, Yet he asserts that men were almost daily being surrep- titiously set free, for the space of eight months, and it took the Warden of the prison that space of time to muke the discovery! This is too absurd for fiction, When it is recollected that he had served one year in the Legislature, it may readily be conceived that he was ‘“‘up to”? all kinds of jobs, THE FORGED VOUCHERS. As to the charge that vouchers were forged during his term, he says:—‘My answer to that is that upon taking chargo of the prison, January 26, 1869, tho moneys drawn from the Comptroller for said month were all expended by D. P. Forrest, my predecessor, gave the moneys due the officers on the last day of the month,” This rhodomontade is no answer at all to the charge. It has no more bearing on it than his ‘“‘answer’’ to the other charge, The Hon. Henry is evidently becoming somewhat confused, As tathe charge of his ‘making a profit of $5 per Darrel out of a flour speculation he says:— “A most ridiculous charge, and one not worth noticing, Ce page when it is recollected that $8 25 ‘was the highest price ever paid for flour at the prison.”” With the Hon. Warden the charges, all and are ‘‘not worth noticing,” “emanating from tl they do,” and still, with his glaringly apparent confu- sion, he essays a reply, however, foreign to the subject. It was a custom for years to purchase @ very cheap, worthless article of flour, ft only for manufacturing purposes, such as making paste, &c., for $3 per bar- rel, to mix it with $5 and sometimes $8 flour, Forrest well understood this manipulation, Some time before leaving he was very assiduous in scouring the market for flour to suit, purchased very largely, and 80 overloaded tho loft of the storehouse-with flour that ops had to be erected to prevent the falling of th Foor. Every available space sufficient for a barrel he filled up before he left, What could have instigated Forrest in taking this extra labor of purchasing sub- sistence for the prison for so long a time beyond his term? Nelson says, “When I took charge January 26, 1869, there were supplies in the storehouse, in- cluding flour, to last for nearly three months.’’ The simple answer 18, there was money in it About May 1 Forrest’s flour must been consumed, evi- dently, from Nelson’s statement, and for the reason that there was this extra supply on hand when he took cb does the ex-Warden intend to say that there was no further need of his making purchases? It is evidently so implied, if not expressed, So, to the charge of speculation in flour, he argues that the thing was not feasible, simply because there was a stock on hand for three months, Pray, could this militate against such ulation for the after time, when flour had to be purchased by him? No. Nelson saw the overburdened supplies Forrest had the kin noss to furnish for him before leaving, and knew t interested motive which prompted the act, and in due time he followed his leader, . CHILDS?’ LOGTO, Casper ©, Childs, Jr., ex-clerk of the Sing Sing Prison, testifies to a Heratp reporter that he has known me five or six years in prison, and that he considers me. “partially insane or flighty.” And yet, on the 10th day of gine. last past, he leaves his sanctum, the io ison office at Sing Sing, accom- panied by a lawyer friend, Mr. Dewitt, whom he brings to this Penitentiary to seeme; the lawyer brings with him a pardon, bearing date as passing Secretary of State’s aa Stay 2%, 1875, @ restoration to citizen- reads, oe ani ‘He’ (the partially insane or flighty prisoner) | .“being represent unto us as worthy of being restored to the of ao citizen, we have pardoned, &c., The object with Chi was to enable me (an insane prisoner as Childs describes me, to execute an afll- davit that | committed a forgery of a promissory note for $5,000 in the name wf John J. Cole, of Kingston, Ulster county, N. Y. My affidavit was to be used ina lawsuit which came to trial some weeks since, and on production of my affidavit defendant moved postpone- meer, Cole nh Nd, by all Mr, C1 ©. r, Cole shoul all means, summon Mr, Casper ©. Childs, Jr., to appear on trial of the cause and testify to the insanity of the maker of that affidavit. It appears that ex-Inapector Fordyce Laflin has much interest at tal in this suit, and sent Childs and Dewitt to obtain my affidavit, THE TRAMPS, SET THEM TO WORK, Tho Harrisburg (Pa.) Patriot says:— A new law has been put in force in the State of New Pe agplae entitled ‘An Act to Suppress Vagrancy,” which appears to be efficacious in abating the tramp nuisance, Its first section provides that it Cod person shall be a public vagrant, beggar or tramp, of which fact an act of begging or vagrancy si be evidence, he upon complaint before a justice of the peace or police court, be sentenced to hard ir upon any county or town farm, or in any house of cor- rection or common jail, not exceeding six months. The second section authorizes overseers of the poor or county commissioners, in cases where suit- able labor cannot be found at the se to which such person has been senten to bind him to hard labor at any other place or in service of any by him selected fora term not exceeding his original sen- and as @ substitute therefore, and compel tho porlotmance of such iabor.” Bection 3 rovidos thes f any person, being away from his home, shal Wo the proper authorities soiting orth that Le is i ous of returning home, but is poor and has not the means w do #0, said authorities eball bind such person to some suitable labor at a just compensation until he shall have earned a sufficient sum, when, with the money so earned, and such additions thereto from the treasury of the town or county as they may think reasonable, they shall cause such person to be returned to his home, ‘This law permits the iniliction of a much greater punish- ment than the law of Pennsylvania, which limits the ‘confinement in the workhouse or jail to one month, and makes no provision for farming out vagrant labor’ like that contemplated by the New Hampshire statute, The provision of the third section, compelling tramps to earn enough money to conve them where they properly belong, is also a novelty. The vagrant law of this State has fallen into desuetude through public complaisance and the neglect of peace officers charged with its enforcement. It is the duty of constables to arrest vagrants, and they are punishable by fine for a failure to do so.’ So also’ jus- tices must commit offenders on the oath of one or more credible witnesses, It would perhaps be a wise addi tion to the discretion of the committing magistrates or city authorities to permit punishments by compul- sory labor upon the public highways in lieu of imprison- ment in such seasons of the year as work of that kind is practicable, WORCESTERSHIRE SAUOS AND NAPKINS, Such tramps as this one described by the Boston Bulletin are to be found only in the vicinity of classic Boston :—He was travel stained and weary, and his eyes had a far-of, wistful look, as though he knew that rest was not for him bélow, let his tired heart crave never so much, And, as he humbly asked the lady of the house for a morsel of food, his venerable appearance and evi- dent want aroused all her womanly generosity, and she presently set the poor tramp down to the remains of the family dinner, “Poor old man,’ she murmured sympathetically, as she saw him lean back in his ehair, leaving his food un- touched on his plate, “he is too weary to eat,” and she asked him if he felt ill. “Not exactly, mum,” was the answer, in an humble voice, “but mos’ people cooks their roast beef till it's overdone, and overdone beet don’t gen’ally agree with me. “"Y? haven’t got any Wooster sauce, have ye ?”’ con- tinued the mendicant; “I mos? gen’ally use it when the beef ain’t cooked to suit me.”” Unfortunately, the house of McCormick was out of “Wooster sauce,” but Mrs, McCormick brought the mustard and a plate of nice pickles, observing, with the faintest trace of m in her tone, that ifshe had known that he was coming she’d have looked out for something better, “Oh, Lain’t very pertickler, mum,” said the old man as he helped himself to another spoonful of gravy and a cticumber pickle, “on’y jes’ happ’n’d to mention it, cos where there ain’t no pie nor nothin’ sweet for de- sarte, overdone roast beef’s more like to disagree with me,”’ and the meekness in the vagrant’s face was toucb- ing in the extremo as he looked humbly around tho table, as though his former glance might have over- looked the luxuries of which he spoke, But Mrs. McC. was rather too far gone with speechless indignation to frame a suitable answer, and so the weary old man, with a mournful sigh, went on eating, and de- veloped a most singular and wonderful appetite, which was gradually appeased as the four pound piece’ of beef was reduced to a mere shapeless fragment, and the last boiled potato had vanished from the dish, “[ hope you've madé a dinner,” ejaculated Mre. McCormick, in a fine irony. “Wall, yes'm; D've eat wuss vittals,” said tho old mendicant, with deep humility, as he pushed his chair back from the table and appeared to seek something on the floor. r “What is it you’re looking for?” demanded Mrs, MeCormick, with a snap in her voice that reminded one of the slamming down of the lid of a chest. “Nothin’, mum—that is, nothin” pertickler; I didn’t see no napkin and thought I might a dropped {t—— But he never finished his speech, and five seconds later his white locks vanished through the doorway with amazing celerity, and an infuriated female with a mop followed so closely behind that he got fully halfa mile from the house before pursuit ceased and he was able to light his cigar. WASTED SYMPATHY. CHARLES DICKENS’ VISIT TO CHERRY HILL PRISON—HOW HIS HEART BLED FOR AN OLD REPROBATE—AN EXTRACT FROM THE “‘AMERI- CAN NOTES”—ROMANCEH AND REALITY—AN OLD OFFENDER'S HISTORY. Paitavevrnta, Sept. 16, 1875. When Charles Dickens visited this country thirty-three years ago ho saw Cherry Hill Prison, the Eastern Peni- tentiary in this city. Although it is one of the best conducted penal institutions in this country, and a model in every respect for good and careful managenient, it is regarded with almost superstitious horror by the public generally, by reason of ex- aggerated descriptions of the terrors of tho solitary confinement system on which the prison is conducted. This false impression regarding the Penitentiary has no doubt been largely influenced by’Mr. Dickens’ ac- count of the institution. It was published in his “American Notes,” which has had, of course, a wide cir- culation in this country, where the great novelist is so universally read, ‘THE OTHER SIDE, The affecting picture which Mr, .Dickens draws of tho German prisoner (vol. 1i., -p. 24, ‘American Notes”)—this “picture of forlorn affliction and distress of mind’—for whom the great author's heart bled, has another side, This poor prisoner is still alive. His name is Charles Langheimer. He is an illiterate German, whose most remarkablo personal characteristic, except his kleptomanta—which is of a chronio and incurable form— is that valuable accomplishment for which Mr, Job ‘Trotter and Brother Shearman are equally famous—tho ability to shed tears upon the slightest provocation. He is now seventy-five years of age, a stout, hearty old man, with long white locks and an aspect as kindly as a philanthropist. During this long life, however, his sole ‘object has been petty theft, It is probable that more than one half of this veteran offender's life has been passed within the walls of a prison, and it is apropos of his conviction again on ‘Thursday last to one year’s imprisonment in bis old home at Cherry Hill for stealing $6 from a till, that this hoary-headed sinner becomes of interest, and I have thought the readers of the Henatp might be interested in knowing how the great writer had thrown away his sympathy on the man whom he has immortal- ized with his matchless pen. THE POOR PRISONER’S HISTORY. This man Langheimer has served no less than five terms in Cherry Hill Prison alone, and is now entering upon his sixth. Beside this he has been imprisoned in Baltimore, Sing Sing, in Moyamensing Prison in this city and in other institutious also, probably, in other plac Says Mr. Vaux, President of the Board of Inspectors of the Rastern Penitentiar; ‘This German prisoner, whom Mr. Dickens saw, ‘this picture of forlorn afflic- tion and distress of mind,’ this ‘dejected, heart broken, wretched creature,’ was sentenced to this Penitentiary for the first time May 15, 1840, for five years; in June 28, 1852, he was sent here again for one year; February 24, 1855, he was a third time con- victed here for two years; April 4, 1861, he came to this prison again for one year; on the 12th of March, 1872, he was returned again to Cherry Hill for two years. Thus, this picture of forlorn affliction and distress of mind is now a living, hale, hearty men of seventy-five years of age, having served out nine years of imprisonment, under five different sentences, in this Penitentiary, with all its horrors and cruelty such as no man has a@ right to inflict on his fellow man, whilo the author of the ‘American Notes,’ notwithstanding his associations and journeyings and his life in the midst of pleasures and friends, sleeps with ‘David Cop- perfield,? Mr. Vaux, who !s an earnest advocate of the solitary system as being the most efficient and reformatory without being unnecessarily cruel, speaking of Dickens’ criticism, say! “Mr. Dickens visited at his own special request tho Eastern Penitentiary. He remarked, when asking for fan opportunity: to examme the ‘institution, that the Falls of Niagara and your Penitentiary aro = two eit. I might almost say 1 most wish @ seo in America, His visit was thor: He saw everything in the Penitentiary and all prisoners that he chose to visit. When about to leave he remarked to Mr. Bevan, the President of tho Board, that he never before saw a public insti- tution in which the relation of father and fam- lly were so well exemplified as in this. Not one word of criticism or objection was then or there made, He did not even express a doubt of the success of sep- arate confinement as @ system of prison discipline. How could he, for he never understood it? On his re- turn to England his notes were published, from which the extract given above is taken, Mr. Dick ens’ recollections of his early life, and tho impression then made on him ks 4 ite as. sociations and the terrible privations he suffered ag a boy, gave, perhaps beyond his ‘og of detection, the coloring to his description of the Penitentiary, His delineation of character is marked by the stroug contrasts which he paints in his fictions, and, there- fore, his account of his visit to the solitary prison may be presumed to be exaggerated or untrustworthy, This case of the German prisoner justifies this remark.” So much for crude and emotional criticism on an in- stitution in which punishment is considered with the care, deliberation and thoughtfulness devoted to any other scientific question, SHERIDAN’S RIDE. A Portland (Oregon) paper says:— Yesterday (Sunday) in company with his wifo, brother and brother's wife, General Sheridan started in @ two-horse vehicle for Vancouver, Mr. Leo Knott driving. When within about a mile of the ferry land- ing, on this side of tne Columbia, the springs of the wagot to bearing up #0 much greatness, all gave way and Laos ob bed sank down on the axles, and the eral ferry, wh the driver returned to this city for another vehicle, The driver reached this city last evening o1 horseback (having taken one of the horses out of the team) about three 0’ and, securing @ new con- veyance, started back for Vancouver, General Sheri- dan and party returned to Portiand about six o'clock last might, covered with mud and looking quite de- moralizeds 18, 1875 THE COAL QUESTION. THE DEALERS PUTTING UP THE PRICES—THE BURDEN TO FALL UPON THE POOR—THE PROS- PECTS OF THE WINTER—THE STATISTICS OF COAL PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION. A curt line in a statistical article informs us that “the advance in coal for September is fifteen certs ton higher than in August.” This is. not much, truly, but it shows the tendency toward an advance in price, and a disposition to feel the market by observing if this rise, so early in the season, will be patiently submitted to by retail buyers, or if sales will fall of Ifan advance of fifteen cents per ton in September is quictly accepted what will the price be by thé Ist of November? In the course of a conversation with an agent of one of the great lines bringing coal to the vicinity of New York, he stated that there would, doubtless, bea further rise in price during the autumn, but he did not think it would be considerable in amount, nor did he anticipate that it would be supplemented by another adva in winter, He was disposed to attribute the cause to a real or fancied increase in the cost of its transportation, Exactly why the rates of COAL PREIGHTAGE should be raised, when the rush of the summer business ceases and the business of the companies is lessened, he could not explain satisfactorily to the writer, and it certainly does not seem an easy subject to explain, To a@common mortal it would appear that in a decline of traffic the"Fallway companies would be glad to conclude contracts on reduced terms with customers furnishing such steady freights. This ig only one of the exasper- ating mysteries met with in the search for information on this point There is no stock of coal in the East, according to the agent. During the strike little was sent there, a tolerable supply being on hand and our sharp Eastern friends not being disposed to submit to an ad- vanced price so long as the supply on hand, purchased at a cheaper rate, lasted. The consequence is that there is very little coal there, and no large stock above the running expenditure is being carried, They seem resolved there to get along with as little as they can this winter, but the quantity they do and must use is enormous, and enough of itself to keep the price up here, as, owing to the lack of a stock on hand, with them thee will be no cessation of the demand. They use the-best coal, too, ery little poor coal goes East, and, of course, every year increases the amount sent there. The Wilkesbarre Company has completed a new coal wharf at Providence, and that port now re- ceives, uses and distributes an enormous tonnage, There was a five months’ suspension of trade this year, owing to the strike, yet it did not materially affect the price of coal, and the wonderful-productive and carry- ing capacity of the anthracite trade is shown by the fact that the decreased production is less than 750,000 tons, There is surely no fear of @ coal famine, nor even of a reduced supply, judging from these figures, and as to the alleged prospective advance in the price of freights, that would seem to be a very unsubstantial basis on which to found a rise in price and a threat- ened further advance, THE ADVANCE IN PRICE. The great mining companies have offices in this city, but their retail trade is conducted through firms that make that a specialty. A further advance in the price of coal before the beginning of wiuter is looked: upon as certain by the retailers, and that it will hold at the ad- vanved price and make no greater rise. Tho unanimity on this point among the.dealgps is certainly somewhat remarkable, and to a suspicious mind would appear to savor of a mutual understanding. It seems that fewer |. people have been filling their cellars with a winter's supply of coal than for many years past, They either do not have the money to spare or they hope for a ro- duction in price—presumably the former, Many yet have an idea that their past consumption of coal has been needlessly great, and that by strictly watching its daily use on the part of employésand servants ‘an ap- preciable economy may be effected, The experiment they deem worth trying, at all events, as they have an idea that the very presence {n a cellar of a large amount of coal induces carelessness in its use, ‘Truly the eye of the master effects‘ wondrous saving sometimes, THE POOR TO BEAR THE BURDEN. It is upon the poor that tho burden falls first, last and heaviest, They pay at the rate of $15 per ton for coal inferior to that for which those more fortunately circumstanced pay $6, They must buy a mere pittance at the time, The broken or ill-fitting windows and doors, the gaping weather boarding and the poorly con- structed chimney rob them of half the warmth ex- tracted from the precious substance, The sales by the bucket or basket are enormous in a winter's aggregate, One firm here often sells 200 tons in the course of a day to licensed venders, who hawk the coal through the poorer neighborhoods, The business is not an inviting one on a freezing day, like some of those encountered last winter, but the percentage, of profit is immense. “These men,” said a dealer with a chuckle, “are better customers than the residents of Fifth avenue, for they put down the cash before a lump ‘of tho coal goes into their carts,? Soma, of these peripatetic sellers, like their more pretehtious brethren who have offices and yards for the storage of their stock im trade, may make bad debts and come to grief by overtrading caused by an excess of ambition; but the more reasonable supposition is that they insist upon the cash system in general and ed no books, thus avoiding that fatal looseness of af- fairs, STOVES. The poor are sadly weighted, too, in another particu- lar, their stoves or grates being the poorest and least economical known, Not to allude to the wealthy class, those in moderate circumstances have not only the ad vantages of doors and windows, either doubled or at the least provided-with weather strips of rubber, but their heating apparatus, apart from that merely used for cal-” inary purposes, embraces every invention devised by science. In those houses not provided with hot air fur- naces base burning stoves supply their places, and are often preferred. With the poor the same fire that cooks their scanty ments of food must serve to warm, as well as it can, the wretohed apartment where they live, A stove, ran, or grate of the simplest | and rudest construction wastes their scanty and dearly bought fuel and gives to the outer air the warmth so much needed within. In the night the fetble blaze dies out, and in the morning it is remade, a wasteful process at the best. 1t is safe to say that with ‘the same amount of coal they do not obtain one-sixth of the warmth gained by the fortunate owners of im- proved apparatus and westher-tight houses, and yet they pay nearly thrice the money for their coal that the Jatter class do. A search among the stove shops Jeads to the conclusion that a cheap and economical stove has yet to be made that will serve both for heat- ing and culinary purposes, For the wealthy there are gigantic ranges and baseburners, black lead and nickel plage, and cunningly provided with such systems of regulaling the admission of air and the combustion of fuel th it hardly needs the glib explanation of the polite attendant to convince you of their usefulness as well as beauty; but the Cheap stoves are simply jron boxes to hold fire. It may be mentioned inci- dentally that the conservative Englishman is adopting our stove, and that even Japan is sending to Albany for the superior articles produce’ there, Those stove deal- resplendent with | | TRIPLE SHEET. : very mildest of winters is m sorry time for them—a season whose days are (0 be counied and a prayer of thanksgiving recorded as each is stricken from the roll and the welcome spring is assuredly so much nearer. The joys of winter are for the rich alone; for to the wretched thousands in this city warmth is not only comfort but life, As regards figures, the census of 1870 contains much the most accurate account that we have ever had of the production of coal in this country, and furnishes the basis for an approximate estimate of the product in 1873. The quanuty of coal mined in Fastern Pennsylvania is accurately reported. By adding to this the amounts transported on the railways and rivers in the western part of the State it appears number of tous mined in Pennsylvania in 44,523,560, The total production of coal in the tates for the same year was 60,612,000, As @ ‘ison of the amount mined in foreign countries in ‘3 auily be interesting we insert the foliowing table:— Square Miles of ‘Fons Mined Coal Fields, in 1873, 192,000 50,512,000 11,900 127,016,747 1,800 45,835,741 2)086 17,500,000 900 —-17,000,000 1,800 80,000 3,501 18,000 2,004 Total, ercccees 278, 704,055 The computation of the consumption of coal at New York and vicinity (say within a radius of ten miles) is a most difficult matter, There has been no statement published on which to base any calculations, and there 18 no record kept, ag in other cities, to show conclu- tively the annual tonnage. It appears that during the year 1874 there were brought to the various points of receipt and shipment of anthracite coal in this vicinity the following amounis:— Tons, Delaware and Hudson Canal, to Rondout...... 1,438,547 Pennsylvania Coal Company, to Newburg and Weehawken, ......ssscassroorssceucesoosee 2,256,188 Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Company, to Hoboken, + 1,085,590 New Jersey Cenirai, " + 758, 284 New Jersey Central, to Port Jolinsou. .evcecs 1,400,272 Morris Caial, to Jersey City «= '150,000 Delaware and Raritan Canal..... vee "850; To Trenton and South Amboy + 888,415 Making a total of anthracite of,.... ++ 7,127,866 A proportion of the above is afterward shipped to various points, east, north, south and west (via Ene Canal); but a fair estimate of the amount that is used within a radius of tea miles around New York would be as follows;— Tons. Say one-third of Delaware and Hudson, or.... 450,000 Say one-half of Pennsylvania Coal Company, or, tteeesene seer eeeee 550,000 Say one-third of Hoboken shipmenis, or. 360,000 Say one-half of Trenton and Amboy ship- TORO Os oss ics oSeese ea picks Tsseess 440,000 Say two-thirds of Delaware and Raritan Canal, or... ntttee tens eereseeeees + 160,000 Say two-thirds of Morris Canal, or...... 100,000, Say one-fourth of Elizabethport and Port John: Son, or, «560,000 Making a total of anthracite of.........+++. 2,610,000 ‘The Reading Railroad Company keep an account of the destination of their shipments by States, Their statement for 1874 shows that 458,917 tons were con- signed to New York and New Jersey (part of this was through the Delaware and Raritan Canal), but it is im- poesible to state accurately whether this was delivered in this vicinity. The amount of bituminous coal used for gas and steam may safely be put at 750,000 tons, and includes provineial and English (this amounted to 87,708 tous, by the Custom House records for 1874), Cumberland, Broad Top, Cleartield, &e., &¢. The fact that both London, England, and Philadel- phia apparently receive an average of two tons annu- ally to each inhabitant would tend to prove the ap- proximate correctness of the above. < In the retail business at present there {s a fair trade doing in anthracite coal. and dealers say that the de- mand takes -off the supply to a very satisfactory per- centage, Stocks, however, are not 80 heavy as at the current period a year or even two years ‘ago. The market is deprived of the speculative tendencies of former y the supply*being regulated more nearly in accordance with the demand, and there is not so much heard of cargoes being sold at rates less than cost of transportation, ‘There is an idea general in the trade that the large increase in the outport of bituminous coals Indicates that this quality of coal is destined to become the steam raising fuel of the country, while the popular anthracite will be used for domestic purposes principally, for which its cleanly nature befits it, JEFF DAVIS ON AMERICANS, Jeff Davis, tn opening his address at Callaway, ainid cheers :— I would that it were possible for me to say to you anything as acceptable to you as that once familar shout I heard this morning was to me—that ring of the | American voice which, of whatever section, of whatever | political party it is, is enough to strike terror into the heart of anybody except an American. For yours is the glory to bea people who haye run over those that others | | could not conquer. You marched, a littl band, to the | eaid, city of Mexico, and not all the power of the great mili- tary government of France could reach that city trium- phant. Thus it was that you carried on with each other | | @ struggle which, when’ foreign nations came to an | | equal conflict, lasted for mouths, while yours endured | for years. Understand me, then; I speak to youas | Americans, I lift myself out of whatever there is of | sectional or party prejudice, aud hail you all as brethren. § a SR EE Se 1-282, HANDSOME SUITES AND ONE ‘SIN « Room, with Board, for gentiemen and wives or gentlemen} brown stoné house, with modern improvements; pleasant home. References, No. 138 Eust Nineteeuth street, near Irving place, HANDSOME FURNISH ROOM, FIRE AND GAS, ood Bourd, for gentlemen and wife, $15; gentlemen $6, 261 Went Twelfth strect, near Kighth avenus. il BOARDERS WANTED: 45 WEST RuRvENtiT STREET.—AaNDsOMr ‘e) furnished ee ee and their wiv single gentlemen, with ; day boarders talon. 57 WEST THIRTY-NINTH STREET.—DESIRARLT: OF Rooms, en suite or sopeestels, with private tale i desired, References exchan, 5Q WEST, ELEVENTH STREET, A FEW DOORS OO cast of Fifth avenue,—Desirable furnished Roons, with Bow + family or gentlemen; house aud location first class hall Bedroom. 75 EAST TENTH STREET, CORNER FOURTH AVE- J nue.—Large Rooms for Tamilies, with good Board ; also smuller Rooms for oue or two at reasonable Fates; tabic Board. MADISON AVE 8 five rooms: newly painted first class private 14] PES? PORTYFOURTH STREET, BETWREN Broadway and Sixth avenue.—A desirable Suit of Rooms, private bath, closet, de. ; location, hpuse, table and iments frst class Highest references givea aud re- app quired. A] EAST TWENTY.SEV: 151 with Board, large, elegant alcove Roo: ferences, or single gentlemen 152 EASt_TWENTIErd sTREEr, OL Park.—Large front Room, good man‘and wit; reasonable terms; one or two; table Board, 167 WEST THIRTY-FOURTH STREET.—DESIRABL hall ¥ or E.—ELEGANT 5) also connecting Roon d fitted, en suite or sing); table, ‘References, with vf without TH STREET.—T0_ LI handsomely furnished, Rooms, iso buek Parlor, suitable for families front Rooms, on second and third floors, w i Room, with closets, bot and cold water; references ex. changed. Ad EAST SEVENTEENTH STREET (STUY VE: Park).—Nicely furnished Rooms, ntlemen and wives or small family; terms moderate for permauen EAST THIRTY.NIN references. 21D) News ena Geek woe tate ta Without Board; also table boarders, in a pri family. 23: WEST TWENTY-THIRD STREET. NIs Rooms to let, to gentlemen only; hos aud cold water, bath, &c. ; breaktust if desired. 275 MADISON AVENUE.—TO LET, WITH BOAR ®) two Floors of six rooms euch, together or sep Fately; honse newly and elogantly fitted np; private sable it desired; also pleasant rooms for gentlemen. 306 WEST THIRTY FIRS? sTREE: DSOME- iB b Figpogye gingle and double om let, with ood Board, to yentlemen or gentl heir wives; See see aud their wives 47 WEST TWENTY-THIRD STREET.—A SUIT OF three Rooms on first floor, also an entire Seeond Floor of five rooms und two single Rooms, for gentlemen, with or without Board DJOINING GRAND HOTEL.—SUPERIOR ACCOM. modations, with or without private table, References exchanged, No, 36 West Thirty-tirst street, LARGE ROOM IN A PRIVATE HO! 41. rented, with or without Board; bas fir ‘and is suitable for two. No, 30 Seventh street. N TLY FURNISHED bor © people; WILL BE , wardrobe G PARLOR FLOOR er separately or en suite; also others, handsomely furnished, single or en suite, with or without Board; table first class} location eptionable. No. 145 Eust Twenty first street, opposite Gramercy OARD BILLS, WASH BILLS AND PRINTING le for hotels and boarding ex from the METROPOLT No. 218 Broadway. N PRIATING OARD—105 WEST TWENTY-SECOND nicely furnished Rooms, with Board for lady. STR NENTLEMEN OR FAMILIES, TRANSI X manent, desiring pleasant Rooms or Board, moderate prices, urepean plan, Union’ Hotel, Fourth avenue and Forty-first at Grand streat. WO NICELY FURNISHED ROOMS TX or withont Board, to gentlemen or wives, 158 West Twenty-first street, UE T—WITIL with privat central, near Fifth aven Apply at 19 BOARD AN LADY OF F AA. desires a Room, ily; price not to exeded $2 required. Address G., box LADY DI could be given as part parment; use of p required, Address MUSIC TEACHER, 5 third street. Boawews BY, A YOUNG GENTLEMAN, IN A nh family. Address, stating terms, Fost off Pp AIN MECHAN- stating terms snd location, M. C,, Herald Uyiown Branck office. wastes A PAR lor and Bed » vate fom fly. above Thirty-fourth street and ‘between Broadway and fadison avenue. Address, stating tcrms aud location, Le, 192 Herald Uptown Branch’ office, Boarding house k need not answer this advertisoment. 4 andcold water, Thirtieth and Fr re 5 fe ANTED—BOARD AND ROOM ID W STRICTLY rivato family; French family prefe Address WILLTAMS. box 5,408 New York Post ullice. WANTED HOARD, three children; three or fo between Fourth and Sixth avenues enth and fi yterms must be moderate, “Address A. If., box trects New York. D—BY A LADY, BEDROOM, W rt A SMALL [ST HOUSE, STUYVESANT PARK, 219 EAST F1P- teenth street.—Handsomely furnished Rooms, on second floor, with first class Table and att boarders; very desirable, fine neig $1 5 TO $2 PER DAY, $6 TO $12 PER WEEK’ — Fine Rooms, with excellent table, for families andsingle. 174, 176 and 178 Bleecker street, near Broud- way. Croquet ground. BLOCKS FROM FIFTH AVENUE HOTEL, 129 EAST | ‘Twenty-third — stree Large, handsomely furnished Rooms with Board, en suite or singly; house and table first class. dance, for a few select | orho , fucing on the ‘street, with Bos be moderate. Address, with particulars, Herald Uptown Branch’ office, WARTED-ONE LARGE ROOM, OF WITH TALL, Bedroom, connecting, on second or third floor, front, with closets, hot and cold water, gas and beat, with good Board in family where there are not too many boarders; must be in good location and terms moderate; referenves ex- changed. Address W., box 146 Heruid office. BROOKLYN BOARD. _ 42 WOODHULL STREET, BROOKL Rooms to let, with or without Board. 7 wit from near 9 HANDSOMELY (FURNISHED PARLORS, Board, for two, at a week; also other Rooms, $ upward good 929 East Fourteenth str Second avenue, WEST THIRTIETH STREET.—A SUIT OF ELB- Faatly furnished Rooms to let, with Board; house newly furnished this spring and all appointments first class. TH AVENUE, NO. 295.—ELEGANTLY FURNISHED © Suit of Apartments—parior floor, with dining roonr and | bedrooms; bath and all convertiences, with private table | only. Reference required and given. $ §, NEW MATTRESSE 50e., $150, $2 50 per woek, centlen Kfurt Hou! Open —250 ROOM and familia. Fi all night, iiliam street. STOR PLACE HOTEL, 25 AND 27 THIRD AVE nue,—125 Rooms, newly furnished; cheapest and best Joeated house in the city; Sc. to $2 daily; weekly, $2 to 86. Always open. SUIT OF ROOMS FRONTING ON BROADWAY to let, at the Hoyt House, 739 Broadway; Louse newly Tenovated and refurnished; prices mo TH AVENUE.—A HANDSOME SUIT OF ROOMS TO rent, with or without private table; also @ Room on the | fourth floor at No. 1 East Seventeenth street. | RTH AVENUE, 351, NEAR THIRTY-FOURTH O street.—Handsomely furnished Floors, or en suite, with or without private table; desirable Rooms to gentlemen, | with or without Board ; terms moderate ; smatl family. TH AVENUE, NO. 206, OPPOSITE MADISON ers who put up, adjust and repair stoves as well as sell | om re their business during | them report @ great increase in their business d 3 | tween Seventh end Eighth avenues, the past week. The two or three days’ cold weather which we bad brought home many families, and the first desideratum is for the certainty of warmth when required? The heater is, therefore, to be put in position ready for the winter's campaign, anda small army of artisans, who have been unemployed during tne sum- mer months, have gladly resumed their employment. EXPECTING A SEVERE WINTER, To resume the question as to the price of coal, there appears to be the universal conviction that as a rise isto | be looked for, and as the tendency often grows by what it feeds on, there is no Roo aks ssurance that the ad- vance will not be Ii before the winter is through. The rumor-mongers aro already busy, and although the miners appear to be exceptionally quiet and hard at work, they are credited every now and then by mail or telegraph with @ disposition to renew former troubles, Any interruption of labor means, of course, an increase in the price of the commodity in question and the plucking of that patient bird, Vain The vet Lacan sede A tend to agitate the market and render it unquiet. @ bull clique is large, and we shall proba- bly hear more of it before cold weather Leora sets in. In default of certainties, the slightest probabilities fur- nish them with arguments favoring their peculiar views. A long, cold winter, such as tho last, would greatly further their ends, and itis probable that the mere po belief that it will be a severo one would be equally or even more le to them. They de- light in reading and circulating items im the country mewepapers, by whose constant repetiigen the public mind may be preconvinced that we have a Nova Zem- bilan temperature to endure before spring again unfet- ters the brooks, ‘WINTER SIGN8. The whole collection of “Indian signs” of a hard winter is now making tts regular cirouit, ana the old residents read and shake their heads ominously thereat, The woodchucks are burrowing deeper than asual, tho squirrels are known by some mysterious means to be putting by a larger stock of acorns than is their wont, ‘and the sagacious and infallible chipmunk is exbibitin, his firm impression that times are likely to be with him throug the nol! and the whole array of venerable stications the furred and feathered progno: tribes starts forth on ite procession in print. The coal “bull” reads and rejoices greatly thereat. Almanacs, with “expect much snow about this time,” drawn across the whole page of # winter month, excite hia respect and are quoted with great zeal and frequency. Allusions to frosts ot bygone years and prophecies as to their ro- eurrence ve signally and he look: me teeman and skate dealer with @ genial smile, But to the poor winter is @ terrible closing their avenues of hvelihood and reducing their smail earnings and moans of pro’ against ie benumbing fingers, The Rooms, % | per day; also Table Board, square.—Elegant Rooms, handsomely furnished, second story, fronting Broad i ating Fifth avenue; | with or without private table xchanged. H WEST FORTY-FIFTH STREET, NEAR FIFTH AVENUE ‘and the Windsor.—A lady withont family will let hand- rome, newly fitted Rooms, to families or gentlemen; first | class Board if desired. | | j Bs "ORE TAKING A ROOM ELSEWHERE V Van Dyke House, 28 Bowery, corner sper night, Oe. to $1; per week, $3 to $7; men only, OTEL ST, GERMAIN, FIVTH AVE second street, Broadway,—American its for winter, reduced rates; transient, $3 p nt Rooms always reserved. European plan, $1 to ths, elevators. AISON PARISIEN 38 AND 40 TW street, between Broadway and University place.—Ele on cle #10, N Zant Aparttaents or families and single geutlemen at moder- at low prices. 1 APIECE,—TWO GENTLEMEN OR A GENTLE. | HOTEL (PORMERLY ST. LAW-. man and wife can be accommodated with dow | above Tenth, Philadetp! is new oom on parlor floor; Srey conwan tances small family; | ests; enlarged, rem: Hed aml terms very moderate, '259 West Twgnty fitth street, be” | newly furnished, is now first class in will of its appointments. WAVERLEY PLACE, NEAR BROADWAY.— Pleasant fr oms, $14, $16, $18 and $20 for two, with Board; single ‘and $9} transient people, $2 Z TH STREET, NO. 152 WEST, NEAR SIXTH AVE- nue.—Hundsomely furnished to lot, with Board, to gentlemen and wives or single gentlemen, Rooms en suite | or singly; reference. 15 PIKE STREET.—A FEW LADIES AND GEN- tlemen can be accommodated with Board, WEST ELEVENTH STREET, NEAR BROADWAY.— © This handsome and commodious house is now pre- pared to accommodate families and single gentlemen with elegant Rooms, en suite or singly, with Board; references exchange F. [47H QTRERE WEST, 29. 35 AND 97, BETWE Fifth and Sixth avehues.—Elegantly furnished Roo and Suits of Rooms, for families or gentlemen; small tab! one Parlor Suit; references. 24. NEST THIRTIETH | STREET —NICELY | FUR: nished m second and third floors, suitable for families, with Board; also at 22 Kast Forty-first street, largo and smail Rooms; southern exposure, WEST TWENTY-SIXTH STREET.—NEIGHBOR- € 2 hood unexceptionable; near St. James Hotel; five doors from way; handsome! ed Rooms to Sr ly fur gentlemen or faunily, with or without excellent Board, FTEENTH STREET, BETWEEN FIFTIT 29 Ted cide eroneen--Presen }. furnished Rooms, with Board; house first class; family private, ‘i TH STREET, NO. 265 WEST.—DESIRABLE 3 Rooms, with’ first class Bos for gentlemen and wives or gentlemen; Rooms en suite if desired; fauily pri- ‘Yate j terns mod! rear Elevated Railway. 4, BETWEEN BROADWAY AND ith oreede= ‘andsoinoly furnished Rooms for fam- ihies or single geutiemen, with strictly first elase Board; in Jewish family; also elegant back Parlor, with extension; Feferences. WEST TWENTY-SIXTH 8TREET.—A FINE FRONT Room, ina small New England family, with excellent ard; will accommodate two or gen’ Geghitel, near St. James’ Hotel; terms moderate. WEST TWENTY-FOURTH STREET.—A SUIT OF Rooms on second floor; two hall Rooms on fourth floor to let, with or without private table if desired; terms moderate, EAST TWENTY-SECOND STREET, NEAR BROAD- hi eee aoe ig 2 ‘Room: ‘suite or singly, inh fray clage Boned for familign or ‘gentiomen ; house new! Catering by Augustine & Son. THOMAS ASHTON, Prontietor, ©. H, CRAWFORD, Mw COUNTRY BOARD, ATSKILL' MOU NTAINS.—PARTIES WISH in the conntry can be accommodated at the Summis C Will House, one mile from Catskill, terms $8 per week. P. M. GOETCHIU: mit Hill, one mile froma Carkill, Post Catskill, Greene county, N.Y. ‘LINTON CORNERS, DUTCHESS. COUNTY, N, ¥.— Ceres ule hile of Dutchess county, ots private red. dence for fall and winter, short distance from a beau tial Inke; bass and pickorel fishing; terms #8. Address it, SHER. MAN, Clinton vor Y. + BOARD ly reduced prices; the ‘pure mountain air, b wy and romantic drives are too well known to need de- ; house has ail the comforts of a city hotel, steam ood stabling, Ae. Address PROPRIETOR, South JUMMIT, N. J.-A LARGE PARTY MAY BE ACCOM. modatod with commodioas Ruoms, ample closets, south. ern exposure and superior table, terms low, Address 5. ., box jew York Post office, ARRYTOWN, ON THE HUDSON.—AT THE CLIFF House; five minutes from depot: high, healthy location 25 miles river view; reduced rates for fail sad winter, J. M. FOWLER. ANTED—BOARD FOR TIREB ADULTS AND three children at Ora or Brick Church station ; three oar connecting rooms required; state terms, whivh uitist be moderate, Address K. 8., Herald office. EXCHANGR. XCHANGE.—I WLLL EXCHANGE A GOOD BOARD ing and Livery Stable for a good Farm: stable well located, well ry stocked and doing a good business, Address M. B. &, Herald Uptown Branch offs. WANTED TO PURCHASE. ANTED—PLOT. GREENWOOD. ANY ONE derate price Wires ence ibe as pocnon ‘oat office. TORAGE FOR CARRIAGES, FURNITURE AND GEN: val haudise arta We fos. 750, 752 8 Et srenes nd, AT and 249 Went Forty siath end 754 sireet; lowest rates; gre 5 Proprietors,