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| QUE CITY DEPARTMENTS, A Senator. and Jailor Whose Evidence * Does Not Agree, ‘Coroner Croker’s Imprisonment at the Tombs. | A MOTHER-IN-LAW QUESTIONED. ‘The Senatorial Investigating Committee met again yesterday morning pursuant to adjournment, all the members being present. Mr. Thomas Murphy showed himself for a few moments during the early part of the session, and it was whispered that he had come to give the committee ‘‘a steer.” The first witness called was Isaac H. Bailey, who festified ‘to the condition and management of the institutions in. charge of the De- partment of Charities aud Correction, of which he is President, Ex-Commissioner, Laimbeer was. examined as to the administration of the department while he was connected with ut, He expressed hig opinion in vigorous Janguage. Many of the statements made by him were afterward excepted to by Mr, Bailey in a re-examina- tion, John Quinn, Warden of the City Prison, was closely questioned as to tho care of prisoners in that institution and more especially with reference to Coroner Richard Croker, who was permitted to visit his family while undergoing trial for murder, and to Carlotta Shotwell, the no- torious blackmailing adventuress, who was confined in the Tombs under Mr. Quinn’s charge, and whom, it is said, he was very “lenient”? to—sometimes permitting her to go abroad at night, and even going so far as to accompany her himself, Mrs Catherine Frazier, mother-in-law of Coroner Croker, admitted that she dad seen the latter in her daughter's house while ander indictment for the murder of McKenna All these ‘witnesses were brought before the committee without | having the faintest idea of what line of questions were to be pat to them, and the circumspection of the last two when they recovered from the drst shock of sur- prise showed that had they been informed of the nature of the inquiry beforehand their answers would have taken a different shape, Prosident of the Commissioners of Charities and Cor- | Tection, Isaac H. Bailey, testified as follows:—The De- partment of Public Buildings condemned the Park Hos: | pital building as unsafe last spring, and we sought to | make an arrangementby which we could obtain another | building; the Bourd of Aldermen authorized the lease of | a building on the corner of Centre and White streets, but the Comptroller declined to ratify the lease, on the | ground that our appropriation had been exhausted; summer coming on, and no appropriation being made, | the New York Hospital obtained from the Commia- sioner of tho Sinking Fund the right to occupy the building No. 160 Chambers street, which they fitted up immediately for hospital purposes; it is my opinion that this building has done away with the necessity for any other hospital in the neighbor- hood; I introduced a resolution in the Board on the | 20th of August recommending the removal of all the effects in the hospital to Bellevue and the dismissal of the force employed there; it was laid on the table; I | have brought up tho question on two occasions since, | but the Board declined to act upon it, as they had made | application for permission to use the Beekman street | Station house for a hospital; there is perhaps an aver- ‘age of one patient per day received in the old building; it*is merely used for the reception of patients; they are not allowed to remain there, but are trans- ferred to Bellevue; the Chambers street building | 1s not more than a quarter of a mile from the old Park Hospital, so that it is in a good loca- tion. With reference to the Penitentiary, we are not | allowed, under the law of 1860, to hire out our prison labor. 1 was yery desirous to have that law repealed, and there was an act introduced in the Legislature last winter repealing that law, but it did not pass, We were using all our efforts to have it put through when we re- ceived a note from the Executive Department inform. | ing us that it was no part ‘of our duty to “lobby” at Albany, and we accordingly took no further action. All the I think, agreed in desiring the repeal of | the Pins a viously held conversations with | | tion with “him about that woman; NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1875.—-TRIPLE SHEET. island and I would io po being man; sending for thelr parcuts; it 1s been to the school think it a mere plaything in the hands Board; we reduced the expenses of the ship very ; I think the last appropriation we asked for was 1,000. Mr. Davenport—| ; ro do the boys go when they -tentha of them, in my opinion, straight to the devil. Mr. Bailey here gaid that some things had beon sug- gested to him by Mr. Laimbeer’s remarka He said that the system of outdoor distribution of coal was fraught with abuges, and in his ge ought never to be resumed. Hegwould suggest that policemen be ap- ‘pointed in each inct to go around and make a list of worthy persons who needed such relief. This plan had been adopted in three precincts last winter, and it gave great satisfaction, He would continue to urge its adop- tion as the only jeal method of guarding against abuses. lt waa, however, the most difficult thing in the -world. to imtroduce any reform whatever in this city. John Quinn, Warden of the City Prison, was then called and, after being duly sworn by Senator Booth, testified that he, ‘appointed to that position on the 22d of January, 1878; in the City Prison proper he had now 465 prisoners; in all the prisons he probably had | 6003 ail these inatitations were under the charge of the Coumissioners of Oharities and Correction, Mr, Davenport ve you any suggestions to make in regurd to reduetng the expenses of your institations ? Mr. Quinn—I oagnot think of anything at present, The prisons havé improved go rapidly under the present Commissionors that I cannot suggest anything myself, There are no mstances in which persons confined in the Tombs are taken from it without an order from the Court. No case of that kind has occurred since I have Deen appointed; Llet no person go without an order either from a judge, the Distnct Attorney, a magistrate, or a coroner; I know of no case where any person was taken out without such an order. Mr. Davenport—Do you remember tho case of Mrs. 4 Shotwell, who was confined in the Tombs? Mr. Quinn—I do; she was never from the Tombs without an order, either by day or by night; J don’t think I ever was spoken to on ‘that subject by any of the Commissioners, Mr. Davenport—Did Mr. Laimbeer ever have any con- Versation with you on the subject ¢ Mr. Quinn—Not on that subject; I never told him | that I had received instractions ’ from the Commis sioners to take Mrs, Shotwell from the Tombs; Coroner Croker was confined in the Tombs under indictment for murder; 1 never went out at any time except upon proper order; I don’t sleep in the prison; after I leave at night, John Orr, the night warden, takes charge; when I am absent during the day, Mark Finlay, | deputy warden, is in charge; I never had any con- versation with Mr. Laimbeer about taking Mrs. Shot- well from the Tombs; I recollect having a conversa- he was then President of the Board; he said there had been an article prepared for a paper on account of my treat-, meut of her; I said, “Mr. President, a prisoner that ‘Thurlow Weed furnishes counsel for I can afford to be lenient to;” I didnot tell Mr. Laimbeer that this wom- an had been taken out of the prison on the request of Mr. Sterne; there was no such request or order, and no such statement was made by me}; Coroner Croker never went out without an order signed in the first instance, before his full committal, by Coroner Woltman and afterward by the District Attorney; he was taken out every day | during the inquest upon Coroner Woltman’s order; he | was never taken out at. night, either upon the order of Coroner Wolunan or anybody else; he remained out after dark several times—probably’ till eight or nino o'clock ; on these occasions he was taken out upon the order of the District Attorney to go to court; the sheriffs having him in charge stated to me that th took him to see bis wife after the Court adjourned; wife was sick atthe time; he was never out ali night, for he wis @ steady man and was very careful about staying in prison and conforming to the rules. Mr. emnpeeetd you have any interviews with Jobn Kelly and Mayor Wickham when they asked you to allow him tg be taken to his house before coming back from court? Mr. Quinn—N®, gir; had no conversation whatever with apy one that; the deputy sheriffs had charge of bim when ft the prison; they were Coughlin and Daly; the two sheritls appointed to take prisoners from the Tombs who are assigned to Sing Sing; 1 have sometimes allowed men to remam over :in the Tombs for'a day or two after they were consigned to Sing Sing, if they wished to settle any business. Mr. Davenport requested the witness to furnish the committee with all the orders on which he had ever permitted Coroner Croker to quit the Tombs, and he promised to bring them in half an hour, He was then allowed to leave the stand. Mr. Laimbeer was then recalled, and, being ques- tioned as to the statements of the last witness, said he had been told by a gentleman ‘well known in the city that Quinn had been seen taking Mrs. Shotwell to res- taurants, and that he had ullowed her to go shopping on Broadway. Mr. Laimbeer then went to Quinn and asked whether he bad done this, and he did not deny it. When asked by whose authority he had acted so he said he had done so by the authority of Mr. Sterne; Mr. Laim- bier then told bam not to do so again without the au- thority of the whole Board. He mentioned, in further Niation, that Mr, Thurlow Weed had interceded tor er, aud he promised to do it no more; he never denied haying done it before, and Mr. Luimbeer had until then regarded him as a truthful man. Catherine yr Was next called. Ste testified in | Substance as follows:—I live at No, 205 East Thirty- ninth street, and am the mother-in-law of Coroner several Jarge shoe and other munufacturers, with respect to the amount of compensation we | ah, obtain for the labor of our prisoners, but received | 0 Génie unswer; ag°tW" We uumber of prisoners | whom we could einploy profitably in manufacturing for | the market, 1 suppose the average would be 700 per | ear; wo had in the Penitentiary at the time of my | quarterly report 905, of whom 140 were women; | Be Alnus House contains comparatively few persons | (0 are Capable of doing work requiring either skill or | bodily strength; the Workhouse contains about 600 males whom, 1 think, could be profitably employed; | the total number of its inmates is perhaps 1,500 or | 1,600, and about 700 are distributed among the different | instit utions to do various kinds of work. The second witness called was William Laimbeer, formerly Commissioner of Charities and Correction. He stated that he was unwilling to testify and asked to be excused, but the committee would not consent and hhe was sworn. “I went out of office in February Inst,” he said, ‘and I had then been in the Board for eighteen months; white in office proposi- tion were made to me by responsible parties in this city to contract for the labor of the Penitentiary prisoners and all prisoners within the jurisdiction of the Board; when the question was introduced it was opposed by one Commissioner and advocated by two others; from thirty to fifty-five cénts pér day for the | labor of cach prisoner was offered by various parties ; ‘the Board was a unit upon contracting this labor, an the papers were sent to the Board of Aldermen for their consideratioa, and nothing bas been heard of them | since; they gave no reason for declining to act, but | poe of their number waid it was wrong to employ this | r in competition with the honest lapor of the city; | I stated to the Mayor and Comptroller that this labor would turn into the Treasury of the city from $50,000 | to $75,000 per year, and I agreed to deposit | fupd whi deticiency of that | Sooubt stan a Thad fin the | hands of the Treasurer as a guarantee of my confidence $n the success of the plan; Kings County Penitent \ has 400 prisoners working under contract; Trenton | State Prison has 500 convicts’ labor hired out at high | Fates of wages, t00; Bigelow, the shoe manufacturer, | who hires the Kings county labor, was anxious to con tract for ours; he would employ from 200 to 600 men— @number which the departinent could always furnish without interfering with its own work; this work they | talk about there is all bosh; there are 300 or 400 men scattered allover the island, aud they don’t do the work | of twenty-five; I concar in the view of Messrs, Bren- nav and Bailey with regard to the purchase of coal in the summer in pfeference to the winter; reference to the “poor’s coal” and its dis- | Aribution, 1 know of one nan whe liad ‘been employed to distribute it in Harlem; he could not tell me bow many merobers | there were in the families to whom he had distributed | it, on which floor of the house they lived or anything | about them; he made no examination whatever beure | ving tickets; I had him perempiorily discharged; T | elieve the delivery of this * poor coal’? in New York | has been, and while it is done as at present never can } be anything clse than, a swindle; while I was in the de- | ‘tment we reduced expenses very materially, and the t proof of it is that we bad $122,000 in the ‘treasury bn the Ist of January remaining from the appropriation | of 1874; the appropriation was, I think, $103,000; we | algo changed the keepers and got men of better charac- ter; many of the keepers were the damnedest pooundrels that ever lived; every investigation 1 mado egutrmed me in that belief} the gom- ‘Pondation théy receive 1s cnongh to induce good met to take the position; no traiicd mechanic gets more than they; these remarks ¢bqut the keepers will apply to every prison in the city of New York as well as the Penitentiary; 1 knew one case in which a keeper ‘threatened to put aman tn the black hole if he did not pay him $10, and the money was borrowed by the prisoner and paid over to the keeper; the man Geary, ‘who was indicted with Cowenhoven a short time ago for cruelty to the prisoners, was one of that class; yet we | could hot discharge Linn, because he had political friends ‘who kept bim in spite of us. Mr. Davenport here handed to Mr. Laimbeer a list of the names of the present employés of the department, and asked if he could point out uny men like those of whom he had been talking. He replied that he be- lieved it waa possible for any man to repent, and per- those men had repented; eo be woukd make no complaint against them, Mr. Davenport—At the time Mr. Bigelow proposed to hiro tho prison labor was any question raised 4s to the wer of the Hoard to make the contract ? ‘Mr. Laimbeer—There was not at that timo; but it has Bince been decided that they have no power; the law absolutely probibits the manufacture by convicts of any article to be sold in the mark: I consulted Mr. Dela- field Smith, the Corporation Counsel; he considered ft carcfutly, and ward that we could make no contract of that kind; ‘tho regaon why I thought it well to employ the prisoners wag this: we seut to Hart's Island and took them from the school there, brought them down to the Workbouse and pat them into a room under the care of the foreman of the shoe shop; inside of two ‘weeks we had better shoes from the hands of those boys than we were hg tin frow Mr. Bigelow for use in th y8 ranged from ten to fourteen in | 5 ley corroborated the statement, and said that the boys on Hart’s Island are now making sboes regu- larly. Mr. Laimbeer continaad:—I believe one Com- missioner could manage the department as well as threo, anjess the three were wiiling to devote their whole time to it; 1 think a Commissioner should do no-other basiness; when I was in the dopartment Mr. Bowen, my colleague, made daily visits wo the Island— daily excursions; I call them | excursions because they were nothing bat excursions; the Com- missioners met every an, He nino o'clock; Mr. ‘Btorne then “29 about own business, Mr. | cadets or failure of candidates, Croker; 1 rémember the time of his imprisonment in the Tombs; that period he was in my house twice, 1 Ce remember what time of the ’ day» fo it was; I didn’t look th ; 1) think it was in the | evening; I don't know how long he mained; he did not stay all night at any me; some gentlemen came with him; Idon’t know how many there were, and they were strangers tome; there was butone man having him in custody; that was, I think, Mr. Daly, the Deputy Sheriff; I don’t remember hear- ing any of them called “Coughhn;” 1 don’t know what weut on at the house while Mr, Croker was there, but I know there was no reception. | An adjournment till next Tuesday morning, at ten o'clock, was proposed and decided upon, -WEST POINT CADETS. LIST OF CANDIDATES EXAMINED AND FOUND QUALIFIED—CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS NOT BEPRESENTED. : ‘Wasursaton, Sept 30, 1875. The following is a list of cadets who were examined, found qualified and admitted to the West Point Mili- tary Academy on the 1st of September:— William Harryman Rapley, District of Columbia; Lorenzo L. C. Brooks, Iowa; Hanson W. Brawder, Thomas Crouse and James H. G. Wilcox, Kentucky; | Thomas J. Lewis, Louisiana; Charles R. Noyes, Mussa- chusetts; Edward H. Browne, Michigan; Edwin J. Jolley, Missouri; George B Converse, Jr., and James E, Runcie, Ohio; James M. Brophy and Timothy B. Clemens, Pennsylvani M. J. Jenkins and Allan R. Jordan, South Carolina; John L. Goodall and Edward T. Jones, Tennessee; John H. Woods and Charies F, Pearce, West Virginia; Theodore A Bingham, Lous Garesche, Guy EK. Huse,’ John G. Lugenbeel, Witham B. Reynolds, at large. DISTRICTS NOT REPRESENTED. The following Congressional districts are not repre- sented at the Academy by reason of the graduation of Invitations to nom- nate persons to fill the vacancies have been sent to the members of Congress representing those districts, such | nominations to be sent in before the 15th of April next. The Fourth, Seventh and Eighth districts of Missouri; Second, Tenth and Eleventh districts of Massachusetts; Spira \d Sixth districts of Louisiana; Second district ol rkansas; Third district of New Hamp- shire; Second, Third, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Kighteenth, ' Nineteenth, Twenty-first, Twenty-second, Twenty-sixth and’ Twenty-seventh districts of New York ; First, Third and Sixth districts of New Jersey; Twelfth, Fourteenth, Sixteenth, Twenty- first and Twenty-fifth districts of Pennsylvania; First district of Rhode Island; Fourth, Fifth and Sixth dis- tricts of Virginia; Fifth and Seventh districts of Wis- consin; Fifth and Eleventh districts of Ohio; Third and Fitth districts of South Carolina; Fourth district of North Carolina; Seventh, Eleventh and Nineteenth dis- tricts of Iinois; First and Fourth districts of Indiana; Sixth district of lowa; Third district of Kentucky ; Thi and Fifth districts of Alabama, First district of Con- necticut; Second district of Florida; Righth and Ninth districts of Georgia; Third and Fourth districts of Michi- gap, Montana, Arizona and Colorado. MUSIC ON THE MALL, The Department of Parks announce that if the weather is fine there will be music on the Mall at Cen- tral Park, under the direction of Messrs. Dodworth and | Grafulla, on Saturday next, October 2, commencing at half-past three o'clock P. M. The following is the programme :— PART I, 1. Overture, “Light Cavalry Fantasie, “Un Nuita Valse, ‘Wiener Bon-Bons Fackeltanz,........0565 + PART It Selections, “Grand Duchess” .. Concert Aria, “Clarionet Obligato”’ J. Drewes. Romanza, “Don Sebastian” Polka Mazourka, “Huzaren”, PART 11. Selection, ‘(La Puive”” Offenbach | -Bergson | Donizetti | 5. 7. 8. 2 3 4 My 9. 0, 1 1 1 s 12 Polka, “Liesel und Grete Finale, “Popular Aira, SILKS STOLEN BY RIVER PIRATES. Another robbery came to light in Hoboken yester- day. While the employés on the Hamburg dock were in the act of removing goods from the storehouse ad- joining the wharf they found that several cases of silk were missing. A hasty investigation revealed the manner in which the goods had evidently been ab- stracted. Several of the weatherboards had been cut away and the goods hauled through the aperture. This was the manner in which $8,000 worth of goods were taken from the samo pla ‘w wooks ago. The police TAMMANY HALL. MEETING OF THE TAMMANY GENERAL COMMIT- ‘TEE LAST EVENING—THE STATE TICKET IN- DORSED, ‘The Tammany Hall General Committee held a special moeting last evening, at the Wigwam, in Fourteenth street, There was a very large attendance. Among those present were John Kelly, Abram 8 Hew itt, Judge Sutherland, Edward L, Donnelly, John T. Agnew, Judge Quinn, Jordan L. Watt, Samuel A, Lewis, Vincent C. King, Peter B. Olney, Martin T. Mac- Mahon, Arthur Delany, Augustus Schell, Henry L, Clinton, Christopher Fine, Commissioner J. J. 0’Don, obue, Tax Commissioner Wheeler and Sheriff Conner, ‘The meeting was called to order by Abram 3. Hewitt A report was submitted from the Committee on Organization, in which the primaries were recom- mended to be held as follows:—The Aldermen on the 18th inst., the Assembly on the 20th, the Judiciary Convention on the 11th, the County Convention on the 18th, and the Senatorial Convention on the 15th, The primaries are to be held on the Sth inst., and the re- port provides that the Judiciary and County Conven- tions shall be composed of one delegate from each election district of every Assembly district. The re- port was adopted, ‘The report of the Committee on Discipline, relative to the Second and the Seventeenth Assembly districts and the action of the Committee on Organization thereon (already given in the Hera), was algo submitted and adoptea, Mr. Boyd, while the report was being read, stated that the Committee on Discipline had been’ misin- formed as to some of the facts in the case of the Sev- enteenth district, He said that the committee had learned since this report was made that no compact was made under oath by either faction, The report was corrected accordingly. The Committee on Naturalization reported that they had secured rooms at No. 19 Centre street, which would be open ou Monday, INDORSEMENT OF THR STATE TICKET. The following resolutions were read and adopted :— Whiereus the democratic party, by their action at Syracuse, have placed in nomination on the Stute ticket men who are peculiarly identified with the measures of reform now in Progress, and by their character, knowledge and experience are fitted In un eminent degree to co operate with our dis- tinguished lender Governor Samuel J. Tilden in carrying on the war against fraud and corruption ‘to a successful issue; and Whereas the platform adopted is sound in every plank and sets forth in clear, terse and forcible language trae demo- doctrines of all the insues now before the people, ‘efore, Resolve, By the Democratic Republican General Com- mittee of the City and County of New York, That the elec- tion of a State ticket thoroughly in accord with the Gover- nor and zealous to carry on the warfare already begun aginst the Canal Ring to a trinmphant conclusion is im- peratively demanded by every consideration of the public welfare, ‘and that the candidates nominated at Syracuse re- coive our hearty and enthusiastic indorsement, and that we will pat forth every honorable effort to roll ujgeuch inajorl- ties for the demoeratic State ticket as shall strengthen the hands and gladden the hearts of all the friends of reform throughout the State, Resolved, That while each and every part of the platform commands’ our unqualified approval we derive expecial sut- istaction from these two fucts:—First, that by its adoption the entire democratic party of the State of New York stands | pledged to the active support of Governor Tilden in his efforts to accomplish a thorough reformation in the manage- ment of the Stal is and in the conduct of every braneh and second, that its declarations are istakable in favor of the only sound and and in epndemnation of the ruinous policy the action “of the the present attitude call the intelligent jonest currency of infintion. (Applause.) Resolved, ‘That in’ reviewing recent State Convention and of the democratic party we tion of all tair-minded — and to these significant facts. ‘That when selfish and corrupt men, unfaithful alike to the traditions of the party and to their duty to the people, had brought shame and disgrace upon us, there were found within our own ranks leaders of the ability, virtue and courage requisite “to cut out the cancer by the’ roots,” and purify our own organization. ‘That while shameless corruption everywhere pervades tho administration of federal affairs the republican leaders have neither the courage or the disposition to cleanse their own party, but on the contrary in too many instances’ have promoted men convicted before the public of criminal conduct in office to higher places in the republican household; that the democratic arty, having inscribed on its banners, as watchwords in the hcht, reform in public affairs, muntel 1, hus taken “not a single step backwai have been convent to talk and pi have originated and accomplished reform in the adoption of ractical measures well adapted to correct aud prevent ex- sting abuses in the management of public adairs, State and muniel Resolved, That we hereby most cordially invite all our fel- low citizen’ who desire to promote genuine reform in public affairs in the city und State, whatever may have been their party affiliations and preferences in the past, to unite with us now in carrying on to a successful result the work already begun. (Loud applause.) A resolution, oflered by Arthur Delaney, was adopted, denouncing the recent action of the State Board of As- sessors in assessing New York city more than one-half the total valuation of property in the State. Mr. Boyd offered a resolution authorizing the reor- ganized General Committee to issue calls for the prima Ties, &c., which was adopted. ‘atten- citizens: TAMMANY DISCIPLINE. To Tus Eviror or Tue HERALD :— As late members of the Tammany Hall General Com- mittee.of the Seventeenth Assembly district, assuming, as we fear we fairly may, that there bas been an intention upon the part of the Committee on Discipline to make a contrary statement, wo absolutely and unqualifiedly deny that “we made and entered into acompact” in the month of September, 1875, with any one, or took any action unsanctioned by fidelity to democratic principles. Any assertion of the Committee on Discipline to the con- trary, so far as we ure concerned, is wickedly false and malicious, and so known to be to the committee. The gratuitous conclugion to which they have arrived— under improper influences and motives, as we are led to believe—meets the scorn and contempt of every right-thinking democrat of the Seventeenth Assembly trict. So also does their mouthing of the phras “the old and time-honored principle that the majority should govern”? This 18 very devil’s use of a text like axiom of democracy, and we respectfully, in view of the “old and time-honored principle that the major- ity should govern’’—so flagrantly violated by the report of the committee, for we nur ber seventeen members of the General Committee to a factions fifteen on the other side—decline emphatically to appoint a committee to confer witl}gaid Committee on Discipline in relation to the reorgai tion, as recommended by the committea, r. Jerome Buck. Frank Blessing. David F. Baker. Arthur Flynn, Cornelius J, Kane, Jobn Dugan, Jr. Patrick F. Birmingham. John M, Calhoun, James E. Coulter. Charles Mcintyre. Lawrence Mclutee. John G. Carey. Charles C. Duff. Thomas Dooley. James Connolly. Mathew Quinn, Patrick H. Power. Naw York, Sept. 90, 1875, SIXTEENTH DISTRICT DEMOCRATS, A meeting of democrats of the Sixteenth Assem- bly district favorable to Tammany Hall was held last night at No. 612 East Seventeenth strect. bog i} ts- | James E, Morrison Club of the Sixteenth Assembl: trict was organized, with the following officers:—Philip Clark, President; James Lynch, Secretary; James McFall, Treasurer; Phil. Smith, Sergeant-at-Arms, POLITICAL USURPATION. ——+ WILLIAM HAW, REPUBLICAN EX-LEADER, THE ALLEGED OFFENDER—SCENES'OF VIOLENCE IN THR TWENTY-FIRST ASSEMBLY DISTRIC?—COM- MOTION AT THE CUSTOM HOUSE. For the last two years the leaders euy trouble has been brewing among the republicans of the Twenty- first Assembly district, owing to the arrogance of Wil- liam Haw, Jr., once the republican jeader im that dis- trict, Things have reached such a crisis that the ro- publican leaders, in order to maintain discipline in | their party, have taken steps for hurling Bill Haw from his position as an anti-Custom House leader in the dis- trict—steps, it is claimed, that are necessary to pre- sorve the republican organization in the Harlem dis- trict, The history of Haw’s recalcitrance dates back to the reign of Prince Harry Genet, When Prince Harry ab- | dicated and became a fugitive from justice Bill Haw continued to arrogato to himself, in positive deflance of the wishes of the other local leaders, tho right to stand as acandidate for the Assembly, notwithstanding he had been repeatedly @ofeated. PRRSISTANT IN U8 MIGHT. Last fall the supposed treachery of Haw to his party became *9e apparent, He early announced himself as a candidate from the Twenty-first district, Haw put him- self on the aggressive, and, confident of success, op- posed the advances for harmony made to him by the associate repablican leaders, who desired his with- drawal from the fleld and named a candidate entirely | acceptable, But Haw, it is said, would listen to no overtures for peace. The republican leaders, finding their efforts to persuade Haw to come to terms and con- tinue to hold « place in their affections unavailing, pro- cooded to retaliate by first deposing him from the super- intendency of stations in the Post Office and then by removing some of his followers from their places in the Customs service, Even this did not intimidate the Jeader, As @ member of the district organization he, it is claimed, woutd lose no opportunity to introduce sedi- tion into the organization. Henry ©. Robinson, the President of thé district organtzation, at first sympa thized with Haw. PACKING THR PRIMARIES, This ring Bill Haw indicated that he was deter- mined to have his delegates represented in the fall State Convention, and commenced maturing his plans for carrying out the movement, When the primaries wero called to select delegates to the Saratoga Convention Haw, accustomed to serving early pat in an ap- take little interest in this robbery as the proprietors of ce with a party of Rocky Moore's heelers, eS steamship line refuse to give them jurisdiction over | eaded by himself and the decapitated Custom House docks a) vengora ‘The remnjora marshalled under tho Jeader:, ¢, | Shreveport Times and a Greeley liberal leader, of Captain James M. Thomson, retired ip good though somewhat surprised at the insolence of the triamphant pretender, Uncot se- lected a set of delegates as an offset to Haw's ae, secured by the heelers in control of machinery the primary.. At Saratoga the delegation head: Captain Thomson, in compliance the managers of the Convention, consented for the purpose of avoiding any disa- greoments likely to jar the proceedings of the Conven- tion, a basis of compromise should be amicably agreed upon for the uncontested admission of Haw’s delega- tion, since they were impotent of doing any more mis- TO THE CONQUEROR THE SPOILS. ‘This point gained, Haw returned trom Saratoga jubi- lant and eager to distribute the oils in securing the nomination of his friends for the local offices belonging to the district, At a caucus of the republicans last Tuesday night, held at Lincoln Hall, Harlem, for the Purpose of maining candidates suitable for the consid- eration of the nominating convention, the scene that occurred was of the most INDESCRIBABLE FURY AND DISORDER. Bill Haw filled the hall, before the arrival of those antagonistic to his rule, with a delegation of .his own, intent upon “ruling the roost” and controlling the action of the caucus The president of the district organization, Mr, Robinson, was also chairman of the caucus. When ho saw how Haw was conducting things, and the high-handed proceedings resorted to by him to maintain his power asa leader, he denounced Haw’s unfitness for leadership in severe language. The sig- nal was given, aud the president and the regulars were hustled peli mell into the street, This was a faction fight to which others of @ like nature were compara- tively insignificant, When the regulars were dispersed, the revolutionary element set to work to dii je of the business of the caucus. The peaceful republicans post- poned their caucus until last night, when they chose names which will be submitted to the nominating con- vention to-night. THE REPUBLICAN BOSSES STRIPPING NAW FROM ALL POWRR IN THK PARTY. On hearing of Haw’s disgraceful proceedings the Stave Central Committee recommended that summary | action should be taken to strip him of every claim to party consideration and to reduce him, if possible, to the direst distress, intimating that his overbearance | and intolerance is calculated to inijure the party if fur- ther recognized, T™ consequence of this action great commotion was apparent in the corridors of the Custom House late yesterday afternoon, when it was known that Collector Arthur had ordered the removal of several ot his subordinates, who were known to have not only been acting in sympathy with Bill Haw, their backer, but actually aiding and abetting him in vreaking up the regularly recognized organization in the Twenty-first Assembly district. ‘The objectionable ex-leader, it is said, when in fall communion with the other republican magnates, had more favors bestowed upon him in the matter of appointments than many leaders who had better claims He had 195 appointments on the employing roll of the Castom House, all of whom he indi- vidually stood sponsor for, Some were decapitated when he himself was removed trom office for dis- loyal expressions, Others who have declared thoir fealty to the regular organization instead of co-oper- ating in the machinations of the ex-leaaer have been rotained. NAMES OF THOSH REMOVED YESTERDAY. The following are the names of those who were removed, as it 18 alleged, for prudential reasons in which the republican party will be benefited :—Wil- liam F, Harridon, Inspector; Samuet Wallace, District Inspector; Pason’ Dwight, District Inspector; Nelson Mott, Examiner; Jive McDonald, — weigher’s foreman, and Hiram L. Hunt woigher’s clerk. In refer- ence to Haw’s party inconstancy the leaders aver that there ure stacks of evidence to show that he has been using his authority as a leader to aid the democrats while pretending to serve faithfully the party that sustained him; and that the gravity of his offence admits of no palliation; and that the penalty is irrev- ocable now, which is that Bill Haw must be read out of the republican party, and all other political communists who have betrayed its interests. The axe is suspended over other officials who ate suspected of complicity with Haw, and their decapi- tation will follow. SUFFOLK COUNTY POLITICS. The Democratic Convention for Suffolk county was held at Riverhead on Tuesday evening, and made the following nominations :—For District Attorney, William | Wickham, of Riverhead; member of Assembly, Samuel the First district:—G, Vanandale, David Carll, John R. Walker, A. G. Thompson, H. A. Reeves, Benjamin F. Howell, Gilbert H. Cooper, G. H. Babcock, Charles E. Rose, James E, Baylis, Richard Smith and George M. Botts. It is understood that the delegation is solid for James M. Oakley, of Queens, NEWARK POLITICS. The political caldron in Newark has begun to secthe and bubble. The charter election takes place there two weeks from next Tuesday, when amayor, water com- missioner, tax commissioner and fifteen new aldermen will be chosen. Last night the democrats held their primary meeting and elected delegates to the Demo- cratic City Convention, which takes place to-morrow at Library Hall, The delegates were unpledged. On Monday the republicans hold their primaries and on Tuesday their City Convention. The democrats will probably renominate Mayor Perry, whose two years? record is all that could be desired. The republicans will likely take up Alderman Yates. rn LOUISIANA POLITICS. OVERTUBES FROM THE REPUBLICANS TO THE LIBEBALS—MARSHAL PACKARD TO A GREELEY LIBERAL LEADER—A HIGHLY DECOROUS COY- NESS MANIFESTED. New Orieans, Sept. 30, 1875. A political correspondence will appear in to-morrow’s prints between Chairman Packard, of the Republican State Committee, and A. H. Leonard, editor of the In his communication Mr, Packard remarks:— PACKARD’S OVERTURES, Itis much desired that the liberal white element, properly outside of the democracy, should consolidate with the colored voters. That liberal element will then be reinforced in numbers, 80 ag to be always able to maintain a party ascendancy over the democrats, and the colored men will be reinforced with intelligence sufficient to insure a wise and honest administration of parish and State affairs devolving upon them asa ma- jority, But the fear of ostracism from the people has prevented such capable men as were or would have been tendered station from Lees ead nomination: while republicans when electing such as they were bei able to command as candidates were denounced for not electing better mon. Whata commentary on ‘political justice! The colored elector is unwilling to leave his political organization to — join the democratic so hostile to his ty, interests, but his confdenge and. vote may be relied upon to reward those willing to promote his and the ‘State's welfare, to the end that a government, honest | and scrupulous to protect his person and property m accordance with the national republican purpose, may business and agricultural interests de- onment of the color line in politics and the consolidatién of the anti-democratic vote, white and black, to revive confidence and good feeling.’ Then, indeed, will there be peace and prosperity in Louisiana Mr. Leonard, replying, said: MR. LBONARD’S RESPONSE, If the republican party intend to carry into effect the principles announced in the declarations of its leaders, those leaders will at the next session of the Assembly | aid in Rita | through, and thus secure the passage of all measures looking tO reform. Peace and good gov. ernment can be established without difficulty if leading men will only rise superior to mere partisan views. Iwill co-operate with any party and with all men honestly endeavoring to secure that result, I consider such a letter as that which | have had the pleasure of receiving from you a high compliment, and, while we may not be able to agree on all points, I shall certainly not regret our efforts to co-operate, if possible, and am persuaded some good will result therefrom.e POLITICAL NOTES. General John Logan is fighting hard to succeed him- self as United States Senator. He is busily opposed by Governor Beveridge and by the Galena ring, which sup- ports Rlibu Washburn, Morton for Prestdont and Blaine for Vico President is the Indiana Republican ticket for 1876. In Connecticut there is a question whether a de- moralized republican is reafty » good democrat? ‘The Ohio Congressional delegation is said to be firmly in favor of 8, 8. Cox for the Spoakership of tho House. ‘The Pennsylvania delegation 1s said to be as firmly piedged to Mr. Randall The Southern newspapers, in canvassing the merits of the candidates, seem to favor Mr, Kerr, mainly becanse he does not represent a tariff and monopoly State, and because, asa Western candi- date, he is largoly in sympathy with the South, Hon. J. Morrison Harris, who has just been nomi- nated by the democrats for Governor of Maryland, is o lawyer of Baltimore, Dr. Loring’8 chances for obtaining tho repubfican nomination for Governor of Massachusetts are, if we shall betieve the Boston. Advertiser, somewhat declining. | ‘T. D. Woolsey, a very great authority in politics, ts of | opinion, in Harper’s for Octobor, thdt God is. running this country for His own purposes, which would seem toimply that the President’s relatives are losing ac- tivity. Professor Meaniston, the temperance candidate for Governor of Minnesota, has some good barley soil on his farm and has ratsed barley; and now come forward the partisan journals, which say that he te raising the grain that is used extensively in the manufacture of beer. “The Natick Bulletin says:—“Moroover wo do not be- Nove Dr. Loring can defeat Mr, Gaston, We boliovd Mr. Rice can. If the former bo nominated his altogether hateful political record, both before and after the in ception of the war, will be thoroughly and ruthlessly wantilated.?? | should have foreseen and averted years He is described as one who is | about fifty-five years of ago and carries bi years well— | | looking even younger than that, GOVERNOR TILDEN. An Address to the Farmers at the Central New York Fair, A TALK ABOUT EXCESSIVE TAXATION, An Imperative Necessity for Reducing the Cost of National and State Administration. Unica, Sept. 30, 1875, This was a gala day at the Central New York Fair. Governor Tilden arriyed in town last evening and is the guest of Senator Kernan, The certainty that he was to be present at tho fair attractea immense crowds from all the surrounding country. The weather was very pleasant, much warmer than yesterday, and by three o'clock P. M, fully 25,000 persons wero upon the grounds, MR. PROCTOR’S ADDRESS. Mr. Thomas R. Proctor, President of the Centra) New York Fair Association, welcomed Governor Tilden to Utica and the Exposition. GOVERNOR TILDRN’S SPEECH. The Governor was received with cheers and applause, and spoke as follows:— MR. Procror, GENTLEMEN OF THE Fark AND CrrizENs OF CaNTRAL NewYork--I felicitate myself that I have to-day an opportunity to witness the magnificent display of your industry, and, what is more magnificent, this mass of farmers and citizens. Now York, of all the States of the American Union, in its agriculture, embraces the largest number of farmers, has more invested in its farms and agricultural implements and yields every yearalarger product for its agricultural industries than any of the other American commonwealths, True it fs that New York is transcendent in her commerce and exceeds in Mer manufactures and mechanical in- dustries all the other States of the American Union; but, with these great achievements in the arts, she still maintains her front rank in the agriculture of the United States. Fellow Citizens—As I grew up I lived among farmers, not in acity like Utica, notin village, but in a ham- let, where almost every man I met was a tiller of the soll. T believe that I learned to understand their tom- per, their character and their interests, aud ever since through life I have been mindful of them in the humble part I have taken in the conduct of public affairs, and I consider myselfinvited to-day by the ramarks made by the President of your society, to say to you a fow words in regard to the interests of the farmers of the State of New York. In the present condition of our public affairs I have no word of a partisan character to utter, I have nothing to say t you that any American citizen should not say to every other American citizen, to whatever political party he may belong or whatever his political opinions | are. My proposition, then, gentlemen, is this—that | the farmer, more, perhaps, than any other class, 1s in- terested in the question of taxation which has been Poveda Mf the President of your association. His gains come slow!y and with difficulty. No fortunate speculations, no turn of the markets, no exercise of his wits fills his little treasury. It is toil—honest, patient, industrious toil, to Which alone he can look for the surplus which at tho end of the year enables him to fill his tittle store and to meet the constantly recurring demands of the tax gatherer. 1 gay, therefore, that he, more than any other citizen of the community, is interested in this question, Now, my fellow-citizens, what are the facts in respect to this matter? Our forefathers fought that they might establish on this continent an associa- tion of equal American citizens, who should be able to conduct their public affairs’ simply by a govern- ment attending a few common objects, preserving and maintaining justice, protecting the citizen, and leaving the mass of his earnings in his pocket, to be disbursed accordmg to his tastes and ding to his desires. ‘They fh B. Gardiner, of Gardiner’s Island, ‘The following dele- | from the UM alo ates oc aragts lard eae gates were appointed to the Senatorial Convention for | from the oppressions and burdens of European govern- ment, and established a free commonwealth, in the hope that through all the future their institutions might be preserved at smail cost with justice and frugality. Now, my fellow citizens, if you look at the census of 1870 you will find that the faxes of that year were five-fold what they were in 1860. It was fivo years after the close of the war, and yet the taxes were not reduced to the former amount, not to one and a half; not to two; not to three or four times, but re- mained five times their former amount—and to-day they are very little reduced. Now, sir, Iam not going to undertake to say here whose fault’ this is. I suppose that in some degree it is everybody’s fault. It will be Your fault if you donot correct it Fellow citizens, had occasion at the beginning of tho legislative session last winter to state to the logislative bodies and to you, that the taxes for the ten years following the war had been $7,000,000,000, or $700,000,000 a year on an average for’ ten years, Now I submit to you whether this is not too large a portion of all you can earn to be appropriated for such & purpose? Think of i, Your national debt is but the amount of three years taxation. Think of it. You have built in the last forty years 76,000 miles of railway. The nominal amount of their stocks and bonds might be something near $4,000,000, 000, and the actual cost about $2,500, yw citizens, this | vast sum expended for these purposes is less than three and a half years of your taxes. Try another illustra- tion, You are very justly proud that you are the go gold and silver producing nation in the world. ‘ou boast that on your broad areas of fertile soils you raise cereals to send abroad to eke out the supply rf to feed the population of the Old World. ‘You send forward your grain, gathered from every part of the United States; you send meats; you send wheat and corn and cheese; you send other prod- ucts of the farm; you send vast quantities of petro- jJeum, and then you have one crop, the mass of which 4s exported, the largest that any nation in the world ever contributes to the exchanges of mankind—I mean | the cotton crop, which yields from $200,000,000 to $280,000,000 a year foreign exports, Now, what is the result? “When you have sent forward your gold and silver, your petroleum, your wheat and your corn, your cheese, your butter and meat and cotton, and products ‘of every kind—when you have raked and scraped this Continent from the lakes to the Gulf, and from the Atlantic to the remote interior, what have you done? When you havo gathered together all these products and paid the cost of carrying them to the seaboard—a cost often larger than the original cost of raising the products—with every exportable commodity carried to the Atlantic sea- board and deposited in the veasels of foreigners, you have paid ten months of one years taxes, 1 uso these illustrations to present in as clear a manner as possible the nature of the burdensome system to which you have submitted. Inaspeech which I made seven years ago I depicted this condition of things, and said that while you could pay what you did during the swelling of values out of the froth of apparent and illusory wealth, that when prices should settle to their ak condition, as they are sure to do, then it would take not merely your | earnings and your income, but would trench upon your capital’ itself to pay such — taxation. And now, gentlemen, while at that timo it was diMecult to get an audience or find | ears willing to listen, that change has come—tt is upon | you, No human contrivance or act of government can prevent or stay the reaction that results from fictitious values, When prices recede then there settles around us like a dark cloud this weight of taxation which you uy ago, (Ap- Fellow citizens, ‘I appeal to you without ref- erence to your party, character or party affiliations to Join in the demand for the retrenching and redressing of these evils. If you are a republican see to rt that no republican goes to the legislative halls except he rep- sent you faithfully on this subject. If you be demo- crats, see that no man goes to represent you in the logislutive bodies who will not do his entire duty to the plause.) | labor and industry of the country. In this respect yon havo but to will it, and the farmers, though _ the! have ceased to overn =the State of New York as completely as tl id thirty or forty years ago, when they formed two-thirds or three- fourths of the whole mass of voters, to-day exercise such a vast, powor hat, they can control the result if the m mine it, and they are interested in a foaaft agra State tixation, In the city of Utica, | in all cities of the State, the heaviest burden of taxation is from municipal taxes; but among the farmers in the rural districts the State daxes are about half, and the town and county taxes the other half, of what the farmor has to pay. It is in your power to control the sown and county taxes, and | tb. you have only to send men to Albany who Ags 10 the State fully represent you and you will control als: taxes. conflict and turmoil, the attempt to remove the fungus growths’ that had sprung up all over and around our State institutions and which were smothering their vitality. have reduced already your taxes from 7% mills to 6 mills for the present year, and if you will send next winter to Albany men who will join’ in this object you can reduce them to4 mills. I present you this object to-day. I invoke the attention of the farmer to this in- teresting subject, I call upon him to do his duty to himself and his duty to all other citizens of this great commonwealth. Fellow citizens—Thanking you for your kind and patient attention and promising to myself an oppor tunity to see the products of your farming industries yet to be exhibited at this farrso far as I can do #0 by Govoting tho rest of the day to it, 1 bid you a good al. ternoon. OTHER SPRAKE) Aftor Governor Tilden’s remarks ex-Governor Soy- mour and Senator Kernan were called out, aud they responded with brief but happy remarks. AM INDUSTRIAL PROCRSSION pie A grand industrial procession was arran) in honor of the Governor, consteuing of all the agricultural im- plements, cattle, horses, wagons, tradesmen, butchers, manufacturers, mechanics and representatives of all the departments of the fair, led by the military. The pro- cession was over half a mile in length. Governor Tik den and party worg much pleased with the display. ‘TO-DAY'S MILITARY DISPLAY, To-morrow there will be @ grand sham battle and military review. ———— NAVAL INTELLIGENCE, THE UNITED STATES STEAMER FROLIC, The United States steamer Frolic, bound to Rio Janeiro from Norfolk, sailed from Fortress Monroe yesterdays ‘We began this work last winter. It made great | We | 8 PRESIDENT GRANT. Meeting of the Army of the Tennessee at Des Moines, Iowa. THE PRESIDENT SPEAKS. He Defines the Probable Conflict of the Future. THE LONGEST SPEECH YETJ Des Monwns, Iowa, Sept, 30, 1875. ‘The meeting of the Army of the fennessee at thd Opera House, in this city, last night, was very largely? attended. Speeches were made by General Shermang Governor Fletcher, of Missouri; Colonel Fred, Gra General Myer (‘Old Probabilities”) an@ many ‘ot but the chief interest was in the speech of Presiden Grant He was loudly called for by the audience, Het then advanced to the footlights and said that ho sup-4 posed he was called upon because he was the first com4 mander of the Army of the Tennesseo and, secondly, cause he always made short speeches. He said that h had expected to be called upon and had therefore red duced his remarks to writing. He then took from hig pocket @ paper, which he read in a low tone of voice but, so still was the vast audience, thas every word wi distinctly audible. PRESIDENT GRANTS SPEECH, President (rant said :—‘Comrades—It always afford me much gratification to meet my oid comrades in art of ten and fourteen years ago, and to live over again in memory the trials and hadships of those days—bard. ships imposed for the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions. We believed thon and believ now that we had a good government, worth fightin, for and, if need be, dying for. How many of our com=i rades of those days paid the latter price for our pro-t served Union! Let their heroism and sacrifices be ever green in our memory. Let not the results of their sac rifles be destroyed. ‘The Union and tha free institutions, for which they fell, should be held moro dear for their sacrifice. We will not deny to any of those who fought against us any privileges under the government which we claimy for ourselves; on the contrary, we welcome all such’ who come forward in good faith to help to build up the waste places and to perpetuate our institutions against! all enemies as brothers in full interes*with us in a com~ mon heritage; but we are not prepared to apologize tor’ the part we took in the war. It is to be hoped that like trials will never again befall our country. In this sentiment no class of people can more heartily joim than the soldier who submitted to tho dangers, trials and hardships of the camp and the battle field. Ont whichever side he may have fought, no class of people are more interested in guarding against a recurrence of those days, ‘THE ENEMIES TO GUARD AGAINST. “Let us then begin by guarding against every enemy: threatening the perpetuity of free republican, institus tions, I do not bring into this assemblage politics, cera tainly not partisan politics, but it is a fair subject fort soldiers in their dehberations to consider what may bé necessary to secure the prizo for which they battled im @ republic like ours. Where the citizen is the sovereign and the official the servant, where no power is exer< cised, except by the will of the people, it is important that the sovereign—the people—should possess intellix gence, A WORD YOR PREE SCHOOLS. “Tho free school is the promotér of that intelligence which is to preserve us asafree nation. If we are tor have another contest in the near future of our nationall existence I predict that the dividing line will not ba Mason and Dixon’s, but between patriotism and intelli~ gence on the one side and superstition, ambition and! ignorance on the other. Now, in this centennial year: of our national existence, I believe it a good time to begin the work of strengthening the foundation of tha house commenced by our patriotic forefathers 100° years ago at Concord and Lexington. Let us all labor to add all needful guarantees for the more perfect se~ curity of free thought, free speech and free press, pura morals, unfettered religious sentiments and of equal rigbte and privileges to all men, irrespectrve of na tionality, color or religion. . NO SECTARIAN APPROPRIATION®, “Encourage freo schools and resolve that not one dol=~ lar of money appropriated to their support, no matter -how raised, shall be appropriated to the support of any sectarian school. Resolve that neither the State nor nation, or both combined, shall support institutions of learning other than those sufficient to afford to every child growing up in the land the opportunity of a good common school education, unmixed with seo tarian, pagan or atheistical tenets. Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church and the private school supported entirely by private contribu« tions, Keep the church and State forever separate. With these safeguards I believe the battles which cro~ ated the Army of the Tennessee will not have been fought in vain.’? ’ THR CATHOLIO CLERGY OJECT. The speech was rapturously applauded throughout its delivery. It has drawn forth some severe criticismy in the local press to-day from the Catholie clergy and! others, GRANT AT ST, LOUIS. [From the St, Louis Republican, Sept. 25.] ‘Tho President and party arrived on the Vandalia lin at half-past eleven yosterday, the train arriving some four hours late on account of an obstruction on the, track, The distinguished party consists of President: Grant, Mrs. Grant, Colonel Fred. D, Grant and wife, ex-Secrotary of the Navy A. E. Borie, Miss Borie, Gen~! | eral O. BE. Babcock, the President’s private secretary,. and three servants. General John Popo and wife and Colonel B. Misley, of the General's staff, though not of the party, came on the same train from Cincinnati. The Presidential party were met at Greenup, Ind., byt Mr. W. D. W. Barnard, of this city, who returned with; them, and at the depot Judgo John F. Long, Colonel Easton and Colonel Newcomb were on hand to welcome the party. The President wore a gray duster, and is lookingy stont, fresh and bearing tho evidences of florid health, . Tho party left Long Branch on Wednesday and cama straight through without missing a train. The President, jb a short interview, said ho had avery pleasant trip. Om arriving at the Union depot the party were taken im to the Lindell Hotel, whore adoquate quarters were provided for them on short notice, Mr. Clemeng receiving notice by telegram only at ten o'clock A. M. Parlors Nos. 6, 11, 19, 207 and 200 have been assigned} to the party. and tho President has also the gentlemen's ‘lor. itoaay, ho goes down to hia furm on the Gravois. Hi visit at this time has reference to the arrangement his private affairs, All his stock will bo disposed of auction on the 80th and he will determine whether Jease or retain bis farm under his own administration, ‘The farm, it seems, ‘has not been very profitable, th outgoes, Including taxes, being for the past two yeara about $9,000 per annum roore than the income. "The President and friends will leave on Monday even~ ing next for Des Moines, Iowa, whero there 18 to be al reunion of old soldiers on the 28th. The Presiden& goes thence via Cheyenne to Denver and returns over! the Kansus Pacific Railway, TILTON’S OVATION. HE LECTURES TO A BROOKLYN AUDIENCE Of THE HUMAN MIND, Montague street, Brooklyn, was last night, betwoem the hours of seven and eight o'clock, greatly overs crowded, and the entrance to the Academy of Musiq seemed a vast sea of human forms. The announcement , that Theodore Tilton was to deliver for the first ti this season his lecture entitled ‘The Human Mind” was sufficient to attract to the Academy thousands his friends and admirers, who crowded the auditorium from pit to dome The audience was brilliant and fashionable, embracing many of Brocklyn’s wealthi men and hapdsomest ladies. At ten minutes to the house was go filled that camp stools were the aisles, while a large namrber stood up during 2 entire lecture, ‘Among the audieuce were Messrs, Pryor, Morrts Pearsall Mr. Miton's counsel in the late trial Loader, tho supplementary witness, was also Cage The Drator appeared fee yy! 0 stage, A loud shout grected him, in which the whole vast audience, seemed to join hearty applause of the lecturer.) This bad a marked effect upon Mr, Tilton, who, witht flushed face and a manner indicating, that he was in- fluenced by the strongest emoti forwa jons, stepped and delivered his lect! which was listened to tentively and enthusiastically applauded throughank a.