The New York Herald Newspaper, October 16, 1875, Page 8

WICKHAM’S WAR. “Matsell and Disbecker Answer the Mayor's Charges. Old Chief’s Editorial and Police Records. The HE IS PROUD OF BOTH. Disbecker Charges the Mayor with Ignorance. “YOU ARE A POLITICIAN.” Yesterday being set as the day for the reception of the answers of Mesers. Matsell and Disbecker, Police Commissioners, to the call of the Mayor for their resig- nations, Mr. Matsell appeared promptly at two o'clock, accompanied by his counsel, Mr. £. T. Gerry, William McKeller, of the Police Gazette, and one or two friends. Mr. Gerry, after stating that bis associate counsel, Mr. J. E. Parsons, was absent, read the following docu- ment:— MATSELL’S ANSWER. «, George W. Matsell, Police Commissioner, attend here in’ persou to-day in consequence of a communication addressed to the Police Commissioners of the city of New York by your Honor, acopy of which was received by me on the 8th inst. This letter calls upon me to tender my resignation to your Honor, in order to “escape further official action” upon various complaints, which you say have been preferred against me individually and against the Police Board, and the threat is held omt that if I do not resign that you will definitely submit “some of the charges against me and against the Board, to which the public seem to attach = importance, and ask my immediate attention w | ern. Should I tender my resignation, as you desire, and for the reasons set forth in your letigr, it would be a tical acknowledgment that I was guilty of the of- | mces therein charged against me individually, and | ‘that I was answerable for any inefliciency of the police | force for you state that the charges are sworn to by | ‘one or more witnesses. My resignation could not, there- fore, be received “without respect to the trutiyor falsity of any of these complaints.” Ido not desire to ‘“‘escape further official action,” but, on the contrary, um most anxious that the s, to the “general character” of which you refer fn your letter, should be ‘tefinitely submitted against me,” in order that I may justity myself publicly before you, I must, thereforo, respectfully but decidedly de- | €line to resign my position as Police Commissioner, | emphatically denying the truth of any and all charges | against me. GEO, W. MATSELI Commissioner of Police and President of the Board of Police, Mr. Gerry then turned to the Mayor and asked | whether his charges were made against his client in- | dividually or against all the Commission. On receiving | ® response that it was in his individual capacity he had | been asked to. answer Mr. Gerry proceeded to read the | following:— . ‘THE OLD CHIEF'S REASONS. To the Hon, Wiiutau If. Wickuas,: Mayor of the City of New York. Sin—On the 19th of August last you sent to the Police | Commissioners of the city of New York, for therr infor- mation and attention, a communication signed by “John | D. Townsend,” containing allegations and ‘charges | against the Board of Puiice Commissioners and mem- | ders thereof, | I respectiully insist that Your Honor has no legal | right, power or authority to hold me responsible for | any of the acts which your communication charges | upon the Board. To warrant my removal! claim that | there must be charges preferred against me personally | of sowe specific wrongful acts or neglects, or of some Tersonal co-operation, by vote or otherwise, in wrong- | ful acts of the Board, With respect to any and all matters: contained or re- ferred to in your cotamunication which may be con- | strued as implying any neglect of duty or any official | misconduct on my part as an individual Commissioner, | 1 do explicitly and fully deny every such charge. | T deny that any present misgoverument of the police | force has been shown by “recent” or other ‘“develop- | ments,” much less has it been shown that the de- partment is insufficient for the protection of persons ‘and property or in the prevention and detection of crime, I now proceed to make definite reply to Mr. Town- | eend’s charges, and I ask for my answer that respectful, careful, caim, patient consideration which Your Honor | ‘would ‘ask and expect were you charged with official | dereliction. | ANSWER No. 1, | I, the undersigned, answer charge one, and aver that | the Police Commissioners have made rules and regula- .| tions for the guidance and government of the police | force in consonance and conformity with the existing jaws of the State and ordinances of the city of New | York; and that as soon as a new law or ordinance is | paseo the rules of the police force are modified aceord- ingly, and a copy of such new or modifled rule is imme- diately sont to each captam on the force and read by him to ail the police officers under his command. ANSWER NO. 2 I, the undersigned, in answer to charge two, em- phatically aver that I am not aud have never been de- void of Such moral eapacity or character as would elevate me above vice and crime and enable me to create respect in the force uuder my command. I aver that no evidence of that nature exists or can be ob- | tained, And in this connection and in support of this | assertion I make the following personal statement:— | In the year 1840 I became acquainted with your late revered predecessor, the Hon. William Frederick | Havemeyer, and secured his approving confidence by mnceasing labors, in season and out of season, for the | Public saiety. He appomted me Chief of Police, which Fesponsible position I held through seven successive | mayoralties without a single whisper against my in- | tegrity. I desire no higher commendation than the fact that his faith in me never abated, I deny that I have ever beon the editor of an immoral periodical; | ‘bat, ou the contrary, aver that I publicly edited prior to my appointment on the penne & babes called the National Folice Gazette, which never was an immoral publication. I say itis true that on one occasion while I was Superintendent of the force, and when | was about to | accompany the then Mayor of New York on the police | boat, I, pursuant to my authority under section 12 of the Manual, directed Captain Edward Walsh to absent bimself from the boat for the time being. It | +is also trae that on two or three other | Occasions since I have been d& Commuis- sioner, xnd when about to make use of the boat for Personal inspection of the river the Superintendent, at | my iutimation, bas stmilar! ected the said captam | to leave the boat. The reason for it is correctly stated to be my unwillingness to meet him on the boat after the statements ts to me in reference to his conduct, and atter | had read the story of the girl Clifton, and after Captain Walsh bad abstained from asking jor an investigation. | ANSWER NO. 3, | For answer to charge three, I say that I have no Knowledge that during my incuinbency of the oflice of Police Commissioner any officer or momber of the po- hice force has been denied a trial, or that the Boar@ has jected to give any oflicer or meniber of the force a trial when rightfully Wemanded; whereiore I deny the assertion that such denial and neglect have ever oc- curred, ‘Tam notaware of any power inthe Mayor to com- | pel me to answer tor the sborteorm Board, or | remove me from office by reuson of on of the | Board. For wyself I deny that 1 ha ex. | hibited ignorance of my duties, or have wil- | fully negiected them. Nor do I see how I could | Teadily discover, after the lapse of a long period of time, gross outrages and misdeeds committed vo. uy advent to office, which either eluded the scrutiny of ny predecessors or was go concealed and buried in { stances, perhaps by their connivance, ae to reuder even the fact of their perpetration—much more we evi- dence to establish the fact—unknown to me, in dealing with offences 1 have had, among other | things, to eonsider the character and position of the officer charged, his term of service, his previous sta ing, the circumstances under which the oifence charged was committed, and the effect of punishment not alune upon ’ the offender, but upon those | who were bis immediate companions upon the force; that I have recognized the necessity of dealing | with different cases according to the dictates of an ex- | perienced judgment and acquaintance with their indi- | Vidual circumstances and surroundings, When, for ex- | ampie, a policeman, for his own corrupt protit or con- | venience, has delayed the presentation of @ prisoner, I have urged the infliction of the extreme penalty; but I | have favored the milder measure cf punishment for an | iniraction of the letter of the law when robbers were thereby brought to justice and their plunder restored to the rightful owners, ANSWER NO. 4 I deny the statements contained in charge four, and aver that, so far as lum informed of the action of the Board, and so far ax my individual action as a Police Commissioner is concerned, the Superintendent, Cap- tains, and other officers of tle police fores have’ been Fequired to do ther duty | | hus Lave I replied to ever ation against me, | and in each instance furnished reasons which, as I be- | heve, will appear Lo you ample for dismissing the whole | ofune charges Aguiust me. | wt they can be thus easily and completely dis- oved will surely be only less rw Bh . toe te aa | myself—to you, who, though of a nyer genera tion, have grown up in this city and are aequain ‘with my long aud faithful services in bebalf of its citie eens. | To my services I point with pardonable prido, ax f Iso do to the present system of municipal police, which was established on a foundation of my own construc- tion, after an exhaustive compurison with the models of all civilized countries, and which pattern for other cilies of the Union. | 7 GEORGE W. SELL, | Commissioner of Police and President of the Bourd of | Police, | PROTEST AND DEMAND. 1, George W. Mateell, Police Commirsioner, having, jn reply to Your Honor’s request of October 7 and 1s, denied in writing and under oath the charges ther Folerred to. do pow myokest acainst my Lene removed | Dy acti | al | time, were wholly justifiable. Lt was my privil ever, to determine for myself how I should act on that | occasion, aid I did so in the exercise of adiscretion | | by the pol | the citizens referred to, which were immgdia | exsary evi dy you from office ot sworn to. upon hearsay evidence and charges lao further protest against any such removal upon evidence taken in another p! ing or before an ie tribunal. And I do further protest against any action being taken by Your Honor im the matter until each aad all of the demands | now make be complied with. 1. 1 demand thas every charge made against me ve made specific and certain, in order that I may know | and where such groynds aro set forth therein, | definitely of what I am accused, 1 1 demand that I be furnished with either the original or verified coples of any documentary evidence in support of such charges, IIL, I demand that I may be confronted with and be permitted to cross-examine each and every witness who you assert will testify to such charges. IV. I demand that then I may have an opportunity to be heard in my defence, and be allowed to produce evidence against such charges and in support of my de- fence thereto, And that I may be repre-onted by counsel, GEORGE W. MATSELL, Commissioner of Police aud President of the-Board of Police, New York, Oct. 15, 1875, The Mayor took the papers and promised to give them his careful attention, Mr. Stranahan, counsel for Com missioner Disbecker, afterward submitted the follow- ing;— COMMISSIONER DISRECKER, Pouce Deranrunyt, Ceytrat ‘| New Yor, Oct, 14, 1875. ba Wittiam H. Wickuam, Mayor of the city.of New ‘ork :— Sm munication marked “personal” (which you gaye to the press for publication) and also to the charges which you transmitted to the Board of Police, I, have not noticed the charges signed by Mr. Oakey Hall, as I was directed not to do so.’ If you require these charges answered I shall at once respond on hearing from you, I am ad- vised that your action in this matter fs of a quasi- judicial character, The Governor of the State has tuken the same view as to his duties under the charter. I therefore ask a hearing before you on those charges, to be confronted with the witnesses against me, and the opportunity to put in my evidence I make this de- mand in writing an order shat your record may bear estimo the fact, Respectfully, rare ABRAHAM DISBECKER ANOTHER ANSWER, R, Disbecker’s answer is very voluminous. The follow- } ing contains its most important points. In regard to the first allegation, that the force was ‘‘demoralized,” &e,, he says:— ‘The police force is not “demoralized beyond hope of recovery,” and no person but yourself has ever mace such an assertion. If you believe in this demoralization you certainly prove yourselfto have been very remiss in You now have been Mayor of the city for a er nine months, From you the Board of police has at no time received information, suggestion or direction in reference to the reformation or improve- ment of the force. What you may have saidon this subject to other members of the Board I know not. To me commendation, not condemnation, was your in- variable greeting. On numerous occasions you have assured me that my official action was approved by you. Never until these charges were presented did you inform me wherein I had failed to perform my duty. Ido not say that the force is all that can be desired, but I do maintain, and I know of what I speak, that the | great mass of the force is not surpassed by any other in fidelity to their duty and success in the objects for which, asa force, they exist. and to the weeding out of such exceptions I have done more than any Police Commissioner in office for years. | When I became a member of the Police Board I ‘found | myself confronted with many difficulties. 1 bad, and have, no power over the force, to remove or ap- point, A further diffleulty 1 had to contend with was the insufficiency of the machinery at the command of the Board for the proper prosecution of delinquent members of the force. The Board was placed sub- stantially in the position of conducting the prosecution and sitting at the same time as judges on the trial. LY IN DETAIL, What you have furnished by way of specification, and called upon me to answer, I shall do with pleasure:— Cuarce.—¥ou ebarge that I, “in violation of the rales governing your Board, appointed to the position of patrol- Ten strangers of less than six months’ residence in the city, iely upon she ground of recommendation of political ‘Yhis ig a strange accusation coming from you, Surely you are not ignorant of the fact that I have no power io appoint a patrolman, The power is in the Board of Police alone, You further complain in this connection that the appointments towhich you refer were made on the recommendation of ‘*political allies.” Are you serious t@ this complaint ? YOU ARE A POLITICIAN allied with other politicians—‘‘political allies’—by whom you are daily importuned, on their recomme dation, to appoint to office. Ofcourse, in this you do not consider you are doing any wrong. Thon is your complaint based on the doctrine that a wrong 1s done only when one belonging to the republican party ap- points to office, on the recommendation of “political allies.” You are evidently driven to your wits’ end to frame acharge or make a specification of complaint | founded upon my action as a member of the Police | jourd. Cuancn—It isthe duty of the Poljce Commissioners to make rules and regulations for the guidance and government of the police force in consonance and conformity with the existing laws of the State and ordinances ek, The rules and regulations of the department are con- | sonant with and in conformity to the laws of the Stat provide very matter and thing which relates to the duties of the force. All patrolinen, when appointed upon the force, are required to attend a special school of instruction for one month, and are then instructed as to thejlaws of the State which | apply to the department and the ordinances of the city so far as known and understood and the rulesand regula- | tions of tue Board in force, Every precaution is thus taken to have the members of the force instru; as to their duties under the laws and ordinances, Some time since, and belore charges were preferred, or even sug- | ‘d instructed a revised edition of the gested, the Bo: ions to be prepared, including all the Tules and regu new rules and amendments to the date of completion, | and when this work is perfected a new manual will bo printed. Cnancx—That, in the knowledge that Commissioner Matsell was devold of moral capacity and character, be was elected President of the Bowrd. This is frivofous. I voted for Mr. Matsell, as Presi- dent of the Board, under circumstances, which, at the which I do not now SEEK TO PALLIATE OR EXCUSE. That all charges made. against members of the police must be tried is a fact admitted. denied or neglected, when rightfully demanded by any member of the foree; that trials have been conducted unfairly, unjustly or improperly (since I ‘have been a member of the rd), of that minutes of said trials have been mutilated ‘and tampered with are asser- tions which in each and every particular are faise, Each ca: is tried in view of its surroundings, and judges would be culpubly negligent if they failed to Tecognize and consider such surroundings. . A discre- tion Is wisely placed in all judges, and by epecial law in the Board of Police (section 65 of chapter 385, Laws of 1872), in reference to such matters, and it is only the grossest ignorance that could attribute wrong to the proper exercise of such discretion. CMRP CLERK AAWLEY’S CasT. The Board is arraigned for having failed to put Mr. rgcs alleged. Mr. Hawley is not & m force, and there is no law which requires that an employé of the department— not amember of the forco—should be tried formally upon char; Instantly, on the accusation being made against bin, Mr, Hawley demanded an immediate in- vestigation; and upon this demand, and on August 3, he wis directed to present in writing an answer to the accusations, “with such proofs as might be pertinent to the matter.” On the 3d of submitted to the Board his answe Smith moved , and upon its rece that ge and rd, who was instructed to report thereon, After due investiga tion and consideration the counsel submitted his opia- ion, which was to the effect that every allegntion made against Mr. Hawley upon personal knowledge bad becn specifically met and answered. EIGHTH AND PIFTRENTH WARD NUISANCES, No statement could be more devoid of truth than the allegation that the complaints of the citizens of the Figuth and Fifteenth wards have, since my connect with the department, been “utterly disregard by the Police Board.” Upon one or two occasions citi- zena ot these wards have calied upon me in reference to matters on which they desired action taken Their first visit to me was to ascertain whether the police would arrest the proprietors of cer- tain alleged disorderly places, who, it was stated, were selling liquor without a license. I' informed the parties who called that 1 would at once direct that such action be taken on their reporting the places referred to, and after uscertaining that they wore selling with: out a license, 1 gave the directions which reaulted in the arrest of such parties. On theif arrest they were taken before a police magistrate, when they pro- duced receipts from the Excise Bourd, acknowledging payments made ip anticipation of license, and upon these receipts they were discharged by the magistrates gad returned to their respective premises from which the police had taken them. I have algo epon two or more occasions received communications from some of y acted upon by the Board of Police, and the Superintendent, captains and officers were specially instructed to exer: cise every power with which they were vested by law to suppress the evils complained of, PANE. HOUSES, ‘The assertion made tuat pane! houses are known to exist in either the Eighth or Fifteenth wards of the city is a statement which there is not a vestige of au- thority to support. If such houses exist in the locull- ties indicated, or in any other part of the city, their operations must be very secretly conducted to ercapo the vigilant action of the police. Aud lot me say this action 18 not the growth of yesterday. For a period Jong prior to the opening of the session of the Legis lative Committee in this city each establishments have disappeared. The moral cvidence i certain that there are houses of prostitution in the city. The legal evidence to convict is what is required. power to suggest how the evil can be succesfully dealt with, do so, in God’s name, and you will find no one in the’ city of New York more ready and willing to ald you than Tam, $o faras power is vested in the police, in reference to such places, it has been so far us my knowledge extends, properly exercise It \s true that the Grand Jury have found some seventy- four indictments against parties alleged to be owners or occupants of such houses, but owing to the legai difll- culties which surround this subject, which you so ut- terly ignore Judictinents so found, These indictments were found At the Instance of the citizens of the association to which you reter, but these citizens, when called the District Attorney of the county to furnish enee to support the indictumente, 0. failed to have forthcoming the proof by which @ commitment | could be obtained. hand to you herewith my answer to the com- | you personally | Thore are exceptions, | lege, how- | That a trial has been , eptember Mr. Hawley | but one conviction bas followed upon the | the new. | PLACES OP A SUSPICIOUS CHARACTER. Tt is not made lawful by section 41 of chapter 403 of the Laws of 1864 “for the Superintendent of the Police | upon such report to authorize, in writing, any member or members of the force to enter such premises, who | may, forthwith, arrest those found offending against law.” It. is’ only apon reports where it 18 Stated there are good grounds for believing, that the premises’ are used for the purposes specified in the statute, that the Superintendent can | authorize tn writing the members of the police force to |enter such premises and arrest, as tn the statute directed, The statutory prerequisites cannot be ig- nored by the police force, a8 they have been by your | informant Before the ‘rigorous proceedings author: ized by the statute can be taken, the strictest observ- ance of the statutory prerequisites are indispensabte. Thave never yet heard of a case—certainiy | been reported to mo—where the Superintendent hus tailed to give the statutory authorization upon the pre- sentation to him of probable grounds for action, 4 FINE QUInRLR above set forth you bave, in your “personal” commu- H tion, on the authority, you state, of the testimony | adduced’ before the Committee of Assembly now hoid- | ing its sessions in this city, framed for the considera- tion of the Board of Police the general charge against it “of incompetency and unfitness as your Board is now organized to perform the duties to Which you are as- signed.” The Board is organized by the election of @ president and treasurer, and how or in what particular such organization renders che Board unfit w perform the duties assigned to it, you do not explain, When | you do so [shall be prepared to meet your specifica tion, What you allege on the authority of this same testimony, a8 to gambling houses, policy shops, panel | houses, and resorts of all Kinds of vice and vicious per- | sons, is in each and every‘ particular without founda- tion, That gambling houses and panel houses exist throughout this city to an alarming extent, and with astonishing notoriety, is a reckless assertion, entirely | untrue. Such houses do uot exist in this city, | and you, to-day, cannot point out to the police | house in which public gambling is carried on or where panel thefts are perpetrated. No doubt and vicious persons, Several of these places have strong political influence, being the political headquar- ters of many local associations Unfortunately, there is no law whieh authorizes the police to-deal with such places when properly licensed and when they keep the wace, The statute of 1872, known as the Habitual riminals act, was not passed for the _ purpose, | nor 3 it confer the wers which you stato. If you will only take the trouble to read the statute for yourself you will seo that | its provisions in no one particular warrant the state- | ment which you make in refereuce to it, Against policy | shops a perpetual warfare is carried on hy the police. | Arresis innumerable are made, but few of the parties | arrested are held by the magistrates, With reference 10 what you state as to the charge against and trials of Captains Williams, Van Dusen, McCuiloch, Killilea and others, it is suificient for me to say that my judgment in eac’ cases shall be as warranted by the testimon rials—those con- cluded and those now in progress—have been under the charge of the counsel to the Board, and they have been conducted with a due regard to the interests of the ac- cused and the public. YOR THX EFVICIENCY OF THE POLICR, “gs at present constituted,” I have this farther to state—that on a comparison with the statistics of crime in other cities—in Europe and in this country (all of | which are on file at the Central Office)—New York stands a favorable comparison with each and all, thus testifying, by incontrovertible evidence, that our police | force is as efficient in the discharge of its duties as any existing in any city in Kurope or America, With such information at your command, it is with something more than regret I feel that you, the Chief Magistrate of the city, have ‘so | far forgot your position as to lend your aid to such unfounded as- } Sertions with reference to the police force as have been promulgated by and through you, But, since you have made now these charges, I chal- lenge you to the proof. I challenge you to specify a single act of ineificiency on my part as a Commissioner of Police, or a single instance in which I have fuiled to attend to, and properly discharge, the duties of my oifice, Bring my accusers be- fore you, hear their evidence and then hear | mine in defence. Not until such hearing should judg- | ment be given. I am prepared, at any time, day and hour, to meet you at such place as you may designate, that | may be heard as the law provides Respectfully, yours, ABRAHAM DISBECKER, Commissioner of Police, ASSESSING BANKS. The Commissioners of Taxes and Assessments yes- terday made a report to the Mayor relative to the as- | sessments of the real and personal property of the city. In reference to the assessments on banks they remark :— | The method of assessing banks is a subject which | has received the careful consideration of the Com- | missioners, For several years the system which has prevailed of assessing the shares of all banks at of the shares of some of the banks worth more than par, owing to their possession of a surplus, has been | the'cause of complaints; the complaints coming, in large proportion, from those bauks which do not possess a considerable surplus. The | assessment Was unequal, and that theesurplus of | other corporations being assessed, it was not Just that the surplus of banks alone should escape, | While the Commissioners could not deny that there w force in these statements, they felt restricted as to their action, in part by the usage of the depart- | ment before any’ of the preseat Board entered into the office; in part by the general practice in the State, | but ebiedy by an unwillingness to jeopardize the va: | lidity of assessments involving so muny millions of | | dotinrs, by a construction of the law of 1866, which | might ‘have been suceessfully contested. From ‘the | restraining influence of the last consideration the Com- missioners are now released by a judicial interpretation | Of the statute, the effect of which ts to impose upon | | them explicity the duty of assessing the shares | of stock in banks “at their true value, instead | | of their par value.” This interpretation was | given in the Schenectady General Term of the | | Supreme Court November, 1874, Bockes, Lan- | don, and Countryman, Justices. Tho case was “i the People, rel. Choun P. Willams and rs va. the Board of Assessors 0 ty of Albany. sted of the nomenclature of the law, the question was whether the shares of a bank with’ a capital-of | $350,000, but with accumulations amounting with the capital to $1,183,839 15, was properly assessed at par or | $350,000. The opinion of the Court was that the assess- Ment at the par value was erroneous, and that the law required the shares to be assessed at their value, | whether that value exceeded par or not. It is signif | cant that, although the title of this ease does not als. | close the fact, the suit was practically between two of the Albany banks, larger surplus thin the other, | at par. CITY HALL NOTES. A rumor gained currency about the City Hall yester- day that, in consequence of developments before the | Grand Jury and the Committee on Crime, the Mayor | contemplated the removal of some of the Police Jus- tices, {t 18 openly asserted by friends of the Mayor that several justices will be compelled to “walk the plank,” but this talk is more likely intended to in- timidate some of the justic loyalty to Tammany Hall and driving them over to its support in the tug election. Comptroller Green yeeterday paid the salaries of the school teachers for the month of September, SCHOOLSHIP es who are suspected of di MARYS, | The annual examination of the schoolship St. Mary’s by the Council of the Nautical School for the port of New York took place yesterday morning, The exam- fners were John D. Jones, J. K. Myers and H. A. Barling, a committee appointed by the Chamber of, Commeree, assisted by David Wetmore on the partof the Board of Education. The ship returned from her cruise on tho 7th inst., and in the early part of the had drawn alongside the pier at the foot enty-third street, East River, where she was to be examined, At ten o'clock the Commissioners came on board and went through every purt of the ship, in- | apecting it as to cleanliness, strength, ventilation, &e. Many of the young sailors were engaged in making ropes and matting to bang over the sides of the ship in easo it should be hauled close to a pier or another vessel. ‘The regular crew of the ship numbers seventeen inen, Who instruct the young boys mtrusted to their care in the various duties of a seafaring life, There are at present about ninety pupils on the vessel, with accommodations for nearly forty more. The ship is about vo undergo some repairs on the dry dock, and there will. consequently be a vacation’ for the pupils, commencing next Mon- day and lasting until the of November, when school will be resumed, course of instruction is two y all officers on duty in the ship either with regard to the entrance of pupils into t vessel or their time of leaving it Sommisaiot finished their examination shortly after noon, app ently well satisiied with the work that is beimg done on | the Bt. Marys. ANNUAL INSPEC usual length of the The teachers are TION OF FIREMEN, | Assistant Chief Engineur Shea inspected the Fifth | and Sixth battalions of the Fire Department yesterday ‘The first of these consists of engine compante: a. 3, | 14, 18, 24, and hook and ladder companies, Nos. 6 and Sixth is made up of engine companies Nos. 6, 4, and hook and ladder con Nos, is the regular annual ing} known | 25, 28 am | and U1, | sult of which will not be If itis in your | 27h inst., when Chief Shea's report will be given to | the Commissioners. To-day the Seventh and Eighth battalions will be inspected, | | INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL | | The First Universalist Mission Sunday and Industrial | School held its sixteenth anniversary meeting at Bre- | voort Hall, Fifty-fourth strect, yesterday aiternoon. | Over 200 neatly-dreseed and contented-looking children ANNIVERSARY. | were in attondance and listened with becoming gravity | of demounor to the remarks of the speakers, Rev. | Dr. BH. Chapin addressed the scholars in his usual happy manner, and was foliowed by Rovs, 6. P. Ma | carthy, J. A. Seitz, J. V. Wilson and Profexsor A. M. Loutrel, after which a collation was served to the chil- dren i the apner hall. none has | In addition to the several charges and specifications | any of the liquor stores In the city are resorts of vice | the par value, without taking imto account the value | complaints | were based upon the statement that, as itnposed, the , | PLYMOUTH PRAYER MEETING. | MB BEECHER’S VIEWS ON THE SUBJECT OF | DEATH—THE EFFECT OF ANCESTRY UPON | goopwess. | Plymouth church lecture room was not crowded last | evening, and, therefore, much more comfortable than | tt generally is. Mr, Beecher’s table was adorned by an immense basket, composed entirely of autumn leaves | of the most gorgeous hues. The Plymouth pastor camo in @ little late and opened the meeting immedi- ately. Prayers were offered by Assistant Pastor Halliday and Brother Shearman. After the prelimi- nary exercises Mr. Beecher said:—I do not suppose it is 4 purpose of the Lord’s to take away the develop- | ment of natural affection and to overrule in such a | way the feelings of nature that the death of our friends shall bo the same to us as their hfe I do not suppose ft 4s part of the philosophy of Christ to make us indifferent to whether thoy go | orstay, And yet the subject of death, in the New Tes- | tament, ts placed in a kind of transcendent light. There is a glory hanging over the fact of dying, as contem- | plated by the Apostles, and the whole treatment ant | mention of that subject is as fur removed from tho | gloom and despondency indulged in generally as can well be conceived. I was thinking to-day it was brought nearer by the death of Mrs, Miriam in Spring- fieid, a woman of rare endowments and Christian char- acter, Mrs. Miriam was one of those happy persons, from a long line of godly ancestors, so that it was BASY FOR HER TO BB GOOD, and she was good. Sho extracted from the old, sturdy, | fruitful theology, the marrow and the meat, | and let the bones alone, and became, I al- | most said, the very blossom, the very rep- resentation of how noble and beautifal a person may be made by aright construction of evangelical religion. She lived long and she was my friend, and now sho has | passed to glory, and I have not a tear to shed, but @ | hundred thanksgivings that she has lived; that she was | what she was, and that she has, after | much tribulation, gone to rest Her children | were just such childron as she ought to | have, and to-morrow her burial services take place, and | T have reason to think that not one who knew her bat | accepts her death according to the highest form of true | Christian experience, I was thinking to-day that prob- ably there was in every city in the Jand just such per- every day. I don't know—they don’t como me—but they are and I thought what a | strange work is going om Half | born die in infancy. Death is doing his work almost | unobstructed around the world, and when you think | what death is by bringing it home to your own expe- | rience I think 1% one tw bring home to you the senso of the Comtorter. I believe in God as a power, as a wisdom, asa justice; butall those seem to me ‘com- paratively secondary. WHAT THIS WORLD WANTS | is a God that knows how to comfort folks, and one of the grandest names of God is the God of all consola- | tion, He has infinite susceptibility, infinite focling. He is infinite to comfort and sustain and strengthen. These make my God very beautiful and precious. When Llook back and think of the early Christians I am charmed to find how they felt about dying. They had | such a vivid sense of the reality of the heavenly home | that they could take their children and hand them into the hands of God, They could meet together over their dead as we mect to celebrate a great victory. It seems to me that it will be one of the benet- icent features of an expanding Christianity to bring back again the beauty of death, the triumph of death, the overhanging glory and light that ought w dash an destroy that darkness that to us overhangs the grave; | beyond and above the great day pushes down | and presses on this life. 'y mother had | always been an interpreter of heaven to me, although T was bat three years old when she died. But MY IDEA OF HBAVEN | is different to what it would have been had she re- | sons dyin glory in heaven? My father and mother and childron are there. Heaven is populated with people I love. Paul has only to say, “Iam Paal,” and I would say, “I know you all over.” I know many grand men, but they all need just a touch of perfection. of tho spirits of the just made perfect. How much there {s that ought ‘to inspire us in death and make men bless God that we don’t live always? But, you say to me, suppose God should call your eldest daughter, would you think ita festive day? I should probably be as weak as the rest of you. I should ORY LIKE RAIN, That is my hnman side. But then the better side would rise and quell the animal side and after a little | I should realize the peaceful fruit of righteous- ness 1 don't expect any words of mine will change any great current in your lives, but I'shouid be glad, by the continuous ministering of the bright side of death, to presert to you the hidden beauty of it, Here weakness, there strength; here the victory of nature, there the victory of divine grace. For my part, 1 have as much to live for as often falls to the lot of wan. Health, friends, a fortunate occupation in life, such success as Will keep great’ work and a love of working. I sup: pose if there is any man who has & reason to wish to live, I am the man, and yet I have | looked into my heart aud thought ‘if it be the wili of | God for my labor to close here and begin in tho other | worid I sbink I could say in ali sincerity, ‘I am wilting.” And yet if it is the will of my dear master that I should | Stay that ts enough—I am contentto stav and work | with cheer and hope. A, CLEVER ARREST. Detectives Mallan and Handy, of the Eighteenth precinct, yesterday afternoon arrested the following prisoners, charged with having been implicated in the robbery of Mrs. Rosaline Davis, of No. 69 East Tenth street:—Alexander Cremble, Hugh Brady, James Daley, Jobn Dolan, John Flanagan, Peter and’ Patrick MoMuahon, The prisoners are ull youths, the oldest not being over twenty-two years of age. The police say they belong to a gang of young ruffians who are a terror to the citizens of the Eighteenth ward. Two ofthe prison- oners admit their guilt’ They were taken to the Fifty- | seventh street court DEMZAK PILLORIED. eae To tHe Epitor or THE HERALD: — ‘The testimony of Victor Demzak, a prisoner in Lud- ch with asurplus, but one with a | low Streev Jail, taken yesterday before the Assembly and each assessed alike | committee and published in your issue of this *aorning, contains grave charges of conspiracy against John J* | Sehillinger, tha plaintiff in the suit in which Demzak | was arrested, and allegations of misconduct against ‘Tho improper conduct of the committee in allowing these proceedings to be used by Mr. Demzak in order to attack the plaintiff and the Court, with whose con- duct he is doubtless dissatisfled, makes it necessary to ask you to say that all the allegations made by him be- fore the coimittee have been made by him in court and fully met on a motion to vacate the order of arrest, argued before Judge Tappan August 18, 1875, which was | at once denied with costs, Your obedient servant, | Ocronen 16, 1 ASHBEL P. FITCH. —_——— SOUTHERN IRON. [From the Charleston (8, C.) News and Courier. ] | There has been a steady development in this industry ‘ since the war, and the great mineral State of the South, Alabama, now freely boasts of -being the chief seat in the Southern States of the manufacture of hot blast charcoal tron, her furnaces being situated on the Selma, Dalton and Rome Railroad, from which point shipments to England have been made and sold at £7 a £8 per ton, Specimens from other mines, which have been sent forward, are classed by the prominent Eng- lish manufacturers ag “Best best,” while the highest grade of iron 1s only “ Best best best.” ‘This tron trade is furnishing steady employment to many hundred na- tive whites and blacks, and a good many English, Scotch and Swedes, who are building up the South, in: | creasing the mining of hard coal and using annually millions of bushels of charcoal burnt in the forests | near the mines, Charcoal costing 6c. a 7c, and coke eo, a 10e,, the South must furnish a very considerable part of the 3,000,000 tons of iron made 1m the United States. This is indicated by the number of furnaces vow in | blast, aud projected, in South Carolina, North Carolina, | Georgia, Tennessee and Alabama, INDUCEMENT TO GO WEST. A Chicago heiress writes to the Chicago Tribune :—“T | am proud to say that, though I am an heiress to over | $3,000,000, I understand housekeeping in all its de- | partments thoroughly. been in love or even had a fancy for any oney but should a man that I love r otier himself to me L would say yes, though he had but $600 a year, and, re- membering the happy, married life of my sister in spite | of poverty, I should feel assured of happiness, ” NEVADA'S YOUNG WOMAN. [From the Virginia Chronicle, Sept. 30.) Gold Hill miner who has the happiness to board ata restaurant on Main street, In this restaurant, em. | ployed as a waitress, is d good-looking young woman. For reasons not known to the outside world the miner in question has allowed his tongue to wag eomewhat bee upon the aubject of this woman’s character, She the agony of the restaurant man by finishing an inter- minabie sapper, he received an invitation from the | handsome young woman to step into a back room, It | ‘was given smilingly, and the scandal-monger went pn- suspiciously to his fate, She closed the door, and in | reply to the questioning look drew a Bt: her pocket aud requested him to get down on his knees. | Being an obliging fellow he did so instantly, and there he cheerfully confessed that he wes har, and that tho efore hit was in all respects considerably She lot him go then, end now than | fuir damsel | superior to most angels. thore isn't a more taciturn man im Gold Hil that miner, tho children | mained, Do you suppose | think of nothing but tho | Heaven is full | man’s spirit alive, | T am nineteen, but have never | Last week will be memorable in the life of a talkative | rd the gossip and learned its source, and on Wednes- | day evening of last week, just as the miner had relieved | shooter from | 16, at half.past two P.M. | ceded on the usual condition: Chief Justice Davis, who granted the order ot arrest. | | Tuesday, October 12, by the Rev. Thomas H. | Pa, Groner D. | daughter of the late John Lane, of New York city, NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1875.—TRIPLE SHEET. THE RICH AND POOR LECTURE BY MRS. ELIZABETH CADY STANTON—~ AN ARGUMENT FOR PEACEFUL LABOR STRIKES. A very crowded attendance sigpalized the appearance of Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton at the weekly meeting of the Liberal Club last evening, at Plimpton Hall The subject of her lectaro-was “Rich and Poor.” The dis- tinguished lady was introduced to the audt enco by Mr. L, Ormsby, First Vice President, Mrs, Stanton looked supremely well The grand aureole of bright, silvery bair above her noble fore- head was brighter than ever. She has, perhaps, the finest and sweetest face and the most euphonious voice of any woman that has ever appeared on the platform of Woman’s Rights, But she has even more than that, She possesses a clear and active brain, that never leads her into absurdity and extravagance, aud @ heart that ever beats with a warm throb for all human suffering. Mrs. Stanton addressed herself to the financial condl- tion of the country, and made quite as plausible an ar- gument tn favor of inflation as General Butler or Mr. Wendell Phillips, Still it was a pity to hear THE LECTURES: copying these hardened sinuers and calling for plenty of greenbacks, She conld.have been as clear as crystal and as convincing as Scripture on any social topic, but when she drifted into that fearfully fascinating mael- strom of finance she lost herself completely, Fow men have a lucid understanding of the proper bearings of American finance, and if the men are so be- nighted it is vain to look for enlightenment from the women. Yet if any woman in the United States could throw a ray of light on the distracting question, surely Mus. Stanton is the one. Her lecture was admirably worded, but its ironical logie was weak in proportion to its rhetorical brilliaucy. She referred with feoling to the mighty multitude of hom wanderers she observed in the streets and parks of London, and blushed for her kind that 80 many should be on the verge of starvation while the Jand and the comforts were in the hands of a few. She alluded to the evil of land monopoly, The natural growth of civilization is from common centres outward, but {t was found that all the territory adjacent to large cities is “gobbled up” by speculators, and the poor men have to go to the far off West to find a free foothold for their fam- ilies, None but the wealthy can own land in THE HBART OP CIVILIZATION, and hence we have vice, ignorance and’ crime among the poor who cannot afford to buy a single square foot of the soiL The whole system of government as it now stands is to make the rich richer and the poor poorer, She believes in the theory of Wendell Phillip that when a man owns a house of certain size he shoul be taxed $100; when he owns ten houses of the same size let him be taxed $1,000, and 80 on as his property expands; and in this way excessive riches would be checked and all classes would be more fairly weighted in tho race tor wealth or com- petence, Mrs. Stanton referred in beautiful language to the simple avocations of the poor, espectally the call- ing of the flower girls, whose punched and impoverished faces contrast strangely with the bright and glowing colors of the fresh and fragrant wares they offer for sale, “Labor,” she said, “now sees its slavery the world over,’ The plans of roformers of the past aro now unwise Bloody revolutions are out of time. Strikes and ogitations among workingmen are right and proper. Organization and co-operation are logitimate steps to take in promoting the material wellbeing of labor, Labor has to fight its battle against power just as capital has. Some say you cannot make paupers princes or pandemonium para- dise,”” She believed it was possible, and that if labor had only afew wise leaders it could turn the tables and render Wall street gambling and bank monopolies im- possible, Mrs. Stanton concluded her earnest and eloquent address amid prolonged applause. STANLEY'S AFRICAN MISSION. On Mr. Stanley's return in 1873 from his successful effort to relieve Dr, Livingstone an immense audience met in Dr, Crosby's church to hear a lecture on the progress of African discovery given by Dr. Pinney, in | which he expressed his belief and gratification as to the triumphant success of that enterprise, Dr. Pinney bas | had the Herat map of Lake Victoria, as explored by Stanley and published in the Heraup, enlarged, and | roposes to uso it in another lecture on Sunday even- ing, in the church at the corner of Cltuton and Fulton | strécts, Brooklyn, He will point out the field where Livingstone died, and tell of the country where Stuniey | { now travelling. The lecture is free to all, ' CENTENNIAL OF ST. PAUL. On the 18th of October, 1775, St. Paul of the Cross, the illustrious founder of the Order of Passionists in the Roman Catholic Church, was gathered to his rest. The church has since pronounced his beatification and proclaimed him as numbered among the saint His numerous followers throughout the world have made great prepaations to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of his death, The West Hobo- ken Passionists commence their celebration to-day by the inauguration of a solemn Triduum in bis honor. The services inctdent to the commemoration will be a sol- emn high mass cach forenoon at balf-past ten | and vespers at four in the afternoon. At the close of the mass to-day’ Rev. De McGlynn, of St. Stephen's, in this city, will preach; Dr. Friel, of St. Charles Borromeo’s church, Brooklyn, will deliver a discourse on Sunday ; and on Monday Mgr. Seton will ad- dress the congregation. The Right Rev. M. A. Corrigan, Bishop of Newark, will officiate at vespers on Sunday and at mass on Monday. A plenary indulgence in con- to. persons who visit f the commemoration. church on any of the three day: NEW YORK CITY. Tho seventeenth annual anniversary of St. Luke's Home for Indigent Females will he held on Monday, | October 18, at the Home, corner of Madison avenue and Eighty-ninth street. Services will commence at two o’clock P, M. STATEN ISLAND. The woods about Staten Island aro overrun with gunners from New York and other places, who shoot everything in the shape of game that they come across, | from a “chip” toa swamp blackbird, Many of them violate the Sunday law, and yet asa rule are not mo- lested by the police. The Trustees of Edgewater have received seventeen bids for the construction of the proposed new sewer in Canal street, Stapleton, the lowest being made by John i ae and the highest by Williams & Co., of New York ($56,508 88). The contract will be awarded to-day, Mr, Merrill, the village surveyor, proposes to include in the same contract two large cisterns—one at each end of the Stapleton Park—for the use of engines tn case of fire, Thieves are again busily at work in the interior of the island. Houses are visited daily by tramps, who are thought to be the persons that commit the depreda- tions at night On Thursday night Captam Michael Conklyn’s barn at Eltingville was entered through a window by thieves, who carried away a valuable set of harness and ruined another by cutting off the silver mounting. Mr. Conklyn estimates his loss at $80. and has offered a reward of $50 for the apprehension of the thieves, a MARRIAGES AND DEATHS. ~~ MARRIED, Boycr—Verity.—At the residence of the brido’# parents, on Wednesday evoning, October 13, 1875, by the Rev, Charles M. Grifen, Grorax H, Boyor and Eta, only daughter of Elbert Verity, Esq. All of Brooklyn, URMING—CLANNON,—On Thursday, October 14, 1875, by Rev. J. L. Danner, Gronce W. B. Cestine to Juuter, | oungest daughter of the late Simon Clannon, both of | it Orange, N. J. Dickrxson—Wacetarr.—At Whitestone, L. IL, bi i bird 4 ©. Dickinson to AGNes, daughter of pad | Vagstaif, RRKER—AnEL.—At Boonton, N. J., on Wednesday, October 13, 1875, by Rev.. J. W.’ Wood, of Allentown, BRKER, Of Succasunna, N, J., to Cor- wurta M., daughter of John & Abel. Revinctoy—McCormick.—At Steubenville, Sullivan county, N. Y., October 3, 1875, by the Rev. Father Westerman, Mr, Mrouant Revinaton to Miss Mary McCormick, BruLecKk—Laxg.—On Wednesday evening, October 13, by the Rev. J. Te M., Chapman D. D., Janes What LbY StuLMck, Jn, of Peekskill, N. Y.,'to Eueavor R., Peekskill rs please copy. WaTauaee Conny: Octobe? 18, 1875, at tho resi- dence of the bride’s parents, Red Bank, N. J., by Frienda’ gies ha Waterman to Aynia F, Conover, All of DIED, Bacun.—On Thursday, October 14, at her late resi. dence, No, 103 Kast Fortieth stroct, Rosaueuia, widow of Jathes T. Bache, ‘The relatives and‘riends of the family are respect- fully invited to attend the funeral, on Sunday, the 17th, at two P.M, from the Church of St, John Baptist, corner of Lexington avenue and Thirty-fifth street, Bretmonr,—On Friday, October 15, Jane Pavitt daughter of August and’ Caroline 8, Belmont, aged 1 ears aud 6 months, Notice of funeral hereafter. Bicoam.—In this city, of pleura pneumonia, on Fri- day morning, October 15, 1875, Aces, widow of Ham- ilton Biggam, in the 82d year of hor age, The relatives and friends of the family are invited to attend the funeral services, at her inte residence, No, 268 West Fifty-first street, on Monday, the 18th inst, ‘at half past ten o'clock. Ki ButKisy.—At Southport, Conn., October 13, Cuantns Bevery, in the 724 year of his age. Funeral services at Trinity church, Saturday, October Bynpsatt.—On Friday morning, October 15, at four o'clock, Mr. F, W. Byrpsatt, in tho 78th year of his age, Relatives and friends and members of the General Society of Mechanics and Wadesmen are reanectfully Vited to attend tho funeral frown his late residence. | 15, at four o'clock A. M., ‘No, 310, East Ninoteenth strect, on Monday, 18th inst ,. atone o’clock P. M. f) Campseit.—At Hackensack, N. J., on berg Mi tober 16, 1875, Janu Axw Kincsuann, wile of » tn 64th year of her aga and friends are ly invited to at tend the funeral on Monday, Sorter 1s, irom her late Fos! ‘at half-past one oc! and from the Kirst Rofo ‘at two o'clock, ‘New Jersey Midland: trains leave foob rst ais a a of Cortlandt street aud TKS. —On Friday, October Josern®. A. Cannas, ee 08 eRe: iunnd Gutbatine Scutes, aged 19 The relatives and friends of the family are te fully Aovieed c stand ihe funeral, from ihe restdvaco parents,. som street, ater- noon, atone Reng oe ane Corvix.—On Thursday, October og eh amon elutives and friends family are fall invited to attend the funeral, cattation vasidatne. No. 7 Macdougal street, om’ y, October 16, ab half-past one P. M. Crookx.—Su denly, at his residence, No, 40 Wost Forty-sixth street, Cuantes CRooxs, in the 82d year of his age. Notice of funeral hereafter. Cons.—At East Englewood, on Wednesday, October 18, Aonus W. Supa, wife of Peter J, Cunn, aged 45 years, 9 months and 1 day, Relatives and friends of the family are respectfully invited to attend the funeral, from the residence of her brother-in-law, Voorhees Brower, New Brunswick, N. J., on Sunday, October 17, at two o’clock P. M., without farther notice. DexGax.—On Thursday, October 14, of paralysis, Gores A. Dusoas, aged $0 years, The relatives and friends of the family are respect fully invited to attend the funeral, on Sunday, October ‘17, at 11 A. M., at his Inte residence, No. 340 Palisade avenue, Jersey City Heights, N. J. Downy. —On Thursday, October 14, Wratam Dox, No. 219 West mighteenth street. Puneral will take place on Sataraay, Octover 16, at: one o'clock P. M. Evesreix,—On Friday, October 15, Henny Errstect, aged 49 years, ‘The respective lodges and the relatives and friends are invited to attend the funeral on Sunday, Octoder 17, at 9:30 A. M., from his late residence, No. 3l4 East Pacer ae tine tee ‘Loock,—In Lon d City, on Thursday evening, October 14, 1875, eae Excodk, wife of Henry El- cock, in the 36th year of her aga, Funeral services on Sunday, October 17, at ono o'clock P. M., at her late residence, Relatives and friends are invited to attend, @uass.—On October 14, of diphtheria, Lo tho youngest daughter of Charlotte and Heseciah, aged 33¢ years. Relatives and friends are invited, Funeral on Bun- day ‘at one P. M., 1,065 Second avenue. IALsRY.—At his residence, Bast Chester, N. Y., Thursday, October 14, Banjamin 8S. Haswy, in the 55th year of his age. Relatives and friends are invited to attend the funeral, from his late residence, Kast Chester, Monday, October 15, at half-past eleven o'clock A. M. Carriages will be in waiting at Mount Vernon depot upon the arrival of the 10:10 Hew Haven train from Grand Central depot, New York. Interment at Woodlawn. . Hawsins.—On Friday, the 16th inst, Saran E., wifo of Wilham B. Hawkins. Funeral from residence, 126 St, Jaqes place, Brook- lyn, on Sunday, at two o’olock. JomNston.—At Annandale, on the Hudson, October 14, in the Téth fol of her age, Maky WILLIAMSON, widow of Francis Upton Johnston, M. D., of this city. Kelatives and friends are invited to attend the funeral, at St. James’ church, ee Park, N. Y., on Saturday, October 16, at three P, Kxrarr,—On Thursday, October 14, Saran H., wife of Jonuetan Knight and eldest daughter of Joseph P. juin. The services will be held at half-past eleven o'clock A. M., and funeral will take place at one o'clock P. M. on Monday, October 18, from No, 16 West Ninth streot. The relatives and friends of the family are respectfully invited to attend. LovEeLanp.—At his residence, No. 40 Bank strect, on the 14th inst., Ouiver LoveLanp, in the 80th year of his age. Relatives and friends are invited to attend the funeral, from Washington square Methodist Episcopal church, on Sunday afternoon, at two o'clock. 4yxcn.—On Thursday, October 14, Carnentne Warp, the beloved wife of Edward Lynch. Her funeral will take placo from her late residence, No. 778 Second avenue, on Sunday, the 17th inst Frionds of the family are respectfully Invited. Mvttepy.—On Friday, October 15, 1875, at hia late residencé, 263 Pacific street, Brooklyn, Joun A. MuL- LEpY, aged 51 years, Notice of funeral hereafter. Monnay.—On Friday, October 16, 1875, Many Mn- RAY, beloved wife of William Murray, native of Abbey Lara, county Longford, Iroland, aged 40 years, 5 months and 6days. ae Sunday, ai one P.M, Sy Her funeral wilt take from her late residence, 140 Mulberry street. Muxeny.—On Thursday, Octobor aged 6 years and 9 months, son Murphy, The relatives and friends of the family are respect- fully invited to attend the funeral, at the residence of his parents, No, 731 Tenth avenue, 'on Saturday, Octo- ber 16, at two P. M. Musset.—At his residence, 162 West Twenty-fifth street, Louis Musss1, eldest son of Jacob Mussel, ‘Tue funeral will take place on Sanday, October 17, at two P. M. McGovery.—On Thursday evening, October 14, Brr- NAKD MoGovsan, a native of the parish of Killeshander, county Cavan, Ireland, in the 68th year of his aga The relatives and friends of the family, au also,thoso of his brothers, Patrick, James and Thomas, are re- spectfully invited to attend the funeral, from his late residence, No. 735 Tuird avenue, on Sunday, October 17, at hali-past one P, M., and thence to Cavairy Ceme- tery. October 14, of Brights Avo Mcrpny,, of Johu and Caroline Newsvnx.—Thursday, n001 disease, Manianna, wile of Walter Newburn, in the 52a year of her age, Relatives and friends of the family are respectfully invited to attend the funeral from her late residence, 815 Greene avenue, Saturday, tho 16th instant, at halt tone, O'Matty.—On October 14,° JomaNna S. O'MALLY, danghter of the late Edward ‘and Johanna 0’Mally, of ‘Adure, county Limerick, in hor 22d yoar. The relatives and friends of the family are reqnested | fo attend her funeral, from her late residence, 449 West Seventeenth street,’ on Sunday, October i7, at one gk Sih Americk papers copy. ° O’Rutuux.—On Friday, October 18, after a brief but painful illness, Josnen’ T. O'Rexutx, beloved son of Charles and Catherine O'Reilly, aged 18 years and 10 months, The rolatives and friends of the family, likewise the Young Men’s Sodality of St. Francis Xavier's Coll Ss. J. are respectfully invited to attend 1 neral, from the residence of his parents, No, 123 Worth street, on Sunday, October 17, at two o'clock P.M. “yroy papers please copy. PALMER.—At his residence, street, Francis L. Pater, bi ber 13, Funeral will take place on Sunday, 17th inst Fully particulars in Sunday's Herald, Pur.rs, —On Thursday, October 14, at Essex, Conn. Josrraine, aged 24 years, wife of Samual |. luclps, and. daughter of B. F. Stnith, formerly of New York. Funeral on Sunday. Pusies.—At Mount Mansfield, Town of Stowe, Vt. on the 5th of August last, Henry D, Paxirs, aged years, formerly of this city. Rabeuivr.—At Yonkers, on Friday, October 15 Perer K. Raveiire, in the 62d year of bis age. ‘The funeral services will tako place on Sunday, t 17th inst, at three o'clock, from the Reformed Churg Yonkers.’ The relatives and friends are invited, Tra) leave Thirtieth streot, at one o’clock P. M. RaYMoND.—On the 16th inst, after a short illness, scarlet fever, Joun C., son of Annie M. and tho I: John C, Raymond, aged 7 years and 26 days. Friends and relatives are invited to attend the faner ‘at two d’clock P. M., Sunday, 17th, from 49 South Six street, Brooklyn, E.’ D, No, 267 West Honsto: r., on Wednesday, O 2) Jate James Rodgers, in the 28th year of his ace, after Jong and severe illness. The relatives and friends of the family, also f rs, are respectfully invited to attend funeral, on ' Sunday, Uotober 17, at one o'clock, fr his late residence, No, 898 Water street. ScuorutxG,—In' Brooklyn, &, D., on Friday, Octot ARIA THERESA, Oly daugh' of Herrman H. aud Maria C, Schoriing, at the age of years. Kelatives and friends, also members of Keystor) Lodge, No. 235, are respectfully invited to attend th funet from the residence of her parents, 195 Sout ‘Third street, Brooklyn, EK. D., om Sunday atternoon, - half-past twelve o'clock P.M: Spenckk.—At West Brook, Conn,, on the night of the 14th, AnAnELLA M., only daughter of Oaptain Joseph ‘W. and Amelia A. Spencer, aged 27 years. Notice of funeral in to-morrow’s paper, whi y take placeat West Brook, Relatives and (riendS ar respectfully invited. Stons.—At Yonkers, on bE gf October 15, NatH Rurserrorp, infant son of Dr. rt aud Margaret T. Stone, aged 7 months and 1 week. ‘Trask.—Kiaara Trask, only child of Mary and the 1 years and 10 months, Funeral to be held att lethodist Episcopal church, Sixty-first street, between Second and Third avenues. Relatives es friends are respectfully invited to attend without further notice. VauLeav.—-On Thursday, October 14, 1975, Manta Louisa, wife of Samuel Valleau, in the 89th year of her age. Telatives and friends are invited to attend the fane- |, from the Third Universalist. corner Bleecks bad Downing streots, on aneny, Oolover 1, ab balf- PWauria—In Brooklyn, October Mo and Warris,—In Waris, aged 82 jonths and 6 days. The relatives ‘nde the family «re respect- fully invited to atc ee from the residence of his son-in-law, Tho ) F 467 Bedturd avenue, Bore on Monday, thi at iwo o'clock "HE awmn.—On October 15, Avra Wann, in tho 25th. Re alvon sad friends are respecttally invited to at- , ac two P, My Rel wal, on Sunday, October 1; ea ier se residence, Mio0 West Twenty-seventr street, ‘Writ.—On Wednesday, October 13, 15/5, Josera Writ, agod 85 years. Fon Mako place on Sanday, October 17, 1875, 15 Faneral will tak from his late residence, 729 Fifth stree Wwitenvat,—At Poughkeepsie, on the 4th inst. James Wiurensad, of the firm of Whitobeas Bros., o this city, aged 43. yeara, The relatives and friends of the family are invited to atvend the funeral services at South River, New Jersey, on Sunday, Train leaves Desbrosses street ferry at 8 A. M. to New Brunswick. where carriages will be im waiting.