The New York Herald Newspaper, November 5, 1875, Page 5

THE OSAGE INDIANS. Fraudulent Claim of Adair and Vann on the Indian Fund, A QUARTER OF A MILLION WANTED Suppressed Documents Brought to Light. Wasuinctow, D, C., Nov. 4, 1875. The Heraxp recently published a letter addressed to the Hon. B. R. Cowan, Assistant Secretary of the Inte- Tior, by the Attorney General of the United States, in relation to a claim for services said to have been ren- dered to the Osage Indians by Messrs. Adair and Vann, two Cherokee delegates. Your correspondent has in- vestigated this claim, and has no doubt that it is one of the most barefaced swindles which has ever been per- petrated. Its history is instructive and is as follows :— By the provisions of a treaty made with the Great | and Little Osage Indians at Drum Creek, Kansas, all the lands of the Osages in the State of Kansas were to be sold to the Leavenworth, Lawrence and Galveston Railroad Company at twelve and a half cents per acre. There were nearly §,000,000 acres belonging to these Indians, and nearly one-third of the whole was as good land as any in that State, The treaty was snch a trans- parent swindle that the Hon. Sidney Clarke, of Kansas, denounced it as a “pretended treaty’? and “an outrage on the rights of the Indians,” in report No, 63, HM. R., printed June 18, 1868 Br. Vin- cent Colyer subsequently visited the Indian Ter- ritory, and finding that the matter had become a public scandal he telegraphed the facts on to the East, and the case was a second time brought to the attention of Congress by the United States Indian Commission ina petition dated New York, February 25, 1869, and signed by Peter Cooper, President; Benjamin Tatham, Treasurer, and Vincent Colyer, Secretary, as well asa number of prominent laymen and clergy of New York. | Commissioner Parker, in a letter dated August 20, 1869, directed Enoch Hoag to “take immediate steps to certain the wishes of the Indians in regard to the treaty and to report tho ‘uninfluenced wishes? of the Indians.” Mr. Hoag reported that “the larger portion ofthe tribe would profer the treaty should not be rati- fed’? “from a feeling that by the terms of the treaty they do not receive so much for their land as they think they ought to.’” On the 10th of November, 1869, ddair and Vann en- tored into a so-called contract with the Osage Indians, by the terms of which the former were to have “a {ce equivalent to one-half of any sum that through their | | tion and ignorance of hygiene, efforts and representation might be allowed for the Jands of the Osage people in the State of Kansas,” That contract was returned to the Governor ot the Osages in 1870 by Colonel Vann, with the remark that “they had rendered no service and made no charge,” and the paper was torn up, after Congress had fixed the price of the Osage lands at $1 25 per acre, It will thus be seon that Adair and Vann had no elaim whatever for any services rendered to ,the Osages in obtaining a higher price for their lands; on the contrary, the members of the Indian Commission, who were sent out to obtain the consent of the Osages to their removal into the Cherokee lands, reported that Vann was very zealous fn endeavoring to get from the Osages a higher price per acre than the government bad decided to allow to the Cherokees for the lands no- cossary to to accommodate the Osages. Nevertheless, in 1873 new contract was cooked up, by which Adair and Vann were to reccive $330,000 for their services: “\nat amount to be taken from the proceeds ef the sales of the Osage lands and paid over by the Secretary of the Interior. At the time the contract was forwarded to Hon, E. P Smith, Commissioner of In- dian Affairs, Enoch Hoag also submitted with it a protest against its payment, as follows:— To His Excellency U. 8. Grant, Prosident The undersigned, the Governor, chiefs part. of the Gi Spectfully ask ot you « consideration of the following ment of facts, ani you will interpose your strong arm to prevent the consuinimation of a great wrong to them and to their children. “In the year 1868 certain railroud parties made a contract with the Oxages—or a part of them—for the purchase of their lands in Kansas, at un almost nominal price. By what Beans such w contract or seeming contract was obtained it is unnecessary now to recite; but realizing how homeless and destitute it would make desired that Yhe contract might be rejeeted by the gi ment. While Knowing that we ourselves were powerle ye Jremest need of help, some able and distinguished Chero- Kees presented themselves—Colonel Adair, Colonel Vann, Boudinot and others: they were to us great men. huving al” most unliniited power at Washington. We made an agree- men: that if, through them, the railroad contract was re- fected by, thé United states Sonate, they might ‘sell, our jands ard have one-balf of the excess over the railroad price for their services. The contract with the railroad was rejected; but our agent and superintendent told us “that the Cherokees named above had no influence in the matter; that our Great ther and the Senate needed no prompting to do so just an In fact, at the time of the treaty, in 1870, when our lands were ceded, Colonel Vann handed the contract to our vernor, saying “ they had rendered no service and made no Eharge.""' It was taken by the xovernor ai ato- up. 3, come Colonel dint on our reser- with @ part of the be, not a chic councillor, or head-man of the Little ex, nor leading half-breea being presen 10 methods employed by these Cherokees at, this secret council to obtain something like a resurrection of their former contract are known to us, They havo been used at the gathering of the tribe, Just over, to secure an apparent ratification of the nefarious Bird Creek transaction, and to ‘our great injury in other matters as well. ‘These mou presonted themselves as of our own Faco, for usa warm love and a deep interest in, our prosperity. This, with the knowledge that they were educated and able men. gave them great influence with our people. Wo have had serious trouble with the Wichita Indians re- cently, growing fa crime committed by some of our ‘oung'men, deplored and condemned by the wh The ncent of the Wichitas and our agent and superintenden wished us to surrender the guilty parties to the government authorities. But our friends, Colonel Vann and Colonel Adair, claiming entire knowledge, told us that there was no Jaw for such surrender and thut it "was gratuitous interfer- wk it,"”” If, In this matter, of government, let the re- sponsibility rest whore it belongs. But their zealous cham- in this trouble added to thefr claims upon us. In in time they plied as by every menns, day and night, nthe ratifieation they were seeking; council aiter council was called by them; our own business was neglected faving and run into confusion; payment was delayed neatly two restless and worn out by their 3 and not — realizing the magnitude of the fraud, some of our people signed, ax they say solely to get rid of them ; others were ‘wrought tipot differontly. ‘The Cherokeos represented that tl add to leading men ir contract with Washington; that to convince Promised large su hey had show these men of solely by that tion of the railro the distinguished men at Washington. to repudiate, and, furt they the entire amount, very ald be Some of us therefore, sizned, the ratification out of gratitude 4o otir zealous and unseltish friends, to save them trom the sdium of broken promise made in our behalf. Others were made to believe that these Cherokees could go to Inw and re- tover nearly one-half our entire nort ive; but that they out of the love they bore us, would gener- sly accept the pittance of $230,000, and relieve us from of contisention and poverty. Add to these, names on the er without the knowledge or consent of their owners, and you have briefly the facts in the ease. We desire to pay these friends ot ours liberally for all ser- vice they rendered us. But now we, representing by right the whole of the Little Osages, and, in part, every band of the great and the leading half breeds, do’ enter this, our most solemn prote: gainst the recognition or consumma- tion of this monstrous fraud that is being attempted upon us. And in the name of justice, and by our hopes of seeing our children grow into civilized and educated cit! wo peal to you. our Great Father, to protect us from the inations of able and unscrupilous men, who are scek- Ing to devour us. ‘And as in anty bound we will ever pray. ‘This protest was also accompanied by the follow- ing: We, the undersigned chiefs, councillors and headmen of Whe Great and Little Osage tribes of Indiaus, respecttully itate (hat we signed ® paper, to which the above Is a pro- Jest, under an. entire misapprehension of and now, with a better understanding of the matter, we do haroby re: roke and repudiate that act. This was signed by the principal chiefs, councillors and braves of the Osages. Another paper was also submitted to the Commis- Bioners at the same time, showing that forgery had been committed in the preparation of the contract, viz; OSAGE AGENCY, INDIAN TenntTory, Sth mo., 27, 18% Twas present at ‘the timo of counelling, when Colonels Vann and Adair were having the petition signed by Osage chiefs and others for the purpose of having the government he United States pay them $230,000 out of the Osage ds for alleged services. uring the signing of said petition not to exceed on of those whose names are affixed were present at the ti but their names and marks wero affixed without their pi ener, consent or knowledge. WILLIAM IH. TINKER, Subscribed und acknowledged before me, this 27th day of eighth month, 1873. ISAAC T. GIBSON, United States Indian Agent, The protest was signed by tho larger portion of the Osage chiefs, councillors and braves, and as will be Been was sent to the Interior Department nearly ono year betore any payments were made. The contract was made in June 1873 and remained Senators and others, ad promised almost left to themselves. hi , that little wor resent and prospec- without action until July 1874, after the resignation of | the old Board of Indian Commissioners, when it was “approved for fifty thousand dollars” by Messrs, Smith tnd Cowan, and that amount was paid to Vann and Adair in August 1874. Tt 1s claimed that only a emalt ally received by the, attorneys, and orridors of the Treasury inthe Interior Depart- much force, and is cor- That it was diy: with parties bh sment. This robvorated by the statements of Vann and Adair, as Biven by the Usages in thoir protest quoted above. The Contract was illegal trom the beginning, Tho Osages were in charge ot an a United States, a © a contract of the kind, But Mr, Cowan approved it and paid $50,000, which was to be considered payment in full for all past services, as stated in Commissioner Smith's report on tho wubjeot, dated February 12, 1975, It was ngain pre- ent appointed by the i | | | i | NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1875.-TRIPLE SHEET. sented, however, to the new Board of Indie- Commissioners, during its session at Long Branch last summer, and by them rejected. Ha Mr. Cowan been really honest the matter would have been forever at rest, but having failed to get the cen- sent of the Board he submitted the contract to the Department of Justice, no doubt with a favorable opinion. e could not have sent to Mr. Pierrepont the protest and certificate of forgery guetad herein, for if he had that gentleman would undoubtedly have declared the whole transaction fraudulent. As it how stands without the Presidents approval the $50,000 paid can be recovered, as the Secretary was not ‘justified’ in making the payment. ‘A curious circumstance, common to fraudulent claims, appears in connection with this, Last spring the elaim was for $230,000. ow, according to the ‘Attorney General's letter, it 1s for’ $330,000, And it would seem that the Indian Office had been anticipat- ing this claim, for the Commiasioner asked for $200,000 from the proceeds of the sales of Osage lands, although only about $70,000 was asked for by the agent of the Osages. Congress, through the influence of the Interior Department, appropriated $200,000 per year for two years, During the first half of the last fiscal year $50,000 was paid to these attorneys, while only about 320,000 was expended forthe Indians. Had Adair and his friends in the Iuterior Department succeeded in pushing the claim through quietly it will be seen that the whole amount appropriated would have gone to the ng. This is @ fair specimen of the manner in which tho Indians’ money is stolen. And it shows how the offi- cers of the Interior Department give active aid and as- sistance to the thieves who concoct plans of plunder, if they do not themselves originate such plans. In this particular case the department had evidence sub- mitted by the agent and superintendent having charge of the’ Osages Fook 3 that the whole claim was @ fraud, and that forgery bad been committed in its prep- aration, The department knew from official reports on file that no services had been rendered by Adair and Vann, yet “Messrs. Cowan and Smith take from an ap- propriation for “the purchase of stock and agricultural implements,” &c., $50,000, and aid as far as they can aid the attempt to take $280,000 more. {tis well for the Osages that Mr. Pierrepont would not countenance the steal But if the case is submitted to the President with the most important papers suppressed he may be made an unconscious agent in consummating this shameless fraud. CUBA. THE REINFORCEMENTS LATELY ARRIVED IN BAD CONDITION—-VALMASEDA LIKELY TO RETURN TO SPAIN—INSURGENTS RAIDING CLOSE TO HAVANA—A PRIEST ARRESTED. Havana, Oct, 30, 1875, Now that the longed for reinforcements have really arrived, the Colonial government finds itself with an elephant on its hands. No clothing, shoes or arms to give them, not even food of the proper kind to give them, to enable them to endure the hardships of the coming winter's cam- paign. The sanitary condition in which they are taken from Spain is poor, as they are fresh from the seat of the Carlist war, being mostly prisoners, deluded with the assurance that they are not to perform any military duty after arrival here. Crowded in badly ventilated ships and poorly fed, they are nearly all unfit’ for service. Many are afllicted with itch and ship fever, and present ready victims to the ravages of yellow fever, owing to their utter destita This disease is so prevalent this fall that even natives from the interior are struck down with it, which proves it to be of un- precedented virulence, most of the cases proving fatal. Orders have been despatched to New York and New | Orleans for provisions to be bought and shipped in large quantities for government account, The first in- stalments of these have already arrived by the steamers, ‘The new arrivals are at the Principe Fort, where signs of mutiny are evident, several attempts at re- volt having occurred, so that the process of arming them to send them to the front willbe attended with great danger. The unusually large number of wounded from the front, a majority of whom die, added to the exorbitant number of deaths from the new arrivals, vitiate the atmosphere of the city, sadly neglected by the Board at present, and altogether render the city very unhealthy. From seventy-five to one hundred are buried every day. Count Valmaseda gives out that he will depart forthe front to direct the campaign on the Ist of November, with headquarters at Bemba, but the knowing ones aver that if he goes at all it will only be fora few weeks, as he has made up his mind to leave for Spain in November, and let Ceballos or Jovellar claim the doubt- ful glory to result therefrom. Everything seems to bear these surmises out, INSURGENT BANDS NEAR HAVANA, The band tod by Carlos Garcia, baffling all attempts at capture, has multiplied itself magically into three in- surgent bands, carrying on depredations in the very outskirts of Havana, That leader is bold enough to have made three different attacks on the city of Guanabacoa, distant miles from Havana, sacking stores, &c., in the outskirts of the town with impunity. Railroad trains of wounded from the front continue to arrive in this city, while the press remains silent con- cerning military operations. ARREST OF A PRIEST, Two mishaps have occurred lately in the bedsge bed the lottery. On the 19th another mistake took place about the $100,000 prize, which is curious, to say the least of it, The people clamored against the fraud; but the strong arm of the government stitled the com- plaints, in order not to have it noised abroad. A priest, Chaplain at Fort Calands, went to the Auditor | to claim a prize of a fraction of a whole ticket, and | upon due scrutiny it was pronounced a counterteit, and without more ado the reverend gentleman was cast snto a dungeon at Fort Principe. The bark J. V. Belden is under $50,000 bond in the harbor of Matanzas for having some quantity of opium | on board, entered upon the manifest as chewing to- bacco, Florida water as mineral water, flour as plaster and lard as tallow. It has been brought about by the treachery of one of her former consignees. THE CUBAN EXCITEMENT IN NEW YORK. Inyesterday’s Hnnap there appeared a brief notice under the heading of “The War in Cuba,” stating that forty-two prominent Cubans had been secretly arrested by the Spanish government on suspicion of being sym- pathizers with the rebels, Later news brings the tidings that hundreds have been arrested and thrown | into vile prisons and dungeons by order of Captain General Count Valmaseda, The following are the | points, where, without warning or process, the largest number of arrests have been effected, Guines, San Felipe, Quivican, Aguada dol Cura, Batabano and Gua- nabacoa, Many’ aro incarcerated in Fort Cabanas, Havana, and a large number have been banished to the Isle of Pines for an indefinite period, ‘The following isa sample of one of the letters ro- ceived in this city on the subject:— “Forty-one of the best residents of San Nicolas (near Guines) have been arrested without any formality of law. I have also been arrested and torn away from + my bride, who is heartbroken, for she believes that she will never see me alive again. Wo were not al- lowed, dear father, to change our clothes or to settle | up our business aflairs. 1 vow to God I am innocent of | any offence to the Spanish government. To-night we | leave for the port of Batabano, whence we are to be shipped to the penal colony of the Island of Pines, where wo may linger for months and perhaps for | years.”” A REMINISCENCE, “ In March, 1869, a largo sweep of suspected Cubans was made all over the country, and 250 of them were shipped on March 29 to the pestilential Spanish colony of fernando Po, in Africa; eighty-three of their number died, mainly while at sea, where they had to live like hogs. On the passage several sheep died, and the sailors, with great gieo and laughter, would attach a dead Cuban and a dead sheep together and throw them into the ocean attached together, shouting ‘Viva Cuba Libre.”" It is reported on good authority that one or more naturalized American subjects are among the number recently arrested. Consul General Hall will doubtless investigate the matter; but it will be the repetition of the old story of secking redress through Madrid and thus defeating the ends of justice, BOARD OF EXCISE. The Board of Excise yesterday dismissed the com- plaint against Koster & Bial, for violation of tho Ex- cise law in selling liquor on Sunday, on the ground | that the license granted to them was erroneously made | out, the ‘description of the location being imperfect, | thus rendering the license void and placing them be- | yond the jurisdiction of the Board. The propriety of | granting the parties a license is under advisement by | tho Board, The cases of the Bowery beer gardens have been ad- Journed, TRIALS OF POLICEMEN. ‘The trial of Patrolmen Reed and Muleahey, of tho Twenty-ninth precinct, charged with entering a saloon | while conveying a prisoner to the station house, was Yesterday resumed before the Board of Police Com- Missioners, Chancellor Crosby, of the New York Uni- Versity, the only witness, took the stand and testified to having been approached by one of the officers, who admitted his guilt and urged him to ‘let up" on him. The policemen again swore that they had never been im tho saloon, Tho case was closed, decision being re- served, SMALL POX IN BROOKLYN. | The Board of Health reports the spread of the small | pox in the city of Brooklyn, and has taken measures to | suppress the loathsome malady as far as lays in its power, The disease has made its appearance in the Third, Fiith, Eighth, Tenth, Twelfth, Sixteenth, Nine- | teenth and Twenty-first wards, Twelve vaccinators have been employed by the sanitary authorities, and they are now making house to house visitations and inoculating the people who have neglected to take that Precaution. Seven cases wero met with ona single | floor in a tenement house in the Sixteenth ward. The average number of cases reported per day is between eel ase and thirty. Last week 130 cases were re- ported, and the number of deaths was twelve, | said that he had run his engine in the Agricultural | boiler, | and one diamond ring the defendants confess that they AN “ACCIDENT.” THE BOUND BROOK (N. J.) BAILROAD EX- PLOSION—‘‘A VERDICT AS 18 A VERDICT” — ¥OR THE BAILROAD PEOPLE. An inquest was held yesterday by Justice and Acting- Coroner James P, Bush at Union Hall, Bound Brook, N. J., touching the cause of death of the victims of the explosion of the boiler of the locomotive Centralia, on the New Jersey Diviston of the Letigh Valley Railroad, w of getting |, which took place on last Monday morning. The hall was filled with citizens during tho best part of the day, all of whom took the deepest interest in the proceedings. Mr. John V, Voorhees, Prosecutor of the Pleas for Somer- set county, N. J., was present on the part of the State, and Mr, H. M. Gaston on behalf of the legal interests of the Lehigh Valley Railroad, The Coroner of the county, Dr. Hunt, wag also present, but did not havo charge of the case, The following is a full synopsis of the evi- dence taken :— THR RVIDEXCR ‘The first witness called for the State was a boy named John Conley, elghteen years old—tho “water boy”—who testifled that he stood in the end of the caboose next the engine. It had its roof blown off partly and part of the side by the explosion; that he was only slightly injured, but saw five men among those on the train who died from the result of the ex- plosion, Jacob Heck, the night watchman, who had chargo of the engine during the night before the explosion, next testified, His evidence went to show that when the “Centralia” left his charge in the morning it was all right, in good condition, as was also his water injector; the engine took in water from the tank at about twenty minutes past six A. M., and about ten minutes later had run up to where the explosion took place, Upon being recalled this witness testified that the engine had 110 pounds of steam when she left the engine house; 1t would blow off at 110; he understood the engine was nine years old. Peter Glaspy or Gillespie, a laporer, was called next, but all his evidence was of a hearsay character. He had heard Mr. Hill, the canal bridge tender, say that ‘THE ENGINE WAS A CONDEMNED ONE; she stood twenty-five or thirty. minutes on the “‘sid- | ing” before she blew up; could blow off steam when standing. Frederick Sheffleman, a bridge builder, of the vel- aware and Bound Brook Railroad, testified that he rode upon the train, In the caboose,’ from Bound Brook the engine stopped to let him’ off before it reached its destination. Just ashe was being let off he saw the engineer, Cope, try the water gauges; he tried two gauges; steam came out of the second, BUT NO WATER. ‘The engineer then, said this witness, put on the water, and in about two minutes afterward, while on his way to the bridge which he was helping’ to build, he heard the explosion. John Carling, an engineor, who had run the Cen- tralia for ten months sinco August, 1874, testified that ten gravel cars were the usual load, but she could pull many more and could carry from 110 to 125 pounds of steain. On being recalled Carling testified that Cope, the engineer, was a very careful man; that he (witness) | fired for him'eighteen months. Cope, he added, was a | first class man, bad some property, was not compelled to labor, and had come to this road’ from the Belvidere and Delaware Railroad to take charge of the Centralia Jobn Davis, a machinist, of Raritan, who works in an tron foundry, who had examined the wreck of tho engine, gave a description of what he saw and said that he was satisfied the boiler was made of good, tough tron, the crown plate especially, His opinion was that it required great force to have torn the crown plate against its grain, as had been done. ‘Augustus Tilman, a practical engineer, employed in the Agricultural Works at Raritan, was also called as an expert; he testified to having examined the wrec! he corroborated the testimony of John Davis, and | | Works for eighteen years, and it was as good as ever, apparently. OS B, Munn, still another expert, a machinist, from New Brunswick, N.J., testified that the iron of which the boiler was made was good. The CAUSE OF THE EXPLOSION was, undoubtedly, in his mind, the want of water, John Hedden, yet another expert, formerly a master mechanic, in theemploy of the New Jersey Railroad company, was called. He, too, had examined the ‘the crown sheet was bare at the time of the explosion, and that was the cause of it. No explosion would have taken place if the water had not been in- ject George Sharra, an additional expert engineer, like- wise examined the boiler and said he found the crown sheet clear of scale, which could not have been the | caso had it been covered with water. George Jenkins, a slater, residing in Bound Brook, testified that Mr. Cope, the engineer, told him the Sat- urday night before tho explosion, that they talked of having bim (Cope) go down to Amboy to bring up a coal train with the Centralia, but that he (Cope) declared emphatically that he would not do it; he would resign first, as ‘THE CENTRALIA WAS NOT FIT to take a heavy train; witness said he heard Cope say two or three times that the engine was hardly safe, and that she ought to have been placed in the shop a month before that, as he (Cope) said he ‘‘couldn’t tell how soon the old thing’ might blow up.” This closed the evidence on the part of the State, and THE DEFENCE called John I. Kinzey, a master machinist, of the Lehigh Valley Road and of the Easton and Amboy, who testilled that the company purchased the Centealia in 1864; that she was made in Taunton, Mass., and, so far | as he knew, was in perfect order; the engine was AB GOOD AS ANY ON THE ROAD, there was no more fear of her than of any other engine | on the road. | William ‘Stevenson, the transportation agent at Bound Brook of the Easton and Amboy Road, testified | that Cope was about forty years old, sober and indus- | trious, and always ready to do his work. Elias Scott and Richard Inman, witnesses of the ex- plosion, were called by the State, but they simply | described what they saw. The case was then given to thejury, The latter, after over an hour's deliberation, returned with tho following VERDICT. That W. W. Provost, foreman; E, H. Redfleld, John Lair. Daniel Coroner, John B, Van Doran, John D. Ex- mete, Ephraim Merlette, Jeremiah I, Staats, Abraham Whiteand, John Case, William W. Teeter and Oscar Bush, good and lawful men, do say upon their oath . that Palmer Thompson, Allen King, Patrick Feeney, Thomas G. Cope and Henry Mickolocke came to their deaths by tho explosion of the locomotive Centralia, No. 49, on the New Jersey division of the Lehigh Valley Railroad, at the Raritan siding, near Gravel Hill, about threo miles west of Bound Brook, and that the cause of said explosion is to the jury unknown; and tho jury, ferther, atch no blame to any person or persons, The reading of the verdict caused quite a sonsation. t is openly denounced, as is the entire inquest, as a one sided affair and as a4 completo mockery of Jersey | past two years. On the day before the murder he rs John P. Martin, a boiler maker, who said he ad been omployed in the New York Novelty Works and other places, states to the HeraLp reporter, after the inquest and in presonce of Acting Coroner Bush and others, that he had been subponacd as a witness by the State, but was not called. He declared that | from personal examination he was satisfied boiler was old, worn out and unfit for use; and~ in every way he corroborated the statement | made by hg 4 to Jenkins. He exhibited | a scrap of the boiler which he had broken off. It | measured five-sixteenths of an inch in thickness. He insisted that the entire examination was in the interest of the railroad people. Mr. “Cull” Barkalow assured the reporter that Mar- tin was drunk; but the reporter considered Martin quite as sober as his accuser. Prosecutor Voorhees also expresses dissatisfaction with the verdict. No more deaths are reported from the “accident.” THE DIAMOND CASE. JAMES HENRY AND JOHN HALL ACQUITTED OF INTENT TO DEFRAUD THE GOVERNMENT— THEIR GEMS BROUGHT TO THIS COUNTRY FOR PERSONAL ADORNMENT--A CUSTOMS OFFICER REBUKED. Trextox, N. J., Nov. 4, 1875, James Henry and John Hall, two well dressed young men, the former a native of Sheffleld and the latter of | London, England, who have been on trial here since yesterday morning, in the United States District Court, on the charge of having smuggled $15,000 worth of diamonds, jewelry, &c., from France into the United States, were acquitted this forenoon. These young mon were known as the alleged “diamond smugglers," and when they were arrested In Jersey City, a few months ago, a great furore was created. Judge Nixon, in his charge to the jury, laid down the law governing the case very plainly, He said tt was a question for the jury whether or not the intent of the defendants was, in bringing the Jewelry into this country, to mako sale of it or was it their own per- sonal apparel, Did John Hall, on the 7th of July inst, bring the property into the country with INTENT TO DEFRAUD THR GOVERNMENT of duty? Witn the exception of nine diamond pins | brought all the property into this country. A derelic- tion of duty on the part of the Custom Honse officers in not collecting duty was not an excuse for the de- fendants i! their intent was to defraud the govern- ment, “There is one significant circumstance in the case,” the Judge said do not place much confidence in vestimony of Lockwier. He | kept a fraud concealed from the government | | as long as he saw a chance of making anything himself. | If the defendants became tn need of money, and sold | the jewelry to pay their personal expenses, that was no intent to defraud, If they came in good faith to this country, having their hands crowded with rings, their shirt bosome filled with diamond studs and their watch guards bung with diamonds, all for PERSONAL ADORNMENT, that was no violation of the law, A person might wear | a ring valued at $500 oF $400,000, and still not violate the law. ‘The evidence must prove beyond a doubt that there was an intent to defraud the government.” The jury was out only about half an hour, when « ‘verdict of not guilty was returned, Ln HUSBAND MURDER. MICHAEL GANLY, WHILE DRUNK, KILLED BY MRS, MARY GANLY—HER WEAPON A STICK— IN PRISON TO AWAIT INDICTMENT. Trevtox, N. J., Nov. 4, 1875. On Tuesday morning last the quiet village of Marl- boro, near Freehold, Monmouth county, was startled with the intelligence that a murder nad just beenen- acted within its limits, and that the victim was a man named Michael Ganly, and the slayer his wife, Mary. Michael had been addicted to whiskey drinking for the went to his work as usual, When evening approached, however, he bought 4 BOTTLE OF WHISKEY ata still house near by and started for home in a drunken condition. He was met by his wife and a quarrel ensued after they had reached home in rela- ion to the whiskey, he accusing her of stealing it from him. From words resulted blows, then the death of the victim. Afier the deed was perpetrated Mrs, Ganly left the house and went to a neighbor for help, saying that Michael had cut himself with @ razor, People rushed to the house and found the deceased lying upon a lounge with his head downward, groaning loudly, He did not live long afterward. The neighhor- hood was alarmed immediately and Squire Johnson instituted a search im the house. He found it in a disordered state, with blood spattered everywhere on the walls and blood and hair on the floor. A STICK, COVKRED WITH HAIR AND BLOOD, sixteen inches long by three in width, was found near the wall. The Squire at once commenced to empannel a jury. While doing s0 Mrs. Ganly rushed toward him 9 @Menacing attitude with a razor, but she wag pre- vented in time from using it upon him. An inquest | was held, several witnesses were cxamined and a ver- dict was rendered that Michael Ganly came to his death by blows on the head, inflicted by some weapon in the hands of his wife, Mary Ganly. She was accord- ingly committed to jail to await the action of the Grand Jury. A post-mortem exammation revealed the fact that the head of the deceased was fearfully cut and | mashed and that THE FATAL BLOW was struck on the top. For some years the deceased and his wifo lived happily together, during which they Sayed enough money to purchase a comfortable home. Of late years they led a quarrelsome life, all owing to | the influence of whiskey, The deceased was forty-five years of age, his wife a few years younger. They are Ratives of Iretand and have been in this country since the year 1852 THE LIABILITY OF SURETIES. IMPORTANT QUESTION BEFORE THE SUPREME COURT OF NEW JERSEY—SUIT FOR RECOVERY OF EMBEZZLED FUNDS. Trextow, N. J., Nov. 4, 1875. In the Supreme Court of this city to-day the case of ex-Assemblyman Georgo W. Patterson et al., ads, of the inhabitants of the township of Freehold, was taken up and argued. Mr. Patterson, it appears, was tried at the late term of the Monmouth County Court on the charge of having embezzled from the township of Freehold the sum of $13,000 while acting in the capacity of Collector. A verdict of guilty was rendered, In the civil suit against his bondsmen for the recovery of the amount alleged to be embezzled @ verdict in fayor of the township was rendered for the sum of $9,000. The sureties of Mr. Patterson appealed, and carried the case up on a rule to show cause on the ground that the jury had included in the verdict the sum of $5,416, for which the present sureties were not liable, Mr. Vredenburg appeared for the suretics. He said that the amount of $5,416 was paid on account of the two mill tax, and all the transactions in reference to it were carried'on under the bond of 1872, therefore the sureties of 1873 were not liable. Mr, ‘Patterson had held the office of Collector during the years 1871, 1872 and 1873, and had given different sureties each year. Ex-Governor Parker appeared for the township and contended thatas Mr. Patterson had received this money on the 3ist March, 1873, his sureties of that year were liable. He contended further that the $5,416 al- luded to was not considered in the verdict of the jury and that the sureties of 1872 were responsible as also wore those of 1873. The Court reserved decision. Tho case excites a good deal of interest, as Mr. Patterson is a well known poli- tician, and was a prominent candidate for the Senato- nomination in Monmouth county, on the demo- cratic side, this fall, and was defeated only by a small majority by W. H. Hendrickson, the present Senator. NEW YORK CITY. Four sudden deaths were reported at the Coroners? Office yesterday. A free class in rhetoric and elocution will be com- menced on Monday, November 8, in the Geographical | Locture Room of the Cooper Union. The first lecture in the Cooper Union Free Course | will be delivered to-morrow evening in the great hall | at eight o’clock by Dr. I. I. Hayes, the Arctic explorer, | on “Iceland and the Northmen,”’ illustrated with the stereopticon. BROOKLYN. There were 201 deaths in Brooklyn last woek. James O'Neil, of No. 1,641 Pacific street, was ar- rested yesterday on complaint of nis father, who ac- cuses him of obtaining $33 under false pretences, James Austen yesterday caused the arrest of James | Vermelyea and George Watts, young men, on tho | charge of collecting $20 from him upon false pre- tences. William McLaughlin, a plumber employed in the Planet Mills, had his ekull fracturea yesterday by a block of wood falling on him from the second story. He was removed to the Hospital, Michael Moran, thirty-five years of age, residing at the corner of Little and United States streets, was found drowned yesterday at the foot of the former named street. Coroner Simms was notified to hold an inquest on the body. Jano Purmett, a respectable lady, was knocked down and run over by one of the cars on the Crosstown Railroad a year ago. She. sustained permanent in- juries and brought suit to recover damages trom the company in the sum of $10,000. The jury, before whom the case was tried in the Brooklyn City Court, esterday rendered a verdict in the sum of $2,000 in davor of tho plaintitl LONG ISLAND. The Queens County Sabbath School Convention will be held at Newtown, commencing on the 11th inst. The Rev. Messrs. Hill, Lampman and Van Slyke, pastors respectively of the Methodist, Presbyterian and Reformed churches in Jamaica, will, on Sunday hold union services on alternate evenings im the three churches, beginning next week. STATEN ISLAND. Tho regular annual meeting of the Richmond county Supervisors has been postponed until next Monday. A young lad named Irving Butler, while playing ina horse car at Tompkinsville yesterday, loosened the brake and the car ran rapidly down the hill intoa snow plough. He was quite seriously injured, a large piece of flesh being cut out of his right arm. About the 26th of October a woman, named Mary Coppinger, of*West Brighton, left her home ana has not since been heard from. She had neither hat nor shawl on when she left. Search has been made on all parts of the island for her, but without success. A course of threo lectures has been announced by Professor Charles E. Lord, of Brooklyn, in the Rev. Dr. | Enyard's Reformed church at New Brighton. ‘eee he Possibilities of the African Race, nguenots’ and “The Sphere of Woman froma Chris- Wan Standpoint.”” The village trusyees of New Brighton have appro- priated $200 additional to complete the widening of tho Clove road in Castleton. The Commissioners for tho | opening of Fifth street, {tis understood, propose to confine the assessments to within 150 feet on either side of the proposea improvement, which will prob- ably cost about $20,000 ANOTHER MALPRACTICE CASE, Coroner Croker was callod upon yesterday to take | the ante-mortem statement of Barbara Motzger, a young | German woman living at No, 126 Delancey street, | where she now lies in @ very.critical condition from the effects of an alleged abortion produced on her by a midwife named Geahardten Wagner on the 21st of last month. Dr. Burgold, of 158 Delancey street, reported the case and gave it as his opinion that the unfortunate irl would not live twenty-four hours,’ The ‘woman | Vagner has been arrested and locked up in the Thir- teenth precinct station house, where she will be held subject to the action of the Coroner. THE DOINGS OF THIEVES, The following robberies were reported to the Super. | Intendent of Police yesterday :— bd MOODY AND SANKEY. PRAYING FOR DR, FULTON'S CHURCH—AN EARNEST APPEAL FROM MR. MOODY TO SEEK CHRIST WHILE HE MAY BE FOUND. Yesterday morning's rainstorm so curtailed the at- tendance at the eight o’clock services that the Taber- | nacle was not much more than half filled. Apparently most of those present were devoted Christians, who Were not afraid of a reasonable amount of exposure to | the elements in the service of the Master. Mr. Moody delivered a short sermon from the text, ‘No good thing will the Lord withhold from them thatwalk up- rightly.” He said he liked wet mornings; they caused small religious gathorings, and it always seemed to him that God was nearer to a small, earnest company of Christians than to larger masses ‘of worshippers. He believed they were near to Him this stormy morning, and hoped they would walk uprightly before Him, that they might come within the blessed class to whom the text promised all good things, Afler the sermon Mr. Sankey sung as a solo the | hymoa:— Thave a Saviour; He's pleading in glory. Deacon Hawley read a large number of requests for prayers, Mothers wanted intercession for dissolute Sons or flighty daughters, and a wife wished Divine merey for her husband,’ a sporting man. Alderman Richardson, .a defeated candidate for Senator, prayed for'Hanson place church, of which he is a meinber, that it might be delivered from its dissen- sions. Prayer was also offered, among others, by Major Corwin, of the Tabernacle church. Mr. Moody spoke of the large preponderance of Christians in the ‘revival gatherings, both at the Tabernacle and the Rink. doubted if, at any one time, there had been more than 600 unconverted persons in'the audience. He suggested ® special meeting on Sunday night for persons not in the habit of attending religious services, This course had been successfully adopted in their revival efforts in Great Britain, and be hoped that in that way thousands might be brought under the power of tho truth, We are now ina most promising fleld of work and he esteemed it a precious privilege to be permitted to labor for Christ. He mentioned the case of a man, | Seventy-three years of age, residing at Portland, Me., who had come here to be converted before the last few days of his long lite should be spent. Rev. Henry Ward Beecher was in the Tabernacle, but took no active leadership in the exercises. EVENING MEETING. A larger crowd than has been at the Rink for soveral nights assembled there last evening, and there was not standing room after a quarter past seven o'clock, The meeting opened by the singing of the 116th hymn:— “Come thou Fount of every blessing.” Tho Rev. Mr. Thomas led in prayer, after which the thirtieth hymn was sung. Mr, Moody read the fitty-fifth chapter of Ixaiab, Mr, Sankey sung the seventy-ninth bymn as a solo, the choir joining in the chorus. Mr, Moody announced that there woula be a meeting Sunday evoning at half-past seven, for tho uncon- verted solely. Tickets are to be issued for the occasion at the Young Men’s Christian Association. This meet- ing {s to give a chance to those who never goto church, the portion of the community already converted are politely requested to stay away. Mr. Moody began his discourse by saying:—I want to cail your attention toa text in the fitty-tfth chap- ter of Isaiah, You rembember I have been talk- ing the last’ two evenings of the Saviour taking the place of the seeker, but don’t have the idea that Christ ts going to do all; for you won't find Him if you don’t seek Him, The fifth verse of this chapter Bays, “Seck the Lord while He may be found, Seek Him’ while He is near.” A man asked me the other night “Why cannot I find Christ?” “Because,” I said, “you have not sought Him with your whole heat. I can tell you the day and the hour when He will come.” The man looked as if he thought 1 was wild. “How?? said he. “Ye shall find Me when ye sook Mo with all your heart."” That is the reason you don’t find Christ—it don’t take long to find Christ when you mako up your mind to seek with all your heart. [ don’t believe a man or woman would go out of this Kink to-night unconverted if they were in earnest about their souls, Look how men search for wealth. cannot come to these meetings and wait half an hour; they cannot leave their families; but let them think they can accumulate a little weelth and they can leave ilies six months, aud six years if need be. ce honor and home in pursuit of wealth, and et men never accuse them of being mad. k ow the politicians have been in earnest for the past two weeks. Men have got hold of mo on tho street and tried to drag mo to the polls to vote their ticket— democratic and republican, both. ‘They did not know mo, but itmade no difference, They were in earnest; but let men try to savo souls and wo are fanatics. 1 saw an account some time ago ot a vessel that went to pieces, They could not all get in the lifeboats and some were floating around in the water. One man put fis hand ona lifeboat, but they would not let him come Men say they in, as the boat was too full already, Some one in the boat, who had a sword, cut his hand off. He clung then with his left han they cut that off too, and then he managed to get hold with his teeth. Their hearts were touched then and they took him in, He was terribly in earnest. Ob, may God bring you this night to be in earnest, if you never were botore. Seek the Lord while He may be an The text implies that the time may come when © CANNOT BE FOUND. Now is this not agood time toseck Him? Will you ever haveabettor time? You had better seek him while you are young. An old man seventy-three years old came into the inquiry room the other night. Would it not have been better if he had. sought the Lord nifty years ago. Very few live to be seventy, and if they do their hearts have become hardetled. Another reason we ought to seek tho Lord is that He is doing a groat work now. It seems to be the time to find Zion. Prayers are being answered, and a great work is breaking out, God is at work in this nation. He iscalling you. Listen to the call. Mercy always precedes a judgment, and it may be we are on tho eve of a great crisis. Iam no alarmist, but it is better to be saved. Let every one cry, “Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?” and he will’ lead you and guide you into the truth. It {8 taught m the coming when Ho will not hear your cry, it will be too late. I don’t believe there is one here who has not had ar opportunity, and He 1s coming again to-night, and it you will call upon him He will save you. Thank God the door is open to-night, the Gatekeeper will let you in, He says, como in and you can como in to-night if you'will. THE UNIVERSALIST REVIVAL. Last bight the church at the corner of Bleecker and j Downing streets was fairly filled by an attentive audi- ence, Prayer was offered up by the Rev. Mr. Pullman, of the Fifty-soventh street Universalist church. Tho sermon was proached by the Rev. A. Gunnison, of Brooklyn, His subject was “A Revival of Christi- ity a Revival of Righteousness.” The subject was dwelt upon at considerable length by the reverend gen- Ueman, who with much earnestness and force exhorted bis hearers to a real, practical, in- terior revival, which should bear permanent fruits, In a conversation with a Herat reporter, the Rev ©. P. McCarthy, whose letter to Mr. Moody, published exclu- sively in Monday's Heratp, has created considerable stir in religious circles, stated that at present the work being done was merely. an experiment, Next week it | would be continued in Harlem. He disclaimed the in- | the next, lay before their congregations @ proposition to | tention of saying anything disparaging touching the earnestness of Mr. Moody, but felt no faith in the emo- tional kind of r-ligion now being developed in Brooklyn, Thoir own attempt was one to produce an awakening which would not make PEOPLE RELIGIOUSLY MAD to-day and leave them to-morrow in a state of even greater apathy than that in which it found them. Al- though their revival had elicited no very marked en- thusiasm, still 1t had been productive of very substan. tial and, he hoped, permanent results. The religious exercises connected with the revival close at the above mentioned church to-morrow night. On Sunday next there will be a special commemoration service for all those belonging to the denomination who havo died during the past year. THE EVANGELIST CITY MISSION. ‘The annual meeting of the New York Protestant Episcopal Missionary Society, which, for want of a quoram, had been adjourned over from April, met last | night in the Episcopal chapel, corner of Twenty-tirst street and Fourth avenue, Soon after eight o'clock the Rev. Dr. Peters, Viee President, opened the meeting with a prayer. There were soventeen members present. The annual report of the Executive gave the following summary of what was accomplished during the last year:—1,498 prblic services, with an aggregate attendance of 106,971 holy communion administered to 863 distinet persons; 341 baptisms; 65 persons confirmed; 207 Dodies received for burial; an average attendance of 145 inthe Sunday school at St, Barnabas’ chapel and of 94 at Bethlehem German chapel—an average of 87 present in the day school in Bethlehem chapel and of 28 in the day nursery of St. Barnabas’ House; an orage of 172 girls in the industrial schools; an average of 41 women supplicd with work weekly; 2,200 families and — 19,508 « individuals visited and assisted if required; an average of 305 books drawn from the libraries on _Black- woll's Island pnd of fifty books “Gilbert Library,” in the Tombs; 16,496 papers and magazines distribated on Blackwell's Island, and uncounted numbers in all other institutions women were received into St. Barnabas’ House, and 102 chiliren in the day nursery, making a total of 1,765; 106,865 meals and 20,848 lodgings were furnished, being fan ‘increase over last year of 12,607 meals and 1,327 aging vote Treasurer's report showed the’ following - or | dition of the — society’s finances:—Receipts | the "year ending March 81, 1875, $18,001 89; | outlay during the same _peric $20,386 63} ving. a deficiency of — $11 14, which was made up from the reserve fund. The expenditare incurred from April 1, 1875, to October 23, inclusive, The apartments of Herman Marqudt, No. 90 First avenue, were entered by thieves, who stole jewelry valued at $100, The drug store of Julius Feller, at No, 61 Division street, was entered by thieves, who carried away $50 worth of property, Sneak toieves stole from the residence of Joseph Kronenberg property to the value of $70, Sneak thieves entered the apartments of Goorge Brand, at No, 83 Fourth street, and stole clothing to | i | the value of $140, amounts to $13,971 79, and the receipts have been such as to leave $56 19 ov hand at the last named date, The following officers for the present year wore clocted last night:—Vice Presidents, Rey. T. M. Peters, D, D., Messrs. WF. Mor, 8. Winston and Thoms jeston; Treasurer, Mr. J. H. Boynton; Sec rotary, Mr. 1 H. Holmes; members of the Executive Cominittes, Rev. Arthur Brooks, Rev. ©. C. Tiffany and Mossrs. RS, Holt, A. T. Sackett, Charles Spear and James Pott, Adjourned, sine die Re | Scriptures that thoro isa time | CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, DEFECTS OF THE ERIE CANAL CARL SCHURZ 45 AN HOW THE GREAT ELECTION OF MB. ORARY MEMBER. The Chamber of Commerce met yesterday afternoon atone o'clock, Mr. Samuel D, Babcock 1m the chair, Some interesting business was transacted, Mr. Sovon Hcumpuneys, Chairman of the Executive Committee, reported the names of forty-two candi cates for membership, all of whom were unanimously elected members of the Chamber. The following gentlemen were chosen delegates te attend the meetings of the National Board of Trade for the ensuing year:—Samuel D. Babcock, William E Dodge, James 8. T. Stranahan and 8. B. Chittenden. Mr, Hcmpureys reported back tle proposed amend ments to the bylaws, and, on recommendation of the committee, the amendment relating to the late Com- mittees of Arbitration and Appeal was adopted, The other amendments proposed, making the presiding officers of the several commercial bodies of the city ex officio members of the Chamber, was reported on Adversely by the committee. On motion of Mr. Humruneys the list of members in arrears for dues (reported by the Executive Committee at the last meeting of the Chamber and laid on the table) was taken from the table and placed on file thus suspending those gentlemen from membership, CANAL IMPROVEMENTS. Mr. Samvet B, Ruco.ss presented the following reso lution:— Resolved, That the Executive Committee prepare a memorial for the consideration of tho Chamber at the next regular meeting, to be presented to the Legisla- ture of the State at the next session, requesting the passage for the second time, and without undue delay, of the resolution unanimously passed by both hous of the last Legislature, proposing an amendment of the State constitution authorizing the appointment of a Superintendent of Public Works by the Governor, with the consent of the Senate, and abolishing the offices of the Canal Commissioners, Mr. RvuGGies verbally reported in behalf of the com. mittee that, under a resolution of the Chamber in May last, they had appointed Mr, Thomas Colden Ruggles, 4 civil engineer formerly in the employ of the State, te ascertain the present depth of water in the Erie Canal and the comparative rates of speed of canal boats pra pelled by steam and those moved by animal power, whose report to the Chamber in October, and printed by its order, stated the rate of speed for canal boau propelled py steam to average as follows:—In descend: ing the canal from Buffalo to Troy, 290-100 miles per hour, and from Troy to New York, on the Hudsos River, 5 24-100 miles; for boats ascending from New York to Troy, on the’ Hudson River, 58-100 miles pet hour, and ascending the canal from Troy to Buffalo, 3 27-100 miles. ‘The engineer further reported that, in his opinion, the addition of 1 foot additional depth to the levels the canals, making it 8 foet instead of 7, would, with the proper increase of current and without any change in the locks or aqueducts or the cargoes of the boats, increase their rate of speed to at least tour miles pet hour, practically increasing their capacity, and, couse quently, economy of transportation in the same ratio, Mr. Ruacuxs added that the Chamber would regret to learn that the examining engineer further reported that the canal still remained unflmshed and partially ob- structed in many localities and had not a unitorm depth of 7 feet; that in many places it was not more than 30 feet wide, instead of the 54 feet with full depth; that excopt in'the middle of the canal the depth in man: places did not exceed 6 feet 3 inches; that he strucl rock on the bottom at Holley, the same which he nad found and had reported on a previous survey made by him for the Canal Commissioners in 1861. ie further revorted the remarkable fact that on the marshes be- tween Clyde and Montezuma the level was full of eel grass, plugging the screw and retarding the boat so that it made only one and abalf miles per hour. A partial statement of the average speed made by horse boat shows them to be less than one-half of that of tha steamboats. Tho Chamber would see the pressing necessity of the constitutional amendments mentioned in the resolution now reported by the Executive Committee. Colonel ConkiING seconded the resolution, the neces- sity of which was, in his opinion, very apparent from the recent disclosures regarding the canals. Colonel Conkling said he would like to know whether it wat proposed to doepen the canal to eight feet, Mr. RucGuxs replied that there was no specific proj sition to that effect, but the measures recommended would probably lead to it, as it was advisable and could be done cheaply. Mr. Dopes said ho was thankful to Divine Provi- dence for having so long spared the lie of his friend (Mr. Ruggles) in his efforts to improve canal navi- ation. : Mr. Tncrner suggested that the other commercial bodies would like to subscribe to this memorial, and Mr. RvGGixs replied that their co-operation in the good work would be heartily welcome. THE TARIFF, Mr. Jonx A, SrevExs reported from the Special Com- Mittee on the Revision of the Tarif. He thought present time was favorable for a renewal of the efforts to combine with other cities in procuring such a change of the tariff (from ud valorem to specific duties) ag scemed desirable to the several trades, Mr. Gongs OrpYKx tendered his resignation as @ member of the committee for the new Chamber of Commerce building. Mr. Dope remarked in this connection that no deci- sive reply had been as yet received trom the Secretary of the Treasury in regard to the proposal of the Cham- | ver to purchase the old Post Office ground as a site, ‘A letter from James Orton, a professor of Vassar Col- lege, was read, recommending that the Chamber peti- tion the Secretary of the Navy to explore the Beni region in Bolivia, Referred to the Executive Commit- stee, with power. A letter from the Board of Trade of Chicago in ro- gard to reforms in bills of lading was read and placed on ile. Mr. Nicholas Ball wrote to say that a signal station was highly necessary at Block Island, and asked that a petition be signed by the merchants of New York pray: ing the government to establish one there, Referred to the Committee on Foreign Commerce. THE CUBAN WAIL Mr. ©. H, Watrovs gave notice that the next meeting of the Chamber he would offer a resolution directing a committee to inquire what effect the con- tinuance of the present state of things in Cuba would have on the commerce of the United States, and to re- port their conclusions to the Chamber. COMPLIMENT TO CARL SCHURZ Mr. Hexry E. Morix desired to nominate a gentle- man as an honorary member of the Chamber, who had done more than anybody in the United States to main- tain the principle of specie payment. Although only an adopted citizen of the United States, he has done his duty nobly, and he therefore nominated Mr. Carl Schiurz for that position. The usual decorum of the serious deliberations of this body was hero interrupted by some applause. The Chair reminded Mr. Moring that the election of an honorary member must first go before the Executive Committee; but Mr. Solon Humphreys, chairman of that committee, whispered 4 few words to the other members, and then announced that the Executive Committee had already considered the subject and approved of Mr. Schurz’s election. Mr. Schurz was then elected amid faint applause, and the Chamber adjourned. THE LARD CORNER.” The recent corner in lardon the Produce Exchange has given rise to somo business complications which are entirely new to the merchants of our city in that line of business, The corner was operated, as such speculations usually are, by the buying up of the com- modity in question, and also by the buying of the cone tracts to deliver before the close of the month. Thus it happened that on the last day of October many of the lard deaters who had made contracts to deliver found themselves “short.” A rush to buy was the conse- quence, and the price was forced up from 1634 to 17% cents, Some of the dealers bought at these prices and covered their contracts. A good many others, how. ever, made no attempt whatever to cover, wishing t¢ settle the mattor by arbitration this week. The usual custom is for those who are unable to fulfil their com tracts to settle by paying the difference between the price named in such contracts and the aver ago market price of the day, — which ‘at that time was 6% cents. Those who did not coves | refuse to pay this difference on the ground that many individuals ; | | of the sales were “wash” sales. The other parties complained and desired to lay the cases before the Committee on Lard, as the contract specified should be done incase of a disagreement, The shorts want the case to be decided by the Arbitration Committe, The grounds of their objection are that the Lard Com. mittee have not the power to send tor persons and papers. The buils reply that they will appear whenever called upon, A test Case came up yesterday before the Board of Managers. Mr. Theodore Perry stated that he had failed to deliver the jard to Mr. G. Thorp and wished to lay the case before the Arbitration Commit tee to fix on a price for the goods, A heated debat follo in which Mr. McCullough, Mr. Orr, of David Dow! Co, Mr S D. Harrison and Mr, Brewster took yart. They all spoko in faver of laying the case before the Lard Commit as the contract directed, Upon the itive retusal Mr. it to do so the meeting journed, and the Board closed the doors to deliberate on the matter, After about an hour they adjourned, subject to the call of the Chair, without coming to adecision. The amounts involved are about $70,000, The merchants are much excited about the matter, One of them, standing Pearl street after the adjournment and pointing to the Exchange building, exclaimed, with vehomence, ‘Just 4s soon as a committee dares to interfere with a pri: vate contract that building becomes uscless,”” Interest has also been excited in the case in other cities, as It will establish a precedent, and if the decision be favor- able to the “shorts” advantage will be taken of tt um every corner that occurs. FIRE IN HARLEM. A fire broke out at alate hour yestorday morning tm the kindnng wood factory of Louis Brosi, No. 163 East 118th street, The loss is estimated at $2,000, on which ‘Shere is no insurance,