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“WASHINGTON. The Forthcoming Decision in the Union Pacific Railroad Case. A WALL STREET RUMOR DENIED. Reports of the Commissioner of the Land Office and Paymaster General, FROM OUR REGULAR CORRESPONDENT. par RSS hs Wasmnarox, Nov. 12, 1875. One of the judges of the United States Supreme Court is my authority for a flat denial of the Wall street rumor, referred to in this morning’s Henanp, that a de- cision in the Union Pacific Railroad case had been reached, either by the alleged yote of seven to two in favor of the company, or by any other division or vote of the court. In short, no opinion of any kind has Deen yarrived at. It is not unlikely, how- ever, that the question at issue in the cage will be settled at an early date, probably within the next ten days. As the special law of Congress was enacted to hasten an adjustment of the dispute be- tween the railroad and the government by its ultimate reference to, the Supreme Court, the implication exists that a decision should be come to before Congress re- assembles. The arguments for and against the com- pany have been go able and ingenious that much delib- eration is needed to do justice in the case, and the pri- vate sessions of the judges have been at- tended with a great deal of learned dis- cussion upon the very knotty points presented for their consideration. If this discussion shall have proceeded .far enough before noon on Monday next to warrant taking a vote of the Bench, it is possible a de- cision may be handed down at that time, but the wide difference of opinion which is believed still to exist among the Judges promises to defer the publication of | ‘the decision of the Court for at least another week. In view of this difference of opinion it is conjectured that ‘the decision will not be an unanimous one, whichever way given. * GENERAL WASHINGTON DESPATCHES. Wastrxcrox, Noy. 12, 1875. THE NATIONAL BANES OF THE UNITED STATES— REPORT OF THE COMPTROLLER OF THE CUR- | RENCY. The following is an abstract of reports made to the Comptroller of the Currency, showing’ the condition of the national banks in the United States at the close of “business on Friday, the 1st day of October, 1875:— stead system made the enly method of acquiring title to agricultural lands, is by Commissioner Bur- ett and earnestly mo the attention of Con- gress, { CHANGES IN THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT. Melvin D. Peck, of New York, Second Assistant Ex- aminer in the Patent Office, was to-day appointed Chief Clerk of the Patent Office, vice James 8. Grinnell, of Massachusetts, and Levi Bacon, of Michigan, is ap- pointed Financial Clerk of the Patent Office, vice T. C. Smith, of the Districtof Columbia. There were sev- eral other clerical changes of minor importance made im the Interior Department to-day. PRESENTATION OF THE ITALIAN MINISTER. Baron Blanc, the newly appointed Envoy Extraordi- nary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Italy, was to-day presented to.the President by the Secretary of State, on which oceasion the usual addresses were made, ———— DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA BONDS. TRUSTEES OF SAVINGS BANKS AUTHORIZED TO INVEST THEIR FUNDS IN THE 3-65 BONDS— OPINION OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE Aupany, N. Y., Nov. 12, 1875. ‘The following is Attorney General Pratt's opinion ag Srate or New York, Orrick OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL, Hon. D. C. Ex.is, Superintendent of Bank Depart ment:— closures, was duly reet ‘The Attorney General has examined with considerable care the questions pro- STATE OF NEW YORK. to investments in District of Columbia bends:— Auuany, Nov. 9, 1875. | Duan Sim—Yours of October 29, 1875, with en- pounded to the Superintendent of the Bank Depart ment on behalf of several savings bauks in the city of New York, and has come to the conclusion that trustees of savings banks may, under the statute of this State, lawfully in- vest the moneys deposited in said banks in the 3-65 bonds of the District of Columbia, issued under the act of Congress of June 20, 1874, and February 20, 1875, By chapter 371 of the Sersion Laws of 1875, section 26, trustees of savings banks are authorized ‘to invest moneys deposited in those banks in stocks or bonds of the United States, or those for which the faith of the ‘United States is pledged to provide for the payment of the interest and principal.”” By section 7, of the act of Congress of June 20, 1874, as amended by tne act of February 20, 1875, after providing for the issue of the bonds in question and for the forni thereof, it is further provided as follows:— ‘That the faith of the United States is hereby pledged that the United States will by proper proportional appropriations fs contemplated by this wet, and by causing to Ue levied upon property within said District such taxes us will do to rovide the revenue necessury to pay the int wnds as the same may become due and pa; asinking fund to pay the principal thereol a ‘The terms of this provision are so similar to those used in our State statute in regard to investments by trustees of savings banks as to raise a strong inference that the framers of the latter act must have had the acts of Congress in relation to the issue ot these bonds before them, and framed the act with special reference to these bouds. That these bonds answered all the require- nents of our statute will not be questioned, unless the clause prescribing the method of raising the revenues necessury to redeem the pledges in some manner im- pairs or neutralizes the pledge itself. Iam unable to construe that clause so as to give it any such effect. As to that proportion of the obligations which Congress may decide that the United States ought to pay, the pledge is absolute and unqualided that Congress will Logan tod diimonnt cevee $080,222,951 | Make the necessary appropriation to provide Greniveta. me 2 i a4os,4s3 | for its payment. As to that proportion which Whites “Gearon. heeded, Gaeree: alvin. , may be imposed ‘upon the District of Columbia, ei eu oan eee g70,301.700 | the pledge is substantuully direct. Congress has su- United States bonds to secure deposits. 14,097,200 | Preme legislative power over the District of Columbia, United States bonds on hand............ 13,989,950 | upon the property or inhabitants any Other stocks, bonds and mortgages...... 83,505,045 | does not see Due trom approved reserve agents... 85,701,259 Due from other national banks... 47,028, 759 Due from State banks and bankers. . 1. 963,788 | Real estate, furniture and fixtures 42,366,647 Current expenses and taxes paid. 7,841,213 Premiums paid.......... 670, 091 Checks and other cash items 12,758,872 Exchanges for Clearing House + 78,142,863 Bills of other national banks + 18,528,887 | . 2,595,641 ‘ 8,050,329 + 76,468,734 United States certificates of deposit for Jegal tender notes. ......... 808, | Five per cent redemption fund. see 16,283,192 Due from the United States Treasurer, , 3,458, 769° Total, + $1,882, 209,307 Liabils Capital stock paid in, = $504.829.769 Surplus fund.. 134,356,076 Other undivid 52,064,953 ‘ational bank notes ou' 818,350,379 | State bank notes outstanding. 172,048 Dividends unpaid. 4,003, 534 Individual deposi 664,579,619 | United States deposits. 6,507, 631 Deposits of United States cers... 4,271,195, Due to o 129,810, 681 Due to State bank: 49,918,530 Notes and bills rediscounter 5,254,453 Bille payab! 6,590,234 Total... . $1,882, 209,307 Wumber ANNUAL REPORT OF THE PAYMASTER GENERAL, General Alvord, Paymaster General of the Army, | says, in his annual report for the last fiscal year, end- | ing June 30, 1875, the number of desertions during that | time was 2,521; re-enlistments of privates, 1,986, and | of sergeants, 347. The number of desertions has de- creased nearly one-balf, while the number of re-enlist- ments has increased nearly three times during the Jast fiscal year, as contrasted with the tormer year. ‘This betokens superior contentment and is due, doubt- Jess, not alone to the pay being now graduated by length + of service and to the effect of the deposit system, but is undoubtedly also due to an improvement | in the whole tone and condition of the army. The | total amount deposited by soldiers during the year was $325,256. Doubtless the @ffect of the system has | been, as heretofore, to diminish desertions, There re mained on the 30th of June last $527,000 in the hands of the government, received from deposits and not yet repaid since the passing of the act of May 15, 1872 The Paymaster Geveral calls attention to the scheme favorably alluded to by the Secretary of War in his last | annual report for the enactment of a system of | annuities for the families of deceased officers by volun, tary deductions from the monthly pay of officers. It | is proposed that it shall be done without eventual *ex- pense to the government. The money to be deducted | is worth to the government a certain per centund of , interest, This interest and the expectancy of life | (arrived at by careful statistics) are the elements from | which annuity tables would be prepared by the most | careful and critical calculations.” The science of proba- bilities bas reached great precision in its computa- tions; but after certain tables had been used twenty | years, more or less, then if found defective correc- | tions could be made which would more perfectly ac- | complish the object sought. Some officers have ex- | Pressed a preference for a voluntary established | assessment (made upon the death of the ofli- er) upon’ each member of the association, a scheme so entirely different from the annuty plan | ‘that it probably would not at all conflict with it. There | ig one precaution that the Paymaster General would | emphasize that neither himself nor any other officer be | made (as in the case of the late Freedmen’s Bureau) the | ‘custodian of any fund, but that it be deposited in the | ‘Treasury, to be withdrawn according to law, The Pay- | master General says the allowance and payment of | mileage to officers ot the army is so hedged about that there can be and were no abuses of it which are not | inseparable from any allowance based upon orders | issued at the discretion of men, Therefore he earnestly fecommends a return to the system of mileage, ag better fitted to do justice to the officer and to the gov- | ernment. | THE REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER oF THE LAND OFFICE—HOW THE COUNTRY Is pr- NUDED OF LABGE AREAS OF ITS WATER-_ is e SHEDS. Commissioner Burdett, of the General Land Office, will, in his forthcoming report, strongly recommend | that all timber lands owned by the government be ap. | praised and thrown open to purchase at not less than | their appraised value, He is of the opinion that unless they are thus placed under private guardianship the pine forests of the country will soon be wastefully ex- bausted by the lumber companies and speculators who are now stripping the land of its timber under cover of “dommy” preemption entries, or without pretence of | compliance with the law, while the government derives Qo revenue from Its property and the country sustains most irreparable damage from the sweeping den- adation of large areas of its watersheds, He will also condemn the practice of ex- fending the system of sub-division surveys over immense bodies of worthless larid west of the Hers, He will also recommend that provision be made for connecting the Land Office surveys with important ints establisted by the geographical surveys of the ferritories, and that tho monuments at section cor- ‘gers, &c., be constructed in a much more lasting man- eer. The recommendation of his predecessor, that the ereamntion Jaws should be abolishgd aud the homg- | HH, B, Ajackwoll are billed aa | tee was approved, and they berg 3 motion, exhibited for and against the recent and tay ees rate of jon necessary for the payment of its debts. It is only by means of taxation of some kind tnat ihe United States is enabled to aischarge its pecuniary ob- ligations, and the revenues necessary to discharge these obligations of the Distriet of Columbia may be raised by taxation upon the property of the District as well as by, any other method of taxation There cad Le no presumption of any failure in the amount of property subject to taxation necessary to. raise | the requisite amount of revenue; and if there could be such failure the Attorney General how the United States could be relieved from its pledge. ‘The faith of the United States is pledged that the United States will (by causing to be Jevied upon rty within said District such taxes ag will do so) provide the revenue necesgary,’’ | &c, The pledge is so absolute that the United States must be deemed to take the risk of any failure in its objects of taxation. The Attorney General theretore feels constrained upon a more deliberate examination of the question to modify the opinion heretoiore rendered from this Department to the Superintendent of the Bank Department, and advise that, in his opinion, trastees of savings banks in this state are legally authorized to invest the funds of said banks 10 | the 3-66 bonds of the District of Columbia, issued under the pon of Congress of June 20, 1874, and February 875, All of which js respectfully submitted, * DANIEL PRATT, Aworney General. <a THIRD AVENUE SAVINGS BANK. ANOTHER MEETING OF THE DEPOSITORS—A NEW COMMITTEE APPOINTED—THE RECEIVERSHIP, A largely attended meeting of the depositors of tie Third Avenue Savings Bank was held last night in Glass Hall, East Thirty-fourth street. There must have been 300 persons presemt of both sexes. Mr. Kd- ward Mallon was in the chairand Mr. F; G. J. Maynard acted as secretary. ‘The chairman went into a lengthy statement to show to the meeting those motives which had operated to produce a lack of confidence in the committee of ten which had formerly been appointed by the depositors, In the midst of this statement a depositor got up with a document in his hand, He had been to see Mr, Peter Cooper to request that be would accept the receivership of the bank, Mr. Cooper expressed’ himself entirely Willing to serve the depositors, but could not find time | necessary to the arduous duties of such an office. He, however, recommended Colonel C. E. L. Holmes asa gentleman entirely qualified, and, no doubt, one who would be willing to act. Here the speaker was inter- rupted by calls for the committee’s report, but, upon motion, was allowed to lave his say out from the plat- form, Upon resuming his explanation, the chairman wanted to make this committee’s record “straight” before the | depositors. He branded as false certain statements that had been made by Mr. Fitch, particularly that wherein this lawyer said he was a depositor in the bank; and also it was a lie that Mallon wanted to be named receiver, when, in fact, he considered himself unfit for such an undertaking. In addition, he could not find the necessary bonds. The speaker proceeded to “expose’’ what he considered the intrigues of Fitch to blind the eyes of the depositors and keep the pres- ent receiver, Mr. Carman, in his office of trust, to ac- complish which be sought to induce some of the com- mittee to H SIGN A CRRTAIN PAPE | the contents of which they did not. understand. The chairman went on to say that the committee had thought well to retain Counsellor A. 8, Sullivan to act | as legal adviser for the depositors, and that an ingtru- ment in writing, under the form of a power of attorney, from the body of the depositors tothe new committee, should be signed forthwith, so as to enable the latter to take all necessary ste; criminally any suits at law, or persons against whom it might be necessary to proceed. The following are the names of the new committee of thirteen:—Rdward Mallon, Eugene, Ward, Jacob Riger, John Carne George Smith, Thomas Rooney, Patrick McT Julius Borren, Charles Phillips, Thomas Coleman, Pat- rick MeCue, John Day, William’ Carreberry and Henry Schmidtinann, After a good deal of debate the action of the commit- empow- ered to act for the depositors, © persons, named respectively River and Ward, spoke disparagingly of the action taken on several occasions concerning the bunk by Messrs. Josephs and Fitch, The following resolutions, which were introduced vy | the committee, were approved of and adopted :. Wherens on the 14th day of Uctober, 1875, the depositors of the Third Avenue Say! ing of 1s Bank was held at Germania Hall and a committee of ten appointed; Whereas a new committee of thirteen has been appointed in writing, in order to define their power; now be it Resolved, That such old committee of ten and all others ved and discharged from any further action, except eset committee appointed in writt nd whereas, 1875, & meeting of the depositors tige Bunk was bold, and Ashbel P. inted y to remove the receiver of th junteered to do it at no cost; and whereas, it is desired to appoint other counsel, be it ved, That the services of Mr. Fitch be’ dispensed with. and that the thanks af the meeting be tendered to Mr. Fitch, with a copy of these resolutions. The new committee were empowered to retain their torn Present form of organization and {o retain counsel as | above stated. It was stoked that Mr. Sullivaa would start for Kingston last night, wkere the motion pead ing tor the setting aside of the present receiver and the appointment of anwfer will be brought sto court for argument, When the motion appointing the new committee to | act as attorneys for the depositors was passed a good deal of excitement prevailed, and much feeling was named repre | sentatives. The peopig flocked about the platform and a scene of excitement and confusion followed, ‘which had been agopted a short while before; but upon the whole the majority of those present alllxed | their signatures to the document, after which the hundredth meridian, and suggest that only such tracts | meeting adjourned, | be minutely surveyed as have any attractions for set- | - THE STRONG. MINDED. Next, Wednesday the American Woman's Suffrage Association will hold’ its seventh annual meeting at Steinway Hall. Bishop Gilbert Haven, Mary A. Liv more, Julia Ward Howe, William Lloyd Gasrisen, Lucy Stone, Colonel T. W. Higginson, Mary F. and anoekgra for the accasian. to prosecute civilly or | i | of Coroner Kessler, on the body of Mrs. Bogenshuts, Many | | left the hali without Lr gage te power of attorney, | WHAT SHOULD BE DONE WITH HIM? THE QUARANTINE INVESTIGATION. THE BUILDING O¥ HOFFMAN ISLAND A MIS- TAKE—WHAT 18 THOUGHT OF DR, VANDER~ POEL AND HIS ADMINISTRATION. The Assembly Committee on Crime met yesterday morning, Mr. David W. Judd, Commissioner of Quarantine, was the first witness examined He stated that he was appointed on the 18th of February, 1873; the actual expenses of the work of the department amounted during 1878 to $2,300, while that of the pre vious year amounted to $17,500; since his term of office every effort had been made to reduce all expeuses; in 1874 an approprmtion of $56,000 was ma Legislature for the maintenance of the departin thought that still further reductions could be made con- sistently; prior to 1870 the Health Officer paid his own assistants; simce then the State has paid the expenses; at present it coat $60,000 to run the department, but be beheved the expenses should not exceed $35,000; if the Commissioners were permitted to collect the fees on veqsels entering the port, instead of the Health Officer, they could pay their employés hand- some salaries and return a revenue of $10,000 to the State; in bis judgment the employés were not paid too much; in fact their salaries were by no means remunerative; Dr. Vanderpool loaned to the Commissioners, as an’ act of charity, $4,000 to pay the men; the working of the Quarantine Dopartment at present was periectly satisfactory vo the shipping mer- chants; the building of Hoffman’s Island he consid- ered a mistake, which was proved by the later ex- perience of the Commissioners. AN OPINION OF DR, VANDERPOEL, The next witness called was Mr. D. D. Morrell, Secre- tary of the Shipowners’ Association, He had a good deal of experience im Quarantine matters, and knew that under the administration of Dr. Vanderpoel tho merchants of the city wore satisfied and were anxious that he should retain his present authority, He never unnecessarily delayed a vessel at Quarantine, nor has he ever made an overcharge, although according to law he has a right to fix his own fees, The merchants would rather have the fees for fumigating fixed by law. He had heard of complaints with regard to the fumiga- tion of European steamers, but the fault was not with the Health Officer, who merely gave his instructions and left, Frequently the sailors would throw the cans containing the fumigating matter around, or even over- board, in consequence of which many accidents oc- curred, The committee then adjourned until Monday at eleven o'clock, THE MADHOUSE INVESTIGA'TION. Yesterday afternoon the commission appointed to investigate the alleged abuses at the Kings County Lunatic Asylum met again in Montague street, Dr. John Ordronaux in the chair. Dr, Theodore B. Wettley, assistant physician at the lunatic asylum, testified that he had charge of the male side of the asylum, and did clerical work; .he visits the wards once a day; there are very few patients confined to their beds, and these the watchman does not attend, nor does he attend sick women in the night; when patients are admitted the: are examined as soon as possible; had heard of the al- leged Magee case of cruelty, which was the only one in filteen months; the Local Visiting Committee has a right to come’ in any. time; witness is careful to sce that all articles sent to patients are of a good class; witness saw Magee with the camisole on; Magee had a scratch on bis lip and a little one on the forehead; he was suffering from acute melancholia; he was violent, | and could answer few questions rationally; witness dis- | charged him, not as cured, but as improved; witness thought most of the testimony unreliable; thought thé testimony of Magee more or less stretching the truth; Laselle, the attendant, was reli- able; attendants are not allowed to go home at night. Witness could not say that the patients are benefited by the visits of lady members of the ladies’ commit- | tees; could not say what the effects of the ladies’ | visits were; had charge of the patient, Daniel Rielling, and could not remember “that any of the attendants had assaulted him. Commissioner Raber, of the Charity Commissioners, testitied that Bernard Strauss had been arrested three times and bought a new pistol every time he came out; when he was returned he was very Violent. The inves- tigation was adjourned until to-day. QUEENS COUNTY POORHOUSE. Some mention has already becn made of the report | of a committee of the Queens County Medical Society | regarding the sanitary condition of Hog Island (or Bay- | county that the location of the county poor farm on the island was a serious mistake, At all events it is pretty clear that the accommodations thus far provided are | | Were designed, but it is a question whether any furthor outlay for improvement in this regard is judicious, in + view of the possibility that some other location may | before long be fixed upon. The present hospital, it ap- | pears from the report, is constructed <with- | out the least regard to ventilation; the man- | ner of heating the building is imperfect, and there is no kitchen where food for the sick can be prepared, The wall for supplying the buildings with water is, in the celfar; analysis of the water reveals twenty-five | grains of inorganic matter to the gullon beside vegeta- bie growths, and the character of the water is intiu- enced by the rise and fall of the tide. The pest house 18 a building with only one room, where smallpox pa- | tients are huddled together without regard (o sex or e. The conclusions of the committee are that, first, a hospital for the sick and an asylum for the insane should be distinct and separate from the, poor house; second, the location should be central and easy of ac: ; | cess; third, the supply of water should be well estab- lished, botf ae regards quality gad quantity, | Dr. Ed. win Webb, of Hempstead, suppi@nents the report with | @ paper embodying his personal views, which are | sul more empuatic as to. the” ‘unfitness of | | Barnum Island as the location for the county eleemosynary establishments. He concludes:—‘If the | | island was suscepuble of any important use it would | not have been sold for such a small consideration to our county, but long since would have been converted into a place bo spe resort during a short period of the summer. The only reason assigned for its selection worthy of notice is its isolation and purity of air; but no such isolation is necessary—indeed, it is quite the , re , and the air may be injurious to a large clase of | cases that ‘occupy a hospital, such as rheumatism, con- sumption, &c. The supply of water cannot be depended upon, for in most instances when boring has been resorted to on such low lands adjacent to the sea it has proved a failure,” ‘The Board of Supervisors are now making an effort to | remedy the evil of bad water. They have employed | Mr, Theodor A. Carman, of Hempstead, who is engaged in boring for a supply, tho apparatus being similar to | | that used in sinking artesian wells, He has already reuched a depth of between sixty and seventy feet | without success, The strata through which he has passed have very much varied, and he is saving speci- mens for the Long Island Historical Society. A fine vein of yellow sand, such as is known as building sand, was passed through a few days ago and was rapidly brought up by the sand pump. On reaching a depth of about sixty feet, however, he struck a layer of coarse gravel, | some of the stones being nearly the size of a hen’s egg, | and all having the appearance of the coarse pebbles frequently found along the seashore. Boring through this is slow work, the average being about a {oot a day. As tho attempt has been previously made to obtain water by means of a drive well, which was put down to the depth of 200 feet without success, fears are enter- tained that the present attempt will also prove a fail- ure, POLICE CHANGES. At a meeting of the Board of Police held yesterday Sergeant Sullivan was transferred from the Thirty- fourth to the Eleventh precinct and Sergeant Crow from the Eleventh to the Thirty-fourth. Roundsman Faweett, of the Eighteenth precinct, was appointed acting sergeant in the same precinot, Sergeant Brooks, of the Thirty-lirst precinct, was placed on the retired list at an annual pension of $400, A comipunication was received from ti Boara of Education Committee of the Normal Coliege asking for the detailment of a patrolman for permanent duty at | that institution. The request was granted. Official reports of the death of Sergeants Looney and Westerman were received and ordered on file. Several patrolmen were transferred and a number were cited before the Board of Examiners with a view to their promotion. Patrolman Cuilinghan, of the Twenty-seventh pre- cinct, was dismissed from the department for negiect of auty. MRS. BOGENSHUTZ’S INJURIES. An autopsy was held yesterday, under the directions who came to her death on the 11th inst. from injuries alleged to have been inflicted on the 14th of last July at thé hands of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Seibert during an altercation. The examination revealed a fracture of the right frontal boue of the skull and abscess of the brain, Seibert was committed without bail to the Tombs, and bis wife, being in delicat ‘was per- mitted to return to ber home, to remain auder police surveillance until her condition improves sufficiently to warrant her incarceration. ‘The imquest in the case will probably be held to-day. FIRE IN NINTH AVENUE. paaeeienanas Quite @ large conflagration in extent, though not in the value of the property consumed, occurred in Ninth avenue, between Seventy-sixth and Seventy-seventh streets, last evening, five one-story frame buildings taking fire and burning to tbe ground. The loss sus- tained will not exceed $4,000, and a part of this is cov- ered by insurance. The losers are Barbara Fredericks, Jou Stebling, Jacob Fox, Joseph Zenk) and Mra. Gross, Bernard F. Zinn was arrested yesterday, by an officer from the Central Office, ona charge of having com- mitted during the last six yoarsa series of most re- volting assaalts upon his daughter, now sixteen years old, He was locked up in the Central Office last even- ing and will be taken t@ the W: Hine Foie | Ce ae i num Island, as it is now called) and the buildings on | the islaud used as a hospital, pest house and alms- | | honse, From the character of this report the impres- | sion is gaining ground among the people of Queens — | | | insufficient and unfit for the purposes for which they | } _ NEW YORK HERA), SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1875.—TRIPLE SHEET. THE STAR OF ULYSSES, Horoscope of General Grant by Astrologer Lister. DECLARATION OF ‘THE PRESIDENT'S DESTINY. Everything Lovely and No Third Term. Jupiter, Saturn, Mars, Venus and Mercury Proclaim It. Old Sol Allots Thirty-four More Years to His Excellency. A Heap reporter spent yesterday afternoon among the stars The outer gate, which separated him from things worldly and things celestial, was located at No, $20 Sixth ayenue, and its key was in the hands of a man—Lister by name—who is professor of as trology. After ascending a flight of stairs the reporter pulled a door knob, anda little later was ushered into the astrologer’s presence, The room was quaint and Peculiar, There was but one window in it, and that was his birth did not form an evil aspect with Saturn or NO THIRD TERM. “But, if you please,”’ said the reporter, “tell me what is the matter with the planets? You assured mea little while ago that something was wrong; that Grant’s chances for political position were rather slim; that he Would begin to disappear from public notice after March 4, 1876. Please inform me how it is that the planets, after shining upon him for two terms, won't shine upon him for a third, or, in fine, interpret for me, if you can, the relations between Grant, politics and celestial mechanics 7”? ‘The Prefessor didn’t hesitate a moment for an an- swer. Had he anticipated the reporter’s coming, a8 Well as his interrogatory, he could uot have responded | more promptly, ‘Since the birth of President Grant nothing serious has occurred to change the mutual re- lations of those planets which shone upon his cradle. Saturn is a planet which represents honor, position and popularity. The transit of Saturn will soon occur, After it takes place the conditions under which Grant was born suffer a marked change, and at the moment the transit occurs the popularity, power and influence | of the man will begin to steadily decline. You cannot understand the significance of this transit, perhaps, bat every astrologer does, and it eannot come to pass without influencing in one way or another all born un- | dor it,” The reporter had already engaged the Professor for a long time, and as he could learnqnothing more definite from the gentleman than what is given above be with- drow. MRS. MOULTON’S APPEAL. Mrs. Emma C. Moulton Inst delivered to Mr, Thomas G, Plymouth qhurch, the following letter, in which she asks the church to join with her in requesting a Con- gregational Council to review the recont action of the evening caused to be Shearman, clerk of veiled by curtains of Jace.’ In the dim un- | church in dropping her name from the roll ot mem- certain Nght which , pervaded the apart. | bers:— . wi ment, the reporter saw only that he was Sroograrn) Nov. 19; 1876, in the presence ofa tall, elderly but athletic man, and that upon either side of him was a ponderous globe. His ears heard only the ticking of a clock. Ag his eyes became more accustomed to the light the reporter ob- Served that the room was neatly furniehed, and well supplied with pictures and books, The Professor him- self was a peculiar person, hale, hearty and rugged, despite the fact that his hair was exceedingly gray. Yo tae Memners or Puymouta Cxurce:— BRwTHREN—Having been summoned by the Examin- ing Committee to meet the church on the evening of November 4, at which meeting the committee notified me that they should present a recommendation to the church to drop my name from the roll of members on account of absence from the services of the church, | appeared accordingly and presented my protest against any such action. In this I declared what I now repeat, that “i am not an absentee in any proper sense ot that word, nor courteous and dignified. His fuce was cleanly shaven, | My absence is an enforced one, and is save a small tuft of beard which grew underneath his chin and receded below the collar of his shirt, There was something in the appearance of the Pro- caused by the crime of adultery committed by Henry Ward Beecher, arishioners, which I know to bea fact through Mr. eecher’s confessions to me, and through the con- THIS IS THE HOROSCOPE. Observe What Jupiter, Mars, Venus, Mercury and the Rest of Them Say. NORTH* APRIL 27, VERY NEAR 60'C.A.M, tor of thié church, with one of his | 1822 fessor, however, which not only excited interest but also commanded respect, and the reporter felt that he was actually in the presence of a disciple of Tiberius, or at Teast face to face with a descendant of the old Saracens of Spain, THE INTERVIEW. c “What did you call on me for?’ was the question the Professor asked. “To fd out something in relation to the President of the United States,” was the reporter’s answer. “To settle by astrology here, at this very moment, forever the question of a third term.’’ “Ah, sir,” responded the Professor, shaking his head gravely, ‘the power and influence of the President will begin to wane about the 4th of March, 1876, I predicted the assassination of Abraham Lincoln September 29, 1864, seven months before it took place. ‘Under this date I wrote a letter to the Boston Herald, in which I said:—‘A deep base plot will be formed against the person of the President as shown by the Planet Mars. This planet indicates death from pistol shot’ You can refer to the files of the Boston Herald and there read what I predicted. I predicted the career of Vice President Wilson twenty years ago, and if you refer to his speeches made during the last cam- paign you will find he states that an astrologer seemed to know him by hear, And now as to Grant.” PRESIDENT GRANT'S HOROSCOPE. ‘The Professor then ransacked a huge pile of papers and produced a manuscript and the diagram published horewith:—‘This is the President's horoscope,” he said. ‘Several years ago | wrote to his father, Jesse Grant, and obtained from him the exact hour of our Chief Execative’s birth. I tearned from him that Ulysses 8. was born April 27, 1822, at about six o'clock A.M. Iwrote the letter and deduced my conclusions long before Grant was nominated for the Presidency for ‘the first time. I consider his to be one of the most re? markable and, at the same time, most fortunate na- tivities that has ever come under my notice. We find five planets in the oriental part of the heavens—viz, the sun, Jupiter, Saturn, Venus and Mercury. The sua im conjunction with Jupiter is the most fortunate con- dition under which any one can be born. The moon ‘was in favorable position with Venus, and Mercury, the intellectual orb, formed a good aspect with Mars. The twenty-fourth degree of the sign Taurus was rising at his birth; hence Venus became his ruler, aided by the sun and Jupiter. The sun indicates dignity, wealth, power and honor, while the other planets just namedy when {a conjunction with the sun, indicate rapid advancement in life. The position in which Venus was at the time of his birth indicates that he is kind, but determined; socral, but virtuous, Mercury and the moon, both in the tropical signs at the time of his nativity, indicate that he is tond of distinction and always takes care of No. 1; that he is very ingentous, acute, inquisitive. The location of the planet Jupiter indicates that, though DETERMINED TO CARRY OUT HI3 PURPOSES, he is kind and even magnanimous to those whom he has subdued. The location of Saturn shows that he is a man of great caution and quaint originality. Let me now look upon the position of the sum, the life BY The location of the wun at the time of hig birth indicates a strong constitution and long life, The most criticals period of his life will be in his seventy-third and eighty-sevonth years, It is more than probable that he will attain the age of oighty- seven, Though the planets show him liable to fre, fire arms and explosions, it is almost safe to say that he WULdio d RAIDTAL soot. because. sho gun at pao sane of fessions of Mrs, Tilton, and through conclusive evi- dence of the crime from other sources. [ appear before the church in loyal hereby declare my disposition and desire to discharge all the duties deve'ving on me asa member shat are consistent with my knowledge of the adultery of tho | pastor and his false swearing with regard to it.” Not- withstanding this protest and after it had been read, the the church present adopted the recommendation of the dropped my name from the without considering the sufficiency of my reasons for being absent from the sacraments, without arraigning me for any unjust accusations against the pastor and without giving me a dismission to any other church. lam, therefore, so far as your action can do it, de- Prived of a stanaibg in the Church of Christ, as it seems to me, without fault on my’ part, and certainly without any proper trial by you. I cannot feel that this is right, ana I ask you to join meinbers of with me in calling a council of churches, before which — you may state your reasons for your action and I may state mine, which sball impartially judge between uw «1 one, and you are many. But 1 believe in God and His justice, in Christ | and Hi kn m. 1 am quite ready to be ingdo! properly rebuked by such a council, if I ought to be, yr not attending your services and sacraments; while I Koo tnart desire that my Christian character and standing in the Church should be vindicated and re- stored, if thatisright. If you do not notify me of your consent to joim with me in calling such &@ council withim four weeks I shall under- stand you decline to do so, and that must to ask a council myself to consider these matters, which are of such great importance to me and to those to whom Ld name isdear. But it would be far more agreeab! me to have yougoin me as one who has anxtonsly tried to do her duty as well as she could amid great dificalties in referring the whole case 3 AFRICAN EXPLORATION, [From the New York San, November 12.) s ABOUT STANLEY, In these days of high pressure journalism and activg geographical exploration it becomes quite af tnterest ing question whether Mr. Henry M. Stanley is moré f worthy of the New York Henauo or the New Yous Henaup of Mr. Henry M. Stanley, If Mr. Stanley lacks literary capacity and good taste he com for this deficiency by pluck and perseverance. If th Hera. may be complimented on elegance of style if betrays in commenting on the achievements of its owt explorer very great geographical ignorance, We only trust that whea Mr. Stanley comes to read the artici ‘about him, should they ever penetrate to the shores Nyanza, or Niyanza, as he insists on calling it, he may be as much pleased with the Hxzatp as the Hera. evidently iswith him. We do not say this disparag< ingly. We have a high appreciation of the enterprisd alike of the journal and of the man; bat we do wislt that the one would write less yulgarly and the othed comment more intelligently. ‘The Hexaxo, in its latest contribution to geographical { knowledge, clings to the absurd theory, which ever | Livingstone reluctantly abandoned before his deat! that the lacustrine river discovered by him, and call Webb's Lualaba, may possibly prove to be the Nile, Stanley, with that contempt for “armchair geog’ raphers” which not unnaturally characterizes African explorers, warmly adopted this idea, simply because if was propounded to him by Livingstone, and fulminated in London against all who held that the Lualaba must be the upper waters of the Congo. If armchair geog4 raphers adopted the theory of every explorer as soom as he has emerged from Africa, convinced that he hag solved the probiem he went to solve, there would be 4 great many more solutions than problems. It bas beer} by comparing the results of these journeys and divesta ing them of the coloring with which each explorer’d observations are tinged, that the armebair fraternity arrive at conclusions which invariably turn out to la more accurate those of the travellers themselves. The theory tenaciously clung to by Burton that Tan. ganyika emptied itself by a river into the Albert Nyanz was conclusively disproved by both Livingstone Stanley, who saw the Rusizi flowing from the north into the former lake, Speke, when he and Burton first discovered Tanganyika, maintained the impossibility of any such connection, and desortbed the borseshor ‘ range which surrounded its northorn extremity; while later observations have shown a difference of only tem feet of level in favor of the Albert Nyanza, so that any river flowing from one to the other would have to rum practically on a level. When this theory was exploded the new one wast started that the Lualaba towed from Lake Bangweold | in latitude 12 degs, south, and ultimately became tha Nile. There were many reasons why this could | not be the case, and Livingstone, when he reached his*furthest point at Nyangwe, found himself in latitude 4 degs. south, about four do- | grees to the west of Albert Nyanza, with the river q trending still more to the west, with a rapid current, ‘and containing a larger volume ‘of water than the Nie could account for; while the Congo, whieh pours mora | water into the sea than the Nile, is absolutely without a source of supply, if it be not the Lualaba ‘Thi confirmed by al the accounts whieh Arab traders the spot have given of the course of the river, an | more especially by the fuct of its evident identity with the Lualaba, across which the Pambeiros were ferried when travelling from Muata Yauvo's to Casembe's town ; but whether it be the Congo or not, the impos~ sibility of its being the Nile is finally set at rest by Cameron’s last discovery of the outlet of the Tangan~ yika, which flows into the Lualaba, while uhat ri could not flow into the Albert Nyanza, for the very simple reason that its level is below that of the take, That the Victoria Nyanza was the true fountain of the Nile was a fact established to the satisfaction of all geographers fifteen years before Mr. Stanley reached it. To Speke, and to him alone, belongs the honor of this great discovery; those who knew him never doubted: the accuracy of his description of it/as a single lake, id @ question in regard to the true basin of the n bad it not been for the jealousy uf for some time entertamed by Livingstone, because he came across a big river, that it / could be none other than the Nile. For days Speke skirted this lake with its constant water horizon until Mtesa's, there to be received, as ley has been with all the honors. it is, how~ _ ever, most probable that the river Shimecyu—the mouth of which Stanley bas visited—will prove to be the longest aud most important affluent of the a and ip that very limited sense its source, which has stil) to be discovered by some Jealous rivai, may claim to be considered a source of the Nile. With this bonor Mr. Stahley must rest contepted. There are oo problems left for him to solve ip the region he ‘@ exploring, and his only chance is to make | a dash for the Congo. He would bave been inore likely to cover himself with glory had he made at once for Tanganyika instead of the Victoria Nyauza, Here, how- ever, he would have interfered with Cameron, and wo shudaer to think of the consequences of the meeting in the centre of Africa of these rival explorers. But he may still make a flank movement by which his enemy may yet be circumvented. Lt is only about 500 miles trom Vacovia, Baker’s 4urthest on the Albert Nyanza, wo Nyangwe, Livingstone’s furthest on the Lualaba, Let him connect those two points, and the biggest arm- obedience , to the summons which I have received, and I. committee and | church roll | chair now occupied by a \pmiapey = will be at his ser- , Yice. Nay, more, we will even offer to write, the ar- ticle tn the Heravp explaining the nature of his achievo- ment. If he can only sail down the Lualada, from Nyangwe to the west coast, be will gain the bine ribbon of Airican exploration; but we do most positively insixt that both he and the Heaatp must abandon the most unnatural attempt in which they are engaged of forcing! this unhappy stream, in the words of the late Rev, Robert Montgomery, to “meander levei with its font’ CANVASSING THE VOTE. ROUTINE DUTIES OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY CANVASSERS—OFFICIAL VOTE OF THE FOX~ MORRISSEY CONTEST. | ‘The Board of County Canvassers continued their | sessions at the City Hall yesterday. No further pro- | tests were pat in, and the dull routine work of calling | off the figures occupied the entire day until a late hour | of the evening. Several discrepancies were found ' the election district returns, bat nothing at all to change the complexion of the vote as announced in the | papers after election. In fact nothing can now arise to alter the figures heretofore published, and the duties of the canvassers, being simply ministerial, do | not possess much of interest. In cases where clerical! or other errors are discovered in the canvass the in-, spectors of election are sent for in order to explain and correct. The following is the official votes cast for John | Morrissey and John Fox in the Fourth Senatorial dis- | trict, Jeaving out the Third Election district of the | Sixth Assembly, from which no returns for Senator | have been received :— Assembly Morrissey. Bok 2,03T Fox. 7m ing district the vote was as follows:—Morrissey, 130; | Fox, 8% This makes ¥ax’s total vote 10,380, and Mor: | Tissey's 13,971. Morrissey’s complete majority thus foots up 3,411. | The Board sat tilinine o'clock last evening, and wilh continue their lengthy sessions until the canvass is con- | cluded. They yesterday went through with the Fifth, Sixth, Séventh, Eighth and part of the Ninth districts. ANTI-TAMMANY ORGANIZATION. The Executive Committee of the anti-Tammany democracy met last evening at the Everett House between us to @ common tribunal, fully yours, | to receive reports from sub-committees — In EMMA @ MOULTON.” | sy address to the State democracy “and on permanent organization, Among those present THE SCANDAL AGAIN. Judge Moore, in the Kings County Court of Sessions, yesterday rendered a decision upon the motion of the counsel for Joseph Loader for a commission to take the evidence of Mr. and Mra, Richards in the case of The People va. James Loader for perjury. The gentleman appointed by the Court as commissioner is John W, Taylor, a Newark lawyer. The counsel said that some little delay would occur in arranging the interrogations, qT juestions had to be prepared both sides and u Ja Mr. Morrison said that he should probably apply orders to take testimony in other States. He thought it likely that the trial of Loader would call forth evidence of many persons not previously examined, He believed Miss Susan B. An- thony would be one of the witnesws and that Miss Florence Tilvon would also be called to the stand. A THANKSGIVING DINNER. On Thanksgiving Day the twenty-fifth annaal thanks- giving dinner wil be given to the inmates and depend- ants of the Five Points Mission in Park street. This assertion is made advisedly, for at present the baer the reality of dinner depends upon fadeliey of the. shar! public, Money fs not wanted, and donors are requested to send for the dinner turkeys, chickens, &a, also donations of clothes, JUDGMENT DAY IN JERSEY. The following culprits were sentenced yesterday in the Court of Quarter Sessions at Jersey City:—Joha Fronch, burglary, one year; James Dillon, assault and battery, six months; Denis Reardon, assault and grand ceny, four years; Daniel Buckley, larcen: bs cecath, John’ MeGowan, —Inrceny, cared months; Peter McKlroy, atrocious coset on his wife, eighteen months; John ) assault and battery, four month: james Tuomey, assault and bat- tery, four months; Nicholas La oad ‘and Se Smith, assaulting an officer, six months each; John a . Xx months; John 5 980 TON | mercifully destroyed, were Messrs, James O’Brien, William Hall, Judge Murray, F. M. Bixby, George H. Purser, F. A. Ransom, - Thomas J. Creamer, Counsellor McMahon, James | D. McClelland, W. itehell, P. J. Carty, John Monks, | Dennts Burna, Alexander Davidson, J. Stapieton, | Dr. Feodore Mierson, Jacob Moore, Colonel Friedman | and W. Birdsall. | The ebair was taken by Emanuel B. Hart. | The Committee on State Address presented its | which was referred to George H. Purser, Chairman o! the Committee, with power to revise and furnish to the ress for publication next M iy morning. The Committee on Discipline made a report which was e | accepted, expelling from the ization Messrs. | Bcaily, ey und Eberhardt, of Eighth district, and Michael Larkin, of the Thirteenth district, for mist | appropriation of funds placed in their hands during the | “the meeting then adjourned to meet at the Everett House, on Friday evening next, at eight o'clock. { ——____——. | “GIVE ME ANOTHER HORSE.” | | Yesterday Mr. Bergh gave a practical illustration of | the way in which he wishes to carry out the Inws gov- erning the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to | Animais Meeting Pat Mullen, a kindling wood pedier, | who was working an “‘old frame” of a pony, he pos- sessed himself of the toiling skeloton, which ne had ‘Then the that he was deprived of his a: of the second horse does not appear. however, be did not obtain the animal pedier. " SMALLPOX IN JERSEY CITY. ‘The recurrence of smalipox im Jersey City has created great alarm, and City Physician Lochner urges A the sufferers is the necessity of Tonund, of Sh Jowsph’s charch, whe Se enna ot tye alasage broke dul oh Jer ax Sir Aaente ’