The New York Herald Newspaper, December 10, 1875, Page 4

4 “TE SHADOW OF DEATH John Dolan’s Life Spared for Seven Days. HE IS RESPITED BY TH _—— William £. Delaney to Die Gallows To-Day. HIS LAST HOURS ON EARTH. ) GOVERNOR, Upon the The interior of the Tombs yesterday presented rather ‘fan animated scene, The whole talk of the attachés was of Dolan and his chances, The efforts of his counsel to save him, or rather the result of those efforts, were awaited by the two dozen reporters present with great expectancy. Atan early hour in the morning the carpenters usually secared by the prison authorities commenced to put together the fixtures of the old gallows, but con- trary to established custom the scaffold was placed ja that portion of the yard wext Elm street In all former executions the apparatus wags built facing the female prison, in the main yard, and immediately outside the cells of the men confined in Murderers’ Row. The result of that was that the poor wretches on the eve of execution had their ears suluted all night long by the horrible sounds of the busy ham- mers driving in nails to hold together the beams that were to end their existence on earth. By the new arrangement all this is avoided, and the con- demned are spared great pain. Besides, the new place of execution will not, from its dimina- tive dimensions, permit of so many outsiders witnessing the death struggle of the victim. The whole structure of death was finished and ready for use by the coming of night, the rope was passed through the pulleys and the weight, about 300 pounds, attached to the waste rope prepared for its fatal fall—fatal to the condemned—beiore the shadow of night enveloped the place in gloom. A reporter of the Hrra.p, who bas been communing with the condemned since their coaviction, had along conversation with Dolan while the structure for his death wag being prepared. Dolan ssserted vehemently his innocence, and said that for some reason the wit- nesses he wanted were uot present at the trial. He told the reporter that he was one of the chief defend- ants of Uhicf McWilliams, of the Jersey Ci y police, and had done good service for that department of the gov- ernment of Jersey. ‘I can prove,’? he said, “that I ‘was intoxicated the night of the murder of Mr. Noe and that I was not within half a mile of the place.”” arked the reporter, ‘did you not have 's on the trial??? Dotax—Woll, I don’t know.’ There was some legal objection to their testifying, 1 heard. Iam not ac- qnainted with the law and I don’t know why they did Bot appear. Dolan after this told the reporter a long story about his movements on the night of the murder, and also about the witness, the woman witness, Fanny Read. He had never lived with her, he said, but one “Diamond Jim,” awell known burglar, whom he had, as one of MeWilliams’ men, arrested in Philadelphia, ha was his mistress, and it was she and this “Di: a Jim”? that had put up the job of Noe’s murder on him (Dolan) to get square. ‘The man who did the murder, he said, is the man who gave me the watch. Kerortsr—And who is he? Dorax—I know him. I met him in Waverley, N. J., at a lair there, and would know him again. if ever i et out of this 1°) follow him till I get him. Here Dolan read an interview he had had with a re- porter respecting this same man, and, after conclud. ing, Said to the Henan representative that he was, be- fore God, as innocento/ that murder as any man living. After this the reporter le{t Dolan to the care of his eae and the Sisters of Charity, who were waiting or him. AWAITING THE GOVERNOR'S DECISION. Counsel for Dolan visited the residence of Governor Tilden in this city last evening to await his decision re- specting the respite sought for the condemned man, About seven o’clock Mr. Stebbins, the Governor's sec- fetary, accompanied by Mr. Hummel, had been to Albany to obtain affidavit, arrived in the city and both at once pro- ceeded to the Governor's hou: There they found Mr. Howe waiting in the parlor. Judge Curtis, of counsel for Dolan, Father Barry and Mark Lanigin arrived. In the meantime Mr, Stebbing had gone into a private room with the Governor, where they remained closeted for about three- quarters of sn hour. Then the Governor entered the parlor, and before being spoken to said, abruptly, “I have gonciaded to grant your application to give the man a week’s respite.” A messenger was at once despatched by Mr. Howe to the Tombs to notily Dolan of his good fortune. ately after. THE TOMBS LAST NIGHT. A Heratd reporter was standing upon the steps of the Tombs about six o’clock last night when a neatly clad woman came up, and, addressing tho Deputy Warden, “Caan Il see John Dolan?” ‘You canuot,”’ wasthe reply. A stifled sob followed and the woman said, “I'm bis aunt, sir, and haven't seen him in more than a year and I've tome a long distance to see him.” “I am sorry,” said the Deputy Warden, “but you cannot see him.”? The poor woman burst out crying and walked away in the tain, About balf-past seven o'clock Dolan’s motaer and wife came to the Tombs and were at once admitted to see the prisoner. The Hxnatp man was allowed to pass in, and as Dolan was, at the time of his entrance, engaged in earnest conversation with his wife and mother, the reporter took a look along the row yclept Murderers’. However destitute of other comforts this part of the prison cannot be said to want warmth. The Ores were bur: the first to the left of the entrance were a number of bealthy potatoes good-naturedly baking for the even- ing meal of the depaties. IN THR LITTLE RECKSS SAT PATHER DCRANQUET, engaged in reading, awaiting the departure of Dolan’s wife and mother, in order to minister to the prisoner's spiritual wants, Placidity, firmness and self-control are the charac- teristics of his face, and no one, upon seeing him Inst night, would have said that he was about to prepare a man for the gallows, After a titne the HeraLp man was introduced to Dolan by one ot the deputy sheriffs, and, | although he made no attempt to draw the condemned man into conversation, still Dolan at once became communicative, He was smoking «cigar, and {it was the opinion of those in the Tombs who have, for the jast cleven years, assisted at the execution of mur- derers, that none of them had shown such tintaltering courage as this youth, He went, in detail, into the pawning of the wateh, and all the other circum. nces out of which has been wovem the legal at has lauded him in his present position. any one without kuowing Dolan been ushered | Mur- derers’ Row aud asked to pick ont the man to be hanged 1m the morning the probabilities are that Dolan would have been THR LAST MAN SELECTED. Possibly familiarity with the dread thought may deaden the susceptibilities to the reality; but it is cer- tainly «surprising thing to see a youug man, with a ve wife at his side, the gallows awaiting irs, talking as unconcerned as though demeanor to excite sur. prise the attitude and look of his poor mother and wife evoked pain and compassion, His mother is a short, elderly, gray-haired woman, evidently belong: ing to one of the western countios of Ircland, and his wife isa very young, artless, modest-looking ‘woman, The mother sat, while her son talking, evidently selt-abeorbed and indifferent to all that was going on Ground; her eyes seemed to be peering into the future, and those who know the tearless sorrow of a mother are alone able to measure the agony which had dried up the founts of her eyes, She swayed gently to and (ro, every now and then heaving a sigh or emitting a Subdued groan, now and then casting’a glance at her boy and suddenly withdrawing it, as though foartul of looking too long at the face which she supposed would be cold in death on the morrow. THE YOUNG WIPER SAT SILENT AND TRARPUL, » evidently absorbed in her own reflections and utterly unconscious of what was going on around her, Every now and then big tears would form in her eyes and course down her cheeks, This kind of grief, too great for utterance, is a terrible thing to witness. It was ren- dered even more poignant from the fact of the suspense in which they were as to the action of the Governor. They efforts were being made in bebalf of the condem! son and husband, and they were sitting there await the result, Atone time the writer, thinking he had been with Polan long enough, was | nd about to move away, but the latter prevented hm the conversation jued. Those interested in the con- demned man began to look grave as nine o'clock passed gad nothing was heard from the Governor, ‘J fear it fs all over,” said one deputy, “It looks like i:,”’ said gnother, Just as Dolan was getting into that portion of bis parrative in which he was detailing the manuer of hi pture, a shuffling of feet was heard in the middle of the Row. Several geritlemen wore soon ad- vaacing rapidly toward the condemned man. DOLAN'S FACK AT ONCE BECAME RIGID. Ho turned to the writer and said, “Bad news.’ fhad time to say no more, and his overwrought emo riveted him (0 his chair, fur be made an appar effort to rise, but could not. At the head of the at lng gentlemen was Mr, George J. Wood, Deputy Sheri!, wok Dolan He by the bund aud said, without | who | Williamson's | hortly atterward ex- | Counsel followed immedi- | ng brightly in the stoves, and beneath | ns, NEW YORK NERALD, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1875—TRIPLE SHEET. any preface, You are respited for a week.”’ ‘The prisoner leaped trom bis chair as though shot, im- mediately fell upon his knees and sobbed out, ‘Thank God! ob, thank God!” His prayerful gratitude moved most of the bystanders to tears, He seemed im-the ty of his emotion to forges for a time ev then rose and warmly the hands of the gentlemen of the deputation, saying:— 1 was sure you would not let an innocent man be hung; before God, I am as innocent of this murder as achild unborn.” He then turned to his mother and wife, kissed them and asked them if they did pot teel relieved. The mother looked vacantly at ber child with dry eyes; copious tears and heavy subs | awere the answer of the wife. The reporter's business | ‘was done. and be left the trio to enjoy the ray of hope, brighter than the brightest sunlight, NEWLY DISCOVERED EVIDENCE. While Judge Barrett was presidi: yesterday at Special Term of the Supreme Cuurt, and in the midst of hearing testimony in a bewildering real estate suit, ex-Judge William E, Curtis came rushing into the court room in breathless haste, followed by the well known Deputy Sheriff, Mark Lanagan, and two young men not 80 well known, “If Your Honor will allow ma to interrupt you a moment,” said Judge Curtis, in his peculiarly bland but impreasive style, addressing Judge Barrett, “I have animportant application to make to you in reference to John Dolan, recently sentenced to be hanged by Your Honor for the’alleged murder of James H..Noe, Unless something intervenes that awiul sentencé, so solemnly but conscientiously pronounced by Your Honor, will be carried out to-morrow. ’” “Twill listen to your application,” answered Judge Barrett, Judge Curtis thereupon passed up to Judge Barrett the subjoined affidavits, remarking that the persons making them were then present in court: — City and County of New York, John Barrett, being duly o— says that be resides at No."34 Madison street, in the city of New York, and does business at the same’ place, Deponent has known John Dolan by sight for nearly a year. ‘hat prior to his arrest for the murder of Mr. N was in the habit of coming into deponent’s tan ace, and that q n of Mr. Noe, having read full particulars of tragedy iu the newspapers. Deponent further says that {saw the said Dolan’ on the morning — of murder of M. the lour of e eight | six A. M. and remained until eight o'clock A. M. Deponent | says that when Doian entered his place| he was greatly un- der the influence ot liquor. Dolan drank five or six tin.es {n deponent’s saloon, and went away about olght or a quarter ast eight o'clock on the morning of the murder of Mr. Noe. Dolan came into deponent’s saloon about balf-past eleven o'clock the evening before, and was then in an intoxi- cated condition. Dolan had with him then a cane with a holmet on the top, and this is the only cane deponent ever saw with Dolan. Sworn to before me this 7th day of December, 1875, GEO. R. JAQUES, Notary Pubtic, New York county. The affidavit of Jamos O'Connor, No, 61 Oliver street, is to the effect that he was drinking with Dolan in Bar- rett’s saloon, the morning of the murder, from half- Past six to eight o’clock, and went away at eight o'clock ‘A. M., leaving Dolan after him, carousing. “THis 18 a matter of Lif death,” said Judge Bar- rett, after he finished reading the affidavits; “1 will drop everything else and attend to the matter at once.” Judge Barrett immediately left the bench and asked that the parties making the affidavits be brought before him separately for a private examination. He cross. questioned each of them at considerable length, but neither deviated from the statements contained in the Tespective affidavits, Meantime Judge Curtis had told Judge Barrett that the reason of his hurried application to him was a ga on the part of Governor Tilden, to whom he ad just previously applied for a respite, upon the strength of the newly discovered evidence contained in these affidavits, that he would grant such a respite in case he (Judge Barrett) would certify that it would have been material evidence if submitted at the trial. Judge Barrett stated that it certainly would have been mate- rial, and be would give a certification to this eifect, but he Would be obliged to certify further that it was di- rectly contradictory to the evidence given by Dolan himself and that of Sweeney, his principal witness. Upon this the parties left the Court House. Barrett and O'Connor, the parties making the affi- davits, are both young men of respectable appearance. Mr. Lanagan says he knows them both very well, and that he feels confident that they would not make any statement contrary to the truth. ORVILLE WILLIAMSON'S STORY. Below will be found the affidavit of Orville William- son, a convict in the Albany Penitentiary, in which he states that Mr, Noe was murdered by a brother cracks- man named “Diamond Jim ;""— State of New York, city and county of New York.—l, Orville Williamson, being duly sworn, do depose and say—I am now confined in the Albany Penitentiary, in the county of Albany, State of New York, on conviction | of grand larceny. At the time of the assault on the late | James H. Noe, which assault terminated im the deatn of | Mr. Noe, I resided at Sing Sing village with my mother, | Hannab Williamson. of the burglary in the late Mr. Noe's premises I was approached by aman whom I had known for about three years past, under the name of ‘Diamond Jim,” but Whose roal name I believe to be James | or Michael Flood. I was standing at the time at the corner of Laight and Canal streets, | 1m the city of New York. — Said ‘Diamond Jim” ac- costed me and said to me, “Hello, Chariey” (by which | namo I was known to him), “do you want to go and | make a dollar?” I repiied, ‘Yes, I'm in for anything.” | He then asked mo if | had’ any tools with whieh to do a | job. Lrephed, “I’ve got 'most anything, but we had better go and look at the place first.” This conversation | occurred the Friday previous to the assault on Mr. | Noe. According to my suggestion “Diamond Jim” and I went immediately down Canal street to Greenwich street, and down Greenwich street until we arrived in | front ‘of Mr, Noe’s place of business. It was a brush | manufactory. We loitered around there for some time, | Rearly a balf aday, and saw that the place tad to be entered by the front door. 1t could not be entered | by any other way that we could see. We parted after | | walking to the corner of Groene and Canal streets, l agreeing to meet Diamond Jim at the ‘‘dive,”’ corner | of Greene and Houston streets, on the following night, | Saturday night Instead of keeping | MY APPOINTMENT WITH ‘DIAMOND Jia!” | | | | at the “dive’’ as promised 1 left tor Sing Sing village | on Saturday night ata quarter past eleven o'clock in | consequence of meeting with an accident by which the heel of my right foot was hurtand which prevented | my waiking, except with extreme difficulty. On the Monday night following the burglary at Mr. | Noe’s premises, and after the assault committed | upon him and before his death I met Diamond Jim at | the “‘dive;” I was playing cards at the time he entered. | Prior to my return to the city of New York I bad | ascertained from accounts in the newspapers that the burglary had been committed, so when 1 saw Diamond Jim I went with him 16 a room adjoining the bat-room of the “dive” | known as the “Jadies’ reception room," Jim hada carpet-bag in his haud; he said to me, “‘Charle; doue that job down there.” I said, “I thon, one had got ahead of you, as 1 saw no account in the | paper how it bad been ."’ He then described to | me how he had entered tne place. He said he went through the new building that was then in course of erection, had got on the roof, pried open the sky- light and went down into the building As he was half way down the ladder the man who owned the place came up to catch him, and that he then at once struck the man with a “Jimmy” and be felk, that be then went down and “bucked” and “gagged” him, amd then took his watch and cane and left; | “Diamond Jim” had ulso in his hand a black satchel. | which he said he got from the premises of Mr. Noe. | | and that it would not do for him to carry it around, as | | he would be picked up. He asked me what he should | do with it. I said the best thing you can do is to hide | it, and I asked him if he had no place to conceal it. He | | Said no, and [accompanied him to the foot of West | Houston street, We got on the horse cars and rode to | | Thirty-fourth street and walked to near the Manhattan | | Market, and when near Thirty-ftth street we buried | | the satchel in a dumping ground—a vacant spot. | Talso asked him where the watch was concealed and he said he had sold it; he did not say to whom, Be- | fore I left him that ‘Monday night Jim said “I had | better get out of the city for a while, as there are two | ‘cories’ (meaning women) who can identify me,’? We went and had a drink at the corner of Bleecker and Greene streets, and I left him at | the corner of Prince and Greene, Before parting with | Jim he said he was going to ship to South America on | a brig which was then in the stream, and I never after- ward saw hit; be also said be was going on a vessel loaded with \ce, which was to sail in a few days after our conversation for Savannah. I went to pier No, 1 North River the following Thursday to see if the vessel had sailed, and could ascertain no informa | tion about Jim's departure 1 DO NOT KNOW JOHN DO by that name, nor dol know the pers New York Tombs under sentence of death for killing Mr. No I make this statement of my own free will and accord and first communicated these facts to Mr. Louis D. Pillsbury, Superintendent of the Aljany Peni- tentiary, and was told by that gentleman to give what- ever truthful information I possessed to the authorities in the interests of justice. 1 do not expect any consideration or pardon for this statement, nor has any inducement of any kind been held out to me to make this deposition. ORVILLE WILLIAMSO! Sworn to before me, this 9th day of December, 1375, Locis D, Pu.ssvky, Notary Public, Albany, Dve | some WILLIAM E. DELANY. | William E. Delany is the name of the murderer of | Captain Leveret Lawrence. If the sentence of the law is to be carried into effect, he will be hanged this day, | between the hours of ten A. M. and two P. M., in the | Queens County Jail, at North Hempstead. In this caso | retribution follows quickly upon crime, as the murder which was commanded by Captain Lawrence, and of | which Delany was the mate, on the evening of the 27th of August last. murderer could be traced, identified and arrested, but | ho was finally found, through the exertions of District | Attorney Downing, of Queens county, in Philadelphia, where he was arrested and brought on for trial, The trial nnd conviction are of so recent occurrence that cotails regarding them are doubtless {res in the mem- ory, and @ rehearsal is now uanecessury. i nduct while iu prison, ance his convie- been variable, but generally reck! He \ | tion, has almost uniformly denied that he bad any friends | Ow one occasion he was visited by two | or relatives, women, one of whom claimed to be his mother and the other his sister. In their presence he denied all knowledge of them, but when they had departed he acknowledged to the keepers that they were what they rt Soo, af o'clock: that said Dolan camo into his place about half-past | Shortly prior to the commision | claimed to be, but he did not wanf*anything to do with thom while in such a ‘scrape. ’” Delany ts not so friendi howover, as he has tried to lead people to suppose. tters bave reached him at the jail {rom various quarters, one of which is sub- joined, ag showing that he is held in kind remem- Pi brance:— Fat River, Oct. 15, 1875, To Wiuttam E. Denay — Deak Sin—I hope you will excuse me for not writing. T was expecting Hito home, but he did not come, roe time you vocelve this letter your trial 1s $0 come off. I hape four yentence will uot be very severe, for Fag always bo- javed like a tieman to me and my foll We are all sorry fur uu and would do hing in our power to hel ou if we could. All the boys sorry for you. Hollan Teddy and Luther are sorry ai at many friends in the ' gon & schooner from see him singe I heard in prison for the murder of think that ee intended to murder him. ry quiet around here, even when you were under the influence ot liquor, If you were as bad a& the papers eoid, zou would have had revenge out of Dutch Harry when he kicked you in the face, but you forgave him; and, again, on Contral atreet, the nighé that the two O'Brien’, ought of Heking nife ‘on, when they said that you had « ou threw your Knife'on the sidewalk, broke tt, and icked them. "But we cannot always judge by sppesrances, Tf you did not in- tend to kil) Lim bear your trial like # mau, po matter what tho cost is, Remember that your Judge is not on this earth—he is'in the other world; and, when you stand before Him, He is the one that will say whether you are guilty or not, Ifyou please, repent before it is too late. From your friend. DELANEY'S LAST NIGHT, Delaney was last evening unrepentant, and seemed to be totally carcless of his impending doom. He con- versed chetrfully with his keepers in the corridor of the jail outside of his cell, expressing himself bitterly in regard to one of his captors, Officer Smith, He asked Keeper Hendrickson to bring Wright, an- other officer, to shake hands with bim, so that fe could break his (Wright's) arm. He has scarcely any clothing on, having torn his garments into shreds a few days ago. He wears a blanket thrown over his shoulders, Sheriff Sammis has the scaffold erected in the jail yard, and every [preparation has been made for an orderly execu- tion, When the death warrant was read to the prisoner by Under Sheriff Rushmore, at half-past four o'clock yesterday afternoon, the condemned man laughingly remarked, ‘Tbat reads like au imvitation to a ball!’? STAUDERMANN. THE PRISONER BEFORE THE GOVERNOR'S Com- MISSION—THE QUESTION OF HIS SANITY. The Goverhor's commission to inquire into the alleged insane condition of Jacob Staudermann met again yes- terday atthe Tombs. The first witness called was the Rev. Conrad Dornch, of 64 Columbia street, a city mis- sionary. He said he had visited Staudermann in prison and conversed with him spiritually ; the prisoner was de- pressed, but he knew he killed a person and realized his condition, Witness would not class him asa lunatic, such’as seen on Blackwell’s Island, but believed him short of sense; prisoner believes in God and wants God to deliver him; if excited, he could not contro! himself; never prays nor cries, He expresses sorrow for the crime, and feels his position under the gallows most horribly. Witness thinks he has suffi- cient intellect to be converted to Christianity, He says he saw Louisa pass down Chatbam atreet, but did not know her then nor did he realize all until after the deed was done. Some other witnesses were ex- amined, but their evidence was in substance the same as that which bas already appeared in the Heraup, Jacob Staudermanao himself was then examined. The prisoner,-upon being questioned by Dr. Ordronaux, said he frequently felt pains in different parts of his bod: and especially about the region of the stomach. was then told by his examiner to walk back and forth with his eyes closed, which he did, in a sort of stupid way, exclaiming, on the last turn, “Oh, I can’t walk that’ way |”? ‘The Doctor then examined’ his physical condition, telling him to lift up his arms and legs, and at the same time examining critically each portion of bis body, After this the examiner questioned him {tn regard to his business, &c., the prisoner answering in- telligently that he was'a shoemaker by trade and knew his employer only by the name of the “Boss.” Q Did you know a girl by the name of Louisa Siedenwald? a. Yes. Q Where did she live? A. I lived with herin the same house. Q Well, what took place? A. miarry me, Q. And did she consent? A. Her mother sald I did not have love enough for her. Q Well, what then took place? A. I ased to play with her, and when she got tired she would say she didn’t want me, and I then used to say, ‘Well, if you I wanted her to | don’t want me, then it is all right’? Q. Then you mean to say that she made love to you rather than that you made love to her—is that it? A. No; [didn’t go after her. @ She rather gave you the mitten, didn’t she? A. Ob, yah. @ How long did you keep up this kind of coquet- ting? A. Well, her mother was unwilling. @ Did you ever own a pistol, Jacob! A. Yes. Q Wuen did you buy it? A’ When I lived in the house. Q What did you buy it for? Hore the prisoner went into a long, Incoherent statement, the substance of which was that a man came into his shop and | threatened to kill himand he boughta pistol; that was, he said, a year before he shot his sweetheart. Then he wandered off again, ending with a description of the shooting. He was’ at “Cheap John’s” in Chatham street endeavoring to buy some neckties, and while listening to the fun gomg on felt himself touched on the arm. He turned round and saw his Louisa with another woman and,a mau; Louisa looked round at bim in a displeased sort of way’; he commenced to feel bad and he shot her. Q What was your object in carrying the pistol? A, I carried it to sell it. Q Do you remember the shooting positively? A, No; oh, no. @ Did you throw your pistol away after you shot her? A. Ican’t tel. The remainder of the prisoner's statements were of an absurd character, irrelevant and wanaering. The commission adjourned the further bearing until Mon- day next. COMMITTEE ON CRIME. ANOTHER VISIT TO THE CATHOLIC PROTEC- TORY—AFTER A THOROUGH INSPECTION THE COMMITTEE IS SATISFED WITH THE INSTITU- TION’S GOOD WORK. The Assembly Committee on Crime continued their investigations yesterday at the Catholic Protectory into the manner in which the institution is conducted. The committee left the city by the 10:20 train and arrived | at the Institution abdut eleven o'clock, where they were received by Brothers Telliow and Clementian, Of the committee present were Mr. Jacob Hess and Mr. Thomas Cooper Campbell, accompanied by Mr. Weed, representing John D. Townsend, counsel to the com- mittee, Mr. James R. Floyd, one of the trustees of | the Protectory, was also present. The party was shown over the extensive establishment, comprising the shoe manufactory, the tailoring department, the composing rooms and machine and wheelwright shops, and expressed themselves highly gratifled with the admirable order and discipline maintained. In the composing root alone were over 100 hands busily employed in all branches of the trade, fulfilling a large | contract for outside parties. After a thorough in- | spection of the premises the committee returned to | one of the reception rooms, where the ‘ TRSTIMONY OF BROTHER TELLIOW regarding the modus operandi was taken, He stated that there are at the present time 1,400 boys in the institu- tion, and thata large number of them were committed ‘from the Courts of General and Special Sessions. for the crimes of larceny of high and low grade and truancy; also many have been committed at tne instance of their parents, who were unable-to support them. All boys committed on criminal charges are kept, as much as possible, separate from those committed simply through poverty, so that they can have no opportunity to con- taminate them, The chiet efforts of the institution | com*mitted on board the schooner Joseph E, Potts, | For some time it was doubtful if the | are to make boys forget that they are prisoners and the degradation which such thoughts would bring, d to instil into them a desire to work and learn some trade by which they can earn a good livelihood and be- come worthy citizens on leaving the Protectory. Dur- ing the last three years 143 of the boys Were appre! tie tradesinen, and of this number still under {nstraction, All commitments require that boys shall remain in the institution until they reach the age of twenty- one. Apprentices, if well behaved, are granted leave of absence to visit their home, or friends, if they bave | any, The parents of inmates are allowed to visit their | children at the institution, provided they do not violate | the rules by bringing with them tobacco or whiskey. | 1tis iawfal in case a committed inthate should become | too violent and refractory to send bim back to the | committing magistrate, who will cause his removal to some more penal institution; but there has been only one instance of this kind during the past four year “Tt would be well,’ Brother Telliow said, “if we had ac- | commodations in the inatitution for the reception of | say 200 of | Tie HARDEST CLASS OF nova | committed to our care, so that we could keep them entirely separate from the other inmates, The resuits of such @ measure would bo benoficial alike to the city and the State, In the summer the boys are taken rogu- larly to the Sound and allowed to bathe, To further | improve their pliysical condition they are allowed to | organize base ball clubs, and the existence of several debating societies in the Proteetory attest their mental condition. To increase their self-respect, boys of the senior class can, according to industry and ability, | earn at their trades from $4 to $14 per month. These | earnings are expended for them in the purchase of clothes, board, &c., and sometimes they are gi amall sum when visiting their friends in the city.” In answer to Mr. Campbell Brother Tellow stated that the food supplied to. the | | | | ties. ‘After leaving the building devoted to male inmates the committee made @ tour of inspection of the female department, which is under the charge of the Sisters of Charity. ' They were received by Sisters Helene and | Gabriolle, who showed them through the whole in: | tavou. They found there wore over 600 young girls in boys was substantial, | nutritious and wholesome, and served in ample qaanti- | the place, some in shirt making, others mak- ing gaiter uppers and others at laundry work, while a number of very young girls were at exereises. Sister Helene gave the committee information they required, and further stated that there was not one girl at present comfined to the hospital and that within the past year but four had died, The committee left the Protectory with the most favorable impressions of its utility and general good management. NAUGHTY POLICEMEN. CHARGES INVESTIGATED BY THE POLICE BOARD YESTERDAY. Commissioners Voorhis and Disbecker presided at the police trials yesterday. Among other cases tried was that of Officer Schatfer, of the Nineteenth precinct, He was charged with conduct unbecoming an officer. ‘Mr, Abraham Levi was his accuser. Mr. Levi says that Schaffer foreibly ejected him from the Rink while the American Institute Fair was being held there on’ the 9th of last October, It appears that the complainant had entered into an animated discussion with one of the doorkeepers named Johnson in reference to his ticket, During the discussion the officer laid violent hands on Mr. Levi and rudely ejected him, The case was reterred to the Board, Mr. Leyi bad also a complaint to make against Captain Mount, of the Ninteenth precinct, charging this officer with failing to respond to questfons he ong ch by the complainant while in his station house, The Cuptain disclaimed any intention of being uneivil to Mr. Levi. This case also Went to the Board for future con- sideration. Officer Stewal of the Seventeenth precinct, was charged by Mary Reilly, a damsel of questionable repu- tation, with having extorted money from her. She says that on the Ist of September last she was met and arrested by this officer. He told her that he was willing to be “seen,’’ aud she ‘‘saw’’ him tothe extentof $3, all the money she had, She was then allowed to bg ok with the understanding that next time she would have to “raise the ante” a litle. This, Mary says, occurred on September 1, Four days later she was again met by Officer Stewart, at least so her story runs, and, not having any money, was arrested anu locked up.’ On being arraigned at the Police Court the following morn- ing, and explaining the oflicer’s conduct toward her, she was allowed to depart. Mary called for the parpose of corroborating her story One Maggio Smith, who testified in a most posi- tive manner that Officer Stewart had blackmailed her to the extentwf $1, all she possessed. Of course the officer denied the story. The case was left open, how- ever, to give the complainant an opportunity to pro- duce Mr, John Voorhies, of Charleston, as a witness, ELIZA CONWAY'S DEATH, Deputy Coroner Leo yesterday made an autopsy of the body of Eliza Conway, of No. 64 North ,Moore ‘Street, who was alleged to have been the victim of mal- practice. The conclusion arrivéd at was that the ae. ceased died from pneumonia, but the body showed un- mistakable evidences of ill treatment. The inquest will be held at an carly day. RECORD OF CRIME. The following robberies were reported to Superin- tendent Walling yesterday :— Some unknown thief stole a case of scissors from the hallway of Lamson & Goodwin's manufactory, at No, 88 Chambers street, valued at $88, The store of “Frank’’ Compte, at No. 22 South Fifth avenue, was entered on Wednesday and robbed of an overcoat and two dress coats, In all valued at $50. J. A. Baldwin, of No. 26 West Twenty-third street, reported that while he was at the Union Square Theatre, on the night of the 7th ingt., he was robbed of a gold watch and chain valued at $65. While a clerk in the employ of Metzger & Stiner, at No. -5 Water street, had his attention called to another rt of the store, & young man robbed the drawer of 60, with which he escaped. River thieves effected an entrance to the cabin of the canal boat S. 8. Sawyer, Captain William Halpin, lying at the foot of Sixteenth street, North River, an Carried off one overcoat, one vest’ and a clock.’ No clew to the thieves could be found. The inquest on the body of Mrs. Jurgensen, in Jer- sey City, revealed the fact that she was the victim of malpractice. Coroner Ronan thereupon ordered the arrest of Elizabeth Altman, the female attendant. A girl named Mary Arvin, in the employ of Mrs. Gad, who keeps a fancy store in Grand street, Jersey City, was arrested yesterday on the charge of abstracting | money repeatedly from the till. Some coms had been purposely marked and were found in her possession. CORONERS’ CASES. The inquest on the body of Margaret Toohey, of No. | 31 Park street, who died at the New York Hospital on December 2 from burns, and whose husband, Patrick, | it was alleged, set her on fire, was held yesterday, by Coroner Croker, at the Morgue. The statements of the deceased and her husband, as previously published in the Herat, were read before | the jury, and the following testimony was taken ; Edward Miley, of No. 510 Pear! street, swore that on | the night of December 1 be followed an officer up to | Toohey’s room, and saw Mrs. Toohey lying on the floor | badly burned; the husband was standing alongside the mantelpiece; both seemed to be about half drunk Robert Lawrence, of No. 87 Baxter street, testified :— He was tn a saloon at No, 31 Park street on the night of the accident, and while there a man rushed in and said that the house was on fire, Together with | ‘man named Donohue, I went up to Mr. Toohey’s | room, on the top floor of the house, and there saw Mrs. Toohey sitting on the floor, with her clothes all burned off. husband was lying in bed, with his clothes on, Donohue spoke to him, and he jumped up. Mrs. Too- hey accused him of throwing oil on her and setting it on fre, which he denied. The woman was very drunk. The jury rendered the verdict that ‘deceased came to her death by shock due to severe burns, the result of her clothing accidentally catching fire while intoxi- cated,’’ and Toohey was released from custody. THE THIRD AVENUE BANK. The examination in the charges against the officers of the Third Avenue Bank was continued before Justice Duffy, at the Fifty-seventh Street Police Court, yester- day, J. B, Manning, a Wall street broker, said to be an authority on the value of bonds of every State, was ex- amined at length by Mr. Fitch, for the prosecution. The testimony taken was, Kowever, only @ corrubora- tion of that taken at the last examination, and an ad- jJournment was taken until Monday at three o'clock. A PUBLISHER INDICTED. James Sutton, President of the Aldine Publishing Company, Nos. 18 and 20 Vesey street, has been in- dicted by the Grand Jury for perjury. It is alleged that during a sworn examination in relation to the fre, which occurred on the premises of the company on the 24th of June iast, he made false statements as to the value of the goods destroyed. He was arrested yesterday by Detectives O’Conner and Field, of the District Attorney’s office, upona bench warrant, and taken before Mr. Phelps, who held him ‘for trial in $10,000. Mr. Franklin B. Seacor, of No. 135 East Fif- teenth street, gave bonds for the amount required, and | the accused was released. PECULIAR JERSEY JUSTICE, Yesterday morning Angelina Wells and Edward J, Watson, who reside at No. 188 Newark avenue, Jersey City, were brought before Justice Keese, in the First District Police Court, on the charge of assault and at- tempted robbery. They concocted a letter in the name | of Miss Wells and sent it to a matrimonial advertising agent named William Raisch, of Chatham street, Now York, inviting him to go over to her residence in order to assist her in procuring @ husband, Reisch went accordingly, and while engaged in conversation with Miss Wells Watson rushed in, and, pretending to be her husband, affected great indignation, made an assault on Reisch and tried to snatch his watch. Reisch escaped and had both arrested. The evidence showed that the affair was a weil planned panel game; yot, to the utter amazement of every person in gourt, justice Keese discharged Watson and Wells, inviting the latter and her sister to his private office, and or. dered Reisch to be locked up on the charge of unwi rantable intrusion and indecent assault. This ‘justice caused intense indignation throughout the city, and Reisch’s friends will bring the case before the Grand Jury to-day. A FAMILY'S NARROW ESCAPE, At half-past one o'clock yesterday morning a fire broke out im an untenanted frame house,,No. 439 | Newark avenue, Jersey City, belonging to Mrs, Mona- | ‘The flames spread rapidly to the adjoining frame | buildings. Andrew McAra and bis family were tn such | asound slumber that Officer Locke nearly broke in their door before he could arouse them. Their apart- ments were filled with smoke. The family, numbering seven persons, escaped to the sidewalk in an almost nude condition. Mrs, Monahan’s house was completely The McAra family, im view of their narrow escape from suflocation, do not complain much of the damage to their houso, The loss is $2,000, which | ss covered by insurance im the Continental and ovher | companies. | *BROOKLYN'S INEBRIATE HOME. | ban. | gutted, Yesterday a warrant was drawn for $13,049 34 In favor of the Brooklyn Incbriate’s Home, being the amount due to that institution, up to December 1, as the share of the excise money set apart by law for the reformation of victims of strong drink, Comptroller Powell, when applied to for the monoy last spring, | declined upon legal grounds to pay it, and the question | was brought up to the Court of Appeals, where tho case was decided in favor of the home, 80 that there was no alternative but to pay the money. Much dissatisfaction has long been expressed ayiinst the | institution, which does not appear to be responsible | to any loeal board of the city government, and the propriety of continuing so expensive a luxury, without oo urate benedt to society, is seriutely co | side THE MOON AMONG THE PLEIADES. To tum Eprror or rus HeRaLp:—~ The cluster of stars known as the Pleiades, or Seven Stars, has attracted the attention of astronomers from the earliest days, It is referred to in probably the oldest book extant. Perhaps astrologers may find in the “sweet influences of the Pletades,’’ in their con- Junction with our attendant satellite, a sufficient coun- teraction for the supposed baleful influences of the con- Junction of the malign planets, Saturn and Mars, chronicled in. the Hexatp afew weeks since. But no astrology is needed to attract attention to the beautiful configuration which will be presented to-morrow morn- ing, a8 illustrated in the following figure :— The smaller stars shown in the drawing will be ob- Scured by the great brilliancy of the moon, then lack- ing but one day of the full and less than a day of being at its nearest approach to theearth, But with a mag- nifying power of twenty or thirty all the principal stars will be visible in the fiela with the moon. This evening the Pleiades will be observed to be about three degrees to the eastward of the moon; but as the night wears away the distance will diminish, until, at five o'clock in the morning, the position will be as represented. A few minutes later, the line of stars passing southward from Alcyone, the central and brightest star of the group, will one by one disappear behind the dark edge ofthe moon. These occultations, however, will only be visible with the best telescopes. As the moon passes eastward it will pass near but not over the two bright stars to the left of Alcyone, On the 3d of Febru- ary next the moon will again pass the Pleiades, In she evening, and will then pass further toward the north, occulting all the pripcipal stars; and asthe moon will then be near its first quarter it will be only one-eighth as bright as now, sothat the smaller stars will be readily seen. HENRY M. PARKHURST. New York, Dec. 10,1876, CHARLES DICKENS. LECTURE BY PROFESSOR SHEPPARD. Professor Nathan Sheppard delivered the second lec- ture in his course, at the Calvary Baptist church, yes- terday afternoon, having for his subject “The Writings of Charles Dickens.” Professor Sheppard is half actor, half lecturer. In reading various extracts from Dickens’ works he personated each character very cleverly. He had quite a large audience, composed mainly of ladies, He commenced:—We are to investigate the writings of an author who has the most readers of this age or any age and the most influence of any writer in any age, The circulation of Dickens’ books amounts to-2,000,000 copies. His I call the school of human behavior. He writes in that school exclusively, continually, tn- comparably. He ts not a first rate novelist, considered ‘a plot maker; but considered as the portrayer of be- havior he has no competitor. Dickens fails a5 a novel- ist not only in the constructing of plot, but in the jaboration of character. As an artist of behavior he stands alone, but as a novelist many excel him, There is no more wearigome author if you read for the story— no more fascinating author if you read for the sake of the characters. Take any of his leading characters out of the book and you will not detract trom its charm, His work is . THE PORTRAITURE OF BEMAVIOR touched with caricature; not cynical—much of It ts not even exaggeration, much less caricature, I quite believe 1n the province of caricature in reforming. It is fatal to your influence over the guilty to betray that you know ‘as much about them as they do themselves. You know the imagination is tnactive and torpid in almost everybody, especially in an American business man. In reading the imagination ts awakened by the writer, This is especially true of the writer of fiction. Dicker had an ear for the incongruity of names. Most people think Dickens’ odd names destitute of art, whereas they are an ILLUSTRATION OF HIS ART. His names are no exaggeration. I have myself seen names more odd than his. I saw ona moving van the the names Horsenail and Catchpuller. I have seen the names, Archangel Solod, Matthew Fibbs, Atigust, October, Harriet Moonshine, &c. Micawber is not much of a caricature of his own father. We do not know how much is to be made of the unconsciousness of behavior till we read Dickens. Dickens’ pathos is something rare and exquisite, though he has dealt so much in caricature and ex aggeration. He has left on record incomparable speci- mens of pure pathos. The phraseology of Dickens is worthy of attention. Phraseology is one of the greatest of the ologies. His phraseology is so distinctly his own that it may be called by his name, as Carlyle’s ts. Con- sidered as a reformer, with fiction for his fleld, Dickens has accomplished more than any one. Mr. Sheppard illustrated this sketch with numerous extracts from va- rious works of this eminent author. BROOKLYN RING PROSECUTIONS. There was no new movement in the contemplated prosecution against the members of the Board of City Works and the.contractors yesterday. One of the most prominent members of the Taxpayers’ Reform Associa tion, in conversation with @ reporter yesterday, took occasion to emphatically deny that there is any truth in the published statement that intimidation had been used by the Board ot City Works against any citizens to prevent their making affidavits before the attorneys for the prosecution. It is probable that Mr. Parsons, who has beon employed by the District Attorney to rosecute the Ring, will be ready to make the pre- Pintnary movement'on Saturday or Monday next. The cases will be tried in New York courts, and will not confined to the Hempstead Reservoir and Third aven sewer jobs. It hag not yet been determined by Mr. Parsons who his assistant counsel will be. The de- fendants declare their anxiety to have an early trial. TAMMANY HALL—ITS APPROACHING DISSOLUTION. [From the New York Times.] The Tammany managers are becoming alarmed at the rapid growth of the public sentiment which de- mands the abolition of their secret society, and of al) the undemocratic influences of which it is the source and centre. They have appointed a committee to de- vise means to give the society a new lease of existence, and hi accompanied their resolution with what is intenaed as a reply to recent criticisms. The essential point of this piece of special pleading is the statement that the Tammany Society, or Columbian Order, is not a political organization at all. This assertion can be refated in the words of Mr. Heaory L. Clinton, who seems to be the author of Tammany’s present defence. On behalf of the leaders of the “reformed” order, it was claimed that “the Sachems, during many years, have adjudicated upon the regularity of democratic county organizations.” ‘That pretension has never been waived, and, as Mr. Clinton showed, it makes the Tammany Society supreme dic- tator of the only democratic organization in this city which has hitherto been recognized as yas “The Sachems are elected by the members of the Tammany Society, who are olected for life, . Neither the democ- racy nor the General Committee have any voice in the election of Sachems, * * ® These Sachems would right to set at deflance the wishes and the votes entire democracy of the city, and impose on them any general committee they saw fit,” ‘That certainly is not a desirable state of things for any political organization to-tolerate, and it operates most disastrously on the administration of public bu: noss of which the party tht Lp Sameera may assum the responsibility, For years Tammany Hall has had the control of the Sheriff's ofice, and during that time {ts management bas been notorious for a total lack of either ability or conscientiousness. Tammany was responsible for Brennan, and still more directly responsible for Brennan's subordi- nates, One of the last acts of his administration was to permit the escape of Genet, under circumstances which plainly Indicated corrupt practices by some of his deputies. While Sherif Conner is a decided im- provement on his predecessor, his deputies are certainly ‘They are simply th appointees whom the men that nominated him compel him to accept, and Warden Dunham tsa very fair sample of the kind of official which Tammany Hall forces upon the city. The corruption t office fostered by the secret society that claims to have vothing todo with polittes 18 as plainly responsible for the escape of Tweed as it was tor that of Genet, An institution which bears such fruits is clearly not fit to live. It makes no pretence of fulfilling the pur- poses for which its charter was granted, and all the influence which {t exerts is on the vide of —raseality in office and demoraliza- tion in polities, In the: words of its present apologist, Henry L. Clinton, ‘inasmuch as it has been in the past, and may be again, used to clothe with power an ‘irresponsible, unscrupulous, decayed oli- odious to the masses of the democratic party aud the community generally, the strong arm of the law soould be (evoked and its charter ahnulled, $0 as ty prevent aitke its frauds upon the democracy and its degcedations upon the city treasury,” | GRANT AND THE SCHOOL QUESTION. VIEWS OF THE PRESS ON THE SECTARIAN (SUES IN THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE, The delivery of the latest Message of General Grant to Congress marks one of the most important epochs in the partisan history of the United States. It places the author of that Message squarely before the country, notonly as a candidate for a third term of the office of President, but as a candidate on the platform—tor the use of that word seems to have become allowable—ot antagonism to the growing power of the Catholic Chureh.—New Fork Sun (ind.) We cannot help regretting that President Grant should deem jt necessury to intimate that the simple taxation of Church property, at this day and in this country, may lead to “sequestration through blood.” It is not @ good omen that an executive utterance at the thresh- old of the discussion contemplates a violent and bloody adjustment. No words in any recent Message have been so pregnant of ill omen as those twor “through blood. ""—Utica Herald (rep.) Should General Grant succeed in stirring up such & contest as he aims at neighbor would be divided against neighbor, friend against friend, brother against brother, sister against sister, parents against children and cbil- dren against parents.—New York Sun (ind.) The excitement attendant upon a Presidential elee- tion, or “campaign,” conducted on, this issue, would be such as has never been approached in intensity in all the previous ‘history of our governmenat,—New York Sun (ind.) ‘That part of the President’s Message which refers to the question of common schools. will fail, we trast, of its transparent object. It is the artful trick of the demagogue, bidding for personal popularity by an ap- peal to religious prejudices and sectarian.animositios, — New York Journal of Commerce (dem.) ‘The nationa) government has nothing whatever to do with the establishment, care or oversight of common schools. Tho proposal now made seems designed to introduce directly into the national politics those dis- turbing elenionts which have embittered civil dissen- sions in all ages of the world. There is no mistaking its drift or meaning. —New York Journal of Commerce (dem.) We shall not willingly believe that this proposition has the sanction of the great party which placed the present incumbent in the Presidential chair. Asa bid for personal popularity, with a view to that re-election of which, it is said, he still fondly dreams, it may be treated with contemptuous indifference.—fVew York Journal of Commerce (dem.) If it 1s to be incorporated into party platforms, and to be made the lever by which to stir up sectarian strifo and bitterness all over the land, no one may fortell the far-reaching desolation to which it must lead.—New York Journal of Commerce (dem.) What has engendered this nightmare in the Presale dential brain? Has some subtle demagogue persuaded his ambition that, in the absence of other issues, he can put himself at the head of a new Know Nothing movement and maintain his hold of power by playing on the sectarian hatreds and Jealousies of the ignorant and bigoted portion of his countrymen?—Harrisburg Patriot (dem.) Wo believe that Catholic and Protestant will unite im crushing out this baleful, pestilent proposition, and that in doing so they will have the hearty sympathy of every man or woman who bas the slightest apprecia- tion of the beauty and power of a religious life,—Albany Argus (dem.) A BISHOP WITH A POOR QUALITY OF BRAINS. [From the New York Sun, Deo. 9.] ‘The frst gudgeon Grant has hooked with his third- term bait is Bishop Haven, of the Methodist Church. That political ecclesiastic asked his presbyters three startling questions:—‘Shall the Northern people rule the nation?” ‘Shall the Puritan or the Cavalier be the ruler?” ‘Shall Boston or Charleston be the cen- tre?” These conundrums seemed to puzzle the Meth- odist parsons, but they need not hare donesa The riddle {s easily read, Of course the Northern people, as such, will not rule the nation, The majority of voters hold the reins of power inthis Republic. There are no such classes as Puritan and Cavalier in this country, and so neither of them can rule the nation, Two or threo hundred years ago they existed in England, and representat:ves of the one class came over to New England and a few of the other to Virginia, Nowadays and in this country there are no such things as Puri nd Cavaliers. As matter of fact, too, the peo, of the South, where the third term bishop puts #1 Cavaliers, are more Puritan, so far as religious practices go, than New England now js. Neither Boston nor Charleston will be the contro of the nation, Geographically the centre is beyond the Massissippi River. In a moral and intellectual sense the centre will be where the leading intellects are, where there is the most thought and where the best ability to direct our political future exists. If Charles- ton shall try to make itself such a centre neither Bishop Haven nor anybody else can stop its success, except by learning more wisdom and capacity to direct opinions than the Gharlestonians have. If the third term bishop wishes to contest the palm of the centre with that city he will need to pursue a less eccentric course than he now adopts. The Evening Post, a good authority on subjects relating to the Methodist Church, Isaac Henderson, its publisher and chief controller, having been red in that communiot intimates that Bishop Haven ha’ the reputation of being an indiscreet person—in fact, that he talks too much with his mouth, But why didsthe 200 Methodist ministers at Boston unanimously adopt his third term views with great ap- plause? It isa time for sensible Methodists to speak out. GRANT'S FIREBRAND, To THe Epitor or tae HERALD:— Permit me to express my thanks for your well-timed remarks in Wednesday's Heratp on the action of Bishop Haven at Boston. Your article, I think, reflects the sentiments of the great mass of intelligent Methodists, ‘The Bishop, with all his recognized good qualities, is yet known in the denomination as one of those rest- less and fussy souls who are ever going of “half cocked.” But itis a mistake to suppose that his reso- lution was adopted unanimously or that it reflected the sentiments of that large assembly. Its impropriety was sevn at a glance and awakened remonstrance on the spot; but, rather than mar the Food feeling of the oceasion’ by discussion, it was suffered to pass asa harmless effusion of the erratic Bishop, It seemed to “tickle bim and would hurt nobody” seriously, though, it must be confessed, from its lability to be magnified in importance, such hasty and indiscreet action should be careiully guarded against, Yours truly, Deceaner 9, 1875, A METHODIST. Nuw York, Dee. 8, 1875. To rar Epitor or tHe HeraLy:— Your editorial in to-day’s Heratp, upon “Bishop Haven on the Stump,"’ contains assertions of which youare evidently uninformed. For instance, you say that you look upon this declaration as deplorable (rom every point of view, and well you may, since it is an open fact that your journalis an organ of the Popa. You cannot for an instant create discord in the Methodist Church by appealing to its members as “being a reflection upon his religion and an interference in our politics which Methodists will resent,”” for they will not do anything of the kind, for that Boston meeting represents tho sentiment of American Meth- odists from Maine to Oregon. As to the ‘interference in politics,” it seems to me to be no more of an inter- ference than your editorial, an to Methodists “submitting to being told by a ch man’? need not worry on that point, for the esaid clergyman and bishop knew whereof he spoke and know that he proven spoke the sentiment of nine-tenths of the jaity instead of “dictating to them.’ One oan hardly see where {hat suporior intelligence is you speak of, for when the priests in Now Jersey and Ohio dictated to their flocks how to vote on the school question, they walked up to the polls and voted as told to a mad ; and as to that new ‘element in politics’ you speak of, Methodists know it to be wholesome and will not need any dictation from bishops, for they know that Presi- dent Grant is the man to vote for for a third term, and if the issue botwoon Catholics and Protestants ruling this country, or Catholics and Methodists, is ever to come, it might as well come in the next Presidential election as any time, and you will see not only 700,000, but 4,000,000" majority. for Grant fvon it Bishop Haven were a Cathohe, the sentiments he ex- pressed would not have occasioned more “furious dis- approbation’ among Methodists than it now has among Catholics, and 1 cannot see where you ever give as much editorial space to denouncing about the same opinions of the Catholics ag Lge z P. §.—I saw in your paper a few days ago an account of the school in West Thirty-fiith street catching fire threo times within a short time and told abont the jani- tor giving vague accounts to your reporter about its being set on fire by boys. Now, if your reporter will take the trouble to inquire again he will see the fi originated in the Bible room, and that the janitor is Roman Catholic of the bitterest kind; and let him in- quire in any house in the whole block who send their children there to school and he will see it ts the gen- eral opinion that the janitor is the man who did it, ang they will give you & reason, founded on something more thi gious bigotry, for thinking 80, too, “ RETURN OF MAYOR WICKHAM. Mayor Wickham was at his office in tho City Hall yesterday and received several callers, among thom @x= Speaker McGuire, r