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6 NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1875.—WITH SUPPLEMENT. ~BSWOP HAVEN-AND- GRANT Wethodist Church Opinion of a Third Term Nomination by a Cleric. General Opposition to the Idea from Rhode Island to Chicago. SALT LAKE CITY OPPOSITION. Newrorr, R. L, Dec, 17, 1875. In common with other sections of the country New- port has had something to talk about—viz, the unwise utterance on the thied term made by Bishop Gilbert Haven at tho Pr®achers’ meeting in Boston. In order to get the sentiments of the Methodist preachers in this place upon the matter your correspondent called | upon them to day. REY. MR, WHITCHER'S OPINION, The Rev, W. F. Whitcher, pastor ef the Marlboro’ street Methodist Episcopal church, was the frst visited | by the Hxranp correspondent, Upon being interro- gated upon his views upon the Bishop's remarks he said he thought the matter had been given more pub- licity than it was worth. He thought his remarks {Il- timed, unwise and altogether out of place. He was present at that memorable meeting, and at the time tid not think bis remarks amovnted to iny political significance, He did not thik she Methodist Church should be held ac- wuntable for them, The Hishop was head. étrong and impulsive and did not know how ‘his talks’ sounded after they were delivered. Dr. Woodruff, of Fall River, voted against making the Bishop's resolu- won unanimous, and be Was of the opinion that more uid have done so if they had have known the sensa- ion it has unexpectedly caused. He did mot think the Zishop Was as popular as many would have the public chink, but that in Boston, where he formerly resided, there were quite a number who thought everything he d and did was just right, the reverend gentleman referred your correspondent to an editorial in the Christian (Methodist) Advocate for this week, which 1s the official organ of the Metho- dists, which article was not in favor with Haven’s course. In closing the interview he said:—“I voted for Horace Greeley for President and | would rather vote for most any other man than General Grant.” THY THIRD TERM IDEA. He does not believe in a third term forany oue, He Is settled over a large and flourishing church in this city, one of the attendants being Rear Admiral A. L. Case (United States Nays) and family, He is a young man, and I think that when he voted for Greeley it was bis maiden vote. REV. S. LEADER'S OPINION. Your correspondent called next upon the Rey. 8. Leader, pastor of the Thames wtreet Methodist Epi copal church, one of the most talented men in the city. His views on the matter were 4s follows:—The Bishop was invited by the Preachers’ meeting to ad- fress them on the condition of the South, he being the Southern Bishop of the Church, his headquarters being | it Atlanta, Ga, He (Bishop Haven) expressed a positive | Feneral Grant was doing his best tor the proper reconstruction of the South; that the loyal por- lion of the South were in favor of him for a third term and those of a contrary opinion against bis re-electi Therefore he hoped the brethren would vote and pray lor the renomination of Grant for a third term. * Mr. Leader thought the Bishop had a right to say mat he pleased, as he had a better chance of judging whether Grant’s nominauon would benetit the South. He thought his remarks were impromptu, und were wrought incidentally into his speech in relation to the condition of the Suuth. Upon the motion of Rev. Dr. Sherman to inake the vote unanimous Rev. Dr. Wood- rf, as if seeing the commotion it would cause, coun- belied moderation. AGAINST & TIIKD TERM. When asked his opinion of a third term Mr. Leader was decidedly opposed to it, either for General Grant or iny one else. He should, however, vote for Grant pro- nding a better man was bot in the field. PUBLIC OPINION. This community. and in fact a greater portion of the 3tate, are opposed to a third term, and the majority ot the newspapers, though being fayorable to Grant in the past, do not now care to have him re-elected, and in fact have so expressed themselves. opinion that METHODIST CHURCH OPINION IN CHICAGO—THE CLERICS OPPOSED TO THE BISHOP'S ASSUMP- TION IN THE REKOMINATION UTTERANCE. Cuicaco, Dec. 14, 1875. The action of Bishop Gilbert Haven of the Methodist Episcopal Church at a recent convention 10 Boston in saking upon himself the responsibility of nominating President Grant for a third term and urging upon the people of bis denomination the necessity of supporting | she candidate of bis choice has had the effect to create juite aflutter among the clerical circles of this faith m and about Chicago. Witn scarcely an exception the rentlemen of the cloth who espouse Methoaism express chemselves as opposed to such an unwarrantable as. sumption of power, and are emphatic in their criti- cisms upon the man who could thus pervert his office of pastor of a Christian flock into that of a mere dema- That yorne and politician. Bishop Haven bas been unwise in the stand he has taken, as reported by the papers of the country, is generally conceded by. the Methodist reverenas here, ‘and that he has been guilty of a great blunder from which it will be difficult for him to recover, is the undisguised conviction of all who have been conversed with upon the subject. parsons regret that Bishop Haven, by reason of his overweening zeal for the President, has been led into a mistake of this kind, they are inclined to indulge jn a smile to think that anbody can for a moment imagine that this self-constituted politico-elerical nominator in any sense represents the great body of the Methodist Church. the religious faith, and stands eminently high in this particular, the shepherds of the flock in Chicago are not inclined to be led by his political pronunciamentos, | and reserve the right to act in the matter of President making just as their individual preferences may dic- tate. BISHOP HARRIS’ OPINION. A representative of the Herazp has been to some | pains to gather the expressions of the Methodist tlergymen here on the point in question, and for the information of the country presents them here in de- | tail. The first gentleman called upon was Bishop Harris, who, while endeavoring to fight shy of an inter- view, protesting that he had no opinion worth making Public, auring the course of the conversation put him- self on record as follows :— “Bishop Haven has merely expressed his personal ppinion, and it has no significance whatever. The Bishop alone is responsible for it. Dr. Vincent, the president of the body that met in Boston, has repudi- ated it, Methodists, as a denomination, have nothing to do with politics, We are not President makers, During the war we stood together upon one eide,"but that was a matter of patriotism, not politics, As a Church we are of all shades of political belief, and it would be extremely unwise for us as a denomination to take any act I cannot speak for the Church, of tourse, but so ta Tam concerned I think the action of Bishop Haven was apwarrantable. The matter has significauce whatever, except as the personal opinion of a jew men.” REY. DR. JEWETT'S OPINION. Rev. Dr. 8. A. W. Jowett, pastor of the First Meth —“Bishop Haven is always doing nd thisisone of them. He probably ping the south some serrice. He has and has become pretty thoroughly felt that he was deen laboring thi Acquainted with the peculiarities of the situation. Haven was always a sort of politician, denomination will not countenance the move at ail, More than this, the nomination has no significance.’ RRY. DR. JATKINS Rey. Dr. Jatkins, Presiding Elder of this district, taid:—"I can scarcely undersiand why Bishop Haven should have taken (his step. He has, of course, the right to speak for himself; bot the Methodist Church | will not indorge such a sentiment when cnunciated on their bebalf by an individual who is generally conceded to be somewhat of a politician. You may rest assured that I myself do not indorse his action." REY. DR. ADAMS’ OPINION. Rov. Dr. Adams, pastor of Centenary church, Chi- tago, replied to the interrogatories of the Mena representative :—Ido not think this matter is of much \mportance any way, and we «nig riet it alone, Haven ts an eccentric sort of eli bis political Opinions will not influener the REY. ME. CALDWELI'S OPINION, Rev. Mr, Caldwell, of the Ada street church, Chicago, ald op Haven might just ax well stand out in the street and whistie aw fo nominate Grant for a third term, While the feeling may be that the administra tion bas been a good one, third term will not be cuan- MR. SYENORA of the 5 OPINION. street chareh, ses Just as be pleases, and he has a perfect right to jo 80." HAS NOT MADE CP Ms MIND Rev. Mr. Parkhurst, of Chicago, would give no ae cided optaiom either way, but was inclined to believe that Bishop Maven cou just ax he had @ mind to, Bod it was no Business of the country at large. LOYAL TO THE BALLOT B. Felton said —-''l reaily ihink there is more put this matter than it really deserves, probably teit that he was acting om gourd » called nomination of Grant tor a third ally we donot believe in making Frest- nie, deeming |t mach better to leave that to political Rev. ©. foaien, and exercising independently, with the ballot, On the other hand, while the | While he is one of the recogmized leaders in | The Methodist | our personal preferences when the proper time shall have arr.ved.’’ NO DICTATION FROM CHURCHMEN, Rey. N. H. Axtell, Chicago, looked at the matter in this lght:—“While Bishop Haven may have felt that he was doing something that was perfectly proper it does seem strange that he should have allowed himself to make such an open and public avowal of his personal political preterence, No matter how innoceat he may have been in this matter I do not see how he could help foreseeing that it would ruise a breeze, for if there is one thing that the American people will not endure itis the interference of a religious sect with the go ment of the country, The Methodists of the ‘West will protest most emphatically against any such meddling, and Bishop Haven will discover it beiore he is through with it.”” THE PULPIT AND PRESS OPINION. Rev. Arthur Edwards, editor of the Christian Ad an editorial article he had just prepared for his paper and proofs of which were before Bim, Lexcerpt the “Bishop Haven, at some sort gathering In Boston—the telegraph speaks not clearly—last week suggested the nouina- tion of Grant for a third term, in the belief that such renomination will Dring ‘relief to public affairs.’ There 1s no manner of doubt that if dent is renominated he will owe the fact to the | men and papers opposed to the idea. These have so persistently and bitterly and unwisely combated a third term that the public, believing that such enemies must unanimously to the conclusion that a third term is not necessarily a calamity. We have no faith that that Methodist meeting in Boston is correctly reported, but if it is we sincerely regret that Bishop Haven was so unwise. It he made the nomination as reported be may well be suspected of unfriendliness to the Church, demonstration by Methodists assembled in their Church capacity must react unfavorably upon the Chureh. At the same timo it 1s not Pog | or practically fair to re- tort, as some political papers have, ‘If the Roimanists had done such a thing what a bow! there would hare been among the Protestants!’ Weclaim that such a Romination made by Papists would hare been an en- tirely aifferent matier.’ Protestants nominate in their capacity as citizens and for the good of the Republic; Papists never forget that Church is paramoun®to ‘State, and a public politi- cal deliverance by them as primary reference to the | good of Rome. A Protestant body gathered tozether | speaks the average mind of the individuals present; whereas a Romanist body contains uo individuals, and nearly always speaks the mind of a power bebind the throne, However, notwithstanding this juat distine- tion, we regret the Boston blunder, inasmuch as it gi¥es an opportunity to those who know not the faces resent and misapply the reports that burr: into the newspapers, Church members! i zens gather todo church work they will do well to avoid political topics in so far as the lat- ter relate not to open moral and religious questions. The flurry into which some of the daily papers have fallen. because of ton matter is funny enough. We beg to say that Methodists will merely laugh at tho thing, since the “nomination” does not im any possible way bind or represent the Church. We see that Dr. Vincent ex- pressiy saysin a card that the Sunday School and Tract societies, at whose anniversary meeting, it now appears, Bishop Haven mace the siir, are in Do mal ner responsible forthe mention of General Grant's | name. We knew all that before, but Dr. Vincent may have done wisely in putting it on record for the benefit | of papers that persist in misrepresenting the matter, as | we sbould expect the demagogue editors to do. Jay Gonld’s Tribune in New York is hoarse with indigna- ton, Bishop Hayen may have compromised bimseif, effort to put it behind # Presidential chair, CHURCH OPINION IN SALT LAKE CITY—THE METHODIST MINISTERS PROTEST AGAINST THE ACTION OF THEIR BOSTON BRETHRE! Ata meeting of the Methodist Episcopal ministers of Salt Lake City and vicinity, held at the First Meth. odist Episcopal church, Thursday, December 9, 1875, to consider the action of the Boston preachers’ meeting of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in the renomina- tion of President Grant, the following PROTEST was unanimously adopted :— Whereas we have recently seen in the Associated Press despatches from the East the statemeut that Kishop Haven and a body of Methodist preachers in Boston had nominated President Grant fur the “third term” of the Presidency; and committing the denomination to the same measure; therefore, | Resolved, That, as a body of ministers, we protest against the above action. First—From the manifest impropriety of any Church, Protestant or Roman Catholic, placing in nomination | # candidate for the Presidency of the United States, Second—Because we believe there are special reasons, growing out of interests in Utah that are serious'y at- fected by the administration of President Grant, why he should wot receive either the nomination or support of any religious body. These reasous arise in part from the following considerations :— ‘There exists in this Territory an organized and mon- | gerous to the more ignorant classes of humanity. It | defies the moral sense and civilization of the age. Its | hierarchy rules with despotic power over mazy thcu- sands of American citizens. It deprives them of a free ballot and Iree schools, It obstructs the course of ju: tice in the courts and points with exaltation to the in munity from punishinent of its black record of crimes. It treats with open contempt our American | government and law, and is im fact an abso- lute monarchy within a republic. The course of Presi- dent Grant in dealing with this institution has been | weak and racillating, and bis recommendativns in his | recent angual Message and in previous ones, to sup- | press polygamy simply, do not reach the above named | evils, which can only be remedied by legisiative enact- ment and by firm executive administration. He re- moved Judge McKean from the Bench without a hear- | ing and upon ez parte representations, and just ata | time when be was taking hold of this treasonuble and | law-defying institution with the gmp of jaw and jus- tice. As the successors respectively of Governor | Woods, who had been loyal and true, and of this up- | right Chief Justice thus dishonorably removed, he ap- | pointed two men of such strong Mormon proclivities Uat the outraged sense of loyal American citizens in Utah compelied the removal of one and the resignation of the otner. He bas recently appointed as Chief Jus- tice of the Territory a man in every way more objec- tionable than his immediate predevessor; and while | President Grant was writing down polygamy in bis Message’ his appointee was sctung the chief polygamist of Utah under legal tech- nicalities, and ts almost daily admitting known | polygamists to citizenship, and in other ways is rendering the laws of no effect. He has constituted his Cabinet a court of appeals, which has proceeded to consider and pronounce opinions upon the decision ot Jaw questions mm the local courts of Utah without the thus rendering the judiciary subordinate to the execu- uv fons will be reviewed in the Cabinet without reference to the facts or authorities that are before bin. | We believe that certain railroad monopolies and other agencies under the control of Brig- ham Young have, through certain members of Congress, obtained undue iniluence over the President in Utah affairs. We retuse to accept his allusions to polygamy alone as covering the ge ore that exists here for Congressional legisiavion. The Mormon iead- themselves care nothing for the outery against po- gamy, so long as they can control the jury system, the bailo A the courts, Resoived, That we respectfully land to give publicity to this pay . 6. iM PHIERCE, President. sk the press of our C, P. Lyrorp, Secretary. Sant Lake City, December 9, 1875. PRESS OPINIONS OF BISHOP HAVEN'S PROJECT. ‘The insolence of ecelesiastical intermeddling tn politi- cal affairs by the heads of another powerful sectarian denomination has been properly rebuked by the people of Ohio, and it is not improbable they will take the first opportunity to assure Bishop Haren that they do bot relish an ecclesiastical nomination for the Presi- deney.—Cincinnati Commercial (ind.) Bishop Haven’s reason for the renomination of Grant is “the public safety." But the public safety would be better served by a repudlican candidate who could be elected than by one who, if he ran for a third term, would be sure of defoat. The settled convictions agginst athird term would make Grant the weakest candidate the republican party could nominate—Cincinnati Gazette (rep.) The third term project, if there ts any such thing, will not be aided to any extent by the declaration of a Methodist or any other body of clergymen im savor of renominating Gencral Grant once more “as a measure of safety for the public."' The jess that Churches have concerned. —Buffalo Commercial (rep.) The repablicans will not nominate their candidate as any Church or any antiChureh man, although doubt their national platform will commend their party and its candidate to the support of all sorts of people who believe that the State is above every Church as a civil institution. —Buffalo Commercial (rep ) The Methodist Episcopal Sabbath School Cnion and Tract Society, in session at Boston the other day, de- clared in favor of athird term. When the Presient gos to 8 horse race he generally manages to take in a asions he p meeting on hie way, and « with commendable heroism, kinaes thet Dress (dem) We canoot believe that the Methodist Ch large is ready to commit itself to su tion, Wa trust the grand majority of se tical people im that denomination will present a solid Opporition to any movement ealcnlated to combine re ligious fanaticism with political partisanship, —Marris burg Dawn (ind.) is any sort of religions necessity for the of Mr. Grant aa President of the United ates is 40 supremely ridiculous that we can scarcely credit the reports of the meeting. —Augusta (Ga) Uhron- tele (dem.) orthwestern | stated his position by referring to | the Presi- | have exhausted the adverse arguments, has come pretty | gale did not show any signa of going down, the Captain | the republican party and the President. Such a public , and those whe do not care to know the facts, to misrep- | se promptly | 1p does not | destroy a man’s citizenship, to be sure; but when citi- | land, betng at the time of leaving the ship about forty | that eve but he has not compromised ‘our great Church inthe | Whereas such action may be understood by some as | strous religious imposture which 18 peculiarly dan- | Pleadings, papers, or arguments of counsel in the case, | and compeliing every judge to feel that his decis- | to do with political movemonts the better for all parties Worcester | fraud and corruption; while the very White House itself has been invaded by the bailiff of justice, and arrests are screened by the intervention of @ court martial, for a body of Christians to go out of their way | to declare that bis furtber preferment is a necessity for | the eafety of the country ism satire upon religion.— Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle (dem.) WRECK OF THE BARK FLORENCE. | [From the San Francisco Cail, vec, 12.7 | Daniel Deavy, the only survivor of those who were | on board the bark Florence, gives the following narra- | tive of the disast The Florence satled from Port Discovery on Wednes- day, November 4. We experienced very rough weather ail the passage previous to the wreck. At midnight on the Lith agale sprang up. We made tast all sail with the exception of two lower topsails. It was blow ing very strong all the time, At four o'clock A. M. we took in the lower forctopsuil¥. Ateight o'clock A. M. ailhands were pumping to keep the ship clear, but could not do it, At ten o'clock A. M., as the gale in creased, the mate requested the Captain to throw the | deck load overboard. The Captam refused, preterring to wait antl ig, AS the gale might moderate. At eleven o'clock A. M. two seamen went to. the Captain and made the saine request, Captain Dayton replied as before, At about two oF three o'clock I. M., as the | gave orders to throw the deck load over. One baif of | the crew did it, the other half being at the pumps, | keeping them constantly going, At ive o'clock P. M. we had all the deck load overboard, with the exception of 10,000 feet, We tried the pumps and found HIGHT OR NINN PERT OP WATER IN IRR, Pumped uway cheerfully, but the ship was evidently making more water. At ten P.M. the ship would not rise to the sea, which made a complete breach over her, forward, washing away the bulwarks and stanchions, At mid: night none of the crow could get into the forward house on account of the sea filling it up completely, | Attwo A. M. 1 went aft to the captain, who was atthe | wheel, and asked him, a8 a matter of precaution, to have some provistons put up, as we might not be able to do so if we had to leave her hurriedly. At balf-past two o'clock the captain ordered the boat to be got out. The boat had been stove by a sea and some time was spent iu putting a piece of pump leather over the hole. At three A, M. we left the ship, as everybody was afraid she would goto pieces, We had nothing in the oat but eight or ten pounds of biscmt, soaked with salt water; one bucket of water, which soon got spilled, | and five or six pieces of salt pork. . A TERRIBLE EXYERIENCE, All the crew were in the boat—ten men. At three o'clock on the afternoon of the same day we made the | | miles of. “It being too rough to land we kept the boat off shore, Next day, at tho earnest entreaties of some | of the men, the Captain decided to land, though he said it was throwing away our lives, The men said that this Bos- | they were hungry, cold and wet, as it had been raining | since we left the ship, and that'we would have to land some tine and had better do it while we were fresh; 80 it was decided to-land. We put the boat stern on to the beach, When we got within two hundred vards of the beach a roiler struck us, throwing all hands out, That as the last 1 ever saw of the Captain, two of the mon and the Chinese cook. The rest struggled for a while, but all eventually went down. The mate and f had hol of the Captain's trunk. We could not keep it straight between us. Jasked him to make an extra effort; he siniled, but said nothing, and soon sunk. | for the boat, which was bottom up, and by keeping the stern between my legs and the painter { managed to | hold on for balf an hour after all the rest bad sunk or had been carried out by the undertow, Finally the sea | left me so that could walk up the beach, ‘I had no | shoes on and but very little of other clothing. I | tried to find ome houses but could not. Came back | and lay down within fifty yards of the wreck, expecting | to tind some of the bodies, 1 managed to get my trunk | and the Captain's above high water mark, they being | the only things that were saved, | WE WERK WRECKED | four miles from Cape Perpetua and twenty-five miles from the Umpqua River, The next morning two white men found me, and took me to an Indian village seven mules away. I stopped there two days and then came | on to Gardiner City, bang very sick and my teet sore | and hands swelled. “I was received very kindly by Mr. Melville, the storekeeper. Captain Hail took me up to the Gardiner House, where he and his lady did all they | could to make me comfortable. After resting one day the people collected a sum of money to enable me and a party of three men to go out and find the bodies. We were out four days, but could only find the Chinese cook, We took him above bigh water and buried him. | The same night that | was thrown ashore the bark came ashore, and will, Lam afraid, be # total loss. The | one more effort to find the bodies before I go down to | the city, The Captain of the barkentine Melancthon | Thave gotto look after the wreck, which lies on the } sand about twenty miles from Gardiner City. Follow- | ing are the | Captain, Dayton; tirst mate, Anderson; second mate, Carey; seamen—Walsh, an Irishman; Malcolm Grant, | Seouch; McPherson, of Baltimore, and Duggan, of | Lowell, Mass. A Swede, shipped at Tacoma, name un- | known’ and the Chinese cook, nine in all, were drowned. The Florence was a very old vessel, and belonged to Isador Burns. She was ‘uninsured, but there was an insurance of $10,000 on her cargo, which consists of * 300 fect of lumber for Mastick & Co., of this city. NAMES OF THE LOST, | | SPECIAL ATTORNEY HENDERSON'S j REMOVAL. | pal, | WAS IT CAUSED BY SEEKING TO AVENGE THE DISGRACE OF A BROTHER? [Frem the Inter-Ocean, Dec, 17.] The cat that has been troubling ex-Senator Hender- son’s meal tub has been discovered. In other words, the reason for his malignant and unprofessional attack on the President has been reveaied. The story, briefly told, is as follows:—Six years ago a brother of Mr. Henderson, atobacco manufacturer in lowa and Mis- souri, was detected in frauds upon the revenue, Hoe ‘was prosecuted under the orders of the President, just like any common offender, and convicte Mr. Henderson, relying upon official inf ence, went to the President and demanded t¢ the prosecution should coase, The President was firm then, #s he is now, and gave the distinguished Senator | to understand that it was the policy of the administra. | tion to let no guilty man escape, even though he might be arepabiican and the brother of a statesman. Of course this warmed the Hendersonian blood, and the | Hendersonian mind began from that moment’ to brood npon revenge, The opportunity longed for came when the President, knowing the feeling of the ex- Senator, but relying upon his professional honor, consented to his appetntnent as additional coun: sel in the whiskey cases, Travelling out ot his path, Jugging in a question having no reiation to the case at an attorney, Mr. Henderson | | bar, torterting his hono: proveeded to publicly insult and malign the-President, His conduct cannot be defended on any grounds what- | ever, and the newspapers and politicians that are try- | ing to create @ sentiment favorable to Mr. Henderson are entirely mistaking the judgment and good sense of the people. The President represented the government and the plaintiff ip these cases as the chict officer of a corporation represents a body of that character, The ecutions were carried on by his direction, and the counsel were under his instructions, But in spite of this we find one of the latter arraigning bis client be- fore the Jury as particeps criminis iu the crime chargea against (he prisoners, and endeavoring to show that the | man for whom he worked was as guilty as those whom | I this was not a gross | he had caused to be indicted. | breach of professional honor then we have no concep- | tion of what these words imply. It would have been a | mean betrayal, even if true, being untrue, 1 was dia honorable and’ contemptibie. | AMERICAN DRY GOODS IN EUROPE, | & VIGOROUS EFFORT FOR THE RECONQUEST OF | OUR FOREIGN TRADE. | (From the London Telegraph.} | When our Foreign office goes so tar as to send down | to Manchester a sample of American calico which has | found its way to Havre as aprelude toa gencral inva- | siou of the Continent, the situation from the British manufacturer's point of view may be regarded as | serious. Lord Derby, however, has done this, think- ing, apparently, that the novel importation te worth looking into, The English Consul at Havre sent this specimen over, it seems, to show what American manu- tacturers could accomplish, and he gave a description of the stuf, alleging trat it could be brought into that port and gold at a price named were it not expressly @x- | exeluded by Arrangements. As no Bui ovstacle exists here, Lord Derby manitestiy thi that it is worth the while of English producers to est mate befureband tbe extent of the risk they may have to fa There undoubtedly nen said and remains that Amerie cotton inanul n introduced and sold in the ery heart of the English cotton industry, and that ore than one firm of merchanis—we have seen bwo distinet cireulary on the subject—have thought it ther | Hiterest to specially announce an agency tor the eale of such goods. It may bo that the linport of calicoes lately mentioned has been a purely exceptional opera | Uon, and that the guods were only an unsalable lot | exported to get anything they would fetch, Bus I | simultaneous attempt on | France, and the an- honnend determination of the ' United states Than ufacturers to try a n back some of the foreign Tarkets they have lost, seem to indicate something be- yond the e W yours ago, for instance, the Americans of the China market tor the saiv of the good “arills,” but were ander. bid andl oversold Nish ty They profess ty have now dise to be able to resi ir iwinre, and Whey tela, found this conclusion mainly on 1 sinee they Wave reduced wages etlectualiy . cheaply then the hire quate) quality, This iat , i our weak pomt, In im cares Koglish articles have driven out others because the cheapness is only enperticnl; it was owing WO sophistication, which, while ‘t dumin- ished the pric wality of the goods, and when the trick i* found owt ft will Hot bear repe j tou, Hf, then, tht American competition ts to a | nothing Serious, but only to evaporate like other threats | acd iritig the lant duzew years, the Hirst | thing ivers must do isto make their goods what they pr ( | high dard in this respoet he kat ; but if they give good mon er any mar. s Ameriean rivi ow just as they beat Belgian compewi- While the very air of the whole country smells of | tors some years ago. ° . id | [then made | Indians are stripping her of everything. 1 shail make | very kindly olfered to take me down to the city, but | * | John Chinaman. y keep apa | MUSICAL REVIEW. ‘Mel- Mr. G, Sebirmer, » odie Ca| and dedicated to the charming young pianiste, Miss Lina Luckhardt, The composer has the judgment, in absence of original ideas, to make good selections from classical works and call them his own, In this work he makes liberal use of Mendelssohn, Yet it is anything but an honorable course for a would-be composer to pursue. The next thing we may hear of is the ‘Sonata, Pathétique” by Mr. Bartlett, Mr. Schirmer republishes the very best of the European editions of the works of the classics, and among thom everything that can be found im the programmes of Theodore Thomas and Hans Yon Bilow, 33 ‘Thomas J, Hall, No, $14 Broadway, publishes the fol- lowing :— “Gottschalk, Wallace and Wollenbaupt, Simplified for the Piano.” By Heury Maylath. The adapter had a very difficult task before him in the selections he made | for the purpose of adaptation to the ordinary player. The most widely known compositions of the Chopin of America, Louis Moreau Gottschalk, are the following :— “Berceuse,”” “Hanjo,"” “Last Hope,” ‘Marche do Nuit,"" ‘Murmures Eolienne’ and ‘Printemps d'Amour.” They have been long sealed to the major- ity of pianists on account of their technical difficulties, In the simplified torm they lose very little of their original beauty and effect. Mr. Maylath has contrived to bring these tone poems within the reach of even the Jeast experienced fingers, and the same result has been reached in Wallace’s ‘Polka de Co! t and “Le | Keve,”’ and in Wollenbaupt'’s her memes Winds Ma. zurka.””) Much as we dislike meddling with compos- ers’ works for the purpose of simplitying them, hearty | praise must be granted in this instance, | “Do the Little Ones Ask for Me Now?’’ Song and chorus. H. P. Danks, One of those namby-pamby sort | of melodies which have so long aillicted the public ear | on hand organs and other instruments of torture. “Rockaby, Lullaby."’ Song. D. 3. Babcock, Neatly written, with a very good motif, George Willig & Co., Baltimore, publish the follow- ing:— “Uherusker March.”? ©. A. Scheidier. Written in the popular vein, good sutyects and artistic treatment, “Brunhilda Polonaise.” scheidler, A very weak, commonplace work. Polonaises are very dangerou? things to handle, either by composers or players, The genius ofa Weber or a Chopin must breathe through those martial measures to make them effective and to the manor born. The polonaise in ‘Mignon’ shows ry Frenchman can appreciate the spirit of the ancient Magyar, “The Dying Soldier.” Song. Asger Hamerick. A very pretentious and corresponding!y weak composition. Some of the tirst,principles of ballad writing are vio- lated in this song, and eccentricities of style cannot | compensate for want of accuracy and artistic finish “A Voice from the Waves.” Reverie, J. Theophil. | There are many good points about this work, but there occurs in the very first bar a termble blunder that is inexcusable, hliinge’’ (Memory’s Sounds), ‘‘Am Scheidewege” | (Parting Companions). Two capital piano works in the riniey Richard style, by a favorite composer, Gustav Lange. “Loving and Beloved Again.” Ballad, Fabio Campana, ‘0. 701 Broadway, publishes | English writers, “Brown Eyes or Blue Eyes.” Song. Hamilton | Aldé. Very little to praise and very clumsily con- structed. E. H, Harding, No. 229 Bowery, publishes the follow- ii | “Ain't You Awful.” Waltz, A. Bley. A very clever | instrumental arrangement of the sparkling little song | | which Miss Jennie Hughes introduced to the New York | public, and in which sige won one of her most remarka- | ble successes in comic vocalism. “Awkward Squad March,” “God Bless Our Home” and “1776 Galop” are ulso published by this house, and are in the popular style. W. H. Ewald, Jersey City, publishes the “Début Waltz,” by 8. T, White, a composition which betrays | Figns of want of finish,’ as well as possessing artistic meritin the theme, ‘Darling Little Rosebud,” song | and chorus, W. W. Keenan, 1s as trashy as the most in- veterate organ grinder would desire, | Dison & Co., New York and Boston, publish the fol- | lowin, ing in the Twilight.”’ Barcarolle, Teresa Car- | stein’s barcarolles, | “La Gioia del Futuro.’* Duet for two sopranos. An- tonio Giuglini, Not worthy of the attention of a mu- sician, belng crude, uninteresting and badly treated. | ““SMérry Christmas,’ Morceau de salon, G. D. Wilson. | Nicely done for the holidays and not without musical merit either, J. L. Peters, No. 699 Broadway, publishes some very | attractive collections of music for the holidays. There are the vocal works of Mendelssohn, edited by MacFar- ren and published by Novello, ot London (Peters being the agent); “Mother Goose” bational nursery rhymes, set to music by J. W. Elliott and beautifully jilustrated; “Houschold Melodies,” “La Crome de la Creme,” and “Parlor Music.” The books which are published under | the above titles are the best we have as yet seen placed | betore the New York public in regard to selections of | works and beanty of appearance. William A. Pond & Co., No, 547 Broadway, publish the first of a series of works.by the eminent pianist, John N. Pattison, which come ander the attractive title of “Rbapsodies Américaines.”’ It is a sort ot galop, but yet treated in that free and rubato manner always governed by true artistic spirit that must take it out of tho sphere of mere salon inusic. Nothirtg can be moro exquisite in melody than the second theme, and it is {ramed in a style such as one would only ex: pect from Gottschalk. Mr. Pattison has here surpassed the effect he made years ago by his “Sunrise Mazurka” and ‘Polka de Concert.’” THE CHINESE IN CALIFORNIA, SUNDAY EVENING LECTURE BY PRENTICE MUL- & FORD. Mr. Prentice Mulford lectured at No. 1,266 Broadway on “The Chinese in Cahfornia” last evening. In 1849, he said, the cry of “California and gold” went forth to all quarters of the earth, and even the exclusiveness of China was broken In upon. In 1850 the Chinaman came among us in California, and since then he has | been trotting patiently after the white man, working abandoned diggings, or purchasing new ones at a high price. Yet the Mongolian bas carried back millions in gold dust to his own country, Every Chinaman who arrives in this country comes under the control of one of the six companies Who are interested in Chinese imn gration, and one part of the contract is that his bones shall be returned to his native country. The Chimaman ig industrivus and realy to work at whatever offers. He docs a great deal of the washing for San Francisco, There are 20,000 Chinese there. They have their own quarter, where you tind everything that lives or grows in China smoked and dried for the use of John China- man, The Chinaman is A KEORKATIVE BARBARIAN, He preserves the spirit of his youth longer than we do, Our philosophers are all represented with grave faces, bald heads, long beards and a sober gait. They never open their mouths except to say a wise thing, never run, never jump over a fence, never laugh, be- eatise these things would not be digniied. ‘They’ aro } eld fogies, The Chinaman has no Sabbath; he has a religion, « God and a devil; and he pays most of his re- spect tothe devil, He is'a natural believer im con- tinued existence alter death, The lecturer here described at some length the fu- rs that are scones, 1! Chinaman | is rarely a vagrant, epinm sinoker, a lover of brandy and an invete | gambler. He Will steal, too, even'a whole nouse, They | Steal on the co-operative plau, ‘clapboard from a house and drops it; the next | on pulls it) a few feet farther; next | day another Chinaman drags it a few yards, and the | day following another Cuimatnan, dnding it near a path- | way, takes itaway altogether. |The China boy ts the | universally preferred servant in San Francisco; but he | is too strict an mutator, If in showing him’ how to | cook dish you burn it, be burns it also, Besides, he | neral ceremonies of the Chin | offered and fea C Fa 3 will not learn more than a secure of words of oar | language. In these few words he tries to express all he knows, and you must ENDEAVOR TO EXPRESS ALL YOUR DRSIRES in as tew words. The Mexican ts the Chinaman’s dread in California, and no wonder, for the Mexican 18 | the Caltfornia bandit, and makes the Chinawan an es- ecial object of attention. Several years agu somo | Indies of the Protestant Church in’ San Francisco | estabiished Chinese Sunday schools, and the children of the Mongolian residents were seni there in larce numbers; yet the children of the natives, on their way , home from their own sunday schools, woul these youngsters, and the white people generally, | few years ago, considered Ho treatment too harsh tor | MOSES AND GEOLOGY. A large number of ladies and gentlemen assembled at | Association Hall, Fourth avenue and Twenty-third | gtroot, last evening to listen to an address by Professor Alexander Winchell, Li. D., of the Syracuse University, on “Moses agd Geology.” wherem he attempted to | thought, He referred briefly to the so-called conilict, much beard of in thisday, between se and said it would ve to show worming want of harmony was but the healthful mterchan two forces mm hutnan nature by Which progress was 1 nd upon this progress all civilization depenas tien and compared it with the Int Jogical science. Step by step he pursue json and proved ond cavil that the former was | a story antheuteated by a superstitions faith ¢ that it hartne in Hs periods of developme | the successive arth as taught by ge paid high tribute to what science had ulready ade Christians to cheer on th to givens the truth of all phenomena relating to this great study, It will hurt no creed, but | help religious truth, so thas the better the serence, bet- | ter in the end will be reverence for the teachings of the ; | good old Book.’ SQUASH POWER, | | Professor R. Ogden Dorem 1, will deliver a lecture on “Squash Mower! this evening in the Sunday | school room of St, Ann’s church, Eighteenth street, near Fifth avenue, The lecture will be the last of the St. Ann's Brotherhood course and the proceeds will go to the support of St, Ann's Mission chapel. | ce,’ by Homer N, Bartlett, entitled *Adicu,”” A charming song by one of the best of the present | rena. A marvellous resemblance to one of Rubin. | First, one man puils'® | show the harmony between religions and scichtific | The | Professor then took up the Mosaic history of the crea. | MALARIA. Whence and from What : It Arises. DEFECTIVE DRAINAGE AND SEWERAGE The Poisonous Elements that Come Ont of House Pipes. TENEMENT HOUSE HORRORS. Anexamination {nto the sanitary condition of this city reveals the {mportant and startling fact that there 1g at present existing in our midst and in continual op- eration influences the most fatal to health and life and over which the health authorities of the city have no control, Itis clearly proved by an examination of the sanitary statistics relating to this subject that, notwith- Standing the yearly expenditure of large sums of money in efforts to improve the public health, there ts a largo and important class of diseases steadily on the increase, which exist and are dependent on serious defects in our sanitary system. Unfortunately for the community, what Professor Houghton, a distinguished physiologist, has aptly termed the ‘‘will of God’ theory of disease Is too often accepted by the majority of people as a suM- cient explanation of the unhealthy condition of the city, Butan investigation into the factsof the case Proves beyond question or doubt that the epidemics of Jate years are, and that the constant high death rate is, dependent, tom very great extent, on the absence of proper drainage in the upper portion of the city, grave defects in our entire system of street and house sewer- age and the shocking sanitary condition resulting from overcrowding the dwellings of the poorer classes of our community, * i TIDAL LANDS. Occupying an extensive portion of the upper part of the city are extensive tracts of marsh and overflowed lands, constantly developing and sending forth mala- rial poison, polluting the alr we breathe and spreading disease and death among the residents of the affected district. The question as to the exact naturo of this poison has been tho subject of a great deal of investi- gation, and, although there at present oxists consider: Die difference of opinion on the subject, the fact that this poison is endemic, locally atmospheric and de- pendent on vegetable decomposition, 1s placed boyond doubt. The minute bodies developed by the decompo- sition of organic matter are diffused through the at- mosphere by evaporation from the surface of the land. Carried on the winds to every quarter, these particles are again deposited on the earth’s surface by the forma- tion of dew and the falling ofrain. Although the pres- ence of swamp or undrained lands is not necessary for the production of malarial poison, still in all countries these lands are the most fruitful source of this enemy to human life, The attention of the health authoritics has been repeatedly directed for the past few years to the injurious effects exercised by these tidal lands on the health of the city; but as yet no plan has been settled on or action taken that will reliove the public from this ever-present and active source of di: ease; although the health officials frankly admit that as long as these lands remain in their present condi- tion the sanitary condition of a considerable portion of the city will remain at its usaal low state. The present attempt to fill in certain portions of this district has proved decidedly unsatisfactory, as the do- “positing of filling largely composed of organic matter» on soil saturated with water is but making, upon the most improved principles, additional sources of con- tagion and disease. To secure the proper and complete reclamation of this marsh area it is necessary that the land should be protected from the action of the water by the construc- tion of dykes and the carrying out of a proper system of drainage deep enough to relieve the springs and watercourses that intersect the land. By the adoption of this plan the large quantity of water with which the entire section is saturated is removed, It facilitates the carrying out of a more perfect and thorough sys- tem of drainage, preventing in the future any great accumulation of wateg and saturation of the soil. This once accomplished, the ing of the land by means of filling ean be carried out with far LES8 DAMAGE TO THR PUBLIC HRALTH, The importance of this subject was fully and fatally illustrated during the epidemic of cerebro-spinal meningitis during 1872 In the early months of the epidemic, and before the disease spread to the densely populated portions of the city, it was found that in the majority of instances the affection generally followed the course of the old watercourses and jines of soil saturation that had long before been filled in and for- gotten, clearly showing that the filling up of natural springs and watercourses, without providing proper sewerage for tho relief of after accumulation of water, 1s dangerous to public heaith and is bad sanitary en} neering. The importance of this question of drainage in the apper portion of the city cannot be over- estimated, as it not alone influences the general health of the city, but also affects the future of that particular portion of New Y« ‘The proper drainage of the ex- tensive area of vacant lots, forming Jarge, stagnant ponds, filled with every variety of refuse matter, is = sanitary consideration of the first importance. ‘This work should be rapidly pushed forward during the winter months, as it is only during this season that drainage can be safely carried on witheut any danger to the public health, In considering the improvements necessary to placing — the upper portion of New York in a proper sanitary condit in importamt question presents it- self for consideration—natmely, the presont condition of the Harlem Kiver and Spuyten Duyvil Creek, This waterway, connecting the Hudson River with Long Island Sound, 1s rapidly filling up except in the chan- nel, where the water is of sufficient depth to keep tho bed clear. During the low stages of the tide a consid- erable extent of its bed 18 exposed to the heat of the sun and the action of the atmosphere, which draw out | of the rank weedggrowth and muda great deal of | malarial poison, THe improvement of this watercourse | is of very great importance and can best be accom- | plished by the dredging and deepening of the channel | and the construction of such dykes as may be neces { i 4, ry to preveht the flow of water on the low lands along the course of the river, In this way may be obtained airee and unobstructed flow of water from the Hud- son River to the Sound, and a good deal of now wasto | but valuable land secured for cultivation. The changes | and improvements necessary to bring this portion of New York to @ healthful condition are nunerou d | unless they are carried out ina radical mant | section will continne to prove ax | DANGEROUS TO THE SANITARY CONDITION OF THE CITY im the future as it has been during the past, The yearly | work of draining and clearing a few vacant lots and-the Ailing of a small portion of swamp ts not suflicient, and | exerts buta small beneficial influence on the public | health The next question t! jon ng influencing th AL presents itself for oxamina- sanitary condition of the eity is nthe most superficial study of our present system of gireet and house drainage will convince the most unobserving that the present de- fective sewerage system im this city is a cause ot epi- demic disease. This ly to be noticed in the ver portions of Uh nd particularly in dis- ts bordering ov the river fronts, where, owing to se locations being in many cases tnade ground and consequently but little above the level of the water, | high Udes frequently force the sewer contents back | Uhrough the streets, Hooding cellars and causing a vast | atnount of misery and disease. Another trouble with | our * present system of sewerage ts the constant | deposit of sewage almost the entire water } from Of the This great source of | danger to health caused by the running | of sewers between bulkheads and under piers where there i8 not sufficient action of the fr to wash away | their deposits. That the present system of sewerage 18 | incomplete and insufficient for the thorough drainage | of the low ortion of the city ne one Who has exain- | ined the subject will deny, and it 1s only by the adoption. | of a new plan of drainage and the.construction of sewers f suiticient capacity to admit of easy cleansing and ventilation that We can expect to remedy this great contagion and disease, The poisonous ex va, dependent on and caused by the | want of proper ventilation of house sewers and soil Pipes, are important in ing the on of | diseare, occasioning, as (hey undoubtedly do, a consid- rable amount of the malignant forma of ievers, In ny instances the fatal vieitanions of disease that this y has suifered trom within the past few years can be tly traced to thie Morris, of the Board th, Ina Feport « Joule of spotted fever the origin of the disease depended toa very great extent on the gaseous ormanations of imal and vegetable decomposition passing trom de ¢ sewers into the dwellings connected therewith, tind has become convinced position Links a gaseous por whose direct effect on the human system Is typhoidal, How many centuries have elapsed to bring this convietion? It may take as ny more to con } vince doubttol minds of the truth of the present ob servations, «Closely connected with and dependent on our plan of street sewerage is another important source of dis- wase—the faulty construction and impertect plan of HOUSK DRAINAGR | | that of sewerage. | n sewage and inthiscnty, Though many important and beneficial changes have been made during the past few years in a bumber of the better cinss of residences, still the con. | dition of the vast majority of dwellings, particularly those occupied by the poorer people, is sadly in need | son, or Thomassen, as he 16 SE See A EE of Kvoian | reform. Tho attention of the Health De- rtment has been frequently directed to this subject, @ few years ago the jaws against improper and de- fective hoase drat and other sanitary imperfectiona im the construction of dwellings were rigorously en- forced. Mut during little or nothing has been beyond reporting th stency dine JNrious effects of this great source of epidem: On prinolpal sources of this troub materials and workmanship employed and th disregard of providing proper ventilation and means of carrying off the accumulation of poisonous gases. Tho use of coment for the closure of joints in the construction of soil and wasto pipes in our dwell- ings Is decidedly objectionable, for, in nearly every case whero this material is used, we flod that after thu l\ps¢ of a short time the cement plugging loosens and gradually drops away, permitting the free escape of sower gas and other poisonous elements fatal to health and life. Im all cases pipes constructed for the reception and carrying off of sewage should bo thoroughly calked with lead, this material forming @ close and permanent joint, preventing the escape ot any foul odors, The use of cement in the joints of the connecting drain betwoen the houses and street sewer is also decidedly objectionable for the foregoing reasons, ‘The construction of proper water traps and providing for free ventilation by carrying the soll pipe in every case above the level of the house top are the principal means to be adopted in order to secure freedom from the poisonous effects of sewer gas and remove this fruitful source of contagion and disease. Our high death rate and dangerous sanitary condition is to @ ent extent due to serious defects in this system of jouse and street drainage, permitting, as it certainly in s considerablo portion of the more densely districts of the city, the saturation of soil and the pollution of the atmosphere with one of the most dangerous poisons to human life. The importance of this subject cannot be overestimated. The Board of Health should thoroughly investigate it and Teport the condition of every street sewer and house drain in the city, and then demand ample power and ancans to correct and remove this creat source of disease and death, OF TH THREE PRINCIPAL SOURCES OF EPIDRMIC disease and danger to our public health two have been oxamined—first, the eflects of the large arca of tidal lands, sunken and undrained lots, in the upper portion of the island on the sanitary condition of the eity, and the necessary measures of reliof; second, the exten- sive influence exerted by our present imperfect system of street and house sewerage as a cause of the worst forms of contagious and malignant disease, and the alterations and improvements necessary for a complete and permanent removal of this source of danger to human bealth. It but now remains to briefly consider the present wretched sanitary condition and the con- stant overcrowding of the dwellings occupied by the poorer classes of our community as a cause of sick. ness and disease; in other words, the TENEMENT HOUSE PROBLEM. Tho proper remedies for this great evil 1s @ serious puzzle to our best sanitarians. Kingsley’s description of the pooror quarters of London in 1666 may, with a little modification, be applied to certain portions of New York in 1876:— T tnrned Into an alley ‘neath the wall, Aad stepped from earth to hell. The ‘en, The common wir, way narrow, gross and dim. The tiles did drop from the eaves nhinged doors Tottered o'er inky pools, where reeked aud curled The offal of n life. Shrill mothers cursed; wan children wailed; sharp coughs Rang through the crazy chambers; hungry eyes Glared dim reproach, The moral and physical evils resulting from the wretched condition of the dwellings of our poor are deserving of the gravest consideration. In a large number of cases the miserable state of these habita- tions 1s due to the greed and rapacity of the owners, Any repairs that are not absolutely necessary to pre- vent the total ruin of the building ure entirely neg- lected, The observations contained in a report of the Central Board of Health of Belgium on this question may well be applied to thie city:—‘In these wretcbed habitations every repair necessary to the health and comfort of the tenant is totally disregarded. What ia the use of cleaning the walls for people whose habita are filthy? Why make windows for the entrance of air and light or repair a sewer or cleanse an alley cov- cred with stagnant water for people who are acc tomed to pestilential smells? It is what a proprietor can never understand,”” This is undoubtedly tke gen- eral view taken by the owners of tenement houses in this city and their principal argument in defence of their criminal noglect; and it isa discredit to the of- Acials charged with the care of our public health that many of these tenement owners, who outrage every genso of-decency and humanity, are not made to answer fer their disregard of human health and life. ‘This subject is one in which every resident of the city is deepiy interested. i Some beneficial changes have been accomplished by the Health Departinent, but still much more needs to be done. Acclose and severe application of our sani- tary laws to this question 1s absolutely necessary, Am- ple power has been placed in the hands of our health officials to remedy to a very great extent this evil, Ia an interview with Drs, Harris and Janes, of the Health Department, these gentlemen frankly admitted the great necessity for reform in relation to this subject, but stated that, although the Health Board, acting un- der the sanitary code, had full power to materially Jessen this cause of disease, still, owing to the want of necessary funds, no general action could be taken in the matter beyond abating the nutsances reported to the Board, as contractors and workmen wero un- willing to perform labor and have to look to the owners of the property {iproved for payment. The over- crowding of these wretched abodes of the poor is un- doubtedly one of the principal sources of malignant and contagious discase in this city, and it is a well recog- nized fact that this condition, associated with defec. tive ventilation, is a most fruitful cause of typhoidal disease, and that the great mortality among young children can be directly traced to this agency, THE DYNAMITE PLOT. THOMASSEN NOT A BLOCKADE RUNNER DURING THE WAR. The revelation of tho man calling himself William Henry Thompson, who committed suicide at Bremer- haven after the failure of his plot to blow up the steam, ship Mosel in mid ocean, and his statoment that he had been a blockade runner during the late warin America, has aroused the curiosity of captains and shipowners formerly engaged in business with the people of the Confederate States, They have been anxiously comparing notes to ascer. tain who Thompson was, and to learn his history, Yesterday a HxRawp reporter met one of the most in- trepid captains of the blockade running fleot, Captain Frank M, Harris, well known as the commander of seven veasels engaged in that service, a Southerner by birth; and well posted in the secret service of the Con- federacy. In conversation with the reporter he said;—“I have been trying ever since I read the first report in the Heraup about this man Thompson to locate him, I was talking with Charley Owens about him yesterday, and I can’t for the lite of me remember any such man. Now let me think over this thing.” The Captain settled into a brown study, half closed his eyes as if turning them inward on himself, and went over the list of officers of the blockade runners, giving anhegative shake of the head as he completed each rank, ‘Captain?’ “First officer?” _‘‘Second officer ?”! “No, he could not have been one of them, 1 saw every engineer that ever ran a vessel into the Atlantic coast ports of the Contederacy during the war, and no such man, nor any man of that name was known to me, He could not have been a pilot, for I knew every pilot be+ tween the Rio Grande aud Cape May. There is one thing I am sure of, he never commanded the steamer Old Dominion, for she was not built until after the war, Rerorrer—Captain Frank, do you remember a ves sel that was used durmg the blockade that went by the name of Dominion, or Uld Dominion, a small or large vessel of any class? Captain Hannis—No, sir; we never had any vessel of that name in our service—certainty no captain of the name given by the Bremerhaven scoundrel. I wist you would fully investigate the matter; I will gi a all assistance in my power to find out who he was, for he claims to be a Southerner, and it would be a stain on our honor to have had among us, in any capacity, a man who would attempt what he did, I think tho description is erroneous, else the man was insane, There was a man who dressed as a French woman and captured a vessel m Chesapeake Bay during the first years of the war; but his beard and hair ‘were not red, and he did not weigh over 160 pounds. ‘There was another man with us, whose description approaches the one given, but he if now a vice or rear admiral in the Egyptian Navy. If the man Thompson had been in our service and had lived in Europe during the last ten years he would have been known by our friends there, for you are awaft that Americans in Lurope are clannish, cannot imagine who he was. Could {t have been possible Wat he was a land blockade runner? That is, carrying goods across the army lines, He never would have made money enough that way to live ten years in Gor. many and support a family. I think the story is an- true, because | know every man who made and lost large sums of money in the blockade business, and none of them answer to the description given of Thomp- lied. L will endeavor ta learn what our friends know of him, and will tell yu He might have been connected with Mexican affairs ov with the Hall, England, branch, buat tr on not, My impression 18 that he was insane,”” The reporter then called upon Mr. Black, of Williams & Black, cotton merchants, and asked if he knew any- thing of the mysterions Thompson. Mr. Biack—I cannot remember any such man, It bas been a frequent topic of conversation hero since the Heranp published the report, but none of us can place him, 1 was at Bermuda during the war, and, with others, knew almost every one engaged in the Wlockade ad ; but Lam of the same opinion ag plain Harris; the man Th the blockade onthe Avant sane. He inay bave given a false ‘ scription does uot bring to mind any one that T know, Several other gentlemen who were familiar with the parties engaged in blockade ronning during the wat were called upon, but the visits failed to elicit anything definite as to the identity of the dynamite fend, WHAT THE WIND DID. light of h Yesterday afternoon, during the very heavy wind, the two large trusses placed in position on Saturday te support tho roof of the new synagogue, Beth Elohein, p street, near Division Brooklyn, war blown down. No injury was done to the walls of the y structure, but the trusses broke and carried before them into the cellar very many of the crnssbeamm The damage will provably reach $1,000,