The New York Herald Newspaper, December 25, 1875, Page 8

6 “THE COURTS. The Great Railroad Bond Forgeries Suit Drawing to a Close. DISCOMPITING CHRISTHAS EVE FOR THE JURY, One of the Penalties of Confidence | in Comptroller Green. Heavy Verdict Against a Firm of | Birmingham, England. Holders of railroad bonds and negotiators in this lass of securities wore a general lovk of constornation when the announcement was made, exclusively in the HeRALD, that most skilfully executed forgeries of bonds of the New York Central, Buffalo, New York and | Erie, and Central Ra:iroad of New Jorsey, and Western | Union aud other companies bad been put into large and active circulation, It is unnecessary story reciting the facis | to republish the jong as thus given. It required the most vigilant researches of official and skilled detectives to trace these forgeries to their guilty authors. When theclew ‘was once obtained it was followed up with the moat Uanyielding pertiuacity. Arrest succeeded arrest im rapid succession, At length a charge of complicity im | ‘preparing and uttering some of the forged bonds was preferred against Charles Ralston, Andrew L. Roberts, | Lydia J. Roverts, Charles J. Williamson, Valentine Gleason, Gotlieb Engels, Horaco $, Coup and | ‘Amelia «3. Gleason. Taking the lead in| the civil prosecution was the National Trust Company. | Tho tral of this case, which occupied most of the last | April term, before Judge pwick, of the Superior Court, resulted in a verdict of ,000 in favor of tho plantif—s, |ollowmg on the heels of this verdict was | the sult of the New York Guaranty and Largs | | Company, which was brought to recover $75,000 ad. | ‘vanced on $104,000 of first mortgage bonds of | the New York and frie Railroad. Tho | began three weeks ago | in the same court, before Judge Spier, An array of prominent counsel appeared on both sides, | Mr, Wiliam Wirt Hewitt, who was leading counsel! for | tho prosecution in the previous suit, being also the | Teading counse! for tho plaintiff in (his sult, and thoro | ‘Doing associated with him Messrs, Algorpon 8. Sulitvan | ‘and Richard ©. Ulliott, while the defendant was | wreprosented Dy Mr. Ira Shafer and ex-Assistant United ‘States District Attorney A. H. Purdy. - A brilliant and Yorcible opening of the case was made by Mr. Hewitt, sult 1 | “and an cquaily creditable oponing was made for | Nhe defence by Mr. Purdy. It has been | Ahroughout a clocely contested trial, and tho ‘attendance from day to day has been very large, com- | rimg many of our !eading bankers, brokers and other | ainess men, who are paturally greatly interested in | the result, Thore have been eighty-eight witnesses | examined altogether, of which number fifty-two were | called for the plainuifs aud the remainder for the de- fence. Some of the witnesses were graduates of Sing Bing and osher pena! institutions, aad their testimony, | sa may be supposed, Was not very friendly to the piain’ | At length the examination of witnesses closed on | Thursday morning, after which snecoeded the summing up of the caso, ME Shafer made a very brilitant argu- | ‘ment, occupying sewers! Lc urs. He was followed by | Mr, Ballivab, who, after speaking two hours on Thurs- day, occupied tili one P, M. yesterday in the continu tion of his argument. The leading charge was that of ‘@ conspiracy between the defrndants. In hia address ‘Mr. Shafer vore down heavily on the Pinkertous, In response Mir. Suliivan felerred to George H. | Bangs, Gencra) Super.ntendent of the Pinker- tons, as the companion of General MoClellan while in cominana of the Army of the Potomac and ro- cited in rebuttal bis ofttcicnt services as chiet of the Se cret Service Bureau. He aise referred to Allan Pinker- ton as the ehiol of detectives who accompanied Prest- | deut Limcoln to Washington during the stormiest period of the rebellion. These points, of course, were only Meldental, bur the argument of both counsel broadly Covered the cround of their respective sides. The | charge of Judge Speir was brief, vecupying but somo thirty minutes, Dut it was clear, comprehensive and | most strictly impartial. The jury went out at half. | Past one P. They were sent tor at half-past five, aud | on being 4 to whether they had agreed | the foreman rose and answered in the negative. Judge Speir (with severity}—I shall have to send you | back. After the expenditure of time and money in the trial of this caee—after spending three weeks uba trial * thore shouk! De some definite resalt. | Tho Foreman (deprecatingly)—We positively could Bot agree if we were out ior days, We stand 10 to | 2; ton for. | ‘Sugge Speir—I don’t want to Bear that You must | retire, and \f you agree give a sealed verdict. Tho Court was then adjourned to eleven A. M. to~ day, and the jury dolefally departed with the progpect | before then: Of spending anything but a merry Christ mAs, RENT OF A DISTRICT COURT HQUSE. Mr. Owen W. Brennan leased to the city a portion of | No. 514 Pearl street forthe Second District Cirenit | Court. Some difficulty arose about the payment of the rent, and the result was a suit brought to compel such payment, which resulted in a verdict in Mr. Bren- | nan's favor. After the rendition of this judgment Mr. | John E Develin, counsel for Mr. Brennen, in order to | avoid further litigation and to secure prompt payment | of the rent in future, made an arrangement with Comp- | troller Groon in whith the latter agreed, in considera- | tion of the rent being luced, to the rent. i ly thereafter, and in default of su payment | city would pay the full amount of rent under | the origina! lease from the date of the agreement. | der thie stipulation the rent was promptly paid up Ist of jiaet May, aftor which time Comptroller Green refused to make any further paymonts. Another | suit was thereupen brought against the city by Mr. | ‘Breunan to recover $5,750, the difference due under | the agreement. The case came up for a hearing yos- | terday before Judge Lawrence, holding Supremo Court, | Circuit, on the question whether the city could putin | a new defence and counter claim. Mr. J. E. Deveitn, fer iff, stated the facts given above. General Barlow, the defence, gtated that though the Comptroller ied the lease, by «direction of the Common Council, | it was never thoroughly executed, because it was not aigned by the Cierk of the Common Council and the | city seal was not affixed. The other defences were that there was no appropriation at the time of the lease, that though the case was executed in the name of one | MacAdam, piaini? was the owner and was all tho | time @ commrseioner of charities; that be mado a | Wease to MacAdam to avoid the provisions of tho | charter; thai MacAdam assigned it back to him and had no Materost in it; and that it was really a loase by | Brennan, who was incapable of contracting. This last defonce was the new one. Thecity sets up a counter Heging fraud tn the lease, and that the rent was The premises over the store were leased 400, and the second year the base- | y bad no use for, was added and | the rent raised to $7,500, or $400 year for the base- | Ment, On these grounds the city required leave to put in the new defence and make ciaim for the recovery of the amount paid by the city. Mr. Develin strenuously combated these various points, and at the close of the argument Judge Lawrence took the papers. IMPORTANT NOTE CASE. In the Supreme Court, Circutt, before Judgo Van Vorst, Messrs. Henry Nathan & C of Birmingham, England, obtained a verdict against the firm of Ivoctm felder & Co. for $25,875, upon @ promissory uote for | $25,000, made by the latter rm and held by piaintitfs at the time of the trial. The defence set up that the | Rote was accommodation paper, aa between the payee and the makers, and that the note had been diverted by the payee from the purpose for which it was aliegod to | have been given, which was, that it should be deposited | aa socurity for & loan to the payee, and that it was ro. | eetvod by plaintifis for no value after such diversion and with notice of 1, The question came up whether y ment, whi the plaintife were not nd to ve, affirma- tively, that they took the now” before ma. | turity and withont notice of the all specific purpore for whieh the note Court, afer argument, held that the entitied to be considered bond Ade by before maturity, and that the facts stated in the answer did mot constitntc such diversion as called on the plaintills to prove that they took it, without notice of | existing equities, and that unless the defendante could | offer proof to rebut the presampuion 1m favor of plaintiffs’ ownership, the plaintiffs would be entitled to a verdict. No proof Being offered, the Judy directed a vordiet for | plaiatita for @snm stated, Mesera G. A. Seixas and homas Alison appeared for plaintiffs, and Charles EB. Soule, W. B, Putney and Henry &. Clinton tor de- fondants, DECISIONS. SUPREME COURT—CHAMBERS, By Judge Brady. Haskell vs. Haskel).—Report of re‘eree confirmed. | Decree of divorce granied to plaintiff. | mn ve The ‘or, &c.—Order entered by | pon examination of this I am | of the opinion that there \s doubt of the defendant’s in- debtedness to the pisinti?. The case ts not o# con- clusive on that sunjeot as it ought tobe. The doubt existing, the defendant is entitled to the benefit of it and be i. Tho order will be granted, | without costs, and On the defendant stipulating not to sue. SUPREME COUBRT—SPECIAL TERM, By Jadge Van Vorst. Die Deutsie, &o., v8 The Mayor, &c,—Findings wettiod. ‘Townshend vs, Townshend,—Fiadings and decree Van Brant. By Judy Spgara cf al, ys Fig igen So. — Gage gettigs. ‘ ter appeared for the government and ex-Judge Ditten- ; anusual, | ployers. Mor; Sook, of No. NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, DEUKMBER 25, 1875.-WITH SUPPLEMENT: sk ala diabetes Q@VPERIOR COURT—SPECLAL TERM, ‘thea domanded monoy beck. Roach bim $10 udge f fase by oe ‘the tefeuda cto the balance ’ sfendant to pay over tadings settled, to the iat, which was done, and tbe complain. SUMMARY OF LAW CASES. Judge Dopohue announced yesterday that he would endeavor om Wednesday next to give his decision on the motion to forfeit the ballin the criminal indict ments against William M. Tweed. Jobn Kimmtiter, proprietor of the Lyon saloon, was enjoined yesterday by Judge Brady, holding Supreme Court, Chambers, from giving any further theatrical performance util he pays his liceuse. On behalf of the American Grocer Publishing Asso- ciation appheation was made yesterday to Judge Brady, ia Supreme Court, Chambers, to enjoin the Grocer Pub ishing Company from publishing the pxpor known a8 | The Grocer, A temporary injunc! was granted, with | the usual order to show cause why it should not be made permanent, | Tn the Ui States Cireuit Court, criminal branch, William J. Kelley, one of the carriers in the General Post Office Department, pleaded guilty to the indic ment charging him with appropriating the contents of a letter intrusted to him to dehver, and was remanded | by Judge Benedict for sentence, | | ‘The schoolship Mercury was placed on the dock of the New York Dock Company fer repairs, @uit | was brought against the city and tue Commissioners of | Charities and Correction tor payment of the bHL Judge | Larremore, before whom the suit was brought yester- | day for trial, decided that the Maximilian case did not | apply; and be held, further, that if the city was not huble ‘the Commissioners of Charities and Correction | were. He directed Frm acer oe ae Platotitt for | 77% 42, the full amount cuimed, with interest, *obbel J. Farrell, manager of the City Record, brought suit against the city for his salary, which was tried yesterday before the Judge in Supremo | Court, Cirewt The only defence was that no proper | demand hai been made for the salary on Comptroller | Green. Judge Donohue ruled that the presentinent of | the payroll with bis name upon it wos sufficient, aud directed a verdict Jor the full amount claimed, A r curious case was tried yesterday before Judge Donobue, in Supreme Court, Cirenit. Elker Hyman charged Stmon Abraham with buying good: of him, reprosenting that ho was 8. L. Goldberg, note: being given ia the name of Goldberg for the amount of | tho bill defence was that Goldberg was dead, but the plaintiffiully identilied Abraham, as weli as did | other witné ‘as the mau who bongbt the goods, | The case was! y contested, Messrs. gies appearing for the piaintiffand Mr. 6 Runkte and En- | W. Weiant | for the dete! i. It termiwatod in a verdict for the plaintiff for ‘14, being the fuilamount claimed, with | interest. Among the victims of the St. Andrew's church dis- | aster was Michael Spillane, aboy thirteen years old. Honore Corrigay, a5 administratrix, brought suit | | | | inst the ekg for $5,000 damages, Alter the opening, of tho case by Mr. William F. McNamara, the pinintift’s coupsel, motion was made by Assistant Corporation Counsels Dean avd Miller to dismiss the complaint on the pleadings. 1 was insiated for the motion that, under the Mazimiliian docision, the city could not be hold Hablo for damages; and further, that the Depart ment of Build @ 5s possesses simply goverumental func- tions, and 1s not lable for neglect to perform such {unc- 7 tions. Judge Lawrence, alter examining tho anthor- | Ues cited, granted the motion and directed a dismissal | of the compliant. i A case prosenting some rather interesting features | was concluded y before Judge Benedict, in tho Cuited States’ Circuit Court, criminal branch, This | suit was one brought by the government against Sam- | uel W. Millard, who was indicted under section 3,307 | of the United States Bovined Statutes, for having ta bis { Possession cigars on which tax bad not been paid. ho | evidence on behalf of the government consisted of tho | testimony of Ofiicers Drummond, Konnoch and Porter, of the Secret Service Bureau, who swore that Millard ad- | mitsed to them that tho cigars, though found in the room | and under the'lock and key of one Benson, were, nev- | ertheless, his, and that they were put there by’ him, The defence relied on the alleged untrustworthiness of this testimeny, and contended that it won not sup. | orted by amy corroborating circumstance. The trial | jawed four days and rosulted ina disagreement of Lhe jury. The jury stood oleyen for acquittal and ono for | conviction, the one juror who remsed to agree with | the othors alleging as his reason that the defendant had | a cigar stand in tho Grand Central Hotel, and that that | was cnoagh for him. Assisvant District Attorney Fos- hoefer and exJudgo Birdseye for the defendant. COURT OF GENERAL SESSIONS. Before Judge Sutherland, ANOTHER CLERK GONE TO STATE PRISON. | Charles Heald, kloptomaniacat clerk of Cochran, Me- Lean & Co., dry goods dealers, No. 462 Broadway, who pleaded guilty to having stolen $20,900 worth of goods from the firm throughout a period of thirty months prior to June last, wher he was arrested, was arraigned , for sentence yesterday. His counsel requested tho | Court Lo defor gontetiee until is licnt could testify In his own behalf im several suits ponding between him and his former employers. The prisoner stated that be had been induced to pioad guity by membors ot the victimized firm, whe fad promised that it he would } plead guilty they would intereedo for him to have the penalty made very light. Judge Sutherland said he | ‘outd ot permit other suits to interfere with his ad- | Miuistzation of justice, and straightway sentenced the | ‘igoner to confinement in the State Prison for th erm of two and a half years. This penalty was in- | fileted for the specie theit mentioned in the indict- | ment, which was for some $50 worth of towels, &c., which he carried away on one oocasion. AN UNFORTUNATE MAN ACQUITTED. Georgo Smith, the unfortanate young man who, una | ble to obtain employment, was driven to snatch an um- | brolla from the hands of Mrs. Jano Hall, in order that ho might be sent to jail, where he would be provided | ‘with food and shelter, and who pleaded guilty to the charge on Tuesday last, when he was remanded to , it an investigation of the case, was arraigned for sentence this morning. Mr. Sheldon, agent of the | Prison Association, stated that he had made inquiries | and fuund that the accused was an honest, industrious _ man, who bad been led to commita theft for tho rea- sons staicd. He furthor said that the association | ‘which ho represented would provide the prisoner with | the moans of gaining a livelihood if he were acquitted. ; Upon these reprosentations the Court discharged Smith, — who left the eourt with Mr. Sheldon, PLEAS AND SENTENCES. William Lang, a stone cutter, residing at No. 74! James street, was arraigned on the charge of having, | on the night of Monday last, broken Into the manu- factory of children’s shoes kept by John Cramer at No. 16 Colloge place, and stolen therefrom 100 pairs * of shoes, valacd at $80. He pleaded guilty, and was sent to State Prison for two and a half years, James McCabe broke into the liquor store of Michacy | Lynch, No. 908 Eighth avenue, on the night of the 13th | | inst ad stole therefrom the sum of thirty-five cents, | He was arraigned yosterday, and pleaded guilty. As | he ia only eighteen years old, and had never bean ar- | rested belore, the Court inflicted a very light penaity— one year in State Prison. John Stmpéon, of No, 53 Spring strect, admitted hay- ing on Taesday last stolen a horse, wagon, harness and A quantity of butter, cheese and lard, valued in ail” at $347 80, the property of Danio! Sullivan, of No. 44 Box street, Greenpoint, He, too, was sent to State Prison | for two and a half years, Mina Miller, a German servant girl, twenty-one years old, with no home, admitted having stolen a oid watch and other jewelry, valued altogether at $70, | from Mrs. Elizabeth Wintor, of No. 139 Kast Kighteenth | street, on the 25th of November, She was sent to stato | Prison for one year. ti { THE GRAND JURY. The Grand Jury made a presentment, which is elsc-" where published, and were then discharged for tho term. The petit jurors were then bighly complimented by tho Court for the intelligent and conscientious man- nor in which they had porformed their duties. The fact that not a single jury had disagreed during the past threo weeks was roferred to as something very | The Court then adjourned for the term. WASHINGTON PLACE POLICE COURT, Before Judge Duffy. BTRALING CLOTHING, | William Jobason, of Tarrytown, was held in $600 bail to answer for stealing clothing, valued at $46, from Charles Roeper, of No. #1 West Thiry-fitth stroet, EMBEZZLEMENT. Jobu Morgan, formerly aclerk in Patrick Drennan’s livery stable, No, 1,811 Broadway, was held in $200 bail to answer for embeazling $10 belonging to his em- collected the money from Renjamin West Thirty-eighth street, and failed to | make a retarn for the same. THE RXCISE LAW. The following persons were held in $100 cach for violation of the Excise law:—Miehae!| Maloney, No. 12 West Nineteenth street; Henry Clauss, No. 137 West Twenty-fourth street; Ralph Moyer, No, 240 West For. tleth street, and James Kan 0, Tenth avenue. | JUDGE DUFFY'S CHRISTMAS. A few weeks ago Peter Mullen, who resides at No. 76 Gansevoort street, was engaged to clean carpets valued ft $50,tho property of Agnos McGrath, of No, 117 West Twonty-sixth street. Complainant and prisoner were friends, but Peter explained to the Court that ho had fourteen children and hia wife and mother to support, and lately bis wifo had been confined, and he pawned the carpew# for Mrs. MoGrath sald bis statement was trie, and sho only wished to obtain her carpets, and, if possible, withdraw the charge. The Judge re: plied ina very kind tone that he was compelied to hold the pris@ner in $600 to answer, but without saying a further word he gave the complainant a ten dollar bill to hand over to the prisoner's wife. The kind action of the Judge m caring for the sick woman won the thanks Of all thOse who were near enough to witness 16, A BAD HORSE, On Wednesday Richard Roach sol a horse to Thomas Costello, of No. 8 Pearl street, for $60, which was war- ranted and soumd, Thomas had very hard work fo get the $50, and whon tt was paid thought he bad | made a good bargain. But his hopes were sadly dis- Relied when bo found bis horse would wot work, He | ingly damaging against the prisoner, | the country. | sentonced to be executed on the 10th day of December, | ant weat away bappy. POLICE COURT NOTES. Business was very dult at Essex Market yesterday there being but eighteen cases disposed of during the day. The examination iuto the Sharkey berg ead viola tion of the Exeise law. was adjourned until January 7. At the Tombs Police Court yesterday Mr. Joseph Howard, Jr., editor of the Star, was put on lis parole to answer for an afleged assault upon Mr. Jobo Franz, of No 112 West Twenty-third street, Am examination will take place on the 20sh inss, BOWEN-EAGLE LIBEL SUIT, ‘The jury in the Bowen-Baglr libel sult remained out till ten o'clock yesterday furenoon, at which time Judge Reynolds sent for them, The foreman stated that they differed greatly as to the amount of damages, and he feared that there was no prospect of their agree- ing. The Judgo, however, directed them to again ro- tire und look at tho question by daylight Shortly be- fore two o'clock they came tnto court again to ask for inatructions as to how the Court charged as to Mr. Kin- stila’s knowledge of the article going into the papot ‘The Judge intormed them “the proof is that Kinsella knew beforehand uf its being prepared. The verdict, whatever it should be, would be agaist both defond- ants." Tho jury again withdrew, and five minutes later returned a verdict of $1,000 for the plaintill, The suit was brought to recover $100,000 damages for injury sus- tamed to the charaoter of Mr, Bowen by reason of tho publication of the “Captain Kidd Salvage Company’? BROOKLYN RING SUITS. The counsel for Mr, William A, Fowler, Gommis- sioner of tho Board of City Works, yesterday served a notice of rotainer upon Attorney General Pratt, with a demand for a copy of all the papers, and General Pryor will, should the Attorney General refuse to accede to bis est for a change of vonue, move for the removal of the case to Kings county, His client is sued for an act done by bim in virtue of his ollie, in which case section 124 of the Code requires that the suit be tried im the county where the cause of action arose, which in this case is Kings county, Mr. Parsons is prepariog papers in the Bridge caso, which will be served alter Junuary 1. The counsel rotained for the other defendants in the Hempstead reservoir and Third avenue sewer suits aro Generals Tracy and Catlin, Hon. Joshua Van Cott and Hon. D, P. Barnard, INNOCENCE BETRAYED, AN EXCITING CASE BEFORE THE BUNTERDON COUNTY COURT—A YOUNG MAN CONVICTED OF INDECENT ASSAULT. Prema ton, N. J., Dec, 24, 1875. For the past three days the Hunterdon County Court of Oyer and Terminor, in session in this town, has been occupied with a case of much sensational interost, in which the State was set down as prosecutor and a young man of twenty-seven summors, named Charles Hop®well, was the defendant. The Grand Jary bad found an indtclment contaming three counts against Hope- well, one for assault with intent to commit an outrage on a girl named Kate Fowler, only fourteen years of age; the second for an indecent assault, and the third for a cominon assault on tho same porson, Mias Fowler is a very fascinating young lady, rather full grown for her years, and she belongs to a family | of high respectability and influence in Hunterdon covuty, and an uncle of hers isa prominent lawyer living in Flemington, Mr. Hopewell is tho son of a very wealthy gentleman, who is widely known for his public benefactions, good-natured disposition and re- fined qualities, Both families are numbered among the “upper ten’! in Hunterdon county, dal which has just cast a gloom ovor their thresholds has created a good deal of gossip, comment and criti- cism in consequence. Chiof Juatice Beasley presided at the trial, and. tho State was represented by Prosecutor Chamberlin, ex- United States Sonator Jobn P. Stockton, W. Y. John- gon and Mr, Allen, The defence was conduofed by ex- Chancellor Williamson and Mossrs. Voorhees and Bul- lock. ‘The court room was crowed to repletion every day. A large number of witnesses was examined for tho State, and their testimony throughout waa execed- The greater por- tion of is was unit for publication. The following is the story of the affair as condensed from the evi- dence On the 11th of August last Hopewell induced Miss | They started | from Flemington and took a circuitous route through | They stopped at several towns and , villages and visited hotels, where he tried to induce | Fowler to go ont with him in a buggy. ber to take wine and other stimulants, but she refused, Late in the afternoon they wound up at a village catled Ringolds. Here the young = signitied her desire to return home. Hopewell consented, and then commenced to dri in that tion, But im a brief space of time young lady discovered that he was her a roundabout way and toward some woods, expostalated and inquired where they were going, but ho gave an evasive answer. Soon the woods wero reached, and into the middle of them the horse was driven atarapid rate, A halt was then well thereupon put ove arm around his victim, caught her hands with the other and attompted to accomplish bis design. She screamed and struggled agoniaingly, and finally succeeded im getting loose from the grip of ber betrayer. Iu doing so she fell between the wileeis of the vehicle, and, recovering hersolf im- mediatoly, she commenced to’ run, He followed her and threw her down, put his hand on her mouth and renowed his vile purpose, She screamed ond struggled so hard again that she attracted the attention of a | farmer named Conover, who was fortunately close | by. Hopewell, becoming scared, relinquished the further prosecution of his design and ran back to the buggy. He jumped aboard and up to where the struggle took _ place, and, strango to say, prevailed on Miss Fowler to get into the vehicle ngun. Her clothing was torn, her hair dishevelted, and, as the man Conover stated on the witness stand, ‘She looked like a maniac.” Conover identified the party, and, going to (he scene of the outrage, picked up silver comb and a bow bolong- ing to the victim. lopewell drove to a village called Raiville, where he took Miss Fowler into a hotel to renovate her appearance. She asked him why he attempted the outrage, and he replicd that a woman bad told him to do it, and he implored he@g not to tell bis relatives or the -young lady he was engaged to, She balf consented; but, as the sequel shows, she has given a wide publicity to it in a court of Justice. + The jury, alter a brief deliberation, returned a vor- dict of guilly on the second count, charging an inde- cent assault, Sentence deferrod. STAUDERMANN’S CHRISTMAS GIFT. FORMAL COMMUTATION OF THE DEATH SENTENCE BY GOVERNOR TILDEN. Yestorday morning Sherif Conner received from Governor Tilden the following official communication r derer of Mis Seidenwald:— Tuk Peorix ov Tux Statx or New Yous ro Aut Waow | Tikes Presents MAY, Cows -~ Whereas at a court “held ia and for the county of New York in tho month of October, 1875, Jacob Stan- dormann was convicted of murder and was thereupon 5, and respited to December 31, 1875, and ay tion’ having been made to us to commute the punish- ment of tho sald Jacob Standermann to imprisonment in the Stato Prison for lie; therofore, know ye that wo have commuted, and by presents do commute, | the punisbment of the suid Jacob Staudormann to tm- | prisoument in the Stato Prison at Sing Sing, in the county of Westchester, at hard labor, during liis basural life. And the Sherif of tho county of New York ts hereby commanded and directed to deliver the satd Jacob Staudermann to the keepor of the said prison without delay, and the said keeper is hereby con manded and directed to reeeive the said Jacob Stauder- mang and to keep him imprisoned at hard labor during his natural life, In testimony whereof wo have caused these our lot- ters to be made patent and the groat seal of our sald State to be hereunto affixed. Witness—Samuel J, Tilden, Governor of our said State, at our city of Albany, the twentieth day of De: comber, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, SAMUEL, J. TILDED Passed tho Secretary's Office 2ist day of December, 1875—-Diennica WilLens, Jr., Seoretary ot Stato, BANDED FOR CRIME. A DEN OF LONG ISLAND PLUNDERERS DIS- COVERED. A fortunate arrest of Charles E. Payne, at Eastville, near Sag Harbor, L. I., on suspicion of belug ongaged in the robvery and burning of James M. Halsey’s store, | at Bridgebampton, has led to the breaking up of a regular den of thieves, who have for some time past been committing depredations in the surrounding country, Payne was associated with John and William B, Downs, who kept a horse and wagon and a large sailboat for their trips by land"end water. The dis- covery was made by accident A person passing the Downs’ house at Eastvillo heard cries of assistance, and on entering found one of the brothers beating Payne. Seeing many things lying about the room which looked suspicious he" slipped a bottle of cologae into his pocket, and when it was shown to Mr. Halsey ho identified it as his property, it stil having the store marks upon it A search warrant was them pro- cared, Payne was found drank in the house and ar- rested, and many articles from tho’ burned store and | others recently plunderea were discovered, Many of the articles were found buried in the sand under the houso, and tho altic was well stocked with dressed poultry and five quarters of mutton. While the search ‘was in progress, jst at dusk, the two brothers Downs drove up in their wagon, but’ discovering that some- thing was wrong, they turned and drove away rapidly. iraugely enoug' Ry da Gas was present, |, beoat ed to pursu 9 had no warrant for their arfeat; and they have eluded arrest up to the feed time, notwithstanding that diligent bh has on “hu for them, and they bave several times been drove | Mr. | ative to Jacob Siauacrmann, the alleged ingaue mur- | VESUVIUS. FIRST SYMPTOMS OF THE PRESENT VOICANIC ERUPTION—THE NUMBER OF COMMOTIONS OF THE BURNING MOUNTAIN—THE ‘‘SEISMOGRAPH, OR BARTHQUAKE WRITER.” {Naples (Noy, 27) correspondence of the American (Paris) Registor.} Probaby before this letter revches the Register you will have already inserted in your columns the no- tico from Professor Palmieri, who watches high up in the observatory on the slopes of Vesuviua, that the old volcano is showing signs of an eruption, The daily Pungolo of Naples ia the ordinary medium of the Pro- fossor’s announcements of the threatening of the his- toric (and, for all that, prehistoric) fire mountain that rears its graceful form above the Bay of Naples Before the Bourbon régime had ceased observations were es- tablished in tho meteorological observatory referred to, with the end in view of recording the phenomena con- nocted with Vesuvius, and, if possib'e, to give warning of approaching eruptions, This has been partially suc- cessful, for that most frequently recurring phenomenon in connection with voleanocs—the earthquake—is immediately detected by an instrument called THE SKISMOGRAPH (earthquake writer); the shghtest shock is readily in- dicated by the sensitive mechanism, This instrument is the invention of Palmier!, who isa professor in the University of Naples, and one of the most eminent physicists living, No proper description could be given without ongravings of the seismograph, by which the Professor fools tho pulsations of earthquakes; but Robert Mallet, the first authority on earthquakes and volcanoes, states the general principle to be one “in which wave movements are indicated by the displaco- ment, relative or absolute, of columns of moveury in glass tubes, It Is a self-recording instrument, composed of two distinet portions—one for record of horizontal, or rather what are called undulatory shocks; the other for vertical shocke.’” Now, while the seismograph has been most successful in’ recording the carthquake movements, as a foreteller of eruptions it cannot be Said to be porfeculy rhiable when taken alone; but if its recordings are taken m conjunction with careful ob- servations of the igneous and othor indications of Vo- suyius an oruption can pretty surely be foretold, Such ‘a conjunction has just occurred, which has caused the communication to the Pungolo, 'and-we learn from Pro- fessor Palmieri that Vesuvius gives unmistakable symp- toms of an approaching eruption, THR CRATER formod by tho terrible erupticm of 1872 has been falling in on the sontheast, or, to use tho exact language of the Professor, has been **hecoming bottomless, With em nations of black smoke, The instruments at the ob- servatory arc slightly agitated, There 18 “no telling when igueous results will follow these indications, But in the month of December, 1894, a similar phenomenon manifosted itself in the crater, and the occentric crup- tion, with copious floods of lava, took piace in May, 1855."" THE PROFESSOR DOES NOT PREDICT with absolute certainty when the next eruption will take place, Indeed, he cannot, for we must romember that Monte Nuovo, in the sixteenth century, was thrown up between 'Pozzuolo (Putcoli) and Baia ina single night; and, as Mallet has weil observed, ‘a small fusilade may go oa for months, and yet, without an hour's notice by any premonitory sigh, may wakon up with a roar, and darken the air with ashes and lapilli, such as those which overwhelmed Pompeii, One eru tion may blow forth little but dust and ashes (#o-called), | and another may pour out rivers of lava and little clse.? THE ERUPTION OF 1850 took place in February of that year, whon I happened to bo travelling in Southern Italy. { was just finishing my student days, and my mind was very open to im- | prossi¢..s, Since the. 0 I have gazed not only upon | Strombdii and Etna, but upon tbe lottiest volcanoes of | South America; but for tho display of awful powor—of | awful sublimity and grandeur—no after scene im- | pressed mo more solemniy and deeply than this erup- tion of Mount Vesuvius, when the mountain, ceasing | to cject volcanic matter from its ordinary channol, opened far beiow two new craters on the very sido— the southeastern—which is now. giving threatening Indications, The new crater in 1850 shot forth threo | streams of lava. ‘lhe most considerable was that which took tho direction of Bosco Reale, a village just above mpet. Indeed, the laya, if it had flowed a little more pana milo further, would havo utterly destroyed what the aghas left of Pompeli 1,800 years ago. stream, in rushing toward the village of Bosco Reale, marched through a wood of oak, tlex and ash, As it enclosed tho trees the heat engendered steam tn the cavities of the roots and trunks, the loud detonations lowed formed a pyrotechnic display of the most bril- lant character, ‘THE NUMBER OF RECORDED ERUPTIONS from the first century to the seventeenth ins inetoen, a little more than the average of ove per cen- tury. twenty-three, one on the average of about four and a halt y Up to che present time in this century | there have odcurred twonty-fivo eruptions or an aver- | age of one in every threo years, As tho last took place in Apri, 1872, we may confidently soon look for another, | | | | | BOARD OF | \ | | POLICE. In the meoting of the Board yesterday tho answer of the Counsel to tho Board relative to the application of tho Liederkranz and the Cercle de I’Harmonie societies for permission to hold fancy dress and masked balls, the former last evening and tho lattor on January 20, 1876, was recoived, He says that any porson disguising himself tn any public place is by statute deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, in the opinion of the counsel, there is no discretion vested in tho Board of | Police or any other officer of the department to permit | or countenance a violation of the statute. He advised | that both of the above societies should be intormed that the police will interfere to prevent any vivlation of tho law. i The contract for furnishing illuminating gas to tho | buildings of the Police Department below Thirty-fourth | street, at $275 per 1,000 cubic feet, was awarded to | the Now York Mutual Gas Company tor the year end- ing August 1, 1876. fronorabie mention was made of Peter B. Lamb, of the Twenty-seventh precinet, for jumping overboard and rescuing Frank Appleby {rom drowning. | Patrolmen George 8. Gasskel, of the Ninth precinct, | and M. J, Flannelly, of the Seventeenth, were dis- missed. MUNICIPAL NOTES. Mayor Wickham yesterday signed the two resolutions passed on Tharsday by the Board of Aidermeu—ono permitting the sale of poultry and fruits on the side- walks during the holidays, and the other allowing strect | railroad companies to use sand on their tracks, to-day. | Roceiver of Taxes MeMabon notifies all persons having taxes to pay on their property to settle up be- fore the Ist of January, or twelve per cent interest will be added, + oflice of the Commissioner of Public Works for fur- nishing gas to the markets, police ana district couris, and other public places. The Board of Estimate and Apportionment is compelled under the Jaw to fix tho budget for 1876 be- fore the lst of January next, But ono week now re- mains for discharging this duty, Several executive sessions of tie Board have been held during the past | two weeks, and®it is probable that whon the regular mecting takes place on Tuesday next the business will bo finally wound up for the your. Mayor Wickbam was questioned yesterday relative | tothe rumors as to a positive determination on the part ot Governor Tilden to remove the Fire and Police Commissioners before the 1st of Junuary. Ho spoke in a non give any Information relative theroto. . |” Sheriff Conner will be at his office to-day In case avy | new disclosures should ariso relative to the escape of Tweed. the fugitive is in Havana, Yesterday he seni a do- spatch to Ravana, asking for information relative to the story that Twood was in that city, but ap to the hour | for the closing of the Sheriff's office no answer was re- | ceived, CORONERS’ CASES, The man who died in the Eighth precinct station bouso Thursday afternoon, afver having been brought there in an insensible condition from Thompson street, was recognized the same evening by Charles Adams, of No, 423 Canal street, as a vagrant named James Mo- Farland. Coroner Mauger yesterday held an inquest at the Second precinct station house, Long Island City, upon | the body of Catharine Brighton, four gearsold; who | died in consequence of falling down stairs (bree months | ago. Vordict, death from natural causes, ‘An old woman, abont seventy-five years of age, an inmate of the Blackwell's Island Almshouse, was found drowned In tho East River, near the Almshouso, yerter- | day afternoon. A STRANGE SUICIDE, On Wednesday last an Irishman poorly clad and giving his name as Peter Dowd was arrested at Haye. town, near Jamaica village, He had for severat days been wandering about the woods in the vicinity, and when spoken to by any one threatened personal vio- lence. He was lodged in a coll, and yesterday was to have had an examination with a view to determining the question of his sanity. In the morning, however, the keeper found him lying on hh faco, apparently suffering {rom strangulation, and before a dootor could bo summoned he was dead. Coroner Henderson held an inquest, and Dr, Wood, who made a post-mortem examination, testified that he found the man’s mouth and windpipo crammed fall of dry ead, and that ho died from strangulation in consequence, Tho waa in accordance with this testimony, peared to know whare tha man euna from | nis lava | of bursting trees and the immediate blaze which {ol- | sive was | During the eighteenth century there wero | The County Clerk's and Sheriff's offices will be open i Bids will be opened on the 28th of December in the | mmittal manner on the rumors, and did not | He ovidently does not believe in the story that | NORTH CAROLINA AND THE CENTENNIAL | Relics of George Washington and Ponce de Leon. Products, Mineral and Vegetable, of the Old North State. HER PLACE IN THE GREAT FAIR. Rataicm, N. C., Doc, 18, 1875. The chair occupied by George Washington as Wor- | shipful Master of the Masouic lodge at Alexandria, Va., is now in the possession of Unanimity Lodge of An- cient Free and Accepted Masons at Edenton, in this State, whither it was sent during the war of 1812 for safo keeping, Itis of massive mabogany, elaborately carved anda fino specimen of antiquo furniture, An | cffort will be made to induce its custodigns to allow this memento ot the illustrious ‘man and Mason’? to be placed on exhibition at Philadelphia next year, Mr. KE, W. Carpenter, of Newbern, has shown mo fragments of a mahogany chest which was found in 1834 in a dungeon of the old Spanish fort of St. Mark at St, Augustin, Fla., having been placed there in 1512 by the colebrated adventurer, Ponce do Leon, Those souyonirs of tho very car}iest occupancy by Caucasians of any part of the territory now dominated by the Great Republic will possess a peculiar interest to all relic loving persons. One of these ancient splinters lies before me as I write. SELECTION OF PRODUOTS. Iam informed that the Executive Committee of tho State Agricultural Society will make an effort to com- ply with the suggestion of Mr, A. T, Gosborn, Direc- | tor General of the International “Exposition, that in the preparation of State agricultural collcetiona 1t | would be well, in order to secure the best representa- tive specimens, to select from the variety of products offered at the diferent autumnal fairs those most wor- thy of being forwarded to Philadelphia. Such sclec- tiors will doubtiess be made from the list of ontries at the recent State Fair in Raleigh as_ will show the coun- try and the world that North Carolina produces some- | thing moro than the “tar, pitch aud turpentine’ which | are generally considered by outsiders as constituting the sam total of her staples. As the agricultural de- partment of the great Exhibition will _con- tain, in addition to the customary moth vegetables, tim! fruits, cereals, mals, wild and tame, and animal product: | wide range of contribution is afforded, And thore is | no doubt that tho opportunity thus presented will be | properly improved, It is a fact worthy of remark that | North Carolina is the only State of tho Union in which | overy article enumerated in the census statistics is produced. Her great diversity of soil and climate on- ables her to yield a variety of productions almost end- 88, embracing not only cotton, tobacco, rico and Indian corn, but wheat, rye, barley, oats and potatoes, to- gether with all kinds of fruits, except the tropical, and grapes of every species, foremost of which last is the luscious Scuppernong, This regal vine, which well merits the title vitiun® imperator, had its original homo on Roanoke Island, where a single specimen, which L saw a few years ago, covered a whole acre of ground. 1t grows most luxurlantly, requires no pruning and but little care, bears carly and Sbundantly, is easily propa- gated, ‘and ia subject to no diseases. The Concord, tho farttord prolific and the many other popular grapes are every way inferior to the Scuppernong. The Ca- tawba, Lincoln and Isabella are also natives of this Stato, and are excellent grapes of fine, winc-making qualities NORTH CAROLINA'S BOIL AND CLIMATE. North Carolina has an area of 24,000,000 of acres; it is 485 miles in longth ‘from cast to west, covering a greater breadth of longi- | tude—nine degrees—than any of the original thir. | teon States, aad reaches from the thirty-sixth paralle! of } latitude, whteb is its northern boundary, to the thirty- fourth on its southeastorn border. This vast oxpanse of 50,704 squaro miles— greater than that of New York and cqual to that of England—is singularly diversified | | in character, embracing, as it does, the lowlands of the alluyial region toward the sca, the high table lands of the interior and the very’ loftiest peaks of tho great Ap- palachian range. Its forests contain nearly avery or- namental or usefultree. Those are fully represented in the very complete arboricultural collection of Professor | Kerr. At the iate State Fair held here { oxaimined | specimens of more than 100 difforcat kinds of native woods, which will be sent to Philadelphia, Among the mout distinetive, abundant and valuable species found tn North Carolina are the longleaf, yellow and white | pines, several species of white oak, the red, black, wil- | low and live oaks; seven species of hickory, two of walnut, the chestnut, poplar, cypress and juniper. Be- sides these aro six ics of the maple, three of birch, four of ash, ree of elm, four of tho gn two of the locust, seven of the magnolia, ur of the willow; also the sycamore, beoch, mul- berry, sassafras, dogwood, persimmon, linden, buck. | oye, white cedar and others of various uses, The black | birch er mountain mahogany, the birdseyo maple, the | | aromatic red cedar and the wild cherry are all valuable | cabinet woods, to which maybe added tho holly, a | beautiful, closo-grained white wood, taking a brilliant i polish. It ts evident trom this statement that the for- ests of North Carolina, covering pearly four-fifths of | her territory and possessing eo numerous and witely | differing-species, must beeome big bonanzas of wealth | at no distant period. Multitudinous varieties of tn- | digenons evergrocns and ornamontal shrubs were ex- | hibited. ‘The floriculture of the Stato was also hand- | somoly illustrated, the display of flowering shrubs and | plants being almost bewildcringly diversitiod, It is in- | tended to reproduce these characteristic exbibits at the Centennial, ‘The great variety and | ANCUNDANCE OF MINERALS | which are found over a‘large portion of the Stato will | enable North Carolina to make a superior exhibit in | the department of mining and metallurgy, Among the | more useful and important are the toliowing:—Marl, iron, coal, peat, limestone, gold, copper, silver, load, | | ainc, mica, ‘graphito ‘and ‘corundum; also a large variety of building — stones, ‘serpentine, marble, chromic iron, barytes, oil ‘shales, buhr: stono ‘and roofing slates, besides several P| mam- ani- | i stones, as the diamond, garnet, sapphire, ruby, | bery! and amethyst. Marl is found only in the eastern | region, ia Very abundant in some twent j | 2 é counties. lt bas ail the qualities of a complete and permanent fertilizer, und +s, for this reason, the most | valuable mineral in the State, Iron ore abounds | througaout a very wide area, extending from Weldon ' to the Tennessee line, It 1s round in workable quanti- | ties in no Joss than thirty of the ninety three counties | of the State, and many of the deposits are of remark- | able purity.’ fron has been smelted here in forges and furnuees for 100 yeurs, ‘The coal 18 mostly bituminous, | The two principal coal beds are in the middie region— one on Deep River, the other on the Dan, Peat exists in very large quantities near the seaboard. It 18 uso extensively as a fertil Gold occurs in workable quantities in twenty-nine of the middie and western | counties. The first gold mines in the United States were discovered here in 1820, and they have yielded many millions of dollars, The largest known nugget in the world, prior to the discovery of the Calttornia | deposits, was found here, weighing twenty-eight pounds,’ For more than thirty years silver, lend and | zinc have been mined in this State, chiefly in Davidson county, Copper is found in some fifteen counties in the middle and mountain regions, Four or five of the considerable number of copper mines wrought before | the war have been recently reopened and operated jon a large scale. Mica ts worked mostly | in Mitchell county, many of tho plates being of ex- traordinary size, reaching four fect tn diameter, It is sold chiefly in Philadelphia for use in stove making, This branch of mining is very profitable, A vein of graphite, a few miles from this city, is one of the most extensive known, Diamonds of ‘considerable value haye beon found accidenially in washing gold. A piece | of sapphire found tere was sold in Loudon for $4,000, | and a ruby crystal of 312 pounds, obtained in’ this Stato, is or was, a few years ago, im the cabinet of Professor Shopard, of Ambicrst College, Massachusetts. In fact, a larger number of mineralogical curiosities aro | found in North Carolina than in any other State of the | Union, A sample of vogetable tron oro, an inch thick, | jies on my table, It was originally a pieco of birch ‘Tho process by which this wooden swig was ferrided or turned to iron is probably akin to potrifaction, THE POPULAR INTAREST | in tho Centennial has now become genoral and decided, This is In great measure due to tho industrious dis- tribution throughout the State of oxplanatory | pamphlets and circulars by Hon. J, L. Campboll, Secre- tary of the United States Centennial Commission, and Professor Joseph Henry, of the Smithsonian | Institution, at Washington,” Valuabio aid has been | aiso rendered by tho — of the State, especially the State <Agrte al Jowrnal and the | Raleigh Vews, in stimulating the interest in the ap- proaching Exposition, and in encouraging participation | by North Carolina exhibitors. In all parts of tho Stato | [find the people making plans to visit Philadelphia at some time or other dering the six months of the great industrial festival. The obstaclos of poverty, very | serious to many fn the provalent scarcity of currency | and dearth of business here, will somehow bo sur- mounted. Pater familias is devising ways and means and sedulows sayings in the affairs of the household are inaugurated. The moucyless are diligently casting anout for the pecuniary wherewithal of the trip. Mr. | A. H. Boyden, of Salisbury,g prominent manager of | the principal fair association in Western North Caro- lina, tolls me that nearly everybody tn his county of | Rowan will go. The same purpose is manifested in the | | gagtorn section. rom W. 6, President of tho ‘esleyan Font ‘olloge at Murfreesborough, pro: oses to charter a teamboat to go by he inland romto, i to carry & numerous delegation of his 200 pupil The North Ourolin | ladies eapectally are enthustaatically oxpectan(; many | of them are even now counting the intervening days, Some have already visited the buildings tn Fairmount Park, aud bring back glowing accounta thereof. I learn that arrangoments are on foot to send the Fayetteville light infantry to Philadelphia in bandsome style, This is the oldest military company in North Carolina, there being but one organization of the ki in the United States rejoicing in an earlier origin. It nated by Governor Brogden to escort y of Brotherly Love, whore it will take ita anne. a Boston com # as been der him to the © | place as second in the jaaion of | Bo withdrawal of | overran om bg if hs ir hich he oO , wo wi of ago eatises ‘ The North Carolina ‘olaer boys wit be Laren Major rh, will make gallant show. ui —— i - THE STATE AGRICULTURAL SOOIRTY. Ata rocent meoting of the Executive Committes of the State Agricultural Sootety, hold in this city, Col- onol J. M. Heck introduced tho’ follow! aud texolutions, which wero adopted:— Whereas the State T joo ting, hey mittens lat 0 he ing pream| Gentensial Pre: ‘sion wish fis Excell Go 1, That wo ask the Governor to request geologiat 16 sake immediate steps to make this beat posible @xhibition of our products and resources at the Centemmial Exposition, and that our President appoint « commission, irty wultnble eniiemen, wh shld Minto goclogist'in making onal exiltih ean rer On requested to commission the’ gon- pointed. request our follow citizens to contribate a themselvos in procurtn ay make an exhibit ‘Olutionary fame 01 mn Revalved, That our President be added to the thirty com- — to bo appointed in accordance with these resolu- s. APPROPRIATION FOR THR RXIIBITION. Governor Brogden has been ail along heartily in favor of an adequate participation by North Carolina in the grand fair of the nations at Philadelphia, and has even considered the suggestion made ig somo quarters to call the Logislaturo together in extra session for the Purpose of making a suitable appropriation toward that end. In fact, the State Constitutional Convention, which: | met in September, possessed the power, by the Oxpress terms of the Convention act, to reconvene the Genoral Assombly, aud some of its’ members favored such a - summons. It was doubtful, however, whether this step would receive the popular approbation. So the Convention andthe Governor thought it best to leave the wholo matter of the Philadelphia Centounial to tho voluntary action of tho citizens themselves. And per- haps this fs, after all, as well. Mr, W. E. Atkinson, of Bladen county, will exhibit for the admiration of the Nimrods the antlers, twonty- eight iuches long, of the largest door ever sooh in that section of the Siate, which he killed a few days ago. This mammoth stag was no loss than eight feot in longth, HOW THE MUTUAL BENEFIT SAy- INGS BANK DID BUSINESS. To tux Epiror or tie HeraLp;— It ts to be hoped that Governor Tildon will, as you recommended in your issue of December 10, investi- gate the broken savings banks, The blow falls very hard on many depositors who have, year after year, put a portion of their earnings into those banks, with the beliof that should sickness come they would have the wherewith to keep out of the hospital, and that in old age they would not be a burden on their children or frierds, People in a small way of business too often deposit their profits and then draw whon they desire to replenish their scanty stock, and many such are now entirely broken up. And such breaking up means more than flnancial loss, It too often moans a moral breaking down. Why should men and women bo industrious and economical, so that they may not become at any time a barden on the community, if the banks they trust are allowed thus to defraud them? Why should they not spend thoir money ds they go along for euch things as please their senses or tastes and let cach com- ing day care for Itself? Ihave no desire to bo harah, although losing my all of ready money by the recent crash. 1do not think that the officers were designedly Srobbers of the poor,” but tt is beyond question thut they have been careless and reckless in their mauago- meot of the monoys of the poor, The cloud of flaan- cial trouble which now onvelops the land began to gather two yoars ago, and such prudent men as bank directors otight to have foreseen the storm and takon in sail. Better have lowered tho rate of interost al- lowed on deposits than have jeopardized the principal. And now it ig but fair (o demand that toe entire per- sonal property and incomes of every official connectet with any shaky, crippled or fallon bank should be at once secured and held for the payment of the poor men and women who put their faith in the prudence and honesty of these bauk directors and officers. Nor should the State Superintendent of Banks, Mr. Ellis, bo excused from blame until he has soen that at least this | justice is done. But tt is to be feared that there has been even more than reckless speculation and a want of jadgmont in the management of those banks, Inquiry would not be amiss as to whether the everyday details of savings bank business are attended to with car: precision, My meaning will be bost illustrated by an account of individual experience. L opened my account with the Mutual Benotit Savings Bank on April 1, 1870, witha deposit of $75, Since then have made, according to | my pass book, fifty deposits and tifty-four withdrawals of money, Alter tho first six months, perhaps a little earlier, 1 left my pass book constantly in the care of tho bank, having perfect coniidence 1m its officers and it being more conyonient; but, whenever | made a deposit or a withdrawal,'t was vory particular before Liett the bank to see that the amoun$ either for or Sgainst me was property enterod on it. 1 made i doposits aod withdrawals of money personally, with the exception of two or Pornana three checks, I made my last deposit on Octo- 11, 1875, at which timoT had my balance in the bank reckoned by the teller from the pasa book. | mado money and gave no check to any one after that dato, A few days aiter the susponsion of the | bank, on December 2. [ think, I wont to the bank and | axked for my pass book. The teller commenced figuring mit. Lasked what was my balance; he named a sam nearly $100 less than he had told mein October. L asked for an explanation of the difference between tho two statements, Ho said that two entries had been found against me on their jouroal which bad not beea put at the proper time on my pass book, and hv then and there entered them on ft, ono for $50, dated Janu- ary 4, 1873, and the other for $20 80, dated May 8, 1874, The smaller sum I rocognized as having been paid on a check which I had given for rent. 1 asked if the admission of those two entries against me woald mako my pass book and their journal agree. I was answered that there was $60 in my favor entered on my pass book, of which thoir journal gave no record. Now here, in my own caso, according to that state- ment, Were threo instances of neglect in the pertorm- ance of duty—namely, two omissiuns to mako tho proper entry in my pass book, which was in their cua- | tody and dally in a pygeontiole clase at hand, and one | failure to onter a sum to my credit on their journal. | [make this statement, not with any feeling of enmity | against any officers of the bok, from whom t havo i im ‘ays received great courtesy, but that other deposi- tors who havo left pass books at the bank may exaining their books, and [ sincerely hope that none may find any reason to think that his account has not beon accurately kept, SIX HUNDRED, OUR PAUPER SUPPLY. “CRADLE OF LIBERTY” GETS RID OF HOW THE HER POOR-—NEW YORK AS A DEPOT FOR TRAMPS, LUNATICS AND PAUPERS. It has been cause of comment from many sources that New York should be so loudly complaining about hard times and her unemployed bundreds when other cities are comparatively prozperous aad find ample ompioyment for all available help. Tho reason of New York's surplus of “‘bolp” isto be found in the fact that sister cities, most cspeciaily Boston and other Massachusetts towns, kidnap and transfer all the anem- ployed they can find and ship them tree of charge (how kind) to New York city, there to be taken care of by our Commissioners of Charities and Corroc- tion, Daring the carly stages of the investigations of the Assembly Comiittee on Crime some ugly facts were dovelopod regarding the manner in which the city of Boston got rid of her pauper emigrants, It is stated in the testimony collected by the committee that on a certain day last winter 180 men, womon and children were landed at Boston, and, being poor and without friends, they wore pat on board a Sound steamer, brought to New York, landed on adock and left there to take care of themsolves, This information was ro- garded as very startling atthe time, but tho facts, which are the cause of this writing, aro mach stranger. CHRAP TRANSPORTATION. A letter was received at the Hgrato office from Mr. A. W. Lewis (who came from Boston under peculiar | circumstances), stating that he had important informa- tion regarding the manner in which New York city was with paupers, tramps and others who should be taken care of by the State of Massachusetts, Tho letter preceded the coming of Mr, Lewis from Philadelphia, and of his return yester- day he called at the office and gavo the following facts, He would have called, ho said, when he first came to New York but for tho fact that he had important busi- noss in Philadeiphia, A STRANGE STORY. Tho following 1a Mr. Lewis’ story:—About two months ago he went to the city of Boston, having in his possession goin, stock certificates and’ jewolry to the value of $2,400. Tho property was stolen from him «nd he went to Police Headquarters and entored a complaint, to which little or no attention was paid. From tino to time*he called on the police, who always gave him evasive answers antil the Ist of December, when on calling at the station he was told to take seatand the ‘‘genileman’’ having the caso in hand would presently be in, Mr. Lewis waltod pationtly im the room for two hours, bat no “gentleman” appeared, and being weary of waiting he got up ta leave the place. This he found to bo impossible, ae the door was locked. Feeling that he had been duped, he began to make a noise and call to be tet out. call was answered by an officer, who took him from the room and locked him up inacell, While bere bo was Informed that ho would be tried for insanity, He laughed at the idea; but, sare enough, noxt morning he was brought before tho august doctors. Drs, Davi- and Fisher refused to sign a commitment for Mr. WIS; bit soine GikeE UCTS did, aud Le Was seni to tho Ingano Asylum at Taunton, Mass, After being kept {n confinement there for three wocks he had an intor- ylew with the State agent, and explained his caso, When the ..gont got to Boston he tolegraphed a dis- charge for Mr. Lewis to Taunton. Tho discharge waa only a conditional one, however, for Mr. Lowis was taken from tho asylum to the railroad depot in charge of an officer and, in company with twenty others who had been collectod in different laces throughout the State, was transported to New ‘ork. Many of these mon bad lived for years in tho State, bat had recently been thrown out of employ- WNTINUED ON NINTH PAGE. W