The New York Herald Newspaper, February 9, 1876, Page 5

‘ 7 RUBENSTEIN, Efforts of the Defence to Prove. an Alibi. What the Prisoner’s Relatives Say of His Whereabouts. MRS. RUBENSTEIN ON THE STAND. The Kings County Court of Oyer and Terminer was crowded yesterday, as usual, by persons anxious to | listen to the testimony adduced on behalf of Pesach | N. Rubenstein, now on trial for the murder of Sara | Alexander. Nothing of special interest occurred dur- Ing the day, except the occasional “tilts” between op- posidg counsel, which were evidently relished by those \n court. f aS District Attorney Britton prosecuted, and the pris- oner was defended by Messrs. Beach and Mott. TESTIMONY OF BAMUEL LEVY. Samuel Levy, Secretary of the Hebrew Society of which Mr. Davidson is President, testified, in answer to Mr. Mott, to being present at a meeting which took place on December 12; he was not certain | whether Kracmer was in attendance. At the conclusion of tho testimony of this witness the District Attorney said that defendant's counse) need not give any further evidence in regard to Kraemer, as he intended to abandon {it and disclaim it to the jury when he came to suin up the case. Miss Anna Silvermann, stepdaughter of the prisoner's father, was next examined by Mr. Mott:—Sara Alexan- der was cook to Mr. Rubenstein when she lived in their house; she knew Nathan Levy and had see him and Sara in the kitehen talking together; Sara Alexander | ‘was at the house on the 12th of December with witness and her sister Susan from half-past two o'clock until half-past four; they were going to the wedding of Mr, Meyer, in Hester étreot; Sara leftafew minutes be- fore the witness, who saw her passing up Bayard street going vo the Bowery; before witness leit she got two necklaces for herself and sister in the store; her mother #nd the prisoner were in the store; did not see the-prisoner until Monday; heard.the news of Sara’s disappearance on Monday evening, when hor sister came and told witness she did net know what bad be- come of her. To the District Attorney—When I saw Sara Alexan- bY: ir walking toward the Bowery I Knew her by her rosa, MISS SYBIL SILVERMANN, asister of the preceding witness, was next examined. She said she returned home at bulf-past seven o'clock and went to Mrs. Jacob Rubenstein’s room; they played lotto for some time; the ‘prisoner was at heme before Wer sister; Mrs Rubenstein came home about nine | o'clock; Witness saw the prisoner in tho store on Mon- day and on that day went to Essex Market Police Court and Headquarters with Sara Alexander's brother to look for her, The wituess further testitied that Detec- uve Zundt, of Brooklyn, had said that he had gova book filled up for the Jews and that Pesach was going to be hung. Mrs. Jacob Rubenstein, daughter of Israel Ruben- Stein's second wile, testified that the murdered girl had had a quarrel with) her mother, Mrs, Rubenstein; she | did not know when a reconciliation bad taken piace be- tween them; it 1s the custom of all Hebrews to sorgive | each other at New Year; Pesach lent the necklaces to the girls to attend the wedding in Hester etreet, The next witness, Isaiah Rubenstein, a dourth cousin of the pris , testified in response to Mr. Mart shat he had attended Pesach while be was sick; be was con- stantly spittmg blood; witness was paid §10 a week for his services; he kuew the prisoner in the old conn- try; did not know anything as to the prisoner having dreamed about his mother, The District Attorney objected to the dreams of the prisoner's in the old country being put in evidence. Mr. Beach said the detence intended to prove thatthe prisoner wus a creamy and superstitious zealot, Coun- sel submitted that this kind of proof was admissible, { would be bard if 1t could not be shown what was the temperament and mental babit of the accused, The defence proposed to give evidence antedated to the crime and it would he inhumanity not to admit this evidence. It was important to know whether the pris- oner was a dreamy, nervous man and given to jancy. The Court alowed the witness to testily as to the *s Characteristics and what his actions were iter dreams. The witness, in reply to further questions on this Doint, siated that some years ago he had dreamed that bis mother was dead and hadappeared to him shortly afterward; witness was a druggist in the old country; bhe prisoner was always sick there; witness saw the hea on the 12th ot December last in the synagogue . im the morning; saw bim again on the same day at tive o’clock in the kitchen of bis house. Joel Sammit, brother-in-law of the prisoner, was xt examin: He testitled that he saw Sara Alex- anuer and Nathan Levy together frequently ; he used to open the door when she apn down, and they used to stand taiking Eps oreag he @ lived in the house, but leit two months the murder took place; Levy was about twenty-three years of ago; he wore whiskers before the murder occurred, but afterward cut them off; witness had noticed that a great intimacy existed between Levy and Sara Alexander; he saw the prisoner at the 5; jogue on December 12 and in the evening after five jock. After a short recess the witness -fortner that he had known the prisoner since he caine to this soguity be was constantly in bad health, ’ In reply to the jot Attorney the witness re- bis assertion that he had seen Rubenstein on morning of December 12; he had had tormerly a rsonal aifheuit with Rubenstein, and he (witness) id pot like him his crazy es, 20d le jim that his foolishness would lead to resulta; witness ‘bought be was foolish in the matter of his religion in bell in dreams to such an extent as he did; wit dess known the four years; he always wore his beard as he does at present. feta oe ca eee i eo knew j the prisoner done business with him toa considerable extent for kbout two yoars; during December he bad a transac- tion with him; he ved a check drawn by Jaros- lowski, and on Monday, December 13, got it cashed ; that evening Rubenstein came into bis office a1 Bia there until six o’clock; witness went home with him toget $2 from him; he would sooner trust Rubenstein with $5,000 than with fifty cents. Albert Barentz, partner of the last witness, said he remembered scemg Rubenstein ut his office on Monday, December Oy witneas left that evening at about tive o’ciock; he thought that Rubenstein remained bebind. Witness corroborated the statement of the preceding witness as to the payment of the check. * Nathaniel Cavai private watchman of Warden Lane, testified to having soem Rubenstein on Sunday, | December 12, in Maiden lane, making inquiries for Mr, Cotn. Jacob Wyman, llor, testified that he saw the prisoner on December 12, at. a qoarter to three o'clock, in bis in reference to some gold chains; he re- mained with wituess about half an bour. ‘ THSTIMONY OF ANNA RUBENSTRIN, Anna Rubenstein, examined by Mr, Mott, testified that she the wife of Israel Rubenstem; Sara Alex- ander was living with her until last April; she bad been Irv: at her house ter three years; witness was tick, but Sera Alexander did not take care of her at the ‘ime, witness and she had had a personal difficulty, and the latter lott her service; the prisoner was also k, and continued to be so for ten weeks; he kept bis goods ia a saie in the Louse; be never went about with a pack or a box; witness kept a dry goods store; bn Sunday, December 12, witness saw Rubenstein at the store about five o'clock; Mr. Sammit came to seo him, witness left the houre to visit her cousin, whose child had died; her children had previously gone out w attend a wedding; they bad obtained necklaces from Rubenstem for that purpose; witness was at her home when Detective Zundt came there; was present when ho spoke about filling up a book; heard Zundt say something about her busband treating bim; saw the accused later in the evening at her house when she re- turned from her cowsin's. To ihe District atiorney—I was sick for three weeks; Pesach N. Rubenstem was sick for three months, during which time he was mostly confined to his room; [did not leave my rooin for a week before Sara Alex- | abder left im April last; Sara never attended Ruben. | sin, nor did she cook for him when he was ick; he was in thé habit of coming into the store every day; he was there on Monday, December 13; conld not mention the name of any one else who was present; kaw Rubensceiy on the night of December 12, atabont hall. past eight o'clock in ber Cae vos e him ask those present y they stopped playing shortly afterward, ‘ Alter some (urther testimony the case was adjourned anti! ten o'clock this morning. There are nearly for more witnesses for the defence. | It is ex, that Mr, Beach will address the Jury on Monday | THE NEW .ROCHELLE TRAGEDY. DEATH OF THE LIQUOR DEALER WHO WAS SHOT THROUGH A DOOR. Thomas White, who was shot by Richard Hanna, Jr., at New Rochelle, Wes chester county, on the evening of the 4th ult, died from his injuries yesterday. Hanna, who ts a dissolute individual, about twenty- two years of age, had been drinking to excees on the day mentioned, and in the evening entered a stoail | toadwide i ur House,” of which the ¢ hix condition, refused to sell bim any liquor, whereupon Honna be- ne so boisterous and abusive that White forcibly ved hit and secured the door su that the dranken could not ter, javier at once into his house, which —adjoined veel went or that of White, and arming himset!’ with a double bar- rolled shot gun, revurned, and having placed the mux- zie against @ bole in the door where a knob had formerly been, tired, the contents lodging in White's ‘he wounded man continued to improve for | about tem days when pywinia, or absorption of pus | into the aystem, set in, smce which time be bas been | grodualy sinking. Coroner Purdy was notified and | will bold an inquest to day, Hanna, who acknowledged the shooting Vat dened that be intended to burt the dvcedwed, Was committed to the Jail shortly Connty after the vecurrence, and i# still held there to await the veuion of the Grand Jury. Deceased was about forty-six Yours old. Mr. Skidmore and Worked for him chopping wood at different times tor twenty years; had ki nm Mr. | Wright seven or eight years; Jast saw Skidmore on Sunday morpinpg; he stayed ail Saturday night at Mr. Skidmore’s because it was late when be called tor his weekly provisions; three other rs call on Saturday } Seettcanenamer Mr. Wright and Flect went away | was angry; Henry Wood lived with the witness in NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1876.—TRIPLE SHEET. THE DEER PARK TRAGEDY. —_— CONTINUATION OF THE INQUEST. Banyion, Feb. 8, 1876, ‘The adjourned inquest in the Deer Park tragedy was resumed @ Babylon to-day. District Attorney Wick- ham was present. Coroner Preston conducted the ex- saminations mostly, and some curious testimony was eliched, Its purport was to show that there were plenty of people bad enough about Skidmore’s place to fire the house and kill the inmates; but while the im- pression is fixed that a crime was committed it is no easy task to x upon the criminal. A larger crowd at- tended the Inquest than on the first day. The testi- mony will be found below: — David Skidmore, whose oxamtnation commenced om last Wednesday, resumed. He said that for the last six weeks be had been boarding at Thomas McMahon's; loft there the Friday before the fire; had been stopping with his brothers aud Platt Oakes; on Friday evening witness was about Deer rk until about ten o'clock aud then slept inthe barn; ext day witness was in the woods carting; was not positive whether he saw that day any of the persons who were burned; witness went to Half Holiows on Sunday; returned to Deer Park in the afternoon at cight o'clock; went back to Piatt Oakes’ and spent the night in the house; none of thd other inmates were away that night to witness’ knowl edge; first heaprd of the fre in the morning and went to the house about ten o'clock; then set out soon aftor to fiud aeoroner; on the way stopped at Babylon and talked with Mr. Lewis, the insurance agent. Coroner—Did you ask for how much the place was insured? Witness—I dou’t think I did ask anything about it; I went to tell him about the fire. Witness stopped on the way to the Coroner’s to take a drink, but did not get intoxicated. - Coroner—Did you ever threaten Wgight? Witness—I don’t kuow as I did; the chopper told me Wright was going to bring a suit against me, and I said that if he did he would get the worst of it, Coroner—Did you ever say that Wright would never spend the winter there? . Witness—I did; 1 said one day indiuntington that Tl thought Wright and father would not agree during the Winter, Witness said he had no information that bis father was going to make a will giving his property to Wright, but hoard he was ‘going togive him a lease, Witness said be bad staid im the hut every night since the tré; Wright's tirst wile was witness’ first cousin, Carl Skidmore was next called :—Lives at Deer rark; last visited his father’s place in September; did not think, on account of Mr. Beak ye would be pleasant for him to go there; supposed Wright had charge of everything and witness did not want to interlere with him; witness was told by his father that be had leased | the place vo Mr. Wright. Corover—Were you on friendly terms with all the inmates of the bouse ? Witness—Well, 1 could not say as I was very friendly; had suits with Mr. Wright and futher; they were cross suits; he sued them and they sued bim; the suits were out wood they look which belonged to witness; that wood was some witness got from his father for lus ser- Vices; the suits were commenced by the ARREST OF THE PAKTIS on both sides; witness attributed ime difficulty to Wright; had no other difliculty with him; witness? father bad previously sued him for a cow he had Lought and left there tor a time; this Was about eight | or nine years ago; wituess was ut home at Deer Park on the night of the fire; one of the first persons wit- ness saw at the ruins was Thomas Hicks; wituess said he did not take charge of the burned premises nor tell | | the people near to leave everything alone; witness is in partnership with bis brother David in wood cutting; old Mr. Skidmore and Mr. Wright bad sev- eral colored men employed chopping wood; | witness never threatened Wright nor Mrs. Wright; ol Mr. Skidmore usually kopt bis private papers in the house, and witness did not know whether they were destroyed or not; witness holds no deeds of land; David’ Skidmore hed not slept with witness the wo nights beiore the night of the fire; witness’ impression mt the tre was that it must bave started, as it siarted before, from the chimney ; pever told any one the house had been set on fire betore the time it burned down; witness could not explain his theory that the house caught tire from the chimuecy; he knew that th fire wag pret seen on the end furthest away from th fireplace, and knew that there was a brick wall between the chimney and that point Piatt Oakes, of Deor Park, testified next:—Carl Skid- more boards with him, and has been home every night for two wonths; David had also been stayiug there a few days before the fire; he could not pay ois board where he was, and wanted to be accommodated for a few days; on Sunday afternoon be got his supper and went to We Village; in the evening he and Carl re- turned about hall-past eight, and, t the best of wit- ness’ knowledge, they remained in the house ali night; they were up when witness retired; when witness went to the scene of tho fire he heard Terrell and Maud Taylor say that certain things—leed, a grindstone and a pair of whilfltrees—had been stolen from the premises; witness never heard the parties—meaning the Skid- mores, Wright and the others—make any threats against each other. After the examination of Platt Oakes a recess was taken, at the conclusion of which Theodore Bunker was called and sworn, Witness is @ farmer living at Deer Park. ope you ever hear any one say that Mr. right SHOULD NEVER WINTER IN THE HOUSE? Witness—1 have; David Skidmore said ‘that Mr. Wright and his tather would not agree; David further said that Mr, Wright had no business there, and he did witness is on friendly terms with Henry Wood; Mary Ann Cheeves, Chartes Fleet, George Mayhew and Henry Woou were present when Terrell spo! bout the folké being burned up, and his “venturing it.” George Mayhew, another colored wood chopper, de- scribed the differences of Henry Wood aud Mr, Wrigl about the measurement of the wood; Henry said, would ba’ spatter bis mouth once if be had kept ony he has commenced it und 1 will have the ending; if they don’t pay me I'll have it; witness next saw Henry Wood at eight o'clock the following morning; Charley Terrell drove up svon alter; some of us (sal witness) asked him (Terrell) what was going to be done about it; he said if nobody else went to law about it he would; he said he dare not go Kast, as there were two of three constables after him there. “THIS MURDERING he said, was a little worse than burglary ;” witness said we laughed at him, and asked him if that was his case and he said “yes.” t Magy er—Have you seen Henry Wood since that me oy—Have you and Wood and Scofield talked about what Terrell said ? Witness—Yes, sir; we thonght Terrell was talking pretty bold to say what,he had said, Coroner—What do you hear said about the fire? Witness—Why, we all think ths here Charley did it; by bas talk he said he went out two or three times that night and that he heard a wagon, but we looked at the road, and I don’t think thet as a wagon there that might; Charley Fleet said Mr, Wright bad bis watch on morning before the fire; old Mr. Skidmore told witness a long while before the fire that he was afraid to go in the woods, as his sous would just #8 lef kill nim a8 not; once after, yout two weeks before the — fire, witness went into the woods with Mr. Skidmore, and they came upon David, who was cutting wood; they disputed about 1% and David said be bad worked long enough for the old man to get a home, and ead of caring jor bim he Drought ‘that damned gray headed cuss’ Wright into the house; David said he (Wright) would have to leave soon. William Henry Wood was called next, He testified that he had worked tor Howell Skidmore about two months. He described his visit w Skidmore’s house on the Saturday evening belore the fire, his aoe for pay for the wood be had cut and’ Mr. Skidmore’s disputing the quanyty he claimed to have cat, but his verston did not agree with the evidence of Hicks or George Mayhew. Wood denied that he called Wright a liar or bad any lve said m the wood shanty, * have commenced it and I'll end 1t;” he says he has four or five witnesses to prove that he was at Mr, Belmont’s place all mght; he corroborates the evidence of the other colored wit: nesses regarding the statement of Terrell “that mur. to Riverhead about this r he would venture it although there were three or four eonstabics out joo! can, A second recess was taken trom six to seven o'clock ; then Constable Arden Weeks was swot He, with Leonard Cuttr the ruins to search for arti- cles belonging ed persons; a sil part of a bracelet locket, some spoons, founda tow feet ourside the walls; wi pened ofa trunk which from examination he be- lieved to have been outside the house before the fire caught it; no wateh was found. Leonard Cutting corroborated Mr. Weeks, Maud Taylor, recalled, was examimed by District At- torney Wickham. Her evidence did not matérially: | differ’ from that already reported,, She added, how- ever, that she heard the negro, Wood, call Mr. Wright aliat on the Sunday morning ol the fire; the trunk was too large to pass through the Window in the bedroom, where it was kept. Charles Terreil was next recalled—He admitted that he tad been arresved a year ago jor breaking into a house at Port Jetlerson three years ago; he was locked up nearly three months awaiting trial on acharge of breaking into a pl aogue; he denied having told the negroes that constables were alter him East, was in the New York House of Ketuge eleven months, and went to livewith Mr. J. ©. Jones, from whom he ran away, Witness ob his previous exaniination said he could neither read por write, He nowever was known to have written since his first examination, and being asked said be could write lis tirst name. A paper pencil were handed him and he readt rove Charles, full, Charles Henry Terrell. He was the last witness called last night; when he left the stand the hail was cleared of ail but the jury und reporters, and the Cor- oner reviewed the evidence pertectly and said he felt inelined to go further into the case. He read a letter from @ jawyer in Huntington who had given certain before the fire which, if tollowed, they teared would result in bloodshed. The District Attorney also thought it better to probe the matier more deeply. The Jury were also of the opinion that the case should not Test without introducing more evidence. They were satistied that violent threats had been made against Mr. Skidmore, The nates oi several witnesses likely to throw more ligh' this strange mystery were suggested to be hercaiter examined, and the case was then adjourned. THE FUCHS MURDER. Yosterday the evidence elicited “against Andreas Fuchs was laid before the Kgs county Grand Jury, upon which ap indictment will, no doubt, be found betore the close of the present Week, Counsel wiil be assigned the murderer, who has neither friends nor money, and it 1s probable that the case will be tried before the March term of the Supreme Court, Judge Gilbert presiding, ek, THE YOST MURDER Jonxstows, N. Y., Feb. 8, 1876, There is great excitement here over the finding of the watch belonging to the late murdered man, Edward Zost, in a largo tank in the gas house this afternoon, together with the pistol used, no doubt, by the mur- net intend Mr. Wright stay there through she | derer. Two chambers of the pistol were discharged, winter; he did not say or mtimate how he was going | and the remaining balls correspond in size to those to prevent Wright irgin staying; Mr. Clausen, who | found in Yost’s head. How the p.stol got there and keeps a barroom at Deer Park, said to-witness that ho | the reasons for searching the tank will no doubt be ex- had often heard David make this threat; whemwitoess | plainod im the tral, which commences to-morrow worked for the old man he used to that the | morning. The diamond pin has also been found. . ‘vid touk some wi ot witness cut ol Y Dr. Bktamore; one day Mr. Skidmore sald ho expected | BLOOD, STAINS. if bis sons were allowed to take his wood, &c., they would also be allowed ope come and | A CORRECTION. KILL WIM IX 118 OWN HOUSE; when Ho sald this he was eating an apple that had } We 1,06 Guveuavr Branar, FexiomrazA,| julien {rom a tree near bis house and he thought that eb. 5, 1870. he would never live to eat the fruit of that tree again; they had taken bis harness and were using it on the teain that Carl was carting wood with; David's threat poe Mr, Wright was made about five weeks ago; en the old man satd things were not going on to eutt ais mvt betees Pea Jawsuit with bis sons at a. Thomas Henry Hicks, a balf breed and Indian workinan, was next sworn. Witness boards in a colored woman’s house a little east of Deer Park; had known pe night; these were Henry We Charles Fieet and James Scofleld; while there asked for their money, and Mr. Skidmore said had none, bat would give them an order on the store for Charley Fleet asked for bis meet more asked how much be “Kight cords;”’ then Mr.-Wright wrote a §: Mr, Skidmore’s direction; Scoiield then called for hie money, and Mr. Skidinore gave him two cords of which “is equal to $1.50; then Henry Wood for bis money; Mr. Skidmore asked bad he chopped? he cut five cords and wanted $2; Mr. “Skidmore sad, “I don't know whether you have got the wood cut or not;”” but alter awhile be gave bin ae cents; Henry wanted to know | when the wood he cut was to be measured, and Mr. Skidmore asked bim to wait until Monday; Henry | “I want you to come to-mor- day) morn Skidmore said he would when the bushes got dry,” and Henry said done, be been eu z = “come it was “time there was something that was all witness heard won¥Vaway angry; Rext morn. | ing at breakfast tine Wood came in aod said to Mr. pr 'imory ell, are you ready to go in tho woods!” Mr, Skidmore said it was early; Henry said, “You havé told me a he; you did not come in the woods as you promised on Saturday; now I want you to come im the woods with me and measure my wood; 1 don’t want to work any Jonger tor you,” then Mr. Skidmore asked Mr. Wright to with Wood, and Wright consented; then witness, Charies Farrei! and Mir. Wright wont b yor] aud Henry Wood did pow meet them there had leit the bouse before they they | bothered joug enough said that evening; Hen started and +t toward him boarding bouse; he be very angry; when got woods Maybew, another negro, joined them; Terrell went on to Deer Park with | the wagon; Mr. Wright measured the wood and called it four cords; hen they went to the wood choppers’ shanty and Mr, Wright \ook out his watch avd suid it was nearly eleven o’clock—(this was a valuable time- which bas been searched for in the rains and not | Henry Wood met them and y Measured the wood again; witness remained in the shanty, Henry went into othe = shanty with Scotield, who said that in woods Mr. Wright “a aamoed liar; soon, after Mr. Wright went | away, and Henry eft the shanty after saying, in reply to @ remark that they bad hard words :— “They commenced it and 1 will end it, and if they don’t Pay me I'll have it anybow.”” Mrs. bt told witness oa Sunday morning that | Henry Wood made THREATS AGAINST THR LIFE of her husband and Mrs. Skidmore when leaving the | house; she requested witness to go into the woods with Mr. Wright as & protection to him ; Henry Wood bourded at ‘Jit’? Seotield’s, but he was away night of the fire. James Winney Seoteld Geetst was next called. He was the man referred to by the preceaing witness; he corroborated it the Main the testimony of Hicks, but he could not say whether ry Wood was angry or no, as he (witness) could not“tell when Henry Wood the shanty, and had been in the habit of gomg . Bel- mont’s place on Sundays to seo his wife; the Sunday night of the fire Wood was ebsent, and witness aa not see him until’ Mouday morn’ since Sunday altermoon; Oo the morning of the sire witness met Chories Terrell on the latter's return from. Deer Park aod weg os rg that bey fe bob nay were burned Up; a or and that if he bad to go to'Riverhoad he'd venture rH that there were three or four constables after him East jur burglary; but (bat this Was worse than burglary; To tax Evitor ov rae Heravp;— Your correspondent upon the subject of blood stains, in Saturday's issue, falls into some of the ludicrous blunders common to novices in the sctence of micro. scopy; but his artful heroism in sheltering bimself beneath the veilof an anonymous assailant also piaces him of course beneath the dignity of areply. I beg, however, for the sake of even-handed justice, you wi * permit me to correct his injurious and insulting mis- , statement, charging me with confessing a suppression of the facts anda false feptesentation of the issue, when the truth is that I explicitly declare the main fact, covering all the rest, that ‘the blood corpuscles of a few in mammals approach 60 nearly in size to those of inan as to render their distinction doubtful,” and ex- plain that I simply refrained from specifying these animals, which are well known to ali experts, lest the knowledge thus conveyed should be improperly used by criminals. (See American Journal of the Medical Sciences, April, 1875, page 575, and London Monthly ‘Microscopical Journal, May, 1845, page 214, reprints from which I send herewith for your inspection.) It is said that no physician over forty years of age at the time of its announcement ever accepted Jenner's immortal discovery of vaccination, and of course my discovery and improvement in regard to the diagnosis f blood stains, which, on a much smaller scale, likewise ‘constitutes a real advance in science,” must meet with a like ition irom prejudiced and interested per. sons. | am, however, quite content to intrust my full vindication Lo the hand of time, merely remarking that of our ablest microscopists in Boston, New York, Phitadelphia and the West already recognize the cor- Tectness of my views, and that We Brifish and Foreign Medwo-Chirurgical Review, for July, 1875, page 249 bly the most authoritative medical tribunal of ngiand thd America), pithily observes :—“Dr, Wood- ward maintains that we can neverafirm truthfully on the strength of microscopical investigations that a given stain is positively composed of human blood, Dr. Joseph Richardson agrees with this as being literally true, but not the whole trath, because rt oft in practice thakevilence other than microsc rows dow the conditions of # case to the questic igor of that of an ox, p narrowed can bo in his opinion, agree with bi bin Dot suggesting to ibe cromimal populavion wh bloods of inferior animals ore difficult differentiation trom buman biood.”” I remain, respectinily, yours, &e., JOSEPHL.G, RICHARDSON (Not “Professor,” but simply Doctor of Medicine). YELLOW JACK. A member of the theatrical corps known as “The Russian Athletes’? was landed yesteriay morning at Quarantine from the mail steamer Columbus,of the New | York and Havana Steamship Conipany, by order of the Health Officer, Dr. Mosher. The Voctor declared ita clear case of yellow fever, and does not expect the man to recover. P} LOST OVERBOARD. Aseaman named Thomas Brown was washed over- boerd from the Havana steamer Columbus during the storm on Saturday, the Oth inst. The sea was so. heavy at the time that nothing could be done to savo the unfortunate man, James Graham, of No, 26 Coenties slip, while grap- pling in the North River, at pier No, 62, found the body of an unknown mai failor, about thirty-five years old, The body, which had tly been In the water a jong timo, was sent to the Morgue. It is probable that the body is that of Jolin Morris, of the steamship Repadtic, who haa beca missing since January 28, and who was supposed to lave veca Qo wt pier No, 6% quarrel with him on Sunday morning; he denied that | dering was worse than burglagy; that if he bud to go | | ing after him ;” witness said you must do the best you erehain, | nd | At the conclusion of his testimony Terrell wrote in | advice to old Mr. Skidmore and Mr. Weeks five days | nid we entirely , urther agree with | caution he displayed in iis former paper in | apparently an English | CHEAP TRANSPORTATION ASSOCIA- TION. NOVEL PLANS FOR FREIGHT AND PASSENGER RAILWAYS. ; Yesterday afternoon a very interesting meeting of the above association took place, and some important matters were considered. The secretary, Mr. Thurber, read @ portion of the minutes of the last meeting, after which the treasurer made a brief report, showing ‘Vhat there was a balance in his hauds of about $2,000, The report was adopted. Mr. Watrous read the report of the Executive Com- mittee, The names of about forty gentlemen and firms were proposed for membership. A communication was received {rom Mr. G. W, Pierce, of Cumberland, Md., with diagrams, in regard to tm- | This consists of a simple mecbanical aevice for ver- Ueally adjusting the stern propelict wheels, whereby | they can be more or less submerged, as the boats are heuvily laden or not. The communication was referred to the Committee { on Canais, | Mr. Charles J. Quétel, a civil engineer of the School of Arts of Paris, iutroduced diagrams and a communi- | cation in regard to | A ONE RAIL TRACK RAILROAD, being a new system working successiully in Europe for cheap travsportation on railroais and canals, The locomotives working suceessiully in France aud Por- tugal are the invention of M. Jean Larmanjat. The Jine is formed of sight rails spiked to the centre of ties two feet long paraitel vo the rail, and on euch side of it are two bands of macadam, one foot wide, or two Ines of longitudinal planks laid’ on,the ground with ballast. This is said to be cheaper than the narrow auge track, not costing over $1,000 per inile. The jocomotives and cars have four wheels; two of them, | one in front and one behind, are in the centre axis of | the locomotive, and being doubie flanged run on | whe centre rail.’ Th porta part of ‘the weighs of | the engine and guide it, In the cars they support wir whole weight. Inthe centre of the locomotive cars are put two side wheels. In the locomotve re the driving wheels; they maintain its equi- Hbriam and do the driving op timber or mavadam. The communication of M. Quétel was referred to the sented the People’s Freight Railway Company as well as the Chicago and Attanuic Railroad spoke in reter- ence to the proposed FREIGHT RAILWAY TO THY WEST. This gentleman's plans were also referred to the Committee on Railroads, Mr. K, F. Browuing read a resolution in referenco to the improvement of the Harlem River, which was adoptea, and Mr. Jolin F. Honry moved one in regard to the finishing of Generat with a recommendation to the government that the work should be pushed in order that its completion should be assured by July 4, 1876. The President, Colonel Baker, sated the attention of the meeting to | the dechne of the gram exports from. this port. The following fighres are signilicant in this connec- tion. Bushels, Exports from Baltimore for week ending HODUALY 5. .cceccset sree er eeeeeesenceeees 654,130 Exports trom Pluladeiphia tor week ending February 5....... i <cohte evscdves See SORORY Total....... seve 895,491 For the previous week. . ‘884, 706 a ac SABRC RP EEP EES GEERT Eom Su From New York, for week . ending Februury 5............ 204,001 From New York tor the previous Ty! WANs «sdecgsusesesaysreinue, Aa For two weeks... seeeeces 414,028 414,028 Decrease for New York. 363,169 THE REFEREE BUSINESS. To Tux Epitor or tux Henano:— I am pleased to seo the Henatp take the load as usual in agitating tor reform in this as well as other matters. I concur heartily in all that is said by | “Attorney” in your Sunday edition. It has become | common thing among attorneys that when the que: tion is asked, Whv 1s the referee in this case? Well, so | and so. Oh, he is Judge Davis’ Gratz, or Judge Curtis’ Gratz, They are well known. The practice of appointing the clerks of tho courts referees in fore- closure suits is one of the greatest impositions on at- torneys and clients, My relations with these gentlo- | men are pleasant and they are agreeable gentiemen, ‘Dut to say that a court should not appoint a respecta- ble attorney referee, when consented to by both sides, or in case of default in foreclosure suits, is going too far. It scems reasonable that parties litigating should bave a yoice in the disposition of their cases. Ifthe Judges are pressed about it they takea miserabie retuge behind a rule which forbids them to appoint referee nominated by the parties to a foreclosure suit, but if the attorney nominated happens to be jerk in their former office, their clerk of the court, or a standing Gratz, then the ceares to be binding, strange to say, githough it the Court shall not appoint a referee bominated by party to the suit. I have, howe’ on rare occasions on my own nomination, obtaived the appointment of a respectable attorney who was not 4 Gratz, Where the judges to openly appoint their known relatives reierees they accomplish their design by exchanging favors with abrother judge. I banded up, within the past week, the name ol a ree Spectable attorney on Broadway to a judge for appoint- ment as referee in a foreclosure suit, where there was ho appearance on the other side, and the Judge quieuly referred to the rule and appointed his former managing clerk. Nor are such insiances rare in my experience by any meyns. In the time of the Tweed régime it was believed chat the reierees divided these pickings with the jodges. Of cours nothing of this kind ts inti- mated in these days reiorm. There is some bond, evidentiy, between those standitig grabbers and their patrons, “A. 0. H.’’ says a good word jor the Grates, On the princsple, probal that a man cannot be biamed for taking what is within his reach, Ali he can get. 1 think the bulk of the profession will agree with me in saying that the clerks are not, as a class, noted tor their brilliancy as legal lights They can sign a ro- } port of amount due, wi presented to them, very nicely and pocket the fees with a truc artistic grace, | and their automatic ability from jong practice 18 fair, | but from the very fact of their being men chosen from | that class who are bound tu bo ken care of” by | the party their moral tone is not bigh, nor their | ability The Cour! Id certainly be free from } all hangers-oh, and this sy: of rewards Jor political services, at least an far as the pure judiciary ts con- | cerned, should be banished. Let some of our brilliant | legal lights at Albany seo to this—that a law is passed | giving attorneys seme control over their cases and | wiping out thts Gratz business, FAIR PLAY, | New York, Feb., 1876. WENDELL PHILLIPS’ LECTURE. Wendell Phillips will deliver his new lecture to-night in the Cooper Institute, for the benefit of Wi-ne-ma, the heroic Indian woman who saved the life of Com- missioner Meachem, in tli@ Lava Beds, at the peril of | her own, when General Canby and the Rev. Dr. Thomas were assassinated by the Modocs, April f4, | 1874. Professor J. Jay Watson, the violinist, and Miss Annie A. Watson, the well known pianiste, have also volunteored their assistance. The laudable object of the entertainment is to procure a hpme for the brave Wi-ne-ma, A CHARITY LECTURE. On Sunday evening Hosea B. Perkins lectures in Dr. Brano’s church, Fort Washington, for the benofit of the poor of the vicinity, who are now in want of | charity, SUDDEN DEATHS. | The following deaths were reported at the Corovers’ office yesterday :—Thomas Fitzhenry, aged forty-eight, | of No. 131 Liberty stroct, who fell dead in the hallway of his residence, Monday afternoon; an infant, a fow weeks old, whose body was found in the area of No. | 248 Madison street, by Officer Landerad!, of the Sev- enth preemet; the youngest child of Lous Kipp, of No, 236 avenue A; A. B. Raulin, aged fifty, ot No, 68 West Houston streej, from cerebral lexy; Jose- Phe Beekman, aged twenty-two, of No, 119 West ‘wenty-fourth street; Jobanna Ford, of No, 193 avo- nue C, and M. Warster, of No. 72 avenue B, THE SHAD-POLE WARFARE. | Ata meeting of the Board of Commissioners of Pilots, held yesterday at their office, No. 40 Burling stip, Mr. Ambrose Snow presiding. afid the following gentlemen | being p:esout:—@. W. Blunt, Secretary; R. L. Taylor, 'W. ©. Thompson and Edward Hincken—it was resolved to carry on the warfare against shad-poles with in- | creased edergy this year. The Secretary of the Board Mr. G. W. Blunt, was instracted to Insert notices . - the leading ne' of this city to the effect thay any sbad-poles erecied contrary to law im the waters of the harbor under the jarsdiction of the Board of Com- missioners of Pilots will be removed, and the full pen- alty ($5 a pole) will be inflicted upon the offending par- ties. This shad- warlare bas now been in progress | since 1857. Last year only thirty poles were removed by the Pilot Commissioners; but this year they are to be attacked im the opening days of March, w | customary to commence planting them. JERSEYS RUNAWAY THIEF, David Morris, who made so desperate a dash for Iberty after having robbed tho Gil of Keller's grocery | store, at thecorner ot Greene and Sussex streets, Jersey City, was brought ap for final examination yesterday. A note sent to the prisoner was raterce; aad it roe veaierl the fact that bis real name is Justice Keese committed him for trial. Dolan is a notorious | Uniel ior whom tbe police have beon long im search. | provements on screw propellers for use upon canals. | Committee on Railroads, ’ Mr. McConaughy, an engineer, who has been for | » tine surveying in Pennsylvania and who repre- Newton's Hell Gate work, | mer patiner in busino-s, a AMUSEMENTS. Seeman OLYMPIC THEATRE. Tho entertainment at this house this week 18 as varied a8 could well be desired. The interlades are comic, the act performers amusing, and the pony cit cus by the Carlo children on magnificent litte ponies draws forth loud applause. Link-Look, the Chinese marvel, performs some extraordinary toats and twists his body into such a variety of shapes that many won- der whether he has bones or not in his body. Miss taste. Miss Ada Morgan ts rapidly becoming as great a | | favorite as her sister Jennie by the admirable mannor in whieb ghe sings her ballads. John Hart's nigger in “Cupid the Stupid’ is grotesquely funny. | SEVENTH REGIMENT RECEPTION. A well deserved testimonial was tendered by tho gal- lant Seventh last night to their veteran bandmaster, ©. S, Grafulla, who, for nearly a quarter of a century, bas sapphed them with the best military masic that New York could furnish. The guests did not commence | to arrive until past ten o'clock, and there were misgivings at firet that the attendance would be small, Those unpfeasant anticipations were hap- | pily not fulfilled, as between eleven and twelve o'clock | there was a decided rush, Irving place was quickly | thronged with carriages, the stairs and lobbies re- splendent with rich toilets and gay uniforms, and ere | the first quadriile was reached the floor was well filled, Colonel Emmons Clark, lieutenants Parr and Jobnson and Lieutenant bi mio Gurney, of the Old Guard, and the other officers of the crack corps of our National Guard together with Governor Tiiden’s staif, were prominent among tno military representatives present. A tull baud, under the direction of Grafulla, opened the ball with the “Oberon”? overture irom a stand erected for them at the stage end of the dancing floor, After Grafulla’s dashing Seventh Regiment march was played the band Was removed to their old quarters in the gallery and the dancing com- menced, fhe promenade music mainly consisted of marches composed by Grafulla and dedicated to the various companies of ‘the regiment, The tloor was graced by huge vases of flowers, from which trailing vines depended. There was little indication of the Prevailing financial depress! in business circles to be seen britiiant 0 Toilets of the the gashght, were suf cient guaranteos that Mmo, Fashion the commandant of the gala ys in blue, or rather of their fair partners, last night. It was a flattering tribute of respect and gratitude to the eminent music leader in whose honor the ball was given, MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES. Mr. E. A. Sothern arrived in this city from England yesterday, Mr, Jarrett aud Mr. Tooker leave tor Washington to- day to engage the President for a performance at | Booth’s Theatre at an early date. | Booth's Theatre, management and company will be the guests of Mr, Augustin Daly at the matinée per- formance of “Pique” this afternoon, Miss Josie Tooker, daughter of Joseph H, Tooker, was married last Sunday to Mr. Henry Cook by Dr. | Armitage, who married Mr. Tooker himself, wo believe, some twenty years ago. Two entertainments entitled “St. Valentino's Kettle- drums” will be given at the Seventy-first regiment armory, Broadway and Thirty-Ofth street, on the 12th and 14th inst., in aid of the Samaritan Home for the aged. The hours on the 12th are trom two P. M. to twelve P, M., and on the 14th from ten P, M. to twelve P.M. There will be music by the regimental band, lunch, tea, a Panch and Judy show and dancing, The Home is one of our most worthy charitable institu- tions, non-sectarian in character and managed by some of our most respectable citizens, Among its patrons are Mrs.-James McVickar, the Prosident; Mrs. W. P. Van Rensselaer, Mrs, 8, L. M. Barlow, Mr. Robert T, Howe, Mr. Samuel W. Bridgham, Miss Edith McVickar, Miss Edith May, Miss Adelaide Townsend, Mr. Wood- bury G. Langdon, Mr. Lloyd Aypinwall, Mr. W. W. Astor, Mr. August Belinont, Mr. William Cullen Bryant, Mr. Moses H. Grinnell, Mr. Pierre Lorillard, Mr. Levi P. Morton, Mr. F. W. Rhinelander, Mr. D, Lydig Suy- dam, Mr, Frederic Shelaon. Mr. J. B. Trevor, Mr, Alexander Van Rensselaer, Mr. Robert Winthrop, Mr. Stewart Brown, Mr. George Peabody Wetmore and Mr. John Jacob Astor, The Home 18 at No. 414 West Twenty-second streot. Itis intended for people who | have become destitute late in life, and not for such as would find appropriate refuge in an almshouse. The Home is open to visitors trom nine A. M. to five P. M., and the public are cordially invited. RICHARD WAGNER, [From the London Musical World.) The Ist of August is fixed for the opening of Wag- ner's great performances. Many of the artists con- cerned have arrived at Bayfeuth, Niemann and betz ivare present; they play Wotan and Siegmunde, The part of Brunbilde is tcken by Stgnora Materna, who 1s also at the post, studying and practising with the others, Scaria, from Vienna; Frau Sadiergrun, from Coburg; Wekerlin and Vogel, from Munich; Gura, from Leipsic, and many others have arrived. As we have already stated, a large hotel containing 400 rooms and 609 beds will be opened for the occasion; but all the ac- commodation Bayreuth can offer will no doubt leave hundreds of. visitors camping oat in barns and sheds, stable lofts and ts’ huts, The royal comers, however, will be carefully looked alter; they are to be put up at Bayreuth Castle, by order ot King Louis. The orcvestra numbers 115 imstrumentalists, lar; enough for a theatre. The machinery is now rin An important part of the preparations for the opening has been tinished in the last few weeks, among them the Reconciliation tableau and the sketches of tumes for the Tetralogy. Min, 18 staying at Bayreuth, and has brought with him the chief sketches for ail the oharacters in the four musical dramas, the figures and costumes being col- this masterly incorporation of The glittering forms of the Rhi long flowing garments, sedge and water roves and the exact products of the water depths surrounding the Walkyres in their winged helmets, the Wotan in armor with weapons, holding the music-inscribed spear aud wearing a blue mantle, allegorizing the wido celestial belt over the swift of Stegfreid, the young hero; Alberich, the bateful dwarf—ihe men all in thetr various charactoristic costumes. EGRESS FROM CROWDED BUILDINGS, DOORS TO OPEN OUTWARD—-WHAT PANICS MAY PRODUCE—- PREVENTION BETTER THAN CURE. The deplorable calamity that happened in Robinson's | Opera Honwe, Cincinnati, last Saturday evening, should arouse the attention of the proper authorities in this city as to their duty in reference to the means of egress | from buildings usually attended by large assemblages | Of people, qn occasions of sudden and unexpected poctiq imaginat.on. Baidehe, with their dience were frantically striving to reach the streets the scenes in tho narrow vestibgle—the only passage outof the theatro—as may well be imagined, wero frightful to behold, and that this absence of proper openings in the building was tho chief, if not onty, | cause of the melancholy loss of life that followed. It ‘Was simply the old story renee, and which probabl, will continue to be repeated, until provision for as cint number of entrances, with doors that open or ward are introduced in every such edilice, without exception, It 1s hardly necessary to refer again to the | disaster that occurred in our midst last‘winter, by | which many were burrtedly ushered out of existence and sorrow brought to namerous humble households, | like fatal results, In this city, at feast, there can be | | no excuse for inefficient or imperfect doors, for atten- | tton has been repeatedly called to the subject in the columns: ot ee mye ng te egy arties im of hails, churches, theatres, oe where suck requisite facilities for egress aré not how in existence, would, if only oflcimily requested, promptly supply the deficiency. It is, no doubt, a piece of forgetfulness of an overweening confidence that danger is not possible to occur that prevents them from acting. There are in this city #t the present time a number | of large yom 4 tare constantly, not perivdically, | filied with people, which the entrances are on- | trely too few and in which the doors do not open out- ward. Surely this matter, with the light of past ex- perience, ought to ¢ out a moment's delay, to provide against the disastrous | effects of possible panic. An ounce of prevention is detter than a pound of care, When, in December, 1862, a church io ao took fire while over 3,000 persons ‘were within it# walls it was discoveroa that there was only one doof to the building, and that opened inward. | This was, of course, easily blocked up and made es- cape imporsible, In less than one hour 2,000 men, | women and children perished in the flames. But the | Chilean Congress at once enacted a law providing that allchurehes and other places whore people habitually | assembled in large tumbers should lave sufficient | doors to allow ewilt egress, and that they should open outward, A reform of precisely @ similar charactor should be practically enforced in New York, withoat any exception whatever, before the present ek closes, nabs SOCIETY. The New England Society will give their annual re- ception in Delmonico’s on Wednesday evehing next, Tickets may be bad at Tiffany's, Extenswe prepara. tions are DeDg made, and thé aflair ig expected to come off with much éclat. Fannie Brookes sings her serio-comic songs with much | The per- | formance each night closes with the great Eth an musical sketch of “Old Times South,’’ in which the | whole company appears. ry els that sparkled in | com | Professor Dopler, from Ber- | ered. florr Wagner expressed his liveliest delight at | alarm. It is stated that when the terror stricken au- | nor to a later misfortune in a Massachusetts town with | P | #RALD, and It is Aale to say that the | se Measures to be taken, with- | ed TA AND THE CENTENNIAL VIRGIN CORRECTION BY MR, JAY. To rue Epiron ov tun Henaio:— I beg that you will allow me to correct at once at error which I observe with much regret, in the ase sumption apparently drawn from my remarks on the Vienua Commission, that the irregularities of the man- agement in ghe bunds of a few marked the character of the entire commission. Some of the assistant come missioners who were not connected with the office at New York resigned when they learned the facts. Others, | citizens by birth or naturalization, rendered at Vienna | valuaple service in a difficult emergency, commanding iy personal regard and receiving ny official thanks, Ido not name them for the reason that it seems | especially undesirable at’ this time to associate with | personal issues or personal considerations the causes | of our failure at Vienna, which properly claim attens ' tion at this moment as explaining our loss of reputa- | tion there and as indicating with precision the dangers to be avoided and the success to be achieved at the Centennial, The facts in reference to individuals were by order Of the President investigated by a special commission, and why the oflicial correspondente and report have been withheld from the country is not apparent. The suppression of those f continues to expose to une just imputations gentiemen of the commission whe were absolutely guiltless of all impropriety. Theis suppression has exposed the government in Europe. te even grcator scandals than tho record would disclos@,. for it has assisted the effort to show that, besides the something wrong in the commission which caused the failure of the department, there was a secret come spiracy among high officials of the government to overe throw it; that’ the special commission of investigation: | was (rightfully corrupt, and that one of them, withy | members of the temporary sera." Cannon, Rooseveit and Spang—wero privately inters! ested in American machinery. Tho publication of the record would show the prompt and decided action of the President; the instractionsof the, department ryould exe | hibit a tone and temper befitting the occasion, and the correspondence and evidence would exhibit each tndi< Yidual officer of the government in his right position, fixing upon cach tho responsibility of his own acts and disclosing the causes that led to the scandal, Whiy should not the record bé published? The Chief Commissioner loudly demanded its publication, and his pamphlet expressed the wish (page 5) that Mr, Jay’@ “letters to the Department of State, during the wintes and spring of 1872 and 1873, might have been included in this volume, affording additional evidence, as thof do, of his malice toward the commission and of hig signs to embarrass and defeat its labors.” Let not only thoso letters be added, but my notes to the Chieg Commissioner in person from the time of his appointe ment, and which are also deposited in the State De- partment, Let the record be complete, that this thing may be ended, and that loose charges invented tor » purpose may fade before the truth, The Chief Come missioner’s friends have intimated their readiness fow the publication by declaring thatthe record shows om his part no improper act, The special commission, whiledisapproving his acts, did not pronounce on the Motives that prompted them. The publication would relieve the innocent commissioners of all suspicion of complicity, It would show whether the special com ‘mission was engaged in a conspiracy, whether the temporary commission was secretly interested in mae ehinery, or whether both had peen maligned simply tor obeying the orders of the President and executing his instructions with fidelity and success. The publie cation, disposing of alt issues of fact by the evidenoy of the parties themselves, would leave the people free to scrutinize two principles of action recognized*im the management:—First, in the appointment as come missioners to represent abroad the highest cule ture of tho Republic of men unknown to the Chief Commissioner, dnd whom he deemed .it prus commission. dent to threaten with suspension should he “ber lieve them guilty of any impropriety.” Second, in the adoption of the rule given by the Chief Commissioner to his First Assistant, that he ‘‘could not see any moro impropriety in borrowing from Hitzel(the restaurateur) than from any one else,"# or “from a bank.’? The extent to which the First Assistant reduced ta Practice this instruction will appear from the record as well as from the famphiet (pp. 11, 12 and 13) of the Chief Commissioner, in which he accuses his confidene tial assistant of falsehood and extortion, and of am attempt to rob the government itself, Hitherto our official corruption whieh has so justly alarmed us at home, and which Burke calls “the dry rot of the constitution,” bas scarcely ventured to show itself at foreign courts, With a new century opening before us, with a new International Exhibition giving | us achance to redeem tho opportunity lost at Vienna, | is tt consistent with sound policy, with public morality, with the interests and the honor of the nw tion, to conceal from the American people the causes that resulted in the immoralities disclosed by the governmental investigation at Vienna? With the testimony of the Chief of the commission to the oxe tent of the irregularities committed by his assistant, can the President consistently with his lofty and just ideas of personal honor continue to subject to misrepe resentation those wlio, in answer to his appeals, saved the country from further disgrace, in order to com | coal the extent and nature of the mismanage. ment? Is the precedent a safe one for the future? If the government to-day has the right to conceal the 1m- moralities disclosed by the official investigation at Vi- enna and confirmed by the Chief Commissioner, wha? oficial wroug committed by officers of the Americas government inay not be concealed by that governmeni from the scrutiny of the people? JOUN JAY. 22 Wasnincton Square, Feb, 7, 1876. GEN. GRANT'S VIRGINIA RELATIVES, COLONEL THOMAS B, SWANN'S LETTER. [Charfeston (W. Va.), Feb. 3, correspondence of the Cincinnati Commercial.) Many things have contributed to unite the family @ the President more intimately witn his Virginia rela tives than with any other of his kinsfolk, Mra | Thompkins has ever been tho favorite aunt of U. & Grant, While a young cadet at West Point, and afters wards while in tho army during the civil war, he wam nover 80 preoccupied bat that he always found time to keep up an affectionate correspondence with his doting and most estimable aunt. This correspondence is kept up to this day, and, as above stated, ripened into com summating a long-felt and oxpressed desire to visit hig aunt, right in the midst of his important due | ties in Washington, and, I may add, at Long Branch, | He hes shown | every disposition to aid hw West Virginia relatives by throwing them ropes of nepotism. Has given Charles P. Thompkini | a marshalship in Colorado, and @ son-in-law of hi aunt, Oliver A. Patton, is now Land Register for Utah, Hoth were in the Southern army. It is said, too, that he has repeatediy offered Colonel Thomas BH. Swann, | also an ex-Confedorate, sinecures in consulships, &c, | Dut that Swann’s game was largor, and he wished | something moro comm: vate with his deep affection elfimagined capacity for being an Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipo- In ought he was peculiarly fitted for something resplendent and dazzling, like Steinber- © Prince of the Samoan Isiex, &c. At all events, Swann 1s always the guest of the rked to some friends belore wing Here, about ten days that he would “find out ‘all about the third term” — be- fore he got back home, He returned @ weok ago, and rashes into print with a sort of exultant veni, vidi, vict/—nat an imappheable ery when we come to think of it thatitis of * There is no doubt of it that during that cosey family dinner at the White House Grant gave Uolonel Swann Tight to believe that those “public exigencies’? (seo hie | last message) had arisen. Postprandial converse cag most always be relied om. Im vino veritas! There | may be shrewder diplomatists anda many would-be | “confidential friends” of the President, but thei Penetration into tho “trae inwardness” of the ‘Great | Sileat” of the Waite House pales into insignificance when compared with the subtic success of Colonel advantage at a private family | dinner. If there was anything needed to add to the | well settled convietion rant is or will be a can | date for third term honors, this letter of Swat affords it, It comes trom @ conversation with Grant tor the President and bi: | Swann in pressing | bimeelt, BROOKLYN'S CHARITY BUREAU. The republicans and a few democrats of Kings county | have been for some months past engaged in farthering ascheme by which the public charities, now adminis- tered by five democratic commissioners, who were elected for a term of thi years, will be reorganized, It is proposed to appoimt twelve citizens, whe will, without pay, perform the duties of that departnea?, object | Wii that attendance at @ ft Music Sature be hecoscary in the project. The pill proposed provides that Mayor Behroeder, County Judge Moore ani Surrogate Veeder Shall appoint the twelve charity trustees,