The New York Herald Newspaper, March 2, 1876, Page 6

6 . THE STATE CAPITAL, A Lively Talk Over the “No Seat | No Fare” Bill. VIEWS OF STREET RAILROAD PRESIDENTS. A Long Catalogue of Objections to the Measure. PASSAGE OF THE PAUPER CONVICT BILL. ALBasy, March 1, 1876, Tho Railroad Committee of the Assembly held a ses- ion late this afternoon and considered among other bills the Killian ‘*No seat no fare’? bill, Henry M. Scribner, a New York lawyer, appeared on behalf of the city railroad ear companies, aad argued from the figures, given in sworn reports for 1874 to the State Engineer by the various companies, that the companies would have no income at all if they were compelled to put on additional cars and horses and try to give every passenger a seat, Asa sample of what the the Third avenue road in 1874 4 8-10 cents per passen- ger, and the average receipts was 514 cents, Each pass- enger in that vear cost the Eighth avenue road 4 3-10 cents, each car required eight horses a day, and ten to supply the eight—whatever that may mean, $20,000 per mile to lay iron rails, and $30,000 for steel rails, and instead of $415,000 for stables, &e., the Third avenue real estate for stables, &c., cost $1,536,000, The rate of wages also had been increased since 1860, | and hay and oats were very dear. Peally not making much money. Mr. West, the chairman of the committee, asked how it happened, if the railroad business was so poor, that so many persons were anxions to get into it? Mr. Seribner cond not account for this, but he went on to say that if a signal to indicate that the cars were full was put on the cars an additional employé would dave to be en vach car. He claimed that the bill in its first section tompelled the companies to do what the second section made a penal offence, The cause of the overcrowd- The roads were | | repealed, and took a microscopic view of “at sed by the companies to attend to iton | ing of the cars was that most of the people in New York went to and left their | places of business about the same time. It would be Impossible, he contended, to place more cars on the rarious lines than are now there, and he instanced as an argument to prove this that on West Broadway the tars were nearly always within a few feet of each other, and that on the sate track from Canal to Vesey street. It would be impossible to lengthen the cars, as if longer than at present they could not turn at the curves. If made double deckers they would be top heavy and liable to accidents. He stated that the reason why be bad pot quoted the figures as to number of passengers carried by ports of 1875 was because he had not had access to them, When asked what remedy there could be for the over- trowding of the cars, he replied that rapid transit roads the New York city companies from the re- | profits of the companies are as a rule he said that itcost | Were not that 1 year, and that at ceriam «ware o ae u8¥ to ride at all one must get on a crowded car, But by law compel the companies to put on more cars, and be guaranteed there would be little heard about any company going out of the rail- road business because it wouldn't pay. 1t was once |, when gates were put on the front platforms of of the cars, that passengers would climb over , but they never did. Then as to the horse cur | 3 that the only solution to Problem was rapid transit. He conceded that rapid transit was the great want of the city, but | the suggestion by the borse car companies was only a dodge to deter the Legislature from taking action on It was the cars, | run- the bil! under consideration by the commute. as much as to say:—Gentlemen, what's use of compelling us to run more the rapid transit will be soon Bing, and th have more chough cars to accommodate all who want to ride in horse cars,” That would, Mr, Killian said, answer very well if these companies would go right to work and help rapid transit along, bat they were all at heart Opposed to rapid transit. They had worked against it jor years, used money to defeat it for yea ud were as bitter pow against it as they ever were, They now say that rapid transit is the on'y remedy for the present overcrowding of the cars If o this plea the bill under consideration was defeated the horse car companies would redouble their energy to defeat rapid transit. If they were honest in their belief that rapid transit could alone relieve the people of New York trom the misery | they have to suffer in the horse cars, Jet their actions speak for therr belief. | The companies claim, through Mr. Scripner and Mr. Sullivan, that they would be only too glad to seo Tupid transit a suceess, in order to relieve them from the necessity of carrying through passengers, | from whose fares they derive no profit, and yet it was an undeniable fact that the Third Avenue road was doing ali that it, possibly could to prevent a rapid transit elevated road being built on Third avenue. Mr. Killian concluded by saying the merits of the bill spoke for themselves. te was a measure for the benefit of the travelling pudite, especially in New York, if it e horse car companies would not op- pose it, SPECIE RESUMPTION, The Resumption act resolution introduced last Fri- day by Mr. Fish was called up to-day. Mr. Fish made a little speech in advocacy of the resolution. He castically remarked that he was confident that every member of the House, regardless of politics, was heartily in favor of the Resumption act, and that, ai our representatives in Congress were just now in great | need of outside support in their eflorts to define their | policy on the currency question, the passage of tho | Tesolution would be very welcome to them. Mr. Sloan followed by alluding to the dangers which would beset business if the Resumption act were to be of uncertainty” that would be *inseperable vin over: tradh talked impressively about “the bardpan basis," &e., avd then resumed his seat with the air of ainan who had done his duty nobly, and wh: if the country should at sotwe period not tant go to the dogs, generally, because of the inflation theories of some of the democratic leaders, he, at last, would go down to posterity with “a 'bardpan basis” carved on his tomb stone that would not require the attention of an ‘Old Mortality’? until the milenium of the nation had come to pass, ‘The democrats, with a wisdom that was remarkable be- cause of its unexpectedness, said nota word about the | resolution, and poor Fish, whose maip object in intro- ducing it was to get them intoa fight over it among | themselves, looked ruefully disappointed when a long | pause ensued after Mr. Sloan had stopped speaking. It | was an awkward pause, but Burleigh came to the rescue finally by calling the “yeas and nays.” All the | democrats with five exceptions, and ail the republicans | but one, voted for it, | THE LAW OF MURDER. | ‘The law of murder is destined to get a severe over- hauling before the session over, judging irom the y bills that have thus tar been introduced to amend ‘he bill whieh passed the Senate two weeks ago, hich yet hangs fire in the House, or rather which seems tocare about ‘moving’? as yet, will un- doubtedly if passed be a vast improvement’ over the Present section of the law which it amends, for when it becomes-a law lawyers will no longer be able to mystify a jury about the “intent” of a man who, while in the commission of a felony, kills another, Under the present Jaw the section is’ rather a mixed one, but the change proposed 1s to make the killing of | a man by another, while the latter is, for instance, could alone solve the problem. The horse car companies | made no money trom passengers who travelled the full length of the routes, but depended in reality for their prolits upon the fares received trom passengers who only travelled short distances. Mr. Kilian inquired if the horse car companies would be in favor of rapid transit roads that would take the through passengers away from them, “They would be,” answer ‘cribner, “Then, according to your a "said Mr. Killian, “the very people upon whose fares the horse-car com- panies depend for their income—that is those who travel short distances detter accommodation, in iact, every way than if the througl passengers had also to take the horse cars?” “hey would, ot course,’? was the reply of Mr. Scribner. “thea, how is it,’ asked Killian, “that for the past lve years the horse-car companies have thrown all any tO secure a rapid transit road for» Mr. Sersbner rephed that he thought that people were mistaken when they believed the horse car companies were tnunical to rapid transit, “Is it not a fact,” asked Mr. Killian, “that the Third avenue road is doing ali it can pow to prevent the es- tablishment of an elevated road on Third avenue? if jhat is so,” he added, “and the horse car companies do aot make any mone of through passengers, 13 their Dpposition uot a litile singular,” Mr. Scribner was rather nonplussed at this question, and again deuied, much to the amusement of the com- Mitter, apparently, that tne horse car companies were ppposed to rapid transit. Mr. Sullivan, President of the Brooklyn City Rail- road Company, followed Mr. Scribner in his opposition to the Dill, and based bis the same grounds as Mr. that his comp arguments pretty much on mbner had based his, He ny, Whose jurisdiction ex- bs of road, received about 10 cents per passenger, 1aving a protit, therefore, only seveu-tentis of a cent on each ‘passenger, yet in answer to questions put by Mr, West, he said that the company had paid as high a aividend as four- teen per cent, and the last aividend declared was twelve per cent, “Yet you contend,” remarked Mr. claimed of would be certain to get seats, | and used their movey to defeat every | committing a burglary, murder in the firat degree; no matter whether the burglar intends to kill or not, if he does kill, he must hang. To-di Mr. Russell, of Wayne, introduced an adaitional amend- | ment which provides that hereafter tue killing of a , human being by another shall at the utmost be oniy murder in the secona degree where the evidence against the murderer is purely circumstantial or given ex- clusively by the accomplice, It is quite doubtful | whether this amendment will be reporteu favorably by | the Judiciary Committee. PASSAGE OF THE PAUPRR-CONVICT BILL, ‘The bill, already passed the Assembly, providing for | the employment of pauper and convict labor under | ontrol of the Commissioners of Public Charities and | Correction of New York, passed the Senate, amenued in the first section so as to read that “ut shali also bo | the duty of said Commissioners to employ the said convict and pauper labor, ¥o lar as in their judgment | may be practically and advantageously done, in such branches ot industry, and in such a diversity thereof, as may tend least to conflict with «he interes! of free outside industries and trades in said city and | county.’ The amendinent is Mr, Gerard’s, with the | exception of the words ‘so far asin their judgment,” | supplied by Mr. Woodin, The bill, as it vow stands, ds not calculated to give alarm to the mechanics of New York. Discretionary power being given the Commis- stoners, they can avoid irritating the sensibilities of the outside working people by confining the paupers and convicts to the old task of breaking stone. SINNOTT’S APPOINTMONNT, | Senator Bixby will offer a resolution to-morrow call- ing on the Governor for his reasons in withbolding the nomination of Sinnott, who has been appuinted and hagtaken his seat on the Marine Court bench, in place of Sie late Judge Spaulding. According to the Revised Statutes, the appointment to fill a vacancy in the Ma- | rine Court shail be made in the same manner as when | a vacancy is to be filled in the Superior Court, and that, | | according to the constitution, ean only be done with the advice and consent of the Senate. LEGISLATIVE NOTES. Tho hotels of New York are trequently victimized by aclass of bummers indigenous to all jarge ci live by their wits, and are often successful 1 | ing free board and lodging for weeks together by cheek West, “that the company could nut make money by | putting on many additional cars.” “1 do,” was the reply. all l’ye got to say,” said Mr, West, in bis dry ‘you're doing a better business than Iam, and f I would be doing a smashing business 1 I got twelve per cent on iny investments.” Mr, Sullivan said’ that vetween the Ist of October, 1874, and the Ist of Ocvober, 18) this road bad car- Tied 29,000,000 passengers, and bad run trips enough to carry every passenger seated to Fulton ferry, with the exception of one and a halfon each halttnp. He believed that it would bo impossivle to enforce the provisions of the bill if it became a law, as people would rash on to the cars and stand and crush in under to get home, even if they Knew they could get & seat by taking a car two minuces later than the they crowded into where there were no seats, If the Dili becaie a taw it would break every horse car com- pany in New York and Brooklyn. AS Mr. Sullivan sat down Mr, West asked, “What is the stock of your r pted at?” “One hundred and e was the answer. Mr, Killian then spoke in favor of the bill, He said that it was true there were two sections in the bill that were contlicting, but that was an oversight made when it was drawn mittee, of wh mber, to rectify. There were certain other defects tn the bill which bo knew the railroad companies would make the most of, but then he proposed to remedy it so that the cor panies would have little chance to escape tts mandatory provisions by a technicality, He said that Mr. Sorib- her's argument was the best that could be offered against the bill, because it was the old story of the companies under a new coat of varnish; that and nothing more. The figures that had been quoted, the statements that had been given to show what a losing operation, at the best, it was to run a horse car com- pany in New York, had all been culled from the books of the companies, and no one at all familiar with the in- genious way railr their statements and reports would be at all surprised to hear that it was justas much as the companies could do to keep from going into bankruptcy. But these figures and statements given were not sup- ported by the ailidavits of a single officer of any of the Toads, Mr. Scribner had stated that they were based upon the reports made to the State Engineer, yet thongh figures are said never to lie there were many ways by which totals, purporting to tell all about “maintenance,” counsel fees, “operating the ruad,” & did not cover all the figures on both sides of the com: panies’ books, though on their face they may look plausible enougn. It it were a fact that the horse car companies had to economize so as had been stat he asked, how could the fact be accounted for that it was almost an impossibil- ity to buy a share of the stock of any of the large roads, Mr. Sullivan had said that this road had to be con- Gucted with great economy, yet the stock of the road was quoted ut 180, and a dividend of twelve per cont had been declared. He declared that the opposition of the companies to the bill was prompted by pecuniary greed, He was ready to concede that it they put on more cars, and had to employ more help than they now have as a consequence, they would not be able to make as much money as they now do, but that they would not make any money at all he would not concede, Companies whose stock was so valuavle thi had Jarge surpluses, out of which they were able to de- clare large dividends—had a good margin to work on and yet be in pocket handsomely by giving the people more cars and better accommodation generally. The people in New York bad submitted patiently to the treatment they had received at the hands of the companies long enough, and the time had come when they were determined not to be used Ii tle any longer, Even as it is, at hours of the day when travel was at it@ greatest, numbers ot cars were allowed to stand idle at the depot which could be used, knowing that if they could not get acar with seats the 8, 10 g home at all, must cling on to already crowded cars, and that by feventy in acar, who ought to be di cara, Would save them the expense of an extra c ductor and driver and two horses, the companies let the crowding go on. It was ridiculous, he said, to contend that the provisions of the bill as to seats could not be euiorced because, for instance, a thousand persons should happen to come out of Booth's Theatre, and all want to ride, Every one knew that not one hundred $n a thousand under the circumstances took a car, The aim of the bill was to make the companies run more ears, and on better time, and give the passengers accommodation. It was no argument to say that the 5 ite the law, would get on crowded cars. Brey y will. They know the compauies havo their own way, and only run as few as they can 60 as 10 make a greater dividend at the end of the ributed and tisrepresentation. To puta stop to the practice Senator Morrissey introduced a bill making 1t a penalty of $1,600 fine or five years’ imprisonment for any one caught engaged in thos deirauding botel and ino keepers. The F ishkill and Newburg Railroad Company have | | applied, throngh a bill iptroduced by Mr, St, John, for | to ask the com. | “i companies in New York made out | wuthority to Vuild a bridge across the Hudsow north of | Fishkill Landing. In executive session of the Senate a number of notaries were confirmed, and some time was spent in discussing the romoval of the injunction ot secrecy | trom the proceedings relative to the case of Canal Au- | ditor Schuyler and Judge Southworth in executive | session. | The discussion was a waste of time, as all concerning | Southworth and Schuyler that transpired in secret ses- | ston has already been’ published, | By the report of the trustecs of the Sailors’ Snug | Harbor it appears that the receipts from all sources, in- elusing cash in Marine Bank and Manhattan Company, are $536,108 64; estimated income for year 1876 from all sources, $286,677 50. F The report of the 8 ary of State on pauperism shows that during 18 Sol paupers were reheved | in the State at a cost of $2,732,659. The poorhouses have increased in value sinee they were first purchased 2. The amount saved by pauper labor was $4) The average weekly expense for supporting each pauper was $1 42. During the year 4,222 died, and M4 were born in poorhouses, Of the persons ro- lieved and supported, 120,235 were foreigners and | 87,408 natives of the United States, From the Committee on Cities Senator Woodin re- ported favoraliy the bill securing justice and tair deal- ing between the local government of the city of New | York and its emptoyés, and also the bill, introduced Monday evening, by Senator Booth, securing the pay- ment to the New York Fire Department relief fund of a third of the proceeds of the benevolent fund of the | late Volunteer Fire Department. The bill to establish a State Board of Audit to take charge of claims against the State which it isno longer within the power of the Legislature to settle was favor- ably reported from the Finance Committee by Senator Harris. | Comptroller Green's platoon of bills are not moving forward with that even, steady step which was hoped for by their supporters. The bill legislating O'Done- | bue, Wilhamson and Martin out of the Park Commis- very much | it could not be had on the market—that yearly | img it all to Colonel Stebbins, 18 provoking pidly widening fight. The vill has several active d Strenaons supporters in the Assembly, but outside here is a fast accumulating volume of opposition, The Excise Commiss‘oners’ bill, extending their rom the 30h of April next, giv- ing them the exciusive direction of arrests to be made in violation of the Excise law and fixing the lowest rate | of the license feos at $50 and the highest at $100, has been introduced by Mr. Watts. The provisions of the Dill were fully given in the HeRatp yesterday. Under the present law a charge of bribery at clee- tions must be brought against the alleged offender within three years atier the commission of the offence, Mr. Hogeboom has tntroduced a bill to limit this term to one year, with the view of allowing new cases to be begun promptly instead of having old cases hanging on until outlawed. | It Mr. Patten’s dill, which he has introduced, be. | comes a law, ex- Warden Tracy’s bills for maintaining | prisoners in Lodiow Streot Jail, ia 1871, will be looked into by the Common Council, and, if found correct, | the Aldermen will have authority to order their pay- | ment, | The new Jefferson Market bill, fosterod by 0. J. | | | Campbell, bas been referred to the Committee on cities, THE BLERCKER STREET RAILROAD. The bill to repeal the Bleecker Street Ratiroad act of 1874 was considered in the Railroad Committee this afternoon, The receiver appeared by his counsel, Mr, | | Hermann Kobbi, before the committee to urge the rrying sixty or | ying adoption of the bill, Mr. Kobbt recited the method by whieh the stock and bonds were given away, and recounted the legisia- | the char rights grew ceiver ‘a young g Mr. Southworth y lie was twenty seven The Chairman of the commitice, Mr. West, of Sara- toga, said he hada son who Was a’ thorough’ business man'and he was ouly twenty-one. There was some lively sparring between counsel, and the argument be- came quite personal before the bearing ended. THE LORBY INQUIRY. Mr. Straban will, to-morrow, make his report in the Investigation into the lobby plans to deteat the Bergh Balt bi Th finas bo corrupt bargains on any | member, w that Mr. Strahan sebarge that | a loboy nan (Edwards) went to New York to get tho railroad companies to put up money to defeat the bill ‘was based.on fact. The maim portion of the report ts ‘a dissertation on the lobby and its evil induences. NEW YORK HERALD | Bowen would not respond in person to the summons | counerl. | I move that M , THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 1876.—WITH Ss PLYMOUTH’S TROUBLES, A Lively Meeting in the) Church Last Night. BEECHER AND BOWEN FACE TO FACE. The Accusing Member Still Re- | fuses to Reveal. tae SCATHING REJO. DER BY THE PASTOR. The brethren had a lively time at Plymouth church | last evening. At the last business meeting of the church it was resolved to call H. C. Bowen before the congregation to answer su«” juestions, touching the moral character and rectitude of Mr. Beecher, as might be propounded to him. It was believed that Mr, of the church, but to the surprise of everybody Mr. | Bowen did attend, and assisted very materially in | | enlivening the proceedings, Owing to the adoption | of the ticket system for admission a crush was avoided, nearly all who gained entrance being able to obtai seats, Mr, Bowen came in at precisely half-past seven and ‘was accompanied by bis four sons and by the Rev. Dr. Ward, of the Independent. The party entered by the Cranberry street door and occupied seats near the plat- form, Mr, Bowen worp a plain black suit of clothes, a large diamond pin and a placid countenance, Dr, Ward was serene and the young men of the party seemed in an excellent mood for the approaching entertainment. On the left of the platform and in a commanding position sat Mr. Beecher, Mr, Shearman, Mr. B F. ‘Tracy and Mr, Blair, | THK ANDOVER APPEAL ANSWERED. The proceedings were opened by prayer by Brother | Reuben Ropes, after which Mr. Beecher read a letterfin reply to the Andover church epistle, calling for a mutual The document stated that Piymouth chureh would have replied to their brethren of Andover at an carlier day had it not been that the Advisory Council was in session when their letter was received. In accordance with the advice of this council Plymonth church can- not comply with the Andover request, but if Andover has any information touching the matters spoken of ‘hon Plymouth will be glad to have such information laid before the ‘Scandal Committee” of five recently appointed. i The letter was adopted by the church, and it will be forwarded to Audover, The moderator announced the real object of the meet- ing, and on motion of Mr. Beecher directed that the regular business be proceeded with, and called upon the clerk for ihe reading of the reso- lutions adopted at the last’ meeting During the reading Mr. Beecher took a chair and sat beside lis wife, who occupied a position very near the Bowen party. ‘He was evidently agitated, and bis face was very red. Mrs, Beecher was quite cool and im- passive, At the conclusion of the reading Mr. Beec moved that the Exumining Committee and the moder tor conduct the questioning, and that, after they were done, any member could propound a question by first submitting it to the moderator in writing. ‘rhe motion ‘wus carried, Mr, Tilney suggested that Mr. Bowen be invited to take a seat upon the platform, and upon that gentle- man declining Mr. Tilney proceeded to state that he would like toask Mr, Bowen at what Ume any facts came to his knowledge affecting the moral character of the pastor, SPRKCH OF MR. BOWEN, | Mr. Bowen said in measured toues:—Mr. Chairman, the essential facts required of me are in the hands of | the Examining Committee. Ifthe church wants them all it has to do 1s to demand them of that committee, So long as the church refuses to hear what it has in its own hands, 1t is mere bravado to ask | for more. A dead silence ensued, and the assemblage awaited the next development with apparent anxiety, Mr, Tilney then said that yet not a single fact had been received from Mr. Bowen, At this the audience cheered loudly. Mr. Tilney went on to say ‘What we want ana the only fact wo want are ail the facts concerning which he has made inpuendoes or msinuations.”’ Mr. Tilney resumed bis seat, and Mr, Bowen arose and con(ronted his auditors with a calm countenance, He said:—Mr. Chairman, I ask your attention to | this communication. By this time my position in this matter is or ought to be well understood by you. Your examining committee bas sought evidence to convict me of slandering the pastor. They failed to find it, | judging from their tactics, They then summoned mo | to meet them and reply to a complaint that I had the moral character of Mr. Beecher and that when | | allowed people to believe that [ knew something against | the question came up I evaded a direct reply. The charge against me was so far true, I bad been then questioned and had evaded a direct reply, It was not my fault that people bad an impression that I had such kuowledge. | did know what was sufficient to convince me of Mr. when put into a corner could about it, so was compelled to Jet the consequences fall where they wonld. Thi me and they fell on Mr. Beecher. They tell on me asa penalty for my indiscretion in having once, under Peculiar circumstances of excitement, poured my con- Beecher'’s guilt, and | not T he j | | | At this point Mr. Blair rose to a point of order. Ho | claimed then Mr, Bowen had not been invited there to read written documents, but to answer orally such questions as might be putto him concerning his as- sociativns and insinuations against the pastor. Rossiter W. Raymond suggested that Mr, Bowen be allowed to proceed. The latter said:—'1 think breth- | ren of Plymouth chureh that when I get through with | | fidence into a leaking vessel. | this you’ will feel the pertinency of its being read in your hearing to-mght. i] Mr. Beecher arose and said:—I do not think that we | aro exactly inthe nature of a court, A churen isa household, We have no judicial power strictly, and no | primitive power. The whole power of the chutch con- | sists in influence on the ono side, and when that does no good than it has power to clear itself irom responsibility, That's all. There- fore, when any brother in the church (especially when one that has been so long a member as Mr, Bowen) bas occupied the relations which he has to this church, even if he be out of order, or if we be not pleased with | his method of transacting the business he has in hand, | I think, as a matter of courtesy and kindness, | he should to have his own way. Bowen be allowed to proceed. Mr. Bowen proceeded as follows:—The Examining Committee compelled me against my will to tell what was the resaun of my silence. [told them | had knowl- edge which satisfied me that Mr. beccher had been an impure man, and that betore any proper tribunal T be allowed would testity to essential facets, th zh 1 never would be base enough to allow’ the namo to vruited before the world. Taking antage of | what I bad thus said, and trading on my honor and faithfulness in protecting any such name from ex- ure, Your committve with great flourish then de mandei all names and part.culars. [ offered to give them to an houorable tribunal, constituted for secrecy, | and to abide by the result; but my pro: posal was declined At last I’ did appear be- fore even that committee aud gave the es sential facts with such particulars as to prove either that I willully fabricated them or that I had good reuson to know that Mr. Beecher had sinned, as I satd he bad, I refused to answ tions publicly whieh would expose co Was al. | tempted to compel me, and sh reiused, alter seeing how Mra. ‘Tilton has suifered. I retused, | at no matier what muige to myself, to put | y other woman in the sime position. You m - | mand it eternally, but my seuse of honor forbids me to | consent, and | would rather let iny name go down to the grave covered with undeserved shame, as it has been soiled with the fonlest and fulsest abuse all these years, belore I will do what you bid me Lat, fellow members of Plymouth church, | have at- ready made you a fair proposition, It is that betore three such earnest, Impartial men ast have mentioned 1 will, without reserve, give all those facts and conveal no circumstances and no names whie have con- vinced e beyond tbe possibility of a doubt of Mr. Beecner’s gnilt. And 1 so jar modily | my former proposition as to say that 1 will consent to ther publishing all the facts that seem to them best, omitting only the names and the identtiying cireumstances, and that I will agree to abide by public decision whether I was justified in my convictions of bis guilt and in my silence aud in my | speech, No matter whether Plymouth church or Mr Beecher abide by it or not, I agree to abide by it, The facts enn be had in this way or vy a suit for libel, to which I can be compelied to respond. | Mr. Bowen sat down, amil profound silenee, the | Moderator and ushers having gained complete control | of the audience, Mr. Tilney now repeated his question, claming that Mr. Bowon’s statement was in no way au answer. Mr. Bowen then asked to hear the question a third time, | and, on hia request being complied with, he said:— “You bave asked me for facts that come to my Knowledge, That would imply that I knew that mo ramor which | heard wasa fact. If you wish me when I first heard rumors that were afloat and ti of a good many people, | am willing to an- en to answor the | vid he was abso- | couvineed in his mind that there were circum: which pointed very elearly vo Mr, Beck f 857 or T855, ‘Tho Moderator insisted on a repty to the direct ques- tion, but Mr, Bowen said that they knew full weil that he hat refused absointely to answer the he still sivod b ach relusal, few lines to read,” said Mr, don't want to be unreasonable, want to conovel the reasons for my actions. It was decided to allow Mr. Be question any way he chose, and bh lately It 18 cer- tainly no bevellt to me to be sileni, but 1 must and I yroveet (hese names to the best of my power. But the names and particulars, and 1f nds them."’ Here he turned to | “Do you, sir?” en you get through, sir, wil it you still dema 1 again turned to the audience and con- Particulars, and if Mr. Beecher demands | sume | to go down damped by his own action. | suggested | to the following effect, first, that he violated his cove- | christian, | aman who has tried to stop swearing by his ow! “Lf you still demand the names and all the | lerge ball, was presided over by Rev. whem, I willdo | Tyng, this: I will to-night—at this moment—meet Mr. Wilham Mackay, E. H. Garbuttand S. V. White alone, or in the presence of Mr, Beecher im an adjoining room and there give to them the facts in my which long ago convinced me that Mr. WEECHER 18 AN ADULTERER, I shall only require that these gentlemen shall pre- serve the names and identifying circumstances secret. And I shall make no req! of them for any action in the case, leaving that to their discretion and to yours. Will you accept this offer #”? Mr. Shearman moved that the members named be- appointed a committee, and at once retire to listen Mr. Bowen's statement. ’ Mr. Blair opposed the motion, and Mr, Beecher, taking part in the debate, said, ‘I would like to know whether this matter is to be secret? I m willing to go with Mr. Bowen betore this mmittee, provided 1 have the liberty of defending seit by proclaiming who the parties are. (Ap- ate of things is this, that piause.) Now, the pecuhar ain facts’ are alleged to have taken place, under the pretence that he wil not give the name of the woman who occupied herself so long and in detail ip narraung to him the indecent circum: | stance alleged—under the pretence of not giving her | name, he leaves the names of not a few women ex- posed to deadly suspicion. It falls on one, or another or another, and the tongues of men are busy with thése names already. Now somebody's name ought to be authenticate I, -so far as that ts con- cerned, protest against secresy. 1 have nothing to gain by it, Those that work in the dark and keep in | the dagk have, but J have none, and, therefore, any plan b¥ which either the tribunal or this self-appointed committee are to receive this information, bound not to divulge it, is a plan that Lane be thonght best by the brethren of the church, but I don’t think it best, Mr. White said he would not serve on the committee | f ho was to be bound to secrecy. Mr. Mackay said—I am a ieaky vessel and cannot keep a secret, I have a wife who is always pumping while awake 1 me, and what she does not get out of | unwittingly tell m my sleep, Mr. Garbutt also objected to serve on the committee, for the reasons expressed by the other two gentlemen. IT 18 BAD KNOUGIL, r. Beecher eaid:—{ think itis bad enough as it been, I think itis bad enough for a man to sit at the communion tabie from ten to filteen years, peniakiog of the bread and wine at my nands, all the time knowing, as he says, that I was an aduiterer, It is bad enough that whenever business difficulties came to a head this matter was darkly intimated to megnd another fev It is bad enough that 1 was the editor by re- newed contracts and by obligations. It is bad enough that during al! that time he (Bowen) expressed himself in the most cordial manner to me. It 1s bad enough that a stigina, ‘resting on unknown person, floated from ono to another. Itis bad enough that now when the matter is to be brought to a head that he wishes to condemn to eternal ignominy, by the breath of the accuser, be- hind her back, by giving her presence only under such circumstances she is helpless, the victim of his slander, So monstrous 80 outrageous a wrong done to any innocent woman I have not known, and I am willing, not oniy to go be- fore that committee, if the person implicated may come by counself and avail herself of the right of questioning. Tam willing. He it is who har stabbed in the dark for twenty years, who is unwilling, Mr, Shearman favored sending the matter before the commitice ot three proposed by Mr. Bowen, ‘I want,’? said he, ‘the names of the ladies who may be accused, if they arc dead or alive (and they are not alive) to be brought out by Mr. Bowen, or else I want Mr, Bowen M has At this Mr. Herbert Bowen sprang from hi: and, with glaring eyes and clinched fists, was ap- rontly going to strike Mr, Sbearman, when his father and one of his brotbers caught hold ot him and brougit him back to his seat Afier considerable. further discussion a resolution was adopted to the effect that Mr. Bowen be granted the privilege of going betore the committee of three, as he had requested, but the motion stipulated that | any partres other than Mr. Beecher who might be ac- cused should be allowed to have a iriend or counsel with them, Mr, Bowen refused positively to submit to this, Mr, Shearman moved that the Committee of Three | be instructed to wait on Mr, Bowen and summon him | before them. This was done, each member of the com- mittee going to Mr. Bowen and summoned bim in per- son, He refused, however, to go. Everybody now secmed at a loss to decide what to do, | but Mr. Shearman offered three or four amendinents, y the Advisory Council, to the rules, re- ferring to dropping membera. They were adopted, THE CHARGES AGAINST Mi. BOWBN, Mr. Tilney here read the report of the Examining Committee, which contained tive charges, with speci- fications, which had been preferred against Mr. Bowen nant with the church in not having either affirmed or denied when he knew anything damaging to the pastor’s character; secondly, with un- disreputable and dishonorable con- duet im the matter of bis not answering the Exatwining Committee of the church, before whom ho had been summoned. The third charge against Mr, Bowen was that of falsehood; the fourth, with having slandered the pastor, and the fifth charge accused Mr. Bowen with ubebristian conduct im violating his cov enant with the church in bis action last night in de- clining to answer the questions of the committee, Upon motion of Mr. Blair, Messrs. E. A. Pratt, Samuel Belcher, Ripley W. Ropes, E. A. Seccomb and c. T, Christiansen were appoiuted a special committee to consider these charges. The meeting then adjourned till after the prayer meeting on Friday night. BEECHER-TILTON JURORS. The Law Committee of the Kings County Board of Supervisors yesterday reported in favor of awarding extra compensation to the Beecher-Tilton jurors, but did not recommend the’amount, The Board will set- tle the question at a further mecting, MOODY AND SANKEY. At the noonday services yesterday in the Hippodrome the attendanco was Iarger than it bas been tor four or five days previous at the same hour. The services opened with the singing of the 113th hymn, commenc- ing— Not all the blood of beasts On Jewish altars slain. Rey, A. C Arnold read the requests for prayer. Prayer was offered up by the Rey, William Kil- patrick, after which Mr. Sankey and the congregation sung the eighty-eighth hymn— Guide me, ob, Thou Great Je! ! Mr, Moody then came forward and announced that | tho subject for the day was, “What Is It to | Believe in Cnristt’’ Ho said:—The whole Gos- | pel of Jobn centres on that point —belief. Some people, instead of believing in the Word of God, and trusting to that Word, are looking into themselves and tnding what they believe, and their minds are swayed here and there by all sorts of doubts and perplexities, They are not looking to be- heve in Him. They are looking for something con- nected or about Him on which to place their faith. They say they do not feel right; ut salvation is above allfeehng. Trust Him, oh, my Iriends, 1 trust Him, and if fle stay mo Twill still trust Him. So many ot us are looking for miracles nowadays; bot what greater | miracles do we want than are pervormed in this place every day, When we see sinners who have sunk to the lowest depths of degradation lifted up by the mercy of Christ, and their bvarts filled with joy and peace and Jove of Jesus? And there ts not ope among you who will bring your heart to accept Christ who will not be lifted up and go out with tho satisfaction of knowing that if you will keep Him you will be saved. Mr. Moody was followed by the Rev, F. H. Marline andthe Rev. Mr. McAllister, who continued on tho same theme at some length. After the singing of the forty-fifth bymwn, ‘More than life tome,” by Mr. San- key and choir, the meeting closed with the benediction from Mr, Moody. From one o'clock yesterday till a quarter to twon young men's meeting was held in the small room be- Uween the Madison avenue and Fourth avenue halis. | About 600 persons took part in it. EVENING SERVICES. In spite of the unfavorable weather about 7,000 peo- ple were at the Hippodrome services last evening, fll- yng the large hall and making a large overflow meeting im the Fourth avenue ball, Mr. Moody announced that the subject for to-day’s noonday meeting would be “Grace,’? and for to-morrow ‘‘Intemperance,’” and ‘he urged = all, = who had triends who were in danger trom the of drink to prevail upon them to come, in the hope that they might find the way to deliveravee from their besetting sin. Seeing man asked Mr. Sankey to sing the Eighty-third hymn, “Light in the Darkness, Sailor,’ which he did, follow: ing it with “Jesus of Nazareth Passeth By,” which Mr. Moody preached from Acts, xvi., 31—""Woat must I do to be saved?” He said:— This morning a young man sat he hal been con- ‘Veried in one honse, because he found all he had to do | was to believe in Christ, There is wot a man in this | andience but has asked himself some time to-day the question, “What must I do?’’ Business men, when times are bad and notes are coming du . What must Ido?’ But the salvation of the soul is of far more importance than the seving of our wordly goods. “What must Ido to be saved?’’ Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ; that is ail you have to do.¢What did Paul | tell the Philippine jailer to do? Did he tell bim to pray or to weep? No; he merely told him to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and he and all his house would be saved. To-day if you cau only make men believe the Gospel they” would bo filled with adness and = =joy and will be — saved. hen you give up all hope and throw yourselves in he aring of a loving Saviour he wili save you. Here is effort; ho has failed. Here is another man who hi tried to stop drinking; here is another man who bat tried to correct a very bad temper; all fatied; butit they had thrown themselves oa the and stopped they -would reecive grace and strength enc to withstand their temptattons, Therefore, ailon you, | appeal to you, to-might, st, rely on Bis promises and you will b 1 wish every man here to-night would be y the Holy Spirit and ac- cept the chance that is offerca five of belp. Allof you who have tried to give up your sins and failed, just try how it will be if you just trust in Jesus Christ tor the future and call on Him to help. Pray to | iim and ask others (o pray to Him for you. At nine o'clock the men were invited to the Fourth avenue ball, where they remained tor three-quarters Tam | ofan bour in prayer ond singyg and testiiying to the merey of Corist. The meeting was led a A Ralph Wells. The women's meeting, which was il io tho Dr, Stephen H. Jr. temptations | jatlors in the andience he | atter | bosom of thetr Saviour | UPPLEMENT. aa BORDER OUTRAGES| What the Texas Want. People | | FacTS ABOUT THE MEXICA | | N RAIDS. Speculators Think “There’s Mill- ions in It.” Wasnixetox, March 1, 1876. | For several motths there have been vague reports in | certain circles in this city of a project, said to have the | favor of influential politicians, for the acquisition of a new slice of Mexican territory, How it was to be ob- tained nobody was ready to say; but one might bear of sur made, of maps drawn, of new boundary lines accurately laid down; and every few weeks some West- ern journal contained a story of immense but mysteri- ous claims by American citizens against Mexico, which _ the government, it was hinted, would assume, and as Mexico coald not pay a dozen or twenty or forty mill- | jons all at once, it was further whispered that this | government stood ready to foreclose on a large slice of | Mexican territory by way of payment, THE SPRCULATION BEHIND THIS WOOD PILE. | For a long time these reports were regarded simply wild and absurd, but some circumstances that have recently become known show that they rest upon | avory pretty speculation upon the credulity of West- ern grangers, In May, 1872, Congress authorized acom- mission to proceed to Texas and thore investigate the condition and causes of the border troubles. This commission mace ,two reports—one in December, 1872, | the other in June, 1873—and these reports asserted claims against Mexico, for cattle raids ana other out- rages by Mexicans upon Americans, to the huge sum of | $48,496,235 25, of which $44,572,415 43 camo under tho | | | i | head of losses by cattle raids. It seems to have oc- curred to the Commissioners, the chief of whom was Mr. Thomas J. Robb, just now appearing on the surface again in this vicinity, that they had “piled it up a little mountaneously,” and in their last report they confess that their accounts are made up not only of actual but also of contingent, secondary and construc- | tive losses, and that the real losses could not be made to foot up to more than between $11,000,000 and $15,000,000, The report did not attract much attention. Nobody wants to go to war with Mexico, and the border is so far away; and, if one may believe respectable Texans now here, Mr. Robb’s investigations and the manner of his | report were so distasteful to the Texans themselves that Mr. Robb’s little bill against Mexico slumbered, or appeared to. Lately, however, I have been informed | that in different parts of the West, and notably in and | about Chicago, claim agents are trying to sell to cred- ulows persons a stock or bond representing these claims, It seems that some ingenious financier has made himself the agent for the whole mass of these claims has put their gross amount into a bond, payable when- ever the United States assumes them and grabs a piece of Mexico, and is selling his bonds for ten cents on the dollar, offering in one instance which has come under my knowledge to take real estate at its fall value for the bonds at ten cents. Of course this 1s a prom- ising speculation to the persons who have issued the bonds; but you would doa service to some credulous people if you would tell them that the bonds are not and never will be worth the paper they are printed ou. | THE TRUTH ABOUT BORDER OCTRAGES. A committee of the House of Representatives to In- vestigate the border raids has been sitting for some time and has now closed its labors. Its chairman is Mr, Gustav Schleicher, who represents in Congress a | district which includes the whole scene of the border troubles, and who is therefore familiar with the whole question, besides being a man of uncommon ability, He has summoned before the committee a large num- ber of witnesses, and their testimony will be printed in — a few days. THREE IMPORTANT POINTS. Three important points appear in this testimony which bear upon the claims asserted by the Robb Com- mission and upon the swindle of selling bonds based on these claims, which somebody Is perpetrating or trying to:— . First—The Texans who appeal to the government for protection make no claims for damages. Second—They do not want a war with Mexico; but, on the contrary, desiro the protection they ask as a | means of avoiding hostilities. Third—They do not want to acquire any Mexican ter- ritory, but on the contrary would deplore the grab proposed; because, as some of them say in cénversa- tion, they do not want the population we should have to take in, and don’t care to see the robver chief Cor- tina make his appearance in the United States Senate, It 18 a furthor significant fact that the committes | have not thought it worth while to call Mr. Robb or | either of his fellow Commissioners before them, and | that General Sheridan gave no such testimony about establishing a new boundary line as has been re- | ported. | THE STORY OF THE BORDER RAIDS, The facts developed in the testimony on which the committee will make its report show that the raids are regularly organized expeditions of bandits, or robbers, from the Mexican side, having for their object the stealing of cattle and murder and robbery in general, The bandits, who had long been favored and inspired by General Cortina whenever he had power, not unfrequently ride 150 miles into Texas to capture and drive out cattle The Mexican federal government has not strength enongh to guard the border and drive back and punish its robber class. If itshould send regular troops for this purpose they would desert, as has happened. If it should authorize | a levy of militia and arm them these would fall into the | hands of revolutionary chiofs and cause internal dis- | orders. The robber bands, finding immunity in their own country, have rapidly increased im numbers and organization, and have carried wheir stock raids to | such an extent that Matamoros, Monterey and other Mexican border towns are almost entirely suppliea with | the beet of stolen American ‘cattle, It 18 in evidence that the price of beef in those places is often affected and ruled by the supply of stolen Texas cattle brought in by the bandits, and that on some occa- sions Cortina has even shipped such stolen | cattle to Cuba, Captain McNally, who commanded | for somo time atroop of Texan cavalry deputed by | the Governor to guard a part of the border, declares in his testimony that no inducement would pay him to run the risks of murder which hang perpetually over the American rancheros whose cattle feed within filty or sixty miles of the border. He would think himseif far safer as a commander of troops acting against the Mexican bandits, | NO AMERICAN RAIDERS. | tis also shown by the most trustworthy witnesses, | among them General Ord, who commands on the bor- der, that there are no Texan raid’ into Mexico. The | Mexican country along the border is too poor to tempt our people even to retaliation, It contains few cattle and even but few sheep or goats, It is understood here that the Mexican Minister, who has been seeking evidence on this head, has not been able to establish a single case of a raid by American citizens into Mexico, It is shown that the Mexican authorities give no re- dress to American sufferers from these raids, and that the bandits are known on the Mexican side, live pub- licly on their plunder, and, thongh dishked by the | peaceable citizens, have political intluence and physical power enough to make themselves dreaded by their own people, The respectable part of the Moxican peo- ple regard them as outlaws, | THR POLICY TO RE RECOMMENDED, | All the witnesses concur in the opinion that our poo- | ple can expect no relief from the Mexican government. It is also certain that the border cannot be thoroughly guarded by us under the presont system, except at a very great expense, Generals Sheridan and Ord con- | cur in saying that it would require at least 10,000 troops continually on duty there, and even then the work | would not be effectively done, ‘The present difticalty is. | that the robbers, who come across the Rio Grande at | almost any point, come over secretly, and before they can be discovered and caught hi run tbe cattle across the river, whereupon they laugh at our troops and | thorities. i Is necded isan arrangement between the two | governments by which our troops may parsue the Mextean robbers across the Rio Grande acit kill them if they are found in possession of American cattle or | lams an opportunity. | known langnage? property. General Ord, in bis testimony, says that the Mexican federal government leaves the protection of its borders tothe proviucial governors: and he adds that when he commanded in Arizona be had an understanding with the Governor of the adjoining State of Sonora under which the troops of both countries acted in each, as the emergency. arose, and thus he was able to pursue maraud~ ing Indians across the line into Sonora He has at this time a similar understanding with the Governor of Chihuahua, which works weil, and there are no troubles there, aud he makes the significant a sertion that if he cor d have the same arrangement with the ruler of Tamaulipas he could with 2,000 troops put an end to the border raids and troubles, But it seems that the Governor of Tamaulipas is not ready to make such an arrangement, and for the reason—to judge from the general testimony—that it would inter- fere with the beef market, which is supplied almost entirely with stolon Texas cattle, = The Texans do not want to take matters into their own hands. They desire that the robbers shall be pur- sued and killed under the orders of regular army officers and in a lawtul way, and they wish to fall into ‘no hostilities with the Mexican government. But they assert, and with justice as it seems to me, that they cannot forever bear the evils inflicted upon them, and that if these are to continue they will be driven to an. organized movement to protect themselves by ex peditions into Mexico to capture and kill the robbers who prey upon them, The committee will probably report that the Presi- dect shall require of the Mexican government its open, or at least tacit, consent to the operation of our regu- lar troops on Mexican soil for the pursuit and capture of the robber bands; and if there should be delay in the negotiations for this purpose it is not improbable that leave to do this will be taken for granted, and Goneral Ord will be instructed to select prudent officers for the work, but to cease to observe the boundary line. No one can read the testimony taken before the | Schleicher Committee without becoming convinced: that the measure proposed is absolutely necessary and ‘ought not to be delayed. AMUSEMENTS, ACADEMY OF MUSIC—ENGLISH OPERA. After forty-two years’ honorable service on the lyrie stage Donizetti's opera, “Lucia,” ts as attractive, as popular and as fascinating to-day as when the talented composer first brought it out at Naples in 1834, with Persiani, De Angeli, Porto and Duprez inthe cast, It | ig along step in operatic history from Persiani to Kel- logg among the Lucias of the stage, There are Bosio, Frezzolini, Sontag, Dolores Nau, Jenny Lind, Cathe- rine Hayes, Gazzaniga, Nilsson, Albani anda score of other lesser lights within nearly a quarter of a century. The tenors, since Duprez first made the opera a world wide success in London in 1835, who have essayed with more or less success the role of the unhappy Master of Ravenswood, are so numerous that a catalogue of them would form a goodly sized book, Chief among them may be mentioned Rubini, Mario, Salvi, Laborde, Guglini, Fraschint, Sims Reeves, Mazzoleni, Brignoli and Campanimi, Last night ‘Lucia’? was given in Engsish at the Academy of Music with the jollowing cast:—Lucia, Miss ellogg; Edgar, Mr. Maus; Ashton, Mr. Carleton; Raymond, Mr. Henry Peakes; Norman, Mr. Morgan; Alice, Miss Howath; Arthur, Mr. Filippi. Mr. 8. Behrens conducted the orchestra. The per formance, generally speaking, was worthy of hearty praise, The ladies and gentiemen who were in the cast were, in an artistic point of view, vastly superior to those who are usually identified with English opera, Miss Kellogg’s impersonation of the Scottish heroine, always charming and indicative of an artist of high, renown and thorough acquaintance with the cxigenctes of the lyric stage, was especally attractive last evening. Her vocal and dramatic powers seem to have matufed to that degree that nearly every great dramatic role in opera is within her reach at present, From the opening aria, ‘Silence o’er all wag reigning,’ to the finale of the mad scene, Miss Kello, was adtmirable. In the last scene, when the bride of Lammermoor, in her insanity, rehearses the scene of her imaginary marriage with the Master of Ravens- wood, the singing and acting of Miss Kellogg might well be placed on the same level as those of many more widely known representatives of the réle, Mr, Maas made a great success as Edgar. it was certainly the most pronounced of all his operatic efforts in America, All the known and ever jar numbers that make able to the public and to the singer were delivered with all the ease, finish, ace and expression that they demanded, = Mr, Garleton comes in for acon- siderable share of praise, It 18 seldom that such a satisfactory representative of the revengeful Henry _ Astiton bas been seen on our operatic boards, Ho acted the part to perfection, and bis splendid baritone yoice did justice to the music allotted to him. Mr, Peakes was a very artistic Raymond, and Miss Howarth showed that her vocal training under Mr. Schmelz was well directed. The general impression among the habitués of the Academy last evening was that it was the best representation of “Lucia,” as an ensemble, . given in that building tor many years, “Ernant’? wit! be presented to-night and ‘The Star of the Norh’? (last given in 1865) on Friday. ITALIAN OPERA. Mr. Max Strakosch will give @ matinée opera per- formance at the Academy of Music on March 18, for the benent of the Centennial fund, in which Mile. Titieng will be tho leading feature. Mme, vappenbeim will shortly make her first appearance in Italian opera uo- | der the same management as Violetta in “La Tra- viata.” CONKLINGMANIA. It seems impossible to close the great question of @ rhyme for Conkling without giving all the lunatic asy- The following, from an insane “Office Secker,”” demands our sympathy, although, poetically, it is beneath contempt:— To the polls we will bring ‘A majority for Conkling. And when we have elected him We will have a right to bank in. Ob, won't we make the welkin ring With hurrabs for our Conkling. The unfortunate who penned the following is df fined im a large downtown establishment, where special cases are treated by giving the patient's folly full vent The mania was induced by sunsiroke, but we are sorry to see that it sas far from being cured asever. Do not be afraid of him, Tho cotton which he has on the brain ts not balefur;— asa Weoszadby, To THe Epitor or the Herat What! No legitimate rhyme for Conkling in any How will this do? Would not the Prince of Wales or the Rajalyot Tonk cling With affection (if they knew him) to Roscoe Conkling? It seems to me that’s a rhyme, with the k sound properly fixed on each syllable, The Rajah of Tonk is “a moderately obscure Eastern potentate, but has been | 1n the papers of late among the other bigwigs, welcom- ing the Prince of Wales in nis tout in Hindostan. W. H. L. 0°G. (late of Madras, India), Dry Goods Editor (with export of cotton goods to Im dia, &c., on the brain). OBITUARY, CAMILLE D, INVILLTERS. A telegram from Philadelphia, dated on the Ist inst., says:—‘Camille D. Invilliers, a prominent member of the Board of Brokers of this oie and a director of the Philadelphia and Erie Railroad Company, died this morning. ” JOHN G. HOPKINS. A telegram from Poughkeepsie, N. Y., of tho 1st inst., reports:—*John G@, Hopkins, Sheriff of Dutchess county, died this morning after a long illness. Ho was widely known and had occupied honorable public ottices,"” HON. MOSS KENT PLATT. Hon. Moss Kent Piatt, Inspector of State Prisons, died at his residence, in Platisbarg, N. Y., at balf-past four o'clock yesterday afternoon, to the great regrot of ‘a wide circle of friends in private and official society, DROWNED AT SEA, . William Boban, of South Brooklyn, and his nephew John, son of H. A. Boban, have been missing for a week. They hired a sailboat of J. H. Baynes for fish- ing pm Yesterday William Haskins, living nea Coney island, picked up on the beach a bottie, contain- ing a piece of paper, ob which was written: — To Mrs. Butxx Bomax, Fort Hamilton :— Wo are fi en sail boat, oat ot sight oflana. The bot duns spring @ Feak and ta sluking, dolnuy te with ma, WILLIAM BOHAN, let Bohan have the t Mr. Baynes says that when boat be warned tim th and rotten, and t if he was not care! ik a hole through the bottom with his eet Bohan said, “4 will risk it,” and it is now supposed that he and’ the boy have beem drowned, he r WHAT AN INSANE MAN DID, Philip Uirich, aged fifty-one 3 years, of No. 126 Bast Third street, attempted to kill himself yesterday, while temporarily ineaae, by cutting a gash in his neck with ions poe i was sent to Boliovue Hospttal 8 wound, thou considered meoee corsy beaut ough dangerous, is not red