The New York Herald Newspaper, March 17, 1876, Page 6

FOUL MURDER, ee Remarkable Discovery of the Real Criminal Nine Years After the Crime. A WOMAN HACKED TO PIECES A Bundle of Human Flesh Hidden Under a Trap Door. GUILTY KNOWLEDGE OF HIS MISTRESS, Detected in Cleveland and Brought to New Jersey, Stewartsvinim, N. J.. March 16, 1376, The quaint little village of Stewartsville ts located on tho Morris and Essex division of the Delaware, Lack- awanna and Western Railroad, about five miles froin Its terminus at Easton, Pa Though sur- rounded by the most rugged and picturesque scenery, and though nestled jn the lap of one of the most beau- ful and productive valleys of the State, there is, per- haps, no other village along the line of the road that \s 80 seldom heard of, nor another which furnishes such Yeanty amusemeat to the occasional visitor. Not that Btewartsville is entiroly shut off from visitation for many ‘city sportsman casts the nimble fly in her tumbling srooks in the spring time, and many of her quail and rabbit go cityward in the fall; but aside from these Btewartsville stands almost as much aloof from the out- side world as if no outside world existed, and flourishes to-day under pretty nearly tho same conditions as it Bourished thirty, forty, ay, even sixty years ago, The majority of its 600 inhabitants are farmers, who con- gregate at even-tide about the four corners of the vil- lage square, where is discussed everything of interest that has transpired during the day, As night comes on and the convorsation slightly flags hasty good nights are spoken and the hardy farmer boys tumblo into early and honest beds, Life is slow at Stewarts- rilie, truly, and it is only at rare intervals that anything bappens lo ruffle its repose. 4 STARTLING RUMOR, On February 15, 1867, just nino years ago, however, atan hour when more than half the village was pro- paring for sleep, thero arose acry that sent a chill of horror to every heart, and which, echoing against the mountain side, was swept through the valley and heard all over the United States, It was the cry that a young and amiable wife, well known to all, nad been struck, Matilated and finally murdered with a hatchet; that her body had been found, rolled up as if it had been a bale, thon crammed through a narrow trap door in tho floor and concealed beneath the foundation of her bome. Twill leave the reader to imagine tho effect which this dread{ul intelligence wrought upon the town. The me of the murdered woman was Margaret Ke: game of her husband was John, Their house was located along the Morris Canal, at the foot of incline plane No, &, upon tho farm of Mr. Philip & Kase, THE DISCOVERY. No sooner had the cry rung through the village than bundreds of feet hurried to the spot, while the women, roused trom their beds, awaited the return of the men, When the latter arrived at the little house they beheld a terrible sight, There, upon the floor, lying ina pool of blood, was vutstretched im death the pale and delicate figure of Margaret Keys, her clothing soaked in gore and her bair matted and torn, Her left temple had been crushed in with the blant end of a hatchet, which was found in the house, and her face was laid open here and there in many a frightful. gash. There were brarses jpon her shoulders and upon her bosom, while one ot her fingers wos bitten entirely through. There was every indication that Margaret Keys had defended hor bome heroically, and that she had yielded up her life snlyafter the most terrife struggle. Tho murderor, afver finishing his work, raised up a tittle trap door in the floor, concealed his victim bengath it and then dis- appeared, THE MYSTERY, The villagers took up the body tenderly and bore it to the barroom of the hotel, where the inquest was beld. Kind hands attended the corpse, a shroud and a coffin were given by the town’s folk and a few days afer she was buried. So heavy was tho shock these people sustained from the affair, and so great their grief apon beholding ono of wheir number so mangled and mutilated, that it was some time before they ever thought of looking for tho murderer. sUsricioNs, John Keys, the husband of the murdered woman, alaborer upon the Morris and Essex Ratlroad. He steady and industrious, his credit was good at the Stores, and, as far as the people knew, he had always tarefuily provided for and tenderly loved his wife, His trie over ber corpse was heartrending, He seemed utterly crazed. His anguish could not brook control, The last that had been seen of Mra. Keys by any of the villagers was carly in the morning, prior to her death, She had gone toa neighbor to buy some milk, and aguring the conversation she mentioned how kindly her husband had always treated her. Atter carctal examination it was learned that though the body was Bot found until evening the murder had been com Mitted about noon, and tt is actually the fact that John Keys came home, went in his house, got a bite of Junich, ate it directly over the body of his dead wife, concealed by the trapdoor, and went off to his work again in the afternoon without seeing the blood upon the bed where the struggle took place or without sus- pecting that the absence of his wife was owing to any tragic cause. When he returned at night, however, the continued absence of bis wife disturbed him so that he went all over the village looking for her. No one knew where she Was; noone, indeed, bad seen her since early Morning. An acquaintance of John Keys, however, ‘went back to the little bouse along the canal, und upon lifting up the trap door disclosed the murdered and , mangled body. THE HUSBAND ACCUSED. Jobn Keys was accused of the murder of his wit it was natural that he should be, and he accepted the accusation as if he ha expected it. He acted = strangely, some people said. ‘How could he act otherwise with such a griof at his heart and such a charge upon his ulders?”” others asked. Hence popular opinion divided, though all cemanded a thorough tri The best detective skillim the country was secure Yet the most experienced oMicers acknowledged then selves baifed at the end. They, too, laid the crime at the husband's door, they made him do the most un fatural things. They even insisted that he should enter the Jittle house, raise up the bloody trap door at midnight and call the name of his wife three times, fry as they would the link between him and the murder ‘was missing, and he was finally discharged. TIME AND DISTANCE. One year passed, and then another; still no clew to the maréerer, though the story of the deed in the in- | teri bas been told a thousand times, Now comes the most wonderful part of the story. seems alinost like fiction—too strange to be tra bas been nive years since the murder, aud dur: this time the iny It it from the quict little AM ‘est—from the iitile house along tho Morris Ww Jersey, to No. 45 Canfield street, Cleve- In this house, upon a certain night, a man named Jobn Cunningham is (uriously beating his Wife; he has her down upon the floor and is about to crash Out: — “Don't, don’t, for God’s sake! or you will murder me 88 you murdered that woman in Jersey.” Cunningham a few days after was placed “in quod’? for abusing his wife. The ery which the woman uttered was overheard by one James 0. Dully, a lawyer, who, @ soon as Cunningham lef the house, approached the woman and told her that he had heard the remark she made wiitie Cuuningham was beating ber. Hoe asked her what it meant The woman appeared ter. ribly aiarmed and refused to tell. he said | she hated = «Cunningham and deeply feared him, yet when in his presence did everything ho asked her to, everything found in the sequel. Mr. Duty at once in- formed the police, who communicated with the author- Mies oF Unis county (Warren) avout thiee weeks ago. Aga: was bitle siewartsvilic greatly exeited. Two ewen residing bere, named, respectively, Proce apd Charles Godirey, set out at veland, Che following is the inceresting ive oi Mr. ibaddeus G. Price, corrob- particular by Mr. Godirey ;:— ‘MAR. PRICK'S STATEMENT, I left for Cleve! late in Febraary last. Upon Srriving there 1 found it most convenient to visit the rr, of the woman with whom Cunningham had a living, and questioned her concerning mur. &. She seemed somewhat reluctant to speak of ft at st, but upon being assured that anything she might gay would place her mother beyond the reach of the i raged ach feared, the daughter s. “My name is Agnes Reid. | was twelve years old po vig murder took place, Wo then, Cunningham, and myself, lived ine house in Jersey, right | the | nd flourishing city im | her face with his heel, when, in terror, she cries | Finally, alter much urging, she told | NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, MARCH I7, 1876—WITH SUPPLEMENT. across from Easton, Pa, This was vine years »}One morning Cunningham got up early and { the house, 1 cannot.swear whether he took a hatchet with him or not returned in the evening of the same day.e I remember he looked very strangely and would not let me go in the house with him, He ordered me to stay out until he gave me permission to come in, By and by he came out and went away. Then I beard mother crying. I went in to find out what was tue matter. I found mother walking up and down the room wringing her hands and crying bitterly. It was a long time beiore mother would give me an idea of what troubled her. She then told me thas Cunningham had done abad act. Cunningham went away and was gone three months. I was too young to wuderstand exactly what mother meant We moved several times before we came here,” H THE WOMAN'S STATEMENT. Mr. Price then informed your correspondent that he had secured the affidavit of the mother, the main points of which are as follows :— ne is Elizabeth Reid, Though I have lived nningham a great many years, and hi by him, we have never been married. Nine years ago we lived opposite Easton, One morning in February, 1567, Cunningham arose carly in the morning and told me he was going off, He wok a hatchet with him that I had cut | kindiing wood with the night before, He had worked on the Morris and Essex Railroad. He came | back in the evening looking very strangely. I saw I was Macmod, } | that be had blood upon his clothing. and asked him what he had been doing, He said thal , he bad been down the road afew miles, Then taking | hold of me, he told me that he had killed a woman and thrown her down a little hatchway, I saw that he | did not have the hatchet with him, He said that hé had gone into the house to get her money, for it was just after her busband’s pay day, and that be, fearing | the woman would “biow’’ on him, had killed her with the batchet. He said the struggle was a very hard one, and that at one time the woman almost got the best ot him, He then cautioned me to keep stk I feared the man so that I dared not tell; if le ever gets jree from law again Lam sure he will Kill me as he killed her. The next day I heard every one talking about the terrible affair, Cunningham went away and was gone three months, during which time I hada letter from him, in which’ he wanted to know whether there were any rumors about the affair, It was only the other night, when I thought that he was going to Kill me that l betrayed the secret 1 had kept $0 long.”” ARRESTED. Mr. Price then went to the place where Cunningham 8 held for beating bis wife. The keeper sald:— ‘Cunningham, those Jersey people haye come after you.” Ho turned pale as # sheet, and trembled from head to foot, Mr, Price handeulfed the prisoner to himself and brought him on here a few days ago. He js now in Belvidere in the County Jail to await trial in April. WS CHARACTER, Cunningham seems beyond all question to be the murderer of Mrs, Keys, His character is certainly one of the worst, He hus been a jailbird, bounty jumper, and during bis whole life an‘ outlaw anda ihief, He has told innumerable Nes since bis arrest, asserting at one time that he had never been in New Jersey, and afterward contessin that he had, and that he had worked wlong the Morris road at the time the murder was committed and near the place where the Tho excitement here is very 4, will leave no dence, it 18 suppos hatn’s eseape. Previous to leavin; Cievelund be sent word to his mistress that sho neod not come to Jersey to testily against bim if she did not | desire to, as he thought they could not compel her to leave the State. | WHERE 18 THE MUSBAND? | Mr. John Keys, after the murder of his wife, re- | mained here for some time. For three years past, however, nothing has been heard ot bim, and his whereabouts are at present unknown. It is hoped that this will meet bis eye as he undoubtedly knows Cunningham and can give important testimony during the tfal. Thus, after nine years, is brought to justice the | | direct agent, if tLe testimony is true, of one of the | foulest murders ever committed in this State. A RIVER MYSTERY. THE REMAINS FOUND AT BAY RIDGE—ARE THEY THOSE OF A MURDERED SEA CAPTAIN ? On Tuesday morning there floated in on tho shore of Bay Ridge, on the outskirts of the city of Brooklyu, at the foot of Fifty-fifth street, the body of an un- | known man, skull was gone. On the rigit foot was a gray stocking and a calfekin boot. | the body was a hickory shirtband around the neck. Yesterday forenoon, when preparations were being made for the removal of the unsightly remnants of humanity to Potter's Field for interment, | new and exciting feature was given to the case, | of New Haren, Conn., called at the office of Coroner Simms, in the County Court House, and represented that he was connected with an insurance company in the State named. He said he had been to tho Morgue, where he bad seen the body found in the river, and that he was convinced that the corpse was that o | Thomas H. Hamlin, of New Haven. Mr. Hamlin, who | Was about fifty years of age, had not been seen or | heard from since August 6, 1875, when he left the United States Hotel, Fulton and Front streets, New | York, in the atternoon, for the avowed purpose of pro- | ceeding to Philadelphia, where he proposed to pur- chase a vessel. He was known at the time to have in his possession frome$3,000_ to $4,000 in greenbacks, together with a large amount of convertible bonds. Mr. North said the Captain was a brother-in-law of i D, E Smith, who resides at No, 131 Fort Greene place, Brooklyn, who bad also visited the Morgue and A gentleman who introduced himself as Joun G. North, | | Was positive that the body was that of the missing | Captain Hamiiz. His means of identification were ox- plained as arising from the recognition of the peculiar comformation of the head (a very high forehead) and the absence of the teeth, But there was on- other way of identitying tho body, which also proved to them satistactory. Several months before he left bis home the Captain had a larg wess just over tho left hip, which had healed and left adeep scar there, On examining that part of the corpse the scar was found, The Coroner asked him how he could account for the left leg being off, and he replied that it may have been torn om He said he had instituted a most thorough search for Cap- tain Hamlin last summer, when he visited nearly every Morgue in the principal cities through the country, At Philadelphia he saw the photographs of drowned and unknown dead which had been preserved at the Morgue, but the Captain's features were not recognizable among the number, The keoper ot the Morgue told bim that there was adetective connected with the office who could, being aspiritualist, enable him to unravel the m tery. The detective tried bis spiritualistic science, how- ever, bat said he could not d9 anything with the case. He, however, directed him to a clairvoyant, a Mrs. Shepherd, with whom an interview was bad. he, a cording to THE REMARKABLE NARRATIVE given the Coroner yesterday, went int trance, in which sho told her visitor that he was a stranger in Philadelphix; that he had a wife and seven chi!dren— five daughters and two gons, all of which her visitor says was trac, The clairvoyant then said:— our business here ts that of searching for a friend, But you will never find your iricnd. He is enticed on board a vessel, Ho is assaulted, A large roll of bills and papers are. taken from him, He is tied up, murdered and thrown into the river.” And then the clairveyant awoke from her trance. The Coroner inquired of the insurance agent whether Captain Ham- lin held a life insurance pohey, and he was told that he dit; that bis life was in 1847 insured for $5,000, and in 1849 it was insured for 100. He jeaves a wife, bat had no children. Detective Folk, in company with Dr A.W. Shepard, ‘the | City Physician, made a second examination of | the mains at the Morgne yesterday afte noon, The Doctor was unable to tell whether the leg had been amputated at the hip or whether it had dropped off. The detective says that his opinion is that the body is that of a man drowned off one of the islands, The stocking and the shirt band aro just such as are issued to int of the jails and Penitentiary. The top of the skuil is crushed in at the parts where the bones join only. All the toes are conuected. In the stocking and at the end of the boot wasa pices of an army blanket, The boot was an old one of rough make, the heel being worn off. Superintendent Camp- bell says it 18 Very strange that tho friends ¢ identify the body through these jatter sdetails, insurance agent, Mr. North, is a triendof the tamily of deceased, and obtained a description of the identifying marks from Mrs. Hamlin before leaving, but there was nothing said about the deceased being’ “web-footed, The police have telegraphed to New Haven to ascerts whether Captain Hamlin had any identifying marks about bis hands or tect ALICE “PITZPA RICK'S CRIME. Bridget Malone, who was stabbed on last Sunday night by Alice Fitzgerald, died on Wednesday after- Reon, She was Olty six years of age, unmarried, and was boro in the county Limerick, Ireland. Coming to this country with her sister some years since she was At last, through old age, she became unable to work, and was forced to apply to St, John’s Guild for assistance, with her sister Mary in a ten 23 | at Grst employed as a domestic, She lived | of N gorald, Spring street, A woman named Alice Fitz- Afty-four years of age, also lived in the same house, Alige has almost equally divided her time since | her arrival in this country between Manhatean and Blackwell's Isiands, Last Saturday, during a drunken | spree, Alice became engaged in a quarrel with Bridget, and threatened to inflict personal violence upon her. On Sunday evening, on leaving her house, Bridget was by Alico down a flight of stone steps leading to Alice followed her down, brandishing » kuile, and stabbed ber im the back bencath the lett | shoulder blade. She then went back to her room and celebrated her action with long and deep potations. brought on acute plenr Tho internal organs of the deceased slow hor to lave been of very intemperate habits, Coroner Bickhoi will boid the inquest next Monday. SAD FATE OF A SEPTUAGENARIAN, A weak and vory infirm Indy, past seventy years of age, named Mrs Jane Jeffreys, died in Newark on Rede noame of night bag by hes 8 pet oy Aah eu badly. It ars ber clothing oa from thi stove aed, telore the neighbors could aid her, being Mone, the poor old lady was fatally injured, js... in New Jersey. | The leit leg was off at the hip joint. The | flesh was all gone off the her’ and face, and part of the | The only vestige of clothing on | Hl va ent house in the rear | Bridget was picked up and sent to Beilevae Hospital, where she died, Dr. Mareh made an autopsy on hor body aud found two causes of leath; the fret, acute meningitis, caused by being pusted down the stairs; | | and the second, the wound trom the katfe, which had THE NEW ROCHELLE CRIME. CONTINUATION OF THE TRIAL OF RICHARD | HANNA, JR.—WHO FIRED THE FATAL SHOT? | In the Court of Oyer and Terminer, at White Plains, Westchester county, yesterday, the trial of Richard Hanna, Jr., charged with the murder of Thomas White, at New Rochelle, was resumed. Dr. Augustus Van Courtland testified to having at- tended the deceased, on the night of tho shooting, found him prostrated from shock; on a post- mortem examination he found that one of the wounds | inflicted by the shot penetrated to the lower part ef the cavity of the lef lung; death was caused by pywmia, superinduced by gunshot wounds. Witness recognized | agrain of shot shown as one he extracted from the body of deceased, Richard Hanna, Sr., testified that on the evening of | January 4, 1876, his son, the prisoner, slept in the | same room with him; the gun had been lying for some | weeks in the room at the foot of the bed; it had been borrowed some months ago by another son from a man | named Lloyd Fowler; Richard came tn very drank about ten o'clock on that night; witness had to put him to bed; he did not take the gun out of the house that night. ‘The cross-examinaticn of this witness went to prove thatas the door leading from the street opened into the kitchen, prisoner could not have taken the gun out on that evening without being observed by the wit ness, who was in that apartment antil hig son camo | home, about ten o'clock, John Hanna, prisoner's brother, testified to having borrowed the gun; he bad loaded it with No. 6 shot on the night previous to that on which White was shot; had examined it when the officers entered the house and found both barrels loaded as on the previous morn- ing; there was no duck shot in the house, and he had never used shot of the size found in the body; no one had loaded the gun with duck shot while it was in pos- session of the witness. Charles Deveau, Chief of Police of New Rochelle, testified to having arrested the prisoner on the night in question; he did not take charge of the gun owing to the confusion which prevailed in the house, Counsel for the prosecution then addressed the Court, calling attention to the embarassment under which he labored, owing to the cireum- stance that the principal witnesses on whose testimony it was expected the indictment would be sustained were all friends of the prisoner, The Court rephed in substance that if the counsel for the people were unable to make out their ease the advantage aris- ing therefrom would accrue to the prisoner, | “Tioyd Fowler testified to having lent the gun some months 9g0; bad not seen it since, and does not know where it is now. Tho prosecution then rested. The defence next called Michael J. Dillon, who tesu- | fled that on the ‘ht of January 4, between ten he saw four” men coming up the street opposite his father’s house in New Rochelle; | recognized one of them known in the village as Red Jim Carroll: another of the party carried a gun two of them appeared to be intoxicatéd; all were com ing from tho direction of White’s honse, which was about half a mile distant; asked Carroll what was up, | and he replied, “There is’a_ racket; you'll hear about it by and by;” had heard Carroll utter threats against deceased for biring a house “over his head,” | Robert Oliver corroborated the last witness, Both | admitted on cross-examination that they were friends and companions of the pricoper, After a number of witnesses had becn called to tes- | tity to the good character of tho accused Mr. Brooke summed up for the detenco, and was followed by Mr. | Baker for the prosceution. Justice Dykeman’ then | charged the jury. The charge was regarded as do- cidedly favorable to the prisoner, AS it was nearly nine o'clock when tho jury retired, 1t was deemed im- | probable that they would agree upon a verdict last night. PRISONS AND PRISONERS. THINTY-FIRST ANNUAL REPORT OF THE PRISON ASSOCIATION—THE ABUSES OF SING SING AND BLACKWELL'S ISLAND—SUGGESTED REM- EDIES. The Prison Association of New York presentedits thir- | ty-first annual report to the Legislature on Thursday, | giving an account ofits work in 1875, and making recom. mendations on questions affecting prisons, and prisou- ers in the three State Prisons. Tho uumber of inmates on the Ist of January, 1876, was 3,755, against 3,262 at the same time last year. Inthe penitentiaries the number of inmates in 1876 was 3,596, against 3,000 the year preceding, being an aggroegage increase in the | State Prisons and penitentiaries of 1,089 convicts, The number of cells for the accommodation of these per- | | sons is only 1,284 in the State Prisons, and 2,670 in the | penitentiartes; so that 3,562 convicts have to sleep two in one cell, the usual size of which is seven feet high, four feet wide and seven feet deep. The general agent of the Association reports that he bas, during the year, visited 4,832 prisoners in the de- tention prisons of New York city and Brooklyn, and | that 1,459 discharged prisoners have called at his office | and been disposed of as or tools, examined into 346 complaints, caused eighty- seven of them to be withdrawn because too trivial or for | other reasons, and procured the discharge of 113 tor cause shown. The association has sixty county com- mittces, which ©o-operate in the work of visiting the sixty county jails and moro than 200 lockups in the State, carrying wholesome influences to prisoners and mate- rially contriputing to the better keeping of the jails, Concerning the latter the report reiterates the state- ment it has so often made, that they are a disgrace to the countics where they are situated, some of the | abuses connected with them being identical with those that Howard so fully exposed and remedied in his day, and the fact that irom 80,000 to 90,000 persons, offend- ers and accused, are annually lodged in them, empha- sizes the magnitude of the evils complained of, | BLACKWELL'S ISLAND PENITENTIARY, | of all our prisons, “is the most unpromising of any which the association visits.” Of all the prisons it is tho worst, because nowhero is idleness so generally prevalent or discipline more lax. — Eflorts inspired bj the association which have been made to get a bill passed in the Legislature to enable the Commissioners of Charities and Correction to set the convicts and has co-operated with other bodies, official or chartered, | to enable the supervisors of counties and the superin- | tendents of the poor to set tramps, drunkards and dis- | orderly persons to work, to apply correctional treat- ment, and todo away with the now prevalent custom of locking them up in congregate idleness within the jail. Protessional criminals now constitute such a largo, | desperate and organized array as to be almost secure | Jaw, and against the ordinary proceedings of crimi the Habit 3 has, to 0 ofthe State, remained a dead The result of this neglect is illustrated by a conspicuous case occur- rng m Oneida county, where a gang of des} oes, made Utica their headquarters throughout the sum- mer. Although they made no efforts to conceal them- selves and were known by the police, they were un- molested untiia masked burglary of peeuhar atrocity was traced home to them. Ten arrests were made, three members of the gang were convicted and sentenced to cightecn years of imprisonment, and, as if to add a fresh illustration of the utter disregard of the Habitual Criminals act, the other seven rascals were discharged. The leader of the gang, whom we shall call B., was one of the three sentenced, Before forty: eight hours of incarceration the tman was visited by several of the convicts to get the last “outside news,” for he is widely known among the profession as a suc- cessful operator, Among those who called was R., whore term of office was to expire in a few months, 8B. had partially organized several purg: laries, some of wh successful, would be a schemes jor these he tran interest in the transact necessary to facilitate and, with this bargain concluded, R. immediate ved his gang, choosin, three other convicts whose term of sentence woul expire at various times not exceeding six weeks after his own, Thus, while the law catches the individual criminal, the prison fails to stop or seriously interrupt | the execution of his plans. 4 MILITARY ELECTION. Yesterday afternoon the ficld officers of the Eleventh brigade, National Guard, met at the headquarters of the Second division, corner of Court and Joralomon streets, Brooklyn, to ballot fora brigadier general to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of General J. V, Meserole, Two candidates were in the field—Colonel David E. Austen, commanding the Forty-seventh regi- | ment, and Captain Ira 1 Beebe, commanding the how- | itzer battery, After an excited and somewhat bitter contest Captain Beebe was elected. t thing’’ (profitabte), Th ferred to R., retaining as hi | HELP THE OLD WOMEN. | A most excellent work of charity fs in progress at the residence of M, Marinus, No. 151 Montgomery strect, | Jersey City. A party of httle girls, headed by Misses Marinus, Gareteon, Grinstead, Boll and Nolan, have opened a fair for the benefit of the Old Women's Home, on Wayne street, and so mach interest has been de- veloped by the devotion and industry of the little ones that the fair promises to be very successful. A hand- some sum was realized yesterday afternoon. WHAT MR. FRANK SAYS, New York, March 16, 1876. To tax Eprron ov rie liknao:—~ | In your report of the case of Oficer Gallagher in to- | day's Issue of your paper there are some misstate- | ments, Iwas not ordered to leave by Gallagher, but by Brady, Brady threw a coal scuttle filed with coal at me without any previous warning. 1 was then set wpou by Gallagher and Brady, thrown down and then kicked the former m the righteye, Brady was ar- Tested as well as Gallagher and held to answer in oer 1 am no hanger-on, but clerk to Marshal David of the Fifth District Cour, be i LAN FRANK + | their cases required, | | He advised and aided 417 persons with money, lodging | paupers at work on that island have so far not sag- | corded in securing the desired result, The association | wero on a large scale, and, if | ions such money as would be | pardon, BEAUREGARD ON MANASSAS, (From the New Orleans Picayane.) New Onuxans, March 7, 1876, Dear Stn—I avail myself of the first opportune | moment to answer your letter of the 17th ult., inquir- | ing of mo, as in command at the time, why the pure suit of the federals immediately after their rout at the battle of Manasses, July 21, 1861, was suddenly checked and the Confederate troops recalled toward | Manassas? I will first state that, though with General Joseph E. Johnston's consent I exercised the command during the battle, at its close, after I had ordered all the | troops on the field in pursuit, I went personally to the Lewis House and relinquished that command to bim, I then started at a gallop to take tmmediate charge of | the pursuit on the Centreville turnpike, but was soon | overtaken by a courier from Manassas, with a note ad- | aressed to me by Colonel T. G. Rhett, of General Joun- ston’s staff, who had been left there in the morning to | forward that General's troops as they might arrive by rail from Winchester, Colonel Rhett thereby in- formed me that a strong body of fe ‘al troops | had crossed the Bull Run at Union Mills Ford, on our right, and was advancing on Manassas, our depot of supplies, which had been necessarily left very weakly | guarded. I burried back to the Lowis House to com- | Municate this important despatch to General John- ston, and both of us believing the information to be authentic, | undertook to repair to the threatened quarter with Eweil’s and Holmes’ brigades, at that moment near the Lewis House,~ where they had just arrived, too late to take part in the action. With these troops i engaged to attack the enemy vigorously be- fore he conld eflect a lodgment on our side of Bull Run, but asked to be reinforced as soon as practicable by such ee as might be spared trom the Centreville pursuit, Having reached the near vicinity of Union Mills Ford prise, that the reported hostile passage was a false alarm growing out of some movements of our own troops (a part of General D, R, Jones’ brigade), who | the of had been morning, | Operations for the day, and upon turn now to the south bank of the run were mistaken through their sunilarity of uniform for the Jederals, I returned to intercept the march of the two brigades who were following me toward Union Mills, and as it was quite dark when I met them, and they were greatly jaded by their long march and counter- march during that hot July day, I directed them to halt and bivonac where they were, Davis and General Johnson had gone to Manassas, I in plan the run offensive thrown pursuant across to my their re- | Hearing that President | returned and found them between halt-past nine and | ten o’clock at my headquarters, ‘This will explain to you why the partial “retrograde movement,’’ to which you refer, was made, and why no sustained vigorous pursuit of McDowell’s army was made that evening. | _ Any pursuit of the federals next day, toward their rallying point atand around Long Bridge, over the Potomac, could have led to no possible lntltiey advan- | tage, protected as that position was by a systein of fleld works, No movement upon Washington by that | Toute could have been possible, for even if there had | been no such works the briage—a mile in length—was commanded by Federal ships of war, and a few pieces of artillery or the destruction of a small part of the bridge could have made its passage impracticable, Our only proper operation was to pass the I’otomac above, into Maryland, at or about Edwards’ Ferry, and march upon the rear'of Washington. With the hope of undertaking such a movement | had caused a recon- noissance of the country and shore (south of the Poto- mac) in that quarter to be made in the month of June, but the necessary transportation, even for the ammu- nition essential to such a movement, had not been pro- vided for my forces, notwithstanding my application for it daring more than a month beforchan |, nor was there eked ped hours’ food at Manassas for th troops brought together for that battle. G. T. BEAUREGARD, Hon, Jomx C. Freniss, Nashville, Tenn, REAL ESTATE, In spite of the unpleasant weather yesterday there ‘Was quite a full attendance of bidders at the anction sales in the Exchange. James M, Miller sold a brick dwelling and store, with of $11,000, to Robert Seibt. 25x100.5, on the north side of East Fifty-eighth streot, 95 fect cast of Lexington avenue, for $27,050, to the plaintut | the west side of Madison avenue, 25.5 feet south of | Fifty-eighth street, to Mary Mason Jonos, for $14.30, E, A. Lawrence & Co. sold a house, with lot, 20x90 | by —x100, onthe south side of East Ninet; street, for $5,200, to John Fitzgerald. Also a house, with Jot, 18.9x100,5 No, 192 East Fifty-fifth street, 206. feet east of Lexington avenue, for $10, to Joseph Hyman. Also a house, with lot, 25x100, No. 240 Mul- berry streot, east side, betweon Spring and Prince B. Smith. Also a house, with lot, 26, 2x64, 5x26, 3x65.6, on the north side of Water street, betwoen Gouverneur | and Montgomery streets, and the house adjoining, with lot, 20, 6x65. 11x19, 10x85, for $3,625, over two mortgages of $24,000 and $6,000, to Hiram W. Kilburn, RECORDED TRANSFERS. | n. w. corner of Divi 4 ‘also Lewis st. (No. 4), ¢. s., 59 ft. n. of Grand #h,'40.1x20 4; Louls Zeimer to'Lonis Selig........ 69,000 | Ay A. w. 8, 25.8 ft, 8 of 74th st., 766x100; samo to Thomas If. Agnew. =» 90,000 ngs © (NO. st. » 27.8x110 (No. 19), 256x100; Rose st, & ¢. 8, 259x100; also Vandewater ‘st. (No. 11), nm. w. 8. 25x100;" Adol- phus F. Ockershausen and wife and others to Charles Craske.. Vandewater st., mn. w. 8. Same to Charies Crasks Vandewater s 5 7S M1 xirregular oto George Munr. Rose st. (Nos. 16 and 18), n. w. s., 163.8 Frankfort st, 54.0)¢x112.0!sxirregula ‘Thomas H. Crosley Hudson st. (Nos. 173, 175, 177 and 179), corner Ves- try, 70x 100 (one-seventh of); also Hudson st., 50 fon. of ‘ht st., 46x100; Orange ‘eer is ik Assoclation to Richard Deck 4 Hudson st. (Nos. 173, 175, 177 aud 179), same prop- th part cf); same to Adrian Ihol- aM Onderdook Ange- aud wife to Juhu L. Caverly and others....... Oth st, B00 ft. @. 2d ny., 2 Lonis B. | Newman wife to Ulrich R fee 4th av. nw. cor, 84th st. 51.7: and wite to Sarah M. Pi | 16EN ste, m8. 138 ft | x. 6. of Basex, t7-Gibbons to William L. Loew. + 127.11 ft, @. of Bd wv. 1710x103. Leander Stone. Gouge We BOxON9Y Ge: ‘and wife to Maty Maio... soe ne S ), w. 8,50 fh. x dg wick to David Fox 7th av. GOx201 | 72 8. | “rick O'Conner to St AV, 0. 8 Campbell t Railroad, N.Y. and Harlem, w. ., to Mill Brook (23d ward); Silas D. Gifford (ref) to Dorothea Scholz... LEASES, 14th st,, W. (No. 18), 10 years, William Moser to Fes- Jein Suizbachor | Bd av. (No. 885 ri Hi Zadig to Jolin G. 485), 2 . Minge to Jona st lyear. | Crosley, Thos. H. ww. s. of Tose Chiristesen, Ray i instalments, mg, to Jeannette Burchell, ¢. 6. of 2d ay., of 20th st.) instaiments, 6,000 Brennan, Patrick, todohn Brennan, & ww, of 7th a 6,000 ‘hards, Ed 10 Charlotte “M. Dey, Bd av. : 1 ye 3,000 ary E. Dwinelle, 6. 8 of 4ist 6 1,000 231 year, husband, to An - Rogers, sav. and 140th st. (dd ward); . & of Alien st" 3 pare Franz, Henry, and wife, to Edward Klip wife, s. & of Baul st., w, of av, By instalments, Teots, Phiip, and wile, to Almond 1, Hatch and w. of 7th av; I year aries, and wife. to Louisa 8 rot ath ay. and wih +8; & yedes..... | Same to Phiobe Seadder, u. w. corner ef 4th al ‘Both at. "4 a hest orag Steward, Jon, to 1873), 8. 8 of LSth Bt. Francis ©. and Frank Gearty, imlicted for arson {i the frst degree in having on Novembor 22 set fire to # store in Greenwich street, were yesterday admitted to bail by District Attorney Pheips. Edward iaghes, ot Dian ee ae Fa a. | lot, 24x100, on the west side of Third avenue, 74 feet | north of Forty-first street, for $6,400, over a mortgage | A. J, Lynch sold tn foreclosure two lots, each | Richard V, Harnett sold a house, with lot, 20x95, on | cond | streets, for $5,000, over a mortgage of $8,000, toJonn | | designates the position allotted to it, together with | Franen. Grand Duchy es Stig at 1,461,428 10,473,875 reat Britain 2 a emma = | Norway. 1,701,408 = 84—«6, 335,000 Looe cag } 24,005,005 8,36 249,087,560 Rossia......... 63,650,000 — 243,500,000 Saxony. 2550244 757 88,631,975 Swedem.....--. 4158757 254 13,250,000 Wurtemburg... 1,818,484 2,310 — 70,027,125 THE THE CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION. CRIMINAL DISPLAY—THE District Attorney Sheppard, of this city, has secured from the Metropolitan Police authorities of London @ certified official statement showing in detail the number of persons apprehended for various offences dur- ing the London Exhibition years of 1851 aud 1862, as compared with the arrests made in the years immediate- ly preceding and following, 1t appears that the arrests in 1851 were 1,070 greater than in 1850, and the number Of arrests in 1862 was 5,043 greater than in 1561, It May very reasonably be inferred from these figures that we may expect during the summer a very consid+ erable increase in the number of arrests for offences against property especially, Thieves and pickpockets, like all the rest of the world, are ‘going to tho Cen- tvennial,” SWENTNESS. Acommunication has been addressed to the “beo men” of the country by the Bureau of Agriculture. It working bee and apiarian apparatus will be on exhibi- tion, and honey and wax as well, But, to afford addi- tional opportunities to bee keepers, It has been decided to have two special displays of honey and wax—June 7 to 15 and October 26 to November 1, The apiarian ex- ga commencing June 7, will be held in conn Mon with the display of strawberries, and that com- inencing Votover 25 in connection with the display of nuts. In neither of these seasons of exhibition will there be a charge for space nor entry fee. In relation to the exhibition of working bees two parties have ap- plied for space and furnished drawings and specifica. | Hons cl without meeting any cnemy, { ascertained, to my sur- | LOBS for bouso aplaries, each to contain from ten to twenty hives, THE NEWSPAPER EXHIBITION, The plan of exhibition is an alphabetical arrango- ment of partial files of each newspaper or periodical in aves that during the six months of the Exhibition | such @ manner as will make them instantly accessible; | the space devoted toeach bearing a label with tho | name of tho publication printed thereon, and further designated by a number, by means of which a stranger, upon reference to his catalogue, will be able at once to approach the section of the building where the particu- lar journal which he desires to examine or refer to may be found, The cases containing these files will form alcoves similar to those in public libraries for the ar- rangement of books; these alcoves forming long tiers, one on cach side of the building throughout its entire length. A catalogue giving the name of each news- pap its frequency of issue and the mumber which such statistical information as will serve to convey a comprehensive knowledge of the nature and extent of the business of newspaper publishing in America, will be issued in a compact form, not differing very much in size and appearance from the official catalogues of the four departments of the principal exhibition, NEW YORK IN THE CENTENNIAL. To tas Epiror ov tas Herarp:— Where the Centennial Buildings are, In Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, the New York Stato Building is made to appear contemptiblo to visitors by the asser- tion that New York State only contributed $5,000 to the Centennial Exposition, while New Jersey contrib- uted $150,000, I ama New Yorker, and am mortified when such a thing is said, and I cannot believe it true. If you can will you please disprove the assertion by Biihias in your pa the truth, and also as McClure, of the Philadelphia Times, to publish the same in his paper, so that Philadelphians shall not mislead the opinion of the visitors any more. By so doing you will very much oblige one of your oldest subscribers, ROBERT R. OAKLEY. Mancu 9, 1876, CENTENNIAL NOTES. Yesterday afternoon the Havana steamship City of Vera Cruz, which arrived yesterday morning from Ha- vana, and is now lying at pier No. 3 North River, com- menced discharging 1,577 packages of goods for the Centennial Exhibition, which had been brought over from Spain to Havana and thence shipped on the above mentioned vessel, two pounds and the largest about six tons, They are all marked with the Spanish national colors, and will be sent on to Philadeiphia by Monday next.” A large number of valuabiefpaintings from Barcelona and Mad- rid are in the collection, likewise machinery, wines, hardware, woollen and linen manufactures, &¢. All the gooas from Hollavd for the Centennial have been landed trom the Dutch steamship W. A. Scholten, under the supervision of Mr. Morris, the passenger agent of the Netherlands Steamship Company. In the collection are 146 masterpieces of the Dutch school of painting and four splendid copies hig eer by the old masters, among which is Paul “Bull.” The total weight of the goods 1s about 1,000 tons. The Dutch workmen who are to take charge of the goods have already becn sent on to Philadelphia. The goods themselves will be sent on by two or three trains on Pennsylvania Railroad to-day and to- morrow, BEER DRINKERS. ‘The subject of beer drinking has so often led to angry discussions that the Journal de la Société de Statistique de Paris has undertaken to set the question at rest by giving the quantity made and the quantity drunk by each individual in the following countries, the figures being principally derived from a compilation made by M. G. Noback, an eminent scientist ;— | > | 3 = Country. | Population, 3 i America (Uni- ree ceataa)., ¢ 88,650,000 2,785 240,549,950 Alsace-Lorraine 1,638,546 _ — 20,007,800 85,614,858 2,636 306,299,975 3. In many of the above figures showing the quceie drunk per inhabitant the fractions are not given. It will be seen that Bavaria, Belgium, Wurtemburg and Soon ml consume more than the other countries name A BRUTAL HUSBAND'S PUNISHMENT. Among the culprits brought up in the Court of Special Sessions at Jersey City yesterday was Peter Vogellers, who was indicted for an atrocious assault upon his wile. The evidence showed that the woman was the victim of a continuous brutality on the part of the husband, who spent much of his time in the resi- deuce of another party in New York. Mrs. Vogellers was lying sick on one occasion when her husband re- turned and demanded money. There was none in | the honse and he became enraged and struck the pros- | trate woman several heavy blows, The evidence was | lodged in jail at Ashville, and the premises of the di conclusive and he was found guilty. Judge Hoffman immediately sentenced him to eighteen months at hard jabor in the State Prison. A BOLD THIEF. Botween seven and eight o'clock last evening the The smallest package welghs about _ Pottor’s evlebrated | os | then he drifted into the wholesale dry goods trade. front window of Sussman’s jewelry store, No. 116 Mul- | berry street, Newark, was smashed by a thief, who ran off with four gold watches and two sets of jewelry, GOVERNOR AMES, OF MISSISSIPPI. {From the Memphis Appeal. ] The charges against Ames include several specifica- tions for appointing physicians and others wholly un- educated in the law as Chancellors, When Genera Featherston concluded his argument for impeach. ment before the House of Representatives, a gentle- | man of Jackson, Miss, distinguished alike for legal ability aud wit, was nsked:—“What do you think of impeacnment now?” Answer—‘Well, sir, I think if a Roman Emperor was impencbable for ap- ointing his horse Consnl of Rome the Governor of Mississippi ought to be impeached for making a jack- ass Chancellor.” Which one of Ames’ Chancellors dia he refer to? CROOKED WHISKEY IN ALABAMA, [From the Birmingham (Ala) Independent. } We learn that there was considerable trouble near Ashvillo, St. Clair county, last week. The Doputy In- ternal Revenue Collector, Mr. Peevy, visited Ashville with a posse of United States soldiers in citizens? clothes, hunting up illicit stills. They found one about two miles from town, which was seized, but the owner fled. His brother and another man were arrested and tiller placed under surveillance. Toward the wee sma’ hours anent the dawn the crooked whiskey man was seen trying to enter his premises, and in attempting to escape a second time was shot and wounded. Re is now A prisoner at hisown house, On Thursday night the jail ot Astiviile was surreptitiously opened, and the prisoners cscaped, The Sheriff of St. and a posse of cittzeus were in search of them on Friday and Saturday, but without success, Our informant toils us that illictt distitiation is carried on to a great extent in the monntains; and it has beom connived at by the revenue officers, no doubt, for a consideration, | North River, N RHODE ISLAND DEMOCRATS. PLATFORM ADOPTED BY THE CONVENTION AT NEWPORT—OFFICIAL CORRUPTION AND THE PAPER CURRENCY DENOUNCED—DECLARATION AGAINST THE PROPERTY TEST IN THE STATE. Newrorr, March 16, 1876. The democrats at their State Convention to-day Unanimously adopted the following platform :— The democracy of Rhode Island, now in convention assembled, in view of the ing Presidential elec- tion, feel it due to their democrats of the Union to declare their political attitude, Therefore, Resolved, That we reafirm our devotion to the union of the States on the usual and liberal. principales of ita founders, that all are equal in the Union, Resolved, That we denounce the violation of this equality of rights by the federal government in its illegal and wicked interference with our sister States, d we call upon all patriots, of whatsover party. aflt- ations, to unite with us in wresting the control of the government from the hands of those who have tram- pled upon this fundamental principle of our Union, Resolved, That the astounding developments so re- cently made through the committees of Congress and courts of federal official corruption at Washington, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis, Chicago and many other cities, have stamped Indclible disgrace upon tho administration of President Grant and his advisers, and should convince all candid men that an immediate change of rulers and of policy is imperatively do manded, Resolved, That the present blighted condition of tha business interests of the country 1s due to and charge. able upon the republican party, in that it deserted well-tried and established theory ofall enlightened gov- ernments of the earth, and adopted in its stead an irre. deemable currency; Resolved, That the only possible return to pros, perity is a return to a sound currency, based on a gold redemption, and that we are in favor of such a return at the earliest moment consistent with the business interests of the country; Resolved, That we are opposed to that long standing system of legalized robbery under the name of protec- tion to American producers, by which the few are en- riched at the expense of the many, and demand in ite stead a tariff for revenue. The following resolution was also passed :— Resolved, That the democrats of the State of Rhode Island, in convention assembled, hereby express them- selves in favor of the abolition of the property qualifica. tion, which unjustly discriminates against naturalized citizens. Rhode Island Is the only State in the Union that im- poses the property qualification upon foreign born citi+ zens. NOMINATIONS, General George Lewis Cooke, of Warren, was nomi- nated for Governor; Zeba 0, Slocum, of Glocester, for Lieutenant Governor; Jonn P. Price, of North Kings- town, for Secretary of State; Oscar 8, Lapham, of Providence, for Attorney General; William P, Cong- don, of Newport, for General Treasurer. The following named delegates were elected to the National Democratic Convention:—Nicholas Von Slyck, William B. Beach, John Conway, Thomas R, Gardner, William T. C, Wardwell, General J, Allred Hazard, John B. Pierse, Alpheus T. Angell, A GAS WAR. WAYS THAT ARE DARK AND TRICKS THAT ARE EXPECTED TO BE VAIN PRACTISED BY THE ST. LOUIS GAS COMPANIES—LIGHT THROWN ON AN ALLEGED GIGANTIC FRAUD. Sr. Louis, March 16, 1876, For several weeks the gas war in this city has been fierce, and is rapidly reaching the culminating point, ‘The Laclede Gaslight Company, which supplies the northern part of the city, has notified the Mayor that ifa certain amount, which they claim to be due, is not paid them by the Ist of April the gas will be turned off, The city claims the title to the pipes which are being used by the company, and which are valued at over $500,000, and for that reason refuse to pay the demand for gas used, The Mayor has directed a letger to the City Engineer, directing him to furnish estimates of the cost for lighting the streets with oil, should the gas be shat off. The residents of the north part of the cily express great indignation, and make serious threats against the Laclede Company should the gas be turned off. Some have gone so far as to express a determina- Uon to assist in the most overt acts and violence to the propery of the company, ana this feeling will, ne joubt, be intensificd day by day as the gas question ‘continues to assume more serious aspects. The suit pending between the city and the St, Louis Gaslight Company, in which the furmer claims posses- sion of the titie to the works, is creating great excite- ment, The city has brought suit for the works, as well as suit on aclaim for several hundred thousand dol- Jars, and the chargo is of long standing that the com- pany has, during a series of years, practised the grossest frauds on the city. The city claims that it has had Jegal title to the works since 1570, afd that all the ‘ofits derived since then, amounti to over 12,000,000, belong to the city. A committee appointed by the Council has been examining the books of the company, and a startling rumor is in circulation that the committee has vered where the books of tha company have been mutilated, several leaves cy torn out for the purpose of concealing a profit o! $1,100,000, out of which it is evident tue company in- tended to defraud the city. Tho report appears to be well authenticated, and a great sensation has been cree ated among those who have heard of the discovery, OBITUARY. GENERAL PROSPER M. WETMORE. Gencral Prosper M. Wetmore died yesterday morn- mg, in the seventy-soventh year of his ago, at Great Neck, Long Island, of heart disease, For the past five or six years the deceased had been subject to attacks of intermittent fever that have gradually broken down his constitution. He was a man prominent in tho history of the country during the forty years that intervened between 1820 and 1860. Of late he has lod rather a retired life, as his health was very poor, and although ovcasionally be paid a vistt to the Chamber o Commerce and other institutions with which he had been connected during his busy days, he gave such in- ‘dications of a broken down constitution that his iricnds were not astonished at the news of his death. General Wetmore tirst became prominent in publia life through bis connection with the organization uf the Seventh regiment, and when only twenty-two Years of age was colonel of that corps. Ho was shortly, afterward conneeted with an insurance company, and In that line he carried on one of the largest concerns in the city. On April 4, 1833, he was appointed one of the regents of the State University, and was active in the duties appertaining to that office until his health failed, He served as aide on tho stall of Governor Seward,-and at that time was the Intimate friend of Mi and other rominent statesmen. He was a member of tho Legis- ure of the State of New York in 1834 and 1835, and as chairman of the Committee on Colleges and Acade- mires took an active interest in the public school sys- tem. During the latter part of the existence of the American Art Union Mr. Wetmore was elected president of the institution, a position which he held up to the time of its dissolution in 1850, He was Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce from 1843 to 1549, and served as vice president of the same in 1549-50. He presented the Chamber of Commerce with the two full length portraits of Alexander Hamilton and Cadwallader Colden that now adorn the walls of the board room. He was appointed Navy Agent under Polk's administration, and served in that office from 1845 to 1549. He was the oldest member of the New England Society and also an active member of the His- torical Society, and in 1847 ho published a volume of ‘Observations on the War with Mexico.” During the late war he was the secretary of the Union Dofence Committee, and hig name willalso be long remembered as the promoter and organizer of the Merchants Clerks’ Savings insti- tutions. He was the leading spirit in the promotion of the first lace of steamers between San Francisce and China, For the past few years General Prospor M. Wetmore bas been absent from the busy life which ho occupied such a prominent position, but hit name has not been forgotten, and a grateful will always remember with gratitude the man who gavo £0 much of his time to the public service, NO PEACE FOR SMUGGLERS, Custom House Inspector Judd, stationed at pior No. 3 turned in at the seizure room of the Custom House yesterday upwards of 2,000 of the choicest brands of cigars, found concealed on board the Havana steamship City of Vera Cruz, which arrived in this port early yesterday morning. RIVER PIRATES CAUGHT, Andrew Gallagher, Francis Moran and Maurice Sulli. van, yesterday morning about four o'clock boarded the sloop Alida lying at the foot of 106th strect, and carried off twenty hides. The watchman on deck dis. _ covered them as they were making off, and fired at | them several shots from his revolver, The thieves re. turned the tire and tn the darkness made good their escal Yesterday afternoon all three were arrested and Brought to the Fourth precinct station house, SEALS NEAR STATEN ISLAND, Posstbly the unusual mildness of the past winter aq counts for the reported appearance of several seals in Staten Island Sound. Some, it is said, have ventured upas far as Mariners’ Harbor Lighthouse, In this Jocality a few yet remain and have grown so tame that they are fed by the lighthouse keeper, They creep on @ float oar the lighthouse daily and bask in the sun- Shine. Somo of the new visitors are black and others white, A DEPAULTING OFFICIAL Ata special meeting of the Hoboken Common Coum cil last evening the Finance Committee roported that John McCulloch, City Clerk, was a defaulter in the amount of tg The Sergeant-at-Arms was sent to ‘this evening, and also Gowantieg iat be peieeuaer al Property of the city at once and make good his agcoun® 7)