The New York Herald Newspaper, April 1, 1876, Page 5

THE CONNECTICUT CAMPAIGN, “Preparing for the Great Political Battle of Monday Next, A CLOSE CONTEST EXPECTED. A Foreshadowing of the Prob- able Result. Haxrvonp, March 31, 1876. Another real working day remains for the Conneeti- cut politicians before the battle 1s lost and won. With such a doubttul, wavering constituency it is notan easy matter to determine the exact results in advance. ‘The leading republicans with whom I have conversed 1m Bridgeport, New Haven, Hartford, Meriden and other places expect tho defeat of Ingersoll by the popular ‘vote and the consequent handing over of the choice to the Legislature. If this is the result of Monday’s con- test then the republicans think they have a chance of | controlling sufficient votes on joint ballot of Senate and House of Representatives to elect their candidate | for United States Senator, The Legislature is, conso- quently, “the pivot around which all efforts of | Connecticut statesmen is centred, They do | mot care so much for the Governorship. | Mr. English wants to stay in Wash- | ington for the unexpired term of Ferry, to which ho was appointed, ending 1879, and General Hawley, or | some other republican statesman, would have no hesi- tation in putting on tho Senatorial shoes of the present incambent if ne is compelled to ‘‘step down and out,”” ‘THE FIGHT IN THR TOWNS, Representatives to the Legislature of Connecticut are elected by towns and not by districts, as in the State of New York. On next Monday 246 of these repre- sentatives will bo chosen, Last year there were only 245, but an increase of one bas been made in Thomas- town, There are 160 towns in the whole State, seventy | of which aro conceded as very close. In the latter lo- | calilies the entire wire-pulling strength of both partios | is concentrated, Halfa dozen votes in a town where democratic and republican candidates run almost neck and neck might alter the entire complexion of the fight. ‘TWO YRARS? STATISTICS, The republicans gained ground in the last contest, as the following figures will show:— LEGISLATURE oF 1874, The independents have gonorally voted with demo- crats, so that the majority in 1874 was 39, and on joint ballot, 52. In the Legislature of 1875 the figures stood as fol- lows :— Democratic majority. Majority on joint ball ‘Thus it will be seen that the democratic majority in the last Legislature has been cut down from the pre- vious year by sixteen votes. WHERE THE CONTEST CENTRES, ‘The doubtful and close towns upon which neither party an have any positive calculation are understood | to be as follows, arranging them by Senate districts:—., First—New Britain, Rocky Hill, Newington, Second—East Hartford, East Windsor, Manchester, Marlborough, South Windsor, Third—Avon, Farmington, Granby, ‘Windsor, Fourth—Now Haven. Fifth—Beacon Falls, Derby, Orange, Oxford, Sey- mour, Southbury, Wolcott. “Siz esbire, North Branford, North Haven, Prospect. Seventh—All the towns in this district, Eighth—Franklin, Griswold, Lisbon, Ninth—All the towns of this dist Sunsbury, Weption of Lebanon. oo iS, oat Eleventh — Ridgefield. a Twel jtamford. r Thirteenth—All the towns, with the exception of Can- Fourteenth—Asbford, Eastford. Fi Harwimton, New Hartford. Watertown. Bigh vernmnhedidy Durbam. ke Cromwe art Nuneteenth—East Hadas Old Saybrook. Twenticth—All the rn geben Wil! ‘ Twenty-first—All except This canvass of the different towns of Connecticut. bas been made from a democratic standpomt, That party claims to be certain of the balance of the towns Bot mentioned, but by no means concedes the victory im the other localities to republicans. They wish those put down as simply dvabiful , RADICAL CHANGES IX ELNCTING OFFICIALS, The amendments recently passed to the constitution of Connecticut make many radical changes in the fatare selection of State officers, This is tho last ycar that we are to have a spring election; and the officers going into power on the Ist of May next will only hold over for eight months. Afterward all elections will be held in November. The Govenor and Senate must be chosen for two years, and the Rep- resentatives in the House for one year. One- half of the Senate, however, will be elected an- bri the odd districts one year and the even districts the next, The former, therefore, on the | start can serve ouly for one year; but afterward tho ‘torms of the twenty-one Senators will be of equal dura- tion. This adds considerably to the already comphi- we machinery of Connecticut politics, The lower louse is entirely too large, but the old constitution of F818 provides for the choice of representatives by | towns, and those smail corporations cannot be induced to give up their valued privilege of special representa- tion, It 1s somewhat extraordinary to witness Con- Becticut, with a population of about 500,000, sending | ¥46 State representatives to make laws for her weltare | or otherwise, as the case may be, while Now York, with between 5,000,000 and 6,000,000, can only aftopd to support 128 Assemblymen and’ thirty-two Benators. Ki official honesty is to be protected by large representative bodies, then Connecticut must be awarded the palm in that laudable undertaking. - An Ainendment to the State constitution must be passed | upon here by the Legigiature in a similar manner as in New York before it can go before the people for Fatification, The old farmers of Connecticut like the Gignity of sitting in the State Capitol, and they are not yet ready to surrender the privilege. TACTICS OF THR TEMPERANCE MEN. The operations of the temperance element have a ae injurious to republican interests in this | The latter assert that the Legislature would | Positively have been won last year had it not been for | the vote cast for temperance candidates in some of the districts, Those districts are nearly a tic. Temper- &nce men are almost exclusively recruited from repub- ican ranks, thereby depleting the strength of that or- | Bauization. A close vote between a democratic and Fepubucan candidate tor the Legislature where a tem- rance man is in the field, thereioré, naturally resulis republican defeat. Thus the combination works, and fanaticism is made to do the dirty work ot political intrigue. Those temperance meno must certainly | be aware that they have no earthly chance of electing | their ticket. The vote of last year only reached 2,942 for Mr, Smith, their candidate for Governor, Somo | Fespectable men are undoubtedly connected with the movement, but a Now York city politician would bo induced to look upon such an organization as a “strike”—in fact, a palpable hit. If the organization ‘was coniined to nominating a State ticket alone this charge might not be so susceptible of proof, but candidates are put up in severai ot | the districts for Senators aud Kepresentatives, The Second, Fourth, Sixth, Seventh, Twelfth, Ninth, Fifteenth and Sixteenth districts have thus far been heard from in this connection. Some of the zealous temperance men aro understood to be very wise tacti- fians. They do not nominate their candidates come- Umes until the very night before election. They hold | sections,’ it will do me some good to send it to weiea ont mich: teael dont ra meetings and hij “ chet When she boys got a $1, in New Ham ire they to fire offa gun and call all the people around to with them. Here, in Connec- ticut, the green’ circulated in the close towns they bt, a good deal of truth im the statements of my eloquent democratic friend, CAUSES OF APATEY—THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. Vahd reasons are given by democrats and republi- cans alike for an a) ts apathy pervading the present: canvass, One of main causes is said to be the short term for whieh the next cfficials will be chosen— in six months more we are to have lection. The republicans of Connecticut have never yet missed fire on @ Presidential contest. ae 1cke! yotes in the final determination of the Presidential issue. Their delegation is unpledged, and on national questions the party in the State always comes together 4s one harmonious whole, A much larger vote than on Monday, it is also claimed, will be cast in Novem- ber, A falling off generally affects the republican ticket seriously. INDEPENDENT LEGISLATORS, Each year there are nominated and clected four or five representatives in the House who dub themselves “im dents,"” As I stated before, these gentlemen have hitherto genorally acted with ‘the democrats on party measures. But those bushwhackers outside of political organizations can become a dangerous element in a State like Connecticut. If the choice of Governor and United States Senator is thrown upon the Legisia- ture, and that body is so close that two or three votes may turn the scalo one way or the other, then the “‘in- dependents,” if any, who obtain seats at the next cleo- tion may bave the Wbole situation in their own hands. They are bound by no ty ties, governed by no cau- cus dictation, wal by no Argus-eyed partisans, They can vote for whom they pleaso—Ingersoll or Robinson, English or Jewell. all the other Rectliarities which direct the State govern- ment of Connecticut; this is a contingency which might arise at the election of Monday. Such a'state of aflairs might result in a lively canvass on the assem- biing of the now Legislature, but the '*bones” would | be divided only between a few “independent” states. men. In some cases, however, these ‘‘indepenaent” candidates who may not run a “stump” are induced | to pledge themselves on Governor ana United States poeple: return for support from one side or the other. THR TWO LEADING CANDIDATES FOR GOVERNOR, Mr. Henry C. Robinson, who is the republican nom- ince for Governor iy a man of extensive reputation through the State, He is a lawyer by profession, forty-three years of age, and resides mm this town, In | 1855 he graduated at Yale Cullege. The class of that | year is somewhat noted for distinguished men who have made a noise in the world since crossing for the last time the threshold of Yale. For years Mr. Robinson has devoted himself almost exciu- sively to a successful practice of the law in his native State. He is described as an eloquent advocate anda sound lawyer. He has always acted with the repablican party since it came into existence, In 1872 he was elocted Mayor of Hartford by a hand- some majority, ‘This was considered quite a compli- ment, as Hartford ts a democratic city, Such a prece- dent leads the republicans to hope that Mr. Robinson will receive a number of democratic votes at the elec- tion on Monday next. Governor Charles R. Ingersoll, the democratic stan- dard bearer and candidate for re-election 1s now about iilty-four years of age. He belongs to the ‘‘old blood” ot the Nutmeg State, His father, Ralph T. Ingersoll, was American Minister to Russia under the Van Buren administration. Governor Ingersoll is widely known as a gentleman of high educational culture. His character for bigeye | political consistency 18 also rocog- nized by all cl He was born in New Haven, where he at present resides, If elected Governor on Monday he will, on the 1st of January next, have eerved tour terms. The democrats speak enthusiasti- cally of the character of their candidate, They say that in all his campaigns the majorities rolled up for him have been much larger than were prophesied Last. year the democrats of Hartford, just previous to election, set down his majority m’ their locality at about 650, but the figures on election day brought it up to 1,100.’ A number of republicans voted for him in Preference to his opponent, Green, who was at tho time go lully identified with the third term doctrine, and also a blatant supporter of the administration dur- ing the Louisiana trouble of the period. THE UNITED STATES SENATORSIIP. Nobody on the democratic side seems to contest the rights of Mr. hnglish to election as United States Sena- tor, in case the Legislature is controlled by that party. | This gentleman is rated at $2,000,000; so this whole- 86.7¢ fact may havea good deal'to do with keeping bac« obtrusive outsiders who might want the piace, Shen “pcrsession it nine-tenths of the law;” so the | present Senator has acioar field. If the republicans win, report says General Jewell would not object to the | honor. The only additional candidate 1 have heard mentioned on the same side of the house 1s General Hawley, but the modesty of that gentieman would btless indace him to retire in favor of the head ot Post Office Department. CLOSING THE RANKS, Several reroute remain to be yet nominated througnout the State, notwithstanding the fact that only one week-day remains until the election is upon us. The whole State ticket, however, will be com- pleted by tmorrow (Saturday) night. Sunday is a very blue agniversary in Connecticut, and in many quarters a found reading a newspaper or sitting contemplatiwely over a class of lager is looked upon as afiend in buman shape. The politicians will, there- as mute as mice, fearing to Bier must put yore semblance the occasion, body pscesey , but every the cipal farewell rallies will wen. The republicans hold meeting at Allyn Hartiord, which will be addressed their candidate for Governor, Mr. Robinson; Gen- ‘efal Hawley and otkers. The democrats assemble at a New Haven, where the ponderous Licu- it Governor Dorsheimer will launch forth against the corruption of the party with which he was until recently identitied. THE PRESIDENTIAL CANVASS. WHAT A BLAINE MAN THINES, To mz Epiror oy tae Herary:— o Kapire’ ‘stave should ame the Presidont, and whet democratic and republican candidates alike should come from New York,—New Yor Hxraip. Why Hxratp, you’ve more cheek than an “army mule!” The “general arift of public setiment” in | your office may be as you state above, but to gravely make such a misstatement subjects you to one of two criticisms—either that you don’t know what you are talking about, or that you don’t care what you say. “Go West! young man, go West!” and see what the “gen- eral drift of public sentiment” is. You can’t win the fight with this State «lone, and you must have help, even if it be true, as you so modestly mention, that “a citizen of the Empire State would do much more for the country than one from a narrower and less enlight- ened section.” “How we apples swim!” That the leading journal of the city of Fisk, Gould, Vanderbilt, Tweed, Drew, Morrissey et id omne genus should have the wonderful impudence to speak of tho rest ot the country as a ‘narrower and less enlightened section” 18 not strange, but that such a leading journal should expect to obtain and retain political influence by such shameless mendacity 1s past belief Pluck the beam out of your own eye and then do the decent thing with motes that are troubling your neighbors, Every sthoolboy tn the country knows that your city and State governments are good models to avoid, and yet you talk of “narrow ana less enlightened sec- tions.’ Why, even Indiana, the unfortunate land of Morton and Hendricks, can put to the fore a better man than any of your centennial heey wernt including your favorite Pouter Pigeon—I mean General Benjamin Harrison, a soldier, a scholar, a proud and honest man, Obio, Tiinois, Massachusetts, in tact almost every State in the Union, can put forward a man who ‘will be too proud and too brave to lie,” and as that is your principal recommendation for Mr. Conkling, honors ought to be easy. Bat hold on, [see you explain it all in the follow- ing sentence:—‘Theretore, if our democratic and re- nblican friends will only remember what they owe to New York, wud that we bave claims which should not be forgotten or overlooked, there is no reason why tho | canvase should not be so directed that whichever party | wins the Empire State will have imperial recoguition, | Bat why didn’t you say what fd meant, and not dodge the question ? Suppose you had said, if either party | takes its candidate from New York that candidate will | be beaten; therefore, inorder to give the Empire | State “imperial recognition’? (does that mean a repub- lican President ?) it will be essential that both candi- dates be from this State. In other words, let us give tho people the nearest thing to ‘Hobson's choice” that we can yet up, and we will clect our man—< e. one of two men, Of course you will not publish this, bat | being from one of the ‘‘narrower and less enlightened ‘ou. Yours, contractedly, ALBERT MORRIS, ANTI-TAMMANY. MEETING OF THE GENERAL COMMITTEZ—IM- back until the smoke of battle begins actually to sscend. Then they rush im a candidate who will draw vi a few repablican votes and thus give the battle tq the democrata, This is playing Judas under a new form. But the game has its results, aud the demo- . trate do not lose sight of the players, THK MONEY QUESTION, Itis marvellous with what pertinacity the repab- Jican leaders hero stick to the story that they bave no money to expend in conducting the campaign, They go 80 far as to say that they cannot get cnough cash to pay actual routs gular,” 1 remarked to om those high toned gentlemen at the Altyn House, in Hartiord, to-day. ly Connecti. cut, having having secured a Postmaster Generalshi in the person of Mr. Jewell, ought not to bo behind. hand in the sinews ‘of war.” “Well, sir, it true,” he emphatically remarked, “circulars have been gent to federal office-holders soliciting dona- tions, but very few of them have responded. 1 am willing to have a committee examine my bank ac- count, after this canvass ts over, to substantiate these statements. Ihave no doubt Mr. English will put out | & col erable nt; 80 it is reported, hen he tan for Governor h® iooted the bill pretty heavily. The United States Senatorship is his will-o’-the-wisp, and he is bound to win.” : A leading democratic politican, although not posi- tively denying the imsinuation that Mr. English had pat his hand down deep MIGRATION AND REPRESENTATION QUESTIONS ACTED UPON. | A meeting of the anti-Tammany Democratic Gen- eral Committeo was held last evening in Irving Hall. Ira Shaffer was in the chair and John D. Coughiin, Clerk of the Marine Court, acted as secretary. Thomas J, Creamer presented the report of the Committee on Contested Seats of the Fifth, Eighth, Ninth and Fifteenth districts, As the contests had been amicably | adjusted the report was unanimously adopted. The Committee on Permanent Organization reported the names of Ira Shaffer for President; vice presi: dents, Rufus F. Andrews, Rovert B, Roosevelt, Andrew Blakeslee, R. McLaughlin, Colonel Max Friedman, Michae! Doff, F. FE. Ranscom and James Callery ; seere- taries, John D, Coughlin, M. Healy, A. Sanger and M. C. Dunbaum; treasurer, D. McMahon; sergeant-at- arms, Pairick Welsh, Tho report was accepted a tnanimousiy adopted. Mr. James D. McClellan presented a rerolution ‘that the chairmen of the four standing committees be con- stituted mbers of the Executive Committee.’ Adopted, Mr, Rufus T, Andrews presented resointions expressing the + of the organization at the news of the death of Judge Alexanaer Theso were carr and ies were oraered "to bo transmitted io the family of the deceased. Mr. C, W. Brooke offered resolutions, he tailor was thus engaged the first would slip a roll of | cloth under his overcoat, and under the pretext of going to geta-cigar leave the store. The robbery | with the woman’s death. Ho soon returi.ed with the which were adopted, calling upon the Democratic Con- Yention, to meet at Utica on the 26th inst., to admit from any and all democratic o1 zations throughout the State, irrespective of “Hall” denom- inations, Mr, Emanuel B, Hart offered resolutions to the same effect and they were received and adopted amid great Ge oe Mr. R. J. Andrews oftered a resolution, which was adopted, asking the State Central Democratic Commit- tee, to consider as nugatory and void, the action of the last State Convention in declaring Tammany Hall to be the representative body of the party in this city. ‘The following was presented and adopted :— Rosol\ That the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States declaring the collection of head money under the existing laws of the State of ‘ork to be unconstitutional will have the al disastrot effest of de 1 ediate and 8 stroyi the existing system, which under State authority aunually Protests trom imposition. provides, the ‘them — in sickness and destitution, and aids in the procurement of employment for thousands of immigrants from the coanerigs of Barope. | Considerations of hi imperatively demand prompt, Vise legisiation, we earnestly ask the inte adop- tion of such laws, by Congress, as may subserve the well being of the immigrant and effectually protect the interest of the State and city. The Convention then adjourned, POLITICAL NOTES. The Savannah Free Press sces it stated that Horschel 'V. Johnson will accept the nomination tor Governor of the State of Georgia, and hopes it will be tendered him. The Maryland Gasette (Annapolis, the capital of the State, copublican), hoists the name of James G, Blaine, tor President, and seems to mean business, Billings is not willing. Frederick (of that name) persistently declines being considered a candidate of the republicans for the nomination for Governor of Vermont. “And Tilden also!” exclaims the St. Paul (Minn.) Pioneer Press (rep.), referring to the iconoclast being abroad among the idols of the democracy. 1 The Rutland (Vt) Globe (rep.) believes “that tho people of Vermont are, and for some time have been, heartily sick of a class of so-called loaders who would | whisper one thing but were afraid to openly and pub- licly express their honest convictions because they might, by so doing, bo unable to float with tho tide, We believe that the people of Vermont have had enough of sel!-seckers and professional politicians, and were ready, this centennial year, to nominate and elect a Governor whose hands aro unstained with the vul- garity and trickery of current politics, who has no in- clipation for public office and who has the manliness and courage to avow his houest convictions without | stopping to inquire or seeking to know whether the masses coincided with his views or their expression would make or mar his political fortanes. Such a man wasand is Frederick Billings, As such we heartily advocated his nomination.’’ Conundrums from the Jackson (Miss) Clarion (dem.):— Is the republican party responsible for the misdeeds of the men it has put in office t”” The Topeka (Kansas) Commonwealth copies the re mark of the Ellsworth Reporter, to the effect that the question of who shall be Governor has narrowed | down to Cobb, Guthrie and Halderman. “Adams and Evarts’’ is the Presidential ticket of a Western paper, But don’t it sound a good deal like “Adam and Eve??? Sing— Oh, dear, I grieve, I grieve, For the good old days of Adam and of Eve. The Springfield (IIL) Register (dom.) talks about the “good old republican party.’? ‘Old’? is good. But wo ‘rather guess a majority of the American people regard it at this time as only about *‘ ’alf and ’alf”’ at best, The New Hampshire Democratic State Committee baye issued an address to the democracy ip which tho late republican victory is described as “a traudulent, a purchased one and in no sense represents the honest sentiment of the State.” They hope for better things im November, | Fontaine Fox Bobbett, the “Cicero of the Moun- tains,’ writes to the voters of the Kentucky Seventh Congressional district as follows:—‘‘I bave always re- garded it as a mere question of time when I sbould go to Congress and am not particularly anxious to go just now, but the will of the people is a law to which I im- plicitly bow, and if the people say now I re-echo now.” A New York paper objects to the expense of the Sen- ate investigation of the “Alabama Senator.” Very well, turn him out and we'll all chorus—'‘Damn the ex-Spencer !?"—Mobile Register. HELL GATE’S OBSTRUCTIONS. It now seems probable that the obstructions to the free navigation of Hell Gate will not be removed by a great explosion on the Fourth of July as they were in- tended to be. There ia a great amount of work yet to ‘be accomplished, and the balance of the old appropria: tion is not sufficient to warrant the employment of a sufficient number of men to completo the work by In- dependence Day. The whole force now engaged on the excavations does not exceed 160, eluding clerks and others not employed in the actual duties of mining. ‘he men who are employed at the excavations are kept b en; so far as what remains of the appro- priation will allow, and the aides of the dividing walls | and portions of the roof are being drilled for the re- | ception of the explosive material. xcayations were some time ago commenced at Fiood Rock, one of the most dangerous of tne Hell Gate obstructions. At presenta tunnel fifty-Ove feet rojecting under tho bed of the Fast River, has ished, and other tunnels are being planned, jong, been TRICKS UPON TAILORS, Inspector McDermott caused tho arrest yesterday of two young men who for some time past, it is alleged, have been enriching themselves by means of a neat trick at the expense of sundry unsuspecting tailors. Their method of working is given as follows:—Ono would enter a tailur shop under pretext of getting a | suit of clothes made, and while examining the material secund would come in and tailor to sew would, of course, not be noticed until alter the buttons had been sewed on, by which time the thief was out of sight, ‘The names of the prisoners are John W. Meyers and John Williamson. They are both of gentee! appear- ance and good address. Thoy were captured in the store of Herman Abeling, No. 86 Greenwich a Bue, where they were practising the trick. The polico have been on their track for the past three weeks, bat ene not until yesterday that they were caught in act, A SUSPICIOUS DEATH. John Crowley, blacksmith, of No, 107 John street, Brocklyn, went to the Second precinct station houso yesterday and in rather a quiet way stated that a woman living in the same house with him was dead, and that some one should be sent there. Crowley went away, and an officer was sent to learn all the facts connected | intormation that Crowley had told the truth, bat that the dead woman was his own wife. Uiticers being sent to arrest Crowley found him easily, When asked why he did not stato that the dead woman was his wifo, he said that he “did not think to do so, and that it didn’t make no difference anyhow.” When asked if he had not iil treated her, he replied that ne had once, ‘Didn't | ‘ou knock hor down?” asked the Sergeant. “No, sir, | did not. Last Saturday sho bad been drinking, and merely shoved her down,” replied Crowley, held to await the action of the Coroner. FIRES YESTERDAY. At thirty-five minutes past one yesterday morning a fire broke out in the basement of the five story brown stone tenement house No, 769 Seventh avenue. The engines were soon on the spot, but the flames rapidly gained headway, and for a whilo it secmed as if there would be a large conflagration. The fire was, however, got under control within a resonable time and soon alter extinguished, Tho basement was oc- cupied as a grocery store by John F. Frank, whose stock was damaged to the extent of $2,500. The re- maining floors were occupied by poor families. They all succeeded in getting out of the burning house be- fore the flames woro under way, consequently no per- gon wag injured. The damage to the building is esti- matea at $10,000, which is covered by insarance. The cause of the fire is unkuown. Karly at morning an alarm of fire was sound- from No. 113 West 25th street, occupied as a dwel- ing house by A. 1. Jones. The flanes were extin- guished at a loss of $300, Insured. fire in the bedroom in the third floor of the four brick dwelling No. 254 West 25th street, occupied | s#1¢ Darling, caused a datwage of $200, The tire y ‘was caused by a lighted candle coming in contact with the window curtains. INVESTIGATING A FIRE. | 1 Further investigatiyn was made yesterday by Fire Marshal Keady snto the alleged incendiary fire at Bay | Ridgo, which occurred last Monday morning. Mr. Fundicker’s gardenor testified that, the coachman, | Wendt, was not drunk until after the fire had occurred, and that Wendt had told him about his finding part of & burned candle in the pocket of a coat belonging to 4 pices] andthat he had told him also that to be a intricate one, Mf farther in- NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, APRIL 1, 1876.—TRIPLE SHEET. A HISTORICAL DISCOVERY. Where the Declaration of Indepen- dence Was Really Written, MUSTY ARCHIVES EXPLORED. Devout Patriots Worshipping at the Wrong Shrine for Fifty Years. JEFFERSON’S LODGING. PuttapeLpuia, March 30, 1876, Among the many places of historic interest of which the Centennial City is proud thero are two especially cherished by her good and patriotic citizens, One is old Independence Hall, whence the Declaration of In- dependence was first’ proclaimed; the other is the room in which Thomas Jefferson lived, where tho Committee of the Colonial Congress on the Declaration mot, and where the immortal document was written. For very many years the old brick building atthe corner of Seventh and Market streets has been pointed out for the patriot’s veneration as the place WHRRE JEFFERSON DRAYTED THE DXCLARATION, The building is on the southwest corner of Seventh and Market streets, now in the heart of the busincss portion of the city, It is known as No. 700 Market street, It fronts on Market street about 1634 feet and seems to be about 55 feet deep on Seventh strect, Tt is built of brick, in tho old-fashioned substantial manner, is now four stories In height (although it was originally only three), with small, quaint window | frames and massive sashes, and with a high peakea roof and dormer windows, Tho street floor on the Markot strect front is a trunk store and the rest of the building is rented to various business houses, This is the place shown to tho sightseer as the | “house of a Mr. Graaf,” where, as Jefferson himeelf says, “I rented the second floor, consisting of a parlor and bedroom, ready furnished,’’ in which ‘“parior I wrote habitually, and in it wrote this paper (the Decla- ration) particularly.” ‘This second floor is now used for the workshop and offices of a firm of lithographers, who kindly exhibit it to the curious free of charge. Placards on tho street front over the second floor windows inform the passer-by that it was here the Declaration of Independence was written by Thomas Jefferson. A largo sign, bearing a portrait of Benjamin Franklin seated at a desk perusing a book, occupied for a long time the space between tho fourth floor win- dows of the Market street front, with an accompanying inscription designating the building as ‘the birth-place of liberty.” BUSINESS VS, SENTIMENT, The appearance of the historic rooms has undergone | many changes since the days of the great Virginian. | ‘Tho old partition dividing the floor into two rooms has beon removed and a number of rude frame screens erected, breaking up the floor into several very small apartments, and the curious visitor finds it hard to | reconcile the identity of the bustling lithographic | workshop of to-day with the quiet, simple, “furnished lodgings” of Thomas Jefferson a hundred years ago. For fifty yoars this place has been doscribod and il- lustrated in guide books, mentioned in historical an- nals and been the Mecca toward which she fect of rev- erent patriots haye turned when visiting this old city, ‘The Historical Society of Pennsylvania and other em|- nent antiquarians have indorsed the place, and the an- cient structure has been accordingly venerated as a gacrod relic. It has stood second only to Independence Hall itself in historic interest. AN ICONOCLASTIC DISCOVERY, But a startling discovery hus been made, It now ap- pears that we have all been worshipping at the wrong shrine. A gentleman who has been searching into old records has como upon a revelation which will agitate Philadelphia irom centre to circumference, The result of his eventful search he has communicated to the editor of Potter's American Monthly, a historical maga- zine published in this city, and the article printed be- low is from advance sheets ot that publication. The careful antiquarian editor the magazine hag been thoroughly satisfied that th. uilding in which Jeffer- son took ‘quiet lodgings for a single gentleman” was not No, 700 Murket street, but No. 702, next door, it being proved that tho present corner building had not been erected in 1776, This building (No, 702) is occupied as a clothing shop, and, like the one in the corner, is owned by Ellinger & | Tuck. It is about the samo size as the other building, | being about one foot narrower in frontage. The sec- ond floor of this building, where it appears beyond a doubt that Jefferson really did live, is now one room, | filled with three long tables, on which piles of mon’s | clothing are placed. Th ro small windows, front and rear, glazed with diminutive panes of glass, which may be tho same through which Jefferson looked a hun- dred years ago. The walls, now neatly papered and painted, show what seem to be faint traces of the parti- tion which once was there dividing the space into the two rooms used by Jefferson; and in the old flooring are the unmistakable marks of the spot whero the opening for the old staircase at the sido is known to have been, The ceiling is low, and in spite of bright paint the Yoom was almost as cheerless as an anchorite's cell, on the dull, rainy day upon which I visited it, The propri- etors of tho clothing store did not seem overwhelmed with awe at the eventful discovery which had been made, but were a8 composedly assisting a slovenly looking and reluctant negro to pick out a “‘nishe goat’? as though they did not tread upon hallowed ground. The settlement of a historical question of especial value in this centennial year did not seen to agitate them much, even though it shows their shop to be ‘the original Jacobs’? and the one next door a bogus concern, ‘THR FUXNY PART OF rr, ‘There isa ludicrous side to this really most tmpor- tant historical ‘‘find."’ Tho idea of ninety historians and nosing antiquariang and the “bino-blooded’’ Quaker City aristocrats, whose great boast is their descent from the Revolutionary fathers—the idea of these dignified gentlemen braving the odors of the basement eating saloon where tho vulgar hash is per- petrated, and mounting crazy old 8 to worship at the shrine ot Jeferson, when for filty years they havo been in the wrong shop! One can imagine the picture of Jefferson on the wall as winking its venera’ and thrusting its tongue into its ancient cheek in en- Joyment of the joke. It is as grimly comical as Mark Twain weeping over the grave of his relative, Adam, The article to bo published in the American Monthly 18 a8 follows :— WHERE THE DECLARATION OF WAS WRITTEN. [From Potter’s American Monthly for May.) There is no question connected with the history of the Declaration of Independence which has elicited more iuteresting discussion than that of wi! written. The question has ever beer one importance in the estimation of American antiquarians and exact historic scholars; but just at this jubilee time, when the heart of every true Ameri with accelerated ardor and glows with pate: thusiasm in the contemplation of each memorial of the events uf 100 years ago, and when the mind of every true American is specially intent on the ascertaining of facta connected with his country’s earlier history, at this time the question assumes importance in the estimation even of those hitherto indifferent to such | questions, The best Fr perhaps over written in c tion with discussion was from the accui but gracefni, pen of Miss Agnes Y¥. MeAilister, aod appeared in the American Monthiy for March, 1875, at page 223. Tho writer clearly demonstrated hat the house wherein Thomas Jeflerson “rented the md floor, consisting of parlor and bedroom, ready furnished,” was ‘the house of a Mr. G brick hi three stories high—so much’ beyond | question from written proofs in Mr. Jefforson’ and that, according to his recollection, Pits, man, son of @ German, and then iat “he was a bricklayer, and thal 0 south side of Marker street between Seventh and Eighth.” From Jeflersor “4dea that tt was @ corner house.”? Nicholas Biddte, in April, 1827, dectared “that house is now a warchouse | in the centro of Philadelphia, standing at the southwest corner of Market and Seventh streets; twenty-eight years later Joh Jr., reaffirmed “3fr. Biddie’s opinion daughter, in the admirable article ‘referred to, naturally accepts the same, declaring “The Declaration was written in the house, still stat im) @t the south west corner of Seventh and Market atrcets.”” Ana this declaration has been received by hedges 5 conch INDEPENDENCE | Seventh and Eighth streets, * be | the South side of High Street, in the City of Phi | than a year alterwards, the only building | on the corner, of a search amon, office which he thougnt afforded INDISPUTADLE PROOFS Il Standing, at the southwest cor- Market streets,” could not have one in which the Declaration was written. We have since carefully tested Mr. Richards’ proofs, thoroughly examining the official records and eritically analyzing the several deeds on record in connection With the corner house and lot and the adjoining bouse and lot on Market street, and have no hesitation in em- phatically asserting that the Declaration of Indepen- deuce was not written in the house on the southwest corner of Seventh and Market streets; that the said house was not ereeted until some time alter the 24th of aay, AT, and after the property had been sold by Mr. raat. We are free to acknowledge that we had hitherto ac- cepted the corner house theory, partly in deference to the acknowledged judgment and intelligence of its ad- Yooates, but chiefly because we knew no better theory to advance which so nearly corresponded with the poralier phraseology of Mr. Jefferson's letter, as quoted Nicholas Biddle, and from him by Miss McAiliste though we have never been quite convinced—indec We have felt that the edifice could not have been a corner house, and this feeling has arisen mainly {rom at “the hous rt of Se rs the plain significance of some clauses in the letter | aluded to, Lut now we are happy to beable positively to indicate a house, ‘still standing,” which was Duilt and oceupied by Mr. Graff (Graaf), ‘and which is unquestionably entitled to our regard abd veneration as the house hallowed by the writing therein of the cer: tifloate of our nation’s birth—the only house which fully and in every particular corresponds with Mr, Jefferson's desoripiion. JRYVERSON’S LETTER, Before citing the records let us glance briefly at tho letter and consider the probabilities in the light of that letter, recollecting Mr. Jefferson’s characteristic habits and mental peculiarities :— Monticxt.to, September 16, 1825, Drar Sin—It is not for me to estimate the importance of cumstances concerning which your letter of the Sth inquiry. ‘They prove, eveu in their minuteness, acred attachments of our fellow citizens to the event of b the paper ot July 4, 1776, wax but the declaration, tho genuine effusion of the soul of our country at that time. Snail things may, perhaps, like the relics of saints, help to nourish our devotion to this holy bond of our Union, and keep it longer alive and wat affections, Thix effect however small. At jodged in the house rumen ot a Mr, Graaf, w new brick house, threo st igh, of which I rented the second tloor, eonslating of a parlor and bedroom, ready turnished. In’ that patter f wrote aubitu- ally, and in it Wrote this paper, particularly. io far, 1 state fe itten proofs in my possession. The proprietor, Gi ayoung man, son of a German, and theu newly m T think he was a bricklayer, and’ that ~ ied. his house was on the south side of Market street, probably between Seventh and Kighth streets, and if not’ the only house on that part of the street, 1am sure there were few others near it, [have some idea that it was 4 corner house, | Dat no other recollections throwing any light on the ques tion. or worth communication, I wil theretore, only udd TH, JEFFERSON. Assurance of my great respect und ¢ Dr. Jauxs Mrasx, Philadelphia, Observe—'I think * * * that his house was on the south side of Market street, probably between * Lhave some iden that it was.a corner house, but no other recollec- tions throwing any light on the question or worth communication.”? Mr, Jetferson was habitually an early riser, boasting that the sun had not caught him in bed for haif a century. Had tho two rooms rented and occupied by him been in the corner house, with windows to the east and the stin pouring in each morning at its rising, bright- ening them and cheering him with his early beams, would he have described the house as “‘probably be- tween Seventh and Kighth strevts,”’ and would he have merely had “some idea that it was a corner house’? Besiaes, if the main door was at the side on Seventh street, as intimated in the paper before referred to [Monthly, vol. 1V., pa224), at which he was wont to pass in and out repeatedly every day, would not tho fact that the house was on the west side of Seventh street have been more fixed in Mr. Jelferson’s mind than that it wason the south side of Market street? ‘Thus we haa doubted beforo we knew or thought of the official records, which, as we have said, Mr. G. S. | & Richards discovered and brought to our notice and which completely destroy all supposed claime of the corner building, by showing certainly that there was no house on the corner on the 24th of July, 1777 more than a year subsequent to the writing of the Declaration. CONFIRMATION STRONG, We neod not cite the records of earlier date than Juno 1st, 1775, wi Philadelphia In the Province of Pennsylvania Esquire | and Abigail his wife’? “Granted Bargained Soid Re- Jeased and Confirmed” unto ‘Jacob Graif junr of the said City Bricklayer,” “hie heirs and assigns A Cer- tain Lot or ploce ot Ground situate lying and being on the South Side of High Street and on tho West Side of the seventh street from delaware in the city of Phila- deiphia aforesaid Containing in breadth on High Streot aforesaid thirty-two foot and in length or depth on the West Side of Seventh Street aforesaid Ono hundred and twenty-four foot Bounded on the East by seventh street aforesaid on tho South bya Certain ton foot | Alley extending one hundred and four feet in depth from Seventh Street aforesaid on the West by Ground of Hannah Flower and on the North by High Street aforesaid.” ‘The consideration was “the payment of the rent ana performance of the Covenants and agree- mente herein after mentioned and reserved,” and the Deed provides for the collection of the ground-rent by “distrein,”” if not paid according to agreement. On the 4th of July, 1777, Mr. Graff sold the entire property to Jacob Hiltzheimer, yeoman. The descrip- ton in this deed of the “Lot or piece of ground” and its boundaries js identical with deed, with the following addition :—‘‘And Whereas the said Jacob Graff hath erected a Brick Messuage or Tene- ment on the said described Lot or piece of Ground,” The consideration this time was the payment of “One thousand seven handred and Seventy five Pounds | lawful Stoney of Pennsylvania,” beside the assump- tion of the ground rent, Mr. Hiltzhelmer converted the first fluor of this “Brick Messuage or Tenement” into astore, and herein he “kept store’ until his death, in 1801. His success 1s attested by numerous deeds showing the subsequent purchase of property in various localities and by the fact that be built on the corner a “Brick Messuage or Tenement” to match his “Messuage or Store,” On June 14, 1782, he bought of Samuel Flowers the adjoining lots on the south, udd- ing thirty-tour feot to the depth of his entire property, and erected other houses. Athis death Jacob Hiltzheimer left two sons and | three daughters to inherit a largo estate, but lett no will, andim docket No. 19 of the Orphans’ Court ‘wo find a full report of the petition, from which wo quote so much as relates to tho (Saeed under con- ideration:—‘Ono other equal Ofth part thereof in and Lot or piece of Ground thereto belonging, marked in the plan hereto annexed No, 2 situate on the south side of High Street, at the distance of sixteen feet eight mches Westward from Delaware Seventh Street, in the said city containing in breadth Kast aud West fifteen feet and four inches and in lenzth, or depth North and South ninety feet bounded Kast- ward by the Messuage ana Ground herein after Jotted to Mary Rodgers, Southwara partly by a four feet wide Alley and partly by growed herem alter allotted to Catherine Cox," &c. This was part ofthe share allotted lo Thomas W. Hiltzhermer. 1t will be observed that the original depth of 124 fect had been reduced to ninety feet, om the lot thus separated from the Seventh street front Mr, Hiltzbeimer had built the two story house which stil stands there. ‘One other like equal fifth part thereot in value to wit all that three story Messuage or T ement and Lot or piece of ground thereto belongivg, marked in tho aforesaid plan No. 1 situate oa the south side of High street and West side of Delaware Soventh Street in the eaid City, containing in Breadth east & west 16 feet & § inches, and in length or depth North and South 9 feet Bounded westward by the Store and Lot marked No. 2 hereinbefore as- signed to Thomas W. Hiitzhermer,”” &a This is part Of the share allotted to Mary FACTS PRON OLD DEEDS Now we see that the “-liriek Messuage or Tenement,” erected and occupied by Jacoo Graf and sold by him to Jacob Hiltzheimer, and by the latter converted into a “Tenoment or Store,” in which he successfally car- ried on business for nearly a quarter of a century, was allotted, at death, to Thomas W. Hiltz- heimer, Jacob’s second’ son, while the corne: jot of 16 feet 8 inches front, with a “threo story Messnage or Tenement,” erected by Jacob Hiltzheimer when his success jin the adjoining store had made its erection feasible, was allotted to Mary Rodgers, bis secoud daught Thomas W. Hiltaheumer evidently lackoa his father’s business qualities, for scarcely had he been in possession of the store eight months when we find him a bankrupt and | his property described as ‘A Certain Three Story Mes- suage of Store and Lot or piece of ground Siiuate on a Containing in breadth filteen feet four inch: in length of depth Ninety feet Bounded Eastward by a Lotof Groun: belonging to the said .? 10 the hands of assignees, Robert Erwin and Hugh Roberta, by whom, Marcn 26, 1802, 1c was sold to Simon Grats, who had already the corner’ lot heimer's Stor wards so famous. INCONTROVERTIRLE EVIDENCR, wo have incontrovertible evidence upon the bei Be foot lot at the southwest corner of Market d Seventh streets, and hence that it was in this house ud pot in the corner house Mr. Jefferson wrote the Declaration. And now Jet us sec how oxactly this house, No. 702 Market street, fits Mr. Jofferson’s lettor:—First, it was “the house of a Me. Graaf;’’ second, it was ‘a new high ;’” third, it was “on the Market strect,”” “between Seventh and it was ‘the only houge on oot,” and fifth, there being no house it being on the corner lot, he could reasonably “have an idea thi The diagram ot Mr. Hyman Gratz, given by Miss McAllister, nu doubt correctly exhibits the plan of No, 702 before the corner house was erected, as, the front being a store, there may well Lave beon aside entrance to the dwetiing to permit entrance and exit without the necessity of passing through the store. SKILFUL SNEAK THIEVES, About noon yosterday a brace of sneak thieves who have of late been carrying on quite an extensive bust- ness in West Thirty-fiith street, succeeded in entering the apartments occupied by Mrs. Denoy, on the third floor runk, and aft them & quantity of jewelry valued at several hundred dollars, x ~ LOST HIS BOOTY. An anknown thief stole a valise containing private Papers, the property of George Baghes, from the hall- of No. 18 Wost Wi yesterday, but Onieer the ‘Precineh, AIC a ra y “Edmund Physick of the City of | it in the previous | to wit, All that three Story Tenement or Store | it was 9 corner house,” | No, 317 West Thirty-(ifth street They forced | nsacking it left, taking with | ws eget See | WIDENING BROADWAY. Revival of the Tweed Scheme to Fleece Property Owners, MADISON AVENUE DOOMED, A Dill has been introduced in tho Assembly to widen Broadway on the easterly side, from Seventeenth street to Twenty-second streot, The first loss on real estate will amount to $1,000,000, and then all the prop- erty benefited, or alleged to have been ben- efited, by the opening will be fully taxed, The next movement, it is said, will be the attempted pas- sage of a bill to authorize ono of the railroad com- panies to lay on additional track along that part of Broadway up to and along Madison avenue. The friends of tho bill aro working actively for its immediate pag- sage, while the property owners along Broadway, whom the members of the Legislature seek to “bene- fit’ against their will, strenuously oppose it Early in March the alarm was sounded among the holders of real estate on the proposed line of devastation, and lot- ters were sent to Albany to trace the origin of the bill, One of the letters was answered as follows:— Starz or New Youre, Assemnty Cramaer, ALBANY, March 23, 1876, } tt come tohand. I would E. Motyryne, Esq. :— Dean Sin—Your letter has fnform you that the bill to you refer was drawn by m6, The proposed improvement was suggested to me o month ago, after mature deliberation, Linteedaoed i, considering it's véry praper i By thls mall I send you two copies of the bill, I a respectfully, yours, dG» raconteur Okue ¥. WiliTsON. Tho signer of the above letter is a member of the Committee on Affairs of Cities and has a livery stable on Twonty-sixth street, near Lexington avenue, The other members of the committee are Hamilton Fish, Jr., chairman, and Messrs, Peabody, Killian, Me- Groarty, Smith of Kochester, and Gugel. With the letter of Assemblyman Whitson came the printed copies of the bill, which have created an impression ainong the people that the reign of Tweedism is not over, because a biil, simiar in character, was intror duced during the last days of the “ring,” and when the real estato owners wont to tho State capital to oppose it they were greeted with the inquiry, “How MUCH MONEY MAVE You BROUGHT??? When they replied, ‘Not a dollar,” a general laugh went up from the hungry lobbyists. Tho question of laying an iron track through Madison avenue has been discussed by the members of the so-called Third House, and unless the citizens of New York take immediate action to frustrate the efforts of the railway lobbyist itis more than probable that Madison avenue will be made a feedor for Westward bound freight corpora tlons, The bill presented to the Legislature is as follows :— Assembly bill No, 271, tntroduced March 13, 1876, by Mr, Whitson, roud twice ind referred. to the Committe: Affairs of Cities, and ordered printed. An act to alter ti lan of the city of New York, and to carry the alter effect ple of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows ‘Sxeriox 1.—Broadway, in tl few York, Seventeenth and lw econd stree! the present widt! B Twenty-second within three wot that part of Broadwa; | | | | | | | | | pussi sy, locate and establish the iy Hine thereof in such manner that the street shall be of the width above mentioned. .The said Commissioners vhall cause ificates to be mude out and certified in such direct, defining and describing the f ‘Broad rexaid, as located to be made ate ma out aud certified in the same manner, showing the widths, courses and boundaries of that part of Broadway as Iaid out by them, and file one of such certifloutes and one of such mapa in the office of the Department of Public Works in the proper bureau thereo!, and the others in the office of the Rexister of the city and county of New York, and the filing of such cortificntes and maps as hereby provided shall be final and conclusive as to the extent and boundaries of ¢ rt | the city of New York, nd wil sam | effect as if the same had been so laid out as ® public strnet on the map or plan of the said city by the Cominissioners relative to im- anpointed in and by an_act entitled “An wi provements touching the laying ont of at the city of New York, und for other purposes, 3, 1807, And all acts und parts of acts now in 6 opening. widening, closing. laying out, grading, roguiat- ing, sewering, paving and iaproving streets and avenues fa | the'snid eityeskall apply to that part of Broadway ax so laid out, and to ings under this act, #0 far as the same inbefore or hereinafter pro- d commissioners shall have caused a maps to be prepared and Sled ag | directed 30 Corporation Counsel. is hereby authoria ‘and required, for and in behaif of the Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty of the city ot New York and for public use, and heir name to the lands id for that purpose to apply to the Supe ur spodial tora thereof held in the first judietat district, ppuintment of three comminsionert ‘Of extimat» und assessment for such widening of Broadway | and it shall be duty of ire Mig Arey as per form CO sm gal services pro. this act without any addi- nd. the salary and” allow: Tho.” commissioners perty which thi may assess Of the city of pe ening Brosdwas 4, na in their opinion may be Just and equit 4 that such nasesament shull not exceed | in amount one-third of the total expenses of the said im- ut this limitation shall only spply to to be mado under the authority hereinafte: in their report to are applicable, except as he vided. ee i eg AE pelt HE Ae thal make a jus a ry ti owners, tled unto or in- red for or affected ' | | | A | hoot whe aleking und of said, ely omptrolier to the credit of the sinking fund of sai 3 | sh any sen at Scere be “paid by him to the jarties entitled thereto. | i ‘Sxc, 4.—This act shall tako effect immediately. | ‘The gentlemen owning property or representing the owners on the west side of Broadway, from Seven- teenth street to Twenty-recond sirect, and whose names are given below, have joined with those ownin, | or representing the property of the eastern | Broadway, and with them will earnestly coutes | passage of the bill:—Wost side, commencing at Se | streets BR, Goolet, | Jackson, Maturin Livingston, | the Delaplaino estate, Bache Cun | A. Arnold, R. Goelet, J. B. Dodd, | estate of Stephen Whitney; R. 1. Schieilin, estate of Halstead, Bradish Jobnson, Mra. Gibson, Mrs. Duyck- man, Richard Mortimer, Hickson W. Field, exccutur, | and Amos R. Eno. Eastern ido of Broadway—Extate of Kearney, which includes tho Park Theatre; J. R. | Laurence; Sir Trask, trustee; A, KR. », George 4 Pell, Mary Livingston, George Sloane, M- Herter, Goelet, Mrs. Maynard, T. N. Hollister, essato Bridgeman, Alfrod Bridgeman, £. Melntyre, dru estate of Oswald Camman, Daniel Edgar, Marquand, Adihirai Bailey, United States Na\ Daniel Pariah. The following petition reprosentit that interest was forwarded to Albany last week resented to the Legisiaturo by Assembiymes. ‘orster :— To te Hoxonaste te Lrcistatvae ov the Stare ov New You Guetiumns—The undersigned, who are owners or other. ed 10 I 1d by the proposed widening of sh aod Twenty-second streets, cttully show that they are rate against such widening public convenience. Seromt—U is not desired by the owners interested. ird-It wil entail heavy assevomente upon property mot i (render the lots on the east side of Broad. way (00 shallow for business purposes. Tiyih-it is found that Broadway is wide enough at pres: ent (75 feet) for business pur the solicit that your honorable and refuse to pass the act In effect, and your petitioners That petition was signed by every real estate owner | on both sides of Broadway vetween Seventeenth and | Twenty-second street excepting four, who were out of town, Another petition, to the samo eflect, si | the tradesmen and occupants of the buildings is ip | active circulation, and will be sent to the Legislature within a fow days, | Twenty-first sti where it com: wo | in order to mont tho ground at Madison square, At tho lower side of Twenty-tirst strvet Broadway 18 seventy-eight feet three inches in width; on the north side of Twenty-first street It is eighty live feet three Inches in width. At the lower side of Twenty-second street Broadway 1s 100 feet wide, One-third of the assessment can be placed apon the ) city, and the other portion far and near the already overburdened property in the central upper portion of the city. BANK ROBBER FOILED, Yesterday afternoon @ young man called at the Commercial Bank, of Brooklyn, and asked for & one hia _ bill, offer. ing in exchange therefor ten fives and one fifty dollar bill. When the teller, Mr. George W. Adams, pat forward a one hundred dollar bill’ he asked toy one that was more crisp, as wend it The sin