The New York Herald Newspaper, April 13, 1876, Page 5

“s A. T. STEWART. — +--+ Scenes at the Family Mansion on Fifth Avenue Yesterday, PREPARATIONS FOR THE FUNERAL. Selection of the Pallbearers and ‘Tributes of Respect. THE MERCHANTS AND THE DEAD. Although the shock expericnced by so many on Bearing of Mr. Stowart’s death has passed awny, the intense intercst manifested in every dotail pertaining to the funeral still remains unabated. Yesterday ap- Plication for tickets of admission to St. Mark’s church was mado to every one however remotely connected with the deceased. His personal friends were besieged Dy applicants, and upon lawyers, employés and undor- takers an equally persistent demand was levied. Fudgo Hilton alone, however, had control of the tickets, as he has been charged entircly with the management of the funeral, and be made his distribution as judiciously as the urgency of the time would allow. It unfortunately bappens that St. Mark’s church has a capacity of seat- ing only 800 people, and at tho most no moro than 1,100 or 1,200 could be crowded into It, consequently few people outside of Mr. Stewart's intimate friends ‘and gentlemen of prominence in official and commercial ife aro likely to gain admission, and arrangements ars made to have on the ground an adequate police force to proserve order, President Grant, who had been in- vited to attend the funeral, sent a despatch to Judge ‘Hilton last night conveying his condolence, and stating that he 1s prevented from leaving Washington by the pressure of official duties, re AT THE HOUSE. Yesterday morning and afternoon the sidewalk Spposite the marble mansion was lined with oc- tasional sightseers drawn thither by curiosity and hrough some v: fancy which po:sesses people in Buch cases that they might catch a glance of the de- ceased merchant or of some one of his family. A force of police guarded tho entrance and patrolled tho street in front and these kept ata distance any sightsecr ‘whose curiosity might too much embolden him. All bhrough the day carriages wore being driven up bo the door and there deposited some solvent looking old man with sober face, who toiled up the grand stair- tase and disappeared behind the huge portal, only to bave his identity with some weli known financier be- come the subject of discussiun among the people out- wide, Toward evening these visits became very fre- quent, and several gentlemen eminent in political ud commercial circles were observed among the call- ers. It was understood that only intimate friends of the family were to be received yesterday, 80 that the umber of people who came to pay their tribute of esteem to the dead merchant was not so great as many Anticipated. Inside the house the scene was solemn and impres- Sive, The magnificent halls were occupied by knots of gentlemen who discussed in undertones the great merchant’s death and its possible results, while round about them wero the accumulations of masterpieces of art and the costly wonders of decorative beauty, which Mr. Stewart's immense resources and esthetic sonse enabled him to bring togother, Of from the great hall in the western wing of the building is a lofty and spacious apartment, fur- pished with the magnificence peculiar to the marble mansion alone, and there in the silence which no one those to break lay the merchant prioce’s body, tn this, “the Lace Room,” as it is called, he breathed his last, and here ho since bas jain while the friends who ‘were mo:t dear to him have come to look upon a {aco that retains in death strongly marked it in life, lies in ono of the new-‘ashioned proservers which have supplanted the ordinary ice coffin, until lately in general use. Without coming in contact with any part of the body tho ico ts so arranged as to create and sus- tatty arownit {ta uniformly cold temperature, which is 80 frec of moisture that the garments of the dead are perfectly dry. The body is singularly woll preserved, the face disp'aying a calm, sorcne expression, and, but for the deudiy pallor, looking oxceedingly Ilte-lke, THE PALL BEARERS, Yesterday at noon the list of pali bearers, who are to assemble at the residence of the deceased, in Filth avenue, this morning, at nine o'clock, and accompany the remaing to St, Mark's church, was completed. They are sixteen in number, and are as follows Governor 3. J. Tilden, Ex-Governor E. D. Mor. Ex.Governor Jobn A, Dix, gan, ‘Witham L'bber, Royal Phelps, Chiet Jastice Daly, RL. Stuart, Biephen Wray, Charles H. Russotl, Judge Noah Davis, Governor Alexander Rice, Massachusetts, These gentlemen will wear long white linen scarfs Jacab D. Vernulye, Francis Couenct, and black gloves and the family have provided fitty | tarriages for the use of the deceased's iriends who have | received invitations to attend the ecremony. No per- son will be permitted to enter the church without a ticket, which they will not be asked to surrender, hav- ing only to show it atthe door of the church. Judge Hilton has detailed twenty young men to guard the mai tion in Thirty-lourth street and prevent intrusion by strangers. A hunited number of tickets has been issued 10 friends who may desire to ook at the remains in the house between nine and ten o’clock this morn- ing, previous to their removal ‘THR DECORATION AND FLOWERS. The floral oflerings which will to-day be placed in | the house and those to be sent to the clurch bave been unequalled for their chaste magniticence. The family of the deceasod have ordered to be constructed two artificial beds uf flowers, one for the house and one for the church, each threo feet in height and oii feet mm length. This splendid Hlural- movutn: of white flowers and tmmortelles. On one of these huge mausoleutns of flowers the cusket‘will be placed at the house, and duplicate bed wil be ready at the church to which the me will be removed when it reaches the sacred ithe. broken columns five feet high, two crosses six tect in height, two large crowns, two stonding stars, four tect jn altitude; two harps, each four fect in height; two large wreaths, twe anchors and several other orna- mental designs, numbering in ali twenty-1wo pieces— tleven for the house, the other eleven pieces ber duplicates for the church, The cost of the floral orn: ments ordered by the family of the deceased will amount to over $5,000, ard the floral tributes to be tu wished by the employés of the wholesuic and retatl stores at Chambers aud fenth streets will also amount tw $5,000, Besides these will be the fulfilment of the Numerous orders left at the diferent florists throughout the city by the [riends who will be present this morn- atthe sormn ceremony. Mr. Hamil, the sexton St. Mark's Church, and decorate the church with the embiems of sorrow at carly bour this morning, but the displa Stood, will be contined prmeipally tot to the interior bebind the reading desk, y | do not desire any ford or ostentations show to be maie, in necordunce with the wishes of deceased, j TRIRUTES BY EMPLOY RS. On the demice of Mr, Stewart his employes in the whotesale department resolved to testily by some tribute of esteom their attachment for their deceased tmiployer, it.waa some time before the natare of their Offvring Was determined upon, but Ax KHON AS some oF the gentiemen who are most prominent 1 departmet ad consnited together and fixed character them every one evinced mt and to tender bis (anh The = result’ wast Re & sum of money, which was devoted tw | + parchase of one of the most magniicent floral | offerings ever constructed. The conception of the de. . Bigh ait tho symboticat mening attached to this tribate originated with the etuployés themselves, and under thoir direction a florist of ths city has created qiite a masterpiece of Doral worku There are two Sowery monuments—-one Ort's residence und placed at the heay of the remelbs; ug the course of thy | uly and It consists of a layer of autumn of wheut, the border uf « pedes- jal formed of violet leares and covering a space eight lest m length by four in fh. From tins tires 4 shalt ot pure white flowers might fect high and eighteen iaches broad at the base whicn tapers up to an apes tweive inches in breadth. This ttoral column supports A crown Of beautiful construction some cigh- teen inches high, which makes tho entire monument ry shail eet in height. On one sice of it is anchor about tive feet high, on the other rests «harp. Tha whole fabric is sktitully faired in ite proper place will the testimony of respect most bet dovire to partie natein the | ortion tv the general accumulation of form an object most jeasing and = significant, This magnificent yute in to mear the body of the dead = morcnant «while it slays in_—atato at tte) mansion this morais Another floral from the sam@ soures will be placed in the offering ch close to tho pedestal which will support tho conn, "Ths consis columm of white flowers of twined about with reath of vorting at the top a.snow white green lea dove, 3 the characteristics that so | Tho body of Mr. Stewart | Mr. Stewart's family have also ordered two | 8 nesistants, will begin to | | med par together, and when | NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 1876.—TRIPLK SHKKT. fal offerings, combined as they will be with many equaily magnificent, the testimonials ot personal friendship, will form a display of floral art seldom if ever seen before. THK MUSICAL SERVICES, The musical serviecs in St. Mark's church will bo wlerthe diroction of Mr. William E. Beamer, mist of the Church, and the choir comprises Mme, Dow- land, soprano; Miss Jennio Dickerson, contralto; Dr. Art ‘Dasso; ‘ ur T. Hills, tenor; Mr, Otto Lehman, ssisted = by = aan = English = glee foilowing voices :—Mias Henrietta Beebe, Miss Finch, contralto; Me. Nilsen, tenor; Mr. George E. Aiken, basso—forming a double quartet | of well trained performers for the eflectual rendering of the beautiful service of the Epiecopal Church, The selections will be as follows :— nt--"Lord Let Me Know My End,’ double quertet. sovo—"T Know That My Redeemer Lireth,” Miss Beebe. ereT—"iod ts @ Spiris” (without accompariment), Miss Beebe Miss Finch, Mr. Nilsen, Mr, Aiken. Soraano So a) ntet—"E Heard a Voice from Heaven," Mme. Dowland, Miss Dickerson, Dr. Hills aud Mr. man. Cuant: vartet, male voi Ds Earth Aj athadow,’ Mr ison. Dr "Hits, My. Lehman and Mee (old tune), ‘THE CASKET. The funoral casket in which the remains of the great merehant will be placed tor interment 1s a most beanti- ful work of art. It is of oak, completely covered with | the finest black Lyons veivet and trinmed with the heaviest gold fringe builion and gold tassels, ‘The cas- ket 18 six feet in length, twenty-three inches in width and eighteen inches’ in depth. ‘The spterior ts ined with white tufted satin aad underneath the whito satin these is a bed or mattress on whien the body will recline, The interior of tho casket ia trimmed with white silk fringe and pinked and fluted with woudreus beauty, The lid goes bait way back, and is covered with white satin 19 the form of gathered sun rays, These sun rays are deeply studded with sold, The pillow in the casket ts of satin, bei fully ornamented, and the extension bandl: as well as the handles on both ends, are thickly Hated with goki, The screws are all of gold, and the bubs are of stiver, washed with gold, A rit of gold runs all around the black velvet pall, which closely ad- heres to and covers she outer surface wl the casket. ‘The casket hax a solid stiver piate, on which is en- graved the words :— Qeererercaenereserees. eecevorecererresseecceseserertee®) ALEX, T. STEWART, 3 Born Oct, 12, 1803, 3 Died April 13, 1876, eeressecacacrerenesses eter ree rere reeee) rocosenrecee. The enclosure for this costly casket was being finished Jastevoning, and will be made of red cedar, the most cx- pensive and enduring of all wood. Thix box ts seven feet in length, and will be hermetically sealed alter the casket has been placot withim The cedar box was taken to the chutch and the casket to the late resi- dence of Mr, Stewart last evening at eight o'clock, It is calculated that the funeral o eave the — bar in Fifth avenue, at half. past ten o'clock this morning, and will reach | the church at about eleven o’clock. There will not be any service at the residence, Bishop Potter, of New York, will conduct the services at the church, assisted by Rey. Dr, Rylance, rector of St, Mark’s, and Rev. Stephen H. Type, Jr., rector of the Churen ol the Holy ‘Trinity, Pew No. 32, in which Mr. Stewart und tamily worshipped, will be draped. Mr. Stewart’s name is en- ‘aved on a silver plate lastened to the top of the pew jor. It is pepe that the funeral address will be do- ered by the Rev, Dr. Ryla After the service the Femaing wil! be taken (o the Stewart vault, which is covered with a white marble flagstone, pumberod 112, at enst side of the churchyard and opposite the His. torical Society building, in Second avenue, It tg a curnons fact that to-day, on whieh the funeral ot Mr. Stewart is to tako place, April 13th, 1s the at- teenth anniversary of the great Sumter mass meeting in Union Square, and the uprising of the Nor: Stewart presided at that meeting. Mrs, Stow the members the Clinch and Smith famthes, with Mr, Libbey and his family, and Judge Hilton avd family, will occupy the first six carringes in tho tuneral cor- tego. POLICE ARRANGEMENTS. One hundred potice haye been detailed by Superin- tendent Walling to escort the funeral to the church and to preserve order at St. Mark’s and atthe house in Thirty seventh street, The pohce force at the how will be ander the command of Captain Steers, of tho Twenty-fourth precinct, A large number of detectives have also been detailed to move along the line of the funeral processivn, ‘ DRCRASED'S RUST. rt and taking of a cast of Mr. Stewart's bust, tt is proper to ate that the work was done by J. Decomps by order of Albert Bierstadt, who will execute a portrait of the deceased hereafter. MERTING OF THR MERCHANTS. Yesterday afternoon there was a very large repre- sentation of the leading mercharts of the city im the assembly cbamber of the Merchants’ Club in Leanard rect, They had been called together to testify their Tegret at the demise of the man who above all others 1 had been conspicuous in the commercial community years, The president nominated H. B. Clatlin to eas chairman and Mr. Warren as secretary o! the mecting. A resolution was passed to close the whole- sale stores at half-past ten A. M.. and keep them shut ul one P, M. out of respect to the It was also determined to appoint a committee of sev: enty-five representative merchants to attend the fu- business men of New York. Mr. Thomas Barbour then delivered a brief but telling cacominm on the deceased. He satd that it was exceedingly gratifying to see 50 } large a body of merchants assembling to pay tribute to ; the memory of Alexander T. Stewart. ie regarded himself honored in being born within a mile of the deceased and he also felt proud in stating that he had begun his business life in Mr. Stewart's employ. These circumstances, he thought, mado it fitting that he should (ake advantage of the occasion to give expression to the sense of bercavement all ex- | perienced in Mr. Stewart's demise. | man whose unswerving principles ‘and commercial hon- esty contribated more than any other cause to intro- duce a proper system inio mercantile dealings in this city, and one whose strict integcity was worthy tho } emulation of alimen engaged in ‘business pnrsuite. he fact that Mr. Stewart would develop sach an tensive business in half a century proclaimed the re- sources of this country of ours and attested the colossal acbievements which strong will and energetic action could accomplish. Mr. Barbvar sad that | must be a standing incentive to aspiring merit, and must reflect honor alike on tho Jand of bis birth and | on that of bis adoption. The committee appointed to attend the funeral com- | prises the foliowing gentiemen:—H. B. Clafim, EF. 8. | Jaffray, Seth B. Hunt, Robert W. Avorn, James M. | Con le, James Low. Froderick Buttertield, James Moir, Lowell Lincoin, John Byers, James M, Dunbar, FE. N. Whittlemore, Gardner 2B. Colby, | nelins A. Bliss, . Ammidon, Henry A. Page, W. 8 Garner, James Haze'hursi, E. W. Holbrook, W. F. Strong, W. €. Langley, Walter H. Lewis, William L. Pomeroy, Charles s.. Smith, N. | Sullivan, William Tarnbull, Fred Taylor, Fred Victor, | Bryce Gray, Jerome L. Hill, Jobn I. Donaldson, Mi | thew G. D. Borden, Robert J. Woodward, Samuel BK. Pana, James “HH. Dunham, Altred' Kayno, j h W, Goddard, John M. Slade, George Hall, B. H. Smitth, Thomas J. Davis, Edward 'W. Slade, T | Barbour, T. W. Evans, il. H. Stotesbury, E. D. Tam, | P. Van Volxonbargh, James i. Rhoades, F. H. Haynes, Jobo F. Piummer, Dante! Van Volkenburgh, N. F. Car: | penter, Charles Collins, W. D. Farwell, Wallace Stilhto, L oodhouse, 5. 8. Fisher, J. t. Leavitt, W. B. Kendall, Wiliam M. Halsted, Jamon ©, Griswold, Henry #9 | killed any one? | As there have been some misstatements in regard to | wu Br uss! use ue poenameer 06 C9 Tanning ise oO twenty-ax of ie others for from to $10 cach, Mr, Stewart sent for the purchaser of the picture soon afterward asked avout the rait. Mr, Brett represented the portrait, and the bidding for it was active, s9 that | it he was to have phe of it taken to be soid thronghout the eatiy th he had under | ion preporals from tho oditor of an tilws- wants H be taken 1 it to be tral er to it a cut to be taken from publisted, end’ thas altogether he expected to make a large profit on his — purchase, The merchant expreseed his desire to see the picture, and the dealer carried 1t to his marble mansioa, first, however, seers Sarony, the photographer, m a quiet way to make a negative of it, which is now in Possession of Mr. Brett. Mr. Stewart told the picture dealer that ho wished to Cg i i= picture atd esked its price, What M: asked for it he does not divulge. It was pieced in Mr. Stewart's gallery, where it remained for some time. Finally the piet dealer came to remove it, when Mr. Stewart paid the demanded and retained the picture, which is now in the gallery of his late residence, ABRAHAM LINCOLN. At a meeting of the Lincoln Club, held Jast evening in University place, tho reoms wero crowded with ladies and representative mon of tho district, Mr. John D. Lawson, ex-member of Congress from that district, oceupted the chair and Mr, William Terhuno acted a8 secretary. Among the gentlemen present were Mr. C. G. Baywor, of Georgia. ‘Tho chairman, in an cloqnent address, called atten- tion to the first paragraph of tho Declaration of Indo. pendence and then introduced the Rov, Henry Hyland Garnett, who said be wanted to speak of the Froclama- tion of Emancipation of Goo Friday ot 1865, when the fonlest deed in the history of America was perpetrated —the murder of Abraham lincoln, As the kon- orary chaplain of the colored regiment raised in New York, he foliowed the men from their enhstment to the fleld, very day he saw the great President of American, and was impressed with the foree of his ebaracter, At the Capitol, when he knew him there, it seemed to the spenker that he saw the saddest countenance he hai ever seen, One day a poor mother camo to eeck the President. She said, as she put ono hand on his shoulder anc ran the other through hee bair, “One ot my sons has been killed." Ho saw at once what she wanted. “You want your last son | released from the army. Yon shall have it. Go home, | and the Secretary of War shall have ihe order to send your Inst son home.”* Is there a man in public life to-day who can accuse him of malfeasance in office? He was so pure that he had to be killed. Tho day after his murder, when the solemn news of his death swept over the country, when men and women were sobbing and sbricking, tho remark was mado in Washington, ‘“Darkies, you have lost your god.”? Yes, we ha And when Booth was killed by the de- teotives w songht him, we did rejoice, It is suid that the black men were ignoraut, Why not? After 250 years of slavery, why not? Yet. with all our ignorance, I do not think that you could find any one ot us so bad as to sneak up behind such a man as Lin- coln and shoot him to death, When Mrs. Douglas came to ask from President Johnson the life of Mrs. Surratt, Johnson said, “Merey! mercy! you ask for merey? You killed Merey when you murdered Lin- col. 1 believe that I can see a Providence in his death. | When Tancoln was slain by an advocate of slavery it | caused every Inman, Woman and child in the land to rise up and sweep from America tho curso of slavery. When the Twenty-sixth colored reg:ment ot Kentucky | Marebed through Washington, singing, “We are coming Father Abraham, one hundred thousand | strong,” the hearts of the people went out | to them; and the men who had been | slaves all their lives were there ready to give up their | hearts’ blood for the American nation, Shull those | men evor be flaves again? it was said | that if the negroes wero emancipated they would go | about killing and murdering the whites, Have they Have they 1il treated any ovo? Haye they not shown by their conduct that they aro entitiod to their liberty, Hereafter Good Friday will have a now significanco—tt 1s the anniversary ot the’surren- der ot Fort Sumter and it isthe anniversary of the murder of Lincoln. Tho following resolution was then offered by Mr. Robert Curren and unanimously adopted :— reas the addroxs which we have just listened our distinguished fel ow hie Re nett, D, there ore, be it Kesolved. Lhat the Lincoln Club, of the Seventh Assembly district, de hereby tender to him thelr mort sincere thanks | for his abl 1d eloquent tribute to the memory ot our im- | mortal Lincoln. | Tho meeting then adjourned. to from | . Henry | D., is worthy of our i commendation ; | deceased. | peral of Mr. Stewart and act as a deputation from the | He thought him a | tho carecr of Mr. Stewart | i be elected wo ! L, Butler, Edlingham Townsend, William S,oane, Jacob | Wendell, Frank E. Taylor, F. M. Bacon, E. 8. Higgins, Louis Moulant, 5. W. Fay, John L. Brem . | Noyes, Samuel Keyser, James T. Swiftand William H. | Stewart. The commitiee resolved to mect at the Fitth Avenue Hotel at lalf-past nine A. M. to-morrow and proceed in a body to Mr, Stewart's house. Cotonel ) Strong will hav ‘kets of admission for the members. OTHER MARKS OF SYMTATRY, | At the meoting ef the Amorican Socicty for Preven- | Mon of Cenelty to Animals tho Prosident roterred to the lamented death of Mr. A. T. Stewart, and Mr. | Rergh xaid:—"Mr, Chairman and gentlemen, 1 allud- | ing to the deatn of one of the — best friends and earnest co-operators of your society, I | would mention that Mr. Stewart was one of the foun ers of , on the occasion of the meeting organization held 1 Clinton Hall, 1806, ineclem and his pame sti is not my purpose to make any culogy on fame and good deeds, which are welt known to yor Dut {tis my cuty officially to call your attention to the death.” Upon motion the Chair appointed a committeo of | three to draw up suitable resolutions of condoience to the family. THY PINK COMMISHIONERS. ‘Tho Board of Fire Commissioners at their meeting passed the following resointion :— Resolved, That as a mark of respect'to the memor; ot the Inte Alexauder I. Stewart, the national sta ard of this department be displayed upo' houses of this aepartment from sunrise un the day of the funeral. Mr. Stewart formerly contributed $1,000 to the Fire- men’s Relief Fund. Aithough the 10m was mado to have the moncy bestowed anouaily in for meritorious conauct, Mr. Stewart declined this perpetuation of his name, preferring to bave tne money go Into the general relict fund, MEETING OF GARDEN CITY RESIDENTS A meeting of the citizens of the town of Hempstead, 1. L, in whieh Garden City is included, was heid yester- day afternoon, at four o'clock, in the Town Hall, im the 0 of Hempstead. preastons of regret at the death of Mr, A. T. Stewart were adopted, and deputation was appointed to attend his funcral, asa mark of respect. MR. STEWAUT'S PICTURE. ‘The story that there is no portrait of the Jato A. T, Stewart in existence, and that the only ono for which he evor sat was bought by him three months ago and destroyed, 1s contradicted by Veter Brett, picture dealer, He states that the only portrait of Mr. Stewart ever taken was o1 for which be sat some years ago to the late T. I’. Rossiter, the artist, who had an order to paint a group of the most eminent busizess men of the metropolis, Many | noted merchants sat t> the artist for studies which were alterward to be embodied in one large panting. Mr. Stewart gave Mr. Rossiter sx sittings, trom which the latter painted a bust whieh he afterward worked | op into a finished picture, Alter the death of the artiet many of his effects, comprising this picture and all ‘the studies of other merchants, wi sold at avetion in Leavitt's salesrooms. Onthe night ot the | gale persons in the employ of Mr. Stewart were said to the shape of | PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATIONS. Manisox, Wis., April 10, 1876, To Tae Evitor or tar Hera.n:—- | In your independent position—advising, not diciat- | ing, nominations for the Presidency—I find you naming | Roscoe Conkling as the republican candidate; and | if you were an enthusiastic, or neck-or-nothing repub- | lean, how could you advise more wisely? What man | in the republican ranks—rake them all turough—could | you Gnd who would more thoroughly represent in the | coming canvass the republican sentiment than Roscoe | Conkling? What abler statesman could you find? | With a record us pure as unsullied snow he would go | into the canvass, raising bigh t andard of arty and cnallenging reproach, without fear of injury | ither his private or his public character, You are independent, and you want, as yor sponient wants, a man of like character, as regards in- | | tegrity and ability. For God’s sake Jet ‘us have him, | | He is already before the people, he is known, he is | above suspioron, tar beyond reproach, capable, upright, | industrious, able; a lawyer, gentleman and scholar, Jet us haye him, Thomas F, Bayard, of Delaware, in tho third generation of a family of scholars, gentlemen corre. | and statesmen; a man, every inch, a patriot who ‘ould devote aimseif, without consideration of mere party, to the best interests of his country | Let as have them as co: ting can ! Conkling and Thomas F. Bayard—and wi re suro of such a President as the | American people may be proud to own, i “A LOOKER ON IN VIENNA" “NATIONAL PURE MONEY LEAGUE.” | A SMALL GATHERING AT THE NEW YORK UNIVERSITY. i A mecting of gentlemen was called in the chapel of the New York University last evening for the purpose of organizing what thoy designate a “National lure Money league.’ Their object, set forth in the call, is the establishment ofa body which will agitate the Anancial question to ascertain as near as possible the Proper policy to pursue under tho present embarrassed conditiof of the country, To this call were attached, among others, the names of Francis Gerrv, Parke God- win, W. L Foutke, Charies A. Peabody, W. C. Bryant, Oswald Ottendorier, George Opdyke, ‘Stephen Peart Andrews, Elitott ©, Cowdin, David Dudley Fietd, Abra- ham R. Karte, F. H. Harrison and William Humphreys, At eight o'clock about twenty govtiemen had us- sembled in the chapel vf the University, among them Mr. William Cullen Bryant, Stephen Pearl Andrews and Deputy Comptrolier Karie. The meeting was cailed to order by Mr. F. G. Fair- field, who nominated as temporary Chairman Mr. | Witham Callen Bryant. } On taking the chair Mr. Bryant said he was sorry to see Fach a small aitendance. They had come together for the purpose of discussing the question of the cur roncy. The purpose of the society was to guide the poblic mind so ag it might arrive at Wholesome conclusion on the best tnancial ine t present, it xpecie pay not, in his opinion, at all Inercial community. Ess on the subject were then read by Rev. W. Sampson und others « the Sorretary in conclusion read a list of perma. nent oificers, Among them are the following dent, Charles A. Peabody; twelve vico presidents; eight managers; Treasurer, Parke Goiwin; Secretary, W. M. Brucher. Alter remarks from some other gentlemen the meet- ing adjourned until next Wednesday evening, JERSEY CITY ELECTION. Never befcrs did the republicans achieve such a vic. tory in Jersey City as that of Tuesday. The city nasa democratic majority of 2,000, yet the republican candi date for Mayor, Mr. Charics Siedler, was elected by a | majority of pearly 400, The Boards of Aldermen, | Fadueat nd Chosen Frecholders stand cach a tie, | although the democt claim @ majority two m the latter board. This result was pot wholly unex- poeted, as the causes which rendered 1 inevitable were set forth in the HxRano when the corrupt junta at Fravklin Hall, acting in the name of = the democratic party, deliberately set aside the presont | hagen has proved the most fatn- te the ctiy ever had, and was en- | if only by party usage, to a renomination. | The laxpayers were aroused, and a large meeting was held Jast Saturday evening in the Catholic Insti | tute to repudiare the Franklin Hatl candida Hun- dreds of democrats voted tur the republican candidate | and insured his victory. Mayor Traphagen would have | carried the euty by nearly 3,000. Mr. Siedler, the newly elegted Mayor, nas been hitherio unknown in politics. ‘Me is a member of the firm of Lorillard &. e,, who carry on an ext ve ousiness and empleo over 2,000 hands im connection with their toba me affect the sta manufectnrn itablishment in Jersey City, ; QUARANTINE AFFAIRS. ¢ The Sbipowners’ Associniton yesterday adopted | resolations eulogistic of the Mealth OMecer of the Port, | Dr. dor and calling upon the Legislature to | make such refor m the Quarantine laws e been approved by that oMcial. HOBOKEN'S NEW OFFICERS. | Mayor Russell and City Treasurer Kamena, of Hobo- | ken, having no opposition, were re-elected on Tucsday. | Mr. George 8. Ducker, the prosent City Clerk, was also / \ usual, the city, | bay the portrait of thoir employer for | re-clected. John Doorloy was clected Assessor, The | Bie Mass" ir pores resent med’ te covet democrats, es oarried Many other persons p | winds. | honors due his | greeting was enth’ | the ot | Uons, dehvered probably at the Academy of Must | propriation, | head and DOM PEDRO’S RECEPTION. ETIQUETTE HERE AND ELSEWHERE ON THE ARRI- VAL OF ROYAL PERSONAGES. Up to the present neither the military authorities of the Atlantic division nor the ‘al authorities at Brooklyn have received any instructions irom their respective departments in Wasbington as to the official reception, ifany, which is to bo tendered by them to the ‘coming Emperor of Brazil, General Hancock wrote yesterday to Washington for instructions, Should any official reception be accepted by the Em- peror the military and naval authorities will doubtless be found fully prepared. The Brazihan Minister | has already arrived in this city. Secretarios | Fish, Taft and Robeson will arrive to-day. The Secretary of War would bave been accompanied by General Sherman had pot urgent business of his command requircd the presenco of the latter in the West, General Hancock and Admiral Rowan will be present, with the three secreturies, at the reception of the Emperor, should such take piace, and all necessary urrangements will be made ugder the immediate direction of the heads of the depart- ments represented here. The seoretaries will be as- Bieted in tho duty of recetving the Emperor by General Zohn A. Dix, Messrs, Royal Phelps, William 3M. Evarts, | Wilham C. Bryant, Charles O’Conor, W. H. Wickham, J. J, Astor, Theodore Roosevelt, J, T. Johnston, E. D, Morgan, Cyrus W, Field, B.G. Arnold, W. H. Apple- | ton, J. P. Morgan, Curistian Thompson, W. Wood, | ist aaslve Charles I, Daly, and C. 1, Agnew, secre- | ry. Jb anticipation of the possibility of a reception the | esota and Colorado are held ready to proceed to | the Lower Buy at any moment, Royal and imperial! personages have, dh rare occas- sions, visited thiseity. The sovereign ot Brazil wit! be, the only reigning Emperor who h: rned in the United 8 A littie uncertainty 2 Officials as to an etiquette of which we have 00 | jeut 1s, theretore, very natural. But itis certain | prece y that everything will be done to the best of the knowl- | edge and ability of the high officials deputed to receive the Emperor, | It will not be out of place here to advert to the royal | personages who have previously visited this country and to tho main incidents of their reception and stay among us. The I'rineo of Wales visited the United States oa the | invitation of President Buchanan, and became lis | Ho first | land, and, though | traveling as Baron Renfrew, was received everywhere | with public demoustrations ot respect, In this cry be | was welcomed October 11, 1800, by a grand military | and civic display, and on'tho following evening # mag. | nificent ball was given in his honor in the Academy of | Music. Tho féfe was managed by a committee of 400 | citizens, Who each subscribed $100 10 defray the ex- , penses, On the same evening there was a torchlight | recession of firemen. Tho Prince was entertained in joxton by the municipal authorities and welcomed by the yeople gencratty. Ho embarked at Portland on his return home with befitting oMfcial courtesies, When within a day’s sail of porta violent storm urose, wh: prolonged the voyage over a week, causing the greatest anxiety in England as to bis safety. pa rent was delighted with his sojourn ted | States, and the friendly way he was treated afforded | the deepest gratification to all classes of his country- men. The Duke Alexis came in November, 1871, in a , national Russian vessel. His visit was intended to | testity the cordial understanding existing between | Russia and the United States, and asa guarantee of their mutual and enduring good will, There were w' Jortunate circumstances existing at the time that did much to the good disposition of the Czar, The unsatisfactory treatment received at the capital by the Grand Duke grew out ot + squabble between tho Rus-. sian Minister, Catacazy, and Mr. Fis, but in respect to sultuble attention to the Prince on bis arrival ail | was done that was necossary for the dignity of the Republic. The voyage irom the Baltic was marked by tempestuous sews and adverse The government, however, had a squad- Ton consisting of the ‘overn, Iroquvis and Kansas lying indy Hook awaiting the arrival | of the imperial visitor, and to him were awarded tho wal rank. Thereafter he becaine the | York Reception Committee, istic, and ashe afterward told his father, the day of his entry into New York, os- corted by civic and militury, was made a general holiday, The Academy of Music, on the occasion of the ball in his honor, was adorned with two conspicuous pictures, one representing the hberation of siav Abvsabam Lincoln and tho other the emancipatr seris by the Emperor Alexander. When the Emperor of Brazil visited England in 1873 ho travelled as a private gentleman and declined being ct of any public demonstrations, Nevertheless ho was received 1 all ofticial circles with the respect to which he 13 entited as the enlightened head of a great nation. Dom Pedro thoroughly inspected all pabl.c imstitutions, the dock yards, Ube military schools and garrisons atd seemed never fatigued in examining into everything of a practical aud usetul character. No es he will pursue a similar course in the United tates, guest ot the New CENTENNIAL MUSIC. A meeting was held at Weber Hall last evening to form a committee of prominent citizens to arrange for grand musical celebration of the Centennial on the Fourth of July: Mr. F.C. Hawkins, chairman, said: Several montns ago the German singing societics came to the conclusion that it would be a good lea to get up a new national ai and engaged Mr. Bayard Taylor to write the poem, bas been written and sent tv composers all over the world, and a large number of cumpusitions have been received. One has been adopted, and it 1s proposed that it be pertormed for the tirst time on the Fourth of July vext. 3d ot July we getup P and, if pos- sible, bave the etty Maiminated, ‘@ o'clock on the evening of the 3d we propose to concentrate all of tho societies in Union square. Then this national air will be sung, m connection with as many bands as wo can consolitate. Next day we propose to ha ora: and more musigal demonstrations, and also to reproduce im tableaux some of the scenes of 1776, So what we de- Sire to do 18 10 Organize a general committee of citizens tions to join in this celebrotion, that will be an honor to the occasion and the city. We are of the Philadelphia ought not to absorb all the tion of that day. ‘as decided that a committe of 250 should be chosen to act as a general committoe and to select sab- committees to perform the various branches of work necessary to the proposed celebration, Messrs, Hunt and Bell were appointed to select this committee. A discussion foltowed as tothe manner of obtaining Junds for the demoustration, and it was decided to ap- ply to the eity for part of the usual Foarth of July THE STATUE OF LIBERTY. The Fronco-American Union, which has been for some time engaged in France in preparations fur the erection im New York Harbor of a monument com- niemoraiive of the hundredth anniversary of American independonee, 1s at present redoubling |ts efforts to bring (his great enterprise to a successful issue, Tho | late elections had somewhat interfered with the progress of matters, but the present political calm has allowed the work to be resumed with fresh vigor. The amount of money necessary tor its completion 1s consiwerable; Of this more than one-half bas already been subseril An effort is now about to be made to rae the remainder On the 20tu or 26th of this month & great performance for ine object above stated is to take place m the New Opera House at Paris. A cantata by Gounod, composed express!) the occasion, will be perfornied. An oration will be delivered by 'M. Labonlaye, Le opened i the newspapers. On this momes of inauguration promise to be very im M. de Rochambeau will be here fur the Fourin of y as the representative of the Franco-American Union. A modal commemorating the occasion wil be struck, ‘The Union League Cliy ot this city bes appotuted a committee to assist in organizing the inaugural cere- monies, M. Bartholdi bimsell. the celebrated artist ine trusted with the execution of the statue of Liberty, will | arrive in this city during the month of June, He will | doubtless receive a weleome worthy of his merit and Altogether the eree! f this statue of ir to he one of the pi ent features of tenmial year in New York, will cortaluly intenstty the feelings of metual esteem good will which the two great republics en ‘nm lor each other. a % - ti whew | HON. Z. LAWRENCE, i A short time ago it was announced that Hon. KE. Z. Lawrence, Rapid Transit Commissioner, was in Sa- vannal, very iil and almost dying. Latest advices from him say that he ts much better and hkely to | recover, | DRUGGED AND ROBBED. An unknown man, of respectable appenrance, was — taken to the Charity Hospital, in Jersey City, at mid. | night on Tuesday, in an almost unconscious condition, The name, “W. H, Rayners, Chicagy, 111," was founa marked im indelible mk on the lining of his vost, when asked if that was his name he nodded nw | It was discovered that he bad oven drogged with eblo- | reform of some other narcotic. He was abable to | render any account of bimsel! yesterday, but it was | ascertained Unat be was at the saloon 34 Desbrovsce street, New York, and was also at the Central Park, Ho had a copsideralie sam of money in his possession when he arrived in New York, and it ts believed that he was dragged and then robued., He anderstood th qu ery. a him and replied by motions of bi ROBBERY OF A YACHT. beard the yacht Mohawk, lying in Gowanus Bay, appeared a fow days agoand at tho same timo $300 worth of marine glasses wore also missed. Yesterday Sweeny was found in Brooklyn, and was arrested on complaint of the mate of the vessol, Gustave Tuck- verry. He is held tor examination before Justice Del- mar, Brovkiyn. ever | J | exposed ea | erty, of wh | resolution of th A / bill to provide for four additior THE STATE CAPITAL Green's Official Extension Bill on Its Travels } at the Foot of the Assembly General Orders, THE BOARD OF EMIGRATION. Governor Tilden Urges that the Commissioners be Sustained, RECALL OF THE APPROPRIATION BILE. ——— -+--- Atuast, April 12, 1876, As faras tho Senate is concerned the retention of Comptrolicr Green until anew Mayor has a chance to Appoint his successor is assured. The bill passed to- day by a vote of twenty-one to seven, Mr. Harris being the only republican voting in tho negative. As there are hundreds of bills ahead of this on tho Assembly files it would take « two thirds vote to bring It up ont of its order in the lower house. Granting that the | | same elements of opposition to it exist in the Assem- bly this vote 1s assured, THR CIVIL JUSTICES’ MY ‘The Civil Justices’ bill, which was sent so unceromo- niously to the Committee of the Whole, is giving the ces no snail anxiety. Tim Campbell has left, but John O’Brien, whose pay as Custom House weigher undoubtedly goes on while he is hero weighing the chances of various | futhtal watchers, The bill cannot be advanced in the general orders where it now is, almost at the very bottom, unless by a two-thirds vot of securing that are dubious, GOVERNOR TILDEN'S MESSAGE IN REFERRNCK TO THR NKCKSHITY OF AUSTA'NING THR BOARD OF EMIGRATION, The following 18 a copy of the Message sent to the | ture to-day by Governor Tilden :— State or New Yorx, Exkcurive Cuampen, Auany, April 12, 1876, Legis To THe Leais.atur: 1 trangm‘t herewith a communication from the Com- missonel migration, to whieh I earnestly invoke your imme and considerate agtention. You are Woubtiess aware that ou the 20th of March Iast a de- cision was rendored by the Supreme. Court of the United States, in the case of Hendersons ve. the Mayor, &e., of the City of Now York and the Commissioners of Emigration, declaring unconstitutional and void the law of this State requiring a bond from the parties bringing emigrants into the port of New York to tn- domnily euch cis, county and town of this Stato against such emigrants being a charge on them daring the period of five years from she dato of their arrival, but allowing a commutation of the liability under such bond, now tixed by Jaw at the sum of $1 40 for each emigrant, ‘The effect of this decision ts totally and instantly to destroy the whole income of the commission by | means of which their beneficent operations have been hitherto carried on. Tho systein 1s completely ar- rested, and for some weeks the Commissioners havo had no revenue whatever, and the means within their, ntrol will Le exhausted by tho Ist day of May. Tho system Was putin operation on the sth of May, 1847, under an act passed tho duy before, and has been cor tinued under subsequent amendments until the pres- | enttime. In the report of the Commissioners to tho Legislature, submitted on tho 3ist of Januury last, they state their operations during the period of their existence as follows: It (the commission) tas, during this porlod, supervised the landing of over 6,000,000 of emigrant passongors, with their baggns thas provided and cared for 1,717,808 of alten em, riod during the first fi Tt has tasted and cared for 047.200 in 14 pit 485 G00 with temporary board and lodging or pecuniary sistance, It has provided 400.187 with employment throaxh the lal it has suppl eau at Castle Garden. It hus forwarded to in- to Europe elt own re- 2. relieved and provided for Various counties and institutions of the $141,474 has cious’ counties Jand des 81 in io, Under this head the sum ot een ‘reimonrsed by the commiasion to and charitable institutions, The cot ission have also cared tor in ity various as, lume wi Dense to their native lands many wno have passed Through this to other States, possessed of health and sup: plied with money, which they subsequently lost and r to this State to become a charge upon th « curod many cases of sick other Suntes aud jespateh tinations to enrie r communities with their capital and labor value unimpaired, ‘The arrivals in the port of New York probably con- ttiule at least eighty per cent of the total addition t populauion of the United States by iunmigtat g tho influx through Canada, Tho value of ssion to our population as a productive ‘er 18 notto bo measured by mero numbers. Investigation which L had occasion to make somo years ago it Was ascertained that, while the males be- iween the ages of Milteen and forty in the resident poy ulation of the United States in 1860 were two and one. halt per cent of the whole number, the males between the same.oges among the emigrants arriving during forty years were 411, per cent of the whole number. If the total influx during the twenty-nine years had been 7,500,000 it has Included. the virile poruion of a popula- ton of 18,000,000—that is, persons of the ages which are nearly coincident with those asually accepted ax em bracing the period of military service, and are also those of the largest capacity tor physical labor. 7! chiof sources of this emigration huve been Germany and Ireland, forming avout two-thirds of the whole influx. In the earlier portion of the period the [neh ‘ation wasmuch the largest. In the whole period has been ubout 100,000 the larger. In 1556 sion kept an account o} per hegd, hich 19 Seemed a teutaeenmive Ot the reel amount, This emigration i the most remarkanio which has happened in the history of the human Truce, It has enacted an immense part in the growth of our population, the creation of gfeat cities, the settlement of new States, the turma- ion of the business of our railroads, phe extension of all commerce and all industries, a8 well as in all of tho jational events of which out country tas been the theatre, Tho benefits of this vast emigration have beon diffused all over the northern portions of the Republic. Lesa than forty-tive per cent of the emi- grants remain within this State, even tor the first year iT heir arrival, and alter twat a much smaller pro- but, 0: course, the tende of those who become the Jor a larger jects of public ports portion | Charity to fall npon the city and State of New York; and the still more important fancti tecting the emigrants {rom extortion, deception and the innumer abie variety of wrongs to. which they are inovitably only be performed by # machinery such as has been furnished by the laws of tlie State, which must be local im tts operations, and can be most wisely and beneficially eapplied by Jucal and State an thorities. seems lo me noe at the State should tnteriere and advance the necessary funds tw carry on the opera- tions of the Comunssioners for a year tu come, unless in the meantime relict can be otfained by Congres- sional Iegisation. The value of the property which has been acquired by revenues derived from the com- ation muney is lar in excess of the necessa vitnces, and the title to that property is in t On the other hand, tho faith of the State ind to continue its care of such emigran’ Tived previous to the abrogation of the system years alter toeir arrival. The State holding the prop- hh it bas the title, will acknowledge it as a trust and may properly look to it for a renmoureement ordinury emergency, The decision of the Supreme Court of the United States may also involve the neces- sity of new or supplementary legislation for the pro- tection of emigrants on their arrival, to which branch of the subject of emigration Lalae invite your atten tion, SAMUEL J. TILDEN, The Mesenge was referred vy both houses to the Joint Committee, which consists of Senators Robert. son, Booth and Starbuck and Assemblymen Ogdot Muller, Peabody, A. J. Campbell and O'Hare, INSURAXCE ANCHE, Mr. Bixby introduced resolutions instructing the In- surance Committee of the Senate to investigate the Practice now in Yogue of amalgamating hfe insurance companies, by which itis claimed that great hardenip, Juss and injustice is sustained by holders of policies, RECALL UF THK APPROPRIATION tt. The Appropriation bit Teeailed by a concurrent wo honses to-day, It seems that the Governor contends that the item in the bill compelling the etiy of New York to pay the expenses of the Court ot Arbitration 14 unconstitutional, tor the reason that it is noteovered by the title of the vill, LEGIALATIVE NOTES. ‘The bill to provide jor the Instruction of common | echuol teachers was passed in the Assembiy, It re- quires the State Treasurer to pay yearly on the war- Faut of the Comptrotier out of the income o Uonted States deposit oF literature tut not othe appro. ed, the eam of $15,000 ior instruction in acade- inies ‘snd academical departments of Union schools in the se.cnee of cut school t prescribed by oO y the sum of $10 tor cach scholar, Hot to exeeed twenty scholars to each academ: The Assembly to-day passed a large number of other bills, among thom the bilis to authorize Surrogates to appoint receivers of renl estate, legauizing assessments made for the construction of sewers and drains nado rovisivns of (he wet of 1865 without the by ordinance of the Common Council; under the usual direct! Conterenes Committee has been appointed on tho | pubic baths in New York enty, Tho Brooklyn Excise bili jailed to pass in the Assem- bly to day afd the vote by which it was lost was re- considered, The bill now lies on the table. The Committee on Cities of the Assembly to-day re- ported favorably Mr. Fisn’s bill, which is identical with Senator Woudin's pased in the Senate, extending the term of office of the Comptroller and otuer S ToAh (ed setaven eonsion, of ine Gungio wos it the event Progress , png Songer on the bill anthoriz. tug the taxation of stockholders of life, are dud Now York: bills, is still among the | | id the chances | In we cash brought by the emigrants, and it amounted to $6 OS | In the practical conjuncture which now exists it | ir marine insurance companics. The bill to facilitate organization of railroads sold under mortgage was ordered toa third reading. Mr. Morrissey introduced a bill to exempt the New York Avademy of Medicine, the land on which it ts situated, and the property in scientife instruments, &o., it contains, (rom sale by execution, The bill pro- viding for the appointment of the clerk and deputy | of ine Court of Special Sessio | the poliee court clerks ere ap; third reading. The Senate Judiciary Committees held a meeting this afternoon and listened to arguments, inbehalf of Boaden’s bill, from Civil Justice kney, McGowan and Dinkel’ Tho bill confers enlarged powers on the Civil District Justices, and gives them jurisdiction that they had not vefore iv cases of assault aud battery, ‘the Assembly Committee on Citics have reported favorably the bill avolishing the oftice of Attorney tor | the Collection of Arrears of Taxes. ‘The bill requires | the Reeeiver of Taxes to perform the daties of th | official, and authorizes him to appoint a person t | merra notices, who 18 to have all the powers of a mar. | shal. in the same manner ag ointed, was ordered to @ NEW JERSEY LEGISLATURE. PASSAGE OF THE ‘‘FIVE COUNTY act” compno- MISR—DEFEAT OF THE SUNDAY EXCURSION TRAIN BILL. Trextox, April 12, 1876. | In the Senate to-day Senator Abbett’s compromise | on the Five County act passed by a vote of 14to i (Messrs, Blackwell, Sitverthorn and Smith). It pro. vides that tho owners of land in the counties of Mud- son, Essex, Union and Parsaic and in the cities ot Tre! ton, New Brunswick, Camden and Atlantic may agree with the holder of any mortgage not to apply for any deduction by reason of any mortgage from the taxable value of the mortgaged lands. In case the inortgagor violates this agreomen! the mortgage becomes immediately duo and the amount of tax paid by the mortgagee shall bo added te the principal of the debt secured thereby. When de- | Quetion is claimed from the value of real estate on ac- count of mortgage the tax on the mortga collected im the cities or towus where the jocated., | | It will probably pass the House. |. The bill making it unlawful to keep or soll “Paris | Mutual Pools” or indulge in any other game ot chance | on race tracks or tair grounds was passed in the House | by_a vote of 42 to | “The jolut resolution appropriating $19,000 to defray | i | | the coat of a painung illustrative of the ‘valor of New Jersey soldiers iu the late war, tor exbibition in the State House, was defeated by a voto of 26 to 29, Mr. E. Drake's bill to prevent the running of Sun- day excursion trains was defeated in the House bys vote of 29 to 2 Both houses rn sine die on Friday next, UPHEAVAL IN THE HIGHLANDS. A CAVERN NEAR SUGAR LOAF MOUNTAIN VOMITE FORTH EARTH, SAND, WATER AND FISH—A WONDERFUL PHENOMENON ATTENDED BY LOUD SOUNDS. Povemkrxraik, April 12, 1876, At tho foot of Sugar Loaf Mountain, on the east side of the Hudson, near the northern entrance to the Highlands, is tho handsome eummer residence of Mrs, Wado, Opposite, in tho Hudson, 1s Pottipell’s Island, Tho ground on which the Wade mansion ts located 1s 800 oF 1,000 feet above tho lovel of the river, the back- | ground being Sugar Loaf, 1,000 feet higher. A | #trange occurrence took place within a thou- {sand feet of tho house yesterday —_atter- | noon, James McManus is the railroad flagman near the spot. He was in the rock cut north at three o'clock in the afternoon mentioned, when ho heard a singular noise—a sort of rattling or crackling. To use his own words, ‘1 thought the Storm King was | tumbling.” In a minute after there was another | rambling and rattling jouder than the frst, and almost immediately after a third report, Said he, *f hi heard powder explosions and ‘Pp claps of thunder, but I never heard sich # noise as that.”’ He ran soath | to ascertain the cause, and found the railroad track for ; 500 feet covered with stones and boulders, and suu-fsh and perch, He looked up the bili ana saw a chasm 309 feet in width apd fifty feet in depth. and from at fully 50,000 tons of dirt and sand had, to all appearances, been iifted up and hurled into and across the cave be: low, The cove is 500 fect in width, and tho avalanche swept through it and uver ft to the Kudeon River Katlroad track, tearing down fences and covering the track six imehes deep with stones, dirt and Osh, Huge trees were hurled in every direction, and the | water the entire length of ve was disturbed. At seven o'clock in the eventng there was avotoer | report, and another mass of earth was hurled to the cove below, At eight o'clock yesterday morning there were two more reports, and more dirt Was displaced, What is stranger still, almost immediately aftor the | last reports a torrent of water burst from the botiom of the cavern, from where the earth had been huried, and plunged down the side of the hill, cutting five feet deep in a briet space of time, and the vot of water is inereasing houriy. When the fact is stated that thore is no pond. or stream near the spot except one a mite back of Sugar Loaf, the sudden appoarauce of so large a stream of water from the bottom of vern | fifty feet below the surface of the ground, is remar! | ble, Trees thirty feet in height were carried to a dis. tance of 1,0 feet. Scores of people visited the spot to-diy, but not ono could satistactorily ex. plaim the occurrence, It was nota land side. It cor- tainly looked hike an eruption, for to all appearances the thousands of tons of earth must have been forced upward and outward to the cove below, The resus of | this upheaval can casily be seep froin the windows of passing trains, Allaroand the chasm the ground was Undisturbed except whore the immense maxes of earth struck itas it tumbled iio the river. fhe indications are that there will soon be ier upheaval there, and the trackinen are watching the track closely. The o¢- currence has revealed tons of the finest sand where it was thought no sand existed. DOLAN'S PETITION. There {s a very strong fecling on behalf of Dolan, and a petition has undoubtedly been prepared and will be sent to the Governor asking him to change the sen- tence of death to State Prison jor life. Father Barry said yesterday to a reporter:—*‘It is a mistake to say that 1 have undertaken to get up any petition in Dolan's behalf, However mach a clergyman may sympathize with a condemned man, he is dobarred by its position as spiritual adviser of the unfortunate per- son from ¢xpressing any omnion about his guilt or in uocence. You will see that, from the very nature of the caso, this must be so. ‘Were you aware that the Warden of the prison and all tho officers had sent in a petition in behalf of Dolan? Nor Well, I will get it for you. I have it in my possersion. It is quite an un. usual thing, as 1 understand, for the officers ot a prison to take such action as this It shows that th preart belicl in the man’s innocence. | _ The following 18 the petition, and it bears the signa tures of Warden Quinn and the officers of the Tombs:— St.—Woe, the undersigned, ompra sympathy for the unfortunate prisoner, John R. Dolan, now contined in the City Prison under the sentence of deash, be- ls tice will he fully served ty his tro in the Staie Prison for I peal th yon to extend to at te his sentence. respecttully and isfactous MELISSSA\ STEVENS’ CHILD, Hefore County Judy: ford, at White Plains, West chester county, yesterday, a further hearing was called in the case of Melissa Stevens, of Mount Vernon, who has sued out a writ of habeas corpus against Dr. Con. rad Weiss, of the same village, tor the recovery of her child. The relator, who has been separated trom her hasband for some years, sought in November last the assistance of the respondent, who is the agent for the Commissioners ot Charitios and Correction, te have her little daughter adopted h was that be allowed visit her daughter occasienally, but this privilege beng denied, she, tis atleged, agreed to a cbmplete surrender, Mra, Smith at oace took the infant to New York, whero all traces of her have beon lust. Within the past few days the complainant demanded of Dr. Wetse that the child be restored to her, but he assored her he was utterly ignorant of tts whereabouts and that he had nothing to do with its proseut state, as the. c voluntarily and deliberately given the Yielding all claim to i forever, This: to ‘the present suit, ft appeate that the relator is only anxious to know who bas | her child and whether it is well cared for, whatever appeors tobe known of Mrs, Smith, but it Delieved she wave a fictitious nome and when she got poss: «sionof the child, Owing to the absence tho case was again adjourned until next | ALLEGED OUTRAGE AT SING SING. An itinerant vender of tea, named Willism Pox, liv- ing at Sing Sing, was yesterday committed to the Weat- | chester County Jail by Justice Inslee, on a charge of | having perpetraved a criininat assault op Aunio Jones, | aged twenty-two, whom the prisoner had | Adomestic servant, The complainant examipation that Fox engaged 1008 | ligence office in New York a tew x. three days afterward he atiempted to or | wherties with her; that on the night of foreed hi fo her aT