The New York Herald Newspaper, April 26, 1876, Page 4

2 ELECTIONBERING IN THE SOUTE, Employment of Government Officers to Elect Grant. THE CAMPAIGN OF ’72. Money That Was Expended in North Carolina. Raxwicn, N. C., April 24, 1876, startling story touching the use of Secret Service money in the tion of 1872, unbending, as ft did, the inelastic wthern Outrage Miller,” ex- | Attorney General Williams, set your correspondent to \ reviewing some of his old sources of information, found useful here in North Carolina during the memo- rable Merrimon-Caldwell contest of the summer of Whitley’ TRACES OF SECRET SEKVICK MEX, There !s at present no trace of Secret Service money used in this State for election purposes in 1872 in the manner described in the case of Johnny Davenport; bat the State was full of such notorious Seeret Service meu as the infamous Beach aod tue now repentant and Christian Hester, These men pretended to be on the bunt tor Ku Klux, and their expenses and disburs ments are doubtless covered under what the late Attor- ney General playfully suggests as ‘a le,itimate expen. diture.”” The Marshal's office was very liberally supplied with money that year to aid the suppression of the Ku Klux, and almost every township in the State had 1s deputy marshal to put down the grim, ghostly foo; but of the $250,000 disbursed by Marshal Currow in 1872 possibly not a farthing can now be traced to other sources than | “legitimate expenditures,” thus serving the ends ot Justice at any cost. SPECIAL AGENTS OF POST OFFICE DEPARTMENTS, Daring the campaign of 1872 quite an army of special e appoluted agents of the Post Oflice Departinent v im this State. A record of their appotntments and of the service they performed is presumably to be found at the depurtinent in pingtou. But the most original and animated feature of the campaign of '12 | was in the conscript y of revenue oilicers, hundreds of ‘designated assistant usses- were appoiuted by Commissioner Douglas Secretary Boutwell, with the approval and’ swarmed ail y received $5 per day as revenue no duty whatever | publican party and either buy midation silence voters, “If a committee | litto peep into the office of the Commis Honer ot Internal Revenue they would be startled at | the amount of taise certifying, false swearing ana meless swindling perpetrated through the reve: system during the North Carolina campaign of 1 The amount of government money so squandered in | this state for election purpoi could ‘not have fallen short of $100,000, Ths is, however, considered a very | Fmail matter im government circies, | Secretary Bristow | Was ofticialiy Informed on the subject before the meet- | ing of this Congress, bat it was not deemed “expedi- tut’? to inquire into the matter lest it should provoke Congre>sional investigation, EX-SENATOR POOL, OF NORTH CAROLINA, now resident at Weshingion, is suid to have invented | the “designated assistant’ process in the revenue sysicm tor clections, and doubtless could tell all about Hon. Johu A. Hyman, colored Congressman, and ouly republican member from North Carolina, was one of these “designated assistant’? frauds in the election of 1872, and would sit admirably as one of a committee | Of Investigation on account of bis supposed familiarity with the subject. Collector LJ. Young, of this dis- trict, & probable candidate for Congress in the approaching election, was one of the managers and Manipulators in 1872, and seems to have acted as a | sort of paymaster general for tne conscript army of “wosignaied assessors.” His evidence, together with | ducutnents iu his office and at Washington, will disclose the whole “conspiracy,” as District Attorney Badger thuracterized it when, some time ago, he proposed to Investigate the matter in the United States Circuit Court, but was estopped. Nus USED IN 19) At the close of the sesaion of Congress in 1872 Sen- | Ator John Pool and ex-Seuutor J. 0. Abbott uppeared in Raleigh with a sum of money variously estimated at from $10,000 to $30,000. This money, they said, | had veen apportioned to’ North Carolina by the Na: Uonal Executive Committee of the republican party, and themselves designated to expend it in the manage- ment ot the campai Samuel F. Philips, now So- licitor General of the Department of Justice, was then thairman of the State Executive Committee, end it was remarked at the time, by all the leading republi- o here, as a very singular circumstance that the rome sors”? aud National Committee should bave thus tgnored the State Committee in the distribution of funds, practically taking the management of tho State campaign out of ihe hands of the | State Committe local contributions, and Abbott had has ud leaving it without money save Precisely how much money Pool ever been known lo anybody but themselves. What they did with it all bas been a matter of speculation. They are not known to have | kept apy account of their expenditures oF to have ac- | tuunted to anybody for the money they received. This matter hus ali the time been ONE OF THE PROFOUND MYSTERIES Of the great campaign of 1872, to which we. perhaps bave at last a key through the Davenport transaction in New York. Senator Poo! bad, itke Davenport, a | System of political bookkeeping and registration, apd he ought to be allowed to tell it the wherewith he had to expend came out of the Secret Service fund, which ai! the circumstances of the case would seem to indi. cate Ex-Scnutor Abbott is now Cuilector of the port of Wilmington, N. C. Perhaps he, too, would like to tell what he knows about campaigning in this Siate. THE CENTENNIAL CANVASS. EVARTS FOR PRESIDENT—A VOICE FROM THE SOUTH. To tux Epiror or tHe Heratp:— In looking over your valuable jourval I notice that entounial Convention is mooted to select and nom- officers to administer the government tor the Dext four years, I trust the project will be consum- mated and the people’s party organized, and, with the Aid aud influence of your powerful paper, will prove Wictorious. We have grown greatly as a pation, but | huve sadly deteriorated as a people. The men of 76 | Were made Of beiter and sterner stuff than are the men af to-day. “Washington's Farewell Address” should | be read daily in every public school throughout the | nd 118 principles and patriotism inculcated and ‘oto the minds of the msing generation. Jef- UY Is be capable’? should be strictly applied to every applicant tor office, The country is being ruiued and disgraced by designing | political knaves, gamblers and trickstere; both parties ure corrupt aud rotien to the core, but the great masses aro bonest and patriotic Let the people | fatly. There are plenty of wise und noble men, who are ey dig nnd in whose bands the government would honestly and economically administered, William M. Evarts is a statesman, patriot, scholar and & gentieman, whom the people would delight vo | bonor— ‘They fing bis o to the bree: O'er mo ale, o'er Atiasta, Ga, April 23, 1876 &DAMS FOR PRESIDENT—A ‘WEST. fo rae Epitor or rue Heratp:— 1 have been for thirty years a reader of the Hxratp, tad, during my temporary sojourn in Central Kansas, it ts quite refreshing to receive it regularly the after. noon of the third day out, thanks to the ‘fast mail’ The Si. Louw papers roach us one day sooner, but their | ews is condensed and meagre, which ts not s tory daring the exciting developments of the last weeks. Every true American tecls tuortitied and dis- | the Ho will rally! | icc tael | SPIRIT OF '76. VOICR FROM THE | eo jculars, not & condensed abstrac iy copy of the HegaLo is’ cageriy souglt by citizens and ts read until near 8 to add my voice in favor of ntennial candidate, You treat | the subject in that of humorous levity peculiar to yon columns, but the fist mention of 14 gave me food | serious thought In my young days the high offices in our government Were Giled by the Oret men of the country—men of | bruins, intellect and experience; of iutegriiy aud bon. exty—gentlemen of the highest culture, men who, by | Years of tot! and cioso application, had deservedly | earned name, tume and position, which they would not have bartered or imperiled for whole centuries of post Qraderslips. They were willing aud satisiied to live within their means, choosing rather to be known to posterity by their statesmanshtp than by a reputation fast living. You have given the name of a man of this charact ‘Charles Francis Adams is a geutieman by birth education and petura! instinci He is a scholar anda your proposition fo statesman. To pat him iuto the percent his give the nation the benedt of the presi; d, to the position of dignity and respectability 80 that ‘we Americans would wo longer dread to bear t! ames of our foreign Ministers and Cabinet officers, some of our worthiest citizens live in a dr that will embarrass our highes! have so delighted to hot would have no sach fear. , You justly credit the Belknap exposé to an opposi- fem House Seeing such fruits thousands of us repub- | lieans, who helpea by our votes to make the House | 1868 to Horace Greeley in 1872. | wasues that stand inthe wa: | street, | Harriman & Co.; Garn | merchants. ———_————— democratic, bu-day feel justified of patriotism, not- withstanding our partisan loyalty is therovy somewhat ata discount, We may well hope that the independent voter has at last arrived in the country, and that he bas come to stay. He belongs to no party, but all parties so far belong to him tuat be will, of occasion, utilize any of them for the good of the Republic. His name is—the people. He is glad to Gud so fair a spokesman as the HekALD, one so loyal to the traditions and the hopes of the Union, We rebels are now of little account in natioual esti- mation, but some of us love our country better than we love lite, I invend tn the election of the centennial year to do my duty—as | understand it—my duty to | country, to posterity, to humanity. And to-day, if, as parties are now cbnstituted, | should go to the Presi- | dential polls | should feel 1t wy sacred duty to protest | against both political organizations. 1 do not see how | T could do it with more emphasis than by putting in my ballot for Charles Francis Adams for President and Samuel J, Tilden for Vice President. RECONSTRUCTED REBEL, Smirariecp, N. C., April 25, 1876. BRISTOW AS THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE, To tax Epiror ov tus Herary:— | I wish you would bring ont Bristow as the candidate | for the democratic nomination for President It would | be nothing like tne party jump it was from Seymour in There ere no political | Bristow, besides being Geath on ring thieves, is ail right on hard mopey and the results uf the war. The repuplicans, with their | innumerable ring complications, don’t want him, The | democratic masses and all honest men are crying, for | him as children cry for certain lozenges. Tilden, Heu- | dricks, Thurman and all the rest on the democratic lst of possibles are played out party hacks, and can | uever win, Give us, then, as the democratic centen- | ‘nial candidate Bristow, of 1876, | New York, Apri The Rev, Father Henry Lemke, of Elizabeth, N. J., a | | priest of the Benedictine Order, yesterday celebrated | \ the fiftieth anniversary of his ordination. The entire congregation of his church took part in the exercises | aad attended the grand high mass, which the jubilant | himself celebrated on the occasion, Attached to the | modest church is the Convent of the Benedictine Sis- | ters, and on the other side, at a short distance, is the | pastoral residence, over the portico of which tho | American flag was festooned, and on the sidewalk | Jeading to the church a haudsume arch of evergreens, ornamented with flowers and miniature fags, gave A festive appearance to the ucighborhood. The church itself was elegantly decorated tor the cele- | bration, The slender columns were entwined with | evergreens and the altar was covered with the choicest | flowers, Among the large number of Catholic clergy | present were Bishop Corrigan, of Newark, and Bishop | McQuaid, of Rochester. | At haif-past ten o’elock the priests assembled in the | sacristy of the church, and, having put on soutanes and | surplices, formed iu a procession, which was headed by | some thirty little girls dressed im white, and marched | to the pastoral residence, There they were joined by | Bishops Corrigan and McQuaid, who, on either side, | accompanied the venerable Father Lemke to the church As soon as t! shops and-pricsts bad arrived within the sanctuary Father Lemko placed himself in tho centre, before the altar, where he w proached | by two of the hittle girls, Miss [ves and Miss Martioez, the latter bearing on an ‘elogantly ornamented cushion a costlf gold chalice, while the former read a brief ad- dress tothe aged pastor, full of expressions of love aud | esteem and of sentiments of congratulation upon the | | length of days in this life. which — Provi- deuce had vouehsafed him. Father Lemke re- ceived the chalice, but made no reply, and tmmodi- ately after the high mass was begun. The celebrant was Father Lemko; the deacon, Father Wendelin Meyer; the sub-deacon, Father Corbinan Gustbihl, and tho master of ceremonies, the Rev. J. J. O’Conror, of Newark. After the first gospel Bishop McQuatd | addressed the congrogatign, speaking in a yencral way | ol the growth of Cathoricity inthe United States, and ailuding to Father Lemke as having been ouc of the | p‘oncers of the priesthood in this country. At the usual time for tne benediction Bishop Corrigan, | y betore pronouncing It, congratulated the congregation | bristly upon the occasion which called them together, | The service having been concluded a procession was | again formed in the same order it had urrived at the | church and, as it moved along the sidewalks in the open air, the congregation gathered around and expressions of | affection tor “Father Henry’? were heard on every side. | Asa mark of their esteem for Father Lemke the | priests of the diocese of Newark, with his personal friends from other dioceses, subscribed quite a hand- | some sum of money—over $700—which was presented | to him yesterd: Hl —— | A REVIVAL IN WALL STREET. | 1 Yesterday those persons who do business in Broad | Exchange place and Wall street among the | bankers and stock brokers were attracted to a faming | sign bung out at No. 40 Broad street having thereon in+ scribed this legend, } » :SsaeRalbgghicess 1°12 Rensmarmeenaraiaears 3 3 BEWARE oF tae Devit axo His Wire, Rum axb Touacco, the cause of all the evil ie ‘mo the world, 3 Penne neneeeee weeeee HOE ECE SENC HEDGE COLE OE OED | The clerks and bank runners paused to consider this striking warning, and many a gay young broker thoughtfully read the sign and went on bis way with a 3 3 N | graver air. A Hexatp reporter descended into the puse- ment of the office in frout of which the sign was placed and there found a man named Dexter, who is one of the “‘characters’’ uf Wall street. He sar “Yos, wir, | put that sign out there, and I intend to keep it there for a warning to the young men of Wail street. The time was when I would go lorty blocks for adrink; but I have not touched liquor tor fourteen years. In religion lam an open communion Baptist, butaill men are my brothers; I make a good livinc aud give all the rest away, What did the great Stewart et out of lite but ead and butter? I get more. ves, sir, that sign is the beginning of a revival in Wall street!” H. B. CLAFLIN. HE 18 TENDERED A BANQUET BY HIS FELLOW | MERCHANTS. The following correspondence fully explains itself, and will, no doubt, be read with interest ;— New York, April 15, 1876. | HB. Cusruiy, Esq :. Dear sik—lhe undersigned, for many years your friends and contemporaries in business, desire to ex press their gratification with the course your firm pur- sued in your jate suit with the governinent. Especially that, standing upon the uublemished rep- Uiation of your house, you refused all offers of com- promise and accepted’ the legal issue—an example much needed in toese times. Will you kindly accept the congratulations of your friends, and ers the undersigned by ouming a day when you will dine with us privately ? Yours truly, George C. Richardson & Co,, Wright, Bliss & Fab. yan; Woodward, Lawrence & ‘Co.; Parker, Wilder & | Co. ; Joy, Langdon & Co, ; a Poor & Co. ; Wendell, Hutchinson & Co. ; Pomeroy & Plummer, Bauendah! & €o., Joun E, Williams, Henry F. Babeock, Lawrence & Co., E. P. ©. Calhoun, W. L. Str. ng & Co, Upbam, Tucker & Co,; Lewis Brothers & Co, Lov & Co,, James L. Lite & Ge William A. Wheelock, Minot, Hooper & Ca; W. Langly, Sumuel McLean & Co,, Fred. Butterfield & A. Person, Harriman & Co,; EK. Oelbermann & Whittemore, Feet, Post & C Co. ; BH. Smith & Co, MR, CLAPLIN'S REPLY, New Youk, April 22, 1876, GuxTLEmEN—Allow me to acknowledge your favor of the loth » and to asgurd you how bearuly | appre- ciate this expression of the contidence of my fellow Ibis intimated in the public p how- ever, that the government may ap to the higher courts from the decision already re: ed in favor of my firm, and altnou, the absolute injustice of the charges proferred makes the result certain, yet so long | as proceedings are pending in any form | must beg to decline the compliment you offer me. Again thankiug you for your kinduess, I aim, very truly yours, H. B, CLAFLIN. = | To Messrs. Gronce C. Ricwanvsoy & Co, Waicnt, Butss & Fanyax; Woopwanro, Lawnuxce & Co,, and others, .; J. 1. Bruner, Brother No, 174 Graxw Steer, April 24, 1876, To tur Eprrox or tus Herato:— Wo beg leave to acknowledge the following subserip- tions in aid of the sufferers by the idundations in Hun- gary :— A. Walinch & Co. Philip Brody, No M.... Hungarian Congregation Obab Zedck. . Total... Further subscri aro respectfully solicited and ‘Will be gratoiully received by the committee of the New York united Hungarian societies, E. K.eiwmas, Secretary, C. BARDOS, President, Cuniag, ‘Treasurer. New York Magyar Eoyu No. 174 Graxp Srrawt, April 24, isa} To tum Evitom ov tax Herato:— of the subscriptions received up fully, yours, z Seorsiary ot the New York commitice bocietion, | atl operauons on docks where the preparat | olution, and contended that the improvements wero EDGAR A. POR, To tux Eprron oy tae Herap:— ° ‘Wit! you allow me to correct through your columns the story which is now being circulated—from the pen of Mrs, Elizabeth Oakes Smith, and original.y appear- ing in the Home Journal—in regard to the *‘cause of the death of Edgar A. Foe.” It is to be regretted that Mrs. Smith should have al- lowed herself to be imposed upon by so very extracr- dinary and improbable a story, and still more so that she should have given it to the public without having first proven its truth by reference to proper authority, She asserts—on what or whose authority is not men- tioned—tbat ‘a woman” with whom Mr. Poo bad corre- Sponded, exasperated at Poo’s refusal to return ber let- ters, caused him to be “beaten in a most ruManiy manner;’’ that ‘a brain fever supervened,” and that Mr, Poe thereupon ‘went to Baltimore, which he barely reacted when he died.” As (rath in all things 18 always desirable allow me to state to you the following facts, which, with the cor- roborative testimony of twenty persons of the highest respectability, now living in this city (Richmond), will prove the foundationless character of the story alluded | to, and which Mrs. Smith, unfortunately, too readily credited :— ; In July, 1849, Mr. Poe came to Richmond and bere he remained up to the period of his leaving for Baltimore, where, on his arrival, he died. During this time he sometimes occupied a room at the old-fashioned Swan Hotel, but was gencrally a guest of Mra. Mackenzie, a lady of the higbest social standing. She had known and been fond of Poe from a child, having adopted bis lite sister Rosalie at the timo when he bimscif had been adopted by Mr. Allan, Mr. Poe, like bis sis- ter, always called her ‘*Ma,’’ and had grown up in in- timate relation with her sons, who were at home at the time of his visit of which I speak. Mrs, Mackenzio’s residence, Dancan’s Lodge, was in the suburbs of the city. We were her near neigh- bors, and, tbe two families being very intimate and io daily communication, we were necessarily acquainted with all concerning Mr. Poo, He was himself an al- most daily visitor at my mother’s, and was accustomed haepeak freely of what interested or concerned him- sell, At this time a report ciroulated, but not credited, was that Mr. Poe was engaged to a Mra. S——, a widow, residing on Church Hill, a very plain person, wealthy and considerably older than Mr. Poe, He at rat vis- ited her, but alter a while discontinued this attention and it was known that thoy were not friends, and that Mr. Poe had refused to retarn certain letters of | hers unti! she should consent to also give up his own, which she declined to do, asserting that they had been | Pe dauins statement of which he expressed a jondt. Some three wecks before Mr. Poe lef Richmond he had a brie but se sipation, of which city were witness, ‘Tw piscod him in a light enzie’s, where assiduous pursing and attention saved his life. This attack both gentle! . Who are still res- idents of Richmond, assert to been mania a pot and declared that ‘another such excess would havo proved fatal tohim.”’ Theneeforth while he remained in Richmond his friends were constantly with pit, and certainly nothing could have happened to him without their knowledge He soon recovered, and remained well and sober up to his leaving for Baltimore. In this time he was often at my mother’s, and the evening of the day beforo that fixed for bis departure he spent with us, On this occasion I had a jong conversation with him, in which, nothwithstanding m: paee ithe more than a child, he spoke very treely of his p! for the future, especially in regard to the publication of his | projected paper, the Jris, of the success of which he seemed sauguine, I had never secon bim apparently in better health or spirits than when I bade him by. That night ho spent at Duncan's Lodge, and thence on the morrow some gentlemen of the family accompa- nied him to town, and saw bim on board the steamboat which he took for Baltimore. They all unite in sayin, that be left in remarkably good spirits, and to several of them he had expressed his intention of ‘turning over & new Jeai” in lite, Until the appearance of this account of Mrs, Smith’s in the Tome Journal not one of Mr. Poe's triends amon; whom he hud spent the last three months of bis har ever beard a hint of the extraordinary circumstance thus set forth,.although if such a thing had occurred, as stated, it must have occurred in our midst. Very truly urs, SUSAN ARCHER WEISS, Ricumoxp, April 10, 1876, COST OF THE DOOKS, THE CONFERENCE OF COMMERCIAL ORGANIZA- TIONS —THE EXPENSES OF THE DOCK DEPART- MENT TO BE LIMITED. A meeting of the delegates appointed from the Cheap Transportation Association, the Produce Ex- change, Importers arf Grocers’ Board of Trade, Cham- ber of Commerce and Council of Political Reform to investigate the operations of the Dock Department in reference to the plans and cost of the stone piers and bulkheads now in course of erection was neld yester- day im the Chamber of Commerce, My, D, L. Turnure presided and briefly explained the object of the meet- ing, and Mr. W. T. Booth read the report of the sub- | commities, setting forth the result of the investiga- | tions made along the wi r front a few days ago. They examined the operations at tne foot of Canal street and | thence proceeded to Christopher street, where they embarked on a steam tug and inspected the new work of the New York Central Ruilway, at the foot of Six- ; Heth strect. Mr, Booth then submitied a resolution, ag approved of by the sub-committee, to the | effect that the conference requested by the Dock | Commissioners should recommend the suspension of ns stone masonry had not already been made, and that the | Inmit of the expenditure for the ensuing year outside | of the necessary repairs should not excced ,' Mr. Booth also read a letter from Commissioner Wales, giving an estimate of the cos: of the proposed im- | », provements, Mr, Miller strongly advocated the passage of the res- absolutely necessary for the commercial prosperity of the city. The examinations made by the sub-commit- tee clearly showed this, and he thought no obstacies should be thrown im the way of the Dock Commission- cre, who, be said, Were doing everything in their power toward tbat desirable end. Mr. Baker also paid a high tribute to the integrity arnestness of the Commission: ‘commissioner Dimmock said, by way of explana- tion, that according to the resolution 1t was not con- templated, as he understood it, that any action should be taken by the Legisiature. The Commissioners were satistied that ul xpenditure should ve limited, as Suggested; nor was any objection taken to the report | of the sub-committee, But im regard to the proposed conference, he did not see why any organizations other than those strictly identified with commerce should be invitee to take part in the investigations. Mr. W. H. Webb, of the Council of Political Reform, intimated that the resolution suggested included the co-operation of that body. Mr. Phillips offe: an amendment to the effect that the Cotton Exchabge be included in the associations in- vited to inquire into the working of the Dock Depart- ment, The amendmegt passed and the Ship Owners’ Association was also included in the number, Tho Chairman then put the original resolution, which | was carried, and on motion it was resolved to appoint three delegates from cach of the organizations named vo compose the conference suggested. The meeting then adjourned. DOCK DEPARTMENT. The Dock Department yesterday reported to the Sinking Fund that the following contracts are now in | force :— Pirst—Francis Spicrs & Co,, tor supplying 5,000 bar. rels English and Portland cement at $3 44 per barrel. The bills await audit, Second—Jaines Mcintyre, for erecting a new pier at No, 42 North Rivor. Third—MeIntyte & Bro., for building new pior at foot of Bank street, North River, at an estimate of S71 66. bay other work now in progress is as follows :—The Christopher street section of the bulkhead wall is bel extended southward 150 feet, the completion of the Canal street section of the bulkbead wall, and the work on pier No. 1 North River, which, when completed, will be 450 feet long. The Dock Commissioners yesterday notified the Sinking Fund Commission that they have reduced the working and clerical force of their department to the Jowest basis consistent with the business of the de- partment MUNICIPAL NOTES. The Board of Apportionment yesterday authorized the Comptrolier to issue $100,000 assesement bonds at &@ rate of interest not exceeding seven per cent The Board approved an appropriation of $100,000 asked for by the Department of Parks for the Park im- provement fund. | The City Hall was desertea yesterday. Politicians gone to Utica, The Mayor will on Saturday id to the Board of of thi fivecity Aldermen for confirmation the nai Marshals. The uominations for Police and Park Com- missioners will not likely ve sent iu until after May 1, ITY STOCKS, INTEREST ON C On Moy 1 the Comptrolier will pay to the holders of city stocks and bonds the sum of $3,312,504 77, being the interest due on that day on $112,630,146 86, Of this the Sinking Fund Commissioners will receive the of $690,965 them amounting BROOKLYN FINANCES, ‘The receipts of the City Treasurer of Brooklyn last week amounted to $91,400. The warrants paid amount to $182,784 The amount remaining on deposit to the credit of Spe cin ee Various banks is $1,878,002 The aggregace collections of Registrar of Arrears Bey to April 22, was $42,907 interest on investments held by | terday 909,986 86, REAL ESTATE, ‘The large number of sales advertised to be held at | the Exchange Salesroom yesterday attracted s largo attendance, The buyers were few, however, and those whodid desire to purchase were willing to pay only low prices, for which all the property sold was knocked down. The following is a list of the salea:— R. V. Harnett sold, in an executor’s sale, a four story brick house, with lot 25x98.9, No, 337 West Thirty- eighth street, north side, $00 feet east of Ninth avenue, to Julius Beck, tor $11,600; also, in a partition sule, | No. Sid West Twenty-ninth street 25x98.9, with two bouses, front (three story brick) and rear (two stoty frame), to Martin Carpenter tor $5,850; also, in fore- closure, by order of the Supreme Court, R. B., Roose- Veit, referee, the followin, Four lots on the northwest corner of repty-seveoth street and Eleventh avenue, 100x1022; plot on the northwest corner of Soventy-cignth street and Eleventh avenue, 300x102.2, and a ploton the south sido uf Seventy-ninth street, 100 teet west of Eleventh avenue, 200x1022, to tho plaintiff for $60,000. liam Kennelly sold in foreclosure, by order of the Supreme Court, W. B. N: referee, an undivided one-balf interest in the building Nos, 63, 65 and 67 Crosby street, east side, 42 feet soutn of oy street, to the plaintiff for $40,000. Also, under the direction of the same referee, an undivided one-fifih interest in ‘unimproved lands on West 138th, 139th, 140th and 141st streets, between Fifth and Seventh avenues, compris- ing fifteen separate parcels, to the plaintiff tor $24,000. The above-mentioned Lows aged i@ subject to a mortgage, of ga one-fifth, with imtercst, &c,, amounts to | E£. A. Lawrence sold in foreclosure, by order of the Supreme sw house, with tot 25x100.6, on Baxter street, cast side, 85.2 feet north of Park street, to James ‘ assady, for $16,700. Peter F. Meyer sold in foreclosure, by order of the Supreme Court, E. Patterson, referee, two lots, each 25x100, 11 on Weat Forty-seventh street, north side, 150 feet west of Eleventh avenue, to the plaintiil, Jobn Realy, for $4,050. V. K. Stevenson, Jr., sold in foreclosure, by order of tho Supreme Court, John E. Ward, referee, a house, with Jot 18x62.10, on East Eighty-aeventh strect, south side, 2083 feet east of avenue A, to the plaintiff for $6,885; also a plot 66x95.9 on East 34th street, south 235 foet weat of Second avenue, to the plaintiff for | TRANSFERS. Broon. 8. w. cor. of Wooster st., 18.4x72; Samuel A. Lowls and wite to Fred K, Lewis... sess Nom, Bloomingdale road, u.¢. cor, O6th st., 32.5x25.9 sume to same . Nom. sts 8, 100 fw. of Ath a ‘Seb r s+ 19,600 s. (No. 88), 254100; Klizabeth’ Brophy to Willi Bartley. 6,000 Oth ato, 8170.6 fi. 0 . (oxi Of) (No. 300); Joseph Fuchs “and wife Ragert f 4.500 ‘Bx102237 Wa of 8a uv. yh Martine. ‘SOxua! . ourke +0 Daniel Murray. W. 8., same pert; mi Daniel Murray. é a J, cormer of 133d st., 124.11 x¥2.ix irrega- lar to-134th at. G4 part of); Jos. if. Morris, execu- tor, to Samuel Schiffer ffer und wife to Henry’ ‘8th ay. n. @. corner of 13d 5 124.11x92. 1x irregu- Jar to 134th b Simo 124th st., no, 500 MR. w. of Gh av., 175x100,1 ‘Adolph Bernheimer and wife to simon Bernheimer. a A &, 175.6 35 f. w. of Waverles Anna McCabe ft. e. of Chrysti 3 Jarvis (referee) to Hieronym McManus and wi Stanton st., 6. s., 100.8 100; Nathaniel Breunich........ Arcularius place, 5. 112.3 (24th ward) Morrisania Savin, 1th av., w, 6. 76.8% tt. n, irreguir; Moves Ely (referee) to - 8,900 10x ma (referee) to Townsend Wan- Liss. . Weat st. (No. 129), Henry Hillebrandt and othors to Thomas J. Briggs; fheyade - Kling, Jacod and wife, to Seibrand Uierrenhaus, n. & of 7th st, w. of av. C; instalments $8,809 Sehroe ver, Juco! oa. J. Viblet: of Sth Koch, Klias, Sdav.; 2 8S ye between avs, A and B. 1,500 Kateenberg, Rosa and ‘hosband ‘to Mayer Katze bers, s. @. corner of av, A and 18th st: 2 years, 8,350 Schroeder, Jucub and wife, to Peter Uiblein, s. 8. of ‘Oth st., 6. of Ist av. Az 10. 8,000 8011 400 Market 6, (ig par. Hutehina, Selin demand. +. iG. "Abd husband, to Sarab Savin, . of 1th ave dt . J. and wife Br 387 Bowery. ++ 8,000 Vaupel, Hartman and wife, to, Julla ‘Lockwood and others (rustees), & Of 9d st., between uve. D a yi ural Iron Works Lat id ‘irast Company, 6. ». of lath st.. e. of FOR eee % Brounich, Ileronymus, to German Savings Bunk, of Stanton st., 6. of Clirystio st; 1 ye FRAUDULENT TRUSTEES. To tur Eptror oy tue HeraLo:— : T notice with satisfaction your recent editorials on the subject of ‘Fraudulent Trustees.” ofcrime, forcrime it undoubtedly :a About twelve years or so ago the then well known bankers Sir John Dean Paal, Strachan, Bates & Co., of London suspended payment. Until that moment their credit asa tirm stood Al, while individually each member bore the highest character and moved im the best circles of so- ciety. Shortly after thelr stoppage one of their cus. tomers, a Dr. Grifiths, applied for Liz securities which | he had left in their hands for sate keeping, and for tho | cashing of various coupons as they tel! duc. The mar- | ket value of these securities was tully £36,000. | Paul, Strachan, Bates & Co..could not produce these ‘on them some months previously on the Stock | Exchange, tn the bopes of bolstering up their affairs, then in an almost hopeless state of confusion For this they were tried at the Old Bailey, and, notwnh- | money the prosecutor himselt and in other ways to arrange were all three convicted and seu- ears’ Imprisonment at bard labor, the ount of punishment allowed under the ‘raudulent Trustees act.”’ ‘and his friends tuily expected to get hitn off; but it wag ruled that, 4 partner, he was bound to be cog- | nizant of the | found guity like the others. : | Sir John Dean Pau! was nominally a most religious | man, taking a prominent part in all charitivle and re- | hgious movements im Loudon. Sull he went to prison for 81x years and served out his time there as a tatlor. He bas died since his release, and bis son now bears | the honored title of Sir John Dean Paul, baronet Re- 8 fully, ANGLU-AMERICAN. ee Yeux: April 25, 1876, RAPID TRANSIT IN BROOKLYN. Yesterday a meeting was held of the Directors of the Elevated Silent Saiety Railroad Company of Brook- lyn, at which several plans and specications for the contemplated road were discussed. Under their present charter they bave only thirty days in which to com- work, anda bill is now before the Legislature for an extension of the time, They can build the road at the rate of a milea month. The route will be from Fulton ferry to East New York. The time will be, tor a train of six cars, with a locomotive of nine or ten tons, twenty minutes, from one end to the other of the pine, Fifty thousand dollars capital bas been sub- ARREST AND SUICIDE. Officer Smalley, of the court squad, proceeded yes- morning 0 No 679 First avenue and arrested if weedy say pa Rie ePising bata revolver, the Out at the right side of the head. wan ‘was taken to Bellevue Hospital, where the doctor pro- pounced bis iury tatak, The jaw in England | ts very plain and effective in punishing this description | &e., for the good reason that they had raised | standing the greatest influence wus brought to bear on | Bates (tne Janvor part- | it was proved, knew nothing whatever of the mat- | business of the concern, and was | NEW YORK HERALD, 'WEDNESDA¥, APRIL 26, 1876.—TRIPLE SHEET GUILTY OF MURDER, TRIAL OF & NORTH CAROLINA HEORO JOR BRU- | TALLY BEATING TO DEATH HIS TEN-YEAR-/ OLD SISTER-~A SICKENING STOBY OF FATAL CRUELTY. ‘Wrstos, N. C., april 20, 1876. Elijah Skinner was to-day arraigned and tried in the Superior Court of Hertiord county, beld at the Court Houso 1m this village, for the murder of bis half sister, | Clara Jane Hampton. The murderer and his victim | were both negroes, The ertme was perpetrated in a se- | cluded neighborhood in the county, known as Manney's Neck, on Saturday, March 4, and its discovery sent a ‘thrill of horgor throughout the community of this en- tire section. The assassin and the deceased were chil- dren of the same father but by different mothers. The age of the child was ten years; that of the prisoner about twenty-five, Elijah Skinner, with his wife, lived tm a negro cabin on the plantation of Mr. Dillard Rid- dick. The littie girl had been placed with this couple | by her parents, who, in their abject poverty and un- | thrift, g were unable to maintain her. She is represented as having been a bright, intelligent | child, but rather more fond of play than work. Un the day before she met her death at her brother's bands she failed to complete her appointed task of carding and spinning a certain tale of cotton. Skin- ner's wife thereupon beat her, and she ran away and hid in a fence corner, whero she lay out ail night. Next morning the little waif came to the cabin of one | Jadith Purdy, shivering with cold and with frost and | straw upon bair. bortly alter her arrival Elijah | Skinner came to Judith’s hovel and commanded her to | go home. ‘The child fled from bim, when he pursued and ran her down. Then slinging her violently across bis shoulders, as ho might a dead pig, he curried hor to his house, went in with her and ciosed the door. Cast- ing her down heavily upon the floor, he proceeded to inflict upon the quivering mbs and shrinking flesh of the poor creature a most barbarous peng The cries und groans of the sufferer and the heavy blows of the stick were heard many yards away, and by one too timid white man, who, to bis shame he it said, stood stock still and listened horror stricken, but did not go the tortured one’s relief, This tearful flage!la- tion continued for upward of twenty minutes, when the child was dead, Sxinuer and hix wife thea cvoilly went about to wash and shroud the mangled and battered corpse. The marderer then sought the neighborhood store, and made known the child's death, the suddenness of which excited sume suspicion and led to the discovery of the fearful crime. The Cor- oner of the county was notitied aud au inquest was held on the following Monday, The child's body was cov- ered from head yo foot with bruises, On the head and face were three deep wounds. An autopsy, made by De. Louis J. Picot, showed that the lungs were bruised and lacerated from the severity of the blows received. Skinner was arrested and committed to the County Jail it tho next term of court. At eleven this was bronght out of the jail and placed in soner’s dock in the Court House. Two young lawyers, E. (. C. Ward and Benjamin B. Winvorne, appearod as counsel for the prisoner. The State was represented by Joseph J. Martin, solicitor, of the Second Judicial district of North Carolina. A jury was finally selected, composed of ten white men and two negroes, of which Norman L. Shaw, a highly tatelli- gout merchant of the county, was foreman. The wit- ‘esses were sworn and exant! +, proving the facts above set forth, The coun r the defence endea- vored to convince the jury that the homicide was not murder, but merely manslaughter. The presiding Judge, Hon. Wiliam A. Moore, charged strongly against the prisoner. At about dusk the case w en to the jury, who returned, after being absent half an hour, with a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree, The death sentence will be pronounced in the course of the present court term, EMIGRANT SOCIETIES’ MEETING. | An adjourned meeting of the Board of Deputies of benevolent and emigrant societies was held yesterday atthe German Soctety’s officc, No. 13 Broadway, at three P, M. Mr. Robert Wallor took the chair and Mr. Wallach acted as secretary. The following deputies were pres- ent:— From the German Society, Willy Wallach; from the St. George, R. Wailer, R. J. Corti; fromthe St. An- drow, Bryce Gray, W. Coverly; from the Frenen Benevoient, Chai Roussel; from the Swias Benevo- Jon, Henry Evcher; trom the United Hebrew, Henry ; from the dinavian Kmigrant, Alb, Kricson, Thore; Belgian Benevolent, H. La- , A. do Bi om the Irish Emigrant, James Lynch; trom th ndly Sons of St. Patrick, arbour, William Whiteside. 0 St. David’s aud the Italian benevolent societies Were not represented, The minutes wore read and the election of officers proceeded to, with the following re- sult, the namber of directors being increased trom threo to six;— Fred Schack, President; Robert Waller, Vice Presi- dent; Bryce Gray, Secretary; James Lynch, Treasurer; Willy Wallach, William Coverly, Henry Escher, Thomas Barbour, Charles P. Thore, Henry ce, direc- tors. Mr. Wallach, on behalf of the German society, of- barbed the use of their oiee for the meetings of the On motion, it was resolved to send a committee to Albany to urge the passage of the bill making an ap- ropriation tor the Emigration Commission. The {ol- wing gentlemen were appointed:—Robert Waller, Thomas Barbour, Willy Wallach, Bryoe Gray, Charles Roussel, Henry Rice, The meeting then adjourned. THE WAR OF THE BOARDS. War to the knife has been declared between the Boards of Police and Health. The latter say they will mot be ejected from their apartments in the Central office and the former say flatly that they shall. On Friday last the Board of Pulice took possession of the rooms occupied by the vacciuating corps for the use of Inspector Dilks, the notice to vacate issued two months ago having beon disregarded by the Board ot Health. The latter becoming indignant at their cjectment ob- tainod an injunction yesterday from Judge Speir, of the Superior Court, restraining the Board of Police from occupying the said premises or intertering with the Board of Health in any way until May 4, when tho matter will be argued. While they are preparing cop! for service on each of the Polico Commissioners t! latter uro determined on pushing things with vigor und removing the furniture which they had hitherto al- lowed to be left in the rooms, The papers wero served on Mr. Voorhis. General Smith, ia conversation on the subject, said that the action of the Police Board was uvavvidable, | They were sadly in need of all the rooms in the build. | | img. They had given the Health Board, who were | tenants only by sufferance, two months’ notice; bad | offered them the Twenty-fifth precinct station house | entire, and had even consented to a transfer of $10,000 | from their appropriatios jut still Soard of Health | held on to their session, prom! nd postponing ‘until patience was no louger pos: The Police Commissioners Bave been advised that t Injunction by Judge Speir is not valid, inasmuch as 1! Laws of 1867, chapter 956, section 9, say that no Junction shail be grantot ageinst the Police Board or its officers except by the Supreme Court, atter service of | at least eight days’ notice of a motion for such injunc- tion. Thi law was not repeuled by thecharter of 1873 and is suillin force, The Board of aith threaten to forcibly retake the rooms under the in\unction to-day, bat from the firmness evinced by General Smith it is | Dot likely that they will THE ATIONAL GAME. ‘The game on the Union Grounds yesterday afternoon between the Mutual and Boston clubs was a great eur- prise to all who witnessed it. At tho conclusion of the eighth inning the score stood 6 to 2 in favor of the New York nine, but 1m the last inning the Bostons blanked | their opp 1 then made five runs, thas winning by o single run, There were about 1,000 spectators ‘ Prosent. | The score follows:— INNINGS, ews oo 2 he Arlington Clab, Rans earned—Matual, 0; Boston, 1. Time of game—Two hours and twenty five minutes, A FIFTY MILE MUSTANG RACE. ston. .0 Umpire—Mr. Loughlin of t | | { {From the San Francisco Call, April 17.) | The turf event which will test the speed of the Cali- fornia-bred mustangs, or wild horse, and the eydurance of the riders, is announced to take place on the track of the Bay District.Qeir Grounds Association at three o'clock on Saturday afternoon next, 1. P, Smith and Neil Mowry both claim the championship of the ie | for tast and conticuons riding 1m the saddle, The mat ig between these two for a purse of $2,000. A match of this character is vory exci! for the spectator and HOt movotonous as generally conjectured, The 3 | are to ride fifty miles out, weigh up 162 pounds, each ten horses, aubse- g%., the SPORTING EVENTS ABROAD. ‘The King of Italy has received a present of four | magnificent Arab horses from the Khedive of Egypt. Au open boat race took place on the Tyne on the 11th inst., between William Lameden, of Blyth, and Robert Bagnall, of Ousoburn, for £100. The course was from the High Level Bridge to the if a mite, ; whieh your counsel, Benjamin re PULPIT OR P. NITENTIARY. MB. MOULTON'’S PROPOSITION TO SUBMIT THR QUESTION OF MR. BEECHER'S GUILT OR BIS OWN TO A JURY. Francis D. Moulton, that the public may kaow the “bottom facts’ of the Brovklyn scandal, has written tobr. Beecher the following open letter, containing @ proposition to submit the question whether the Plymouth pastor should jeave the pulpit or bis accuser go to the Penitentiary to. an ordinary jury of twelve se- lected men:— Brooxiyx, Ni Rexs: Huser Wann kuin ne Staerr, April, 25, 1873, 1k—If it were possivie T would allow ate ETE iiitens tt oe aco ihe some Helse swearing ana cdalteen tee Eta a eemniolnen, ‘Rot yet grown so selfish in seeking vindication fo: done se eat eect eee aecenre ees that notwit ding your you dv not suffer fate reek ra bee ee society, se! yoo hi te family, whom ae pg Ae Re Fahy ws ou sugur tobe tu the pulpls or fought so be tm oprioces tis duo to social order, the well beiny of the commantyy and religion, which is’ brougit Into con Sa iTicive the concer l pe tose the oibae irae ade pretence ever since calling Investigating Committee of your chureb that. ‘desired fair sod full fnvestigation of the charmes, agalast 2 yet, knowing your guilt, you have avail pedient that your wily counsel could ingenuity devise to evade impartial the fnets, 4 Asone of the {instruments of such evasion, to injure my credit as @ witness, you procured vy your own perjury an in- dictment against me for livel apou yourself ina statement or your owa inquiry and suppress. begued me to withhold from the vost of which he was also couusel, ant whieh I only your false charges, afterw: rhle edonnens aid aot rocured through ing instru. and reiteration of charges against you, take! of court by & nolle, To endeavor to bring the | be tribunal T comme) ‘te salt ag Botts tris know the laws of your country, you avold the trial by demurring to my allegations; and admitti that if alf I said of Uy adultery and perjury were ti yet you were nos bound to answer my complaint, because the success of your legal trick in getting rid of the indict. ment, which you had so faisely and malicionsly obtained for your purpose of evasion, You demurred to elude investigation, notwithstanding from your pulpit you deelared your willingness and dosire to be tried before « tribunal that could compel ‘Dot before toxes and wolves —alluding to a pi of ministers. re talkin, witnesses, but wed council, audienco of and cheered you to ‘and do not now, but 1 prupose to hold yor own declaration. Being now desirous only of submitting the issue between competent and impartial tribunal, and, determined you shall do so or admit your intention to avuld and ‘ade it, I submit the following proposition Twill s0 amond my complaint that the tes {s not so offered now, thus by your perjury you caused me to ig indicted for libel for saying that you wore an adulterer, you then well knowin that what I suid was true, Waiving all formalities | will go t0) trial upon’ this {sue alone, und Iwill agree that every witness shall ve he: without technical oijection, who knows anything of any: tending to prove ti.at issue, either of their own Enowle of by the statement of elther party concerned in the double crime, or any othor testimony the tribunal belore which the trial ls had shall choose to hour. bal ig nk As I do vot desire to get any money " From the funds’ of the elturet, which would pernaps be paid Mihleh ought to be devated to « betvar uso than, indemnify” ot your crimes, I will ing you against the cor x hat minal sum of $l, if to jury. summoned in the ordi- nary mode; but It you say it would be Impossibl unprojudiced and intelligent jury in the was consent that ex-President Woolsey, of Yale College, gilvct the Jury. or T will leave its selection to George Robinson, of Brooklyn, who was elected deacon of Plymou jeclured on om or tu any man those gentlemen ean agree upon, If neither of these propositions is satistactory to you, T will name a man and you can name another, and tney two shall airee upon a third to act as referee under a rule ot the Pourt. sted to by he Tam willing that Thi A rm your brother, Edward Beeeh shall select six men, and { will name two men to select others, neither you nor I nor our representatives to object to the men so chosen, and the verdict ot the majority to ve accepted by us ay the tinal decision of the cuse, 3 T think my propositions are uot open to any moral objec- i ud I challenge you once more to ® trial that will set. uestion whether you ought to ve in the pulpit or I ask why T do not go before the commission contrived by your partivans in and out of the Advisory Coun cil. The Issue now is, did you commit perjury, or did I an¢ my wife commit verur at the trial in the City Court? 1 and those dexrest to m ve deep an interest in the you have. It my pickee tribunal to decide It, you woule distrust its impartialit: my aluerass tts’ slit rr as rly ditru impartin judin font, Tha spider's parior dees ‘not (ook Inviting to the f If college profe: \d_dostors of divinity do not soe validity of my dis the sane and fair men wholove jus tice and seo for the t ‘0 see it, Some fair and just men fail to see why innocence should shrink from the esiablished moder of judicial inquiry, and should fly for refuge to art- fully devised mothods in which candid inen have no eonti- douce. FRANCIS D. MOULTON. General Roger A. Pryor has appealed to tne General ‘Term from the tecision rendered by the lower vourt on the demurrer in the Moulton-Beecher HENRY C. BOWEN’S CASE. The Plymouth Church Investigating Committee met again last evening at the residence of Mr.-Pintt, corner of Orange aad Hicks streets. Mr. Bowen and his son were in attendance. Mr. Tilney summed up for th committee, and held that Mr. Bowen was guilty of jug slandered his pastor and violated his covenant, and should therefore be expelled, The committee will meet next Tuesday evening to prepare their report to be submitted to the oburch. BRIGHT SKIES IN THE SOUTH, WHAT A TRAVELLER SAW IN ARKANSAS, New York, April 23, 1876, To raz Epiron ov Tax Heraty:— Lhbave recently returned from a somewhat extended trip over the State of Arkansas, whic) I have been visiting fof the last twenty years, sometimes once and sometimes twice each year, and I must tell you briefly how matters look down in that section, It is surprising to sce such a change for the better {a so short atime. My business called me into all the important parts of the State, and during the whole time I saw no disturbance, henco no quarrels, and met with no evidences of ill-fecling or bitterness any where, ‘The people are all at work, with an energy I have not witnessed there tor years, Tho harsh and cuttin; words and epithets engendered by the war are hushed it. and eard no more. The colored people scem to be bettor satisfied than I have sown thom since the war, and in fact all classos are in good hum-er and full of hope. The peop! are better supplied and more comfortable at home than they have been for sixteen years. The great wheat crop of last year, to say nothing of the other abundant crops, makex the State wi do, With even an aver- age crop this year the poverty brought about by the war is gone and comfort and plenty take its place, There isno gomg back and opening old so1 searching among the embers to Kindle afresh the fircs ot sectional strife. People of ail parties are on kind and friendly terms and working together to make the State prosperous, In the wise and straightiorward aa. ministration of the government there everyoody has the most implicit confidence. The condition is truly ferart to the heart of every lover of peace, order and jw; and a future of prosperity to this State, so richly endowed by nature, is not now a matter of doubt. Yours, reepecttully, J. ATTEMPTED HIGHWAY ROBBERY. As Sergeant Long, of the Twelfth precinct, accom. panied by Officer Niggesmith, were waiking through Fifth avenue, near 125th st, at ten o'clock on Monday night, they heard the ioud cry of ‘Murder!’ apparently 2 | coming from Madison avenue, They hurried thither, and saw at the corner of 124th st, and Madison avenue a Mr. H. E. Luthy, of No, 74 West 124th st, in the act f rising from the sidewalk, No other person was in ght. Mr. Luthy told the officers that a few minutes before, ashe was proceeding home, he passed threo men, who suddenly turned round and struck bim oo the side of the head with a club or cane, afer whi they seized him, and while two vhird tried to take bis diamond bosom, He succeeded, however, in scream: robbers, becomin; ‘med, ran away without having secured any booty, It is probable that the atiack waa preconcerted, and Mr, Luthy followed for some dis. tance, as the robbers directed all their attention to his studs, which were worth No traces of the highwaymen could be REFORMATION OF FALLEN WOMEN, The Nathan committee of the Kings county Board of Supervisors, who have been investigating the law which provides for the commitment of female vagrants to the House of the Good Shepherd, held a final session yesterday. The chairman, Supervisor Stillwell, pre- sented a report to be submitted to,the Board of Super: visors at the meoting to-day, recommending an amend. | ment to the existing law by which a magistrate could commit to the House of the Good Shepherd ouly por- | sous between the ages of fourteen and Rises S| years. It also provides that between the discharge Agirl from the House and her recommitment a suffl- ciept time should elapso to enable the magistrate to determine the probability of her reformation, It was moved 10 cogent & ropeal of tho law which permitted Catholics only to be sent to the reformatory and in- clude all creeds. There was opposition to this sugges- tion, but thereport of the chairman was ‘There will be a majority and ius jority and minority report presented COLLISION IN THE EAST RIVERY On Monday night the yacht Wanderer, N.Y.Y.C,, M& James Still, while lying at anchor of street, East River, was run into by the sehooner Nellie Clark, while in tow of steamtug James Bowen, in the yacht's forward bulwarks, fron work and port davits, smashing be ty on being hailed gave her name as ool a sent from the sound her to be the Bowen, as above stated, oe