The New York Herald Newspaper, December 16, 1876, Page 5

“MING” REVELATIONS ge ee Recailing the Heyday of the Old Man of. Ludlow Street. TAMMANY'S TOOLS AND TACTICS. Lobby Management—The Albany Legislative Market, SWEENY’S AMBITIONS. From the City to the State and Thence to the Nation. After years of pluader and power followed by years of exile and comparative obscurity men are telling pow the seerets about the Tammany Ring which for years they bave locked up in their own breasts or confided only to their chums and contederates. . The fepresentatives of the HeraLp have been busy taking edvantage of this communicative phase, and have already given some interesting glimpses of that thiev- fish combination. Additional developmonts in regard te the petty depravity and the all-reaching ambition of the Tammany magnates are given herewith. 18 TWEED IN GOOD Healrat The writer met recently a resident of Albany, who ‘bas known the majority of our leading politicians for the last forty years, This gentleman being in a con- versational mood favored the Hxnatp representative with @ Distory of the birth and development of the Tammany Ring Prior to entering Into the heart ‘of his subject the gentleman, who is a physician, stated that he had within a few days called upon Tweea, an@ had found him in perfect health, “They may put in the papers what they choose,” said the gentleman, *‘but Tweed is as Strong as ever, physically epeaking. He is a trifle thinner, bat he ia well and bearty and likely to live for years, Allthe stuff about his being a broken Gown old man is faise; his nervous system is not shat- tered in the least, his lungs are sound, his digestion ts rood. He talke freely about everything but politics. He says that the real story of his escape bas as yet tscaped the papers. He jestingly told me that he would probably write it out himself some day, He professes to consider that he bas quite as many friends In New York now as he ever had among the peeple. Re is beginning to look upon bimself as the scapegoat of worse offenders, and, if ever he makes up his mind that he is to oe left in the Jurch, he will probably make a cloan breast of it—turn State’s evidence, after & fashion.’? How if BEGAN, Reverting to the Tammany Ring, the gentleman with whom the reporter was conversing remarked that the Ring was simply a continuation and improved modi- fication of the Albany Regency. According to this fentleman, also, the first idea of what afterward be- fame the Tammany Ring was suggested by no less a Jersonage than Samuel J. Tilden. ‘The fact is,” said he old gentleman, “Messra. Ungger, Cassidy, Rich- pond and the rest, the old Albany Regeacy, could not jontrol their own State, They were supreme in the Aemocratic party; they could ever withstand the as- saults of Fernando Wood, but they obuld not control the State elections. And finally Mr. Tilden declared that if ever the democracy was to control New York it must control it trom the city of New York. Now York city now must handle New York city, and through its patronage control New York State, This idea, ex- pressed by Mr, Tilden, was afterward practically car- ried out by Tweed, Sweony & Co, so that Mr. Tilden may bo considered as the origi- nator of the ‘‘Ring,” though, of course, he is not to be held in any wayjacoountable for the dishonest manner in which his shrewd views were carried out.’” The Tammany Ring contained moro brains and back- bone than the Albany Regenoy, and soon made itself felt in every way and in every place. It was no mere local combination, It had three distinct aimse—one to control New York money and patronage; the second, to govern New York State through its Legis- lature; the third, by means of its joint centrol of monoy and patronage, of city and State, to become the controlling power of the nation, to make Presi- dents and to manage them, It fully realized its first and second purposes, and on one occasion came very Rear to accomplishing the last. THE LounY. In the days of the Ring its lobby agents flourished. It was chietly through these men that Tammany acted In tpfluencing the State Legislature at Albany. Now there were two distinct classes of these lobby agents:— those who wero employed in legitimate work or work that was comparatively and, by custom, legitimate— influencing ldgistation by argument or social presence— and those who were a'mply tho dirty tools of the Ring magnates, who carried bribes and dispensed them according to instructions, and who in fluenced legislation by buying and solling teg- islators. Among the first class or logitimate lobbyists the more conspicuous were Eugene Durnin, “Judge” Charles Clancy, Mr. Edward Phelps and Mr. A. D. Barbour. Mr. Durnin was an especial triend ot Mr, Tweed, and was particularly trusted by him. He was never used by ‘the Boss” in any of his characteristic or dishonest transactions, but in all his legitimate official work tho Boss found Mr. Durnina mostavailable ran, always ready {pany emergency. Mr. Durnin is one of those men who seem to be very frank, who talk freely and almost confidentially to you, and yet who never, by any possibility, say a word that they do not intend saying. He passes for tho very beaw ideal of a genial companion, and yet withal ho Is, about any topic that would commit himself or any- body elso, as dumb as any oyster. He was well ro- warded tor his labors by official patronage, aud is now in very comfortable circumstances. He is a perfect mine of information about Tweed, but it isa mine which cannot be worked, as he nevor mentions his old master’s name. Mr. Barbour was a professional lobbyist, ranking In his line with Thurlow Weod, and acted on both sides of the political tente. His transactions wero always hon- orable, and he bore, personally, an estimable character in addition to possessing a Jarge fortune, But there wore among “the lobbyists of the Ring’’ some of the most unclean men known in politics, men who were utterly consclenceless and ald the Ring’s bidding without « marmur, Through theso men the money stolen from the city was distributed at Albany, particularly among the republican legislators. These agonts were, during the session, as one of them oxpressed it, “kept busy bribing republicans.” It must be carefully borne In mind by all who would have a correct {dea of the Ring Minos that the Tammany Ring money was largely used in “baying up” republicans, The democrats at Albany were not paid directly for thotr votes, having to pre- servo their party ties, but the casn in hand was paid over constantly to the men “on the other side,” much te tho chagrin of some of the demoeri LEGISLATIVE TARIFFS. ‘Tweed once remarked that “Republicans were more expensive than democrats,” and he onght to bave known what he was talking about, According to the gonfession of an ex-lobbyist, ‘the market price of a republican Senator varied from "95,000 to $20,000; $13,000 was paid in cash to & republican for his voto bo a railroad bill, Another republican, lor & similar favor, recelved trom Tweed a farm valued at $15,000. Rweeny promised another rural patriot a Boulevard lot In the metropolia, Ho kept bis promise and the rural patriot to this day keeps bis lot. These are all the big operations am positively certain of,’’ said the ex- jobbyist, “but I dare say there were filty others I did got get on the track of.” winaxs’ NOTE. Senator Winans, the republican who voted for the Tweed charter, is said to havo received the largest sum ever paid at one time to any one repud- jtean. Acoording to general report the sum was 60,000, und it was paid in cash. But, according to the ex-lobbyist, Mr, Winans really never received one “1t was a cheap job that said the cx-lob- dali. best, “Yor see Winans was an employé of the Erie Ruilaay, wad theretore entirely atthe mercy of Fisk and Gould, who were ab that time between them run- ning tho Brie Railway, These gentiomen promised to NEW YORK HERALD, SATURD bt also agreed to further bis political aspirations | own county. Accordingly Winans voted ss Fis! Gould suggested. Fisk wanted to keep faith with bim, but meanwhile several matters transpired whieh caused Gould to alter bis mind, and Winans never got his rake.” This is given for what it may be worth; but the various solutions given of the Winans mystery among those familiar with life at Albany serve, at least, totilustrate the moral and political atmosphere of the place and time. f WUAT THBY COULD OxT. “As lor the members of the lower House," said the ex-lobbyist, “they went for what they could get. Sometimes they got a hundred dollar bill, sometimes only a ten—generally it was vearer the ten than the bundred. Assembiymen are cheap this year,” said Tweed, ono session. They always were “cheap,” still those who understood now to feather their nests could make a good thing even in the Assembly, One man frotn Brooklyn made $1,200 in one ses-ion, in odd lots, from $15, his lowest job, to $180, bis highest. An- otber fellow, a newspaper man, carried off with hin nearly $3,000, dus then he had to write as well as to vote, Besides the Assembly was a good piace to learn things, and it was a good place to rise from. You learned forms of iegtalation there on a small seale which you could practise aiterward on » more extended plan. Several of our political big bugs trained in shat school.’’ RUSTIC VIRTUK. a “It was a curious tact,’? continued the ex-lobbyist, | “that the country members were more anxious to be bought than the ciiy men. They would go homo and rail at the corruption of the Legislature and the iniquity of the lobby, and then on their returo to Albany set at work with a will to do any little dirty job cheap. Tweed called therm his ‘rag- pickers.’ During one session, to my Knowledge, there was one leading republican whose board bills at tho Delavan House were all paid by Tweed. Avother re- publican lost to a democrat $8,000 one night at the Delavan playing draw poker. Tweed so arranged it next day that the democrat forgave him the $8,000, apd the republican voted as Tweed wanted him on a certain bill. 4 DUBIOUS YARN OF DOULE LounYixU, “Sometimes the bribing was doce by both parties. I knew an houest republican who was approached bya notorious lobbyist and offered $1,000 if he would vote for acertain moasure. Tho honest republican imme- diately and indignantly replied that as they were using money to carry that measure through he would vote against it. ‘Ail right,’ said the lobbyist, ‘1 am com- missioned by the other side to offer you $1,000to vote against it.’ ‘This ‘doable lobbying’ was not un- frequently resorted to, Legislators were bought and sold in those days like beet.” WATSON AND THE LOMDY, Auditor Watson was deeply concerned in the lobby- ing operations of the Ring; in fact Watson was during the latter part of his career a power in Tammany, whom even Sweeny regarded and to whom Tweod ab- solutely truckled. It is not generally known that when the ezposé of the Tammany Ring began in the nowspapers Watson was of all the Ring magnates the most anxioug to stop them by a ‘compromise.’ He suggested tho bnying up of one of the journals most prominent in this exposé at the stupendons rate of ‘$500,000 for silence’—a sum which startled even Tweed. Failing in this, Watson turned his attention to ‘ulencing’’ the politicians, through, whose agency the points against the Ring were furnished to the newspapers. On the very day of bis fatal accident it is Stated that he had an appointment at a road house noar High Bridge one of these very politicians, and to arrange the details of the payment of $200,000, tor which sam the politician was to trans- fer to Watson all the papers, memoranda and points which he held against the Ring, and was also to ac- cept office under the Ring and thereby identify bim- solf with it in such a way as to pre- clude further attack from him. Tweed and Sweeny were opposed to* this payment and this disposal ot patronage, but Watson insistea that ( would be the gaivation of the Ring, and carried his point, Had bis sleigh not been ran into that very aiternoon by some obscure party he and bis untagonist would have probably met, the compromiae would have been effected; tho damning proofs against the Ring would have been destroyed and, perchance, the Tam- many Ring would have been in power to-day. TWo PINE SPRCIHRNS. “Tom” Field and **Dick” Bradford were also deep in tbe secrets of the Albany lobby. Mr. Field was not at all particular in his “tranvactions,’’ and did not always keop faith even with bis own party. He was addicted to gambling, and when in debt did not hesi- tate to extricate himself as might be most con- venient, Gambling was an element of political life in those days, and the money made from the lobby was often lost as quietly in poker. Two of the minor magnates of the Ring, per- sonal and political friends and associates of Tweed, opened, in the palmy days of the Rigg, a gambling den im Albany, and, as they once expressed it, ‘often got back from the d——d republicans in one way the money that they paid them in another.’? Those same parties also took rooms on Fifth ave- ue, New York, and fan a quiet game ‘for the | amusement of their friends;’’ so they phrased it. Their ‘frienda’’ always lost, bowover—sometimes as much as $500 or $1,000 ina might. A “skin gambler,” one of the lowest of his class, was in se eret partnership with these two model poli- ticians and = tanght them the tricks his trade, Of course from their official position this pair of politicians had an extensive acquaint- ance, and their “victims’? were therefore not only numerous but select. In fact, it was found that $500 “Jost” at cards at this establishment at night was ono of tho very best ways to obtain official fuvors from tho precious pair next morning. TAK RIXG CHAR Tweed, as a member of the Legislature, took an | active part im all its proceedings. Sweeny, from the Delavan House or from his house im New York, watched the Legislature carefully. The memorabio | Tweed charter should be properly styled ‘“‘The Sweeny Charter,’ for Sweeny had more to do with it than | Tweed, Tweed was neither a writer nor a lawyer; Sweeny was both. Sweeny really drafted and designed the famous instrament. Mr. Aleck Frear, who {nthered the charter, was Sweeny’s mao, not ‘Tweed’s, He was Sweony’s neighbor and near friend and acted altogether in his interest, while Senator Bradley, its conspicuous advocate, was Sweeny's bosom friend and relative. {[t was “Sweeny all throngh,” as a politician phrased it, and ono of the ends it waa meant to serve was to procure for Sweeny, who was tired of being City Chamberlain, the Comp- trollership. SWERNY'S PREDILECTIONS. . Sweeny also endeavored to influ directly through hia organ, the Leader, of which ho was one of thé proprictors and editors. Sweeny as an editor was not a success. He was rather too elaboraia in bis style and tou addicted to the cisplay of lassie: jeurning. The real editor of the Leader in its best days was Jobn Ciancy, who had a much higher regard tor Mr. Sweeny as a politician than as a journalist, Still, as is often the case, Mr. Sweeny was more vain of his stilted editorials than of bis superd ‘combina- tions.” = Mr. Sweeny always affected intense “‘re- spectability,’? and in this way won the friendship and decane himaell the champion of Jobu T. Hoffinan, It was to Mr, Sweeny that Mr Hoffmann owed his ad- vahcement from Recorder to Mayor and from Mayor to Governor, The relations of Sweeny and Hoffman were always ol the most intimate character, whereas Tweed thought slightly of Hofman, THR NATIONAL SCILEME. Atone time Mr. Sweeny meditated seriously nomi- nating Hofman as the democratic candidate for the Presidency. And this brings us to the consideration ways oue of the principal purposes of Ring, or, at hinking bead—thas the political conirol of wi tbe whole bywly 4 Through the Tawmany machinery | Mr, sweeny had roally political aspiration ‘of the high est ambition. He desired above all things to bo Sccre- tary of State—a position whieb he said once to a friend emphatically, was “the bighest in tne land, being tho President of the Pres;dent.” ability and lence went, would hove been the man for the place, He was capable, bat as for the honesty, alas! Mr, Sweeny always kept an eye to the political condition of the country and periected the Tammany organization to he utmost, deca ashe once said, ‘it is as casy and as difficult to govern a coantry as atown.” Ti many, under him, wi power whose iniluence w: felt purethpoee the iand. ‘Tweed merely looked to local results and municipal power, but Sweeny endeavored to control nation Politics = and once nearly sneceoded. tt we through his indirect action und wire-pulling that Pendicton was defeated in his pi mntial aspirations. It was also through Mr. Sweeny's inflaence that Horatio Seymour was nominated as the democratic candidate for: the Presidency. Mr. Swoeny likewise directed the tacticn of the Seymour campaign, and bad Horatio Soymour become Pre: it of the United States i 1s eiaitned by # that would have occupied the place im tho Cabinet once filed by Seward, and in which cago there is little doabt that the Tammany Ring would have been perpetuated indednitely in the city of New Peter i. Sween, premoto Winens 08 @ railroad man, and they | York, to meet | of | e logisiation in- least, of the man who | He certainly, aw taras | | MARY KELLY’ WOUNDS. The Victim of Engene Christ Still Alive— At Her Bedside. THE ASSASSIN’S DECLARATION The unfortunate victim of the Sixteensh streot tragedy, Mary Kelly, was stil! alive at a late boar last night; but the doctors who are in attendance apon her entertain but little hope of ber recovery, From ail j accounts the poor young gir! was puro aad ineocent until she fell under the banetu! influenco of her would- she had determined to free berseif trom this infuence that she was shot down on Thursday. THE WipowED MOTHER'S WOMB. A reporter of the Hxkatp called !ast evening at the home of the dying girl to sce her mother and learn what she knew of the circumstances preceding the tragedy. No. 455 West Sixtecoth street ty a dingy, | Samble-down woodon tenement house, threo stories | high, Pushing open a narrow door ani ascending two i | flights of rickety stairs the reporter made bis way atong a dark and narrow baltand knocked at the door | Of the back room, in which the family bad lived. It wns opened by a tad of nineteen, brother of tho wounded girl. The room was a tmiserabio little apart- ; ment, about cight feet square, was furnished with four | mooden chairs,a straw bed made up in a corner on | the floor and a stove so diminutive that it appeared | hike atoy for a chi/d, The bitter winter wind blew | through sevoral broken panes in the dingy windows which looked out into a courtyard. The floor was partly coverod with odds and ends of carpets and oil- cloths which bad, no doubt, been picked up by the old woman in the houses whero she worked as char- woman. Mrs, Kelly, the boy sald, was at Bellevue by the side of her dying daughter, where she bad been almost cone tinuously from the time the latter was admitted, “There,” said the boy, pointing to asinall round hole in the neatly whitewashed wall opposite the door, “there is where one of the shots strack which Christ fired at my sister on Tuesday, Sho was sitting on a Jow stool beside the stove the time, and there was no ono present except my helpiess old mother, Mo pushed the door open and fired at her, the shot taking effect there. Then she got up, and grasping bim by the throot at- tempted to snatcn the pistol from his band, In the struggle he placed it to ber breast and firea; but she sprang aside and the ball weut in ihere,” and the Jad pointed out another hole in the wall, near the door, “When I came bom id heard of it,” he continued, ‘lat once went to the Two: bh precinct station house and informed the officers of the occur- rence. Two of them were detailed to arrest Christ until he shot my sister yesterday.”” The boy indignantly denied toat his sist cowpany with any man lately. C nan alleged by Chri: ‘with her, the brother stated waa an old schoolmate of by own, and used to como to the house to see him only. AT THE DYING GIRL’S HRDSIDR. Thegeporter next made his way to Beilevue Hospi- tal, in search of tho mother, By the bedside of tho | dying girl he ound Dr. George B. Hope, who has charge of the case, in consultation | with Dr. Frank Hamilton, visiting eager The | patent lay upon a cot placed in a all alcove separated irom the rest of the ward by muslin curtains, Her features, regular and taper; moulded, and her broad torchoad wer pale as the linen on which the dark brown hair was thrown back. Her | eyes were closed and her breast heaved quickly as abe breathed, “We arc ing ber mor ja enough to keep her out of pain,’ said Dr, Hop ind we supply her with nutriment. That's all we can do at present, lt would be highly dangerous to prot for the ball. Thore are two wounds on the right side that are dangerous, One of the bulls has probably Injured the right lobo of the liver, and the other has, | beliove, wounded the kidney. A'third wound upon the breast has probably ‘nicked’ the diaphragm, and the fourth, in the leit side, bas not done nauch mischief.” Neither of the gentlemen seemed to have any hope of the poor girl's recovery. The mother sat by the bedside wringing ber hands, and at times muttering to herseif 10 a Maluve tone. She js a woman of very slight figure, much | below, the medium height, and was dres-ed in ‘threadbare but neat garments. Her features, | pinched and wrinkled with the cares and labors inct- | dental to fourteen years of widowhood, during whieh she bas supported her two children, were yet singa- larly refined for a woman in her position in lite, ster | hair, prematuroly gray from care und anxiety, was brushed back under a flimsy gingham hood. Her story of the tragedy was substantially thut given m the Heratp yesterday. The girl, she said, was willing 10 marry Christ, but she, the mother, would not permit her, “My child,” said the old woman, as slie sat down repressing with difficulty @ groan from the pain which the attempt shot through her rhumatic boues, *+will be seventeen years old next dlarch, She was one of the best children that ever lived. When my sister, over in Centreville, N. J., was taken sick last spring, I went over to take care of her family. My girl sat by ber side night and day until she died. ‘theo I kept house for my brother-in-law, and Mary went to live as a domestic in the hotel there. Sho wax a | very clever waitress, Meanwhile I kept ber child | with my brother-in-law's family, and my son got em- | ployment there, and id no troable from Christ, I Shoughs we would nover see him again, but Inst sum- mer | was taken sick with rheumatism, which I caught long ago doing washing and “day's work.'’ was obliged to go into tho P son iospital, and my brother-in-law got married, that ho would havo some one to look alter is children. Ot course my girl bad to take ay ber child, and, as she could not bring it to the hotel, she was obliged to leave her piace and | go L lott the hospital, and we all ceme back to New | York and hirea the place whore I vow livo, and took | | care of my giri’s child while she went out to work. If it had nut been for the chila of her murderer my poor girl would be Irving yet at Centreville, “Oh! may God | Rpare ner Ifo,” the old woman exclaimed. “Oh! | 1 always was afraid of Christ, He had | murder here,” she addod, touching her wrinkled | forehead with her bony hand, “and my heart always | fluttered when he was arouud, { always thought he would kill my poor cuiid, she was innocent for what he made her sin, and bo was bad, bad | the old woman moaned & prayer as she swayed her | body to aud tro i tor chair. WHAT THE ANSASKIN SAYS ABOUT THY TRaGEDY, Christ occupies cell No, 67, on the second tier ip the | Tombs prison, A HexALD reporter called on bim yes- | terday and fjouod him quite disposed to talk, He said that be was passionately tond of Mary Kelly and it | excited bis jealousy when he found she went to | parties, nnd kept company with young men whom | ne did ‘not hke, ‘A lew Weeks ago,” ho said, **xho | went toa ball in West Twenty-first sireet, and did not come home until midnight; I was im bed when sho came hone, | said, “Mary, What does this mean; | why do you stay away from tho baby?!” She replied, | “10x none of your business; 1 ean go when and | where J please.”’ it was my intention when I shot | her to shoot myself at the same time, and that wo both | shoala die together; but when | fired tho first shot | 1 lost ail control of myself and discharged ail the loaded chambers. When 1 turned to | shoot myxelt thore was no charge left. I am a | native of Alsace and have ho reijatives that I know of ‘im this country. If Mary shoud dic I sup- pose it will go bard with me, but if she should survive I think she'll not be much against me. I cuuid nov live without her; she was more than all the world to me. I felt that this was a foolish sentiment to have about any girl, but I coula hot control it.’* Christ appears to be perfectly cool, but not alto. gether indifierent, for thero 13 an wnoasy twinkle ip his | aeop black eyes. THE THREE BERTHS. A WOMAN SHOT IN HER OWN ROOM BY HER HUSBAND IN PRESENCR OF HIS BROTHER— | Was ar acoipeNTAL? Une of those mysterious tragedies whieh havo been | So frequent of late in this etty occurred yesterday. | Mra Catharine Berth, of No. 221 Chryetio strect, was shot by her husband, Charles, at their home, her life was despaired of soon after the transaction. He and his brother, Hugo B. Berth, who has been a wan- | deror in the Western country and the Biack Hills re- | gion for the past seven years, aro now held in the Tenth precinct station house and will bo taken to court to-day, The case bas two aspects which may be expiained hereafter, but as it is now un- derstood either of them may be correct. They are | these:—Either the man, Charles, sbot hor aceidentally | when he was drawing the charges from tho revolver, which lay upon the tablo, or he fired at her while this pretext of pistol cleaning would avail him at the timo of his wito’s entering the room in whieh he and Hugo: hts brother, were, But the story must speak for iteclf. Yosterday af- ternoon at three o’clock the following despatch wat received by the telegraph operator at Police Headquar- ters:— - Three P, M.—While Chai wise ntalty enapned, abd Nic wile, who was coming inte Posts, wan shot through whe neck," Berth nod. bie bro whe who was present, are detained to await the action of Coroner. And then at twenty-eight minutes past three P. M. camo the following notification: — Send to No, 221 Cheystio street for ante mortem those of Romloae” ape Theso despatches, romarkably contradictory in Berth, of No, 221 Chrystie trom @ revoiver the hammot i | be murderer, Eugene Christ, and that 1 was because | on @ lot 100 foeb ‘hemselves, created no unusual sensation In Mulberry street. Deputy Coroner Golu:chmids obeyed th: ma" mons and, aceompanied by the peccrsary assistants’ went to No, 221 Chrystie street, where Coroner Wolt” man impavelled a jury and proceeded to inquire into the circumstences atiending the case. This oilictal 1- Vestigaiion resuited in the discovery of the woman's cond:tion, deemed exceedingly pree . and her mortem statement was taken. rior to its delivery she roplied to the queries, “Will you tell | the truih in this affair?” &o., im the affirmative, — her statement was taken. It is subjomed, She said — On the 15th day of December my husband came home trom work at two P.M. His brother, who was away for six years and came back this afternoon, bad caiied Where my lusband was working ((ireen & Blackweil’s candy imanutactory, Nos 262 and 254 Greenwich street) and brought Klis ‘Seine wise Wh came into the room he bad a pistol in bis hand. He aiways carried a pistol, and | was always atraid of it, Ali at once the pistol went olf; we had uo words tu-day; but we had some bard times together: had no words together yesterday; we did Mol speak to each other very imucb of iave years except what wns necessary; we had lived together, = were not on the best of terms; we have no chil- ren. 1 do not believe he iutendea to shoot me. He bas Mhreatened to tuke my life heretotore, Her CATHARINE ~ BERTH, mark, Btatement the jury rendered the “Catbaring Berih received her wound by a pistol shot atthe hande ot her husband, Charies Berth, No. 221 Chrystie et, on the 15th of December, 1876." Both men held, without bail, and sent to the Tenth precinct station bouse, where they remained all night. They will be heard to-day. WHAT THEY Say. ‘Last evening a Hxxatp reporter called at the station house, and was taken down stirs to seo the prisoners, They ocenpied a ceil iu the rear tier, near tho stove, and were ovly anxious for lights for their cigars when MoCormack, the houseman, informed them that v ors wanted to see them. Seldom were two suc! comely, ciewn men locked up in any tation house vo this city. Hugo was in his shirt sleoves, tail and fair, with an open face and vold blue ever, that seemed gry than sbrinking. Charles boro the co of ell to do mechamie who had bev with bis collar off; but his sell-pe ¢, He answered the roportor’ sion was comp! questions, saying that his brotber Hugo, who bad Fecently come from the Black Hills (pointing to bin) called for him yosterd: Green & Blackwell's, aud came to his house, Nov Chrystic street, to undreas and ciean himsell. Boih saw the revolver on tho table, and Charles was drawing the charges, five of which he bad taken out, when his wife entered tho room, andthe last charge cxjfoded and she was shot, God only knew. how, The police came in and so did the Coroner, and ho was there. That was all. In auswer to every question les replied that ho would not have injured his wile in any respect ior the worid and his only anxiety was lest she should suffer much. His brother Hugo, of fine appearance, spotless dimen and débonnaire oxterior, was more exercised about hie Wyoming career and Biack Hills history than anythingelse, ‘I came from Cheyenne last,’ sald he, “that was about seven days ago, just as last as steam cars could carry me.’? “What were you doing West?” gaid the reporter. “That don’t make any difference ty you!’? quoth Hugo. “My businoss out West in ‘the Hills,’ or Chey. enna, is my own aflair, { might feel disposed to tell ititl were free, Inside these barsi don’, Anyhow, it's nobody's atfair.? The man looked something hike Mr. Jobn Oakhurst, ofCaltiornia fame. His eye was bi even rich, nis white linen jewelled, nis mustache and imperial carefully trimmed and his hair rolled back like Wacntel’s in “Manrico,”” On the whole bis man- ner was defiant; that of his brother's mollitying. Both agreed that the uflair was accidental, and each deplored it, not because they were held, but because of the poor woman’s sufferings. MCARTHY’S KILLING. An inquest was held yosterday afternoon by Coroner Ellinger in tho case of John McCarthy, who was found lying insensible in an alleyway at Thompson street on Saturday last and conveyed thence to tho Cham- bers Street Hospital, where he died ou Sunday, Tho Verdict deciared that deceased came to his death by fracture of the skull, caused by falling from tho stoop ot No. 57 Thompson street, whence he was pushed by Donetti Rossi and Raphael Beriphino, on the 9th inst. Officers Jacob M. Hendricks aud Daniol Gleason, of tho Eighth precinct, testified to finding the deceased and carrying bim to the station house, whence he was conveyed to the hospital. Rosi Hayberri, an Itallan woman, stated that sho bad been living for several days previous to Saturday in the same room with the two prisonors and Lizzie Gartland, at No, 57 Thompson street. About ten o’clock in the forenoon of the day in question McCar- thy camo into the room while all were present, asked for somo beer and after an hour left. About two o’alock he came again, called for more beer, which he drank, Lizzie and the three others talked with pim about some scissors which wero missing. ‘They ac- cused him of taking them, aud he denied it, Alter that he left. Witness deciared that thero was no quar- rel and that no one followed him when he went out. Emile Hail, who lives at No. 90 Crosby strect and works in Lorillard’s fnctory, sald she ane ac. quainted with McCarthy tour years ago through her brother; deceased was then a hardworking man, but about two years ago he ‘took to drink ;” on the day in question she met him on Broadway and went to No. 57 Thompson street to yet a giass of beer; the two prisoners and Lizzie Gartlandt were present, and they Accused deceased of taking a pair of scissors away; while the discussion was in progress witness leit, and on coming back some time alterward found ds- ceased still there; sho then went into the room of a femaic friend on the other side of the ball, and soon aiterward beard a scuille; coming out she saw Rossi and Beriphino pushing McCarthy down the stuop; he Jel) with his head backwara; Beripbino was the one who gave the push which threw him down. William Paimer, a couk, of No, 63 Sullivan street, saw the sculllo; it lasted about ten minates; McCarthy resisted, but tho prisoners pushed hin off the stoop and be {ell upon bis back, striking his head upon she ee ei witness heard hin groan, and looking at im saw that ho was anconscieus; Liazio Gattiandt told a number of persons who sio0d uround to go away or they would be arrested, and they went, Ligaie was called as tho next witness, She said sho bad lived on the second floor of No. 57 Thompson stroct for seven duys before the allray and kept houso for Rossi and Beriphino; about one o'clock on Satur- day deceased came in and kat down upon a trunk; than le gave wit money for a pint of beer and she got it for him; he was intoxicated when he first camo in; after a time the two Italians orderod him to go out; he retused to yo and they pushed him out of the room; witnoss did pot seo him fall down stairs, Antonia Driccia, of 59 Thompson street, “the owner of a iruit stand,” saw tho prisoners push deceased down stairs; Rossi pnshed him down and Beriphino kicked him, Dr. Walter A. James, of the Chambers Street Hos- pital, ana Deputy Coroner Goldschmidt testited that the death o: decensed was caused by a fracture of the Jett side of the skull. The prisoners ate each twonty-five years old and they both aro laborers. They were cuminitted tor trial when tho vordiet was rendered, tHE GL SON HOMICIDE, Jobn Gleason, who resided in Oliver streot, a week ago last Sunday enterod saloon of James Reilly, corner of Madison ond Roosevelt streets, and, after having several drinks, beeamo involved in ® rel with Mortiner O'Connell, a barkeepor, and ono Matthew MeCafrey. ‘The reruly was that Gleason received a blow with a glass, which broke his jaw, Irom the offecis of which he died In tue Roose- yolt Hospital on Wednesday. Coroner Riliuger yes- terday committed O'Connell and McCaffrey to the Tombs wishous bali to await the result of tho Inquest. Previous to fis death Gieason identified O'Connell as being the man who struck bim on the jaw, A merting of the Nepositors’ Committee of tho Abington Sqdare Savings Bank was held yesterday at the residence of the Chairman, Mr. G, W, Winent, No. 345 West Kighteenth street, One of the committco produced « cirewlar which had been issued by the officers of the bank shortly beforo it failed, atating that all the money of the bank wns salely invested tn bunds, mortgages and government eccuriti hia oxeited mavh indignant comment, ns it appears now tht most of the money was investod im almost worth- Jess real estate, Mr. Jtod, of the committee, raid that Trustees ik. G W. Woerz, W. J. Price and i. J. Mobl- man bad been warted upon by one of the committes, and in answer to his inquiries had stated thot it the rest of tho trustees would contribute toward satisfying in some way the den the dopositors they would do ns mach as Pondin; Aotion of the other trasicer, tho commit. tee cy agreed to waita low days betore making any decided movement. a, to the simement which the receiver of the bank, Mr. Thoinpson, mado afew days ago the Ilabilittes amount to $104,483 67, While the assets wore cniy $37,472 A POLITICAL DISAGREEMENT =, ‘The regular mecting of the Gorman Republican Com- mitiee was bold last eveuing at No, 349 Bowery, After along debate it was resoived to organize the Eighth or ‘Twenty-first Assembly district, The committee ordered the election of the delegates for the next year to take place prior to the 16th of January, During the meeting Mr, Rhembold charged a delegate named Meyer with having betrayed the party by working aud voting for the democratic ticket, This led to a vory excited dis- cussion between the two gentiemen, waich ended by Meyer rushing up to Rhomboid aod seizing him by ihe throat. The friends of both parties interfered aud pence was resto! Both mes, however, ieit the Foom muttering thfents at cach other, JERSEY'S CEN'TENNIAL BUILDING. The Now Jersey butiding at the Centennial Exposi- tion has at last boen sold to Mr, Isaac A. Braddock, of fi don! leit | J., for $2,100, Is is his intention to vo the building erected as a town ball in Haddonfield, ib by 400 feos in depth, AY, DECEMBER 16, 1876.-TRIPLE SHERT. THE GALE OFF MONTAUK POINT, | | Anorare VESSEL WRECKED—THE CREW nRrs- | ouRD 1% aN ExMAUsTED coxDITIOX—THE CASE OF THE BARK CIRCASSIAN, Avout the same time that the English sbip Cireas- an came ashore on the Bridgehampton beach there was a report that another large vessel bad been | wreeked xt Montauk Point, whieh is about thirty miles further enst and dificult of sceeas in the winter | weason, The report had it also that the wreck | was scoompanied with the loss of some thirty or forty lives, This, however, fortunately proves to be an exaggeration of the actual tacts, It is now jearned that the scbooner David Sprague, Captain Howard, of New Lomlon, anchored inside of Montauk Point on Friday night during the prev porthwesi gale. Tao gale increased in on Saturday she dragged ber anchors, fi caught among the rocks Voiot, aud in order to pr ering’ the crew cut away the t Ou Sunday, at noon, when th abated, the erow from lite Siaunched the itieboat trom the Poin saved the crew, consist ing of six who were ueariy frozen and’ in an al- ha condition, Word was sent to Ni ior a iug to take the schooner into port her since been 50 rough that av « able to board her, ax it ts dangerous to approach im found. Saturday nights somewhat her. The Coast Wrecking Cempany have a tug and one or to schooners near the ship Circassian, bat ax the Wind Was yesterday blowing a gale again but little could be toward saving either vessel or cargo, A# to the responsibility for the vesael’s going ashore, opinion seems to bo divided, [tis said that the pilot refused to take charge of the slip until she bad made som laght sd. mark to show where she was to bod, first teliing Captain William about thirty miles trom land. ‘This wi past eight, and at eloven the ship was thumping over the bar, Whon the rescue was inade by the life saving crow almost the first man to atep on shore was the pilot, Captain James Sullivan, whe bad been on board a rty-cight hours, Captain Smith, of the Heath k, 18 of the opinion that tho disaster was caused by variation of tho Cireassian’s compas: Av THE URITISN CONSULATE. It was thought that an investigation into the cause of the wreek of the Circassian would take place at the Brit- ish Consul's offfee in this city yesterday; bat on appli- cution there it was ascertained that an investizatio could not take pluce till the report of Captain Willa: wax received, On Tuursday they bad re Bridgehampton, Loays | ved a letter from him from , 106 milex trot Now Yurk, stranded aud that he nd his crew forward to New York to be taken urge by the conrvlate, and that be would report ther particulars at the earliest possible momont, Shortly alter the reccipt of this lotter tio crew made their appearance at the Consul Genoral’s office and wore sent to the Sailors’ Home, whera thoy will be pro- vided for by the Hritsn government, and if employ- ment 14 Dot soon found will be sent h Two more of the crew of the Ci applied for help at the Consal's office, Their are Charles Van Scbinber an dolph Marti, Marti had one band baitly frost. bit dit 18 thought threo of his will have to be amputated. Marti was sent to amen’s Retreat, where he will be properly cared for, and Van Schinher was sent to the Sailors’ Home. About seven of the crew of the Circassian and tho captain still remain with the wreck. With regard to the timo of holding the naval court to Investigate the circumstances attending the strand Ing of the vessel Circassimn, Vice Consul Hoare saul that it would depend on when the captain was able to make a report in person. The Consul General woald preside at that investigation, as his office warrant and two or three shipmasters would be present. The resu t would be transmitted to the Board of Trade of London. While Mr. Hoare was talking several sailors belung- Ing to the wrecked bark Heath Park came in, Mr. Hoare paid that all theso men would be provided with Passages in jay’s steamers, If possible, DISASTER ON THE HUDSON. A SCHOONER CAPSIZED BY A 8QUALL—TWO OF THE CREW Lost. Shortly before six o’clock yesterday morning the schooner Anve M., of Verplanck’s Potot, bound for the Manhattanville Iron Works with a cargo of limestono, wag struck by a squall and capmzed whou opposite Riverdale on the Hudson River, two of those on board belug drowned, About halt-past six o’clock the wrecked vessel, having drifted with the tide up the river to a petnt opposite Ludlow’s dook, at South Yonkers, was discovered lying on ber Deam ends by Captain John G. Peene, of the Hudson Kiver line of freight barges, Tho wreck was left in the river opposiie Yonkers, where it remained throughout qesarday, In the aficrncon Captain George Wandel,, who was in com- mand of the vessel when she capsized, called at tho police station and gave the following particulars of tho disaster :— The Anne M. sailed trom Verplanck’s Point, having on board besides himself Michacl Coyle and Peter re, aged respectively twonty and nine mes McKeever, agod sixteen, who acted as the schooner capsized Monahan was cabin, tho other three being on deck. Coyle was washed overboard and lost. Tho Captain and the boy, McKeever, although both wore thrown into the water, mauiaged to gain a bold oa tho rigging, nd ina little while were rescued by the crew of tho passing at 1 an, being in tho cabin, waa, of course, drowned when the vessel His body is believed to bo atill on beard, 4 it will probabiy be rec Tho mon who were lost were both unmarried. iKeever sus- tained severe brulees of the head and face through being struck, as is supposed, by somo of tho limestone when the schooner wont over. COLLISIONS IN THE BAY. THE CRYSTAL WAVE VS. THE MIDDLETOWN— ALLEGED PERJURY IN THE CA8E—BOTH PILOTS FINED FIFTY DOLLARS—THE SINKING OF THE NOVELTY. Tho following reports, which woro submitted to Cap- tain Low yesterday, tell their own story :— or ov Lovat Ixsrevtons oF Steam V assxis, w You, Dec, 15, 1876. Apprsox Low, Supervising Inspector Becond United States Distrie Sin—We have of un investigation honor to report to you the result hold by this Board ‘of a collision which occurred on the atternoon of the 4th of Novem- Istand ferryboat Mridic- ber last, betweeh the Stat town and tho eterto boat Cry: to Staten Island and the latter to Sandy Hook. juvestigation insted threo days, during which tinie twenty witnesses were examined, whose testimony most contradictory character. Perjury y and it is only to bo re- it cannot be fastened upon the guilty a " It appears that both boats loft their respective docks about the same time, the Middletowo Irom White Hall slip and the Crystal Wavo from pier No. 8 | North River, and proceeded gown the bay, approach. ing each other at an acute angie, When’ just volow Bedioe’s Island the course of the Crystal Wave was altered more to (he westward, whieh brought them on & parallel course. They were then abreast and be- tween 200 and 400 feet apart. The Crys Wavo being the fastest boat kept gaining unill she was half her length the loading boat on the star. board hand, aud when in this position they sheared toward cach otber and ovllided, the Middletown sinking the Crystal Wave about ten feet abalt the afier gangway, on ite port side, with her starboard bow. ir, Braisted, the Superintendent of the lerry com- pany, who was steering tue Middletown at the tine, testifies that the Crystal Wave took a rank sheer across his Low, which caused the collision, This move- | ment on tho part of the Crystal Wave seems to us in- credible, or that any sabe man, with lle aud property in his charge, would place bis vessel, a mach lighter one, frelghted with human life, directly across the bows of a much larger bout, going at the rate of nine or ten miles an hour, George W. Kelly, master, and James &. Hubby, pilut, of the Crystal Wave, tostily that irom time to time they were rdnning ona parailel course prior to And ap to tho timo of tho collision; their course was not altered. The character of all the evidence ts as contradictory as the foregoing, vhowing the difficulty of arriving at Correct coneiusions in 4 caxe of this kind. However, we know in this instance that rale 11 and fish situa- tion of diagram, as adapted vy the Board of Super inspectors of Steam Vessels, &e., tor the gov. Ornmont of priots on steam vessols, has been violated, Janes E. Mubbs, pilot of the Crystal Wave, bad tho right of way, but viviated rule 11 by not giving the eaignal tor passing the Middiciown, for which, ee With Kevtion 4,413, Revised statutes, we iv hiro tn the sam ot $50, and he ts so faed, ‘ames N, Braisted, acting ag prot of the Miudievown at the time of the collision, for violating Mfth sitnation of Giagranl and for vot stopping his b avoid a collision, whieh, Gader (he eireums) ‘was pis duty to do, in compl with seeitot vVisod Stataies heretofore named, is bereby Aned in the sum of $50, and ho is so ined. There were no lives Jost or persons Injured. Tho damage to the Crystal Wave was al 200; to tho Middletown It was slight, A copy of the evidence taken In tho case ts herewith anuoxed. Vory respectiully, your obedient servants, REMLATL SiMONSON, JUN K, MATTHEWS, United States Local Ifepectors District of New York. TRY NOVELTY COLLINION. Tho pilet, Snmuel Mefforman, of the steamship Noveity, of Newark, N. J.. has mado the following staiement to the Board concerning the collision of that Vessel with @ Sebooner in the iower bay :— “f leit Chiton, Staten Esland, vound for Florida, and Whon opposite the upper end of West Bank saw & three-masted schooner op tho lee bow, bound up the led more to the westward, ogy | the steamship piers a co er ing it impossid! her bow, stopped the os and backed; but, the schooner a much ir, | cor not prevent the eol- iking the schooner forward of K the bows of the stearber and tho ion, caus cr to Bink. Tho schooner no wee eee Cant woah a het ri the wostward, wont abun! bay. I tamediately steamed for Staton Lsiand shore," rn CRUELTY AT SBA —— ooo Charges of Barbarous Treatment Against an American Captain, A HORRIBLE ‘TALE, How the Extradition Difficulty Affects Such Cases. a Hoxo Kona, The rwatn topics of Interest here of the rumored departure of His Excellency the Gov: nor, Sir Arthur Kenacdy, and the inquiry and judiciat proceedings in tho case of the American bark C, 0. Whitmore, In regard to the first, it 18 gow officiaily Published that Sir Arthur is to be promoted to the Governorahip of Queensland--a change which all here mast regret, the Governor having made himself ex- tremely popular by tho abie and effiviest manner im which be has dischargea his duties. hitmore has been the common talk of everybody, and as it, perhaps, is one of the most shocking cases which has occurred for some timo, it may bo of interest to the readers of the Here ano, The ship arrived bore early in October Inst with A cargo of coal from Cardiff, and complaints made by the crew rily alter Prought avout an ine vestigation before the Uuited States Consul, which has resulted in showing forth, if the testimony ts to be believed, a systematic course of maltreatment, cruelty and oppression oa the part of the captain and first mate whiteb culminatea in the death of the second mate, hounded, til he died, by “these two wretches, who to-dayare safe because there 18 no extradiios treaty by which they may be rendered to justice, The ship appears to have been hterally a bloody ship, and the story of their wrongs, as told by the erew—an or- derly, dec looking set of men—was such as to bring tears to the eyes of the listeners who gathered in the room attached to the Consul’s office, The evir dence shows that whilo the ship was lying in Cardié Roads one man was struck several! Mines by Snow, the mato, with a belaying piu; another man was kicked in tho head by the samo oflcer, Another man was treated so badly that he jumnped overboard and tried to swim to an English ship near by, Another man was kicked in the eye so severely by tho captain that bis sight was {mpatrod for somo time, For this treatment the mon endeavored to see the United States Consul at Cardif, but were reiusod permission, During passigo one man had several wooden belaying plus broken over his boty, his bead Jammed go roughiy on the wheel that bis nose was broken; he was frequently chased by the mate and stabbed with a sail needie; @ sali benet was fastened to his neck by @ rope and the bench thrown overboard, the ship going at the time five knots an hour. At another time the captain and mate took nim in the cabin, pat a stick into his mouth, tied 1s there with strings reaching back of head and then beat him with # leathor strap until he was black and biue; again @ swab was put into his mouth and be ‘wax beaten over arm! with a maritogspike, Seve Limes beaten with belaying pins and one struck head with a hammer; in fact bardly a week without neu being knoeked down, jumped upon und brutally treated. Bad as all this treatmont was it was nothing When compared with that which the poor ulfortunate Elwood reevived, According to the cap- tain’s own statement this man was disrated from second mate on account of tncompetency., He ad- mits having struck hin with bis bands and with a ropo’s end, and afterward to lashing him on two occa- sions astride the kecl of a boat. He admits that he put hin in Irons twice and afterward that he ironed him band and foot and placed him io tho ship's dun. goon, where he was chained for at least two days to a vinegar barrel, and when he was discovered to be in a dyimg condition he was removed tw a bunk four fect two inches long ana two feet wide, whore he died in four days, These admissions ‘of the captain are damning, but the evidence of the crew go to ahow that they are mild to what actually occurred, Elwood was a strong and healthy man up to the timo the oaptain, lor some unexplained renso: began his abuse. From the time be was disratea was WEATEN AND BEATEN UNTIL HB DIED. ‘Yo quote {rom the testimony of the carpenter, Smith, whom tho captain himseli says 18 a very good man:— be | ¢ been ship carpenter twenty years, and in tho United States navy ten years: | have seon one belay- ing pin broken over Da Johnaon’s body by the mate; I have often seen men struck with belaying pins; was a frequeat occurrence; 1 have seen th mate strike Klwood on the head five or six heavy blows with a belaying p! causing his head to bleed awlully; Elwood was treater very badly by the captain und officers; itu my opine jon that bis death was caused by this bad treatme: have nevor tn all my experience seea a man treat badly as Elwood was; the treatment of tue crew wig the worst i have ever seen or neara of; I can’t tell why Elwood was 80 badly treated; he used to aak me about it himgelf; he was'a very goud second mate; he was going down every day by kicking and bual after fe wont into the loreeustie; I could Jook at him alter be was brought out of th the dungeon—he had been so badly treated; one day he had been disrated, the ning that toe had struck him with a belaying p' jnto my room; I said, ‘Elwood, the 0! like any one to come into my room; you can come alter cight o’ciock;’ he came, took of his hat avd said ‘Feel my head, it is full ot blood and lumps,’ 1 said, ‘It’s po use, I feel it; you nad better go out and do the best you can;’ he said, ‘1 shall not live uli L get to Hong Kong the way I am tr ;? when he was brought out of the lagarette to t penter’s shop there was no hope of bis lite ined the wounds ip his bead; [ telt bis cheek bon 4 1think it was fractured, as there was a bard, blace lump there,” ‘ ‘The seene when this poor victim was taken from the lagarette was simply awtul, Tho captain, Svound Mave Staftord aud one of the crew ed. n went down into this dark space tn (ho small and encutmbered that it was veces about on bands and knees, with a candle tu bring El- wood on deck, . Ericksen iu his testimoop says:—‘*He was lying halt naked, ironed band and foot, coverod with filth, bis head biceding, and chaincd with a chain not more than a foot long 1 a vinegar barrel; the onptain saog out, *Klwood;’ yood answered, ‘Yes, su the cap- tain Jooked at him aod called him @ toul laughed; I was then ordered by tho captain to take Eiwood by the feet and drag him to tne hatch; I had vo pull bim by the legs-—the captain told me pot to take him by the arma; L dragged bim about ten fect, nie whole body resting on the floor, and he was baked; he did not say anythiog when I dragged him. “He did not anything.’’ That shnplo sentence speaks a voium Compietcly crushed and brokes down, the poor man must have louged for death to come and relieve him from his terrible existence, Now as to What occurred on deck another of tho erew testifes:;—"f and Erickson carried bim (Elwood) outol the lazarctte; took him amidsh: when the captaip ordered him to be set down afd to be broomed wih sult water; we did eo and stripped pim, blood was Foaning from his head; his whole back was black and swollen, as also his feet; he bad other sores on bim; we washed him with salt water with all these sores on and brushed him with a corn broom; he was ouly moaning, ‘Ob, uh,’ all the time we washed bim; be was covered with fil = ¢ * he was out of tw mind from the time we took him irom tho lazaretia; ho smelt atter they began to deus btm beeause of the blood which satarated his clothes; he was singing when put in the penter’s shop out ol the Ingaresi ‘Oh, my little boy, my little boy, my child, my ehitd my boy, my boy,’ there were Give holes in thede eoased’s bead; bo died shortly after.’ Further det All tend shoe that the case is as horrible well could be. Yot these two inen Wili never bo pintashed toy their crim It ts said thatthe United States Consa) telegraphed for instructions to Wasbington, and re- ‘ceived a reply that heshould make no demand apoe ah authoritics for the surrender. The feghe I way to San F THRU Tho question of HORM COLN QUESTION. niform Cuinese coin is agua started, avd efforts taking for tho establish. ment of @ Chinese mi to coin pieces with a dragon's head, iu hopes that the Chinaman’s supersti- tious reverence for a dragon will catse him to aecepe the coin without hesitation. ADAMS ON ARBITRATION, Ata mooting of the Exccutive Council of the Inter Mativnal Code Committee of America, hold last evens ing, the following among others wore elécted méin. bers:—Justices Miller, Bradley dna Runt, of the United States Supreme Court (other Justices being already members), Attorney General Taft, Chief Jas- lice Bartol, of Maryland; Chiet Justice Be: Chancellor Runyon, of New Jersey: David William 8. Groest Judge Thomas M. Cooley. » A letter was read ‘rom Charles Fraucw Adama, whi 1s one of the vice presidents, expressing Warnt ap. probation of the movement in which tue society is cn- aged, but regretung that the course of the United os goveriment in the distribution of the Geuava application A discon. tal award Was such as (o discourngo the of the principle of arburation. sion Was had, in which the jt, Dudley Field, Judgo Penvoay and Dr. Prime pated, bond the general | of the work of cwty. inion was exproned that the question would be settled without & resoft to war, ‘Was announced that the next aonual conference gonert be heid ae th ast Mossi Sotloaa cote bag freon apienunrn, ron bee 1 ond numerous and nirong iit eaanaent es