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<.. + somo degree THE STATE CAPITAL. The Sage of Auburn and “the Lu- natic of Kentucky.” WEALTHY CORPORATIONS WRATHEUL. An Outline of the Prison Com- mission Report. BETTING ON ELECTIONS. ALBANY, Jan. 11, 1877. Tho wealthy corporate interests liable to be affected by Albrny icgislation are disappointed with Speaker Sloan's committees, In other years they bave had their wishes consulted, and had their men placea where they could do them the most good. Sloan’s innovation of appointing tho committeos without the advice and withou: taking into consideration the feelings of those particular corporations bas given mortal offence, | think therofore that Sloan, though he has made some weak appointments, deserves a great deal of credit for the Moral conrago he has shown in defying these com- bined interests and telling them to their teeth that none of their creatures should receive any special mark of recognition from him, This ts grit, and the Speaker has more of it. Mr. Alvord is still tronbled over his disappointment, and he chews six pack- ages of fino cut to one that proved suill- cient in his calmer and huppier days, What is to bo dono with bim now It is hard to tell: ‘There is no vucaney, and to leave bim against his will on the Apportionment Committee is to leave him on tue rack, For several reasons it ts to be hoped some- thing may be done for Mr. Alvord that will bring balm to his wounded spint, for with bis groat know!edge of parliaventary law, his intimate acquaintance with the general run of logislation and his cowprohensive grasp of almost every public question he can bo of great service to tho Stato, while from the well known idiosyneracies of bis character all these qualities (should he cherish the idea that he has been badly treated) may be perverted to purposes of obstructing legislation and doing much mischief. TMH VOLUME OF BILLS will go on graduaily increasing from woek to week. To-day some half dozen were introducod affecting Now York city, This session will hardly pass without an amendment to the charter that will bring order ~— out. —s of~—chaos, and give harmonious shape to the city government, On this point enough republicans and democrats will be found to unite to secure the passage of a bill that without weakening the strength of either party will lighten the burdens of the taxpayers and simplily to the present complicated municipal machinery, Mr, Fish, chairman of Cities, has hopes that a result like this may be reached and he will do his utmost to bring about combined action between the best men of both parties for that object by measures aimed at reform. A AN OLD TIME REFORM BILL. Mr. Elliot C. Cowdin introduced an old bill under a now form—an excellent bill, too, if it could pass; and why shoulda’t tt be mado to pass? It provides fora mecting of the Board of Estimate and Apportionment and all the beads of departments, together with twelve reputablo citizens, at the City Hall to consider these questions :-- What is a reasonable and proper for cach and every city officer (except those of the members of the Conference and of the judges and justices) and of the seyeral cierks, hoads of bureaus, court attendants and other saiaried persons, and what is the actual and proper number of ofticers and clerks fur each office, court, bureau and de- partment ¢ ‘The Conference shall classify ail clerks into two or more classos, and their compensation shall be graded accordingly. The same method shall be adopted with the police and fre departments, and when all this has been done a report shall be made tothe Legislature upon which itis expected action will botaken, As the judges and justices and heads of departments are excepted in this scheme of yetrench- Inent, it must be tuken for granted that the motive for omission in the bill is that the Législature itself should consider the question of reducing the salaries of those who sit io judgment on the salaries of others, BETTING ON KLECTIONS, Mr. Hammona, of Dutchess county, ater thinking over ita bit, has reached the conclusion that betting on elections is a highly pernicious practice trom a moral if nota religious standpoint, He has no objec- tion, he says, to betting on race tracks, whero it 1sina measure circumscribed, but pool room betting in large cities on such exciting subjects as popular elections has a clearly demoralizing tendency, Accordingly be iniroduced a Dill to-day, which provides that it shall be uniaw/ul for any person to sell or bid off any auction pools, or conduct, manage or in apy way carry on any French or mutual poul, or combination mutual pool, for tho pur- pose of betting upon the result of any Presidential, Congressional, State, cuunty, city or otber municipal election to be hereafter heid in this Siate, orupon the number of votes to be polled by any caudidatc at such elections. Fine, not icss iban $1,000 nor more than $5,000, and imprisonment, not less than one nor’ more than five ‘years, Should the doors of the pool room be closed it shall be lawtul for the Sberif or magistrate or whatever other official may have the proper authority to break in and arrest the participants in the proceedings, A COMING STATESMAN, Mr. Stephen J. O’Hure is coming to the front this your, though 1m the last Assembly he was never heard of uillits closing hours ‘To-day he sent im two bills, the first being entitied “An act to regulate places of amusements, The object of the vili is to adjuat the | license fee upou the basis of the highest price charged | for admission. Where the highest price charged is twenty-live cents the license fce shall be $200. For every twonty-five cents exira or fractional part $100 saa but the license fee in no case shall exceed His next bill relates to attorneys and counsellors-at- law in New York city. The purpose of this bill 18 to enable parties prosecuting in police and other crir- inal courts to bave the assistance of counsel without the authorization of the District Attorney, which heretofore has been required and in very many cases reiused. very olten a man | ‘arrested for assault and battery, and prosceutor under examination, undirected and unattended by counsel, cannot establish his case, wen the merits reully entitle him to relief. ‘The Dis- trict Attorney so much business to attend to of a more important character that the authorization be- fore reterred to18 selaom granted, It also permits persons accused and brought betore officers acting judicially, a8 for instance the Police Commissioners, to avtonded by counsel. THE MAN PHILANTHROPISTS LOVE, Dr. Hayes receives a great many propositions for the amelioration of the pour and the purification of society from benevolent and philanthropic people, Among these was one he introduced to-day, in the form of a Dill for the establishment of {ree public lodging houses for the poor. The bill omits tostate trom what the money 1s to bo derived lor the sup port of these lodging houses, but it is to be | inferred that the Board of Apportionment uw expected to do the decent thing by the onterprise, | ‘The bill provides for the appointment of three com- | missioners, one of whom shall be taken from the | party in tho mimority, and who «bull ve known as Commissioners of Public Lodging Hoases of the city of New York, who shall hold office lor the term of three years and serve without compensation. Immediately upon the formation of this Board of Com- missioners the Board of Apportionment shail designate unoccupied buildings belonging to the city of New York at such places as may be deemed | Dest, and these buildings shail be called public lodging | houses, They shall be open at all times of the day until twelve o’clock at nighi, and receive all persons applying for lodging without regard to color or sex, The place tor fomaies shall be separated {rom the rest, and there shall be as many apartments as can be made of not less than fHiiteen feet square. APTEK THX GAS COMPANIES, Mr. Peter Mitchel will mtroduce in the House to- morrow the first of a xeries of bills invended to compel the yas companies of the State of New York to report anoually to the Comptrolier of the State on oF belore the Ist of Fooruary of each year the amount of capital Stock, incomes and profits, {rom all sources, dividen shuros and extra shares of stock issued, vertiticates tudebtedness, investments of any kind made to behalf of such company, and also all ana any assets not heretofore mentioned, it provides, Aigo, that a report must be made of all expenditures of kind whatsoever, aud {1 in the opinion of the mptrolier the report be not explictt enough, he has the power tw reject 1t and order au amended and more complete report. In the event of non-compliance wien the order, the Attorney General 1s authorized to pro- ceed against the ofenders of such company. In case of conviction the penalty prescribed is a fine of not less than $600 nor more than $1,000, or imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding #iX months, or by both Sine and imprisonment. SAVING THR SAVINGS BANKS Mr, Holahanp proposes in a bill nesintends to intro- duce soon, the estabishment of a guarantee fund ior | salary NEW “YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 1877—-WITH SUPPLEMENT. to pass into and remain as security for the depositors tm the hands of the State Cor FUN IN KXBCUTIVE Se¥s!0¥, There was some fun in the executive session of the Senate. Senaior Doolittle moved to discharge the committee cunsisting of Senators Coleman, Doolittle and Bixby to whom the matter bad been referred from the Jurther consideration of the nomination of Uap- tain J. D. Wylie, of New York, tor Com: Gen- eral of Ordinapce in place of General Kilbourn Knox, or Harris objected avd Senator Jacobs sage of Auburn rose oP din bis characteristic xarcastic, half eurnest—eaid, “When the at lunatic of Kentucky (meaning Watterson) said there would be 100,000 in Wasbington on the 4th of 8! Henry unarinea democrats | Maren next, he spoke not only with prophetic vision, but with an ulterior consciousness that his declaration i had a basis in fact. 1 say, sir, that the attempt to rush through this nomination of Captain Wiley, or Reilly, or whatever his name ts, should be viewed with suspi- cion, What will Wiley, or etlly, be given eharge of? Why, sir, nothing less than the ordnance of the great State of New York, the rifled eancon and the Gatling guns that he may at any moment turn upon the loyal people of the State im carrying out the programme outhned by the aforesaid lunatic trom Kentucky, Fellow Senators, { implore you to beware ot this man—Wiley or Reilly, as the caso may be—-aud 1 implore my young and enthusiastic triend from the Third to restrain bis ardor and not eutch the war fever of revolution from his aberrated friend of the Courier-Journal." Senator Jacobs for rephed:—"I from the the party to and of which he is so great an ornament, but after all is said aud done the fact stunds out in bold relief that the only one on she floor who has sug- gested revolution and bloodshed is the Senator bim- self, The lunatic from Kentucky can take care of himeelf, but 1t would be well if others had an equally happy method in their lunacy.’”? The subject then weut over. am really alarmed ‘Twenty-ftth, and which he — belon, friend PRISON REFORM. Mr. Pillsbury, of the Aibauy Penitentiary, told me this evening ‘that the report of the commission to in- ‘Vestigato the State prisons, of which he was a ember, has not yet been received, though he bas been ex- pecting iv daily for the ‘past week, He thinks ua will reach here by express to-morrow, will be immediately wented to the Governor and both hous 1 the islature. He Says ib 1s & document of over 900 pages, only about twenty-four of which are taken up by the text, the rest being consumed in the testinvoy. The unani- mous conclusion reached by the commission is that the prisons can be made — self-supporting; that two of them, Auburn and Sing Sing, shoul be able to yield a surplus, alter paying expenses, and this surplus could be upplicd (o supply the de- ficiency in Clinton Prison, which 1x the only one of ihe three that can never be made self-supporting owing io its inaccessible situation, Bringing the other two prisons to that condition of discipline aud organization when they may be deciared seif-sustaining will involve some ume and least 4% year or looseness of discipline in these prisons have brought about babi among both prisoners and keepers that imperatively demand reformation. ‘The investigation was chiofly couined to Sing Sigg, and all sorts of people were there examined+-prisooers, keepers, officers, contractors, &c, Some of the testimony is interesting as showing woat a conlusion of laws relating 10 the State prisons exist. Some of these were passed thirty years ago, and are stillin force, Others were passed since that ‘conflict with. preceding one without repealing them. The Commission will ma bo recommendations ag to legislation, because the prisons will come under a ferent) = ma agement very soon, in accordance with the constitutional amendments, and the Legislature wil bave to enact a new get of laws to meet the altered circumstances. Mr, Pillsbury de- clined to say what the nature of the‘testimony was in regard to Mr. Husted, about which so much has been cry ‘Oh, of course,” said he, **we had to take all tho testimony that preseuted itself irrespective of whom it affected. The testimony concerning Mr. Husted came to us the same as the rest, and it weut down in black and white, the same as the rest, but what its nature is I don’t care to say, because the report itselt will be before the world in a few a There is a good deai of matter in it besiues what concerns Mr, Husted that will be found of interest, especially to prison men, NEW JERSEY LEGISLATURE. A DEMOCKATIC SPEAKER FLECTED--FOUR REPUS- LICANS VOTE WITH THEIR POLITICAL OPPO- NENIS—THE REMAINING OFFICERS MOSTLY REPUBLICAN—THE SENATORIAL QUESTION, TRENTON, Jan. 11, 1877. After a bitter fight between the contending political factions the lowor house of the Legislature was organ- ized to-day in the interest of the democrats, Four republicans—Messrs, Howell, Van Rengalaor and Wight- man, of Newark, and Mr. Vail, of Union county— seceded from their party to accomplish this result, THR ORGANIZATION, ‘The organization 1s as loliows:— Speaker—Rudolph E. Kabe (democrat), Hadson, Cierk—John Y, Foster (republican), Newark. Assistant Clerk—J. Herbert Potts (republican), Hudson, Engrossing Clerk—Jonathan Goble (republican), Ocean county, and a republican sorgeaut-at-arms, democtutic Agsistant, and the minor offices equally divived. The organizatiun is considered to be antago- Distic Lo the “stale House ring.” THK SENATORIAL QUESTION. Now that tho fight over the Speakership is ended, the contest for United States Senator wiil assume immense — proportions, = and ~—s much excitement will prevail until the election is held in joint meeting on Wednesday, the 24th inst. The principal contestants are Mr. Jobn R. McPherson and Mr. Asbbel Green. Ex-Governor Parker, Wilham Walter Phelps and ex-Senator John P. Stockton re main tn the background, each ready ana willing to be taken UD as a compromise candidate should the iriends of the leading two fatito agree. Mr. McPherson, ac- cording to current report, isa long ae ahead In the j Face, Both houses adjourned to Monday evening next. ALLEGED ARSON AND MURDER, BURNING OF A FARM HOUSE AND A FARMER— FAMILY TROUBLES SAID TO BE THE CAUSE— A SON’S REVENGE ON HIS FATHER, [BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD. j Newrorr, R. L, Jan. 11, 18 A fire, with loss of life, occurred this morning at tho farm house of Henry Brown, in the town of Middle. town, which adjoins Newport. Henry Brown was the sole occupant of the house and has perished. Circum- stances looking very suspicious to the H&xALD corre- spondent, he endeavored to make clear the mystery. Nothing was found of the house but ao muss of cinders. Everything e owas com. pletely burned up. The remains ot the deceased whieh were burned were found smoking, and although it was six hours after the fire no effort had been made On the part of bis three sons to gather those remains for interment. A prominent citizen of the town remonsirated with the eldest son for his indiffer- ence. The son replied that it was not his place to do anything about it Finally the citizens who were friends of the family gathered tho burning embers ot the bones of the deceased, which did not bail fill the water pail, For some time Brown and his youngest son Charles have lived together alone, the wiie and motner being dead, They have been known of jae to frequently quarrel and fight, Michael Donahue, who cuiled to see their father just night, states that the father and his son were quarrelling and fighting then. It appears that the father deeded bim his farm last summer, totaily ignoring the claims of his oth children, and that of late the favored son not acting as he should the father threatened to take the decd | from him, The son roplicd that neither he of any one else could have the deed; that it was bis tention to put bin (his father) in the poorhouse, This was told to the father last night. A quartel enened, Charles is known to have been about the house turee times before ten o'clock last night. In reply to ques- tions asked him by your correspondent as to the re ron of his not being at the house he said that stopped all night at the residence of his married 5: ter, some distance from his lather’s house. That at two o'clock this morning he saw a bright light in fh father’s room, called bis brother-in-law and both went to the burning building, Upon being interrogated as to how he came to see the light at that early hour, he said he wax watching with his sister, who was sick, and that, upon going into an adjoining room to get a gloss Of water for her, be saw the ligh He namitied that twas aquaeer idea for him to be watching with his sister, who was not and her busband aud several lady occupants of the house asleep. His face shows plainly the marks of a ceatly scuifle, in Which be and his father without doubt participated last night. To his brother. in-law and others he told a diferent story to that told t your correspondent. The brother-in-law denies that he watched with bis wife. Told him that he was up at avout two o'clock and discovered the fire, The reason he gave him for nov staying all nigot with bis father was that when he went home he found the door locked, From his room it Was impossible to see the oullding, and, us soon as be and his brother-in-law reached the tire, they called up the occupants of the hou roas tho ‘ror occupied by Trial Justice Brown. he latter wax ac- companied by his hired man, Michael Donahue, mon- tioned abeve, The party of tour got a ladder for tho purpose of reaching the winduw of the deceased, but were unsuccessful, THE THROAT HOSPITAL. At tho annual meeting of the Metropolitan Throat Hospital, held yesterday at No, 17 Stuyvesant t, the lollowing officers wore elected for the yoar:—John D. Jones, president; James W. Alexander, Dr. J. Ma- rion Sims and Dr. J. J. Crane, vice presidents; Joha W. Bigelow, treasurer; William Alexander, secretary; and Dr. Clinton Wagner, medical superintendent, Iu his annaal report, Dr, Wagner stated that there had been a large ierease in the number of patients treated during the past yoar, and recently it had become necessary to open the dispensary department on Thea days and Fridays trom seven to eigut i M, for the the safety of depositors in savings banks, and this fund to be raised by the deduction of one-seventn of @ne per cent from the (ui oa deposit, the guaranteo accommodation of those who cannot atten! during tho | day, The institution is entirely supported by volun. | tary coutributions, dangerously til, | JUMPING THE TRACK. ‘TWO RAILROAD ACCIDENTS—ONE ON THE CHES- APEAKE AND OHIO AND THE OTHER ON THE VIRGINIA MIDLAND BAILBOAD--EIGHTEEN PASSENGERS INJURED. [BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD. } Ricamonp, Va, Jan, 11, 1877, One of the most remarkable railroad accidents of the age occurred this morning on the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad as the eastward bound express train was pass- ingalong the mountain side, a tow miles west of the White Sulpnur Springs. It was going at the rate of about thirty miles an hour when the entire (rain Jumped the track, and the coupling of the rear frst class coach snapped in two, and the coach went rolling over and over down the declivity, a distance of thirty feet, to the Greenbriar River, where it lodged upon the ice, It was completely | Wrecked, Every window framo, every seat and every door was splintered intoa thousand fragments; in fact, nothing is left of the car to the company except the iron work, and that is bent and mutilated, NOMODY KILLED—KIGHT WOUNDED, Strange to say, of the twonty-live passengers none were killed and only eight wounded—one (Mra, Hall, of the White Sulphur Springs), seriously. * Mrs. Hall's cnild, agirlof four years of age, was taken from under the wrecked coach, ‘and was found not in- jured in the slightest degree. A FIRE ON THE ICR. The weather was very cold, and to prevent pr gers from ireezing till they could get ten made a fire of fragmenta, first placing upon the ice enough iron to keep the ice trom melting, JOINING HANDS YOR THR WOUNDKD. By joining their hands together the ofticers of the railroad train managed to pull the passengors, one by ‘one, back to the level of the track, and they were then attended by surgeons brought from the White Sulphur Springs and soon afterward taken to that place and cared for. ANOTHER TRAIN OFF THE TRACK. This morulug, at four o'clock, the southern bound train upon tho Virginia Midland Railroad, which ex- tends trom Alexandria to Lynchburg, ran off the track near Kettle Run, and one sleeper was totally wrecked and ono badly torn to pieces. One of the sleepers went down an embankment, There were eight or ten persons injured. FURTHER PARTICULARS OF THE VIRGINIA MID> LAND RAILROAD ACCIDENT--A LIST OF THE WOUNDED—SEVEBAL NEW YORK PEOPLE ON BoaRv. ALexaxpria, Va., Jan. 11, 1877. The night train on the Virginia Midland Rallroad whieb left here ata quarter to tree o'clock this morn- ing ran over a broken rail 140 yards north of Kettle Run bridge, between Manassas aod Bristoe, thirty miles from this eity. The ongine, baggage car and forward passenger coaches passed over in salety but two sleeping cars—one from Boston to Danvillo und tho other (rom Washington to New Orleans—lvft the track and ran down an embankment, The track was unob- structed except fora short time and trains are run- ning regularly. The train which arrived here at three o'clock this afternoon brought ip the surgeons and the wounded. ‘The latter were carried on to Washington, THR WOUNDED. ‘The following is a list of the wounded:-- . Boyd, Boston, slightly. uel J, Hambury jaitimore, slightly, Rey, D. D. Wheelan and New York, slightly, G. Lyle, Allegheny City, Pa, seriously in head and Ewing, slightly, Sniebler, New York, severely. . Loigier, Philadelphia, slightly. Mra. H. M. Barton, slightly. H. G, Porter (colored), porter of the Pullman car, Boston, seriously cut im head and face, ‘aptain Stokes Boya, Florida, slightly. . A. MvAllister, Atlanta, conductor of Pullman ear, slipbtly in toot and leg. Two others, whose names were not ascertained, were | slightly tujured. Versons who have arrived from the scene of th cident report that the rail which caused it was broken jn five places in a space of us many feet. The tirst of the sleeping cars weut over the bank, turn- ing over several tines in its descent, and, striking against an abutment of the briuge, was smashed to pieces, One of the passengers says that so completely was the car demol'shed that there was not a piece leit which could not have been put ina flour barrel. The other sleeper followed the first, and, although badly damaged, was not 80 completely splintered, Most of the passengers were invalids on their way | to Florica, Of the wounded all received comparatively slight injuries except Mr. Lyle, of Pennsylvania, and the negro porter, the lormer of whom, being over seventy years of age, may net recover, Drs, Lewis and Powell rendered all surgical aid posm- ble, binding up the wounds and making the suilerers ag Comfortable us possible, ‘ A despatch from Manassas to the (Gazette gives the folowing particulars of the accident:—"About five and a half miles from Manassas, at @ quarter past five o’clock this morning, a rail broke on tne right bund side of the truck, going south, into five parts avout 150 yards from the bridge.” ’ The hindmost sleeper was thrown from the track, rupning about 100 yards on the right hand side of tne track tben turned over, and, running down a bank twenty feet, struck agaiustan abutment, where tt lodged a complete wreck. When it turned over its force broke the sleeper in front trom the rest of the train, drag- ging 1t from the track, The front sleeper, Brazil, was precipitated over the abutment of the bridge forty feet into the stream b low, where it lodged on its top, broken into fragmen: Both cars contained twenty passeayers besides two conductors and two porters—twelve in the rear and eightin the frontcar, None were hiiled. ‘Two watches were lost and a pocketbook containing $200 or $300 belonging to G, Lyle, und drafts belonging to Mr. Osborn, of Mount Carme!, Conn. Most of the passengers were going to Florida for tho winter. Some of the passengers went onto Lynch- burg, others returned to Washington. The passengers in the hind car were imprisoned in the wreck balf an hour, and those on the trout car one hour, THE ICE HARVEST, AN ATTACK UPON THE KNICKERBOCKER ICE COMPANY'S MEN BY AN ORGANIZED GANG OF STRIKERS--THE WORK SUSPENDED THROUGH INTIMIDATION. [BY TELEGRAPH 10 THE HERALD. ] Roxvovr, N. Y., Jan, 1, 18° The men at work for the Knickerbocker Ico Com- pany at the different houses hereabout were visited this forenoon by a yang of about one hundred armed strikers, who demanded that the work should stop. The laborers wished to continue their work and resist the strikers, but the Jatiér tbreatencd to drive the Jaborers away and to destroy the machinery. The superintendents stopped the work, and the suspension ja gencral, except at a few smaller houres, owned by Jocal firms, Ihe Jenders of the strikers are disreputable fellows, who are foremost im all lawlessness, and as | the authorities did nothing to check their lawlessness they are very insolent, Many laborers working on the | tee are mechanics, clerks and others out of ocenpa- tion, driven to do something to support them- selves and families, Soine come ten miles work and scores have been turned away, the employ: ers being unabie to engage them. When driven away dren, The employers Kay they are paying the same wages as in good Uimes—nainely, seventy-five cents anu $1 to boys, $1 25 to $1 50 to ordinary laborers and $1 75 to $2 where skilled labor is required. They are figm in resisting the strikers’ demunds, and intimate they will hold yue authorities responsible for » age done to their property, dition, and every day's delay Juborers go to work t pated, as ihe strikers are WHAT THK COMPANIKY “AY, The ice is in toe c yesterday elicited pothing new with regard to the strike going on near Rondout The officials of the Knickerbocker Company believed the movement to be but the dying struggio of the former strike, and conse. quently ascribed vo it bat little importance. They bad ceived uo advices whatever from their agents on the er, which fact they regarded a sure proof of the in- signilicance of the strike, Phe ottic of the New York City Ice Company were equally ignorant of avy serious trouble on the river, Dut expected full particulars of the reported strike by to-day's twat. Superintendent Cheney, of the Mutaa! Bonet Com- pany, Kuew nothing official about the matter anu did not regard it as important. The tormer strike, be sup- entirely died out, as all the companies had than thoy dat the reduced wages, $1 2 per day, Mr. Cheney, in recalling incidents of the late strike among the laborers in the ice fields, was particularly severo on the action of Mr. Griswold, Dis« iriet Attorney of Greene county, who, he said, incited the laborers to hold out. The following 1#acopy of the communication ad- dressed to the Sheriff of Greene county, which bad the effect of terminating the late strike. The present one being lower down the river, a similar docum ned and atiemp Kulekerbs i of York y Lee ry nN Yury Co., within limits of We demand of you that you at once means with the whole power of the eo 8 erty threatened or injured at Catskill, Athens or Cox fe. We demu that you pi 6 the ponce und have used all rasonable diligence and we propos re mnty linvie for whatever dainage muy be sustained by as at the hands of the mob, Tho document was signed by tho various presidents, ice companies claim that the reduction trom any the your sake all legal y to protect the by the competition which lowered the price of ice to $2 perton, They all express a determination not to submit to the demands of the strikers, to | by the strikers to-day many of them oried like chil. | | Inquiries at tho offices of the various ice cempanies | to $1 2b us aday’s wages was made nevessary | i MACAULAY PREDICTS CHSARISM. Harper's Magazine for February will contal pum- ber of letters trom the late Lord Macaulay to H, 5. Randall, author of tho “Life of Jefferson,’ that, although written nearly twenty years ago, are particu- larly timely at this moment, Macaulay did not believe in Jefferson or the Jeffersonian policy and he expressed himself very freely to Mr. Randall, We quote in ad- vance of its publication afew extracts frum a letter dated May 23, 1857: You are surprised to learn that I hi opinion of Mr. Jefferson, ana 1 am surprised at your surprise, Lam certain that 1 never wrote a line, and that | never, in Parhament, in conversation, or even on the hustings—a place where it is the fashion to court the populace—utiered a word indicating an opinion that the supreme authority in a State ought to be intrusted 1o the majority of citizens told by the head; im other words, to the poorest and most ignorant purt of socie have long been convinced that institutions purely democratic must, sooner or later, destroy liberty or civilization, er both. in Europe, where the population is dense, the eflect of such institutions would be aimost msta: tancous, * * * You may think that your country enjoys an exemption trom these evi's, {will frankly own to you that Lam of a very diferent opinion, Your fate | believe to be certaiu, though it is deterred by physical cause. As long us You have a boundless ¢ tent of fertile and unoccupied land your laboring pop- wiation will be fur more at ease than the laboring pop uiation of the Old World, and, while that 1s the case, tho Jefferson politics may continue to exist without causing apy fatal calamity. But the time will come when New England wili ve as thickly peopled as oid England, es Will be as low, and will iluctuate as Much with you as with us, You will have your Man- chesters and Birminghams, and ip those Manchesters und Birmingbams hundreds of thousands of artisa will arsuredivy be sometimes out of work. Then your institutions will be fairly brought to the | test. * * # Lt is quite plain that your gov. | erument will never be able to réstrain a distressed and | discontented mujority, For with you the majority is | the government, and bas the ri ho are always a minority, absolutely at its mercy. The day wail come when in the State of New York a inuitivude of people, none of whom has had more than balf a breakfast, or expects to have more than hali a dinner, will choose a Legislature. Is it possible to doubt what sort of a Legisiature will be chosen? On one wide is a | stalerman preaching patience, respect for vested rights, | strict observance of public faith, On the other te a | demagogue ranting about the tyranny of capitalists | and usurers, and asking why anybody should be per- enot a high | mitted to drink champagne and ide in carriage while | | thousands of honest Jolks are in want of necessaries, Which of the two candidates 1 likely to be preferred by a workingman who hears his children cry tor more bread’ 1 seriously apprehend that you will, in some such season of adversity as I have described, | do things Which will prevent prosperity trom revurn- } tug; that you will act like people who should in a year of scarcity vevour all the seed corn, and thus make the hext a yoar not of scarcity, but of absolute famine. i will be, f fear, spoliation, The spoliation will | ase the distress, The distress will prodace fresh | aon. There is nothing to stop you, Your stitution isall sailand no anchor, “As I said When a society hw either civilization or liberty must perish. Ciesar or Napoleon wil seize the reins of government with a strong band or your Republic will be as lour- | fully plundered and laid waste by barbarians in the iwentieth century as the Roman bimpire was in the fifth, with this difference, tnat the Huns and Vandais who ravaged the Koman Empire came from without, | and that your Huns and Vandals will bave been engen- dered wituin your own country by your own institu. ons. | Is this not a prediction of Casurism? TROTTING MATCH ‘TO SLEIGHS, A trotting race to sleighs came off yesterday morn- ing, on St Nicholas avenuo, for a cup, given by Mr. Lambert, of the Club House, Five horses were | ontered, comprising Mr. Weeks’ gray gelding Bolly Lewis, John Murphy's sorrel gelding Dreadnaught, Mr, Ouell’s bay mare Nelly Bly, Mr. Macnumara’s bay mare Gypsy and 0, S. Bailey's bay horse, ‘The dis- | tance was about a mile and repeat, and the race was won by Bolly Lewis ia two straight heats, The win- | ner was driven by Isaac Spaulding. The judges were Messrs. Johnson, Case, Vandewater aud McDonald. The race was witnessed by a large crowd, The sleighing was finer yesterday afternoon than It has been at apy time within the recollection of the oldest roadite, and thousands were out spoeding their equine pets, Conspicuous among the fine steppers was 1. W. Johngon’s black gelding Aleck, driven by John Murphy, He had several brushes with Dua Walton’s bay mare Countess, and they both showed great speed, without deciding which had the most. It | js said that Aleck can trot in 2:30, Mr, Bonner’s son | Aine was driving a beauty called Mamie B. that showod great speed. Mr. Rockwell also had a {ast one in acheatnut gelding, Brushes continued until dark past the Club House, and the scenes were very ex- citing and greatly relished by the lookers-on, TROTTING AT An unusually large audience gathered at Gilmore's Garden lust evening to witness the trotting events, SUMMARY, Gumonx’s Ganvss, Tuunsvay Evesixc, Jan, 11, 1877—TrorrixG.—Purse, $100; mile heats, three in five, under saddle; weight and distance barred; $5u to the first, $30 to the second and $20 to the third. "sb. x Fran’ 1211 GILMORE’S GARDEN. | g. Doubttul. 12% | J, Mucatiley’s b. m. Fiorence Scannel, 2434 | B. Doty’ w. x. Whitest 4346.3 Time, 8. Same Evexinc.—Maten $200, mile heats, best three in five, under saddle; weight and distance barred. Special'premium of $100 promised. winner if Pilovs time (2:35 43) was beaten, Puiliip Collins? bg. Myron Ferry....seee0. 2 1 2 1 Jack Olcott's b. g. Lan (lormerly Colo)... 2 2 1 2 rry's rider in fourth lup lost stirrup hold, and not being able to regain it both took it easy. ws there was no distance. YACHTING NOT. There are in winter quarters at the place of Com- modore Frank Bates, foot of Thirty-sevcnth atrect, South Brooklyn, N. Y., the following yachts Cabin—Annie, America, Mazgte B., Sirea, Germania, Twinkle, Cassie, Emma B., Marie,’ Nelue D. and Ree Harry Smedicy, toot ot Court street, Brooklyn, re- cently foished Jor Mr. J. P. Wilson, of New York, sieam launch 38 feet long ; copper bottom and copper fastebed thronzhout. latier is owned by Mr. Fowler, of New York, who in afew days will ship the boat to Cuba, | Mr, James Lenox, foot of Thirty-fourth street, South Brooklyn, has im hand an open yacht 25 lect - long. ATHLETIC EN Tho complimentary benefit tendered to Jimmy Keliy and Seddons Mouse at Hiil’s Theatre yesterday after. | noon was a success. Tho cosey place was crowded | and everybody seemod to relish the hearty bouts with | the gloves that took pla MeGinty ana Saunders Were first presented, and at the conclusion it was a | pretty even affair, though in the Inst round MeGinty had & little the best of ut, the raily atthe fuish veing very energetic, Bowles and Croker followed suit, and though the latter got in inostat first, the honors were evenly | aivded. Young Gould and ¢ re then ine | troduced and set to work with « will. Both are clever, aud, being as fresh as paint, treated the audience to a rare exhibition ot science. Professor Whitney and | Warry Edwards, Casey and Carman and Collins and “phe Steel Man’? then came on and acquitted them. selves creditably, Kelly and ‘fhe Mouse’? wound up | in ring costume. In pout of science, pertinps, Kelly | was superior, but neither flinched, and they punched h other with a vigor that was refreshing to witness; at least tone may judge by the thunders of applause | which greeted them when they shook hands at the | termination, COCK FIGHTING. A cocking main between New York and Long Island | took place yesterday morning ata well known sport- ing house at Newtown, L. I., for $25 each battle and $500 the main, Aflor an exciting contost lasting four hours Long Island was deciared the winner by one battl Between $3,000 and $5,000 passed hands on the result. Over 200 members of the «porting fra nity from New York, Brooklyn aud New Jersey wero present, A BOXER'S CHALLENGE, New Yor, Jan, 10, 1877. To tax Evitor or THs Henao Protessor John Long, the English boxer, has on sev- eral occasions manifested # desire to to with me for a certain time and for some considerable amount of money. Now, to satisfy the genticinan, I horeby declare myself willing and anxious to spar Mr. Long for half an hour or an hour for $600 or $1,000 a wi or gate moncy, of fun, at any me ana atany p which may be mutually agreed upon. Mr. Long or representative can find oF address im Maliahan’s saloon, ‘No. 62 Went Thirtiath street, at any time, and if he means business I shal aged to rom him, Yours, &c., WhuitaM J. GOULD. “CROOKED WHISKEY,” Yesterday motning Depaty Collectors O'Donnell, Jacobs’ and Phillips nado # raid on an iltett distillery located in a cellar at the corner of Hudson avenue and Jobn street, Brooklyn. No porsom was on the prem. | igen at the time, and the officers, after destroying which was of oighty gallons capacity, and the worm, | of mind, did uot recall the similar scene in about 1,000 gallons of raash, conveyed the copper still, | THE NAUCHTY NICHOLS. Continuation of the Divorce Suit at Bridgeport, SHIELDED BY STARS AND STRIPES. The Vine and the Oak—"When the As- paragus Was Growing,” MATRIMONY ILLUMINATED. The Nichols divorce case continued yesterday at Bridgeport, before Justice Foster. Thero wasa great flutter of excitement in the morning when the Heap arrived with its exclusive accuunt of the trial of tho caus she local papers out of consideration tor the high so- the report as they crumpled the Herany in their hands. Mrs. Nichola was in excellent humor all day, laughing hoartily at all the funny, portions of the testi- mony. Gigghng on tho part of the ladies, old aud young, was incessant and gave a lively musical accom- paniment to the dry, dreary voices of the witnesses and lawyers, THM AMBRICAN FLAG, The frst witness was Henry Engel, employed at the Surf Hotel, Fire island, He was @ saitor on Lyman’s yacht Lois in 1870; he corroborated Captain Oakley’s testimony to the effect that on she return trip trom Oak's Blu to Greenport Mra, Nichols and Lyman oc- cupied Lyman’s stateroom, their berths being only separated by an American flag, which was improvised asa partition; Mr. Engel, not being of a literary turn Sterne’s ntimental Journey ;” the curious Engel acquired his knowledge of the:r joint occupation of this state- room, which was very spacious—sixteen by fourteen— by peeping through the skylight. Q, Did you observe anything else in the way to Greonport? A. Mrs. Nichols saton the deck; Lyman satin front of ber and had his head in ber lap and whe bad ber hand 19 bis bosom. (Laughter and incra- dulity on Mrs. Nichols’ side,) MKS. NICHOLS? WRONGS, Mrs, Elizabeth Hyde, a sister of Mrs, Nichols, anda witness for the prosecution, was sandwiched in bere between the witnesses tor the defence. There was some difficulty between Mr. and Sirs. Nichols about her signing deeds, she refusing tu sign them uniess he gave her $10; she heard Mr, Nichols swear, and he absented himself also from the table at meal times ina manner to provoke the comment of tho guests, HOW SHE CAMK OUT OF THE STATE ROOM, The tostimony lor the defenco was then resumed. John A, Munsel, a greenport real estate dealer, went on board the Lois on a Sunday at threo P. M., while sbe was anchored there, As he went dowa to the cabin the door of the starboard stateroom (Lyman’s) opened and Mrs. Nichois camo out. Q What was her appearance when she caino out? A. Lthoughtshe wus considerably confused from the expression of ber face—tushod. Did sho say much, if anything; ifso, what? A, She mentioned some apology for coming over in the Doat. Q, Do you recollect what it was? A, Sho said sho was over on the Connecticut shore, either at Stoning. ton or New London, | am not positive which, that the ‘Lois’? was there and she thought it a good’ opportu. nity to come over. (Laughter, ) ‘The witness inviied Mrs. Nichols to spend the day at his house, and on Monday morning ho drovo hor down to the depot, where he found Lyman, who attunded to her baggage to see her to New York. Carrie Ray, a litte colored woman, who had been a cook und waitress in the Nichols mansion, gave it as her opinion that Nichols was very kiud to his children. MRS. NICHOLS ALSO SWEAR. Q Pid you ever hear Mrs, Nichols swear? A, Yes, sir; ahe swore ut me the last Saturday I was in her house. Q What did she say? A, She said, “Damn it,” and stamped her foot, Q. What happened that she said that? A. It was about a pudding that wasn’t made to suither; she ummed iton the kitchen range; she said, ‘Damn ou, you nigger, that don’t suit mo;” Lthen asked her's pay me and [would leave her and she did so. (Laughter. ) The wituess saw Lyman several times at the house and took cards and notes from bim to Mrs, Nichols; one night they had a ebildren’s birthday party in the front parlor; Lyman called and Mrs, Nichols took him into the back parlor, which was divided from the front parlor by glass folding doors; the witness went into the back parlor “to get come glasses and dishes for ice cream and lemonade,” Q@ Wha: did you see when you opened the door and went in? A SWEET PICTURE, A, I saw Mrs. Nichols and “r. Lyman—she in bis arms lying against his breast; they were near the cup- board door, This touching picture of the tender vine clinging round the manly ouk was highly relished by the spec tators, who broke into a loud titter of delight. Mrs. Nichois turned her tace toward her friends with an expression of scorniul contempt, Q Were they excited? A. Yes, sir, they ware both excited; she threw up ber bands; they were standing ; there were no chairs in that room; she was standing with bis arms round her in this way (she vividly described this ‘academic’ posture) aud ber head lay here on bis breast. ‘The lively littie colored woman looked at the venera- ble old Judge as though she expected hin to serve as the manly oak in this off-hand tliustration, bet she re- mained unassisted, and had to perform the tableau alone. BRIBING WITH CANDY. The witness went down stairs with the tray, Q What occurred after that? A. She tollowed me down stairs and gave inc a box of candy, and told me not to say anything about it, and I didn’t, (Laughter. ) The cross-examination by Mrs, Nichols’ lawyers wi: very funny. @ You are married now? widow. Q When were you married? A. Ihave been mar- riod some time; [can’t tell you exactly the year; 1 have been a widow pretty bear near eloven years, Q When did your husband dio? A, He has been dead five years, (Laughter.) Q [thought you said you bad been a widow eleven ‘cars? (Laughter.) A. You osked me how long he as been dead; I did not live with him when he died— J was divorced from him, (Laughter.) * Q Was there light in the back parlor when you wentin? A. There was no hght; there was only the light that shone through the glass door from the front parlor, This witness corroborated the previous testimony about Lytnan leaving cards and notes for her mistress, Lyman ca.led somotiines as often as twice o day; Mrs, Nichols gave her, in addition to the box of ‘candy, wearing apparel and money to sccuto ber silence ro- lating to tho back parior incident, LYMAN AS A COUAIN, A. No, sir; 1 am a Mary Cuthbert, au Irish waitress and nurso at the Nichols residence, testified to visits paid to Mrs. Nichols by a’ man whom she called her cousin, but whom su reason to be lieve was L¥mun; ou several occasions when she sal that her cousin was coming Lyman eae; this oecurred two or three times; twice she asked if there was cham. pague in the house; once there was and on another occasion there was none, aud she bad to go out and fetch it, (Laughter.) She brought two or three bottios; ono day sabe came in eartier than usual, and said she wanted her bed un- dressed and’ d 1 with clean linens; she bathed herself and half dressed herself, and got the things for the bed and helped me to dress tho bed her welf, nnd dressed herself afterward; she appeared New York." Q How did she manifest this excitement? A, By opening the windows aud looking out for bim and going down stairs to the door; she had tho ges in the parlor lighted; she played the piano several times in her excitement until ten o'clock, Q And then what occurred? A. (Given in the most innocent tone)—He did not come, (Langhte in whieh the fair plainufl and all her friends jo .) During all the tast textimony Mrs. Nichols her k turned to the court and gat facing her daughter and mother, with whom she held frequent whispered consultations, She took notes of the testimony on paper resting on her lap, and only occasionally turned round to cast a serious, pensive look at the witness and lawyers, For the remainder of the time she gracefully twirled her pencit Lotween her lips and munohed some lozenges for a cola, UNMOTIERLY ATURMITS, Katto Durnan’s deposition was read. Sho was servant in the family; sho thought Mr, Nichols kind to his wite and children; on the contrary, Nichols “spoke ugly” about Mr. his absence, even wished he was dea Much hilarity wus caused by ber recital of certain Mrs. Nichols, and oheo, in witness thought were for criminal pur; a great deal more of this testimony whieh should not, but did, provoke mirth, A NOOTURNAL BXC 10) feast; Mrs. Nichols “the gontieman bad drank ia all bis lif the coflee was the best he ev (ianghter); Ann this compliment; herself tor a nigtt; cause the asparagu: she borrowed H raterpro was very much once Mra it mast have been in May, valued at avout $600, to the vilice of United states Marshal Harlow, Wont out on eleven, when she camo home And thoug! all mention of which has even been suppressed by | where Father Burke resides. W. cial standing of the interested parties. Mrs, | Nichols ana her fair bevy of friends kept up an unceasing buzz of comment over be Very excited, and said her cousin was coming from | Medicines which she tetchod wo her mistress when tho latter expected to become a mother and whieh the | 08, Thera was Ann Dillon, another Irish ex-servant, testified about a ichois to Lyman; mince ploased at Nichols absented “be. was growing then” (aughter) ; of cloak from a nurse and urday pigbt, returning noxt morn: sho | Ravor iu Moutrose avenue, looked as though she bad not made ner toilet, and ber hair acemed dishevelled. Q. How did she look otherwise? A. She looked dejected looking, sir (laughter); she looked very queer; she had the waterproof turned side in (Mrs. Nichols laughed heartily); she came in throug! the basemeat door and went into the kitchen; asked me how we had got slung, and I gaid we had got along good. (Laughter.) : . ‘This closed yesterday's testimony, and the Conrt at six PM, journed until this morning at balf-past On Mra, Nichots’ part the statement is made that in rebuttal all the above testimony wilt be fully and satis- factorily explained. THREE “SHAUGHRAUNS,” RARDSHIPS OF THE OREW OF AN ITALIA}, VESSEL AND OF THREE IRISH FISHERMEN. The Old Dominion, of the Old Dominion Steamship Company, arrived at pier No, 37 North River yeater- day, baving om board seventeen men, fourteen of whom are Italians aud three natives of Ireland, who have strange stories to tell of the recent storms at sea, | The Irishmen ha’ range story torclate, One of | the three, Michael Moran, a well-built and hearty. looking man, made the following statement to a HERALD roporter:— ‘Weare fishermen of a little village named Clad. | dagh, oear Galway, and but o short distance from ‘cin the habit of | going out to catch fish, which we sell inGalway, In this way we support our families, That young man there | (pointing to one of his companions) is Michael Smith, | who hes been married but a tow months, The other | man is my father, Patrick Moran, He ts eighty-six years old. Lam the father of a family of five. We | are all most anxious to return to Ireland | was the | captain of a fishing smack, or hooker, named the st, | Partick, Thinking that we might make a good bau! | of herring, with Michael Smith, Patrick Morso and my unele, Jonn Moran, | set sail in our nine-ton hooker on Monday, the 4th of November, and made for Slime Head, about sixty miles from Galway, where woe thought the fishing would be good. We had no extra good lortuue und at night foggy weather overtook us, ‘The wind sprang up, blowing # perfect hurricane, My L Was al the helm, where my hands became frozen, On Tuesday bight the boat was hall Glled with water, | 11s our custom to light turf on setting out and keep the fire going The water put it out. Although we had potatocs and fresh fish, we bad no means to cook them. We were tour days and four nights without eating. In order to break speed with which we were drivea we lowered a basket filled with stones and endeavored to heave to, but (he cable broke on Friday We couid not, previous to this, reesh About this time my uncle, Joho aged ninety six, while we were asleep, toward mor tng, must have becn drowned by the lurching of tho ship throwing bim into the Water, At uny rate, we could discover no trace of him, When 160 miles out we were picked up by a Swedish bark, tue Gorgian, tain P. Olsen, bound for Hampton Roads, Tt ico drove the versel into Norioik, where we arrived op tho | 6to inst. 1 am nota stranger to Atorica, having been here about thirteen years axo. 1 have served on 4 Shenandoah. My tatner was also here twenty- Years ogo, being engaged in shad tishing at Fort Lee, We are totaily destitute of clothing and have na means, We intend to see the British Consul to-mor- row, We have acquaintances bere, but do not know where they live.” ‘THR ITALIANA’ STORY. One of the Italians, Lorenzo Fabrini, says tbat ho was the second mate of the Ituhan bark America, owned by Pillurino, of Genoa. The America set ont Day from Amsterdam, bound for rasma D’Augistini captain, and Grimaldi mate, Shortly alter sailing a Violent s:orm over. took them. for three duys the sun was b:dden trem view, and, after tossing about for fifty-eight days, iho ship was driven ashore 100 mites south of Cupe Heary, on tho Virginia coast, Here the vessel broke, and the water dashed over her, oompvlling tho fourteen wen on board ‘to lush themselves ta the vessel to prevent their be washed overboard. From this situation they were relieved by the mea of the life saving siation of the place, From Norfolk they were sentto New York by the British Cousul. The ship was abandoned, the waves having roudered ber unfit for further use, breaking ber tnio pieces aud covering her with sand. The seamen have never been to America before, have no tren and intend to place themselves undor the care of Italian Consul. They sa mostauothing from 4] wreck with the exception of tho clothes they wear. THE LOST SIMLA. Tho ship Simla, wrecked inst week on the New Jer- sey coast, seven miles below Barnegat Inlet, will bo a total loss She lies high on the beach, the tide eLbing and flowing through her. The Coast Wrecking Vom- pany have given ber up, and although the agentot the Boston Insurance companies and ber captain still re main on the ground, they have no hopes of saving ber, STATE CHARITY ASSOCIATION, Atthe regular monthly meeting of the State Chart. ties aid Association, held yesterday afternoon, reports were read from the standing and visiting committees, The Committee on Children report the Infants’ Hosp tal on Randali’s Island filied with mothers and chil dren under three years of ago, there being no restric: fiom to the length of time these women can remain, proviaed they take care of their own children and that the children are under the legal age. Some | employment should provided + jor thoxe women, who are part of tbe Fitty-one boarded out in Westchester county, The death rate among them 1 lower than at Randall's Island. There ure 179 esl. dren at the Idiot Asylum; the building is scrupuously | clean and the children are well cared for, The schuois re-establ.shed in October are working. The Visiting Committee for Bellevue Hospital report Bellevac Hos- pital clean and in good orde: have been white- washed, refractory windows made to open, and towels and blaukots supplied. There is great nee bet discipline for tue workhouse helpers. Charity Hos- pital 1s overcrowded, there being many more patients than beds; supply of blankets and towel insufficient. The Kings County Visiting Committee report a of the most needed repairs m: i Lunatic Ai jum building. Walls and ceiling of the bread room are biack and dirty, the bread durk in color and sour. As this is the one article of food given in abundance this is especially to bo regretted. The diseased and im- beciie occupants of the basement of the Female Alms- house nave been removed to another building, Com- plaints of sour bread and green potatoes contiaue. | The inmates complain ot co! The iaundry arrange- | ments are very poor. An organization tor outdoor re- fuil corpa of visitors, has been formed. committees © ind Monroe counties, ‘THE SUFFERERS’ BENEFIT, Messrs. Shook & Palmer yesterday issued the fole Jowing card to the public: We regrut to be obliged to come before the Brooklyn public once more as apologists ; but the continued tl health of Miss Ciara Morris renders it absolutely neces- sary that the proposed benefit az the Brook; of Music be again postpone orris’ phy- sictans, while they give every encouragement as to her ultimate restoration to health and strength, posi- lively forbid, for the present, the over-exertion which would attend the performance at the Academy ot Mu- Bic, Under the circumstances there 10 alter. native left but to postpone the benefit till this favorite artiste is fully restored to health, when Messrs. Shook & Palmer pledge themselves the bene- fit wiil be given as originally promised. In the meantime the tickets already sold will be re- deemed at the office of the American District Tele. graph Company, No. 191 Montague street, Brooklyn, | during the present week, of Will remain good tor the performance when given, SHOOK & PALMER, WHITE STAR BRAMS. Z Mr. Daniel Chauncey, Treasurer of the Reitef | Fund, received yesterday £22 98, 6d., the proceeds of an entertainment given on board of the steamship Britannic, of the White Star line, on the 16th ult while on her way to Liverpool. In addition to sum Mr, Chauncey received a check for $100 from t Line Company, maki the amouat | | $215 18 in all, | WEST SIDE BELIEF, Two hundred now families applied for ald to the Weet Side Relict Association, No. 403 Weat Twenty- *ninth street, yesterday. The tunds and supplies are exhausted, and an carnest demand is made for contri- butions. Dodd's Exprese have gencrously offeroa te | carry all provisions, clothing, &c., for the association free ol charge. A notitication by postal card will be attended to atonce, Twelvo hundred families depead on the association for their daily bread. A QUESTION OF NUMBERS. St. Jonn’s Gvinp, Jan, 11, 1877, To tux Epitor ov tax HeRaLp:— In tho contusion and burry of last week Volanteer | Visitor No. 82 of St. John’s Guild gave to the writer of “Pictures of Poverty’ in the Hena.p several addresses which, through some incomprehensible blunder, proved strangely incorrect, Fer instance, No. 143 ‘earl street suould hi been No. 543, Itin the rear first floor to the left, end the name ts C rine No, 140 Mulberry street should have been No, Ml, house, second floor; name, Ann Smith. No. | 280 Mulberry given, rear 0. 120 Geawre street should rear house, tin 9 Mulberry sure is known asthe sixty-five, lim», lives directly opposite No, 9, bus the entrance it No. 187 Worth street, tp floor me, Mary Bayard. ‘The widow at No. 11 Pell street lives in the rear, om trance No, 8 Doyer street, top floor; name, Mary A. Montgomery. V Su, Sealy roca ALVAM WISWALL, Master of St. John’s Gaild, POOR RELIEF, | house, top flo | BROOKLYN There have boon 2,580 people relieved sines the 18th of Docember Inst at the oMce of Charity Commissioner