The New York Herald Newspaper, January 19, 1877, Page 3

BLOOD.OR DYE? A Mystery of the Snow—A Frenchman Disappears to Make a Sensation. THE PRANKS OF JOUSSET Chapters from the Story of a Passionate Life—A (urious Letter. A GIRL GOES MAD FOR A LOVER, Wheo M. Alphonse Vibert, formerly chief of the French Secret Service, im his memoir said, ‘Morbid nen love to :mitate maniacs and criminals,” he uttered in axiomatic truth. An affair which now assumes the proportions of a huge hoax on the New York police ind public was perpetrated yesterday morning by a french drug clerk named Albert D. Jousset, His gev- wning motive, it would seem, was the desire of creating \ sepsation, and of baving his name published im the papers. But the means be adopted were so ordinary in their character and bis plans were so badly laid that, although ho succeeded in starting a great sensation, the detectives cusily talhomed tho fraud, The story, plainly told, is as foitows — The little frame cottage of old Mr. Joseph Brown, a fisherman, stands in a hollow at the toot of & Sigbtieth street, about thirty yards from the river ounk, ‘From Mr. Brown's residence to the small boathouso and river float owned by him & narrow pathway leads, The bank of tho river, steep and rugged, is crownea by three walnut trees. Only Mr, Brown and his wife sicep in tho cottage at night; thoir son Joseph resid- ing with bis wife Mary in the avenue B boulevard, near Fighty-tirst street, The neightorhood isa lonely one, On the north sido ot Eightieth street the Bellevue Garden extends almost tu the river, and on the south side the block reaching to Seventy-ninth street is filled up by stone cutters’ yards and = shanties. The snow fallen during the Past week is packed and frozen in the vacant lots, and all around Mr. Brown's. cottage the ground is covered with aperfect sheet of ice, Ov Wednesday night ve- tween ten und eleven o’clock Mrs. Brown was awagened by hearing a single footstep tramp down the Uttle walk leading to her husband’s boathouse and. the river.. The watchdog barked, but no tur- ther sound was heard by herself or hus- band. There were no cries for help nor any of the loud outcries usually attendant ona struggle for lile or death. Tho residents of a smal) block of heuses in Seventy-ninth street, near the river, heard no noise and were not disturbed. The Police on duty in the neighborhood heard no pistol shotsand their attention was not attracted to the ~ &cene by any unusual occurrences. Nothing unusual cume to light until about twenty minutes past teven o'clock yesterday morning, when young Brown came down the pathway to sce that the float and bis father’s boats had not been carried away during the night, and to prepare the nets and tackle used in the pursuit of bis father’s business, Midway in the little path leading to the boathouse he saw a black silk b: most new, lyingon the frozen snow. Its position showed that ithad been cither carefully laid down on the ice or that it bad fallen off the wearer’s head accidentally aud escaped without any injury. it had not the appearance of being knocked of during a struggle, or of being violently thrown down on the ground, The napot the sitk was scarcely ruMod, and there was only a slight trace of a bruise on the odge of the brim, The hat bore the name of the maker, Lilly, of Tuird avenue, Young Brown paid so little attention tothe matter, thinking that the hat had fallen off some drunken man that had wandered down the block, that he tried the buat on bis head, and thonght to himself he would appropriate it * to his own use, But going on down the path, when he reached the river bunk, near the walnut trees, ho saw a wallet lying on the ground anda number of papers scattered around it. “The wallet was the cover of an old memorandum book and the papers cer- tifieates of competency issued by the Colle, of Pharmacy to Albert DP. Jousset. There were a number of cards, among which wus one from Mr. Kubler, of No, 1,616 Third avenue, an agent forthe drug house of Allen & Co., of Pearl treet, There were also tao photographs taken in Berhn, rus which were subsequently identified as those of Jousset. Thero was also a chain broken in two, attached to the smaller portion of which was a pincn-beck locket. Young Brown gathered these together and was about returning to his residence wren he saw that there were what appeared to be bloodmarks on the snow. He then ran up tothe Boulevard and there met OMcer McClellan, of tb: Twenty-third precinct, to whom he handed the prop. erty he had found and whom he informed of the sup. posed marks of biood being on the snow. TRAILING THE CRIMSON SPOTS, The officer saw thut the first bloody sign in the Darrow pathway was a slight smear on the ground—so sligbt as almost to escape his observation. [Lt looked like as if @ man whowas drunk bad scraped his band by failing on the ico or applied a dash of blood with a smull paint brush, There was uo evidence of any pro- fuse foW of blood from a severe wound and no marks of any struggle where the blood marks were. At long Orawn iwtervals aloag the path where the snow had deen banked up and frozen on either si there were similar slight streaks of blood or what looked very like it. They were also yo faint as to bo scarcely noticeable. There were no indications that a wounded or oven a druoken mau bad fallen aysinst the snow bank on either side, and the surface of he bank wes smooth and unbroken, Soutinuing on his investigation Oificer McClellan ound near woerethe wallet and papers had been dis- covered by young Brown, two drops of blood on the snow. They were not larg ere evidently not arterial Ncharacier and seemed tothe cfMicer who made a careful rxumipation, to have arisen from bieediug of the nose, iu reference to Luis fact 1 may be stated that the were distributed on the vank at nearly cquat tistances from ach other, and thut not one ot th dure any traces of blood, On the side of the litte yoat house there were slight marks of bioud, bat no srace of a bloody hand or imprint of ensanguined ingers. On the path leading to the boat house was tn indentauon in the snow which might have been paused by a man falling or lying down there, but which is vow attributed to the action of the sun on Wedne: day, On the foaton the river beyond the littie bout house were tvo other of these red drops, and there was a tut trace of crimson ‘color on she string plece of the float. There were traces Of aD encounter either on tue stairs or on the flout, finished his | Investig: is faras he could Officer McClellan re- | ported the tets at the station house im Eighty-etghtn street, and Captain Robbins at once telegraphed to Volice Headquarters, SENDING OUT DETECTIVES. Superinendent Walling detailed Detectives Phelps, Reilly andJobn Tieman to work up the case, and they speedily kurned thatJousset wasa drug clerk, tormerly employed 1 Various stores In (his city aud Brooklyn. He baa been an officer in the German army, and the pho- tograpbs of bim found by young Mr. Brown repri sented bita attired ip uniform, Previous to the ar- al of Detectives Rielly and Tieman a the Fighty- hth street station Captain Robbins and Detectives | Hugbes ard dcCarthy proceeded to make further in- | Fostigations in the cae, They learned from acare- | ful exammmotion of the ground that there was | cut ore set of footsieps leading io the) ‘iver aad that all the footmarks were of the same size. | Jo ortanately, owing,to the snow being irozen, they were to trace the fovtprints farther west than the # boutevard, but irom that point to the river 4 niarks were of equal size and character, ‘fn their opinion, made by :besame man, They exami pvery inch of ground in the two blocks from Seventy- | nth to Kighty-first street, and could not tind the sight. | tt indication of a struggle. But yesterday eveuing Detective Hughes and Captain Robbins found a similar | stack of red spots on Eightieth street, near avenue Thon the Central Oflice detectives took up the case. The first doubt was whether the spots were blood or aniline dye, sach as Jousset could bave easily pro- cured. THR SUPPOSED vIoTIM. Alvert Jousset i# a Frenchman of the most pro. podnced kind, In 1870, when the war between France and Germany broke out, he lett bis business in this country, Which was that of a drug clerk, to ight Qyaiust the Germans. After the close of the war he returned to (his city anG resumed his occupation in Brooklyn, His German antipathies, however, do not weom to have been very strong, lor three yours ugo he married a German, the sister of August Homann, a house painter in Clinton street. It is tne universal testie mony of bis relations that he and nis wife lived happily together, and it ig not like unt of auy conduct of his which bad c to the knowledge of the wile was the occasivn of singular conduct in this affair. He was aiways in the | | and Jousset paid a great dea! oi ationtwn (ob | Renato visited tne house carly yesterday evening be- fore the detectives had begun to make any squires into ti! €ase, and were courteously received by Homann, who bad just returned to bis house, The Was something like an invasion of the peace of ¥ happy family, and for a moment after its occasion was announced there were tre} pemaae. p dation Homana an their glass: liquor was left untouched, while question and answer relating to the Jousset » Tuystery [ol!owed each other in repid succession, The | conversation lasted for nearly un bour, and all the 1 ; ' i i id fear im the his aged father with pellucida entire while Homant wife paced uneasily about the floor with ber infant in berarms, and she alone of all the family seemed to appreciate the dangers hung the head ef the house. The bave ed and id & young boy busied himsel! about the if etramge faces in thas apartment were not at unwonted te ich over- HOW HOMANY TOLD uIS STO! All the while Homann stood in the room reciting the story of Jousset's conduct previous to his disappearance. tt wes not a very straightforward or intelligible tale as it fell irom his lips, The man spoke as it be was afraid of telling too much or feared the effect of what he told, it was only by making him teli the same thing over and over again and surprising him witn an adroit question where bis ory was most iddle of the clumsily constructed that anythin; the truth could be arrived at, jomann tired to be ac- cepted as the full explanation of the mystery was that Jousset, previous to his return to this country after his Franco-Prassizn campaigns, bad fought a duel with another Frenchman at Southampton, England, was his - intention to fight this Frenchman again on Wednesday ight Who this mythical person was or what he could have in pursuing Jousset nobody seemed to know, It was, however, the keynote of Homann’s story; and it will be seen that it was also ine idea which Jousset imparted to his wife in a letter which he wrote her and intrusted to Homann tor delivery. A voyage to France was also apparently in contemplation, though for what reason does not clearly appear, unless it was to escape irom the terri- ble shadow which waa pursuing bim. The solution of } this mystery will probably be found in the story of Jousset's relations with ‘the servant girl at his | employer's house in Brooklyn, a subject upon which Homann professed co:nplete but which is related in the Herato this morning. Homann, however, was ignorant upon so many points until he was surprised into con- lessing a knowledge of them, that it 13 not impossible he can elucidate the whole mystery, He 1s confluent that no duel has been fought and that Jousset is not dead, and says of the articles belonging tu the sup. posed victim which have been found by the police, that anybody could have put them whore they were discovered, NOMANN’S ACCOUNT OF JOCSSET’S CONDUCT. According to Homanu's story, stripped of 1 tradictions, Jou came to the house No, 1. tom street, with bis wife, on Thursday afternoon, but not finding his brother-in-law at home wentin soarch of him and succeeded in tinding him at the office of a dentist in tho Bowery, Jousset was very inuch excited, aud on seeing Homann he cried:— “Come, I want you to go with me.’” Has anything happened?” Homann asked, “Is any one sick? Whatis the matter 77? “Oh, nothing; but I want you to go with me,” The two went up the Bowery together, stopping two or three times to obtain beer, and they dnaily reached the Germania Bank, in Fourteenth sircet, where Jousset withdrew $72, the amount of bis deposits in that institution, Ina neiguboring lager beer saloun Jousset put this money in ap envelope and gave it to Homann to give to his wife. Accompanying the money was a letter, in which he explained that ho was going to fight the mysterious duel before ulluded to, a purpose from which Homann says he tried to diwsuade his friend. Jourset had a pistol in his pocket at tho time, and thero was con- siderable talk between tho pair on the subject of the duel. Notwithstanding this intent they went together to Homann’s house, where they had supper, but Homann did not then deliver the letter withthe money it contained to bis sister, But Mrs. Yousset does not seem to have been in entire ignorance of the transac: tions of the afternoon, for she asked her husband if he h ed to the bank, to which he answered **No,”’ at the same time secretly enjoining secresy upon Horaann, Alter supper the two went out again together, and afterfvisiting several restaurants, where more beer was imbibed, they separated, Jousset’s last words being, “You know what to do,’? This took place early in tho evening, and Jousset was seen in Brooklyn ata tater hour, as will appear hereafter, while Homann did not return to his home until alter midnight. These are the transactions of the day, as Homann relates them, and they are plain in everything except adequate motive for conduct so remarkable, THE SUBSEQUENT PROCREDINGS. In this long interview with the reporters Homann did not seem to be ip any way impressed with the dangers of his surroundings, and while he evidently was seeking to suppress at least part of the truth there was nothing in his manner to indicate that his suppressions bad relation to @ deed of blood. 1b appeared too that Mrs. Jousset remained all pignt at her brotber’s bouse, where sue was thrown into tho deepest eric! by the purport of her husband’s letter, This letter also contained an injunction requiring bi at once to remove her property trom their house in Brooklyn to Hemann’s house, and this was done carly yesterday morning. Paris of it were put in the cellar Homann’: J many articles were strewn about the apartment in which Homano related this remarkable story to the reporters. Mra, Jousset herself bad not put in an appearance, however, though she was ex- pected during the cvening, a8 Homann said she bad nowhere else to sleep. ENTRANCE OF TRE DETECTIVES, When all tiese details had been gathered and the reporters were about ready to depart two men, stran- gers to Homann, entered the apartment. As the house painter's bead was full of the awe inspired by thecross- examination of bis journalistic inquisitors he mistook the newcomers tor reporters also, and when be eaw themehe cried out— “There now, | can talk no more; [am tired talking.” Tt was not long, however, until be was unceceived as to the characters of bis new visitors and became aware that be had belore him Detectives Tieman and Reilly, Tears at once began to flow Jrom the eyes of Mrs, Ho- mann and others in the house, but Homann himeell maintaimed his indifference, and = when the oMcers suggested that he should accompany them to Votice Headquarters and relate ine story to Superintendent Wailing be readily consented. He dia pot even wart to put on his overcoat, but gayly emetged into the street with a pipe in his mouth, and siutling as complacently asf be were going to « Dutch ball. This man does not believe, or afects not to be- Neve, that a murder has been committed, but his man- hor seems to show that he could elucidate this mystery ifhe would. It will be seen, too, that his story, which has the same basis as that of Mrs. Jousset, his sister, dif_ers froin and contradicts it 1m many essentials, and espectaliy in those minor facts which could not be arranged in concert between them. MRS. JOCSSET'S STORY. A reporter calied on Mrs, Jousset at her residence, No, 860 Pacific street, to hear her version of the story of her husband’s d pearnoce, ‘The bouse is an un pretentious two story cottage, from the line of the sidowalk,fand is kept by a Mrs, Conner, with whom Jousset and bis wile pave lived for atout ayear past. Mrs Jousset 1s 4 stout, heaithy louking German woman about thirty-five years of age and appeared to ve in great distress, Ddurst- ing into tears as she told her story, and, referring 1o the finding of her busbanu’s bat and the evidences of u struggle, expressed the fear that be tad been murdered anu thrown 1p the river, | They were married, she said, some three yeurs ago and had lived happily together ever since. Ho was of a lively disposition, and though he worked ha complained or felt disspitited until at Christmas tine. A change came over Lim then aud he became an en- tirely uiflerent persov. Before that time he never spent an hour outside of business away from ker with- out telling exactly where he was going and what he bad todo, He was sober aud sieady in his habits and kept good hours, Lately, however, he had remained out late on several occasions and would give her no explanation of his movements. When she asked him what caused him to go out so much and Drought such a change in him, he replied, ‘I can’t teil you now, Louise, I may tell you some other time.” ‘Tne Jast time she spoke to him about being out so much be said, “I may have to go once more,” Op Wednesday afternoon, about two o'clock, they left the house together to pay a visit to August Homann, her brother, who lives at No. 115 Ciinton sireet, New York. ‘He was not at bome when they cailed, aud her husband sturted to goto the bank where he had money on deposit. That wes the ijast time sie saw him. Her brother returned three-quarters o{ aa nour later and said he had seen ber husband, When she asked fim banded her a letter, bus would not let her open it called in hi and, taking back the letter a to the latter, saying ne could not tell her its coni@uir He then loft her with lis wile, and they opened the lovter together, The letter was written in ( vnand contained $60. It rntorwed ber tbat ter bus aud had why he did not come with bim ne He erpool six years ago. The duel was with a Frenchman, and ber busband bad wounded him, This sate man had followed him here when he foind bis whereabouts, and cumo to seek his life. He nad tried bis best to settle the difficulty with moncy, but 1 was of no avail, He Vboughe that was ail that Was necessary, but sound he Was mistaken, .[t was not this n lone he feare ‘There were more thin one of them ment for tnat (Wednesday) night to fight bisold enemy, He was to meet bim vetween twelve and one o'clock. The letter turther told her to remove her things from their home in Brooklyn ‘othe houre of her brocher. She dia not koow any of the men who were her hus. band’s enemies. Mrs. Conner told her ‘hat about teu o'clock on the same evening her husband came into the house alone and pard a hurried visit to iis room. parted as quickly as he came, taking no cloth By articles sho could think of The only ol of his visit wi ¢ thought, to procure sume Mrs, Jousset said she remained over night at he! brother's house and revurned te Brookiyn yesterday, A SERVANT GIKL'S LOVE. The bey | man was employed by P. H. Kretz- sohmar asa clerk in his drug store, corner of Fulton avenue and Adelphi street, and is described »y hi ployer as areliable, diligent and trustworthy young man so far as Dusiness matters are concerned, Mr, Kretzsonmar had im his employ a pretty servant girl nd she accepted tis advi wud fell desperately in with him, not knowing he was a married Mr. Kretzsenmar thought it wie duty to © man. inter: babit of mving her the bulk of his wage: 1 up 10 the ume of bis disappearance their reiutions were amicable, NOMANN AT 10M. | August Homann, tuo brother-in-law of Jousset. isa | fail, Well proportioned and athletic map, curetul io Specen, Whoroughiy self-possessed in tanner, wud ap Perently unconscious of the ordeal througy wo be about to | His house is No. 41h Chote Mreet, near Delincey, ww wirked by ever the door, unnonieiny nist end The family ream te an exemoumaly erat the reat of the tsi floor, wed boappioucl Barrow BlarWay, Two leprecouiaives uF | veh vior flere and discharged Jourset on soiurday jast, The servant oon learned that ber lover had a wile, and the news made her insane, She was tiker two her mother’s house on Thesday, and vas removes to (he eure of some other trend. Kretzschmar reaonstrated with toward th: girl, and fis wile ot wis AUEMY ANE remarked tin brad \ jutro revor ei biow ont teoad With lieae 0 wry n He had an engage: | motivo | ignorance, | to go somewhere on account of n duel be fought in Liv. | NEW YORK HE os will permit, ts important. The letter was as fol- VWs Buoogurs, Jan. 15. Dean Lourse— Taw very sorry, but it cannot be helped, I must with that man of be killed like a dog. ‘To-morrow midnight we will meet ins duel. pistols or swords, and one of ug niust ail, It I die, it is bes you forget and if kill him then f mu; possible leave New York. You wiil know ail wepapers. It is best, then, shai you remain er or else the police wil Srathers and be will and. he rather, and. he. ith wit ay sp erie Sek T should be sv bappy ou know Pacidc street, su th trouble Loved, dear Louise, your anhappy WHAT WALLING SUSPECTED. The great question to be settied Jor the guidance of the polee was whether anybody had been killed or not From the facis withip their reach ané herei before given this was bard to determine, The wite of the duellist, whose suddet ing off was believed ALBERT. terday alternoon, bad in jon the only clew to the mystery. That was tl given to ber by her brother on bis return bome the previo night, Everybody had been after it, few had ever traced it to her possession. Late last night, however, the remarkable missive was secn by a Hunan reporter und a detective from the Central Office, It 18 given wbove ; that is to say, « literal trans- lation of it, so near as the same could be presented in- telligivly. The worls used in tne original were bad German except the one indicating trouble, and it re- quired a great deal of ingenuity to get at the sense or meaning intended. It will be seen that the letter wi dated if not written jast Monday, and that th hewspapers were expected by the writer to furnis! very lengthy accounts of the Th most important statement in the ep! that which warned the wife to wait Papers informed ber of her husband's death before she moved her goods. and chattels from Pacific street, Brooklyn, to No. 115 Clinton street, because she was im the act of packing up and clear: ing out before tho police of Now York were even aware that anything bad happened, Of course Officer McClellan found the suspicions circumstances in the Twenty-third prectnct early in the morning, and a brief two or threo line slip was trans- mitted thence to the Central Ofice, not charged with information sufficiently important \o awaken the sus- picions of the otlicials ‘on dul The reporter who visited Mrs. Jousactt early in the day at her home Brooklyn was told by her at that time that his w the unpleasant duty to break the news of her bereavement to her. Yet. was sho fulfllin, the behest of ber dear departed—moving to No. 11 Clinton street. Further than thie, 1t will be seen from the letter that brother-in-law August, who was at Paci- fic street with his sister when the reportor called, w. fully cognizant of the supposed bioody encounte: was about to take place between the missing man aud the mysterious antagonist on the 15th of danuary, notwithstanding his protestations to the contrary, Then, again, August told the Haun porter in the Interview bad at No. 115 Clinton street esterday evening that it had already been urranged ; busband and wife to change their residence from the Long Island side to New York. In short, the letter upseis August's cla:m to credit in Superintendent Wal- ling’s estimation and gavo rise to the belief that tho whole affair was a gigantic humbug, HOMANN RELEASED. jut fined at Police Headquarters, Superintendent Walling saw him, and, having heard bis story, sent Detoctive Reilly to Brooklyn, where, 1+ was said, Jousset hud been seen after ten ‘o'clock on’ the night was accredited with having fought the Manhattan Island. gust’s detention, aud told the HERALD reporter that he had given him permission to go home to Clinton street, where his sister-in-law awaited him, Up to a Jate hour the prisouver had not taken advantage of the permission. JOUSSET ALIVE AND CHUCKLING, Last night Dr, P. H. Kretzschmar was found by cer- tain New York detectives in his store at the corner of Fulton and Adelphi stree nd, after detailin; the particulars given above, added the following, whic! put a new face on the whole matter: On Tuesday the Doctor, baving (discharged Jou 5 paid him and he went away, returning on Wednesday night, however, with bis hutr cut short, his mustache shaved offand his whole appearance changed, He said to his old employer :— “Doctor, Lam going to be the subject of a bigger sensation than you ever thought | would be. Just read the papers to-morrow and you will bear about me.” He then went away and the Doctor neard no more of Jousset till his attention was called yesterday to the account of his mysterious disappearance, Last night, however, a friend of his strolled in, who said: ‘Doctor, whatis the matter with Jousset? I ai just after seeing him and be told me to read the papers and see what a time they were raising about him,” That was the Jast Dr. Kretzschmar heard of his quondam clerk. ana ho 1 at a loss what to think eboat his conduct or how to explain the motives which dic- tated it. 18 THIS WHER THR ‘BLOOD’? CAMK PROM? Yesterday alternoop the police of the Twenty-third precinct, who were oxamining the spot whero the mys- terious ‘footprints had been discovered, caine upon a weiss beer bottle in which a few drops of a red liqnid resembling aniline dye remained, and this, it supposed, was used to leave upon the snow tho sangwioury hue which gave occasion for 80 many surmises, A bum- ber of footsteps wera also discovered leading up from tho water’s edge a shortdistance off, which were tracked back to the avenue. ¥ THY LATRST THEORY. The theory of the detectives now 18 thet the woman with who Jousset lived was the discarded or divorced ‘wito of Homann, Tho latter, according to the statement of Mrs Connors, with whom tl pair resided, goes io show that Homann and that the to her somewhat ad called once of twice upon them, relations between them scemed mysterious. It is thought, then, that when Jousset wanted to icave the ‘city with his new love, the housemaid of his employer, he and Homann consulted together d adopted the strange and homicide-euggesting jethod of bidding adien to Brooklyn and its vicinity, which created such a sonsation yesterday. A PROPOSED NEW CHARTER. It is said that a bill amending the New York charter very materially bas been drafted by ‘ta committee of city taxpayers,” whieh provides that the office term of the Dock Commissioners, the Police Commisstone! Health Commissioners and the Charity Commission- ers shall terminate ten days attor the tho act, the Mayor to appoint their successor: Voliee Department 1s, under the bill, to be composed of two “public commissioners of the city of New York,’ and the Healit) Board to control the Street Cleaning Bureau, Mr. Louis M. Doscher Is said to be the secre- tary of the “Committeo of Taxpayers” who have dratted the bill, It may be news to him to know that the copy farnished to the Hrratp is almost a verbaum copy of a bill that has been introduced into the Legis. lattire more than once during the past threo years, and has always met with the sleep of death in committee room. IMPORTANT CHARTER AMENDMENT, TAXPAYERS TO BE REPRESENTED BOARD OF APPORTIONMENT. At the meeting of the Board of Aldermen yesterday Mr. Phillips presented a preambie and resolution favor. ing the passage of a law empowering the Mayor to ap- point a fi{th member of the Board of Estimate and Ap- portionment who shall represent the taxpayers of this city, as tollows:— annual mersage of His Hi Couneil the following occurs dd Apportionment, consisting of tour of tue d with ® most important mount to be raised by taxw by each of the departments -aduty IN THE a the HH And (0 He expend: | which they have discharged with singular fidelity and wis: dom -it seems to me that the efficiency of this Bonrd might be still further increased by appointing to it an ad ditional meaber directly representing the taxable erty, particularly the real estute of the ci whernas this by His Houor the 3 x pressed solved. That the Counsel to the Corporation be and he is hy reny anthorized and directed to prepare x memorial on bebaifol the Mayor, Aldermen and Comm ot New York, and cause the same to be presented to the Lovisiatare of this State, now in passe ot or ol eset the 4 for the appolntment by the who shall bea taxpaver, to xabl his efty in the Board of ortionment, such appointee to serve with pensatio | ‘The subject was roferred to the Law Committee for consideration, THE ‘REVOLVER BUSINESS. Dering the past four weeks a number of cloaks and dresses have been tron\ of the store of H. C. F, Koch & Uo., No. 519 Sixth | avenue, und Officer Daniel Quigley, of the Twenty-ninth prec.net, was instructed to wateh jor the thieves. Yesterday morning be suw James Smith aud Michael . two members of the Seventh avenue | prowch the front ot the store, smith swung around a cionk, Which wag on one ol the show figures, and Kelly seized it, The thieves were about making off with their booty when arrested vy the officer. On beng searched by flicer Quigley immense pepper-box revolver was found 11 Siith’s possession, On being arraigned before Justice Murray, Smite and Kelly were held for triai in default i Thomas Mathers, of No 327 Duffield street, m company with (wo iriepds, vinited & house in W Twenty-eighta street on Inesiay Michl Aud became enpaged 10 an altercatio With a cylored girl watied Mattio Thomas, in cous | quence of which he was locked up in the Pweaty-ninth Hrecine! station, A revolver was found ip his pocket When arta asuington Place Court yester day be Was disehulged, Hue ev dence agaoet bim being en, The revolver Was cvuliseated, SHON La Fisher, Whe keeps « beer saloon at st iwenty sixth street, ana Charies B. 1 Nw avenue, quarrelied on he the ditieduy Fisher Wil the butt or a te y. Fisher was held by Joohive Murray in detwuli of $1000 vail to answer. Last night, after the brother-in-law bad been con- | * | out @ doubt, will cost it nothin valty of theelty | praving for the | a stolen from the show frames in | RALD, FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 1877. QUR SILVER ABROAD. Proposition from Belgium to the United States Government. A REMEDY FOR PRESENT EVILS A Mint in Brussels for the Coinage of ADVANTAGES OF THE PLAN. | | it by baving the coinage of moneys executed tor those governments inspected by the same employés The following communication, forwarded to the | Secretary of the 171 jury, in Washington, by M. Allard, the director of the Belgian Royal Mint, will be found of special Interest to American readers. As ‘will be seen by @ perusal of the document, it 16 @ pro- posal on the pari of the Belgian authorities that tho United Stat rnment should establish a mint for | the coinage of erat Brussels a remedy for the e sing from the unsteady and fluctuating con- | dition of the silver market:— Royal Miyt, Bavssens, Dec, 31, 1 To THe Dingcrox oy TH TREASURY ov THE UniTED States, Washington, D. C.:— | Sin—In view of the measures taken by tho United States to develop the coinage of silver, and of tho serious questions to which the deplorable state of the European market (in consequence of the closing of all the mints of the Continent to this metal) has given rise, I have taken the liberty to place before you what I consider to be measures to be taken by the United States to assure a greater stability in the European market, It would bo necessary, as you will see, sir, by the notes attached, that tho United States, with all tho authority that belongs to that great country, should open in Europe at least one of tho mints whose closing bas caused the trouble iu the silver market. J have taken upon myself to point out how this isto be done. Ido do ‘not doubt but that my proposal will be found by you in every way agreoubie to tho interests of tho ‘Americun government, and if it if accepted in’ princt- ple jt will be easy to find immediately practical means for putting it into execution, 1 bave the honor to bo, sir, your most obedient sor- nt. J. ALLARD. PROPOSITION, TO THR GOVERNMENT OF TUK UNITED STATES, Koran Mixt, BRusseis, Dec. 31, 1876, According to the last report of the director, Mr, H. R. Lindermann, the silver colnage of the United States for August and Septomber far exceeded ail pre- vious limits. Silver bas been turned out during these two months atthe rate of $32,282,460 a year, while the highest coinago reached up to that date (and corre- sponding to the yoar 1853, at the moment of the change on the standard) was only $9,077,571. In order to meet this heavy coinage the United States have been forced to buy silver tn Europe, or at leaat to pay for it at the miut in America such a price that it was profitable to buy in Europo, Here 1s the sacrifice:— ‘These silver orders coming on a market already very unsteady, and as @ consequence of its unsteadiness, irregularly and poorly supplied, these sudden ordors cause 4 rise in prices of a most unreasonable obaracter, and they have also this other serious inconventonce— that this momentary rise has tho effect of attracting silver to the market just at the time when the orders cease, Tho consequence is a violent drop in the price ofthe metal. Atono time there are orders, but no metal on the market; some days after there is metal, but no further orders, That which I mention here ha: actually taken place only a few days since, and it 15 only necessary to glance at the quotations for silver in London to see the unreasonable fluctuations which took place in December, KPFRCT OF THR FLUCTUATIONS, ‘This state of things touches the interests of the gov- ernment of the United States in two ways, First, asa buyer and consumer of silver it pays always dearly for it; second, producer of silver in her mines Brat disorder is tnrown into all commercial transac: tions payable in that metal and money finds less em- ployment as these transactions diminish. There is, nevertheless, a very simple remedy to bo employed, which, if it does not stop complotely this state of things, so hurtful to American interests, would be certain, at least, to palliate its pernicious effects, Tt ig this remedy that I desire to clearly point out. If 1 have occupied myself with this question so important to the United States it is that, being for thirty years the Director of the Belgian Mint, Iam the only coiner of money who, through the bullion houses I have establishod in Brussels, Paris and Lonaon, has solely consecrated himsel! during this time to the study of the questions concerning the buying and selling of gold and ativer in Europe, and 1 am ablo, In conse- quence, to juago exactly of the position of the Kuro- pean market. CAUSE OF TI 1h. Tn the notes drawn up by me, and which the Belgian governnent transmitted to His Excellency the United States Minister at the beginning of this month, in repl y to the questions of the American Silver Commis- sion, I have cicarly laid down tho principle which has been the true cause that in Europe, for more than three-quarters of a century, gold and silver havo re- mained of the samo relative value the one toward tho other, Ihave shown in those notes and in detajl the proof t bat the cause must be attributed to the law in France, and later on in Itaty, in Belgium and in Switzerland, which created, without limit to the coin- age, the possibility to coin these two metals, in giving them the reiative value of one to fitteen and a half (22222 francs the kilogramme of fue silver contained in the coins of tive franca, and 3444.44 francs the kilogramme of fine gold contained in the twenty franc gold coins). | remarked 1 those notes that gold and silver, launched out thus into circulation, constituted a vast and tree reservoir, regulating the value of the two metals in the world and | maintaining their equilibrium 60 exactly that neither the great discoverivs of silver in Mexico in 1844-46, | nor the immense discoveries of gold in California and Australia, wero able to disturbit. Thus I arrivea at | this proof:—That, to break up this equilibrium and to cause the fluctuations which we have since seen, | nothing more was needed than the law limiting the coinage of silver in 1873. The modification of this law would suffice to restore calmness to the silver market and to cure itof the summersaults to which it is sub- jected. THE REMKDY PROPOSED, Until the moment arrives when by the force of things more reasonable ideas on this question will be ntertained in Kurope, the American government can, “by a simple action to be taken by it, and which, with- approach very near to the end desired. The government of the United States, Who have to coin between resumption of specie pay- ments on the lst of January, 1879, should address it- self tothe mint at Brussels, and authorize it, under | tho Inspection of the Belgian government, to coin for the account of the American government, at a price to | be determined by it, dollars or fractions of dollars, in | silver, of the weight and Oneness laid down by tho | American laws, ‘The moment this resolution 16 ar- | rived at the fall in the price in silver would bo | paralyzed, and could not again in Europe pass tho limit determined on by tho United States, In point ot fact, on every tall in | only for twenty-tour hours even below the limit fixed, the American government would have on the spota | mei hand, that ts w seller, or India, on the other band, that, for the moment, 18 @ non-absorber, In other words, | the remedy that I propose consists simply in putting | tp vigor partially in Europe, by means of a mint, the principle which from 1803 to 1873 has maintained the | equilibrium between the valuo of gold and silver, Silver cannot fall in Europe below 220,554 the kilo- gramime of fine silver, because the mints buy at that price to coin five franc pieces. Neither can silver fail below the limit determined on by the American gov. ernment, because that government will have placed the means before the pablic of converting their silver into dollars at the Brussels mint, WHAT WOULD HE GAINKD BY THR PLAN, It will hardly bo necessary to point out the imme. diate advantages which the American government will derive from the resolution that it im desired it hould take, Firs the equality thus brought into the American Silver. } tho price of silver, were it | | | from the young Pole's presence in the house tor two ary establishment situated in thg centro of the | European market, absorbing silver for it under favor. | able conditions, whether it is Germany, on the one | state of the silver market will facilitate those transac- tions payable in that metal, will permit of its em- ployment with less disquictude, and will reanimate the marketto the great advantage of the American mines, Second, Withoat any cost to the American government, the United States mints will be greatly assisted in the beavy coining operations necessary to be performed within the next two years. Third. the cost of coining is without doubt heavier in the United States than in Belgium, where hand labor and coal are {ar cheaper, and on this account alone this } Measure, if taken, would beto the advantage of the ' American government. rhe Belgian mint coims moueys for other countries than Beigium, and always | under the inspection of the agents of the | Belgis government. For example it has | coimed for Switzerland, Roumania, Egypt,. Italy, Brazil and Luxumbourg, &c. The Belgian government accords its assistance to foreign govern- | ments (generally in @ voluntary manner) who desire | and subjected to the same tests as if the coinage took place jor the Belgian moneys. When the mint coing Belgian five franc pieces, it charges for ail expenses of | mintage, direct or indirect, including waste, seven traces fifty centimes for every thousand france struck off. It is probable that upon these terms it will be easy to come to an arrangement with the United States | government, | The moneys struck conformably with the laws of the American government would be certified as being conform (i. ¢., of the legal standard) by the officials | of the Belgian government, they would be delivered on board at Liverpool and assured, and the United States Minister at Brusse!s would pay for them on de- hvery of the following documents: : First—The certificate of the officials of the Belgian government as to the quality and quantity of the moueys delivered on board under a double seal, Second—The policy of assurancu and the bill ot lading, in the nameof the American government, ADVANTAGES RESULTING PROM TILIS PROPOSITION. First, without expense op its part, the American government would augment its production for the ro- sumption of specie payments in [879% Second, it would have all known guarantees, the samo even as it the silver had been coined in its own mints. Third, it | would steady the value of silver by paralyzing any ex- cess in the fall in price. Fourth, while this tabrica- tion in Europe Is going on ut the Belgian Mint of dol- | lars, or (ractions of dollars, the American government could develop its remittances of trade dollars to India and to China. It would receive in return merchandise which otherwise would find its way to the English mar. kets, and this merchandise would be the natural re- turn, in the course of time, against silver dollars coined in Europe, To sum up, tho coinage of silver dollars in Europe for the accownt of the American government would become s powerful lever to ald in the displacement of commerce with India, until tately concentrated in England, and which seems to open out thus a new field of exploitation for the United States of America. SMALLPOX. BAVAGES IN DETROIT OF THE DREAD DIs- EASE—A SURE AND CERTAIN REMEDY—THE STRANGE EXPERIENCE OF AN AFFLICTED POLE. Detroit, Jan, 15, 15 The present winter, while almost unparalleled in | the history of Detroit tor the quantity of snow falling and for the long weeks of steady cold, brought with it | ap unusual uumber of cases of smallpox, which dis- times has threatened to penctrate every neigh- borhood, causing unusual excitement, Some house- holders, mostly foreigners and people having an up- reasonable fear of the disease, have practically closed their houses against callers, remosed their children from school, and suffered for want of food rather than go forth and carn it. In the Polish quarter of the city the disease passed from bouse to house with terriblo rapidity, the Polenders stubbornly refusing to be vac- cinated aad being in many cases too ignorant or too poor to adopt the other usual precautions, It was not unul tho sanitary police, accompanied by the Polish priest, proceeded to force almost that the people would roll up their sleeves and permit the doctor to prick in | the virus, ENTRRTAINING A STRANGER, Three weeks ago, during tho greatest excitement, a young Pole, about twenty years of age and unable to speak a word of English, arrived in tis city from the East, having written directions from Polanders here how to find them, The young man was weak and ill when reaching the depot, and, probably greatly em- barrassed by the fact, he walked down the depot yard and hid behind a warehouse until nearly might, He was then accidentally discovered and ordered away, Reaching tho street he walked around until near mid night, amd by good fortune reached the Polish quarter through his own effort, He had scarcely becn wel cdmed by one speaking his native tonge discovered that he was a victim of the smallpox. The pustules had appeared on his face, be was tevorish and light headed and tho odor of the disease was with bim. “MAKE WAY VOR THE LEPER.”? The siranger was husticd out of the bouse with out delay by tho excited owner, and he found himself in the street on a@ bitter cold night, having neither money nor friends, Reasoning that other Polanders would extend a like reception in his sad condition, tho stranger struck out at a venture, crossed streets, yards and fields, and finally reached a barnyard on the plank road leading from Detroit to Port Huroa, and near the Orst toli-gaco outsiae the city. His weak and exhausted conaition may be Judged trom the fact that in crossing tho last fleld—a ten.acre lot—he fell down eighteen times, as tound by those who fullowed@ his trail, and the Jast hundred feet was crawled on bis fands and knees. Reaching the barayard the ole crawled under a ehed where cattle and other stock found shelter. There wes a straw stack ot one end of the shed, making a warm place, and at this end of the shed the man took up his bed. A FARMER'S MOSPITALITY. It ts certain that he was under the shed three nights and two days, and bis presence would not have been | knowa then had he not appeared at the farm house | and made signs thas he was hungry, atso exhibiting | a lotter written in the Polish language. Ho was a sight to seo at that time, He had covered his taco, hands and neck with fresh compost, and this had | partly dried and partly frozen to the skin, Warm water and soap were furnished him, and when he stood clean before the tamily every pustule had dis- appeared, and the disease had left him! There was no smell of smallpox, no fever, nor was there a pit oa his face, though the skin was unusually red and quite tender, He showed the family where he had rested condition plain. and to the terrible itching of the pustules he had plastered them with tho fresh compost of the cattle feeding on the straw. SUARING IT WITH HI8 COUNTRYMEN, To mako this, singular case more plain it may be stated that the Polander who admitted the stranger to his house is now down with smallpox, taking the discase from his visitor, It cannot be doubted that | the stranger under the shed is the same young man who called on the Volander and was turned away, for | his name is the game, he has the same letter and men have followed the trail in the snow from the shed ai- | most to the Polander’s dour, At this date the young | wan, entirely tree from any saspicion of the disease, | is helping to Hurse the man who canght the disease of | him, Three of the farmer's children have never been | vaccinated, and yet they have not suffered in the least long hours. A GOOD TIME FOR THE DOCTORS. There isacase here \o puzzle physicians, and the particulars hay 1 stated a8 plainly as possib | there may Le po “ifs? for M. U,'s Lo fal! back upo The stranger certainly bad emalipos, for lhe gave it to | another. He cortainiy recovered, tor here be is, Waik- | ng about He can be traced from the hour he landed | in the city, and he was under the shed three nights and two days If the iresh manure did not abs | sorb the disease from his system in that sort time, | woat else dia? If burying « patient in the curth up to | his neck, ax practiaed in sume countries, bas a ben. | efcial effect on diseuses, why shouldn't iresh compost have double (he strength usa healer? [tis w wirarght plain case, and, though not discovered by Jenner, t cure may one day rank with bis preventive. NEW YORK YACHT CLUB. N 1 The approaching annual election of the New York Yacht Club promises to be full of interest and excites ment, It will be held oo toe Ist prox, ava already several candidates are im the field, The following | have been spoken of for the jeading positions: —For Commodore, &. Nicholson Kane, yacht Kestiess, tor Vico Commodore, William Astor, yacht Atelanta; for | Kear Commodore, James Alexandre, yacht Visio | branches off on a subject which compels when it was | under the shed, and there was evidence that made his | Ho had had neither food nor crink, | that | THE STATE CAPITAL, Senator Woodin and the Elee. toral Yote. TACTICS OF THE DEMOCRATS An Interview with Gov- ernor Robinson. A PAINS AND PENALTIES BILL Avpaxy, Jan, 18, 1877, It was altogether unlikely the Senate of tn York Legisiature could so far forget its traditions as to permit any question agitating the national mind to pass unnoticed. The Senate of the Empire Stato should not be asked to confine itself to the dry discus- sion of ‘merely local matters—to the dull, common Place business it was sent here to transact, Thero- fore, on reaching the order of resolutions, Mr, Woodin roso and said:—“'The constitution requires the Governor to communicate with the Legisia, ture every year all matters pertaining to the welfare of the State, The message of this year is, tor most part, worthy of the mam who occupies the Executive Cuamber, but at the clese of bis message he nators to beheve that, although it ia the hand of Lucius, yet it is the voice of Samuel, and emanated from the Liberty strect bureau of “nincompoops,’’ He thought it due to the Governor, therefore, that tho Legisiature should express |ts opinions, and be offered a preamble and revolutions, which closed as follows:— , Resolved, That the declaration of the result of the Presi- dential elect! ples of the netic should be strictly governed by the princi- nstitution and by the established usage and nt the action of the conventic under it: the constituth which appotut » pi receiving an and countin, neut of Charie te of nt ‘ederal Conven gr ° tnken to provide for the election of @ President independently of Congress, to take the business, as tar ns posstbie out of their i" that the opinion of i pressed ina subsequent debate, in which sagreed upon a different dent of the Senate would proceot | ” that the opinion of Cha aiued unehans © nd de interpret the intent of the framers of the’ constitution. Without goin: beyand ite appropriate province the Legisla: ture of New York earnestly iusists that no partisan effort should be allowed to det-ut or emabarrass the orderly course ‘of law which is so essential to she welfare and prosperity of the Kepublic. io constitution a po tof every patriotic citizen, Resolved, That any throat to disregard the resuttlof the Presidential election and its Iawtul declaration is ineendl a tn spirit and revoiutia ary in charact t to inflam id exeit: partisan feeling condemnatio must enforce av the supreme obligation of the hour the duty and unbesitating acceptance of the legal deter- Mr, Woodin asked that the resolutions be put upon their final passage. Mr. Jacobs objected, and the resolutions, therefore, went over under the rule and were ordered to be printed, EXTENDING THE POWRR OF COUNTY sCDGR: The bill to extent the powers of county judges when | holding courts in counties other than their own was ordered toa thira reading, and the bill relating to the Superintendent of State Prisons was progressed. The latter is an office created under the new constitutional ameniments, and the bill provides that the salary be fixed at $8,000, with an additional sum ot $2,000 per year tor travelling expenses. Senator Starbuck wanted the bill passed, but the Sage of Auburn raised the slogan of economy and was finally successful in having it laid over for the time being. MARING MEN HONEST NY LAW. Another of Mr. Dorman B, Eaton's bills turned up to-day in the Assembly, They are to law and legisla. tion what Turner's paintings are to art—vague, mystic fancies that defy both logic and experience. It wa introduced by Mr. Strahan, who explained privately that he believod the bill was intended to mako honest by statute, A glean of wisdom and justice breaks through at distant intervals, as where a penalty 1s provided for such conguct on the part of officials as has been heretofore 80 common, that of hiring build. | ings for armories, &c., at exorbitant rents, and on the part of Sevators and Assemblymen of forcing appotatinents to office on the heads of department EQUALIZING TAXATION. | Mr. Hodges, of Monrve, offered a resolution a substitute Lor that of Mr. Moore's, which was offered a Jew days ago, for equalizing wore effectually the bur- dens of taxatt ‘The resolution und substitute were reterred to tho Committees on Ways aba Means, This subject is of greut mterest to the country members, and it they can manage to shift the burden Of taxation a little more of (hemsoives und on to the big city of New York they wili be correspondingly happy. A PLANK MOVEMENT, The democratic Senators held a caucus this evening and Starbuck, Bradley # of resolutions a8 & Wooun with a severe arraigninent of the system of returning boards, the Nemesis of a republican form of government | and the broad suggestion of despousm, They arraign | the ftederat Execative for military “iterter- ence in States where the plain motive of interfering wax to defeat the legitimately elected candidate for President and count in the man who is counted on to save an army of office-holders appointed by said ct they wind up by expressing the convict of the democracy that their candidate is honestly elected and that he will ve imaugurated 11 ts have not ost their courage, When Wood- in’s regoiution comes up to morrow for consideration Starbuck will offer some sharp-pointed amendments full of gail and wormwood tor republican stomachs, which, of course, will be rejected, Then he will move to substitute the democratic set of resoluuions tor those of the republicans, anda lively debate may ve expected, WHAT GOVERNOR ROMINSON SAYS, | “Well, that was to be expe: said Governor | Robinson to your correspondent this evening, when asked what he thought of Woodiu’s splurge in the | Senate iu reply to the national portion of the guberna torial message. “Things of that kind are as inevitable a6 the rising of the ude; they have bo meaning as tar | as | am concerned.” | “You have reason to bopo, Governor, that your relations with the Senate will be a bier “Ehave; they uoanimnously con’ 1 the appoint. ment of Major Wiley, and that is evidence of their feeling.” | “You sent in an appointment tor Port Warden of New | York to-day, Do you intend to sendin any more nom- inations tor Port Wardens or Hurbor Masters!” “Mr. Gordon, whose nate I sent in to-day, was ap- pointed to fill a vacancy by Governor Tilden during | the recess, and it was a question whether confirmation | Dy the Senate was necessary, but 1 consulted the At- torney General and be gave It as his opinion that it would be as well to send ia the name. I have no pres- eut intention of sending in any names for Vort War- | dens and Harbor Masters.”” | “What treatment do you expect of your nominations for Superintendent of Puviie Works and Inspecior of | State Prisons will receive ?'” | “Lam satisted the Senate will act promptly on tho | nominations and all the measures necesxury to carry | out the purpose of the constitutional amendments, a2 | the people evidently intended the canals and prisons shoula be taken out of politics. 1 propose these ap | pointments shall harmonize with that intention.’” | “There 18 dissatisiaction among some republicans | with your paragrap in the message depreciating the Jarge expenditure on the public schools.” | “Phere bas been much misapprehension on that bead | the money raised for schoo! purposes ix a sacred fund, and every possible penny of it should be devoted to the one object of education; nove vl it should be devoted to the nero architectural ornamentation of school baiidings, Thonsands of peopie who have no children are taxed Inrgely for the support of schools from which | persousily they reap no venett, and their moncy should be expended with economy.” be tion necessary this winter ?'’ Obs ou for cities based ou the re- port of the Mamicipal Charter Committee will be the | most importanw Mr. arte told me tne report would pot be ready betore the fi week in February ; it will no doubt be an elaborate and Interesting docu- tent,” GENERAL NOTES. A bill introduced by Mr. Jacob J. Stein extends tho | act to printers, pub- | provisions of the Mectianics? Li Hiehers and jithographers, A Uill of Mr, Bowen's allows counties of over 70,000 population an Assistant District Attorney, Mr. Corsa had a bill, the same as Was introduced ip 5 , providing that the firemen's benevolent ‘receive its portion of the tax levied on foreign insurance companies. Hayes introduced a bill amending the chat no Popular Tw jee Com, 0 become & stock holde: The bill to er tate Hoard of Health was favor. ably feported irom the Committee on Public Health. Fr. Strahan, trom the Judiciary Committee, reported | favorably the bill to compensate the clerks of the civil | a strict courts who were thrown out of place 10 make way for the old clerks by the decision of the Court of Appenle allow the pee = Ea wer ee ee ee