The New York Herald Newspaper, February 5, 1877, Page 6

THR RING'S “RELATIONS.” An Annotated List of Tweed and Sweeny’s Helpers. WILAT THEY DID--WHAT THEY GOT. Who Did the High and Who the Low Work— Tools in All Parties. THE TAMMANY POLICE JUSTICES. How Foes Were “ Railroaded,” Friends Released and Fines Pocketed, THREE SPECIMEN FUGITIVES, It ia the mistaken fashion to speak of the Tammany Ring as dead or, at, least, as something altogether of the past, and with no possibilities in the future. In reality the greater number of the men who really com- posed the Ring, making up tts rank and file, or who dud the work given them to do by the leaders of this organization, are alive to-day, are living in New York, and are, most of them, well-to-do in the metropolis— men, even now, of considerable mark, The cniefs of the Ring used all sorts of materials to build and main- tam their power, aud among the men who acted with thom, or under thom, are to be found first, honorable men, who merely acted with the Hing in its official capactty, merely recognizing its members in a legiti- mate, official way; and second, men who did tho dirty work of the Ring for tho sake of direct gain, ‘Phe agents of the Ring boionged to both tho great po litical parties, and embraced all phases of society. They were to be found along tho lino of Filth avenue as well as in tho Fourth ward, The majority of these men are stillin vigorous lite among us—many of them still retain official powor and station—while almost all of them are wealthy, or at the very least, in “comfortable circumstances.” Some of them make a point of denouncing tho absent “King leaders,” Some of them, on the other hand, never allude to the Ring or to the ex-Ring mag- hates under any circumstances, Some buve made over their money to dbeir wives or hold their property in the names of other people, so as to be rovided in case of emergency or any unforeseen “revelation.” Others plead poverty. Others again constantly attribute their wealth to successtul **specu- lations” or “business,” In the present article the descriptive list is given of the men of the day who were in political and personal relations with the jeaders of the Tammany Ring. CLASSIFIED HELP. This list embracos three distinct classes of individ- uals. First, men who were legitimately connected with Tweed, Sweeny e¢ a4, in their offical capacities and whose transactions with these men wore pertectly orthodox, honorable and respectable; second, men who were “mixed up” with tye illegitimate opera- tions of the Ring, but who “covered up thoir tracks,”? and bave thus far, at least, passed tree of the law; and third, afew notorious personages whose netarious transactions with the Ring have been exposed, and who have, therefore, tuken to volun tary exile. The iust clasa (the fugitives) is described under its appropriate head; but m the body of this article no attempt is made to sepa- rate the first and second classes, the sheop and the goats, Such distinction would under present circumstances be an impossibility. The names ot men and their re- lations to the Ring are given, The rest must be left for the general knowledge of the public or the general character of the individual himselt to determine, LIST OF RING ASSISTANTS, Thomas Shieis, of the Seventh Ward, was a warm adherent of the Tammany magnates, He was and 1s an Alderman ot large influence. He is extensively en gaged in the liquor business, and controlled a heavy democratic vote, J.T. Blair was a shrewd politician and Ogured in the | Yarious combinations between the democrats and re- publicans, He was a member of the School Board, also an Assemblyman. Ho always acted with the ex- trome wing of the democratic party. Joba Galvin was a prominent Assemblyman, He was concerned in various combinations between the democrats and republicans, He wasa “straight ouv”? | democr: Michael C. Murphy was never prominent as a parti- san. He sometimes taclined to the democratic, some- times to the republican side, Ie voted against the Twoed-Swoeny charter, but im the majority of cases was identified with the Tammany magnates, Ex-Judge John Scott was a prominent local politician in the days of the King. He was a personal as well as political friend of Mr, Tweed, and during that individ- wai’s reign was always in public place, He did pot concern himself with State or national! matters, never visited Washington, and seldom went to Albany, but was thoroughly conversant with the poliues of the metropolis. Tweed regarded him as one. of the most useful of his “city men.” Ho was not very popu- ar personally, and had no distinct “follow- ing”? but being identified with tho Tammany ‘“machine,’*he possessed greater power in bis way than many a popular “leader.” He was possessed of no special ability or education, but had mdustry and ambition, and contrived to make 2 pretty fair official, He is said to have amassed quite a snug litte fortune, He acted with the democratic party. W. G. Bergen was an ardent democrat and always voted as Tammany wished. As an Assemblyman ho was very useiul. He was “counted in” against Kosta, He held pubiic offices, made money, and 1s now the superintendent of the Third District Court House, Wilham Walsh the late County Clerk, was always a democrat and an active partisan, He was a personal friend of Tweed and a political friend of Sweeny. fle 18 reputed to possess considerable means. Ho was on intimate terms with the Tammany mag- nates and posses: Bernard Kelly was a thriving politician in tho days ed their confidence, of the Ring, an Alderman tn Now York anda Senator | in Albany. magnetiem, and had a “following, and unwaveringly with the democrat through the influence of Mr, T he was appointed to a lucrative berth im connection with the Department of Docks. In this position be bad legitimate control of all the dock disbursements, awounting to millions of dollars annually. Mr. Keliy’s prosent wealth is esti mated ut over haifa million of dollars, Mo has retired from active hife it is undersiood. Ex-Crvil Juage “Tony” fMartinan was prominent in tho Ring times, He could tell a good story, in an odd way, nnd was porsonaliy popular, When member of Assoinbly he was active in all matters convected with the New York interests of the democratic party. He wus friendly with Tweed, who regarded bim with py cubar favor, He could at one time command large gums of money. G, Corv@ll was a prominent democratic politician i Senator, Through the influence of Messra, Tweed and Sweeny he was givon a controlling position in the Crovon Water Department, He is reputed to be wealthy. Charies E. Loew, County Clerk before Walsh, was in Ring times a personal and political friend and asso- ciate of Messrs, Tweed aod swe ie Was on toring of intimacy with Mr. Watson, the Ring Auditor, He is said to have been one of his watchers during bis last filness, It 1 generally koown that Mr, Loow possesses more thorough knowledge of the real characters and plang of the individuals composin Dung than any other living man—not excepting di 3.8 Cox has long beon identitic cratic party. 1t ts stated that bis Congressional career was opened for him through the iniluence of Tweed, who waa in retarn to receive his support. tor the Col- He was a man of considerable personal He voted steadily yarty. At last, with the dem jectorship of the Port of New York in behalf of what. | ever person Mr. Twoed might see fit to suggest. Mr. Geox was on intimute torme with ail the Ning magnates, Owen Brevaan, brother of Sheriff Brennan, held office in Ring days, and was Comanissioner of Charities and Correction, He was a republican, but often acted with the democrats on local measures, He was one of the founders ofthe famous Blossom Giub, the rival of tue Americus, Bir. Brevuan affected the same stylc NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1877.—WITH SUPPLEMENT with his clai saat Mr, Tweod affected with the club at Greenwich. His portrait’ was suspended on the walls, and he kept “open house” at the club rooms for poll- ticians Mr, Brennan was on intimate terms with Mr, Tweed. Volice Commissioner “Hank” Smith was a promi- nent republican who identified himseit with the Tammany Ring in local affairs, Next to Thurlow Weed, he was considered the best manipulator of men and measures in bis party, He generally *‘worked’” through Senator Woodin, He was one of the few men who were on intimate terms with the Ring leaders, Isaac J. Oliver voted with the republicans, but acted with the democrats. When Supervisor he was a atanch adherent of Tweed’s genoral policy. Andrew Bleakley was likewise » republican whe, wheu Supervisor, generally acted in conformity with the Tweed policy. Orison Blunt was @ prominent member of the vid Board ot Supervisors, He rendéred himself notable by his efforts to relieve New York city from the draft, | For these efforts be was voted $50,000 as a testimonial | trom democrats and republicans alike. Mr. Bluat was arepublican, but he was considered by the democratic leaders an effective ally in all matters relating to the city government. He accumulated a large fortune. Cornetius Corson was a republican high in the favor | of the democratic Jeaders. He was made chief of the Election Bureau, He accumulated considerable money. Hugh Smith was a demoorat of the most pronounced stripe Ho was also an intimate friend and adherent of Mr. Peter B, Sweeny, who made him Deputy Cham- berluin, Mr, Smith !s said to be very rich. Henry Smith, the brother of Hugh, was made Dock Commissioner under the Ring. Edward Kearney was @ promineat member of tho Blossom Ciub, Hoe was on intimate torms with all the mmany magnates, avd was iu especial favor with Mr. He obtained thecontract to supply the pub- lic institutions with beef, and made by this and othor contracts large sums of money, He was a pronounced democrat 1n politics, but associated generally with the republican leaders in this city. David B. Freeman was a democrat, and for several years av enthusiastic. follower of Peter B, Sweeny, He served as Excise Commissioner, He is said to have made and kept quite a fortune. ‘ William Rogers and Edward Jones obtained hoavy contracts, Both gentlemon made money. Jobn Brice was 4 particular friend of Mr. Peter B, Sweeny, through whose influence he obtained the po- sition of Alderman. Peter Trainor proved of great service to the demo- cratic party in New York city as a member of Assem- bly and an the Tax Oflice, Kx-Police Commissioner Disbecker was in his dayone of the most successtul of the Albany lobbyists and in- | Quenced legislation largely, Ho was officially connected during the Ring days with Senator Woodin, Under ‘Tweed he received a berth in the Department of Pub- lic Werks, He affiliated with the republicans, but acted with the democrats in matters concerning the city, He 1s said to bo tn the possession of a handsome income. Ex-Judge William King was an Intimate personal and political triond of Peter B. Sweeny. He was also on intimate relations with Mr, Richard O’Gorman, Through his relations with Sweeny bo obtained official influence, Emanuel B, Hart was always on the most intimate rolations with Peter B, Sweeny, who was considered ‘bis backer” during the greater portion of his official career, ‘Thomas J, Ledwith was known for his opposition to the Tammany Ring, but he ultimately came under tho control of Mr. SweenY, with whom ho established the most intimate political connections, Through Mr. Sweeny’s influence, against tho wishes of Mr. Tweed, he was nominated by Tammany for a judgeship of the Supreme Court. Mr, Ledwith is reputed tobe the possessor of a handsome fortune, ‘Thomas Dunn was known in the days of Tweed as one of the most active of bis adherents, His field of operations was in the Ninth ward and its vicinity. He manifested considerable ability as well as cnergy, and stood high in the confidence of tho leaders of Tam- many. George H, Purser, enjoying peculiar facilities, be- came a loan broker and discounter of salaries tor local officials. His transactions in this line were numerous, He seemed to supply a popular want during his timo, for there was a constant demand for hisservices. Mr, Purser has a penchant for drawing up resolutions, Hence his sobriquet of ‘*Resolution” Purser. Ho was 1 protégé of Sweeny’s, yet, strange to say, he rather opposed than favored the Tweed-Swoeny charter, Mr, Purser accumulated in eight yearsa fortune, | James Hayes was a member of the famous old Boura of Supervisors, Ho was a spectal protégé and adherent of Mr, William M. Tweed. He was an out and out par- usan and sincerely believed in the tatallibility of Tam- many. His intimate triendship for John Morrissey 18 well known. Mr, Hayes is a wealthy man, though he lives unostentatiously, He is largely interested in real estate. He was ‘a machine politician,” and al- ways voted in the political interests of his chiefs, His open identification with the Tammany Ring bas killoa | his political tuture. Rutus Andrews was a pronounced and prominent re- puvitean, but in local matters he generally acted with Tammany, He received many relerence cases trom the Tammany officials, MODIFIED COMMENT. Many of the individuals whoee names have been given in this article had nothing whatever to do with the dishonorable and dirty work of the Ring, They are but cited as illustrations of the wide grasp of the Tammany Ring, which held all classes ot men in the meshes of its net, “RAILROADING. ”? Many of the city juges in Ring days were so com- pletely under the control of the Ring that they dis" posed of cases which came betore them, utterly inde pendent of the law and the fact, but just as they were iwstructed by Messrs, Tweed or Sweeny, In one instance a man obnoxious to the Ring was arrested for being drunk and disorderly. This case was strained into one of larceny and he was ‘punished’? by several years in State Prison, where he could trouble the Ring no more. One of the city justices, in the days of Tweed, is charged with having received a bribe of $5,000 to “railroad to Sing Sing” a man who possessed some damaging Ring secrets. A HUSHRR Ur. Another police justice was permitted to keep for his own private purse the fines, &c., inflicted in bis court | (which were properly the property of the city) on con- dition that be disposed of all cases in which the Ring | was interested as the Ring wished, He kept his ‘part of the bargain and over $100,000 that belonged to the | city of New York. Hardly a week passod but promi- nent politicians or their relatives or their ‘temaloe friends’? were involved in “scrapes” which would havo brought about disgraceful exposure or condign pun- ishment, These cuses were quietly brought to the notice of this model justice, who as quietly bushed | the matter up. ‘he clerks often made for themselves | $00 or $100 a day in little ‘affairs’ that were considered | too trivial to bring to the notice of the august Justice himself, Bad as the influence of tho Tammany Ring was over the judiciary im general it was infinitely worse over the police justices of the time. These men were mostly more Ring tools, and injustice and favoritism which would nave disgraced Venice “nuder the Ten’? was practised daily in New York | “under the Three,’ THY STANLEY GANG. | One little fact thay serve to illustrate forcibly the calibre of the politicians of the Ring days, There was @ stable in these times at the corner of Bayard and Kilzabeth streets, kept by a man named Butts, There horse taik and political gossip were retailed nightly. ‘There several dozen of men would congrogato and | spend all their jeisure time—of which they had | plenty—and from this stable ‘graduated? several | Prominent local politicians of the Tweed times, who | became known over the city of New York as “the Stable Gang.” They were pensioners and agents of the Ring, who materially aided to control the great city of New York. | “ou? Sweeny, | Among the men who were jatimately connected with the Tammany Ring a prominent place must be awarded to Mr, James Sweeny, Ho was the brother of | Peter B. Sweeny, and though overshadowed by the | supertor ability of his relative was himsolf an able man, Ie wasa democrat, but bad intimate roiations | with the republicans, Ilo was therefore very usotul in | aiding his brother's numerous and constant “comp. | nations” with the republican politicians, He was | Deputy Chamberlain under Bradley, bis brother-in- jaw. He thoroughly understood hia brother, Peter, and had great influence with him, He recently died in Paria, Ho was, like his brotber, a very reticont man in all personal matters, but he was more tond of gon- erat sociesy than his relative, and was, outside of pol- itics, a popular man, He was on the most tnendly terms with Watson, the Auditor of the Ring. ; WATHON'S BEGINNINGS, Of Watson it is said that he was first introduced into political life in New York under the auspices of the present Comptrolier, Mr. Jobn Kelly. Mr. Kelly was then Sherif, ana Watson was employed to collect what were known as the Sheriff's trial fees. It 19 also said that under the District Attorneysbip vf Mr. John Mc- Keon serious criminal charges were brought against Watson, which were, however, compromised, VIKLDB—8AN DB—GENET, Concerning three of the prominent Ring agents there can be no doubi as to the precise nature of their rela- Hous with the Ring, as they are fugitives from juaties, One of these three, “Torm’? Fields, was an especial protégé and tool of Peter B. Sweeny. In the assem- bly and in the Senate be was Mr, Sweeny’s particular agent, bis “Man Friday,’’ and as Corporation Attorney he served his master faithfully, By so doing he also served himself. He made $60,000 out of one set of firemeu’s claims against the city, and altogether is reputed to huve ‘feathered his nest’? 10 the extent of ovor $250,000. He did not contrive to put it into available shape, however, and be was one of the earliest tovls of the Ring who fled. A sec- ond exile was Mr. Nathaniel Sands. He belonged to the Citizens’ Associntion and professed to be a re- former. He was therefore particularly adapted to the Ring, which believed in being served as well as. “whitewashed” by “reformers,” He was made Tax Commissioner, and then went to Europe to'raise $600,000 on city ‘bonds, stnee which timo he has nut exercised office in New York, The third of these 1l- | friend of Tweed, whom ho took for his model, . Like Tweed, Genet enjoyed, and for that matter enjoys still in Harlem, great personal popularity. Mr, Genet was no vulgar Ring tool, but a man of large ability and am- bition, a minor Tweed, and like bis model, came to grief through a new court house, Ho was a man, too, of a good deal of independence of character, and used “the Ring” fully as much as he was used by it, Of all the Ring fugitives he soems to be the most missed, and of all the Ring agents he was the most able. RUSSIAN GOSSIP. WINTER ENTERTAINMENTS AT 87. PETERS- BURG—THE EMPEROR DEPRECATING EX, TRAVAGANCE—THE WAR FEVER—THE SINEWS DIFFICULT TO OBTAIN—GRAND DUKE NICR- oLas’ HEALTH. Sr. Perxesnvna, Jan. 18, 1877. Russia awaits with anxiety the turn of European affairs which will decide whether or not the spring 18 to bring peace or war, ‘Tho army not only looks for war, but almost aches tor it, the younger officers wishing to prove the sin- cerity of many a boast recently inspired by cham- Pagne and mobilization orders, while the common soldier is so Gillod with the idea that it is a religious question, that ali his inberned zeal for his Church presses him on toward a holy crusade. With thio ecm- mercial classes there is much of the samo fecling that seems to exist on your side of the water, that things areabout as badas they can be, and thita change must bo boneficial, even if in the wrong direction, A SUBMISBION, That the guiding minds of tho nation, however, aro straming every nerve toward a peacelul settlement of vhe vexed Eastern question is too patent to be ques- tioned, The Turks seem to be playing their usual game of applying Oriental friction to tho machinery for re, arranging the status of their wretched Christian sub- jects, ana temporary evasions, half-hearted co-opera- tions, and finally a ‘“ounstitution,’? have been suc- cessively broughtinto play. Tho Russian press has given this pretended “constitution”? wnat would bo termed in America “particular ft’? The most moderate comment is that of the Journal de St. Petersburg, 4 semu-official organ, which contents itself by displaying a few of the trreconcil- abio clauses, and pronouncing the whole paper a mere article manufactured for export, and, like the German display at the Philadelphia Exposition, cheap and nasty. Meanwhile the term drat (brother) tor the Servian has gone into deguetude, owing to the strong anti-Russian feeling displayed by the deposition of the Russian officers, who have, by the way, done all the Sighting worthy of the name accomplished in Servia RUSSIA'S FINANCES, The fact is, these Ottoman Christians area sorry lot, and it speaks well for the sincerity of Russia’s position in the Eastern question that she is taking so firm a stand, at so great a risk, to protect people who, to put it very mildly, do not appear wortby of nor appreciative of any protection, The risk referred to is jn the financial part of the matter, Russian finances arc in a bad way, despite the brilliant management of Baron Reutern, the very able Finance Minister, Tho internal indebteduess need not trouble so united and sv patervaliy goverved a coun- try, apomt proven by the avidity with which the people seized alate loan of a 100,000,000 roubles, put out by the government evidently us a iceler, as iho printing press would have made the same volume of currency frebher thun that received and at loss expense, But, comprised within a public dob, roughly approximating that of tho Untied States, stands an ugly item vf indebtedness abroad, calling aanually or about $75,000,000 coin interest, payabie chielty in London, Hereto ore this has been arranged by Turkish tactics—viz., borrowing 1a London the cash to pay interest ou moneys due there. Latterly, how. ever, Loudon has stopped the supplies, and Darch ial bas, with dilficuity, been got to till tue gap. A quite recent ukase bas mado all custows dues in Russia payable in coin, which certainly bas the offect of advancing the tariff some ¢ \- ty-ive per cent, aud probaoly will, if no fresh demands arise, euso the strain on the borrow. Ig agents Of the government, Although taxation for revenue bas redched its ultimate limit in Russia there is no question of her pulling through successtully should no foreign war intervene, In the latier case, however, in spite of the sucrifices every Russian would cheerfully make, 1t 18 diflicult to see Where the funds whieh must be paid abroad can ve got from, In- ternally i makes po diflerence, The masses would tuke anything representing governtuent value without question, but the masses do not sell war munitions aud many other things essential to armed struggics, PEAKS OF A GENKKAL WAR OVER, furepean Turkish war is the gravest danger apprehonded, Ky. this would be, and very likely wili be, if it ecu imost serious business. n the first place, notwithstanding the gigantic amount of the raw miutorial with which to make arudes, Russia's actual figbuing torce, now moviltz on the Roumanian fronuer # command of the Grand Duke Nicholus, amounts to rather uuder than over 400,000 men, This is @ ry small -torce to % the suljugation of “Turkey win; lor Turk, wih all his failings, will fight. The ald to be oxpeeted from the Vuloman Slavs will probably amountto bat tte im dues it seem clear how out e cau be reckoned upou. The most the other Powers would be hikely to cede would by ground und no favor, this state pectancy is exercising a de dustry and upon cowmer possible contingencies prices are advunced tor all the minor necessaries of lite, although im the large | cities rents have foartully uecliued, and the | accommodations which 6,000 roubles would have purchased last year can be readily tad at present at 4,000. No public dixcontent is felt, or at least 18 displayed; the recent émeute in the streets of St. Petersburg, about which Ue quidnunes were 40 agitated, was ii effect about as serious a8 11 some lads returning Irom school were to burrah Jor Jefl Davis in the streots of an American city. EXTRAVAGANCE DISCOURAGED, St, Petersburg 1s hot so gay as usual, and no Court festivities have taken place, ‘lhe Emperor is suid to discourage (bis season Ube gay extravagances whieh have alrcady, in previous winters, been 80 prominent a feature ot Russian Ife, and there is much anxiety felt 10 bigh quarters for the health of tho Grand Duke Nicholas, who 1s only convalescing trom a dangerous attack of stomach disorder, no doubt developed by bis recent entrance into camp li GERMAN NGINEERS. A inceting of German engincers of this eity and vicinity was held at tho Turn Hall, m Fourth street, jast night to consider cortain measures to compel the employment of Iiconsed engineers in all man- ulacturing establishments where a boiler of more than _ tiftees pounds high and low pressure is in nse Mr. Claude stated the object of the meeting. From his remarks it appeared that there are hundreds of establishments where they have a boiler but employ no engineer. A temporury organization was eflected by tho cicetion of Thomas Bernard as President; Charles Clanue, Vico President; M. Roedoll, Secretary, and Mr, Redmanu, Treasurer, A commitico was apppomnted to confer witu the Ger. man and American Engineers’ Asso@ations on the sub- ject. Also a committeo to dratt a memorial to be gub- mitted to the Legislature. ALLEGED FALSE PRETENCES. e $ 5 Fy : > = 3 ¢ 5 = 2 3 = = 2 = = 3 a siding at No, 104 Suydam strect, Brooklyn, was ar. rested on Saturday last, charged with falsely giving a deed of cortain property, in the village of Iakeland, Long Isiand, in @ trade with Mr, Hariman tor house No. 104 Suydam sircet, Abondsehovea i beid to ane | swer, Among well-informed Russians the fears of a general | war seem to have subsided, aud a ere | Sracuise them exclusively for a halt o lustrious exiles, Mr, Harry Genet, was the particular | ART. MATTERS. THE CASTELLANI COLLECTION AT THE METRO- POLITAN MUSEUM OF ABT. The preparations for the exhibition of this famous collection of antiquities are now complete, The ar- rangements have been made under the personal direc- tion of Signor Alessandro Castellani, and the various objects of imteress can now be seen to advan- tage, as the cases have been so distributed as to permit the closest ivspection by the public. At Philadelphia the want of space rendered the logical and orderly arrangement of these treasures: impossible, and those who had an opportunity of sce ing them at the Centennial will be much better able to estimate their beauty and value, [tia the intention of the directors of the Metropolitan Museum to pur- chase this collection for and place it among the art treasures of the city, and it isto bo hoped that our wealthy and cultivated citizens will co-operate with them to this end by giving generously, as is their wont, when 60 laudable an object is to be served, Tho collection consists of antique marbles, bronzes, figures in terra cotta and curiously engraved gems. Among the sculptures 18 4 beautiful bust of Euripides well preserved, It 1s remarkable for ite vigor beauty of workmanship, There is aslight depréssion ‘on the nose of this bust not found in the portrait en- graved by Visconti, There is a colossal statue of the Indian Bacchus. It ts bearded and long robed, in ac- cordance with the idea regniarly associated In Greek art with the triumph of the 800 in India. This fige work was found in the villa ef Paulie Vedius at Posilippo near Naples, This and the “Spinario,”’ a life sized figure of a boy taking a thorn out of bis foot, are the \Wo most important of the marble works, 1118 an orginal Greek work of the realistic school, of Ps gamos. According to a Roman legend, a young shep- herd, ng the Latins enter the Roman terruory by night, ran to Rome to tell the Senate of the imcursen, While on hig way be ran a thorn into his foot; he aid not stop, but continued on bis course, delivered the message and then sat down to extract the thorn, The Senate decreed that statues should be made in his memory. There is also a head of Alexander the Great, of heroie size, and several portraits of Roman emperors and emprvsses, ° BRONZES. The collection is especialiy rich in cistae, or caskets, in which the early Etruscan and Latin ladies kept those articles which were used in the bath. These were found in the Necropolis of Palestrina, the ancient Praeneste, lt is curious note that they were found containing mir. rors, combs, sirigils, sponges, boxes of rouge and upguents and other apphances of the bath, These caskets are generally cylindrical, rarely oval, a foot or more in diameter, and have lide and feet. The handle of whe lid is formed either of a woman in the posture of an acrobat or of two figures iu the act of wrestling. On the surlace of tne lid and around the sides of the casket mytho- lovical subjecis are generally engraved in outhne. Ib is probable the handles and fect were supplied by Kiruscan metallurgists from moulds, while the en- graved compositions were derived {rom or directly In- fiucnced by Grecian art. The drawing of these cum. positions varies in quality. In some it is as pure and Toasterly as in the very inest Grecian paintings. Io others we find tho same affectation and mannerism as are peculiar to many Eirusean mirrors aud a tew Italian vases, The art would thus seem to have ex- tended over the period 300 B.C. to 200 B. C., when Greek examples had begun to imfiuence the ative schools of Italy tn the Campagna, but, contending with deeply rooted traditions, had to be adapted to Italian tastes and myths, ORNAMENTS, AS an illustration of tho origin, rise and progress ot the goldsmith’s art, the present collection leaves litte to be desi It goes back to the pre-historic period, which is ilJustrated by examples of bronze and amber ornaments found at Pracneste. ‘The glass and silver ornaments found in Tarquinia, in Etruria, form the next step, Among these {8 a scuraboid aad beads of irridescent , set in a fibula, and oa silver amulet, ‘with an Egyptian scarab of enamelied blue set in vitreous paste. Then we come to the primitive Etruscan and Phonictan orna- ments of nucupellated gold, These are adorned with » granulaied work and represent a period of some 700 years betore Christ. Among these, a necklace formed of eleven cylindrical picces of amber sot im gold, with bulla and six pendants in the shape of anchors, "Simi- lar necklaces are described im the “Odyssy.?? Then there are a pumber of Ktruscan ornamonts reach- ing trom 500 to 400 B.C, We then ener the Italo-Greek period, when the art-of the gold- smith had made wonderful advance, In ancient gold ornaments, whether of reek or of Ttaliaa origin, our admiration of the precious metals employed 1s always exceeded by that which the excellenco ot the workinan- ship calls up. The anctent jewellers know and used chemical and mechanical agents quite unknown to us, as they were abla to separate and join pleces of gold scarcely perceptipie to the naked cyo, ‘Their process of melung, soldering and wire drawing remains equally a problem. When we consider tho Gevek and Etruscan granulated and filigre work in gold, even leaving aside the clegance of the forms and the skill shown In tho chasing, we .are obliged to con fess thut tho ancicnts were greatly our superiors in this art. Among the treasures found at Metapontuin aro some adinirable specimens of ancient workinanship, ‘The mog importunt of these are two circular gold stands ton beertine vases, decorated with human and equine heads in relict, the ground covered with grapulaied work. These stands indicate to us the use of the pomtee amphora, in glass and rock crystal, &e, ‘The amphore were placed upon stanus, like these, in the same man- ner as the Chinese place them at tho present day. There are earrings, also, wheih wil. interest the fair of the present day. are in the form of a helix, with floral ornamentation of admirabie design at the middle of the bend, and each terminating in two Jovely and refined female heads, in repoused work. ‘fhe four hends wear, themaciver, earrings of this very peculiar shape, The same form occurs on the fine heads of divinities engraved on sotoe of the coins of Magna- Grwcn and Sicily. It is rathor difficult to explain how the Grecian ladies coud use such earrings, unless they took advantage of the ductility of the pure gold and pressed these spiral earrings ayainst their classic ears, MASOLICA. The examples in this delightful branch of art ore particularly fine. They exiend back us far as the Siculo-Arabian period, which 13 iMustrated by a num- ber of rough the Arabs during their stay in Sicity, a division, oF, a8 Signor Castellani more correctly calls it, “maivlica,”? consists ot sume 300 examples, which admirably illustrate the growth and develupment of this branch ot iudustry from the fourteenth to the seventecuth century. The art of majoliva painting 18 generally supposed to have been first practised in Italy by Luca della Robbia, the reputed discoverer of a white stanniterous enamel which he apphed to terra cotta, This artist, who borg about the year 1400, executed many tani works in this ‘material | duricy the course the cenwry, (he earhest of which now extant beurs the date of 1438, As, however, the Oldest piece of majotica ware, made at Caflugginolo isdated 1477, and tho earliest known at Pagnza, 1s a plate in the ‘rer Musoum at Venive, dated' 1482 (1), many excellent authorities aillrm that tho furnaces and workshops ot Tuscany, the Ro- magna and the Dueby of Urbino were not established about fifty yeirs atter the date of Luca della scovery. 1b i8 to bo remarked that the sume sous Who attribute 1b to lim stute that he rev it only to the meinbers of his amily, nephews, who kept bis processes seer lury after the took place inthe year death of their uncle, which 1481. HOBOK BATTLES. Several stone fights took pl between the Hoboken and Je the Hot yesterday morning ily Heights boys on police are unable to catch the young r js, as they spring Into the dit and swim across When closely pursued, <The police officers on Jersey City Heights, under the command of Captain Glenvy, are also unable to catch the slippery belliver- ents, In the afternoon Detective Gallagher, of the Hoboken police iorce, euptured Paul Me vd fifteen, a young waiter cwployed ina street dep, and residing at the corner of Ferry street and New York avenue, Jersey Cry Heighis, who was detected in the act of throwing stones at other b His excuee was that be ac 1 seil-delence, as a stone thrown at him by struck him on his bac! He stated to « Herat re- porter:—‘If Frecholder or, of Jersey Onty Height kuew 1 was here be would get mo out it it cost $1 that he would.” The following boys were also ar- rested, by police officers in ciizen’s clothes, with Stones and slings in their pocket ‘erdinand Borchert, aged thirteen; Gustav Lowdon, aged tour- teen, and Raward Ide, aged thirtcen—ail trom Jersey City Heights, The prisoners were brought before Recorder Bonn- stedt last might at eight o'clock, and cach was fined $5 or ten days’ imprisonment. The only one able to pay the fnewas Lowdon, [tis said by the prisoners that one of the lenders of the Jersey City Heiguts voys 18 one Jim Renton, of No. 72 Monigomery avenuo, FRLE FIGHT IN JERSEY. be While the Leidertafel Singing Societ bail was in progress yesterday morning at Brucck's Academy of Music, Union Hili, a young rough named Edward Petroski attempted to gain admittance to the dancing room, He was ordered out by tbe doorkeepor, Ho went out, but shortly returned with “Tim’? Ragan, Jobu Rielley, Kaward Moore and a vonsiable named Lavdrein. Tho dve roughs then tried to lorce their way up tho stairs, but vhe doorkeeper, Fritz Langa, calling a namber of citizens from the barroom, suce cveded in ejecting them, Outside the balla froo fight occurred between the citizens and the roughs, which resulted in the latter being put to fight, all sore or jess injured. The dancihg was resumed, when sudaenly a Jarge stone wus buried through tne plaie ginss window into the baliroon This was followed by several pistol shots, Fortunately no one was injared. Police officers Grimm and Geuntner, hearing the disturbance, came runbing down the st , and another hand to hand battle ensued, Oflicer Grimm captured Petroski and piaced the tippers on his wrists. Edward Moore, one of the roughs, kaocked Ofticer Geuntuer down and took Nis club away, He then turned on Grimm, who had Petroski in charge, and dealt bim a murderous blow with the cinb on the crown of bis head, Grimm fell to the ground with a iractured skull, Petrosky and the other roughs then made good their escnpe. All the actors in the affair are well known at Union Hill and will bo arrested, Fears aro eutortained tor Oflicer Gritaus’s recovery, piece, made | THE LECTURE SEASON. THE ORIGIN OF RELIGION. PROFESSOR ADLER'S LECTURE aT STANDARD HALL, “In the minds of different men,” said Professor Adler yesterday morning, ‘most diverse meanings are attributed to the subject of religion. ‘The forms in which tbe religious sentiment has found expression are so varied that we should be as » loss from the stan- dard of any one of them to properly define this com- mon ingredient of humanity. | am well aware that the belief in a personal divinity is the foundation and main- tenance of all religion. 1a this belief the true defn! tion of t jubject? If so, how can you account for shose forms of religion that existed among men belore ®& personal divinity was thought off The Grecks and Romans had their gods, but not a God. Leaving aside the ancient practice, there is Buddbism that star tb the notion that there never was a Creation, aud therefore never could have been a Creator, Yet 400,000,000 call this their religion, Ke- gion is not creed, 1} is not prayer, it is not priest- hood, it is uot anything that it is commonly held to ve. Jt has its Seat decp down 1m humanity. ‘The feeling of the sublime 1# tho root of the religious senuiment ty man, What every Goer nature deuries i littleness, There is atund of reserved power even in the meanest mind which, if bot permitted discover itselt, awakens ap Indescribable longing, and vibrates with respousive sympathy to the bond of ull that is great 1 nature, ‘hat @ Joy, then, to escape ti prison house and fly w perfect freedom, to the infinite! The feeling whiob the infinite awakens in the minds of men is called the subline. THK SUBLIME AND RELIGION, Whatever of sound or motion produces within us thoughts of the obscure or the hidden produces the- peculiar feeling of melancholy, of the indefniiec. Thus we find the first religion waa one of mystery, or fetish- ism, Force tg the second element of the sublime in guture, und therefore, tae secvnd religion was one of force, Tne third clement of the sublime is vastness, and it constituted the motive of the third religion. But of all the elements of sublimity the greatest is moral element, We Had fetishism the most ancient of religious behef; the pagan gods were gods ot force; the religion of the Hindoos was found Jast, the morul element of the suvlime gains the as- ceadaucy among the Jews and Christian nations, Greatness is not the same between the giant and the dwarf, but the relations to greatness are the same, We are ina line with the past The end for which thoy struggled, that we seek. Lip worship i not sublime; abasement of all reason is not sublime; the cultivation of the superstitious, under whatever cloak of sanctity, ig not suviiine. We would not banish the sense of the imagination, This were an empty and cold world if we couid not sometimes leave the real for the ideal. But in the intellectual and moral life we can tolerate ‘nothing that i# obscure, Clear, daylight roason is what we require, THE DELUGE DEMOLISHED. DR, BOYNTON’S LECTURE, ‘THE DELUGE IN THE LIGHT OF SCIENCE,” Slowly but surely the deadly work of destroying all our fondest beliefs and traditions goes op. if weeredit some of our German investigating triends Homer was a myth; Nero, instead of being a bioodthirsty tyrant, was really a most lovely character; Shakespeare never was Shakespoare, but was, 1 reality, Lord Bacon, and now Dr. Boynton has come forth to do- molish, with one foll blow, the Deluge and tho patriarchs all together. This is aimost as bad as to preve that man is an ape, that the biblical story of the creation is only an allegory, and that Dr, Flinv’s teakettle is a humbug, At tho Harvard Rooms, Reservoir park, last evening, Dr, Boynton spoke on “The Deluge in the Light of Science,” aud as the Doc- tor—whether from modesty or other causes 1s not kuown to the writer—requested that buta briof ailu- sion be nade to his destructive work in these columns, the present condensed notice will perhaps {atl to do justice to the magnitude of un ellort which, so to Speak, drowns the very food, Dr. Boynton began Siguiticantiy with a quotation from St Paul which tclis us to believe all things, Ur. Boynton doos not believe in this manner. He ping his taiti on in- Vesligating ail things. Now there were the patriarchs, Jor instance, Dr, Boynton argued cleverly that they were uot dynasties of gods, but only of u—beroes of an exalted churacter, Not conteat with sending tie patriatchs to the bades of comparative obscurity, Dr. Boy uton proceeded to eject trom the temple of the past that hallowed tradition, tho Detuge. He classitied it with the expedition lor the Golden Heese and otter classical legends of ducient bisiory, aod exploded its traditional place in history as virtually a myth, He concedou that @ substratuin of truth might bave underiiun bois great legend of the flood, inasmuch as there was au- doubtedty an extensive flovd in the sodthern poru It probably embodied, in the Doctor's a great physical change that came over the globe, and which perhaps was the cause of the migra- tion of the peoples, Dr, Boynton arrived at these re Suits froin the painstaking examination of the fossil Temains and tho most recent and trustworthy goologi- cal investigations, aud we may vow us well disiniss for ever Noah's beloved aud tamiliar ark, wivb all the wooden anitniis in it, together with ail the other cher- iwhed paraphernalia of the Deluge as irrevucably ban- ished by Dr. Boynton's tiat, CRUELTY TO ANIMALS, LECTURE BY REV. W. BR, ALGER, ‘The subjoct of the first of a series of lectures chozon by Dr. Algor was, in brict, cruelty to animals, ho did not disguise his purpose of speuking in bebai of the societios organized with the intention of preveating such cruelty. Dr. Alger said that some people ap- proached the subjoct of man’s relatiou tu the brute with w feeling of dislike or dread, and fell back in dis- gust from the contemplation of all resemblances be- tween the lifoof man and the life of the lower auunals, Others ure willing to consider the matter tairly, but shicid themselves beneath the cloak of an irresponsivility which dues not mect thé subject Both of these Views are erronevus. Tuere 18 no jusu- fication in reason or in religion tor the cruel atiiude of despotism ussutmed by man agaist tulerivr aut mals, An adequate knowledge and sywpathy would make us contemplate all classes of Hie with the proper relauouship to wunkinds All came trom God, avd with a purpose, As thero is a Migher order of begs above us, 80 are wo bigher than the brave creation; but that superiority docs not tn any way unply the right Wo exercisy an authority which resolves itself | into a Wanton cruelty and a despotisn of brute lorce. Necessity aud utihiy are the laws which yovern the relationship of mankind to the brute, and these Jaws clearly mark the limits ot the right of man to dominion over the lower creatures, clusive of all consid: tion of use and need on enther side, shows crucity When we go beyond this we are sinking below the ieve 01 the Drutes over which, by the very laws of the crea. dion, When mankind was’ created the levdof the ual- verse, he was given power, dominion and ihe right to comiroi, ‘Ihe lecturer reviewed at some length tho Vust numbers 0! beast-, birds and dishes which are, by ihe wisduin and providence of God, ordained for the service of mat and Jor bis sustenance, and he pre senteu forcibly the strange aspect of ihe world were thore not human aud vegetable lite in existen were tho intermediate link 1p the brute creation or annihilated, Looking back into the records of India reat number of men who died therefrom—a reason Why, in Ube should be waged against them as enemies to mankind but, referring to tue ravages of Insects upon the crops, he cuuld see no justification for the destruction of a harwless nest Of cuterpiliars, if found im a lonely woud, merely because vi anupathy to tbe exterpillar | Hseil, When ft Was doing no harm. He traced the con- nection of munkind to the lower ammals by reference to the history of creation as given in the Bible, and brought to bear in is argument the words of ihe Saviour, in which ig noted the admonition that not even a sparrow falis to the ground without the knowl edge of God; and he reterred to the fostering care and atl on of the lower orders of lite, as shown io the comparison made by Christ when ‘he satd, “1 have gathered your children unto me, even as a hen gather- eth her brood under hor wings.’? THE OBJECTIONS TO CATHOLICITY. BISHOP-ELECT SPAULDING IN ANSWER TO PROTESTANT OBJECTORS. We Catholics who speak the English language, said Bishop-eloct Spaulding at 8t. Michael's church, Jersey City, last evening, occupy an exceptional position to- ward the world by which we are surrounded, We are the victims of a prejudice the most abeolue and intense that ever existed. For 300 years tue Catholics who spoke the English language had not power to delend thomselves, England separated herself from the Catholic Church, and those who professed the Catholic religion were reduced to # condition of slavery. Wherever the English language was spoken there came to boa fixed way of viewing the Cathoheo Church, We are more eusily swayed by prejudice than by the cloar and rationai view of things, It bas be- come the fashion throughout the English spooking world to view the Catholic Church the mother of ignorance and superstition, and, in short, that it was Opposed to the real teachings of Christ, Objections do not arise from the itrinsic nature of things, but frow the united grasp of the human mind. if wo could see all things as they are we would gee all things in harmony, The fact that we cannot comprehend space and time does not prove that space abd time do not exist. Ali the objections called scieu- Uflc against the Catholic Charch would apply with equal force against the Provostant Church, Bat wo Catholics are at last on a jevel with our Protestant brethren. Wo are placed side by side with all who betievo in a personal God in opposition to those who would overthrow ail religion, Who would reduce man to the level of the mere animal The fundamental principle of Protestantisin 18 that every mun is to interpret the Bible for himself, When a Cathole believes in any doctrine, for instance lu the doctrine of the Reul Presence, he finds a warrant for his belief in the Bible. “This is My Body.’’ But the Protestant says, “You are mistaken; A) do not take the Fight view of it.” But my Protestant friend stands in an {l- logical position, for ho holds that every man has a right to interpret the Scripture uccording to his own particular view.’”’ The Bishop then proceeded to an- Bwer the objections to devotion to the Biessed Virgin e pe ta Toe a di si eater and the raints, to induizences, to the confersional. Ta regard to the veneration of ih saints all ji pore do as WO do, and aes , Gaaetiag have been sas dpe reution. ver tp to pablic admiration 1 7 "Go tute he up to pablic admiration ite great mé English Parliament and see th those, who have contributea to Englan ness, or into Westarinst Al temple dedicated to In our own country we have she world’s great fair the Germans bad a statue of Bismarck. [f you go into a gentloman’s parlor you may kuow something of his principles by the Core you see on the walla, Would an Engiishman A picture of George Washington? Would an Lrishmao dispiay a picture of Olver Cromwell or Wiltam of Orange? Would a Catholic have a picture of Martin Luthur or Henry Vill? Atthe ng of the Evangolical Alliance in ww York they bad pictures of Luthur, Knox, we Caivin and others, And yet they would be horrified if the Catholics should do the same thing. The Bishop continued in this way for more than ap hour, and delivered a discourse of great powor. “GOSPEL GUNNERY." BEV. MR, BRADY MAKING BULL’S-EYES ON BEKL« ZEBUB—BRINGING DOWN SINNERS AT SHORT RANGE. ‘The Methodist Tabernacle, in Park avenuo, Hoboken, was crowded to repletion yesterday on the occasion of the sermon on ‘Gospel Gunnery” by Ite eloquent pastor, the Rev. James Boyd Brady. The text chosea was the sixteenth verse of the sixteenth chapter of Isaiah, which reads as follows:—‘‘l send ‘tor many bunters, ‘and shey shall hunt them from every mou tain and every bil.” The preacher then in graphio language drew pictures of the hunter's life and bie energy in pursuit of game, and how he made alite work of bis art, pursuing tt olttimes under moat dig advantageous circumsiances, but ready at all times te door die, He then dwelt on the constant care the hunter takes of bis instruments of the chase, knowing that by their use he gained bis livelihood and was able to provide likewise for those near and dear to him, Dangers presented naught to terrify him, and Sbrough heat and cold, whether on the mouptato’s side or ou the plain, he stili pursued his vocation, Naturally these tesia of endurance begot in such mon fortitude and bravery, and the courage of a hunwr has been proverbial from the earliest ages, THK SPIRITUAL HUNTER. In terse terms the preacher then told of the ardor 9 Christian pastor should display in his gospel guonery, or spiritaal archery, to capture the souls of errin; Dumanity and bring them to the footstool of Alm! Goa, ‘Time, labor aud prayer are necessary to brin, this labor of love to u successtul issue, The care! and indiflerent have to ve brought by the offort o! God’s hunters to the fold of Christ, which is repree sented oneeurth by the Chureb, As the hunter searches for bis prey in secret places the midister of God should go to the byways of lite to search tor thos who have forgotten their Maker, ‘We ministers stay tu our churches too much without taking euffcien( heed of those who are lost to God and keep away from His temples," said the speaker in conclusion, ‘vand da not take sufficient troublo in the matter of missionary work, aud by our noglect to make personal upplica- tion to the careless und apatbetic leave much of God’s work on earth undone,” In the evening Mr. Brady preached on ‘Winged Men.” Gou’s children while on earth were fillod with spiritual wings, enabling them to sour high above the troubles and sorrows 01 this life. AN AFTERNOON WITH THE SAINTS, A MORMON ELDER'S BIOGRAPHY OF JOSEPH SMITH. Artist brain never imagined a more picturesque group than that which was assembled in the low, dita crypt at No. 176 Grand street, Williamburg, at threo o'clock yesterday afternoon, Why should hetero. doxy have such an advantage over orthodoxy in pid turesquences ? ‘The desk and platform were occupied, by a uumber of gentlemen, amoung whom ono low. -statured, baggard-eyed man uppeared to be the leads ing spirit, In frons of tho railing, a little to the right, stood a long table, very similar in appearance to an ‘operating table in a dissecting room, ‘This was covered with a white cloth, which obviously had something mysterious under it; gomesiing very mysterious, lor its surtace bad the peculiar irregularity that suggesta the outiine of adead Louy. Perhaps it was the brood 1ng dimness and silence of the room, possibly the bent figures of a few silent wotieu seated neur by, oF, lastly, the subdued and silent movements of tue men within the railing may have tended to strengthen the illusion; Dut, whatever the cause or causes that contributed ta iwduce it, the writer bad not been ten minutes in view of that table before a certain dread that bo was posst« bly about to witness a buman sacrifice took pussession of bis excited timagination, and ho commenced to cvn * over and over certain lall-recollocted passages of the Book of Mormon by way of assuring his perturbed nerves that that there was no authority for such ap impression, Presently the services commeucod with the wingiag of a hymn by tho sinall knot of bended worshippers, the women joining their sweeter voces fo the solemu bass intonations that floated out from beyond the rathng and stirred the drapery of that ominous table on their passage to the body of the room. Reading trom the Scriptures” and prayer tollowed, after which a “pale-taved, lowe statured man, with thin, white locks brushed back from his ples, — Wok possaessiva ol the desk, and aeliver:d a sermon of considerable Jength, partly hortatory iu tts one and abounding 1m quotations Irom the weirder and more imagimative ube terances of! the apostics and the prophets, He spoke of tie strange career of Joseph Sinith, the tounder of Mormonisin; of is trials aud viviswitudes, of the pers secutions he'sullered, of the feeble band ul rix sons who were concerned tn the first priaitive org auiits, of the ation over these tracks less prairies aud through dutrodden | derness of Utah, Pictures of mots | miuht; of with the sol burning hghting them on their wa, tolling actuss rivers anit desert ported by a brood ng and banat final arrival to a promised land, Such svend described in the pleturesque terms of an of in, Who remembered then with Le vividness of Actual participant, jormed the materials of exordium. ‘hen cainetue contrast. 4 witderoose been made to biossou. Fields a€ grain, tossed gracesul billows by the wind, bad succeeded Lo Lug Kraeses and wntatned herbage of Ut A city jew att y ‘3 ureams--slarty up itaiof a great und peculiar state, nye LO paos tron Such feeble beginnings,’ cried tke orator, “without tho belping banu of God?” In conclusion bis voice sunk tv a iow, moaning solemaity, und be commenced tw dwell upon the beauties of the Mormon heaven and upon the nothings of poor human lite, the audience hstening with bended beads unui a deep vo “amen” from the dusk ended the exhortation. ‘Tho serinon finished, Kider H. G. Bywater dismissed the cougregation with the doxol iu which all joined, Alter the services were over Milder Bywater announced that if there were auy strangers present who wished to propound any questions respecting tho Mormons he had a ew minutes at his disposal At this opportane moment, also, Mr, Worthington, priest, sexton and deacon th one, slowly withdrew the white cloth from the mysterious table and revealed only a silver tank. ard filled with water, « few giasses, and a large cake basket heaped with bread, cut with mathematical pro- | cision into paraliclopiceds, as if Jor sacramental dis- tribution, The priest picked up a piece between hig fingers, put it silently im bis mouth and took a sip of water {rom the glitss, while cluer Bywater was ox- plaining to our reporter some detailg of the faith and | organization of the sect that he reprévents, He wished It Lo bo especially understood that they believed in the Bible and held ‘atl the tenets of the orthodox faith, They had, also, a book called the Book of Mormon, whieh give a full account of the origin of the Indian races of this country, of their original purity of religion and of their final lapse mto pagan bar. barist As to polygamy, they all be'teved it to bo in accordance with revelation, but it was not expedient (0 practice it in — controvention of the Jaws of the land, Those to whom the success of Mormonism 18 probiem have only to study the broods ing and resolute entiusiasm that actuates such men ag Elder Bywater in the propagation of doctrines, mins | ghing thesublimity of prophetic pazsages trom Daniel and Revelations with statements of personal experience Of an exciting and mysterious nature, The export nevrolugist, who shouid have studied one by one tue faces of the group assembied in that little ball on the second story over @ grocery store, might have found something of the peculiar pallor of a latent madness in each one of them, But ho would have been at po lo: to determine the nature of th influence which bag made Mormonism an aggressive and untiring political factor during the last twenty heres Pale, stern, with that peculiar expression of tho eyo that indicates a mind habitually dominated by religious fauaticism, each one of Whose strongly marked faces was stampe with the rugged grandear that comes only trom tanauie brooding und from possession by a dominant and mag+ netic zealotry GOSPEL IN THE TOMBS. of vivlence by ay 1a the da tations “behind th y the Iriendiydorest; of sustatned and sup. enthusiasm, and of wir the New Jertus iu a generation a A mecting of the ‘‘Non-Denominational Gospel Mim sion’” was held last evening in Dr, Crosby’s church, corner of Fourth avenue and Twonty-second strect, Tho object of the mocting was to sustain the spiritual ministrations of the Rev. John P. Betker, at the Tombs. Prison, The latter gentleman has been a powertul preacher to the criminals in the Tombs for many yenrs, and be was very popular, but of late ho has been admont ished by the Cty Mission, by whom he wa: employed, that the tunds Were iow and his services could no loagat beempioyed, Mr. Betker, however, continued ta preach without pay, The meeting last night wag called by Dr. Crosby t6 make suitable pecnniary pros visions for Mr, Botker, Drs Prime and Rogors ade dressed the meeting. THE CERELE DE L'ARMONIR, ‘The Cercle Frangaise de VHarmonto has elected the following officers jor the ensuing year:—Presidonty Francis Kinzior; Vice President, P, Huot; Seeras lary, J. A. Gulraud; Treasorer, ‘Albert J, Dulouoatg Directors, YL, Yissot and B. Siunon,