The New York Herald Newspaper, March 27, 1877, Page 4

ky 4 “HATES. ATTACKED. Wendell Phillips Calls the President to Account. POLITICAL TINKERING. Nicholls and Hampton Promise— To Deceive. UNCHANGED. SOUTIT THE A Cabinet of Compromise—A Conqueror's Hand Needed. Pkt, AAP RSME Putaouneaia, March 25, 1877, Mr. Wendell Phillips, of Boston, delivered a most remarkable lecture in the Academy qg Music, under the aifspices of Mr, vugh’s star course, this evening, It was, in tact, more of a political speech than a liter- ury lecture, or rather a comprebensive aud eloquent criticism of men und measures, aud on account of the boldness and source of the sentiments is likely to attract universal attention, PUR HOLY ALLIANOE—RUM AND THS REVOLVER.” This was the significant and expressive subject which Mr, Phillips announced for the evening's von- sideration, He referred in the beginning to the f that this was the centenmal period of the country’s existense, and then went on to say that we may, with- out lack of modesty, call on the world to notice the grandeur of our work, Wo have actually done what | bo nation ever sired to attempt. We have tested | government on every grown up man, This was never risked before. Neither Greece, Rome, Switzerland nor Holland ever ventured it, Our duty is to show the ; same boldness in searching for the dangers that | threaten us, and the same courage in facing them that our fathers did, The epoch in which we live is one | given over to A STRUGGLE BETWEE The Northern rests on the Declaration of Indepen- tlence—the Southern on a denial oft, Ever siuce Cal- houn was graduated at Yale College the South has been | educated to believe that universal suffrage was the road to ruin. She believes that as sincerely as Mussachu- 8 believes the opposite. In due time the antagon- jsm culminated in the rebellion, Both sections were | equally sincere and equally in earnest—the North sin- | cerely right, the South sincerely wicked—“believing a lie” TWO ORGANIZATION THe SOUTH STILL UNCHANGED, j Does human nature or history allow us to think that | the deep-rooted convictions of seveuty years have Deen changed by a dozen defeats in battle and a dozen years of angry submission? The struggle be- tween Cavalier and Roundhead lasted a contury. The struggle between similar forces in France began in 1780 and bas not yetended, How can sixteen years be expected to finish the war here between forces as augry and as radical as those which shook Englund and France for a century? A single man may change his opinions, Millions of men rarely do, aud when such changes take place it requires generations tu ripen and complete them. If Lee had driven Grant into Ohio, and eur men had been paroled at Columbus, would Massachusetts have tuken down Bunker Hill Monument or set fire to Faneuil Hall with her copy of the Deciaration of Independence? No. We should have closed up our ranks and sworn to live and dic with Sam Adams, BALLOTS V8. BULLETS, The South went nome, an idle muss, to plot for get- ting by the ballot what the bullet bad lost, Our soldiers meited into lawyers, mechanics, merchants, | every profession and trade of busy men. Tue South | had no such resource, She was never trained to earn & living, She must steal it from somebody, Her burglars’ tools are the revolver, domineering over the ballot box, and cabal blinding politics and Congress, If the democratic party bad succeeded it would have owed its success to a ‘solid South,’ the old slave power with a new name. Her ally was, as of old, tho Totten mass of the great cities. Under our present working of universal suffrage tho magis- tracy of cities represents and is chosen by their triminal and dangerous classes. The journals pro- claimed last October that Tilden could have New York | city af Morrissey, Kelly and O’Brien chose. How | could they give it tuhim? By thelr contro! of its slums. If Tilden had entered the White House it would have been THE REVOLVERS OP CAROLINA AND THE GROG sttors OF | NEW YORK that lifted him there, The white South believes to- | day that she is contending for good government and | the highest interests of civilization. 1n political mat- ters the two sections do not speak the same language, Right and justice mean different things at the North and at the South, The South clings to her ideas with all the energy of angry defeat, Men always love what they suffer for. Tne North has abolished slavery, but it lasted long enough to make almost every North-.| erner a flunky, hence the danger that the South will be Bually victorious. TUE SOUTH NEEDS TAMING, Ob! that Rarey were living und President of these | States! His is the hand to save us. The South needs the Rarcy treatment--first show that we can crush it and are determined, at any cost, to be obeyed; then | you may the brute and conciliate all you | please, Until then the South sees that all this con- ciliation is only cowardice trying to pass tor magnani-. | mity. WHAT GRANT GAINED AT APPOMATTOX SURRENDERED bY HAYES AT WASIUNGTON. History repeats itself, What the South needs to-day | is the element which Chariemague, William the Con. | querer, aud Cromwell contributed to their tmes—the | heavy hand and fearless grasp which holds disorderly | | | “goutle! and strugghng forces quiet, until peace tempts and wins to action the elements which mould our modern civilization—capital, labor, commerce, education, hope and equality before the law. This | grasp Grant would fain have used, but the sensoless | clamor of timid Congressmen and silly journalists prevented. Hayes proclaims his purpose to forego and | surrender tt, Whea he took office Appomattox jaded | out of sight and the South was victorious in spite of it. | Hulf of what Grant gained for us at Appomattox | Hayes surrendered in Washington on th bh of March, | The South has no purpose to use such forces as 1 just named. Yeace and honesty on her part, in Andrew Johnson's day, would have won ample capital to her use, She defied law, encouraged Ku-klux and laughed At good fulth—tho coment of States—and hence suo | Btarves and rots to-day, She has no business train- iug—no part or lot in the spirit of the coutury, Her only trade is polities; that is her only tool, | Bulleis failed, She has neither finatice nor trade, Mechanics nor educated class to work with, Plot and cabal are her only toala, With these she plans to force {rom the North the wealth she cannot earn, lost the opportunity vo attract, and mast wither and rot without, THE COLOR LINt IN THE SOUTH, In Andrew Jobuson's the North urged the Southern white to take his place at the head of society and heartily aid the new order of things. Hampton day and his caste flung scorn on the offer and baughtily | bid us build with such materials as we could find. If | the days are dark now, whe ult is it? Theirs, It ig useless to deny that the South cherishes the color line. We need ov commiitees of iuvestigation, no testimony of individuals, Laws are unexception- able ovidevev uf a pevple's purpose, Exumino the statute books of Virginia and Teuuessee. The cruel ingenuity with Which the tools are tuere furnished to: oppress the negro is equalled on.y in the bloody and iwlamous ende which England bust u ) years, to crush Ireland and drive the Irish race vat of it Capital isthe most doleate test and thermometer to measure the hoat or cold of me's voniidence in the peace of a community, If the Southern waite man were really ‘moved by such feelings as he pro: 3 | capital would eagerly seok that golden toid of mat Jogs investment, as, for the Imst forty years, ith sought the West. But neither the ofly rhetoric of the journals, por (he T SOLDER OF PRESIDENTIAL MiBs can draw dollars from republican oF democratic pock- ets for investment in the Gull States. Yet iu spite of this indubitable evidence the President affects to be- Ueve Hampton and Assassin Butler of South Carolina; EEE OO OE | to | with his followers, | the lust forty years, forfeited, | world, | Hamburg assassin, Buticr, 1to consultation, and he calls on Joseph Surface to write tis Inaugural of “fine sentiments,’ We peed only that and bis Cabinet to forecast his future, ‘The Cabinet of Lincoln wus one made of trimmers, Except Stauton and Com- eron every member believed in whittling down justico to suit customers. Grant's Cabinet was ove of medi- cerities, He seems to have shrunk from counselling with first rate men, HAVES AND MI3 SEAVE-SOUND CAUINET, Hayes? Cabinet reminds one of u story of Turner, the English painter, He bad bung up at ihe Exbibition @ Painting subdued in color, As he studied it on the wall the canvas seemed to fade out of sight in the presence of its bright rivals, After gazing awhile Turner flung a drop of bright red on the centre of his piece, acd tue picture glowed into startling effect, So I can see Hayes gathering his Cabinet, There 1s Sher- man, who will leave a name linked to no measure or idea—his only record that he envered Congress poor and leaves it rich, Evaris reminds one of the Protes- tant riots in London, when men chalked on their closed shutters “no popery,’? to coneiliate the mob, One timid citizen, anxious to stand well with both sides, chalks up “no religion,’ Amid this death grapplo between Caste and the Declaration of Independence Evarts writes on bis flag “No principles.” Then comes Schurz, the Swiss soldier, ulways to let, Hayes gazed at the colorless piece, which was hardly visible, Suddenly he remembers Slave-hound Devens— the low monotony of whose life rose only once into noticeable infamy, when, with bis own hands, he put chains on Thomas Sims and dragged bim down State street, Hayes flung that blood-red drop on the canvas, and, behold! it glows immortal—the slave-hound Cavinet! Perhaps you will say Devens sinned long ago; so did Judas Iscariot, And Judas be- sides repented and hung himself. If Devens haddone that Judas would have no right to resent the com- parisou, But in spite of repentance, and after 1,800 years, 1 1 of no proposal to add a St, Judas to Mark, Luke and John, No years can sweeten a slave catcher any more than the whole ocean could cleanse Lady Macbeth’s bloody hand, 1 can forgive Foote and Longstreet; O’Conor, who voted for slavery; ye: and Lincoln, who helped to extend the area of slave hunting; for I remember where all of them lived and were born, But the being base enough actually, with bis own hands, to crush back into slavery the hero who proved his title and fitness for treedom by the courage of flight—such a hound has, in this world, no forgiveness, It 1s not sate, considering the moral training of the world, to risk forgiving such a one, A Massachusetts man, in the full blaze of anti- slavery truth, in the city of Channing, Parker and Garrison, to volunteer at slave catching! Such a hound should ever after be hidden in privacy and ber- mitage; he bas no right to obtrude himself on the dis- gustof mankind. Fancy him entering the Cabinet chamber! Sherman, never an abolitionist, neither knows nor cares about his history, Evarts re- ceives him with the suave indifference of one who “everything by turns and noth- ing long.”? Schurz has neithor brain nor heart enough to understand why slave bunting should dis- credit any one, provided it pays well. Key, accus- womed, like all Southerners, to use slave catchers and dospise them, makes no eifort to hido his disgust, Such a Cabinet—a slave-hound Cavinet—to pilot this ship, tossed on the hot indignation of twenty million Northerners and the tireless hate of ten millions at the South! Only ‘‘eush’? and idiocy would dream of such athing! A gushing thing was the younger Miss Peck. sniff, but that lovesick girl would not take passage on such a craft, ALAS FOR BLAINE, MORTON AND BUTLER! What name shall we give to the cool and barefaced as- sumption which claims that the Cabinet represents all the elements of our politics? Where do you tind in it the element which Blaine, Morton and Batler stand for? Without that idea-in the forefront of the canvass Tilden would be to-day in the White House and the republicans not only defeated, but humbled by their overwhelming annibilation. Every other element ap- pears ii the Cabinet, This only—the Hamlet of tho pieco—is omitted, There is Evarts, who represents the neutrals—men so indifferent that, in this battle of giants and struggle of principles, they could see noth- ing either in the republican or democratic party worth working for, Schurz stands for the treachery, self- conceit and morbid office seeking that rebelled with | Greoley. Key brings in Tilden and secession, Devens keeps tresh before us the men who ate dirt and wore collars im the old pro-slavery days, If the Presidential canyuss bad contained only these forces Hayes would dwell quietly to-day in Ohio, Blaine and the bloody shirt elected our President. During tho long doubt of December and January the only words that reached us from Governor Hayes was the assurance how “deeply he felt for the negroes; how he pitied them if the count should show Tilden clected!”? He knew well enough then what chord would reach the nation’s heart and make men pray for his success. If ‘Tilden had been counted in what more would the South have asked of him? what more would he have dared to do than to withdraw the troops? Fancy Hayes pro- claiming in October that he contemplated calling home the troops! It the telegraph had annousced such a purpose on his part that momont the canvass would have virtually ended and Tilden would have walked unchallenged over the course. If the Cabinet calls home the troops I aflirm they hold seats which have been obtained on false pretences, MAYES BETRAYS 118 OWN PARTY, Besides, the almost unvarying custom and courtesy of our politics 18 for the President to offer to the next | strongest candidate of his party the position of Secre- tary of State, When Hayes omitted this offer to Blaine, and, further, excluded from his Cabinet the | idea Mr. J3laino represents, he not only insulted Blaine, he revealed himself as purposely betraying the raoks that elected him, But Lamar and Hill “propnesz soft things,” Yes, while their white constituents will not speak to Longstrect. Besides, Blaine’s spear ouce r led Hull's black heart, Does any cunning man, alter notico, stumble twice over the same stone? They both are behaving well before company. We have tried conciliauon betore. Andrew Johnson, made Vico President, was our first experiment. No one will claim thatas a success, Ack- erman, Mosby, Longstreet are later instances, The South lost three men and we gained just three; that 13 ail, INE KVOCH NOT YET ENDED. But Wade Hampton and Nicholls promise that, if recoguized, they will keep the peace and protect the negro. Promise! Why, the whole soil of tho South is hidden by successive Jayers-of broken promises made She never yet has kept a prom- ise, To trust a Southern promise would be fair evi- dence of insanity, The white South stands to-day per- jured before the world, her cartel of honor broken and Unasked she offered her oath of submission, and took lile, land, citizenship and all its privileges, in return pledging herself to obey the constitu. tion and secure to every man of every race his rights, Deliberately, in the face of the world, over and over again she has broken the oaths she vol- | untecred to take, and stands perjured before the Such inen presume to call themselves gentle- men aud talk of promises! It was a gross insult to the American people when the President received the What Nothing but can consulting with assassins lead to? more murders of innocent men, No, the epoch is not ended. either a knave or dupe. The battle 18 only adjourned from Waterioo to the coup d'état ot 1851 and the stuffed ballot boxes of Then France tried to Create a republic; We are trying to save one, i What do we owe the men of ‘76% Not empty eulogies Rhetoric is the talent of decaying States, ‘The debt we owe our fathers is to give the world proof that they really launched the best goverument ever framed. What is that proof? Not swelling numbers, hot vast wealth, not wide lands It that were so Russia could compete with ug, The test of govera- ments is the men they produce. Humboldt said the, ‘Hinest fruit earth holds up to is Maker is a finished man,” So of States, and which We claim is the best—does produce men; Wise, brave, lur-seeing, devoted men, able and ready State their fatvers created; men cheated by no, juggle of words, blinded by no tinsel of pro- tense, able to discover the foe of Liberty ard Justice under any disguise; and whether he comes as South- ern assassin, Northern p: disguived as patriot—sure to unmusk and crush him under foot, Alter a da e the 's Woary march Mohammed was camping One said, +L will loose my camel, and commit it to God.’ Mohammed said, “Friend, tiv thy camel, and commit it to God,” BEWARS OF THR FUTURE, Lot us heed the moral, Do not meltintogush, Do Whoever says so is | If this be so, then what we owe the | | fathers is to show that the goverument they founded— vderer to Vice, or a chent not believe that human nature has, all of a sudden, changed, and bistory is no longer any lesson. Do not think with childless, guileless innocence that nowue days grapes do grow on thorns and figs on thisties; that we have beea mistaken when we believed the South to be a tiger—she Sas been all the whilo a coo- ing dove, whose plumage we have cruvlly ruffled while misled by this mistake. Do not fitng the reins loose on the neck of an angry people in such senseless folly, and then fancy Goa will biess us, He promises no blessing to such !mprovi- dence, Tie"the State to good common sense, to the lessons of history, to the great forces of civilization, Jaw, order, Justice and peace. Use ail possible means to secure the aid and protection of these, and then, only then, trust the great future to God, GCTTLIEB ENGEL’S CAREER. A CANDIDATE FOR THE ASSEMBLY—A WINE MERCHANT —A NAVAL STOREKEEPER—HIS FOR- GERY RECORD. ‘The arrest of Gottlieb Engel, alias Dutch George, alias Reiss, in Newark, on Friday night, charged with con- iring with Tom Somerville, of Washington safe burg- lary fame, to defraud the United States Treasury to the tune of $250,000 by atilizing cancelled government bonds, brings to light other ‘‘crooked”’ trangactions of Engel, whieh, if authentic, show him to be the most fortunate as well as the most expert imitator of other people’s handwriting that ever visited these shores, ‘The announcement of his arrest astonished the detec- tives of this city, but upon reflection the older mem- bers regard it in the light of # farce, judging from bis | pust successiul career. “They won’t hold him long,” said ® well known officer yesterday, ‘he’s too slippery for Brooks or Nettleship, and I'll wager a new hat that he will not be indicted.’? “It’s a safe bet,” added unothner, “Engel is too old a bird to be caught napping, and it any person ‘goes up? in this business you'll tind that it will be Somerville, The men or set of men don’t live that are able to get that ‘man dead to rights.’ We've tried here in Brooklyn and else- where, but I’m blanked if we could ever fetch him on direct evidence in the courts; for we never could find witnesses to testify a8 to his forgeries, for the simplo reason that he is a ‘lone worker’—or, in other words, he never allows any person, not even excepting his bosom friends and pals, to be present when he does the work. That part is executed in secret in some place known only to himself, but at the proper timo ‘the stuff to be placed on the market finds its way into proper hands,”? ENGEL'S KARLY MISTORY, As nearly as can be learned trom parties conversant with Engel’s carcer it appears that ho emigrated to this country from Prassia with his parents when a lad. Williamsburg was chosen as bis future home, aud the Nineteenth ward of that city was selected as the most feasible spot iu which to win fortuneand fame, Gottlieb was early sent to school, and by dint of perseverance and natural shrewdness managed to secure a good common school education, bis remarkable penman- ship exciting the envy of his less fortunate confpanions and winning the admiration of bistutors. When about twenty or twenty-two years of age he formed & copartnership with Mr. Leopold Pulaski in tho bottling of initation wines, tho headquar- ters of the firm being at No. 111 Broadway, this city. The business was conducted fairly, and the old Polish gentieman was greatly pleased with his young partner. About 1859 thoy dissolved thoir busi- ness relations and Engel established a naval store in Williamsburg. For awhile be made money rapidly and became so popular that he was nominated for the As- sembly, but owing to the detection of some of nis trusted friends be was defeated. ‘'his, coupled with the failure of the naval store venture, which followed closely ufterward, was the beginning of his downfall. HIS FIRST “CROOKED” WORK. In 1862 or ’63 Eagle came in contact with the Solo- mon brothers, three individuals whom many of the older merchants of this city remember well to their sorrow, With these men ne established a wine store at No, 66 Pine street, which in time became tho resort of small fry politic swindlers and thieves Under the cloak of domg uo Jogitimate business the Solomon brothers bought goods trom merchants ‘‘on time,” shipped them to the Pine street house, where they were taken in charge by Engel, and, as per agreement, were sent to auction stores, aud were sold or were sent out of the city to agents for the same purpose, The merchants, after being “bit” repeatedly, had the members of the firm arrested for fraud, and Engel was tor the first ume Placed behind prison bars, Tho partners were prose. cuted civilly and criminally, but, as has characterized nis good fortune ever, since Engel got out on bail, but his “pals? were convicted aud ‘sent up.” Tuc ico once vroken, )ho conunued in the samo business, sometimes making plenty of moncy and at other times losing ail by gambling and prodigality, About this time he formed the acquaintance of the then netorious Spence Peitus, Audy Roberts and Frank Gleason, Between him ‘and Pottas the warmest attachment sprang up. A SHARP WITTRD JEWELLER. } In 1869 or thereabouts Eugel tnade bis first venture in the way of cheek forgeries, Among the prominent wholesale liquor dealers down town at that date was H. B, Buoster, kngel and bis pals discovered that he deposited with the Ocean Bavk, and secured a check of that tnstiution, One drawn for $1,400, and bearing Mr. Bunster’s signature, was presented by Engel to a Jjewelier of Maiden lane in payment for a bill of goods, ‘the jeweller examined the check, and as he expressed a doubt as to its being regular Engel coolly told him to send it to the bank, A clerk was despatched to tho paying teller, who sent back word tbat it was 0, K The jeweller, Lowever, bad his suspicions aroused, and ‘devermined to satisty himseli that overy- thing Was correct before he would permit the stranger to remove the goods. When ho suggesied that the check be sent to Mr, Bunster Engel ucnesitatingly uc- quiesced, and remained im the store wnttl the measen- ger returned, The latter informed his employer that Mr. Bunster was not in his office, but his bead clerk had examined the check and pronounced it genuine, ‘This did not satisfy the obstinate jeweller, as he pur on his but and Visited Mr. Bunster’s oflice in person. When that gentieman saw bis name attached to the check he was completely dumbfounded. The imitation was so cleverly executed that he could scarcely dis- tnguish the difference between the spurious and the genuine, AS he bad not drawn 4 check for that Amount, however, he concluded that it was a fraud, and the jeweller departed. Engel was arrested by De- tective John McCarthy, of the Twenty-seventh pre- cinci, in the Western Hotel, together with an accom. plice, They pleaded guilty when arraigned jor trial aud Engel was liberated on bail, but bis “pal”? wag seat to Sing Sing tor two years and a bail, The mdictment for this crime was pending against him until 1873, when it was quashed, THE DANK OF ENGLAND FORGERIES. After getting out of this serape Engel sull continued to associate with Gleason and other noted characters, Once he was arrested by Chiei of Police McWilliams, of Jersey City, for forgery, and at another time Le was “collarea’’ by the Brookiyn detectives, but on ach oveasion he succeeded im getting out of the crape, either by paying heavily for it or by reason of the impossibility of convicting bim, so closely lad be covered his tracks, He 1s also alicged to have bad a Jeading share im concocting the Bank ot England forgeries with George and Austin Bidwell, George Mc- Donald aod Kdward Noys Hilis, Engel, however, 1t is believed, drew out of the nefarious venture and re- torued to this country, A short time alverward tho stupendous fraud was discovered. In spite of the be- lief of the detectives that he was involved in the aifuir, they did not dare to Jay their hands upon him, and he escaped, while the others now languish for life in the Pentonville, Milbank and Portland prisons, OTHER BOND PORGHRIES, The excitement attendant upon this unheard of criminal transaction bad barely ceased to be a matter of gossip When Wall street wus 1 a flatier on the dis- covery that forged bonds tothe amount of $300,000 of the New York Central, the Buffalo, New York and Eric; the Chicago and Northwestern, the Central Pacitic and Union Pacitic and the New Jersey Central railroads bad been thrown op the market” Suspicion at once attached to Engel, Charles J. Williamson, Tom Cassidy. Andrew Roberts, Frank Gleason, alias anada Frank,” and Waiter Sheridau, alias C. Ralston, | au all save Engel were convicted alter trial Roberts and Gleason, as 18 well known, are in the Ludiow Street Jait m default of bail, and the others are serving out various terms in Sing Sing, Aubarn and Chnton prisous. The detectives speak of numerous other forgeries which they attribute to Engel, but despite their | shrewdest calculations, watetitulness, the traps that have been laid to catch him, he has proved to ve their masier, European detectives have watched his case with no inconsiderable solicitade, and all who have | vensured to express an opinion pronounce tim a mar- vel of cunning and a very dangerous man to be let ou avy community. Hoe and speuce Pettus, m estimation of the detectives, now take rank as the most expert pensmen im the world, Engel 1s said to possess a secret Concerning a certain chemical for re- | moving ink Irom paper that 18 Known to no other man but Pettus, and that its use accounts for his marvelious: erasures of names on bonds, Hie is married and ts the father of five or sis children, Ho 1s represented to be a kind husband and an alfec- tionaie father, and 1 hked by bis assocites. He 1s how ubout forty yqars of age, and is reported to be very poor, although be still rans afaro bank in tho Bowery, Which is satd to be a good investment, There seems to be a gettied conviction anong governs ment secret officers that he hag put bis toot m i” | (his time, and that a clear case will be proved against him, although Nettleship’s convection with the mat- tur does hot appear in as favorable a light as they | would wish. A MURDEROUS NEIGHBOR. Catharine Foley, residing at the corner of Schenck street and Flushing avenue, Brooklyn, entered tue | Tenth procinet station house yesterday and informed Captain Campooil that John Gibney, « resident of the saine house, had been dischurging the contents of a revolver turoagh the door ot ber apartments forthe purpose of shooting her, She suid that she could give ho reason for ‘tis Murderous action. Gibney was ar- rested aud committed for examination by Justice Riley, OUR COMPLAINT BOOK, HOW ARE THEY TO BE REACHED? ‘To THe Eviron ov Tux HeRaLy:— 1 avail myself of the privilege of giving timely warniig to all persons, that if they feel any serious re- gard jor their own safety from drowning, in case of an accident while crossing the East River on board th South Seventh and Grand street ferryboats, they will provide themselves with a iile preserver, as those lur- nished on the boats are securely fastened in a rack, eight feet above the cubin floor, They cannot possibly be reached by map, woman or child without the aid of a ladder, and then it would require the additional aid of an axe or a crowbar to extricate them trom thetr very secure position, A WORD LN SEASON, QUENCH THESE FLAMBEAUX. To rue Epiron ov tux Hekaup’— Cannot something be done to stop, every Saturday night in the neighborhood of Forty-second street and Eighth avenue, the presence of hundreds of men and boys with wagons and smoking flumbeaux, who keep up a constant yelling in unizon from dusk till Sunday morning? About fitty of the residents, owners and renters have more than once petitioned the Mayor to suppress it, bat without effect. The location «has ceused to be desirable to sick or well, aad families are ansiously awaiting the lst of May to move ct A LYNCH LAW FOR THE STREET DEPARTMENT, To tux Eprror oy tak HekALD:— The officiais of thia city are too crime-hardened to scare at the “Complaint Book.” Ifyou would calla mass meeting of the citizens, say in City Hall Park, and let such meeting pass 4 resolution giving our worthy City Fathers seven days in which to clean the streets, ana, in the event of their not doing so, erect a gallows on City Hall steps aud hasg every man of them, It is all weil to tulk of love tor peace and order, but crime reaches a point sometimes when {t is quite desirable, good and godly to step outside the usual course to pu ish it. If cleanliness be next to godliness what a w we are offy Ifto invite, nay, ceriainly compel, pes! lence and death to settio onacity ike this be a crime equal in borror and a thousand times worse in its eon- sequences than the Mountain Meadows massucre, why hesitate to bring the villains who are responsible to tsk? Dear Hena.p, gotor them, If you dou't we perish. Yours, thankiully, A DWELLER IN FILTH, UNEVEN SIDEWALES, To tH Eprtor oy tux Heratp:— While passing No. 131 Cannon street, where some of the flags are four inches bigher on both sides than those next to them, | fell, and was kept in bed a whole wock and had to have a doctor, which cost mo §9, besides lowing my week's wages, amounting to $1, A VICTIM. HOW THE CIty IS CHEATED. To Tue Epitox or THs HERALy:— I wish to call attention to the Harlem Flats sewer. Hearing that the men employed there were instructed vo do good work when the inspector was present and in hig absence drive in rotten piles on the tops of the good ones already driven, I investigated it and found the statement to be a true one. This is the way the city Js cheated. "A TAXPAYER, ‘*PAINT, PAIN To rn Epitor or tue HeRALD:— Is there no law to compel painters to put a sign marked paint after their work? This afternoon a number of ladies? dresses wero spoiled by rubbing against a fire telegraph pole in Wasuington stree! tween Fulton and Vesey streets «= EYE WITNESS, PEACOCKS IN THE PARK, To Tug Epitor ov tax Heratp:— A great annoyance to road riders is tho allowing of peacocks on the public drives of the Park, At all times during the day a flock of these *‘horse scarers’? can be seen wandering around the east side at the top of the first shill, going out, right in the road, to the great terror of all young horses as well as some of the old onos, STANWOOD, A GOOD WORD FOR THE CONDUCTORS, To tae Epiror oy THY HeRALD;— While riding to my office this morning in the avenue B caps, commonly called the “Blue Lin a lady wished to alight in front of Sweeney’s Hotel, and the conductor (a German) politely informed her that the car could not stop thero on a. steep hill, but would do 80 on the other coruer, Just then a young man abused the conductor and pulled the strap, When the car stopped he remained on the platiorm and dared the conductor to turn him off aod threatened to have the poor man discharged, Now, conductors work hard and it is not right that they should be thus treated. CONSTAN? READER. THE SHELTERING ARMS, To Tur Epitor or tun Herann: Tho article in Saturday’s Hxral.p was evidently written by one who knows notbing about the Shelter. ing Arms Nursery, Brooklyn, That there has been an epidemic is true, but that the physicians are to blame 1s false, The «tail of physicians, fiye in number, in- stead of soven, as stated, are among our best und most skilful practitioners, and have given their services “without money or price” for the seven years the nur- sery bas beon established, and the institauon 1s visited by one physician each day to see that all are well. If sirable and right, as regards soweraze, &c., who 18 Lo blame? ONE INTERESTED, ECONOMY IS WEALTH. To Tie Epitor or THE HERALD:— Why are the boys in the employ of the Ameri- their uniforms home, even for the purpose of baving them repaired? During the day there is no ume tor any mending to be done, and at night they atthe office before going home. Upun the slightest pre- text the garments arc taken away und new ones given, @ portion of their wages being kept weekly ior this purpose, the company realizing a very comlortable suni yearly from this rule. 1 speak the views of some undreJs of parents on this subject, and would like to see tho matter righted, MORE YOUNG ROWDIES, To tun Evitor or Tuk Heraun: I would like to call the attention of the Police to the gang of young rowdies who infest the corner of Thirty- fifth street and Eighth avenue, and insult young lidies as they pass by. The leader of tiem 13a young rough named Cunniogham, A CONSIANT READER, To rux Eviror ov tum Hrratp:— lam sorry to call your atiention toa gang of young fellows who congregate aroun the corner of Sixty- first street and Third avenue, insulting everybody who pass. They are under the’ leadership of two wuom they call George Gillln and Hartough. They have in- sulted my Wile and daughter, and it 1s about time the authorities puta stop to the nuisance, IRD AVENUE STOREKEEPER, To Tux Eprror ov tax Heraup;— I presume to eall attention to the outrageous con- duct of a number of rgughs who congregate every Sun- day intront of the Methouist Episcopal Church, in Forsyth street, and use insulting remarks to members of the congregation; shey even have had the efron. tery to utiack them with snow bails, THE SEXTON. To tun Epiror or tin HeRaup:— In addition to being tho tlthiest thoroughfare in tho confines of the “Swamp,” I claim that Rose street is the worst in New York for any female to pass through in dayiight I ain a working girl, and am ssitated to go through Rose street to and from ness daily, ietween twelve and ove, and again at stx o'clock, the conduct of w lot of peopie employed ta printing establish ments in the street, and who congre- ato around the doors at the hours’ named, is must annoying. porsy. To tie Eprror ov tis Herany:— There are about halt a dozen boys around No, 185 Mott street, using bad language and annoying the tenants, The finest police in the world can never be found when needed, FP. SWINE, To THe Eviron or mie Herat 1 would lke to call the attention of the police to the crowd of “young men” that congregate on the corner of Sixty-eighth street and Boulevard, Methodist Chureh, Friduy and Sunday evening, msalting ludies as they go im and out, and ballvomg and shouting as ‘church 18 going on, M, L.A. THE DIRTY STREETS. “Amicus” asks why the Police Commissioners do not remove the mountains of ashes and dirt trom ‘Thirty-third street, between Sixth and Eighth avenues, “GK. K.” has a word to say about the condition of Front street, from Fulton street to the Battery, and says the mud 18 six inches deep, through which pedestrians have often to wade when the sidewalks @ro obstructed by trucks loading. “Legonociast” Wishes lo record bis complaint against the practice of tne Nassau street storekeepers of biock~ adiig the narrow sidewalks With ornamental and sulubrious ash barrels and boxes, Wuied are an intole! able nuisance to pedestrians on that thocoughlare, Sustice to All’? writes about the fiithy condition of First avenue, between Tweaty-eighth and Twens ninth streets, and says it has bot Veen cleaned sinc lust ial, Pties of ashes and garbage stand untouched, and the health of the peiguborhood ts aflected and iclans are busy. HH. 1. GC.’ nlortns us that for the past eight or ten # the dirtin Twenty-fourth street, between Lighth aud Ninth avenues, has inin piled up in the gutters, uli of Which 18 Very disngresable to Lhose wishing to Gross Lie street, | “Questioner’? asks why the Corporation have ceased cleaning Rooseveit street, ‘They vid tin the sumn a tow Uines, but now the ditt cUMUALed, expe: cially Where garbago and ashes are thrown on top of the mounds of mud and see 10 the midalo of the street, It ia no wonder tho ambulance 18 called so often an | that neighborhood, a'building 1s leased to a board of trustees us being de- | can District Telegraph Company not allowed to wear | must change | | work, leaving any further legislation tha ‘NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, MARCH 27, 1877—TRIPLE SHEET. THE STATE CAPITAL. Veto of the Superintendent of Public Works Bill. CANAL REFORM DELAYED. The Governor to Send In a Message on Bank Superintendent Ellis. [BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.} Aupayy, March 26, 1877, ‘Tho sensation In to-night’s session was the Gover- nor’s veto of the bill relating to the Superintendent of Puolic Works, for which position nis nomination of Geveral McClellan was rejected, It was not anticipated that Governor Robinson would adopt such summary measures to mark his indignation of the treatment bis appointments met by the Senate, It was rather expected that he would send tn another democratic name as unexceptionable as that of McClellan, and then let the republicans bear the odium if they chose of defeating the practical realiza- tion of caaul reform, 80 much desired by the people, The feeling among sotne republicans this evening 1s that the Governor has made a mistake, and that-ho will lose more by it than they cau. Others say that between the Senate and himself the biame will be about equally divided. The former kept the bill for over aqvonth after it was passed by the Senate, thus giving the Governor his present exeuse for vetoing it, which is chieily that the time between the sending ta aud confirming of another nume and the opening of canal navigation would be’ tnsufficient to allow the Dow gppointinent to make the necessary arrangements aud appointments, They blame the Governor, how- or, for vetoing a bill which he was prepared to sign in’oyse McClellan was confirmed, Democrats say he did exactly right; some of them think he oughy to bave kept on sending in names, and placing the onus on the Senate, As tho bill cannot be passed over the veto, and oven ff it could no force would be given it in the absence ot a nomination, the control of the canals muat remain for another year in the bands of the three democratic Commissioners. The velo was laid on the tabie and ‘ordered to be printed, When the Governor dnished bis veto he quit the Executive Chamber and went home, A MESSAGH FROM THB GOVERNOR, ‘Yo-morrow he will probably be reudy with his Megs, sage, embracing various charges, already pretty {a- milarly known, agamst Superintendent Kills, of the Banking Department. He will continue to follow up this kind of response to the course of the Senate toward ' him so that the advantage will not be altogether on their side, LAST NIGHT'S SESSION, Both houses met at eight o'clock this evening. A Bhoal of bills was introduced in the Assembly, among them being four or tive relative to banks, one of which provided that cach stocguolder shall be individually responsible, and not one for another, ‘The old bil, was revived by’ Ecciesine calling for the assistance of the United States government to construct a deep water | channel between the Hudsou and the East rivers, and appropriating $300,000 tor the work, Three bills of a similar character to tho one tutroduced by Mr, Corsan this evening are already introduced, providing for the removal of the attendants and marstals of the district courts and the appointment of new ones by the judges, ‘A sories of reports was made {rom committee, promi- nent of which were Fish’s, providing for a uuilorm system of pavements in New York city, and another of his providing (or the payment of usseesments tor local improvements in New York, Stein’s vill tor the removal of the Capitol to New York city was reported for the consideration of the House, Mr, Fioyd Jones introgucod a bill providing that tn- surance companies bereulter organized shall havea cap- ital of $200,000, A good deal of time was consumed in the Committee of the Whole on the bill toamend the Rovised statutes relative to the organization of assessmouts for taxation. BUSINESS IN THE SEN ATR. In tho Senate a number of biils were ordered toa third reading, among them the bill to provide tor the com- pletion of the census of the inbabitants of this State by an extra appropriation of $30,000, TEXT OF THE GOVERNOR'S MES- SAGE. ALBANY, March 26, 1877, The Governor, through the hands of his private secretary, transmitted the following veto message, which wad read to the House :— y Stare Ov New York, Executiyr Cuamuer, Auuany, March 26, 1877, To THE ASSEMBL Treturn, without my approval, Assembly bill No. 85, entitled, ‘An act in relation to ‘the Superintendeat of Yubhic Works,”? The frauds and crimes iu the canal management, brought to light witiin the iast two years, ure well known, ‘Tuey imposed oppressive burdens alike upon the taxpayers and the voatinen who navigated the canals. If they had not been ur- reated (hey would have covered the State with disgrace and brought the canals to ruin, At the last election tho people, by a inajoriy of 461,321, adopted an urel¥ vow system of caval administration, Ip provides for the appointment by the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, of one Superintendent of Public Works, Who 1s to hold his office during the term of the Gover nor vy Whom he 18 nominated, and by whom be may bo suspended or removed at any time without action vy tho senate. The Governor himself is thus mnade re- sponsible tu the people of the Staie jor the faiibiul pertormance of the duties of the Superintendent, whom he js bound to watch over aud noid to # rigid accountability, Tue object of tuis provision is to hold the executive head of the Stato respousible for any further mismanagement of the cuvals, The Superintendent is charged with the exe- cution of all laws relating 10 the repairs und navigation of the canals, Subject to the control of the Logisia- ture, he shall make the ruies aud regulations tor the navigation oF use of the canals. He Is to appoint uot more than three ussistuats, Who are to be subject to suspeusion or removai by lim. All other persons em- ployed iu the care aod management of the canals, ex- cept collectors 01 tolls aud those inthe department of the te Nogineer and Surveyor, ahall be appointed by the Superintendent of Puvlic Works and be subject to suspension or removal by bin. The office of Canal Commissioner 18 abolished “from and after the uppoimtment and quaificauon of the Supermencens of Puviic Works, — until which we tue Canal Commissioners — shall contmue Ww discharge the duties as now pros vided by law.’? It muse be apparent to every one that ii the Superintendent was to have any chance of suc- cess in organizing this new system, p.epariig his piaas and regulations, selecting hig assistants and employ repairing canals and geting them ready tor vavigation at the usual time, 1b was vitally important that be should be appoimied und enter Upon the wide ticid of bis duties at the earliest practicable day. Under the amendment he might have been appointed at any time, but he could not eoter upon the duties of bis otlice until he had given the security to be required vy law. in my annual Message, communicated to the lature on the 2d day of January just, 1 called speciai attention to this subject and earnestly urged the im- mediate passage of an act fixing the salary and the amount of security to be given, so tbat the Saperin- tendent might be appointed and enter at once upon bis might be foand desirable tv be pericoted wt the convemence of tue Legisiature, ihis recommendation was disre- garded. No bill was introdaced anul January 22, and the one introduced, as subsequently amended, was en- cumbored with many uscless, provisions calculaied to provoke protracted discussion and deiay, It was not Ethe 10th of March, at the close of the eleventh week of the session, that the bill came sate the Execu- tive Chamber, Careful consideration had already been given to the selection of a candidate most hkery to be accepeed, one who would best meet ali the requirements of the position aod for Whose Inauagemeut of (ue canals the Governor might safely hoid hinseit responsible (0 the people. Realizing bho necessity of immediate action, within halt an hour atter the receipt ot the vil L nominuted wo the Senate a gentiemun known and honored throughout the State aud nation; a graduate of distinguished the orgauimivion of our national military academy, ith ability a8 an engineer and and discipline of incu, and whose personal purity of charactor was universally acknowledged, Having ‘no eatangling aliances with any eanal combinations or party Jactions, 1 was believed he was weil fluted lor the task of ifting the Cagai administration out ol the difflcuities Into which it had falien Under the old sys: tem, and of placing 1 upon abigher plane, Lt was aiso believed that Ho mau could be in more pertect ace cord With the spirit of that portion of section 9 of the Dill under consiucration which declares that “no ap- pointwent shail be made for partisan purposes or by Teason ol political opinions.” ‘The nomination was made on the 16th of Maren. = It Jay on the table until the 22d of March, when it was lukeb Up and rejected by a strict party Vou in obedi- | ence to a determination of a party caucus, as was stated 1 open exveutive session upon the Hour ut the Senate, the same manner, at the game time aud under tho rainy caucus datermination, the nominationg of most competent and respectable gentlemen tor Superimtend- euco! the Banking Deparunent, Health Oilicor, Port Warden ant Captain of the Port, being ail the execus Live nominations belere the Seuate for important post: tions, were rejected. Yunis action could only be understood as a distinct notice to the Governor (hat no nomtnation he might make Would be coutirined unless made 1 obedience to the choice of the saine party caucus, But even at this construction is not warranted the rules of the Sena recently adopted by the sume party majority will pres Wt ahuther Howinabon, Uuless ‘by unanimous con- sent, belore the first Wednesday in Apri d deier action upon 1 anti) the wird Wednesuay in April. Only thirty Working days remain between Cais mud the Istot May, Within that tine the appotmtments mast be raise, the repairs on the canis compieted and pavi+ gation opened, Ii ao appointment could be mare at once there would be no hope and no porsibilily that a superintendent could organize and put vo operation the new system provided by the constitutional amendment, The Canal Commissioners, farsecing the intal result of thesOd@e- = Amendment to the coustituilon establishing an en. | have deemoa it their duty to proceed, tay ae are proceediig with the work of pre- paring the cauuis for opening, It is scarcely becessary to add that any attempt to substitute tho new system for, the old after tions have cot menced under the latter would be wholly impracti- cabie, The long delays in passing the uct and the ac- Passage have effectually de- . - etn So far as the approaching season Is No posrible alternative is left for opening repo ae the action of the Canal Commis: r the old syétem and in accordance with existing statutes. ‘The question then arises, What will be the effect ot the bill under consideration it it shali become a law? Section 8 of the bill provides that ‘the offices of super- intendent of Canal Repairs and of division, resident and agsistant engineers on the line of the canals are hereby abolished,” Uf, therefore, the bill be approved the entire ma chinery by which the Commissioners are required t¢ carry on their work will be destroyed, All work upow the canals must at once cease. They can neither ve re- paired, opened, nor navigated, Even if a Superinten- dent of Public Works was appointed, as contemplated by the bill, he would be serivusly embarrassed by the cutting off at once of the entire engineering depart- ment of the canals, The work done through that department during the past year bas been of foe importance to the State, while the expenses bave been largely reduced. The estimates tor the current year show a further reduction to an amount beheved to be much below what the cost would be under the plan proposed in the bil, It would be a hazardous experiment and poor economy for the first Superintenaent of Public Works to under- take to carry on the operations of the canals without any assistance whatever from the enginecring depart. ment, upon which he must rely for accurate informa. tion, * Moreover, this bill makes no provision lor the care and custody of the recoras aud papers of these offices, Tho breaking up of that de partment and the removal of these records irom their Bppropciate pisces of deposit would pus them in danger of being lost or stolen, in which caso the State would be deprived of must Important evi- dence ip the trial of actions against parties charged with fraud und misconduct im regard to canal opera. tions, For the reasons here stated and as the only means now left for opening the canals at all Lam cous Strained to withhold my approval (rom the bill, L. ROBINSON, Governor, Mr. Bakor moved that owing to the absence of man: members the message be laid on the table and printe Carried, ALMOST tion of the Sepate since 1 stroyed the concerned, A BANK ROBBERY, SINGULAR FAILURE OF A BOLD ATTEMPT TO ROB A PHILADELPHIA BANK—MYSTERIOUS FLIGHT OF THE THIEVES WHEN ALL WAS READY. TPrcapevputa, March 26, 1877. The usual quict down town to-day was suddenly dis- turbed about noon by the alarming report that a bold and almost successful attempt had been made to blow open the safes of the Consolidation National Bank, a comparatively smull institution on Third street, above Vine street, A Heap reporter who hurried to the institution found the report true, and that the robbera had, for some mysterious reasons, precipitately row tlred just when they bad completed every arrange- ment for reaching the sates contaming the money, and that the simple ringing of a bell saved the lite of the watchman und tho money of the bafik. i THE PLOT. To make this story intelligible it 1s necessary to go back to the 26th of February last. Upon that date, It appears, the building No. 327 North Third street, ad> joining the bank on the south—the bank being num- + bered 329 and 331—was rented by two men, who stated that they intended opening a wood and willow ware establishment. The store was old and a little out of repair, which, together with heir assertion that they were guing to niake some alterations to fit the place for their business, made it appear pertectly natural that noises of pounuing should be heard up stairs, expecially as tue new tenants had had a few boards and some bricks and mortar carried in, These noises bave continued from time to time until to-day, aud do uot appear tu have excited the sus- picions of anybody, No attention wus patd to the matter except that some of the bank clerks wondered why the alterations i the adjoiuing place were so long iu Course of preparation, avd who the meu were who Were opening the store. TUK DISCOVERY. The mystery was expiuimed at a little after cleven o’clock this morning, At that hour one gf the vank watchmen chanced to go to the directd¥s’ meeting room, Wich is on (he rear of the third floor, He tuund that a large hole bad been made tn the wall, WHY THK THLEVES FLED, It is the theory of Mr. James B. Wat-on, the presi- dent of the bank, that the thieves wero prepared to attack only one waichman, from tho luce that only one pair of nippers or handcuils was found, and that the preparations were completed on Sunday, whicu 1s the oniy day when only one watchinan is in the buiding, It appears that yesterday, when the night watch: mau, who wis on duty util ten o’elock Suaday morhing, was relieved he went out and the door was closed. The thieves must bave been in the di. reciors’ room at that time, prepared to descend, 101 the green vaize door had been removed dud carried ta one corner, But just at this time the watchman waa had been relieved remembered that he had lett his pocketvook in the bank and returned tor it, apd tind- ing the door shut raug the gong. This must have creaied a panic, and, once started, the frightened rou. bers hurried’ out, leaving everytning — bebind them. The return of this man probably saved the. tife of bis companion, who bad just relieved bin, and the valuables and mouey inthe bauk. ‘The bank robbers were fully prepared to sileuce one man, but not two, So, when the goog Was svunded, toe men | thought they had cither to proceed with their work an@attack the two men or else retreat, wud they chose to do the latter, ‘The wail was broken out, Any minuto might bring soe one into the directors’ room, und then discovery wag sure, These thoughts were revolving through thar minds upon the tustant of the gong ringiug, aad the biblical truti—The guilty fle when no man pure sudth’’—was again exempliued. Had tney known the motive which brougai the watchman oack they per- haps would have waited 4 few minutes until his de- parture, und then the coast would have been cleat again, it wax a miraculous escape, both 10r the watch. man detailed tor Sunday work und for the bank. “NOYES’ BAIL. EFFORT TO HAVE IT REDUCED+HOW MUCH OF THE ASSETS OF THE NEW, JERSEY MUTUAE ARE IN HIS HANDS, [Bx TELEGRAPH 10 THE HERALD.] Trestoy, March 26, 18 Alengthy conference relative to the case of Prest- dent Benjamin Noyes, im connection with the affairs of the New Jersey Mutual Life Insurance Company, was held hore to-day between Secretary of State Kel- sey and Attorney General Vanatta, on one side, and General ‘Benjamin F, Butler, Judge Bradley, of Now Haven, and William B, Guild, Jr, of Newark, who represented Mr. Noyes, The Hkkatp reporter intors viewed Mr. Kelsey and General Butler on the subject, ln substance Mr, Kelsey suid that the conference was held to consider the question of reducing Noyes? bull, which bad been fixed at $20,000. He claimed that Noyes had $1,500, 000 assets belonging to tne New Jersey Mutual | Compacy; that he (Noyes) had assumed all tho havili- ties und had taken the assets of the Mutual into tho National Capital Company of Washington, D. and that no reduction in-the amount of bail would be made until the assets Were turued over and paid into Court, | Noyes protesecs.a willingness to turn in the assets, but does not do so. Avy reduction of bail must foliow an absolute surrender of the assets, THK CLAIMS OF NOYES, General Butler very cheerlully gave the information asked. He said that Noyes was much migropresented ; that the securities he (Noyes) held belonging to the Matual only amounted to nominally $187,000, instead of $1,400,000, us had been stated, ‘The rest were in | mortgages depostied in New York and New Jersey, which amounted to $300,000, He also held some une collected premiums, Noyes bad made acontract to rein. sure the policy holuers of the Mutual in the National Capital, on coudiion that he should retain $187,100 in securities, Alter that contract was mado Noye company was sued on the poticies issued, Noyes’ proposition was, “Gentleman, if you indemnity my company for — lossos sustained I will pay back the ncste th ny possession,” His company had ‘been sued for $6,000 of $7,000, I proposition was agreed to then he Would be ata Joss of $10,000 individually, It was untrue that Noyes had fled. ife only went home to Connecticut to attend the bedside of his dying father, where tie stooped three weeks. He buriow bis lather on Friday last, and thea he voluntarily camo to New Jersey, The question at | the conference today was, how stall we get into Court with tho agsets? It was merely a question of disputed rights, that is all. Counsel had | gone to Newark to draw up papers lor submission to the propor authorities, and it will take some days to arrive at a conclusion. It ts a long process, Tho amount of Noyes’ bail bad not yet been fixed, but if there was no arrangement made it was suggested that it be $20,000, Noyes is willing to do what is right and honest, and he (General Butler) believed everything would come out all night OTHER LIFE INSURANCE TROUBLES, SOME ABSCONDERS—THX NEW JeRSRY MUTUAL— CONTINENTAL SUITS, When all tho officers of the Security Life Insurance Compuny, excepting Robert L. Case, Jr., the actuary, came forward to give bail in answer to thoir indict ments, consid\rable surprise was manifested at tho absence of the latter, His friends claimed all along that he would appear to give bonds a3 soon a8 a favor able oppurtunity preseuted itseil, Lt is now stated on good authority that Mr. Case has made his way to Panama, aud evidently does not intend to justify the predictions made tor bin. CONTINENTAL AGONIES, Motion was made yestervay in benall of two classes of policy Holders in’ the British North American In- suraned Company, Whose policies were transterred +o the Continental Life Insurance Company, Ouv class Asks to coine iutod sue the reeciver of the Continental jor their share of the fund which Was transterred aud the other ciass asks to be made party detendants tn op Toned we ponding ae Prau, vefore whom the is made, 'eok’ the papers aud I a, pape reserved hie