The New York Herald Newspaper, April 17, 1877, Page 4

~ LIFE INSURANCE, The Report of Superintendent Smyth on the Equitable. ——e—__—_—- BUILDINGS AND OFFICERS’ SALARIES. Further Developments in the New Jersey Mutual Mudd'e. WHO WERE THE CONSPIRATORS? | {mportant Opinion in the Suit Against the United States Life. mendes SoS The Insurance Department have, aiter three months’ Tabor, completed their examination of the Equitable Life Assurance Society, and the tollowing report las been issued by Superintendent John F. Smyth:— Iysunaxce Devantaunt, ALbaNy, April 10, 1877, On the 22d duy of January, 1577, the predec wpermtendent caused au examination to be commenced ito the condition of the wffalrs of the Equitable Life Assur: Buce Socicty of the Cuited States, which bus been continued Bid is now finished, In. the course of the examination al lof the vouchers for fin sof real fxinte owned by the societ nrned by fhe as baring cost $5,615,097 88, were care fully examined, aud in “addition to this | meimord@dums nade of each person to whom moneys were don the struc. in the cities of es have ished or labor ox fe auterials 1 tures known us the anount not upol sumed ii m bie avested, while the as fixed by statute, Is tour wench pi by the society or thas tort. fully examin: ounsel of the ‘such property, either owned by h appraised by compe even when the present de onsidered. ‘The society 216 in number, amount held according to law, nine embraced Rolde mortizasros on real ing to 816.237 264 45, nequir Gat of this auiuber of inertxages fit . erty the extiivated value uf which does not equal the louus by 74% From the SS, te valus of the real estate owned by the + deductions have been made amounting to ‘8 2, Leing the excess of cost value of samme its com~ with the present market valu : AS TO LLABULATIES. The net premium insurance reserve on 48,736 policos* 2.Go0, wae earotally oumputed, twise department, aud ascertained to be le of morcality, with 44g per cent interest, ‘On the wetuaries rtality, with + per cent’ interest, the reserve ix ‘The value of the reversionary additions (ine an the above) on a alg per cont re- OUASS; on u 4 per cent, reserve, ‘Tio “other Hebilities — are supaid idends. with an esti ure cluuse contained in policles where Ly the actuaries of thi om she basis of American ex! and an Hanes ums h been paid, but the society still being reate th ke m total of | 1 on Deo . AnOUNtE! tonting potis | Vhe estimated It . Which wuoant is includ be sven trom the torm of tout thatthe surplus dn these polic fixed liability, but simply the net v The arged ws hat portion of ders. iety on December ion of the s ja Re | Tia? they cousider thy terms offered vy’ the National C ate, $9,402,319 25; bonds aud tedand de err Premium on gold... Total admitted assets. Unadmitied assests. LIABILIT! erve un poticies in force.. $25,693, ‘ "300,760 UO 81,902 00 104.617 00 Unpaid dividends. ......... Linbitity on lapsed poiicie: Total liabilities. Burplus as rezards policy hoiders o: ot admitted a mal Burpius as rey bi uéting loading ot vreminms, Estirnated surplus of incimded 14 the abv: The exami Searching character, and no corporation doing an jected to severer tests than this JOHN FF, endent ines has been sub= jety lias. H, superintendent, HOLDERS’ COMMITTER, tive report bas been rendered by | the committee of policy holders that were invited to the Superie ves that eb souran THE POL A somewhat exbau: examine the Equitable in Jinuary last. The com- | mittee organized by the appointment of E. D. Morgan | | | as chairman and Charles S. Smith as secretary, Mr. David P, Fuckier, the actuary, was selected to make a Vajuation of all the policies of the society, tn bis re- port to the commitice, Mr. Fackler said that be found | on December SIMMS70, the society ould bave hold a reserve of $25,747,000 over and aboye ail other linbill- ties iu regard to his examination of the Tontine fund, he said he was satistled that on December 31, | | | 2876, the fund amounted to $5,040,000 of the assets at thei book valuation, The legal amount ou the Ton- tine policies Mr. Fackier estimated at $2,838,500. The committee say 1m Wher report hat tiey value every piece and parcel of the real estate mortgaged to | the socie y, 1,216 pieces im number, together with all | property previously bought tn unuer foreclosure, em- ployiny appraisers appoiwted speciaily by themselves. | Messrs. Isnac Waiton and Wills Blackstone made the | approiwais lor the cittes of New York ang Brooklyn. The committee say they examined the bonds and aiortgages and loans thereon, which, in general, are Well secured, though having been made in years past, seme of the loans ure noc deemed to bave adequate sceurity, Im order to meet any conungeney in the igreclosure of the last numed, the committee recom. wud lit $600,000 be taken irom the surplus und set or special reserve jund, They also recommend bot duu ve lakeb irom the same lund to make ood any other of tbe investment securities. Toei Xaiication of the United States bonds and oiher corporate securities shuwed them to be corrcetly stated, VILDINGS AND SALAKIES. A sub-committee Wu8 appointed to examine the pro- pricty und wisdom of the investment in the building occupied by the society No. 120 Broadway, also that purchased vy the society Nos. 112 and 1i4 Broadway, und that erected im Boston, ‘they found that the building No. 120 Broadway yielded @ rental of tive and & quarier per cent upon an investment of $4,109,546 80. The buriding Nos, 112 avd lid Broau- Wwuy, rented to Delmonico and others, the commiitee found to yield the society four anda halt per cent upon the ¢ fhe Boswo building, constructed ata | including site, of $1, 2 96, was estimated four aud & balf per cea The committee | fuy they are not to be understood as ap proving “of this jarge expengiture im build ings, which i their opinion would havo been quite as appropriate and judicious if elaborate, Jess exp! and less Ornamental, Regarding the large iuvest ment of the Equitable Society and the Mer- cautile Trust Coupany, the committee say that itis | hut velieved wise tor justituuious of the character of the society to be in aby Way connected with another corporation, bowever Yaiuavle its stock may oc. A Sub-COMMIILCE Was Apporuted to Inquire IMO the sala- | nies of officers, and te report says i In View of the ‘powers and duties” of this commit- tev, a3 declared in tbe jetter of the President, to be found in the earher part of tuia report, we arg left no uliernative but to suggest that, im our opinion, the | Compousation for services made to its ehie! oticers been uxce avd objectionable in principle, ina much as a part of such compensation hus Leen based Dh A percentage of the society's surpins, jes of eXecULIVe ollicers ut corporation of the ch: er of the Kquitavle Life Assurauce Society, #hould of necessity be regulated, in a great degree, by the value of the services rendered. such salaries, | however, should be reasonable in amount aud at ail limes fixed and definite. i cost, tw pay In coveluding iueit report the committee state that the result of their investigation of the aifars of the Jociety 18 1h geacral satistactory and thui the society tw <vivent Leyoud The wames of the comuittee att i to the report are, KD, Morgomy b. B. Shermam, Wiliam A. | Wuevlock, Morris K, Jessup, C. G. Franckivn, J. M. etion Morr buries 3. Smith, F. VW. Tappeu and Corne- | hos N. Bb in the r vance and Executive Commit- tee of the society the following resolution is re- curded:— Resolved, Th withheld from ther order of ¢ possible loss arising securities, $800,000 of the «uid undivided su among policy ittee or of the om the value of Jus be ry until Che fe ard, Wo Cover wity kare or other PROBING JERSEY MUTUAL, The more the matters of Khe New Jersey Mutual Life Insurance Company ut Newark are proved the more ervoked they appear. Ju tue hight of facts which ha come to the knowledge of the Hexaty that whether Mr. Noyes and the others accused with bim by tt Now Jersey authorities are or are not the formidable conapirators they, wre alieged to ve, there is good und justifiable cause for the policy-holders and the law officers to make a still greacer noise over matters which tramepifod im cousection with (le management of the Mutual’s affairs jong prior io th arance of Noyes On the scene, 1! the Newark Grand Jury will go \o the bottom of the management of the Matual duriag te Jost two of three yours, 1018 thought, there cannot fail | tobe brought to the surface a stats ot tuings the reverse | ‘of creditable to not a tew lending Newarkera, and, per- | } haps, ove or !wo prominont State officers ‘Oe Maret 15 Mr. Heory 0. Keisey, Secretary of S for New Jersey and (ander @ law pussed by the v ye 1474) Ineurenee Examiner of the Siate, maue eiidavit Vere a Newark wagisttuce charging that J. | | Eur Wright, ex: H. Steadwetl, President of the New Jersey Mutual In- surance Company; Charlies H. Briukerboff, Secretary; Daniel J. Noyes, Attorney, and Beojainin Noyes, Presi- dent of the National Capital Life lusurance Company of Washington, D. C,, had conspired together to de- fraud the policy holders of the New Jersey Mutual In- surance Company by 4 transter of ita arsets to the National Capita! Company. The affidavit declares that the (ranster was made **secretly aud covertly and withe out the the knowledge of deponent (Mr, Kelsey), and, ss he believes, without the authority of the directors of said compan, and that a large portion if not all the assets of the company were removed out ol the State of New Jersey. lt was further set forth that the value of tle assets so removed was about $1,600,000, and that the person who curried off this very large amount “by stealth and at night,” and copcenied the same in some secret pi: was Mr, Ben- jamin Nopes. Upon the strength of this affidavit Gov- ernor Be New York aud Connecticut jor the apprehension and removal to New Jersey of Benjamin Noyes. Noyes was found in Connecticut, and such was tho baste of the Jersey officers 1¢ get Lim in their own Stute that they refused, as 11 18 asserted, to allow bim to witness tho compietion of the obsequies o! hia father, He was per- mitted to go to the church, but not to the grave. NEW JERSKY JUSTICE WITH EXTREME COURTSSY. Upon reaching Newark Noyes was taken before Judge Depuc. The amount of bail demanded was set at $20,000, which, though nota large sum considering the enormity of the crime alleged against Noyes, was too large for bim to obtain speedily, Instead of being jodged in jail, as is he custom with alleged criminals when unable to procure vail, Noyes was comfortably quartered at the best hotel in ‘ark and allowed the fullest liberty, ample opportunity to escape if Le so Here be was kept a week, the authorities, {ver Parker and Noyes’ counsel being engaged the while in negotiating fora return of the assets alleged to have been stealtnily curried off aud a reauction of the bail, Before the woek was ended the assets were turned over ali that Noyes possessed, according to his affidavit, since made, Not only was Noyes still ield, but, but under an expression of public surprise at so great an alleged criminal bemg $0 very cunsiderately dealt with inthe matter of,jodgement, he was at lengsn removed to the county jail, Av examination was thea ordered in hix care to enable the Judge to determine the amount of buil required. At the examination, Which occupied two day4, no new facts were developed. Noyes told on the stand, subject Lo cross-examination, tbe same story he told from tha first. Finaily Jude Dopue fixed his ball at $5,000 and he wae liberated, Ho continues to live in Newark, aud says be will now see the matier out fully, NkW LIGIP ON “TIE CONSPIRACY. ”? In his affiaavit Mr, Keisey charges, as above quoted, that the trangfer to the Natioual Capital Company of the Mutual was made secretly and covertly, and, as he believed, without the authority of the directors of the Mutual Companys But ata inecting of the Board of Directors ot the New Jersey Mutual, held January 5, 1877, at which were present Presilent J. H. Steadwell, Vice President Force and Directors Vroom, Hobart, Giles, Wright, Halstead, Overton, Canniff, Trenor, Wales and Baldwin, it was noaplmously— Resolved, That a special committee of three be appointed by the president to der and. determine the advisavility of protecting Lie policy-holders of the company by. sutistace tory reinsurance of our risks on equitable turme; that in caso such committee shall regard such reinsurance ws desiravle ic may negotiate terms and take all necessary inonsures to consummate snch an arrangement, and that nuder their i Vice tho presidentshall execute all papers and do all thins hecessury to carry the sane into effect, The committce appointed under the foregomg con- sisted of General N. N. Halsted, ex-President of t New Jersey State Agricultural Society; Heury W. Baldwin, and Henry H. ‘Trenor, Twenty days at wards the Board met again und the committee made the following report, which was unaninously adopted :— To Tue Pueswest or THe New Jenszy Morvan Lire Ix- XURANCK Company :— ‘The committee appointed by the Board of Direetors of thix company at # special meeting held January 5, 1877, to consider the advisability of roiusuring the risks of this pany and to wegutiate the terms thereol, respecttully report ital Life Insurance of Washington, D.C., to be the fairest and most advantageous availaule, and they advise the im- mediate acceptance of the same and the completion of the eonteact according to f\ ba ene terms. Dated Januar; B77. 4 4 HALSTED, Cha NRY H. TREN: HENKY W. BALDWIN, In accordance with the terms proposed a contract was executed for their respective companies by Stead- well, of the Mutual, and Noyes, of the National Cupi- tol. From the forcgomg it would appear that i! there has been a conspiracy such us Mr. Kelsey alleges, tho board of directors are co-conspirators with Noyes, Steadwell, etal In 1874 the Lnteroational Trust Com. pany, of Jersey City, consolidated with the United States insurance Company, with the knowledge aud cousentol Mr. Keisey, as showo by the fuct that bis regular tees were $309, ‘A ONE THOUSAND DOLLAR CHECK WITH A SECRET 1I3- TORY. Last December Mr. Kelsey became satisfied that the aflairs of the Mutual did not wear the couleur de ruse uppeurance they did when, alter his examination in 1874 and the Hope reinsurance, he pronounced the company in ‘a sound and bealeby condition.” He ordered an examination, What transpired is weil kuown, but there are sume things bot generally known in cognection with the matter whieh aro now of un- usuul interest. The Sutuai, in addition to its regular counsel, Str, Daniel J. Noyes, had a special counsel 11 Newark, and yet upon the books of the compuuy ap- pears un entry showing that $1,000 was paid to Mr. H. S. Little, New Jersey Clerk in Chancery, tor “legal expenses’? The check drawn by Steadwell and indorsed by Little, on the Chemical Bank of New York, Was shown yesterday to the HaxaLp repre- sentative. Upon the company’s check book was the memorandum ‘Sundry expense account (legal penses) favor of HH, 8. Little, $1,000.” It ts a mystery what these | services Were for which Mr, Litue received, on December 4, 1876, this snug little lee, As & matter of fact tt may be stated that Mr. Little's office 1s in Trenton; he enjoys a salary of abo: | $20,000 per annum as Clerk of Chancery, and, accord- ing to tegul etiquette, is debarred from practising law, Yesterday, when the Hexatp representative called at the Mutual office iu Newark to verity tis information by examination of the bouks im regard to the Little check, the legal gentlemen present were preatly sur- prised, aud wondered much what the legal services rendered by “staff? Litue could b THE AVENEL MORTGAGES, The facts in regard Ww the Avenel mortgages have already been given, There is a little fact, however, not betore puviisued, which 1s interesting. When the prop- erty in Middlesex county was examined by Messrs, State Treasurer McMichael and Mr, Keisey it was declared by these gentiemen to be worth $45,000, This was in 1874 In Mr. Kelsey’s affidavit made last month charging the conspiracy he says the Avenel property ‘is not now bor never has been worth more than [row 000 to $30,000, and probably not more than $10,000,” And now, in couclusien, there 13 n very loud cull in Newark tor the Grand Jury to goto (he bottom of the whole affair, This it promises to do ana with no unnecessary delay. Mr. Charies Brinkerboll, secretary of the latter, Is the only new witness known to have been sabpaenacd, The idea expressed in the HERALD that the stuckhoid- ers who retired tn 1872 would be held iiubie for the amount taken in payment if their stuck appear to ve the right one. The attorney for the receiver yesterday informed the writer that preparations were making lor civil suits to be pushed ut the proper tine ugainst tho | individual stockholder The jist of ther names includes many of the most prominent in Newark. Receiver Parker said that bis course coud not be deterinined until the Grand Jury and counsel bad cu transaction policy holders, be should recover them i! possible. He said hat one Of the most importont things to be ace complished was an accounting with the Continental, whose oilicers were sv much entangled with those of the New ey Mutual, An informal conierence with this in view bud alreauy taken place between himself and Receiver Grace; but as the laiter’s oflice was in jeopardy, there might be considerable turther delay ta the settioment of aifuirs between the companies, pleted their imvestigation of the THE SUIT » INST THE UNITED STATES. ‘The particulars of the suit brought by John Tilton and others against the United States Lite lusurance Company have been heretotore fully published in the Hkkatp, The platuutts, it will be remembered, charge the oillvers of the company with fraud and misman- ngetaent aud ask for an unting and the wppoimte meut of a receiver, A dewurrer to the amended com. plaint was recently argued before hiet Justice Daly in the Court of Common Pleas, aud the following opiuion was yesterday roudered by the Ciiet Justice overrull this demurrer, which was tnterposed oa the ground of tho Improper Jowuder of several causes of actieu in tho complaint: JUDGE vALY'S 91 This amended compliant do from a former complaint, Tue question raised dewurrer to the complaint as Uaily passed upon vy Judge Robinson, ou the motion to sirike out certain parts of We former complaint as irrelevant of redundant; oF, if that Was noe granted, ttt the plaiutifts be required to separately state iboir several alleged causes Of action. Judge Rovineon de ied the entire MoLOU, retusing Lo sire vul acy part of the fustuer complanut or to require platptis to set forth separate causes of action, apon the ground that the matter stated on behall of the plane tls, Tilton and) wife,, Was not made the basis of any cause of action pecuiiarto them; (hat the general charge of connivance Gecweon the company, its ollicers OF managers Wis 4 statement of a comm injury to all the pohey holders afleeted by it, an a10%, tut differ materially vy the though each claim made is as to themseives, 113 one which the Court would be bound tu recoguize th re- spect to al policy holders similarly aitected who | come th and make themselves parties to the suit The murrer now iterposed by the defendauts to the Hier Complaint is ab attempt to raise in another form What Was substantially disposed of upou the present motion, Jt is put a; a the ground that Be causes Of action have be-u improperly joined, Which Was raised, disposed of nud decided at Lie defendants upon the former mouon THE PLAINTIVES’ ALLKGATIONS: The complaint charges tuat Ue com been pra ontruiied by the holders of origina pital stock, Which Lo we juants only to $200,000, while we 13 0 pany are now $4, tthe detepdanis@the dent, Buel; tary, and De Witt, former president u ora uiting a been wna ettll are jurge owners of t i s!0cK; Unat they oblatued the ownership or control of Liv majority of controlling mierest ot it; thay tuey compelied oF secured (be resignation Of all such direc- tors as were uplavora le (other schemes, | and procured the election of other aire | tore, who united and co-operated with them in the accomplisiment of a syste scheme 6! piuuder and fraud Uy Which the poly holders were and these olllce:s aud directors wequired g that this Was accomplished by so managing # uf the company us to hiner avd Hey bolders, to Gd vm the e ib the company in such a Way ae to fuduce many of tuem to abaudou their policics or to ailuw them to if | duced to surrender the: ie Issued his requisition on the Governors of | If tuere were any moneys due to the | ended Was substan. | woy has long | lapse, to induce others to surrender their policies and accept new ones 1n other couipanies acting in co-opera- tion with this fraudulent scheme, and misleading tho paliey holders as to the real value of the policies surren- dered by faise and fraudulent representations, by which moans large {legal sere and profits accrucd to the three detendants, Buel, Fraleigh and De Witt, and their co-conspirators, aud ere to the owners of the capital stock of $200,000; that tor many years policy holders have, by Vurious trauduient pretexts rep. resentations of the officers of the company, been in- popstar, by means of which | the three detendants, Buel, Frajeigh and De Witt, bare | fraudulently wade and appropriated to their individual i use over $1,500,000, euch of them receiving a ‘large stare of these illegal gains; and that to conceal these iilega! transactions false books have been kept, fictitious entries have been de and falve re- porte given to the Insurance Departinent of the state, | AN ALLEGED FRAUDULENT TRANSYER, I fe further averred that immediately before the commencement of this uction the ollicers of the com- pany formed a combination or conspiracy with otter Ollicers apd directors for selling out and transferring to some other corporation, and especially to the Union | Mutual Life Insuravce Company, of Muine, of the ac- | cumulated assets of the company, amor THE EXCISE MUDDLE. THE SALOON KEEPERS ACTIVE AND EXCITED— JOHN MORRISSEY TO THE RESCUE WITH A BILL HE WILL INTRODUCE 1TO-DAY—MEETING AT PUTNAM HALL, Very little was done yesterday by the Committee on Agitation of the Liquor Dealers’ Association further than to feel the popular pulse of such members of the Legislature as were in the city. Major Saner, of the committce, held a conference with the District At- torney, and toa HxkaLy reporter he stated that there was not the glightost tear that Mr, Phelps would insti- tute any proceedings likely to seriously compromise those who have in good faith takeu out hoetses und shown 4 disposition to comply with the law, Mr. Sheridan Shook, he said, bad promised that Joho Morrissey would do all in bis power tosecure prompt legislation and would intro. $4,5u0,000, by way of what is known a insurance, ? commonly called “the amalgamation’ of companies, or trunsferring the policy holders to the main com: | pany or other corporations, with a view of plundering | the assets of the company, cheating and defrauding | the policy holders, and acquiring thereby on the part of these officers a large amuunt of wealth, apd that tm carrying out said conspiracy aud combination i} 1 the iutention of these — officers to thus transfer and dispose of the interests of the plaintiffs ana other policy holders, who number | about ten thousind, and whose aggregate insurance mounts to $24,000,000 on averments, which, ii they | snould be sustained us averred, would snow ‘that the | beneticent system of mutual ufo tusurance can be, aud | as this has been, converted thto one of the most subtle ) and gigantic systems of swindiag m modern times. | Thatitiw im the power of corrupt and unscrupulous guardians of such a trust as Buel, the president; Fre- leigh, the secretary, aud De Witt, the former president and consulting director, are in this complaint averred to have been, to uevise and carry on a scheme by which the public or those who pay premiums for in- surance in such an imstitution can Le systematically plundered, WHAT THIS PLAINTIFFS? WANT. ‘The oquitable relief asked, if this complaint should be sustained, 1s that these defendants account tor all the moneys so illegally received; that they restore to the company the ainounts received by them, that they may be applied as the purposes of the corpuration con- teuiplate; that a (uli uecount nay be hawt of alt sure | rendered policies and the amount of the “reserve to | which each of said surrendered policies is entitied, and what disposition bas been made of the “reserve,” and Whether any aud what portion of it was wrong: | fully received by any of said officers, and that the amount so received be paid by such otticers to the company; that it may be held im trust, cre¢itea aud allowed according to law; that the company and its oilicers be restrained frow parting with the assets to the aforenamed insurance company of Maine, or any other company, or carrying on their pian of “reinsurance”? or “amalgamation; that alter sue accounting the pluutifls way ve adjudged to | have such dividends as by their policies they ure en- | titled; that the value of the xufrendered poiicy of | 'Yilton and wile be ascertained, aud that in allowing the dividends to. whieh tbey may. be entiticd the ex- cessive premiums paid by them upon their new polic: may be taken Into account, I'he equitable cuusy of ac: tiod in the complaivt is the illegal and wrongiul ap- propriation by the defendants Buel, Frelegn aud De Wivt to theinseives of the sums received by them. Tho equitaole remedy is the restoranon of the amounts so received to the company, and the adjudication of the amounts to which the plainuifs may be respectively entitled is dependant upon the plainuils establishing the cause of action set forth im their complaint, and Is fneident to the application of the equitable remedy which is sought by the suit The cause of action is one, therctore, which, 1n the language of the 107th section of the code, uflects all the parties to tho action, and there are not, as the demurrer sets up, several causes of uction which have been improperly joined, ‘The demurrer will, therefore, be overruled, . UNMASKING THE FORGERS, HORACE E, BROWN IDENTIFIES FRANK ELLIOTT AS ONE OF ‘HE GO-BETWEENS IN THE SIXTY- ¥OUR THOUSAND DOLLAR FORGERY. The sequel to the great Wall street forgery of last January, by which $64,225 were obtained from the Union Trast Company on a forged check of the New York Life Insurance Company, came out in the Tombs Police Court yesterday, before Justice Kilbreth, The prisoners, it will be remembered, wero arrested by Captain Allaire, of the Fourtcenth precivet, aud bis officers after several weeks of detective work, In their rendezvous on West Third street the police found | plates, dies aud other paraphernalia tor counterleiting. | ‘The first clew obtained by Captain Allutre was from the arrest on the 20th of February last by Oflicer Weinburg, of his command, of August Sohn, who was caught driving a wagon containing a number of valises stolen from the store ot T. B, Peddie & Co., No. 77 Chambers street, On visiting Sohn’s residence the police discovered traces of counterieiting utensils, and Sobn’s mother attempted to throw some counter- feit coin into the fire. Sen subsequently turned in- former on a gang of counterfeiters, While working ou the case Captain Allairo’came across a photograph of Frank Elliott in prison uuilorm, taken when he was contued in Smyrna, Turkey, for the forgery of Turk- ish bonds. ‘'his led to his arrest, TH JUDICIAL KXAMINATION, In the examination yesterday Elhott was repre- sented by Counsellors Aigernon Sulivan and Olliver; his fellow prisoners, Charles Becker aud Glemens Her- ring, by Couagelior Brooke, aud the womau Catharine Bauer, who 1s said by the police to be a shoplitter as ‘well us an accomplice of the counterteiters, by Coun- sellor Kintzing. The prosecution was conducted by Asaistaut District Attorney Bell, ‘The lirst witness called was William H, Beers, actu- \ ary of the New York Lite Insurance Company, who testilied that the $64,225 check exhibited wus a tor- | gery. The signuture, witness admitted, was pertect having evidently been traced, and the imitation of th water mark paper and stamp was almost faultless; Witness never signed such acheck and never signed checks in blank; the New York Life Insurance Com- pany kept jour diferent bank accounts, Frederick J. Fay, paying teller of the Union Trust Company, testified Liat he certified the check; it was presented in the reguiar Way and had nothing on it to indicate that it was nov genuine; it was perfect in every respect; the check was preseuted for cerutica- | | tion on the zu of fast January; witness had been pay- ing teller for the trust company for ten years, CHADWICK'S MESSENGER IDENTIFIED. | Horace E. Brown was next called, und by bim the | prosecution sought to prove that the mysterious messengers who conveyed the forged check | from Chadwick to Maxwell wére none other | than the prisoners Euioit and Becker, ‘the former Was ordered to stand up, and the witacss gave him along and piercing look, which resuited in his | positively identitying tiin as te messenger whom iu Maxweill’s oflice aad who brought the lorged cueck, He Was not £0 positive, however, with | regard to Becker, saying that Ve was not sure | Becker was the man Whown be had seen in Chadwick's | | office on Dey street, The witness tuen went into the | history of the forged check aud lis cuauection with it, | the details of which he gave in bis former examina- on in Maxwell's trial; bis percentage for the aego= | tation was eignt and obe-third per cent, Chadwick | aud Maxwell, be iestified, were to receive a like pro- | portion; wituess had returned ali the money winch | he hud received ag bis stare of tue spoils, i THE LAW'S DELAYS. | Atthe conclusion of Brown's testimony the Assist- | wot District Attorney tnoved for adjournment, but | Counsellor Kintzing strenuously opposed the motion, | demuading ab ex.tuination for tig chent, Catharine | | Bauer, wuo had aiready been tmprisoned over one week Without Knowing on What cuurge she Wus col: fined, Counsel thought it high tne for the District | Attorney make his comp i oue, In reply, the prosecuting officer promised to have the couplaint ready by this moraing, upon which the | ease was adjourned wiitil to aay. | j Tuw Luacer ix Au ov Tie CHRISTIANS oF LURKEY, CRMPUK STREET, Patt. ) i Loxvos, Apri To rag Forton oF tux HekaLo:— iy will wudoubtedly be of interest to your readers to | know that Ue, George HH. Lamson, son of the distin- etished clergyman of that uame, and who was the | only Ainerican surgeon in the Servian army, in which he held « responsible positon during the late war | againee Turkey, bas bad the Gold Cross of the Order of the Takuvo conferred on him by Prince Milan. vr. Lamsou wags the medical represeutauve in Ser- | Via of the wue iu Aid of the Curistiaus of Turkey,” which position the Coupe of “League”? were giad to give hit, knowing the valuable experience he bad in Paris during the siege iu 1870-71 1 the rican Ambalunce under Dr, Jobu Swinvurne, late th Olllver of New York, and wnere he was: also ecoruted with the brenze cross of Geneva, | may ada that the Rev, W, O. Lamsou, who went to Servia on bebull of the League to distribute succor to the retugeos, had th nonor conferred on him pre- vious to bis f dicut servant, | Aw Bit y, Secretary, Tue Wwe FFREY CASE, ‘The Graud Jary of the General Sexsions dismissed on Friday Jast (he care against the Rev. Domimick MeCaf- frey, pastor of the Protestant Episcopal Chureh of Our Saviour, on (he charge of rndecent assault preferred by Mrs, Adelawe Leavitt, No, 793 Second avenue, Rev, | Mr. MeCullrey appeared’ yesterday before the Grand dury ond made « complaint against Mrs, Leavitt and | ber hasvand, in Waich charges of blackmailing are set forth, ‘The matter will ve duly considered by the | Grand Jury. 4 A FAMILIAR WITN 38. Mr, and Mes. F, D, Moulton testified yesterday be- | fore the Grand Jury against an alleged pickvocket, | who gave his nume as Albert Buler, It appeared that the accused snatohed a pocketbook contatomng a draft | for $68 74 and $10 in money trom Mrs. soulton while she Was Crossing over the ridge of the Fourth ayeoue tunnel, An iudictment was ound against Baler, | duce to-day and have passed through the Senate before | of we any 1 Sir, your obe- | Wednesday tf possible a new bill prepared by Mr. Diefendorf, counsel of the Board of Excise, This bill has been submitted to District Attorney Phelps, Assist- ant District Attorney Rolling and Mr, Morrissey, all of whom approved its features, The committee will theretore, 1113 hkely, proceed to Albany this evening and use thei influence for the passage of the bill, which will be found in tull beiow, The draft of this oitl was taken to Alvany last evening by Mr. Nachtmann, who will turn it over to Mr. Morrissey, and if it stands A Vetter chance than his bill now before the Assembly he will support this one, The proposed act 1s as fol- lows :— Sxerion 1. The Bourd of Excise in the city of New York shall huve the power to grunt licenses to avy person or per sons of good mora! character, wlio hal! be approved by said Board 0! Excise, permitting him or then to sell and dispose named place withia suid city strong oF spirit: uous liquors, wines, ale and beer, to be drank on the prem- Ine whore 40 licensed to he sold. upon receiving » license fee tv bu fixed iu the discretion of the sid Hoard, and shail not be less than $30 nor m: wy $250, Such license suas only be granted on written application to the said Board, signed by the applicant or applicants there!or, specitying the place for which license is aske aud the name or names of applicant or applicants, and of every person interested or to be interested in the busi: hess to wuthorize where the license shall be used. The suid Board of Lxeise shail keep a complete record of all persons sed, ay Nerein provided, with a statement of the place licensed, wad the license tee imposed und paid iu each cw: Persons not Hesnsed may keep, wid in quantities uot than five gallons at it and dispose of strony and Apiiituous liquors, a0 and boer, provided that no part thereot siail vo orunk of used in the building, garden or enclosure communicating therewith, or in any park, street or place contiguous to the batldig in which the same be so kept, disposed of or sold, All such Heenses stall expiro at the end of one year from the time they shail be granted: but the Board of Exel licenses for less thine th ‘The oF persons wo Hie or phice where aro made, wud shall by ex- hivited wt ail times during business hours by the person or 3s $0 liceuwed, and by wil persons acting wuder such demand, to every sheriff, constabie, oflicer of the scise or inember of the police. Any omission to tigense shall be presumptive eviden tring to display und exhibit has and hi may iu their diseretion grant . % Whosoever shall sell, or suffer or permit to be ni, auy stroug or spirituous liquor rites less than tive gallo A ne therelor granted us hei provided, shall be luble penalty of, and shall fort 50 tor each offene 4. All nd parts of ucts inconsistent with the jons of this act ure hereby repented. ‘ 5. This act shall take effect Immediately. A SECOND ALBANY DELRGATION, A meeting of the liquor und beer dealers of the city was held yestefday afternoon at Pulnam Hall, corner Twelfth street and Third uvenue, to consider the re- cent decision of the Court of Appeals, aad to take some meusures to impress upon the Legislature the desirability of amending the ofc law, which permits no person to sell liquors other than hotel and innkeep- ers, Mr. John Keenan presided, and Mr. R. O'Grady acted us secretary, After an informal discussion the following gentlemen were appointed a committee to go to Albauy and urge upon the Legislature the neces. sity of amending the ia’ Mer John Keenan, ‘Thomas K. Doyle, R. O'Grady, Captain O’Koele, John Howard aud Churles. Schwartz, The cominittee leave for Aibany to-day, ‘THE SITUATION IX BROOKLYS, Captain Oliver Cotter, of the femperance Brother- hood of Christian Church yesterday forwa:ded a cowmunication to the Brooklyn Board of Police and Excise, informing thut body that they have power to graut licenses to keepers of iuns, taverus or hotels to sell strong and spirituous liquors and wines, to be drauk in such places as are named respectively. He writes that there ure no such licenses known In the statutes as grocers’ or druggists’ or cigur store licenses, He says the Legisiaturo never intended to license such places to sell strong and spirituous liquors and wines, “Grocery stores, druggists and cigar stores,” he says, pake fifty per cene more misery aud drunkenness in the commanily than the reguiar liquor stores.” The Captain, “on bebalf of good morals,” requests that the Board shall rescind tuat part of the resolution granting licenses to such stores, The communication was piuced on file. ‘There will be a convention of clergymen and others heid to-day at the Brookiyn Tabernacle, commencing at haif-past ten tows moruing. The ministers of the ospel who are to participate in the convention are H. W. Beecher, Kev. Drs. Budington, Porter, Reed, Storrs, Chapman, Talmage, Simmons, Sims, Ingersoll, Fulton, Cuyler and Rev. Fred Beil.’ Ta the evening addresses will be made by reformed iuebriates, Eugene Smith and Jerry McCauloy. ra THE TEMPERANCE AGITATION. The nds of temperance held a mecting last night in the church of the Rev. Dr. Crosby, Fourth avenue and Twenty-second street, to adopt measures for the prevention of legislation that will reverse the recent decision of the Court of Appeals, and thus repeal the Excise law of 1857 ‘tand to secure such additional legialution, as will protect the people from the burdens and crimes imposed by an unrestricted trafic in alcoholic liquore,”? Tho chair was occupied by the Rev. Dr. Darling, why announced the objects of the meeting in a brief speech, MR MUNDY QUOTES THR LAW. Mr. William H. Stundy traced the history of the Ex- cise law, giving the main features of the law of 1857, that of 1866—commonly known as the Metropolitan Excise law, when there was two excise laws—the ono of 1857, governing the towns in the State, and that of 1866, governing the Metropoiitan Poltee district, Ho relorred to the beer laws that were passed enabling licenses to be granted throughout the State to sell ale una beer, and to the law of 1870, which repealed that portion of the laws of 1867 and 1806 that was incon- sistent therewith. In commenting on his labors in this movement be sald that he wrote to several of the jeading temperance men of this city to ask them frequently to test this question of the heense; but no answers were receved by bim. He then went to the brewers and set the deficiency in the excise Jaw betore them, and they thought it would be a goud thing to upset the sale of spirituous liquor! aud the ‘beer men’? were the only men in the city who bad contributed anything in the shape of money to this movement. Mr, Mundy then gave particulars of his application to Justice Morgan and the Grand Jury of bis endeavors to obtain warruats for the arrest of the Excise Board, and concluded by urging earnost and prowpt action at Albany. OLIVER COTTER’S STORY. Captain Oliver Couer said ho would only say a fow practical things. It Biackwell’s Island Penitentiary were Visited 1 would be found that nearly every in- mate had been brought there through drink, There were 10,000 men im this clly selling liquors on Sunday, ali of whom ought to be stopped im their unlawful trade on that day certainly. In Brook+ lyn, by efforts of temperance men, the number of persous selling liquors had been reduced froin 3,200 to fully’ selling liquors, for the recent decision of the Court of Appeals said it fwas unlawiul, This ram traille was worse than any black slavery, for it rains both body and soul On Wednesday next the liquor dealers wil send a delegation to the Albany Legisla- ture to ask for the passage of acrimimal act, For it was criminal to sell liquors to men whe goaway and commit murder and destroy themseiwes. Mr. Cotter said be should be in Albany to see what those men would do, MK. BERGH AND HIB CLIRNTS. Mr. Henry Bergh said that he represented the lower (the interior) animals, and that “among us thore ts uot # liquor dealer to be found, You cannot get trom any one of these adrop of drink that will steal away your seases.”” Alluding to the fondness of the animals for their young, he contrasted this love of offspring with the conduct of American mothers who took their daughters to Europe “ior the purpose of gotting rid of them and selling them to a pauper duke.’’ In refer- ence to the formation of this society he had had some experience tn that direction, and he said that it was not money so inuch that was wanted as jt was sincerity, and earnestness’ of purpose. ‘The first thing wus to find a man, alone, if need be, who would devote hims selt to this cause, For some years he had struggled in ‘Albany to get a jaw for his society, and he started by the assurance that there was ‘no monoy in it”! He worked at it and got the law, and now there are thirty. two States in Uns country in which the principics of this society are operative, WANTED AN IDEA. Mr. Henry Kimbail said that what was mecded as well a3 a mab, was an idea, The law bad to be taken to crush this ovil. It was the passing of the law that slavery should go no turther that abolished slavery. | We are here to instruct the people in the law that can stop this traffic, When wo can puss a law that this Nquor is ‘contraband’? we shall soon abolish these grog shops. bd THR RESOLUTION: The following resvlutions were avopted :-~ Whereas the goueral trafic in alcoholic liquors as | hitherto tolerated and recognized, both by law and custo | i & source Of 4 vast portion of the burden of taxation a pecuuiary expenditures, aud whoroas the trafic fa stro Tinks i the source of tonr-fitthe of the pauperism and err which afflict our community Rosvlved, That it becomes as a lover of law, good order w al wellare of the Comumnity to organize and sustain a spectal effort to ree Strict it ad repuatute, as tar us possible, the trae in ale hove liquors, Resulved, That the eaprtal invested in wn organization in and organized to protect and promote the immunities of the deniers in strong deimk should be met by a correspond. jug effort on the part of honest men who will devote their time and means to a the work, Resolved, That the Committee on Organ! quested and empowered by this meeting, int perfect the orgwnla ithout deimy. ; Kesolved, That th ative Committee be directed to propare nnd to hav: iaved for signature and transinise e ery citizen who ation be re- f behalf, to 3,6u0, and nearly all of theso 1,600 were now unlaw- | NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, APRIL 17, 18/1.—1RIPLE SHEET. ee COWHIDING AN EDITOR. HON. A. K. M'CLURE, EDITOR OF THE PHILA~ DELPHTA TIMES, ASSAULTED IN THE STREET— WHAT LED TO IT AND WHAT RESULTED, Puwavaceata, April 16, 1877. About noon to-day considerable excitement was created by a public personal assault upou Hon. A. K. McClure, editor of the Philade!puia Times, in the most crowded part of Chesiuut street, within a few rods of the Philadelphia office of the Hekany., McClure was walking in company with ex-Goveraor Curtin when be ‘was suddenly coulronted by Mr, Nat McKay, who drew from bis coat a dog whip, purchased in New York om Saturday for tho purpose, and attompted to cowbide the editor, making some exclamation about having had law enough and wanting to take it out of bim, McKay was seized by ‘ his antagonist, but not before McCiure had received four stunning blows on the back of the head, the fore- head and mouth. Theso biows, Mr. MoClure, ex- Governor Curtin aud Mr. David’ Webster say, were ge by a man named John Conlon, who was behind cClure, and who, with another unknown maa, ate tucked the editor trom bebiud while McKay assaulted him infront. It is dificult to get at the exact truth ucounter, for while McClure ia positive ho ruck by twoor three at feast (und several wi nesses corroborate this statement), McKay solemniv declares he was unaccompanied and thas if any one eise took a hand in the Ognt on bis side he was unau- thorized by bia. McKay and Conlon wore arres‘ed and taken before Magistrate Pole, where the eviaence of spectators to the affrav was taken, which implicated both prisoners, jeveral persons swouring that Coulon struck McClure, Both meu were released ov $500 bail for appearance at court. Mr. McClure’s person veurs soveral ugly marks, There is a lurge abrasion and swelling over the left eye, another on the left ear, alump on tho buck of the head, and McKay*fo: & year past, the Times having published assertivas th: McKay stole government property whon removing equipments and siores from the old Navy Yard to League {sland tn pursuance of bis contract. fpr sued the editor of the 7imes for libel, laying his dam- ayes at $100,000, but the jury failed to agree, Further trial of the case 19 to begin fu tho fall. LITERARY VALUES. PROCEEDINGS IN THE BANKRUPTCY CASE OF J. B, FORD & CO,—VALUE OF THE STOCK OF ‘THE ‘CHRISTIAN UNION’—HENRY WAKD BEECHER'S LIFE INSURANCE—A PARIS LITH- OGRAPHER SUFFERS. ‘The consideration of the case in bankruptcy of J. B. Ford & Co, (Meury Ward Beecher’s publishers) was resumed yesterday afternoon belore Register Fitch— the examination of John T, Howard continued by George W. Dentun, counsel for T. W. Weathered :— Q Have you produced the statement of the cost of plates and copyright of “Cnrist im Art,’ a8 re- quested? A. I produce a statoment of the cost of the illustrations of ‘Christ in Ary’ and **Women in Sacred History.” i Q Does tho statement produced include the cost of making up the entire works, or simply the illustra, tions? A. It includes the cost of illustrations only; 1 also produce a statement of J, B. Ford & Co,’s com- position notes. ‘ Q. Have you produced any statement of tho cost of the plate: h Copyright, &e., of “Christ in Art,” “Poetry and Song,” “Christ In Literature,” “Heroic Women of the Bible,” “Women tu Sacred History” and Beecher’s “Life of Jesus the Christ” in response to tho notice served upon your counsel, Mr. Suunders? A. I have not INSURANCE ON THE LIPE OF HENRY WARD BEECHER. Q. Does your irm now hold a policy of insurance on the Iiteof Henry Ward Beccher? A. I think not; we did not bold such a policy at the time o! this bank- ruptey; I think uot; Lam quite sure not; but we did hold suet a policy. Q. What became of it? A, We ceased making pay- ments upon it after our failure iv 1875, and I think we received in the neighborhood of $1,000 for its sur- render alter having paid some $7,000 or $8,000 upon it, A PARISIAN LITHOGRAPHER SUFFERS, Q Can yoo teli who holds the lithographic stones of Women in Sacred History??? A, Monrocq, litho- grapber at Paris. Q Can you now tell mewho owns them? A. I su) poxe that Ford & Co, own them, subject to Monrocq claim upon them, Q What claim has houpon them? A. Itisan un- certain and an unspecified claim; be claims to have sufferod damages by changes made by us in theamount of copies ordered. Q Do you acknowledge this claim? A, It hasnever Deen fully discussed, Q Ut bow long standing is it? three years. Q. Have you placed his namo in your schedolo among your creditors? A, No VOYAGING FOR REPAIRS. * Itwas stated yosterguy morning that the United States Inspector of Coastwise Trade and Stoam Navi- gation had seized the steamor General MacDonald, of the Austin towboat ine, as she did not have her in- spection papers, Tho steamer Austin of the same line ig said to bo in the same coudition, Neither of the vessels, 1t 1s said, has been running for some time, aud their inspection certificates had expired. The agents began to run the vessels again before the certilicate was renewed. The United States laws require every vessel pro- pelled in whole or ip part by steam to be inspected by the local inspectors once a year, Their report is fled ‘With the collector of the purt from which the vessel hails, The collector issues to the master of the vessel three certified copies of the original, two of which are required to be hung 1 the vessel in some conspicuous place, A tailure to comply with these requirements subjects tho vossel to a poualty of $600 and seizure. ‘The certificate of the General MacDonald had expired November 11, 1876, but the vessel had been laid up during the autumn and winter, Tho vessel left this port without inspection on the 7th of April and took a tow up to Albany. Instead of being inspected at Albany she lett that port with a tow on April 12, and arrived in this city on the 13th. The vessel has been deta:ned by the Custom House autborities and the facts reported to the United States Atiorney for the Eastern district ef New York that she may be livelled for the amount of the penalty, The law requires vesseis to bo inspected wherever they may happen to be when their certiiicate expires, It is customary, however, when a vessel 48 intended to go 10 her home port for repairs that tho inspectors give a permit to go there, But then the vessel must be inspected before leaving the home port again, The agents of the vessel make the excuse that they went to Albany for repairs, and when thero, finding that the needed repairs were much more than they bed ex- ea returned to New York to have the work done ere, A. I should say MINISTERIAL CONFERENCES. The Baptist Ministers Conference yesterday onlight- ened itself on the process of sermon manutacture Revs, MacArthur, Ithodes, Samson, Vosburgh, Wescott, Gilloute, Grimmoll, Sarics, Hedden, Hoyt, Knapp and others went over the methods by which they prepare and wura out two sermons a week for their respective congregations. It appeared from the recital that the methods and processes of thought and preparation aro as varied as the men themselves, It was shown that nearly every minister writes out bis sermon in tuli— one declaring thut he wrote four times more than be needed—and ulso to flud bow few of them use manu. script in the pulpit. But all ind it necessary to have notes, One brother deciared that, aftor looking around atext for some me, HM he could not make anything out of it be “put itto soak,’’ and he has bad some texts suaking for the last.eix years that have not yot sprouted, THE MBTHODIST MINISTERS. The Methodist ministers met por adjournment three weeks ago, They aiscussed the sabject of revivals and how to return the young converts, There were many ong {aces in the mecting, aud the presiding elders were beset by brethren who have been sent to Hardscrabble ri its, Where they cunuot hive, and they are desire of some change for the better, There is great dis- tisfuction among the ministers, and it would not ve very surprisipg tf the disconsents sought reiuge in de- nominations which do not make itinerancy @ part of their system. Mrs, Mary L, Calhoun 1s to deliver a lecture in the Academy of Music next Wednesday evening on the very interesting topic of “Wooing as a Fine Art’? Young bachelors and maidens who are as yet In the dark ubout popping the question may fond it to their interost ag Well ns future profit to attond, nhac JUSTICE ‘TO Nuw Yor, April 16, 1877, To tux Epiror ov Tis HeraLy:— My attention has been called to a letter {rom ap “Ex-Chorister” tn your issue of to-day, It is nothing more than Justice to the memory of my dear husband to state the factaas they are, When ho received the appointment of organist to St, John’s Church tho choir were then paid by the ev, William Cooke. Some members ot the choir complained to Mr, Lors- ley thay they bad tor some time previous to bis appointment signed recopts for sunts of moucy they did not receive (1 cin give the names, and addresses of tuese mon). , They asked Mr. Horsley tt be could pot pay them the samo as the other orgavists in the parish paid their choras, and about 81x nibs alter dir, Horsey was engaged the payment of the choir was put into his hands. As the men are ali living 1 or near Now York I am sore they will bear the fullest testimony to the honorable and upright way Mr, Horsivy treatea them, Their recelpis were always made out tu ink aud not in pen- cil, nor was there one of them who did not alone ¢ Logislature & memorias irom the people of this with Anvorse to. the wranting Of Keonses other than ax pro- vider by the law of 1867, ‘Tho meeting, which was not very largely attended, was coucluded by the prowouncing of the benediction, om Aod Fospect him tor his geulug and talent as OUR COMPLAINT BOOK. CROTON WATER DANGERS, To y®A Kpirok or Tae Hexatp:— As tne Heratp is the people's friend I should like te ask you M we have apy redress trom the Croton Board or their employés for shutting off the water in the busiest part of the forenoon, spotling our dinner, com- pelhog usto pat out the fire, for fear of having the boiler burst, without giving any notice of shutting off or wen it Will be let on, thereby putting a large num- ber of tami to great convenience, danger and expense, . STIVERS, No, 263 East 123a street, and a number of others, THE APPRENTICES’ LIBRARY, To tHe Epiror or tue HERaLp:— Plouse allow me to call the attention of Mr. Schwartz, Nbrarian of the Apprentices’ Livrary, I bave been member of the said library for two years, but latterly, when I have gone for books, I have been kept waitin, fully a quarter of an bour, while the clerks laugh po chat, taking no notice of the members whatever. But when Mr, Scuwartz is around they are very polite, Cannot they be ponte when he 18 not around? A POOR WORKING GIRL, PAWNBROKERS' CHARGES. . To rue Evitor or tHe HERALD: — Realizing, as 1 do, the amount of good your complaint coiamn bas done, | desire to enter my protest or com- plaint against pawubrokers, Aw for myself, I ama young man, iske many others in this panic of labor, out of employment, and, being sorely pressed for monoy, 1 had a coat I felt that I could do without bot- ter than the money. 1 tvok it to Simpson’s and pawned it ib the regular way of doing such business, ‘At the end of ten months to a day I went to redeom it by paying the umount and the accumalated intercst, but was not allowed Lo have it without paying the in- terest for twelve months instead of ten, as was due, Willsome kind hearted person answer this, Is this claim legal? By so doing you will confer a favor on @ great many persons who are suiferers in a like way, ONE WHO SEEKS JUSTICE. FINDING FAULT WITH THE WEATHER, To Tux Evirog ov tuk HERaLp:— Can’t something be done about the weather? Here vs nearly the middle of April, and instead of showers and sunshine we have cold winds and clouds of dust— and mighty dirty dust, too. len’ there a weather bureau or something of the king? Just give them a good setting-out. 'ney should pay attention to thelr business, tor | suppose they receive good roand sala- ries {rom the government. Their neglect hus caused the loss of thousands of dollars to New York tailors, iks will wear their overcoats now until it’s time ort flannel suits and dusters, 1am very glad you huve started a complaint book, ORICKEL, AN INDIGNANT DENIAL, To tnx Epitox oy tHe HERALD: In an article headed “Tne Street Cleaning Muddle,” 1 saw a statement to your reporter that on Wednesday the Eighth and Ninth wards wero thoroughly gone over, It is barefaced lic. West Eleventh street, ve- jow Hudson, is in good farming condition; Bank street has not been touched since last tall; Washington und West streets stiuk, lown property on some of thes streets and am thinking of suing the Commissioners for damage to the same, JOHN L. CHASE, No. 37 Bank street, THE DANGEROUS SPITZ To tux Epiror oy tHe HERALD:— In the densely populated region ofthe Ninth ward a howling pack of Spitz dogs disturb the serenity of slum- ber by night and vary their vocal accomplishments by sDapping ut the calves of innocent passers by in day- light. Cannot a timely word Irom the HekaLo com- Plant column abate tho nuisance? To rug Epitor oy THR HeRaLp:— As our Jocal papers have no complaint column I write to you. Cannot the police of the Twelfth re- move or kill a Spitz dog that is owned by @ person at the cogner of Bergen strect and Nostrand avenue? It is often on the sidewalk and it delights to growl and snap ut passers by, Lots of children in the neighbor. hood. Yours, &&, SPITZ. Buookuys, N. Y., April 13, 187% To tue Epiror or THE HERALD:— 1 live at No, 97 Forsyth street, There 1s a rear build, ing, occupied fur business purposes only, A Mr, Stau- dinger, one of the tenants, has a vicious Spitz dog, Qn Monday afternoon my son, a lad of elevon years of age, was attacked by this dog—his hand bitten in a frightful manner. I requested Mr. Staudinger to allow me to kill the dog; he indignantly refused, and at once removed the animal to some place unknown to me. I then applied to the police justice at the Essex Market Court for a wurrant to kill the dog; the Juage told me he bad no jurisdiction over doga in yarda oF alicys, aud referred me to the civil justice on Cinton, near Grand strect, 1 proceeded tnero, but could only get the saltataction of Knowing that if 1 paid $2 tor a summons and hired a iawyer my case would be brought upin its turn, Now, s.r. Editor, what action can I take to have this animal destroyed? 1am a poor man, and my business 1s very dull, have po moucyto pay lawyers with, and, in the meantime, my son ts suffer. ing terribly with tis band, which wolllen to twice 1g size, Please inlorm me, and oblige yours, &c, E, COUN, No. 97 Forsyth street, REAL ESTATE AGENTS. New York, April 18, 1877, To Taz Epitor or Tak HekALD:— Have the kindness to state why real te agents will make a practice of sending parties to houses over which they have no authority, An agent on tho oast side of Third avenue, between Fifty-seventh and Filty- eighth streets, gave Inc a dozen permits yesterday, aud one house out of ten he bad nothing to do with, thereby causing great annoyance to the tepant in the houso us well as to inysell, runaing around for nothing. Is there any law to prevent this way of doing business? HOUSE HUNTER, To Tax Eprror ov THe HkRALD:— I cailthe attention v house hunters to the practice indulged in by a real estate agent named Minzosbeimer, who bas an office on Third avenue, between Fitty- seventh and Fifty-eighth streets. Ho has sent mo anda number of my acquaintances to houses over which he bas no authority or chargo whatever, making it very annoying to go a long distanee, and when you Ting the bell be told that you cannot be admitted on that agent’s permit, but that you must go to the duly au- thorized agen' It 18 clearly such agent aud should bo punished. case of false pretences on the part of A VICTIM, WELL DRESSED CAR PICKPOCKETS, To tux Evrtod or tux Heratp:— The rear platforms of tho Broadway cars are in+ fested by a gang of well dressed pickpockots, evidently on terma with the conductors, who obstract the passage of decent people and block up the doorway even while there are vacant seats inside, These gentry do not stand there for fresh air or for smoking, else they would go to the front platform, The con- ductors never object to them, although they are break- ing a rule of the company. The Superintendent does not abate the nuisance, although tt oxists every day ‘upon ulmost every car. The la who patronize thia Broadway hice very largely aro constantly insulted by these scamps. Is it possible, In the next pickpocket- ing cage, to arrest the Superimtendent of the line as accessory beture the lactr He will certainly be so alter reading this notice, A PASSENGER. THE BELLS, THE BELLS, To rau Eprror ov tux Hera On bobalt of the suflering patients of the New York Hospital tacing Fifteenth strect I ask if the mtolerable clamor of the belis attached to the barrows of the rag and bone collectors cannot be stopped. They create an inces- sant noise the greater part of the day, preventing the patients in the rooms lactag the above street from ob- tuning any sieep to case their great sullerings, Kindly, Mr, Editor, ry to get this natsance stopped and you will conier @ great boon tu the inmates, K. M. MORRIS, To rae Enron ov THE HeRAu On the 18tn of March, 1875, the Corporation of this city passed an ordnance prohibiting the ringing of church bolls. [ live close toa church on tho north- west corner of Filth avenue and Twenty-ninth street, ‘The bell in that church steeple 18.4 perfect nuisance, ] bold that a church of any other corporation bas no more right to annoy a neighborhood than you or 1. Will you please see if the nuisance cannot be discon- tinued ? NO BELiy PAWNBROKERS AND THEIR VICTIMS To ras Eprrok ov tan HeRaLDi— May I call your attention to the manner 17 which those im reduced circumstances have been imposed upon fora long time past by unprincipled pawabrokers? L speak trom personal experience. When a party of- | fers an ardcle in pawn, for instance, for $1, be ro- ceivesa ticket marked $1 12 of $1 25, Theso ex! are meant to cover the expense and trouble of “hang: ing up’ or ‘putting in the safe,”’ This charge is, 1 be heve, illegal Next comes the timo to redeem the ar tucle. The pawnbroker thea cluims six cents, being Uiree conts per $1 and fraction therecf, per month, oF | thirty-six per cent per year, whereas he 1s oniy entilled to LWo and one-tweilth couts per month, or wwenty-ive per cont per year, The majority of parties plodging goods do not either know where to seck redress or aro ashumed to make thomselves known in sueh cases. Why doos not the Mayor's Marshal, whose duty it 18 to look after such matters, oblige every pawnbroker to place printed scales of interest and rates In & consp.cu- ous part of his shop, and make kuown thereon that @ musician, but Cities hooored him as @ man Lremaia, yours taithiull; feiss GkongeNs HORSLEY, room No, 7 City Hallis the proper place to apply ia euse of grievance? Your inserting this will, I hope, do som ond