The New York Herald Newspaper, May 18, 1877, Page 4

TAR UTA THBOGRACY,. A Mormon Wife and Mother Pic- tures Her Degradation. ——_—— How She Revolted from Polygamy and Was Cursed by Her Husband. ORSON PRATTS HAREM. The Reign of Terror Vividly ; Described. PROTESTS FROM THE MORMON PRESS, | ili iene The Mysterious Disappearance of | Judge Wandell. Saur Lane Cory, May 10, 1877. I shall in these letters cite the testimony of more than ono woman who is or who has ceased to be a Mors | | attract national attention; tho Mor:vons’ fondness tor | won, 1k is time to give you che pathetic narrative of Mrs. Orson Pratt, the first aud lawful wite of the ablost, most eloquent, ost fanatical and unfortunate of the twelve apoaties of the Mormon Church, who 1s beat kuown in the East as the chainpion who overthrew Brother Newman, of Wasiiington, 20 an argainent on polygamy at ibe Tavernacie here several years ago, Mrs. Pragt was married (o Orson Pratt at the age of pincteen, as otver confiding girls are married every day to husbands who promise to love them only until death, Hardly a year nad passed when she was rudely awakened from a prolonged and illusive honey- moon, Her hustagd heard the teachings of the prophet Joseph Su ith and was infatuated by thom. His cloquenee and her affection intluced her to aban- cou her tawily ud her early iriewds and join him in | the long and miserable pilgrimage of the Mormon out custs which ended ta the valley of Salt Lake. TUE PROPHET BEARDED, Mrs. Pratt’s experience in Nauvoo and afterward in Utah not only taught her to study tt motives of the leading Mormons with whom she was Continually assoeiuted—it gave ner knowledge of ther icts, Juso happeved thay sho had known Brigham Young when he was 4 vulgar iihterate Loy fuet, involving a bad original impression of him, led Ver aliorward to distrust bis right to ths mantle of the ¥ ot h pliet Jos power with lomiliarity and xtremely distasteful to bha, “Me, Pratt,” sue says, Satten used to say tome, ‘L wich Leould sale $0 Brig ham Young as freely us you du, but somehow 1 never dare doit.’ The lady’ ty in ( WdOWS ID 18s recaliection of the state of Mormon so- in the years just pr: je Mountain und of the tnen whose names have wernor, down to Iudian Farmer John D, Jeo, is vivid, She knew immediately, as her husband did, all the opostles, spiritual Leads, bishops, coun- toliors and officers of the Nanvoo Legion at that time. Dawe, Harght, I Stewart and otbers in Southern Utah were among her acquaintances, aiso une cupping missic: ary god. Smith, At her home the other evening, where 1 obtained from her lips a thorough and fearless statemeat of events within her knowledge ince her pilgrimage here, she guve me these tacts and | impressioas:— AK or ROR, “Whether the Mountain Meadows massacro was or- dered by Brigham Young or not—and 1 paven't a doubt thit it was—it was the natural result of Brig- hum Young’s teachings, The ceremonials and oaths of the Hudowment House, the commands given by Brigham Young and: the twelve ay Pulpit, and the counsel transmitted to throagh bishops, © nd tedchers, all urged the docirme of blood atonement. réer hi come common; the sineil of blood was in the very a Scores of dead men wad not.a few. dead woiwen lay mnburied on the ‘benches’ at the fect of the moun- tains around Salt Lake City—tay there, f cay, us food for the crows and ubjects of intérest to the hawks iat circled over their gradually denuded and whitea- ing ‘There were few inquiries and satisfactory explanations in regard to these corpsez, Ii is hor- rible, butitistrue, that men in that time missed Ubeir wives and Wives their lmisbands forever without daring to seek their remains or even to make an in- quiry about (bem, There was.a time when the disap- penrangs of prominent citizens here was ouly men- tioned py their iricnds in whispers, and when a womau, being discovered by her teacher in tears over the news that her husband nad been murdered, was found in bed next morning with her throat cut, Such was, then, the joarof Brigham Young and his chief counsellors, sach, indeed, was the Janatical surrender of Mormons to (he doctrine that whatever he ordered was direcced from ou high, that few even among those who suffered most dreadtully from the carryir the dogina of blood atonement bad the t question or denounce te it 18 inpossibie tee: gerate, I cannot give you 1m my poor language an idea of the senso of oppression, the dread, the shrink. jwy from an unfriendly look iu the face of an acquaint. ance by day and the anxiety ag every unusnal sound at night of those among us who-were not earnest tn tho Jaith or who we “pected of Hot being MKS, PRATY'S MORAL UEKOISM. “At that tue, remember, I had ceased to bo a Mor. mov. 1 was endeavoring to rear my ebildron so that they should never esponse the.Mormon faith, and, at the same time, to conceal from my neighbors and from the Charch aathorities the fact thac 1 was thus rear wg them. Fortanately my husbond was almost con- Blantly absent ou joreign miasions; bat imagine tf you van the diffiealty, the strain apon my nervous system, of tho task I resolved to accomplish. 1 bad not only to prevent my children from becoming Mormons, 1 Nad to see to it that they sheutd not become Huibued with such mm curly prejudice as wotld the peopte punseltors 4 bes out of prity to cause them to betray to the neighbors my teachings H a nt and intentions, Ma nt, when my ebildren were youtg and also when they bad grown mp go as to Be companion® to ine, | have cloted this very room where we are sitting, lodked the door, patted down the Window curtaius, put out ail butone candle on the table, gathered my boys close around my chair and talked’ t@ them tn whispers for tear that what L sitd would be overheard. bis was vo wWlo apprehension, Spies, the the household. There were nights when trom two to four tien used bo gather around (his dweling, leaning with their ours against the pancs to Lear some word whieh might warrant them m-entering and erasing all our ves. A MAMGNANT BXCKOSIVENESS. ‘eyrie state of things tn Southern Uub,’? continued Mre. Pratt, “was even worse, Brigham Yoyug and he other leaders were from the first oppo of Ufausit for travouien en the Kastera States avd Calilornw, 4 Wanted to folate the Mormon people, and expe: they did not wish the ignorant English, Danish and other foreign Mormons in the South to become ace quainted With strangers und thus learn tou mueb of A place the otteide world, They, UWerelore, inculcated in the souihern settietnents 4 malgaant distrust ot Genuies, most whom caine to be re garded there as the very people upon waow | al Mormons who had taken the ‘endowment ouths’ bud bound themselves to ‘revenge the death of the prophets.’ Consequently a Siders who WOK the southern route to the Pacific be- cae even more irequent than (he patting away of | There is not an old stormon rest | Mormun ayostates, Gent of Beaver or Parowan of Codar City who doceu't feeolieet, and could not tell I! he would, of marders fo Aud avout those places Which educated the perpetrators ot the Mouutam Meadows butchery in throct outtt and inured every one of them to the sigbt of blood. Lhe pretended horror of Mormohs over that affatr, aud partioulurly Brigvam Young's statement that when Leo cawe to Salt Luke City be told bim she duin’t wavt bis fcevings hurrowed up by the details,’ ofe the verk fetions They must poets ridiculous to al! who, like myself, have mvt forgotten the willingucss amd practised skill dfracters and | sues from the | track of every suspected | to Uta | aud eruigtants | iy | ausinations of ont. | - NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, MAY 18, 1877.—TRIPLE SHEET. in bloodshed of at least one-third of the white Mor- mons who participated in tue killing of the Arkansas emigrants, and the indifference of Brigham Young to the mnurders which at that time befouled nearly every canyon leading oat of Utah.” A VULGAR SYLLA. “1 infer that youshave vot seen any letter or paper from Brigham Young encouraging those Southern Mormons to wipe out that emigrant train, Are you sare, then, that he gave such an order?’ “Assure as loan be of anything tat I did not ace | tually seo or hear, Lam sure that neither Lee nor Aa selves lower than tho suvages that day would havo done what they did do if they badu’t been satisted | they would have been found fault with tf they hadn’s done tt, I teli ye ir, they didu’t dure to let these emigrants puss and not do i, They could not have becn sure at the ‘period | have descrived to you that their own blood would not have been epilt it they neglected to commit that butchery, [ meau toexplam } to you, and I want you to understand, that those men were so dependent upon Lrigham Young, so pledged and anxious todo his will and so afraid of bis ven- geance if they, should not please him, that thay inust bave been certain of his approval of that barbarous jod, else not a man of them would have undertaken it, Brigham Young was, as I have partially explained and you will presently see, absolute dictator over lilo, | property and domestic concerns throughout Utab, | Ne one but a bothead or a foot veatured to buy or sell | a house or movo irom one settiement to snother or | marry or get an extra cow without consulting him | through a bishop, Much less would a Mormon have | ventured to engage without the Prophet's counsel in | so bloody an enterprise as that ut Moantaun Meadows, | Tho general instructions to murder extended only to those lesser tragedies which jor twenty yeurs did not | ki a their fanuticsm combined never could havo stimulated them to the responsibility of putung to death 130 men aud women at once without their | leader’s sanction, ' THE MORMON WOMEN HORKIFIED, | Besides all this,” said Mrs, Pratt, ‘‘t@ero are other things 1 anderstaud that Brigham Young denice {-tnat he knew of tho purticipxtion of whites in the ssacre until long afterward. You say he denies that John D, Lee mentioned anybody but Indians when be began to make hig report to him at the Lion House. That must be a monstrous fnlsehood, Mrs, | Benson, at whose houze Lee stayed here, showed to me und to others.a lst in bis bandwritiog of the names of all the white men who were engage’ in the massacre. 1 remember how shocked we were, bee cause many of us knew. the persons who bore those names, and we did not dream they would do such a deed. ‘The idea that Leo did not sbow that list to Brigham Young is incredible, He certainly showed it | to kim, Neither ne nor any other Mormon would | have bad the hardihood to appear vefore Briguam and | | | | | tell a part of such a dreadful story without telling the | | whole of it. 1ce’s own assertion that be did tell the | whole of it, and that he was assured by Brigham | Young chat it was all right, is doubtless true, and 1 | am of tho opinion that Lee had much more iruti to | tell, which for some reason be refrained from telling, | before lis death, SIGNALS OF DEATH, “Brigham Young, too, atluges that George A. Smith knew wothing about the Mouniain Meadows, Strange if ne diawt; 1t was common talk ut George A. Smith’s | houge soon aad long alter the massacre, The main | trutn is, sir, that although Brigham Young may never have written ous an order for the destruction of the Arkansas train, he could have s) | the turning of bis thumb or the cooking of his tin- | ger, If you go on inquiriug-here you will find that even go sligut a gesture often decided men’s fates, He could intimate bis wish without a word, and his silent | signals to George A. Smith and lesser men must be ree | corded in hell by hundreds.” A WIPE'S REVOLT FROM LOLYGAMY, As Mrs. Pratt paused in tho silence near midnight, 1 regarded ber with keen interest, She bad been for | forty years a professed Mormon along with ber hus- band, during which time she gave birth to severat | sons, tho eldest of whom is now thirty-uine years old, | Her own age ts sixty, and besides the borden | of these years sho bears a loud of allliction and ter- | riblo memorigs compared with which the worst sor- | Fowe of womedy not in ber siagular condition, seem un- engarsbie, Many years before her arrival bere her ta.th was shattered and her heart almost broken by the behavwr of ber busband, who, haviug devoted to the service ot Joseph Sfhith and Brigham Young talents which might in some uselul vocation baye enabled him to rear and educate a happy and united family, at last entered into polygatndus intercourse with other women. “ft don’t wish to wrongfully accuse my husband,’” said Mrs, Pratt, “although we havo been hopelessly separated for ten years, I believed, when be decided to enter upon the practice of polygamy, that he did so not from any violence of individual passion, but from sheer fanaticism. He told me that he beiieved it was his duty to tako other women besides myself to wife, and at frst he said that this would make no difference in his affection for me, which would continue puro and single as it had ever been, But think-of the Lor. ror of such ap announcement. He took wilo after wile antil they numbered tive, and for a long time they wore kept away trom me and 1 waS spared {rom inter course With them, By and by ho told mo that be tn- tended tv put these five women on an exact equality with me; that be. shoald spend a week with one, a week with another, and so on, avd that I should bave the sixth week! Then patience forsook mo, I told him plarniy that | woaldu’t ondure it, J said, “If you take five weeks with your other womea you can tako the sixth with them also.’ A PoUITH HusHAND, “dt wasm@erisis, It brought out all that was bad ju my husband’s nature, He said to me Gereeiy, ‘IC you don't chooso to livewith mel don't kuow that Pin obliged to support you. You bave my permission w | goto hell, Stick to it or to starvation,’ “I doubt,” Mrs, Pratt weut ou to say, “whether any tongue could deser:bo the suilerings I endured for Ofteen years. 1 wasn witness tothe changoin my Luspend’s manner and disposition which always se. companies polygainy ag It is practised in Utab, Of course no man who consented lor any reason to bre:k his vow to his first wife could either be or seem tv her to be the husband that ho was before, Here was my husband, for example, gray beaded, taking to his bed young girls in mockery of marriage. Ot courso there | Codld be no joy for him in sach ah intercourse except the indulgence of bis fanaticism and of semething elso, perhaps, whieh | hesitate to mention, The inevitable resuit came vbout atlast. Like ail, or at least most | polygamists, he lost his former feeling tor his legal wite, forgot whatever affection be may bave had for other so-called wives, aud came to lvok upoo and treat | his women us 1! they wore cattle, I oluogto him as long | as God and duty to my ehiidron would let m It was |} with a pang that 1 separated from himat ie But the pang is over; Lam grateful to have retained my senses and the offecttunate respect of my six ving wildren, They are four boys aud two girls, and uot | one of thom is a Mormon. | came estratiged from the Ho spoke harslity to them. jie ad and bas no juterest in their careers, Hut as for me, thess children wre my onty prides if | tley were not Nving, and if they did not love me, as 1 Know ibey do, should not wid to live another hour’? ORSON PRATT SRKFCRRD HY HIS SON, To nddition lO Mts, Prau’s statement L receive the following te her son | “Orsom Pratt, who is without doubt a religions on. thusiast, aud one of the most Lilented men amoug the | Mormon pricsts, has beem held by Brigham Young ina state of almost disgracetul bondage, Me has been repeatedly banished ax a iniagionary to various coun- tries of Europe und the Bust, and was nearly always, as he is now, in a condition next door to peaury. | While in England he married @ young wom natued fizaywho revurned bere with biru and died ot starvation, | When he was tn New York City, occupied in translat- ing toto the Doseret Alphabot the Book of Mormon, he engaged as his assistant a young girl of sixteen of m ane of seventecn years, named Aume Smith, whom he brought to Sait Lake ia 1805 oF 1860, A young Dane courted and finally married her, Orson Pratt married about the same time a girl named Mag- gio, Who Wak Almost as young as his protégé Annie Smith. Shehadone child by tim, und afterward | declined to live with tim becaase he conid no more support her than bo could bis other wives, Withiu | the following year, she gave birth toa child of which itappeared that iho Dane who had married Aume Smith was the father, and the Pane tortuwith belt Satt Luke City and ebeuped into Nevada. His wite took poissn apd tried to die, but a stomach pump prevented he d sho still lives In the mean time Oreon Prat | is cwployed ag churgh historian on no specified salary, ght nor Higbee nor any of the meu who put them- lied that order by | | there is Dut one Gentile resident, | reported to haye been sent oy rt Tuer father gradually be | jy Apel phe | tory ie was averved by wh with whom the Se but gotsa little money once ina while trom the Tithing it of clothes. The Salt Lake City police force once pre- le habilliments, and Brigham ‘of twice to reming him of Lis seedyappearsnce and to give him garments suitable Brigham appears to Dave been prejudiced against Orson Pratt ever since the troubles at Nauvoo, ilo avails bimeelf of Pratt's The latter uncomplainingly occupies the position, sustained | in 18 as he is alike by religious zealand an almost un- | He has trequently been without a decont office, sented him with res; Young has deigned to appear in at the Tabernacle, talents, but keeps hima dependent at bis fect, exumpled indifference to the opinion of men,”” ANOTHER CASE FORK THE UNITED STATES DIS- TRICT ATTORNEY, TO INVESTIGATE—MYSTERI- OF JURGE G W. WAN- DELL AND FAMILY—~ARE BRIGHAM YOUNG | OUS DISAPPHARAN: AND THE DANITES Hrsvonsrern? ct sroINtT, May 16, 1877. To run Error or tak Nera. Tho Eastern Sriends and relatives of Judge C. W. Wandel!, of Utah, are apprehensive that he has beep | “taken off? by Brigham Young's satellites, the Dan- ites, tn revenge for a scathing lecture dp the Mountain Meadows massacre delivered by bim at Salt Lake City, in the Liberal Institute, on the eveniug of January 39, 1873, a tub uccount of which appeared in the columus of tho Hexann on the 10th of the following month, During the velivery of the lecture Brigham Young aud the leaders of tho Mormon Church were directly charged by Judge Wandeil with berg the real insti gntors of the massacre, This was indeed bearding the fou in bis dow. An oid lady who bad spent a score of years among the Mermons aud knew Brigham woll, after rending the Hrkatv’s account of the lectare, Lurued to the writer of this article and remarked tl thagol itself was enough to seut the fate of » dozen aueh men as Judge Wandell was, DISAPYHAKANCE OF THK JUDGE, ‘Smee that time oat fow letters have been received frou him, the iast keing duted San’ Fransisco, Noven- ber 6 of the same yar, just a8 he was about to icave | that erty for sume pomt not designates, berg ad- dressed to» sister in Brooklyn, £. : Whether is family were with him or not 18 not known, [t was afterward reported through Morinon sources tuat he went to Syuney, Australia, where, it is daid, be died im May, 1875. ‘ne Syuney Megister, however, haz been thorougily searched by Mr. J. H. Williams, the United States Consul, at the solicitations of his tthe Judge's) Tolutives, without tuctng Ins pame, Neither was it ecutered on the Conznt!’s books of tho arrivals of Amer- Joan citizens, whe tiways rcport at bis office. fndved, not the slightest clow hus been found’ to indicate that he ever went there at ail. VIGTIMS TO MORMON WRATIL. Since the publication of Jon Leo's confession Judge Wandeil’s tricuds und kindred gaye come to the cou- cluston that he aud his taaily bave fallen vietius to the wrath of the Mormon despot, buing followed (if they ever leit Say Francisco ahve) by Brigham’s human bivodbounds and hunted to the death | dodge Wandelt was au old resident of both Nevada and Utah, avd had fora number of years held numer. ous positions of trust both uuder the territorial and general governments, He bad been etyaged jor sev- ars im ferreting out the reat authors of the mas- to bring them to justice, notwith- the Warnings of Iricnds and tue scowungs of himself, He was aiso the author of tho Brigham famous “Open Letters," signed “Argus,” addressed to Lrigham Young, in which he solymoly charged Lim with Ube whole responsibility of the slanghter of tue These letters Were inserted in Ste Rocky Mountain Saints,” pudlished ay » NO Wonder, then, that Brighan, w. WILLIAM H WAND. house's or Iwo him out oi the way, PROVESTS FROM TAE MORMON ‘PRESS—sSOME LIVELY READING VOR GENTILIS. {roin the Salt Lake Herald, May 10 } We have denied go often the infernal ies manafac- | tured in the Yribuxe oiiiée im this eity and toiegraphed to the New York Henanp, concerning the arming und mustering of the Nauvoo Legion, that it is becoming, like Brick Pomeroy’s diet of onions, feartully monoto- novs, Although we have made diligent inquiry we have fuilod to learn that a single company ofthe militia has met for drill, or thatany driil 13 anticipated, There is no denying tho fact that some weak- muiuded peopiv have become trightened by the sensa- tonal stories, andl in California the excitement is said to be intense, a general slaughter of Gentiles in Utah bemg vovlidently expected, This seems like the veri- est nonsense, and doubtless the villinous liars who Staried the storics snicker in their sleeves at tho breeze they have created, We undertake to assert that not half a dozeu sane men can be found in the Territory who have tue siightest tear of violence trom Mormons, ‘There is no occusion for the least appre- hension, and all know it; yet two or three scoun- drelly newspaper reporters have put in circulation a base Hie which, ifuncheckod, might bring ruin and desolation upow a whole Territory. We publish below an article from the Corinue Record, in which the editor of that journal gives the lie direct to bis Kansas border brother scribe of this city, The editor ot the Record, 08 cau be geen by the extract, 18 no Mormon sympathizer, yet he bas the manhood to deny the Trivunc’s talschoodts, Does any one suppose that if there were apy real danger of the Mormons rising to do violence to Gentiles—the proposition is almost latchably absurd—tnat the handful of anti-Mormon citizens in Corinne would sleep peacelaily, aud Cache Valley, the alleged head and front of tue military move ment, within wu few miles of the burg on tho Bear, Further, the wretches of the Tribune give the lie to thete own words by moving about the streets of this city without fear Of molestation, If there were trutt in what they said how long would they daro to remam in Utan? Again, woe assert that the business men of Salt Lake and of Utah, Mormon and Gentile, owe it to themseives to deny theirath of these stories and send i out to the world that su- premest peace and monotonous quiet exist fv all sec. Hons of the Lerritory. Hore is what the Mecord bas to say of the Cache Valley stor; 7 For eoue weeks past rumors have been rife that the Motinuns throavaont the Terrtiory-—espectally in the noribera portion—were arming and drihng with a Ysow LO vessel i on ol the law, One sensation monger im particular—the © fribune—las aged 10 eflort to set toiseutn ve thy people Kast und Wevt as ina state of iusurrection, giving ihe impression that a general uprising of the Mormons was iniminent, tat “destruction to the roadbeds of she railroads was) being plauned, and that a feeling of ivseouriy ot ite send = limb Was prevalent atnoug the Gentiles aud apostute Mormons, These reports huve not only been published bere, but have been ictegraphed Kust and West, cuas Ing great excitement and injuring the business igter- este of tie Terrliory, Some few days ago the ecard tovk up these stories and, on information and beliel, obsracterizod them as sensational, much iw the disgust of our rabid Salt Lake contemporary, whose oniy object {t appenre is to Misrepreeent Utah inatters for the pur- puse Of votting noLoriety as the grout (?) Gente orgen ofthe Territory. in order to get at the boltom.al tho matter the Accord rent a representative to Logan aud other towns in Cache Valiey—the very stronghold of Mormontem—io ascertain what grounds, if any, there were Jor the stories, aud to make te most ciligent in- qiiries und report just What the facts tn ibe case ware ranted. ‘The reporter performed bis unssion and the result only coutirms our previous conviction, that a great deai of wadue excitement hasbeen worked up in relation to the matter, Login was the first place visited. In thia town tue balance of the Mormon population, being apostates, It was as- ained—and thts fact probably furnished gound for the Trifene’s stgrement that tne Nauvoo Legion ana Mormous gencPally were arming and drilling by pight—that a giail sqnad of boys wud.been in the habit of meeting and, without arms ot any de ing through ordinary mintary aril, sometime so 1) Open daylight on the pubic square, and som SusINE private buldingss And as to the despateda no. cripuon, gO- Bishop attLogan calliug on the Mormons to prepare ihemseives with arms and atmimunition and be ready for their enemics—meaning whe officers of the lw were id not be found in alk Logan a non-Mormon who saw the despatch or heard the discourse peeacued by the Bishop, in answer to the inquiry ef whether such inoverments were on foat by the Nauvoo Legion as to cange alarm aud jeopardize the peace of the Terris ord te kind was porter came in contact that no danger of a abticipated, no outbreak feared, and no necessity lor any steps y taken I bbe mutter by Governor Kwery. All aloug (he line, at settlements above and below, Logan, nou-Mormuns. were met with who de- clire that, to ther Knowledge, no snch drilling bad taxen piece, and no cause exigted for avy alarin. Written statements to this effect have also been ceived at the Meer who are trustwort Foal cause ex in every respect, aud who, i eoy the propor authority the publication of suc tereats, In this immediate vicinity nothing of # miiftary nature is observuble in tho doings of tho Mormons, as Nortbern Uta is concerned, our Treader’ can jndge tor. themselves whetbor uny good by the pub- The anil DOW, 80 t round exists for the alurin veeaion ished and telugraphed siories of an tsucrection, Mormons are well aware that no 6 will be brooked by; cannot doubt that their wilt to dety yoou eneush iis auth of the law down upon them, THE + LEO: Apton Loon, the Iraliia who tanrderously assanited | | his young marriod daughter, Rose Massamipo, ou the 16th of Febraary list, at hor residence, No. T4 Prosi- | dont street, Prookiyn, was semtonced yesterday in the Kings Counry Court of Segstons to one year in tho Penitentiary. | native | hes im the belief that the theatrical Iife doing | tia Young to (be | “4 olice, sent by men—Gentilee— | (Jot alarm, are in a position to know \t, and would not bo siow to chum the protection ot One aud ali, they deciare that | reports Was uncalled ior, sen- | eatronal and caiculated to injure thei business in- demonstrations p Governor Emery, ny althongh we | away from then with diggust is a thorbid weakness, rity 38 | nota proof of One superiorit ou @ fear of the consequences veters ing aught that would bring the oflicers | ever MASSAMINO | ASSAULT. LITERATURE. » A CLERGYMAN’S VIEWS OF AN ACTOR, Lire or Epwiy) Fornest, rug American Trageptay, By William Koanseville Alger, in two volumes, Phil- adelphia: J. B. Lippmeott & Co, ‘The theatrical and Iterary worid bas been on the tip | toe of expectation for nearly two years past, ever since it was first anmounced that the Rey, William R. Alger intended writing the life of Kdwin Forrest, for it is nut every day that am eminent clergyman writes the/life of anemiuentuctor, Mr, Alger bas long been a frieud aud admirer of the stage, and bis plum spoken aud sen- sible words oo the sulject have mado him mauy warm imends im the theatrical profession. Lt 1s 80 much easier aod so much moro popular for a clurgyman to malign the styge that refreshing to see one of Mr. Alycr’s position look at the subject with just aud uaprejuciced eyes, This gentleman was @ close personal friend vf tue lato Edwin Forrest and knew ham in all his moods, so that whatever he h: to gay about the famous tragedian will be read with iniprest and respect, The bovk-has been delayed im pubnestion lor along Lime, owing to the it health of the autaur, bat now the advance sheets he before us im all their compleceness. No pains have Deen spared (o make the biography fall im its particu. Jars, and to the simple narration of events are added discussions of the cuus’s and teachings of LLose events. The author expects severe criticis from certain quarters. on many of the opinions expressed in this book, He says, ond very truly “Thera is still lingering in many minds, espe- cinily in) the socalied religious world, a strong prejudice agamst the dramatic proiession, Analyzed dowa to its origin, the long warfare of | Chureb and theatre, the instinctive aversion of priest and player, will be found to be root in tha essential oppostion of thoir res als of Vile, The | ecclesiastical teal 18 ascetic; its methods, painful obeuiencu-and prayer; its chief virtues, seli-restraint | and denial, The dramatic ideal is treo; its methods, self-devolopment and culture; its ruting aims, gratif- | cation aud fulfiiment, The votarios of thes dis- 9 of convictions aed sentiments have, from an eurly age, formed two hostile camps, Accurdingly, when one known a8 & clergyman was said to be writing the lite of an actor, the announce. ment created surprise and curiosity and olicisea cen- sorious comment, ‘The question was often asked, ‘How cun this strange conjunction be explaimed?? * * * This statement iso be taken as an explana. (ion, not a8 an apology, Tho only justifeation necded y be as puro and noble as the ecclesiastical; that the tbeatre has as sound a claim to sapport us the Church; that the great acter, properly equipped for bis work, is the | most, flexible and comprehensive style of man in the | world, mastrof all types of human nature and all grades of human experience, and that the priestly pro- fessiow in our day hagas much to learn from the his- triontc as tt has to teach it,” A great many eflorts were made to get an autobtog- | raphy'irom Forrest, but without avail, Mr. Alger was suggested to write a biography, and to this Mr, Forrest | consented, offering to lend him all the ald in bis power, In the fret conversation Leld with him en the subject Forrest said, “Tell tho truth frankly, Let there be no whitewashivg. Show me just as L have been na am.”? As he thus spoke he took dewn from a sbelf of his library tho flest voluine of the “Memoirs of Banister the Comedian,” by Jon Adolphus, and read in rich, sweet tones, metlowed by the echoes of his heart, the opening paragraph, As the nd- miring cadence of his voice died sadly away he Ind down the volume = and seid to his auditor, “For your sake, in tho work on which $ou have entered, I wish it were with mo as it was with Baumister, But itigotherwise, My | Jaults are many and I deserve much blame, Yet, ajter every confession and every regret, I feel before God that I have been a man more sinned ugainst than sinning; and, If the whole truth be told, Lam periectly willing to bear all tbe censure, atl the condemnation, that jastly belong tome, Therefore use no disguising varnish, but let the facts stand forth.”? This volume, 1m the words of its author, has been writtea more from the stage point of view than from the pulpit point of view, but most ofall from that popular: academic or philosophic point of view which surveys the whole fleld of human life in @ spirit at once of scientifle ap- preciation, poetic sympathy acd impartial criticism, Ot the parentage and family of Kdwin Forrest enough has already been writion to make the public familiar with his belongings. Edwin was the pride of the family trom his voyhood, aud at an early age showed striking signs of talent, At the age of ten he developed a taste for the stage, although an apprent! in a ehipehandiéry shop on Race street, Philadelphia. The stage prochivities of the lad cropped out on every occasion, When in bis fourteenth year he clianoed one evening to be tn the audience of a lecturer in the old Tivoli Garden Theatro, Market street, who was dis- coursing on the properties of laughing gus. The lee- turer invited any of iis auditors who desired to come forward and inhale the exhilarating aura, He etepped up and apphed bis mouth and nostrils te the bag. Ln a moment, as the air began to work, bis ruliug pas- sion broke forth. Striking ous right and left, to the no slight consternation of those cearest him, he advanced to the front ot the stage and dectarmed a pussage from the stage copy of Shakespearo:— What, ou! young Richmond, ho! "ts Rrchard eatls, I wate thee for thy btood of Lancaster, with extraordinary energy end cfivet, When Edwin was nine years old be was thin and pale und bad @ slight forward stoop of the chest and eboniders, and his family feared that they would not be ble toraisé him. His bealth, however, iniproved with age, und Whou he arrived at maphood he was a fine specimen of puysical perfection, We will not fol- low Forrest 1m Dis carecr a8 an actor, but simply quae afew anecdotes and striking pussages irom the book, Vorresv’s first interview with Edmand Kean took place at Albany and is thus described :— About nvon of tbe day they were to act together. As Kenu did not como tothe rehearsal Forrest celled at bis hotel and asked to see him, ie told (be mes- wenger to say to Mr. Kean thas the yourg man who was to play Jego wished & brief interyiow with him, te receive aby directions be might liko to give lor the performance ip the evening, “Show bim up," sad the actor, graciously. As Forre: tered, With a Beate ing heart, Kean rose ana welcomed him with great kindness of manner, ip answer to a question as to tue business of the play he said, ‘My boy, bdo pot cure how you como op or go off, If while we aroon the singe you always keep iu front of me and Jet vot your attewtion waoder irom we.” ie had, not yet breaklasted, lato ns it was, but wis in a loose dressing gown, with the marks of exe sive indulgence in dissipation and — éleepicss: ly revealed in uls wholo appearance. A rosewood piano was covered with spilin and sticky rings from tho giasges used in the dedauch of the bight, “Have you ever heard mo str4 7”? asked Kean. | “Oh, yes, in “Tom Tug, the Waterman.’ Did you see my tom tug?” responded the uctor, 10 a pleased tone oF caressing eugervess, “1 learued those sougs purely by imitation ot my old friend Incledon; and 1 Lpprovched him so closely that it was said no one hours too plai could tell the singing of ene of as trom that of the | other. Bat now you sul. bear ine sing my favorite piece."? He sat down at the pring, sirick a lew noies aud sing the well known song of Moore, “Fareweli, | but Whenever you Welcome tho huer,” 1s fwee wus very palo and Wore av exprossion of unuterabie | pathos aod melancholy; bis hair was floating in con- fused masses and his cyes looked Nke two great inland s, Both be apd bis auditor wept as he gang with tehless depth of feeling and a most mourntul eweet- | eaking of Forrest's love of monly sports, the atithor vives bis own ideas on the subject :— Lurtag his second yeur th of leseons in boxing. He lek a art, became a redoubtable proficient im is practice, and was ever an carnest and open admicer of is prom: iment heroes, Those who feel this to bo diserodtable to him will find on reflection, 1 they think tutrly, that it was, on the contrary, a credit to linn, * '* * Surely it is better 10 be a perfect auimel than an tm- periect one, When all things ate tn burnony the linvet corporeal condition is the busts for (he wighest spiritual: power. A champion in finished traming, with lis pertected locim, his marvic skin, clear an ing oyes, corky tread, and indomitable pluck, a thrilling sight, thusiasm vents iteel! in 4 shout of delight, jug i's adversary deed frightful ap hiyome; but that is a base per- version, not the proper fruition, of bis high estate, "The tunctioual power of his bearing 16 magnificent. He is in a condition of godlike potency. it is a higher thing to admire this giorlous wealth of force, ose aud | courage than to despise i Personal gifts of strength, } skill, leutieesness are certainly desirabic on any evel ‘To turn jn preference to the corresponding defects, Whue i this world we caniot egenpe the physical Jevel of our constit ew York Le took a series | reat tuterest in this | When the crowd see bim \heir ene | His maul | 0 4 disfigured mass of jelly ts im- | tion, however much *o May Huttd above Hy 1s 1 not pluitily best ws fut as possible to perfect ourselves on | An Admirable Onieuten, | level of our nature’ urpass every body On all tho succossive heighis able to of buman accomplishments, trou to fenevog WHIN wits, from daneir toa, © pot be lield, except by o tawkish jutgment, ast jortor toa Kirke White writing verses ©: pale pict While dying of consumption brought om by over mtiu- ulus of diterary ambition, Mr. Alger indulgos im some lengthy and caretul iwneing Will swords | which would form a valcablo volume of themselves. Ot the Forrest and Macready riots ne bas considerable to sy, and is very loyal to his {riend. Of the great actor’s domestie life bis biographer says But above all he wus signally bicssed in his married hite, the potas ip a@churactor |ike his by far the most central and vital of all, The first ten years of lits state ot wedlock bad indeed been happy beyond the ordinary portion of mortals. It was a well-mated match, he a noble @ of strength, she a wetting picture of benuty, mutually proud ana fond of each other, his native honesty and imperious wii! met by ber polteneg relinemout ahd conciliatory sweetness, ond all doubt be deeply and parsiouately loved her, And well he er for bis nature Was one greatly endowed Iu all pofpts for impassioned love, and she was in person, disposition and accomplish iments equally adapied to awaken it, She was per- fection,” said one in allugion to ber bridal Janding ip Atverica, “ihe most beautiful vision 1 ever saw.” it ip | Alter the death of Forrest she horset satd;-—"The first 6 18 | ten years of our married life were a season of coutent. ment and happmess, scarcely rutlied by 80 much as a) suwuier flaw; thon bickering began, folluwed by deeper misunderstanding, abd the fata! result drew ob, which Thave always deplored,” years, too short und too fow, wanting to finish household felicuy. This one wont Was children, tho eternal charm of the passing ages ot | humanity, Of thotoor pathetic creatures born to them but one lived, aud that only for afew mouths, Ol the terrible scandal, which ended in one of the most famous divorce trials known to our courts, Mr, Alger say: ‘The mnoconco of Mrs. Forrest 18 pablicly accredited, avd is pot here impugned, But mistory abundantly Shows that her Lusband’s affirmation of hor guilt doc not prove him to bave been awiiful monster, His si picion was naturally aroused, and, though it may ba been mistaken, naturally culminated, under the ci cumstances accompanying its course, im an assnred couviction of its justice, Iu his prond, sensitive aud tenacious mina, recoiling with all its titres from the jageied wrong and shan the poison of the Consuelo letter worked like a deadly drug, burning and anining | all within, By day or by night be could not forget it, Tho tall experience of | jealuusy, as so wany poor wrotehes in overy age huve felt 4, guawed avd tare him, Ute passion Bow 3: dd to sufler it in itsdire reality, For more than a year e kept bis durk secret in stlouce, not saying a word even to his dearest iriends, socluu: tng h tuseil much of tho time, brooding morbidly over Lis pent-up misery, Now ho learned to probe tu their deepest sipnitieauge the words of his great Muster— But oh, what damned minutos tells ho o'er Who totes yot doubts, suspects yet strongly loves | Tho evidence of the love he bad for his wife and of the agony brs jealousy cacsed him is abundant. fis letters to her aro tender and etlusive. Such extracts as these area specimen of them :—‘'Lam quite tired of this wandering, and every hour f wish myscif again with you. God bless you iny dearest Kato, and believe ine wholly yours.” “Phis 18a warm, brizbt, boautital day, snd T am sitting at av open window in the Eutaw House, and while I writo there ig above me a clear, biue, cloudless sky—just such a day 1 yearn to have with you at Foutum.’? “1 saw Mr, Mackay to-day, He spoke of you in terms of unmitigated praise, and snl you were every way worthy of my most dovoted affection, Ot course ne made conquest of my whole heart, 1 do love to bear you prised, and Value it | Most lighiy wheo, as in the present tustance, it is the spontimeous offering wf the candid and the good.”? ar between tho wow long and forover separated dis- potants or to go behind the rendering of the Gourt, ‘the defendant ts dead, anu only requires for justice’s sake the asaertion that he believed Lim sett t@have been wrongéd, and that he acted on bel itu the unforsivingpess belonging to Lim, plant bas suffered fearfully enough Jor any impra- de} or error, was believed by ber intimate and most honored frieuds to be innocent, wis vindicated by jury after a most searebing trial’ and 18 now living in modest and blameless retirement, She bas a right to the benedit of her wequittal, and shall be lett unassailed | to thit unseen tridanal which alone is as just and mer- cif! as it is infallible, One more quotation and we have done in summing up the ebaracter of Forrest, Tho writer says:— Those who loved Fofrest best had .boped tor him that, reposiug on his laurels, pointed out in the streets a8 the veteran of a buadred battles, the vexatious aud resontncnts of carlicr years outgrown and fergutten, enjoying the exllsof his friends, tuxuriating in book* ish icisure, overseemg with paternal fonduess the progress of the Lome Le had piagned for the aged aud needy of bis profession, taking a proud joy in the prosperity and glory ot his country and to beliot that nis iolzed art bas botore it bere amid ine democratic tnstitutions of America a destiny whose splendor and usefuiness shall surpass everything it hus yét kuown—the days of bis meilow and vigor- ous” old aye should glide pleasanily © toward the epd where waits the strange Shadow with the key and the geal, Then, they trusted, nothing iu his dite shoald buve become bimi beter than the leaving of it would. For, receding step by step trom the stage and the struggle, be should fade out in a broudening illumination from behind the scenes, the muriur of appluuse reaching hun until bis ear closed to every sound of earth. It woulda have becn so Lad be beon all that he should have been. It was or- duined got to be so, Simttered and bowel, he wus sbatched untimely from his uot properly perfected career. But all that be was and did will not be for- gotten in consequence of what he was not ond «id not do, fle will live as @ great tradition ta the his- tory of the stage, He will live as a personal image in the magnitcent Cortotanus statue, Ho will live as a learned and versatie nistrionist in the exact photographic embodiments of his costumed and | breathing characters, He will live as a diflused pres- ence m the retreat be hag founded for bis less foriunate vretnren, Perbaps he will itive, im some degree, as a Iriend in the hearts of those who, perusing theso pa hall appreciate che story of his toils, his trials, his triumphs and bis awappearance from the eyes of men, Ne wiil certainly ive to the iavumerable and untraceable bat momentous influences of his decds aud effluences of his jowerful personality and oxbibitions caught up by sensitive organisms and transmitted in their posterity to the end of our rate. And, sull fur. if, as Swedenborg teaches, there are theatres 10 eaven, and all sorts of plays represented there, those who in suceceding ages shall recall his memory amid the shades of time may think of bit still acting some, Detter part before angelic spectaiors within the un- known scenery of eternity, Alger’s Lite of Forrest’? will Gnd a place among the most prized annals of tho stage, und tt we aro inclined to think that he carried his friendship te the verge of enthusiasm we can forgive bim when the result bus been tho making of so entertaining a volume, The book is most elegantly gotten up by the Messrs. J. B. Lippincott & Co., aud tl/ustrated with stect portraits of Forress at diferent ages aud to various characters, ‘The following lettor in reference to the possible par- ticipation of American manufacturers im next your’s Universal Exposition at Paris hus boen received by au American firm of this city, It will be found of inter- en Usitey States Legation, Panis, April 28, 1877. Gextiawey—Me. Krantz, Commissioner General of the wersal Exhibition of 1878, lew relerred your letier of December 23 to this legution. ‘Lue commis. sion docs not adm or dort with forctgnors except throngh representatives appointed by their gover ments, The United States has nat yet appointed a commission, nor even accepted formaiy the invita. tiow to participate in the Exhibition, und you will have to wart tor the action of var governinent, which it ts boped will not be delayed longer than the forthcoming extra session of Cong: Very era y, your obedient servant, R. HUTT, Chargé @ Affaires ad interim. AN AERIAL SHIP TO BE PROPELLED BY ELECTRICITY. Aiistoxs, New Sovtu Warrs, AvsTRALtA, Fob, 10, 1s77. To tur Eprtox or rae Herato:— I will thank you to fosert in tho pext issue of your valuable paper the following information:—That 1, the vadersigned, am in possersion of the Knowiedae bow to construct an aerial carrlaye of whieh | hold the plans of my own invention, through the air like a vessel flouting om the ocean aud Will be able to Convey passengers iret uation to paiton; itwili Le worked by an engine propelied by cieetrie fund. sury assisinnes ly carry out bis invention, ard culls upon the pale of the United States to aesiet him in) his undertak: Any private cupitulise who will ad Vance the necessary capital the | mtor will Liberaliy Teimburtse. Address to the undersigned, ANDES Ie SON Hiliston, New yuth Wales, Aurtralia, A BROOKLYNITE MISSING, Application has been made and a receiver appointed Yet even in these halcyon | there was ove thing | | Twenty-second street, He who had so often enacted | The writer 1s unwilling in any way to enter | ee OUR COMPLAINT BOOK: (Norn.--Letters intended for this column must bo accompanied by vhe writer’s tui name and address to insure atteption, Compiainania who are unwilling to comply with (his rule simply waste time in writing — Ev, Hexato.} MIN. COMMISSIONEL, “PLEASE ATTEND, . Tux Eprroz ov rae Heraco— Will you please call the attehtion of the Department of Public Works to the very dangerous condition of the eastorn cud of Rust Fitty-second streot? .A hori. zontal preetpice about mahty feet high needs fencing in to prevent vcvidents, « This Spot needs attention over, as itis quite a resort for cbtfdren during warm MANY RESIDENTS, ———— STOP THE WATER WASTE, fo ti Ebirow ov THe Hewawws Wul you please cull the attention of the Departmeut of Public Works fu reference to a hydrant situated at the northwest corner of Forsyth and Delancey streets; suid hydrant te coutinoatly ruduing aod thereby over. flows agreat portion of the waik aud stree! LAFAYETTE, STREET OBSTRUCTIONS, To tHe Eviror ov tue Herat: Cam you intorm me why it 18 that twenty-two wagons and tracks are allowed to stand in Nineteenth | streot, between Sixth and Seventh avenues? I wonder if twenty-two tracks woald be permitted to stand in bewween Sixta and Seventh avenues ¢ W. H, K. A NEW ENTERPRISE. To tux Eniton or tun Hekato:— Iwent to my grocer to-day and ordered marketing for Sunday's dinger, to be sent home. Among the order was a flue purr ofchickens, and tou minutes after the grocer’s clerk left the articles a young man, about iwenty-iive yeurs of figo, five feet etx inches high, slim built, dark hair and mustache, felt bat and short, durk coat rang the door bell and suid the grecer had made a mistake in the weight and he would bring them back tothe store and then retarn them; bat since then f havo not seen the chickens or the man, When he culicd be had a Jarge turkey 1 a basieet, no doyDt be- longing to some person who will be without their diu- her to-morrow, Another man called to-day and in- sistod of going through the house to take the consns, Now y of the above genticmen wilh make @ re- turn’call on the sume errand ty No, 38 Charfton street, they will be warmly reesive: LOST CHICKENS, STRAW MATS FOR THE POLICE, To the Evrron or tan ALD im ‘Through your “Complaint Book” will you please as- sist the police? Your reporters will’ vouch for the condition of thé policeman yesterday—that whilo on mureh or at rest-he was compelled to mop his fuee with his handkerchief while the sweat rolled down his checks and spotled bis Picadilly, and im the evening while standing wader a lamppost, writiug out the repors slip, the sweat would blind him and Le would bave to resort to it ay Will you ploase sugggst to the Police Com- missioners to allow us to retura to “our old Panamus’? or any other bavot light material in the day time aud oblige f THE POLICKY ELEVATZD TAILROAD DANGER SIGNALS, To ras Evivor ov THe Herany:— some days ago I noticed a letter in your “Complaint Book” from a correspondent—*C. H. K.”—in which it was suggested that it would be a good tdca to have dan. ger signals attached to the Etevated Railread. The matter should not rest here; it stionld be carried into el Can you not use your powertul inilucnee and strive to accomplish (hat object? BEROMEO. A DOG COLONY, To Tug Epiror or rum Hrrat Having exbausted iny supply of old boots, porter bottles, &c., aud as for coal it is becoming an addi- tional expense upon my household tn vain endeavors lo scare away the dogs that hold real carnival m tho lots occupied by stabling opposite iny house in Fifty. first street, between Ninth and Tenth avenues, L apply tc-you, as once belore, when my complaint was kindly noticed, But the parties to woom it was intended to reach seem veat to my annoyance, and to the hideous Bacchanalian noises that nighly take place, [t appear: tu me that several families of dogs regidivg iu the stabies opposite must be closely related to each otber, as ull are on “good terms and engage tn friendly con- cert, but seemingly up ‘g the present me are nob aware of the tax imps upon them by our beaevo- Jent City Fathers, or 1 think they would pot make themselves so public, For the sake of humanity, will you please be the means of sending some city tune. Uonury here to uct as a missionary to this circle of ppy dogs, and cither bind them to keep the peace with their @uman neighbors or to vent their joy and exuberance of spirits with those who ought to pay their taxes? L& DEFENDING THE COMPLAINT BOOK, To THe Eprron ov rut Herat Vid croukers may say what they will about the “Complaint Book,’ but it canhot for a moment be de- nied that your course in keeping such a space open for “peblic murmuring’ bas already done much good, Thereiore, let the good work go on and the story “be continued jn our next.” By the way, dtr, Kaitor, there is ono aifair which 1 would like to call your at- tion to as it has already attracted the attention of others. There ts a deep hole—crushed, perhaps, veil age—io {front of premises No. 107 Perry street, that should atonco be repaired, It gives ie neat litte sireet a bad appegsauce and is somewhat dangerous tor borses who might by chance go In that direction, Ibis, indeed, with yreat diiculty that wagons and trucks cap pass witthout faling into tois horse trap, aud the curses of the drivers, “sow but deep,”? can vo Detter tmagimed thaa deseribed, “Altenuiou, Street Commissioners! CHARLES, To run Epirox ov Tas iinraup: I wonder ul “ifinover”—who in Friday’s “Complaint | beyond the city is Inestiinapie, | the.optusest of mortuls not to perceive benefiis so ‘The machine will go | dhe \wvencor is desirous of the neces | Book”? objects tv tins department, or, in bis own lan- guage, to “the use of pearly an entire column for the publication of a parce! of uugramwatical, silly and sumetilics untrue growls’’—ever fead Gay’s tabies? In otiier mon we te an spy And blame the move that dims theif eye; Ly jivtie speek ana Liemint faa; ‘Yo our owa steonver errors Ditad, Now, 1 make bold to say that there has never ap+ peured in the “Compiunt Book? a more silly or une true or upgrammatical “grow?” than +‘Hanover’s, ? His grow! 18 untrue in barging that the complaints daiiy pubbsbed are sitly, tis silly Iu declaring that the complaiuts re sometines untrue, since kyowledge to justly fs essertion could proceed ouly from o1m- niscience. Jt 18 Ungraumaticul in two vbyious re- spects. aud preseats asolegism that woald fill a stu. dens of syntax with dissuct, The “Complaint Book,’ Mr Editor, should not be abulished, Sv lopg as there is a Duisunce Lo be abated, ay abuse Wo be corrected, a eonvenience to be provide its pissin wilicootinue, It has become one of the mos HHportant and interesting features of the HEL ALD, 11s already generally recoguized bow by tve peopia and our officials as uw salutary inetiution, Tho public and individual yood it bas thus tar effected in and “Hanover” must be manilost VERITAS, ANSWERS. THE DECORATION YARADI, To tan Eprror or tux Henao: In this morning’s issue of your valuable paper my attcntion was called, in the columa entitled “Our Come plaint Book,” to a communication beaded “The Dec oration Duy Parade,” wnder tho siguature of “Cor- poral g).’? This communication is, us the writer intends it should be, a public fault-flnding of the orders (relative to a parade of the First Division, NG SN.Y,,) lately issued by General Shaler, com- mauding the same, aud is grievance (as stated it it), Oscasioued by the issue of the orders in question, 18 that thereby hoe 1% to love a holiday, Fault is, fouad witn the day aud the hour of parade. With the first because of tts Leg a universal boliaay, aad with the second be+ cause the Uwe previous to and tollowing we parade, for tho estate of Benjamin F, Osborn, by the Supreme | owing to the lateaces of the Lour, is rendered useless. Court, on application of tity wife, Mtr, Osborn, nyo wos @ provision lor, curried on business for many yours in Court street, Brooklyn, and was a member ot the Pactlie Street Methodist Bprecopal Charch.« tn Mareh Inst, he being then a widower and baving eral children, married an estimable lady, A few days aller bis marrige be abvented Minself from home tor aboot a week, sod during tis absence its creditors sewed bis store, When bo returned he rewained in Brookiyn but a days, whon bo sucdenly departed, and ‘a’ couple of Inter be wrote to’ his wife from Phiindeipbia tor money, Which was sent to him, He returned to his home again, but diswppoared after 4 couple of days’ fojourn abd has not since beet seen oF heard trot, His trieuds believe that bo is dea He inherited from bis father, Joseph Osborn, $10,000 and a house im Cranberry streot. . BROOKLYN'S STRIKE. Moat ot the Brooklyn Inborors art rs, Lomb & Ruvao, contractors of the new mupicipal buifaing, consented to the terms of the laborers yos. terday morning, and ten of their former bands com- Mencea work again, The rematning eleven, however, reluved to do go, on the ground that they wount be ro. to carry materiel fo briektayers Who Were Lot ym ‘Toere was no distarbance oc any Kind, Anuiber df polteemen guurded the employed wor nen apd the premises, Lv is said the bricklayers also contemplate striking, Their demand will be $3 por | criticisms of Forresv’s best Known Impergonationg,. ao. Honal Guardsman who bas Jo question thoroughiy—and to “Corporal DB.” it be wil consider tne tutier soriously—that no holiday Deen Jost, and that (his uclion of General Shaler is & Most sensible one, ‘This parade 18 ordered ag a substic for the one usually held on July 4, a national tiday of much ¢ importance and interest to American (iun May 80, Deeorauon Day, A ferus cousiduration of Lue Matier Wil also prove the Objections bo Che hour unrensouaols, a8 te is the same as the assembling ou Jniy 4, and as eurly ag 1 could convenientiy ve made siz, soven A.M.” 1, for one heartily jndorse the chun, PRIVATE B. To tak Korrox ov Tite Herano In regard to my article which you so kindly pul: hebed in reference to the Decoration Day parade pore wit me to state that L am entirely in error, Binet oubmiiting my article Luave received official orders | which 18 moro satwlactory, J am pot ambitious I parade at aa earlier hour than ball-past six A. Me GOKPORAL D. At is very to every 3 read or heard the order: it will appear the sam THY OTHER SIDE OF THE SHIELD, To rH® Eptror oy tut HERALD I= Permit me to contradict the statement tn the Rawane about the street lamp in Fourth avenue and 120th street, The complaiut says that the lamp bas not been lighted for two weeks. I bave sven st burming every might (pe | tem aay® poet? Perhaps they don’t want to see the ~ | lamp. “Don't be misled by tilses statements made in the company's orest, but keep up your good work {n sition to ali monopolies, Yours, tr opposition 01 Fe ek,