The New York Herald Newspaper, September 9, 1878, Page 5

oem nuainen a cmmmmamene RL Na Oe sae wal Fit SUMMER'S FAREWELL. “The Melancholy Days, the Sad- dest of the Year.” WANING OF THE SEASIDE SEASON. epipremeen enero” How Long Branch Has Fared and Profited. FINAL EXCURSION TRIPS. Love Brancu, Sept. 8, 1878. The day so dreaded by hotel keepers avd those pleasure seekers uot yet satiated—the Ist of Sep- tember—has come and gone, and we down to our meat and drivk in dimiuished numbers but with unfailing appetites, No oyster ever nursed Dia speechless fears more persistently at the com- ing of the months with an “r’? in them than the lucky or luckless being, as the caso may"be, who runs a watering place hot How sad it is to com- pare to the dumb oyster bim whom, along through the blazing days of July and the swelter of August we all iooked on as the personification of the jovialclam He pretends to resign himself to fate. He says, “Of course, business recommences and theschools reopen, and many who would stay But hear bim dwell pathetically on the glories of the Granch or the Spa in September, ay, In October, and you begin to “pluck out tho heart of bia mystery.” He is right, too, poor oyster! And that adda to the poignapoy of his feeliugs Aa you can eat of the succulent bivalve with advantage In August so nothing but the superstition of fashion become custom prevents apy one 60 minded aud peculiarly provided from getting the topmost value out of the September days at Long Branch, CAN WE CHANGE ALL THAT? As we shall see presently there are minds among the hotel people who, baving pondered much on these things, hope to put the touch of reality to their dreams of fuil houses into the months given over to @ howling wilderness of bedrooms and bare piazzas. The cottage people first showed tho hotel keepera ‘that the season might be prolonged tar into October, “Whoa the crush is over and the hotels are closed our real cottage life beging,” suid a veteran Long Branch cottager the other day, “As long as our young people can go over to the hotel pariors and join in the mild dissipation of the hop thero is little inter-cottage sociability; but when the janitor or the lonely manager sits in the hotel porcb, then we be- gin to make Jife pleasant for each otber,’”” PEELING THY HOTEL PULSE, “Premature consolation is bat the remembrance of sorrow,” says Goldsmith in the “Vicar of Wake- fleld,’? and it was a mission requiring some tact which the writer undertook when he determined to approach tbe hotel’keepers, with the weight of the Gepareea vaggage freshly wgging at ther heart them what tbey thought of the , bow long they woula remain Open, and, finally, whether they were making fresh provision for the seasons to come. We have indi- cated above the general tecling us to the season now on its last legs, but for more detail the reader must follow the writer in his trip along the two miles and a-half of bexch which is called Long Branch, and whicn is dividing itself into east and west. me THE TWO ENDS. ithout too mucn deadly geography it may be pre- mised that Bast Lone Branch ts tne borthers portion nd West Long Branch tbo southero. Leaving the (his to their own king lauch’s ividing line, tho moro ex- wealthy seom segregating to the *Weat,’* While the others full to the “kast.’? Itis not but woalth and worth and fashion ure at the “Kast,” but the tendency there ts wore toward ease, sociability and comfort than display and lordly tsolution. As we go “West” from laucn’s the summer population takes 00 the more marked attributes of opulence in toilets, equipages and ton. THE HAST END. “13 there anything further than tuts??? I asked of the East End Hotel. ‘Nothing,’’ Apes the selo visible guardian of the pile. ib, aud the rost of his story was soon It was acheap hotel, $2 por day, with all the Teduction which that implies for weokiy board, It Dad not dove well this season, It hus 115 rooms, ot holding 160 porsons, It would on the 16th, Coney Island was to Mr. Smith, the propriotor, had no plans, because the hotel was in litigation botweon Gould and the New Jersey Southern Ruilroud, the clerk said, with the hopeless air of « man deserib: ing something between the devil and the deep sea. Nobvody could tell who ownad it. ‘The hopes, if any, were built upon “Monmouth Beach commg up this way.’ Rather vague hopes, MOTEL BRIGHTON. itis not far to the Hotel Brighton, a bandsome, well kept structure, with a breezy, open spaco of green grass around it and a good class ef guests, ‘Tho sons of Wovlman Stokes hold it on a tive years’ louse. It hus LOU guest rooms, and, as they are large, itcan sheiter cowforavly 200 persons. [t will re. main open to the Ist of October at reduced rate. ‘@ cun,”? said of the managers, “reduce our working lorce so that we can keep open with a simail namber of guests, We done very weil, but not wollas lust season.’” Near th the cleanly kept East Eod Hot and Cold Salt Water Baths, which bag just about paid expenses this your, THX CLARENDON, The Clarendon ts an old time affiir ane cheap. ail its guests Lave depurieu, andi is shut up. CONGRESS WALL This stall hotel stands away from the beach up the Foad to the village, It has entertained a numver of 1amilies and boasts of some new arrivals. THK OCEAN HOTKL. Wo now come to tho first of the great hotels of the Braveb, the Ocean Hotel, kept for years by the Le- tands, tbat wonderiul hotel keeping family, which hes its Scions Wherever there is a gucst to be found, Lt has & magnificent ocean frontage, with piuzza run. ning its eotire leugth and the finest jawn at the Brauch. The hotel itself would look better for some paint, but 1s Management this year is better than for many years pust and promises to be betier still next season. The Ocean House will clo: morning, aud has to-day about forty g TUK MANSION NOUS ‘The Mansion Houso adjoiws the Oce: coming out almost to the road lack: Of the latter, P Butier & Pieris, and is a hotel. Mr, Butler was found in the Mansion Heuse oflice, The season, be said, had beon good us regards num: bers, but the board rules had veon reduced 33 per cent, aud they would take in much less money than last year, There were 181 reutable rooms, which Would ‘contain 300 gucsts, They had been | the 7th of July to the 25u of August. They paid $10,000 rent, and would, noiwithsianaing tucir suc- cess, ud profits very slim. It was suid by one of the managing men of that although r people looked me luxuries; they were spending little and Wapling more t ever Was demanded before. Mr, Butler thought that a great bindrance to the Brauch was the high railroad commutation rate—$26 a mouth ee $10 t00 much, The Mansion House wiil close to- Trew. t in the hotel line ed clerk at the 8 O aud last by lly comfortable family D ro. THE UNITED STATES. ‘This finely situated hotel of 200 rooms, with space for 200 guests, bas been doing a tar bi clerk said i yover, bi Laira & Vai I ied. jn the tempor priced ana fair business, At lauch’s hotel and ras- ‘aurant, whieh bas many advantages o! position, the business was not sald toequal that of seme past years, but wus also reported tair. He DLUPY, In front ef this place the bluf is 10 a dangerous condition, Indeed, until the Howland Hous: distance north of lauch’s, 1 ng eaten away vy the rain one place, before a coraticid, led to toot roadway, This disregard of this jure of the Branch and stupid neylect of what 1s Fealiv valuable property seems unaccoantable It 18 suggested that the Jersey Legislature should have the matter laid betore it, so ag to allow the tocal Com- Pibtctet to take somo action in the matter before 0 Lal fsahes, and for sol MR, HENRY MOWLAND, Atthe old Stockton cottage, tho first erected at Loug Braneb, and ia quaint coutrast to 1s moro pre+ leotious neighbors, was feand Mr. Henry Howl soirty-taree years the manager of the Bouse that ie ‘The cottage grounds arc clozo to ine a fleid owned by Mr. Lester Wailack alone separating them. This year the veteran hotel Keeper bas rested trom bis labors, not baving been ablo to como to satisfactory terms with We eutieman, Mr, Dobbins, who owns the Howland ouse, There was something of pathos in Mr. How. Jand’s voice a8 be roferred to the buildiug be had aie fected tur 80 many years, Ho did not see bis way to directing it again, He had bought the Stockton cot- tage aud grounds, and bad reso: bole (hel F hew hotel will ve exteriorly id will be supplied intertorly with all tue ‘modern improvements. ’’ Lt will not be a jarge hotel, but will bave 192 lees trout aud ft boiteves that the sulation of the problem of Nes ping the visttors op to October lies in selecting t ass for whom ali they a ment as would prevent peoproe trow tying vei NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1878.—TRIPLE SHEET. have 129 ping apartments and to accommodate abou! two bundred guests. THE MOWLAND WoUSé. Mr, Mulford, one of tne pew managers of the How- land House, under the direction of Mr, Dobbins, re ports u Juir, steady busivess, but pot crowded. Tbe hotel contains 225 guest rooms and will boid 400 peo- le. It will close for the season to-morrow. bey ave a fair clientage at this house, wealthy families who stay through the whole summer and who bring dor their own horses and carriages every year. bas long been the resort of rich Pilnd iphians and it reflects their quiet respectability. THE WEST END. The West End Hotei has the most success{ul house at Long Branch this season. Its manager, how- ever, reports that the receipts this year will be $200,000, against $220,000 in 1577. Lt has the cream | of the transient trage, which is very profitable. It averaged, according totneir Agures, 521 persons per day during eighty-one days, and this year will pearly reach the same figure. It contains 471 rooms and will hold 825 people. Thelr visitors include the most ie people, aud im the large and handsome re seen the richest toile! is atthe Branen. they ron account of as an ip- Fojected racing. ‘of tho wealth abled West End depot on , kad, possibly, the erection of some cottages on the Elberon pian, This house will close ou Thursday next, ‘THE ELBERON, It is a mile along the Oceaa road trom the West End to the Elberon, which lies beyond the long li of cottages. The Elberou is a successtul experiment of combining cottage und hotel life, as at Saratoga, saving and excepting that at the American spa the cottugo is the small circumstance overshadowed by the occupants of cigntecn of these come to for their meals. It bas steam beaters, telepho! It feeds altogether some tnree hundred persons, and everytuing about the place bas an air of luxury and exclusiveness almost to isolation. The cottages are rented from May to October, and pboard is charged $17 50 each per week, It costs about $5 a day to live here, however simply, and yet the proprietor reports a capital business at a time when all the other hotela were reducing their rates. He had no anxicly. People were coming in ine! of going awny. TRE MOON, Not so was it with the gentleman who hailed the writer as be returned, and said confidentially, “Bo sure you mention the moon; that’s a great al- traction. She’s not big now, but we'll have ber right ManKs, RODE bigger and keoping up longer every night. hi UP THE HUDSON. The excursion steamer Long Branch made her twelfth and last Sunday trip to Newburg, stopping on her way at Yonkers, Iona Island, West Point, Cold Spring and Cornwall, Brooklyo, New York and Yonkers contributed to the crowd that filled the decks of the vessel, and a delegation from the Aldermanic boards of the latter two cities added to the interest of tho day. In addition to the music furnisned by a stentorian band located on the upper torward deck and a company of negro minstrels there was the man with the electric machine, the prize package boy, the restaurant, and last, but most patronized, the beer counter, Twelve huudred people divided the three hours’ trip in giving thelr attention to the different entertainments offered, ana upon their arrival had in strolling through Newburg, ig Pi gers wi thus enjoy- @ chosen hundred of the persouul Japtain Lygch sat down to dinner at the United States Hotel. There is no telling whut oratory was lost to the world by the ringing of the sieamer’s. bell at that point in the festivities where the speeches should have begun, and aitnough the faces of our Aldermanic representatives spoke volumes their tongues uttered not a word. ‘hey took occasion on tne return trip to congratulate Captain Lynch on the successful termination of the excursion season of the Long Branch and themsolves on the ner in waich they enjoyed the day. Party lines were thrown overboard and Measra Bennott, Bighin, Jacobus, Keenau and Waebner were upon the de ol every question tuat arose during tho y. ‘Ine return to New York was accomplished just as the moon rose high coough to light the way upon the water und tempt one back again. ‘THR PLYMOUTH hock, There was quite a rusy of passengers to the landing places of the Piymouth Rock, which was announced 10 muke her ‘*iarewell indian summer trip on the beauutul Hudson.” By the time the steamer had leit Ywenty-secoud street picr about eighteen hundred peopie thronged her saloon and decks, Clouds ob- the sky when the voyage commenced, but y was Yonkors reached when the sun came out in a welcome way to give more life aud warmth to the handsome scenery of the Hudson, Net did what the indians ouce nuinod the River of the Mountains appear in greater maguificeuce, ana the excursionisis seemed to be in a fitting humor for evjoying it. There wero the usual amusements on board, including a good musical entertainment in the cabin. The steamer reached Newburg at turee o’clock and leit again at four, stoppiug at West Point voth ways, oe thet but a small proportion of the passengers got off there, ‘The Plymouth Rock may possibly ma! cursiou up the river should the weath: enough. rday’s trip was th this seugon, on which tt 18 claim wi over Ouc bundred and filty thousand people without an accident to life or fim. CONEY ISLAND. There was a sensible diminution in the usual sum- mer attendance at this popular seaside resort yes- terday. The chill in tne breeze blowing over the Atlantic had a deterring influence, but still there was a considerable crowd—probably ten or fiiteen thousand—on the beach, Nothing hke the rugh and crush of the days iu Jaly avd August was seep, and yet at either of tho large hotels the arrivals by the fast recurring trains had the cus- tomary imposing’ <flect, especially at tbe Hotel Brighton, where they stream out from the cars 10 battalions avd appear as if they would never cease coming, The batbing was not indulged in Lo any greatextent, as there was er a cool and vig- orous breezo blowing, but those who did batho pro- nounced tue water in fue condition and possessed of greater tonic powor than in the warmer days of the season, ats on Manhattan Beach tacin; the bathing grounds were for the most part occupied by Spectators, Wuo uppeared to take great interest in lue movements of tho bathers, vepectally ae the tide was bigh and the surf was uncommonly strong. The near end of the season was vi en al bands, though pers, Coney Lata on accouat of its peculiar ractiveness, Mavage to draw patrons tora Sunda: But 16 great days for this year are over, season 1 will and prosperity. BROADWAY ON SUNDAY. the great thoroughfare of America’s metropolis, from Trinity Church to Grace Caurch, is, on Sunday, 4 curious study. Te those who see it only during the busy days of trafic, with its couaticss vehicles and its surging throngs of pedestrians, it seems incredible that om one day of the week it is as still almost as thesilent tombs of St. i’aul’s cburcuyard, Stand atthe Henato office any hour Sunday morn- ing and look up the great avenue, and scarcely a sign ef life is visible. Perbaps away in the distance may bo discovered a solt- tary back or «a few citizena plodding along, but scarcely more of activity can bo seen Tho mammoth Post office ns hike a huge deserted barrack. The gamboting bootblack who makes Us portals a headquarters during the week hag disappoured to tho lively and more profitable region of the Bower: fhe itinerant vender of ap- may longer. aod next wer OH Career of added popularity ples and bananas has closed bis travelling store uud betaken him to the ever busy realms of = Ubstbam Tho newsboy, with hig shrill voice ai eles feet, is a thing of the past and tue independent and gaudily bedecked perambulating advertisements are nowhere to be seen, fhe stalwart form of tho well dressed officer of the Broadway squad with bis shining boot his gallant swagger and his chirpy whistie 18 no longer eagerly spying out handsome young dies anxious to cross tuo city’s great arte: can be socn on Sunday with Park, attired im the peat bat lous privat Hw and he fears not neither docs he dread ti with bis tireless arm beckoning to imaginary passen- ors is at Fest, aud tho heavily built cxpressmae wibh 18 load of boxes Or barrels, yelling at his tired horses in th deaver to make bis way through the myriads jous by his abscnece. ‘epose Broadway is silent and desolate, eouutry couple who on week days bot walk up the thorough l: hi in hand because of the incessant ing nal o voys can on Sunday parade with locked flogersin ind safety. dents of adjoining cities who have nover seen Broadway oa Sanday should do so. They will be astonished as its desolati ACCIDENT TO THE MOSES TAYLOR. A BOCKET BOLT BLOWN OUT NEAR STATEN ISLAND—GRLAT BXCITEMERT, BUL NO ONE INJURED. The stoamboat Moses jaylor has been plying be- tween this city and tho south beach of Staten Island tor the past few months and to-day would end her season, But a slight accident, which, howover, might have been ous, haulod her off yesterday, She has made two trips datly and carried down usually be- tween two and three huadred on each trip. On Satur- day the Filth regiment N.G.3.N.Y., Colonel Charles 8. Spencer commandant, went down to camp at Bur- bank's, on the old Richmond county agi course, and yesterday morning the Mos @ landing at Stapleton, to take therefrom tho regiment who might desire auoul if it rained for afew hours, He proposes to was backing imto the dock about midday, vewwe the gigantic fact of which it is a t, The hotel | burry wud been picked up by aA man us proper, although it contains 3 geek for 100 | His own and safely landed, Jho fire bells guests, 18 really the heart of a cottage system. There , ° the ‘village were rung and the engines are \Wenty-s~ collages connected with the hotel; and | TUB out, but the crowds that gathered on the dock Stapleton and Vanderbilt landings, she blew out a socket bolt of the stcam chimney. inamoment the Steam and ashes filled the lower deck. Everybody Fushed above to escape, aud for a few minutes the Steamer was the scone of unusual excitewent, There were about two Luodred and flity passengers om board, the large proportion of whom were women and children. In the hurry and scurry to save them- selves the men on board jostied and pushed the women and children about so that many of them would without doubt have been trampled upon or thrown overbourd had not Captain Charles Fields, the owner of the Taylor, and bis oilicers Quietod the people. Tho coast wrecking steamer Relief lay imthe slip adjoiving and her officers and deck hands also rendered timely assistance and landed 1 children, Planks were thrown out on both ends of the Taylor and in a few minutes hee decks ‘were cleared ef passengers. AN INCIPIENT PIRE QUENOHKD. Meantime the engineer had extinguished the fire which the accident had created, 1t was easily done. While be was driven out of bis room by the smoke aud ashes and could not reach the donkey engine to throw a stream on or to let eam off, he suatehbed up am pai! of water \d threw it on the burning timbors and put the fire out. The ceiling of the lower deck, however, shows ‘he marks of what must have been a tremendous ru: of Steam and ashes while it lusted, cite ment of the occasion it is almost a miracle that no oue was ipjured. One little boy was pushed or felt overboard, but was promptly rescued. In the oxcito- Ment of the moment parents and children became badly mixed. One woman was ina terrible state at the ‘supposed loss of two children, who, in the | Were agreeably disappointed. The dama; to the ‘Taylor could be repaired in a Jew bours had hands d. They could havo taken her back to this city or Jersey City just a3 she is, out as the engineer rewarked to the writer, they might | not b o find a mechanic in either city who Id take the trouble to du so small job on the Sabbatu. And, besides, as it lacked o1 being the end of the season, Cupiain Fields thought best to let ber rest, The accident, the engineer says, is ono that happens every day in the week to some one bout or another, but the pubdiic bears nothing about them and would pot have heard o! this had not the few wen on board played the part of ervous old women £0 pertectly as thoy did, The majority of passengers were Germans, The damage Will be repaired to-day and tho boat wil: return to New Yer! er passengera were taken by railroad and stageto the military encampment, where about five thousand persons witaessed the manwuyres of ‘the troops during the day. THE FALLEN BUILDING, CROWDS GATHEGED YESTERDAY A THE SCENE OF RUIN—THEORIES OF THE ACCIDENT. All day tong yesterday throngs of people gatherea at Fifty-thira street and Broadway to view the ruius made by the crash of the building on tne southeast corner on Saturday. Poles bad been put up along the pavements and in tho streets as boundaries for ihe crowds, and policemen were busy coutinually in pross- ing vack the curiosity seekers. Tho building is about twenty feet on Fifty-third street and forty-tive feet on Broadway. On Pilty- third stroot the structure is brown stone and of brick on Broadway. The front on Filty-tbira street is still standing ara also about ten feet of the brick work om Broadway, then comes the ruin made by tho crash of Saturday, and at the extreme end on Broudway stands the lower wall of the building, apparently uninjured. ‘The brown stone iront of the structure is deflected to a very noticeable angle, and experts are of the opinion that the damage is so serious that the entire structure must be removed, MS About thirty-five feet of the house, on the Broadway side, had been torn away as if cut out by some sharp ingtrument. From cellar up to tho fourth story every- thing had been ripped out, “be metal roofing oven was thrown down to about the height of the first story, The whole middio part of the building—wall, timber ana everything—was tossed out as il by powder, Superintendent Adams, of the Building Department, was early on the ground. Tho case was so peculiar that he thought that no opinion could be formed antil | after a thorough and formal investigation of tne.case. Such an investigation will bo set afoot to-day. An authority—one who knows all the details in tho building of ibe house- y rday:—The work 13 good; look at the foundations aud you will see tt, but the trouble has been the rush of water during the r cent storms. building was began about two months ago, fall of the building was simply trom tho wash of the water of tho street taking the pavement iustead of the gutter. The founda- tion and walls wero “green, water was the cause of the terrible collapse and tail, ‘bbe building is now compictely ‘shored up,’’ bus the entire structure will have to be pulled down, Une of the great fuult# m the cou- siruction of the building ts said to bo this:—The joists or flooring beains should he inserted in the wall peurly 61x inch: ynserted onl: Consequently w. beams gave The loss, it ts $10,000, OAUTION TO CIGAR DEALERS. fell apart, will probabiy’ be avout "BEVENUE STAMPS UPON EMPLIED CIGAR BOXES MUSY BE VITERLXY DUSTROYED—PEN- ALTIES OF NON-COMPLIANCE OF THE LAW— A LETTER FROM THE COMMI€SIONER OF IN- TERNAL REVENUE, Following ts a letter from. the Commissioner of In- ternal Reveuue, in answer to a letter written to the depariment by a prominent liquor dealer in this city wskiog for ioformatioa with regard to tbe-proper mode of cancelling or destroying the stamps on cigar boxes when emptied, As the reveaue oflicers aro-now mak- ing a thorough investigation of ull dealers:who ba failed todo so and reporting such cases to the do partment, the following mformation will be lound valuable to all partics Who seli cigars UM KBPLAINS. ASUKY DePARIMANT, Orrice OF INTERNAL [EVE Wasiixaxos, August 21, 1 Sin—This office is in receipt of your leiter Of thoToch inst; also of a cigar box wiich bas been emptied audone led purtion of the stamps thereon scraped off, jowv. ing the rest of the stamps intact. The portion of the stumps seraped off is about two inches w: ¥ G sueh destruction uf the stump 14 # comoliance aw; also if you are liable to pr w comply with the dal requests of your colle roy the rest of the stamps In reply you that the law provides (soe sec- Hon 3,406 wou Statutes of th ited States) chat “Whenever auy stamped vox containing cigars, cheroots oF cigarettes isemptied 14 shalt bo the duty of the person in whose bands the samme isto destroy utterly the stamps And any 11, for euch offence, be fined jess Luan ton day In the opinion ot this oft imps trom tho box, ches wide, would thereou. #0 to do and impr six months."” &® portion of th not over thr reluses ueh portion being ot be destroying “utterly” the ed by the statute quoted. And the neglect o: the person in whose hands the emptied box is wo utterly destroy the sta if speeiaily requested to do so by the collec trict, woaid, ia the opiuion of this office judged to be “wintul neglect or refusal,” and would’ render the person linble to the flue and iinprisoument preserived fur suck wo offence. Yours respecttully, URBEN B. RAL Jos Keuty, Esq., No. 248 Uudson ote POPE LEO'’S PRE Vom mission: New York city. Some time ago the pastor of St. Andrew's Church, of this city, Father Curran, received a chalice trom Pope Lev Xtil. im acknowledgmont of tho uousuaily large amounts of contributions which that church nds every year to support the American College at Rome, On its receipt last spring 1t was gratefully re- ceived by the pastor, and subsequently consecrated by rdinal McCloskey. Yerterday it was tormally pre- ntod to the congregation, and Father Curran said @ knew that evury individual would cherish gift highly.’ Though this congrei of the poorer class of the Churcn most iu large subscriptions. ways fore “REFORM BY ASSABSINATION.” {!rom London May/air.] Some strange kind of divinity, after all, does soem to hedge a king and shield him from the dagger aud the bullet. Over filty attempts on the lives of rulers and royal personages bave boen recorded during the lagt thirty years, and of these very few have suc ceeded. From aa examination, however, of the statistics of assassigation the curious conclusion is id in effect that the cause of tho | apd the washing of the || drawn that tho republican element scoms as much to arouse the assassin’s fury the monarehical, Within tho last thirteon years we Presidents of the Uulted States, of Peru, of of Keuador of Paraguay bave fallen by the uoorring nate, the bullet jt tho crowned beads of Katope heve alt the gaunties of openly attacke. danger of his life; been scorched with powder, Spain had to thank the thickness of her stays for me Queen of Greece hus and the Queen of bresking tho dot turust of a stiletto; Naples was stabbed, and King Victor Emmanuet in his graver moments ad- mitied he hadtothank the Almighty tor bis provi- dential escape trom sudden death ; Napoleon ill. was £0 (requently assailed by cubthroats that he never stirred d without a circling cordon of outriders to protect his person from daggers, bs; the Emperor of Germany bas been so (requentiy under fire that he nas now come to regard whe report of a pistol close to his ear as uo indispensable incident Of nie daily life, As for Prince Bismarck, ho would probably never bave lived 10 avhieve the uoification of Germany had be not in over den Linden, grasped Jalus Cohen by wrested, {rom niin @ smoking revolve: King Fer: i LITERATURE. THE LIFE OF ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS, Messra. Kichard Maicolm Johuston and William Hand Browne bave just issued trom the press of J. B, Lippincott & Co. an exhaustive life of the Hon, Alexauder H. Stephens, co ng the period trom his birth to the present time, ‘The entire manuscript of the book was caretully reud by Mr. Stephens, who Propounces the facts substantially correct, In a let- ter to bis biographer he says, “41 yield my consent to | the publication of the work in my lifetime only upon | the ground of the many misreprosentations of my motives, Objects aud acts on several occasions in my | mot upeventiul public course’? The writers of the biography bave enjoyed unusual facilitl for thelr work, Mr. Johuston bus been a close friend of Mr, Stephens for a quarter of @ century, and, like Boswell of olf, wok notes of bis friond’s conversation. Ho bad a large and varied correspondence with Mr, Stephens, many of the letters being answers to direct inquires, A curious correspordence was carried on bet! n the ‘wo, in which each wroteus though he were another mau, Writing of himself as an outsider bir. Stephens bas said things that he would not have said in any other way. Mr, Jobnstou als bad iv his possession a diary kept by Mr, Stephens when he first caine to the Bar. The Orst of Mr. Stephens’ ancesters to come to | America was one Alexander Stephens, an English | Jacobite, who settied near Chambersburg, Penn. Alexander Stephens was born in Georgia, in 1512 From hig sixth to his sixteenth year Alexander spent | moro time at toil of some sort than in either study or | He wag notat sebool at all uutil the year years spared his play. 1820, and in the succeeding bis services could be field, ‘aken altogether, not cover more then two y During that time, | however, he was a bright scholar, Mr. Stephens added the name Humiiton to his own after a lavor teacher and kind fricud, Atexander Hamilton Web- ster. In later lite Mr. Stephens became a student at | the State University at Atheus, where he acquitted | himself with credit. He was originally intended tor the ministry, but Gusliy chose the law as a protes- sion. ‘To the general reader the most interesting portions of Mr, Stephens’ life are those relating to the late civil war and iis reminiscences of public men. a letter to bis brother, written from Washington, Junu- ary 19, 1845, he says:— Last uigut Mr. Clay made a show on the Coioniz:- ton que only when | from home or | sohool days did | York, to say nothing of Alexandria and this city. Tue House and galleries were jammed aud crammed belore | five o’clock. When I came over at ball-past six | found | could not get in at the door below, much less get up the steps leading to the House. Toe people were Wedged 10 as light as they could bo squeezed fyom ouside tue door all the way up the steps, and the eurrent could netiner move up uor down. ‘Thera were several thouganus still outside. 1 availed myself of my kuowledge of the meanderings of an intric. harrow passage under the rutunda, and round by & Supreme Court room, into the alley from the Cierk’s room, ito the House at the side door by the Houss post office; and through this Mr. Cobb and 1, with Robinson, of Indiana, wound our way, finding it un~ obstructed until we got te the door, where the crowd was ag tight 08 Laman bodies could be jammed; but we drove through the solid mass apd got iu, and passed on the space by the fire to the left of the Spoaker’s chair, where, by looking over the screen, we could see the chair, When we got to this place, what a sight was vefore oureyes! Tho great new chandelier, lighted up with gay, was brillunt aud splendid indeed; aud then, what'a gea of heads apd taces! Every nook and corner on the floor below and the galleries above, the aisies, the urea, the steps ou the Speaker’s rostrum, were running over, The crowd was pushed over the railing, and men were standing on the outside cornice ali around ; and they wo ven banging on the old clock and the igure of Lime. ich a sight you never saw. None in the hall could turn; Women fainted and nad to be carried out over the solid mass, At about seven Clay came, but could bardly bo gotin. Thecrows, however, alter a while, was opened, | while the dome resounded with uninterrupted nur- rohe, © * * Altor a whilo order was restored. * * * Dayton, of New Jersvy, oflered a resolution and began speaking; but one fellow crying, “Clay! Clay!” the cry becamo general, and soon 0 becume geporsl with, “Put him dowel’? “Put him out!’? “liteh bun out of the window!” but Dayton beld out and kept speaking until he was Iiterally drowned witb, *“Dewn! ‘Hush!’ “Clay! Clay!" &o,, aod then th o ‘three more cheers for Henry Clay wore suggested, three more! three more! three moro! At length quiet reigned. Clay began speaking, and all wort Of his speech I say nothing, He was easy, fluent, bold, commanding, but, in my opinion, not dloquent, At about nive an adjourninent Waa an- nounced. * * * Luuderstand that whule acres of people had % go away without getting in tall, Shep. perd, of North Carolina, whom you Know as beiag more Whiggish than Olayisb, rather soappiahly re- marked, wuen we got to our quarters, that Ciay could get more men to run after him to hour bim speak aud wer to vole for him than avy wan in Awerica, ‘THR DEATH OV JOUN QUINCY ADAMS. Oa February 21 be alluaesto an event which pro- duced a great impression at the time, The House has just adjourned in great con/uston, Mr. Adams has had an attack of apopioxy in bis chair, He is now mthe Sponker’s room, [t is sata that he |, cannot survive long. * * * Tue Sena 8 ip secret It Mexico. js said that I New Mexico and Culiforuia, and wi to pay $15,000,000 and keep 14, 01 ighteen months to detend the court that made it. Se much for rumor, 1 dou’t know wuether ’oik advises it or not. Feurvany 22,.—The House has just met and im- meuiately adjourned. Mr, Adams is still im we Spowker’s room and 18 sald to bo sinking fast, Tt 1s thought that ho will not just longer tan a few bours, 1 send you to-day the Jnteliigencer, giving ap account of his attack yesterday. The words be uttered atter TeViViDg & uti Were Very expressive :—"'This 16 (uo @ud of earth! as some say Mr. Abbott, wao hoard him, told me, ‘*fhis jz all of carsh! | am coin- posed.” was asked if ho wished avything, and answered “My wile.) Mo was insensible, however, wheu she reached him, He jooked uncommonly well yesterday morning and walked from his boiue to the House. THE SLAVERY QUESTION. As far back as 1845 he wrote:— Decumpen 4—* * © Few changes iu tho votes to-day. Lam more and more convinced every day that the siave 4 tion is rapidly approacuing a crisis. If the South intends really to resist tuo abolition of ory in the district and the forts aud arsenals it 8 time they Were making the necessary preparations of men and moucy, arms and munitions, ko, to meet the emergency. 1 speak piainiy and frankly, It ts no Ume tor humbug, resolutions or gasconade, No step should be taker unless wo iutend to stick to the con- sticutional Union at every hazard, For myself, after thinking of this subject as diwpassionately as | could ior several days Uoder the excitement here, I hesitate not to say that, 19 my opinion, a matntenance of our houor, to say nothing Of Vindication of our rights, requires Usto resist the aggression, In iy Course here, while f sbail parsue in all tuings the policy which I shall belteve will most jikely avert such a rosuit, yet I shail yield nothing to (he aggressor. It ig becoming Lootloss now to quarrel with ourselves about | Who contributed most to the present stat things, I believe the agitators of the South for several years have done more to efiectit than all others uo But as Southern mea we must took tuings tu the as We find them. Gur jortunes are united and ou desi:my must be common. It 18 also bootless to couut thé chances of success in a etraggie with the federal government. No peuple who are not fit for the lowest degradation count the | cost or hazard of defeading their honor or weir rights. better to fall in a manly stroggie than to hive and 10 inglorious ‘Aud | would rather to-day whole Soutuorn them imeolently trampled over by su whining, puling hypocrites es are now setting F Judges and retormers. L would ja Suure the fate of Hungary or P’o- ruckling to the dictation of North. ero hordes of Goths aud Vandals who are now threat. ening ber with their power, But fils is the gloomiest side of the picture, 1 do not think we should be so easily subdued, Wo hava spiritand energy, and we should have friends aiso, Lot ug, theu, be drm. These views [ give you in tho Worst aspect of the question. Perhaps all this may be averted, I shall do all jo my power to avert it, TOR SECKET OF HIS LIER He writes to his brother; — the secret ot my lito has fouge reversed, That is, to rise superior OF contumely of the tneau of mankind, by doing them good insteud of barn, A determination te war even against fate; to meet the world iu ail ils forces; to muster evit with good, and to leave no loe standing im my rear, uM cutest courage hes b drawn trom = deop- my lilo have @ r cflorts of a firm resolve, excited rite og, this would draw @ drop to soul, with ell nepoe bingtied; w I ready to He dows and die under tho weight of that arte! @bich 19 greater than ail other gricla-- A ine heart desoiete . In the wide world, SIGNS OF GIVIL WAR, 1a 1860 ho wrote to the same brotuer;—~ Novexese S01 am daily becoming wor coniirmod ty the opinion th: efforts to Union will be auavaiing The train is our | and public taeu Who have taken hold of this question do not desire to continue it on any terins, They do rougs, they are disunion- of present cireurn- d Wy resent convic- not Wish Apy redress of ist per ce and a with ti er to influence your judgment or that of others, much less their action, ne might be the cave Were my opinions known, As iby Opiulous may | lor the Confederate States, jon, and such a show 1 never saw betuce. | Men camo trom Bultimore, Philadephia and New | bo erroneous. Let the popular will be as fairly repre- sented as possible, «rom Georgia he writes in Jupuary of the same year; _ Now we have real causes of complaint againat the North—or, at least, aginst certain States of the North—causes which, if vot redeessed, would justity the exireme course, the uliima ratio, on the part of the South, ‘these, however, ure barely glaneed at in the South Carolina address. These causes u “Personal Liberty Acts,’’ ae they arecalied in ‘eral of the Northern States. Otber acts of their legtsia- lures which openly and avowedly refuse obedience to or Gompliauce With their constitutional obligation to retura fugitive slaves. Those acts are in flagrant vio- jauion 0; constitutional obligations, and tuey const tute the only cause, in my opinion, whick can justity secession. Ali other complamts ure founded on threatened Cangers which way never come, and which I feel very sure could be ‘averted if tue South Would pursue a judicious and wise course, Whether We ought to secede im Consequence of the taith- lessuess of those Northern States ulluded to is simply a question of policy, It is one on which ablemen and true may differ. One thing is For certain, the South would be justified in doing it. nothing is betier settled by all law, recognized by savage by civilized people, than that a cow pact bi 8 HOt bindiug on the othe! like to see 1k put on ther! full, bt ground, and while | sink the ground would ustily the ‘act, yet Ido Wot think it would at resent be wise to resort to that remedy. For | tec) confident that if we sbould adops tue rigut course those States would recede avd repeal their obnoxious statutes, Hence | am mortified and gricved when | read such papers as the South Carolina manifesto, It 4s not oa the right line, * * * L lovk upou it as a fixed tuct that the South wili secede, anu have been of thut opinion ever since | was at diiiledgevilie, 1 saw Luat we Were borbe wong upon currents (oat there was bo bope of restating, But | am just aa firm jomy | judgmeot that the policy is wrong as I was tueu. What course 1 shall ake will depend upon circa. stances aid what tine is presented by the tajority, 1 should like lor Guupimity Lo prevail, but it wever can be oa suc 4 mantlesto as Seu Carolina pat forth, | or ov such @ resolution ag passed the Alabama Con- Vention. { shail maintain my principles to tue last, let what may coine, DAVIS AND STEPHENS NOMINATED. ‘This leticr was writtea the following Pevruary ; Vepevany %.—We agreed last night at about mid- night to a constitution fora provisioual government That ithe aame, Lb is the coustituuion of the United States, with such Changes as ate Hecessury to meet the exigencies of the times. ‘Wo beW ivatures Wave been tuiroduced by me:—Oue, leaving out the clause that exciuded ( net Ministers from betay members of Congres: other, that Con, ress should not have power to | priate any inoney unless it be asked for by the Kxecu- live or ‘some one of the heu Wright and myseif were ou the commtitee trom Geor- gia to report the constitution, Kuch State bad two members ou it Memminger, of South Carolina, who moved the raising of the committee, was chairman, We bave juss elected the President and Vice Presi- dent of the Confederacy, Mr. Davis, of Mississippi, wus Guonimously chosen Presideul, and 1 was want: mously chosen Vice-President. 1 kuew that such was the uoderstandiny as to what Would be the result, cud Gid not go tw Lhe hull when the election \oek piace. fhe vote was cast by Stu I have w good deal 10 say about (tus and other mutters transacted here when 1 sce you, Fruxvary 10,—fo-morrow 1am to be inaugurated, OF signily my accepumes and take the oath of office publicly in the Congress bail at twelve o'clock. | * * ® L almost shrink from tho responsibilities L Shall assume, To inaking avy speech on the occasion 1 have asirong aversion; but such is the request in the letter asking my acceptance. Feunvany 11.— bis, a8 you know, 1s my birthday; antl this vay ul the hour of one | was iuutigurated (if such be the proper serm for the proceeding) Vico Pres- ident of tue Confederate States of America. The co- tuctdence, altogether accidental, mado a marked mn- pression upon my mind. The rewarks Lmade you will of conrse see, They were delivered as if extem- puraneoug, though they had been written una com- mitted to memory,@AS you will sec, they were very of departuents. short. | wrote them down this morning before going to the’ Capitol, There was, 1 suspect, great disap- pointment at their brevity. { bad been urged to make a speech, und a very large crowd was assembled to bear it. | was satisfied that such a course would be injudicious, indelicate and ttaproper. Stuce it is all over 4 great many have told me that 1 did exactly right, Pwas governed cutirely by wy own Judgment and sense of propriety in the matter, In aconversation had with Mr. Jobuson May 24, 1562, Mr. Stephens said;— What I know about Mr. Davis’ nomination for Presiaent can be told in tow works. Toombs ang 1, 8 We got upon the cars at Crawloraville, op our Woy to Montgomery, met Mr. Chestuut. ‘ue lutter suid that the South © mutter over and looked to Georgia tor the resi I romarked that either Mr, ‘Toombs, Mr, Coub, Gov ernor Jenkins or Goveraor Johuson would sun very well, Ho answered that they were not looking to any of the others, but to Jr. Toombs and mysell. Leola them, very frankly, that J did nos wish the office; thatus 1 bud not been in the wovement, | did aot think 1% policy to put mein fori Alter geting to Montgomery, Mr, Koitt tola me that 1 was tho preier- ence Of the Douth Gurolina delegauion, and asked it L would serve if ciccted. 1 tod him toatl would not 1a advance whether I woulda or would not accept. if unanimously chosen, | wouid first consider whether or not l could orgauizo a Cabinet with a concert of ideas and ability as to justify hopes of suc: cess On such live of policy as I sould pursue. ‘The pignt after the adoption of the permanent con- Btitution {be motion wus made to yo into the election of chiof oflicers, 1 was then suggested that the elec- tion suoulu take place the next day at twelve M., and in the Meantime Lhe delegations shuuld consult sepa- rat ‘the Georgia delegation met at ten o'clock on the luorming of ue day of the election. 1 proposed that we putia the uame of Mr. Toombs for the Presi- deney, aud asked bim if ho woald have, it, He sata ho Would accopt it if it was cordially ofleredbim, Mr, Y. Cobb and F. T. Bartow * said that the delegutions of Plorids, Alabama, Soutu Caroliua and Lowmiana bad | conferred and agreed to support Mr, Davis. Mr. ‘Yoombs seemed very incredulous of this, and bis men- wer juditated some gurprise, 1 did not understand this then, but did afterward, ‘The statement was re- iterated, and upon it the delegation forevore to nom|- nate Mr, 1oumus, but determined to appoint a com- mitiee to ascertain if the report was truce. Mr. Kenan then proposed that if it should be correct i should te put torward tor Vice President. Judge Nisvet said, ‘I secoud that heartily.” Mr. foombs aid, “1 do, too; what do you say, Aleck?” I replied that | Lad not been in the movement, ang doubted the policy oj my assutning avy office, But still there might be reasons why I should, as for the sake of bar- mony; thatit I were to haveany, 1 decidedly pre- ferred the Vice Presidency to any oilice in the govers- ment, but would not accept it unless it should be ten- dered me unanimously by the States and by overy delegate. Mr. Crawiord Was then appointed a coins mittee of one to ascertain and report to us, first, whether the report as Lo the action of those States: was (rue; and, seeoud, if my nominavon would be acceptavle to the entire body, Very s he rewraed and auucanced that both the conditions were fulfiiled, 1 afterward learned that tue action @ States alladed to was based upoa tuteiligence received by them the nigut before that Mr, Cobb would be pre- senied by the Georgia delegation and that Mr. Davis Was not their choice. ‘Tooinbs was the choice of the Florida, the Louisiana aud the South Carolioa delega- tious, “Did not Mississippi desire Mr. Davis?” “They did not, They wished him to be Com- mander-io-Cbiof ef tue Army, Thay was what ne wished also, Ho did not desire to bo President,’ CHARACTER SKETCURS, ‘Speaking of some of the prominent mea of thetime he said :— N« boay is more misunderstood thau Seward, Ho iw frequently spoken of as a leader of public opinion; but itis @ great mistace—it leads him, Me is aiways quick to sou Its drift, aud when be docs he ynstantly toiluws ud seows to Iead, ike boys at o military procession, Who seem to lead tho march by Jollowing io Jrout of the muste. Ot President Johnson he sald:— Jolnson prefers (o do things ludirectly, He looksone way and rowe anotuer, It is difficuit to understand him iuily; vac f think he re desiros to see the South restored to ali its rights. As lor Stanton be 1s @ monster of evil, Itis sirange the tofuence he bas to keep himself in the Cabinet, In the case of Mra Surratt his conduct Was sickening (0 humanity. Bev wked if be still retamed his Ligh opinion of General Graut he auswered:— 1 do, He is an wusophisticated, honest and, I think, a8 yot unambit toan, There ia jut deal of development tor Grant yet. Me is Youu, and will yet have w more ituportant destiny than be ha thus fur, Ldo vot doubt that be is @ parrot, The radicals pretend to claim him, bat they kuow that ho is not witli them, Le says litte about politics, but what he does say is to the point, For instance, one day when [called to seo him he was spouking about the radical policy, and said, “The trae policy should be to make irionds of enom present mejority 18 10 make e of (he party askea him ff it Was true (bat b fived for fast arivin Ho ans “Yes, L was. L expect t will take me belore she Fr In 1870 he wrote to Mr. Johnston :— You ask what L now think of Graat him just ag 1 did ou first acquaintances of the man bas not changed, wither a to bis abiiity or future career, since our intorview at City Point in 186. Tam now inclined to thiak [rom bis surround: tugs that bis policy is tending to empire, will suceoed or not will depend upoa whesber re are brains and patriotism enough combined ia t bis purpose. 1 solution gt tuis que yee the question of success ne ai was not with tne ir lunders. An everwheiming of too United States are de. Nike monarchy or impe- < utterly oppored to anyth' fiahem. All thoy Want to érive ueur, irom er is the lead of bold, Wise, sagacious, discreet, patriotic standard bearers, through constitut | channels and instrumental itic This iio of Mr Stephens is aaquestionably a valu. able addition to the bistory of our civil war, for 1s gives opiaieus ond motives that historians can rarely reach, [is biog ers have done their work well. Of course they Lave done it as Sovtherners, bus it is well to KNOW both sides Of every questiva, NEW BOOKS RECKIVED. O'Connell © Published by au thority of the veo. Joxeph Dolined, publisher, York. 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Hore is a translation of tt:— ‘The bearer of the ausust instructions of Your Highness bes arrived in Afguanistan, and your deveced se om is dueply grateiul (Or the kiudneas aud consideration you show toward him, as well as lor the step you have takeis tit ding an Kxtruordivary Ambussador to him. L shank Your Highness most warmly for ail this, T alsy hasten to intorm you that 1 pray to the all-powerful God to protect’ your precivus existence aud to watch over the | your sacred porson, i demmnd in my prayers that U 1 islam muy etermaily eulighten the world, and, imperial residence of Your Hiziness ts rightly con to ue the principal centre ot the Mussuimaus of th earthiy globe, L vray God to preserve it against thi sion of the euemy. | The Anbassador Extrnordinary of Your Highnoss hae communicated to ine your views relative to the Kuglish Tue vbject vt the Your tighn er sont vy mo. with the approval of to obtain views concerning the evente udidly, I have not experienced very fing that informati ved trom vario séiudt troops have appro: residence of Your Hijchuess, while the En: ing more than ouce affirmed their good wis inain 90 far neutral, aud tolow the policy As everybody | resolved to adopt trom the outset. that an old trie most need thotr aid. time past hi ship wad fra atx distance, I cons ¢ Kusslaus have as much energy us the English, and that. in auy caso, they surpass! then in mmattors of good tith, Lam positively. u | pice Mio slightest coutiieuce in tke promisse of & ah 1 hm well aware that Your tighness did not spprove off ine wheu [ suid in my last letter that the friendship of thi Lugiten was oly « wordl--a word weittea on lee; bus nowd Your Highness has been able to couvince himself by his own experience of the tle reliauce to placed on that friendship. that the kagtish | abandoa their trie 3 to the will ‘ot therefore, no longe bat you will of the Kushis h justices all < were in conformity my side would be, witout any doubt, remove fiteut in their power, they have niways meted ant aod disdaintul tanner, | than the Kugtish: He Higuueas to loave the tnglish allinnce and cor derstunding with the Russians, May ( victories to the Gitoman arms and render alt deeuimang SUBRE ALI, * 1875). 4 vigtor Tue 1UtM Monannuns, 1295 January 19, “INCENDIARISM, THE COKSON CLUB HOUSE AT MOUNT VERNON BURNED DOWN, About two o’clock yesterday morning the large, costly and conspicuous buildiug situated a abort dise' tanco north of tho ratiroad depot at Mount Vernon,, and knowm as the Corson Ciub House, was totally Gesiroyed by fire, together with nearly the entire, coutents, ‘Ihe building was erected and for someting occupied by Corrnelius Corson, one of tho most tntij- | mato associates of the, late William M. Tweed. and who was connected with bim im various enterprises uQd speculations in this city and Westchester couni| during his proeperous ring days, The buliding was at frame structure 100 feet tquare, three stories bighy, surmounted by a largo tower three stories above the, root, It attracted the attention of passengers on the New Haven Rutiroad, The first oor was arranged for the accommodation of a fine stud of fast horses, which were kept there during the palmy days of the ring. Besides vebicies of all sorts thero was also on tho same floor a mmnedious roouy buodsomely Muished und turnisbed tor an office, @ Diliard room aud a foe bowling aliey. On the soutty side of the bulidiog a considerable portion of the second and third storics was appropriated to an Rant ascombiy room, iuroisied with handsome settoes, Capable of seating wh audience of 600 persong, oF tue floor could be cleared for ball purposes, whilo a spas cious gallery offlorded ample aecommodati an effect) Apother portion of th Dial as a picture gallery, a play While another section was fited Up in iret clas style for library purposes, the tix. tures being of black walnut aud glass. Tne buridiag ‘Was erected ta the most substantial manner by day's work, and etmbraced aii (he moderc Improvements, aw @ Cost, 1m 1870 and 1571, of more than $40,000, re Corsou 16 woderstvod to have parted with tue props erty some Jew years ago to his brother-in-law, Jamed eiso, ex-Chiet of New York Poco torce, and some overs, The property 1 aaia have been heavily mortgaged and also heavily insured. in charge of Edward Carroll, who vccupies tho dwelling located ut one bundred foe trom the club bi are 11 was aroused trom bis yesterday, moruing by the barking of one of the watch kept on the promises, aud on looking out discover that the norih ead of the clab house Was on fire, an: Bt the game timo heard the footsteps of a persom Tunoing away up tbe road. An alarm was imme. diately given ond the firemon of Mount Ver~ pon prompuy responded, but tue Same: hi giwed too mach headway tor the to sve the building, and therefore directed their eiforts to saving tho dwellings, whic! din doing. Tue beopery, whieh cost }, 000 for cvustruction, suared the fate of the cla house. A large cumver of vaiuabie books, clegantl: and ucilormiy bound, belonging to Mr. Gerson; sou pictures and vehicles were consumed, The iy property, including filteen acres of ground, with tog improvements thereon, cost Mr, Corson $100, 0008 The fro was evidently (ue work of an inceadiary. BIGAMY, THLE LOVES AND ADVENTURS OF A GOOD LOOK« ING BALLROAD CONDUCTOR. Goorgo Crumley is tbo namo of railroad man wanted by the Pennsylvant 4 Now Jorsey authori! ties. In the former State his presence is desired to ausweracbarge of bigamy, and the Jersey officiale are anxious to mete out to him justice for deserting bis family aod bigamy. la August, 1871, Cram< ley was employed by the Delaware, Lackad wanna end Western Railroad as condi tor, Ho was @ good lookiug fellow, and bav< { won U Leart of Mary Parseile, one ef the | Prepossossing daughters of Milburn, N. were wedded on August 27 of that year, happily and five children wore boro, only oneal whom now lives, In Septomber, 1576, Cramley w on the Baltimore Onie Bailroad, and se cottage at Connelisville, where the; April last Sra, Cramiey was seise: advice of busband bo! re letter sho wrote to bim. (rough tue dead letter office, She feared so! bolalien him, and was about to start in search im after months of worriment, when last moa received a letter trom J, T, Morris, of ¥nz Henry, Pa. It was brief aod aod = conaly, sho was ueorge vn x righted wife promptly repin band was eithor dangerously sick "OF dead, by an early anewei trom Mr. Morris, The lettor was an intense to Mre. Crumley, as it bore the startling information, that her husband had aecerved her and gee gH ‘ ol Mr. Morris by wedding the latter on M. 18; Crumley Was at that time ranning between Connelis- vill a Port Perry, and the place where Mr, Morr: lived was on bis route, Mr. Morris is @ maa ef ail) © ley he wil the | RAS eentes city, an tang | | °