The New York Herald Newspaper, December 7, 1878, Page 5

UNJUSTLY CONDEMNED, | The Murder of Mrs. Meser- : vey, in Maine. CIRCUMSTANTIAL RVIDENCR = ILLUSTRATED. Facts Showing that Nathan F. Hart Was Guiltless. MOVEMENT FOR A NEW TRIAL. ————— Rockianp, Me., Dec. 6, 1878, Tm my last letter I described the wave of public ex- citement which swept “over the quiet little communi- ties along the rugged coast of Knox and Washington counties by the discovery of serious doubis us to the guilt of Nathan F. Hart, who was, not long ago, sentenced to imprisonment for life for the murder of Mrs, Sarah H. Meservey, in Tenant Harbor, Decem- ber 22, 1877. T also detailed the circumstances of the murder and brietly outlined the evidence adduced at the trial. The man was convicted on circumstantial evidence, the strongest of which was a dream which he had about the time the crimo was committed and the testimony of two experts in handwriting. Those Men swore that Hart was the writer of two anony- mous letters which were written to certain parties in Tenant’s Harbor, and dated in Providence and Phila- Gelphia, describing the murder in all its horrible de- taile, and with such minuteness that there could be no mistaking the fact that the writer was in the house at the time of the murder, The condition of the vic- tim's body when discovered, five weeks afterward, verified nearly every statesnent in the narrative. \ MOTIVE OF THE MURDER. There can be no doubt but that robbery was the Prime motive, It was shown at the trial that no money was taken; st least the prisquer’s counsel al- lowed such an impression to go into the jury room. Luther Meservey, husband of the murdered woman, testified that the money was found in its place in the drawer undisturbed. He went to sca in October and left $200 or $250 with his wife. This money was found when the house was searched, and it was im- mediately assumed that consequently no robbery had been committed. Now it is known that there were two places in the house where money was kept—in one, the husband’s earnings or the common fund; fn the other, the wife’s private stock. It has been proven that when Meservey was married his wife had alittle store of money, among the pieces being thirty Mexican silver dollars. She was avery Baving woman, as is generally admitted, Ler economy amounting to parsimony. Her husband worked nine months in the year and brought home a good deal of money, so that Mrs. Meservey had no occasion to draw on her private treasure. This she kopt in the drawer, which was found intact, And here were also discovered the thirty pieces of silver. A review of the transactions in which Meservey engagod during his married life shows that there was in his houso, which he made his place of deposit, $1,090. There was only about $200 found, and although Captain Meservey that this was all that could be there, he was heard to say in presence of two wit- nesses the day the body was found, “They did rob the house, after all.” He did not know how much money was in the house, for he left such matters to wife to regulate. A letter is in existence, written y Mrs. Meservey to her husband in answer to a note from him, in which he stated that he wished to build » barn on his return bome, and she told him that she would give him a pleasant surprise on the money question when he came home. Now, if there was Dnly $250 in the house, and he knew of that, how pould his wife surprise him with more unless she kept the money in # place he knew nothing of ? EVIDENCE OF HART'S INNOCENCE, ‘To prove that Nathan F. Hart never got a dollar out of the house it is only necessary to show that he had noimmediate need of money, as he has been an indns- trious man, frugal antl prudent in expenditure. He never tricd to borrow any money of the neigh- bors, as others did trom time to time, and he has not expended any money since the robbery. A few days before the body of Mrs. Mescrvey was discovered he borrowed money of Eleanor M. Cook on- a deed which is recorded in the office of the County Regis- trar. In order to pay the expenses of his defence he was compelled to mortgage his house, and it would be difficult to conceive of his resorting to such means to raise money if he had succeeded in robbing the house of his neighbor. He must have had an inordinate desire for money for its own sake, then, im order to furnish a motive, but this is not one of the traits of his character. KVIDENCE OF THE PROSECUTION. In the testimony as produced by the government Miss Clara Wali swore that she saw Mrs. Meservey going to the Post Office at six o’clock on evening of the murder, She could not tell how she fixed the time, except by say- ing she was going to skate. It can be shown that Miss Wall was seen on the ice by halt a my, pd before dark on that Mra. hia Wall also saw deceased going tow: the Post Office, but fixes the time at about five o'clock, qualifying her statement by sa: it_was at “early Jamp light.” ‘She was been at Post Oftice by another person, who was hot summoned us a 8, at “early lamp light.” It can be easily seen, therefore, that Mrs. “Meservey went to the Post Office while it was yet light out of doors. It can be shown that she arrived at the store in which the Post Office is kept just as the proprietor was lighting his lamps. She - tired for ber mail and was told that Mark Wail wi taken it, and she went immediately home. Now what time of day is “carly lamp light” in Tenant's Harbor? The sun set on the 221 of December, 1 ut precisely twenty-five minutes after four o’cl The afternoon was foggy and the twilight sho’ ‘Early lamp light” must ‘ore be between. halt. past four and five o’clock. It is admitted b: Louparies how that Mrs. Meservey left her house ie Post Office about halt-past four, THE MURDER. Before that a man was seen crouching on the road- jide beyond the house. He kuew she was going to tho ‘ost Office, and he thought she would be compelled to wait for the mail which arrives at «ix. He had an hour, and he could rob the house and get away before she returned. ‘Chat she came back before he ex- fessor is and that he killed her because ie was discovered of little doubt. It is also clear that the murder was committed soon, but not immediately, after her arrival, by the fact thet her Gove had been removed, but not hex overshoes or ud. The thief was in all probability up stairs securing his prize, and tried to get out unobsarved, but was met by the mistress of the house, who raised tho alarm, and he struck her down. fhe twrrible weene of blood und butchery is shut out from human faze; only the imagination can picture the awful Struggle for life of the pour woman who was in tho power of ademou. She was struck down by wclub br cudgel and stunned, but her death was caused by suffocation or chokiug, as the cloud was tightl; wound round the throat, and it sad @ piece of oo line, which bound her hands, were securely tied by a gailor’s hands, as was proven by the style of knot. ‘The murder could not have been committed later na fix O'clock at the furthest, as the woman went Mot later than five or # yuarter past five P. M. MARr’s WHERKAOUTS. Now, it was shown that Nathan F. Hart left-his paos- bare at “early candle light” and went to bis house, where he stayed till after supper. At sbout six o'clock he was secn iu the house by # person who ‘was not a member of Lis family, and it can be shown that Le was seen at eight o'clock. Consequently, ut the time the murderer was doing his bloody work in 4 house of Luther Meservey this mau is ed at 8 Own fircside. in addition to these circumstances, which the people think did uot get their true weight, here are others which will be brought out shoul a how trial be ordered, and that seems highly probable, to jildge from the temper of the people. It is ad- mitted that Hart’s counsel wore cither careless or ignorant; they ailowed evidencs © be put in which could eaaily Lave been refuted or impeached, THK HANDWRITING. Tho piece of evidence which worked hardest against Hart, and was Leased on the best plausible founda tion, was that in connection with the anonymous letters and the note found on the floor of the Mever- vey liouse the day the body was discovered, all of which the government tried to show were in the isoner’s flandweiting. So far as the writiug concerned, it becomes « question for the va- pert, and that question has not am yet been betticd, A, KR. Dunton, & men who has te» Himonials of ability trom Ly many of the leading lawyers of New York and Boston, claims that he can show by his own and other expert testimony that the handwriting is not that of Nathan F, Hart. ‘Mr. Dunton has many of the best experts in tho country reddy to swear to his own theory, and there seems to be no doubt Wut that he can prove to the satisfaction of any jury that Nothan F, Hart could fot have written that with which lic has been charged. LELTERS DISCOVEEED, One great point which the prosecution made, aside from the peiimanship, was the fact thut in the letter from Providence reference was made to 4 tite when tho writer tried to kiss Sarah H, Moservey, and was by her panped in the face and had his shirt bosom torn out, | It waa shown of attempted to be shown at the trial that this man was, as is really the casa, Nathan ¥. Hart. But the theory of the prosecution is very weak, or would have been had the evidence been adinitied, that x Hart was the man who had done this it was proof enough that ho was the man who wrote tho letter. U0 man could concoct stich a letter, conld disyuiso bis bandwriting through as long a letter as this was, ‘would he be so idiotic a8 to avcnre hineolf of the murder, Rnowing at the time that ne war oo acensing hiroself’? It was @ matter of yoxeip about the town, this shirt-bosom story was; vory many kuew of from the Post Office directly, and she left there | NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7%, 1878—TRIPLE SHEET. it, and any one could have written jnat as mae par- ticulars about it. The government did not atiempt to show how wailed the letters, one from Phib because it to have ¢ 5 s prosecution neither show that Hurt wrote the letters, he sent them out of the jail, nor advance any theory as to how he could have wailed them. The whole thingy is merely « matter of supposition, grounded ‘upon no reason whatever as to fact. Circums' evidence has convicted # murderer many times, and it has also convicted, imocent men; but in the case ot Nathan F. Hart there was not chrcmaaansial gr dence enough to convict aman of theft, to say of consigning bim to a living tomb. ‘The more the case is investigated the more does it appears that the State of Maine has a man under sen- tence for murder who is not the murderer and the more do the people become convinced of the tact. A MISCREANT’S END. EXECUTION OF WILLIAM JEFPERSON, A FAR- wmn’s SLAVE, IN NOBTH CAROLINA—A LIFE OF BRUTAL” CRIMES—rHE CULPRIT'S | CONFI- DENCE IN THE BELIEF OF FUTURE BLISS— YROM THE GALLOWS TO GLORY. (BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.) Wannenron, N. C., Dec. 6, 1878, William Jefferson, a yellow negro, aged thirty-one years, formerly a slave in Virginia, paid to-day on the gallows in this town the penalty of death for the crime of an indecent assault upon Mrs, Amanda My- rick, a colored women, under circumstances of pecu- liar atrocity, in May lest, Since his conviction and sentence for the offence, in September, Jefferson has been attended by a colored clergyman, Rov. Mr. Olts, under whose ministrations he has professed a change of heart and a full sssnr- ance of Divine pardon for all his sins aud a vivid anticipation of rapid transit from the scaffold to the realms of heavenly bliss. Under the culprit’s dictation the minister, a few weeks ago, wrote his confession, not alone of the fiendish act for which he to-day suffered, but also of repeated bur- giarics, thefts, arson, assaults upon women, and cven. of one murder. It is the blackest record of criminal life ever known in North Carolina, yet the brutal offender, even before unburdening his conscience of tho damning history, announced his belief that his sins were pardoned and that “my bright jowelled crown is a waitin’ for me in glory.”” INTERVIEW WITH THE CONDEMNED. ‘The Hguacp representative visited Jefferson in his cell several times during the last few weeks and heard him, after speaking of his former life and his long catalogue of heartless crimes in a tone indicative of pride in his record, break ont in paroxysms of ro- ieings and shoutings over his hope, or rather his cortainty, of future bitss. Said he on ‘one occasion, -| “Myself brought me here and put these irons on my ankles, but next Friday Jesus Christ, with the white gowns of Heaven on, will come in, take off the irons and carry me to the land where I will walk on streets of pure gold,” and then he would sing a curioug | little song, which, perhaps, was origin: bh somewhat as follows :— Dem golden strocts I'm or gwine to walk, Dem xolden streots P'n er wine to walk, Dein goldoy stroots Tin or ywine to walk, i oor sinners fare you well Por my home 'tis ober Jording, &c., dc, THOUSANDS O¥ WITNESSES. North Carolina law requires hangings to be pri- vate, but the populace of this region do not willingly miss such ashow. A high, close board fence sur- rounds the jail yard in which the gallows was placed, but views of the sport could-be had from the roofs of adjacent buildings and from tree tops, and all such places were fillea with eager spectators, while thou- sands of others, mainly of the colored race, thronged the streets in the hope of seeing or hearing some- thing to gratify a morbid curiosity, LAST SCKNiS, Jefferson slept none last night, and ate no breakfast till about eleven A. M., when he asked for fried chicken, which, being furnished him, he ate with relish, He was very nervous all day, laboring under great mental excitement and shivering all tho time. When questioned by the Hznraup correspondent he said that all the charges against him were true; that he deserved death, and was ready and willing to dic, believing that his sins were all ‘pardoned and that the robe of righteousness awaited him; that he had ill will against no one, that the Sheriff, jailer but loved sh a, 85 aud minister had been good to him, snd he thanked them all and hoped to meet them in heaven. He was brought out of the jail and ascended the seat- fold at half-past two P. M., accompaniod by the Sheriff, Deputy Sherif, his counsel and a minister. ‘The culprit seemed a and excited, and had to be supported as he walked up the steps of the seaf- fold. He spoke for three minutes only in a rehearsal of his religious experience, and said he was going to heaven wad hoped to meet all there. JEPPERSON'S CONFESSION. Rev, Mr. Crosby then read from the scaffold a called the “Record of the Life and Confession of William Jefferson,” which had been prepared at ‘the culprit’s dictation. The following is a synopsis of the paper read:—In 1865 Jefferson outraged a young colored girl, for which he fied; soon thereafter he attempted to outrage a colored woman, but was frightened off. Next year he comm! an assault upon another woman in Mocklenburg, Va., for which he was sent to the Penitentiary for five years, Being put to work in the granite q near Richmond he escaped, broke open several houses and committed many highway robberies, after which he was recap- tured and served out his term, with an extra year as a penalty for escaping. After he was released he worked on @ farm near Richmond. There he stole a horse and flied. Qn the road he broke open # country store and stole money. Went to Granville county, inar- ried, and after # short while abandoned his wife for a lewd woman, then abandoned her and went to Vir- ginia, where he was put in jail for stealing. He broke out and went to Weldon, N. C. There he found bis old paramour with another man; waylaid aud rmur- dered that inan, threw his body into the Roanoke liver and fled to Virginia. Last spring he went to Northampton county, N. C., where be outraged Mrs. Crowder, a white woman. Then he fied to this county and committed the deed tor which he was to- day hanged. This record enumerates a long list of burglaries, house und barn burnings, larcenies and other criminal offences. “PUNISHED AT LAST. Before the reading began Jefferson aaked the Sheri? to support himgas his legs were weak and be was about to fall, the reading the culprit stood in @ trembling and almost fainting condition. He was humming and groaning in the manner peculiar to his race when under religions excitement. After realing the record the minister, at the request of Jefferson, read a chapter of Scripture. Jefferson's jegs, were then pinioned, the moose und black ap adjusted at seventeen minutes past three. Tho minister offered o fervent Res. for the rest of the condemned man’s soul. The Sheriff others left the scatfold and the fatal drop fell at twenty min- utes past three, His ncck was not broken. ex hibited five violent convulsions and his laborious respiration was distinctly heard at a considerable dis- tance. For five minutes after the drop fell his sutfer- ings were apparently intense. Death occurred trom strangulation in fourteen minutes after the drop. ‘Tho immense crowd which filled tho streets in tho neighborhood was mostly composed of negroes, but there was no excitement nor violent demonstrations. His body was cut down at ten minutes past four and baried in tho Potter's Vield at the county expense, his frieuds.not claiming it. ANYTHING FOR LIBERTY. ‘The effects of Doctor’ Obed Rogers, the eccentric beggar, wero brought from Metnchin, N. J., to Eliza- beth yesterday and examined. There were two tranks and ten bundles. The first bundle opencd contained an aged pear, while other packages wero made up of yenerablo rolls, tea and sugar. In one of the trunks was a package of printed “petitions to friends of Luranity.” Evidense of the doctor's ability as an artist was shown in some sae thoronghly axplained by the foot note, “The dovil hel reseoving @ murderer.” from his brother, Timothy Rogers, of Bradford, Canada, and from Joel Biglow, @ Chicago lawyer, wers tied up in bundles, The entire contents of the trunks and bun- turned out in a heap on the the Doctor st the sight of hin ‘“knick- as he them, wae y incensed, ond sat down aud spent two houra tn ropacking them. ‘The “Doctor” pleaded hard for liberty, mising to hisve his huir”and whiskers cut, buys now aut of procera leave town, get his show parapher- nalis at Burlington, yo West and settle down. He also promised if liver to get married, and, as an cvi- dence of his honesty in Premises, asked the Chict of Police if he would assist him in securing a nice young lady to marry him. The “Doctor” will be released to-day. TOO BUSY FOR JUSTICE, “Och, I don’t care aboud so much foolishness. Dot's besser dot you let me go,” remarked somewhat judignantly Gustav Zeinstein, who was arraigned for inebriety before Justice Wandell at Essex Market Police Court yesterday. Hix Honor, however, just at this particular moment had swung around ‘in his chair to talk to some visitor on private business, consequently his back was toward Gus, “Sey, vhat's der maddher mit dis Court ennyhow? Stop dot talking mit oder beoples. I got me some pianess to attend to. Ivant dot yo setile dis difi- coolty right a said he to Judge Wandell, who did vot pay any attention. Then fn a louder tone Gus added: “May pe you don’t tink I vas in owrnest. Don't it?) Marry up, Vas sae dat?’ “Look hero, my good fellow,” remarked His Honor, turning quickly, “You're a brower and yot drunk on you ua an oa ait th ort oe — |, how si know jurry up mit dot pi ness, Dot ist alles!” chit ind pecdy justice! ‘Ten dollars or ten days.” ‘The officer, thut Gus wore fustian, began to hustle him toward the prison door, “Hold on! bold on! young feller. Ish hab plenty guelt.” And he planked a firty-dollar note on the deek with a thud. He got his four tens in change, and, a8 he folded thom up and put them in hia pocket, he slapped the eflicer who had arrested him on the font er and said, ‘‘You’m pooty fresh, but I threat yout" THE LECTURE SEASON. Mr. James Wadsworth, ex-Mayor of Buffalo, de ered an address iast evening on the future of the Erie Canal before the Bostowners’ Association, No. 10 South street. He said that from two thousand five hundred to three thousand boajg will remain in this harbor during the winter, aud he complimented those assembled as representing more capital in- vested in internal navigation than the whole country owned in the shape of ocean vessels. He advocated the full and final abolishment of tolls, and said it should be demanded on the ground of com- mercial necessity, Philadelphia had now the advan- tage of New York in being chargtd one-hait per cent less for freight. If the whole of the one per cent now Jevied on tho canal were iuken off it would leave New York forever one-half per cent ahead of Philadelphia, “10 THE FRONT.” Mr. Carr gave his impressions beforo the Young Men’s Christian Association as to what is necessary to be placed “To the Front.” Sometimes, he said, I think we are taught too mach and too persistently the doctrine of eqnality of men. This was made one of the corner stones of the Bepublic by our fore fathers, Our laie war ‘arose from honest, deep seated differences about this doctrine. Since that it has been preached in one form or another, sometimes ably and sincerely, but more often selfishly and enuperficially. One result is to encourage Communism; another is to tarn the heads of the laboring classes, whe begin to think manual labor bencath them, too humble end too lowly. They think it more to their taste, easior, to write ’a book, invent a phonograph, lesd un army or rule New York. At this juncture it is well to pro- mulyate the good, ofd-fashioned doctrine of inequality of man. Immigration should be put under self-pro- teeting restrictions. ‘The ballot should be restricted to those who can read and write, Above all the standard of edncation should be raised, and education made compulsory in every State in the Union. THE LATOR QUESTION, At a meeting of the Manhattan Liberal Club, at Science Hull, a paper was read by Professor Henry Apylet8n, of Rhode Island, on “Labor the Souxce of Wealth in Nature vs. Labor the Source of Poverty in Practice.” Tho speaker claimed that it was unjust fora capitalist not to give the laborer a rea- sonable portion of what were called “profits.” He maintained it was the nan who worked that ought to be rich, and not the man who sas idle, luxuriously re- ‘eciving from the laborers’ toil the means with which to indulge in idleness. SOJOURNER TRUTH, To about fifty auditors, in one of the upper rooms of the Cooper Inatitute, Sojourner ‘truth told the story of her life, Though she is the oldest lecturer in America, having entered upon her second century, the old lady said she was of opinion that the Lord had renewed ler youth. She has dispensed with the use of spectacles, being able to see without thei, and her hair, which was formerly gray, is tugt becoming the color of the raven’s wing. DISCONTENTED DRIVERS, PROBABLE STRIKE OF THE THIRD AVENUH HORSE CAB DRIVERS--THE COMPANY CHARGED WITH BREAKING FAITH WITH THE MEN. Inquiries among the officers of the various horse car companies and the drivers yesterday showed that the.only trouble at present to be anticipated is on the Third Avenue, Mr, Farrell, tho president of the Car Drivers’ Pro- tective Union, felt confident yesterday thai not only would the drivers of the Thigd Avenue strike next week if he and his two discharged coinrades were not reinstated, but that the strike would be joined in gen- erally by the drivers of the other lines if the contem- plated reduction were carried out. He said that Pres- ident Phillips gave his sacred word of honor that none of the participants of the last strike would be discharged,e and by a formal resolution, recorded in the minutes of the society, the drivers had solemnly bound themselves not to work if any of their number were discharged for participation in the recent strike. He did not wish to say on what day tho strike would begin, because the company should have no notice of it. He denounced the com- pany in bitter terms as undeserving of the slightest consideration and as having abused alike the public and their employés. They should be made to pay $100 for each car into the city treasury for the ecx- traordinary franchise by which they coined fortunes while starving their employés. They could well afford to curry people to Harlem for three cents and still déclare good dividends. When questioned in reference to the numcrical strength of the drivers iv this city Mr. Farrell gave some interesting figures, which are here subjoined :— ‘Third avenue. 260 Belt line. wO0 Second avenue. 50 Fourth avenue. Honston, Eighth, Sev- enteenth and Twen- ty-third. Green line. Ninth avenue. ‘Total. ‘The pa; . Mr. ’ ready at such @ starvation rate that if a man became sick br disabled for afew days he could not have a loaf of bread to give bis children, and the hours of work varied from fourteen to sixteen. AMONG THE DRIVERS. Among the drivers of the Third Avenue line yester- day the prevalent.sentiment seemed to be thai they were in honor bound to strike if thecompany refused to reinstate the three en who had been discharged for participation in the recent strike. One very in- tolligent driver, who said he had becn nearly twenty ears driving horge cars, thought that if Ts company “How. foresd’ the nen | into a strike it would do itself irreparable in- jury, for the elevated road would be running to Eighty-ninth strect, and if the horse cars were stopped running those who had hitherto refrained from patronizing the clovated road would be com- led to do 89 and they would never again come ck to the horse cars. He said that if the company wanted to avoid trouble they would reinstate these three men and subsequently discharge them upon some excuse or other. He was present when President Phillips had pledged his word of honor to the drivers that none of them would be discharged for participation in the recent strike, and that pledge, the drivers consider, had ‘been shamefully violated. As to any reduction of wages he and others declared that they could not stand it; that they suffered even now for the want of many bare noeveasities of life. They were nearly ail men of families, some with five, six and seven children, and how would they exist on less than $1 15 per day? ‘The drivers seemed very deter- mined, and some said they would rather starve than to take the oath required by President Phillips. One pointed out that while the receipts of his car had in- creased from $15 or $19 to $22 or $23 within the lust two years, his pay lad been reduced from $2 to $1 75, and he asked it this was not terribty unjust? . NO RKVUCTION CONTEMYLATED. At tho office of tho Third Avenue Company Treas- ‘urer Lyons said that no reduction of the drivers’ pay had been or was now contemplated by the.company. ‘The report that the company i: led doing so, he waid, bad yusly started by the three dis- charged drivers in order to create disaffection among their employés and induce them to strike. Mr. Lyous was asked whother the company would not reinstate the three men if that was found to be tho only way of avoiding a strike. Mr. Lyons replied that he was confident the company would not reinstate tho men even if it should have to gperations for six months. Oh being informed that the drivers considered President Phillips to have iven his sacred word of honor that none of the par- ficoante of the recent strike would be di the treasurer said the men had not been discharged because thoy had partictpated in the strike, but for good rensons, which, howeyer, he was unwilling to Dame. When pressed to state the reasons, if tharo were any, it was not difficult to gather from his man- ner that the “reasons’’ were a mere pretence ond that be gave none because there were noue to give. PHYSICAL CULTURE. A party of latices and gentleman weve present last evening, by invitation of Professor Avon C. Burnham, atthe Academy of Physical Culture, corner of Broad- way ond Forty-Lourth street, to witness the calistheniv | exercises of a class of young ladies from Brookiyn. Previons to tho opening of the performance Professor Burnham said it must be understood that in no sense was this an “exhibition.” A class of young ladies irom Brooklya, who bad finished the ourriculum of the academy a year ago, had kindly consented to once more go through the calisthenic routine in which they had been trained, the Professor said, for the putpose of demonstrating the beauty and grace of light gymnastics, Hoe anid complaint had recently been made that whilo every facility was offered to men, women and children wero denied an opportunity of physical Neh a In this respect ue thought the academy filled a long- existing need, ‘The academy is not for the exclusive use of ladies and children, however, for in the prospectus classes for gentlemen are announced, Professor Burnham is known to many New Yorkers and rvoklynites. thyough the gyumasivin ho maintained in the Gity of Churches, and which tor meny years bore his mime, ‘The pro- Wamiue of last night's perfornaance was as follows :— Yumb bells, les cercles, clubs, double postures, guns, and march and run. The graco and ease of the whole performance were inarvellous. The double posturing was truly artistic, aud some of the evolu- tions developed during its progress equalled any- thing in Upton. The rehearsal was over at nine o’clock, and the audience left the gymnasiaw com. inenting on the uovelty of tle entertainment, ST. NICHOLAS SOCIETY. AP DELMONICO'S AND A MENU THAT WOULD HAVE 4STONInEED THE EARLY DUTCH BETYLEMS—LHE TOASTS OF THE EVENING AND THEIR RESPONSES. The annual dinner of the St, Nicholas Society took place at Delmonico's iast night. Previous to the banquet the officers recently elected for the ensu- ing year were installed with appropriate ceremonies. Although the recently adopted hour of six o'clock, which has found so much favor with popular socie- A PLEASANT REUNION ties, was named tor the dinner, the guests were all on hand in time and there was no delay in reaching the grand dining room. Among dis- tingnished guests of the society . Governor Bedle, of New Jersey; Rev. Rogers; Rev, Dr. Ormiston, of the Dutch Church; Rev, Father Bjerring, of the Greek Church; William Chrystie, of the Society of the Cincinnati; Colonel A. B, Gardner, Judge Advocate, United States Army; Commodore Nicholson, commandant of the Brooklyn Navy Yard; General Horace Porter, Chaun- cey M. Depow, General Abram Duryea, W. W. H, Bryant, of this State, and United States District At- torney Woodford, About two hundred persons sat down to the tables and partook of the following i : Seaanteenaaonteteameded THE MENU. OYSTERS. ROUPS Consommé & la St. Nicho reon Th 1 tle & la Hoilande, nous v’avrne. Patées a la Antony Van Corleyr. Fish, Bass @ la Buomel Van Granst, RELEVES. Filet of Beef iu la Kalekerbockor, ENTRERS, Chicken & la Von Twiller, Escalopo of Vonison —1ea Rotterdam. Sweet Breads ala Spuyten Duyvil. VEGETABLES. Green Poas. Tomatoos. String Bean Spinach, ROMA! cH. Ri Canvas Back Ducks. Balad, ¥ vo Chantilly. Charlotie Parisieung, Pikeos Montecs, Glaces Napolitaines. Pruits and Dessert. Coffee. Pipes und Tobacco, Creme Rubanee, DEOL ELLE DE DOEDDOUSILEDDLODEGESEDI BD PBBEIE PE PADDLE LTTE EDEL ED IODE ETAT LTADIS OEE TEES Over this bill of fare was the figure of # venerable Knickerbocker smoking a long pipe, such as was to be presented to every member and guest of the soci- ety when the dinner was ended, Underneath was the motto:-- Non fumum ex fulgore, sod ax fumo dare Ince, cogitat. which boing interpreted, as the Scripture has it, sig- nities— Not smoke from long tobacco pipos So much as light from good wobaceo smake, Made Kuickerboekers cogitute While Porter, Ormiston and Bogart spoke. ‘THE TOABTS AND SPERCHES. The dinner, although it began early, was along one, but at length the pipes and tobacco were reached and then began the regular toasts af the evening. The first, as was proper, waa “St, Nicholas, our household saint—to the earnest faith of childhood as much a reality as the gifts he brings.” Mr. Edward Y. De Lancey, who presided in the place of President Remsen, who is ill, announced that the toast would be responded to by Mynheer Van Der Bogert. Mr. W. W. R. Bogert, a journalist who has come down to the generation from the times of the old Courier and Enquirer, wos the gentleman referred to, and in be- ginning his speech he thanked the president for add- ing two syllables to his name. Speaking of the city he said the homes of our childhood haye come to be the chosen seat of commerce; but he soon glided from. these practical considerations and paid uglowing tri- bute to the patron saint of the society, St. Nic He seemed to think that the better canonization of the saint was his canonization in the hearts of Dutch- men. ‘The second toast of the evening was “The Presi- dent of the United States,” which was drunk stand- ing. ‘The toast to the Governor of the State of New York followed, and was responied toby United States District Attorney Woodford, formerly Lieutenant Governor. General Woodford’s speech presented few salient features apayt from a panegyric of the Empire State; but one sentiment—‘! ‘us love the Union better than party—-let us love the nation bet- ter than State,” was received with unbounded ap- use, ain toast to the “City of Now York" was responded to by ex-Senator James W. Gerard, Me said the Brooklyn bridge is transpo: ‘a part of our popula- tion to Brooklyn. ‘The elev: railroads are carry- ing another part of it to Westchester county. Other means take still another part to the West, and after awhile nothing will be left to us but Coney Island. We have just got through ono civil war, he said «pa- thetically, but he feared another is ps oy ese ‘This new danger comes from the ¢laims of the Anycke Jaus heirs to the King’s farm. Her heirs have been holding meetings everywhere and an incursion from them may be expected at any moment. They have rights and the only judicial objection to their rights is that they have slept on them. This he thought ought not to be an objection to the rights of a itchman. In order to pay off the heirs of Anneke Jans he aug- gested that New York separate from the Union, that Peter Cooper be put ut the head of affairs, and that Ping he dae engine be set going im order to get rid of the . “THE ARMY AND NAV The toast to the army and navy was responded to on behalf of the navy by Commodore Nicholson, who made a neat little speech, and by General Horace Porter on bebulf of the army. General Porter's speech was the hit of the evening. As became a soldier, he complimented the Dutch not poly ou taking Holland, but on being able to take anything put before them. The Dutch, he said, eame her: under false pretences. Here they saw all the sph ever witnessed, but he bewailed that in having thoir portraits painted Authony Comstock was absent. In coming to that meeting of their descendants he said he found bea g orunge colored, and he bo- lieved it was the Lord alone who presérved us all from having the jaundice. Every Dutchman he thought had the faculty of blowing his own horn, but why, he asked, should a rooster be placed in front of the President’s chair when his proper place was ins barnyard? At first, he said, he thought the bird was the American cagle, but he soon found it ‘was no Fourth of July fowl. ‘The toast to the founders of Niew Amsterdam was responded to by Mx. Chauncey M. Depew and Kev. Dr. Crmistou. ‘Tho toleration, industry and integrity of the natives of Holland, by whom Manhattan Is- land was settled, were discussed by both in the most complimentary tarms, and in conelusion they hoped that the descendants of eat Dutch settlers might always be worthy of their 'The welcome to sister societies was responded to by Mr. Chrystie, on behalf of the oid Society of the Cin- cinnati, and he was followed representatives of the St. Andrew’s, the St, Georye’s, the St, Putrick’s, the New England and other societies. * Contrary to custom, the speechca were over by lalf- past ten o'clock, and the rest of the evening was given to fun that would our Duh predecossors. ‘THE DAIRY FAIR. ORGANIZATION OF A PERMANENT ASSOCIATION-— CONTINCED INTEREST IN THE BUTTER AXD CHEESE DISPLAY. ‘The afternoon meeting of the International Dairy Bair at tho American Institute was fraught with great interest t dairy exhibitors aud merchants. ‘Che success which has wtteuded the exhibition enlisted the sympathies of prominent men in this and the ad- joining States to such an extent thatit was resolved to form & permanent association. A meeting was ac- cordingly held in the main ball of the exhibition, A. Willard, of Little Palls, presiding, wish B. Mortimer Seaver as secretary, A commities of twenty-one was then appointed to organize ap International Dairy Fair Association and to dragt @ constitution and by- laws for its governinent. At the evening meeting not less than five thou wid persons attended up to ten o'clock, The interest taken in the butter and choese department was so great that regret was expressed on all sides that a taller opportanity had not been afforded to the peo- ple of this and the neighboring cities to have access to the exhibition, wh: it is announced, will close to-night with an address by Mr. Francis D, Moulton, ‘The display of cattle is pronounced by farmers, Feawstiably fue, "Amoug the intefoating rucie o- ren ) Among in ob- tained from the ms of the tair may be men- tioned that the export ot cheese for the present year ‘will amount to 140,000,000 pounds, and for the past ten years amounted to $85,000,000jpounds, Professor Arnold, of Rochester, length aud was followed by Mr. John ot Liverpool who said that nothing was more useful than the «1 of agriculture in this gregt country. Music, art politics are well enough in due season, but the man who devotes bis time to bringing to per- fection the fruits of the earth puts on the table in the homestead bread, the staff of life, and every luxury. WOMEN’S AID FAIR. A fair for the benefit of the Young Women’s Aid Association was opened last evening in Lyrie Hall, Sixth avenne, near Forty-second street. Theoffivers of the association aro:—Prosident, Mrs, Wood- bury Langdon; Vico President, Mrs. Will- jam =B. Rico; Secretary, Mra. Thomas Hicks; ‘Treasurer, Miss Anna K, Nevins, and a Board ot Managers and an Advisory Oommittee, consisting of some twenty-two membors. The home of the association is at No. 26 Bond street and its ob- jects are to supply Cnty beter tor young women engaged in ly outdoor labor at less expense than they could procure elsewhere. 3 ‘The hell in which the fair is held is beautifully dee- orated and the tubles themselves present an unusually pleasant show of attractive articles. The fair con- tinuics open to-lay.aud evening, | PLYMOUTH’S JOKE. Messrs. Beecher and Bowen as the Ex- ecutors of a Singular Will. AN INTERESTING RESUME. Was Miranda Wood a Wag or a Peacemaker ? The brethren of Plymouth Church haye yet another topic of interest that bids fair to become a subject of general gossip in that unfortunate city, already noted for the multiplicity of its churches and tho non-cessation of ita “talk,” ‘Chat Henry Ward Beecher, pastor, and Henry Chandler Bowen, dis- missed disciple, could ever again come together this side of the Judgment Day was, in ‘the minds of al! Brooklyn, an impossible ab- surdity. That they would ever be cited as co-defendants in a court of law, was a happening but one remove trom a unira: When, therefore, it was annoiinced in the HenaLp that a venerable lady, by the namo of Wood, hud died, leaving her estate to the care, custody and adfainistration of her beloved friends, Messrs. Beecher and Bowen, the mouth of the entire comununity stood agape and the quidnunes congratulated themselves that Plymouth Church was once moro in the throes af development. HISTORY OF THE WILL. The will, its provisions, and. above all, its execu- tors, have been disenssed pro and con since the 7th of November !ast, when the instrument was filed for probate in Surrogate Dailey’s court, and yoaterday proof of the citation’s service was presented be- fore that oficial. It appeurs that Miranda Wood, who made the will, was born in 1803, and carly in life conceived a desire to benefit religious corporations then existing. Sho was naturally benevolent and her charities were known in all the region thereabout, When Mr. Beever opened ser- vices in Plymouth Church Mr. Bowen was his tight hand man, usher, fugleman and friend. To his courteous welcome Miranda Wood was indebted for aseat in a “near pew” on the all important sun- day morning when she made her experimental trip to the Plymouth sanctuary, Miranda was late, but Brother Bowen was alert, aud seeing the lady in dis- tress and in the aisle, ga!lantly extended his hand and Jed her to bis own front pew. ‘'Cogether they fol- lowed the pastor in prayer, and in the choral songs that followed they participated, as together they held the book of praise. The head and heart of Miranda were touched, and ere a month had passed she became a regalar attendaut on the ministrations of Mr. Beecher and tho leasce of apow not far from those of the select circle in which Mr. Bowen was a ceniral and influential figure. That the humane impulses, open hand and tender sympathios of Miranda should at- tach her warmly to her pastor and his right hand man is not surprising. They were abolitionists, so ‘They were devoted to the advancement of tho bucks, so was she, Prior to these halcyon days, Miranda's chief benevolencies had warmed the hesrts and swelled the coffers of the agents of the “American Seamen's Friend Saciety, while no inconsiderable portion of ‘her income was devoted to the cheer of the Presbyterian Board of Edyeation, ‘hat this was a fact of moment in her mind is evident by the existence of a will in which the bulk of her fortune wax left to those two ad- mirable institutions, and further, by the appearance in court yesterday of sundry reputable lawyers, who purpose contesting the will In 1862, when the late Miranda was ia good health and full communion with the heppy family in Plymouth Church, she made a second will, inj which, so to speak, she turned her back of benevolence on the institutions referred to and left then metaphorically in the cold. Mr, Beecher had not then made the acquaintance of Captain Charley Dun- can, an ancient mariner, who subsequently deserted the Plymouth bark and joined himself to the Pilgrim Fathers, undor the leadership of Dr. Storrs. Conse- quently the American Scamen’s Friends Society was not on terms with the collections of Mynouth. At that time, ag since, Mr. Beecher was noi a Presb; terian, but a Rae ationalist, and naturally the Presbyterian Board of Education was not in favor with the worshippors in Plymouth temple. A VRIEND OF THE BLACKS, ‘As one did all did, and Miranda put from her heart her old time loves, determining to devote hur brains while she lived and her fortane when she died to some organization in which her pastor and hig dearest triend would tecl a common interest. At that time the American negro of African descent occupied a a pert of Mr. Beecher’s timo end talent. In church, on the plstform, in Mr. Bowen's atc Leer pls snipe oyster mouth or ry b Wrongs 0! e Se Fa a : ei nee by his elog’ their behalf, In this as in all other matters Mr, Bowen was facile pri among the friends and backers of Mr. Beecher. that time he was cugaged in the salo of dry yoods, With such examples before her what could Miranda do with her money better than care in some way for the unfortunate uegro, to whose relief the late Abra- ham Lincoln was then as yet a stranger? She ro- selved, twenty-six yours , to leave her money at her death in aa imperishable fund to be devoted to cs- tablishing « seminary for the education of her colored sisters, like the Mount Holyoke Female Saninary. Miranda wos a cautious wormay; and she pon- dered long before she irrevocably ‘committal her pious parpose to pen, iuk und paper. She was o prayertul person also, wud before she drew her last will and testament—which was to be of no avail in twenty-six years, with five added thereto—she spent days and weeks in prayerful consideration. Final; she wrote the document in which she provided thet in at least five years after her death all her real and personal ocstate, of the value of $4, should be devoted to the uses stitution such as has been described, and she udded her preference for the State of New York, unless “which God forbid public open should forbid.” This of iteeli is curious, more re- mained, Although Miranda had cousins and rela- tives by the score—and that she had them the anx- ious throng in the Su "s Court yesterday iv ample prool—she, being o! pious and churchly nature, preferred some of rel us associates, ‘The courtesy of Brother Bowen was atill fresh in her affectionate memory, and the earnest magnetiam of her pastor’s eloquence was yet buruing on the altar of her loving hear She knew their common devo- tion to the negro’s cause and the harmony that char- acterized ail their actions, Asif inspired, Mirands instantly inserted the names of Bonty Ward Beecher, minister, and Henry C. Bowen, merchant, to whom, “their heirs and assignees forever,” she bequeathed her sacred trust. VERY MUCII CONTESTED. All this, which happened twenty: six by the death of Miranda, first soes amused and interested world, Already of the City of Churches are excited, The parties in in- terest are:—First, the colored girls, eager to partici- in the educational adyant suggested b, iranda’s will; second, all her indignaut relations, who insist that Mirenda’s hend was cruckod, if her heart was not, and they hope to break the will; third, the American Scamen’s Friend Society, which joins hands with the Presbyterian Board of Education in rotesting and contesting; fourth, the executors, cass. Beecher and Bowen, who are no longer bound by church communion, and who loug since barat asunder the famous tripartite agreement; and fifth, the heirs and assignees of Messrs. Beecher and Bowen, @ vast ermy of sons and daughters, grandsons and yrauddaughters, who uaturally” wonder why they and the colored damsels of to- day showd be #thas brought faee to face. Owing to the extraordinary array of foo ay Ree ah ‘Tresvidor, Culver, Wright, Benedict, Taft & Benedict, merable suyges- in Gourt easter 0 pues " tions, Surrogal y conclu 0 hearing until December 17. If Mr, Rrccher's aa time counsel appear there will be added to those named, Messrs. Kvarts, Porter, ‘Tracy, Shearman, Hii! & Abbott, while Mr. Bowen will be represented by Nash & Holt. It is not known who will represent the. “heirs and assignees.” A PLYMOUTH VIEW OF rr. Plymouth lecture room was well filled last hee and after the adjourament of the prayer meeting of the oldest anembers of the congregation said:—"1 knew Miranda more then forty years. She knew own mind, if any one ever did. hat she should have made Mr. Beecher an executor is right enough. She believed in him and his love tor the negro, and was todo what she songs would please and aid“ him. Then she knew Mr. Bowen to bo o prominent merchant in New York, wand thought that ‘hig name would insure prompt and careful tion to the financial part of tho scheme. It's clear exough.”” ay but that was twenty-six yoars ago. She muet have known of the Plymouth skeleton andoft Mr. Bowen's excommunication ?”" “Certainly, and Miranda Wood was just this She bal belioved in the two B.’sand regretted their break, She doub' prayed and wept Png the rupture, and iL ears ago, Now, 0 Tah ot an citcles coneluded was doing @ act in bi two great und togother ayai e argued that Mr. Beeoh: for the negro would compel him to aecept the and that Mr. Bowen's kindly recollection of the ago, when he made ber weleome in the Plymou' pows, would work on his aged heart and induve him also to accept the trust.” “And then 2" Piva a3 bad haps A-.8 nade A on Beecher, ing impulsive forgiving, wor apt to say to ME. owen, ‘Let's make it all CT tn «and for ‘ive,’ and Mr. Bowen would be just « enough to in his arme and wntlent tear.’ What either of the %, wowd or should have done cannot now. be told, for with a dozem lawyers feed, two hunyey corporations after pap and half a scare of inJiyugut volacives contesting, it is no’ at ail probable that M roperty will’ amount iteient to lay eve. ‘ner-stoue of her female sinary. Meanéitue the good old lady and her sin- pulay selection or executors are the theineof goes'ps aad the topic of all the worshippers in Plymouth, . CAPLURE OF WHELAN, THE ¥ORGER ARRESTED IN MONTREAL~THE STOLEN SECURITIES RECOVERED, On Saturday morning last Mr. Joseph Yeomam, ® cotton broker and member of the Exehange, en- tered his office at No, 110 Pearl street and, to his great surprise, discovered thet burglars had been operating on his safe thie previous night. On inves- tigation he foand that the entire tin compartment ip his safe had been opened with some sort of tools and that valuable papers had been abstracted. Hiscon- fidential clerk, Robert J. Whelan, a young man of twenty years, who had been in his employ from boyhood, had not as yet put im an appearanee, and after waiting a considerable time Mr, Yeoman became suspicions and determined to make an investigation of bis aftsirs. He then dis- covered that Whelan had, on the day provions, forged Lis (¥eoman’s) name to a check for $4,000 on tha Corn Exchange Bank, and also that he had forged in- dorsemenis on checks amounting to $299 given him by other brokers in course of business, The Corn I wnge Bank had paid the money on the checks to Whelan, and no doubt remained in Mr. Yoeman’s dential glork had stolen the securi- for parts wakuown, $4,299 paid t vices of Pinkerton's Detective Ageney, and the latcer succeeded in arresting Whelan in Montreal within @ week of his flight. WHELAN'S WHEMEABOUTS DISCOVERED, After Whelan’s dixappcarance Pinkerten’s deteo tives kept a close watch on his young friends and ase soviates, and also upon the movements of a young lady to whom tho forger was weustomed to ereat attention, Two young men were arrested and ex- amined, but on proof of entire innocence were discharged. On ‘Tuesday last a third i of Whelan, was shadowed by one to the Post Office in Brooklyn, where he was seen to call for and receive two letters bearing the Canada postmark. After reading them. he went to a telegraph office in the neighborhood and 4 despat Pinkerton's man stepped to the desk alongside of him and pretended also to write a despatch. In this way he noticed that the address o1 the telegraphic despateh written by Whelan’s triend was “A. C. Mt Snow, Albion House, Montreal.’”* ‘The young man was immediately arrosted and brought to the oilice of Pinkerton’s detective bureau in Exchange place. Here, after considerable cross- questioning, be acknowledged that “Snow” was Whe- lan, and atte? a few hours’ talk admittg? that he had recoived a package from Whel the contents of which were unknown to him, He said that the pack= vas to bo held in his possession until Whelan orders what to do with it. When Whelan wag leaving him on Friday evening he gave bim a letter to post & Mr. Yeoman, his cuvployer, and this was the cause of Mr. Yeowan putting the personal in the Haan of Sunday. Whelan leit New York for Canada on Friday | night by the eight o'clock train on the Hudson River Railroad, and promised to write to his friend as soon he had locaied himself. He said that he would di- ‘ect the letters to the Brooklyn Post office, addressed | to Joseph Quinn. On his arrival in Montreal he sent vith this address, asking his friend to let him know if everything was all right, and if an uccount of the robbery had been published in the newspapers. ‘his letter Quinn did not have a chance to answer, as he was caphneed at the timo of its receipt; but Pinkerton telegraphed to Whelan, telling him that the publication of the robs bery had taken place and that everything was all right, and requesting him to await the val of @ | letter, Whelan bad also requested his friend in the letter to send him wll the daily papers by mail or ex- press, and these were vlso forwarded from Pinkerton’s agency. meantine a detective was sent to Monet In t] but on his arrival at the Albion Hotel he learned his chagrin that Whelan had become suspicions and changed his quarters. ‘The hotel people waid that tha telegram sent by Pinkerton had been received by Whelan, sacpihnns’ pees Ren! the hotel nr hour after ita receipt, without exp! where he was going oF whether he would return. CAPLURED AT LAST. ‘The detective called in the services of the Canadian police, and had @ watch kept on the poat offices, hotels, telegraph. statious, &c., expecting that the fugitive would return for ne trom his friends on this side. On Thursday evening Whelan put in an 4 1 was arrested. He admitted his i msented to return to this without th extradition proceedings. searched the suin of $4,800 was found on his person, Wheian having spent culy $200 of the proceeds of the $4,000 forgery on the Corn Exchange Bank. ‘The detective and his prisoner left Montreal at six o'clock on Thursday morning, and despatch was re- ceived yesterday dated Port Henry, saying that he was within our lines, He will arrive in this city early to-day. The package delivered by Whelan to his friend was found in a cellar in Jersey City, within astone’s throw of Police Heuiquarters. It was concealed under a lot of coal, and on examindtion was found to contain securities of the face value of $109,000, the whola amount abstracted from Mr, Yeoman's sate. were returned to their owner in a sealed package, au will be kept in that condition until handed over to the jet Attorney as evidence on which to proses cute the case. ‘The detectives would not divulge Whelan's friend, as they consider fin cent of the whole matter. THE TEMPERANCE CRUSADE. the name of entirely inno MR. MURPHY VISITS CHERRY STREET’ AND MAKES AN EFFECTIVE ADDRESS TO THR SAILORS—NUMEBOUS RECRUITS SIGN THR PLEDGE. The week just about to close has been a most suc. ecsaful one for Mr. Francis Murphy and his gospel temperance work. The numbers attending the vari- ous mectings have far excecded his anticipations, and the interest manifested has been of the most enthusiastic character. “It’s the people I dee pend on, my boy,” he keeps saying contin- ually, and certainly the people aro manifesting a disposition to stand by him. Last evening the ficld of his labors was extended by the inauguration of a sories of meetings at the Sailors’ Exchange, in Cherry atreet. The bail, which will seat nearly @ thousand poopie, was filled, and many were compelled to atand, Colone) Caldwell, of Elmira, presided, but United States Shipping, Commissioner Duncan int troduced His welcome was of the heartiest rr. Duncan took ovcasion to warn Mr. Murphy that if he entered this field of labor with the idea that “Jack ‘Tec’ was the inost degraded--or the most addicted to excessive use of alcoholic drink—of the human kind he was very much mistaken, The Commissioner ‘ventured to say" that if a Sree was drawn between the street in which the Exchange was situated less drunk- anness would be found than in the alleys and side streets Jealing off Broadway. Tho sailors would come out best every time. Mr. Murphy's ad- dress was exceodingly temperate in tone. seemed to be aiming at reaching the hearts o' his auditors rather than orn them by storm by flights of eloquence. He spoke feclingly of the hard- ships they hat to cndare, of tho perils not by sea, but on land; of their frequent peparesings home and family, and when he got down from platform and went about from man to man asking each, for the sake of those he lov. to sign the pledee the effect was wonderfal. A long line was rmed, and for nearly balf an honr the gentlemen in charge of the plalge cards had their hands full ip recording signatures, ¢ THRER OTHER MEETINGS, Throe other meetings were held under the auspices of Mr. Murphy, all of which he atten result boing ‘aint af Cho Tubernacio in the evening’ he wor-al Most overcome with the tatigue and exeit The noonday prayer meeting at Grand Union Hall was even more crowded than usnal. Several c! en were present and made ehort addresses, Mr. y making 4 stirring wppoal to the people to wake ap tw the importance of the cwuse, It was in the cle «that = ~Mr. igo 4 male his grand effort, He began by telling of his visit te Seilors’ Exchange, in Cherry street, and then, aspired, hen 4 storm and hers apn at . the waters, the th and ity, the ig of sails and tho snapping and oc of and spars were painted as in words of 1i' Me held the vast congrogation breathless, at jast the noble bull or the soni drifted into » tok into the arias of his sou’ Riwosd in a cowmploee arms o} son s state of exlaustion, . campaign is The Ia pe mode of Senne 3 the 1 ir. Murphy's time er too Much a tax Upon nergies, 80 that it is probable that all bis will be concentrated in the mectings to be in ove — Union Hall which commence Be DELINQUENT TAXPAYERS, The tax law in Now Jersey is very stringent,-and it Provides that the body of a delinquent taxpayer, male or female, may be seized and flung into prison im the event of no goods or claitels being on hand to leyy upon, A few days ago the County Collector of Essex, Having outsAndin @ large amount of taxes in ar- ‘ ; wor rit het ligg Depue for # rule show cause wi @ map damus should got issue to the several town ship collectors, commanding them to raise ahd to the panty Collector rule aud made returnable to-day, reed by counsel to ‘until February, 90 an to give time In February the law will be ont, and it is thonght that great Hy wi Woilably enauein many cases, The amoun of uneollectad to deo ta iy Newark wad Essex county is