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SOULH CAROLINA. s j Astonishing Statements Concerning the Late Elections. DEMOGRATIG ASSERTIONS OF FAIRNESS. Republican Affidavits Showing Ballot Stu fing and Intimidation. WHERE, THE “JOKERS” CAME IN. We print below 4 letter from a democratic resident of Charleston to the Henatp on the November elec- ‘tion, and also several republican and democratic affi- davita concerning the conduct of the election at dif- ferent polls, which, as usual with such documents, contradict each other flatly :— * CHaRueston, 8. C., Dec. 18, 1878, To rug Eprror or tax Heratp:— ‘Tho general election which was held in this State onthe 5th of November last has been the fruitful gource of gross resentations and a reckless perversion of the facts; of abuse and calumny of the people of South Carolina, libels upon her chief magistrate and condemnation of her best citizens, ‘With snch stutf the radical rs have been teeming for three weeks, and been ustriously disseminst- ing it to poison the public mind. So active have been the authors of this new outrage crusade against the South, in pro; 3 absurd and false versions of the conduct of their election that several independent journals, and among them the HexaLp, we notice has taken up the hue and ory of unmeas- ured denunciation of South Carolina. {t is time that oue who kyows the facts snould speak, and a plain statement will now be submitted, hardly with the hope that anything we sy in defence of South Caro- lina would be believed by, those who malign her, or reach as far a the evil done has ex- tended, but to reeord our emphatic denial of the false statements which have been freely and widely circulated. It is proper to remark just here, as a matter of history, that when the people of South Carolina entered, in 1876, upon a lite and death struggle with the radical leaders to dislodge them and destroy their power they did not make it a contest for the supremacy of One political party over an- other; but, breaking down party lines, proclaimed that it was spel purpose to uproot and exterminate 4 loathsome and blundering dynasty, to rescue their civilization and to place honest men in office. ELE FROM COLORED XUN, It was a State struggle in the nature of a civio revolution, and the Presidential and national elec- tions were entirely subordinated to it. This move- ment, led by Wade Hampton, was sided by 15,000 colored voters; who gave it support and crowned it with success. The sequel to this movement hus be- come a mutter of history. After its close the current of State politics began to run in new. channels. The frauds and raacalitics of eight | years of misrule which were unearthed au the spectacle of w. ruin the State forced upon the white pec ple the alternative of holding their State at all haz- ‘ards or of relapsing into semi-barbarism. Party lines were of necessity wn close, and the ignorant and venal followers of the carpet baggers, who hud stripped the Commonwealth, were assured that the Tule which prevailed from 1868 to 1876 would not be tolerated snd should notagain be imposed upon tue people. . Under the uew ime even handed jus- tice was to all classes, the education of both races fostered by the most liberal appropriations, crime dimini juence of a due enforce- inent of the laws, and every right guaranteed to the negro under the constitution jealously guarded. ‘The miid end beneficent sway of Hampton was recognized by none more generously than by the emsucipsted blacks. So entrenched was.jampton in the affections of all classes and parties that the demoralized leaders of the party of ae dared ot nominate a State ticket against him, + taking advant of the fact that there would be no contest for the State offices their leaders formed a scheme to capture the Congressional positions, the general Assembly of the Stave and the county offices, CHARGES AGAINST EKPUSLICANS. {shall confine my review to the second Congres sionsl district. In this district the democrats nom dnaied .M, P, sige iyine who by ot joyed a large popularity wi classes, who has een conspicnous, and was especially commen:led to the colored voters for his fearless advocacy, in 1870, of their rights under the fitteenth constitutional amend- gent, and to whose instrumentality it was largely ‘due that at Baltimore, in 1872, this amendment, with the fitteenth and fourteenth, were incorporated with and engrafted upon the creed of the democratic party, Boerne broad and national views, his nomination ‘was bi as @ success, and was weloomed with the approval of the officials and Birt eer sc gegrnd ottices of the government’ in Charleston and by lead- ing republicans in various po®tions of the district, His election was considered un Tom Soca This nomination was made early in July, and for nearl three months Mr. O’Connor made a most thoro canvass of every one of the three counties in his dis- trict, covering the whole ground and making converts among the black people wherever he went, Ek. W. M.. Mackey, whose name and fame are recorded in th e ‘4 ings of the first session of the Forty-fourth Congress, from which he was ejected on account of fraud, was not put in nomination until ten days be- fore the day of election. A miserable rabble stylin; itself a convention met in a dirty back street, an: afier a ‘ul scramble between the chiefs for its control Mackey won it. Along with Mackey for Congress, this pseudo convention put forth a ticket for the various State offices which, with few excep- tions, has never been surpassed in names aynony- mous with everything vile, despicable and mean. ‘Phieves, swindlers and perjurers were paraded before the public by this State street cabal as fit candidates to represent Charleston in the Legislature snd other offices, A culprit was selected to be elected ag custodian of $100,000 of the Educational Fund of the State; and another nondescript to fil the office of Judge of Probate and guard the archives in which are deposited the wills of our ancestors from genera- tion to generation, and the muniments of title to most that we possess. Such is a specimen of the material that formed this ticket headed by E. W. M, Mac! It fell upon the public like a deciaration of war against the taxpayers and property holders of Charleston. Many of the radicals themselves were divgusted, and so intensely offensive were the names of the principal candidates that one wing of the republican party, headed by its ery chairman resolved to have nothing to do with it, washed its hands of thafoul conspiracy and Fenounced all responsibility for this last and greatest crime snd shame. It was a foregone conclusion that no ticket such as this, inimical to every vital and val- uable interest of the community, could or should be elected. Thus the lines of battle were drawn between the opposing orgauizations—the democratic party representing law, order, property, civilization; and this latest spawn of corruption representing ignor- ance, venality and repecity. No canvass wus made for this odious and disg: ticket. it seemed to tumble to pieces from its sheer rottenness. ts re- sult in utter rout and defeat was foreshadowed and foretold. The republicaus took no stock in this ticket. The democrats were “e and doing, active and everywhere. Throughout the entire canvass in the Second district not @ single act was done to ive oe, complaint or prosecution under the elco- B laws. . QUEER METHOD OF VOTING. The day of election came. It was se election. The bam Pepper ion was made by the defeat candte who early in the morning, upon the opening of t lis, threatened the Commissioners of Election to ve every manager arrested who should dare, re- of challenge, to refuse & negro’s vote. Soon after the opening of the polls the plan of battle of the radicals was disclosed. There were eleven voting precincts in the city. Precinets 1, 2, 4, 6, 6 and 8 were surrounded by a large con- course of negroes, who choked all access to the polls end virtually precluded the white citizens from yot- ing in the precincts in which they lived. Precinct No. 3, being regarded as the fortress of the democracy, ‘was abandoned by the radicals and many hundreds voters who could not vote in the precincts in which they lived (the law allowing them quiet and intimida- to. vote at any precinct in the county hud recourse to the precincts in wa Ko. 3, where they deposit their ballots. Lhe system of repeating by negroes, wiich had been practised to @ lay ing elections, was adopted as of the programme on titis occasion. It is well known to be difficult to getublish the identity of @ negro, aud ay they were geen going through the city from one poll to another for no other purpose than to repeat, a rigid syaiem of challenges was resorted to to check this fraud, and no negro’s nor any other wan's, vote was rejected except after challenge made, tried and decided, The very large and excessive vote at two of the precincts in ward No.3 may be accounted for by the large diversion of the white vote trom other wards wo this ward, where they voted in large num. bers and were sworn in groups to expedite the voting and enable every one ontitied to vote. SVoTING TAK “LITTLE JoRER.” ‘The tissue paper tickets, of which such wide com- ment has been made, were openly exposed on the tables of the hotel keepem, and yoters publicly went up to the tables, took them and voted them ope: extent in preced- Tt is an undeniable fact that many colo: ™ in tho different wards of the city voted the democratic ticket, but in most cuses they yoted this secretly to avoid ostracism in their fami- Les ond churches. I will make a briet reference to the result of the election in this county as bearing upon the Congressional ticket. ‘The vote of the whole county in 187%, according to the returns of the Gom- missioners, a8 compared with the vote in 1876, w: 691 lews in the former. In 1876 the city of Charles. ton, with the whole machinery in the hands of the radicals, gave a democratic majority of 800, while the outlying country precincts, whero the negroos had absolute control, and there was no check or barrier to repeating, the monstrous majority of 6,900 ‘was rolled uP. thereby giving the Chamberlain party & net majori ser six thousand in the county. ‘The radical year gave Mackey a majority from NEW YORK HEBALD, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER. 18, 1878.—TRIPLE SHEET. the country precincts of a fraction over two thou- wand. O'Connor's majority by the returns stands From Charleston. . are ihe From Orangeburgs . ae From Clarendon, . os » 12 Now, e Ww! O'Connor's city majority were substracted, with his majority from the other two counties he wouid still lead Mackey with a majority to elect him fairly and squarely, But the popular verdict has been rendered, and most decisively, so as to silence the murmurings of the querulous. All classes have cheerfully ac- quieaced in the resuit, and the only notes of dissat- isfaction and Siseppoininent huve proceeded froin the defeated ex-candidate, his favorites and friends. From this quarter alone emanate all the mendacious letters and statements from willing and perjured wit- nesses with which the Northern press now steams. There is yet to be found a decent, respectable colored man who has complaine@ of being denied his consti- tutional privilege or who would cerely seek to have the result of the election reversed, ARR ALL COLORED MEN REPUBLICANS? ‘The republican leaders assume that in every dis- trict in the South where the negro population pre- ponderates over the white, such district must ex vi necessitatis be radical. It is npon this theory that they assert it to be their right duty to interfere in tho elections at the South. But such is not the case. It is a begging of the question. Tho Southern States having & preponderance of colored voters are not necessarily republican, for whenever their connec- tion has beon severed and they have been separated from the influence of their unprincipled leaders, they have gravitated to and fallen in with the democracy. ‘The secret spring of all this ugitation and strife is to natiousl control, aud to accomplish this States must be slundcred, home rule overturned and entire communities given over to ruthless waste and plun- der. It is a bud rule that will not work both ways. If the baliot put into the hands of the negro by na- tional enactment is good to maintain republican ascendency in Congress, it should be equally as potent and available to secure law and order and the protection of property in the States. 1b was clear to fhe most casual observer that a party resting upon such foundations as tho radical in this State could not stand, It was inherently wrong and corrupt. It had outlawed itself and been placed outside the pale of decency. ‘Trace the issue to ite foundations upon which we sneceeded and it will be found to have been the issue between civilization upon the one hand aud barbarism upon the other, Tt is surprising that so few at the North understand the true condition of atfsirs at the Sonth. If they did there would be less of vituperation expressed and more of sympathy manifested. If the atrocities which were cominitted in South Carolina ander redi- sremacy had been perpetrated in any of the wd States of Europe it would havo evoked, it extreme measures were necessary, the armed intervention of the commanding Powers. The crimes of the Commune in Paris were more blo in char- acter, but not more ivfamous than the outrages which wore visited npon the people of this State. ft was impossible to patch apa treaty with the former ruling power in this State, our only safety was in its aunihi- faiosf, and the people rose in their power and did it. A CHARLESTONIAN, SUATEMENT OF C. C. WHITE DFMOCKAT. In a printed paper before us Captain 6. ©. White, democrat, swears as follows, especially concerning an occurrence st Palmetto Engine House poll, ward ‘Three, Charleston :— The United States of America, State of South Carolina, Charleston County:— Personally appeared Captain C. C. White, member of the Bo: Commissioners of Election for Char- Jeston county, who deposeth and saith:—That while Core in the capacity of member of the Board of Elections, visiting the various precincts in company with an associate member of tho Bou, Colonel Charles W. Montgomery, he took pains to notice the conduct of the election. Peace and good order prevailed throughout the city, notwithstanding that several of the polls of the city were early in the mercies, surrounded by large Dodies of black men, who, by previously occupying access to the polls in # i A ved many white men of the opportunity of voting at the pre- cincts in which they lived, and forced them cust their ballots at other polls. Several of these, 3 of black mén went from one poll to another throughout the day, evidently for the purpose of repeating, as complaints were made to the Commissioner that the negroes were ing; and very mg: tie. act of. repeat- many were dotected in ing. FE. W. M. Mackey, republican candidate for Congress, two of the members charg of the Board in the eurly morning that he intended to have the Managers of Flection arrested if they refused any colored man’s vote; while deponent knows that if any vote was retused, irrespective of arty, it wasdone after challenge made, tried and Recided by the managers. In go’ ronnds I went nnd ae Roa late to sical ‘ine House 5 where everyt was mletlyranil & German citizen, to whom the oath ad Been administered, offered to vote, when republ: and violently ol d to had previously voted; ity Lereenterin that vote, y whereupon an ‘exarnination of the poll list was made and his name was not entered thereon; besides, a number of citizens present vouched that he was an honest voter. Supervisor 's ting in his objection, flew into a passion, placed hus hand over the aperture of the balioct box und vowed that he should not deposit bis ballot, in spite of the rulings of and in defiance af the managers. The friends of the voter withdrew him from the spot, whereupon Freeman rushed PR, to him, collered and ‘rag fe pee some distance from the poll into the mid the street. A mélés , in which one ‘Thomas Miller, a democrat, interposed and prevented the supervisor from be ae: ze supervisor wag seemingly intox! an s90n Siterwaed, C, CARROLL WHITE. Sworn jx Seed Rae 37 Qist Es 4 og November, 1878,—A. G, RATH, IT, . Personally appeared Goionel’ Charles W. Montgom- ery, also of the Board of Commissioners of Elections for Charleston county, who deposeth ani saith:—That Me was in company with Captain ©. C. White throughout the . and, having ‘read over the foregoing affidavit, corrgborates all the statements therein con- tained; and, in addition, remembers that Cap- tain White and he eypostulated with and endeayored to quiet the republican Supervisor Freeman, saying to fim at the same time that he was exceeding his authority as su, Cc. W. MONTGOMERY. Sworn to re me fhis 2ist day of November, 1878.—A. G. Maguata, Jr., Notary Public, STATEMENT OF J. M, FRERMAN (REPUBLICAN). The following is the version of the same event and of the course pursued at this poll by the republican United States Supervisor, Freeman, shove named ;— CHARLESTON, 8. C., Nov. 0, 1878, As United States veer Gi at the Palmetto Engine House, ward Three, city of Charleston, I submit the following report of the election held at that precinct on Tucnday, the 5th day of November, 1878:— I waa present at the 0) of the poll, baving ar- rived thereat half-past five A. M. As soon as the poll ‘was opencd I stated to the managers, Messrs. A. J, White, C. W. Siegnous, Jr, and J, W. Smyser, all Aermocrata, that Mr. P. W. Gailliard, who was present with me, would act as my clerk for the purpose of keeping my poll list, and, though at-first they ob- fected, ‘they finally concluded to allow him to re- inain, He had not acted iu thatcapacity for more than half ‘an hour, when Captain James pe ieaied and other demov id objected to his remain- ing there, whereupon Mr, A. J. White, Chairman of the Board of Managers, ordered him to leave. I in- structed him not to move from where he was sitting at the table keeping my poll list unless ordered by sta came fi me. Mr. White then ordered Thomas W. Carvile, a deputy State constable, to arrest Geilliard aud to carry him out, which Carvile did. After the removal ot my clerk I continued the keeping of the poll list myself, and excepting the fact that the managera re- fused about fifty colore men, who were willing to take the requisite oath, the right to vote because they conld not tell exactiy in what year they were born, the election proceeded without any serious interrnp- tion until about haif-past three P. At that hour a German came up to vote. I challenged him on tho ground that be had already voted in the morning, and I warned him if he voted 1 would order his arrest tor illegal voting. Nevertheless he took the oath and vowed; whereupon I ordered Deputy Marshals A. W. Green and J. F, Byrns to arrest him. The deputy marshals, who were standing may “9 of the railing erceted to keep the crowd trom the ballot box, at- tempted to come within the rajlings where the voter was standing for the purpose of taking him into cus- tody. They were, howoyer, fore: prevented from doing so by the La ag | State constables and the demo- cratic ralliers under Against this I protested, and Mr. A. J. W aire mun of the Board of Managers, said to me that if I wanted the man arrested I must carry him to the deputy marshals at the door, but that the warahals should not come in. ATTACKED BY A MOR. I took the man by the arm and carried him to the door, which was about five or six fevt from the ballot box. I did not & outside, but stood at the door and called the duputy marshals. As I stood by the door I was in the eye and mouth by a blow trom Brockey Carrighan and feil to the ground, when I was into the street and stamped in my stomach and side, 1 received several other blows with sticks, and would have been killed were it not for the timely interference of Mr. ‘Thomas Miller, Christopher Hayne and others. All this oocupied about five or seven minutes, and upon returning to my post at the lt I found thet my yo! list, which I had left upon the tablé, had been stolen, Though I mado inquiries of all those around no one seemed to know what had become of it, nor have I seen it since, I then wont down to the Unitel States Court House to re-' ort the matter to the Chief Supervisor, and havin, done so T returned to the polling place and reenaed my «duties, At the close of the poll the box was opened, and I at once saw that it had been stuffed, In it were pac of ney small democratic tickets, Learing the name of M. P. O'Conner, tor Cou- gre: prin on tissue paper, in very small typo, some of which had but one fold in them, while others were not even folded, but were open just as they came from the printers, One of these etn in hereunto attached, WHOLYSALE DEPOSITS OF ‘JOKERS,”’ ‘The multitude of these tickets in the box attracted my attention, and I picked up a parcel of them which were not even separated from cach other, and all of which had been evidently placed im the box together, and I cailed the attention of the managers to the arcel. Mr. W. BL. gett, the chairman of the jemocratic of the ward, who was present, com- manded me to put the parcel down, saying at the same time if 1 touched them again I would do ao at my peril, The m: ers decided that I had no Ap to touch any of the tickets. Then I demanded that the managers, before the votes, should count the ballots in the box, so as to see if the num- ber of thew corresponded with the names on the poll list. Mr. White, the chairman of the Board, started to do so, when Mr. Hugh Ferguson, # promi- nent democrat of the ward, protested against it aud insisted that the managers proceed at ouce to count the votes for each can counting all the ballots in the box, ‘The managers decided to comply with Mr. Ferguson's demands and, returning the tew ballots— about thirty or forty—which had been taken out, they proceedéd to canvass the votes tor each candidate, without first ascertaining whether or not the ballots in the box exceeded the names on the poll list. I also asked to be allowed to examine the poll list kept by the managers, but was refused, the managers declin- ing to permit me to see it, saying that I had nothing to do with it. From the engine house, where the count was being condueted, all ropublicans were ex- cluded save myself and one deputy marshal, while the place was crowded with members of the Demo- cratic Working Committee. COMPELLED TO WITHDRAW. Finding that 1 was not to be allowed to supervise and scrutinize the canvass of the votes I finally with- drew, as I was satisfied I could accomplish nothing by remaining, my authority. as @ supervisor being utterly disregarded and defied. Though I did not Teinain to witness the completion of the count I learned that the returns make the whole number of votes given for @ member of Con- ress 3,509, of which 8,108 are credited to M. P. O'Conner and 461 to E, W. M, Mackey, At the time (hali-past three P. M.) my poll list was de- stroyed it contained 15 names, and I ai positive it contained the uame of every person who had voted up to that hour. During the remaining two hours and a half the voting was not vny brisker and attimes not as brisk as it was previous to half-past three o'clock. Allowing 200 as the nusnber of persons who yoted trom hali-past three to six P. M. the total num- ber of yotes cast at the Palmetto Engine House was about 1,115, so that the balance of the votes, 2,454, found in the box must have been stuffed there, About five o’clock in the afternoon Mr. W. L. Daggett, a democrat, took @ position near the box and there re- mained until the closing of the poll. While Mr. Dag- gett was there other democrats were endeavoring fo induce me to go upstairs with them and take some- thing to drink. ‘They evinced so much anxicty to get me off that my suspicions were awakened. Beveral times my attention was drawn from the box by some democrat san to me, and each time, as I would dyain 160k wo the kox, I saw Mx, Daggett with his hund over the ay jure, but as soon as he saw me ob- serving him he would move his hand off. At one time when my attention was thus withdrawn, in looking around I saw Mr. Daggett endeavoring .to deposit a umber of tickets in the box. ‘The package Was 80 large that he could not force them in, and Mr. W. Bioghous, Jr., one of the managers, forced em down with # pencil. Iealled Mr, diegnous’ ai- tention to it, and all he said was that if there was more than one ticket there they would not be countod ewben the box was open. J, therefore, report W. L. Daggett for stufling the ballot box. J. M. FREEMAN, Jz., Supervisor. STATEMENT OF MAYOR SALu. Here is the afidavit of W. W. Sale, Mayor -of Charleston, concerning the conduct of the election at ward 8:— The State of South Carolina, Charleston County.—Per- y. W. Sale, Mayor of Charleston, who, the visited the various polling preeine election day, the oth of Noyember, qud observed that the most per- fect good order and quiet prevailed throughout the day. I reside in wi 8, and at an early hour the morning of the election I visited this poll, The ac- cess to it was blocked up by a large number’ of ne- grovs, evidently non-residents, who had come in from the country, and this crowd kept up throughout the pore portion of the day, and many white men, resi- ta of the ward, were compelled to attend the poll- ing places in other precincts to cast their ballots. Great precautions had to be taken against negroes re- ating, inasmuch as the most of them were new tains and could not easily be identified. As far as ward 8 is concerned, and as far as my observation over the whole city extended, the election was con- ducted in a fair and imparttal manner. W. W. SALE, THE MAYOR CONTRADICTED, Per contra, here follows the affidavit of W.E. Burke, the republican supervisor at the same ward:— CHARLFsTON, 8. C., Nov. 9, 1873. As supervisor at the Niagara Engine House, ward 8, city of Charleston, I submit the following re- port in relation to the election held on Tnesday, No- vember 5, 1878, at which a Representative in Congress ‘was voted for:— “The managers of the poll were all democrats, and throughout the day acted in the most partisan mau- ner, especially in denying to large numbers of col- ored men the right to vote. Many of the voters from St. Andrew's parish came to this poll to vote because there wus yo poll in their section of the country. As most of /hem—according to their statements, which were nét denied—landed at the foot of Spring street, this was the nearert poll to them after rewhing the city, and, in fact, it was the most accessible poll to them in the county. As fast as they offered to voie some democrat would chal- lenge their vote, aud the managers would refuse to allow them to yote unless.they would go to some trial justice and there make an aflidavit that they had not voted and bring such affidavit back with them. T protested against this, because the law required the inanagers themselves to administer such an oath, and this oath all those who were refused offered to take. Some of those who were thus denicd the right to vote did go to the nearest trial justice, but they re- turned with the information that the trial justice could not be found at his office. In addition to those from St. Andrew's large numbers living beyond the city limits, between the Three Mile House and the Ten Mile Hill, came to this poll to vote because it was the nearest poll to them, the polls at the Four Mile House, Whaley’s Chureh aud Lainb’s Farm all hav been abolished. Not ond were all these peo- le, with a few exceptions, den: the right to vote, But the managers in the most arbitrary manner even denied colored men living in the ward the privilege of voting. I submit with this report the names of ‘hteen colored men living in the ward, whosé votes were rej Ke the managers, althongh in such case I informed the managers that the parties were personally known to me and that I could youch for their residence in ward 8. Other residents of the ward were rejected whose names T did not take. In this connection I desire to report that it was impos- sible for me to discharge my duties as I should have desired, because the clerk whom I had em- ployed to assist me was compelled to leave soon atter the polls opened, The managers objected to his re- maining within the poll, and ordered the police to eject him, I therefore had to keep my own poll list, and in 4 general way endeavor to supervise the elec- tion and to contend for the rights of the many cit- izens whose votes the,managers appeared unduly anxious to reject. In fact, throughout the day it seemed that the republican yoters had no tights which the democratic managers were bound to re- spect. F DEMOCRATIC IMPARTIALITY, “As soon as six o'clock arrived the managers de- elared the poll closed, and the police cleared the streets, driving every one away from in tront of the poil, so that Land the two deputy marshals were the only republicans lett to witness the count. Several republicans were in the engine house at the close ot the polls, but they were ordered out by the managers on the ground that no one bad any right in the room but the officers of the elec- tion. Notwithstanding this soon after the elosing of the polls democrats were allowed to enter the hall, until about fifteen or twenty were asse: The polls being closed the box was then 5 the managers, ater first unfoldii all the ballots in the box, proceeded to count the votes for the several jidates. I demanded that the number of bal in the box should be first counted, so as Lo'gee if they corresponded with the nuinber of names on the poll list, but this the managers refused to do, declar- ing that they intended to count all the ballots in the Upon doing so it was ascertained that for a member of Con is E. W. M. Mackey had received 309 vores and M. P. O'Counor 6 votes, making 4 total of 1,345 votes. Among the voles counted for M. P. O'Connor were 600 ballots printed on slips of tissue paper in very small type. The number was ascertained by actual count. These tickets were not seeu by me until atter box was 0) ‘The democratic ticket in circulation around the polls, and which by the democrats, was ot a very different kind, Lencluse a sample of both. I was satistied at the time that all these tissue tickets Lad been stuifed in the ballot box. Before the managers sturted to count the votes Lasked that they compare theix poll lists with mine, but this they refused to do, declaring, ast have already stated, their intention to count all the votes in the box. 1 did not, therefore, at the time carefully examine my pole list, but 1 Lave since done ot wud find that there is au irregularity ia the pum- ari A LITTLE ALRIGHT OF WAXD. “By referring to my poil list it will be seen thatafter 609 the next unmber is 700; that then continuing to 109 the next number is s0v, and that then continuimg to 809 the next number is 900. Ht will be further noticed that this numbering from 70 to 900, and from thence to 914, is not in my writing, bat was done bp some one else. The only explanation I can offer is that on one occasion, when I went to the rear tor about a minute, 1 left my poll list on the table near the managers. une one who waa peyeerem ager mir in making my poll list as large as possibie adopted this method of increasing the list to the extent of 270. Amid the harry aud con- fusion of the election I failed ty observe this, but when I resumed numbering I kept right on from where the party had left off. Hore 1 dosire to explain that | did not in the course of the day number esch name as T entered it, but er Meting a number of names would wait until the voting slacked of and then take an opportunity to number those entered. In thie way, when [stepped out tora minute, de [ have stated, there were about fitty or sixty names on my list unnumbered, which gaye an opportunity to some ya to number the list in the manner I hayo explain Pho last number on my list is 1,133, but trom this muat be deducted the names of thirteen persons on the list whose votes wore rejected aiter Lhad entered their names, and a mistake of ono in my own num- bering occasioned by skipping from 209 to 301, to- other with the 270 omitted numbers, which would we the number of persons actually as voting,at 869. The number of votes counted by the managers was 1,945, or au excess of 486 more votes in the box than names on the list. To this 446 add four republican tickets which were destroyed because fnother ticket of the sume kind was found folded with each of them, and one democratic ticket with o lot of tissuo tickets inclosed, and the excess was over 600, corresponding with the number of tis- sue tickets in the box, — As all these tissue tickets bore the name of M. P. O'Connor for Congress, and aa they had undoubtedly been fraudulently placed in the box, they should be deducted trom his vote, which would give him 446 votes at,tiris poll instead of YA, B BURKE, Supervisor,” | financial circles that the IMPORTANT RAILROAD MOVE. New Connection Between New York and the South and West. a BALTIMORE AND OUIO VS, PRNNSYLVANLA. ee New York New Line, Jersey Central and Read- ing Pool Their Issues. THE ROUTE TO BE OPENED IN TWO WEEKS PHILADELPHIA, Dee, 17, 1878. Within two weeks’ time, unless some unexpected delay shall occur, there will be a new and important | railroad connection completed which will give New | York the vast advantage of another and competing route to the great territories of the South and West. It haz long beon known in railroad and Baltimore and Qhio Railroad Company desired a through connection with New York to compete with its Breat rivel, the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. This‘scheme, it is now proper to say, will be consummated within a few days, ‘The agreement has already been arrived at be- tween the companies concerned and surveyors are now going over the ground laying ont the few yards of track, which are all that will be necessary to com- plete the line, ‘THE PLAN IN DETAIL. ‘The “New Line" to New York, as'it is called, con- nects Philadelpnia with the metropolis by way of the New Jersey Central to Bound Brook, thence by the new track of the Bound Company to Jenkin- town, and from there over the North Pennsylvavia tracks to Philadelphia, It is wel! understood that this line is shorter and moro direct to the business Pennsylvania portion of Philadelphia than, the Railroad, which terminates at Wei a suburb. The new 1 s steel rajls cross tho Delaware branch of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, ooal exten 1 of the great coal road just af the outskirts of Philadelphia. The two roads are at different grades Lere, und all that is necessary to make another through line to the South is to connect these two tracks by an easy ascent from the Reading branch to the New York uew line, some twenty feet above it. ‘This done the Baltimore and Ohio com- pany will have an unbroken and short line to New York, From Baltimore they can use the Philadelphia, Wilmington snd Baltimore Railroad to Gray's Ferry, which is opposite the southern part of Philadelphia on the other side of the Schuylkill. At this point their carscan be switched on to the tracks of what is now known as the Delaware branch of the Phila- delphiu and Heading Railroad. (It extends down as fur as Chester from Port Richmond, Philadelphia, and was built by the West Philadelphia, Wilmington aud Baltimore road, but is now controlled by the Reading.) North from here—Gray’s Ferry—the ling follows the Schuylkill to Fairmount Park above the West Philadelphia depot of the Pennsylvania Bail- road. Here the Reading branch crosses the river over the bridge owned by the Junction Railroad Company, and thence eastward to Port Richmond on this side of the river, passing under the tracks of the North Pennsylvania Bailroad Company, At this crossing, as I have said, the only new construction that is necessary will take place. It will be nothing more than a few yards of track, and can be done ina lew hours. When this is completed the Baltimore and Ohio can send their cars: through from Philadelphia th New York over the New York and Philadelphia new ine. ALLEGED ACLS. ‘The Pennsylvania Railroad Company, it is said, cluims to be able to prevent the consummation of this scheme in two ways—tirst, through their in- terest in the Junction Railroad bridge over the Schuylkill, and second, by their absolute and sote ownership of about ove mile of the Junction road, ex- tending from the Market street tunnel to Thirty-fifth strect. They say that the courts have contiri their title to this portion of the road in fee simple. The Junction Railroad, it should here be expiained, is mainly served in equal shares by three lway cohi- ea, all using the tracks of the Junction—the unsylvania, the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Bal- timore, and the Reading. It is used solely by these three corporations, who pay a toll to the general fund for every car they send over it. THE PENNSYLVANIA COMPANY POWERLESS, In answer to the claims of the Pennsylvania Rail- road Company it is said that they cannot prevent the Baltimore and Ohio trom using the Junction, as they (the Pensytvania) only control one-third of tho stock, The ling and the Philadelphia, Wil- mit and Baltimore, who own the other two- ia, being in favor of the use of the road by the Baltimore and bio, will have two votes to the Pennsylvenia’a one, As to the other claim—that the Pennsylvania Railroad can re- fuse the use of its mile of tracks, supposing that it does run them—the projectors of the scheme merely point to the constitution of Pennsylvania, and say that the Pennsylvania road, a8 ® common carrier, would not dare refuse to carry any freight at the legal. compensation of three cénts a mile. Article XVAL of the constitution is as follows:— THR LAW, —AN railroads and canals shall be public high- ways, and sil rallroad and caaal companies shall be,com- mon ‘carriers; any assvetation or corporation argdnized for the purpose shall have the right to co! t and gpernto "4 railroad between any “points within this State, and to connect at the State lino with railroads of other States; every raflroud company shail have the right with its road to intersect, connect with or cross any other railroad, and aball receive and transport each t otlier’s passenyers, tonnage and cars, loaded or empty, without delay or discrimtnstion. See, 3,—All individiale, associations and corporations shail have equal right to Lave persons und property trans. poried ovor railroads und canals, and uo undue or unrens- onable discrimination ehall “be mado in charges for or in facilites ranspurtation of freight or passengers. wi or coming from or goin to any other At nil property texnspert railroad shal i coding the eharies for transportation of per erty of the same class in (ho same direction to more distant station, but excursion and commutation tickets may be issued at special rates. WHAT THE COMPANIES STATE. ‘The officers of the companies engaged in making this very important addition to the railroad facilities of the c omer dl are naturally rather reticent upon the subject until the connection 1* an accomplished fact, President Conley, of the, North Pennsyl- yania Railroad Company, smiled when questioned, and would not say vely that the scheme was about to be carried into effect. “However,” he said, y y that our company, like any other in this State, will have no right to retuse to carry any freight sent to it.” President EC. Knight, of the New York new line, with a smile as signiticapt as that of Mr. Comley, said that his road wouid be giad to incrense its traffia, and did not deny that the new route was about to be es- tablished, T ascertained from turther inquiry that the Rend- ing and the North Pennasylyavia roads have full au- thority to make the contemplated connection wit! out special legislation, and no written contrac’ are needed or are customary in such aease. The matter is a very simple one, and being to the mu- tual interest of the #ix corporations mentioned— Baltimore and Ohio, P, W. and b., Philadelphia and Reading, North Peunsylvania, Bound Brook and New Jersey Central—there is nothing to prevent the im- mediate consummation of the scheme. I was informed this afternoon that within two weeks the new line will be an established tact, . THE ROUTE AND CONNECTIONS. A story is also afloatas to the Southern and West- ern counections of the now route which [om com- peiled to noticé, because it comes to me from the president of one of the railroads mentioned, It is that the new route will be as follows:— From New York by the New Jersey Central and Bound Brook to Philadelphia; thence by the Philadelphia, Pigg boo Mery’ Saal tebeeiniannedy en thence by e Western town; thence to Stanton via Shenend Valley Railroad; thence to aieea and the West by the Chesapeake and Ohio Tho New York new line, it is understood, will at no distant remove its terminus to the ack, ty a pot _ Semmes i in the ge of the city. ‘The thro’ eight, as I understand, will around the oiey, Swe the Schuylkill. a CALIFORNIA MINING STOCKS, “Ban Prancrsco, Deo, 17, 1878, The following are the closing official prices of min- ing stocks to-day :— Hale & Norcross. Julia Consolidated Calitornia. . Consolidat’d Pot ay *The Eureke Consolidated has declared a dividend of $3, ON TRIAL FOR MURDER, During the past two days the Bergen CountyjCourt, at Hackensack, N.J., has been ocenpied with the trial of William Healy, of No. 34 Carrol) street, Brook- ‘in, Who was indicted for shooting, on Su: . Jul, Pal pitare W Fort Lee, Michael Sadeners be No. Ob Degraw street, Brooklyn. ARTICLE XIV. THE PROPOSED CHANGES IN THE CONSTITUTION BEVERRED BACK TO THE DISTRICT OBGANIZA- TIONS BY THE REPUBLICAN CENTRAL COMMIT- TEE. The discussion of the communication from the Sixth Assembly District Republican Association, which was published in these columps yester- @ay, made music last night at the meeting of the Republican Central Committee. Judge Dittenhoefer protested ageinst accepting or filing a communication which reflected upon Mr. Biglin’s character. The accused, he said, had a right to be heard, and he moved to return the communication to its senders. Colonel Mason wished to have the communicatiop received; ‘then the com- mittee could gnvestigate the charges and take suck action as it might see fit. He moved to receive the document without expressing any opinion of it. Mr. Palmer, from the Twenty-first, wanted to have it received and put on file, Mr. +Huut, of the Nineteenth, thought the sending back of the communication would be a crime for which the Association would never be forgiven. He thonght it should be received and the charges in- vestigated. Mr. Langbeim said tho innuendoes and slurs of the presidentof the association had nothing to do with the real question involved, ‘The resolution of the Central Committee calied upon the association in question to recall its delegates, and the only commn- nication from them should be one stating that they had complied with that resolution. Register in Bankruptey Dayton interrupted the speaker so often that the Chairman called upon the Sergesnt-at-Arms for relief from the annoyance, Mr. Clark, from the Seventeenth, thought the gentlemea who signed the communicgtion were responsible for their assertions, and that it was the duty of the com- mittee to receive the comuyunication, The document ‘was finally accepted and ordered on file. ‘The Secretary read tue following letter: Sins—At a mectiug of your committos, eld on the 19th day of November last, in my absence and without an op: portunity to defend myself, Mr, George Bliss, late a uiem. of your committse, made certain charges and state ‘and potiti y party, Tow of refuting t tod to fntly investi ¢ Central’ Comuit RD BIGLIN. enteenth ations were rece », Pourteenth, Pweifth and Zy % associations requesting the repeal ltof the constitution under whi declared ineligible vo office in the anni ziti while polding office under democratic administra tions. Colouei Mason contended that the communi- cations were not in due form apd should pot be en- tertuined, because some of them at least had been issued by meetings not duly qualitied in accordance with section 19 of the gonstitution, While the dis- cussion was raging ex-Scnutor Lent raised a laugh by oolaiming:— “Why this haste to dispose of this matter? The Commissioners won't be appointed until after the ist of January, " cried a member, when Colonel Mason plicans are “Cheese it was concluding one of his short eddresses against en- tertainin® the commanications. “Thank you, sir; I will do 80,” he replied, as he sat down amid shrieks of laughter, After an hour had been spent in discussing the matter the Chair decided that as the requests to alter the constitution had been made by five different «associations, the communications must, under articio 9 of the constitution, be seut out for the consideration of all the associations in the city. The committee then adjourned. MURDER OR SUICICIDE? THE LIFELESS FORM OF A FISH PEDLER FOUND IN A CULVERT UNDER THE LONG ISLAND RAILROAD TRACK. At half-past three o’clock yesterday morning a Long Island Railroad track walker, whose business it is to walk from Westbury to Hicksville aud examine the track before s train passes ver it, found the dead body of a mun lying in a culyert under the track, a mile and a quarter west of Hicksville. The track walker's attention was not attracted by the body, but by a badly broken wagon which lsy on the south side of the track. The body lay on the north side of the track, and so far inside of it that it could not be seen by @ person walking on the roadbed fourteen feet above. The wagon was badly broken, evidently much worse than it would bave been fgom merely falling down the embankment. There was no horse in sight, but one thet had undoubtedly been attached to the wagon was found ina farmer's yard not far away, wholly uninjured, but with harness badly broken. . SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMBPANCES. An inspection of the railroad bed discovered traces of wagon wheels leading for perhaps an eighth of a mile from Hicksville west to the culvert, terminating abruptly at the point where it is supposed the wagon either tumbled or was thrown down the embankment, A suspicious circumstance in this connection is the entire absence of the tracks of a horse's fect. There were footprints, but they might have been made by the track walker at any time within a few days, or by other people, walking along the road to avoid the muddy highway which runs parallel to the track on either side. An effort was made to discover at what point the wagon took to the track, but no sufficient wheel impressions could be discovered to warrant tht formation of an opinion. It was the opinion of some of the people who held to the theory that the man had been murdered, that the wagon was taken up ou the track bodily and carxied aloof trom the ground for a distance to where the imprints of the wheels were discovered, and then run slong and thrown off oe purpose of establishing @ prima facie case of accident. THE CORPSE IDENTIFIED. The remains were identitied as those of William Bhodes, of Smithville, on the south sido of Long Island, and in the town of Hempstead. Bhodes caught fish and clams in the bay and pedied them about the country. He left his home early on Bion- day aga] with @ large load of fish and soft clams, without saying to what villages he intended going. The horse and wagon were not owned by Rhodes, but by Albert Haff, who hired out the rig to Rhodes by the day. TRE MAN'S INJURIES, ‘The skull was completely crushed, and on the right gide of the head was an incised wound six inches Jong, penetrating to the brain. Either wound was sufdcient to cause death. On the body was found just Seenig ne cents and an unopened paper ot chewing tobacco. As Bhodes must have sold con- siderable fish, only « few cod remei: in the wagon, it is thought that he ought to Lave had more money. SCHOOL VENTILATION. No. 4 West Franrennru stueet, Dec. 16, 131% To Tur Eprror oy THE Hewaup. In reference to your leading article of this date with the caption, “Five thousand dollars for school ventilation,” allow me to state that when [ was not a member fof the Board of Education, in December, 1875, the Board of Estimate and Apportionment’set apart for use in 1874, $6,000 for examination and report ou the subject of warimi; and ven- tilating the public s@hool buildings.” — On Pebruary 18, 174, = Commisstouer Baker resented o report from the Committee on ‘arming and Ventilation, asking for an approprin- tion of $2,000 to make a tess of certein ns for veu- tilation in Grammar School No. 40, Bast street. This report was reterred to the Finance Com- mitts, which on the same evening Piated $2,000 ont of the $5,000 fund, for the ee by the Committeo on Warming and entilation, but om March 4, 1874, the Financial: : plait, ply ogy on tho o pro} for ven! Qrammar school Butiding No. 40, and stated “that the Board has not tho financial ability to make the appropriation as proposed by the Comsnittes on Warming and Ventilation.” Here the matter seems to have rested until 1876, when I became President of the Board, and on April 11 addressed a letter to An- drew H. Green, Comy aaking if the Board of Education could still have the use of the $5,000 ap- propriated in December, 1873, os Board of Esti- mate and Apportionment for “Mxamination and re- port on the subject of warming and ventilating the public school bul ” Mr. Green replied:—""Pho appropriation for 1874 ia not now available for this purvore.t You will, therefore, perceive that the joart of Kducation has no “I'tve thousand dollars for school ventilation.” WILLIAM WOOD, ‘The American Temperance Unton held meeting last night in Gilmore's Garden. The attendayco was anything bat @ large one, and on aécount of a mis- undorstanding between the President and the com- mittee that officer, though present, declined to pre- side, Mr. Charles Vallu, the yvieo president, who took the chair, charged that the President did not pst wd becuase the mocting was small. Professor a eaae by, ‘ee number of singera, directed the musical part oj rogramme, » Dr. i >| ville delivered a tentpemnee oAtrent Le ieaeen ahd wae a ee Gon eee and Rev. Dr. Keller. rs, Magyie Van ar at ® quarter to ten o'clock aud delivered a stirring, Characteristic d- dress, .n the antereste offfewperance and religion, | sa 5 THE SUIPWRECKED ORPHANS, Arrival of the Two Children Rescued from the Pommerania. DORA AND NINA STIEHLE. How the Little Ones Were Cared for— Adopted by Relatives. ’ -——_— ‘The two little children who were saved from the wreck of the ill-fated Pommerania when she sunk off Dover on the night of the 25th ult. arrived yesterday at Hoboken on board the steamship Cimbria from Havre. The little waits, it will be remembered, were the object of much sympathy at the time of the dis- aster, they being entirely alone and nobody knowing to whom they belonged or any of their antecedents. ‘The oldest was scarcely three years old, a bright, curly-haired girl, whose lisping prattle went scarcely further then “mamma.” The other, also a girl, was not more than a year old, with faxen hair and dim- pled checks and just beginning to standalone. All that was definitely known concerning them was that on the fatal night, amid the terrible excitement inci- dent to the sinking of the ship, @ young woman, wild and distracted, her hair floating in the wind, rushed from the steerage with a child under each arm, thrust them into the armas of a sailor with the heartrending appeal, “Save, oh, save my babies,"’ and then dashed back through the water, which already half engulfed the vessel. The seaman nobly discharged his trust. He held fast to the infants un- til he saw them safely deposited in the lifeboat, The mother was never seen again. NOBODY'S CHILDREN. The events of that awful night, as experienced by the passengers and crew of the Pommerania, have siready been told in the Hrnarp, Also bas been nar-. vated the manner of the reseue of those who were Hiow the five boats, with their shivering, terror-stricken crew, drifted about until at last the rockets and signals of distress brought to their aid the steamer Glengarry. Of those Who were reseed there were two whom nobody knew. ‘The littie orphans were 80 far as could be learned absolutely glone in the world.” Whether they were at the time of the disaster with their father or mother, or both, wes only a subject of conjecture. ‘Their clothing was carefully examined but no mark could be found by which to identify them, It was evidgnt, however, from their dress that they were the children of very poor parents, who had taken steerage passage. The stewardess and other females of the rescuing ship in vain tried to obtain from the eldest some word or expression which might disclose their identity. The little girl would only cry and eall for her mamma. bhe appeared to realize her affliction, as frequent she would cling to her orphan sister—the baby. ed A CLERGYMAN’# SYMPATHY. When the vessel arrived in Dover all efforts were made by the passengers and oflicers of the steamer to find out to whom the children belonged, but they were unsuccessful. Among those who saw the little Waifs und were touched at their condition was Rev. Mr. Woods, of Trinity Parsonage, Dover. He yolun- teered to take the little ones into his family and bring them up. To this the officers of the ship agreed, on the condition that the children were not claimed ky relatives within a stated time. A RELATIVE HEARD FROM, Meanwhile the news of the terrible disaster had been telegraphed to America, and among the per- sous who read it was C. Bagoht, a German barber, of No. 74 Essex street, this city. That part of the disaster relative to the little waifs ‘was particularly absorbing to him @s le culled toming as iron gers the Pommersnia w! 8] port was his ni Mra, with her four children—Elizabeth, Mary, four years; Dora, two years ws months, blue-eyed and flaxen-haired child, and Nina, aged one year, of similar appoarance, all bound for Hesse, Ger many, the former home of Mrs. Spieble. Di that the unknown children might be those of hi niece Mr, Baecht hurried to the office of the Ham- burg steamship line and made known his fears, The agent at once cabled to Dover for a description of tl little ones. In a few hours it came. ‘Iwo giri: bine eyed, enrly flaxen hair; oldest about three, other one year. The oldest calls the other ‘Mina,’ * Mr. Baccht listened to the despatch with moistened eyes. There could no be any doubt. The orphans of the Pommerania were the children of his unfortunate niece, who, in her noble effort to the other two children, had lost her life. The first jmoments of sadness over, Mr. Baecht set about think. ing what pr deems fe agen — made with the consultation w wife he deter fee to a them peony ht to New York for him to ring wD, e steamship beingmade uaint- ed with his wishes promptly offered paiawite free passage to and from Dover, if either would go after the orphans. It was finally arranged that the little ones brought over in the Cimbria, the stews of the vessel to dur- ing the voyage. * HOW TRE LOOK. Long before the ship's arrival at her dock in Ho- boken yesterday Mr, and Baecht, with Mr. Andrew Lukehart, a brother ‘Mrs. S@ehle, were in waiting to receive the ae noon the — yo ae The a ones were found wii stewardess chirp . Both showed evidence of the kindness and rebate #0 lavishly bestowed on them. Dresses of dom seen on children of the poor adorned their little forms. Both were in excellent health—fat, rugged. The voyage had evident a with them, so far as watchful attention to their wants ‘was concerned. After wcouple of dozen kisses from the stewardess and as many pats and carosses from the officers and the crew the orphans were formally handed over to the relatives. Dora, the oldest, was taken to the home of her uncle, Mr. Lukehart, in Forsyth street near Delancey; Nina, the baby, was taken charge by Mrs. Bascht. AN UNFORTUNATE FAMILY. Desirous of learning something of the unfortunate mother of the children the reporter sul nently called at the barber shop of Mr. Baecht, Lit Nine was sleeping ‘soundly on a sofa in an ad- joining room. A handsomely embroidered dross enclosed her little body. Her cheeks were full and rosy, her dimpled pina! lay carelessly by her side, “Sho been sleeping about an hour,” said Mra. Baecht, as she tenderly stroked the forehead of the little bewnty, “See what nice clothes they have given her,’ continued the imatron, lifting up the hands of the babe the better to exhibit her handsome gar ments. “Aren't they pretty?’ From the statement of Mr. Baecht it appeared that the father of the children was George Strieuie, ayoung ee mes Ge ietak soe ere lus trious habits. Up to last July and for a long time previous he was employed in Hichler’s brewery, 169th street, Morrisania, On the 11th of that mopth he fell dead while at work in, the brewery, pr ey intense heat, He been ot illness for a few’ days previous, his death was, nevertheless, a yreat surprise, e family, consisting of wito four children, were the sad event lett destitute. ‘ho were paid by the workmen in the brewery. atrucyling a few months to support her finding herself unequal to the t: termined to, sae to her Germany, For UTpose a subscription of a little over $100, -and with her eam Gates 4 merania. By thost who w her intimately coased is described as a hard workin, youns woman, a good wife and « devoted mother. ‘ey coincide in the belief that it waa to suve the other two children she rushed back into the pacege and thus lost her life. The new guardians of the itttle orphans feel proad of their charges and promise to care for thum es tenderly as though the unfortunate were their own children. THE FOMMERANIA'S DEAD. On board the steauship Cimbria was the body ot Richard Wititam Clymer, the gallant young Amert- can who mcritived hie life on the sinking Pom- Pa gt a MN ‘was taken in c! ir. 0 . 65 West ‘rhirty-elghth strect. The pia | wes bn son of Mrs. besos B. eg an only sister of ngressman Heister Clymer, o| vania, She also perished in the oe broad ‘steamer, ah it her body ‘was not found. Poke young Mr. mer was Ail she passege on the Pom- the drowned he drop; twister, Mary, over tho ride of the sinking ship into the boat, She was considerably stunned by the fll, but on recovering sew & body fall into the water near the boat, and seizing it it by the hair heid on desperatety until those in the boat brought it on board, It wom to be her ounger sister Rosa, Richard W. Clymer, whose ty yesterday arrived, was, at the time of tho disas- ter, on his way to Dresden with his . For the past two years ho had been at school in POOR JACK’S ENEMIES, A complaint wes yesterday made to Mayor Bly by Dr, William ¥. Thomw, President of the Seaman's Protective Association, relative to certain practices resorted to by seamen's boarding house keepers and see ea extorting “blood Smee rs. It was alleged by Dr. Thoms ¢ and house boardiuug pri dey for the Fig ye of defra’ One ot the men, who shij for Liverpool a few days ago, received ud of but when he Sige beat ely Seater yor Ely todo all that he vould ta.pre- va the future, ’