The New York Herald Newspaper, January 14, 1879, Page 5

NxW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1879.-TRIPLE SHEET. 5 4 Haare see eae a eee rac cee -arnapsGemagntey vanedipceeimynemmnc my a csenc esstetanmonaue yore sts sameness ge a” UR a i a ce csc ae meme sen atl gama luni GRA RT a a ao re RAE Te © THE EAST SIDE “L’ “A Committee of Citizens Lay Their Com- plaints Before the Directors. ARRANGEMENTS FOR HEATING THE CARS. Definite Promises of Additional Facilities for the Travelling Public. The committee appointed by a meeting of the cit- izens and patrons of the Third Avenue “L” Railway, held st Parepa Hali, to lay the complaints of the public before the managers of that line, performed its duty yesterday morning. At eleven o’clock all the members were at the office of the company, No. 7 Broadway, pursuant to agreement, with the excep- tion of the chairman, Mr, Henry C. Robinson, wholesale merchant at No, 443 Broadway and a resi- dent of Eighty-seventh strect. After waiting ten minutes for Mr, Robinson thet gentleman smilingly appeared and said, addressing the directors:— “Gentlemen, I am sorry to have kept you waiting, but the only excuse I haye to offer is the fault of your own road, for I was at the Canal street station at a quarter before eleven and was kept there waiting ten minutes for a train.” This explanation was good naturedly received by the-directors present—Mr. Hober R. Bishop, the Vice President, Mr. Benjamin Brewster, Josiah M, Fiske and others, Mr, Ricker, the general manager, was also present. Much to the disappointment of the committee the president, Mr. Cyrus W. Field, was absent. ADDRESS OF THE CHAIRMAN. Mr. Robinson, whose bearing was respectful, but at the same time firm and self-possessed, addressed the managers of the road on behalf of the committee. ‘He said that the committee had been appointed by citizens and patrons of the road for the purpose of presenting to them the inconveniences, many of them serious, under which the people suffered in using the “.foad, They did not come in a spirit of factious op- position, but in order to lay before them in a plain and definite manner the complaints of the public, and to obtain, if possible, a definite statement as to the “hopes of relict which they might reasonably enter” tain. My. Robinson then went into particulars and recapituluted the complaints expressed at the Parepa Hall meeting, und reported at the timein the HERALD. ' He dwelt first upon the overcrowding of tho trains and urged this as the greatest evil requiring the atten- tion of the managers. Next he spoke of the irregularity of running the trains, which rendered it impossible for anybody to tell in what time he would probably reach his home. The committee desired to reapect- fully offer the company some suggestions and reme- dies which possibly might not have been thought of, and if all the suggestions to be presented had already been considered then the committee would like to know if the company had disapproved of them, or, if not, why none of them had been carried out. The road was still not completed, and it was the object of the committee to ask the company in making their arrangements to see to it that the travelling facilities might be as much improved ag possible, IMPORTANT IMPROVEMENTS SUGGESTED, Mr, Robinson said that it appeared to be absolutely necessary to haye more trains, to run them on more regular and uniform time, and to lessen the long Gelays at the stations. With a view to the last named difficulty he suggested that the platforms of the cars might be widened so ag to secure more room for quick ingress and egress. At present the platforms were only wide enough for the passage of one person at a time, and when such crowds had to be handled this must necessarily cause very long stops and delays. He also suggested that brakemen be placed at the front and rear end of each train, so that passengers could make their entrance and exit from these points, which were now closed to them except when people jeopar- dized their lives by jumping over the gates. If the company did not entertain this suggestion favorably then the gateman at each station should, upon the arrival of cach train, take charge at least of the rear end to see that Daseongers got off and on the rear car in @ safe manner. ‘ith w viow of improving the running time and lessen: the great delays in ap- roaching and starting in from the stations, Mr. binson said the committee would respecttully sug- gost the adoption of larger aud more powerful engines, Which wor be able to draw the trains more casily. At present anybody could see that the trains mands very slow time in climbing the up grades. It took the engines x block anda half to slacken up at each station, Sekine bicex amis batt to get fairly started ain, #0 that only a block or two remained in which they went at a fair rate on those portions of the road where the stations were only four or five blocks apart. THE GRAND CENTRAL TRAINS. ‘The next suggestion which he offered was that the -Grand Central traind should be dispensed with, and that all trains should run “through,” Grand Central Depot passengers to be transferred at Forty-second street. The through trains were now often crowded with Passengers going below Forty-weoond street, while through passengers were unable to obtain ac- commodations. Vice President Bishop said that only fiftesr per cont of the Grand Central train passengers went to the depot for the purpose of taking the railroad trains there, lawyer at No. 120 Broadway, and a resident of Fighty-second street, said he « as a member of the committee, to learn what im- provements the managers were planning to obviate the serious dificulties which were now being gener- ally complained of. He aiso urged the abandonment of tho Grand Central Depot irains and the more fre- aent ranning of through trains, He complained of the filthiness of the cars; but, in justice to the com- pany, he would say that he had observed an innprove- ment in this respect within the past week. He also complained that Yorkville residents had to wait very long at Kighty-ninth strect during the commission hours of the morning before being able to get ona train, and suggested that trains during these hours be started from hty-ninth street, as a siding had been 8] ly put in there for that purpose. Mr. W. A. Murble complained that the other morn- ing, at ten o'clock, he and other passengers waited at hty-fourth street for # considerable time for a iu, and when the next train came, which was empty, the conductor starved it again before giving them ‘an opportunity to get on. Other members of the committee, with great intel- Jigence and moderation, went over the same and other grounds of complaint, such as the general rudeness of the employés and tho danger of having one's pocket rea during the rush hours at the overcrowded sta- ons. DIRECTOR BREWSTER'S REPLY. Director Benjamin Brewster said that the question of increasing the width of the platforms had been under the consideration of the directors, but any increase of the width of the platform of the care would only com- plicate matters and make the confusion worse than it already was, As to the trains running to Forty- second street and the necessity of paying a new fare at ‘Thirty-fourth street for those who desired to go “through,” it was the intention of the company to in- troduce the drop box system as in use on the Motyo- olitun road, so that any person wanting to get off at fhirty-fourth street from @ Grand “Sentral. train could do so und board the through train when it came along without paying an additional fare. ‘THE MANAGER'S STATEMENT, Mr. Ricker, the manager of the road, was requested by the directors to make a statement to the delegation, and said that he did not know that he had much to: say beyond what he had already stated in tho letter published in the newspapers yesterday. It was hardly ‘Yy tor him to sa; that the directors were extremely anxious to furnis all necessary and complete facilities for conveying passengers along the Third Avenue “L," and one of the difficulties was the present lack of storing fucilities along the road, With regard to the train plattorms the matter had been very carefully |). and to seventy-live of the 6 there had been additions made tw the platforms, but. increasing tho lenyth naturally added to the wenkness of tho car, and ho was of the opinion that the plattorms were as loi a4 he should be willing to make them consistent with safety, With regard to the more frequent run- ning of the trains the opening of the line to Harlem Kiver had considerably con:plicated matters and Ss increased the difficulties, As an illustra- ion, 150 men had to be engaged at once, and some of them had hed comparatively little experience. it was an essential requirement that all persons, before bs | became egior®, should have been kuown and vouched for by one of the directors or by some reliable friend who was known to the directors. ‘That was an invariable requirement as fur as tho firemen and the engincors were concerned. As-to the conductors, thers seemed to bo a gencral impression among the public that man could be & conductor, was @ great delusion. It was fecha condtcl an acai nt oad el a cou ot Loe immediateiy. "4 wudialae ONLY Aw PROGRAMME. As to the regularity of the running of tho trains tho directors could at present onl: lay out @ general me, Certain contingencies had to be taken ity acoount, a6, for inst a nee ee *opping [ony the possibility of a tire way of trains co he raya and ut present the ee, an average of tr When the two tations ald be a from a run from they com: they would probably discontinue the running of trains from Franklin square, With to the Forty-sec- ond street trains thet matter: been discussed again and again. It was difficult to arrive ate pguite satisfac- tory conclusion in reference thereto.‘ idea now was to try the experiment of transter at Thirty-fourth street. ‘CHE FIVE CENT RUSH, Mr. Ricker then referred to the packing of the trains with passengers in the morn: wud evening, and said, as an illustration, that all ‘ir trains dur- ing these hours could be filled at the Hanover square and Fulton street stations just as fast as it was pos- sible for the employés to fill them. Mr. Brewster id that he might mention, as an illustration of the difficulty of running trains more frequently, that the company had uow two miles of rolling stock, and the trouble was to take care of that and be able to run it with security on cight and # half miles of railroad. DIRECTOR DAVID DOWS EXPLAINS. Mr. David Dows said that the directors intended to satisfy the public; it was in their interest to do so. He thought that what they had accomplished for the public in the short space of nine months was something to be wondered at. They were besevched by the public to open the road to m River, and they had done so. The doing of that was the occasion of ® great deal of their present trouble. But the ublic had told the directors that i¢ they didnot open he road to Harlem River by the Ist of January the Legislature would be heard from. it was unreasonable to expect that the pas- sengers could be carried on the road, with all the requisite comforts and conveniences, before the line was ready to give it to them. ‘The public had forced them to open to Harlem River before they were quite ready, and these temporary inconveniences were the result. ‘The directors gave to the consideration of management of the road not only their days but their nights also, and even met on Sundays, so anxious were they to bring the road to perfection. He would be glad if he could find any two or three gentlemen who would take all this trouble off his shoulders, so that he might have no more of it, The directors hadacted in thorough good faith with the public, and no doubt should be entertained that thoy would make the road a success in every particular. VICE PRESIDENT BISHOP'S RESPONSE, Vice President Bishop said that he begged to assure the delegation, and, through them the public, that the directors thoroughly appreciated the suggestions that had been made by them. It was the intention ot the Board to make the road a success, and to accom- plish that in such a hy fear it should be satisfactory ‘o the public in all its details, and it was the duty of the directors to care for the public even it the de- mands made were, in the judgment of the Board, rather more than reasonable. The road was laid out, by their engineers to carry 60,000 passengers a day. ‘They been greatly surprised by the amount of the traffic, and, as soon a3 it was seen what the trattic was, thoy had increased their terminal facilities and they were now laying out ten termimi on the line. If this was found to work then they could start ten different trains simul- taneously along the line. When the yard for tho banking of roll ng stock was ready then they would be able to accumulate cars to mect the extra travel on certain hours of the day. It was impossible to take care of two miles of rolling stock on two or three small sidings, When their car depot at Ninety-eighth street was completed then the stock could be banked up and could be made ready to start right on as quickly as was consistent with safety. to be remembered that it took at least sixty days to, et any piece of ironwork from the first moment thi All the contractor received the first drawing. the terminal facilities were now in the hands of contractors and, when completed, would, he thought, be found very acceptable to the public. to the heating of the cars, of which so much had been said, the contract had been given tu Baker, Smith & Co., who had the reputation of being the best car heaters in the country. It was a new system of heating cars trom the locomotive and giv- a uniform heat through the whole car. An ex- periment was nude with this system on their west side road last winter, and it was successful. It was quite true it wus not a sufficient test as compared with the cold of the present winter, but it was then The present trouble had arisen from some defect in the coupling of the cars, and which had been found on applica- tion’ to be impracticable in their present condition. ‘Chose couplings had been altered and the contractors had proniised that they would have eighty cars ready by Wednesday, all properly heated. The directors had every reason to believe that the new process would be found to be a success. It was a system of heating that was even more expensive than that on the Metropolitan “L,” and had this ad- vantage over that of the Metropolitan, that the eat was unitorm, not causing a great heat in one part of the car and producing none in another part. As to the incivility of some of the conductors, the directors were as anxious as the pub- lic to. get that grievance redressed, and had that day issued an order that would, he hoped, prevent any repetition of it. He thought the public would find a disposition to moke the road # first class one and not equalled in any respect by any other. As to the crowding at the tive cont hours and the thronging of pickpockets at some of the stations, the directors had taken steps to mitigute these evils, and hereafter during the five cent hours there would be stationed at each of the stations from Chatham square to Ninth street two momen who would prevent unruly pushing and arrest pickpockets, The delegation thanked the directors tor their courtesy in listening to the complaints of the public, and said that they would present a full report of the interview tou meeting of the members. aasocia- tion which would be held next week. THE MARINE SOCIETY. ITS ONE HUNDRED AND NINTH ANNIVERSARY— ELECTION OF OFFICERS AND REPORT OF THE TREASURER. The Marine Society of New York held its annual meeting, yesterday, and celebrated the 109th anniver. sary of its orgunixation by a banquet at Schedler’s Hotel, Pearl strect. In November, 1769, a company of thirty-two per- sons assembled in the long room of the Exchange, then at the foot of Broad street, to consult about forming themselves into a society for the relief of distressed shipmasters or their widows and orphans and also for the promotion of maritime knowledge. The meeting was presided over by Mr. Leon- ard Lispenard, and tho result of the de iberations was the appointment of a committee to draw up articles for the more effectual accoiplish- ment of the design of the mecting. In April, 1770, the Marine Society was incorporated with a membership of seventy-one persons, Mr. Loonard Lispenard being its first president, In 1780 the list of members had creased to 650 persons, and among the most prom- inent were Thomas ‘Truxton. who commanded the first privatescr in the revolution, and who was the first captain appointed by Washington in the regular navy; Robert K. Livingston, John Cruger, Philip Livingston, William Bayard and Leonard Lis- penard, the five delegates trom New York to the Rret Colonial Congress. Some of the members, how- ever, adhered rigidly to the royalist party, and in the same year a “Marine Society Artillery” was formed, under the command of Captain Vincent P. Ashfield, president of the society, to co-operate with His Ma- jesty’s troops in the defence of the city. ‘The meeting yesterday was called to order by Captain William C. Thompson, the president, and the first business transacted was the presentation and adoption of the report ot Mr. William A. Ellis, the treasurer of tho socivty, which shows the receipts for the past year to have boon $14,513 53, and the dis- bursements $14,035 63. The society has inv bonds and mortgage $48,500; on call, $5,000; posit with the United States Trust Company, $5,000, und $728 74 cash on hand. Besides, they’ own a brown stone house in Fiftieth street and tenement ba cain d in Classon avenue, Brooklyn, Captain Joseph Porkins, the secretary, reported nembers had been admitted during the ye ptains William Farran, H. F. A. Meyer, C. 1. Joseph Conway, Robert E. Brandt . Hagar. dix deaths had also occurred— those of George W. Blunt, Robert L. Taylor, C. W. Bartlett, Charles Collins, George Chase and Thomas Hughes. ‘Lhree pensioners were added to the list during the year and one pensioner dicd. ‘T now on the list sixty-one pensioners, receiving en- nually $60, grades baving been abolished. The re- port was accepted. The following officers for the current year were then unanimously elected, President, Ambrose Snow; Vice President, Kdward G. Tinker; Second Vice Prasi- dent, Robert Mackie; Treasurer, William A, Ellis; nee Perkins; Attorney, Willian Allen jutler. Alter the appointment of various committees the meeting adjourned to the dining room ou tho floor below, where a substantial repust was enjoyed. FRANK MORDAUNT SAFE. ‘The report that Frauk Mordaunt, the actor, had disappeared undcr mysterious circumstances was disproved yesterday by that gentleman's appearance at his accustomed haunts. He was at the Sturtevant House during the day, where he was engaged on business matters with other members of the com- pany, who are to appear with him in “M'liss."” A few urs’ absence from hotne had excited his relatives’ apprehension, and over solicitude on the part of some friends gave currency to the rumor. The discharge of @ pistol shot at Mr. Mordaunt as he was leaving his house on New Year's Day was invested with some significance when the report of his disappearance was first bruited. A FAULTY MEMORY. To te Eprror or ra» Henauy:— Your correspondent, “KE. B.," statos the settled facts concerning the Battle of New Orivans with great accuracy, but in another matter he is apparently wrong. He furnishes a copy, disfigured by « tew errors of transcription, of @ hastily written ballad of mine, aud says that it wes read at a dinnor pariy at New Orleans, Tyrone Power bein, est. ‘Cho ballad was written during the latter par 1850 aud pub- lished in Harper's Magazine tor January, 1860. Unless iny recollection be at tault ‘Lyrone Power went to sea in tho President some years betore that, and was never atter heard of. B.” has possibly been present ut two dinner parties—a good thing if the cook at each be master ot his art—and has slightly mixed the in- cidents of both occasions, Such things do happen sometimes through the tHOMAS of the lobster suid, THO: DUNN ENGLISH, HULL’S ARREST IN CANADA. HIS TRAVELS AND ASTONISHING COOLNESS-—MB. JAMES RELURNS WITH THE STOLEN BONDS. Mr. John James, a member of the firm of Fields & James, brokers, at No. 16 Broad street, who were vic- timized to the amount of $30,000 in United States bonds on the 28th of December last by J. W. Hull, returned to this city from Montreal early yesterday morning. His return was unexpected, and surprised many who expected that he would stay in Censda until Hull was extradited. Tho course pursued by Hull after leaving this city throngh fear of arrest was ascertained by means of entries ina memoran- dum book, which was taken from the fugitive’s pocket when arrested by Detective Fahey, of the Montreal Central detective squad. ‘The following story was given by Mr. James, who has in his possession all the papers found on Hull’s person. ‘The flight of the swindler was first to Phil- adolphia, and sundry seribblings in the book lead to the belief that he here disposed of one bond to raise money enough to continue his jorrney. Itis be- lieved thut Hull intended to take the through train for Toronto, but changed his mind and got off at Sus- nsion Bridge. Here he made a few slight altera- Egos tet tie personel appearance an procesded (0 Buffalo and thence to Detroit, At Detroit Hull seemed to think that his roundabout path would throw the police off the track, und he ayein set out for Torouto, where he purchased a £20) billof ex- change on England, the duplicate of which was found on his person when arrested. ‘The original, Hull says, he mailed to England, t ‘SHE ARREST AND COMPROMISE. : ‘The fugitive next started for Montreal, where he engaged a suit of rooms at the Windsor Hotel, Hull aid not seem to entertain the slightest fear of detec- tion, for he sought acquaintances and conversed with them without any reserve about his real estate busi- ness and property in this city, even going so far us to display some of the pilfered bonds toa ary goods canvasser who was stopping at the hotel. ''The descriptions of the fugitive published by the nows- papers tallied so minutely with the appeurance of the “tush” stranger that the drummer's suspicions were aroused, and he held a consultation with Mr. Brown, the clerk of the hotel. Mr. Brown notitied Detective Fahey, who at once repaired to the hotel, only to tind that Hull had purchased a berth in one of the Allan line of steamers, to sail from Halifax for Live: pool on Saturday last. The detectives started in pur- suit and offered the Grand Trunk Railroad Company — for @ special train to overtake the criminal, his offer was refused, as the company wanted $600 Fuhey failed to raise the required umount, and co: sequently had to wait for the next regular train, gi ing the fleeing broker a margin for escape. Hull ar- rived in St. John, N. B., late on Thiursd night, where he halted for several hour then again set out, but this stop gave Fahey a chance to gain on him, and he was overtuken and arrested at Moncton, a small village several miles from St. John. When arrested Hull did not display the least agitation, but coolly asked the detective to take a drink, asserting that his arrest was @ matter of pure business to the officer. The compromise effected with Hull is alrgady known, His movements will be watched by the Cunadian police, while sharp eye will be kept on his suspected accomplice in New York. Mr. James gave the promised reward of $5,000 to Mr. Brown and De- tective Fahey to divide between them. IMPRISONED THIRTY-FIVE YEARS. REMARKABLE CAREER OF A NEW MISSIONABY— ANOTHER WATER STREET MISSION, Water strect for its length and population bears @ bad reputation, but if the founding of missions in it is to redeem it it ought to be redeemed very shortly. Ithas three missions now, all doing necessary and successful work, and Mr. Michael Dunn has opened another at No. 311, where he hopes to save ex- convicts like himself and help them into honest and Christian lives. Michuel is a man about fifty-two years of age, and thirty-five of those years have been spent in prisons in different places. His experience has taught him that what convicts need most when they leave prison is a little human sympathy and a little help toward honesty. Their great temptation is that they are obliged through lack of these to seck the help and sympathy of thieves and “fences,” who encourage them on in their old courses, aud hence they are rarely out of prison unless they become exceedingly expert in crime, It is not yet a year since Mr. Duun left Sing Sing, where he had been incarcerated four years and more for stealing a box of dry goods from a store and driving off on & wagon with the property. He had previously spent three irs in the same institution for other crimes. And while he did many things for which he ought to have been sent there, he was wholly inno- cent he says of the crime for which he was sent up last. But there were three rewards offered for the ar- rest of the thiet, and while the detectives knew that he was innocent they ‘pushed him through” that they might obtain the reward. Nr, Dunn has had a peculiar expericnce, He was brought up a thief by bis parents, and at eight years of he received a flogging and fourteen days in jail. A little later he was flogged again and impris- oned for three mouths and a third time the punish- ment of both kinds was doubled. But it did not make him honest. Before ho was thirteen years of age he was # criminal in Van Dieman’s Lund when Sir John Franklin of North Pole fame was governur. There he spent seven years of his lite, Ten more years were spent in Australia, five years in Gibraitar, three yeurs in Moyamensing, Philadelphia, aud two ‘and three-quarter years in Boston. This was the hard- est term Michuel ever served and where he received the most iahuman treatment. He spent a period also in solitary confinement in Northampton, England, where, ut the age of thirty-two, he learned to read and write. He visited various parts of the world as a soldier anda sailor, and yet, he says, in all his travels and imprisonments he bas been only one weck sick. When he came out of prison the last time, in February, 1878, it was with the determination to take the life of a notorious fence who had been the chief cause of sending him up. But one day he wandered intu Jerry McAuley’s mission, in Water street, and, knowing Jerry to have been’ an old river thicf, he told his mind to him as he would not have done to another man. Jerry gave Dunn good advice, by following which he became a Christian, and for the last nine months he has done mission work among ex-convicts for the New York Prison Asso- ciation. He knows the value of honest sympathy and how much criminals who seek to reform nevd it. But he does not propose in his “Home” in Water street to support a number of men in idleness. He will get cloth und flannel goods and set those men at work to make and mend for themselves. He will get such em- ployment as he can outaide for such as he has tested and can recommend, and by helping each man a little he will teach them to help themselves in an honest way and seck by prayer and Christian advice to bring them to a knowledge ot the Lord Jesus Christ, who alone can keep them, Donutious tor this new mission may be sent to the care of this ofice for Mc. Dunn's work in Water street. “REPORTERS AND THE BEAST.” It used to be “Beauty und the Beast,” but the Bap- tist ministers at their Conference yesterday made a combination of the reporters of the city press and the beast of the Apocalypse. It was not that they be- lieved the reporters to be synonymous with or re- lated to the beast, but that in some previous discus- sions on Catholicism the reports of the Conference, as Dr. Hedden said, were frayiuentary and apt to mis- lead. He did not favor excluding reporters, but, he claimed, care should be taken to avoid creating a wrong impression of the Conference's doings. Lust spring, however, the Doctor only wanted a reasonable excuse for moving to exclude the press. Mr, D.C. Hughes, of Greenpoint, thought the reporters pan- dered too much to vitiated tastes, and ir they foand anything spicy relating to ministers they never failed to enlarge on it. ‘Chey did not clearly appreciate the tender relations that so often exist between pastors and their parishioners. How could they ? ‘They aro not tors. ‘They often introduce into their reports, Brother Hughes thought, unpleasant things that it would have been better to overlook. But how much better to avoid the “unpleasant things 7” The rev- erend brother had a private opinion, wever, that reporters aro men of good judgment ‘generally, and, ay a rule, have fairly represented the proceedings of the Conferen Brother Potter was afraid his brethren would et Up & scene,'’ and cautioned t! to stop. They did so. Dr, Samson then traversed the subject sugyested a few ‘weeks ayo, when Mr. Potter read his paper « Catholicism in Europe, as to whether the Chw of Home is the beast of revelation or something els ‘The Doctor's paper was very learned and long. occupied so much of the hour that Dr. Thomas, who presided, to the amusement ot his brethren, said the jast five minutes belonged to the essayist. His ¢ amination of the Church fathers, the noted horesi- archs of the early ages of Christianity and the New ‘Testament convinced him that “the beast’ was origi- nally the persccuting spirit of Sudaisin which, the Grecks and Kowans atterward took wp in their deiti- t wealth. When, in 596-604, the Church of umed imperial powers and.prorogatives and became the persecutor of the Apostolic Church, then she haul transferred to her the prophetic titles of the New Testament. The members of the Conference will express their opinions of what Dr. Samson said next Monday. MAYFLOWER MISSION. In continuation of the services of last week union meetings of the congregations of Plymouth Bethel and Mayflower Mission are to be held this week and the next, first in the latter, where the series was opened last evening by Mr. Beecher, Next week mect- ings will be held in the Bethel, ‘The church was liter- ally packed last nig! Dr. Edward Begchor opened with prayer, and the pastor of Plymouth Chureh poke to the people on their being lights in the world the salt of the earth, fishers of men and other syn bolisms of the Scriptures, Which Christ said His fc lowers should be. The preparstion for this sort of work Was pred, Cousucration, self-deuial, “ALWAYS WITH YOU.” SPECIAL APPEALS FROM DESERVING FAMILIES IN DISTRESS—HELP VOR THE POOR. The following cases of distress, all needing imme- diate assistance, are presented to the charitable: A member of the legal profession and his family, consisting of his wife and one child, who is under two yeurs of age, are in need of immediate help. The gentleman himself has the highest references as to character. This story appeals to th eyzapathy of those who may be able to help hin, for his distress is not brought by any fault of his own, Unfortunate “investments took away what little money he had. He is now loxing his eyesight, and, therelore, wafit to practise his profession. An offer to accept. a more suitable position in the South ius been made Lim, but he has not the means to go there nor to make preparations necessary for such a chang ‘The family are now on the verge of poverty. T willing to help this man and his family can address “Lawyer for South,” Henavp offic A family of eight are in povel No, 209 East Forty-sixth street, first floor, fro st wide room. ‘Two of the children are sick. At No, 314 West Forty-first street, back basement, a family of seven need immediate assistance. A widow and her flye small children gre in utter poverty at No. 211 Mott street, first floor, room No. : At No. 169 Thompson street, rear house, top floc acolored woman and her two infants are in need of assistance. A family of six are destitute st No. 416 Exst Six- teenth street, second floor, The mother is sick and the children are daily without food. At No. 309 East Houston street, rear house, top floor, a widow and her four children need food aud rent money. On the second floor of 33 Prince street a tamil; ot six are in distress, The husband is an invalid. ‘They have cither pawned or sold every available article they had in order to buy food and fuel. Four sinall children, one of them very sick, and their widowed mother, are utterly destitute at No, 31 Hamilton street, room No. 7. A family of five are in distress at No. 238 East Seventy-fifth street, third floor. On the third floor of No, 44 Mulberry street a widow and her three children are destitute, The woman is sick with heart disease, On the third tloor of No. 2,127 Third avenue a fam- ily of four are in’ great distress, The husband is a Mechanic and has been out of work since August as A family of five are in distress at No. 405 East Fifty-ninth strect, third tloor. They need food im- wrens Atamily of five are in abject poverty at No. East Vorty-sixth street, first floor, west side roo front. ‘They buried a’boy, six years of age, a cor ot weeks ago, and the husband is now prostrated with sickness, At No. 138 East Fourteenth street, third floor, Southern woman needs help to enable her to aceept work. She hax some furniture which is stored and which she cannot recover without paying $13. With this furniture and the work she is promised from the sewing department of St. John's Guild she would be made independent for the remainder of the win- ter. She has been living with some friends for month past, but as they are breaking up house she is unable to find shelter, A woman who has suffered recently from sickness and been in hospital for several months, is in need of assistance. What she wants especially is clothing, 4s she has been compelled to sell every available arti- cle of wearing apparel she possessed. She desires a chance to support herself by service us a nurse to an invalid. Those who wish to help her can ad- dress “Nurse for Invalid,” St, John’s Guild, No. 5 Great Jones street. ‘o. 439 East Twelfth street, rear house, first family of nine are very poor. ‘The husband out of work tor twelve months, The mother by her earnings kept them all alive, but she can get nothing to do now. They owe two months’ rent. CONTRIBUTIONS RECEIVED, The following contributions have been received ix the Herat office :— ”’ for No. 117 West Fifty-second street, ."* for No, 44 Monroe strect, $1 50 4 ”’ tor general tund, $7 nue B, $1; “Le. B. Fifty-ninth and No. $2; "S. ALS.” for No, street and No. “Charley, street, §: J. L. 8.,” tor No. 10 Little T'welft! street, $1 for general fund, $1; for general fund, $2; ‘Mrs. " for No. 181 avenue B, $1; _ “J. C.,” for general fund, $1 0.,” for East Ninth street, $1; ‘‘Stranger,”’ for No. 94 East Fourth street, $1; “Friend to the Needy,” for gen- eral fund, $1; ‘Mite,” for gencral find, 5 cents; “E, M.,” for general fund, $2; “A. B,C.,” for gen- eral fund, $3; ‘Hastings-on-Hudson,’’ for general fund, $2; ‘Alice D.,” for No. 14 Marion street, $1; “cH. W. M.,” for No. 55 Sonth Fifth avenue, No. 242i East Houstop street and No. 180 avenue B, $ “A. V. 8. Carlisle," for No. 44 Monroe street and No. 33 Lewis street, $5; “Anon,” ‘for No, 232 Greenwich 300 Greenwich 10 Littie 55 South Fifth avenue, ve and Adeline,” for No. 282 Greenwich street, ‘Twelfth $2; street, $2; “R. & © for No. 212 West ‘Thirty- seventh street, $2; “Anon,” for No, 55 South Fitth avenue, $1. Total, $60 06. TO-DAY'S CANVASS, ‘The canvass of the city for contributions in the shape of money, clothing and provisions for the poor will be begun to-day. A meeting of the coni- mittee having charge of this matter was held yester- day afternoon in the Wheeler & Wilson Building, Fourteenth street. Rev. C. I. Woodruff, ot St. Bar- nabas’ Home, chairman of the General Committee, presided, assisted by Rev. Willard Parsons, chair- man of the Executive Committee, and Charles F, Bunting, secretary. Several Sisters of Charity were present and mingled in consultation with members of the opposite sects. All the charitable s: ities of the city were represented. In all, 76 wagons, 83 men and 100 boys were placed at the disposal of the com- mnittee. The following poems ‘ere appointed a Com- mittee on Apportionment:—William E. Dod; re, No. 262 Madison avenue; James M. Browne, No. 59 Wall strect; Rev. T. Peters, Sheltering Arins; ‘Townsend Cox, Commission of Charities and Cor- rection; Vicar General Quinn, St. Patrick's Cathedral; Rev. Edward McGlynn, St. Stephen's Church; Kev. John Dooly, Carmel Chapel, No. 134 Bowery; George Macculloch Miller, No. 29 Wall street, General Hos- pital Commission; Julius Hallgarten, Mount Sinai Hospital; Charles L. Brace, Children’s Aid Society. The following were chosen as the Commitive’ on Distribution:—J. A. Faber, No. 153 Broadway; Rev. R, Heber Newton, Bread and Beef House; H. M. Mc- Laren, Incurables; H. F. Patton, James Manchester; Mrs. A. R. Brown, City Mission; Mrs. S. A. Skinner, Children’s Fold; Sister Amelia, St. Luke's Home for Old Men and Aged Couples; Miss L. T. Lewis, Howard Mission; Mrs. law, Kighth Ward Mission. ‘The object of the comuuittee, as heretofore stated, 18 to divide the city into convenient districts which shull be canvassed simultaneously by bands of orphan boys accom by wagons and superintended by ofticors of the charitable socioties and institutions, calling at every residence and store, and collecting clothing, provisions and supplies, including money. very canvasser will be supplied with a certiticate on the printed letter heading of the General Committeo, signed by the Chairman of the General and Executive inittees, and the secretary. ‘Those authorized to oct money will bear @ epecial certificate having their own signatures written in the body of it, au will give receipts of the amount received. The sig- natures of the canvassers should be compared wit! their own in the body of the certificate in order to prevent deception, The certificates all bear the seal or stamp of the committeo, ‘The canvass, as stated, will be begun to-day, final instructions being given at the downtown headquar- South Fitth avent this morning, at nine ‘The uptown headquarters will be desig- to-day, ‘rhe comiittee adjourned to meet at the call of the presiding otticer. AN OLD ACTOR DIES IN ABJECT POVERTY —RIS BODY AS YET UNCOFFINED SAD DESTITUTION OF HIS FAMILY, In a small, squalid room about ten feet square, on the top story of No. 5 Centre Market place, between Grand and Broome streets, the remains of the old actor, William E. Osborne, the friend of Forrest, the elder Wallack and of Manager Simpson, of the old Park Theatre, were yesterday laid out without a shroud or @ coffin to cover them, Two of his sons, pale, careworn young men, and their wives sat in the room 0n several rickoty chairs, which, along with a » & dilapidated - 1 nu, & cheap table and a ¢ oustituted all » furniture of the chai A poor, palo-faced baby occupied the crib and a bungry looking Doy of six years wate pot boiling on the stove, with a broken plute for acover, ‘Tho pse of the dead actor lay on the floor, under the eit of the window, with an old counterpane thrown over itand no preparations ot any kind appeared to rave been made for its decent removal and interment, reason of this was cusy to discover in the air of abject poverty presented by the room and the persous who voceupied it. The elder of the two young men, with @ famished look in his eyes, said that he had supported his father for the last sixteen ye “Ho ‘%. was very tecblo,”’ he continued, “and had almost lost his eyesight. He had four sons, John, George, Theodore and Victor, all of us married and with tarmilies. We were all in the same business of lithographing, but the introduction of steam ruined us, and we have been struggling hard of late to escape starvation. One of us made $1 80 last week, and he has a wife and five children to support. Father was a man who would never push himeelf forward, and though he had many friends when he was known in the world and on the stage he never cared to trouble them when he was in distress. He required better nourishment than we were able to attord him, and the winter proved too much for him, ‘two ot ws have been without work for a long time, and the other two only make a trifle between them,” Tt was @ painful and melancholy sight to seo the dead body of the actor lying in this abode of misery, watched by hunger pinched taces that porhaps envied the insensible corpse. William E. Osborne camo here from England in 25, and in 1828 played Glonalvon at the Bowery to vest’s Young Norval. He played throughout the «supported at various times Edimund reudy and Tom Hamblin, and acted with George Holland, Tom and Henry Placide, Hackett, and the elder Wallack, He managed the Ik (Va.) Theatre and the Chestnut Street Theatre, P delphia, and was associated with all gho celebrities of his His danghter, borne, was of Bro "6 Lycee 18: IK Ac is hoped the iw wibers of tue theutylval protus | Chichcring Mull, om sion and the charitable generally wilt contribute to alleviate the distress of the family, aud give a spite able interment to the remuins, DRIVEN TO THEFT. 4 POOR MAN STEALS A BG OF FLOUR FOR HIS STARVING FAMILY —ALRESTED AND RELEASED. “I nover stole a penny's worth betore.”” ‘The speaker was Samuel Owens, a journeyman painter, who by the pressure of hurd times had been driven to steal of flour for the relief of his suffering frmiy. Though in the prime of lite, and willing to do any manuor of work, the poor fellow had sought in vain for employment, and, despairing of immediate help, commitied a crime on Saturday night for which he was locked up on Sunday, and bronght up for examination in the Harlem Police Court yesterday morning. The facts of the theft were simply these. After aday of hunger and des- pondency Owens and his wite had crouched down by the fire and sought to warm their hearts by the ruddy blaze; but while the flickering light brought comfort to their cyes, their ears were assailed by the piteous mouns of three little children, not yet so well inured to suffering as thew parents. ‘Phis was too much for the unhappy father. — Kixsii his wife, whose efforts to hush the childish clamors proved altogether vain, he patted the little ones ten- derly on the head, and ‘saying that they should not go another day without food, rushed from the room without knowing where to look for aid. Inu few Moments, howover, Owens found himself in front of a grocery store at 3 1,583 ‘Chird ave nue, where, within easy reach, hung several bags of ‘flour. ‘Tho not long after ch eight o'clock the well lighted sidewalk was almost deserted, and 4 sudden impulse prompted the man to seize one of the hanging bags und carry it to the wretched home he had just leit, Yielding to the temptation he grabbed ‘the prz: and started at full speei down the street. But the watchful eye of an officer had wiinessed the the.t, and Owens was quickly overtaken. When ar- rested he burst into tears, «ad seemed utterly broken down. The patrohnan escorted his prisoner to. the station house in East Eighty-eighth street, whence, after a day's confinement, be was taken to the Harlem Police Court yesterday morning. At the bar of justice Owens recounted his misfortunes: in detail, and assured Judge Duffy that nothing but the terrible strait to which he himself and those deer to him had been redaced would have driven him to tuke # penny’s worth of anything not his own, ‘The wagisirate believed the prisoner's story, and said thut justice would not, in hix opinion, be com- promised by the dismissal of the charge. Fur- thermore, he directed Mr. O'Donnell, the grocer, wh> appeared against Owens, to give the man a ag of flour and send the bill to him. O'Donnell said that he had no wish to carry the matter any further, aud told the Judge that he would make the man a present of the flour. Owens accordingly accompanied his late accuser to the store, where twenty-four pounds of flour were given him to carry away. A MISERABLE SCENE. Last night w reporter of the Henanp found the man in a tront rooin on the third floor of a enement house at No. 111 East Ninetieth street. On the first tloor is aluger beer saloon, through which one passes to reach the stuirs, A merry purty was gathered in the buck room, in striking contrast to the group which met the reporter's eye as he opened the door on the top floor. Owens stood disconsolate in the mid- die of the room, his eyes intlamed by manly tears that flowed unbidden at the merciful decision of the Judge and the storekceper's generous treatment. ‘Near the window sat a woman, neatly though poorly dressed, and near a plain, uncovered table sat a man who «ppeured to be there to condole with and encourage his disheurtened friend. A tow-headed youngster, four years of age, pulled at the reporter's cout and turned “his eyes upward in an appealing glance at the intruder, Finaily the little one fell asleep on lux mother’s lap and torgot his distress for a tew brief moments. CAN'D GET WORK. Owens is a man of dark and sallow complexion and wears @ musiache and yoatee. His face is more of the Italian than the American type; but he is @ native and life long resident of this city. “I am a journeyman painter,” said he, but’ the work “don't agree with’ me, I’ve had pleurisy, and = my health is _ bad. For threo imonths I’ve had’ nothing todo. Before that I worked as # laborer in Kighth avenue, and oc- casionally got # job, even after that, to throw in coal. One of my boys is twelve years old, the other seven and this one is four. I've had nothing to give them to-day but some pancakes made from that bag of flour, and to-imorrow it will be the same. Idon't know how long it will go on this way. But I'll never ay hands on anything that don’t belong to me again. had enough of that.”” ‘Have you done your best to get work?” ‘Yes, sir; I’ve done everything in my power. I tried to get work on Ninth svenue, where the Meiro- politan road is being put up; but I hudn’t any in- fluence. I don’t know any business men.” “Have you wppealed to any charitable association ” “No; I'didn’t know anything about them.” A LITTLE RELIKY, Just here there was # tap at the door, and two fire- men told Owens they had brought him a present from the company’s house in. the neighbor- hood. The grateful man took the envelope but could not speak his thanks. A loaf of bread and the wherewithal to buy a quart of milk were also brought by some onc who had heard of his necessity, and a ray of hope broke into the hearts that had come well nigh to despair, The reporter took his leave, and, groping his way down the cold, dark and narrow stairway, made some inquiries about Owens of the boy who tended the bar below. The latter said that the rooms on the top floor were rented by man named One 'y, with whom Owens only stopped occasionally, ¢ woman he believed to be Aire. Coggy, and Owens’ wife was staying somewhere else. ‘The man was sober and did not frequent the saloon. He knew him to be in great poverty, though willing to work at anything. Recently he had been in a hospitel. NEWARK’S SOUP HOUSE. The Newark (N. J.) Relief Association opened a soup house yesterday morning at No, 124 Commerce street, in that city. Hundreds called at the soup house and had their wants ae. Mr. Francis, the superintendent, was assisted by several directors of the association. A LONG TRAMP, AN OLD MAN, SIXTY-SIX YEARS OF AGE, WALKS FROM OMAHA TO NEW YORK—HE WANTS TO RETUBN TO HUNGALY. An old man, named Paul Ostrich, sixty-six years of age, very intelligent, with snow white hair and whiskers, called on Superintendent Jackson, at Castle Garden, yesterday, and begged of that official tu send him back to Teimesvar, Hungary, his native land, He told the following story under oath:—He arrived in this country on the steamship State of Pennsyl- vania, on March 16, 187%, having in his possession $500, He was 4 farmer in his§ uative land, and was induced to sell out bis little place by the representa- tions of agents of steamship lines, who intormed him and others that money was very plentiful in the United States, and that people could obtain it by simply paying @ visit to the place. Ostrich found to his sorrow that these repro- sentations were false and he had to travel all over the Statex before he procured employment. At last hi hired a piece of yroand in Washington Territory, bi on account of the searcity of rain last seasun his crop was destroyed and all his money lost. On September 10 he returned to San Francisco and the German siety at that place obtained from the railroad tals a passaye for him on the cars to Omaha, also gave Ostrich @ letter to the railroad ofMicials e last mentioned city asking them to forwarl him to New York, but no attention was paid to it. Ostric! iu a sad plight, having no shoe and ver y, but he determined to tram it all the wa; ha to New York, a distance tr 1,431 miles. On September 16 he started on his long walk and arrived in this city on Christinas BE ing just sixty-nine duys to complete the journe menced his daily march each morning at sunrise and walked until adter sunset. His bed, us & general thing, was the open fields, and on two nights only was he entertained by Germans, who gave him a bed and a substantial supper and breakfast, Eight dollars had been given to him by the German Society at San Francisco, and with this he purchased some pork and bread, which, in wddition to apples picked wp on the way, comprised his daily food. It lasted him until he was within three days’ journey of this city. Nothing worthy of mention occurred during his long waik, and Ostrich says that he was only interfered with once, and this by two men who thought that the bag of apples which he carried on his back con- tained something more valuable. They knocked him down and took the bag trom him, but when they dis- covered its contents revenged themselves on the old man by pelting him with the fruit, On his ar- rival iu this city Ostrich told his story to Dr. K. 4, Villanyi, of No. 220 West Thirty-second street, and that physician took an interest in the old man, and invited him to his house, where be dressed his blistered fect and made him comfortable. The old ian seemed anxious to return to his native land, and Dr. Villanyi's wife called on the German Consul and explained the cause to thut official, who referred her to Castle Garden, Superintendent Jackson said that he would force the steamship company which brought Ostrich to this country to take him back, as the law states ifuny company should bring an emigrant over sixty years of age to the United States, and it he should find it impossible to procure employment, then that company has to return Lim whence he came, CRUELTY ‘10 ANIMALS. Last evening a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Society tor the Prevention of Cruelty to Ani- mals was held at its headquarters, Nathan ©. Ely in the chair, Resolutions of condolence were passed with the family of the late Miss Louise W. Ring, daughter of cx-Senator King, who, by her personal labors, had obtained the rege od of laws by the Legis. lature of her native State (Georgia) and organized societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals. It was stated that the president would deliver a lec- ture before the Young Men's Hebrew Association, at bluuceday evening neat, HALSTEAD ON GRANT. What an Bditor, Who is No Admirer of the Appomattox Hero, Siys. iwvincnrenliicieciteaaea JOU SHERMAN 10 BE THE REPUBLICAN LEADER IX 1880 Cixcusnart, Jan, 11, 1879, A correspondent of the Hxastp had an interview recently with Mr. Murat Halstead, editor of the Cin- cinnati Commercial, in regard tg the candidacy of Gen- eral Grant. Mr. Halstead is well known as being opposed to Grant, Long before his first term as President had closed he was unsparing in his criti- cisins of the administration, and when the liberal re- publican movement had its birth here he was among the first to espouse the cause. In 1872 he supported Greeley on the platform adopted here, though he has since done most of his political fighting within the republican ranks. Mr. Halstead isa warm friend of President Hayes and a believer in his Presidential policy, so far as it hus been developed, He is cred- ited with having secured the appointment of Secre- retary Schurz to the Cabinet, though whether that be true or not, of course, can only be known to himself and the two other parties interested. Mr. Halstead is aman who has travelled much and observed things closely. He wes a guest with Bayard Taylor on the trip to Iceland made by Cyrus W. Field, # few years ago, when the people of that North- ern Peninsula celebrated the thousandth anniversary of its settlement. Hv spends a part of almost every year in Europe and has made the study of the insti- tutions of the Old World from a republican stand- point in the New somewhat of a specialty. When at home he is the busiest of editors and gives his paper a personal attention that would seem strange in an astern newspaper office, He works rapidly and talks as he works. On being asked for his views upon the Grant move- ment, he answered :— M2. HALSTEAD ON GRANT. : “When the war closed,” said Mr, Huistead, “it was a certainty that the man to whom Lee surrendered would be the next President of the United States, ‘That man was Grant, and at once the politicians and the managers of the party began coquetting and fiat- tering him in order to gain control of him and uso him for their own purposes. Grant was not much of a politician then; he is a better one now; and the re- sult was that he fell into their hands. They were thus enabled to make use of him to carry out their schemes, and thus help to make themselves money. | This was patent to every thinking man who kept the run of events, and it brought Grant’s ad- ministration into disgrace. At the end of his first term I refused to support him and supported Greeley instead. [had not been an enemy of Grant— that is an enemy to him personally or as President-— but I saw the way he was being run by these men was subversive of good government, ‘and for that reason I opposed his re-election, GRANT Is NOT A THIEF, but the ring of whiskey thieves and’ the other cor- rupt rings that surrounded him brought him into disrepute.” “It was this ring influence in the republican part that led to the formation of the liberal party of 187: was it not?” “Precisely. That ring influence was traceable through both of Grant's administrations, though in his second term he had Jearned more of politicians, and wast consequently better able to ‘control tt and keep it under. Still it continued to exist, and when Grant’a second term was about to expire 1 used what influence F nad to help Bristow as being the one who, most of all men in that y, had shown a determinstion to fight these influences and stand up for honesty in the government. These vari- ous rings I had observed were nearly, if not abso- lutely, in control of the party. They were given oj portunities for making vast sums of money, and t enabled them to contribute more than all the rest to the support of their party, and, as they thought, yave them also the power to contvol its organization. This was apparent in the last Presidential election, wh # railroad ring—I will not specity what men were in it, but simply that it was a ri man- aged in the interests of certain ROLLED A BARREL OF MONEY into the republican campaign fund that was an offset to Tilden’s barrel, and did more to supply their wants at acritical moment than all the other contri- butions beside. This was done in the belief that they could control Hayes, just as Grant had been controlled by s:milar influences. But it was a mis- take of theirs. When Hayes put Carl Schurz in charge of the Interior Department I know they could do nothing further in that way. Schurz isa man they cannot use. Not all the money in the world can move him from an honest administration of his department; and their failure to use him for their purposes and the failure to use Hayes to their own advantage is what gives rise to ‘stalwart republican- ism.’ They can’t put their flanger on a single thing Hayes has done that is against the welfare of his party or the good of the country.” “It is said that you have a personal dislike to Grant and his family—that you wrote bitter things even about his daughter?” “That is not true. I never abused a member of Grant's family who was not in office. As for his daughter, Ladmired her very much. I saw her at Long Branch when she was there with her father, and Icould not help admiring her manners and dis: position. She was a sprightly little girl then. The report that I wrote harshly of her was an invention— purely so—used to blunt the edge of my criticism om bor father and those he was then associated with.”” FIELD MARSHAL FOR LIFE. “What are your views about Grant ass candidate for a third term?” “Lom ay of my own personal knowledge that he does'nt want to be President again. I consider it doubtful if he could be if he wanted to, but Lknow he does uot want it. Iwas in Paris last summer while he was there, and when Marshal MacMahon him as the Field Marshal of the United States he struck a chord in Grant's vanity, or ambition rather, If Congress would pass alaw by which he could be made Field Marshal, giving him @ salary of $50,000, and then allow him to retire on halt with the honorary title and $25,000a year, the rest o« § of his ambition would be reached. There are mem- bers of his family who want him to be President again, and many ot his adherents, his old nal friends, believe that he hould be in order to give ue what they call ong government. And this brings me to speak of some of Graut's friends whe are not associated with these ring movements I first alluded to, Not all his friends are corrupt. He has. many in Philadelphia and New ‘k, bankers and men of great wealth, who, out of the personal regard they hold tor him, desire him to receive this further houor.”” “Such mon as Childs and Tony Drexel and the a especially such men as the Seligmans and italists whose connections are largely in hey are abroad a great deal, and, being close Europe. observers of ovents there, they think they forsee the cloud of Communism (ireatening our own country. This leads them to ask for @ strong government and vaturally to look to Grant for it; so that their tears are added to their kind teelings towards him in wishing his re-election. This class, which is not wkled to the other, which embraces the old widers and ring managers, make up, in my opinion, the Grant movenent at yg could be ta gress prevailed upon to make Grant Ficld Marshal?” “If they waut to get rid of Grant as a Presidential candidate that’s the way to do it, If they're afraid of his being elected President again they'd better make him Field Marshal. That would dispose of him.” “Do you believe he could be elected” “No, Ldo not. Grant could not carry Ohio, and the vote of Ohio is essential to the man who will be President. Why, right here, in Cincinnati, the yote of the State is determined, When Gr carried Cincinnati by 5,000 majority, Greeley carried it’ by 5,000, complete! thing. the reversing In & State that is as close as Ohio the vote in this city alone can change the entire result.” SHERMAN (HE MAN FOR "HO, “Weill, then, who is the wan for the republicans to nominate ?" “In my opinion, Jobn Sherman, Not because he is the ablest or the most prominent man in the party, but because of his position at the head of the ‘reasury in connection with wpption, was the author of the Resumption ac and now has become its executor, If everything gues on fairly for a year and resumption succeeds, and everything now pouits to its succeeding, Joba Sherman will hold a piace among Presidential ca didates that no other man can hope to hold. Besides that he can carry Obio, which, as I said before, is ths nl essential to the prospects of who- ected. ‘Lhis is his good fortune, He may not now be the most popular man in his party, but he holds a position from whieh he can stand aud ings of his great measure and ly anything that inay arise calculated to impede ‘ust ax Grant sat on his horse and overlooked the rebellion and saw it trampied out, so does John Shere man overlouk the Las mption goes on. If it SS he will be the foremost man for the Prest- jeuey.”” INNOCENT OR GUILTY? 513 Tenth avenue, we night of Januar rglaviously entered on the , and about $250 worth of property carried aw: Aman named Charles Har ris was arrested for convicted and sent to State Prison. Harris’ 4 however, believed him innocent, and ahe gave such information to the police of the ‘Lwenty-second pre- cinet on Sunday last as led to the arrest of ‘Thomas 1, Holmes, of No, 522 West Thirty-ninth street, on sus- Picton of being the person Who aetnally committed the burglary. Yetore Judge Holmes was segue Kasmire, at the Fifty-seventh/Street Police Court, Felauued 6) vo-day for examinations * esterday, aud