The New York Herald Newspaper, February 12, 1879, Page 5

A MODERN MAGDALEN. More About the Tazewell County Tragedy. STATEMENT OF JESSE ROGERS. His Wile’s Singlr Conssoa of How Jedasy and So pein Worked Har Destin SOME EXTRAORDINARY LETTERS. riling Assertion that No Murder Was Com- mitted and that the Negro Jack- son Still Lives. Tazewert, Tenn, Via Mornistowy, Feb. 5, 1879.} At daylight yesterday morning I started for Powell's Valley, for the purpose of keeping an ap- Pointment made for me with the alleged murderer of Ed Jackson—Jesse ©. Rogers. While I had been informed that the King of the Valley had expressed ® willingness to see meI had an impression, how- ever, that he was not really anxious, and I rode out with some misgivings. Atter I had forded the Holston River I felt that I was in the dominion of the redoubtable Jesse, being at the head of Powell’s Valley. As I rode down the river inquiry developed the fact that nearly every house was owned by either a Rogers, a Caywood, a Sharp, a Clark or some of their connections. It was an almost unbroken succession of friendly outposts, at the other end of which stood the houses of the leaders. I then realized more forcibly than ever how utterly desperate would have been any at- tempt to arrest these men and drag them out of this valley by force. I had ridden only an hour or two after crossing the river before I met half a dozen “ Horsemen, with a square built, well dressed man, mounted on a handsome gray stallion, riding at the head. There was a mutual halt, and at my first in- quiry the leader announced that he himself was Jesse Rogers. After afew moments’ private conversation he agreed to turn back with me to his house, where we could talk the matter overat leisure. “I will then tell you,’’ he said, “the whole of this thing, from tho beginning to the end—my history and my wifo's—and all about our trouble. I have never told it to a human being before, and I tell it to you simply because so many lies have been published that I want to get the truth out.” As we rode along I had a fair view of the man whose name the recent tragedy has carried over the continent—a decisive, ‘rave man, as one can see at @ glance; a square sit- ter, well poised and restful. There is no trace of weakness about him, but rather the signs of sturdy defiance, Brown whiskers closely trimmed, a firm but full mouth, penetrating gray eyes, a high and white forehead, erect, supple, thickset figure, small hands and feet, a beaver overcoat and slouch hat. As ‘we drew near the Caywood house—a large frame building—he said lightly:—My wife will be scared when she sees us coming. This is the third day I have left home to be gone for some time, and each time I got back ‘home before night. She joked me this morning about not being able to leave her, and I waid if I came back to-night it would be be- cause something serious had happened. 80 she will be scared.” Sure enough, as we reined up at the gate. a slight figure, with a shawl thrown about it, ran down the steps, through the hall and out into the cold. It was Emma Rogers, ‘‘the belle of Powell's Valley.” Her husband hurried to her, spoke afew words and she went in the house. I was ushered into a large room, with an immense fireplace, in which a goodly pile of maple and hickory crackled and glowed. Rogers seated himself, and with tho air of # man who has a disagreeable task on hand, went st once to work at it. “THE TRUTH IN THIS MATTER.'’ “Tam going to tell you the truth in this matter, and all thetruth. You probably never heard such story from the lips of man before, aud you probably never will again. Of course it is hard for me to talk about it, but I think it best to let the world know it all, I married my wife when we were children. I ‘was not eighteen and she was just fifteen. I never had any sweetheart but her, and Idon’t think she ever had any but me. I don’t think thero ever was @ couple that loved each other better or lived happier together. For long years no man had 8 better wife than I had and no man loved his wifo better. Three children were born to us, the young- est, our little boy, alone living untilnow. The first break in our happiness was caused by me. I got tangled up with » woman in Tazewell, and got to be ‘very much under her influence. I was with her so much that it got to be. public talk. My wife got to be very jealous and unhappy, and I confessed the truth to her and promise] to break off the connec- tion, Ifound that I could not do it, however, al- though I really didn’t care for the woman. I was just thrown in the way of her, and things drifted Along pretty much as they did before. Then Em got to be worse than ever, She at last worricd herself sick and was bedfast for nearly six months. I * eouldn’t make her out. She was moody and quiet and kept thinking she was going to die. I talked to her people about her and they were afraid she was going crazy. Her grandmother and her two uneles died insane. She acted still more and more strangely, until I saw that something must be done or she would die. I then took her travelling. She kept insisting that she had been poisoned, and she had ® peculiar looking medicine that she took all the time she was travelling. Inever suspected her virtue any more than I would suspect a@ babe’s in my arms. Things wont along this way ‘until election day, Then I saw something that made me 4 little suspicious. .I just asked Em, us I passed out, if any man had ever been to see her. Sho said none but Jim Mays. She said he had made some sort of advances to her, I went to see him about it, ‘and I had a passion in my heart. That was the first time that I ever heard of any man doing or saying one thing out of the way to my wife. When I went to see Mays he told me the whole thing about Ed Jackson. I can’t begin to tell you what I felt or what I thought then, I wont from »one to the other trying to get the truth of it for.an hour or two, and then I went to my ‘wifo and asked her if what I heard was true. Sho turned palo as death and said it was. She nover de- fied it an instunt. As soon as she had confessed sho staggered toward the stove, aud putting ber hand fn tho stove pulled out a bundle of letters and said, “Jess, read them!” 1 never said a word toher, I ‘went out of the house to the stable. ‘That was where Tshot at Hd Jackson. 1 shot all my barrels out and van to the house, just twenty steps off, for moro cartridges. My wife met me at the door, with the in her hand. Sho said, “Jess, ho will Rill you!’ Lhurried back to the street. ‘THR WAYS OF AN ADULTERER, “1 want to stop here,” said Kogors, his voice hard- ening and growing tonse, “and tell you how that man accomplished the rain of my wife. AsI told you, sho ‘waa unbalanced and made miserable by my gallant- ing that other woman, Kd Jackson knew all about my connection with tho other woman, and ho to talk to my wife about it. He about it. worse than time he thought I would see would tell my wite, and have her where sho could see me meet her. Atter get- pee meeety eeeey about ithe told her he could this way he got into her confidence ie ter Aa] ho soe! be told that a drug je could that would make me hate: te weman. she lum to use it on me, and he said he would. ust remember sho was ive m0 ‘4 < how the been done, This, course, upset wife ‘worse than ever. TRe: she had wuffered a ag time and thought she was dying # death he her there was a woman in mentoesy who could break the speli of , Who break up my going with other women and me love her, begged him to get this woman to doit. He then ere Em a letter to him, signed by this woman, giv- ing the plan by which. the medicine must be made and taken, andso on. A part of this schedule was that she must submit to his nursing her. Sick, jealous, half crazy, without education or counsel, she ded y step unti) at last she was gone. Teed letters will ahow you how be worked. I can’t talk about it.”” THE HISTORY OF THE LETTERS. Interrupting the narrative of Mr. Rogers to intro- duce these letters, I must premise by saying that they are absolutely avouched, When Rogers confronted his wife and she confessed, she went to the stove aud handed him a bundle of old letters. These letters he handed to Sheriff Mays just before the shooting |. While they were in Mays’ hands, and within a half hour after Sy had been put there, Shey ware, read by four men, of whom at least two are ers’ open enemies, They have testified to me that the letters were what they had read within a half hour after they had been discovered and aa in Mays’ hands by Rogers. The details of the letters gre too horrible to put in print. I give extracts from some of them now lying before me to show how they hedged the woman about, Emma ers had doubtless been promised that she would be cured by the last of May. A letter under date of May 4 says:— re treating that Idid wrong in naming re her,orIam uot allowed to name As broke the sell 1 could promise May, bus is I felt so sorry for her, I promised, She She ts doing better than 1 the tine, will ‘got bo long. mustn't ask again what time, thought she could, And here is a threat or two, induced.apparently by adetermination on the part of Emma to break frou the lustful thraldom :— Bay to the last Indy we havo that if she quite now she will die. T didn't think I could cure her, she was ¥o badly tricked, but now I know Ican. If sho didu't have one true friend she would be under ground now. If sho quits she will ale sure, Tell that lady if sho wants to dio and let that other woman get her husband she can quit. ‘That is what they want,’ ff she will go om she will soon be well and happy. If sho quits she will die, T am tired of that indy you wrote mo about, I didn’t want to take her cuse. i §o bad: but Lam a Christian, and it was my duty to save her. Tam getting tired, and Twill quit if sho does not do what I telt ber. ‘Tell that lust lady if she will quit she must doit If sho quits suddont ft will Kill her. She can he doses and take one a weok, If she quits this way I think I eun soon wind it up. That indy must do the things I tell hor willingly, or they won't dono good. I€ she don't do what I tell her I must quit. It will be remembered Sheriff Mays says ho be- lieved Emma wanted to see him to teil him about it, and that she sent tor him. He thinks Ed Jackson saw her before he came and dissuaded her. One of the letters says:— ‘Toll the ludy if sho talks to anybody all those things will happen that she don’t want. Sho must tell nothing Here are some letters that Egan to be answers to questions asked by Emma of Ed, and of course dic- tated by him, The first one says:— ked me some questions. Tell her I will ‘That lady need not be so mortified. Thero are plenty in & worse fix than her. There is two she would never suspect. Twill tell the lady the names of these other'two when I come over. Iwill be there when the moon changes. Here are answers to a question as to why the charm was not put on her husband to break up his gallantry :— ‘Tell that lady we will tend the other thing whon get her well. That is true enongh and is best. Sho will be well soon, ‘Thon all will be done. ‘Tell that lady she will soon commence getting fat and fleshy and pretty. This will belp the other thing. Here she seems to be unable to bear the suffering. A letter says: ill not havo any more spells as bad as w some more spells, but none #0 bad will rapidly get well. She must not be un- uestions, She has had her worse spells. iy the sore throat is all right. I knowed that. ‘Tho white blisters don't matter. They is for the best. Sho will got bettor fast, after this spell. Here she seems to have lost hope. A letter ssys>— Tell the lady I didn’t think I could cure her, but now I know I will, for I have never failed. If I doant cure her (I am poor) I will give her anythings she asks. She wou’t have uo thore hard spells. Here is a demand for money :— Toll the a Iam a Christian and I think it my duty to cure her, but Icouldn’t come over as I hadu’t no nioney. The hint seems to have been sufticient. A letter of later date says :. Toll the pens thank her for her present. I will cure her cortain and dx the other thing too. Thank her. ‘The succeeding letters acknowledge frequent pres- ts. en These oxtracts might be continued indefinitely and to show a hundred different phases of evasion or an- swer, A most uae record they make! No one can conceive of what they are except by a careful study of them. Little wonder that Rogers said, ‘‘After I had read these letters I knew why she ran to get them when I attacked her. She knew they were the cause of the thing and she thought they would excuse it.” ROGERS RESUMES HIS TALK. oe the letters had been laid aside Rogers re- sumed :— “Of course, after it had happened I never thought of living with my wife again. I took her down the valley and lett her with her father. I then secured these letters and commenced examining them. They so strange that I determined to talk to my wife about them. went and did so. The long and the short of it is I made up my mind to take her back to my bosom. Of course Iam moro interested in being right about it than the world can be, and I am just as sure’—here he rose and stood looking down: on me—‘that she was irresponsible and unbalanced when she did this thing, and that she is at heart and purpose a pure woman, as I am that God Al- mighty reigns in heaven. I know it, sir; I know it. I have her ever since she was a child, and I know her bents and dispositions better than any- body can know them. Besides, Iam man enough acknowledge to myaclf that whatever she may have done I am to blame for it. She was as good a wife as ever lived until I went astray. I unbalanced her life and broke down her happiness, and I almost destroyed her reason. As a question of naked justice between me and her and our God I sinned against her just as much as she could have sinned against me, and I smned first. Of course society don’t think of it this way. In the eyes of society her as that. She and ask 1 that 1 sin is much more horrible than mine. I am not | dealing with society. Iam dealing with the woman llove—with my wife. And I-propose to protect her. If the world don’t associate with ber it shall never show her lack of respect. Any man who kuows mo will never dave to throw anything up to me, and I hope no stranger will try it. I'm fully determined on linking my life with hers ad long as we both live. I can’t say that life is full happy. ‘This thing rises up nearly all the time, but I inanage to generally hide it from the world, and I always cram it back into my heart when she’s about. I sce the cloud is gradually being lifted off her tace, and that is a comfort to me, She is getting stronger and more even ali the time. She shall never lack for spepeity. or atten- tion or money as long as I live—nor for love eitner. I love her, sir, I love her just as much as I ever did. I have never had but two peopte to ask me to go back to her; one of them was my mother. ‘Vhat’s very strange, ain't it? Well, my own mother, who knows me better than almost anybody, came to me and begged me to take her back. There ain’t many women could have yot that appeal from their husband's mother. The other person was Billy Cay- wood, Em’s uncle, He has always been my triend, and he came and asked me to take her back. He said he had watohed her, and he was satistied she would kill herself if Ideserted her. Threaten me? Well, I Delieve if you knew mo you wouldn't ask that. ‘Lhere ain’t enough men on this earth to have forced Joss Rogers to live with # woman he didn’t believe to be pure and that his love didn’t load him ‘Threaten me! No, sir; the pressure with me has all been on the other side. I took my wife because I believed she hat not wronged me wantonly, and because I believed I was about as much to blame as she was, if not more so; use I loved her, and I know she loves me. ‘There's cause enough for me. If it don’t suit the eae then I can’t help it. The world aint in- WILL NEVER BE ARRESTED. ao like to have you teil me about your ar- “Arrest! I never was arrested, and I never will be. I should like to sce anybody take me and the Cay- woods out of this valley if we didn't want to go. ‘There was nobody ‘wanted to it. I believe one party of Keutuckians did come down here to look after us, bat they only bos tog one night; and, let me tell you, that came mighty near being too long for them. We should not have done auy- thing, but I hear since our friends were get ting ‘mighty restless. ‘Chere never has been & day since the warrants were issued that wo weren't determined to go up and #tand our trial, We own too much property w be skipping about and dodging the law or to leave the county either. We didn’t want to go while the excitement was so high, and we didn’t go. By the time the Cireuit Court came around I thought we were ready to go to trial in Kentucky, espevially as I had some cases in the Cireuit Court that 1 wanted to attend to. One of them was tho uit in this caso, So I sont word to Jim me and Billy would come PP, and we went. out that thing of Gibson? Well, of doing it an hour it. He is my neighbor. I had teen him a dozen times since tho reward was offered. I would trusted him as quick as my own brother. He was drinking or he would’ut have tried it. He came very near bei: killed, As to the crowd going with us to Kontucky, Billy and me rode home two days shead of them alone, and we mot n. ‘The crowd came on and met us in the valley. We never left homo at all, I was in ‘Tazewe.l o Trodo on the train to Knoxville. I went next to Kansas to get out of » trade I had made before this thingcameon. 1 didu’t know how things would work, and I didn’t want to be tied down with investments out there, There was no attempt to arrest us, I tell you we knew what overy stranger in the Valley wanted long before he got into it, aud he was watched day and night if his ‘Sowing wasn’t clear.” THB DEFENCE OUTLINED. “What defence will you make to the killing of Ka Jackson “Why, I never killed him. I tell you these hands are innocent of human biood. I never saw him killed, None of our killed him. We did start with him trom Lebauon, but he escaped from us be- fore we reached the mountain, [never saw him again, Why, that was all « lic about Parson Peace having seen my four men torture 4 negro, He swore dn the trial he had never seon ug before, and never saw any men carrying @ negro over the mountain, The first knew of it was the stench. He hadn’t been oyer the mountain before that day in several weeks, He swore to this, and it’s on record, It can't be ved that the negro found on the mountain faa been killed, Jesse Lily, one of the coroner's jury, swore the jury found no mark of violence. They looked closely, and even took the body out of the coffin to examine the back any, because some one bad said he was cut in the back, They found nothing. There were some blisters on his breast, but a Doctor Le Vorce testified they might have been caused by the sun. It can never be proved that the dead negro was Ed Jackson. Several wit- nesses swore the body couldn't have been identified by any one. Furthermore I can prove ou the trial that Ed Jackson is still alive. But I can’t talk avout that now. I want you to see my wife and talk with Before gong, into the conversation with Mrs. Roy it best to say that in an interview with Wilse Jackson on this newly-made point he stated that he had Feeceniond his son's body by a peculiarity of his thumb nail, and that while he did not see the figs of the mutilation spoken of, the body being half decomposed, he was certain as to its identity. Says he, “As sure as de sun shines dat grave out dere holds my boy!” While there is little doubt, if any, in the minds of anybody that Ed Jackson was killed, and that the corpse was that of Ed Jack- son, it will be very hard in the present condition of things to prove it betore a jury. On the other hand, it will require the most accurate and overwhelming proof to convince the people that Jackson is still liv- . Noone will swear in the case against Rogers unless forced todo so. Wilse Jackson himself will not go to the Kentucky trial. It may thus fall throngh for lack of witnesses. He says he started to the habeas corpus trial, and was turned back at Pineville with the threat of being killed it he went turther. a A TALK WITH MRS. ROGERS, In a few moments after Mr. Rogers left the room he re-entered with his wife. Her appearance was different from what has been rey tod, There is no sign of gayety or recklessness about her. She was modestly, but for that section, richly attired. By the light of the beg which her husband held before our faces that we might consult the letters I had a ood chance to study her. It was asad and wistful face, weak in its expression, without definiteness or strength, and yet very pretty and interesting. Across its pale surface there flickered every now and then a strange, wild look, that had the uncertain flash of in- sunity init. ‘This look played across the face at in- tervals as unconsciously as summer lightning trem- bles in the sky. There were large blue eyes that swam in tears at the slightest agitation, u prettily fashioned mouth that gquivered and broke almost every time. the lips were opened, a low, broad forehead, and # wide sweep abaft the eyes—dark hair combed back plainly—a white and full throat, on which was clasped a hand- some brooch holding her husband's likeness. Her figure was unusually delicate and shapely for a country girl, and showed no signs of work. After the peeie | of an introduction I had @ long conversation with Mrs. Rogers in the presence of Ler husband, It would serve no good purpose to repeat here the ‘melancholy confession of jealousy, weak- ness and delusion which she related to me in ¢: planation of her connection with the young mulatto olitician, It is enough to say that the story trom wr own lips fully corroborated that of her husband aud struck -me, as an impartial listener, as being wholly the truth. ‘The woman’s stories of what Jackson would tell her, and with what craftiness he would meet all her protests and batter down her defences, would be ii credible were they not so closely linked and so coi roborative of each other. If the story is a deception, whicn 1 consider impossible, it involved in its concoction marvellous in- yenuity to make each part fit the other so well. This woman could never have invented the hun- drodth part of it, And if it is a monstrous lie, then, in less than one month it will tear itself from the ‘woman’s heart, else that white, pitiful face will be lockod in a madhouse or in the grave. It will be re- membered that at her husbund’s first attack she con- fessod the truth and put her proofs in his hand. I no- ticed jicularly the deferent tenderness with which Mrs. Rogers was treated by the whole family. I saw her in three houses. In all she was treated as if she had been under some divine affliction. There are prob- ably twenty houses in the valley of her own kindred. Not a member of either family, remote or close, has turned his back upon her. LONG ISLAND RAILROADS. MRS, A, T. STEWART'S SUIT TO EJECT THE LONG ISLAND COMPANY AND RECEIVER SHARPE FROM POSSESSION OF THE CENTRAL ROAD. The complications in Long Island Railroad matters took a new turn before Judge Armstrong, in Queens county, yesterday, Mrs, A. T. Stewart having begun proceedings to eject the Long Island Company and Receiver Sharpe from possession of the Central road. In taking this step Mrs. Stewart is protecting her in- terests both as to the railroad and the weltare of Garden City. The Central Railroad, as it is called, from Hunter’s Point to Queens, bas been practically abandoned by Receiver Sharpe, but one train a day gomg over that section now. The Long Island Company formed a connection with the Cen- tral road at Queens, and ail business is done over that route. It is thought that this action is but the forerunner to the absolute abandonment of the Cen- tral road between Hunter’s Point and Queens, inas- much as arrangements are now being perfected for the construction of a branch of the Long Island road, from where it joins the Central road, into the heart of Creedmoor. ‘This will afford better facilities to the riflemen. At the time that Mr. Stewart concluded to build a railroad to Garden City Mr. Poppenhusen was operating the North Shore road to Flushing and neighboring places, and he simply tapped the North Shore road at the Flushing meadow. The union, however, resulted in the improvement of the North Shore road and may said to have m the incentive to the improvements which followed on all the roads. Mr. Stewart built sixteon miles of railroad between Hinsdale and Farmingdale, the two extremes of his great land pur- chase, and the Hempstead branch. Since Mr. Sharpe’s appointment as receiver the Long Island and Central branches between Garden City and Hempstead and Mineola and Hempstead have been consolidated, In the proceedings before Judge Armstrong yester- day Mrs. Stewart was represeated by Mr. Work, aud Mr. Sharpe was represented by Mr. E. B. Hinsdale. Mrs. Stewart's affidavit set forth that the Long Island Railroad Conpeey was owing $53,747 75 on | account of the lease of the Central Railroad, and that payment was deinanded on February 5 and default made. The lease of the road owned by Mr. Stewart ‘was executed by hitn to the Central Railroad Company on January 7, 1873, anda supplemental lease was mude in December following, for period of fifty years, at | an annual rental of $44,318 20. On the 19th of Jan- | uary, 1874, the Fiushing, North Shore and Central Tailroads were consolidated, and in May, 1876, when asort of general consolidation of ali the roads re- sulted, the lease was assigned to the Long Island Railroad Company. ‘The answering ifidavits admit the leasing in 1873 | and the consolidation in 1874, but deny the assign- ment of the lease in 1576, It is claimed that on May 3, 1876, the Lony Island Railroad Company leased the Flushing, North Shore and Central railroads for a period of ninety-nine years, and the Stewart road was contained in said lease, The Flushing, North Shore and Central Company had possession until May 3, 1876, and from that date and until October 26, 1877, the Long Island Railroad Company had possession as under tenants, and since then the receiver has been in possession. The Long Island Company and the receiver deny that they owe anything on account of rent, claiming that as they wore sinwply under ton- ants Mrs, Stewart’s claim for $85,477 75 is aguinst tue Flushing, North Shore and Central Railroad Com- pany, Ju Armstrong granted a writ of cjectment, and Mr. Work put itin the Sheriffs hands at once. The roads will continuo to be operated as at present until spring. The effect of the ejectmont is to shut the Flushing, North Shore and Central Company out of Garden City, Hempstead, Farmi . Bethpage, Belinvat Junction snd Baldwin, ug worthless all of tho road wost of Hinsdale, SIXTH AVENUE RAILROAD COMPANY. ‘The annual election for thirteon directors of the Sixth Avenue Railroad Company was held at the depot yesterday with the following result:—Richard Mortimer, @. W. Burnham, Frederte DePoyster, Jona- than ‘Lhorne, T. R. Butler, Abram R. Van Nest, Ed- ward Minturn, Robert T. Woodward, Henry Dem- arest, William Bryce, William Y¥. Mortimer, Albert W. Greene and Theo. E. Macy. TERRIBLY BEATEN, Michael Finnan, propriétor of a liquor saloon on ‘Wayne street, Jersey City, was yesterday brought before Justice Davis, in the First District Police Court, on ® charge of atrociously assaulting Bar, tholomew Kelly at alate hour Monday night. Kelly was found bleoding and unconscious in front of Finvan’s saloon, and when ho recovered his senses in the Charity Hospital he said that Finnan had beaten him with aclab and thrown him out of his saloon to the sidewalk. Kelly's nose was broken, ono of his urine was fractured, and he had received injuries about the head which may result fatally. Finnan was held in default of bail. ere is another charge against him of the same character. WILD HOG'S NEWARK SOUVENIR. Apropos of the account in the HrnaLp yesterday of the noted Cheyenne chieftain, Wild Hog, now held at Fort Leavenworth military prison for trial, thousands of people in Newark remember his stal- wart and imposing figure on the occasion of his visit to the Industrial Exhibition in the fall of 1874. It was on that occasion that he was presonted by the secretary of the Exhibi- tion with the nickle plated star—a souvenir he now wears with mach pride as the chiefest of his tions, A few months ago @ son of the secretary vis- ited Wild liog’s camp and made known that he w: } Wh THE ALDERMEN. WHAT THE CITY FATHERS DID YESTERDAY— BAPID {TRANSIT WANTED BY THE ANNEXED DISIRICT—-THE CONTRACT SYSTEM DE NOUNCED—VETOES BY THE MAYOR. The usual throng of persons were present at the regular weekly meeting of the Board of Aldermen Yesterday. At the beginning of the session only fifteen members were present, but toward the end of the meeting all the Aldermen, except Mr, S'evin, who is ill at his residence, put in an appearance. Presigent Jordan L. Mott occupied the chair, The session of yesterday was the longest that has yet been held by the present Common Council, lasting from two o'clock until five P. M. The first business brought before the Board was & Petition signed by residents of West Farms and by property owners of the Twenty-third and Twenty- fourth wards, which was presented by Alderman Robert Hall. The petition recites that valuable fran- chises have been granted to the elevated railroad companies, for which they have not as yet made any adequate roturn to the residents of the upper dis- trict. The persons owning property in the annexed territory were taxed the same amount as those living in the lower part of this city, aud in the opinion of the signers of the petition the managers and direc- tors of the elevated reads should complete their structures as soon as possible, The matter was re- ferred to the Committee on Railroads, . BY DA¥’S WORK OR BY CONTRACT. Alderman Sheils created a sensation among his collegues by offering a measure providing that all work in charge of departments and bureaus of the city government shall be done by day’s work, and that the contract system be abolished. The resolu- tion of Mr. Shcils was a short one, aud was listened to with marked attention, especially by the republi- can and anti-Tammany City Fathers. At the conclu- sion of the reading Alderman Morris moved that the matter be referred to the Committee on Public Works, Asharp debate then took place. Mr. Sheils said be hoped the resolution which he had offered would be adopted, Nothing whatever would be gained by laying the matter over or by referring its consideration to any committee of the Board, A large proportion of the work done for the city was at present done by day’s work, and there ‘was no reason why all of it should not be completed in the same manner, It had been said by some of his republican colleagues that the Common Council had no power whatever to pass such a measure as he had introduced. This was not so. The Board of Aldermen alone possessed the authority to designate jm what manner tlfe work of the city should be per- formed, This view of the question had been upheld time and time again by competent authority, and was, no doubt, a true construction of the luw. It was all very well for people to talk about the cheapness of contract work, but he (Mr. Sheils) would say this much—that if it were cheaper and more econominal for tho city to have its work done by the contract system it would be much better done if performed by day's work. In support of the assertions made by him Mr. Sheils re- ferred to the falling of the Forty-second street arch some months ago, and spoke of the charges made in relation to work being done on Morningside Park. ‘The Alderman then spoke for some minutes about the methods employed by contractors. Alderman Stewart wanted to know who it was that inaugurated the contract system, but before the question.could be answered Alderman Robert Hall sprang to his feet and asked whether in speaking about the laborers’ wages Mr. Sheils intended to make any insiuuation in relation to his course in the Board. Alderman Shoils disclaimed any intention of reflecting in any manner upon the motives which induced his colleague to introduce his resolutions of last week. This bit of by-play was watched with smiling countenances by those in the chamber, and at its conclusion Alderman Burns made an eloquent and sarcastic speech on the merits of Mr. Sheils’ reso- lution. The Alderman began his remarks by ex- pressing sorrow for the workingman, and went on to speak about the action of former Common Councils on this subject of laborers’ wages. He de- fended his party (the republican), and contended that its members had no hend in making it necessary to have city work done by contract. If anybody said that the republicans had anything whatever to do with bringing in the contract system they stated what was not true, and could prove it by facts which could not be gainsaid. After some furthor remarks of the same character the Alderman sat down amid some applause. A few other City Fathers then made some remurks, after which Alderman Sheils’ resolution was adopted by a vote of 17 to 4. TUE CORPORATION ORDINANCES. 4-resolution wasintroduced by Alderman Morris, and passed, which provides that the Board of Police Commissioners “be requested to direct all police offi- cers On poss duty, before maki: complaints at the station house for violations of the Corporation ordi- nances, except thoserelating to the removal of snow and ice, to notify such offender verbally to remove the cause of complaint, and if the suid violation is re- moved within twenty-four hours’ tume then no com- plaint shall be made; but not more than one such notice shull be given for any one offence.” ‘The same Alderman also submitted a resolution which recited that “in order to indicate as nearly as possible the location of every fire alarm telegraph box in the city, that the glass on the top of every street lamp located on the nearest street corner, and the lamp in the street or avenue nearest every such box, be colored red; and that the Commissioner of Public Works be directed to carry into effect the pro- visions of this resolution."?. This measure was laid over, a8 was also a resolution of Mr. Morris, direct- ing the Gas Commission, which consists of the Mayor, the Comptroller and the Commissioner of Public Works, to test the practic@bility of having the electric light used in the streets, avenues, parks and public places in this city. A resolution providing for ceding to the United States government a triangular, piece of laud at the Battery, which was introduced by Alderman Burns, was referred to the Committee on Salaries and Oftices, Alderman Sauer moved that the Department of Docks be directed to have reports of their meetings published twenty-four hours after they were held. ‘The motion was carried, VETOES ¥ROM MAYOR COOPER. Twelve yeto mu es from the Mayor were handed to President Mott. Nearly all of them related to per- missions granted for the erection of meat racks and barbers’ poles, and were all laid over. Two vetoes of His Honor, which were sent in some time since, were overridden, and the resolutions which author- ized the putting up of a meat rack and a sign and fign post were .. ‘he Mayor vetoed the reso- lution which provided that persons accused of vio- lating Corporation ordinances should be brought to the court in the district in which they reside or do business, ‘The special committee appointed to investigate the charges made pipet Albert Osborne, the sergeant- arias of the Board, presented a report in which they state that the charges have no foundation in fact. ‘The report was ordered tu be printed. ‘The Committee on Ferries and Docks reported in favor of having ail buildings erected on piers along the water front constructed of fireproof material. Committee on Streets presented a report whieh uimended that the street on the north side of the Port Ofice be designated as a mail street, Theso re- ports were all laid over. Letore the adjournment of the Board Alderman Strack said that a meeting of the committes having incharge the investigation of the charges made in refercuce to the inspectors of weights and measures would be held at tho City Hal] on Saturday next at twelve o'clock noon. The Board adjourned to meet on Tuesday next at two P. M. HOW THE FIRES WERE MANAGED. The Board of Fire Commissioners held their fourth session yesterday to investigate the management of the late fires in Grand and Worth streets, Patrick H. Graracn, an oysterman, was examined. At twenty- seven and a half minutes past nine P. M. ho saw sparks coming out of the top windows of the build- ing at Broadway and Grand street; @ noise, like the explosion of gas, followed, aud was succecded by a white Mame; @ policeman sounded an alarm from a telegraph box. Chief Bouner, of the Sceond battalion, was at bat- talion headquarters when the fire broke out; on his arrival he sew fire coming from the fourth floor win- dows; he caused the doors on the Broadway entrance to be broken in, evgines Nos. 33 and 27 had by this time arrived, and streams were taken up to tho fourth floors; the flames gradually drove the firemen out of the building; the goods in the building wero protected by covers on the third floor, but it was im- possible to use covers on the fourth floor; the heat was too intense to use ladders, for the same rea- son the men could not work with any effect; at the same time they performed their duties, and ali orders were promptly obeyed. Other witnesses testified to the same effect. Tho investigation will be continued on Thursday amorn- ing. CUSTOM HOUSE NOTES. Collector Merritt was in his office yesterday, having returned from Washington. Although it is certain that some removals will be made shortly the list has not as yet been made out. ‘The two spaniels which were seized on the steam. ship City of New York were iy released on the payment of $35 10, $30 of which waa their appraised valuo aud $5 10 for duties, LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY. A gathering will be held at the rooms of the Lin- col Club, No. 37 Clinton place, this evening, to come the son of the pale face who presented the Cheyenne chior with the star. At once Wild Hog manifested the greatest delight, and strained every nerve to show the youns man Lover and kindness, memorate the seventieth birthday of Abraham Lin- oln. Addresses on his life and character will bo de- livered by Messrs, Thurlow Weed, Levi P. aud others, Morton NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1879.-TRIPLE SHEET. | HISTORY GP CARTOGRAPHY, Chief Justice Daly’s Lecture on the Prog- ress of Map Making. FROM THE CHALDE@WS 10 MERCATOR Ancient Ideas of Geography---The Egyp- tians, Greeks and Romans. TIME DISSIPATING ERROR. A pleasant reunion of lovers of science took place last evening at Chickering Hall, when Chief Justice Daly, president of the New York Geographical So- ciety, delivered a lecture on the “History of Oar- tography; or, The Progress of the Art of Map Making from the Earliest Times to Those of Mercator.” A large audience greeted the Chief Justice and warmly applauded his learned discourse. Chief Justice Daly said:— The origin of maps is, I apprehend, involved in as much obscurity as the i ition of letters. The cartographic art is probably as old or older than the invention of the alphabet. We know that the art of ing began with pictorial representations of ob- which is still distinguishable in the Egyptian hieroglyphics, the earliest form of writing with which we are acquainted, ond we may fairly assume that long before letiers were invented to represent the articulate sounds in human speech by an alpha- betical arrangement of which any spoken word can be put in writing that man had sufiiciently advanced in the knowledge of the arts of design to be able to represent the position of countries, cities aud towns, the course of rivers, the situation of seas, the local- ity of mountains, or other distinguishing features of | the earth’s surface, by some form of delineation or map so far as he had occasion for it, for this art has decn found in use among races who had had no pre- vious contact with civilized ian—vraces that had never advanced so fur as to invent a written language. ‘Lhe lecturer added that Parry and Koss found that the Esquimeux understood their charts, and even ex- tended lines of coast unknown to the explorers, The North American Indiaus have always had maps which were tutelligible and serviceable to them. The earliest thing known in the nature of a map is the ground pian of « town identitied as that of Susa, the Shushan of the Bible, a city of remote antiquity. ‘The plan is supposed to be as old as seven centuries before Christ, and represents with minute accuracy the details of the town, The Egyptians doubtless had maps of some kind. As they increased in civili- zation and power they acquired, at a comparatively early period, a considerable knowledge of the ge- ography of the world as then known. ‘The military expeditions and conquests of Thothmes IIL, 1,400 B, C., and Rameses Il., the Sesostris of the Greeks, 1,300 B. C., extended over Asia to Nineveh, on the Euphrates, and to the confines of India, They ex- tended also over a large part ot Northern Africa, to the north of Greece and alinost to Central Europe, cmbrac- ing nearly the whole world, as known to theancients. ‘They, like the Chaldeans, had made great progress in the science of astronomy and doubdess had some general idea of the form of the curth. There is a passage in Appolomons of Rhodes which has been supposed to refer to the maps used by Rameses IL, but it is too uncertain to predicate anything upon it. PHG:NICIAN AND GREEK GEOGRAPRERS, It was very different, however, with their neigh- bors, the Phwnicians. They were the great mari- time nation of antiquity, making constant voyages along the coasts of the Mediterrancan on either side and ulong the western coast of Europe as far as Great Britain, and possibly farther. ‘heir jealous com- mercial policy kept them from imparting their knowledge to others, so that we do not know whether they had maps or charts, which is not remarkable, as we know, in fact, so little respecting them. It is from the Grecks that we get our earliest knowledge of geographical maps. The first informa- tion we have upon the subject is trom passages in Herodotus and in Strabo. Strabo says that Anaxi- mauder, who was born B. C. 612, was the first who represented the world upon a map. Diogenes Laertes averibed to him the invention ot geographical maps, and algo of the gnomen, the simple instrument very much hke our own sun dial, with which the ancients, in connection with the clepsydia or water glass, made their astronomical observations; but the gnomen is known to have been in use among the Chaldeans long before the time of Anaximander. He may have introduced it into Greece, which was enough to have the invention of it attributed to him, for the Greeks were very like our English brethren— if any one of their countrymen was connected with the introduction among them of a new art or dis- covery he was put down as the inventor. It been said that Anaximander knew that the. earth was # sphere, and so constructed his map, but apprehend that there is no ground for such @n as- sumption. Diogenes Luertes says that he was the first person who drew a map of the earth and sea, and that he made aglobe. It appears from earlier and better intormed writers, suc as Aristotle and Piutarch, that Anaximander’s idea of the earth was that it was of acylindricai form, in the shape of a long pillar, the upper part or face of which was the portion inhabited. Hecataeus, who lived in the same century with An- aximander, is believed to have corrected and im- proved his map. Hecataeus was an extensive traveller, well acquainted with Egypt and Western Asia, and who embodied his informations in two works which were of great authority long after his time, No doubt the unknown and fabulous was mingled with what was known in the map of Hecatacus. Herodotus, who wrote ntury later, had evidently a poor opinion of it, or at ieast of thé maps existing when he wrote. He says:—"For my part I can- not but laugh when I see numbers of persons draw- ing maps ot the worid without having any roasén to guide them; making the ocean stream to run all round the earth, and the earth itself to be an exact circle, as if described by a pair of compasses.” ‘The last remark may possibly have been applied to some | attempt to construct a map with reference to the ylobular form. of the earth, for Parmenides, 4 contemporary of Herodotus, is said by Diogenes Laertes to have been the first person who asserted that the earth was of @ spherical form, and that it was situated in the centre of the universe, and the game idea was entertained by Socrates, who was in the enjoyment of a widespread Foputation more than twenty years before the death of Herodotus. Strabo credits Parmenides also with having been the first to divide the globe into five zones, or, as they were then called, climates, The statement of so late a writer as Laertés, that Parmenides was tho first to propound the true theory of the form of the carth, would not of itself be entitled to much weight, but the state- ment is probably truc, from what is known from conteiaporaneous sources, We know very little re- specting the mau who appears to have been the first, at least im Greece, to express a Delief in the rotundity of the earth. Plato, who calls him the great Parmenides, says that he Was @ native of Klea, on the west coast of Italy, and that he came to Athens when rather an old man, with loary locks aud a handsome, noble aspect, and that Socrates then became acquainted with him, so that it 18 not impossible that it was trom him that Socrates received Lis impression of the spherical form of the earth, Socrates says, as recorded by Plato, “the earth is neither of such a kind nor of such a maygui- tude as is supposed by those who speak of it, as I have been persuaded by a certain person,” who may have been Parmeuides, Aristotle was convinced half acentury afterward that the carth was a globe, draw- ing that conclusion from the shadow which it casts on the sun in eclipses, When the idea became firmly fixed in the mind of the learned that the carth was @ sphore it naturally followed among an artistic people like the Greeks that some attempt would be made to give a physical representation of it, and accordingly we are told that Crates, B. C. 326, constructed a globe of the inhabited part of the earth—trom the arctic to the troplc—in ‘the form of a half circie. The rone about the tropics he represented as wn uninhabitable portion entirely covered by water, a belief which existed for a long time afterward, and the southern half beyond as that of an unknown but an inbabited 103 ‘Strabo refers to the globe of Crates, with whi ppears to have been familiar, and describes how such a globe should be constructed, which, he says, to present all , should the region of the habitable earth accur: be at least ten fect in diameter. Dicearchus, the Messinian, B. C. 296, a very accom- plished man, and the writer of several geographical works which are lost, constructed a map of work) in an oval form, which appears to have bean hight estimated, and to have been the model upon wi subsequent maps were made. With Eratosthenes, who died about the boginning of the second century before Christ, the science of geography may be said to have begun. ‘Lo rectity the errors which became more apparent and confus- ing as the inhabited part of the world became better known Eratosthenes devised, what has ever since been employed, as the most accurate means of deter- Mining the circumference of the carth, the measure- ment of an are of the meridian. Hipparchus, how- evor, three-quarters of a century later, criticised Eratosthenes’ work severely, and declared that in some respects the previous naps were preferable, ‘The happy idea occurred to Hipparchus of apply- ing to the earth the sume method he had used in ax- ing the position of the stars in the celestial sphere, Regarding the earth as @ great circle, whic! like an; other circle, is divisible into 360 degrees, he so 4 vided it, by lines of circles drawn perpendicularly from the pole to the Equator and by Jel Lines at equal distances from the Equator to the poies, which was the beginning of the division of the giobe by lines of longitude and latitude, into degrees, or, as the Grecks called thom, the divisible parts of a great circle.” ROMAN CARTOGRAPIERS, ‘The Romans at first followed Eratosthones and Hipparchus, But about fitty years before Christ Posidonius rejected Eratosthenes’ measurement of au are of @ meridian and constructed @ map conform. ing to his own astronomical ideas. It was full of errors. Marinus of Tyre, who lved in the second century, undertook to correct all errors in an ac- curate geographical work. He undertook to combine the results of astronomical observation with the tn- formation suppliet by the itineraries of travel lers—a dificult task—as the only means of astro. * nomical observation at the time was the shadow cast by the gnomen. e ‘The geography of his immediate successor, Ptol- emy, which has fortunately come down to us, waa written at least within half a century and, as Ptolemy himselt says, was based m the work of Marinus. Ptolemy's labor was in this day, we would call editing a new and revised edition of an existing work. Ptolemy was a much better math- ematician and astronomer, but evidently very inte- rior a8 @ geographer to his predecessor, He under- took to correct Marinus’ chiet error by rojection of the earth from east to west from 30 degrees. In making this geometrical however, he fell into 4 muititude of ar which, had be been a better geographer, he w readily have detected. It would appear, from what is said in Ptolemy's work, that there was a set of maps attached to it, An edition of Ptolemy was printed in Rome ip 1478, with ancient maps, twenty-six in number, Whether they aro copies of original maps belonging to Ptolemy's work is an unsettled question, All that is known is that these maps were attached to manu- script copies of Ptolemy's, one of which is at Vienna and another at Venice; and that at the end of these manuscripts there is this statement:—‘Agatho- dwmon of Alexandria delineated the whole inhabited world, according to the eight books on geography of Claudius Ptolemy.” AN that is kuown of Pokey, apart from his works, is that he lived at Alexai about the middle of the second century of our era. ‘The idea of the earth’s movement appears to have been entertained in Greece by the Pyt é is certain that several philosophers of that school controverted the prevailing impression that the earth was a flat plain, Philolaus,« Pythagorean and acontemporary of Socrates, believed in a central fire, and that the earth made a daily revolution around it. Heraclitus, of Ephesus, B, C. 513, thought thut the earth was not immovable, but had a silos motion. Plutarch says that Plato, who had always believed that the sun moved around earth,, changed his opinion toward the end of his life and regretted that he had not taught that the sun was the centre of the universe, Aristarchus of Samos, B, C. 280, taught that the sun was a fixed ‘star; that the earth moved around it. in an oblique circle, and also about its own axis, Plutarch says that he taught this hypotheti- cally, but that Seloucus, the mathematician, usserted it positively. ‘This, as Tar as can_be collected, was the state of this inquiry when Ptolemy wrote:— “There are,” Ptolemy says, “people who pretend that there is nothing to prevent the belief that the heavens are immovable, and that the earth turns on its axis from west to east in the interval of a day,’* He then ridicules such notions, and points to the lighter bodies suspended in the air, and which, he says, “should have a movement different from the eurth. The works of Eratosthenes, Hipparchus and Marinus of ‘Tyre have perished, and the geographies of Strabo, Pomponious, Mela und Piolany are the only important works of the ancients that have come down to us. Hence of their geographical knowledge we have little and defective information, DURING THE “DARK AGES.”” A period of 1,200 years elapses from the time of* Ptolemy to the inauguration by Prince Henry, the navigator, of the spirit of maritime enterprise which led to the circumnavigation of Africa and the dis- covery of the continent of America. But though geographical knowledge declined during this inter- val, and from the sixth to the middle of the eleventh, centuries the condition in Europe, except in Spain and in Ireland, was one of almost universal ignor- ance, there was throughout the whole of the ‘iod some attention, at least, given to geography—to the study of maps and to map peeking: ‘he clergy, who represented the only learned body of the time, were inclined to test all scientific and graphical as- sumptions by the standard of the Bible. In the mid-, die of the sixth ceatury Cosmos, who had been » merchant, an cxtensive traveller, and who became # monk, was the writer of several geo- graphical works, one ot which has survived, in. which he maintained that the idea of the earth being a ylobe was contrary alike to the Scriptures and to | common sense, sustaining his views by ingenious arguments, which, in that age, were very convincing. “There are,” he says, “false Christians, contemners of the authority of Scripture, who dare to maintain that the earth isa sphere. I combat this error, de- rived from the Greeks, by citations from the Holy- his to Writ.” From this point our knowledge is very ob- scure. It is the poriod of the Dark Ages. We know that in the seventh century they had maps in the monasteries of Ireland, for from the sixth to the ninth centuries there was an amount of in Treland that was in striking contrast with the general ignorance that prevailed throughout Europe. ‘During the period that marks the rise, the maturity and decline of the empire of the Arabs, or from the ninth to the thirteenth centuries, geography was as- siduously cultivated by them asa science, especially in Bagdad, the capital of the caliphs, and for a part of that period in Spain. It is to the Arabians, and ticularly to the geographical scholars of that we owe the preservation of the works of Ptolemy, which they translated into Arabic and annotated, They determined the obliquity of the ecliptic, measured two arcs of the meridian, ascertained more accurately the longitude of piaces in Asia and about the Moditerranean, enlarged deserip~ tive geography by an uccount of the countries in Asia over which they had extended their conquests, They hud intercourse also at that time with China, and it may be that it was through this intercourse that the mariner’s compass came to the Mediter ranean, for it was in use in China long before it wae known in Europe. .I may also mention in this con- nection that the Chinese, according to che statements of their own writers, had ep tiem @ very remote period, It is known that tl was in A.D. 2058 map of the Empire on twenty-four pieces of silk, and @ Chinese writer of about that period speaks of an atlas of maps representing China_aud the barbarous countries conquered by it. It: sears also that there was @ triangulation of the Kiunpice A. D. 721, and that in the ninth century, wha the Arabs were in communication with the country, & map of the world was constructed, A. D. 820, in. which China was represented as in the centre of the earth. In the reign of the Caliph Al. Mamoun, about A. D. 830, a geographical work, founded upon Ptol- emy, was written by the custodian of the library of’ Bagdad, Abou Djafer Mohammed Ben Mousa, which was the foundation for all the subsequent labors of the Arabian geographers. ‘The map of Ranulphus Hyggeden, A. D. 1360, may be taken as @ specimen of the kind that was pro- duced in Western Europe in the fourteenth century, ‘The earth is represented as oval in form and sur- rounded by water. The principal portion of the upper half of the oval represents Asia, the principal part of the lower half Europe, while Africa occupies nearly the whole of the right of the map. There is some attempt to give the outlines of the Mediterra- nean and the Black Ses, and the islands of the Medit- erranean are represented, and the course of rivers, es pecially the Nile, the Euphrates and the Tigris, but erroneously and very rudely. MERCATOR'S TRIUMPH, In concluding his lecture Judge Daly referred to the introduction of the mariner’s compass to gen- cral use in Southern Europe, and to the energy and skill of maratimoe catalans in canstructing maj the most famous being that made in 1375 for Charles V., of France, The journeys of Marco Polo and Cade- mostra, in the filfeenth century, resulted im tho construction, by Fra Mauro, a friar, who established & geographical school in Venice, of a remarkable map, Curious maps of the earth on different projec- tions were made between 1500 and 1569; by Jacob Ruysch, in 1607; Sylvanus, in 1611; Peter Benewitz, in bps Re Ban! latter being a sane on “ie ame “American” appears; by Mercator, in and Sebastian Munster in 1541-1550. The last and greatest is that of Mercator in 1569, when he introduced what has ever since been known us Mercator’s projection, which not only gave the world in one view, but by a very curious and simple contrivance showed the moat effectual way for a ves- sel to sailin a straight line over acurved surlace, ud thereby solved what was before one of the most difficult probleins in navigation, That projection constitutes, down to the present day, the basis of every chart that is constructed to guide the mariner in his way over the ocean, and’ the map of the world on this projection is to bo found im nearly every English ot American atlas that has been published for acentury and more, and yet the inquirer would search in vain in any work in the English for the particulars of Mcreator's life or for any satis factory account of what he did. How little is known respecting hiin, even by nautical men, will be suf- ficiently indicated when I state that, upon speaking about him not very long ago to a distinguished Eng- lish admiral, he looked at me and exclaimed, “What! was there such — as Mercator ? louie sup poved Mervetor's projection meant merchant's projectioa.”” SAVONAROLA. “Savonarola and the Early Reformers” were the subjects of Dr. John Lord's lecture at Chickering Hall yesterday. The audience was large, as usual. Tho ladies are now feeling so much at home at these morning entertainments that they bring their fancy work along with them, and the clicking of knitting needles makes a delicate accompaniment to the lecturer's remarks. Savonarola reached the height of his power in the year 1490, said Dr, Lord, The death of Lorenzo di Medict made a decided change in the political aspect of Florence, and Savona- rola, being @ politician as well as @ preacher, took sides with the op) position aud became its leader, Let. us rather regerd him in the light of « statesmen than ® politician, because politicians are demigods and a clerical dentigod ts hideous. He despised all tyrants and usurpers. In his detestation ot the Di Medicis he hailed the armies of Charies VILL. as deliverers, and induced the people to join forces with the for- eign chemies, ——___—_____— THE ARION BALL, “Tho tickets for the Arion Ball, which have just been issued, are models of beautiful Lithographic art. The design is tho conception of Robert Strick- hardt, On the front appear a number of devotees of masquerade, in fancy costumes, keeping a ball roll- ing, while @ herald through his trumpet proclaima “Gilmore's Garden, Arion Masquerade Ball, Friday, February 1, 1879." On the reverse is represented & “merry-go-round,” propelled by Uncle Sam and Co- lumbia, Seated in the chairs and on the horses are the presidents of the society from its organization, iu 1864, to the presont year. Inthe background is the artist grinding an organ, to whose strains the “merty-go-round”” revolves. With each admission ticket is @ emaller one for indies and a diagram of the Garden, With instructions for juests, rates of car Tiage fare, police regulations and the rules to be obs served on entering aud leaving.