The New York Herald Newspaper, February 27, 1879, Page 5

THE CATTLE DISEASE Sheriffs to Continue in Charge of Blissville Stables, PRECAUTIONARY MEASURES. Dairymen Organize a Society for Mutual Protection. NEW JERSEY AFFLICTED. —_+—__—— The unclassic shades of Blissville did not reek with Carnage yesterday. The Sheriff of Queoys county in person was in command of the deputy sheriffs sta- tioned at the cow stables, and Dr. McLean merely made a short-visit to them and examined a fow of the cattle. Permits were signed for the slaughter of thirty-seven of them, all belonging to a man named Henry, tor sale as beef. In regard to the ruffianly treatment of 4 Henatp reporter on Monday by the owners of the swill-fed cows, the Sheriff said that he and his son were unavoidably absent at the time, but that in future he should remain there day and night ‘until the quarantine is ended. Groups of the swill milk men were idling about the streets and inthe barrooms yesterday, and, as neual, discussion upon the situation of their personal affairs was monotonously prolix. Many of them loudly lamented the slaughter of their stock, saying that they bad paid for some of it much more than it will now bring when offered in the market for food. Proposals to sell out were made on every hand, but they, as a matter ot course, met with no acceptance. General Patrick told a reporter that he could not Bay wheh he should again go to Blissville. He had received a telegram from Professor Law announcing that he will return to Brooklyn to-morrow. Several new pest spots were discovered in Kings county yesterday. N. Smith has sixteen- cows at New Lots, three of which are affected with the pleuro_ . Pneumonia, At No. 100 Eighth street, South Brooklyn, there are six . cows belonging to J. Martin, and one of them had the pleuro-pneumo- nis. Acow died on Tuesday of pleuro-pneumonia at No. 473 Thirteenth street, South Brooklyn, and the carcass was removed to the offal dock. Two cows belonging to William Ryan, at No. 1,496 Warren street, Brooklyn, have the pleuro-pneumonia in its advanced form,’and have been marked for slaughter, In Ralph avenue, near Central avenue, one out of the three cows kept there has the plenro-pneumonia.. An examination of some cattle at No. 480 Sackett stroot was made gnd permission to slaughter them ‘was given. All of the localitics just mentioned are ‘under the strictest quarantine. It is alleged that a milkman at Now Lots keeps about forty diseased cows inastable which is in a very filthy and un- healthy conditien, An investigation will probably be made to-day. A number of cattle were taken to the Johnson avenue slaughter house yesterday, and some of them were killed. SHERIF¥ RUSHMORE AROUSED. ‘The Henatp reporter found Sheriff Rushmore as heeft the stables. “Sheriff,” asked the reporter, “what do you think of the action, or rather inaction, of your deputies on Monday, when a Heuatp reporter was threatened with violence?” j “Oh, well,” was the reply, “there has been too much sbout that.’ “But, Sheriff, is there no more protection to be af- forded than was given in that case?” “Well, you sec, we can’t be responsible for the acts of a crowd like that. It was simply a lot of cowboys that collected around the place, and you ‘know very well how easy it isto get up an excite- ment among them, especially at this time.” «What measures Lave been taken to prevent its re- e@urrence?” “Oh, I promise you it will not occur again. I have put a stop to that.” “How about the vigilant deputies employed at the stables?” “I have settled that also. Hereafter the place will be carefully guarded by ten deputies, and, if that number does not prove sufficient, I will increase the force to twenty.’’ «Have you seen General Patrick to-day?” “Yes, I was down to Brooklyn to have an interview with him. I presume you anticipate that some ex- traordinary measures were devised in view of the re- port in the Hxraip.” “Not at all, Sheriff. But you don’t object to state the substance of the interview?” “Well, you Hzratp gentlemen are awfully perse- vering and I suppose I might as well tell you. ‘The General informed me in a very friendly manuer that he desired either myself or my son, who is my chief deputy, to attend in person at Blissville and see the Governor's orders carried out till this trouble is over. I have acted on that suggestion and r. my aoe remain in charge of the deputies during e . . ‘The Sheriff wore an air of disappointment at the delinquencies of his subordinates, and when he left by the half-past six P. M. train from Hunter's Point for Hempstead he was accompanied by. his son to the r. Rushmore, Jr., took his depot. place at the head st the ‘quarantine squad at half-past nine o'clock night. ‘ The attack on the Heratp reporter was freely commented upon in _ Blisavi during the day, the occupants of carriages return- ing from funerals at Calvary Cemetery stop) within view of the 3s to make inquiries in regard to the affair. But the rowdies ‘were not without sympathizers in an unexpected quarter. As # HERALD reporter was wending his ‘way to the Hunter’s Point ferry last evening, he ‘was recognized by 8 police officer who forced an ac- gusintance by & not very polite “I seen you before.”” je followed the , however, and remarked in ® most offensive way that any man who would come over to “vindicate that thing” (the first word re- markably well pronounced) for the sake of making money—s sharp hit in his opinion at the reporter— ought to be ashamed of himself. “Poor miu,” said he, “with cows may have one sick out of ten and then they must beajl slaughtered, and they don’t care how he’s beggured.” . UNDER SHERIFF RUKHMORE. This "oy gentleman has been c! unj , With the failure of the fi attempt at quarantine. Tue duty was new to Rim and it was unfortunate that the men appointed to act as his deputies were those the least fitted in every sense for the trust. pstead and Jamaica did not in this instance furnish desirable or vigi- lant officers. As a prominent resdent of Long Island City remarked last evening, ‘There. been no quarantine; it’s only s sham,” and that sen- tence expresses the opinion of nine-tenths of the fesidents of the district. The Sheriff declined to say he had dismissed the | and negligent depa- but he is determined t. no more swi Slocuce ot the stables. One of tus negligent dopa josure at the stables. One pu- ties was on duty yosterday, but the tori! will supersede him to<lay. ADDITIONAL MEASURES OF SAPETY. A presentation was made by the Grand Jury of Kings county yesterday, calling the attention of the Court of Sessions to the condition of — the cow stables of Adam Hoslet und the Ward stables, on Quincy strect, near Nostrand avenue, and ‘asking the Court to request the Board of Health to Tevoke the permits granted to the persons named, Judge Moore said that though be had no power to request that the permits be revoked he would order the presentinent and the testimony taken to be sent to the Board of Health, La ‘of the Board of Health, eng- Rested to an Patrick the riety of appointing Adit Poe and to PPO! one authorized to establis! veterinary at oe bh The subject of nting another surgeon is under advisement, but no steps will be taken in the matter until Profossor Law arrives from Washington. He is expected to arrive to-day. « i Png | MUTUAL PROTECTION, 0 en ings and Queens countics held a meeting on Tuesday night last at Martin Bennett's Railroad Hotel, Fc) ot Vermont and Atlantic avenues, Kast New Yark. A largo number of milkmen and their friends were present, and deep interest was taken in the pro- ceedings. Mr. Wilmarth, the owner of & large farm on the Jamaica plank road and an extensive called the meoting to ‘ J. Ryan, S niikioan of Cypress, ii Hills, inted as chairman, made a motion to some ests. Owing to the late of the cow stables at Bliseville the Poy ned had beeomo alarmed, and failed to discriminate betweon the deal- ors in pure and impure milk. The consequence was ‘that the trade of those milkmen who did a legitimate business was falling off, abd they found that some- NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1879.-TRIPLE SHEET. thing must be done to abate thie fears of the in respect to themselves. They want the people > know that during the winter months their cows were fed on grain and hay, while fey hon summer season 3 was their chief of diet, General Patrick, he -said, had informed them that they could not ex- change, sell or buy any cow without first notifying the m Board of Health. In case they fuiled to do so they would be liable to fine or imprisoninent orboth. The act, they thought, was a very unjust one and should be modified, It was the desire of many of the milkmen present to have a com- mittee appointed to wait upon the Governor for the purpose of ogen | the act modified, if possible. The pe eo then int Counsellor Frank C. Lang, who, he stated, would inform them how to act in the matter. Counsellor Lang said that pleuro-pneumonia was first brought to this country in 1#4, by an importation of Dutch cattle. It never died out. si that a permanent organization be effec: officers elected and resolutions and by-laws drafted and adopted for their government. A com- mittee of five was then appointed to draw up a set of resolutions, which were in substance as follows ;— Whereas we have witnessed a cross and wanton seizure of to dairymen, and, we believe, nd due process of law; and whereas us is secure or able to say that in the next mo- bis whole stock will not be quarantined, under the he disease plouro-pneumonia has taken hold: 0 it we organize a mutual protective De named “The Kings and Que: soctation. He it further of five bo appointed to draw up a set of by-laws to govern this organisation. officers were elected and the necessary committee: jointed, Sixty-seven milkmen signed the roll and id their initiation fee. THE CATTLE PLAGUE IN NEW JERSEY. The Henatp’s agitation concerning the contagion among horned cattle known as pleuro-pneumonia andthe closing of British ports against suspected animals is giving great satisfaction to the farmers of Union, Essex, Hudson and Bergen counties, N. J. They have suffered from losses by the scourge for four years, but until the prohibitory action of the British government and the agitation of the subject by the Hznan they have been unable to secure the simplest preventive measuses either from State or municipal authorities. The farmers are usually large milk raisers, keeping from six to sixty cows, valued at from $20 to $40 each. They have asa class averaged a loss of ten per cent from pleuro-pneumonia for four years, and they have felt until now that it was one of the dread evils which'was to be borne without a. protest, because it was inevitable. Now they see light breaking through, understanding well that legislators are apt to move when the press thunders at them. Areporter recently tooka drive through the lovely country which lies back of the cities of Jersey City, Newark and Elizabeth. The farmers in this region are exceptionally well to do, owning from twenty to one hundred acres each, with comfortable dwell- ings and excellent outbuildings. They under- stand fully the value of their proximity to the cities, and almost without exception profit largely by it. Some of them rank high among the capitalists of the counties they reside in, and from nearly all the dwellings the sound of the piano may be heard and the faces bear the impress of edu- cation, albeit browned by exposure to the elements and roughened by contact with the mother earth from whence they wrest their well earned suste- nance. They read the newspapers thoroughly and have clear cut ideas on current affairs, especially those which affect their interests. FIRST APPEABANCE OF THE DISEASE. The pleuro-pneumonia first became familiar to these farmers in 1875. - ‘The disease had been known before, but the cases were comparatively few. It first entered the State in 1843, coming from the same region on Long Island which is now affected, and spreading throughout the counties of Essex and’ Union, though not generally in fatal form. Every six or eight years since it has been noticed, but it was not until 1875 that the proportions of the plague began to strike terror into the hearts of cattle owners. It was not that the disease was so widespread as that its mortality was so great. One cow in a herd would be attacked, and before the owner had made up his mind that the animal was seriously ill the con- tagion would be communicated to the others. Cases are quoted where sixteen out of eighteen animals dicd in less than a fortnight. It took the farmers a wee time to understand the nature of the plague, and even now there are many who lose their cattle ‘by neglect or ignorance of the simplest measures of reli ‘The winter and summer of last year wéro measur- ably free from the scourge, but the surcesse was only to result in @ Sr. severe attuck ‘this winter. While city people are oaning their misfortune in being obliged to drink milk from diseased animals, farmers are counting their losses by thousands. Nexrly every herd of more than five animals has lost from fifteen to sixty per cent of its numbers. Some have had all their stock awept off; others have been more fortunate and escaped with scarcely any fatal cases, but these are exceptions. Perliaps the worst feature of the plagne is that it leaves the animals that recover in such enfeebled condition that the slightest cold is apt to put an end to their existence. he milk producing qualities of the animal are duced considerably also, and the on farmer gets rid of the beast as soon as possible. E SWILL STABLES CAUSE THE OUTBREAK. Th in of the plague in New Jersey is believed to be swill stables in Hoboken, Jersey City and New- ark, Cows are brought there and fed on distillery and brewery refuse until fatteued and then taken into the country for sale. The milk meanwhile is sold to the poorer classes in the cities round about. ‘The tilth of these stables is sufficient to condemn the milk alone, but the plouro-pneumonia finds an casy foothold and adde its deat! horrors to the general nastiness. When the owners find the disease 4s among their cattle, the first thought ix to prevent the logs falling upon'themselves. They take the ani- mals that have not begun to show the effects of the disease and start out upon the couutry roads, At every farmer's gate they attempt to trade and in a few hours, by cunning inducements, they have dis- posed of their bad stock and received a Teasonably sound lot of cows in their stead. The diseased ani- mals are taken into the farmers’ herds and thus the scourge is spread. Now, a Jersey farmer docs not like to be beaten by any man, yet he can seldom cap- ture the wretch who cheats him, and there is really no law to punish the offender when caught. The farmer takes retuge or revenge in following the ex- ampie of the man who det ided him and thus the Plague is spread still further. Nor does the evilend here, since farmers are un- tae ulous enough to sell the disvased cattle to low ute! and the animals are killed and cut up on The diseased purts, eo farae they show, ay and then the meat is sold. Tnat the meat is filthy is unquestionable, but it is worse—it is nous. How far this ce prevaiis it is oasible to state, but close investigation by the KRALD reporter convinces him that it has occurred with great frequency. The tarmers of the region re- ferred to do not believe the milk from the diseased cattle is capable of doing much harm, as it is neves- sarily limited in quantity, the drying ap of the cow betng one of the earliest signs the disease. Some bad milk is sold undoubtedly, aud in the case of in- fants a very small portion might do a great deal of harm. The most serious dauger to people in the cities is the butchering of diseased cattle and the sale of the me@t for y beef. AGTION TAKEN BY THE AGRICULTURAL socteTY. ‘The New Jersey State Agricultural Society has had its attention called to the matter and at the meeting Of its executive committee on Saturday last, a com- mittee of three was appointed to confer with the leg- islative committee on the eubject. They met the committee at Trenton y: had @ long con- ference. Their recommendations embrace the plan of a law for the effectual stamping out of the plague. It was stated that a law ix now in existence authoriz- ing township committees to order the slaughter of any animal suffering trem « contagious disease, but that it provided no remuneration when healthy animals were killed through mistake and was consequently #0 unpopular that it is a dead letter. The Agricui- tural Society's committee generally favor a law pro. viding for the inoculation of ali animals by veter- inary surgeons, to be paid bysthe local governments, the law to enforce the appointment of such an olti- cial, This,'it ia believed, would prevent the apread of the plague. The dificuities in the way ot general inoculation now are that it coats $3 or $4 for cach cow, and farmers cannot afford it, even at the risk of losing their herd. ‘The proposed law would also en- force the absolute seclusion of infected Je when ere are hopes of their recovery and the slauiter- | of those beyond saving. There would be a strict Prohibition of the sale of diseased anim 's. An at- tempt will be made to also include the suppression of swill milk stables in cities by seating miditional powers to local boards of health, The farmers would heartily indorse the above outlined provisions, and it remains to be seen whether their interests will receive the attention they deserve at the hands of the legislators, he lows by the disease in New Jersey cannot be known exactly, but it is undoubtedly very considera- ble, as its vo is known in nearly all parts of the countios named, and it seldoin strikes that it does not kill, Much of the weakness of the animals in withstanding plague is doubtless due to the habit ot m farmers of ine tee ae with “brewer's grains,” which 18 little than distiliery refuse, ook increasing the supply of milk but injuring 0 COW. DISEASED CATTLE, Assemblyman John Owen Rouse, who is chairman of the legislative committes appointed to inquire into the subject of the cattle disease, was inter- viewed by the HkRALD reporter, He said that the cbmmittee was very’ anxious to obtain data from fas § uarter so that proper legislation might be hi before the adjournment of both branches of the legislative body, He is in favor of an interview between “the committee on one side and General Patrick ond Professor Law on the other, and remarked at the close of the interview, “D nd ww it this matterwill receive more ventilation in the New Jersey — ture than the pot cattle enjoyed in some of the Biisaville Sy OUR’ BEEF SUPPLY. THE GREAT CATTLE BUSINESS OF TEXAS, ILLI- NOIS, MISSOURI, OHIO AND OTHER STATES— THE WEEKLY SLAUGETER foR HOME AND FOREIGN CONSUMPTION—HOW , DISEASE 18 DE- VELOPED, That Texas is one of the largest cattle producing quarters of the civilized world none who have secn her almost countless herds can deny; not even when the cattle produce of Texas shall be compared with the vast herds that roam the steppes of Russia or those that wander on the great stations of Australia, Still, boundless as the production of beef may appear to be in Texas, the quality is so indifferent that other States of fhe Union, though numerically far inferior, are, in point of wealth derived from cattle growing, greatly in advance of Texas, Probably the cattle inter- ests of the State of Mlinois represent the largest capital and the richest revenues derived from this branch of industry, While other States have certain seasons of ' the year during which their trade in cattle is active, Illinois from the 1st of January to the 3ist of De- ceniber ships from her broad prairies and trom her numerons feeding farms, Not alone is the feeding interest closely and diligently attended to in Illinois, but the rearing of calves is steadily carried on, Corn fed Illinois steers are always to be found on the great cattle markets of the States, and such herds invariably command tho highest prices and when sold on net weight obtain the most liberal allowance. Kentucky as a beet producing region can justly lay claim to some of the very finest and best bred herds that can be found; she might, without fear, challenge the British Isles and Canada for high bred stock, from whence are drawn those animals purchased for the purpose of improving the blood of the herds of the Western States and Territories. During the summer months, when the pastures are rich in blue grass, the herds of Kentucky are at large, and from the early days of August up to the end of October or middle of November, should the weather continue mild, the grass-fed herds of Kentucky arrive ow the Eastern markets, ‘Their beef is very whole- some, being light, nutritious and full of juice, most suited for invalids aud children, The carcasses do not inwardly contain the same proportion of fat as do those of beeves corn fed; still the adipose matter is generally spread throughout the muscle, and the color and flavor of Kentucky beef are excel- lent. Some few feeders there are in Kentucky who use corn and who ship off their herds all through the winter and spring. Ohio asa cattle State ranks next to Kentucky, save that she cannot boast of as much excellence of blood as her sister State enjoys. OHIO AND MISSOURI BEEF, In Ohio where the blue grass flourishes the herds are pastured; while in other sections of the State. corn feeding is the rule. Ohio steers come to market most freely from the 1st of August to the end of February. The qual- ity is good, sometimes even superior. Where the biue flourishes in Virginia the practice ob- re is the same as in the States before named, save that less corn is fed than in Ohio, and that in the mountain districts the cattle of Virginia are small and apt to be scrubby. Virginia cattle aro shipped for the East all through the year, and are in rime condition occasionally rather than invariably. Missouri is rapidiy becoming a great cattle centre. About midwinter Missouri steers are at their Dest. At other seasons of the year the from Missouri are coarse and light in flesh, ‘oward the end of the summer is the time of the heaviest run of grass fed Missouri cattle. The -quality 18 inferior and the carcasses dress to slight advantage. The great markets ot New York city and that at Brighton, close to Boston, are sup- plied from Albany and Philadelphia, as the two nearest points for rést and feed and water forthe herds arriving from the West. Deposit is a great resting station on the Erie Ruilway. The Western markets for East bound herds are East St. Louis and Chicago, both in Illinois. Cincinnati and Pitts- burg are also great cattle points of union. To these resort the astern ship- pers. and buy of the dealers or owners, as the case may be, the herds they need for their Eastern trade. The great car lines of this country are the New York Central, the Pennsylvania Central and the Baltimore and Ohio, being fed by the rouds that diverge from Kansas City, from East St. Louis, from Chicago and from Cincinnati. FATTENING TEXAS CATTLE. Another feature of the cattle trade is the fattening of cattle on brewers’ slop. Bulls condemned to dic are thus fattened; also dry cows in smail numbers, but in great numbers and with much profit on the lean grass fed steors of Texas converted into fat heavy beeves. When the withers up on the prairies, of Texas the herds must go north in search of pas-" turo or be shipped for nae. ° ‘The routine of the Texan cattle trade is this:—In July and August the herds are rounded up, the calves are branded, and all are again let loose. Karly in April the great droves commence. Carefully laid ont cattle trails are observed, and the herds pasture as they march. Ellsworth, on the line of the Kansas |, Pacitic Railway, is a wonderful place for a few weeks of the year. rly in summer it is thronged by Texan ranchmen and drovers, also with immense herds of Texan steers. At this point the herds are shipped. Some never changed hands, but in general sales are effected at City. From Kansas City these grass fed Texans drift off into Missouri Llinois, there to be part corn fed and shipped | East in September; and up to the Ist of January others are forwarded direct and are sold in New York, Philadelphia and Boston for what they will fetch. The flesh of the grass fed Texan steer is coarse and hurd, the color is bad and fat is scarce. Again, other herds from Texas those that constitute the end of the run are purchased by feeders, and, being hot are fattened on brewers’ rofuse, and are to be found on the markets ot New , York from March to the ena or mid- dle of May. Bulls doomed to execution arrive on the Eastern markets earlier in the year than do the still fed Texan herds. From Texas, via Ells worth, also through Den Col., year by year countless droves of Texan cattle. These droves, old and young, calves, cows and sfeers, go to feed In- dians and miners and such like poople, forced to live on the skirts of civilization. Rarely, indeed, are bulls driven from Texas, The herds in Colorado, Wyoming and Montana are a rugged, large boned class, bred from the ‘exun cow and native bulls ob- tained trom the Eastern States. Thus is the breed improved, aud even already some bulls ot undoubied pedigree are to seen west of the great rivers. Eventually Colorado and parts of Wyoming will be the sour. from whence the East will derive its supply of beef, The climate of Colorado in two winters ren # Texan steer healthy, that is, the beast loses the incipient disease known as Texan fever; a loathsome affliction that is to be found in the liver of even the otherwise per- fectly healthy ‘Texan steers, and @ sickness that is highty contagious, so much su that herds supposed to be clean have been known to leave the disease on their trail, and serious lose has thus been sustained among native herds which have passed over or pas- tured on the tainted lands. i MOMK AND FORRIGN CONSUMPCION. ‘Tho weekly average of beef cattle sold on the open market for the year ending December 31, 1579, wus 9,625 head, About 5,000 head supplies weekly for the home trade, In this is inclu New York city, Brooklyn, Jersey City, Newark, Paterson, Staten Island and many minor places lying adjacent. This gives an average of close on 2,000 head weekly whip) for foreign ports. The export trade de- mands the most choice herds that reach the Atlantic seaboard, and has been carried on through all Seasons of the year both by trade in dressed Leet aud by the shipment of live cattle. The recent order of the Privy Council which vow hampers trade in American cattle is the result hat 4 Fem ; haste on i. part of American shippers. of contagion is proper and should lave been guarded against. Had the best course been obs: for the general benefit of the trade, no shipments of live cattle should have beon made aiter the Ist of October until the Ist of April. A fat beast taken from an open cattle yard and shut below hatches is far more likely to develop disease than were he exposed to the most Severo weather. The hot air between decks causes feverishness and congestion of some one or other of the ianer organs, aud pluero-pueumonia is most frequeutly developed albeit, the beast was sound and healthy when placed on board. On the other hand animals carried as a deck loud in fine weather, or even in moderate weather, improve after the first two or three days, the sea air invigorates them, and the total rest causes them to improve in condition and appearunce. The great buyers of and dealers in ‘Texan cattle are N. Morris and 8. W. Allerton, of Chi- cago, ‘The great feeders And shippers from Ilinois are J. D, Gillette, Alexander Monn and Mike Sulli- van, the latter being a king among cattle men In ‘fexas the firm of Allen & Poole uot long since represented an immense business in cattle. They were shippers of beeves and ot beef. They owned a territory of land close to Galveston aud had con- | tracts from foreign governments, In California the firm of Miller & Lux po 4 control the cattlo business of the Golden State, There are many lesser lights than those named, many of them eminent in their business a# dealers, teeders and shippers. ‘The cattle industry of the State of New York is small. The male calves are eaten as veal, the cows wre kept tor dairy purposes and tho few hefls soid as beot are Western cattle which have been State fed, COMMERCIAL RELATIONS. An earnest appeal by circular is made to the agri oulturists, merchants and manufacturers of Now York and tho adjoining States to attend a mecting at the Cooper Institute, this evening, to diseuss the question of a concerted movement on their part to secure the valuable trade of the American gontinent, ‘This appeal will bring together such distinguished adyovates of the propored movement as Mr. Peter Cooper, the Mexican Minister, the Brazilian Consul General and the President ot the Chamber of Com- merce of New Orieans. Our commercial relations with Mexico and: South Anierica will be fully ex- ‘plained. AFFAIRS IN ALASKA, SPECIAL AGENT WILLIAM GOUVERNEUB MORRIS ON THE SITUATION AND NEEDS OF OUR LATES# ACQUISITION--WHY BRITISH PROTECTION WAS EXTENDED TO AMERICAN CITIZENS—A TERKI- TORY PRACTICALLY ABANDONED. OFICE oF SPECIAL AGENT TREASULY DEPARTMENT, } Wasuineron, D. C., Feb. 21, 1879, To rue Eviror ov tue Henaup: I observe in your paper of the 19th some well directed remarks touching the petition which has been sent by the citizens of Sitka to the commander of Her Majesty's ship Osprey, at Exquimault, British Columbia, asking protection from a threatened Indian massacre at that place, Affairs must certainly have been very alarming for such a request to have been Preferred, but when the fact is-known that we have not @ single vessel of the navy north of Mare Island Navy Yard, near San Francisco, and such cutters as are on the Pacific coastat the disposition of the Secre_ tary of the Treasury are cither lying at their respective stations, where the custom houses are located, or ab- sent on their cruising grounds, it is not at all to be wondered that white American citizens in danger of being murdered by savage tribes should ask the red. cross of King George for protection when our own be- loved Stars and Stripes are floating 2,000 miles away. ME WHITES AND THE INDIANS. The pebple of British Columbia, Puget Sound and Alaska are near neighbors and homogencous and upon terms of intimacy in business relations and social lite. They have intermerried and visit each other frequently, The coast of British Columbia extends to the forty-ninth parallel of north latitude and joins Alaska, being separated by what is known asthe Portland Canal. This whole Northwest Eng- lish coust is inhabited by savage Indians, who are kept in due stute of subjection and obedience by the occasional presence off an English gunboat. The captain of a British man-of-war has supreme author- ity, and the chastisement these tribes have hitherto met with fron.the British gunboats has produced a most salutary effect in the preservation of the peace. It is not at all unnatural to suppose that in view of the reported disturbances at Sitka the English commander should deem it incumbent upon him- self at once to proceed-to the scene and ascertain it the trouble would extend to the tribes in British territory. ‘The Alaska Indians and those mn British Columbia are in constant communication with each other, and once iet the ball open and there is no telling where it will stop, It is a well known fact that Sitting Bull, seconded by Joseph, the Nez Percé chi the massacre of Custer sent runners and among the Indians of British Columbia to endeavor to incite them to deeds of blood, and a great deal of uneasiness was felt at the time, but owing to the far superior policy of Indian control as exercised by the Britial government they dared not attempt a revolt. ACYION OF THE BRITISH COMMANDER, To my mind this action of the commander of the eanres is well timed and shows what fraternal teel- ing should exist between the two nations speakin, the same language, ynited by the same ties of bloo and brotherhood, governed by the same principles of common law, reading the same literature, embracing the same religion and worshipping the same God. We who live away from Eastern civilization on the distant Northwest coast are proud that our near neighbors, living as they do in juxtaposition to us d in perfect amity and accord, should so readily show # desire to extend such aid to our citizens as would prevent what the whole civilized and Christian world stands aghast at—an Indian massacro, WHO 18 RESPONSIBLE? This brings me to the question of who.is respon- sible for this trouble. TheUalifornia press are much excited upon this subject, and in unmeasured terms denounce the administration tor the present state of affairs. ‘This is no new thing to me. In my report to the Secretary of the ‘Treasury of an inspection of Alaska Territory, made by his order last year, and now in the harfds of the Public Printer by order of the Senate, the whole sub- ject is reviewed and the responsibility is there lo- cated, As that report will not be published for some days I think it incumbent upon me to offer to the public, through the columns of your widespread journal, some reasons for, as you say, ‘‘Britain Pro- tecting America.” ‘The executive branch of tho _ tape must be held blameless, and the responsibility shifted to the Jawmaking power at the other eud of the avenue. mn the abandonment by the Wer Department of ka ‘Territory and withdrawal of the troops in June, 1877, the sole government and control of the Territory was virtually turned over to the Secretary ot the ary, insomuch as he had custom houses wnd customs ofiicers there. This and nothing more. This officer has been most unjustly blamed for not affording such protection as the requirements of the ‘Territory demand. The error committed in withdrawing the troops— and this Gencral McDowell now sccs—was in taking them away before Congress had legislated some torm of government for the protection ‘of the people and appropriated means to build a suitable gunboat to P 1 the coast, RULED BY A DEPARTMENT? The condition of affairs in that region is without comparison or paralicl in the history of nations. The Secretary of the ‘Treasury is charged with the collection of the revenue, and the vessels of the rev- enue marine are by law directed to be used in the performance of certain duties in that connection. ‘There is no law, written or unwritten, which de- volves upon him the government of the entire Terri- tory. It is different with the War Department. ‘That can Use troops to repress or prevent an outbreak i: many instances where there is no warrant of law for the Secretary of the Treasury to interfere. For nearly two years there has absolutely been no gov- ne, of any Pg whatever Ss Pepe 4 although Congress has been repeatedly petitioned by its citizons and uid asked, it bas turned a deaf car, and neglected to legislate ip any manger or form whatsoever for this section of our natiShal domain. ‘Lhe Secretary of the Treasury has on the Pacific cowst but @ limited number of revenue steamers, none of which are fitted for extended cruises in Alaskan waters. This ho called attention to in his auuual report to Congress. A bill introduced by Senator Mitchell, of Oregon, is now pending in the Seuate to rem this defect, appropriating $175,000 for the construction of @ proper vessel. Un- less this and other needful legislation is had for that remote land, no one can toreshadow what may take place, and we shall again be compelled to call upon Britain to protect America. ENGLISH AND AMERICAN PROTECTION. It is the proud boast of an English subject that no matter in whut corner of the earth he may pitch his tent ho is assured of the protection of his tlag. How different with the American Republic. ‘Lhe converse of the proposition is the fact, and right here at our own doors we have un integral part of this Kepubiie, embracing one-sixth the area of the whole United States, rich in minerals, timber, fish and furs, whally neglected by the law maxing branch of the govern- ment. ‘The revenue cutter Wolcott has been ordered to Sitka. She ts small aud illy adapted for the scrvice. She cun take about coal enough rom british Colum- bia to steam to Sitka and back, and should there be any trouble ineother portions of the Territory she would be unable to extend aid, Secrelary Sherman is anxious and willing to do everything in his power for Alaska, but in the absence of any law for his actiou aud no money to do anything with, he is not chargeable for the present existing unfortunate state of aflairs in the Territory. Your obedient servant, WILLIAM GOUVERNEUB MORRIS, Special Agent of Customs, EXPLANATION OF THE REAL CAUSES OF THE TROUBLES—18 ALASKA WORTHLESS? {Prom the San Francisco Chronicle, Feb. 18.) Uniess the news of @ threatened Indian outbreak at Sitka, as telegraphed from Victoria, is grossly ex- aggerated, the situation of the small colony of Amer ican citizens at Sitka is extremely critical. Details of the murder of Brown, the proprietor of the Warm Springs, a sanitarium cight- eon miles from Sitka, were brought here by passengers in the January sivcamer. The Warm Springs were jmproved and cared for by the Russian authorities at Sitka, and were a favorite place of resort during tho later years of the Russian occupation. On the transfer of the territory the United States military authorities took charge of the Springs and buildings and kept them in tolerable repair until the ‘tr were withdrawa from Sitka, when the pl was abandoned and was shortly afterward oceupied by They were occasionally visited by from Sitka and Wrangol, for their lodgings and waters, Adjoinin, village, <a from Sitka, y Brown was robbed and murdered by some of his In- dian neighbors, The murderers went to Sitka to dis- pose of their ill gotten plunder and were there ar- rested by Anahoots, the chief of one branch of t Sitka tribe, and handed over to Colonel Ball, Col- Brown. invalids paid brown use of the who the the Springs was a small Indian Sitka, when they were placed on board the steamer to be taken to Portland and thence trans- ferred to the United Stxtes authorities, It is the opinion of Major Berry, ex-Collector of Alaska, and ot other gentlemen w! have lived in Sitka and Wrangel for several yeara and who are now in this city, that the families of the Sitkas who are con- nected with the accused murderers outnumber the tew families who acknowledge the coutrol and authority of Anshootz, and that they have demanded. aco! men and threatened the resident whites and their few in- dian =ailies «With §=summary vengeance for refusing to release the two men, Major Berry con- siders the situation critical and alarming, and fears that the sending away of the men may male the retext for a gonoral massacre of the whites and the lew triendly Indians. At thisgavason the Indian hunters and fishorimen are all at home idle, and the Sitka village can turn out from twelve hundred to fourieon hundred Aghting men, Opposed to them are not more than one hundred to one hundred and fitty whites and friendly Indians, Many of the houses in Hitkware butlt of heavy loge, and, protected by brave med, Stand “a sicgo of several days against rifle. shots, but unhappily they have no supply of water within their walls, their supply of that iudispensable arti- ely being brought from 4 small river half a mile away from the town. The eannon which were tor- mounted in the blockMfbuse aud water batteries are all within reach of the Indians, and may be easily mounted on improvised carriages and dragged to within short wud murderous range of any build- ing in which the whites may take refuge. The presence of a powerful gunboat, with her gtms trained upon the Indian .town, which is built along: the strand, would soon restore reason and moderation to the Sitka savages, and a tew Well delivered volleyé would teach them u lesson which would keep thea in order tor half a dozen years. Louis Schloss, of the Alaska Commercial Company, seas interrogated in regard to the troubles, said that he thought they were of very little consequence. As far as their trade was coui- they were of no more consequence than a riot in Mazatlan. They ware confined to one corner of a very extensive territory and did not affect at all the peuce of the rest of it. Lhe Fur Company had twenty stations on the islands of the region and on the mai land, and they never had had any trouble whatever with the Indians. There had been one minder by a Youcon Indian on the Koushkoquin River, and the murderer was now confined at Alaska, Thus place not near Sitka, The hostile Indians ere the Kolosies, who are in and about Sitka, and who number sbout tive thousand souls, The white population at Sitka does not number over twenty- five persons, and there is no reason why they sho be there at all, There is not more trade thun would decently support one trader. ‘They might as well pull up stakes and move at once to some more peace- ful locality. Alaska is worth nothing, except for the furs and fisheries, The danger to the white svttlers wus exaggerated for the sake of getting troops sent to Sitka, and the steamboat company had something todo with the reports. Such stories preceded the monthly arrival of every Aluska steamer in San Francisco, ‘Che steamer company was largely re- sponsible for the trouble, tor a large part of their freight tv the Tertitory was molasses, which was made into rum and gold to the natives. An ex- perience of ten yeurs had shown him that the na- tive tribes were generally peaceful, still the whites had a right to the protection of the government, no matter Low few they were, as long as they were good citizens. HOW LENT BEGAN. OBSERVANCES IN 5ST. PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL, TRINITY CHURCH, ST, PAUL'S AND OTHERS— PROGRAMME OF SERVICES THROUGHOUT 'THE GREAT FAST-—HE FORTY HOURS’ DEVOTION. Services were held in all the Romun Catholic and Episcopal churches yesterday in obscrvancé of Ash Wednesday, the beyinning of Lent, The services in St. Patrick’s Cuthedval wore similar to those ininis- tered there cvery morning in the year, except the blessing of the ashes, which was done at the carly mass and its distribution at thut and the other masses of the morning, and except also, that Bishop Wadham, of @gdensburg, N. ¥., being accidentally in the city officiated at the last mass. At the several masses the number of worshippers was large. Ash Wednesday is not @ holiday of obligation in tho Catholic Church, but it is nevertheless celebrated with great solemnity, bécause it introduces the great fast of Lent, The altars of the Cathedral and other Catholic churches wero yesterday draped with purple, sym- bolizing penitence and sorrow. The organs wero silent, and the priests performed the masses in dole- ful tones, to which the choirs responded in similar strains. Tho distribution of the ashes takes place toward the close of the mass, the worshippers mean- time kneeling around the chancel rail and receiving this Symbol of mortality on their foreheads from the hands of the ofticiating priests.- Cardinal McCloskey was not present at the Cathedral yesterday, but he will be on Sunday, when at the solemn high mass tho forty hours’ devotion to the Blessed Sacrament begins. ‘This has been mude a Perpetual devotion by the Pope, so that it is observed ily now through- out the world in different dioceses at the same time. There will be a procession of children carrying flowers, &c., ut the high mass on Sunday, It will no doubt be a pretty and pleasing sight. THE FAST IN THREE DIOCESES. The regulations for Catholics in this diocese, Brooklyn and Newark, N, J., are not as stringent as in former years, though in the diocese of Newark they are more strict than here. In New York the Cardinal allows one regular meal and @ colla- tion every day, but meat is not allowed except by special dispensation, and then on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays only. Sundays are exempt from fast and abstinence. Fish is not allowed with meat, but there is no prohibition against the use of eggs, butter or cheese in prescribed quantities, Lard ‘may also be used in the Paige of fish and vegetables. ‘Yo the foregoing bishop Loughlin, of Brooklyn, per- mits the use of tes or coffee in the mornings. Bishop Corrigan allows the use of meat ut the principal meal on Saturdays, except on the second and last of Lent. The “black fast” will be enforced in the dio- coe of Newark for the first time ou Good Friday. ‘This fast consists of total abstinence from eggs, but- ter, cheese and milk, as well as meat. Evening services during Lent will be held in the Catholic churches of this city as follows:— On Noweare: in thy eh of the Nativity, of the As- jerman), ha » Anthony's (Italian) y Magdalon’s (German iss tn St. Vincent de St. James’, 5 John the K 's, Holy Cross, St. ‘Onr Lady of Sorrows’, Most Holy Redeemer (German), St. Francis St. Anne's, Annunciation, Manhattanville; Ninth avenue'and Fifty-ninth street; st. Tere: the Baptist’s Germun), St. Agnes’ aud St. Vincent ‘ . Piful's (Fr Gabriel's, St. Cecil huredays, in Cathedral, St. Andrew's, St. Stephen's, lum ba’ t. Bridget’s, St. Alphonsus’ (German), St, Kville; Holy Tunocents'. St. Hosa of Lawrence's, ¥ Lima's, St. Nicholas’, St. Joseph's (German! Manhattan. lizabeth’s, Fort Washington, ry nd Chareh of the jon, St, Pant's, rd*y, Church of ys, in St. Mary's, Transfigu t. Boniface’s (Geriian), St. Be hany, Church of the Sacred Heart, Holy Name of Jesus, and St. Joseph's (German), highty-sovouth street. KPISCOPALIANS INTRODUCING LENT. In some ot the Bpiscopal churches of New York the lenten season was opened yesterday as follows: At Trinity church, sermon by Dr. Dix in the morn- ing, followed by communion, and evening prayer at three o'clock. The daily observances in this church have becn already published in the Hrratp. At the Chureh of St. Mury the Virgin three masses were ob- served, with sermon in the forenoon and evening prayer at halt-past four P. M. and sermon in the evening at cight o'clock. The forenoon and after- noon services were choral and are so to be during the entire fast. Every Wednesday evening at eight aud every Friday atternoon at tour there will be lec- tures. ‘The Sunday services wili cousist of an early celebration at seven A. M. High celebration at eleven, There will be three Stabai Maters, beginning Sunday evening, March 16, The tiest will be Mme. de Grandval's Stabat Mater; the second, March 23, Haydn's, and March 40, Rossini’s, pertormed by the choir of the church under the direction of Mr. George B, Prentice, organist. At st. Albans’ Church there were two morning masses, with a sermon by Rev. C. W. Morrill, rector, at the second, on prayer, fasting and almsgiving. Eveuing prayer was said at five o'clock aud in the evening 4 sermon was preached by Key. Mr. Noyes. At Grace Church Dr. Potter preached to a large con- gregution, fiom Joel, ii., 17. Whe services tor Leut in this church are as follows:—Sundays, nine and eleven A. M, and four P. M.; Mondays, Tuesdays and Saturdays, at tive P. M.; Wednesdays, at cleven A. M. and civht P. M.; Fridays, at eleven, until Holy Week. ‘The afternoon services are limited to half an hour aud are intended for the spectal conventence of gentlemen on their way from business, The service at Grace Chapel have been #0 managea as to accom- modate those duriug Lent to whom the hours of ser- vice in the parish church may not be convenient, At. St. Ignatius’ Church Rev. V. 0. Smith reached in the forenoon, dnd at the evening service rt. Ewer gave an address. At St. Paul's Church Dr, Mulcahey preached in the morning and delivered a short Jecture in the evening. During Lent thore will be Litany at twelve on Wednesdays and Fridays, Holy Communion at the same hour on Thars- days and lectures on Wedi Thure- day and Friday evenings at cight. The special he iil be supplemented on Sundays bi “Lhe Warnings and Calls of the Seasot on ning,” and on Fridays by ne of “The, Mearing snd Purpose of Wor ‘Heasons for Worshipping by a Common “How We Have me by Our Form—the Book of Commou Prayer,” ‘he Divine Presence in the Sanctuary,” “The Elements of Worship” and “The Sacramental Liturgy.” At St. A itine's: Chapel, Houston street, there will be spectalheervicne on Thursdays at eight P. M., and ou Saturdays at four P.M. Dr. Dix will lecture on Frit evenings at ‘Trinity Chapel, in Twonty-fifth street. Bishop Bedell, of Ohio, preached in St, Ann's Church last evening. PREACHING TO THE DEAF. The regular Ash-Wednesday services were held at St. Ann's Church, West Eightcentlr street, near Fifth avenue, last eveuing. Right Rev. Bishop Bedell, of Ohio, preached the sermon, which was tuterpreted for the deat mutes present by Rev. Dr. Gallaudet, the pastor. Before the sermon Bishop Bedell madea few femarks in reference to religious work among deaf mutes. Ho said that no one could attend the services in St, Ann's Chureh without being deeply impressed with the great work of Dr, Gallaudet, who has la bored for so Sr in the interests of these ople, who would otherwise by teat misfortunes shut out of many of the comforts and solaces of true religion. The Bishop also said thore were 8,000 deat mutes in and near the Ohio dioceses and 25,000 altogether in the United States, There was, therefore, 4 great field for Christian work and Chris tian sympathy among them. “ALWAYS WITH YOU." Tho Herat has received from “Wetter” $1 25 for No. 185 Rivington street; from “F. W.W." $8 for family in Allen street, $8 for journeyman tailor in Rivington street, and_§8 for aged woman at No, 43s Kast Kightconth street; aud trom “sympathy” $10 for the geperal fund, Total, $36 26. bh “IS CHRISTIANITY A FAILURE?” New York, Feb. 26, 1879, To Tuk Eprrog or Tae Henatp:— In your Sunday issue of February 16 several corres spondents were discussing this question, Before complaining that Christianity bes failed should we not cxamine fairly what Christianity was meant to accomplish as far as the only authority we have on the subject (the Bible) tells us? All through the New Testament we have Christ's own words that He came not to rute this world, but to warn it—to make it perceive that it is « fallen world, in need of redemption. In St. John he says:—‘*The Prince of this world cometh and hath nothing in me.” “Kather, glorify thy Son, as thou hast given him power over all flesh that he should give eternal life to as many as thow hast given him.” “I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world,” “1 pray fofthem, I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me.”” ’ Ho never once urged His followers to seek in- fluence in worldly afiuirs, to look after politics or famne, or even intellectual influence. He said:— “Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and his righteous- ness, and all these things (for daily living) shall be added unto you.” There is no word that the mission of the Church was to reform the world. He came to redeem sine nersout of a condemned world, ‘The Vible telis us that this world is for a length of time in Sutan’s power; that it will grow worse and worse until the time of Christ’s coming again, ee He will conquer Satan and become the real ler. Untal then He only wants his followers to remain paticnt in suffering, steadfast in faith and to kee) unspotted froin the world. We are never told vule it or yuide it, St. Paul says, ‘We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not without heip” (IL. Corinthians), and “Pat on the whole armor of God that ye may be able to stand | against the wiles of the devil.” and ‘We wrestle nos axainst flesh and blood, but ‘against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places,”’ and “seware Jest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit,” &e. “In every direction,” says one of your correspond> ents, “we lind a yearning atter something new in religion.” Alas! what he wants is simply the true faith, the love of Christ. Then his own soul will be renewed, and that is the only thing new any one can find about any religion. Because he has the yearning let this anxious soul pray carnestly, giving up all intellectual speculations tor a while, allowing the still, small voice of spirit- ual lite to enter his mind, and he will find the new light, which is new to every one of us in @ certain moment, ulthough old as eternity in itself. He complains over the “extraordinary disturbance that prevails in the religious elements’’—well! and in all other elements? social, political, commer- cial elements as well? Was there ever so much troubles and stagnation and breaking down and dis- usters? Is that the Christian's tault? Can the true believers possibly help that among them, in all cou- gregations and denominations, hypocrites, and shul- jow, formal shams of people intermingle, calling themselves Christians aud drawing blame and shame over the few faithful onces? In the parables the Lord foresaw all tis, and told us how the good seed. must grow with the tares until the harvest time haga come, se 4 our correspondent speaks of “the pain and auxiety of those who believe that in a pure and un- defiled Christianity lies the permanency of govern- ments and the happiness and prosperity of pedples.’? Let him wait tor the harvest time aud not expect the truit before the time. Who runs this world, after all? The Bible tells us that this dispensation shall come to an end, with all those signs of distress of nations, famines, plagues, wars, as we now all see. A coutlict is raging between good and evil far be- yond our little interferences. We are told that bee fore the day-of Christ shall be at hand much tribu- lution and disorders will appear, “For that day shall uot come except there come @ talling away first, and that mun of sin (anti-Christ) be revealed, the son of perdition, who opposcth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that 1s worshipped, so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, showing him- self that he is God.” (LU. Thess. ii.) * ye ae that when I was yet with you I told you these things?” &c. And instead of watching and noticing tho fulfil- ments of all those warnings, instead of cheering each other in faith and hope, remembering His words, shall we put forth our criticisms, saying, “Why does God do this, or allow that, or neglect this: Can we dare to accuse Him and His Gospel of fail- ure? If everything seems to go wrong shall we not comprehend that He may have His reasons, that He knows what we know not, and so learn tostoop;down to our daily task and wait and say, “His will bedone.”” The fruit of the Lord’s personal ministry when on was only about one hundred aud twenty souls, ‘fhe population of the world is reckoned now about one billion four hundred millions. Of those only three. hundred and thirty-five millions are Christians, oven im name. This does not prove that Christianity has failed. It proves that Christianity never was meant to conquer snd rule during this d.spensation, but to stand as a witness until the Prince of this world should have doue with His experiment to rule ‘it without God, should be cast out and bound, We must not forget that Satan has power yet, and that be works even in the world’s religions. Does not the Bible speak of an apostate church aud how God remembers her iniquities and will ut- terly destroy her? (Rev. xviii.) Forms of churches will crumble, are crumbling. Y The faithful aro secretly marked (Rev. vii., 3), and will be gathered to the trueChurch of God. Remem- ber how “two women are working in the field, one will be taken, the other left; how only half of the phe den going out to meet the brid m were ready and acceptable; and when the foolish other half of them will knock and call, “Lord, Lord, open for us!’* how he shall answer them, “I never knew you.” “Many are called but few will be chosen.”” No, no! let not your hearts be troubled, hut believe in God and let him manage it all. As St. John says :—‘Little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue, but in deed and in truth.” CONTEST OVER THE ELECTION IN THE EIGHTH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT--THE MEN WHO VOTE THE STRAIGHT TICKET. The sub-committee of the Assembly Committee om Privileges and Elections resumed at the Metropolitan Hotel yesterday the hearing of evidence in the con- tested election case in which John E. Brodsky claime the seat in the Assembly now occupied by Daniel Patterson from the Eighth district of this city. As+ semblyman Youngs occupied the chair. Fifteen witnesses were examined, and with ‘two or three exe ceptions they all swore that they were unable to read and write, and that accordingly, from their own per- sonal knowledge, they were ignorant as to the candi- dates they had voted for at the last election. Max Speiss, of No. 236 Seventh street, in answer to questions by Commissioner Davenport, testified that he thought he voted tor Patterson at the last election, but could not swear he did, as he did not read the names on the baliots. He finally said he was sure that ho had voted tor Mr. Patterson. + Philip E. Benjamin, of No. 83 Division street, a member of the Tammany Hall General Committee, testified that he had charge of an election district at the las$ election; he also yoted at six o’clock in the morning, but did not know whom he voted for. In explanation of this somewhat unusual occurrence, the witness told Commissioner Davenport that, hav- ing been informed onthe morning of election that there was a marshal about to arr him, he, at the suggestion of friends, concluded to vote before being apprehended, and grabbing @ ticket, voted it without looking at it. The witness further testified that he ‘was @ native of England, (orty-tive years old, arrived in this country in 1853 and was naturalized in 1568, Commissioner Daveuport then offered in etidence. an application for aduission to citizenship by one Philip E. Benjamin in 1868, and in which it was set forth that the applicant was @ minor, James F. Butlor, living at No. 73 Lewis teas tifiod that at the recent election he voted the ““Tam- mun y ticket straight." In reply to a question aa to his age the witness re; “If I live to the 13th day of April next I'll be thirty-nine years ould.’* He served ‘‘six” yours in the army, was all through the war as one of the first 75,000 men called for deat Lincoln, and, having been honorably dis- charged, applied for and obtained his naturalization rs iv the usual way. ‘hor Watkins, lving at No. 84 Forsyth »' testified that he was fifty-two years old and had wi the “straight tiohet right throagh.’: Commissioner Davenport—What do you meag b; the straight ticket? bi ad Witness—I mean the straight ticket right through. Jommissioner Davenport—What is your polities? itness (triumphantly)—I'm @ republican, and al- “John Stophens, of No, 141 Goerck wore 0 phens, of No, « that he intended to vote the Tammany ficket' at the last election, but does not know whore names were on the ballots; atter voting he was arrested; the witness did not Know whether or uot he took aa oath at the time he received his naturalization pa- pers, as his ms mony Was not good, rend Kouse, of No. 43 Houston strect, testified that ne had voted the straight republican ticket; at least the man who gave him the lots on election: day told him so. wis De Haan, living at No. 393 Houston street, and who before being sworn put on a sealskin cap, testifled that he ltd voted the straight republican ticket; he did not know the names of any of the oT “ he voted for, aa be couldn't read the lots. ‘fo Mr. Monell—1 novor told any one that I voted for Patterson. i Michael Keegan, living at No. 83 Lewis street, testi- fied that he voted tho straight democratic ticket; he knew this from the fact that he had got his Dallota on yr daytrom Tom Kavanagh, ‘a sound dimo- eral joo." ‘The investigation will be continued this evening at hulf-past seven o'clock,