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—-~. WASHINGTON. First Demonstrations of the Speaker- ship Campaign. INDIAN TROUBLES AHEAD. A Whiskey Ring Unearthed in New Orleans. THE RUSSIAN PLAGUE. How the New Ten Dollar Certificates will be Issued. FROM OUR REGULAR CORRESPONDENT. Wasminctox, March 8, 1879. OPRWING THE SPEAKERSHIP CAMPAIGN—DISCUSS- ING MBE, RANDALL'S CHANCES—GARFIELD IN ‘THE FIELD. The campaign for the Speakership began formally this evening, when Mr. Blackburn, of Kentucky, opened his headquarters in parlor No. 5, at Willard’s Hotel. Mr. Randall has also engaged headquarters at the same hotel, and will open his canvass on Mon- @ay. The republicans will made no prelimi- mary demonstration, but will decide upon their candidate im caucus. Indeed, Gen- eral Garfield has no competitor for the honor of nomination. The Blackburn men say that Mr. Randall's forces on paper number only seventy- seven, and that of this number they know of twenty- two who will not vote for Mr. Randall in the caucus, reducing his following to fifty-five. Sut all cal- culations are as yet premature and unreliable. The canvass will hardly possess definite shape until the latter part of next week. PREPARING FOR TROUBLE WITH THE INDIANS IN THE SPRING. ‘The President has directed that the Eighteenth in- fantry, Colonel Ruger, now on duty in the South, shall proceed to Montana for service in the Indian country, along the line of the Milk River. This is in anticipation of Indian troubles this spring. The Tenth infantry, on duty in the Department of Texas, is to be transferred to the Department of the Lakes, and the Twenty-second infantry, now on duty in that department, will relieve the Tenth infantry in Texas. AN ALLEGED DEFRAUDER OF THE GOVENNMENT ARRESTED ON A REQUISITION FROM LOUIS- IANA—ANOTHER WHISKEY FRAUD. A requisition was received here to-day from the Governor of Louisiana for the arrest of John A. Walsh, who was indicted May 29, 1878, with Daniel M. Carry and Alfred 8. Cowand, for having entered into a conspiracy to defraud the United States out of Imternal revenue tax upon 50,000 gallons of Aistilled spirits. Judge Cartter, of the Su- preme Court of the District of Columbia, Issued a bench warrant and Walsh was taken into custody and brought before him. District Attorney Wells read the indictment of the United States Dis- trict Court of Louisiana, which sets forth that the spirits were distilled and removed ont of the district warehouse in Louisiana without the revenue tax being paid, and that Walsh, being a liquor dealer in New Orleans, received 15,000 gallons of it, and disposed of it, without paying the tax. After the indictment was found Walsh was Feleased on $5,000 bail, but when his caso was called Yast month in the Circuit Court of Louisiana he @ailed to answer and default was entered sgainst him and his surety. The-authorities of Louisiana, ascer- taining that Walsh was in this city to make it his home, sent the necessary papers to secure his arrest. District Attorney Wells, tu stating the case, said that it involved $300,000 in money, which he believed the United States was legitimately entitked to possess, The Court of Louis- fana haa made every effort to bring the parties to trial, but up to the present time all process of law had been evaded. As the defendant had once given bond and forfeited it, he hoped the Court would place it at such a figure and receive only such surety as would guarantee his presence at that court when the case was again callod. Mr. Walsh's attor- ney, Mr. Totten, said his client had resided in the District of Columbia for the past two years, and ex- pected to make this place his home. He had been out in the Wost-all the winter and. returned only Inst Friday. He had no notice of the case being called in New Orleans, or he would have been there. He ‘was ready and willing to go to trial at any time, Judge Cartier placed the bond at $10,000, Mr. 8. P. Brown becoming his surety. GENERAL WASHINGTON DESPATCHES. Wasnineton, March 8, 1879. B. KassOn’s REPORT ON THE RUSSIAN PLAGUE—DREAD OF WARM WRATHER. Mr. Kasson, American Minister to Vienna, in his last despatch to the Department of State, announces that the alarm arising from the extension and fatality of the pestin Russia is somewhat diminisned in Presence of the more forcible measures lately adopted by Russia. Her rigid and extensive quarantines, however, havo materially affected her trade. The sanitary precautions adopted in Vienna have also been virtually adopted by Germany, Hungary, Servia and Roumania. Special appropri- ations have been made for the establishment of a close military cordon slong the Russian fronticr should the pest extend itself. The transit of travel- Jers across the frontier is only allowed when it shall appear that for twenty days previous they have not been in an infected district. A large portion of Rus- sian goods are prohibited admission into Austria. Railway carriages and the passengers’ effects must be Gisinfected at the frontier. Letters coming from an exposed district must be fumigated. Hopes are in- dulged that these measures of provention may be soon suspended. At the same time fears are entertained that with the cessation of cold weather (which is adverse to the propagation of the plague) s revival of the pest may occur and spread with increasing vigor.” As heretofore men- tioned, Austria, Germany and Hungary are taking Precautionary measures of the most extensive and decided character. It occurs to our Minister that the United States government cannot safely neglect to take steps in the same direction, BULES FOK THE SALE OF THE NEW TEN DOL- LAR CERTIFICATES OF DEPOSIT. The following circular was issued this aftor- moon :— ‘Taxasuny Department, } Wasminaton, D. C., March 7, 1879. of the Treasury calls attention to per cent refunding certificates of United States to The Secretary the four the under the act of Con- 1879, entitled, certificates of de- of the public debt,” to of the Treasury is hereby to issue, in exchange for ins denomi: the rate of four and convertible at accrued interest, into the four pe: described in the Refunding act, and the money so received shall be applied only to the ment of the bonds interest ate rate of not less than five per cent, in the mode prescribed by ssid Mt, or gon hy ibo suit Miations in ounformit; with this act, Each certificate will be af the denomination of $10, will be made nearly of the form and size of ® United States note, and will bear on its face and back the conditions of ite issue as fol- per cent any time cent bonds lows:— United starer Rotunding Cortifiente, TEN DOLLARS: pril 1, 1870, Al ‘This cortifies that the sum of $10 has beon tho Treasurer of tho United Staton, uador thanet st Foene ary, 28, 1870. JAMES GIL, Ny Treasurer of the United states. GW, Sconmiy, Register of the Treasury, Washington, te, it four T cont the Uhived States, of July 14, 1870, and ry wv, lon at the office. of the Trossurer of the ‘pen prosontat! NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, MARCH 9, 1879.-QUINTUPLE SHEET. Umited 81 .. Emited States, Washington, D. C.,in sums ef $50 or faut On the back. Interest on thie note will acerue as follows:—For each nine days or one-tenth of » quarter. one cout: for each quarter year, ton cents; for each entire year, forty cents, Such certificates will be sold for lawful money at Be got sccruinn interest to the date of purchase y the Treasurer of the United States at Wash- ington and by the Assistant Treasurers at Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, New Orleans, New York, Philadelphia, St. Louis and San Francisco; and the Treasurer of the United States at Washing- ton and the Assistant Treasurer at New York will also receive in payment drafts in favor of themselves respectively, drawn on New York, which will be col- Jeeted and the excess, if any, returned by check to ‘The Secretary of the Treasury will also accept in payment certificates of deposit of national banks specially designated to receive deposits on this ac- count, but the refunding certificates will not be de- livered until the certificate of deposit issued by the bank has been paid for by a Treasury it or by a deposit of a like amount with the Tv or some assistant treasurer of phe United States, or until United States nds of equal amount are substituted in their stead. All national banks, upon complying with section 6,153 Revised Statutes of the United States, are invited to become financial agents of the | government and depositories of public moneys accruing from the sale of those certificates, The money received by depository banks for such certificates will remain on deposit with said banks subject to the order of the Treasurer of tho United States, and calls for the redemption of bonds will issue from time to time, as the Sec direct, All banks, bankers, postmasters and other pubiie, ofeees and all other persons are invited to placing these certificates. They can make sniahe'‘srerngomente through national banks for the deposi of the purchase money, | Commissions will be allowed on the purchase of these certificates, as follows:—On an aggregate of | $1,000 and not exceeding $100,000 in any one calendar month, one-eighth of one per cent, and on any amount excooding $100,000 in alike period, a com- mission of one-quarter of one per cent on the ex- | cess, parties purchasing at one time $1,000 or more of the certificates will bo entitled to receive them free of charge for transportation. The certificates will be ready for de- livery April 1, 1879, at which date they will begin to bear interest, which will be payable upon the con- version of the certificates into four per cent bonds. ‘The Secretary also announces that as soon as practicable $10 certificates will be issued under this law similar in form and upon like similar conditions to these above de- scribed to be registered on the books of the Treasury in the name of the owner, which name will also be entered on the face of the certificate. JOHN SHERMAN, Secretary. BEDEMPTION OF THE CIRCULATING NOTES OF NATIONAL BANKS, ‘The Treasurer of the Uuited States has issued the following circular:— Hereafter national banke in reimbursing the Treas- urer for their circulating notes redeemed under sec- tion 3 of the act approved June 10, 1874, may for- ward directly to the Assistant Treasurer of the United States, in New York, checks drawn of New York payable to the order of that officer, with instruction to deposit the amount to the credit of the five per cent redemption fund and to forward the certificate of deposit there- for to the Treasurer of the United States. Checks drawn on any other place than New York, or sent to any other of than the Assistant Treasurer of the United States, in that city, are not authorized to be received under these regulations. TREASURY NOTES. The Treasury now holds $350,572,400 in United States bonds to secure bank circulation. United States bonds deposited for circulation for the week ending to-day, $4,832,250; United States bonds held for circulation, withdrawn during the week ending to-day, $4,950,250; national bank circulation out- standing—currency notes, $324,770,471; gold notes, $1,466,920. The internal revenue receipts to-day were $265,087 94, and the customs receipts $675,531 48. ‘The receipts of national bank notes for redemption for the week ending to-day, as compared with the corresponding period last year, are as follow: Receipts to-day, $411,000. The subscriptions to the four per cent loan since yesterday’s report have amounted to $1,138,450. A COMMISSION WITH EXTENSIVE POWERS. The following is the portion of the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill, as finally enacted, which pro- vides for the creation of a commission on various important subjects relative to the public lands:— For the expense of a commission on the codifica- tion of existing laws relating to the survey and dis- position of the public domain and for other pur- pores, $20,000; provided that the Commission tt of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, the Director of the United Sta Geological Uri ees three civilians, to be ap- inted by the ident, who shall receive a per fon compensation of $10 for each day while actually en; and their travelling expenses; and neither the Commissioner of the General Land Office nor the Director of the United States Geological Survey shall receive other compensation for their services upon eaid commission than their salaries re- spectively, except their travelling expenses while engaged on said duties, and it shall be the duty of this commission to report to Congress within one year from the time of its organization :-— First—A codification of the present laws relating to the survey aud disposition of the public domain. Second—A system and standard of classificat.on of public lands as arable, irrigable, timber, pasturage, swamp, coal, mineral lands and such other classes as may be deemed proper, having due regard to the humidity of climate, the supply of water for irriga- cthird=-A eysions of land parcelling stirveys adapted i system of surveys ada) Se the poe fa ge 2 ‘Fourth—Such recommendations as they may doom wise in relation to the best method of disposing of the public lands of the Western portion of the United States to actual 5 ‘The act appropriates $100,000 for the consolidated ological surveys and $60,000 for preparing and Celene oe reports of the operations of the heeler, den and Powell surveys, which have now been discontinued as separate organizations. CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATIONS. ‘The Secretary of the Interior has ordered » com- petitive examination to be held on the 25th, 26th and 27th inst. for appointments to clerkships of Class 1 in the Pension Bureau, The examination is to be of a character to ascertain the special qualifi- cations of applicants for the examination of pension claims. TRADE OFFERED AT PERNAMBUCO. The United States Consul at Pernumbuco, in a despatch to the Department of State, presents Per- nambuco as a place of business and trade worthy of the attention of merchants and manufacturers of the United States, At present this country stands fifth in importations and second in exportations. The population of the city is 126,600. Thirty steamers and about one hundred sailing vessels arrive in port every mouth. An Eng- lish company is about to construct a railway from Pernambuco through the rich river valley a distance of ninety miles, affording great facilities for bring- ing to market its valuable productions. The imports from the United States can be made to equal in amount the exports to the United States, the Consul thinks, TWO SICK CONGRESSMEN. Mr. James A. McKenzie, of Kentucky, since the adjournment of Congress, has been seriously ill of inflammation of the bowels at the National Hotel. Dr, Morgan, his physician, regards his condition as much improved to-day. Mr. J. H. Acklen, of mae ana, is steadily improving, and his physician, Dt. Garnett, is confident that he will be able to take part in the organization of the House, AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY-SEVEN DAYS. Mr, Blackfan, superintendent of the foreign mail is in receipt of information trom Thomas Montgomery, of Rochester, N. Y., that # letter mailed there on the %th of last De- cember has accomplished the circuit of the globe in eighty-seven days. It left San Francisco December 11, Hong Kong January 17, London Feb- ruary 22, and arrived back to Rochester March 6. ‘This is the fastest time on record, and probably the best obtainable without an acceleration of the specd of steamships and locomotives on the routes trav- ersed, the letter having exactly hit every one of the numerous connections. EX-SENATOR PATTERSON'S PARDON, Ex-Senator Patterson to-day received a Idtter from the Attorney General of South Carolina granting bin full pardon and oblivion for any indictments pend- ing against him in that State. Mr, Patterson will leave Washington in a day or two to accept an im- portant trust under the Southern Pacific Railroad Company in Arizona, ‘ RIGHT HOURS A LEGAL DAY'S WorK. Congressman-elect Murch, of Maine, has declared his intention to introduce a joint resolution at the special session of Congress declaring eight hours to constitute # legal day's work for all laborers, work- men and mechanics employed by the United States government, A similar measure passed the Houseon the 9th of May last, but failed in the Senate. THE EMBARRASSED ARCHBISHOP. FOURTEEN NEW SUITS ENTERED AGAINST HIM BY BANKERS AND OTHERS—UNFORTUNATE TRANSFER OF CHURCH PROPERTY TO THE ASSIGNEE—THE UNFORTUNATE PRELATE NOT TO BE SEEN. [BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.) Orcryati. March 8, 1879. There has been nothing now developed to-day in, the matter of the Archbishop's embarrassments. The assignee continues to receive new claims against the estate and to enter them up in the order re- ceived, but is unable to give the croditors any encouragement as to either the amount they will receive from it, or when it will be paid. All he can do is to note their amounts and file the passbooks away for the settlement of some kind which he will make. The banks who hold notes against the Archbishop and his brother seem de- termined to collect them through the the courts, and they will probably be the parties who will carry up to a final decision the question of how far the church property will be exempt from sale for his debts. CLAIMS MADE AGAINST CHURCH PROPERTY. ‘The claim will be made that the Archbishop ap- Plied the money he received to building churches, notably the Cathedral and the Church of the Im- maculata, and that, therefore, the amonnt he ex- pended on each should be held against it. There is this argument, however, against their cliim, that, while admitting that he did spend the money of depositors in that way it was done years ago, and none of that furnished him by the banks went in that direction. The loans from the banks are nearlv all of them of recent date, none of them being more than two or three years’ standing. nice point for the courts to decide will be if this money procured from the banks and confessedly paid out in the re- demption of older claims can be traced back to the time the money was spent in church building. If that be the case there is not much doabt that the churches named will be brought into the suits as part of the Archbishop’s assets, ¥YATHEL PABISHER’S FIGURES. Father Pabisher, of the Seminary of Mount St. Mary’s, has prepared a statement to-day, which will be published to-morrow, showing that nearly all the money with which that institution was built and endowed came from private subscriptions and donations, and that very little, if any, of the money confided to the Archbis! for safe keeping was ever spent there. He says that during the past nine years, during which time he has been principal, Father Edward Purcell has given the institution but $1,000, Without entering into any ument on the subject, the figures he presents show that the assignment of the seminary as a part of the Archbishop's individual property was, to say the least, a very grave crror of judgment. A SERIOUS COMPLICATION, Another complication in the transfer of the prop- erty on the Hills was brought to light to-day by the presentation of a deed from Archbishop John B, Pur- cell to the St. Lawrence congregation conveying lots Nos. 1, 2 and 3 of Boyle’s subdivision in Glen Grove; also acres on Warsaw pike, being lot No. 4 of Cynthia Terry’s subdivision, in section 36, Storrs township. The conveyance sets forth that, although theabove described premises were conveyed and stand in the name of the granter indiscretionary and with- out declaration of any trust, they were nevertheless intended to be held by him as such bishop of the Roman Catholic Church in the diocese of Cincinnati, as trustee for the use and beneilt of St. Lawrence congregation, and further recites that said congregation had paid the whole consideration and entire purchase money for all and every part of the said reai estate so conveyed. The conveyance bears date March 7, 1879. This will also lead to some liti- gation, as some of the creditors will claim that the deed of assignment is entitled to have precedence, SUITS ACCUMULATING. Of the fourteen new suits entered against Arch- bishop Purcell in the courts here to-day three of them were filed in the United States Court as fol- lows:— ‘The Madison Branch Bank of the State of Indiana against Edward Purcell and John B. Purcell for money loaned, $10,000. ‘The Merchants’ National Bank of Cincinnati against the same, $10,000, ‘fhe Third National Bank of Cincinnati against the same, $5,000. ‘The following were made in the State courts :— ‘The First National Bank of Covington against the same, money loaned, two suits, $10,000. The Jefferson National Bank of Steubenville against the same, for money loaned, $5,000. Bernard Wahle, $1,000, Thomas Reedy, $1,000, ‘Thomas Tighe, $600, Gerlard Wellinan, $3,350, John Malloy, $1,700. Bridget Cook, $2,027. Timothy Maune, $3,850, Mary ‘Twohig, $2,300, ‘The total amount of these claims is $55,829, THE ARCHBISHOP NOT TO BE SEEN. A week — was given out to the public that Archbishop Purcell had gone to St. Mary's Seminary asa religious retreat to stay during the Lenten sea- son, and that he would see no one until after Easter. Yesterday, however, it became known that he was at another of the Catholic institu- tions on the western hills, and announce- ment was made privately that he would be back in the city i A Henatp reporter deter- mined, if it was possible, to see him, and for that urpose set out by calling at the archiepiscopal resi- lence, and was informed that the prelate was not there, and they didn’t know when he would be. Next he went to the Seminary of Mount St. Mary’s, where Father Pabisch told him that he had gone several days ago to the my of Cedar Grove, some miles beyond. He was not there, but had been early in the week, The information was given that he had gone to St. Joseph's Convent, or the Mother House of the Sisters of Charity. Driving thither, it was found upon arriving that he had left and gone back to the city. Another call at his residence brought no better results. He was undoubtedly in the city, they said, but where they didn’t know. Finally, ‘upon calling at the assigree’s office, Iwas told that he was in the city, and in one of two places, but what these ices were no one would tell In all this programme of hide and seek the friends ot the venerable Archbishop are doing him a great injustice. It carries with itthe idea that he is trying to elude his creditors, when nothing could pone bly be farther from his in- tentions. Doubtless he desires to be spared the pain of listening to the appeals of others who suffer less than he in the matter, but he has nothing to conceal from any one. He has simply been unmanned by the force of the blow, and is allowing himself to be influenced by others whose counsels are weak and Ppurposeless. FRIENDLY GERMAN SENTIMENT, Your correspondent had a conversation with Mr. rar the editor a the Volks pte ma Catholic newspaper), in regard to the Archbishop's affairs so far as they related to the German: “Our people,” said Mr. Haacke, “are not insensible to the magnitude of the Archbishop's mistortune. They feel for him and will show their sympathy as soon as the time arrives when they know what is expected of them. This story of the Germans having any antipathy to him, because he is notof our nationality, is the sheerest nonsense. Many Germans have lost largely by his tailure, but I think there is no hard feeling toward him for that.” “It is said that your people want him displaced in order that you may have 8 German hbishop?’’ “ there is no such feeling Lam sure,”’said Mr, Haacke. a the other hand, I think he should be kept in his place. His retention as Archbishop will do more toward arousing the Church to help him get through his difficulties than anything else. Archbishop Pur- cell is not an Irish Archbishop, tnough he was born in Ireland. Ho is a cosmopolite, just as the Catholic Church is cosmopolitan, and T believe the Germans, as a class, specially desire to have him kept in the place he has filled with so much honor to the Church until his death.” WAITING FOR CARDINAL M'CLORKRY, Father Edward Purcell went up to the Notre-Dame Seminary, in Brown couuty, last evening, and will remain there for a week or more to regain his health, Bishop ‘Toehle, of Covington, is absentat present and will not be back for some time to come, so that ‘no official announcement can be bad from him in regard to the action of the diocese of Covington in reyard to the Archbishop's affairs, Talks with prominent Catholics of the diocese, however, give little hope of substantial ‘aid from that quarter. The diocese is poor and struggling wnder a weight of debt, und only four years ago was compelled to stand ® severe finan- cial loss in the fatture of Father Guilfoile, a parish priest who went into real estate speculations, and whiie all are full of sympathy for the Archbishop few of them express the belief of their being able to do anything to relieve him. ‘The case may be stated briefly that the Catholics of all the ueigboring dioceses are looking to the action of Cardinal McCloskey as a guide to them in their course of action. If he comes forward to lead the Chureh in the Engen of the debt, an extraordinary effort will made every- where; if he docs not, there is really very little ground for hoping that it ever will be paid, MKS. GENERAL SHERMAN BELIEVES THE CaTH- OLICS WOULD ALL BE WILLING TO AID ARCH- BISHOP PURCELL, (BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.) Bavrimone, March 8, 1879. Mrs, W. T. Sherman was called pon to-day, at the residence of her daughter, Mra, F, W. Elder, in reference to the feeling of the Cath- olic ladies toward Archbishop Purcell. She appeared deeply interested in the subject, and upon being asked what the ladies of the United States would probably do for the Archbishop, she replied, “I don’t think they can properly do anythi Autil Cagdinal McCloskey calls upon them Oftivially. It is too stupendous 4 matter for ladies to deal with except in an official and organized manner." “Have you thought of Ep by which the ladies could help the embarrassed Archbishop?” “No; but the Catholic ladies I think would take hold of any plan looking to his relief. I am confi- dent of this.” Speaking of the Archbishop's troubles, Mrs. Sherman said that it was @ terrible calamity, and has been a severe blow to her personally. She had known the Archbishop since she was a little girl, and his brother for forty years, and, she added, “There are not two better ‘purer men in exist- ence than they.” “Whatdo you think of the objection being raised in some dioceses that by coming to the assistance of the Archbishop a bad precedent will be established?” “Why,” she said, earnestly, think it is not a bad precedent—on the contrary, a very good one. You might as well say we should stand by and sce a man drown, with folded hands, for fear of establishing & bad precedent by saving him. If I had $1,000,000 I would give it to the Archbishop, if it would save him. Ido not think the hierarchy will refuse to help him. Are we to stand by and see him ruined?’ she exclaimed, “I am @ woman, and, per- haps, it may appear presumptuous, but I don’t see how they can avoid aiding him.” In her opinion, Soom for aid would be cheerfully answered on ull 4 QUESTION FOR ALL CHRISTIANS. The Evening Post of yesterday, in an editorial on Archbishop Purcell’s bankruptcy, says that, “broadly treated, it would furnish an interesting and in- teresting topic’ in the fifty Roman Catholio ecburehes of New York to-day. But the subject has a general bearing upon @ serious question of the time. What should be the effect of church influence upon secular and business conduct in ite relation to morals and what is the actual effect. After considering what the influence should be it says:—The truth is that, not only in respect to the commercial rascalities of the age, but respect also to the reckless methods of doing business. and the extravagant way of living, w: are the fecund parent of commercial crime, there has not been between men who sre church members and men who are not that distinct difference which it should be the aim of the Church to promote, The evil times have not spared the churches. Their own business has been marked by the headlong rivalry, the rash assumption of obligations without the scrupulous provision of means to meet them, and other so-called enter- rising traits which have been the curse of the last fteen years, and which, if not themselves grossly immoral, are closely allied to immorality.” The ambition of church advancement, the recklessness of prudent considerations which permitted Archbishop Purcell and his brother to take the savings of the people belong to ‘the same loose moral notions which have induced many Protestant de- nominations to put up fine buildings tor which they were unable to pay, to ‘trust to luck’ to meet the enormous obligations which resulted, and to wind up with a mortgage foreclosure or a ‘debt-lifting auction,’ with perhaps ‘bogus bids.’ ‘The situation is one for Christians of all denomina- tions to consider seriously. The churches shonid ask themselves if it isp not@ high time to stop setting bad examples before the world and to begin setting good ones; if the every day life of men in the pres- ent world is not closely related to their eternal life in the world to come,” A REASSURING SIGN. The Express of yesterday evening in an article on “The Unfortunate Prelate,” attributes the calamity to depreciation in values and other unforeseen causes which have brought such losses upon savings banks and insurance companies everywhere. It notes the sympathy of clergy and laity with Archbishop Purcell, and praises the sen- sitiveness whic! led the latter to resign In conclusion it says:—‘The Catholic people are ready to subscribe liberally for the relief of ir co- religionists who have suffered from the Arch- bishop's misfortunes, They all seem to feel that the Church is involved in the calamity, and that its good name requires that something should be done to relieve the people who have been injured by the misfortunes of one of its officers, ‘This is a worthy and noble sentiment. It will be re- membered that afew years ago a Boston publisher had taken the moneys of poor people who had trusted him on the ground that he was # good Catholic, and when, through his failure, these people suffered heavy losses the Bishop took the case under his special charge and saved the church from a scandal. Such things as these give people respect for religion and its institutions. They tend to foster public confi- dence in the Christian name and faith. When so many professors of religion prove to be defaulters and so many church members turn out to be robbers of the poor and devourers of widows’ houses, it is reas- suring to’ see one church stand by its Christian and do its utmost to protect its good name.” A LABORER SEES THE DANGER TO HIS CHURCH. To tux Epiror or tHe Heratp:— In this morning’s HrraLp I was pleased to see another letter from “A Catholic Layman,” urging immediate assistance to the venerable Archbishop Purcell. There are very few Catholic parishes in the whole of this country free from debt, and too many of the Catholic priests, I regret to say, have very little sympathy with one of their clerical brothers when adversity or trouble of any kind overtakes him, But this recent adversity to Archbishop Purcell concerns more than clerics—it concerns the Catholic Church. There are, unfortunately, too many in this country and elsewhore who are too glad to have such a pretext to back up other charges incessantly hurled at the Catholic Church. As Catholic layman I feel it incumbent upon me to assist in makin, up the loss incurred by Archbishop Purcell. feel convinced that were Cardinal McCloskey to call: upon the Catholics of America to subscribe toward this end enough would be forthcoming to pay his creditors and relieve the Church from a scandal from which she cannot be ex- tricated except by refunding the money received from people who wouid confide their lives us well as their money to the safe keeping of a Catholic bishop. I hope, therefore, that the Cardinal and all bishops and priests in America will make wise ey penne without so to give the Catholics of this country an opportunity to show how solicitous they are in preserving untainted the name as well as the religion of Christ’s Church. JAMES O'REILLY, @ Catholic Laborer. New York, March 8, 1879 TRUSTEES FOR CATHOLIC CHURCHES. New York, March 7, 1879. To THe Eprron or THR HERALD:— I have read with much sorrow—for I am a Roman Catholic—your accounts as they appeared in your valuable paper daily of the distressing condition of the Roman Catholics in Cincinnati, and would sug- gest to prevent a repetition of what has just hap- pened, why would it not be a good plan for each Catholic church to have a board of trustees attached to it to take charge of its finances?—good men who have had experience in business and know how to invest moneys. I have often known Catholic churches in this city to bey twice the amount for building that would bs charged private individuals, w en it should be quite the contrary. This often occurs when the astors have favorite overseers and constructors, Now, if they had aboard of trustees all this could be avoided. A CATHOLIC. WHERE HAS THE MONEY GONE? 123 SouTH TWENTY-sECOND STREET, PHILADELPHIA, March 6, 1879, ‘fo rae Evrtorm or THe Henatp: I am & Catholic, and am consequently sorry to see the venerable Archbishop Purcell in such a grave dilemma as he is through his gross negligence of business matters and the loss of moneys put into his hands for safe keeping; but, looking at it ina ten f business way, which is the only proper way to loo! at the matter, I fail to see what difference there is between His Grace and the convicted Glasgow Bank directors, and a thorough sifting of the whole mat- ter should at once begin, so that we may see where the money has gone. JOHN McKENNA, AN APPEAL TO ALL CHRISTIANS, To tHe Eprron ov rie HenaLp:— Would it not be advisable for members of all re- ligious denominations to contribute to relieve the poor people who have lost their money through the Archbishop from distress? If not relieved their faith in religion will be shaken, For the interests of jety and of Christianity it is better that ideas of future onsibility should be maintained and fostered. Jisbeliet in one form of religion will not create belief in another, but is apt to create a for all creeds, For the sake, therefore, of the maintenance of all creeds should not those eso liberatly to suffering humanity id the Catholic population in their from destruction the property of Church and to protect from loss the suffering members of their community? It is stated that judgments against the Arch- bishop personally can be enforced against all of the Church property in Ohio, Think of so large & community as the Catholics of Ohio deprived by the operation of law of their customary places of religious* worship, and forced to resurrect the material forms of their organization. To what suffering in the old and what lawlessness in the youmg would it not necessarily tend! ‘Theretore, — in bame of the Christian faith, and of the second great commandment as laid down by the Saviour Himself, we appeal to all men who desire the maintenance of Sabbath observance in our community to lend their aid to their Catholic fellow citizens in their efforts to repair this breach in their edifice, BELIEVER. New York, March 8, 1879. DISASTROUS FAILURE. Saw Francreco, March 8, 1879. The failure of the firm of Gadchaux Brothers & Co. is now known to be more disastrous than the most panic stricken of its creditors would have dared to suppose, A careful examination of their affairs shows that the assets of the firm amount to only $476,000, of which $75,000 is in stock and the balance in book accounts, notes, &c. The liabilities are over $1,000,000, | The creditors are garnishoeing debts wherever due. Much of the $400,000 due the firm had been assigned to the creditors previous to the announcement of the failure, and, much of it being due from retail houses in this city which have be- come embarrassed, it is asserted that there will be a shrinkage of probably Ofty per cent in the amount of ansets stated, in other sha end their THE RENT MARKET. A Glance at the Present Value of City Stores and Houses. PROPERTY OWNERS’ ACTION. No Decline in the Price of First Class Residences. ‘The tramp of the house hunter is heard just now all over Manhattan Island. Since the month of March set in great has been the zeal of the house- keepers and storekeepers who intend either to move to different localities on the 1st of May or to secure in advance a reduction of rent. This season, indeed, is the real estate agent’s harvest, when he secures abundant commissions, but not without a severe struggle between the tenacious owner on the one side and the unwilling tenant on the other. During the past two days s Henaup reporter has visited numerous offices of real estate agents in all parts of the city and also the head- quarters of vast estates. Everywhere ne found clerks busy in making out permite for ladies and gentlemen anxious to inspect new domi- ciles that are to rent, and it was in many instances with difficulty that the agents could spare a few moments to converse about the state of the rent market. Most of the new leases must be signed and delivered about the 15th of April. For the first time since the panic of 1873 the numerous tenants of the Astor estate find themselves faced by a determination not to grant a further reduction of rents. This affects a large number of uptown residents, and also several localities in the extreme western part of the city. The case is different with the business property be- longing to the estate, where considerations not at all affecting private residences must naturally come into calculation, FIST CLASS RESIDENCES. From conversations with Messrs. Ludlow, Harnett, Morgan and other real estate agents it is evident that there is to be no reduction this year in houses rent- ing for from $3,000 to $4,000 per annum, especially those in the Murray Hill district and the choice quadrilateral bounded by Forty-second street on the south, Fourth avenue on the cast, Fifty-ninth street on tne north and Sixth avenue on the west. Aman who has made his money in Chicago, St. Louis, Cali- fornia or New Orleans, bringing his family to New York, generally, it is said, seeks for quarters in this particular locality, though in other neighborhoods he might get a house for from $2,500 to $2,800 per annum. SECOND CLASS DWELLINGS. The second class residences, of course, are far more numerous, and the rental asked for them affects the bulk of the population. The Astor, Loril- lard, Fish and Rhinelander estates comprise large blocks of these houses, renting all the way from $1,200 to $2,000, whose occupants are clamoring for @ reduction; but the decision taken by the Astor estate is being followed by numerous other land- lords, who have thus far succeeded in having many leases signed at last year’s rental, especially of dwell- ings in decent neighborhoods, between Sixth and Soventh avenues. There is, however, one exception to be noted. A Twenty-third street agént said to the reporter:—‘Several boarding houses and a few small hotels have been leased at ten percent less than last year. These people are suf- tering more than is generally known, and they can- not pay the rent of previous years, As to boarding house keepers they are all clamoring for lower rents. And what can we do? After a house has been once occupied as a boarding house it is difficult to let it to a private family, and we are compelled to uccede to the demands of the actual tenant. These people are not to blame if they don't succeed in making money. With the exception of first class boarding houses, which charge enormous prices, not any of the low rows of houses you see along the cross ‘streets pay. The competition is unprece- dented, and hence the majority of them are com- pelled to take boarders at low prices and are run- ning ata loss, Their offers for renewals of leases are in many instances ridiculously low, owing to the fact mainly that so many private families now tuke one or two boarders to lessen the expense of housekeeping. Then, again, the habit ot going to the country every summer has re- suited in many boarding house keepers being unwill- ing to take a lease even for a whole year, as they all claim that their houses are virtually empty between the months of June and October. People now go to the country even earlier than this in the spring and return to the city later in the fall." FLATS AND TENEMENTS. Rents for first class French flats or apartment houses remain somewhat in statu quo, with # leaning toward lower prices, The mania for flats renting at $60 to $75 per month, so universal during the past few years, a) to have somewhat abated, but there is a corresponding increase in the demand for second class flats such as rent for $35 to $40 » month, and hence it is that numerous owners having houses on the west side all the way from Eighth street to Thirtieth street, too old and ungainly for private residences or even boarding houses, are changing them rapidly into flats. Following immediately the second class flats come the regular tenements, where occupants pay a rental of from $14 to $15 per month. Their number is legion, and everywhere “the horny-handed sons of toil” occupying these domiciles are clamoring for lower rents. They are the mechanics, clerks and small salaried workingincn whose earnings have been cut down during the past year. Among theso, ac- cording to one real estate agent, are nearly all the policemen of the city, most of whom live in tene- ments. They claim that since their salaries have been cut down they are bound to demand a reduction in rents. Taking a general survey of the rent mar- ket so faras residences in the central part of the city are concerned the situation may be summed up in the words of a real estate agent doing business near Fifth avenue. “Rents,” he said, “will not go down owing to people moving to the northern part of the island or owing to a larger supply of houses, but simply because of the actual want of money now 40 prevalent among the people.”* STOKES IN SIXTH AND EIGHTH AVENUES. ‘The stores slong Sixth avenue are renting this year at the same figures as last, with the exception of cer- tain localities near Fourteenth and Twenty-third streets, where higher rents are demanded. It is ad- mitted by several real estate agents that buildings along Sixth avenue, the upper stories of which are used as dwellings, have been so far as rents ure concerned by the Metropolitan Elevated Road, but the business parts have not been affected, It must be remembered that with the exception of a tow | large establishments nearly all buildings along Sixth avenue have stores on the street and floors for housekeeping above. “{ have eighteen buildings along Sixth avenue,” said one real estate agent, “but the rent I get for the stores will make up for the smaller amount L get for the dwelling part; in fact, the stores will carry the buildings. And yet most of my tenants admit that the noise of the road does not disturb them as much 4s it used todo. Whether they are getting accustomed to it or whether the noise is actually less I know not; but certainly the com- plaints are not so universal as when the cars were started last June.” Property in Eighth avenue, especially between Fourteenth and Thirty-seventh streets, is renting generally at the same rates as last year, while in some instances, where new fronts have been put up and other improvements made, the rents have been raised. ‘The highth avenue storekeeper is more dis- posed to secede to last year’s figures, as he imagines that Sixth avenue business has en affected by the elevated road, which, it is claimed. is not the case. Nevertheless, he sees his own avenue clear of all ob- structions and business steadily improving in the midst of a west side population that is continually on the increase and which purecnases most of its sup- lies in Srodee ven thoroughfare. Hence he is appy and readily Signs his new lease at the old fig- ures, Only one noted Sixth avenue establishment has moved to Eighth avenue since the introduction of rapid transit along the former road, and. according to # real estate agent well posted in such matters, he “has made a mistake.” But he appears to be quite content with his new surroundings. Forty stores along Eiguth avenue have thus far been rented at the same figures as last year. THIRD AVENUE PRICES. Landlords of Third avenue property are satisfied with the condition of the rent market thus far. They clajin that east side stores rent as well this your as ‘etofore, and that the business of the strect is not all affected by the elevated roads, The same ob- tion made as to Sixth avenue in regard to the t of the buildings holds good as to Third «1 there is a corresponding decrease in the Jjoore over stores in some parts of that popu- lous avenue. “Were it not that people are compelled to limit the purchase of supplies there would be actually more business to-day in Third avenue than before the trains commenced running,” said an old real estate agent on the east side. “There is more of people from the uptown wards tothe d from the lower to the upper wards since the introduction of rapid transit, aud all this helps to make business hvely along the avenue. This is the reason why east side property holds its own so well to-day, and in this respect there is hardly any difference between stores along the Bowery and those in Third avenne, Those who come to make their urehases from, say, Eas Sevanty-ninth street, ‘orkville and Harlem, go, to the Bowery and Third avenue twice before they think of crossing once to the west side, whero they believe everything to be nes 7 dearer. Resides, they coms dows bere in a straight line from weir hon.cs, aud tre ability of east ude storekeepers t pay the same recte as last year, in the face of the bh. times, is undoubtedly due to the introduction of rapid transit.” BROADWAY RENTS TWENTY PER CENT LOWER. Agreat | ha» been said Leretofore of rents along Broadway, but no official declaration that # decline was taking place has been made. At the office of the Lorillard estate, howev Mr. Jackson said:— “Broadway rents have failen trom fifteen to twent; percent all the way between Canal and Vourtesnth streets. It isthe poorest strect for the rental of property we have on our books. It is the most heavily taxed aud worst managed, and people cannos pay the rents that ought to be paid for stores along such @ great thoroughfare, They find that they can do just as wellin the side streets. There will, no doubt, be » change when the Broadway raili is running. Shopkeepers will then, perhaps, be anxious to come back, and the supply may not be to the demand. Somcthing must be done for way. Not ouly am Lin favor of the Broadway cars, but I want the University P=. the Fourth avenue, the Bleecker street cars, all to come into Broadway. ‘The ladies will mde down in them from all sections of the city aud saske their purchases along Broadway, and the street will then once more resume its place as the leading business street in New York.” Mr. Juckson said, further, that a first class building, measuring 20x100 feet, could now be had for $8,000 rent per annum. UNION SQUARE AND UPPER BROADWAY, But few stores of note are to let in Broadway above Twenty-third street, and in Fifth avenue below Twen- ty-third street but one store is to let. These locali- ties are now the leading centres for retail business, and owners, it is said, cau command their own prices. There is a marked difference, however, between the east and west sides of Union square. While on the west side owners readily command tenants at their own prices, property on the east side is difficult to dispose of even tor offices. In some instances there is w difference of tifty percent between the prices paid for stores or lofts on the east and those on the west side of the square. Holding theirown remarkably well, however, are the stores and offices on the south- ern and northern sides, neither side being considered as much off the line as the east side. DOWNTOWN OFFICES AND STORES. The erection of numerous office buildings, in addi- tion to those already in existence, has increased the supply of offices tor the use of lawyers, inventors, architects and commission merchants. Those in the immediate vicinity of the Post Office are taken ut lust year’s prices, and so are those in Wall street and adjacent blocks. In other localities, such as broadway, above Chambers street, there is a gen- eral falling off of about ten per cent in office rente, The Boreel building, just erected by the Astors in the immediate vicinity of Trinity Church, is the latest addition to this class of property, and Mr. Ludlow states that the greater number of, the offices have already been rented. Most of the moving in the dry goods district takes: place before or after the lst of May, and is effected at a time when trade is least busy. Still, since the re- cent fires, it is said a more or general demand for a reduction of rents has been noticeable. As a disposition to increase their rates has been mant- fested on the part of the insurance companies a cor- responding decline in other expenditures is de- manded by many firms who heretofore have steadily pet the rent market in this most expensive lo- ity. Along the lower section of Front, Water and Pearl streets rents for stores and lofts are about ten cent lower than last year, but not along Fulton street, east and west, or along Greenwich and Washington streets, where, particularly in the imme- diate vicinity of Cortlandt strect, there is corre- sponding increase. A peculiar feature of this year’s rent market is the more steady demand for stores and lofts along the extreme lower part of Broadway, caused not only by the proximity of the elevated railroad termini, but also, it is believed, by the pro- spective early construction of the new Barge House on the Battery. HARLEM AND YORKVILLE. As yet the supply of houses on the upper east side of the island is equal to the demand. The places still look too barren and uninviting for an immedi- ate large influx of residents, but building goes rap- idly forward, and streets where new rows of houses are completed readily find tenants. ‘In fact,’’ said & prominent real estate agent at Harlem, “if I had » large supply of sixteen foot front houses, two or two anda halt stories high, which can rent for $40 to $50 & month, I could readily lease fifty of them per week. In their absence, however, the people stay away from, this locality, as, thus far, mostof the houses built up here are yet too high priced to encourage a large ine crease of population.”” Nevertheless, the reporter no- ticed troops of house hunters all along the west side of Harlem from 115th street up to 135th street. The renting business in that section, especially that part of Harlem lying west of Fourth avenue, appeared to be in a remarkably healthy state, moét of the houses worth from $40 to $50 per month being readily dis- posed of. Any number of cheap dwellings are Being erected on that side of the ‘sland. Still there is not yes such a great influx from New Jersey, Brooklyn and neighboring parts as was predicted would be the case when the recent introduction of rapid transit gave rise to additional speculation in real estate, ‘Lhe parties who now seck homes in Harlem are those who abandon the boarding houses of the cen- tral wards. ‘Some of them will come back,” said a Pine street broker, yesterday, “after they have had the fever wnd ague. Upon inquiry as to whether any scarcity of tenants was felt in the central part of the c@y, between Eighth and Thirticth streets, owing to the constant northward movement of a large portion of the city’s pulation, the reporter's attention was called to the ct that in a city of over a million inhabitants there are always thousands of persons anxious to be within walking distance, not only of their own places of business, but also of the theatres and hotels, a large class of the population being kept by their business in constant intercourse with these hotels and publio places, There is always quite number of people coming back from Harlem, so that thus far at leasé the equilibrium has been disturbed but little. RIDING TO HIS DEATH. FATAL EXPEDITION OF WATERCRESS GATH< ERERS—ONE MAN KILLED AND ANOTHER SERI- OUSLY INJURED. In the small hours of Friday morning s heavily laden freight train was toiling up the steep gradient that overlooks Bery's Creex—a lonely strip of meadow land about seven miles down the Erie Railroad— when the head light fell on s man’s bieed- ing face, upturned to the moon. The en- gineer stopped the cars and, alighting, found the senseless body of s stalwart young Frenchman, with his legs overhanging the ditch. Thirty yards along the track was discovered, stone dead, another Frenchman, of some sixty years of age. The bodies were conveyed to Rutherford Park, and there recog- nized, Tho dead man was Jacques Trialoup, the live ing Auguste Dufour, both being from West Hoboken, where they made their living during the season of early spring by gathering watercresses. 7 Trialoup was one of the most noted watercress thieves in New Jersey. He had twice been imprisoned at Hackensack for plundering beds which farmers had carefully nurtured and flooded during the winter. When a farmer came down to his spring in the morn- ing to find his cresses torn up by the roots and his bed ruined he generally suspected that Trialoup had been at work during the night. The stolen wares ot the poacher were sold at high rates. In the first weeks of Mareh he could command trom $1 to $1 50 fora small basket of a delicacy which epicures esteemed, He had con- tributed more salads to the French kitchens of Now York and New Jersey than any of the regular pur- veyors of the market. When creases were scarce ‘Trialoup caught frogs. For this occupation, bh his aptitude was great, his liking was small, mainly because it was honest; but his enthusiasm for stolen watercresses was so keen that it infected his young companion, Auguste Dufour, who, having been wild and having se} from his wife, joined Trialoup very readily. But this eg expedition of Friday was to have been their ast. Dutour had been offered employment in ® large oil manufactory, and meant to to have signed a bond on Saturday morning, promis- ing to reform, and the veteran Trialoup himself had sworn to poach no more. One of these penitents was yesterday found by a Henacp reporter, moani: upon « bed, muttering incoherently, with his bound up. The reporter attended the of the other. HOW DID THEY PALL? These two men left Hoboken at fourin the afters noon. They were discovered on the track at three in the morning, and Dufour’s watch, Which he had just wound, stopped at twenty minutes past seven, is head was gashed horribly, his hands and wrists were enormously swollen, and there was every reae son to believe that he fell from the cars and struck the gravel with his face. On Trialoup'’s face there were no other signs of hurt than »@ large bump over eye and « small stream of blood that trickled from | neath his hair. The theory that they were drunk and that & pasning engine struck them is confuted by all the evidence. Dufour had a short lucid inte: yester- day and said they had been forced from the train, the old man first, he next, They were stealing s ride, Dufour remembers nothing of the fall, only that after awhile he returned to his senses and called, “How are you, Jacques?” and # faint sound came back, in French, “All is well.” Then, maimed and crushed, blinded by his own blood, he crawled @ little way beside the ditch and called again, “How are you, Jacques?” ‘There was no answer. RUBAL DOGRERRIRS, Hitherto nothing definite has been ascertained as to how the man Trialoup came to his death. After much bickering an inquest was held, and adjourned as soon as the lies had been identified. It seems that a feud ri at Ratherford Park between the lo- cal Justice and the local edito: The editor tele- raphed to Hackenssck tor # coroner to sit on the ly, whereupon the Justic: ized the body and de- clared that nobody should sit on it but himself, He had been roused up from bed in the early dawn; he had expended divers sums of money on the dead man's account, and dead men were by nO means too common at Rutherford Park. The jury he had summoned was summarily dismissed by the Coroner, aud the result of these amenities wag the collapse of the inqu: Meanwhile, the wounded man bas twice asserted that he and his com} were thrown from the cars by some unknown man. His cause is being warmly espoused in the village, and amateur detectives are starting on the trail of all railway officials who were im the neigh borhood of Lery’s Creek at 7:20 P.M.