The New York Herald Newspaper, March 11, 1879, Page 5

TWENTY-FIVE. YEARS: OLD. Brilliant Commemoration of ths Formation of the Allantc Cable Company. CYRUS W, FIELD'S TRIUMPH. Reception in the Historic Room in Gramercy Park. SPEECHES AND COMMUNICATIONS. Mr. Cyrns W. Field's residence at Gramorey Park last evening was the scone of @ unique and brilliant celebration. It was the twenty-litth anniversary of the formation of a company for laying the first At- Field had issued about thousand magnificently engraved mon- symbolic represente- the great cablo enterprise, and in cesponse to theso aivery numerous and distinguished he ghibled in his parlors. Among those present wero Secretary Evarts, Sir Edward Thornton, the British Minister; Mr. Shishkin, tho Russian Mipister; Judge Allen, Minister of the Sand- wich Islands; Professor Baird, ot the Smithsonian Institute; Prosident Garrett, of tho Baltimore and Ohio Railroad; Mayor Latrobe, of Baltimore; George and a number Peter Cooper, lantic cable, ster invitations, throng (ot ft; Moses Taylor, ex-Mayors Wickham Mayor Cooper, William H. Vanderbilt, Samuel B. Babcock, David Dow, ©. K. and William R. Garrison, José F. Navarro, John Baird, cx-Governor Morgan, Clarkson N. Potter, and a hast of Of My, Ficld’s immediate family were present Mrs, Cyrus W. Field, Mrs. Lindley and Mrs. Iudson, daughters of Mr, Ficld; Mr, E. M. @dest son and wife; Oyrus W. Ficld, Jr., another son; Mr. Dudley FietiMhis nephow, and wife, and Mr. Field's three brothors, David Dudley, Stephen J. (Justice of the United States Supreme Court), and The partors were decorated with flowers, ornaments and pictures, and among thc latter were many striking reminiscences of the cable's carly Abram ‘8, Hewitt, ‘TIE CABLE’S PICTORIAL HISrony. These pictures which were studied with general Interost by the guests represented the starting of the first cable at Valentia, on the Irish coast, show- ing the Great Eastern at a distance, the successful landing at Heart’s Content, on the Newfoundland coast, in presence of a vast and joyous multitude, the midnight grappling of the cable on mid-ocean &@ skyrocket on that the examination of and ‘throwing up memorable occasion, cable on board ship to see if thero was still “life” in it, the splicing of tho cabie, Mr. Field’s return from the Great Eastern after the successful laying of two cables. ‘Tho back parlor was festooned * with the very streamer which waved from the mast- head of the cable ship Niagara. ‘This room was fitted tp with tho samo quaint, old, yet still solid furni- ture which it contained this day twenty-five years sgo, and here was the veritable table at which Oyrus W. Ficld, Peter Cooper, Marshall O. Roberts, Moses Taylor and Chandler White pledged their bames for the exeoution of the vast international enterprise, whose success was to mark a new epoch Of these five original founders of the Atifitic cable, the first four were present, Mr. Wilson G. Hunt taking tho piace of Mr. White, de- teased, and though » quarter of a century had Pissed over their heads they still looked hale and joyous over their present happy reunion and able to fight tho battles of life for yours to come. At ten d’clock they gathered round t! ing a globe on which Mr, Fi studies, and the formal part of. the celebration began in the delivery of a number of addresses and the Yeading of many letters and telegrams of cohgratu- lation, which evoked much applause. A banquet spread by Delmonicos then awaited the guests and ‘was done full justice to, the band present ineanwhile Giscoursing lively music. Tho banquet hall was Gecorated with flags of all countries. THE FIRST CABLUGRAM. : Among the spociul objects of interest during the evening was the exhibition of the well known de- Spatch of congratulation sent by Queen Victoria to ident Buchanan, which was the first telegram at passed over the cable. possession of Mrs. Heury.E. Johnston, of Baltimore, and was cxhibited by Mr. Enoch Pratt, of that city. Tt reads as follows :— In civilization, historic table bear- made lis first cablo hat the President will unite with the elyetric cable which now Groat Brituin with t ‘an additional Ink bi ho natior founded in tholr common {ntorést and reetprocal esteem, © Queen has mneh p! with the President and renewing her w perity of the United States. lock Mr, Cyrus W. Field 0 ceedings with the following address :— = ‘MR. CYRUS W. FIELD'S SPPECH. Neighbors and friends, said Mr. Field,’ twenty-five 0 this evoning, in this house, in this room is table and at this very hour was s! ‘eoment to form the New York, Newfoun: gore ne pa Wage) aman first Rae § by five persons, oper, Moses Taylor, and = myseclf—aro tates will prove pened the pro- . four of whom— wre to-night. The fifth, Mr. Chandler White, ated two years after, ir, Wilson G. Hunt, who present my associates, it is to bo said to their honor—as might have been expected from men h position and character—that they atood ing mantully for twelve long years, ugh discouragements such as nobody knows but laud our sticcess know struggles it was obtained. One ntment followod anothor, till “hope deferred the heart sick.”” We had little help from outside, faith in our enterprise. But not a man y it to the end. My brother Dudley is also here, who as the counsel ,of the company, was present at agreement, and went with Mr. White and myself the week ufter to Newfoundland, to obtain the charter, was our legal sdviser through those anxious and lod years, when success seemed ver: At St. cher phen ons come, and who uw obtaining our charter, Edward M. Archibald, then Prime Minister and now for more than twenty red roprescatutive of Her Majest; verament at this port, who is also here to-nigi 18 a matter for grateful acknowlodgment that we pared to see accomplished the work that wo began; and that wecan mect now, at the end of a ‘ter of @ century, to look with wonder at what in other parts of the world. Our little company came into existence only a few ‘weeks before the Telegraph themselves. Thoso who at Uttle through what i¢ ship; all stood the signing of the to Newfoundlund, the hono! been wrought festern Union which is entitled to share in our congratula- brought 4 connecting wire into we cau this evening communi- cate with overy town and village fron: the Atlantic to our soa cables, with ww. Zealand, the West | QYAT CHANGES. circle has been broken by death once, very different has it been with the Atiantic which was formed in London in line across tho dvean. At its be- vighteon English and twelve directors, thirty in all, of whom iwenty- or rotired from the Board. I ain ono of the directors, men of science on both sides of ‘napired us by thoir knowledge and he, whose voast survey me ped out the whole line shores: 8 to find @ path thro: rrymen, who soun ‘ond has kind), his room, by w! the Pacific, and b; Australia, Hetite deers sive nine have either dicd who frat taug! ery opie ) across the Atlantic; and lorse; and “last, but not loast, Henry, Across tho ‘ater We tniss some who did a8 much as any men in tho name of England grcat— Stephenson ond Bruncl— invaluable coun- wise of the inter- ition of & great prob- rudy” aud Wiealstone, aud stones oh? whom mare us freely of their ut compensation, which they felt in the solu of science and ineoring skill, Batistaction to remem! ments aided us so ay ot the Bu ery to it an enter rn and ia T that, while the t gonerourly with their ships, making ocean, aud even carrying our cable in men 26 these #0 which was to uni end to bring the whole world to ho Was the steadtast friond of my coun Co! He was ono of the first to look ith tho cye of faith to what has since come w pass. NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, to unite England with America. He did not live to sec his dream fultilled, Bo ion tt Ta pt teaver . men wor! veries snd their inventions live. From that small be- fcarcely Kaown--tha ‘of felogrepling thrvugh the scarcely known— ug throug) Kaptlinot the os Ureediy A0e meacetago thke. was not an ocean cable in the world, A. few short lines had been laid across the Channel trom England to the Continent, but all were in shal- low water. Evem science hardly dared to conceive of the possibility of sending human_ intelligence through the abysses of the ocean. But when we struck out to crogs the Atlantic we had to lay a cable over two thousand miles long in water over two miles deep. ‘That great success guve an immense impulse to submari telegraphy, then in its in- fancy, but which has since yrown till it has ‘stretched out its. fingers tipped with tire into all the waters of the globe. ‘its lines have gone into ull the earth, and its words to the ends of the world.” ‘To-day there are over seventy thousand iniles of cable crossing the seas and the oceans. And as if it were.not enough to have messages sent with the speed of lightning, they must be sent in op- posite directions at the same moment. Ihave just received » telegram irom Valentia, Ireland, which reads, “This anniversary witnesses duplex working across the Atlantic as an uceomplished tact’’—by which the capacity of all our occan ¢: is doubled, Who can measure the effect of this swift intelligence pasting to and tro? Already it regulates the markets of the world, But better still is the new relation into which it brings the ditferent kindreds of nran- kind. Nations are made enemics by theie ignoranco of cach other. A better acquaintance leads to a bet- ter understanding; the sense of nearness, the rela- tion of neighborhood, awakens the feeling of brotherhood. Is it not a sign that a better age is coming, when along the ocean, beds strewn with the wrecks of war, now glide the messages of peace? ANOTHER CONCHASION, One thing only remains which I still hope to be apared to'see and in which to take a part—the laying ot » cable trom Sau Francisco to the Sundwich Is!- ands—for which I havo received this very day a cou- cession from Ki ‘wlakaua, by his Minister, who is here to,night, trom thence to Japan, by which the Island groups of the Pacific may be brought into communication with the continents on either # Asiwand America—thus completing the circuit of the lobe, * r But life is passing, and iperliaps that is to be lett to other hands. Many of our old companions have fallen, ‘we inust soon give place to our successors, ut though we shall pass away, it is a satistaction to have been able to do something that shall remain when we are gono. It in what I have done to ad- vance this enterprise I have done something for the honor of my country aud the good of the world Iam devoutly grateful to my Creator. This has been the great ambition of my life, and is the chief inheritance whieh I leave to my children. DAVID DUDLEY VIELD'S SPBECH. Mr, David Dudley Field next addressed the assem- Dlage’as follows:— ~ ‘Then and now are the words which best indicate the current of thought of one who was an actor in the transaction we are commemorating and the events which followed it. Then, as we have been told, there ‘wus not ssubmarine telegraph in tho world, except- ing from Eng}and to the adjacent continent, none of which lay more thin fifty fathoms deep; now there are cables ut the bottom of ever; an, except the Pacific. Then whatever took in Ireland, the nearest land, could: be known to ns only atter eight or ten ‘3; LOW We read at our breakfast tubles news of what has happened a few hours before in Ireland and in England, in France and Spain, in Con- stantinople and Cairo, in Delhiand Melbourne. When 1 look ‘at this ceiling and these walls, all un- changed, and think of the group, small in num- ber but great in heart, that then gathored around this ‘table, and of what they set on foot, I foel that the achievements of our days have surpassed the marvels of fable und romance. Peter Cooper has written his name on walls of stone and iron, Moses Taylor has heaped up “riches and honor,” Marshall 0. Roberts -has ploughed either ocean with his ‘switt ships, and = yet nothing that these men hav don as wrought half so much for the world ag that which they that night began. Tho part which my brother took you all know. Of the other two, one, Mr. Chandler White, my triend of many years, fell by the wayside long betore the end of the tedious journey which tho others had be- fore them, Mr. Wilson G. Hunt tvok his place, and journeyed with them resolutely to the end. No one kuows better than I the obstacles which these gentlemen had to overcome, the disap- pointmeuts to suffer, the delays to sustain, the obloquy to withstand, and no one can bear stronger testimony than I can to their patience, their per- severance, their courage and the deserved honor of their final triumph, The flag, American and English, wrought into one, which hangs over these ‘windows, is tho ‘sign of their constancy in defeat, as of their victory. ‘hat united tlag floated at the masthead of the Niagara in the disustrous expedition of 1887 and the partially auccesstul one of 1853; it was run up again at the fore of the Great Eastern for tho voyaye when she fuiled in 1865, and was kept streaming in the wind on the voyage of 1866, until it floated oyer a victo- rious ship and a-great work accomplished, ‘Lhough we then knew something of what we were doiny we did not know sll. Events have outrun the imupination. Little did I dream that within twenty ane iz yen spy beneath the st aig ge and send from ! & anessago. my, Barthes “iiine, “Wwithie aithogt White’ stood, passed over half the: giobe, darting with the speed of thought across the nearly two thousand miles of Australian descrt, through the Arafura Sea, past the “Isles of Ternate and Tidore,” across the Bay of Bengal aud the Sea of Arabia, along the Red Sea Coast, under the Mediterrancan and Biscay’s sleepless bay, and finally beneath our own Atlantic to this island city, ‘situate at the entry of the sea.”” WHAT THE FUTURE MAY DuING, Seeing that 20 much has been sccomplished in the quarter century past, what may we not expect in the quarter century to come? e completion of the world-ancircling girdle, forging the remain- ing link between the Occident and the Ori- cat, is but a part of what you may wit ness. ro will be new instruments for handling the electric current as there are new places to reach. ‘Then whon every part of the carth shall be visited every day by the electric spark, with its miexsayes from the peoples of many lands, we may hope to evo that bettur understanding among ull tho sonst mon which is sureto teach them that the ways of peace are the ways of prosperity and honor. REV. DE. WILLIAM ADAMS SPEECH. I cannot, said Dr. Adams, who was tho next 8) er, think that the professional services of any clorgyman are necessary at this silvor wedding. Tho Doges of Veuice were aceustomed to repeat the ceremony of marrying the Adriatic with a ring every year, but tho cvent which we commemorate to-night has ro 80 happy that, with no neod of second nuptials, and no piers of w divorce, we have only to congratu+ ate all concerned, and especially, as wo all do most cordially, Mr, Vio.d and the friends associated with him, in that marvellous achievement which, by one indissoluble cord, has married aliseas and all conti- nents, It rarely happens that those who have projected enterprises live to sce their fullest success, jut here aro we gathercd, as we have been reminded, in the very room and by the very table at which, twenty-five years ago, were seated five men who signed the contract for constructing and lying the first Atlantic cable; and here, after the lapse ot a quarter of @ century, ll of these very men, with a single exception, are met again—one ot them, sé Of his age as well as his benevolence, the ob- ject of universal veneration, surviving all ihe un- certainties and changes of life—to receive the well carned congratulations of their friends, bucause themselves permitted to see the amazing results of their sagaeity and energy aud faith. May they ail live to be greeted again at a golden wedding! I have no intention of ing @ word in lsudation of the Atlantic cable. ‘The time for that hi was SOU. In the words of Holy Writ, “He is of ago; he shail speak for himself.”” ‘Though the car jo articulate words passing along its quivering strands, yet this polyglot futerpretcr is speaking nOW, With tongue of fre, bencath the astonished sea, in all the languages of the civilized world, “SANS DIEU, RIEN.”” As Mr. Ficld has been ploused to spoak of meas his pastor during all the toils of that project Whose sue- cess we now cclobrate, I may, without any Mnfringemeut of professional propricty, bear testimony to whut was often brought un- | der my personal observation. Professor Morse and Mr. Field—I . «; of them because of my special intimacy*with them as their pastor; I doubt not the same was true of their associates— siways regarded themselves in this onterprise as the children aud agents of Divine Providence. Never did they fail, at every stage of the prcovedin x, ut tho bo apinnee Mord every voyage, to implore the aid of Him who “holdcth the waters iu the hollow of His hand,” and wh hath made “whatsoever passeth through the pat of the sca.” The motto on Mr. Field's coat of Arms—"Sank Dick Riew’'—was no pretence or impertinence. As a pledge of success it matters much whether ono works with the current of Providence Peal cons it. At this late stage of history tor I politicians to put an embargo on international intercourse, or att pre: yent the intermingling of ail tribes, dd kin- dred#, reminds one of the words oi “He who woukt blow out God's fires does but blow tho "Here, in this room, in the presence these our fellow citizens whom we have come to congratulate and honor, as the original con- tractors of the first inter-continental telugraph, here ds the place, and this is the time to tormulate the lesson; amid all tho imysteries aud confusion of the world, the more we study tho ways of Providence the more of design’ and order and harmony shall wo seo, As the first message along the first telograph on land was “What has God wrought,” and the first words which flashed beneath the sea were, “Peace on earth, youd will to men;"" 40 Low as we lean to listen to the volco which, day and night, is passing under the aurges of the Woatern Ocean, this is its interpreta tion: Close wedded by that mystic cord ‘The continents are 0 And one in heart hl! all theie py vie handy of he LETTERS AND TRLRORAMS RECEIVED, A great number of letters tnd telegrams were read from distingtished persons in all parts of the coun- try-—from the President ot ‘ve United States aud members of the Cabinet; Senators and members of the House of Representatives: Indges of the su- preme Court, and Foreign Ministers; from Gen- eral Sherman and Admiral Porter, heads of the Army and Navy; from the Governors of this and other States; from presidents of colleges and liter- ary men, as well ae Xbowe distinguishell in the ueset o clasp bowenth the soa, ° railroad, telegraphic and other enterprises of the country, across the ome a were Fo- ceived from Marquis of Lorne, the Governor General of Canada; from Sir Joka A, Macdonald, Prime Minister; fom. the Lientonunt Governor of Nova Scotia, and Sir rick Carter, Chigf Justice of Newfoundland, and many others. Out such & number of letters ouly the following fow will here be given :— nreRs Auuy oF we Uniren Stats, HmADae Anes natn, D.C, March 3, 1879. Mr, Oynus W. Frsup, Gramercy Park, New Yor! Dak Sue—I returned last nigh tive weeks? avsence fn the South, aud found an nense pile ot pa- pers, among them your very kind note and the bandsome card’ of invitation to your’ reception of March J.” From tho embellisuments 1'sey that you will wssombje under your most hospitable roof representative men of tho four quurtors of tho globo, who by cables of electricity ure Doing brought info ono great family, I know Of no spot on earth, or of wo human dwutliug, where such an agsum- blage of men could meet with moro propriety and with o Erenter certainty of realizing that wo eo all akin, Hut te cunnot be iuy privilege. Thave been away so much that [ must stay af home @ while, and therofore must beg you to excuse me, Wishing you an assemblage worthy the occasion, I am, with profound respect, your friend and servant, W. 'T. SHERMAN, General, From the Engineor of the Niagara :— My Dean Ma. Fuctp--On account of 11h T have been uncle to leave my house for some months, but am im- proved sufficiently to seek @ more qild climate, and all arrangements are made for leaving on Monday next. Therefore it ix impossible for me to aceept your invita tion ‘Och, wud with how much ree unable to express, is uo one person who lad - portuait yon how inany oceawions the ear yin ¢ Ur the. plas to connuet the Old. sud the Now World by electric cable would have been abandoned but for yo dividuully, ls way often and often attended by such favorable elreumstances that all others were in despair and disheartened, but you never; and to your immeasnrad ad encouragement the schomo was solely indebteds finul sucess, Nothing £8 me from having fn person the pleasure of exprossinic my congratulations on the twenty-titth atmivereary of the organization of the scheme, and that the yours of labor ‘and devotion you have given’ were at last terminated with such complete sutisfuction, T trust you may long enjo; stow nyc among the aay: undort vk, Mare! W. EB. EVERET?. From William Lloyd Garrison :— t BostoN, Mareh 8, 1879. Dear Mu, Fretp—Many thanks for vour kind invitation to be one of a wo that will meot at your residence ng of the leh inst... with reference to the complouion of a quart of @. centnr: since the for: jun of the Dany which, through abstacios, seomingly, insurmognt- able, and with chances of success thut to almost all others but If & doxou members appenred utterly visiouary, laid the tirst Atluntic United ‘Stutes wid Grent Britain, and this propared the @sy for a similar elve- trie submarine communicadon with tiv four quartors of the globe, ryplizing the vision of John iu the Apoculypso, “And there Was no more sea,” Unable to be with you on soJubilant an occasion T ean only send you my warm congratulations that—as it was priinarily owing to your own sublitne conception, unfalter- Ing faith und indomitable perseverance uted onorgy~-thk most wonderfal setievemunt was finally consnn you have boen permitted to live to this auspici as {trust have been wost, if not ull, of your carly sso: gintos, without whose, co-operation, tho undertaking might havo Boon postponed tor an fndeliatte period. ANT honat to you and to them! You ull deserve 'to by crowned with unfading Iuarels, aud to hold 4 conspicuous placo in tho of tho world’s benefactors. ‘There ix no compat- oticwily, no grasping ideally, the value to man- exploit, whereby tuo, space and distances are In the interchange of mind with mind, the disvominatiun of overy variety ot intelligence, and re: porting the heart puleations of our common humanity Rnivarsally, , “For mankind are ono in spirit,fand an instinct bears K. Round the earth’s electric circle, the swift flash of right or wrong; Whether conscious or unconscious, yot humanity's vast ame, Thro its ocean sundered fibres, fools the gush of joy or shamo; In | sain or loss of one race all tho rest have equal lain.” With sincere wi remain yours to labo period, for your health and happinoss, I ‘or thé incoming of that prophetic “When man to man the world o’er, Shall brothers be, for a’ that.” , WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON, . The following telograms were read during the even- ing From Mr. Graves, Anglo-Americen Telegraph Com- pany’s office, Valentia, Ireland, March 10:— ‘This anniversary witnesses duplex working across the Atlantic as an aevoinplished fact. PPS rag Dean Stanley, Westminster Abbey, March Blessings from Westntinster Abbey on tho silver wedding of England and America, What God hath joined together, let no inun put asunder, . From Mr, Henry Weaver, General M: Auglo- American Telegraph Company, London, ch 10:. Acceps my kind congratulations upon the twenty-fifth auniversary of the occasion whon the, pouslbility of con- necting Europe and America by submarine Atlantic cables first discussed at your house. I trust that the many lod around you to-day may live to ulfer you hes upon the fiftieth anaive fos ntand Wells, of the same company’ al ope that they may have the pleasure of ¢ lating lim again at the ond of another twenty-five ) From Sir Anthony Musgrave, K. C. M. G., Governor of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica, March 10:— n the anniversary of Hand. when f first met y néphow whose birth- who has dircctly dascendyd from tho cable im deeply, indebted for my wife. Al! well. Numerous other letters and telegrams were re ceived, among which were despatches from Sir Will- iam Thomson, Glusgow; Sir Samue] Canning, Lon- don; Sir James Anderson, London; Sir Damel Gooch, London; John Pender, M. P., London; cx- Governor Leland Stanford, of California; Junius 8. Morgan, Loudoun; Dr. Stephan, Postmaster General of Germany; Dr. Lusard,-of the German Union Telo- gruph Com} , Berlin, and Sir Hugh Allan, Presi- ut of the Montreal Tclograph Company. The company separated shortly after midnight with general congratulations to the hoat anaes upon the brilliant success of the cable anniv: ‘Ts WINE AND SPIRIT TRADE. — A large meeting of importers and wholesale liquor dealers—members of the Wine and Spirit Traders’ Society of the Umited States—was held yesterday afternoon in rooms Nos. 6 and 9 of Delmonico’s William street establishment, Tho chair wag ocou- pied by Colonel Leoser, who stated that the object of the meeting was to discuss the parts of the new rev- enue law which affected the interests of the trade. He said that Mr. H. B. James, Chict of the Cus- toms Bureau st Washington, was present and | would report to the Secretary of the Treasury tho views of the trade about the whole bill. paren sections of the new bill which he thought ought to | be rej were read. - That’ soction increasiug the | number of special agents from twenty-iive to thirty- five was cor ned, on the grownd that there were too many of the class of oificials already, The pro- Fision of the bill requiting nefehants to furnigh o sworn transcript of «il entries on their books by the 10th of each month was denounced, because this would greatly jfuconvenioncs merchants, and | the work ought to be done | by. the government as formerly, The trade wero also op- ery to the section which forced rectifiers to give a nd to the government, and to that section which required that all distilled spirits, wines and malt liquors imported ia pipes, ho, be 8, rels and casks inust be placed ina public store or warehouse and stamped with an inspector's oy ol Mr. Reuauld claimed that tho wording of the ‘was so confused as to convey no definite meaning, Ho said that it was inn; ible to know whether ft applied to wines, or whether spirits that were im- ported in Lottles should be stamped or not. * Alter some further remarks vy other geutlemen ie Shaw moved that 2 committee of tive from the it branches of the trade be he aan the | chair to obtain the views of the trade in regard to the law, aud that the counsel to tho trade be in- structed to paconne the aac to the Secretary of the Treasury. Tho tollowing gentlemen, from the re- spective branches. were appointed as such com- mittee:—Charies Nenauld, brandy; ‘Timothy Ste- vens, wine; M. i’. Allon, rectification ; Charles Krass, Bhino wine, and H. 1. Nichols, ale, ‘The mecting then adjourned. _FIVTH AVENUE THEATRE, The hearing before ex-Judge Sutherland, as veferco inthe Harkins-Fiske case, was resumed yesterday aiternoon. Ex-Judgo Dittenhoefer appeared for Har- kins aud Conusellor Hummel for Fiske. Harkins ‘was not present, because, as was stated by his coun- sel, ho had to rehearse ‘Thro’ tno Dark’ and play an important character in the pioce in the evening. Counsel for defence stated that his principal object was to cross-examine Mr. Harkins, but the examination of other witnesses was roceeded with, aud Elisha A. Buck and ‘Yhomas 8. Jumont testified to certain monetary transactions with respondent. The latter testified to the fact that he had advanced monay #8 & temporary loan to Harkins for the use of the theatre just fore it closed, allof which had been repaid by a chock given in the firm’s name, Mr. Joseph Booth, formerly treasurer of the tho- atre under the management of Fiske & Harkins, wes recalled Me the prosecution to answer to the disposition of certain res com- limentary tickets | which — had Eovn placed ty him in the hands of Fiske for distribution; some tickets wore returned by Fisko to witness to be re- sold, but he could not swear Positively that the; wore the samo tickets; the sum realized ‘by the sale of these tickets amounted in the agyreyete to $31; thesau returned tickets were handed in by Fiske dur- tug the ee of Mary Atderson, Moijoska and Edwin oth, In cross-cxamination witness stated that he hud looked kfter the fntereyts of his brother durmg his engagement aud hed »: nothing about the sale of those returned tickets, $i, PATRICK'S DAY LEUTUAL. A lecture will be deliveted in St. Lawrence's Church, Kighty-fourth stroet, near Madison avenue, on the evening of the 17th inst, by Rev. Futhor ‘Traynor, the pastor, the proceeds to “be devoted to the paying off of the debt of the Chwich. The sub- ject of the lecture will be, “What America Owes to ho Childven of St. Patrick,” a rather novel one, bat from the talent aud eluguence of the pastor it is believed that a rich treat is in store for auditors. Certainly there is no more fitting way of celebrating ‘the day than bv acts of devo combined with ‘ebarity. MARCH Il, 1879.—VKIPLE POLICE MUTUAL AID, STORMY MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION-—INVES- TIGATION DEMANDED AND A COMMITTEE AP, A special meeting of the Police Mutual Aid Associa- tion was held yesterday afternoon at Police Hexd- quarters, President Lefferts in the chair, and Secretary Aaron Butts at the table, The former opened the pro- eeeuings by addressing to the assembled officers, soe of whom had come from Yonkers and Brooklyn, arather vigorous barangue, in which he vindicated the society’s character, and in the same breath hinted at needful reforms which hail been inaugurated. “Brothers,”’ he said, “this meeting hes been called for ‘The president of your associa- tion has been assailed by certain mean, contempt- It has been wrongly done. to-day, as always, fair and square. It has been charged that there is a ring at work hete. This I emphat- We never hada ring, and I sincerely hope and trust we never shall have one. have is a common sense gathering ot precinct dele- If any wrongs have been done measures have been taken to remedy them. quarterly meeting we arranged to have the names of all the mombers hung up in their respective precincts, where every one coul. sce them. here 3,000 receipts, which must be signed by the provinct treasurer and given to a membet on his Tn this way we are trying to re- move such discrepancies as may haye existed. The books of the precinet treasurers, too, brought to the Ceutral Office and collated with the secretary's, 80 that all accounts may bi @ certain purpose, payment of money. ‘The president then went on to say that he for- gave ull who had accused him, surauces that every and to utter as- widow aud orphan would reveivo the last cent to which they were entitled. «ch was listened to in silence, and then the nt announced that the fitness for membership of men under thirty-seven tyears of age who have doctors’ certificates, but haye not belonged to the orgunivation before, was next to be consiacre motion and amendment touching this were both pro- nounced out of order, @uggosted that it was customary to read Secretary Butts complied with his wishes and Inspector Thorne one who had signed the call for the mecting Considerablo excitement fol- One member said that the meeting was illegal, and another tried to revive the question of membership, but the latter motion was tabled, Sergeant Young, of the Nihetecnth sub-procinct, then began a specch bristling with invective, but he was ruled out. Roundsman Martin, of the Twent; next took the floor, and proclai of the meeting was to investigate the association from the president down, from th ‘This was applauded, but Captain Schultz took the position that there was nothing to had been made and an in- vestigating committee was already in existence. A meuber of the lattor stated that their functions were only to examine claims against the society. THE PRECINCY TREASURERS, A delegate then moved that s committee he to investigate precinct treasurers. To this veasurer strongly objected. men in the precinots had the right to discipline their officers, but the society had not, Forty mem- bers voted in favor of the motion when it was put to the vote und sixteon against it. sideration lod to no little commotion. McDermott was the first speaker to be heard. id: —It the precinet treasurers are hanest they no need to fear investigation; if they arc not c eo against o treasurer It I found it to be true I would him up very quickly.” A member irom the ‘Iwenty-third precinct said that the men there had attempted an investigation, but could not get the treasurer's books. 4 GENEWAL INVESTIGATION. investigate the precinct treas- urers alone was superseded by one to have a commit- tee of seven inquire into the operations of the society he amount of money in bank and in Inspector McDermiott added that the committee would ask the president to produce receipts for all money disbu: fusion the motion was carried, then appointed, con: Captain Gunner and resolution was next offered:— Resolved, That any member of the Police Mutual Aid Association who shuil defraud or aid in defrauding shall do expelled and shall be forever debareed from member: This was declared out of order, aud @ committee was appointed to revise the bylaws. detence of President Lefferts was followed by some routine business, atter-which the society adjourned, to mect on April 1, when, it is beheved, the comummit- teo's report will bo submitted. AN EXILED CUBAN. ARRIVAL OF GENERAL GEEGORIO BENITEZ ON HIS WAY TO JAMAIOA—CAUSE OY HIS BANISH- explain its object, ighth precinct, that the object 0 date of its investigate, as no charges He said that the An attempt at recon- they require it. Here the motion to and ascertain whose naine it is. Atter some con- A committee was ing Inspector McDermott, rk Delamater. The following Sefior Gregorio Benitez, who was formerly general of brigade in the Cuban liberating army, bas, it ap- pears, been expelled from the island of Cuba by the orders of tho Spanish authorities there. Benitez, relying on the promise of the Spaniards to allow all those who had been concerned in the late civil war torcturn to their homes, left Kingston, Jamaica, where he had becn staying, and embarked for Santiago de Cuba, arriving there on the 26th of last January. He-was provided with the ustal formal passport over the signature of the Spanish Consul While still on the steamer that had conveyed him to the island an did of the geueral commanding at Santiago, Sefior Gavar, presented himeel: aud suid that he had otders to receive the passport of the ex-Cuban officer, saying at the same time that the latter would not be allowed to coatinue his journey. ‘The Cuban patriot said that it the aid to tuke him into the preseuse him the following day the Spani The aid said that the Com nd that at would be well if the interview took placo that same day, but he following moraing ut ‘cight of yy, sented himself in the Goverament Palace, and the Goverdor received him, self for interruptii jard could name the andant wanted yould appoiat the Kk Seiior Benites the traveller’s journey on the ground that he had been notified by telegraph not to allow Benitez to go to Pnerto Principe, because his presence there would be inconvenient. “HONORKD BY EXILE.” The cx-Cuban General replied that as all tho other Cubans had returmed he thought that he, too, pos- It, however, he had lost it on account of not having vacillated in his principles, the Spanish government honoi exiling him from his native land. The Brigadier that the Spaniards should ¢ ixlund in view of the fact the return of 4 Cubans did sossed the right. thought it very strai say there was authorities feared wish tor war he the yuntry, them back and cms im his hand: yay compromt ndant replied that his words overpmuut had expected trom Benitez, and for this reason the precaution of ting his residence in Cu z asked for &# yeseel on whi tor Jamaica, but the Com romain in Santiago de Oul ‘unity of going abroad, ‘The American steamer q@ the first steamer outward bound, the Commandant gave Seflor Bonites « passag on hor, and he arrived yesterday. the next steamer for Kiigston. AID FOR THE SUFFERING SWISS. Leoatios or tae Uniren States, Brawn, Fob, 23, 1879. To Tax Epior ov tim Henanp;— ‘The distress arising from the terrible disaster at Meyringen, by which 110 houses wero destroyed in a few hours and their inmates left homeless in the depth of a most rigorous winter, has called forth The continuance of er is causing and is likely to causo a rolongation of the sufferings of these poor peopic. contributions from Americans in believe that were an appeal made through the columns of your paper to the charitable would come to aid in re- that once lovely village, n fy to arma, ho w wut not eutered in ba until he had an | He will leave on much sympathy far and wide. the severe weat! in New York material hei the damage done so woll and tavorably known to thouean trayelliag public. be happ$ to receive any or they can be remitted at once to Messrs. Grauer, Haller & Co., bankers, of this city who have kindly consentod to take charge of con: mericans for the suiterera by the NICHOLAS FISH, tributions from fire at Meyringen, INSPEOTING 'THE FORCE. Surveyor Graham comunenced yesterday the in- ypevtion of the outside employés of the Custom At five o’clock in the afternoon he called at the Barge Office, No. 6 Stato street, and, in company with Colonel Kibbe, the new Deputy Sarveyor, and Mr. Poter Bensel, captain of the night inspectors, procecded to review the first platoon of the night Forty-two men answered the roll Attived in full uniform, they were drawn up in line, resented a yery neat appearance, of men, and were complimented by General Graham on their excellent show! second piatoon will be inspected very shortly, atter which the day inspectors weighers’ department will have to undergo muster and inspection. fine looking body the members of the SHEET, BROOKLYN TABERNACLE. Dr. Talmage Charged with Deceit and Falsehood, THE PRESBYTERY’S ACTION. Revelations of-an Important Pri- 4 vate Conference. The Brooklyn Presbytery held a special meeting yesterday afternoon in the Second Presbyterian Church, corfer of Clinton and Fulton streets, There was & congregation that crowded every part of the edifice, the ladies being largely in the majority. During the proceedings there were frequent out- bursts of applause, Which would have been oftener indulged in had not the Moderator and Dr, Talmage united in a request for its diveontinuance. The Presbytery adopted the report of the comunittee, citing Dr. Talmage for trial on seven speciticcharges. ‘The Rev. J, M. Ludlow, D. D., acted @s inoderator, and the Rev. J. M. Greene as stated clerk. THE REPORT. ‘The report of the comniittec was read by the Rev. Arthur Crosby, and was substantially as followe:— ‘he eommittes in ing their report express their doop seuse of out the work coumitied to thes aad of the responsibiligy lafd upon th Tus Loon bot! painful wad dificult, and patient discussion they’ bs omplete agreement: so that the rep av eXprossivy of the cosumittes's opin: Dr. Talmage's pulpit methods that ‘common fame, asx ve ss and otberwisy, isa very unreliablo sec Of, this, however, they are cortain:—It does ‘Valmage with’ heresy, Neither from his bi tarze DD: published sermo have the; gat, perhaps 4 © popularity | in directions did ho not so boldly and persistently. pre: the old doctrines as formulated in. the confession t the truth which hoe 10 ‘ ls 4s report in the Weekly Eapress wud other Joutat harmony, with those o€Glirist_ wud His 8, with the pra of the Christian Chureh in the persons of hor imluiswers gonernily, aud. Judzed fleets, with the suezostions of the Prosbyieriun “Directory Worship,” chapter 2, section 2, which tho committee quote, There is too often in tho public ministrations of Tr. Talmage the want of reverence for God, His Word-and il! house." In tho scemons on “Night Scenos,” us reported. 13 the pupors, expectations of aturtling revelations in tho future were vecasionally excited, which do not seem to have been afterward niet. Tho couumittee think this might have been due to forg luess or change of plan think that in the prep: jon and delivery of those sermons some Very serious mistakes were made, to wit:— Pit — ne to tres of vile resort, not to resede the fallen, but rather fof the purpose of unveiling before ex- cftod taultitudes what many of them ure only 400 eayor to sea. Sromd-—Attempting to cure vice in the vicious and pro- Ms in the virtuous by depleting its dark and jouth- haunts. unmask sach haunts before large audiences, even zh localities and names are carefully withheld, is to il the parity of many with, slight probability of aux. few. Men learn their sinfulness and ruin iuore in ght of Emmanuel’s glory than in the darkness of the inl—As “taith cometh by hearing and hearing by the ud,” w series of sermons tade up chioly of vivid of human wiekednese in its maniford torms is not promotiye either of thy salvation of the lost or of the edification of the body of Obrist. Tt certainly is not desirable or possible to bring God's ministers to the dead lovel of sameness, and it is not right to condemn, tho committos say, uni sured that God condemns; but they be the iinproper mothods they: have n tend to bring relijtton filto coutemps, and they therof commend that ery adopt this pert of their report as a minute om ct to which it relates. It bas beon frum the first tho sincere and oarnest dosire of every member of the committee, they say, to fad that the ruinor charging Dr, Tal: 7 of such a uature that they u to report to the Presbytery thi he: ther action In the case.” But as thoir investi; ceeded they becume convinced that the rame: Y pecityin the sins of falvohvod aud deceit fulfils ull tho conditions . of the Book of Diselpline. '. No wuthority to call witnesses 1 truth, the committee ex. guilt or innocence of the ue- full und impartial trint is Dr. Tulnage, to the Prosbytery and tw the If Dr. Talmage be innocent of the sins lusid Lo his churge they believe that the more thervagh and woarching the iuvestivation Is the moro brightly will the integrity of his character shino forth and the uiore com ploto will be the vindication of ths good Chnrev, whilo the honor and influonee of ministry will be enhanced. Ii, ou the other guilty, the purity of, the Chiral di should bo known, ‘Tho committeo, therefore, recommond that the Nev. I DeW. Talmage, 1. D., be elied for teial upon the following charge autt specifications :— He CHANG HS. The Rey. T. D. W. Talmage, D.)., stands charged. by common tame with falsctiood and deceit. ‘Specification 1.—Iu that he acted deceitfly and made falso statements, which he know io be tulse in the matter of his withdrawal from the editorship of the CArietuan et Work, in the month of October, 1875, Apertirution 2.—Ln thut at various timos he publ allowed to Le published by those closely as im), Without contradicting them, statements which be enow to be fatse of calculated to give a talso Hinprossion in nf lis wetion und statements referred to in the fret ation, ‘Apacyicution 3.—In that ho repeatedly made public declara- ofis and omphatic torus uf spesch from his Pulpit, that thochurch vf which he was pustor was a free church, and that the sittings were assigned without reter- ence to the dullar question, although ho knew auch declara- tions to be false, Npecijirction 4.—In-that {a the matter of 1876-7 he falely accused J. W. Hathaway of dishonest practices and utter ward denied that he had doue so, Apecisication 3.—In that in the early part of tho year 1878 ho endeavored to Obtain fulve subscriptions toward the vont of the debt of the church, to be deceitfully used 10 purpose of indacing others to subserlbe. Specitention .—In that in the year 1878 he acted and spoke decoittally in reforence vothe matter of the re-en- Ruement of the organist of the Tabernaale Vrosbyserian Chareh, Speryirution 7.—Iu that ho publicly declared ow Sunday, bra ury 2, 1870, that all the how spapars suid t ry aigued tor he give of bhapter 3., section ie, doxy and used other expt impression thut he expec nat charge, although he knew that be areal ifat all on the charge of tulsehoo deceiving whe people. . sae ‘A. MoCLEL! . E. UW. BABCOL Brooxrys, March 10, 1879, I, MeDOUGALL, THR WITNESSES, ‘The following gre the names of the witnesses at- tached to the report:—J, N. Halleck, E, Henry Dickinson, E. W. Hawley, M. H. Bright Leverich, Robert Waugh, E.$. Dodge, John P. miage, B.S. Dobbs, Warreu 8. Sillcocks, b. 1. Coge- woll, Fred. Baker, Thomas Pearsall, Richard Ell Charles ‘I. Nicholy, J. W. Hathaway, H. J, Van Dyke, Alexander Pearson, W. M. Pierson, Arthur Crosby, Albert Latham, Dari Talmage, J. M. Greene and 8. D. Morris, A very lengthy debate followed the reading of the report, mainly devoted to the question of the legal- ity of the procedure of the committee: under the law of the Presbyterian Church. This was partici- pated in by Dr. Spear, who moved a postponement of the acceptance of the report until a friendly con- ference had been had with the accused; sho also al- lozed that some of the offences charged were out- side the statutes of limitations prescribed by the Church, und could not on that account be investi- ‘This view was opposed by Dr. Van Dyke, Dr. and others. Dr. Talmage, after the debato bad continued about two hours, said that he had not spoken before because he did not wish to inter- tere with so mitich eloquence, He had much to say, but that was not the point at which to say it. Thero had been trouble wt the Tabernacle for nine years and threats of a Presbytorian triat. One month azo he had suid before that Presbytery that he demanded an instant trial, but he was told then that he could not be heard. He desired to be investigated, uot for the past year only but for forty-seven years—(ap- Jaxise)—rrom the time he had lived in this country fe desired that the Presbytery investigate all tho tacts and all the actions of his life, He was ready then to bo investigated, and had his witnowses ready om | {04 e Another member is ander S100 ball of | a charge of robbery, and was caught aguin last week the floor of the church and iu the gallery, If the Presbytery did not try him he desit to give notice that he would eA the Presbytery hall-past o’clock next Sunday moruing in the Brooklyn ‘Tal ernacle. (Applinse.) On the motion of Dr. Van ae the first part of ‘the report was laid over for the present and a vote taken on tho charges, Each charge was voted on | separately, On the first the vote was 4 in the aftii- mative and 15 in the negative. On the second 26 to 9; on the third, 22 to 8; arth, 28 to 8; on the Mth, W to 8; : 5 mm the seventh, Dr. Talmage voted in the affirmative cach o'clock Unis morning to arrange the pre- fauinaries of the trial. A PRIVATE CONPERENCR WITH DR. TALMAOE. In the course of the debate Dr. Spear desired to read from a copy of a stonographie report of a con- fereace that the committee had had with Dr. 'Tal- mage in reference to these charges, Dr. Van Dyke objected wiless M1 the report was read. The Mod- erator ruled that Dr, Spear could ead the ex- tract and that Dr. Van Dyke could for the read- ing of the report m artense, To this decision an peel was taken and the chair wes sustained. No part of the’ stenographic report of this conference ‘was road, It, however, came mto the hands of a re- porter of the Hina. and the following is the sub- stance of its contents :— Ib this interview with Dr, Calmage in the perlors of the Second Presbyterian Church, a series of ques- tidne were asked by Dr, Crosby who insisted in the first place that they were not appointed to investi- gate him, but the extent and nature of his cominon famo, And yet when. the Doctor was summoned betore the committee he found a stenographer there also, He could not see the necessity for such a pro- cveding if the interviow Was designed to be @ triendi one. Dr. Crosby explained that the commitiee hi heard some very ugly stovids in regard to Dr, Tal- mage'’s veracity aud asked him if he cared to make any explanation in regard to his connection with tho Christan at Work, It is two years and four months since Dr. Tati severed his connection with tnat paper, not & word | te y adjourned to meet in the samo | has been said about the subject since that time. "0 3 fiat ue reooed IneKe sabi be had no ti Was ax clear ag the in could get witnesses to prove He . Crosby to name any specific act ageinst him in thet connection. ut the co: to let Dr. Talmage give his own explanation cire cumstances of Lis withdrawal from the. paper: which have been published before. The point of ance bearing on this charge, perhaps, is that Dr. ‘Talmage tendered his resignation as editor in May’ or June, during the session of the General ca in his church in 1976, and had an editorial put in type saying to his readers, “Goodby,” but that. 4 prominent patron of the paper wen peseete in. the office, who dissuaded him, and un informal agreement with the Doctor that he should not leave until the close of the summer, and should give the publishers at least one month’s notice. But Dr. Taimage then and there notified the gentleman (not naiued) that he would give nim four months’ notice and would leave in October. salary was cut down to next to nothing, because he was not expected to do much. The value of bis name xs editor was the thing most sought. With the advertisen-ont about his prospective e with the Advance he suid he had nothing whatever to do, aud did not kuow it had been put in the Christian at Worle wotil he saw it in print. did not stay ia the printing office ull night, as reported, and not more than two or three minutes. There was not # taint of dishonesty in tho transaction so far ag he was concerned. He might have taken the sdyer- tisument to the office of his paper, but he did not kuow its contents. Hedia know, however, that there Was to be ap exchange advertisemeht on the subject between tue tWo papers numed, ‘his substantial: ended th. interview on the first specification of the conunittee’s report. i TABERNACLE A FREE CHURCH. rd to Dr, Lalmage’s < the pews were as: the dollar questio: fous wie fame peg 0 him ¥ ‘ at dhe do) as accounh Nae rca ei ketee that thesest: \itigucd ouly as the people could pay, more or less, “Maj. Corwin, president of the Board of Trustees of the Tabernacle, deciares that Dr. ‘Lalmage was correc’ wud that the lutter allegation is false. Dr. Talmage also asserts that it is faise and told the committee 80 in his itery. Hut he explained that every one. is expected to pay 4s wwuch as he can and to choose the form of p: ent, whether by subscription or by Subbath: collection, said that as the story came to thecom- mitteo it showed that pewholders were not simpl; asked to subscribe, but that they were allowed 4 take seats which were worth a4 much a6 they wished to subscribe. ‘Tht is, the people who subseribed lit le had poor seats und those who subscribed a great deal had good seats, This Dr, Talmage and Corwin deny. THOSE TELEGRAMS. In regard to the teicgrams Dr, Talmage was alee questioncd, und said he sent them in good faith and would do so again under similar circumstances. ‘There was no bogus or bhumbuy about them or the subscription to which they reterred. very mueh of the interview was taken up with frivolous matters not worth the space given to them in the stenog- rapher’s uotes—such as Dr. Talmage’s arrel with the oditer of a daily paper, whom octor declared he never knew, and hence had no quarrel with. He declared that this whole matter was a forny of persecution. He insinuated that there was not adeceat paper in the United States that he had seon that had ever charged him with dis- honesty until the charge was made in the Presbytery. He kuew that his methods had been trequently dis- cussed and criticised, Dr, ‘Val in this interview charged Dr. Crosby with pers hostility toward him: in this mutter, but Dr. Crosby disclaimed any such teeling. Other members of the committee also disclaimed any personal hostility toward the Taber- nucle pastor und endorsed Dr. Crosby’s disclaimer, they having heard him repeatedly express bis sym- pathy for Dr. ‘Talmage and regrét that the stories were eflout about him. A ROBBER’S FATE. MR. RICHARDS DESCRIBES THE SHOOTING BEFORE A CORONER'S JURY AND IS PULLY EXONER> ATED—THE PRISONER DEYENDS HIMSELF—BIS CAREER. Mr. John P. M. Richards, of No. 305 East Eighty- sixth street, who shot and killed a burglar found prowling on bis premises on Sunday evening, was arraigned before 3 Coroner's jury yesterday, The other burglar, who escaped the fate of his ion, was securcly handcuffed. He was close shaven and dressed like a mechanic. His face is not devoid of intelligence, and he expresses himself easily and clearly, He described himself as a bricklayer by trade, but said he had not worked at the business for the last seven months. ‘MR. RICHARDS’ ACCOUNT. It needed but a glanco at Mr. Richards to soe that he was aman whom it would not bo safe to trifle with. When giving his testimony to the jury he spolfe with perfect culmness, only once betraymg any animation of speech. “I didn’t wait to parley with the mon,” he suid. “I knew they were burglars, and, consequently, desperate men. Ifound myself sandwiched between the two, and expected that they were armed, but I was determined to defend my property and my life at all hazards.” He next re Inted minutely the discovery of the thieves in the reception room of his house; how they had forced open a closet at the foot of the stairs and taken therg- from a quantity of clothing, which they had already packed to take away. “One of the men,” he con- tinued, “brushed past me to the rear of the house. I knew he could not escape that way, as the window barred his progress. I siso knew that when he found his escapecut off he would turn and Aight, ‘The other burglar had fled into the tront parlor and concealed himsclf behind the blinds. I was thus placed in a dangerous position and I discharged my revolver turce times at the man who was trying to effect an escape by the back window. Ido not know whether any of these shots took effect. He then faced me in a menacing way und I fired the fourth time; the ball found lodyment in his breast and he fell to the floor. Inext proceeded to attend to his companion, whom Lexpected every moment would attack me trom behind. He was dodging beneath the | curtains. He threw up his hands and implored me not to shoot. Finding that he did not contemplate Making any resistance (did not fire. The officers soon arrived and I told them of what had happened.” DARGON'S DEVENCE, Denis Dargon, the surviving burglar, was sworn im his own behalf. He said that he and Sa. anda man named Sullivan had been drinking all day Sunday, ‘They started on their debauch down town early in the Indraing. When asked to explain how he had spent the day up to the time of being found in Mr. Kichards’ house he said that he was too drank to re= member. memory was clear, however, on one point—namely, that when he and Casey were trav- eliing along Kighty-ixth street the latter sew a door open and so informed Dargon. They entered the house with no settled design, merely prompted by a drunken freak, and while there were surprised in the manner aforesaid. When asked if he was intoxicated when arrested he replied in the negative. The shoot ing, he said, and bis own immediate danger had s0- bered him. He denied that Sullivan was an accom. plice, having left Casey and himself some time pree vious to the shooting. RICHARDS DISCHARGED. When the prisoner retired from the witness stand Captain Robbins displayed & bunch of latehk which had been found, so Mr. Richurds said, in the parlor near the window where Dargon had sought relage trom his captor’s revolver. Se how: ever, denied all knowledge of the ownership of tha keys. The pistol was next put in evidence. itwa ith & Wesson, dtussian model, forty-two calibre, he jury bricily deliberated and returned with a dict of justifiable homicide. Mr. Richards waa proupily discharged and exonerated from all legal fespousibility in the caxe. ISORGANIZED GANG, Dargon and Casey belonged to a gang of sneak thieves in the Twenty-eighth and Twenty-third cincts and 1ade themselves a terror to the inhab- itants of Yorkville und & source of constant solici« tude to the police. Kiley, one of the yang, pleaded guilty and yot six months in the Penitentiary for | nttompting # burglary ina Nquor saloon at Eighty- fourth strect and Third avenue. Hoe is now servi in the act of breaking into a priyatodyelling, A Mite Sunt pio Tail in Eapt, Sovg, hoor street, hi Louse catered by biutylany, hat January, For 0 Casey, the dead burglar, was arrestedand bold in default of $1,000 bail, Dargon has sorved two terms in State Prison. He is described, in detective parlance, as being fliest man in the business."' He resides at No. 1,336 ‘Third avenue. He was arrested some months ago by Detective Lucker for committing a sneak theft in @ doctor's house in Gio Nineteenth precinet. He was suibeequontly captured by Detective Cornish while carrying aWay personal effets from a house in East Seventy-tor street. Fox this offence he has been 1 itr $1,000 bail, ‘agoy Was @ young man Of food apy and intel a address, He received education im the publ'c schools. His father and mother are re- spectable, industrious people, and by years of in- dustry have succeeded im aceuny considerable roperty. ‘hoy own the house in which they reside mm Ninety-third streot, between Second and Third avenues, toyether with several vacant lots adjoining Ehret's brewery. ‘The tather keeps a grocery store, in partnership with an elder son, in Bighty-firs' street, near First ayenae, while another brother is @ member of the police force, Darzon was roinanited to the Tombs to await trial on the iadictmeut pending against him. FOUR THOUSAND MARKS REWARD, Information has been received from Europe thes Wilhelm Schulte, of Hagen, brother of the German Miser, Johann Schulte, who was Killed near South Norwalk ou tho evening of December 27 last, hawow fered a reward of 4,000 marks for the arrest and com- yiction of the murderer. Shoald Wilheim Buek- holtz, Schulie’s servant, now in Bridgeport jail as Qh alleged accomplice, be convicted, there will be uite a scramble ior the reward, as many N tectives cyim to have fathomed the mystery ‘which may to the young German's conviction.