The New York Herald Newspaper, March 12, 1879, Page 4

4 THE STATE CAPITAL.| —— Strong Appeals to the Governor for Loew and Gumbleton. O’REILLY’S DILEMMA A Brooklynite who Wants To Be Both Congressman and Alderman, ELOQUENCE ON SALT. Attempt to Secure More Five Cent Trains on Elevated Railroads, TELEGRAPH WIRES UNDERGROUND. [py TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.) Atnasy, N. ¥., March 11, 1879, The particulars of a conference between Senators Hogan, Ecclesine and Wagstaff and Governor Robin- jon relative to the charges pending against County Clerk Gumbleton and Register Loew haye leaked out here to-night. It appears that the Governor sont for the three democratic Senators from New York for the purpose of asking them to furnish names from which he might select successors to the twqimpeached officials in case he was compelled to remoye them under the evidence submitted. Senator Wagstag suggested the name of Mr, Monell, a son of Judge Monell, for the position of register, while Senator Ecclesine thought it would be a good idea to name Charles E, Loew as the successor of his brother, Frederick W. Loew. Senator Hogan made a vigorous appeal to Governor Robinson in behalf of both officials, He went over the entire ground as to the great injustice which would be done thoso gentlemen in turning them out of office for charging fees which had been paid to democratic, republican and all other similar officials for the past forty years. “I would rather follow as a mourner the funeral of Messrs, Gumbleton and Loew,” remarked the Senator, “than see them re- moved under charges.” He then cailed attention to the fact that Charles Halpine (Miles O'Reilly) had charged the same fees. General Jones had been ap- pointed to fill the unexpired term of Mr. Halpine, and. he was magnanimous enough to hand over the foes to the widow of that gentleman. Would it haye been fair to turn General Jones out of office for 80 noble and unselfish a work simply because he charged the customary fees? PLEADING FOR THE REGISTER. ‘The intent, said Senator Hogan, as to overcharges should be taken into consideration. Bosides, Mr. Loew, when his attention was called to the matter, had requested a committee of the Bar to agree upon aschedule of fees and he promised to abide impli- citly by their decision. Thig schedule had been made up and the office was now run under its opera- tions. “There is something, behind this whole matter,” continued Senator Hogan, “that the people of New York cannot understand. It is \ persecution backed up probably by a few dissatis- fied persons who would like to obtain possession of these offices.” ‘The Senator spoke warmly for some time in advocacy of the policy of dismissing the charges, being patiently listened to by the Governor. It is understood that Senator Wagsta also paid another yisit to the Executive Chamber to-day on a mission of “grace, mercy and pence.” Notwithstanding these direct appeals and Giscussions the Governor has not given any posi- tive expression of opinion as to what will be his course of action, or when he will give a decision. The verdict, however, is now looked for daily. The significance of the conference whieh ro- solyed itself into a nominating body to fill the place of Loew and Gumbleton, as far as two of the Senators were concerned, gives strong evidence to many with whom'I have coa- versed here to-night that the Governor intends to remove both gentlemen, It is contended, however, on the other side, thet the strong appeals which have beeu made to him by political and personal friends will result in saying both trom this summary devapitation. ALDERMAN OR CONGRESSMAN?—A DILEMMA, Congressman-clect and Alderman O'Reilly, *of Brooklyn, called upon Governor Robinson this after- noon for the purpose of ascortainfag the chances for signature of the bill permitting the gentleman to hold boi The good and bad teatures of the m¢ were (discussed between the Governor and Mr. 0 y and some Brooklyn politi happened to be present at the time of thi assurance was given by the, Governor or the other relative to What disposition wonld be made of the bill. Mr. O'Reilly has made up bis mind to remain ag an Alderman in Brooklyn, thus giving up his position as Congres- sional reprosntative, in ease the Governor shou}l veto the measure, A nice question, however, haa arisen, which may change the gentleman's deter- mination in such connection, It is argued in some quarters that he was a Congressman to a] intents and purposes after the 4th of March last, without taking the oath of office, and that this fact of itself vacates Lis position as an Alderman. Lf this is so of course Mr. O'Reilly will go to Washington, where his vote may prove of considerable importance in the clove Bpeakership fight. WILLS TO BE REPORTED FAVORABLY, The Judiciary Committee has agreed to ropert favorably the Special Sexsions bill, with an amend- ment giving the City Judge and Chiet Justice of the Common Pieas autliority to appoint the two judges. Also Mr. Deau’s bill, which abolishes Ahe Sheriffs tees for reporting commitments and discharges in the police courts of the elty of New York to the Sec- tetary of State. Also Mr. Hogan's bill compelling captains and sergeants of police, or any other oficers in charge of station houses, to aceept bail for liquor dealers who may be arrested for breaches of the Ex- cise low. DISCUSSING THE CANAL TOLL SHEET Fort 1879, The gegular proceedings in the Assembly opened this morning with a discussion on the canal toll sheet for the ensuing year, as reported trom the Canal Committee. Mr, refusal of this «bh ‘took exceptions to the reduce the tollon foreign salt, ax recomn y the Canal Board, Speaker Alvord (Old Salt,” as he is familiarly called) is en- gael in the salt businers in Syracuse. According to r. Fish the high :ate of toll on this article was Kept n up in the interest of a monopoly, and oug! not to be tolerated. Tho committeo’s action, however, was wiirmed by 4 yote of the Honse. dir. Hurd said this subject was in committee, The domestic ngs paida tax to the State of Mr. Vis, in reply, said the nondaya alt apriny thoroughly to wash out the vaual Board's revomn All that this intere (ing with the for- rid that he had ii the intention w terestof the State then # dation ought to be sdopted. be prt on am equal fo vait interest. Mr. Pisn the 1 attention to this matter for the purpose of iny the inconsisteney of the advocates of free ‘, ‘Th it suld benefit boatmen. dain to re 2 ign galt will give more employin t to bowtmen, but when local interest like thik of salt ix to oe affected, we find the advo- gates of (ree canals opposed to doing anything whic would wit boatmen, Mr, Sheard said be repre- tonto a district woleh consumed perhaps more salt than in tho State, and he was convineed that the aedon of the Canal Committee was wise, He dil not believe, it the domeric salt interest was wiped ontin favor of foreign salt, that the boatman would be benotitted hi the loast, but damaged, Mi, Mr. Brooks was ot oy he constitution pre y wow removed and it Uthoritios i woukl be WKOOKS #UE NS MM. YiaHt, mthat if the elanee in ¢ the salt interests of ot fur the State, Modid not think the Btn id one gage in any bttsiies ver. And as to this tor- in salt, he would be ui te nf removing wll fax. upon it, Me would have it free of allt toils on the canais, He ineieted that the Stet had no right to unposo a duty or toll on any article of stich general consamption as salt. Ifo elnimed this in behalf of tho great cofmmercini interests ot New York, from whieh you now obtain over half of the taxes which jo to support the govern- ment of the St Mr, Alvord, j aid if the State ix to leyislate in favor of w nit domustia in belfalt righ inteconts Ne eke city will in «to the mere hamlet she wag vt onstenetion of the Erie Can, Me, Brooks did uot think this interest So great uy to aflvet the foreign commerce of the country. Lt was, he admitted, @ iarge local interest, / of about $278 per year for each punt NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 1879.-TRIPLE SHEET. but he did got think the ontiro State should be sub- Jected to an onerous tax to support such an interest. Mr. Fish moved that the toll on foreign salt goim cast be fixed at one-half mill, and oac-yuarter mil r ing west. Lost. The resolutton as reported by / a Committeo was then adopted by a vote of 0 13, ANOTHER EXCISE MEASURE. “Tho cry is stili they come!”—I wean Excise bills, of ull sorts and sizes. ‘The latest was introduced to- day by Mr. James M. Varnum, of New York, intended specinily to apply to that vity, It is very lengthy and provides tor the abolition of the hotel keepers’ clause of 1857 and fixes the Heense for strong at any hotel or restaurant at from $15) to ear; at other establishments, for similar license, 1K) to $150, and for ale and becr $30 to $100, Ti original provision is also made for issuing “quali- fed I ses,” to be known as “early closing l- censes,”" to be exercised only between the hours of seven in the morning and eloyen at night at amounts on»-fifth less. Appended to the bill ayo the follow- ing points in advocacy of its passage :— incore attempt made by one who bas conneetion with the Excise laws to bad h prepare a fal that subject. Ax drawi itis appti- endlo to the city of New York alone, but, with the exeop- tion of a fow apply’ equally well to the other cities of the ciples have heen place it seokn to ore are no “Africans” in Totains as fur as possible the phraseology of | whieh have been ‘ndjuicuted upon by the Court of Avpeals, so that the beuefit of these decisions may not be lost. Assumes that the Legislature will not directly or indi- rectly sanction the wile of liquors or ale or day, And therofore retaim the existing provini that subject, but with inc sion in language used. tt recoznizes the fuet that the provisio: ‘act af 1457, confining licenses to hutel keepors, is so inapplicable to Now York city as to lead 40 a practical ova: sion oF disregard of the law. jin the applicant for license, in the licensing board, aud tn the authorities whose daty it'is to onforce the law; aud that public opinion to & considerublo extent sanctions this evasion as Receasary. | While, therefore, ‘uot confuing | licenses to hoiet keepers, it wt tho sume time socks to put ome practical limit to the number of liconsce to be granted, and Toul estate ae woll as ein rocision to the provisions as_to pani udopted from them, such as the provision for early closing lcensus, and ‘othors which aro noted in the ‘remarks following each section. In th references aro given to the prior Ject, to the decisions of the courts and to th oscd in tho existing law. In short, the en To draw n law in tho interest of no class, but in the Interest of good government; ¥ law whieb will sufciontly protect At once the honest and respectable liquor deuler, and every citizen who is in fayor of a qniet and orderly enforcement of a practical statute. ; Mr. Oliver Cotter, the temperance aflvocato of Brooklyn, has sent a significant letter to Assombly- nau Maurice F, Holahan relative to the Excise ques- tion, iu which he eays:— Tam tn favor of the repeal of tho prasent Excise law, as far as the cities of the Stato are concerned. Tt f had ‘an opportunity before the Committee on Internal Afuirs I would soon fy them that the present luw in cities that a judicious law as empodied in As- sembly bill No. 103 should pass. Iam opposed to men and womew from the rural d'stricts appearing befage a Legix- lniive committes, in their fanatical harangnes of probibk- tion, while their husbands stay at home raising hops, apples and irapes, and sell them well knowing that these products are made into beverajes, NEW YORK ELEVATED RAILROADS, Mr. Galvin has introduced 2 bill to compel the ele- vated railroad companies in New York to run five cents trains between the hours of five and nino in the morning and four to eight in the evening. The Dill also prohibits storing engines or cars tor tho night or washing or repairing them in or over any any streot or avenue. Mr. McDonough’s bill to pro- vide for the proper lighting of the structures of the elevated railways in the city provides that the Com. missioner of Public Works of the city of New York is hereby authorized and directed to notify the elevated railway companies own- | ing and occupying structures in the streets of said city to cause proper lamps to be placed and lighted during the night time, at their own proper charge and cost, on such of the columns ot said structures as stand at the intersection of the road- way of the streets of said city along their respective routes, In case of the refusal or neglect of said com- panies, or either of them, to comply with the terms of said notification within thirty days atter tho ro- ceipt of said notification they shall be liable to a fine of $50 for each day until said notification is complied with, The Corporation Counsel of the city of New York is hereby authorized and directed to sue for and on behalf of the Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty of the eity of New York vo recover the penalty men- tioned in section 2 of this act, whenever by the terms of ghis act the same shall be incurred for the use of the city. ALIENS AS ATTORNEYS IN TRE COURTS, Mr. Langbein’s bill relating to admission to the Bar 28 attorneys and connsellors-at-law provides that the General Term of the first department of the Supreme Court of this State is hereby author- ized to waive alienage, and to admit any person to practice as an attorney and counsellor at law in the courts of this State upon being satisfied that he is over the age of twenty-one years, of good character, has declared his intention to become a citizen and is a resident of the State, and has been admitted and practised as an. attorney, barrister, counsellor or writer in courts of record of any other country for at least three years prior to his pplication, and pro- vided such applicant produces a letier of recom- mondation from one of the judges. of such courts. PLACING TELEGRAPH (WIRES UNDER GROUND. Mr, Stedingn’s bill relative to strect obstructions rovides tit onand after the Ist day of January, 8k0, it shall not be lawful for ony person or cor- poration other than municipal or ‘railroad corpora- tions, or any tclegraph company, or cither of them, 10 erect or maintain any pole or post of any mate- risl soever between or on the lines of public streets any wire or other con- ductor ot electricity, for the use of said persons, &¢., shall be put or placed. For each and every: violation of this section there shall be imposed a fine of not less than $500, or im- prigonment in the County Jail for a period not ex- ceeding s'x months, or both, at the discretion of the court, Every telegraph company shall have power and authority, under thé direction of the Common Council of any of the cities of this Stato, to place at least three fect under ground, in the centre of the roadway of any street, any pips or box for the con- yeyance and protection of wires or condnctors used in their business. ATLANTIC MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, In answer to a resolution of the House, Receiver Neweomb, of the Atluutic Mutual Life Insurance Company, Albany, reports that there was paid in dividends to the stockholders of the company during the ten years of its existence the sum of $85,282 78, and thai there was loaned to the President and trus- tees of the company during the same period the sum of $97,600, ‘ANOTHER ATTEMPT TO REDUCE SALARIES. ‘There was considerable discussion over the bill to estabtivh the number, grade and pay of oflicers of the | Legislature. Mr, Glidden offered an amendment tasking a redneMon of the salary paid to every officer under the State government amouuting to twenty- five per cent. He said the provisions ot the original bill were commendable, but if it was right and upon which ro} to reduco the pay of officers of the jogislature he thought it right and proper to reduce that of other State officers, He then pointed out how much these salarics had been increasod and showed that his proposed reduc- tion was not a return to the old pay, but a partial cutting off, leaving, he thought, fair salaries for the services performed. Mr. Skinner said he agreed heartily with much contained in this amendment, but thought it ought to be embodied in a separate Dill and not attached to the bill now Mr. Sloan said for the Honse to act on this ame: mont was to vote upon it without consideration without having the action of the committee upon it, or if the bill 1s sent back to a committee for action then the passage of the original bill will be retarded. He was favorable to the reductions proposed, but he ‘wanted them in a separate bill, and if that was done he would support the bill. Mr. Glidden said he was satisfied that with this amendment the passage of the ‘Dill through the Senate would be factlitated and atone and fait retorm would be secured, He was convinced the people wanted this general redaction of salaries. Mr. Hepburn also thought it best to let the bill now up go through and then hate this new proposition incorporated in a separate bill. He would go for euch @ bill, but be was anxious to have this bill re- ducing the pay of employés of the Legislature not interfered with. Mr. Movers moved to make the salary of the Superintendent of State Prisons $5,000 instead of $4,000, as proposed in Mr. Glidden’s amend- ment. Mr. Glidden declared his amendment did not affect the salary of Superintendent of Stato Prisons for his present term. Mr. Drooks, iu order that the Houso might see just what Mr. Glidden’s amendment was, moved to lay it on the table and have it printed. Lost, Mr, Mooers’ motion to arflend was wlso lost, Mtr. Glidden’s motion to was then meantived by 8 vete of 43 tu 66, ‘The bill was then pas: Mr. Glidden immediately afterward introdaced a bill making a general reduction in the salaries of State oflivers of tyweuty-tive per cent. My. Sloan, as the GComniitiea of Ways and Means bi work as it could attend to, tnoved & » teo of five to nye of this bill, and that Mr. Glitden be made chairman. Cacried. PERKY CHANORN. Mr. Stegman’s ferriage reducing bill, introauced In the Assembly, oxtablishes a eeale for horses and trucks, &e., and the foot rates shall not éxceed two counts for cach passenger, Tickets ehali vo sold at the rate of seventeen fur twenty-Ave It also fixes the timo for rimming the beats in one in every thirty minutes after twelve ofeloe A ARNATOLMIAL WINDMELE ‘The Sonate to-day seemed to transform iteelf into a gigantic windmill, the geist being Appropriation Dill reported by ‘the © Ways and Means, Sonator Rainos set the saiis in mo- tion by @ revolution to amend the item allowin $13,750 to the Western New York Institution for Mutes at Rochester, He propased to allow $20,265, artis, Who stated that the amount lor by tho Institute for Dew? and Dumb York ior the support of ity 3s} pupils was te posed by Senator asked on in reply. declared that the institution referred to might be able to do that be gauso it was larger and besides had been endowed by the Stete with $600,000 outside of the appropriations for mero naititenan It way & moan business, le avid, for it under the cireumstances to send its off- cots to Albany to dictate what amount should be recoived hy svalier aud lees wealthy inatitu- tious. He asserted that the big institution named was endeavoring to “frecse ont’ the smaller insti- tutions and to nonopolize the business itecl{., Sena- tor Goodwin supported the inereuse of appropria- tion, while it was opposel further by Senators Sessions, Loomis and MeCarthy. The amendment was lost, ‘The appropriations for the Executive Department were then discussed. Senator MeCarthy moved to reduce the amount allowed tor salary of ‘the Governor's private — secroter to $4,000, 8 reduction of $500, This was carried, despite a vigorons protest from Senator by al ‘who dectarcd it was ® partisan atteck on the demo- orupreieeetineneceenr cratic Executive by an opposition Senator, Other amendaents pro! Senator MoCarthy werp to allow the Goyernor only $9,500 for sten: her and clerk ire, instead of $12,000 as im the bill, and to reduce by #500 the smount allowed for stationery, printing, telegraphing and other incidental expenses. These two were lost by a small ryote, Later ‘Senetor Harris astonished the Senate by moving for a reconsideration ef the voto on the salary of Colonel! Robinson, son snd private secretary of the Governor, aud the $500 was restored. PROPOSED REDUCTIONS. Other reductions proposed by Scuator McCarthy aud lost were the iollowing:—Salury of Clerk of Court of Appeals from $5, ‘to $4,000; salary of two deputics of the Attorney General, $6,000 instea’ of $8,000; clerks and = meseengers in the same otttce, $4,500 instead of $5,000; deputy of Seorctary of Stato, $3,000 instead of $3,500; clerk hire in Comptrolter’s office, $20,000 instead of $23,000 deputy treasurer) $2,500 instead of $3,500; clerks in ‘Treasurer's office, $6,600 instead of $7,590; Deput: Superintendent of Public Iustrnetton, $2,500 inst of $3,500; clork hire in that office, $8,000 instead of $5,860; aa in office of Stato Engineer, uy instead of $2,500; clerk hire in $10,000 instead of $12,000; rng Department, for sularies ot Commissioners of Quarantine, $6,500 instead of $7,500; for repairs, gas and other expenses to the State Hall, 37,000 instead of $3,000; tor salary of Superintendent of State Hall, $1,900 in- etoad of $1,200; Seerotary of nts of University, $2,000 instead of $2,600; Rotapist in the Mu- $1,500; for purchase ine three assistants, $8,000 instead of $10,000; repairs to building and ruaning expenses, $4,000 instead of $5,000, All these amendments were lost; but the Senator seemed rather pleased at this than otherwise, as his only object in introducing them in Committee of the Whole was that he might be able to make them in the Senate iter und place everybody on record as voting for or against them. FISH IN LONG ISLAND ATBEAMB. A bill introduced by Senator Pierce calls uy the commissioners to examine the streams of Long Island and take the proper measures to stock them with trout, and also to add a resident of Kings county to the Fishery Commissioners, OLIVER AGAINST CAMERON. THE SUIT AGAINST THE AGED EX-SENATOB AP- PROACHING TRIAI;-—DETAILS OF THE CASE AS FURNISHED BY COUNSEL—DOTH PARTIES CON- FIDENT OF VICTORY. Wasnineton, March 11, 1879. The trial of the suit of Mary S. Oliver against ex, Senator Simon Cameron for breach of promise to, marry is set for Thursday, the 13th inst. Subpmnas were issued to-day on plaintiff's account for George C. Gorham, Secretary of the United States Senate; Christopher Critzman, clerk of the Senate Committee on Appropriations; W. E. Creary, postmaster of the United States Senate; J.8.Shead; Dr. Byron Sun- derland, chaplain of the Senate; Dr. D. W. Bliss; James Kolleher, livery stable keeper, and ex-Gov- ernor McCormick, late Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. A subpoena duces tecum was issued for Sec- retary Sherman, to compel him to produce at the trial the letter of Mr. Cameron to Secretary Bristow, in which Mr. Cameron urged the appointment of Mrs. Oliver to @ position in the Treasury Depart- ment. STATEMENT OF DEFENDANT'S COUNREL. Colonel William A. Cook, ‘senior counsel of Mr. Cameron, says that Mr. Cameron, in promising Mrs. Oliver employment, did nothing more than any other Senator would have done under similar cir- cumstances. Mr, Cameron admits that he wrote to Secretary Bristow asking employment for Mrs, Oliver, a8 she was in needy circumstances and had applied to him for assistance. This, of course, created an, acquaintance between them, and, as in all cases of the kind, something of a familiarity sprung up. She visited him the same as other women visit Congressmen through whom employ. ment has been obtained, but there was nothing hid-’ den in her visits, However, they became annoying to him as sho became so persistent, and he strongly hinted to her to discontinue them. The claim that he ever praposed marriage to her is simply ridicu- lous, In regard to the matter of = compromise -he tendered her $1,000, in order to avoid further talk, which had become very annoying to him end his family. Colonel Cook promises that Mr. Cameron will be present on Thursday at the trial, when evi- dence will be submitted that will stop the case then and there. Something about the complainant and her case as she regards it may not be uninteresting under citcumstances, Mrs. Oliver is fat, fair'and fdrty. She has biue eyes, a heavy stock of brown ‘hair and around full figure. She claims to be anative of Georgia and that her husband died in tho cause of the South during the late war while serving as an officer in the Confederate navy. After the close.of the war sho visited Washington and became acquainted with Mr. Cameron, and that gentleman took a deep interest in her, a8 he had known her family prior to the re- bellion, - MR, CAMERON'S ATTENTIONS AND LETTERS. ‘The widow left Washington and went to New Or- leans, and a short timo afterwards Mr. Cameron visited that city, when he again met her. It is al- leged shat while in New Orieans he showed the widow marked attention and urged her to come to Washington and he would procure her profitable employment: that after Mr. Cameron left New Orleans and returned to his home at Harrisburg, Pa., he ad- dressed her a letter urging her to come to this city and that she complied, and that afterwards he sent her tho following letter, recommending her to Secretary Bristow:— Dran Mr. 5! danghter ot war times was killed me from friends of mine know her father, and she is highly recommended as 8 (wel je woman, She is poor, and thinks a letter from me to Colonel Bristow will procure her e:ployment. If you think ¥o it will make her md T have often found happiness in making others happy. Truly yours. SINON CAMERON, Hon, B, Ht. Bristow. She avers in her allegation that accompanying the above was the following: My Dean Mus. Otuven—T han Washington. Yor Thave a xafo place for You will be my wife. GED PROMISE. Mrs. Oliver secured itnation in the Treasury Department, where she remained some time. Dyr- ing her term of office Mr. Cameron, she further alleges, wrote her another letter, under date of centber 7, 1875, promising to marry her and express- ing the deepest love, which letter caused her to prepare tor the wedding; but time rolled on and Reged did not put in an appear and subseq: \y, a6 she charges, be backod out of bis agroement, and b trickery obtamed trom her the letter of Decamber 7, 1875. ter compiaiut proceeds to recite that a short time after this she lost her position in the Treasury, and for some waeks was out of employment; that she called Mr. Cameron's attention to hor straitencd condition and his alleged promises to her, but the love he once had for her had grown cold; that Anding that Mr. Cameron «id not i to keep his prom- ise, she sticcoeded in procuring @ sitiation in the Patent Office at a inal sulary, and while holding tho position she concluded to enter against Mr. Cameron, but this was temporarily stopped by Mr. Cameron Bre, | up, during the sunemer of 1876, = §1,0 a8 & compromise, for which Mrs. Oliver gave her receipt, but she now claims that her temporary oxpenses in this city had been heavy and that Mr. Cameron gave her the §1,000 to defriy her oxpenses for board, &c. She claims, further, that her thon attorney, Mr. A. G. Riddle, did not pay her the entire $1,000, She signed a paper for that amount, understanding that the paper was simple receipt and that the money was to be in-no way connected with her chum for damages against ‘Mr, Cameron for his breach of promise, THE sure. ‘Tho widow entered eutt Pebrnary 11,4477, claiming $50,000 damages. On March ¢, 1477, Mr, Cameron Med his answer, “Thet ho never promised to marry hor, ax alleged.” : Additional troublo eame upon the widow a short time after she entered suit by being discharged from the position sie ocetpied in the Patent Ofiee, aint she was thrown upon the cold charity of the world. She next turned hee attention to the District Commissioners, anit ore the month of August, 1878, she (reqnetutly visited Captain Phelps, presi- dent of the Board, and made appeuls to him tor pro- tection, and fually aidressed the following to him:— Sines i saw you Inst Si conaplatnt hefere the infiuenee of was discharged. ch. suit against Hon. Stinen owe has intorierod and iy Tan fave }. jonds, who have been lost by my coming with Mr. Camorun, T-wish to muk flame, and can nuke my Tiving here if mut disturbed, Lot this be y private, Tagain appeal to YoU As a gentleman to p me. Mr. Darneille, her counsel, says that his client is in destitute cire nmstences, and that the 31,00) given her by Me, Cameron was accepted by her for her suppor, not es a compromise, as tle matter had gone too fur to take any backward steps. He thought a portion of the money was given to Mr. Riddle, her former counsel, who ts now counsel for Mr. Camoron, Mr. Kiddies action in the case, he said, was very strange, He thinks the case will bo very interesting, and all Mr. Cameron’s dealings with her will be bronght out on the trial, Mrs, Olivor’s triends say that the principal obstacle in the way of the marriage was a piece of Mr, Caw- eron’s, who strongly opposed the union, THE CATTLE DISEASE Continued Slaughter of the Cows in the Blissville Stables. ANIMALS QUARANTINED IN JERSEY. a General Patrick Preparing to Change His Base of Operations. eee ‘The slaughter of diseased cattle was continued yesterday at Blissyille under the supervision of Professor Law and Drs..MeLean and Bell. The num- ber of cattle remaining in the stables is 164. Professor Law, whon aeked yesterday by a Hrzarp reporter whether the cows which are not diseased would be disposed of during this week, replied that in consequence of the Lenten season the sale of meat ‘was necessarily slow, The quarantine order has been 80 modified that Sheriff Rushmore was allowed to disband his deputies, with the reservation that Gen- eral Patrick may at any timo issue an order for its reinforcement at his discretion. ‘Tho cost to the State of the deputies is $5 a day. which. is the principal item of oxpense. Sheriff Rushmore, however, has incprred other ex- penses which will be submitted for andittoGovernor Bobinson. A meeting of the owners of cows killed at Blissvillo during the quarantine has been called for next Tnesday evening in order that there may be concert of action in relation to the supplomen- tary bill before the Legislature. The May Brothers state that they will give the use of their yards to Genera} Patrick as a quarantine shed for the Eastern District, but the General states that he prefers alo. cation more remote from the Brooklyn limits. The conference between General Patrick and the cattle owners of Kings, Queens and Suffolk coun- ties, which was set down for Monday evening, has been postponed. The raid on Staten Island will not be resumed till the Blissville cattle are disposed of. Should another qnarantine on Long Island become necessary Gen- eral Patrick will appoint his deputies instead of leay- ing the choice to the sheriffs of the respective coun - ties. General Patrick has transmitted reports to Governor Robinson of a private nature in regard to the manner in which the quarantine regula- tions have beon carried out at Blissville, as well as copies of his correspondence with Gov- ernor McClellan, of New Jersey. The General has addressed another communication to Governor McClellan, urging the necessity of logislative action in view of the threatened cattle plague. Of the forty diseased cows slaughtered at Blissville yesterday thirty-four were suffering from an advanced stagé of pleuro-pneumonia. LECTURE BEFORE THE PARMERS’ CLUB. At a meeting of the Farmers’ Club, which was held yesterday in the Cooper Union, Dr. A, 8. Heath, president of the club, read a paper on the subject of plonro-pneumonia. He said:— Pleuro-pnenmonia of cattle is a specific contagions disease peculiar to bovine ani: It is insidions in its approach and attack, and taken into the sys- tem through the air created by Je in which the contagion exists. Karly in the attack the tempera- ture- rises from. 98 to 102 degrees. This de- gree of variable temperature, is said, may continne from two to six weeks, With this rise of temperature the appetite flags, and the rumination ‘becomes slower, according to the thermometric degree reached. Then dry cough appears, and in the progress of the disease it be- comes paintul, and the animal seems to try to pre- yent pain by thrusting out the head and arching the back, throwing ali the strain upon the muscles of the ‘body and chest. A close observer will notice that the ‘respiration is increased from fifteen 10 even thirty per min- ute, and is labored, and the heat of the body has in- creased. As this increases in severity the nostrils dilate at every breath and the flanks heave. Next comes a decdening or Joss of lustre of the hair. ‘The chert of the animal is sore. ‘Now the appetite decreases and the scoretion of the milk greatly di- mfaishes, a sticky, stringy discharge from the nostrils occurs, the animal groans and weeps. ‘The butchers Have learned that tue diseased plera, when removed from the chest leaves the carcass mp- parently healthy. But the flesh is dark and harsh, She fat yellow, and there is a bloodless appearance of the meat, PRECAUTI NS IN NEW JERSEY. The Board of Health of Jersey City will hold a mecting this evening for the purpose of adopting moasures for the the disporition. of the dis- eased cattle found by Inspector Cronan, and also to appoint committers to yisit tho va- rious parts of Hudson county and examine a!l the stables, Dr. J, J. Craven, United States inspector of live stoek atthe Jersey hap: rag yards, hus assisted the Board considerably in their efforts to rid the city of swill stables. The reporter yesterday called upon him to learn the resalt of his labors, He said that the public should feel very thenktal that this crusade had been commenced agatust these vile establishments known as swill stables, and aiso to the Hrnavp for its valuable aidin showing up sach | sree! He said that in no case should the milk of a iseased animal be used as food; that he did not agree with parties who have stated that there were stages of pleuro-pnenmonia or any other disease when the milk of the antmal would not be perni- cious, 7 WESTERN STOCK PREF FROM DISEASE, “Haven't you algeaiy declared, Doctor, in one of ‘our reports to the authorities at Washington, that Piers ies pleuro-pneumonia existing in the coua- try?” queried the reporter. “No, sir,” answered the Doctor; “but I have de- clarod that the cattle coming from the pratrie lands, ‘ing fie!ds and fattening farms of the West herve n free trom it. During the time that I ha¥e been sanitery inspector of the J City cattle yards I have found such cattle ‘remarkably exempt from all contagious or infectious diseases.” Th ‘ou believe that these sanitary measures have been timely 7" “Most assuredly yts,and I have watched with a great deal of iuterest the movements of this reform and consider the work in good and able hands, and 1 hope the field of this reform will not be confined to New York and New Jersey, for Lam convinced that other places along the Atiantic board, wherever in cities animals are crowded together in such estub- lish ments, this reform is necessary.” Heaith Inspector Cronan, of Jorsry City, yosterday visited the Fourth district, on the Heights, and out of 135 cows examined he found twenty-six in the first and second stages of plento-pnenmonix. Ho cated the animals to bo quarantined i: stable. The inspector states that in nearly ev instance he found the food to be of a ve poor char- acter, being generally of son grain and rotten potatoes. He suys the grains make whole- some food, but in the majority ot places they aro al- lowell to become sour before given to the avimals. Only one case of contagion is reported and that was inastable on Tonnelle avenue, where 4 milxmen had placed a sick cow ip the sae stable with two others, ‘and yesterday all three of the animals wero sick. ESNOR LAW ON PLEURO-PNEUMONIA—oRI- GIN AND EXTENT OF THE DISHASH—EXPENSE OF SLAUGHTERING AND QUARANTINE, To run Eprror or tir Herann:-— As legislation is now pending in tho varions States infected with the. contagious pleyro-pneumonia of cattle, and as there is some danger that legislators who have not for thernselves studied the nature of the malady may he betrayed into sanetioning enact. ments that will leave the States in question helpless to exterminate the plague, and a continued source gf danger and oxpense to the neighboring States, 1 bog that you will allow me space fora few remarks on the enbjoct. Those I shall confine to vital points in connection with the nature of the disease and the only effectual means of exterminating it. ‘That the malidy is contagious, it #hown cvery day in the couree of our work. Wherever we find it ex- isting ina herd we obtain a history of a recent pur- chase or of some other form of exposure by which the herd has been infected, To give iliustrations would be to record the whole history of our course in stamping it outso fer, But this is not enough. ‘The disease is not only contagious, but in this country it is,only propogated by contagion, Lhroughont the immemorial agos of this the oldest of continents the herds of buftaloes roaming over its Plains never contracted this affection, Yet buffaloos are suscep- tible to the disease as well as our dorhesticated eat- tie; and if the buffaloos on the unfenced Plains had once developed the malady it would have remained a4 & permanent plague, as It has throughout all his- toric perfods in the open steppes of Eastern Europe and Asia and since 1859 in the wide stock ranges of Australia, Duving tho long period that has elapsed since the colonization of America the cattle have been subjected to all the conditions of life that have beset them since 1843, but until that period, when an infected Dutch cow was imported into Brooklyn, the malady was unknown, Since that daté it has never at any time b absent from Brooklyn ond Long Istand. On the contrary, Massachusetts, which imported this animal plague in 1960, set here ! one of the mos: self vigorously to the work of exterminating it, In the next five years she killed paid for over one thousand cattle, but in so sho killed the con- tagion, and since 1865 has not Known this disease. NEVER DEVELOPED IN TUE WESTERN STATES, Cattle have lived in innumerable herds in the Western States subjected to all possible privations and)to the greatest trials in the way of travel, crowd- ing, filth and starvation, but on no oceasion has this Jung plague been developed, and to-day J believe the cattle of these States arc as sound as are the but- faloes on the Plains. In Europe this plague always extends on the occasion of any great war and dovas- tates the countries through which the armics pass, but only because the commissariat parks are sup- plied from infected districts, During the late Ameri- can wur our commissirist herds wore subjected to equal privations, with the additional drawback of the absénce of the smooth paved roads of the Old World, bnt the plague never brokoout'in these herds or ravagod the States whore the armies were operat- ing. The explanation is that the cattle enpalies: wero drawn from uninfected regions, and in the absence of the specific imported disease-germ no abuso in America was capable of producing it, SWILL IN THE WEST. The swill milk stables of the West areas much crowded, as filthy and as ill-ventilated as those of New York and New Jersey. But the swill stables of the West never produce this disense, while those of the seaboard into which the germ has been intro- duced are ra’ toa ruinous extent. If more proof is wanted of purely contagious nature the malady it is to be found in the entire absence of the plague from the Highlands of Scotland, the Channel nds, Brittany, much of Normandy, Spain, Portu- gal, Norway a: Those placos breed their own stock and rarely or never hnport strange cattle; therofore this poison, exotio to their soil, has never ained a foothold. Norway and Swoden have, indeed ; imported the plagne, but speedily oxpolled it by the only effectual method of extermin:: the poison. ‘fhe same is true of a number of other Euro] nations, as woll as of Massachusscts and Connecticut. The romark is as true to-day of Western Euro} and Amonica as it was a century.ago, when made the immortal Hailer of his own native Switzer! , thut the disease never appears but as the result of the introduction into a country or district of an.ani- mal from an infected placo, DANGEM OF HALF MEASURES. ‘This being the cise any temporizing with tho poison is in tne highest degree injudicions and barm- ful. In some of our States laws are cuacted against thistles, and you may travel fronr side to side of such States without once beholding this emblem of agri- cultural shiftlessners. This suceces has been at- tained by attacking the weed in the early stages of its growth, aud by preventing any specimen from reaching fructification and diffusing its myriads of seeds. So with tho “bovine lung fever.’”' Incomper- ably less appreciable and less’ tangible than the this- tle down, tie seeds of this disease are being con- Stantly exhaled from the Jungs of the sick animal, and the infeeted air is wafted onward, loaded with a freight of death to every’ susceptible animal, We muy quarantine the sick, but we cannot quarantine the wr. We may purity the air, it is true, by an incessant discngagement of disiufectant vapors. But the cost would exceed the value of the -sick animal, even it it recovered. We may shut out men and beasts from the infected premises, though even this would be found to be practically impossi- blo when attempted on a large scale, but we cannot absolutely prevent wild animals like pigeons, rats and mice from eluding our vigilance. We can disin- fect the drains and manure heaps, but we can never be sure that every particle of the poison been de- composed, ‘and that it removed or washed away such pro ts will not infect other avimals. When the sick are preserved for any purpose the poison is being consantly given off in all the “products and accumulated in the air in the buildings and the excretions to snch an extent that no watchfulness can at all times guard against its escape, To quarantine the sick is there- fore to maintain prolitic manufactories of the poison which we wish to destroy and to open the way for its wide diffusion. io 2XPENSE OF QUARANTINE, But another unanswerable objection to quarantine is ityexpens-. The perfect isolation of sick animals trom visitors, human and brute, can ouly be secured by a patrol to be kept up day und night. Any such course Wou.d soon incur an expense greater than the value of the animals sought to be preserved, At the Blissville stables a quarantine of seventeen days cost in sheriffs und deputies alone a sum of over #900, At anothér stable, containing only twelve cows, the Sheriff's expenses tor fourteen days amounted to $300. If we add to these the expenses of professional cxamiuation ot the animals, of the treatment of the sick, which is # necessary corollary of the quarantine, of the constunt disinfection of the air and excretions, and the repoated disinfection of the buildings, it will at once appear that this method the most ruinously expensive, as it is the most dw gerous and inefficient, that can possibly be adopted, INEFFECTUAL TREATMENT. What has been stated of quarantine is a sufficient answer to the demand for the treatment of the sick, pataes 2 its expense, ant fey ge fg egg i juction an propagation of the poison, supaia be prohibited nnder the heaviest penalties in ull countries where tie @xtcrinmation of the disease hus been determined on. Germany, Holland, Bel- gium, France and Engliwmd have been treating the Victims of this plaguefor nearly half a century, but the result has only been’the increase of diseaso and death. Our own intected States have been treating it for a third ot a century, and to day it exists over @ wider area than ever before, Contrast this with the results in Massachusetts end Connecticut, where the Giscase has been repeatedly crushed out at smalle: pense, and there can be no doubt as to which is the wisest course. As: ull the plagues are alike in the propagation of the poison the bodies of the sick, I may be allowed to alduce the experience of two adjacent counties in Scotland when invaded by the rinderpest. Aber raised a fund of £2,000, and though she suffered sev- eral successive invasions she speedily crushed out the poison wherever it appeared by slaughtering the sick beasts und disinfecting the premises. The re- sult was that little more than half the fund was wanted to retmburse the owners tor their losses and the splendid hords of the county were preserved. Forfur, on the other hand, set herself to cure the | con gor with the result of « universal infection, the lous of many thousands of cattle and the ruin of hundreds of farmers. Finally the malady was crushed out in the entire island by the method adopted by Aberdeen and other well advised counties at the outset. INOULATION INCOMPATIBLE WITH EXTERMINATION. Tuoculation is condemned by all those considera- tions-that would forbid quarantine and treatment. Whatever good there is in inoculation depends on the reproauction of the poison in the system of the inoculated animal, 80 as to render it unsusceptibie to a second attack. The inoculated animal is theretore iutected, and, like @ boust infected in the ordinary way, is a prolific source of the poivon and a means of its diffusion, Inoculation has been largely prac- tised in Kurope, but no country which has resorted to it extensively has ever succeeded in rooting out the pestilence, Cattle have been inoculated by the tens Of thousands in Belgium and Holland, and of all Europe these are the countries now most exten- tensively infected. France, Prussia, italy, Ausiria aud rere have each practised it on @ large scale and each remiins a home of the plague. Aus tralia has tollowed the practice, and is now and must continue an infected country. Ouc own fected States have inoculated, and the disease hi ue and spread in spite*ot it, and even by its ai Whatever country hay definitely exterminated jagne (Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Hoistein, Meckienberg, Switzerland, Mavoaschusetes and Con- neelient) thet ied inoculat.on and all other n on the prinety) of prosorving the ter of the their surroundings. So will it be with ws. ny State adopts or ullows any of these tomporizing moas- ‘ures that State wiil oniy repeat the exporicue of tho Ke the Old World and the ¥, will pers ivease in the corntry, will entail great Joseos on its ciizens, will keep up the nesd for eon- stunt watchful vase by the adjetn- ing States f heir own protection and will indeti- nitely postpone the resumption of the foreign live stock trade, which a tow months ago promised to ve valuable branches of our inter- national commerce. » In the present erisis nothing ean excuse (olay or ineficiont legislation or work, To be snecowstni all the infectod States must act har- moniously, and if way one comes whort of a statute and udministration ut least as thorough us that of New York, on that State will rest the odium ot pro- tracting what cannot but be considered otherwise thon #8 a grout national calamity, dAMES LAW, BaooKwLy, March 10, 1879. SLOP FEEDING IN THE WEST, and haw relied on the slang! It VICK PRESIDENT KNOX, OF THE NATIONAL STOCK YARDS, ILLINOIS, DENIES THE STATEMENTS OF OUR 8T, IOUI# CORRESPONDENT--THE Con- RESPONDENT REAFFIRMS THEM AND PROFFERS FURTHER PROOF, ‘The letter from our St. Louis correspondent, res- pecting the feeding of cattle in the neighborhood of that city on distillery slops, has occasioned a lively feeling among the cattle dealers of tho West, and hy induced tho Viee Prosident of the National Stock Yards ot Kast St, Louis, Illinois, to address the Secre- tary of the Treasury in remonstrance against the statements therein, On the 10th inst. the following despatch was received from the sano gentleman :— MM. KNOX'S CAND, Nattoxat Stock Yaups, I, March 10, 1879, To tue Eprrot oy me Aenanpi— Your lotter Lrom St, Lonis dated March 2, published in your issue of the 6th, is one mass of falschood without a single fact for ite redeeming feature, 1 dowbt if the writer was ever in these yards, as he cer- tainly was “never upon the MeNeill farm at Green- ville, where slops have never been fed to cattle, and where there aro no facilities for doing so even if Mr, MeNeill desired to Since the opening of theso yards Alops have never been fed to stock, and there lave not becn 100 head of siop fed cattle sold here. It is the opinion of all dealers that cattla have not been aa healthy during the past ten years de they are at present. Your correspondent rected and the thoronyh disinfection ot | shows his ignorance of the subject when he states that diseased cattle will gain 300 pounds iy two months on slop feed, when all practical feeders know that 200 pounds is a good average gain in six months on the best of feed for healthy cattle. It is such lying letters that have prejudiced the English authorities agcinst American cattle, and you showld use your influence in exposing the decoption prac: tised. It is a question of vital importance to the cat tle interest of the whole country, and the writer of such communications ag you published should be exposed, We demand from you his name. ISAAC H. KNOX, Vico Prosident. Immediately upon the receipt of the above, muking such grave accusations against the veravity of the writer of the article, and, what in the public eye was much more important, the truth of the scrions statements, of the Irtter, the correspondent of the Hrmarp at St. Louis was telographed for an cx- planation. That the corgeapondent might fully un- derstand the accusations, the despatch of Vico Presi- dent Knox was transmitted to him in full, On the sume cvening the following telegraphic reply was re ceived :— ‘THR CORBESPONDENT'S STATEMENT, Sr, Lours, March 10, 1879 To THe Eprrok oF THE HERALD: = I did not go to McNeill’s farm personally myself, but I sent my assistant, s competent and reliable re- porter who is in my regular employ. He spent three days in working up the facts, and I believe he gave a truthful account of the slop feeding to cattle. He is got accessible to-night, but wilh be here carly to-morrow morning, and if you so instruct I will telegraph his explanation and all indisputable facts in connection with the swill feeding of beeves in this section. You can be assured that the facts published in the Hgnaxp are substantially accurate, as well ag in detail, I observed unusual caution in all the statements made, and endeavored to be accurate, Of course Vice President Knox is not supposed to know the peculiar practices of the professional feeders, and he and the stock yard people hero are perhaps as much imposed on as ure Eastern buyorse ST, LOUIS CORRESPONDENT of the New York HERanp, THE STATEMENTS REAFFIRMED, ‘The desired instructions were, of course, sent, and the following despatch from our correspondent came duly to hand yesterday :— ‘Sr. Lours, March 11, 1879, ‘To mH Eprror or THE Heratp:— “There scoms to be no doubt whatever about the truth of my assistant’s account of the slop feeding to cattle. He asserts the truth of every statement made by him, and particularly as to his visit to McNeill’s farm, as the following statement and ro- iteration, just made by him in my presence and handed to me, will show:— WHAT THE REVORIER SAW. Sr, Louis, March 11, 1879, Having received instructions from the St. Louis correspondent of the New Yorw Henarp to investigate the condition of Texan cattle shipped from this port to New York, and as to the truth of the report preva- lent in reference to beer slop and distil fattening, I made a visit first to the National Stock Yards, located at East St. Louis, Il. Upon investigation I found, as was stated in the published letter in the Heratp, issue of March 6, that slop feeding had been carried on to q large extent in former years in the stock yards, but owing to this affecting sales nothing wae fed in the yards but hay and corn at present, unless the owners so ordered, it, wanted their stock fattencd on slops they could be accommodated, RECEIVES INFORMATION, I also received certain information from a party thoroughly posted that the evils of distillery slop feoding was carried on at certain points outside of the city. HE VISITS M'NEILL’S Fane. To satisfy myself as to the truth of the statement by the gentleman, I acted on the information gleaned from him, and under instructions from the St. Louis Henacp correspondent personolly visited apd investigated one of the professional feeding estab- lishments mentioned by him—viz., that of A, H. McNeill, located at Greenville. I spent considerable time and labor in getting at the facts in reference to the evil, spending two days at the stock yards. , AND. NOT THE ONLY PLACE, The place mentioned is not the only one whero this disreputable business is being carried on, and if I had the time and facilities at my command I could unearth other and worse places of the kind, I notice that Vice President Knox claims that siops havo never beon fed in the yards, Now, Iam convinced that this statement cannot be sustained, for I got my information too straight to be deceived, WHAT 18 CHARGED AND WHAT IS NOT CHARGED, The statement in the Henanp did not charge Vice President Knox with conniving with the professional feeders, and Ido not now make any such chargo; but that the evil is being carried on exactly asI stated is indisputable and can be substantiated in every porticular. : THE SHEPHERD'S FOLD. _ A FAVORABLE REPORT OF .THE CONDITION OF THE INSTITUTION MADE BY THE SECRETARY-— THE WORK DONE WITHIN THE PAST TWO YEARS. The members and corporators of the Shepherd's Fold of the Protestant Episcopal Church held their twelfth annual meeting yesterday at the institution, No. 157 East Sixtieth strect. Reporters were ex- eluded from the meeting, bit an account of its pro- ceedings was afterward obtained from the secretary, Rev. Edward Cowley, The treasurer made bis ro- port for/the two years which had passed since the Fold was reopened, showing the amount of expenii- ture for that period to be $7,00), aud the receipts to be at present somewhat short of that sum, yet more than suflicieut to cover it if the eity of Now York paid certain charges which Mr. Cowley claims aro due to the institution. On May 9, 1868, the Legisla- tare passed an act to authorize the magistrates to commit orphaus and friendless children to the care of the socicty, but for the children that they so committed in 1878 the city has ‘yet paid nothing, though it acknowledges its indebtedness, a3 the sec, retary claims, in a letter written to him on Kebruary 5, by Board of Estimate and Apportionment, ing for his account. [ft this sum is paid—and it amounts to $5,000—Mr. Cowley main‘ains that the financial position of the Fold will be excellent; and if this sum is not paid it will «till be in debt, The trustees and officers who have agreed to administer the affairs of the society duving the ensuing year are as follows :—Prosident— B. Kdson. urer—Cheo! Haseltine, LL. D. Secrotary—Rev. E. Cowley. ‘Truste¢s—Messra, BR, Gardner, A. M. Sherman, Charles Cowley, Miss ©. M. Gahagen, Mra. C. 8. Thomes, Mrs. J, T. Spenser, Mra. 8. M, @. Cowley and Mrs. J.J. ‘Thomas, Secretary submitted his report, which was ro- ferved to a committee for revision and approval. He stated that fifty-one children hed been admitted to the institution in two years; that it now supported thirty children, the rest having been sent home as roon a8 their mothers could maintain them ;,that’ all the ehildron were well; that none had ben sont nway for m’sconduct, and none had run away; that four of them lad learned typewriting, and tht oll would compare tavorably in training, ability and intelligence with children of the same’ class’ any- where, Tho report to state the aims and tho histo; the institution. It” set forth that the condition of children under tho oh of the Charity Commissioners was of the most beggariy description; that the Shi ra's Fold had been incorporated to remedy this state of things; that in 1870 it purchased property 76, which its foriner managers tried for several , and, failing, Lite al the Fold to std- in 1874. It was revived in March, 1877, with a result which may be gathored from the fore going account. es nite? BEE KEEPERS’ OONVENTION. . ood BFFORTS TO YREVENT ADULTERATION AND BK- TEND THE TRADE. (BY TELE *LAPA TO THE AeKALD.) Symacvan, N. ¥., March 11, 1879, The Northeastern Bee Keepers’ Convention, in cluding the States of New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut and Massachusetts, as- sombled at the City Hall, in this eity, to-day for a three days’ session. Delegates were present from ag fer west as Ohio, The question of inarketing honey was discttssed, and the practice of New York dealers in adulterating with glucose was strongly con-+ demned. It was urged upon the Convention that hereafter, instendt of piling up thousunds of pounds of honey in New York city, the Envopewn market shoul be opened next tail’ and shipments shoutd be made there direct. The disposition of the to appoint an agent, who should rade, Tho atdross of Presi county, was listened to at If the owners, however, * »