The New York Herald Newspaper, March 28, 1879, Page 5

icine THE DANCE OF DEATIL Ravages of the Epidemic in Ceara. ELOQUENT STATISTICS. A Breezy Carnival in Na- pies. A HERALD STOR Fonrzateza, Ceara, Feb. 9, 1879. It looks now like the beginning of the end. ‘The wintor promises to be a good one, with abundant rains. In December we had felt slight showers, In January, at Fortaleza, there were nino days marked by rain. On the 11th there was a heavy pour; the pluviometer marked 23,40 millimetres. For the whole month we have 65.40 millimetres of rain, which is more than the fall in January, 1876, Défore the drought. Since my letter of December 30 the mortal- ity from “smallpox has been steadily decreasing in Fortaleza, Tho whole number of recorded deaths in January was 2,986, of which 2,154 were from small- pox. On January Ji only nine persons were buried in Logoafunda, and the new cases are ainong freshly arrived refugees from the interior. It may be said that the epidemic has ceased, so far as this city is concerned, but that is simply from lack of material. Of the survivors at least one-fourth have had the dis- ease slightly, one-fourth have been saved by vac- cination and the remainder would be exempt in any case. Now that we seo the end we may review the progress of this scourge, one of the most terrible that history can show us. I will just add that my figures are not guesses at the truth or approxima- tions, Istate- the number of deaths that are re- corded on the books of the two city cemeteries; only in three orfour cases, where I have not obtained these official figures, I have placed a mark of doubt on the table, 4 RECORD OF DEATH, ‘The smallpox appeared early in the firet drought year of 1877, and it was present all through that year and 1878, but in the multitude of deaths trom famine, yellow fever, be: and bilious fevers, three small- pox cases were hardly noticed; only in the fall of 1877 it was one of the predominant diseases, In August, 1873, it again assumed an epidemic force, and from that time its increase was fearfully rapid, as the following table will show:— Deaths from Other Deaths, Diseases, Buried in at Logoa- Cemetery of Sdo ‘Junda Cemetery. Jods Baptista. {?) 2,101 seca nates 28,085 7,843 The population in August was about twenty-five thousand resident and almost one hundred thousand adventitious, but this was constantly decreasing, not only from deaths, but because the. refugees were firained off into the villages around. On November1 the entire population of the city was probably from eighty-five thousand to ninety thousand, and it is from this that we must caloulate the death rates of November and December. Moreover, the emigvants were either averse to burying their dead in the gen- eral trenches, or too lazy to carry them 3; BO they often’ shirked ‘their duty by making Sisley in the dry woods around, or carry- 1g corpses out on rans and pel 8 ing them in the sea. It is impossible to calculate the number of unrecorded dead; but ‘we can hardly place it at less than ten per cent of the whole, and possibly it may be five per cent. Still, .. my previous calculation of 21,000 for the deaths in December was too high—probably 18,000 would not be far trom the truth. This would be more than a fourth of the population in thirty Mhys. - “HEUTE ROTH, MOKGEN TopT.”’ It was adark time for the city. In the churches they had been praying ad pretendam pluriam and it did not rain; now it Was pro quacumque tribulatione, It seomad for a while as if Heaven had forsaken them alfoyether. Lbink of a town with two-fifths of the people sick of smallpox und hardly enough men to be rund for tle cemetery service! With the decreased death rate of Janwary the light hearted people took . Up their pleasures again. There bas been music in the park; clubs.are assembling (a6 indeed they did all through December), re are = parties now and then, and so the world- goes on as it went before, But the epidemic from its focus in the city has spread in all directions; in the villages around the poor plo are dying like sheep in a slaughter house. In December it was Pacatuba and Balu; now it is Mecejona, Marenguapé and other placea, ‘The government has despatched physletans to these points, but the infection is so universal that nothing can’ be done to stop the dis- ease, eer, to prevent travel from one point to an- other, and that is too violent a measure for these easy-going rulers. Vaccination in infected districts is dangerous, because, as has been shown here, if smallpox appears in a patient at the same time with the vaccination sores the almost certain result is VACCINATION AND ITS RESULTS. Besides this the peasant refugees have an unac- countable repugnance vw vaccination. I could un- derstand this if they had not before their eyes the ood uttects of the measure, It was shown in all the ospitals. Thus, in the Hospital do Alto da Pi- ments, out of 307 smallpox Ege ge in January, only 10 had been vaccinated, and all these recovere In the Lazareto Sao Sebustiao, of 151 patients ceived in thirteen days only 3 had been vaccinated, In Alagadico, out of 162 patients 4 were vaccinated; and so with other hospitals. think that these ures are conclusive eno! ‘accination might have saved us from smallpox, but what shall save us now? Do you wonder that I fear? Icalledon President Julio, as I remember, on the 29th of December. At that time his wife was vem J with fever, und smallpox was feared though she been vaccinated. The vaccination could guard er from smallpox, but it was powerless be- ore the other more fearful disease, ‘Two days only the fever lasted; then came the livid black spots, and then a hasty funeral at night, with flarin, torches to light the few friexds who dared to atten this coffin. There had been other cases of this ‘‘bexigas pre- tas," Theard them spoken of pretty often, but the pular opinion seemed to be that those were viru- jent cases of simallpox. A few only had heard of the black plague, and those were the ones who feared most. The p! has been present in Russia, Could itcross the Atlantic? Or couid it be generated on this Continent? 18 IT THE PLAGUE? It is @ question for meee to decide whether the plagne is generated here, Ido not think that it could have been brought from Europe; Russian thips sometimes come to Brazil, but at present tho chances are small that they would bring the plague in tho winter and over $,000 miles of water, if tuis is the true plague it has beon generated in Ceari. You may judge whether this is possible when ou consider that 27,000 persons were buried ere in two months, ‘The main cemetery, where the smallpox patients are buried is throe miles away from the town and .on the lee- ward side, but it is constantly visited by the body curricrs, aud if plagtie were generated there they would be the first to recvive it, Whother the first tases were, in fact, among them I have not been able to find, buc it is nonnense to suppose that the Logoa- funda Cemetery could not intect the town. At that ace the dead are buried in trenches, deep enough t in loose sand which has no disinfectant proper- ties; the stench is horrible and growing worse as the bodies decay. ides this there if the Sao Joao Bahtiaga Cemetery, almost in the town, and also in loowo sand, Caskets are never used; the dead are buried in light pine coffins or without any. Fortuloza is on, high wroand, and the streets are kept commendably ‘clean, but the refugees’ huts around == are unably filthy. Is it the Plague? ‘That ix a quostion that is occupyin @ good many minds just now. The government is silent on the subject, but a spovial connission of physicians has arrived from Rio Janeiro, and it 16 ‘ho secret that they are to study this new disease with the view of preventing its spread. Well informed people epeak OF it a8 peste preta, but that is between riends and under the breath; to the masses it is becigawpre(as, tho black smallpox. The number Cases is Lay lene on the increaso, but it is iinpowsi- bio to say how many deaths there have been, as the government gives no information, ADVICK TO AMERICA. So a8 the mattor tests in doubt it will be well for tho United States government to take all precau- tions with respect to ships trading-with Ceara, One or wwo Atmetican schooners or barks appeur hero overy month; they bring provisions and carry of a little cotton and suger. Just now L believe that the Cowra refugees ave better fed than those of other provinces, Eleowhere there have been murmurs of discontent. From Mossord (Province of Rio Grande do Norte) we hoar that some two thousand retugees, led by one Fran- cisco Morreira de Carvalho, surrounded the barrack: and threatened to destroy the commandant and his little company of soldiers uniess food were given to them, This was on the 2th of January. The food = given, but two days atterward the refugeos re- ned in yreat force—a crowd, with the women in frout (pro for protection!), The commandant attempted to arrest Carvalho, but was shot down. Four soldiers and several rioters were Killed in the strugyle that ensued, and finaily the military were driven out of town and the provision houses ,were sucked. The President of Ceara has sent a steamer to Rio Grande with fresh provisions. We await further news from the south, A STORMY CABNIVAL IN VENICE—STORM AND EARTHQUAKE IN ITALY--A HERALD STORM AMONG. THE MEBRYMAKEBS—ST. JANUARIUS IN DISGRACE, Napwes, March 4, 1879. Milan has its carnival, which 1; a week longer than any other. Rome and Venice have their carni- vals, the latter being even set to music, but I doubt if any one of then can come up to the Neapolitan of this year. It went off “like a breeze;"" in fact, I ven- ture to state that it was the breeziest one any time these hunilred years at least, We hoped for great doings on the Mardi Gras, the great and last day of the merrymaking. On the morning we awoke early, We had scarcely reached the Via Toledo when we sew that Naples was going to have a memorablo Mardi Gras, of it this year. ‘Turning the corner Charley suddenly bolted. I was just going to ask what was the matter when a shadow made me instinctively start; a large shutter struck the ground, grazing my shoulder. I was about to say something facetious as to the size of the confetti they were using this season, when a large lamp struck my companion on the head. Fortunately the lamp was not very high, and a slight cut, with a damaged hat or “broken tile,” as my companion called it, was all the harm done. A shower of real tiles and broken glass soon convinced us that the carnival was growing “quite too awfully lively” for us, and we thought we had better get ps 4 to the hotel and spend the rest of the day in the safe haven of our rooms, THE REVELLERS DISMAXED. ‘This was casier said than done. Suddenly there was a yell from the crowd of foot passengers who ‘were ‘sholtcring themselves under the 1 project- ing eaves of the north side of the Via Toledo. The top of a large house above us was shaking ominously. We all bolted for the south side just as a party in tho south for similar reasons rushed to the north side of the street. In this country there is no right of way, so we collided. We made for an open portone. Ashes then began to fall and the Neapolitans to swear. Saints Januarius and Anthony, the two most popular saints in Naples, were called pigs and hounds, and otherwise hormbly spoken of. Even greater names than theirs were made responsible for Vesuvius’ freaks in send- ing us all these ashes. We groped our way through the reddish gray air, red with the Sahara dust, gray with the Vesuvius ashes, until by dodging a tile or a shutier every now and then we at last reached our hotel without further mishaps. As we went upstairs Theard an Englishman swearing and ordering brandy and soda, When you hear a Briton order brandy and soda in that tone you may be sure he has just fallen into domestic misfortane. Upon inquiry it turned out that the gentleman had expected to It his family at Capri that day, but, of course, in this awful gale he dared not put his head out of doors, much Jess go afloat on the “deep raging sea.” A STOR IN THU: BAX, ‘The wind raved and howled and did awful cane ‘The Capri steamers as well as that plying to Ischia were simply smashed to atoms off Santa Lucia. A lurge steam et on its way to Messina was caught by the hurricane in the Gulf of Salerno and soon bat- tered into such a state that the captain infoi the passengers they must “shift for themsel) as he entertained no hope of saving the ship. ‘The steamer eventually succeeded in putting into Salerno, but those passengers must have passed what our French friends call un mauvais quart d’heur, The United States man-of-war while hurrying into the sheiter of this port ran down an italian brig, but no hands were lost. It iseven maliciously whispered that a shi being in sore distress off Torre del Greco, the auth: ties telegraphed to Rome tor permission to save tho drowning crew, who were from the plague-infected districts of the East aud subject to quarantine. Pro- fessor Palmieri mude his way up to the observatory and reported that Vesuvius was in a ‘very bad way, indeed,” and throwing up small cliffs and moun- tains by the score. ‘The sea rose pany feet and beat down the ponderous three foot w: pe aes ig the highway to Pozguoli and Baiae. Altogetheg, the Mardi Gras of 1579 was the breeziest one in many o decade at Naples, and the confetti thrown about of a size aud shape udprecedented in the ennals of carni- val skirmishes. ‘A slight shock of earthquake, then the horizon to westward suddenly shone out amid the pitch dark night, with a sickly yellow light like that of the sun through a thick tog; after the disappeurance of this, which was instantancous, #red aurora borealis-like light between Capri and Vesuvius was the only warning which immediately preceded the most awtul tempest known in the ory of man in these cate. ‘The seamen of Neuples call the lights above ‘ibed, which go before a storm, luci dé vento, or wind lights. . ‘When we wero able to go ont and continue our promenades we saw many of this festival of the winds in the Shape of shutters aud window are and jamps and apple pie stands lying about avery sad and doleful way that quite impressed us with the death ot King Carnival. He was susan | dying was the merry old king, au Vesuvius was 8 in unison, sending up lava in floods, which poured down in strange contrast to the snow-covered cone ot the volcano. As we strolled about we bought a per which prophesied the storm that had just Rnished and another to follow close at its heels, both prophécies being dated antecedent to the tem- it trom the otlice of the New York Henaup, The Neapolitan must have some one to pitch into. When things don’t go right meteorologiegly or voleani- caily he generally puts it down to St. Januarius, who is supposed to be the special protector, curthquake and eruption averter of Naples. But St. Januarius is nbt the authority he once was among the Lazz roni, and, therefore, the powers that be terrestrial were made responsible for wrecks and deaths, through not having received and published the warn- ings of the New Yorx Hrrap in time to notify the outgoing steamers of their peril. BEFORE THE MASSACRES. THE KING OF BURMAH—HIS GRANDEUR AND TITLE—PRELIMLUNALIES OF THE MASSACRE— AN ENGLISH PROTEGE. {From the London Daily News, March 15.) Written before the late massacres and describing the state of things aécompanying the accession of of the present ruler of Burmah, the following letter from Rangoon will be of interest:— The Mandalay govegnment announced officially on the 3d of October that the Mindone Min the Fifth, Founder of Religion, had breathed his last on the preceding afternoon. As every one in Rangoon was ape § P asew led that he had really died on the 1ith ptéber, the announcement ‘was received, not as a piece of news, but as a noti- fication that the Ministers their arrange! ments and felt themselves strong enough to give out definitely that the Thee Baw Prince was the successor to the throne and that they meant the government for the future to be as much like ® con- stitutional monarchy as ther lights would enable thom to make it, The way had been -paved for the election of the Thee Baw by a ou an issued on the 19th of September appointing him Ain Shay Min, or heir ap) nt. The words ‘*Ain Shay Min" mean “the Dweller in the Eastern House,” and thus give a hint to tho brethren of the mystic tic that may not bo without its effect. As the Ameindan, or royal edict, is rather a curiosity in its way, 1 give you 4 literal version of it:— ty Monareh, who of the Tsadden hants, Ho: oxsor of Filth Groat Synod; Royal mandnt Tt was the wanuor amoug tho kings aforet object of advancing the cause of religion ai opanna-ra dynasty, moat puissat of the Xun, having fiuished first class examinations, with degre wats, thereby gaining: in matters bot xpiri wlote with wisdo: re} gud thus caugpicusy imgdom as Thuy spectally distinguish ws in protecting the cause of religt ‘aifaies of the kingdom, he is appointe Shay Min, or hoir apparent to “powers ald w vd in conducting the at nominated Ala i ft the palace, tog elephants and horves 0 MEINE appurtonaners of an heir Apparont “phoclatmed by. O ing Moon of Th ‘roel atin jer. ing Moon of Thaw: holla 1230 BE, Auth s er, Bete). TUK ROYAL PRINCES ARRESTED. Immediately upon tho issue of this odict several of the Royal Princes who had been previously, ai rested and lot loose again wore requested to com into the ‘There they wore seized again with #o much roughness that they imagined the ‘end had come, and two of them attempted to escape, and nctually managed to get over the palace walls, Both, however, were recaptured, one of them bel badly slashed about the face by a truculont soldivr, As, however, these two princes, the Mekkbara (the King’s eldest son, a man of | about forty-five) aud the Thonzai (also an | elderly man), had been noted for their ce haut en bas troatineut of all Karopeans, their enfer- ings Were looked upou with hips tenon equanimity by people hero. Lt is for the other princes, notably the quonéam pupils of the Rev, J. B. Marks, that compassion ia reserved, All thes except some few who have been fortunate cnongh to | escape into British torritory, are imp: med ; most of them — chaines othe walls’ of the trightul Burmese subterranean dungeon called Khatdike, Some private reports say that the more formidable of them have beon already dewth, but there is re is not tho case, though it would in per fect agreement with the wensl Burmese “thouzan’ in stich cases, excopt that the more expeditious aud merciful babit of chopping their NEW YORK ’H heads off immediately was formerly adopted, Every eifort was made to save the unfortunate wretches’ lives, and the Rev. Mr. Marks addressed an autograph letter to the Thee Baw, congratulat- ing him on his accession, and pleading for the lives ot the luckless princes, Nevertheless, there is small likelihood of their release, aud many must inevitably oo to the horrors of their un und prison ouse. OLHER PRINCES PROTECTED BY THE ENGLISH, Meanwhile the position of the Nyoung Yan and Nyoung Oke Princes, now living in satety under the protection of the British Resident, Mr. Shaw, isa ‘source of very grave anxiety to our local government. Meanwhile a Prince, who, strictly speaking, bas # much better right to the throne than any of them, has turned up in Rangoon. This individual, the Limbin Prince, is ason of the ‘War Prince,’ or Ain Shay Min, killed in the rebellion of 1866, This War Prince was an elder brother of the Min- done Min, the late King, and, according to a com- pact drawn up when the latter ascended the | throne, the Ain Shay Min’s descendants were to succeed before the King's. The late monarch, however, treattd his nephews with constantly in- crousing coldness and severity, snd in March the Limbin Prince excaped from’ Burmese territory disguised as a pouygee, a priest, and came to Rangoon. After spending # month here he went to Calcutta, and thence to Gya, and was supposed to be making his way to Ceylon. Suddenly, how- evor, when the frst rumors of. the Mindone Min‘s illness went about the government re- evived*information that the Prince had turned up in British Barmah territory, and was, it ‘was asserted, raising armed bands to make a descent on Mandalay, but, with their usual jnetliciency, the Burmah police could do nothing, und the Limbin Prince actually came oyer from Moulmein in a steamer, with gov- ernment officials on board, and walked through the town, with a number of retainers behind him, ‘4 to St. John’s College, Mr. Marks’ 8. P. G. Institution, where he sought and received protection. ‘There he now remains, the govern- ment having set a guard over him, as weil to prevent him from intriguing as to ‘protect bin against kidnappers, -He is a pleasant looking young man of about twenty-one, very good tem- pered and intelligent, and’ extremely like his cousin, the Thee Baw Min, in personal appearance, as be is in age. Should disturbances in Upper Burmah call for English interference, we could hardly find a better man to put on the throne. At presént the Prince is applying himself diligently to the study of English. FOREIGN NOTES. : The €ouncil of the Royal Sseomemphioat Society of England have presented a memorial to Her Majesty’s Commissioners of the University of Oxford, to those of Cambridge and to the government bodies of cach university, urging upon them the importance of establishing geographical professorships. It is cer- tainly a strange fuct that in Epgland, with business ramifications and colonial possessions in every part of the world, the science of Beography has’ been systematically noglected in the public schools an: entirely ignored at every university in the Uni Kingdom. ‘The members of the Buda-Pesth Boat Club will hold their regatta on an unsually yrand scale this ear and have invited the onau Hort’ (the Vienna joat Club) to compete in the friendly contest. Both these societies, which have becn founded some ten or twelve years, get many of their best boats from Segrle. Enghsh manners, boating language and dréss are us closely imitated as possible, and oven training is attempted so far as is compatible with beer and tobacco, which, most boating men who read this will say, is not very far. Baron Walterskirchen, the well known politician, is president of the Vienna ‘Boat Club, which boasts three Englishmen among its forty members. Excursions of several days’ dura- tion are made as far up stream as Regensburg and ag far down as Pesth, The St. Petersburg Gazette gives the Russian tax- payer a gi ing account of the cost of un impe- rial nursery. The household of His Imperial High- ness the Grand Duke Michacl Alexandrowitch, aged four months, is limited to fifteen people, of whom alone the English nurse receives 1,143 roubles and 18,125 roubles are allowod for His Imperial Hig ness’ tuble. Considering the price of a pint of milk His Imperial Highness must be well supplied, un- less the accounts are still kept as in the days of the En x Nicholas, To mention one of a hundred similar instances, it happened that the Emperor asked one day for some tallow for application to # sore foot. Years afterward a Minister of the Impe- rial household investigated an item of 100 pounds of tallow which appeared in the weekly accounts of the Emperor’s personal necessities; whereupon it ‘was discovered that for ten whole years this amount had been charged weekly. Had not His Majesty once used half an ounce? A few weeks ago the trial of another batch of nihilists was opened at Charkoff, in Southern Russia, M. de Jomin, a young nobleman of twenty-six, the principal accused, is charged with the murder of detective engaged in transporting the Polish po- litical offender, Woinaralski. It appears ‘that year ago Jomin and some accomplices, having put on military uniform to enable them’ to travel unmo- lested, attacked the gendarme and his colleagues on the public highway, killing one, wounding others end setting free the prisoner escorted by the ser- vants of the law. Jomin is supposed to ve acti member of the Central Revolu- tionary Committee in Southern (or Little). Russia, whose purely Slavonic inhabitants are leading the movement against the institutions e by the northern half. At the trial Jomin de- clined to answer the questions of the judge. He was twken back to prison to be chastised for his recu- sancy. ‘The large number of nihilist ladies and gen- tlemen recently arrested at Kief after a sharp tight with the military will probably be sent to Siberia without the preliminary formality of a trial. Among them are Mile. Olga Rassovska, who killed the gen- darme that was the first to outer the room where the conspirators met; Mlle. de Gersefeld, the daughter of General Gersefeld, who fired her revolver at the police, threatening to exterminate the whole race of them like so many dogs, and Countess Panin, the duughter of # lady in waiting to the Empress,’ Ar- rests continue, especially in Southern lussia. “The Russian press,” says the London Globe, “is taking advantace of the jubilee of the Polish nw tional writer, Krashoysky, to advocate a rapproche- ment between the two countrics, and the suggestion is thrown out that something in the shape of a Slayonic Congress should be organized this year at Warsaw. The last attempt of this nature was the Slavonic Assembly at ‘Moscow in 1367, promoted by Prince ‘Icherkassky, at which strong endeavors wore made to patch te, fared teud between the Polish and Russian writers; but the brutalities marking the fu- tile revolt three years previous were still iresh in the minds of the former, 8nd consequently the only result of the meeting was increased bitterness on the part of the Poles and sterner reprisals exaeted by the Russians. The destruction of the French power in 1870 helped largely to lessen the hostile tecling. Throughout the late war Poland maintained the most perfect tranquillity, and a further repetition of the revolts of the past would appear to be beyond the range of/human probability. On this account, therefore, the Russian press would haye the Slavo- philes of Moscow rally round the ?eteran Polivh writer, and take advantage of his jubilee to cement the alliance between the rival uatioys. That this would bo to the advantage of both countries is ob- vious, but at the same time Europe will hardly for- ¢ that the reconciliation will not be with the Poles of yore, but with # bruised, inanimate nation. ality, the intellect and force of whigh haye been dispersed and wasted in exilaabroad, , REFUGEES FROM UTAH ‘There arrived at Castlo Garden from Utah on Wednesday last a woman named Anna Millet, who ‘was accompanied by her dauyhter, and who was cn- deavoring to make her way back to Denmark. The | woman appeared to be blind and feeble and was led by her child. Her case attracted the attention of Superintendent Jackson, who, on inquiry, learned the toliowing brief history of the woman's life. She was born in Copenhagen, and w: fitty Orders were issued for his arrest, yours of age, ‘fwenty-nine years ago she came to this country and immeliately tepaired «to | Utah Territory, the Land of the Saints, whéte she | remained in singte blessedness for teh y« At the | expiration of that time she became one of the wives of # Mormon much younger than herself, whose naine | she bears, and by him had one ebild—the girl | who actompanied her and Who was seventeen years | of ago, Hor husband died, and, disliking the pol, gamic principles of the Mormon faith, she sot tiined to rescue her daughter trom ft and resolve: to return to her native country, where she has two | vistors living. Another reason for her journey was | that cataracts had formed on her eyes and she wiehod | to have thom operated on by «skilled physician in Denmark, She had no money and wus passed all | the way from Utah to this city through the eharity | of raticoad officials and private individuals, “CHWAP ENOUGH.” FANNIE EDWARDS’ 1KAINER ARRESTED ON A CHARGE OF ABANDONING HIS WIPE—TUE PE DESTRIENNE COMES TO HIS RESCUR, Delia Leonardson, & modest looking little women, yestorday preferred a chargo of abandonmont against her husband, Frank Leonardson, alias Frank kd- wards; in the Jefferson Market Police Court. She says she resides at No. 429 West Soyenteenth street, and has two children; that she was married tn October, 1872, and that since January lust her husband has provided little or nothiug tor her. During Fannic Edwards’ walk at Brewster Hell he acted as her traincr and took her name. Mrs. Loonardson snderstood that he had received §800 tor is services as trainer, und believed herself ontitiod to some of it, ‘The husband was now dd 80 was Faunie Edwards, who wateiiod the proceedings y, and looked like anything but an angel when es rested on tho complaining wite, brank denied that he had received any such sum as trainer. He, in fact, only got $21 for the tire work, jo 6 is | how "engaged jointly with Fannie Edwards at $13 a week to train Aus Krohni, one of the competitors in the six days’ walk at Gilmore's Garden, Justice Flammer placed the husband under bonds of $200 to pay 53 & week toward the support of hit wite. When Fauuie Edwards heard the decision she said it cheap enough; that she would give # thousand dollars to be rid of Mrs. Leonardson. She drew $156 from a well filed purse and offered to pay & your's accounting in advance for the delinquent husband, ‘The Justice reforred her to Mr. Blake, of the f te ment of Charities aud Correction, and paroled the husband in the care of his counsel, THE WORLD'S FAIR. MEETING OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITIEZE— CENTRAL PARK THE MOST ELIGIBLE LOCA- TION—THE FAIR TO BE OPENED PBOBABLY IN May, 1883, A meeting of the executive committee upon the World's Fair proposed to be held in New York was held on Wednesday evening, March 26, at No. 7 West Thirty-fourth street, the residence of the chairman, Judge Hilton. There were present Messrs. Charles L. Tiffany, John A. Stewart, Abram S. Hewitt, Daniel F. Applo- ton, David Dows, Orestes Cleveland, Horace Porter, Henry M. Alexander, Thomas ©. Acton, Richard M, Hoe, Edward Clark, Norvin Green, William B, Dins- more, Dennis,O. Wilcox, Benjamin B, Sherman, Samuel B, H. Vance and Samuel D. Babeock. Messrs. Schultz, Harper and Fraucklyn were un- avoidably absent. : In view of the general public expression in favor ofan carly holding of the: fair, the date which has been heretofore suggested was the first subject for discussion, Mr. H. M. Alexander addressed the committee at length, mentioning asa reason for fixing an earlier date than 1585 the fact that Germany was already initiating the papject of holding a World’s Fair before or about that time, and that it would be desir- able at the earfiest day for us to indicate with certainty when we intended bolding our exhibition. He wished that it might not happen in any degree to contlict with so important a matter as a World’s Fair at Berlin, wherein so many of our people would be interested and to which so large a collection of our manufactures and products would undoubtedly be sent for exhibition and competition, These and various other’ considerations led him to ask thecomunittee to revonsider the resolution here- tofore adopted, fixing the date of our proposed Worid’s Fair in 1885, to the end that on reconsidera- tion an earlier tie might be appointed. After remarks by Mr. Vance, Mr. Hewitt, Mr, Cleveland and Mr. Dinsmore, the motion to recon- sider was carried, and the subject was then laid over for action at the next meeting of the com- mittee. Tho general expression of the members was in favor of fixing the year 1883, opening in May of that year, THE PROPOSED SITE. ‘In the absence of Mr. Schultz—the chairman of the committee appointed to select a site for the proposed fair—Mr. Vuncd reported from that committee that they had considered the matter quite fully, visited various places and examined into the desirability of each. That the committee were unanimqusly of opinion that the spot which, im every point of View, contained ail the advantayes of location, convenieace and desirability was the Central Park. Its conveni- ence of access being, as it were, in the heart of this great city far outweighed every consideration that eould be named in tavor of any other locality. He thought there would be no ditliculty whatever Mm obtaining the consent of the proper authorities in favor of this plan, us it had met the general ap- prove ot all with whom he had conferred on the subjec With these views, Mr. Vance, of the committeo, Proposed the following!— Whereas the Committeo on Site having reported that im their judgment the Cuntral Park aflords the most eligible location for the proposed exhibition ; theroforo, omdue con- sideration, be it . Resolved, That their report be accepted and adopted, and that the committe de continued und instructon to eun- sult with the Park Commissioners respecting the stops necessury to be taken in order to secure the authority noc- essary to locate the buildings so as not in any way to ine terfeie with the general public uso of the Park. After some discussion, in which it appeared that the views expressed by, Mr. Vance met the unan- imous approval of the committee, the resolution ‘was adopted without dissent. In creating the corporation which would provide the necessary capital to construct the buildings and carry oh thejexhibition Judge Hilton said great care should be exercised in providing by law for the security of ull investors in its stock, and that any aid in money given by bee BB gps government would be scrupulously appli aud carefully man- aged. With moderate assistauce of this kind there can be no objection to our inviting subscriptions to the capital stock in aid of the funds needed for the exhibition, with the reasonable assurance that trom it all moneys so invested can be returned at its close, ‘To this end carclul estimates shoul be meade and published -respecting the cost of construction aud Management that public may — inspect and determine as to the wisdom and ac curacy of our views in this respect—in- dved tne fullest scrutiny in all such matters should be invited. The corner stone should be laid with imposing ceremonies by the President of the United States, who should be invited, together with his Cabinet; also the Judges of the Supreme Court and other national dignitaries to assist in the im- portant event. There should also be invited dele- gates from the several States of the Union. The Governors of the States, and especially the Governor of the State of New York and the Mayor of tho city of New York should expross their full co-operation and sanction by their presence and participation. Addresses’ on the subject were also given by Mr, Cleveland, Mr, Alexander, Mr, Babcock, Mr. Dows, Mr. Acton, Mr. ‘Tiffany and Mr, Hewitt, and the latter gentleman aoa by offering the ‘following resolution :— Resolved, That a committee of five be appointed to pro- pare an act of incorporation for the proposed World's Fair in New York, and apply to Cougross at its session in ember next for its enacemont, und that the saine com- mittee have power to confer with thu representatives of German Empire in reyard to the time proposed for holding an industrial exhibition «t Berlin, ‘The resolution was adopted. Mr. John A. Stewart then moved that Mr. Benjamin B. Sherman be made permancnt treasurer of the committee and the proposed Exhibition. Adopted unanimously, Also tuatof all sub-committees which may at any time be created the chairman of this committee shall be ex-otficio a member. Adopted, The chairman then appoiuted as a commitiec, un- der the resolution offered by Mr. Hewitt, the foliow- ing gentlemen:—Abram §, Howitt, Samuel D, Bub- cock, Orestes Cleveland, Daniel F. Appleton and Horace Porter. ‘The chairman was then informally authorized to make such payments for petty expenses us shall be noeded, prepuratory to making any, formal contribu. tions or assessinents for the purpose. ‘The committoo then adjourned subject to the call of the chairman. BUCKSHOT AND POKERS. THE MEANS WHICH THE KEEPERS AT CENTRAL PARK ARE SAID TO EMPLOY TO TAME THE ELEPHANT “EMPEROR"—CHARGES IN A POLICE court, ‘There has been considerable discussion for some time past about the alleged practice of the keeper of the elephants in Central Park of thrusting red hot pokers down their throais.to subdue them whenever they become refractory. That such wus the case was communicated (9 the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and an investigation was set on foot by that body. A letter was received in answer to 4 published card, stating that Jacob Senn, of No. 289 Bowery, had witnessed the application of a red hot poker to the mouth of the matumoth elo- phant, Emperor, the property of Barnum, and now in the Park under the care of William Newman, Senn, who is German and doves not speak English, made affidavit yesterday, through an interpreter, in the Fitty-seventh Strovt Police Court, that on the 18th of January last ho saw William Nowman thrast a red bot poker toward the head of Emperor and burn his flesh. Tho poker was also applied, it is charged, to Emperor's hind legs and @ pitehtork thrust into his body. N man came tmto court wit Oficer Lambert, pi Hod not guilty and gave bail im $500 to answer at Special Sessions. Mr, Willimm A. Conklin, superintendent of the Park menagerie, became his bondsman. A re- porter paid a visit to the «! where the elephants aro kopt and talked with an wbout the case, THK KE srORY. He said that Senn must have madea mistake, be- cause he was not in the place whore the animals are kept at the time of the alleged act of crucity. elephants otten became ugly . punished immediately attar misbehaving lose ali control over them, It was ridiealou td talk about ramming bot pokors down the throats. Six mon couldn't hold one's t such an act would only add to the incuriatic beast. Mr. Newman said he had dealt in elephants for nine years. They frequently when angry had knockea him down and endeavored to trample him to death. Emperor seized him with his trunk ono day last month, and wos about to trampic him, when one of his assistants, who was fixin, the fire, came to his rescue with.thé poker, whic was hot at the time, If it had not been for the poker his life might have been lost, Keepers sometimes used hot iron bars to correct elephants, but not hot euough to barn them severely, 1t was about the only kind of punishment they heeded, “Stewart Crayon,” said Newman, ‘used to train Romeo with a shotgun, When Komeo wouldn't do as he was ord Craven would send # load of buek- shot into his truuk. I’ve seen bim load and fire several times in succession, The elephant's trunk, you know, is all muslo, and it's the only place you can peniah him © out crippling Lim. When Romeo they took seven pounds of lead out of had fired into him to make he continued, patting one of the hugo beasts on the trunk; “if you were passing outside now and should hear him howl, as le will ins min- ute, you would believe he was being tortured to the death.” ‘Lhe animal did howl so that the frame building shook. “That's because ho likes to be petted,” said Now- man, lau ning at the reporter, who was bucking hastily out of door, ERALD, FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 1879.—TRIPLE SHEET. DR. TALMAGE SCORES ONE A Witness for the Prosecution Who Greatly Benetited: the Detence. JUSTIFICATION, NOT DECEIT. The Tabernacle in Glory and “Common Fame” Confused. In the trial of Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage before the Brooklyn Presbytery yesterday the developments were of more interest than on any previous day, ‘The entire session was devoted to the cross-exami- nation of Mr: E, Remington, who had been brought forward by the prosecution to establish the irregu- lar method of Dr. Talmage's retirement from the editorship of the Christian at Work. The witness was at tho time chief owner of the paper. His cross- examination was conducted with great skill by Drs, Spear and Millard, counsel for the defence, and re- suited in annihilating thg effect of tho direct testimony. The witness was gradually led into admitting that Dr. ‘Talmage was al- most, if not quite, excusable for resigning his editor's chair in the way he did, since nogotia- tions had been making for the sale of the paper without his knowledge and to his unwarned-of det- riment. These revelations gave immense satisfac- tion to the members of the Tabernacle, who daily attend the trial in large numbers. Mr. Remington’s cross-examination will be resumed at three o'clock this afternoon. A PARALLEL IN HIsToRY. In the midst of one of his sensational revels not long ago the active opponent .of religious stag: nation took the liberty of ‘comparing himself to St. Paul or St. ,Panl to himself, or cach to ‘the other: “I am accused of being a sensational preacher,” said he; ‘so was St. Paul.” ‘The Brooklyn Presbytery have furnished occasion for extending the comparison. St. Paul got into a heap of trouble, so has Dr. Talmage. St. Paul rose superior to adverse surroundings, and, if yesterday may be taken as an index, so will Dr. Talmage. Just now speculation upon the result of the trial is limited to the defendant and outside parties. His prosceators, or, as he terms them, his. ‘rival breth- ren” of the Presbytery, are at present too much ab- sorbed in the delights of the exhibition to surrender their minds up to sober speculation. On the first day of the proceedings it became apparent that pastoral recreation was not the least of the important results to follow the arraignment. ‘There ‘was a grain too much of levity in those early transace tions, but by an impartial sprinkling of personali- ties the members of the Presbytery have been trained down to something like fighting trim. It will bitterly disappoint the patrons of the enterprise if some lively scenes are not presently enacted within the walls of the Clinton Street Church. UNWANING INTEREST. Thero is no diminution in the attendance st the trial save that occasioned by the curtailment of the church’s capacity. Even yosterday’s atormy weather made no reduction in the number of onlookers. Clouds failed to darken the brilliancy of this ecclesiastical event and rain drops could not dampen the ardor of the Presbytery. A curious feature of the trial is that the same people appear to attend from day to day and to occupy the sclf same seats. Additional room has beon reserved for the Presbytery, the at- tendance o: members being about thirty-tive out of a possibte fitty. They present a voneruble front trom the large proportion of silvered heads among them, j supplemented by a conspicuous quantity of eye: brows and white qavats: ‘They form, as it wor, the core of an uppl® (of discord), to which the hand: *some ladies round about add a tempting surfac >, Dr. Talmage merely said yesterday what he said upon the day beforo—Here.” And no’ doubted the word. He was present in the spirit and the flesh, most of the time po over @ book of memo- randums, from whose pages he occasi trans forred Nis gaze to the face of the witne™. He wore an cxpressive smile, whieh ed to a look of dis- dain when his eyes encounte! certain of his op- ponents, or to one of affection as he turned to glance at his faithful helpmect in the front pew. He was constantly receiving little folded slips of paper con- taining words of sympathy or encouragement from members ot his congregation and personal friends. ‘TALE INTRODUCTORY OVERTURE. At the usuai hour the meeting, or court, or Pres- bytery was called to order by Moderator Ludlow, who asked the Divine guidance iu the procecdings. Roll call and reading of the minutes followed. Ags very much the same people are present every day tho time occupied by the clerk in this routine busi- ness ix occupied by everybody else in an inspection of their neighbors and of the distinguished person- ayes on or ucar the platform, Dr. Van Dyke recetved the first recognition from the Moderator, and pre- sented his protest inst the decision of tho Presbytery on Wednesday in their adherance to the oe tng “y shes mee He read from an im- 3 undie of manuscript an argument against ie adoption ‘of ® code of technicalities by which the law was often protected at the expense of equity. He claimed it was in antagonisin to the spirit at least of the Presbyterian book of discipline. The three newspaper interviews which the prosecution desired to put in evidence constityted what was in law “a violent presumption” in favor of their own truthfulness. He coucluded with a statement that the technical laws of evidence as woll as the ingenuity of professional counsel were Deing employed to defeat the objects of the trial, Ali of which, having been respectfully submitted, was received in the usual way and entered on the records. MI. *REMINGTON ON THE STAND. Mr. E. Remington, the former chict owner of the Christian at Work, was put upon the stand for con- tinued cross-examination, tore yoiny ou with the questions the witness asked to modify a reply he had made ou the previous day. It was in reference to the witness having negotiated with another minisier or ministers for their services on the Christian at Worl before the leaving of Dr. Talmage and without his knowledge. He desired to say that his interview with Dr. ‘Taylor was with regard to special services for pe paper and not to his succeeding Dr. Taumage as editor. Before dipping into his catechism, Dr. Spear told the withess that he desired to repeat his preliminary apology for anything he might say to injure his teel- “1 do not know, Dr. Spear, that an iusnit is any the Jess an insult for having u divelainer attached to it,” said the witness. " ‘Dr. Spear replied that he had no intention of tn- salting the witness. He then took up the advertise- meat for the sale of the Caristian at Work, publishea in bg HMenavp of July 12, 1878, and signed “A. L.’ Bord.” Q. Was the Christian at Work at that time paying well? A. No, sir. Q. Was it returning a fair interest upon the capital invested? A. It was not. r ¥. Then, what did you mean by the terms of this advertisenteut—"s paper having a good circulation and large advertising patronage?” A. I did not write that advertisoment, Q. Did not this Mr. Alford or Mr. A. L. Ford give you some information in regard to the advertise- Mout? A, He enclosed it to me in a letter, to the best of my recollection. Q. Was Dr. Talmage one of the joint owners of the paper at that time? A. Ho was the owner of one share of stock. Q. Atter finding that this ambig@ous advertise- ment referred to the Christian at Work did you con- fer with Dr, Talmage about it? A. T did not, Q. Then this advortisement for tho sale of the paper was without the knowledge or cousent of Dr. mage? A, It was. And with your knowledge and consgnt the Chrodian at Work was advertised >for sale in all the loading papers of New York un a disguised form and over @ Tulse name some three monthy before Dr. ‘Tatmaye's withdrawal ? A, That was the fact as you state it, but not a» I regard it. Counsel for the prosecution attempted to interfere with this method of examiuat but the Moderator told them witness could have an portunity of an- swering in his own way on the redirect examination. Q. Were Dr. Taluage and yourself the only oWners of stock in the summer ot 18767 A. No, sir. Q. Who were the others interested? A. Mr. Haw- ley, Mr. Dickinson and Mr. Bright; 1 do not remem- bor any others. . Q. Now, dir. Remington, 1 want to know if you have not been a voluntecr helper ‘in bringing about thi trial of Dr. Talmage? A. (with ermphasie)}—I mags Bey knowledge that Dr. Tal ‘ . Have you any knowledge that Dr. © ine tomted to act deceitfully in ending his relations with the Christian al Work? A. I have not. A LITILE BYPLAY. Q. Do you know that Dr, Talmage did not act upon tuformation received at the time that you were planting for the sale of thy paper without ‘his con- angst Crosby—I protest against any such question. nderator—Ou what ground? Dr. Crosby—Itas too prolax—— Moderator—I can't exclude any question on the score of rhetoric. Dr, Crosby—The witness cannpt understand it. Moderator— Jet him say so. Dr. Spear—I'll make him understand it, and (with plaintive sarcasm) I do hope the opposing coansel will not continue these interruptions and disturb the equanimity of my mind, (Laughter, Dr. Crosby (atrempting to smile)—chat’s the beat thing I've heard since the trial began, Dr. Spear thon repeated his question slowly, and witness wave a reply iu the negative, ao Did you ever call Dr, Talmage aliar? A. No, os Q. Did you ever use the word “falsehood” in de- scribing his uct? A. No, sir. Q. Did you ever use the term “intended deceit” im such &connection? A, No, sir. Q. Then these terms are au invention of a lates date? A. So fay as IL know. f CONTINUAL DROPPING. 5 The witness was growing uncomfortable in the midst of such a shower of questions, ‘The counsel for the prosecution tried to interfere for his relief, but to no purpose. Every time they objected Dr, Spear would say, “Mr. Moderator, we know just what we're doing, and we will convin#e everybody of that fact before we yet through with this witness."* Mr. Remington became slower and more indistinet in cach successive answer. Dr, Spear, having reached a certain point of the examination, was re Heved by his associate. Dr, Millard began by asking the witness why ha had come 200 miles at his own expense to testify at the trial, Mr. Remington said it was in the fulfil- ment of his duty, as he thougiat. Q. Then you thought it your duty to come on to Brooklyn and help put down Dr, Talmage? A. I did not reyard it in any such light, Q. Do you kuow that Dr. Talmage made any false | statement or committed any deceitful set im severing his connection with the Carian at Work? A, Not of my own knowledge. Q. Was your sie of the paper to Mr. Hallock de- layed by the resignation of Dr. Talmage? A. It was not; the sale was to have taken place three days after that event. Q. And did you know that Dr. Yalmage Would be retained as editor utter you had disposed of your ine tevest? A, air. Q. And did you give him notice that he,was likely to lose the position he occupied within three days? A. Idid not, Q. Had not Dr. Talmage under his contract with youaright to expect such @ uotification from you? A. [think he had. . Now suppose that on October 9 some one had told Dr. Dalmage that the paper was sold and that he had been sold With it, would he haye been to blame for closing his contract with the Advance at once and publishing hiv valedictory in the Christian at Work? A. Perhaps not. Q. Would he not have been justified in running those presses all night to baye shown his friends what had become of him, and to prevent an im- ssion that he had been lett out? A. He might have postponed his valedictory until the next num er. Q. How do you know that he might? Would you have been ablé to insure him that opportunity? A, No, sir. Q. Then was he not justified in doing what he didi A. Perhaps he was. LAURELS YOR THE DEFENCE. By the time the examination had reached this point there was not an wnheeding ear nor an unwatch{ul in the entire audience. The tactics of the de, ce begav to show themselves. Mr. Talmage’s good humor appeared to increase with every minute, and he constantiy exchanged knowing looks with hit wife and near friends, Once or twice he tried to catch the eye ot the witness, but the latter sat rigidly im his chair, his tace seldom turning from his interlocutor. His manner and the weak- ness df his replies were in singular contrast to the commanding tone and figure of Dr. Millard. It was the first really hard service that he had seen, and he conducted the examination in a way to excite the plaudits of District Attorney Tenuey and other law- yers present. The Tabernacle people were aglow with the excitement of the hour and the assured failure of the second witness, and first important one, pgoduced by the prosecution. Having wrung from Mr. Remington an admission that Dr. Ti eo Was possibly justified in his course upon leaving the Chrisuan at. Work, Dr. Millard continued :— “Now were you justified in the light of your cone tract with Dr. Talmage in negotiating the sale of that paper without his consent or even notification ?” ‘he witness remained silent. Dr. Talmage swung around to a neighboring triend and whispered:— “Where ure we now ?” Witness asked for a repeti- tion of the Tie. and then offered a qualified answer. Dr. Millard ‘insisted ona direct reply, and the witness said:—‘*Perheps I was not.” ™ : OWNER, NOT EDITOR. ‘ Q. Did you control and supervise the editorial cole unins of the paper? A. No, sir. Q. ‘That was the special province of Dr. Talmage? sir. Q, hen, by what right did you order out the vale, edictory which he had ordered in and insert another) aynonucing tho succession of Dr. Ldylor? A. I think Thad the right to do so, Q. Was Dr, Talmage employed as a subordinate? A. Not that exactly, but he published matter with my sanction, Q. Then if nothing was published without your sanction you must have sanctioned the valedicvory which he inserted? A, I could not sanction that which I never saw. Dr. Millard read the editorial article which had been put inthe place of Dr.dfulmage’s valedictory in a later edition of the Christan at Work tor October 12, 1876, It said that the chango at the head of the editorial column explained itself—Dr. Talmage had ired and Dr. Taylor had succeeded him. A copious ylor followed, and the future prom aper was dwelt upon in sparkling rhet= oric. The last of the figures employed was, “withe out robbing the harlequin of his mask.”’ » Was that last sentence aimed at Dr, Talmage? A. Yt may have been. Q. Did Dr. Talmage’s valedictory contain anything injurious to the paper or its owners? A. I think not. Some metnbers of the Presbytery complained that the witness’ answers were inaudibie, Or Crosby it,” said De. Millard. Remington has voice enough, if he will only bring it out,” GOING INTO DETAILS. A series of questions followed in relation to the discharge of Mr. Corwin trom the position of pub- MSher, Counsel showed witness had found the publisher incompetent in less than six months after ho attempted a business quite new to him, and then he produced some letters written by the witness which spoke in. high terms of Mr. Corwin’s management forthe first two or three mouths, Coming back to a question which had not been answered to his satisfaction, Dre Millard inquired :— “Did you not violate a contract by ordoring out, an oditorial which Dr, Talmage put in while be was editor-in-chict ?” Witness—I did. Dr, Miilard—That puts the boot on the right leg. Afier reading trom aa oy letter signed by tha witness and others as to the manner in which the advertisement of the Advance was inserted in the cvlumus of the CAriwstian at Work, Dr. Millard said:— Q. Did you not accuse 4 minister of the gospel of surreptitiously putting an advertisement in your paper without having mado inquiry to satisty your- self that the advertisement didmot come through the regular chanucls? A. (after @ long delay)—it was done without sufficient inquiry, ‘The diticalty of Bearing the answers of the witnesa had yraduaily increased, and it was again suggested, that some one should repeat the answers. Dr. Mile lard attempted it, but found it no éasy thing to do while formulating uew inquiries. Then Dr. Crosby consented to render his services 4s trumpeter, but decame so entangled in repeating the first reply made by the witness that he too gave up, amid much laughter ou the part of the audience and congusion on the part of the witness. The stenographer after that read aloud from his notes both questions and answers. Witness was asked if he thougit Dr. Talmage edited their paper ably, He said he thought not, and was promptly asked to explain a circular to which his Lame was attached and to which the “spirited editorials,” &c., of Dr. Talmage were loudly praised, The hour for adjournment being at hand, and at Dr. Millard said he should require much more time for tho cross-exumination, it was adjourned until to- Clerk Greene was asked to read the following letter from the defwulting witnesses who were served with second citations by the Presbytery :— ‘A SEVERE HiT, Buookiyy, Mareh 26, 1879, To tHe Broontyn Puxsnyrery >— stp ed bey 0 the receipt of ing no disrespoct only to reit ination wot to xppest as nesses iu the ponding t We tool that the sagrestion of oxeluding us from the rites of the Church if wo fail to appour is seareely ealled for whem nothing exn be sald aye moral chiarace tro, tetuse sitaply ds ot propriety. a ft may be deme: mportia our | inion, ture to say, we do Bem vo ik the present trial Tr 4 long tim we ovcapied T. De Witt Tal- the most intimate relations with the Re , v sven him andi nevor uiticient premises on Lis acensers, We aro charitable enough to yond way Mat the errors uk néterance and vet of the Rev. T, Do Witt Talmage arival in part frou his owa nature; but in ho main may bo attributed to 1 friand whowe wie few of the Lae the speeitientt aetion, it does swore given the men- flo that tx without sin wr? * % * “And they! nvictod by their own conscience, he eldest, even unto ‘OCKS, 8 JOUN BF. TALMAGE. The reading of the communication created a stir in the house and applause followed its conclusion, ‘The letter was laid upon the table, Dr. McCullough then read a letter from a reporter ot the World, who offered to testify to the corrects ness of un interview which he had with Dr. Talmage in 1876, about his journalistic shift, and which was oxeluded from the evidence by the Presbytery on Wednesday, An argument on the disposition of this letter, principally sustained by Dr. Van Dyko, prolonged the session until hali-past six, when somes nly edged ina motion to adjourn, and it was grates fully carried, Mr. Van Dyke only voting in the negas tive. DISEASED CATTLE, Moat Inspoctor O'Neil, of the Brooklyn Board of Health, seized a number of cattle afllicted with pleuro-pneumonia on Wednesday evening. Tho ank mals were being driven to thé sloughter houses on Johnson ayenwe, Williamsburg, by order of Joseph Yiercks, a butcher of Stagg street, ‘The cattle wera killed under the supervision of the Laspector and their remains taken to the offal dogs