The Sun (New York) Newspaper, December 6, 1869, Page 1

WARD BEECHER’S SERMON, —e WHAT WAS SEEN AND HEARD ATPLY- MOUTH CHURCH YESTERDAY. ph of Yeaters ficnnt Text ond R Wai Mr. Beecher drew immensely yesterday. The Goors were opened at precisely 10.4. M. ‘The inul- Htude then surged. They had been waiting in the Fain under the shciter of umbrellas of widely differ- Bnt sizes, colors, and qualities. The stockholders Of the Plymouth Institution at once took possession pt their costly seats, The floating sinners of both exon were shown to seats in tho family circle, Others, males, unaccompanied by gentler compan- Jons, were directed to the highest tier, from which Whey had a birdseye view of the rostrum, Newspaper alter newspaper, of hundreds which Yad been distributed in the pews, unfolded their Jeaves at the hands of the people. It was the Rey. Mr, Tilton’s illustrated weekly. While the people were admiring the pictures in Mr. Til- Jon's bebdomadal, a supernumerary entered, Wesring a neut velvet cap; and this he wore during Joe whole performance. Caps of this kind, worn Ae stated, arc entirely fashionable in the temple on Brooklyn Heights, Several bald-headed gentlemen wore them yesterday, one of whom was amoug the Pholr, Januty jockey hats were almost exclusively Yrorn by the young and middle-aged women, White Predominsted among the various colors of the Feathers in the swucy Jockey hats. Of paradise featbers a few were displayed, and they were of Pnormons size, Eyeglarses end goll-bowed apee Bacles wero gen: rally werv, and diamonds *parkled An every port of the congregation 2 The rostrom was embellished by a collection of Bowers froin the Plymouth Chureh conservatory. Poe floral beanties were placed on the rostrum to the Ieft of a neat stationary wainut stand, on which Borcher keeps a hymn bock onda thble, and Whore he also places his notes. The polite arhers were evidently puzzled in seat dog the hundreds who were peuring inco the edifice. Pne usher, who performed his duty with an ease and Brace univ tied by any of the ushers at an Italian fopera, wore on elogent suit of brondeloth und 9 mag- mificent seuslet neck tie, The bow was faultless. (Ten-thirty arrived, and the edifice was almost Jammod 4 PNTAR THE GREAT MELCHER, Mr. Beecher entered, He saw a host of reporters Clustered sround the rostrum, Their anxious up: Aurned teces pliinly foretold something cnusual, Ellenwood woe, a4 usual, at his table, prepared to Phonogrspli lis discourse, Several ladies wore sext ed near the rostrum, among whom was Mrs, Theo- Wore Tiiton, Sie worean elegant walling suit, Two @lsters, attired im black ilk and velvet, with plok ws aud cowily lace collars, beld together in their Proper places by email diamond pins re notices: ‘ble. 1 t of, Stowe seat near the great organ, Mr. Beecher Hirst glanced all about the auditorium. je then took up a note which had been don his table. When ho opened the note a green ticket ‘dropped out, whtch he promptly picked up, patty, Mt Into bis pocket, The chotr rose. ‘Then foliowe ® chant, with soloe and choruses, and it ust in common tone-ty be coniowsed th tho better music was ever renderet by our best Ttalion compantes INTRODUCTORY. Tn the opening prayer Mr, Beech: fy that God “ccliver us out of our hen read the venth chapter of the Episit ns, In part as follows Which hath s husband, te bound by Taw Co her Losband so long asthe liveth; hatitthe fusband de dear she is looted tron the law ol her hu Ad. Sothen, ft whtle her hushaud s!veth she ben ied to gd an acatter fs Forthe Beit her by 2 dead, ‘om thal Wet tshe. is 'ta adujtersn ah slie anotier mun. * Wh AT we si nn? God forbid. Anat dained to life. 1 fou For sim, taking oceasion by the ¢ jecolved mie, ana hy Itwew me. then taat Ww ticath wuto, me? God Morbid. 3 * then law, tuat. when 1 would do good, evil presout with me: eid iT ho vdiall dt ody ath? serve the law of God, which was be mnied Liny esti tiie Law Of 81 \ Another prayer followed, MN. BRECHER'S SERMON, Teuppose you ure acqusintod, sald Mr. Deecher, Mth the Bethe: Mission, which is in connection with this Church, and a part of its productive work, Itis true that on acccunt of the crowded tute of ehureh many wno would attend cannot do so. ‘There 4 a great popular misconception in regard to who aitend here. It you call th PLAIN FROPLE who are possessed of only moderate means, living pon the waxes which they carn trom day to day, then I tuink there is as large a representation of plain people in this church ws in any other In the ‘We have persons Just begining in life, We nner of ways atic congregation. Although ‘We have some who are nicn, atill_we bave all the other classes too. At the Fenting of the pews, which Is done in tho best way We can adopi, it Is true some Who come iiere with a Small suo in (herr hands go away anablo to buy « feat. For the benefit of our English frien is and hip, who even in Purliament alluded to church obscurely, I will say this church ted as the churches are in Englind. jeon's chureh, all th es go to Mr. Spurge a In Mr. Feyenues above the ex- 1 do not mean to say Ghat eS urgeon expends the whole au ount when he gets for his household; but it is discretionary with hin bow to use the amount. If this church's 18 $40,000 per annum, and all above the ex- peuser—say $W.K0—Koes 10 the pastor. you may Fest assured the happy man has never found it out. LAvONTE ‘Whether the revenue is larger or smaller, m: more nor less, except it the Fev lary would be less, (Renewed peuple trequently make they are Vicious, but they are r. Beccher next spoke in praise of the Bethel, and wild it was larger and Letter Bled than tho old Building, He intimated that those who could not Duy seats where they then were could buy them in the other, "You cannot crowd more in here," he said, “unless men are to be packed like SARDINES fiavablor:) Speaking of the man- ner io which the Bethel is fitted up, he said: * There je a reading-room there, We fle all the papers—pa- pers of every party and every side of religion, and even the In the boxe: SPORTING PAPERS. “The Demoeratic and Republican keep peace there. (After a long, dramat.c pause)—J would to God that (he editors would keep peace Ives, as ULeir papers do in our readl 0 not undertake to inter‘ere with any m ous belief. ‘There are men whoxo in there to read ker’ Spirit of the Timee—1 beiieve that ts the mo of it.” ‘The reverend gentleman proceeded to exploin what was dove in the Bethel for the street buys of Brook: lyn, We have opencd tiere obeys" amusement and rcading-room,” he co. tinued, "for absolute street boys. If you don’t know what a street boy is, you dout kuow tue ALPHABET OF HOMAN Natt’ “There come {ut that room ulon’ 600 boys a week, We avervue uboucd every night. ‘They come in by bajtim, becuse we make them wash their hands and laces, (Laughter.) It is frequently as dificult (0 keep (hem quiet as it would be to Keep a Benugerie of wild beasts from tearing each other to pieces. It is just as much as toree or ‘our gentle. Mhen can do to keep them from cating exch other up,” Mr, Beecher sgnifleantly sald that every one of these toys would yet have "a vote in his band." ‘He concli.ced by requesting & coutrivution of $1,000 for the Bethel After the snnouvcement of several notice secular mectings, fairs, and concerts, Mr ed sermon on the depravity of huinan na Just betore ch slig, he suid: ave recvived many letters from members of gregution, complaining that my preaching dliylng avout the blood of Christ, atone: ment, dc.” He said be had preached a living Gos- J. ‘He lina not preached & system of salvation, Fe vas because men did not feel -doeti inal preaching that the church congregutions generally were #0 thin. Mr, Beecher closed by announcing that his grand- child was dead, and as his place could not be filed On so short nvtice, there would be no evenmg wervices, The Texas Elvction, Gayesto: Dec, 6.—The best information shows that Hamiiton has earried Bell, McLennan, Huon counties by an aggresite ‘majority Davis has carried Brazos, Collchan, te majority of 617, Partial returns fri veston, ‘Travis, and Walker counties all majorities ‘Phe invications are that Clirk (Radical) 18 elected to Congress trom the Third District, and Hayues (Conservative) from the Fourth Distsiet, Crrverany, Dec, 5.—Brown, who has been o ere ful his wife at Beres last spring Heiner eed iat oven! ing of murder in the second Fee, YESTERDAY IN EUCROPR. Nentenced to Deat Geumenical Couucil- Wreck of a Suex © Verscl in the Dead Sea. Paris, Dee, .—The Empress Eugenie bas ar- rived in Paris, Elections are being held to-day for Deputids to the Corps Legislatif in the district where the result was not decited at the jast elections, The voting gors on quietly, and the eity remains perteet- ly calm, Manin, Dee, 5 —The Carlist chief Polo has been convicted of treason aud # ntenced to death, Rue mors of a Curilet insurrection atin ‘0 circulate, In the Cortes yesterday Geo. Prim seta that sines the outbreak of the revolution 49,00 troop had been sent to Cabo. Rome, Dec. 5,—All the Tallan Bishops except tive have taken the oath of fielity to the Pope. Sven, Dec. B—‘The bark Noel, bound 19 Bombay, which was the @rst mercantile vessel to ot h the Suce Canal with argo, Was Wreeked 4 Sea, S6 miles from this | —_ THE POLITICAL CLRCUS, piven aa Brooklyn Democrats Smashing the Niw General Co Jacobs ns a Ge Democrat, The political “ ring” in Brooklyn has become if posaibie more corrapt phan the one in New York, so much 80 that the Democra:i¢ lenders, Including Mavor Kalbfleisch, Alexander McCat, Mr. Kingsley, Mr. Kinsella, Congressman Barnes, Mr. flennesry, Mr. Sprague, Mr. J. ©, Jacobs, Mr. Berger, Judge ‘Thompson, Mr. Mullen, Mr. Osborne, Mr, Hanter, Mr. Carroll, and others took measures Inst week by private and personal consultations and otherwise to Prevent if possible the consummation of wicked schemes which the “ring” are preparing, and save Democracy of Kings county from utter ruin and dis- krtee. On Saturday evening they met in the Mayor's office, City Hall, Mayor Kalbfleisch. by unanimous consent Was Chajrun After discussion. Mr, Jacobs contended that the General Committee should liave representatives of ait elasses in Its r that was the only way by which tonest legislation could be secured in Albany next winter. At length A resolition was adopted that a committer be ao- poloted to confer with the General Committee tn re intion to th nization of the party, 80 as bring all tt ts harmoniously together. The Chale then It is under. A from leme pointed the Comittee od that twWo persone are to be appoint ench ward by the citizens to take the place of the okt members The ring, it is said, w reorganization of the purty, as the saving themselves from political death, — BY SUN REPORTER: - Tho Revival inthe Catholte Church—The Ad- yauce of Keligion under the Mintstras Hous of the Future Bishop of Springfield Catholicity has witnessed a remarkable “re vival” one of the most thickly populated parishes of the city—St. Peter's, Barclay sireet, which is tn years the parent Catholle church of this island, On the present pastor—who has been but lately ap: pointed to succeed Pather Quinn, who is to be ap- pointed Bishop of Springfield, Mass.—bas devolved the duty of conducting the exercises of the Ccu menical Council Jubilee ordered by the Pope. These rendered neccasary the delivery of thirty-five lee tares, which were attended by large congregation: ‘oached the Sacrament revival permanent, the s arranged that at the early masses, as the Inte mass, « sermon or Instruction iven. He has duced the enstom, so popular abroad dvent leetares,” These are delivered to crowded assemblies. The demand for opportunities of making confession has been so great that confessors atiend now in the churehes on three nights In the week, = An Old Ninth Warder's Opinion of the Now York Aldermen Mr, James Horner, of Abingdon square, a De- moeratic candidate fur Alderman in his Ward, hada truck rigged out and duly labelled with his name and oMctsl aspirations. He sent it through the streets on Saturday. ‘This candidate Is of course « young man; but an old gentleman of the same name dwells in West Twenty thira street, who, believing himself to be the role possestor of the name, and seeing the labelled truck, he indignantly tore away the paper placards, which he consid himeelf. ‘or this he w revted and tal fore Justice Dodge, at Jefferson Murket, where the following colloquy © Juerice—Why did you ter down the placard? Prisoxen— tore tt down with honest hands, Justick—But why did you tear itt _Priconen—bir, Lhave hived seventy years in New York, and [have always becn an honest, respectable man, and I won't be held up to public odium and in fayor of w y means of PHOTOGRAPHS of whom over 12,00) 1 contempt by being plicarded as a candidate for Al- derman, : ‘Jusrice—What do you mean? What's sour name? Puisonen—James Horner. Jusnick—Where do you live? Pursoxrn—No, 465 West Twenty-third “ Fiskville,” New York city, Jvetice—Oh, Ince! Now this placard means an other person, ® young man who lives in Abingdon street, square PatsonRR—No, ait! This placard Is meant to in sultme. There is no other person of my name in thecity. Justicn—Oh, yes, there is, T know this young man, and be ix @ candidate for Alderman. Prisonen—So mach the worse for him then, But he's no son of mine, sir. My children are ail hon- ost. ‘The old gentleman was fined 80 cents. SS ae Dedication of a K, ©, Charch in Mott Yesterday morning the temporary church of St. James was dedicated, The place was recently known as Mott Haven Market, and before that as a fire engine house, The building is @ frame struc: ture, 902190 feet, and is distant about 200 feet from the railway depot. ‘The perish contains about 5,000 out one-third of whom can be accomino- the Rey. J. Hughes, was yesterday ‘by the ‘Rev, Early, deacon; Father Gargan, #ub deacon ; }d Father Curley, master of ceremonies, Twenty: lytes and altar boye from the Church ot the inaculate Conception, Harlem, also lont their ald. The new church edifice Is to be 138x200 feet, front. ing on 135th street and Alexander ayenue, cas wa Another Whiskey Setzure. The distillery seizures in Brooklyn have aroused the rensibiliticn of the Assessors in this city, one of whom, Mr. James M, MoCarten, of the Fifth Dis trict, on Saturday evening very quietly seized ove in the rear basement of 145 Bowery, a few rods from bis assistont’s office in Broome strect, The neighbors not.ced suspiciously that a large number of milk caps had been carried in lideu with malt and grain, arene ‘The Sensation Piny in the French Theatre, Mr. Tayloure to-night presents a reconstructed version of * London," which is thought to be a de- cided improvement upon the original, ‘The story in the samo in outline, and will be illustrated by the Magnificent xeenery now in ase, but in many points of detail the new 4 tually from the old ce will dift’r widely and essen: feats Sunday Vition in Hoboken, Yesterday afternoon, on the Elysian Hoboken, May Rivers jumped Silvers for $150 a site, May won, 10 feot S3y inches, 10 feet 6% inches, 10 feet 4 inches, 10 fe changed hands on the res nd Dickey, “Tad Dickey” is to be produced at T, Fields, imal thisevening. Tt in @ burlesque adaptation hy Leon: ard Grover, Esq,, and is said to be irrestibly iuuny. —— CURIOSITIES OF CRIME, gered The Kuife to the Kighteenth Ward. Yesterday morning, at 8 o'clock, two men pancd James Kelly and Joseph J, Brown entered Lewis Brannigan’s saloon, on the northwest corner of Third avenue and Fourteenth street, ant calied for refreshments, which were given thea. On being asked to settle, they refused payment, whereuy they were ejceted by the proprictor, After the men out, Mr, Brannigan walked back Kitchen attached to his salovn, when he put his hand to bis side, raying that he must have hurt himself against a table in the scufile with Kelly. An exam ination, however, showed a long cut In his side, a little above the hip, and his clothing was saturated with biood. He was taken to the ‘Twenty-second street Follce Station, and his wound Was dressed by Dr. Steele, who pronounced it very serious. Brown returned to the saloon shortly afterward to get his Kelly wap not srrested until le gave his renidence a» 519 Eust Sey- ter, hat, and was arrested, last evening, entecnth street, aud says he is a pr eee Lovers Fighting Ov ne. Aa inquest was held on Saturday, over the remains of Elizabeth Wood, w been found dead in her room, 109 Aller street. ‘The woman had stabbed herself in tho abdomen, ‘Two of ber paramours lad & wrangle over the corpse for the ion of her furniture, but neither would take charge of tue corpse, ‘Tho'Coroner settled the di pute by deciding to sell the stuck to pay funeral expenses. altar nie , . ) ECKEL’S CASE APPEALED. cmwustiincane THE RURDELL MURDER LEFT IN MYSTERIOUS DARKNESS. — The Death of John J. Keke! able Career-His Connect Crnningbom-Bnrdelt Case—The Whiskey Frauds—is Funeral To-day, Jobn J. Eckel, a prisoner, confined in the Al- bny Penitentiary for participation in whiskey frauds, died of dropsy, combined with disease of the heart, tn that institution at 8 o'clock on Saturday mormny, AN UNPXPLAINEO MYSTERY, ‘The denth of this man recalls to public attention one of the most tragic and mysterions murders of modern times—a destardly assnesination committed upward of thirween years ago, and to this dey an un- explained mystery. THE RURDELL MURDER, On the morning of Saturlay, Jun. 81, 1967, Dr. Alarvey Hurdell, a dentist, was found dead and hor. ribly mangled In bis reception room, which was on the groand floor of his residence, 31 Bond sirect, In this elty, The body was found lying upon the floor, covered and surrounded with blood, The Doctor haa been strangled and stfbbed, no less than fiiteen wounds of a dirk appearing upon Is body. He bad always been sup: posed to be a bachelor, but on the discovery of his death Mrs, Cunningham, the housekeeper, @ snp- posed widow, set up a claim as his wife, which was, afer a prolonged litigation, disallowed by the Courts, WHO WAS THR MURDERER? ‘The only bosrders in the house besides Dr, Bur: dell, were George V. Snodgrass, © young man of twenty years, and John J, Eckel, both of whom, with Mrs, Cunningham, were taken Into custody, In the course of the inquest tt was shown that Eckel sustained more tntl- male relations to Mre, Cunningham than a mere boarder, and hence, and from other ctreumstances, the theory was set up by the prosecution that he committed ‘he murder at the tnstigation of Mrs. Cunningham, in order that the Iatter might claim the deceased s property as his widow, to be then shared by her aud Eekel, The inquest exonerated Snodgrass, but Eckel and Mrs, Cunningham wero eld for trial, During the pendeney of the case Mrs. Cunningham improved an opportu- nity to absent hei publie view for atime, and then reappes & new born infant, to which she claimed to have given birth, Dr. Burdell being the father. ‘This baby seleme was afterward shown to be a fraud, or a mere rase to ald in get- ting the property, JOUN J. KOKEL THIRTREN YEARS 400, Eckel was then a dealer in tallow at 171 Stanton street. He was of powerful frame, about 5 feet 4 or 9 inches high, dark eyes, and soft curly brown hatr, Me wore full whiske He was about 3 or 36 years of age at the time of the murder, but had 9 small bald spot on. hie head over which he wore a serateh: ho evidence on the Inquest showed that the relations between bim and Mrs, Eekel were inconsistent with virtuous principles, Ii was ssown that Dr. Burdell was very jealous of Mr, Eckel, and that the later and Mrs, Canningham were in her bedroom togeth an hour or two on tho night of the murder, THK TRIAL. Mis. Cunningham was tried separate from Eckel, and nequitted of the murdir, Kekel was then re: leased from jail on $5,000 bail to appear for trial, ‘On the 18th of May, 1857, the indictment aint him was taken up, Wien, oh motion of District At torney Hall, the trial wa postponed until the Oc. tober teruy of court, the District Attorney promis. ing then to proceed with the trial or enter a nolle prowequi, ‘The caso was never taken up again. On this trial the following testimony wus adduced : IMPORTANT TRSTIMONY OF MR. M' FARRELL, John MeFarre!! examined: I reside in Mott street, fear Houston; Ldid not kaow Mr. Burdell; ‘oree in this house 14 this the man who knows adate? 1th e the letter wi It is as follows: h gave the Infor. Fob. 9, 1887, Dean Sin: f have to-day heard that a nan of the nome of Me loved tn the Appts Pantie hat he was in Hon il the door: that he the cry of murder, and was on one came to the duor and asked Was doing there, This may not be correct, vos attention. He Assos as wm cause f mation. Tam yours, Ke FOR JUBTICE. from a gambling he know T was on this stoop that night be. ;L started from my home about 9% that disease In my back which takes me an estraight; E went ton friend's house tn Mag . Walked up Prince street, went to the Bow through Bond street, and nding the string of + loose L stooped to Nx Iti two inen. ion, e entered; when he was about halts minute in, L heard @ cry of murder; I saw there was a in the house d the retreating step of the who came tp; 'd the door open, heard ery of murdor with @ hollow noise as fallen: 1 Dy eee pothing of it, but man CAMO LO Lo ot sd sald doing there?” a faa fright mao who went in oracred to put me man was in his shirt sleeves, so far as the let shoulder and arm. aro concerned ; he apoks rougtuy that I went nd got another stoop beard; I Mi iy forwards I shoul got efght he was & stout ined ua he opened the door, uidere ; Lanw his white ehirt | placed ne pobltion T'woutd know him nT would kno. think it might hi been one. one and ahalf.or two miputes after the man entered whi the other ‘ame fo tho door | butt was Bot more than two minotesy yy er cs A eo MAD Who entered went o, to thi loor was the largest i he came from direction of t it five minutes, aod hi if when the man nd ® half the other I went away, I went doors bn saw NO person peas me, hat one perton fed toward Broadway while rn this stoop; the wo neh Who came Mp were not in company, Dut short distance apart; the noita T heard was loud ehoukh to be heard. nt the ume T heard me tthe corner of ¢ ery tould have bee heard there miiutes, more or less after the heard or} It was Hike the nolse of @ man being choked, and [thought that the man who went. in soinebody and choked bi 'y businoes 1s making ladies! shoes; L work for Mr."Knako in Spring atieet, and have resided in this city thirty years; I ilve at a4 Mott street. ou tél from apy noise you heard whether who came 9 the door ind boots or ai ior ope! he man who opened the door had 1 think if the man spoke to me tu nis Voie. to the door? le? A.—From the time the wan entered | made no noise to attract atteution [did not hear the hall door close, as Lleft immediutoly. ted down the steps sidew ys, lrat he should lal to the door ad as to be abont six ‘When be first came, Qo you know what Wis it from any noise you oronerF 501 ppose him to ‘he Coroner here sept tor the witness on the stand. The Coroner ordered Eckel to be pit rpoune with eoveral other pe od in one of the id then Feijuc nize either of those fe to the door in lie 01 hitn off the stoop. Althongh, he had never bef ckel, he hi wed him out aa b ree ee Dut had seare regret that he To repiv to had no c among the ophorns bow a 7 ok a aqua ene A ton, “‘Tahou! the door had Dw DOR CAPRON had b pick him twenty years afer I winh merely to show that nothing a done to Kekel to signalize bin as @ man to be that's ail, Tdid not know wil T the nian Tp out was kekel. ad At Was wR~Yes; you asked me, KCKEL'S SUBSEQUENT CARRER, nk again into the obscurity from wh ent hid taken him; and it was not un year that he once at ay one of the prime ope: ratora in the lntam hiskey fraud cases, tu whicl Blaisdell and him: Principals. After # long und full trial Eckel was found gulity of the ehurge of iilieit distilling and sentenced to three years’ m- prisonment in the Albany Penitentiary on the frat count of the indictment, Bentence on the remoi ing counts was suspended until he had fully serv tue term imposed for the first, A FORTUNE WON AND Lost, It fs nid that be amassed a fortune in bix regular business, and was supposed to be worth about OKA) when he gave it up, He died a bonkrupt, peing about $40,000 in debt over and above his means of liquidaion He leaves no fi reid and has ‘only « few distant relauves, The cause of his death Was heart discare and dropey, symptoms of which developed themselves about ten days ago, Efforts were being made to procure his perdon from Gov- ernment. He was about forty-Ave or flity years of ge aud was born In Now Jersey, His remains will be lut ered im Greemwood to-day, ame doen ‘asked two. THE REFORMATION OF TAMMANY, ntelenente Fun tn the Nineteenth Ward- Jacob Cob: How he Made and Unmade Candidates ich Polition! Readim The Hon, Jacob Coben, after bis awful beating in the race for the Sapervisorship in the last elecs tion, got it into bis noddle that Tammany had count ed dim ont, This was undoubtedly true. There. fore Jacob recelved the sympathy of all honest citi. zens when he announced that he was about to make & fight for hie rights, Instead, however, of doing tia, he struggled to regain some of the money which he had fooliebly spent in bribery and tion. He recovered £800, but whether any fool cent him back any other sam we do not know. At all events, his snecess in the eorraption line was by no mean commensurate with bis idiotic expectations, and he has now hit upon the very original plan of organizing a party of strikers, noder the equally original title of the “New Tommany Hall Demo- cratic Reform Association,” to further bis ends, Nobody but Cohca would bave struck upon such « brilliant plan of campaigning, and surely nobody but Cohen would have managed it in the ridiculous. ly absurd manner in which it has been managed so | fur, Tels intensely funny. On lat Tuesday night the new organization met in Terrace Garden, Mr. Jacob Cohen in the chair, and nominated Mr. James E. Conlter for Police Ju tice, Mr, James Cunningham for Alderman, and Mr. Patrick H. Kearney for Ansistant Alderman, These nominations were carried with not a single dissent ing voice, and moreover, Mr. Coen himself de- livered a speech highly eulogistic of Mr, Kearney, as “the best young man in New York; one whom every honest citizen should support,” &c,, and an: nounced that this gentleman siould not he assessed cent. On the next afternoon, appointing himself astriking committee of one, Mr. Cohen called apon Mr. Coulter for an assessment of $50, bot didn't get it, Immediately afterward he visited Judge Stemmler and demanded condition of bis r nomination for Civil hen added that he intended to run ould give him 500 cents, all I con sidered the nomtnation worth, but not 4 cent more, Cohen leit In di ind then went to Mr Cun: ningham's house, Mr, ©, refused to give him any money, All thia maciess striking consumed the whole of Wednesday, On ‘Tharsday evening. the new Tammany Tall Democratic Reform Party had a secret meeting in the fame plac Mr. Jacob Cohen still inthe chair, All the former candidates were ruthlessly repudiated, and the following ticket was unanluously nomi ed: For Police Justice, Mr. dno. Musterson; Cit Justice, Me Jovoph MeGuiro; for Alder: n, Mr. ‘Thomas Daily ; for Assistant Alderman, Mr. Patrick H. ; A Trustee, Mr, by Barlinson, ie next day iarge billa were printed, with this ticket and parted oh all the fences In the district and on the same afternoon Mr. Jacob Cohen, stil ucting an a str king committee of one. started dutfon his rounds, He first attacked Mr. Masterson, who ve him a eheck for @500; he then went tor Mr, leGnire, who promised him $250, but as Mr. Cohen told us blo cit yeaterday this promise hag not yet been made & Mr. Duffy was the next victim, but here Jacob met with a rebuff, ne he also did wien he Visited Mr. Kearney immediately afterwari. | Mr. Burlinson, tov, made w ke that of Juda Stemmier, namely, (Ile had been axked for On the same evening ( 'y) this unique A: a tion met again in the same place, Mr. ‘oben still inthe chair, Messrs. Dufy, Kearney, and Bur- Hinson were now unceremoniously thrown overboard, and Mr. Cunningham was renominated for Al man with Mr. William Juch for Ans ‘The latter gentler nt Alderman, . While he accepted the nomi: Limit darts upbraided Cohen for his conduct in repudiating Mr. Kearney. No nowiuee was put up tor School tee, ‘On Saturday the Association met again in the same. place, Mr. Jacob Cohen atill in the chal d Mr. Week» Culver having been?' seen" in the mean time, ho was nominated for School Trustee, A new set of posters were printod aad ad anybody who cares to take the trouble mi: ny e two posters side by rumored that tere isto be Avrsociation to-nigh dates i# to be nominated, Mm, Gabon told eo Sleneall, poalaniiay. thal tended to repudiate Mr. Juch On election work and voto for Mr. Kearney. What ha of Masterson's not known, but it thot Mr. d we wagon 8h vidently there iss method in b ‘Tammany improve on this? a THE HORRORS OF HYDROPHOBIA, “Water! .Water! Death! Hurry, from a Death-Bed—D: after the From the Lexington (Ky.) Observer, Now, 2. John W. Alexander was bitten by » rabid do, as long ago as the night of the ath of la While Mr. A. was walkin, ran out ofan alley, and without ev dark: silently but A the leg, biting clear throu der kicked him off, but th and bit bis hand, the teeth meeting through it.” Hi did not know at the time that the dog was mad. Hi nal advice, but was assured by th was i he thot pleasant feeling enday afternoon, when siomptiag to take @ glass of water, be could not drink. le then suspected the cause of bis sickness and determined to fully test it, Me tried to force water into his mouth with a spoon, but his arm gave a spasmodic rk, sending the spoon flying through the air, and jell back unnerved and wild and sick. From Thorsday morning he suffered terribly until the tine of his death. He howled, and snarled, darked like adog, He clawed and scratched ai bed-clothit fF until it was almost toro in sire Spasms and convulsions succeoded each other, rac! Ing bis tortured body and ea him to foam at the mouth like w wild and ral imal, and in bis frenay the veins swelled as if ut to burst, and blood, ed in streams from his mouth and nos- bed on which he was held down by strong turated through and through by the crim- '& promonitory the boot. Mr. Alexan- dog came at him agai men was son streain, He was conscious nearly the entire time, and de- voted and self-serificing, ho firmly insisted that none of his agontzed ‘weeping relativor should be allowed to come wear him, aa fe was iiraid that ho might injure them, His father, who bad been absent, arrived Just before his death, hut ou being told that he had come le exclaimed, ‘Don't let him seo me." At about ® o'clock his sufferings became more Intensified and he screamed and abiricket, * Water! water! ree it down me! Ub, death! hurry, burry His'attendant physielans, who bad dono all in thelr power to alleviate his sufferings, again admin- istered chloroform most copiously. ant tis sooth in J pain-des cout effects came with thrice blossed wer, break! foreo of the last fourlul mo nts‘ of suffering, and the victim of by dropho escoped trom bis COrtures at @ quarter pant 2 o'clock ‘Luureday afternoon, ——— WESTCHESTER COUNTY. tin i A new tron bridge, to cost $3,600, isto be bullt over lelham Creek, ‘The total assessed valuation of Westchester county this year ts about $63,000,000, an increase of 61,140.00, Morrisania bas Just erected and elegantly {i wovat Town Hall, ata Cost of 852,000. It was formal ed on Batu oe NEW JERSEY. cae Patrick Hines, of Hadson City, who had beon struck by @ (ragivent of rock while blasting on we Vaterson aud Newark Railroad, dicd ou Saturday An illicit distillery on the canal, in Broad stroct, Newark, was seized on Saturday by the revenue amt cert. A’ taatilonable Newark hatter is said to ve We proprietor, ‘The Hoboken police indulged in x game of sheep ing from each other, but then fearing exposure, toey wade & prevent Of thé stulem annuals to St, Marys Hospital Although a large concourse gathere Jon the Pater fon race Course On Saturday to. witness a contest be tween D. Leary's Dog. Jubal and J ach. © Hoston for #200) there rao chan having paid forfelt, the track being frozen cant Voellor went to Hucke Saturday with wsection of the Huis lery to fire (wo hundred rounds with oy ly drowned fr k bridge on nity Artil f raisbig ‘ain on Monday a ide up ayninet the New Vaifroud Company on behalf of tue widow The first curling match of the wan layed fon the ire of the bn Baturay, SPR Rit Ahi rns handed. g kip tio Clb, no Paterson. Tho smith party acured ‘is, agaist 1 for tho Thisties,, Tae tee was In good contitivar ‘The dying form of Frank Whitby, a burglar sory Years aud ln Was conv 2. Canada, on rg motion, Whitby deserted tron the Canada and joined Mosby's gueriiias dur! tthe close of whien he returned North, but wus arrested and convicted of a burglary in idorris county. —————— We have the best of authority~-the pollee—for as. Kiohard Cy er, Sheri! Uiirlen's candidate for Alderman in thet He ret ‘Ward, has registered hix name inthe, Two ard #0 that he may be enabled to vote on Tuewday for Larry. iy t Me i's brother, who us = caudidaey Lor jautor ward, % > jercely seized Lim by the calf of | din NULLIFYING THE BALLOTS. — INTERESTING INTERIOR VIEW OF 19TH WARD POLITICS, _—> ure of One of the Gang Kit-Lively Conte: A gang of bungling burglars from this city made a ruff on Hoboken during Saterday night, and ensayed some heavy work (or which they were clear. ly too inexperienced, and Onding themselves foiled, od by the Sheriffs in the Twentterh own Prize Fleht= f Dog Fight rule the Aldermanic Di ors Brother ctione-Candidatcs Bought and Sold— | resorted to a free ure of pistols against the police of Tatcresting Reading for the Citizens of | oboken, creating a wild excitement in the streets New York. of that quiet town at an unduly carly hour yesterday morning. ATTEMPT ON TIE LAND COMPANY'S OFFICE, Tt appears that the private watchman at the oftices of the Hoboken Land and Improvement Company on Ferry street, near Hudson, is in the habit ing Dimseif in one oF the other of the offices the company's building, and leaving three do: to do service onteite, About 1 o'clock yesterday morning, he was in tho cashier's office, when be beard one of bis dogs, an ngly little canine of the bull epecies, give a sirange moan or ery in the hall without, This was followed by A slight rotting of the lock or Itch of tne door, As tf some one was trying it. The watchman, an old man named Derundy, stopped to the door, and with out opening, demanded who was there, He got no reply, but Heard a muffled trend on the stairs with. out, which he supposed to be his big dog going down, THR POLICK SPOT THE BURGLARS. About fiftecn minutes after this circumstance » policeman called at the office and informed Derundy that there was @ suspicious looning gang of fel- lows outside and in the vicinity of the office, and advised him to he on the lookout. The watehman then recalled the above circumstance, and on going into the ball found his little bulldog sentinel dead, He had been strangiod by the operators, pre paratory to further demonstrations, The policeman Probably the most exciting contest of Tues day's election will be in the upper districts of the city, and taken as a whole, that in the Nineteenth Ward will be the hottest not only of this election, batof any previous one within the recolk ction of Go ham. "Peter B. Swecny forced upon Terry Parley the nomination of Hugh Moore, the brother of Rocky Moore, the prize-flghter, for Alderman. Terry, fn revenge, has hed Mr, James Cunningham nominated for the same posiiion by another organization, and is throwing all his influence in bis favor. One J, O'Donobue ts working heart and sont for Moore. Tho grand Might ts between O'Donohue and Farley for the control of Tammany Mall In the ward, with a vlew to certain fat posi tlons in the future for themselver, Mozart Hall nominated Mr, Thomas Duty for Al derman, and Mickey Fay, a dog fighter, a rough, and A resident of the Twenty-first Ward, for Astistant Alderman, Fay has “ thrown" Duffy, and has gone in with Moore to defeat Mr. Patrick HI. Kearney, the candidate of the respectable ellizens of the ward, who is sure of election if he geta m square deal, Moore in retarn has “thrown" IHinek, the Tammany candidate for Assistant Alderman and a Inger becr saloon keeper, and has gone in with Fay to defeat Cunningham and Daffy. The bap ward ne poy he Leper Tt 'e | reported the affair at tho station house, when estimated t od at bs Al 5 nhac iy a are re the Sergeant fo charge sent him two alstered in the 20th Aldermante District. There ar¢ | worg men, with Inetructions to keep. watch 1,800 more ot ‘he books than there were at the last Presidential election, In the 8th District abont 1,004 names are regestered now, while there were cnly 900 at the last election, Both partion have these scoundrels in thelr pay but the Moore-Fay gang are immensely In the majority, Mickey Fay, who ts a protege of Sheriff O'Hrien, went to the Jackson Club and made an offer of 82a plece for all the re. peaters they could spare. ‘This offer was accepted. The Jackson Club is the largest and beat organized cong of repeaters In the city, and Mickey thus made a very heavy flank movement on Terry. A poltce- (Moer heard Fay aay that these fellows had cost him of the fellows. At this time, the suspicious ehaps, Ave in number, were & a Jewalk in Ferry street, just below the company's building, ‘They bad an enormous jimmy, nearly ae large as acrowbar, which they lind Inid down near the office stairway, ‘The ofcers endeavored to keep watch of this to see who should attempt to get it, but the burglars were too smart. for chem and suc- coeded in getting It without being seen, PISTOL FRACTION IN THE NLOMT. ri themselves spotted and closely watched, the gang camo out of Ferry street and started up Hudson, OMcers Kivlin, Dooly and Jacobus follow- ing them, When wear Second street, seeing that $1,000 already, and that he wanted to get balf of tt they were followed, the prowlers began fring bace back. It wan in accordance with this that acaueus | at the officers, pointing thelr pistols” over was called at 11 o'clock yesterday morning In Judge a ds Saar Lk Lay fe Stommler'a private room, in the Yorkville Police | Up on them. and arrest. then. At this Court, in Fitty-seventh street, between Lexington and Third avenues ‘There were present Stemmiler, Canningham, and ove Charles Kruger, a tool of the gang stopped under a Iamp-post at the cornor of Second street, and as the ofcers approached fired a regular volley at them, fortunately hitting none of them, The officers returned the fire, but with equal Fey offered Siemmler the use of is repeatesr | lack of effet, The gang then reaticro dnd Fegan for $1,800. A stormy session followed, and the cau- | {n4"yoth partice bring wildly; eee eee ces cus adjourned without accomplishing anythlug A CAPTURE, OMcer Carl, bearing the fusilnde, came down Hud- fon street to bee What was the matter. At the corner of Fourth atreet he met one of the fusitives and ordered him to halt. ‘The chap replied with a pistol Stemmler reserved their answer, but it in very likely that they will accept the offer before to-night, O'Donohue, who t# a well-known tea merchant, has charge of the Moore-Fay gang. Moore, Fay, shot, that whistled unpleasantly mear the officer and O'Donobue went to tho leaders of the Republi then ran down. towards the Hamburg can (wenty-second street) organization of the | dock: ‘The fates ot that inclosure, happentog te stand open hi 0, n he suddenly fou Nineteenth Ward, and offered Dr. Robinson and | himself in the arms of the Custom House night Henry Perey 000 If they ronan Alterman for | watchman, who was just coming out lo see what the purpose of drawing votes from Cunningham. | the shooting meant, ‘he watehman held hia pris- d thereby electing Moore, Messrs, Robingon and Perley refused, They then went to the ‘Twenty- eighth street 4Pr. Thomas) organization of the e rty in this Ward, and made them the same offe Vehcems that It was acerpted here, because no men: tlon was made of a candidate until afer Moore's and Fay's visit, and then Mr. Leland was nominated, ‘Adotph Levenger also, a prominent member of the nme Republican organization, war nominated ri Justice at the sume time, and he ward made a speech in, « ‘Tammany in favor of McGuire, the Tammany candidate for the position for w hich he was ranning himself. Teo tof nominating Levenger wns tr Vote frlin Orem vaste which had been fort niebts before tn F fourth street and ‘Thir coner tleht, while the latter attempted to get his pis: tol cocked to shoot bis captor. The watehman threatened to blow hia brains out if be fired, where- upon he flung his pistol over the fence, where it was alterward found. “It was aregular Colt's navy re- volver, one barrel only empty. LIKELY TO GET MIS DESERTS, The Custom House oMlcer surrendered hia pris- oner to oMcer Carl, who took him to the station louse, where be the name of Thomas C raw the Gem . The Germans arges of atten ‘The reat of the gang managed to rscap ‘They probably had nw row boat somewhere the wiver to take them off, CONTRAMAND OF WAR, ‘This morning the oMicers found in the lower end avenue, arose in a bod when he entered the room the night after making | Of First street, their kit of tools, conststing of th the speech, and hissed him clear out into the street, | bree J chissels, powder, fuses, a bottle Poor Hinck was nominated to draw the German | Whisky & coll of rope. ‘Also another pistol vote to Moore, but he himself is left without sup. port by the latier, On Saturday cvening ® enng of forty boys from the ‘Twenty-first Ward, under the leadership of Steve O'Brien, a brother’ to the Sheriff, and Jaros Garry, allaa * Timmy the Ham," began'at the Bast side, and after they had got through {here went over to the Miath avenue and completed the job. In one inthe one which Cavey threw away, an ter d recovered, discovered that gome time during the night the gang attempted to enter the Gas Com- ny"s office, Which in opporite the Land and Improve. ment Company's building, but were frizhtened away. In the fusiiade against the policemen be- tween ditecn aud twenty alots were fired, of the former districts Bill Ward, the Superior Court ——— Jutations with one of the regis: A SEVENTH WARD MURDER, , went out and retarned imme pra other, Hoth were put dow: All the boys were, curiously enough, 2 years o ch aud every one of them lived with either le or Lis sister, ‘esidencos were given to open lots: one anid he lived at #6 Lexington avenue, and another at 435 t, neither ‘of which numbers m knew how to spell their spelled his ‘he lead- A Peacenble Citizen Beaten and Mortally Btabbed by a Gang of River Thieves— Murder without Provocati Between 12 and 1 o'clock yesterday morning, at 690 Water street, corner of Scammel, in» place kept by Dennis Kelly, a quict, well-conducted Irishman, © tremendous knocking of the door in Scammel street was heard, which was followed by its being burst in by Ave of the biggest rowdies the city can produce, namely, W. McQuade, John Kelly, James Meehan, Anthony Gillespie, John Ridley. au end Mr. Birdsall clerk in the Charity Hospital Tsjand, on Friday and Saturdry brought over fiteeu hospital bummers, who have no HieDt to, vote, to the polly piace in) Sixty | ‘This result having been obtained, the door of the street, ve: hue A and registeied every one of them, The ia. | 8Fe wae next smashed in; but when Mr. Kelly spector here john. Flagler, who has been | presented himself, they sneaked of, As they were indicted by the grand jury for stuffing the bal telling out, Gillespie muttored, “ Kelly, if I get you with two the Inst Nove: Roast te on the eidewatk, I'il knock the ight of ye At half-past two, as some Jersey friends were quit- ting the house, the gang appeared again, The lender, Gillespie, carried in bis hand the rung of « cart-wheel, with which he struck Kelly. ‘The latter attemnted, In self-defence, (o use a revolver, but « the moment that he cocked it, it was knocked out of his hands, and a rush was made for the till, Michael McQuade, a brother of one of the rufMans, was seuted on the counter, and was able to recog. nize the gang. He fortunately hind presence of mind enough to turn off the gas. Kelly, while pushing Ridley into tho street, stepped out to the sldewalx, While here his assailonts surrouuded him, Tue eight Jerseymen fled to the right and left, A blow from bebind with the great wheel-rung, six pounds, stretched him on the pavement. His head was then clubbed and kicked, He was stubbed in one cye, and his nose was slit open with a bowie knife. Another cut was given at the back of his head, extending from ear to rr, The murderers took'to flight after those exploits, ‘The alarin of murder was ru had been so sudilen that the aid of the police could not be obtained, The brother of Kelly arrived from Boston that eventing, after a nine years’ separa. tion, Wh he was looking for bis brother he found him to all appearances dead, and copiously is no house there but the 0; occupied by 19th Watd police, and the hou In the Fourteenth District 106 repeaters are known to be registered by the police, every one of whom will be arrested as voon as they attempt to vote ‘The Kighth District is full of Fay's repenters, os is also the Sixth; but here good Inspectors are Atatioued, who Will not permit them to vote, ‘The Twenty-second District awarms with the acoun drels, under the leadership of the notortoas ** Bull" Mann, who was shot at a previous election by Ser. goant’ Polley, of the pollee, for unpertaking to play the same game he {sat now. ‘The Sergeant says will not hesitate to repeat tie dose on ‘Tues , 80 that Mano hi ut for Btegman's saloon, near U harbors thirty three repea the d avenue depot, ra twenty-four, In the Third District ‘one rufian gave lis namo Owen Hand, the man now und sentence of death in Brooklyn, Patrick Quin the Republican Association of the ward, of Moore's repen through every district on Saturday, Thomas O'Connor, who was arrested by Oficer Lambrecht on, Saturday for registering tn ame in the Seventh, Ninth, Thirteenth, Seventeentt, Twenticth, and Twenty second Districts, piloted a crowd of seventeen in the same manner. On_ the northeast corner of Sixty second sircet and Third avenue 147 names of repe «is 1; but the attack tored In. the Yo miting blood on the sidewalk finglo room ‘At 4o'clock In the afternoon yesterday his Ife was street, fourten ea on paired of, and ho received catreme unction at the the books. ‘Thirty-six aistered as boarders | hunds of his orlest, from Ballerman's oyster saloon on Third avenue Anthony (Gillespie, aged 21, of M11 Madison tween Fifty fifth and Kiity slath streets, a wharf thief, Inteiy arrived from Sing Sin (ough the proprietor says that he’ haa | lodged at Madison street station last aight, but ten men in. the ¢. Hagan’ Hotel, | as Joho Ridley, alias Tho Rigger,” of 636 Water on the corner of Forty eighth street ant Leaington | atreet, Avenues swarths Wilh repeaters, A medium-rized me au, with m light complexion and no whiskers | SPARKS FROM THE TELEGRAPH, stood on the corner of Second avenue aud aapal Fifty-second strect the whole ufternoon on Suturday, and banded slips of names to giugs of repeaters as they came up the avenue in twos und threes, ‘These comtained «purious names, and the recipients regis tered on all of them, Roth Houses of Congress will have a quorum to Webster Reed was drowned on Saturday while skating In Madison, Maine, — ‘There are very strong indications that Congress LONG TALAND. will probably ature and pass a free Banking bli es Iie thought that Mr Seanion will fall of con Mr. Andrew Lynch, of Little Neck, has taken MIRE Whe Thee BrOORye charge of Fashion ra jure: known actor, attached A daily line of st-amers are soon to run between | to the f Lago many years, died on Saturday, aged tJeffereon ard Bridgeport, Coun aixty ye he Qucens county Judges are to havea fixed | Charles RF clling collector, was salary of 62,000 a year, aud the Sarrozate 62,50, found 1 yeaterday morning ou @ four nuiles from Kic he President's in mond, Va, was complet murderer of Thomas ¢ to ding Sing on Baturday on Satur: o Aantstant. Postuneter at | gay. Nelther it nor the report of the Secretary of the Tenvind hie fatniy andl uvesetiod | TEeMIUEY Ate printed Hilluiau bas Yren'aypoiuied 8 | ‘The Hon. Horace Greeley is trying to get hie vayinent” theory Ito the Message aad a outwell 4 report. LOSSES BY FILE, <dles, Jr., of Philadelphia, arrived ta ssl vesteiday with ® peution two miles Lony Anking Congress Lo concede the Fists of belligerents tO Mosars. William plantoy A fire in the village of hight, destroyed #948 worth of property, Several stores were burae: ‘The Mousam Hou: 4 George Carson's flooring aud nti tn Clnelanats was burned yesterday Fairbure, Ul, on Friday lor Drake bas prepared a bill to prohibit the Je Court from veltinz aside any act OF Joint reEo- alleged uncouste run over by a trainon the Ne Norwalk, Conn. on Saturday leat b Cine express, severing an art from his body, 0d mutilating his face. Sup Tusion of Congress on the ground o| tutional was burned on Fi iday night ged. Low old St. Matthew’ Th Episcopal Church on Sussex atrect, Jersey City, was ‘on saturday morning. |” Nichola Btranahan, engineer of the locomotive Lona, $40,000 ; insurance, “Corning,” oa the Hudson Miver Railroad, while look: ‘The fire in Topeka, Kansas, was more di back row his eaiine & short distance soul Fee ee eee ae aestatatinistvce | hsnapias iavo cee rivte; is’ body wes Sevovered, the ne Ja No Mouse of iteprosentat P ; wore Josrova ” teat Batn tape NOW THE PULPIT SPEAKS, THE RICHARDSON CASE AS VIBWRD BY THE CLERGYMEN, ——— hingham's Explanation— « othe Deathbed of a Parishtower— ‘The Urgent Necessity for the Naptial Core ring a Multitude of Sine—Apology for Dead. ‘The Rev. Dr, 0, B, Frothingham preached yes jay morning in Lyric Hall. Referring to the par® which he took in the marriage, at the Astor House, of Mr. Richardson and Mrs. MePurland, he sald he had done what he considered nie duty, Mr, Bele ardson was one of his parishioners, not very oftem Present at the services, it ts true, owing probably te his frequent absences from the city, bet sill one of his congregation; and whem Mr. Richardson sent his pastor o written reques® that he should visit Lim at bis devth-bed, was It mo@ the duty of that pastor to hasten tohim? On af ing at the Astor House he fotind Mr. Beeches there, and with Mr. Beecher, who represented the more orthodox portion of Mr. Richardson's friends, he joined in the nuptiol ceremony. He listened to the accounts that Mr. Richardson, Mrs, McFarland, And the friends of the two gave of their relations And conduct to each other and to Mr. McFarland, The Rev. 0. BF: He could not say of any knowledge of lis) own that Mr. Richardson was innocent, but that be had jadged this to be the case from the statements of gentiemen whom he thonght truthful and trastworthy; and ho had se cordingly joined tn conducting the marriage services, as any Christian clergyman would do auder like ein cumstances, He had heen assured that the divores procnred by Mrs. McFarland in Indiana was valld, and was further told by some of tho physicians a@ the dying journatist’s bedside that It was best that the nuptials should be solemnized as soon as possible, ‘He was not personally acquainted with Mrs, MeMar land previous to this affair; liad never even seem her, but relied for the course to pursue upon the assurances of friends that ocenpied bigh and res Ponsible social positions, For there was s maxim in Inw that an accused person should be considered {onoceut until he was proved guilt, in rellzion that ebarity covers a multitude of sine, In accordance with theso maxims he had seted, lo Was not to be Judged here. That was reserved for proper legal tribunals, The heart was the only one that could now speak as to the guilt or I cence of Mr. Richardson, It had beea divorced persons should be re-married. ral texts had been quoted In favor of this assertion § but he would say that such marriages were by Bo means unusual, even by most respectable clergy- men, fe thought the attacks by the m pend upon him unfair and anwarranted, No principle of free-loveiam had actuated him: Jt was an error of his judgment at most, Nor did he think It neces sary to reply to the attueks any further. me J.-M. PULLMAN ON THE TRAGEDT, The Rev. J. M. Pullman preached yesterday in the Untversaliat Chareh in Thirty fifth sireet, near Stxtm avenue, bis, aubject being Natural Justice and Se- etal € He made the late Richardson MeFar- land tragedy the burden of his theme, and took ground that a libertine was a greater foe to ao order than a murderer, rod Mi ardeon 9 libert extenaate the erlme of Me! leas an enemy to society than his vietim. inan then enlarged upon the sanctity of the iamity, and the wickedness of invading. ite precincts, and observed that through al! the eulogiums passed Mr. Richardson by the two clergymen who att his marriage ond luneral, there appeared an under current of apology, both for his acts and for tbe position whieh they had taken. WOMAN THR GLORY OR THE SHAME OF MAN, ‘The Rev, William Mitchell preached yest afternoon on Woman, her Rights and Duties." chose asa text the passage from St, Paul, The woman is the glory of the man." Ho showed now, as mother, wife, alster, and iriend, woman is the Ornament and tho glory of human life, As a mother: the most illustrious and espec ed the most benevo- Jent men hat avowed that thefr minds had boem moulted by Christian mothers; and history was full of those bright pages where the wife her husband steadfast In well doing, as had Mra, Rogers, the wife of the martyred Bishop. Unfor- tunately this was not always the case, A recent ia stance showed that woman asa wife could be, not the glory of her husband, but the flend that led him te death and destraction, And it was an extraordinary circumstance that the inan who had shared in the foul crime had been hetd up by many ad a saint. TH VICE-PRESIDENT HAULED OVER THR COALS. ‘The Rev, Robert Collyer of Chicago preached im tho Uniterian Charch in Washington yraterday,. Me ton denouncing Vice: \ ying that the Vice-President was hypocrite for attacking polygamy in Utah while be Aympathized with adultery in New York, ‘This wa In allusion to the Richardson affair. THE BURIAL OF RICHARDSON, ‘The remains of A, D. Richardson reached Frank- lin, Mass., at 4 o'clock Saturday morning, accom- panied by the funeral party from New York, The services were in the Congregational Chureh, the Rey, Luther Keene officiating, The remains were exposed to view during the service, and at {ts come clusion were deposited in a tomb In the old bury ing ground until spring, when they are to be re moved to the new cemetery, aud placed beside those of his first wife. ——— PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, ea Mrs. Matilda Jornleman, 77 years of age, is miss rom the house of Mrs, stevens, 17s Newark avenaa, Mr. Henning. « young Baltimorean artist, ty ta clay model of Houry Ward Regcher. A marble oi '* to be copied therefrom, and erected in Chareh. aa papel sarere! BROOKLYN a Mr. James Lani, the expert newspaper count is davgerously restaenee in BrooLlya. nen ‘The Government is abont to upon the real inger and Delmar were declared the rs of the prizes at the Rrookiyn Chess Club at the Of the tournament va Salurday evening last, afternoon, two of the large foai in course of construction by Moses Reach, under the bill, on Furman street, foot of Cram Derry Street, feil with & crash, _ en =e STATEN ISLAND, eee ‘The 6 o'clock A.M. boat from New York to Staten, Isiand, has been discontinued for the winter, ‘The Seguine homestead, comprising fifty acres, with'dwelling and out houses. tt the village 9¢ {nie, hae Just been parchased by Mr. J, CSPiorsom, od Now York, for $25) Mary ©. Clark, of Tomkinsville, fund ita wife of a dapper little fellow named Bernard J. Fas vent to lueniuoud priaom on Saturday for days, for Flap: ing her husband's face. is a's th ed better half, and aa she refused te share we couch with nim the night previo hen she slasped hls face tthe knew what bronght bis two pra wives to thelr death, aud knowlu, Was too sharp to be the third victim. . ——— JOTTINGS ABOUT TOWN, posthar bie Reddy the Blacksmith, teading a gang of fort; peater yrentetered by the wholesale on Bal urday. ee Jacob Schilling, who hat been crushed by his lager beer w: a, died yesterday in Bellevae Hospital. ‘The total registry on Friday and Saturday ¥ Am, mablog 10,133 bames on the books trowchowd elty. ‘Three poor witnesses wore detained in Sergenm® gers Motors: breeding dungeons yesterday, Crime, ety. Marvaret Johnaon fell dead on the sidewalk, bee tween Eleventh aad Twelfth strects, in First aveauq, yesterday. ‘The women who right the wrongs of talked about male firte. ul Du Chailla, the great African traveller, will deseribe the goril'a tomorrow evening, in the Beream Baptist church tu Beaford street, r po ropose to reform society manity, met om Saturday ‘The bark Rdith Rose from Havana, and the Camilis from Kingston, Jamatea, arrived at quarant on Saturday with yellow fever on bord, John Hardy's election track was guarded on Sat urday night by" the police of the Twentieth Ward te rave it from burning at the bands of the opposition, The question for discussion before the Sacre@ rhiidren |e Kdueae vertisement, ford has been bi fed. He claine # - ‘apegoat for other persons Science Society to-night 1s sh tedat Public Expense.” See Ex-Deputy Collector Blate from Montreal, whituer he b the h as he will expose, ‘Thomas Smith, while under the influence of walked tuto the Water at (he Hartford pier at 8 0% esterday moruihg, Ho was Fescued by officer Weougtua. On Saturday afternoon, at 1,290 Third avunue, leaped (com the third tory Window a amen ing, Dut a great umbrulie oulspread li oa M lecture tins vurehy West Twenty second street, on {lom of deus and its tatiuence om the inind,’ alt it. Loase, of the Free Labor ERY * the month of November, 807 ‘Male ications were 2 ahs eGR ate, = a ut