The Sun (New York) Newspaper, October 1, 1872, Page 2

Mowery Theatre Fy Charley Shay's Opera Mouse Tite for! aad oe Dan Bryant's Minatrela 1 A sire Dry Dock Clrowge a’ ' rR Eme Callfornia Minatrel® auwaye Fifth Avenue Theatre (0 1d Opera House fh Care Brooklye Rink tmway The Death Straggle of the P nia Ring. Cranes T. Yerkes, Jr., was a banker in Philadelphia, Jonuy F. Hantnanet is Au ditor-General of the State of Pennsylvania, and Rosenr W. Mackey is State Treasurer Hantraner and Mackey made Yenkes's banking house a depository of the Sti funds. Th ct was the use of these funds for their private stock operations. Tho funds were so used, This is proved from Yerkes's books. he books show that neither Harrranet nor Mackry had put up a penny for margins, the State bonds alone ber d for that Everything was going on when the Chicago fire startled the country purpose. swimmingly Stocks went down like lead, T State bonds in Yerkes's hands were used up in filling HAnrTRANrT's a Mackry's mar- gins, Yenkrs was ticd up. He hardly knew where to turn. He had no time to get money from HAartraxrr or Mack In this dilemma he went to Mancen, t y Treasurer of Philadelph i made an arrangement for the use of three Luudred thousand dollars of the city’s funds. He got the money immediately, and put it up on Hanrrranrt’s and Mackey's margins. This amount made Yerkes perfectly ea The stock market, however, was panicky, and continued to go down. Mancen’'s friends by e aware of his arrangement with Yerkes, aud ‘ t of it. On the spur without any intimation kk drew his check on hiir rthree hu red thou rand dolla KES Wus unable to pay A ship ina whirlpool The peopleof I telphia w ed and the authorities, who y gladly have protected Yrrkrs I Mance they had dared, were compelied to iustitute eriini- nal prosecutions, The Grand Jury indict poth of them. When these criminal proceedings were first proposed, Hanrkasxrr aud Mackey were terribly alarmed. They knew that Yenkes had documeutary evidence impli- Both tled the cating them, State, They went friends to Yerkes, imploring him to onceal the evidences of their complicity Yerkes replied that he would not go to prison to save them, They then brought hun an autograph p Gra KY, promising to inter pose exceutive clom ency in case of conviction, This satistied Yerkes. He shicided them. He did not putin defence his authority from Han RANFT and Mackey to use the State m Both Yeuwrs aud Mat and sentenced to months in State prison. But after Gov. Gran made, Yewkrs Dovenenty and = maw Hawrnaner caused the fu to be deposited with bim y ER were convicted, two years aud nine went t pury of stock operations in’ wh HARTRANFT and MACKEY Were intereste and that he had paid Hartranrr yarious sums of money as the profit of said stock operations, He also swore that he used the State money in the purchase of loans of the Commonwealth, which 1} s were rold to te sinking fu profit, Hanrnaxrr receiving a lar of said profits, Yensrs furthermore swore that on other State deposits he bad paid Hantraxrr aud Mackey interest at the rate of six percent, and that suid money had never been accounted for to the ple. This affidavit Yerkes placed in the Lands of a confidential friend The evidence against Yenkes strong that Gov. Geany did uot dare to pardon him. He was immured in prison dat a larg shar was so Hantraner afterward beeame candidate for Governor, The affidavit of Yeukes was scattered broadcast over the State, and had a most damaging effect on Mantraxrr’s prospects, He could make no reply, for the proofs were overwhelming. He had but one hope, That was to force a de from Yerkes of the authenticity of the affidavit. For a monin past Yeukes has virtually been in solitary members of the Pennsylvania Ring alone being allowed to seehim, It would app that a pardon was persistently held out te ifinement, him as the peice of his denial of the ln vit, At the same time the R n rently experienced some trouble with G Geany, He seemed to dread public senti ment, and while he quailed before t Camenon Ring, he would wot be driven by it. At this juncture, on Sept, 26, the Pre dent of the United States went to Philadel- phia at the request of the Ring, and wa privately closeted in the tel for four District Att ticians, Th in Goy. Gear Continental Ho irs, with Simon CAMERON y Swore ilar poli s shown day Sworr, who is the Ut States Dis- trict Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania, Col. Lex, the Private secre tary of Gov. Geary, Mayor SroKrLy of Philadelphia, J, L. Hina, Wa. BaLowiy, Tomas Pruce, and ALEXANDER Inwty, Jr, Visited the Cherry Hill prison, Swore and Lee went into Yenkes’s cell, and, after noarly an hour's conversation, the Warden entered with Gov. Geany's pardon, Mayor SrokeLy and Swore then rode through the street with Yenxes up to the Grant headquarters What followed? Within a half bourafter hist an tatement signed by YERKES Appeare ving HARTRANET's innocence of the charges preferred against him, and asserting that the am lavit made before Alderman Dot OneEnTY Ila a forgery that he had been represented before the Alderman by another man, Ho nls named five men, apparently respectable Who declared that they had no hesitation In saying that the signature tothe ati is not that of Yenxes, This unsworn stato. ment is now being strewn over all the vountles of Pennsylvania, in the vain hove ation davit that it will stem the tide that threatens to engulf the Ring. The statement on its face is false. YERK RS any In it Hm hasbeen made of me, dupes have of others by a few designing men and “everybody within purpose of circulating thelr reach publistiln ‘and statements which false in th With the object of breal ing dow er of Gen, HARTRANFT, in the hopes of thereby preventing his tlon which they felt assured would insure silence In r to and asettloment of their nefarious If slanrRanrt Yerkes is guilty. and Mackey are inno- There is no dods ing it. The evidence is as clear as noon- day, His own admissions prove it. How then can he speak of himself asa“ victim? Who has made a victim of him ifit is not Hantrasrr and Mackey? Alderman Dovanenry declares that he knows Yerkes well, and that Yerkes was nan who appeared before him on Dec 1, and «w y and signed the affida- vit implicating Harrranrr, He also says that the original affidavits were presented to him subsequently by a person unknown to him, and he was asked if they were au- thentic, He then stated, as he states now that the signatures thereto are the genuine cent Utures of himself and Yerkes, and that the papers were brought to the office and sworn to by Yerucus himself, Hanrraxrt's account with Yerkes, taken from the latter's r, and printed in fullin Tun Sts of Aug. 21, proves th truth of the affidavit made before Alde man Dovanenry, These figures show stock transactions by Yerkes for HAnTRANrT amounting to nearly a million of dollars. There is but one entry for cash deposited, and that is for €1,590; but even the depos of this small sum is more than counterbal- anced by €5,055.27 checked out in cash by Hareranrr. Did tie Ring endeavorto force Yerkes to declare that these figures were forged, and did he refuse?) Was that why he was kept in solitary confinement for a was authorized to purchase $500,000 in State bonds on behalf of the Sinking Fund Com- missioners, on April 14, 1870, Letters to Hanrrasrt from E. M. Lewrs, President of the Philade!phia Farmers’ and Mechanics National Bank, show that Yerkes pur- chased over $400,000 of these bonds, and a letter from Hann aset is priated sanction. <o purchases, Mr, Lewis's sworn tes efore the War Claim 1. Here is wheat he says: ‘ommittes is | Addition. Divish articular order nd Silence) ow i Mi, YRKKES occupied that position at A.-Yes. [think my letters wil Mr. YeuKRS went over our books W gentlemen to go over our books loam, but we sent for Mr. Yerkes ) take of from cur books the large holders, He ehames and went to the parties and their loans. He of to give has been convicted for unlawful use of the Oakes Ames bribery that “at the end of Another week a denial in almost the same 2 Was Wrung from Gen. Gar- FIELD; ‘he never form @ slare or owned in any shape or cent of Credit Mobilier denial; but this will not answ lures t Am r) TC he ntredict the assertion of OaKEs et him do it with his own siguature a Let us Have a Good Judge. \ Justice of the Supreme Court is to be Jeoted in place of Judge Canpozo, the Coustitution in regard to age should be not know what his age is, but have heard it set down at one hundred, We do not think he is as oldas that, We do not believe he is over eighty; and it is even possible that his age does not disqualify him—a dis- inalification not required in his case. He 3 universally admitted to be “a good though what he is particularly good for we never heard anybody tell, Our own opinion is that he would be good for City Judge, were it not for the ereater experienceand greater ability of the Hlon, Guxnina 8, Bepvonp—the Herald's andidate—which stand in his way. Still Mr. Nico. may be pretty strongly pressed for the place, One good might result from his election—we should have an Increase man,” of Judges; for it would take about fifty like him to do the business, even after a fashion, It is considered a great merit in Mr, Nrooun that he has been instrumental in turning out other Judges; but it would be cheaper to pay him for that, or to build small monument to his memory, than to put him on the bench on that account. We rather like Mr. Nicorz—everybody likes him—however, and if he will per- severe until he gets Curtis removed we will think about supporting him for the Marine beuch, if he is not too old, CuanLes Dosxonve, AuRanAM It, Law- RENCE, Josern H. Cnoarte, ornare W. COTTERILL, STEPHEN P. Nastt, ALGERNON S. SULLIVAN, and Jorn Parsons have also mentioned as suitable names to select from, and we think they are. Il that we want is an able, impartial man, of a naturally judicial order of mind, and well versed in every department of law—both in the principles aud the prac- tice, Such a one let us have. — A. T, Stewart tor Mayor. there any reason why Mr. A. T. Stew. ant would not make one of the best if not the very best Mayor New York has ever had? Is there any reason why he would not be one of the most popular and availa- ble candidates ever nominated? Would it not be a blessing to the city to have such @ man at the head of our municipal affairs? and would it not be a great source of strength to any party to have his name upon its ticket? Mr. Srewarr is not a politician; he is simply ag interested ia the prosperity of the city, and able and certain, if elected Mayor, to ren- der services to every class of citizens such as can be expected from few public men, Why then should he not be elected by the spontaneous effort of the whole people? — Another Forrester Farce. The announcement of the discovery of the Payonmo murderers appropriately fol- lows the Fornester farce. It appears to be simply a job put up by the Boss Me- eat man of husiness very largely nionth subject to the intluences of the] Lavonuin gang to throw dust Into the Cameron Ring? eyes of the robbed citizens of Brooklyn But the affidavit made before Alderman | The only evidence against the accused is Dover is sustained by oficial docu- | the testimony of a thief, who appears to ments, iso printed in Tie Sty of August | have been locked up In a police siationun- 21, These documents show that Hantrasrt | til he would agree to accuse some other thief of the murder of Mr. Paxormo, We are informed that at the time of the murder O'Brirs, one of the accused was in the Brooklyn penitentiary, as the records wil Tuomas Brown and “Cockney,” O' BRIEN'S companions, Ww in the Tombs under a charge of burglary in 9 boeded warehouse in) Washington street. Phe Met ctr: aang oF thieves ate Anxies to make Capt. Fourt a Judiciary candidate, aud to impress th dof making these 4 ; fel ME Chante t. | bis superior ability, The Ring has ende mpetent man.in ty | ored to force counsel upon the prisoners Jude transaction sad pur : ' Uikely to stuconed. © J but they have refused the Ring's re) Hgood standing at ped se red the ieee 0 ol t A « t bits thaw Mh Lg t * We have wbroker to whom we. set The whole thing umbne, and the our ordinary siness, but when we have any The v a ® humbu and eration of a kind that ¢ es secreey, or | Sooner the citizens ef Brooklyn recognize it the better, H Dr ee ake Hiteniaa WHO te Btted to: carry 1 One thousand repeaters are now being organized by the Gaant party in this oft) for use in Philadelphia am the sth day of October It ts intended that they shall leave this ¢ity in gangs, on Thursday, Friday, Saturday, am! Sun- day. Our information ta direct. Let the Lib: erals of Philadelphia look out forthem. Their ng they would take committees cannot be too watebful, Merawhile Why don't the Pennsylvania Ring get | it may be in to the gentlemen who Mr. Lewis to swear that his letters are | leave this city to know that the penaltyvor false forgeries, and that sor {y personated | YoUng in Philadelphia ts three years him before the War Claims Committes Months.la the pemdtentiar pevideuce aguinst both Hanreanrt | tye Liberal Republicans and Deavoc aud Yeukes is overwhelming. Yerkes | ¢ Fifth Cou lonal District of sey on Wednosdas last r at uw city money, but he has not yet been « date for Congressman AusaLom WooDKUr® of victed of the unlawful use of the State | Paterson, late State's Attorney for Passa n money, When Mr, BuckaLew is elected | 'Y: Mr. Woopntrr has been selected as the can Governor, YeRkes may get full justice, | d!date of the combined Liberal forces because and it is pot impossible that Joun EF. Hant- | 2 iarine} . ae ee naxerand Rouset W. Mackey may accom ‘| . a pany hit to tk atiary py the delegates to the ( : What are joing t ut v f #¢ contest aug — favorably for success. Mr, WoopkUEE is a4 Will Gen. Garfield Speak Out? ble's tan, a good lewyer, an excetiont politival The Tribune affirms in respect to the | O iab Ries SAH Monae sblican by about 400 ma us mea to select publican wing of the L eral party, A large number of those who bave always acted with the regular Republican ganization are daed to the support of Mr Pray when did Gen, Ganrrerp make | WoObRUrF, and with proper effort be can | such @ denial? Has heever published one | "Umpbantly elected, asa great many Republi med with his own pame? If so, we | Cabs are intensely disgusted with the slauglit & i te Own: Dame: 80) We | of Hint in the Grant Convention, The race would be glad to see it, We remember, | (1) ne of brains against money bags, with ndved, a telegraphic despatch without a | the chances decidedly in favor of bralus ignature, sent by some irresponsible per- — = : at GarrieLp had made a| Mrs. Lavra D. Farr, the California m deress, hus been yitted and released. acquittal to ber beauty. If shel been a bard-working washorwoman, with trreg. ular features and a tanned complex! she aud publish it on bis own unquestionable | would probably have been strung up without i lity Judge or jury, It is to be hoped that Mrs, Fam Whenever Gog, Ganrrenp presumes to | will now fall in love with some one of the jury put forth such @ denial as we call for we | who acquitted her. Ifthe juryman selected by sl © prepared to bring forward « her thinks more of his wife thau he does of Mra lence that may astonish him considerably, | Pat {twill then be proper, according to his tn. But we suppose he will never venture to enn an Ge ees ila lay Sy din , ALK to. go that length, He took the bribe of | S/W bis brains out, We hope she will do it —- Akes Ames just aa others took it; but| A Mr. Livinostoy Is engaged in Call here happens to be testimony that can be | fornia in packing salmon. spawn for the purpos produced in his case tat does not exist in | of stocking rivers in the Atlantic States, He that of the other persons whose names ap- | now an the MeCloud river In Shasta county, a pear. ou Aates’s list takes from 60,000 to 100,000 salmon spawn a The eggs are placed in boxes or vats, the wood of which has frst been cha water may not be tainted by the boards. ‘Th are kept in these vats for several days, with clear water running over them, during which ed, 60 that V 1 t hether ther better man time such @% are worthless © BED ted and for the place than Judge SUTHERLAND. | thrown away, and the remainder are carefully His integrity is unquestion so is his ked In layers of wet moss, boxed and other ibility; and he has the advantage of a} wise made ready for shipment. ‘The success « long experience on the bench. His age | the experiment will be hailed with delight by would become a disqualification before the | Ue anglers and eplcures of the East. There are nd of the term, unless the provision of | #48Y Pleasant ctreams in the New England and Middle States in which th neould find as congenial as in the waters of 8! how» hanged, But that is a consideration not | 8 jonen 8 entitled to much weight as against putting —_— him again on the bench for the time that | What is the reason that the Br Com: he can serve, We aro in favor of nom. | ™ittee of Brooklyn does not put ia a report? inating and electing men about whom The pe lo would Jike to know there is no doubt or uncertainty, Judge | Myr, D, W. Tuompson his just been dis: SUTHERLAND is aman in regard to Whom | missed from a place which he had held for five ho one would feel any misgiving years a8 an inspector in the Custom House, be= Hexny Nicon. has been name, Wedo | cause he is son-in-law of P. . Bausum, and Mr. BAKNUM Is & GREELEY Mr, THOMP8ON had paid the assessment levied upon bim for political purposes by the GRANT managers about a fortnight before his dismissal; but that was hot suflictent; the unsoundness of his father-in- law was an ample reason for dismissing him. It ts stated by the Zrhune that Mr, H, Mun- THE FRIARS OF CAPUCHIN. THE STORY OF THEIR RANISHMEBNT FROM GUATEMALA, — ene An Interview with Father Francie—Gov. Mich. Garcia Granados's Treatment ot the Monke—Driven from thetr Convent at the Point of the Bayonet. Tur Sex yesterday made the exclusive announcement of the arrival {n this city on Sat- urday of twonty-one monks of the Capuchin rder, who had been banished from Guatemala by the Provisional Governor of that revolution- ary country, Several of the monks were lodged at 21) Stanton street, in charge of Father Lauren- tlus, and the other went to the convent at 208 at Thirty-Arat atrect. The party were accom~ Jed from Wilwaukee, Wis., by Father Fran- Superior of the order in reporter yesterday vis onversation with the holy friar. sts a tall, dignified gentleman, ars old, with the bearing of and atidy, He was attr in the habit of the order, which is a long dress {heavy brown cloth of coarse texture, with the hood resting on the back of his neck skirt Just touches the floor, and hides the sandals, worn by all the members of this order. The a8 hangs from the shoulders, and is held at walst bya white cord, an inch thick, which fs tled Ina knot, the ends hanging down to the knees. ‘The friar's hair was cut close, andon the top of his head there was a suggestion of bald- ness. ‘The members of the order all perinit thelr full beards to grow, Father Francis wears his trimmed closely. A RESEMBLANCE TO GEN. SNERMAN. In the length and shape of bis ne Dold forehead, with strong gray ey heavy brows, shoru beard, and height and sle derness of figure, the friar bears a remarkabl rica. he convent A8t and had a Father Fra: about forty-eight a man of reflect ; resemblance to Gen, Sherman, When Father Francis steppad into’ the a om without the least verbal recognition of the reporter, the lat ter handed the friar a paragraph cut from a Chicago paper, noticing the arrival in that city f th uks, in which there was a t they looked like a band of Tualiat dors peanut venders. Father Francis read the article twice with much interest, and then said th h publications were very ulting to th Tho adhere strictly t never utter @ Word as to the politte ne htof any country, The monks are all yours hich, with the exception of Father Ignatius, who is about seventy years old. He tsa highly ated man, and ts acting as instructor to the ung men, ‘They are at present known as ‘erica, and are being educated for the higher Cuties of the brotherhood. ‘They were banished by the Governor, Mich, Garcia Granados, actu ated by prejudice and, ho doubt, avurive, THE FRIAW'S STORY. In answer to further questions the friar gave exile from Guatemata of the thity-nine Capu- de bbery titution left undist ensity for the people. i Ing, and the seif-st yle n dof Oct ber, 151, ex m ublic the Society of Jesus, whofor twenty vd been laboring In Ure pilpht and sehool se of education and morality. An. the Archbishop. and a Bishop Guatemala, t ng the caluniny that they Were op f the hberty of the country. In every eos urch and pris merty WAS Conflscated, THY PROTTE Proresm NG mored in An- the 28th of Anguet it was tigue that the Chieled Police ha te drive away on that night the Capuchin fr Whose convent. bad been established there twenty years, More than five thousand people came forward aud declered that at the risk their lives ther would never allow the ge friars to be drican away Government halts at this, not dating to go further, And although the Government asserted tn its proclamation that it had never intended to disturb the Capu the clizens were always 1 and ex ion. Almost every patrolled taand kept wateh In the rear of the I they heard the midnizht pra) e, they understood that all was well th of Fur alt ultimo, the wing order Mex ning of that day Col V. Trimgaray h soldiers, and pre rder ent faort ¥ their convents In Bu. Was pot heeded. FORCED PHOM THEIR CONVENT At ¥:0 the fathers were forced from th convent. and hetween two rows of bayon uken to the old M f r ns. They Paseed the ban unfurnisued hall, with we to He pen but its bar ed at Chemaltenar ‘ hundred) soldiers t was he by some inf and they obtained the request th ‘ 1 aken tot f Chan \ 1 tt ndition that. they y embark for San Francisco, ko that they n Pat any port of Central America er bad roads, several of them sick and infirm Thay we 4 thr e largest towns. They “ ws on the journey, ‘Three nights y allowed to rest, PME CHARITY OF THE PEOPLE. Up to the last moment rimgaray as surred n that Governme Id pay their passage on the stean Hut the fact trary. It wa i the Capu have them set South America, but without ay arity of the hey re ime. Efforts in Mexico or THEIR DESTINATION Sixteen of thei will remain in America, and the otbers will go te and Spain, Father Ignatius, the Superior, will go with th He is their instructor, The friar is a very acute philologist, and {s particular in the use of words, He has 'a sharp perception of synonytms and terms concerning his order, He objected to the phrase “band of Guatemalan monks,” which Was tired in THR SUN yesterday. He t the word "band" h z not respectful to the « brotherhood" w thought. He sa ren do ‘not That is a totally d — What the Editor of the Disreputable New York Really Thinks ot Dr, Greeley, Prom Le april, The points of difference Greeley and Mr, troversies stro between Mr Raymond in their early con nly curious now as examples of intellectual contrasts, Both men wished to arrive at a given end, but by opposite means The the doned ut various periods of his t ries which Mr. Greeley haa held or a in reference to the dieparities of social condition, all sprung from 1 passionate desire to better the condition of th poor, and to prevent a destitute class from be coming permanent Ox the community. Some of the most eminent me deavored te this vast and com of all nations haye en: mysteries surrounding solve the X problem, and we & this hour how trifling the Legislatures, parllamenis, and found it a task beyond the at resu:t has been. assemblies have powers t ender want unknown and to remove labor from the point where it ts not required to the point’ where it is. The curse f poverty still hangs like a blight over almost all large communities. The remedies sugested are still only tentative, as they were in 1846, when Mr, Greeley contended that “man h a natural, God-given right to labor for his own subsistence and the g 10a needful portion of the earth from which his physteal aust nance ts to be drawn,” What (s this but the very principle for which Mr. Bright has long been fight= ing in England witha gtant’s strength? He is practically echoing the demonds which Mr. Gree ley made on behalf of the working classes five and twenty years ago, Wo are only now groping SHON, an Inspector for more than two years, has also been dismissed for refusing to pay this The Executive Committee of the GAN? State Central Committee required that $10,000 should be collected from the Inspectors for election purposes, Mr. MERSHON refused to pay; but although the law prohibits such levies upon Government employees, he was dismissed on account of the refusal, E1isna HouMes of Greenpotnt, a night Inspec- tor, has likewise been disinissed for refusing to Pay this assessment, Such ts clyil servico reform under Grant, = sida! ‘The most indecent little humbug in the United States la J, B, MOCULLAGH, editor of the Missouri Dernocrdte uasesnMent In the dark, Englands trying to solve the labor question by the half compulsory deportation of her working classes, ‘The poor aro to be sent [THE SIEGFRIED MYSTERY. HEGGI CANNOT EXPLAIN THR PRESENCE OF THE POISON, —— An Exceedingly Lame Defence—The Prisoner Contradicting his own Witnesses-A Dead Lawyer Gives him the Lie. The trial of Frederick Heggion charge of polsoning Frederick J. Siegfried in August, 1409, was resumed In the General Sessions yes terday. Dr. Marsh, Deputy Coroner, having been recalled for the prosecution, told again about taking from the remains of Siegfried tha liver, stomach, intestines, brain, and a hand, for delivery to the chemist, on the 6th of February, and how he had subsequently, on the Sth of March, taken from the body other portions, together with portions of the coffin and the soil but will return to-r row surrounding it. He added that tl ofin when Reporter Dy you know where he has gono? | he first saw it In the Morgue was closed, the lida Watchman—Tdo not. being screwed on tight, Reporter—Is Mr. Tweed's family In the clty? SIRGFRIED POISONED WITH ARSENIC. Watchinan—Noj the fanily is in Europe. I} 4+ ¢n6 aret examination he found the mucous the only person In the Louse, he reporter then went to the Metropolitan | membrane of the stomach inflamed and of @ MR, WILLIAM M, TWEED. omen ting Stories which Lead to the Tm= pression that the Boss is a Fugitive-No- where to bo F. in the City. A rumor having been circulated that Mr. William M. Tweed was about leaving the city yesterday to escape trial in the sults pending against him, a8un reporter instituted a search for the Boss, He was not in his office, nor could he be found In any of the places generally fro- quented by him. The reporter then went to Mr. Tweed's residence in Fifth avenue and rang the door bell repeatedly, but no response was elicited. The blinds were drawn, and the house was apparently deserted. A subsequent appll- Wil0 STUFFED THE BALLOT BOXES? nd Patrick Keenan, The publication of the aMdavits of Michael J. Weldon and John McKenna, tmpli- cating Alderman Dunne and Patrick Keenan in the Brooklyn election frauds last fall, created Intense excitement among the politicians around the City Hall yesterday. The affidavits were presented In the City Court on Saturday, and were the basis of an application made in behalf of Michael J, Weldon, who claims that he was wrongfully convicted of these frauds last win- ter, for an order to show cause why leave should not be granted for a new trial. The papers cation at the basement door called forth a watchman, who partially opened a blind {none of the basement windows and aeke te were handed to Judge MeCue fyesterday morn- ing, who, tis thought, wi!!! grant the applica thon +“ Well?” Soon afterward District Attorney Win- wn made an application to Jude order of arres: against Aldertuan trick Keenan, The application 4 based onthe aMidavit of Weldon and Mc nna, and also on the following afidavit made by Mr. Britton bins te of New York, County of Ringe, 1, being duly’ aw. Is Mr weed at home an—He is not. He went out of town on Saturd Winchester | a is Informed and Patric wiieves airick | Hotel and saw Mr, Richard Tweed. pinkish color, the intestines presenting the rai Rae, a ope pa porter—Mr. Tweed, there Is a rumor afloat | Libearance, The whole bedy wna. remarkably arelys Be cote an | that your father has Hed from the city to-day. preserved. 1 tls ndan’ w of the rp portions were softened somewhat, but the front or upper portion of the body was Intact. Tho indications of arsenical poisoning noticed by witness were the inflamed condition of the Stomach and intestines and the extraordinary y preservation of the body. As an expert he tes Mtaieituhn d that under circuinstances favorabls to ay, and T believe he is here no . | operation two grains of arsente would be fatal, This was at 6 o'clock last evening. The fat | Ho further explained that. arsenic taken In very a es i Oe small doses, given medicinally, would be elimi Do you wish to say anything about it? Mr, Tweed—Only to deny It. I have no per. sonal knowledge of his having gone away, and it fs improbable that he could have done so with- out my knowledge. Reporter—Is your father In town? Eighth Election District of ot Brooklyn on t ames of the persong sixth Ward of the city ¢ iveted at anid el jon, #uch Ballo but Were whe OL having been vote false, franduent, and ferttions, Wixcnester Brit Sworn to before me, the 9th day ul September. Ist A. McCue, Judgd of t ty Court of Brooklyn Jude Neilson at once granted a warrant, Af- terward Alderman Dunne waa arrested and but he was port aken be e Jud Wil He gave bail to nated by the functional operation of the organs ber at ie XU Monday afternoon at 3orclock, Mr, | ¢0 get any further information. If the run of the body, and showed how it might be abe Lennon, of the firm of Lennon & Clyne, being | Rot false, Hose Tweed ran away yesterday | torbed Into'the circulation nad produce deaths hig bondsman. Keenan also arrested and | Watchman told the truth he went on Hat. He thought, taking the results of the chemlca held forexamination. Hiwatt ee analysis to be correct, that Siegfried died from Weldon, in conversation with a reporter yea- | father is in the city. arsenical potoning. terday, Ar i TWO UNSATISFIED PITYSICTANS, (a sto prove my tnnocen he | bE UTARY ROBESON’ ORSE - Se WER LTNLOLE Neale Thee ne veneer eee ee foDt, PF. Truchsess, of Manhattanville, was called own name to lo for, and have a wife an coal rthe defence. [le gave a confus punt io Party Bamme to look out for and have a wife and 1A United States Vessel Detailed to Trans | broken English of how he had prescribed for buLon me. Thoew hothing shout these feud’ vor (hem from Place to Places Sleetried aaa consumptive fve oF ale we ks to ; are ‘Kod up abou | Yesterésy morning the following note | fore bis death, This testimony did not seem LTE teaalcuboed hind iden ees ar t the Pd fice: “ Yaluable to either side, and the doctor was ie : > van at tDE Pum Cmca asked to vacate the chair for witnesses, He de- Renorter—Who visited you at the Pentten- | notwn's ior om have art Wed at the Brookivn Xavy | fu gto vacate the, Jere’ ftie all my ary ¢ P wa i and b cou exercising lu the yard for several | practice—who pay me now?’ Everybody cave Weldon ‘The men T tho aie, eee CANOE NT Wap, and the went off muttering auathe+ mies before L went there, but the mi H A SUN reporter visited the Brooklyn Navy | mas upon all ¢ When Igeame out] my. friends sta hod name was gone. 1 away. Yard yesterday, A small army of men wer » Furman, phystelan of the St. Cloud hadn't adollar, and my 2 ed as ane that the deseript said then T would clear myself of these stains | eonspicuously employed in doing nothing. They | Hitch teatified as an expert that the descriptt Ey tsa 2 A ae A USM’ | wore lounging on the wharves and board piles, | satisfy him that arsenic had been found. His ed the & oo ae » knew Oe te et ay te the | Sad were sleeping on the grass. The reporter | d ition was long and tedlous, like that Bis retnacalied in tay palty, to go, snd sey to the ressed one of them Bndemann, was beyond tue comp leaders of my party that J veo nite At be Gon yous ean pretty lively here to-day." 1 | Bepston of any on Dut a jentiat. on "i wouldn ie walt lazy Individual (with @ win! € ea, Jacob Halle, livery stable keeper of Newark, send sot bad to suffer for the guilty | reckon that between now and election time we | swore that In August, 189, he drove the prisoned nen saci we ieee Will build a small navy, IT have worked three | and Siegfried from Newark to Houston street. Thomas McGiff, who was convic days in the last two weeks. He did not know who ordered the carriages te need 3 th siecn ietvaee A Bethe dhe Keporter—Don't get your pay when you don't | After the sick man got In, a lady went along we and then got out and went backs k.tio yout about a block Kunna’s aMdavit. Said he toe reporter: |. | Lasy Individual Pour dollars and ahalfaday, | The prisoner was then In Mr. Lumer's house ll a Ne Ae T Mes adele rain or shine, work oF play getting achalr, and did not come out until aft Umengy taken onthe trial of Medit and Wel Reporter Whom you going to vote for? the wonan had alighted. idual (with another wink)—Well, T bal} oe that seven men sw e a tune nak tt A NURSE'S PATAY, TESTIMONY. Baiiousin the boxes when they caiuo ya ty vue | gueee VU vote for Grant this time, T think 1) 4. conning Tanner of 110 Springteld ares 2 cee on boxes be stull Dicfel Oiticer (who had just marched up)—We | nie, Newark, sald she know Stegfrled very well. : tors to talk with employers, sir, | He visited her atore frequently abou Where fs Ald. Dunne? ry to took about all you wish She him if he had nobody ta was a very sick man. Ha f him, ra ly, but that he had wered that he had me, sick. He denies th al you would like to see? uno. T a luna on the | an L yor n by the name of Secratabet some ble. wit and would now question. and beard that Secretary Hobe. | had some trot ™ 4 up and saldthat he was « a aban wen it b fr ee ith them, as b they would kill ia inna atte aihttey Cattue | a8 ban waa Tt the yard, 40 Fan in. Cau th thei, st fea salt that ying Dunne and F Brisk Oficer—They are gone, ‘They were here nad @ good friend in New York. At that Xe. This young was very sick and feeble, on Saturday, The Tuscaloosa is taking them ton street d that he had a Elizabeth Bren! A from Portsmouth to Was ywere | Mra, Elizabeth Brent of aflducitas had appeare \ f D here to be exerci Sora | depowed that. sho > his bret ntrad sein on y atverncon s! ‘soa on | Heggi, and. assisted in nursing the former dur- erward published a Tet Saturday at soon ing the last week of his life. She had never Witla he Auld: “HL desire t Ptepurter—Did you see them ? Even the sick man any medicine herself, but Ficcof any kind relating to the bail Ick Uticer “Ob. yen Tuey are eravs, They | fa teen Hogct give him medicine twice, and at fil tebeen, made by p Wrought On above twices aud were catitered | milk frequently. false. hotng informed that MeKenna had | Luscalooan tame Into port forts gtve the | Andrews. Daniel W. Richards, Robert Greer, See neh teaed informed that M-Kenna had | horses exercise. She put {nto port when she took | Joseph Edwards, and Thos. W. Atterberry tosti: friitten Hor, became very much excited. | tigi from Washington to Portsmouth, and for | fed that the prisoner was a pe f fe sald that two aMdavits were made, one in | thet from Wash character. ‘They all knew bim as an employee the presence of Gens. Tracy and Catlin, Said he of William D, Androws & Co. when he learned that had bean sent to prison, ROBESON'S NAVY, WEGGI ON THE STAXD, His excuse for delaying his stavement was that —— Counsel for the defence called the prisoner ta he was afraid of personal Violepee, He can'tget | Bad Management of the Fingship Wabash— | the stand. Afier explaining that his black eya out of this case. There are too Many witheses Sastre Gecune Weameae Ges. was the result of his having been placed ina aflidavits pub coll with a crazy man im the Tombs, he went on to prove that he made those Correspondence of The 8 lished. 7 to tell his story. He denied that’ he had pols ——____ GuveKsrapT, Sept. %—We started « toned Slegftied, and sald be had wiven bin no : ; 5 : : r Ne United States | Medicine whatever, He denied that be THE CHICAGO CARVEFTERS’ CASE. | yo York, on the United States | inedicine whatever, He denied thet he prve aya Flagship with a crew of six hundred ho Wrote the will, and sald he tiad no knowl> Why they Strack for Higher Wages-Thelr | 4 merican seamen, a majority of whom had seen | edge of that instrument until aftertt had been Own Story Pluiwty Told. ccevien ba tonk executed, He professed to have. befrient To the Baitor of The Sun : fried in Switzerian * Sin: In the interests ef labor and fair | #04 Were pro Lohan dl atespacy baad gimculty with Caroline Miller, piebe A | made. Our first lieutenant, a gentieman of the ce he thought was the reagpn for play Task insertion for the following, and as I school, one Who always took pride in up- ed's bequest to him. He had not advis Wish to be brief L will come to the facts at once, | holding ¢ yor of, y, was removed man to go to Newark, and went th artial He wasa kind and tm Meer, Since his see him upon a written invit b dissatiefaction bas been ex- y DF request that he would do so, Wien they ri r' Union of this city Nivel leon The Carpenters’ and J oe wane hold a mass meeting at Turner Hall, West | pressed seainen. His successor is vain | York together, Slegfried went to his witness} Twelfth street, for the purpose of obtaining a | and tyr al, and his overbearing manner | house for a night only, and remained until he Las re in ourlosingovertwo hundred men, | died because be was too sick to be removed. in wages. the present rate paid p #205 to B25, a few men only | 2d our ship, which ts stigmatized as the con- | Witness called Dr, Kroeble to attend the djing having gh. Theinecting was large, Bormetwe | vict sheep of the fleet IsOiled up with foreigners | man, and followed bis direct! t Were present, and they were | BHO do not underst eh WHAT LAWYER SOMMERS SAYS, 5 The vessel I e like a German academy than whaniinous in demanding an f wag PA merCan frigates We aiip ied ene cet | The story told by Mrs. Gleatried,Jr..he said.was ; pt z hundred and fifty-three Belgians at Antwerp, | filse in many partic If we were convicts we could not be treated | erence to the old man telling her that he. wits one than we are, “There is adog on board, ben | Bess) bad p dim. In Newark he had gone I rone Of the officers. which bas bet with the lawyer, Somers, to deposit $2.00 for lars, and especially in ref. \ food and a better place to sleep than we have, | Siegfried in a savings bauk, taklag out @ book In Bad carriers having 63 8 da Here we are, penned up and allowed hoffreedom, | Siegfried’ nate, : ployed Baul Weert al teetio aa and down ou the | Charles Starke, time keeper for Willlam D, ' f corrupt administration of Grant, W, B,J. | Andrews © Co. testified, from an examinat THE CREDIT MOBILIER BRIRERY | Othe Week preceding Siegfried s death a bese that an inctoage to 64 MORIET hot, on cross-examination, find any record of i day’ Work by the prisoner that wook i ; tee Hon, Schuyler Coltax Prevaricates. Counsel for the dete lence the The Vice-President has had three wee Teen peenee we t testimony of the prisone present When the will of Sieg! nd signed. think this matter over, and at the end of th time he ha: tter to offer than quib- bles, shifts, ns. He probably knows d was drawn Was W i pr Wing comment from the New What evidence tein the hands of Oakes Ames, | gurrogatum office wom teal nese ings, in the ery have taker antage of the | 40d be cannot frame his lips to utter @ square eluded by the Court, after which ‘there was an ‘ denial of the charges contained in the letters OU FE, hich es adjournmer until this morning. probably be ncluded to-day, which Oakes Ames wrote, and {on the list of ‘The case will names which Oakes Ames furnished, He does hot say that no shares of Credit Mobllier were <a eeres fe sirike #ysteii as a Weeks of obtaining ju * placed for his benefit. He does not say that | 4 VOICE FROM FORT MACON PRISON, It fs a wonder to us that that Justice-loving | he was not personally interested in the corpora- ———— Journal never notived that the landlords have | tion which gath: tains through the | The Way in which Grant's Officers Tr advanced the rents over one hundred per cent.. | tiaproper legislation which was forced through hat food had advanced, and every necessary of | Congress. He talks largely of the millions. can. life had increased in price. Ihave lived in New | tributed by private capitalists, when he knows rk nome time, and Tcan assert that Leould | full well that the Government furnlahed subst” live there better on $3.25 per day than here on @4. | dies ag in value sixty millions of dol- Hilitary nee of The risouers. Correspon Fort Macon, N.C, Sept. 24.—The majore f{ reform as well as of 1 bosses say Chey can get plenty of men fr lars, while the entire cost of construc ity of pr ne are. places the Bast here; but if-carpenters, and 4k fad Was only twenty: fve Millions, A aeuage | Punishment, but the military prison at this po knew the real state of afairs here, Chicago would | denial of afl participation in’ this corrup- | is anything but a reformatory institution, There | be the last place they would come to, from Schuyler Colfax would have had are seventy-oue prisoners here undergoing sen- nees Varying from one to five years, Sixty- eight of them are held for military offences, EbWakp Jonts, President of Nc and TURNER HALL, We weight. But no def feeling that man can read the ® which he puts forth without he Vice-President has fallen before 1 Branch of the ners’ Union TWELFTH STREBT, the great temptation to which he expose: : i Cuickao, Sept. 2h isis When men of his character sield, whom shail | @asy on the most frivolous charges. All ara Bal e We trust? Let the question be pondered. subjected to inhuman treatment, Our work is TROITING AT FLEETWOOD PARK —$—<——____ ETT ARC Re et eT A eae apes yrs nee : Parmer ‘The Candidate of Rich Men, Jeep in water for hours at atime, The come Fine Raciug Ve y—The Opening of th rom the Spirit of the Tinea, tanding ofticer devotes most of is time to pers Fall 1“ To-Day. As the candidate of the rich men, Ulysses | sonally directing the work.and woe be tot 4 He has never entered a " s house, of allowed his children to, he became rich himself. All his associa nian Who fails to heap his barrow with sand his shovel with mu He Js abused, and then ordered to work one hour after the other prisude | ers have been marched t 3. Grant is a success. poor n There was a large attendance at Fle wood Paik yesterday, ‘The Orst trot was for out of the country, so that the rich may not hear their cries for bread, Men like Mr, Greeley hav taught the world to avoid many errors, and et an example of sincere devotion to a noble cause, of ts interestedness, of lofty aims, which Journalists, of all men, can least aford to underestimate or disre- gard, In this respect, as In his trenchant mode Of addressing the people, and his uncompromising style of earrying on warfare, Mr. Greeley bears a striking resemblance to Williang Cobbett, —————____ Owing to sickness tn his family, A.C. Davis, '#q., 1# obliged to throw up his stump engagemeute this Weak up whe river, $1,000, between Dan, I'Ofer's ch. m. Grace Ber- | tions and friendships are with the rich, Like all } their cells, | tram and Isaac Pawling’s b. g. George, The lat. n who have wealth thrust suddenly upon We recelve @ scanty supply of condemned i rs he ta ni, he attaches to it a false Importance, and | attay clothing every three months; but the want ter paid forfeit on account of being lame, The unaccustomed luxuries of horses and dogs | of food and tobacco compels us to sell the second was for $250, between P. Maneo's g.g. St. | ML him with a vulgar delight, But more than | stealer porti ly to nero peddlers, Elmo and D. Pater's b. m. Topsey. The former | matey sas puifilcal powers he Bes, cea the | Baked, Bore he tives: otters bo, hit Was the favorite and won the race, In the third | highest honors. in the > le pure | many have n 8, and all ate exposed to t race there were three entries, John Murphy's hased jeliberately as men purchase catth bot rays of the sun, There are no obje by ini. Kale. Taaan Pawilia's be bane Gi het essed the sale of State Legislatures, | faised to the prisoners disposing of their el and E. W. Weeks's ¢ Mots Wanna, Fkagy | and Congress itself bought wholesale by the 8 the proceeds go t * post fund" f Was the favorite, Bho Won the fuer, Kate | oribes of the Credit Mobilier, ‘The lesson so 1 purchased from the post bakery,” W\ Taiuht heats, Without & skip oF bread “Uf? | easily learned is boldly practised. The Pres. | @fe allowed one hour on Saturday evening hay ak, dent depends for his continuance Ih ofice upon | Wash our old rags in cold water and to ha The rianager used every effort to | money alone in every election district in the | them upin our Althy cells to dry. Our rat make tl " best in the country, | United States, [t was the. unlimited expend hy for breakfast, one | f weak and It kr the superintendent, | ture of money In North Carolina, distributed ances of sour bread, and two vu ir, Wa pains In carry: nthe pretence that it was for the use of the pork or 1 beet; for dinner, one j ng out th Hthat he shows i that produced the monstrous frauds f rice gruel, bo par On Bat | and bogus counting there. Itwas money cor: | ounces of bread urdayy tr Idou and tly spent in Maine that seved his majority in | We receive, howe Peager She lost hat safe quarter from bein it down to alarr suldiers do fr t Hirst i Van ( aw | ingly low figures, It is money that he ts tow The greater port al "I ndering in Pennsylvania upon which he ve the proceeds pock anged hind the | es for knocking the Greeley progress in the | steal our rat auc w vead in. the dreaded election of Geta make a report t the third om vefore Was Kuch aN expensive cary elves. What ky ahd all outside bets off, a he wt] Known in the United states, When econ years of such Was received with che hower of wealth? From the taxatt e but few of us left Extraordinary preparations have been made | person employed by the Tene Le Gitte ta great change for the fall meeting of the Fleetwood Park ow humble Al hie | istration. * 8 Mn, Which begins to-day, Some of the | salary sury of the United State W ro Joyed ¥ weeks ago over & sletlon,, which . f AsUrY 0) nited States, © were overjoyed a few weeks ago : best trotting horses ih the country are entered. | which ma ¢ A the security that it | rumor that the Present-taker would Peventoen thousand two hundred and itty d will ensu nts thong and from the | Bxeentive clemency to all military prlavt ars are to be given fn pur Mw police willbe | vast speculative, gambling rings of the rich men, | fore the elect i about that tne under the om nand of Capt. Wilson, = who invest in Grant stock in the expectation | ceived forty w arrow Ther 4 race, following ts @ summary of yesterday's | that success will return them dividends propor | President's. proclamation,? was heard 4 FL Pank—Trotting, Sept, 90.~Mateb §250 bondent as ever, aud we fear ours 1 5 1H, We Bb Unveiling of eu Monument, tbe improved it ‘, Nt. Bilan Co ie Unica, 8 0, tion Ut —— ‘ Dau Mer's v. bie Tops y ation tive ‘ 1 TOpHRY a WSS oitnccreral parrisant Nine aKa Hh he Disreputable Tinies Agata, si) ties of New York, went to Kemscn and Steuben easton af Th Firet heat & this morning to be present at the unveiling of the Steu, | SiR: Ihave seen in this day's Times a deseripe Second heat 3 en monument, A ling of wagons nearly three tion of printed tickets, or labels, with t 8 Third heat rng, exter m Remsen to the monument, were | for Governor ex by a rug with . Ld dat the met About 40 p is Kernan Fotin Murphy's b, m 14 © Mayor | £Utlew wae th w the trut " i E,W. Weekes g- 6 Luin Wonder 34 followed the presentation of the ti } 1 Hele pie Uf Atnerion by Carl Sixtiie. Ka thems Gre Kina Tue i 4 behalf of the Stedbeu ‘AMuulunent A \ #1 lew Cnt { \ First heat a 4 is cleared away fi Bonne oe F Mreas ec omicehals crs i Third heat a vil received the thonument on behalf ' ’ ’ 5 roe pBAME Daye—Match $200) ine heute, beat 9 a Mdreaaee, wer mad by ihe Hon, kilis H. Mobtriy Laura D, Bair Acauitteds John Murphy's b. g. Charley Green received forfeit ced by the {| SAN FRANCINCO, Sept, B0.—The jury int cy Miodeu! d,s Calle Hoy paid fortele Ps ne puremagiee f Stine | Of Ste Laure D, Fair, on her secoud tr Same Day—Match $200; mile heats, under s Tho ‘excurelunicte te. | er of Col. A, P. Crittenden, came t Jouu Murpiy's bey, Ged, W. atterscu: roe TA SROUHORIEE Fee ee Oe DUR BRAVE MUTE SORE AT . — - ’ R, Alger, the well-known Boston preacher And lecturer, will give @ free lecture this evening at Unity Chapel, 128th street aud Fourth ayeuue, on * The Future of Humanity,” Charley Green's bal te 8. Wallace paid forfett, a The Mutual Beneft Savings Bank, inthe Sun Puliiing: oilers wavy euberautial advantages Wy depoal: i from meu go iMLOrALE 4a DOL to know Botorlous case Wy have formed auy vp. wusayorabie \o tue defeudaus.