The Sun (New York) Newspaper, November 28, 1872, Page 1

FORTIETH YEAR. JAY GOULD ON VANDERBILT _——_—- THE FINANCIER SAYS THE COMMO- DORE IS IN HIS DOTAGE, Last ovening a Sun reporter had a con- Yersation with Mr. Gould about Commodore Vandorbiit’s letter published in Tum Sun of yes- Jeorday, and also respecting the Commodore's In- verviow with @ reporter, which appears in the same paper. Reporter—Is Commodore Vanderbilt's state- Ment that he has had only one business transac- Mon with you correct ? Mr. Gould—It is untrue. The Commodore and Thave had many transactions together; some pleasant, some unpleasant. Reporter™Have you any objections to saying What these transactions wore ? | Mr. Gould—I don’t care about newspaper noto- Hety, and besides I don't know that there is any hood for me to make the facts public, What the Dommodore says about me don't trouble me much. { Reporter—The Commodore has recently made Matements respecting you, and if you can show by plain facts that one of thom {s false the pub- lic will draw their own inferences respecting the rest. '! Mr. Gould sat for a minute In thought, with his fleep-set, coal-black eyes fixed on the reporter, And one leg thrown across the other. Then he stood up and began to speak. ; Mr, Gould—I don't see, either, why I shouldn't tell the whole story. [A pause.) YAY GOULD'S FIRST TRANSACTION WITH VAN- DED! Reporter—Suppose you give me an account of sour first transaction with the Commodore. * Mr. Gould (seating himself)—My first business transaction with the Commodore was in 1867. Vanderbilt and Drew had a personal trouble. Vanderbilt wanted to turn Drew out of the man- agement of Brie. I held @ large amount of stock, and Tand Vanderbilt joined to make up aticket. The night before the election Drew went to see Vanderbilt, and the latter relented. Che result was that Drew went Into the board, Gut of that ctroumstance grew the litigations that follo’ Keporter—Perhaps you would explain what those litigations we Mr. Gould—Shorily after the election a pool was mado up in Erie, in which Drew, Vander- bilt, and others were partners. Everything was lovely until some one accused Drew of cheating fhe, pool, or, In other words, of, selling outside, Phe pool broke up in a row, and out of this row Frew all those litigations known as the frst se- Hoe of Erle litigations. Reporter—Where was Vanderbilt after this tow DAN DREW AND THE COMMODORE AT LOGGER- HEADS. Mr. Gould—The Commodore then took a post- tion against Drew. Drew went short of "rie, and the Commodore went in to corner him on Drew, to get out of the mess, prevailed on to his relief of ‘Those wi sold on @ certain that was to be sold. Reporter—What was the result of this ruse? 1 Mr Gould—Very simple. Vanderbilt’ became pwner of millions of Brie stock, greatly to bis Bisgust. How to get rid of if was now the jlem for hin to scive. Ho solved it thus: Vanderbilt stimated his losses on the transace ton at $1,000,000. ount he insisted Erie ould pay to hiin, before the litigation in which Eitelwah thvolved should be distontinued. He go insisted that the Erie Company should buy sto’ SUCCUMRS TO THE COMMODORE. ‘The rie Company, seeing no other alternative seoure peace. submitted to the Commo- terms, and accordingly purchased $5,1W0,- orth of stock at a price above the market entered into an ment with th ore that he should hold the remaini QW) worth of Brie stock off the mark: days, giving @ call upon it at 4 the sixty days at the same price as was paid for 16 $5,010,000 worth of stock actually purchased. “Reporter yFnat do you mean by “giving @ call upon as Mr. Gould—A right to buy in—gtving one & t to buy itin during the time. I was led to Uae ths ocurse trom a fear thas if the Comite fore throw the stock on the market ft would depress it. In order to pay for thi Wras compelled to borrow a lan Inthe market. ‘This Vanderbilt well knew: NOW COMES THE as stead of holding the he market accord- to bis agroemont with me, old it secretly, brokers borrowing It from after da; mbole,was sold, aud be bed delivers The Commodore weil knew tho Fesult which mustand did follow, ‘ham Ee of '6s, an: i trom 10 to 15 per cent, or a loss of from halt 0 three-quarters of ‘a million on the $5,000,000 worth of stock actually bought. ‘There—that is The bistory of my first transaction with Commo- Gore Vanderbilt, Reporter And what was your next transac- ton ‘ure Gould ? . Gould—At the time of the suit of Belmont ‘gana nine bofae on Commodore Vanderbilt te even fore it was to go into the cou: tw see whether the Commodore de benind' ite naked him the question plain out. Lie answer was, * No; Chas. O'Conor isn't . If I'd had ing to do. with it Chas, Ould have ‘been in it.” Next day, hen the suit came up for a preliminary hear- ig, O'Conor did appear in it, and hence Il drew be inference th: VANDERBILT WAS BEMIND IT, ted from the outset? Ms, Gould- Yee, tee ria, Company in lefence bro it a suit ns mmodore vf derbilt to recsver the taney paid to bits OB unt of bis losses in Erle speculations, as before related, and for s restitution of the neys received for $5,000,000 worth of Erie Block, which I had taken from Nim on agree: front that the other §5,000,0 should be kept off © market for sixty days. The sult progressed Howly until Augus when I was requested wot Mr. Vanderbilt’ at Saratoga. I went tore accordingly and mot him. We then made d agreement, which was signed by Mr. H, Vandorbilt, the Commodore's son. Here it is, 1. Buit of Erie ted and ed ta factory to Mi Ce,Am equi ‘and perma: by ihe New York Cent akrie tor tne’ co art hare, #0 that uelther tue shall y 40d nereby agree tual the above arrangement shall be if r vari 10, iam. ood W.H, Vanpenmiir, THE COMMODORE IGNORES THE AGREEMENT, , Yevorter.-Was that aureement abided by? Mr. Gould—I carried out the first part of the ment faithfully, and the sult was adjusted, ie reement was of great importance, and I as always ready to carry it out. Commodore angorbit: however, subsequently changed his filnd. Vor reasons er explained, which, = = the rey, would furnish him with an amp! eme for another card, the Commodore decline © carry out the agreement.’ His excuse was Bhat the Penusylvania Kallroad Company would Bet act squarely, T should very much ike the mmodore to say in another letter to ruth about it ‘ng to impoyerish Erie, and to crush it out as a pompeting ie, thus le west. He tried onopoly of the carrylny be very same thing in the ‘corner with Drew. [ASAT VANDERBIL? KNOWS ABOUT CORNERS, xt ‘som. riem corners and Cen- Aral corners, w r his manipulation of warlior days, mn greater financial con- Vulsion than ‘the 1 in Northwestern Bgainst which bis tidiennntd virtue was aroused: te purter—By the Gould, how did the Northwostern corner begin? ¥ Mr. Gould-One of the. principal causes which Produced it was this: On the Sunday of the Bos- on fire certain parties conspired to get posses- pion of @ large portion of my Northwestern Btock, ‘Able thore would be & panic on Hay. “hey then threw the stock on the market, nown tome, ‘The back my own atocl mive me back my took, they marl the price Ap on themselves, ‘ Reporter—Have you any more information acti your trabsaotlons with Commodore Mr. Gould—No ; that brings matters up to th ‘Tike last sult fs novended yeu. MHAT JAY GOULD THINKS OF COM. VANDERBILT, |, Reporter—Did_you read the account of are- horter's interview with the Commodore in to- ak UN 7 Mr. Gould ‘e#, I did. iar Goutal Pray, what do you think about it, longer go around as he use: ‘and attend to pustiess, and he is feebiy BY NEW YORK, THURSDAY, envious of those who can. Flaing fanciers whom # ) re upon which in tautiitar with is old man, even though he ts in ie mental power enough left to comprehend thine and he blows his litth whenever ba ty onl fy Spon t the no ‘motion now pending her “worn to before me, this 26th day Wu. MOLLOY, Notaty Public Gy! a ‘ vember, 52. pellets. of eny joasos him, and it doesn’t 18 oriticlam ‘of my personal he ought in bis piety at respect to tl m that has bestowed don him his patie se concerned wi Bape err rome but The Attempt k4 in z pase ‘a ea pec) Ee H % right eos yO ithe Hon. Augustus Bohell appeared youtorday morning before Mr. McDonough, the referee ap- pointed by Judge Fancher to take testimony to be used in support of the motion to vacate the order of arrest obtained against Jay Gould In the suit instituted against him by the Erie Rall- way Company. Mr. Schell having been sworn tostified as follows: lo ou reslde, and what ts your Feaide fn the ety feral Tailruad cogporaticn ‘and other institutions. ou now, or had you avige the month of isn any Interest in North mon ke Shore Rallroad stock, or other leadiny ork tiarket?-A.—T ba kidavie ree ah uss aes Shae weit jon Ate ‘i his tineess to mal Bits gia gear fore hot arrive at any conclusion ourselves oy r low—L understand the rule to be that Mr. ivé stock upon the New ‘Travers canbe examined only whou be bas declined to ul now have large interests in Northwestern common ck, Leke Shore stock, and in the stock Of several "F leading ratiroad cor ve you observed evi BOUND TO ANSWER. ire cours of the stock men edt, Fild—We do not so understand it is city during the roath of November, 15%? , tg hat ny knowledge and experienc: course of the market for such stocks? A,—I A large holder of raliroad stocks for some years pi nd suppose 1 ain & good deal familiar with the market. THE LOCK THE GOV: scribe the state of the otock market ip thie city 1e may e rlow—Write down one a and we will Barlow yur acct Travers hae a Fight to dotermihe whether f fo answer it without reference o hie the rigot (o ask you to presen ‘ou think pertigent when the aftdavit te made | you wish further information of ny upplemental afidavit ia anawer to hi Jo, him all the ques Der Pressed, owing to. marvel was {money which was said to have bi jovernment in makin aT teenie Of Legal tenders, which occurred. Hof October, and during that moi fire In November, the market was ¥ on of the Boston fire there F je 4 on in the early part of Mo “Fhe inarket ralied from! that deprecsion and became quite active aud excited, aud continued od up to the ie of November Uons about fils own private aif i ws Yolved in this controversy we. desire to Travers about, 3 T suppose you and 1 ‘oul new practice to me. We Haliroad Company. and ‘ed irance, in the m wtf er momenta af le the Union Paeitic “Fale ol tained there by Juage Bat IidIt was quite the other way. iti Car ook Island rene e re was a cousiderer € between those 4 sed ad vance ® rdinand com ated in this elty? A.—It was mented upon by the ne ‘appointing referees where the partien have declined ean the aiidavit- * BEAR THAT IN MIND. Mr. Barlow—We have not declined. I want that tn mind distinct) uber, to the effect thi hWestera Hallroad Ci com f $10,000,000 writings fine to's series 0 ared aMdavit—| ito it'at once if correct; <Was not this deat wer the questsons 60 cly reported as abando n to feaye stock afterward pub- Lunderstand It was. hd propoes uw to be in by'aeklog Mr, Trae er rid vers. auawers as [have told ua pat them. bewitl sosder the questions Possible or convenient for him to do so, jeld (addressing Mr. Travers) Tad you and if 90 what, connection with the order of arrest ane? Mr. Barlow—You may put that in writing and leave it rectly, oF as soon ae It did aud {twas a subject tlou snong business mien, Twas THE RUMOR THAT PREC hid you receive an November, 1872, DED. THE PANIC. information on the 2ist or 10 the probabitt In order that there ing Mr. shouid hot be any mis: epared to swear to an aftida fo hun ae, tra K, Were to be taken in the nam red to wns writing you mes! leave with Main | der into the crevices of are naw Wit based on those gearere. But be doce not propose to be examined ag wich would cause & nova an a bout ores AWoU att! he has refused to make m1 devit, which he not only doce not refuse to mak aigtinct ott thers ‘about ten minutes past three in the afternoon o: forehand what, be wilt 14 you find Mr, Gould er, overt ot thet timo? th oat aa ce itoraee a gas ing he will give S Seawers fa that la got full eno iit t the iret sat of answers. If yor re more testimony. send other aiesuone ‘and when you have got thro he will ewear to the aidavil i sopearsuce ts pet re al40, Gould on tne spot, ne conversation attending the arrest, and from other had come to bb tompel the reuioval ot f business at the most crit! fhe day, and In 9 critical On monene alent Robert McNeil of 376 One Hundred and Tenth street and one James Trainor quarrelled in a liquor Hundred and Tenth street. They were ejected by the proprietor, Dennis Dunn. They renewed the fight on the sidewalk, and McNoil's cries brought his wife to his ald, She struck with the ‘rung of a cl . felling him. 8h he Itieal pert; leat part of the day is betw ween the plain why that hour is 90 tmportant ? mad quarter peat 2, and 1g8, 0 rrest end removed fromenis ome hu of the day in buch 2 condition of the stoc at thal Ae certain Trainor’ ‘ie sti . Bas 0” all the way to the pollce station. An Mrs. MeNeil is momentarily expecting to become a mother re discharged the next day by Justice ‘Trainor's injuries, howeve: be mortal. and McNeil was Harlem Polloe Court as ho In parece Um, en taken Mr, Gould b saben taued to cust ody B: ir. Gould ba 19 custo ‘nd removed from his place of bi ual ness ror the remain: der of the day, it woul ay was summoned. ‘The ner waa taken to the Mew ninth h stroot read ru the rant ‘of the ‘Would the pan! received at the hands of Train ————————— THE SITUATION IN PARIS. Partially Allayed ved to have Passed. Panis, Noy. 27.—A meeting of the Cabi- t will be held to-day for deliberation upon the report of the majority of the Committee on the Address and the resolution of the minority. ‘M. Thiers will attend the session of the Assem- bly to-morrow, when the report of the majority will come up for consideration, The vote yesterday postponing consideration of the report has served to great- ly allay the excitement of the past few gore. western common other stocks? A. oe rite me Tho Exociteme itclaas of eb one sel Casualties and by all th ary, bot id think cy ‘would hi have injury fo the Erle oat ‘Compal roc believe the cris! is morning, and patches from the Brovinces report a Cofrespondlng degree of trans ted by the minority of the 83 in reply to. ruin hi tally and th Of paying his alleged indobleduess, bled nalbccart SATO: The Fesolution ado} committe on the adi message. proposing to the Asch nation of acommittee to responsible, and hecessary constitut her of members of sal thirty-five, as stated yeste: Yor who could pw Khow that there is How m iat ‘ing the onal reforms, fixes t mittee at thirty, not 1,000,000 within an hour sould’ think there would be y sdventitious circumstances Btn thie elty who by? Aon Dumber of wealthy m ‘Qi~'is your evidence aa to ‘these amounts tntended men as to men tn oF ‘ou accompany Mr. — ee, aud there give ball for *G-_ were you requested at the Sheriffs office to gehedule of your real catate in the city of Now yee ny Ja giv a Povonkerpsre, Nov. 21.—Henry Porter Tent- son, the alleged lines! descendant of the Archbishop of Canterbufy, who has been confined in jail here on the charge of bigamy, had @ further hevring before Re- ‘The court room was crowded, and the vietnity was packed with a dense multitude, tmportant witness was Mr. D.C, Spaniding of Detroit, ‘lsoner ofmltted to, to bim that he lady xpeoted to get @ divorce from bi for Mr. Gould? of rale by the Sherif? wners of real estate in pe } nt) ‘bal to. Juaty en ths 0 a nies ‘Yorn tet the amor re written to Tent. re what his real reasons were, Tiere ts Just ber who. bave fr umber w ve ‘amounts of real estate. 4 = Grama ae estan wrae further adjourned L. 8b 10 eiclock and & a as jooded Horses that Suffer ‘The race horses at Jerome Park, all or neatly ‘all of them, have had s slight attack of the disi Judge Fancher yesterday granted an order for the examination of Mr. 8. L. M. Barlow in the sult of the Erie Rallway Company agt. ‘an order to show cause why the order to examine Mr. Travers in the same sult should not be vacated, Following is the Gould version asto the alleged refusal of Mr, ‘Travers to make an aMdavit, on the allegation of whioh refusal the order to examine him was SMIDT'S AFFIDAVIT, ome Court.—The Brie Railway Co. agt, Jay ult was that I buy- py eet Ng ove parties wens called to oa, and id & New York: Atlan Lee Smidt, Father Burke and Mr. Froude, the historian, by the Mr. Hurlbut, The eotertainmens 1s dosigned to le the rival historia: each other at the festive eme: mated ber, 187; In the yng an’ af fe an order of arrests HH any true aud proper of the afternoon 1 called at the f Travers replicd that he would avit which we mould require, f fame it wilt pr brobaby ah ae sisi known to drivers Bea oti the Harlem lane, was tent Thymes SE eae wwe . A TERRIBLE EXPLOSION. | gx THREE LABORERS KILLED ON A B LEDGE, CARMANSVIL —_——- ® Biast with in Between 2 and 8 o'clock yesterday after- noon & premature explosion of a biast im 14th street, near Seventh avenue, killed two men and wounded several others more or less, one of them mortally. The explosion was on a side hill on the north side of 15th street, about thirty feet below Seventh avenue. Men had been at work here for aweek or more under Fairchild & Walker, the contractors for opening 45th street from Seventh avenue to the Bt. Nicholas Boulevard, which lies beyond Eighth avenue. Yesterday afternoon a party of twenty-five or or thirty men were at work near the scene of the Sxplosion, some of them at the hoaps of broken stones, some of them on the road bed, and eight or nine on the rock where the blast was prema- pA exploded. Edward Foley was the fore- Iman of the rockmen, as the fast named mon were “qalled, ‘and was ‘at work at a hole whieh had been recently bored, and into whic afew of his men were putting a charge o' ove der, When last seen alive he was “tamp- ing? (or icumming down) the charge iro) while Nixon Ralph.” Michast Burkley, Pi Patrick Conway, ct Conners, and Peter Mooney were at hia sid siating tlm in various wa 3 he was in the of raging dow! wrdor which had n poured Into the hole by Gonway the byl loded, and he and Ralpph, Bucl ley. ge oa ero blown high in alr, descend! to the earth at distances Ee ing from twenty to Atty foot, Kole! fty foot from the hol had been working, Con five, and Ralpph somewhat ov zona Ralpph died instantly, but or aif an hour or more, although in agony wach {tis no ‘exaggerat! worse than death. OFFICER ARMSTRONG'S RSCAPR. Officer, John Armstrong of the Carmansvillo police station had just passed by the blasting party whon the explosion was heard: lo was hot more than twolve fect from the rock when At was split, Into ten, thousand pleces, the frag- ments of stone, the killed and wounded men, and the tools fiying above and falling ‘around him in frightful confusion, OMcer ng says that as he passed the rock on which. Foley and the laborers, were at work, he saw Foley ramming into the hole vio- lently with a long rod, genorally used as father ground stone from the fore. but in this case converted wg rod,” and used to pack the Powder Into the crovices of the rock to insure Bn effective explosion. Before loading the hol rockmen generally ram a smal of fer into the bottorn of the. hole and ex plod thus making what is called a “squib,” an forming a large cavity in the bottom Into ‘which they afterward ram more powder, and thus, as it were, undermine the rook, is not rammed t ped” with sand, hence Its effect is confined to the bottom of the bole. The rock on which Foley was at work had ‘gone this operation, and zat th y was kegs, or woventy: five poun powder; but the charge exploded Then only about two and ahalt kegs bad been put in and rammed home, "ANOTHER KEQ OF POWDER. As OMcer Armstrong passed he heard Foloy angrily order two of bis assistants to bring an- other keg of powder, and this the officer saw pured into hole with great rapidity, Foley meanwhile working his tron rod up and down with great violence, 60 aa to get the pow- he rock below, and prevent its clog: ng the sides of the hole. The officer said as he passed: “You're going to h ith that hole.” "Il throw out consider- ae poke another word. An incau- yy, atrol Yer‘and inetantan iy he waa air with fragments of t brol rock. bane officer turned as oley sereered him, but euefon only a few feet away, the force of the con- ion threw him into tlre alr, while pieces of dy, while Fock struck him on the head and. bo smaller fragments Iacet When he descended, ofr place at which he stood at the instant of th explosion, he was lusensible,and did not recover for along time. AN AWFUL SPECTACLE. A report of the accident reached the Car- police station at 3:15 P. M., and Capt. hse ted for the scene In his buggy, taking astretcher. He described the scene as he a 4 it to a SUN reporter last evening. When Me] reached 145th street the roadway was blacks with vast quantities of the Conwy 4 which was thrown there by the blast. Around the side, hill, for e distance of fuliy fifty feot, wore scattered the bodies of the de: wounded, the tools used by the rockmen, empty powder kegs, and lar, blocks of the blasted rock. A large crowd of excited workmen had gathered near the place, but seemed to be panic stricken and in no condition to be of service to the wounded. The two dead men lay ghowt fifty feet away from the rock in the dire tion of Eighth avenue, Conw: o was feet away from them, while oMcer Ari ry ‘Was nearer the rock, "The corpses were burne: and- charred into black and unrecogaizabl masses. The arm of one of them had been wrenched bodily from the peket, and lay some bad on mashed into a pulp, and one of :he bodies had been literally torn open. As s00n a8 phe pol joe arrived someth|i ord iy a wounded were to avenue, as wore the ti bodies of the dead. ‘THE BODIES OF THE DEAD. Foley was,struck in the lower pert, oe | tbe abdomen by & rE tone, which tore tl and exposed th arm and broken, hls face was charred to the hue of’ charcoal, and the back of his head mashed Mike an og hell. Halppb’s arm was torn out of Its socket, both of his legs were broken, and his head was crushed itke that of Foley, ‘and the back part of his skull was torn off and carried away by a fragment of rock. His coat and vest were torn a, thin Sipe and awatch which he carried vest pocket was torn off and carried to fa distance that no efforts to recover It have co y, who expired in afew moments after reaching’ the police statio ainod pound fracture of the lett nee Ing Carried away); his rightarm was broken, as was his Jaw, and the base of his skull was f el tured, the latter wound being in itself sudicient to produce death, Dr. L. A. Rodenatein, Jackson, arrived at the p simultaneously with the dead and wounded, and made overy effort to alleviate the sufferings of the latter, “Buckley, who had @ broken arm, « severe out on ‘at 0 of the head, and several contusigis on nded to by ice Surgeon, and Dr, Ninety-ninth street Tt ts b he may recover, snout {tls as yet impogsib! te tell what toternal injuries he may have re- ceived, While in the police station he was in agony, and complained of internal pains, OMicer John Armstrong will recover, althou he will always bear the soars of the wounds received yesterday, He 1s spoken of as a very good officer, ‘THE MEN WHO RSCAPED, Among the fifteen or twenty men working near the rock at tho time of the explosion, thres or four were slightly injured; but these were able to walk home, and hence their names could not be ascertained. One of the lucky ones was Peter Mooney of 1 venth avenue. Peter was working with Fol Pata dust, before the expl sion had banded him akex of pity served tliat Foley was using his ‘ rather recklessly, and sald t Dear hime that he didn't like ane ppearance of things, At the Instant of the expl » was not over six feet from the hole, but h aped with only a slight scalp wound. He was fitted trom the ground: he told a SUN ‘reporter last night, and when he landed on terra rma had nearly made up bis mind that he was“ dead | entirely: but when he got up and st himself, he found himself uninjured, Wi making any Inquiriee as to his compantor ter made & bee line for the saloon whore In is, and braced himself with two strong Seer and Oficer Armetrong ay that the acoldent ts due entirely to carel fad dle ohedicnoe of orders on the part of ‘Yoley. tamping the ho When stamping tron a, Boned with co) pper ‘his Fondered, necessary by the fact by using an untipped tron rod there bs const nt danger of striking a spark and igniting th pantapyy ‘bile fis & copper tipped Pod such o Most at eee lat Tahviress on th i ii “Irish Paton,” @ book. of ‘caving wounded, he Seventh and Kighth avenues and 190th and. Mis streets. Balpp) be at eu upposed. to have lived here, although te any be learned in regard to him. iy ved at ldlst street and Bighith, arenes, and # wife and five onild- reo. His wile vdulted mio Bellon station’ yoater- day, and recognized her hi eas have been recogni rag ae ¢ is mm lived ia the “ Paton,” and nt Conway board od NOVEMBER 28, 1872. ith Lawrence Whalen in 1434 i eh arene. ME. Whalen says ae fen i ‘a Thi st hd bay hy] ent similar to this, and artel the same cause, happened within Miewiteet ot of the same spot two years ago, when two men were killed and wounded. The contractor “the bodies gf Fol 7 Hal fi, and Co re 1 bodies of Foley, Ralpph, and Conway wo sent to the Morgue, where Coroner Schirmer Will hold an inquest to-day. ~ THE JERSEY CITY BANK ROBBERY. —— Return of Mra. Willie Doverenux—Her Love for her Brothor—She was Married te Devereaux Divorce—Why She Disappeared. While Chief of Police MoWilliams of Jer- sey City was on trial, charged with being con- cerned in the attempt to rob the Jorsey ity Bank, it will be remembered that that Mrs. Willie Devereaux, an important witness, myste- riously disappeared. Each side claimed her asa witnoss, and each charged the other with hay- ing spirited her away, Yesterday Mrs. Devereaux visited the Sun of- fice. She complained of an unjust aspersion thrown upon her character by tho newspaper reports of the trial, in which she was accused of being the mistress of Devereaux and not his wife. She exhibited her marriage certificate, and said that she had procured a divorce from Devereaux. She isa lady of fine personal ap- arance, and possesses more than ordinary ra i 108. When sexed if she nate written a letter to on. Regt ing him a) come over to ry ter the arrest of her Srothan Bon who was convicted of an Wtempt to rob the bank, ere answered zen. but she denied the conversation fhet mee ed to have fakes pine between the Chief ond. here self in regard to Dave pera and others of robbers. The trouble a Tam unfortunate into bad he sola a Md at “But, madame, those men were arrested with the buriglars’ tools in thelr hands while endeay- oring to break into abank. Your brother was one “of them. ‘This tact act certainly shows that ‘Tae Sun's term Belen Fag hes Woreaux-—My brother was at my house on the night previous to his arrest. I never sus- im of being engaged in any such opera- fons. I was never more astonished in my life than when I called upon him in the Hudson county Jail, and he Wtold mo the full particulars ° ‘Keporter~ What 41d he tell your Mrs. persrens I must decline to an- ewer. Iocan ay ‘hat I know nothing about the matter hntit Teaw him tn prison. Reporter—If that Is so why did you not appear as a witness on McWilliai al? im, Devereaux—That T must also decline to answer, I can however, that I love my brother, and that this was one reason why I was ot present at the trial. Reporter—Mrs, Devereaux, it is generally be Heved that you were pald money to absent your- self when wanted as a wit rs. Devereaux--These suspicions are crucl. I lost _ more money by going away from New York than I would have male by remaining in the city and appearing at the trial Reporter Ia it true that your brother was sentenced to the Columbus Penitentiary four years, and that you succeeded in wetting him pardoned? vereaux—TI believe that he was in an onto, prison, but Tam sure he was pardoned without my Intercession. paighorter—ia It true that you are writings Mrs. Devercaux—My book is alrendy in the hands of the publishers, and 1 bave copy- right in ar Possession. porter-—W hat is the title of your book? Mrs. Devereaux (smiling)—You will excuse me if I decline to answer that question. Reporter Pid are the publishers? ux (acain amiling)—1 must also acelin to" angwer at question, Re book @ novel or a historical worst _{plenbeehdorty nove Repaner Y our first ‘cae Willie, is aringular name for a lady. Mrs. Devereaux (smiling)—It ts a very common name in the South. Reporter—Are you a Southern lady? Mrs. Devoreaux—I was born in the South. b os anneal 2 what part of the South were you orn wee Devereaux (laughing)—In the city of jextco, Keporter—Will you nphonr as a witness at the Lt = of Chief of Police MoWiillams in january ? Mrs. Devereaux—I_ must decline to an- swer that question, but they certainly can- not make ime pear a8 a witness unless choose te. do i) on repose, 6 ead as to my character have jured me. have ae fp ippetied to lea’ my boars bous and draw from people with whom I ha‘ bad the mane pleasant associations. I feel co: scious of having dope no wrong, and my trouble has undoubtedly been brought upon me through my lore for my erring but unfortunate brothe: rs. Devereaux also said that she had bee: granted alimony from her husband as well as an absolute divorce, and that the Caer of her child had been given to her by the court, The Atlantic Great Westera Wanting $100,000 frem Er! The Trustees of the Atlantic an yesterday afternoon in Mr, tire boards of both companies led by counsel. ‘The object of the moeting was to reach some settle: ment of an outstanding claim between the two roads, and » srhich the Atlantic and Great Western Road te t to fhe claimant to an amount gains between clpren and of ri nsjeeie the meetin, foreclosure; ange ‘the ted, ‘consating’ of from both aide. for the purpose of anicab| the matter: and vaing wird he! durladiction’ ‘of thie Ohio, wi ovale Known whether anything tend festmeat of the mai to draw i alt poslt Ively ® Sroule this ‘the fore- tan dine to fy ot be A Verdict tor $36,275.98 for the Plaintiffs in the Great Wheat Case, ‘The great * wheat case,” which has been be. fore Judge Shipman for more than a week, was finished tuted by the Wisconsin Insurance Company to recover from ad others advances made by the Company 00 96,000 bushels of wheat, the advances being made to it by the c plantidy ices were In the nature of a lien upon the followine It wherever it wentuutll the anvences Were paid, "The defendants, ciained that ae purchased the wheat in good faith, the vances of the second party in arty making the ad Pariy—the ve tov whom the advances wore dirceris puads, gfe Jury rendered « verdict for the plaintitis foF —— A $33,000 Fire th At 12:90 this morning fire was discovered on the third Qoor of three story double brick building 185 and the proximity of four | ge tenement houses, two An the rear of tuo burning build: & sec by Ds Soap factory. ‘itis joes on 4 ani ry icin, the Dullding, which was acdtro the tenements were terri rity of them removed thelr effects to 6 t. Edmund Wi hs strong force. of the linmense crowd. oudlagration ho Yachtamen, About eight months ago one Smith bought the yacht Kaiser Willlam I, from Commodore George A. Beling, paying therefor bond and mortgage on some New Jersey property which he said was his own, but Fiuich was afterward found to Delong to the Central Rattrond'ot Jersey. Mean time the yacht passed {nto the ponsesston of Larou ¥. De Creuse, whe ere ne ait from snilth. Mr. Bellug sued De Grauw and under advice of exallient counsel (ook i ruceday and wont to, Jamaica Bay intend: ney ‘cut the nied to oat her Th readiness, the mah ib, wert Gp bandrsod kept’ collected to witness ‘expected to be arreate jeation of ownership, jance Comm Ferry, Burglary aud highway robbery have been of such frequent occurrence the tuhabicants e.mage moat Dobbs's Forry lately that become aroused. They have call in Bradley's Hall for to-morrow e: five consideration the propriety of adon fo protect life and property and enfores atteulpt has been madi Gutor, but the ouovie will bot skaud it During the past week the sporting men of New York, prominent among them several brokers living at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, have been on the alert fora boxing match between Neal Riley of Port Jervis and Mike Donavan, brother of Jerry Donavan of Chicago. After the great battle a few woeks ago between Neary and young Crooker, the boys of the Fourth Ward have ohaffed the Houston street sports consider- ably, Unable to matoh Crooker,whom his friends intend to pit against Chandler of California, the young men around the Polloe Central OMoe looked about forachamplon, At a testimonial Iast wook, Donavan was matched against Riley. ‘This fellow is from England, and has fought a aoe had prize fights in the old country. rrigan of the Fourth Ward takes care wing is Ln Mi of othe end te eameen the better man. Donavan hes been ber of fights, but has neyer shown C9 durance. In the I *Friends, might as w plug eight was annou the record of both men every one. jud ft'would be a pretty mill, and tio ‘tio tall and betling were in favor of Riley, ret the great Powers of endurance pos Donavan some thought would Countarhalaion Riley's aeility and science. Cards of invitation had been distributed. ‘thoy were of fine pasteboard, four inches square. Gn them was {ascribed 10 ver characters the followin, ™ tA fight. al aan New Jersey buffers in pared he sport. gosticloe pro emael aeites, read the Fe 0OK's SUNNYSIDE Horry, Jackson avenue, Queene county, TR reat he Kevortloek. ‘About midnight on Monday a wi of the oung nen of Houston street gathered around Tecorners. Bach of thom maintained a scr pulourly quiet demeanor when strangers game too inquisitive, In Harry Hill's were anum- ber of quiet gentlemen, While Harry was Supervising the Dloasures, of hs patrons he wa ro you going to the Sliver Wedding 7" e Tey wall walt Ei “ad tt tf doen come off to-night ani forgot, about, Ae larry. walt 1 sog some. of th wean party ebning past the tables hi the Crosby strest corner of is theatre. At & table were four young men reading the Witness. In answor to, Harry one of thom whispered in his ear, pulled his coat collar up about his head to hide his wedding neck tie and sailed out of the saloon. ‘The others followed him shortly th turn were followed by the Bux roporter. The part ty had gone out to ~Sntf curd of invitation. Sometimes the word means morning when transactions of kind are on foot. PREPARING FOR THE START. Outside the streets werekieserted. Seddons's was closed as tight as a drum and none of the boys were around. In Mickey Coburn's the ro- porter met anumber of the guests. They were Ewaiting the arrival of Coburn. “ You fellers,” said one of the party, “got the thing up wroee the wedding don't come off till to-morrow night. Eyen if the tickets fens ¢ ea 80 een couldn't be there.” Be! the reason, he continued. “Why, thos bloody duffer got lush this morning and stumbled agin Sa aad 's fat, and has the blood coglated around Tam; During the discussion relative to Donayan’s ung man with his face, tMustra seated sald: ‘duifer, and is wouldn't goto see wedding. He wants to be a fighter, ow of beating Riley can get oie rane tn good wre 1s while ote varding Roce: and gets three square age, aday.” ‘THE OPINION OF EXPERTS. gvorrthing that was iter, Dre the expresse: ley. “Tt ie said, “ what you bear about Donavan. ie will feht any one and stand more punish- ment than most men, He never knows when he is licked.” On Tuesday evening Donavan, Butt Riley, Jobnny Lazarus, and McCarty, propose to attend Cook's silver wedding. aha and Riley went to Joe's hotel at 6 o'e look. 6 other party were to start from New ¥. arriages at 9 o'clock. Hetween J and 10 ovclock the Policeman at the ferry gateat Hunter's Point sald to the terry Now [reckon I'll find out just what's @ . Hello there, ero be, all you ¢allows @ running to, I want to kno INTERESTING Raeance © party thus addressed replied, “ We are going out here Just a bit to a wedd: wedding.” After they had passe \dronse: the gate keeper, * Weil, I don't know, but it rs to me that this is the d— turn for af: fairs. A week or two ago there was a meeting, I was told, of the Board of Directors of the Siam and Lion Mission, and do you know that the very samo night there was & red-hot, rat- ht. 'Speot there is something like ting p) it toon e pontausd as he seated himself by the stows snored as the rain and 5! and dashed against the windows, Plodding slong the road were gangs of onthu- slastic wedding guests. When the reporter and his companion, & sport of the old schovl, arrived at the Sunnyside Hotel the room was crowded. Th junds of revelry within cheered the hearts of each arrival. The host Joseph was relatin, the particulars of the meoting of the Board o Directors of the Siam and Lion Mission. Broad igeon shooters, Alder- loners of Long Inland \uffers, and sports, @. The decanters flashed in y-llghted room, and toward mid- night the: Bourbon bottle, Was. noarl Joseph goon replenished it, Fil Yn halk: nl bottle with water, hi counter at the rate of 20 cen WAITING, Neal Riley exhibited himself to the crowd. He was confident of “warming Donavan ino palr of minutes.” At 10:90 the. party became Uneasy. Donavan and hls friends had. peared. ‘The pigeon shooters became d and went ecree it along the nlp. aight, he would see him all right, Lowery's frfond, « Dundreary fellow, * would bet. & bot, you know, that he was the’ better man.” ‘This gentleman did not take time to say bottle of Wine, but lisped. “Aly Joe, old. fella another bot, and call the boys togother,” ‘an then signalled lis frlond ‘Lowery te pay for the Or. ‘To keep together the crowd, which was every 0. becoming greater, Joseph himself san, mber of songs. The plaintive character m ody of the “One Armed Soldier, abaske wine, Lowery's friend declar on omy word, it's the best thing yet, hey, ld fella, Give ¥ a basket apa spread it among the boys, Ah, owery, When’ Joe had oxhausted his sones, the rendl- tion of which showed him pe, (2 a thing but a Successful hymn singer, word rought that Donavan, Butt Riley, Mo arty, A rand obnn: Lazarus were onthe road. At 12:30, as thoy ha ved, the majority of Joe's ‘guests depart- ed, Lowery, his friend, ai some others re- mained, ‘The hours to dayli ht were passed in fore Practice between wery and Cook, a low on the nose winning a bottle. Cook kept up the sport until every bottle of wine had beon opened at Lowory's expense. k yeaterday morning Cook, Riley, ters passed Bob Robinson's hotel to New York arm Inarm. that pas age in the Scriptures. relative! to the wedding iow and daw aren friend, AN Abe to iaoy, you now, what the duffer meant koeplag goutieien pallnight, d-— tin! Rae ti Nicholas White, a middle-aged man, lately of Rivington and Lewis strects, having been indicted for murder, and having pleaded guilty of manslaughter in the third degree, was yesterday sentenced in the Gen- eral Seastons to two years in Sing Sing. fe killed James ‘Smith last semmer under circumstances of great provo- cation. He ls wealthy and i foal influence in leveath W elied extousive polit- ‘The Selo of a Railroad, New Beprorp, Mass,, Nov. 27.>At @ meoting of stockholders of the New Beaford and Taunton Kall- mone to-day It was unanimously voted to sell the road raton, Clinton, and Fitehburg Company for Soba, cording to tho terns agreed upon by the ‘Comte he Boards of Directors of cach t ‘About tworirds of the stock wes’ represeuied at the meoting, ——— Terrific Storm on the Lakos. Burvavo, Nov. #.~Terrifio wind squalls have Prevaiied for the past twenty-four hours, aud the rain arrived to-day, and a number ett on the lake, Marine disasters are ap- ——_ ofa Brooklyn Distiller, ‘The failure of Oscar King, the large Brooklyn iste, I Announced, The failure, it 1s understood, pe fen prooipitated by the attachment of gies hea ing bas’ eld ute overament ‘aout "W000 in tos oF about BL #8 a PRICE TWO ORNTS. HORACE GREELEY DYING, A GREAT LIFE DRAWING TO am UNTIMELY CLO: —+— Hospitable Mansion in Westchester—s The Hon. Horaco Gresley is dying. Taw Son received intelligence yesterday of his crith cal condition, and last night a reporter was soni to Mr. John R. Stuart's residence, in Tarrytown where it was said Mr. Greeley wasstaying. Thi latter rumor was found to be incorrect, Mr. Stuart was not at home, and his famih wore ignorant of Mr, Greeley'’s whereabouta The reporter then sought information else where. Owing to the published accounts of Mr. Groeeley’s insanity he found that the {impression prevailed that the Sage of Chappaqua was really @ lunatic and confined in the Asylum for Insane of the West chester County Poor House, The reporter re turned to Mr, Stuart's house and was in formed by the family that Mr. Stuart was expected home every moment. The reporter then started again on hissearch. He met Mr. W. A. Ackerman, of 6 Park place, « clerk in the Produce Bank, who said Dr. Maroy of Fifth avenue, noar Thirty-seventh stroot, had told the President of that benk that he had beer called professionally to see Mr. Greeloy tha same day, at Mr. Alvah Johnson's, 61 West Fifty-seventh street. This information threw the reporter off the track, and starting to ro turn to the depot he met Mr. Stuart on his way home from a visit to Mr. Greeley. HS FRIENDS PREPARED FOR THE worst. ‘The reporter asked Mr. Stuart where Mr. Gree ley was. He replied “we are keeping him se claded and do not mean to tet the public know where he is.” The reporter then asked avout Mr. Greéley's condition. Mr. Stuart said he was very sick, and had symptoms of brain fever. “Is he dangerously il?” asked the reporter. Mr. Stuart replied. “ He may live ten days, but I doubt it.” ‘The reporter went down to the village to pan. sue his Inquiries, and accidentally learned just as he was about to give up the search in dospalt where Mr. Greoley wes staying. He burried thither and found the dying mae surrounded by his friends. Among them wort Messrs. Samuel Sinclair and John F. Cleveland, Mr. Greeley’s brother-in-law. His daughters were in attendance at his bedside. Dr. Brown-Sequard, the great Paris physictaa who cured the Hon. Charles Sumner, Dr. Brown, and Dr. Choate, were in consultation. They de fined Mr. Greeley's disease as an organic affeo tion of the brain, the result of physical prostra ton consequent upon his unromittiug attend- ance at the bedside of his dying wife. He went weeks and weeks without sleep ing more than an hour a night; often times and for long periods without food. His affection for Mra. Greeley was deep. seated and sincere, and the probability of Ler approaching loss kopt his mind in a con Unual state of exhaustive excitement. Since her death, the immense power of en durance which was so severely tested during her long sickness and suffering suddenly gave way and a powerful reaction set in which left him completely enervated and prostrate, Hit nervous system was utterly gone. ‘Tho nerves of his stomach were first affected to such a degree that he could not retain his food. Stuve then he has gradually faiiel. On the day before yesterday he lost consciousness, His last coherent words were : “The country is gone, the Zribune ts gone, and Tam gone. From this it would seem that Mr. Greeley hime self had « premonition of his approaching disso. lution. Tne physicians say that he may die within the next twelve hours, although there is possis bility that he may last for four or five da: ‘There is little hope, however, that he will re- cover consciousness before he breathes his last ‘THE FIRST INTIMATION OF DANGER. On Monday rumors of Mr. Greeley's insanity were circulated, and these naturally led to im quiries into his real condition, But as few of his friends had been in Tarrytown, where he was supposed then to be, no definite answer could be given the many gestions until yoster- day morning. ‘Then agentleman arrived from the pleasant Westchester village in which Mr. Greeley really was, with definite intelligence. He laconically id, “Horace Greeley has not long to live.” When pressed further he added that the great Journalist's physical system had been prostrated by the almost superhuman strain to which it was recently subjected, and that oyertasked na ture could not rally and restore the vitality which he had exhausted. THE OVERWORK THAT DID IT. ‘The representatives of the press, who accom. panied Mr. Greeley on his journeys in New England and in the West in August and Septem. ber last, say that he did not average six hours a night in bed while making those great journeys and delivering the wonderful series of speeches which so happily surprised his frionds, On one day and night he delivered eighteen speeches, and on another twenty-two, Add ta this tremendous strain of nerve and brain, the three weeks of constant watching at his suffer- ing wife's bedside, to which he hastened on hie return from his trip to the West, and we haye the broblem solved. —_ The Opening of Niblo's Again Postponed. Owing to unforeseen and unavoidable diMcul- tes the opening of Niblo’s Garden has been postponed ati! Saturday evening, On that evening the new and beautiful spectacte of © Leo and Lotos ts to'be post Uvely givel * — Thanksgiving Matinees To-Day. MatinGe performances will be given to-day at Wallack's, Booth’s, the Stadt Theatre, the Fifth Avenue matre, the Grand be Ay House, the Oirppic. the on Square Theatre, Wood's Museum, aud Barnum't e —————— The Billiard Kings, ‘The great billiard match between Cyrille Dio and Joho Deery, for the champion cue and $1,000, take place to-mbrrow (Friday) evening in Lrviig Halle ——— Sin: The owners of Herring's Safes will be gratified to know that their reputation has boon fully sustained by the recent ordeal in Boston, and that ne valuables entrusted to their care have been lost, Owing to the competition among local manufacturers ‘and past immunity from extensive fires, our oafes had never beoa offered for sale In that city, and the fow that were exposed in the great conflagration were pur chased by New York houses and sent to Boston for usa How weil they did their duty let the following letters testify, RINGS & FAREEL, 251 and 262 Rroadway Bowron, Mass., Nov, 12, 187%, Mesers, Horrings & Farrel, 1 and 23 Broadway, New York, Guwrieman: In the “Groat’ Fire" which has de- stroyed the bu of this clty, we had ta use one of your Safes, which we were unable to recover from the ruins until this afternoon, on ao count of the Intonse heat which surrounded it. When we opened it we were agreeably surprised to find our books, papers, &c,, in no condition, Y J. ©, Bonnaax & Co. AXOTHER, Boston, Nov, 14, 1972, Harvings & Farret, GeNTLEMEN; Our store, 88 Summer street, was burned in tho late “Great Fire" in this city of Nov.« and 10, Our books and papers wore in one of you “Patent Champton Bafos," and wore all presorved in good condition. Our store was burned about 10 o'clock Saturday evening, but, on account of could Sf following—over this fire no orb ary beat for safes, and take pleasure in giving faote a4 above, Very truly yours, Poares Revrusss & Oo, sate of aeecne ‘ retest ee ee re) arenes eae ‘pile REARS we Nee x fz ed wy ihe] al "