The Sun (New York) Newspaper, December 11, 1872, Page 3

ivteed soc iickty'es shor of jeaf to make her appear THE WAR IN HUNTINGTON, AND HER @RANi MOTHER OUT OF THE STATE. ReMeay | JERSEY'S THE WOUNDED EAGLE FLUTTERS | @ late hour yesterday atternoon among a few of HOMEWARD. a guna SMITH afraid to come to Hunt lawless communities all here to escape them ; but # exception the worst that Kelsey waa undoub ania on this subject o} n sent to the Insane asylum, whe) im; not maltreat Witnesses so far heard The County Judes, John R. Reid, has an- nounced his intention to ait upon the cases of Dr. accused of riot- ice Montfort's court ure of Honest Old Ben Williamnon— oldera who teoalve a Hakes & Pite of | covy of this protest by mall, will please sign t Mandwichos, and then List ren of 10 are Gtlchriat—Aenator Stockton Preparing, Correspondence of The Sun. Trenton, Deo, &—Unoele Ben, on the part | Dec. 1 of the Scott Central, closed his voluminous ar- | The widervigned pottoy-holders of ti gument on Friday, and took the earliest train | Life Insurance Company call to the attention of for his own Elizabeth. He wanted an er cathedra | the trustees the fact that a difference of opinton denial of the correctness of his letter as pub- | exists among prominent actuarios as to the ef- lished in THe Sun of Wednesday eral persons to your cofrespondent f All of them Were disposed to talk As his letter was a thee Montfort—Terrl Times Abend Kelsey Declared a Poet of the First W Justice Montfort still continues the ex- amination of witnesses who are know something of the tarring and feathering ot Charles G. Kelsey on the 4th of November. since Dr. Georg® Banks was fined $% for con- , the opposition have apparently rested on their oars, The excitement has fora | Jod, but the Indications all potnt to an earthquake In the future, ‘Th urse of Justice Montfort grumbt but deeply, and they are now taking #e- rot steps to embarrass the inv may possibly result In a greater Might than any h has yet been waged by the citizens of ‘Two of the lawyers engaged by fon, Messrs, Stansborough and Mc- Kay, still remain in the village. Mr. W. H. Van Wyck came to New York by the early train on Monday morning, and hy n Huntington. Noted with a mono- | | would have cured hi described by t 8 and the other nterforing wit last Wednesday, opponents of | rife RARLY LEFR OF MMB, JUMET, mn would write. ter of record, and more than thi! and confirmed by evidence e1 Aaron Burr's Wid the Witoess Stand —Th an Interminable Laweal: al of the case in which George Washington Rowen seeks to eject Nelson Chase possession of the Jumel estate was Several deeds were of- fored in evidence, describing the putative mother of the plaintiff as Mme, Jumel, and showing that she was seized of some very valuabie property at Harlem Helghts. Two affidavits of the defendant Chase were in which he swears that Mme, Jumel frequently told him that she was the ter of John and Phebe Bowen, What the plainti® claimed, The deposition of Mrs. Catharine Williains was read, to the effect that sho knew Mnie, Jumel in Providence as Betsy Rowen. The plaintiff says that Mme. Jumel and Betsy Towen were one and the same person, aged $8 years, aid bas *, mainly in relation to tigation, which anybody else until some voice shall ery aloud from both, or the more dulcet tones of Tom Scott | fled disapproval.” hiniwelf be heard in @xouse of his favorite hench- continued yesterda THE WOUNDED BIRDS ON THE WING, Honest Ben had glanced wildly at the Vice- | gality) in the system of the Company's busin nvellor for the last time, with the agonizing | and the use look of a man whom the giant Despair was wait= He had pointed for the | hot since been seen By those who kuow Mr. Van Wyck, however, this sudden depart. ndonment of the Meld, but ather regarded as a strategic movemen’ Introduce some new step in the amine of the opposition, A TALK WITH MIL VAN WICK, Scn reporter visited Mr. Van Wyck at his oflve in Hroadway yesterday morning. found the gentieman re smoking a very small efga zs of a long legal document In foc tive of THE SUN plens- t somewhat hure Ing to carry away. time at the caricature National Railway's Ii pointer which he used had been gl to beralsed by the same hand {n railroad case for Scott or anybody else, Pennsylvania, director, had the | strengthened, and not weakened. ngratulate the man who aS patel 8 m Meconted a rete Nee eee ide ahd them went | ‘They protest against such an unjustifiable ex over to the other, for causes which good Col, nd his man Friday only knew. ‘The earliest d Hen leaving the dust and disgrace of aqnly, gehen the rued into an aby pmnily laid Only one man ning In an eas and musing ¢ ‘Trenton far behind. waters of the the theatre of his most that the wounded bird felt free od to hunt him down, written a number of tal episodes in the RevAlutionary war. Willlams's aifid . Jumel, when young tn lrovi a bad’ reputath veuous failure om the aim of vit are in eff folded up the docaty and thruat it into h known as Retey witness subsequentl fallen, It is by of the eagle winged the shaft which sought h broken heart, HAM-PAT SANDWICHES AND BUSINESS. The Court allowed a short recess, more, it feomed to your corre lowing honest old neellor might have time t the pile of ham sandwiches in the retiring fat was too good for which preceded the than dull to him, u Wyck, L have about the war tn lla ome to talk with George Washington Rowen tee! ns in that villags you were inclined to do Nt for the purposes atien etrevt, Provite t a Hallog, whore wife's tame years cit when. Major Ua ortiyatter that put to work It Well, yes, T supp was just reading over my afM®davit in that very | have hit the nail r when you say As it was, ha and the twenty mint of the train were me As soon aa the Court had Ws Of railroad ate ar what Stanhope, by partied in 183 and Wy which willsoon burst upon the viliag aying been ask defendant objected that such « tion was not admissible in a case of this and when tt comes it will ast nish Justice I. for one, shall ean tine met toh the mouth of Gilchrist, had to say. looks like a monk of St. Bernard, who kee} rosy port hidden away bi rost or summer heat, taking good © put a brace of bottles beneath bis bi hing else mays) no mueh law, ellectual fires which prenym- ir away from the top of a corked their subtie influer strike high in my vosider the wre proof of the plaiatif's maternity, wh gitinate, and of which ho personal y on this point ‘unsel for the plaintiff con proper for the witness to testif, 1 always heard, and what told him, and which was matter of common re= Providence, that Betsy Howen. nown as Madam ‘The Court ruled out the question, Rallon treated me a gs inflicted up ys his aint cold wine intif's testi- nuld be merely hearsay. ded that it was as to what he ad always been reath the reach o| VAN WYCK'S Wroxce, those wrongs, fear that som ‘Too much port. feeding of U man’s head, have Van Wyek (warmlag) Why, air. Tam an ew York, and alittle Was his mother, tine from bis court room. When we first admission, we found it is opened it. nctly if there was a idl there was, and up ks like one who might a the buffalo, ¢r unw ength of Hie Where bluefsh most do congregate, GILCHRIST REPLIES TO Mr: Ho roe to reply to the Hon. Ben, by this time JAnce around the room: atthe door fe month's chase Thave seen Major Bal uurt in session | n the strength ‘ouf Way Lote the room, as we . being by FbASON os OU ry court in the State violence under the . Why,sir, the Suprem jare to perpotrat You remeinber the ins If ever there ooeeditits, It alk of Midame Jumel was here ex- far away. He seemed te for some first thought that should give him In- Like one who come dawn and asks the sky to tell what weather will bring to-day, he glanc and fixing a keen eye upon the Vice-Chancellor, to the jury. The portrait was take nie Jumel was about 7; years old, ¢ resemblance to the plaintiff. hearing was then adjourned, irt of New York would not da moment, a inthe Nat! A TIWENTY-SECOND WARDTRAGEDY, lease, \this Ix not # bill to prevent thi from bailding a railroad from, Si UrpORe Of pre «2 Boy and Killing bis Forty-two Mouths in Sing Sing. Jacob Bender was arraigned in the Oyer and Terminer yesterday on the charge of killing Matthew Burke last July. naries Burke's wife became hysterical and bad to be removed. In his opening the District Attorney raid he thought the prisoner very fortunate to have been indicted for a less erime than murder, and asked the jury not to peruilt any false sympathy to af- foctitheir verdict. Mrs. Mary Burke testifed that Bender struck | her boy and that the boy told his father. latter was standing at the door that night Bender approached, and Mr, Burke asked him why he had struck the boy and why he hadn't left it to the punishment of himself or the boy's mother ; at which Bender drew a knife, and witness he has a knit i raised his arm seemingly to strike, but nd straek him eratch in the had no authority to do otherwise This Justice \tfort must be made to understand that what Youting any ome from so doing at ust nbc hait of the Panay Nee i than mortal period of hey ean prevent nen frown di {to them, what (hey please with thy ‘of the eomplali Knows what rights are left Tunderetood, that fnede any soch bat wae of the Supreme Court of New York « is equally beyond his power in his lim ed jurisdiction, A STORM ABOUT TO BURST. rter—Will you allow me to take a copy of Van Wyck—Not at all. rf recorded yet, ure Is attachod to It you shall receive a copy; wx Is the only paper which has been enough to secure the news of tubs notion In Huntington. wever, would not be politic. ae my action to my enemies and give the ‘an say About As Reemieth ghest During the pre! ‘Auy represeutaus . , ber people might well Thave not bad the As soon as the He then entered upon the argument of an sive use "* as tmplied in Col, Scott's claim. tring of an exclusive use was a barba- rous relig of a past barbarisin. and Amboy, Scott professes to derive hie surrendered ft, and {t existed no longer. ‘The Attorney-General had not long proceeded in vindication of this point this morning when he was Interrupted by Senator Stock! reference to the decision of the Court of Errors uestion of exclusive use, who sal lusive franchise had they were stili entitled to protection. Gilchrist proceeded to show that there was question of exch tended to be shown by legislative enactme There was set up the absurd claim that aman who owned both sides of an unuavigable river, uid not build bis bride the same and then ‘ease It to another individual is principle, if admitted by If it had eve from whom Col. ng ago It would dis- vave vet transpired. last of this week of next; but it will com Montfort and his friends stand from it may not unt You can certainly tell me what the Is it @ case of Mr Van Wyck Teannot tell vou that even. You want them to get any tde I don't propose man when the requirements of the the enforced when I go to work zaxe will eult ine . Render held him Her husband had neck and stabs tn th like the Raritan, ¢ Over oF eorporation the Court, would STRIKE AT THR ROOT OF INDIVIDUAL and assert a right, in the hands of ce property of persons, never glish IaW-makers or American jurists 4¢ and other points he enlarged to a three hundred Twill not tell yout auture of my ction; but it will be based fact, that Justice Monti ourt, at a tn Lolug my duty tc WHAT A ChowD all. Officer Patrick Bowen met Burke just after he was stabbed, and after store arrested I and Bender acknowled, Dr. Hinehtield and Dr Al testimony, Mary Hgan testified that se saw Benderstand- door when Burke came along on a car, ‘Then Burke went erty Bender, with bis hand raised, and said. ‘Then she heard Mra. nto @ drug id the bloody rt ejected me, an | porations, when I was » Sishman recited the SUCKRRS DID n you do not clan, with your Mr. Mciay, that an assault Was made mere details of law and fac from their coxy seats 1 the most interested o* every utterance of G He went overt don't tell you what T claim. uld consider “What did you present, and bung upe christ ak though his words were ow Senator Stockton will tak ne left of hy {the Senator ich he hus ey t 10.30 to-tnu the tale whic! en we may exy in any efort w told us a court wis without form as a witness the pri ening, called Iwas not afraid when T saw that me I thought 1 Was orushe A PROPESSOR MISSING Police of Two Citles o Dollars Rewa morning Sup minunication from the Ove rintendent Kelso lelpia | COMPAUY's 135 Broad way.or at the office of Foster ntainiug the photograph of | * THomson, counsellors at Law, 69 Wall street. owd of Sixth Wai McKay has al- Do you think he good ground for an aetic Certainly, 1 do int Tinake Iu that case (court room to defend Mr. of contempt ad no right to pu war of a Justice rdering the court room cleared of police authorities ¢ Prof, G. Frederick Knorr of that city, w appeared on the Ist inst., and also uu offered | NeW York city desiring to sign the protest, may reward of £1,00 to any person giving inforiia- tion which will lead to his the recovery of his body, if dead. Prof. Knorr left Lis howe at 6 o'clock on tha d, saying that he or of ‘Twenty-third aud transact some business, dine I tabbed the dec 4&0 ‘This wae at 6% Forty-seec very and § evening of the 4 was going w the oud Wright, Homans, aad ght passing signal Actuarie $8 JULIA SMITH OUT OF THE STArr. Can you tell me snd Mra. Oakley can be fous They are not That ts all T can say i not think it ady should not be he not returaing, his family be e had th the hou unusually and ell testified that she was f the prisoner's hight of the stabbing. iat was abot and regular were at once adopt search for the Freiberg was with the atch him by the sent the communication m the missing 5 They say that come to Usls elt Uoned above: regard this the has never 5! her grandn: ne throwt and throw ry as absurd, the slightest eyru ted, under Judge Ingra- évideace did not war- Fant a verdict for a bigher crime than manslauy ter In the third degree court sentenced Bender to three and a half years {uprisonment. his partner w proms of the ork was neres- his presence in New ry circulated In Huntington tuat Banks bad run away Was also wrong. sattending a lady patient, and could not ap- Futibe precise line the Justice called for wid in excellent nion that he has been The jury so found uully | experience or that of « Prof. Knorr ts 68 years of ax He Is » pro- of longuages, and bs high He «in SHEPPARD HOMANS, © Weekly Sun, published this morning, Wyck evinced no d Wrekty Sux rand mouta grayish white b full, long beard of the same color, and has ing upon the lett side of bis upper lip two acars luterview here teru. Will and Testament Attenpt ta Sette Al The fight of Miss residence Le wore ablack felt bat, blac trowsers, and had’ wi gold, open-faced watch, with a black gu: ehuin attached, Capt, Irving, of the detective force, hus the matter in charge, and has ordered a thorouga search of the city to be made. frock House in the Hands of U. § oung Indy from mplicity In the outrage now loud in their denunciations of ‘They say that her fight is lit, and that h have remained Justice Montford 1s also by bis partisans tly In the atest Frauds ¢ her singular A Full Account rina in Fiaico—Thier's New Cabinet ; rand her course. ma facte evidence of her innocent she would reply to Mr, Froude; Mr. Gr ting Stateinen feasor's Murder Oil ines tn toe 4 Rude Justice Iu the Weat; The Cost of the Metro New York Must Pay Next The Gold Riboed ‘A lioy titgiwa “He ought,” said isatied his subpanas for promptly at the beginning of the ion, and then have ex fi ‘The first specimens of g ent in America, suullar to the Hmner pavement, +0 popular in London, has just been completed wer avenue, opposite the Worth monument, sud at (he junc street and Vitth avem has hitherto: been known as asphalt mposition in whieh tar or piteh te used aa the te lea subatance | fea Lifo Insurance Company re in different lucalities, principally | Lucivs MeAbas, Actuary Guardian Mutual to the taland of Triuldad, Mexico, Went Virginia, where it t# found depending upon the r ine asphalt pave- oe Fifth, ad they gone be- tion of Thirty-eighth Now Misa Smith pavement whi Life in the Metropolis dtobind them, they are uierly wtiligenge and’ Markets, complete epitome of a froin all parts of the United states Copies ta wrap, Pingue-strieken Hel ts a railroad contractor, news of the wo: and the Avnerican continent. formalllugto the old country may be had at (hy dues of eur publicativa vilice, which was ral naes of the tnvestigatl lan ally of Justice Mou reporter yesterday he is description of Kelse: vearance and bebaytor. TAKMED AND PRATHERED VICTIM. od with Kelsey, and saw hin iy within the past fv irty-efwath PHO Wiehe Gants, That it has beet used street asurtace of two inches In Sonerete foundation varying fro d tn some places uttaluing’e ¢ fs equal to the f On Fifth aven been pursued, A Grand Promenade Concert will be given by Eben's Seven pub of ton inches, wlth pavement laid | Life Insurance ( rewhat different The old Belgian has been sunk and reset, and a cushion of Inches deep laid upou it Of & inuoh harder descr! Inches in depth ; Uhne the Wear and tear cai hard substances grindin, y-firet Regiment of Fashlon, kighth ave {i the vieltors et their Their holiday exposition taxes place erent | Wexuy W. SMITIL holiday opening: He was the literary Monday, Tuesday, a fine education, and I ated from one of the’ highest universities Ho was something of a try written by hin nest ad Cheapest toys In the eity, be pure aud attend, together le avowed, it pavement In the city is the Switzerland, which le The Recause a person bh lufermed that cor bad cough It should Went to Scotland to get mat and fam told that bis p re is now tn the hands of one o! script for that ements com| apparent In ite din thisibanner, te troduced It asae ¢ sinvothness with w compantes who he would be thiuxe o Tt te \further claimed torit that tt shat, on a four further elaluied. tor it tha will outlast the bést granite pavement, and can be laid | Life bad a surpi Jee than half the eost What was his | #8, Colonel? And soon estantian 1, Its the saferiplan to Oruobrseacys without delay, an ily or surely, oF cheat than Dr 160 HoLLbea bie. money, and did boolry for plows estimated as high nothing bUL Write » T have heard bis in As $00) a yeur and rather seemed to ape the a He wore hi Aud some of the young follows this account; and not at all weak-n to the organs of tureut, an article sol selooted drugs, an a or payments received wi suites in great a Sep eT Vera Seal plies ‘Cwenty-elebt Canal Bi Kangsron, N. ¥., Deo, 10.—The steamer Nor- hair very tong, used to laugh at but he was @ smart wai minded, a4 some of the nh people try Lo maxe It appoar, now 18 KELSEY DRAD? ink that he is dead? ‘teay, but T do think My Tiapreasion Ws ier ta, and bed~ ous disaster to-dey. Chathain streak. for furniture & Highlands, with tow of thirty vessels, twenty: Reporter- Lin gv evaa? 4 more thao pro! Life Ingurance Company. The following protest was ciroulated at the polloy-holders of the Mutual Life Insurance Company in the lower part of the olty + “ New York city poltoy-t to | same, obtain signati heir friends w! polloy-holders fa'the. company, and return the ayn, to Messrs. Foster & Thomson, coun- kollors at law, 09 Wall street, not later than Mutual fect upon the Interests of present poltcy-holders this pur- | of the proposed new departure in the conduct of none | the al jat- | of ite accummulated funds, , Was sworn to ‘They ateo call to their attention tne fact that, in ough to hang a | the opinion of three eminent Actuaries, the re- man, I declined to take what Mr. Guppy or | duction of premiums as proposed Is “ unjust to id in Ben's behalf, and so rest | existing policy-holders, and prejudicial to thetr Bliza- | rights and interests, and deserving our unquall- rs of the company and the disposition They also suggest to the Trustees that any ex- perimental revolution by them (of doubtful le- d hazard by them of the funds accumulated by the present policy-holders for the security of new obligations enuring to the benefit of new members, ie calculated to shake the confidence of the community tn a direction where, by every means, confidence should be ercise by the Trustees of the functions of their office, , 18 PRIME, 37 Pack row. HENILY C, BOWEN, 4 Park piace, B. A. QUINTARD, 9 Pine street. PARKER HANDY, 2 Nassau street, NATHANIEL HAY DEN, 198 Broadway. HENRY A. HURLBUT, 11 West Twentieth st, C. B. FOOTE, 12 Wall street, W. 1. MEEKER, 44 Wall street, WILLIAM J. MUNN, 33 Wall atreet. JAMES D. FISH, 78 Wall stpet. J.P. NAVARRO, Com. Warehouse Co., Wall at. 0. K. KING, 21 Nassau stroet, . 1, SENEY, 108 Broad way. GW. FULLER, 8 Wall street. CHAS. SCHRODER, 8 Wall street. JAMES D. SMITH, 14 Broad street. W. 8. CHAPMAN. 14 Broad street. W. IRVING COMES, 7 and S# William street, ©. J. DESPARD, i Wall treet. WM, LECONRY, 110 Broadway. 0. W. JOSLYN, 78 Broadway. J.B. ALEXANDER, 49 William street. PF. 1. TAINTOR, 17 Nassau street. RUG HLOMSON, 15 Wall street. CHAS. M. STRAD, 46 Broad street. C. W, STANDART, 139 Broadway. HL. R. BALTZER, 0 Exchange place. W. K. SOUTTER, 53 William street, A. WOLF, Jn., 4 Exchange place. ©. B. CAMP, 142 Pearl atreet. GEO, W. MIDDLETON, 06 Pine street. ¥. H. CARTER, 60 Wall street. ALBET P. JOHNSON, 50 Wall street. HENKY SMITH, @1 Wall street. AUG, L. HYDE, 111 Broadway. SIMON SCHAFER, 18 Broad street. HENRY HOSFORD, 56 Cedar street. ¥. J. HOSPORD, 86 Cedar street. ©. H. HARRIS, 2% New street, WM. L. TAYLOR, 17 Wall street. WM. F. POTTER, Philadelphia. F. D. ST RAD, 4 Broad street. ALLAN HAY, 20 Nassau street. ROBT. HAY, 33 Broad street. W. W, FORD, 2 Wall street. W. T. WHITING, 2 Wall street. EB. H, PULLEN, 2 Wall street. F. P. THOMPSON, National Currency Bank. BE. B. VANDERVERR, Bt. Nicholas Bank. GEO, W. ROBINSON, 48 Wall street. PG, DODD, 45 Wall street, JENKINS VAN SCHAIOK, 13 Broad street. WALTER 8. NETLSON, 61 Exchange plage. GEO, 8. SCOTT, 3 Broad street. L. R. JEROME, % Broad street. F. D. TAPPAN, 36 Wall street. ©. HOFFMAN, &3 Wall strect. GEO. AREN'TS, 0 New attr C. A, CRANE, ? Pine street. FRANK A. OTIS, 11 Pine street. F. COZZENS, 8 Pine street. RICHARD LAURE 48 Wall street JOUN M.'THOMPRKINS, 48 Wall street EDWD. N. WALNE, 19 Broad street. JOS. 8, JARDINE, 15 Broad street. Gb. W. CARLETON, Publisher, Fifth Avenue Hotel, CIAS. P. FRAME, 2° Broadway. CILAS. FL WREAKS, 60 Wall street. * | JAMES THOMSON, 99 Wall street | RICHARD H, BOWNE, 9 Pinestreet SAMUEL A. STRANG, 5@ Liberty street. JOSEPH LAROCQUE, % William street. ‘Those policy-hulders who do not recetve @ copy of this protest, may sign the same at the book ature of Geo, W. Carleton, under the Fifth Avenue Hotel, at the Home Insurance it Or they as well a& polley-holders lving out of cut the same (without the signatures) out of this newspaper and gum ft on a sheet of writing paper, obtain slenatures to It and send it with out delay to Messrs. Foster & Thomson, cou sellors at law, 69 Wall st., New York City. Corroboration ef the Views of Messr whier by Protes= We are unhesitatingly of opinion that of premiums as proposed by the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York ts | unwise, deflelont in security, unjust to existing leving that Prof. Knorr ts ine | polley-holders, prejudicial to thelr rights and in- apohs Lo suppose that he had | terests, and deserving our unqualified disay an | proval. We are confident, however, if the Tru ) | tees of the Mutual Life should carefully reoon- sider the matter, they will see that they are about to take a step unwarranted by their own y other company will decide to refrain from it, KLIZUR WRIGHT, ’ D. P, FACKLER, Consulting Actuaries. of | To Mr. Wildam H. Beers, John EB. De Witt, Lewis 0. Grover, N. D. Morgan, Henry B. Hyde, and others concur in the optnion expressed above G.W, Pruciips, Actuary Equitable Life Ay surance Soolety of the United Stat a Insurance Company. ance Company Wittiam D, Wirrrina, Actuary United States Life Insurance Company. The | H. Cusis, Actuwy Germanta Life Insurance Company. W.G. Monaan, Acting Actu sol | Life. or Ts RL C, PURRBON surance Company, ft tame} ROL, Cage, dr. Actuary Recurity Life Insur- ti te ald upon | ance aud Aunulty Company, x 0 eight bnches, liknny F, Homes, Actuary Commonwealth Insuran 6 Company. any. nce duestion, To the Bitton of The Sun. Bin: I see b: the Insurance Commissioner of Massac’ required to reinsupe ite outstanding risk: other words, the viargin of only 8 10 per co! othes Invest fent | the eubs Yat | above Geaity be Overcome, Would it not be well for the Mutual to wait until this surplus of sight Per cont. amounts to forty or Afty per cent. upon {ts promium reserve before making this change? I am surprised to find the margin so small fn the case of the Mutual Life, and had supposed it much more than shown by the Massachusetts A vessel freighted with the future interests of #0 many families should keep out in the open fea, and not see how close it can shave on some focky promontory without injuring iteelf. If by the course proposed by the Mutual Life in the reduction of rates, this marein is brought down very much less, it seems to me that the policy-holders will be very materially injured by the change, as their security will be greatly les- sened. For one, I should be in favor of forego- ing future dividends, and would prefer to see the surplus run up higher than at present than see itlowered. I confess that I cannot under- stand the object of this reduction in rates, The Company has been doing a good business— about $86,000,000 last year—and the policy-hold- ers are no doubt satisfied with their dividends, The Company would certainly be more secure by doing ® business of $35,000,000 « year on its full rates than it would by doing $50,000,000 at low and insecure rates. ‘The truth of the matter ts that the policy-hold- ers in this Company do not care to have their funds experimented with. Weare satisfied, asthe jerwriter so aptly expreases it, Is it that this Com- laying up five or six millions a yoar, is dissatisfied because it is growing so slow, ‘and wishes to monopolize everything? Their funds should be taken very good care of, and their prospects should be very carcfully studied and no risks ran which are unnecessary, beca they have at risk nearly $260,000,000. This isa very large sum of money, and will have to be paid. It therefore seems to me that this quos- ton should be most carefully considered before being acted upon. New York Un “to let well enough alone.” pany, which AN O1p Inscrance MAN, The “Mutual To the Btitor of The Sun. Some tripping, friend of the Mutual Li vhaseeon Mt, in behat of that Company, to advertise in the newspapers in Pacts about Life Insur- Med as ameastre of excel tual Life to, fali far below rank of more than one other Life Company. advocate endeavors to strengthen y misstatement and In the table showing the ratio of " Unre- alized Assets” to" Gross Assets” he states the Kiyn Life to be (51) 11d be (5) five per e true rate, (vide p. Sl Mass, The table properly recon- perversion, to pentam ; this sb ted should read : Unrerticed Pere 4 8 4 ‘ 8 ‘ &. ®, SESSz2: = Kelectic 8 National (N.Y. note, which explains itself, may this connection, aud the of any reply therevo, or any correctic of the error alluded to, ts conch of the straits to Bot be out of ce in ment of the ual Life is reduced when it seeks to push its assumptions of superiority by indirect of misstatements: Beoow.ys Lire Lxsunaxce COMPANY, ) and New York, December 9, 1872. lent of Mutual Life York. Dean Sm: An error of some magnitude, and tance to my Com communication of newspaper, . 8, Ww -» Prema ¥.8. bmvarongs thr! OF ew old ouled “A Few In the table of “Unrealized Asseta”” it is stated that the ratio of the is (1) Mfty-one per centum. A lance at the figures will show you that the tru ie ahinild be but (5), five Joh places the Brooklyn ft Companies mentioned, in so far as the table value as a standard of comparison. As “Policy-Holders” do not advertise their opinions so expensively, we presume we need but to call your attention to the mistake or inis- nt to Insure is early and tion, which we earnestly request. ‘Tie bearer will await your rep!y, Very respectfully yours, The Mutual Life in the following language “Groas Assets, Bariiugton and Quincy he 1 laute Incone, ® \ Chicago jort ‘Western consolidated, 91; Hannital andi Senco a centum,—a ral ahead of most dublic correc- W. Bowen, President claims are further arrayed ness there are neces- ounts and incomplete trans- chant will be thi ally who has the outstandlug ac- Erle... rates ee Ohio aid Mianisalpi & fewost of such unsetued an Boston, fiartford und Eric. ‘84 rs Vinton Pactdo.......5-+ ©. C, and Ind. Central By Hianihel and St. Joseph. Hannibal and st. Jo, pref.. 64 assets of the y nsist of bal- due from agents, uncollected premiums, The average percentage of the in the eizhteen com- axe of the total aud the like. same ‘unrealized assets panies 18, according to these official tule over 17 per cent agains were mana) dicate the ¢ If the Mutu ‘as these ficures would ti mpanies to have managed have nearty nine millions of its funds outstanding, and therefore to a cer- tain extent in poril.” ‘The HKOOKLYN Lire accepts the tost herein ested: The “unrealized items” of assets, ailod in the Mass Dep't Report, comprise Wing due in 1871 on Deferred (seun-aninual or quarterly) Interest and routs accrued and due yand unpard balances due fro Comuiissioner Asthe second ly not due, thelr third classes are almost whol- m-payment ean management, give no evi- ve kernel of Unpaid premiums me It of the this nut, then, tw th falling due in 1 Mass. Roport for 1332 and you will see that the ite of N.Y, under the bead of nasets. Page 51, and you will find no such ftem m The BiookLyN LUE premiuma fad prised in {ts assets, k further, and you to compile the following which will show, on the very teat Bugge the last, and, aa yet, the least rerupul: Mutual Life o' unsettied and outstand- and if Its own method of « tion be carried out It cannot “be the safest and do its business the most economically.” ene Mt N. J.) While the RROOKLYN LirR and the Conne al shOW superior results to the Mut thor Companies approx- ereto, that no startling ex- Management is dls Life of New York, J.H. Nivomim, Acting Actuary Excelsior Life | (iyional superiority of cerniple in ite ca Kxamining still Coumissioner's Report, you will nuie the fol- lowing, pp. Mil. and lye: DEATHS ON NEW PO 8..N. Sremuins, Actuary Manhattan Life Insur- Massachusetts PD DURING THE G DEC. Ul, 1d ry North Amer- tumy Eclectic Life In- e entitled to, its friends In assuming ( has exercised “greater” care than wome other In respect of the “average” rates of expense of the Yarious Companies concerned, any acquainted with the business knows that the average Mite is not the cost of Take a certain nu panies of diferent ages. in each of whi Siting new business. is ‘ae rule Will Vary ws d viutual Life ptting a new in- wr of Life Com-= Eowano H. Seweit, Actuay Globe Mutual y wo | Life Tusurance Opt jo the Companies with the olde “st in this cone The itew of inte tion to cach applicant for insurance, is what his Individual poliey will cost; no one believes and bo one can truthfully assert that the Mutual Life can obtain new bustnoss at a lower re ft ay other Lite 6 recelved in 1871 by the Mutaal fe, but Little over three millions was on new bustness. Ratio the the }.st annual report of per cént, valuation, the Mutual of only $8 10 above eaoh $100 In fifteen millic of these new na In conjunction or combination with ho Amal cost of collecting tts nine millions of three millions of interest on charged up aa receipts for reversionary additions, and the average is ‘The new policy-hodder reer Wea no equilatle doaritage, however, from this small average, nor the ‘small vost of collecting the old newale; this latter source of advan perly to the old polieys jon the writer bege to add that the knows of, nor hae euy above solvency. fhe policy-holders of this Com: wich of Corvell’s towing line of this olty inet with a ser!- Pang invest Lhwir money in it because they have ‘While passing through Warregat, renewals, its two loans, and the prea % to the contingencies to which ents are liable; but on examiuing tt svems that @ margin of only $8.10 $100 required to be solvent according to the standard tables te very small and might only and prot naeg atone Buoos.ys Lire an porary, itaelf seems pos- eas iter how baneful the effect wrought the usiness. bi Sete of the letter is almply to correct the errors or misstaiementa, and expose the ab- surd agsumptions claimed In comparison for the Mutual Life, by one whose expensive manner of advertising his views unimistakebly brands his Simple signature of a “A Policy-Holder”’ aa an evasion oF @ preudonym: Be he Pollay-Holder oF otherwise, the information above Is tendered him and all whom it may concern. Other inter. esting facts and comparisons can be furnished If ndered a Wa. M. OoLn, Fendereqecretary Brooklyn Life Insurance Uo, FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL, —— ‘Turapay, Deo, 10-P. M.—During the early portion of the day the general stoek market had an ap- ward tendency, but toward the afternoon there was « heavy feeling and the advance noted between the hours of ten and half past twelve was entirely lost, while in ‘exceptional cases a still greater depression existed until about half past tro P.M. Of the general list Rook Island, Lake Shore, Ohio and Mississippl, Erie, Wabash. Western Union, C.0. and I. C4 and Union Pacite, ‘Were most prominent, both im point of sotivity and range of prices. The absorbing feature of speculation ‘was the active movement in Pacific Mat! and the Hants bal and St, Joseph shares, compared with which the remainder of the list paled into inalgnificance. The disablement of the stoumer Orizaba noted this morning, and the loss of (he steamer Sacramento (the latter off Cape San Antonio on the Sth inst.), gave the bears tn Pacific Mat} an opportunity to hammer that stock, although several rallies took piace the resait showed the bear element predominant, though the price left off at T(. Previous to this the dealings were at Ti@ ihe 6a Nt tO ae Aw 1 The dealings ip the spect ‘Very large, and ne th ed Info genuine excitement, Hannihal end Bt. Jo- teph stock was advanced to 41-7. lirectors held = Meeting toay at which Mr. BE. 8. fH) ins was elected President in Na+] of La N. Sm! B, F. Carver Vice-President, and nD. Acker Treasurer. Wehear Mr. Jay Gould is not represeuted In the direction. ‘he whole market recovered after half past 2 o'clock, ‘end a firmer feeling Renyaes until the close, when Pa- @ifio Mail had rallied Yo 791¢. The rycen’ gerere storms on sea and const have been tive of many disasters, and so interrupted tho \d lines of telegraph that the street today wae with- ont advices frou or the Continent. Gold war, therefore, deprived of any Influence. whieh might ariee from that source... There was no speculative interest or activity to the market, the price 112%, the predominating quotation of the TW! On old loans the rates were 48, wei cent. paid by holders of cotn to have thelr balanoes car- ried over. ‘The day" the Sub-T cov. ered: Gold receipts, § 91,004.73 5 Dalance, 45090.48.17 5 currency pte, $24b. 488.53. pay ment, €28.185.5; balanc 10,796.27 custome, Bde The Assistant Treasorer pald out 23,600 in ealied Douds, and $10,000 in coin Interest on the public debt. The total clearings at the Gold Exchange Bank were 865,075,00 ul currency Ual- wotations : 118% “18 lan exchange was higher, leading drawers, ad- Their asking rates 3, cent. We quote @ anys Bile at the close at ty acpiiey and sight st 1i@liis, The extra malls for kurope to-morrow Wedneaday), Dida, will close ati P.M. at the Mer Exchange 50 sud 8? Pine street. ‘monetary alttation was characterized by an easter fan Yesterday. ‘horrowere on call expertenclog iitie aifmeulty in taking Ioana on acceptable cole Tateral at T per ceht. guid tor one thirty-second and ine terest. In the afternoon. the businces wax mostly at Wen gold, the final rate helng isi golds, The market wrcia, paper ruire quiet on te’ basis of 1d ia for pete accept ment bond market was quiet and ehont ‘Mt yeaterday afternoon's Feaction. Advices froin Today were tothe effect that the W aye and mittee discard the Becretary’s request [OF " Jot for hogetlating the balance Ory of tee CoMnmlttee opp: ia it is not probable that any ction w iit Tle Recretary to proceed a8 Tieney Clews @.Co., 3 Wall atreet, report Prices of govermmente at4 P. M.,as follows? Dit, Asked.) Bil, eked. U.S. cur. Ga.....U11Wy H1a's 5308, 1865, coup. 118) 110% i Lik forate, reg.” 109% 105 Sate, Cire. JAS u m tations were generally une! ‘arm ac miami North Carwinas, special at id, aud New York State 7a, bounty loan, sat I Minsonri 6 closed ‘at rel South Carolinas, hew, January and July, at te 4, and Vi aba torte. Cty Dank shares acid at ie for Bank of Commerce, and at 1X3 for Bank of New York. A small business was noted in raflroad mo Prices were firm, tg, transactions being report Cao ihe Rae me Roe + c Jaton ‘We fhoome, 2; Alton and Terre Haute isis, 100) ‘Alton and Terre ii n Oulu 4nd Misalesipp! consolidated eink: Cedar ‘Fails and Min: rt Missouri Tate, 9X. weatern preferred... kee and St. Paul... 6X ikee and BLP. prof. ay ickellver. ckatlver preferred, rhe EXPrOss. Is, Fargo & Co. Ex wer Express. nited States Express —— BANKING AND VINANCIAL. Baxarxo Horax or HENRY CLEWS & CO.,? % Wall street, New York, ‘ Hills of Exchange, Circular Notes, Travellers’ and 6 Commercya! Credits tosmed available in all parte of the world, Deposite received, andject to check on demand. In- terest allowed on all Dally Ralenoos, Every acoommioe dation and facility afforded uemal with City Banks Teal Estate Market. The attendance at the Exchange Satesroom yesterday was moderate, and nothing of interest trans- pired, except afew legal sales, wherein generally the referees and plaintiff! usnally have their own little rehomes to carry out, aud the public have no concern Whatever, Inasmuch as the results atford no test of the market or standard of yalues, The transactions were ae follows: Merers. E. H. Indlow & Co. sold, per order Supreme Court (L. Redfield, referee), a four-story brown stone, With lease of lot, 59 Fifth avenue, for $51.00, J. Cole gold under same o 1B. Hubbard, rete fog and lot 2x96 nowtreet, for B46, Camp sold a two-atory brick holise, WIth lot 22.4x92, north pide of Sixteenth etreet, east of Avenue A, for 9630. Wm. Kennelly sold (T. Hendrickson, referee) six lote wort side of Fifth avenue, north of IMth street, bo- 1 feet, for $13,400 : also Mh lot, 2.x% feet, 963 Madison etreet for Nee hi i Greenwich areets, with lot exer ,tatory Orie, southwest corner of streets, with lot, 16.8x78 feet, for & ry brick, 11 day streets with lot "oo (aes, ay ana ota mi: alee, thr ary Jere. Johnson, ol male of lots at ny Uinter County, to beheld at night in Hall, with music, epecebes and entertuinme — New York Markers. Trravay, Dec. 10.—FLOUR AXD Meat—The fourtuarket has been low active, whether for export or howe use, and prices, especially for the low and medium radon, hive, ulider a premute. to sell, ‘shown w alight {Gwiward teudency, The better grades have. ruled coliparatively steady, Rye four frm Barely steady. Buckwheat four in easier, “To-day four qui ders. Transactions King: Convert re Vrariac to (rae lute tor Focal loping grades oul ely inquired fort et AF demand Mine and Nov? heas act ier wheat, thedium graden, slow and but limited i quiry. tye Rourcuict; scarcely so Shine Covm me Hucdwhoat hour brine dead: We quate: Flour: tuners Bue State and Weeteru, Dbl. 88 4096.18; extra Beat’, 0, 86. 9Net Western g Wheat extras, 8.7508; ‘Wouble extras, ‘do, winter wh tat a double extras, \pplag extras, 61:25 720) city trad Persia Routh bakers’ and oe 811-90. Somtuern $8.50. Kye four, $5.50086.50, Corn Shipping extras, ¥ t esterh, &6., $8.20 88.6); Brandywine, &e., $8.0 Of. Buck wheal Airs 10) me. B48 38 Puovisions. There bas Deen some further deetine in bog produc t# during the past week, but latterly # friner fecliig haw been developed, with some speculat Stocks are smaller and production less than Isat y oar, the demand shows hite if any abatement. as dull ; aulos S00 bbls, at $18.25 for pew 1 ember, and $14.2 for new prime mess, Jay ember delivery, Beef quiet, Of bect hai at 88. Bacon firm Dit glee wales 6 I 7 fixe. for eho: ve Vara rin Aud more active; at Tu@he. for prin hew, uld, end Wester on the spot, de. for vew do. 1b January, B yc. for do. in February, Tye. for Nu. 1 om the spot, end Tee. for prime ¢ phage at oy aoee,. Po new meas, $15.25 prima extra prune, 612 Boef—Viain me eesicy cat ew age, pr linc er, bew, © 214623) India mess, new, Sige ae ect haute ew, @ boty ek B. hatte: shoulders, pi Hata pickl dy fe shoulders, dry salted, o:., lar i dase Kettle do. Bits; prime elty, Tes bacon, short wee; long clear Thee aborcclearr tear 4c s staked Hieteiye:s phoulders, abiac.; “alies, "Pui ére has been depression tn ivanced. It ie Ay: lly: 2 store, for oD iliwaukee springy toring, gad tore ree a i | fer Wastere inttea, tate. tor grocery’ rade hards, 1235.5 white taled av ands cu refined steady Stock Market. Dec. 10.—The favorabli ghtiy improved the ty th no. fresh New York, Tuesdas ghauge in the weather 16 market for beeven, ttle demand for the q terday, salen were untinportant, and prices ret homibally unchanged. ranging from 8. to iS¢. to preuium native catt! ia Thirteen cars, or 2,621 sheep the sales, embracing ordi Jambs, arrived, and rime stock, were WaT'<C. tor Wmibe One ada sheep aciling at 6¢. Or (wo of ight w MARINE INTELLIGENCE. MINTATORE ALMANAG=TmTI8 DAY Sun rises..... 7.15 Sun HOM WaT Rural Sandy Hook.. €%5,Goy. Islana., 6 2 Heli Gate ‘eRspar, Dee, 10. Steamship Albemarle, Rich Steamship Perit, Port amahip Montgomery, Savannah’ hip Champion, 1, midee. Rud Paes, STEAMSHIPS ARIIVED OUT. uner, Dee. 10.—Ville de Paris, New York. Y Busmess Hotes, ‘The Domestic Sewing Mac premiums this Tall than any oiher ncn, aud 18 aime recommended for FAMILY Usk aud MANU- FACTURERS. ESPONSIBLE Rad imple in const ructl nolsels ewaNto ALTIES will be furnished for triat ‘with machine and an Lastructor (without charge) apom rary), 9% CHAMBERS ST. AND 2 r. (tei BOND bT., NEW Judged by tte Popal wine Sachin se Sereae does Hot reach one-half of 4,100 pes We wonld advise onr readers to call aid see machine that can achieve such wonders, at the offton 0 the Wilson Sewing Machine Co. and warranted for five years. Salesroom at 17 Bi York, and in all othor cities in the Unit States, The company want agents et Ltore, as all t Sold complete tor § in country towns. Half Horse and Half Ma Laweness, aud any kind of ferl, bone, or musie Ot Upos Mau or beast are cared by Centaur Lini- the tuost wonderful discovery of ancient oF Rebonmatiom, Swe)! ———- Gifts, -KNOX'S stock of fancy fare and of gentlemen's hats offer a rare opportu- ¢ selection of auitable holiday present er of Dis stores, #2 Broadway, or under the Fifi Hotel. “ days, Wednesdays, and ri; mince Nez, York ‘presehis, WSQUIKL'S Vi Fura, Diamonds a special rke's bate are 210 Broadway, cor. of Falton et, ra’ before janfacturer, 210 Broadway, coruer of Fulton i,” Ne Care, No Pay. For al] diseases consult Dr. J. E. BRIGGS, * Magnetio ‘Hcader,” 1,149 Broadway. —A winter shor for gentienen CANTRELL, 41 éth ay —Sure cure for sll ee DIFORCED. HINES,—In the city of New York, on December 10, George (. Barrett, Justice of the Supreme ia P Hines from Thoma ity of New York, on Des cower 10, by the Hon. the Court of Common Pie Arum Caroline Zwermemat George C. Zwermemaun relatives are respecitully Invited ¢ Neral, on Wednesday, December 11, 1872, a LASS.-On Monday, December 9, 1872, Janey Relatives and friends are invited to attend the funeral, from her ute reailence, 73 Chryetle st, om Tuureday, HUGHES.Philip Hughes, @ native of the county ‘Tyrone, Ireland. ‘The fronds are requosted to attend his funeral, from Monday, December 20th year of his age. The funeral wil! take place from. MeGovern, in th he residence of Ne hamaburgh, at Friends of the faruily ar kY aged 9 years, of rhe I'he iu Thureda; in Washington. one of the employers of December 9, Magdalen orge ShcruaD, aged SM Bherman, beloved wife along and severe beloved wife of Tho {ly are respectful to attend the funeral, from her late residen 20) Kast Slat st., on Ibursday, December 14, at f TOLAND.-On Decem| wlaud Jane Toland, in the isth yc ‘The relatives and friends of the family are reapeetf le Iy tnvited co attend his funeral, on Tinraday, from a Syecial Rotices. 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