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"TIM AND REFORM." A Big Meeting of the Tilden and Hendricks Club Last Night. ingoit Belmont and Senator MeLane Contrast ing the Two Parties. VERY LIVELY OUTSIDE MEETING. Tho meeting of tho Tilden end Hendricks Club at Cooper Instltoto last night was attended by one of the largest sad most enthusiastic assemblages drawn to tether daring the present campaign. Halt ?a hour be fore the doors of the ball were opened they were be sieged by an eager throng, and every seat In tho bouse was filled long before the hour announced for calling the meeting to oraer. Precisely at eight o'clock a number of prominent gentlemen seated themselves upon the platform. Among them were Mr. August Belmont, Hon. 8. 8. Cox, United States Senator L. V. Bogy, of Missouri; Hon. Charles fi. Falrchlld, Attorney General of New York; Hon Beorge Bee be, Congressman from the Orange and Buliivan district; Hon. Robert H. McLane, of Balti more, formerly United States Minister to Mexico; Thomas Cooper Campbell, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the club, James S. Thayer, General Lester B. Faulkner, General Ward, B. Burnette and tho following members of the Democratic National Committee:?F. O. Prince, ol Maesachusuta; John G. Priest, of Maryland; Isaac K. Eaton, of Kansas; B. B. Snealey, of Vermont; Wilson, ol Maine; Sul lomby, of New Hampshire; Barnes, of Georgia; Dono van, of Ohio; Horsey, of Maryland; Barnnra, ofCon nsctlcut; Boss, ol New Jersey, and Scott, of Pennsyl vania. Hon. Thomas Cooper Campbell announced that. In the absence ol tho President ol the club. Mr. Wheeler H. Peckham, ho was instructed to introduce, as tho presiding officer, one of the viee presidents of the cluh, Mr. August Belmont. That gentleman camo forward amid loud applauae, and, taking his place, said:? MR. HSLHOXT'8 BfKKCB. Mr. Bblmont said:?Fsllow Ukmuckxts?The first battle in our campaign lor relorm has been fought and won. It bus been lougbt in the Slates of Indiaua, Ohio and West Virginia, three adjoining Slates, wbich in every Presidential election heretofore havo cast their votes for Hie republican party ever since that party came into exisience. In every Presidential election I ?ay. every Sialo every time, iwiee for Lincoln, twice lor Gruut, and Ohio once lor Fremont besiuea But now under the banner ol Tilden uud reform, although In State elections the democracy hat been victorious in iwo out of these three Stuies, carrying Indiana and West Virginia, and in the third, the very home of Huyes, our democratic brothreu of Ohio have made a uoble tight, and reduced materially the republican majority ol last year. Gentlemen. I 'congratulate you with all my heart upon this groat triumph, so much more lhau wo dared 10 hope fiom these steadfastly republican Siutes, so much more than was necessary lo uiur. democratic victory in November. '1 he Urst battle in the relorm campaign, 1 repeat, is won, but the great battle in November remains to be won. Thet great and llual battle will not merely bo a Mutest tor the supremacy of a political party, but It is tbe struggle of an oppressed and overburdened peoplo against bad men, who have possessed them selves of the machinery of a once great party to de fraud tho American people of their prosperity and good government, 8 We have u country larger in extont, richer In agricul ture and mineral resources tbau uuy other country on the fsoo ol the globe; we have magnificent lakes and rivers, on which tho lurgest vessels oan curry the products of our fertile soil to numerous seaports on the Atlantic, the Gulf and tho PaoiUc; we havo a sys tem of railroads on as large a scale as that or tho whole ?I Europe combined; our people are intelligent, enter prising and Industrious; we have neither tnu expenses of a royal furully to defray nor the burdens of a casto ay stem to bear; we have no large atandlng army, und our navy la reduced to Hie strictest requirements of peace. So that at this moment we have lewer ships in commission man any second eiass Bower in Europe. Yot In the lace ol all this thero has not boen lu tbe History ol our existence a time when goneral distress was so widespread as it is at present, fhe workshops ?re empty, the msnufaotories are deserted, our mer chant Hag has disappeared froin the ocean, and em ployers uud employed look with dismay and dark forebodings toward the spproacning wluler, which threaten our poor with untold miseries to render still deeper the gloom which surrounds us inis is not an overdrawn picture, it is but too true and real, and tbe statements of tho republican papers end speakers ibal there Is a revival in trade and a brighter lookout lor (be future are not founded iu tact, and are only put forth lor electioneering pur R hen you look back to tbe time when the demo cratic party was In power you will remember a very different picture. No federal tax gatherer, no horde Of ulfiee-holders, devouring the subsistence of the people; peace and concord between the different sections of our common country; our vessels carrying to every port the rich products ol our soil and bringing back to our shores hundreds of thousands ef emigrants from Ireland, Germany, Scandinavia und other parts Of Europe, farmers, artisans, mechanics und laborers oil adding to the wealth and resources or the Republic.' TAXES XXI) IXOSBTBOkKSS. It is useless te deny that we are at ibis moment the Bust heavily taxed people In the civilized world. Besides a local indebtedness (town, county and Stale) of mere than $1,400,000,000, upon which the annual in terest charge ia over #ou,ooo,000, we have a lederal Indebtedness ol more than one-third larger say over 1,000,000,000, on which the annual interest charge exceeds $100,000,000. Add to the annual interest charges tho annual working expenses of our national, Siate, county and muuicipal governments, und the weight of our tax burdens is partly accounted lor. But this not all. Taxes so heavy ure made heavier by methods of imposition, corrupt, clumsy aud full of favoritism. A protective unit aud tluctuallng curreucy ol >paper Uebis overdue euhunce the lax burdens, ox ImUit the resources of Ibe country and still lurlhor impoverish our suffering people. We cannot even any muger boast that we have no la* go ciundlng army, lor we havo an army ol uo oou office-holders, who directly aud indirectly cost to'lbe |>eoplo of the United Stales us much as tne military istuuiislimcui oi one ol tbe tlrst class European powers, uud It is with this very army ol office-holders thai tbe leuders of the dominant party Intend to bold onto power. In direct violation ol tho law of Con gress, federal office-holders are taxed In proportion to luelr salaries to raise money to elect Hayes and ?i heeler, who are to give you lor lour yonrs more the blessings of republican rnie witb us oppressive taxa tion, its high tariff, its extravagance aod its corrup tion, so that your own money, luken from vour hard mi ruing* by tho lederat taxgatherer Is* used to force upon you aguin tho men who have ?o signally lulled to bring us baos to prosperity and peace. Aud when it Is feared by tho republican managers that the money levied in viola lion of the law ol the land upon these servants of the wiiulc people may not suffice to overrldo ibe people will then a United States Attorney General makes haste to spit upon tbe decisions of the Supreme Court, and a Secretary of Wur summons tho bayouets ol tbe lederal soldiery to Louisiana yesterday, to South Caro lina to-morrow, to do the work which corruption runds slone could not accomplish. There has never been at tempted a more daring subversion of the right ol each Stale to say who shall be voters aud to alone maintain good order within Its limns than the recont order of Ibe Attorney General, who bus disgraced his high offlco us protector and guardian of tho law by tramp ling II under bis leet; and believe mc, gentlemen that I do not exaggerate when 1 warn you that II the American people grant another lease ol power to tbe men who are sapping our prosperity and under mining onr Institutions, that If such a mlsloriuua as tho election of tbe republican candidates should betall v* the same high-banded and unconstitutional meas ures which now threaten Louisiana, South Carolina and oiber Southern states may four years hence he at tempted in onr owu or any oiber Northern Slate. Why Should they hesitate at further outrages when their f ast and present misdeeds are condoned and tolerated f I the flapping of u bloody shirt onto in every two ur four years will convert 4?,0ou,ouo or peoplo mostly toio fools, why should those who protit by this loily cease to lool ihoui to the top of their bent whouever Presidential elections iome around ? 1 am not here to Imitate the speakers and the press Of the republican party in personal vituperation* and malignant accusations against Individual caudidnte* but I say that tne republican party baa become, through Its unscrupulous leaders, corrupt, pron riptlvo aud arbitrary; that It has forfeited the confidence ol a treat people, so thul iu good and upright meo havo felt it to array themselves uuilcr our banner, in order to assist in the election of Samuol J 1 tldcn. the ablo and trusted cnomplon of reform and retrenchinon t. TBK LKTTEK or CHAKI.KS FKaM'!* ADAMS. You have ail eecu the telling letior of Charles frauds Adams, read at one of your late mattings. I think you will agrea wilh me that there are few statesmen in our country who look over a larger Held in public affairs, or contemplate it with more patriotism, sagacity uud Intelligence than Mr. Adams. During all that critical uer.od in the nation's history, from lsttl well up to IWHI, be was our wise and walcblul Minister at I.on don, wbich was the central point ol danger irorn recognition ol the Souiliorn Confederacy by the treat European Powers, led by Prance and England. And from Prance there was really very little peril unless England co-operuied wiliiLouis Napoleon. Upon Mr. Adams, ihereiore, in on. caniu the stress and strain in that trying hour, and ngnt nobly did lie stand and withstand lor his country. It can aafcly be said that next to the abiding popular determination of the North to main tain aud perpetuate an Indissoluble Union of inde structible Stales this country is mora indebted lor Staving ort a European recognition ol the Southern Confederacy to the wise diplomacy end the unflinching courage ol Mr. Adams than to tbo effort of auy single American. Aod when later the government at Wash ington needed it cool and well equipped judge to repro sent tnis natlou in tnu great International arbitraiien St Geneva, which was to clone up lorever tbe Alabama Claims dispute, he did not decline the unsolicited tusk Wbicn compelled him again to recroas the ocean any more lhan, to use Ins own words, ho "dared to refuse" S ftw days ago to lead in Massachusetts tho army of reform as democratic candidate for Governor of that ancient Common wealth. For tbet act ol eelf-nbnega tion at Geneva tbe pee pie of the United Sutea are lull of gratitodo to btm. And rifbi here let me any a word to my iellow-clti sena ol Irian birth and memortea who may have re ceived tbe impreaalon Ibat aa American Minuter be tailed to do his full duty toward tbe uutortunate Fenian leadcra who fell Into the rude grasp of English law. 1 bad occasion at tbe time, In London, to becurne perfectly lauHliar with all tbe tacta and all tbe diffl eultira of tbe diplomatic situation, aad I aay, unhesi tatingly, that no diplomatic ageui, bad be been tbe nobleat end ableat Fenian whose heart beat lor tbe perfect eelahliehmcnl of aeif-governmeiii, could have doue more tor tbe green laio of ma birth, or could have done it belter. That Mr. Adam* !? a cautious and prudent man we all know, but, like all or bis race, be la bold and self asserting enough in tbe hour of peril, and a peril be warns bia countrymen la now upou them in tbe threat ened election ol Uayet. Tbe stirring sentences with wblcb, in bia letter, be implores his lellow-cllizens to rally to tbe support of Tilden. and the courage with wblcb be breaks away Irom former pariy ties remind one of tbe speech wblcb Daniel Webster put in tbe uioaih ol bia illustrious ancestor in the critical mo ment ol tbe Continental Cong rest, wblcb pronounced lha Declaration of independence:?"Sink or earlm, live or die. eurvive or perith," said John Adams, "1 give my band and my heart to this vote." I can conceive of uo statesman to-day In the whole of our land who, at three score years and ten, la, in the warning advice which he addresses to bis countrymen, further removed irom the mere personal passions and allurements of tbe hour than Charles Francis Adams With tbe warning voice and tbe bright example of ?uch a man before him no American who lovea bis coun try, wbo seeks its greatness and prosperity aud wants to" secure to his children tbe blessings ol our repub lican institutions, can hesitate lor one moment on which aide to range himself in the coming contest. Ou one side a party corrupt, sectional, sectariau and reckless by sixteen years of uncontrolled power. On tbe other side tbe time-honored democratic partv, re juvenated and trained by adversity, always laiibthl to the fundamental principles of ibe Republic. On one aide a candidate ol negative qualities was In tbe bands of the same leaders whom an outraged people Jusily charge with all the evils under which we are suffer tug. On the other tide n tried and experienced states man, whose brlllieut career ol reform and retrench ment Id our own city and State are nut the forerunners of what be will do lor iho American people at large wnen called to be their Chief Magistrate. If retorm and retrenchment, it wtsc and progressiva legislation In tha revision of our tariff, il souud and practical measures having in view a safe and lasting resumption of specie payments?if ail these are needed by tbe American people, there Is no man In whose will, energy, experience, honesty of purpose and sagacity I would bave a more abiding faith than m bamuel J. Tilden. ATTACK I MO PIRSONAI. CHAKACTKR. The majority of tbe radical papers sad speakers, nt n loss for logical arguments in lavorof iheir tiexot, have, since the very beginniug ol this campsign, descended to a mode of warlaru unknown heretofore in any Presi dential election. They attack tbe personal character of our candidate with a violence, a malignity and dis regard of fairness aud truth which have disgusted the public sentiment and which are a disheartening evidence as to whet depths blind and reckless partisan spirit may sink. What must the civilized world think ol us wnen the foremost man ol a great party, chosen for Its Chief Magistrate by tbo Empire State of the Union, is charged with the vilest crimes of human depravity r But our candidate Is not alone the ohjeot ol their venomous wrath. It la sufficient tor nuv one of us to express our tntth In the uprightness of the man whose private and publio virtues we huvo learned to honor to bring down upon our aevoted heade the foul abuse ol thoao men wbo are daily lowering and disgracing the noble pro teuton of the press, to which every lover of civilisation, liberty and progress has been taught to look as the most powerful promoter and protector of llieso blessings. Uur opponents are trying to Irigbten the American people from voting for our candidates by charging us with being the party ol Inflation aud re pudiation. BARD AMD SOFT XONRT. Mow I maintain ibat, with the exception of a few fanatics wbo have chosen lor their candidate our ven erable townsman, Feter Cooper, there are no longer any Inflationists ?vcn among tne most uncom promising advocates of paper money. Tbe events of tbe last three years, tue continued depression ot values, the shrinking ol everv kind of pioperty, the stagnation or trade and the otter pros tration of industry, while at the same time there has been tbe most unprecedented plethora of paper money, have convinoed every thinking man that ibe inflation or an Irredeemable and depreciated eurrenoy?a cur rency which by every dollar added to its circulation becomes more depreciated?is an absurdity. It Is like attempting to build a magnificent structure In s mo rass, too higher you build the deeper It sinks into the bottomless swsuip. 1 suppose our oldest merchants do not recollect sueh utter prostration in all branches of business us tbe present year has witnessed, and yet money has gone begging at tbe lowest rates of Interest ever known hero or in England, and our banks bave been obliged to withdrew over $21,000,000 ot papor money Irotn circulation, because thoy could not profit ably employ Ik The simple fact Is, prosperity cannot be restored without a return of confidence. and confidence cannot bo restored without a return to specie payment. To bring the couutry beck to that at as early a day as practicable, without serious financial revulsions and witbout tbo danger of an Ul-maturod and abortive at tempt, it requires a firm and skilful hand, galdod by sn intelligent and experienced head. Now there is not one among nil our publio men wbo has made so pro found a study of this finsncisl problem as Mr. Tilden; nay, I doubt whether Europe has, at thin moment, among all her financiers a man of the theoretical and practical knowledge of political economy possessed by our candidate. Well may the voters of tbe Republic rejoice that such a man Is offered for their sudrages, and 1 have that unshaken tattb in tne intelligence or the American people that 1 am confident they will triumphantly elect Raiuuel J. Tilden as tbeir pilot to guide tbe ship of state, now sarronnded by rocks and shoots, to s haven of safety and rest ADDRB88 or MB. M LANK. Senator R M. McLank was introduced at the con clusion of Mr. Beunont's remarks. Alter referring to the pleasure be felt in addressing a New York audi ence ne went on to speak ofllio Issuos of llie present campaign. Never, be said, In tbe history of the demo cratic purty, or in that or the country, were the issues as important aa to-day. Thero wore some present who recollected the time when the democratic party was the symbol of tbe prosperity and honor of the nation; lint, alter all the disasters and estrangements of the war, we bad had eleven years of administration which had dishonored the country at home and abroad. (Applanse.) After eleven years of prufouud peace the country was worse o(T than at the termination of the war. (Applanse.) Every business mau, republican or democrat, knew that the people of the South and the people of the North returned then 10 their avocations of posce, and that tho year 1807 was a year of prosperity and not of disaster. To prove that iact we had the very highest evidence lrom tbe republican party. In 18C6 tho General of tho Army, now President of the United States, was ordered to make a tour through the Southern states. Be did so and returned to Washington and reported to the President that be had held public and private intercourse with the whites and with tbe blacks and that there was a universal acceptsnce of the amend ments to the constitution, and they were received as the Dual settlement 01 the differences engendered by the war. (Applause.) He said further in there port that all that was necessary to give prosperity to the South and tbe North was not to disturb the Southern people with the army of tne United Stales. (Applause.) Iu 1867. one year before he was elected Preaidout, General Grant was exannued upon bis outh by a cummiiteo of Congress and be testified then In precisely tho same language that he used in I860. His evidence of tbe tact, however, was not needed, for the commercial returns of the country showed that In (be years 1806-67 the cotton crop was equal to what it had been before tbe wer; and it should be remembered that cotton was nearly one-ball of all onr exports. It was In the face ot tacts like those that the speaker presumed, alter elevco years, that the republican party had proved to the country that peace was mure ruin ous than war. (Applause.) Not only was every branch of trade In better condition two years after tne war than now, but then could he easily colleciod lrom taxes $400,000,000, $600,000,000or $600,000,000, and now the revenue Is tail ing and it yields but $;i0O,0OO,c00. We were in condi tion in '67 to have $100,000,000 of gold surplus in the Treasury, aud 10 havo that amount stolen by collectors o* taxes belore it could be put into ibu Treasury. (I.aughtcr.) The speaker's authority lor the statement that *100,u00,o00 hud beeu stolen was tbe report of a republican committee of tbe House of Representatives, presided over by a distinguished gentleman, now a Senator. Tbe speaker alludod to the assertion of Edmund Burke, that when he nad occasion to speak of a thiel In English he could And no other term Ibun "thiol.'* In tno course ol his remarks Mr. McLano said he would uso that term whether the culprit were a poor, miser able tide waiter, who expiated hie crime In tne peuiienilary, or onu who was received In tho velvet parlor of a President who accepted his resignation with regret. Ho went on to contrast the democratic party with tbe republican, and stated that tbe lormer deserved tho support of the peo ple because It had, In national convention, declared that II would have honest government, honest money, Improved revenues and a reformed civil service. Mr. Tiklen was referred to as the highest exponent ot these reforms, and ?as the man of all others who had been most explicit, clear and Intelligent In hla advocacy ol hard money; and no compromise bad been made by the party in associating with him Mr. Hendricks, because that gentleman, before tns nomination and alter, declared upon his word of honor that he was a hard money democrat, tfpoaking of tno civil service reloriu, Mr, McLane said that government officials should have the qualities called for by Thomas Jefferson?honesty, capacity and fidelity. Where, ho asked, was tho honesty, capacity end Od<d Ity of Vice President Colfax, who was censured oy tho donate lor accepting a po>r, miserable pittance ol $1,000 In the Credit Mobilier irauda; of Holknap, meanest of all, wbe threw the blame upon tbo shoul ders ol his wile; ol Attorney General Williams, who charged the government lore landaultl, a lit erted coachman and a pair 01 blooded bays; ol the Secretary, Delano, who sent Orvil Grant and his own brother tnio the Indian country to tax the traders end bring back to Washington twenty live or thlriy per cent of the profile made on tho sale of revolvers and Spencer rifles to the Indians that have murdered Cutler ? (Hisses.) Secretary Robeson and the frauds exposed 111 the Navy Department wore dwelt upou at some length, and tho name of tlieCattclls wua not forgoiion. "Go through your Indian Bureau,''said the speaker, "and your Pension Bureau, and find that for lour or five years pensions have been impended, as tea tilled to before tbo Congressional Committee, because tho funda wero being used elso where." Iu almost every bureau, tbo speaker ?aid, was to be lound evidences of corrup tion, and the amount stolen ranged lrom $60,000,000 10 $76,00o,000 a year. The speaker ndicuied the eilorta of republican politicians to ?7^U,d/'*4? ?f ,he South. Whoa tho South iu ?Uor four yours of wsr, thoy had less than 400 000 bob in arms, and in* North had ovar 1.000,000 and H was plain to those alarmists that the South had not the power if they had the will, lo rebel again ? ?i. . >U,*couutry aec?Pl??l '?? constitutional amendments more cordially than the speaker, and ? ."u * Southern man (cheers), aud he spolce for LrVLf0.',P'CUOV'm*" in llle 8ou,b- lron? Delaware y,iyS^..",d.?"? Mr- C??k"n? nor Mr. Butler th..'.S , ^er ?r conntry more earnest support ki 1, r? brethren will i|r. McLsne f-iJ V? . !w haar,'r8 1,01 to be disturbed by talk aboat the "solid South.'' Why, If there Ter? J"1' ? "solid Soum" they ought to durmf ih ?ut,b*. " u ???,w P?fmli itself to be ruled surth1! h?lovcu years and not unite with the Northern democrats tbe people oi the South would be unworthy ol American citizenship. (Applause.) It was not to be supposed that the feel ing referred to was confined to the white ni?n of the South. Tho speaker knew that thu blacks of that section now as fully disdained tbe re- 1 publican party as did tbe whites. As a matter of fact more than one-third of tbe black men in Loutatau? mora than one-half of thoee in Alabama, one-half of thoee in Georgia, one-quarter or tbose in Sontb Caro thoa'o0^ Wost 0['i,b0S? 10 v,r8'?'? *nd one-half of thoao m Wost Virginia supported the democrats Senator McLane called attention to tne aliened criminal conduct or tho government In its administrs. ?dnee?lj? lumtr fT"1* pmv " LouTwb'en declared itself for honest government and honest f' ?.af7? '**?lved reform In tbe revenue, the enrreney three 'XlSE* "V w" 10 8dd'1'00 ? ^ . momenta, a fourth, and that was absolute submission to the consliiutioa which1? m*' <API"?use.) Passing over tbe legislation which followed the war, the speaker did not refer to OUtara whtah"h!!!'Tf 'Ue?1 taW* ?r *ny of ,Ue thousand fh.af.7iT. u. r#f"ence to the reconstruoiion of the Southern Stales?laws that were passed in great exigencies. In order that the dominant party might thH*innhin 1>0,ce 10 'be Southern country," as It puis coSnuv rh." .""I* ^ arroy lnl? ?b" country. rhe speaker said it waa d?n> the rirahiif>0,ii?if m,kln" ,be ???tbern peeple vote . Hcket, aud denounced it In elegant and rigorous language. Mr. Secretary Cameron and Mr tne criraVt Jhilffh' T*U b.ad ju8t '"ued '"""ructions to 'b? marshals of the United States and !.? beputios and tbe deputies or tbe deputies shall Stales In and navy 01 'ho United k! J ord?f 'o maintain peace in a fiVeonM i w*' lb# ",*'ruc'ion. It was simple all could understand it. The marshal was told thai be could uso the army to maintain peace in "a" Slate boothorn States alone, but in any Stato of this' Inion. H bat waa tho law? Two aspects of the case presented themselves. The Supreme Court of the In: tod Slates had ruled thai tho ledeinl Congress should not interfero In maintaining the peace In any State of the United Stales. Th?f ruled that upon a law which is generally < ailed the Enforcement act. It was unnecessary to stats that *"*2 "pon ?n? '** was pood as appliod to all other laws, and therefore when Secreiarv Tait came to execute that taw of Congress which Axes the time and pisce for holding elections, he knew very wel that the marshal, could not do ?nde? h .L"Wi ??yth,n? which ho could not do under the Enforcement law. He knew as a matter of ^rlre',tih?UWWa' 1 ^ ^ "? rUKj referred to was general in Its character, and that it clearly meant that the United States could not law fully maintain tbe peace in a State. That waa the tune a"idi ,b"rolore w,|on he told the mar tbflls tbat It could do so, bo was kuowiticiv unlawfully and corruptly violating tho law and ni desorves Impeachment. The violation of tho lommou law w?? still greater. Tho common law was th>t \ lo?i! Catl l,urani0D 8 po"e comitaiut, and in that a soldier or a suilor, as an Individual can he embodied ,f ho is In the' country; but It rolM absolutely that the whole posse Is undor the command of the sheriff, and i( . go,,/,,? u, * 8,101 "odor bis own officer. being In hi* character as a soldier of tho army. Mr Tali vf.2!? T8ry wo" th81160 "'me would be murder If be killed any one. (Applause.) What did Taft and a^c.li?U ,0'd 1,10 Secretary that ho could !!??! *hVrBly l.? lho S,001,1 8nd Camoron ordered Gen eral Sherman to tend it there. Gonerel Sherman In sending It put Into tho order that every ollicer must be careful not to take life aud not to fire a sho?uS oaS ifdnrfghtWI1 re8pon81b"uJr be 'bought It necessary In conclusion Senator McLane promised tbat the domocratlo party, if placed In power, would reform the currency and the revenue, would give lho people honest men In office and would not appropriate uio public money to corrupt purposes. HO*. CHARLKS A FAIBCHILD waa next lutroducod, who saidPeliow-cltlzena th. f?'Teh?nt Pa,'U ?',be 000n,ry 8r# ??w d^ng their duly in the grand campaign Tor reform. Our Iriouds or lho Southern Stale* have done theirs well, and our friends 'b* Wostarn States?of ludiaoa-(appiauso)_of th ?} ^'f?lnis and of Ohio have nobly done Noi York n?Wv r8na8!n8 for 08 of 'be East, of Now York, New Jersey and Connecticut to do oar part. We mav expect tho light to rag* hero Sercely, for here will be the bruot or the battle unto the final and decisive strugglo In November. Such b^i if?.Ji eM?'. T"nl 10 c*" u"e?tiou to our State Pfn . tbo mea,ur** or reform Inaugurated and to bo Inauguratad in our midst. I desire first to call alteotion to our canal reform I- stigmatized by the tapuwioan "pri.. *nS by your ex-Governor, General blx, as a stiam reform or Governor TIldcn A 1 will show In a few words thft it la nolaaham reform, hat tbe only good chaugo In troduced In our cnnal system lu twonty.flvo years. In the year 1861 there arose a great scandal about a meeting of some 3,000 contractors in Albany concerning the distribution of 80,000 000 wort? of contracts. It was charged tbat the contracts were unfair > given to the member, of this of contractors. So mnch indignation manilestod itself upon the sublect that on amendment was made to the constitution requiring that contract* should be given to the lowest blddsr. This, however, proved in.ffe??f " ?,u1. of. P?1""*' Influence accepted con' tracts at lower rates than would >?* if, the labor, and then asked tho Legislature to grant them additional compensation. In 1874 the people adopted another amoudment, to the effect thai no extra compensation should he allowed as it wss In perversion of the Stato constitution req'uirlng con tracts to bo allowed to the lowest bidders At the time we had great faith In tbe efficacy of this enact mcnl. But we were avloued. In 1871 w?. olecua Attorney General, who was not a frail officer but a man of trust and honesty. 1 allude to ' nx-ATTORNKT GIN ARAL BARLOW. Some tlmo before tho adoption of tho constitutional amendment to stop extra allowances Attorney Gewra Barlow bad brought action against certain com tractors who received extra compensation upon tbo ground that it waa contrary to lho law or let lag ih? contracts to lowest bidders Pending th* dectamn of this action tbo Republican State Convention In 1873 at Utica. Mr. William M. Era?ta"nT?"ui? her or others joined in requesting Mr. Barlow to accent another term of office. He accepted with reluctance because the time occupied thus by him might be mora fhfi f ela?lp y8d 81 b'8 PrlTate business. Yet when that republican Convention met at Utica declined to nominate Mr. Barlow, though be bad doue more than auybody elso in New York State to hJin bring about an honest management ol the canal affairs? Notwithstanding bis well known effort. In tho caura ofmr8f8rln ?xt him ofl; but they nominated olhlr official.-, who have since disgraced their narlv Such being tbe case, Karlow wont out ol ollioe in J.nn ary, 1874, and the suit lie bod brought on the strength of the consiltutiopal amendment was adversely decided hta'n* Cou"' ?r APP?'la- I do not know it, but poasi bly tbo minds of some of the judge, of that 'court m"y have been Influenced by the action of ihi Cllca Republican Convention in rejecting Barlow tor ? socond term. It was sigu.tlcaut to them tn.t a party which represented ono-liall the voters of the stato h?H ret used to Indorse Mr. BarloW. renommatmn * ?om? other suits Mr. Barlow brought at the end of his term of office, which proceeded slowly along during the year until, upou tho 1st day 0* Jaiu? JZkrlS S,' bimUK .J Ti,den C8"'8 'be Go? ernorship. Ho bad not bean two months in oiflco lefora bis attention was brought to these caoal fraud? through tho application ol some boatmen employed on the canal asking lor a reduction oi impost. Wh?H Governor Tllden had given the subject bis notice ho found another new danger?viz., the system of urn balanced bids, sonic higher and some lower with tho powor of contracting for any amouut of work Ho called the attention of the people do It, and his eflorts eventually resulted in dis covering all the abuses which were at once and foravE stopped. (Applause.) A certain suit is now in court one which contends lor $500,000, end which we bivo ?ass MILLIONS OF DOLLARS, and slop forever the notations of the law governing lh? canals. We prolorred not to brtDK ibts suit uoill tba Board of Engineers wus reorganized In January last, tor we had reason to beliero tnat the old ones wero in the pay ot the Jobbers. After that a strtat ex amination was made by competent civil engineers and the case was ready for trial. Like ine case ol Attorney General Kurlow, it was nonsuited; but alter many delays It has been referred 10 three referees. In my opinion, the opinions of the referees will bo in our laror; If not, at least It will not be in fault of a proper prosecution of the case. Toe Investigations brought to light what Is known as the John Hand conspiracy. Una of the chief con spirators was a member of the State Legislature, and besides his connection with this ease be was found to have sold bis vote and Influence as a member of the Legislature. He w?s arrested, biougut to Albany, tried and convicted. General Dix has stated that but three prosecution suits were brought In tne matter of these canal abuses, ami Hint one ol them wus dismissed, lie is wrong. Only two were brought, and of these the one that was dlsmis-ett was tbat brought by Mr. Harlow. It would have lieon unwiso to have brought more actions, lor, If wo win Iho one now pending, we snail secure millions of dollars: If we fail we anull save great expense. (Ap plause.) Usrlow might have brought thirty suits, but lie was too wise to do so. Other men besides Tllden have conirouted tnese canal abuses, but sll failed more or less until he came forward. He has been charged wtib doing bis part lor political effect anil to gratify bis political ambition. Well, what of that? it Is only when wo do these things lor political ambition that ws ?ball succeed in making any permaucut reforms. Grant ln.it Governor Tllden was ambitious. He staged ail bis political reputation In his struggle against the rings. That Is the true way. The speaker then made an arraignment of General Dls and bis views or tbu Canal King prosecution, lis said he did not wonder that General Dix fell euro at the position he occupied. Ho concluded with some eulo gistic remarks ol tbo democratic party and the achieve ments wbfch lay before It. A storm ot applause greeted bis retirement iron the platform. THE OUTSIDE DEMONSTRATION. There was a tremendous erowd filling the large rqnars between the Cooper Union and Bible Hoose last night. Many enthusiastic democrats estimated the number of persons present at 1,000; bat this would probably b? a* exaggeration. There wae a blaae of ealeiuiu lights, both la tbo contra of tbo plaza ???> aroand th. speakers' aland. I? Iront of tbo Cooper Union a large Tilden. Heudrlcks, Hoblnaoa and Dors hetmer flag an placed, aad a diaplay of Oreworkatook place at eight o'clock, which aesmed to add flame to the zeal of the assembled patriate. A bra** band was on the platform and two polloemen guarded the en trance to It. Before the apeakera appeared Tilden and liendncka reform tracu were flung out to the crowd who received them aa if they were prizes. One female even forced heraelf among the gamins who clamored lor political information and begged at a particu ar favor that a bundle of the documenta should fall to her share It la needless to aav that the Tilden colporteurs accommodated her. Mr. Peter B. Olney appeared in front Anally and nominated Mr. Edward L. Fsrrish aa President That gontletnan came forward and said that the democrats ahould congratulate themselves on thetr victory, aatha latest news from Indiana tncretaed the majorities of the party. West Virginia, which was said by republicans to bo donbtlui, was carried y 10,000 majority. This indicates what au overwhelm ing victory awalU tbe party in November. Mr. Par rtih then introduced to the meetlug uk. b. k. nonovan, or ohio, Who said:?Feilew citizens, 1 am fresh trom the State of Ohio, utter a moat earuesi aud vigorous cuuipaigu. The democrats, although dclealed, ar# not ' %e have had u political contest bcioro which all olb*f* oalad. The republtcaua had to send thousands and thousand* of dollars into the State, and their majority la smaller than they expected and showed results ?9 weak aa tbe parly itself. Aa wo Uave onlybeenbMten by about 6,000, th* fuel is demonstrated that, not,"'b" a landing the corruption, the dominant party count a single recruit Let ua review cveu a Doruou of their laic political history. They weni to Cincinnati and presented suth names us Conkling, Blame, Morton end tor notninatiou; they could not nominate Oliver . Morton because hla history is the history of tlie re. DUbncan party, for James G. Blaine hecauso of ualamous transaction* with wnieh ho had be?n con nected. aud as ror brislow he had loo great a desire to correct the ubuees ol the republican party, so tbsjr would not nominate htm; ihotoloro they aekoted a neirative mac. a gentleman without aitiinglo point to elevate him above mediocrity ; ouu wtfl in case ol his elevation to the chier execulivo office ot the natloa would he sure to be overshadowed by larger m?n,?ho would exhaust all mean* to carry out their bad designs. I have heard that Kutberlurd B. Hayes did hoiwuul to flourish the bloody shirt In the canvass, Iut the leaders told turn he had nothing to do with it aud that TI1K IlLOOUV SHIKT MHOL'tP UK WAV ZD. Now 1 will reler Tor a mouieui to the letter ol Alfred E. Leo to the American Alliance. It Ur Governor Hayes never authorized that letter. Mr. Lee is a gentleman jealous ol bis honor; he will not permit any man to make a scapegoat of htm If he mmvu ihnt Governor Haves did not auUorlM that letter he must li be'Ieved,7utbe will not say anytbmgo. tlie kind and that document stands forth a rftnf that the republican nomine? stnuds ready SL> '?< ?5"towblch ,?.???fP coMider Governor Hayes worthy of your voiei but must cast them lor Hamuol J. Tilden on tlio .th of November. ^ OABnBTTSO!,.8 8,?c. This eentleman. wno waa Introduced as a New Yorker said that he came to the meeting not aa a ?r .:r-r while we reverence the nameB of the dead 8lat08 Sen1";: Should also revere the names of the iivine and distinguished men, lliueu *uu Hendricks who possess ihe sa.ne v.rtucs as tho pure ?uifiitneQ who now sleep beneath tbo sod mere not a living man who can honestly speak against them. fhev are S Terror to ev.ldoars and It is your duty to LraJd bv them this fall. If lor nothing else than .11 rascalT and evildoers shall be brought to u*t.~ *'hT republics!!* are trying to avoid the hvln^issue., but the democrats will force them to meet SyEK? Sw S2IS" "f coun%y They sly Governor Hayes Is lor reform but u"\he?rhu"tUwinBfXlw1>athJ 'graft'and the" lounisln canuot rise above Its source. ?^ng bul the pllsat tool of those who placed h.m In, power. HON K. ?? CLRVtLAND'S ePMhCH. This eentleman said tUal he wished the meeting, be r.ra fe?rTnd?aCnt Mum h?eC Jus? ?k"Wf theVpeaker* tLUsVt''U8c:eh\thter^%m.\T^"ra- , the speaker, torn (pe hail a victory in the WsatTvsr" H the thieves and robber, of the adminia tratioo Wo havo carried the loll flag, Indiana and oat of a voting population ol 600,000. I "hall never forest the forward march of old Indians. (Applause.) WhlsrJ tl. night, having spoken ?ixteen t.me. n w'veTlaTa there but I believe in e God, and Ho will ' take care of tno speakers. Now 1 want toi say. word ?K/.ni one of tbe foremost speakers okt there?James G Bismol for instance. H.Pwos convicted1 by a uemo crstic Congress and sent back to Maine,of a sends him back a Senator. I romembsr s story ot man who agreed to sit up with s corpse. (Lighter.) When he had rsmalnsd until about slevcn o clock h# thought the corpse might be alive, so he got a "'"I' t.? the bodv down. At this time a est came into the room and he took e broom to drive the cat out, but a <t<ior was accidentally opened and a half dozen cats catered. In the act of driving thsm oatJ}* w" startled by seeing mo corpse rtau up in the coffin, ho droppod his broom and pusued tbe body back, saying. .'You lie right down, 1 can take care of the cats ! So we will take care ol Blaine and push bl /f siiflhur \ Grant said. I?cl u' uav? but tbo republican party wave* the bloody sblrt;, yet with Samuel J. Tilden ?a Prert.?j "ij w0' duced your taxation from $16,000,0u0 to ??,wo wo vou would have an era ol true poace ??d nrosuerlty I-ook at the corruption on tbe otber aide First we had the St. Uoiniugo aflatr-a very black .na7r then the Indian Bureau. Ah 1 I wish you iKST'iSfJ?."!; ItUlT^slory" A"'TnTnd' wool" to^T'^clgbbor and ??hot mv daughter has reformed; sho has usa two white Tables Since then." (Great laughter.) Now the administration has relormcd; but they have hud two white hable* (Babcock aud Bclkuup) *l??e lb*no| w . Ur John A Foley and Captain Baldwin, ol west Vlraini^ apoke at tbe latter part ol the meeting, and tho crowd remained until a lato hour. ? THE DEMOCltATIC FACTIONS. ANOTHEB ATTEMPT AT UNITIKO TAMMANY AMD ANTI-TAMMANY? MKSTIMU OF TIJE CONFKK ?MCK COMMITTEES?BOTH BIDES STAND FIBM AS TO BliBl'ECTIVE PKOPOBTION8?TO-DAY's COUNTY CONVENTIONS. The conference committees of Tammany and antl Taiuinany, appointed lor the purpose ol cementing a union, If possible, between tbo two organizationa, re assembled yesterday altcrnoonat ihelr respective bend quarters. Tba usual crowd of ward statesmen and ambitious candidates gathered in tho Immediate vicinity of Tammany Hall and Irving Hall anxiously awaiting ibo denouements which should decide their expected share of tbo loaves and daboa. Botb the com mltteea held accret sessions, none being admlltod but the privileged Individuals delegated by the leaders to map out a boats upon which tbo democratic factions might be induced to come together. It was generally given out during the alternoon und evening among the expectant groups that gathered on the aldewalks and in barrooma around Fourteenth street that littlo c bonce ex la led lora anion. Tho contending elements for place and power upon both sldea were of auch a character that It aeemed impossible to agreo among themaelvea. It waa conceded that the armies of O'Brien on one tide and Morrisaey and Bixbyon tbo other, were about equally dtvtdeu in the anti-'lamiusny body, with a probable preponderance ol Irieude of the O'Brien phalanx. Then Mr. John Kelly, with lilt horde ol oBlce-seekcrs, stande on the side ol Tammany ready to do battle ior a larger slico of the political toat. TRSTIKUAV'a OOBFtKBBCB. Tbla waa the condition of afTalra yesterday at the time the expectant eiatesiucn came together again. WbcD they adjourned on Friday night the propositions ol mmmniiy and anil-I'sm many were respectively re jected. One of tnoso propositions on the part oi the latter waa that the one-third rule aduptcd at Saratoga should alao apply to tho dlaponanig of the patronage in the various oillcea, from the Mayur'a bureau down to the men on ibe lug pipes. This pill cunld not be eoelly swallowed by the Tammany Hall magnates At Uve o'clock Ncrgeuui-ai-Arms Walsh, from the anti-Tammany Committee, proceeded to Tammany Hall and Inquired II any turthar communication would be eont around to the county democracy. Kxcise Commissioner Owen Murphy carried back the reply, Tammany had no lurtner proposition to makt, and there the matter rented A coinmutee ol three waa then appointed by anli-Tummany, consisting of Meaars. Sbnler, Purser aud Cuugbllu, to (trail a suit able address to be presented at tbo County Conven tion. Kaon ol tba committees adjourned about six o'clock. to-dst'i corxrv cobvxntiobb Tbe oocnty conventions ol both organizations will assemble at three o'clock this alternoon. It is proba ble that Tammany will make lier Dominations, but It Is supposed that aDlt-Tammnny will adjourn over until naxt week. A rumor was started last night, alter the adjournment of tbo committee#, that Tammany would piaco in nomination some of the anti-Tammany leaders lor minor offices, such aa coroner* and Coti graaainan, and thus take away soma of tho elements which control that organization. SCHOONER CAPSIZED. THE 8. D. B A UN 83, OF NEW TOBK, EKt'OON TEUB A WHIULWIND NEAlt WATCH HILL, K. I. NawrotT, R I., Ocl. 13, 187& No little uneasiness wm occasioned here tin* after* noon by a report that the scbooner yacht Foam, of lb? New York Yacbt Club, bad capsized outside. A Hskai.d reporter immediately secured a boat and wont out aide, where two luxa were seen having in tow a auuken vessel. Oue of the tugs being boarded, tho captain o' the vessel was iounu, and from bitu the following par ticulars wero ascertained:? The scbooner 3. 1). Barnes, of and for New York, Irom l'rovideuce, In ballast, Decker, master, capsized last evening six mile* east ol Wutcb Hill during a whirlwind. All bands, Ave in all, were thrown Into the sea, but fortunately uo ouo was lost. Tho Ashing steamer William Npicer went to her assistance, and look oif the crew and proceeded with ihem to New London, ttie vessel being It'll in cbargo ol tuo schooner Celeste, Captain Wbilten, bouud to New York. Captain Decker ougaged the tug* General A. K. Burnside and \V. T. Wellington, of New London, to low the schooner to Newport, and they abut to the scene ol tho t.master at nine o'clock this morning. They arrived In tho inuer harbor with her about e ght o'clock to-night and grounded her on the south point of Coat Island. Hlio i* not Injured, and alter being ngbled will bu pumped out by a steam pump on tho Geueral lturuside. When the lugs reached her this im rnlug she had drilled to within eight milrs of Point Julub. Kveryt ilng wae p.eked up save her galiey*. Mio i* but ten month* old and bad uo ins trance. She ta ownod by 8. D. Barnes ii Co., ol Now York. ?HAZING" THE "PLEBS." FIVE MIDSHIPMEN DISMISSED FBOM TUB ACADEMY FOB 11EFCSIXO TO TB8TIFX AGAINST THEIB COMRADES. Annapolis, Aid., Oct. 13, 187(1. Cadet midshipmen W. N. King, of Georgia; K. B. Parsons, of Massachusetts; George A. Scott, of ludianu; J. F. Luby, ol New York, aud W. W. ilusaoll, of Alary laud, were dismissed from tho Navai Academy to-day lor relusing to till who "hazed" the "plebs," The t'xpolled students retusod to testily to save other student* Irom being expelled for hazing, lor which there I* the additional penalty of being cosniered. The expelled cadi-la may bo reinstated aud a cashiered bazer caunoL SUPERINTENDENT EATON'S CASE. INVESTIGATION Or THE CHABGK8 IN CONNEC TION WITH THE NSW STATE CAI'ITOL EBLC TION. Al.UA.vr, X. V., Oct. 13, 1878. Judge Van Alstyno, commissioner appointed to teko testimony la the matter of the charges against Super intendent Ealou. of the now Capitol tnildincs, held a court at hi* oltlca to-day. S. W. Roseudale ap peared on behalf of tho Attorney General and Henry Smith appeurod tor Mr. Eaton. Judge \ an Alstyne said the object ol tho meeting was to ascertain how soon and whero thoy could make progress with tho Investigation. Mr. llosendale said he was ready to procoed at once Mr. Smith opposed going on at present, as ho could not probably bo present on Monday. Ho suld these charges wero dated July 31 and Mr. Eaton's answer was made August 30. Two mouths bavo olupscd since then, so that Ilts Excellency tho Governor could not have lolt It was Important to hurry the matter llo thought the 20th of October would be satis factory. This delay was due to both paillea II they intend this as a lair, honest, squore Investigation Eor tho legitimate purpose or an Investigation, If lor that ouly. It should go off until after the election He hoped neither Governor Tllden. nor the Attorney Geu cral, nor any ono In Ills behalf, would permit the un seemly appearance of pressing this Investigation upon the evo of an election when mere might even he a sus picion that it was carried on for somo political consid eration. Ihoao charges involve Mr. Eaton's Integrity?his charactsr as a man. Thoy Involve to him what was more than auy thing else, and lio wants a lair, square, honest hearing on that grouud, and if the accusing parties Intend that It would be more seemly to post pone the case until immediately alter the election. Mr. Koaendale thought these remarks uulatr and un called lor, as tho Attorney General was only perlorui ing bis duty. After some further discussion the case was set down for next Friday, when tho Investigation will bo pro ceeded with. HUNGRY WORKINGMEN. A THBEATKNINO DEMAND OF ' "BLOOD OB BBEAD." Albaxy, X. Y., Oct 13, 1878. A crowd of hungry workingmon lu this city, who have been walling impatiently lor employment etthor upon tbo new Capitol or tbo city works, gathered to^lay threateningly about a written uotica^^siod upon ono of the tree* of tbo Capitol Parll, asking them to meot in tbo fork on Saturday afternoon to demand -blood or bread" of the city authorities. Tbe notice went on to say that they hod waited long enough on promises und they would "crave" no more. Tno Dueling to morrow will probably bo carefully attended to by the police. THE HOUSE OF BISHOPS. PniLADiLraiA, Pa., Oct 18, 1876. A special meeting or tho House or Blsbops of tbo Protestant "Episcopal Chnrsh was Inaugurated hero this morning. Tbo presiding Bishop (the vonersblo Right Rev. Dr. Smith, or Kentucky) occupied tbe chair, und there were present blsbops from ull sections or tbe En Ion. Alter the celebration of holy communion tho House organized for business. Their proceedings are secret and may exlonu over two days. YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIA TION. Roan, X. Y., Oot 18. 1878. This was tho seeond day of the State Convention of the Young Men's Christian Associations. About 160 delegates wore present. In tho morning there was a Biblo reading bv H. B. Chamberlain, or Syracuse, and an address by F. L. Smith, of Rochester, followed by n discussion. In the forenoon the Executive Committee made tboir annual report, and tbe Rev. George A. Hall, State Secretary, madohis aunuai report. A new con stitution was adopted. The Rev. S. A. Taggart, of Pittsburg, gave an uddrcss on the organization or new atsoeiations. For Stale work $2,000 was pledged by the delegates. In the eveolng a thanksgiving meeting was held tor the first hour, lollowed by an address on the Bible clues In association work by the Rov. Henrick John son. D. D., of Auborn. LUTHERAN CHURCH COUNCIL. South HuTni.ziisif, Pa., Oot. 13, 1878. Tho General Council of the Lutheran Church ia America met here yesterday. To-day tbo Council dis cussed s new constitution lor congregations sad the report on foreigu missions. A MYSTERIOUS SUICIDE. At a Isle hour on Thursday night Mrs. Cora Chess man, a prepossessing young woman, lirlug in good style on a French flat at No. 070 Sixth avenue', rushed into the lager beer saloon ol K. Muller, two doors Iroin bor house, and exclaimed, ' I am shot!" Mr. Muller endeavored to learn further particulars, but without success. He and Henry Sturzer. a neighbor, quickly conveyed her to her apartments end sent for Dr. McClollen, who, on examination, staled that she had been shot in tho left bresst, tho ball going downward and causing a probably fatal wound. A colored servant soon entered tho room, apparently much oxcited, but refused to make any statement of tho snooting. Mr*. Chessman erow fainter and fainter, moaning at Intervals "I am dying." Mr. .Sturzer lound a small six-shooter lying near tbe tablo In the dining room. On the table were several ditbce end soma food. A bullot was lound imbedded In the doorpost, and Roundsman Minneuk, of the Nineteenth precinct, who. together with Ufflcer Hall, bad ar rived on tbe sceno, cut It out for evidence. A police surgeon was then called lu, end while rendering surgical aid endeavored to obtain Irorn the young woman the particulars ol the tragedy. After much evasion ebo replied that she bad ebot herself. Her condition coutlnued critical all day yesterday, and last night Coroner Ellinger went to her bedside to'tako her ante-mortein statement, but alio refused to make any further statement man that the had shot herself To bis question, "Was anybody with you at the time t" ?be replied. "Yes. my husband; but I am not going to tell anything." When asked why he was not present she answered, "I told him to go away." She refused to disclose her husband's occupation, saying it was nobody's business, and she vehemently denied the report that she had shot herself through Jealousy. From information received by tbe police It appear* that her liuaband visited the house yesterday noon, but immediately burned away. It alao transpires that they had a quarrel on Thursday mgbl. Since thou no trace* of b im can be found. Just heforo Coroner Ellinger left last night the dying woman stated that money matter* bad caused her to attempt ber life. She said she had given money to a dressmaker to make ber a dress, aud the article did not fit. The police are nonplussed at the case, but are mak ing every effort to And the husband of the unfortunate woman, believing that If he wae not a party to tbe shooting be eau at least throw much light upon it. At midnight last bight her death wae momentarily ex pected. AMUSEMENTS. UNION LEAGUJC THKATKK. The theatre ol (be Union League Club was filled last night by a fashionable audience, brought together at the call of awed chanty. An ainatcer minstrel entertainment of more than or dinary excellence wan afforded tbo good-humored au dience, given under the direction ol "Our Girl*' GuilJ,"' a charitable organization of society ladies who do al their own work and pay no salaries to secretaries, vis itors or president* The following la the programme:? past riasv. Introductory overture Orchestra ballad, "The Old Man Atnl Waal He Used To Hv." Dyooiifus Snow Comic Ditty. "Slime On" Mars Napoleon Skipping Ballad. "PairJ Foolalopk Ceully Falling," c.iarlee T. Waeknead Ballad, "The Old Log Catiln" Tbomna Jeffeiaon Carle C .mic Ditty. "Kmc* Mb. Suite" Marcus Brutus White Ballad, "l ake Ma to My Dear Old liouia," Antonlas Ptolemy finals, "The Slslgh Itide" By tha Company raur skco.vu. Carnival of luii "Port IViue v?. Jealousy " Mr. Carolines .... ... Kignold Montarue Mra. Caroliuui Charles T. Wuekuead Sshasllau VuudargraM Newton St. John, Mitrs Napolaou Skipping "Love'i Kxparience." Wiihy Washy (Original, villi sung aud dunce). Frank llowlaud Mr. Roborti Samuel M. Ogdun Comic Ethiopian musical sketch, "Snlliba." Bill Yard Q Mara Napoleon Skipping Cliurlie Boiiucsr. Wlntieid lloinatead scotl Diaaertation on the *1 liuea. Franklin Dowlaud. Anunal Kcvivw ol " I'he Ginger Bluaa," by tba Company. Lots ot new )okos?enough to supply the editor of a funny column lor a whole week ?wore crocked aud rolixiied b> the uudicnce. .Mr. liorgh'a attention was called to a horrible case ot cruelty to animals; oue ot tbo member* of the company had teen a man bollhug tats up. It was decided by a large majority that lluro is no difference between a druggi.-t and Major Fulton, lor both are pharmaceutists (lariuer shootists). The Guild will probably realize <300 by tbo cnlortam munt, which will bo followed by others duriug the counug winter. STEINWAT HAI.L?THOMAS* CONCEBT. The seventh concert of Mr. Theodore Thomas took place at Stcinway Hall last night. The aunlenco was very unall and correspondingly uudonionstrativo. The prograuimo was entirely dovoted to Mendelssohn, Felix Mendelssohn It.vrtholdy, a nanio to he revored, a composer to bo placed beside Mozait The selections Irom his works wore precisely tbo same as on that memorable occasion in I'lilladclphia when the Centennial Musical Festival rcucbod a climax. Mr. b". D. Mills repealed hi* success In iho (I minor concerto. The programme rau as lot. lows:? .Symphony, No. 3, A minor, op. &6 (Scotch), luliodiicliou utid ullogro agitato, ncherzo assal vivace, adsgio cantabile. allegro guerrloro and llualu mnosloso, orchestra; grand concert uria, "lnlellco," Miss Hen nulla Uoebc; concerto lor violin (first movement), Mr. K K. J tcobsoUn ; ?oug. "The Voices of Youth," Miss Anna Drasdit. Intermission. Concerto, for piano ami orchestra, No. 1, G minor, inollo allegro, nndantc proslo, to olio ullcgru vivace, Mr. S 11. Mills; duel, "I Would that My Love," Miss H. Hcobe aud Misa A. Draadil; ovorturc, "Midsummer Nights Dream," orchestra, MUSICAL AND DBAMATIC NOTES. Neirly all the theatres give afternoon performance* to-day. Miss Clara Morris will close her very successful en gagement at iho Brooklyn Theatre this afternoou. In tho evening Miss kalbcrlno Mogul's will appear In "Tho Lady of Lyous." "TltOi" DENNIS. BKBTCH OK THE NOTOKIOUS HOUSED*****! WHO IN HABKIB8. The burglar who met his death on Thureday night by falling: from lb. window of Mr. Morgan's rea.dence. No. Ot Weal Fiftieth street, wn.ch he was feloniously entering at the time, was yesterday IdenliUod " Charles Dennis, alias ?Troy" Dennis, a notorious thief and housebreaker. Ills career of crime extended ov6r a period of twenty live yean.,beginning just a- ha attained his majority and ending only with his death in tho forty-sixth ye. ? Tho police made his acquaintance shortly alter he embarked In wickedness, and on several dlflerent oo caslous sent him up the river. Sing Sing, however, bad no terrors lor hlra. as be always renewed his crim inal practices immodiatoly on getting out or custody. For the first ten years of hie cares. h,s line of crime was of the sneak thiol character, but. becomlug bolder, he took to hegvy burglary business. Latterly, howovor, he Inaugurated a system ot housebreaking that *??***'? h? lucked while Sie rilled the bureaus. Ho then escspev wUh^ftTbooty mth.r through the Iron.. doo . or t suspicious ol meeting anyper^.helot bmutsu uo s '"zr,:r. .. ?? ifZuTsk* saw rt bo stole worth ot jewelry. As he wasjf sfsimwM ?rXd?^ eel, and through mmmmm years At tho luuo of his uoath he was oniy r?v? / 'r?ien^f|'s ow^Ws^shas ol^Troy'' to the fisct that be was originally Irom froy, N. t. SANGUINARY AFFRAY. While the annual ball at Floral Hall, on the Fata Ground, at Whit. Flam.. Westchester county, wag being held last Thursday night, an affray occurred ouu sids which resulted In two men being cut and oue shot ,n the arm. It seem, that about midnight a quarrel arose among a number ot back dr.vers. who, wblk waiting for those engaged in tho dance, had been keep ing up a bibulous festivity of their own in n urluklni place, also located on the Fair Grounds. The owner ship of a coat was in dispute, and th. contention su log too warm lor further verbal argomonl, gome one in the crowd .truck Arthur c.rr . hosilor, * violent blow on the bead wild, a wnij haniiin Sn ariioc under ih? Injury, and fe.lt.. M?? Iron. 1W wound ruumu, .own necessary tho smputstion of lour of his finger* tTrrsucceeded m sinking Horton on ths I, ttlih his kniie, inflicting sn ugly ,u' ?ot dnogerous wound. In the excitement which followed Constable. Barnes *nulw.r.BlD,T"' both of White Plslus, drew their revolvers. Two ahou were dlsllnctly heard, and at the ssmo *""? WBBsm Adams. . hack drlvir, who was som. y.rd. from tno sceuc ol tho cutting, loll a twinge of pain in hmrisht arm near the .boulder, which aubseqaeutly ploved10 taSvV been ponctr.tcd by a bullet. Adam, livs bo saw no obo with revolvers drawn exceptlng tn? Uro constable* named, and ho either one or the other shot him. Carr was srresie on the grounds and lodged in tall to u Una. The ball which lodged in the arm or Adams wal extracted yeeterdsy. VERDICT IN THE EVANS HOMI CIDE. The court did not open until cloven o'clock P. M., at which time the Judge took his sost on tno bench, and ?mid breathleee silence the jury entered tho court, and announced, through tho foreman, that they had agreed, acquitting the prisoner of murder in the Urst degree end sonvicting of manslaughter la the second degree" Wberoupon Mr. Uolllne moved the judgment ol the Court. Judge Sutherland In passing ?u tnnoe said to tho prisoner that ho had had a very narrow eseapo. The jorv hsil treaied blm very kindly. There was much evidence in fete ?*<? going to enow that hi. act was th. result ct del oere tlon and premeditation. It was horrible to think ot his following the deceased for several blocks with s sioue and then killing him. Still it wasi Ml detv to ri'specl tne verdlot, and ho lound no fault with it 'The Judge then sentencod him to State Pr eon lor seven year* The prisoner seemed to appreciate the verdict, and alter thanking the jury and Mr. kinlsmg, hie counsel, he was tsxen back to tbo Tomb* REW JERSEY CRIMINAL NOTES. TnxxTon, H. J., Oct 1A W76 ? man named Douglass wit to-day sentenced to fif teen years In the Stale Prison, In the Meroer County Court, lor atrociously assaulting and robbing n young "kill WoldtalU, formerly of Trenton, wee to-day at Mount Holly to flvo year. In the MMe l ruee for killing n man named Mater i* * quarrel over n game ol quoit*