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pA.UA. "A A &": 1 •<> t ft : / . i ■>!! IL. l-NO. 22. ONE CENT. WILMINGTON, DEL., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16,1879. WASHINGTON. S FROM THE CAITTaL Flnane'al SialeinSEt. niNGTON, Sept. 15.—The following Inancial exhibit of the Treasury at or lusiness to-day: Currency, 300: special deposits of legal tenders Jemption of certificates of deposit, 75,000; coin $6'*,772,725, Including •ertificates, $14,430,900; outstanding enders, 8374- 345,708. io) ter Bans Ashore In « Heavy Gale. sniNGTON, Sept. 15.—Signal Service Observes at Cape Hatteras reports the H. W. McCooley, of New York, is burden, bound from Washington, to Philadelphia, and loaded with Ju li ingles, ran aground at 6 p. m., Sep : 11th, on south side of Hatteras In ri n r a heavy northeast gale and 6oa. few and passeugers were taken oif by boa's at 8 a. m., September 12th. from Norfolk are assisting her, ' cannot be conjectured whether she e saved or not ensei) Washington Telegrams. ; a il service has been ordered to be ex. the Little Rock & Fort Smith bad, a distance of 120 miles, jtids were opened at the Navy Depart to-day, for the construction of a see I dry dock at Pensacola, Fla. 'lie Secretary of the Navy requested the adlcfon of the report telegraphed , that arrangements had been made ie transfer of gold from San Francisco w York. No sifoli arrangements have in «n'emplation. i dispatch to the State Department ar that a trunk belonging to Dr.L. C. linger, of Highland, Illinois, has been vcred from the wreck of the Schiller, trunk contains articles of value. The Secretary of war during his recent nee visited and inspected many military s in tlie West. Tlie Secretary thinks this trip will save for the Governm e nt ge amount of money. Telegraphic Dispatches are furnished to t Morning Herald, by the American Tress Ifi'atioM, over the Atlantic and Pacific nraphic Co's wiresj ■I he Weather To-day. pr Xeic England, and the Middle Atlan States ami the Lower Lake Regions general toady weather, and ligld rain, Kortlicust to Vhmst winds and noticed change in tem itisrc or Barometer during the day, followed par weather in the Lower Lake Regions. The 8t. Lcger Stakes. iONDon, Sept. 15.—The great race for St. Legcr stakes was contended for at Doncaster September meeting to-day. * race, which was very exciting, was won t'ruigmillar, the second place being taken Balfe and the third by Earl D'Artney. I The Late Judge Woodruff. Ibw York, Sept. 15.—At a meeting of ■liar, held this afternoon in the Circuit Irf, to honor the memory of the late Ige Woodruff, addresses were delivered |cx-Judge Bosworth, George Differed, S. Goodman, William M. Evarts. Protest Against Carbolic Dlslnftc' lants. Jew Orleans, Sept. 15.—At a recent lu nation meeting of creole doctors and ers a s'rong protest was made against use of carbolic dislfectants by the Board lealth. Several doctors declare that the nfectan s are worse than the yellow ■he se er ters on Ices tie :r. I A Preacher N«ut Is PrlMn. New Yohk, Sept. 15.—George C. Iloland, lore J, minister of the African Methodist lurch, is on trial for assaulting and badly lumliug KobertfH. Scott, on the 13th of ly, was to-Jay sentenced to States Prison PiurJ labor for three years. The assault furred in the uppartincuts of a married lored woman named Brown, and was tlii (ult of a qqarrel arising from Jealously yarding the woman. The Idda Ladder Accident, Vew York, Sept. 15.— At a meeting of the commissioners to-day a resolution was roduce(l declaring the Udda Patent Aerial dder worthless, that it had .been foisted ou the fire department at an enormous reuse by corrupt means and ftirtber ex iraents be discontinued. The resolution 8 laid over to await the result of the in itigation into the cause of the accident ficli will be shortly made. From Canada. Sept. 15.—The amoun a Montreal lien from the Bank of Commerce is nowj led to be $76,000, nothing has been heard Jet of Nichols. flic prohibition convention opened at 2 ii-with an able address from Mr. Rosa fi there Is a large attendance. About three o'clbek this morning tbe lai- fiB, still stationed at the Protestant ictery, were alarmed by yells coming "a the woods. They turned and fired. In e direction from whence the yells " l,e y°' n d hearing the roughs scatter and !0 f.'?Ds were nd|, came no lbs New York Convention. Syracuse, September 12. —The panvass for candidate is quite lively. There is a strong sentiment in favor of Biglow for Sec retars of State, and as he is understood to have expressed a. willingness to accept, he will probably be nominated. The other candidates mentioned in case he declines, are Clarkson, N. Potter, Judge Charles Wheaton, Hon. J. C. Campbell. E. P. Ross, of Auburn, is a prominent candidate for State Treasurer in opposition to E. K. Apgar The other candidates are Caaal Commis sioner D. P. Dey, of Watkins, Mr. Britton and D. O. Solomon, of Onondaga, State Engineer D. M. Greene, of Tro?, Comptrol ler Lucies Robinson, Attorney General Judge Perate, Judge Charles Wheaton, W. H. Sawyer, Levi II. Brown, J. T. Spriggs and S. M. Weed, and for State Prison In spector, Major Zeenes C. Priest. LATER. Syracuse, N. Y., September 15.—Large numbers of delegates and prominent poli ticians have already arrived to attend the Democratic Convention, and the prospects are that there will be one of the largest and most exciting conventions ever held. The hotels arc thronged, and the interest is in creasing. The sentiment is strongly in favor of standing by Tilden, though there is an undercurrent of opposition, and an entirely new ticket will probably be nomi nated, though a strong effort will be made to secure the renomination of Attorney General Pratt. It is reported this afternoon that John Bigelow, of the Governor's Canal Commission, has consented to accept a place on the ticket. There will be a bitter fight between the Morrissey and Kelley delega-' tions, from New York. The two Albany delegations have been on hand since yester day, and urging their claims upon delegates. The State Commission meets this evening. The Governor's Canal Commission is repre sented here by the Hon. D. Magone, who is a delegate, and by John Van Buren, Esq. There is much discussion as to the financial plank of the platform, there being a differ ence of opinion as to positions. The Con vention will probably take a 6tand in favor of hard money. The Ileccnt Terrible lake Dlmi ter, Buffalo, Sept. 15.— No tidings have been received from the bark Evening Star, one of tlie undertow of tlie ill-fated Meudota, and it is becoming a certainty that she also lias foundered with all on hoard. The loss of life ty last weeks gale, to say nothing of the vessels and cargoes, is the largest for many years. By tlie loss of the schooners Onondaga and James Dunn, the pyopellers Equinox ami Meudota, and the steam barge Evening Star alone, 40 lives have been sacri ficed, and many eases of loss of life yet re main to be heard from. In the cases of the Equinox and Mendo'.a, which comprises !!8 lives out of tlie 40, there is evidence to show that botli crafts were little better than float ing coffins. The Mendota drew 12 feet of water when she left here, whereas she had not loaded as that by two feet for several years, being so old as not to be Insured. It is not sur prising that, her engineer openly protested before leaving port, that the first gale would send them to the bottom; Indeed, so well known was her unworthincss, that ever stnee the gale last week, was first reported, Vessel agents In the city have been predict ing that the Mcndote wovld never reach Chicago. The Erie Ra'lrond. New Yohk, Sept. 15. —President Jewett, of the Erie Railroad, to-day received, by eable from London, a proposition signed by, bond and shareholders for the reconstruction of the company to place its finances on a sound footing and insure the success of the road. The proposition is to Issue fifty per cent more common stock at $25 per share. By this issue and funding of coupons, eighteen million dollars would be made available for expenditures di.rl ig the next two years in allowing improving and mak ing additions to the line and paying off The the floating debt. Subscriptions to new issue would be made available during two years by providing for half yearly Install ments. The parties making the proposition argue that by new issue of stock and judlciouy outlay of money the company will be placed o:i a solid footing Tbe Pefenea Closed. Specia. despatch to thl HtY- l I. Philadelphia, Sept. 10, p. m.—The wit ness continued to answer questions by Hag ert to gfre account of tbe two occasions when he attempted following Mosher and Douglass ; that he conld not remember the uame of any person he ssld gas burners to In Philadelphia, and Mr*. Westervelt was, recalled for cross examination by Cumroon wealtb, and said she was baptised at St. Msry's Church, New York ; could not re member when. She gave further testimony as to her family. Mr. Ford then announced the case fof the defense dosed, and th e Court adjourned. Mr. Bayard* Rpseck Psstpeasd, . ? Special to the Herald. Baltimore, Sept. 15.—'Tbs Democratic raestln) has bsen postponed on account of a tain storm, to Friday Right. TUB QUICKSTEPS ATUABBISBVKQ. THE EXPERTS VICTORIGRS—HEAT ON THE EIGHTH INNINGS AGAIN. Special Despatch to tlie Herald. Harrisburg, Sept. 15.—The game be tween the Experts and Quicksteps was oalled at 3.30 P. M., with Talley, of Wil mington, as Umpire. Tbegame up to the 8th inning stood 8 to 4 iu favor of the Quiek steps, but when the fatal eighth-arrived, the Experts by errors, made ten runs, and one in' the ninth, the Quicksteps only adding two more runs to the score. The manager of the Experts, Miller; treated the club in first-class styie. The club stays over and play the Actives on Friday an Exhibition game, and will be home on Saturday morn ing. Sinking of n fivcamcr. Cincinnati. O., Sept. 15.—A private dis patch from Vicksburg announces the sink ing of the steamer Indiana near that city. The Indiana left here for New Orleans and ran aground at Cdoctaw Bend, two hundred and twenty-five miles below Memphis, on the 11th inst. She had a very valuable miscellaneous cargo. A Price In Jeopardy. Montreal, Can. 15.—The United States Custom offices have seized the merchants of London's Cup, won by the Nova Scotia Ri flemen in the recent dominion matches, on its way from here to Halifax Island. The news was immediately telegraphed to the government and they arc in communication with the Washington authorities on the subject. 4 The Nebraska Convention. Omaha, Neb., Sept. 15. —The Republican State Convention met at Kerney Junction at 10 o'clock this morning, Judge W. R. Mor ris, of Crete, Temporary Chairman, and C. E. Yosli, postmaster at Omaha, Temporary Secretary. Only about one hundred out of one hundred and seventy-six delegates were present, the balance being represented by proxies. Committees on Credentials and PermanentOrganization were appointed and the Convention took a recess. JR TUB NEWCASTLE TOILS. It was in the old town of laws and whip ping posts that Jaininah Duckey, who, like Othello, wore tlie "shadowed livery of a burning sun," alid Harriet Handy,, also of Hamian descent, were perambulating the streets, eaeli leaning on the gallant arm ol a brave defender. They were going in op posite directions, and, as they passed, 'tis said tlie gentle Harriet remarked upon the eclipsed visage of the other lady. "Mis-, like me not for my complexion," said Ja minah, and thereupon, like tigresses, they set to, Harriet in the nonce masticating the lily black fingers of her rival. Appealing to justice, Janiiiiah drew the terrific Harriet before Squire Frazer, who said, "Hurt her haiid, eh i Handy ! it shall be done—jus tice shall be done —justitiaflat mat caelum— though the heavens fall. So, Harriet Handy, stand up, draw wallet, and pay to this goodly municipality $3 and costs." TUB (l MAM) Bit S' PICRIC. The following gentlemen are named as speakers st the Harvest House to be held at Newport on the -83d inst.: Mortimer White bead, Master of New Jersey State Grange; Win. C. Kates, Lecturer N. J. State Grange; Win. Dean, Master of No. 5 Grange of New-, ark, Delaware; Jeliu Tharp, Master of No. 19, Delaware; and John j, Roso, of Dela ware State Grange. Round trip excursion tickets will sold at stations on the P. W. & B. and Delaware Railroads at two-thirds the regular rates. Train North from Baltimore reaches New port at 9:29 a. m., and South from Wilming ton at 10:14. / PBACUBS. SHIPMENTS WEDNESDAY — THE MARKETS. 68 ears. . To Jersey City, Boston, 6 8 B.&O., 8 " 1 " Philadelphia, Newark, Elizabeth, Per Puma. R. R., P.&R.K. R., Empire Line, at 1 2 " 11 4 109 Total JR TUE TOILS. His Honor had only two cases to dispose of yesterday, both of these brought /bout through the Indefatigable efforts of John Barleycorn, Gent. Thomas O'Brady was one, his companion of the bowl being Michael Jones; and receiving the usual fines drawn from them the treasury box closed with an angry snap as tbe Herald man moved hence. Arrivals at lisa (Tnyton House, W. A. Dunn, New York. A. J. Hedrick and wife, Jacksonville, Fla. Mrs. Warne, Delaware. Miss M. J. Dickey, Miss Dickey, Jno. Y. Huber, Philadelphia. A. A. Moss and wife, Camden, N. J. Thos, Stewart, Washington. Jno. W. Pearce, Philadelphia. '• Mrs. R. Keyser,. " Miss Kate Keyser, Miss Hattie Keyser, •Miss Nettle Keyser, Jabez Wood, W. A. Williamson, Robt. Du Bois, Jr-, Jno. Chandler, Caltiuiore. Ed. W. Houston and Lady, MUlboro, Del. Kupell St. Stoadly, N. Y. W. S. Anchlnelots, City. B. 8- Osborn, N. Y. Jno. McMakiu, Cape May. u n ii of TUB HORTICULTURAL PAIR. A BRILLIANT OPENING LAST EVENING— THE HALL AND THE DECORATIONS. Last evening, the usual Fall fair, given by the Horticultural Society, for the benefit of the Home for Friendless Children dpened in the large Auditorium of the Institute. The opening proved to be the most bril liant since the inception of the enterprise. The fair opened at 8 o'clock and In a few moments the extensive hall was flooded with the beauty and elite of Wilmington society. The costumes were both modern'and antique, but in each case elegance and good taste combined to render them unusuallv marked for their appropriateness and beauty. Thedecoratiobsofthe hall aresuperb. We don't recollect of having, on such occasions, seen a better exhibition of good tart: and artistic araangement. The feature of the ornimentation is the evergreen grotto which decorates the centre of the auditorium, and peeping from the cedar and ivy of which are the flowers of the exhibition, whose blush ing pinks are-only rivalled by those of the fair dispencers of their floral sisters. Mrs. Preston Lee presides over both the grotto and its fair inhabitants. Fronting the entrance and extending from the corner of the hall, is the Home table, surmounted by arches draped in the most delicate of cream silk, the novelty of which is relived by occasional drapings of ever greens, producing a most agreeable contrast and very pleasant effect. The ornamentation of the cake table, extending to the West, is not less beautiful, being a drapery of green surge, tinted by just the least bit of green tastefully intertwined about its folds. Mrs. General Richardson, assisted by Mrs. Lydia Moore, have charge of these elegantly ar ranged departments. A strikingly arranged nook, immediately in front of the refresh ments table, extending some distance along the north wall trimmed with evergreens, is the Restaurant, the outer portion of which is used as an exhibition stand for the fruits of the Peninsula, which are displayed in tempting profusion. The stage, which fronts the east end of the hall, has been decorated with cedar and evergreen arches as a lemonade foun tain, and its apearance is especially attrac tive, Mrs. Chas. Tatnall being the Rebecca cfthewell. Fronting it,at the extreme end of the auditorium is the music bower, in which Prof. Ritchie with his excellent com pany of musicians is ensconsed, and a con stant stream of delicious waltzes fills the large hall during the evening. The exhibition of fruits, flowers and veg etables indeginous to the Peninsula, is very large and well arranged. The following are the two committees, which have had charge of tlie exhibition, and so well fulfilled their duties in arrang ing for the fair. Committee of Arrangements—Preston Lee, H. B. Duncan, E. T. Warner, Ed. Comly, Harry Hoffecker, Dr. Mitchell, Aus tin Harriugton, William and John Vaugh. Committee on Flowers and Decoration— Mrs. Preston Lee, the Misses Du Fonts, Miss Whitely, Miss Jordan, Mrs. Chambers, Mrs. Maples, Mrs. Wilson, Mrs. Bringhurst, the Misses Ferris. Mrs. Baker, Mrs.Walters, Mrs. Corbit, Mrs. Lee, Mrs. Dr. Mitchell, Mrs. Moore, Mrs. George Sparks, Mrs. Gil pin, Miss Johnson. The attendance was very large last even ing, and the fair this year promises to be a success. Nothing could be better than the management this year, and especially have the ladies exhibited excellent taste iu their beautiful decorations, some of which we have casually mentioned, but many of them space will not allow us to comment on except in general terms. The music was very fine, and altogether the Horticul tural lair this season may be pronounced most decidedly the best that has yet been given. The fair will continue the remainder of this week, and will increase in attractive ness every evening. Those who desire an evenings enjoyment and at the same time to assist in a good cause will attend. The Hall arrangements are under the im mediate supervision of Joseph Richardson, Esq., Henry Tatnall and Austin Harrington Esq., and also William Canby, President of the Horticultural Society. TUE STOVTB LESSEE VS. KILLER 'CAST. An Appeal pbom the Verdict Taken —The Case to bb Resumbd at the April Term. The ease of Stoute's Lessee vs. Klllen, which attracted such unusual attention last spring, and which was decided by the jury adversely to the plaintiff against the rullngs of the Court, will come up again at Dover' at the npxt April term. The counsel for .the plaintiff, Messrs. Salusbury and Com egys, have filed an appeal, but although the case may he put on the present calen da/, It Is not likely that it will be tried be fore next April. Experts from Washing ton and Baltimore will be brought to tes tify as to wbat constitutes live birth and the trial will be of Interest both to the public and to the legal and medical pro fessions. In the meantime Prof. Russ has written a paper to the Medical Times, of Philadelphia, sustaining the Court In Its decisions, which were adverse to the defendant, and it has been copied in the secular press quite exten sively. In commenting on the article, the Mover Delawarean says : "We do not feel called upon to express any opinion in relation to wbat the jury In the Stout case ought to have done, or wbat another jury should do when tbe case edmes up at tbe next seem to us to I I in to again (as It Is rumored It April term); but there does not be any Impropriety In saying of tbe article referred to, that it is a very able pa peep and seems tobe based upon Im pregnable grounds." will CHARLIE BOSS. THE TRIAL OF WESTERVELT. of is is a EXAMINATION OF THE PRISONER CON TINUED—THE WEB TIGHTENING ATtOUND HIM—MRS. WESTEltVELT AGAIN ON THE STAND—THE PROCEEDINGS OF YESTER DAY IN PULL. The trial of William H. Westervelt was resumed this morning, and the examina tion of the prisoner continued as follows : I bad several interviews with Detective King since the death of Mosher and Doug lass ; I recollect having conversation with him at Girard and Bowery, but couldn't say it was in January; it was about that time ; I asked him how he made out up at Fort Jefferson; he told me he could get no information there ; I had told him previous ly about a party that lived at Fort Jefferson he asked me why I never spoke to him about the case before ; I told him I never spoke to any officers about It except Super intendent Walling; he said if he had had the case he would have got the men ; he said, "Do you know what I'd done? I would of hired a room opposite your house and I'd a took my mate with me and wait for them ," I told him 11 that had been lone in tlie first place they would have got them ; he did't say that he w ould have watched me to get them ; I didn't say if he had watched them he would have got "us." Q. Is there anything you desire to state to the Court that you have not stated in the case ? Objected to as indefinite but withdrawn. A. There is nothing that I know of. Q. William, under the solemn obligation which you have already taken, can you now furnish or could you at at any time have fur nished any clue to the facts connected with the abduction or place of abode'of the child, Charles Brewster Ross ? A. No, sir. CROSS EXAMINED. for After the 26th of June I saw Mosher and Douglass in New York nine times; I can't mention them in their order; saw them twdee in my house; four times in Strom berg's saloon and twice at Mrs. Morris'; saw them at the latter's place the Saturday proceeding their death and in the early part of November; saw them first at my house on August 14 and the next time Was short y after my sister came there ; I think about four days; i think she came on the 20th; could'nt mention the dates I saw them in Stromberg's; saw them there iu the middle of August until the early part of October, during that time; to the best of my knowl edge the first one was on tlie 14tli of Au gust, the next one some four or five days after my sister came ; I could'nt say bow long it was after that the next time ; tlie fourth one was some time about the 20tli of September, and the fifth one I think was in the firstoweak of October ; I might be wrong in them, but that is my belief. My third visit, was about September, and it is my impression that it was in the morn ing; I didn't say any paper was picked up; Mosher said he was going for a paper; didn't say what it was; he said here is one I got in Trenton; didn't say when he got it in Tren ton; didn't say what took him there; I was at 8tromberg's that morning, because I was in the habit of sesorl ing there; for the want of a better place I suppose; I first began going to St romberg's saloon shortly after removing from Philadelphia, in April or tlie first part of May; first went there to meet Hartmann; had no stated time for remain ing in the saloon on these visits; I sometimes remained there two or three hours, doing nothing in particular; had conversations with Hartmann and whoever would be there that I was acquainted with;,the Mott street saloon was about a mile from my home in Henry street; the fourth visit I can't fix with more certainty than about September 20; was in the saloon that day with Mosher and Douglass not more tliau a quarter of an hour I suppose; that visit was in the morn ing, I judge somewhere between 9 aud 9 o'clock; can give no reason for judging it was that hour; I don't think It was later; the three of us left together, and took the cars for Rhinebcck; reached there the same day; it is, I judge, about sixty miles from New York to Rbluebeck; reached in Its neighborhood at noon; we returned to New York on the following night; didn't get in New York the following night; don't know what time the boat reached New York; we left Poughkeepsie the evening after reach ing Rbluebeck; it is my belief that it was about a mouth after my sister came to my house; have no other way of fixing it except that when we were eoni|ng down In the boat, I heard some of the parties talking about a fair, and when I went up with 811 Ifck and Titus I asked when the fair was there and was told that it was on the 22d; don't know that was*a fact that there was a fair there, only from what I was told; be tween January -1,1874, and my arrival hack in April, I'was In New York twice, I be lieve, the first visit there wzs about the 1st of February; I went there to get money that was due me by the Police Department, for services for three days In the month of J uarv; It was about the 10th; I thought I uld get something there I could seirhere; objects in my mind; I had an co I had both those books in my mind to sell, nothing else; had no particular books in view; I got the money; was in New Yo.rk on that visit about two or three days; I'stayed at my mo ther's; I went alone; my wife remained here; purchased nothing in New York that I recollect; I was to see about books at Dick U. Fitzgerald's, in Ann street; didn't buy the gas burners for a while, but saw them in Maiden lane; I think the man's name was Blackman; I saw it advertised In a New York paper; I tlilnk they were $10 a hundred; I didn't buy them because I ight I might see something else that would suit me better; it was a case to fit into another burner, with a lava top; It spread tbe light more, and to use It you didn't have to remove the old burner; (witness produced cue of tbe burners); the reasonT>f my second vlslt-to New York was to see If I could get anything to do there; think It was In tbe latter part of March; I went to the Police Department for one place to get./mployment, and to several others, but can't mention certain places; was there for three days I Judge, but it thou might have been less; don't - tblak-I Ml there any louder; can't fix that time in Marfch; saw at the Police Department Gen. Duryea; on the second visit I went In alone; my family removed to New York some where near the middle of April; I wee doing nothing then, but I didn't go with my family back to New York*, because my ife and children were going to stop, at my sifter's until she could get a place to move in, and there was no accom modation for me, her sister having a large family; there were other places in NeW York where I could have got accommoda tions; I stayed about a week after my wife ; Mosher and Douglass were there when I left my lister's ; they were away about s week, but I didu't stay that week on pur pose to see them when they returned s 1 stayed at my sister's; shipped our goods the day after my wife left; don't know Richards or Richardson by any other name tbafl " Tom;" on June 12th I was selling the i powder around New York, or Brook Williamsburg, Harlem, the suburbs of New York; I went with my brother to Al bany to sell moth powder: that I think was in June; the fare was twenty-dye cents each sold moth : I w moth lyn, I way; that was the only time powder on the Hudson river ; sold It in New Jersey City, at Newark and Jersey City,and nowhere else at any time; can't say what my sales were in the third week in June, they were very low ; some days they would amount to $3, and tlieu agaiu not $1; in two or three days when I first started out in the beginning of Jnne, they amounted to $6 a day; I left here ou June 25, in the 11.40 train, I think, for West Philadelphia; got into the cars at Mar* ket street and some other street that I don't know the name of; we came in the cars from Girard avenue to Market; think it was Sixth street that we got into the ears; am not cer tain that it was Sixth street; my sister, Mo sher and Douglass came down with me; left Girard ayeuue somewhere about half past 10 o'clock and went to my sisters; it was with in an hour after supper. I went to the Stable with Mosher to look at the horse and wagon before supper, between 5 and 6 o'clock, I judge; returned to the house in less than half an hour, I judge; wo walked there; stopped long enougli to feed and water tlie horse and walk back ; I took the box that I sold from and the starch box up to Girard avenue; did not leave the starch box at home in NewYOrk with any packages of moth powder in it; I went to Gilbert's that night because I didn't want to stop at my sister's when they were all gone; went also at the invitation of my sister and Mosher; saw up there Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert and some strangers; while I was there Gilbert did not sit outside with us; Mosher, Douglas and myself sat ou'side; Gilbereand the women were inside; Mosher, Douglass aqd I were outside, aud Gilbert passed us cigars out the window; we went, there in the cars; Michael Driscol lived in Governeut St,; not to my knowledge did he ever live at No. 298 Henry street; I have brought ice cream home from picnics, couldn't say when or from which one; I know ou July 6tli I slept late in the morning, and rememlier iu the af ternoon taking my wife in tl e front room; locked her up in that room merely for a joke; she was looking out of the front window; and I locked the ilwir; I don't know what time that was or how long I kept her there, don't know whether I went out or stopped in tlie house that evening; I think my wife is twenty-eight years old; when living in Brooklyn, 1 lived in Nineteenth street^ be tween Third and Fourth streets; iu.was then five miles from Williamsburg, and bordered on to Brooklyn; I never saw the letter I mailed to Mr. Mosher; I mailed it in New York; I got no reply; 1 don't recollect what were tlie threats Bill Mosher made after re turning from Madame Morrow's on the 14th of August; he said he didn't know what he could be forking after him there for; I can't recollect what was said; he concluded to write a letter and get pen aud paper off the barkeeper; he appeared to be very excited all the time; I wrote it; don't recollect that it was dated at any place; I wrote to Gil that Bill had "no time or money to.spare to come on there," meaning New York; Bill was standiug beside me when I wrote; I made no objection to lending myself to this deception; I didn't know that I was doing any wrong; I had previously written to Bill ■ to meet Gil; I changed sides, and aided Bill in these deceptions because he said Gil was putting up a job on him; I took this letter to Gil's wife, and told her that I had • foW days previous sent a letter to Bill or Gil, aqd had tlie ang ver to It, and read it to her: I ktRw she and Bill wero not good friends, that she and Gil had had him arrested on the Red Bank affair; I knew that fact wherf I wrote the letter to Bill to fix the meeting with Gil; I was not trying to fix something for them; I sent the letter at Gil's req the letter I wrote was that Gil had said there had been some men to his house in quiring about him, and one of them was named Bendigo; I am not certain, but I think Gil's letter requested him to come over to New York, aud the reply was that he had no money or time to spiire to come on there. There was at this Interview some out-of the-way questions such as anybody would ask; Stromberge's saloon in Mott street is about 9 or 10 blocks further down towathan Alien aud Houston streets; Gil Mosher's bouse was 2 blocks south and then directly east of Allen and Houston; I told blin I woqld meet them at Stromberg's alter go ing to Mrs. Gil Mosher's, I had no reason Tor saying I would meet them there only that I was acquainted there; I told Bill Mosher all that I recollected Gil's wife saying, I told him that she proposed I should make a stake and go and see Superintendent Wall ing about the Charley Ross affair; In answer to that Bill said that she and GU were try ing to put. up a Job on them a?aln; they questioned me about what she said. Q. Did they ask you or did you teT them what you proposed doing In reference 'o Mrs. Gil's proposition ? A. I did not tell what I proposed doing; they did not ask me; that is about all tne Conversation I remember having on that subject; it is all I remember; Mosher and Douglass talked among themselves but I coulg not hear what they said; after talking Mosbpr asked me to come on to Philadel phia, Rn 1 told his wife to come on and ta rooms in the upper part of the town; he not say when he had heard from he when he had seen; he asked me whether I would help her move on; he told me to ask her if any one or anybody had been looking for him; I don't recollect uny thing being said about the bouse being watched or searched or any thing like It; h Continued on Fourth Page. nest; that 'X e said some.