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Lewis Katen.— Last week, in an
••awering a correspondent named “Beatty” in regard to
the arrival of the “ Great Western” steamship in New
York harbor, we made a serious misstatement of facts,
for which we hold Misfc Booth’s “History of New York
City” responsible. We have received the following in
teresting communication on the subject from Mr. Ka
len: “Permit me to correct a mistake which you and
many others labor under. In your paper-of last Sunday,
replying to ‘Beatty,’ you state that the‘Sirius’ and
•Great Western’ were the first ocean steamers ever
seen in the.harbor of New York. Ido not feel disposed
Quietly to allow John Bull to steal our thunder, neither
will I permit history to be falsified without an effort. I
am an old New Yorker born, and am blessed with a good
memory. I recollect the ‘Robert Fulten,’ built in New
York, by the late Henry Eckford, which, after going up
the Mediterranean, was run as a packet between New
York, New Orleans and Havana. So I think she must
have been seen in the harbor of New York at least ten
years, if not fifteen, before the ‘Sirius’ or ‘Great West
ern.’ The ‘ Savannah,’ which crossed the Atlantic prior,
I think, to 1819, I saw in Charleston harbor during the
latter year.”
Lewis.— “ Will you please answer
me in your next edition the following correspondence,
and the meaning of the same: I was making New Year
calls, and I went to a certain young lady’s residence, and
while there she shook me by the hand, and accidentally
slipped my ring off of my finger, and I did not miss it
-until I was about leaving the house, and I asked her to
give it to me. She answered me that she wished to wear
it until I would ask her for it. I gave her a chance to
wear it for two weeks, and she noticed that I did not ask
for it, and gave it to me. Now you will oblige me by an-
Bwering the above.” We would like to know what our
correspondent wants answered. We bate studied “ Lew
is’ ” communication, until we are so mixed up that we
don’t exactly know whether it is a conundrum, a riddle,
a poem, a query, or a sermon. Philadelphia lawyers are
Celebrated for their acuteness, but we doubt if even the
*<**»«* —*>—.v ~_ia <--n
ing to get at in his Sphynx-like communication. As we
received it on the 14th inst., it probably is a valentine,
but we can’t be certain even of th**
Lambert, — “ I desire to attain great
corpulancy—vulgarly, to become fat. Please give me a
list of eatables and drinkables conducive to that end in
the shortest space of time ; also, any other suggestions
which will further the object?” The eatables which
tend most to fatten are, wheat, peas, rice, rye, beans,
torn, wheat broad, mutton, chicken, lean beef, eggs, veal,
potatoes, pork, etc., declining in power graduAUy to the
last mentioned. Wheat and peas contain 87 cent of
solid matter, while pork contains but 24 per cent, and
cucumbers but 4 per cent. Most articles eaten contain
at least 75 per cent of water. Porter is the most fatten
ing of drinks. If ‘‘Lambert” intends to get hinp>elf np
for “ a show,” ho should treat himself as farmers do pigs
- which they mean to fatten for prizes: that is, to take no
exercise whatever, to eat and sleep, and sleep and eat,
should be his only employment. By pursuing this course
for a year or two he may possibly be announced as the
“second Lambert” on a show bill, and fit himself for a
-©oroner’s'inquest and an expansive coffin.
D. B. M.— Bad spelling is no proof
of humor, any more than the use of foul language is evi
dence that a man is entitled to bo called a gentleman.
Artemus Ward, Josh Billings, and a few others, have suc
ceeded in acquiring celebrity, not because of their disre
gard of English orthography, but in epite of that eccen
tricity. Your sketch is devoid of either wit or humor,
and remarkable for nothing but bad spelling and excess!
ive silliness. We cannot afford to fill our columns with
?uch stuff at any price.
Martha— A policeman has not a
right to use his club upon a prisoner until all other
means of conquering him have failed. There are cow
ardly brutes upon the police, as among all bodies of men,
who take Advantage of their brief authority to abuse
those unfortunate enough to fall into their hands. For
tunately the Commissioners take cognizance of all such
actions of the police when made known to them, and
swift dismissal from the force follows conviction of
©ffense.
N. i7. N.— We see no reason to re
cede from the opinion expressed last week of this gentle
man’s conduct. If things are being done in his neigh
hood which annoy the virtuous residents thereof, why
don’t N. J, N. take the proper course to have the nuis
ance abated, and thus shoulder the responsibility?
Don’t he know that the course he advises us to pursue
would lay us liable to a suit for libel ? Bring the wrong
doers into court, and the papers will willingly aid in the
defense of public morality.
Schudk^— (f Ist. Please inform me
how one million is written in Roman text?” It is writ
ten thus: CCCCIOOOO “2d. Which is the heaviest,
an equal quantity of saltwater or the same amount of
fresh?” Salt water,is the more dense, hence it is the
heaviest of the two. The greater the amount of salt in
the water the heavier it is. The water of Salt Lake and
the Dead Sea wonuch heavier than, that of the Atlantic
Ocean.
Brooklynite.—“Will you please in
■form a reader off .year valuable paper if there are any
Hodges of the Order of Forresters in New York, city or
•<.State ; and if any, where?” Our inquiries lead us to be
lieve that there are itwo lodges of the order in Brooklyn,
j but where they meeUwe have been unable to learn. Per
haps some of our readers may be. able to give us the re
t Qiured information.
J. P.—We .-can make nothing
: whatever of your questions. Why will not correspond
ents remember that editors are not gifted with the facul
ty of divination—that they .can’t fell what a person means
that don’t know himself what-he is trying, to write?
Oline Branch.—G&n.. Sterling Price
,• was never Governor of Missouri. Claiborne F. .Jacksen
was Governor of that State when the rebellion com
menced.
J. C. G.— Where, the tenant en
jgages apartments by the month, he eanjbe compelled to
them at the end of any month.
W. 8. State your price, and
send the article. If the article suite bus we will use it;
.; 4f not, it will be seturned to you.
: .Constant Beader.— The Governor
£»d Senate appoint the Commissioners, who appoint the
Superintendent of Jfclioe.
V Charily.— George Peabody is a na
live of Maryland, but a resident of Massachu
setts,
EBasasnsEray asm pier*w.iWHswoa
A Dangerous Counterfeit. —A new
counterfeit on .the 310 nofes of the National Bank
currency, have been disco and to some extent
put in circulation, Tko notes purport to be the issue
of the Flour City National Bank, and ar© so well exe
cuted aa to deceive the nwt erjM unless very care
fully scrutinized,.
‘h. The Bridge to Brooklyn. The
of spanning the East river, thus bring
a ?^ ctical union of the two cities*, iff fairly be
fore a-hfl btate Legislature, and is receiving atten
tion if deserves. The report of the committee ap-
SiTir investigate the condition of our ferjies,
tyfo/a bridge n ° thins demonstrate the jww l -
PIMM) BY A. J. WMIAMffI.
1 MU MVOM
The Intricacies of Crime— Marder wi!l Ont—
Tribulations of Fast Husbands—Double
Dealing and its Consequences— Wicked
Deeds Like Little Chichens Come Home to
Boost.
A rumor prevalent for the past few weeks in cer
tain select and fashionable circles of the uptown aristo
cracy, indicates that very shortly our community will
be startled with a salacious sensation, through the
medium of our law courts, such as scandie mongers
have not enjoyed for some time past. Two ladies of
good standing and unimpeached purity, wealthy con
nections, and high strung pretentions, have after
long years lot marital felicity, withdrawn from
their respective spouses, and demand an eternal
separation, with an allowance of alimony &c., on
the ground of the lately discovered infidelity, of their
husbands, which has been disclosed in the most sin
gular and remarkable manner. Two families have
been broken up, a score of people made unhappy,
a well-known and fashionable Tabernacle publicly
scandalized, and a couple of highly esteemed middle
aged gentlemen, who were once held up as public
examples, are reduced to desperation and disgrace
by the alleged fiasco. The “job” has for some time
engaged the attention of astute detectives, and sharp
lawyers, and promises a fruition of infamy that even
in these venal days will challenge special attention.
At present we are not permitted to give the names
of the parties, but facts in the case, as others far de
veloped may be given without any breach of confi
dence or injustice to any one, and we submit them
as a warning to inconetant husbands and two confid
ing wires, that all who read may understand and
realize.
“ What a tangled web we weave
When first we practice to deceive.”
But to the details:
John C. and Preston D. were both employed
by the same firm in the lower part of this city, and.
were accounted by all who knew them as smart re
liable intelligent men. They are both married, and
sustained their marital and parental responsibilities
with becoming grace and dignity. But in the
achievements of iniquity, they were, it is asserted,
more careful to keep unkhown than to leave undone,
and they avoided m t only the worlds suspicion, but
kept their peccadillos secret even from each other.
But,
MURDER WILL OUT*
and illicit amours, even by the most prudent and dis
creet, are always in danger of disetysure by means
we least expect. It seems that Mr. John C. was
in the habit of frequenting one of those places of se
cret and aristocratic infamy which are numerous in
this city, and the intricaties of which even the police
fail to penetrate. Here the sexes are brought toge
ther by a third party, without any previous knowl
edge of each other, and, after a criminal intimacy,
separate in the same blissful ignorance of each othej.
Through the agency of a procuress, at one of these
places, John C. made the acquaintance of a wo
man who called herself Mary Pre&ton, and in a short
time became violently enamored of her personal
charms and prepossessing manners. Though he
knew nothing of her history, and could heter meet her
except by special appointment at this place of assig
nation, he became inspired with a deep interest in her,
amounting almost to an attachment. One day, while
indulging in love’s softest dalliance withfhis inamor
ata, he dropped from his vest pocket a card, on which
was inscribed his name and address, and a carte de
visite of a lady and child. These, Miss Preston
snatched from the floor, and playfully appropriating,
declared her intention to keep it Us a clear remem
brance of the man who had been so good to her. She
then rallied him upon his inconstancy, declared that
x'D-litta hje Jnve. and the child his
own. This he laughingly denied, and, aner bvluc U lue
passed in playful badinage, they separated: the girl,
.vuiuMy mo card and picture, I\lr. jr.,
engrossed in his business and family affairb, soon
forgot what had transpired, or thought 6f it only
as a shameless joke. He had so long enjoyed an ini
inunity from suspicion in his career of infidelity, that a
thought of detection never obtruded Itself upon hia
mind. Now, between the two worthies who are the
central figures in this narrative, there was not much
to choose. Each had his weak moments, and they
seem at times to have been actuated by Very similar
indications, and it is not a little singular, still
quite true, that in casual indulgences, they
each met she same object of endearment. Miss
Preston, under another name, was known to Mr.
D. quite as well, or even better than she was to
Mr. C.; with this difference, however: To D.
she was known as the grass widow 6f a sea captain,
who, smitten by his graceful manne/s, had yielded
herself to his embraces because she Joved him. And
D. was wont to felicitate himself upon his con
quest, and never once imagined that the loveliness in
which he reveled was shared with another, least of all
with his fellow-clerk and bosom friend. Blit ha was
destined to make a
FRIGHTFUL DISCOVERY.
One day, not long after the interview between
Mr. C. and Miss P. related above, D. sas ehjoy
ing a charming tete-a-tete with the lovely wife of the
sea captain, when his attention was attracted to a
cart de visite which was Iving upon a toilet table. He
took it up and examined it more closely, and with
feelings that can be imagined more easily than ana
lyzed, he demanded of the woman: “Where did that
come from ?” She attempted to seize tfle picture, but
he was too quick for her. and holding it in a firm
grasp, again demanded: “Where did this come frtftn,
who is it. how did it find its into your posses
sion ?” exhibiting, at the same time the most violent
excitement and rage. The woman had never ?een
him in finch a condition before, and wondered how
the likeness of a woman and child of whom lie coiild
know nothing could produce such remarkable snd
violent demonstrations, and, at last, to quiet his
turbulence, and prevent what she dreadfully feared,
a scene, she told hitn she had received it from a
friend.
“ From who ?” D. demanded, in a furious tone.
“Oh,” she answered, “not from anyone that you
know. It was given me by a very old and much es
teemed friend, Mr. O. There, that is his card: per
haps you have seen him ?”
“ Seen him I Yes, indeed, I have known the vil
lain well; and what did he say about the woman
whose picture he gave into your custody?”
“Oh, he didn’t say anything particular,” was the
woman’s reply; “but I suspected she was a mistress
or his, and taxed him with being the father of the
child; for it’s enough like him, I am sure, &nd he did
not deny it.”
Mr. D. was, meanwhile, working himself into a
towering passion, and uttering incoherent expressions
against some one, but who, the woman did not know.
The photograph he tore into fragments, and then
picked the pieces up and placed them carefully in his
pocket. No word of explanation would he or could
he give the woman; and at last, seizing his hat, he
dashed into the street, leaving her in astonished per
plexity, wondering what sudden frenzy had induced
such unprecedented conduct on the part of her lover.
Filled with
DEVOURING JEALOUSY,
Mr. D. sped with hot haste to his place of busi
ness, in the exxiectation ot meeting his false friend
and the destroyer of his honor and his happiness,
and full of the fell purpose of vengeance should he
meet him. But Mr. C. was not there; and after
exciting the special wonder.of all whom he encoun
tered, and inspiring a very serious doubt as to his
personal sanity, he left the store and went in pursuit
of his wife. She was out; and nearly two hours
©lapsed before her return; and when she did com©
home, it was to encounter her husband in a mood
she had never before witnessed or deemed possible.
He visited hex with the most vile and abusive epi
thets; charged her with infidelity; and placing the
card of his friend C. before her, together with the
torn fragments of her picture, he exclaimed:
“ There, madam, that is the name of your vile and
infamous paramour. Go to him, madam; quit thic
house and my sight; never let me see you more 1”
Mrs. D. feared first for the mental condition of her
husband, and would have called for assistance if he
had permitted her. Then she became alarmed for
her own safety, and as soon as possible escaped from
the house and sought safety at the home of her pa
rents. To them she related the unaccountable con
duct of her husband, the frightful charges with which
he accused her, and the only solution of the deep
mystery that seemed at all susceptible of reason was
based upon some sudden mental derangement on the
part, of Mr. D.
In the meantime Mr. C. had heard of what he
was accused. He remembered the picture which
Mr. D. had given him, also how he had thoughtless
ly allowed it to pass into the possession of one that
he should never have known. What to do in this
dilemma he did not know. He was obliged to disclose
his own disgraceful misalliance .with an infamous
woman, or rest under the charge of, an accusa
tion that consigned him to criminal infamy and his
friend’s jugt vengeance. To tell the truth and clear
himself, and gave the honor of his wife’s friend was
to indictjhimself and friend of an offence that would
be without palliation in the eyes of the world, and es
pecially their respective wives. Meanwhile
THE DENOUEMENT
was made by the woman, who hud been .the primary
cause of all the misunderstanding and subsequent
trouble. Mrs. C. and Mrs. D. abandoned their
respective husbands rgitil the matter could be inves
tigated. Enough Lad escaped from Mr. D. dur
ing bis paroxysm of jealous rage to give to an acute
and experienced detective at least a clue to the cause
oi toe trouble. The wom«n was found, and under
the pressure of threats asa promises, and caring,
like all of her class, for neltbor of the men, she re
lated all the facts concerning her acquaintance with
C. and D,, the manner in which she came in
possession of the picture, and the other particulars
of which the reader is already pressed. This
cleared up the horrible suspicion that had rested
upon the reputation of an injured and innocent wo.
man, but it led at the same tif»e to pp eetxaflgem&t
NEW YORK, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1867.
which may never be healed, and sorrow and heart
burnings and suspicions that time alone can assuage
but never cure.
The women, strongly pressed thereto by relatives
and friends have each instituted a suit for divorce, to
which they are beyond all doubt legally entitled.
Nearly half a year has elapsed since the occurrence
and disclosure of these faux pas on the part of the
husbands, and all efforts for a reconciliation have
proved futile. A reparation, legal and permanent,
seems inevitable. It would have been quietly effect
ed long ere this, Without any public disclosure; but
the custody of the children and th© ownership of cer
tain property has interposed obstacles, and aroused
an opposition which the mere ipse dixit of a referee
could not settle. It is therefore more than probable
that the facts, of which we have given a mere sum
mary, may ba spread at large before an unsympa
tbiztng public, for the gratification of a too prurient
and vicious taste.
SWINDLES IN THEOTY.
-—-—■ — ... • ■»'«.
Frauds Perpetrated on Emigrants —How
Swindling was Carried on Fears Ago—
How it is Done Wow—Tricks of Emigrant
Boarding-House Keepers—Ringing th®
Change-The Baggage Trick— Currency
and Gold—Reforms Introduced.
A great deal has been Baid and written about Oastle
Garden, th© headquarters of the Commissioners of
Emigration, where centre the emigrants from foreign
ports. Here the emigrant can remain for a few days
until he makes up hia mind where to go to, or wait
the arrival of friends from the city or country; and
here hie baggage can retrain until he sends for it,
thus enabling him to hunt up his friends without
paying for storage. Here, also, the emigrant has his
baggage weighed, and if he takes his ticket to go out
West, there Is no cheating or shaving. If he has
gold, it is exchanged for hifn at the market rates into
currency. All this has been so often told, that it
would be useless to make mor© than an allusion to it.
Nor is it the purpose of this article to speak of the
misguided creatures that come out here expecting to
find homes and plenty to do the moment after their
arrival. W© might speak of the hundreds that come
her© without a trade, without a friend, and without a
shilling. Men and women in hundreds come in this
manner, and take their seats in the employment bu
reau, waiting day in and day out to be hired like
coolies. Between th© friendless, destitute emigrant
and th© coolie, there is but little difference. The one
is put to work the moment lands, and the other
has to sit begging, as it were, for work; the one, after
being assigned a master, dare not run away—the
other can if he is not suited; the one is housed,
clothed and attended to as soon as he touches land—
the other, while waiting to b© farmed out, has the
soft side of a plank for a bed, and the softest part of
the arm for a pillow. Of this, however, we shall not
speak. Thousands upon thousands have come, and
will continue to come, In poverty, drifted Westward
without a trade and without a purpose, their only
capital “ great expectations.”
PILGRIMS LANDING.
He who has lahded in thie city as an emigrant, un
decided whether to strike out West, or remain here
and try his luck, having, it may be, fifty or five hun
dred dollars in his pocket, clothed in an old greasy
jacket, and brogans .With nails that would rip up any
carpet, must have been struck with th© bland suavity
with which he is addressed by gentlemen, who seem
very solicitous his welfare and piac© that
he should board in while in'the city. These styitehly
dreased gentlemen are very proyqkingly familiar, and
so obliging, they proffer their services without being
asked; they will remove yoAr baggage to their houses,
and charge you nothing; they will buy a ticket for you,
to any place you Wish to go, and charge you nothing
for their trouble; not even will they have a “Thankee,
sir.” What a strange country this appears to the
pilgrim newly landed. How different from stuck-up,
aristocratic England, where thej’o are more castes and
classes than even in India; each of one daste refusing
to associate with his neighbor a little poorer than
himself in pay and social condition. He is struck,
on his arrival here, at the kind ye'eaption he meets
with from men, who would be lo’okbd up to in the old
country as gentlemen of the first water. He looks
back to England in his mind’s eye, and gives its caste
institutions a bitter curse, and thanks heaven he has
reached free country, where he is recognized as a
man, eveh if he be poor. Could such a thing in En
gland occu/? Instead of fleeing from him, thjs ur
bane gentleman, dressed in superfine broad cloth,
hat glossy and slick, twisting a massive gold chain
that looks as heavy as a cable, and a massive ring on
the finger that might serve, in an emergency, toy a
napkin ring, with well-polished understandings, asks
bim most courteously to come to Ijis house and board
with him till he finds his or leaves-the city.
The emigrant, in his simph hofi6sty, neveY for a mo
ment dreams that he is talking to an accomplished
swindler and and that all this condescension
and pretended friendship, is only a blind to impose
on the credulity of the easy victim.
It is a pity that these vampyres belonging to our
licensed boarding-houses, can ply their avocations
With impunity in spite Of the best legislative enact
ments- The harm they do is not local. The newly
arrived emigrant, finding that h© is set upop by a
gang of harpies, that thby can cheat him, and yet find
no redress, arrives at the sudden conclusion that he
has come to a land of cheats, and he frames his future
life by the bad example shown him when he landed
here. It might hot be credited, but it is a fact, that
this bad opinion pf the country is forced upoil stran
ters by not more than eighty emigrant boarding
ouse proprietors, and their satellites.
THE SWINDLERS SOME YEARS AGO.
Th© swindling of emigrants ten or twelve years
ago, was a little different from the way in which it is
now done. At that time there was an emigrant squad
of police located in the City Hall, which was a mint
of money to th© police. Complaints made before
th© Mayor, were Bent down to the squad-room,
and an officer was detailed to go with complainant
to make right the wrong. If a boarding-house
proprietor charged ten dollars for a days’ board,
the officer could compromise the matter, return half
the money and send the complainant about his busi
ness. Then th© emigrant boarding-house keeper had
no stated price for board. He could make a verbal
agreement at so much per diem, and when settling up
he could charge twice or three times as much aa
agreed upon, and hold th© luggage till the bill was
paid. The emigrant had always taken out his ticket
for his destination, and the train was within ah hour
of leaving before his bill was presented. If the
stranger stopped over night he and his family lost
their passage, as the tickets were “through,” and
marked good for that day only; if he wouldieave the
city he must stibmit to the cheat. In the morning,
rather than have a complaint mad© against the house,
the boarding-master would receipt the bill as first
agreed upon; the runner would then get the tickets
which had been represented as useless, exchanged
by the emigrant paying him h&lf price forth© tickets
exchanged. Thus they could swindle the emigrant
in every form aua shape.
HOW BIG HITS WERE MADE.
The assertion has been made that this Emigrant
Squad of police was a placer of wealth. Now for tho
proof. We won’t take the boasts that tho men them
selves used to make, of having cleared fifty and a
hundred dollars a day. The facts themselves are the
most reliable. At that time, an emigrantvessel, when
it reached Quarantine, was boarded by two police
officers attached to the Emigrant Squ .d. Then, not
as now, the law permitted emigrant runners for board
ing-houses, and.runners for transportation companies
and railroad running South, East, West and North, to
board these ships and solicit passengers when the
vessel lay in the stream. Although the law permitted
these fellows to come on board, the officers could
keep thorn off the boat. This being the case, it was
a very easy matter for the two officers on guard to
prohibit whom they pleased from coming on board,
and at the same time permit whom they pleased to
come on deck to solicit trade. Those allowed on
board had a tacit understanding with the officers to
pay a certain percentage on each emigrant boarder
and each ticket disposed of. The privilege to solicit
was all important, and among a thousand or even
five hundred passengers, five per cent, soon swelled
up to a big pile of money. The officers were guilty
of no breach of the law apparently, although it was
like whipping the devil around the stump. Many of
the officers did not deal in a percentage, but went
down to the various boarding-houses every Saturday
night, and drew from their various patrons a regular
salary of from ten to fifty dollars. Some of the men
engaged on this squad made fortunes, while there
were others, we believe, who were honest—but hon
esty wae the exception rather than the rule.
THE GREATEST. OUTRAGE OF ALL
was, however, in some of the polioe winking at the
sale of bogus tickets. A man would purchase ior
himself and family a through ticket for Detroit, St.
Louis, or somewhere else west. He and his family.-
.Yould take the night boat for Albany, intending to
take the morning train by the Central Railroad; but
On reaching Albany, the ticket-holder was surprised
to learn that he and his baggage had only been booked
to Albany, instead of Detroit.
Every one of these swindlers were known to th©
police, yet not over half a dozen convictions ever fol
lowed sealing bogus tickets. This was a piece of ras
cality that far exceeded the ball and safe game. The
victim c f tfee confidence operator expected to make
something, .and played hazard. Th© emigrant played
no gam© y.ffiatever, but was actually robbed. Hun
dreds of poor emigrants thus cheated have found
tliemsoiyes Icit in & bad plight between here and Buf
falo, without the means to continue their journey or
to return to th© city’to the swindlers.
antr
It was to remedy these glaring robberies that tho
Legislature invested so much power in the Board of
Commissioners of Emigration; also had a law passed
to prevent any boat approaching an emigrant ship
while it lay in the stream. This is called
THE BOAT LAW.
It is altogether too stringent. The object, aa stated,
was to prevent boarding-hous© keepers going out in
tho stream to solicit passengers. So far as that part
of the law is concerned it is well enough, but in other
respects it is a great hardship. Suppose an emigrant
ship should arrive in the stream on Saturday night,
and a man should see by th© shipping list on Sunday
morning that his wife was on board, what more natu
ral than an earnest longing to see and know, at least,
that eh© was well ? He is told that he cannot board
the vessel. Admitting that, cannot he. hire a boat
and talk to her from the stream? H#hires a row
boat, and ascertaining where the lies,
rows out to it to have a talk withifcer. While
talking to his wife, the police boat'Aomes along
and puts him under arrest. For daring to talk
to his wife he has been guilty of a misdemeanor.
Upon being arrested, he is locked up, and finally
tried, found guilty, and fined SIOO. or one hundred
days in the Penitentiary. Cases of this kind are of
frequent occurrence. But a few weeks ago three men
were fined SIOO each for this very offense. The law
should bo so far modified, that persons proving that
they are not emigrant boarding-house keepers, or
runners, and that their only object is to communi
cate with their frionds on board, by making applica
tion, either at Castle Garden, or to the Harbor Police,
should receive a permit to commugiicat© with th©
ship.
THE MODERN MODE OF SWINDLING.
There is no more swindling of emigrants now in
side of the Garden, or on board of the ship; it is all
done outside, and it seems no law can reach the fel
lows, who hang outside of the gate laying in wait for
their victims. There is bat one practical way in
which the community can get rid of them, and that
is for the police, to whom they are well known, when
they see them loitering around, to make a raid on
them and Bend them up on the Island as vagrants.
They are no better than pickpockets, tfieir 'visibia
means of support is obtained by fraud.
A STEP IN THE GOOD DIRECTION.
Captain Brackett, who has charge of hacks, pawn
brokers, emigrant boarding-houses, and what not, has
found a law in the revised statutes, which says that
every licensed emigrant boarding-house keeper, shall
have a large placard posted up in hia house, printed
in five different languages, setting fourth the price of
board per week, day, single meal, or night’s lodging.
He has also compelled the boarding masters who en
ter Castle Garden in quest of guests, to furnish |hose
he solicits with a card giving the schedule of prices
charged. The runners demurred to this at first, but
it was the law, and now all have succumbed to it.
Another good move made is to suppress basement
lodging houses, and houses of questionable repute.
An inquiry has been set on foot to find out the char
acter of eighty houses licensed. Two have been
found that were making a lucrative living by board
ing girls for a short time and disposing of them to
houses of bad repute. The licenses of two such
places have been revoked, and th© runners are no
longer allowed to come inside of Castle Garden.
RINGING THE CHANGE.
Whatever of rascality is practiced is, as has been
said, carried on outside of Castle Garden. For in
stance : A German, who has been several years in the
country, and should have known better, arrived in
this city from Albany on his way to Philadelphia.
He put up one night in an emigrant boarding hohse,
and made th© agreement to stay over night for seven
ty-five cents. In the morning the master wanted
twenty shillings. Th© German demurred; the mas
ter would not budge an inch; th© German remon
strated. Arguments were mere platitudes, and were
not accepted. The German finally agreed to give
th© amount demanded, the twenty shillings, and
threw down a S2O gold piece in payment. It happen
ed that at this time the new yellow nickel cents had
come out, and in return, the landlord threw down
seven of these new cento, representing that each was
a gold piece. The Dutchman was paid in gold
at his own request. He said: “Ish pays das bill in
specie, you does the same as I doeh.” Thus it was
the German was dished up with the nickels. Glad
that he had crossed th© Rubicon of rascality, the
German made haste to take his passage out to Phila
delphia, and with genuine Teutonic dignity threw
down two nickels to pay for his passage to Philadel<_
phia.
Cleric —Jersey Ferry is below.
German*— T*nn boon goitiy Lv x*iixia<lclpliia-
Clerk— Go, and be d—d; what do you suppose you
have shoved mo ?
German— A flniff dollar.
Cleric— Five dollars.
German — Yah.
Cleric— You darned fool, that’s only two new nickel
cents.
German— Mein Gott!
The German was not in a hurry to get off to the
Quaker City; consequently, he made tracks to the
police office and imparted the story of his .wrongs,
which were soon righted, but refusing to’ stop to
prosecute, the boarding master was Mowed to go
scot free.
ANOTHER SWEATING ARRANGEMENT
is practiced to a very considerable extent at the gate
at Castle Garden, where these vagrants catch emi
grants coming out, and, under the pretence of know
ing relatives or having come from Vaterland, ingra
tiate themselves into the good graces of the innocent
Touton. This species of robbery is practiced almost
entirely upon Germans by Germans here, who are
adepts in ©rime. After having a short talk, the ©mi
grant is invited to have a lager. Over the lager the
cheat whispers into the ear of his victim the frauds
that are perpetrated in the Garden, and how, in the
changing of the money, he is swindled. He shows him
specimens of th© currency, figures up the loss he
will be subjected to if he gets his money changed in
the garden, and how he can save his friend from being
swindled. With hia smooth oily tongue he finally in
duces the Dutchman to part with his guilders for
counterflet money and bills on the bank of True
Love. In the busy season this trick is played every
day outside of th© gate of Cast!© Garden. The
remedy fpr this seems only to increase tho police
force at Castle Gardeii and give sergeant McDonough
the power to run these scamps in as vagrants, and
send them upon th© Island.
ONE DODGE.
A boarding-master recently took !n4ourteen tjoard
ers more than he could even make room ior by giv
ing blankets to squat down on the floor and fall into
the arms of Morpheus. Raiher than let the fourteen
go to another boarding-house, he told his bar kfee£er
to give them all the beer they could drink till the
morning, it was all right. Morning came, and a
sleepy sore headed stupid crew filled that bar room.
Some could walk a straight line, others sle£t on it
and not a faw were shaky at the knees, and generally
disjointed. Every one was as s{.ck as a dog. Those
that were drunk in the legs, but sober in the head
prayed for the opening of the door, while those who
were stupid in the head didn’t care when the day of
reckoning came. At dawn the landlord entered and
demanded payment not only for a night’s lodging,
but also for every glass of liquor drank and more
than had been drank. They hesitated to pay, when and
he said he would turn the whole crew out on the
street when they would be, arrested and Ipcked up
and fined $lO each for being drunk and disorderly, it
may be, sent to prison. The word police is a terrible
scare to the honest emigrant, and right gladly he sub
mits to the swindle to get ©nt of his temporary prison
and the sweat he has been Subjected to by the rascally
landlord.
ANOTHER FRAUD.
And this seems to be countenanced by the boarding
masters, and that is cheating tho emigrant on his
baggage. The sum does not amount to much, from
five to ten dollars, email to be sure, but it ie some
times of great amount to tho emigrant whos© means
are limited. The emigrant has his baggage gent from
Castle Garden to one of the railroad depots. They
meet the emigrant at the house where he and his
family are Betting. He comes up with a sort of note
book in hie hand, and looking at the emigrant he
says.
“ Ah, you come from Kings Arms to day.”
“ Yes, sir,” replies the emigrant.
“Going to let me see ?” (scratching his head.)
“Chicago, sir.”
“Ah, yes; I had forgotten. Let me have your
checks, that I may see it all right.
“ Yes, eir,” says the emigrant, handing over th©
checks.
In a short time the rascal returns, and says:
“ Well, now, I have just had your baggage weighed,
it is over-weight ten dollars,”
Emigrant —Sure, and didn’t I have it weighed at
the Castle, an’ wasn't it all right ?
Cheat— Not a bit; its over-weight ten dollars. Th©
cars leave in ten minutes, and your baggage will be
left behind unless you pay it. I can’t help the mis
takes of Castle Garden.
Under the circumstances, rather than lose his pas
sage or his baggage, he pays over two sovereigns,
perhaps all that he has.
It may be asked, why don’t tho police catch these
fellows, or why do the railroad employees tolerate the
fraud ? Well, that is for them, not us, to give the
answer.
A COMMON TRICK.
The most common fraud to which the emigrant is
made the victim by the boarding-hous© keeper, is in
compelling the boarder to pay his bill in gold. When
the emigrant engages board, he is told that the'charge
will be made in currency, but when he comes to set
tle up, ihe landlord demands payment in gold or its
equivalent. Tho introduction of cards stating the
price of board, in currency or in gold, will, in a meas
ure, stop the swindle, as a boarding-master caught at
this trick, runs the risk of being turned out of Castle
Garden, and once out of it, the business might as
well be abandoned.
THE WAR.
During the war, many of those houses flourished
like green bay trees. Likely, men who were unde
cided what to do Or where to go, were speedily picked
up, conveyed to these boarding-houses, fed, feasted
and liquored, and then enlisted to the highest bid
der—some of these boarding-houso keepers making
aa much as S6OO out of a recruit. That mine of wealth
no longer exists, and business has returned again to
its old, legitimate channel. In a month or two, Cas
tle Gardea will be filled with thousands of emigrants.
To protect th© interests of these people there are but
nine men. The number is altogether too small. No
doubt, if Superintendent Casserly would represent
thia matter to th© Commißaiouers of Policy they
would Increase th© force. If three vessels ®bould
happen to lay in th© stream at the same time, that
draws off six men from the Garden. Then, the time
of on© officer is occupied exclusively to affiliation
cases, of which there are, on an average, ten a week.
These facts demonstrate for themselves th© necessity
of increasing th© force down there, to look after pick
pockets and swindlers generally, that can at all times
b© seen slinking around the outside gate of Castle
Garden.
1 DOMESTIC EHWE.
Love Among Milliners—A Husband’s Weak
ness—A Costly Fans Pas—A Wife’s Strat
egy-Desperate Cases Require Desperate
Remedies—Reconciliation, Etc.
Among the pretty milliners and fashionable mod
istes so plentifully congregated in Division street,
that mart of millinery, there is, perhaps, none mor©
popular or more generously patronized than the
pretty Mrs. B. Her bonnets, bloomers, jockeys,
and other head gear ore th© joy of th© east Bide, and
manyaahop girl or serving maid is indebted for a
large percentage of her attractiveness to the taste and
skill of the “little,milliner.” But to puff Mrs. h.
and her art is no part of the Jfarpose of this writing,
however much it may be deserved. To relate a little
incident of domestic life, of which Mrs. B. was
the central figure, is th© task in hand. To do this
perspicuously, it is necessary to inform the reader
that Mrs. 8., beside a good business and a hand
some income, ifS possessed of «* Ixastiaua «»u<X » tcei
per. The former is as “ mild a mannered man” as
<iould ba found in a day’s walk, th© lattef’ as capri
cious and uncontrollable as a Marcji wind. The Ims
band she keeps in a good state of eubjectiofi. The
temper she suffers to have its own way. This incon
gruity is, of course, a constant source of domestic in
felicity and innumerable family jars. Another cause
of tribulation is found in the fact that Mrs. 8., in
th© prosecution ©f her business, finds necessary to
employ a number of pretty young milliner?, We be
lieve all milliners to be young and pretty. Mr. B.
is uncommonly partial to the society of pretty girls,
and Mrs. 8., being inordinately jealous, watches
him with the eye of a lynx and the ferocity of a cat of
the feminine gender. Still there are moments when
the house affairs will draw her heneje, and Mr. p.
watches his opportunity, and enjoys many a surrepti
tious flirtation. The suspicions and uneasiness of
Mrs. 8., however, are not the baseless iabric that
th© girls affect to believe, for about a year ago she de
tected him in <
- ' A FAUX PAS
of a very serious character. It seems that a Miss
M. was employed in the store as foreman; she had
been promoted to that important positiqnless on ac
count of her ability as a modest, or amiability of
character, as for her angularity df person, obliquity
of vision, and cantankerous dispositidn. These
characteristics Mrs. B. regarded as a peaceable
preventive to any amorous design© which Mr. B.
would be likely to entertain towafd a more preposses
sing assistant. B. sthd Miss M, were thrown a
good deal into each others’ society, and, as We have
intimated, Miss M. was not personally prepossess
ing. But seen too often, Mr. B. grew familiar
with her face; at first he learndd to pity, then endure,
and then embrace. In short, and not to put too fin©
a point upon it, Miss M. aged 40, actually won the
husband from his allegiance. Together the guilty
coupl© passed many an hour in love’s soft dalliance,
and one day, while thus engaged, the Reductive Delia
abstracted S2OO from th© pocket of Mr. 8., which
his wife had given him to pay a bill. In piteous
tones and on bended knees he implored its return,
declaring that the failure to account to his wife for
the mouey she had intrusted to him would be irre
trieveable rain. He dared not impeach his enchan
tress, for that would be to proclaim his own infidelity,
and that were even a worse fate. But threats and en
raequivociflly
tion of keeping it. What to do Mr. B. was at a
ibaa to ipiow, but with more sense than he usually
displayed, he resolved to make a clean breast of it,
acknowledge his fault, tell all, and depend upon
clemency for forgiveness, preparing, as he said, or as
he no doubt would have said, if he had thought of it,
to “ Bear the ills he had, rather than fly to others
that he knew not of.”
So he (lohfessed his weakness and hi© sin: a portion
of the two hundred dollars was reclaimed, and
Miss M. was sent about her business, and Mrs. B.
resolved to keep a sharper look-out on her husband
than ever; but she forgave her recreant k&d, and
since that occiirrence, ha© ruled him with increased
power. Now, whenever B. is at all derelict, or in
the least departs from the path of morality or temper
ance, in short, whenever he doe© anything that she
don’t approve, she brings him around by means of
tears and hysterics, a violent fit ©f sickness, or prom
ises of early dissolution. Mr. B. would sometimes
kick in the traces, rebel against the assumed authori
ty that sought to rule him, and after which, if eh©
took sick, he would console himself with gin. If she
admonished him of her approaching end, he would
inquir© if she had any choice of a successor. He be
came invulnerable to fainting fits, and laughed her
tears to scorn; he became, indeed, as she expressed
it, a perfect brute. >
At last Mrs. B. resolved upon an expedient t©
bring her husband to terms, and at the same time
punish him for his cruelty and indifference. It was
in the execution of this design that these facts
disclosed, and the inquiry .became general in the
neighborhood,
“ WAS IT MURDER OR SUICIDE ?”
It was at the witching hour of night, when th© Ex
cise Law and vigilant “ peelers,” forbid the farther
dis'pefisation of Bourboh, that Mr. C. B. returned
to his home and his littje milliner, in the confident
expectation of a curtain lecture that would banish
©leep for an hour of two. Silently, stealthily, h©
effected au ©nttaijo© tp. th© store: the glimmering gas
wtoSnra te
ers, as tndy wavefed on thejr spiral supports, nodded
at him a terrible rebuke as he passed them by; the
figures on the ribbons, as they lay in thd glass
case, appeared like great eyes of fir© that glared
upon him, and in a stat© of pitiable trepidation,
&© groped hia way to his wife’s bed-room. Where
was she? The quiet that prevailed th© house
disturbed ond disconcerted him more thah would
have done the turbtilance to which he was rccus.
tomed. He approached tfee bed-side; there lay his
wife, apparently asleep. He roused her, but was
met with none of the upbraidings she had been
wont eo liberally to bestow. What could the matter
be ? She out her hand, and, pointing to the
table, said: “ Charles, you have done it I I shall
trouble you po more. I could no longer efidure the
iife you have led me. Good-bye, and may Heaven
forgive you. Take good care of th© shop.”
The ffiystifled husband looked upon the table, and
there discovered a two-ounce vial, on which was dis
tinctly marked the word “ Poison.”
“ What have you done ?” he exclaimed.
“ \ou see,” she answered, “ I have fulfilled your
strongest wish by relieving you of my presence. I
shall trouble you no more. You can go to your Free
and Easy, and your Club, as you call it, and your fast
woman. I shall not be in your way any longer after
this night.”
This tirade seemed natural, and Mr. B. felt re
assured. No woman, he thought, was going to die
while she could go on in that manner, and he held bis
peace, waiting for the storm to blow over. Dui
B. lapsed into a state of syncope, and was silent,
too.
Then the husband grew uneasy; he examined the
vial which had contained the poison. He gazed upon
the fac© of his wife; it was pale and death-likd; and
then he, for tho first time, realized the horror of his
situation. He roused th© house, brought in the
neighbors, dispatched a messenger for a physician,
haoaned at the bedside of, as he now believed, his
dying wife. He promised to yield to her every wish,
and gratify her evpry whim, but she was apparently
failing fast. The doctor arrived, and attempted to
apply restoratives, which was stoutly resisted, the
woman declaring that she would die, since it
was the work and the wish of her husband; and
she, then and there, in th© presence of all, de
nounced her husband as her murderer. He
had, she said, compelled her to swallow a dose
of laudanum, and she called upon those present to
secure the assassin and avenge her death. This in
creased the horror and consternation of poor B.
In faun did he protest his innocence. In vain did he
avow his undying love for his wife, or refer to his
past record to attest his devotion. In vain did he
appeal to his Wife to withdraw the horrible accusa
tion. A report soon got abroad that B. had mur
dered his wile. The captain of police visited the
house to secure the culprit, and excitement and con
sternation prevailed in the neighborhood of the pret
ty milliner’s residence. But the woman didn’t die;
on the contrary, she seemed to gain strength and re
newed vigor, and berated her husband in a manner
that would have done no discredit to the far-famed
Billingsgate. This inspired some doubt in the mind
of tho medical man as to tho kind of poison she had
swallowed, and an examination of the bottle disclosed
that it was nothing more deadly than blackberry
brandy. This fact the doctor quietly made known to
those assembled, and all took an unceremonious
leave. Husband and wife werb permitted to Betti©
their difficulty as best they could. What transpired
between them is not known. But the next day they
went riding together in Central Park'. The bill of
Doctor C. for medical attendance was promptly
paid, the neighbors chuckled over the joke, and now
sometimes inquire who murdered Mrs. I}., or de
sire to know the price of blackberry brandy, and the
cause of Mrs. B.’s sudden indisposition and equal
ly sudden recovery is sometimes the subject of specu
tativo inquiry by those not fully initiated. It is
noticed too that Mr. and Mrs. B. are more amiable
to each other than was once their want. He is sel
dom from home without his wife, has discarded his
Free and Easy, and no longer carries a night-key.
How did we find out all this ? perhaps the reader will
want to know. Never mind, it’s “an o’er true tale.”
Some people will kackle an<£ policemen have tongues,
and appreciating a good joke, are not unwilling to i
ehare it with a friend.
OFFICE. NO. 11 MFORT ST.
THE BROOKLYN NURSERY.
Our exposition of the character and condition of
this institution, and th© manner in which it is con
ducted, and the unnatural treatment of tho children
thrown upon the city’s charity, has excited, os it
should, a good deal of attention among the residents
of Brooklyn. Some complaint by those in charge of
the nursery, and especially by one of the Superintend
onts of the Poor, has been made, charging that injus
tice has been done to them in the publication. They
say they do the best they can under the circumstan
ces, and that for any existing wrong they ar© not re
sponsible. They also say that th© Nursery in Brook
lyn is as well ordered and as free from abuses, as
similar institutions in ether cities. This is not true;
and if it were, would constitute no excuse for a most
transparent wrong. But it was not with individuals
we wish to find fault. Th© Superintendents of the
Poor may not, and, wo believe, ar© not, wholly re
sponsible for tho condition of things complained of,
and Mr. Driscoll, the gentleman directly in charge of
the Nursery, we believe does the very best he can
with the means at his command. But, in th© name
of humanity, in behalf of helploss childhood, we do
protest against a system which permits party politics
to subvert even charity to the base purposes of indi
vidual emolument; and this w© insist is done in the
case of the poor of Kings county. The offences of
the Superintendents and the appointed officers of the
institutions may, in some cases, be venial, and even
th© occasional official orgies that take place in th©
xitbo Uoubb lie vVcrivuiiwl, but th© treatment of
inoffensive infancy, and utter prostration of th© moral,
mental, and physical health of little children, is ut
terly indefensible. The direct responsibility rests
with the Board of Supervisors, who can, but do not,
prevent the wrong complained of. Of all that we
have alleged in regard to this matter is fact, we stand
ready t© prove. That the condition of th© Nursery
was truthfully reported, is attested by the sworn re
port of Dr. James Alien, which was read at a recent
meeting of tne Board of Health.
After reciting the particulars of his visit to the
Nursery, and describing the location and character of
the building, he says:
“Diseases here are: two or three blind; two or
three idiotic; several crippled; eight or ton scabies;
the lest, various developments of scrofula, adenitis,
eruptions, etc., and especially th© most common oi
all, chronic scrofuloui conjunctivitis.
“In are about 400 children in the institu
tion, over ninety of whom ar© in th© hospital, as
stated before. Their clothing seemed in general
©leap, though often ragged. They are stated to be
washed all over in hot water and soap twice a week,
and faces and hands washed and hair combed daily,
The strong smell about the children would seem to
suggest a want of thoroughness in the ablutions.
The children, generally, have a miserable, melan
choly, scrofulous apnearance, and many even called
“well” in the school-room, seenied to suffer from
photophobia, and inflamed or weak eyes.
“ In general, the institution has been free from epi
demic disease. During the past year there has been
no scarlet fever, or but one case—no whooping cough,
no mumps—five or six cases of typhoid fever. Of
measles there was an epidemic of seventy cases, ele
ven deaths—also last Slimmer—from cholera infant
um. In other years, cholera infantum has been rare.
Deaths th© past eighteen mouths, fifty-nin© in num
ber, said to b© mostly from marasmus,
“In th© institution are only about half a dozen
children under on© year of age, and these all have
their mqthers with them, and are brought up at the
breast. The youngest is three months old. These
children are said to do well. Few infants now come
under a year. Those brought up by hand all die. I
understand that since the foundation of the institu
tion not one child so brought up has survived; all died
from marasmus. They have been fed ’mouths
been substituted for the condensed
milk, cows having been purchased for the purpose.
“Throughout the building, except in cases of con
tagious disease, two children, and often three, sleep
in one bed, the beds being only three feet four inches
in width.
“THE DEFECTS
which are detrimental to health, are, (1.) The terri
ble crowding of the children in the sleeping rooms
and beds. (2.) The imperfect ventilation of many
rooms, namely, those in the middle of th? buildang.
Still the ventilation is in itself as good as in many
respectable houses, and would be well ©nough fitted
if the rooms contained only as many children as they
can properly accommodate, instead of three or four
times as many. (3,) The nurses employed to take oare
of th© children ar? not paid, but are taken from the
inmates of the Almshouse, and have no pecuniary
interest in th© work, and consequently will not and
do not giVe the children such car© and attention as
paid nurses would give. (4.) Th© bill of fare is not
tiUfficiently varied, and some of th© diet op particular
daf s, as th© bean soup, and the corndd beef and
cabbage sometimes given in place of fresh beef, is
hardly proper for the young children.
“ REMEDIES.
“To construct new buildings, in addition to the
present ones, of ample size to accommodate the
chijdrep properly, with improved ventilation, This
is the chief thing needful. To employ properly paid
nurses; to add to the bill of fare some other meats
beside beef, or, at least, to arrange the means of
cooking it in other ways beside boiling, Or to make a
difference between the fare of the older and younger
children.
“ It was astonishing that there should have beep so
little disease, ©specially epidemic disease, in this in
stitution tip Past year. At th© same time lam of
©pinion that th©re ore few or no really robust and
tlgorop? children ther©, almost all presenting dis
tinct evidence of a scrofulous condition. Probably
pjost of them come to the insHtutlph already scrofu
lous from the lojr tenement hou§o or the city, but
the disease is perpetuated ipcms6d, and render
ed §ll hut universal by the poisonous air in the dor
mitories and the horrible crowding together iff hu
man brings. J think I did hot 6ee a really
healthy face with the natural bright expression of
childhood, in the building. . '
The above report was referred to the Kings county
Board of Supervisor!?. They have not yet done any
thing with it.
Think of it. All the children attempted to be
brought up by hand, have died.
Disease In this Institution is perpetuated and in
creased. Not a healthy face, out of four hundred
and fifty. Food for Infants, bean soup, and cofhed
beef and cabbage. So says Dr. Allen.
C iJg’AY.'JIiJIWiiH IKiftr Wffl
REPUBLICAN GENERAL CO.IHIITTEE.
This body held a meeting on Friday evening, at
their headquarters, No. 600 Broadway. The principal
object of the meeting was to receive and indorse an
address prepared by the Executive Committee, and
sent on Thursday to the Union members of th© Leg
islature of New York. The main idea of the address
la aa /nllawo. Tho HapTiHlinnn Union General Com
mittee of the City and County of New York have
Unanimously paesod raaoluHon# fawnrinff the xjrinz»i
ples of the bills now before the Legislature, providing
tor the management of the schools, markets, streets
and other public interests of this city and vicinity by
Commissioners to be nominated by the Governor and
confirmed by the Senate. We say that the only good
and efficient goverment of which this city can boast is
that of the Commissioners. The Central Park Com
missioners, the Metropolitan Police and Fire Com
missioners, the Boards of Health and Excise have, by
their works, commended themselves to all good citi
zens.”
Mr. Thompson offered a resolution, which was
adopted, urging the Union members of the Legisla
ture to do all in their power to pass the bill now
pending, increasing tho pay of the members of the
Fir© Department to the following: Foreman, $1,5'00;
Assistant foreman, $1,300; engineer, $1,400; and
drivers, stokers, tiller, truckmen and firemen, $1,200
per annum.
Mr. Darragh thought the bell-ringers should also
have $1,200, which was put in the form of a resolu
tion and carried.
Mr. White presented a resolution having for its ob
ject the strengthening and increase of the Union-
Republican vote; which was unanimously adopted.
Mr. Sinclair Tousey offered the following, which
was adopted without a dissenting vote:
Resolved, That the Union Republican General Commit
tee of the City and County of New York is decidedly in
favor of the creation by the Legislature of a Metropoli
tan Board of Public Works, and respectfully urges upon
that honorable body the passage of such a measure.
Mr. John Duke presented a resolution: That Sena
tors Ira Harris and E. D. Morgan should use all hon
orable efforts to prevent the confirmation of the ap
pointment of Wm. A. Boardman as Collector of In
ternal Revenue for the VHth Congressional District,
New York. It was carried.
Mr. Lawson proposed and carried a resolution con
gratulating the loyal men of the nation on the pas
sage of Mr. Eliot's bill providing for the formation of
civil government in Louisiana, and earnestly urging
the Senate to pass it also.
Mr. James 8. Ellery presented tho following resolu
tion, which was carried:
Resolved, That each Assembly District Association be
requested to furnish, as sOoh as practicable after the Ist
of May, to the Board of Metropolitan Police, the names
of three persons for the office of Inspectors of Elections:
One for the office of Inspector; one for ICanvasser, and
one for Poll Clerk in each election district.
A resolution was proposed by Mr. A. J. Campbell,
and adopted, indorsing the address prepared by the
Executive Committee and sent to the Union Members
of the Legislature.
I The meeting then adjourned. 1
NUMBER 15.
[Original.]
OLD LETTERS.
By Kitty Van V.
I made a grave in my secret aoul,
And buried the hopes of happy years,
I watered the urn with bitter tears
And closed the gate with an iron will-
Lo! now thev are open wider still,
The dead walk forth into life again. 4
I looked not back with a fond regret,
I took my burden and groped along
With trifling jest and a heartless song;
I thought that madness could rise no mote,.
I thought that peace was not far before—
I saw no ghost in my hidden halls.
■ Last night my letters came back to me—
The wild regrets and the struggles vain-
The fearful past to be lived again;
Old demons dance on the tender lines,
A mocking glare from the long flame shine®,
I meant to have killed them in the fire.
But, no! they laugh they will never die,'
They will whisper how it might have been,
Through all the night, with a ceaseless difi,
They will sing and ring the wild refrain
That a ruined life comes not again,
And the precious idols turn to dust.
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THE LIONJNW PATH.
CHAPTER LVIII.
4 TEST OF LOVB.
“Dictation is a good quality,” repeated the
Earl of Bridgeminster, to himself, after he haa
instructed his servant, Earnshaw, to destroy
the frail horse covering he had picked up and
presented to him, and retired to the seclusion
of his own reom. j
.There was no one in the kingdom that knew
it better than he, as his policy in changing
from one king to another clearly showed, as
well as his entire public life. But in this inf
stance discretion touched nearer home; for,
despite all his graspings for place and power}
he had a tender spot in his tough old heart
that the world knew not of, and in this was
kept his daughter. It was to him the “ holy of
holies,” and anything reflecting upon her fair
fame broke in upon its sanctity. And yet
more, it struck through her to him. .).
Almost like a caged lion he stalked backward
and forward, biting his lips and clenching his
hands until the blood started.
“The poor, brain-sick fool,” he said, “tet
think of him she has never seen since that fatal
day. But she shall not—shall not—love him.
No, by Saint George! it shall not be. Neve,
seen but once ? What if they should have mei
each other more times than I have any inklintf
of? It may be so—may be so. Else why
should she risk so much to save him ?. She was
the ‘ dark ladye.’ There cannot be a doubt oi
it. And he known to be in the service of the
Pretender—known to be a Jacobite, and com
ing to my house I By heaven 1 it seems as if
the firm ground I have so long struggled to
gain, was shaking under me. If it is not end
ed, I am lost—lost I” < <■'
And so he raged, and fretted, and fumed for
hours, his heavy step shaking the floor as h<x
walked, and coming distinctly to his fair daugh
ter’s ears as she leaned from her latticed win
* And”what saw& 9 °lte t ? the ' 1,
The picture that Lord Langton had seen
rising before him like a glory in the dim isles
and amid the perfume of swinging censors and
the thrilling of the floods of melody in Sain?
Peter’s at Rome arose before her. The self
same boy and girl marriage was enacted, and
her eyes looked through the mist of tears out!
into the darkness, and her pure soul went ou#
in prayer for him whom even her stern father
was hunting to his deeath. . I
But she had saved him once, and might she
not do so again ? She almost envied her beau
tiful mare, Bonny Bell, that had carried hin,
safely beyond the reach of the bloodhoundr,
and showered blessings upon her head. ■;
“In the sight of the Great God,” she murf
mured, passionately, “Lord Langton is myi
husband—mine alone—and shame come to mq
if I ever forget it. But is he true to me as Ito
him? Does he still wear his half of the little
golden coin next his heart as Ido mine ?” and
she drew what had been an unfailing remem
brance from its soft resting-place, and pressed
it to her lips.
Ah I if he whom she had been sighing andf
praying, had seen her then and there, how very?
soon all his doubts of her constancy could have
been put to flight.
But like the passing of an April cloud oVer
the face of the sun his ideal vision suddenly
darkened. Was her husband—lover—lover
husband, both in one—all or nothing to her, ■
Safe ? Like the sting of an adder th? thought'
that he might not have escaped after .all hop ,
bravery of danger struck her heart, and kh§
summoned her tiring woman to her. . ■j- ?
“seager,” she said, as the door w closed/
and all of sound cut off from without. “ Sea*
ger, 46 in? half, I am ■,
“les, my lady." ?-
“ And, Seagel, is there apjt &<Msijs iA t®»;
servants’ hall oi what has transmfed F YM
kflbw what I mdan ?”.«'-.A ;t. J>gS r&wJjSi
■> “Yes, flij lady. Earnshaw is vot a>y«te» ?
ribfid, He was burning up something.
“Burningspinetliing I What do ybd inehn? ! h
“I coaxed around him so as to get a feiglft Of
it, but he mistrusted ma.” i, "» #
“What I couldn’t even your Bright eye? and'
rosy cheeks and poking lips bring him tai
terms, Seager ?” ; -fr
“ No, my lady,’? replied the girl, blushing, gffl
she prided herself upon her power among tUffi
opposite sex. “No, my lady. £l6 turned bls’
back upon me.” fifth-
“ He is a brute, Seager,” continued the Ladyw
Hcrmia, suppressing a smile at the injured
look the girl put bn. “He is a brute, Seageff'
but you shall have a better sweetheart. Sb you
did not see what he was burning ?’’’ d Ajgjj
“Not then; but alter He Had gone, IMb
aged to secure a piece,” '!
“And you have got it, my brave girl ?” Jj
Seager handed her mistress a small, cruwfj
pled, scorched piece of some lighTfabric. It!
waspart of the disguise of BOnhy Bell! i 5
“Did my father know of this?” asked the'
Lady HOrmia, with all her light mannlit
changed to one of sadness. In another it might
liave Deexa dooponod into /©»>•, bu? <,1.0
a brave race, and had perved herself to bear”.
n.ll for fhn oalro of him whose broken gold was
rising and falling with every pulsation of her
heart.
“ I fear so, my lady. Earnshaw came directly*
from the earl’s presence.” > 7 ?
“And him—him—you know whom I meat),'
my good girl, and you see how I trdst you.” .
“I will be faithful, my lady.”
So she would. Give but a servant the know!!’
edge of and a part to play in a IbVe intrigue-,?
throw into the scale a suffering lover and a
stern father, and you can safely trust her to the
bitter end—no matter how many or hbw fierce
lions stand in the path. “t 17)
“I believe you, Seager, and so place all in
your keeping. 'lf you are false to poor, un
happy me, may God forgive you 1”
“Do not talk thus, my dear lady. I would
die for you.” -*
“Then tell me, did you hear Earnshaw say
anything of him—him—his very name is for
bidden within these walls, where he should
welcomed with honor.” 'f
“ Yes, my lady; he escaped and ' l .
“ God bo thanked 1”
“ But the earl, your father, my lady, has sent
Earnshaw away with letters to ”
“I know! My poor, distracted heart tells
me but too truly—he has put the bloodhounds
of justice upon his track ! Now, indeed, he is
beyond my power to help him.” • ’ a
And her tears fell npon her jeweled fingers,
and glittered there brighter than pearls or
diamonds.
Very late that night, too, the Lady Hermfa
walked her chamber, and, though her light
footsteps gave back no sound, as did nbi
father’s, yet her mind was as fitfully tossed
upon an ocean of unrest. Yet she was prepare
ing herself against that which she knew must
come—nerving herself to bear uncomplaining
if she could—to battle, if she must, for her
honor as a wife. m ’ vjjj
That she took a Quixotic view of the milter
never entered her heart; and that, not reason,
is the coqjroling influence of womanhood. She
was a wife only in name—the chains had been
broken as soon as riveted—the links parted ba»
fore the iron had had time to cool. As her
father had said, even so would the world havs
done, tfcat there could be notbipg of love iik,