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prow7? ment exaotlr what he DroDOsed to do at Ita end. I think nle. trustful indolent or credulous. Their BOTH SIDES. thafdare not pnt 'hla headln a decenf fanilW Four yeara ago, when the delegation went to the National Conrentlon, It went there to support the Hon: Samuel J.

Tilden. He 20,000 voteain King County, FINISHING UP. show Its appreciation of an offloer's fearless disohargo of duty its behalf, Mr. Beoohor is immediately called upon to do the spooking, and, quite as a matter of course, aacepts the duty without hesitation. Brooklyn is espeo.

ially fortunate in possessing a citizen of such remarkable traits of oharaoter as its represen WEDNESDAY EVENING. APRIL 1880. it is fair to the committee he should do that, Mr. Jamea Tigho (Tenth Ward) will offer this resolution and ask tho seorotary to read It (handing np a Mr, Furey But what disposition was made or toy matter? The Chair Tn gentleman from the Ninth has tho floor. Mr.

Furoy In answer to Mr. McLaughlin I dosire to aay. this, that in my Judgment it would be better for the interest of our organization and our party thot if I were' a candidate, or tbe chairman of thta General Oommittee, or any bumble member of this organization wore a candidate for any office within tbe gift of cue peopio 01 cms county snas ic wouia oo a proper subjeot to be brought up in this organization, and that every member of the Oeneral Committee Mr. York (intorruDtlna) I rise to a nolut of order. I don't think the remarka of tho gentloman are germono to we auojeci unoer aisouseion.

Mr. Furey I was answering Mr, McLaughlin, Mr. York (Imoresslrelyl Any question raised In ref erence to a candidate be raised in tbe convention, in which be Is nomluated, and therefore, I aay that any question that may be raised, or any direction or Instruction that may be given in reference to the delegates who may be appointed to the next State convention. must necessarily flow from the conventions that nominate the delegates, and under tha call of the State Committee those delegates are aent from the Assembly conventions, and this oommittee has no control whatever over them. Therefore, I aay tha remarka ot the gentleman are not germane to the subjeot, and therefore tbey are oat of order Tha Chair To some extent I think vou are rieht.

I think, in the present condition of tbe question, that the aeuate 01 genttoman xrom uo nurux i not in oraer. Mr. York won, air I stop. Mr. Furey I alt down.

DEMAND FOB AN VKPUZDOTSD DELEGATION, AND MB. MO IiAUQHUN's RESPONSE. Seoretarr Herman then read the Ipbdot handed up by Mr. Tighe, which waa as follows Whereon, It is assontlal to anoceee in tbe coming Presidential campaign, and the Imperative duty of the hour, that narmony should prevail In the party throughout tho nation: and Whereat, The nominee of the Cincinnati conrentlon should bo a man upon whom the entire party can unite; Resolved, That It is the aense of thla committee that the detonation from Kines Countv to the State Conven tion at Syracuse should go unpledged, free to aot as mu wiBuom oi we nour snau nictate. Mr.

Tighe moved the adoption of tbe preamble and resolution. Colonel Carroll I second tho motion. Mr. York moved to lay the nroambls and resolution upon the table. xue motion was put, ana ine unairman aociaroa it carried.

Colonel Carroll I doubt it. A standing vote wan taken, and the Socrotary deolarod tbo result to be 51 in favor ot tabling aud 15 against it. Mr. McLaughlin I have not had an omwrtunltv for consultation, nor have I been into a caucus for tho pur pose ot attempting to tnrow a nrebrand into this committee. There has not been an attempt to introduce or offer a resolution appertaining to the question before the State Convention Tho Cbalr (Interrupting) There is no Question be fore the house.

Mr. McLaughlin I desire to offer a resolution. Tbe Chair All right. Mr. McLaughlin If the chairman or aooretary will dot down a skeleton resolution aa I dictate.

I will dic tate aa beat I can, a resolution. It Is to thla effect Reuolved, That the representatives of thta omaniza tion to tbe next State Convention will act as their predecessors aoted in previous State conventions, in the interest and success of the Democratic party. Applause. There is not to aay, nor wiu not ue in nomo time to oome, so organization in tbo United States so patriotic, so Independent and bo fearloss In thoir actions in the State Convention as the delegation representing this or ganization in state conventions in years gono by (ap plauEel. and uo man la prouder to day than I am of the action that I have taken in helping as an humble member of this organization to accomplish what has been accomplished by the Democratic party in thla State for tha last five or six years annlausel, until this very element arose that is crop ping out now, those who deslro to follow the Kellys of new lorn ana wno come ana say, we will insist upon throwing a and therefore try to create ruin, I havo not aeon a delegate, I have not requested a delogate, nor do I desire to aee or request a delegate, nor suggest to a delogato how he shall aot in this convention.

Tha delegates representing this organization In convention I have met emergencies, evi3 it for the people of Brook ivu ana uounty oi lungs, tno uomooratio party, to WOw WlJSWr mt" Hot. if they have uf tu0 rt, can't they be trusted in the future Applause. Is there a man in this committee room to night who will say that tbe delegation from Kings Couuty haro not mot an emergency when it has arisen in tne state or national uonvemion i xou must not and have no oblectlon to a free dlsoussion. and unless by Miitnnnl nA wouldn't have It otherwiea unless br argument this comnuttee can stand as it has always stood, in tho interests of the Democratic party, then let them vote otherwise. Mr.

Furey Mr. Chairman, will the secretary ptooM to road tho resolution? Mr, Herman read tho as drawn by himself at the suggestion of Mr, McLaughlin. It directed tho representatives of this organization in the State Convention to act ae their predeoessors had acted, etc. Mr. McLaughlin wanted tho word requested substituted for "directed," and Colonel Carroll suggested the representatives of the Democratic party of Kings County," Instead of tbe representatives of "this organization (the committee).

Tbe ohanges were mode. MB. FUBEY TELLS WHY TILDEN CANNOT BE ELECTED. Mr. Furey It Is a matter of perfect lndltTerenco to me how the delegation act, so long as they act in tbe Interest of somo candidate who can bo elected.

It is a matter of perfect indifference to mo as to whether tbe delegation goes to Syracuse pledged or unpledged, aa to whether the delegation to the National Convention goes plodgod or unplodged but the members of this eneral Committee and tbo publio must not abut their eyea to the fact that to day, there exists in tbo Democratto party in this State one of the most Berious divisions that has existed for many yeara. Wo find arrayed on one side the Hon. Samuel J. Tildon. ApplsuBO.

In opposition to him we find Tammany Hall hisses in tbo City of Now York wo find Auiasa J. Parker, Erastus Corning, Mr. Moak. Augustus Seholl and a large number of distinguished leaders of the Democratic party in this State who have led the Democratic party often on to victory. A delegate No.

Mr. Furey I say yes. The Cbalr The gentleman from the Ninth haa the floor, Mr. Furey I did not approve of what Mr. John Kelly did in running Btump against the regular organization, nor do I approve of it to day.

I believe that when 4 man goes Into a Democratic convention, and takes the slightest part In that convention, that ho is in honor bound to stand by the results of that convention. Applause. But, air, saven tentba of the professional politicians of the present day I can't liken them to anything else but a race boat, pot leaded and oiled. Thoy are just as slippery. People pooh poohed tbe idea of tlie Hon, John Kelly defeating the rogular Domocratio party.

Tbey said he oould not get 25,000 votes. We know the result. He polled 78,000 votes, and every ono of thosa Demooratio voters, members of the Demooratio party. To day in every county throughout the State there ia an organization forme for the purpose of electing dolegatcs to a State convention, and that oonventlon is to assemble in in opposition to the regular Demooratio orgauizatlon. The men in that organization are just as well versed In machine politics as what tbe members of tbe regular organization are, and know ajfthe tricks of the trade.

Now, air, if you go into the election, and the 78,000 voters. Democratic voters, who bolted lost Foil from the regular organization ahould bolt away from tbe regular organization this coming Fall, what hopes or chance hare we of Mooting a Demooratio Preatdont I am not one of those who believe that 78,000 voters ot the Demooratio party will bolt away from the regular Democratic nomination to be made at Cincinnati but I do believe that there are voters in tbla State, Demooratio voters, who, if a certain gentleman be nominated for President, will not voto the Democratic ticket, and that, in my judgment, is a sufficient number to defeat the Democratic party. Now, sir; what we want in thla State la some candidate nominated who can carry the great State of New York, which means tbe election of a Demooratio President. Applause. like a great many other Democrats, am sick and tired for the last twenty years of working for the eleotlon of a Democratic President, and when we do elect him, either through imbecility or cowardioa, or the treachery of the peoplo to whom we intrusted his caeo, wo lose a Democratto President.

Applause, Mr, McLaughlin Tho gentleman has discovered and distinctly shown to tbls organization a disease. I would aak the gentleman if he has got any cure, and what the cure Is. Give us your oaudidate. Mr. Furey I haven't any candidate.

Any ono of the many distinguished men that havo boon announced through the Dublio pross that can be elected, Is my candidate. I will go as far as tho gentleman who haa asked me the question, In saying this: That If the Hon. Samuel J. Tilden be nominated, I will rote for him, I will work for him but it is a question whether I would work with the same warmth and spirit that I would for some one of tbe other candidates, whose nomination I believe would bo equivalent to elootion. Applause.

I can't warm to an iceberg applause, Bnd I believe and I say it right here frankly, I say it without any political prejudice or foaling that if the Hon. Samuel J. Tilden bo the nominee of the party, he cannot carry the great State of New York, and not carrying that, we will lose a Democratic President. MB. MC LAUaHMN ON THE SITUATION.

Mr. McLaugliliu Well now, Mr. Chairman, the gentleman has oocupled the floor for considerable time aud has wound up by saying that Samuel J. Tilden oan not carry the State of New York. A great many other people don't boliove he can.

That isn't anything now. Thero la quite a number of people who believe he can. It is for this organization to go to the State Convention and from there to the National Convention, and meet the emergenor, have consultation with the representatives of the party throughout the United States, exohange views, and if yon oan settle the question among yourselves as to who can be elected, why tbat'a the man thoy will nominate. It don't make auy difference whether It la Samuel J. Tilden or Samuel anybody That has nothing to do with it.

I have met twenty, forty men, who thought Samuol J. Tilden oould not be elected, and those forty men did not have an audience to aay that to, so it might get In the press. Neither does Tom Kinsella, of the Eaolb 8amuel J. Tilden can be elected. Samuel J.

Tilden was going to put him out of his house one night; that's a good reason ha don't think so. Some people think one man can be elected, and some think another can, but when tbe time comes for the National Convention, with Kinsella out of It (with all bis wisdom brought to bear he nominated Greeley and Greeley was beaten), we may get somo wise beads and after consultation tbey may agree among themselves and nominate some man who will just strike the poopl. and he will be eleoted. There la no question about that. Tho Demooratio party will elect the next President.

It don't make any difference whether it Is Tilden or not. Applause. Mr. Furey I believe that Mr. MoLaugbltn has a right to his opinion and I respect it, and I respect the opinion of erery member of this committee.

I have a right to my opinion aud I have a right to express it aolongasldo it in proper language. Of the Hon. Thomas Kinsella I don't know auythlng at all about him. I haren't spokon to tbe gentleman In two years; I don't know anything about what his quarrel is. He haa a right to bis opinion.

To my great anrprlss, the paper whioh he edits has changed front. If any Serson outside the City of Brooklyn, or in Brooklyn, ad asked me how the Eaolk was going, or how the Hon. Thomas Kinsella was going, I Bhould have said, "By all meanafor that distinguished citizen, Hon. Samuel I. TUden." To my utter surprise, be has front and asked everybody how Hancock would suit, I say, any Democrat Bults me, COLONEL OABBOLL AGAINST A PLEDGED DELEGATION.

Colonel Carroll There hae been, In nvy judgment, a good deal of unnecesBory dlsoussion here to night. Tha primaries were held last night, and it was supposed Demoorata voted at those primaries to eleot delegates to Syracuse, as a roter, did not aak, nor do I propose to ask, any of tho gentlemen I voted for, to pledge them solves for Tildon or Hancook, or any other candidate, for President I prosumed the delegates would go to Syraouse unpledged, and exercise their beat judgment. If tbey don't, thoy don't represent the Demoorata of this county. I preauma thero will be wisdom enough in the State Conrentlon to send delegates to the National Conrentlon unpledged to any man. I think tha time haa como when the party should be taken care of, and men ahould take care of themsetvea.

Applause. I don't believe tbst tbla oommittee baa any right or any power to pledge the delegates to tbe State Convention. They don't represent us. We are sent here by Demoorata to oarry out the work that la to be done in the canraas, and tha delegates they eleot to the State Convention, are supposed to represent them aa Demoorata, and I hope this committee will xiot Interfere with their work, ao long aa they are Demooratio. and I nope erery delegate going from King County wlU vote and work at the State Convention to allow the delegate sent by tbe State ot New York to the National Convention to go unpledged to any man, and to go for tbe anccese of the Demooratip party, (Applause.) Mr.

Furey I hope the committee will pardon for talking eo much. I haven't aaked the delegates to Syracuse to be pledged, nor the delegates to the National Conrentlon. As I sold before, It ia a matter of perfect indifference to me whether they go pledged or unpledged. When a gentleman talks about a pledge, he ought to haro read the call issued by the Demooratio Central Committee, whioh 1 ay all Democrats an torlted to participate in primary elections who will aopport the nominees of the National Oonventlon: Now. I take It for granted inferentlally that that resolution, the second part of it, means, "Unless you pledge yourselree to stand by the nominees of the National Convention, you are not aaked to take part In the primary eleotlonB." It doea sot matter to mo who la nominated by tbe National Convention, I will stand by him, and haro always.

THE ABVANTAOES OF A "LtTTLE TEA PARTY." Mr. McLaughlin A little tea party once in while la a good thing, leople get their bile MT. Mr Furey HowMf a man haan't got any, bile Mr. MoLaughlln Oh, there. Is good deal of blhv I am in tb: beat vt yon W.tejteM.

KlnseJla waa bore ao I could dlaonaa with him dir. ftrtnoa Mwaon a oltlton in social life aud aa adulterer A PICTUBE. "Boss" McLaughlin on Exhibition Before "his" General Committee. Pouring: a Flood of Incoherent Billings gpte on the Head of the Eagle for Show lng that "his" Late Primaries wore, as Usual, Either Fraudulent or Farcical. He Takes the Eagle to Task for Saying that Many of the Men "he" Sends to State Conventions Ought to Attend Night School, and Illustrates by bis Remarks how Much Good a Might School Would do Him An Instructive Spectacle for Democrats who Think that the Language of the Gutter and the Morals of the Penitentiary Ought not to be the Host Obtrusive Characteristics of the Party.

An adjourned meeting of the Demooratio General Committee waa held last evening at the head quarters corner of Court and Itemsen streets. The object was to receive and act upon the returns of the primaries of Monday evening, when delegates were elected to Assembly Dlstrlot conventions, whioh will to night oleot delegates to tho State Convention. There was a smaU turn out of members and spectators. Among those present were ex Register McLaughlin, Bobort Furey, Daniel Green, Henry J. Oullen, Denis MoNamara, Alderman Kelly, David G.

Aitkon, Supervisor Anderson, ex County Clerk Delmar, ex Justice Voorhles, Justice Courtney, John Curran, Thomas II. Mailon, Colonel Carroll, 8. D. Morris, Supervisor Lake, H. S.

Bellows, J. W. Sbarkoy, A. Sims, Jr. and others.

Mr. Jacob I. Bergen, the Chairman, presided, and Messrs. Herman and Woolley officiated as Secretaries. Mr.

Herman read the primary returns, as published last, eveulng, and they were oonflrmed. The Chair announced that the following named gentlemen would call tho Assombly Dlstrlot Conventions to order First J. O'Connell. Second W. Lelch.

Third Jamea Hall. Fourth B. York. Fifth John Curran. Sixth Patrick Kolly.

Seventh Henry Hausolman. Eighth James Fletcher. Ninth Bonjamin Baker, Tenth Daniel Lake. Eleventh H. S.

Bellows. Twelf th W. W. Gardiner. The Seorotary announced that he bad received a letter from Mr.

Veedor, a membor of the State Committee, calling attention to the fact that tho State Convention would be held ou the 2(Jth, and not on the 21st, as many supposed. MB. MCLAUGHLIN ATTACKS THE EAGLE AND MB. KINSEI.LA. Theeneral Committee was now about to adlourn, when ox Hogister McLaughlin, who occupied a front 8oat to tho right of tha Chair, arose and said Mn.

Ciuibma; I desire to call the attention of the oommittee and recommend for their serious consideration the necessity of sending proper and competent men to tbo noxt State Convention. The Eaole has had, within this last week, four different and separate articles, ou tht subjoct, one of ita articles it states that his committeo is iu tbo habit of sending to our State conventions some gentlemen as representatives whose proper places, it said, would be first, a Well oonduoted night sohool, and next the penitentiary. I propose to show this committee has sent to the State Convention men who would be bettor in the penitentiary than in the State Convention, In another artiole it asks for a fair and opau primary, a free ol 'Wiotie WS1 tinw. Uc)8 requests genl Uomen who have loving wives and children at home to stay and caress them, and not attend the Demooratio primaries. It stopped there.

It did not eay to those that had no loving wives and children at home, thai (hey could spend an hour at the primary elections examining how the machine is worked. This evening it spends about four articles, or takos up about four artioles la comments on the Demooratio primaries. The Eaole for years back has controlled, to a very largo extent, this organization. It has represented every convention called by this organization. As far back as the Greeley campaign, the Eaole took full charge of that.

Previous to that, this organization, through its machinery and manipulation, sent the Eaole to Congress. The Eaole eorred ono term in Congress and voted for tho back pay grab, and recelred the balance of tho sentence was lost in the applauso of the oommlttcomenj. Tho Eaols was denounced on evory street corner, and through sympathy this organization the following year sent the Eaolb to. tho State Convention. The State Convention of the great Democratic party of New York refusod to admit tho Eaolk into tho convention as one of its members, Whether this organization was right or wrong is not the question now; that they did ft is ft "5.

The gAOLj omitiniieg to pe representative of ImS Organization in State and national oonvantlons until ita sooial career became a stench in the nostrils of the people of Kings County, and they refused to send the Baulk to represent this organization in a Democratic convention hel in this State. Applause. It is an unpopular thing to attack an individual who has control of a nowspaper but you will bear in mind that I am not attaoklng an individual, I am attacking the paper itself and not the individual wno guides the paper, beoause in hiB addresses to tho people be says "We," meaning him aud the Eaole Tom Kinsella and tho Eaolb. I don't nijan Kinsella, I mean the Eaolu. The Eaolk speaks of corruption and fraud by the heads of the Democratic party.

The first fraud ever unearthed lu tbiB city, to my Knowledge, was the fraud perpetrated by tho Eaolk on the Board of Supervisors, and in thoir meeting they made the Eaolk refund what they had unlawfully taken from the county. Well, (f it is in a position to attack others who couimtt frauds that is for the Eaole to say. I desire to say that the Eagle and tbe Eaole will not contradict it, wbother it is to the credit or discredit of tbls organization ia another thing I desire to say that the Ea(ilk and tho Eaolb Will not contradict it would not be in this community to day, if It was not for the sympathy of thla organization with tho Eaolb. Applause. For whenever it haa been necessary to protect the Eaole, to give the Eaolb a standing la this community, the first Job that waa put up by the Eaolb was to send tho Eaole to a State or national oonvastioii, and thereby reclaim what he had lost in other ways.

Now, I don't know that the whole of this censure belongs to the Eaole. There is a shadow that follows the Eaole I think his name is MoLean. May be the reporters know the name better than I do some such name as that. (A voice "That's the He is the shadow of tbe Eaole. He goes around and picks up tbls garbled stuff, then the Eaolk makes use of It.

Now, I desire to say whatever orltlclsm the Eaole desires, that tbey will put that orlricism entirely upon myself, 8b I have not consulted with any person as to the remarks I dosire to make about the Eaolb, knowing that my political life through the mere assertion of saying disrespectful words of the Eaole Is at an end as far aB tbe Eaole can do itr I havo, of oonrse, with all other people a sympathy for my fellow being, and if the Eaolb should got into some more difficulty in all probability I will be one that will vote, or do somotning to give it a Btandlng in thla community again. Why the Eaols should spend more columna of apace to night in criticism of the aotion of this organization and these primary elections, la more than I can conceive of. There are a number, a very large number of the delegates and representatives of the different wardB who read what the Eaolb says, and the Raole deals with them on all occasions in generalities, without making any speclfio charge. Aa I believe in a controversy where two persons are engaged that they ought to meet and assert just the facts, some eveuing at the ohallenge of the Eaole, I would be pleased to meet the Eaolk in tbls committee room, and a we are both pretty well posted, in all probability we could entertain quite a largo audience. Laughter and applause.

I have agreed to tell what I know, and I know he la malignant enough to tell what he knows. Applause. I mean Mr. Kinsella in that respect. I don't mean the Eaolk there.

Applauso. MB. FUBEY WANTS HAEMONY AND IS AGAINST TILDEN. Mr. Furey I don't know what tho nature of the quarrel of the Eaolk is aa agaiuat this organization.

Whother the present quarrel is a quarrel over a candidate for President or not, I am unable to anawer but it looks to me as though this was not tho proper time for quarrela in tho ranks of tbe Democratic party. Whatever ought to be done now ought to be in the interest of harmony, peaoe and reconciliation, and not quarrel right on the eve of a nomination for President. I believe that it would have been a proper subject to have offered in this General Committee, to disci the merits, tbe claims, the availability and tho chances of the election of any one of tho distinguished gentlemen who are announced through the public press as candidates for President. I think then that this organization could arrive at a proper oonoluslon as to who is in this county the favorite for that place, and oould somewhat be guided in whatever aotion tbey take by that decision of this organization. Now, we have berore ua Seymour, applause Bayard, Randall, Paine, Tildon, applause and in my judgment any one of those distinguished statesmen and citizens could be elected the Presldont of tho Democratic party at tho ooming contest, with but one single exoeptlou, and If the Chairman of this Oeneral Committee and the members will permit ma, I will givo my reasonB why I think that gentleman cannot bo olected, why I think he cannot carry the State of New York.

If there be no objection on the part of the General Committee, I will give my reasons. Mr. McLaughlin If the gentleman (Mr. Furey) will exouBe me, I will suggest one thing, Tbls Is a subject thatbosnover been discussed in the committee before that I know of, Mr. Furey Any obleotionaj Mr.

White (Fifth Ward) Yes. sir; I object. Mr. Furoy Well, I want to show: since tho qneBtion was opened between Mr. McLaughlin and the newspaper hero to night, why we could arrive at a harmonious conclusion, and what ought to be done by this organization, why harmony and peaoe ahould exist, and how I think it could be brought about bnt if the members of this organization object to my going on any further, of eodrse, I'll sit down.

There were cries of "Go on," and motions to adjourn, Confusion prevailed. The newa of tha proceedings had spread outside, and the lobby waa by this time crowded, Mr. York moved that Mr. Foray be allowed to proceed with hla remarka. Mr.

Wright moved to adjourn. Mr. Sinus Bald he wished to call the attention of the committee to an important matter before it adjourned. He said there might ba disagreements among delegates to Assembly Conventions, and he wanted to know what arrangements were to be made for them. The Chair salt! that was an Important matter, and suggested that Mr.

Wright should withdraw his motion to adjourn. Mr. Wright did so, but Mr, Simla gained nothing by it, not just then, at all events. Mr. York Insisted upon hla motion being put to the oommittee that Mr.

Furey be allowed to proceed, A delegate Does that allow the gentleman from the Ninth (Mr. Furey) to explain without any boundary Mr. York My motion la simply on a question of privilege. The Cbalr put the motion, and declared it lost, although it waa apparent thai tho ayes had It. Hisses followed the decision, and there wero demanda made for a standing vote.

Mr. McLaughlin Ia the motion to extend th privilege of the floor The Choir Yos, sir. A standing vote was taken, and the motion was declared carried. FUBEY CONTINUES, AND MCLAUGHLIN HAS AN "OFFICIAL" OBJECTION. Mr.

Furoy I was about to disouBS tho merits of the candidates, and to givo my reasons why some can be elected aud why othera can't bo elected. Mr. York I rlBB to a point of order. Tho question of who oan bo elected and who can't IB not the question before tbe committee, and therefore the gentleman is not speaking to before the house. Mr.

Furey I hovou't got through yet. I desired to show, when Interrupted by tho gentleman from the Fifth (Mr. York), howpeacoand harmony oan reign, in my Judgmont, In the ranks of tbo Democratic party In this State, and if wo have harmony in the ranks of the Democratic party in thla State, that means the eleotlon of a Demooratio President. ApplauseO If you permit mo to go on in that woy, I am perfectly Battened to have anybody answer me, and shall roply to it. I do it without any feeling or prejudice.

If I am at liberty I shall go on. Criea of "So on." Mr. McLaughlin Mr. Chairman, exonao no; I will ask the gentleman one question. Thla.

is an offiouU aub Joot it is a aubjeot that haa not been dlsousied before. If tho gentleman desires to test the sentiment of this oommittee on auy particular candidate, tha la ono question. If he haa an idea that, by making a speech against one candidate and in favor of another, he will create a sentiment against the candidate, that la stIU another question that can be If the the disposition la to control tho action of tha different assembly conventions whioh are to meet to morrow evening, that is another queitlon. It aeoma to mo this an offlolal body and lh official session, but tf the gentlemen bare nothing to do here the committee oan adjourn and they can etay and listen to everything and anything the geuUeman niay have to say In regard to nlaotlnn or thn Mut nf a candidate for President, and if he desires to mention namea and givo reasons I IV. I Ml In alt niwnhlllw onTDi willing, in an proua gentlemen will hoar him; and wo will open a debatfcg Bhnlnfcv fnr thai mnnnnjt mr.

xora it Booms to mo vuo houu.umu Ninth imn nn riohk tr. in.nimn the relative Qualities of any candidate or President, if bo proposes to make any motion to Inflow 'ny particular ho should make a motion of that mua prior to nis argu meut, so that wa would koor Wl9 hearing the arga said that those who havo placed most faith in the growth of the Repubho have boon raroly disappointed, and wo boliove that the restless and enterprising men who have invested Iheir money in tho seaside resorts, which will form hereafter so prominent a feature of life in the Commercial Metropolis of the Union, will find profit as woll as pleasure in their investments. Wo think so, and we hope so Tho "Bosk" Ilreaks I.ooio Again. Boss McLaughlin last evening delivered one of those extraordinary oratorical efforts with which from time to time he enlivens the placid stupidity and servility of the tribune which ia, always nt his disposal, and whioh is in an ospooial Bonsa his own the rooms of what goes by the name of the Demooratio General Committee. We publish his speech as he delivered it, first, because the Eagle never denied any man a hearing who sought for it, and, secondly, because we deem it a fitting occasion to let all whom it may concern see the manner of the man who assumes to bo so absolute in his dictatorship of tho Democratic party in this county, that no man can criticize his political methods, or differ from him, howover courteously, on questions of great publio concern, and of which tho Boss himself has but a very feeble and remoto understanding, without challenging personal abuso that would disgrace a caucus of wran.

gling fish women. The experience of the Editor of tho Eagle is precisely that of every Democrat in Kings County, who has ventured to exorciso tho ordinary rights of a citizen, or to give expression to his own opinions, without duo regard to Boss McLaughlin, or to what Boss McLaughlin conceivos to be the interest of that very potential segment of tho Democratic party which is protected from tho atmosphere when Mr. McLaughlin puts his hat on. Mr. McLaughlin is just now very augry with the Eaole, and mainly because it has recontly had oocasion to describe a state of affairs which shows that Mr.

McLaughlin's primary elections are farces, and for tho fur ther reason that, in performing its functions in commenting on a subject of general concern, tho Eaolb is disposed to believe that Mr. Tilden is not now an available candidate tho Democratic nomination for the office of President of the United States. Mr. McLaughlin was at perfect liborty to make use of the favorite stamping ground, which has been for so long a time reserved exclusively for him, in order to show, if ho could, that through his primaries a fair expression of tha wishes and judgment of tho Democracy of Kings County is obtained, and ho might have shown, if he could, that tho Eaole is mistaken regarding the political strength and availability of Mr. Tilden as a oandidata for President.

Mr. McLaughlin would depart from his habit if ho did anything liko this. He resorts to his familiar method. If he cannot controvert his opponent, he can, at all events, indulge in personal abuse of him. By Mr.

McLaughlin's abuse, every man in this oounty who has ever contributed anything to tho braius or influence of tho Democratic party has been honored. In addition to Mr. McLaughlin's other causes of complaint, he has a grievance in tho fact that the Eagle has not been either grateful or fair in its troatmont of what ho is pleased to call tho Demooratio "organization." The Eaole has made mistakes in its time, no doubt, and it has made no mistakes which appear to us so glaring now as it has in frequently confounding the promotion of tlie principles of the Democratic party with tho interest, or existenco, of tho organization which could be transported bodily to New York City by convoying "Boss" McLaughlin across the East River. Mr. McLaughlin is pleased to say that tho Eagle would not "be in this community if it wero not "for the sympathy" of what he cnllshis organization.

Has the Boss taken leave of his senses? If Mr. McLaughlin means to say that tho Eaole is under any obligation to his "organization," or even to the party which it misrepresents, he says what we know to be untrue. The predecessor of the present Editor of the Eaolk had occasion to say, over twenty years ago, that the Eagle was indebted to wliat went than by tho name of the Demo 1 'cratic organization" mainly orits polioe items. Mr, McLaughlin last night rendered to the Eaolb tho one favor it is in his power to bestow upon it, and that was by making it plain that tho Eaole is neither in sympathy with the "organization," nor responsible for it. If this "organization," so called, is represented by the head of it, there is evidence enough presented in another column to show conclusively that no man, with any ability, or decency, or self respect, can have anything to do with it.

For any brains the organization has had, it is indebted to the Eagle. Whatever standing it has, at home or abroad, it owes to the Eaole. When "Boss" McLaugliliu talks of sending the Eaole to conventions, we desire to remind him that it is not within his power to keep tho influence of tho Eaole out of any convention tho Democratic party may call in this oounty, in this State or in the Union. Its anthority to spoak for genuine Democracy iu this country does not depend on the credentials of the dangerous excrescences on our politics, known as "polit "ical bosses." Now, in regard to the Eaole's relations to Mr. Tilden and his candidacy Nobody will be more surprised to learn from Mr.

McLaughlin than Mr. Tilden that his personal relations with the Editor of the Eaole so far as they exist are not of the kindliest sort. We entertain a great respect for him as a Democrat and as a public man. Personally, we feel an affectionate regard for him. Our readers know that, the Eaole has never missed an opportunity of defending him and the opportunities have been many, for no man who has ever figured in our politics has been villified and wronged as he has been.

If anything tho Eaole could do would make him next President of the United States, against any man, he would bo our next President. We do not think he can be elected, and, thoroforo, wo do not think ho should bo nominated. We do not know what Mr. McLaughlin thinks he thinks on subjects like these, and we do not propose to waste our timo and space in discussing with him issues which will be held to be altogether outside of tho domain of local political manipulators, as soon as public affairs in this country return to their normal condition. Brooklyn's Representative Preacher.

Thi nsour.CSmiiit that th8 "movement to secure a fund for the benefit of the widow and family of the late Officer Stone has taken definite shapo will be received with complete satisfaction in all quarters. The committee to whom the projoct was intrusted for the arrangement of details have determined upon an entertainment at the Academy of Music, to take place about tho middle of next month, and at onco applied to Mr. Boecher to assist them. Mr. Beecher, with characteristic liberality, heartily encouraged the movement, and promised to assist it by giving a lecture at the Academy on the night in question.

Under tho circumstances the public can do nothing lcs3. There should be at least ten thousand tickets sold for this entertainment. No man in Brooklyn ought to consider his duty done until he has purchased one. Of course tho Academy of Music will not hold anything like such a number of pooplo, but while most por sons would like to hear what tho famous orator would say on such an occasion, many may bo unable to do so from other causes than the sizo of tho Academy. This, however, should not deter thorn from purchasing tickets in behalf of so good a cause.

Officer Stone lost his life in tho discharge of his luty in defense of the public against a gang of scoundrels. It is incumbent upon the public to take care of thoio who depended upon him for support, and we havo little doubt that the proposed benefit will be a great success. TJhe appeal of the committee to Mr. Beecher, andlifs giad Acceptance of the duty of delivering a locture for the cause are both charac tevistio. It is noteworthy that whenever a pubiV0 movement is afoot, the conductors, be they ttey mav instinctively turn to Mr.

Boecher. occurrence of some public calamity like tK frightful fire of 1876, invaria. bly brings Mit Beecher to tho front as the spokesman of the city. When starving Irish men sent a missionary Jiore to beg funds for tho land, leaguo and to buy broad for tho hungry, it was Mr. Bootfhar, whose speech touched thousands of hearts and opened thousands of purses in Brooklyn and elsewhere.

When a great theologian's centenary was celebrated, Mr. Beecher was called upon to speak, and his addrcsa was the feature of the celebration, and now that tho community desires to; Arfratnetito of Counsel la the Yonstnj marder Ctuec Tne Plea of Self Defesaavi Urged br Btt. Buawlna Tito friaririee Attorney Claims a VefdJct lor Ulnr der In the First Degree. The trial of John Young for the killing jf William Thomaa Benaon, on the Tth of February last, was concluded yesterday la the Court of Oyer sad Terminer, so far aa the.eridenoe and the arguments ec counsel are concerned. The Eaole's report of yesterday brought the pro ceedings down to tho midday recess.

After the recess tbe District Attorney called several witnesses who wero examined as to the whereabouts of the witness Bold, the design being' to prove that he wa not In Young's yard after the quarrel, as Young had! testified. The defendant was recalled for a question or two, and the case then went to the Jury. Counselor Robert S. Bussing, summed up for the defaaan. Counsel said: THE SUMMING UP, The Indictment charges John Young with willfully, deliberately, premedltatlrely, feloniously and of hist malice aforethought killing Benson on February 7 last.

It cbargos tbe wicked intent as a fact and states tha overt act by which such malicious purpose waa mads effectual. The law saye no man cau bo criminal ont a criminal intent, and It seeks only to punlsfx actlonB which it can trace to an eril disposition. It follows, tberefore, that If this prisoner bad no criminal Intent toward Benson he is guilty of no crime. Wo admit that Benson died from a wound inflicted by Young, and the question you hare to decide is extremely simple Did ho maliciously plan to kill Benson Wo assert that there is no evidence that shows intent Counsel then reviewed tha facts as ahown in the evidence down to the time of tha difficulty in tbe saloon and the exit of the men from the place. Here, he said, the contradiction In the evidence begins.

Bold sweara and I will chow yon In a few moments how unreliable he is that Young ran orer to his house and, having armed himself with a bale stick, attacked him ani Benson on Franklin avenue. He haa sworn bs waai with Benson becauso ho was drunk and he wanted to protect him. But in order not to Injure his reputation aa mean, cowardly, despicable character, he swears net ran away as soon as he thought there was any danger. He haa tbe effrontery to tell you that Young hit him on the wrist and shoulders, but not bard enough, it seems, to Injure hm, although Young uaedthia Immense stick. Tbat, gentlemon, Is tbe case of the prosecution.

After the attack upon him on the sidewalk, Yoamr walks across tbe street and through the alleyway by Us house. It Is near ono o'clock and the door Is locked. While he la trying to pet in he Bees two men. Held and Benson, with stones In thoir bands, run Into tho yard, end thinking that thoy had come to attack him anoT porhaps rob him of his money, he jumps from tho. stoop and runs away.

While passing tha woodpUa. which waa in hie yard, he Betzed a large stick and continued hla flight, with hla pursuers close upon bimw Young ran up Franklin arenuo, but fearing for hla life he turns to defend himself, and inflicts this on fortunate blow upon Benson, from the effects of whlcfa he died the next day. Young ACTED IN SELF DEFENSE. He did not Intend to kill Benson, and is guilty ot not crime. Counsel then quoted from the authorities upon what constitutes justifiable homicide, and aaid there waa every reason for believing that Young did not intettd to kill Benson.

They bad been friends up to tbla tints, and there was no motive for the deed. It is plain, he did not go to the saloon for any suoh purpose, for hod no weapons with bim, and he did not know that Benson would be there. After BenBon had abused bim ho made no threats to kill bim. It will be claimed by the proseoution that Young was the aggressor in the quarrol in the saloon, and that having been insulted and attacked he thereupon planued to kill Sanson, do not think thla theory can be proved on tbe evidence, but let us examine and see if even then thla defendant is guilty of anything more than manslaughter in tbo third degreo. Young Is a peaceable man, but like all of ub if he is insulted be Is apt to become enraged, Ben eon and Reld had taunted him for not treating to beer.

Reid had tried to borrow money from him, and londV quarrelsomo words bad passed between them. Evidence against tbe accused is entirely circumstantial, and my associate has shown how uncertain this kind of evidence is. The defendant acted in self defense, there is no doubt of tbat, and unless tbo hypothesis of tho proseontlon la so clear as to exclude this theory of self defense to a moral certainty you are bound to acquit tha aocused. In conclusion Mr. Bussing made an eloquent appeal to tho jury, setting forth the poor and friendless condition of tbe defendant, and bis reliance upon their sensa of right and juetlca to make bim again a free man, andl restore him to his wife and child.

District Attorney Catlln then Bummed np briefly for the People, speaking substantially as follows THS CASE FOB THE PEOPLE. He said ho felt convinced it was a case of murder the firBt degree. When the dofendant weaves oat of bis mind a alBe theory and a false defense when be goea upon the witness stand, and wantonly perjures himself to moke out his elatm ot self defense, It shows that ba la guilty of the gravest grade of the offense, and that he was really guilty of the premeditation which shows a willful murder. It Is shown that whon about a o'clock Officer Burns wont to Young's house knocked ant 9'lt, oniy about Alteon fcctfroET where the oulcor Btood to the window, and as soon as Vopng saw him he ran. He told nobody, not even bis wife, he had etruck Benson, but lies down on the lounge and Bleeps uutil the officer comes and then flees.

He never told tho officer any tale about itwo men cbaslng him with sfone Had tbat really been tbe truth he would have told of It quickly enough but no one hears the story until tha counsel bear it in tbe jail weeks after the occurrence. What else does he swear to? He says that be recognized Ned Reid by bis light pantaloons taa Mrs. Benson, the wifo of tbe murdered man, sweara that Held did not have on light pants, and did not put tbem cm until tha next morning. Young, however, sweats, as any man would swear who Is guilty of crime. There Is, first, tha evidence of the bad character of the prisoner.

He baa served a term in tho Peultentlary. We hare aecondV tbo false theory of tho defendant and bis false atory. We hare then, tbe fight in tbe saloon whon Young seized bold of Benson and dragged bim out, Motion swears to that positively. He saw Young have hold of Benaon. Gerry 6aya he beard Young say to Benson, "If you will come hero I will give you all you They came back, looked some littlo time and found tha hat.

Then tbey Btarted again. Meanwhile, Yonng had gone tin ought tho lane and round by ttfe board fenos, and out on Malbano street. Instead of going into his house as he ought to have done, be seized a stick, and when Rrid saw bim coming into Malbone street, he said, "Thore comes John Young with a club run and they ran in different directions. Young overtook Reid, and after hitting bim on the back ha turned upon Benson, aud meeting him iu tbe street, braina bint with a club. In clotting, counsel Bnbmittad that lha facts established iu tho case proved beyond a doubt tbat tho prisoner was guilty of a deliberate, willf nl, premeditated murder, aud should be convicted of murder in tho firat degree.

The Court said that be would not give the ease to the jury until this morning. The court then adjourned until this morning. SPOUTS AND PASTI31E3. Base Hall. Notes of the Day.

The Chicago papers claim that tbe four sided bat Is a failure because tbrea of the Chicago player tried it. and because tboy did not know how to handle the bat and could not make tbe bits thry expected to. If Hulbcrl had started the Idea bow his organ would hava erockod up the new bate. Harry Wright can send a boll just where be pleases with tho four Bided bat. Chicago furnishes uniforms to all the League teams and likswio nil tho balls tbey play with.

Tbe Chicago League President also "bosses" the concern. It Is a Chicago institution. Under the new League rules as published in ths League Dock a pitcher can make any number of balks ho likes, and no base runner can take a base as is tha penalty in tho National rules, simply because "It is not so nominated in the bond." In other worda the Loagua rules nave no penalty for ordinary balks, only for foul balks. It said that McVey is playing very poorly in California, and tbe Bay CityH recently lost a game to tha Knickerbockers by reason of his costly errors. Leary.

the pitcher of tho same olub, has been indulging in bla old trick of getting drunk. Tbo first offonse was punished by a fine of $150, but oxpulsion followed the ace ond. This Leary is the pitcher the Maneheetera expelled in 1870. On Monday the Chicago team was to open play in Dubuque, Iowa, and then tbo Dubuque team were to visit Chicago. In tbe opening play last week both Corcoran and GoIdBmlth did some first olasa Burna has led in tha batting.

Tbo ball grounds at Baltimore are held by an athletia club at $300 a year. Manager Phillips wanted to engaga thorn for the base ball season at t'25 a match, with no charge for praotioo gomes. But the Athletic CIub wanted, in addition, to have other members admitted free to the ball matches, but this Pbilllpa objected to, aa the Athletic Club'a fees were only $3 a year, and they would soon hare a thousand members if only to get cheap admission to tbe ball matches. McSorley and Branthera are to be two of the pitchers of the new Baltimore nine. They would hare played tbe Prorldenca nine on Monday, only the latter wanted nearly all tha receipts of the match, beginning with a hundred dollars guarantee.

Ferguson'a Troy nine open play next Saturday when the Union College nine of Scheneotedy are to coma down and play tbem. TheAlbanys leave home on tbe 20th Inst, to visit Worcester, Springfield, Boston, Providence and New Haven. In Snrlnsfield thev nlar tha Boston team. Wben tbey get back they aro going foramatoh hornet and home with Troy, which will be worth witnessing, then Troy is going to howl, so Meyers aaya, but Bob Ferguson smiles at the idea. Boston is not happy.

Brown, their catcher, la not throwing to bases oa Harry would like to see him, and Powers, the change catcher, broke a finger in the opening game. A Buffalo paper says "Tko Cbicsgcs bare tested the flat bat aud pronounce it worthless." That settlea It. Gore. Dalrymple and Flint say, "It Ie an impossibility to keep a ball off tbe ground or to prevent It going up in tho air with tbe new bat." Ia dat ao Cincinnati went In far a gentlemanly team of players this season in place of tbe drinking clique they had last year, and they hare been successful In their efforts. Tbe Nationals, of Washington, begin thjffoJlowina series of games to day April 1 1 National vs.

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fiSK YOUR GROCER FOR IT. PARIS AND LONDON. NKW YORK. DEPOT, 2KU Greenwich Street, good qualities far outnumber their faults, but thoir best characteristics are those wnion civilization condemns and the aggressive white pooplo of the North detest. They are bewildered to find themselves thrown on their, own responsibility, and pathetic stories touoh the hearts of listeners, particularly of listeners already biassed against those with whom they have lived.

They are as wholly unable to ignore tho marvelous in their conversation aa they are to keep their fingers off the possessions Of othors, and they are alike unconscious, of intention to be wicked in either case. The Southern people understand them, and the masses of the people there tolerate them because they are a part of the South, always its curse and blight, and the xauso to day of the retarded progress of that region. But thoy are vindicated the statement made by this witness before the Exodus Committee and by the aotion of the Employment Bureau in Kansas, and whatever niay be true of them, the storieB of negro persecution will bo contradicted in a large degree by tho action of the negroes and the attitude of their recent ardent friends. Mr. Jesse Billings, of Ballston, is now under going that persecution whioh tho Rev.

Hayden bo dooply deplores, tho application of circumstantial evidence in murder trials. There was strong positive, evidence that Mr. Billings had a wife there was also positive information that Mrs. Billings is dead. How she died was also settled.

A bullet was found m.her head and Mr. Billings was chargod with tho mur der. After a long and tedious trial during which the proseoution sought to prove by circumstantial evidence that Mr. Billings shot his wife with a rifle through the window at which she was Bitting, the defense depending mainly upon an alibi of rather startling char acter, and after a great deal of very hard swearing on both sides, the twelve jurors were so utterly confused that they wore unable to agree upon a verdict. Mr.

Billing6 was, there fore, in tho samo position as the Rov. Hayden, although it must be acknowledged that the weight of the testimony against him did not compare with that which was produced against tho Rev. Hayden. His bail was muoh heavier, however, and tho fact that he is again on trial shows that the State has by no means abandoned the healthy idea of convicting him if it can. An immense extra panel of jurors has been obtained and popular interest in the case has not abated.

Mr. Billings has already incurred a heavy expense in defonding himself, and the failure of the Rev. Hayden to make money out of murdered Mary Stannard by lecturing must present ajuost discouraging outlook, for Mi Billings. The judicious sale of portraits of tho murdered Mrs. Billings, as she looked after the commission of the crime, would, perhaps, contribute something to his treasury without putting him in a more dubious position than the Rev.

Hayden'g fo courso to the lecture platform placed him, CURRENT EVENTS. The National Riflo Association yesterday accepted tlio challenge of the Irish Rifle Association to shoot a match at Dollymount in Juno, The Salvation Army have met with success in Newark. They have rented the old Variety Theatre there for five months and JiaYO made some noir converts who will help them iu thoir labors. Charlos T. Chester, well known in New York as a manufacturer of tolegraph instruments and oloctrlc goods, died yesterday at his residence near Englewood, N.

J. Cardinal McCloskey testified yesterday in Now York in the fierrlii will contest before the Surrogate. Ho Btated the facts of his acquaintance with deceased and named the gifts she had made to the church. He denlod ever having soon tho will she made. Phelps, Stokes fc bankers, of Wall Etrcot, New York, havo consented to receive any girts for tho relief of the sufferers by the famine in Armenia.

Aid can be sent immediately to Constantinople by telegraph. Mi'. Robert Mackio, of the firm of Barclay Livingston, comniieeiou merchants, of Beaver street. New York, and a member of tbo Produce and Maritime exohanges, died in Now York yesterday, in his lid year. He was widely known in inorcantllc oircioj, and was connected with many social organizations.

Colonel John Nice, well known throughout Pennsylvania as a lawyer and politician, dlod at Mil ford, yestorday. Ho served as Colonel of the One Hundred and 8eventy fourth Itegiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers during the olvil war, and at the time of his death was Mayor of Mllford. Tlio members of the Stato Horticultural societies of Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas and Texas met yesterday at St. Louis to complete arrangements for a Horticultural and Pomological Exposition of tha Mississippi Valley, to be held at St. Louis on the 7th, 8th and 9th of September next.

Rov. William B. Orvis was expelled from the Philadelphia Association of Congregational Ministers yesterday, because of his connection with the Philadelphia University of Medicine and Surgery, a college where a nowspapor reporter recently purchased a certificate from him to practice medicine. A destructive fire is raging near White Oak Bottom, Ocoan Couuty, N. J.

A district of dense pine forest and cedar swamps fifteen miles long and ton miles wide has been burned ovor. The atmosphere last night for miles around was stifling. The Sre will hardly be arrested before reaching the Marrasquaa Bivor. Seven ship loads of emigrants, numbering 3.999 persons, arrived at Castle Garden yesterday. On Monday and Tuesday there were 5,000 guests at Castle Garden, the majority of whom are bound for Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa.

The Commissioners are taxed to their utmost to entertalu those who arrive from week to week. The Hahnemann Hospital fair at Madison Square Garden la a suoeess. Tho Rosa Bonheur booth Is in oharge of Mrs. Brooks, the artist who has modeled iu oleomargarine butter tho Pride of Trance," after the painting by Rosa Bonheur. The various attractions of the fair are sufflolent.

to guarantee it all the patronage ita originators desire. A numbor of merchants engaged in tho butter trade held a meeting at the American Butter and Cheese Exchange yesterday, for the purpose of formally protesting against the illegal sale of oleomargarine A committeo of three waa appointed to consult with the United States District Attorney and such Representatives in Congress as they oould communicate, with, for the purpose of drafting a law to be submitted to Congress relative to the manufacture and sale of oleomargarine, lhe military court of inquiry ordored by President Hayes at the request of General G. K. Warren, to Inquire into the oonduct of General Warren during the battle of Fivo Forks, in Virginia, on April 1, 1865. held a special session at Governor's Island yesterday.

The meeting was called to take the evidence of Brevet Colonel E. R. Warren, Captain Third United States Artillery, who sails In a few days. Generals Hancock, Auger and Newton compose the court, together with Brevet Colonel Langdon, who la recorder. General Warren has been trying for fifteen years to hare wlpod out what he oonsidora a stain upon his military record, caused by General Sheridan's having removed him from his command of tho Fifth Army Corps on tho flold of battle at Five Forks.

At the Whittaker inquiry at West Point yesterday Major Piper, the offloor in oharge when the alleged outrage was discovered, and Major Alexander, the surgeon of the post, wero the witnesses examined. The attondanoe at the court is very large every day. The court went to tjjo quarters of Cadet Whittaker yesterday, where they examined the relative poBltloa of objects in the Major piper admitted in the beginning of his testimony that he was quite shocked during aU the morning of the outrage, and hie recollection of details is poor. Ho sut for medical assistance the moment he saw Whlttakor, and for several cadets, to be witnesses. His impression was that Whittaker had been maltreated by some persons.

Ills head looked ss if it had been mashed in with somo instrument. Borapi of paper were lying around tho floor, aud there were marks of a liquid around, and he thought that possibly an attempt had been made at burning the boy's feet. The surgeon felt his pulse, examined his eyes and ordered him to got up. He did not notloa that Whittaker limped or walked In any un UBual manner. His Impression that morning, on seeing the sllghtneas of his wounds, waa that ho had not resulted hla assailants, as otherwise the noise could hare been heard.

Mr. Gaylor, the expert in handwriting, who had examined the record of the baths kept by Louis Simpson (colored), testified that there waa no resemblance between them and tha note sect to Whittaker, Ho was very positive in his opinion. Sererat additional specimens of handwriting were given him yesterday, and among others a sentence written by each of the 300 cadets," in whioh, unknown to thorn, wero words which appear iu tha note ot warning. He will report on them in a day or two. The post surgoon, Major Alexander, detailed the oiroumstances of his being called to attend Whittaker, and the condition in whioh he found him.

He examined him, ijgd then wont out and told an officer that Whittaker was feigning. His pul waa beating regularly, and he waa pot the least dated or frightened. The wounda on hla ear and feet were slight ones, and the comforter was neatly folded under bla head. The blood was coagulated. Major Alexander waa oross examined to day.

District Attorney Flero visited Whittaker'a room with him yesterday and had a long talk with him, and said after leaving there that the atory Whittaker told him did not differ from the one he told In court. The Professors at the Academy state that he la making good rooltatlone. The post surgeon's testimony waa moat unfavorable, and altogether the mystery rematna whera it did the day of tha occurrence. At the Cabinet meeting yesterday, In Washington, the decision was reached that Whittaker should be represented by counsel before tho Board of Inquiry, now sitting, and District At torney Martin Townsend, of Now York, was chosen for this duty, OBITUARY. Rev.

N. P. Pierce. The Hov. N.

P. Pierce, the late pastor of tho Twelfth street Reformed Church, Sunday last, at Warren, In the 63rd year of his age. The deceased had been a aufforer for several years, 'and hla death, althonsh not entirolv unlookod for. was a severe blow to his family. Mr.

Pierce officiated as pastor of the Twolftb itroet Koforraofl Church, for nearly a qwt tor of a oeutury, and will rieavU to mourn bis loss. Convention, The sentiment of the peoplo lit beinn spoken about. Each mania giving expression to his views. I presume the delegation from this organization will try to carry out the viewa of tbe pooplo, get an idea of what the sentiment is, and try to carry ft out. If tbey are aa auooessf ul in thla coming campaign as tbey bare been In tbe campaigns heretofore, they will be indorsed by tho neonle.

Last Fall Kimra flnnntv mi. talned her reprosentatlrea at the State Conrentlon, and when men are euatalnod for their aotion In State conrentlon they haren't anything mora to ask for. Now, I see by the Eaole that at our last meeting resolutions would have been Introduced In this committee indorsing Tilden, bnt for tho remarks made by the xn i.e. Now, I vonture to say there isn't a gentleman in the room who had any consultation about introducing resolutions Indorsing him. I didn't know of tho resolution offered by the gentleman from the Tenth (Mr.

Tighe) thla eveulng. I rathor think that Is an antl TUden resolution. But tbe subject seems to mo is first, the election of the delegates, then their meeting with other delegates throughout the State in conrentlon at Syracuse, then consulting as to what Is the best thing to do in the Interest of the Demooratio party. I take It for granted that there sre nov men who go from any county in tbla State to a Democratic convention with the Idea of sustaining a nomination that will be beaten. That Is not tbe object.

The object Is to sustain a nomination that will be elected, and people who dlveat themselves of personal feeling and prejudice generally succeed. Mr. Kelly, through Borne animosity between himself and Mr. Tilden eald "We'll take any man in tbe State except Mr. Robinson." Now Mr.

Kelly says "We'll take any man in the United Utatea except Mr. Tilden," and If four hundred thousand men must concede to the wishes of serenty thousand, why, tbat'a all right. 1 have no objection to letting any man or set of mon make the nomination who are Democrats, and I will get on tbe platform and indorse the man. If the convention refers It to a committee to make the nomination, I wllrahpnort It. I am designated aa THE MANIPULATOB.

I hare not Interfered. I presume tbo delegates will carry out the riowa of their constituents whaterer they may be. If tbey hare not got their views now, thoy may have them before tbey go to the conrentlon. The Democrats of tho 8tato of New York, before some of ub were born, Instructed her delegation to rote as a unit without designating the person, and may continue to do that. Tho Bepubllcan party bare gone urthor, they hare directed tbelr delegation to vote as a unit, and designated the matt to vote for.

Whother the approaching State Convention will do that Ib a quostlon to be decided yet. Some of the wiseaoros may imagine tho thing is fixed. The Eaole says everything has been fixed for the laat two or three weeks. Mr. Furoy I will aay thot I did Intend to offer a resolution at the laat meeting, and that resolution applied to the call of tbe State Central Committeo which I disliked.

The statements published in the newspapers in rcferonoo to my flndlng fault with tbe primaries thero isn't one word'Of truth into it. Applause. I Bay that right hore. The resolution of Mr. MoLabghlin was then adopted, there being some dissenting voices.

Mr. Sinus again epoko of the of providing for any disagreements which might arise in Assembly Conventions and result In a failure to seloot delegates. Mr. McLaughlin sold that if when tbo delegation got to Syracuse they found any vacancies they could fill them there. Tbo General Committee then, at 9:30, adjourned.

A number of the members and spectators tarried in tbe rooms for a time discussing the events of the ovenlng. SALONS. mt Alexander Voung's Lecture Before the Historical Society The Union of Literature and Society TUe Holland Mouse and Other Famous Literary Centres The Historical Salons of France. A regular maelinpr the Long Island Historical Society was held in tho Presbyterian Church, corner at Fulton and Clinton stroets, last evening. It waa very largely attended, almost evory seat in the edifice being oceupled.

The Hon. Henry O. Murphy who mMslued, Introduced Alexander Young, of Boston, who bad been announced to read a paper ontitled, "Society and Literature, with Sketches of Holland; House and the Leading Frenoh Salons." Tho pApcc was in substance as follows The relations of literature and soolety are very Intimate. A literary production of a century ago can no more be taken for one of to day than a costume of today for one of a hundred years since. Literature Is the concentrated essence of national character.

When a great author moveB us we are apt to forget that the eourcee of his power are the living strings of human feeling. The literary magician must bare con iyt viitlj humanity to produce his marrelB. We cannot rid ourselres uf halnou AsJlVuaUonB, The Influence of the social conditions on literature Ts HZ2 "0 attempt to reproduoe tho bygone agoa. Goethe steepiL mind in the subt'onenB of Oreek society, and only by so doing was he able torecreatelt. Hut although literature ia colored by the usages of society, it ie able to give aa woll aa receive.

Iu tbe gamo of eoclology, literature ia not a football, but a boomerang. Literaturo develops a power to vivify and elerate society. Tho social influence of literature is seen in its benefits to the race. Take it away and men and women would lapse Into barbarism. Indeed, material progress itself is impossible without a literary basis.

One form of material progress Induces a diversion found in literature. Thero havo been sacrifices for literature which havo been of more benefit to aoclety than the wealth the rich man has pourod from his ooffera into tbe people's lap. The growth of literature represents TUB GBOWTH OF SOCIETY. Poetry IS tho earlleBt form of literary taste. Poetry Is seen even in barbarism.

Do you remember the beautiful lmagory of the aged Indian, who compared himself to the stately pine, scarred and withered by tha baud of time 7 Oeneral socletr. howerer. hardlr toler ates anything more than a mild flavor of literature in its intercourse, witn tuo exception of the lost new norol eociety tebooes anything but a jaunty reforence to literature. It Is said that tho chief trouble with English conrersation is in ita fnrolity. The Spectator recently said that the appearance of a wit like Sidney Smith In society now would create aa great a sensation as the appearance ot an ostrich in Itotten Row 1 There was a ainorent auto or things when Holland House waa tha fashion.

It was tbo home of the Rental essayist of the Soectator William Penn once lived within its walls, and it waa once tbe home of that brilliant atateaman, Charles lamas tux. ueuruy, ueriaau, urattan, uurran, Madame De Stael and othere are onoueh to indicate tha Intellectual reaouroee of tbo brilliant, company which assemuiea more, it is a ounoua ract tnat tne beat sayings heard in tho Holland House were mado at the expense of one of its miatresaaB, the third Lady Holland. But who would not gladly endure her Imperlousncss for tho sake of coming into contact with tbe brilliant guests around her tablet Only In audi a house would Lord Macaulay submit to be interrupted with "Now, Macaulay, that will nevor do;" and only there would Sidney Smith say, in response to a command to ring ths bell, "Certainly, and shall I aweep the floor Lord Holland's kindly feelings often led him to 80FTBN THE BLOWS dlreoted at his guests by his Imperious spouse. The reason why we now look in vain for such a delightful mingling of literature and BOClety Is due to a changed eociety. The wit and raconteur needs a more select audience than he can now obtain.

It must be remem hored, too, that tbe true lalon was never real naturalized in London. The seat of honor went generally to a dull duke rather than the bright conversationalist. We are told that succesaf ul authorship did not, of Itself, constitute a recommendation in society until Rogers, banker and poet, made the first oautloua step in that dlreotion. There was, Indeed, a period in EngliBh history when literary men enjoyed the patronage of the great, but this patronage tended to degenerate the litterateur into a mere lackey. I think sturdy Johnson, in his threadbare coat, is a more herolo figure than that of Mr.

Secretory of State Addison, in his gold laced coat Such consideration aa this patronage involred costs too much, when it is taken at the price of tho honor and independence of literary men. But it la Franco that wo must look to' for tbe best results of the union of literature and society. The leading French salons were In tbe height of their glory when to be an author in England was to be snbjeoted almost to stigma. But literature has taken something of the character of the show business there, the litterateur la on exhibition. The distinction of the French ie that they were tbe first to reooguize tbe ralue of literature In society.

The salon ot the Seventeenth and Eighteenth centuries are remarkable for the influence that they exercised upon literary development. The salon was also a sohool of morale and manners. Literary men gained there an enhanoed idea of tbe dignity of their profession. The ealon exercised a rest Influence on the prevailing coarseness of the times. Madame de Rambouillet possossed all tbe quallltleB of tbe presiding genius of a renowned salon.

It is to the peculiar honor of tbls lady tbat she waa the first to found a famous ealon. It was to her.assembllea that tbo great Conde was a constant visitor and there Cor riollle could bo found. Richelieu was at one time a caller at her bouae, and auch waa tha conception and appreciation of the importance of the discussions and conversations there, that he expressed a desire to know whether anrthlns was said there aaalnat him In bis absence. Hardly Inferior in the Influence of her ealon was that of Madame de Sable, It waa not until THE 0HAJIM8 OF YOUTH vrere gone that she developed her power to attraot literary mon. There waa a more serloua and thoughtful spirit in the community In her time, and It bad Its Influence on her salon.

It was a resort for all the notabilities who refieoted tbe thouaht of the Dsrlod. Tha extremo oharaotor of the politeness of those days la illustrated in the attention paid to the guests, not only In coming but in departing. A host onco waa known to Jump out of the window to make his parting bow, hla guest having locked the door bohind In going out. In Madame Qeoffrin'a aoi Europe was represented by her artists, princes and atatesmen. At her dinners only one woman beside herself was present.

One day a stranger asked what had bocome of tbe quiet old gentloman who had sat at her table so constantly. She ro pliod "Oh, it was my husband ho is dead," Laughter. Her part in the conversation was that of a moderator. She made a worthy but dull abbe entertaining in spite of himBelf, and on his departure he said "It was not I who said so many good things; It was you who played upon me." She did bettor service to literary men than If she had limited her invitations to them exclusively. She disciplined the fiery spirit of the age, and her mind Is described aB being delicate, lust and penetrating.

She had the most brilliant and influential salo'n of the Eighteenth Century. Madame Recamler was the last of the queens of the great salons. Napoleon knew the value of her social prestige, but neither the appeals of Touohe nor the threats or the threats of tbe Emperor's sister availed to make her pay oourt to the usurper. She waa exiled for visiting an exile, and It was not until long after, the Restoration that Bhe opened her salon. Her oirole of guests woe small, and she oonduoted rather than led the conversation.

Her salon was A CENTBB OF INFOBMATION 1 on all matters of miblio Interest. Notable literarv nro duetlona were read in her assemblies before tbey were published and the legislative debates were discussed there by those who had participated in them. She inspired a warmer feeling than friendship in many susceptible natures. Ot course, she had her weaknesses and faults, but they were Inseparable from rare powers of Tbe secret of her power was incommunicable her influence oould not be resisted. When her marvelous beauty faded and the little Savoyard, aa she herself said, no longer turned to look at her In the street, ahe gracefully reaigned the sceptre of beauty for that of esteem and sympathy.

She died In 1819 at the age of 72, leaving no successor to her throne aa a queen of literary soolety. At the present time, however, there is a lady In Parle who la called ths Madame Recamler of her day Madame Lambert. Her la a Seat aid to the Republio of but It has hardly a pretensions of the ancient talon. With the cloaa of the talons I anticipate literary deoline. There can be no doubt that aoclety suffers from the lack of that informal Interchange of tho graces of literary culture formerly employed.

It Is a good thing for literature to appear In the undress of conrersation. An author is better able to Impress hla readers for It, he la less likely to nse unfamiliar phrases. In a broad sense, literature is tbe art preservative of society. It keeps ItacUBtoms not like an Egyptian mummy, hardly an improvement an decay, but fresh and bright. The rich tapestry of history, the embossed splendor of poetry show us humanity before the Christian era.

It ie the poems of Homer that Invest with Interest the result of the researches of the archwologist, and when perhaps some twenty oon tnriea hence the arolusologlBt from Zululond dlgsun tbe till surviving records of our society, may he still be able to read in them the progress of to day. (Applause.) A vote ox tnanzs waa awaraaa tne lecturer. DECISIONS BY CHIEF JUDflB NEILS). Mnckoy vs. Orirey In view of the assignment proved, the motion to set off must be denied no costs of this motion.

John A. Graver va. MaryE, Qrarer The jury have found tbat the. adultery charged had not been committed. It waa for them to determine what, it any, credit waa to be given to the witness.

I am not, therefore, at liberty to.dUregard that finding of the Jury, and judgment must be entered for tho defendant. Welsbrod vs. Marguardt Case and amendmenta settled and filed. Earn merer vs. Palmar hf Tbe third subdivision or defense in ths answer must ba mads more definite by staring what publications and olroumstanei are referred to and relied on, and In what parttoalara the same are true.

The. sources of information must ba stated. Without that the pleading, doea not perform ita proper office by advising the other party what matter ho lew meet and oontrovert on tbe trial; Nor can a Justinoatlon of tbe publication alleged, to be a libel, be set up' by mere repetition of it with a naked averment that It la true. The mlo stated by Judge Denlo in 29th N. Y.

R. 633, 3, which we are bound to respect, applies and can be easily conformed to. The Louisiana Board of Health, deny, that any yellow fever oaia ooourrad in Nav Orleans during March, The Congregational Ministers Ending their Work. CoTicIddiDfr the Spring: Moetlnfr of fbe New York and Brooklyn Association. Reports oa tho Condition of the Churches a Chinaman who Threw Away bis Idol to "go China" and "Preach Jesus A Sermon by Dr.

Wild and an Essay by Dr. Roberts. The Congregational Association of New York and Brooklyn, consisting of ministers and lay men, conoluded its semi annual mooting yesterday afternoon, lu tho locture room of Plymouth Church. Tho attendance waa larger than lu the morning and the proceedings wore of an Interesting Dr. Honry M.

Storrs, tho Moderator, presided. Rev. Geo! 0. Mlln, the Scribe of the association, recorded' officially, Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, Dr.

Edward Boeoher, Rev. S. H. Virgin, Rov. T.

H. Slicer, Dr. McKinley, Dr! Wild, Rev. H. Miller, Dr.

Lloyd, Rev. Wm, MoKeyj Rev. A. Underwood, Bev. L.

Gilbert, Her. Dr. Conont, Kov. Dr. Whlton, Rev.

Thomas Harris, Rev. Mr. Kirt land and others were present. The first business after recess was the continuation of tbe reception of ministerial and lay roporte on the condition of the churches and pastoral work, EEPOBTS OF PASTOBAL WOEK. Rer.

William McKay said he had been a member of Plymouth Church, but be thought enough had been aaid about it. He wished to report apou the Church of the Covenant, of which he la pastor. Persistent attempts had been made to kill the church, but they bad not succeeded. Tbey needed money but they would not bog for it. The congregation varied from 50 to 75, according to how tbe wind blew.

Uov. G. Miller, a South Brooklyn missionary, reported that he waa not doing tug boat work now, but life boot work. The work in South Brooklyn waa going on in a way that was very encouraging. Rer.

H. M. Storrs said tbat the work of the Congregational Home Mission Society was progressing in usefulness and flourishing to a degree tbat promised a rapid growth. Dr. Wild, of tho Union Churoh, reported that the attendance at the church eervicos filled tbe odltlco in the oveulng.

The prayer meetlnga were well attended. It was dllhoult, however, to get along. Thoy carrlod about the largest debt In tho city. It was hard work to raise $4,000 each year for interest. Thoy were in need of a little moro of the root of all evil." They were trying to find tho lost tribes of Israel" and make what they could of them.

Laughter. Mr. A. Gloaeoo said that at Dr. Scudder's Church the church was full and the congregation wax wide awake.

Dr. Robert reported that the Church of tho Mediator was progressing favorably. Thore wero 500 on the rollbook oi the Sunday SohooL'The prayor meetings wore successful, aud a series of young people's meotings bad brought out a large attendance. They had recently recelred 20 now members Into the ohurcli. Mr.

Redhead said there wore many German children In tho Sunday Sohool of tbe Churoh of the Mediator. Since Dr. Roberts bad taken hold THEX FELT MUCH BTBONOEB than before. Iter. A.

Underwood said bis parish was the world. He spent moat of tbe past season in Wostern Iowa. Ths churches thero were feeble they wanted help, and if people could see how the churches out there were struggling tbey would give tbem more help. Every time the speaker wont Wost he felt tboy were doing very litt'e for the salvation ot tho country, but they were doing somothing. Rev.

T. R. Slicer, pastor of tho Park Church, reported that tbey were in a healthy condition. They were paying their debt In advance ol the plan of payment. The congregation had increased, and the Sunday School, the most important foalure of the work, was very strong.

Tbo trustees and the paoplo felt that after next January, wheu tho dobt subscriptions would expire, they would foel at greater case. Rer. Q. C. Mlln reported tbat tbo nuances of tbe East Church were in a most flatisfactory condition.

The payment of the debt inaugurated by brother Kimball waa going on rapidly and surely. Thero was now In tho church a membership of 115. In that neighborhood there was a ecramble of a nest of small churches for evory family tbat moved there. When the elevated road got up there they expected it would elevate the churches. Tho speaker anticipated that thoy would make an addition to the church edifice during the vacation.

Mr. Main said the Katt Church was not born without rtBfii thfOOS thero was Btill a littlo trouble remaining." HTrMlookTngwlthhovC. tU8 tlm8 when tboy would hare the euthuelosra that flight to evor3f church to make thlnga hum. Mr. Mlln said the improvements contemplated would add room for 300 persona.

A CHINESE OONVEBf. Rev. S. H. Virgin said that in tbe HarletB Churoh they were knit together with love.

Tbey bad 279 members and were much enoouraged by the growth of the upper part of New York City. They appreciated tuo gravity of the work required of tbem. Thoy all belonged to the masses and felt tbe responsibility of gathering in all they could. Tbe speaker would ruthor hare his people loyal to Christ rather than have a crowd in the church. The work was most encouraging.

A year ago the speaker received into the church a "young Chinaman, a charming yonng fellow. Ho had thrown away his idol baoause it could not speak. He opened a laundry at tbe upper end of tbo city. He came to the speaker and said "I don't want to wash clothes all life; want to go school, learn read, go China, preach Jobus." This young Chinaman had gone to Washington to get his education and the Sunday School of the church had voted to bear all bis oxpenses whilo he was being educated. Applause.

Mr. Laird said that the Harlem church was a working church and was doing all it could for tbe cause. Mr. Halliday said tha little seed of which Mr. Virgin had epokon had done his heart good.

The speaker recalled his labors at the Five Points Mission many years ago In teaching tho first Chinese class evor taught in this part of tbe country. The association here sang the hymn, Yes, we Trust the Day is Breaking," and Uov. Mr. Halliday made a prayer. Rev.

Mr. Underwood, Chairman of the Business Oommittee, reported the following exercises for tbe Fall meeting Exegesis Ramans rlii. 10 23, by Bar. E. Thwlng essay, "Inspiration," by Bar.

H. M. Storrs, D. D. Rer.

8. S. Hughson aaid he hid been a member of the association Blhce 1366. For two years he had been laboring iu Boston, tbo heaven of tho work. They had rood and bad angels there, the bad amrels Dreoonderat lng, but not In the churches.

There were no elnners In Boston. It was almost impossible to get a man to acknowledge himself a alnner there, no matter how bad he was. When the speaker went to bis present chnrcb in Boston the uoancea wera in the cellar, out of sight. Tbey could not trust the trustees with tho Income. But things had now changed.

The paBtor'a salary was now being paid. God had blessed tbem with a revival during tbe Winter. The speaker said be would rather hare a oobblestono church and Hro In a log house on HOO AND HOMINT and be a minister of tbe Gospel than to ride on Fifth avenue with a four in hand and not boa preacher. Rer. Thomas Harris, of Plymouth Bethel, said he felt like first mate of Plymouth Church, and that he was doing bard, downright Christian work.

Rer. William Weaterfield, of Joreoy City, aaid that not long ago his ohurch celebrated its fiftieth anniversary, and it was a very interesting occasion. Rer. Mr. Klrtland, formerly a Brooklyn letter carrier, said hie churoh was bounded on one aide by Canarsle, famous for clama, and ou the other side by East New York, famous for beer and Sunday breaking.

The spiritual work was now Just like some oftho boats of Canarsle when the tide went out stuck in the mud. They had, howerer, hope for ths future. They were trying to do a work for God in tbe way of total abstinence. They had organized a temperance union throughout tho town, and wero now fighting tbe destroyer of men's souls with the help of God and a member of the New York bar. On motion of Brother Miln, the East New York Church was formally recelred into tbe association.

Rer. Mr. McKinley, acting pastor of the Church of the Christian Endeavor, said his relations with the ohurch wera agreeable, the outlook was encouraging and he thanked God for it. They had a large building, large lota, a large Sunday School and large expoctatlona. Rer.

William Lloyd, of the Madison avenue Presbyterian Church (New York), who had been elected an honorary member of the association, spoke encouragingly of the proapecta of the church. Rer. Mr. Lloyd was originally a Methodist. After tbat ho became pastor of the Madison arenue Reformed Church.

He waa dismissed from the pastorate' of the Reformed Church tor ALLEGED IMPROPRIETY OF CONDUCT and haa Blnoe become paator of the Madison arenue Preebyterian Church. Bev. Dr. Whlton, ot Newark, congratulated tho association on its progress. or.

(jonaut, oi tuo American Baptist uiuie union, Bold hla father was a Baptist, his grandfather was a Baptist and he waa a Baptist. vc. otorra it's time xor you to cuango, orotnor. Dr. Conant thought not.

but for all tbat ho felt he had reason to be thankful to the Congregational body for hla oducatton. He rejoiced that he belonged to the universal churoh. Hla wife was a Congregutionalist, and he did sot want ber to be anything else. I 1 .1, 1. 1 ,) I.

mA IVU XJ 1 1 1 III hl.U 1J1 UVJfllJU on lJ LJ IJ, wuu Rev. J. O. Ager, of the Swedeuborgiau Church of the New Jeruaaiem, wero invited to, ell as oorresponamg members. Rev.

Mr. Viroin mivod that the treasurer bo annotat ed a committeo to secure a contribution for the Rev. Daniel Lancaster, of Now York, who was lying in bod Buffering from blindness, old age and poverty at No. 10T West Twenty second street, New York. A collection waa then taken up for the Buffering brother and turned over to a rioud of bis who was present.

Rev. Joseph Wild, v. gave an eiegena on jonn 31. Dr. Wild said If they had asked him something about tho "Lost Tribea" he might hav made an impression, lie men went on lob oaviour visit to the pool of Bethesda and His miraole done thore.

The main object of the Saviours teaching waa to establish Hla dlvluity. Any man behoving iu the Divinity of Christ could never tumble at His miracles. He fol lowed tbe Bdentiflo ordor in raising the paralyzed man at the pool. The speaker pointed cat that in tbe mlra cles of Christ there wasaconstantgoing from the elruplo to tho complex. The Saviour to establish His divinity did something that was superhuman.

The speaker dwelt at length upon tha lessons to be drawn from tho oure of the paralytic at the pool of Bethoaila. Upon the conclusion of Dr. Wild's remarks the association aaog the hymn "My Faith Looka Up to Tbee." The moderator announced as tho committeo to arrange lor the National Counoll, lf'it ahould ronolude to meet In Brooklyn, the following namod gentlemen Boy, Lyman Abbott, D.D., Mr. H. A.

Blobardson, of Plymouth Church; Rev. S. H. Virgin, of tbe Hoclem Ohurch; Mr. I.

D. Cutter, of the Church ot the Mediator, and Mr. L. 8. Hobart, of the Broadway Tabernoole.

AN ZNTZBESTrNG ESSAY, iw Dr Roberts, sastor ot the Church of tho Media tor, next read an essay on "The Subjective Spiritual UnOWieOKO JI UUU uu. ot.no beginning the essayist affirmed that all knowledge is KiiV.inntlva. From the data furnished by tho material world men arrive by reflection at the knowledge of a 1 Great Power in and above nature; ox, aa Herbert Spencer puts it, "The great power behind HUB IB toe lowest anu quhi yriuuviro wuteyuvu tu. God. For a deeper knowledge of God wo must turn to data found within the mind Itself.

Here we find truths, which, unlike tho finite realities of nature, are infinite, eternal, absolute, vastly greater than the intelligence lu which we find them truths which are the some always and everywhere. Conscience ce reals a law ox joatlce wnicu ia neiiuer vanauio uor corruptible. We cannot know God by estimating His rank in the order of Being. Wo may decide that He ia the ererioaung Hon oi ma natner. wo may commi.

memory all Hie recorded Baylnga read all the multitude of Urea of Hun, and be familiar with all the controversies about His person and Hla work; and yet not know Him. All this Is Christ without us. There must ba a revelation of Christ within ua before we can know Hint. Spirit can only be manifeetad.to Spirit, the hoart can alone comprehend the heart. It ia only aa we oome Into living sympathy with Jesus Christ that we can know Him or God through Him.

Here cornea in the mighty princtple of Soul Faith, whoreby we discern and feel the invisible presence of Christ. Through this vision a marvelous, transformation takea place beholding In a g)as the glory of the lord, we are changed Into the Bame Image. A living Redeemer atanda wlthns, walks with us, talks with ua aa friend with friend. A lore deeper and more intimate than that ot a motherfor her child springs up between the aoul and Ita Saviour. The outward form which the belierer'a lore aaauipea la obedience.

To the aoul trusting, lorlng, obedlant, Christ reveals Hlrnso In aver rh manlfesUtioaa. The secretor the Lord to with them thatfeer Him. and Ha willatow them Hls covenant If any man will do His will he Bhallknow ot tStrinf love. Me "with the aater "he will keep My worda. aud My Fathat will lore Him and We wiUoome unto, Him and MAKE OCR ABODE WITH HIM." Comply with thosa conditions, trust Him, love Hlm.

obey Hta, and yon ahall hare a Bubjectvre spiritual knowledgo of God and ol our Lord Jesus QhrlBt, which ahall be luminous aa midday and as evident aa your own existence. Upon the conoluslon of Dr. Roberta essay prayer waa offered by Rer. Mr. MoKlnley, ot the Church of tno Christian Endeavor.

Tho association then adjourned. In the eveuing tho members or tbe association and their wires had a pleasant social reunion in the Sunday School room. There was a large attendance of ladioB and gentlemen. Bevoral olorgymen mad addresses and taove va oxoollout singing by memMRy otthe choir. Xbi Paper Has the Largest Circulation ol nnr Evemnjr Pnper Published (a (bo United states.

It value as an Adrertlsinc Medium is tberofore ay parent. f.oujr Beach Other Great BIolropJoHtaii Resort. Long Bench is tlie name of ft stretch of the Atlantio coast which lies almost due south of tho Village of Hempstead, Long Island, and which, as the crow flies, is soma twenty miles distant from Brooklyn. Long Beach is not accessible by land at present, and only light Bailing craft can ranch it through the bays and inlets which surround it on the land side. The broad waves of the Atlantio break against it on the south side.

For all practical purposes, Long Beach is an island. It is seven milos in length, and is therefore longer than Ooney Island, while it is not so broad, and has, therefore, we believe, loss suporflcial area. Tho other groat watering places which have sprung up around Brooklyn may be said to have boou devolopod of late years. Long Beach, when it is added to their number, can be held to have been discovered, iu a degree, by the gentlemen who are now engaged in maiing iniprovomonts upon it. It is designed to make Long Bsnoli a great Summer resort, a rival iu popularity to Rockaway Boach and Coney Island, while still presenting distinctive features of its own, likely to commend it to special favor.

Artt is at present, Long Beooh may be said to resemblo Fire Island, rather than either of the two Summer resorts first named. It is Fire Island brought within an easy railroad ride of Brooklyn, and within half the distance which separates Firo Island from either of those two cities. Long Beach, up to this year, wns known only to fishermen and sportsmen, and to not many of either class. The beach is the property of tho Town of Hempstead, and, as it is absolutely valueless in its present state, the gentlemen who are now engaged iu making improvements upon it found no difficulty in leasing it from the town, for fifty years, at a very moderate annual rental. While Long Beach is some twenty six miles from Brooklyn, it is less than six miles from the South Side llailroad.

It has been found feasible to eitend a branch of this road right to the beach, and this is now being done. The branch road is being built from Pearsall's Corner to the Long Beach, and within thirty days it will be completed and in operation. The hotel on the beach will then be within less than twenty six miles of Flatbnsh avenue, and about the same distance from Hunter's Point or Long Island City. Through trains will be run from both points, and it is calculated that by these trains the running time can be reduced within forty minutes. The new candidate for public favor will, therefore, be within less than three quarters of an hour's railroad ride from Brooklyn.

Tho rate of fare will not bo greater than to Bockaway, and not much above that to Coney Island. In point of accessibility, Long Beach may be said to be very nearly on an equality with both Coney Island and Far Bockaway. Accessibility to these great centres of population is of he first consideration, and Long Beach possesses this accessibility. The beach itself is probably one of the finest in the world. It faces the broad Atlantic.

The waves have beaten the shore uutil it seems to be as hard as a macadamized road, while it is as smooth as a looking glass. Aloug the beach thore will be a continuous drive of seven miles in length. This drive is exported to be one of tho chief attractions of the place. Three hundred men are now at work on the branch railroad, and by the close of this week nearly half of it will be graded and ready for the ties. The contract for the spile driving, necessary to enable tho road to make a direct connection with the centre of the improvements to be made on the Island, has hcon given to George Swift and thoy are under an agreement to complete the work within thirty days from Monday last, so that by the latter part of May Long.

Beach will be accessible by railroad from Brooklyn time, three qunrters of an hour. The through i trains, which will commence running with the opening of the Summer travel, will make the distance in thirty eight minutes. The great hotel, which is to be constructed at once, is under contract, and will soon be under way. It will be completed before the Summer season fairly opens. The hotel will cost about a quarter of a million of dollars, and will accommodate five hundred guests.

The hotel and its surroundings will form but portion of the improvements contemplated. With a beach seven miles in length, uudor tho control of a single company, there is hardly any limit to the improvements which may be made upon it. One portion of the beaoh is designed to be used exclusively for transient visitors as a popular resort. Another, and the larger part of the beach, is designed to be more exclusive. Summer villa residences will be erected by the company and rented to those who may desire to spend the Summer with their families by the seaside, and still be within easy reach of tho great business centre.

In order to exercise the needed control of the property, no part of it will bo suffered to go out of the possession of the company which has assumed the responsibility of this investment. The probabilities are that Long Beach will be, in part, at all events, the most exclusive and the most aristocratio of all the watering places within oasy reach of Brooklyu and New York. Its accessibility' and Hb special attractions will bringitiu rivalry with those resorts which are designed to accommodate tho masses. The extent of the property at Long Beach can be estimated, by assuming that the whole of Coney Island belonged to and was under tho control of a single company. In all probability, the new resort will be provided with a more distinctive and a more imposing name than it now bears.

Among the names suggested to those interested Windsor Beach seems to find most favor. We would then have four great Summer resorts within easy reach of Brooklyn and New York, known respectively as Brighton Beach, Manhattan Beach, Bockaway Beach and jtVind Bor Beach. The question naturally artsYis, in connection with all those great seasido resorts which U.9Y9 sprung so suddenly into existence in this vicinity Will there be patronage enough for all of them? So far, their multiplication, instead of dividing the business, has increased it all around. It was supposed that Brighton Bench wonld divide the business of the Manhattan, and would seriously injure Cable's ond the smaller hotels located on what is known as West Brighton. But the Manhattan paoplo did a larger business last year than ever before, and the crowds which resorted to Cable's in the first flush of the modern Coney Island business have not been diminished at all.

It was predicted that Long Branch would be ruined by the development of Coney Island, but the Long Branch people did better last year than they have done for many years. The rapid growth in popularity of Rookaway Beach may be said to have been contemporaneous with that of Coney Island, and both places have grown together. The variety of attractions offered will tend to make seaside sojourning more and more popular. It will soon ho possible for a citizeu of Now I'ork or to take a run down to the seaside every 4tw'nioon 01 ue wee'Ji he need not the sains nlace twice in succession. With these now as il were at our own families who wcr3 to leave Brooklyn for tho country early Od to return late, will be induced to shorten thuir or to tako out their Summer vacation in visits the surrounding watering places, securing to thoinsolves tho comforts of thoir homos in the city during the whole year.

Tho heads of am. Jjlies, who canrarely remain many days away at a ime from their business, will be inclined to iocp their families within easy reach of the city. There are now two millions of people living within a radius of five or ten of New York, and the growth of New York and Ita surrouudings will be linjited only by tho Mlwth oTthe Republic. There are tens of thousands of strangers iu New York at all fr'mes; men who are there on business, but who have more or less leisure on their hands. Thoy will come oftener and stay longer when they can combino their business with pleasure.

nhrt families of this class will corao with them, Imwumb of tho attractions of the. great Summov tative, never shrinking from hard work and never doing that work without convincing his hearors that no man could have done it so well. An Election of more Than JLocal Significance. Tho result of the mnnicipal election held in Albauy, yesterday, will attraot a good deal of attention in this State, and outside of it. Mr.

Tilden's supporters have won no victory so significant, since they demonstrated to Mr. Kelly that he had no ohoice, except to support Mr. Robinson for Governor, or lose for his organization tho prestige of regularity, which, in time, lost it local control in New York City. In no part of theStato were Mr. Kelly's supporters supposed to be stronger, or more aggressive, than in Albany.

In no city was the regular, or Tilden, organization supposed to bo more demoralized. The fight between the two factions has been bitter and unrelenting. In the election held yesterday the onti Tildenites resolved to defeat their opponents at any cost of political reputation or party usages. Thoy first put up a Democrat as a candidate for Mayor against the regular, or Tildon, nominee. After remaining in the field for a few days this gentleman withdrew, ou the ground that he was not to bo supported in good faith, but that he was being used to elect tho Republican nominee, who was supported by all the Republican faction.

The Kelly faction then openly indorsed the Repub i can candidate, and supported him with great earnestness through their organ the Albany Times perhaps the ablest anti Tilden paper in the State. The sucoess of the Republicans seemod to bo certain. Tho result shows that the Democratto voters fully realized the situation, and made np their minds to stamp out the rule or ruin Kelly policy. Tha Tilden candidate for Mayor is elected by the extraordinary majority of four thousand, and tho same party carried every ward buftwo for their ward candidates. The result of this election will be widely quoted as indicative of what the outcome will be next Fall, if Mr.

Tilden should be a candidate for President, and if Mr. Kelly and his followers should determine upon antagonizing him in the interest of the Republicans for a local Presidential bolt would meau this and nothing else. Mr. Tilden's friends at Albany havo secured a very timely success. The pleasure Mr.

John Kelly will unquestionably feel in reading Boss McLaughlin's speech will be greatly tempered, by the news from Albany. The Other View of the Exodus. Auy dispassionate observer of tho drift of testimony taken before the Senate Investigating Committee in tho past month, on the causes of the exodus of the colored peoplo from tho South, will read the evidence given yesterday, with relief. For a month and more, tho public has been treated to the hardened and brutal charaotor of tho Southern people; of thoir determination to kill off the blacks or to drive thorn from the country at tho point of the assassin's knife. The statement has boon reiterated that, in the majority of instances, the refugees were robbed of then: clothing, and so terriblo was tho animosity against "them that the vengeance of the country was demanded in return.

Kansas opened its arms to receive the poor outcasts, and the country was called upon to admire tho generous hospitality of its people. Such poverty, it was explained, was never soen before in a oivilized corn try, and the tales of woe told moved the hearts of the people in their interests, and the feeling of anger toward the South was correspondingly intsuse. Every story of dissatisfaction was exaggerated until it became an instance of martyrdom, and the slightest pretext for tho charge of selfishness and unmaulincss on the part of an individual was made the keynote of a series of calumnies against the South as a seo tion. Protests from the Southern people were needless. What had been done in auy region by the Ku Klux was being repeated every day in all parts 'of the South.

It was necessary to lead the negroes out of thoir second bondage, if they were to survive as a race. Kansas became the Canaan in which they were to find milk and honey flowing, and thither they were taken the old, tho young, tho weak, the strong, all poor, all shiftless and all ignorant. Petitions were made for money to care for thorn, and the same generous hearts that responded to the cry of Memphis heard and answered tho appeal for moans to save the colored people. Congress took np the matter, and it has not be on chary of the time occupied in solving the difficulties of the exodus problem. The evidence has been many sided, with the preponderance in favor of tho negro as against his former owners.

Here and there a colored man has como upon tho sceno with a different view of the case, and has refreshed his hearers with common sense remarks regarding tho causes of tho troublo, and the responsibility of the colored people in the matter. All such witnesses havo been heard, but tho reliance plaoed on their opinions was not great. Various reasons were ssigned for their course, and the explanation was repeatedly given that thoy were selected because of their views and not iu spite of them. But a representative of Kansas appeared before the committee this week, and testified in behalf of a class unrepresented heretofore tho people of Kansas, who at first opened their arras to enfold the wanderers and call upon the nation to help succor the exiles. This was done and the rescued people were made oomfortablo.

They would not stay so, howover, for, according to this witness, thoy would not work outside of the towns and cities, and wore not at all averse toboggiug, when it was more convenient than to seok work. Again, they havo overrun tho Stata and stopped the emigration of white men, who would build up the country and make the wilderness blossom like the rose. The darkies will not toil in season and out, for the sake of acquiring property or bocoining influential as citizens. They do not know the alphabet of thrift yot, and they will not in generations to any groat extant. Moauwhilo, the people of Kansas have tho burden of a pauper population and they are clamoring to got rid of it.

ggmplete disgust with the habits and ways of the 'negro is expressed, it useless to hope that it will be overcome. Indeed, it is now the effort of the people to lay the blame of their mistake on somebody else, and this witness, who is an editor of a Greenback organ in the State, declares thot tho people of the South got np tho stories of outrage and supplied the darkies with means to get away. Thoy had quietly worked in tho interests of the exodus oven while being loaded with calumny for the opposite proceeding, and they had succeeded1 in making a sort of Botany Bay for the paupers among the colored race. This view of the case is rather more complimentary than any other that has been held regarding the Southern people in this connection, but it is not likely that it is. designed as a compliment by the disgusted and angry people who, in their zeal to befriend the nogro, find they have injured themselves.

The negro is to be pitied, for ho has found no welcome where ho expected hospitality, and his ways and habits are denounced by those who ought to have been aware of thorn from the first. Ho does not realize that his disorderly, slovenly manners are counted against him, or that his lack of truthfulness, his imaginativeness which loads him to exaggerate everything, are characteristics which the thrifty, energetic farmers of Kansas will not tolerate. Their verdict is that Kansas must got rid of the negroes as speedily as possible, and the people arc considering plans to remove them from the State. They are called the pauper class there, and the South is)abused for having sent them to Kansas. All the stories about oppression and terror that wore so glibly circulated in the beginning of the movement are now laid aside, and the South is denounced for having quietly aided the emigrants in their efforts, while the contrary has been asserted in every form in every Republican paper in the North.

The difficulties of living with the negro are understood, and the clamor is for his removal. The negro is to be pitied in all this. He is a child of the tropics, happy in the possession of tho cool side of tho house in Summer timo, and light hoarted as tho butterfly, if permitted to loiter along the wayside, singing or eating, disregarding the fntnre.and forgetful of the past No race' of peoplo wore evor more sim bo.