The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1870-05-13
NEW YORK CITY.


| NEW lOltht Nlhy IL.
The public interest in the Mcfarland
case has not subsidized. Yesterday thou.
sands OF people were engaged in reading
tho long evidence published in tho papers
by Mrs Mcfarland Richardson. The
late prisoner Travelled about the city free
", and passed two or three hours In close
conference with his counsel at the Office Of
Mr. Gerry. He was visited by u reporter,
and made some interesting statements
about his present feelings and future i'll
tcntiOns. lie pronOunceS tho carl Of Mrs.
Mcfarland. Richardson 10 Ike n tissue Of
Misrepresentation and doubts II Rhc
really wrote it. He thinks he has not
been fully vindiCated, and promises 10
take further proceedings in the course Of
which he will upset tho Indiana divorce
case and obtain possession of Ills other
child.
Detective Dunn yesterday took before
Justice Bowling ut the TOmbs, Gilbert w.
Thomas, Exchange Place broker, who
was arrested on the charge Of stealing
$4,000 worth Of Kansas Pacific railroad
hOnIls belonging to DNbncy, Morgan tS
Co., Of So Exchange Place, on April 12th.
No RllldNvitS were made und the prisoner
was committed To await I'M examination.
Senator RevCls lccturcd ut Cooper H.
stitutC last evening, on the tendencies Of
tho agC. llO claimed that the course of
events IN this country was toward liberty
Of thought Gnd Of action, in which caste,
tho color of the skin and ariStOcrtic
blood would have no part.
General Garfield, Gen. Banks, Horace
Maynard and others, arC to address IL
meeting at the Cooper Institute this even.
Ing, In regard to the proposed treaty with
Sun Domingo, by which the bny Of SHmAnn
and adjacent territory. arc to he acquired
by lis.
Mclean Orthe Cincinnati EHquicr, is in
town.
Among the passengers by the Java yes
terday, was DOrnaM B. Eaton, who has
only now af(Gr painful period Of COntine-
mGnL TO his room from the blow Of an ut
tempted assassin some months ng0,
recovered sufficiently to be able TO take a
sea voyage, which his physicians insist
upon. .....
Arrived-tllc steamship Denmark from
Liverpool.
The American Bible Society held its
anniversary today. The receipts for the
year are stated to bc larger than any pre-
viOuS one, viz: $Tl7,05S. Resolutions
were adopted that the Bible is the (unda-
mental and higher law Of the republic,
and the present condition of the nation
calls for continued and increased Zeal in
It's circulation in this country, us well MS
In the rest OF the world.
The American Women's Suffrage So
Cicty adopted resolutions GlvOring 10th
amendment, and urging the friends Of the
women 10 work in all the States for its eS.
tabliShmcnt; demonstrating against the
movement pending in the U. s. Senate to
dislnuchisc tho women Of Utah, us Il
movement in aid Of POlygamy and against
justice; and cOngratulating the friends Of
the cause Of wOmcn's suffrage upon its un.
parallcled progress during tic year.
Speeches were made by Aaron NJ. Powell,
Grace Greenwood, Julia Ward Howe, o.
ivcr johnson, Mr.. Hazlctt, Miss Catherine
BGcChcr and Miss Cutler. Miss Bccchcr,
in her remarks against women suffrage,
asserted that the reason her brother was
here was because hO could not say mo"
to anything Il woman might ask him to
do.
A decision was given by Judge Brady,
Of the Supreme Court, today, in favor Of
Pitt Cooke against the State National Bank
Of Boston, in which the bank contested
its liabilities on the CcrtitlcatiOn of check
where the drawer Ind no funds to meet
it, The amount involved was over $780,
900. The proceedings were stayed, how
ever, for review Of the case Mt the next
general term.