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The New York herald., 1871-12-21
PORT OF NEW YORK, DECEMBER 20, 1871
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Brynni's AIinstrcls.

An excellent programme, including the customary
sotree GEthi0pe and q capital selection OF humor-
pIeces for whose proper presentation great oea
OF versatile taent Is brought into requisiton, still
marks the prosperous career OF Bryant's Opera
House. Then there are ballads characteristic songs
and dances ana most aughaDle and enjoyable
scenes depicting the eccentrlcities and
peculiaritie5 OF negro life. prominent
feature IN the entertainment was the plantation
scene, entitled "Uncle Eph's Dream" in both
q TasH Is Ses 81 sss
assemblage. The Introduction or the song and pic
ture OF the Old Kentucky Home was pathetic In Its
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ANOTHER DEATH IN THE STA ION HOUSE

~ Balfpast two O'Clock yesterday afternoon Den
Ms IlaEagap, aged ioriy.seyen, OF 81 East Eighth
street was arrested for intoxication and locked up
~ Jie Mercer street police station. Several tines
ssnrlry ihc evening the doorman visited him and
found b-n lying on his bank. Al halfpasi ten he
asatu ylsleu him and iouaG bin lJlng Oh the hOor
cf MS scJ yparently Unconscious Dr. Frazier OF
mo Ccnrs cIIee, was tclegraphed for. tut before
his ARRIVAL Ec Sas dead Ibe Voroper VIII bold an
leEfsl iJdaY.
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The Ku Klux Trials.

In the Ku Klux Court to-day the defence intro
duced testimony to prove alb In the case Of the
United States VS.. whitesldes and Mitchell, charged
with conspiracy.
The decision of the Court In previous cases Is Ger.
tilted, and case Will be made for the Supreme
Court as 10 the jurisdiction OF federal Courts
domestic crimes. "
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yeefnway Hall-tsrand Opera Couccrt.
An opera concert 10 generally interesting from the
fact that q larger number OF artists may be heard
ct the same time than at an operate representa-
ton. Hence, in point OF quantity. the most exact
ing must be satisfied with the long array OF ais
tingushed names on one of these concert bills; but
rarely, even IN London. are they OF much musical
value. The quality OF an opera concert Is OF very
inferior order, as the artists neither sing with the
same spirit or care as IN the opera. and the pro-
gramme Is usually hodge-podge OF everything.
The Nilsson management tried one OF these concerts
last night at Stenway Han before o rather slim
audience ana although all the artists OF the troupe
excepting Mile. Duva-who was indisposed-took
part In the concert and were further strengthened
by the accession OF the distinguished pi-
anist Mr. Pruckner and those clever lit
tie children, Willie ana Joanna Hess, yet
there was . feeling OF disappointment expe-
divided into three parts, the first comprising the
overture to "L'OmUre,h FlOtow's new work, aud
romanza from the same; serenade by BriGnol.
duet by Capoul and janet and the well known
..Rhapsodie Hongrose" OF List, played by Mr..
Pruckner The second part was made up OF selec-
down for the Jewel Song and KING or
Thule. Duet aria and .Thc Miserere,"
from .srrovatcre" which again brought the swed-
on Friday next .Fausr win be gwen al the Brook
lyn Academy OF Music, on the following evening
"Mlgnon" In New York. and the last performance OF
the company in this city viii be on tuesday next,
when Mile Nilsson VIII repeat, for the second and
last nss o q 70
Academy, with all the inspiring surroundings Of the
OPERA to the cheerless platform OF the concert hall
ants OF Mile. Nilsson but their share Of the work
was ,amely performed. An opera concert In New
YORK cannot nose for better success than in Lon.
each artist viii make as favorable impression as In
opera
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MUM.
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The Academy OF Music was crowded last evening
with an enthusiastic audience. Pofessor J. NJ
Rager save one OF his unique entertainments for
the benefit OF the Howard Mission and the Home for
the Frendless. Some six hundred children, mostly
young misses, appeared this occasion. They pre-
sented series Of tableaux called "The Great Re-
public.n 1t consisted OF q number OF young
ladies' representing the different States or the
Union. and also Introducing the different nation ALL
All the characters were We'll portrayed and the par
ticipants showed o most thorough training. The
singing OF "Viva I America" and my country, tits
very effective Next Friday Mr.. Hager gives q simi-
lar entertainment and on Saturday matinee per-
fOrmauce.
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FOLEY'S MEETING.
Rapid Transit and Re1Or-
nation.

mo Citizens Association In Council-The Ring
Raped Heavily by the Hero Of the Injunc.
t,on suit-The Fourth Avenue Railroad
sQuabbls-vanderbilt to Come to Time
or the Grand Central Depot to
Become Crystal Palace.
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,ArEs or DEPARTURES tHol NEW YORK FOR THB
MONTHS or DECEMBER AND JANUARY.
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free Noary Public aui 70 missioner ior evsry S.ie.
FL KING Counselor.ai-Llv. 3j3 br3llwlv.
A BsOLuTE DIVORCES LEGALLY OBTAINED IN
N different States; IeseriioD, dc sufc mt No
publicity charge, until divorce granted av ce irce.
NJ. HOUSE, Attorney, lo0 Br)atway.
BARGAINS IN TEAS CoFFEEs, GROCERIES AND
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San francisco. NIins,reIs.

Ever popular aud enterprising, these sabe per-
formers added last night TO their host OF admirers
by another or their cnoice and agreeable entertain
ments for which their Institution Is so well known.
The weather being wretched however, the attend.
ance was not SO large as usual, but
the excellent performance, which, though in.
Guiding many OF the tme-honored characteristic
features, possessed much novelty and attracLveness
The quartet, Birch, Wambold Bernard and Backus,
were, as usual, the recipients of deserved applause
highly humorous act, entitled, "Beware OF the
Dog,n IN which nearly the whole troupe took part,
created great deal OF merrlmenI
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SHIPPIN NEW S.

Almanac for New York -rhis Day.
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Shipping Notes.

The hospital ship ILLINOIS towed up from the lowe
Quarantine yesterday. and taken to Red Hook.
The New YORK and New haven Steamboat Company hay
just contracted with Engs Son, of New York, for
large and magnificent steamer. 10 ply between the tw
cities.
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think if were to say of clerk that had
employed him for the whole of his time for
$500, and then that he was working for
others in my time, and getting paid for it!
Would that be charge? Would that affect
his integrity Would that affect his honesty?
Would that be perfectly legitimate trans
action? see merchants and men OF busl-
ness around me-what would they think of
one who was paid by them for the whole OF
his time, and then sold some portions OF it
for one sum of money and another? Would
swindling be too strong an expression
Would embezzlement? Whatever word there
is that expresses the taking of money that
does not belong to you--l care not what 1t
is-that would be the right word. 1t is
taking money that does not belong to me
that am charged with. But yet | am told
l am too sensitive in wishing this Assembly
to investigate the matter to see whether or
not it is true! / am charged with taking
your property and selling it, and appropriate
ing the proceeds to my own use. The whole
of my time is your property, if the assertion
in this article is true Now,i do get money,
for the use of nay time outside of what you
pay me, and | get great deal of it. There
fore | have stolen your time? have swim
died you out of it, if this allegation is true.
And then, what is it that "fgures are to
tell'' wien they "tell their own tale?'' What
is meant by this-that "a bond reported in
the Foreign Missionary Treasury for 1869
has Disappeared" Moderator, if money is
put into my hands, and it disappears in any
way-I care not howl am, and ought to
be, regarded as having appropriated it to my
own use. Money does not disappear from
ones hands accidentally. Such things never
occur. Thus I have here, by reference to
these last two points, established that charges
have been brought against me, which, if true,
ought to blast my character forever.
But | have been told by brethren on many
hands, that nobody believes any charge of
dishonesty against me. l am firmly persua-
ded that no one who knows me can believe
it. l do not believe that any one credits
any charge of dishonesty or unfaithfulness
to any trust committed to me. But these
charges are brought in such way that /
cannot afford to despise them. They are
brought, in the first place, by one who is
member of this body. A member of the
General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church
in the United States make charges that |
can despise! No; cannot despise any charge
that is made by any one who can 81: in this
body. Then, again, l cannot afford to de-
spise charges made by one who represents
Presbvtery-which is involved in the former
statement. I cannot afford to despise charges
made by one whom l hear spoken of as
" "brother," "the excellent brother" and
"to save the feelings of the brother" Mod
orator, if any one charges you with stealing,
will not call him brother. He is not my
brother, if he charges you with swindling
the Church out of its money And yet can
excellent brother" as hear him called on
all hands, has done this very thing to me.
No; cannot afford to despise the charge.
l might give other reasons, but I must hasten
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any such lnterr @eraslon as lie,
in personal want "
1 beg leave next to read a part Of LEI. I
which many will recognise as il the hand
writing of our departed brother, Inslee; IL
is dated December 18th, 1869: "The young
men have drawn their salary money as they
have needed. None of them have ever been
in personal want, though once or twice we
were run rather close. l could have bor-
rowed, however, in case of real necessity. /"
Of course, if the young brethren were not
in want
DR.. HUI would say to Dr. Woodrow
that the letters we had were all some months
after that date.
DR.. Woodrow--I read next an extract
from letter from one of the missionaries in
China at that time who has since returned
to this country:
"SHANGHAI, July 6, 1870.
"Rev. James WoodrOw-REv. AND DEAR
SIR: You will ere this reaches you have re-
ceived my telegram, kindly forwarded by
Rev. J. G. Fackler, of San Francisco. 1t
states the simple fact that your mission is
here set of beggars. The mission treas
ury has not had one cent in it for the past
four months. THos. E. CONVERSE.
The Mission Treasurer writes as follows
"SHANGHAI, June 7th, 1870.
"DEAR BRO. WOODROW: | have Just re-
ceived two boxes per Pacific Mail Steamer,
through Mr.. Coulson, N. York, containing
$4,000 Mexicans. E. B. INsLEE. I"
Now, Moderator, note the date of that
July 6, 1870 Here is a letter written on
the 25th June, 1870, eleven days previous,
from Rev. E. B. Inslee to DR.. Wilson: sin
regard to the mission funds, have about
used what was allowed me. Before leaving
Hanchow, we had a general settlement, so as
to keep matters straight. The three young
men have all lived within the amount allowed
them, though Mr.. Stuart, Helm, and Hous-
ton have had and used some private funds
sent to them by friends. Mr.. Converse had
overdrawn, for the time he has been in
China, $4OO or $500 (Mexican.) What is
to become of him | do not know" Then
there are here some passages which l will
omit, unless they are called for. "l did
not know he was so much in debt to the mis-
sion till recently, because the money he
brought out he deposited in the Bank al
Shanghai and drew from it,"
This is what Mr.. Inslee says on that sub
iect eleven days before that letter was writ
ten saying that "the mission is set of beg
CARS" The Mission Treasurer, the Rev
| MIR. Inslee, writes that the writer of tha
letter, before whose going to that country
no word of serious complaint of this kint
had come to us, had overdrawn his salary by
four or five hundred Mexican dollars.
Dr. Leighton WslsOn-If brother Wood
row will allow another friendly interruption
l would renew my suggestion.
| DR.. Woodrow--Dr. Hill called for it.
DR.. Wilson-I know he did; and l be
lieve the Treasurer can vindicate himsel
most triumphantly.
DR.. Hslg-Mr. Moderator
The Modwator-The Chair must declar
that DR.. Woodrow has the floor, except as h
is willing to be interrupted.
DIR. WslsOn--I had his permission.
, would just make this further statement
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u u1 ". sres nrl0C Oh QlsLTeS5
was between III
Now, Moderate
charges. 1t is ss.i, snar
toned in his report thousa
propriated to one thing, aru snas che rge-
the treasury $2,700 for that same item. But
let me call your attention to the fact that
the Secretary in his report says Immediately
under the passage which is quoted in the
paper, and which I have read: "In refer
ring to the general appropriations made
from the Sustentation Fund, it should be
borne in mind that the financial year observed
by the Committee extends from January to
January, and not from one meeting Of the
Assembly to another" But my accounts
extend from one meeting of the Assembly to
another. Thus you see that the two things
are entirely distinct. Then, if you willrefer
to the accounts which I have placed in the
hands of the Auditing Committee, and in
the hands of the Investigating Committee,
you will see that seventeen hundred and fifty
dollars were paid, prior to July Is, 1869,
while nine hundred and fifty dollars were
paid between the 1st of January, 1870, and
the 1st of April, 1870. Did l take, then,
seventeen hundred dollars because there are
twenty-seven hundred charged in my &C
count, and DR.. Wilson speaks only of the
appropriation of about one thousand? And
is this to be presented as an objection to the
continuing Of the Committee at Columbia?
Let me say, in passing, that l have never
uttered one word in favor of its remaining
there care nothing with regard to that
point; but this is given as an objection to
the continuance of the Committee-an OBJ
lection to me--that not quite $1,000 was
appropriated by the Committee, and yet
that took $2,7OO to pay this withal.
But it seems that ga bond reported in the
Foreign Missionary treasury for 1869 has
disappeared" That treasury is in my GUS
tody, thanks to the confidence reposed in
me, year after year, for these ten years, by
this venerable body. would suppose that
any one who understands business, who has
passed through church lawsuits, who has
managed extensive educational interests, who
has spent so much of his time in studying
figures in connexion with trust funds, would
know that my reports are for the cOntribu.
tions of the churches and the expenditures
of the Committee year after year, and that
l do not in my annual reports to this body
present an account of the assets of the Com
mittee. But 1 have here to confess bust.
ness fault. I make clean breast of it. ]
knew that it was bad bookkeeping, but
knew there was "Decem" in the Church
1t turns out that there is an IN. R. also
and "W. T." and don't know how many
more of them. Iknew-because had been
made to suffer from it--that there was q
"Decem" at least; and rather than be sub
jected to such carping criticisms, was one
f year guilty of the bad book keeping of re-
porting the assets, so far as related to one
bond, on both sides of my account; thereby
, as l humbly confess, misrepresenting th'
. total amount Of receipts and expenditure
for that year, but in such way, as you readi
[ ly perceive, that it could not create fals'
impression. mean simply that l entered
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that unless there shall seem to be some fur
ther reason, | will only call attention to the
fact that | have papers here on the spot
which will sufficiently answer all the ques-
tions that DR.. Hill or any other member Of
the Assembly may put.
Dr.. PryOr-I hope he will proceed with
that.
DR.. HUI hope he will, sir.
DR.. Woodrow-Since DR.. Hill hopes
will proceed, l shall do SO. / begin by read
ing letter from a beloved young brother,
John l.. Stuart, one of our missionaries. Let
me say that [ know no three ministers in our
Church whom I would more surely trust than
Matthew Hale Houston, John l.. Stuart, and
Ben. Helm. believe them to be entirely
truthful, and that if any expression to my
detriment has at any time been used by any
one of them, it is based entirely upon their
misapprehension of facts; and if the facts
they may have Inexperienced could be full
| ly broug ght before them, l am sure, from their
noble character, if the proper opportunity
were given, they would cheerfully retract
The intimations which Dr. Hill has alluded
to consist partly in this: "That frequently
during the history of the mission in China
our brethren have been without funds" l
would say that if they had been very nearly
without funds, it would not be strange in the
history of this Church. That, I apprehend,
has been the case with most of US. But |
wish to read letters to show that such dis
tress as was published in that same paper at
Louisville, and upon which the action, SO far
as 1 understand it, of DR.. Hills Presbytery
and Synod was based
DR.. HU-Mr. Moderator, let me say to
DR.. Woodrow, through you, that the action
of our committee was based upon the letters
of these young brethren which were put into
my hands; not upon any newspaper articles
at all.
DR.. Wilson--What were the names of the
brethren?
DR.. HsH-Helm and Stuart: we also had
one from Mr.. Houston sent from Virginia.
DR.. Woodrov-I have here letter from
the Rev. John L. Stuart, dated September
oath, 1869, from which I first read:
"GUTsIU, CHINA, Sept. 24th, 1869.
"Prof. James Woodrow-REv. AND DEAR
SIR: My mother, mistaking my object in
writing to her concerning the mission need
of money to purchase property, sent me a
check for fifteen pounds and one-fourth ster-
ling-the proceeds of one hundred green
back dollars. AS it was sent under misap.
prehension, and is not at all needed by me
personally, my wants being abundantly sup
piled, | desire to return it to her." Then
follow directions as to the return which I
need not read. Then he proceeds: "What
misled my mother was question I asked
concerning the money-more than fifteen
hundred dollars-raised in the Kentucky
Synod in the summer of 1868 for the outfit,
&C., of brother Helm and myself. I had
never seen any acknowledgements of it. She
did not write me any satisfactory answer
only that Mr.. Grasty, her pastor, said, 1T
had beer, sent, and need not fear for my
support. Surely never feared on that
aeors, and aSs'e s:ssoceediggs Of our noble
Caurch ,!idenye Tat scores more
linsy on heath.n soil in the.
nus sphis shows snether or not
"a - Aafs th;-- t;r~s
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l am one of tbe editors of the Southern
Presbyterian Revie1, / am the editor of the
Soutkern Presbyterian, l have many other
small and great 'irons in the fire" All
that is true. l do not denyit. say, there
fore, that this is charge as direct as could
be brought of my "disposition in all the
evil directions enumerated in the paragraph
l have just read.
Now, let me read on, that which comes
from "friend," from one who, in subse-
quent article, processes "most cordial friend
ship for all those members of the Committee
with whom he is personally acquainted. L
suppose l am included in that number; for
l remember that at the General Assembly
in Memphis gentleman presented himself
to me, and introduced himself as Mr.. Ca
ter" and after moments conversation, we
parted | never saw him before; [ have
never seen him since; but | presume this
was an acquaintance which led to my share
of the claim of cordial friendship" which
be makes for "those members of the Com
mittee with whom he was personally ac-
quainted. -s.--ss-s..sr--sss
A reason is given next for the removal of
the Committees in this language: "These
Committees ought now to be removed, be-
cause the officers are immersed in other bus
iness-some public and some private. For
example, the Secretary of Sustentation is
also the Secretary of two others of the
charity funds of the Church, and will be a
chief actor in the assurance scheme, if ever
it is inaugurated, and we hear that he is at
the head of large female school OF Mayes-
vile, and resides fifty miles or more from
Columbia" Then follows another enumera-
ton of my employments, concluding with !:
"And has various other small irons in the
fire. Surely it is now expedient, yea, mer-
eiful, to relieve those beloved men, who seem
so anxiously willing to 'tote everything" :"
"Expedient, yea, merciful, to relieve those
beloved men why Because they are
immersed in other business" If so im-
mersed, they must be unfaithful in the dis
charge of the duties you have committed to
them.
He ADDS "These benevolent schemes of
the Church, under their management, are
in very straitened circumstances. Well, that
is true. Now, what is the inference "N. R. 4"
draws from this fact? cit is expedient to
try change!" Then he proceeds to say
"The Committees of Foreign Missions and
Publication y. could do their business
without unknown and irresponsible clerks. J"
Moderator, the Assembly at Baltimore au-
thorised the appointment of clerical force,
if necessary, to carry on the business efici-
emily. Would you have the clerks appointed
by the Assembly? Then appoint them.
But you gave US the authority to appoint
them, and we did so. And yet unknown
and irresponsible clerks is the term here en-
ployed.
"Such abundant expenditure will always
cause human nature to judge that change
is very inexpedient." We love the loaves
and the fishes too well Is not that what
is insinuated? To conclude respecting this
first article, / submit that it brings the direct
charge that at least have attemptad 70 ~