Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-04-14

New YORK, April 18.-The friends and family
of Gen. William IL. Lawrence, lately removed
from the office of United States pension agent,
this city, are employing detectives TO solve the
mystery surrounding his strange disappearance
and present circumstances He left this city
March Is, for Chicago, stating to his family, the
day before, that he went on private business,
and should be absent week or ten days.
About week subsequently,, his wife received
letter from him, dated at Chicago, saving that
his absence would be prolonged week longer:
that he was going upon some business into the
country, where he would be beyond reach of postal
communication, and that she must not be alarm
ed if she did not Immediately hear from him.
Since the receipt Of this letter, Gen. Lawrence
has been completely lost to his friends. The
propretOrS of Chicago hotel state that he left
the city as he intended, but they have no knowl-
edge whatever Of his subsequent movements.
Gen. Lawrences official accounts, as far as eX-
amined, are perfectly correct, and the payment
OF pensions will be resumed Monday. Gen. Law
renee WOre when he left, a diamond pin valued at
$780, and Il gold watch, valued at $500; it is al
so said that he carried considerable money with
him. The conviction is gaining ground among
his friends, that he has. been murdered to OBJ.
tain his valuables. Hewas occasionally subject
to disease of the gastric juices, which produced
intense pain, and has rendered him. at times,
temporarily insane, even for week at a time.
1t is possible that he may have died in one of
IueSG pdTONySUS,lIl some obscure country place,
where his name and home are unknown.
The jury in the suit of VIM. Ropes and others,
of Boston, to recover $4,000 from ex-Collector
Clinch, this city, for duties imposed in excess of
law upon cargo of Russian hemp, to day, by
direction Of Judge Woodruff, returned a verdict
in favor of the collector, on the ground that the
tariff laws in 1865 authorized duty of $40 per
ton.
Edward Z. Kellogg, prominent citizen of
Brooklyn, who lately failed to procure divorce
and custody of children, last night made forci-
bic attempt to kidnap his three children, aged
fourteen, twelve and nine. They were caught
on the street, and thrust into carriage; but, by
their cries, they attracted the police, who took
the whole party to the station house, and turned
over the children to their mother.
The officers of the Narragansett steamship
company gave a reception to the members of
the press of New York, this afternoon, on board
steamer Bristol, which, thoroughly Iefurnished
resumes her place on the Fall River line to Bos-
ton. James Fisk, Jr., presided at the banquet,
and, in one of his characteristic and humorous
speeches, eXpresse his thanks to the press for
their services to his public enterprises.
Judge Brady to-day issued a mandamus, COM
pelling Edwin Booth to show cause why'the adj
mission to his theatre was refused to the editor
and proprietor Of theatrical paper of this city,
which lately published severe criticism on
Booths theatre.
The funeral of Commodore Chauncey occurred
from st. Marks church to-day, with imposing
ceremonies.
Mortimer Smith, assistant secretary of the
Erie railroad company, in the continued exami-
nation to-day, as to the whereabouts of English
stock, testified that the secretary of the COM
pany, two transfer clerks and another official
who signed receipts for stock were now all alb
sent from duty, on account of ill-health; the
only persons who knew the combinations to
open the locks of the safes in which the books,
which the master was yesterday ordered to pro-
lRa nn1a ,1,n -, 1
on account of bad health.
The New York alumni of Trinity college,
Hartford, held the annual dinner at Delmonico's
this evening. Fifty gentlemen were present.
Hon. w. L. Curtis presided. Toasts were re-
sponded to by DIR. jackson, Rev Henry Sher-
man, Professor johnson of Hartford, Rev DIR.
Oafey, and Irving Paris. The affair passed off
with great ecldt.