The New York herald., 1873-08-24

don for her land was thirty thousand dollars
for the original and thirty dollars an acre for
the additional two hundred and fifty acres,
while they demanded from her Tor the sixty
four acres fourteen hundred dollars an acre
and the assumption of thirty-fve thousand
dollar mortgage. And because it was for
benevolent object as they alleged,
they sold it thus cheap--at a profit of
only one thousand dollars an acre. Then
they bound her to lay out the new "Beulah
Home" in lots and sell them, and TO pay over
to the Association the proceeds as fast as re-
ceived, in sums OF five hundred dollars, until
the entire purchase money was paid. But these
gentlemen would not trust the Lady ono
inch, nor allow her to consult the Advisory
Board of the Conference, as she desired.
They insisted on securing the balance due
them by mortgage, payable in three years,
principal and interest They then published
the fact to the world that the mortgage had
been raised, and the sale of lots became brisk
once more, and at an advanced price.
Thus matters stood last July, when, Mrs.
Langdon having moved to this city and opened
"Beulah Mission" in the Seventh ward, with
her assistant, Miss Almira Losee, and some of
her prolfgfs, visited Sea Cliff during the camp
meeting. They did not like the cold treatment
they there received, and their suspicious were
awakened in regard to the real estate matters
existing between them and the Association.
They, therefore, agreed to proposal to cancel
their agreement, which had not been signed or
sealed according to law. The representatives
of the Association, however, refused to cancel,
and made all sorts of promises and protesta-
tions, and sought finally, by direct and indirect
means, to get from Mrs. Langdon certain
houses and lots Of which she is the owner in
this city. Their persistence not only annoyed
her, but increased her suspicious, and she
plumply told them she would consult lawyer
ere she had any further dealings with them.
Seeing then, that their scheme was likely to
be exposed they went straightway and fled
the memorandum" in the Suffolk County
Clerks Office, at Riverhead, L. l., notified
the old "Beulah" tenants not to pay any more
rent to Mrs. Langdon, and claimed owner
ship Of the property themselves. Mrs. Lang
don's complaint has been filed in the Superior
Court of this city, and w. Fl. Du Puy, d. D.,
L. Battarshan and Charles Applegate and their
associates are called upon to answer The
lady asks that the alleged agreement be de-
clared null and void and that she be awarded
damages in the sum of twenty-five thousand
dollars.
This is brief summary of the origin and
standing of the Sea Cliff Association, and, so
far as can be ascertained, the complainant's
version of her relations with the Association.
This Association is close corporation, re-
volving, as it were, in circles and rings. One
revolution brings out the Sea Cliff Camp Meet
ing Association, with certain persons as off,
GERS and trustees. Another revolution brings
out the same men substantially under the
name of the "Long Island improvement
Association" but with different officers, while
a third turn causes the Sea Cliff and New York
Steamboat Association to come to the front.
And the same men virtually own and run
each Association, so that we have here rings
within rings, or wheels within Wheels and an
amount of mystery connected with an institu-
ton whose every act ought to be as transpa-
rent as the noon-day. It does seem to us that
the sooner the entire management of this, as of
other similar institutions now spreading all over
the country shall be, transferred to the lot own
ers, the better it will be for them and for the
churches to which they belong
The Association have filed their answer to
Mrs. Langdon's complaint, and have given
their version of their dealings with that lady.
From these it would appear that they them
selves Nere the victims rather than the VIC
timizers, and that Mrs. Langdon has become
financially embarrassed, and seeks by this suit
to evade and avoid performing her contract
toward them. In such cases, of course the
truth can be known only when it is brought
out in court; but, whichever party may be in
the wrong the Methodist Church is none the
less scandalized, and the camp meeting enter
prise at Sea Cliff will be almost certain to
suffer by it.
The Divorce Case OF Mrs. Brigham
Young No. 19-Thc Conflict Of Juris-
dictiOn.
Before Judge Emerson, at Salt Lake City,
the demurrer of Brigham Young in the case
of Ann Eliza Young, or Mrs. Brigham Young
No. IL, for divorce, was sustained against the