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The New York herald., 1874-09-28

others which are yet to oe made are as complete
guarantees can be furnished aIatnsJ the recur-
renee oil u similar disaster here.
Not only Is there room Tor such a COMPANY
owing to the defct5, IN insurance capital and ths
certainty OF profit. as shown by the history OF the
past, when the opportunities for profit were less
tnan they are now. but the local conditions are
also favorable. The people are ready for 1t. The
prominent business men OF the city Will subscribe
promptly and largely to It's stock, and the requi-
site capital to insure the safety of its operations
sary drst to assure the people that It's adnnstra-
tion will be IN the hands OF careful, capable and
honest men. Second, Its capital shOuld be at
least $l.0O0.000 The trouble with our local
insurance companies before the nre OF 1871 was
thar their capital was too small In this case IL
should be large enough to meet any energencv
and TO enable the company to go dist ibute tho
rlsKs that great nre will not impair 1t. A CON-
pany with this amount OF capital administered by
cautious and enicient officers, would be one Of
tine most profitable inves ments In the country,
and would command large business at home and
abroad.
or course any insurance company has the right
to close Out It's business and move away II SO DIS
posed Dut the action OF the New York committee
grows out Of the influences brought to bear Oy some
aud had not The spunk to go out Alone but must
needs take as many Others possible to keep
them In cOuntenance. Under such circumstance es
as these the people OF hicag0 must hep them
seve,. They preserved their credit when their
city was laid In ashes ann all business was pros
trate. They preserved their credit through the
financial panic, and now that the city Is restored
and business Is built up again on stronger fOunda
tl0ns than ever they can preserve 1t again.
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Homo Insurance Compa MOS.


Tne action Of the Executive Committee OF the
National Board OF Underwriters in seeking to IN
nuence as many Insurance companies ~ possible
TO withdraw from tnls city, by refusing to renew
existing policies or write new ones, should con.
vince the people Of Chicago OF the necessity OF
doing something for themselves. The time and
circumstances are now opportune for the estab-
lishment OF great home company upon o safe
foundation. For such company there Is ample
room, inasmuch as there Is at present a deficiency
OF insurance capital In the country. The losses OF
that capital caused by the Chicago Dire OF 1871 and
tue Boston fire OF the following year nave not been
fully restored, hardly enough, IN fact, to produce
healthy competition. The market therefore,
VIII not be overstocked by .he establishment OF
such company here. There Is, In TACT, no good
reason why 1t should not do q large business
Jhl 0ugh0ut the country generally. 1t Is equally
certain tnat the business Will be profitable. For
thiry or forty years Chicago has been one OF
tne best patrons OF insurance In this country.
during all this time the conditions OF security
were the same and no large nres occurred until
lo7l Tue insurance companies reaped rich mar
vest and made large dividends. TRe home compa-
MES, as well AS the foreign, were handsomely
remunerated for their Investments and their
stocks stood nigh In the market. rbls business
was crippled Dy the contingencies OF 1871 and loI2
In this city and Boston. 1t was an unforeseen and
exceptional emergency, which Is Just as likely to
occur In any other city as In Chicago or Boston,
and which may never occur again. IN fact, the
safeguards which have already Decn provided. and
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THE GREAT INSURANCE REVOLUTION
Chicago Dciies the National Board OF Under.
writers TO Withdraw Risks
The Answer Is, sect Right Down
and Out"
A Proposition to Establish Home Companiss-
List Of Companies That Will Not Obey the
Mandate of the National Board

The action OF the National Board OF Fire Under
writer's n deciding to taGe no further risks IN chi
cago hos caused great commOti0n IN that CITY, ana
the press and business men display considerable
belligerency. The Chicago Times explains the
feeling Of the business OF that city IN the 1ol-
loving head lines to athree-coumn arti'le:-
'GO and re Damned I''-This Ia Chicag0s Reply
to the National Board OF Underwrlters-They May
Get Right Down aud out" Just as soon as lney
OF u ROwdy Gang OF lncendiires-But there ID NO
N2pe o. the Understrapplng Oyerwriters Leaving
just Yet-NOt Wnie Any body WIN suomi 10 ne
Piundered by Their Robbery Rates-Eighty-slX Out
of one Hundred aud Thirty Companies Already
Announce Tneir In entlOn to Tarry.
Speaking Of the ieeling among Insurance agents
and merchants the Times says:-
the general impression and belief was that the
last crcuial was simply an attempt at bun on the
part of the companies ana dlo not represent IN
inc least the sentiment OF the members. IL was
conceded on ali sides that the New YORK COM
panies had engineered the analr through, anu
would possibly endeav0r to force the other inter-
ests to support their action. great deal OF
stress IS luld upon the TACT that New York capital.
lists are at the bottom OF the entire business, as
the Hartford com panles, whicn represent possibly
as great an amount OF capital as those OF any other
city in the Union, have hitherto stood Dy Chicago
and have invested millions OF dollars IN the CITY
on their latin III It's security ana prosperity. The
Connecticut Mutual Ltie insurance company
whose stockholders are largely interested IN tue
AJna Insurance Company, nave Invested IN Cnl-
cnVO over $40 OOO and is to their interest TO
have the best Insurance companies OF tne country
taking risks In the city. From this act 1t has
been surmised that the Hartora interest n c9u.d que,
REPRESENTATION IN combination against chicago.
The Times also claims to have knowledge OF the
companies that Will disregard the order OF the
Exc utlve Committee OF the National Board and
says tbat the following companies will continue to
do business IN that city,
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LONG ISLAND.

As the evening train on the sag Hsrbor branch
OF the Long Island Railroad was passing Water
Mills on Saturday evening. some miscreant threw
large stone through one Of the car windows.
II fortunately hit no one, though It passed within
an inch OF the head OF one OF the passengers.
The County Convention of the SunoIk county
temperance people have made the following nomi-
nations For Member OF Assembly. David NJ Ed.
wards OF Sayville; for County Superintendent OF
the Poor, witham a. Grimm, OF East Marion for
Justice OF Sessi ms, j. Haisey foungs' oi James
port; for Coroner, Dr. E. Z. y: skinner, OF Green
port. Delegates were also appointed tO attend
Congre SSH onal convention.
Large quantities OF menhaden were taken In Gar
dener's Bay last week, some OF the fishing gangs
securing as many as 200, 900 at q single set. Up
to last week the four factories on Barren Island
had rendered over 10000, 900. Messrs. Hawkins
10, 500 900, and their scrap houses contained an ac
cumatiOn OF some |, 100 tons. The FISH, however,
have mostly been ol poor quality, yielding only
two to four gallons per thousand
The United States survey schooner @. M.
Bache, Assistant Charles HUsmer, has finished op-
era,ions for the season in the Great South Bay.
The resurvey OF the bay has been completed from
Conklin,s Point uncudng Fire Island inlets as far
east as weus Point, tue western emu ol beiipOrs
Bay, and expects next year to dnlsh that pay and
the remaining waters to the eastward. The work
thus far Is represented to nave been done III the
most thorough and scientific manner
The Grand Jury OF the late County Court ana
Court OF sessions OF Richmond county indlcted tne
County jail at Riverhead as nuisance ana dis
grace TO the county, unsafe because OF the insult
aDieness OF its structure, having no ventliaton.
with no suitable way Qi warming ~, anu thc cclis
being but Giving cofins 10 those wno are 80 un-
fortunate as to reach them" The b0ard 0i Su-
pervisors Is asked to devise ways ana means to
provide more suitable structure. The Jan aas
Tor a long time been regarded as unsafe, ana ex.
ira vigilance Is required Ia nrevent the escape a,
nriSOners.
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LITERARY CHIT.CHAT.

1.-THE CHINESE RBADERs MANUAL" handbook
OF biographical. historical, NEUROLOGICAL ana gen.
sral literary reference, by william F. Mayors,
Chinese Secretary to Her Britannia Maj esty's
Legation at Pekn. has just been issued.
OF all books that have lately "thundered In the
tndexn Lord Chief Justice COckburn's much
talked OF book on Junius is the greatest fraud
We are now told that the book Is not even begun
AN exceedingly curious and Interesting book
has appeared in Paris. 1t Is the compete works
OF the Trouvere Ruteboeui, who was poet at the
Court of st. Louis. These unique works contain
eighty poems relating to Louis k, Queen
Blanche, the Sorbonne the schools, the barons,
the chevaliers, crusaders ana friars OF st. Louis
CAPTAIN r. s. COLLING, OF the navy, will put
forth o "History OF the United States Marine
Corps"
Mr. w. 8. LINDSAY has In the London press "a
History of Merchant Skipping and Ancient Com
merce," to form three voumes.
Mr. MAcRRADY's photographed "reminiscences
viii be published during the coming season, under
the editorshp OF Sir Frederick Pollock.
The next book In gastronomy viii be DR.. NJ. l.
Holbrook's Eating for Strength cookery book
dedicat ted TO the queens OF our tables.
THE REV. G. BARING.GOULD has In the press O
hook on yorkshire Manners and Customs"
THE life Of Captain Joseph Fry, one or the ex-
ecuted captives taken from the virg1nus, on Cuba,
has been written, from materials in the posses
sion of his widow and friends, by Mrs. j. Mort
walker, and is In press at New Orleans.
THE. prices OF books at the recent New York
trade sale clearly indicated the general stagns-
tion OF business. Very few publications brought
half the retail prices.
THE REV. W. II. II. MURRAY has another book on
the Adirondacks in press, devoted to the humor
and legends of that celebrated regton.
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NEW YORK CITY.

Peter Flock, aged 48, residing at No. $50
Bowery, was run over on Saturday afternoon by
lIghf truck and had his leg fractured. He was
taken to Bellevue Hospital
Thomas Williams, weigher aged tnirty-one, OF
No. 90 Orchard street. was very severely injured
on Saturday afternoon, bv being crushed under
barrel OF sugar, In consequence OF = skid giving
way. He was conveyed to Bellevue Hospital
Memmorial services on tue death OF Rev. DR.. E.
E. L. Taylor viii be held in Calvary Baptist church,
Twenty third street, between Fifth and sixth
avenues Tuesday evening, at half.past seven
O'CLOCK with addresses by Drs Armitage, Bright,
Fulton, Simmons ana Muller.
John Kelly, iour years OF age. residing q: No. 52l
East Sixteenth street, fell on Saturday from the
fourth story window Of his residence to the
ground, and received some severe Commissions OF
the head. He was removed by Ot1cer Lieby, OF
the Eighteenth precinct, TO Bellevue Hospital, and
Is in q lair way to recover
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BOOKS RECEIVED.

The National Cook Book. BY Hannah N. bpuvier.
opp. 2SS.) Philadelphia: r. B. Peterson Co.
Idoiatry. BY Julian Hawthorne. Pp. 372.)
Bosom: James H. Osg0Od.
Tactical Studies BY Lyman. OPP. 1881 New
York: D. Appleton Co.
The Mothel's Hygenic Hand Book. BY R. T.
Trail, M. d. (Pp. 1861 New York: $. X. Wells.
Manual Of Arithmetic. By Peck. Opp. 2o3.)
New York and Chicago: II. S. Barnes Il Co.
Idlomatic Key to the French Language. BY E.
Lambent and A. Sardou. OPP. 1907 New York:
A. Mason.
The Physiology Of Man. BY Austin Flint, M. d.
tPp 5O0.) New York: D. Appleton.
The Era OF the Protestant Revolution. BY
Frederick SeeDohm. tPp. 1921 New York :
Scribner, Armstrong h Co.
The Crusades BY George W. Cox, NJ. A. Pp.
214) New York: Scribner, Armstrong Il Co.
The Thirty Years. War. tPp. 22o) 8. R. Gardiner.
New York: Scribner, Armstrong Co.
TWO Years in Peru. Thomas J. Hutchinson,
London: Low, Marston Il Searle, Vol. L., 200.
Two Years in Peru. Thomas J. Hutchinson,
London: Low, Marston Searle. Vol. H., pp $50.
Introduction to Algebra. BY Ldward Olney.
tPp. 2le) New York: Sheldon Co.
The Adirondacks. BY S. X. StOddard. OPP. 204.)
Albany: Weed, Parsons Co.
German Universities. BY James Morgan Hart
Infant Diet. by H. jacob, Nj. d. Up. 119) New
York: G. p. Putnams Sons.
Tested or, HOPES Tuition. A novel. BY Celia e.
Gardner. Up. 23o.) New York: G. W. Carleton Il
Co.
Beach Broken Blllows; or, Irene. BY Mrs. b. F.
Baer. (Pp. 1851 Authors Publishing Company.
The Gtrlhood OF Shakcspeare's Heroines. BY
Mary Cowdeh Clarke. up. 4so.) G. +. Putnam's
Sons
The Lost Model. BY Henry Hooper. (Pp ass.)
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott 4 Co.
Serope; or, The Lost Library. BY Fred. B..
Perkins. Up. 277.) Boston, RoDerts Bros.
Holden with the Cords. BY W. NJ L. Jay. tPp.
5,s.) New York: P. Dutton & Co.
Atherstone Prtcry. BY L. N. COmyn. Pp.
37O.) Boston: Estes & Lauria;.
Uncle John. BY G. J. whyte-Melville. Up. aso.)
New York: d. Appleton Co.
A Fata! Passion; or, Gerfaut. by o. Vibeur.
opp. Sss.) New York: G. W. Carleton Il GO.
Charteris BY Mary M. Melisse (Pp. 25o.)
Philadelphia: ]. B. Lipplncott d Co.
Arctic Experiences. BY E. Vale Blake. Pp.
47S.) New York: Harper Bros.
The Wild North Land. BY A. F. Butler (Pp.
360) Philadelphia: Porter & Coates.
The Chronicles OF Baltimore. BY Colonel ].
Thomas scharL Pp. 725.) Baltimore: Turnbull
Brothers.
TIE Confessions OF a Minister. BY Josephus
Leonhardt, D. d. Opp. 1867 Phliadelpnia: II. Pc.
ters0n Il Co.
The Prophet. BY Bayard Taylor. (Pp. 2aa.)
Boston: james r. Osgo0d & Co.
Old Wells Dug Out. BY T. De Witt Talmage.
(Pp. 1857 New York: Harper Brothers.
The Gods. BY Rooert @. IngersOii (Pp. 25o.)
Peoria, Ill.
Mooniok. BY Jane @. Austin. Pp. 2oo.) New
York: G. p. Putnam.
United States Insurance Almanac. 1874 tPp
202.) New York: @. e. Currie.
Ntmrod OF the Sea or, The American Whaleman
Pp. 8sO.) New YorK: Harper Brothers.
The Municipal History OF Dundee. BY J. n
Beats. Dundee: Published BY the proprietor.
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while ''The Merry Maids OF Windsor" ends with
the reception OF Fastaf's letters by Mistress Page
and Mistress Ford. and their meeting to consult over
the best means for answering the affections OF Sir
John. Putnam also sends us 'Moonfolk," by Jane
G. Austin exqu sitely illustrated by that master
OF the burin and pencil, w. T. Linton. The book
proposes to give true account OF the home OF
the fairy tales and seems to have been inspired
by the thought OF o child. thus expressed In the
dedication
Do you remember, my little Rose,
The twilight hour not long ago .
In thoughtful accents soft and Sow
Are not nice as the fairy tales:
.iho tru'y stories think mamma.
In magic ship with enchanted sails p"
Long after you lay asleep that night
Wishing, with you that these fairies bright
Might be true somewhere II MOI just here.
Accordingly all the stories are told over again
those marvellous stories that live like religion In
our Observation-Disclosures "RobinsOn CrusOe,n
"Camelot" and the rest OF them. "MOOnOlk''
would seem to be a desirable book for Christmas,
the engravings especially giving n value as
work OF art. apart from the fascination 1t must
possess for children. The Authors Publishing
Company send us 'Irene; or, The Beach-BrOken
Bill0ws," q novel by MRS. B. +. Baer. This work
was written in competition for prize offered by
the company lor the best work Of fiction.
The book is natural, honest and delicate, full OF
lightness. and shows the influence OF Dickens upon
the authors style. Miss Gardner has written
novel on the old, old story OF ''woman's con-
stancy," published by Carleton, and called
"Tested," which ends with o happy marriage ana
shows the authors fOndness for Byron. "Ather-
stone PriOry," by l.. N. COmyn, published by Estes
& Lauriat Of Boston, Is novel In the style OF
Anthony TrollOpe, soothing. pleasant book for
sxo clo huf fort
nately In the last cnapter the shining sun that we
are told 10 see always benind The clouds. "A
Fatal Passion; or, Gerfaut," Is the name OF novel
by Charles DE Bernard, which has been translated
the forty first Paris edition by o. vibeur and
published by Carleton. DE Bernard is q writer OF
the George Sand school, and the mo al, which 1t
teaches in French fashion, is that marriage, under
the most favorable circumstances, and even
though provided with every requisite OF worldly
comfort and happiness, must result IN sorrow, II
not based upon love. This is a moral well worth
studying IN America as IN France; and this novel
is pleasant text book to those who care to enter
upOn 1t.
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cles will enable Us to comprehend moro clearly les
past and enter largely into its hopes for the
future.
AUTUMN NOVELS.
Here are q batch OF autumn novels, good, bad
and Indifferent. The nrst to interest us Is "IdoI-
atry; A Romance" BY Julian Hawthorne, from
James r. Osgood d Co., OF Boston. Julian Haw-
thorne's career In literature must always be q
matter of more than usual pride to all who re-
member the genius OF his father and the great
honor shed upon literature BY him. Mr.. Haw-
thorne's "Bressant" was success In Its way
crude and ambitious, however, and more to us In
its promise than It's performance. Mr.. HawthOrnes Is
style Is original, unior med. but with growth in 1t.
Now and then trace resemDiances to his fatner's
manner, without the subtle grace that gave him
80 much power, and At the same time without Its
morbid. unhealthy tendency. We note OCCASION
ally an Emersonian enort to say oracular things In
sentences. Putnams have printed Mary Cowdon
Clarke's 'Girho ID Of shaKespeare's Herones," a
series of tales claiming to trace the probable an
tecedents OF the women characters oil Shake
speare. This Is o pleasant, ingenious fancy,
and the authoress has worked 1t out with
freedom and taste. This volume, which Is the FIRST
series, contains fve taes-"Portia, the Heiress
! Of Belmont;n "Tne Tnanes Daughter who after.
ward became Lady Macbeth; "Helen, the Phys
clans Chid - 'Desde mona, the Magnincos Cnild
and "Meg and Alice, the Merry Maids OF windsor
The tales avoid any special climax, the writer.
object being to anticipate the recorded events o
the play and brig each character down TO the
moment OF the plays actions. Thus Desdemona.
adventures end with her speech to her fathel
before the Senators, when reciting her divided
nutv abe casts her fate with the Moor. her lord
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The following, IL reports. are undecided what
course to pursue in view OF the recommendation
The New York herald., 1874-09-28
IL one ~ yonder mountain saith
be cast into The sea
AMI doubeth not. so filled with faith,
TSe mount removed shall be
T,,ouah Ioye 4. Hrzt yef faith a. y htaf

AMI doubte,h DOT, filled with faith,
Though love j. hrst, yet taith Is chief
Lord, believe' help 4 hou mine unbeef
David receives what he regards as gifts OF
miracles and prophecy he becomes an outcast
from his orthodox home, and tue founder OF
new faitn. The second act, two years later, dis
covers aim Leading his followers across the Plans.
David meets one Livla Romney,a "worldly wo-
man, by whom ne Is strangely impressed, and
under the influence Of the owe sne inspires he Is
led to proclaim the doctrine OF polygamy as a
dogma of tue new latin. This dogma Is proclaimed
in the temple OF the Church. and we may gain an
IDEA OF Mr. Taylor's mastery OF blank verse In the
following lines, In whicn David, the Prophet, an
nounces TO the people the new doctrine:-
Itis the highest faith that tramples down
Rebe lious intellect; while this y ena
May tremoe in i,s Is delicate n, habit ,, lone lo,ned
Ills ailh that soothes our bosoms frightened bird
And says "Ihe nestngs and the nest are sac."
The result OF this enuncistlon OF a new faith Is
slutlny and the interference OF the federal
lthorttes to suppress polygamy, which ends in
bbe death OF DAVID who Is shot, and the exalta-
tation OF Nimrod Kraft to the head OF the Church.
Is easy to see in this WORK the history and sub
stance oil the Mormon faith. Mr. Taylor sees the
higher aspects Of that religion its enthusiasm,
jort ude and power, and his tragedy, thoroughly
Am rican In idea scope aud treatment, is a vala-
epe ad 1itlon to our literature and OF tue beat
examples q the authors graceful and poetic
gahIus. ... ,rr-,,rr,r
Wa have read with interest and respect Mr.. Tai
ruare's new volume OF sermons, "Oid Weus Dug
ont - anxious to discover the quality In the mar
which has made him one Of the most popular anc
efficient clergymen in Brooklyn. We 90 not se'
the rr1alGious humor oil Beecher. the nnished del
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-07-30
that for period of year and half, or

that for period Of year and half, or
thcreabout he maintained criminal in
tercourse with her, overcoming her pre-
vious modest Scruples against such con-
duet by investing 1t with false justihca-
ton as sanctioned by love and religion;
that he then participated in conspiracy
to degrade Theodore Tilton before The
public by the loss of place, business and
repute; that he abused Mr. Tilton's for
giveness and the pledge of protection by
thereafter authorizing a series of meas
ures by Plymouth Church having for
their object ,he putting of stigma upon
Tilton before the church, and also be
fore an ecclesiastical council inasmuch
that the Moderator of that council, in
terpreting these acts by Mr., Beecher
and his church, declaring public.
~ that they showed Beecher to
be the most magnanimous of men, and
Tilton 10 be knaye and a dog that
when Tilton thereafter, not in malice, but
for self-protection, wrote letter to Or
Bacon, alluding therein to an otfenSe and
apology by the Rev Henry Ward
Beecher he (Mr. Beecher deiantiy APP
pointed committee of his church-mcm-
bers to inquire into the injury done him
by Mr. Tiiton by the aforesaid allusion,
and implying that he lMr. Beecher) had
never been the author of such oiense and
apology, and that Mr.. Titon was slam
derer; that to make this inquiry bear
grieyously against MIR Tilton MIR Beechcr
previously connived with Mrs f. II Til
ton to give false testimony in his
(BeeCher's) behalf; that Mr. Beecher's
course toward Mr.. Tilton and family has
at last resulted in the open destruction OF
Mr. I'ilton's household and desolation of
his heart and life.
THEODORE TnTON
Sworn to before me this Goth day of
July, 1874,
THO BURGMYER, Notary Public.