New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-04-21

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%oIueJ Of DID ono and was uninsured. She was
buit i'm February 1861, and her other owners VET
4 Mrs. Dale. Henry l.. Weaver. john shOoAs III"
| James Callahan.
MR.. TALMAGE's SUPPORTERS.
| AN ANSWER TO DR. VAN DYKE AND MR. CRG Is,E1oN
| CoMPLAINT-MR. GREENE RESENIs AN lN'LH-
| NITY-THK TABERNACLE's FINANciAL CLAIM
| ALLOWED.
The Brooklyn Presbytery resumed it's session at
4 n. m, Yesterday in the Brooklyn TabernaGIl ':
Moderator Peck offered the opening prayer Inc me
Rev o. b. st. John, who was elected siateu G I
Monday resigned that POSITION On bs I place. Dr.
smear read the answer of the Presbytery to the COM
plant of Dr. Van Dyke, DR.. Wells, MI crosby ana o
nineteen Others against the action OF the hOoy III IT,
| fnsinO to make q judicial investigation OF theH
characters in view of the charges OF moral rO.e5
| ness made by Mr. Tamage, which were aI'er""iu
The document. which was very long was adopted
| and Drs Spear Ludlow and ROCkWeI WoIo "
pointed to defend the action of the PTes6ytely oct
fore the Synod. The answer says that the request
of the twenty-five members Is a virtual Sd teo
against themselves of report OF TO ot # las no
| knowledge If Mr.. Talmagc made an accusa ld5a
against them formal complaint shonld Ne pTcSo
| against him. The answer further says; Inc It's
| bytery deeply regrets and dcploTes the UNHAPPY
state of things in its own bosom when mas groMH
out of the trial of DIR. Tanage 1t feels assreH
that this condition. in the present state o. IaGts s
not to be improved by the judicial investigation ol
anybody and that the action complained r oi was
the wsest possible in the If No No rTac
trra end for no reason which the law of the Church
slstans, and with no prospcGt OF goou results ~
| with a very strong probability OF evil ana Only
| evil wOnld manifcstly he a display of passion not
| in accordance with that wisdom which lSpr0htahr.
| The Rev. J. Milton Greene sent letter T. tusing
IN narticnnfc i'm fine proceedings of the Preshytcry
| Yesterday on account of the " unhecomlng haste
| with which his resignation as treasurer was ac-
worthy of any tclcrative body :" and he also pro
tested against the lndignlty put upon MN III !ne
appointment of a stated clerk while he helu tlilV
Jonathan Ogden, chairman of the committee ap-
| pointed to investigate the claim OF the laoerhaart
That its Indebtedness to the PrCSbytcry was offset
Inv eynrnscs incurred mt the time when the General
| Assembly met in that church, reported that the
claim of the Tabernacle was correct INC GH dV 70
ton being rs to the bill for board OF delegates I"
| the Assembly FINALLY the report OF inc committee,
showing that the Tabernacle was indebted to the
Presbytery in the sum OF SlGo ~ was adop'eu'
DEATH OF A SHREWD RASCAL
| Charles Saca, the father of Marcus I: Sncia one
of the convicted conSprators III the Lewis VIII case
died yesterday i'll the Hudson county CL ct it W.
| Heights, Charles Sacia's career as a forgcr and
| confidence man is noteworthy. Witnesses III me
Lewis will case testified that he offered them brides
of $50 900 each if they would testify in favor of Mrs
| Jane H. Lewis the bogus widow, and it IS generally
believed that he was the originator Oh thiS con-
In 1854 Sacia organized in Jersey City the
PaliSadc Fire Insurance Company tlkiilg INC puSi
| ton of president and making Lewis IL french us
In 1874 Hcnry,C. Kelsey, Secretary of State and
| Insurance Commissioner of Ncw-JcrScy, passed the
| office of The Palisa,lc Fire Insurance Company in
Westinghouse, .JeTSey-City and saw the slgn
| lie had never received reports from the company
office and asked for list of the officers and the
members of the Board of directors. lie was shown
huge pile of bonds, mortgages and deeds, t9e re-
puted assets of the company. Mr.. Kelsey made an
examination into the affairs of the company Wich
was doing good business and it was found That the
securities were bogus and that the company was
bankrupt Sacia and French were indicted for con,
| spiracy to dcfraud. French was tired, cOhvlrHd
and sentenced to prison for eighteen months months.
tried. 1t is also alleged that sacia was
the prime mover in the celebrated 81 Lyon S,n
| time sent to an insane asylum instead Of prison
for selling lands in the middle Of ,Ncw-lork Bay, to
persons lie @ 10 1Gr 9 yr ely .nt
with his family. His health was broken, and
month ago he was admitted to the hospital where
lie died. His early history is not known, bnt ~ IL
stated that at one time he lawyer in this city
! WORK OF THE ART STUDENTS LEAGUE.
| The annual meeting of the Art StudcntsI League
was held at the rooms of the society last evening to
receive the annual reports and for the election ol
officers. The officers elected for the ensuing year
are j. S. Hartley, President; Mrs. Helena De Nay
| Glider and Robert T. BlOOdgOod, Nicc-PTsldentS;
| +. S. Church, Francis Waller and Mrs Julia r.
Baker, members of the Board OF Control II Is m
tanned. The report showed an average attendaiice
in the Life classes under Walter Shirlaw OF twenty
three in the morning. ten in the afternoon lwoncn
| and twentv-fye i'm the evening. In the Painting
| classes under William NJ. Chase, the average
| monthly attendance has been sixtY-Onc, tm0sty
women. In the Antique class, under Mr. Beckwitl
| the average attendance was MNt%. Inc C3IpoHl-
ton class, averaging thirtyive bStudcnS, mas as
| semhed once a week under the supervision OF M
Shirlaw who has given lis time in this class with
| ont CONDENSATION Attendance III the Sketch class
has averaged fifty students. Lectures on artistic
| anatomy have been given once week hyJ. ; Hart
| ley; and lectures on perspective lofInightH ny
Frederick Dehlman.. The membership OF the
fftgt uf YnpIn
| classes for the school year will be nearly TG,oOo.
| The total income from membership fees ana stu
dents class dues will be $SOUU, leaving $2,OOO
| over expenses.
THE MATCH WITH THE IRISH TEAM
| The directors of the National Rifle Association
| Yesterday appointed the Autumn Prize Tournament
| to begin at CTecdmOOr September II. and to con
time the rest of the week. The special conmlttrc
| amounted to arrange for return match with an
| Irish team nj DOymOunt about June ~, COHlpclci
the plan for organizing an American team. 1t VIII
consist OF captain slX men al,i No leaS, one IT,"
| will be held at iCIccdmO0r on MAY H. II, u and
10, with fifteen shots ut each distance OF 500 100
| and 1000 yards The three competitors having
the highest aggregate any three days out of
the fOur will become lnclnbclS OF the team. ANY
| rifle associations or clubs in the country may hold
competitions upon their own ranges for the selection
| of members of the team. Each competitor must be
a nativc-bom citizen and a resident of this country
CHARGES DECLARED UNFOUNDED.
| Alta spccial meeting of the Board of Directors of
| the Ncw-YOrk Juvenile Asylum last evening" long
| report, enbodying the testimony of officers and
| Others cOnnecrcd with the asylum. was submitted
| bv the committee, consisting OF j. +. JAY, h. NJ
Kingsley, and o. f. Wood appointed TO investigate
the charges preferred against the management OF
| the asylum After heanuG the report, the Board
| adopted resolutions declaring that having carefully
considered IN tetal the evidence submitted in the
report, the Board records It's deliberate Judgment
| that the charges are not sustained by any evl-
deneeO but that they are disprOved every paricu
! lar and that the confidence of the Board i'll tho
| management "of Superintendent Carpenter and
| the other accused persons remains absolutely UNI