The New York Herald Newspaper, February 28, 1870, Page 10

on YAC The Proposed International Yacht Race. Correspondence Between Mr. Ashbury, Owner of the British Yacht Cambria, and Mr. Douglas, Owner of the American Yacht Sappho. HTING. MR. ASHBURY'S LETTER. Ang surprise at & paragraph in Berl's Lie of January 2, which stated | vad given you the option of racing Over Whree Courses furiowith or im the spring, ana 2 proposed by me on Fevrusry |, 1s#0, consequent OH the request contained im youre of January 10, via, that I would stew the Cambria wo On (he ACrivel Of the SappRe im August, 1868, owner then selected his own course for tne August 2 gad Which Engi yack! ea believe an ExCeLCRt COO Lo LOSE & Tease. o@ al! polate of sailing. vis, round, Uke Ihe of Wight, a distance of nearly SiZty Wiles. The race comcluded thus:— ue & Cambris. ¢ 1? Ws slime... Onnare. ‘ua bappoo * @ @ When you bad made your extensive alterations to the Sappao | considered | ough: vo give ber ayother ‘trial over the same course In WhIOD #be bad Deen Ge Seated, aud wiih ie impertamt, on of two other Faces, pecuila:iy adapted her via, from ‘she Isle Of Wight, round the CBerbourg breakwater ofthe istof Febr mame ou this the February, 1660, sald:— fonditions named fur Wwe and the Cambria oe oo ab He , they will tind enough sea to lest their po We enough to satisfy the niost aapiring ean tidae ( 1f@ on the ovean wave.” On the ist of May, 1860, the same Serre to the chanue! races by me au by the Nuw York HERALD: —~ One of the most judicrons mintakes ever fallen Of the papers wisich suppored (he clauei to med waters. ‘ehops” le open to the winds 0: ent ang to (be biljows piled up by the Atlantic tn aw Freep from, Newfoundiand to Britied a aper tow rem abe « enty-four hour on a wicd 1 the beige Dorhood of Tuskar Iiand would be geuugh to satinyy any. Body as to the seas to be encountered In ihe chancel, In paragraph two you allude to a letier | addresses to Mr. Bennett on the 14th of December. Teiegrawe excepted, I have not written that gentioman sine. ‘the 14th of November, dated Port Said, and in para- ‘aph eighteen of that jetter you wii) Gna Ube thy es mentioned, to Which, | presome, you meant to refer, thus Having, at Mr. Douglas’ request, promised to race the Cambria ‘ayatuat fappho for three \myortant races, | wished to avoid their taking place in the & , when hgnt ‘Winds and ealma prevail. in my aliusion to the three races I proposed i was x, ike ere to aucribe their origin to you, bus the di iu were courses consequent on your letter of january, 1669, which, in aay ‘was 3 challenge the influences of lig! rents, &c.” ey hb four you state | accepted your cbal- ipoes, but qualified it by naming twiree courses, rmit me to aay that a8 DO cOUTHE Was wu ecb bY oo nabere. could be no quaitficanon, anc by naming ‘equi three, for au opeu race, free at land breezes, eur ree races I merely endeavored to expedite an sable underatandi: In your letter of Febru ary 20 you expressed a preference for @ race to ine eoast of Spai , or the Azores, or fifty or sixty miles ‘Out to sea and back Irom the west coast! of Ireland, ‘On March 8, 1969, I declined Whéstwo Jermer races fn the same reason which @t shat period decided me to refuse the Dauntless an ocean race; and as Tegards the latter there was and is no reason why We should be put to the inconvenience of gomg to the west of Ireland to tnd a filty or sixty mile course. My communication or the sth of Mi clearly expressed my witimatum not to race the Sappho in wn Atlantic race, and which is reiwerated in your letter of ive 6th of January, 1570, by giving en extract from my lettersto you of ti Kd of Sep- tember, 182, the concinding paragraph in question Funming thus:— I consider mysolf boand to give yon the three races as romised, yiz.:—iound the Ile of Wight, Cherbourg and Kk, Eddystove and back, and on my return in December (will) gee you and duly arrange to give you Lue races to meet rour convenience, And in the ubsence of further correspondence I neluding You haa accepted the three courses named by i cially so as 1 gaid nothing to you at Cowes which | could lead you to conclude 1 intended to accept the Sappho for an Aciantic race or to modify my condi- uous. In fact, the reason why these three races did not come oif belore my departure for Suez Canal was you had promised Mr. Fish, your Inmider, that ou Would not race my yacit wniess he was on ard. On the 2ist September, while the Camoria Was stil! in (h¢ Cannel by stress of weather, you thus wroté mi: Mr. Fish, who altered the mode! of the Sappho, and who bas agreed ty sail berin any race she may en: bas arrived an it te Moloor. ‘He te obliged to return to America this autdmn, but I have made arrangeuents for him to © back In the spring. the end of May or the beginning J write thie more particularly to ‘snd as the Sappho bes on #0 badly beatea by your yaght, to give jue the Arst race Dext spring. Haviig definitely declined an Atiantie race, given you @ distinct proposicion for three races, and In the Absence Of any intimation from you that you de- clined to accept my challenge, I feit somewhat sur- prised on reading your letter in which you say you “considered the whoie business at anend.’’ Keler- xing to your remark in paragraph six as to an Atlantic Ocean racg, allow ine to remind fou chal- lenges to all America, dated October 4, 1868, were haved on the Royal Thames Yacht inh rule of ; bul consequent on no decision bav- as been come to between QUE clubs and the New Yorx Yacht Club, f waivéa this, to mé, all important question, and in my letter to Mr. Bennett, of November 14, 1869, consented to accept the New York Yacut Ciub measnre- ment, which J am advised would make the Cambria about 237 tons as agaivet 188 tons English measurement. It is therefore competent for you to have tue Sappho and the Cambria measured at Cowes by the New York Yacht Club rale, and if your ‘vessel 1s within the stipulated ten percent limit ! am bound to give you the lollowing races, and fora Gfty gainea cup each race:— SERIES NO. Le 1. Round the Tele of Wight. 2. From the Isie of Wigut, round the Cherbourg breakwater and back. 3, From tue Isie of Wight, round the fddystone igbthonse and back. 4. Cowes to New York; but in view of my engage- ment of the 4th of July to race the Dauntiess to New ~ York 1 Will accept as ine starting point the Vid Head of Kinsale and the same date, 6, 6 AND 7. A sixty mile triangular course in New York bay. If it ts found by your own cluo rate that the Sappno 18 not willun Uie terms of iny challenges of October 3, 1564, Loeg to pay the following series ace ope for your acovptance a fifty guinea cup each race, Cauall be enyrely ready to sail towards ne, If convonteal to you. you to bens mein mand, SERIES NO. 2, 1. Round the Isle of Wight. 2. From Cowes round the Cherbourg break water } | { back. 3. From Cowes round the Eadystone lighthouse and back. ‘To meet your objections As to light land breezes for No, 1 in Series No, 2, or ail the races, | propose the yachts shall be their moorings at Cowes on the let of April, and that they sau one oral: the matches in halfa gale in order to obviate tue annoyance of sailing in light Winds, which might be the case if satied later in the year. Your remarks as to currents, Ac., 1 believe exiat more in imagination | than reality. To prevent you being under any sk Sao aisad Vantage as regards a pilot round the Wignt | have | written William Nichols, who was the pilotof the | Cambria in the race against the Sappho ta 1865, aud dhe says:— » If Lam engaged by the owner of the Sappho to rail her | dn auy match Laboald do my best to win jo her, ae Pabould | Af T were sailing tho Cambria or any other of our Bagiish | yachts. If by reason Of excessive size your vorrei ie not eligible for series No.1, and if you deciine series Ko. 2, 1 will give you another serios—No, 4, Three races round the Nab @nd Ower's light- ships, fifteen miles apart, with # steamer anchored twenty miles out at sea, 80 as thus to form a trian: gular course of fifty-five miles, for a fifty guivea cup @acn race. In paragraph nine you say— \_ In_ thys offering to mail ap ocean race and a Channel race ‘2 trast thal J wand forole Ibe iaetouatlop. wbieb you throw oot In your a that Amer! competitors wher favor. | Me The The Course as Seen in the Map is from Nab Light to Owers Light, Fifteen Miles; Thence to a Stakeboat, Twenty Miles Seaward,-and Back to Nab Light, Twenty Miles. 110 paragraph two of Me. Bennett's letter, nen are afraid to mret their Engiieh the peresutage le not greatly in their | You Mustexouse my saying that your emphaite determination not to race around the course where | the Sappho was #o signally defeated contirms the | impression expreseot in my letter to Mr. Bennett that American yachtmen evince reluctance to accept | Any race on terms that might eudanger their cons. Ifyou now decide to acoept series Na? or No. 3, Or both, the above remark would certaiuly not | ba applicable to you; but # determination to athere | to the Cherbourg colrse Only will lay you open to | such opivions; becanse in @ triangular course, | or around te ight, you get sailing on | every point, with @ cériainty of more or less turning to windward; but such may | not be the case In the Cherbourg course, inasmuch as if the wind be biowm@ either up or down chan | nel you would get @ “so.dier’s wind,” and thereby | gach as would give the Sappho or olner American } yachts an undue adyguiage, seeing (here would be no rot | to wind War ‘ * ‘on Jecitne the race ronnd the Isle of Wignt I wih? on: fae that Fo 40 from your beef that the Sappho would stand o windward agaiust the Cato {seriea.2) Is the cawrse you ti and the third one you ought no! that it is & much lon, that of your own sei yourself se to object fo, 5 “ @ belter one whan | tion, ‘To prevent any correspondence arising on thi uesiion of mode of measurement, I w New York Yachi Clab’s rale and race the Sapy aloresald, with Cowes or Ryde time allowance portionate to the course sailed over. e, asnuoing the Wight course sixty miles and the time | ai) Apress minutes, the time for the Oher- | Be. ‘yld be thirty iniaurer W tae distance im 8a9 120 Mlics. ea) Referring to paragraph wx of yo ar, lows: { I cannot conceive why you should not profess to be to pit your vessel aga!nat mine for oc waive all consiiecations in Of equal tonnage w the Sappho—aud a, Cape Clear ty Sandy Hook. My reason for waiving Wy propositiuns for & series of races in Dnglish aud Amerivan w 4, the start lng po nt for the Atiantic race to be (he Old Head Kinsale, lusteal of Cowes, the date of departu gud accepting the ocean race only, ke 7 from @ conviction that Without T conceded all theme points, in deference to Mr. Bennett's wishes, the coutroversy appeared interminable, Wilh the grease probability of there being ne race. In making these Various Concossions {| has been to Opporition Lo Lie Advice Of several [reids—-expert ‘Proposed Race | by you | the | Bady Between the Yacht DGSTS F. f NEW GROUNDS xiand, under her former owner, over a course condemped a unsatisfactory by mauy prominent Bogiish yachimen, was a fair test of ber qualities as compared with English yachts, 1 was anxtous to make @ mateh with auy yacht in England over some suitable course in Enygliah waters, and I gave the preference to the Cambria for the reason that she | chanced to be the winner of the contest in which Whe Sappho was formerly defeated. I expected that my right to name the course to be sailed over woula bave been conceded, and I do not believe that any Engiwh yachtwao except yourself will regard that expectation a unreasonable. Allow me briefly to notice one or two points in your letter:— Per The article to which you allude in the Spirtt of the Times, February, 1869, was written under the impression that the course proposed wat a triangular one, having at tho ngies of the triangle respectively Cowes, wone and Cherbourg. The telegram which was sent to New York before the arrival of your jeter conveyed this idea, It ran wus:—“From Cowes eastwardly through Spithead, around the Isle of Wight; thence westwardly to and around the Bddystoue Lightnouse; thence routheasterly to Cherbourg, France; thence northerly to Cowes, the place of beginning, through the Solent.” When your letter was received and it was seou that you contemplated not one, but three, courses in the dis- (ance Damed, each for ® separate race, a very differ. ent view Was taken of the proposition. Seoond—The argument by which you endeavored to prove that the Sappho ought to accept the course round the isle of Wight would be much more foret- bie if used on the other sige of the question. Would i Bot be Batural to suppose that if you really con- sidered the Cambria as much superior to the Sappho as you Save More thay Once boasted that you would yourself prefer some Dew course ov which to assert he lority, and prove that It was pot the jout or & Leer knowledge of the course that @ you (ne victory? Your argoment, in reality, ainoullte bo Uae: Because | bave veaien the Sappho neariy two hours round she Isle of Wight, there euced yachimen—and having doue it lu (we Geer of Vat Courseds (he Lest one Over which to Lexy the the Dauntiess, | fecl Chat 1 ought net to be co led a SeaguIng Qualitio’ Of the Saypuo as com- upon to extend it 10 the Sappuo er other veasel# So | pared Wik (hose OF the Cambria, and should with. much larger toan the Cambria. vm hesitation ve accepted by tue former vessel, ‘Allow me to request you Wil make no counter | Which is avsard, ropositions In ai ape. My vltimetuw | Permit me to state that the preagice of Mr, Fish at before you, and it be tn for you to eccept No, | Cowes \ast sammer woud have wade uo diferenace 1 series; failing buat, No. Sor bok. If de. | ia WY deLertmimation Hot FO accept What { cousiaered line all, there will be uo race betweew Sappio aud | au uniau and wasatisfactory couree. Cambria. If you decide that te Sappbe shail be at her mooy inge on the Jet of April, Kiadiy savise meat yout earliest convenience as the Calabria is bow entirely diswantied acd the crew paid of for ihe wjatet, J remain faithfully yours, JAMES ASHBURY. ity what sense 5 to choose a jonas (te justice YOU assume the right not the courses, impose aii the con wi ), OU Biso to Dracd the Sappho with @ se.f- } scknowiedged inferiority should sue deciiue any one | of the conditions Which you are pleased to lay down, | Loans see. Pp. &.-Since wriling the foregoing 1 @ revelved your letter of tie 2stu t e f ited w | find that afver sending Your eommanteston Of the 6th January, you received iny severa: letlere written to you in Devember, the bon-forwarding of waich by yoor agent very naturally cageed you Co ¢ wae Thad not addressed you siace the 2719 Sep eben. REPLY OF MR. DOUGLAS. Accepts the Offer to Sail a Trieneelear fy . Lono's Hote, Loxpon, Feb, 10. 1870. JAMES AsuBUUY, ERq.t— Dean Sin—{ have already ackaowledged the fe Ceipt Of your letter of ime Slat of January, iD whic! FO IY Gua) surprise and regret you decune my cha) Jenge given 2 mouta since to any yacht in Sagian4, and especially to tue Cambria, for onear thre across the English Channel, from the Na» Light to Cherbourg and back, and refuse to give the Sappho any race at al! except over courses of your own se Jection aud under conditions of your own Mctetion. I have brouglt the Sappho across the Atlantic Ocean becaute I Co wot bejigve that ber defeat la lLomeret to sav miles out from bona Ate Cpeu Facer » the Azores ana back or Ofty coast of Ireland ana back, woh ae Were at fifet contem- | Javed by we. These sou ceolined, your objection to foe ast named belug the InconVeMience of going to | weiand, Was i. au €xtravagaut proposition on ths | part of @ yacht Whicb hed come 3,500 m).es to race the | eny Engen yacnt, Cambria in Kemctaaty, - avandoned these order, #8 far possible, to meet your views, and fon the oh of January I overed io race } ce Cambria next June over one of your own } Savoriie courses in toe Rnglieh Claunel, from vy jab to Cherbourg and back. Again soudeciined io race, Being pow convinced that if 1 ciarm any © ta the cnolce Of courses you will ¥ rom tee Sappho that satuafactton whica, before she crossed the ecean iast summer, you so ofses expreseed & Willlagoess to give, | Gow aban don the Course [rom the Nab to Cbervourg aod back nd accept the course #hleh you name in your jet. via.:— Prom the Nav Light round Ower's Light. @ distance of Gfeen miles, theace to and od & staxeboat or steamer tioned tweaty filles Out 6 Sea and back fo the Nev ight, waking a triangviar race of Afty-ive miles, Owing to the extensi¢ Ly Sappoo before she can be nn ve waich Lam iniormed by Mr. White w two moaths, end being Without eiiber om crew, L proposed ln my letter of particular? courses ta necessary to the British Wacht Sappho. MED: Ofna that we should not sail before the firet week In June. To accommodate you, however, I will press forward the work and wiil @aii in the month of May, aa pro- posed py youlna letter dated December 30, aster your match with the Daunt! had been arranged for the 4th of July. In @ previous jetier, dated December 27, yon say that the end of May or even ube begiuning of June would be quite agreeable to you. These lewers, beiag sent to Cowes, did not reach In¢, asi was in Paris, until alter 1 had for- Warded my jetier of the 6th of January. Ido not ask for haif a gale of wind, ont am per- | Tectly satietied to Lake the weather as 1 comes. There is one point, however, in your letter of the Slet of January to which I must take exception, viz:—the new condition that you now tinpose on the Sappho—tne ailowance of time which you claim from her. ‘This is the first intimation have had that the con- test between the Cambria and the Sappho was to be any ching but an eveu match, boat against boat, on their own merits, or that the owner of the Camoria thought of claiming tme froma vessel wlich he professes jo be able to beat two hours in sixty titles. 1 donot beueve that any one thought that the Sappho was to be handicapped, and from the facts now before me iam jorced wo the conclusion that the idea'has but lately suggested itself to your own mind. Were this merely my own impression and thatof my iriends {shoulda not mention it, but i baye how belove me your own words, Wick prove most clearly thai is was MOU your original iavenuon to demand tine. Ata meeting of the Royal V: ria Yacht Cub soon alter our first correspondence, liaving alluded to the clallenge of the Sappho aud your response thereto, your reiuarks are (ius reported: — “The same regsons ior not racing the Daunt) would justify (Mr. Ashbury) in refusing to rac the Sappho; but he was quite willing to forego the Sappho daving ue Voice io the maiter | differetice in tonnage between them.” This 1s & plan, straightforward statement of your intentions, aud can bear but one construction, If, therefore, you are willing to abide by your own words, the Suppo Will be ready to meet the Oai- bria on any day you may designate on and after the Ist day of May next, tO sail against her over the course above named of your own gelectiou. We shail mutually pledge ourselves to sail all the three races, not less than two or more than five days to Interveno between each race, unleds by mutual consent, If, on the other hand, you still decline to meet the Sappho, aitpough | shail not follow your example by tmputing to you mottves or fears, 1 must be allowed to say that any further remarks from you on the lack of courage evinced by American yacht- Bien Would be singularly Inappropriate, ri Lam, sir, yours Lraly WM, DOUGLAS, Boston Yacht Club. Tie Boston Traveller, of Baturday, Fev, 26, says:— Ata maeting of the Boston Yacht Ciub, the following oficers were elected--Commodore, Thomas Man- ning, yacht Juniata; vice-Commodore, Hben Deuton, yacat Violet; Secretary, Thomas Dean; Treasurer, Augustus Kued asurer, 0. J. Lawlor. KE, Mi. SeWARD AL THE ASTOR HOU A Reveption and Banquet on Thursday Next, Notwithstandiug the fact that Mr. Seward is ex- pected to deliver himself of anew net of political opinions on Thureday next, before the members of the New York Legislature, the Common Counctt, mérehante and citizeus, who are to be invited to the feast of reason and flow of Seward at the Astor House, the Gistinguisned ex-Secretary of State employed a portion of fils precious time in prayer and pratse at church yesterday morning. He left the Astor [touse early and did not retura antil late in the event it 8 undersiood that the public re- cepuon of Mr. Seward will take place in the Gover. nor’s Room, City Hall, on Thuraday neat. Senator Creamer will preside av the bauquet ip the Astor House 1a the evening. — WALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, —Tho returns to the oMce of the Secretary of the Commonwealth from ‘to several towns and cities of Massacnagetts of the assessments On the ist of May last sow that the valuation of the State was $1,341,009,403—~an increase of over $120,000,000 for the year. The increane of ous year Was $54,000,000, The total amount of money raised by taxation was $20,000,000, ever | $7,000,000 being raised jn Boston sione, The nuutber of polis taxe 987,043. There were 207,027 Gwelling houses In the State, ase during the 2 2 int ear of nearly 7,000. The number of horegs in the ii ate Was 108,114; nuMmMDOr Of cows, 10,830; DUMber op, 112.047, INTERNATIONAL YACHT CONTEST. Cambria and_ the Total Distance, Fifty-five Miles. - American BROOKLYN CITY. Letters Adrift—Rowdyism—A ‘“Bunged’ Eye—A TDrunkard’s Recreation. A package of letters addressed to the Brookiyn Post OMce was found in & vacant lot tn President street, near Van Brunt, by a boy yesicrday, and was handed over to the police who transmitted 14 to the Post Office. A dispute arose between Pat Walsh and Prank Keily, of No. 42 Jonn street, on Saturday night, whtie they were imbibing in the saloou of George Fitz- rald, No. 16 Bridge street, Kelly struck Walsn with is fist, when the latter picked up a ‘oung starter” and strack his assailant several scvere blows, causing two painfal abrasions of the skin over the left eye. Walsh was locked up to answer the charge of felon- fous assault, Advunken man named Michael Brennan, while staggering through Tuitd avenue, near Sixteenth atreet, yesterday afternoon, discharged two barrels of @ revolver at Michael Dwyer, a boy, who, for- tunately, escaped unhurt. sHrennan was arrested by officer Porter, of the Forty-eighth precinct, aud locked up to answer. Besides tie pistol a badge of @ United States otflcer was fouud on his person when arrested. About half-past three o'clock ou Saturday aiter- noon, at the works of the Playle Stee! Company on Imlay street, near Haniliton avenue, as Mr, Eds ward Richard Playle was superintending the con- struction of a chimney connected with the heating furnace at the above works, and while standing on @ ladder, Jost his foothold and was precipi to the ground, breaking bis neck. He ived oni? ten minutes. He leaves a widow and five children to mourn his loss. About cleven o'clock om Saturday night George Wachter, a clerk in tne grocery store corner of Ful- ton avenue and Downing street, while closing the store, Was assaulted by a party of rowdies, who ‘Were passing at the time. One of the ruiflans struck Wachter several times with @, shovel, when ne screamed out “Murder,” which cry attracted ocer Sweeny’s attention, who hastened to the rescue, ‘The rowdies stoned the policeman for a while, until the latter “charged” them and captured Owen Giiles- pie, ahgtter, ‘The prisoner was locked up to await examination betore Justice Lynch. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE Prominent Arrivals in This City Yesterday. Volonel C, A. Haas, of San Franciseo; J. A. Robinson, of the United States Army; Colonel 8. B, Suttle, of Tennessee; Colonel J. M. ilough, of Texas; Dr. H. H. Rogers, of Virginia, and Judge Norayke, of Jowa, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Judge Fiandrau, of Minnesota, and J. M. Mackie, of Great Barrington, are at the Everett House, Rey. Clarence Bird, of Sing”Sing; J. 8. Patton, of Detroit, and D. P. Southworth, of Philadelpuis, are at tue Hoffman House, Colonel T, B, Taylor, of Connecticut; J. B. Currier, of Boston; J. K. Taylor, of Buffaio; G. B, Powell, of Oswego, and J. G, Whitney, of Wisconsin, are at the Astor House, Lieutenant Governor Allen ©, Beach, of Water- town; W. ¥. Denckla, of Arkansas, and Dr. J, ©. Ayer, of Lowell, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Colonel R. C. Wood, of Louisiana; J. B. Pearsall, of Glen Cove, and Judge E. L. Goold, of San Fran- olsco, are at the New York Hotel. Captain ©, Snyder, of the United States Army; Dr. G. Robinson, of Elmira, and Dr. G. Stringham, of Saa Francisco, are at the St. Chariea Hotel. Israel T. Hatch, of Buffalo; Goorge W. Howlon, of Prince Edward Isiand; Lucien Scott, of Leaven- worth; P. N, Durgér, of Habfax; H. Fanton, of To- wana, and George G, Hall, of Georgia, are at he Filth Avonue Hotel, NEW YORK. HERALD, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1870.~TRIPLE SHEET. | et eS = — - = Seeenentntneetne 3 Sotith-oeteeneemnetea tater en eet NEW YORK CITY. Weather Reports—The Merkie Murder— Burned to Death—“‘General” Rogers in Trouble—Serious Accldents—Selz- ure of Gunpowder—Miscellane- ous Incidents—News Items. ‘The following record will show tke changes in the temperature of the weather for the past vwenty-four hours in comparison with the corresponding day of ast year, as indicated by the thermometer at Hua- nut’s ‘rarinaoy, HERALD Building, Broadway, oor ner of Ann street:— A fire occurred Iaet evening in the clothing store of Hermanr Fibel, No. 410 Grand street, which en- urely consumed the stock, valued at $1,500. While breaking the Sabbath yesterday skeung on ond corner of Sixty-fourth atrees avenue an unknown man broke tb: ee was drowned. His body lies at the Morgue. At six o’clock last evening an altercation eccprred betweeu two boys, named William Hart aud Thomas Perry, at the corner Forty-fourth street and Eighth avenue. Perry drew @ knife and Hart in one of his arms, inflicting a dangerous wound. A fire occurred yesterday mo: in whe notion store of John H. Wilson & Oo., No. 74 Frankia street, that inflicted $2,000 loss on stock and $500 op building. The Fifth precinct not ha’ Lo ig nd the details in at eleven o’ciock last night, fen ticulara are obtained from Deputy Fire Maral Riniseh, shes Warden Brenuan, of Bellevue Hospital, yesterday sent word to the Coroners’ office that Johu Maxwell, who had been admitted to that institution on @ per- mit from the Commissioners of Charities and Correc- tion, suffering trom @ contusion of the hip, bad died, An inquest will be held on the body. Deceased was twenty-five years of age and @ native of New York. James Digen, of 318 East Twenty-fourth street, ‘was yesterday morning cut in the abdomen by Thomas Suilivan, of 815 East Eighteenth strees, The affray occurred about five o'clock at the of Secona avenue and Twenty-fourth street, - livan made hia escape. Digen was sent to Bellevue ‘whétber Hospital. The surgeon was unabie to teil the wound Is dangerous. On Saturday officer Parsons, of the Seventh pre- cinct, seized alot of gunpowder at the Bridgepory dock, pier 38 East river, which baa been shipped by Uriah Woodbury, of No. 129 Maiden lane, to Win- chester Arms COmDRAY, Bass Bridgeport, Conn., ‘} the passenger steamer Bridgeport. It was ship} as merchandise. The powder was turned over to Fire Commissioners, Coroner Schirmer was yesterday called to 47 Jack- 0n street to hold an inquest on the body of James McNulty, who died in Believue Hospita! from the effects of injuries received on the 11th Instant, by being run over by his own wagon. Walle somewbat under the influence of liquor @eopnased was driving creas East Broadway, near Rutgers atreet, when he fell from hia wagon, the wheeis of which over his right leg, causing a Compound fractyre. De- Ceased, who had a wife and one cniid, was forty- eight years of age and a native of Ireland, eThe report of the Park Meteorological Depart- ment, for the week ending Saturday, showp the following conditions of the weather during pe riod: —Barometer—Mean, 29.712 inches; ms at7 A. M., February 20, 30,086 inches; mi aoe 3 A. M., February 24, 20,478 inehes; q Inches, “Thermometer—Mean, 26,8 degrees; Max mum at 3 P. M., ‘uary 20, 46.5 degrees; min! mum at 4 A.M, 9.5 degrees; 36 di Raton fell o having @ dure ton of Ave hours and minates and a of 00.500f an inch. The travelled vy the during the week was 2,311 John D. Currie, the fatuer who is charged with committing an outrage on bis daugitey summa Louisa (then thirteen years of age), on the 34 day by y { June, 1867, the facts of which have in the HERALD, was yesterday morning before Justice ina at Jefferson Peasy, of the Nint a. comm) de- faultot $2,000 ball, inais intoraal exam! a he stated that ite was thiriy-five years of th} Scotland, resides at 411 West Thirty-' 4 atreet, 4 occupation a shoemaker, and not guilty of the charge preferred against him. John McCormack, eiguteen years of age, residing at 607 West Thirtieth street, was yesterday morning arraigned before Justice Scott, at Jefferson Market, by detectives’ MoC: and Butcher, of the Six- teenth precinct, charged with being iinplicated in the murder of Jobn Mer! isthe) was beasen by ® gong \ of roughs in such @ orutal manuer, on the night of | me 2d inst, as to subsequently ee his = He was remanded to the vustody of Coroner Keenan, who will continue the investigation already begun at the Coroners’ office to-day. Mrs. Gertrude Simon, 8 German woman, thirty- two years of age, died in Bellevue Hospital on Safur- day night from the effects of burns received tne night previous. Mrs. Simon, who lived at No, 127 Division street, was sewing by tne light of @ kerosene ail lJamp guspended from the celling, when it exploded, and setting fire to her clothing burned her moat tearfully about the head, neck, body and lower extremities. ‘The cause of the explosion 1s to be the subject of investigation berore Coroner Flynn, The husband of deceased will give information Where the oil was procured and efforts will be made to ascertain whether it was safe to uae for Uluminating purposes. ng Simon left a hus- band ana several children, the youngest of whom Was severely burned at the time of the explosion. George Prince, who gives nis residence at the Post Ofice, Newburg, N. Y., on Saturday night yisited the establishment of “General” John Rogers, No. 121Greene street, having twenty-three doliars tn Xe wattot, Upon retinmg wita one of the. females Prince stated he gave his wallet to the proprietor for sate keeping, and received it back yesterday mornin; empty, Rogers alleging it was #0 when be it, Wiliam Jownsend, giving the same ad aso preferred a complaint, charging that ers took his wallet for safe keeping, containing fifteen dollars, and refused to return the money © fol- lowing morning, bat when arrested omcer Smith, of the Kignth precinct, returned him seven dollars. In addition to the above complaints oMoer Smith, upon ayraigning the prisoner before Justice Scott, at Jefferson Market, wenseeaay) ptemasea comp/atat against Rogers and his wife 'Y, oharg- ing them with keepin; disorderly house. In ae- favlt of $500 bail nswer each charge he war locked up to answel the General Sessions. ___ MISCELLANEQUS, Ml L WONDER. MEDICAL TTS LIFE BALSAM. Ne ‘and Gout, in their worst stages, Brora ee idod, great Debiity, Laver Gon: of Di o . " ‘nt, Kidneys, Galt Rheum, ‘Ac., £e., are most certainly plalah oy this’ sovereign purijar. ks been tested by wo years. directed. It fe a certain curate, tases, Ty cures the foulest ‘he bone bas caries, KONIC RHEUMATION. Fee aout, Vvot Corone Resume: cian, a, N.Y. y tan Hare thestre, Brock oope add Awerica from (be se after ~So A eC LOUS. ULCER. ATT'S LIFE BALSAM cured Mr. Jacob Roth, office 42 Greenwich sirest, of = Berofulous Ulcer, which bad eaten the flesh tothe bone. Mr. BR. was been cured 16 years, with out any return of the disense. Principal depot 243 Grand sirest, Sold by druggies, #1 per bi atx for #5. BSOLUTE, FROM THE courts of dierent § ion. 280! TE OR OBTAINED IN NEW YORK A Ind ana and Lilinole, &e,; legal everywhere; Bo puble ity; no charge 18 adranoe 4 a . ND CLASS CORINA AND CLASS na below cost. Our stock must ve sold cut before May | ext, and the buisinoas wii be egntinued ater, that date by our successors, Mesara, Nicol & Odvideon, at 4 Ori eet 6 00, Corner of Broadway aud firoome etrest, Our Store, 68x10, to lel, etter entire or the Lolie sepa rave a PATRAORDINABY BARGAINS. K } one marked ip plain Ggures. 4 exam ‘China and Glass at aud below com Muy L next, sud the te by oat wubo@neors, fF HAUANWOUT & CO, Corner Broadway and Broome ath Our Store, (x100, to let, ether entire or tho lof weps rately. ADICAL CURE, WITHOUP KNIFE detention fiom business, ot Sauartc, on , Fistula, Pies ‘and Deformities Dineasos of the Pelvic Viscer she Fre, Nove, Face ant Perea HENKY & DANIELA, D., 14 Lasingiog qrqnue, \