The New York Herald Newspaper, July 30, 1870, Page 4

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CENTRAL PARK GARDE (O6th wts.—-THOvOae THONA av., dolween 68th and ULAR CoNORRTS, NEW YORK M SUS OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway,— BeIENCE AND Ant. DR. KA ONIVAL MUSEUM, 745 Broadway.— BoENvE Now York, Sutarday, July 30, 1870. een nem ~ TENTS OF TO-DAYS HERALD, Pacr. Sameer ee ents ane Advertisements. Q— Adverts s. B—Leal Lsiove Matters—Sertous Resuit of a Chari. Ti—Disi ress in 1 £ aropean ons—-New pent of the two Armies ldyess tot ence or De Long Branca Races Movements of dunmer Retrea' « ‘ity Myster, Reports--The ge Accident—Marriages | chal and Board and De 6- Murder my th : A Revolting Mrdotght Crime | atic Poriteus of Twenty-third ; Benjamin Nathan, ‘achting Matters—The Late eck ng Aceident In Newa: Tus Nevrraury eiready witnessing i peutralily. and is a great workshop and agreat storebouse. She has everything on band which either of the belligerenis need. "France, told, is buying coal and car- tridges. P. buying blockade runners, Neither Power, however, is pleased with Eng- land. How can they bo? And yet wherein are English merchants to blame? British and American merchants will run risks in spite of | their respective governments. of the funay spectacles promised by this war is Bri- Aish and Av an merchants sailing in the pame boat. At the same time it is not to be d “that it will be more difficult for Great ut of the fray. Next SoLar Ecrirss.— Convress has decided to take a peep gun during the eclipse which fs to be vis Europe, but not in this country, next Decom- er. For that purpose a sum of twenty cana dollars was voted Isst session to eoable the superintendent of the coast survey to make observation of tho o ‘ope. This is quite t. We cannot fail to obtain ome important addi{ional information in the | ause cience by an intelligent sur of the coming phenomenon. Congress should be Liberal in these matters. While millions of the public money are squandered in ways that prould not even bear the light of a much eclipsed sun, thcusands, if well employed, | might redound to the great advantage of ecientific knowledge. Braxcu Raoxs, to continue for five doys, races each day, begin this day atone o'clock P. M. The amount of the reg- tlar stukes to be run for In these races exceeds Thirty thousand dollars, Many of the finest horses in the country are entered, and from the facilities by sboats and railways bffered for reaching conrse from this city, | and from tbe extraordinary attractions of the fashionable season at Long Branch, there will Woubtless be a larger and more fashionable at- teadance at these races than has been gatl ered at aay time upon any course ia the United aes: ‘The eleamboats Plymouth Rock, Hoyt and Sea Bird, and some extra | ' i teambouls rua between this city and the two Long Branch railroads, will sup- ply all demands ior transportation, See ad- vertisemenis. Operations, Active operations are evidently on foot at the seat of war in Rhenish Prussia, and we may have the report of a baitle at any moment, or many days may yet be consumed ia manceu- vring for position. It does not appear that the Prussians aro ready to fight just yet. Everything indicates that the French are ready ; but we doubt if the Fronch will under- take the Prussians in their chosen position without an effort to tempt or force them out of it. It is true that there are good reasons why the French shou!d push things to the issne of battle at once, but these reasons are not so imperative as to require a headlong advance. The collision reported as having occurred at Vockinger—perhaps Voelklingin, the second station west of Saarbruck on the rail from Saarbruck to ‘Treves—indicates only the direction of what is doing. This was a reconnoissance in force, made to ascertain the exact whereabouts of the Prussians in that neighborhood; how many and what sort of troops they bad there, and how these troops were posted; to obtain, in fact, the kaowledge that is always a more or less necessary preliminary to the cultivation of closer acquaintance. The fact, therefore, that the French are fecling the Prussian lines is significant only of move- ment—not necessarily of immediate battle. Our latest reports of the position of the Prussians .represented them as holding the line of the Saar, with their right on Treves and their left at Merziz. We cannot suppose these statements to be accurate, and must give them a little license where it seems necessary, when we consider the disadvantages under which the news is gathered, It is probable, however, that a force holding the line of the Saar in the present circumstances would not be posted with any great difference from this, At Treves the Prussian right would practically have the support of neutral territory. Not far from Merzig the river Prim, a tributary of the Saar, rons down from the Idarwald, skirting to the eas¢ and south the slopes of the Hochwald, on which the Prussians are massed, This stream, therefore, with the Saar and the Moselle, completely encircle the piece of hilly country held by the Prussian troops. This position is one at which an attacking party would fight under great disadvantage. It enables the Prussians, therefore, to hold the first practicable line of defence eastward of Metz, and to hold that proximity to their enemy in safety ; for the’ French will not assail them thus posted in a position that nature has framed for defence and whose natural advan- tages have been improved by art. But the French are beating up the quarters of the Prussians on their left flank, as we learn by the reported reconnoissance, and at the same time we hear from Berlin of a general movement of the Prussian lines. This move- ment is probably to the rear. The French need not attack the Prussians on the Saar when they Lave an open road to the Rhine through Rhenish Bavaria, by way of Kaisers- lautern, Should the French, therefore, marching from M+tz, avoid the Prussian prof- fer of a battle field on the Saar and move throngh Bavaria, two things would be open for tho Prussians—either they could move out of their chosea position io follow the French and take the chance of a battle, or they could retreat down the zone between the Nahe and the Moselle, to be at the Rhine simultane- ously with their enemy. If they have moved they have probably chosen the latter course. | The position on the Saar was chosen for the opportunities it gave to watch the French and avoid a batile. ‘he reasons that forced that choice still control the Prussian operations. An immediate battle is greatly advantageous to France, because she has in hand a full army of old soldiers, which Prussia has not. It is the point of the French therefore to force a fight, and of the Prussians to avoid it fora time and to make ao campaign of manoeuvre till the men are seasoned. If a battle is forced just now it will be a triumph of French strategy. Napoleon has issued a stirring address to the French army in the field; King Williom of Prussia bade farewell to the Household Guards in Berlin; the Belgian question keeps England excited; there are commercial failures and a money pressure; agitated peoples stand around the thrones, We may, therefore? and for every reason, assert that no man cen say what a day or an hour may bring forth in Europe. Taxing Ofice-lolders. We sec that the National Republican Com- mittee at Washington is determined to keep up that very bad and disgraceful custom of taxing goverament employés oa their salaries for campaign purposes. This was always a shabby practice, and this Republican Committee 16 to be ashamed of itself to renew it, Tbe present autocratic announcement, that ¢ NKHW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JULY 30, 1870. ——— ‘The European War-Bosianiag ef Aotive | Woman Saffrage—Tho Sarategn Womow’s State Convention, The women's rights women of the Empire State, in holding the first anniversary of the State Suffrage Association at Saratoga Springs in the midst of the gay season, have shown that they know bow to combine pleasure with business, The objects of the association and the parties concerned in it, the time, the place and the fashionable summer crowd at the place, were all happily adapted to draw good houses, We are not, therefore, surprised to learn that on the first meeting of these pro- gressive ladies at Hathorae's Hall, on Thura- day last, they were honored with “a large abd fashionable audience.” In any of our great cities gt this season, with the thermometer among the nineties, they would have had but “a beggarly account of empty boxes,” The proceedings of this opening meeting, too, were interesting, and, in contrast with the stupendous preparations for horrid war in Europe, they are refreshing to read withal. If we are not mistaken the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, as a woman's righis woman, is president of this asgo- ciation; but in his absence, the secretary, Mrs. M. UH. Joselyn Gage, called the meeting to order, and said that in the good work of wo- man’s rights great progress had been made since lastyear. The Rev, Mra, Olympia Brown was the first speaker, and her first remark was the expression of her pleasure at the large and fashionable audience assembled to hear her. She only betrayed the universal weakness of the sex, reformers and all, in her admiration of the fashions. She spoke of the emancipation of women by the Saviour of men, and of the teachings of St. Paul as those of awoman’s rights man; she abounded in glitiering gene- ralities, but the redeeming point of her wo- man’s rights argument was in her admiration of the fashions and the right to be attractive ; here she spoke like a true woman in behalf of that most invaluable right, except the right to a husband, of all the rights of the sex. Mrs, Selie Devereux Blake offered a reso- lution thanking a committee in the Con- necticut Legislature for moving in bebalf of woman suffrage, which, of course, was adopted by acclamation. The arrival of Miss Susan B. Anthony, in the midst of these proceedings, was the occasion for a great outburst of enthusiasm, and Miss Susan’s glowing account of the progress of wo- man’s rights in Kansas gave immense satisfac- tion. She eaid, too, that ‘by the old terms of exclusion women, negroes, idiots, lunatics and criminals were joined together, but now ne- groes have been released. Why, then, should women be left to stand with idiots, lunatics and criminals?” That is the qnestion, Miss Anthony on this the main issue ruled the afternoon meeting, contending that if women fail in many things ia which men succeed it is because men have votes and women have none, Mrs, Adele Hazlett was the leading speaker at the evening meeting, her argument being that of universal justice and equal rights, and partly in explanation of St, Paul’s declaration that ‘‘man is the head of the wife, the same as Christ is the head of the Church,” the inevilable conclusion being that whilo wo- men without the ballot can @o nothing, with the ballot they can do everything, from the making of a bonnet to the handling of a bat- tery of artillery in a pitched batile, | All this is the old story, and it is becoming to the public as monstrous ‘‘ns a thrice-told tale in the ears of a drowsy maan.” We think that the far West (in those new States and Territories where women are scarce end pro- perly appreciated) is, for 2 good footbold, the proper field for the active agitation of their cause by these women’s rights women. We think that the righting of the wrongs of the women of Mormondom, where a woman is re- duged to the half, third, fifth, tenth or twenti- eth part in a husband, is also a proper field of labor for Miss Susan B. Anthony and her asso- ciate feminine workers for women’s rights; and yet they have never a word to say of the wrongs of these poor Mormon women. This, too, when we have seen that those poor crea- tures, even with the bellot, vote according to orders from Brigham Young. ‘The simple truth is that woman suffrage is yet a long way off, and that, as it has been with negro guf- trage, it can ba reached only by » system of gradual approaches which our women’s rights women do not scem to understand. They do understand, however, that the watering places are the right places for their summer meet- ings; and at the conclusion of the horse races next week at Long Branch a meeting down sideration of his practical recognition of | there, in honor of General Grant and in con- | ’ every clerk holding office by the will of this | ®upreme council must pay one per cent on his income, has nearly created a rebellion ia that claes of faithful servants withia the party, They protest against the tyranny. They think s it is time enough to exact a portion of wages from them, but as no such event isin the immediate future it is untimely, and would seem to iadicate weaknegs in the partly to put on the screws just now. The whole system is wrong and always has been. It demoralizes the public official by de- grading him into a mere serf of the party, paying tribute for the right to live. . We are surprised to find a party of go much intelli- gence and virtue asthe National Republican Committee represents lending itself to the continuance of this practice, To be sure, it has drawn much of iis life and the sustenance thereof from this souree heretofore, but has not the time come to abandon ii? Are there not pickings and perquisites enough in the vy vious public offices, the contracts aud the w lo margin for plunder which the immense ing ne of the government offers, without ing the poor clerks? We repeat, it isa th .voy proceeding altogether, the’ Wait Srregr Desrrtep.—The Stock Ex- change was almost empty yesterday afternoon, the “boys” having goue dowa to Long Branch to be in good time for the races. . The ‘‘oul!ls” and “‘bears” wrangled a little about gold, but | otherwise the ‘“‘gtreet” was yery quiet, when a Presidential election is on the | | go. wonen’s rights, woul? doubtless prove a great sensation, Chinese Ewigration~A New Decree. The new decree by which the Chinese gov- ernment, through the Foreign Board at Pekin, has limited the exportation of Chinese laborers gives aa entirely differen! phase to ihe subject which has been deeply ogitating opinion in the United States. This deor according to information received at Washing. ton from General Legendre, Consul at Amoy, provides thut only treaty power cheats cau open emigration agencies, only treaty power ships can carry emigrants, and it is only to troaty power companies contract emigrants can By this order the couvention of 1866- rejected by both Iran nd England on the ground thal it amounted to s prohibition of the coolia trade at the treaty ports—hecomes a law of tho ompire, binding upon the native The Consul thinks that Je the trafic must dio off. ese labor will hence- The exportat! forth be Those who come from China to America will now come spontaneously, of their owa free will end motion, as the Irish, Ger- mans and English have Their comi will thus be, endell Phillips expression, ‘‘a welcome aud valuable addition to the mosaic of our nationality.” OF imported ia overwhelming masses by tho con- certed action of capital, the inese would eras the labor of America down to a pauper level for many years tocome. But the new decree of the Chinese government will avert so dreadful an evil. There is no longer any danger that the capital of the country will set to work by system and wile co-operation to import Chinese laborers in masses to ‘‘disgorge them upon us with unnatural rapidity.” In that case, indeed, their coming would be “‘a peril to our political aystem and s disastrous check to our social prozress.” Now, however, Chinese emigration will come in slower natural currents, It will not be necossary for us to dam by special legislation an ariifielal flood of barbarism, Thanks to tho wise order of the Foretzn Board at Pekla, only volunteer emi- grants from China may now be expected. To them, as wellas to volunteer emigrants from every other country, the United States of America offer work, liberal wages, homes and equal rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The Mysterious Uptown Murder. A murder as mysterious as that cause ctlébré, the assassination of Dr, Burdell years ago, occurred within the hours of mid- night on Thursday and six o’clock yesterday morning, in the residence of the victim in West Twenty-third street. It happened, too, in a populous neighborhood, directly opposite the Fifth Avenue Hotel and in the vicinity of many other hotels and fashionable restaurants, It was not a lonely district ; not in the depopulated suburbs, nor on some desolate heath, where we often hear of dark deeds of this kind being done out of sound of human ears. Thero were at least three persons besides the mur- dered man in the house—his two sons and a servant—but the first intimation they had of the tragedy was finding the mangled body in the morning. This case of brutal murder attracts more attention from the fact that the yictim was Mr. Benjamin Nathan, a brother- in-law of Judge Cardozo, and a gentleman highly respected in the community, who for years has held # prominent position in the Stock Board, who has amassed considerable wealth, and whose charities—expended prin- cipally among that persuasioa of which he was a much honored momber—have been always liberal. It is said that the police have little or no clue tothe perpetrators of the murder, We cannot think so. Brief as the time has beea since the crime was committed many facts have been elicited which should put sharp detectives on the track. That the deed was done by bar- glars may be assumed from the blowing up of the safe and the abstraction of the valuable watch and diamonds. That life was ex- tinguished by blows from a bluat weapon, and that probably the iron hammer or ‘‘dog” found on the floor, the condition of the body shows. That Mr. Nathan did not surrender his life without a struggle is clear from two facts. He was found upon the floor in the mid- dle of the room, and therefore was not taken by surprise, and his right hand was terribly mutilated by blows, evidently received in attempting to protect his head. So much for the testimony indoors. The outside clue as to the departure of the mur- derer from the house is said to b2 a statement of a boarder in the Fifth Avenue Hotel, that at fivo o'clock in the moraing of yesterday he saw a man leave Mr. Nathan’s dwelling by the front door. This man must have been con- cealed in the house. Clearly he was nota resident; for the two junior Nathans were the only living male parties in the dwelling at that hour. Another voluntary witness states that while retnrning from the Hoffman House, at half-past one, he saw two men on the stoop of Mr. Nathan’s house, but he could not ideatify them. This probably proves little, as it was a stormy night. In all this there seem to be some links that may be woven into a chaia of evidence leading to detection. The detectives have an additional stimulus to activity in this terrible business by the offer of ten thousand dollars reward from the Stock Exchange. The burglar craft cannot well outbid this. There will no doubt be a further reward offered by the Mayor for the detection of the crimi- nals, all of which will put the police in good humor for their work. It is evident that the torrent of crime and bloodshed in this city has not been stemmed. Is law too slow or justice too lenient, that peaceful citizens must be not only exposed to the violence of the armed rowdy on the streets, but that even the sacred precincts of their sleeping chamber can be invaded by the murderer? We are not surprised that this shocking event has created a sensation of horror and fear throughout the entire com- munity, People feel that we live in the midst of a terrible class of lawless rafixns, at whose ricted to voluntary emigration. | rwise, | hands no man’s life is safe from hour to hour. , The Saleswomen’s Movement. ‘The movement recently inaugurated in favor of obtaining concessions from employers in re- gard to the hours of labor and the rigid rules to which the saleswomen in the retail fancy goods stores in New York are subjected de- serves hearty encouragement, Miss Netta’s appeals in behalf of her toiling and suffering sisters may be slightly exaggerated, owing to | the euihasinsm which is natural to every advo- cate of anew reform. But no reformer with- out enthusiasm can ever hope te catch the | public ear. Making all due allowances for her | somewhat highly colored siatements as to the petty tyranny which the saleswomen have hith- erto been compelled silently to en lure, we are convinced that there is too much sad truth in the complaints uttered by Miss Ne is no argument in favor of early closing, sno- cessfully urged by the young men who formed ‘Dry Goods Clerks’ Karly Closing Associ- p,” which might not be urged with equal force hy the saleswomen, ‘he istter need far | grevter indulgence than the young men ia re- ect to the “liberty of sitting dowa” for oeca- pnal repose. Both classes of clerks should have ample time to eattheir meals. Moreover, work should be paid according to its value, ir- respective of sex, Employers will themselves and by agree that a woman why does the seme work, and does it as well, as a man, is | honestly entided to the same wages. Indeed, we should like to see the employers holding meeting and unanimously volunteering to lessen the number of hours doring which the sales- | women are now kept at work, and otherwise to gratify their reasonable demands. We should prefer such a meeting to the one of which Mi | Neita was vice president the other evening. That her meeting was not very nomerou: tended does not prove any lack of interest or sympathy on the part of the saleswomen, Many, it is said, did not*venturo to attend lest they should be dismissed by their employers, Let the employers themselves meet and win thanks from the saleswomen and praise from the public by recognizing the claims of justice and by showing that there is really no ‘‘irre- pressible conflict” between labor and capitel. The interests of both are mutual, There | ‘The War and American Seouritics, The fact that the Amertoan securities de. clined from the highest poiut just before the noise of war was beard to the lowest point since, about twelve per cent, shows how iatl- mately connected the monetary affairs and the stocks of our great nation are with those of other nations. There has nothing occurred in the United States to cause a decline in securi- ties, Indeed, the credit of the government was rising every week and month with the in- creasing prosperity of the country and accu- mulating resources of tne Treasury. Tho debt is being liquidated at the rate of one hun- dred millions a year, and people both at home and abroad see that it is but a bagatelle to this rich and powerful republic. Everything tended to raise the market value of our securities as far as the condition, means and prospects of the country go. Yot they declined abroad twelve percent, and relatively at home, in less than a month, The disturbance in Enrope is the sole cnuse—a disturbance with which we have nothing to do, and which is not likely to have any damaging effect upon our prosperity, If anything, it will in the ead increase our trade and importance in the world. Govern- ment stocks, that are floating in large amounts, are like any other commodities. The market may be glutted by the desire to sell and realizo money in such a crisis as the present one in Europe, and it is this tendency in the com- mencement, and uncertainty of the struggle, that has affected American stocks, as well as all others. So, too, our stocks may fluctuate for a time with tho even's of the war; but in the end they will recover and rise to their in- trinsio value. They have already recovered over two per cent in the markets of Europe from the lowest point they reached a few days ago, though the prospect and immi- nence of a terrific war has not in the least abated. Should the ‘war spread and bo prolonged even they must rise after the first perturbation is over. Whoever among tho people of Europe may be able to hoard money in this crisis, or whoever may want a safe and well-paying investment, will certainly prefer to invest in United States bonds. They will cast their eyes across the Atlantic and see the stability of our government, the boundless resources of the country and the wonderful future that lies before us, and they will place all their available means hero and in our stocks. We conclude, therefore, that what- ever may be the temporary effect of the war upon our securities, or however they may fluctuate for a time with the events of the war, they cannot remain long depresged and must riss in the end higher than they have yet reached, South American Coalition Against Spain. The republic of Colombia has long since shown its unmistakable sympathy with the struggling people of Cube. At an early stage of the revolution the Colombian government, as if responding to the desires of its people, recognized the Cuban movement, and thus gave it its moral support. Peru was also early in recognizing the aspirations of the Cubans in their strnggle for independence. Others of the South and Central American re- publics heartily prayed for the freedom of Cuba from Spanish rule. Beyond sympathy, however, in the cause of the patriots no active steps were taken to render them active aid. At length Colombia, as if desirous of being foremost in the van, agein took up the Cuban question, and on the 17th of last month in the House of Representatives there was passed a bill which, if concurred in by the Senate, will prove equivalent almost to a declaration of war against Spain, Tue enthusiasm of the Co- lombian members of Congress on the passage of the bill was most unanimous, and showed plainly that Spanisi rule on the isthmus bas not been forgotten. The act of Colombia is evidently an independent one, It may be, however, that the goverument has assurances that other of the Central and South American republics have signified their willingness to enter into a compact against Spanish power in the Antilles. Be this as it may, all that was wanted was some government to lead and others would be no way slow to follow. Judg- ing from the recent act of Colombia that re- public is willing to set the example. The following is a resumé of the bill passed in the House of Representatives, and will serve to show the determination of the Colombians: 1. The cause for which Cuban patriots fignt is the same for waich Co.omibia fought imcessautly from 1810 to 1824, 2 Tho mterests of self-preservation, and our duty ssacivilized ani Christian nation, justify in the mosi complete rT Colombian intervention, 2 The aggressions of mous > aiust the liberty and independence of America Ways have had and will have for a base Spanish do: ta Cuba. 4 The policy of the United States cannot serve as ® gulde to Colombia in this occasion. 6 The resources we way need for this war are not aion our mens, . The tine nag arrived that Colombia should ag- sume in the politics of South America the position to which sbé is callea by her topographical situa. tion, ber historical traditions, her poyUlation and her political congue. This is bold and unmistakable language, andi was evidently not put forward witbout thoughy and preparation, The fifth article of the bill say's that, “The resources we may need for this wit are not beyond our means,” Whatever may be said of the wisdom of the | measure, there can fe ut one view regarding | its sincerity or its independence. Free Cuba bas at Jongth found an actly, @ sincere, frank, independent ally—one who Knows what it is to suffer for long years the crcel oppression of the Pewer that draws ita ‘€ustenance | from Cuba, but who» now enjoys the privile; of a free government aad liberal institutions, Ii is the desire that Coba should enjoy similar advantages that no donbt impels Colombia to take the step just taken, The action-of the other | Spanish American republics will be looked forward to with anxiety. We know Spain has not many admirers on the isthmus or in South America. Colombia has shown a promptitude, determination and an independence worthy of a free people, and challenges our admiration by the bold and chivalrous mater in which her countrymen express their sympathy for a kindred and a suffering peopie. EXTENS.VE FIRE IN PRINCETON, N. J. ‘The extensive works of the Princeton Lamber and Improvement Company, located at Princeton, N, J., were destroyed by fire on Wednesday night last. ‘The chief product of the.company was wood for pavement purposes. ‘Tals is the establishment with which Martin Voorhees, the uofortunate tuventor and patentee, who !9st his life in Brookiyn @ year or | 0 ago, was connecied, The loss 13 large, but not dednitely stated. NEW York CIT Y. Local and Police Paragraphs ani Mispellaneoud Items of Metropolitan News ‘The following record will show the changes in tag temperature for the pa3t twenty-four hours io comparison with the corresponding day of last Yeer, @s indicated by the thermometer at Hudnat’s harmacy, H. jadway, corner pharmacy, HERALD Building, Broadway, coruer of 1362, 1870, 83 85 oo 83 88 12 % a Average temperature yesterda sees 83% last vear....... Fe ome Mts ot There 1s not the slightest foundation for the rumor circulated by the eventing press yesterday that Cap- tain Samuels, the navigator, {9 missing. He was tn excelient health with histamiy ac ls . chester county iaat evening. e309 ead Achild named Ellen Quimby, aged four years, yesterday fell from the third floor window of No, 227 East Thirty-first street, causing a concussion of of the braio, She was scat Ww Bellevue Hospital, Coroner Rollins was yesterday called to hold am Inquest at 358 Cherry street on the body of Timothy Cotting, an infant fifteen montns old, whose death resulted from scalds by the accidental upsetting Upon hin: of a boiter of hot water walle the mother Was engaged in washiug clothes. Henry Miller, of 403 Canal street; Louisa and Ross Miller, of 33 Camal, and Catharine Miller, of 31 Greene street, were committed, im default of $509 errs hy, maailos Bhandley, at pier Market eB 8 itu kee} it the above uuiuvers. Lites am amma Se!ina Bell, @ woman twenty-fonr years of age, born tn this country, died from the effects of injuries recetved by ‘aliig from a third story window of the premises No. 51 Thompson strest to the pavement. Anmquest will be hetlby Corovuer Rolius, Deceasea received @ iracture of the skull, There are lew Wit nesses in the case, While Sergeant O’Brien, of the Metropolitan Po luce boat, was cruising yesterday morning before daylignt in the lower bay, near Bay Ridge, they boarded 2 smail sloop of suspicious action, named Jeniie East, when the parties in charge jumped ashore and escaped, fue stvop containe:t about tiily= dive doliars’ worth of pig trou aud other articles, An Infant two days old, the illegitimate child of & girl nineteen years or age, named Perkins, died ta Eleventn avenue, between Seveuty-ninth and Eight eth streets, without medical attendance, The caso was reported to the Tutcty-fir-t preciact police sta- tion by Dr. Utter, of 100:h greet and Broadway. Voroner Rollins has been notitied to avid an Luquest on the remains, Yesterday afternoon a lively Might took place in Canat street between two men, Loth of whom were very much intoxicatel, The punched each other's heads in fae style for five minutes aud then clinched aud fellin the gutter, whers Unsy were faoally se- parated by an old Irish woman who kept a peanut stand wear by. Neliner of inem was arrested, there no Ron a’ policeman anywhere about the noghe yorhuod. A general mecting of the delegates from the twenty-six divisions of the Social Reform Benevo- lent Society was held last evening at the Teutonic Assembly Rooms, Third avenue, between Fifteenth and Sixteenth Streets, Joun schneider, pre-ldeat of the society, presided. Reports were made by the treasurer aud the executive committee in regard to their fesuival, Wuich was held on the ilth of July, at Jones’ Wood, for the beuefit of the Germun Hos pital, Arbeiter Untoa and the Gerwan Logal Aid Society. ‘Jue proceeds trom it amounte | to $650 ot Anilare to be divided equally among the above name institutions. Afier tra sacling & iarge amount of reulne business the mecting adjourned: PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE Prominent Arrivals in This City Yesterday. Captain G. T. Olmstea i, of the United States Army, and Geaeral F, A. Sturring, of Wasiington, are at the Hoffman House, W. W. Oliver, of Chicago; M. B. Phillipp, of Wash- ington, aad J. Campbell, of San Francisco, are at the Coleman Hoase, Baron Alrensieben, of the Prassian Legation, and A. M. Remsiell, of New London, are at the Albe marie Hotel. Father Patrick Healy and Captain H. Donneily, of Springfeld, and J.C. Bates, of New. Orleans, are at the Filth Avenue Hotel. Sir James Walker, Governor of the Bahamas, is a¢ the Clarendon Hotel. George Charles Coles, of yacht Cambria, and W. Banon, of San Francisco, are at the Brevoort Houre, 8. M. Fiournoy, of Kentucky; Vernon H. Vaughary of Sait Lake City, aud W. A. Gardner, of Selma, Ga., are at the New York Hotel. Liewienant-Commander J, H. Rowland, of tho United States Navy, und E. W. Peckhaw, of Chicago, Gre at the Metropolitan Hotel. Colouel W. 8. Adams, of Hartford ; Major James Case, of Saratoga, aud W. France, of Maryiand, are at the St. Elmo Hotel, Colouel J. C. Suith, of New Jersey; W. G. Fargo, of Bufalo ; Colonel BH. ©. Ransom, and J. Q. A, Zeigle, of the United States Army, are at the Astor House. * General L, E. Webb, of Wisconsin; W. P. Denckla, of Arkansas, and C. G, Scott, of Arkadsas, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. FIRE IN DIVISION ST Lose of Life—Bravery of Palice OMecers. About .seven o'clock last evening a fire broke out in the third story tenement house, No. 106 Division street, occupled by H. L. Kaufman as a cigar store, Jt was caused by the explosion of a liqnit gas lamp. ‘The ive rapidly ran up taé@ stairway and communi: cated with the vpper stor es and ent of al meas of egress, ‘the second floor is occupied oy Nathan Frank and family aud femaie boarders, ali of whom took reiuge on the third foor, and, wiih the exception of Dora Marcus, escaped to a shed im + Dora waa taken to the Seventh precinct Sintion house suffocated, and died soon after. Mary Sbaw, tu trying to secure her clothing, Was Nearly suffocated, but was rescued by Sergeaut Crow aud Roundsman Robb. A young girl, Annie Po.se Jumped from 4 window ‘and was severely injared. Kautman’s damage is $200, no insurance; Mathes $1,009, vo Lnsurance: Mrs. Suaw’s, $100, ine ed; buiiding owned v Isauc Solowon Was damages $1,600, and 13 covers by insurance, KOT , Coroner Keenan yest eid an inquest, st his Office In the City Hall, case of Mra. Agnes Little, late of No, 455 Was alleged to have died received at the bands © The testimony utierly i Tiirty-ninth street, who vin Und effects of violence y husoand, dotu Littes | to wake out a case against the ace o Was of iniempe- rate habta, ‘Th had quarreiied occas.onally and Little may haye beaten her slightly at waters vals. Wooster Beach, M. D., made a post mortem ex. anination on the body, and in his opinion Mrs. Little died from the ei of intemperance, hastened by the heat. The jury accordingly rendered @ verdict to that effect, upon which Little was dls: and jeft the court wilh irleuds, Who seen) deut of lus acquictal. god Cou Dangorons Condiion of the Mother. Yesterday afiernoon Captain Thorne, of Twenty-sixth precinct, reecived a despatch from tne Centra} OMice, addressed to Coroner Rollins. The despatch, which was prompied by Drs, Povier and ‘Anwstvong, staigd that in their opinion the recovery of Miss Esther BE. Cowron, of No. 248 West Thirtye seventh stiect, charged with pea | her i " infaut by strangulation, is very doubtful, and that if the Coroner wished tw see her he bad betier cit soon, a3 she is likely t die, In the opinion of the medical atiendauts Miss Cowton was tnable to make 4 statement, but W she were she might ve wawiliug todo so, on the ground that anything she miguk say regarding the unfortuuate occurieace might tend to crumipate herscll. “MUSIC th CN TRAR PACK. The Department of Puljic Parks amnounce that, if the weather be fine, there will be music by the Cen tral Park Band ita Central Park this afternoon, commencing at half-past four o'clock P. MM. lowlag 1s tke programme:— PARE K The fol- Mareb, “Ynbel”” Overiire, “Le Di Air, “Alpine Hc Waliz, “Un the Dunice Grand Selection, *Macbot jchian Vesp emiramiue