The New York Herald Newspaper, August 13, 1870, Page 4

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L PARK GAR PHEOVORE THO NEW YORK M''SEUM OF ANATONY, 618 Broadway,— BCIFNOE AND Ant, DR. KATN'S ANATO BOLENON AND Aut. L MUSEUM, 745 Broadway. — New York, Ssturday, August 13, 1570. —— = = CONTENAS ’ TO-DAY’S HERALD, ages and Deaths—Adver- eading Article on the War; Some Luxembourg—IDvaster tn thé Bay; fons Drown and Eight Missing—Su Night restival of the Liederkranz Soe! Armusen 5—The Ww, Report of B the Pos at Batt’e Imminent; MacMahon's Deteat; Operations at Met% ana jon at Nancy and Strasbourg: Pras. tion of Retaliation on Non-Com- Naneous ‘Telegraphic News— The Inquest Adjourned sine die—A Fiver Pirate Shot—Brooklyn City News—The Death Penalty: Execution of gro Murderers in Maryland and Virgima— indians onthe Warpath—Real Estate M: 7—The ¢ ‘adet—Ellen Conroy—Fur Ww Implements—' w York re s—The ten Teland News—Grind- aicks—Allezed Felonious hooting Adray—Financial and Reports. Races: Opening Day of the Sum- Meetng—Buttalo Races—Washing rnev General Aker an to t n Republican Assocation 4 Quibbie—Shipping Inteliig woy in the Nathan Cass—No Result Yer. The examination of the young man Kelly at the Nathan inquest on Thursday was a very extraordinary, and, we may add, a very discreditable affair to all concerned. When the witness was put onthe stand it was evident that all the Dogberrys about him meant to convey to his mind the impression that he was there in the position of the marderer of Mr. Nathan-—suspected, at least, if not convicted— and the whole tenor of the examination was to confuse and er the youth into some con- fession or contradiction which might enable the Dogberrys further to muddle the case and render di on of tho real criminal farther off than ever. Wedo not say that this was the intention; but if it had been no plan could have been adopted more certain of success, And it did succeed. Kelly's testimony with- stood all the shocks of a rambling and harassing cross-examination and yet left the mystery from being solved as it was on the 29th of July. The lawyers went at bim like a flight of valtares. They did not hesitate to wound him, with a view to irvitate his tem- per, on the question of his illegitimacy; but the wliiess baffled them by the manifest ‘straightforwacdness of his story and the sim- plicity with which it was told, although in some immaterial points the Dogberrys tripped the witness up a little. Kelly's story of bis war services, as to dates and incidents, must have puzzled his questioners. It is true he had enlisted nader a nom de guerre, and not his own, Thonsands of young men—nay, tens of thousends—who entered the army as pri- vatos did the same thing. He had not his dis- charge papers with him to show, becanse, as he swore, he could not find them in bis box at Mr. Nathan's house when he weat to look for them. But, then, they were presented in court by one of the lawyers, They had been secured by "he active po and taken from his box. If all the papers and documents in poor Mr. Nathan’s aufe and the other matters lying loose about the promises had been secured with equal diligence by the police who first took possession of the house who can say what different light might have been thrown upon this investigation ? The whole method of conducting the ex- amination of Kelly--the irrelevancy of the questions, the browbeating—is regarded by the public generally as unusual at a coroner's inquisition, and, in fact, as @ yery shameful ox- hibition. It would be impossible for the jury to find any decisive verdict after such a finale to such 4 perplexing investigation, and especially in view of the Coroner's charge that, with all the combined wisdom employed, be was unable to give the jury any clue to the murder. The inquest might as well have adjourned sine die as to hold over to a future day. Tax Cororrp Canut.—J. W. Smith, the colored aspirant for military honors, appears to have had a bard time of it since his admis- sion asa cadef at West Poiat. A court of ® inquiry to investizate charges of ill treatment hy his fellow cadets contained in a letter pub- Ushed in June last reports several of the charges sustained, and recowmended the nding cadets to bo court mariialed, The retary of War, however, believing thet a better feeling now exists towards Smith, com- toutes their senie to a public reprimand, Smith himself is indirectly censured for cere tain allegations fap his letter affecting the integrity of the examining board, but which he was obliged to acknowledge could not be substantiated. NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, AUGUST 13, 1870 ——_————— The War—Geme New Phases—The Neu- trality of Belgium and Luxembeura. with news relating to tho belligerents, Fuller dotails regarding the fighting of last Saturday convince us that the armles of France were badly managed on that fatal 6th of Augusi—a day henceforth not to be forgotten ia the annals of elther France or Prussia, Prussia, and, indeed, the whole of Germany, will ever bo prond of ft, To Frenchmen it will be a dark day forever. On that day, if French soldiers were badly handled, the soldiera and officers of the Prussian army covered them- selves with glory. The more that is known of that fight the more Napoleon is blamed. If the Emperor doos not in some way or other contrive to turn defeat into victory his im- peachment is by many competent judges con- sidered certain, During the somewhat protracted suspension of hostilities Prussia makes good her position, strengthens herself in the rear, and steadily, though neither rapidly nor rashly, pushes for- ward, France Is in a state of the wildest excitement. The demand for arms by the people has been yieided to, and every able- bodied man in the couniry is a soldier. The enthusiasm 1s intense and general among all ranks and classes of the people. The Duke d’Aumale, the Prince de Joinville and Duke de Charires have asked to be allowed to serve thelr country, The new Ministry seems to have inspired confidence; but it can hardly be said to have had a fair trial, It is undoubted’y strongly Napoleonic. There are some who make much of this fact, and gee in it proof of confidence inthe Emperor. To our mind it presents itself in a totally different light. We admit that ft is Napoleonic. All the members are stanch Bonapartists, and it no doubt is a good thing for Napoleon that such a Ministry has been formed. It pre- vents revolution for the present. It gives the Emperor another chance. It appears to us, however, that the Emperor is not much in thcir thoughts. In their anxious ‘desire to save their country from invasion the French people of all ranks and classes have for the moment equally forgotten the Emperor's great merits and the Emperor's great blunders. The Emperor has already beea depozed from the proud position of the Commandership-in-Chief. To a man so ambitious of figuring before the world as the modern Cesar this blow must be humiliating in the exireme. Th» London Times well puts it when it says, ‘Victorious or discrowned is Napoleon’s alternative on | the next battle field.” If the next retreat is “conducted under the order of Prussian needle guns” Napojeon must go to the wall. Prussia feels anxious, perhaps alarmed, about the coming operations of the French fleet in the Baltic and off her coast, Her auxiely is displayed in the threat of a resort | to the lea taliones, as we are informed by special cable telezram to-day. King William, it is said, has matured a proclamation declar- ing that for every act of bombardment which may be conducted by the French the Prussian troops will burn or otherwise destroy a French village. This, if perfectly true, is simply horrible. The French claim that the Prus- sians have so far engaged in most overwhelm- sustained (he most severe losses notwithstand- ing. : It {s not by any means certain that France will not recover from this blow and move in such force on the enemy as to turn the tide of battle towards Berlin, An- otber Jena is not an impossibility. It will take a mighty effort on the part of Germany to push on to Paris in spite of a million bayonets, King William ought to repeat his proclamation that he wars not against French citizens, But he ought to improve it by saying that he fights not against Frenchmen, but against the man who bas plunged two great, prosperous and peace-loving nations into war. Another great battle may be going on while we write. It is not possible that there can be much longer delay, We have always said that a battle must be fought before Monday first, somewhere between Metz and Siras- bourg,: and probably within the next twenty-four hours the two armies will meet, and the conflict, be it long or short, may be decisive. If france is again defeated it is our confident belief that the war will cease, Napoleon will abdicate. The great Powers will exert themselves to effect a peace on a reasonable but satisfactory basis, and France will be left to decide between a mon- archy, with an Orleans prince on the throne, anda republic. If, on the other hand, France should drive the armies of King Wiiliam back within their own borders, it is not our belief that tae struggle will be soon ended, Prussia will not yield; Germany will not yield until she is felled to the earth and made helpless, It will be next to impossible for France to invade Prussia. Whut with the South German States faithful on the one hand and Belgium and Luxembourg neutral on the other, it will be easy for Prussia to guard that narrow por- tion of her territory which touches upon France. The neutrality of Belgium makes the position of Prussia comparatively secure; and it is certain to have a powerful influence in deter- mining the issue of the war. In securing pledges from both France and Prussia that they will respect the neutrality of Belgium the British government have accomplished a great and an honorable work. The little kingdom is safe, and there is less reason to fear that the war may become European. It is a bad sign that the Bank of France has so soon suspended specie payments. Those who sympathize with the French In this struzgle are depressed by this intelligence. Financially there can be no doubt that Prussia is better prepared for war than France, It is gratifying to know that Great Britain has determinedly set her face against any league which might involve the nations in war, Von Beust’s attempt to induce the Great Pow- ers to form a league for the purpose of guar- antecing to the belligerents that nelther shall loge territory is simply absurd. If France can drive Prussia beyoud the Rhine France will keep the Rhine provinces, and she will have 9 right to keep them. But Prussia is now on the wrong side of the Rhine and on the wrong side of ghe border, too. PHaok oN THE Pratys.—Frontier settlers are jubilant and speculators and Indian tradors are in despair, Taere will be no war on the | Plains anless forced upon the Indians by ras- ing, disproportionate numbers, bnt that they |. cally whites. Thanks to the noble efforts of Red Cloud, the Sioux desire peace, and he is Our telegraphio columns are still crowded | persuading other tribes to lay down their arms and go upon reservations. Tous far the President's Indian policy has been eminently suocessful, and shows that the red man can be conquered more casily with justice and fair dealing than with the sabre and the bullet. Checring Signs ot the End of the Dry Season—Do Heavy Cannonadings Bring Rain? ‘We have the good news in our despatches from the seat of war that simultaneously @ith the copious, life-renewing rains which have been falling for some days past over all our own thirsty land, from the coast of New Eng= land westward to the Rocky Mountains, heavy and widely extended showers have fallen over and all around the late battle fields in Central Europe. From these interesting and cheering facts we are drawn to the conclusion that the long dry season, which has been so disastrous to all the crops in Europe, from tho Atlantic to the Black Sea, and so alarming to the farmers of our Northern States in reference to their growing crops of Indian corn, potatoes, grass, forests, &c., is ended, and that now, on both sides of the ocean, the suffering cultivators of the soil may look for bountiful supplies of rain, Recently, in the suburbs of Paris, they tried the experiment of a heavy cannonading, under the idea that the electrical perturbations inthe atmosphere caused by the concussion would result in attracting great volumes of vapor to be condensed in the locality of the salute to Jupiter Pluvins, Tho experiment, it appears, was not successful; and yet we are inclined to believe that the heavy cannonading of a great battle, or of a series of great battles in quick succession, will bring in the clouds and floods of rain. We think s0, because the cases wherein great battles have been attended or quickly followed by heavy rains are so nume- rous that we can hardly account for these phe- nomena in the chapter of accidents. Take the campaigns of Napoleon the First for example, and from ficld to field he appears to have been followed by the ablutions of the rain king. In his last desprate and disastrous struggle, afier several days of cannonadings in the battles culminating in Waterloo, the French army on that field, we may say, was van- guished by the beavy rains of that fatal 18th of June, in consequence of the deep mud thus created, in which Napoleon's artillery was mired and by which his cavalry and infantry were impeded in their movements upon the enemy. But again, in turning to the-great battles of our late rebellion, we find nearly all of them aitended or immediately followed by drench- ing showers of rain. The mere mention of the first Bull run, the sanguinary battle of Shiloh, the bloody and disastrous seven days’ battles of McClellan on the Richmond peninsula, the Bull run battles of Pope, ending in the rain and night battles at Chantilly, Antietam, the three terrible days of Hooker in the Wilder ness, the flercely contested ficlds of Chica- mauga, Gettysburg, and Grant's battles of Vicksburg and Chattanooga, Hooker's battle iu the clouds, Grant’s campaign In the Wil- derness and down to Richmond, and many other fields of battles and rains, from the Po- tomac to the Red river, go strongly to support the opinion that heavy cannonadings do bring down the rain. The facts to which we have referred in this connection are certainly very curious and interesting. Larger causes, however, than heavy can- nonadings have operated to bring oa, at the same time, these refreshing rains on both sides of the Atlantic, although the vapor in the European atmosphere may have been most heavily diverted to the Rhine frontier by the atmospheric perturbations resulting from the late heavy cannonadings in that quarter. We adbere to our explanation of this dry summer in Europe, and the United States and the Canadas, given the other day from the interest- ing meteorological reports embraced in the “logs” of the yachts Cambria and Dauntless, in their late Atlantic race. The great material centre and source of light and life to our plane- tary syetem—the glorious sun—has been giving out an extraordinary degree of heat this summer, Consequently from the rocky shores of both sides of Baffin’s Bay a-much larger summer procession of icebergs than usual has been cut loose by the sun, and has drifted down with the Arctic current from ‘‘Greenland’s icy mountains” into the Norihern Atlantic, These icebergs have thus, toa much greater exient than usual, operated as condensers in the Atlantic of the exbalations from the warm Gulf Stream, which otherwise would have been carried by the winds to the land on both sides, We may safely assume, however, that, by this time, those icebergs seen from the Cambria, and all the great procession to which they belonged, have been dissolved by the sun, and that with their removal the vapor of the North Atlantic is being borne on the winds te the parched lands of Europe aud North America, But while first consulting the great general causes indicated for the explanation of these returning rains in Europe and America, we are siill inclined to the belief that the late heavy cannonadings on the Ruine frontier have had much to do with the heavy rains that have so closely followed them. A Barrie IN IrgLAND.—By special cable telegram from Dablin we learn that a desperate fight occurred between the Queen’s troops and a body of Catholic citizens in Londonderry yesterday. ‘Three persons were killed and quite a number wounded. The Orangemen and Catholics got through the day apparently in quiet, but the Catholics and the soldiers came, it appears, in collision, A new phase in the Irish agitation, and of significance in the present condition of Europe. CoLLision IN THE Harnor.—Abont eight o'clock last night, as the steamer Norwalk was returning from Coney Island, having on board some six hundred passengers, when between Red Hook and Bedloe’s Island, she was run luto by the schooner Lady Ella and cut down nearly to the water's edge. A tug- boat was fortunately at hand and towed the steamer to a dock at Brooklyn, when she filled and sunk. Six persons lost thelr lives by this collision, and eight others are missing. This disaster is attributed to the negligence orincompetency of the pilot of the Norwalk, and his conduct on the occasion has already attracted the attention of the suthorities, The Shame and the Glory of the War. “The judgment of the Almizhty and of men,” gays King William of Prussia, ‘‘falls on him who foroes into wars of devastation two great and peaceable races living in the very centre of Europe.” These are memorable words, which will bear frequent repetition, Whether they fully apply to the Emperor Napoleon III. of France or to the pretended statesmon behind his throne, who insisted upon war and claimed that it alone could “crown the edifice” of imperial glory, matters little 60 far as the point and truth of the lesson are concerned, The invocation of Divine resentment and of human disapproval is just, wherever the answer to this solemn appeal may have already fallen or yet may full, All who provoke or precipitate war, especially in the very midst -of peaceful communities, are amenable to the one grand rule—they are conspirators against the happiness of humanity and rebels to the law of God. -Let us transfer ourselves for a moment to the extreme frontier of France, on the little river Saar, and close to the main line of ope- rations selected by the French and Prussian armies, We will put the date at the 16th of July, or less than one brief month ago. We are at the inn door of the smill town of Sarre- guemines, looking out beyond the slender stream that separates us from Prussian soil, The Saar winds placidly between its low, flat banks, and ‘‘disappears gracefully,” says the French correspondent, whose eyes we borrow for the oooasion, ‘‘bebind a screen of pop- lars.” On the other side is a neat little cottage home, with white curtains and yellow blirds at the windows, and in the tiny garden that slopes down to the river side a poasant sauaters quivtly, pipe in mouth, caressing his dog, who gambols beside him. Peeping over the green top of a gentle acclivity {s the sharp spire of a small village church. Near by is a wide field of waving grain, and on the rustic road that descends to the edge of the Saar is a hay wagon of quaint construction, drawn lazi!y by four sleek oxen. The driver, in a blouse and pantaloons of coarse linen, his brows screened with a straw hat, lazily swings his ox-goad and hums ao country song of the Fatherland. Suddenly the scene is enlivened by a group of chubby, flaxen-haired children, who emerge from the cottage and clatter dowa the garden walk, the youngest clinging to the hand of an elder sister, herself not six years old. A grim Zouave who is near us on the French bank leans against the vine-covered doorpost of the inn where we are standing and involuntarily emiles as he looks out upon this pastoral little picture in an enemy's country. An enemy? Poor little home on the verdant slope on the far- ther bank—does it shelter enemies? And those humble peasants, all unconscious of the wrong that even now holds murder and ruin over their heads; those playful children, laughing in the sunshine, are they also to be the victims ofthe infernal orzis which madmen call ‘“‘glo- rious war?” Even so. Behind yon green meadows and poplars and waving grain ficlds lies the gathering might of an indignant nation, while here are concentrating the mar- tial terrors of an empire famous for its fearful energy in warfare. A fewdays more and all this peaceful scene will have disappeared ; these banks will be stained with human blood; firo and havoc will have scattered forever that humble bome and its helpless occupants—the peasant and his little ones—and all that makes the domestic groups at which we now gaze so charming, even in their unpre{®hding humble- ness, to the true heart, Yet this is no mere fancy sketch. Such is an acourate portrayal, aithongh feebly given, of just the scenes that were witnessed, only the other day, along the streams andin the smil- ing valleys that unite, not separate, the ‘fair land of France” and thrifty, hard working Rhenish Prussia and Bavaria. All who have travelled in that fine agricultural region will recall them, with a sigh of regret, as among the most pleasing of the pictures with which real experience or rural description may have stored their memories. When we reflect, then, that it is to this profound peace ‘‘in the very centre of Europe”—to thousands of humble and happy homes like this, to whole regions of cultivated country, that the horrible iniquity of sudden war is bringing ‘‘the blackness of darkness,” with desolation, moaning and death; when to this we conjure up the vision of penury among the work- men and their families in the crowd- ed towns; the vico and degradation that follow it; the bereaved and broken hearts; the widowhood and worse; the orphanage, the beggary, the open and ferocious crime—in fine, the endless miseries that must inevitably follow close upon the march and counter- march of armies that massacre each other in the harvest fields and by the very hearthstones and in the shadow of church steeples which mark the abode of Europe’s most dense and alas! most Christian population—what voice, could it be heard over the whole vast circuit of the universe, would be loud enough to denounce befittingly the shame and the horror of this outrage against God and man which rulers make who “batten like butchers’ dogs upon the garbage of the shambles while the slaugh- ter of the good and brave goes on around them?” But we may still fervently offer up heartfelt thanks that just in proportion to the fury of this riot of evil the better angel of humanity puts forth a stronger effort. The courage, the devotion, the self-sacrifice, the numberless exalted and manly traits that this stern alarum of war thrills into revivified energy are partly a silver lining to the cloud, dark and heavy as it is, If the flower of France and Germany be led away from home and kindred and the gentle works of peace, they go forth singing of God and Fatherland. The French soldier, chanting the noble words, ‘‘Mourir pour la patrie!” is answered by the grand old hymn, “Ein fester burg ist unser Gott!” And the tears that either host might shed when the battle is over for their comrades slain. are less bitter when the proud response to roll-call is heard along the line, ‘‘Dead on the fleld of honor!” for those whom the bugle cun summon no more, Strange contradiction of our human nature that puts the sublimest of our inapirations to the palfriest uses of ambition and places the heroes of our species as superservicable tools in the hands of tyranny and intrigue! But thore are other beautifulincidents that redeem some of the grosser horrors of war, and these are becoming, we are most glad to say, espe- clally conspicuous in the present conflict, These have to do with that sweot charity which covereth 4 multitude of sins—the. gal- lant consideration shown to prisoners taken on either side, the tender care of the sick and wounded, the timely and becoming burial of the dead. As the captured French of Wissembourg passed throngh the German towns toward Berlin the populace of all ages and classes came forth to offer them rest and bread and wine, and many a fierce Turco and scarred Zouave wrang the hand of the poor Prussian peasant who saluted him with a kindly word and gave him a bite or sup, although 'twasina “hostile” tongue and in the ‘“‘onemy's” land. On the bat- tle flold of Woerth, almost ere the smoke began to clear away, the white badges of the surgeons and purses, authorized by the International Convention at Gengva, were seen moving about among the heaps of dead and dyinz. But everywhere, all over Europe and Amorica, the angelic hand of woman is stretched forth to aid and save. With them—mourning mothers, sisters and wives, as thousands of them soon may be, or, perchance, ave now, even while we writs—there is no distinction of cause or nationality. The Empress Eugénie and tho Queen of Prussia alike have hastened to the blessed work, and every day adds to the army of those who, amid all this frightful evil, go about doing good. With such manifestations ofthe boundless good that still exists, hu- manity may still believe that, as tho darkest hour precedes the dawn, so will the very enor- mities of this most cruel, most needless, and, therefore, most wicked, war of all, bo the last dreadful convulsion needed to disgust man- kind with international murder, and usher in the auspicious hour when all this gallantry, all this genius, all this love of country, all this endurance, all this tenderness and charity, shall attain their loftiest development in arts and works which shall bear no stain of tears or blood, but shall be indeed the glory and not the shame of humanity. The Carcer of a Fiend Arrested. Our criminal records from day to day are by no means barren of hideous and abomina- ble erimes, In fact, despite our police system and what we claim as our advanced civiliza- tion, the story of murder, outrages upon the person, and rapine generally, runs along, hour by hour, one chapter more horrible than an- other. A late case—we will not say the latest, because a few hours must elapse between the writing of this article and its publication, and a new horror may arise in the meantime—but a late case of extraordinary atrocity was that which occurred in Kighty-ninth street on Tuesday, where a young, viriuous girl, em- ployed asa household servant, was forcibly violated by her employer—he having obtained entrance to her room through the fanlight— and afterwards was savagely beaten and thrust out into the street almost naked. It appears by the statement of this ruffian’s wife whom, it is said, he treats most bratally, that the vic- tim in this case is not the first one who has been similarly treated by Linn, for that is the fel- low’s name. It appears that he is in the habit of employing young girls as house servants, in the Labor Exchange at Castle Garden, and DISASTER IN THE BAY, Collision Between a Coney Island Steam: boat and a Schooner. Intense Excitement and Melancholy Loss of Life. Six Persons Drowned and Bist Others Missing. Ae Gallant Conduct of s Tngboat Captain and Heartless Indifference of a Hamilton Avenue Ferry Boat Pilot, oa A most melancholy disas‘er occurred last evening in the bay, between Bedloe's Island and Robin'g reef, #xactly at fifteen minutes before elght o'ctoos. the steamboat Norwalk, from Coney Island, contain. ing about 600 passengers, was run into by the sthooner Lady Ellen, ladon with coal. The schooner, which hailed from Boston, was running under a stuff breeze at over eight knots an hour, Tho pilot of the Norwatk, named Seeley, who, according to the tea timony of all the passengers who made statements, was intoxicated, did not heed the schooner’s ap. proach till she arrived 109 yarda from his boat. He then blew one whistle, but it was too late to case @ sheet with any success, In sten‘orian he oried out, “G—d d—n your soul ! where are eoing with, that schooner?’ but the sound of ils voice had not died away wien the bowsprit of the schooner ene tered the wheelhouse, crushing everything before tt, A TERRIBLE SOSNE. “Bang,” “smash,” “crash” went everything within, and the crash aroused the passengers, wha were sitting cosily inthe cabin. I% was raining at the time, & heavy thunder storm nad just closed, and this was fortunate, for the passoagers had to se9% shelter within, and thus escaped waat would have provea certaim death to many had thoy ro- mained outside, In went the bowsprit, press3d forward with a tremendous weight of coal, till the boats becams weitged. The yells, screams and shr.eks that followed were so terrible ag vo unnervé the stoateat men, Two chiidren who were sitting on the gunwale dropped into the water and were drowned, Four ladies In their frigtt jumped or fell Into the water, but they were afterwards resend, A Custom House olticer named John Laing tried to slide along the addleiox into the schoon:r and went overboard, Ye clung to a reps, however, aud was rescucd, John W. Van Ordea. foreman o° Hook aid Ladder Company No. 12, of New York, was moro green aud he landed on the schooner with 2 j Al is time ths women and children shrieked In & mosg heartrending mann Men rushed madly and wildiy about, and ¢: of LUPE PRESERVERS were heard from eve: je. But the life preservers were not access!b'e fo the pagsen, the captain having them carefully locked up. 2 dividual, who had a wife and c! |, PI cured an axe, cut ope. the “lo et preservers to those wit reach. Othera threw benches overboard aid jumped after then, holding fast to them as buoys, Two men were In the act of throwing the small hoot overboard, which woul have provedidiaastrous under the cirenmst:n-es owing to the surging crowd, whei they trained by Dr. Shive, DieMEn, Wise BUCCES se around tiem and pre ven lug @ panic was the weans of saving mary lives, It wasanawful moment. Here and there were to be seen in the dim twilight men and wonen straggling in the water, white those on board tren bled with terror lest they should sink every mo- ment, Those who Wore on the Norwalk wll ne. ef forget it. TO THE RESCUE. Meanwhile a tuzboat was hurrysag to the reseud, We have no’ learned the name of this boat, bat her captain aeserves not only the lasting gratitude of the passengers hut thy thanks of the eattre come, munity, He re-cued many of those in the water, and then taking the Norwaik mm tow brought her to tie foot of Sullivan street, Red Hook Point, Brooklyn, grossly maltreating them whea he gets them into his lair. So bis wife is alleged to hava stated, We thonght that the Labor Exchange exer- cised some precaution as to the character of the parties to whom poor girls were hired out. If it does not, but if the institution simply obtains employment for them, regard- less of the society into which they may be transferred or the dangers that beset their youth and _ virtue, then we think that the Labor Exchange is but doing half its duty. It is as essential for the good of the employé to know the character of the employer as it is for the employer to get a rocommendatioa with the employé, In cases of poor friendless servant girls this is still more important, as the facts in this case of Linn show. But there is a feature in this affair which attracts attention to the police in a peculiar manner, It is stated that two offi- cers who were called upon by the poor out- raged girl to arrest the offender declined to do so on the ground that “‘it would be as much as their situations were worth to arrest Linn.” What does this mean? Is Linn 0 desperate @ bravo that two policemen were afraid to grapple with him, or is'he so potent a politiclan that the officers dare not lay hands upon him? The Police Commissioners will have to settle the matter with the officers and the public. If the conservators of the peace are allowed to’sneak away from duty upon such pretexts it would be well to know it. People will then comprehend the value of a policeman when a political rowdy trauagresses the law and comes into, violent collision with peaceful citizens, Ii is (o be hoped that the authorities will follow up this case and bring the career of the fiendish perpetrator of the crime to an end, Tue Rev River Ixsurcents appear to have been caught in the trap set for them by their more cunning Kanuck neighbors. Before the Canadian expeditionary force started from the shores of Lake Superior for the Red River country terms of settlement of existing difi- culties had been agreed upon between officials of the imperial government and commissioners appointed by the Winnipeg Logislature, and one of these terms was that full pardon and amnesty should be granted to all parties con- cerned in the insurrectionary movement, With this understanding the insurgents laid down their arms, Riel disbanded his troops, and the Canadian forces were suffged to march through the wilder- ness to the Northwestern settlements unmolested. The Canadian government, now that it has a sufficiently large body of troops at Winnipeg to suppress any further insur- rectionary attempts, throws off all disguise and declares that no such agreement was en- tered into, and if any amnesty is proclaimed those persons concerned in the execution of Scott will be specially excepted from its pro- visions, and that in regard to them the law must take its course. This certainly is taking @ mean advantage of the misunderstanding by the Winnipeg commissioners of the terms of the agreement, and we doubt if the Winnipeggers will permit Riel to be arrested without a stubborn resistance, ‘The democratic State Committee of North Carolina are out in an addxess congratulating the people upon hair victorr where the passengers wi ali iauded. The police of the Third sab-prectnct, unicr the supervision of Sergeant were on band and reniered valuabie je ein zi aesisthag and directiag the friybtened passenge's to te and Jerry routes, 28 many of the:n, belug strangers in Brooklyn, were perfectly bewildered on reaching terre firme, Subse \uently the sinking vessel was towed down tothe foot of Conover street, where she stranded, ‘rhe loss 1s estimatl d at 37,900. The owner Norwalk are George W. Wilson, John L, Lew! A. Smith. ‘his ts the second time within the two years that this vessel hits been sunk by collision, AT THE MERCY OF THE WAVES, The scnoouer, Wh ch bad embarked a large nome ber 01 the passeng she cae above Governor's Isignd the passengers signa'led the Hamiliou fevryboats seve.al times, bus no response was made, They were left to sirugsle on in their distress till the little tugboat returned from Red Hook ant towed them to the Ab lanuc dock in Brootlyn, whore the pase sengers were safely after giving if three heariy eneers ior their benefactor and de. liverer, the captain of ine tug. The passengers afterwards heid a meeting and resolved to present him ith 2 testimoniai, Damaging s.atemeiuts have been made against THY CAPTAIN AND PILOT : of the Nerwalk, That the latter was drunk no pas- senger who saw him di pates, and that tho former was engaged in vaylog b.8 addresses to two fair damsels within three miniates of the tine the coil sion oceurred four gentlemen, tactuding Dr. Sling, bear testimony, TRE CASUALTIES, Owme to the confusion which prevailed the nunve her of lives lost has not been asceriamned exactly, bat from the statements of several passengers at least six persons were drowned, ton or twelve otuers are mjasigg, One man, who misse two obtten and gis wie, was in ‘orme (mat they were on board the schooner, bot he could not find them afterwards, About forty persous were maimed or muiiated by tie fying splinters of wood and gias;, One man had his head cut open. Mrs. Joinette, of State sireet, New York, was severely out in the face. 6 is believed the barkeeper Was crushed to death, ag the bowsprit of the Schooner passed through the barroom. It should be stated that in the midst of all the tumult the pilot of the Norwalk was seen parading the upper deck with folded aris, and, cvol as a cus Sumber apparently inditferent to the scenes around in. STATEMENT OF CAPTAIN WILSON. Captain Wison, of the Norwalk, stated to & HERALD reporter last night that about eizht o'clock last evening, When off Bedloe’s Island, the schooncr whi'h st:u-K them wout about when under the Nore walk’s bows. The latter blew the whtstle; but, ine stead of keeping away, the u:known craft “hanied up oa the wind.’ and struck tho Norwalk almost amid-hip, on the lurboard slie, Tnere were about five hundred passeigers, ho thinks, on the Norwaik, she being the last boat from Coney Island, There were rumors aflout that seve eral lives were 10st; but Captain W1i.son, tho pliot, George B. Seeley and Captain HMavzard all assert peerely that none of the passengers or crew were urt. Those who got on board the schooner weng otf with her, tho officers of the Norwalk know not whither, only 439 SUMMER NIGHT FESTIVAL OF THE LIEDESKRANZ SODIETY. This, the first of all German societies tn the metro. polis, gave one of thetr characteristic midsummer fes- tivals last night at Jones’ Wood, The favorite pic. Mic ground was transformed Into fairy land with Chinese lanterns, calctun lights and gas Jets, and above the pale moon threw a silver mantie over the gay scene, The committee, consisting of Messrs, Ames, Greiff, Classon, Némboch, Sackersdorf, Schipper, Maas, Koch ond Gel:fusa were in all tho paraphernalia, excttement and bother of their ofiice, and with huge ros2tt-s, cood- bumored faces and never quiescent tongues, exerted themselves to keep the immense crowd iu @ per- petaal state of excitement and enjoyment. Tho* “wood” gigamed with phosphorescent aplender in the myriad lignts which nestled seemingly beneath every leaf, and the glare of the calclums swept every path with a bludtlag light. ‘The entire affair was most Feet and success» ful in every sense of tne word. ‘he Arions, spe+ cially invited by their generous vocal rivals, came out in stroug force and belind two pairs of gleam- Re spectacles (no reference to the “Crook” «or “Temptations”) we noticed tho Jolly faces of Paur end Bergmann, en route to drink success to “Our Fritz” and contusion to “Louls and 1” The two socleties, which represent the best vocal taleut tn New Yark, sang toyether all those stirring patrivtio German songs which alone are suitcient to account for the deep-seated enthusiasm that fires the Gerinan heart ant nerves the German arm now against the Mephistopheies of surope Wnno Wwe write (midnigh') huadreds of couples are whirl- ng On the vast dancing fluor to the superb muse of Bernsteia’s baud and otier hunireds are prouc. hading in tie brilliantly lighted avenues over which drowsy branches nod in response to the mus.c and fa a fiuga down her siver shafts Of Ught. Ey vin laden leat ts a siitetd on which thesg shafts are saivel and the quivering fra sments of light fali on diamoud ‘dered lair and gay wets, Had tt not beea for the mischievous pranxs of the c.erk of the weather pundreds more would have been there (o-nighs, Ariuted up the bay, and when ~