The New York Herald Newspaper, September 8, 1870, Page 4

4 POINT BREEZE PARK. Second Day of tho Autumnal Trot- ting Meeting. Brilliant Attendance, Charming Weather and Intensely Interesting Races, Western Girl the Winner of the 2:26 Purse, Dot and Hickory Jack the Team Prize of $1,500 and Jennie the 2:50 Purse of Tuesday. ‘The second day of the autumnal trotting meeting at Point Breeze Park can be justly chronicled a3 the continustion of a grand success, a result which the | management are alike gratified with and proud of, There are no reasons why this should not have been fully and unequivocally attained for years back; but there was lacking to a minor degree some of the vim ana energy which alone can achieve decided results, But tis deflelency having been supplied, and the oMicers being in great accord and with one mind toward the object sought—the plac- ing of this course on a footing équal tothe most noted in the country—the present result | is eminently gratifying. Many tmprovements | have been made since last year and others are in contemplation. There is every opportunity to make it and its surroundings of great beauty. The location 1s of surpassing love!tness, the roads leading thereto pleasant and picturesquely bounded, the distance from the city of that character to give charm and variety to the drive, an! the structures already onthe grounds commodious and commendably ap- propriate. Ina word, Point Breeze Park, from its natural advantages, can be, and should be, the finest trotting park in the United States, Nature hag given ita face of triumphant and boastiui gladness, H and the conquering hand of man can readily be- | stow the finishing touches. | The number and variety of vehicles present under | the sheds, in the shadows of the maple groves, in the inner field, with its high grass waving like a West- | Western Girl then began to close up aud Bradley | browe and feil in the rear. ern prairie, and outside the enclosure, exceeded the | number of the first day, and poured forth a mul- ttude of every respect. from the leading hotels at intervals of fifteen or twenty minutes, carrying passengers at a reasonabie price per head. By ten o'clock the drives leadtog from this city | i were full ofequipages. Carriages of every style, with a good sprinkliug of country vehicles, rushed along the sandy avenue and H fa | lime poured into the gateway of fashion. Among | the grand cavalcade were many New York | prominent gentlemen who bad again shaken off the | cloak of business aad had journeyed hither to view the beautiful ground and its surroundings and note ; the changes in the condition of the various horses | to contest since the latc meetings at Monmouth Park and o'her courses, Since the races commenced Philadelphia has | awakened to a true and pleasant interest in the | races, which promises to be abiding. The tair giris of the city, who usually have but little ; to do in the time immediately following | the closing of the summer season and the | period of winter gayety and irivolity, were tustilied ‘with the importance of imitating thelr own charm. | ing course at Saratozn and Long Branch, where the fashionabies of the land are wont to meet, and Instead | of lolling their time away in the drawing rooms of their homes or promenading Chest- nat strect during the morning hours, titey | told. papas and mamas that Point Breeze | must for the day be their destination, and the same | dutiful perents, who had also canght the infection, | succumbed without inuch coaxing and scolding, } and ordering their dutifal co.cumen to the door at #n early hour prepared tur a day of genuinesport. It | was had, and entered into with Such enthusiasm that | the admiration tneident to such a charming under. | taking Was spontaneous. Mingling with this throng | of elegant ladies and tieir escorts they sped from | the beautifol, magaiticent, vast and glorious City of | Br therly Love along Broad street and out on the to the course, in vast joyous groups. The scene from the club house balconies was ex- | ceedingly picturesque. ‘The grass-covered race | track gieamed like an exquisite emerald set in | sparkling framework, Of darker hues where | the piue and snaple, with here and there an old giant | tree, without a twiz on its straight, smooth, rouad, | glossy, silver stem, skirted the beautifal junction of the Delaware and Schuylkill, and on every hand, so | far as the eye could reacii, the stretches of green and | gold, where the hervesters and haymakera were j busy, and the sii pped spires of elegant | Villas iad comfortable «welling places, Great flelas of light shed on the track, and the bright sunshine edged its penelrating way through the thickly studded groves and the ceralean background of dis- | tant hills, vaileys, meadows and islands. ‘the track was Jn Letter condilion than during the first race, although it is always very sandy; but yet its condition couil st! be further moproved, and | doubtless will be before the meeting ts over, It is | s annoying to drivers | mer case it 19 Often | ectators. times very detvImenial, ava instances are numerous where it has been the cause of horses betvg dis- | tanced whew in ficids, A liberal sprinkiing | would be of inca! + wervier. The day was ot delicious nature. From | c as it winds crescent-ike about tio ‘on, and the arrowilke Dela. viy waters of the for: the breeze in delightiai coolness over the thousan ent and toyed with the delicate branches of the | spruce and map » | Now ana then the ghdi business, passed down towards the sea, the myste: | rious trdcery of thir cordage, added to the general beauty of te picture, which Gvoked shouis of ad- miration as the eye ing panorama of gio and contending horses. The events of the day were the two regular races ted alternately on the shift- s, GUL house, slivery waters | and the wnfinisied 2:50 trot o: yesterday. ‘The de- | cidtog beat of the jatter was trotted at an early | hour and won by the brown mare Jeune, the bay } mare Flora Day second place and = the Diack mare Oncida & third pri The first purse, of . $1,500, was h&ses | that have never trotted better taan 2 $90) to it, $450 to second aud $150 to the third hor-%® fue entiies for this wi four—Wan, H. Borst's bay | gelding Joa J. Brad piel Mace’s chestnut | mare idol, O. A. Hickok’s brown mare Western | stallion Henry W. | allion Gene not at Lue Park, and was conned to the three first, The purse of $1,600, for teams, neither euiher in_ harness, wagon or to beaten 2:50—$900 to first, $450 to | second and $159 to third horse. In this were eatered W. K. Doble’s bay gelding Plue Dick and brown mare | Lizate Keller, Mr. Goodwin's gray stallion Ironaides | and chestnut mare Liguttoo:, Badd Dobie’s chestuut | gelding Dot aud chestnut stallion Hickory Jacob, 3. J. Jackson's bay .éiding Bess and bay mare Flora | Day, and William baine’s bay stallion Garibalut an bay geiding Two White Heels. Both of these races , were mile heais, best three in fe. The team race excited great interest and caused | considerable betting, so much so that tue pockeis | of the countrymen—repleuished since — last night from the stockings or the “old wo- men” at hove—that they even astonished themselves by thelr own acilon. Doble, Sr; puiled the ribbous over Blue Dick aud Lizzie | Ketler; Goodin was behina Tronsides and Lightfoot; Budd Dobie superimtended the working of Dot and Hickory Jack; Jackson looked afier Less and Fiora Day, and Dan Mace the iteresis of Garivaidi and Two White Heels. The team of Budd Doble looked very pretiy #3 tt passed up and down ‘the track while engaged in the preliminary work of scoring. ‘Yhere was Sadescrivable confusion in tie matter of thelr getting away for the first heat, and although two of the teams were not within the dia- tance at its finish, they were not “shut out,” owing to the Jamentable character of the start. ‘The Western sun shoue cooler on the track and | the shades of twilight had begun to deepen, | and Dapiel Piifa's devet. hence the rac seoond race, horde of wiuch, the pole, had ev and the birds ceasea to hop arodnud one’s head as the had some hours before, when the last heats were being trotted, Another sei of insects were in the air. The flowers that a while ago were broad and | wide awake, now hung down their heads, and those then hushed to slumber had awoke from their day dreams and looked almost as if they were going to speak. Those nearest the track went home iu the picasant pearly-porple light of receding day, wile the more distant had the gorgeous lignt of a full moon to keep them company. The Racing. } First on the programme was the unfinished trot of | Tuesday. The summary and detutis of the deciding heat trotted to-day is as follow THE UNFINISHED TROT OF TURSDAY. BREEZE PaRk, TUESDAY, Sept. 6 and 7.— Purse $1,000; for horses that have not trotted betier than 3: to the first, $300 to the second and 100 to the third; mile heats, best three in tive, in Hotman’s br. m. Jennie.... « 2 2,8 die 8. J. Jackson’s b. m. Flora lay 081472 W. H, Doble’s bik. m. Oneida.. 713598 8. vrs ariemague....1 6 7 3 5 5 Ww. 3 De WhileHeels...3 45 23 3 iE. "br, Sones Billy 6 u 8 8 H 4 Lovett's 8. g. Jon P. Jenkins. 4 9 3: uber Gateeed bis. g- Charley 3 686767 46 4dr 3. 1 whe Coaches and ‘busses ran | exciting struggle then ensued between the trio up tie ie ap | homestretch, whlca ended by Western Girl winning | Wheel; Western Girl far behind, The time to the A | Second and $16) \0 the third team, uille Leats, best W, Bane entered b. &, Garibaldi and b. g. Two White Hecls........0.. dis, 8. J. Jacksou envered b. g. Bep and b, ia. Flora Day 5 5 dis, i Mile, First neat..... eas, Second heat aT | matter of javorites. j fur behiad. | Flora Day svn, NEW YORK HERALD, THUKSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1870.—TRIPLE SHEET Hay. Mile, rat 1:19 heat 40 1:19 Fourth hoat. 3945 Ms rifth heat 4ory 1:2 Sixth heat 39 4:17 HE BRTTING. Jenale was tho favorite over the fleld ta both | pools and ontside betting. Sixth Heat,—Jennie took the lead at the start, hav- ing several lengths tho best of it. White Heels was second, Chariey Davis th'rd, Charlemagne fourth, Flora Day fifth, Joun P. Jenkins seveath- and Oneida eighth, the other horses eligible to start being withdrawn, Going around the lower turn Jennie made the gap between her and White Heels six lengths, Flora Pay third, the others strang out several tengtis apart, but entirely out of the race at this early stage ol it, On the backstretch Ftora Day | trotted very fast and passed White Heela, The quavier pole was passed in thirty-nine seconds. | When they reacted the half-mile pole, which | was passed iu 1:19, Flora Day was three lengths behind Jennle and two in front of White Heels, ‘the others following on Sing @round the Lowor turn the Httle Day closed on Jennie very rapidly, and near the three-quarter pole was lapped on her; but there she made @ double break ant fell of seve- 131 fengls, but did not Jose second place, not with- standiug her mishap, Jennio eutered the home- stretch iour lengths ahead of Flora Day, and, trotting steadily, came in a winner by three lengths; Flora Day second, White Heels third, Charley Davis fourth, Jhariemagne Ofth, Honest Billy sixth, Joun P. Jenkins sevenii and Oneida eighth, Time of the heat, 2:37, Jennie woa the Piss prize, Flora Day the second inoney and Oneida the third premium. The following are the detal!s of to-day’s racing:— THE FIRST TROT. Point Barszis ParK, Sept. 7.—Purse $1,500, for horses tiat bad nok trotted better than 2:26—$900 to the first, $150 to the seoond, and $159 to the third, nilié heats, Deat three in five, in harness:— B, Dobie entered b, m. Western Girl. W. H. Borst entered ». g. J. J. Bradley Dan Mace cutered 3. 1a, Ldol, Dau Piifer entered br. 5. H. W. Geuet far behiad, TIME, Quarter, Half. First heat...... » 38 1:6 Second heat. 1:16 Third heat 114g Fourth heat. alt THE BETTING. Western Girl was the favorita over the fleld In ols at About Even Money before the siart aud conunued 60 throughout. THE TROT. First Heal. Bradley took tho lead, Idol second, Westera Girl tiurd, the latter breaking soon afier the word was given. Bradley continued to lead around the turn, and was two lengtns in front at the quarter pole, in thirty-eight seconds, Idol sec- ond, four lengths ahead of Westera Girl. Going down the backstretch, Idol went up and passed Brudloy and led ops length tothe haifinile pole in 1:15. As they passed the three- quarter pole Idol was leading one lengin, Western Girl second. two lengths in front of Bradley. A very the beat by a head, Idol second, a neck in front of Bradley, This was one of the prettiest endings of a heat that was ever witnessed, and was hauled with | wild excitement by the spectators. The time of tho heat was 2 5 Second 4—I. J. Bradicy had the best of the leg | send off, Idol second, Wesiern Girl third, led two lengths to the quarter pole in thirty-eight around ite upper tura Idol went to the front an: seconda, Western Giri up and eightor ten lengths behin On the backstretch Bradley shut y the daylight,'and at the half-mile pole was at Idol's pole Was 1:153s the lower turn Idol drew away from =Bradiey aga and showed daylight of & iensth at the three-quarter pole. fue | Strugvle ensued up the homestretch, Brad- ley gaining on Idol at every stride until, | at tne distance stand, he was on even terms with her, and, coming on strong, passed herand won | the heat by two lengihs, Wescern Girl trotted the jast half mile very fast and was close up at the i Time of the heat. re Third Heat.—Idot took the lead, Western Girl seo- ond, Bradley third. Going around the turn Idol Went to tue {rout four lengths, Bradley second, | Western Girl third. At the quarter pole Idol led three lengths, Bradley second, one length in front of | Western Girl, iime to the quarter-pole was tbirty- | seven seconds, Going down the backstreteh, West- era Girl took sides with bradley, and they closed oa Idol, the latter passing the half-mile pole one lenyth ahead of them in 1:144%. Idol H Opened the gap to two lengths om the lower turn, but gett invo the homestretch sie began to give | itup. Bradiey then left bis legs and tovk several jumps before he bevan to trot again. Western Girl came steadily along and soon overtook Idol, and then passing her wou the heat by a length. Brad- ley was secoud, haif a leugth ahead of Idol. Time of the heat, Me Fourth Bradiey had the lead by three Jengths when the word was given, Idol second, with estern Gil close up, Going ‘around the turn, Western Girl took second place and at the quarter pole was at Bradilev's wheel, four lengtis in front of | burglars through the rear window and robbed of $141 in money, a gold watch and two sets of jewelry. Dot and Hickory Jack second, Blue Dick and Lizzie Keller third, Garibalal aud Two White Heels, aud Flora Day were distanced. Time of tho Fifth Heat.—Biue Dick and mate had the lead, Trongides and Lightfoot second, Dot and Hickory Jack third, Tronsides and mate took the lead around the turn, Dot and Hickory Jack second. At the quarter pole Ironsides and mate led ten lengths aud continued to lead that distance to the lower turn when Dot.and Hickory Jack made a flue brush and closed rapidly on the others to the stand, ‘The Judes decided a dead heat in 2:33. ‘The quar- ter pole was passed ia forty seconds and the halt mile pole in 1:10, Bine Dick and L azie Keller were jus! tnsice the distance dags. Strih tleat,—Bive Dick and Livzte Keller were now ruled out for not winning a Leat in five, and no third prize Will be paid. Ironsides and mate took the cad aod kept it all the wey around the track until thoy passed the distance stand, when Dot and Hickory Jack overtook them and beat them home haif a length in 2:39. The quarter, was made in thirty-niue seconds and the half mile tn 1:20. TAR SPORT TO-DAY. The racing to-day will embrace, first, a purse of $1,500, for horses that have pever beaten 2:30; $900 to first, $450 to second and $160 to third horse. This has eight entriea—viz., M. Koden’s bay geldin; Charley Green, Ben Dantels’ bay mare W. H. Doble’s bay gelding Colonel Russell, J, M. Miller's bay mare Mary, O, A. Hickok's roan mare Edna, M. Gooden’s chestnut Gelding Harry D., Baine’s bay stallion Garibaldi and John L. Doty’s brown mare Lady Augusta, The second event will bo @ purse $1,500, under saddle, for horses that have never beaten 4:24; $000 to first, $450 to second and $150 to the third ‘horae, Tn this ore five enirtes—Willlam H. Borst’s bay gelding Dobie’s bay gelding i Hotspur, 0. A. Hi icKok’s roan mare » Willtam King’s black horse Rapid, and J, E. Turner's bay mare Fanny Allen, These contests gre to be mile heats, hest three in five. The saddic race will un- doubtedty be very interesting, and alone worth a visit to Point Breeze Park, r NEW YORK GITY. Trading on a Bogus Bank Account—A Lauda- num Vrinker—Murderous Affrays—Ar- roste—Accidonts, Inquects and General Nows Items, ‘The following record will show the changes in the temperature forthe past twenty-four hours in com- arison With the corresponding day of last year, a+ indicated by the thermometer at Hudnut’s phar- macy, HeraLp Building, coruer of Ann street:— 1889, 1379, 186). 1879, i 68 8PM. 85 80 6) «OP. M. - 84 80 73 9PM. aT 12 M.......004. 84 77 13P. M, ot) Average temperature yesterday. 14% Average tomperature for corresponding date” Tosi year..........5 787 The Department of Public Parks announces that Af the woather be fine there will be music by the Central Park Band in Madison square this evening from half-past four to nalf-past six o'clock. Morley, the Sixth avenue car conductor, who a sensation morning paper yesterday had killed by a hackman named Short, was but stightly injured by the pistol shot that entered his side, Judge Hogan yeserday held in ball Patrick | McCarthy, a bartender, of No.3 Amity place, ona charge of his having stabbed in the face with @ knile Edward Mulha'l, of 30 Prince street, James McWilliams yesterday morning met Peter Mullard, of snatched from him a watch valued at ten dollars. M ams was arraigned before Judge Hogan at e' i the Tombs in the afternoon and iield to answer. | Thomas Reilly, bandinasier of the First regiment National Guard, Hawkins Zouaves, died yesterday at his residence in this city. Deceased was an old | and popular member of the command, and will be buried with full muttary honors on Friday next. Profeasor Louis Elsberg last evening concluded his lectures before the Liberal Club, on the subject of natural evolutions, the paper read betng entitled “the Hypothesis of Regeneration in relation to the Evolution of Organic Gerun On Tuesday night the residence of Martin Raynor, in 131st street, near Third avenue, was entered by Tno value of the property is about five hundred dollars. ldol. Time, thirty-niue aud @ half seconds. Going | down the backsiretch Western Girl broke up and | fell in the rear. She soou resumed her ortginal | place, however. At the half-mile pole Bradley led one length in 1:17; [dol two leagins behind. Brad- ley kept the lead until far up the homestretch, when Western Girl passed him and won the beat by haif a length in 2:32, Bradtey second, three leugtis alread of ldo, THE SECOND RACK. Same Dav-—Purse $1,500, for toans, neither horse of which has, otcher In haraess, wagon, or to tie pole, beaten 2:30—$990 to the first, $450 to the taree in Ove. g. Dot ands, 1 2201 2211 06,3} 8. ty Jac! M. Goodin entered and s,m. Lightroot W. H. Dobie entered b. g. and br. m. Lizzie Kelle: a a4 37 2:38!¢ 2339 TH BETTING, Dot and Hickory Jack sold for more than all the others together before the start, and during the exciting contest fluctuated betweea them in the THE TROT. First Heat.—The horses exhausted the patience of the judges aiter scoring several times, ami they tivatiy gave notice to the drivers that they would start them the next attempt, no mutter how they came to the score, They did so. ironsides and ghifoot came up first, Dot and Hickory Jack next, then Bep and Flora Day, followed by Garibalal and Two White lieels, Lizzie Keller and Blue Dick far behind. Jronsides and Lightioot led to the quar- ter pole 8.x lengths in forty-one seconds, Dot and Hickory Jack second, eight m lengths ahead of Garibaldi aud Two Winte Heels, then followed Be; and Flora Day, Lizzie Keller and Blue Dick still At the half-mtie pole the distances between the teams were about the same, Irousides and mate passing that point in 1:2144. Going around ure lower turn Dot and Hickory began closing, aud as they turned into the homestretch were very elose to the leaders, A fine struggie up the homeward resulted in Dot and Hickory Jack winning the heat by a short neck in 2:4234. Tronsides and mite were second, Garibaldi and mate third, Biue Dick and Lizzie Keller fourth, and Bep and a ne last ere ee hahaa far pewipd the distance fi ut the judges took into ons! oretick the Ree ‘gend of aud did not shut them out, we" 1S ays Second Heat.—Ivonsides and Lightfoot had the Dest of the send off, Dot and Hickory Jack second, | Gep and Flora’ Day third, Gartbaldl and White Heels fourth and Lizzie Keller and Blue Dick filth, Av the quarter pele Dot and Hickory Jack led one length, Irousices aad trate second, the other teams as before noted a long way belind. The race to the end was between Dot and mate and Ironsides and Lightfoot. The quarter pole was passed in forty seconds, CGotng down the backstretch the positions of the teams were unchanged, and Dot and Hickory Jack pussed the half-mile pole with Ironsides aud mate lapped on them in = 1:19, There was no change | io the end, Dot and Hickory Jack winning the heat by a leneth, Lrousides and Lighifoot sec: Jongtis atiead of Biue Dick aud ho were several lengths in front of p and Fiora Day, Garibaldt and Two White Heels » Time of the heat, 2:37. Third Heat.—Dot and Uickory Jack and Jronsides and Lightfoor Ret away on even terms, a lengih in front of Garibaidt and Two W Heels, the other teams ae 1 Jengths benina, Going around the tura poi and Hickory Jack broke up and fell back to third position, As the leaders p: «| the quarter pole in thiriy- nine and a half seconds, lronsides and Ligntfoot led four lengths, Garibatdi and mate two lengths Di ahead of and Hickory Jack, Blue Dick ana agzie Keller fourth and Bep’ and Flora Day | ftth, The positions the teams wero un- changed down the retch, aud they passed the half mile pole 1:18!%. Garibaldt and ‘two White Heels Dot aud They were at that ta then broke up and Hickory Jack took second place, ume six lengttis behind, but they shut up the gap rapidly and gained on fropsides and Lightfoot to the finish. jaiter team won the-heat by a length, Vor and hic! ny Ja k second, Lizzie Keller and Biue Dick third, Garibaidl and Two White Heels ni and Bep aud Flora Day iifth, Time of the heat, 2 4 Pour tep and Flora Day were away first, Tronsides and Ligiittoot second, Dot and Hickory Jack third, Glue Dick and Lizate Kelier fourth. and Garibaldi and Two White Heels fifth. When the quarser-pole was reached Irousides and mate led three lengths, bot and Hickory Jack second, Blue Dick and mate third, Garibaldi and White’ Heels fourth and Bep and Flora Day fifth. Time, thiriy- nine and @ half seconds, Going down the backstretch thore was no change of places with the two leading teams, but the otheis took Lege eal gee At the half-mile pole, which ‘was pai Im 1:18, Ironsides and mate led six Tnugthes, ‘The race rosted entirely between the latter tvam and Dot and Hickory Jack. Ivonsides and ‘Lightfoot came on home steadily aud wou the heat, Mary Finn, of No. 6 East Broadway, in the Tomba, yesterday, charged Elizabeth Devlin with having stolen from her $300. The money was in a pocket- book at coiplainani’s residence, aud, it is alleged, Eltaabeth took and concealet it between two beds, where tt was found. She was committed to an- ewer. Uoroner Schirmer was yesterday called to 1434 street, near the North river, to hold an inquest on the body of John Duffy, forty five years of age and born im Ireland, who was almost instantly kilied by being struck on the head by a falling derrick at Brock’s foundry. Deceased lived near where tie accident occurred, At the Essex Market Police Court yesterday John | Coaroy, of 416 Hast Tenth street, pleaded guilty to discharging aloaded revoiverat Charles Ryan, of 536 East Rourteenth street. Mr. Ryan was wounded, but not dangorously, Inthe breast, Some private grudge of Conroy's is said to have been the motrve of the fring. Heid to answer. John Malson, a well known pickpocket, was ar- | ; Bave you the other day on the fait) of an official rested yesterday in St. Ann’s church by detective Murphy, of the Fifteenth precinct, while plying his trade among the crowd of fashionabies assembled to take part in the funeral services of the late Dr. Bed- ford. Maison was subsequently arraigned at Jeffer- son Market and committed for triai 1n default of bail. The funeral of Christopher Higgins, the brush- maker, who was shot dead in front of Babbitt’s fac- tory by Valentine Rictal, night watchman, took place yesterday, from his late residence in Liberty street. The procession was large, the Brushmakers’ Union turning out in force. The body was taken to Calvary Vemetery. While engaged in the erection of an organ in the American Institute building, corner of Sixty- third street and Third avenue, yesterday, Alexander Heckert, of Tremont, was very seriously injured by @ beam falling a distance of thirty feet and striking him on the back. The injured mau was sent to Bellevue Hospital by order of Police Surgeon Purdy. John Stevenson, a fashionably dressed young man, giving his residence at 382 First avenue, was brought up at Jefferson Market yesterday on com- plaint of Bernard M. Duke, who caught Stevenson in the act of stealing from the room of deponent, at 459 Sixth avenue, @ quantity of clothing valued at $112, Stevenson was subsequently arrested by oiicer Byrne, of the Twenty-ninth precinct, and committed for trial in default of $1,000 bail. Inspector Beckwith, of the Custom House, yester- day, on examining the baggage of a passenger just arriued per steamer Morro Castle from Havana, dis- Coys red sie seized a large number of cigars con- ce fe im the ae bottom of a trunk. They were of a Supertor quality and would have been a for the smuggler. proper authorities. In the report of the proceedings of the Pollce Board, published on the 4th instant, tt was stated that ofMcer John F. Hogan, of the Twenty-ninth precinct, was dismissed for intoxication and being carried to the station honse inacart. It was upon the charge of intoxication only that he was dis- missed, and upon the charge of riding in a cart an officer of the Sixicenth precinct was similarly dis- posed of Officer Carpenter, of the Twenty-ninth precinct, arraigned at Jeersoa Market Police Court, yester> day, a young man named Patrick Frawley, charged with burglartously entering an unoccupied dwelling house situated on the northeast corner of Fifth avenue and Twenty-sixth street, and attempting to steal therefrom $300 worth of lead pipe, At the time of his arrest Frawley had in fis possession some burglars’ tools. Committed for trial in detault Of $1,500 bail. At the regular montily meeting of the trustees of the German Immigrant Aid Society, held yesterday afternoon, a report was submitted showing that during the month of August there came from Eu- rope 14,984 passengers, In fifty vessels, bie Fp of which brought 2,. rmans from tne following orts:—From Bremen, six vessels, 735 passengers; iverpool, 20 vessels, 769; Hamburg, 8 vessels, 885; Havre, 8 vessels, 304; Glasgow, 6 vessels, 72; Lon- don, 3 vessels, 60. The German immigration in Angust, 1869, exceedad that of this year by 6.473, and for the eight months of last year ending on the ue haul of August 15,033 more Germans came to this city than in the corresponding time this year, John Harry was arraigned at Jefferson Market yesterday on a complaint of Philip Weckenser, of 72 Greene street, who charged that on the 5th of Au- ust Harry came into his saloon at the above num- er and entered into negotiations with a view of pur- chasing it. Weckenser agrecd to sell and received im payment from Harry a check on the Germania Bank for $215, the sum stipulated upon. On inquiry at the Germanta Bank Mr. Weckenser found that the defendant had no account there. Information was at once given tothe police, and on yesterday Harry (who is an old bogus check operator) was arrested by Oficer Hees, of the Eigith precinct, The prisoucr was held for trial ia default of $1,500 bail, William | 6, they crossed the Rhine anywhere near Strasbourg, Brooklyn, in Warren streot and | ; having seen Rastadt and witnessed what a strong | | by any means. | aim bouud in honor not to give. | the sioge of the place will be carried on with vigor ‘They were turned over to the | IN THE FIELD ON THE. RHINE. Speclnl Journey Along the Germ Bide of the RhineIuterview with a Prassinn General—Past Victories and Fature Tri umphe—Tho Prussian Avmy Spy Syetem— A <Vonderful Organization—Prassian Ofilcers Disguised as Servants in Paris—Napoleon and MncMahou’s First Plan Found Oat by Ono of Them=—“Ladics” of the Demi- Monde ia thd German Spy Servico—What a “Bruil Sister? Accomplished=Tho Prussian Soldicr in an Caemy%s Country. Forrrass or. Rastapr, Ricut Bank OF THR RHINE, August Li, 1670. When about to leave Carisruhe this morning, in order to reach Basle, and so re-enter France, one of those incidents which happen so rarely in real lite | occurred to me, A Prussian oficer of high rank | happened to see my name in the book at Groase’s | Hotel, in Carterahe, and sent up his card, saying ne wished to speak to me. When he came up stairs ho | asked whether I was the samo person who | haa, ten years ago, assisted his brother out of adificulty in Constantinople, The help I had beon able to afford the young man was really so sligot, and so many yeams had since passed, that I had almost forgotten all about it. tlowever, upon nav | ing the circumstances called to mind I recollected it” perfectly, and told the General so. He begged to _ know, after thanking me over and over again, in | what way he could be of any use to mo, and I at | once turned the offer into journalistic capital by ask- | ing to let me accompany him in a tour ho was making. He at once agreed, and in his society I have this day secn all that can be seen of this the German side of the Rhine—ending with the fortress of Rastadt, although we are going on farther to-night, I being bound for Basle and thence back to France, as I hope to be present at the great battle atill impending in Lorraine or Champaigne. But I mast here pre- mise that very much of the information given me by my Prussian acquaintance I am unable to make use of, having promised not todo 80, a8 iL might compromise him. Nevertheless, I belfeve that 1 am at liberty to publish nearly every- tuning that can toterest your readers, and to give them, on tae eve of my leaving Southern Germany, | several details not hitherto Known connected with | the war, THE LORTRE33 OF RASTADT—ITS POSITION AND | ARMAMBNT, The fortress on which I find myself at once ex- | plains the great dlificulty the French would haye, had in getting foto the plains of the Grand Duchy. The place is @ very strong one, and, although the tortif- cations are on @ level with the outditch, tt conld hold its own, if properly provisioned, for many months, | Ithas some fifty plecesa of ortnavce mounted on the rauparis, which are very litte bigner than the | ditch, No troops could take 1 without a very long siege and a desperate assault. Like most of the strong places in Southern Germany, it is gartsoned alternately by Prussian, Saxon, Bavartan and Baden. tvoops, ‘Those now holding the place betong to | the lutter army. Rastadt completely commands ‘ from the right bank of the Rhine to the confineg of the Black Forest, rendering it all but impossible tor any enemy's army to get from any higher part of | the Rhine—that ts, from any part nearer the Swiss irontier—td the plains beyond Baden aden or to the less open country near Carlerwhe. In fact, place it 13, I began to understand why it was that the French had hesitated so long about crossing the | Khine at Straspourg. ‘The fortress ts not a large ono ‘The actual uusmber of the garrison I | But this much 1) may say, that tt 19 fully mauned and amply pro- visioned to siaud a siege Of four or ilve months at | the very least. ON TH RAILROAD—ROTI BANKS OF THR RHINE. Soon alter leaving Kastad! the train in which we were travelling was sinnted aside t® allow of a military train ‘passing us. Tuls latter had a regl- ment of Bavarian troops, about three thousand strong. as well ag the last guns of the stege train, destined for the reduction of Strasvourg. By the same means there were also conveyod to the same destination hundreds of fascines and of enginecring tools, meant to help in the reduction of that fortroas. At afew leagues further down the river wo could perceive the tower of Strasbourg cathedral quite plainiy. There appeared to be a great deal of smoke about the town, but no shot orshelis were being fired at it 60 long a3 We were looking on. And, indeed, above Khel, which is exactly opposite Strasbourg, there 18 not a Prussian soldier to be seen on the ono bank nor a French soldier on the otner, the Tormer appear (o have been required ior the attack and ali the latter for the dofence of Strasvourg. That @nd that it will be equally bravely defended there can hardly now be a doubt. The siege guns which I saw this morning going to Khel will be used to atlack Strasbourg trom the German side of the river; and from the fascine3 going on this side, too, 1 presume they will be sent over the Rhine at Khel, aud the trenches will be commenced between that and the town, wich ts a distance of four kilometres, or turee Eoglisn miles, from the river. PRUSSIAN AGCOUNT OF THE CERMAN PRRPARATIONS— ALMOST CRRVAIN OF TRIUMPH, The Prussian officer with whom I travelled this morning gave me some curious details as to what the Prussians expected the French to do up to the 30th of Juiy. He quite confirmed the statement I Daper that was shown me privately—namely, that it was the intention of Prussia from the very first to attack the French army on French soil. But he added that they only intended to do this if they could, up to the 80th of July they were not ready. But if, my irlend said, any day up 10 the 30th or Slst of July the French ad taken the tuitiative, and wth a picked corps like MacMahon’s had crossed the frontier be- tween Wissembourg and Luxembourg there was nothing whatever to prevent the French from march. ing straight pon Mayence and Frankfort. In his opinion even this amount of success might have made the ultimate result of the war very much more doubt- ful than it was or has been since the commencement of the present month. Up to the last day of July the Prussians, as my informant told me, were not ready except to act on the defensive. Fifteen days from the date of the proclamation of the war was what their administrative military departments required to get everything ready, and they kept their word, On the Slst July everything was reported at Berlin as ready, On the 24 Angust every commander of a Prussian army corps got his orders what he was to do, On the 4th the blow was struck at Wissembourg, on the 6th the battle of Woerth was fought, and since then the Prussian army has never delayed a day dealing blow upon blow on the retreating enemy. i NAPOLEON'S PLANS DISCOUNTED. My, friend, for although [had only known him fow hoars I must cali him such, gave me some very interesting information respecting the means by which the Prussian staff has obtained such accurate knowledge of all that was doing in France. He told me that the spy system with bis government is regular organization, and that as the service is a desperate one it is well rewarded, if successtul, boun in money and promotion. He repeated aimogt the very words of @ letter I wrote you Giorey ster the battle of Woerth (which, by the Way, is pronouuced ied rth”), in which 1 {led to ivea reason, or fathér many rédsons, w iy the ‘rench were defeated at that fight. He sald that {hg qaperor’s twoops are as brave as brave can bo, but that they have not the discipline suMicient to meet a well organized army in the field, and that above all things they are far too careless about small things in their mtliiary matters, far too reck- less and far too inuch given to despise looking after what they deem trifles. And as I write these lines two instances of their want of forethought occur to me. Both anecdotes have been told me within the past few days, and both by persons whose authority and truthiuiness J cannot doubt. FACTS AND ILLUSTRATION. The first has reference to the affairs at Wissem- bourg. As General Douay, who commanded the French at that most unfortunate affair, was sitting down to breakfast on the oe of the 4th, a young oflicer, who had pushed up from the rear to join his corps, saw on the road indications which led him to believe that not a mere Prusstan diviston, buta whole corps d’armee was opposed to them. As j in duty bound, the moment he reached camp he wont to General Douay, and reported to him wiat he had seen. The General merely laughed at him, and would not even send a patrol out 10 see whether the young fellow was right or not. The chief of the atail asked permission to go himself to reconnoitre, but the Genoral would not allow him to do so. “it is merely a Prussian brigade,’’ he said, “and presentiy we will sweep them before us; but let us breakfast first? This 1s French all over, Brave to the fauit(a very great one with a soldicr) of despising the enemy, Had General Douay acted as nine hundred and ninety-nine out of every thou- gand German, Americat or English generals would have done—had he, in fact, done his simple duty— he would have ascertalued before he moved and while there was yet time that the enemy was far too strong for him. “He would then have beeu able to retire towards Haguenau, from which MacMahon was advanciag, and the two together would have been able the next day to have given a better ac- count of the enemy at Woerth, ‘The second anecdote which { will give you relates to the spy system in the Prussian army. You wiil hardly believe that at the Hote! de l'Europe, at Metz, the note! where ali the generals and chiei oficers meet to dine, and where many, if not all the constl- tations respecting the army headquarters were held, the chief waiter was @ major in the Prassian army. ‘Yhis was only discovered after the recent defeats of the French army. And it was then remembered how this pretended waiter used to attach himself moro paricularly to tie superior officers of the fatendence or Commissariat department. who dined together at the hotel, and he was to bret them cofvve, lights and = what not, It was this person that the utterly unt state French army was made known and ering vo his observation and commu to hts ma: ters that the original plan of attacking the French in France and not allowing them to attack the Ger me across the Une was cornee out. fentnian ‘ou may remember my writing to you from - bourg that on one ‘oceaaion Maraital Je Beouf ar- rived unexpectedly at that city, and after a long consultation with MacMahon two started to- gether to see the Emperor at Mets. They arrived there at one A. M,, and remained in consultation with tits Majesty until five Av M., MacMahon thea retvurotag to Strasbourg. Di that consultation the Prussian major, ed as 8 iL waiter, managed to got two or three times into the room uuder preiext of taking in coffee, cigars, notes and go forth, He overleard a part of the converaa- tion, and sent a report of tt, in duplicate, to thi Prussian headquarters, One copy reached its destt- natton, the other was lost in some cross country post, and, being found, wag sent to Meta just as the retended watter was mak his arrangements to | leave the place, But he was too late, and instead of reaching the Prassian camp was shot at Motz, The French spy system in this campaign has utter. failed. French omecrs—like Americans and ‘nglishmen—have an idea that there is something 80 utterly disgraceful to an honorable man in doing the work of Spy that they will not volunteer for the duty, One or two swiss, and a certain English, Jow, not unknown in. former days to young men in London, who borrowed ‘at sixty percent, have done the French government g: work as spies until war was prociatmed, But by far tho most emMicient agent they have had is a certain Paristan young lady, of what ts tenderly called the “hait | World,” and whose face ts a good deal fairer than her fame. ‘This “young person" has for some months been attached to the tollowing of a Prussian | officer. of rank—an elderly gentleman who 14 amorous but yet economical by nature. The lady had larger ideas on the sub ect of exp2nditure than | her lover, and@as he would not ope his purse. nahnyry she tried wheter patriotism in ape Of @ little roild reporting to an old *frfend” on the Emperor's staf would be paid The bargain was | atrack, aud the {air has been found | weil “worthy of her hire,” ike | of her clas, her education was somewhat ne- on in her youth, ana the consequences aro hat it takes not @ little trouble to decipher her ( meaning. Lougnt however to write of ber hand- | Work in the past tense, for sie hus lately left the | Prussian army, and {3 now trying her luck at Wie. | baden, the only German watering piace at which | the pleasures of rouge et noir or trencte et quarante are to be had during this unhappy war. But so long #8 this young lady reinained with her elderly lover, she continued to send to Me!z the only valua- bie information they received of the enemy's move- | ment, SPROTAL CORRESPONDENTS. It is most earaesity tohe hoped that the Amoci- | can and the English press will make an earnest protest before the world of the way in whitch news- | panes correspondents have been treated by both Prassian and Frengit authorities during the preseut war, It 1s said of tho iatter government that it has | grown wiser since tue war commenced, and that a | correspondent properly accredited from a respect. | able journal would have nothing of fear. I th be able to test the truth of this, for, if all goes well, Lsbail pass through Basle to-night, get across the French frontier again, and in forty-eigit nours ve among my old friends with the trowsers, some- where near Chalous. And (his much may be said of the Freach government, viz. :—that their conduct has throughout been consistent, If they have turned away one newspaper correspoudent they have turned away all, and have shown neither par- tiality, favor nor affection. ‘Tae Prussidas’ Conduct has been uiterly contemp- ible. A week ago aa extra war circular Was sent round by tio King’s express orders to all the diser- | terms, all newspaper correspondents to be warned | Sway trom headquarters ot all the army corps, di- | ent corps Warmees directing, in the most exp leit | visions and brigsdes, Geaeral Von Beyer, com- manding (ue Baden army now before Strasoourg, Was very much inciined to be kind to the newspaper reporters, and has, 11 movo than one instance, vul- unseered to give (hem special injormation. Buton Saturday lasi he was obilged, by the Kiug of Prus- slw’s express orders, to tell them that he could have no further communication with them, ‘The Prussians have, in more than one instance, treated newspaper reporters most infamously, ‘aus the two gentiemea of the Figaro and Guutois, who were taken prisoners at Woerti after the batie, wore marched for six miles with their hands bound. They were plundered in the most barefaced manner of all they possessed, amounting, in the case of the one, to some 3,0U0 francs, besides feld glass, haver- sack, revolver, and everythiug he Lad in the world. His companion was also plundered of some 700 francs, field glass aud everything he Lad, The Crown Prince promised they should nave everything restored, but nothing whatever was returned to thom. They were taken as prisonet the way to Mayence, and it was only by the absoluto charity of some persons ta that town they got enough money tv return to France tn a third clas3 train. [| hope all jourualisis in America will do their utmost to show how tuese gentlemen have been treated. As regards the superior officers of ihe Prussian army | have no compiaint to make; bat from what [ saw at Woerth I have no hesitation in saying that Some of the men, the soldiers, are about as delibe- rate plunderers as ever wore uniform, and in roy way the subaltern ollicers are very little better, Aiter the fight at Woerth was over a lieutenant of the Forty-seventh Prussian regiment wanted to ar- Trost me as & French spy because I had French money nm me, and because my boots were French make. le went into the bedroom I had occupied at the inn, turned out all my ‘itt,’ coolly took what he liked of it for himselfand then, in order to silence ime, wanted to shoot me there and then asa spy, although he could see by my letters and passport thai I was on duty for the Naw York HmRALp. FRENCH PROVINCIAL FRAR OF THE PRUSSIANS, Ail through the province of Alsace the people are in the wtmost dread of the country ever bemg given upto Prassia, Although a German speaking race they hate and detest the ‘russian goverument. During the ten days I was in that country it had become a regular saying with the peasantry that the French paid for all taey got and were civilin the extreme; but thatthe Prussians em for nothing and were orutal in their behavior. have seen thei not once but a hundred times at Woerth enter a house and ask for bread. The peo- pie of the house would produce half a loaf and say, with truth, tat was all they had for themselves. The soldiers would take {t from them and then go through the house, even to the bedrooms, turn over everything, take what they liked and walk of with it. Some ot the English papers publish fables about the Prusslans paytng for everything they took, I can only say that I saw a very different siate of things where I was on the (rontier. 1 did not write all or even haifthat I saw; fur the Prussian authorities have a playful way of opening letters that they sus- pect may contain news linportant to themselves; and fam not enough tired of life yet to wish ty be Shot, as they have shot more thau oue French cor- respondent during this war. In proof of my remarks we may as the old people in } Belgium who remeraber the allicd army in Uat country in 1815—ask those people how the Prussians behaved when there, They were detested, and no people can hate an army more than all classes in Alsace, without any exception, hate the Prussians, The affair I wrote to you at the time, respecting the six old men and the Catholic priest who were shot at Gueinstein in cold biood, was one of the most infamous murders that history bas ever re- corded, But no matter what German you speak to concerning it you will Near it defeaded and even praised. ‘ A SEWSATION IN A THEATRE. A Man Iosults a Lady in the Howard Athe- neum, Boston, and is Caned by Her Huse band. [From.the Boston Herald, Sept. 5.] The Howard Athenwum was on Saturday the scene of a@ little oocurrenco not in the bills; bus those who wore witnesses of it enjoyed and ap- viauded it freely. It appears that among the people who patronized the entertaininent was aman not very old nor yet very young, but old enough, at any rate, to have lcarned to be decent. He took a seat in the apne Beside him, and unattended by any male protector, sata modest lady. The man could not be satisfied with the show on the stage and so turned his attention to the lady. He first spoke to her, but she took no notice of him. Then he “nudged” her with his elbow several tines. After halal 3 this some time the lady conciuded to go out, and when a moment later the impudent fel- low pinched her she determined to go out then. Boiling over with indignation, expressed chiefly by tears, she went out into the lonby, and comprained to Mr. D., her husband, who chanced to be an attache of the theatre. Shoe said she had been grievously insulted, and Mr. D., naturally indignant, proceeded to eject the interloper, The lattcr had in the moantime changed his seat, but the sharp eyes of the indignant lady soon singled him out, The husband requesied lun to retire. He declined. The persuasive powers of oficer Biggins of the Third police were then called into requisition. He wy eg the offender to retire. He declined. The officer presented his ultimatin, go or be taken. The destroyer of femate comfort voted to go. Hi roceeded to the lobby. There he was conironted by the indignant husbs , Who, ingtantly snatching the officer's cane from his hand, appited it with com- mendable vigor and without mercy to the person of the unwise volte who had fnsulted his spouse. In the course of this pas de deur between the pair, the hands of the avenger came in contact not over gently with the frontlapiece of the cowed and justly punished inso- Jent, and amid the applause of the score or more of spectators Who chanced to pe in the lobby, the crest- falien individual was forcibly righ: from the the- atre, If his flesh smarts it will remind him that he has made a mistake, If he looks in the glass tnis morning and discovers that he 13 possessed of an ob- fascated optic tt may fuprent to him how foolish he has acted. And if we had his name we would em- blazon it to 200,000 readers, and that might teach him that ladies when they act as such are not to be | Fritz” and Wiiheim in the beer saloons. | tle street b little duett, the not over graceful | | thei insultel with impunity. CONGRESSIONAL CONVENTIONS iN REW JERSEY, The Democratic Convention for the Second Con- greasional district of New Jersey assembled yester- day at Hightstown and nominated Samuel C. Folker, of Bordentown, for Congress, Tue repudlican cun- didate ts ex-Governor Newell, The Republican Convention for the Fifth Congrea- stonal district will be held at Libri Mall, Jorsey City, on Thursday, the 1éth inst., a the Demo- oratlo Convention ’for the Fourth, Comyresdoual did- ict ab Morristown on the aame dav, THE WAR FEELING IN THE CITY. Gooling Down of the High Old Fover—Looming Up of Le Belle France—Falling Of of Lager—Vive La Republique—Hur. rah for the Newsboyst © A very perceptible chang» in the-fever’ for’ war news was plain to be sagn yesterday, anda calmer feeling will certainty. prevatt until such time as the legions of the Crown Prince come thundering at the walls of Paris, That event 1s put down for Satur- day next. Speculation until then-wtil be busy witt the inquiry bey to whether the, gay and» gallanc Parisians will sutremder quietly to she Prussian king or bid him im thunder tonesof defance to bring ‘on “nis whiskered Pandoors and his flerce hussars."” Frenchmen were in @ more equable and enviable frame of mind than they have been since the battle of Wissembourg. They go in heart and soul for the republic with amazing unanimity. They begin also to look at the new order of things in a commerciat point of view, and say it will redound to the creas and prosperity of France to have the expensive in- cubus of imperial government removed. It mignt have done good service for France in ite time, but the dey of Its services was gone. Whatever was ao- complished in tne way of opening up the resources of the empire or in beautifying Paris was performed at enormous cost to the people, while it enriched a whole army of greedy speculatora and parasites of the Bonaparte dynasty. AMERICA’S REPLY TO PRANCB. Much curiosity was felt to learn the answer of this goverment to the appeal of Jules Favre. On every hand it was dsclared that the United States has but one course tn te matter, and that {sa prompt and cordial recognition of the new repubilo. To treat the French Minister's request otherwise, to pander to & certain prejudices, or to ignore na Nae action of the Freneh people and deem {tt but asud- den and evanescent outburst of revolutionary feel- ing Wwas.Coustideeed a per.lous and impolltio course for any government at Washington to pursue, VIVE LA REPUBLIQUE, Everywhore one went throughout the day the change in public sentiment was noticeable. It waa even remarkable, for it showed how ciearly and well the Ainerican people could draw the line of distinction between the French pegnte fighting tor national existence and the ‘rench Emperor fighting for persoual motives nd perfidious ambition. No class of the population was quicker to recognize this than tho Freachmen themselves in our midat Up to the day ovefore yesterday they were borne down with depression at the thougnt of how friendiess = their = nation ~was in ita agony. They looked around the worid’a horizon and saw nothing but open or secret foes. Here they looked for something lixe sympathy, and were denied tt, No wonder, then, their hearts were relieved from tho burden of foslorn misery when they heard on every side the glad and eager wishes: of Americans; that France, a3 a republic, hag hosts of friends among us; and that they who but a day or two ago cheered on the conquering march of King Wilam now drew breath and bid (ae Kiag beware of pursuing his triumph to far acd of strangling the latent republic, DILUTED LAGER. Most remarkable of all was the subsidence of Ger- man fervor, {t might have been our Teutonic friends have had enough of the rejoicing, or that the lager beer, being deterlorated in quailty, was | imsuaicient to prolong the ardor of the children of Certain itis there was lessof “our However, the despatches have given ua within the past ten days, if not a surfelt of battles and victories, car- talnly a surfeit of slaughter. Enough for the day be the evil thereof. We can afford to have @ pause. Humanity can afford to turn, with averted gaze, away from the scenes of carnage, and but slowly re- vert to the work of destruction once more. ALL HAIL, SWEET PEAOK, Then again, and perhaps for most potent cause of all, @ iow but deep and fervent cry for peace begias to ascend. Peace now at any price, cry thoss to whom kings and emperors, provinces and fortresses, military glory or military defeats are as nothing to human lives. Peace with one accoru exclatm all who are anxtous for the progress of civilization, the geod of the greatest many and the bicssed sway of hrietian works and precepts. As the details come 1n of the ae and shockiug carnage on a dozen battle fields a very general sickening sense of the real horrors of war is felt. “We thougnht,’’ observed ® gentleman, “that our war was bad and bloody enough; but we never read, even after the Wilder- nesa, anything so horrible as. these stories coming to us about Gravelotte and Sedan,” NEVER SAY DIB, SAY THE NEWSBOYS. The newsboys did their level best to Keep the ex- citement going, and hud all sorts of sensational cries to stimulate the public ‘appetite, “Suictoe ot Napoleon,” “Capture of Paris,” “Capture of King William,” “War with England,” and others of an equally spicy character burdened the breeze, Of course, Many were caught, but they were only such a4 had taken off their attention for two or three days from the exact situation abroad. SENTIMENT OF WALL STREET, Calm to a comparative extent existed In that usually turbulent financial Wall and Broad streets. Gold steadied itself and submitted to little or no fluctuation. Much of the feeling might be asoribed to an anticipation of early peace. Every day the Crown Prince draws nearer to Paris, the Wall street men say, lifts higher the cloud of dismal uncertatnty as to the end of the war, and lets in @ brighter gleam of reassuring hope. These shrewd men of Wall street cast doubts upon the - expressed determination of the Parisians to defend their city to the last ditch and doilar. They look upon it as on a par with the buncombe with which both our sections here in- dulged in some years ago. They do not believe Parisians, if th capital is serlously in danger of having its beautiful public buiidings and handsome boulevards of Caen stone palaces levelled by an enemy’s shell, will hold out to the last ditch and dollar. Quien sabe. THE BROOKLYN Father.aud, MURDER. Inanest Touching tho Death of Barney Dafly— Phe Result of an Drunken Brawl-A Man Insults His Sister. An taquest was commenced last night before Coroner Whitehill and @ jury at the County Oourt House, Brooklyn, touching tne death of Barney Duffy, who was beaten about the head with @ club in heads of his brother-in-law, James Moody, @ junk doaler in Little street, Fifth ward. The accused fled immediately upon learning of the death ef Duffy, which ensuca a couple of hours after the infliction of the injurtea, at cight o’ciock on Monday evening last. The teati- mony elicited, of which the subjoined is an abstract, corroborates the report of the murder as published in the HERaup of Tuesday, Thomas Whalen, residing at No. 87 L ttle atreet, testified that he heard the deccased, standing oa tho sidewalk in front of Moody's house, abusing the wife of the latter, calling her vile names; Moods, who was in the cellar,came up with a plece of wood in his hand, and asked Dufty what he meant by using such languages they had afew angry words, which witneas ‘could not hear, when Moody struck deceased upon the left shoulder, knocking lin down; he then got up an@ was atrack twice afterwards by the accused, who pursued Duffy as he fled towards his own door; finally deceased came out with a stick and sald that he would hit Moody if he could get in, but the iatter shut his door and kept the deceased out; Dudy waa intoxicated. James Graham testified that he resided at 26 Little street; about five o'clock on Monday evening last saw Dutly come out of his own house wita a prety thick stick in his hand and go to rs. Moody's door, and make a pass with tho stick, as if he intended to put it through the door, but he went away without doing so; Dufty was very much under the influence of liquor at tha time; Moody told witness that tne accused bad called his wife (Mrs. Moody) vile names; hever saw the accused tn liquor; he is a sober aud industrious man, Catherine Gallagher testified that she resided at 24 Little street, and Knew nothing fuether of the dificulty between Duiy aod the accused than that she saw the former with a stick in front of Moody's house making & voise, and threatening to break the windows. Sergeant James Dunn, of the Second precinct, tea- Ulled that he was called upon to go down to 43. Lit- atween eight and half-past eight on Mon- day even! last by @ man named Graham, who told him that aman named Dutty had been killed by a man named Moody; witness was told by Mra. Duffy that her brother-in-law had killed him; then went in search of the accused, but was poate to find him, both Moody and his wie had left Ouse. The inquest, owing to the absence of Dr. A. M. Shepard, who made the post mor » Was here postponed until Friday afveraoon, The accused is SUN at large, TERRIFIC GLAST FuOM B03 A Pilot Bout Caught in the Gale. Mr. James Murphy, of pilot boat C. H. Marshall, No. 3, informs us that during @ cruise of his boat, which left this port August 29, they encountered, ou the 3d inst., 300 miles east of Sandy Hook, a terrifio gale, which biew with unusual violence for ten pours, lashing and raising the water in perfect sheets of spray, having all the appearance of a very donso tog. The boat's foresail was blown to pieces and she sustained other damages. Mr. Murphy bas been in seafaring life steadily tor Valles maiy years, but never in his expertence saw anything equal to it, In his own exprossive lan- guage he thought that ‘all hands had been knooked for.” This ia the sare gale in which tne Arthur Kinsman foundered, It would be ao surprise ta hear soon of otier ‘disasters, perhaps of & more qerious nature,