The New York Herald Newspaper, January 2, 1871, Page 3

SUP VY SPORTS. New Year’s Eve Behind the Footlights. The Sufferings of an Amateur ‘‘Supe’)—Beautics of the Ballet—Stage Thunder and Beds of Boses—Gorsip of the “Angels.” It was like a hole broken through a wall, and the door itself was ribbed diagonally, like the scales on sea serpent’s back. This stage door nad a queer fashion of shutting too quickly and tripping people headlong by their unwary feet. The streets without were very sloppy on this New Ycar’s Eve, and two miscrapie yeung girls, witn long, dirty black shawls, who hung around the stage entrance te Niblo’s Gar- den, stood shivering in a puddle, their once white mockings draggied with the slushy mire of the gute ters, My companion was Mr. Adolphus Livingston, of 1,206 Cranberry place, Brooklyn, Adolphus was known among his bosom acquaintances as a very “fast young man.” Adolphus was “CLEAN GONE” ON THE BALLET. That was his forte. In all other essentials he was weak, but on this point he was very strong. The dearest wish of bis twenty-third year was to go behind the scenes and leok at the angels who night after uight disport their goodly shaped limbs in the fantastic dances of the great spectacle. : But Adolphus had been bluffed at every peint. He sought to go in as Coryphée’s brother one night, but there was no girl whose eyes were red enough and watery enough in the ballet to be identified as bissister, Then he brougut a lunch basket at rehear- 8ai to his “Cousin;” but the Cerberus at the stage door whe luxuriates in the uncommon name of John Smith, has for ten years been lymg m wait for ali kinds of “stalis,” as he terms those amatory feints made by gushing young men from time im- inemortal to get acquainted with pallet girls, Asa last resort, however, Auolphus had deter- Mined to seek admission to the stage by applying for the lucrative position of a “supernumerary.” Thirty- seven and a half cents a night isthe salary paid to the useful sprouts who, tired of their lives in every other respect, seek the excitement afforded them by enacting the characters of DEMONS AND WARRIORS in pantomime or spectacie. Mr. Livingston chose the eve of the New Year to make bis first attempt im histrionics, He was fault- Jessly attired iv broadcloth and wore lavender kids, and his hair was curled to an intensity. The writer also wished to become a ‘supe,’ but for a diferent object from that which governed the mind of Adol- phus. Accordingly we were companions by the force of circumstances. The stage door swung open and a medium sized man, with pointed chin whiskers and a lurking doubt in his eyes, stood atthe threshold. Behind Was a small, square vestipule, with an iron water tauk in the corner, over-which glimmered feebly a gas jet half turned on. There were several lengths of hose hanging on the bare brick walls to serve in case of fire, and back of this was an inner door which Gave admission to the stage. ‘The guardian of the fairy realm asked grufily of Mr. Livingston, whose, watery eyes trembied with excitement— “What d'ye want? Are you a Charley or a Masher ?” these being the slang terms for foolish young men who cluster around the stage door to see the corps de dailet pass out and in, “Tam neither, sir. I want to goon asa ‘supe,’ if you please,'? meekly answered Adolphus, “ Want to go on as a ‘supe,’ d’ye?. Why don’t you goand DRIVE A DIRT CART FOR A LIVING?” answered the unceremonious Mr. Smith. Now, this remark of the doorkeeper stung the old miser of the ballet to the soul, for an allusion of that kind brought to the remembrance of Adolphus the fact that his Pa” had commenced iife driving a dirt cart, and from this chrysalis state he had finally grubbed up to the station of @ weaithy contractor, “only wish, sir, to begin at the bottom of the ladder as an acter; that’s all, ’pon me honor,” again repiled tne hing young man. “All right, go and see Joe; he’s the captain of the supes. He'll put you onif you're good looking.’’ Adolphus passed in, and the writer was admitted with the nod of the doorkeeper. And now we had entered the region of romance, the sacred spot elt hallowed by all outsiders since the days that Willlam Shakspeare stuck his own bills on the walls of the old Globe theatre in South- wark. There wasa concentrated buzz and uproar in a space of three or four hundied feét of flat sur- face. To the left and right of us were a score of men in blouses and rough and seedy breeches, mov- ing to and iro, shifting scenes, hoisting unknown fd by ropes and pulleys and working with a lew Year’s Eve vehemence. The roof of tne stage hung like a sombre pall ovey the _ -~ BUSTHE Ae RURLY-BURLY, irradiated in patches of vari-colored flame. Huge sheets of canvas daubed all over with paint extended trom the flies, which were all lit up, and castle Walls, donjon keeps, cataracts, dungeons and huge pasteboara figures lay shoulder to shoulder in inex- ricable confusion. The shrill scraping of the Wooden bottomed scenes grated on the ear a Painful medley of sound, combined with the shouts of the stage carpenter, Ben Sherwood, a man of Gollah-like frame, who issued his orders abruptly to the perspiring slaves of his will. Ballet girls, aif aressed in white robes and beflouncea thin an inch of their lives, ran to and fro from dressing room to dressing room, and slipped between scenes at right angles and Jumped over wooden horses with great agility. The curtain hung down, a blank surface, separating the fast gathering audience from those who were in half an hour to minister to their organs Of sense, amd all seemed a chaos that might never be righted by hands or man. Adolphus was knocked into a cocked hat in three minutes, He ran inst @ scene shifter, who blessed his eyes as the offspring of @ sea cook a dozen times, and trying TO ESCAPE FROM MALEDICTION he jumped frantically across a wooden rock and barked nis shins successfully. “Wil you get out of the way, idiot?” said a big fellow, whose sleeves were rolied up xo the elbows, apd he ran poor Adolphus into a corner, where he stood jammed like a tapeworm for a moment, “I want to see the captain of the supes, str,’ almost yelled the frightened Mr. Livingsten, who Was at this juncture in @ state of terror from the Tough treatment. «What's that man doing there in the corner—is he @ Prussian spy?’ shouted John Vincent, the stage = who was setting the stage ter the curt ring up. “He’s a ‘super’ as has lost his way,”’ exclaimed the low comedian of the company, whe tells the @udience night after might that he wants to “ home’? whenever the Black Crook his terrible incantations. Finally a ballet girl, who was fasten- ing the strings of her sandals, took compassion on the stranger and said to him— “Are you @ fresh ‘super?’ Yes? Well, stupid, go down that ladder to the left, and leave me any CHANGE THAT'S LOOSE IN YOUR VEST, for you'll never bring it UP, again.” Down che ladder went Adolphus in a fright, duck- ing his head every moment and hopping out ef the way of obstructions like @ sparrow, and as ne dis- Appeared the voice of the low comedienne in a Bow Bells accent shouted after him, “I say, Spooney, look out for those blessed traps. If you fall through one you'll lacd in *Oboken or some wass place.”? I foltowed the ambitious yeuth down the rickety ladder below the stage and | saw everywhere I looked a mass of whed@s, pulleys, cranks, wooden levers, belts and shafts and half suspended traps. ‘Twenty or thirty men. were at work down here, and the confusion seemed worse than above the stage. “I declare this is very reugh, ‘pen me honor,” exclaimed the hope of the Livingstons, when from what I took to be @ hole in the wall out burst a dozen mild-iooking young men in saffron tunics, wearing barret caps upon their heads, and carry- jag wooden spears, with tinfoil tips, in their hands. “D’ye want to bea supe, me Highland laddie?” said the“leader of this band of myrmidons to Adolphus, who faintiy answered, “Yes.” These were the heroes who FIGBT, BLEBD AND DIB FOR THIRTY-SEVEN AND A HALF CENTS ® night, and are afterwards resuscitated them- selves to Carry off tables, chairs ana dead bodies, th ete asinine objects being known to them 1118.7? ‘What shall be the doom of this coward and assas- sin, who thus breaks in upen our nightly revels, brothers all? What say you, my merry men?’ asked the captain of the supes, as these festive ee gathered in @ circle around their newly found tin. “Let his doom be sealed forthwith,” said a choice young man from the Heok, “Throw fim from the Tarpelan Kock, Lucullus,” echoed a Mulberry street boy, with a wart on his “Scoop out his brains and stand him on his head until he treats,” suggested a very indecorous persen from Tenth avenue, “Brothers of the Holy Vehm, let the veice of Apos- tolycus be heard,’!.speke a brawny youth, who looked as if he could use @ pair of boxing gloves on some- nasal organ. ‘es, yes, let the great Apestolycus be heard,’’ shonted all the supes, and then rattled their spears _ ee Jashion at poor Livingston, who was aq Great Apestolycus,’”’ @ young man of abeut Swenty-two years of age, Whe sells degs for a living, and bibernates around 9 hot stove in Harry Mui’s during the ing at nightfall to serve Sretuone the “Wicked Count’ In. whe. “Black Croox,” now. advanced, 004 all the rofian servitors of his lordship doffed their hats im mock salutations to their spokesman, “Yo fellows, the Son’ o’Malty 1s nothing to this,’ whispered @ super to the writer, ag he stood in acorner, hot knowing but it would be his turn next to go through tius demoniac erdeal or run the “supers’”” gauntlet, *Brothers,’’ sald Apostolycus, whose real name I eae Was Pat the Stummik, ‘‘am I nota big wig- wam “Yes, yes,’’ oried all the supes. Another rattle of the spears and Adolphus nearly fell on his knees. “Then let the voice of the Great Spirit be heard, bad sentence is thus, Let nim sing the ‘County or ANY OTHER ‘COME-ALL-YE’ that he likes. ‘Then he must dance a sailors’ horn- pipe, and from thence he shall be taken to be hanged by the neck until he is dead, and may George Francis Train have pity on his soul. There is blood on the face of the moon! Have at him, me gela- tinous Peruvians! First let’s hoist him and go through him for what he’s worth,” No sooner said than done, The stipes rushed en masse on Srey orn) Whose real name we conceal for the sake of family. They hoisted him in the air; they crushed his nice sik hat over his eyes, and in two minates his pockets were scooped clean ag a new dollar, By this time Adolphus had begun to howl dreaa- folly and curse the hour when he set foot on the stage of a theatre, After his money was gone one supe insulted him by asking for the “loan of a dol- jar until he sold his dog,” while anotner, who had been foremost in emptying his pockets, pretended to feel very bad at the treatment which he had re- cetved, and wanted to know if he “could let aim have his overcoat for New Year's to visit his ‘aka- ventinces’ in Fifth avenoo.” Adolphus was now quite exhausted, and he was led toa chair in the den of the supers, This was a room in 9 corner buried BENEATH THE STAGE, the rough foundations of the building, of untrimmed stone, serving as a side of the apartment. To this Wall were fastened two or three tin sconces, such as may be seen in aceuntry ballroom glaring from a whitewashed wall. Lights were burning in these, and a long table ran along on which were belts, cuisses, caps, tights and pieces of armor, together aS long feathers, properties for the costumes of e supers. Half a dozen of the supes who had not indulged in the sport of frightening poor Livingston to death's door were engaged in fitting tights upon their manly limbs. Others Were adjusting great belts by mam- moth buckles around their waists and three or four Were daubing red paint on their eyebrows, “B-AcAsY, ADOLPHUS, from Fifth avenoo, you look sick. Why, you look like as uf your girl had given you a nasty shake! Here, take a little ginger beer and that'll put scol- Jops in your insides, me boy,” said a good Samaritan super, handing Adoiphus a sarsaparilia bottle full of bad benzine. Adolphus, the amateur, took a “sniftor” from the bottle quite unsuspiciously and commenced to splut- ria and cough and struggle from the effects ef the jose. “Ugh ! ugh | ugh ! they mean to kill me,” he cried, and threw the bottle into a corner. “Dolphy, on accounté of your tender years we will not ask you to go on in this act. You are NOT DOUBLE-BREASTED ENOUGH, but you can go as a demon In the third act. Gil, the stage cleaner, will give you a torch, and when you are called you must rush out and shake h—ll out of vhe rosin and alkeyhol; d’ye hear? We pays salarees every Fourth of July. So long.’ At tnls moment stage manager Vincent, above on the stage, rang the bell, the lights were turned on, a thrilling burst of music came frem the orchestra and the supers, led on by their valiant leader, marched on the stage te escort their Lord Count in the village procession. Adolphus was slowly sink- ing into a stupor, when a hand was laid upon his shoulder and a kind-hearted super said to nim:— “Say, spoons, here’s pAaced money back—the lads were only kidding you. ‘ust to luck and stare fate a the face; yer héart ’ll be asy if it’s in the right place.’ I came up the Jadder, picking my steps carefully for fear of concealed traps, which were being con- stantly opened and shut by unseen hands, Under most of the traps there 1s a fall of about thirty feet, and it takes all the careful precision of the stage carpenter, Mr. Sherwood, to have these traps ar- ranged at the exact instant, else there would be many broken limbs and ured shoulders among the company during the year. I crossed at the back of the stage amd made ad way to the left entrance to the wing, to the spot where stood the stage mana- ger, with a whistle in bis teeth and his handson the gas registers. There are five or six of thes in shape like the register of a heater, id when these are turned, successively tne footlights, which are made of colored gi: flash up the blue, yellow, red and green gus jets in the flies, at the wings and back of the stage, which are made to threw forth LONG, LUMINOUS SHEETS OF FIRE, aeerentie the glow on the faces of the people be- hind the curtain and bringing forth in strong relief every object as plain as the sun at noonday. From the passage where I and which was barely wide enough to allow t persons to pass out ata time on the stage, I could see the gaping mouths of the audience, ana particularly did the saucer-like eyes of two vernal Jerseymen who sat in the orchestra stalls impress my senses during the performance. Behind where I sat was the room occupied by Mr. Duverney, tne property man of the theatre. This gentleman, who weighs 283 pounds, and is a member of the Fat Men’s Clubin good standing, 1s the individual who serves out to the company ail kinds of si Properties, such as swords, shields, torches, crutches, wigs, tu resin, alcohol, and anything and esa eg. that is needed oxceptins ears, Thesé ‘articles were ejtner hanging ooks or lying on shelves im the property reom. Back of the property room was the salon of the ballet mnast onsiear Costa, who has drilled coryphées and figuranies im every principal theatre in Europe during fifty years of life. This gentleman Speaks English on tne European plan, and i$ &t times rather indistinct in his utter- ances, though he means well enough. Costa sits in his den during the acts and whenever a ballet girl wishes her shoe strings tied she enters the sanc- tum and places her feet on a pedestal while the graceful Costa justs new attachments. Seme- times a sylph has her corset open at the back and being in a hurry to rush on in the ballet has recourse to Costa, who lgttens her Seeurnoip up with A FATHERLY SANGFROL that's cheerful to witness, othe Fight and rear apartment, in which there of Costa’s room 18 a lal are large mirrors and seats, and here the ballet iris come alter dressing abeve in the files to asten their dresses, gird their spangles and fix flowers in their back hair or screw on their wings. In this roem 1 noticed fifteen or twenty very pretty looking girls in_the half undress so natural to the ballet girl. They were all engaged in the toilet and were gossiping about their acquaintances in front, who are not allowed by the cruel manager to come behind the scenes These girls age: twelve to thirty, after which time their plumpness departs, and are natives ofevery country under the sun, i might say. Many of them are american girls, some few are French, here and there I found an Italian or an Austrian from Vienna, and others were descend. og of Brian Boru, the wealthy Feniam, who had 13 SKULL BROKEN BY THE HRATHEN DANE some time since. Leaving my seat at the prompt- er’s box I wandered into this assemblage of sylphe. They were not at all abashed by my presence, but seemed to think me a good subject forchaff. 4 tall, dashing brunette saia:— e wee don’t you feel cold in the shoulders? 0. “No, Henr! but I’ve got a pain in the small of the back. I wonder if Charley is here to-night? Did you see him in front» “Do you mean the looking fellow that threw you the bouquet Friday nigfit? I didn’t see him,’ said Amelia. “Henrietta 18 always making ze parle about ze fellow who give her ze bonquet. It was a zecond hand von, eh?” said a little French girl, with very bare sheulders and wearing pink tighta, at the bot- tom of which appeared a pair of wooden shoes, which she had just been clattering all over the stage in the “Pas de Sabots.”” “Look abere, you mean little French wretch, I won't stand on the same platform with you in the transformation if you are so spiteful, do ye hear. Pm geiu’ to be AN ANGEL IN THE CLOUDS te-night, and don’t you dare to come near me. It’s a pily some one aint good leoking, to get bouquets thrown at them,” rejoined Henrietta, with asperity and a triumphant toss of the head. “Come, girls, nO spatting in business; get your togs on and get ready for the curtain. Bless them girls, hew precious jealous they are of each other,” says Mies who dives here and there with great ra- pidity. Some one on the stage is speaking in character— “Behold how you pale moon breaks.” ‘I say, Who 18 running that ere moon to-night—why the devil aon’t you turn her on fall?” shouts the stage manager frantically, and obedient to his re- quest the pale moon breaks, as A WELL REGULATED MOON should break, After a few minutes I stroll back to the prompter’s box and take my place again. A host of demons in red leggings aud wearing frightful masks are grou} in a mass at the door of the property room. Bach demon hands in the top of his torch, which he has unscrewed from the handle, for the purpose of having it filled with rosin and alcohol. 1 recognize am them the pale face of Adolphus, who has taken off his mask to get air. Adolphus hands in his torch and gets his chemical rations, Tue captain of the supes says to him— “Now, shake that torchlight WHEN YOU GET INTO HELL, or I'll bite yer ear of when you come ont, d’ye hear,’ and Adolphus begins to shake the torch up and down like a fail, making @ great stench and filling the property room with smoke of a sulphur- ous nature. ‘Tne cue comes to transport the Black Crook, who is howling and gnashing his teeth, to @ place of yan ishment in the nether World, and the captain of the supes cries out:— “Now, ye trusty band of gin bloats, rash on like heroes. ‘Come, git up and git,” and they all’ swarm by me, dashing through the open space of the wings jike a furnace blast at the same moment that Vin- cent seizes the pendulum of a suspended square of sheet iron, which hangs near the prumpter's box and is used to manufacture STAGR THUNDER, This sheet iron mekes a crashing, rattling sound, like distant thunder, and while Lam waiting to see What comes next the demons return at a tear- ing pace, and without hesitation they all clamber in, one over the other, overtarning poor Adolphus and trampling on his prostrate form. Now the heroic young lover of the drama—p ta NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY. JANUARY 2, 1871 ped and good-looking fellow—emerges from ® corner of the stage in gallant costume, a ber plume depen his cap, and, leading forward, with his arm around her waist, the charming and graceful young Miss Rawlinson, wh a the part of the persecuted heroine, The just assumed the look of stage fondness betrothed, and she in turn looks M4 to him with a mock gaze of trusting tenderness. They stand ready for thetr cue, and following them 1s the funny man of the piece in a faxen wig and smalls. ‘This funny man is great in the FACULTY OF CHAFF, and pretends to be jealous of the heroic lover, to whom he says:— “Ab, here’s my low comedy man hagain. Ab, my dread master, how full you look around the gills. It takes me to play the lover. Oh, whata splendid Romeo I would make, to be sure?" “Why, What's the matter with you to-night?” says the stage manager to the funny man, who makes @ hideous eet “Have zor gota heaaachet”” a “An teadact Ww could T have eadache ? you event aot a Herat Widaghs ‘in the blessed Kentry,” answers the funny man, and then lover, heroine and buffeon all rush out together on the stage. THE EVE OF NEW YEAR’S is growing old behind the footlights, and in an hour we shall hear the a 3 ot bells, the of pistols and the tooting of horns, announcing that a New Year has been born and has appeared before the world’s footlights. Meanwhile, shall we not have cakes and ale and the ballet in all its freenetic intoxication ? ‘The noise of the carpenters smashing and soraping has ceased, and the grand scene, in all its super! splenders, mas been set in nine minutes, by Sher- ‘wood’s watch, “Quick work that, sir,” says the Giant, “The boys have get to keep moving, I tell you.” And it is @ tine picture, partakinj gaudy splendor oféhe shows of the Lower Empire and tue glories of Theedosius and Pulcheria than it does of the severe and chaste beauties of the Gre- clan spectacles of Athens, mother of cities, and Alexandria, the granary of the earth, long after An- thony had foregone his claim to THE MASTERY OF THE WORLD, Threescore of handsome, sumptuous loooking girls fill up the stage m every nook, clad im silken eta and covered with geunce and spangle. The more of the lights from above, in the fies, of every hue known to the science of chemistry, fell upon the stage and irradiated, in a flood 0 of magnificence every coign of vantage tll the whole picture glows with the refulgence of a Mediterranean sunset on the rock of Capri, It 1s a pleasant illusion for fifteen minutes, this ploture of Solge and unsel and flame. As long as it lasts let us merry: And now the dancers advance, entwining their limbs and plrouetting and prancing, and one 1s tempted to ask with Swineburne, ‘‘Where are the imperial Pare and how are you, Faustine?” at the sight of this gaudy show, forgetting the sloppy streets without and the necessity of india-rubber overshoos, “That's a fine ballet,” says the stage manager to the writer. “There's some splendid girls in there, in that row, sir. There is Bonfantl, a good girl and a noble dancer. Her relations come for her every night. Not a word of reproach against her, sir. She gets ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS A WEEK IN GOLD. There’s that splendid lvoking girl, with the gior- tous! assionate face, dark hair and dark eyes. That’s Pagannl. She isan Italian. There's Adrien, the tall, graceful girl. She's French and she’s a very pretty dancer. They get one hundred doilars a week in gold and they always dance together. Then. there’s the peerless Lesurdi in the ‘Pas de Matelot’’ and Leontine in the green tights, SHk’S A SMASHER, and young Mile. Uminelsburg, a beautiful girl, only sixteen years of age, in tne sky bine tights, and her oldest sister, who is ef noble birth. They are both daughters of a Hungarian baron, and quite aris- tocratic; and Miss Compene—ed, blow tt, she’s got those awfully red tights on in to-night—that’s the girl with the big legs. And now that’s all I can tell you, for I’ve got to look out for the stage. The figurantes get seven dollars a week, the cory- phees fifteen to twenty-five dollars, and tne girls who dance in the first line, filty to seventy-five dol- lars a@ week. The Majiltons—wonderful people, sir—get three hundred dollars a week in gold. Ana now, sir, goodby, and I wish you safe home this New Year’s eve, and many happy returns of to-mor- NEW YORK CITY. ‘The following record will show the changes in the vemperature for the past twenty-four hours in com parison with the corresponding day of last year, aa indicated by the thermometer at Hudnut’s Phar- macy, HERALD Building, corner of Ann street:— 1870. 1871, 1870. 1871. 3A. M. 6A. M. 9A. M. 12 M. Average temperature yesterday... wee 8 Average temperature for corresponding date last Year....s.see0 Peter Farrell (he refused to give his place of resi- dence) was arraigned at the Essex Market Court yesterday, and held to answer, on a chare of steal- ing a horse and wagon, the property of August Miller, of 69 Mangin street. Michael Uhl. of 374 Eighth street, was assaulted last night, while on his way home, by Gottfrey Jabe ker, of 65 Mulberry street, and robbed of a waliet containing $13. Gottfrey was arrested as he was making off with nis booty, and was yesterday breught before the Essex Market Police Court and held to answer at the General Seasions, Jacob Leonard, who died on the 29th ult., and whose funeral services were solemnized yesterday at Christ charch, Bedford avenue, Brooklyn, E. D., ‘was a New Yorker by birth, as was his father before him, He died at the ripe old age of ninety-four. He Was married at the age of twenty-four, at a farm aoe that stood where No. 8 Warren street now stan “ At the Essex Market Police Court yesterday John McGuire, a member of a gang of thieves residing in East Fourteentn street, was held to answer on com- plaint of Frank Reinhard, of 2s Chrystie street, for stealing a silver watch. Reinhard was passing along First avenue, when McGuire came up to him and tn- quired what time it was. Reinhard stopped and took his watch out to see, when the prisoner snatched it from his hand and ran off. He was sub- sequently arrested. Edward McLaughlin, a shoemaker, living at 185 avenue , it appears was wont to honor St. Crispin and beat his wife too much. On the 20th ultimo he hit her on the head with a boottree, turned her out and told her to take care of herself. She went to Bellevue Hospital. Ervsipelas set in, and on Satur- day she died. A post mortem examination was made, and Coroner Schirmer directed the arrest of McLaughlin. This worthy is now lodged in the Eleventh precinct station heuse to await the result of the ceroner’s investigation. Edward, it is said, refused to aefray the funeral expenses when in- formed of his wife's demise, There was brought to the Morgue yesterday from the Twenty-elghth precinct station house the body of an unknown man, about fifty-five years of age, five feet seven inches high; had brown hair, mixea with gray, slightly bald. Had on black sack coat, dark tweed pants, blue cloth vest, white shirt, plaid under shirt, white socks and laced shoes, red woellen com- forter, low crowned black felt hat, trimmed with crape. Also body of an unknown man from the Fourth precinct station house (supposed to be James Lockey), aged about thirty-two years, five feet nine inches high; light brown hair and light mustache. Had on black overcoat, black dress coat, gray tweed pants and dark tweed vest, white cotton under shirt, white muslin shirt, red plaid socks and elastic gaiters, Bodies placed in the Morgue and photo- graphs taken, JOURNALISTIC NOTE. The Vicksburg Herald announces that Colonel £. M. Yerger is at present sojourning tn tuateity, with the view of re-establishing the Datly Mississippian. The New Orleans Republican says:—This 1s the same E. M. Yerger who cut Colonel Crane, of the United States army, to pieces, in Jackson, about a year ago. Hils present intentions conclusively show that he ex- pects no punishment for his crime. LOvmstana Sugar CRop.—The Louisiana Pioneer, published in the parish of St. John the Baptist, Says:—Tae sugar planters of this parish seem to be ‘well pleased with the yleld of the cane lately; the weather has been very faverable for the cane, and accounts partly for the larger yleld than was ex- pected at the beginning of the rolling season. Some cane yields, as we were told, two hogsheads per acre, and one and a half hogshead appears to be the average yield. The only drawback in rolling 1s the lack of water, as we had unusually little rain this fall, and most of the water ponds are dry, so that many of our planters are obliged to employ pumps at the river to supply their sugar houses, THE GLOUCESTER (MASS.) FISHERIES.—Tho Cape Ann Advertiser on Friday published a summary of the losses of Gloucester fishermen and fishing ves- sels for the present year, from which it appea there have been thirteen vessels and ninety-seven lives lost the present year, against sixteen vessels and sixty-seven lives last season. The aggregate tonnage of the vessels lost this year is 798.14; thelr value, $79,700; insurance, $63,470, Four of these vessels were lost in the fishery; two in the Bank, and two in the Bay of St. Lawrence mackerel fishery; one in the shore mackerel fishery; two in the coasting trade, and two in the herring fishery. Of the ninety-seven men lost twenty-six were mar- ried, leaving twenty-six widows and forty-five father- less children, Cop Ariz Boxes—Honsekeepers sheuld be care- fal and see that the cold-air boxes in their furnaces: are net closed. One or two houses have taken fire recently from this neglect, as the heat becomes in- tense, and there being no cold air coming in to create @ draft, the pet of the furnace becomes over- heated and there is great-danger of fire, especially if there 8 aay Woodwork ln close proximity, THE FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR. Important Circular of Dele- gate Chaudourdy. Conference with the King of Prussia—Desire for Peace on the Part of France—Demands of Bis- marck—Continuation of Hostilities—France Overrun by Hostile Hordes—Defenceless Cities Bombarded — Houses Sacked— Churches Desecrated — Priests and ‘Women Abused—The German Com- manders Responsible for All. The following circular to tho Minister of Foreign Affairs of France, by the Delegate Chaudourdy, set- ting ferth the cause of the war, its progress and tno character it has assumed, will be read with great interest by all who are paying attention to the great European struggle: — Sir—Since about two months Europe, frightened, cannot understand the prolongation of a war with- outexample and which nas become as useless as disastrous, The ruin which ts the consequence has spread all over the world, and every one asks, What can be the cause of such acombat and what Is its omject ? On the 18th of September last M. Jules Favre, Vice President of the governinent of the National Defence ,and Minister of Foreign Afuirs, went to Ferri¢res to ase peace of tne King of Prassia, Every one knows with what hauteur he was received, The neutral Powers having understood since that a military armistice was the sole ground on which we could arrive at a pacification, the Count de Bismarck was at first {avorable to its pro ject, and negotiations were opened at Versailles. . Thiers consented to go to negotlate on that basis. You are already acquainted with the disguised ro- fusal which Prussia opposed to him. We must ac- Knowledge, however, that no better plenipotentia- ries than these two could have been chosen to inspire confidence to the Prussian headquarters and bring to a good end the sad and delicate mission of which they so nobly soauatnd the responsibility, The sincerity of their love of peace was not doubt- ful, and M. de Bismarck knew Weil that their word for guarantee tne whole country, Both, how- ever, were put aside, and the fatal course of the war could not be suspended. What does Prussia want? The sovereign against Whom it was announced that war was exclusively waged fell, and bis government with him. The army which he conducted does not exist any more, There now enly remains citizens in arms— those which King William declared himself un- willing to attack—and a government composed ot men who hold it as an honor to eppose with all their might the enterprise which was to cover the flelds of our country with ruins, What must we pelieve? Is it true that our enemies wigh really to destroy us? Prussia has new only France against her. It is therefore to France itself, toan armed natien who defends its existence, that Prussia has declared this new war of exterminasion, which she pursues as a challenge thrown to the world against jus- tice, right and civilization. It is im the mame of these three modern _principies. outrageously Violated against us, that we appeal to the conscience of humanity, with the contidence that with all these misfertunes one iumpreseriptible duty is to pretect the international morale, 1s it Just in fact, that when the object of a war 1s attained, that God gave you unexpected successes, that you have destroyed the armies of your enemy, that said enemy himself is destroyed, to continue war with the ogy object of crushing or fercing to sur- render, by fire or famine, a large capitai filled with the riches of arts, of sciences and of industry? Is there any right whatever which permits a people to destroy another, and to wish to efface it? To pre- tend to this object is nothing but a savage act, which brings us to the times of barbarous invasions. 1s not civilization completely misunderstood when, cov- ering ourself with the necessities of the war, they tire, pillage, ravage private property with the most cruel circumstances? ‘Those acts must be known. Wo know the consequences of victory and the necessi- ties brought by 80 vast strategic operatiens, We will not fnsist upon those enormous requisitions in objects and in money nor upon that kind of mihtary task work which consists in taxing citizens above their resources. We leave it to Europe and America to judge to what degree were guilty those excesses, But they were not satisfied in thus crushing the towns and villages; they have even seized the pri- vate property of citizens. After having seen their homes invaded, after having submitted to the hardest exigencies, families were obliged to give up their silverware and jewelry. Everything that was precious was seized by che enemy and plied in bags and carts. Clothing, stolen from private houses and from merchanis, all kinds of goods, clocks aud watches were found on the persons of the prisoners whe fell in our hands, They — forced peasants to fur- nish money, Real estate holders, arrested on their property, were condemned to pay a personal ran- som ofas high of 80,000irancs. Others have had their wives’ shawls, furs, laces, silk dresses taken. Everywhere cellars were emptied of their wines and grea away lu carts, In other pinces. and to puf- Ish & town for thé act of a singlé citizen who was sumply guilty of rising against the intruders, superior officers have ordered pillage and incendiarism, giv- ing as an excuse the lmplacavle discipline imposed on their troops; every house which has sheltered a f#rane-tirear 18 burned. This is for private pro- perty. Human life has not been any more respected. Now that (the wuhole nation 1s calied to arms, they have unmercifully shot not only the peasants rising against them, but even the soldiers, with commissions and regular uni forms, They have condemned to death those who tried to cross the Prussian lines even for thetr pri- vate affairs, Intimidation has become a means of war. They have tried to strike terror among the population ans paralyze their patriotic éian. And itis with this intention that the Prussians’ stats committed an outrage never known before and unique in history—the bombardment of open towns. ‘The act of throwing in a city explosive and incen- diary projectiles 1s considered legitimate oniy in extreme circumstances and. strictly determined, But in this case tt was atways the custem to notify the inhabitants, and it never entered the mind until now that this frightful means c? warfare suould be employed in such an atrocloas manner. To fire houses, massacre froma distance old men and women, to attack, 80 to say, the defender jn the lives of their famihes; to wound them in th®most profound sentiments of humanity, that they may afterwards bow down their heads to the con- queror and solicit the humillation of the ene- mny’s occupation, is a refinement of violence calculated w be a parallelto torture, But they have, however, gone further, and priding themselves by a sophism Without name on these cruelties them- selves, they haye made an arm of them. They have dared to pretend that every town wnich de- fends itself is a place of war, and that since they bombard it they have afterwards the right to treat it asa fortress taken by assault. They set it on fire alter having thrown petroleum on the doors and woodwork of the houses. If they are pulagea it is @ favor which must be paid by @ ransom with- out limits; and even wken an open town does not detend ttgelf they have practised this system of bom- vardment without the least preliminary notice, ‘iving as @ reason that it Was the way to treat it, as {it had deiended itself and it had been taken by assault. The only thing left to complete this barbarous code was te re-establish the practice of hostages. Prussia has done it. She has established every- where a system of indirect responsibilities, which, among sO many Iniquitious acts, will remain the most characterized act of her conduct toward us, ‘vo guarantee the salety of her transports and the tranquillity ef her camps she has unagined to punish every act against her soldiers or trains by imprisonment, exile or even the death of one of the notables of the country. The honorability of these men has become thus @ damage for them. ‘Ihey had to answer with their wealth and their tives for acts which they could neither avoid nor repress, and which, however, was only exercising the right of defence. She has taken forty hostages among the notables of the cities of Dijon, Gray and Fesoul, under the pretext that we do not give liberty to forty captains of vessels cap- tured according to the laws of war. But these mea- sures, No matter with what brutalities they were ap- plied, have left, at least, intact the dignity of those who had to submit to them, It was given to Prussia to joi outrages to oppression. She has exacted of poor peasants, taken by force and kept with threats of death at fortitying the enemy’s works and to act against the defenders of their own country. We have seen magistrates, whose age should have in- spired respect to the most hardened hearts, exposed on locometives to all the rigors of the bad weather and to the insults of the soldiers, Sanctuaries and churches were profaned and materially polluted, priests Were struck, women maltreated, lucky when they were not submitted to more cruei treatments. It Seems that at this limit there does not remain asingle paragraph of what was cailed unuil now the laws of nations which has not been outrageously violated by Prussia. Have ever acts, 80 iar, $0 much given the lie to words? + Such are the facts. fhe whole responatbility weighs on the Prussian government. Nothing pro- voked them, and not one of them bears the marks of those outrageous violences to which sometimes | armies at war will give themselves to. Every one must know it; they aeted on the result of a well- Lainie system, of which the Prussian generals ‘ave pursued the application with a scienttfle rigor. ‘Those arbitrary arrests were decreed at the Prussian headquarters, ‘Those resolved cruelties as a means of intimidation, those requisitions studied in ad- vance, those fires Ut coolly with chemical ingre- dients carefully bought; these bombardments against inotiensive inhabitants were also ordered there, Everything was, therefore, desired and pre- meditated. “They are the principal characters of horror which make of Uus war the shame of our century. Prussia has not only denied the most sacred laws of humanity; sae has violated her most solemn en- Gagements. Sne honored herseli iu condycting a People in arms to a national war. She took the Wworid a8 a witness te her rights. She now conducts *a war of extermination, with her troops transformed into bands of pillagers. Sue has profited by civiliza- tion only to improve the art of destruction; and as a cumseguience of this cam she announces to Europe the destruction of Paris, of herymonuments, of her re and the vast robbery to which she German: has convened g This is, sir, what 1 w: jon to know; we speak here oly after irecusable inquests, If we muss a can to this embers of the gov- ernment to whom you are accredited of these facts, These appreciations are not destined to them alone, ianes examples there are plenty, and judge for yourself by the docu ts annext ciroular, You will entertain th and you cau present them freely to every one. It is necessary that at the moment when such acts are accomplished every one should take the responsi- bility of his own conduct as well as the governments who are to act, as the nations who will present these facts to the indignation of thelr governments, For the Minister of Foreign Atfuirs—The Delegate, CHAUDOURDY, BOLD BURGLARS IN BROOKLYN. How a Brace of Safe Brenkera Escnped—Po- lice Mismanagement the Probable Cause One of Them Shot Fatally. Water street was the scene of a daring, burglart ous rald of housebreakers, which was made as the chimes of St, Anne’s-on-the-Heights, Brooklyn, were commingiing tmir harmonious strains with those of ‘Trinity church, of this city, be- tween midnight of the last of the old year and the first hours’ of 1871. Tho nefartous deed, which was only partly frustrated by the guardians of the peace, who acted in & most pecu- uarly bungling manner, it would appear from their own records, involves the probable sacritice of the life of one of the gang of bur- glars engaged in the adventure, The cir- cumstances, as far as can be elicited from the statements of the officers interested of the 5 ona police precinct are as subjoined:—Shortly be- fore one o'clock yesterday morning Angus McCul- lough, @ trusty night watchman, who 1s employed on the premises Nos. 19 and 20 Water street, was STARTLED INTO ACTIVITY and nearly out of his wits by a nolse as of men try- ing to pry open the front door of the establishment, m which he was ‘solitary and alone.” Listening attentively for a moment, he made up his mind that his untimely visitors were of veritable flesh and blood, and all the mere to be dreaded because ef that fact. Retreat was the only play which suggested itself, and he “stood not upon the order of going, but went at once," Possibly it was as well for him that he did so, He made his exit by the rear door and clambered the fence of the yard and got into the street. Hurrying with all speed to the station house of the Second precinct, corner of York and Jay streets, and breath- less from running and excitement, he related the circumstance to Sergeant Cain, who was on duty at the desk. The latter official at once despatched officers McCarty, Cowen and Quevedo to THE SCENE OF ACTION. What became of oficer Quevedo on the way the police returns do not state. McCarty and Cowen, however, cautiously approached the place, and climbing up so as to peer into the office made up their minds that there were good grounds for fear- ing to “‘tackle’’ the gang who were at work within, There were no less than SIX STALWORTH ROGUES engaged in filing, boring and prying open the doorplate of the heavy iron safe, Their tools were formidable, and the ‘‘cracksmen” worked with all the ingenuity and avidity of professionals. It would be folly, the two officers agreed, to venture such an unequal encounter. Discretion was the better part of valor with them, and thus deciding it was deemed best to procure assistance before ven- turing to arrest the safe-breakers, Patrol- man Cowen, who recently shot an escaping prisoner, went off on the ‘double quick” to the Ful- ton ferry to summon the assistance ef the officer on that post. While he was absent one of the gang, who had been sent up stairs to keep a “look out’? from an open window and give warning in case of discovery, got his eye on the Joey police sentinel, oMleer McCarty, on the sidewalk beneath. Hastily communicating the fact to his comrades, THE RETREAT WAS SOUNDED, and away, “peli meli,”” ont of the building tumblea the burglars, revolvers in hand, ready to do execu- tion for liberty’s sake at any cost, Three shets were red at McCarty, by way of a ‘New Year’s gift.” None of the shots, however, did any damage. The pene luckily closed in on the hindmost individual, an A STRUGGLE ENSUED, for the mastery. The officer in the meantime dis- charged two shots after the retreating rufians. He struck his antagonist on the head with the butt end of his revolver and knocked him down. ‘The deelng confederates of the captured burglars HOT THER YOMRADE, uniuténtionally’ of pag titan being Intended for McCarty, ‘The leaden missile entered just be- neath the left shoulder blade and penetrated down- wards, lodging in the spine, In the meantime the assistance sent for arris@l in time to be too late, and thé wounded man _ was carried to the station nouse. He was attended by Drs. Barry and Kissam, and the wound probed, but the ball was not extracted. He gave his name as John Erwin, and resides at No. 90 Adams street, where his wife and two children live. Erwin has only been out of the State Prison eighteen montis, he having served a term of five years for burglary. He 1s about thirty-five years of age. Nothing which could tend to further criminate the unfortunate man was found, though his house was thoroughly searched. The imple- ments used by the burglars are of various and curious patterms, and are now at the station Rouse on York street. Had a sufficient force of police pone. to the place instead of two officers the probabilities are that the six evildoers would now be soney caged and out of harm’s way. Coroner Jones was notified early in the day by Captain McConnell to tuke the ante-mortem state- meat of the wounded prisoner, but to a late hour in the evening had not done so. FROM AN ARMY OFFICER. Fort Duncan, Texas, Dec, 14, 1870, To THE Epitor oF THE HERALD:— Str—Wl you allew me sufficient space in your paper to correct a few mistakes which the writer of the following paragraph In the New Yerk Sun of November 30 has made:— J. F. Simpson, second lieutenant Twenty-fifth in- fantry, 18 a cousin of the President, and was by him appointed second lieutenant in the Fortieth in- fantry August 17, 1867, and on April 20, 1869, transferred to the Twenty-fifth infantry and changed to Ohto. John Simpsen, second lieutenant Fourth artillery, another cousin, is @ brother of James, and was appointed by General Grant August 17, 1867, in the Fourth regiment of artillery, where he still re- mains, He is charged to Ohio, where he was born. The above paragraph appeared in an article head- ed “The National Disgust,’’ signed H. F. The errors to which { refer are as follows:—First, Iam not a cousin or any relation to President Grant; second, J was not appointed by General Grant, but by President Johnson; third, 1 am not “charged to Unio,” but was appointed from Comnecticut; fourth, I have no brother John and have no relative in the army. With the exception of the above errors the statement of H. F. in regard to myself is nearly correct. Very respectfully your obedient servant, |AME: LM PSON, Second Lieutenant Twenty-Mfth United ‘States infantry. CONTRIBUTION FOR W. T. SABINE. To THE EpiTor OF THE HERALD:— I enclose you one cent as a contribution towards buying a handsome Bibfe for the pharisee, W. '. Sabine, on his promising that he will read it Will you inform me how Jim Fisk got the Erle Rallroad into his hands? I have a’ little money to invest and would like to buy a railroad, and ask thls qnestion to go and do likewise, as our friend Sabine says to his congregation. I would also add that I carry my conscience 1n the same place as our friend Jim does. 1 understand he bought the Erie Railroad very cheap. Do you suppose he would let me know how he did it? Yours, &c., PP. YACHTS AT PORT JEFFERSON, LONG ISLAND.—A correspondent of the Signal writes from Port Jeffer- son that Mve yachts are laid up in that harbor, viz:—Schooners Haleyon and Idler; steam yacht Minnehaha, and sloops Mary and Syren, and clai ms that more yacht satling masters hall from that port than any other of its size in the known world. A SUCCESSFUL FEMALE MEDICAL PRACTITIONER.— About six™ ears age Miss Mary E. Greene, then reely out of her teens, roe to study medicine at Grand Rapids, Mich., and, after graduating in Puiladelpiua, she opened @ dispensary for women and children In a negiected part of the city, and be- fore the end ef the first year she had 1,600 patients. Besides this she las for the past year been the phy. sician in charge of the Isaac T. Hopper Home. It is an asylum mainly ior women, where are detained from 400 to 600 per year, and has always heretofore been under charge of first class doctors of the oppo- site sex. This winter Dr. Greene’s name appears among the leading professors of Bellevue and the Physicians’ and Surgeons’ Colleges for a course ef lectures before the Women’s Institute; and at a Mey eeting of the Medico-Legal Society, of New York, 6 Was elected a member—the first Woman who has ever been elected a member of a medical society of the regular doctors of New York city. Scarcity OF WATER IN Boston.—The water in Lake Cochituate is very lew, the suriace being be- Jow the top of the conduit. in view of this fact the President of the Water Board urges upom the people the absolute necessity of economy in its use. The need of (ny) against waste 1s so imperative that the dent says the supply will have te be Imited to certain hours in the day, or trades and manufacturers be altogether deprived of its use, if the present daily comsumption continues and there Js RO vain 0 Oi) the aprings, 3 THOSE BOSTON SMUGGLERS Some Fresh Particulars of Their Startling Transactions. ASpecial Inspector, and the Collector's Confiden- tial Detective, and a Former Surveyor of the Boston Custom House Implicated and In- dicted—Important Witne:scs Paid Fabu. lous Prices to Sojourn a Few Months in Canada—Millions of Dollars’ Worth of Goods Smuggled Annually Into New York and Boston. Boston, Jan. 1, 1871. The moat extensive series of smuggiing transac- tions exposed for many years have recently been developed in Boston and New York. They cover a period of several years, and during their days of flourishing progress the government has been de- frauded of untold thousands and thousands of dol- lars. Some of the parties implicated are now on trial in the Unitea States courts in this city, others havo absconded and the trials of others are delayed for the time being on account of several Important wit- nesses having taken up thelr residence within the jurisdiction of the New Dominion. The parties om trial are Dexter T. Mills, a well known Bostow wholesale deaier in oils and alcohol; Samuel C, Lund, formerly an oiticer in the Boston Custom Uouse, and now a liquor dealer here, and Milo B. Skeele, George Underwood, John T. Perry and Alden Freeman—the four latter being trackmen in the employ ef Mr. Mills, The trials commenced about & week since, and are likely to oecupy fully another week before they are concluded, In conversation with parties reliable and well posted I am enabied to furnish the HERALD with an idea of the enormous extent to which smuggling has been carried on betweea New York, Boston and the British provinces during the past few years, Several prominent officiais are connected with the frauds, and their names are now made public for the first time, although there appears no good reason why they should have been heretofore sup+ pressed, The official who has been chiefly instrumental in ferreting out the smugglers in question is N. W. Bingham, special agent of the Treasury Department in the First district (which contprises all the New England States except Con- necticut,) In his investigations he was constantly annoyed by government ofMicials whom he entrusted with his secrets, and who were in league with the smugglers themselves and sharing iargeiy in their plentiful and fraudulent profits, It is about @ year and a palf since, with his assistants, he undertook to discover the parties implicated in the cases now under consideration. He found out at the begin- ning that liquors and spices in enormous quantitics were constantly belug brought into New York and Boston free of duty, and he very soon became aware that Custom House officers at bon ports were ag | certainly er pta be the facts. For a ver, jong time all efforts to discover the ingenious ani active rascals were in vain. All plans looking to their apprehension were almost instantly made known to the smugglers themselves, and Mr. Bing- ham was at once convinced that some of tne detec- tives who were working with him were treacherous. Among those with whom he was at this time asso- elated were Cyrus Graves, a special inspector of the Boston Custom House, and E. B. W. Kestleaux, also @ special Inspector, and the Collector's confdential detective, The special agent of the Treasury sus- pected one day that these men were not true to him, and on another day he bad his suspicions confirmed so far as Keslieaux was concerned. Mr. Graves, however, he found to be one of those rare specimens of an honest government official which are 80 sel- dem found nowadays, and when he had been con- yinced of this he found his services invaluable in further investigations. With considerable diMculty Mr. Bingham now be- gan to penetrate the skilful and systematic yonning of the smugglers, and they were uo longer apprise in turn of his movements In the direction of their apprehension. He found out that the smuggling was done arty es coasting vessels plying be- tween New York, Boston and the various ports in the pian proved e3. This class of vessels, It should be stated, led under What 1s termed @ coasting license, and are not required to be examined by the Custom House officers. Tne next chapter of information disclosed the fact that the smuggled articles, principally liquors and spices, were usually taken on board these vessels at the Turket Islands, near Yarmouth, N. S., and as these Islands were not inhabited except by @ single fam- ily all articles of merchandfse could be brougns there and put aboard the vessels with the utuiost impunity, The vessel, when loaded, would then, ‘with the authority of her coasting license, come di- rectly to either Boston or New York, her cargo be- {ng f course so disguised as to conceal its true character. She would sail boldly My A one of the principal wharves and discharge her tliegitimate cargo in broad daylight, the same as if everything was all right, and if there was an examination at all 1t was Invariably performed by some Custom House official who was advised of her coming and who Was himself a party to the smuggilng. If, however,an officer net in the “ring” happened around, he found everything apparently all right. The liquor, if in barreis, would bear the proper internal revenue stamps, which had been fraudulently procured [rom faithiess internal revenue oMicers; or, if in cases, It would bear false and forged stencil brands similar to those which appear en regularly Unported pack- 8. It was also ascertained that tuere came in large quantities nutmegs and cloves, packed in flour and fish barrels, some of which were marked “oak plugs,’’ and other ficticlous names, The same articles, packed in fish boxes, with @ solitary fish on top, were also smuggied in im- mense quantities, It was discovered further that there had been fraudulently run in and alscharged atthis port w singie cargo of over thirty tens of nutmegs, the duties upon which alone would have been upwards of thirty thousand doliars in gold; also that there had been brought in over eight hun- dred barrels of gin, brandy and alcohol, about a hundred barrels of castor oll, $75,000 worth of cloves and pepper, and large quantities of woollen socks, hay and other dutiable articles, the entire amount of which, if it had Pdr properly through the Custom House, would have enriched the gevern- ment to the amount of upwards of two hundred theusand dollars, It was furtmer discovered that ten fuil cargoes of liquors, spices and oil were smug- gled into Bosion between April 1 and December 1, 1969, and nine full cargoes into New York during the same period, Sufficient evidence having been, gathered to ens. in these startling facts the next step was to arrest the parties concerned, and this was done some four months ago. They were arraigned before the Unived States Commissioner here and subsequently bills were found against them-by the Grand Jury. The men thus indicted were Samuel C, Gameld, tormerly @ distiller in Brookiyn, N. Y.; Dexter 'T. Mills, Samuel QO. Lund, Augustine Sanderson, formerly a deputy surveyor in the Boston Custom House; £. B. W. Res tieaux, Milo B. Skeele, George Underwood, John T. Perry and Alden Freeman. As will be seen only & portion of those indicted are now on trial here. ‘Those who are the most prominent in the commu- nity are Mr. Mills, who has hitherto moved in” the aristecracy of Union Park, Mr. Lund, who rejoiced in the luxury of # $30,000 residenee out in Somerville. Restieaux, too, ig a man of heretofore high standing, aad among his influential friends are some of the most eminent connected with the Umited States government, Mr. Gattield, the Brooklyn distiller. has, as before stated, fled to Canada, and is now probabiy enjoying bim- self as much as possiple under the circumstances, at Hogan’s St. Lawrenmoe Hall. One important wit- ness, also in Canada, 18 said to have received $23,000 for absenting himself, and others have retired to the Dowminien on very handsome pensions, and attempts have aiso been made to “fix? some of the jurymen now listening to the trial. These disciosures of smuggling are but a fraction of what 1s constantiy going on at all ef the principal American ports not too remote from the Britist previnces. Probably mtihions and millious of dol- lars’ worth ef goods are brought into New York and Boston annually by these coasang ves- sels, and as the customs officers ao not make a practice ofexamining them the establishment otan independent department for this exciusive business seems to be the only remedy for the protec: ton of the government. Goods smuggled into New York are usually shipped to this city for sale, and those run inat this port are sent to New York. Another system of fraud which is largely and suc- cessfully practised by these coasters is in taking bonded goods out for expert. They represent that they are lorsome small port ia the provinces, and then run them boldiy into some American port, One coaster took out several hundred chests of bonded tea and a large cargo of brandy the other day for an island in Nova Scetia, and after he had cleared it Was ascertained that thete were only about thirty inhabitants on the island all told. The iaference Is that they are heavy ou tea and brandy. and ROMANTIC STORY OF A “GIRL-NEWSBOY," somewhat curious case was recently heard before & New Crieans court, in which a suit was brought for the property left by a certain Henrietta Newsham, whose history while in the flesh was not without ite romance. This person came to New Uricans trem Vicksburg on a flatboat during the war, accom- nied by her cousin, who was Said also to be her Dover. Upon the arrival of the twain in New Or- leans, Henrietta adopted the garb of a boy, and be- came a newsboy. She continued to sell papers and to dregs in male attire, unsuspected by her associates, untilan order from General Banks ordering a araft to New Orleans induced her te resume the nabill- ments of her sex. She thereafter became knewn as the girl-newsboy. In 1864 she died of smallpox. In the following year her cousin died of the same disease, and in 1565 her aunt, with whom the two lived, also died. Some thousands of dollars were _ by the Lynas wis oe suit aly broaght is by @ person iy mether enti eta. and WO Claims ‘REF SALA