The New York Herald Newspaper, June 6, 1871, Page 4

4 AMONG THE : AU AUN. | Premature Close of the Ruther- ford County Crusade, The ory of an Authentic Outrage. The Disguises, Brutality and Desperate Row- dyism of Its Perpetrators. Five More Men Held Over for Tria!—The Trae Cause of the Attack Non-Po- litieal—Local Sentiment About the Kua Klux, RUTHERFORDTON, C., May 81, 1871, We have come to the end of the Ku Klux arrests and trials great deal sooner than we expected, ‘There were to have been a couple of hundred men ar- raigned, but the ridicule heaped upon the first case tried and the result of a second case that closed on ‘the 24th inst., together with the promused arrival of a company of United States troops at Shelby, which 1s oniy about twenty-five miles from here, and is almost 4n the heart of the disturbed district, have induced the authorities to desist from the crusade they threatened against the White Brotherhood, or Ku Klux, or whatever they are now called. They say ‘that they fina it impossible to get justice for the out- rages done in the past, and now content themselves ‘with the consclousness that the presence of THE BOYS IN BLUB ‘will prevent such wicked lawlessness occurring in the future. The democrats of the county seem quite pleased to have the troops up here. The command- ing oficer of the men who were in the district for a year or so direoily after the war was exiremely popular, and there ts nota “rebel’’ tn the neighbor- hood who would not be only too glad to exchange ‘the miserable infamies done in the name of justice an the jocal courts for the even-handed severities of the court martial. The mere presence of a dozen Northern oficers, will, they say further, operate as a salutary check upon the imaginations of the Ruther- ford Siar editor and of the other men of that ik, ‘Who, by systematic exaggeration, have given the county notoriety all over the Union for anarchy and erime; for the simple word of a single United States army officer would outweigh the sworn state- ments of a dozen radical Southern Judges, though backed up with the afidayits of a few hundred of ther clerks and marshals and doorkeepers. and the simple trath is that the county 1s quite up to the Southern average of peace and order. ‘The case tried was @ far more serious affair than any we have yet heard about. Local repubica are such HOPELESS 1 that an impartial judge diser those tew rare occasions when th RS 3 them even on K the truth, thing has been the matier that they are very apt to call for sympatuy and aidin vain when they are indeed badly hurt, In this last Biggerstaf case the report n wasso evidently tricked out with fan- | sehoods, 1 . that a gre eople honestiy doubted whether the poor old man had ever been attacked at all on this second ocvask He said his arm had been broken, aud some of his friends said he bad been whipped; and his son-i-law was reported to have been nearly Killed aud to have had his jaw broken—ail of which was proven false. Wus it unvatural, therefore, to suppose that he had not been hurt in any way, apd that, even tf he had been molested, the gailty par- ties were probably bis own political frienas, dressei out in the terrors of Ku Kiux cos- tume? Nothing, at the first blush, would seem #0 Ukely to establish the desperate reality of a Ku Klux political society as this second assault, and the radica's had a clear motive, therefore, for get- ting up the outrage. And experience has shown thai taey do not stick long at the means when they have an end in fair view. Alter hearing the eviaence for the prosecution at the examination, however, I have no doubt that this second outrage was AS SADLY REAL as the first whipping, it would be tedious to give the testimony in full, aud uufiir as Well, as the de- fence waived their right to put any counter wit- nesses on tlie stand and couseated to be bound over for trial, Five men were arraigned—James Hunt, Thomas Thoms, Jas: Witvherow, John Witherow and Duck vediord. Yare all larmers—men of good reputation, pretiy weil educated aud, with one Biiddio-aced exception, between twenty and thiriy yeara old. In appearance they are very respectabie citizens; there ts nothing in the least repulsive or dangerous Bout them; (here is not one Whom you Woaid be afraid to my alone at midnight in tae most solitary road in tue country. There were four witnesses for the prosecution— old Aaron Biggerstai?, lis wile, bis son-in-law, Wil- Nam Holland, and nis nephew, Govan Biggerstaf. Aaron Biggerstam is a GRIZZLY Warn with decided teatures, ED OLD RUSTIC, ( with one of that square, sharp-cornered sort of heads that are popularly de “buraptious,’ and which proclaim un- their owners were born to fight and Saari aud bicker ail the Way trom the cradle to the grave. He Nas always vald his debts, and no one says anytuing against him except that he is ugiy- velnpered and that he hus cheated the government by fijicit distilling—an offence too common in these parts to be Gisgraceful. His wile is a quiet, kindly old lady, very religious, very nervous, very inoffen- sive, and jooks as if sue had been a good deal bullied by her husband. Holland 18 a backwooas farmer, resembling very strik- ingly the handsome’ pioneer, with enormous beard aud long tiair of Gery red, Whose figure stands out so prowinently in the Wail painting In the Capt- tol, nuit way up tlie Senate steps, representing the American march westward, Govan Biggerstait t very unlike him, | riny. during nearly aud lost an arm wht These witnesses were four hours, and were TESTIONED d rigor and skill that would oc fed them of verjury if | with a minuteness most cerlamly dave bey had not been telling tue sumple, unadorned truth. Every possivie detail connected witn the outrage Was gone 1 aud yet all the testimony | was perfectly harmo As to the story iney | rea a litte as ‘to agreed exacily, ba identineation of the hized by oO em, Beaford by ail four, and we other two a This is we ok en by three. as it thus brought out, Aaron, his wi biggersuiil and Holland were oo their W. ryville, the head of ihe railroad, w pected to have to leave for Kaleigh to give evid 4s to the first whipping. They camped for the nignt at a p.ace on the road where there was a litue empiy cabin. Old Aaron slept in tae Wagon, and the otuer three went into the house. Faron i the night—an hour or so atter midnigui—they were aroused by tue shouts of a dozen or wore men, tueluding Among the rest tue defendants. Only two | of the bund were tricked out fa the RRIBLE ATTIRE OF THE KU KLUX; but these two seemed Lo direct the operations of the One of tem—the head centre of ail, as it ap- | peared—wus clad from head to foot in a dark b) SkIL-ligbt robe, with & Complete mask for the and bead, tue eyeholes edged with colored riboou and @ huge horn standing out from euch side of the Torehead, tus ieaving iin doubt woether Herne, the hunter, or Apoliyou himself, or merely @ poor ordinary cuckold Was the special character assumed, The secoud leader was cioihed tu pretty much the same Way; but his dress was yellow, and his horns, | instead of standing up erect, nodded to and fro as | he waiked. ‘The rest of this lawless compauy of Tofians were not much disguised. Most of them wore the homespun of the country, so that their dress gave no clue to their ideniily, but ouly one or two bad bandkerchiefs over ther laces. They made short work with poor oid Aaron Pig- gerstaf. Two or three dragged him ou Oo! the Wagon—so roughly that he badly burt his wrist— and, having put a rope round ts neck, they marched Dim away @ littie distance, telling him that tiey Would “put him througu,”’ that they had “sworn to HANG HIM and would doit.” A gun was fired about this time, but probably merely for fun, Tbe remainder of the gang surrounded the house where tolland, Mrs. Hi ola lady panions. The three then eat up ov tye floor, and Waited silently through a few terrible minutes, their growing greater and greater as they heard the crles of tielr kinsman begging to see bis wile once wore before they Killed hit, baif drowned by the yells and oats of his eapto hey were soon, however, themseives atiacked. ‘The assailants were evidently at first afraid—ae guct cowardly wretches migh: Well be—Lto enter the Louse, and kept moving found about It, Crying out “Shoot, shoot; you are £0 | HISTORY OF THE OUTRAGE | | ersta and her nepbew had retired to rest. The } ara them first, and roused her two com. | NEW Holland came to his senses they took him and Mrs. Biggerstaff away to where they had air eady carried old Aaron. Govan, meanwatie, had crawled away to the back of te but, noping to escape, but a man entered and stumbled over him. Govan did not, however, remain a captive long. He waited until he saw that a couple of unarmed Ku Kiux stood between hun and the few Who had guns, and he then made @ spring and ran, as he thought, tor his Ife. ‘There was a general cry among the band, and one of them fired at the speeding runaway. ‘We've done it, now,” said some, but luckily Govan was unhurt, and got safely away into the woods, Tne three defenceless people who were still in their power now had to endure ALL THE AGONY of living in momentary SS of being slain, Like Agag, “they tasted the bitterness of death.” For a few minutes the desperadoes wavered in their urpose. Some cried oui, “Hang them; we've come ere to do it; why don’t we do it? but others, wiser, Who counselled moderation, prevailed. They parleyed with their victims until they Ipduced them to swear that tey would not goto Shelby to give evidence and that they would never say anytilog about the proceedings of the night. They then professed to be very iriendly, and afver a while suook ands (!) and left. ‘That was the testimony put in, and the counsel for the defence, foresecing that the case must go to a trial, Waived the right to examine their witnesses at ‘this preliminary examination. A FIGHT ENSUED between the counsel as to where the defendants should be bound over for trial The prosecution pressed to have the case go to Raleigh, to be dis- posed of at the court which meets in a couple of weeks. The defence, however, maintained that the thirty or forty witnesses necessary for the deience could never be assembled there—a distance of 250 miles—and that such course would be practicaily @ “judical murder,” The Commissioner adopted the same view, and the case will be tried at Marion next August. It is very unfortunate, both for the detendants and the public, that so important a case should waitso long, but the delay cannot well be helped. It ts one of the necessary eviis of a thinly settled country. Jt is right now to warn everybody that this out- Tage is not a politcal crime, in spite of the strena- ous exertions made on the part of Judge Logan and his friends to make It wear that garb. Jt is notort- ous through the district that this “Biggerstaim 1eud” has sprung from OTHER THAN POLITICAL differences, Biggerstaff is stated by all who live within a few miles of him to be an illicit distiller; that he is 80 1s @ universa.ly accepted scandal, ; Even his friends do not deny it, and his enemies say further chat the local radical officials have winked at his violauon of the law, in consideration of bis political support. about ayear ago this “stilling”? business caused the present feud. At that tmea man named McGahy, who was almost a purter of defendants in the frst whipping case. Bad blood has existed ever since, and so far as old Biggerstart himself 1s concerned he is probably little to be pitied, Whatever befalls him. THIS OUTRAGE, however, ought to be treated apart from any per- song: or polilical considerations, In a country hike this part of the South, sparsely seutled, very poor, painfully recovering by sadly slow degrees from the ruin and demoralization of a terrible war, and em- barrassed with a singularly bad local bureaucracy, a reasonable an would not expect to find the same deep-rooted regard for law and order as in the happier North, 1 have been astonished, however, to hear how generally, and with what evident sin- cerity, these outbreaks are denounced a, all men of character and property, borh here and elsewhere. Pertaps, at first, some of them connived at what are called “Ku Klux” demonstrations, especially as the “Union Leaguers,” or “Red Strin, the securliy of every white man’s home. possibly te ” menaced They then ped that such a society as the “Ku dux,"? or “White Brotherhood,” or whatever may "be its real name, would act simply as vigdance committees acted in the West and in Calilornia, as salutary substitutes for the machinery of regular legal tribunals. But they see now plainly that a society soon degenerates into a deeds of evil men, and if the authoritles, instead of denouncing the organization as a “rebel con- cy,”’ Would Staimp it out by making a few se- vere examples among these “hight riders,” they would have the sympathy of every good and true mau in tne country. after the wial Commissioner Wilson was SOUNDLY Ra‘ his radical feliow oficiais, They 8: ak has thrown tt out of their_ power © projected crusade against the Ku Klux further. All the remaining two hundred Ku Klux criminals id now, ifarrested and held for the sake of con- hi to be seat to Marion, and at Marion say It is hopeless to expect uan for an offence of this of United States troops cl) 1m the future, and they now abaa- dou the hope of getting justice for the past. ALLEGED ARIZONA MASSACRE, EDITOR OF THE HEeRaLp:— Sin—Your tndignant editorial upon the massacre of friendly Indians in Arizona would be just and awaken a sympathetic echo in every breast if 1t was only bused on fact. There are no friendly Apaches in Arizona, The band that was attacked by the citizens of Tucson, to which you refer, were simply hiding their atroct- ties ander cover of the protection of United States troops, From their supposed safe retreat they had Tepeatedly sallied out, committed murders, rop- beries and burniogs, near towns, at ranches and on the public roaas. {uous mountain paths to their reservation near Camp Grant, and after their camp was captured tue clothing of women, Killed within a few days, arms, ammunition and other booty recoguized a8 belonging to peaceful ranchemen were iouod 1 their camp. Of these facts there is not a shadow of doubt. The citizens of Tucson were not only justified in this attack, but they had pushed patience to 1s las( stand. We ask no suspension of public opinion in this matter, The settlers of Anzona are not assassius. For 300 years the Catholic fathers, the Spauish and Mexican people have tried every art of conciiation, reugiou, kindness and peace with the Apaches in vain. They are aeclared by the Spanisn ordinanzas enemies of mankind, to be killed on the highway or in toe field, and their lands are pro- nounced terrenos baldios—public_properiy—tn con- tradistinction to those of the Christianized Indians— the Pimos and Papagos—who live at peace with us as they did with our predecessors. The United States and the American settler have exhausted every mneans to live ainicabiy with the Apaches, Treaty alter treaty has been made only to be broken by the Indians, before they were fairly gorged by the 1ood given by public and private contrivution. ‘Toe miner, farmer or stock raiser in Arizona no more Makes War on the Apaches, to have the frutss O1 his toll destroyed or his iife taken, than the store- house for the spoul of the burglar or the knife of the assassin. The atrocious folly of such men as Rey, Vincent Colyer—with whom pseudo philauthropy is & profession, as religion Was to Suggins and Coad- band—are debauching public senument on t Indian question, and costing hundreds of valnable lives and muluions of property on the frontier every € ” President Grant has done a wise and good thing in ordering Major Generai Crook to the command in Arizova. 1 believe he will sustain him with strong command, and that Crook will teach this most savage, ‘ocious, intractable tribe, who vaoiate Wornen, burn men and children at the and who proclaim insolently im ali thetr talks that “the vicans are cowards, lars and dogs, and the Will Kill them ali off and drive them pacl over. ‘That there are bad men in Arizona! do not deny. No one kuows ‘hat Territory better thant do. As subaltern commianaing officer and citizen I have known it sixtecn years, and | give you my word of honor as a so\lier and a gentleman that the worst men there to-day are those Who occupy the civil oifices, The people court the fullest investigation into their alleged massacre of friendly Indians, It Is a slameful, infamous itbel upon the most patient, courageous people that ever sought a home on the froutier, and who have become heroic in their endeavors to develop Arizona under a neglect which no goverumeot under the sun but that of the United States would be gulity of. Your obedient servant, SYLVESTER MOWRY. CLun, New York, June 2, 1871. MiJOR GENERAL MUNDY. UN His Melancholy Death at the Tombs, Major General Charles Mundy, a native of Bun- | gary, who served throughout the war, died on Saturday night tn a cell in tne Tombs, Mundy attended the Convention of mac wing of tue Grand Army of the Republic, which was held at Boston ao few weeks ago. He came on tw New York, where he met with several of his mollitary friends, amoug Whom were General McClellan. He staid rauob day snd bade his friends “good- Y supposed that he was going home to General the Poto- large cotton plantation. They heard nothing of Fombs. lt appears that be beat about New York ship of @ drinking saloon at 101 West | street, while, It is believed, he was in a ft of temporary insanity. He paid the people at the saloon about $200. He was subse- quently charged witu grand larceny by some of the “hangers ou"? of the place, and was taken to the Tombs. day, and, afver being taken out of his cell into the court yard, be died im twenty-five minutes. Dr. Nealls Was with lim and rendered ali the assist ance possible. A coroners inquest was held yester- day, and General Mundy’s son arrived from Florida yesterday and will return with the body, when it Will be deposited in the family resting place. KRIGHTS TEMPLARS IN JERSEY CITY. ready to sheot you'd vetier do It DOW; BhOdL, Shot." Holand attempted vo paricy, “WHAT DO YOU WANT, GENTLEMEN?" ho ead, going to the door, but taking care to kee) Under cover of the intel. Gome few words ensucd,_ bo Fal the wy wy wy Apel Kot paid far Ls 3 Bed - crept @ Bide ouse, gaia hus aim by ‘ollond's voice, struck LZ wie ® gob, Whicd felled lum to the gro Waen Teupier aod Mr, Lawrence Stern Secretary. The first German Iudependent Order of Knight Tempiare in the world was instalied on the 26th of May, at the Franklin House, Jersey Oity. The en- rolment of officers took place at the German City Lodge, 49 Montgomery sirect. | Mr. Michael K. was elected Templar, Mr. Mi Vice B ggerstai’s, killed Depriest, a friend of some of the | unauthorized by’ law | inere cloak for the evil | 7 | such wrongs They were trailed over the tor- | keeper or broker of New York leaves open his | from Arizonu,” that Uielr day of riot and murder is | by.” Th ‘Tallahassee, Fia,, where he was the proprietor of a | him until they jearoed that he was lying dead at the | aud made sowe kind of an arrangement for partner- | There he Was seized with a fton Satur- | YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JUNE 6, POLITICAL. ‘The Cincinnati Gazette (republican) saya the object to be achieved by the Ohio democratic platform was to deceive, and adds that— No one pretends that there has been any change Yn democratic sentiment on the constitutional amendments, or on negro suffrage, or the right of secession, nor in their sympathies with theu con- federates. The issue at the convention was solely Whether the platform should declare tho sentiments of the party or put on a false face. The cheating polley prevailed, But who will be cheated by ity Surely not any repubitean. ‘There 1s an old couplet which runs some way as follows:— The pleasure Ig almost as great In being cheated as to cheat. Perhaps a few Uo republicans may like to enjoy @ little of this sort of pleasure, The Detroit Post (republican) says of the Ohio democratic platform that it resembles that “mys- terious esculent (?), boarding house hash."” “That portion of the new departure which 1s adopted is artfully explained away, while the old Pendietonian financial herestes are left as plain and undisgulsed Qs ever, except by a thin coating of pew departure grease.” The Cincinnat! Times says the democratic plat- form is @ “monstrosity,” and that “Vallandiguam has badly nauseated the democracy, His medicine is taken with all the ‘enthusiasm’ of a colicky youth taking picra.”” Obio Democracy has departed. Obsequies post- poned until October.—Cincinnatt Times, The Cincinnati 7imes thinks that “the republicans With a good State ticket and no twaddling resolu- tions will carry the State next October by a large majority. It will hardly come up to the round 100,000 they had the last time Vatindigham led the democracy, but near enough for practical pur- | poses.’? A report that disaffected democrats tn Ohio are to call a new convention is said to lack confirmation. Republican Troubles in Alabamna—Protest from the Republican State Committee. | [Washington (June © coremponaraye of the Even- Ing Post. The fact has been made public that for some time there have been internal dissenstons tn the repub- ican party in Alabama which bid fair to result in Keeping the State in the hanas of the democracy. The aid of the administration was invoked, but nothing was done to reconcile matiers. The republicans in Alabama were so much incensed at the course of the admmistration in re- plac ad characters that a meeting of the Kepublican Executive Committee of the was called, when the following letter was addressed to the President. ‘The letter is signed by all tne members of the State Committee with the exception of one member, who was unable to be present— TROTES! OF THE REPUBLICAN STATE COMMITTER. Mo May 30, 1871. To THE PRESENT OF THE UN he Repu s Dama reaper 2e of the S y represent that they have seen with alarm the changes recently mado among the federal oflicers at Mobile, in which good men Lave been act aside to make room for other men for whom the repubiicans of the State, ate of Ala- | knowing them well, are by no means willing to be held | responsible. Other appointments lately made in the | northern ortion of the State are scarcely less | objectionable. From a knowledge of the views of | the great mass of republicans of Alabama we feel bound to declare that every sich appointment is In opposition to their | will and a great wrong to them and their cause, We speak plainly, for we feel deaply the responsibility that rests upon ‘us to so fulfil the trust commiited to us by the republicans of | Alabama that disaster. {fit come to us as a party here- | after, shail not justly be charged to eupineness and timidity on our part. vi are the more fin- pellea so to speak because we are aware that tho administration, while we keep silent, is justifiably or even 1 on cnsaarily ied to rely upon the statements or recommend: | tions.of those whose positions or pretences enable them to Lice successfully impositions upon it. With a proper u hington ot our situation, and a dlapo: us in our offorts rather than to subject us as lave already dumped jor of our party and made us bang our heads with shame, we believe | wean yetredeom oar State from the hands of” the demo- craticleaders. Wo are sure that a clear majority of nftera | thousand of the legal voters of the State are sincerely repub- | tiean in their political faith, and that, with” proper | protection for a free ballot, with'the genial effects of repub- | Hcantsm practically silustrated fn the qualities, character and conduet of republican ofictals, there can be such an org: zation of the party in Alabam: will inspire confident hope for republican victory in 187: Robert W, Healy, chairman, ©, Cadie, Jr., Firat Congressional district. dames Braga, First Congressional district. Jobo C. Kefter and Lawrences ear, Second district. ‘Arthur Bingham, Third district, J. H. Speed, Fourth district, ¥. }. Smith and W. B, Fignres, Fifth district. M Rice and E. F. Jennings, Sixth district. | _Teoncur fully in the foregoing, excepting t | of the fourth paragraph. Isaac Hegman, Third district. The Thomas Jeflersan Civh. | The regular monthly meeting of the Thomas Jef- | ferson Club, of the Ninth ward, was held at their | rooms, at the Adriatic, corner of Barrow and Had- | son streets, last evening, and was marked by a full | attendance, Assemblyman James O'Neill, one of | the founders and the president of the club, presid- | ing. Upon calling the meeting to order he made a ; brief address, in which he congratulated the organt- vation upon the influence he hoped and felt assured | it was destined to exert with the democracy | of the Ninth ward, The business — trans- | acted was principally of a routine nature. | A very appropriate addition to the club's head- | quarters ts a fac-stmile of the Declaration of Inde- | pendence as orginally drawn up by its patriotic author, Thomas Jefferson; it ts about 4 feet by 3 In dimensions, and is richly framed, The officers of | the Thomas Jefferson Club are:—President, Assem- | biyman James O'Neill; Vice-Presidents, Ignatius | Fiynn and D. G, Piper; Recording Secretaries, | Judge Dusenbury and J. Isaacs; Corresponding Secretary, John J. Foley; Sergeant-at-Arms, John M, Oakford. last sentence RUNNING NOTLS---POLITICAL AND GENER AL. Horace Greeley telegraphed to L. U. Reaves, St. | Louis, from Memphis, June “Tam very weary and must go directly home.’ “There is rest fur the weary,” &c., &c, The canvass in Kentucky is getting quite lively. Mass meetings are being neld in various parts of the State, at which the prominent candidates make speeches, as in olden times. The Louisville Courter+ Journal says Hon. James Beck, for Congress, 13 carrying all before him in the Green river country. General James H. Godman, Auditor of the State of | Ohio, witl not be a candidate for re-election. ‘The Cincinnatl 7imes puts the inquiry :— Can't the American press, from Newfoundland to Florida, find any otwer heading for a Paris arti- cle than “Alter the Commune, What?’ We are reminded of the young gentleman who considered nash good for forty or Hity meals, but dida’t lake it for a regular diet. The Richmond Whtg interprets the democratic organs as regarding Jef Davis’ Atlanta speech as “a firebrand thrown at a most inopportune moment among the organizing forces of the opposition, and its author as a headstrong, selfish, disappointed man, who ts blinded by resentinent, and unwiliing to see public affairs adjusted upon any basis not dictated by himself."? Beverly Tucker, of Washington journalistic fame, | has been invited to the control of one of the most prominent of the democratic papers in the South- | west, but Beverly wisely concluded to ran his hotel in Canada—and there his head is level, The republican papers in Onto call General Mc- Covk, democratic candidate for Governor, “a mere handsome dummicopr? (blockhead). His war rec- ord, no doubt, 18 calculated to strike his opponents dumb. The Onio State Journal pangently says the bulk of the republican papers in that State make a great | deal of “Noyes” for Governor, What's the matter with Ben Wade's convention The Lexington (Ky.) Olserver says of Jeff Davis’ recent speeches:— They not only weaken one's confidence in his Judgment, but compel us to recognize the fact that Whether his utterances are fetta judicious or not, they will prove seriously obstructive, in a pra tical point of view, to that speedy ana compiete justment of sectional diferences which ia essential to the prosperity of the Southern people, The Boston Traveller 18 out for Grant for re-elec- | tion, The Salem (Mass.) Register regards the new demo- cratic departure as “beset with diMculties.” So was the republican movement when it was first started, The Baltimore Gazette, one of the organs of the | extreme democracy, ts rather sour over the new de- parture. It says For us, in Maryland and the South generally, we have put cne thing te do—to accept the candidate, if we can, Who may be nominated; to vote solidly; Ww bold our tongues, #0 a8 to give the radicals no | Opporvantty of distorting our sitnplest expressions, and to trust to Lhe future. If some of our Northern Sriends had adopted such @ policy they would not now have been in @ position where they fee! com- pelied to take back what they swore by a few years ago, simply because by so doing they think they have a better chance to win, changing their princi- vies a8 the gambier does his stakes, The Troy Whig (republican) considers the new democratic departure “a lure put out to drag the uowary into the democratic new” Wouildo't that be a democratic net gain ¢ The Wasnt; Republican is Spposed to the one term Presidential principle of Horace Greeley aud goes for the re-electiva of Grapy YACHTING NOTES. Harlem Yacht Club regatta, Monday, June 12. Contrary to an understanaing and tn the absence of her owner, Mr. John W. Ritch, the new sloop yacht West Wind was launched from Lennox’s shipyard, Brooklyn, on Sacurday evening, at seven o'clock, ‘The owner of the sloop yacht Dudley has ordered asuit of racing sails. The yacht is at City Island, receiving a thorough overhauling. Captain R. W. Holmes’ sloop yacht Flying Cloud, attached to the Frooklyn Yacht Club, is at anchor off Court street, Brooklyn. She salled from Nyack on Sunday, and meeting the heavy squall of that afternoon in the Bay, near Governor's Island, weathered it under her jib. She has been fitted with a new topmast ten fect longer than the old one. Captain N, D. Palmer's sloop yacht Sallie E. Day is in fine trim and lying at anchor off Stonington. She will be in the New York Yacht Ciub regatta, June 22, The sloop yacht Josie, Captain R. F. Loper, Jr., has been fitted with a cabin, which 1g quite commo- dious. This addition changes the appearance of the boat materially, making ber look decidedly more ke She will be in racing trim about the 17th ins! ‘The scrub race between the cockleshells of Harlem river will not take place to-day, having been post- poned until the 13th inst. Eight yachts have already entered, and others will not be ready for some days. ‘They will start from the fuot of Ninety-second street, East river, ‘The schooner yacht Madgie, Captain R. F. Loper, has been thoroughly overhauled at Stontngton,Conn., her owner's place of residence, Among the altera- tions made are the placing of the foremast five feet further aft and the shortening of both the mainmast and the foremast. She will be provided with more light satis than ever before, and will make ner first appearance this season on the 4th of July, at Cape ‘ay. John Norris’ schooner yacht Bessie is lying off Whitestone, L.1, she cruises through the Sound trequently. The sloop yacht Alert has been on the ways in South Brooklyn, that she may be fully in order for a tinal trial trip. She was sent into the water at six o'clock last evening. Captain 8. J, Macy's schooner yacht Eva is at an- chor in Gowan’s ~ Captain William H. Langtey’s sloop yacht Adaie ph os foot of Court street late last night lor a short cruise, Rear Commodore Dillon's sloop yacht Kate; Cap- tain Chauncey M, Feit’s sloop Sophia; Captain William M. Braiser’s sloop Onward and Captain E. T. Wood's sloop Dapline, all attached to the Brook- lyn Pane Club, are iying off the foot ot Court street, Brooklyn. The schooner yacht Agnes, Captain Edward Har- vey, of the Atlantic Yaclit Club, wul go on the ways to-morrow or next day in Brooklyn, that her bottom may be thoroughly cleaned. Sne 1s nearly ready for the regatta of that association, 15th inst. Mr. Osgood’s New Yacht Columbin—Descrip- tien of the Vessel—in Euteriainwent oa Board, An invitation, says the Philadelphia Jnquirer, ‘was extended to the representatives of the press and a number of invited guests, on Saturday after- noon, to visit the new and handsome yacht Colum- bla, prior to her departure for New York early on Sunday morning. The vessel was moored in the Delaware with colors flying, and was reached by a small boat from the Jersey shore. On nearing her the little craft presented a beautiful appearance, and is a credit to all those who were concerned in her construction. The Columbia ts owned by Franklin Osgood, Rear Commodore of the New York Yacht squadron. She ‘Was built at Chester, under the supervision of J. B, Vandusen, by whom she was modelled. Six months were occupied in her construction, and when in full sail she will carry uearly twelve thousand square fect of canvas, Her crew will consist of firteen men, Her deck is made of Oregon cedar, She measures #8 feet on the water line, 118 feet on deck, 85 feet hold, 26 feet beam, and is 230 tons carpenter's tonnage. ‘The captain’s room 1s on the starboard side and the mate’s on the larboard side, ‘Lhe main saloon or cabin is magnificently fitted up. It is about twenty-five feet square and ts adorned with intrrors, and 1n the sixteen smail niches between the mirrors: are small bronze images, also two large ones on the floor, representing Night and Morniug. The four sides of the mainmast in the saloon are filled in with mirrors, In this room are suspended pictures of the Widgeon and Magic, formerly owned by Vice Commodore Osgood, and in the same room are two magnificent cups, made out of massive silver Washed with gold. One of them bears the foilow- ing inscription:—“Won by Frank Osgood’s yacht Magic, beating the schooners Cambria, Idler, Made- lene, Madgie, Phantom, Tidal Wave and Rambier.”” Tae other ts somewhat gondola shaped and has inscribed on it the following:—“Presented by the New York Yacht Ciub to Captain Osgood, to com- memorate the snccessof the schoover Magic over the whole feet tn the race for the Queen's Cup, Au- gust 8, 1870.” ‘The vessel Is beautifully painted in tints and gold, and the joiners’ work is fiuished with hard wood, The main cabin Is cushioned with brilliant and ex- pensive satin damask and a very handsome velvet carpet on the floor; also easy chairs, camp stools, and a centre tabie with a rictiy embroidered cover. The owner's private room opens out from the main saloon, 1s twelve feet by twenty, and is on the star- board side. Itis very elegantly fitted up, witn bed- stead, lounge, marble-top waspstand and bureau and two large mirrors. Attached to the bed are very heavy green satin damask curtains. in the rear of the bathroom there are two tanks, holding 1,700 gallons of water, Forward of the e: trance of the private cabin 1s the kitchen, possess- ing the most perfect culinary arrangements, The forecastle contains ten open berths, and one srore- room, for the voatswatin, with two berths, On the Port side, next to the kitchen, is the steward's pri- vate room, with two berths in it. Abaft of the steward’s room 19 the pantry, complete ta every re- spect. Forward of the main cabin, on the port side, are two handsome staterooms, Atted up in the finest and best style, with marbie-top bureau and wash- stand, made of hard wood, Among the invited guests present were his Honor Mayor Fox, Captain Queen, U. Captain Pender- gust, U. 8.N,, Messrs, Cloment RK. Wainwright, 3. Kingston Mc S. Gross Fry, L. T. Aslimead, John C, Bullitt, Joseph C. Doran, Dr. Morwitz and many others. ‘The Commodore was on board and enter- tained his er. very hospitably. The cost of the Columbia has been between $60,000 and $70,000. She will participate in the regatta at New York on the 22d inst., and also the one at Cape May, July 4, on both of which occasions the owner contidently expects she wiil be the success(ul competitor lor the Lewes It is a very significant fact—and the Columbia aving been built at Chester proves this to be the case —that New Yorkers resort to Pennsylvania when they wish to obtain a first class vessel, kuowiug tuey will thus obtain a superior article. Two handsome silver cups are being made by Messrs, bins, Clark & Biddle, of Us city, to be given to the successful competitors at the coming regatta at Cape May, on July 4, one costing $2,000 and the olher $1,600. Launching of the Yacht &. S. Mefiirr. (From the Philadelphia inquirer, June 5.) On Saturday the fine clipper-built yacht 8. S. MeGirr, built for the Franklin Yacht Club, was launched from the yard of Captain Rufus Wilkins, at Cooper's Point, New Jersey. This little vessel promises to take a place among the first in the list of fast yachts, On her trial to Chester she succeeded in beating several of her rivais. Her vallder and the members of the club to which she belongs feel assured that she will prove her qualities In the com- ing regatta, New Thames Yacht The Opeving Trip of th Clas. [From the London Times, May 22.) ‘There was a very large assemblage of yachts and yachtmen at the opening trip of the above club on Saturday, The rendezvous was of the clud house, Gravesend. The Commodore, J. D, Lea, hoisted his Nag on board his yacht Nettle, and the Vice Comimo- dore, Mr. W. N. Rudge, on board his yacht Night Thought. They were accompanied in a short cruise by the Marguerite, Loadster, Alberta, Wizard, Druid, Violet, Foxhound, Caprice, Vampire, Wanderer, Vanguard. Jona, Lurline, Mr. Walter Winan’s cigar boat Emily, Blanche, Guinare, Rose of Devon, Sphinx and some others. The sail ended, nearly one hundred gentlem fat down to an excellent dinner at the club Louse, the Commodore presiding, supported on the right by the Mayor of Gravesend, and faced by the Vice Commodore. After the usual Joyal and patriotic toasts the chairman proposed “The New Thames and other Yacnt Clubs of the United Kingdom, and the American Yacht Club." He adverted to the rapid advancement to prosperity of the “New Thames,” iniorming the company that one hundred and turty-two new mem- bers had been added since last year, and that it now had a fine flag of yuchts of six thousand tons, He intimated ‘that the town of Gravesend was about to present them with two cups for competition this summer, and, advert- Ing to our American cousins, dwelt with pleasnre upon the kind treatment Mr, James Ashbury had received at their hands. He fi ehairman) had in- vited the Commodore of the Plymouth to dine with them, and regretted that he could bot. He had, however, left tis card to inform that gentleman that he and tis officers would find thelr Hames entered upon the New Thames book, and it was hoped they would use the club house whenever it suited them, The Mayor of Gravesend thanked the club for es- tablishing their club house there, and stated the pleasure he aud the township would seel ip placing a £50 and £26 cup at the disposal of the New Thames Yacht Club, aud in making other arrangements jor & two d regatta, ir. Armitage Pra “The Health of the Commodore,” and the returned thanks, Mr. R. Herault proposed Vice Commonore,” who suitably acknawiedged it, and in py ‘Treasurer (Mr. K. 8. Wilkin- son) and ovher ‘7 dwelt upon the valuable services espectally col by the firat-named gen- tieman, Who responded by expressing the pleasure ‘be felt in being of any use to the club. 1 havin, Tne . 1871.-TRIPLE SHEET. eee SOUTHERN OPINION. Mr. Alexander IL Stephens Lifts Up His Voice and Testifies Against the Amendments. A Government of Bayonets or a Government of Law. CENTRALISM VS. FREEDOM. Negro Suffrage on Its Trial---'To Stand or Fall by Results. THE DUTY OF THE DEMOCRACY. AvGustA, Ga., June 1, 1871. The following article is taken from the Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel of about a couple of weeks ago, and, taken in connection with the platform of the Pennsylvania democracy and the “new depart- ure of the party,” is of the greatest significance, It is published with Mr. Stephens’ full consent and approval, and clearly defines his position in regard to the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments. It was provoked by ashort statement in a New York paper:— HE ACCEPTS AMENDMENT XIII. It is well known by all who have read with any attention Mr. Stephens’ second volume upon the war between the States that he docs hold and main- tatn that the thirteenth amendment of the Constitu- tion of the United States—that by which slavery was abolished—was duly ratified by the Southern States after they abandoned the cause of secession and resumed their obligations to the federal Union, ‘This amendment having been thus duly ratified by the constitutional constituencies of these States (though they had no voice in its proposal by Con- gress, because of thetr voluntary absence), he never- theless regards as a vital part of the organic law, HB DECLINES AMENDMENTS XIV. AND XV. It is equally well known by all those conversant with the same work that Mr. stephens does not hold either the fourteenth or fifteenth amendment, so-called, to be valid and rightful parts of the con- stitution, because they were and are nothing but the offspring of gross usurpailons of power, passed by force, fraud and perfidy. The reconstruction measures, upon which they rest entirely for their foundation and support, were passed by Congress upon the assumption of powers avowedly “outside” of the constitution—ten of the States of the Union at that t claiming repre- sentation in Congress (and not ven of the origi+ nal Colonies”) were arbitrarily and most wrong- fully denied a voice and hearing mm the Congress of the States upon those amendments when they were Proposed, and that, too, in the very face and teeth of the constitution, which declares that “each State shall have at least one Representative’? in the liouse, and that “no State, without tts consent, shatl be deprived of its equal suifrage in the Senate.” On proposing these last two amendments, ten States were thus most wrongfully and unconstitu- Uonally denied a voice. It is well Known that but for this palpabie and avowed usurpation by which they were donied a voice, the so-called amendments never would have been proposed for adoption by the States of the Union, THR CONSPIRACY AGAINST AMERICAN LIBERTY. But besides this 1t 1s also well known that it was a part of the plan of the conspirators against the liverties of the people of the United States, by whom these fraudulent amendments were concocted, as ther first siep toward centralized empire, that they hever were to be submitted tor ratification to the constitutional constituencies of these disfrauchised States, as required by the constitution. — ‘The: therefore, not only originated in an attempted rev lution of the federal government by those who then bore sway in the Congress of States, but were based for their assumed future validity upon a like pro- jected revolution of the governments of ten of the States of the Unien, which was to be carried out by force of arms, This revolution so projected was carried out in these ten States, Their rightful or de jure governments were overthrown and de jacio governments established by bayonets in thetr st which still exist in each of them at thls ume, WHY HE DOES NOT ACCEPT THEM. The amendments thus originating 1n usurpation Were submitted for ratification to a constituency tn these States not embraced in their constitutions and unknown tothe constitution of the United States. ‘They were carried not entirely “by intimidation and threats” (as late elections tn this State have been falsely sald to have been carrled) bat by a violent dis- placement of the regalar ernment of these States and the erection in their stead o1 a muitary despot- ism in each of them, Their de jure goveruments are still in a state of repression, © This 18 the truth of the case. and the annals of no couatry or age show grosser or wore palpable usurpaiions of power—more glating acts of wrong, violence, fraud and perfidy on the part of those in authority—than do those measures upon Which solely these so-called amendinents were based, and those upon whica solely they are claimed to ‘have been passed and in- corporated as Valid parts of the cousntution of the United States, BALLOTS, NOT BULLETS. These, as we undersiand thein, are Mr. Stephens? views in regard to the last two amendinents, 80 catled. In the views thus entertained we suppose the editor of the Ezpriss concurs at least in te main. All true democrats at least do, But he seems to iook upon the results of these usurpations and the existing status under them throughout the Limits of the Union as “fixed facis,” not to be changed or even assailed, and gives out that Mr. Stephens looks upon them in the same light. In this, we conceive, consists @ difference, smail or great, as it may be, between them. While Mr. Stephens advises, and has from the first of these usurpation, as we know, advised that there should be no resistance by force or violence to their execution, and that the only sure ultimate remedy for them and all like acts of tyranny under our system of government is the peaceful rectification of wrongs through the ballot box, yel_he maintains that this rectification can never be brought about except by an exposure of the wrongs and an arratgnment of their authors before the people for their condewnation. It can- not be done by an acceptance of the wrongs as rightful impositions, or, as in this case, by an acknowledgment of the validity of measures so founded entirely upon usurpatious, fraud, violence and perfidy as these are known to be. NO PEACE TILL THESE AMENDMENTS ARE REPEALED. The only “safe way out,” according to nis optnion, is the peaceful mode of an earnest appeal to the sober second ey ey of the liberty-loving maases ot ‘the people, 1n all the States, to rally at the polls and there pronounce their crushing Judgment of popu- Jar condemnation against these and all like usurpa- Mons, as well as against their authors. If the party in power are vo be turned out tt ought to be for their misdeeds of some sort. What mis- deeds have they done or are likely to do compared with these’ ‘‘his party ought to be condemned, 1f at all, for what they have done, as well as for what they are likely to do, judging the future by the past. New usurpations can oniv be justly apprehended hereafter from those which have gone betore. } Mr. Stephens, doubdtiessly, agrees fully with the lastsentence of the article quoted, which 1s that “policy and duty, interest aud patriotism seem to us now to demaud that we unite vo prevent new usur- pations of power and new intringements upon the Tights of the people and the States."* But where is the policy. it may well be asked, of attempting to unite the people in a rally to prevent new usurpations, if the existing ones, which strike at the citadel of the “rents of the people,” as weil as “the States,” are to be utterly ignored? In view of policy alone, with what confidence or face could any man go before the people of any State and ap- peal to them to unite and rally fur the prevention of ew usurpations, Who should begin nis appeal by advising them to receive and accept as ‘verities’? and “fixed facts’’—not to be now or ever hereafter questioned or assatied—the foulest usurpations that have ever yet veen perpetrated upon the rights of any portion of the American people ? Could the earnest efforts of the people, anywhere, be expected to be enlisted for the prevention of new usurpations of any sort, at the call or entreaty of any party which either winks at or connives at, muci less which favors the sanction of these greatest of al! outrages upon popular rights—these highest of alt crimes against the constitution—these fellest of all blows ever aimed at public liberty in thie country, by which ten commonwealths were stricken from the roll of States, and the lives, with the rights of person and property, of nine millions of freemen were pat under the absolute dommion of military satraps. THE AMENDMENTS STILL LIVING ISSUES. If the party in power are to be assailed for their usurpations, If they are to be put out, to save the “rights of the people and the States” from their grasp of usurpations, is it not the dictate of pa- triotism, as well as of sound policy, to assail them Jore and aft. root and branch, pointedly and most vigorously, for their most mischievous and iniqui- tous acts of this character—those almed at the over- throw of the entire structure of American free isu- turionsy Whatever may be said or thonght of “dead issues"? in the coming contest, al) true friends of the constl tution now seem to be coming to the © though some of them tardily, that the whole will in the end be narrowed down to the single issue of Whether ours 18 to be a government of bayonets or & government of laws. ‘Lo thts complexion it comes at last.’ ‘This single issue, like Aaron's rod, must and will swallow up all questions of tariffs, revenue reioria, taxation, pegro suffrage, or what not, NEURO SUFFRAGE. With regard to the special subject of negro sut- frage, we understand Mr. Stephens? a sg to be that tis a question which does not belong to fed- 6ral politics in any way. It is a question which be- longs exclusively to the States, The federat gov- ernment has no more righttul control over negro suffrage than over woman suffrage, minor su or any other sort of class suffrage. And “the le Way out’ of all the troubles attending this question 18 to leave it to the democracy of every adhd set tle it for themselves by acting in reterence to the exieting status as they think for their respec- lve States, without the slightest reference to th Lowen y 4 Ay, UNO CX GRET eS FWOCeL Tie dieenth nuendinen as we have tuld, Verorey e am and now repeat, is not held to be invalid Cyd who denounce It because of what it con ‘ ‘because of the usnrpations and outrages upon thé constitution by which it i clauned to be a righttul part ot the organic law. These usurpations should never be permitted to pass without proper renuke and condemnation, even by those who favor the Ob+ ject professed to be aimed at by them, Gx 1s TRIAS - erstand Mr. Stephens as opposin: “negro suttraze” per se, We, and all who have read his testimony pefore the Recoustruction Cominitwes in 1866, know that he was then, after the ratification of the thirteenth amendment, m favor of the exten. sion of & limited and unqualified suffrage to the colored race among us, He was then opposed, and, doubtless, still is, to the policy of atlowing the general suffrage of tne pag order of things to that class of persons; believing 1t not to be for the best Interest of society in view of their general con- dition, mental and moral. But, in his opinion, “the safe way out” of all dijiculties attending tnis sub- Ject ts to leave it with the democracy of each State to manage and control for themselves. Jf, upon trial, the existing system shall be found to work well it will hardiy be disturbed 1m any State. If 1% should be found not to work well of course it onght to be changed, and will be. Suffrage, of all ktuds, emanates trom democratic principles, Free gov-. ernment itself, which is based upon suffrage, owes its existence entirely to democratic principles. Suffrage in its every modification is the natural offspring of “these. May not the odspring, therefore, be more safely entrusted, in this case as tn all others, for its well-being, to the hands and keeping of its ‘parents than to the cus- tody of its known enemies. Those who now claim to be the exclusive champions of “nogro suffrage,” are but acting a part. They are, in truth, the enemies of all suffrage. Their present plan o! ling rid of suffrage is by lowering its standard. ‘Their object 1s to bring it into contempt, by ex- tending it to those who are unfit for its exercise. ‘They are, indeca, opposed to all governments sup- ported by suffrage, elther white or black. Hence their continued usurpations with a view of over- throwing the free institutions of this country, as established by “the fathers,” and the execution of @ consolidated empire instead, Their Professea {rlendslip at present for “negro suffrage’ is only, to use a common phrase, to run suffrage “in the ground,” We “o not un RADICAL HUMBUG. Tt is with no view of permanently securing the right of votng to the negro, but one of their tricks, wily and bland, for ultimately taking away the rignt from the white man. They believe in no elections except those carried by the bayonet. This their whole past nistory, clearly indicates, ana this the future, if they be not arrested by popular condemna- tion, will avundantly verify; to be inioomtyly arrested they must be arraigned and condemned, not for their PIGAGIG, offences, but for their most daring acts of usurpation—thelr Mghest crimes and Misdemeanors against the constitution. If these ba permitted to pass not only unrebuked, but if they are to be accepted and endorsed as valid acts not to be questioned, then the people will hardly be much aroused as to the danger of any other ad- aiuonal claims of power they may set up. If they are made to believe that what has been done ‘‘in the green tree’ in this case is all right, they will take Very little interest in what 1s apprehended will be horeafver done on the same line “in the dry.” They will look upon all appeals of that sort more 1n the light of the clamor of demagogues eager for spoila than the earnest entreaty of patriots devoted to principle and right, and who really feel that our free institutions are In danger from either old or new usurpations, The appeal in this instance, to be effective, must not only be earnest, but it must not wink at any- thing, connive at anything, much less sanction any- thing, that ts founded upon fraud, perildy and usur- pation of any sort, THE SAFE WAY OUT. “The safe way out” of all the dificulties, not only on the “negro suffrage” question, but of all the other evils now afilicting the country by reason of usurpations, including the de facto governments al- luded to, in Mr. Stephens’ opinion, 1s, first, by just ssch an appeal as that stated above to arouse the people tn all the States, and cause them to raily to the polls and turn ont of their places the party now in power, which has so abused their high trust; and then leave all these matters, with the administration of the governineut, in the hands of the true friends of the constitution and iree institutions, who will Instantly withdraw the bayonet, and, through the proper use of the ballot, upon democratic principles and doctrines, will soon eifect a thorough rectifica- tion of all these existing wrongs, without violence orinjary to any class or person. ‘The revolution Uius to be effected will be as thorough aud as peace- ful as that accomplished by the democracy in 1500, under the lead of Nr. Jefferson, when our !iberties were then rescued and saved by them from a like centralisud which ts now treatened. STORM SIGNALS. Fre jon «f an Observatory in Broadway= The Sienal Service of the Country. Abandoning for the present the scheme of annex- ing St. Domingo, its negroes, bugs and vermin, Uncle Sam has condescended to extend nis domain upward. This is right. It shows elevated taste, decidedly, on the part of the “powers that be,” when their annexation of the upper air 1s 1 the in- terest of commerce. The last effort, therefore, ts simply the establishment in the clouds overhanging Broadway of asystem of storm signals for the infor- mation of the mariner and the landsman alike. The Signal Service Bureau, which is engaged in establishing & very elaborate and perfect system of Meteorological observations along the coast and throughout the interior, has secured for its observa- tory mm this city the roof of the Equitable Life Assurance Society's building, corner of Ceaar street and Broadway, which is the highest and most con- spicuous on the lower end of the island. An iron structure will be at once raised twenty- two feet above the roof, making a total height above the waters of the harbor of 187 feet, and com- mandivg an excelient view of the shippinj on Long Island) Sound, Sandy Hook and the inland waters of the Hudson and Harlem. The United States goverument 1s carrying ont 11s elabo- rate intenttons with tne generous yssistance of the Chamber of Commerce. General Albert Meyer, the chief of the service, designs to place on the main pavilion of the roof two signal staffs, indicating by balls tweive feet in diameter the probabilities of the weather. These probabilities will be general in their character, and simply indicate that it ts desir- ale for shippers and sailors to ascertain more cer- tatuly where the storms are, in what dl- rection and with how much force they are pee oaliee This, it 1s arranged, be doue. with more certainty by visiting the Equitable Butiaing, where it ts intended to have expesed In the public hall a large and well designed map displaying all the immense territory through- out which the service has its stations, reaching from Mexico to Canada, and from the Atiantic to the Pacific coasts. Each station will be shown on thta map. The state of the weather will be indicated by ingenious dinls at each of these stations, from which reports will be received at the Equitable by bore ag every five hours. A bulletin hung by the side of the ‘map will give the record of at least five preceding observations, thus show- ing the speed and direction of the storm, The building and instruments will be the most complete for meteorological observations in the service, and probably equal to anything in the world, The great importance of the establish- ment of this bureau has already been lett by tha community, as even in its short career large amounts of property Dave already been rescued, irom risk. ‘The tee get Ld Life Assurance Society have giaaly lent their ald to this useful work, which will be the means of saving both life ana property. It is @ matter, too, of public congratulation that the enter- pms of this company in erecting the magnificent uilding which bears ita name has not only added 80 much to the arckitectural beauty of tne city of New York, but has now enabled it to contribute in so important a manner to the cause of science and philanthropy. TOY-iNG WITH THE FIRE BZLL. False Alarms of Fire—A Fireman Cough: in the Act in Jersey and Punished. James Toy, a member of Union Fire Company in Trenton, N. J., was brought before Mayor Briest of that city yesterday aud charged by Cniet Engineer Weart with raising @ false alarm of fire on Satur- y, about midnight. The cffender secreted him- self in the Union engine house and about the time stated rang the beil, Tue whole department turned out, the clang of fire bells was heard all over the city, and tor half an hour the whole city was alarmed. Whea the deception was discovered Toy was ousted. He confessed hi guilt and was fined ten doliars and costs, For some time it was supposed that Toy would be dealt with under the new law, passed last winter by the Jersey Legislature, which provides that @ fine of $500 or six months imprisonment, one or both, for a false alarm of fire, may be inflicted. There Was a doubt whether the law did not strictly apply to fire alarm telegraphs, hence the city ordi- nance, With the tine ,settied the matter, CITY GOVERNMENT. OVFICIA Board of Aldermen. STATED SESSION. Present—Thomas Coman, Esq., Presi Charlock, Cuddy, Dimond, MoKiever, ‘ONeill, ‘Plunkives Reilly, Seblichting, hist and Woltman—LL. ITIONS. By the Freetpxnt—Ciaim of Wm. Knight, In the matter of the opentog, &c., or Broadway. Meferred to the Committee oD Streat Opentnae. ‘OWARLOOK—Petition, with resolution, to ave bith street, (rom Fifth to Sixth” avenue, with Guldet Iinprovedtone pavement; which was lald over. RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED, y Alderman RriLLy—To permit D. Gerken to keep water. ing trough opposite 56 Jefferson street. ‘hy Alderman DIMOND—To a) it George Roucecin & Coutmasloner of Deeds, vieo H. A. Munker, resigned. By Alderman Inving—To Cp R. Adama Ci vay’ enndow on Dulldiog Nov fa'eat Pitueth atree. P LU TLO NI RESIDENT—' bythe Pam featrecweraet Both street, and Gisery street, from Franklin square 19 Cor- ‘tr PRESIDENT—To ko., and Bh alae wtrecty fi Taint to teuneion crtoee 7 Ry fourth ateets froma Tied vo Leeann wre yi o i ‘Alderman CUDDY--Yo lay secoewale Ko. @ oiloee Rests SUNOS SOU MAB thor *