The New York Herald Newspaper, August 1, 1871, Page 5

‘naa naturally passed forwara xs they went hd board the boat Was considerably lessened, It ta dif mit to imagine how any one could have escaped all who bad reached that position. Batte: oken, confused and shapeless, there lies the West deserted and and there we leave ber amoung the deceyed wharves at the YOOY OF THIRTEENTH STREET. Bat many are the bitter and sorrowful memories of mat unhappy day that linger and will unger for many, Many years to come m the minds of the sur- vivors of the unfortunate dead, Whether this acct weut Was caused by the parsimony of a wealth eompany of the ignorance of a poorly paid employ: wheiler it night have been avoided or it came as AD Inevitable consequence, we Ieave thove whose duty and province 1 is to Inquire Inte these maticrs to decide; and we hope sincerely thar It will lhe elded properly as some amends n the victims of tma lamentable and much to be re- @reite caramity. cud THE CAUSE OF THE EXPLOSION. What the United States Inspectors Say— Who Wee to Binme fer the Explasion, the Eugivecr or the Boiler Itseif?—A Stranze Way of Giving Out Certificates and Kaforce ing the Lawe-The United States Luspcetors Not Responsible for Their Own Certificates Given Co “Loon? Ponta. ‘A Heras reporter yesterday called at the office of ihe United States Supervisor of Steamers and re- quested to see Mr. Matthews, the chief Inspector, A | gentiemay, who was buslly engaged in ‘ling out the blanks of a steamboat cert'ficate, stated that he ‘was.not in, but when ne would return he could not for the life of nim say. The fact is, that the news. paper reporters wanted to see Mr. Matihews about whe explosion of the boiler of the Westileld, which he himself inspected and declared In good Condition Jast Jane, and he didu't care very much about get- amg pune on the subject. ‘Lhe pumping would mo doubt haye been done with all due regard to | steamboat rules and regulations 1i it had becn al- Jowed: but as it was not aliowed the public must ‘needs wait for some time to come yet before they sean get Mr. Matthews’ opimon as to what he thinks i the CAUSE OF THE HORRIELE ACCIDEST. Mtshould be stated in ail justice to Mimself that Mr. Maithews feels that he aid his duty thoroughly when he inspected the boiler which exploded on Sunday, and that it was no fault of hisaf it did not bold out as good after he had inspected it as it was ‘wnen he tested its worth. “What do you think was the cause of the explo- ion?” inquired the HERALD reporier of the gentie- man whom he found in the office in the absence of Mr. Matthews, “Well, I couidn’t very well give a decided opinion ‘upon the subject, but my idea ts that there was gros negicet somewhcre,”” “On the part of the inspector ?”” “By no means. 1 feel coniident that the Inspec Won made by Mr. Matthews was thorough in every respec “How, then, can you account for the thinness of that piece of the exploded part of the boiler which ‘war picked up aua taken to Police Headquarters by he police?” “1 have of seen that piece, and so cannot say, What may have been doue to the boiler sluce the Inspection it weuld be hard vo tel! without an ex- ‘mination being made.” “Could any injary have happened to the boiler since the tnspection of such a serious character as to have made an explosion a possiblity ¥” “Certainly; but I am satisfied of this—tnat the | ‘Mespection by Mr. Matthews was thorough, and that ‘the certificate signed by him was. true statement Of the condition of the boiler when he saw it. Now here's a registered copy of the certificate (the docus ment was here produted). You see that the hydro- @tatic presstire was (Nirty-tour pounds, but when Me cxainination was made li went up to as high as forty-two, owing to one of tie guages not being stopped at the proper ume, THE MAXIMOM PRESSURE allowed, you see by that line, was twenty-five pounds, Now, by his own coniession, tne engineer shows Sat be had twenty-seven pounds on when the ex- Ppiosion to. k place.”? “Were the extra two pounds sufficient to cause the explosion?” “Ob, no, 1 don’t say that.” “Phen, aou’t you think it looks rather strange that | @ voller, if in good condition, should explode wiih twenty-seven potinds of steam on when it could tan’ a hydrostatic pressure of thirty-four?’ “It does took rather sirange, but thea who knows how much ihe pressure was when the ¢xplosion oc- curred? jt might have been fifty-seven instead of seven for aught anybody knows, If tbe en- the condition of his certificate py al- dowing two pounds’ pressure more tan the boiler ‘was eutitied to, and makes no bones of It, it 1s quiie Nikeéiy that be Would bave, with the same inpuuly, allowed ten pounds more if Le had a mind to, “A VIOLATION O¥ SHR CERTIFICATE dea violation, no matter how shgnt the viotation may be. ( “Do you belleve the engineer was to blame?” “i tuk he ought to have been vear his engine, in his proper piace, in the engine room. He concedes tha While the boat was at the picr he went up to the pilot house, aiid Also on the deck. Me had no busi- mess 10 Icave the éngine room. Who knows how dong le was away irom it, and what might have Mapnened awimg tus absence to cause the expin- sion’ He tells brs own story, Dut who can tell it for dum the same Way he told it? 1 don’t mean to say That the engineer is. an incompetent one, or actually ald something tint Jed to the catastrophe; but Loniy kay Uiat an engincer’s place at all Umesis with mis engiue.”’ “What do think_of the charges that bavye been made agains! the United states Inspectors in regard. 40 this exploded boiler: “Phey are very unjust; We are nol responsible for the condition o! " “HE BOTLERS OF LOCAL Boats.” “Tow so! aus been decided that the !ocal inspactors an- v ed by State autilurity, aud uot we, ave Lie proper inspectors,” “Who are these inspectors?” “Men attached tothe Pollee Department. They ‘wear the police uniforn.”” “of the Unived states inspectors believe that they vhave no right to inspect the boilers of these local boats, why was an inspection of tie boiler of the Westield mace by Mr. Matthews '? “Weil, you see, (he courpaaties like to get a certt- fieaie fivin a United States Inspvetor even after an examination has been mate py the police boiler 1n- spectors. Is 1s for THE NAME OY THE THING, } think, more thau Aayihing eis.,” “Then you mean to say that although a certificate | States inspector, certity- may ve given by a United ing that the botter of @ local boat as in good condi- ‘Mon, he does not consider humself responsible ‘hat’s my view of it"? ‘an you tell me when a decision of this kind you to was given, aud by whom? rete: “fdo not vow remember, but such is the case, | mevertheless."? ‘Are you positive about that?” “Lam; there can be no Mistake ahout it? “Did Congress pass & law at its last session jaling ina very striig: manner tie duties of Tnspectors and (Le use of holiers, stoves, &¢, on bg 27? “it did; but that law fs not practically working We have recelved yo oficial copy. When we Beeretary of the Treasury sends as msicuctions rela. tive to enforcing 1 Wil be enforced. The only provision bow cnlorced by Mis Orders is that reluiive ‘Wo the reduction of feea,” “Bat tue law is law, whether the Secretary in- atrycis I's enforcement oF Noi—o You uot think “Well, we have toasvalt msiructions, “One of the clauses of tho Taw, T helleye, 18 that every captain and engnieer of a steam vessel must be licensed by the Board of Inspectors, and that no person can serve as sueh anicensed without im. curing severe peaaltics,’? hat fs correct.’? “pid the engineer of the Westfield exte from the Board ;’? “He did not.” “From auy United Siates inspector i"? “He did nut.” ‘Thi close? the Conversation between the gentie- moan in Mr. Matthews’ oice andthe reporters Whas ‘the senpe of the law referred to above I, im so tur as it-relates to the examination of boilers, may be Becertained trom portions of the eleventh section, read as Tullow ‘appiication in writing of the master or owner 11, One In « have a certifi. Fine—U, they the! m8 "4c if Rha satiaty theaseives th to their inspection ig of structure suit has suliable accom- aad is in a coudttion raudatious for passengers and the er Yo Warrant the belie: that she may be need in nav! steamer with satety to ice, and that all the tr Jaw in regard to rea, boats, pumps, Nose, Ih preaeevers, dloats, anchors, cables and cthor things are falthiniy com= pife | with, and if they deem it expeaicut & tthe ‘easel to Be put in motion, and may Rd ipt any Means to lost her suicievey and tat of liv equipment. Sroona— They abail alan inepoct the boilers of ail scan before the same shan be wsed, aud onee at jeasy In ev theceu (ter, au fersbed tain al go hat the open'nye tor te passage of water ant ctlveiy, and al pipes anit tubes exvowed to heat, Spot dimensions anu Cree from obstruction ; that tie tween and around the flies are sufiicient, and that are ciroular in form, ana the iive-iiae of the farnace ys at ieast wo tnchies below the He Kine of the boilers; and arran, the feod-wore the boner Hers y may Le karely employed fn jn the: written” apptiontion, with: and ail wie satiety themenives the mitaety Vaives are Oo) sultabje aingr sudiotent Dumber sue well prrsnces (one Uy wich aMav le hecceuarve NEW YORK HERALD, ‘TUESDAY, AUGUST 1, 187L—TRIPLE SHEE a a ne wrenee McCormack No, 94 Walworth street; | explosion. Itis only < few yvars 1S peptnted of On tenpesiere, to pecure safety, be’ taten wholly rol ereor gaged In havigal! Teh vensel trv ecured by he ‘Hnepectora), and that tne nate £0 a8 to allow no ipreasare in the boners than th man pre scribed by the Inapection certinoate; that there is a euflicient number of werter, and to Indicate Tha tvensurent ‘slesms snhanio sleam registers what will co record ‘exoens of steam carried above the pre reetly each scribed limit and the highest point attained, which shail be taken wholiy trom the control of all persons enguxes in Ravigating sich vessel and secured by the, inepectars, and reliable iow water gages; aud Tustble metals are } Properly inseried #0 wn to tu the heat of tne ‘when the water In the boilers sh: below tts p dl that adegu 18 mae for at all times, in hiph pres: le supply of wi whether sucu vessel is sure boilers t an four inches soove the bop of tho fucs: and also that means for Ulowing out are | ded, 20 at to thoroughly rence the mud and sediment a ne boilers when they ary under pressure | pe Provided, Noyrever that no kind ott Pintaerity wpment for etter security of lite, pro- Vides for vy thivact, shal! be used on any much veasel whch aball not frat be appkuve by the Board of supervising IE: Sonctora and alay by the Secretary of the Treasury. This jecting to the hydrostatic. tus called apd ustatlyenown ubder ie dbsloeetlas oF ae ere ure botiers, the inspector shall assume 110 pounds to the sunare Iech'p2 the maximum pressure allowable ng a wor ing power for anew bolier forty-two inches in diameter, made in the inspected iron plates one-fourth of an inci thick, anit of a quailty reqnired dy law, and’phall rate the working power of al! high preasure bollers, whether old or new, according to ther strength, compared with this standard, and in all cases the test applied 6 xceed the working power allowed in the ratio of 16 nd in iis ting to the test afore Isr res 1gvated ant known as low pressure bollers, tho sald pects shail alow as a working power of each new fer a pressure of only three-fourtha the number of nde to the 60 iach to which it shall have been ndjected by tha hydrostatic (ess, and fod to be snilicient therefor; butshould such Inspectors be of the opinion that sald boiler, Ly reason of tte consiraction or material, | will not safely allow so high a working presaure, they may, for reasons to be stated spectatly in their cortifente, fix (be work- ing pressure of said bo.ler at icss than three-(ourtas of eatd teut pressure; but all boilers used on eteam veesels and con- structed of fron. or steel pla ected under the provl- fons of action 06 of this act, slave test, inthe ratio of 150 pounds to (io 64 100 pounds to the square inch of the working of steam. manner, of allowe2; and no boiler, or ptpo the coi nections thcrawith, shall be approve laude, in wholo or in part, of bad material, or is unsafe In its form, or dangerous Trom defective wirkmanshiy, age, use or other cause. ‘Fore (—When the inapection ts completed, and the inapec- tors approve the vessel and her equipment tirouzhout, they shai make and subscribe a certlucate to the collector or other chisr officer of the customs of the district in which kuch napections shall be made, in accordance with such form and regutntions as the bourd of supervising inspectors shall prescribe; which coruficate shall be verted by the ‘oaths of the ihapestora signing it, befure te cate? oficer of the customs of the disirtct, or any other person competent by law to administer oaths;"and in case the said inspectors refuse to erent a certificate of approval they shall sate in writing, aud ign the tuine, thelr reason for thelr’ disap: proval, ‘The following section maybe interesting to o good maay people wo have never heard teil of the law before:— SE0, 48, And be it further enacted, That whensver damage ja custataed by any passenger or his ungcage from explosion, fro, coliision or other cause, the master and the owner of puch Neasol, or elther ot ther, an! the vessel shall be lable to each and every perton so injure to the full amount of if {t happens: through any ni or failure to ofywith the provisions of Inw herein presctlted, oF through known detects or Imperfections of the steami aratis or of the hull; and any person sustainin, Injury wrough the carelessness. negiigence or. willal misyon- ate, engineer or pilot, of his neglect or refusal 10 obey the provisions of law herein prescribed a8 to navigating such steamers, may sue such captam, mate, engincer cr pilot, and rezover damages for any. kuch ‘injury das afcresald by any stich captaln, mute, engineer oF duct of any captain ‘The law was passed in January and approved in February by the President, | Siutement ef the Daiied spector. Mr, John K. Matthews, the government Inspector of Boilers, yesterday stated that he inspected the boiler of the Westfie!d personally on the 12th of June last. The term of her former tmerpectlon ended on ; the 19th of June. He had notice to inspect seven daysin advance, He recollects this case particu- larly, because accidentally the boiler was tested be- yond the usual limit, His books show that tie hy- drostatic pressure appiled to the voller was thitiy- four pounds, The rule ts that low pressure engines shall be regtstered at three-fourths the hydrostatic pressure, and the Westficid 18 therefore allowed | twenty-five pounds, Butthe nydrostatic pressure at the time of inspection was noi relieved promptly upon notice, and before {t was taken off It reached about foity pounds, Mr. Matthews cays that while this heavy pressure was on he ex) miued every part of the boiler, and founda no leaks or deviations in the surface; it was, im fact, to all appearances, above the average of boilers. At the same time Mr. L. H. Boole, In- spector of Hulls, examined the boat, and his name is signed with that ot Mr, Matrhews tothe certifie cate, In case the jill of a buat is unsafe the tn- ctor of course whihholds his certifivate until the | needed repalrs are mace. ‘The Westiield was built in. 1862, and ts therefore not an old boat. She is lorger than most ferryboats, and 1s registered ab609 Lone. Mr, Matihen as been @ practleal steamboat man and inspector for many years, and he says this is the first case of an explosion in any boat for which he has given a certificate, Fis theory 1s that the boltcr not properly attended, aud that the register of mmust have been carelessly taken by the engi- | heer. Sometimes, however, a register will become defective it not closely watched, and the engineer Will be deceived by it, Mr, Matthews thinks that cy | nO possibility could tue boller have exploded unless fiom some such cause, Altnough the engineer ex- ceeded his insuwuctions in, allowiig, as, he admits, a head of twenty-seven pounds of | sea i Maithews does not belleveeven that w have | unsafe amount. ‘tutes Boiler Ine ) wi un, Mi been an The Brooklyn Boiier Luspector’s Version. Mr. Tir *. Powers, mspector of steam boilers in Brooklyn aud examtning engineer, yesterday ine spected the exploded bolter of the Westfield, and | reports as follows:—“'I have this day examined the exploded boliers of the steamboat Westfield. I tind the boiier ts of the return fue style of the following aimensions:—Five box, eleven fect diameter, seven feet long; shell five-sixteenths tron, ten fect diame | tery sixtecn feet long, containing sixteen fucs four- teen feet long. The rupture appears to have taken place in the shell of the boiler, asvut eightand a f leet from tile back connection. ‘here was one course of sheets Wich opened at the lower part of one side and tore the sheets at the rivet holes siraighteutng tho qheels to the opposite side of the botler, carcymg the deck and cabin awiy.. The other part of the shell was driven tothe forward part of the boat and wedged in the bow. “The explosion, in my opluton, occurred from an over pressure of steam, @s there 1s no appearance of low water, but on the contrary, there 18 every evis i dence of their Having been plenty of water in tho boiler, ‘The New York steamboat boiler inspecto do not come under the city inspectors, bné are nnd the control of the United States local tnspecior’ } ofice, located at the Custom House, New York city.” Tie irue Cruse of the Explosion—Letter from an Ki Ort. To THE EPITOR OF TAR HERALD:— 1 have just concluded @ careful examination of the explodedsteam generator of the Westileld, and Ond the cause of the disaster very plain, The voiler } ts of the return fue type, In which the gaseous pro- ducts of combustion pass through a set of flues to the back and ‘thence into another sct, whitch con- ducis them forward to the chimney at the front end. ‘This chimney passes centrally through the stcam drnm, tus last tn immediate communication with the steam and water Space of the boiler; itm other words, with the interior of the shell or body. ‘This chell, inais) matin length, 1s of # cylinarical form and ig torn apart crosswise near, tis. centre, the rapture following for the most part a.cireum- ferential Moe Of rivets, ‘Che rear half of the sheil was thrown back and jammed nto the end of the hui, so that as it Hes its open end is of sharply defined triangular form, The boiler itself was pitched forward some distance towavda the ma- chinery. ‘The force of the explosion being exe: ted under the reardeck tung it upwWare and tore it into a perfect mass of spliuters, The freshly tora surface ofihe boiler sheil ts elther moderately bright or covered with red rast, but a close view shows that from a point on the rignt hand side (looking foward the fire-box), abort eighteen Inches above the level of the upper tier of the flues, (oa pot about over the centre Of the bouicr, the surface 13 black, showing beyon.l cavil that between these two points the rupture ig not of recent date. This. old faw is nob icss than four feet six menes in lengin by actual measurement, the metal having .been parted v through along. the Ihe ol rivets. It is here, undoubtedly, that the bolier tet Way. This dracture, which must have exigted for along tine, was probably remotely cats by unequal con- action aud expansion Of the botler from changes of temperatare, the shell bemg firmly stayed trom either ent, but comparatively eoatine centre, so that in expanding or: contracting tne metal at che Jolt would bend upon ivseit alternately in opposite directions at the weakest pot, viz., the erreumie- rental line, where nearly one-Hulf the anetal is cut away (ori hows, took occasion Lo lft the gafery valve and lever at | the top of the steam dram, whieh had evidenily not | been adjusted tor he rust marks onsiderapie time, as shown bY ton the Jover when tho welgnt he valve stem shows marks egivci, and Tait stroagiy dispoxod vo believe that the apparatus would require much more pressure to Ht the Valve than when it was originally Hited for vse, With regard to une steam pressure, thls I stated to have’ been Uwenly seven pounds —& few minutes before tho eXplosion. ‘tie potler had a large eating » and With & DrIskK tive the pressure would mn very rapidly, aud might im these jew mia. 98 much &xeced that of the hydrate test, thirty ouuds per inch, — Only the other day, ina nia! locomotive holler, in whieh, as far as possiblo, economy Of heating surface is sought, 1 saw steam ral from sixty up to seveuty-uve pounds pressure in what I shold estimate a8 not nore. tae five minittes. From the above my own decided opinion of Uhe culpable cauge of the exulo- sion on the ferryboat may be readily inferred. Yours ke ay AMES A. WHITN BY, 189 Broadway, New York city, July 31, 1871. Criminal Couduct of the Board of United States Steamboat Inspectors. To rue Eprror oy Tae HERALD: ‘The leader in the New YoRK HERALD of this date, in relation to the terrible massacre on the Staten Island ferryhoat, has attracted universal attention, You ask, “Was she provided with lifeboats and hte- Dreservers required by the regulations of the Board of Supervising Inspectors, recently issned [say yes; but listen, ‘The oki steamboat law proved by its actual working @ comparative failure, A new bill was drawn up by a former board of supervisors and submitted to Congress, After two years’ e+ Uberacion, during which time the steamboat owners pnd the great traveling public frequently p peared before the commitices Of thé “Senate and Congress to whom the bil was referred, and subsequent boards of supervisors urged its immediate adoption, it Was finally unanimously adopted. One of the provisions of the law was that the Board of United States Supervisors be immediately convened at Washington, and that the Board shoald forthwith adopt such boats, rafts, floats and life preservers as would best pro- vide against loss of life. The Board met a3 execu- tive oficers to enforce a law passed by the Congress of the Uitited States, ‘Tne expense of convening the Board of course was great. The eleven membe:s have to be patd nileage, they are feasted at one of ‘the best hotels in Washington, and what do you sap- pose they doue t.. They accepted the increase of sala- nes, The General just appointed proceeded to draw his $3,500 per amuum and mileage and hotel bilis, But excopliog La the matter of fog horns they declared the Jaw snould bot go m effect until after ther next mieeting, June 1, I beg your pardon, they dia authorize, under the law, the 2ppointment of seve- ral pew boards of local 1uspectors, so Lueir friends: could be drawing salaries for execuuing the new law, Which was not to goin effect until afier Jann- ary. Although there were before them, | am told, life saving articles fabricated by some of the best tu- Ventive geatuses this or apy other couniry has pro- duced, they refused to approve of any of them; in fact. utierly refused to carry out the law of Con; a, notwiths'auding ney Were convened at great expense to do that very thing, ex- ceptiug where it increased their pay’ and allow them to appoint some friends to Obice, at good, fat salaries, At a trial of life pre- servers it was demonstrated that with the present ones now IM use @ person weighing 130 pounds would sink. Nothing ts to bo done to remedy this until after January 1, and then only a3 fast as the boats are iuspected, whic will take one year. Now, as to waiting tntil they are tuspected, this Is no great fault; or if they had given the steamers untit Jantary 1 to comply with the law, where It was really mechanically impossible for them to get the roper equipments until that time, well enough. ut the Board have told them explicitly that they need do nothing unthl after January 1, Ali this was doae bya yote in the Board of }to5. These six Supervisors up to the meeting of the Board declared fheg Would do thei duty in accordance with their oath of oMce anu the direction of Congress. But a sudden change came over these six men’s dreains. Steamboa’ owners were gent.emen—Congress and inventors were frauas, I atn not im position to make any charges, but before the investigating committee which will be appointed as soon as Congress con- venes, to investigate this subject, facts, it ty raid, will be presented which will create @ startilug effect throughout the whole country and will lead to the entire reconstriction of the Board. Now in relation to ferryboats. all the tife-saving provisions they have are the old hile preservers, which will let a person weighing 130 pounds sink— one woolen buat, that will accommodate six per sons, and one mecailic boat, m some Instances, that will ‘accommodate six persons, and some cork- pleces to throw off toa person who may fall over- board, Under the new law, unless the six embers in the Board of supervisers who are known as “steamboat msn” change thelr plaa, the ferryboats ‘Will have new ilfe preservers, but in respect to boats and raits they will be provided 2s theyare now, or, in other words, nut at all, Asa iawyer I would beg fo say to (hose Whose iriends bave beow mur- dered or injured by the Staten Island Ferry Company that they have redress, ‘The company are undoudt- edly liable in that they have not complied with. the new law, and the criminal neglect of the six mem- bers of the Board is punishable on those members by tie laws of the United States, if any one: will prosecute or make complait to the United States District Attorney. He will be bound to prosecute them on thelr bonds, which everv one has to give Jor faithiul performance of tis duty, BAGLE. The Board of Luspectors Wanted, To Tn Eprrok or THE HERAL Your suggestions ag to the dudes of a Coroner's jury tn relation to tue late terrible calamity deserve special consideration, aud in order to assist you and such jury make bold to thrust myself upon your Notice. I would suggest that the Coroner should at once summon before htm the Inspectors of Boilers, and, in the closest possible manner, scrutinize their acts In regard to inspections, uot only in Luis case, but in ali others, Years since I followed the water, and have Kuown of more than one tastance where “soft patches’? have been from time to time piaced on @ boiler 1n (he most hurried and tmperiect man- ner, mainly because there was not suiticient time to do otnerwise; andy again, I have known a certifi- cate to have been given when the 1spectors did not 1n the least examine the boiler or engine, but simply took the word of the captain or engmeer for a tact. Thave also Known an instance where a “soft patch’? has given out over the arch of the furnace and the water and steam for tweniy-four hours allowed to almost extinguish the fires, we coukl searcely get steam enough to drive the engine, fF also recollect some twenty-five years since hear. jog and commonly told by boatmen “that certail inspectors oncd went on poard of the Curtis Peck. themrunning from Peck slip, to examine votlers and Captain Peck ordered one of the firemen to furnish the genulemen with overalis and shirts tu order to enter the furnace and boiler to make a thorougit ex- amination, but they were excused finally and re- ceived their tee.” Let the Coroner be @ feariess man in this emer- gency anid institute a most searching and thorough luguiry by cing the Board of Lnspectors before the jury aad ascertaining if they did, In accordance With the strict letter of the law, personally examme the voller of the Westfield inside and out as well as the furnace aud fine ends in the furnace, and 16 Wouid perhaps uot be amiss to further ask whether they have examined the boilers of any other excur- siod boats (fishing Banks ,or others) lately, and if they are now in sate condition. Lshall watch tie proceedings carefuily, aud hope this matier will re- ceive the earnest attention Of the proper authorise Ale: AN ENGINESR, 9 for Sufety of Life. on Steamboats. Secretary Boutwell has approved the reguiations of the Board ‘of Supervising Inspectors of Steara- boats, and they therefore have all the force and ef- fect of law. The pemultlos for ¢loiations of the statule Nave been increased, thereby requiring a Moré strict Observance of the means to prevent dis a-ters, The Board determined that every life preserver shouid contain at least six pounds of sohd cork blocks. Upon the subject of lifeboats the Board have determined that the old standard of Dnoyancy was too great, it being regulaied to sixty persons, The standard capacity now Is thirty per- sons foreach beat, which enables the boat tu be operated. 4 Where a steamer fs incapable of conveniently car- rying Wfeboats in the ratio of thirty persons to eacn boat she may carry 1m liew of thein Jife rafts, Where it is determined by the master and amspector that the steamer cannot. carry a eumiciens number of boats and raf.s the steamer may have Jife-saving Mattresses, movable desks, beds, &c, A life pre server which may be applied to the bory is required in ail casos for all paeengera the crew on ail kinds of steamers, 0; tern rivers a requii ment t made for the (ull equipment of a life-savi 1 apparatus in all cases; fire pumps are required to have blige connections, so as to be ope- raied ju discharging water from tie hold ia “case of leakage, and additional pumping fa- ‘cites ave provided, which may also be {urned to account fer a tive apparatus, Lock safely valyes May be attachsd to botlers, and ff left unse- cured the 1 sibility is op the Inspector himself, The second subdivision of secon 11 requires inspec- tors to see thatthe botiers are provided with other means of saicty, of good and suitable material, pipes and tnbes ‘of proper dimensions, flues, circu. lars, &c. ‘The Board, by ue ules ave determined the iaanner by which thes “a rovistoas shail be car- ried oul and approved by varlous appliances adapied to the purpose, The Goard bas also provided for the farther disciplining of crews tn order to prepare for the exigency Of a@ disaster, such as the working of vaitous means to save the vessel and life, The Station Bill desiznates for every one a post of duty 1n case of a disaster, ‘The rules require all steamers to keep a log for the departments of masicrs and engineers, for re- cording all events connected with thy working of vessels, The engineer ts required to keep a record vf the condition of the boler and oiner machinery always open for inspection, White tie steamer is on her way the engineer ts required to remato on daty unul formally relieved, The engineer before receiving his license shalt be examined as to chare acier, hadits of lle, Knowledge of sien wannainery, and his experience as an engincer, Such iHeense is to be suspended or revoxed on sausiictory proor of hegiigence, imtemperance or wiifat violation, and the provision law of tins proviso appites as well to the inaster, mate and pitot. Tne Board has also ae- termined the magner in witch boiler plates shall be marked or stamped, The Board has, IM pursuance of svetion No 47, recommended the adopnion of a 1 ignal and approved of toe norns for sailing vessels, The Board has also provided the imagner m which trom bilkneads should be coustracted on wooden steam- one forward and one aba the engine and bolt. and alee o colsOU Dulklead am tie forward National Provisi Part. It has also determined the manner in whict refined peiroleum may be carried on passenser steamers on routes where there are no other monn of Wansportation, The pesnoieam 18 no* to be ienita. bie at a temperature of less than 110 degrees Fabron- helt, and is required to be put up In substantial Packages, with the name of the manufactuxer and the temperatnre at whieh It ignites, Lo be stamped on the pac d to be stowed Jorward, remote from ali fires. Owing to the shortness of the time the Board has devermined that those as to boilers and increased liie-saving apparatus Will not be re- quired until on oy after the Istof Januayy next. All lifeboat: letaching apparatus for the same, safety valves, &ec., hitherto in use, aud which have been approved by the Board, are retained accor ting to their capacity, if in accordance wit tie rules. The necessary foruis to be prepared. STATEMENTS OF BYE-WiPNESSES OTEERS. Captuin MeGowau’s Statement. Captain Jonn McGowan, commanding tho revenue cuiter Northerner, called at the HERALD ofMfce yes- terday morning and desired us to give the following facts in regard to the mmovenients of his vessel on Sunday:— The cutter had just returned from a cruise at sea, and the first intimation those on board had of the terrible disaster which hat occurred at the Battery Was obtained from Mr. Theodore Tilton, who came on board the vessei at Stapleton landing at a quar: ter past five o'clock in the afternoon, ‘The vessel immediately steamed up to the ety and made fase to pier No, 3 North Kive elx AL ite sug- gestion of Mr. Laflin, ine Naval Officer of the por the Northerner cast off and steamed to the scene at | half-past six M., alinough Captatu MeGow 43 convinced (iat tiey Had arrived tog late vo reu- dev any assistance. Arriving there, Gro boats, each unter command of an oilicer, Were lowered and despatched on shor With orders to render what aid Was in (hot powel Mr. Latin, who bad remained on: the Northerne Went in one of titese boats, Dut fe soon came back, satlsied of the inutility of inelr remauit as, owing to the late huur ab Which Uhey had ariived, no Work could be done or liv Ved. ‘fhe revenue cutter Jasmine rendered servies, the revenue cutter Uno, Captain Parker command. Ina, which was just starting to board @ vessel at tle time, threw some ropes overvoard, and by thal: means saved several Liv A Newark Engineer's Statement. Mr, Jaincs H. Hopkins, an engineer, residing at 77 Sussex avenuc, Newark, was an eye-wliness of the appalling disaster, and communicates to us the foLowing:—I was a passenger on board a Belt Rail- road car, along with my wile, and had just reached the Battery, when a terrific report, like the roar of a whole park of artillery, rent the alr and siook the Very street; iooking over to the Staten Island ferry L Saw a massive volume of smoke and spilnters and ue man bodies, in part and in whole, shot juto the air, ‘Yheve was a tremendous rush from ine ferry house, and speedily auother rush « ‘the sceue that lol- Jowed Leannot describe. Rusiung from the car 1 ran over to the ferry house end found that the botier of tae Westtcld had exploded, carry tog away one en- tire end of the sjarboard site, founda wherryman, named Wike Quigiey, piecing up dead bodies, and at i once proceeded fo ‘assist him in getting outa man Whose dead body floated in the water, slike and others had rescaed eleven dead bodies vy this time. 1 recovered the bodies of the infants on close examination I found that they were suil alive, and after great efforts succeded in bringiug wom to; one proved to be a child of Deputy Sherif Foy, of Canal street, A reporter tola me that there were on Lie sieamer when the explo- sion took place some 1,500 to 2,00) persons, and that A near as he could judge there were some 300 Itves Tost. | saw legs aud arms and heads and blackened and roasted or parbotied bodies in every direction, forming a siynt the most sickening possible to wit- ness, bor two and a halt hours a restlar stream of dead bodies poured out of the ferry house. L saw a fireman terribly cut up and spoke to him; he said they had a full nead of steam on, waiting Lo Start off every moment. When I asked Lim of he hadn’t too much steam on he did not answer. ln my opiuton, QS an engineer, the cause of the explosion was an overplus of steata and a probaoly weil worn boiler, Tdo not desire to see anyther such catastrophe, WHAT A LITTLE BOY DID, A newsboy connected with the Evening Telegram was on the Staien Island ferry slip at the time of the ucctdent on Sunday afternoon last. Moved by the drowulng cries of those who were precipitated | into. the water by the explosion, and being abte to awim, the courageous little fellow plunged into the river and succeeded in rescutug two helpless tn- fonts, He manfully heid them m his arms, at the sauiae time keeping himself erect by the process known to swiuin as “trending water’? until he and hs young charges were rescued by one of the oats, Ali honor to the courageous Eventing Teles grain newsboy. May he be weil rewarded, THE GLOOM BROOKLYN, ‘The feeling in Brooklym consequent upon the ter- rible calamly which belell so mauy of her residents and neighvors in the sudden and unwarned vro- pulston through the gates of eternity of the passen- gers of the ill-fated charnel steamer Westfeld on Sunday eyentng has grown more and move imtense each hour uaulit sits like an incubus upon the minds of all classes who are capable of sympathy or sorrow for afilicted humanity, So intense was the interest experienced in this com- munity Im all the harrowing details of the shocking occurrence that business upon ali sides was affected to a most unprofitable degree, and the day was devoted to the perusal of the newspaper accounts and earnest discussion of THE AWFUL CALAMITY, None were 60 parsimonious or seifish as to be callous to the subject and all were anxious to get at the cause of the explosion and, if possible, to place the responsibility npon the shoutders of those to Whom it rightfully belongs. “My heavens, sir,” said one ciuizen to the writer, “what is to become of usifweareto be given over (o the care and keep. Ing, body and bones, of a corporation so dear to ail THE INSTINCTS OF COMMON HUMANITY asto jeopardize our precious lives upon a flimsy wooden fabric honored with the name of steam ferrypoat, Which excuses a rotten, patched boller liable to launch us Into cternity at any moment. Aud we are totd that this boiler was duly taspected and found sate less than two months ago, say, let us inspect these botlers every week on these and all other ierries aud see Uiat none other than competent men, and, those who will stand by thctr engines, shall nave’ anything todo with the transportauon by steam, power from any of our ferries, I believe that our barbor 1s full to-day, sir, of death-dealing boilers, which are propelling rotien and in every way unseawortny crafts, and it fs only a question of time or providential lutcrposition when these vessels ‘wiil ‘go up’ And entail their qnota, too, to the cata- logue of these hortors m our harbor.’’ Another in- dividual who had listened to this outburst of feeling took up the thread of the discourse, saying:—“Oh, they always had A PASHION OF GETTING UP STEAM on these Staten Island boats when about to leave the slip iu this way. They let the water run down inthe bouler pretty well, so as to generate the steam io a hurry when they were ready to leave. With a large volume of water ft takes more time to get np steam than with low water, and that's how I suppose the explosion occurred.” So it was that people discussed the cause and effect, whitch cannot fall lobe damaging to the financial prospects of the company owning the unfortunate Weatficid, whieh Will, wuless appearances and expression go for naught, be the defendants in manifold sults for damages growing out of this calamity. Leveral of the Brooklynites who were injured have since died, and Coroners Jones and Whitenill have I dead. eee Day, No. 368 Warren street, slightly in- red, John Hamilton, No, 122 sured, don Madden, © streets, dead, Wiiltam Avbott John Brown, No, James Burrell, Ne juved, Kett street, slightly in- rner of Fourth and South Ninth No. 133 Union avenue, K. D., dead. 2 Greea lane, scalded badly. ivd Dunield street, severely tn- Frank Naggerty, No. 36 Wi varren street, lost the use of his eyes 45 otherwise injure Airs, Groome and the iniant, slightly inured. Mra, Unhinan, 11 Dong as siycet, badly wounded John H, Brown, No. 110 Spencer stect, badiy m- jured. . Margaret Higgins, No. about the shoulders, neck Jona Connor, Warren sirect John Mulehay, No, Jared, Patrick Landon and son Martin, missing, resided in Dennet place, South Brooklyn, Martin O'Brien, No, 49 Jay street. injure t, viiliom Broadharst, No, 716 Warten street, log broken and 1s otherwise seriously tnjure Joseph Myering, No, 155 Mudsot avenue, about the head, Anna Brown, No, 54 Atlantic street, badly burned about the boay, Kate Kashinan, No. 236 Clinton str Riehard Barke, coruer of Henry alyeets, downed, Daniel Mahony, sertousiy Injured. THN WILLIAMSBURG VICTIM, Depnty Sherif John Madden, reorted terri acalded in yesierday’s HERALD, expired about mide night, at bis ideuee, No. 24 Fourth street. Li nigat @& large meeting of the Wiliam A. Browa Assoviaion, of which Mr. Madden was a promiaent member, passed resolutions hiehly comptmentary character, and ordered them to be engrossed in nsiattced to his family, ‘The association will attend his fineral in a bouy. Richard A, Moore, of itth street, continued in a low condivuon last evening, Mrs, Catherine Reddick, of No, 135 Union avenue, wuil recover, Mrs, Mary Chadwick Is out of danger. burned 216 Court sireet 1 geLonsiY WouUndod, ‘They » dead, and Atlantic RESULT OF INQUIR: AT STATZN 19L1ND, Monct, the Former Companion and Test of Gavibaldl, Amend the Injured—The Injured Employer of the Koery Company. A veporter embarked on board the Ailddictown at twelve o'clock yesterday, to visit Staten Island, A crowd was still scattered through the neighborhood of the ferry house, ana LONG ROWS OF SPECTATORS were ranged on the piers near the sup, watching Intently the process of grappling for bodies, Among them were many boys, who sat with legs dangling over the siring pleces and !ndulging in gayety which showed how dificult it is, even with horrors, to dampen the spirits of youth, But there were not wanting in the throng persons whose faces were WHITE WITd ANXIETY AND SUSPENSE, On the ferryboat*the smail number of passengers wus very noticeable, and every one who had taken passage was engaged in exchanging with compan- ons comments upon the terrible event which had shaken all their faith in the safety of human inven- tions. On the lower deck the employes of the boat, shortly after she had started, fellto bantering a halt-inteiigent negro ‘ad on his MIRACULOUS ESCAPE of the previous day, He ts a boothlack, named ‘Tom. Talt, twenty-six years old, and resides m Jones street, Stapleton, SI. He was in’ the gentlemen’s cabin of the Westfield while she was in the slip, and had just finisied polishing (ne leathern habiiinenis of « gentieman’s pedal ex- tremities when the exptosion occured. The half. witted fellow was, however, not to be frightened out of,axegard for his pecuniary. interests by sach a mere incident, and turned round homing out his | hand to receive the reward for lus services, when he discovered that. bis customer. had been knocked senseless by aftagment, Tien he stumbled through a yawning chasm inthe floor of th: cabin to the waier, where he clung to the paddle unifl rescued. He ds not hurt in the jeast. When the reporter took bis statement he was much alarmed lest it would prove to bis detriment. 1413 dismay vas not amello- rated by the exclamation of one of the bystanders in tones of mock solemnity, that “now he'd get it for bursting the boiler!” &c, Persons who were at the Tompkinsviile landing, Biaten Island, at the time of the explosion, say that they heara TAK DULL, OMINOUS REPORT and saw the white volumes of steam rising in the distance. Immediately afterward the telegram was received stating that the Westileid had blown up, The ferryboat then in the slip was Immediately des- Paiched to New York, without waiting for passen- gers. | any accident 01 5 ago that a ateamer from Hudson (the James Baldwin, | think, was her name) took fire, causing the loas of over dred lives, Now. if we have laws to prev: overcrowding of boats, there should be @ heal hv en- forcement of them. ‘There can be no doubt that ‘a rel toour boat the most sequences wonid have resulted, and T wa relieved In ailud When we landed at Bergen, In this connec ton { would say that the resis sats of the district between Jersey City and Bergen Potnt Would be inuch accommodated if the New Jersey Central Railroad Company wouid run afew trains on Sunday between those places, stopp at the inter- | mediate towns of Claremont, Greenville, Saltervile, 2 Smith street, sughtly ins | } but who sroes by te &e., Which would aiso prevent overcrowd 3 boat to the risé of life, A Favorable Word for Poor Pa To THe Eprron of ra HeraLo:— As a spectator of the fearful disaster at the Staten Island ferry thts day, Edeem it my duty to state the particulars of what £ saw. The boat bad made about a dozen revolutions when the explosion woox place, and had the accident occarred flve minntes a(terwards tne joss of life would have been fearful, All honor to tho’e men—Patrick Collins, Mictae | Qaig! D. Pelane, Thomas Brospahan, Richard Neville ana a inan whose name £ could not leara, nanue of “Rappahan os poor Irisineca—who, when they saw the « le Tushed with thelr boats to the rescue and picked up | Whole fainilies ont of the wator, at the risk of their own lives, Pat la Wed abused for his Jani: give him credit for tis bravery and tnmanity, Paamete him, NeW York, July 30, 1871. J. We. WALTON, A Worthy Example. To THE Kyron oy THe Henan May [Task through your paper if any atd can be Fendered to those unfortunate sufferers of Sunday (persona! cave or Unen clotha, or anything in my power)? All iny sympathies are with thei; tc ta snffering of so intense @ nature none know It out those who have been cailed to bear if, Any cait made upon the janitor oi the buliding corner ot Sixth avenue and Forry-eighth street will mediately respouded to. Entrance 101 Ferly-e street, The Patched Peiler. To TUR EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— Perhaps the cause of the steamboat horror of yesterday, Which sent many @ poor bat good ciiizen ' without a moment's warning to his final hone, and terrloly malmed others for life, may be explained. I was informed last evening that in order to avoll paying the government tax on new boliers steam. boat owners, when requirmg a new one, procure it by patching it with a ptece of an old one. The en- gineer of the Westtleld, as reported in your tssue of to-iay, #aya the boiler had been recently repaired, 4c. Was it not the paten that caused the explo: sion? Let the Coroner call upon owners of the boat and those who repaired the botier, not forget- ting to examine the accounts of both’ parties, in order to compare the cost of the repairs with the vane of a new boiler of the same power. New York, July 31, 1871. A MECHANIC, Ministrations of the Clergy. To THE Npivor OF THE HERALD:— Wl you please insert the following in your next edition? Tha‘ it having been stated by our city Papers that the only clergymen who attended at the hospitals to afford consolation to the aMilcted were two Roman Catholic privais is untrue, as soon alter the accklent I attended Centre Street Hospital tilt seven o'clock on Sunday evening, and at Bellevue Hospital ull two o'clock on Bondar Morne. SAMUEL ALMAN, Immanuel Baptist chapel, 303 Madison street, The Whitehall Boatmen. To THE EDITOR OF THR HERALD:— After reading your full account of the disastrour affair on the Westfield yosterday 1 feel great crediv 1s due to the boatmen at Whitehall, who so nobly came forward to save life regardicss of the “almighty doliar’ they. ht have earned haa they been selfish, They are hard working men, and yes- terday proved their manhood, Who will respond to ralsing a fund Jor distribution —s* them? I en- close #10, subject to your disposal. WESTFIELD. New York, July Sl, 1871. THE LATEST.. For the Latest Details of te Catastrophe and List of the Killed and Wounde See Tenth Page. : FORE PERSONAL GOSSIP. —tThe Duke of Manchester will succeed Lora Bury th the presidentship of the Royal Colonial [n- } strate, | “Lord Belper has been appoluted to succeed the late Mr. George Grote as President of the Tai Besides persons employed oa the boat only one of | Versity College, Loudon. the injured isa resident of Staten Island. He is Mr. Antonio Monel, an Itatian, aged afty-four ye: He came to this country in 1842, His restdence, a smail cottage on Forrest strect, in Clifton, 1s Inter- esting in & historical seus? as having been THE HOME OF RAL GARIBALDT, with whom he was engaged tor sixteen ye: Inunufacture of candies, scene of their labors Is on the gronnds adjotning the house, but is now idle, Ths present Dusinoss of Mr. Monct Is the making of paper irom sea grass by a process invented by uimseif. His paper factory is at Perth Amboy, N. J, Mr. Monet was returning from New York on Sun- afternoon at hatf-past one o'clock, and wit siandiug in the gentiemca’s cabin of the steamer Weatficid jeaning on the sill of one of the windows smoking and looking out on the bay. The force of the explosion drove him hail througu the window, striking his head agamst the woodwork with suc force as Lo proJuce a slight fracture, His face, neck, arms and knees are MASSES OF BOILED FLESH, We was taken outto the gate of the ferry, where he was recognizeu by a friend—Mr. Antouio Re- gano—who procured & carriage in Which he was conveyed fo the Barge OMice, 2 few steps distant, the vratal coachman charging $1 for the meagre ser- Vv Colonel Holbrooke, of the poli aided in getting Mr. Monet on the special boat for Staten Island, and on its arrival there had him placed ina carriage and taken to nis home, When the reporter called he was shown to the room tuwhich te tnjared man isiying. Jt ts tae same one in witch Garipaldl used to sicep in 1850, and the arms which he brought from Europe, whien he had used ‘48, sult nang against the wall, ‘The farniture is also the same. Monci is a man of large stature and very NOBLE APPEARANCE, with gray hair, beard and mustache, THis injuries, though # terribly sickeming spectacle, are pot con- sidered serious, Cnaries Renat, residing in Bay street, Edgewater, and a deckhand of the Westieid, 1s out stigntly injured. Ile 1s twenty-one years of uge aut is married, Alter the explosion he rushed in among the horses ou the lower deck, BLINDED BY THE HOT STCAM, and fell into the bold of the boat, receiving a few bruises, Just before the accident, ireman Crosson remarked to him that there was plenty of water In (ue boiler, He thinks that many of the stories of spectators are exaggerated by the excitement of we moment, The people on the hurricane deck sni- fered most beoanse @ roof was over their heads, against which they were hurled with the splinters aM fragments, He 1s at home aud will soon ve- cover, Patrick Finnigan, fireman of the Westficid, resites in Elizabeth street, Kdvewater. He 13 lying at tue Bellevae Hospital, attended by hrs wile. James NoGee, wheetman of the Westdeld, on Montgomery avenue, Tompinsviiie, aad ty-lour years Of age. He Was in the whevthouse, and Was about to ring the bell, wiiel is the sigual tor the engineer to start, when he was HURLED SIXTY FEEC IN THS ATR by the explosion. He fell on the hurricane deck. Alter he became conscious he got up and joined in the efforts to rescue the victims, aithougti scalded on the face ana hands and badly bruised. tHe went to his work On one of the boats yesterday, despite his Injuries, rt Crosson, another fireman, who was scalded on the right arm and side aud Jace, and bruised, In the residcs is twen- empanelied juries to hold inquests oyer the bodles of TAR VICTIMS ON THIS BIDE, ‘The Health Oficer of Brooklyn, Ur. George Coch. yan, Was early on the scene of the disaster on Sun- day last, and with & tugboat whieh he furnished hejped to tow the charred wreck around to her preseat moorings. Tints oillclal also tendered the Services of himself and staff to the New York Sani- tary Board, and matertally aided in ministering to the Wants of the unlortunate victims of the explosion. THB BROOKLYN Vicia, The following are the names of the dead and wounded Who were residents of Brooklyn:—Pro- fessor Mark Cheneviere, dead, 246 Clinton street. me ener tert bt? ic ue re, marae see . Their aughter is dangerously woundes about the head and chests . y. John Gerrity, 261 Waren street, de Mathew Mahoney, 361 Warren stre Nellie Groome, five ycars of age, Fiarbush, dead. Louls Netdhard, 69 Meadow street, dead, Joun Py Johnson, 866 Fulton street, dead. Matilda Nelson, dead. '. Re Uhiman, 11 Pougias street, dead. Margaret C. West, Sackett sixeet, dea ® andrew Cooper, No. 17 Vrince street, jurea. Roberts, Henry street, Jonn PF. ete ott jolliman, & middle-aged men; recover, doxinein is spa ij . O. Malley, No. 37 Jay street, fearfully lacerated With splinters, ice , ' Aun Box, No. 54 Atiantic street, slightly Injured, Henry Korn, No. sid Alyrtle aven: rea Michagl Kelly, Dook donbiton A, t, dead. severely in- very severely Fecovery wsnd vesides at Edgewater, on Fourth strect, He is thirty-three years of age and is married. He was KNOCKED SENSELESS, but recovered suficently to carry nis fellow fire- nan, Patrick Flanigan, out of the ruins to the Barge Uitice, Yesterday he was at work on te ferrybout Nortidetd, although hs face is horribly myured. OPINIONS OF THE PEOPLE. Crowded Steambonts, Te THe Enror oF THE HERALD;— The awful calamity of Suaday to the passengers of the Staten Isiand boat, it 1s to be moped, will nos pass unheeded nor without its proper lesson. Sad agit was it was fortunate the explosion did not occur before the boat left the pier, as the loss of life must necessarily then have been much greater, The overcrowding of excursion and ferry boats siould net be permitted on any day of the week. I believe tee isa law limiting the number of passengers, but it seems to be prpetonty aisvegarded. On Sunday mornlug iny wife and L had oecastoa to visit @ fatuily residing betweon Bergen Point and falterviile, {had long desivet to make tis visit, and Sunday was the only day 1 could feel certain of seeing wil the family together. As there is 20 Way of | siom ng this place on that day by other conve reach waik boat, Which stops on J was obliged to take th: the way at vergen doin miles. Twas astonished at Ue Imucnse crowd on board, masy of the passengers “eing compelled to Stand, and then though: of tue panto which might bappen in caRe vl any ac tov Ore. colliston or ‘The factory which was the | —General Frossard, late tutor to the Prince Im perial, has taken ap his residence in Paris, : ——The Priuce and Princess de Jvinvilie are stay« ing at one of the hotels in the negudoravod of the Rue de Rivolt. ——M. Duvergier de Mauranne, elected in the Cher, ts the son of (ie old deputy of Louis Pailippe’s tine, aud the author Of some very interesting papers in the Revue ds Deux Mon des on the United States during the civil war, The length of the Tichborne case Is not unexam- pled, Some few huntred years ago there arose a dispute regarding a bearmg In te Coat of arms ot the Ruthin family and tho right of another as house to its adoption, Qa this trial Chancer gave It laste] throngh one whole century and it ihe preceding and former part of the lat the succecding one. -—Prince Pismarek is the hero of the following anecdote:—‘'Tue vaiue of a good cigar,’? sald Bts- marek, as he proceeded to ligut an excelient Ha- ‘ils bes: understood when it Is the last you 3 and there is no chance of geting another. iggrditz 1 had only one cigar left in my ckei, which { carefully guarded during the whoiv battle as a miser does his treasure. I cid not fect Justified in using it. I painted in glowing colors in the happy hour when Lt shonid enjoy in victory. Bat | had mitscalculated ‘my chances.” “And what was the cause of your mis- ealentation?” “A poor dragoon. Me lay helpless, with both arms crushed, murmuring for sometias: torefresh him, felt in my pockets and found [ had only gold, and that would be 0. no use to him. But, stay—I had still my treasured cigar! [ lighted this for bliin, and piaced it between his teeth. You should have seen the poor fellow’s grateful smile? I never enjoyed a cigar 39 much a3 that one Il did not smoke.” —Baron James de Rothschild, during the Com- munist period tn Paris, was one moraing seated In his cabinet, Whea two fellows froin the faubourgs, armed to the teetl, entered and asked to be shown in 10 citizeu Rothschild, “Gentiemen,” he sata. “what can Ido for your’? “Well, this 1s what we have got to say. You nave miillons of mouey, ani the people want bread; #0 you musé snare, or it nol’—— “snare? Very well. How many are in Francet’ Perhaps thirty millions.” how much money do you supposs | have t'? handed ana fifty millions.” “Woll, taen, thirty millions that makes five francs a head. a © two; here ave ten francs for you, aad now we are quits.” The men were so confounded by the argument and by the rapidity with which the Wnole tciieat occurred that they wok the money and disappeared, FOREIGN MISCELLANEOUS ITLUS. ‘The city of Steashbourg subserived 15,009,009 franca to the foun. ‘The number of abilities for unpald rents ad dressed (o the twenty registrars of the Justice of the Peace in Parisexceeds 150,000. ‘The journallves of Varia are strongly opposed to the supplementary centim @ tax om icuilievons, and At is believed the tax will be abandoned, ‘The Paris Savings Bank recetved during (he week ending the 8@ July deposits amounting to 152, 260f., and relmbursed (he sum of 66, 146r, It is stated tha! many subseribera to the French loan timmediately patd up all the instalments, The amount So paid 13 caicniated at nearly one miltiard, ‘The tables of morta lity in Paris for the week end- ing June 30 show a farther improvement, the num- ber of deatis haveng (ica to 682, from 1,106 Im the preceding period. Several districts In Aigiers are still in @ state of insurrection, and the Governor has issued decrees seque tratt ng ihe property of the surgents. Three brigades were tv leave Toulon to remforce the army ia Algeria. ’ A number of jeriiions are belng got up by the provincial muuivipaities askmg tire Frenca Na- Uonal Assemoly to prowong the powers invested in M. Taiers for bo years. This movement was started by the republican iuauicipality of foaious: t The French Jockey Uiub bas decided on holding race meetings ims antunin at Longehamps ant Chautilly, for the former piace the dates fxet being the Lota, 17th gna 24th September, and Lor the latter, the 3d September and Ist October, ‘The Germans have a je for art. They will not peruat that the grandeur of the spectacle witnessed at Berlin on Friday should be marred for all poster. lly by photographs of monstrosities, They allowed xi tien Walk about two | down from the back of the nead. nO WeAKOTS Ol chignons te take part in cle proces- The sixty novle and beantifal gitis wno St re Soyer Retore the Rncenit, mene phn: o —vertly, ely own--in vl ps wa Troma. the ha Fortunately the tot the scene wii not be com. pelled to tatrod into the pieture young ladies Wiih head gear closely resembling tho helmets of the old Dubin Horse voue. Artists eugwred Lo pa