The New York Herald Newspaper, August 8, 1871, Page 8

8 THE NEW-BORN HOPE, ANOTHER COMMUNIST COLONY SCHEME. The Lower California Company Bidding for the Imprisoned Reds—A Rose-Colored Circular from George Wilkes & Co.—C. K. Garrison, Boss Tweed, Ben Butler, Senator Logan and Ww. G. Forge, Offering an Asylum tothe Fierce French Rougeists—Lhir- ty-five Millicns faid To Be Behind ~ the : rject—W: 1 M. Thiers Bite at the Ba: !—Nous Verrcns. PARIS, July 27. 1871, Enrope has been excited for weeks as to witat the fave of the Communist prisoners wil be—parucu- larly Bismarck, Vou Beust, Jules Favre and Serrano, who are trying to crash the International, As the reader will flid below, a second and a very elaborate Wcheme has been pres nied by some well Knuwn American citizens, their colovization in the Argentune repubite. Burope, tt seems, 1s Pound to have reitef from one of these valves; and by which the Ministry of” M. Thiers alone wil decide—and that, (00, at an carly day. During the Co..mune the reader will remenie ber that Bismarck kept the Nortaera Railway open, 3m order, as he said, to bag all the republican | Scoundrels of Euro, e within tue walls of Paris, and then pat them ai tae mercy of a mad military mon, Over forty thousand who have escaped Bismarck’s Nemesis are invited to accgpt the hospitality of the LOWE CALIFORNIA COMPANY, of the city of New York, waich, im the person of one of tis «directors and a member of its exetutive commitiee, comes velore the French government and vespectfully prese .ts:— That, baving heard it to be in contemplation by the Frcnch government to deport eral taousaud Political prisuner-, and thut the cue: didicuity mm the deportation of sail prisoners is the choice of some clime suiicleally distant and saluprious to me @uce such exues .O remain conceated in ier Lew howes, proposes to meet tuls contemplated problew 0: extradition in ali of Its couuition and requice: ments, by teuderiug, through the French govein- | Ment, a retuge co said exties in Mhat portion of tae peu.nsuia of Lo er Calvornia Wuich 13 siiuaied in the most hea thiul aud teimperaie latitudes of the North Pacific Ocoan. The undersigned keeping 10 view the fact that while the french goverament wishes to ciseaipar- Yass Wself of ine presence of said prisoners, i Can- ‘not, in ITS MAGNANIMITY, ‘ be indifferent to their fature welfare, will. propose, And How does proyose, On the part of the Lower Caitoraia Company, lo open the lands of tie company in said ,eninsula to the reception of said prisouers in We foru: of colonists, and Will confer | upon eaca of sad cotu.ts Jand, as a fee deed oi 2 Tivas in sala peuimsula, wiih tue privilege o- veins entiieu, euch o1 thea, 40 a furtaer free deed of gait ol fifty acres move aller Uiree years’ Occupation of the iret chiriy acces. Provided ile French geverameut consis, AL Its OWN ExXpeuse, Lo Suca pores Ren he coasis of sail penmsuin as the company may designate, Wil sixty Gays’ Tations of Toot Lo each colomist, aud A certain amouut oO. agriculiural and fishing implements. ment will aavance to ike company the sum of ONE 4 LE ON FRANC, as areimbursemunt to Lhe company for outiays .t necessary Must Make to provire for tae Teception of Faid ColoDists. Or, uf the Freuca gove.nment shall prefer to dis- embarrass iiself imoie speediy of said poutical prisouers, and is willing Lo entrast the dificult ask of thelr WWansporiaion Ww the company, as its agent, by delivering in its own. ports, pon sips provided by (he company, said exiles Jor deportauion, loe Company Wal receive said €XuSe Npon sips or therr own, and wii eudeavar, to the best of their avuity, to transport and land them in Lower Califormia, with the same gults 0. laud and privi cges Qecra.ng to them and each of them as if landed Were Dy (ve ve seis of the erench yov- ernment, as Stated im the first propostuon; p Vided the government Wil pay to the company, at the {ime oi the reception O% Said exnes irom Ue government In the ports of rauce, the sum of ONE THOUSAND FRANCS KACTT for the transportation 01 each ex te. vided that a lurwer sum ot one haa head saa!l be paid i LUs cowpany in ie: SIXtY da) s* raion uf luod provided lor in tii proposition. ° Ald pow, for the Detter informauon of the French overnluecnt, as to the Fr. uty of ae Lower lalilorbia Company. and aisv as 10 its capacity to carry out the contacts 1 oliers to perforin or auy Olner form of coutrict Which Luey and tne Freneh government may agree upou, the undersigned Wil mirty Bc1es oO the ume of Une also pro- tue e Ost agtate that the said company is the legal as-\gaee and OWuer, iM posssesion, Of a Er. juaue vy THE REVUBLIC OF MfexICO in 1964 for colonizing purpo: the rights, privi- leges and franchises of whien extend over we greater portion of the peninsula of Lower Culiiornta, Covering about 47,0. square iniles, or say avout 20,000,.00 acres. ‘Tbe whvle of tis laad hes ‘Within the latitudes and guder the temperature of south rm Haly, and is bound on the cast ang west by two ranges 0 +@a Coast, cach over fuur hundred Miles in engin, Inaeated by desp bays and capa. oon harbors, ail filled with an abundant variety of . | Tins possession of such @ vast domain of almost idle lauds wall exvlata to the government that we company can Well afford to distaipnte TWO O& THREX MILLIONS O° ARES among intelligent and mdustrious co.omists, and tnts consideration brings the company belore it ‘with a fcgiltimate and worthy motive ior ils p: opo- | sitions. Itis ior this reason that the company pre- Jerred to place that One Oi! fis pro. ositions first in order which cailed for the sinaliest amount of money from the goverment, and (hat they fixed | thut amount @t a mark which wil! bareiy compen- { sate them ior lle necessary expenses ol reception. — | It was for an equally iiverai reason hat tne en. lightened goveruiment of Mexico generously divested Itself in the grant a.oresaid of mucu of its tmmedi- Ate authority, by empowerlug all the colonists who mignt be mmtrovucea under the auspice: oi the com- pany “‘to freely frame all the insticuitons they Way consider proper for the deveiopment o: their ; intelligence, morals aud good tnanners; to be inde- pendsi-i ta THEIR MUNICIN AL ADMINISTRATIONS, to make reguiauons lor tue government of their respective municipalities, lo {reely elect their wu- thorites and to promote and execute all the mate- Fiai improvements proper to the wellare of tue colonies; provided those regulations do not conflict with the general laws of the republic.’ The colo- gusts are aisy secured compleie liberty of uplinon + and religious worsnip. (See sections 9 and lv of the grant herewith annexed, By section» lz and 12 of the grant gli wearing ap- parei, all ciasses of iron Wwols, all provisions, “as ‘Weil as all things necessary to preserve i2¢ and be useful to tne colon sts," are to be sree from dues for the term of ten years, And for av equal period of time the cvlonists are to be exempt from all Classes of Imports and taxes except the municipat coutrivutions which the colonists may themselves establisn, By the tonrteenth section “the coionists are exempt jor five years from service in the national army” and from all otuer MILITARY SERVICE, except the necessary service ‘as national guards in their own municipalities. with the view of Keeping orderim them.” fis generous self-abnegation vy Mexico of #0 any of her sovereign attributes nas left the company I~ possession of quast govern- mentat powers, similar to those of the Hudson Bay @ud the East India Companies; and under these | nd privileges tae owuers of the graut, bein, ai] of them citizens of the United States, organize then ves under the ute of “The Lower Caluornia Company,” in a charter ovtaimed by them from the Staie of New York. A certitied copy of Us charter, along With a verified copy ol the grant, accompanied by provis of the due fuluiment o- 1s CURRENT CONDITIONS, were flied among the archives of the national gov- ernment at \Washingiou. Along with these docu- ments was filed subsequently the copy 1 a coi respondence vetween ills éxcellency M. Komero, the Mmister of s.exico tothe United States, ithe undersigned, in which it was understood and agreca that emigrants irom any aud ev country of the earih, wiihout prejudice and without regard to race or color, should be held to be ellgible and acveptavie in fuintiing the colonizing conditions of te grant. Soon after iis the compuny began the establish ment of its colonies by a settiement at MAGJALENA BAY and other points on the coust of the Pacific, and the United states government made recognition of tue fact by the appomtmeut of a consul to look after Me mterest of Its citize 8 m the first named place, The Mexican government also recognized the regu- Jarity and legality of the company’s seLuements by some special enactments Ww facilitate tke operations Of the colonists. ‘The undersigned ts thus explicit in order that the French government may see tha) their exiles with be free trom any invidious intererence with their lib- erty of action on the part of (he government EXERCISING “EMINENT DOMAIN” over the territory covered uy the company's grant, but rather that they wil be protec in their liber- Hes aio In bie development Of @ great tuture by the concurrent policy of two republics, neither of which powers 38 capable Of mevitating injnstice to the other, Toe territory uader the juriediction of t aoyin Lower California there.ore, aad which ls now lene dered to the French government for tue reception of NS exiles, on the terms above set forty by the un dersigned, is @ sort of ueutral ground, which seems to be especially adapted to the needs of the Fren government in the present crisis, In that favo Tegion 1ts NOW UNHAPPY EXILES ulre prosperity aud happin compan eh ulsned y ports, in addition to this vhere is the full aud very compreheusive pian of ex-Deieaave Poevoa, of Colorado, aud also an tadetinite plan lor HL deport sald | And also provided the govern | the large ) nluages re. spond to their mother country with a reciprocal free trace, As to.the character Of the soll, climate and pro- ductions o° the territory in Lower Caisfornia wich is covered bv tee Company's grant, the undersiguea herewitn presegts an extract irom an OFFICIAL REVORT recentiy made by Coionel Drake De the secre- lary ol the company @ad Caited States Consul at Magdalepa Bay — At no point im the world, says the Secretary, can colo- Jen be to readiiy cxtaulleh d of scheaply st wisted unilf, 1 he soll ts 80 rich #nil productive that in forty from ending pens, beans, beets, carrcts, corn and otner garden ve,evabies can ‘be ready tor ‘the table, Pisb, tur oysters, cams, I cra ® abrimp. &¢., are found in | exhau-tibie supply along the whole const, AU fruits, tropical And semitrop.cal. grow Uxuriautiy, aod the grasey patna covered with cattle and deer. Dressed br ef can be bought at 2p cents the pound, sheep and xouts at #1 the bead, and deer and antelope ut @2 euch. Mich cows, with calf, nt (rom felf-procinet tays working horses aod mules from cheese at (our cents the pound; wine, e3 cellent, at ‘slity-five cenis the gallon; brown sugar at fi cents and tobacco mt twenty to twenty-f.e cents the pound, Asto the cmate, it ia dso equal that the simplest structure a‘ford imuch shelter as the costs dwelling, and looal diseases are entirely unknown, Yhe ortunity for tie advantageous employment of unakii: bor. even in the present condivion of the Territory, is almost unumited. Manes of gold, liver ard copper are found in all {fart# of the Territory, and devoate of salt, equal to aay on 6 Pacive coami, re everywhere | at band, ae auxiiiares to an extended fishing intuster. The Guif of California 1% iu ite if, the inexhaustible pearl Sahery of the world, and, subjected to the new apnitances of science in the way of submarine boats that could doscend to ite bottom in puran't of pear: and mothenof-pearl might lead to the creation of a mew brauch of commerce, Un t Pacitic const 0. the Territory a new plant bas been d covered, cajled “orchilla moss” a valuable dyestum, rival hing the 'coci.Ineal, grows spontaneously, and the'col- lection and bal ny of which would jurnish emplorment to thousands of mea, women and chil tren, One single planta- on of thix vaiuade airub extends ior @ siretca of sixty miles, with an average breath of tweve miles, along the Coast, in the neigh -orhood of Magdal-na, and ie now pr ducing to the company, with the ‘iimited hands 1 has been able to pat upon ft, over two milifons o¢ francs a year. ‘The undersigned woult take this opportunity to gay thai tue Lower Califoruta 0 mpaay 1s Tot a stock jobbing or, 11 any technical or narrow sense, a speculating company, it has never puta share of its stock u,on ihe Market, end its extended vpera- fons in the expioration and improvement of the Territory and in the €stablisnment of colonies within i have ‘been borne entirely by te personal coatri- butions of its members, NOMINAL CAPITAL 18 THIRTY-FIVE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS, though tne value of the property represented by it is esinmated to be over uve tines that sum. Its presi- dent 13 Mr. Ricnard Schell, of New Yurk; its trea- gurer Mr. Wiliam R. Travers, and its secretary Colonel Drake De Kay, both also of the same city. Prom.nent among the directors and members of the company are the folowing wed known American citizens and capitadsts:— John Anderson, c. K Garrison, August Be mont, William M. Tweed, 8. L. Mi. Bar.ow, Francis Morris, General Jonn A. Logan, G neral B. t*, Batler, William G. Fargo, Jou M. B. vavidson, Edwards -. San ord, Joho Hunter | Leonard Jerome, George Osgood, | David crawford, Robert Mcuane, Joun A. Griswold, A. Welch, Henry Smith, John Rk. Garland, | Beu Hataday, Levi 4. Dow ey, ‘ and others, who, taken togetaer, represent a per- | sonal responsibility to the extent of a hundred mi Hion vt dollars. The under igued, in laying the above proposals before the attention of the French government, would reier, fer hw own wer smsidulty (though Withoat opportantty to consult with aay of tie genviemen to be named), to His Exccileacy General Schenck, Mlutsier Plenipotentiary, «c., }to the Court of St James: to His Excel Jency Elihu &, Washburne, Minis er Plenipoten- thary, &c., to the Court of France, and to His Excel- | lency J, Rasseil Jones, Minister Resident to the | Court of Belgium. with resard to the legal title and powers ol the Lower Ualiforala Comoany, ne would respectiuily suggest that the French govern- | Ment remit that tnguiry, through the hands of 1s yp Minister at Wesoingten, by Atanuc cable tu te Ton, Ca.eb Cushing, te eminent American juriscon- Suit, who 18 now tue counsel and legal! adviser of tne Mexican goverament. 4x to tre persoaal st nding | and respeasiniity of the diectors and members of the compauv ve named, he would simply refer the government td sey of the banking houses of | Paris or Loudon whicl have tinancial dealings with tue capitaisia of the city of New Yerk. All of which are respectfully submisied by | GEORGE WILKES, | Director and Member of the Executive Commuice of the Lower Cali ornia Company. , Ihave just been farnishel the first advance copy Of this mammotiy project for the HERALD, It will to- day be transiated and handed to M. Victor Le Franc, Minister of Commerce, and wil then re- ceive the thoughtful. consideration of the Ministry. This project, like that of ex-Deiezate Poston, is one of high merit, and its adoption by tke government would be great poon to pat almost uninhabited and neglected peninsula, Lower California. French | colonies, as a rule, have been etter failures; but tt is | beheved that these Comthtuists—tn the main s00", indusirious men, though Agre committed to impos- sibie deas—couta, undef at Of finization and social | compact born of necessity, reclaim what is now one of the waste places of the earth, + to indulge the sausfacuon that whatever revolution or yigient outb.eak does fll to despotism in Europe in Ine samae ratio speeds the ultimate destiny of de mocracy 1n America to control the worid. ranes @ | COPZLAND’S MO. HER-I The Question of Her Lunacy—What the Cap- tain Says About [t-$50,009 Involved. Yesterday afternoon the invesiuga: | Iunacy case of Mrs. Hoffman, of Ravensword, was commen betore Commissioners Covert, Robinson and Laylis, and a jury of eighteen men, in Long Tsiand City. Drill Captain Copeland, of the Me- tropolitan police of this city, married Mrs, Hoff- man’s daughter ten years ago. She died about turee years since, leaving him in the possession of two children, He has transacted Mrs. Hoffman's business for a number of years, street, in this city, and depositing her moneys in bauk. The captain has lately entertained the idea that ‘MNS. HOFFMAN WAS INSANE. Be visited her severai times to satisfy himself on | this point. He also sent Dr. sin of this city to visit her. The doctor was examined before the Oom- mission and jury last week. His testimony was very weak, a8 ne refused to swear that Mrs, Hoffman, ‘Was insane, bat dio swear that he believed her to Dt be demen Mra. Hoffman has a son and daugh- trliv ng with her, and this circumstauce is con- strued 80 a3 TO IMPUTE UNWORTHY MOTIVES | on tbe part of Captain Coveland. According to the evidence given by the Captain when first exammed she would be adjudged hopelessty insane. day Mr, Payne coutinued the cross-exam:nauion of Captain Copeland Mrs, Hoffman's Wi! son was to be at my house July 12; | we went to Mr. Hardman’softice in roome street; Thad made oO appointment With Hardman; Mr. Hardman ‘and myself ai had a talk about the old iadv; I inquired abomt her ! aMfaira: Dr. Blifin came to ave Mis. Hoffman July 17; T did not coms ta see Mrs. Van Alst between the lvth and 17th of June; Laid uot send any one over; 1 was married to Mts. Hoffman's daughter May 12, ‘1651; I went keeping bonge the same duy, in the house in Madison street, New York, owned by Mrs. Hoffman; I kept house there until the | td day of May, 18/1; I never paid any rent myself; my wife | died October 'S, 1860; when I was married Mra. Hoffman lived at Ravenswood; 'I paid the taxes on ber property w th | money given me for that purpose; I looked Mrs. Hoff- man ae an extremely smart und to within eighteen mor up to May 1, 1871; Mrs. Holman was going to move to New York to take charge herself; was told some five times that the, a my apartments; T first recerved notice two or ter my wife's death; it was ater I bad received such notice that | egan to think the old lady insane; on the death of my wife certain events developed themacives in the family and I had contemplated | taking procee tings; I did not know but it might be necessary rm fT | tranks and two servant, Senator Bradiey studied to contest her that reason J watebed her conduct and that daughter; 1 did not do this the interest. of Mrs. ‘an Alst's children; ‘did ft in the Interest of my own children; mental incapacity then; my wiic was buried in Greenwood | Cemetery; 1 did pot pay for the ot; I paid ber funeral ex- enses ; Hoffman gave me #500 [n the latte Se ember, 1 9 the lot in Greenwood en paired aad stones erected over her husband and son; the deed Was made gut in Mrs. Hoffman's name; in July, 1889, sh | gare mi 43; mmer of 1870 f received #10); ai | mail amounts at dierent tim on another occasion ehe £00, occasion #20; I do ot think becanss ad a ‘board fence around her house it would be matertal to show that she was irrational, I thonght her josune wheo she asked me to vacate the be 1 don't think #he wasn her right mind When she gave me thi money; 1 thought of commencing proceodings in lonacy before | leared Mrs, Van Alst would ket Be,000 Trom the old woman. dhe property possessed by Mrs, Van Alst is worth $50,000, There seems something behind the matier, which, it fs thought, the old lady will explain at the next mecting. A BOHEMIAN BLAST. The Convict at sing sing Prison Who was Not “shot Threush the Hearv'=Distressing Situation of a Father, The tragic story In a morning paper yester- day, setting forth that a convict named Patrick Hanley was ‘shot through the earv” while attempt- ing to escape from Sing Sing Prison jast Satarday | evening, turns out to have been an undiluted fabri- cation, Having accidentally heard that a fatality | had occurred at the prison, Coroner Smith, while q | returning fre Peekskill sil hited at the Sing Sing station yesterday, aod on making inquiries jas to te truih of We Freprot, was lear ! gully accosted by the father of Hanley (or, more | properiy, Manion), who, while pommung to an unuer- | taker and a com which he had brought from New | York, to carry away Ue corpse of hia erring boy miplaied be of ie cruel hoax whien had ought hin Of despur. The wurraged Uso MLOrT8e ‘ouer Wat he had it ison, where Dis son Ww ive and we almost need » add that no attempt to has been i ny of the convicts since Lhe last rast te of that mature Was Feported in these } coluinus. It is fair, perhaps, | Yester- | 1 saw signs of | TAMMANY ABROAD. New York City’s Statesmen Among the Great Men of Europe. Creamer, Disraeli and Mike Norton—Jim Collier tho Only Legitimate Heir to the Irish Throne-Joo Dowling’s Forthooming Work on Juri-prudence- hamborlain Brad. ley Posting the French Financiers, Parts, Jaly 26, 1871, Tammany ts proselyting sbroad—Judze Dowling in judicature: Senator Creamer tn the softer ethics of politics; Senator Bradley in finance and Mike Norton 1s swoep’ng in converts to his latest theory on Greek rovts and their possible origin in yet un- deciphered Sanscrit. This is a topic to which I have devoted much investigation, and ail I can learn of the merry scholars, the realer should under stand is bas-d merely on hearsay evidence, Who, for instance, ever penetrated to the hallowed cham- ber of Galileo, or wao was ever intoxicated by the golden presence of Shakspeare? It 1s impossible, especially in the Old World, to flicker in the same atmosphere wherein geuius flames, One must, there- fore, rely upon omdi/s and anecdotes which are told of THE GREAT, to the considerable delight of the small. Such an- ecdotes have J surrounded with ears wide open, and you statesmen of Tammany are the heroes thereof. Mike Norton, I have heard said, is @ crusher, but his effeminate nature waa very much weakened by his late urip across the Atlantic; 60 that the Senator, upon landing at Queenstown, prayed to be left to Virgil and Saliust for twenty-four hours, Under the Inspiration of his classic mon-contemporaries the Senator recovered in time to catch the Irish mail for London, declaring that he could travel with no one not of that sex and nationahty. Norton in Eu- rope 1s Norton in America; 80 Mike sent his card to the Rev. Owen Swift, the hero of more-than 4 hun- dred unliveried battles. The interview was affect- ingin theextreme. The Senator approached the parisn house with an EMOTION &@ maiden feels upon viewing the last rays of the set- Ung sun on Lake Geneva's margin. hardly tn each otner’s arms before the Rev. prow,” &c., and so the two, directing thelr minds ; on holy thoughts, ate silently and drank nothing. | After evening prayers were said the Senator and the ! divine lingered on the lawn together, talking of the i marvellous structure of rhododendrons and the creamy softuess and spiritual beauty of camelias. | Norton was happier then than he haa been for } many aday betore, He left Swift Manor in search | of his colleague, Senator Creamer, but found that ; Tom had gone to keep an APPOINTMENT WITH MR. DISRAELT, | one of the wel known members of the House of | Commons, He arrived at his lodgings in time to j find a telegram from Creanier, saytn; “Tam in trouble, Mike, Come quick.” CREAMER. Norton knew what this meant; so he rubbed down his front with cold towels and hastily took the mea- sure of his jeit arm above the elbow. He looked in the glass, aud said to himself; ‘I’m in condition!” Norton hurried into the street, clearing away cabs, bansoms and tracks, and pushed for the House of hall of the Houses of Parliament. Members were fevered, and a hot discussion had leagued small crowds together in a chain of wild, exc:ied knots, Creamer and Disraeli were in debate, “But I am a Senater of the Empire State,” sald Creamer. d “And 1, sir, am a leader in the House of Commons of Her most gractous Majesty’s Partiamentt”” “What's tits row? roared Senator Norton with raised arm, Jamming seventy-two bystanders against the interior wall. Disraeli grew pe | House of Lords, and the Env! deGrey and Ripon stepped up and sald, “41 perceive, cvatiemen, that the opposition has only adopted the ruisi of the New York State Legisiatare. The change has béen sad- den. But it is progress. Let us nave peace!’? | Norton retired, saving that he would go and bring some of his constituents who would settie matters; but before he arrived Senator Creamer haa COMPROMISED and walked over to the House of Lords, It appears this misunderstanding arose from the fact that Creamer claimed that Mr. Disraelt had been guilty of a breach of etiquette in receiving hin in the Hloase of Commons, as he was a member of the Upper House in New York, and was Intitled to be recetved in tne House of Lords, Upon Nir. Disraeli’s explaining that he was not a peer, Senator Creamer expressed himseil as satisfied, though he must have | deem nettted at i such as collecting her rents for properly in Madison | ENGLISH REEDING. Norton then gaid to the handsome Senator, ‘‘Let us cut the aristocracy dead after this; they are hogs! “But,’? said Mike, “I have read of an old shoulder nitter, Tom Carlyle, who has pitched iuto Greetey. Let's get Into a hansom and gotoseehim!” The | two Senators went down to Tom’s house and Creamer acted as interpreter. At six o'clock that eventng they DINED EXSEMBLB ‘ atthe “Skull and Crose-Bones,” when City Cham- berlain Bradley arrivea with funds for the party. | Collier arrived close on his heels, having travelled all the way from Ireland in twelve hours, Collier ; was greatly excited. He asctared that he had been visiting the ruins of Drogheda, and that he found moutdy manuscript showing his certain descent | from the Insh Kings and that he was tne true and only heir to the throne of Ireland. The writer, who was in the room, heard this and opened | bis eyes and stared, and the Chamberlain | tossed him out of the window. Bradley called for ‘ink and paper, and wrote a very clever document to Peter B, Sweeny, entitled “Tammany’s First Foothold in Europe.’ He TRLEGRAPHED PRIVATELY TO HUGHRY SMITH. Some days afterward the whole embassy took & spectal tram for Paris, and Norton had thirty-seven | French on the way from London to Dover, and when | he got on board the steamer he spoke It fluently and with @ delicious accent. Bat there was great trouble upon getting into France. The Custom House insisted upon opeving Norton's trunks, and when the lid of the first was raised out rotled more than a bushel of healthy Irish potatoes, presented to him by a Prince of Killarney. Toe Senator said he had no intention of violating the law; but ; that he MUST HAVE FOOD onthe Continent. At last they got away and came ' to Parts, On leaving there the distinguished Cham- berla‘n of New York wes in town. M. Pouyer- | Quertier sougnt him out, and since then Senator Bradley has been imaccessible. Creamer bas gone of to talk with Bismarck, and Norton declares that he must upset Talian unity. Norton is still spend- ing all his spare time among his much-loved classics, and Judge Dowlmg has taken a lease of Gibbon’s Cottage on Lake Geneva, where, I under- staud, he 13 carefully preparing a legal work on “The Decline and Fall of Haman Justice! All oar Senators and representatives are remarkable lin- guists a3 well as expert propagandists, and much good work have they done for the republic and Tam- many Hail abroad. ALLEGED BRUTALITY TO A BOY, In Newark yesterday Edward Dolermann, a Broad strect baker, was arreatea and held to ball in $200 to appear for trial on a charge of brataliy whipping @ little boy named John Roth, of 77 Wal- nut street, It is alleged that some one threw @ stone at Dolermann’s wagon, whereupon he rushed out of his store, whip in hand, and seized the first boy be saw who, happened to be little Roth, and pro- ceeded to tash him, ae two eye witnesses declare, most unmerelfully. They interfered, and proceeded before the magistrate, who at once granted a war- rant for the arrest of te accused, Doiermann isa browier of the re giv) who was lately drowned at Rockaway, and Who s00n after distinguisied hin seit ina disgraceful fight with one sister over dead ly of poor Mary. they were Owen reminded the Senator of ‘In the sweat of thy Commons. All waa in an uproar in the deliberative | . Granville arrived from the | NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, AUGUST 8 1871—WITH SUPPLEMENT. A DESPERATE THIEF. He Makes an Effort te Escape from Esecx Market Police Court, But is Captured—An Old Prison Bird. For the last three years a series of burglaries have been committed in the Eleventn precinct, the ope- rators in which were never discovered. On tne 20th of May last the rear of No, 8 avenue D was broken open and fifty pigeons belonging to Philip Sechuck- man stolen, Omicer R. L, Smith was detalied to work upthe case, On Sunday morning he arrested a boy named Julius Ackerman on suspicion of being concerned in this last affair. Jultus pecame thor- oughly frightened and volunteered to tell all he knew. He said for some tme back he had been cmployed by o& man named Charles Winkler to give information of the move- ments of the poiice officers in the precinot, and he received fifty cents @ job; that on the 20th of May he saw Winkler,ccming out of the house in avenue D with the pigeonsgin bis pocket. Winkler was ar- rested Monday morning, and both he and the boy Jultus were taken before Judge Scott, at Essex Mar- ket, They were remanded to the station house. Officer Smith then went to the realdence of Wink- ley, in avenue D, and found a large amount of differ- ent kinds of property, consisting of jewelry, furs, clowing, &c., together with twenty-seven pawn- tickets, representing property amounting to $1,000, In the meantime Winkler, with a common nail, had picked the lock of his cell in the station house, and walked out, His escape was not discovered till four o'clock in the afternoon. Im- mediately on the discovery of the flight of his prise oner Onficer Smith took a car for the neighborhood of avenue D and Fifth street, and saw Winkler walking quietly along the avenue, He jumped off the car, feeling sure of his prey; but Winkler was too quick ior him and made a run for the doorway of a tenement house near by. The oMcer, running around to the next street, captured Winkler as ne was getting over a fence. Winkler knocked him down and started down the the oucer om full pursale. tied to sp ft bold Winkler = and he measured his length on the sidewalk. A citizen who came to his assistance suffered the same fate, By this time Smith bad come up to the pursued and by a few well directed blows of his club brought Winkler to terms, Yesterday morning the prisoner was again ar- Taigned at Essex Market, before Judge Ledwith. He was brought in handcuffed avd as he came into ourt he 10oked the picture of desperation. He stood before the Judge and answered the questions put to bim salienly and doggedly, his eyes at the same time rollmg around the room. A. case of intoxication was peing disposed of, when suddenly the desperado, hand- cuffed as he was, jumped over the iron railings that enclose tne stand and made a dash for the door, He was captured at once and brought back. Afew minutes aiterwards Joon Kerns, of 206 Madison screet, identified him a8 @ man who had stolen $150 worth of clothing from him, part of which property ‘was :ound in the prisoner's room. Winkier was committed lor trial at the General Sessions. He has already served two terms at Sing Sing and there 1s every prospect of his serving a third. BROOKLYN AFFAIRS. Accused of Kebbery. ¢ John Cosgrove and Morris Lorry were arrested on Sunday night on complaint of John Harrigan, the keeper of @ liquor saioon at the corner of Fifth ave- nue and Twenty-seventh street, who accuses them with having entered his place in company with a number of others and robbed the money drawer of The Ofal Dock Question. At a regniar meeting of the Board of Aldermen of Brooklyn yesterday afternoon a commnnication, provesting against the location of an offal dovk at | the foot of Division avenue, was read. The pro- testants, Sarah Ann Waterhouse, Thomas Water- house, A. H. 0, Stott, A. Roezer, Lorenzo Lovejoy | and Ludwig Semler, close their communication by stating that they would consider a proposition to locate a smallpox hospital in front of the City Hall, and to place a destructive nuisance alongside the Folton terry slp, no more unreasonable than the proposition before the Board to put an offal dock at the fovt of Division avenue. Death trom Hydrephobdin. The strects of the city of Brooklyn may be said to fairly swarm with unmazziedjdogs, notwithstanding the fact that an ordinance of the Common Council requites that the canine fraternity shall be muzzled during the dog days. Coroner Jones was yesterday notified to hold an inquest over the pody of James Little, who died of peta on Sunday night | Jastat the residence of his parents, No. 42 Spencer street, East Brooklyn. It appears thatthe boy was bitten by a dog on the 1st of August, but he did not exnibit any symptoms of the fell disease until Sat- urday, when medical ald was procured, but the sut- tJerer sank rapidly and expired in great agony. Riot in Brooklyn—Oficers Boaten. Two tmctions of Irishmen, said to beiong to Hiber- nian organizeons, got intoa fight, between nme and ten o’clock on Sanday vight, in Park avenue aud Spencer street, Brocklyn. The parties num- bered between two and three hundred, and used stones, brickbats, clubs, &c, !a the affray, The ‘riot is satd to have foerrificd the rea:dents of that locality to such a degree that some left their homes, while others closed their houses, Onicers Nelson and Larwell, in attempting to arrest some of the ringleaders, were severely beaten, while some of the rioters went off or were carried away with broken heads, noses and dishgured faces. James McEieheny, one of the alieged ringleaders, was arrested and locked up to answer. DEMORALIZED DEMOCRATS. eer The Alliance in Jersey City—Rebelliows Mem- bers in Court. A singular case came betore Justice McAnally, in Jersey City, yesterday. At the late charter elec- tion in that city Messrs. Reardon and Joyce were the only democrats elected to the Board of Aldermen. Keardon had been @ member of the previous Board and served the people faithfully and well, so that his popularity carried him through. Joyce, on the other hand, was policically a “new man,’? about whom the people at large Knew little or nothing. Through the sup- port of the Democratic Alliance, however, he was elected. Soon after the election some dificulues arose in the organization, and it was charged that Joyce ‘went back’? on the association that elected him, and the rules of which he asa member was bound to obey. The upshot was that the governing coun- ctl pronounced an order of expulsion against Joyce, his brother and several others. One of the expelled individuals went through tne city aud ex what he termed the secret working of the organization. Alderman Joyce commenced a sult oon John D. Harring- ton, the President of the Alllance. for the recovery of $80, on the fo that the plaintiff was a trustee of the general fund. Justice McAnally nonsuited tho plaintiff, and the legal technicalities being after- wards complied with, a second suit Was commenced. A postponement for one week was granted yester- day in consequence of the absence of important wit nesses, ‘Mr. Harrington has repeatedty offered to pay to Alderman Joyce the sum of $3—all the money the latter paid into the Aluance fund—but this ofler was bas eve In the ineaniime the old fog! iiuicians who dreaded the rising power of the Alliance are elated at the prospect of its disruption. THE JAMATOA RAILROAD ROW. The Trains Do Not Stop. The trouble between the Trustees of Jamaica vil- lage and the South Side Railway Company 1s now folly at fits height. The trains passed througn the village yesterday morning without stopping, as pre- viously threatened. A great crowd of people col- lected at the depot as the time for each train to pass arrived. The speed of trains through the village is RIGHT MILES AN HOUR. It 1g porsfiile for an agile person to leap off, but im- possible to get on. As the trains passed the pas- peered curiously from the windows, and the group of poople at the station smiled and nodded significantly at each other, Livery train has TO STOP AT THE LONG ISLAND RAILROAD crossing, nalfa mile outside of the village. Here me peopie alighted and waiked back to the village. MERTING OF CITIZENS. At the meeting of citizens in Jamaica on Satur- day evening neither tie Trustees nor railroad com- any Were represented, and, of course, instead of farmonizing the difficulty the Trustees were en- ‘An endeavor is being made to bring about ‘A CONFERENCE OF THE TWO CORPORATIONS, thereny arriving at a sofut on of the troubles, At resent it 1s only a matter of dignity, cach side re- using to recede from the original stand taken, The ‘Trustees wilt pass an ordinance OOMPEBLIING ALL TRAINS TO STOP, and then wsk the Courts to recognize their autho: rity. Phey have power under their amended charter, ‘THE AMAZONS OF PREE OUBA. Sr. Carmertnys, Canada, August 7, 1871. Thave Just read what newspaper correspondents in Havana say of the “Amazons of Free Cuba.” L wish to send throngh the free press of America my hea trywomen. While they liye my country will live. jor te ony of free Caba ! Hurran TOF (he Amon MILLA U, VILLAVARDEs dorsed, rly greeung to my brave and enihasiastic Coun- | THE FERRY FATALITY. Continuation of the Official Investigation. Conflicting Testimony in Relation to the Steam Gauge. Over Pressure Declared To Be the Cause of the Burst. DEATH OF ANOTHER VICTIM. THE OFFICIAL INVESTIGATION, Examisntion of Ferry Deck Hands, En- aincers and Experts—Corflicting Testimony if Experts as to the Pressure of Steam 0) the Westficld and the Cause of the Flaw. The investigation by the United States Inspectors of Bollers into the cause of the explosion of the bolier of the Westfield was continued yesterday morning in the United States Circuit Court room, Messrs. Hill and Boole sat on the bench as before, accompanied by General Belknap. The attendance ‘was not quite 80 numerous as on the previous days of the investigation, as the greatest number of their ‘witnesses had been already heara. A GOVERNMENT OFFIOIAL'S STATEMENT. ‘The first wituess called was Commodore J. H. Strong, who, being duly sworn, anid:—I have veen connectea with the Navy Department aa an inspector of light houses of the ‘Third district, and have had considerable experience; three summers ayo 1 was on one of the eleven o'clock ‘Staten Island ferry boats, assed near the engine room at that time and noticed the steam gauge; there was then no one ding near; in a few minutes afterwards I passed the door again and observed that this gauge indicated that the fieam Was rapidly rising, sti! there was no one to attend to it; 1m passing off the boat onto the dock I remarked to a deck hand that if they didn't look out they would hat steamer blown up; | did not notics the #1act preasui cated; my attention was drawn to the danger from the fact ont the steam was continually rising, and there was no one the engine room to attend to it, WHAT A DECK HAND KNEW. Michael Eagan, one of the deck hands, was then ex- amined. ted :~ 1 am connected with the Staten Island ferry and was on board the Westield on that Sua iwe left Staten jand at half-past twelve o'clock and ca’ 10 after we got to the dock I came out of the bout sat down near by on the dock; my duties are asa “hooker-on” and a deck band; 1 dia not hear any steam escaping from the safety vaive; sometimes we bear it, if it own ; Lwas just om thet end of the boat next to the lock when the bolier exploded; on this occasion I did not notice any steam escaping; with reference to the beer, the brewers give their drivers beer to distribute among them- aelves, and I have had a@drink with them occasionally, but on-that Gey there was no beer on the boat; 1 have see! several of the deck hands and the firemen drink with the drivers oc the beer wagons, ax wel] as the fireman, besides myself, though I never saw the colored engineer take any, & boat hand at ‘und ferry; have ‘was on the dock at the r rom Staten Island that morning on the Westfield; I can't say whether I was on the dock or on the off part of the boat at the time of the explo- sion; my attention was not called to the condition of the boiler by sieam blowing off the safety valve; it might have been blowing, I can't say; sometimes help in getting the bose out; SOME BEER was on that boat that day; sometimes the drivers on the wagons broach a cask and {ake a small sized can right att on to the deck; at sich times they now and then invite the deck hands to take a glass of lager; the firemen, when they fee! like it, join n and take a drink; have seen the eusincer and fireman both take a drink; we bave a small tin keltle to drink out of; it may hold’ about three pints; they sometimes fill’ tt half full; cometimes they take’ more; Iam sure none of the men would take enough to hurt them} the engineer drank very scitom; after the the cask would be thrown on the top of empty cask; saw Mr, Robingon on that occasion standing in the engine room; at the time of the explosion I saw Harry (Robinson) by tne engine room; before that, at the time we came in, I saw him on the dock, but how'long he stayed there I can't say; when Robmson'was on the dock 1 think they were taking water, ANOTHER DPCK HAND, it, sworn and examined—Am a deck hand on ferry; was on boara the Westfeld at tho time of the explosion; ‘we left Vanderbilt ianding at halt. at twelve; touched at Quarantine landing and went on to ew York; I heard the hreman sing out, "Stand fore; I went out on the dock; it was then twelve minutes past one; sat on the dock tive of teu minutes; went to the paper stand inside the gates; from there I taned to go on board the boat; the captain was in the after pilot house; how far 1 got I dun't’ know—perhaps ten feel onthe aft part ot the boat—when the exploeion occurred did not see the engineer for ten minutes before the explosion ; he was then near the engine room; heard the teaiimonyof the last witness about beer; L agree with him me parte of it, but Lditer with deck hands drink very seldor sienabpoveaner n ; tbo driver ot abo: drink of deck hands take a with m I had got through the wagon as an wagons bring their breakiast Deer wita it; occasionally the them, if they are asked. THE BAYETY VALVE. A letter was read from Mr. Copeland, a former witness. It said that he had, since testifying, measired the sa‘ety valve of the Westtield, and had found that it was nelther five inches in diameter, as one witness bad given evidence, nor seven inches, as lad been stated by tne counse! for the Staten ¢ It was a traction over tive anda 10 pounds per aq] Added the weight of the lever and valre the actual preseure ware inch to 26 pounds, and wheu to that waa retained by the valve woud be twenty-seven pounds, ANOTHER DEOK HAND, Thomas Flapnigan, sworn and examimed—A~n a brid, man at the Staten Island ferry; Iam stationed at the York end, and was da duty when the Westield came into the slip; know xothing abcut ths explosion; 1 made the oat fast; 1 saw the engiaeer come on the bridge and stay there a little while; he went to the hydrant Wiss he was there; the fireman’ came vut tofix the hose, ana the ongt- heer came out after him to sce that it was all ginecr was on the boat at the time of the explosiun; the boat Was uot then unhooked; I saw the engineer on the bridge, I think, about ten minutes before the explosion; he was then going on board the boat. WHAT THE GAUGE &TOOD AT. Robert Uliver sworn ani examined—aAm maxer; was not on board the Westteid the sion; i Was on board two weeks ago—the Sunday explosion; I noticed the pressure of sicam on the gauge: ane as idg 2 !!'tle past: twenty-nine pounds, us indicated Sythe gouge; Tivsked uo tho room; it was open: T'was only about eight feet from the ganze; could see the figures disiincty; Tam perfectly mre 1 im at twenty. nine pounds; the boat was then stanuing nt the dock ; I always notice the gauges on board any boat I zo on; shen’ the steam was at twenty-nine pounds Idid not notice the safety valve blowing; it might hive been blowing ant I not notice it; 1 supposed at tiat time that the steam allowed ‘was eighteen pounds, the same as on the Boston ferry boats; Inotced the Northfel weg I k and the safety vara waa blowing at twenty-five pounde easy; when I looked atthe Westield gauge it was between twetv and two; f did not notice the 6 move much during jhe two or three minutes I was there. ‘James Braleted, the superintendent of the ferry company, recal ed—I can’t say what the time table of the Westn.\d on Runday two weeks ngo was; she was running even hour tr. P4 pot (-hour ones. 5 ANOTHER EXT! Henfrey Horton, sworn and(cxamined—Am a practical steam engineer; have been on rd the Westfield since the explosion ; I have not made a very critical examination of it; ; ‘think the rupture occurred in the bottom of thé boiler through a flaw in the iron; I think there was excessive pressure then on the boiler; parts of iron T saw were of the usual thickness, but some of the bolts Were not so strong aa ia usual; I could not got at the furnace end of the boiler to seo the gauge, but [think tuere was plenty of water, from the appearance of the boiler; the fron of the botler was about No.2 fron; on the bottom it was a little lighter than at the top; I noticed the iron at the point Of fracture; it was abont one-quarter inch thick ;T should esti mate the force neseasary to rupture the bofler at forty junds; I think tue crack was an old one and had been Riere for years: at the deepest part of the crack it oft as judge about one-sixteeath of an finch of fron, aware that such ‘A crack existed and extended about twelve inches in length, Should think ft would have withstood a steam pressure of thirty-five pounds anda hydrostatic pressure of over forty pouns THY RECKSB—A BTATFN I6LAND FERRY GINEPR. ‘APY ENGIN Robert E. Brown, being duly eworn, sald. am @ practical engineer, and am en, at the Staten Island ferry, and have been on hoard the Westield; I was on doard of her last Sunday morning at seven o'clock; I was raised in a fireroom, and never served my time asan engineer; 2 commenced fir- ing on the old Staten Island ferry; I was tral enulnger on the steamboat Cowumbus, aod afterwards I was on (he Joseph iy t on this ferry; Ihave been inthe employ of thi comp: four years; 1 wae ordered by Captain Bratsted to carry twenty-two, twenty-four or twenty-five pounds of steam; do not remember carrying more than twenty-five pounds, have not read the last certificate; I might have read the ©: four or five yeara of age; I can ‘both read and write, an could therefore read the certitic ‘was bo copy of ft nearer than t the other men at Staten Island t) wars steam on; T do not remember ever seeing in any case when I was reliev- ing the other men tbat there was more than twenty-soven pounds; T never knew the weter to be low; J ca hear the steam when it blows off; J can’t tell what steam there is on from the fireroom; 1 teli the enyioeer about the water, and try the gauge cocks every time | arrive at Staien Island. How much do you reduce the co m coming from Staten Isiand to New York ? halt; we start with four noid cocks full when we arrive at New York; we seldom ure the donkey pump to pump the water, and sometimes ile in the dock bfteen or twenty minutes; then the etea ‘te it little on the Weathel; none of them make much steam at the dock unless we have heavy fires on; I never faw any leak in the borer of the Westtied since she was inspected excent- ing @ litle pear the jurnace door; 1 arrived that day at Btatep Isiand at eleven o'clock with about fifteen pounde of steam, and It was at that when the colored man came and relieved me; | have never seen ber since, EX-INSPROIOR MOPPER ON THE Joel W. Hopper, being sworn, engaged in & steamship at pre have been out of my \me eighteen years ¢ made an examination of the exploded boiler, and { think the cause of the explosion was from over pressure; they had too much reasure on; assuming there was « crack {think it would t thirty-three pounds to the square Inch to explode that olen, 1 never did; there }_ When we relieve Q. Have you ever veen an inspector of boilers? A. I have; it Thad inspected it, and assuming ft was of one-quar. ter Inch, I should bave hoen willing to have subjected It to ® hydrostatic pressure of thirty-tive pounds would be the pressure allowed for a new boll put ona hydrostatic test of thirty- using fresh water and a of steam; that ler, and I should wi 4 it might also engineer in that case nould have lifted the lied with dirty Vhe stem ; If 1 ws one up to fort ‘he gauge didnt there any indication of low water? A. No, air; 1 saw no indication of that, and the boiler, from what'T savy, almont entirely free trom scale; 1 saw no salt water scale ver. ‘CHIRF RNGINERR Cc i RRBALL'® TES’ Ei er United States Mar works In apecte Peo iphia {ng €xperiments on Iro! the botier of the Westield; | noticed an old crack ave becn Ree by the boller maker oF inspect we calla “ive crack ;" this crack was caused by & he rolling of the wud rune with the yrato of y jcroxcope in order to deter the bottom of tho boller much pasts, 1 consider the boller very lepth, ac.i 1 treange“iham the oth ight; the ede Wvihe plnce where raely at the place instarted; it ran transve: am now in the Pennsylvania Iron Works and am constani rolling ana forging bolier ron; we roll_ boiler Iron for man facturers of boilers at certain sizes; sometimes if we yet @ ate that is blistered aF not perfect we throw ft away, a8 the ier maker will not have {t if it has been cut otf too noas the end where @ blister existed; that crack runs longitudin« ally on the sheet of the boiler ; { do not believe that Saw could have been teen by the inspector. am . If the crack was outside why cot tthe 1 a? A. Fiweae pecunde praet, (arate hag ely «| the outside balf of the plate; I was under the impression ber fore I saw it thnt the injury was sustained $n punching the holes; the weakening of plates of a bolle: in punching the holes dependa upon tho distance they are apart; judg! the whole plate to be of the standard of thirty-three at me, the punching would weaken i down to thirteen; ex- mining the fron with the microscope T found, as Ihave stated, the crack was in outer half of ‘two pieces forming the plate; it I had been the engineer. on board that boat 1 would not have hesitated for one moment to carry forty poun “Gcneres BELKNAP-If the crack was outside I want to know why the inspector did not see it? A. Well, ng a seen the crack bad he ioo sed where the crack was; it strike: me the crack might have been seca under @ most critical exe ‘amination, but no inspector-would think of go wolug after ha bad subjected it to aL; drostatic pressure; I didn’t notice 1f the boiler was painted, or whether the crack might bave beem seen without a microscope. ‘AN ENGINEERING EDITOR'S OPINION, Jobn Phin, being sworn, sald—I am editor of an engineers fog journul and a technologist; I have examined the vollex retty carefwly with some other gentlemen int in be matter; tok measurements of the ron, and we calcus Jated that with the ordinary strain the botler would not have burst; twenty-tive pounds is the ordinary strain to the square inch: judging from the character 1 the fron I do nos uae it would bave burst under forty pounds to the square im How could forty pounds have been upon that boiler and the gauge only ‘fndicating twenty-seven? A. The boiler was calculated to get up steam very rapidiy, {t had a very large ire surface, and I don’t think ‘after hays ing twenty-seven pounda it would take Jong to get pounds more; Ido not tuink the additional steam to make Up forty pounis could be generated in one minute and a half; Theard aver the explosion was over the chimney was 60 hot that it burned # man's hand, and the inference drawn ia there was a hot current of air running up thronzh it, which would goto prove an extensive heat on the furnace aud boilers; I see no reason to aiter my opinion that THERE WAS FORTY POUNDS ON THE BOLL! Tcan think of no other reason for the explosion; I think there must have been that pressure of steam on the boiler; it might have stood more, but I think it would go at that; I be- Heve the test will prove that; I was educated and served my tme as an engineer in Scotland, and worked {n this coun- ty years ago; the two valves might at forty pounds, not suilcient ANOTHER EXPEBLENOED BXPERT'S TESTIMONY, Alexander D, Douglass next too< the staud—1 am the ete gineer of steamer Huntsville, running Soutu; 1 have ex- ‘Amined the bot.er of the Westield and Ffind the botler 1 sa muulated that it was tmpossivie to discover any flaw; I be- Heve the explosion was the result of overpressure; 1 ex- amined the plate that was thrown open and 1 could not sea any tlaws in the ebell; there were no indicaticns of there having been low water; my opinion {s there could not hare been less thun fifty to sixty pounds on her beller when she let 0; Twas an inspector of boilers in this city from 1853 ta /467; from every indication I have seen the rent was torn out Of the soif i fron, i Q. How could it get up to sixty pounds without the steam gauge indicating ny A. Well, the xaugea are taade on the Fack and pinion principie and are iabie at any, time to get ‘out of order;In my own experience I have knowa these gauges to ladicate ten pounds more than Thad and vice ve the gauges, such as she had, are probably the best klad ther are extant, but if the pinion got Bed up with dirt it would be Hable to indicaie incorrect. had them to Indicate y pounds when I have had 100 ponnds on the test for its age, was very fair, uge to be correct, “how would you ‘A. These boats often Iie so long im the sip without the engineer lilting the valve that thera might be a surcharge of steam, and conscquently she might 0 Up; ft might be that the steam would then become so su perheated, and, not having the circuiadon ia proportion im the boiler,’ no ‘perceptible difference could bo seen fn the gauge; the engincer would not know the pressure he had Such times on the boiler; from what can be seen of the boll At the present time wi'h the naked eye there was nothing but fan excess of strain on the fron after the superheating of the steam that caused it to bow up. At the conclusion of the testimony of this witnesd the inquiry was adjourned until eleven o'clock to day. Mr. Boole intimated that, perhaps, this sittiag will conclude the investigation, a3 they have litte more now than the testimony of the Commission to hear as to the tests of the boller tron and the meas- urement of the valves, &c. ANOTHER VICTIM, Richard R, Moore, one of the seriously scalded, aled yesterday at his residence, in FI street, near South Second, Williamsburg, He was the coat panton of Jonn Madden, already dead, and both were greatly respected by their many acquaintances In the locality named, OPINIONS OF THE PEOPLE. ' RAD ' A Reply to One of Yeaorday's Letters. To THE Epiror of THE HERALD:— Professor Van der Weyde, who is well known im this communiiy as a careful experimenter, a skilfal chemist and able writer on technical and scientiag subjects, has, I regret to notice, taken up a suby ject to which le has evideutly net given sumicient thought, a3 m lus communication publisied m your valuable journal thts morning he has made many statements which are either palpable cvrrora or else of the character which @ little thought and cal- culation can disprove. Had the communication emanated from any less prominent source it might have been overlooxed, as we throw nine-tenths of all the ink-slinging on the subject of boiler explosions Into the waste baskct; but Professor Van der Weyde's arguments migst be met and disposed of, else serioug wrong may be done. He says “I set down asa maxim that the cause Of all boiler explosions 18 that the cohesive force of the weakest part of the boller has become smaller than the strain pro.tnced on it by the pressare of the steam.” If he had lett off the last six words quoted his maxim would have been more reltable and could have done no harm, It is a fact which all men who presama to discuss this intricate sabject onght to Know that any tabe closed at the endy and subjected to elastic pressure from within Will be ruptured longitudinally with half the pres- sure necessary to rupture it transversely. Then, as the boiler of the Westfield ruptured transversely, it is Not probable that the explosion was caused by the pressure of the steam. Further, any piece of iron subjected to a tensile straim will be permanently ex- teuded or stretched by about one-hatt the force ree fured to break it. Therefore, of some other part ‘Or {he boiler of equal strength with the part which gave way !snot found permanently stretched, ex- tended or uniged out it ts evidence that 1 was not che elastié pressure of the steam that cansed the rupture, Aguin, 28 the rapture began at the bottom of the shell, watt? tt is stayed longity- dinally and most effectivsiy ayc tit tho pressure of the steam acting to cause trazsve"se rupture by the large flues, which would more tha. WOUDIC Its ablity to resist that kind of force. The néco sity of the longitudinal stays he recommends 1s not s, 8PPpar- ent as he claims, With a pressure of twenty-s Vem pounds of steam to the square inch the whole font against the back head of the boiler having the tens dency to pull it in two would be 305,343 pounds, which seems to be a tremendous force leone tf but then there was, without estimating the tron in the tubes, ninety-four square inches of iron to be ruptured by this force; and if we only estimate ite tenstie strength at 2,000 pounds to the inch, it could restrain 1,889,000 pounds—or it has more than six times the strength neces sary. The reference to the patches on the boiler in his communication Is not pertinent to the question, as tle line of fracture nowhere inter. sected a patched weakness. Therefore it is fair to conclude that if the boiler had been all made of patohes it would not have burst. The want of ex- actness of statement which pervades the communt- cation is much to ve deplored, and is not characters istic of the writer. In referring to the weakness re- sulting [rom punching out the rivet holes he says, “About half the metal being removed,’’ whereas, in fact, less than one-third of the metal was re- moved, and instead of tne iron bemg of inferior quality, as he aszerts it was, all the testimony pre- sented’ up to this time by the experts who have beep cxamiaed, and, tn fact, the appearance of the fron itself, indicate that {t is of a very su- perior quatity, He erttictses Injudictously the char fcter of the test by “hydrostatic pressure,” asserce Ing that It “was raised to forty-two pounds, instead of thirty-four, as intended,’? although there was robably no reliable evidence of the fact staved. In fact, the Inspector did not so state tt while under oath, Yet, even if tt be the fact that it was so, it would only show that the limtt of pressure of the steam allowed to the engineer might have been even higher than twenty-five pounds, jlle also says, “ven the legal jimit of hydroxtatic pressure may start danger- ous cracks tn an old boticr.” ‘Co this may he retorted, “What of It 1 it may, provided It don't?’ and he asserts that the “iron is less: strong when hot than when cold,’? which 13 exactly the op. posite of the opinions of engineers fener aly and all Inspectors of boilers, within the limit of the temper- ature of water in pollers; and a committee of the Frankiin Institute, by an elaborate series of experl- ments, devermined many years ago that fron in- creased in strength as it was heated up to about 609 degrees Fahrenhett. “The indifference of propri¢- tors,’’ ducing them to retain in use old boilers reheated; et it is the opinion of Trost engineers that an old boiler which will staud @& given hydrostatic pressure is better than a new one of tne same ability, as the new one is full of initial tensions and strains, while the old one 18 well annealed, giving improved ductu. ity or tougtiness vo the fron, with which it wonld stretch easier, and thus sbow on its outside tha effect of over-pressure—a yery desirable quality possessed by copper, which, but for ils cost, Woul cause it to be used as the material for bollers, It ie well known that annealed wire Is much tougher than cold drawn wire, With referenve to the advice to adopt thermometers for the determi tion of the pressure, lt must be said constant us disarranges them; they are quite Hable to break— five or six naving broken on ove boiler in one day within this writer's knowledge—and when the steam CONTINUED ON FI¥TS PAGE, ee ro oe