The New York Herald Newspaper, August 29, 1871, Page 5

SECON MEI aT NN ig CA _-—-— -—- ~-- RET€IBUTION. The West{¥2d Disaster Submitted to the Grand Jury in General Sessions, Recorder Hackett’s Just and Foarless Charge. “A Whole Nation Awaiting the Judicial Action of Gur Courts.” 4 Great and Beneficial Bzample Zo Be Sct. The Grand Jury were yesterday morning recon- vVenqd in the Court of General Sessions, when Re- Corder Hackett delivered the following charge:— GENTLEMEN OF THE GRAND JURY:— You haye been reconvened to consider bills of in- @iciment agaist parties charged with criminal neg. ligence in the matter of the explosion of the boiler Of tue steamer Westfield. It was a shocking disaster and its details are too heartrencing to be recapitulated. One tundred fresn graves and several hundred grief-stricken families anda sympatnizing friends and acquain- lances on tne one hand, and the living community demanding prevection by example on the other head, consitvute cogent stimulants to our duty, bue ae oud be plain f only one life bad beén sacriilced. Preimioary tribunals have already afixed respon- sibility for the disaster upon individuals, The law now devolves Upon you a continuance of the in- wiry, Kor your guidance I suall now read and re- rt you to the following provisions of iaw, which have direct application to your lnvestigauion of the Jacts:— SKoTION 15, If the captain or any other verson having charge of any steamboat used for the conveyance of passen- ers, or if the enyineer or other person having charge of the 21.¢r of such boat er of any otter apparatus for the genera- tion of steam, shall from ignorance or gross neglect, or for the pucpyse of excelling any other boat in speed, create or allow to be created such an undue quantity of steam an to burst or break the boiler or other apparatus in whieh ft shall be generated, or any apparatus or machinery connected therewith, by which bursting or breaking any person shall be killed, every such captain, engineer or other person be deemed guilty of manslaughter in the third degree. Sro. 18. Every other killing of a human being by the act, rocurement oF cpavle megiiyence of another, where such filing Is not justifiable or excusable, or is not’ declared in this chapter murder, or in this title mansiaughter of some Other dexree, shall be deemed manslaughter in the fourth degree upon'a careful consideration of the evidence. If you shail become satisfied upon a careful con- Biderution of the evidence that there is probable cause to believe that THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTOR CARELESSLY OR NEGLIGENTLY inspected the boiler of the Westfield or was ol ise oflcia In fault when giving his ceriilou an indictment under the latier se! be proper, charging him with ertminal sribution tothe deplorable result, If you are irom the ev: MR. VANi i, THE PRESID E COMPANY, OR RRAISTRD, {18 SUPERINTENDENT, Was put upon such personal notice of the incom- petency of the engmeer or the insecurity } of the boiler as a degree of care and Inspection © than they both or either one exercised aitcrwards then it will be proper further to inquire if they did not also, in the lan- guace of the section last Guoled, supermduce the re- Bull by their culpadie negitgence. The ction Will apply to the engineer's act if the facts fi the law. $ itis said that the engineer improperly absented himself irom his post, and thereby too great a vol- ume of steam for so defective a boiler was geue- rated, and beyond the amouat the boiler was per- mitted to carry. Bul, Wuatever may be the engineer's condition on | the jaw and facts, resolutely and fearlessly examine | into the culpability of the more educated principals behiad nin, 1i is too often the case that subordinates are made Beavegoats ior erring officials who are over them, and who are ore powerful in place and means. If it Is possible under facts and law to hold prest- deuts, directors and superintendents of common carner companies responsible for accidents happen- ing to the passengers, whose lives and limbs they are in Jaw bound to insure against negligence, then A CREAT AND BENEPICIAL EXAMPLE WOULD BE SET. These oilolals exact liberal commutations and fares, ‘they show be held to the utmost vigil ance, They have the means of knowing Wwhevher their boats, cars, engines and boilers are or out to be safe. From the nature of the relation which is sustained to them by passengers the luttor give tust and confluence, The Nve- of laborers and mechanics, who intuse energy into the boay eohtie; of capitalists, who stimulate commer- Cial prusperity, are, in & mere moneyed aspect, great trusts to be committed to the common carrier. How much more sacred is the trust in a soctal view where the common carrier invites, for his own roit, the Jie aes father, wife, motner, sister and ender-aged child to take their holiday upon his passenger boat, and becomes, in law, the guarantor Of their safety, and they, confiding in nis skill and means of knowledge, unhesitatingly commit to bis keeping what our criminal law and its administra- tion should most rigidly guard—personal security. Gentlemen, I have the Utmost confidence in your feariessness and impartiality, as I have in the promptitude of tne District Attorney and his love of justice, With a whole nation looking at our judicial action upon tms great catastrophe let us all give no room for afier reproaches from any quarter. A MONSTER FLOATING PALACE, The New Steamship Spain, of the Nativnal Line. As stated in. yesterday’s Herp, the ‘steamer Spain arrived in this port on Sunday, making the passage trom Queenstown in nine days and some odd hours, travelling only at three-quarter speed, With the exception of the Great Eastern she ts the largest vessel that ever entered American waters, and 15 at least as fine as any steamer afoat, She ts 437 feet long, breadth of beam 43 feet and 29 feet in depth from the hold to the main deck. Her gross register 18 4,990 tons, She ts provided with im- proved engines fed by six boilers—each being 11 feet in diameter, 17 feet three inches long, and each heated by four turnaces, making twenty-four fur- naces inal), The botiers, though capable of with- standing a pressure of 150 pounds per square inch, are never laden beyond seventy-iive, thus insuring @bsolute safety from THE HORRORS OF AN EXPLOSION. The steam works in two cylinders—one on the high pressure system with a diameter of 106 inches, the other on the low pressure plan, each being fve feev long, giving a piston stroke of four feet and a half, The steam, after forcing the piston of the small high pressure cylinder upwards, escapes Into the larger cylinder and then drives the other piston, By these means the engines perform a work KQUIVALENT TO THRER THOUSAND HORSE POWER. Sone of the castings weigh twenty-five tons and were constructed by Bayliff « Co. and by Chay, Inman & Co. The Spain was built on the Mersey by Latid & Brothers, of Birkenhead. The screw 1s on the Grimith plan, twenty-one feet in diameter. There are four decks, two of them plated with sicel beneath the woodwork; 120 first class and 1,400 steerage passengers can be accommodated with ease. Abaft the engine room 18 a saloon 110 feet Jong, which dazzies the bg with pier glasses, mounted doors, cushione seats and rows of giitering glasses peniug over the tables. full benind is & saloon for ladies, The sieeping apartments are provided with patent steam heating apparatus. The rudder is worked from either of two wheel houses, and the pilot con- veys his orders to the men at the wheel by teic- graphic signals. The crew numbers 146 meu. The arrangements for the preservation of the health of the passengers are allthat can be desired, The mice of cluef engineer has been Gr bad to Mr. James Ramsey. ‘The construction of this steamer occupied seventeen months and COST UPWARD OF ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS STERLING. There ate now thirteen vessels on the National Line, managed on this side by F. W. J. Hurst, ihe Spain 18 under the command ot the Commo- dore of the National line, Captain Grace, Who super- intended her construction on the part of the com- pany and who commanded the Italy on her first trip. G, H. Marshall, the veteran purser of this line, has been assigned to the same position on this vessel. The veteran surgeon of the line, Dr, William J. King, Who served on the Queen tn the Abyssinian expedition, and later on the Denmark and es fs entrusied With the sanitary arrangements, so that the company bave shown great care and jodgment Jn the selection of officers for this magniticent vessel, MAINE INTELLIGENCE. The Granswick Bank De Birearm of a Portiaad Steamer, PORTLAND, Mé., Augnst 28, 1871. James Rogers, the defauting cashier of the Pejopscot National Bank, of Brunswick, was brought before Commissioner Edward M. Rand to-day and Ris ball fixed at $20,000, He fatled to procure 18 and ‘Was comiitted. A daughter of Charles Rundiett, of Portland, ed eleven years, was accidentally shot at Charles- et, After lingering several days she died, body was brought ere to-day. d mI and her The steamer Linda, Oa Mich Head, N. S., and wil Jona. She was a screw owned by W. L. Clement 2 proiery on Satu chevse and robably prove a total Popellen bo tons, Co. of Yarmouth. 600 barrels of flour, i miscellaneous merchandise Rigage, SONS 2? SRR ie AE ea NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY. AUGUST 29, 1871.--TRIPLE SHEET. THE BURGLARS’ HARVEST. Depredations 1 Closed Dwelling Houses— Red-Nosed Barney Again in Trouble. Ever since the occupants of fashionable brown stone front private residences in this city have been spending the summer) abroad the burglars and thieves woo infest the city have been reaping rich rewards, On Sunday afternoon the neighbors of Paul Retf, 77 Grand street, discovered that burglars had effected an entrance to the house and were pre- paring to carry off what piunder they could conve- miently lay their hands on, among which was a quantity of valuable jeweiry, Entering the house they found John Hanley, alias John Drake, and ‘Thomas Smith, alias Thomas Murray, alias red- nosed Barney, in possession of the premises, and another, they having eifected an entrance by sorcing open the front door with a * ‘jimmy. danley succeeded in aking his escape, but RED-NOSED BARRY WAS TAKEN 1m custody, and while being marched from the house the voluutary oilcers were met by James Joyce, allas James Engtish, wno informed them he was & detective, aud demanded the prisoners be vurned over to him, so that he could con- vey them to the station house, The prisouer was accordingly delivered, and aiter being marched afew blocks Was liberated and allowed to go scot free. Detective Dunn, learning of the occurrence, subsequentiy arrested all three, and arraigued them before Justice Cox at Jeferson Marset yesterday morning, when they were held for trial, IN THIRTY-PIRST STREBT, As Oflicer Brennan, of the iwenty-ninth precinct, Was passing the dwelling house of Thomas Hodg- skin, No, 34 East Thirty-first street, on Saturday morning, he discovered the front basement door open, and, knowing the family were epennine the summer at Brookhaven, L. concluded something was wrong, The oficer entered the house and found im one of the front rooms on the third floor a notorious burglar, aamed James Wiilams. As soon asthe latter saw the officer he shouted to his com- panion, Charies Reilly, ‘Come here, Charley, and give It to the ; there's ONLY ONE OF THE ‘cops.’” . Drawing his revolver the oMcer promised if they made any resistance he would shoot them dead, ‘The burglars, observing the oMicer’s determined look, allowed him to “surround” them, and they were marched triumphanily to the station house in West 'Thirueth street. They were arraigned before Justice Cox, at Jefferson Market, yesterday morn- ing, and tully committed for trial, & THE CAREER OF A COQUETTE. A Curious History—Secretly Married, Once Deserted and ‘then Divorced—How she Took Her Revenge. A few years ago the daughter of a weaithy and aristocratic family of Elisworth, Ulster county, at that thme a noted belle of about eighteen years, a brunetie of marvellous beauty, with Grecian features, dark, expressive eyes and black, lustrous hair, exquisitely formed, and possessed of the highest order of attainments, fell hopelessiy m love with a young man of somewhat questionable char- acter and was married to him privately, Soon after this event the newly-fledged husband deserted her and went to California, she followiag in pursuit. Upon her arrival there she took up her residence in San Francisco and began searching for her truant lord, At Jast one evening she found him promenading Montgomery street and beseeched him to return with her, which he promised todo, <Ac- cordingly, a few days alter, they started homewards. Abont a month alter their return he again deserted her and Med a second tine to Caitiornia, where ne subsequently obtained a divorce, A year had scarcely elapsed since her desertion When she, more charming than ever, ieit her sectu- sion, and appeared asa bright and shining star in society, attracting to her side countless suitors, Among them Was a young jeweller, Wao was very devoied and profuse in lis adresse: ‘The iady dia not repulse him, but, on the contrary, seemed flav- tered with his attentions, and apparently recipro- cated his aifection In the same vill: was a young man from Penn- sylvania, stylish and atiractive, and versed in all those little arts which serve to please and captivate. He also became infatuated with the lady,‘and sought to supplant the jeweler 1n her attections. She, huw- ever, & ed unm coolly aud apparently gave him little encouragement. Aiter a short courtship it was rumored that the iady and tue jeweler were engaged, when the Pennsylvanian relinquished his attentions, The rumor was at, first not generally credited, as it was known she could not lawfully marry; but when it became known that ihe wedding day was appointed for August 27 the gossips were in high gice, and the approaching nuptials were the theme o: general ramment. Tt Wax announced that the wedding was fo be & grand amare, h position of both parti te CANE Bride had pi fared an extensive outiit, costly bridal gilts were purcnased and invitations sent both far and net Indeed, the jair Was to be gilt-eaged throughout But on the evening prior to the appointed mar- riage day the friends of both bride and groom were shocked and intensely mortified by the anuounce- ment that in the aiternoon the lady Le | privately left her fatier’s .house, and, mesting the Pennsyi- vania gentleman at an appointed rendezvous, had been driven to @ clergyman’s residence and there married, the happy pair starting tor Pennsylvania on thetr bridal tour immediately after, The for- saken lover 18 discoasolate, and his triends now threaten to have the lady indicted for bigamy. AMERICAN INSTITUTE FAIR, Preparations for the Opeuing on September 7—Geods Coming In—The Classification. ‘The doors of the Skating Rink at Sixty-fourih street aud Third avenue were thrown open yesterday tor the reception of goods for the annual National In- dustrial Exposition, which will open to the public on the 7th of September next. ‘The articles for exhi- bition commenced coming in quite rapidly, and the managers announce that this me the Fair will be in complete order on the opening day, somethin; sadly behindnand in years past. AN array ot articles of American | manulucture is expected greater wnan any hitherto got together, there being more applicationsfor space than ever. It has not veen decided wno Wil deliver the opening ad- dress. Governor Morton was at first agreed on; but political appointments ig the canvass prevent his tultilling that task. He will, however, deliver the closing oration, Dr. Deers will pray on tae 7th and a poem by Walt Whitmanwill be read. An addition on the ‘Third avenue frontige has been built of forty. eignt by 200 feet, with gdleries, which will be de- voted to photograpnte \spectmens and musical instruments. Another addiion to secund avenue has been brit in connection wth the machinery depart- ment, which, as in eerie years, will occupy the east end of the rink. fe articles will be classed under seven department? as tollows:—Fine arts and education, dwelling @pliances, dress and han- dicraft, chemistry an ineralogy, engines ard machinery, intercommnuticalion, agricuiture and horticulture. On entering the butiding an orna- ulter in Prison— mental fountain will be tht first object to please the eye in the central avenu(of the butiding; beyond that, in the centre of the fink, will probabiy ve the music stand, surrounded by fower stands, with a grand soda fountain still {ther on. The decorations are promised to be on a gijnder scale than nereto- fore. ree See MUTINIES ONSHIPBOARD, SaVNNAn, August 24, 1871, To tne Epiror or THE HikaLp:— have just read in the Hratp an account of the mutiny on boara the shipNevada on her Passage to Ri Janeiro, and was stéck with the truth of the remark made in regard he character of sailors now going to sea. Hardly |paper can be read with. out seeing an account of ¢mutiny on board some vessel, more frequentiy ot account of some poor sailor being tll-used. Now, tr, [do not believe that any man will be fll-used in board a vessel it ne doe8 his duty, or even triesh, f{ have made many voyages from New York, every capacity, and nearly every time we golunder way there was trouble with the crew. Ofté the first order given is replied to with insulting lanpage by men who come on board as sailors and mn to make troubie in order to have some excusedr arresting the officers at the end of the voyage, Kbwing they will not be punished for mutiny and bing sure that the cap. tain will be found guilty @ill-treating them, and all the papers will cry out, Pity the poor sailor !"" You have im your city @ nber of men who make 1 their business to prowlaroond satlor boarding houses, and, vessels arrivig from foreign ports, to ascertain if any of tihorews wish to make a complamt against of their ofticers. so, they arge of the case and get all they can out of sth plaintim and defen- dant and pocket the prosit® Many a dollar is paid In this Way by men Who fe Innocent rather than be dragged into court tdanswer a trumped up charge. Conspicuous a such men is one th, well kndn the whole length of South street. ‘The writer dihis was obliged to leave hts vessel in New York laq fall on account of nim, he having procured a #: it for his arrest because s Playthings for Children—Wreck oh litle boy who was playing with an tain Suis, isashore at and She irday with cr tee vooutgee ot he rescued his mate from je hands of bis crew, who had him down and wertbout to murder nim as the ves-el came to anchi inside of Sandy Hook. laily occurrence in New rs on board a few ships as th@ret under way of the Battery, and jet him rept what captains have to Sontte ta regard 10 fuseeror Vesoels: aeet opinion In regal of ‘uly you “ TILDEN HALL, JRMfaster of Brig Proteus. BLUEFISIAGAIN, The fish were freshly them indicated that there was danger in eati] them, Mr, Smith, his wife and wife’s father other all werd cted; but prom ical ald jieved them of danger. Mr. pinit mn stopping In White- THE CITY ACCOUNTS. ¢ Tammany Moves and Defies the Defamers. A Square Challenge fo Examine All the City and County Accounts—The Committee of Investi- gation Invite the Co-operation of Leading Citizens—Experts To Be Employed— Plain Words from Mayor Hall— The Committee Resolved to Do Their Duty. The Joint Committee of the Board of Supervisors and Board of Aldermen, whose business it 18 to thoroughly investigate the alleged charges of larceny, profligacy, trick and device, &c., against Tammany Hall, held a prelimitaary meeting yesters day afternoon in the Supervisor’s room, New Court House. The committee consists of five Aldermen and the Supervisors, and these gentlemen were on hand punctually at the hour named, wearing VERY SOLEMN FACES and evidently seeming as if they knew they had an important work upon their shoulders, and that upon the diligence and the ability with which they were to act depended the honorable repute, fair fame and future power of the Tammany rulers, It might have been expected that a large crowd of politicians would be around the building, eagerly on hand to lend the countenance of their presence to the chosen light; but this was not so, and no one would have thought by a cursory glance in the vicinity of the Supervisors’ room that MATTERS OF VAST MOMENT to the future of this city and State were on the tapis; ‘hat questions were about to be solved which nad been the grand political sensation of nine days or thereabouts, aud explanations to be given which shall bring confusion to numberless Paul Prys and other reprobates of the sneaky sort. ‘The committee had a long secret session previous to throwing open the doors to representatives of the press, and the latter, when at last they did get in, Tushed like VULTURES UPON THEIR PREY to the reporters’ table, and seized with not uncus- tomary zeal upon ail the documents, chairs and as much of the table as was possible. Alderman Dimond was in the chair. On motion of Alderman PLUNKITT, Recorder Hackett was made permanent chairman, and there- upon Alderman Dimond explained that the Re- corder had been present at an earlier hour, but that he was obliged to return to his Court, where an im- portant trial was being held. it was then adopted that Mr. John Hardy act as clerk to the committee, and Messrs. A; J. Fullerton and James McGowan act as sergeants: rms, On motion of Alderman WaLsn, Alderman Simond Was elected as temporary chairman, aud business was then proceeded with, The following resolution was adopted:— Whereas, the Committee of the Board of Supervisors:and the Boare of Aldermen, in view of the importauce of making a thorough and satisfactory examination of the city and county accounts, deem it desirable to have associated with them promivent'citizens of thls herefore, R ommilttee designate That each member 2 ed with this Committes estigating ihe city and county accounts, es)gnated be invited to make @ thorough mination of ail the pablic accounts, with ris uncer their immediate supervision. and that said citizens so designated give the result of their inves- tigation to the people of this city and State in conjunction with the Commitiee, Conversation then occurred as to how these citi- zens should be chosen, and it was determined that each member of the Committee should name two citizens, thus making the Board to consist, lor work+ Ing purposex, of twenty-four gentiemen of expe- rience, ‘rhe CLERK then, after stating that Recorder Hackett had already sent in his selections, called over (he names of the members of the commitice, with the (ollowing result; THE SELECTED CITIZENS. Recorder HaCkEIT—Robert Lennox Kennedy, President of the Bank of Commerce; William A, Booth, of Messrs. Booth & Edgar. Supervisor JEROME—Koyal Phelps, of Messrs. Maitland, phelps & Co.’s; Robert L. Cutuag, Alderman ScHLICHTING—D, Bissenger, President German Savings Bank; James Brown, o! Brown, Bro. & Co.'s. AaAgemam DIMUNL— eau We DYUMVId, of Epotard Bros, & Co.'s; Couruandt Palmer, Alderman WELSH—Samuel Willets, B. L, Solo- mon. Alderman PLUNKITT—Horace B. Clafin, of H. B. Clafin & Co.'s; Hon. John K. Porter, ex-Judge of Court of Appeals. Supervisor Invinc—Seth B. Hunt, Thomas W. Pearsall. Supervisor WonrmaN—Thomas F. Jeremiah, Sr., President of Bowery Savings Bank; Wiluam KE. Dodge, Jr., of Phelps, Dodge & Co.'s. Alderman SCHLICHTING expressed himself as in favor of appointing a committee of two to inform the gentlemen selected of the action of the Com- mittee; but Alderman Plunkitt, Alderman Jerome and others believed that no such sub committee was needed, as, the Committce being in earnesp in this work, the refusal of any gentleman to act with them RELIEVED THEM OF RESPONSIBILITY, and it would then become necessary at a future meeting to appoint some one else. This view seem- ing to prevail, Alderman Schlicting withdrew his motion, SQUARE SPEAKING. The following circular, coming from Mayor Hall and to be sent to each of the above-named selected citizens, Was then read:— ‘The Mayor having sugvested in his messages to the boards of Supervisors and Aldermen, dated August 16. and trans- mitted on the 23d inst., that it would be well fora noa-parti: san committee of taxpayers to be associated with the commit- tee appointed by the Boards to examine the pwolic the undersigned respecttuily invite with the comufttee which the: attacks of a partisan journal upon the credit of the city should be answered by a full report of a committee of citizens in whom the committee have the greatest confidence, as tue food name of our city, ite prosperity and every tuterest dear 0 ite people must suiler froin ibes so grosa_ and attacks #0 faise and exaggerated. A full statement of the city and county and the condition of the sinking fund have been officially published on three separate occasions within the last two months, but their accuracy having been im- jeached itis due alike to the taxpayers and bonchoiders hat this important question should be settled beyond diapute or doubt. In order to reach this important end your co operation is solicited, and you are cordially invited to make thorongh and exhaustive examination of all the pubic ounts, with the aid of experts, under your immediate supervision, and give the result of your 10vestigation to the people of the city and State in conjunction with ourselves, etsy debate followed as to whether or not a copy o! THE VOLUMINOUS DOCUMENTS setting forth the city and county accounts shoula aiso be sent to each of the selected citizens; but it was finally considered unnecessary to do 80, as ail these will be at the disposal of the fuli committee when it comes to be ready for work. ‘This informal meeting was then declarea over, and an adjournment was adopted subject to the call of the Chair, Members of the Committee then came over to,the reporters’ tapie and requested that it shoula be known to the worid that this investigation would be thorough and complete, “WITH MALICE TOWARD NONE,” bui with a high ay for the public interests and the fame of the Empire City, Anything ike an attempt at TRICKERY WAS DISCARDED, and it was promised that a fair, open ‘and minute examination would be made into every charge pre- ferred against the officeholders, 1t now remains for the geutiemen selected to par- ticipate in the work, to give in wetr adhesion, to stopping, once for all, the ery, “STOP THIEF! or to enlighten the world, if the charge 1s well founded, as to the robberies, peculatious, embez- ziements and oMcial abominations or ‘‘ammany Hall, Here is a chance for every enemy—a square challenge that there is no getting over, NEW JERSEY ITEMS, A gang of river thieves coolly rowed in a yawi to the Cunard dock on Sunday evening and ogied a few cases of goods consigned to Gillespie & Co. Shortly afterwards they opened them and found they contained cotton and lace goods, of which they abstracted a heavy sample and leisurely rowed away. No one attempted to prevent them, and they escaped. A boy nine years of age, named Snyder, while playing on the end of the aock at Bergen Point, yes- eit feli overboard, There being no oue near, he sank And was drowned, Captain Creesy, of Trenton, fell down the hold of a vessel at Bergen Pointon Tuesday night, alghting on his head, and was injured so that his recovery 1s doubtfal, Two laborers on the New Jersey Midiand Railroad BROOKLYN AFFAIRS. Prospect Park. ‘There were 170,258 visitors at Prospect Park, ac- cording to the account kept by the keepers of that public pleasure ground; during the past week. On Sunday 41,092 people visited the place. The labor Joree, numbering 1,100, was reduced on Saturday night by the discharge of 200 men. Drowned While Bathing. Coroner Whitehill held an inquest yesterday over the body of August Maas, a youth of eighteen years, who was drowned on Sunday while bathing in the river at the foot of Twentieth street, South Brook- lyn. Deceased resided with his parents at No. 20 Ridge street, New York, and was over on a visit toa friend, a Mr, Charies Bonnke, of No. 321 Seven- teenth street. A verdict m accordance with the facts was rendered. Ferry Precautions Against Accident. The law requires that each ferry boat shall be provided with one hundred and fifty life preservers, The actual number of life preservers, lite buoys and rings carried by tie Union Ferry Company’s boats Winona, Coluinbia and Mineola—ts as follows:— Smail life preservers, 27; large buoys (on the upper deck), 60; rings, 6; total, 9%, Thus are the require- menis of the law fully (?) respected by this Corpora- tion. Weed Worsted. In the month of June, 1870, William Weed, an ay resident of Brooklyn and a cousin of Thurlow Weed, was arrested op suspicion of arson,and was indicted by the Grand Jury for the ofence. The alleged ertme consisted In setting fire to the furniture store of John J.Werner, corner Fulton and Nassau streets, The accused escaped, but was yesteraay rearrested | by one of the District Attorney’s officers and is now | locked up for trial. Werner, the owner of the store, 1g also under arrest for the same offence, Ald for the Afflicted. ‘The fund for the relief of the Brooklyn sufferers of the Westfield explosion has been augmented to the following figures:— Previously acknowledged. Morris & Pearsall. Mrs. H. D. Talmage Robert Dix, New York... Workmen of Robert Dix... 23 ‘Total. eons sec ssecsseseverccerssescees $002 ‘There is now $157 in the hands of the Mayor for a Second distribution, Some of those who received a share of the first distribution will not need any fur- ther help, but there are others to whom it wiil aiford great relief, and will enable them to take rare to support themselves and children in the uture. District Attorney Morris and his assistant, Tom E. Pearsall, nave volunteered to commence proceed- Ings a st the Staten Island Ferry Company on uy Of the sufferers free oi cost. The Dread Scott Decision. David Scott has been for some time past laboring under the impression that he is one of the most abused of mortals, and his domestic affairs are ina Most disorganized condition, He failed to see his Way out of the diMicuity, and thereupon deter minea to take his life. About noon yesterday Dave wrote a@ setter at his residence, Twenticth streai, which he addressed to his brother. He then took a revolver and hus departure for the woods in the vicinity of Thirty-ninth street and Futh avenue, Scarcely had he lett the house, however, than the Individual to whom the missive was directed hap- pened to come tn and receive the note, which was simply # deciaration that David was tired of Jongér bailing the breakers of this world and had deter: mined upon winging his way to the dark unknown jand beyond the grave. Oiileer Thompson, of the Eighth precinet, was notitied of the mad purpose of Scott, and in company of the sane relative of David, into whose hands the letter fell, started in pursuit of,the would-be suicide, who was found ia the woods alive and well as ever, He was locked up for the night ana disarmed. ~ METEORIC. August Meteors, 1871, As Seen in France. M. Leverrier, member of the French Institute and President of the French Scientific Association, has established through that society twenty-five tempo- rary observatories with a staff of competent ob- servers properly trained and supplied with special maps and chronometers. Telegraphic signals were exchanged between the diferent stations tor the reduction Of observations, The observers, more than 200 in number, kept a regular watch during he three critical nights 9-10, 10-11, 11-12 August ist, Some of the stations had the view of a clear sky. but hy far the greater number were disturbed by cloudy or stormy Weatber. Some ot the observ- ers were satisfied with giving the number of me- teors actually visible; some others rejected every apparition which had not been recorded on the Maps. An ulterior discussion wiil be worked out, but the following numbers, even in their crude tate, might be considered as bearing a general in- terest:—Bordeanx has seen 362 stars; Chartres, 90; lerche, 197; Le Mans, 200; Limoges, 217—all of them had their paths registered on the map; Mat- Seilles, 448, partly registered; Montpellier, 972—of these 321 were registered om the maps; Poitiers, 660; St. Honorine, 306; Toulouse, 136; St. Lo, 619; Tournay, 910; Paris (welleville), 775. No number has been given for the Navional Observatory, which is not 1N connection with the association. Tsons, 80— all of thera mapped; Barcelonette, 650; that station Was the most promising, M, Bareilly, the celebrated Marseilles observatory astronomer, having been despatched thereto; but the observations were much disturbed by a storm raging in Piedmont. At Genis 1,696 stars were seen; no special account has yet been given; only @ telegram received. At Agde 301 stars were seen; at Laressore, in the Pyre- nean district, 260; at Nice, 200;%at Toulon, 18°—more thair 10,000 in total. These talling stars were gen- erally very sinall, greatly inferior, most of them, to Capella. They were mostly coming from Persens, but some of them were seen coming towards it, In some places, as Agde and St. Lo, the apparition can be said to have been m some respecis spasmodic. The coming of numerous meteors from the same part of the heaverts was followed up by a period of absolute calm, Some of the meteors were following the same path at a very small distance indeed in de- grees and 10 tine: Very few were leaving behind them a visibie track. But two exceptions are to ve noticed, Angust 10, 11h, 2m.—Southern apparition, twice the brilliancy of Venus, duration, 1-6ti sec. strong whitish light, similar to an_ electric spark, seen af Angers. August 11, 1h. 32m. 4 seen at Tremont, A. X. 235 degrees, P. D. 29 degree burst wit a strong red light, A. R. 233 degrees, f D. 39 degrees; left @ luminous tras ible during 33 seconds, The night August 10-11 w: iecidedly the time for the greatest brilliancy of the meteoric attempted to cross Long Pond on Sunday night in a small boat. The boat was capsized and both were Rh bt Their bodies have not yet veen recov- ered. A lunar rainbow was a@ singular and beautiful phenomenon visible in Paterson on Sunday night, A meeting of property owners was held in Hoboken last evening to protest against the alleged dishonest assessments made under pretence of con- structing the Newark street sewer. There seems to be a screw loose somewhere in the levying of taxes on some of the Hoboken property owners, The heavy rains have caused the Delaware River torise considerably. The track of the Belvidere Delaware Railroad has been slightly damaged by the flooas, and trains have been delayed. Yesterday afternoon a laborer named Michael Drake, employed on @ sewer at the corner of Ful. ton and Bi streets, Newark, N. J., was buried through the Airing, way of the embankmens He ‘was covered above his waist and was rescued be- fore seriously injured. Jonn M. employed by ® carpenter, Meeker & Hedden, fell irom a scaffolding and was slnve dieds injured go that he has display. Time of maximum was at Angers from one vo two in the morning on the Lith or August, with 65 stars seen in that time; at Barcelonetie, from two to three In the morning, 84 stars were seen during that time. According to St. Lo observers the radiant point was situated between / b Persel for the first night and J dof the same constellation for the second night. For the third nigat it could not be determined, As far as It can be ascertaimed from preliminary disquisitions the Polar star has a radiant of its own, less important by far than Perset ambulatory radiant. As Seen in England. Meteors having been expected to be numerous during the last few evenings a careful waich has been maintained, and the following are the num- bers that have come under observation:— HM. LM. No. August 9 August 11,,10 35 to 10 60... 18 ‘August 9 Angast (1/110 Oto 12 0...29 August 11, ‘August Ui WwW August 1 ‘August 10.111 August 1 August 10.13 ‘August 11; The majority of the meteors observed, especially those oa the yth of August, were exceedingly small, and many of them were scarcely discernible. Sey- 1 brilliant ones were, however, observed. “At 1 on the 10th of August one of great lustre, and starlike in appearance, diverged from Perseus toward the horizon, It was of a blue color, and leit a trail of light, marking its path, which en- dured for about four seconds, At 10:44 on tue 11th of August another brilliant one Was witnessed. It was avout equalto Venus, and was visible in Ursa Minor. The train which it left remained perc bie for @ few seconds, It was, however, at 12:50 on the latter date that the most brilliant meteor Was observed. It passed between the fourth =magnitude — stars Epsilon ana Zeta in Cygnus, and soon afterwards disappeared, leaving in its fight a train which could be secn for about seven seconds after the extinction of the meteor itself, This one, like the groat majority of those observed, radiated from the smuail star B Camelopardall, situated at R. A. 48 deg. 37 min., and N. DV. 69 deg, 18 minutes, There were several small ones seen in close proximity to this point. Not many were observed to come from other direc: tions. One instance may be adduced, At 11:25 on the ith of August a rather brilliant one passed from the bright star Scheat in Pegasus to Cassiopeia. The majority of the meteors were accompanica with trains, Which, however, were of snort dura- tion. Most of the meteors seen were white, but Several appeared of a light blue, and some of a yel- lowish color, No sound was heard after the expio- sion of any one of them, They were more numer. ous on the 11th than on the 9th or 10th, The same brid was noticed in regard to the August meteors of 869. OPENING OF A MUSEUM OF EQUINE ANATOMY. On Saturday night iast Dr. Braley and Mr, J. D. Walton gave a grand opening at their Museum and modern horse shoeing establisiment, Thirty-ftth street and Broadway. A large number of horse- men attended and viewed the anatomical speci- mens (a very large and fine collection) with great interest. Wine flowed, and the “Anvii Chorus” was given by an opera troupe in good style. Dr. Braley is @ surgeon of thirty years’ experience in the United States Army, and Will give lectures at his Museum the coming winter about all matters pertaining to the horse. This is the first collection Sere kind ever shown in New York, and is tree to CHICAGO CHEERFUL. The Mutuals Defented After a Close Struggie— Heavy Witting, but Bad Judgment—Score 6 io 4. Nine ragged-breeched, bare-footed urchins, such as are seen practising at the natlonal game every day on any vacant lot they can find, could have played agame with better judgment and far more life than the Mutuals did yesterday. The occasion ‘was the fourth game of the championship sertes be- ALL tween the Mutuals, of wils city, and the White Stockings, of Chicago, The first game waa won by the Mutes and the second and third py tne Chi- cagoans. This game was, therefore, looked forward to with much interest and the result anticipated with a great deal of anaicty, so much so, indeed, on the Union groands for months assembled there yesterday. The heavy and almost incessant ram with which we have recently been visited left THE GROUND IN HEAVY OONDITION, The fine play exhibited by the Mutuals tn thelr re- struggle would result im an easy victory for the further than the elementary branches of the gamo Mutes were made warin favorites again yesterday, the pools selling at 100 to 80 in their favor, ana once more did their BACKERS GET A SEVERE LESSON. they had yesterday. From the third inning till the eighth they held the lead, and had they used but many chances offered to them they could not possi- bly have lost. With such a team to handle the cap- tain ought to work like a beaver, but Ferguson was very remiss in this respect, Instead of calling out to his men, “You can now 100k out lor yourselves,’? he ought to iook out tor them, He is elected to that otlice for that purpose, and he OUGHY TO KNOW BETTER than to allow them to “ran alone.” Mr. N. 0. Young was chosen umpire and t ame commenced at twenty-iive minutes past tiree, With the Chicago- ans st the bat. By a mutt of Dickey Pierce's they scored one run, and then very prettily whitewashed the Mutes, Tne same Operation was periormed In the second in- ning; bui the run they made was on this occasion earned, Th the New Yorkers; but a mul by Duly and an overs tirow by Foley enabied the Mutes to tle the game, alter they had blancked the Chicagoans in the third inning. “The nexi four lopings were played without an error by tie Mutes, and they disposed of the White Stocktogs in each without jetting them get a Tun, while they made one rua in the fourth and one in the sixth inning. These might have beea very easily doubled had the slightest judgment bee shown in running the bases; but, as has been pre- viously remarkeU, this 18 a portion of the game of wiich they have not the faintest concepuon. In the eighth inning a bad throw from Higham to Start gave the Chicagoans one run, and a bad throw from Ferguson to Start gave them another, They then, amid tremendous jor a duck’s egg, Kggler betng ran out at second, ‘Thls made the game ONCE MORE A TIP, and the ninth inning was commenced and watehed Mnrouguout with almost breathless attention, Duty went first to the bat and was missed by Milis on the fou bound. He th ma good hit to centre; he got to nis ball, and to his third on Wood’s (who was next man) hit to lets centre, and Wood stole to nis second, Tracy then hit to short, and Pearce flelded. the ball to Mills to cut off Duity at the home plate; * his base on a ‘ond on a passed of his hands six or seven feet to tne right of the home plate, where he rushed and picked it up. Having secure: ull plate. then Wood ran from = third The three next White went out, leaving the runs to make to tic the game. Pearce began aid was «disposed of at first. Higham then made hts first base on a good hit to left, and got to his second on a passed ball, Hatfield then made his base on a good hit to centre, and sent Higham to third when he oaght to have gone home on a passed bail; buthe stood, as Patterson had done in the ear- lier part of the gam SHILLY-SHALLYING TILL IT WAS TOO LATE. Stili another chance was offered him when Patter. to the home Stocking men Mules two | 5 A SEA SIDE ESCAPE, A Struggle for Life on the Bench at Shark River—Sixteen Bathers Bat- tling with Death, HANDS SAVE'D. Sixteen persons, guests of “Tucker's,” at Shar River, nad a very narrow escape from drowning on Saturday, while taking a surf bath. The beacn ts @ very eafe one; but it so happened that two or three that by far the largest crowd that has been collected | of the bathers in question took it into their heads to make a test of an unexplored portion of 1, where the breakers appeared to be the most Inviting. The | party consisted of Mr. Frank Hatdleld and his sisver Cecilia, Mr. Jos. Fox, Mr. Thomas Gilhooly, Misa Hattie Rotter, Miss Fannie Ratter, Mr. Robert Fox, cent contesis with the Rockford and Boston clubs | Miss Katie O'Hara, Miss Beatty, Mr. John Brophy caused many persons to believe that the present | | Rowley, Miss Emma Tucker, Miss Lizzie Garland Mutes, and, had the ground not been so heavy and | and his sister Katie, Miss Emily McCallum, Mrs. and Signor Hermani, the well-known opera singer. ordinary Judgment in availing themselves of che | son was taken on the fy by Treacy far out im the leit field, but instead of being on nis bag ready to run he stood haif way between the base and the home pee walting to see if the ball would be caught. 1e was tien obliged to return to his base, and of course could not get home, taken on che fly by Wood, Mills was next and was the Mutes losing the game and the champtonship serles through nothing but the merest folly and lack of judgment. ‘The fol- lowing is the gcor oHICAGO. ALB. Players, O.RAB.PB.P.A. LAB.TB.P.A. Dutly,a8...4 11 13 8 220 Wood, @db..1 2346 4 220 Treacy, t..56 0008 1 018 2 McAtee, isth 8 0 0 018 1 008 23-33 ¢ 210 10000 gid 11108 418 o2223 1o4@ o110808 2292 6 9a 2719 INNIN lv. 2% 84, 9h. a eer a 2-6 0 Oe BO Bol Oo On Gam 7 O. Young, of the Olympre Club. Two hours and fifteeu minutes, Chicago, 1; Mutu Time of gime Runs earaed SCIENTIFIC NOT ‘There ar 0 plants in the garden of the Royal Botanic Society. - ‘The female population of Great Britain exceeds the male by 713,516. The foundation stone of a new lighthouse on the Tocks off the Land's End was laid recently. ‘The tratic receipts of railways in tue United King- | dom for the week euding July 23 amounted to £913,047, Throughout the world there are about seventy j Mmililons of people wiking English as their native tongue. M. Littré has written to a friend of his in Belgium that the manuscript of his dictionary of the French language is completed, and that he expects the im- pression to be finished in July, 1872. $ In the first six months of the present year the merease in the population of Berlin amounted to 1,000 souls, In the course of the year 1870 only 2.9 persons emigrated irom Berlin to America or Austraita, The restricitons imposed by the Glasgow authori. tes in regard to the importation of live stock have been effectual im preventing the further spread of disease, no fresh cases of pleuro-pneumonia having been reported, ‘The total number of messages forwarded from postal telegrapl stauions. in the United Kingdom during the week ending August 6 was 206,40", an Increase of 47,833 upon the return in tue’ corre- sponding Week of last year. Mr. A. Crompble, student, Edinburg, 1s first, with 5,905 marks, in the successful candidates for te British Medical Service. Mr. B. Cruickshanks, Aber- deep, 18 seventh, Messrs. J. Buxton, A. H. Antho- nisy and W. L, White, all of Aberdeen, have passed with credit, It has been feared that the iron ores of the United Kingdom were being rapidly exhausted ana that the valuable hematite ores of Furness and White- | haven were beet scarce. It 19 satisfactory, therefore, to learn that m Low Furness an enor: mous deposite of red bemuatite bas just been dis- covered, In the chemical section of the British Association, at Edinburg, Abbé Moigno contributed @ paper de- scriptive Of the history and working graphic post, Every fim, he said, reproduced twelve or sixteen foito pages of printing, and con- tained on an average, 3,000 despateies. The light ness of these volumes permitted the Frenca govern. | ment to put upon one pigeon eighteen metais, which gave a total of more than 60,000 despatches, weigh- ing aitogether less than one gramme. The whole of the official and private despatenes carried by pigeons daring the investment of Paris numbered about one hundred and fitteen thousand, weighing in all about two grammes, Taey needed bur one pigeon to carry them. If the number of despatches were muitiplied by the number of the copies that were mace of them & total would be obtained of more than two miilion tive hundred thousand despatches, which were made and transiuitted during the worst months of the year. The volumes were roiled up in the stems ot feathers and fastened by an agent of the administration to the tails of the pigeons. These, by their uncommon flexibieness and perfect impene- tability, Were quite fit for this use. IMPOSITIONS ON THE HORSE CARS. To THE EDITOR OF THE HBRALD:—~ AS a constant reader of your paper I hope you will do me the favor to insert the following:—On Thurs- day evening { haa occasion to ride on the Belt Ratt rood cars; I got in at Fifty-ninth street and Elghtn avenue. Aiter having ridden the distance of two blocks the conauctor called for the fare, which was given him, Shortly after we had occasion to change cars and there the fare was again demanded. I toid the conductor it was already paid in the other car. He me the fare orgetow.” being accom. panied by a lady | paid the fare again, which is an outrage Which Moedy reforny REFORM of the photo- | | Menta and predictions consequently so much against the batting, it is quite | The posarble they would have won easily; but it required | hathers stepped into the waves, and they at once something beyond mere mechanical skill to win, | began to enjoy themselves to their hearts’ content. and as t.¢ Mutuals do not appear to have advanced | Under the excitement of the moment they neglected Although the game opened badly for them the | Mutes never had a finer chance of wmning than | made matters 100k rather black for | xetteinent, disposed of the Mutes | but Charhe failed to bold the ball, 1t bounding out | it he stuck to ki, hoiding it fast for | some oXtraordinary though no apparent reason | | three who happened to be together when the} i water was delightfully warm when tho to drag the rope provided jor the safety of pathers they could not be expected to win agatnst such foxy | after them, and to this neglect was partially due the antagonists as the Chicagoans, espectally when the | terrible experiéuee which followea, The party did latter were captained by the wily Jamie Wood. The | not venture out very far, but they found THE SURF so “splencid” that they jorgot all about thetr neate ings, and so, when they finally made up their minds to go ashore, they discovered that they had been driited a considerable distance north of the rope stake where they had started into the water. This “trife” gave no uneasiness to any of the party, and in twos and threes each made his or her way toward the shore as well as was poss@e under the circum- stances, the sea at the tine running very high and the presence of A STRONG UNDERTOW beginning to make itseif felt, Tne foremost of the bathers had already reached within a distance of thirty feet from tne shore when of a sudden the bot tom of sand undernearh their feet seemed to drop away, and in anoiher second they were floundering in the surf with the water fully a fathom deep, The fact 1s, they had walked into one of the numerous holes which the sea, beating hard upon tne soft | sand during @ gale iike that of Friday, so often | honeycombs a shallow beach, Miss Emma Tucker aud Miss s’annie Rutter were the first to FALL INTO THK TRAP, They sank for a moment out of sight, and on com. ing to the surface screamed tor rs Ther cries attracted the attention of Mr. Gilhooly, who was In shailow water a short distance from them, and he at once rushed to their aswsiance, The moment ne | reach a ber side Mis d going down & sec- ond tine, threw her a out him, and clutched him so closely that he was unable to strike for the shore, and tue three ~Miss Ruiier having hoid of him also— SANK BENEATH THE WAVES. GNhooly managed on coming to the surface to get Nis arms tree, and telling the two girls to cling to hum, made a dash for the shore. It was @ hard tug, Dut the tide fortunately was beginning to flood, and he finally succeeded in ding his charges on the dry beach sately, though more dead than alive, Al- Most at the same tle that this SIRUUGLE POR LIV began the other bathe striking ont right and leit lor the shore, they too having got into one of the storin traps, So intent was each two or goo beyond their depth that the cries of alarm of the others who were in twos and threes, and who were in like danger, were unheeded by them. Mr. Brophy, like Mr. Gilnooly, nad a terrible struggle of it, not only to save himsell, but the ladies who happenefl to be near when they got into the holes in the sand. He §) his sister Katie with & firm grip with one hand, while Miss Hattie Rutter, Miss beatty, Miss O'Hara and Miss Lizzie Garland clung to him—cach clinging to whatever part of his bathing dress they couid get hot of—with A GRASP OF DEATH. To swim, under the ctrcumstances, was an impos- sibiitty, and the whole party were again and again carried down by the waves, By plunging forward, the best way he could, and every shore-bound wave tnat © throwing bimsclf forward on its crest, Mr. Brophy, With bis load, utterly exhausted, at last reached THE SHALLOW WATER, Miss McCallum and Mrs. Rowley had a very nares. Tow escape of it, too, Utcerly helpless, beyond their depth, and pulled downward and further away from the shallow water by every wave that receded irom the beach after it had struck, they would have cere taimy been lost but that Mr. Josepn Fox, lackily an expert swimmer, discovered them im time. When ; he reached them they had already been carried away quite a distance from the line of the stake; but he battled his way THROUGH THE BREAKERS DETERMINEDLY, of the ladies holding with one and to his and was fortunate enough to get taem ashore safe! Mr. Hatileld ane his sister had alike expe- eacn baci rience to the others, Toanks to the efforts or the | former, and the assistance the others gave him when the danger they were In was discovered, mey both reached the shore in hehe but not until they had become almost helpiess. Horace Kutter, a youngster about nine years of age, who was on shore at the time, had presence of mind enough, tt shouid be mentioned, when he finality discovered the peril of the bathers, to throw the rope out so that those struggziing in the water were able to reach it and pall theniseives in out of the breakers once they oad ot Out Of the deep water. A WARNING, The escape of the pariy was little less th: mira- culous. it Seems quite impossible at first bidsn to conceive how out of sixteen persons straggling mm twos, and even in fours and fives, in deep water, the fema'es clinging to the men regardiess in some in- stances Of ali consequence of how they clung to them, there was not oue lost, [lad the three men of the party who saved the ladies from drownlug not had (heir presences of mind about them and kept perfectiy cool during the brief but terrible siraggle for life that all experienced, the result might have been a very sad one for more than one family. ‘The strangest thing sbour the affair ts that as eacn lithe party Of twos and threes got to the shore it for the rst Lime learned thatit was not the only one. Just “OUT OF THE JAWS OF DEATH,” showing how forgetful of aught else about them but their own danger euch party was in ks batuimng against destruction, Tie narrow escape of tesa ) bathers showld TEACH A LESSON to all seaside resoriers, and that 18 never to bathe from any portion of @ beach the “vottom” formas ton of which is not Known to them, and always to have a rope handy whether they lke or not to bathe without one. It may be a littie irksome at umes to have to walk a short distance betore reaching that aan of @ beach which is Known to be sale rather ‘han to take one’s chance near by one’s dressing house, where the beacli is a mystery to everybody, though very attractive on the surface; but 10 will always be found the safest in the long run to take no such chances, If this Shark Kiver party had only takea the trouble to bathe on Saturday where they always were wont to they would have encountered no danger. Itis to be jloped the ordeal they have gone through will be of service to others as well ay to themselves. THE ” “LOST CAU Alexander ii, Stephens’ Prophecies in 1862. To rue Eprrok or rae UeraLp;— I read in your paper of yesterday an article en titied “The Lost Cause,” “Startliug Manifesto from the Southern Association,” which ts attributed to the pen of Mr. Alexander fi. Stephens, of Georgia, ‘This article, alter setting forth a demand of the | Southern States tor independence, concludes with these words, which are prin “The indepgndence of the prosperity and liberty of the North are inseparabiy linked together, Without the latter is conceded tie former wil svon be forever lust.’ Let me call your atiention to a manifesto tasued by this “distinguished Southern statesman” un August, 1862, 11 which he made the following states im language strong aad in capital tetters:— th, and the peace, forcibie as at present Moat of the wealth of the Norton comes from ms. # © * New York t# brick and mortar, nowkiog else; If the war Inate At will be wo better than the arid plains of Babylon; Mg their wealth comes froin the two lundred and nf fons th of Egypt comes Crom the depouyte * ‘Steam is powerful; but cotton is more Forty thousand seamen are employed ip the * ¢ * Darius ied 000 troops against the Gi their hosts and put the the ileld, © * * No people otive capital as the South. cotton are worth $200,000,0 ¥ chauge or revolution ia the North Ushould not wonder if in three years Lincolu aad his Cabinet carne to the gulliotine or tue gallows. As the war did last, and New York, instead of es, Eleveo thousand met 0 60,00 dead upon have such a being brick and mortar and noth else, cuatains several structures of stone, iron even marble, and does not resemble tne arid piaims of Babylon, but is neither a desert depopulated nor like pt without the Nile; as three years have passed ‘over and neither Mr. Lincoln nor his Cabinet caine to the guillotine or the gallows, have we any reason to conclude (without some turther evidence than is furnished by the “startliug manifesto”) that the North will be forever lost aniess {t concedes inde- pendence to the south? A DEMOCRAT. NEW JERSEY SPORTS, A foot race of one mile, for $50 to the first and $18 to the second man, took place in Trenton yesterday afternoon, on the Central Agricultural Fair Ground ‘Track, between William Preston, of Paterson: Joba Bradley aad thomas Tureli, of irenton, The race Jor some distance was an exciting one, bat Prestou wou Bradiey was second; Turell mowhere,