The New York Herald Newspaper, October 28, 1871, Page 6

The Suits Aguinst the City Peculatora—A Maddie of Law and Politics, The process issued at Albany at the suit of Aftorney General Champlain, represented by Charles O'Conor and others, against Tweed, Ingersoll, Garvey and Woodward, for the re- covery of moaeys afleged to have been fraud- utently drawn from the treasury of the city of New York, was yesterday served upon one of the defendants, Tweed, and the amount of bail required was furnished by five cilizens— Jay Gould, Bernard Kelly, Terence Farley, Benjamin Fairchild and Hugh J Hastings, of the New York Commercial Advertiser. The amount in which the bail justified was two mil- lions of dollars—the largest, we believe, ever required of a defendant in a civil suit in this State. The proceedings are taken with a view of securing the return to the city of the amounts drawn from the treasury over and above the fair estimate of the work done and supplies furnished by the contractors who are made parties to the suit, which amounts are alleged to have been corruptly and illegally divided between certain city officials, only one of whom, however, is made a defendant in the present proceedings. The suit is a civil, and not a criminal one, and will be subjected to all those delays for which the law is prover- bial. Already questions are raised as to whether any progress can be made in the action against Tweed until service of process upon the other defendants, two of whom are said to have disappeared and left no trace of their whereabouts behind them, Should this difficulty be overcome, witnesses will,. no doubt, be discovered whose testimony is of importance and whose residences are now in New Zealand, Australia or Nova Scotia, and commissions will be applied for to examine them before any further step can be taken. W YORK HERALD BKOADWAY “AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, Volume XX XVI.. AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNODN AND EVENING, GRAND OPFRA NOU! S(LEBN OGY. Matinee at LINA EDWIN’S THEATRE. No. 7M Broadway,—F REN cH Oreea—Furun De Tum, Matinee at 2. FIFTA AVENUB THEATRE, Twenty-fonrth street. — ‘Tne New Drawa or Divoxur, Matinee at Ly. corner ot Sth ay. ana 98d st— ovrMY ‘TOMINE THEATRE. Broadway,—Tim BALLET PAN: liumpry Dumpty, Matinee at 3. ST. JAMES THEATRE, Twenty-eighth sirect and Rroad- way.—Prima DoWNA FOR A NIGHT, &0, Matinee at 2. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and Lith street.— AGGRAVATING Sam—TH® NEBVODS i WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broaaway, corner 30th st. ~Parform- ances afternoon and evening—TAR OoTOROON. ACADEMY OF MUSIC. Fourteenth sirect.-Matince at LGA Dt LAMMERMOOR. Evening -LA TRAVIATA. BOOTHS THEATRE, Wast, berween Sin aad 6th ava, -~ Guy Man nreisa, 1. Matinee at 1, STADT THEATRE, Nos, 45 and 47 Bowery —OrrRa BrAagon—TOsTi.Lon, Matinee at 2. BOWRRY THEATRE, Bower Hrata—Larny HooLy Hy N{BLO'S GARDEN, Bro: Houston strecis.—OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. .—ROORERs P, &0. or rae ay, between Prince and Matinee at 2. MRS. F. 6B. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE. Divorce. PARK THEATRE, opposite City Heli, Brooklyn,-BER- THA, THR SEWING MACHINE GIKL. UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Fourteenth at. and Broad way — Ko ACT6—BUSLPSQUR, BALLET, &0. Matinee. THRATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—-Cowro Vooau 18N8, NEGNO ACTS, &C. Matinee at 2%. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTREL HAUL, ‘Tuk SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS. 588 Broadway.— BRYANTS NEW OPERA HOUSE, B31 at, betwean 6th ana Tis ave, —BRYANT'S MINGTRRLA Then it appears that other suits for TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSP, No. 201 Bowery | the same object as that embraced in Neovo Eoornrnicitiks, BURLESQUES, £0. Matinee. the Albany case have previously been STEINWAY HALL, Fourteenth astreet.- PR iS 2 biter el Lroture sy | commenced on the part of the city by the Corporation Counsel, Richard O'Gorman, at the instance of Mayor Hall, and it isa legal point how far these will debar the Attorney General from prosecuting his later litigation. It is true that the Attorney General seeks to dispose of tbe proceedings taken by the Cor- poration Counsel by the argument that they were not commenced until the day after the authorization had been given by him to Charles O'Conor to bring the suits of which this Albauy one is the pioneer; but it is alleged, on the other hand, that the facts upon which PARIS PAVILION CIRCUS, Fourieenth ween Sa and St avenucyEQuasrRiawinus go, "eee Pet SOMERVILLE.ART GALLERY, 8? Fifth Car. LUN's INDIAN CARTOONS. useeelchrdp rg AMERICAN INSTITUTE EXHIBITION, Th and Sixty-third street.—Open day and evento. Regnege TRIPLE New -Vork, Saturday, October 28, 1871 Pe con TS OF TO-DAY's @YRALD, em the actions are founded were not known to Sry ertise ments. ves he ie the Corporation Counsel sooner than to the a " Bagged: mal Arrest a . 5 wl ed; Papers, Autidavits ond Grain Attorney General and his agents or associates, ¢; Bail Bonds Filed for $2,000,000; Gornes Around the Pablo dMcea: Voce ae | aad hence that no speedier movement could have been made on the part of the city in the matter. However this may be, it is evident that the affair is resolving itself into a long, wearisome and expensive litigation, and that, win or lose, the result ts not likely to be such as the citizens expect or as the momentousness of the occasion demands. ‘The people are getting tired of reports, reso- lutions, accounts and legal complaints in con- nection with this municipal corruption busi- ness, The result of all the long stories, startliug disclosures and interminable array of figures with which we bave been satiated during the past two months is always the same; the city has been robbed of several millions of dollars and the amount bas been divided up between contractors, city officials and clerks who have beea acting as agents or go-betweens in the disgraceful transactions. One portion of the money thus corruptly ob- city Reports of the | Committee of Citizens and Board of Saper: visors—Twenty Million Dollars Stolen from the City Treasury. S—More City Frauds (Continned {rom Fourth Page)—The KosenzWwelg Trial: Continuation of the Testimony of the Woman in White—Lost at Sea—The Scaffold: Four Murderers Expi- ate Ther Crimes Upon tue Gatiows--Souih Carolina Troubles—The Pacific Coast—The Coal Regions—Texas Election. 6—Kdltorials: Leading Article, “The Suits Agaimst tae City Peculators—A Muddie of Law and Volitics''—Yachting—News from* Washing- ton—Amusement Announcements. ‘7—Prussia and Germany—The Vapacy and the Peoples—The Pope and the Lay Crowns—The English Turf—Miscellancous Telegraws—Ship- ping Intelligence—Business Notices, S—The Chicago and Forest Fire Fnnds—“Only a Brakeman"—Secretary Boutwell’s Lecture— National Insurance Conveution—Crime in Newark— cial and Commercial Keporta— Marrtages and Deaths. D—Advertisements. 10—The “Boss” Ragred (Continued Page) —Arivertizenients, 21—Brigham's Woes: The Great Mormon Tragedy and Gentile Comedy--The Courts—Perils of | from Third the iakes—The Havana Lottery—Army Intel+ : Juvenile Suicide—A Hard Case— | taiued has gone into the pockets of Hing Lo Shoot— sdvertisements, bab 5 ents. individual operators and another has = been devoted to the purchase of re- Rarrain rrom WALL Srreer.— publican votes in the State Legislature Patr is foul, and foul is fair, Lear is bull, and ball ts bear. and the bribing of republican journals in order to secure the laws that have rendered such wholesaie plunder practicable. We are called upon to publish to-day some half-dozen col- umus of reports about armories, drill rooms, pay rolls, sinecures and other abominations, together with speeches of members of the in- Toe Great SENSATION yesterday, over all | this island and the regions roand about, was the arrest of ‘‘Boss Tweed,” the ‘‘king of the Ring.” But that little matter being now set- Ued, we are ready for the Prince. vestigating committees and long legal com- plaints, aod not a line of the whole mass of words and figures adds ong, Jota fe the infor- mation already in possegsion of the public. They show that the people have been plun- dered, but this was pretty well known before, They prove that men are in power inthe mu- nicipality who are undeserving of public con- fidence; but this information can scarcely be Ur Emienoce CarpinaL ANTONELLI lies dangerously itl in Rome. We are informed by cable telegram that the “gravest appre- hensions” as to his recovery were entertained last night. The Cardinal is 22 spinent man in every sense of the word, and his loss, should he be carried of by death, will be a truly se- rious one to the Pope. T ‘ ane. fe = : looked upon in the light of a revelation, ‘i sa apace ina ae THe Tore will be | Woot they all fail to do is to point elighted to learn, by a Heraxp special tele. j ont a short and direct road by which gram from London, that there is a prospect of | the arrangement of a grand international horse race match between the English horse Sterling and the American horse Harry Bassett, The terms of the challenge—from England—are et forth in our despatch. Wiiwiam M. Evanrrs and Benjamia R, Curtis we can emerge from oar present difficulties, and this is just what the people most desire, They are not afraid of the amount of taxation that has beeu fastened upon them; New York is a rich city and can afford to siand a little plunder, If those who have stolen the people's money can be made to disgorge, well and have beon appointed counsel on the part of the | s00d, even if the whole amount recovered from the plunderers should be swallowed up United States to the Geneva Commission. & Caleb Cushing was appointed some time ago, | in law expenses and counsels fees, and not a 0 that the legal force to advise and assist Mr. | Single dollar should go back into the treasury, Justice and the sense of fair play demand that Charles Francis Adams will consist of the | three ableat lawyers on matters of interna- | restitution suould be required if it can only be tional polity to be found, probably, in the | secured, Bu: what the citizens do demand is Union. that their municipal administration shall be in Lovest hands, and that law and order shall take the place of irregularity amounting almost to anarchy. They are tired of being made the shuttlecocks to be tossed backwards and for- wards between the battledoors of office-hold- ing and office-eecking—of those who have curiched themselves with the spoils and those who are spoiling to do the same. The Legislature promises usa reform as soon as the next session shall commence. The demo- cratic party of the State has pledged itself to a definite plan of action, and the republican Franon Making Rerapy ror THe ConriN- arxoy oy War.—A Heracp special telegram from Paris makes known the important fact | that the government of the French republic contemplates a reorganization of the national army. Th undred and forty-two thousand soldiers are lo be made ready for purposes of war, Earove is apparently moving towards the clash of a general war. ‘Tue Lare Rais, we hope, have been so extensive in the area covered by them, and so liberal in quantity, that we shall hear of no members who have heretofore been in the more foreat fires in the West for some months | market will be necessitated to vote for a measure for the relief of New York. Governor to Nevertheless, we trnat that the causes of and tie means of preventing these forest fires will be among the first subjects brought to the attention of Congress and of the several State Legislatures concerned at their next meetings. come, Hoffman, who bas already proved his desire to wid the honest reformers, will be certain to sign any bill that may be passed to reorganize our municipal adioinistration, Hence it is tol- erably certain that next spring the people of New York will be afforded the opportunity to re-elect all their city officers under a charter which shall give them a concentrated, power- ful and responsible government. But the question ix, what shall we do in the interim, aud how can we more speedily rid ourselves of the semi-lawiess condition in which we are placed? It is very necessary that the Geoxnes T. Downixa, FPF. R. (tried, | roasted and stewed), the famous oysterman, having been charged with a leaning to the democrats for consideration, indignantly repudiates the allegation, and thus winds up his defence:—‘‘Brand (on the half shell) the colored man who shall give bis vote to the democratic party as traitor to his people public improvements should go ons not only and to humanity.” Downing opens like a | that the parks, the docks and the Fire Depart- Saddle Rock wad has the rich favor of @| ment, which are all ia uncontaminated hands, Aprewobury. ‘ 8. a the streets and other works in the department ruled over by Mr, Tweed should not be neglected. It is also necessary that tho Finance Department should be rescued from its present anomalous condition and made what it always ought to be, the strong arm of the ciiy government. There is only one power to which we can look for immediate aid in this direction, and that is the chfef executive officer of the city, backed by Judge Barnard in the Supreme Court, If the Mayor will appoint Andrew H. Green Comptroller he will at once put a stop to the political intrigues going on about that important department, and will get rid of a great bone of contention among the several political cliques and factions that are nibbling at the bait of city reform, and_ striving to make capital out of our municipal difficul- ties, Ifhe will, at the same time, apply to Judge Barnard to ‘‘invent a remedy” by which we can cure the evil of the Department of Public Works, he will no doubt be able to place an honest manin the position now occupied by Tweed. In fact, Mayor Hall is master of the situation, The Attorney Gene- ral, with Charles O'Conor at bis back, can only lielp us to hurl the thunderbolts of jus- tice in the future at the heads of evil-doers. The Committee of Seventy are, in the lan- guage of ward politicians, “‘played out.” The other committees have made their long re- ports, their low bows and their final exit. The Corporation Counsel is a useful adopted citizen and an eloquent Irish gentleman, but he comes into the field too late. The reform- ers, including ex-Sheriff Jemmy O'Brien, with his unsettled claim for two hundred and fifty thousand dollars against the city, are of no practical utility. The Mayor of New York should now exercise the authority vested in him by the law nd be in fact, a well as fn theory, Dar oniehae Haauive officer, Let him immediately nominate An- drew H, Green for Comptroller, and he will clear up the muddle in the Finance Department. Let him at the same time seek the aid of Judge Barnard, if necessary, to place General McClellan or some other honest, practical man at the head of the Department of Public Works, and he will at once restore confidence in the administration and vindicate popular government, Toe Cantvet Crisis mo Ausrinta.—This morning's news shows that the Cabinet crisis in Vienna still continues. The resignation of the Hohenwart Ministry has been accepted by the Emperor; but, while the name of the Chevalier Schmerling has been named as the next possible President of the Council, no new Ministry has yet been formed. The resigna- tion of Count Hohenwart is a bad blow to the decentralization policy introduced by Baron Benst after the battle of Sadowa. All this trouble has been brought about by the promise oft the Emperor to grant autonomy to Bohemia and to submit to a fresh coronation, as he did in the case of Hungary. It is really a serious crisis, Austria under the new policy was really doing well. The new policy of decen- tralization was saving her from revolution. It now remains to be seen whether Austria by going back is not committing snicide. What Hohenwart has promised to Bohemia must be done or there will be revolution. Revolution in Bohemia will fling the Sclaves into the hands of Russia, and it may mark the com- mencement of another grand European Power, Tak PourrtoaL Parties AND Faorions IN THe City.—There are several factions of the Tammany democrats, the Reform democrats, the Democratic Union party, two branches ; the German Reform democrats, the Inde- pendent German democrats, the Old Men’s Citizens’ Association, the Young Men’s Citi- | zens’ Association, the German American Citi- zens’ Association, the Conkling-Murpby repub- licans, the Fenton-Greeley republicans, the New American Reformed party, the Young Men's Municipal Reform Association, and the Fenians. the various other political organizations of the city will vote the fegular democratic or repub- liean nominations; but for the Senate and the Assembly there will be considerable cross- firing, and for our local offices such a mixture of tickets and candidates as has never been known heretofore. Yet from this very con- fusion of parties, cliques and factions we look for an orderly election, though it will doubt- less mark the practical beginning of a great political revolution on this island, Senator Witson 1x New Jgnsey.—se tor Wilson, of Massachusetts, and General Garfield, of Ohio, have gone to the assistance of | the republicans in New Jersey. They each made a ringing speech in Newark the other evening on the shining glories of the republi - can party, and the astounding and abounding | city of Rome and on the soil of France. Rosenzwely’s Defence. The defence of Rosenzweig is a startling one, His counsel brought witnesses yester- day, one of whom—Mrs, Yetta Fox—swore that sbe herself was the the woman in white whom Jane Johnson saw enter the house on the Thursday in August; another one, named Mra, Bowlsby, who swore that her daughter, Anna Martina Bowlsby, was on a visit to the Rosenzweiga in May last, and having stained her handkerchief with wine, had left it there; that it was marked A. M. Bowlsby, and the handkerchief produced in court was the same one; and one Alexander Cohen, ‘who swore that on the Saturday when the trunk was taken from Rosenzweig’s house Rosenzweig himself was attending him at his (Cohen's) house for sickness, and that he was there from twelve o'clock until two or three in the after- noon, This defence is certainly a bold one, but it leaves the facts of the identification of the body of Alice Bowlsby as the one that was taken from Rosenzweig’s house in the trank unrefuted. Rosenzweig in his defence stontly denies everything that may serve to criminate him, but as the law allowing crimi- nals to make a statement under oath in their own defence has more than once been termed a legal temptation to perjury, it is not to be wondered at that he makes the best showing possible. If, in the testimony for the defence to-day, any ad- ditional facts shall be divulged sufficient to relieve the prisoner of the charge under which he rests the whole sad story of Alice Bowlsby will have presented the most remarkable case of purely circumstantial evidence that has ever been chronicled. Vatican NeGoriations IN View oF A Pon- tirtoat Crisis.—The Heraup special tele- gram from Rome, whieh we pubsieh so-day gives evidence that the Pope rétiains uneas: in the Holy City, so near to the Italian gov- ernment, The report of His Holiness’ inten- tion to leave the capital at an early day is revived. He has almost determined, strange as it may appear, to be guided to a very con- siderable extent by the advice of Germany and England in the formation of his final resolution on the subject. Austria has come forward to take a share in the diplomacy. The Emperor Francis Joseph proposes a plan for the holding of the Church Conclave, which will assemble to consider the testamentary legacy of the Pope, outside of the The whole question is exceedingly interesting, revealing, as it does, the idea of a “new departure” on the part ef the Papacy. The subject of the divine right of kings is also affected, for the Church militant may eveo- tually accede to and use the leverage of the International, and with very extraordinary re- sults, The government instituted by St. Peter claims the enjoyment of perpetual youth, Genera Snarpr’s ProgRaMMg.—At a re- publican meeting in this city on Wednesday evening General Sharpe, after announcing that a warrant had been issued at Albany for the arrest of W. M. Tweed, said :—‘‘This is but a preliminary step toward a still greater move- ment of the entire State, which will determine that the scoundrel shall meet with justice and go tothe Penitentiary; for we are resolved that these robbers shall no longer walk the earth unimprisoned or unhanged.” This, how- ever, is only a modification of the old war song:— We'll hang Jeff Davis on a sour apple tree As We go marching on. And yet Jeffai this day is at the head of a life insurance company, and if anybody will go a thousand dollars on him Mr. Greeley will goa thonsand better, Tue “Honest Op DotoaMan” to THE On the State ticket all these and | | abominations of the democratic government of | | puzaling greater minds than bis, his soldierly New York city, which is fair game and good republican thunder, But there was one point in the Senator's speech which we would es- pecially commend to the thoughtful considera- tion of Messrs. Venton and Greeley, and it is this: —Senator Wilson, in Presidential succession, suid, ‘‘I think the republicans have made up their minds to nominate General Grant.” We think so, too, and all the world thinks #0, excepting here and there some deluded politician, who thinks his claims superior to the claims of the master of the situation, Tae Coicaco Retiee Fuxp—QowEn Vic- roria’s OonrrisutioN.—From our cable despatches this morning it will be seen that Queen Victoria has contributed ont of her own private purse two thousand five hundred doilars for the relief of the Chicago sufferers, This beats old Emperor Billy hollow. After all, the Queen does not seem so crazy as some people would beve us believe, She does not forget that though kind words are more than coronets, deeds are better than words. What about Francis Joseph in this matter, and the Czar Alexander ¢ On the whole, and we are proud to make the admission, Great Britain bas done weil in the er of this Chicago sorrow. It does seem ag if kinship meant something. Tax MorMoNS seem to have taken sudden fright, Brigham Young has left Salt Luke, but whether in actual flight is not stated, and Elder Caovon has gone to San Francisco, Sentence is to be passed upon Hawkins to-day, and great excitement is reported, especiaily should be Kept up, but that the Ceptog burgar, | gpopg the Moxmon women, reference to the | “Forg.”—The regular Democratic Convention of Brooklyn have set azide the venerable Mar- tin Kalbfleisch, and have nominated ex-Mayor Samuel S, Powell, whereupon the ‘‘honest old Dutchman” proclaims himself a candidate against the Brooklyn Ring. He is as dead set against that Ring as Andrew H. Green is against the Tammany Ring, and, in proportion to the size of the city, there is said to be more official corruption in the city of the saints over the river than there isin the awful city of sinners on this side. The National Demo- cratic Convention (so-called) of Kings county and several German organizations go for Mr. Kalbfleisch, whereby a good opening is offered for Booth, the republican candidate; so that “the honest old Dutchman” will probably suc- ceed in smashing the Brooklyn Ring. JENERAL ANDERSON, of Fort Sumter fame, diedin Nice on Tburaday. With his death perishes all that is mortal of one of the beat representatives of the Union element among the Southern born West Pointers. At the very first outbreak of war, when the question of dniy to a State or the whole conntry was instinct pointed out to him the right line of duty. His name will always live as that of the hero of Fort Sumter, not so much on ac- ; count of any stubborn defence of the Charles- ton stronghold as for the promptness with which he chose to defend his country’s flag against the treason of his own section, Tag INVISIBLE Princk.—Wby comes he not? Can it be that contrary winds have driven bim from his course to ‘the vexed Bermoothes” or the island of Cuba, Or is the imperial sgnadron composed of steamers that make only forty miles a day? We can’t tell; but we expect the signal every moment announcing the imperial fleet in the offing; but if it does not appear within a day or two we think our own squadron should be sent out on an exploring expedition for the Prince. Slow ships, head winds and heavy fogs are, no doubt, the causes of his detention on the bigh beas, Tae Governor's ProoLaMation of Thanks- giving was incorrectly transmitted by the Associated Press, A Scriptural quotation was given as part of a sentence to which it did not belong, and thus rendered # very charitable idea in somewhat doubtful words. We know this is not the Governor's usual way and are glad to make the needed correction, NAVAL INTELLIGENCE, Pasyed Assisiant Surgeon W. 8 Bowen has been ordered to the New York Navy Yard. Surgeon Delavan Bloodgood kas been detached from big J ont and ordered on spect Fea ee ne eased ‘Aasisiant bay | Db MoMurtrie has been detached from the New York ear Yard ana ordered 69 (he recelving alilp Vor~ wal NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1871.—TRIPLE SHEET, YACHTING. Match Race Between the Daunt- less and the Dreadnaught, The Dreadnaught Defeated in au Ocean Con- test from Sandy Hock Lightship Twenty Miles and Return. ae Fine Breezes, Rain Squalis and Fine Sailing. The Sappho-Dreadnaught Contest To-Day. At last the yacht Dreadnaught, built, it will be re- membered, by the Messrs, Poillon, of Brooklyn, last spring, and since the subject of much speculation and comment among yachtsmen, has had what was desired by her commanding officer, Captain Samu. els, & private match, and she has been beaten. Since her victory in the race trom Newport for the Sappho Cup, two weeks ago, the anxiety to see ths vessel matched against one of her largest sister craft bas been widespread, and thus the owners of the Dauntless and Sappho inan- wer to an intimation that these yachts were shy of her, really to accommodate Captain Samuels, chal- lenged him to an ocean yacht race, twenty miles to windward from the Sandy Hook lightship and re- turn, which challenge was promptly accepted. Had not the Livonia series of races monopoliaed all the time of the yachting loving public for Weeks back, these contests would have sooner taken place. The Dauntless was elected first to Measure speed with the Dreadnaught, an‘ thus race was set down for Thursday, but the dirty weatner precluded the possibility of their then satling, and yesterday Muey ped agua th pan better guccesd. This match, tt will be re- Inembered, Was for a $250 cup, and tt was agreed that the Dauntiess should allow the Dread- naught double the asual time allowance under the new measurement. The morning looked anything but favoravle for the day’s contest. It rained violently and a thick fog covered river and bay until tt was thought that the sport would again suffer postponement, but, for- tunately, such was not the case, as the weather turned out to pe of the pieasant yachting Prey saving @ rain squall or two, At #IX o'clock the steamer Leon, Captain Reack, leit tne foot of Desbrosses street for Staten Isiand to com- municate with the contestants, and then, as de- signed, after arranging the few minor details of starting, to proceed twenty miles to windward as the markboat. The yachts were found lying at anchor off the Quarantine landing, and mean while the wind having shafted to the northwest, and the fog rapidly clearing away, there was but little time ia decidiy; upon the work in view. Both Commodore Bennet and Captain Samuels were anxicus to have the race sailed, and inat at once; and without delay the the favoring breeze got the Staten under starting point. Island was yachts under Way and headed The scene —_about greatly dtierent imornings of the Livonta races. stle and con- fusion, the bay being alive with immense sieam- boats and ail sorts of sailing craft, and these black with people, whtle on shore and in every place of view and vantage were multitudes watching each movement of the antagonists, and the hum of eager expectation that arose from the great concourse told of the Interest taken in the struggles. Yesterday, however, there were peace and quietness all aroun. Calmness reigned supreme. No sore-throaied whistles nor music on for the breeze from the rippling waters greeted tne favorites of the day. These demonstrations were not required, happily, to insure the success of the amusement. inthe run down to the lightship the Dreadnaught for a while led the Dauntiesa, as she Jeft her ancuor: several minutes luter, but after the buoy in the Swash Channel was passed, tie wind freshening, the latter began to pick her up, aud ¢o the starting point beat her fully a mile. steam. er Leon, having on board Captain Sam Greenwood, of the Sappho, as judge, now communicated with the a, and it was decided that Jimmy, the mate ot the Lightship, should take the time of 2ach boat as they passed on their nying start, and also the time of thelr arrival. he wind during the ron down had been haaling to the southward and westward, and when all was in preparation tor the send-off the course agreed upon was east-northeast, in which direction the Leon was ordered to steam the required distance of twenty miles, @2d take up a position of Jones’ Iniet, Then the competing yachts made ready their toilets of battle, the Dreadnaug!! stan to the southward and eastward to effect this and the Dauntiess to the westward. Neither seemed anxious to take the lead in crossing the line, and for « While they manceavred until the Dauntless came about, aad with everything uliing fairly went away on her mission on he port tack. Just before this another rain squall came on, rendering the trip anything but pleasant in its anticipation. The Dreadnaught seelng her antagonist on the way soon foliowed ler example. lioon topsails were the order of the day, and really, notwithstanding the disagreeable nature of the weather, the start was {nil of interest, the contestants Jooking grandiy in CROSSING THE LIN ue M.S HOM, & Danniless.....466613 52 40 Dreadnaught....... Lo BO Now the race began in earnest, with the course east northeast, Wind west southwest, a good breeze and the tde ebb, It was evident that tf any of tue Dreadnaught's crew expected that she would soon overhaul the Dauntless they were doomed to disap- pomtment, and as the breeze couttnued fresh the latter gradually opened the gap, every mile getting away froin her antagonist in a manner that must have been peculiarly gratifying to her owner. Nothing of an exciting character occurred in the ron down, excepting that the tack block of the main gaffsail was almost rendered useless by the eye of the iron band being carried away. For te last two miles on tus tack the yachts were wing and wing. At five minates past two they were sighted from the mark boat then at anchor at the point designated, and at fifteen minutes past two, with au eight-knot breeze, they came bowling dowa with their gafmftopsatis set and thelr booms on the starboard side. The wind was sttil freshen. ing, and it was Apparent that the Daunticss was doing splendidly, At 2:45 the Dauntless, then being about three hundred yards froin the mark boat, set her fore gafitopsail, and at this time It was still raining, and the swell of the sea very disagreeaole. The yachts were vot restricted as to the Mauner of best and the Dauntless passed it from south to north, leaving it on the port hand, At the time of her turning, the Dreadnaught was Tully two miles @nd @ bale astern. TURNING THB MARK BOAT. ae WM, & Dauntk 48° 8 Dreadnaugit........8° 08° 80 After a0 ng the Dauntiess w about and filled away to the southward and westward. At she vook in her big balioon topsail and set the Dauntless Went avout on the starboard tack and the Dreadnaught, slanting south hali-west at this time, Was gaining upon the Dauntless, put this the former, Now clouds broke ant the { son opened on Neptune with its fair, bright heams and made the aspect tore cheerful, At 3:32 the Dauntiess was on the Dreadnaugh how one and a half mile nearer than at the floating beacon at the end of the course, At this hour te | wind was rapidly veering to ve northward; at tbere was a fine breeze from the northwest; at it was evident that the Dauntless was steadily h reaching on her antagonist; at 4 the wind mod. erated somewhat, when the Dreadnaught pluckily held her own; at 4:07 the latter set her small matn- | | | topmast staysallt at 4:55 hoth boats were on the | starboard tack, and pointing equally, well; at 4:40 the Dreadnaught set her jth topsail” and shortly alter the Dauntiess foiewed the example: at | the later Went about to te northward, and one minute later again to the westward, standing for the lightship, which she passed im gailant style to the windward, as agreed upon, the Dreadnaught being fully three miles astern. At 6:08 the Dreadnaught took tn her jib-topsail, and at sent domn fer aTLOpsail, aNd at 6:26 went about to the norht- Captain Samuels, fading his yacht veaton, 1 pass the hentship to the wintward, and her could noi be taken as desired, but it was re- corded 8 she Was abreast ot it to Uhe leewar The following gives tha other time o. intere Hime ry arrival Time ol face, WM 8 MM, & Danntless........ 7 Ww 44 20 Dreadnaught. cleecsceces 5 98 OD 438 Thns, with the full allowance dug to the Dread- naught, the Dauniless beat her twenty minutes. After passing the ligutship the Dauntless stood on for Staten Isiand, but was aflerwards taken tn tow by the Leon, Similar courtesy was extended the Dreadnaught, pul Captain Samuels did not care to avail himsel( of it, ‘The Sappho will sall the Dread. baught to-day over the same course, or such, rather, has been the agreement, The “Cup” and Ms. Astbury. Sr, NerroNe's He Got, 26, 1871. ‘To Thy Epiror OF THE HERALD: — We, the people, tired out with this everlasting bickering about the “Cup.” Pray interpose yout kind 9D} TU WO HTT, od vermuade tem 1@ ler ones, Before the inark boat was reached | by the Dreadnaught ber jth) topsail was | taken in, Jt cannot be denied that this yacht Jooked magnificently, and more than one exclamation of “My eyes and limbs, don't she look well,” came from the crew of tne Leon as she went by them, turning the boat on the starboard hand. At 1 the Daunt- less tacked {0 the wortoward, aud at 3:14 gain was of little encouragement to the crew of | } | United States Counsel prrieeier ules make a present of {t ont and out to the tweive clube! of England, on condition that it may again be chala lenged by America. Then let us see how long them can keep it, John Bull wants it badly. He can’t Get it before the Battle of Dorking. He ts about got Ung mad enough to call it nothing but old pewter. afver all, Plainly the fun in the business is playe@ out. So let it go to our distressed A bankrupt in thts line of business, and then nave the sparta winning it back next y at the hoad of the whole English fleet. Let three or four of our yachts go over and there will be racing worth talk-. ing about. Or let Commodore Ashbury go back and fetch over a steam yacht to gail with the Sappho; only conditions, @ sail before the wind and a ten- knot breeze, and then see if ne can win the cup, TAN KNOT, WASHINGTON. Colonel Stokes’ Method of De- frauding the Treasury. Congress Made Use Of to Carry Out the Scheme of Plunder. Wu. M. Evarts Appointed American Counsel ta the Geneva Conference. WASHINGTON, Oct. 27, 18Tt. Astounding Catalogue of Crime—Systemacia, Frauds Upon the Goverament. The newly-discovered frauds upon the govern- ment, in which ex-Congressman and Supervisor: © Stokes, of Tennessee, bore a prominent part, i only one among too many illustrations of the man- ner in which the reckless military legislation of Congress, ictated and controlled by dishonest and lobbying members of the lower House, through tte Miltary Committee, has voted away since the close of the war thousands upon thousands of dollars from the Treasury in payment of persons and services that have no existence except in the um, frath{ul and cunningly-worded preambles .gtftnese 80, called private acts and resolutions. The recent acts of Congress of this kmd are the vehioles o* fraud and deception 19 an plarming exten Hag « not been owing to the possibility of icon this kind the Stokes case would not have occurred, as ts evident from a glance at the legislation upow which the fraud was founded. Private act nw 96, passed July 14, 1870, having perempt- orily declared, upon = no other authority than {ts own tetms, that @ certain David Beaty, of Tennessee, did, at a particular date carly” inthe war, organize a company of scouts, num- bering exactly 102 men, which was continuously engaged tii the end of the war in suppressing the rebellion under the orders of the commanding om- cers of the United States in Tennessee, without ever being mustered into the service or having been paid a cent of compensation, proceeds to recognize and declare Captain Beaty’s company aa a part of the army, and as peremplortly directs that they receive the pay, allowances apd pensions of cavalry regularly mustered in on proof of active sexvice. But as this latter provision wag only introduced to hoodwink any legislative eye which might be on the alert, and would have cer- tainly defeated the end in view when the proof of service was required by the War Department, an- oiber proviso deciares the proof of service to bea roll ot the company, to be made up five years after the close of the war. Ta make this roll eifective for atl the swindlers it was only required that it should be sworn to by the officer s, who were to be the largest shavers of such part of the spoils as Stokes and his coniederates had not already allotted to themselves. ‘To determine the amount to be paid to each soldier, as the act designates these men in buckram, tt was only necessary to file his purported afidavit of the time he had served. Surprising a@ it will be to atl outside the govornment bureaus to see on what easy terms no less than $111,029 can be drawn from the Treasury, this act ts but an average sample of @ great many similar en- actunents varied in terms, numbers, names, localt- tics and amounts to divert suspicion, that have been rushed through successive Congresses, eape- efaly through those of which Stokes was a mem- ber, against all reasonable probability, the record evidence of the Adjutant General’s office and the cartes protests of the War Department, War Departni Jas again and again deciared in the strongest vermis that could properly he addressed to Congress that it vad bes !avosted, by general lawa, of even injurious liberality, with ample authority to compensate according t his merits every man who had ren- dered any actual military service, and that by the special acts passel at every Session, In «disregard of ita reports aad often with- out its knowleage, every distinctlon between those who had been under arms and those who had never borne them at all was being effaced, anda broad and tuviting thoroughfare opened to any unscrupue lous adventurer who chose to force himself betors Congress with a fictitious or exaggerated deciara- tion of unpaid services during the war. The Case of the Stenmer Horuet. Sefior Roberts, the Spanish Minister, is expected here to-morrow to confer with the Secretary of State in regard to the case of the Hornet. The Hay- Ulen Minister protests against further delay, as hia government 1s tired of tne vexations presence of the suspected vessel in their harbor at Port aw Prince, Hornet is an American vessel, and if so, what steps are necessary to protect her against seizure. Should it be determined by the Secretary of State that the Hornet is entitied to the protection of the United States, The Spanish Minister will be aavised of the fact, and respectfully requested to communicate the intelligence to his government, that further at tempts at seizure may cease. If her nationality ts questionable, the Haytlen Minister will com- municate this fact to hia government, and the Hornet will be ordered to leave Haytien waters at once. The question to be decided is & knotty one, involving the duty of the government toward American vessels sailing under proper papers to engage in carrying arms and munitions of war to the Insurrectionary enemies of another Power, and our responsibility to Spatn for the in+ fraction of our own neutrality Jawa, The trouble i4 between our principles and our practice, and as we are anxious to pro- tect the Hornet we can only do it by | telling Spain thatif an American vessel ts found supplying arms to the insurgents in Cuba there cam be no cantare alter the offending vessel has escaped to neuiral waters and put herself under the protec- tion of the American navy. Ke'ore the Geneva Conference. William M. Evarts, late Attorney General, aad Benjarain RK. Curtis, late a Justice of the Supreme Court, have been appointed counsel for the United — States before che tribunal to meet tn Geneva on the “Alabama question.” Mr. Evarts accepts the ap- pointmenut, Judge Curtis Is expected home from Burope within a fow days and the appointmen’ awaits hig return. Mr. Cushing, of Massachusetts, and Mr. Meredith, of Pennsylvania, had previously been appointed; Mr. Cushing has accepted the ap- pointment, and Mr. Meredith has declined, fromy joabtlity, as it is understood, to make the sea voyage at au inciement season of the year. It te expected that Judge Curtis will accept, in which cage the government will be represented before the triounal by Mesars, Cushing, Hvarts and Ourtis, Personal Intelligence. Secretary Boutweil yesterday arrived ot the Fifea Avenue. Ex-Governor William Bross, of Hliuois, i¢ dome ciled at the St. Nicholas, Cuptain Macautoy, of the steamer Caina, ie at the New York. General E. W. Rive, of Iowa, is a guest of the Bre voort. Judge Ku. Rosekrans, of Glens Falls, is ataying at the St, Nicholas, Generals Brewerton and Moody, of the United States Army, are quartered at the Coleman, Bx-Senator Kasson, of } a | Grtivals Wt We Hotmen as 3 The question to be settlea ts whether thee + 1