The New York Herald Newspaper, July 7, 1872, Page 3

What Voyageurs to Europe May Reasonably Expect and Dread, A LAMENTABLE LACK OF BOATS. Steamers Unrated and Badly Furnished Carrying Too Many Passengers and Therefore Exposed to Disaster. THE EXODUS TO EUROPE YESTERDAY, Facts and Figures Worthy the Attention of Those Who Have Not Seen the Geysers and the Yosemite, Citizens dissatisfied with the present administra- tion, and who make their party attacks a cover for enslaugkgs on our system of government, fre- quently avail themselves of certain indisputable, but explainable facts, to give point to their argu- ments. The most potent and weighty of these are cornered by the statement that Americans never Jove their country 60 much as-when they leave it ona summer trip. Though manifestly fallacious, this argument has some weight. It is a very truth that our people yearly pay to Europeans, whose Jawa, customs, manners and habits, their scenery ‘and their galleries they go abroad to study, an enormous amount of money. Every steamer leav- ing our ehores for France, Germany or England carries out specie that is never returned. America bleeds that Europe may fatten and pros- per. Nearly 8 million of Americans are at this ‘moment in Europe, or on their way there, and if we estimate the expenditure of each outgoing pas- senger on the average at $500—a very low estimate, indeed—we have presented to us the startling fact * AMERICA CONTRIBUTES TO EUROPE YEARLY the vast sum of $50,000,000. This is undoubtedly a grievance, one hurtfal to the nation and greatly to be deplored. But it cannot be helped. Americans can now, and it is to be hoped always may, go where they like, and when they like, returning at their pleasure. But while the laws of the United States do not restrict this hurtful annual exodus of our wealthy people from our shores it concerns us to observe tha® their safety while crossing the Atlantic. is not adaquately provided for. Water is a treacherous element, and is ut- terly without principle in its dealings with fragile ships, People pack their trunks, drive to the docks of their favorite company, and go aboard their favorite transatlantic steamer without once considering the risk they run. So accustomed are they to easy and pleasant voyages they don’t pause to consider why ships of iron, manned by hearts of oak, have so often disappearea from the face of the waters, and were never heard of more. THE EXODUS YESTERDAY. Yeaterday, at high tide, six first class steamers left this port for Europe. They were the Main, of the Bremen line, the Abyssinia, of the Cunard line, ‘the California, of the Anchor line, the City of Ant- ‘werp and the City of Limerick, of the Inman line, and the Baltic, of the White Star line of European steamers. The following were the number of pas- 786 780 These six steamers carry the English flag, and are mot amenable to American laws or regulations. If they were, Perhaps, they would not be allowed to run at all. Under the iaws of England and the reg- ulations of the Board of Trade each passenger ship is expected to carry boats in :numbers pro- rtionate to the tonnage of the vessel, er rate and carrying capacity. The laws of the United ates, strict in words but lax in application, need not be quoted here, for they have no torce, These English ships habitually vio- late the law. A fact well known to our marine re- rters. They carry moré passengers than they Eve a right to carry, proper provision is not made for the steerage passengers, and Providence is ex- pected to make upin care for the neglect of the owners of the vessels. So, inthe same way, Provi- dence is insulted by the jury of pd opinion when, as in the case of the City of Boston, a ver- dict of “the visitation of God,” &c., is returned, and no inquiry is made as to THE MEANS FOR SAVING LIFR on board the ill-fated ship when she left port on her ‘voyage. Now, by English Jaw, each steamship of the car- tying capacity of the Main, Abyssinia, California, City of Antwerp and City of Limerick is com- elled to carry elght boats. The writer failed to scover where the Baltic, a much larger ship, had more when leaving port yesterday afternoon. Per- haps she bad as many as the law required. Suppose she had ten, What of it? Let us examine the fig- ures and comment on the facts. The Main took out 252 passengers and had eight boats; with the same number of boats of the same regulation size the Abyssinia had 252 passengers, the California 242, \the City of Antwerp 240, the City of Lim- erick 160, the Baltic 320. None of the boats of either of these ships is capable of holding safely, in a seaway, more than fifteen or twenty persons withont Imminent danger of being swamped. In ease of wreck, a leak or collision, what would be the result on board the Main, for instance * With forty-five to filty of a crew, incinding oflicers, and 262 passengers (118 of them steerage), making in fall 302 souls, there would be an uncertain means of escape for say 160 souls, What would become of the rest? They would have to stand by the ship and go down. In case of the Baltic the conditions would be little better, for the proportion of boats Vo passengers is about the same. SHIPS RATED AND NOT RATED. It is well worth the consideration of those 0 go down to the sea in ships of this id and play shuffleboard in great waters tit the ships of all the lines except thé Anchor. are not “rated.” Being rated means beg responsible ina certain sense. If a ship is rat\ at Lioyds’ and meets with an accident throlgh defective machinery, mismanagement, lack . of bdts, ignorance of officers or from whatever gauseghe is liable to lose a pee and be classed below \er proper position. This has long since been discov by the transatlantic steamship compa- nies, the result ia that all of the Atlantic steam- ships arenot rated at all, except, as already stated, the Anchy line. These last are rated second class. In formet'years the form of classification for sea- going steayships was “al AT LWOYD'S” for 80 Manyyears, or A2, as the case might be; but ‘that systemwas not found to work by the Board of Trade, and wen Lioyds' objected to it. Then the classificationwas altered, Vessels that were duly examined properly certified as capable of carryii r8 and merchandise were classi- ‘ded as follows Tippecan’y 4 and Horace Greeley }, Even this did mt give satisfaction, and another change was made The several classes of steain- Se. were given \nder a new designation, as fol- WB First, Third, A A Second. A ) 100, 0, 80. ‘The ships of the Aichor line stand about nincty, as the writer is ijformed. In all probability the ‘vessels running on fe other lines would not rate a ones, if they {lid rate and register. In all cases there seems tqbe a lamentable lack of confi- dence in their mers on the part of the re- ose compantesiand a keen desire to keep bmg? Lage a wd prying we of reporters of jot avail in tl 8 mi ll alcove I she least, as they er an exhaustlv{—in more senses than onc— examination of the| steamers that left our port yesterday for Europp, the writer called upon one ‘of the most eminent merchants of onr city—n gentleman thoroughit versed in the suippiny tusi- Ress of New York. jing asked what he thought of the means for the preservation of life on board the transatlantic steamers he readily replied, and the following conversation occurred :— cai as @ merchant, and as one fully un- derstanding the passenger traMc REN THE RUROPEAN AND OUR PORTS, you do La think the bn that of boats on board the Steamers suilicient 1” “Ido not, sir. But it is a diMcult matter to de- ‘cide what number of boats should be carried by a wi scugrers, viously eight boats would vy as neny ‘whe could carry, and probably that number would be enough. But see, That same stegmer returning from Hamburg, Bremen or L 1 may bring out 1,000 people— men, women and ¢hildren, The eight boars she is required to have totally inadequate in case of a collision, a@ rap against a foating ice- Derg of ® wreck, uvon “~ coust, The cavin pas- ( THB ONLY WAY TO Do IT, “There is only one way to do it—compel, by law, Lee passages ships to carry lewer passengers and re be ie “But if Cee carried fewer passengers and more ts could they make their business pi re ‘ CUnhamrned yen ne leave worene very cel carry 750 passengers tha’ pi a bring out 1,000 people. How they do it I don’t know. It is clear, though, that the in- spears on the other side must be heavily feed, for the English laws are exceedingly strict.” “Would uot an international treaty or contract providing for the better government of the pas- Senger and emigrant trailic work a beneficial change, in your opinion ° “Ithink it would, if properly drawn up. The steamship interest 1s powerful, however, and it would take a pull, astrong pull and a pull altogether to eradicate the existing evils and make life secure (as li’e can be secure) on the Atlantic. We haven't yet got to the millennium.” ‘THE PITH OF THE MATTER. The above conversation contains the pith of the matter. Whether the lives of passengers shall longer be e: to the vagaries of commanders of mat the whims of company agents and un- controlled, irresponsible management remains for this government and those at the other side to say. It is pretty certain that something should be done, SF lone quickly, to make ocean travel reasonably MALPRACTICE MURDERS. Horrible Developments in Westchester County. - A Mother and Child Tortured to Death—An Awfal Story of Human Butchery—What a Heartless Physician Did for “a Bad Case’”—Another Matter for the Grand Jury. A most revolting case of midwifery malpractice, through which the lives of a mother and child have been inhumanly sacrificed, has just come to light at Morrisania, Westchester county; and although the soll of Bensonia Cemetery has already closed over the dreadful work of the would-be accoucheur, it is not improbable that, ere many hours have passed, the ghastly job will be brought face to face with its perpetrator. It appears that a woman named Bridget Erd- mond, the wife of a German laborer living on the corner of Washington avenue and Waverley street, Melrose, died, as was supposed by the neighbors, in child-birth, on the 8d instant, and although a cer- tifleate of burial, setting forth that death had been occasioned by metroperitonitis, had been granted by one of the physicians in at- tendance, the husband of the deceased requested Dr. N. K. Freeman, of West Farms, to make a post-mortem examination of the body. This resuited in the discovery that the uterus was shockingly ruptured, A JAGGED APERTURE of suMicient dimensions to admit a man’s closed hand presenting itself, Although aware that a certificate of burial had been granted by Dr. Mcellroy, the Health Officer, (who was called at the eleventh hour to relieve the dying woman) Dr. Freeman at once notified Coroner Mecks, who, for some reason, did not arrive until next day, when the funeral of mother and child was on its way to the cemetery. Seeing the melancholy state of affairs, and having satisfied himeelf that a burial permit had been granted, the Coroner took no further steps in the matter. Yesterday a HERALD representative waited on Dr. Mcliroy in relation to the case, and received from him the dhe 3 td which were given in a frank, unhesitating manner :— A SICKENING STORY. Shortly before noon on the ist inst., he was called on to attend to Mrs. Erdmond, and on Ltr. to the house found the patient much rostrated, but apparently suffering little pain. Having learned from the women in attendance that a midwife named Brown, who lives on Washington avenue, near Prospect street, had spent several hours while attempting to de- liver the patient, he proceeded to examine the latter, and found that the uterus had been rup- tured and that the child was lying in the cavity of the abdomen. Kuowing at once that death must ensue, at least to the mother, he called the female attendants aside and informed them that it was his duty to both mother and child to deliver the woman, and this he would only per- form with the assistance of another physician, as INSTRUMENTS .AND CHLOROFORM would both have to be employed. Having waited about twenty minutes, momentarily expecting the husband's return, ir. Mcllroy set off him- self and in @ short time brought with him the desired assistance. Soon afterwards, and with the agencies indicated, a fully developed male child was brought into the world, on which, however, its eyes never opened, as death had evi- dently taken place from the horrible treatment which the mother had received. The patient was made as comfortable as possible with ano- dynes, and for a time she appeared to be rallying. Dr. Mcllroy subsequently saw her every few hours, until ten o'clock on the even- ing of the 2d instant, and did all that his-skill and experience could prompt to relieve her agony. She lingered until about five o’ciock on the morn- ing of the 3d instant, and died, after ENDURING INEXPRESSIBLE SUPFERING. The Doctor also stated that on returning to the sick chamber with the assistant before alluded to he found another woman added to the number already present when he left. This person, who is also termed a midwife, assured those around her that the patient was “all right,” and otherwise acted in such an unbecoming manner that he found it necessary to eject her from the room, With re- gard to giving THE BURIAL CERTIFICATE, the Doctor feels that he acted incautiously, al- though while writing it he remarked to one of his professional brethren that he would, in his official capacity, lay the matter of midwifery, asat present | phonic extensively in the town, before the joard of Health, at its next meeting. It may here be stated that the woman Brown, who remained in the apartment while the doctors were there, joined with the party who was ejected. in saying that the patient was in no danger, adding that she had taken nothing but some pow- ders. The conduct of A CERTAIN PHYSICIAN who was called in to attend to Mrs. Erdmond be- fore Dr. Mcliroy had been summoned is severely commented upon. This member of the medical profession, it appears, on sceing the condition of the tortured patient, remarked that it was “a bad case,” and Lady oe f left the house without attempt- ing to alleviate her sufferings, ‘The shocking affair has caused much indignation in the town, and especially among a portion of the medical fraternity. It is certainly a case which should command @ rigid investigation, to the end that the guilty party or parties may suffer tor the atrocious crime. THE FOURTH OF JULY PARADE. Should the National Guard be Forced to Turn Out When the Thermometer is Among the Nineties? To THe Epiror oF THE HERaLy: A well regulated militia is the security of a free State is an old maxim of our people, and surely the officers in command of @ well regulated militia ought to exert every possible means in order to in- sure comfort to the men who compose such a body, and who sacrifice time and money in the perform- ance of duties which are never fully appreciated by the people at large. A thorough oMcer will never expose his command to unnecessary suffering and hardships. If, sir,a parade such as was ordered for Independence Day by Major General Shaler is again repeated I will venture in foreteiling the speedy decline of the eMcient body of militia in this city. It has been customary of late years to order a parade for Independence Day at six o'clock | in the morning, in order that the parade shall have been concinded before the heat of the day shall have made itself felt. Yesterday's action of the Major General of the First division has been the cause of suffering and death among the members of the different organizations, The inen dropped as thick ag bees, and before the division reached the point of review a large per centage of the members of the several regiments were lorced to leave the ranks, overcome with heat. Many of our regimental armories served as hospitals for the sunstruck men of their commands, and dreary Bellevue he- came the receptacle of many an unfortunate militiaman. I recollect, sir, the jast and forcible criticiam of the HERALD on General Sanford, and his final removal, and trust—believing that lam uttering the sentiment of the members of the National Guard of this clty—that you will in give the National Guard a share of your attention, and teach those in command that the National Guard is not a body to make & waning of, Yo ws respectfully, 7 A. @ JULY 5, 187 Hee go WR ay ne a t; THE TIGER HEAD. Opening of the Americus Club House at Greenwich. s—niaanetiominneens DULNESS AND ABSENCE. Lounging and Yachting at Rocky Neck. ska i 9 THE DEPARTED GLORY. A week ago yesterday the Clnb House of the great and far-celebrated Americus Club was the scene of its annual opening for the summer season. It is now many months since the former coterie of pub- lic men who had their own will so long in the city of New York and lavished the money of its citizens upon their own pleasures resorted here during most of their leisure hours and devoted their facul- ties to the wooing of pleasure and the dissipation of ennut, The fortunes of these men have since fallen toa very low ebb—low in comparison with their former lordly sway and princely magnificence. THE CLUB'S BEGINNING, jot) % ‘The Americus Club was founded im the year 1857. It used to hold its meetings in New York, and in the summer would go to Rocky Neck and erect a big tent, in which was found ample enjoyment in the novelty of ‘camping out” in the fresh air of the Connecticut coast. A small club house was erected there in 1861, where now stands—Southern fashion—the kitchen of the present establishment. ‘This, like everything else there, is very elaborately fitted, and employs one or two Dinahs, whose skill develops some splendid viands for appetites sharpened by lounging on sea-breezy verandas or sailing on the Sound in saucy sloop yachts, The property owned by the club is probably the finest for the purpose for which it is used of any in the world, or at least in America. ROCKY NECK 1s,a low reach of land which runs out about a quarter of a mile into the Sound, parallel with another point called Brush Island. A small estuary of the sea separates this from Rocky Neck, and one of the little coves, on which is situated the boathouse, is denominated the “Chimney Cornér.”’ South of the Club House is Indian Harbor, a pretty little bay, at the head of which is seated the village of Green- wich, The shores are marked by ragged rocks, the bases of which are covered by a reddish brown sea- weed, which gives a picturesque aspect to the ir- regular sheet of water. ‘om the verandas of the Club House the view of the Sound is simply magnificent. Ten miles across the water is the shore of Long Island, dimly blue, with a white sanded beach, Captain's Island and Little Captain’s Island relieve the eye of the effect of the glittering expanse, lying just at the mouth of Indian Harbor and covered with bright green turf, Close to the Club House is TWEED'S ISLAND, a rocky bit of land, shaded by hickories, maples and elms. In its centre is a cosey white cottage, over the porch of which is emblazoned the tiger head emblem of the Americus Club. The ‘Boss’’? crew of yachtsmen resided in this fairy structure last year, but it is now empty and deserted. Be- tween the island and the shore is anchored the Ma- yy ie Tweed, a nobby little sloop with a black hull. ‘Fhe ning of the Club House a week ago was far less euthusiastic than like occasions of years gone te ‘There was no special ceremonies in honor of the event. Only about thirty of the members were jierogeeed and but few of the magnates of fallen ‘ammany who used to be among tie jolliest of the Jolly at the club's joilifications. “0Q WILLIE, WE HAVE MISSED YOU!"? Boas Tweed was not there, and the absence of his simple, good-natured face and rotund form made a chili void in all their hearts. Notwithstand- ing this, however, a show of careless gayety was made, and the day closed with one of those superb dinners for which the Americus is famous, with champagne and St. Julien in abundance. The first week of the season of the clab was rather dull because of the Lot Braneh races, which absorbed so much interest and too much pocket money. Yesterday was Saturday, and there was expected an unusual number of the members at Rocky Neck to sojourn over Sunday and enjoy a lazy “good time.” All day, however, the only persons who lounged about the verandas were Timmie Ryan and the two Vanderbeck brothers. One or two others were out on the Sound in yachts, but the breeze was so slight that their white sails never went out of sight, but hovered about in the glitter- ing sunlight near the harbor, The Boss’ little fair: craft looked like a graceful albatross. The Wil- liam M. Tweed stood out with her snowy pinions, seeming motionless in the calm, yet she sailed faster than any other vessel that wasin sight and got home ene The atmosphere was very clear and deliciously tempered, and the prettiest scene of land and water on earth was spread at the base of the masonry of the tall, graceful Club House, which might have been called a castle if it were ca built of stone. The Sound was as clear and still asa mirror, scarcely a catspaw rippling the dreamy surface, and the purple ridges in the dis- tance were clearly marked in contrast with the spotiess sails that hung so still in the azure hort: ‘The club’s domestics were lazily at. work righting some of the boats in the ‘Chimney Corner,” whistling away, and wood thrushes and robins sang at intervals in the cool, green shade of the hickories and maples that mantle Rocky Neck almost to the water's ae As the afternoon waned, and the sun, whose blazing rays were soft- ened by the haze in'the air, went slowly down, the distant vistas of land on the Long Island shore became tinged with rich roseate hues, which were refected in the tide. About six o’clock a dim white speck afar off grew into shape, and pro’ to be THE STEA FROM NEW YORK, on her way to Stamford. Drawing near to the land- ing at the Club House, she rolled the blue, glassy waters into a thousand’ dancing swells, which lapped on the mossy beach and broke the monotony of the dull flight of time with their rhythm, leaving a white track of foam behind her. Meanwhile severat members had already arrived from New York by the train, among them Coroner Schirmer, who shonted lustily between his pondrous strides as he neared the shade of the veranda. “Hello, Admiral! How you vash? It’s tam hot— more vorse dan vat it vash in Nye York.”” He was rubbing his face with a 'kerchief with great assiduity, and sat down in a wide armchair, puMing a good deal. The conversation turned upon THR ALTERED FORTUNE OF THR OLUB and its prospects in the future. Some one re- marked, “Not so many here to-day as I expected.” “Oh, yes; but there'll be more up by and by. We expect the old man, Tweed, up to-night.” He hasn't been here at ali this year.”? “We won't have 80 bef a time here this year as we did last, but it will do us as much good. The club is on a firmer footing now than ever before. With the $120,000 paid this year on our debt, reducin, it to about thirty-flve thousand dollars, we are al safe for the future.” “A LITTLE TOO MUCH FRENCH,” “Yes, yes. Forty thousand dollars spent last year for our running expenses, We won't use a third of that this year. It’s all very nice, this damned ex- a Ft but it’s a little too much French, you now. Some one, with characteristic pride in the club, narrated somewhat of its history. He denied that it had ever had anything to do with politics, but was more charitable than litical, If any of its members got in trouble or reduced in circumstances they were well taken care of, and if any of them died they were buried line princes. NEW ARRIVALS, The steamer moored in the harbor and in about five minutes three or four of the club's rowboats were seen approaching with some of the members seated in them. But in all the number the well- known and longed-for form of Tweed was not found. A fleshy member on the verandah shouted to a thin one who was rowing lustily, “Come, Charlie, now show us a nice stroke |'’ As the party landed the gong from the dining hall sounded for dinner, and a moment afterwart yachtsmen, loungers, oarsmen and all sat down to the board and discussed some well cooked viands and luscious fruits. ‘A VACANT PLACE. As the sun set the William M. Tweed rode at anchor between the shore and Tweed Island; bot William M, Tweed was not. The new arrivals embraced few of the men who had been familiar to — sight and ear as the princes of municipal politics, The great club house looked hte of empty, The grand saloon is the same as it was last ear, The portrait of William M, Tweed ia the finest in the room, In the ante-room is the case contain- ing the stuffed tiger-head which Norton the Thun- derbolt brought with him from London in 1871. The library is used @ little, but only one or two of the upper sleeping chambers, so richly fu:nished, have been occupied this season, And such is fortune, A PATAL RAILROAD ACOIDENT, MIDDLETOWN, N. Y., July 6, 1872. Charles Clinton, sixty-three years of age, and a relative of Dewitt Clinton, was struck by a train on the Midland Ratiroad last night and fatally injured. He was the inventor of the patent steam safety valve, coupling, locomotive spark catcher, flange for car wheels, car springs, incombustibie boile self-registering scales, cement and many other ory He built Harpers’ second building in New el INVASION AND EVACUATION. Departure of the British Grenadier Band and Arrival of the Prussians, OTHER BANDS EXPECTED. The Windy War in the Piping Times of Peacé. Revolutionary Reminiscences Rehearsed. pre . Patrick Salem Glimore, familiarly known as ‘Dandy Pat,” has, from the humble position of leader of the Salem Brass Band, organized by him some quarter of a century or more ago, elevated himself to & place in history by token of his onerous position of leader of the third foreign military invasion of the United States, and, in the face of piping times of peace, keeping up for three mortal weeks the windy war of pipes during and since the great Jubilee jim jam. Having bearded the British Mon in his traditional den, and bagged the famous band of Her, Britannic Majesty's Grenadier Guards, the redoubtable Pat soon sup- plied them with allies in the persons of the Ni tional Irish Band, the German Grenadier Band, the French Garde Republicaine Band, and last, but not least, the renowned little Strauss, with his Austrian artistes, Pat, how- ever, was particular in his arrangements to remind the honized Britons of the days of '76 by receiving FARA ONT LW Ve ‘YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JULY 7, 1872—TRIPLE SHEET. RACING NOTES. The first summer meeting will commence at Sara- toga on Saturday next. There will be more race horses at that place on that day than were ever be- fore congregated at any one point in this country, as many stables from the South and West did not | come on to Jerome or Monmouth Parks, The rac- ing will be grand. Longfellow and@Harry Bassett are entered for the Saratoga Cup, and there is every probability that Colonel McDaniel will start his horse against Longfellow, if for no other pur- pose than to discover whether Harry Bassett was beaten at Monmouth Park from a want of speed or @ bad temper. Five stakes have been opened by the American Jockey Club for 1873 and 1874, which will close on the 15th instant. For the fall meeting, 1873, there is the Nursery Stakes for two-year-olds, one mile, sweepstake of $50 each, play or pay, with $1,000 added, For the spring meeting, 1874, there are two Stakes, the first of whichis the Belmont Stakes, one mile and five furlongs, for three-year-olds, To the sweepstakes oY $100 each, half forfeit, $1,500 is added by the Jockey Club, and Mr. Belmont will also give a piece of plate, value $1,000, to the winner, with the condition that should his own stable win it, it will be given to the winner of the Ladies‘ Stakes at the same meeting. ‘This latter stake also closes at the same time. The Jerome Stakes, late Champion Stakes, is for the fall meeting, 1874. Thia is a sweepstakes of $100 each, half forfeit, with $1,500 gdded by the club, and $500 in plate by Mr. Leonard Jerome. The Maturity Stakes, for four-year-olds, three miles, a sweepstakes of $200 each, half forfeit, with $1,200 added, The Maryland Jockey Clock have opened the Central Stakes for two-year-olds, to be run at the fall meeting of 1878, It is a sweepstakes of $50 each, play or pay, with $500 added by the club; one mile. Entries close on 15th inst. Mr. E. Tattersall bought three colts for Mr. D. D. ‘Withers at the sale of the Middle Park yearlings, them onthe anniversary of the battle of Bunker Hill and showing them the monument, together with the spot where Warren tell. He also took them on a@ cruise about the harbor of the Hub, showing them where the three shiploads of taxed tea were dumped into the tri-mountain teacup, and also, doubtless, gently jogging their memories on the subject of 1812. Cruel but patri- otic Pat then sent them ON TO NEW YORK, with an imposing escort of two, a sort of corporal’s guard, a8 ’twere, and scarce had the echoes of qrgan and big drum ceased to reverberate through the boundless space of the big Boston barn, yclept the Coliseum, and to carom on the rafters of = its leaky roof, ere “the hearts of oak’? marched into this city with all the pomp and circumstance of red coats and reed instruments, bear skins and bas- soons, causing the streets of Manhattan to re- sound with a musical hash of “The Star-Spangled Banner” and “God Save the Queen,” chopped up with “Yankee Doodle” and “The Girl I Left Be- hind Me,” with “St. Patrick’s Day” and “Garry- owin” thrown in as flavoring extracts. But the New Yorkers, with characteristic considera- tion, refrained from throwing up old scores, like the Bostonians, and didn’t even in- vite the band to visit Bowling Green and view the site of the old-time statue of King George, which history says was scooped by the patriot fore- fathers and converted into bullets for the national defence. The Battery was suggested; but as that was the point of evacuation at the close of the Revolution it was evaded, though had it been vis- ited the nailing of the British flag to a ased pole when the last of the troops were embarking ‘would have been duly discnssed, and, in the mind’s eye, the old Scotch sailor seen climbing the slippery stick and replacing the flag with the ever victorious ridiron. In escorting the band to the Academy of jusic on Friday evening @ alight mistake was made eee b the cologsal equestrian statue of Washington in Union square, but the enthusiastic ptaudits at the concert speedily removed every un- pleasant sensation, and good will triumphed. THE DEPARTURE OF THE BAND: by the Inman_st hip City of Antwerp, at two o'clock yesterday NOs, Caused the gathering of avery large crowd at pler 45, North River, and occa- sioned considerable amusement. It had been an- nounced that they would sail by the City of Limer- ick at twelve o’clock, and by half-past eleven a congregation of about two hundred had assembled to see them off. No band appearing, however, there were, of course, a pours of hundred disap- inted persons, most of whom, however, waited r the other boat. Soon after one o'clock the members of the band came straggling down the pier by twos and threes, at intervais, and, in course of haifan hour, Lieutenant Colonel Fiuyder, the officer in charge, and Dan Godfrey, the leader, with his forty-eight musicians, were all on board. And here was another disappointment, for the band were all arrayed in the plainest of clothes, and the crowd, which had increased to about a couple of thousand, had expected to see them marched down in a body and in full uniform, with an imposing escort. Here, perhaps, the New Yorkers were re- miss, for no escort appeared, but, in pallia- tion, it may be remarked that, whatever the shortcomin; of Manhattan may have been, they did not restrict the band to a diet of New England pork and beans, Ata quarter before two o'clock the evacuating band, having taken up position on the forward part of the steamer, entertained the army of observation on the pier with @ musical pot pourri, consisting of “The Girl I Left Behind Me,” “Star-Spangled Ban- ner,” “Yankee Doodle,” “(iod Save the Queen,” “St. Patrick’s Day,” “Garryowen,” “Auld Lang Syne,” “Britannia Rules the Waves’’ and ‘Home, Sweet Home,” all of which were well rendered and loudly applauded. As the vessel eft ee a the band ogain struck up the “Star- Spangled Banner,” followed by “God Save the Queen?” asa final piece, the crowd cheering and applauding till the dulcet strains were no longer audible, THE PRUSSIAN BAND, known as the Band of the Kaiser Franz Garde Grena- adier Regiment No. 2, wearied with the pork and beans, Coliseum shower baths and contraband lager of the Hub, arrived at the Grand Central depot, in this city, at half-past six o'clock yes- terday morning. Here they were soon after captured by the Fifth regiment, Colonel Spencer commanding, and the German Landwehr Verein, commanded by Captain Otto Falk, assisted by Lieu tenants John Koerber and August Gelletin. The captors escorted the band down Fourth ana Fifth avenues to Turn Hall, on Fourth street, where they were fed on the fat of the land and the dust. removed from their throats with wine. Brief speeches were made by Colonel Spencer, Lieuten- ant Gelletin, Dr. Frank and Herr H. Saro, leader of the band and musical director of His Majesty William of Prussia. Herr Saro is a veteran in the service of the venera- ble Kaiser, who has bestowed upon his band- master the insignia of the order of the Iron Cross for particular Ltd in war, so the musician must have seen service. At the conclusion of the recep- tion the Fifth regiment, which, with its rotund Colonel, had been Lig beget, be all the glory of full uniform, including the spiked helmets, was dis- missed, and the band took a rest to get th wind, When rested they started EN ROUTE FOR JONES’ WOOD, in full uniform, escorted by the Landwehr, for the purpose of iving aconcert. At the Wood an au- dience of five or six thousand men, women and children greeted the band, which proceeded to the main pavilion and executed fhe following pro- gramme :— eir second Ouverture, “The Merry Wives of Windsor"’........ Nicolai An der schonen blauen Donau, Walzer........Joh. Strauss La belle Amazone jschhorn Grassmucken Poll : -Bousquet Onvertnre, “Egmoi 1, v. Beethoven Manzanillo, Scene aus der Oper “Afrikanerin”.Meyerbeer Am Meer, Lied. ‘ Schubert Das crste'Vellehen, Polk +H. 8aro Fantasie aus der girtvon Wieprecht Meyerbecr Nou Wien, Walzer. Jon. Strauss Thuringisches Volksiie vee, BONNER Bravour-Galopp. ve -Sohulkof The selections were given in ova style hg forty-eight members of the band, who are thus a ing tribute on New York, the entrance money to the Wood being for the benefit of the band, the pro- prietor being content with the revenue from lager, Sweitzer Kase and other little etceteras, The re- ceipts yesterday afternoon were reported at over five thousand dollars, which amount the managers expect will be quadrupled at a second concert upon the same terms this afternoon, when the children of the Juvenile Orphan Asylum have been invited by the band to be present. ‘4 THE GARDE REPUBLICAINE BAND, of Paris, are expected to arrive from the Athens of Massachusetts on Monday morning, when they will be received by the Lafayette Guard and dele- tes of the French societies of New York. The nd will give a concert at the American Institute on Thesday evening, and there now remains only to hear the Garde Republicaine, the Irish band and Strauss’ stringers in order to determine the relative musical producing qualities of the roast beef and jum pudding of Old land, the fricasseed frog, of ‘rance, the praties and mn of the Emeraid Isle, the limburger of Faderland and the pork and beans of New Engiand. PISOICULTURE. Attempt to Stock Wentern Rivers With Shad. Sr. Louts, July 6, 1872, Some two or three handred thousand young shad passed through here yesterday in charge of gentle- men who are en route to the head waters of various Weatern rivers to atock them with the fish, at the suggestion of 8. G. Baird, Commissioner of Fish- and they were shipped on the 34 inst. in the Wyo- ming from Liverpool. The colts are a chestnut by Thunderbolt, dam Killarney, by Newminster; a chestnut by Maccaroni, dam Songstress, by Chanti- cleer, and a bay colt by Crater, dam Lady Bounti- ful, by Rataplan. Manhattan Handicap Sweepstakes, one mile and a quarter; Grand National Handicap, two miles and a quarter; Champagne Stakes for two-year-olds, three quarters of a mile, to be run for at the fall meeting of 1872, at Jerome Park, are now open, and will close on the Ist of August. If the city of Paris does not grant the usual sum for the “Grand Prix," there will be no race for 1874. The race was advertised to close under this stipulation on Tuesday last, July 2. Anew breeding company 1s to be formed, shortly, onalarge scale in England, the nucleus of which will be formed by purchases of brood mares, &c., at Middle Park, in the autumn, Favonius and Jack Spigot are again matched to run over the last mile and a half of the Cesarewitch course, with £122 up, on Octoberws, THOROUGHBRED HORSES AT AUCTION, Valley Brook Stud Farm Stock Disposed Of—The Purchasers and Prices Ob- tained. The thoroughbred stock property of the late James 8. Watson, was sold by order of the adminis- trator yesterday at the Valley Brook Stud Farm, adjacent to Rutherfurd Park station, N. J. The attendance, though not large, embraced many, prominent turfmen, all of whom evinced a disposi- tion to purchase. The following list contains the prices obtained and names of the buyers :— BROOD MARES. The Gloamin’, bay mare, foaled 1856, Pyuaecres Glencoe, dain Blue Bonnet, by imported Hedgeford, with a’ bay colt foaled by Jerome Edgar, and stinted to Narragansett. F, A. Page, $285. Pasta, bay mare, foaleg 1852, by ‘Revenue, dam Emily Thomas, by Import®d Priam; stinted to Nar- ‘ansett. C, E, Mull, $250. linnie Minor, bay mare (sister to Julius), foaled in 1861, by Lexington, dam Julia, by imported Glen- coe, with a hay colt, by imported Leamington, aud stinted to Narragansett. C. E. Mull, $900. Imported L’Anglaise, bay mare, foaled in 1850, b Hobbie Noble, dam Peri, by Irish Birdcatcher, with @ bay colt by Jerome Edgar, and stinted to Narra- gansett. Dr. A. V. Conover, $2,250, Mig aye bay mare (sister to Climax), foaled in 1861, by imported Balrownie, dam Jewel, by Arab, with a brown filly by imported Leamington, anc stinted to Narragansett. Samue: Watson, $600. Jessie Dixon, chestnut mare (dam of Narragan- sett), foaled in 1860, by Arlington, dam Puss, by John Blunt, with a brown colt by imported Leam- ington, and stinted by imported Eclipse. Thomas Puryear, $3,360, Lizzie Berry, bay mare, foaled in 1859, by Lexing- ton, dam Louisa M. Berry, by American Eclipse, with a brown filly ‘by imported Leamington, and stinted to Narragansett. Thomas Puryear, $1,050. IN TRAINING. m Anglo-Saxon, bay colt, 3 years old, by Jerome Edger or Censor, dam imported L’Anglaise. John Hays, $300; without engagements. Bonnie Kate, bay filly, 3 years old, by Jerome Edger, dam Pasta. W. FE. Peet, $275. Chestnut filly, 3 years old, by Prophet, dam Jessic Dixon, W. &. Peet, $455. Henrietta, bay filly, 3 years old, by Jerome Edger, dam Minnie Minor. M. A. Littell, $400; without en- gagements. King Philip, chestnut colt (brother to Narragan- sett), 2 years old, by imported Eclipse, dam Jessie Dixon. Thomas Puryear, $3,100, Bay colt, 2 years old, by Jerome Edger, dam Min- nie Minor, by Lexington. Miles Anson, $1,860. Chestnut colt by Jerome Edger or Extr: Nannie Butler, by Lexington. F. A. Page, $375. YEARLINGS, Chestnut filly by imported Leamington, dam im- ported L’Anglaise, John Hunter, $350, Brown colt by imported Leamington, dam The Gloamin’. Mr. Bathgate, $375. filiy by Jerome Kdger, dam Pasta, W. 1. Hanford, $205. John Hunter, $225. Bay filly by Jerome Edger, dam Chignon. Mr. Bathgate, $300, ‘This maxes a list of nineteen horses sold, bringing in all $16,610, which is an average for each of $570, Beside the stock, a large ray of horse cloth- ing, saddles and bridles of English manufacture, were sold at fair prices, The terms of the sale were cash, and the auctioneer was Dr. Underwood, First on the list offered was the bay horse Jerome Edger, foaled tn 1859, a Star Davis, dam Zenobia, but he was not honored with a single bid, A $2,000 TROTTING MATCH, BUFPAL”, July 6, 1872, A match has been made for $2,000 between Ash- land Pet and J. T. Kilburn, formerly Kilburn Jim, to be trotted August 1, previous to the regular meet- ing, over the Buffalo Driving Park. The horses are evenly matched and there is already considerabic betting on the result. THE TOLEDO RACES. ToLEDo, Ohio, July 6, 1872. The last race of the Quickstep Park Meeting, which remained undecided at dark last night, was finished to-day, resulting in a victory for Pilot Temple, of Indianapolis. Six heats were trotted, Pilot Temple taking the first, fifth and sixth. Time, 2:30 4{—2::28 4 Og. A PATHER'S VENGEANCE. The Negro Who Outraged Miss La Pierre Shot While tn His Cell by the Young Lady’s Father. Norwicn, Conn., July 6, 1872. Douglass, the negro who committed an outrage on Miss La Pierre, was caught at New London yes- terday and carried to the watch house. Dr. Julian La Pierre gained admiasion to the door of the pris- oner’s cell and shot him twice, but not pan ‘The Doctor was arrested and held to bail in $15,000. As there was reason to believe that the prisoner would be lynched, he was removed to the jail with- out a preliminary examination, THE TYPOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY. The meeting of the above society which was to have been held last evening, at No. 8 Chambers street, was adjourned until the beginning of August, the number present being insufficient to form a constitutional quorum. The intended object of the society was to add certain important amend ments to the conatitution relating to increased ap- propriations in case of sickness or death. The so- ciety was 01 ‘ized on the Fourth of July, 1809, and regan completed its sixty-third year on Thu y last, In 1818 it was incorporated by an act of the Legisia- ture, In 1932 its charter was renewed for the term of fifteen years, at the expiration of which, in April, 1847, it was reo ized under the general law of the State for charitable and benevolent societies,and has now all the features of similar organizations, THE NATIONAL CELEBRATION IN HOBOKEN, ‘Tne display of freworks in honor of the auniver- sary of national independence came off last even- ing, in Hoboken, in the presence of the t crowd assembled in that city for many years. e ‘ 8 THE STRIKES. Feeling of the Men in the Difftrent Trades. OPINIONS OF . OUTSIDERS. The General Features of Affairs Yesterday. It is now beyond a reasonable doubt that the summer's strike is ended. The men have fought bravely, even when Sighting against hope, For a time now, it has been known to every person fa- miliar with the movement, whose blood and brain were not heated by the desperate conflict in which the men were engaged, that, so far as their present season are concerned, their cause was a lost one. To say this to the workmen = in the time of their excitement, was to ineur their lasting enmity. They felt sore and disappointed, and would neither accept cou- dolence nor receive advice. To tell them the truth was an insult, because the truth was unpalatable. Besides this, many of these men claimed that time would bring developements changing the whole aspect of affairs, They were remaining quiet and apparently submissive to the decrees of fate only. Money—that great motive power—would soon flow into their coffers, and then they would stand on equal terms with the manufacturers and demand the right to enjoy as well as to create, With rude but im- passioned eloquence as they told the story of their lives to one another and to the public in the halls of the unions, They tld the old story of poverty and of what the poor suffer, They painted pictures of gloom and sorrow, and now and then one, as if inspired, shrieked hopelessly for light—for educa- tion—for knowledge—tor all that renders life full of honor and glory as well as full of beauty and joy. The public listened and bid them God speed! Then from these masses, as might be expected, came forth brutal men, who insanely talked of fire, famine and blood. Demagogues, who, grasping the light of a great truth they could not comprehend, talked volubly and idiotically of “righta’’ which were in- tended to destroy allright, and of humanity in a manner which, to say the least, was not humane. ‘The great heart of the people, however, is loyal and always beats in perfect time to a progress some- times slow, but ever sure. In only one point were these men wrong. Their canse was invested with something of the grandeur of justice and right, but they refused to bow to recognized facts. They were a power struggling with a power, and in the struggle they were for the time beaten. 'Yhey failed to recognize and abide by the issue they had evoked. Numbers have datly, and for weeks past, caught glimpses of the truth, and have returned manfully to the anvil, workbench and engine, determined to make the beat of disaster and bide their time, wait- ing for a more auspicious moment, At this moment, when the men are so nearly van- quished, the Employers’ Committee put forth in- stances of aggression on the part of the workmen will only add bitterness to the cup of their defeat.. In some cases manufacturers take @ more generous course, and a prominent instance is that of the Singer Company, who, to-morrow, reopen their factory to such as choose to return to work, Ina conversation yesterday Mr. Lowe, a gentle- man long and well Known to the press, aud who thoroughly understands the operation of all branches of mec , and is in sym- pathy both with the productive imdus- vies and laboring me f the city, o made several points in connection with the strik aud the relations of capital with labor, which he illustrated by the action of the Singer Company. He spoke of their determined resistance to w: they regarded as the unjust claims of their em- ployés, They had extended commercial relations, ‘and in every part of their business they had en- sored the reputation of liberality and proepittane In paying the best rate of wages to their men from the highest to the lowest. While they had been so inflexible to the demands of their men when hos- tile and fresh in the movement, now, when’they were needy and penniless through long idleness, they ned to them the doors of their factory andasked them hack, and that when they could have ‘made them feel bitterly the eftects of defeat, With a large stock on hand, and manufactories in Eurove from which to draw supplics, they had done this, bellev- ing that the men had been misguided, and that the money they had thrown away in moments of excitement would be sorely needed by them when the cold blasts of winter came on and fuel was dear, while scanty clothing would ily protect bare little forms they loved so well. It ought to be re- membered, said Mr. Lowe, that in this case the Bay colt by Jerome Edger, dam Minnie Minor. | had been postponed on account of the sud- deb suanwe Ls Ue weptuer op Tburadpy gyening. } thelr natural Vice President of the Singer Company (who bears the same relation to their manufactur- ing interests that their President does to their commercial affairs), offered many words of advice to the men at the inception of the move- ment, saying that he regarded their interests as his own, and the President addressed to them @ con- siderate letter asking them to reconsider their first resolution and not be influenced by demagogues, but return to their labor, hn feeling as this which doubtless animates of these men, who held a meeting yesterday at Walhalla Hall and listened to speeches against which the faces at home pleaded, and who will, in the greater number, return to work to- nania Assembly Rooms yesterday the ‘Treasurer of the International Wheelwrights’ and Blacksmiths’ Union appeared from Cleveland, and the metal workers will soon be paid. ‘The President of the Amalgamated (English) Society of Engineers and Machinists has written to the HERALD to contradict a report which was ex- plamed in their rooms, several days ago, as ap error, and which, it seems, hi vas not present to hear, Itis in regard to a statement mistakenly attributed to Mr. Roachy, of the metal workers, re- ferred to some time since, and covering a point unworthy of serious mention. ‘The Howe sewing machine men are back at work with few exceptions, save in the cabinet department, the men attached to which have been refused em- ployment, The German Bight-Hour League paid out some money from their treasury yesterday to needy members. A meeting was held last evening, at No. 9 Second avenue, by the ers of the brass founders and finishers trade. It was called to consider the racticability of joining the protective and benevolent association of that guild. The men have hitherto formed an eight-hour league, but are all back at work on the ten-hour system. They, however, wish to perpetuate the union, and have hit upon an affiliation with the old benevolent organization as the best means of carrying out their obj Along discussion took place in re- ard to a late president and his resignation, which ad been handed in. It was finally received. No ‘other business of importance was transacted, THE STRIKES IN MICHIGAN. All the Mills tn the Saginaw Valley Stopped—Men and Employers Equally Determined to Hold Out. DerRorr, Mich., July 6, 1872. Scarcely a mill or salt block in the Saginaw vale ley are running to-day. The strikers held a meet- ing at Bay City to-day, which was attended by up- wards of a thousand men, and it was resolved to hold out for a reduction in the hours of work. ‘The mill owners were equally determined to accede to nothing. No riotous disposition is shown by the workmen, and no trouble is apprehended, but the mills are generally well guarde: THE LOCK HAVEN TEN-HOUR LEAGUE. Lock HAVEN, Pa., July 6, 1872. The visit of the Wilhamsport ten-hour mill men has resuited in the formation of a ten-hour league here, with R. Clending as President. Ninety-nine men joined the league last night, and this morning they paraded, 140 strong, on a strike. Shaw & Bianchard’s saw mill is stopped and all the men are ona strike for ten hours. Thomas R. Mason and Dost & Hopkins have acceded to the demand and are now running on the ten-hour system, Good order prevails. SUICIDE IN WESTCHESTER COUNTY, During the forenoon of yesterday a German named John Hammer, who has been living on Ful- ton avenue, Morrisania, Westchester county, was found dead, suspended from a rope in @ small wood- shed on his premises. Deceased was about sixty years of age, and followed the vocation of a tailor, He had of late been suffering from iliness, which, it is believed, aifected his mental faculties, The Coroner ‘was notified, but the body remained in the position it was first discovered until a late hour yesterday afternoon, THE GENTLE MURPHYS On Friday evening Michael Murphy, of 533 West Twenty-ninth street, and his better half, Mary, be- came involved in @ little unpleasantness. Michael exhibited his manhood by striking Mary a blacken- ing blow on the eye, and Mary replied with a blow of abottie on Michael’s head, inflicting @ severe scalp Wound. The active hostilities were here in- terrupted by OMicer Garland, of the Twentieth precinct, who took both to the station Pm are were taken before Justice Cox at Jefferson, esterday, and each was held in $400 bail for havior foward each other for the remainder Ved, ~ b 4 1