The New York Herald Newspaper, July 10, 1872, Page 6

8 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Seigpspeersteoe Volume XXXVII. eae AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, HEATRE, Broadway.—Scuvetper: on, TAR Ooo MET, ctttun Raina Rte Vane Wane O™ UNION SQUARE THEATRE, lth st. and Broadway.— Tas Guanp Ducness. WALLAOK'S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth streci,—Tae Last Trume Oar. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— Littee Pouxy—fn1or Witnuss, BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Tae Rogues or New Yors—Dominigux, Tux Desenrer. WOOD'S MUSEUM, away, corner Thirtieth at.— Pour, Afternoon and rs ning. HOOLEY’S OPERA HOU! Brooklyn.—Casts—Lippr Buunper. AMERICAN INSTITUTE HALL, Third av., between 63d and 64th sts.—Grawp Concent py rae Frenc BAND. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth street.—Tae Srravss Concert. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN.—Ganpen Instpumewtat Concur. . TERRACE GARDEN, 58th st.. between 3d and Loxing- ton ave.—Sommen Evenixc Concerts. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Sormmce anv Aut, DR. KAHN’S MUSEUM, No. 746 Broadway.—Art ann Sorewor. TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Wednesday, July 10, 1872, CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD. PAGE. 1—Advertisements, R—Advertisements, 3—The Presidency: National Democratic Conven- tion at Baltimore; Frantic Ethusiasm for the Chopper.of Chappaqua; The Un- territied in Council; Called to Order b: August Belmont, Who Resigns; A Grand- son of Vefferson be igo 4 hairman; Ex- Senator Doolittle, of Wisconsin, Permanent President; His Specch on Union; North and South Clasping Hands Over the Bloody Chasm of the War; It is Grant or Greeley; The Committees on Credentials, Organization and Resolutions; The New National Execu- tive Committee; The Bourbon Wasps’ Nest; The Butcher who will Chop Of the Libera! Tail; Cincinnati and Baltimore Chiming To- ether; Is it the Knell of Democracy? 4—Stokes: Belligerent Counsel Bury the Hatchet and Smoke the Pipe of Peace; Depositions Taken by the Two Commissioners Excluded; Medical’ Testimony for the Defence; The Cause of Fisk’s Death a Professional Enigma; Who Will Decide when Doctors Disagree$ The Jury; A New Phase of the Bele Ce; Stokes, Senior, of thé stand; Partlal Her- editary Insanity; The Case oe to a Olose ; Sixteenth Day of the Trial—The Strikes. S—Tenement Houses: Continuation of the HER- ALD’s Inspection Into the Dens of Filth; Hints for the Health Authorities; The Plague Spots of the aay and the Dangers the People Are Exposed To; Donovan's Lane; Reeking Filth and Wretchedness Ruining Human Life; The Abode of the Ghastly; Down Among the Chinese Opium Smokers, and in the Under- eo Haunts of the Hunted—Fleetwood | ark: Ten Thousand Persons Witness the Grand Trotting Contest; American Girl's Great Triumph; She Beats Goldsmith Maid, Luoy and Henry; Her Time the Fastest Ever Made at Fleetwood Park; 2:21, 2:1934, 2:24— Yachting—Libby Garabrant: Her Sentence Commuted to Imprisonment for Life—A Valet’s Venture—Caristadt, N. J., Burning—Midnight Stabbing Affray in Yorkville—Johann Strauss, 6—Editorials: Leading Article, “The Baltimore Convention—A Good Example for the Presa and _ Politicians "—Amusement Announcer ments, 4 %—The Privateer Pioneor: Capture of the Cuban War sel by a United States Revenue Cut- ter—News from Mexico—Cable ‘Telegrams from Uermany, Scotland, Spain and Switzer- land—Miscellaneous Telezrams—Shipping In- telligence—Business Notices. 8—Financial and Commercial: The Erle Election and the Effect in Wall Street; ‘The Stock De- | clines About Two Per Cent, but Rallies and Becomes Steady; The Closing Price 56; Svec- ulating on Horace Greeley and His Ch: at Baltimore and in November; Remarkable Relaxation in the Money Mark xplana- tion of the Flurry and Activity aionday ; ecline in How Money is Leudiag on Time; Union Pacific and Advance in South Qarolina Bonds—The Erie Election: Watson, President, aud General A. S. Diven, Vice President; Meetings of the Old and New Boards oi Di- d’Etat by the Britishers; Sketches of the New OMicers and Directors and Interviews with the Moneyed Men of the Road; The Atiantic and Great Western Interests; Report of the Retiring Board on the Operations of the Last Nine Months and the True Condition of the Company; A Plain, Unvaruished Tale. 9—The Erie Election (Continued from Eighth Page)—Peekskill Morality—Terrible Explo- sion in Jersey—Meeting of the Contract Com- missioners—Brooklyn Affairs—Houses Struck by Ligutning—Marriages and Deaths, 4O—The Presidency (Continued from Third Page)— The Bourbons in Convention; Plan for a Pure Democratic Reunion—A Presidential Con- ference: Horace Greeley and B. Gratz Brown Meet at the Lincoln Club—News from Wash- ington—Judge Prindle’s Trial—Return of the Seventh—Advertisements. 11—Interesting Proceedings in the New York and Brooklyn Courts—Tombs Police Court—The Cobb Homicide—Our Colleges: Commence- ment at Yale and Amherst Colleges—Adver- tisements. W—Advertisem First Baun or tue Campaian—The State election in Norili Carolina in August. “Tue Lirrte Env or } HING Warrriep Down Toa Very Fixe Pornz''—The, Bourbon bolt at Baltimore, Szconp Bart or roe Campaian—The State election in Maine in September. As goes the “Star in the Enst’’ in September the galaxy of States follow in November. Tump Bart or tHe Camparcn—The State election in Pennsylvania in October. The “Keystone of the Federal Arch’’ martials her forces in October for the grand Presidential eontest in November following. Amentcan Gini at Fieerwoop Panrx yester- day astonished ten thousand spectators by beating Goldsmith Maid, Lucy and Henry, in three mile heats. A good, stout heart has this American Girl, for she proved herself the fastest trotter that ever stepped on the Flect- wood track. Tue Travers Sremes.—The reports in an- other part of to-day's Heraw regarding the strikes in this city and other places show that the struggle is fast drawing to a close. only yesterday we chronicled the termina- tion of the London building trades strike, which ended in an amicable adjustment of dit- ficulties between master and workman. In New York the stone workers still hold out, and | will continue to do so as long as funds remain in the treasury of the unions; but the large de- mands of late must have made heavy inroads on these resources, The Paterson strikes may also be considered at an end, Lippe Garrappant, tre Jeusey Morverrss, has had her sentence commuted to imprison. ment for life by the Court of Pardons. It is a curious feature of this case that a report of the Court having done s0 was circulated about a week ago and reached the girl herself. This proved to be untrue, but | Jersey justice, immovable to pleading, as it | has proved itself, found it more difficult, as it wero, to recondemn the girl to the gallows than simply refuse to hear her petition. It will not, in tho result, be discreditable to New | Jersey, for the sight of a woman hanging like pbsie net @ vory civilizing ong ne ances | NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 1872—TRIPL E SH##r, The Baltimore Convention—A Good Example for the Press and the Poli- ticians. The Hzraxp special despatches from Balti- more and the account of the proceedings of the Demooratic Convention now in session in that city, published to-day, will sorve to show that the real business of the Presidential campaign is only now about to commence, and that the encounters we have heretofore witnessed have been merely the skirmishes preceding the great battle that is soon to de- cide the question of the control of the federal administration and its extensive patronage for four years to come. Up to the present time the two wings of the republican party have had the contest all to themselves, waging a civil war within their own camp between the adherents of Grant and of Greeley, the nominees of Phil- adelphia and of Cincinnati; while the democrats have held aloof in a sort of armed neutrality, debating and contending among themselves as to the most desirable disposition to be made of their forces in the approaching fight. Here and there a democratio journal has anticipated the action of the party, and entered upon the work of the campaign under the liberal republican banner; but as ageneral rule the democratic organs have been resting on their arms, awaiting the signal to be given from Bakimore before taking the field. As soon as the nominations have been made by the Democratic Convention to-day a new spirit will be infused into the campaign, and every newspaper in the country, from Maine to California, will declare for one or other of the candidates and enter with ardor into the contest. From the unanimity with which the Convention promises to accept a union with the liberal republicans it appears probable that there will be no serious defec- tion among the democratic press, and hence we may anticipate a great immediate acces- sion of newspaper strength at least to the Greeley side, and the commencement of a desperate and very doubtful struggle for the Presidential office. How far this unanimity will prevail among the masses of the democratic party, and | how great a number of individual dem- ocrats called upon to choose between two candidates, neither of whom is of their own political faith, may prefer Grant to Greeley, is a problem yet to be solved, and upon which will, no doubt, depend the résult of the November election, 0 far as the Baltimore Convention may be taken as a test of democratic senti- ment in the several States, all opposition | to the proposed union with the liberal repub- licans appears to have been abandoned, and entire harmony is said to prevail. Indeed, the descriptions of the scenes in and about the Convention given by our correspondents call to mind the old gatherings of the unter- rified before the war, and indicate such a revival in the organization as has not been witnessed since 1860. The streets of Balti- | more are gay with flags and other decorations, and filled with rejoicing and somewhat bois- terous crowds. Tho barrooms are lively with discussions and hobnobbings. The theatre in which the Convéntion holds its sessions is covered ‘with gay and saucy banners. The | names of all tho States float on pennants side by side, to tell the gratifying story of the com- plete restoration of that Union so roughly broken by secession at Charleston and rectors and Stockholders of Erle; A Coup | | Tt was | - | so long kept asunder by an unnatural war. Mottoes declaratory of the principles and sen- timents of the reunited party meet the eye in every direction, and the lists of delegates indi- cate the return to the democratic fold of men whose names were familiar sounds in the household years before the rude interruption of the rebellign, _ Still, it must not be forgot- | ten that political conventions are usually filled with professional politicians, and at this | time party ties are too loosely drawn to bind the people fast to the behests of fheir leaders. If the Democratic Convention to-day carries out | the foreshadowed programme and nominates by an almost unanimous vote the candidates of the liberal republicans it may be necessary to await the response to its action from | the several States before forming a judgment as to the concurrence of the democratic masses in its conclusions. At present, judging from the pitiable failure of the attempted straight- | out democratic movement, the chances seem to | favor a substantial union of the democracy | upon Greeley and Brown and a fair fight be- tween the two candidates already in the field. The work of the Convention yesterday was | confined to the completion of the permanent | organization, the selection of a committee on | resolutions, which is expected to report at an | early moment of to-day’s session, and | the appointment, through the several delegations, of a national committee for the next four years. It was found that not a single seat was contested in any State, and that the delegations were all full. In personnel, in the orderly character of thé proceedings, in the ability shown in the speeches, and in its directness of purpose, the | Convention has a decided advantage over those by which it has been preceded. The policy suggestions of the Blairs and others, who have | been busily engaged for two or three days | past in counselling some sort of sagacious ac- ; tion by which the Cincinnati candidates | should be” endorsed without being actually nominated by the democracy, appear to have been swept out of sight by the earnestness of | the majority of the delegates. It is evident that the movement for a union against the ad- | ministration is @ serious one on, the part of | the Gonvention, and that it is to be made in a thorough manner as a matter of principle, and not for the sake of expediency. The speeches of August Belmont and Senator Doo- little were in admirable taste, and set an exam- ple which it would be well for all the political speakers and writers to follow during the cam- paign. In both there was an entire absence of that personal abuéé that has unfortunately already manifested itself in some of the party | organs on the republican side, Mr. Belmont was particularly happy in his presentation of the issues before the country and in the expres- | sion of his views as to the duty of the democracy | in the present election. While arraigning the policy of the administration ag having kept alive the evils resulting from the war of tho rebellion long after they should have passed away and been forgotten, he did justice to General Grant as a good and faithful soldier, helped to crown the Union arms with victory, | tre asa tan whose intentions on taking the Progidential chair were good and patriotic, whose stubborn and indomitable courage had | In speaking of Horace Gresley as the probable democratic candidate, Mr. Bel- mont was in like manner truthful and temperate in his remarks. He avoided all fulsome praise of the proposed standard bearer of the party; admitted his life-long op- position to democracy and accepted him as the representative of sound constitutional princi- ples, who, by his admirable and manly letter, had shown that he was fully alive to the spirit of the Cincinnati platform, and intended, if elected, to carry out its principles in honesty and good faith. Senator Doolittle made a most stirring and effoctive political speech, but in like manner. he refrained from abuse of General Grant, and avoided any- thing more than a passing allusion to the charges brought against him by the opposi- tion organs. Such a course is in marked con- trast to those partisan journals which on the one side assail Horace Greeley as dishonest, unprincipled and incapable, and on the other sido teem with personal abuse of General Grant. Tho speeches of Mr. Belmont and Senator Doolittle will in this respect furnish models for the orators of the campaign, and it will be well for the credit of the nation if they shall be closely and universally fol- lowed. The Convention seems now to havo a clear path before it, and unless some change should unexpectedly occur in the programme it will, no doubt, fintsh up its labors to-day with the nomination of Greeley and Brown and the adoption of the Cincinnati platform as agreed upon by the Committee on Resolutions. The friends of the administration have pro- fessed an earnest desire that Greeley should be endorsed or nominated at Baltimore, and it now seems certain that their wish will be gratified. The liberal republicans have also been eager for the union now apparently se- cure, and hence we may presume that the ac- tion of the Democratic Convention will afford general satisfaction all round, if we except the select party of free traders who held the famous adjourned meeting at the Tifth Avenue Hotel, and the dozen or fifteen straight-outs who are now making themselves ridiculous somewhere in Baltimore. We shall . thus have a general rejoicing among all political circles to-night, and shall enter upon the real, active business of the Presidential contest in a good humor all round. Under these circumstances it is to be hoped that all low personal abuse will be dis- ‘continued from this date, and that we shall no longer lead foreign nations to believe, on our own shoying, that our choice for next Presi- dent lies between a knave and a fool. Capture of a Caban War Vessel. The Cuban privateer Pioneer, a detailed’ + description of which was given in the Hznanp a few days ago, has been captured by the United States revenue cutter Moccasin, off Judith Point, and conveyed to Newport, where she is now detained by order of the Secretary of the Treasury. In another column will be found an account by our Newport correspond- ent of the circumstances surrounding the seizure. In answer to the usual chal- lenge tho commander of the Pioneer showed a commission, signed by Cespedes, President of the Ouban republic. Tho com- mander” of” the’ American” cutter proceeded, however, as it was clearly his duty to do. He refused to recognize the document, took the Cuban vessel in tow and telegraphed to Secre- tary Boutwell for instructions. Our Washing. ton correspondent describes the impres- sion the news produced in official cir- cles. The general opinion appears to be that the Pioneer will have to be treated as a pirate, as the United States government has by the Treaty of Washington morally pledged itself to all the world to observe such strict neutral- ity that will not permit the release of the Cuban war vessel. The Erie Railway Election. We devote considerable of our space this morning to a record of what was done yester- day at the meeting of the stockholders of the Erie Railway, both in the matter ofa choice of @ new board of directors and officers and in the presentation of a report of the operations of the company for the past nine months. The election was a peaceful and, considering the supposed rivalry of legitimate and speculative interests, quite o tame affair. ‘There was none of the challenging and obstruction of voting that were anticipated by those who looked to see an effort made to keep the conditions of the election within the terms of the law. The con- trolling parties had been too jealous of their success to omit any detail of propriety, and so the inspectors had pretty nearly a sinecure of their important trust. It was something, of course, to see one man voting twenty-five millions and another man fifteen millions of the share capital, but in these days of big national debts and syndicates we have lost our capacity for _Yonderment at such a concentration of wealth in’ individuals, especially asin this case wo knew that McHenry was casting the vote for a syndicate of English capitalists. The election has given us for the new President of Erie an eminently American railroad man, and for Vice President a gentleman identified with the earlier and brighter history of the enterprise, Scattered through the list of directors is a sug- gestion here and there of Atlantic and Great Western influence, its extent i however, as contrasted ae ae McHenry could have exerted in making the new board. Indeed, the ticket will for this reason puzzle every one who studies it, Out- side of what is promised in the presidency, speculation is at sea_as to whether Erie is in the hands of men who will guide its fortunes solely in its own interest or whether it has fallen into those who will make it half fish and half flesh in some new combination of railroad enterprise. 5 German Hoxon to THe Cause o¥ Scrinét AND Orrizen Fraterntry.—The German na- tional monument, in honor of the memory and patriotic services of Stein, the politico. economist and statesman, was unveiled in Nassau yesterday. Emperor William, tho Empress, and Princo Frederick William, at- tended by the dignitaries of the Court, wero present. The ceremony was performed be- fore a vast assemblage of people, representing all the countries of Europe and the United States. The American Minister in Berlin was called on to sketch the life career of Stein—a vory great honor paid to our nationality, and a marked acknowledgement of our popular appreciation and diffusion of the principles of The Sanitary Condition of the Tone- ment Houses. We hope that the action of the newly-ap- pointed Sanitary Inspector, in ordering a thorough examination of the tenement houses of the city, will be followed by a vigorous ap- plication of the sanitary laws in the city. Unfortunately they are scarcely sufficient to combat successfully the evils arising from the presen system of lodging the poorer classes in overcrowded filthy rooms, where the seeds of disease and death are sown with what fatal resulta the death rate of the city shows. But though the law may be unequal to the cure of this evil, it has the power of considerably weakening its effect by insisting on the ob- servance of cleanliness within certain limits. It is a matter of regret that those who are most nearly interested in maintaining their dwellings in a healthful-condition display an amount of indifference which results from ignorance and the brutalizing influence exercised by con- stant contact with dirt and wretchedneas. It is therefore clearly the duty of those having charge of the interests of our immense popu- lation to step in and compel the inhabitants of the rookeries in which cholera and fever find a congeriial soil to grow in, to observe such sanitary regulations as may prevent the out- break of contagious diseases, Humanity would compel this even were there no danger to be apprehended but to the individuals to whose thoughtlessness and slovenly habits much of the nuisance is due. But the inter- ests of the whole population imperatively demand that the sanitary inspectors and the Health Board shall continue with untiring vigilance and vigor the good work in which they are engaged. The comparatively cleanly streets which we enjoy show conclusively that it only requires energy and directness of pur- pose on the part of the heads of the Health Department to secure an efficient discharge of duty by their subordinates. Much, however, as may be hoped from the enforcement of sanitary rules, the root of the evil lies too deep to be eradicated by anything less than a radical change in the mode of con- structing dwellings for the poor. The manner in which thousands are crowded into un- healthy dens, hid away from the public eye, is graphically described in our reports of the condition of the tenement houses yesterday and to-day. While such places as Rag Alley and Bull Run Alley and Donovan's lane are allowed to be constructed, they will be the refuge at once of the poorest and the most degraded. In such dwellings it is useless to look for cleanliness or decency. Everything in the surroundings is calculated to habituate the inhabitants to look with in- difference on the accumulation of filth, and unless some strong power intervenes they will make no effort to render healthful those homes in which they find mirrored faithfully their own mental condition, This connection of man’s habits of thought with the nature of his residence isa most important consideration for all who are interested in the future of our city. In all cases the crowded alleys and ill- ventilated, rickety homes of the poor are also the favorite haunts of the thief and the mur- derer. The immoral air of these ta of wretchedness is fatal to honesty and virtue. Orimo is the only fruit that flourishes in these dark spots of our civilization,. They. are created by the avarice of selfish men, who care nothing for the physical or moral health of those who inhabit them. This indifference to the yell peing of the, tenanta leads to. the Gonstruo- tion” of ill-lighted and __ill-ventilated houses in which the rooms are small and com- fortless. Poverty forges the most wretched of the people to live in tham, and the demoraliza- tion which almost inevitably follows makes them denizens for life, The influence of these crowded tenements on our political life is not a whit less marked or less dangerous than their influence on ‘the health of the city. Morally and physically they are pest spots that tend to poison the whole social system. In them the lowest and most corrupt of the political tribe have their strongholds, and from them issue the smashers of ballot boxes and all that legion of ruffianism so much dreaded by the honest citizens. So long as such dwellings are allowed to exist, teeming with the mingled victims of wretchedness and vice, solong will the army of ruffianism be recruited with alarming rapidity, in spite of the most rigorous enforce- ment of the law. Under our peculiar political organization the development of the tenement house system is sure to lead to the worst re- sults, unless the law steps in to secure for the poor healthful residences, where their children may grow up good citizens, free from the viciousness. which contact with thieves and rowdies never fails to produce. It is not, perhaps, advisable that the government of the city should undertake to build residences for the working classes, but it is certainly within the scope of their duty to see that no house is constructed which is likely to be un- healthy. There ought to be a law more astringent than any in existence to pro- vide against the eyils of crowding. Such a law properly enforced would do away with many of the most crying evils of the present system. Wo must destroy the Rag alleys and Donovan lanes if we would save these dens will one day issue the barbarians to make open war on socicty unless they are up- rooted in time and while the foundations of our social organization are comparatively sound. The heated term has turned the atten- tion of the public in the direction of these dark and noisome places, because the danger gf dis- ease and pestilence comes home to the minds of all. It is doubtful, however, if morally these pestilential spots ought not to be to us a source of graver inquietude. Sad News from fcotland, By telegram from Scotland we aro informod of the occurrence of a very melancholy and fatal accident in Glasgow yesterday. An explosion of steam took place in a flour mill, The shock was followed by fire, which destroyed the building. Eleven persons were burned to deoth in the ruins, and many others injured severely. A very short time since wo were called on to report the bursting of a steam engine when it was traversing, for rond-carriage purposes, a crowded thoroughfare in one of the Scotch cities, This accident was attended with exceedingly sorrowful results, a number of small children having been swept out of life by the visitation. We are pained by those recitals, The Scotch people are most citizen culightonment and gelf-government, careful, porhaps the most carofyl in Europe, society from, the pee of vice which is con- | stantly growing in’ thelr dark recesses, From in their management of the clastls motive ‘agency, steam. They also“build most excellent engines. It is difficult to’ account for the rapid recurrence of these alarniiug fatalities in their large towns, taking their exact everyday habits of careful economy into account, Per- haps their familiarity with the cause of danger breeds contempt for, or indiffererice to, its power. This should never be permitted. The giant unseen force, which has been subdued to do the work of man, must be watched by tho sleepless eye of science during the progréss of its labor. If not it will otherealize too much— just as tasked humanity attempts to do now Re ee ee burst the bonds which con- it. The Fisk Murder Trial. Tho trial of Stokes seems approaching the end of its agony, after sixteen days of jury- finding, evidence-taking and legal wrangling. The atifling atmosphere of the court seems to have no deterrent effect on the morbid crowds who throng day after day to catch the choice morsels of sensation scattered there. Yester- day's features were the medical evidence for the defence and the testimony of the father of Stokes as to hereditary insanity. The evidence: on the first point of the greatest value was that given by Dr. Oarnochan. Its strong point is that he considers the administration of opium in the case of Fisk as extremely bad practice and dangerous to the life of the patient. He did not think that recovery was impossible, but admitted the great danger of the wound. The evidence of Dr. Jacobi supported these views; that of Dr. McCready was not of much yalue to the defence, since his cross-examination revealed the fact that he had been the Deus e» machina of the medical line of examination for the defence. On this matter it may be said that lawyers in a case of this kind must ‘‘cram’’ their medical information and depend more or less on professional aid. ‘Lhe propriety of putting this “‘crammer’’ on the witness stand is, of course, another question. The superficial nature of the lawyers’ medical knowledge was rather oddly demonstrated in one of the prosecuting private counsel’s cross- examination of the doctors for the defence, He ventured into questions on the merits of certain schools of medicine, but when asked what was the particular system he alluded to in the case of Dr. Sayre admit- ted that he did not know. The witness naturally expressed the opinion that the lawyer's question meant nothing. The utmost which can be drawn from this medical evidence appears to be that the probing was dangerous, and that opium was administered injudiciously and inordinately, leaving the question of the absolute fatality of the wound resting on a very elim chance of recovery. The insanity evidence must have been pecu- liarly gratifying to the morbid audience, for it exhibited an old man, the father of tho pris- oner, in tears. His evidence establishes that Stokes’ uncle died insane and his mother’s nephew was six months in the Bloomingdale Asylum; also that Stokes himself exhibited abnormal mental excitement at the time of the quarrels with Fisk about the refinery business. It would seem from all this that the strongest fea- tures of the defence still rest on the evi- dence given beforo yesisrduy. ‘Lhe question of premeditation or accidental meeting in relation te the actual shooting, the question tf Fisk's drawing on Stokes and tho truth or untruth of the threats against and persecution of Stokes by Fisk, will probably exact deeper consideration from the fey than the points of the opium administered, the probing or the The lawyérs’ fights among themselved seemed yesterday to have been ended by the amende honorable of Mr. Tremain to one of the private counsel, but it broke forth again in the day as bit- terly as ever. Certainly the position of private counsel for the prosecution in a case of this kind is not an enviable one, since it almost invites attack. It is possible that the case for the defence will close to-day, and that the long case will be ended one way or the other before the close of the week. HOT WEATHER STILL. Ninety-five Degrees in the Shade. The weather lost nothing yesterday of its exces- Sive heat, but rather gained, the mercury rising to ninety-five degrees at three o'clock P. M., while on Monday the highest point reached was ninety-two. In the earlier en of the day the temperature was mild enough, t! onan not by any means 80 cool as to remove apprehension that the heated term was not past. During the day the atmosphere was very sultry, an oppressive sense of the heat being felt everwhere. The following record will show the changes in the temperature for the past twenty-four hours in com- Rite with the corresponding day of last year, as Hudaut's Phar- indicated by the thermometer at macy, HERALD Building:— 1871, 1872, 8076 + 88 84 a mperature yosterd: Average temperature for co! last year + 8455 Fortunately there was no case of sun stroke in the city yesterday, With the thermometer at ninety-five bay a in the shade, however, it would be premature to conclude that the death record is finished for the season. Weatherwise people were sey, Yk b ytd 3 that there ts certainly fore us a much hotter time than we have yet ex- perlenced. ages THE OFFIOIAL WEATHER REPORT, Win Daranmcesr, OFFIOB OF THE Crigr SIGNAL OFFICE Wasuinoton, D. C,, July 10—1 A. sti Probabitities, There ate indicatlons of & Serious disturbance in progress iff tne Guif southwest of Florida; south- easterly wilds with increasing cloudiness proba- bly prevail in the Middle and Eastern States on Wednesday, and tho same, with rain, in the South- ern States, as on Tuesday; southeast winds veer- {ng %6 southwest, with local storms, prevail over the lower lakes atid Ohio Vall FIRES LAST NIGNT, Ini Water Street. Abont half-past atx o'clock Tast night a fre broke out on the top floor of the Hygienic Perfumery Works of Deniker & Melville, 618 Water street, causing a damage to stock of $65,000, Fully insured in the Fireman’s Insurance Company. ‘The first floor was occupied by Isaac Allaire, coppersmith; aamage to Dutidin, st and to stock $1,500. Fully insured in the same company. The fire was caused by the explosion of chemicals. s In Seventeenth Street. A fire last night destroyed the stable of Philip & James Hynes, 610 East Seventeenth stroet, causing a damage of $1,000, The bullding was occupted bi Samon. “Murphy, who lost two horses, on whicl there was no insurance. NAVAL INTELLIGENOE. ‘The United States frigate Constellation arrived at Newport, R. 1, at seven o'clock last evening, being on an annual cruise, with the cadets from the Navat Academy on board, | She was twenty days out from Fortress Monroe. Commander Weld N, Allen has ben ordered to orduange duty at tue New York Navy Yard, ANOTHER BRIDGEPORT TRAGEDY. © A Gensation in the City—A Man Throwt Over @ Bailroad Bridge by an Alleged New York Bruiser and Drowned—A’; Remarkable Ocourrence. —- Brivasroar, Conn., July 0, 187% . Hardly has our community become quiet from the excitement of the iy Apnea killing of Captain Cot- vocoresses when tt again excited bya tragedy hardly less terrible, although entirely different im its details, It was announced this morning that a German named Ludwig V. Thiers had been thrown over the railing of the foot bridge leading to East Bridgeport and drowned. The facts upom investigation developed as follows :—A colored mam named Perry Hughes while passing over the fooe bridge at haif-past one o'clock this morning, met @ man supposed to be John Curtis, who stepped’ up to him and demanded a light. Curtis detained hing for some time, telling him of his great muscular ability and how many men he had whipped, whem the two were joined py the German Thier, who was accosted by Curtis. Some words passed between them in German, when Thiers said in English, “Don’t say that, I have killed more than one man for saying that; whereupon Curtie replied, “Well, you won't kill another,” and sels- ing Thiers about the waist he lifted him up bodily and HURLED HIM OVER THE RAILING into tne water below. The bridge stands ten or fifteen feet above the river, and at that point the mud and water on the fats would trouble a sober man in the day time, and Thiers, being probably a little intoxicated, was entirely unable to fin his way out or save himself. Tho negro ran over the bridge, calling loudly for the po- lice, and finally brought help. By this time, how- ever, Thiers was past saving, having beem drowned, and his murderer had effected his escape, ‘The body of Thiers was taken from the water and an inquest was held upon it lay. From testi- mony elicited at the inquest it 8D) ars that Cul and the deceased had been ai saloon in Bridgeport together but a short time before tragedy on the bridge, and that Thiers had bee going through his sword exercise, a8 was his ous. om when under the influence of liquor, Ourtis ts represented as having been also somewhat in- toxicated, and, being alarge, strong man, probably COMMITTED THE DEED THROUGH BRAVADO to show his great strength. The verdict of the jury was in accorda™~y with the above facts, The negro did not kn¢ , Curtis, but from his description of the man who committed the deed there ls no doubt of his identity. The murdered man, Ludwig V. Thiers, was a Bava- rian, and came to this country twenty years Bdge. which time he worked for a short period port, leaving this sy however for service in the regular army, where he served as @ cavalry man for many years, doing duty under Sheridan duri the war and going through a greal deal ol military experience. Thiers was forty-eight years of age, unmarried, and claimed to be an illegitimate son of the late King of Bavaria, by whom he said he had been edudated. He was @ man of considerable attainments, which Poierd corroborated his story, and had received som where a@ liberal education, including a horde knowledge of military affairs, He was well known among the Germans in this vicinity, and was a sober, industrious man generally, having occa- sional “sprees.” The police have made rigorous endeavors to capture THE GUILTY PARTY, and there is no question that he will be taken be! J long. He is a large, strong man, ond was mac more than a match for Thiers in @ personal encoun- ter. Ho has been heard from passing through Fairfield on his way to Norwalk, where he has relatives residing. Curtis had not been long in, this part of the country. Thiers was in the, employ of Frank Buckley, of leads as acarriage blacksmith, and came to Bridgepor' last Saturday ona spree. He had but little money, with him, and his employer owed about @ hundred dollars. Curtis was dressed in a black alpaca coat, dark brown pants and soft black hat, He has an English face, wears a mustache, and has @ small bunch, half ‘the size of a marble, on his fore- head. He ts about six feet tall, and welghs 22% pounds. La BRIDGEPORT, July 9, 1872, The man who threw the German, Thiers, over the rallroad footbridge last night proves to be a noto- rious New York bruiser, named Jerry Coffee, well known to the New York police. Oficers are after him, but he is not yattakan. | JUDGE LYNCH IN OHIO... The Friends of the Outraged Girl Secon Make Short Work of Two of Her Murs derers=Three Thousand People Partie cipate in Hanging th ‘o Ringe leaders. fos TA hecaky > OrvoInwatt, Ohio, July 9, 187% As was apparent from last night's despatches the mob of three thousand persons who took from tt at Celina, Mercer county, Abx saiom Kini&el, Jacob Kimmel and Alexander McLeod, charged with the murder gf Secor, was deter ined to make short wi prisoners, After leaving the jall the men were placed in @ wagon, and the immense concourse, at the command, “Forward, march!” moved off for Kimmel farm, in sight of where the poor girl had been murdered and thrown to the hogs. Here they halted under a sapling. A rude gallows was erected and halters were fitted about the necks of the prisoners, At thig juncture Elias Secor, brother of the murdered gir, ‘appeared, and pleaded with the crowd for the ot Jacob kimmel, the ponnaer prisoner, seventeen: years old, Mee jis doubts as to his partich; tion in the aiair. This appeal was recelyed with cheers, and young Kimmel was exempted from the’ sentence which the people had ares ne Ay Absalom Kimmel was much broken down, but McLeod maintained the same stoical indifferenoe he had shown from the first. He maintained stoutly he had never seen the girl, and accounted for the blood on his clothes by bleeding from the nose. He took the Testament kissed ff, and called on God to attest his innocence, He importuned them to have mercy on his poor mother and sisters, and asked’ God to for- give them ail. Absalom Kimmel hered to his confession mado day before, to the effect that after returning frong church on Sunday, June 23, McLeod asked if giris went west, and when Jacob Kimmel said eral, they all went in that direction until they came to the place where the gitl was murdered, Each violated her person, after which McLeod knocked her in the head with a heavy stick, Thi was about midday. They then went to the Kimm home, and at t od told them he had been bac! the placd, and that the girl was not dead, but he had killed her. The two were hung they were dead, while the younger Kimmel was re- turned to jail. The father of the Kimmels was Warned to steve the Santry ina specified time, and the terribly tragic scene, almost unparalleled ig thie part of the country, was ended. A TERRIBLE DEBRIOK AQOIDENT. Fall of a Derrick on the New State De= partment Building in Washi Two Men Killed and g. Nambe Others Wounded. oer ie s Wasntnatoy, July 9, 1 A terrible accident occurred here this morning at the new State Department building. Notlong after the men employed thereon had commenced work a wire guy rope, one of the supporters of three very heavy derricks, drew from -the bolt- head, and with a crash the derricks came down, all falling in the direction of Seventeenth street and directly across the foundation of the building where ail the workmen were engaged, instantly SE two men, one @ stranger who was passing at the time along Seventeonth street, and the other a hod carrier named Jerry Derry who was struck by the cap plece of the midde@ accident, and it was smashed into splinters. head of the stranger killed was completely ¢1 and fattened. } Michael Droony had several of his ribs broken an@ is internally injured. wey Bresnehan 1s injured in the back and shoulder, Patrick Qorcoran is severely cut in the head. A agg teamster named Henson Dyaon is tatally in the head. ortobert Collins, d deaf and dumb bricklayer, hag an arm broken in two or three places, and is other- wise injured, At the time of the accident one man was on the guy rope painting it and three others were on we platform around the middie derrick, but they escaped injury. FELONIOUS ASSAULT. As Ernest Volz, of 200 Third street, was coming home from one of the uptown summer resorta om Monday evening, he got into a diMoulty with @ ber of young rowdies. One of them, Johm Matthews baat him, It is alleged, so terribly on thi derrick, and was crushed almost to a pois. had his hod on his shoulders at the time of head and body that he ts now confined to his bed w iis house, Matthews was arrested and taken before Alder- man Piunkilt, ab the Yorkville'Police Court, yester- day, and coimmitted to awalt the result of Vols's in JULIO,