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en THE ALABAMA CLAIMS, “The Geneva Tribunal of Arbitration Reassembled in Session. Proceedings During Three Hours Yesterday—The Question of Interest on the Awards— Another Meeting To-Day. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORX HERALD. “Geneva, August 29, 1872. The Alabama Claims Arbitration Court met at ‘half-past twelve o'clock this afternoon, and re- mained in session until half-past three o'clock, Ywhen it adjourned until to-morrow noon. The five arbitrators and the Secretary of the "Board were present, and these only. ‘THE QUESTION OF INTEREST. The question of the payment of tnterest on the s@mounts awarded, which was to have been brought cup to-day, was reserved for future discussion, and ‘the Court debated a proposition in reference to the continuance of its sessions in secret. PROGRESS AT ALL POINTS AND HOPE OF AN EARLY CONCLUSION. The Court is progressing in its labors on details, sand the prospects are favorable for an carly com- pletion of the work before it. WILL THE DECISION BE UNANIMOUS? The latest prevailing reports state that great di- ‘versity of opinion exists among the members of the Board of Arbitration on a question of principle, aud endeavors are making to reconcile diferences go that the final decision of the Board may be nanimous, “POOR CARLOTA.” ‘The Ex-Empress Sinking to Death Momentarily. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. VIENNA, August 29, 1872, The ex-Empress Carlota of Mexico, Maximilian’s “widow, is fatling in strength rapidly and there is no hope whatever of her recovery. Her death may be expected to occur at any moment. ENGLAND. Failure of Cotton Operators in the Values of Cargoes Afloat. Flow of Bullion to the Bank—Diamond Sales and the Arizona Diamond Mines. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. LonDox, August 20) 187%) ‘Beveral cotton operators in Lancashire :fatled in consequence of unfortunate speculations i cotton afoat, STOCK OF BULLION IN THE BANK. The bullion in the Bank of England has increased £4,000 during the past week. HE ARIZONA DIAMOND MINES AND GEM BROKERS IN THE METROPOLIS. Messrs. Rittar, Leverson & Co., London diamond ‘brokers, in a communication to the city editor of “the London 7imes, states that a few months ago an American came to this city and bought a large num- ber of diamonds in the rough, paying no attention whatever to the weight or quality of the stones. “These, they intimate, were used by the alleged dis- coverers of the diamond mines in Arizona to sus- tain tneir assertions. , The London 7imes, commenting upon the above ‘communication, expresses astonishment that Messrs, Latham, Barlow and General McClellan Bhould have been induced to allow'their names to be connected with the Arizona enterprise. SCOTLAND. Sir Walter Scott’s Statue Shipped for New York. \A Faithfal Duplicate of a Fine Work of Art— Another Order from America. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Lonpon, August 29, 1872. General Sherman visited Glasgow on Wednesday. ‘The General sails for home on the 5th of September. The bronze statue of Sir Walter Scott, which is ‘to be erected in Central Park, New York, is com- pleted, and will be shipped from Edinburgh to ‘the former city to-morrow. This is the first work ef art produced in Scotland specially for America. Whe Artist, His Model and the Finish of His Work. The Scott statue, which will be shipped from Scotland for New York to-day, is a magnificent work ofart. During the past year Mr. John Steel, R. 8. A. Edinburgh, has been engaged at work upon it. It is a bronze replica of his well-known statue of Sir Walter. Using the marble original in the same way as he would have done a clay model, the artist has produced an exact duplicate of the statue as it stands in the monument in Prince’s street, Edinburgh. As it comes out in the bronze, however, the work seems somehow to have gained considerably in dignity and general impressiveness of effect. By the appll- cation of @ certain composition the bronze surface has been brought to a rich brown color, with just 80 much of metallic lustre as serves to enhance the general effect. seein by the result of experi- ments which Mr. Steell has made, the surface thus produced ig capable of resisting the corroding ‘action of the weather, so that the statue may be expenses to preserve, at least for some very con- siderable time, its present splendid appearance, and thus form a brilliant as well as most agreeably attractive and popolac ornament to the grand qmetropolitan Park of America. Another Order from America. Lonpon, August 29, 1872, A bust of the distinguished novelist and poet, Sir ‘Walter Scott, destined for St. Louis, United States, ‘will soon be completed in Edinburgh. IRELAND. The Fever of the Riots Not Finally Subdued in Belfast. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. DvBLIN, Angust 29, 1872, ‘The discharge from custody of a solicitor of Bel- fast, who had been arrested for alleged participa- tion in the riots, caused a threatening demonstra- tion there to-day. A considerable crowd gathered in the vicinity of the Court House, but it was dis- persed by the police, who met with no opposition. GERMANY. - Engine Makers on Strike in the Prussian Capital. TELEGRAM. TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. BERLIN, August 20, 1872, ‘The engine makers of this city are on a strike, PORTUGAL, Lose of a Steamship by Fire Of the Coast. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Lonpon, August 29, 1872. ‘The steamship James Stephenson was burned off Lisbon, while on a voyage from Caicutta to London, ‘The passengers and crew were savo" _ NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 1872—WITH SUPPLEMENT, OUBA. A Spanish War Vessel Burned—Repulse of In- surgente—Municipal Reform in Ha- vana—Various Items. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALB. . Havana, August 23, 1872. The Diario states that the Spanish iron-clad Numancia will remain only @ few days longer at New York. The Spanish war schooner Condor, an old vessel, ‘was burned at sea, On her way to Havana. Allon board were saved. A special despatch to the Gacefa reports that the Insurgents 400 strong attacked the town of Remangamaguas, in the Eastern Department, and were repulsed by the garrison, which consisted of only forty men. The firemen of Cienfuegos are garrisoning En- senoda de Cochinos. The Diario says the Acting Captain General will send to the Minister of War, at Madrid, by the next steamer, @ plan of the campaign, in which the establishment of lines of fortified posts is a prom- inent feature. The Board of Aldermen of Havana have taken in hand the removal of abuses in the municipal ad- ministration, the introduction of economical re- forms and the continuance of works for the im- provements of the city. Don Joaé Alano, a Cuban, the prime mover in these reforms. Aman named Serafin Leon killed his mistress bol Mn gd beating out her brains witha musket arrel. The various volunteer battalions of the city have been consolidated. THE ELECTIONS IN PORTO RICO. oie iar TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. * Havana, August 28, 1872, The election for members of the Cortes have have been held in Porto Rico. All the districts are reported to have returned radical candidates, ex- cept that of the capital, San Juan, which elected General Sanz, a conservative. MEXICAN OUTRAGES. Testimony Before the Commission Im- plicating Mexican Officialse—Murder of Three Texans by Mexican Desperadoes. BROWNSVILLE, Texas, August 29, 1872. Captain Richard King, the largest stock raiser in Texas, has been examined at length by the United States Board of Commisssioners. His testimony strengthens that already obtained, proving Mexican officials guilty of gross neg- lect of duty and complicity in oufrages committed on this frontier. He declares that continued pets d on his life compel him to maintain an armed force for protection. On the 27th three Texans were killed by Mexican outlaws at the Balsa, thirty miles distant on this side of the river, in revenge for the execution of the five desperadoes there a short time ago. INTO THE WHIRLPOOL. A Mysterious Disappearance at Niagara Falls—A Young Lady’s Missive to Her Wronger. NraGaRa FAs, N. Y,, August 27, 1872. On Monday, August 19, a young lady dressed in deep black, with a ‘heavy veil over her face, regis- tered at the Mont Eagle Hotel, Suspension Bridge, as Miss J. Booth, Stratford, Conn, On her arrival she inquired if there were any letters or telegrams for her. Receiving a negative reply, she sought her room with tears in her eyes, remarking “HE CANNOT HAVE DESERTED ME.” The lady remained at the bridge until las’ Sun- day evening, scarcely leaving her room, excepting for an occasional walk to the Whirlpool, where she was noticed by the employ¢s to sit hour after hour communing with her own thoughts, uncon- scious of aught else. Last Sunday even- ing, after being supplied with writing materials, she leit the hotel and was seen es § in the direction of the Whirlpool, since which time there have been no tidings of her, and it is feared that while laboring under some mental anguish she threw herself into the river a few rods below the bridge. Their fears were strengthened this. morning when it became known that Dr. Charles Mathews, of Philadelphia, had picked up at her favorite resort the following letter with the Mont Eagle heading, supposed to have been written by Miss Booth, although it is without date or signa- UTE tome I waited your coming, til and deceived at the Mont Eagle anxiously watching for length the truth has dawned upon me ver can stand the exposure of my disgrace, and in ny prevent state of md Lhave decided upon the step and wish no longer to live, Your cruel de- sertion has driven me mad. Thrice i have been to the Fiver and the hope that you might yet come saved me; ut now HOPE MAS FLED, MY" BRAIN 18 ON FIRE. From one whom you have wronged. Endorsed on the note was:— Will the finder please address the enclosed note to Charles Clark, Stratford, Conn.t—A request from one who is but one step from eternity. MARRA ARRESTED. Alderman McMullin’s Would-be Assassin Caged—The Old Moyamensing Likely to Have the Best of the Fight. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., August 29, 1872. Hugh Marra, who shot Alderman McMullin, was arrested to-night by an Alderman who met Marra. Not being satisfied at first that he was the right person the Alderman addressed him by his first name, to which the fugitive responded. The Alderman made known his intention to arrest him, and received the reply, “Then Pll 1x you,’ but no resistance was offered, however. The prisoner was taken to the Central station, where McMullin identified him. He subsequently admitted that he was Marra, and at the time of his arrest he was returning to his old quarters. DOUGHERTY’S FUNERAL, PHILADELPHIA, Pa., August 29, 1872. The funeral services over James Dougherty, who was killed on Sunday last, took place this morning at St. Paul's Catholic church. Alderman McMullen attended, with many members of the Moyamensing Hose Company. The coffin was of solid walnut, with silver ornaments. The body was attired in a white satin wrapper quilted and embroidered. The interment was in the new Catholic Cemetery. THE OBICAGO BAES. CurIcaGo, August 29, 1872. The Dexter Park trotting meeting began to-day with a large attendance, good track and fine weather. In the three minute race fora purse of $1,500, Joon H. won, beating Foley, Edgar, Mam- brino, Temple, Kimball and Suriche, Best time, 2:20!5. Ida was distanced. won casily, beating Pilot Temple and Chicago in three straight heats. Best time, 2:23%. A CARD FROM MB, THOMAS CORNELL RONDOUT, August 29, 1872, To THE EprTor OF THE HERALD :— Your issue of to-day has a communication containing infamous insinuations against my pri vate character. The allegations are unqualifiedly false and malicious. I have had some legal diMficul- Oswego Railroad, now calling themselves the New York, Kingston and Syracuse Railroad Company. A few days since the Treasurer called at my oMce and threatened that ifasuit which had been com. menced by the Farmers’ Loan and Trust Company ‘was not withdrawn a suit would be commenced against me that would blacken my character, and this procceding is in pursuance of that threat. It isan effort to force the discontinuance of suits which have been brought to save the people's prop- erty from a set of sharpers. A suit is being com- menced against the directors of the | for malfeasance in appropriat ng over $2,000,000 of the company’s stock without paying one dollar for it. The knowledge of this fact has induced a ring of desperate men to play a desperate game. manded an immediate investigation. For every dojlar that is ba ray! due the company from me 1 will donate $1, the State that the HERALD me designa’ THOMAS © I, Anthony Benson, of Kingston Y., formert; Treasurer of the Rondout and Oswego Railroad, certify that I have read a communication in the New York Heracp of August 29 concerning Thomas mee 4 ieee Lee ever! Cra herein made reflecting upon either of us is false | aud malicious, it ANTHONY BENSON, HAVANA MARKET. ELL. Havawa, August 28, via Key West, Angust, 29, 1872, Sugar quiet and Wenk; No. 12 Dutch standard, 10}y reals Per arrobe. ties with the present managers of the Rondout and | to any charitable institution in | 1 hereby denounce every allegation reflecting | upon me as false and malicious, and I have de- , ——— | on in the 2:24 race for @ purse of $2,500 Flora Tent | Oh p,8? rom, such, WASHINGTON. Wasninoton, August 29, 1872, Cabinet Meeting. The Cabinet met to-day at eleven o'clock. All the members were present excepting the Secretaries of the Navy, Treasury and Interior, the last named being represented by Solicitor Smith. The Treas- ury was represented by Assistant Secretary Rich- ardson. - The business transacted was not particu- larly important., The session continued two hours, The President. The President with General Porter left here to- night on their return to Long Branch. As soon a3 the repairs of the Executive Mansion shall be completed the President and family will resume their residence there, which will be proba- bly the middle of next month. Very few visitors have called at the White House to-day. The Ku Klux Pardons Delayed. Information has been received at the Attorney General’s OMice, from oMoial sources in North Carolina, which makes it necessary to give the Ku Klux cases another and more particular examina- tion. The President has, therefore, decided not to issue the pardons at present. Mexican Anarchy and the Customs Re- " eelpts. Special Treasury Agent Abbot reports to the Treasury Department that since his last report in July the receipts of customs in El Paso del Norte, Texas, have very materially decreased and business of all descriptions is suffering from an apathy which cannot but result in the suspension of many en- gaged in mercantile pursuits on the Rio Grande, The capture of Paral and Chihuahua by the insurgent army under General Borrego, has gone far toward the ruination of com- Merce. The occupying army issued pronuncia- mentos forbid@ing the exportation of Mexican mer- chandise, @ violation of which is visited with con- fiscation and fines, The Custom House officials at El Paso placed an embargo upon the importation of merchandise and do not even permit the citt- zens to cross into the United States, which the poorer classes are endeavoring to do for the pro- tection of life and property. These circumstances place an almost absolute check upon the revenue receipts of the district. The Rio Grande Commission. One of the Commissioners appointed under the recent act of Congress to investigate the outrages on the Rio Grande, in a private letter to a friend in« this city, dated at Brownsville, Texas, August 16, eays:— We are taking a rs Mass of testimony of a ve and important character which I think will satisfactory to our government. Our small ap- ropriation, however, will not allow us to take one- third the testimony we could means to send for persons or visit various lo- calities. Those citizens who are able to reach us are very grateful for what we are doing. There is no doubt there have been many serious Ce nee committed on our people by Mexicans and Mexican Indians, but tt will require more money than Congress has ie appropriated to enable the commission to investigate theematter fully and pave the way for @ complete suppression of raids by these marauders. The people here are suffering very much for want of rain. Thousands of cattle are dying upon the plains for want of water. ‘The Tobacco Decision. The Acting Commissioner of Internal Revenue acquiesces in the recent opinion of the Attorney General on the tobacco tax question, and will be governed accordingly. Treasury Balances. The Treasury balances at the close of to-day were:—Currency, $7,243,444; coin, $75,321,906; in- cluding coin certificates, $29,785,200, The Kansas Pacific Railroad Commis. sion. Isaac H. Sturgeon, of St, Louis; G. W. Johnes, of Washington, and D. W. Willard, of Lansing, Mich., have been appointed Commissioners to examine and report to the President upon the road con- structed by the Kansas Pacific Rallway Company. Supervisor Cobb has been retained by the Presi- bed His fleld’of duty has not yet been assigned im. WEST VIRGINIA ELECTION. pe Jacob’s Majority Said To Be Greatly Re- duced—Eight Counties Yet To Be Heard From. GREENBRIER WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W. anit So far as heard from Jacob’s majority is 713, August 29, 1872, There are nine counties to hear from, which at the election on the call for the Convention gave majorities of 1,600 in favor of the call, One of these just heard from has given Camden a majority of over 450, If the othersdo likewise Camden’s elec- tion is assured. The counties to hear from are Roane, Clay, Raleigh, McDowell, Pleasant, Mercer, Barbour. Marion and Tucker. By to-night’s mail Mercer is reported to have given 450 for the constitution and a larger majority for Camden. WHEELING, W. Va., August 29, 1872, Reporw from forty-nine counties reduce Jacobs’ majority to a little over twenty-five hundred, and the remaining five counties may reduce it to 2,000, Davis’ majority for Congress on a full vote of the district is 805. He made the canvass as an avowed and irreconcilable opponent of Greeley, and his friends talk of bringing his name before the Louis- ville Conveution as @ candidate for Vice President, THE HERALD APPRECIATED IN MISSISSIPPI. {From the Daily Vath Meridian, Miss., August For the future, whatever may be the result of the pending Presidential election, the Heratp will in- sist upon an entire chanee of policy towards the Southern States under the next administration, ana will hold every Congressman up to the con- tempt and scorn of the American people who favors any measure for the oppression of the white men of the South.—New York HERALD. ‘This is no more than the public had a right to ex- pect from the greatest paper in the world. The HERALD has been quoted by all parties, and has been claimed as supporting first one and then the other. But the truth about the matter is the HERALD has been steadfast, straightforward, con- sistent and perfectly independent in supportin, whatever it considered to be right and for the bes interests of the American people, utterly regardless of what parties er managers might think or say of its course, It stands in a position to praise or condemn. It owes fealty to no party, sect or religion, but to the whole people and fo truth. What would be regarded as “imconsistency” in mere partisan papers is the essence of consistency in the HeraLp. Men talk filppantly about the HERALD’s being bought and sold. Bosh! With an income of $2,000,000 a year, what does its pro- prietor care for the paltry Presidential sal- ary or the occasional donation of $20,000 Men as Stewart to aid party movements? Its strength lies in the fact that it is able to whistle down the effer- vescences of party ebuilitions, ana be truly inde- pendent and consistent under all circumstances and under every degree of political excitement—to praise what onght to be praised and condemn what ought to be condemned in any and all parties, with- out consulting either or fearing its power to injure it. Such a paper has a stupendous and a magnifi- cent field, and the HERALD shows upon its face that its managers know how to appreciate and culti- vate it. SCOTT RAILROADING IN 8AN DIEGO, SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., August 29, 1872. An arrangement has been effected whereby Colonel Thomas Scott's Texas Pacific Railway Com- pany succeeds to all the rights and property of the San Diego and Gila Railroad Company, receives the right of way through San Diego, city and county, 100 acres of tide lands on San hig Bay, and a | terminal depot lot covering a space of 600 by 1,500 feet. The Texas Company has agreed to put three parties of engineers into the fleld at once to locate the route, and to commence the work of construc- tion from San Diego eastward as soon as the line | is finally located. Angeles and San, Bernan- dino counties offer to vote subsidies to afd the en- terprise. IMMORALITY IN MORMONDOM. Sammary Disposition of the Furniture | in the Houses of Ill-Fame—Brigham Yor Threatened with Mob Violence. SaLT Lak# City, August 29, 1872. By order of a Mormon Justice of the Peace the police this afternoon made a descent on two houses of ill-fame and with axes, knives, &c., demolished all the furniture the worth prob- ably $10,000. Bureaus, bedsteads, pictures, car- pets and everything were chopped o pieces. considerable amount of money and jewelry, It is said, were taken. The excitement among the liberal citizens on account of the wanton destruc- tion oF eee is intense, Much bad feeling pre- vails and threats are made to organize vigilance committees and clean out Brigham Young and | other polygamiste’ houses. KENTUCKY BOURBONS. Blanton Duncan on the Outlook for the Straight-Outs. LOUISVILLE PROFOUNDLY UNMOVED. General Dubiousness About the Candidates. WHO AND WHAT THE DELEGATES WILL BE. LOUISVILLE, Ky, August 29, 1872, Blanton Duncan, the author and fulfiller of the Straight-out Convention, lies sick in bed with the gout, and when he moves at all he uses a cane or a crutch, He is nervous, fidgety and a good deal overworked, and appears to comprehend that he has taken considerable work upon his hands for very little legitimate glory. His Convention will meet in the County Court House, probably at ten o'clock, next Tuesday. Duncan ts to be the sole Committee on Credentials and to bar out any body ‘whom he pleases. He says that he has information that A LOT OF BOGUS DELEGATIONS, putup by the Greelcy people, mean to come here and take charge of his show; therefore, he wishes it understood by all the world and the rest of man- kind that badges will be required, and that the said badges are to be given out by no proxies. He has no newspaper in Louisville which seconds the movement, except a small weekly sheet called the Jeffersonian Democrat, edited by an inconsiderable person who ran himself in upon Duncan at Baltimore, and was made chairman of the Committee on Resolutions. At the Bolters' Convention there Duncan and others didn’t pay the proper respect to this editor, and the latter now revenges himself by publishing inuendos and side-thrusts at his superior showman, and, among other things, he is guilty of the atrocious saying that the straight-out cause could better have lost ten Blanton Duncans than the support of the New York Day Book. Duncan’s own journal, to be called the Zrue Democrat, will appear on the day the Convention meets, He has no office of publication, and his let- ters and advertisements are addressed to the care get had we the |.0f Thompson & Booth, lawyers. These gentlemen appears to be a good deal annoyed at the precipitate use which Duncan & Co. have made of their office without previous agreement withthem., The paper is to be published by a job printer, and, from what Mr. Duncan says to-day, its columns will be chiefly taken up with the publication of letters from am- bitious individuals from all parts of the country anxious to express themselves upon the demerits of Horace Greeley. When pressed to-day to know exactly WHO SHOULD BE PRESENT Duncan was unable to give the names of more than three or four persons in all the country who have any public prominence. Chief of these were Goldday, who hastily resigned from Congress for cadet selling; Horace Day, who is anxious to be a candidate for President at the hands of the straight- out party; one Davis, a Congressman from West Vir- ginia; Brick Pomeroy and Jimmy 0’Brien’s crowd, Sykes, the publisher of Pomeroy’s paper in New York, has telegraphed to the Galt House for forty rooms. » He will bring on about one hundred per- sons of the O’Brien party. Brick Pomeroy has engaged a parlor and two bedrooms, and will hold court in state here, The delegation from Indiana, composed mainly of people who live in regions ap- proximating to Louisville, will stop at one of the secondary hotels. Many of the States WILL HAVE NO REPRESENTATIVES at all, as for example, Maine, Vermont, the Pacific States, Rhode Island and several of the Southern States. Judging from the class of folks due here, it is ditlicult to see Bow they can come to any organi- zation, being mainly of the class of labor reformers, irreconcilables, etc. Mr. Duncan says that Indiana and Illinois will skow the largest attendance. Blan- ton Duncan behaves about this Convention like an overgrown bor, as wild as George Francis Train, and with as much confidence as Wil- liam Cornell Jewett, He has taken the Court House,.room-for the convention because $100 was charged for Weisger Hall, and said that owing to the increase of his expenses in the matter of patriotism, he preferred to take the Court House. He says it will seat 1,500 People, although his townsmen are content with the modest estimate of 800 in the same premises. He will make an assess- ment-upon the Convention for the expenses he has ersonally incurred in bringing It together unless he hotel keepers and others come forward and help him out. He says he has spent for postage, handbiks, circulars, clerk hire, &c., between fifteen hundred and two thousand dollars, and that this is due to him from the county and that Louis- ville would be disgraced if it is not paid up. Itisa remarkable fact that nobody in Louisville pays any heed to the Convention except as a vast joke. Duncan some time ago contrived a commercial convention in this city, on which was perpetrated every species of recommendations for all sorts of jobs, levees, canals, railroads, &c., and the organ- izer of the whole thing somehow slipped out of the promenade as soon as the Convention met, and ‘was very little heard of during its sessions, Many persons expect that the same will be the case with the straight-out movement, but Duncan himself has been paroosiy Meditating the policy of taking the nomination forthe Presidency. He says that he does not think it would look well, un- der the circumstances, to take it, but intimates that, in view of the alarming condition of the country, it may be necessary to do so. He keeps a book Where are enrolled the names of his numer- ous correspondents in all parts of the earth, and the thousands of letters he receives from nobody in particular are pasted away in folio scrap books to be preserved for the eyes Of posterity. He was asked this evening WHETHER CHARLES O'CONOR HAD CONSENTED under any circumstances to accept the nomination for the Presidency, and he evaded a direct re- sponse. He also was unable to say who could be brought out fora candidate in case O'Conor re- fused to honor the joke. In fact, toa person right on the spot in Louisville, it would seem that Mr. Duncan has brought a very large elephant on his hands, and will be very successful if he cai slip out without the most roaring langh ever raised in the Southwest being given at his expense. Persons whom he instanced as his correspondents, chief workmen and factors, are known to nobody, and he has put together LABOR REFORM AND BOURBONISM in such ridiculous conglomerate that the result must be mere patchwork. Among the recommen- dations received in his letters is one from Missouri suggesting the adoption of the platform of the New York Fifth Avenue Conference, which nominated Groesbeck and Olmsted, As to Duncan's democ- racy, it can be inferred from his avowal that if he were in Indiana he would vote against Hendricks, and if in Pennsylvania he would cast his vote for the labor reform candidate in preference to Buck- alew. His prognostication of the campaign may be given for what it js worth, that Dan Voorhees will be defeated by Hunter in Terre Hante dis- trict, in Indiana, and that Hendricks will lose the State by 20,000 majority against him. He says that Greeley will not carry one State in the Union, and that his (Duncan’s) candidate will get more votes in Kentucky and through the South than Grecley. Duncan says that if his advice had been followed Grant could have been laid out, and that he (Duncan) had prepared a splendid proposition of victory, which nobody would hearken to, and it was, therefore, lost. Duncan says that he means | to produce, within two or three days, a letter from his father, old Duncan, who used to be in Congress as a whig, in which letter said father expresses a reprehensible notion of Horace Greeley. It would appear that this father is now living in the city of Paris, and the country which he has left behind him is not progressing according to his conception ofthe fitness of things. Mr. Blanton Duncan says he has never had any persoual inti- macy with Horace Greeley, but accredits the latter with being THE AUTHOR OF THE ENTIRE WAR. He says that he was invited to confer with Greeley, but it did not become his dignity. He points with considerable eloquence to the fact that since Greeley has been nominated Oregon has repudiated the democratic party, North Carolina has defeated Merrimon and West Virginia has fallen into the arms of the original Jacob He says, with confidence, that Jacob is an anti- Greeley man, and intimates, with that fine mystery of which he is master, thatthe recent defeat of the democratic ticket in Louisville was entirely his (Duncan’s) personal operation, When requested to name any democrat in North Carolina who op- posed Mr. Greeley, Mr. Duncan promptly mentioned & man named Britton, tne editor of a weekly paper at the town of Charlotte. He also gave a glowing EULOGY UPON ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS, from whom he had just received a letter. Mr. Dun- can said he should like to support Horace Day for President of the straight-outs, but feared that in in the present political crisis this might be a mis- take, but not a mistake of the-heart. In short, the Convention, on the spot where it is to assemble, looks somewhat more ridiculous than tt does at a distance, and probably a distance it looks @ good deal like glass factory set up in @ Iunatic asylum. ‘On the same day which is to usher fn the Convention ab mechanical, floral and miscellaneous exhibition is w be opened here in an which covers @ whole block of ground, and there will doubtiess be A VERY LARGE ASSEMBLY OF PEOPLE, who will come to one or the other of these gather- ings. Those who come tothe exhibition wilt be claimed for the Convention. The newspapers here, of all sides, will report the Convention in full, but there are in the whole State of Kentucky but two journals of kind which abet it in 7 way—the Jeffersonian it ttle publi- itis genoraliy admitted: here nel mit re among the demo- crats that Andrew Johnson, who is ranning inde- pendently for Congressman at large from Ten- hessee, will be elected by a very large majority, as his opponent is of small account and can get up no enthusiasm in the State. There is also some doubt of the election of James B. Beck to Congress, as he is op} 1d by @ shrewd and sleepless person by the name of Trabue, who 1s opposed to Greeley and will get the repnblican vote unless the latter nominate a candidate of their own. It is also thought that Golladay, who is im- plicated in cadet selling, will be returned to Con- ress by the help of the republican party. Beck's ‘lends, however, offer to bet two to one that he will go to Congress triumphantly. He is ve ardent for Greeley and don’t scare worth a cent Golladay ts working a rous stump campaign. He is threatenin, kill any man on'sight wi raises the lasue of his-selling.cadetshi helped by the party of freedom’ and: a- pair of horse pistols. He expects to get’ Washington with a large’ majority. As Blanton’ Duncan: some-time ago made himself the pone for General Hancock and wrote’ letters to all parts of the country Rea OrIEE to have Hancock nominated at the New York Convention of 1868, it was supposed that Duncan meant to use Hancock's name at the Louisville Convention. Interrogated upon this point or ee admitted that General Hancock had flatly re! ato be brought forward under any circumstances, but he alleged that Han- cock was opposed to Greeley. THE CALL FOR BOURBON STRAIGHT. Appointment of Delegates to the Louis- ville Convention from New York:and Brooklyn—“‘Solid Men” Representing Apollo Hall—Hancock’s Half Promise of Acceptance—O’Conor Still Dumb—Of for Louisville To-Morrow Evening. A second meeting was held at the house of Alder- man Peter Gilsey, East Twenty-eighth street, last evening, when the committee of seven appointed by the Apollo Hall Executive Committee were en- abled to complete their list of delegates and alter- Rates to the “Bourbon Straight Democratic Con- vention at Louisville, The committee had a great eal of difficulty in making out the list, as over TWO HUNDRED DEMOCRATS were present, personally or by written application, asking to be appointed delegates, and the appli- cants being old believers in the faith and of first Class standing in the party, the process of selection was as delicate as it was dificult. The committee, however, have been more than successful in the choice they have made, and this fact has been admit- ted by even those who were destined to disappeint- ment, The chosen ones are, at least, all “sold men,” the twelve delegates representing over TWENTY MILLIONS’ WORTH OF PROPERTY in this city. There are twelve delegates and a like number of alternates—making two of each for each | of the slx Congressional ay istricts one Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth and Ninth districts). The delegates were chosen as a whole, though care was taken that each district should be represented. < me following is @ list of the delegates and alter- Dist. Delegates. Alternates, 1—Peter Gulsey. Isaac J. Stillings. 2—Benj. F, Beekman, J, R. Flanders, 3—Nelson J, Tappan. John Foley, 4—Wm. C. Burrett. Daniel R, Lyddy. 5—Solomon Mehrbach. Walter Murray, 6—Wm. 0. Traphagen. Henry B, Mulhall. 7—Ch. Schwarzwalder. 8—James Oliver, 9—Levi 8. Chatfield, John W. Bennett. 10—Jenkins Van Schaick. John 0, aD. 11—Julius Wadsworth. Joseph P. Strack. 12—Alex. Spaulding, C. P. Sykes, The chosen twenty-four, accompanied by a few particular friends-and a great many less particular supporters, making some two hundred persons al- together, will leave the Erie depot, Jersey City, en route to Louisville, on Saturday even- ing, at seven o'clock. They have engaged A SPECIAL LIGHTNING TRAIN of merits cars, which will take them through to Loulaville without let or hindrance, barring the ordinary and extraordinary whiskey stoppage on the way. Forty rooms and some reception parlors have been br chanced for the New York delega- tion at the Galt House, Louisville. The delegates are instructed to “go in mighty strong’ for O’Conor as President and Hancock as Vice Presi- dent. They feel quite satisfied that Mr. O’Conor will accept the proposed honor of being their Presi- dential candidate; and with regard to GENERAL HANCOCK, the Apollos say they have recelved a despatch from the Pennsylvania Committee of Bourbon straights, informi them that the General has pledged himself so far, but only so far, as to utter a@statement to the effect that should he become convinced that the Louisville Convention. really represents: the tie strength and sentiment of the country, he will accept any place on the ticket they may wish to proffer him. A full delegation from all the Congressional dis- tricts of Brooklyn was also appointed, but their names could not be obtained up to a late hour last it. DELEGATES LEAVING FOR LOUISVILLE. SHIPPENSBURG, Pa., August 29, 1872, Several Bourbon democrats left here to-day to at- tend the Louisville Convention, accompanied by a brass band. There were no men of even local prominence among them, and they carry no weight or influence with them. They are all furnished with free transportation there and return, and some of them asserted that all their expenses were to be paid while there. A great effort was made to get men to go from here, and liberal offers were made in some cases even to the payment of wages while gone. ILLINOIS, The Bourbon Democr: Send Deicgates to Louisville. SPRINGFIELD, August 29, 1872, The Straight-out Democratic State Convention met in this city this afternoon, sixty delegates being present. Resolutions were adopted repudiating the action of the Baltimore —_ Convention. The following delegates were appointed to the Louisville Convention :—G. B. Wright, Joseph Lealie, J. O. Spuilen and W. Steakpole. A State Central Committee, consisting of one delegate from each Congressional district, was appointed. CONVENTION OF STRAIGHTOUTS OF IOWA. Drs MOINES, August 29, 1872. The straightout democrats of the State of lowa held a mass convention in this city last night and selected delegates to the Louisville Convention. Resolutions were adopted —s against the sale of the party to Horace Greeley, and declaring that defeat on true principles is better than vic- tory on an inglorious policy. LOUISIANA, The Democratic Reform and Liberal Congressional Ticket—The Fusion State Ticket Ratified. New ORLEANS, La., August 29, 1872, The Democratic Reform and Liberal Conference Committee, it is understood, has agreed upon the following Congressional ticket :—For Congressman at large, George A. Sheridan, liberal, instead of Jones, a8 Md Hg last night; First district, Hugh J. Campbell, liberal; Second district, Randall L. Gibson, democrat; Third district, William Moul- ton, democrat; Fourth district, short term, Alex- ander Boarman, liberal; long term, E. C. Davidson, pete Fifth district, George W. McCranie, demo- crat. The fusion ticket agreed upon by their confer- ence committees has been ratified by the State Central Committee and the nomination of Cam bell for Congress, First district, has been with- drawn by the liberals, who will name a candidate hereafter. NEBRASKA LIBERALS. The Democrats and Libera) Republicans | eats Clom United on Grecley~The Conven- tion at Lincoln—A Fusion State Ticket. OmaHa, August 29, 1872, The Liberal and Democratic Convention reas- sembled at Lincoln this morning. The Conference Committee appointed yesterday reported in favor of a joint ticket. Both Conventions united, adopted the Cincinnati and Baltimore platform and resolved themselves into one party, to be styled the “liberals.” C. Lell (democrat) was nominated for Governor; Colonel Jease N. Wormer (liberal), for cae . The balance of the ticket is divided, the liberals getting the Secretary of State Treasurer, Auditor, one Associate Justice, State's Prison Inspector ; and the democrats, the Chief Justice, one Associate Justice and Attorney General. The best of feeling revailed and the nominations were unanimous. The ticket is considered a strong one, ‘TBEMAIN ACCEPTS HIS NOMINATION. ALBANY, N. ¥., August 29, 1872. Judge Tremain arrived home last evening, after an absence of six weeks in Maine. He was met at the depot by a large number of political friends, and escorted to his residence. In response to calls made ‘accepting the nomination for he speech A, at large, and pledging his beat ep. deavors for the election of Graut aud Dix, TRAGEDY IN NEW JERSEY. Mike Sandford, an Old Turfite, Shot by His Son~- The Deed Done in Defence of a Mother— The Parricide in the Jail at Mor- ristown—Dreadfal Result of the Local Option Law. Madison, one of the most charming and salu- brious of Jersey's suburban districts, located om the line of the Morris and Essex Railroad, some twenty-five miles from New York, was the scene of @ frightful tragedy on Wednesday night, in which there were three actors—a father, im his sixty- eighth year; a son, in his twenty-second, ands mother’ going on her septuagenarian period. About two years ago Michael Sandford, the well-known Jersey turfite, removed fronx Newark, with his family, to Madison, and at once proceeded to run the Waverley House, the ancient hostelry of the village, for many years occupied by one Colonel Hunting. Scarceiy had Mike put his house in order and fairly begun the establishment of a thriving business when the local option movement, since pronounced unconati- tutional by the highest State authority, was startet by some temperance zealots, foremost among whom was one George Shepherd Page. A law was passed by the Legislature placing the town- Ship of Chatham, in which Madison 1s situ- ated, under the local option rule, the principle of which is that a majority of voters ina place can declare by ballot whether malt liquors shall be sold or not. The first vote taken was anti-liquor, and Mike was ordered te stop selling. Now this was virtually ordering mine host to take the bit out of his month. Rather than do so he went to law, and in the end was discomfited. Since then Mr. Sandford has been at times very morose and given to fre- quent sprees. His business was ruined. He kept some boarders, but they scarcely paid expenses. Mike quarrelled with his family, too, in his old age. THE BLOODY DEED IN THE KITCHEN. On tract ie Mr. Sandford visited Newark, his old home and the scene of many years of prosper- ity. He met many friends at the Park House and elsewhere, and by the time he started for Madisot at four o'clock, had on a full head ol steam, to use the vernacular of the topers. He quarrelled with his family and was out of humor all the evening. The particulars of what followed are somewhat clouded, for reasons which will a ear, As near as could ithered from the neigl rs and the authorities in Madison by the HERALD reporter yesterday afternoon, it seems that be- tween nine and ten o'clock old Sandford and his aged wife were in the kitchen, he busy cooking something for himself. The patr were tongue-lash- ing each other. ‘Their son Melville, @ fine young fellow, sober, industrious: and = quict in his habits, had — just come down from attending the boarders up- stairs. Just as he reached che threshold of the kitchen door he observed his father making what he supposed to be @ lunge at his mother with a_ knife he old man held in his hand. Melville had heard their angry tones coming down stairs. Gack as thought he whipped out a pistol he car- ried and shot his father. THE BALL ENTERED the left breast, passing through the sternum and arsine, the left lang, and the ola man dro, to he floor at once, while hisson rushed into the road and called for assistance. Drs, the brothere Van mer were promptly on hand, and after probing the wound pronounced it fatal. The arricide made no secret of what he had done, but old even the local authorities. He was removed yesterday from Madison and lodged in the County Jail at - Morristown to await results. Everybody speaks in the highest terms of hi He confessed the shooting to the local Squire, Justice M. B. Monfoe, who issued the warrant. Since then he haw been ex- tremely reticent, but says what was done was done in defence of nis mother. The pistol with which the shooting was done is nowhere to be found. Young Sandford thinks he threw it awa: he rushed out, Mrs. Sandford, as well indeed ag all the family, was the object of deep sy: thy ye terday. She sat in her room ceaselessly crying aa if her poor old heart would really burst. The son, too, in his cell, evinced deep emotion at imtervaia. THE OLD MAN'S CONDITION. From the time of the fatal shot Mike has been un- conscious, Yesterday, besides the doctors named, there were Dr. Nichois, from Newark; Flagler, from Morristown, and Anderson, of Madison (five in all), in attendance on him; but’ all thetr efforts cannot save him, as they 8 themselves, When the HERALD reporter le,t Madison last even- ing the r old turfite was breathing heavily, as if his ae perhaps minutes, were numbered. Dr. Nichols believed he could not live through the night. Itis little singular thing that Mr. Sand- ford’s brother or cousin, Oscar Sandford, formert, of the Half-way House, on the Newark plank road, met with a violent death a geet ago. He was ground to.death on the railro: The occurrence at Madison has created great excitement there, as well as in Newark and Hudsow counties, where Mike was well known. His ances- tors were among the first settlers of Lodi and were very respectable people. THE WEATHER. Wak DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OrFtcaR, WasHinaton, D. C., August 30—1 A. M. Probabilities, Clear weather prevail from Tennessee to Lake Erie and the upper lakes, with northerly and north westerly winds, and over the Middle States by morn- ing and over New England by Friday afternoom and evening; winds veering to westerly and north- westerly, with clearing weather over the South Atlantic States by and on Friday morning; gene- rally clear weather for the interior of the Gulf States, and partly cloudy weather for the coast; fresh to brisk northwesterly winds extend from the lower lakes over the Middle States au@ New England. The Weather in This City Yesterday. The following record will show the changes in the temperature for the past twenty-four hours in com- parison with the corresponding bry? of last year, as indicated by the thermometer at Huduut’s macy, HERALD Building :— 1871. 1872. 1871, 1872, . 78 89 cd oa 2 o . 89 73 2P. 6T ze perature yesterday. 68% Average temperature for corres] last year. <0sy 84 YACHTING NOTES. The schooner yacht Wanderer, N.Y.Y.C., Mr Louis Lorillard, arrived at Newport yesterday from a cruise East. The schooner yacht Columbia, N.Y.Y.C., Mr. Lea ter Waliack, is anchored off Mamaroneck, N. Y. The yacht Calypso, N.Y.Y.C., passed Whitestone yesterday, en route for New York. The sloop rt Vision, N.Y.Y.C., Mr. Alexandre, it is reported, is anxious to test the speed of the sloops Gracie and Meta. The schooner yacht Viking, A.Y.C., Mr. Thayer, is now in first class order, Her cabin work has just been completed. The Peerless and Viking would make a close match. 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Fall Fashions.—H Dusenbury Wik Introduce the @ Broadway style of gentlemen's silk Tate on Saturday, August 31, at Nos. 3, 4 and 6 Astor Houge. Fall Style Gents’ Dress Hats Ready at TERRY'S, 37 Union square. c tt Revolution tn Water Su Great OSMINATED ASPUALT PIPE, equet. tw and durability to iron, itis about one-eighth the Wreigltof fom pipe and conta much lew It reals p 130) pounds to the sqi \ may be seem At'the office of the company, 17 Cedar street, room 1. J. R. Terry, 37 Union hy: are, Will In= trodes tne Fall style Gent Dress HATS on Saturday, gust 3L. fora Patent Open Work Political Banners,’ Rae one Portraits, at HOJER & GRAHAM'S, 7 Duaney sure Royal Havana Lotte: orders filled, information furnished, Spanish Bank Bills. TAYLOR & CO., Cards, Mono. Pipe.— stren ry—Prizes Cashed, ‘all we GRAM: EVERD|