The New York Herald Newspaper, September 3, 1872, Page 4

£ e THE BELFAST RIOTS. Rows and pags bal Lady’s Day Terrible Sights Everywhere Meet the Eye. Four Days’ Severe Fighting in the Streets. MURDER, RIOT AND ROBBERY. Stones, Bludgeons, Firearms and Whiskey. LOVELY WOMAN LENDS HER AID. od Cavalry and Infantry Hold the Streets and Business Suspended. THE WRECKED CITY. BELrast, August 20, 1872, { It is impossible to exaggerate the scenes of blood- shed, riot and destruction which have disgraced this town for now four days, That all parties are to biame, and the Executive most of all, is undenia- bie. Thousands of cavalry and infantry line the principal streets, and patrols of police are stationed over the town. And yet the rattle of musketry is ceaseless; vehicles of all kinds aré Careering to the general hospital; houses are falling in, some- times by fire, sometimes by gutting, and a untver- Bal shudder palsies the energies of the population, ‘The disaster which has once more made Belfast the disgrace of Ireland is directly attributable to the Violent malevolence of the lower class of Orange- men, and indirectly to the repeal by the govern- ment of the Party Processions act. It 1s now lawful for all parties to have processions, and the Twelfth of July was celebrated by the Orangemen in great state and in great peace. The Catholics made no sigu whatever. On August 15 they celebrated THE RELIGIOUS FESTIVAL OF LADY DAY by forming enormous processions, carrying flags ‘with historical mottoes, bearing portraits or Robert Emmett, and holding meetiags in favor of home rule, The leaders of the Orangemen addressed their followers on the 14th by placard and adver- tisement, called ppon them to abstain from all violence, referred to the peaceful demeanor of the Catholics on the 12th, and entreated for them a quiet day in return. These addresses wero wholly disregarded, and on Friday morning Sandy row ‘wore its ancient appearance, and soon threatening knots of men formed into a riotous multitude, OPENING OF THE FIGHT, The Catholics with equal promptitude took up a Aefenstve position, and before night closed a couple of men were dead, a score were wounded and hun- dreds were drunk. On Saturday the contest was renewed with extraordinary fury. While troops were hastening from every quarter, while Bpecial trains were flying from the capital, while beseeching telegrams were flashed from the local authorities, the ship carpenters had pitched their camp and calmly awaited the arrival of the foe. These warriors have a local reputation of fiercest import. In the riots of 1861, which lasted for no less than twenty-one days, they sacked whole strects, tore down shutters, ransacked shops and fought with a desperate fury that appalled the country, On this occasion the challenge was not thrown down in vain; but nhap- plly the battle was averted. Tne constabu- lary in their utmost foree stood between the angry hosts, and at length, when they themselves were beaten with blidgeons and stones, they charged. the mob with the bavonet and suc ceeded in breaking the sort of square which had been not inartistically formed. They wounded several men and received several wounds themselves, They now hurried at a rapid pace through the principal streets of the notoriously disturbed quarters, and, as re- inforcements arrived, they were able to} sword on the breast of the rough and held hin NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1872—TRIPLE SHEET. dition of the meagre police force must have been instal ety lamentable kad not General Warre, at the head of the Fourth dri 8, appeared upon the scene. In ten minutes there was a complete silence. The Highlanders stood under arms, and the cavalry scoured every lane and drove the rioters of, ‘The drunken were carried on stretchers to the cells. The wounded were lodged in hospital, and order was once more restored, But not for long. OTHER OUTBREAK, AN In two houra a crowd assembled in the vory heart of the town, in the fine open space in Castle street, Stone thro’ began, and a jeweller'’s shop seemed marked for pines. A couple of houses were broken into, an: ersons caught issuing with goods were arrested. But the thieves in the crowd sought to rescue them and ies of small scuilles took place, in which purts but no wounds were many and frequent. The dragoons soon appeared, and there was something Jike consternation when @ man was seen deliberately to aim at the captain in charge, Fortunately the murderer missed his mark, and the bullet entered a wall in a direction ‘The rudian afew inches out of the captain’s line. succeeded in getting off, and mob began to disperse, for the mili means tn @ pacific humor, Numb: marked this scene, A rough was ordered to go horae by an oficer of police, whereupon he drew a clasp knife, and, flinging himself on the oficer, sought tostab him. The oMcer stepped aside, turned his Bar untilhe was handcuifed and arrested, Filty prisoners were taken in charge, and undera strong escort conveyed to jail. Towards night the most alarming rumors prevailed. On both sides it was currently reported that certain places of worship would be sacked or fired. Men whose condition and aspect betokened an absence of all de- cency, much less religion, crowded round various churches and chapels, and even the dissenting houses had their ribald NG J Pistol shots rang out in the dead of night from various quar- ters, and the clatter of the cavalry kept the town in « ferment of excitement. But there was no chureh SHekIng. and the crowds at their stations were driven in all directions, In this posture of affairs the Sabbath day closed and the new week began to’dawn. APPRARANCH OF THE TOWN. A crowd, which had collected at six o'clock yes- terday morning, was stilled for a moment by the passage of two funerals of victims to their own tn- sane folly, Oneof the men had been shot dead and the other had been instantly killed by a furious bayonet thrust. There were at that moment numberless patients in exterior establish- ments connected with the General Hospl- tal, and in apothecaries’ houses you heard of helpless wounded stowed away in every part of the house, The number of pistol wounds in the hospital from Sunday’s affrays waa just a score, an equal number were suffering from ayonet wounds and scalp wounds caused by bayonet; and twoboyswere dying from alcho- holic poisoning induced by savage excess in whis- key a len from a sacked pons house, When the morning dawned it was hoped that the umber Of Thess oxlie would have calmed the ruflanisi of both partléd. Tite app arance of the town was dismal, Whole quarte resented one scene of ruin, There was not a window in several streets, Nota stone that was not torn ;. thero were hardly in this town oi 170,000 inhabitants one hundred shops open. The place was in a state of half-quiescent rebellion. Mon flitted along in fear of their lives, The troops stood ranged along, or from sheer fatigue sat down on forms brought from the barrack yards, ‘The morning grew on in quiet; but the rapid succession of pistol shots, about nine o'clock, gave warning of the approach- ing tumult. ATTACK ON THE PUBLIC HOUSES. By eleven o'clock four public houses were gutted, and thousands of drunked ruflans were carousing through the town with piunderbusses and pistols. Apubiic house kept by an Orangeman, and noted as the rendezvous of the party, was broken into and shots were fired through tho windows. The publican fired back upon the crowd, and a scene of terrible excitement immediately ensued. A company of dragoons charged in and rode down the mob with reckless vigor, and the rioters fell on all sides. Some of them rushed into public buildings and the dragoons followed them and laid about with their flat sabres until the mob fled pell-mell how they could and where. At that moment a spectator from the upper window ofa house in High street might have seen bullets stuck in shutters and win- dow sashes, THR SCENE WAS SIMPLY AWFUL, No man’s life was safe, and the blood of the military eemed to be dangerously aroused. All this was about noon, and matters wore so desperate an ap- pearance that martial law was spoken of on every side as the only remedy for Belfast. MORE TROOPS CALLED. Soldiers were telegraphed for all over the coun- try, and letters from Dublin inform me that the terminus of the Dublin and Drogheda company was beset with in-pouring military and pouce during the whole of Monday. The Fortieth regiment artived about one o'clock, and there being then some couple of thousand constabulary and a couple of thousand troops in Belfast the town was divided into four military districts, under the com- mand of magistrates, Tho Mayor issued a proclama- tion commanding all peaceable citizens to remain | in their houses, all public houses to remain closed for four whole days, and all sellers of fire- arms to keep closed until further. notice. The rioters were informed that thoy would be shot down by the police and miiitary, and it was further notified that houses from which shots were fired would be entered and every inhabitant placed under arrest, Searches for arm3 were at once be- ‘un, and the rioters fled from the cribs in swift re- reat, The town was formally handed over to General Warre, and that officer made proclamation of his intentions in case he came up with riotous gatherings. But even these stringent arr: = ments failed to quell the passion of turbuience. The Catholics sallied forth in the afternoon and com- pelied every man, woman and child to . __ “BLESS"? AND “CROSS” himself or submit to a merciless Bact Any- thing more hideous than the scenes in the Shankhill district cannot be imagined. A public | house was forced and barreis of drink were smashed open. Fired with this poison, the mob beat down defenceless people with a savage and indiseriminate fury which has never had parallel in keep the two parties each on their own ground, But the failure of Saturday but the more inflamed | the murderous passions of the mobs, and since that | evening's work it has been simply absurd to inquire | who is the aggressor. On Sunday morning an | ominous quiet reigned throughout the town, and those who knew Belfast rioters best foretold a deadly battle before long. TIE PRAY RENEWED, All day preparation was made on cither side, and all day troops ana police were pouring in from quar- ters outside Ulster. One thousand constabulary ‘Were 1n town in the afternoon, and General Warre, commanding the military, had a tremendous force at his disposal. The Mayor Issued a proclamation warning the people that movs or knota of more than six persons would be dispersed forcibly ff ne- cessary; but the prociamation had no effect what- ever. The riots had gone too far. Violence had feltits own strength; and now when half adozen | public houses had been sacked and liquors of all kinds consumed tn the street with astounding ra- pidity, mob law was the law of the hour. At length they issued from their respective quarters to the number of about five thousand. They proceeded to @ large brick field and commenced YB BLOODIEST CONFLICT EVER ULSTER. . Now the Catholics were driven from the field and now they turned with renewed courage and swept the Orangemen away. The fight had lasted for more than halfan hour when the military were a’- tracted by the incessant ball firing, and imme- diately hastened to the spot. The cavalry charged right between the mobs and the Highlanders dashed Into the thick of the crowded street. MEN FELL ON ALL SIDES, and in fifteen minutes there wasa tremulous peace, The wounded were carried to the hospital and one hundred rioters were conveyed to the cells, But while this battle was being quelled almost a flercer one was being arrayed. The town, as I have said, was up all night. Men and women feared to goto bed, and the suspense was tempered considerably by intoxication. Every Protestant house in the Cath- olic districts had been sacked, and a similar gay- REMEMBERED IN Belfast, At one corner five men fell from pistol shots, North street was held by a party of rioters who, furiously drunk and shouting blasphemously, compelled passengera to affirm that they were Catholics; and on refusing they were knocked down and left helpless. Few persons were foolhardy enough to adopt this course with these madmen and they soon found themselves In the General Hospital. At last the military came up and broke up this lawless gang. A reporter on a local paper was seized, but contrived to get off, when he was pursued with sticks and stones until he reached the advancing military. The shop of a grocer, who had made himself offensive, or whose general opinions were well known, had been unsuccessfully attacked during the day. | THE MOB HAD BEEN REPULSED AND DRIVEN OFF HALF A DOZEN TIMES. They succeeded at last. All the windows were smashed in with paving stones, @ scythe soon brought down the shutters, and then the sashes were slashed in and the contents of the shop fuug broadcast tn the streets. Huge pieces of bacon w acked to bits, cases of biscuit were broken and fluug about, cheese and loaves were flying in all directions, and then the barrels were rolled out, emptied of their contents and broken up for weapons. MORE SACKING OF TIOUSRS. When the house oeeny gutted and the Tioters were shouting in satiated enjoyment up came the Highlanders and the police. They halted Opposite the ruins, and the rioters fed only to begin a similar onarught Fae the dwelling house of a butcher hot far off. ¢ furnituié was flung from ‘he windows, the beds were slashed up with knives and the feathers sent floating on the wind, until they looked like a fall of snow. Each success maddened the mob the more. They proceeded with their depredations until six housys i ope street presented an jndegeribable Fae RS, Here and there groupé of tipsy men might be seen levying. mmoney on _ passers-by, Groups of intoxicated boys were smashin windows for sheer pleasure, But the saddes' sights of all were the victims of the “warnings.” her war hgd grown s0 merciless that on both sides ersons ol posite faith were ordered to quit heir dwellings in an hour or take the risk babs iy 2 ing. Here were Catholics the neighborh of Sandy row, fleeing along with their fornitiee in their arms amid the jeers and rude jostiings of their tormentors. A like policy was adopted towards Protestanta in Catholic districts. But when night fell a new and devilish device was hit upon. The mob climbed the lampposts and turned out all the lights, and then they warmed to their work of de- vastation. The military feared to fire, lest they should injure harmless persons; but such forbear- ance was little less than foolishness, agery had found devotees in the Protestant quar- ters. So there were hundreds compelied to be in the streets, and the quarrel was easily renewed, From hour to hour circumstances deiayed the con- Nict; but at about five in the alternoon a band of rufians deliberately smashed tn the shutters of two public nou and for the next hour THB PURIRS OF PANDEMONIUM RAGED UNCHECKED, Barrels of porter and ale were openca, and huge | draughts were handed out in vessels of every con. | ceivable kind. Brandy bottles were smashed at the peck, and men drank from them until they | reeled ine the gutters, In a few minutes drunken | men and women lay about and made anew com- | anion picture for the fearful frescees of the French | Revolution, Champagne was despised as not affording facie means of ready consumption, and the savages lost most of the wine as they smashed the necks of the hotties, Atone moment there were 6,000 people howling like demons, drinking furiously of ail drinks, reeking and swearing and staggering ana ‘tting into beastly helplessness. In that quarter there was not one whole pane of glass. ‘The sashes of the windows were gone, The turni- ture lay on tie upturned flagway in hideous dévris. v ‘the stones were piled in a hundred heaps, and wo- men and girls wrought at this fearfui preparation until their hands were scarred and blovdy, The police came 1 a of the Orangemen, the battle began in downright, savage earnest. ‘The stones were huried in thousands against the force, which en ah Fetreated uyul the crowd reached an open shacé, When ihey suddenly irae and fired, But blank cartridge was not the for these fellows, and seeing tho disadvantage the police they charged on them with bludgeons nd beat them downin numbers, The police then le ab attempt to force the crowd at the point he bayonet, and several rioters fell, A couple wounds Were also indicted, but the cou- | could hard | heartedness and fear which have ever characteri DOWNRIGHT PILLAGR WAS NOW PROCEEDING on all sides, and a town sacked by a foreign foe lave atforded more diroful and dis- graceful secnes, There was no sort of protection extended to the peaceful population. The military Were ignorant o/ the distress and the magistrates displayed to the most culpable extent the pie them in riotous times. There can be no question as to the ability of the forces to have quelled the con- tending mobs, But every man shirks leadership. There is a well-grounded dread of the subsequent denunciation to which @ rigorous man will ever be subjected in Ireland, For the time there is a great outcry against the authorities on the grounds of pusilanimity; but let @ man act now with vigor on behalf of law and order and he wouid be hailed ag a bigot or a butcher for the remainder of his life, At this moment we in Belfast live in unspeakable dread. Lives have been lost; the hospital staif cau serve no more. The wounded lie in private places, too prond to admit of defeat and risk the Jeers of peaceful times—if we are ever to have them again. Enormous pro perty has been destroyed. To-day there have been signs of bad blood, and some dozen houses have been wrecked. In tuese cases Catholics and Protestants subjected to the ate ais system had not complied with the tyranny, hoping for the restoration of order. But their foes tore the furnt- ture out 07 doors, and half a dozen huge bonfires have been Hghted with the household goods of dcfenccless people, But there seem SOME SIONS OF RELIBF, The military are in a thin red line all over the worst parts of the town, The cavalry have not been out of the saddle for a couple of days, They now trot ali through the disturbed districts, There are general hopes of a revurning civilization. Only two cases came to the hospital up to five this after- noon, and ag I return to close this letter, after a sharp dvive through the best. strects, I observe many of the shops open, and mén wear an expect- ant but not bodeful expression. sincere: trast the bleody business is at an _ end, The government of this miserable country has been shown, what it is to trust the passions of the post horses without bridle; and we think Mr, Gladstone and Mr. Bright will abstain frem any Autumn mancuvres in this province. At this moment the greatest and most pon town in Ireland has something the appearance o! Baseilles after the Prussian occupation. The bulk of the popeiasion endure all the pangs of a shame- ful humiliation, while the rioters lurk about, sav- agely chuckling at their unparalieled success or vowing revenge for the eorencss of defeat. The mil- itary will remain for more than a week and the pub- ic houses will be closed until Friday, and all the precautions hitherto observed will rigidly and forcibly maintained, More Murders—The Search for Arms—A Hazardous Duaty—Shot Through the Heart—Military Force in the City—The Mob Again Moving—Tho Wrecked Dwellings=People Leaving Their Homes=Stores ail Closed=Hunger Set In. Bu.rast, Aurust 21, 1872, After my despatch closed last night a police con- stable, named James Moore, was shot dead by a man standing in the Qoorway of 72 Norfolk street, in the Protestant district. The constant succes- sion of pistol shots from this street induced the authorities to institute a search for arms, and measures were adopted to bring about a general seizure. Sub-Inspector Hogel and a number of men were told off for this hazardous duty. When they entered the street tho crowds began to sur- round them, and it was quite apparent that mis- chief was intended, While a few men entered one o/ the houses a man was seen deliberately to alm at Moove, who fell on his face with A BULLET Iw HIS MART. Tho excitement and indignation grew intensely, and had the police been in stronger force it is im- possible to conjecture what horrors might have beon enacted, The corpse was taken to the Morgue and a number of arrests were instantly made. It is said that the murderer is in custody, and, fur- ther,aman named Fintay and a woman named Donohoe affirm that they can identify him. There ig at this moment a very strong feeling of passion among the constabulary, and I have no doubt that unless the rioters desist, and that right soon, the death of Moore will find a four-fold revenge. With & view of convincing the mobs that the mill- tary force at the disposal of the authorities is quite puissant enough to crush the riots, a statement (which I have good reason to believe) has been generally circulated. There are 1,800 soldiers, horse and foot; 1,459 policemen, 600 mill- tlamen and the Thirty-fourth regiment and the Sixty-second regiment arrived to-day. This would give a toral of about 5,500 men; and beside general oMcers, there are close upon a dozen stipendiary magistrates engaged in the struggle to restore order, This enormous force has been on duty for five days, and some of the men, especially in the cavalry, look as though they had been on a cam- paign. The riots to-day have continued with una- bated violonce, but the number of encounters have been considerably reduced, Pistol shots have been ringing all over f THE DISTURBED DISTRICTS during the day; but they are the last efforts of ex- hausted savages. I learn that the general hospital has but three or four shot wounds to-day, but pri- vate houses have their many victims. The confist has now degenerated into stone throwing and pil- lage and house hunting. The torn up streets afford ready missiles for the mobs, and in about halfa dozen cases to-day the fights were renewed with extraordinary vigor. The military and police, however, are now masters of the geography of Belfast, which is in many respects singularly puzzling to a stranger. They dash in among tho rioters and eifect arrests, and no tumult can last for longer than fifteen minutes. But they are no sooner in one direction than the flends fling at one another in the locality lately guarded. With these incessant but comparatively unsuccessful out- breaks THE TOWN IS KEPT IN A HIGH FEVER. The great outrages of the last three days have not been renewed, but what they lack in strength they show In frequeney, The military are ceasciess in their operations, and when they are not clas. tising stone-threwers they are guarding the “wo- men” as they “fey from the wrati: to come.” could not exagrerate the woful appearance of Bet. fast at this moment, Ihave been all through the principal streets of the disturbed districts. and a more melancholy wreck I have never beheld. In a circumference of three miles THERE IS NOT A HOUSE OR SHOP OPEN, the shutters of every window are closed, and in- side the people tremble lest a bullet or a brick should endanger their lives. In tho Shankhill district, from Peter's Hill to Bowers’ Hill, there is not one pane of glass, not one sas), not one bit of furniture, not ove door. The strect is literally covered with broken glass, with broken woodwork, with broken furni| and now and then you come upon heaps of charred sticks and ashes and half-consuined tables and chairs, This lace has been ag literally gutved as a wreck could e. The aspect is something frightiul. The houses look as though they would tumble In witl a tre- mendous crash and complete the harmony of ruin. Indeed, fears are universaily ente! ined that some of these tottering fabrics will cost many lif+s be- fore the hideous time is done. Turning fromm these scenes of desolation the spectator is arrested by THE MOURNPUL BANDS of “warned” people slowly dragging along their wretched property, while they are protected from the fary of the mob by military and police. This heartiess system never was so relentlesly pursued before. In the Catholic districts there remains not one Protestant; and no Catholic dare remain longer than the specified “three hours’ in the bloody precincts of Sandy row. Cases of unspeaka- ble hardship are to be met in every street. Here you find old and helpless people driven from their iomes to seek shelter ina district In which their co-religionists reside, but In which there are no houses to be let. There is NOT SUFFICIENT HOUSE ACCOMMODATION for the established residents; and where are the vagrants to go? I have seen people sitting rue- fully on the flagways with a little furniture seat- tered about in the helpless agony of tears, I have seen an old man carried in his bed by his sons and laid in an say while they begged for a room. Nothing like the scenes of to-day were ever beheld in Ire- land before, and possibly no civilized country can atford a comparison, Thousands of people, half recovered from the wildest intoxication, are to be seen in groups loitering about with wickedness manifested in their oyery moye, HUNGER HAS SET IN; for no wages have been had since last Thursday; all the shops are closed; the marketable goods 0: most of the lower we bey ol Reon jeqtroyed 5 gilarde several mills are locked up ani py mnill- tary, and 4 miserable unrest is all the town contains. ma can—stell No mai how Vi social ye here is te be xeatored, Where ate the homeless to go? How ay the necessary articles of doiestic economy to 2 procured? How will the town bear taxes for the destruction of property? How are the ills and wounds of this bitter time to be patched up? That even now, alter tet Ves or eet SIX DAYS OF LAWLESSNESS and ragine, the bloody spirit is not quelled is plain from the news which I have just learned. From a house in one street shots were being fired 80 TY ee that command was given to enter any rest 6 inhabitants. The police were received with & Volley of shots Cue were compelled to retire, The officer in comiiand again advanced, and, more shots being ¢ischarged, he gave the order to fire, Twice the thirty-six constables fired, and the most appalling rumors are abroad as to the effect. The wounded are not now carried gene- rally to the hospital, but to the houses of friends, At this moment, save for the general panic and feeling of distrust, the town is quieter than usual. To-day’s business is bad enough, Heaven knows; but beside the horrors of Sunday and Monday it fear harmless, The night is awaite, with anxiety. LOCOMOTIVE ACCIDENT, One Woman Killed and Two Injarcd= A Party of Five in Jeopardy—A Horse Killed and a Wagon Shattered. The forty minutes past one train leaving Green- point for New York yesterday ran through a light covered wagon which was crossing the track, about half @ mile cast of Westbury, L. I. In the wagon were two ladics and three children, whose names still remain unascertained. The locomotive came in fatal contact with the unconscious little pleasure party between five and six o'clock in the evening. As quick as lightning, and with an effect as disastrous as melancholy, the powerful engine did its deadly work. In a moment horse, wagon, women and chiidren were hurled high into the air, The woman who was driving the unfortu- nate Party was instantly killed. The shrieks of the others plereed the air around. The second woman and one of the children were also seriously injured, but two only miraculously es- caped. ‘The horse was killed and the frail pleasure Wagon broke into a thousand pieces. The whole Wen, dead and wounded, were conveyed to the vestbury police station, Westbury is but a small country village in close proximity to the villages Of Hicksville and Farmingsville, The express train which did so much painful Injury was forty minutes late at Hicksville. ‘The accident caused great ex- citement and aroused much sympathy for var in tho village of Westoury. danetead bo id DANGEROUS BUSINESS. The Escape from Quarantine of Two Schooners. A good deal of excitement was caused yesterday in the city by the rumor that two schooners had passed the Hell Gate entrance from the ocean, obeying the Quarantine regulations. These two schooners were the B. G. Troop, from Cow Bay, Newfoundland, laden with coal—not, as a morning Journal reported yesterday, with lumber—and the Hamburg, from Cape Breton, laden with lumber, The Troop was consigned to Heney & Parker, @ firm in this city; and a HeRALD re- porter, who made inquiries at the Board of Health in relation to this very important matter which concerns the satety of the people of New York, was informed that the mistake Was made by the captain of the Troop, whe was a fool, and did not know enough to apply to the Gee canine authorities for a permit to come in by the Hell Gate entrance to the waters surrounding the city of New York, Masters of vessels that make an entrance by Heil Gate have permission to bring their vessels down the East River and anchor them in the stream. This, it seems, is the law, but the public must look at it asa dangerous outrage. ‘The vessel—which, just as likely as not, may come from a plague-stricken port—is allowed to come down the Last River and anchor in the stream, Vesgels coming at Sandy !fook are promptly quar- antined and no excuse is admitted, the rigor of the reguiations not allowing any departure; but in the Fast Rivor it is allowed that any vessel may be an- chored until the master, in an easy, deliberate and cool manner, may. see fit to 4 down to Quarantine for his permi This the law. It is lucky that neither the Troop nor the Hamburg hailed from a port which was troubled by cholora, for if either had, the people on the East River bank by thts time might have been prepared to send corpses to the Morgue. In- Spector Jones visited these vessels at the foot of renty-first street, and the captains of tho two Schooners were compelled to report at the rooms of the Board of Heulth, in Mulberry street. The captain of the sloop came yesterday afternoon and explained that he was ignorant of tho rules, and made his arrangements thoreughly. The captain of the Hamburg will appear this morning, {t is sup- | Kc by the interference of Inspector Jones, and ‘he worthy citizens on the East River may sleep soundly in thetr beds, and rest assured that neither of the schooners has come from a place where pestilence has been rifo, But still the law is im- erfect and dangerous that allows a vessel to come in by Hell Gate, and gives its captain or master twenty-four or forty-eight hours’ delay before he has to report to the Quarantine authorities, NEW YORK CITY. + Two hundred and five new patients were treated at the Manhattan Eye and Ear Hospital, 233 East Thirty-fourth street, during the month of August, After a great deal of talk and bother in high oMicial circles it has at length been settled that the firemen are to receive their summer vacation as heretofore. Last Friday 8 man named William O’Brien stole a case of goods, valued at $319, from pier No. 27 East River. He was arrested yesterday and was com- mitted by Alderman Coman at the Tombs. Comptroller Green paid en Saturday the Police Department, for salaries of the employés and the force for month of August, $275,090, and he paid yesterday the Department of Public Parks, for the requirements of that department, $40,000, Elizabeth Nolan, an Irish woman, yesterday af- ternoon fell from a third story window of her resi- dence, 493 Seventh avenue, to the pavement, and was almost instantly killed, Coroner Herrman was notified to hold an inquest. The occurrence was purely accidental, At a late hour on Sunday night Jacques Ponger, a native of France, fifty years of age, who lived at 183 Prince street, while ascending a Might of stairs, fell backward to the yard, where he was subsequently found dead by his son, Coroner Young was notified to hold an inquest on the body. Willlam Lee and Mary Ann Allen were committed, at the Jefferson Market Police Court yesterday, on complaint of Rosanna McDonald, of 234 Wooster street, who charges that on Sunday night they for- cibly entered her room and attempted to steal a quantity of money and jewelry, valued at $4", ‘hey both denied the charge. Yesterday being the anniversary of the battle of Sedan, our German citizens celebrated the day in a becoming manner. During the afternoon the fol- lowing despatch was sent per cable to the Emperor William :— To H. M, The Emperor Wittzam, Berlin :— ‘The German Landwehr Verein, o York, cele- if New brates the glorious day of Sedan, and hails William the Victorious. BEUNO SPEYER, President. THE “METHODIST PREACHERS Again at Their Posts—Vacation Experi- ences—Ordination of a Missionary for India, After a vacation of about two months the Methodist Preachers’ Association met yesterday at No. 805 Broadway. The attendance was large, and most of the ministers looked rather rustic after their summerings by land and sea. The services were of a devotional character, with a few vaca- tion experiences thrown in. Rev. Dr. Porter, of New Jersey, presided, and Rev. W. McAlister opened the meeting. Dr. Foss expressed himself highly delighted with Denville Camp Meeting. He considered it the model meeting of the Summer en campments. Rev. Mr. McLean was greatly blest at Sea Clif, and has been on the mountain top rejoic- ing ever since the meeting of the National Associa- tion there in July. Dr. Porter said that about one hundred and sixty conversions were reported at Denville Camp Meeting. Sing Sing was well spoken of also by two or three ministers. Mr. Lodge had a good word to say about a church dedication at Dobbs’ Ferry, and Mr. Hill and others about a similar service performed at Hartsdale, N. Y., yesterday, At 11:30 A. M, an interesting and unusual cere- mony was performed in the Cl ee by Bishop Har- ris, assisted by Drs. Dashiel, Eddy, Durbin, Craw- ford and others. It was the ordination of a mis- sionary to India to Elder's orders. The Rev. A, Norton, a graduate of the Northern University, and & member of the Delaware Conference having been appointed to this mission fleld, will sail from this port to-morrow. Mr. Norton and another young minister go out under a new condition of things, by which the Missionary Society under whose auspices le leaves is relieved from all pecuniary obligation save the cost of transportation. It ap- ears that the labors of tne California Evangelist, Kev, William Taylor, in Bombay, has resulted in the conversion ofa core of nundred persons, who lave organized a Lele B church and called these young brethren to be their pastors, prom! ing them @ reasonable support. They have accepte the terms without any other stipulation as to e jount, It is believed that bas att Ls dey - nisslor Pp} rates Wi figcepte others, an that Lon Pa W La Ron {3 Raoption’ ‘Dr. A a Eeyet President A oe de Noakes 0) » Norton nates Tondnd Whe close or fre meeting spoke very highly of the plety and the evangglical labors of the you missionary. to be asso- lated with Mr. Nor' M vy, Mr. Fox fi, and Rev, Mt. reat? fx out also to another part of the India missior ext week the preachers will discuss the desir: leness of adopting district conierences, as pro- vided for by the last General Conference. 2 ae Se A YACHT CAPTAIN MURDERS A CHINAMAN, Danie! Ayers, the captain of the yacht Spray, be- longing to Mr. Blackburn, which is now lying at Glen Cove, was yesterday committed to the County Jail by Justice Frost, of Oyster Bay, on a charge of murdering a Chinaman, named John Howes, in the employment of Mr. 8. M. Barlow, of New York. It is alleged that Ayers, with a companion, while walking in Glen Cove on Sunday evening met Howes, and without any provocation knocked him down, and, after kicking him in a brutal manner, took a pistol from his pocket and shot the unoffend- ing foreigner. The ball entered his forehead and had not been extracted last evening. Information was immediately given to the authorities and the He was immediately taken captain was arrested, | to the bedside of the dying man, and identified as the person who had fired the shot A RAILROOD FLAGMAN KILLED, About half-past seven o'clock morning Nathanicl Gee, a employ of the Harlem Railroad Company, was on duty at the corner of Sixty- second street and Fourth avenue, when he saw Isaac Ottenbery, a baker, of 23 Clinton strect, in the act of crossing the track with his horse and Wagon. As an up train of the New Haven Com- pany was approaching and a Harlem train coming down, Mr. Gee warned him to stop, and attempted to prevent him from going ahead, Ottenberg, however kept moving, and the locomotive of the New Haven train struc! e rear end of the wagon, which in upsetting fell upon and crushed the head of Mr, Gee, Oiticer Pinckney, ot the Nineteenth precinct, being aboard the Iariem train, jumped of and plekea Wy? Mr, Gee, Who was insensible and bleeding from the head. The in- jured man was taken to the Fifty-ninth street police station, and died soon after admission. Ot- tenvefg, with his horse and broken wagon, was also taken to the station louse aud detaiyed. yesterday flagman in the A RAILROAD WAR. The Pennsylvania Central and the Na- tional Railroad Company. A Threatened Rival to “Tom” Scott. The Question of Another Through Line from Philadelphia to New York. THE MYSTERIES OF A JERSEY CHARTER. PHILADELPAIA, Sept. 2, 1872, The argument in the case of the Pennsylvania Railroad Oompany, under the guise of stockholders of the National Railway Company, against the Na- Uonal Railway Company was begun in the Supreme Court in this city to-day. The case is designated on the Court dockets Sellers et al. vs. The Na- tional Railway Company, but isin reality backed by the Pennsylvania Railroad. It is an application to restrain the National Rallway Company from collecting instalments, negotiating their bonds and proceeding generally with the work on the road, which promises to be A MOST FORMIDABLE RIVAL to this gigantic monopoly now under the manage- ment of ‘Tom’ Scott, E.S. Miller appeared for the plaintiffs, and Samuel Dickson, William Mere- dith, John ©. Bullitt and Charles Gibbons for the defendants, Mr. Miller then opened for the plain- tiffs, giving a history of the case as published by us when the matter was before the Court last month. He said that in 1860 the Attleboro Railroad Com- pany was incorporated, and the statute provided that if work was not begun within three years the charter should fal, Three years expired and no work on the road had been begun, nor had the com- pany been organized. After the expiration of the three years they obtained an act of Assembly ex- tending the time for commencing the road to five years, then they obtained subsequent charters in- creasing their stock adlibitum. Then they applied to the Court of Common Pleas of Bucks county 10 CHANGE THEIR NAMB to the National Railroad Company. He would argue that the Common Pleas of Bucks county had no Power to make this change. Next they made con- tract with a Mr. Hamilton, who was to give them a through line to New York by consolidating the Hamilton Land Company, the Millstone and New- ton Railroad and the Peapack and Plainfield Railroad Company, all of New Jersey. This he did, not by transferring the franchises ofthese companies, but by selling to the defend- ants, a Pennsylvania railroad company, sufficient stock to enable them to control these New Jersey companies, and on the following day the defendants voted to increase the stock of the Little Attleboro Railroad Company to $10,000,000, and pecullarly all this stock was owned by the company itself. On the 2d of September, 1871, they filed under oath ar- ticles of association, under the name of the Yardley- ville and Middletown Railroad Company, to extend to the middie of the River Delaware. This com- pany consisted entirely of the gentlemen who composed the Attleboro Railroad Company, the only difference being the par value of the stock. Next the Attleboro Company and the Yardleyville and Middletown Company merged, and this they thought gave them way to the middle of the Dela- ware. They were, however, calculating without their host, for a year before his contract with them HAMILTON HAD SOLD OUT HIS LAND in New Jersey for $50,000. The charter of this Hamilton Land Company was for educational, re- ligious and temperance arenas, yet they thought to build @ connegting railroad upon it. ext they got in New York a charter for a trust company in New Jersey, the charter setting forth that cor- poration was for the purpose of collecting notes, warehousing, &c. On this they were to found another railway; further they ob- tained power to run a ratlway to any Tine or marl pit they might . contract for. Mr. Miller, in lis anxiety for the interests of his clients, forgot himself so far that he had to be Brouehe back to earth by Judge Sharwood, who asked him if he thought the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania had eng ing te do with anything outside of the State, Mr. ler replied that he deemed the real question to be, whether a Pennsyl- vania railroad could merge with an unfinished road or lease, or consuit fate with any road out of the State other than a connecting road. He said he could show that these defendants had MERGED WITIi FIVE UNFINISHED ROADS, and that there was no connection whatever across the Delaware, and they finally consolidated with a sixth—the Stanhope Railroad Company of New goraey, whose charter was a fraud. They got the New Jersey companies, all of them, consolidated under the name of the Stanhope Company, and then joined the Stanhope Railroad Company to the National Railroad Company. After all this, in addi- tion to the issue of $10,000,000 of stock, it files a record of mortgage of $5,000,000 upon which to raiso that much money, and which Hens cover not only the Pennsyl- vania property, but the entire route. “Then,” he sald, “before this last action was taken the charters of two of these New Jersey companies expired from non-use.” He thought he could show that these defendants were no legal corporation, and in order to PEO nee them from extending the liabilities and endangering the rest of his clients, he would argue for the injunction they had prayed. FOR THE DEFENCE. Mr. Gibbons followed for the defendants, giving a history of the company, its character, &c., from the Repnnie, The name was changed according to law. Mr. Hamilton became the owner of 80 much of the Attleboro Company and the New Jer- sey corporations in the usual course of busi- ness. In order to give the Pennsylvania Company control of a through route to New York, Mr. Hamilton agreed to transfer to it all his New Jersey stock in exchange for all the common stock— namely, 100,000 shares—with the condition that he should demand no dividend on this common stock until after the holders of the preferred stock had received ten per cent of their subscriptions. After thus eflecting COMPLETE CONNECTION WITH NEW YORK the cornet, opened an ofilce in this city and in- vited subscriptions to th aectiaer stock, it being distinctly stated to cach subscriber that this Hamilton contract existed. As to the plaintiff's allegation that in the charter of the Staniope Com- i. the clause giving it the power to merge the ve other companies of New Jersey was surrepti- tiously inserted after the engrossing, he de- nounced it as a wilful and malicious falsehood, manufactured by the ENEMIES OF THE ENTERPRISE. The proofs, they said, were certain letters. Those letters were extracted from the New Jersey news- apers—not even the originals could be produced. ie was prepared to refute this whole oe by, the oath of the engrossing clerk himself, is was @ scheme set on foot by men who wield the legislative power of this tate, and who claim to wield the. legislative power o} New sree an meee very bilis filed by these iaswllits apreared In substance |) joney ar. ele of the Buble Yoda And SRY that paper were at once sent to parties In New York te were ,000 of his loan, is about purchasing $3, ‘WAR WAS BEGUN FIRST IN THE NEWSPAPER he chi ir gf this company, that had been so Mauch dregded, Was ny. small affair, but was one of the Jnrgéa 144 Most libéfar vgNClises ever given by this Commonwealth, It requirad tne Toad to be finished to Attleboro—a distance of thirty Illes PY April next; and these plaints sought td embark the company in this sort of litigation so as to ren- der the fulfilment of the charter provisions im- possible. He would not say the plaintiis themselves were actuated by these motives, but those behind were. He could show that Mr. Sellers had no tuterest whatever ihyolved in this enterprise; therefore was not entitled to equity, ‘The principal cause of action alleged fainst the National Railway was that the original charter of the Stanhope Railroad Company was changed after it had passed the New Jersey Legislature. THE FOLLOWING AFFIDAVITS Will effectually disprove this :— State of Nev Jersey, Mercer County, #s.—Jeromiah H. Lup- ton, of full age, bemg duly sworn according to law, de- poset and salen f was the engrossing clerk of’ the House of Assembly during its session for the year 1872, and engrossed the bills for that session. 1 remember during sald session, of engrossing a bill entitled "An act to Incorporate the Stanhope Railroad Company.” I have this day examined itin the office of the Secretary of State, and find it to be in the handwriting of myself and my as- sistants, Miss Mary Beagle and Miss Antia Beagle. It 1s now as {t then was, to the best of my knowle ge, And be- lief. J delivered it, after being engrossed, to Mr. Willets, meinber of said House and chairmen of the Committed on Engrossed Bills, taking his receipt for the same in. the sual and customary manner. The bill bears my official Poste ic ee JEREMIAH H. LUPTON. Sworn, (0 and subscribed before me this Tih day of Au- gust, 1872.—Josera H. Hoven, M. 0. 0. State of New York, City and County of New York, es.—John A. Hall, of full ago, being duly sworn according to law, ov his cath deposeth and saith that he ts now and hag been since January 16, 18/2, the Private Secretary ot Joel Parker, the Governor of New Jersey, who was inangu- trated at that time ag said Governor that among, other Bhings it was tho duty of deponciit, as such Private pecretary, to compare the official engrossed copies of all dill presented to the Governor for his approval; that uring tho session of the New Jorsey Legislature for the Year f7z—to wit, on the 13th day of March, 1872, and dur- ing sald session, Jesse Wandle, a meinber of the’ House of Ascombly, and chateman. ofthe Committee on Passed Pills of said House, presented the original offteiat en- grossed copy of an act {o incorporate tho Stanhope Rail- Toad Company at the office “of the Executive in the usual and regwiar way’ that (be said bill T make this affidavit in the city of New Yor matter of mere personal convenience to mayelt, inet drawn in my own handwritih JOHN A.’ Sworn to and subscribed before me this fou of August, A. D. 1872, at the city of New York. —H. T, Tettxk, Notary Public, New York county, Oficial veal HT. E, Teller, Notary’ Public, bay yf Seige nbd Ig? hyp? iesgpoall Avie New Jerscy, Mercer }, 4. —J 080) A being duly sworn ‘aveording to “ay, tiopoveth and math that he if and has been acting Secretary of State since he dist of February, 1872, during the absence of Henry D. Kelsey, who has since chat time been in Europe; tha on the 13th day of March, A. D. 1872 during the Legisla- tive session of that year, John A. Hail, the private secre- tary of His Excellency Joel Parker, delivered to him the Busipal engrossed, copy. of an act to orporate the itanhope Railroad Company, numbered —, Assembly In, tho usual regular and oficial way, whlch be im, mediately yf Bei tad on wiiol he nas’ made inet official ce said pfe ‘capone act is now as it way presented be him by John A, 10 Governor: iaaateae Big io bas Glork "Assembly" thaniel Nile: also, on “Edwi # upon all other bills jar session; but upon each and every page of ead and engrossed copy so filed fe afgresaid the stamp of said Nathaniel Niles, Speaker, Edward Bettle, President, ts impressed in plain distinct marks; that the OF sal roved 1B, tara, Joo! Parker,” appear, and that the sald w “Approved March 13,'1872, Jocl Parker,” are in the handwriting of tho said Jocl Parker, who was then, now is, the Governor of the State of New Jersoy, with whose handiyriting this deponent is familiar; thag to the original engrossed copy of said act so filed now on file in office of said Secretary of State the follow- ing certificates are appended :— OUSK OF AssemnLy, March 5, 187% This bill having been three times read and compare® In the House of assembly, Resolved, Thal the same do past by onder, of the House ofAssembly, —. ATHANIEL NILES, Speaker of the House of Assembly. In Senate, March 12, 137% This bill having been three times read in the Senate, Resolved, That the same do pass, by order of the Sonate. KKDWARD BETTLE, President of the Senate. That tho signatures of the said Nathantel Nil and of Edward Bettle, President, are in the writing of sald Nathanlel Niles ‘and said Edwai with which I am familiar, and that upon the page w which said certificate is ‘written the official stam| Speaker and said rea said Niles as sal ttle as ident. are impressed as first aforesaid ; this deponent further sai! that on the 13 of March, A. D. 1872, the State assessment on sald act as required by law was duly paid into the office of the Secre- tary of State by J. D. Banghart, for which a pro) re ceipt and voucher was given, J.D. HALL. Sworn to and subscribed before mé at the clty of Trem- ton this 15th. day of August, A. D. 1872-8. M. Dioxixsom, Master in Chancery, New Jersoy. THE NEW JERSEY SECRETARY OF THE SENATE O#RTIFIBS, State of New Jersey, Middlesex County.—John F, Babcook, of Fullerton, being duly sworn acco! ing to law doposetly And saith "1 was the Secrowry of Senate of the tiate New Jersey during its session for the year ave this day exmnined the recouts | of | sal of the Senate, and hereby certify that a bill enti ‘An act to incorporate the Stanhope Railroad Compa was passed by the said Senate at the sald session. TI Hon. Wm. H. Conover, Jr., Senator trom Monmoutis county, was President pro teinpore of the Senate at time of’the Passage of said bill. The Hon. Edward Bet lar pI ing officer of the Senate, was not vote upon the same, JOHN F. BABCOG! ribed before ine this 16th day of Au. ‘ust, 1872.—WooLRipas Stacey, Master in Chancery of New Jersey. been read by ac ‘Sworn to and sul The above aMdavits havin; Dickson, of counsel for plaintiffs the afidavit Mr. Hamilton was read, setting forth that Charles Macalister bought the stock in the interest of the Pennsylvania Central and Philadelphia and Trenton Railroad Companies, and also, if unimpeded, the defendants will, within fourteen months complete a double track from this city to New York, without crossi any highway at grade, After some discussion, Judge Sharswood saying te was of importance to know whether these plaintid@s were acting for the Pennsylvania Railroad Com- P any, MR, WILLIAM SELLERS being affirmed was examined by Mr. Gibbons an@ said:—I am one of the plaintiifsin this bill; laf firmed to every one of the statements made in that bill, and those statements were made .by my au- thority; the application to me for my subscription was made by Matthew Baird; we had some discus- sion about this, and I objected to subscribing to any road that wouk cross any of our strects at grade or cross the tk; he said he did not think it would be open to either of these oojections, and he believed if would come im at the North Pennsylvania Railroad. At the time I objected to this (meg Te It was proposed to run the road across the Park. Ido not know what ‘was their purpose at the time I filed this bil. ‘The information I got for this bill I obtained at the Pennsylvania Railroad Company’s office from Mr, Howard, He asked me if I knew this company was about to negotiate this loan. I think the points about the frauds of this eg were suggested to me by members of our Park Commis- sion in 1870, In the meantime the National Railway Com} have 700 men at work, and will, undoubtedly, pul the. work through. ‘The Pennsylvania Railroad have brought this action merely to delay the pro [nn of the road; not that they expect to gain a nin else, a8 one of their division superintendent admitted a day or two since. From present ap- pearances the National Railway have the best of the fight, The case is still on. ESSEX MARKET POLICE COURT. Judge Shandiey took his position on the bench yesterday morning for the first time since the Court was removed to the upper part of the building. He was somewhat surprised at the.close quarters his judicial functions had to be exercised in, and expressed himself several times as if he wished the repairs below would be soon completed, As early as seven o'clock the stream of prisoners poured into the small court room, and awaited the presence of the magistrate. Most of these were druuk and disorderly persons, many of whom were women. His Honor made his appearance precisely atcight A.M. After disposing of the large acray of drunkards and others arrested on pert charges, the case of Francis Johnson against John Doran was called up. Johnson is a sca-laring man who went into the barroom of a sallors’ boarding house on the corner of Water and Market streets, asked for agit be for a $5 bill, He 6 waiting for his change, when & map named John Doran came up suddenly and snatched $45 which Johnson held in his hand, Doran ram out of the place and Johnson followed him. jumped three or four fences, but was finally ar- rested by Officer Rowan, of the Seventh precinct. Judge Shandiey held Doran in default of $1,000 bail. iliam Doyle stops at Vandyke's Hotel, 26 Cath- arine street. He saw a valuable coat belonging to him on the person of Thomas Conway yestel q Conway was arrested and held to answer for 8! ing the said coat from the room of William Doyle, on the 20th of last August. A young lad named Michael Foley was caught with both his hands in the till of William Bets, whe Kf is a very store at 109 Riariage street. A dy hameéd Bertha Gingerbach caught him in the act and turned him over to the tender mercies of Officer Kellard, of the Tentn precinct. On hy 4 arraigned before the Court he wag held under $60 bail oe yer TEM aes ocd ss hota » Of 322 Bast Twenty-second pee was arreste “ Sunday ee ne Fe vering — beer to several persons, by ic jar rl bf the Eighteenth precinct. He was bailed tn $508 0 answer. ‘ YORKVILLE POLIOE COURT, te ; police returns to this Court yesterday were unusually light for Monday and devoid of pubiia interest. Justice Bixby occupied the bench, and, aa any man should after a two months’ vacation at Saratoga, he looks the perfection of good health. The sollowing cases, among others, were disposed of— Benjamin De Forrest, driver of a milk wagon for Jonathan Frost, of 213 East Twenty-seventh street, was arraigned on a charge of embezzlement, ferred against him by his employer, Being fond of company and given to roaming around at night, poor Ben fell into evil habits. He lost his master’s confidence, and continued from oad to worse until he was detected in converting to his own use employer's money. He was committed for trial, A BOY SHOOTS ANOTHER. A young rowdy, named Hoary Manet, residing im East Forty-second street, was cl 1d with putting: @ bullet in. the leg of John MeSoriley, eleven years of age, residing at 722 Second avenue. The on! cause was McSorley refused to follow the ext set him by Maher and others in jumping from the roof of a Wood shed to the ground, and because he did not do this Maher deliberately pulled a loaded revolver from his pocket and, without @ word, shot his victim in the thigh, about three inches above the knee, The young rufian was sent to the Catholic Protectory, he being but twelve years of age. GRANITE FOR THE ALBANY CAPITOL Axpany, N. Y,, Sept. 2, 1972, The new Capitol Commissionors have been obliged to make & new contract for granite, the proprietors of the Yarmouth open having failed to tial their contract of seventy-five cents per cuble foot. new contract is with the Hallowell Granite Com- pany, at $135 per foot. At the original letting the, vid of this company Was $1 60 per [Qty vl ee