The New York Herald Newspaper, September 9, 1872, Page 8

\ ‘THE COACHMEN'S RIOT IN HAVANA. HOW IT WAS QUELLED. Courageous Conduct of the Captain Gen- eral in Defying the Mob. NEWS ABOUT THE INSURRECTION HAvana, Sept. 3, 1872. Last Sunday, the first day of this month, was a @ay of considerable excitement in Havana, and of ‘mo little annoyance to those inhabitants of this city ‘who are accustomed to the conventence of the ‘ommonly called “peseteras” or twenty cent vehi- eles. A number of years ago the generality of pub- Mec vebicles were the awkward Cuban volantes, ‘with their large wheels, propelled by tough, wiry Uttie horses, with negro drivers astride their acks, but during the past few years these have been driven out of use by the more convenient Victoria, with one horse—or, as has been truly ‘bserved by a foreign note-taking traveller, ‘by two animals, one in the shafts and another on the box seat. About two thousand of these carriages circulate through Havana and its suburbs ‘by day and night at the rate of twenty cents a trip Yor one, two or even three passengers during the @ay, and forty cents between the hours of eleven at night and six in the morning. A peseta Spanish ‘being worth twenty cents is the origin of the com- monly applied term “pesetera,” and, as quite a mumber of these vehicles are rather old and rickety, they are also called “Arrastra Panzas.” For some time past the drivers of these carriages, in the majority Spaniards of the lowest order, have been guilty of the most flagrant and scandalous abuses upon the pabdlic, contravening all the municipal laws, rules and ordinances for their government. These abuses were generally committea by the class of drivers already referred to, who, as they wear the ved and yellow cockade on their hats, signifying that they belonged to some one of the volunteer ‘Pattalions, conceived the notion that they were all- powerful and could do as they pleased, as they had the proofs of their power in former rows in Havana and composed the majority who DICTATED TO THE AUTHORITIES ‘fast November, with this distinction, they were mever satisfied with their fares according to the establisued tariff, dispute with and use abusive and insolent language to the passengers, and when the distance to be traversed proved not to their pleasure, refusing to take passengers, provokingly @eclaringthat they were ‘‘ocupado,” while lolling ‘on their seats and perhaps sleeping off the night’s @ebauch. and generally becoming the most unruly and dreaded class of rowdies in Ha- vana, It was no unusual occurrence for ‘two to ride on the box-seat of a carriage engaged at Might, and if the prospect was a good one, f robbing their fare. An honorable distinction from these are the negro drivers, of whom never @ny one complained of insolence or extortion and are always preferred by the public for their good behavior. The frequency of complaints against ‘the first-named white class of drivers of these dally ‘and nightly occurrences of insolence and robbery had at last stirred up the new political Governor to again publish and enforce the laws relating to the @ublic carts and carriages which were still In force, but whose prescriptions were being 80 shamefully set aside by these rowdy charac- ters, The orders and regulations in regard to this subject were again published in the Ofictat Gazette of Saturday. These, and the expressed de- &ermination of the Governor to enforce their strict ebservance, commenced the same day, and a large jaumber were fined who had neither license nor num- der. This did not atall please the drivers of carriages, ‘who had become reckless from the power which fad been allowed them, and a great number on Sunday morning left their occupation, and forming dm groups, compelled others who had come out to return to their stables. Of course these actions gave rise to many scenes of disorder and yiolence, and the agents of the police were actively en- geget in repressing them and arresting the perpe- tors. THE EXCITEMENT AND DISORDER everywhere were serious enough to cause the po- tical Governor to come to the city from his coun- try residence in Marianao and the Captain General from his seat at the Quinta de los Molinos to direct and control by their presence and quell the fre- quently repeated disturbances. The Second bat- talion of volunteers were on guard duty, and sent detachments and patrols to the different points where their presence a be required to gid the police in breaking up the groups ‘and re-establish order. Cavalry patrols were on duty all day and also all night. His ex- cellency the Captain General, in his carriage with but a couple of aids, personally harangued Gifferent groups, and ordered the arrest of several ‘whom he pointed out. One man, a volunteer, for using an insulting epithet, directed to the General, ‘while he was speaking, was arrested by his order, his cockade torn off, and he will probably be sent to the trocha. A lieutenant of volunteers, named ), the owner of many vehicles, who used dirty and insulting language to the General, was sent to ‘the Cabana fortress by the General's ee) order, and to be tried by court martial. The excite- ment and frequent disturbances gave mse to many exaggerated rumors, A great number of wounded and bruised were admitted into the hospitals during the day and large numbers of the disturbers ‘were arrested and confined in the “Cuartel de la fuerza.” The principal offenders are to be tried by court martial, and it is said that numbers of them ‘Will be sent to the trocha, which is fast becoming @ punishment for vagrants and other worthless characters. The orders and other dispositions of ‘the authorities were suflicient to quell the dif- culty. Yesterday morning early the Captain Gene- Fal sent word to the diferent owners of stables That the authorities would not recede in the least, and that if the coachmen re- fased to work they would be sent as vagrants to the trocha (military cordon). Furthermore peg, Bard owners of stables that the peaceable nd well behaved coachmen would be fully pro- tected in their occupation sean any violence from the dissatisfied, and that the police and mill- tary had ORDERS TO CUT TO PIECES ny disturbers of the peace. Soon after coaches commenced to circulate, and at noon the streets of Havana were eee busy with the rattle of the seteras, the drivers of which, no doubt, have learned a good lesson, and the inhabitants of Ha- vana have had another proof of the energy and tact of Captain General Ceballos, and the remark hhas been often repeated, “What a pity he was not Captain General last November.” e Diario de la Marina of this morning has a Jong-winded article on the subject, in which it re- fers to the attack ofthe Spanish Deputy Diaz Quin- tero, some time ago, in the Cortes, speaking de- at of the volunteer force, as being composed Of the lowest and vilest of the Havana population, eartdrivers and coachmen; and in which the Diario took occasion to become their champion and defender, but not, as it declares, through any isan feeling, but because it knew them to form honest, hard working portion of the working class. On this occasion does the Diario again find opportunity to defend, or rather rae the actions of ‘the coachmen, insinuating they have been instigated by others more guilty tian they in opposing the authority of the government and provably by this time see their Srrot, are sorry, and won't do so any more. The Diario with ali its pretended wisdom does not for. get or neglect the zeerunices of the tgnorant class of Spaniards, maintaining that everything deroga- tory to their cause is the work of Cuban labor- antes; poor fellows! even the row of the Spanish coachinen is laid tothem. If they had any iniu- ence at all they woul! have exercised it probably ‘with the colored coachmen, who mostly sympathize ‘with the cause of Cuba and are natives of the island. Bat the sublime of all that is ridiculous and absurd is the following:—The Directiro of the Casino Espaiiol, composed of wealthy planters and merchants, who all have their own’ carriages, met on Sunday aventtie, and unanimously passed a res- olution disapproving of all opposition or resistance to the fulfilment of the laws, und agreed that their President, Yon Julian de Zulueta, should be the ent of their loyal sentiments, and respect- fally offer to the superior authority the moral and material aid of their corporation, ever interested in the preservation of public tranquillity. Itis natural bo edge pe Ce gs anthority was higply ‘atiiied at the patriotic co-operation of this ‘august coterie, is i THE INSURRECTION, ‘The latest news received from the insurrection, by telegram, from Santiago de Ouba, is to the effect that the insurgents in a considerable body from Holguin, and ancer the command of General Calixto on the 26th wtimo attacked the village of Uj T Baire ee Arriba), in the juris- diction of Bayamo. The ment of Spanish troops there left the fort to attack and dispel the enemy, but not, however, before they had suc- ceeded in burnidg a number of the houses and ‘ ar cloth and stam- ‘poding® the onttio ‘The loss et the Io- a Pe a ee wometed ca She. fognich. % found them After lasted two hours, the Spaniards with quite a number of kill and and the commander made out the usual of the enemy’s position and their complete dispersion, “having seen six killed, and, from traces of blood, con- wounded. The authorities at Santi de Cane, in obedience be ed Saya are bu: en; ae Ceo i] what they call v or suspicio who are’ sent ee at the trocha. Your correspondent has been credably informed that numbers: of innocent and well behaved persons have been thus arrested in all the cities of ‘this Isl- and and forced to the frotthy $e do the work of sol- diers, in guarding and w ing on the lines or tro- cha, <As no fresh troops are expected and to guard and work on numbers are wanted, the authorities have recurred to these arbitri arrests, The volunteers refuse to go to the fron’ The battalion of firemen (colored) of this cit; also refused, in spite of the offer of $20 advance. However, next Sunday lots are to be drawn, and the drafted are to be forced to do the service re- quired of them. From Trinidad I learn that complaints are fre- quent concernin; it of hands in for labor ig the want that district, that the demand has reached serious proportions, and even with prejadice to the agricultural prospect, The ¢ cer of that city (Trinidad), in ith superior orders, had been shipped e in the construction of Avila to Moron, condemned to hard labor, at different towns alo) the line, are all forwarded to the same place. number have gone from Trinidad, and there remain now but a few furnished by the Havana prison to work on the church now building, and a number of fugitive slaves devoted to the same purpose. THE METIS DISASTER. New York, Sept. 7, 1872. To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— In reading the account of the loss ot the steamer Metis the first conclusion arrived at by the reader is that the great loss of life in this, as in similar casualties, is caused by the lack of boata, and other apparatus for saving life. There is not a boat now plymg on the Sound with sufficient provision for saving half the number of passengers she usually carries. Steamboat owners, indeed, generally provide an imposing show of life- preservers, and generally have them placed in such inaccessible positions that in the hurry of a ship- wreck only strong and active men can get them; but in any case a life-preserver is only calculated to support a dead weight of five pounds, and in case of a prolonged stay in the water is of little use to save life. In disasters like this of the Metis, when the boats are required for use, it isin nearly every case dis- covered that from lying so long in the chocks they have become cemented there, or from long expos- ure to the hot sun they are not water tight; or again, they are turned bottom up and covered with canvas, and in nine cases out of ten the time lost in getting the boats in readiness 1s the cause of losing many valuable lives, Wooden lifeboats become unseaworthy from ex- osure to the weather, and they are also liable to be stove in the process of lowering. My experience says that no boat should be allowed on board a steamer but metallic ones, which are not liable to the above objections. The law should see that these boats are in the davits, with tackle all ready for lowering, before the vessel leaves her wharf, and this inspection should be made at frequent inter- vals. Another useful device for saving life would be to compel steamboat owners to carry large square bales of cork on their upper decks with life lines attached. Another matter in connection with this disaster is the action of the crew of the vessel. Generally speaking the crews of steamers are green hands— know nothing of a satlor’s duties—and in case of panic are the first to cause confusion, instead of seeing, a8 true sailors would, to the safety of the women and children first. This matter requires attention, and ts just as im- portant @ matter as the boats; for without compe- tent, steady men to man them they are useless. Many of the steamers now plying on the coast are entirely unfit for the service they are engaged in, asis proved by the losses every Winter on this coast. We see in the papers now and then an ac- count of a fearful gale and loss of life and shipping, and the matter fades out of memory, when, if the truth were known, the loss is altogether owing to the unseaworthiness of the vessel to resist a storm that a good vessel would ride safely through. In cage of a loss like this of the Metis, where it is clearly proved that the captain or any of the officers of the vesssel have been guilty of neglect or incompe- tence, they should be debarred from holding a similar osition ever in, or for a stated time, according the magnitude of their offence. This would be found a very ferkte ge 4 Jaw, and would insure good discipline on board their ships and cause cuptains and officers to be more particular in their choice of crews when they knew that their own reputation, to a great extent, depended upon the conduct of the men under their command, ANOTHER FACT BEARING UPON THIS SUBJECT. The proper authorities to enforce this steamboat law should be the Navy and not the Treasury De- partment. In the former they have competent en- gineers and seamen, ave ‘no enemies to punish nor friends to reward,” while in the latter appointments are made from pon motives, and when @ man 18 not liked by the steamboat owners he is removed and some one else appointed in his stead. Ido not intend to cast any reflection upon the present inspectors; for, so far as I know, they are honorable men; but the whole subject requires ventilating, and you never rendered a greater ser- vice to the community than you will do by calling public attention to the Insecurity of life on steam vessels. NATHANIEL McKAY. OBITUARY. Sylvanus Thayer, U. 8S. A. Brevet Brigadier General Sylvanus Thayer, United States Engineer Corps, died on Saturday at his resi- dence in South Braintree, Mass., at the age of eighty-seven years. He passed forty-seven years of his long and very usefal life in active military service, as Instractor and Superintendent in the United States Military Academy. Sylvanus Thayer entered the army from the State of Massachusetts, He was appointed cadet in the month of March, 1807; second Meutenant of engineers on the 23d of February, 1908, and first lieutenant of engi- neers in July, 1812, He was Deputy Commissary of Ordnance (with rank of captain) in Sep- tember the same year; chief engineer of Major General Dearborn’s army 1n 1812, and of the left division, commanded by Major General Hamp- ton, in 1813, He was _aide-de-camp to General Hampton in 1813-14. He relinquished service in the Ordnance Department in 1813 and was commissioned captain of engineers in October the same year. He was chief engineer in the defence of Norfolk against the British forces in 1814, and was commissioned brevet major for “distinguished and meritorious service at Norfolk” the same year. He was brigade major under Brigadier General Porter from the month of January, 1814, to May, 1815, and was pro- moted to the rank of lieutenant colonel by brevet for “distinguished and meritorious services.” His life, career, B kind and professional, has been reputable and brilliant, and now closes amid the very profound regret of his more intimate friends and associates, Julius M. Strong. '¢ Julius M. Strong, member of Congress for the dis, trict of Hartford, Coun., died in Hartford on Satur- day morning. He was carried away from life very suddenly by an attack of cerebro-spinal meningitis, He was apparently in perfect health the day before yesterday, and first complained of being ill on Thursday night. He was forty-seven years of age, Mr. Strong was first elected to Congress, over James Dixon, in 1869, and was re-elected in 1871 over Dr. A. R. Goodrich. His sudden demise has produced a feeling of profound sorrow in Hartford, er hy. rio aera vate the in- Sees wounded, ‘Those THE EIGHT-HOUR LEAGUE. The Expenses of the Recent Labor Re- volt. The Eight-hour League of the Furnitare Depart? ment held a meeting at the Teutonia Assembly Rooms, in Third avenue, yesterday. Mr. Homrich- hausen, of the German United Cabinetmakers, pre- sided; and reports were submitted, detailing the | expenses of the late eight-hour strike, which lasted about ten weeks. It appeared that $8,000 were expended for the support of the men on strike, and the sum of $5,000 is remaining on hand for future use in carrying out the project of enforcing the eight-hour labor system, The intention ts to resume the eight-hour inovement next Spring, when a central organization Is to be formed covering all other trades. The Eight-Hour League of the Fur- niture Department 1s composed of the German United Cabinetmakers, numbering 1,600 members; the Wood Carvers’ Union 600 members, and the Up- holsterers’ Union 850 members, “A NABBOW ESCAPE, As Officer Scullon, of tue Twenty-eighth precinct, ‘was patrolling his beat shortly before four o'clock yesterday moruing he saw a figure, robed in white, standing upon the sill of @ second story window of 945 West Houston street. The officer was no be- lever in ghosts or spiritual masifestations, sq he quietly aroused the inmates of the house and they reseued r perilous Mrs, Jennie Middlebrook, wi in a fit of somnambulism had left ber bed and wandered through the window, street, (From the Turf, Field and Farm, August 30.) We annex a table of the gross earnings of the sevcral stables during the late Saratoga race meet- ing, and the sires of the different winners :— WINNING STABLES, $9,000 D. McDaniel & Co. Glen Flora Breeding mae t Association \. = D. Buckiey. 210 . Buckley. J.T. Bi ici 200 James MeCormic 125 125 Byers & Travers. i. Harbeck, Jr. D. D, Withers. A.C, Franklin. 500 H. C. Dawson... WINNING “yg Kentucky... z Total. Lightning. ele s | Total... Imp. Australian. Join Morg: gar have, ere imp. Leamington. Imp: Bonuie Seotiaind. Doneraile.... ip. Aysgarth. eegeeeg The Orient and Occident. Under the above heading the San Francisco Sptrit of the Times of the 17th ult., in referring to the forthcoming trials of speed between Goldsmith Maid and Lucy and the California horse, Occident, concludes an article as follows:— It is to be hoped that the drivers of Lucy and of Goldsmith Maid will take fair warning from the tenor of Mr, Duncan’s letter, to which allusion is made in the Tur/, Field and Farm. Occident is a Calvornia born and bred horse. The people of the entire State take an honest pride in him; they be- eve he can beat the mares above named in an hon- est race; they will strengthen that opinion with substantial means, and they will not only demand, but insist, that an honest race be trotted. The Grivers of Lucy and Goldsmith Mald may bippo- drome to their hearts’ content and so long as the people of the East will submit to it, but when they come here to trot against our horses and for our money they must abandon all thought of ‘“shenanigan” in the con- test. Our people are thoroughly posted; the habitués of the turf here are, many of them, vet- erans in the pastime, and they cannot be deceived as to what is fair and foul driving. Every facility will be shown the strangers when they come to California, every courtesy extended that is possi- ble, every opportunity given for care and exercise of their animals; but when it comes down to trot- ting for money honestly hung up there will not be anything recognized in the transaction but ‘cold business,” and, as such, all contests in which Occl- dent enters will have to be conducted, This mat- ter should be thoroughly and well understood be- fore the mares come here. The gentleman who owns the horse just named has proprietorship in him simply to improve and develop fine stock, for the love of it and not from gain. He has ermitted his horse to be fitted for the track in order to see whether our soil and our climate are not as well, if not better, adapted for bringing horses up to a higher standing of speed than those east of the icky Mountains. In tnat laudable feeling he has the sympathy of the people of the entire coast; and we can assure the proprietors of the Turf, Field ana Farm, in answer tot] pe es remarks, that in every race in which Occident appears honesty must be the guiding star of all taking aere, for upon every occasion there will be @ cloud of witnesses on the turf to see that equal and exact justice is done and that his kind- hearted and liberal-minded owner is not imposed upon in the slightest from the time the animals leave the score until the finish of the race. A correspondent at Sacramento, under date of August 18, writes:—"I learn from an undoubted source that Governor Stanford's Occident trotted early this morning at Agricultural Park a half mile in 1:064g. One thing is certain, Occident is a horse that can repeat his performances, as instanced at a public trial at Sacramerrto, when he trotted three consecutive heats in 2:19, 2:19, 2:194g. Since that time he has eee ee @ thorough course of train- ing aud has much improved his time.”” The Paris Mutual Pools. To show how popular these pools were at the late Saratoga meeting we annex a table of the number of tickets sold on each race. It will be seen that there were 13,268 tickets sold at $5 each, amounting to $66,240. On this amount five per cent was charged, which amounted to the hand- some sum of $3,317, or over $552 per day profit:— Fins Day. First race—Kenner Stakes... Second race—Summer Handicap Third race—Kentucky Stake SECOND DAY. First race—Steeplechase.. Second race—Purse, 134 mile Third race—Parse, 134 mile FOURTH DAY. First race—Hurdle race... Second race—Purse, 2% mi Third race—Purse, 4 mile. FIrTH DAY. First race—Handicap,1 mile....... Second race—Handicap, two-year-olds... Third race—Sweepstakes, three-year-olds. Sixt pay. First race—Handicap, 14¢ miles Second race—Dash 4 mile... Third race—Purse, 1% Fourth race—Steeplechase. Total. Total amount at $5 per ticket Five per cent commission. . We have no doubt that these pools can be made eee akes ae, but the commissions should be reduced. ree thousand three hunared and sev- enteen dollars is rather steep on 366,340, and at this rate it will not take long to absorb all the money put in the pools. ‘Winnings at Hampien Park Races, The following table shows the amounts won by the different horses during the last week's races at Hampden Park, Springfield, Mass. Abraham Johnson's b. m. Jennie $2,100 Ben Mace’s b. m, American Girl. 1,600 Dan Mace’s br. g. Sleepy John. 1509 Mace's ch. g. Jud; 1,500 . J, Bowen's bik. g. C 1250 Dan Ptiter's ch. m. Gi 1,250 N. Nelson, Jr.'s b. 1,000 Roden’s b. g. ifenry.. BE y.H, Jarvis’ g, g. Doubtful... 1. 8, Carpenter's b. m. Lydia Thompson 700 FE. Hubbard, J Nonesuch...... 700 ie 600 W. 450 Dan Mace’s br. g. George Valmer. 400 William Briggs’ b. m. Lady Ross. . 400 R. Shea's br. c. Astronomer... 325 H. Gaffhey’s ch. g. Tammany. 825 J.J. Bowen's b. g. Comee.... 300 L. B. Brown'sch. g. Major Allen. 300 H. Dore’s b. m._ Grand Duches 800 J. 1. Doty's b. g. Sensation 300 W. i. Borst’s b. g. Ed. Fosie: 200 Daniel Jenkins’ ¢. &. Joe Brown: 200 James MeKee’s b. m. Young Thorn, 150 ng’s bik. g. Major Mahan, 150 br. ¢, Lord Byron, 200 b.c. Breig 100 Jubilee Lambert 0 $18,260 BROOKLYN AFFAIRS, ae There were 439 persons arrested in Brooklyn during the past week. The taxes received last week amounted to $196,473, Water rates paid reached the sum of $8,726, The Board of Police Commissioners have recently punished several members of the foree for the too free use of the locust upon the heads of prisoners who ‘would not go willingly” when collared. Ofm- cer Early, of the Third sub-precinct, was fined ten days’ pay yesterday for clubbing a prisoner. Chief of Police Campbell has notified captains of precincts that hereafter they will not permit any judge or alderman to open court at any station house. If an arrest is made during the hours that the magistrate is not holding court such offender shall be detained until the next public sitting of the magistrate. Two new sub-precincts have been established by order of the Police Commissioners. The new stations will be known as the Eighth and Tenth sub-precincts, Ten patrolmen and three sergeants will be assigned to duty in each of the districts named. Fifteen new policemen were appointed yesterday. a At about nine o'clock last night a car on the South Fourth Street Railroad, Williamsburg, ran over a boy, about nine years of age, in Meserole street, between Graham avenue and Humboldt killing him instantly, the wheels crushing hie head to a Jelly. The boy's remains were taken to the Stagg street station house, where ae, were identified during the night as those of George Lorenz, whose parents reside at 226 Montrose avenue. George Taggart, driver, and George Jones, conductor of the car, were arrested and locked up. At an carly Dour yesterday morning Philip Lie», "Dert, residing at No. 190 Attorney-street, New York, became involved in a querrel with a number of half- inebriated persons in John Schnelder’s lager beer saloon, No. 141 Meserole street, Wil- Niamsburg, when he was set upon and brutally assaulted with deadly weapons. The were called in and they rescued Liebert fro mediate death. He was removed to the house in 51 street, where it was found that right arm had been Danae carved with a knife, he appeared faint from the loss of blood. He sent to his home, Louis Klocker, who was in the fracas, received a stab wound in the but his assailant is not known. and locked up, were also ner and Henry Schuckard. Yeste! lay crews of two sandboats became involved in @ free fight on’the pier foot of Huron street, Greenpoint, when James Brown, who was grossly intoxicated, attacked John Miller, steward of the sloop John A. Miller, cutting him slightly on the left cheek with a nknife and inserting his teeth in the right chee! rown was arrested and locked up to answer charge of felonious assault. NEW YORK CITY. During the week there were 422 births, 167 mar- riages and 571 deaths. Marshal Hart granted during the week 100 licenses, receiving therefor $309, ead, The pollce during the past week arrested 2,044 persons in this city for various offences. There were 1,650 lodgers accommodated at the several station houses during the past week. E. J. Hall, Chief of the Ordinance Burean, received 301 complaints of violation of Corporation ordi- nmances. Fire Marshal McSpedon reports that twenty-one fires occurred last week, occasioning a loss of $20,560, which is covered by insurance amounting to $99,800, Comptroller Green paid on Saturday, through Pay- Master Falls, along the line of the work, the wages due the laborers on the big pipes to the 1st inst., to the amount of $22,557 30. Ann Finley, an Irishwoman, twenty-six years of age, serving out a six months’ sentence in the Pen- itentiary on conviction for petit larceny, died in the island hospital on Friday of peritonitis, An in- quest will be held on the body by Coroner Young, who was notified, Daniel Callahan, of 13 Albany street, and Timothy Hayes entered into a disputation last evening in a grocery store, 127 Washington street. The se- quence of the affair was that Callahan received several severe scaip wounds, inflicted by a bottle wielded by hayes. Melina Tenant, @ child eighteen months old, whose parents live at 194 West Eleventh street, at eight o'clock yesterday morning {ell from the fourth floor to the cellar, and died soon afterwards from the effects of the injuries received. An inquest will be held by Coroner Young, who was notified. Steven O’Connell, recently living in Cherry street, near Rutgers, died yesterday morning in Bellevue Hospital, from the effects of injuries re- received on Friday last by a bale of hay falling through two floors of a building at James slip, where he was at work, and striking him on the head. Coroner Keenan will hold an inquest on the body, Coroner Young on Saturday was called to the Morgue to hold an inquest on the body of Charles Brown, an English seaman, twenty-two years of age, who was drowned at three o’clock in the morn- ing by falling from the steamship Erin, lying at pier 44 North River, aboard of which he was going while much under the influence of liquor. About half past two o'clock yesterday morning Dennis Lawlor, a man thirty-one years of age and born in Ireland, while in a state of intoxication went on the roof of premises 436 East Thir- teenth street, from which he staggered and fell to the pavement, killing himself almost instantly. Coroner Young was notified, and will hold an in- quest on the bog. OMcer Maher, of the Twenty-eighth precinct, ‘undertook to arrest John Coll, of 448 Washington street, about half-past five o’clock yesterday after- noon. Coll drew a knife on the officer, who, not caring to be disembowelled, clubbed his prisoner until he most effectually disabled him. Coll’s wounds were dressed by the Doctor, and he was afforded free lodgings in a cell. At half-past seven o’clock Saturday morning the body of a young man, about twenty years of age, subsequently identified, by cards and letters in his Possession, as the son of Mr. A. Plantz, doing busi- ness at 856 Second avenue, was found floating in the dock foot of Fifty-third street, East River. ‘The body evidently had been in the water a week or ten days. Coroner Young was notified. It is expected by the Superintending Engineer of Commodore Vanderbilt’s Underground Railroad that work will be commenced on that undertaking, both at the City Hall and at Fifty-sixth street and Fourth avenue, on the 15th inst., if not before. The depot at City Ha'l is to be 112 feet long and 60 feet broad, and will face Beekman street, veing opposite the North end of the Post Omice. James Donahue, Superintendent of the Free Labor Bureau, Nos. 8 and 10 Clinton place, makes the following report of business for the week end- ing September 7:—Applications for employment, 1,300, Of these there were 231 males and 1,069 fe- males; male help required, 201; female, 1,153; situ- ations procured for 185 males and 998 females; whole number of situations procured for the week, 1,183, On Friday night the premises No, 124 East Thir- tieth street, a private residence, was entered by burglars and property consisting of jewelry and other articles, valued at $114, stolen therefrom. Captain Williams, of the Twenty-first precinct, being informed of the robbery and learning that two oe named John McCormack and Henry Merrill had been seen round the place shortly before, he caused their arrest on suspicion. Yesterday they were arraigned before Justice Bixby, at the York- ville Police Court, who to give an opportunity to the police to work up the case remanded them back to the station house. Catharine Boyland and Catharine Lowry are occupants of the tenement house No. 802 West Twentieth street, the latter residing on the first floor and the former on the top. They have fre- quently had spats peculiar to females. Mrs. Boy- land states that yenrennay morning she went down stairs to get a piece ot ice, and met Mrs, wee! atthe front deor. The customary quarrel tool place, which terminated in Mrs, Lowry throwing a ucketful of hot scalding water over Mrs. Boyland, severely scalding her on the breast and arm. Mrs, Lowry was arrested by Oficer Cain, of the Sixteenth precinct, and arraigned before Justice Fowler at the Jefferson Market Police Court. She admitted throwing the water, and was held to bail in the sum of $500 to appear for trial. John J. Curtis, a marine from the Brooklyn Navy Yard, came over to New York Friday last with an acquaintance named Charles L, Willoughby, and after roaming about town for some time they both became a little hilarigus. Curtis went home with Willoughby, who, on reaching the house, proposed Parting his friend to bed, so that he on ee sleep oif the bad effects of the liquor he had imbibed, Curtis es ae and after getting into bed observed Willoughby quietly going through his pockets, which contained @ little over $50, Curtis got up and at once demanded his money, but Willoughby denied having takenit. They went out tometer andafter seeing there was no probability of the money being refunded, Curtis caused his “friend's” arre He was taken before Alderman Coman at the Tombs Police Court and committed for trial in default of $1,000 bail, MOVEMENTS OF MR, GREELEY, Mr. Greeley was at the residence of his friend Dr. Bayard, throughout the day yesterday, attend- ing church in the morning. The picnics at his farm on Saturdays have not been resumed, as a morning aper stated recently. On Tuesday afternoon Mr. ireeley will start by rail for St. Johnebury, Vt., where he is engaged to deliver the agricultural address at the Vermont State Fair. ATTEMPT TO BURN A TOWN, A Brutal Mob Sets Fire to Beardstown, Il.—An Entire Block Destroyed. CHICAGO, Il, Sept. 7, 1872, On Thursday night C. I. Dieffenbacher shot and Killed @ man named Melsted at Virginia, Cass county, Il. Last night a mob attacked the jail in Beardstown, where Dicifenbacher was confined, with the avowed purpose of hanging him. The jail was well guarded and the mob were repulsed, ‘In revenge the villains set fire to the town, and be- fore the flames could be extinguished an entire Diock of the best buildings in the place was de- stroyed. The excisement in the village is intense and more trouble 1s anticipated, FREE TO ALL Officer Brady, of the Fifteenth precinct, found the door of the East River National Bank, 682 roadway, open on Saturd: ht and caused it tobe secured. It is not iow whether thieves fae been moro tha bene cen eee e im . ana braces Wl soon ‘cease to De needed by tose Ye. ‘De heathie au 3 BROOKLYN WAVY Y. Increase of Work on This Station. The Force Engaged and the Necessity for Its Con- tinuance—The Relieving Flagship of the East India Squadron—The Pacific Ocean Sur- vey—What the Swatara Promises To Be—ihe New Torpedo Boat—War Murmuring Marines. The Brooklyn Navy Yard once mote résvuuas with the busy hum of mechanical labor, and tne hereto- fore almost deserted docks and walks are made lively by the appearance of workmen in goodly num- bers. All this change has taken place within the past month—since the authorities came into posses- sion of the annual appropriation set apart for the maintenance of the yard. This is as it should be at all the raval depots in the country, for certainly if there ever existed a genuine excuse for a generous outlay of public funds for rebuilding and repairing the miserably deficient wooden and iron bul- warks of our country, that time is the present. There is no such thing as questioning this assertion. No sane man having the interests of the naval service at heart can visit any navy yard in the country, where our war vessels lie either on stocks or rotting in ordinary, and not come away fully impressed with the con- viction that immediate attention to these crafts is ‘essential to the promotion of the welfare of the “fag end” which is spared of the navy. Notwith- standing all this, the anti-Grant press 1s loud in de- claring against what it is pleased to term the ex- travagance of the administration in spending money upon war vessels for political campaign pur- poses. They contend that the funds thus expended are wasted; that worthless and utterly unskilled men are daily employed as mechanics at the Navy Yard solely that they may work and vote for U. 8. Grant in November next. The Admiral, an old and tried sea warrior, disclaims any partisan mo- tives whatever in the administration of the affairs of this station, and contends that a preference is given in all cases to veterans of the late war, when they are equally competent in all other respects compatible with the best interests of the service to discharge the duties of the positions for which they may make application. Be that as it may, there are now not less than twenty-five hundred workmen employed on this station, and from a government standpoint they are actively engaged, and if justice be done the ser- vice there will be no diminution in the force for three years to come. New war vessels of modern design are imperatively necessary if we would hold our pristine glory on the seas, and give the starry banner to the breeze in foreign ports, where the influence and respect toa distant nation—a great republic—cannot be sustained long unless we make a display of power commensurate with our vaunted ability to accord protection to American citizens wherever or whenever their rights as such may be assailed. Weakness is never compatible with power, and a judicious exhibition of the latter must ever be con- ducive to permanent respect among the nations of the earth, whether civilized or barbarian. THR WORK AT THE BROOKLYN YARD. The chief force ofthe Navy Yard is now thrown upon the fitting out of the renowned sloop-of-war, fartford, of Farragut memory. ‘This splendid acrew steam sloop, of 2,900 tons, carries eighteen guns. Sne is undergoing repairs with all despatch upon the dry dock. Her destination is the East Indies, where she will relieve the Asiatic fagshi, Colorado. The Hartford will be pushed forward, 80 as to be ready tor commission by October. The good old satling ship Portsmouth, built in 1847, at which period she was considered asa ees fect gem in the way of naval architecture, been undergoing repairs since her recent return from a special cruise as school snip on the Brazil station. She is destined for a three years’ cruise in the Pacific Ocean, where her commander, Cap- tain Skerrett, will commence a thorough survey of the Pacific. This bes kt work, which has been found necessary owing to the imperfect and inac- curate charts at present extant, was authorized by special act of Congress, passed last session, and her fittings are very considerable and include many appointments not usually required by men-ot-war. For instance, the Portsmouth will carry no less than three steam launches and all conceivable sci- entific instruments requisite for the survey and deep sea soundings. The commander is chosen for his peculiar accomplishment in the line of survey, and a corps of scientists will accompany him on hi responsible voyage. The Portsmouth, will, itis be- lieved, be ready to hoist the commission pennant by October 15, THE SWATARA. The sloop-of-war screw steamer Swatara was originally built by Constructor Leuthenal, at Phila- delphia, in 1865. Like all the other vessels built of other material than live oak in the hurry and con- fusion of the wer, she did not last longer than six years. The hand of rapid decay was upon her, and she was condemned as unseaworthy, In February, 1872, the veteran naval constructor, B. F. Delano, who has built no less than twenty vessels of war since 1861, was instructed to rebuild the Swatara, ‘This work is now under way, and about two-thirds of her frame is up. She will be completed by the 1st of August, 1573. The new Swatara is to be widened and deepened, and will be full ship-rigged instead of bark-rigged, as heretofore, Her length will be 216 feet; beam, 87 feet ; hold, 19 feet; she will have two full decks—the spur and berth deck. Besides these she will have an orlop and @ poop deck and forecastle. There will be accom- modations for twelve wardroom ofticers, and the usual steerage and warrant officers’ quarters ad- join the wardroom. The crew will be about one undred and seventy-five mon. Her armament will consist of ten eight-inch Dahlgren guns broad- side, and one eleven-inch pivot gun forward. The Board of Engineers have not as yet determined as to what style or power of engines my will put in the Swatara; but as her lines are such as to war- rant speed, if the formation of the vessel be con- sidered by the designators of her motive power, great things bg d be promised for her in the mat- ter of splitting the waters. She will be built of the best seasoned live oak and fastened after the most approved modern plan. ‘THE TORPEDO BOAT. Constructor Delano prides himself upon the superior specimen of American workmanship which is being put in shape in the form of a torpedo boat, built of iron, This naval war engine is represente as being “pretty well under way,” but the de- signer of the craft respectfully deciines to give any description of her further than this. She is bein; constructed upon what is termed the Brocke' het 8 to say, she has a double bottom, Her castings are the first of the kind ever made within the liraits of Uncle Sam's vast farm—the United States. She will be fully equal in strength to any iron vessel of war ever constructed in Europe. IN ORDINARY are the following war vessels:—The paddle-wheel steamer Susquehanna, second rate, carrying 23 guns. She was undergoing repairs some months ago, but it became necessary to suspend work be- cause of the exhaustion of the funds ge for that purpose. She isa fine vessel and should be flying the flag on duty in foreign waters. The Guerriere, steam screw sloop-of-war, 21 guns, is also lying uselessly by in ordinary. ane lorida, 23 guns, is also in ordinary at this yard. The Minnesota, of the same claas as the Colorado, Franklin, Wabash and Niagara, was repaired re- cently and is now housed over, awaiting a call from Washington. About six weeks would suffice to equip her for a three years’ cruise. She carnes 45 guns and ts a magnificent vessel. The Tennessee, twenty-three guns, screw sloop, will shortly have her engines rep! laced by new ones, She 1s now in ordinary, The venerable and shaky old Sailing anie Gusts, four guns, is lying in ordinary at the Navy Yard. ON THE STOCKS. Hopes are entertained by the authorities that orders will shortly be received at this station to proceed with the work on the screw steam sloop- of-war New York, which was commenced in 1864, and has been lying on the stocks housed over ever since. She is of live oak and designed to carry twenty-one guns, The Java, of the same dimensions, but not of as lasting timbers, was commenced the same year as the New York. She will not be avallabie, it is feared, the durability of her timber, pine, bi | run its course. The cruise of the Java has ende before it was begun. ‘This loss to the government 4s owing to the action of the late Secretary of the ideon Welles), who, in order to pyre ec0- nomically disposed, turned in $18,000,000 of an appro- Priation voted by ‘Congress, near the termination of the war, to complete the naval vessels then on the stocks at the several yards, The government has incurred a dead loss through this parsimonious poliey of permitting vessels to rot unfinished on the stocks, TRON CLADS. The Colossus, second rate, screw, designed to carry ten ae oe ba is lying (housed over) at the yard. is is nest iron-clad vessel ever placed’ under construction in the United States, and much regret is of the fatiure of Con; to acquiesce in the wish of Secre Hosa a ata Leth had 0) Navy then E 8s oh ee zwar 32 and J Wolke, secretary 10. Vice prt ice Vice Admiral—S. C. Rowan, United States Navy, commendi Executive tain G. M. Ransom. oat Rg Yard and Ordnance Department—l Commanders ©. J. Barday and G. C. Schulze. Hospital—Medical Division—Saul Jackson. Labora Medical division—A. A. Henderson.. Surgeon of Yard—Surgeon A. C. Rhoads. Hospital—Passed Assistant 81 on E. Kerschner. Laboratory—Passed Assistant Surgeon J. H.. Kiffoepital—Asslstant Surgeon B.8, Mackee Rendezvous—Assistant Surgeon A. Frank; Assist: ant at Yard, Assistant Furepon J. M. R, Simmons, ned ane waa tees Oe rd; 29 Broadw: ¥ eau ‘Department Yard—Pay Division, J. 0, Eia- ridge. : past Of Provision and Clothing—Pay Division, "pay Department Yard—Assistant Paymaster W. W. Barry. petton ana Groening Department—asstetant ite! 1s E, Cann, wyetga Bnigine Department —Cnlet Engineer W. W. Inspector Machinery Afloat—Chief Engineer. George Sewell lef Engineer T. Zeller. Steam Engine Department—Chief Engineer R. preg ep Assistant Engineer A. V. Frazer, First hgh a meen B. F. Wood and First Assistant. neer G, W. Stivers. First Assistant Engineer J. J. Barry. tn nd Assist Steam Engine Depa: tant. * Chaplain of Yard-D, MoLauren. in of Ya: . ane oer art Delano; Assistant Na- mstructor, W. Intoyne. Civil Engineer—Norman Stratton; Assistant Civil: ineer, John K. Bulmer. 4 Department—Boatswains T. G. Bell, A.M. Pomeroy. Ordnance Department—Gunners, T. P. Venable, W. Carter, John Rodgers; Acting Gunner, J, P. G Te i rtment—Sailmaker D, C. Brayton. Yard Department—Mates, A. J. Morehouse and John Wyckort. THE RECEIVING SHIP VERMONT. Several changes have recently been made among’ the officers of this old “Guardo,” which rapi¢ settling down on a shoal of beef bones from over her bulwarks as she lies moored along- side the cob dock. The official list is as follows :— Commander—John Walters. ve Opicer—Lieutenant Commander B. P, eptea deutenants—F, A. Miller and E. K. McClellan, Master—E. S Pierce. Mates—S. 8. Willets, Charles Gainsford, A. J. Kenn; Mooney. tant "Suryeons—J. K. Waggener, T. H. Paymasters—J. E. Kolfree; Assistant, L. L. Brige Streets. ham. in—E. B. Bell. Carpenter—J. G. Meyers. Satlmaker—John A. Birdsall, There are not many men on board at presen’ and those who are there are anxious to be “drafted” ‘to seagoing vessels as early as possible. THE FLAG SHIP FROLIO, The Frolic, the flagship of the station, formerly lying off the Battery. She is now under of ne ‘Commandant of the station, the Vice Admiral. Her officers are as follows:— Li nt nder Commanding—O. Mo Schoonmaker, Acting Gunner—W. A. Fernier. Captain's Clerk—R. L. Wood. Pay Clerk—C. Dodge, Jr. HOW ABOUT THE MARINES ? A representative of the HERALD, in the course of ‘his peregrinations, met with a very gentlemanly: officer attached to the marine barracks, Fi avenue, and, in the course of a conversation, made a few pertinent inquiries touching the morale and strength of the sea-going soldiers :— “What is the gth, numerically, of the marines on this station at present ?”” “Well, Iam not quite positive, but should judge it to be about three hundred men.” “This is a popular station with the marine corps, officers and men, is it not?” “Far from it; ours isa d—d bad station for the: men, who are always dissatisfied. For my part, I wish I was elsewhere.” “Why, you astonish me; surely no part of the world offers greater inducements for the enjoy- ment of leisure time, when off duty, for officer or man, than is to be found in these parts.” “That is all very well; but the men do not like their commandant. We have lost during the past three or four months no less than sixty privates from this station by desertion.” “That 1s certainly a pretty serious ‘skedaddle,’ and a costly one for Uncle Sam, Are many of these: deserters taken back ?”” “Very few. The trouble lies in this way. Colonel: Broom does not use his men ete: He will promote a man to day and strip him of his newly fledged honors to-morrow, just as the whim strikes: him. Besides this, he makes men wash dishes and work about the kitchen in menial capacities, Men who enlist to do duty as marines do not relish such treatment, I assure you. To this cause, im my judgment, is largely attributable the dissatistaction which has long existed.” here is the Colonel now ‘He is absent upon a ree Pleasant duty—a lucky man the Colonel, sir—he is making @ tour of inspection among the State Prisons, and will report the result of his investigations to the government. He is pretty well cared for, at all event and has no’ ning to complain of. Oh! for a cruise in the Mediterranean!” The officer yawned as he uttered the latter ejacu- lation and stretched his arms, and the writer, wish- ing him adieu, took his departure, meditating over the mournful condition of the marines, who are popularly, but not unfrequently erroneously ac- credited with being easily impressed with the truth of the most improbable occurrences. The creduilt of this honorable branch of the service ts prove! but it Soca to be a difficult task to make them comprehend that the New York station is a good one. Some people are never satisfied, and sea- going men will growl when “the wind is head.” THE NEW STEAMSHIP GREECE. Another Splendid Addition to the Fleet of National Steamers. The new steamer Greece, constructed for the National Steamship Company, made her first trip from Liverpool to this port and arrived safely, after a passage of twelve days and @ few hours. She affords all the comforts and conventences enjoyed on the other floating palaces of this line, which have already been described in the HERALD. The Greece is ap iron vessel 405 feet in length; breadth of beam, 41 feet; depth of hold, 36 feet. She has fopr decks, two of which are iron. The saloon extends entirely across and accommodates. 100 passengers. There are apartments for 1,300 stectage passengers between decks, The cylinders of her engines are inverted, and the piston rods act directly on the shaft. The screw is twenty feet. in diameter and consists of four blades. The steam is nerated in two double boilers heated yy twelve furnaces, The nominal horse power ts 400, but under the allowed pressure of sixty poets per square inch the en- gines can be worked to 2,000 horse power. The beat soe) arin are respectively eighty-five and fifty inches in diameter, and give a stroke of four,feet. The machinery was constructed by the Laird Brothers, Like her sister ships, the Greece rolls comparatively littie in severe weather, and is so constructed as to endure the heaviest seas. During her out she encountered a terrific hurricane, which lasted twelve hours, yet she lost not even & life boat. The charge of vessel has been entrusted to Captain O, H. Andrews, reputed as a very able commander. She is officered Measrs. T. 8. Spencer, H. Herbert, Re Mr, Ross, Dr. Kennedy is surgoom, Mr, Bell parser and Mr. William Hann chief engineer, It may, therefore, be saiely sald that the managers of thé ‘National Steamship Company have spared no ex- ieee in making the Greece a first-class vessel. ‘he public will certainly derive benefit from. such rivalry between our steamship companies, THEATRE TIOKET OFFIOES, To THe Eprror OF THE HERALD:— ‘ Is it not @ cheap trick, @ nasty trick—not to mince matters,@ rascally trick—this compelling you to buy at some hotel cigar stand a theatre ticket for $2 which has been advertised for $1 50? Ever has made ent knows: that he gannot obtain @ decent seut at any theatre: ce the price dd but is toid. that he can get the seat he wishes at such and such. ry But the Deloe a $2and be eae us Y Would it not bes Gon,