The New York Herald Newspaper, October 5, 1872, Page 4

4 ARKANSAS? ILIAD. How the Pope County Anarchy Began. Murder of the Prisoners with the Sheriff’s Posse. ARE THE CARPET-BAGGERS GUILTY ? The Insult That Led to Hickox’s Assassination. ATammany Court House Swin- dle in Arkansas. The Governor te Declare Mar- tial Law. LWTLE ROCK, Sept. 25, 1872, The condition of things at the seat of war in Pope county is unchanged. There 1s, practically, no law there, no cotirts held, no business done and no probability of anything ensuing but some more murders, The people of the county swear to kul Podson, the republican Sheriff, and Stuart, the Bchool Superintendent, for the murder of the prisoners, Tucker and Hale. They have already killed Hickox, the County Clerk, for the same act, shooting him off his horse in the outskirts of Dover, Bnd they have shot and seriously wounded the Deputy Sheriff, besides killing the Justice of the Peace who held the inquest on Hickox. On the other hand the Sheriff's militia have burned down a Brindle Tail newspaper office at Russellville and robbed the merchants and farmers of all the surrounding country of forage, groceries, arms and stock. Neither band ap- proaches the other, and between the two stands the commander of the military forces of the State, General D. P, Upham, with about fifty of the Goy- ernor's guard. An attempt will be made to hold a regular term of the Court at Dover a fortnight hence, and unless new hostilities intervene the obnoxious Shevilf will appoint a Deputy, if he can find one brave enough toact. If there are any more assassinations tho Governor will declare martial law. The state of society is truly barbaric, Many people are refugees from the country at Darda- nelle and Little Rock. All profess to want peace, and yet none admit that the present county ofMicials can hold their offices with safety. The Governor pays that he has no power to remove the Sheriff and his Chief Justice so instructs him. The county Berip has fallen to nearly nothing, and more than three hundred men are now subsisted upon the county. In a previous letter I have related how, when the new constitution of the State went to the vote and those only who voted for its adoption could vote hlso for State and county officers, it was found that Wallace H. Hickox, late of Illinols, was County Clerk of Pope county, where he had arrived with the conquerors five years before. Hickox ruled Pope couuty by manifest superiority and steady force, and acted as it he had come to stay. THE ENEMY’ CORPS OF OBSERVATION. Around the village were a number of Confede- rate soldiers and Union oficers, who had seen ser- vice in partisan warfare in the mountains and plains of Arkansas and on the distant flelds. Since the conclusion of the war they had been observers, and one or two, it is claimed, were participants in the ranging and robbing parties which beat to and fro between the Ozark and Texas, led by Cullen Baker and other desperadoes. Bred to the bivouac, Hickox gave whatever leisure he had for women to a village widow, and the social consideration of the place was withdrawn from him, while its political cousideration he never had, BICKERINGS. He was keenly perceptive of those people whose ill-will he Kaew he had obtained, and ne set down a8 nearly in the same class all active politicians on the other side. Political diderence was personal cause to Hickox, and he called a rebel nothing Joss milder. THE HOUSES OF PIZARRO AND AMALGRO. After the Brindle Tail division, when the radical party fell suddenly apart, and the county paper going over to the brindles,fell bitingly upon Hickox, Dodson, Stuart and the rest, it became Q@pparent to the entire people that the days of the carpetbag corps of occupation were numbered, and this was followed by a corre- sponding exultation and show of independence on their side. The charges that the new Court House had cost twice what it should have done, that Hickox had fixed up his own onices elaborately and Over-issued scrip beyond his authority, that the taxes were excessive and unequally distributed And that the Hickox junta had nobody's care or about to alee) revived the county offices laid_ by vindictive as themselves. Sherif, of Hickox’s feelings to the tow! “until you get the town of Dover burned about your heads. We shan’t give you chances at this busi- ness. NEW YURK HERALD, SATURDAY, OCTOBEK 5, 187%.—TRKLPLE SHEET. scnMe to Little Rock to show them to the authori- ties there, and demonstrate the incarnate char- aoter of the rébels around Dover. HICKOX SHOT AT IN THE COURT HOUSE. Next we hear of Hickox being shot at ashe was R, in the Clerk's office one night. It list of his four predecessors in the who had died in their tracks, way- assassins, and made him as bitter and Williams, the Deputy who was a pert talker, conveyed the news ‘napeople. “You'll kill Union county oMcers here.” he sald, THE ILL FEELING GROWS. The fight between Brindies and Minstrels grew fierce and bitter, and all Pope county read Batten- feld’s Brindle Dewanener and believed more than he who wrote it. It was ct a against Hickox that he made no exhibit of the County debt and expendl- ture aifaira and broke the law in that respect, for he was obligated to publish a statement of the financial condition of thg county annually, or at least twice dur! each term, The taxes in the county were very high; (the scrip now brings about six cents on the dollar) and the people complained— although I have no literal evidence on this head— that aiter $20,.00 had been laid out on the Court House the county appropriated $500 of scrip to tix up Hickox's office; and they claim that on this au- thorization he issued between six thousand and seven thousand dollars worth of scrip. “The scrip is all over the county, cheap as rebel money,” said one to me. Nevertheless the county assessments did not run pier than three doilars on the hundred, which is less than some other counties; in Little Rock, for instance, the county taxes are above tive dollars on the hundred, Hickox further inflamed public opinion by svekin to put Hickerson out of the Deputy Sheriitship and give that oMce toa woman—none other than the lady at whose house he boardea, THE RIVAL BARBECUE, The Brindle party in Pope county carried off a good many of the negroes from the Hickox and Dodson regulars, and the Brindles and democrats fused and f ready for a county campaizn under the revived profession of devotion to the Union and the State, peace, local goverument and honest ad- ministration, ‘The Minstrels, following out Arkansas notions of @ good political time, catled a barbecue at Centre Valley, three miles from Shitoh Camp ground, on the 4th of July, 1872, to Hsten to public speaking from James \. Fitch, a slight, bustling politician, from Little Rock, ‘The vigilant Brindles, observ- ing that the negroes were treated somewhat cava- lierly in the invitation, got up arival barbecue at Shiloh Camp ground, which is three-fourths of the way, on the road to Russellville, from Dover. All parties and colors mixed at Shiloh, and while the pigs and calves were roasting in the open alr upon Spits speeches were made as to Washington, Jeifer- son, independence and such other matters; but contemporary poiltics were papERbeted at Shiloh there were nearly four hundred people assembled, and about one-half that number at Centre Valley, where the Minstrel orators de- claimed against the horrors of the rebellion and its Gorgon progeny and eulogized the noble adminis- tration of the iree State of Arkansas, THE SHERIFF WANTS AN ARMY, The Minstrel leaders are said not to have sepa- rated with any sense of satisfaction. Their politi- cal prospects were gloomy, their lives unsafe, and they averred that to sorve processes was dangerous; that even tie Court House was insecure, and that martial law was the only cure for the perversity of Pope county. This was Hickox's object of pursuit heuceiorward until the day of his death. The very next day Deputy Sheritf Williams re- ported that he had been shot at and his garments pierced in three places. The county oficers now swore that the last shoot- ing had occurred in Popo county without retaila- tion or arrest, and at once prepared to raise a sheriil’s posse ol their Minstrel iriends and scour the country north of Dover for the assassins, Sunday they moved up to that country, a dis- tance bout twenty-five miles, avoiding the town of Do ; Saw Williams, heard his story, looked at the bruise on his belly and bis perforated apparel and ascertained who in the neighborhood might be suspected, irom grudge or lawlessness, to have done the deed. They also heard of a hunting party which left Dover for the woods on the 4th of July and included them in the general suspicion, They at once proceeded to ar- rest N, J, Hale, an old and influential farmer and neighbor of Wililams, and his grown-up son, W. T. Hale, taking them while feeding their stock at an early hour oi Monday morning, July 8, THE PRISONERS, About two o'clock in the afternoon of Monday, July 8, the Sherid’s posse of twenty-eight men rode into Dover on mules, ponies and plough horses, with Dodson and Hickox at their head, well mounted on spirited animals. The posse looked splashed and dusty and hollow-eyed from want of sleep, Hickox was cold and stern and Dodson sharp and surly. In the midst were old N, J. Hale, a well-to-do farmer and man of commanding influence in his district, a rebel and a democrat, aged about sixty-five, and of rough, striking, pa triarchal appearance. He was tall and imposing and suggested a former athletic youth, and his white beard and hatr flowed down like rolls of cot- ton from the field. He and his son were mounted on their own horses, The son was a weaker aud less positive type of man, and his arrest sat uneasily upon his youthtul shoulders, He was, like most of the people in this grim country, where they worship und assassinate with the same lo! ei nance, a member of the Baptist Church ant son, Old Hale was a Royal Arch Mason, high up toward the parapet of the order, and he ran the rebelliously disposed part of his county in grips, thanksgiving and politics, With the look of men doing business and fully armed, Hickox and Doason made the prisoners dis- mount and put them in the Court House under a sinail guard of armed negroes, there being five negroes in the posse. ARRESTS IN DOVER. Then, calling the roll in sharp tones, Dodson counted off two parcels of men, who bas! gd out, and he headed one portion, which marched to the south side of the Court House square, and arrested General Franklin, a young and well-to-do farmer, between twenty-five and thirty years old. He was christened General before he got to be of a scratch- ing age. fa the meantime Hickox took the second parcel ofthe Sherii’s posse, and, passing to tue north side of the square, arrested Joseph Tucker, a quasi farmer, who really kept a little drinking saloon and grocery there. The iarge posse remained in the town nearly two hours, and there was some excitement; but the bold and confident manner of Hickox and Dodson and the strength of thelr forces suppressed inter- ference, aud when the first man put {n his objection Dodson arrested him, This was a certain I. L. West—Isham Liberty West, commonly called Lib West. He lives at Scottsville, six miles above Dover, and follows blacksmithing, if anything. confidence, passed from Battenfeld's county paper Into fireside comment, and the young bucks of the village and country talked them over on the steps | -of the stores and drinking doggeries. However, Bll processes were obeyed and the laws may have | been sald to command acquiescence until the first rupture of a personal nature occurred from Hick- | x's obstinacy concerning a man named Harry | Poynter, the very same who alterwards shot him. HARRY POYNTER, HICKOX'S PATA. Poynter had been a Confederate soldier and un- | der-oficer, and he was the cousin of the woman at whose house Hickoxjwas « boarder. He was an average village poor white, who fol- Jowed a little farming and some carpentering; a black-eyed, black-hatred little fellow, mild enough Bnd common enough except when aroused, and then his vanity made him furtive as a wolf and un- pores asan Indian. He carried 8, never fongit ; but he bethought him of lus knlfe or’ pistol, and had that heedless disregard of life which is the problem of the South in good order and stable gov- ernment. Poynton wasa man on whom Hickox had kept his eye, as a fellow who had kilied his man nd was independent and desperate. THE INSULT. The Sheriff, Dodson, who was totally amenable to Hickox's ‘influence, and was yet a man of desperate character conjoined to the cowardly stratagem of the independent ranger, had taken @ great fancy to his deputy, John Williams, brother of the Sheriff who had been murdered some years before. Williams, who was a country side boy like the rest, although of a Union family, had been sent Out to collect a posse of half a dozen citizens to conduct some convicts to the Penitentiary at Little Kock, It was a service which promised @ free ride and expenses to any of the villagers who might be selected, and few would probably be loth to go, as Little Kock is their emporium and basking place, with its saloons, Leoni’s opera, vililard dens, shoot- ing galleries aud grosser privileges. THE SCUFFLE. It was the April term of the Court in this present year, 1872, and while Hickox was in the court room jn the second story, sitting within the bar at the Clerk's desk, some hewsbearer or hanger-on came | in and said:— “Mr. Hickox, Wilifams has picked out Harry Poynter to go to Little Rock with the posse.” “By God, that won't do!” said Hickox, true to his old repulsion. He laid down his pen and walked out of the court ‘oom and down stairs to the Sheritt’s office, where | odson was getting the posse and oners ready, After he had spoken to Dodson the latter, who had ade Hickox his master, turned roughly to Harry ‘oynter, who stood there with his traps of travel and his revolver at his hip, and sal “Wo don't want you !"? “Mr, Williams summoned me,” said Poynter, «“Pve left my work and been at the time and ex- ense to get realy.’ “We don't want your sort!" exclaimed Dodson. “You can’t go.” “1 mean to go," persisted Poynter; “I’m a poor an, alr, and I've got me some ‘things to go with, ‘ou don't give me good treatment.’ “Go out of here!" sald Dodson; “Gol damn you, fo out |’? The Arkansas devil was up in Poynter's face ina minute, and he said, ‘ Perhaps you'll come outside ‘with me, if you're man enough!" Dodgson reached to push Poynter out of his oMtce, they clinched, the hand cf the Arkansian was at 0 on the hip where the loaded pistol lay, there @ struggle for the trigger, Williams, a third | ty, pushed and took the dangerous weapon from then blows were struck and Dodson got a ly face. He 1s said to have refused to wash himsell or | his clothes, but carried the marks of this | | than a celebrated Texas desperado known as Kinch | grove, Both Governor Hadley and General Upham aver that this man’s brother, Perry West, is none other West, on whose head, brought with or without his Shoulders, a reward is standing. Said Lib West:— “Dodson, Mrs. West wants you to treat her hus- band well and not take him further than Dover. She says he is old ana can’t stand it to ride further than twelve miles to-night. He can give bail and be ready when you want him. You've got no busi- nes: nyWay, to take @ man out of the county, There's no law for it.” Well,’’ said Dodson, “I suppose you've come spying down here for something. As you're so smart in the law I'll take you along to teach us.’’ As they stood, all mounted, in the warm Summer afternoon, some reining up from the well at the Court House corner, others dropping in from the “doggeries,” where they had been stimulating and filling flasks, their mules and nags unkempt and Wan and warm, the Sherit’s column presented a picture thoroughly wid and Southwestern in the open square of this little county seat, The woods drew close to the village and in its streets were some oak and catalpa trees; the women peeped out of the houses and the men were grouped about the dozen or so shops and in the corners of the sguare. Some wore a ig! Such militia were iil to look upon. shoe and a boot; many wore straw hats, tattered and ragged; one had a hat without a cover to the top, out of which his long hair stood up Indian fashion, and the only collars in_ the entire outit were worn by Hickox, Dodson and Stewart. Drab and black liats, low-crowned; linen coats, home- spun brecches and a blue, and one suspender h or two, or none whatever, were items in their dirty garb. The horses and mules and men bore a family resemblance, equally weary, sullen, furtive, ican and unprepos- sessing. A few men retained some of the alertness of an intelligence derived from army discipline and experience, but the majority were subservient to Dodson, tf to anybody, and looked like camp fol- lowers ‘demoralized by! @ peace in which they had et adopted little or no settled eer menT The lew negroes in the posse coinpleted its mottied ap- pearance; but upon those indiiferent faces was Scated one general expression which gave a touch of unity to the group—namely, ataiike of the rebel element of Dover and the sense of many an old grudge and score not yet paid off, where the blood ofa Pope county “mountain Fed’ had been shed, Or his Toofstone threatened, or his live stock and crops depleted. From the midst of that posse, as It left the town of Dover without molestation, Joe Tucker looked upon his wife for the last time, and young William Hale drew closer to his father, he knew not why, A violent death for both these young men lay in the destinies of the evening, and the morning Ii to break upon Do amid the weeping, bi people aud their raging friends and partisans, \ AT OLD SHILOH CHURCH. It was nearly dusk when the Sheriff's posse reached the Old Shiloh camp ground, and horses and men being thorouglily weary, and with five miles yet between thei and Dardanelle, and the Arkansas River hay f between, aud small pros- Rit of ferriage over it that night, the whole posse alted, hungry and worn out, and Dodson, Hickox and Stuart, who had been conferring on the road, announced that if forage could be obtained they carried into the church, while some of the militia were sent off to get fodder and oats at the expense of the county, and, if possible, something to eat for the men, THE MASSACRE GROUND, Some little distance beyoud the church, at a point which the had not yet reached, @ stream large enough in former days to turn a mill flowed acroas the road ; but the sound of this could scarcely be heard at the Place of bivouac, and in the mild Arkansas niges the trees scarcely shook and there Joo a grateful coolness following the warmth of a july day. Dodson placed and despatched his men as he pleased, and the prisoners, huddled together in the old church, around which the darkness was descending, were looked upon with little interest by many of their captors and by many with sua- picion and apprehension. The delay at the church took them into the night, and little was geen of the county officers, while meantimé members of the militia climbed into the pulpit and ere out hymns and indulged in some of the usual follies of an undisciplined and reckless poor-white soldiery. TWO SPECIMEN MILITIAMEN, Among these men was one Ed, Wolcott, who delivered a mock sermon, and the Dover people comment in horrible terms upon thia violation of the sanctuary, alleging that Wolcott was previousiy eres for disturbing public worship at Russell- ville. Another fellow who spent his time foraging around, with no regard to private rights and a good deal of insolence, was Bart Cloninger, a common fellow with @ little, old face; a trifing manner, no beard and a slouchy, frivolous, furtive look, as if he wouldwather loiter than do anything else except steal. This fellow has yet some conceit of himself, and Dodson for the moment had made him one of his right hand men; 60 that he cut up as he pleased and continued to commit petty depredations until Governor Hadley ordered him to be dismissed at a Bubsequent day. Exactly what happened and all that happened during the two hours rest at the Shiloh church wilt probably never be known, ‘The indignant people of the county swear that here the murder of tho risoners was resolved upon between Dodson and Rickox. At any rate it was announced, when darkness covered the whole landscape—and it was an unusually dark night, according to all accounts, articularly in the woods—that no forage coul ¢ obtained in sulicient quantities and that the whole body must resuine their horses and RIDE ON TO RUSSELLVILLE. The men fellinto line and were arranged two by two, all armed, and told to be apprehensive of an attack by the way. Dodson and Hickox rode in advance, with their arms ready, and immediately behind them came West and Tucker, nearly of the same age; and then old Hale, aged sixty, and his son, aged renee five, riding together, with the militia closing in benina. ‘the whole cavalcade reached perhaps fity yards up and down the woodiand road, Dod- son lad the column on the right and Hickox was on the left as they proceeded. They were both armed with heavy, double-barrelled shot guns, be- sides pistols. ‘They had scarcely started when Dodson laughed and cried out:— “ll be damned if I don't think half my men have strayed off and deserted me.” EXPECT AN ATTACK! He then repeated the order that an attack might be expected, time having intervened sufticiently to let people from Dover catch up and ambush the party, and he said to those men immediately in the rear of the prisoners :— “at we are attacked be sure and save these pris- oners |!” In this manner they crossed the brook where the old mill used to be and advanced littio faster than a walk, and had proceeded perhaps half a mile, THE DARK AND BLOODY GROUND. There is 8 Spot in the road where on the one side an old fleld lies, now nearly overgrown with bushes and seedlings of various kinds, and this. fleld is skirted on the right of the road with very thick saplings; on the opposite side there is woodland, with thick under- growth, and the general etfect of a dark night is such that General Upham declares that the travellers there call this spot “Kgypt.’? He accounts for the strange words which were used about the time the cavalcade arrived here by this ominous name having been previously be- stowed upon the spot. We have nothing to guide us as to what actually occurred except the afl- davits of the two men who escaped—namely, the senior Hale und West—who had been impressed at Dover. These allege that a voice from the rear criea out, “Dark as Egypt."” West swears that to this Dodson promptly re- plied tn front, “Egypt has no eyes."’ It may appear that ths sort of language was a trifle too poetical for such rough people, but per- haps the very attempt at poetry might have been cousonant with a gang ef biood-thirsty people, fully conscious of the dark deed about to be com- mitted, At any rate the command halted and the two oilicers in jront of the prisoners backed their horses asif into the woods and from these woods SHOT GUNS WERE FIRED, and both the survivors swear that as soon as these first shotguns went off—throwiag tie blaze into tue air as if they were not fired to do injury—Hickox and Dodson, standing on the flank, both brought down their pieces and ilred at the ‘prisoners, the people in the rear fired also, so that the whole alr was fliled with reports as if a sanguinary con- test had happened in the night, » DEAD. The effects were produced in a minute, The herses began to plunge and startin their fright. Hickox was thrown of and hurt his shoulder, Tucker was shot over the left ear, blowing his brains out tn front, and also below the back of the neck, so that the buckshot came out at his chin; wile young Hale seemed to be shot all over with buckshot in the back, and both he and Tucker tumbled from their horses, and Tucker was ridden over by those in the rear, so that in addition to his wounds he was hideously gashed with the hools of the steeds and mules. THE VICTIMS OF THE MASSACRR. Lib West, unhurt except as to bruises, crawled off inthe darkness into the underbrush ‘on the left, and laid there scarcely breathing, a listener to what followed. Young William Hale, although bleeding and full of pain and immediate fever, also crept away and gained the house of Mrs. Wright, beside Shiloh church, and received the hospitality ofthe inmates, who had heard the firing, Old N. J. Hale was mounted upon a fine horse, which galloped back through the trees, and bore him straight to Dover to terrify the citizens there, Tucker was dead and Hale mortally wounded, WHAT FOLLOWED THE MASSACRE, After the massacre of these men by the officers there was an almost immediate dispersing of Dod- son's posse, Dodson and Hickox rode off to Louis- burg, twenty miles, to catch the train next day and report the night attack to the State authorities and demand martial law. Burt Cloninger started southeastward as con- stable with many of tie posse to hold almost undis- turbed carnival in that Paro! the country between Russellville, Perry’s and Galley Rock, seizing arms, mules, horses and provisions for beasts and men, Parson Stuart, appearing to realize that it might be awkward for a@ circuit superintendent of in- struction and ex-reverend to be in a sheriff's posse armed to the teeth, rode westward, as he sald, to attend to seme school business. The county was left without authority, except a wild and unscrupulous constabulary, making the ps ead for their own aggrandizement and amuse- ment. And thus the Pope county war begun on the night of the 8th of July, 1872, THE NATIONAL GAME. Baltimores Defeated by the Mu- tuals—A Poor Game, The seventh game of the championship series be- tween the Mutuals and the Baltimores was played yesterday afternoon on the Union Grounds, Wil- lamsburg, and resulted in the defeat of the Balti- more Club by a score of 15 to 7, game being called in the eighth Inning. The ground was in admira- ble condition for play, and a fairer day never smiled on a base ball fleld; but the game, which opened by no means brilliantly, became very poor toward the close, and proved a very mediocre ex- hibition of skill for either side. The Bal- timores were the favorites before the game was opened, at slight odds, but the 2,00¢ spec- tators assembled appeared in the best possible mood toward the players. In the entire game there was not a single individual exibition of more than average skill, Hicks, of the Mutuals, being about the ony, man who played his position perfectly, The game would doubtless have been more in- teresting than it otherwise was had it not been for an accident in the fourth inning by which the Baltimores lost one of their most eitective men, MeMullen was running from second to third base when Higham threw the ball to Force to stoj McMullen. Force took the ball handsomely, and, in turning quickly on the base to touch McMullen, swung his right arm with fearful force again: MeMullen's leg. The contact was very sharp Force's arm was quite disabled, indeed for a time it was feared that it was broken, Force almost fainted, and was taken off the ground in a carriage. Hastings was then Substituted for Force, going behind the bat, and Higham relieved Pike at second base, Pike oing tothird. The game was called on the eighth uning, when the score Let ef Stood fifteen to seven in favor of the Mutuals, although when the play ceased the Baltimores had played their ninth inning, making one run, and the Mutuals were in their last inning, with three runs to their credit and but one hand out. At that time, however, it was too dark to continue the game, The following Is the seu: The would put the prisoners in camp at the mecting house for the nigtt, Hl The old meeting house stood back Mm a grove of OAK fregs, Near an unfatling spring of water, a sm. crude, Wooden icture, controlled by the Cun land erlang, Yn former tin | camp meetings of Pope county we | but these had been | sin the war. ‘There were Ko es In the neighborhood, one of which | Wright's, stood close by the church, and the o | Bradiey's, near at hand. The littie cl ng ne sit ted by these edifices only made Lie open piace | in the midst of the forest Beem mére lonely, and Very soon the tired prisoners were dismounted aud | = MUTUALS, DArtiwones. OR Players, SOM op Tg Hisham, 24 ........ é Hasting EY 1 Mil cE | H a 5 py tution. i a 4 $ 0 Comming, ‘p ee $2 Fulmer, #'b... $1 a2 Total tot i # 4 r vid fitteon minwes, of the Eckfords Virprre—Mr Dn Twent 1 thirty-three years, of 21 t, was dent to Bellevue Ho: mi by the police ot the Lighte ullecing trom lovauity, | and ashe brought him FLEETWOOD PARK. THIRD DAY OF THE AUTUMN MEETING, Two Grand Trotting Con- tests. VERY FAST TIME ON A BAD TRAOK. Gazelle Wins the First and Judge Fullerton the Second Race. The weather was delightful yesterday afternoon, and a ride through the Park and up the avenues to Fleetwood was indulged in by thousands. The attendance was grand. Every place was filled, and everybody was delighted with the sport, The track was very heavy in many places, being as hard as flunt, and in others fetlock deep in dust, Two trots came off, and-in the first Mr, Harkers' bay mare Gazelle made a heat in 2:22, and in the second trot Judge Fullerton scored a second heat in 2:21%4. ‘Taking the difference of the tracks of the Prospect Park and the Fleetwood, where good judges allow three seconds to the former, the time made by both Gazelle and Fullerton will carry them into the “teens”? when they meet at Prospect Park two weeks hence. In the first contest there were ten entries, com- prising Alden Goldsmith’s bay gelding Gloster, Joseph Harker’s bay mare Gazelle, P, Hadden's bay mare Lady Annie, A. Patterson's sorrel mare Alice Brown, W. McMahon's black gelding Billy Dawes, J. Hi, Phillips’ bay mare Fanny Osborn, B. Dariel's brown gelding Brown Prince, W. Wellington's brown gelding Wellington, William E. Week's bay mare Susie Clay, and James Dugrey's bay gelding Joker, Of the above only five came to the “geratch” when time was called, These were Gazelle, Gloster, Lady Annie, Joker and Wel- lington, Gazelle was so great a favorite over the field before the start that the pool-seller lett her out and sold the others. Gloster then was about as great a favorite over the others as Gazelle had previously been, and large amounts were staked on him at long odds, Gazelle won the race easily in three are heats, and Gloster the second money for his backers, The second race was the most exciting one that has taken place this season, as in it were Camors and Judge Fullerton, two of the most promising young horses at present on the turf. Camors had been kept in the shade for two years, never having trotted o heat better than 2:30, although sometimes he was close up to horses that trotted in 2:26; but his owners and driver went about the country “beating” people, friends and foes, until they reached Budulo in August last, where the driver of Camors was taken out of the sulky for what was supposed to be a fraud by the judges, and Budd Doble put in his place. Budd then won a heat with Camors, and showed the “Yankee gang” w, but they managed to get pos- session of the horse, and the race being postponed the next day neither Doble nor any one else could win with hin, The agate then came to Prospect Park with Camors, and-he there “laid out” the bet- ters by beating Judge Fullerton in 2:21 From there Camors went to Philadelphia, and the odds being three to one on him, he lost the race by | distanced the first heat, and no chance was left the judges to substitute another driver in the place of Jack Bowen. Camors’ next appearance was yesterday at Fleetwood Park to trot against Judg?@ullerton, and there was an immense crowd out to witness the contest. W. H. Allen and W. B, Whiteman were in the same race, but neither of them were thought of and they sold in the field with Camors or Fullerton, when the two favorites alternated in the betting. Jack Bowen gave out that his horse “was not doing well” and Judge Ful- lerton was sold for first choice in the pools at two to one against the fleld. Camors won the first heat and he then became the favor- ite against the ficld at two to one. The second heat was a trial between these two fine horses, and it was one of the most exciting heats that have ever been trotted on Fleetwood track. Judge Tul- lerton won it under the whip, which had been vigorously applied to him for a quarter of a mile, aud this, to use a slang phrase, “cooked the goose” of Camors. He had “bellows to mend” for the remainder of the race and Fulierton had nothing to do but win. This he did, to the great delight of his owner and backers, During the afternoon Captain Rynders’ fine young Stallion Aberdcen was twice brought on the track and gave exhibitions of his great speed. He trotted oné quarter of a mile in thirty-five and three-quar. ter seconds and seemed like he could do a great many more at the same rate. Aberdeen was sired by Rysdyk’s Hambletonian, dam Widow Machree, Ms American Star. The dam of Aberdeen was one of the gamest trottin: nage that ever i! Sop on the American turf, The following are the details of the trotting as it progressed :— ite 2:38 PURSE. First Heat.—Well mo Age) won the inside position, Joker second, Gazelle third, Lady Annie fourth, Gloster fifth. At the sturt Gazelle came rushing up among the others, and took the lead as soon as the word was given, Gloster second, Joker third, Lady Annie fourth, Wellington bringing up the rear on @ break. At the quarter pole, which was passed in thirty-six and a half seconds, Gazelle led four lengths ; Joker second, six lengths ahead of Gloster, who had broken up, the latter being six lengths in advance of Lady Annie, who was eight lengths ahead of Wellington, who had broken up several times on the way to that point. There was no further contest in the heat, as Gazelle trotted easily ahead of the others, passing the half-mile pole in 1:11%, and coming home a winner by six lengths in 2:27; Gloster was second, Joker third, Wellington fourth and Lady Annie distanced. Second Heat.—Gazelle took the lead at the start, but broke up badly soon afterwards and began pacing. It took John Lovett, her driver, some seconds to make her trot again; but when she did a finer rate of speed has been seldom witnessed, At the quarter pole, in thirty-seven seconds, she was ten lengths behind the third horse, but at the half-mile pole she was showing the way to the others. Here Joker and Gloster were head and head, six lengths in front of Wellington, who was several lengths in advance of Gazelle; but then the latter went around the others and passed the half- mile pole in 1:13%, and, coming along steadily, won the heat by four lengths on a jog in 2:283;; Gloster second, two lengths al of Joker, who was three lengths in advance of Wellington. Third Heat.—Mr. Hanker then gave orders to John Lovett to drive the mare at her best rate, as he wished Mr. Backman, of wom he had purchased her, and other friends to see what Gazelle could do, She dashed away with the word, and was eight lengths in front of Gloster at the quarter pole in thirty-six seconds, twenty lengths at the half-mile pole In 1:0934, and came home ninety yards in front of the best of the others in 2:: loster was sec- oud, pe inside the distance flag, and Joker and Well ington had the flag in their faces. The follow- ing isa SUMMARY, FLEETWOOD PARK ASSOCIATION, 1,260, for horses that have never Oct. aton 33; $700 ‘0 the first, $350 to the second and $200 to the third horse; mile eo best three In five, in isi J. Lovett's b. m. Gazelle... A. Goldsmith’s b. g. Gloster. J. Dugrey’s b. g. Joker... ne WwW. Wellington's br. g. Wellingtoi P. Hadden’s b, m. Lady Annie... J. H. Phillips’ b. m. Fanny Osborne. W. McMahon's bik. g. Billy Dawes. B, Daniel's b, g. Brown Prince.. A, Patterson's s,m. Alice Brown W, E, Week's bv. m. Susie Clay..... First heat. Second heat. Third heat. 38 HE 2:23 RACE, First Heat.—Camors won the pole, Judge Fuller- ton the second place, W. H, Allen thira and W. B, Whiteman fourth. Going around the turn Judge Fullerton went to the front, and was two lengths ahead at the quarter pole, in thirty-seven seconds, Camors second, a neck ahead of Whiteman, who was nearly ten lengths in advance of W. H. Allen, the latter having broken upon his way thither, Leaving the quarter pole Camors seemed to be trotting very slowly, and he fell back, letting Whiteman lead him two lengths into the lower turn, At the half mile pole, which was Were in 1:14, Judge Fullerton led two lengths, White man second, the same distance in front of Camors- who was a dozen lengths ahead of Allen, Going up the backstretch Whiteman broke badly and Camors took second place, and as he ascended the hill and compassed the crooks on the way to the three- quarter pole he closed the daylight between him- selfand Fullerton, Camors was quite close to Ful- lerton as they swung into the homestretch, and Mace, his driver, bela by taking a wide ran; into the homestretch he would force Camora to the extreme outside ofthe track. Bowen would not have this, however, and pulling Oamors to the in- side came upon. yal ton go fast and #0 finely that he won the heat by haifa length, much to the as- tonishinent of the backers of the favorite. Whit are third, and Allen fourth, Time of the bea! 2325. Second Heat—Camors was then the favorite at two to one over the field. When the horses came up to score it was noticed that Dan Mace had taken olf all the leather from the legs of Judge Fullerton, p, the stretch Fullerton seemed inclined to break and the word was held back for jour scorings, At length the horses all Cand (one ther and they were despatched on pre! ven te Camors having a trifle the best of it udge Fullerton — s¢ Whiteman third, Allen fourth. Judge trotted rap- fdly to thd turn, but did not take the pole. He kept in the centre of the track down fo the quarter pole, at which point he lead ono length aud a hale iy thirty-live seconds, Camorg second, six lengths ahead of Allen, who vi two lengths in iront of Whiteman, THE REDS IN Camors trotted very leisurely into the lower tur and Fullerton was six le! ahead of him at thi hall-mule pole, in 1:08%. 0 was urging Fuller- ton all the way, and as he began to ascend the backstretch it was noticed that he gave Fullerton & taste of the whip-cord. Oamors was grad closing—the citement of the crowd knew no bounds—“One hundred to fifty Camors catches , was heara over the grounds. Fullerton was only three Grea yale ae gua ety utting up the da; at every Bt Dan Mace came into the homestretch 60 close ‘to the pole this time that “Jock” could not get between him and the fence as he did before, and Dan iabored hard with the whip all the way. doubtful CH ag oer foul un orses passed the drawgate. Camors was at Fullerton’s Wheel at that Point, but instead of cot on he oe hus bolt? and’ began to stride short, and Ful- Toneths ane home a winner of the neat by two lengths, in 2:213/, Camors second, twenty lengths anead of Allen, Whiteman fourth. Third Heat.—Camors was stilj the favorite over the field; but when he came on the track it was pas that he had not recovered from the previous heat as well as Fullerton, and Mr. Humphrey's face brightened as he compared his chestnut with the black. Fullerton went away this time with the lead and was two vengeue in front at the quar- ter pole, in thirty-five and a half seconds, and go! on to the half ata rapid rate, passed that in 1:083%. Camors had broken all to pieces and was lost in the race at that time. Judge Fullerton trot- ted steadily up the hill and into the homestretch, and it looked like he could have distanced all the others, but Dan Mace took things very coolly. He knew he had Camors beaten and did not care a farthing about the others. He came home eighty yards in front of Allen, Camors third, Whiteman fourth. Time, 2:245% Fourth Heat.—Yullerton was then an immense favorite. He took the lead, kept it to theend, and won 2 capitalrace, He made the quarter in 36 seconds, the half in 1:09%, and came home on @ jog in 2:28, Alen second, Whiteman third and Camors fourth, The following is a SUMMARY. SAME Day.—Purse $4,000, for horses that have never beaten 2:23; $2,100 to the first, $1,000 to the second, $500 to the third and $400 to the fourth horse; mile heats, best three in five, in harness. Dan Mace’s ch. g Judge Fullerton. re) J. J. Bowen's bik. g. Camors. P. Mance's b. 8. W. H. Allen.. B. Dank ch. g. W. B, Whiteman. J. Lovett’s b, m. Zulu... ....eeeee W. B, Smith's blk, 8, Thos, Jefferson, M. Roden’s ch, g. Triumph......... TIME, Fullerton respon appeared oxrremel ° doubtful an Hay. First heat . il Second heat 120844 Third heat, M 1:08) Fourth heat 36 120955 JEROME PARK RACES, Second Day of the Fall Meeting—Pool Selling Last Night. The programme for to-day, the second of the Fall racing meeting at Jerome Park, is full of promise for excellent-contests and genuine amuse- ment. Five events are on the cards, the first being | the Hunter Stakes, for fillies#tiree years old, of $200 cach, $50 forteit, with $500 added; the second filly to save her stakes; one mile and three-quar- ters, This closed with twenty-nine nominations, and the probable starters will be K, W. Sears’ bay filly Lauretta, Belmont’s chestnut filly Woodbine, Sanford’s bay filly by Asteroid and Withers’ brown filly by Eclipse. — In the second event, purse of $700, mile heats, there will be Meteor, Nevada, Tubman and Preakness, The Mavurity Stakes, for four-year- olds, three miles, which had twenty nominations, wil have but two starters, Harry Bassett and Monarch- ist. In the Champague Stakes, for two-year olds, three-quarters of a mile, there will start Walden’s chestnut filly Minnie W., Belmont's chestnut colt Count D'Orsay, Chamberlain's bay colt Survivor, Pennock’s chestnut filly, by Jack Malone, and McDaniel & Co.’s chestnut filly Cora Lynn—a hur- die handicap, one mile and three-quarters, is the last race. In this there are Blind Tom, 163 pounds; Lochiel, 147 pounds; Sorrell Dan, 145 pounds; Wm. M. Tweed, 260 pounds, and Astronomer, 139 pounds, Pools were sold on these eveuts last night at the Jockey Club rooms, Twenty-seventh street and Madison avenue, by Messrs. derwood and McGowan. The gathering was large and the bet- ting decently spirited. The following figures will give an idea of the estimate placed upon the several horses :. THE HUNTER STAKES.—Woodbine, filly, $25; Lauretta, $15; Withers’ filly, $15. MILE HkatTs.—Tubman, $50; Meteor, $40; Preak- ness, $35; Nevada, $25. ‘ Tue MATURITY STAKES.—Harry DPasStt, $00; Monarchist, $10. THE CHAMPAGNE STakEs.—Count D'Orsay, $50; Survivor, $30; Minnie W., $20; Pennock’s filly, $15; Cora Lynn, $15. saat figs Biel baal Matec, 8 3 Sorrel H ‘rouomer, 05, Wittaut af tiveed, gion 99% ne The first race each day will come off punctually at half-past one o'clock P. M. The course can be reached by the New York and Harlem Rallroad to Fordham. Extra trains will be ran from Forty- second street every day during the races at twelve M., and halfpast twelve P. M. It can also be reached by qaiviage through Central Park, Ma- comb’s Dam, Central avenue, by Bloomingdale road to Kingsbridge, and by Soxthern Boulevard, via Third avenue bridge, Also by Third avenue and Fordham horse cars. THE AOOIDENT AT THE INDIANAPOLIS COURSE, Minnie’s Death and Zilcadie Golddust’s Injury. m the Indianapolis Sentinel, Oct. 2,] While the horses entered for the 2:38 race were taking their exercise on the track during the fore- noon of yesterday, a collision occurred between Minnie and Zilcadie Golddust, resulting in the fatal injuring of the former and the possible per- manent dis: a of the latter. From the state- ment of Mr. Wilhbart, the driver of Minnie, it ap- pears that the mare bolted with him and ran at a ull gallop around the turn of the first quarter before he could bring her down. He was just gepung her under control, and was turning her to rive up the course, and while in this position— diagonally across the track—Zilcadie, who was coming at a terrific rate of speed, collided with her. The head ofthe mare struck the breast of Zileadie, and the wheel of the latter's suiky struck Minuie with tremendous force over the region of the heart, ‘The shafts of Minnie’s sulky struck Zilcadie in the breast, one of them entering several inches and breaking off inthe wound, ‘The shock threw Mr. James, the driver of Zilcadie, forward upon his horse, While Mr, Wilhart was thrown under Zil- cadie’s sulky. Strangely enough neither of the drivers was hurt. The mare was led over the grass, near the track, where she lay, apparently suffering greatiy, not- withstanding every effort by the veterinary surgeons to relieve her, until six o'clock, when she died. It was feared at first that Zllcadie would bleed to death, but the flow of blood was finally stanched, and last evening there was every prospect of his recovery. Mr. sey, his owner, who places a very high value upon the unimal, ‘he -considering him one of the most Las] horses in the coun- try, has rong hopes that he will not be perma- nently disabled; but it seems scarcely credible that he should recover from his hurts with the free muscular action that he possessed before. Messrs. Frazer & Moore, the owners of Minnie, refused $6,000 for the mare a few daysago, believing that she possessed capabilities that forbade the placing of a price upon her at present. Neither party attributes any blame to either of the drivers, and the unfortunate accident is con- sidered to have been altogether unavoidable, COOPER UNION EVENING SCHOOL Annual Opening of the Scientific De= partment Last Evening. ‘The annual opening of the Cooper Union Evening School of Science took place last evening in the Philosophical lecture room of the Institute, There were about four hundred persons present, nearly all of wliom were members of the various classes, The venerable Peter Cooper, the founder of the School, opened the ceremonies, which were wholly informal, by making a few remarks to the students of an encouraging and advisatory nature, and was followed by Mr. Asram 8. Hewitt, one of the trustees, in a brief address, At the conclusion of Mr. Hewitt’s remarks Professor F. G. Tisdall, Jr., the eMicient and courteous Director, instructed the scholars in the rules and regulations of the school, announcing the various classes and their teachers, The number of stadents, he said, had greatly in- creased since last Les but great as the increase now js, there is still room for many more, and he would be glad indeed If the Joan men of the city would more generally avail themselves of the op- ore, of joining. ‘The numbers now attending he scientific classes are as follows :— Analytical chemistry, 9; mechanical engineering, 9; analytical geometry, 10; calculns, 9; mechani. drawing and descriptive geometry, 62; trigonom- 7 mechanie; 1 geometry, ist adironony, Os ira 50; Sanford’s a5 pinouts heh istry, 149; natural phi- losophy, 97; & total of 708, Applications for admission, the Professor said, will be received during the month of October, on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday evenings, THE BAR A§aOULATION. The Committee of the bar Association held a preliminary meeting last evening in their cluty house, on Twenty-seventh street, for (he purpose of consultation, and adjourned, subject to the cali of the chairman, without taking omy definite action in. regard (o judicial nominations, HONDURAS. Another Indian Raid-—-A British Camp Taken by Surprise. Murder, Pillage and Incen- diarism. Gallant Defence of the Military--- The Indians Repulsed, Krvastoy, Sept. 26, 1872, Intelligence has reached here of another rata upon the British settlers by the Indians of Hon- duras, It occurred on the 1st of September, at a moment when, everything seeming peaceable, even the military, whose duty it is to be always en the alert for events of the kind, were taken by aur- prise. The assailants were the Ykaiche Indians, who inhabit the soutnern part of Yucatan. Their attack was directed upon a settlement called Orange Walk, near Corosal. They were about five hundred in number, and seemingly were well armed, while the garrison did not consist of more than forty men, under the command of Lieu+ tenant Smith. As the ralders entered the township they first invaded the residence of Mr. Downer, the stipendiary magistrate, whom they bound hand and foot and were about to sub- ject to a horrible torture, when his wite threw her- self between them and by her cries and entreaties kept them from their diabolical purpose till a Mr. Oswald and a number of policemen came up and drove off the assailants. It was discovered, how- ever, that these were only the advance guard of the party, as a large body of the savages were shortly after espied to be entering the township, Mr. Downer and his family, Mr. Oswald and the policemen then made thelr way to the military barracks, PILLAGING AND FIRING HOUSES, By this time the alarm was given and a number of the inhabitants barely succeeded in getting into the barracks, when it was surrounded by one bo ofthe Indians, while the other body set to pillaging the houses and setting fire tothem. The military could do very little, for they were besieged by tem times thelr number. They kept up a brisk firo from within, however and succeeded jn killing a few of the ehem¥ and wounding sole others, Two of the British soldiers wes killed and sixteen wounded. Lieutenant Smith was also seriously wounded. Among the civilians there was one killed and seventeen wounded. After pillaging to the extent of some $30,000 to $40,000 the enemy retired, burning the dwellings of the inhabitants on their march. On the circumstance becoming known at Belize tha Qoyvernor lost no time in proclaiming martial law in the Northern district and despatching Major Johnston with all available troops in pursuit of the invaders, PRIVATE ADVICES OF THE RAID. The BHOwIng is an extract of a private letter received from Belize :— Thave some unpleasant nows to communicate. On the Ist September the Indians from the south of Yucatan made a sudden raid on British territory, at a settlement called Orange Walk. ‘The attack was'n'scrions one, troops stationed there (only about forty), with Lieutenant Siniti, were taken by surpriso and Nad to do their be to repel the ralders; and this with the assistance of every ayailable civilian, ‘The Indians were about five hundred strong and well armed. hoy poured in bullets in all directions. A con- stant fire was Kept up on both sides from eight A. M, ull seven P.M. The Indians seem to have had some very 0 . The results are on our side two soldiers illed and_ sixteen wounded seriously , besides Licutenant Smith, who got shot in_his left breast at the commence- ment.’ There are also three or four constables and sey. eral "civilians (about seventeen) seriously wounded, among them some respectable men. The Indians had to retire eventually with several killed and wounded. The Governor, imm ly ashe heard of the matter, summoned a prlyy council, and martial law was pro: claimed In the Northern district and a detachment of troops sent off to reinforce. It is all over now, THE KILLED AND WOUNDED. Another correspondent supplies the following: On Sunday, the Ist of September, about eight o'clock in the morning, between two and three hundred Ykaiche Indians made a sudden descent on Orange Walk, township southwest of Corosal, ‘They were well armed, and poured in a regular shower of bullets upon the place, The troops, few in number, were taken bj surprise, some, I belicyé, without their full accoutreme! on, and Just bagely being able to eutch up their gins, Li ith the trooy nant Smith, the ouly officer w ps at the time at Orange Walk, received a bullet in bis left breast at the very commencement of the engng and the soldiers became, naturally a little disorg: but a good sergeant assumed command immedia: the men rallied bravely under him. oc They succeeded iu driving the Indiaus back, with many killed and wounded. Our loss, a8 at present known, is two soldiers killed, six. feen seriously wounded, besides the officer, Lieutenant ae FHS, army Fark ppt has oa been yet able toext the . The uy ere hree coilstubles wounded, and about seventeen civilians. Mr. Downer, the Police Magistrate, was one of the first they attacked. They tied hin in his own house in the prove ce of his wite, and might have killed or taken im away if some men had not come In with rifles a ‘iven them a few bullets. They cleared off, wounded, but ne fellow would not run, and was determined not to let RR his grasp ot Downer. A *k mun (@ Jamaican) gave ‘im the point of the bayonet and killed him on the spot, by which means Downer was relieved and his bonds re- red. They burned down his house and also the stat the outrooms of the barracks and other init nine of the intelligence the Governor at mn rece summoned a meeting of the Privy Council, and law was declared in the Northern district. A detachment despatched to the inforce what aoe north, to rei fore. The Major Commanding went himself with them. He has been inaking akirmishes in different directions with SB ponnted bed of the are and Scoating ie coun- ry asmuch ashe can; but he ‘Has not cai wiithe ever see one. They have Fotired fo the wid a opened fasinesses which stretch along the Rio Hondo, which river separates British Honduras from Yucatan. ‘Their Jast raid was in 1870, but was noth Ro blood was shed then although their Canul, came into Corosal ai lowers. The wretch is dead this time, I believe. nee two awful shots, and’ the, people report that he died in the woods from the wounds, I am afraid, they will not enioy the relish they met with this time. They may pos- sibly try and revenge it. THE DEAN RICHMOND EXPLOSION. PUES t Farther Testimony Before United States Inspectors—-The Recording Gauge Out of Order—A Sixteenth of an Inch of Irom Betweon Life and Eternity. The investigation into the explosion of the steamer Dean Richmond, that occurred September 17, was concluded by United States Inspectors In- crease 8. Hill, Joseph Mershon and John K. Ma- thews yesterday, at 23 Pine street. W. H. Christopher, captain of the vessel, testified as to the particulars of the accident. He said he had @ recording gauge, but it was out of order; he took no particular interest in the gauge, and had nothing to do with erecting it; witness has been master of @ steam vessel since 1860; on the Dean Richmond line about three years; no similar casualty had occurred during this period; during the fire the steam and water issued from the boiler and hel subdue the flames; the total damage to vessel and freight was about one thousand five hundred dollars; the vessel possessed a full compliment of fire apparatus and life-saving appliances; the donkey pump alone ‘was used, as the fire was in one pia no use was made of portable fire extinguishers, as the fire was out before extinguishers could be strapped ona man's back; the vessel was inspected in October last; thirty pounds of steam are allowed, and about twenty-four pounds were carried “just before” the accident; had the fire not occurred we would not have deemed tt of sufficient importance to run the vessel ashore; the atid oom boy in the tireroom was 4 little elded, ut is now Well. 7 dD. avis, chief engineer of the Richmond, testifled that he had been on the yessel and the St, Jolin nearly two years; was rst voyage alter she had been laid up; the fires in the front boiler when she lay at the New York dock were banked; got u| twenty pounds of steam, and after taking the bert! from the St. Jom again banked the fires; it was late, and we could nut change the water; witness ordered his assistant to fict up twenty-five pounds of steam; started for Albany about half-past six o'clock P. M., with from twenty-four to twenty-six pounds of steam; it was flood tide, and there wag no occasion to hurry; at Caldwell the accident oc- curred; On leaving the engine room for the fire- man the steam was at twenty-live; he told the fireman not to ‘slice’ the fires until ordered, and then heard a nolse in the boiler and saw the ignited gas pouring out at the fur- nace door; the sound appeared to be increasing in the boiler; witness started for the donkey engine; had the hose cut down and stretched; not more than a minute intervened between the discovery of the fire and the application of water, and in two minutes the fire was out; five minutes later the deck Was cleared off, the engine was siowed and stopped; later witness entered the furmaces and found the fire out; witness discovered a crack from five to six inches long in the large flue, about one foot from the end next to the furnace; the crack was from half an inch to less in width; the vessel was turned after a consultation with the captain, and she proceeded on her course under one boite! the Dean Richmond boiler was inspected by Mr. Mathews in October, 1871, and then showed no de- fect; the highest pressure that night was twenty six omndss the verse) uid hath mercurial and spring bedittts bidhee a anil ake; re also two or he iron where the fr cture Was Was nof more than a sixteenth of an inch; the boilers are seven years old; such boilers nisually fast on our boats ten years, With ordinary care; Witness had worked forty pounds of steam on flues of this size and thickness. Michael King, a watchman on the vessel, gave no important testmony, Michael O'Leary, fireman, testified that Davis, the engineer, charged him to be carofol when “slicing” the fires not to ran the eo bar through the tron; a few minutes after that explosion occurred 8 closed the investigation, and the committed will report tothe Department at Wasiingiole