The New York Herald Newspaper, November 2, 1872, Page 5

STRETCHED IN THE STRAW. The Horses Recovering Their Health After the Ravages of the Hipporhinorrhea. DEATHS CONTINUING Bighty-three Departures from Equine Life Yesterday in New-York and One Hun- dred and Forty-six in Brooklyn. The Strange Sickness in the Streets and Stables Still. Measures of the Sanitary Guardians—A Montreal Veterinary Surgeon’s Method of Treatment and Analysis of the Disease—Resumption of Travel and Traffic in This City— The Epihippic Elsewhere. ‘The hipporhinorrhea is rapidly abating. All the Feports from the different. stables throughout the city are. very encouraging; traffic and travel are resuming their wonted course, and the old order - @f things begins to hold sway once more, the faithful horse reassuming the place ordained for him by civilization in the play of Mfe. A far more cheeriul aspect prevails the streets than during the last week and @ half, and it may have been observed by almost any one that she atmosphere fi really clearer and more whole- some than before. The services of the oxen in the business quarters have proven of great value to the merchants and have relieved them of the hard- est stress of their necessities. The carmen are pow beginning to recover their former means of focomotion, and drays and trucks are about as frequent as ever. THE SLOWNESS OF CONVALESCENCE of this disease, however, compels the most extreme care in their resumption of work to guard against imducing a relapse, and hence the calamity will not probably be wholly remedied until the middle of next week, when we may expect the great and enrions event to pass speedily into the mists of memory, with the hope that it never may recur. Still, however, there 1s much to commiserate in the condition of many of the poor, degenerate hacks who have not received the humane kindness of treatment that was due them as uncomplaining and faithful servitors in their great affliction. The railway companies, as they were too reluctant to tease bartering aeath for lucre by working their wick steeds, are also too eager to place all of them Bgain in the traces, in spite of THE MILD MANDATES OF THE PUISSANT BERGH to the contrary. Yesterday there were seven deaths in the stables of the Third Avenue Railway Mne, and the cars are running with regular although fess frequent trips, bearing enormously heavy Joads of passengers. The Bleecker street line, after Mr, Bergh’s big crusade, has resumed its run- “hing. The West street cars used yesterday were Ofty in number, and on the Second avenue there was the same number as on the previ days since the advent of the equine date: . On the Grand Central depot line there are fourteen tars running. All the other roads and stage routes are using their horses now to some extent, almost #s mucl as before this inconvenience was first oc- tasioned to the public, Some of them double the teams and reduce the number of cars, but this practice affords little relief, as the multitude of people who desire to ride is not lesa than before. However, in the clear, bracing, invigorating weather there is little possibility of a return of the danger which so filled the city with alarm, and it is almost certain that the hipporhi- worrhea will continue to grow less serious, except in the poorest and most skeleton-like beasts. The alaria has apparently departed entirely, and THE HORSES AKE CORRESPONDINGLY JOYFUL and pace the stony pavements with renewed courage and firmer tread. Every car driver, and tven stage ariver, wears a more pleasant counte- mance, and the importunities of the hackmen are again frequent, so that one may in- @eed rest assured that the plague of Canada has indeed passed its dreaded Climax, and is leaving us in comparative prosperity. The dangerous cases are rapidly being went by the arrows of death to “that bourn from whence no traveller returns,’ even if he go St atwo-forty gait, and the animals with strong vonstitutions and heroic endurance are only to be left to us, it seems, so that the hipporhinorrhea may teally prove ‘‘a blessing in disguise,” the mission of which was to better our American stock of horse- flesh. RAPID TRANSIT. Other good fruits of the “dire affliction” are ecoming apparent day by day. The “one-legged failroad” in Greenwich street is beginning to be 80 Well patronized that it can scarcely carry all its would-be passengers, and as practical trial has destroyed a very great amount of preju- Gice, the downtown merchants are talk- ing earnestly of its proposed extension to the Spuyten Duyvil and final completion, and the force of their sentiments will, doubtless, occasion this improvment to be speedily consummated, The depot at Dey street at five o'clock sast even- was crowded as full as possible, and a multi- i¢ were gathered on the sidewalk below, when % A og of entrance were locked against them, g for their turn. SHUFFLING OFF THR MORTAL Cort. The following list of dcaths was reported by the Police yesterday :— 118 Elm street. Second avenue stables—l, Mulberry street. 626 Third avenue. Cr street. 204 East Thirty-third st. 526 Fast Thirteenth street. 533 Kast Thirteenth street. 488 East Thirteenth street. 4i4 East Thirteenth street. 420 East Thirteenth street. 627 East Thirteenth street, ‘! Albany street. 5 Brooine street. Road 4 aoece 6th -second st.,near 6th av, $ Cliff street. 66 Rutgers street, 582 East Fifteenth street. 109th street and Boulevard. 7 Baxter street. 51 Baxter street. 25 Little West 12th street, 17 Little West 12th street, 135 West 40th street. 106 West 22d street. 4 East 2th street. 42 Oliver street. 16 Goerck street. 102 West 54th street. 1% West Mu ‘ect, 252 West Sist street. 413 West 52d street. 437 East 20th strect. 106th street, between Sth and 9th avenues. Nith street, between 10th avenue and Boulevard. 18 Elm street, 409 West 12th street. ‘sad Minetta lane. ‘Wooster strect. West aaa atrect. Corner 2th st. and Ith av, 292 West Tenth street. MS i 7, Weehawken street, 212 13th street. 132 West 25th stree ‘$46 Third street. 132 West 18th street, 44th st. and 2d av. 25 Kast 27th street. 212 Kast Sixty-fifth street. 692 Washington street. The lonely steed who resided in the top story of the tangy J occupied by Schultze & Co., 63 Cif street, has also died, aiter working, far above current of human events, in faithin) solitude a many years. His remains will be de- cently interred. Arabian papers will please copy. NOW THE CARCASES MUST BE BURIED. Ata meeting of the Board ef Health held yester- day afternoon the following resolution was Resolved, That during the prevalaace of the epidemic horses in this city, or until the further order of ray the New’ York Rendering Company Quthorized, under the direction of the Re ice, to bury the remains of horses dying above 100th ‘strect, in vacant grounds above guch street not pontiguens to any inhabited dwelling. Such interment shall be in trenches, so that the whole ody of the horse shall be at least four feet bel sarface of the earth, and each body shall be first covered faite trench by not less than one barrel of ground quick nd th: iT ion oar jt ade fresh earth to the depth of not less low the DISSECTING THE DISEASE. Dr. Leo, one of the Health Inspectors under the Board of Health, made a post-mortem examination ire, On some of the bodies of horses found at dock of the New York Rendering Company, at the foot of West Thirty-cighth strect. In ble Cea ed to the City Sanitary Inspeetor he stated that he discovered symptams of pnete monia in all the carcases dissected, as well as signs of typhoid fever. The fever wag most plainly dis- parilbio on the smaller intestines, ‘woken goes Lad ving NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1872—TRIPLE SHEET. pectorating from the mouth, as is usual in cases of pneumonia. It is clearly shown by all the reports ved by the lealth that. im the and the horses were visited by the disease in @ very mild for while in the fithy and places the reverse was the case. Moat ot ‘ly in those parti stables where the manure was permitted to lie untouched for several days thé animals were oe with @ very aggravated form the ase. ANALYSIS OF THE HIPPORHINORRHRA. A veterinary surgeon of Montreal, Dr. McEach- ran, who in that city has treated over tnree thou- sand cases of hipporhinorrhea, bas given his views of the disease :— Tt depends: or in the air, which, bei infaled affect ihe mtucoes membrane lining tho. pein trachea, bronchial tubes and air cells, producing conges- tion, with thickening and increased secretion. ‘Phe debility, which is an early and predominant symp- ym, he attributes to the condition of the membrane ining the bronchial tubes and air cells, preventing the ae of the blood, the impure: blood poisoning ‘The treatment which he has found asful in his Dractice is thorough ¢leaniines, roper ventilation and the use of carbolic acid as a infectant. Feed them on linseed tea, oatmeal gruel, carrots, apples, boiled oats; in tact, saytning they may fancy, exeevt Fy oats. The hay should be dampened and well shaken. died Satine Avery Baton toca Sst, ‘at feast ill after all febrile symptoms have left them, He says mittent ch nin subject to chill shivering fits, with blowing. In thess eases he. recom: mends them to be warmly clothed, legs rubbed and bandaged, and give two ounces of liquor ammonia pemeeg id Ry eee an yaa of fy? of wtone ether, 01 rspiration sets in or the fit passes off; the throat and sides Tobe well rubbed with ammonia liniment. Cold water to be given frequently, not allow- ing the animal to drink what he will, Due merely a mouthful or two at a AS soon as they are strong enough, «ive them exercise inthe open air, if the weather is iavorable: during te heat of the day. He does not consider it a fatal diseare; in fact, if the horses are kept from work and properly treated, there need not be any deaths, unless it among very old or broken down horses. In Fees ret eerie the number of deaths from the hipporhinorrhea was 146, and whatever im- rovement has taken place seems not very easily liscoverable. In that city it is raging more violently than in New York and with greater tenacity. In other places, in the South and West, it is still spreading, and as to the result it doth not yet appear, The railroad companies propose, to-morrow or next day, to increase the number of running cars, ‘and, as s00n as possible, to return to the employ- ment of their normal means of accommodating public travel, The Street Railway Stables—West Side. THE BLEECKER STREET RAILWAY STABLES. The horses in these stables are reported as im- proving, and the foreman states that no death has yet occurred from the epizootic, The cars, which were stopped on Thursday by the officers of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, were again running yesterday, in open defiance of Mr. Bergh. What the end will be remains to be seen, FORTY-SECOND STREET RAILWAY STABLES, The horses in these stables are improving in con- dition, and do not cough as constantly as on previous days. No deaths are reported for the last twenty-four honrs, and no cases are considered dangerous. In fact, the worst case is that ofa horse now considered fit for work. The cara ran the same trips yesterday as upon the day previous, but were changed every trip. A few only run two trips per day. TENTH AVENUE RAILWAY STABLES, The stock in these stables is improving, and but one death is reported in the past twenty-four hours. Four horses are all that have died at this point from the epizootic, Three or four others are, how- ever, beyond reasonable hope of recovery. The line {a running fifty cars onthe West side. The stables are pircnged with drivers and conducters anxious to begin their trips on the East side, but no arrangement has yet been made for a resump- tion of business in that quarter. NINTH AVENUE RAILWAY STABLES, The horses reported dead in these stables yester- day by a person representing himself as a clerk of HS Bupa insen dent, and who volunteered his rt int, WI the foreman, Mr. Wallace, was busy overa sick horse, are now reported by the latter gentlemanasalive, They are in much better condition, in fact, than at any other time since the epizootic began. "Mr. Wallace says there has been but one death from a well defined case of hip- | aoidrcck pep One death is reported in the past ;wenty-four hours from pleuropneumonia, The en- tire stock is Lay dads Half the cars (ten) were yesterday running six trips per day. To-day four more cars will be put on the street, leaving but six more to be added to complete the entire force, EIGHTH AVENUE RAILWAY STABLES, One horse died in these stables dui the last twenty-four hours from the epizootic. (i the rest of the stock is in better condition than on Thura- day. Thirteen additional cars were running extra yesterday. THE SEVENTH AVENUE RAILWAY STABLES, Little can be ascertained at these stables. and that little is not important, It is said they will in- crease the number of cars run to-day, but even that is doubtful. SIXTH AVENUE RAILWAY STABLES. Two horses reported dead within twenty-four hours, making seven since the disease pega The stock is considerably improved in the same length of tame. The Broadway and Canal street cars have not run since Wednesday night, but the Vesey street cars have been running regularly vibes Bh a morning as tar down as Chambers atree Bast Side. DRY DOCK RAILWAY STABLES. No horses reported dead within the past twenty- four hours. The condition of those in the stalls is fast improving. The cars began running on all the routes yesterday morning, with four horses to each car. To-day they resume running with the ordinary arrangement of teams. AVENUE 0 RAILWAY STABLES. The horses are getting along fairly in these stables, None have died in the past twenty-four hours, Nine are in hospital. Two have died since the epizootic appeared. This line will run ten cars, each running ten trips, from Tenth street down, to- day. On Monday they expect to fully resume busi- ness. FOURTH AVENUE RAILWAY STABLES. The horses here, ag elsewhere, are Re ae 2 in health. No deaths Were reported at the stables, though it was rumored elsewhere that some had occurred, Four extra cars are running on the track to the Grand Central depot, making a total of sixteen, ‘The number will be increased from the depot down town to-day, and several cars added on Madison avenue, THIRD AVENUR RAILWAY STABLES. Seven deaths seportea here in the past twenty- four hours, The other horses continue to improve. A number of fresh, heaithy horses were added to the stock yesterday. Additional cars will be run on Monday SECOND AVENUE RAILROAD STABLES. No deaths reported yesterday and the horses said to be improved in general condition. Cars ruuning the same as they were on Thursday, The Stage Lines, TWENTY-THIRD STRBET STAGE STABLES. ‘The horses at these model stables are constantly improving. No deaths have occurred, with the ex- ception of one reported in the HERALD of yester- day, during the week. The stages ran filty-one trips yesterday, six more than on the previous day, and eleven less than their ordinary number (sixty- two). FIFTH AVENUE STAGE STABLES, Two horses reported dead in the past twenty- four hours. The remaining horses have gained more in the last day than in any previous one since the disease reached the stables. Thirty-six stages were run yesterday and forty-two will be run to- day; they will only make six trips per day, as it is found that alittle exercise is beneticly!, while too much 1s “bad for the epizootic.” FOURTH AVENUE STAGE STABLES. The horses here, a8 elsewhere, were better yes- terday. The number of stages have also been in- creased, though the trips run are the same as on previous days. THE HIPPORHINORRBEA IN BROOKLYN. There was no material change in the condition of the sick horses of the City of Churches yesterday, The cars were run on the Myrtle avenue, Fulton avenue, Flatbush, Court street, Filth and Nostrand avenues at about the same ex- tended intervals, and each vehicle bore a cruelly penderous load. There certainly were, however, more horses in the streets yesterday than any otherday since the malady made ite appear- ance in Brooklyn. The fatal cases reported ut Po- lice Headquarters for the twenty-four hours end- ing last night were thirty. This swells the aggre- gate loss of horses this week to 146, The localities Rue the equines “‘shuiied off’’ yesterday are as jows :— 107 Third street Col , q Rattroud Stables, Van Brant Roctieste viene Fulton ay. stree a 3 Reidetrect, near Fulton, Hicks street corner of Ham: Richards street, near Ra- _ ilton nue. Smith sf., neat Huntington Eighth av., near Eigh- teenth st. 107 Clay st. Lewis av. and Hart st, Rot st., near Hopkinson pelye. Front street, near Smith. 495 Hicks street. Thirteenth street, near ‘Third avenue. Second street, Fifth avenue, Forest and Bremen streets. Bergen street, near Hunter- av. fly road. Warren st. near 71 A van Buren st., near Frank- Fulton av., near "Lynch's Jin avenue. a court, Kowciusko street and Nos Rallroad stables, Atlantic trand avenue. ‘av. DeKalb Avenuc car stables, 21 Macomb st, Baltic st, near Third av. | 620 Hicks st. 194 Degraw st. Bergen st., near Third av. Hamilton av., near Hicksst. .Saveral teams of oxen Jrom the interior of Long Island and @ .ew asses made their entrée in Brook- lyn yesteraay and took the places of their more noble contemporaries in bearing the burdens of man. Much complaint is heard upon all sides at the failure of the offal contractors to cart off the re- mains of the dead, Horsefiesh at a Premium in Boston. Boston, Maas., Nov. 1, 1872, ‘The horse disease in Boston and the vicinity pre- sents no new feature, Superintendent Forristall, of the Health Department, visited a number of stables to-day, but failed to discover any marked Improvement. Mr. Marsh, the Superinten- dent of Hacks, reports the number of vehicles on the streets considerably less to-day than esterday, @ natural result of exposure of sick horses to the storm. The city offal carts are still drawn by men, as are the job Wagons of numerous business firms and express Wagons, Alarge number of express companies decline to answer any orders to call for goods. Owing to the accumulation of freight at the Bos- ton and Providence Railroad depot the Superintend- ent gives notice that no more merchandise will be fry for Providence until tne blockade is re- eve Matters No Better in Poughkeepsie. POUGHKEEPSIE, Nov, 1, 1872, The horse disease is still spreading. One-half of the city cars are hauled off and about all the stables are affected. The reports from the country tell of the spread of the disease in the vicinity. Morgan L. Mott’s stock stable at Hackensack 18 filled with sick horses. All agree that the disease here is of @ mild form. Mayor Eastman’s horses are all sick. The Disease in Kingston. Krnaston, Nov, 1, 1872, ‘The horse disease made its appearance to-day, and is spreading rapidly. At least twenty-five cases are known, some of them being very severe, Strenuous efforts are being made to prevent a spread of the disease. If it becomes very pre- valent the consequence will be serious, as many horses are used in the cement, coal, stone and lum- ber business here, and its spread among horses used on the Delaware and Hudson Canal wouid be almost a calamity at this busy season of coal trans- portation. Several Thousand Animals Sick in Phil- adeciphia, PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 1, 1872, The Evening Telegraph estimates the number of sick horses at from five to ten thousand, but nota a single fatal case is reported. Nearly every rall- way company has withdrawn cars 80 as to avoid the use of sick horses. Many of those taken sick aad are already recovering and are tak- food. Business Interfered With in Baltimore. BALTIMORE, Nov, 1, 1872, The horse disease prevails throughout the city and vicinity. A number of cars have been with- drawn from various lines, and comparatively few hacks are on the stands. Business is beginning to suffer for want of conveyance of freights, ‘The dis- ease, however, prevails in the mildest form, and there are no fatal cases at present, The Epizootic in Washington. WASHINGTON, Nov. 1, 1872. The horse epidemic has rapidly spread in this city. The proprietors of the large livery stables have closed their doors, refusing to allow any of their animals to go on the street. The street rail- roads have withdrawn a number of their cars, The veterinary surgeons say that the disease ap- Pears here in a milder form than as reported ih cities further North, Stages Taken Off in Cincinnati. CINCINNATI, Ohio, Nov. 1, 1872. The horse disease is still spreading, and it is re- ported that at least twelve hundred horses are af- fected. The street car lines appear to be but little affected so far, and up to this morning no cars have been withdrawn. One of the Wabash avenue Stage lines has been compelled to withdraw a large Bumber of stages. HORSE NOTES. epmengninendpinmmnioapr ‘The disease that has prevailed for the past two weeks among horses of all grades in this neighbor- hood seems to have put an end to trotting races for the nonce. The tracks are all in capital order, but their owners offer no purses and trainers make no matches, as they are afraid of the pestilence, and will not take any risks of injuring their valuable horses for the present, By the time the disease subsides the season will be over, and the lovers of trotting will have to seek other sports than those of the turf until next Spring, At a late trotting meeting at Medina, N. ¥., seve- Tal of the horses entered for the purses were with- drawn in consequence of being attacked with the prevailing horse disease. Among these were Lady Kendall, Clara G., Lady Allen and Bart. In this vicinity American Girl, Gazelle, Judge Fullerton, Sea Foam and several others are on the invalid list ‘with the disease. Dexter has also been suffering, but is now convalescent. Rice & McCormack’s bay mare Annie Bush, by Lexington, dam Banner, by Albion, broke down at Nashville, Tenn., on Saturday, Oetober 26, The in- telligence was received in Baltimore last Monday by ir. McCormack, who was attending the races of the Maryland Jockey Club. Annie Bush was a very promising race nag, having won both the great four-mile 8 the past Spring of the Me- tairie and Louis! Jockey Clubs, at New Orleans, John O'Donnel, of this city, purchased from Mr, Harness, of Chillicothe, Ohio, the chestnut colt Meteor, the winner of the Jersey Derby at Mon- mouth Park, last Summer, for $2,000, Meteor was sired by Asteroid, dam Maria Innis, The celebrated race horse Lyttleton, formerly owned by John Harper, of Kentucky, but now by A. Welch, of Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, is now on his hg dl? Mobile, to be trained by T. B. Patter- son for the great events tocome off in the South next Wires The San Francisco Chronicle of October 21 has the following:—“There is some prospect that a four-mile heat running race will be gotten up be- tween the running horse Thad Stevens, belonging to George Treat, and Phil Sheridan, the property of Captain George A. Johnson, or any other horse that may be put in, the stakes to amount to hen and the winner to take the whole amount. If this race comes off it will be one of the best betting races of the year, for they are both game horses, and stayers, too. It would be a good idea to take the winner, if the race comes off, to New Orleans next Spring, run him in the free-for-all four-mile and repeat race, which is to come off there fora divided purse ‘of $20,000. Ifeither of these horses should be entered for that great event our horse- men feel confident that his owner would pac! home a portion of the money, if he did not ge away with the first prize.” THE COMPTROLLER AND THE FIRE’ DEPART- T. Payments were made yesterday by Comptroller Green to all the departments of the city govern- ment for salaries, wages, and other purposes, of October. In relation to the Fire Department, the following letter was sent to that department on the 26th ultimo, but neither the pay rolls nor any of thg information called for by the Comptroller have yet been furnished :— Derartuent or Frxaxce, } Comprnotien’s Orrick, New York, Oct. 26, 1872. To tax Fine DerartMent :— The Supreme Court having denied the arplioa Son of the Fire Department to have moneys deposited in bulk to its credit, to be paid out by that department without audit and examination of the Finance Department, you are hereby notified to transmit to this department the Pay rolls of the firemen, clerks and other employes of thé Fire Department for the month of October, 1872, properly certified in the form heretofore prescribed by his department, and that I shall be prepared to pay the same on the Ist day of November, or as soon thereafter ag they can be examined and audited by this department, In order that no delay may occur to the firemen and other elena in receiving their pay, and to avoid inconvenience to your department ment will be made either at this of the Fire a or to the their respective engine houses, and at su as may best subserve the convenience of he Fire Depart ment. I shall be happy to hear from the Fire Department or from any. pers phe | to represent its views, any suggestions that may be caleulated to facilitate these pay. ND) order that the public interests may be efficiently rotected. oP the Fire Department is also requested to transmit to this department a statement showing in detail all pay- its made by ire Department since the 16th a4 aid and the amount of eac! fu ih & statement of of the Fire De- sited and kept. Comptroller, Were: and where the game are de) ‘ery respectially, ANDREW H. GREE: FIRES IN BROOKLYN. Report of Fire Marshal Keady for the Past Month. Fire Marshal Keady yesterday submitted the fol- lowing report to the Police Commissioners :— GentLemeN—There_ were 24 fires in this city during the month of October, 1872, arising mainly from the follow. ing causes, viz:—Carcless use of matches, lights and fires, 7; explosions (mostly from Kerosene lamps), 8; spontaneous combustion, 1; supposed incendiarism, 3; unknown, 2; spat mm a chimney, 1; defective flue, 1; Gaglights, 1—total, 24 ¢ The losse msurances for the month, so far as they could be asce: dd, are as follows :— parce bul ‘4 insurance Loss on stoe! 11,000 Insurance. Estimated actual to: pie + 16, Michael Doll, charged with setting ‘fire to iis rooms, 85 Bushwick averine, Auguse 26, 1872, was tried in the Court of Segslons on the 26Ur Inst, sind gequitted:, Respectfully sepniee. P. KEADY, Polive Fire Marshal. nA LY THE FIRE FIEND AT FAR ROCKAWAY. Destruction of the Hotel St. James—Loss About $55,000—A Fearful Battle Between the Villagers and the Fire—The Village Saved by Superhuman Efforts. Not for years—indeed since the famous Pavilion Hotel went down before the fury of a consuming fire—has Far Rockaway passed through such & period of alarm and uncertainty as that of yester- day morning in “the wee sma’ hours” verging upon daylight—a period of two short hours—that Saw the splenaid first class hotel called the St. James reduced from a noble structure, overlooking in itsgrandeur all other buildings in the town, re- duced to ashes, ©" not enough of the structure left to ignite a ‘The St. Jamer ° by Mr. E. A. Dor « about the mic tive Summer t retained his iv. ’ WITH TWO Ma... Charles Martin and Michael Campu.., Pied rooms on the second foor, facing Leckwou Street, They retired on fhursday evening at the usual hour, and little expected to have their slum- bers disturbed by the a) ’ fire during the night. Between three tr the morning, however, Camp" it smoke in his room, wh! it was with great difficy «) companion, and they r Their Upon opening the door the sine: the hall, but the servants reached the dv. Darragh’s room and awakened him. The three men felt their way in the IMPENETRABLE DARKNESS AND SMOKR, to the head of the stairs leading to the lower floor, but the smoke was 80 suffocating that exit by that Way was impossible, and in their alarm they felt thelr way through the deserted halls in search of @means of exit, which finally was found by the presence of mind of Mr. Darragh, who remembered that the piazza afforded a megna of escape if they could fight the suffocating breajn of the smoke long enough to get the windowsgeading to it open. They succeeded after almost superhuman effort, and the only inmates—the three persons named— reached the ground in safety. By this time the fire had attained considerable headway, but the vil- lagers were still WRAPPED IN UNCONSCIOUS SLUMBER, little dreaming that their beautiful miniature city by the beach was threatened with destruction by the rapacious fire. The better to understand the location of the hote! a diagram is given:— 4 ops ener ago Catharine street, | Dinin, Room: Z ° Laundry. Store. Greenwood avenue. On proceeding around to tne Lockwood street side they ered fire and smoke issuing from the extreme end of the wing used as a kitchen and jaan Py hurried Se ape apse rae the mes ead wi that it was futile for three tOaitem t “ad A TUSSLE WITH THE FIRR, and they CMe an alarm that aroused the sleepers in the neighborhood, who in less than ten minutes had collected, half dressed, to the number of two or three hundred, There isin the vill apparatus, and the citizens quickly supplicd them- selves with buckets and advanced to the attack. Their efforts, alas! were of no avail, for the fire by this time had reached the second story and was lapping up everything of acombustible character in its mad fury. The wind at the time was blowing almost a gale, and the lighted cinders were carried across the streets, threatening the destruction of the adjoining buildings, and, in- deed, the entire town. The residents at once saw the futility of endeavoring to save the St. James and bent all their efforts against THE SPREAD OF THE CONFLAGRATION. While the noble hotel, reared asa monument of the owner's energy and frogality. was being rav- enously devoured by the red-tongued fire men mounted the roofs of tho adjoining houses and dis- tributed pails of water, passed up to them upon the roofs, At one time the residence of Rev. Father Brenerman, the parish priest, situated on Catharine street, opponie the main entrance of the St. James, was seriously threatened; but by the heroic en- deavors of the improvised fire department it was saved, and the spreading of the fire in that direc+ tion prevented, The store on the corner of Greenwood avenue and Lockwood street at one time was in imminent dan- ger, but was saved hehe the almost superhuman efforts of the ‘‘pail brigade.” Meanwhile the devouring element had full play upon the hotel, The flames rapidly reached from the laundry to the upper stories, and crept alon, to the corner, enveloping everything in its pati and eating up all combustible material. First the wing on Lockwood street fell with a crash, and the LURID GLARE OF THE FIRE ba a up the heavens for miles, After the safety of the adjacent houses had been assured the popu- lace turned their attention to the removal of the furniture in the main building on the Catharine street side, upon which the fire was making threatening demonstrations, In this they were only partially successful, the fire following them 80 rapidly, and less than one thousand dollars’ worth was rescued. By daylight the beautiful structure could no longer be seen, and all that remained of the once popular St. James was represented by smouldering ruins. An hour later nothing but the few bricks that formed the chimneys, the kitchen Tange and stoves remained ag ta orcas OF THE Horm, rt that or dorned the spot, and to which ever: aes feof the well-to-do cottager to the sirec' urchin, pointed visitors to with pride as @ well pro- vided hosteiry. THE CAUSE OF THE FIRE ia a mystery, but the supposition is that a defective flue wrought the ruin. Inthe laundry was a large kitchen range that had been kept pretty hot dur- ing the day by & woman who was ironing. She left. the fire burning in the range at six o'clock, and no one visited the room again during the night, DESCRIPTION OF THE ST, JAMES, This fine hotel was erected at a cost of $40,000 in the Spring of 1870, and was opened in July of that year, Itis a twostory and Mansard roof structure, With a cupola on the corner one story Bigner, an externally presented a very pleasing artistic effect. It was furnished two years ago cost of about $15,000, and has had a very successtul career, THE INSURANCES. There are about twenty-one thousand dollars in- surance aa the furniture and building, ia which the following companies are represent: Impe- rial, of London, 000; Continental, $6,000, and Northwestern, of Wisconsin, $3,000. ‘The furniture was insured for about seven thousand or eight thousand dollars. THE HOTEL TO BE REBUILT. fe no fire From Mr. Darragh, who unable to give all the companies in which he is insured, the reporter of the ALD learned that the loss over insurance will be about twenty thousand dollars. Notwithstanding this dire calamity, the proprietor is not discouraged and will at once proceed to re- build with a view of having the St. James open for the commencement of the season of 1873. The above are all the details the reporter could obtain during ten minutes’ visit tothe town, To secure these he was compelled to walk a distance of nine miles from Jamaica to Rockaway, owing to the non-connection of trains, and the impossibility, owing to the horse disease, to obtain a livery team at a fabulous price to make tne trip. SUICIDE BY SHOOTING. , Harvey Edward Young, a man twenty-five years ofage and son of Mr. Young, formerly editor and manager of the Alvion, an English newspaper, died yesterday at his residence, 305 East Thirty- first street, froma pistol-shot wound of the head, inflicted by himself with suicidal intent nearly a month ago while Leeda | under temporary aber- ration of mind, Coroner Herrman wag notified to hold ap inauest ovey the remaing, PROBABLE DOUBLE MURDER. A Wo: Kicked N ly to Death by a Seventh Ward Rufian—Prompt and EMfcient Action of Her Son—The Vil- Man Stabbed with a Butcher Knife. John Radley, @ notorious rafian, who has for years been @ terror to the well-disposed inhabi- tants of the Seventh ward, while in a state of gross intoxication, went inte the grocery store of John MeTierney, 221 Cherry street, about eleven o'clock ‘Thursday night, and became engaged in an ailter- cation with Mrs. McTierney, kicked her in the stomach, causing her to give premature birth toa child, and was in turn stabbed in the breast with a large butcher knife in the hands of Jonn McTierney, Q son of the Injured woman, Radley, who lives at No. 3 Pelham street, stag- gered into the store and demanded of Mrs. McPerney, who was behind the counter, some .d at v. These she refused to give him, knowing he ponse sy with which to pay for them. 7 BECAME GREATLY EXCITED desired articles, and after me \, “Mprecations upon the wo- voicgo punter, and dealt her several * wis fist, and finally kicked The poor woman, who had been pi, y five months, broke away from the ruffian a. sushed, screaming with pain and terror, into a back room, where sat her son reading an evening paper. Radley followed’ her, and, on entering the door, was met by the son, sged a knife and plunged {t into the villain’s * Radley at once ran into the street, where ‘4 found bleeding protusely by the police. ‘eeu ting to his mother, who had thrown herself © /ounge, Join found her suifering great pain oO on the point of fainting. He procured water ‘d4athed her face, which done he immediately « in quest of aphysiclan, On returning he found two oficers in the store, and to thein he GAVE HIMSELF UP, Soon after his mother gave birth toa child, and her condition is now so critical that the physicians despanr of saving her life. Radley was removed to Bellevue Hospital, where his injury was pronounced to be of a very serious ifnot dangerous nature. Yesterday morning the 80n was taken to the Essex Market Police Court andcommitted by Judge Shandiey to await the re- sult of Radley’s injuries. During the day the HERALD representative visited him in his cell and had a few minutes’ conversation with him. He ts a mere lad of eighteen, suncers exceedingly bright and intelligent, considering the community in Which he lives, and has about him none of the rowdy or loafer, His eyes told plaluly that he had been weeping, and his countenance, as weil as his hed ee Concr nate Cad Gee mental suffering. y ‘y,” al ie re id arvnre porter, “this is a sad “L know it, sir; itis sad becanse of my mother, Pet ys se part yeouk in Jax dats see how I ct self, Oo ¥ avin ip my: you know how my poor WILL SHE DIE ?? As he asked the question his eyes filled with tears and his yoice choked. The reporter expressed a hope that the poor woman would survive the injuries she had received, and, by way of diverting the youth’s mind frem her suffering, asked iim if he intended to kill Radiey when he stabbed, “No, I did not intend to kill him, although T was, as you may imagine, greatiy enraged,” said Mc- Tierney. ‘He 1s a desperate character, and I knew it, and had I Killed him I don’t think 1 could be seriously blamed for it. Of course I will be kept here some time, but I have every confidence in my lawyer, Mr. William F. Howe, who will, 1 know, finally get me out of the difficulty, I sent for him this morning, and when he came and heard my story he offered to take the case without any fee whatever, saying I had done nothing more than was clearly my duty, and that if I had killed Radley T would have been justified.” Stealing Sugar and Ten. Aman, who gave his name as William Mayfeld, Was arrested last evening by Detectives Tully and Dilks, charged with procuring goods on false pre- tences and selling them for his own benefit. This species of swindling has been carried on io such an extent lately that scarcely a day passed but some complaint was made to Superintendent Kelso by a plundered merchant of the boldness and success of the operators. Goods of all descriptions were car- ried off, and the owners were left to meditate upon the possible return of the wherewith. The atten- tion of Captain Irving was called to the matter, and he _ instructed his officers detailed in the different localities of the city to watch closely for the man who was laboring in this peculiar industry. Acting upon those instructions Detectives Tully and Dilka have been for some days past scrutinizing the neighborhoods of the prin- cipal hotels, thinking that in all probability the thieves might go to one of those institutions to sell some of the stolen articles. The surmise ‘was & just one; for yesterday afternoon, as the officers were passing in the rear of the St. James Hotel, they noticed a number of barrels of sugar and some tea on the sidewalk, while two men stood atthe rear entrance to the hotel discussing evi- dently the sugar. In a few minutes one of the parties moved off, saying to the other:— “T will come back ina few minutes and take It way. rhe detectives immediately stepped up to the re- maining gentleman, who proved to be the steward of the hotel, and asked him what the discussion was about. The steward expressed his belief that lett him wanted to sell the sugar and tea at very much less than the market price. The officers followed the man and arrested him in front of the Fifth Avenue Hotel. He was locked up at Police Headquarters, and the merchandise was then looked after. The detectives found it was the propery of @ Mr. Walsh, who is the proprie- or of & wholesale grocery store on the corner of Washington and Franklin streets, Mr. Walsh said Mayfield had purchased the goods from him, order- street. He had represented himself as agent for the firm of Carter, Hawley & Co., 140 Pearl street, and Mr. Walsh naturally had full confidence in him. drayman’s peeks for the property. man who brought the sugar had gone Mayfield be removed. To Captain Irving’s questions, when he was brought into the Detective Ofiice, Mayfield was insensible, He knew nothing, and evidently determined to remain in the same condition. ‘The five barrels of sugar and chest of tea were re- moved to the Central OMce, where they are now ying. The police are of the opinion Mayfield is the man who has been annoying the merchants of the city so much, but that he has a confederate, or perhaps two, Captain Irving feels confident. It ts more than provable these parties will also be in the hands of the police before many hours. May- field’s residence was known to the detectives lust night, and oMcers were sent there to watch the premises and arrest any lounging or suspicious Nereoe found in the neighborhood. Ae will be sent fore Judge,Dowiling at the Tombs this morning. NEW YORK CITY. The police caution the public against taking counterfeit $20 bills on the First National Bank of Plainfield, N. J. Sian In the New York Ophthalmic and Aura! Institute, 46 Fast Twelfth street, during the last three months, 993 new patients were treeted for eye and ear diseases, and 135 operations were performed, The corner stone of St. Andrew's Protestant Epis- copal church, 127th street, near Fourth avenue, by Bishop Potter this afternoon, at balf-past three o'clock. The City Chamberlain and County Treasurer, Francis A. Palmer, makes the following statement concerning the public moneys in his possession:— Balances October 19. «+ $6,045,273 Receipts... 12,034,224 Payments... 4,614,270 Balances Oc 12,406,227 The Department of Finance disbursed yesterday the amount of interest falling due November 1, as follows :— On city debt.. $1,068,559 07 On county debt vive 679,791 13 seco +++ $2)648,360 20 TOL. sees eeeee Comptroller Green's attention has been called to the condition of the Eighteenth Ward Market building, which is sadly out of repair and demands immediate action to place it in proper order for use, The water pipes under the floors are Icaking baaly, and the roof also in twelve or fifteen places, while the plumbing work throughout the building requires a general overhauling. Lizzie Wilson, an unfortunate, jumped ont of a window in the building of the Midnight Mission, yesterday morning, and ran to 87 Amity street, where she had been previously living. She only remained a short time there when she jumped from the second story window to the ground and injured herself seriously, Captain Byrnes, of the Fifteenth precinct, had her conveyed to the station | house, She was afterwards went to Bellevue Hos- pital. something was wrong, as the man who had just | ing them to be sent to the asylum, 65 West ‘Tenth | The goods were delivered on the sidewalk | in front of the asylum. Mayfield was there to receive them and igned = the | When the hired another cartman and caused the goods to | Rev. George B. Draper, D. D., rector, will be taid | +} ARKANSAS’ CIVIL WAR. Mississippi County Held in Check by the United States Authorities. ———— Marshals Arresting the Alleged Chief Particie pants in the Osceola Emeute—How the Self- Styled Militiamen Acted During tho Fighting--Firebrand Fitzpatrick Keep- ing at a Distance—The Registra- tion of Voters Going On and Order Restored. OSCEOLA, Oct. 27, 1872. Deputy Marshal Richards has obtained sufficient evidence to induce him to arrest certain person Suspected of the murder of the two negroes, Wash- ington and Kiijah. O@e William McKinney 1s already under arrest, The murdered negroes were sent towards Osceola, in custody, in company with @ party of men who had been reclaiming soma cattle belonging to a Mr. Miller, of New Orleans, and which this party were driving toward tha north part of the county. Some of the party cama on in advance to Osceola, and the rest continued with the cattle. McKinney says he can prove him- self innocent of the charge. ‘The evidence taken by, Mr. Richards consists largely of aMdavits ol colored men to threatening and intemperata language used by white mep, which thesa affidavits say were calculated to intimidat colored men from becoming registered. I am o: opinion that if the missing registry books could be found they would show the names of most of these very aMants. Mr. Richards pretends to hava evidence that the first parade of armed men waa by whites, especially om Court week, iu the face of Fitzpatrick’s statement that twen- ty-flve armed negroes came into town on Monday o! that week, while there is no pretence that any armed white men appeared until the next day. It ap~ pears that the armed white men who acted the part of posse under Sheriff Hazzard and his Deputy took upon themselves the name and semblance of a county militia, and that they gave to those negroea Whom they did not arrest as rloters safe conduct# and passes to return home, of which the following ar 8 RPRCIMENS OF PASSES :— Heapquanrens oF tie Gunenar. CommaNnina Mititia, Missigstver County, ‘Os Atk, Oct. 13, 18}2, AN members belonging to thé organization’ known ag Militia of Mississinpi count hereby command not to. stances’ with Alfred Br Preston place and within th nd now under arms are erfere under any e}reum< colored, now residing on nits of Mississippi county. Jotone! * DAVIES, Captain D, R. Pirrwan, Acting Colonel pro. tem. ig Oor, 11, 1872, Washington to B, HASKIN, By D. R. Pittman, DAVIES, Colonel Commanding. Guards and pickets please pass Willlam hishome. Heis au ol nn. WwW. Pass him. By order J.B. Best, Adjutant,” ‘This William Washington fs the father of the murs dered man. ‘This Mr. Richards construes as a vio- lation of the Enforcement act, although some of the best white republican citizens of the county tell me they have assured Mr. Richards that thid armed body of white men acted purely in Self-deknce and as conservators of the peaca under the mandate of the Judge of the Circuit Court, and that no act of lawless violence has been traced ty them, and this is the unanimous expres- Son of allthe white men I have met within the Past four yg, The cattle party was a distinct sotaliy eee, bahia themselves of the op- cover f ck, . cl vomplalue thee their stock, Mr. Richards A BLDY OF ARMED WHITE MEN crossed into te county from Missourl. This in” true; they camcafler+he ight was over to ald tha white citizens te resis. Sheriff Havain, of crivtendas eouneay at Sitack b © of its militia; but as no neither did these men from Mi cere Liven part in the troubles in this wines. Bae xe armed body of seme twenty-fvelnty. | eet the river from ‘Tennessee and actelf! th Bitepate rick’s band. an old citizen, James O1f Pb te peen arrested, the substance of whose’ nf paving declared that he had never obeyedwce is officer and, by God! he never would, with bas 4 clause concerning intimidation. ‘The officers are ont making other arrests, an these arrests will be quite numerous from presend. appearances. Those arrested will be,taken ta Helena, two hundred miles below here, for pre- limmary examination, The business of reg- istration 18 progreasing, and from present appearances this county will give a republican majority, for very obvious reasons. The utmost barmony prevails between white republicans and former democrats, and no real distinction seems ta exist except that between what is here culled the “Caucasian” and the negro party. Neither does there appear to be any feeling of animosity be- tween these, except that directly connected with THAT FIREBRAND FITZPATRICK. Some think him a little insane; but tf so, there {s method ia his madness. When it became neces- sary for ,him to employ a lawyer to defend him from’ the biel of murder, he, through Hicks’ League,. levied ®& per capita tax in | cotton on all the negroes in the county, and with this paid his lawyer's fee. An inadvertent interlineation in my last’ made me speak of Justice Blackwood as colored. He is a white man in every sense, 1s one of the Commis- | sioners of Registration, and is the United States Commissioner betore whom the ailidavits prepared, | by Deputy Marshal Richards are sworn to, ) Marshal Richards concindes that the killing of Sherif Murray by Fitzpatrick was done in self-de-. fence, ana that the killing of the negro in the nort! part of the county by Dr. Palmer, mentioned ia My last, was a cold-blooded murder, Dr. Palmer, aiter killing the negro, promptly surrendered him= self to Sheriff Hazzard, who is a rncmi and who declined to take him into custod, saying that, having been assured that tie Killin, was justifiable, he only required Dr. Palmer's promise to appear when wanted. Richards assureg | me that much of the information which is turnished | him by negroes {s unreliable; that he reduces thelr oral statements to writing, and when they come to | swear to them the matter often turns out to be | merely hearsay. ‘This afternoon, while a crowd of | citizens were waiting at the Court House to ve registered, word came that th> MARSHALS WERE OUT MAKING ARRESTS, when numbers mounted their horses and for home without waiting to be registered. ight the marshals who went north to arrest the men of the cattle party suspected of killing the two negroes revirned without their men. It is thought probable that atter the cattle party separated below town the two negroes attempted to make of with the cattle, and that this led to their being shot. Justice Hicks calls his colored league a ‘“benevo- lent society.” Judge Moore, who is an ex-officio Superintendent of the County Poor, tells me that ona recent visit to Hicks’ neighborhood he was ap- plied to in behalf of two or three old and indigent hegro men, aud he mentioned their cases to Hicks ag proper objects for relief by his society, Hicks? answer was worthy of Aminidab Sleek :— “No, sah; dat's a county matter, certimly. Dig biety’s got nuitin to do wid dat sort 0’ Cases.” EXAMINING THE BOOKS, Thave inspected the oficial record of the last annual settlement of the Sheriff, Clerk and Asses- sor of this county, for the year ending with May last, and find that none are 1p defauit. There is a sum of about sixteen hundred dollarg held in abeyance under an injunction sued | out by the texan as being part of an excessive levy imposed by State Board of Equalization, but this money is on deposit in bank, awaiting the decision of the Supreme Court, and the sureties on the injunction bond are good for a much jarger sum. The presiding judge of the County Court pronounces this to be the best financial settlement the county has had for years. ‘The withholding from assessment of lands sub- scribed to railroads ts subject by law to t! ontrol | of the State Auditor, and the county officials have no discretion in the matter, From these and other facts it is apparent that the accusations made by jl te against these officials were mainly uu unded, All the recent troubles in Misalseippt county are traceable to Fitzpatrick and the black Justice Hicks, with his colored League. Mr. Richards tells me ne has warned Gt nt & bod awe from the county, oo 1 am satisfied. that tranquillity will 806M be restored in this distracted community. Whether he will return to Osceola remains to ve seen. Inthe presence of your correspondent he declared, at the Overton Hotel, in Memphis, a few days ago, that he would return and “raise hell.’’ MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE, ‘The friends of John Bowman, of Springfield, Mass., reported to Superintendent Kelso, at Police Headquarters, yesterday morning, that Mr. Bow- man had suddenly disappeared in this city under most mysterious circumstances. Mr. Bowman, with his wife and family, arrived in New York on ‘Thursday last and went to Harlem. They went into an eating saloon and after partaking of some refreshments Mr. Bowman told his wife he was polng, out for & moment and would returo soon. iy a jad waited a long time, but her hus- ban not return, nor has she seen oF heard of him since. She stated to the police yes terday that he had “io his pergon at the time of leaving her $1,100 in gold and ha in green- backs, besides a valuable gold watch and chain, Mr. Bowman is thirty-three years old and w: dressed in & brown overvoat. Diack trousers aD brown Jelt hat,