The New York Herald Newspaper, December 27, 1872, Page 5

ENGLAND. frire alarm at Southampton Docks and Fortunate Escape by a Change of Wind. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALS, 4 Lonpon, Dee. 26, 1812. & Wooden shed at the Southampton Docks used “for the storage of goods intended fer export was destroyed by fire at an early hour this morning. At one time it was feared the names would spread ‘to the shipping, but the wiad fortunately changed to the opposite direction and a disastrous con- siagration was averted. ‘The damage was comparatively unimportant. FRANCE. president Thicrs’ Reception of the Japanese Em- bassy—A Breeches Revolution Com- pleted at the Elysee. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Pants, Dec, 26, 1872. His Excellency President Thiers received the Wapanese Ambassadors yesterday at the Palace of the Elysée, ' -'The'members of the Embassy were dressed after ‘the European fashion, wearing the usual diplomatic uniform, The’ French President expressed a wish for en- during friendly relations between France and Japan, which was cordially reciprocated by the yphief Ambassador. AFRICA. Storm and Shipwreck on tho Cape of Good Hope Coast. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Lonpon, Dec. 26, 1872, Advices from the Cape of Good Hope to the 28th Of November have been received. Heavy gales had prevailed on the sea coast and ‘everal Vessels were wrecked, _ MEXICQ e eM SEER Rolitical Riot and Murder in Matamoros—Troops of the Line’ Called Into Action—Cortina’s Charges of Assassination Conspiracy. TELECRAM T@ THE KEW YORK HERALB, MarTamonos, Dec. 26, 1872. ‘Tho excitement over the election for municipal Officers has not yet subsided, On Sunday night several of Cortina’s men had an encounter with a troop of the Twenty-second batta- llon, resulting in one sergeant being killed and several citizens wounded. The regular troops and the National Guard were ‘Called out. It tg rumored that Cortina headed the attack ‘upon the troops, and it is said he merely defended ‘himself against a party who attempted to assasal- ‘nate him, Honor to Professor Morse’s Memory. é Ciry oF MEXICO, Dec, 21—8 P. M. TO THE ASSOCIATED PRESS OF NEW YORK AND THE SMITUSONIAN INSTITUTE, WASHINGTON, D. 0. :— At this moment the Mexican Society of Geogra- «phy and Statistics, the first scientific body of the country, His Excellency the President of the Republic being present, holds a _ solemn session in honor of the illustrious Professor Samuel Morse, taking the occasion of the ‘opening of its mew hall of meeting for ‘that purpose. The President, Vice President, Secretaries and Treasurer of the society and a smumber of members contributed homages of ad- iration for the eminent savant of the United States of America, BLAS BALCAREL, Minister de Fomento, President, IGNACIO RAMIRi: Vice President. IGNACIO M. ALTAMIRANO, First Secretary. ANTONIO GARCIA Y CABAS, Second Secretary. ENFERNIO MENDOZA, Third Secretary. FRANCO SOSA, Fourth Secretary. CUBA. Whe Sugar Crop—Horse Plague in the Rural Districts—Shipping and Markets, TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD, HAvana, Dee. 24, Via Key WEsrt, F'la., Doc. 26, iste. ‘The prospects of the new crop of sugar grow bet- ‘ter daily. The horse disease is decreasing in this city and dmmediate vicinity, but has invaded the taterior towns, The steamship City of Merida, from New York, arrived here Sunday morning. THE MARKETS, Exchange on United States, sixty days’ sight, in currency, 10 @ 104, per cent premium; short sight, 12412 per cent premium; sixty days’ Bight, in «gold, 22 & 2244 per cent premium; short sight, 2434 @25 per cent premium; on London, 3444 a 36 per cept premium; on Paris, 174; a 18 per cent pre- amium. VENEZUELA. Prevalence of Peace—A German Squadron in Port. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALO. ‘Havana, Dec. 24, 1872, via Key Wrst. Advices from Laguayra, Venezuela, to the 8th, Mave been received, Tranquillity prevailed throughout the Republic. A German fleet, consisting of three ships, arrived ‘at Laguayra on the 8th instant. _Haym Tho Cabinet Cure for Shinplaster Carrency— Hard Facts Concerning Coffee Traders, “TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD, Havana, Dec. 24, 1872, via Key West. Late advices from Hayti have been received. The Haytien Congress having passed the law for ‘withdrawing the currency from circulation before the 16th of April, the merchants consider the plan proposed impossibfé, on account of the shortness of the time. The government had given orders for the inspec- tion of coffee, stones having been found in the coffee bags with the coffee. FAREWELL gt GOVERNOR HOFF- MAN, Apany, N. Y., Dec, 28, 1872, Avery large number of the leading private citi- zens Of both political parties, together with State, «city and county oficials, Judges of the Appeals and other Courts and citizens of the neighboring cities, met Governor Hoffman at the residence of Mr. William Cassidy, on Hawk street, this evening, and spent several hours in social intercourse, having made this the occasion of biddi dieu to the Governor, who will in a tew Europe with his family, All made mi: ing of sincere regret at parting with an Exeoutive who had tn his relation of fellow citizen during his four years of residence here formed ties of the closest friendship and inspired the highest respect. ‘MINISTER WASHBURNE TENDERED A BAN. QUET IN BOSTON, Boston, Dec. 26, 1872. Governor Washburn and a large number of leading citizens desiring to testify their appreciation of bis public services addressed a letter of invitation to Hon. E. B, Washburne, Minister to France, to meet them ata reception and dinner. Mr, Washburne replies that it will be impossivie for him to accept their cordial invitation, as he leaves for lis post of duty next Saturday. A diminished but considerable audience was Assembled last evening in’ the hall of the Cooper Institute to hear Professor Tyndall’a fourth lecture Qn “Ligut.” NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1872. THE WILLIAMSPORT HOLOCAUST.) THE GOOSE CREEK MASSACRE. Terriblg_ Slaughter Ina Bap- THE ROOF AND FLOOR GIVE WAY. Three Hundred Persons Buried, Bruised and Burned. FIFTEEN KILLED AND FIFTY WOUNDED, A List of the Unfortu- nate Victims. WILLIAMSPORT, Pa,, Dec. 26, 1872. Last evening the Sabbath school attached to the Baptist church at Newberry, in the Seventh ward of this city, assembled to participate in the cere- monies of Christmas night. Some three hundred men, women and children were present, The ceremonies of the occasion had been inau- gurated, and Mr. Kinsloe, of this city, proceeded to address the children, when a peculiar shake and quivering of timbers was felt that denoted a sud- den downfall of the building, No sooner had the impression taken firm hold upon those present than the floor gave way,-precipitating the whole assemblage into the celiar below, THE CHURCH was constructed with an upper audience room, and it was in this that the congregation had as- sembled. The interior dimensions of the floor are twenty-six feet in width and forty feet in length, There was a centre girth, with joists thickly Placed on each side, and through the centre from above were two bolts connecting with this main girth, Evidently the weight of those assembled sprung the truss bearers, and the supports slipping out of their places caused the terrible catastrophe. This is evident from the fact that the timbers were not broken. The gaspipe, twoinches in diameter, which was beneath the centre girth, was bent double by the immense weight, WHEN THE CRASH CAMB there went up a heart-rending wail of mangled humanity, Children wildly shricked for their parents and the groans of the wounded and dying filled the air. To add to the horror, the oil lamps of the edifice ignitea and bude fair to destroy all in @ general conflagration. Those outside worked with a will and used every possible effort to rescue the . living. The church was now on fire, but providentially the flames could be reached and were speedily extinguished. Before the floor gave way many of those within were able to reach the windows and leaped to the ground, a distance of fifteen feet. In the panic several were wounded by being run over. THE DEAD. At eleven o’clock P. M. the dead bodies wera re- moved and were identified as follows :— John Richie. Boyd Mehafty. Mrs. Duncan Campbell and two children, A child of C. V. 8. McGinnis, Miss Ladie Momitt, Miss Mary Fisher. Miss Lizzie Boskin. Miss Grace Seaman, Mizss Tillie. A boy named Shuman, @ child of John Bubb and Mrs. John Wilkinson. THE WOUNDED. There were some forty or fifty wounded, among whom were the following :— Mrs. Thomas Ames, badly bruised, Miss Sechinof, slightly burned. Mrs. Moffitt, badly bruised. Miss Fessler, leg broken. Daniel Newcomer, leg broken. Mrs, Abraham Berry, leg broken, Robert Momt, slightly bruised, Howard Reeder, jaw fractured, Lewis Reeder, badly bruised. Mrs. Jonathan Fisher, leg broken, Miss Barkins, arm broken, Mrs. E. B, Campbell, badly injured. John Antes, head cut. Miss Thomas, limb broken. Miss Toner, limb broken. Andrew Mentler, ribs broken, Sadie Ramsay, ankle spraiued. Gertie Ramsay, wounded. Second daughter of James Toner, ankle spratned. James McFeshler, badly bruised, having lad his scalp sorn loose. George Snook, bruised. Carrie Bushy. Mr. and Mrs. McMinn, badly bruised, Alice Newcomer. Emma Brown. Lewis Hartman, William Houck, Miss R. Jacoby. Miss Annie Shaw. Alice McBride and father. Sarah Waltz, Amanda Waltz and William Waltz were injured. Lewis Cupp had his nose broken in four places and others were more or less tnjured, among whom are Jackson Newcomer. Lottie Adams. Edward and Jennie Kinley. Lizzie Flexir. George Boskins. William Hellumworthy. J.N. C, Connelly and a child of Mr. Berry, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. G. Kinsloe. Some of the injured will probably die. It is im- possible to give the names of any more of the wounded at this time, as many of them were imme- diately removed to their houses in ditferent parts of the city. WEATHER REPORT. WAR DEPARTMENT, Orrick OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER, WasHinaTon, D. C., Dec, 27—1 A. M. Synopsis for the Past Twenty-four Hours. An area of low barometer has moved north- eastward from Florida along the coast to that of New England, accompanied by brisk and high northeasterly winds; the pressure has rapidly in- creased over the Northwest Upper Lake region H and southward to the Western Gulf, with northerly to westerly winds, and clear and clearing weather; northerly and northwesterly winds, cloudy weather and snow continue over New England and the Middle States. eo Probabilities, For New England and te Middle States north- erly to westerly winds, diminishing in force, with clear and clearing cold weather and rising barom- eter; for the Southern States northerly to westerly winds, increasing pressure and generally clear and cold weather; from Missouri and Ohio to the Up- per Lake region northerly to westerly winds, low temperature and generally clear weather; trom Kansas to Minnesota and Dakota diminishing pres- sure and southerly winds, Midnight telegraphic reports from the South Atlantic and Galf States are partly missing. Cau- tlonary signals continue at New York, New Lon- don, Boston and Portland, Me, ‘The Signal office, at thirty-five minutes past four P.M., reported it snowing at the following places :— Boston, Buffalo, Burlington, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Indianapolis, Kingston, Montreal, Mount Wash- ington, Nashville, New London, New York, Os- wero, Philadelphia, Pittaburg, Port Dover, Port- tand, Rochester and Saginaw. A LARGE FIRE IN ST, LOUIS, St, Louis, Mo., Dec, 26, 1872, Afire broke out at eight o'clock this evening in the extensive tobacco factory of Liggett & Daus- man, 27 and 29 South Second street, opposite Bar- num’s Hotel, totally destroying the buliding and stock. A fire is now raging in the upper stories of the adjoining building on the north, which is also occupacd by the same drm, Horrible Mutilation of the Half-Consumed Boilies | in the Burning Cars. Corpses Dragged Out With Ropes Without Heads and Arms, THE DEAD AND WOUNDED IN FULL. Rar P Riche Damaging Testimony at the Coroner’s Inquest. Enis, Pa., Dec. 26, 1872, The immediate cause of the accident at Prospect station was a broken flange on the tender wheel, About sixty rods west of the station ts a trestle- work qome twenty feet high, over which the loco- motive and tender of the Eastern bound express passed in safety, but the baggage and passenger cars—only two coaches being in the train—were thrown from the trestle and struck top downward, The weight of the trucks crushed in the cara, closing up the windows, and, to render tne sit- uation even more terrible, the passenger coach was partially tilted upon its side, so that for the occupants of that side there were absolutely no means of escape, Almost IMMEDIATELY THE CARS TOOK FIRB, the passenger coach burning at both ends, Some half dozen persons waiting at the station were Soon at the scene of the accident, but they worked &t an immense disadvantage. No water could be had, and the snow that was scraped up had little eect in staying the flames. Only two axes were ayailable, and the woodwork of the cars was bolted together so firmly and intricately that but little headway could be made with them. All the time these efforts were being put forth the Names were steadily gain- ing and the shrieks of the imprisoned victims as’ the scorching heat enveloped them was appalling to the stoutest heart. Now and then @ rope was put through a crevice, fastened to a form and the sufferer pulled out by main strength. Sometimes it would be a lifeless body and the charred arms, legs, or head would drop off in the struggle. In three or four instances THE HEAD WAS THUS SEPARATED from the trunk, and in as many more cases the body was bereft of its limbs, The body of a lady was thus rescued from the flames, the head and ‘one arm snapping off like a piece of charcoal, while the other arm was untouched, akid glove covering the hand and her finvers wearin, their jewelled ornaments. The body wil doubtless be recognized with the aid of the rings. But for these it would have been impossible to identify it. The bodieg of three other ladies were taker out, neither of which, it is believed, can be recognized. In all it is estimated that fully ten of the nineteen forms removed from the burning car are unrecognizable. It is supposed that in addition to the bodies recovered a nuaiber of others were CONSUMED IN THE BURNING CAR, and that nothing but their blackened bones will be discovered when the fire is extinguished and the ashes raked over. Adding these to the number of injured that will die, it is estimated the total num- ber of lives lost will not fall short of thirty—the whole number of persons in the two cars at the time of the accident being about forty-five. Alter the accident Frank Taylor, of Corry, one of the rescued prssengers, was leaning against some object, and seeing an acquaintance peeing, called bim by name. ‘The friend turned around, pisalog apparently uninjured, but suddeuly he Bal % “TELL MY WIPE" and fell over dead, He mtst have died from in- ternal injury, but the inmates of the burning cars were shrioking for aid and Mr. Taylor’s friend did not see him again until his corpse was brought in and placed with the others. A.ter the groans of the dying were stilied in death the stench arising from the burning bodies is said to have been sick- ening. With no means of extinguishing the flames, and the heat being too intense to admit of all the bodies being extracted, nothing could be done by the speorerere but to stand quietly by and see the remains slowly consumed, The following is a letter from the correspondent ofthe Erie Despaich, Wio was at the sceue of the disaster :— MAYVILLE, N. Y., Dec. 26, 1872, The bodies thus far identified are Mark Haight, of Brocton, N. Y. William H. Osborne, of Westfield, N. Y. Hermau Ryan, of Farnham, N, Y. Edwin H. Bell, of Sherman, N, Y. Con Maloney, of Brocton, N. Y. Frank Taylor, cf Corry, Pa, John White, of Lancaster, N. Y. August Cardat, of Arkwright, N. Y. Charles Metz, of Eden Corners, near Angola, N.Y. Mr. and Mrs, Wilbur I’, Rice, Titusville, Pa. E. Joseph Curtin, of Titesville. Kate Riley, of Dunkirk, N. Y. Willlam Rankin, a laborer, from Canada, James H. McCarten, of Miller Station, N. Y. Four bodies only remain unrecognize All the wounded, but Maggie Curtin, W. H. Tick- ner, Mrs. Cornelia McUarten and Fayette Flanders left Prospect station for their homes. At the Chautauqua House, Mayville, one John Dougiass, a Canadian, bas his lett shoulder ana breast broken, but he may recover. John Cowdrey, of Corry, head cut and internal injuries. Barney Cook, of Lancaster, bad internal injuries; his recovery is very doubtful. Al! the others are doing well. There were thirty-eight paying pas- et a on the train, and five employ¢s back of the nder. At the inquest Henry Miller and J. J. Marks testl- fled that the train ran very fast, H. H. Lee and others contradicted it. The fireman says they were running five miles per hour. i Orville Swift, of Corry, was on the train, and his body has not been recognized. Two of the four bodies unclaimed are shapeless masses. Mr. Douglass, who was in the car twenty-five minutes, says sever passengers were kilied out- right, others were writhing about until suffocated and others were conscious until burned to death, The inquest was adjourned until Saturday, when the testimony of Conductor Fianders will be taken, ANOTHER RAILROAD ACCIDENT, PATERSON, N. J., Dec. 26, 1872. A stock train ran into the Orange county express, eastward bound, on the Erie Railway, at Allendale, this morning. lL. M. Hemmings, of Kingston, N. Y., who was standing on the rear platform of the ex. press train, had th legs so terribly crushed that he cannot survive the night, AN AVALANCHE IN UTAR, Sart Lake Orry, Dec. 26, 1872, The weather at Sait Lake has been mild and rainy for three days, with heavy snows in the mountains. Near Central City a terrible snow- slide occurred to-day, trom six to eight feet of snow having fallen in the last two days. At about half- vast two o'clock this afternoon an avalenche 600 eet wide and twel deep me down, crossing the stage road, carrying away from eight to ten teams and teamsters and taking them 1,500 feet across Cottonwood Creek. Three of the teamstere have been shovelied out alive, but badly bruised; four more, known to be buried, were not rescued, and itis thought impossible to find them before Spring, although from one to two hundred men are at work shovelling. Ali the teams in the line of the avalanche were swept away. The names of the men have not yet been ascertained, Eight mules were dug out, some dead, some with legs broken and others severely bruised. Severat were alterwards shot. There have been mo delays on the Pacific road as yet. SUSPENSION OF THE MEMPSIS BANK, Mewruis, Tenn., Dec, 26, 1872, The Memphis Bank suspended operations to-day. Its unsecured Habilities are understood to be $25,000, due mostly to small depositors, The capl- tal stock was $15,000, owned entirely by the Presi- dent, J. J. Murphy, who claims assets in real estate, stocks, &c., to the amount of $75,000, which makes @ favorable prospect for the unsecured creditors, At one time the bank had $109,000 of deposits, con- siderable of which has been withdrawn in conse- quence of suits and rumors affecting {ts credit. It was in process.of winding up when it came sud- a to a stop for wantoffunds, It ts believed creditora will realize seventy-Ove per cent if not the full amount of their ciatms, ARREST OF BUFFALO BILL AND NED BUNTLINE, Sr. Louts, Mo., Dec, 26, 1872, Ned Buntline, who with Buffalo Bill and Texas Juck have been playing a sensational drama at the Grand Opera House here, was arrested to- day on a warrant issued at the instance of Prose- culing Attorney Normille, for alleged complicity in the rot which occurred in the southern part of the city in 1852, After examination Ned Buutline was released in $500 bail un each of twe indictments found against him twenty years ago. The proceed- lugs are regarded as & farce. AIEG STORM AT THE HUB. Total Snow Blockade in the Modern Athens— Trains Stopped and Ingress and Egros, Closed—Fires—Hard Times for Thr¢e Hundred Smallpox Pationts. seme" Boston, Doo, 26, 1872, Boston is again unfortunate ang excited. The tetrible delage of snow which~has come dowi in other parts of the New England States included the “Hub” within its scope, and the broad expanse of white which now enve!opes it is scarcely less fatal to business and commercial pursuits than the memorable storm of fire which came on the night of the 9th of Noveraver. The snow commenced falling before daybreak this morning, and the un- usual element of an accompanying atmosphere which sent down the mercury in the thermometer among the twenties or thirties rendered every- thing more disagreeable and inconvenient. In brief, the snow was almost blinding, the wind painfully and dangerously fierce, and mingled with these was biting frost, almost fatal to human and animal existence, unless unusual precautionary measures were observed, During the forenoon people endeavored to brave the tempest, but later in the day it was evident that the naturat clements were bound to triumph, FIRST THE HORSE CARS began to diminish in number, then the onmibuses, then the hacks, and finally nearly all were.with- drawn and means of conveyance were as scarce as during the worst days of the epizootic. The steam railroads, too, yielded to the mantle of flakes, fol- lowing tie carly mene trains out and in; there came a total suspension in the afternoon and even- ing. Such a state of affairs was never before known here. The city is literally snow-bound, There is no egress or ingress, and the storm still rages, and with the meteorological advices from abroad, there are no prospects of abatement be- fore morning. TRAINS to and from New York, Portland, Montreal and Cape Cod are snowed in at ditferent points, aud will not reach their destination before late to-mor- row, The eight o'clock train from New York to Boston and the Shore line train out of New York are bound up on the road, and the afternoon and evening trains over both the Shore and Springiioit lines did not leave, The usual trips of the trains connectiug with the Fall River, Stonington and Norwich boat* lines to New York were also omitted. The afternoon and evening tains on the Eastern and Northern reads are held back until the storm abates, and most of the local trains to the suburban cities and towns in all directions have failed to make their accustomed trips. In consequence of all this there were probably not less than thirty thousand extra lodgers in the city to-night. The hotels are all full, and boarding houses, police stations and every other means of shelter are crowded to their utmost capacity. FIVE ALARMS OF FIRE. As If to make the effects of the storm all the more unendurable there were five alarms of fire during the evening. The first came irom the new Post Oftice, the walls of which were ignited by an over- heated furnace, occasioning a slight loss; the sec- ond was caused by the burning of a blacksmith shop at the Highlands, and the third, caused by a moat disastrous fire, was the destruction of. the nearly completed hospital for the accommodation of SMALLPOX PATIENTS in the Southern district. The pecuniary loss by this latter fire cannot exceed $15,000, but when it is remembered that Boston has now at least three hundred invalids sufering from this disease, and that the great majority of these are confined to their homes because there 1s no safety in their re- moval, and that this hospital was built by. contract 80 as to furnish pro- vision for just this sort of people, the loss can be more nearly arrived at. To simplify this state- ment it might be said that there are not less than three hundred smallpox patients in Boston who would have been removed to this hospital when it was completed. One-half of this number, say in- telligent physicians, will die, because there is now no provision for their comfort, and the other half will be compelled to remuin at their homes and SPREAD THE CONTAGIOUS INFLUENCE of their disease throughout the entire neighbor- hood. There wiil be a direct loss of $15,000 and, perhaps, 150 lives by this fire, and an in- direct loss to be estimated by the returns in the future, Fortunately there has heen but one accident of serious nuture reported to-night. A bootblack was discovered in a half-frozen con- dition at the North Endand it is feared that he will not recover. WASHINGTON. —+ WASHINGTON, Dec. 26, 1872, The White House Closed to Strangers for the Present. The President has shut the doors of the Execu- tive Mansion against visitors until after the holl- days. Mrs. Grant said she was tired of having her home made the rendezvous of politicians every day in the week, Sundays not excepted, and was de- termined she would have some privacy during the holidays. The Capital in a Strange Plight. Washington ts blockaded with snow, The means of egress are as mean as those of ingress, the hotels are vacated, the streets deserted and the only sound breaking the monotony of this Decem- ber eve is an occasional jingle of sleigh bells, ‘The trata which left New York this morning will not arrive until a late hour to-morrow morning, Tho Southern trains have not been heard from. The Potomac Is ice-bound, and unless the weather moderates in a few days the shopkeepers here will become insolvent. Captain Irvine Shot by an Indian. Adespatch received at the War Department re- ports that Captain J. B. Irvine, of the Twenty-sec- ond infantry, was surprised and severely wounded by ashot from an Indian, three miles from Fort Sully, on the 9th inst. The Indian is said to be the same one who stabbed and killed asoldier at the Cheyenne Agency last June. Erforts are making to arrest the Indian, who is still at large. Abolition of the Assessors. The President on Tuesday signed the bill to re- duce the expenses and offices of the Internal Reve- nue Bureau, which passed Congress a few days ago, and thé work of putting the new law into *practical operation will be commenced immedi- ately. This bill, it willbe remembered, legislates all of the assessors out of office by the 1st of July next. There are about seventeen different kinds of stamps to be prepared before the new law goes into effect, but work upon them will be commenced without delay. A Naval Officer Suspended and Restored. In the case of Alexander A. Semmes, of the United States Navy, tried in January last for in- flicting cruel and unlawiul punishment upon per- sons under his command, for abuse ot his official powers, and for oppressive and inhuman conduct unbecoming an officerand gentleman while he was in command of the United States steamer Ports- mouth, found guilty and sentenced to be sus- pended from duty and rank for three years, and to be reprimanded by the Secretary of the Navy, the President has remitted that portion of his sentence which suspended him from rank and duty, and he will again be ordered to duty by the department. The severe reprimand which he received, however, by the Secretary at the time, stands on the record, it being announced therein that if the sentence of the Court had been severer the department would not have failed to approve it. Twenty Million Dollars Asked For by tne Navy Department. The House Appropriations Committee will meet to-morrow at twelve o'clock. Mr. Hale, from Maine, will introduce the Navy bill to appropriate about twenty millions for the repair of our vessels, the support of our navy yards and the construc- tion of five new compound engines, Of this sum $750,000 are to be expended for the compound en- gines, and the same appropriations as last year are to be made for the Brooklyn Navy Yard. An Alleged Swindle of $700,000, Parties here from Montana are prepared to make aMdavits that there is no-such tribe in existence as the Teton Sioux, for the support of which appropriations were made last year of $500,900, and in the bill just passed the House of $200,000, These parties propose to furnish the Senate Appropriation Committee with a statement showing that the disbursement of moneys to the so-called tribe, especially under the agency of Superintendent Viall, !ately removed to make way for Rey. Caleb Wright, were made upon fraudulent vouchers. Important to European Traders. The Post Ofice Department has been notified by the New York Postmaster that the mail for Europe per steamship Adriatic, sailing next Saturday, will cloxe in New York city on Friday afternoon at five ACLOCK. | MEARNLESS ISHAM. The Bloody Washington Mystery ___ of Monday Cleared Up \ TERT. 8, | ROGERSKIS IMURDERER ARRESTED, ak 0D See t —, A Brutal African Kills Him for Christmas Money. z WASHINGTON, Dec. 20, 1872. “Murder sill out.” The old adage has once more been verified by the discovery of the perpetrator of the awful crinte on Monday night, which, up to last evening, seemed shrouded in the most inscra- table mystery. Two little children named Francis Kidwell and Alice Sorret, who were sent out on an errand, trudged over the frozen ground in the bitter cold on Monday night, when they discovered the lifeless body ofa man lyingina vacant lot in South Washington, between Ninth and Tenth and D and E streets, The face and head of the dead man was hacked to pieces, and his body, yet warm, was besmeared with blood. It was apparent that life had been extinct but a short time, else tle body would have frozen stiff with tie intense cold, The little ones FLED IN HORROR, and meeting two policemen a few mimutes later, they told them what they had seen. The corpse was conveyed to a station house, but the face was so terribly distigared with a network of gashes that it seemed past recognition, The mutilated fragments of the scalp hung tn shreds, the frontal bone was cut completely through, and the nose and lower lip were nearly severed from the face. Those who saw the mangled body that night “supped full of horrors.” The deceased was ap- parently forty years of age, and was of herculean build. After a careful search through the pockets of tae murdered man his identity was discovered through an envelope found, which bore the address SAMUEL ROGERSKI. It was apparent that the bloody deed was done at some distance from the place where the corpse Was found, for the pantaloons and boots presented anappearanco of having been dragged along the ground, and two straps were fastened around the body, which were seemingly used as handholds for the murderer who dragged away the body. The victim was subsequently identified as Samuel Rogerski, a Polish pedier, and the motive of the murder was found to be robbery. Rogerski, it ts said, had a sum of TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS AnOUT HIM, besides the wares he carried and exhibited for sale. Chief Clarvoe and his detectives set about with great energy to find the murderer. Their suspicions were directed to the inhabitants of a miserable, lonely irame structure, on the south- west corner of E and Tenth streets, @ little dis- tance from the place where the murdered man was found, It stands in a large enclosure, the nearest house being at least one hundred feet distant. It 49 Very old and seemed from its location most con- venient for so dark a deed. The inmates of this house were Tom Wright, a negro ruffian of power- ful build, and black and ugly as grim night, his colored paramour, Margaret Woods, and her boy and another negro named named Sam Bembry. Last night, between nine and ten o'clock, they were ail arrested and removed to a police station. TOM WRIGHT DID IT, Here titey were questioned separately. Tom Wright pretended ignorance of the crime. “The woman Margaret, however, made no attempt at concealment, She confessed tt was Tom Wrizht who murdered the pedler while she was absent from home, and that the wares belonging to Rogerskt were concealed ina shed in the rear of the house. The police officers went back, and, with lanterns in hand, made a thorough search of the premisea, The snow storm heightened the fantastic horror of the scene, as the policemen searched for THE MARKS OF THE MURDER. Thetr lanterns cast a fitful light over the snow- covered, lonely, desolate place, the wind drove dense fakes into their faces and enveloped them from head to footin a thick coat of white. They overturned a large pile of lumber, and discovered that the ground underneath had been disturbed. They procured a shovel and digged about three feot, when they unearthed a sack containing all the WARES BELONGING TO ROGERSXI, consisting of shawls, laces and fancy articles. They also found @ hatchet under the bed, the instrument with which the assassin had butchered his victim. On a close examination blood was found on It, and a few bits of hair resembling in color that of the murdered man. Marks of blood were found on the doors and walls, but the floor where the murdered man lay was carefully washed. MARGARET’S DETAILED STORY. The account of the murder as gathered trom the confession of Margaret Woods is as follows :— The pedier entered the house, and while exhibit- ing his wares was struck from behind with a hatchet either by Wright alone or with the aid of a confederate. Blows followed in quick succession until the victim was helpless. The woman Margaret confessed that when she came home Tom Wright was engaged in washing up the floor, and that on asking him what he had done he said, “T have killed that damned Dutch pedier,” and that late in the night the murderer fastened the straps which heid together the pedier's wares around the victim and dragged him out to the place where he was found. THE GUILTY MAN shows a bold front. He even assisted the detect- ives in the search after the marks of the murder. He is nearly six feet tall, about thirty-five years old, very black and muscular. He has never been steadily engaged in any kind of work. In October last he was shot in the thigh by @ man namodt Hooper, owner of an oyster boat, at whom he flung a@ heavy log, just grazing his head. Hooper was arrested and put under $500 bonds to answer the charge of assault and battery. Since then Wright has recovered from his wound. The ques- tion 1s now, Had Wright a CON¥EDERATE IN THE CRIME? It is possible thatthe negro, Bembry, who ts also under arrest, took part in the murder, but the woman Margaret stoutly asserts that no one was in the house but Tom and the pedler when the murder was committed. She also states that last Friday Tom asked her, “When is the Dutch pedier coming here?’ She answered, “On Mon- day,” upon which he said, “I am going to rob him and get some Christmas money.”" THE VICTIM SOLEMNLY INTERRED. The remains of Rogerskl, who was an Israelite, wrre buried with ail the rites of his religion by a Hebrew society connected with the Synagogue on Pennsylvania avenue. SMASH-UP ON THE ERIE RAIL- WAY. The Orange County Morning Express Train Disabled Near Sufferns—One Man Fatally Enjured—Others Slightly Bruised—Delay on the Road—Banks of Snow Everywhere. — Yesterday morning the Orange county express train left Middletown, N. Y., with seven passenger cars, one drawing room and a baggage car for Jer- sey City. There were less than haifa hundred passengers on board, The heavy frosts of the few nights previous had made the tracks like ice-beds, so that the engine and coach wheels slid along almost without apparent effort. The falling snow of yes- terday had made railroad travelling a little worse, if possible, than the frost had ma‘ecit. The ex- press jogged along very smoothly aud comfortably ‘until it came to Suiferns, which station it passed in safety. Three or four miles south of that place a Western-bound freight train had switched on the down track to allow a Western express to pass on the road. This also caused the Orange express to stand still until the other train got out of the way. A GLASSY, SMOOTH TRACK. ‘The grade descends at this point of the roaa, and there is also a curve between this place and Sufferns, so that the approach of a down-coming train is not readily seen. The Orange express, therefore, sent a flagman back about a mile to- ward Suiferns to warn pal trains. A second flagman was sent back about @ quarter of mile. But the depth of the fallen snow and its drifting with the wind, together with the increas- ing thickness of the fallen flakes, made locomotion & slow aud disagreeable process. Just at this time, while the Western freight train and the Orange county express were standing on the track, anothor freight train from the North came sliding rather than rushing along the raila, Warned by the fagman, the engineer put down brakes. Other employés jumped off and sprinkled the ti%ck with sund #0 a8 to impede the progress of the train. But the condition of the rails was such that it was inpossibie te stop the freight train until the loco- metive had run into the rear car of the Orange express about half the car's length, and pushing it into the car refore it, tne TWO CARS WERE SMASHED UP. | There were very feW persons ia the rear car, and ¢ | the Holidays33 East Fourtee these ittly into the othor, where there were sevon ladies and a little girl. ‘The ladies behaved with great coolness and kept their places unt danger actually drove them forward. Lambert, of 21 Fifth avenue, New York, a passen- ger on the train, was standt) on the rear car latform when ke saw the freight trai Ag ge ing. Surmising what the result wo be, he jumped and ran along to the front ing his hands and halloing to the sie rag of the Orange county express to move on alittle. But this oficial either did not see or hear Mr. Lambert, or train was atuck fast and could not be promptly moves pal : - 08 way vias vuuciais 10 8top its prog- éfforta of ¥ ‘they did all that was possible tor ress, thoagu =ot succeed iM time to avoid them to do, did a. *he slipperiness of the the collision, owing to .. track. But had they not done doubt the record of Iie lost would be $ than is now reported by Mr. Lambert, who Nes called at the HeRALD office yesterday and ma... fested his appreciation of this journal's enterprise in trying to get the first and most reliable news of every sort by volunteering this tnformation, A PROMINENT MERCHANT INJURED WATALLY, ' Fortunately, only one man was fatally injured, thongh several received scratches and bruises, Which, however, did not incapacitate them {rons pursuing their journey and attending to their bust- ness. The thjured gentleman is a Mr. Lewis Her- mance, a wealthy citizen of Kingston and an ofcer of the Kingston tron works, Mr. Hermance 16 ® large and powerfully built man, weiguing probavry. two hnndred pounds, and is between Mifty-live ans Sixty yeurs of age. He was aitting in the passen® @er car last but one and was wedged in betweon the débris of the two cara, A large piece of brokea {ron pierced the fleshy part of his right thigh near the loins through and through and held him so fast Uthat he could not be extricated until the train was moved forward a few feet, Evan then it waa with Ailculty that the impaled gentleman was Dr. Lawrence, of Middlétown, who wad assenger on bowrd, rendered meuical services te” r. Hermance, but the latter bled very freely from his wound, The coshions of the seata were tore: up and plaged on a door, and, failing to get the im jured man into the drawing room car, he waa thus Lorne from the place of the accident tb Jersey City’ and placed in a hospital there. He is so badly in- jured that there is scarcely a probability of hiw surviving. Mr, Hermance was a prominent mam in Kingston and his loss will be deeply felt thera, DELAYS ON THE RAILROAD BY SNOW AND ACCIDENT, The broken train was delayed at the place of the accident about an hour, The worst damaged cat was left behind, but the other was brought forward to Jersey City. The snow has drifted 80 deep at both ends of the Bergen tunnel that outgoing and incoming cars must wait until extra locomotives are brought to help them out and in, The delay thus caused by the accident and at the tunne therefore brought the Orange express into Jersey City four hours behind time, It was due there at fifty-five minutes past nine A. M.; tt reached there only at UDA minutes past one P, M. No biame~ is attached to the Frie management or to the oficials on the injured trains for the accident and the delay, The head light of the iocomotive at tached to the freight train was carried away by the collision, but otherwise it was not materially damaged. ‘Thanktul that the disaster aad loaa oF life are not greatér, we have to add this to the fear- ful record of raitroad accidents whicn have recentl; taken place in different parts of theconntry, Al along the line of the Erie Railway the snow ta several feet deep, and in places it has drited” almost as high as the trees. ‘Travelling by rat will, therefore, probably be slow and uncertaia while this snow storm continues, MUSIOAL AND THEATRICAL NOTES. Another feature, and an excellent one, {a to be introduced into “Leo and Lotos” at Niblo's, Tha isthe introduction tnto the piece of the famous gendarme song from “Genevidve de Brabant," with» M. Gabel, its untque interpreter. Standard comedy at the Unton Square Theatre does not meet with the stccess that was anticl pated for it, and on Monday it yietds to the Engliate play “A Son of the Soil,” wht has not yet been. produced in this country. The piece for this even- ing is Bulwer's “Monday,” in which Miss: Mary Griswold 1s to appear. The Theatre Comique has a new piece, founded. on “Pussy’s Adventure in the Weill,” and several: new performers. The manager prides himself on the perfection of his olto, and we think he confounds the anagram which may be made from this word. The complimentary beneflt to Mr, W. H. Pope, the recitationist, takes place at Steinway Hall this evening. A.—Furs! Furs! Fars! he fur that warns a monarch warmed & bear.” “Now is the winter of our t Made glorious Sumner” by th Mnffs, Boas, Sleigh Robes, Butt: un fc. 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