The New York Herald Newspaper, January 22, 1873, Page 4

4 NEW . DRIFTS OF DEATH. ‘The Terrible Tempest in Minnesota. A Graphic Description of the Hor- rors of the Hurricane. Fifly Hours of Storm---The Indian Irrup- tion Far Less Dreadful. Over Two Hundred Lives Lost—Drifts Higher than Houses—Babies Frozen Stark at Their Mothers’ Breasts—A Land of Snow Strewn Thickly with Corpses, Wrvona, Minn., Jan. 18, 1873. \ While your Eastern world on the verge of the Gulf Stream has been lifting the hands of despair 4 voice of protest over a Snowiall which made Aocomotion on foot unpleasant and by horse cars Ampossible for a day or twe, and while the whole yuntry has been thrilling with. horror at the in- ‘remation of a few hapless workwomen in a tinder x, up here, on the shadeless aud Shelterless rairies, “there hath been wrought a deed of readful note.’’ Human suffering which parallels hat endured by the fated Franklin has been of jourly occurrence, and lives have been taken as eely a8 in battle, but with attendant circum- tances infinitely more tragic than wait on the arting of the soul which is rent from the mangled leah by shot or steel, 1 was in Minnesota alter he awful massacres of ten years ago, when the d wave of Indian invasion swept over the smiling and leit it A WASTE OF ASHES SOAKED WITH BLOOD; ut the scalping knife and bullet of the Sioux did ot do such havoc as the snows have wrought this 4 nor were all,the tortures of the red flends ‘ductive of more agony than I have witnessed ithin the past ten days, What has been suffered pnd how many have been slain has not yet been pscertained, for the settlements are far apart aud rommunication is dificult; but by every mail pome particulars that chill the blood, and we can pow fairly estimate the extent of the calamity; pnd, inasmuch asthe history of this memorable Polar wave must, in a large measure, be derived om Yocal sources and backwoods journals that are reach the Eastern reader or editor, it may pot be labor wasted on the part of the HERALD’s porrespondent to prepare a succinct and intelligible ccount he Sad affair, to which are added such Loe passages as may be most worthy of Preservation, ; Up to that fatal Tuesday, at whose mention any @ heart shall ache in Minnesota for years to me, there had been Winter weather of the usual jort, clear, cold, with occasional storms of snow, jome of which had seriously blockaded the rail- Foads and “induced considerable suffering from arcity of fuel. The epizooty had for some time id an embargo on travel, Our great Northwest. ern country must not be considered to be like Can- pe a land of hills and valleys, thickly clad with ine forests, A great table-land, of considerable titude, lying open to the winds, that sweep down from the Northern Sea at intervals, ICY AS THE BREATH OF DEATH, with an occasional tree, a semi-occasional clump Df trees, or a still rarer belt cf torest along a water vided and an atmosphere dry and rare—such is ‘he Northwest. It is largely settled by immigrants om Scandinavia, poor and thrifty folk, whose ooden houses stand singly or in little hamicts, jarking the prairie at every few miles, The coun- ‘ry is fertile, and in Summer smiles as the garden i the Lord; but in Winter it presents a bleak face a snow to acloudiess, blue sky. Tuesday, the 7th, was a lovely and mild day. ‘he sun was bright and the air balmy. Every ulse oi the country was astir under the genial in- juence and the wild swans that clanged overhead nce or twice from their meres must have seen the prairie roads alive with teams, The farmers were all out at the nearest settlement. They were wetting short of fuel; there was but a handiul of jour at the bottom of the barrel, not a scrap of at was left. But the snows had ceased, their little horses were well again, so every far- r hitched his team ior the town. In the little tages of wood were wemen and children; the hoolhouses were full of little ones. Such was Bs country, thus its dwellers, when the biow fell. jature would seem to lave arroy ‘ed to herself all he savage attributes whick had marked her first children there, their careful and patient watch for Bn easy opportunity and their sudden and reicnt- Jess onslaught, THE STORM WAS TURNED SIOUX, At Winnebago City there were sixty teams as- sembled; scores were at New Ulm. All aiong from Albert Lea and Blue Earth, by Windom, Mankato, vlear up to Breckinridge, Belle Prairie and Duluth} foe people were scattered, delivered into the ands of the storm. ‘ Between twelve and two o'clock on Tuesday the Bky turned livid, the sun became merely a dull brazen ing, the south wind chopped round rapidly and ecame cold, and in a very few minutes was laden ith fine frozen suowdrift that stung like a shower of needies, So utterly unprepared were the people for the change in the weather, and so suddenly did t come upon them, that one man at Winnebago Vity describes it as “il aman clapped his hands— BO, and the snow came in our faces.” Knowing hat this hurricane boded, men leaped inte their Fleiss, and with voice and lash urged their cower- g horses out into the storm. ‘Then the work of death began. For more than fifty hours, till late ‘on Thursday, the freezing wind and falling snow eontinued, It was not a steady fall of snow, but A HOWLING HURRICANE, Yhe wind sometimes attaining a speed of twenty- eight, thirty or thirty-two miles, he snow came 4 fitiul furries, with a wild screech and a stinging hiz. The thermometer fell steadily, 4ill at Cham- Line it registered flity-four degrees below zero, At ther places the mercury or spirit marked from eight to forty-two degrees below. Seme of the Hittes who set out soon found that if they valued jie they must turn back. They were enveloped in heets Of snow, that blinded them. The wind came 0 flercely that they were fain to stop and turn ‘ound till a momentary luilcame, The road—why, he level prairie was all road now, without one @rack of wheel or runner to indicate the path of afety. Wherever there was a slight knoll ora tree he driving snow-sleet curled round {t and broke ver it like yeasty billows over a wreck, and far to foowara grew up drifts of eccentricform. Then ene snorting horses that toiled along, pressing with heir heaving flanks cleser to each other for warmth and duinb protection and sympathy, re- fused to go forward; the driver felt himself becom- ing listiesy, his cold limbs were grewibg warm, aud, Warned Of the ‘ SWIFT COMING OF DEATH, he turned andretraced his steps. Happy they who did so betimes! There were many who held on Btubbornly till 1t was too late. Theré were many more who, goaded on by @ dreadiul fear of the fate of their wives and little ones, leit alone in their frail citadels, forced on through the drifts that grew deeper at every step and coid that be- came more intense every moment. And there swere others who grew weary of the contest, and, lying down in their robes, were lulled by the el mental rage into a slumber which knew no awake fg. Sometimes the horses gave out, and the w jappy driver, benumbed an@ chilled, his move- ments impeded by his heavy clothing, had to @bandon his team and take.to the drifts, The moans and shrieks of the herses that found them- Sclves thus deserted by their maste: re said by some few who survived such scenes to have been agonizing to hear. And at their homes things fwere no better. There wad re 8 & scanty supply of fuel in the corner and but Z food p the larder. Night trod closely on the heels of nooh. Perhaps the mother was alone with her suckling clild, her husband ten miles away in one direc- tion, her children two miles away in another. These hapless parents suffered countless deaths. The wooden buildings creaked and ROCKED IN THE SWING OF THE STORM ws ships atsea. ‘The timbers cracked with the ‘ost like rifes. Beads of frost stood en every piece ‘of woodwork, the small panes of glass were 80 *hick with ice that there was no chance that the lamp set in the casement could send its feeble light 0 the belated strugglers without, It was imposst- le to boy the doors, so high had the drifts be- ‘come. The fire grew low though it was replenished rrith the scanty furniture. pay succeeded to dark- the day was as the night, Only the chim ir pes ee house appeared above the drifts. The x woman knew that her children dead, and in hand, on the prairie, and that her hesband’s orpse Was BoIneWhere entombed ina giant drif ve little baby’s biue lips were laid trainee her mpty breast; the soul had sped trom between them in @ little cloud of troven vapor. She lay down and nied, and the relenting winds wafted through the Bpertures O1 the room a decent i now for her winding sheet. The picture ble a8 they may appear to the readers of the HERALD who ait by warm fres ‘and find the music of the snow as it Ainkles against the giass, a musical and a cheer/ul Found, are less than the reality. The advance of in was like that of a tort Who comes ith all his horrid engines to tue m bound at flake, Ouly they Were to Le euvied way uct a swifter fate in the raging storm ¥ were spared the sight of their chldre fore their eyes of unger as well as of co ON THE RAILROADS there was not absolute suttering. 1 cor were snowed in tor “ay in drifts that t the telegraph wires, and neers had and be scantily fed. But this was only a When Friday, the 10th, came, the sun r a land o1 snow and silence, Drifts many | and many square miles in extent were thei and there the chimney of a house stood u tombstone in a vast cemetery, The land la corpse under @ winding-sheet tat had m itself into occasional wrinkles over the deac or set features, Now came the giant labor 01 ing away the giant drifts and setting tree Ub prisoned traius, and tne sadder task of tr through the prairies the steps of the dead. EB mere they were found lying still and statue THR 1CY EMBRACK OF DRATH. Sometimes the searchers would find man and hor together, the former lying dead wrapped in his ve with the whip in his hand, 1 tue sleigh, Ca 4 down, the other standing in the spot where vy Jastened by his partner's fall till he Sharh partner's jate. Sometimes the slcigh was foun overturned, with the traces cut. ‘hen to rivht o leit would be discovered the driver, who had wan dered round in a despairing circle todie. Occa sionally ly spread lips and staring eyes the signs of Mores idrror. ‘And the men, too, were sometimes Laocoons of ice-statues of writhing de pair. but, as arule, death came quietly, as it generally does in these cases, first robbing the victim ei tie con- sciousness Ol approaching death, which begets an agonized struggle for lile, and stilling him with a stupor said to be as delicious as it is deadly, THE DEATH ROLL cannot yet be made up with any reasonable degree of certainty, We are only now getting detailed re- ports irom the nearer settlements, and it will be lly @ Week ere tiese are 80 complete as to be trustworthy, Many of the missi will not be ound tall Spring; but it 18 safe to set down all the missing as dead, After careiully collating the various reports received thus far, and making all allowance for the Pee parts of the State, I am led to conclude that the loss of lite in Min- nesota will range from two hundred and fifty to three hundred, It 1s just possible, thougi not probable, that the higher figure Hd be reached, Almost all of these are men and the very large Proportion of them fathers of families in strained circumstances. The surviving widows and children will thus be left without m ans e! support of any description. The charitable of the East will bere tind an object for their sympathics. ART MATTERS. Artists? Fund Society Pictares. As we intimated yesterday the pictures now on view at the Somerville Art Gallery, and contributed by the members of the Artists’ Fund Society in aid of that fund, are not so numerous as they usually are at these annual exhibitions, but are suMciently interesting to repay a visit. The exhi- bition will remain open and free to the public until Tuesday evening next, when the pictures are to be sold at auction. Three pictures, by the late J. F. Kenactt, add to the interest of the display. They are: “A Water- fail,” “October Afternoon” and “The Close of Day!'—all of which evince that fidelity to detall, that accuracy and delicacy, that harmonious treat- ment and that chaste feeling which are among his stronger claims to admiration, and wiiich entitle him to be deemed an interpreter and not a mere imitator of nature. “On the Beach,” by W. Whittredge, isa charm- ing representation of labor and nature. It shows @ workman plodding home along a sea beach lit by the early moon. ‘One of his chilaren he carries, ‘with his tools, on his shoulder; another walks be- hind him, Further back trudges the faithful little dog, while the largest child, a boy, marches in ad- vance, A suggestion is implied of the restlessness and tirelessness of the ocean contrasted with that grateful repose which is sought and won by the weary laborer. ‘ 4. W. Warren has two companion pictures, one ef which is “A Coast Scene, Malaga,” and the other, “Scene Near Malaga.” The same element 1s common to beth—a deep and evenly blue sky, unshadowed by acioud, in contrast to the white, warm soil. J. G. Brown’s “Difficult To Get Over” represents & young girl crossing a brooklet on the natural but somewhat precarious pathway formed by the smooth stones protruding from its shallow bed. The sentiment is intensely “Brownish,” and the Picture deserves rank among the artist’s happier efforts. “A Chamber in the Elz Castle, on the Moselle,” dy Alexander Lawrie, comprises a view of an old- fashioned chamber, abounding with quaint acces- sories, and containing a young woman resting in the deep embrasure of a window, whence she is looking out. D. Huntington's “Beatrice 1s a very lovely head. The eyes are melting, earnest and affection- ate; the lips lavish in those curves which denote warmth and love, and the expression is spiritual and at the same time suficiently sensuous to kin- dle the gazer into an emotion less abstract than that of mere reverent admiration, J. D. Barrow’s “Scene on Long Island Sound” is notable for the effect of suntight, reflected full upon widespread sails. Edward Gay’s “Spring” expresses something of the vernal tenderness o! that season. “Gone to Sleep Over It,” by Charles F. Blauvelt, Tepresents an old man, his pipe and his grog close at hand, drowsing away in the act of attempting to read a newspaper, David Johnson's “Lake Champlain, near Essex,” though Lea no means the best picture that Mr, Johnson has painted, is not deficient in his pleasant peculiarities, A jaunting party occupies the summit of a huge rock in the foreground to the left, and in the distance light craft are ob- servable. The ‘Mountain Lake” of R, W. Hubbard intro- duces us to one of those soit and fairy-like scenes which a lake, embosomed ameng mountains, is so potent In conjuring up. Vincent Colyer's “The Laté John F. Kensett at his Last Summer's Work,” is instructive chiefly because of the melancholy circumstances which 80 recently and suddenly bereaved New York of one of her favorite artists, The Rey. Mr. Murray would find much to admire in Mr. Lawrie’s “Cascade in the Adirondacks,” realizing, as it does, at least a small proportion of what the rose-celor describers of that region have said about some of its most fascinating haunts, “Who Are, You?” by N. H. Beard, is one of those unique pieces of animal portraiture by which Mr. Beard clenched his reputation. His infusion of a human significance into the social amenities of the Pod od has a latent and pleasamt smack of arwin. The vitality of S. R. Gifford is felt in the manner in which the gold-tinged clouds and their reflections in the waterare painted in his “Sunset—Fvot of Tenth street, New York." ka an Jonnson’s ‘Family Cares’ will probably attract as many admirers as any other picture in the exhibition, it represents a little golden-headed girl seated alone in busy abstraction in the nur- sery, mending one of her doit’s frocks. Dolls of various descriptions lie around. A naked doll sprawls upon the floor; a nondescript doll (proba- bly @ naughty one) hangs suspended from one of the rails of an adjacent chair; a fashionably dressed doll is within reach; a doll evidently awaiting her toilet lolls ina large chair; anda doll of magnified dimensions occupies the lap and the needle ef its intent posessor, Johm Williamson's “Chenango Valley” is remark- po for the denseness given to its closely painted rees. “Sunset,” by Charles Parsons, {s a brilliant study a color, orange and purple being the prevailing ues, Depth and distance, and russety follage and hardy scrub erowti find expression in David John- lisades," A. T. Bricher’s “Sunrise on Salisbury Beach—Tide ,Coming In” has about it an emphatic Maver of sait water and seaweed® A wave-washed beach is shown with dashin; rf and crested breakers, Mr. Williamson ts again strongly represented in his “Spanish Melon"—luscious, rich and melting, ~ #he swell ng undulation of the water are finely indicated in ‘Fishing Smack on the Schelett, Coast of Holland,” by M. F. H. de Haas, In “Summer Afternoon in Alaska,” with its serene id shining water reduplicating the low white buildings on the arc-shaped reach of shore, Vincent Celyer contributes a movel subject. A romantic nook, hung with the rich and delicate lestoons of @ trepic fo! ay is discovered in “A Southern Bayou,” by T, A. Richards, Bristol's “The Cove—Twilight,” to which we ay @ day or two ago, finds welcome place ere, In Whittredge’s “Seaside Home,” the title ex- presses the theme to perfection, and the sentiment uttered is that of peace, security, comiort and freedom. “The Pasture,” by J. W. Casilear, is one of this delightful artist’s quiet and rich and happy land- scapes, . J, Hennessey’s “Spring Time’ shows the blossoming of orchard trees and the fragile green of yy grass. th ©. P. Cranch’s ‘Torre del Schiavi, Italy,” the large, free slope of the verdurous undulations is gracefully rendered. BUMSTED BACK TO HIS HOME Wilham H. Bumsted, on being released from the State Prison in Trenton yesterday morning, pro- ceeded by the eight o'clock train to his home in Jersey City, where he arrived without attracting any observation, All the reports regarding a ban- quet and demonstration to take place in Trenton on his release were unfounded, A reporter of a me- tropolitan two cent sheet struggled hard on Mon- day night to interview Bumsted at the State Prison, but was politely esourted to the gate and the way to the Lowa was pointed out to him, the beasts showed in their dilated nosirils, | \ ORAM, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1873—TRIPLE SHEET. \ \Y P'GLORIOUS RETURN, SWINDLING, »’ Claim Swindler in aj Five Men Arrested Charged py ville Prison. clas oo 8 hy DEM. ED. ‘ees “Asaaes elinquent’s Statement if and Arrest. Tenn,, Jan. 19, 1873. ' the intense excite- local Gir ent upon the annual wd assembled at the he train from Chat- ed that Thomas G, would arrive, Nor » disappointment, escried emerging by his wife and Mant child in bis 13, In whose cus- * .uvuer to regard themselves u. the prisoner than his guardians, and imposed no restraint apparently upon his actions, and boyd, of course, was careful not to render it necessary for tieia to exert their authority. The party éntcred the Omnibus and were driven to the Lamar House, where they took up thoir quarters, and after dianer Boyd had an interview with his counsel, Mr. ‘Thomas A. R. Nelson, who de- fended ex-President Johnson in the celebrated tm- peacnment trial, and Colonel J. R. Cocke. 708 FEDERAL COURT elect isig a was nl om the rear coaeh parrot r vos gud 4 ‘io Unite ts now in session in this city, but had adjourned tor the day waen Boyd appeared before United ‘States Commissioner H M. Aik »n and offered bail— not wishing to be imprisoned. This boing refused, his counsel then made application to His Honor Judge Emmons, wio held a special session for the purpose of hearing the petition of counsel, who Oflered what they deemed suiticient security, in order to Spare their Cueut the indiguity ef reposing within sine walls, ‘lue bati ouered was by tue prisoner's wile, uephew and niece, and was refused, when BOYD WAS REMANDED INTO CUSTODY of the officers, wao cunveyed lum back to tue hotel, where be tvok supper, ailer which, no other secu- rity appearing, he was taken to juil and there spent the migut. ‘iti was am unpi¢asant duty ior the Marsial to perform, as Mrs. Boyd, with streai eyes, begged him uot to send her husband to prison; but duty was inexorable, and not wishing to run any risk with so slippery @ customer, that oilcer was jorced to disregard her appeal. Boyd's vail 1s fixed at $2,000 for each indictinent, and, as there are twenty-six of them, it aggregates $52,000, A strong eort will be made te bail him out on londay. the Weiter interviewed the detective who ferreted out boyd's hiding place, who was very communi- cutive and furnished many interesting details of the matter, ‘he oficer iu question was Mr. Lous W. Lenoir, a nephew of the principal bondsman ef Thomas G. Boyu, aud it was to save nis uncle the payment Of a large sumo! mouey that he under- took the trip, having had no previous experience in THE ROLE OF A DETEOIIVE; but the manner in which ue worked up the case, following the tainvest ciues, und the patience an skill displayed, evince ao aptness not oiten met with outside of the “proiession.”” Following the tive from town to tuwn, Re at last succeeded in oting his capture, aud 80 great Was Beyd’s sur- prise that he agreed to return to Kast ‘Tennessee with Lenoir and give him no trouble about extra- dition, only stipulating that he should ve treated “like a gentieman.’’ ‘To this his captor agreed, and he was brought saiely through, the prisoner mak- ing no effort to escape, though having many op- portunities to do 50, When he left tw S gehecaly ed that en it it was generally suppos a ase had in his possession a lar f but he says he nad only $90v. ever, he co! lected $50v more irom a crediter he met in the first stage of his fight, mal $1,400 inal. OF this he had spent about three hundred dollars, which left him with only $1,100 when he was cap- tured, He entirely repudiates any complicity in the burning 0! the body of the negro, giving asa Teason that he had a much better plan in view (the plan is not known, however), which was marred by his accomplices getting drunk and by their premature fictitious Ku Kiuxing spoiling it altogether. Boyd laughed heartily at nis recoilec- tion of the frig tol the two men who were with him when he was reported killed, aud exonerates them irem any biame in the matter, stating that they were deceived. Boyd's health is delicate, but his suavity of manner remains unchanged, and, despite his crimes, he has iriends anxious and willing to save him. LITERARY CHIT-CHAT. eh A “Literary HisTORY OF FLANDERS” has just been published by C. A. Serrare in the Dutch lan- guage. A NEW WoRK ON Paris, by De Camp, leads us, Statistically and mstheticaliy, into the innermost recesses and most hidden mysteries of French Parisian life. His style is free, clear, rapid and free from commonp!aces. Like a prose Dante, he goes down into the lower world, and paints the stagnant, gigantic peol of luxury, misery, license, vice, wit and volcanic energy which form the sub- stratum of that wenderful city. THE Spectator laments that the late Edwin Norris (who died @ month or two since) was almost the last of that generation of thorough linguistic scholars te which Mr. Watts, of the British Museum, belonged, and who looked at the maze of human language with a comprehensive bird’s-eye view. Mr. H. A. Pacr’s new “Life of Hawthorne,” just out in London, 1s & mere skeleton of biography, picked up and collated from various books and newspapers, and used as @ prefix to some collected early papers of the novelist. Hawthorne, as is well known, left directions that no formal life of him should be published, Says THE Saturday Review, criticising the ale manacs of the day:— We recently drew attention toa Legitimist al- manac, largely circulated through France, under the name of “Contre-Poison,” a yellow-covered pamphiet, with a wood-cat representing the Arch- angel Michael conquering Satan. A nation of shop- Keepers has appropriately adopted almanacs as a vehicle for advertisements. There are almanacs in which the tatlor’s muse sings the merits of un- approachable vests and unparalleled trousers, an- other is redolent of fashionable perfumes, a medl- cal almanac is provided for invalids, and the licensed victuallers publish one in which they di- late on the evils of teetotalism, “THE INTELLECTUAL FACULTIES of Animals Com- pared to Those of Men” is the title of a new work by J. O. Houzeau, a Belgian scientist, who covers much the same ground as Darwin in his latest work. A New “BIBLIOTHECA DANICA,” or systematic catalogue of Danish literature from 1482, when the first Danish book was printed, down to 1830, has just appeared at Copenhagen. It includes also Icelandic and Norwegian books, MANY PARIS BOOKSELLERS of eminchve a8 ‘ pub- lisnors have disappeared by death or failure in’ business within the past two years. Lacroix & Ce. and Amyot are among the recent failures, In HaWTHORNE’s WritinGs the autobidgraphical element is unusually powerful, so that nearly all his works are the biographies of moods ana ex- periences, “THE RELIGION OF Rome," translated by William Howitt, was written by & Roman to give his “general experience of the Papacy in Italy and conviction of its evil nature, of its inevitable and disastrous results to the merals, fortunes and hap- piness of every nation in which it prevails.” The writer is quite @ professor of strong langnage. Though the Church as a system js attacked with great fury, the volume is devoid of anythimg like personal vituperatien. While “condemning,” he remarks, ‘decidedly the Roman hierarchy on the united testimony of history, prophecy and personal observation, as the most gigantic incubus of evil that ever fell upon and bewitched manxind, I do not presume to judge the private prefessors of that or any other faith.’ In theological disor sions we have to be thankful for small mercie~ eerie ve with ‘any “CAMPING OUT,” that vigorous story of th woods and mountains, by 0, A. Stephens, wins from the usually crabbed Saturc y Review the praise of being “heartily entertaining at the same time that it is perfectly simple ana unsensational. The lively picture of ‘Camping Out’ wil! move the envy of every English youth into whose hands it may fall.” Tne Saturday Review says that Mr, Samuel Johnson's work on “Oriental Religions” presents Huddhism and the religious philosophy of India in # hew light, and is the work of akeen admirer of Hindoo ideas, _with Fraud. DESCENT ON THE DENS. How the Game is Conduct- ed and Played. COUNTRY CRIMINALS. Oopies of Documents that are Spread Broad- cast Over the Country. crtiiniee tt emmetes James Hubbard (alias James Heavens), James Ensor, James Houston, John P. Keollsted and Eq- ward Buaton were arrested yesterday by Captain Irving and Detective Riley, charged with fraud and swindling. These men, tt is charged, were engaged in what is known as the “sawdust” game, at 208 and 609 Broadway. Their operations lately became so bold and widespread that people in all parts of the country complained ‘of the annoyance, Circulars sent: by tnem to merchants’ in several of the previncial'cities have been returned tothe police authorities with requests to stop the flood of them that was inundating the interior; but the police for some reason took no notice of the warnings, and the sawdust men went on, getting more audacious from the apparant security they enjoyed. Numbers of people, finding the police took no measures to arrest the operations of the Swindlers, wrote to the HERALD, and from time to time attention has been called to the matter; but the gullibility of the rustic seems to be always open to THE TRICKS OF THE SHARPER, and complaints kept pouring in every day from new victims, Since his installation Mayor Have- meyer has received many of them, and the nuisance Went on growing to such a magnitude that he de- cided to send the whole matter to the Board of Police and give them an opportunity to do one good thing for the people before they went out of oMice. A sense of duty so plainly put could not be easily snirked, and the breaking up of the little game wasplaced in the hands of Captain Irving. Taking Detective Riley with him, Captain Irving started out on Thursday last to find the office from which a circular had issued he held in his posses- sion. This particular advertisement was chosen because @ greater number of that kind had been returned from the country than any other, and it was supposed the men who started them out were doing the largest business, After working at the case for several days, and having located the headquarters of this firm of sawdust men, the Captain and hie oMcer watched the place to find something that would lead to an excuse for an arrest, and afterwards serve as tes- timony against the prisoner. Yesterday morning, while the officers were waiting near the premises, 208 Broadway, for something to turn up, ® wagon belonging to the Adams Express Company drove ‘to the door. The driver got out, took a parcel from the wagon and went up stairs. Captain Irving and Detective Riley followed him. The package was handed to Mr. Hubbard, the leading spirit of the place. It turned out to be one which had been for- warded to some one in the provinces : but the parry, to whom it was addressed, happening to ave the dark lantern of common sense suddenly turned upon hi tellect, refused to release it from the express office, and tt was returned to Mr. Hub- bard, Captain Irving took charge of Mr. Hubbard, alias Heavens, his assistants and the parcel, on the spot, and conducted them to Police Headquarters. Three or four officers were then sent to the den to transport the stock in trade of the firm to the same building, and in less than a couple of hours pothing remained in_ the prosper- ous establishment but the empty fixtures. Having secured THE PRISONERS IN COMFORTABLE CELLS the detectives gall.ed out again and made a descent on No. 609 Broadway. At this place two men were found, besides a lot of “material,” but the princi- ee was out, and is not now likely toreturn. This usiness of the sawdust game is as varied in its branches as any staid, honest commerce known to civilization, It is sald to have been first started by am industrious New Yorker, who deals largely in similar enterprises, and who it Is reported, keeps a lawyer under opi to show him how to steer his bark im the eye of the law and keep his canvas full. The scheme origi- hated in the brain of this man, and he has been drawing large profits {rem its workings for years. He 1s suid to be a detier of all law and to be very gracious to the police, for whom he touch and a most sweet and persuasive smile, The main staple of the trade is sawdust, but many little fancy articles are introduced into it, such as pretended patent medicines, counterfeit money, envelopes containing nothing, and so forth. Jt takes a Little capital to start it, and the routine of the commerce is mest ingenious, In every establishment devoted to the cuitivation of the sawdust business there is sleeping part- ner, who supplies the machinery, takes half the profits and remains in the background, Upon opening @ house of this kind the first thing re- quired is an office and a proper quantity of saw- lust—say what a dollar would buy; then as many directeries of towns in the various States as can be got hold of and a good stock of printed circulars, envelopes and postage stamps. The directories are the most expensive part of the stock in trade, as the ordinary book won’tdo. It must be one that has already done some service. in the game and in which all the names of persons who have been vic- timized are marked. Very frequently a house long established im the business will sell a list ofa cou- ple of hundred fresh names—that is, names of per- sons who have never been tempted—to a beginner for three or four hundred dollars. These lists are VERY VALUABLE TO SWINDLERS, and take a great deal of time, labor and expense to make up. With his list before him the yeung sawdust merchant launches out. He sends a cir- cular to the address of every man on the list and waits for results, Pretty soon answers begin to come in. One ambitious scoundrel, who will prob- ably be the proprietor of a grocery store, will send for a $10 package of fifty cent stamps. He means to pass these upon his customers who consume his wares as 4 means to getting rich in a hurry. The sawdust merchant pockets the ten dol- lars and sencs the grocer a package of his raw ma- terial. The man of honey and molasses, seeing the very thing has been played upon him that he would play upon the community, takes the lesson to his heart and says nothing. Ver; frequently the cau- tious, suspicious bumpkin will send an order for false money and request that it be forwarded to him C. 0, D. In answer to this he soon receives a carefully sealed package, upon which is written elaborate instructions now to open It, from the ex- ress office in his town, but when he has followed the directions on the backing of the box and lifted the cover of the casket he finds sawdust. It is not a dimcult mat- ter to picture the continuance of the dishonest booby when he finds he has been tricked, and many people will naturally think he deserves to be swindled. Sometimes the men come on to New York to see the principal, as they think, in the money business. They go to the offices, where they are treated with all politeness. The preliminaries over they ask to see the money, Some genuine bills are shown (the sawdust man has no other), and the popotaee is pe with the appearance of them. He asks to be allowed to try one in the city, or he is requested to do so, and alter that operation he goes back to the office ready to make @ purchase. In return for his money he is handed a box which is supposed to CONTAIN THE COUNTRRFRITS, ut when he examines it he findsthe mistake. Mr. jubbard, besides the regular requisites of the saw- dust business, had introduced a patent medicine very patent), which he called the ‘Vital Spar! ‘his stuff 1s nothing more or less than sua: wood, done up in very exquisitely pictured boxes. Captain Irving and his officers found a quantity of these boxes in the place, besides lai quantities of envelopes, paper, circulars, lists of newspapers in which they advertise, and too made up to resemble pieces of silk. The following ts a copy of one kind of circular sent out from 208 Broadway :— W. 8, LESLIE, * [Masonic emblem.] Genera Collecting, Agent, Daan Burexy—Desiring tho services of a capable person in your hborhood to work with m for bringing to your notice a spec! lon in which you cannot failto become wealthy in a few weeks, witliout ony one sompecdn the secret of your good fortune. fo be plain, I have for sile an immense quantity of Fry nyacks not counterrert, but the real Kenuine articles ey they ‘came into my ‘possession you jay. perhaps -4/¢ seen mentioned In the newspapers and will ke tno 's to understand why they can be offered so cheaply, consist of twenty-live-cent and fity-cent stamps and $5, $10 and $2) bills, and you can be supplied quantity at prices “which are. real trifling when the immense gain to be immediately ani certainly realized is considered. I do not sell less than $1,000, the price of which is $100; but if you are unwilliny to'invest so much at once twill lor. the frst time sen you that quantity upon receipt of $10 by express and you ay the balance when you get It For larger amounts a Geduction will be made und will be ‘supplied to you on similar terms, thus :— $100 will buy $1,000, for which $10 isto be sent by ox- press with the order, $1) will buy $2,000, for which $20 Is to be sent by ox- press with the or $19) will buy for which $30 is to be sent by ex- press with the or $22) will buy $4,000, for which $40 is to be sent by ex- press with the ordé $24 will buy $3,000, for which $50 1s to be sent by ox- with the te) { PT know that you will pay the balance promptly, You wifl not be satisfies supply to continue. i one lot only, but va ve is ri ify no hi Sapo Aneweeneee ESLIE, Tronton, N. J. scorr Pay the expressage and deduct it ‘rom the money you cones me; also return this letter with your order fo re- ine, My only terms are stated in this letter. They re inflex- ible, and as liberal as avy reasonable business man could It ts hoped that no one will trouble me with ovber offers as it will be quiie useless; therefore remit at once by express, Never send by tail, as Ido not receive or cluim letters by mail. Hecolleot this, and send onty by express, A large quantity of printed documents like the following was teund at 69 Broadway and seized with the other property in the piace. STRICTLY CONPIDRITIAL. We will onty tesue w few of thesw important letters, and we fully trust that any ono who is fortunate cnough to be entrusted with the enclosed imformaiion and made the recipient ot its ¢, 0 \wards will study it careiully, impress'the tactsa ‘ Sounreants afanee ‘omory, and then destroy the When Congress aus. back vresent issue of green- uted plates of enor- one cates aip, from which the Hole itse’ Congrens Wi tobe BOver:s) it Mrasordere a ae the that. as'sbon as the w. ri ‘oD uu lates—somne Hiandred in duiBer--should: betaken Trow the frome Printing Department, con’ tea. Now ieeo bap em the one, two and five dollar bills had ‘Been printed were notde-troyed: How it was brought about we, asa mat. ter o1 prudence, do not state, dt a4 enough to know that the plates are still preserved uninjured, and we trust their whereabouts will never be known except to We ha’ ee! on hand and ready us, or circulation ome x $2 and $6 ills, printetfrom the plates, And ot course must be absoluiely periect and exactly like the greenback’ now in circulation. They are printed on first class paper, cut the exact size of the greenbacks, and are precisely, linilar in every Fergeck, e only possivle method of detecting them is by the paper, but our paper isso pertoct and so exactly resembles banknote fa ir that not one in ten thousand could ever nouve the difler- ence; In tact, no one has ever yet Leen troubled in pass- Ht uo man, however, 000 of it in @ arresied on suspicion; he was tried, brought in a verdict of not guilty on thesd Grounds. Although the jury knew in their hearts that a Poor mancould not have $5,000 in new $1, $2 and $5 bills without knowing where he got it from, and they fully be- leved it must ve counterieit, yet the ‘exper: who were called upon to testity could “not agree which of the bills 6 counterfeit, one expert pronouncing a dill bad and her pronouncing the same piil good a! bad. the truth was, they were ali good ana all printed from the same plaics that the United states greenbacks pore pepied, from, only they were ies for the special beneftt of ourselves and friends, and not tor the benefit of Uncie bam. This circumstance, howover, set the authori- ties on the scent to tind out where this mohey was com- ing from. Accordingly, for the last six montis, we have ok tagned one dollar, and things haye become quiet rt again, ‘As men aro apt to be s0 indiscreet, we shall not circu- late any more in this city; but We are on the look out for a few trustworthy persons in different sections of the country to take the matter in hand, so as to divert all suspicion from here, for you must be aware that if th plates are once captured it will kill the goose that lays 1@ golden eggs. ‘We will not sell any more than $5,000 to any one man outof this lot, but we will keep all faithful agents in sight and give them a chance when we issue another lot of $300,0.0, We wish to get this lot of $000,000 in circula- tion as soon as possible, and for this reason we put down sible figures. We wiil sell 2 creer bills for aud 5 dollar bills, We do nol care kpxend out less than $200, and we make the above discount om larger amounts. To accommodate agenty who may pot have the change convenient, we will send the first ‘order for halt cash down and half when the money tv |, thus:—We will send $40 tor $10, the other $10 to be paid when the money is received; or we will send it by express, C. 0. D., and the $10can be paid to the express agent when he delivers the money, and the other $1U sent to us by mail. We will send $100 tor $50, $20 cash down, or paid on de- livery, and $3) atverwards; wo will sen $1,000 for $90, to be paid down, or on delivery, and $30' afterwards. member, we only make these térms for the first order, fc ‘ter & inan has once obtained a stock of our money he is never short of funds, we can assure you. We shall not sell more than one order toeach agent out of this lo’ go when you send an order you had betier send tor all you will ‘want for about six months, by which time we other stock roady, It go wish to take the , We will sell 1t to you for $100 cash down, or sie it you agree to pay the balance $300 within hirty days, When money ig sent to us we would profer to have it in $10 national bank bills, simply folded within a sheet of letter paper, and sent by mall; but the best way, where parties can get to an eXproas oflee, 18 to order the moncy sent C, O. D., to be paid for whon received at the express office. We are well known here as stock brokers, and no one dreams of ou: being engaged in the business. We will ship the money securely packed in such a way that Do one will ever suspect that it is money. We should be very glad to haye you come on her id see us personally. You can give the bills for fare, and you can pass the whole amount on your way here, and when you arrive we will Fre you some ideas you never dreamed of. You will find a pérsonal interview far mo! satisfactory than correspondence, for when we see an know a man we give valuable hints and points which we do not like to pul er, and we make more liberal ar- ic men. When you come it will only be necessary for you to present the envelope of the letter, which will be a sufficient introduction, as the handwriting will be known at agiance. P. have now adopted a process by which the bills are made to look as though they were # long time in ‘uso, and none of them look entirely new. not send any money or letter by mail, as we do not call for any mail matter.” Send all money and communi- cations by express, prepared and addressed J. R. KMER- will have whole $ SON, 609 Broadway, New York. (Koou 15). Hundreds of thousands of checks similar to the maboined have been spread broadcast over the country :— nenrerscsecececeneeeeeee rea) CHECK XO. 105,201. On presentatio ot this check to Hill & Co., NN. ¥., with 10, we will'deliver or torward by express solid silver table spoons and 6 solid, silver tea spoons, Valued at $33. HILL & Co, AON ICL IORIEIE DE DDDEDE NED: This is only the beginning of the work of desiroy- ing this business, it is to be hoped. There are hundreds of men engaged in the business. The police know all of them, and if this suggestion of the Mayor is worth anything in the way of reform It should be prosecuted to the ena, EMBARRASSMENT OF A STEAM- SHIP COMPANY. The Havana Mail Steamers Columbia and Crescent City Seized for Debt—The Morro Castle To Be Seized upon Her Arrival Here—Unpaid Crews Suffering Great Hardships, For several weeks past rumors have been afloat in shipping circles in this city that the vessels of the Atlantic Mail Steamship Company were to be seized for debt. The revolution in Cuba, which has so terribly crippled the resources of the “Gem of the An- tiles,’ and the competition they have suffered from a@ rival line, has caused them to succumb to the force of circumstances, and it is feared that should they not soon receive material ald the At- lantic Mail Steamship Company will soon be a thing of the past. THR COLUMBIA SEIZED. At the present moment the steamer Columbia is lying at pier 4 North River, in the hands of a United States marshal, as the following notice attached to her mainmast shows :— Usirep States Mansmat's Orrtcr, H . Eastern Disteict New Yor, 100 Mowtacur Street, Brooxiyy, Jan 17, 1873. Sin—You will please take notice that the ‘steamship Columbia and her tackle have been attached by me, ai the suits ot B. B. Thorp and James E. Morris & Co., for causes of contract for $3,437, and will remain in custody until such claims are settled or the vessel is bonded. 8. KR, HARLOW, United States Marshal, Eastern District of New York. 'o Masten, Ownen and Punsie in charge of the steam- ship Columbia. jodrich & White, plaintiffs, THE CRESCENT CITY. The handsome steamer Crescent City, lately pur- chased by the company, is lying alongside the Columbia, and on her mainiast is a similar notice with this difference, that the suit against her was brought by Messrs, George Heissen & Franklin Voges for $1,409 61. Yesterday afternoon her cup- tain was served with another attachment for a large amount, UNPAID CREWS. The crews of both vessels, it is rumored, have not been paid their wages for the past six weeks, and considerable suffering, it is said, has ensued there- from. Several of the firemen of the Columbia were onthe wharf last night, speaking angrily of the treatment they had received, and expressed the hope that Mr. A.N. Dimock, President of the com- pany, whois now unfortunately sick, will not allow them longer to starve. THE MORRO CASTLE, This well known vessel, belonging to the same line, is expected here next Saturday from Havana, via Nassau, and she will in all psa | be seized, like the sister vessels just mentioned. It ig not known what arrangements will be made by the Postmaster for the regular transport of the United States mail from this city to Havana, The line, it ey here be mentioned, has received @ small subsidy from the British government for calling at Nassau and bringing the mails from that place to this city. Tne Columbia, which was an- nounced to sail to-morrow for Havana, will be un- doubtedly detained, or probably not sail at all. LOST STEAMERS, Among the noble steamers which have been lost belonging to this line may be mentioned the Havana, megs and Missouri. The stock of the Atlantic Matl was quoted lately atl 2, WHAT STRAMSHIP PEOPLE SAY. In conversation with the leading steamship people in this city yesterday, they all seemed to regret the misfortunes of the Atlantic Mail steam- ship Company, nd particularly on behali of Pres- ident Dimock, who everywhere spoken oi as an honorable man, WHAT THR COMPANY Say, Last evening # reporter went to the company’s office, at 6 Bowling green, and the following conver- sation took place with one oi the omcials:— Rerorter—The rumor is extensively circalated that your company has suspended business? Is it correct ? OFFICIAL—Not yet, and, after a pause, “ that know of.’ Seeing that the gentieman did not de- aire to be further questioned, the reporter with- row. CAPTAIN THORN AND THE GRAND JURY, To THE Eprror oF THR HERALD: Has the Grand Jury power to call Captain Thorn to account for neglecting to clean the streets f THE MADISON STREET MURDER, Magruder’s Victim Still Living. Cool Unconcern of the Murderer—The Dying Man's Deposition, The shooting of Lockwood night before last by Magruder was # subject of very getieral conversa- tion throughout the city yesterday, The orime was 80 unprovoked and the bearing of the mur- derer marked by 80 much reckless unconcern that even staid, conservative people were stirred into lan- guage of angry indignation, and hints of vigilance committees, lynch law and the like were freely m- dulged in. The news of the decision by the Court of Appeals, rendering the doom of Foster inevitable, seemed to reassure the public that some vindication of justice would soon be made, As for Mag:uder’s crime, no one coulé see what possible palliation can be advanced im his favor. Insanity, inebriety, reasonable sense of injury—none of these can plead in betiaif of this homicide; and if Magruder thinks his respectable connection will save him from the penalty be has incurred he leans upon a broken reed.. A reporter of the HERALD calied at TUB SCENE OF THE SHOOTING yesterday, 154 Madison street to learn if there were any additional facts tobe gleaned. Mrs. Hammond (not Mrs. Madison as previously reported), tae landlady of the honse, said she learned more abous the shooting in the newspapers than in her own house. She said:—‘I was never aware of any bit- terness of iecling existing between Lockwood and Magruder, and if the boarders who heard Magruder make the threat to shoot the other had only tola me of it I could have got Lockwuod te leave the house, and the thing might never have occurfed, We were in the base- ment when the shots were fired, litue thinking of a murder taking place up stairs. My husband brought Magruder in his dinner, and while engaged eating it he turnedto Miss Annie Brown and asked in # tone of voice that nobody else could hear if Lockwood was at home.’ REPOKTER—What did Miss Brown say ? Mrs. HAMMOND (emphatically)—Miss Brown said he was gone out; but Magruder immediately gotup from the table aud went up to Lockwood's room, followed by Mr. Matzan, who apprehended some trouble. When the shots were lired, as 1 sai¢@ before, we were in the basement, THE MURDERER AND HIS VICTIM, RerorTeR—What kind of men were Lockwood and Magruder? Mrs, HAMMOND—Mr. Lockwood was 4 young maa everybody liked. He drank occasionally, but he. was never Olfensive, and though I was not present when he is said to have struck Magruder a slap across the face I know from his disposition he oniy did it in a playful way. He was a widower and nad been boarding with us some time. Mr, Magruder was a different man entirely. None 0: tae boarders were very familiar with him. He never talked inuch and never told much of his business to any body. We knew he was in the habit of gambling, and there is mever any luck witn people of that kind, He always carried a pistol, and once in a while he drank something, and then he was quarreisome, REPORYER (to Mr. Hammond, who saw Magruder before the shooting)—Did Magruder appear under the influence of liquor when he came to his supper? Mr. HaMMOND—Not that I could see. {have no- ticed him show somewhat the signs of drink once . or twice beiore, but on this occasion he looked about as usual. He came down and finished his supper after the shooting took place. Lockwood was at home sick@on Monday. He was but halt dressed and sitting in @ chair by the fire when he ‘was shot. INTERVIEW WITH THE PRISONER, A reporter saw the prisoner at the Seventh Pre- cinct Station House before his removal to tie Tombs, and, accompanied by a roundsman, was shown to the celiin which the prisoner was con- fined, The prisoner was standing at the door, with hat and overcoat on, as if ready to step at once inte freedom. In appearance he is not unprepos- sessing, being about five fect ten inches in melens and sparely built. There was nothing in mould or feature that indicated the desperate character evi- denced by his crime. His eyes were somewhat sunken, ahd the black circles around them might be attributed cither to the habitual dissipation of his life or to a might made sleepless by thougat of his crime. There was nothing in his demeanor, toindicate the latter cause, as his manner and Matter of speech evinced a coolness that the most casual commentator on such a deed could scarcely have attained, When asked if he desired to make any statement concerning the afair, he said he believed he did not just then. The iact was did not feel right weil, and had rather not tal aboutit, In reply to questions about nis history, he stated that he was born in the neigabor- hood of Lynchburg, Va., aud had been resident in this city for some nide years, He came of the same family as General J. B. Magruder, the Con- federate leader. Having given tuese answers he turned to the roundsman and asked “if anything more had been heard about that —,” jerking bis head to indicate the victim, ‘The roundsman could, give him no news, and told kim so, adding, “He! may get overit.” ‘I hope he may,” rejoined the P isoner, im a tone as devoid of feeling and appre- hension as if he had no possible interest in the re sult, He then inquired how long he would have te Stay where he was. The roundsman stated probably until the result of the injuries could be known, un- less they wanted the victim toidentify him. “There is no use Of that,” said the prisoner, with some animation. ‘The shooting is admitted, Outsiders may not think as1do, but I feel justified in shvot- ing him, He siapped me in the face and then with a theatrical air told me to get satisfaction. I told him that 1 would; to go fixed, as I would sheot him on sight. Ikept my word, It is not my fault that he had not a pistol with him. { told him to have one. I went for satisfaction.” The coolness with Which this was said is indescribable. As he seemed to have “had his say” no effort was made to ia- duce further remarks. LOCK WOOD'S CONDITION AND DEPOSITION. Calling at Believue Hospital at nine o'clock last evening, and proceeding to Ward 11, up stairs, a reporter of the HERALD learned from the nurse that Lockwood's condition had improved since morn- ing. His pulse reckoned 102, and at the time he was in a calm and painless slumber, The location of the ball had not been ascertained, and no opera- tion had been attempted. The loss of blood after his removal to the hospital had been about @ pint, but the flow had entirely ceased in the evening. There is still a chance of his living if the intestines have not been ruptured and if peritonitis does not set in. The following is Lockwood's ante-mortem statement, as made to Coroner Herrman :— On Saturday night last we had a party of ladies and gentiemen in the house where I boarded, 154 Madison street. I, as well as otiers, was drinking considerable, On Sunday early, at three o'clock ap the morning, I took a few of the ladies to their home, in Grand street, No. 133, 1 then went back to my boarding house at seven o’clock in the morn- ing; I met several of the party in the parlor, and I went to Miss Brown, a young lady with whom Thad some misunderstanding some time ago, and told her that she should be angry with me no longer, and to let bygones be prgones I wanted to be friendly with everybody. While speaking to her, Magruder, who was sitting near her. said, “You have no right to speak to her while I am present," He pushed me bac! When he was doing that l slapped him in the face. He then said to me, “I'll stioot you like a damned dog, as you are, on Mon- day.” I then went te my room and stopped until the afternoon oi Sunday. On Monday I went to my work, a8 printer, on the Clipper, in Centre street, bat net caring to work | took @ walk, and got home yesterday at three o'clock and ald down for a couple of hours. At about six o'clock Magruder came to my room and said to me, “Lockwood, & told you that I would shoot you like a God damned dog, a8 you are, and new, God damn you, I will do it.” So saying, he fired at me—at my face, as I thought—but he missed. I then stepped towards him, when he again fired, the shot taking effect im my abdomen, a little to the left side, Lbecame un- conscious, and think I fell, When I recovered my Comsciousness Magruder said, “God damn me, 1 told you I would shoot you, and I have done it. You have got enough now, and am glad of it.” He said that in presence of several parties, I had no pistol or any other weapon about me at the time, and never had since I have been in the city, I came here abouta year ago, and ama native of Spartansburg, 8.0. I never had any quarrel with Magruder, and rather liked him, ©. J. LOCKWOOD, Philip Matzan, the man who followed Magruder Up stairs at the time of the shooting, was yester- day held in bail as a witness by Coroner Herrman, who also retained Miss Anme Brown in her own recognizance, ‘The jury, on the statement of the victim, ren- dered a verdict against Magruder. THE JOSEPHINE DREW TRAGEDY. The father of the ili-tated Josephine Drew ar. rived from Fisherville, N. I, yesterday, in Jersey City. He was accompanied by Marshal Chadwick, They proceeded with Mr. Rowland, the undertaker, and Captain MelHierney to the New York Bay Cemetery, where the body was exbumed, it is in @_ most remarkable state 9) preservation, not the slightest evidence ot decomposition being present. Viewed by a lamp at nine o'clock last might the beautiful tace aa. peared as it tue poor girl were enjoying # light slumber, The countenance wore aa umusuaily piacid expression and was destitute of even the P lior of death. The iather, on looking at tie face, pore himsel! with unexpected calmness, The re maing wil be taken to lishervule to-day,