The New York Herald Newspaper, June 4, 1873, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, NEW YORK HERA The Parricide Horror—=The Blackest Stain on the Criminal Calendar—In- suMficiency of the Law in Cases of Murder. The hideous catalogue which murder has "wget, @| been so industriously filling up for a few years raoraigrom, “Xa. ° past in this city received its blackest stain Volume XXXVIII. yesterday in a particide which, ‘for cold- -No. 155 AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERKOON AND EVENING, NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and Houston sts.—Azkaxt; on, Tux Magic Cuanm. UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Union square, near Broadway.—Frxnaxve. ' ATHENEUM. 585 Broadway.—Graxo Vaarety Exre- ‘TaLvmgnt. Matinee at 2)3. OLYMPIC TH TRE. Broadway. between Houston and Bleecker streets tiowrry Duurrr. Matinee at 2 WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street.—Mona. ROOTH’S THEATRE, Twenty-third street, corner Sixth avenue.—Amy Rossant NEW FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, 723 way.—MADELEIN MORRL. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Tux Wome Harp— Our Bor rrom Luwxnick. THEATRE COMIQUE, No, 5i4 Broadway.—Burraro Bit. Matinee at 235. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st. and Eighth ay.—Tue Consican BroTuans, WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth st— Davy Orockert. Afternoon and evening. and 730 Broad- BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Montague st— BuoTuER Dam, CENTRAL PARK GARDEN—Somexr Niguts' Con- cunts, TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— ‘Unci& Tom's Canin. BRYANT’S OPERA HOUSE, Twent; 6th ay.—NeGro Minstertsy, &c. Mat INSTITUTE HALL, Third av., 63d gnd 66th Niguts’ Concerss. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— SCIKNCK AND Ant, hird st. corner at 2, AMERIC, sty Suan TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Wednesday, June 4, 1873. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. ‘To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. “THE PARRICIDE HORROR! THE BLACKEST STAIN ON THE CRIMINAL CALENDAR! INSUFFICIENCY OF THE LAW IN UASES OF MURDER”—TITLE uF THE LEADER— Sixt Pas. ABOMINABLE MASSACRE OF 30,000 MAHOME- TAN PRISONERS BY CHINESE TROOPS! THE CITY OF TALIFOO, IN CHINA, CAP- TURED AND THE INHABITANTS PUT TO THE SWORD! THE SULTAN POISONS HIM- SELF RATHER THAN YIELD—SEVENTH PaGE. A TERRIBLE CRIME IN HIGH LIFE! MANSFIELD TRACY WALWORTH KILLED BY HIS OWN SON! A TRAGIC FINALE TO DOMESTIC MISERY! THE PARRICIDE’S CONFESSION! A FULL HISTORY OF THE CASE! THE TESTIMONY! PERSONAL SKETCHES— THIRD Pages. A BRITISH STEAMSHIP GOES ASHORE OFF THE CHINA COAST! THIRTY LIVES LOST! THE VESSEL A TOTAL WRECK—SEVENTH PaGE. A NIGHT EXPRESS HORROR! TWENTY-SEVEN PERSONS INJURED IN A CANADIAN RAIL- WAY ACCIDENT! THEIR NAMES AND RESIDENCES—SEVENTH PAGE. LOZADO’S BARBAROUS TREATMENT OF A HELPLESS PRISONER! FOURTEEN YEARS OF A LIVING DEATH! FIENDISH CRUEL- TIES PRACTISED BY THE” MEXICAN CHIEF—SEvENTH Paar. © ATROCIOUS MURDER IN DELAWARE! A PRO- FESSOR KILLS AND BUTCHERS A NEGRO! FALSE PERSONAIION FOR LIFE INSUR- ANCE GAIN—TENTH Pace. ASIATIC CHOLERA PREVALENT IN AND POLAND—SEVENTH PAGE. SPANISH PROVINCIAL GRATULATION OVER PRESIDENT FIGUERAS' SPEECH! A TREATY WITH THE CARLISTS FOR RE SUMPTION OF RAILWAY TRAFFIC—Sr ENTH PAGE. PRESIDENT MacMAHON'S PROULAMATION TO THE ARMY! GENERAL LADMIRAULT TO COMMAND THE ARMY OF VERSAILLES— SEVENTH PAGE. A SECOND “VOUCHER” CONSPIRACY! A “LITTLE GAME” THAT WILL NOT STAND “REFORM” PRUSSIA SCRUTINY! ATTEMPT TO SECURE THE KEYS TO THE ASSESSMENT BUREAU OFFICES—SgveNTH PAGE. SEIZING THE WARD'S ISLAND CATHOLIC CHURCH! COMMISSIONER STEPHENSON’S VERSION OF THE AFFAIR! HE LEAVES THE _DECISION OF THE QUESIION TO THE BOARD—OBITUARY NOTICES—Erauta PaGe. Racy DEVELOPMENTS IN A BOSTON DIVORCE | SUIT—AMUSEMENT CRITIQUES—THE WEST POINT EXAMINATIO! EVENTH PAGE. THE JERSEY BOULEVARD LOCATED AT LAST— | MAS IC GRAND LODGE PROCEEDINGS— | Tenta Pace. STEAMSHIP SINKS A EXCITED SESSION OF THE EMIGRATION | A BOAKD—FirTa Pace. INAUGURATI ION SQUARE GRAND PLAZA DIVISION OF THE | NATIONAL GUARD D BY THE | GOVERN( AY, WITNESSED | BY AN IMM THRONG—FourTa Pager. POLICE DEPARTM! ! THE DIs- | MISSALS A TION OF SALA- RIES! SURGICAL SERVICES—Fiern Pace. #MANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL BUSINESS AND | QUOTATIONS—Firrit Pace. MODONNELL, THE ALLEGED ENGLISH GER, CONFINED IN CASTLE PINCK GENLRAL LEGAL BUSINESS—PAY. OF CITY WARRANTS—Fountn Pace, FOR- y Tur Arkansas Quo Wanranto excitement continues. According to our special despatch from Little Rock the opponents of Governor Baxter maintained in the Supreme Court yesterday that the latter was not legally elected, and that the Court had full power to issue the writ order- ing an investigation into the manner of his election. Baxter's counsel contended that the constitution of 1868 expressly provided that the Legislature only should have jurisdiction in all such matters, and the Court in conse- quence was legally powerless in the premises. The arguments will be closed to-day, when the Court will probably determine the question of | jurisdiction. Tux Misstnc Sreamer.—No tidings have as yet been received here of thé steamship George Cromwell, due in New Orleans some | daye ago, and yet she may be detained at sea by a broken shaft or somé other breakage in her machinery. We have heard of no storms in the Gulf from which she was in danger of being wrecked, and we still hope that she will come in not materially damaged from her lengthened trip. Swat Favors Tuankrunty Receiven.— The police are running down some little faro Deals blooded deliberation and fiendish malice, has no precedent on our criminal calendar. The dangerous character of the too prevalent feeling that wrongs, fancied or otherwise, must be expiated in blood, and the frequent resort to knife or pistol as arguments in a quarrel, received a startling significance in this latest crime that cannot fail to awaken the entire community toa sense of danger. The parties in this tragedy belong to one of the oldest, most distinguished and most honored families in the State, and were, by their position and surroundings, supposed to be far removed from that foul atmosphere in which criminals are bred and brought to maturity. Mr. Mans- field Tracy Walworth, the son of the eminent Chancellor, whose decisions in cases of equity are quoted to-day in every court in the United States, and are regarded in such cases as binding, is the victim in this tragedy, and his eldest son, hardly twenty years of age, is the murderer. The details of the unnatural crime are so frightful that they would be regarded with incredulity had the tragedy taken place in some remote part of the world instead of at our own doors. The coolness and deliberation displayed by the youthful parricide, over whose head scarcely a score of Summers have passed, reveal o depth of depravity that we shudder to contemplate, Weare accustomed to read of murders, to which drunkenness, sudden passion or jealousy furnish a cause; but when we are brought face to face with a parricide deliberately planned and as de- liberately carried out a nameless horror takes possession of the mind. Birth, name, respectability and education of the most un- stinted kind are found here—arguments power- ful enough to exclude the possibility of crime. Domestic difficulties, which, unhappily, are not confined to any one circle of society, would, according to fair reasoning, in this case have been concealed from the prying eyes of the world. The arguments mentioned above might be considered as sufficient to create in the bosoms of such ao family a shrinking delicacy and ‘acute sensibility, which, like the fortitude inspiring the Spartan youth who suffered the fox beneath his robe to tear out his life rather than betray his theft, would compel them to suffer in silence. Many an ill-used wife or wronged husband may be found in this city, and children are compelled to take sides with either parent, but at the worst the presence of the skeleton in the closet is revealed in the Court of justice. Red-handed murder is no stranger in New York, but, on the contrary, a too constant visitor, and the columns of a newspaper are filled with the records of crime. Buta parricide or matricide, on which the ancients looked with unutterable horror and for which Orestes was given up a prey to the weird sisters, the Eumenides, is the climax of crime, the crowning of the edifice whose himself. In presence of this awful tragedy it would be well to consider the condition .of affairsin our social system that renders such a thing possi- ble, and the loose administration of the law in cases of homicide. Human life, we regret to say, is held at a cheap price in this commu- nity, owing to the extraordinary, and in some instances farcical character, of the administra- tion of the law in murder trials. Bond rob- | bers, highwaymen and burglars excite only | indignation, and are hustled off at once to prison, where, for a period of ten or twenty years, they have ample time to reflect on the evil of their ways. But the murderer, espe- cially if he be wealthy or well connected, is quite a different sort of being from those de- graded wretches who forge your name, steal your watch or break into your house. After the first shock of a tragedy is passed the poor victim is forgotten and the assassin becomes the lion of the day. It is suddenly discovered that he was once a shining light at Sunday school, and even min- isters of the Gospel may be found ready to furnish testimonials of his immaculate charac- ter at that time, Then somebody sets up a lament over his family, a highly respectable | one, you know, who are suffering unmerited disgrace on account of the unfortunate occur- rence, and the woes of this family are dwelt | | | BARK IN THE BAY— | upon so long and pathetically that in the end it would appear as if they had suffered enough without any further punishment being meted out to their naughty kins- man. Another person discovers that the deceased, man or woman, was not exactly what a virtuous community would demand, and forthwith there is a cry of indig- nation against the poor victim whose lips are sealed in death. The memory of the tragic deed has well nigh faded out of the public mind before the trial comes on, and when the twelve “good men and true’’ are to be selected | the most nauseous part of the farce is enacted. | An uninitiated bystander would imagine that the unfortunate citizen on the stand—worried on all sides by snarling | lawyers—was the criminal, and that the | meek-looking individual in the dock was the injured party. As the trial progresses the uninitiated bystander is vet more astonished at the presence of a host of physicians in court. The poor jury are dumfounded by learned disquisitions on the question of in- sanity, and the plainest case of murder ever presented in court is enveloped in an impen- etrable fog of mystery and nonsense. Occa- sionally the jury, in consultation, con- trive. to rid themselves of the cloud gathered around them by the law. yers and doctors, and honestly come into Court with a sensible verdict, ‘Wilful murder in the first degree.’’ Sentence is, ac- cordingly, passed and the murderer sent back to his cell to prepare for the just award of his crime. Then some convenient judge is found | by the counsel to grant a bill of exceptions, a writ of error and stay of proceedings, and the gallows is, for the time, cheated of its due. Another repetition of the farce takes place, | and, long after the memory of the crime is | obliterated from the mind, the law claims its | victim. When the matter at length rests between Executive clemency aud the scaffold a large number of respectable people may be found foundations have been laid by the foul fierd_ of the State. If these appeals are disregarded, as in recent cases, popular indignation is ex- cited against the gubernatorial power, and the prisoner receives the deepest commiseration and sympathy. Such is a fair specimen of the administration of justice in murder cases in this city, The murderer enlists a host of entirely forgotten. The effect of such a course on depraved minds in the community cannot be otherwise than disastrous. Boys and men, in whose hearts the demon may gain admittance, come to the conclusion that wilful murder is the most ‘respectable’ item on the list of crime. Tt is not confined to what wo term the dangerous classes, but even gentlemen way indulge in it without disgrace. Of course, no gentleman will be found breaking into another pefson’s house at night or snatching a watch or pocketbook from some passer by. Theso are vulgar crimes, which are visited with instantaneous punishment. But in a quarrel, or laboring under some fan- cied insult, the gentleman draws his revolver and avenges his honor by blowing out the other party’s brains. There is a halo around a murderer's head in the morbid sentimentality that is too much in vogue at the present day. The wheels of justice are particularly sluggish in his case, and the gallows is too remote a contingency for immediate fear. What is the remedy, then, against this canker-worm which is eating its way into the bowels of our social system? ‘Take away the romance and respectability of murder, and let a long rope and short shrift follow the commission of such a crime. In Europe human life is held in such sacred esteem that o murderer will find it difficult to find an advocate in the community. Here, unhappily, it is quite the opposite, and the starving pilferer of a loaf of bread is regarded with much more abhorrence by depraved minds than the gentlemanly assussin. Considerations of family connections and previous good conduct are entirely foreign to the commission of the greatest of all crimes. Stolen goods may be re- covered, slander may be atoned for by retraction and injuries to person can be, to some extent, redressed. But the life which the Oreator has given to man, once taken by the assassin’s hand, can never be returned. The hasty word followed by the fatal blow belongs to a state of society which our boasted civilization should not admit. The evil is widespread and the remedy should be sharp and decisive. We hear of boys flourishing revolvers in the face of their teacher at school, and that deadly weapon has become a neces- sary adornment to the person. It is a serious subject, and the awful illustration just afforded us should be the means of inaugurating o speedy and thorough reform. Let mur- der be considered in the eye of the law, not theoretically, but practically also, the most heinous of crimes, and let its punishment be swift and sure, and the list of tragedies in this city will soon come to anend. Executions which take place years after the commission. of the crime do not fully serve the purpose for which they are designed. The murderer must follow his victim to the grave at no distant date, so that ithe crime and its punishment may be con- sidered at the same time in the publie- mind Then. and only then, will murder be regarded by all in its true light, and life will become of more value in the eyes of ruffians and ‘“gen- tlemen.”’ The Yachting To-morrow the yachting season will receive its first impulse from the regatta of the New York Yacht Club. The enchanting and in- vigorating sport that takes the spectator away from terra firma, and gives city-worn humanity a blast of the salt sea breeze upon both cheeks, is one whose growing popularity attests its excellence. Quite a number of the famous and familiar white-winged sea-skimmers will not, we are sorry to say, participate in the grand race to-morrow; but the entries in schooners and sloops are sufficiently numerous to give promise of an exciting day if wind and weather are in the yachtsman’s favor. We all know how rose-colored the horizon of life can seem from beneath the awning of the club steamer at a regatta in our magnifi- cent bay. Glancing waters, blue sky, just flecked with downy cloudlets, a sense of gentle motion, the fresh brine breeze on the brow, a strain of fine music falling on the ears, beauty in human form divine around you, and beauty in ship- shape comeliness on the waters, are all there. The experience of that subdivision of mor- tality—the racing day—may be made more cunning in its charm if the spectator is one | of a select few on a private steam. yacht. | Then there are the masses to be considered | who crowd in jollity upon tke excursion steamers at so much a head, full of animal spirits and not unprovided with the ardent. In the variety of tug, river and harbor boats offered the sea-sport loving Gothamite | may find just what suits him, and then, ho! | for the starting point. On this we may speak | a timely word. The steamers provided are not always of that seaworthy class which would receive the warranty of Al at Lloyds’. On regatta days they are generally overloaded, to the extreme danger of those on board. The experience of past seasons, should, there- fore, induce the government officers charged with this duty to examine the passenger certificates of every steamer 80 em- ployed, and to prevent their carrying more than the stipulated number of passengers. We mark this course distinctly for the officers in question, as dangerous evasions of the law are by no means infrequent at regattas where a few extra dollars are to be made. We notice several changes in the regu- lations for the New York Club’s re- gatta. The start this year is to be a flying one, which may have its advantages, but is not nearly so pretty as a general start on signal from the anchorage. Then, too, the starting point will be an imaginary line from Fort Wadsworth to the committee steamer— that is, at the seaward edge of the Narrows in- stead of the old line off the second landing in the inner bay. This makes it plainer sailing for the yachting world, and will avoid the difficulty which often befalls from half a dozen yachts being becalmed in the Narrows. Another alteration which we may notice is that conveyed in the announcement that “the rule restricting the number Season. , WEDNESDAY, Trp oters any number of men."’ ‘Taking this as repro- senting homo rather than vir, we may con- gratulate the ladies on the chance it secures for some bolder spirits among them to enjoy the yacht race on a racing yacht. To be sure, there is not much time for ceremonious gal- lantry; but the excitement of the thing will remove all necessity for a superfiuity of atten- tion, The lady who is not afraid of a random shower of spray or a little rocking in the cradle of the deep can make up her mind for @ first rate day’s fun. Where, let us ask, under such circumstances, is the churl who would not throw overboard halfaton of pig iron to trim his vessel with seven or eight samples of the finest ballast in the world? Where? Echo answers. Some twenty yachts will take part in to- Morrow’s race, and, if “Old Prob.” is only kind enough to give us a fresh breeze without too much cloud, everything will go well. Tho Atlantic Club hold their regatta on the 10th and the Brooklyn Club on the 12th instant. Frightfal Slaughter in a Mohamme- aan City of China. A despatch from Shanghae, via London, gives us a dreadful report connected with the capture of the city of Taleefoo, or Tali, capi- tal of a Mohammedan State, in the province of Yunnan, Southwestern China, by the impe- rial Chinese forces. It appears that the most frightful scenes followed in the conquered city-the entry of the imperial army; that tho victorious forces fell upon the captives and massacred thirty thousand of them ; and that the Sultan poisoned himself to escape falling into the hands of his infuriated enemies. This is all the information of this terrible affair that is vouchsafed to the outside world in this despatch from Shanghae. But as Tali, or Taleefoo, in the southwestern corner of China, lies some fifteen hundred miles in the in- terior of the Continent from Shanghae, beyond all communication with the ‘outside barbari- ans’ of Europe or America, the exact details to them of this massacre may never be known. This Shanghae report may be an exaggeration of the slaughter, or even its figures of thirty thousand may fall short of the actual num- ber of the lives sacrificed to the vengeance of the imperial army. With its four hundred millions of souls human life is cheap in China, and during the late long rebellion there were doubtless frequent massacres, from time to time, by the one side or the other, in conquered cities, of thirty, forty or fifty thou- sand or more of their soldiers and citizens. If these massacres were not among the rules of Chinese warfare before the conquest of their country by the Tartars, the examples given by these remorseless barbarians doubtless es- tablished the custom. Ghenghis Khan was certainly qualified to establish this practice of wholesale butcheries in perpetual remembrance in China; and next, the wonderful achieve- ments of that other cutthroat Scythian, with his pyramids of human heads, Timour the Tar- tar, in the same line of glory, from Turkey to India, may have contributed, from the general admiration of his successes, to establish his plan among the Chinese of securing peace in conquered cities. This city of Taleefoo, we presume, was among the last, and perhaps the very last, of the rebel cities against the present Emperor. Tt lies among the mountains, difficult of ac- cess, in & ¥8Mole corner of the Empire. It appears to have been a State within a State, a little kingdom of Mohammedans, with a Sultan of its own, tolerated perhaps by the Empire, with a nominal submission recognized inso much annual tribute to Pekin. It is probable that from his supposed secure posi- tion the Sultan of Taleefoo may have not only refused his tribute to the Emperor, but may have issued an edict of independence, and may, too, have given the imperial army de- tailed for his subjugation some ugly defeats in his mountain passes. At all events, from this Shanghae despatch, it appears there is an end of the Sultan of Taleefoo, and we presume of the religion of his Prophet there, from the slaughter of his followers. And yet, we apprehend, they are much perplexed at Washington what to do with Captain Jack. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. James Watson Webb ts at Vichy. Ex-Governor J, B. Page, of Vermont, Is in Parts. Judge Russell Houston, of Louisville, Ky., is at the St. Nicholas Hotel. United States Senator A. W. Dorsey, of Arkansas, is at the St. Nicholas Hotel. United States Senator Conover, of Florida, is in town, at the Brevoort House. General J. N. Knapp, of Governor Dix's staf, is registered at the Filth Avenue Hotel. Congressional Delegate N. P. Chipman, of the District of Columbia, has arrived tn Paris. Ex-United States Senator James A. Bayard, of Delaware, is staying at the New York Hotel. Colonels J. T. Sprague and L. Shepard, of the United States Army, are at the Sturtevant House. Minister Bancroft’s wife and her daughter, Mrs. Blisa, have returned to Berlin, having spent the Winter in Italy. Tne Hon. P. H. Le Poer French, Second Secre- tary of the British Legation, has reached the West- moreland Hotel from Washington. Ex-Governor Hoffman, with his wife and daugh- ter, and accompanied by Colonel Robert Lenox Banks, formerly of his staff, has returned to Paris from a tour in Italy and Germany. Minister Horace Rublee yesterday arrived at the Metropolitan Hotel from his home in Wisconsin. His term of vacation has expired, and he will sail in the steamship Cuba to-day to resume his duties as Minister Resident at Berne, Switzerland. WEATHER REPORT. WAR DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER, WasitnaTon, June 4—1 A. M. Probabilities, For New England, easterly to southerly winds, and clear or partly cloudy warmer weather for the Middie States, winds veering to southerly and westerly and clear or partially cloudy weather, with possibly areas of light rain over the lower lake region. For the South Atlantic States southeasterly to sonthwesteriy winds and partly cloudy weather, with probably areas of light rain on the coast; from Missouri to Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota westerly to northerly winds and clear and clearing weather; south of the latter region to Tennessee, winds veering to westerly and clear or partly cloudy weather, Midnight telegraphic reports from Florida, Texas, Dakota, Minnesota, and a portion of those irom Michigan and Maine are missing. THE NATIONAL GAME, The 2,000 people who assembled on the Union Grounds yesterday afternoon to witness the game of ball between the Mutuals and Red Stockings were fully repaid for the trouble taken and money expended, for rarely has @ more exciting contest taken place in this vicinity for several years, Each club was in fine trim and excellent spirits—if we may except Hicks, the Mutual catcher, who has a broken finger—and went into the afray with a will and determination well worthy the occasion, of mon to be carried on regattas has J te address oppealy fax wasrex {athe Gaxermox bea russindeds and yocbta may gans LMulwshusucd be! 4 MM ah San Gln Th Bh ad 10a LA Cy sbeevs 0 o3 0 Rah ad Clube, Bostor up eagerly and scanned with @ most interest. Tone eminence of the family, ten et panty ti Stat , oO! @ gon killing his own Jather gave the affair an appearance bythe sensationalism which was justified was true sensation, not simply washed, and the. startling tances no pen could overdraw. Those who read telt that the people of New York were to be edifled by another prota! Lvemsirh i woEn hy facts were more re- Bouth ts mouth the sto; am it "ine ry primes. and were soon tthe various hotels, in the mi lobbies little else was ken of, and it e the deepest attention, "In trout of the Sturtevant inquisitive crowda would accasionally collect and gaze into the empty hallway with that per egis idlotic stare or crowds possess. Of urse, there was nothing to be seen, b marked interest was oul-absorbing. cae SKETCH OF MANSFIELD TRACY WALWORTH. Mansfield Tracy Walworth, the murdered map, was born in Albany December 3, 1830, being the son of the eminent jurist, Chancellor Walworth, who ‘was for twenty years the chief Judge of the Court of Chancery in this State. The reputation of Chan- cellor Walworth stands highest among the dis- tinguished representatives of the bar in this State, and his decisions are cited to-day in the various courts of the United States as of binding authority in determining many intricate principles of equity law. Young Walworth, therefore, had incalculabie advantages in bisearly studies under the eye of his father, and in a library in the family mansion at Saratoga abounding in solid histories, explora- tions, biographies, scientific treatises and theologi- cal disquisitions, Me entered Union College at the age of sixteen, and graduated two years after, an exceptionally early age fora college course, Dr. Nott, the President of the college, personally com- plimented the young graduate amid a class of 140 members, The Chancellor had set his heart upon bringing up his son in the profession on which he himself had shed such a lustre, and after three years’ study at Cambridge law school Mansfield was ADMITTED TO PRACTICE AT THE BAR of New York State, and was subsequently admitted to practice in the courts of the United States. The famous patent suit betweem Erastus Corning of Albany and Henry Burden of Troy, popularly known as “The Spike Case,” and involving a claim of $1,200,000, was referred at this time to Chancel- lor Walworth for decision. His son, Manefleld, was appointed the clerk of this memorable reference, and for ten years was constantly occupied in re- cording the testimony taken and preparing it for the ‘ae The printed evidence finally made a number of volumes large enough to constitute a law library. His arduous labors in this suit did not prevent the young lawyer from indulging in LITERARY PURSUITS. His first serious effort in literature was entitled “Lulu; or, a Tale of the National Hotel Poisoning.” It was considered by many readers as a satire on same of the parties connected with the great “Spike Suit.” After this novel came “Hotspur, a Tale of the Old Dutch Manor,” and “Stormeliff, & Tale of the Hudsen,” both of which were favorably received. His best work, in the opinion of his lite- rary adinirers, appeared in 1869, under the title of “Warwick; or, the Lost Nationalities of America.” Antiquarian research, varied scholarship and ex- tensive reading on the pait of the author are liberally displayed in this work. It was suc- ceeded by “Beverly” and ‘Delaplaine,”’ the latter embodying domestic experiences which Nave resulted so fatally for him. ‘The Lives of the Six Chancellors of New York State” cost him much time and research, and he had completed the first volume a short time before his death. He has been a diligent sketch writer for the press, his earilest contrivutions being published in the Home Journal and his latest for the weekly publications devoted to continued stories. A resident member of the New York Historical Society, he was a constant visitor at their halls on Second avenue. Although, some years ago, he gave promise of ATTAINING A HIGH POSITION as an orator, yet he abandoned the idea and con- tented himseif with writing addresses, which have begn frequently delivered before literary societies. egarding the domestic life of Mr. Walworth it is only necessary to state jn this sketch that he married the davghter of Colohel Hardii, of Ken- tucky, the hero of Buena Vista. The marr! proved a very unhappy one, and-husbana and wile pared. about three years ago to mutual separa- P , Such as the Catholic Qhurch permits instead of divorce. During the war he got himself into trouble as clerk in the War Department by giving information to the Confederate government. He was at first thrown into prison, but afterwards re- leased on parole and sent to his father’s home in Saratoga, Mr. Walworth was very prepossessing in appear- ance and quite a favorite in many circles o! so- ciety in this vity. Even to his most intimate friends he way very, reticent about his domestic troubles, and féW of his acquaintances knew of the existence of a skeleton in the closet. THE WALWORTH MANSION, The Walwortn mansion, a Saratoga Springs, where the great Chancellor lived so many years, is situated on Broadway, in that village, about a mile from the principal hotels. It is a plaim, un- pretending old building, almost hidden from public gaze by magnificent elim trees, and (Sheed nothing attractive in appearance. Mrs. Walworth, the widow of the murdered man, has kept a young ladies’ seminary here for some years. ALLEGED MATRAOIDE. Arrest of the Woman Said To Have Beaten Her Mother to Death. Bincuamroy, N, Y., June 3, 1873, Coroner Worthing has caused the arrest of Mrs, ‘Thomas Canning, suspected of causing the death of her mother, Rosa Connity, by beating. The in- quest ts not yet finished, but testimony taken es- tablishes tne fact that the prisoner was cruel to her mother and frequently beat her and turned her out of the house to sleep in the coalshed all night, and that she drove her out twice during the day the fatal injuries were received. DAVIS’ RED CAPTIVES. Government Circles Agitated Concerning Jack’s Punishment—f£he Question will Probably be Settled by the Presi- dent—Shall Modoc Treachery Go Un- punished !—Official Report of the Sur- render. WASHINGTON, June 3, 1873, The question as to what shall be done with Captain Jack and his Modoc followers is to-day privately dis- cussed in military and civil circles. All seem to be agreed that, as the Modocs surrendered as prison- ers of war, it is not to be expected that they shall be punished by the army, which, for the present, will hold them in custody until further orders. General Davis will doubtless report the facts to the headquarters of the army and ask for instructions in the premises. The communication will be sent to the Department of the Interior, as is usual in such cases, the Indian treachery and murders having been committed while the Depart- ment was engaged through its agents in the at- tempt to carry out the peace policy, the army serving as an aid for this purpose. The entire sub- ject may soon be submitted to the President and the Cabinet fora final determination, It will be remembered that Satanta and Big Tree were turned over by the Interior Department to the ‘Texan authorities, and a similar course may be pur- sued with the principal Modocs—namely, remitted to the State of Oregon for tria! aud punishment, ‘The following official despatch has been re- besides SAN FRANCISCO, June 2, 1873, General W, T, SHERMAN :— Colonel Davis reports June 1:— . The Modoc scouts sent out erie ttaning ot ne rted to him at Applegate on the evening o' 2 Bein at they had joan Captain Jack and his band encamped on Willow Creek, at the crossing of the Evugrant road, fourteen miles eastward of Applegate's. Hasbrouck’s and Jackson's squad- rons, ader Major Greeu, which Were sent imme- diately in pursuit, care upon them on the evening of eth and sned them till the evening of the s0th, when jourteep warriors, ten women and nine children ere captured, — after a slight skirmish, among them Schou- chin and Searfaced Charley. Captain Jack, with three Warriors, escaped in one dt rection; the remaining men escaped in different directions, leaving twelve men not captured. He Will push them lively till caught, He bopes to do sO ina few days, and posh the troops to other points. |. M. SCHOFIELD, Major General, San Francisco, June 3, 1873 GeNenat SuRRMAN, Washington :— A subsequent despatch from General Davis, Gated, Applegate's, June 1, announces the capture 2 Captain Jack, two warriors and their families. He expects the few others to come tn soon, and con- sider the war terminated, J, M. SCHOFIELD, Troops Ordered to Tule Lake. SAN FRrANOIsco, Cal., June 8, 1873, General Schofield has ordered all the troops a the Modoc country to be concentrated in camp 18 LG. O, CL near Tate Lake, vo awaty furor orders, ARKANSAS. Clayton & Co. Pressing the “Quo War- ranto” Against Gov. Baxter. LEGAL HAIR-SPLITTING. The Attorney General Standing Behind “the People.” Defendant’s Counsel Deny the Jurisdiction of the Court to Issue the Writ, Brooks Jubilant in Antici- pation of Victory. Lirris& Roox, Ark., June 3, 1873. The Supreme Court was crowded again ths morning by interested persons desirous of hearing the quo warranto arguments, the {ull Bench, the same as yesterday, being in attendance. The pro ceedings were opened by Mr. Whipple, who is as- sisting Attorney General Yonley. He sald the onty question before the Court was as to the right of the Attorney General to file this information. The other side, he sald, ran off the track in speaking of the jurisdiction of the Court. ‘THE COURT CANNOT REFUSE THR WRIT, applied for; he maintained that the information ia substantially and literally true; he distinctly de- nied that Baxter had been legally elected, and that his counsel had not said he was; that the Supreme Court has original jurisdiction, by which the Governor is lable to be tried like anybody else > that heis not and cannot be above the law, and that there was no authority in the constitution on which they could say the Legislature was the only tribunal having jurisdiction in such matters. A prominent member of the Bar had said THE LEGISLATURE WAS BUT A MOB} if that were so, then was Judge English a de- fender of mob law. Judge Compton, associated in this case with Judge English to defend Governor Baxter, then re~ Plied to Mr. Whipple’s arguments, and said the de- fendant ought to know how and wherein he is a usurper of the executive power, but there was nothing In the information sought to be filed giving the reasons for the course they proposed to adopt. Again, the Attorney General appeared to be in @ great hurry; there was no precedent to be found in the records of the State making a-writ of this nature returnable in three days, and to say the most they could for it, 1t was not respectful to the Governor to inaugurate the system of rapid judica- ture, though they pretended it was all to be done in the name of the people— » “HE DEAR PROPLE.”? The constitution of 1868 says that the Legisilm ture should determine all such cases. The Court had jurisdiction where a Governor had not property qualified; but not where it became “a contested election” case. The paper does not say what this , is. The Attorney General says it is @ question of election; but says so at the relation of Mr. Brooks, the Attorney General moreover taking good care to keep the relator’s statement of facts in hia pocket. He (Judge Compton) hoped the Court would pass upon the question of jurisdiction as the case now stands, The code is subordinate to the constitution. True, this was not a regular applica- tion for a quo warranto, but it was information in the nature of a quo warranto. At half-past six o’clock the Court adjourned until half-past nine o’clock to-morrow morning, when Mr. Ely will make the closing argument. There is great excitement here in regard to this question. Brooks an his friends are jubifant to a dogree. All the State journals are strongly in favor of Baxter. WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON, June 3, 1873. President’s Departure for Long Branch. All the members of the Cabinet were present to-day, with the exception of Secretary Belknap. The Modoc question occupied no share of atten- tion, The business was of a routine character. The President stated he would leave here, with bis family, on Thursday for Long Branch, to spend the Summer, but would return every two or three weeks to transact any business which might re- quire his attention in Washington. The President on Governor McEnery’s Proclamation. The President hopes there will be no further need of interference in Louisiana matters, The address of Governor McEnery, coming within the time specified in the recent proclamation, is believed to indicate a spirit of resignation on the part of his supporters. If, however, eight days hence there should remain any organization, with the avowed purpose of opposing the Kellogg government, everything will be in readiness to carry out tne prayer of Kellogg and disperse all combinations against the recognized State government. Gov- ernor Kellogg telegraphed to-day that the financial condition of affairs was improving rapidly, and warrants and bonds were going up daily. The Civil Service Reform Delusion. The Civil Service Advisory Board, after a session of ncarly two weeks, during which there has been a free interchange of opinion among the members ‘of the Cabinet and the Board, have nearly con- cluded their tabors. The President to-morrow will convene a special session of the Cabinet to receive, consider, amend and approve the modified rules governing appomtments in the departments in Washington. It is a fact apparent to the Presi- dent, heads of departments and a majority of the members of the Advisory Board that without free contidence and sincere co-operation on the part of all no practical and substantial reform of the civil service is possible at the seat of government. The Credit Mobilier Suit at Hartford. One of the counsel for the United States who went to Hartford to file the bill in equity has re- , turned to Washington. The next step of the gov- ernment will be to ask for an injunction to restrain the defendants from disposing of any of the traudu- lent bonds alleged in the bill to have been issued or to further any business alleged to be the result of the fraudulent transactions, It is not the pur- pose of the government to interfere with the work- ing of the road, and the injunction prayed for will probably be argued on the 16th inst, Against the Commisstoner of Pensions. ‘The Commissioner of Pensions is charged with so many deeds of a questionable character that his oficial conduct is to be investigated. Grave charges were made against his confirmation several years ago. Military Intelligence. A general court martial bas been ordered to meet at Willett’s Point, New York harbor, on the 6¢h of June for the trial of Musician Francis and suen other prisoners as may be brought before it, The Court will consist of Captains W. R. King, A, Mac~ kenzie and J, ©, Post; First Lienteaants B.D. Greene and A. I. Payson; Second Lieutenants P. M. Price, Jr., and C, F. Palfrey and all the Engineer corps, With First Lieutenant James Mercus as Judge Advocate, The President has accepted the resignations of Lieutenant José R. I ory, of the Third cavairy, and of Captain Edwin W. H. Read, of the Bighth infantry. A farther leave of absence on a surgeon’s cortifl- cate of disability has been granted to Colonel Gor- don Granger, with permission to go beyond the The Charges SC, Assistant Surgeon John W. Brewer has been or dered to duty in the Department of the East, and Assistant Surgeon Julius A, Patzki to duty in to Department of the Laker , Vd ‘