The New York Herald Newspaper, June 17, 1873, Page 7

+4 THE SHAE. His Majesty the Persian Potentate About to Enter the British Metropolis, Boyal Courtesy and Public Honors to the Foreign Buler—Guildhall Jubilant and the Trades- men Elated—Naval, Military and Citizen Displays in Prospect, TELEGRAMS TO THE NEW YORX HERALY. Lonpon, June 16, 1873. His Majesty Nasr-ed-Din, the Shah of Persia, will @rrive in this city on Wednesday next, the 18th {nstant, on a visit to Queen Victoria and the peo- pie of Great Britain, Extensive preparations for his reception are be- ing made. Guildhall and many other metropelitan buildings will be handsomely decorated, and the people will ‘turn out in vast numbers to greet the visiting po- tentate. Whe Shah in the Belgian Capital—Liver- Pool and Manchester To Be Visited. Loypon, June 16—P. M. The Shah of Persia arrived at Brussels to-day, ‘and will reach London on Wednesday evening. Extraordinary preparations are still being made for his reception and entertainment by the Eng. lish Court, the city, the military and naval authori- ties and at the Crystal Palace, the opera houses and the various theatres, The Shah wili subsequently visit Liverpool and Manchester. Whe British Naval Escort to Dover and First Landing On the Soil of Eng- land. It has been decided that Dover is to be the point ‘at which the Shah of Persia will make his first ac- qeaintance with the English soil and the people of Britain. On the 17th of June the Channel fleet will Qnchor off Dover, and the Shah will embark soon afterwards, perhaps at Cherbourg, in the royal yacht Victoria and Albert. He will be escorted across the Channel by Her Majesty’s ships-of-war the Auda- cious, the Penelope, the Hector, the Achilles and the Vanguard, and in all probability some vessels of the French navy will accompany the squadron, On the arrival of the Shah at Dover there will be @ ceremony simular in its character to that which took place on the arrival of the Sultan of Turkey. The Mayor, the Town Clerk and the members of the Corporation will present the Shah with an ad- rgss, and there will be the usual salute irom the castle and fortifications and the fleet which will dine the bay. » SHE SHAH’S VISIT TO VICTORIA—PREPARATIONS FOR A RIGHT ROYAL RECEPTION, The Shah will pay his visit to Queen Victoria a ‘week earlier than was at first angounced, and this renders necessary the. immediate return oi her ‘Majesty trom Balmoral. Buckingham Palace is being got in readiness for the reception of His ‘Majesty and suite, and the ofiicials in the Lord Chamberiain’s department are busily engaged, even to-day, in making the arrangements neces- Sary to insure the comfort and convenience of the illustrious visitor during his residence in the me- tropoits. A stud of horses, seleeted from the royal mews, @nd a number of the Queen’s carriages will, by her Majesty’s command, be placed at the disposal of the Shah. Upon the occasion of the Shah's visit to her Majesty at Windsor Vastle the Queen will hold a ‘and review of troops in Windsor Great Park, but be precise date ef the military display has not yet nm fixed. Prince Christian, the Ranger of indsor Great Park, 1s. personally superintending ‘the various arrangements on the royal demesne for the review, and, assisted by Colonel the Hon. A. Liddell, deputy ranger, and Mr. Menzies, is almost daily en; din this work. A number of Soldiers of the ird battalion Grenadier Guards are busily EEL ig ae in leveiling the route over the é6ward which will be used by the Queen ‘when passing the troops and _ spectators, ‘while gangs of laborers are preparing the und {or the cavalry, in order to pre- vent accidents. An enclosure, hurdled off beneath the shade of the tine avenue of trees Known as Queen Anne’s Ride, has been allotted to the Alexandra Stand, which will be brought trom Ascot, and erected opposite the review ground, ‘The ground for spectators and carriages is also being railed off. Colonel Gamble and other officers ‘will superintend the laying out of an encampment upon the cavalry exercising ground on the west of Queen Anne's Ride for the reception of the troops marching to the review. ITALY. Parliamentary Action on the Religious Corpora- tions Suppression Bill. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Ror, June 16, 1873, ‘The bill for the Suppression of Religious Corpora- tions having passed the Chamber of Deputies is mow before the Italian Senate, which has adopted the firat seven clauses, OCEAN TELEGRAPHS. The Steamship Great Eastern ‘Paying Out” a New Cable. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. © Lonnon, June 16, 1873. ‘The stcamship Great Eastern has commenced the laying of the new Atiantic Cable trom Valentia Bay, Ireland, to Sydney, Cape Breton. A dispatch from on board, dated noon to-day, reports the great ship ‘was in latitude 52 22 and longitude 1433, and had paid out 176 miles of cable. All was well on board the “ big ship.” CUBA. Colonial Censorship of News Telegram:—Protest to the Madrid Cabinet. TELEGRAMS TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Key West, June 16, 1873. Despatches received by steamer irom Havana state that the censorship over news telegrams is maintained with unremitting severity, Despatches from New York to the Havana press were sup- pressed last week, and there is great complaint. The leading republicans have sent a telegram to the government at Madrid remonstrating against the arbitrary cenduct of the iocal authorities and demanding a speody modification, if not abolition, of the rules of censorship, the rigid enforcement of which they declare to be unnecessary and intoler- able. A favorable rev y is expected from the Spanish home government. ce and Severe Defeat of a Detach- ment of Spanish Soldiers. HAVANA, June 13, 1873. A detachment of ninety soidiers was sarprised by the insurgents, under Sauguili, near Yucatan, and forty were killed, including tneir commanding omicer. Surp YELLOW JAOK IN VIRGINIA. ForTRESS MONROE, June 16, 1873, The Norwegian bark Asto, from Havana for Wavre, arrived in the Roads to-day with yellow fever on board. One man died on the passage. The captain and three men have fever, but are con- Galescing. THE CHOLERA AT NASHVILLE. Nasavi.e, June 16, 1873. Thirty-two interments irom cholera have been reported since Saturday. A large percentage of those attacked have recovered. The deaths were Dearly all those of colored persons. NAVAL ORDERS, WASHINGTON, D. C., June 16, 1873. Lieutenant Charles T. Force is ordered to the United States Coast Survey steamer A. D. Bache. Lieutenant Commander J. Crittenden Watson ts detached irom the Idaho, and grantea six months’ Jeave of absence from July 1. Isaiah Hanscom, Naval Constructor at Boston, has been ordered to the Brooklyn Navy Yard on the Ist ,of July; Samuel H, Pook, now at Mare Island, to Boston; Ge W. Much, now at Wash- ington, to Mare Island, and Theodore D, Wilson, Qow at Annapolis, to Washingtow NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 1873—TRIPLE SHEET. THE POLARIS. Purchase by the Government of the Steamer Tigress. ORDERED TO THE BROOKLYN NAVY YARD The Navy Department Alive to the Im- portance of the Search. The Tigress To Be Fitted Out and Sent to Reseue the Polaris. WASHIINGTON, June 16, 1873, It wiil be remembered that, shortly after the om- cial despatch of Consul Malloy, at St. Johns, New- foundland, reached the Secretary of the Navy, an- nouncing the rescue of Captain Tyson and his party from the ice floe by the English sealing steamer Tigress, a proposition was made by the owner of that vessel to go in search of the Polaris. Secre- tary Robeson was anxious to send assistance, but did not feel authorizea to do so until he was officially possessed of information which would justify the expense. The examination of Tyson and his party being finished on Saturday, Profes+ sors Baird of the Smithsonian, Hilgard of the Coast Survey and Newcomb of the Naval Observa- tory, members of the National Academy of Sci- ences, held @ meeting, and recommended to the President that the interests of science would be greatly promoted if the Poiaris could be found, ‘This endorsemeit, in connection with the evidence to be submitted to the President, warranted the Secretary of the Navy in PURCHASING THE TIGRESS, and, the owner having agreed, this vessel is now on her way to the Brooklyn Navy Yard to be fitted out. Instructions have already been sent to the Commandant of the yard to anticipate her arrival and make every preparation for the work designed, The Tigress is expected not later than Monday next, when Secretary Robeson, Chief Constructor Hanscom, and W. W. Wood, chief of the Bureau of Steam Engineering, will be in New York to inspect the vessel and decide what must be done to fit her out for good service in Arctic waters. In the event that the Tigress arrives before that time the Commandant of the Drookiyn Navy Yard is ordered to appuint a Board to perform the duty. The en- tire force of the yard will be put to work to carry out THE ORDERS OF THE SECRETARY, and it will be prosecuted day and night, so that the Tigress may be ready by the 4th of July. No exertion will be spared to accomplish the designs of the Secre- tary. The commandant of the Tigress will be Com- mander James A. Greer, at present Professor of Seamanship at the Naval Academy, and considered an officer of great merit and experience. He is 40 years of age, graduated at the Academy, number two in his class, commanded important expedi- tions during the rebellion, and is a daring ofMfcer. Lieutenant Commander White will be the executive —ofiicer. Chief Engineer Mitchell has written a letter to the Sec- retary to the effect that he will cheerfully go in his capacity. Other oficers of the navy, now on walting orders, ARE ANXIOUS TO BE ASSIGNED to the expedition. It is a fact that naval officers who have had no opportunity in carrying out scientific views concerning Polar expeditions are anxious now to test the opinions prevailing at the Navy Department on this subject. The Tigress is reported as @ vessel of about four hundred tons, and as she was built especially for the sealing shores, it is thought that she will not require much improvement. The Juniata will carry a surplus of coal and such supplies as the Congress transported to Disco for the Polaris two years ago. THE ORDERS OF COMMANDER GREER will be to the effect that he must spare no effort to penetrate the Northumberland Straits to find the Polaris, Charts are now being prepared at the Hydrographic Office and maps at the Smithsonian Institute for the guidance of the commander of the Tigress, If necessary all other work at the Brook- lyn Navy Yard will be stopped to carry out Secre- tary Robeson's instructions, A TRAGEDY OF THREE. Murder of a Brother and His Wife and Child. BELFAST, Me., June 16, 1873, At daybreak this morning Almond Gorden, a far- mer, living near Thorndyke station, with his wife and youngest daughter, were found murdered in one bed. There was found also his little son, six years old, who slept in acrib in the same room, feartully wounded, and the house set on fire. All the bodies were much mutilated, A bloody axe, with which the slaughter was done, was found near at hand, A brother of the wounded man is now under arrest, charged with the crime. ‘The alleged cause of the bloody work was a dis- pute about some property. The suspected man appears perfectly calm, and manifests no anxiety, The agony of the father and brother of Mrs. Gordon is described as heartrending. The Coroner's in- quest take places this afternoon, when it is ex- pected further facts will be developed. The following additional particulars of the Thorn- dyke murder have been elicited :~ Join Gordon, @ man of seventy years of age, had recently conveyed to his son, Almon M., his iarm, worth $5,000, taking back a mortgage for lite tor the support of himself and wi'e. The other son, John T., was dissatisfied with the arrangement, and probably thought that by the death of his brother and family the property would fall to him. This is the only reason thus far assigned, At the time of the murder the old people, were absent ona visit. The inmates of the house were the murdered man, Almon M., aged twenty-five; Emma A., lis wile, aged twenty-two; their cnild- ren, Ira B., aged six; a little girl, aged seventeen Months; Anna, a niece, aged nine; John T., the brother, and a hired man, About three o'clock A. M. the latter was awakened by the shrieks of the little boy, and he immediately discovered that the house was on fire. He informed the neighbors, and the flames were extinguished without much damage, THE BODIES OF THE FATHER, MOTHER AND INFANT, who occupied the same bed, were soon found, mangled and 80 scorched as to be hardly recogniz- able. The little boy, who slept in a crib in the same room, was severely wounded, but may sur- vive, The bioody deed was evidently committed with an axe, which was found on the premises. The wounds of the three murdered persons were inflicted upon the head and must have caused in- stant death. The brother, John T., was soon ar- rested. He is twenty-eight sears old, a farm laborer, and unmarried. He maintains a sullen in- difference, refusing to answer any questions, but saying that at the proper time he will defend himself. [he Coroner held an inquest this afternoon, but had not rendered a verdict when the last train left Thorndyke at half-past six P.M, The prisoner will probably be arraigned before the Police Court of this city to-morrow, STABBING AFFRAYS, Henry Phanensmith, of 125 Suffolk street, was stabbed in the arm by his brother Conrad last night. He was attended by Dr. Saville at the Tenth precinct station house and left for home, George Crumble, of 42 Wooster street, stabbed his mistress, Nellie McNamee, in the temple G Hight with @ case knife, causing a slight wound. He then escaped, but the police of the Eighth pre- cingt are after bim. MACKENZIE’S RAID, Our Relations with the Rio Grande and Indian Robbers. A MEXICAN INDIGNATION MEETING. Report of General MeKenzie and Sherman and Sheridan's Endorsement. —_——+ STRONG LANGUAGE FROM LITTLE PHIL, . The Government Determined to Have Peace on the Border, FRIENDS OF THE RED MAN BUSY The Return of the Kickapoo Cap- tives Demanded. WASHINGTON, June 16, 1873. The two senior members of the Mexican Border Commission reached Washington this morning at five o'clock, with the records and papers of the Commission, being preceded a few hours by the junior member, General Osborn, of Chicago, who did not participate in last year’s proceedings of the Commission on the Lower Rio Grande. In the course of the day the Commissioners sought an in- terview with Secretary Fish, as the official in immediate charge, of the business in hand, to report their arrival, pay their respects and announce the early completion of their second general report and surrender of the additional testimony taken in support of cattle claims and Other reclamations against the Mexican govern- meat. They were courteously received by the Secretary, who manilested no desire to draw from them any statements of fact or opinion in advance of the report which they are deiiberately to prepare and present to him within the remaining two weeks of their term of ofice, and the interview terminated with the usual caution from Mr, Fish against a too free and unadvised REVELATION OF THEIR VIEWS AND INFORMATION in unauthorized quarters, and an expression of hope that their labors have céntributed some- thing towa:ds a solution and settlement of what has become a momentous question be- tween ourselves and Mexico, In reference t® the coming and final report of the Commissioners, it has been ascertained that in consequence of the misconception and wisconstruction of parts of their former report. they will be careful to disavow any bias on their part, either with reference to the matters which have been the subject of investi- gation or the means for their recompense and sup- pression, The Act of Congress will be shown as giving them but a limited and preliminary field of inquiry, and as conferring upon them neither authority nor means to undertake a judicial and conclusive investigation. The claims they report to the State Department are those presented to themselves, supported by the oaths of persons interested therein, but bearing fag reputations in their communities. WHAT THEY WILL SUGGEST. The Commissioners look for large reductions in the amounts of these claims whenever they are brought before @ proper tribunal for such scrutiny as is usual in such cases. Meantime they see no more objection to the claimants’ stating their cases in their own way than for the plamtiif in an ordinary suit at law stating his loss or damage at a much higher sum than he expects to recover. All along the border the presentation of an account, sup- ported by affidavit, is looked upon as a mere formality necessary to bring the claimants into court, and there are none that will not cheer- tully accept such decision as te responsibility and amount as may be reached by a joint commission or any other agency set up by the United States gov- ernment. The Commissioners repel any suggestion that they are to be used in favor of annexation or war; nor do the opose anything more than necessary or incidental allusion to the Free Belt, recognizing that as a question outside their jurisdiction and primarily one of domestic import for Mexico in which this country has only a concern so far as the Treasury Department may actualiy find its customs revenue affected by the facilities offered for snuggling. In reference to THE DECLINE OF THE CATTLE INTEREST in Texas, the Commissioners will, in alleging the undoubted instrumentality of Indians and Mexican thieves in bringing it about and the legal responsibility of the national gov- ernment and actual participation of some of the border autlorities, also glance at the local causes of the decline, such as the great drouths and severe storms which have killed thousands of cattle, and the rapid farming settie- ments going on in some of the cattle counties to the gradual restriction of the cattle ranges, In brief, the Commissioners intend their report to be an exposition of cattle stealing on the border and not a general indictment of the Mexican government, as some anticipate and predict, The following letter was received here to-day from a party who writes advisediy and whose in- formation is accepted as trustworthy :— BRACAETISVILLE, Kinney county, Texas, June 3, 1873. Since the destruction and rout of the Kickapoos on their campin round near the sania Rosa Mountain, in Mexico, by our troops under General Mckenzie, the Indian and Mexi- can depredations ‘on this portion of our frontier have, lor the time being, entirely ceased. The troops are more than ordinarily vigi-+ lant in their scouting operations along the Rio Grande. General McKenzie being now absent from his post with several of lis companies, i close proximity to its banks, and scrutinizing, by the ald of experienced guides, the movements of the Mexican depredators, who threaten the de- struction o! their savage allies and the capture of the squaws and children, who, I trust, may be retained by the government as hostages for their future good conduct. In antici- pation of future devastations preparations have been carefully but silentiy made for their reception, The Indians (Lipaus and Kickapoos) have aban- doned their old camping grounds and betaken themselves to the mountains for their better secur- ity against the operations of our troops and to have a better rendezvous for their depredations. To reach them now our troops will have to pass through narrow defiles of precipitous mountains, so that scouting thereabouts will be a dificu.t and dangerous matter, The excitement among the Mexican population will doubtiess in time subside as they awaken to a sense of the right and justice of McKenzie's undertaking. It is sull very high, and murmurings are Dow and then heard among the influential and intelligent, which would portend a troublesome end disagreeabie future, AN INDIGNATION MEETING OF MEXICANS. Ata meeting of citizens, held at Saragossa, the capital of the State ot Coahuila, for the purpose of petitioning the Governor of that State to make an oficial demand on our goyerument for the return of the Indian captives tfken by McKenzie. The meeting was very turbulent. action of our government was condemned in the strongest terms and our people charged with a fll share of accusations, Ignorant of our immense power and anconscious of their own Weakness, tuey vocilerousiy demanded im- mediate reparation, the return of the captives and the surrender o/ McKenzie and his ofiicers under the penalty of being charged witha cruel and de- vastating war. However, the better counsels of Falcon, Garcia and other prominent and influental men of the Mexican frontier prevailed. They quicted the meeting, assured the people of the good will and intention of the people and government of the United states towards Mexico, argued on the injustice of their ewn government harboring and protecting banas of savages in tueir territory, and permitting them to depredate upon our property and murder our families, They snowed the right, justice and necessity of Mc- Kenzie’s ratd on the bands of savage Kickapoos; and, lastly, with the best effect, demonstrated to them THE IMMENSE AND GROWING POWER OF THE UNITED STATES compared with their own national weakness, ‘These conclusive arguments from their most prom- inent men had the desired effect, and lessened the excitement of the Mexicans, ool deliberation took the place of tumultuous ot and they were satisded with fuels Govergor to petition tha" national government to open negotiations for the amicable — settie- ment of their frontier dimiculties, instead of precipitating a war \yith a people whom they nad wronged and insulted fox years with impunity, In accordance with the wishes of a majority of the residents of the States of Coahu!la and New Leon the Governors of those States hove petitioned their national government for 22 adjust- ment ef trontier diMiculties, The exsite- | ment is gradually aading among the people of the frontier villages, but considerable say bation is expressed towards us since Mc- Kenzie’s recent invasion, It 18 expected that the Indians will remain quiet ior two or three moons, as the removal to their new camping grounds, an the dejection consequent on their defeat, will not admit of their visiting us until they have fully re- covered from their discomtiture. GENERAL MACKENZIF'S REPORT. When it was announced that General Mackenzie haa invaded Mexican territory in tne pursuit of the Kickapoo Indians the important question arose whether he acted under instructions from the War Department or whether the President approved of this mode of settling vorder differences, At the time oflicials were very reticent, but a few days after the oficial telegram was re- ceived from General Sheridan announcing the success of Mackenzie it was semi-oficially stated in these despatches that General Mackenzie would be sustained by the President, The lan- guage of the despatch was as follows :— “General Mackenzie received instructions sub- stantially to pursue and punish the Kickapoos the first time a decisive blow could be struck. Noth- ing was said regarding the invasion of Mexican territory, and so far as is knewn he obeyed the instructions of his superior oficor, without discussing the propriety of crossing the Rio Grande in executing them, Tt is not expected that hts oficial report wiil explain or account for any alleged violation of the territory of Mexico. The first intimation will come trom the Mexican government. It will then remain for this govern- ment to make such defence of the it or fature conduct of its military oMicers on the ‘Texan border as the peace and protection of our people in this part of the country may demand,” ‘The important signiticance oi this language will be understood in what follows, On Saturday, when General Sherman returned from West Point, he found General Mackenzie's oficial report await- Ing his consideration. Lt was written on a sheet of letter paper, and merely recounted the fact that on the night of the 17th of May he proceeded with his command from Fort Clark, composed of cavalry add infagtry and some Seminole scouts, to an en- campment of Kickapoo Indtans, about seventy-five miles distant from Fort Clarke; that alter a rapid and forced march he surprised, on the morning of the 18th of May, the Kickapoo encampment, killed nineteen and captured ferty of the Kickapoos, and returned to Fort Clarke witn but few casualties, Not the slightest allusion was made to orders or to the crossing of any boundary line, The report is a mere recital of the ordinary events connected witha raid on Indians within our own territory. The report bears date Fort Clark May 23, 1873, was forwarded toGenerai Auger, commanding the Department of ‘Texas, without oficial comment, to Lieutenant Sonera Sheridan, who endorsed it substantially as follows :— LITTLE PHIL'S ENDORSEMENT, “[ take pleasure in hearti'y approving the con- duet of Colonel Mackenzie as a gallant act. The only course for the security of life and prop. erty on our side of the Rio Grande is to do as Colonel Mackenzie has done. I do not believe that any boundary should exist between the United States and Mexico when we are defend- ing the lives of our citizens and protecting their property against a merciless bandit to whom the name murderer, robber or thief poorly applies a8 covering their deeds, The gallant act of Colonel Mackenae is best recorded in his plath narrative of the event. I can only add that the government ougit to stand by Mackenzie.” GENERAL SHERMAN’S OPINION, On another fold of Mackenzie's report General Sherman endorses his opinion :— “The conduct of Colonel Mackenzie is fully a proved, If the attack was made on Mexican’ soll, as the report does not indicate, it is clearly the duty of the Mexican government to” complain. Until then the War Department has no oMcial Knowledge that such is the fact, and need pot take any action. It is my opinion that when a band of freebovters, murderers, robbers and outlaws, make the recognized boundary line between two nations at peace a safeguard for their crimes, There can be no just cause for dissension if the lawtul forces of either nation pursue them for the purpose of capturing or ending their deeds of violence."” NO MORK DOUBT AS TO THE ACTION OF THE GOY- ERNMENT, As the opinien of General Sherman Is to the same effect as that previously expressed by the Presi- dent, there can be no longer any doubt of the real attitude of the government toward Mexico and her predatory bands on the Rio Grande, PEACE MEN AT WORK. The Return of the Captured Kickapoos Demanded. SAN ANTONIO, Texas, June 16, 1873. Messrs. Atkinson and Williams, the special Indian Commissioners, who arrived here on Friday night from Mexico, have sent a communication to the Commissioner 01 Indian Affairs, in which they re resent that the restoration of the captive women and children now in the hands of General Mac- kenzie will certainly result in the peaceable re- moval of all the Indian tribes on the Mexican bor- cer to their reservation in the United States, but that the detention of the captives will deprive the Comtnissioners of the needed aid from the Mexican authorities im restoring peace. They, therefore, earnestly request that the captives be placed at their disposal, in which event they have no doubt pas in thelr mission. After conferring with ommissioner at Fort Clark, General Mackenzie wrote to General Augur withdrawing everything he nad said against giving the captives up. The War Department has ordered the captives to Fort Gibson and the Commissioners have asked for a suspension of the order, FIENDS ON THE TRACK. Diabolical Attempt to Wreck a Train on the Norwich and Worcester Rai road. On Sunday morning the Norwich and Worcester Railtroad was the scene of a fiendish attempt to throw 4 train off the track, which was, fortunately, unattended with loss of life. Obstructions were placed across the rails just below the depot at Daysville, which succeeded at last in accomplish- ing their object. The particulars are as follows:— A plank was placed on the track just below the depot at Daysville, but was swept off by the cow- catcher, Abouttwo hundred feet further on the engine encountered @ tie in the very heart oj the village and swept it some five hundred fect to a switch, where it caught in a “frog” and threw the locomotive from the track, The whistle blew down brakes and every effort was made to keep the train on the road bed, but the speed was so great that the en- gine could not be stopped, and it swept the cap- stones from the bridge over Five Mile River, and the locomotive and three cars, containing sixteen persons, fell intoa bog meadow, some fourteen feet below, burying the engineer and fireman be- heath the ruins, A TIMELY RESCUE. After an hour's labor they were extricated badly bruised and scalded, but are reported as doing well to-day. At a meeting of citizens a reward of $1,000 was pledged on behalf of the town to be paid on the conviction of the rascals who were guilty of this diabolical crime, The gallant men who went down with the engine were 5S. P. Cooper and George Harvey, engineer — of the Norwich and Worcester Ratl- road, Running at the rate it was the engine ploughed its way over the ties for nearly two rods before it reached the bridge, and then with a mighty bound it plunged into the bed of the stream below, a di tance of nearly twenty feet. Asit fell it turned completely over, striking the ground with its wheels uppermost and buried its projecting work deep in tie earth. The tender, as it followed, came with terrific force, and the coupling breaking by the jerk of the plunge, it was HURLED COMPLETELY OVER THE ENGINE and placed squarely on its end as if by the hand of man, The great flat car, with its load of heavy crates, was also thrown beyond the engine. The terrific fall of twenty feet crushed many of the strong iron-bound boxes, ‘The Adams express car, crowded With express freight, fe!l upon the engine, turning as it teil, and lying with one side partly crushed. Joseph Sangley, of Walpole, a brakeman, was inextricably jammed between the brakes, to which he had gone in answer to the signal, and the tron rod of the next car. This terrible attempt upon human life, it ts sup- posed, was for the purpose of robbery. It is thought that all the injured will recover. In ad- dition to the $1,000 reward offered by the commit- tee of citizens the Superintendent of the Norwich and Worcester division of the New York and New England Railroad publisnes a card this afternoon, offering $500 reward for the conviction of the ease who placed the plank and tics on the track. ARRESTS MADE. Three men were arrested in Plainfield Sunday night aud are now in the city prison here, charged with placing obstructions upon the track of the Na and Worcester Railroad on Sunday morn- ing. A BIG PIRE IN THE DOMINION. Uxprings, Ont., June 16, 1873. A fire to-night destroyed the Anglo-American Hotel, Crawford's livery stables and driving sheds, McDonald's jewelry store and a number of dwell- ings and outhouses, together with a large stock of lumber and cord wood. The loss is probably torty thousand dollars, The iwaurance ig pot stated, — THE REFORM ASSOCIATI Important Meeting of Municipal Reformers at the Fifth Avenne Hotel Last Night. A NEW CHARTER IN EMBRYO nee Important Action as to Redress of Public Griev- ances and Municipal Frauds—A New Bureau To Be Established in the City-The Dis- charged Park Laborers To Be Cared For—A Revelation as to the De- partment of Public Works. A very largely attended adjourned mecting of the Reform Association was held at the Fifth Avenue Hotel last evening. Mr.John Foley occu- pied the chair, The chairman, after stating the object of the meeting, and after giving a résume of the proceed- ings of the previous meeting, appointed Mr. Jacob Schoenhof and William F, Havemeyer, Jr., Secre- taries, A NEW CHARTER PREPARING, Mr. Schoenhof then read the following resolu- tions :— Whercas the recently enacted charter for the city has beon tound so detective and many of its provisions so contradictory, that supplementary legislation was called for almost finnediately alter the charter became a law ; and whereas this supplementary legislation is, in several important particulars, only calculated to increase the doubts ar ies which previously as to the — inte meaning of the laws enacted for the government of the city; and. Whereas ‘any scheme tor the g f city which creates the executive di are filled by appo missions, anid invests independent of the peo legis! t ople's representatives \e ne condemned, and in conse the doubts hich exist and duties of the various oflcers, tive, and of the prejudicial results whieh are certain. to, follow to the city theretrom, it has become # matter of absolute necessiiy that a peoper organic iaw should be framed tor the government ot the c nd eft cient in its provisions, and also t solidate the government of the. ci A cone y and count, there- tore, Resolved, That a committee of ten of this association be appointed with instructions to have a dratt ot s law prepared before the Fall eletions, to be sub the next Legislature, and that the committee be hereby authorized, as they may deem proper, to secure the advice and co“operation of individuals ani political and re‘orm organizations, Resolved, That the sum of $5,000 be and the same is hereby appropriated to meet the expense of said com: mittee. Tho CHAIRMAN proposed an amendment that the Mayor be also invited to send a representative from the city government to confer with the com- mittee. Mr. WALL called attention to the mention of various “political associations” in the resolutions, The Committee of Seventy had been called reform- ers, and, as it was the reform associations that carried the elections of last year, they should have nothing to do with “Tammany” or the “repubii- can” as parties, He would, therefore, propose to amend so as to read “reform associations.” The reason of the late success was, because ail political parties were sunk in the great question ot reform. ‘This amendment was not seconded, Mr. DILLON said he was a republican, and was in favor of reform; but still, as a republican, he though to ignore political parties would be to cut off @ great many good reforiners, ‘The CHAIRMAN Suggested that the appointment of a committee of five Was simply to receive advice from a'l political organizations, and it was not un- likely that mformation could be obtained, he thought, from democrats and republicans, too. Mr. DELANRY said that there were four sections ol political parties in this city, ee Cor trative republicans and liberal republicans, Tam- many Halland Apotlo Hall—on the part of the demo- crats. To have one iromeach of these parties would not be quite suficient, he supposed, but as he understood that that would be suifiicient, ne should certainly support the resolution, although he rose to second the amendment. Mr. SAMUEL D. SEWARDS proposed that the reso- lutions be so amended as to read that the commit- t and is tee of five be authorized to seek the co-opcration | Of all political parties, and that the committee have power to enlarge their agency. Mr. ABRAMAMS thought that the committee of five should prepare a charter compiete and have it printed, and then a copy sent to each of the political organizations and to the better :usormed men in the city who have given city government their attention, Mr. KINKELL said that he was of opinion that the reiorm organizations should take the’ respons! bility of framing a charter, print it and nominal the candiaates on the reform ticket in accordance with the views expressed in that chapter. Mr. WALL strongly supporied the view that poli- ties should be separated trom any proposals for the A ea measures for the better government of ie city. Mr. Samuel D. Seward’s amendment was carried, and also a further amendinent that the number of the committee be increased to ten, the Chair to appoint tie committee, he resolutions a5 given above were then carried unanimously. Mr. HAL resolution Resolved, That a special committee of five be appointed to secure, without delay, perinanent offices and bead quarters for the association, and to employ such clerical force as may be necessary, and to provide a bureau for the correction of municipal abuses. And that all citizens be invited to report any neglect or unlawtul action on the part or any city official or deparunent of the city government. Mr. J. D. WILLIAMSON was of an opinion that this resolution was avery iinportant one. When the Citizens’ Associat on was in existence there was a “complaint bureau,” aud it was of great service, inasmuch 4s it aroused the tax-payers to a wateh- fulness on the part of the contractors. He de- taiied several very amusing modes by which cou- tractors had swindled the city, some years ago, and which was to a certain extent going on at present. Mr. KINKRELL Said he hoped that the resolution would be enlarged, and that the attention pf the citizens would be cailed to the swindle now going on in the laying down of small earthera pipes for sewage matter, instead of the old-fashioned brick sew! MUNICIPAL ABUSES. moved the adoption of the following Mr. WILLIAMSON said he had no doubt, as an en- gincer, that the effect of that resulution would be to suave the city iilteen or sixteen imililions oi dol- lars a year. ‘The resolution was unanimousjy passed. THE UNEMPLOYED PARK LABORERS, Mr. Fo.ey suggested that some action should be taken in reference to the S00 men thrown out of employment by the Department of Parks, and that ac ittee oi twenty-one be formed to urge upon the President of the Varks and the other depart- ments to ask for immediate empleyment of th men now that the appropriation has been made by the Legislature, A motion was made that the Chair Wee tagane committee of twenty-one, Which, with the resulu- lion, was passed, THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS Mr. WILLIAMSON, In reply to an inquiry as to whether Commissioner Van Nort would recogni: this association, said that he knew a reformer who had been employed by the city, who could not get ployment at the partment of Public Works, and he that Mr. Boyle, City Surveyor, was obt, large employment, though during the regume Mr. Boyle obtained $290,000 tor the wid of Chureh street, and which only cost him $110,000, He had no hesitation in saying that Mr. Tweed and his “ring” in the Department of Public Works and other departments were just a8 poweriul in this city as they ever were, THE FINANCE COMMITTER. The following were appointed members of the Finance Committee :—Messrs. Kenry G. Stebbins, Emu Sauer, Henry Clews, Oscar Zoillikotfer, A. Gano Dunn, James W, Gerard, Jr. ; Robert B. Roose- veit, KR. W. Townsend, Henry Clausen, Jr.; John D. Williamson. Arrangements were also made for a large enroll- ment oi new members. The meeting, which was very enthusiastic and of a determined and practical character, adjourned en eleven o'clock, subject to the call of the chair. THE BROOKLYN REFORMERS, The Cry of Fraud—How the Citizens Are Robbed=The Committee and the Bridge Bill—Governor Dix To Be In- formed of the Action of the Body. The Brooklyn Academy reformers met last night in the directors’ room, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Ata quarter past cight o'clock only ten reformers had made their appearance. Mr. Frank- lin Woodruff took the chair and waited pationtly for the arrival of @ few more of the members. Twenty-live constitutes a quorum of the one hun- dred, but it is rarely they have that number pres. ent, That appears to be A MATTER O¥ NO CONSEQUENCE, however, for they proceed with the business just the same as if the entire body was present to sanc- tion their proceedings. They “resolve’’ in the hame of the “people,” constitute themselves com- mittees of investigation, bringin reports criticising the management of different departments, and hola discussions for hours, which, of course, amounts to nothing, from the fact that they are not on oficial organization, and represent no one but themsclygs. Alter the meeting was called to order 7 i Hs ne last night a committee of three was on phe, subject of pan legislation, sprained DER read a Teport on the synopsis the charter. ‘The report was also a Tevlew of the mal ment of the old Water Board, Board of Ex- cise, Coinptrolier's Department and’ other depart- ments, and it was charged that through these departments the people had been CHEATED OUT OF TROUSANDS of dollars. The report was favorable to the chate ter. As asual, a lengthy debate iollowed. Colonel Davis moved that it be laid on the table, Mr. ESCHEVEGI wanted it adopted at once. Mr. HUNTER thought 1+ would be better to have it on the table for a while to sce how it looked. Mr. FARRINGTON said the synopsis was all right, but the charter itseli was not the one the com mittee sent to Albany, This charter retained THE TRIPLE-HEADED COMMISSIONERS, and he did not think the committee should father it. It was good in some things and bad in others, + ‘The motion to lay the paper on She table was put and lost, when the debate became a little more heated. Several speeches were made about frauds, in regard to which there was a delightful indei- niteness. Several of the members essayed to speak at the same time, but without success. Finally, amid the clamor, the report was declared adopted. Mr. SOHRODER Was Not at all satisfied and wanted the matter reconsidered, and it was, which pro- cedure left them precisely where they were an hour previous, Then the matter was laid over for one Week and no one wanted it reconsidered. A little depate of half an hour ensued a8 to whether they should not go into executive aession, THE BRIDGE ENTERPRISE. ‘rhe bridge enterprise was then taken up. Mr. SULLIVAN, Of the Committee on Resolutions, asking the Governor to veto the Briage bill, reported in favor of the resofations. The report recommended that the Gevernor veto the bill, besides reviewin: the provisions, pronouncing them dangerous gai unjust to the interests of the cities of Now York and Brooklyn. The report, which covered eight long pages, was received, and tne President and Secre- tary directed to send a telegram to Governor Dix informing him of their action and requesting him not tosign the bill, ‘The committee then adjourned for one week, FOUND DROWNED, A Body Eighty-one Days in the Waters NoRWALK, Conn., June 16, 1873, ‘The body of Wilbur Davis, of this town, was ree covered by fishermen, off Stonington harbor, om Sunday, 15th inst., having been in the water since March 26, 187: Mr. Davis was twenty-two years ofage, and employed on the schoon Hattie P. Ely, Captain Stokes, of South Norwa During @ severe hail-storm, when the rigging and decks were glades of ice, he was swept overboard from the schooner by a wave, ¢ body will reach Ner+ walk for interment to-morrow. FIRE IN ARKANSAS. 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