The New York Herald Newspaper, July 12, 1873, Page 3

SPAIN'S. CIVIL “BWI WAR. An Able Letter, from a eta x Herald Correspondent °at Pamplona, “THE SHAMS OF THE GARLIST INSURRECTION Strong Efforts of Editorial Imagi- nation in’ Madrid. “JUHGO PUBLICO DE PELOTA!” The Impregnable. Fortress of Pampeluna.. Laying Bare the Inventions of the Evaporating Monarchists. A Talk with the Dons at Tablé a’Hote. SHALL CUBA BE INDEPENDENT ? The Herald Correspondent Expounds the Land- Hunger of the United States. A QUARREL OVER THE CAPITAL, “State Rights” Looming. Up Under. the Federal ‘ Republic. Incapacity of the Spanish Generals. SANTA “CRUZ AGAIN: A EUROPA, PAMPELUNA, Navarra, Spain, JUNG 10, 1878) Ea Reconquisia 1s @ Carlist organ, published daily to Madrid. Its columns tcem with Carlist risings and successes. There is 4 hopeftl ring in every detall of news favorable to the Carlist cause that t# found in them, and, on the other hand; when @ mischance compels the editors te speak of a Carilet defeat it happens, most extraordinarily, that readers who might prefer the victory to the repub- Mean government feel as if defeat were better than victory. Your correspondent, being & lover of {airplay and somewhat disposed to favor a weak cause when it is just, felt very great regret: and became very much depressed when he read in La eoon- quista, THE CARLIST. PAPER; that Pampeluna, the.capital of Navarra, was ‘be- Sleged, and that there was) every prospect of its surrender to the Oarlists\before many days. It was this news, together with @ score of other reports anti-republican, wherein republicanism was) said to be on the decline and Carlism on the increese, that depressed me, and I determined at once to go to the hard besieged city, that I might report its downfall and surrender, and weep in concert with the republicans in America and deplore the death of our sister republic, Two days ago I arrived at this city and hotel of the above title without having encountered a single Carlist, least of alla Carlist army. We were either challenged nor halted, and the train ran into the depot as thenugh it was an every day oc- currence—as, indeed, it turned out to be. A fcw military vedettes had been, however, cautiously posted on the more commanding positions in the aeighborhood of the great viaduct at Noain (nine miles from Pampeluna) , which conveys water to this elty, and this was all the sign of probable danger or of internecine war J saw en route. THE STATION OF PAMPELUNA presents precisely the sathe appearance as other railway stations in Spain, in France or in America. The same shouts are heard, but in different lan- guages, and different costumes meet the eye. The passengers are informed by stentorian-longed representatives of the various hotels what nice quarters and rich viands await them if they will only condescend to patronize theiremployers, All Sew Yorkers who have been to Chicago will recol- fect the scene but too well. After choosing the showiest coach and the most civil driver we set off &$ a gallop from the station. PAMPELUNA. My eyes, when not employed regarding the wild Uttle rip, with a red cap, who was specially hired to whip our horses, took hasty views of the firm and formidabdle-looking fortress, which grew momently more formidable, and loomed up dmpregnably vast. If your readers will fmagine Fortress Monroe placed on the summit ofa hill 200 feet or ao above the green-gray water of Hampton Roads, and imagine that the walls of the fortress are some thirty feet higher than they are, and that from within the wails rise irregular blocks of antique houses, with here and there an fntique church. tower, aha that they themselves are in @ coach drawn by three horses, galloping furiously up @ white road sloping from the sea up to the fortress situated as described above, they May know very well what Pampeluna is without going to the expense of coming here or under- going the trouble of having their baggage exam- {med haifa dozen times. Apropos of this, I have often thought that the HBRALD was established to give such accurate description of and information about every event and place, and that only those people who do not READ THE HERALD, ever think it wortti their while to come to Europe nd see things for themselves, and 1 am almost positive that the only reason why Americans do got come to Spain is because they are perfectly satisfied with the excellent descriptions they get from the HRALD of things, matters and places in Our coach drove slowly over the drawbridge. Yhe sentinels were on guard thickly close by. Another hand gallop slong a beautiful alameda within the fortress, and the coach halted before the door of Fonda, or Hotel Europa, Your corre- spondent had not seen the Carlist army. Yet La Recorepiista informed us all at Madrid that Pam- peluna was besieged! Ir you published any such nonsense in your columns please let it be known that it was Reuter who furnished the news, and aot a HERALD correspondent. HUNTING UP THE STEGER, After despatching alittle breakfast I sauntered out to hunt up news of besieging Carlists, insub- ordinate soldiers, traitorous officers, hostile cliques and rebellious factions, but 1 had not gone far be- fore I came to the alameda, and stood near a high dead wall, built up of well cut freestone, with & well fagged Pavement in front of it, On this dead wali were painted, in large characters, ‘Juego Pubtico de Pelota,” or “Public Playground for Balls.” There were animated parties of men and boys at ball-piay even there. Wor consider- ably that such things should be in a besieged town, 1 rambled on, and preeently came to a iarge house, over the door of which were the same words, ‘Juego Publico de Pelota,” and grown up men were passing in and ont. For an entrance fee of two cuartos, pr a cent, 1 was permitted to pass im, and in a larye courtyard, 200 feet by 60, or thereabouts, were bout twenty men, playing ball. Passing out agait | came to another party of men and seldiers who were engaged in heaving the bar, and soon after another party playing cricket. another party making merry over a lot of TY cntpnianen’ gipeita, to olldcaninad ure eek Yery lives depended on sustaining the exercise vigorously. j \ aittiber of rch senuse, together with the alt of ‘caréteis ¢ase and abandon which character fed every man and boy th Pemveluna, caused me $0 conclude that instead of entering a besieged city. I bad entered a veritable castle of indolence, and a critical examination of the walls of this for- tified city and the massive end frowning citadel lose to it, which contains at present 1,500 soldiers, has inspired me with the confidence to tell you that if the safety of the Republic of Spain de- pends upon the preservation of Pampeluna from the Carlists the Republic of Spain will live for- ever; for all the Carlists m the Peninsula massed in the neighborbood, with the ablest gen- erals that Spain. cag muster, could’ never capture Pampeluna. Though Pampeluna’s pepuiation of ‘22,000'were afl Oarlists, 2,000 Spanish soldiers in the citadel could defy the: city and 20,000 Carliste be- sides, if they pogseased no artillery. ,The.city of Pampejuna is commanded by the guns of the cita- él, and, at any Manifestation of treason by the in- hapitante, could be destroyed in's very short time. At present there are mounted on the walls of the oltadel over fifty great guns, 6,000 shot.are stored in the warehouse and. over one hundred tona of powder are in the magazine. So that if you hear ‘again of Pampeluna being besieged by Carlists you Mave my permission to treat the statement with the scorn it deserves, z Your correspondent came to this clty with the intent to do justice to such a theme of interest as ‘the siege of Pampeluna would be, as you and your readers would admit it would be, and if there was mo siege to accompany a fighting column that really meant business, and vary my letters (with details of a well fought battle. In a short time I expect to have that pleasure, being provided with numbers of letters of recommendation from the Minister of the Interior, In the interim, how- ever, I wish to interest you with a few facts, CUBA NOT TO BE SPARED. At the mesa redonda, or the table Whote, this evening there were four officers, one @ colonel of cavalry, another a Meutenant colonel of engineers, formerly aide-de-camp to Amadeus, and two others Of inferior grade, Iturned the conversation to Cuba, and begged to know what was the reason the Spanish people entertained such a strong ob- jection to sell Cuba, The lieutenant colonel of engineers fired up immediately and sala:— “Ca hombre? Bell Cuba, never! You might as well ask us to selh Catalonia or Andalusia.” “No, Sefior,? I replied, “the case is very differ ent,, Both Andalusia and Catalonia ere integral parts of the Peninsula, but Cuba is an island in the American seas’ far removed from Spain, where there is much sin spiged ‘which you find hard to quell.” “on!” grunted the officer, ‘perhaps the United States desire to possesa it.”” “By fair means, very probably,” I said. ‘They would buy it at @ proper price; but they would never take it by force, because the two countries are at peace with each other.”” “Well, we will neither sell it, nor will we let you take it by force. , I would rather see it in the hands of any other Power—England, France, Germany or Rossta,” said he. “Then so much the better forus,” I ventured to say. “Once you sell it toa foreign Power America ‘will not be bound by the ties of honor and justice to remain longer quiet, The Americans. would take it from the Power you sold it ta,” “Why? asked the officer. “Mf you will inform me why America desites the island at all I will answer you,” satd I. “Oh! I suppose you want, Cuba'to give. liberty to the slaves,’’ he replied. “No; Spaim willedo that hérselr stiortly. Try again.” “I cannot.. Tell me why.” “Because it 1s @ military neceasity. In tne handy of Spain itis not very dangerous, because Spain aud the United States are at peace with each other: but onco it fallsinto the hands of an aggressive Power its posseasion becomes a matter of vital ne- cessity to our country, and we would be justified in taking tt to protect the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, for the position of Cuba is such that it is the key ef the Guli of Mexico as much almost as Gibraltar ts the key of the Mediterranean or Aden and Perim are the keys of the Red Sea.” “Ah, that is new; but have no fear, we will keep Cuba. We will not part with it until everything is lost.” THE OTHER VIEW. “If it depended on me,” broke in the Colonel of cavalry, “I would sell it to-morrow for what it would bring, because it is a question of money with us to-dayin Spain, This country is exactly in the same condition a8 @ man who has too much ground and too little money to work it properly. It would be wisdom in the man to gell a few acres for ready cash to work the remainder of his estate. Spain can well afford to part with Cuba for a sum large enough to pay off some of her large debt and to put the country into workiag order. The revenue of Cuba is now about $20,000,000, If you were to give us $200,000.000, this sum of money would be equal at six per cent interest to $12,000,000, Oon- sidered in this light, the sale of Cuba would be but 8 fair exchange. Indeed, it would be better, because we shoald get $12,000,000 without any trouble—without being obliged to keep troops and support a government there. I wishit were sold with ali my heart, for the vast amount of good which would accrue to this country. But,” said the Colonel, slowly and deliberately, “it is impossible to bring it about. The government has no power to sell it; it would be the ruin of Catalonta, because she could find no market fer the sale of her clothe and prints, while now it is lucrative enough for that State, owing to the protective tariff by which other nations are almost prohibited from selling their dry goods to Cuva. Pero qué lastima ! (but what a pity !)” adios ye. And this present Cortes Con- ‘Will have sometiung to say about this same question, and the wordy passage at arms will Not, rest assured, be of the most peaceable kind. A QUESTION OF & CAPITAL, Anon the conversation drifted into another tepic, which threatened for a time to end with swords or pistols. It started by one of the younger officers stating that the Catalan Deputies were about to ask the Cortes that its sessions should be held at Barcelona instead of Madrid. Tims called forth from thé cavalry Colonel, who was a Sevillano, a good-natured remark that he hoped the Cortes would be held at Seville, as Seville in former times was the capital of Spain. Rut our friend, the engineer officer, proved him- self to be from Arfagon by the prompt way in which he said:— “Ca hombret Seville! What is there about 8e- ville that it should be made capital of Spain? se- ville has three things, and no more—women, oranges and horses. Take those away and Seville is the poorest city im Spain. Now, if you said that Saragossa should be the capital you would have spoken sense, What city of Spain can boast of the antiquity of Saragossa? Her plain produces everything. By all means Saragosss should be the capital.’? “Tut, man; thou art talking ” said the cavalry officer. “One of Seville’s suburbe—tor instanee, Carmona—would be more preferable than Saragossa for a capital. Saragossa can boast of nothing but peaches. By making Seville the capital yeu but restore the city to its former dignity. Her cathedral is the Anest in Spain; the Alcazar would be a fit residence for the President of the Republic, and by means of the river Guaaalquivir you may have communication with any part of the world, Think of the climate; think of the gardens of oranges, the vineyards, the rich soil, the already large population. Make Seville the capital, and Paris would be forgotten. Strangers would come from all parts of the World to enjoy her Jaxuries and breatne her airs.” “Bah, bah,’ replied the engineer officer. ‘Thou knowest nothing,.of history. Thou art a fool, else thou wouldst have remembered that Sara- @ousa is the fittest place Mr the capital of a repub- Me. From the very begianing. Saragossa has been & republican city, and Arragon @ free country. The King of Arragon was never anything but a king in name, What says the Arragonese proverb? ‘The King is greater than one, but all are greater than the King.’ Our sweros (privileges) were those Which repukieans claim now, and py establishing (IMIS ts | KEW. YORK HERATD, euYORDAY. JULY’ IZ, 1873.—WiTH SUPPLEMENT, our sicient privileges. Seville was always 8 mo- marchical city. Whatever you see there speaks of Pedro the Cruel and the Inquisitors. Make Seville the capital, republicanism would die a sudden Geath, and monarchy would be restored.” At this Juncture the cavalry officer, his face pur- ple with rage, rose from the table and hastily left the room, from which tne astonished guests sugur* fearful things to come. Surely is not this little episode a microscopic pie- ture of what may be expected to take place should the Cortes be insane enough to broach such a sub- Ject as the removal of the capital to another city ? Now for s few words * ABOUT THE wan. At this present time the Oarusts, to the number Of 4,000 men, sre at Estella, a town of about alx thousand inhabitants. They occupy also the vil- lage of Murietta and 8 number of other small places whieh surround it, Estella, as you must ‘know, jo famous for the act of treason committed there by Maroto—the Carlist Arnoid—in 1633, who one fine morning invited aix of his brother officers to breakfast, and after the meal dismissed them and had them shot. Estella ‘is situated at the base of the Amesguas mountains, in the middie of a fertile plain at the comfuence of two rivers—the Amesgua and the Ega. The cause of the Oarlist visit, has been the want of provisions in the mountains above the town. When they have obtained & sufficient sup- Ply they will return to thotr strongholde, provided, of. course, that the commander-in-chie!, Nouvilas, with his.3,500 men, will not meet them before they make their escape, If you will glance at the above sketch and per mit your eyes to rest on that configuration, shaped very much like a heart, wherein you find the words “Carlists,” and ‘Estella,” and if you will permit me to tell you that the lines which go to form that confguration— from Miranda to Vitoria and Pampeluna, from Pampelana south to Alfaro and Tudela, [and from Alfaro to Legrona northwest to Miranda, are rail- Ways, you will be struck, I dare say, as I have been, with the feasibility of crushing, at once and forever, the nest of Carlists contained within those lines, From Tadela to Miranda by railis but four and a halfhours. From Todela to Pampeluna is but three hours. From Pampeluna to Miranda, by way of Vittoria, threo, hours, . Or say. that the railway wonld make the entire circuit from Miranda to Tudela, thence to Pampeluna, Vittoria, back to Miranda, in ten hours, at therate of twenty-three miles an hour, or in just six hours by rail, at forty miles an hour. ‘And within this circuit there are atthe present time 4,000 Carlists under Dorre- garay, and 1,000 others under minor chiefs, and yet the government of Madrid, with a force of 30,000 soldiers, wh0 @T¢ Drave and loyal men, CANNOT CAPTURE THEM. Nouvilas, the Minister of War and Commander. in-Chief, with a body of 3,000 men, is continually following them, but he cannot overtake them; but, instead, is himself overtaken by disgrace and con- tempt from the impatient republicans of Madrid. Any American schoolboy with the above skeleton sketch of the country before him could plan @ short campaign by which every Carlist could be captured ina couple of weeks, Civil engineers have uncon- sciously constructed railways through which it ‘would be fatal madness in a Carlist general taking refuge within that circuit, Yet the war has been carried on with Spanish vigor for nearly fifteen months, and I see as yet no sign of ite termination, THE CONDE DE MIRASOLE was in Abyssinia as a military spectator of the plan of operations by which Sir Rebert Napier conducted his campaign against Tacodore, When he returned he wrote an admirable work upon the means and modes of warfare which conduced to the success of that English general. If the Span- iards but adopted the mode of signals which the Count saw and learned in Abyssinnia the Carlists coald not continue the straggie. If the scene of this present warfare in Spain was more extended I could readily comprehend why it were not 80 easy to be terminated; but limited as it is to such @ small area of country, bounded by ines of railways that may be traversed in six hours, with 30,000 soldiers at hand, I cannot com- prebend why the rebellion might not be throttled at once, It is needless to state that there are Carlists in Catalonia, and some in Arragon and Valencia. ‘There are troops in those provinces to attend to them. Itis in this region of the Amesgnas Moun- tains, environed by lines of railways which con- |, tains more than one-half of the Carlist army, that the decisive battle might be fought and 5,000 of the Carlists captured without much trouble. Such a blow to the followers of Don Carlos could have but one result—viz., the immediate submission of the reat. We had a piece of news yesterday from the camp of that amiable priest, Santa Cruz, to the effect that Lissaraga nad sworn to shoot Santa Croz at sight. This proves that all is not serene, as it ought to be, im the Carlist ranks. A PHILADELPHIA SAW MILL CONSUMED. PHILADELPHIA, July 11, 1873, Last night a fre broke outin the frst story of the northern section of Maguire’s saw mili, at the southwest corner of Ridge avenue and Master fame ‘The peared was totally destroyed, The te pgobaniy, $20) 30,000, The first floor was occu- ie by. tel ane 488 saw and pi mill. nad and stories a an ed by W. Natier, manufacvarer ware, of cabinets ai fatlel then logs on Soe gureus: is beeen ae ‘His stock was owned By pastel Maguire, the pony ome which wilt oe guire’s Joss on stock is $5,000, covered by an insurance of $10,000, PATAL RESULT OF A STABBING AFPRAY, Michael Kerwin, late of $31 East Thirty-second street, who was stabbed in the stomach with a knife in the hands of John McManus, early on the morning of the 17th alt., as heretofore published in the HERALD, died yeste: afternoon in Belle- vue Hospital, where he had been under Bnd ment since receiving his injuries. Coroner Young took Kerwin’s ante-mortem statement soon after the occurrence, from which it a] ane that there was age Lye rovocation given for the stab- one who was arrested at the time, is hag = 4 waiting the result of sioner co aeey Soa ae Today at the pe BEOBIPTS AND PAYMENTS. Comptroller Green reports the following amounts panne yf moa rand improve. ments and interest. S' ssstversscvewees GO276 "the Spsikisn Repuome you'have vat given us bace |, THE ORANGE .PABADE, Bight Orange Lodges to Parade in Re- gelia To-Day—The Pelice Escort and Arramgement—No Firearms for the OMeers. Judging from present indicationa the celebration of the capture of Londonderry is to be observed by the Orangemen to-day without the slightest moles- tation on the part of the A. O. H. or the St. P. M. A. 8. The tloody riot of 1871, which has left an everlasting blot on the city’s fair name, itis to be hoped will not recur to-day. The celebration last year was very quiet and peaceable, which en- courages the hope here expressed, and inspires confidence as to the satisfactory result of to-day’s display. Members of the Irish societies with whom the HERALD reporter has talked on the sub- Ject declare that there will be no demonstration on the part of the members of the societies, and that they have heard nothing from the men that would ina! even oF ation to peg the peace. They all seem $0 DATE accepted aoe nixed tack, ‘and do not care to disturoit OW. jotwithstanding peaceable attitude of the the ih societies, Superintendent Matsell has take en an non @Nd & squad of 1,000 men will be on. any mob dei tra’ monstration. ‘The ine of march ay be threugh Astor place to Broadway, up Broad ag oe Dineen through Sguhdowctery mare, passing the Wi pocairgrg) to Six! teenth babe a ak lr sites re lace, emersy Par! and Were ‘on ene Yo abies a fourth stfeet, through Thirty fourth street to Fifth avenue, down Fiuth avenue to.Fourteenth stree! Lo ihapoadly to Union squate, where the parade will “re was the orig! inal intention of the Or. men down the B jowery, ‘through Chathant street, e east entrance of the Park; thence through the Park aud up Broadway; but the Polige Com- missioners would not agree, and the Urangemen decided to follow the line b Poplisned above, which ‘was laid out for them by the police. Last St. Patrick’s Day the same exception was taken to the line of march to the Irish soci bat the societies would not acquiesce, and, finaly, the Superintendent of Police made.a com) pao with them, the provisions of which they hited to to comply with, As shew. insisted on marching down the Bowery and Chatham street the Commission- ers said they should take the Per eh ta 80 as not to impede the progress of cars and trucks, This they said they would do, (a they didn’t, and no effort was made to make the processionists keep the Da The Board will rely on ita own force to keep ie peace, and will make no call for the military aulees they discover they are unable to overconie @ mob. ‘All the off platoons of each precinct in the city, comprising a force of about one thousand officers and patrolmen, will rendezvous at the Ccentral Ofice this morning at ten o’clock, One half the force will be detailed as an escort and the other half will be held in reserve at headquarters. At ali the police stations adjacent to the line of march reserves will be ke Tho escort will be com- manded by Inspectors walling and ag ie be and Inspector Dilks will take charge of re- serves. Superintendent Matsell will probably be on the ‘ound with General Duryea. Ser- geant Westing, in charge of the mounted Roitco, will head the cotumn, which will composed of the following Gran, joa imease Prince of Orange Lodge, No. 1; Derry Walls od ey, No. 2; Chosen Few Li No, BS Gideon Lodge, 103 Joshua age, No. 11; Union Lodge, No. 183 Washington Purple Star Lodge, No. $0; Gne-Arm True Biues Lodge, No. Captain Irving, with the Central Omice detectives and specials, in citizens’ clothes, from tle several spesiany,s will act as skirmishers along the line aud arrest aby person who makes the slightest disturb- ance. The proposition to arm the police, which was proposed by General Duryea, was lost, and no per- suasion other than the locust will be used in case of a disturbance to-day, unless the military be called out, HEALTH MATTERS. At a meeting of the Board of Healtn, held yester- day afternoon, reports were received from the As- sistant Health Inspector that the pavements in New Chambers etreet, petween William and Reade; in East Twelfth street, between avenue C and the Dry Dock; at 245 East Twenty-fifth street, the strect in front of 442 and 444 First avenue, and outside 223 East Twenty-fifth street, were ina bad condition and dangerous to the public health. In most of these places pools of stagnant water had collected and ‘ttle smells and vapors arising from these rs lnations Were most injurious to the peuple In neighborhood. A communication was received from the Department of Docks saying the dredgin; of the dock at the foot of Thirty-filth street woul be executed at once. The Finance Committee were authorized by resolution to cause the print- ing of 4,000 copies of the cholera circular in Ger- man for distribution. Dr. Jones Teported that he visited the Rendering dock, and found the com- pany in full ‘operation in violation of the resolu- tion forbidding them to work after the 10th instant. ‘The building en the corner of Madison avenue and Fifty-third street was reported in a bad and dangerous condition. The following report was received from the counsel and adopted :— Hxauru Derantucns or ram Orrr or New Yorn, Orrick OF THR ATTORNEY AND Counsri, No, sol Mort Heuxrs,, Naw Youn, July 11, 1873. To Colonel Emmons OLarx, 10, Sin—Pursuant to the Tastruccion of the, Board Health, conveyed to me by you July ba honor to report upon the papers subinitted my. pono ‘That the existing contract with the N. Rei ing Company mye lowally. terminated. 14 Bow o1 lure of the after apy Gead animals as provided such contract. fume {hat the conttact referred to" is that se pr in the with returned, at ri reerpent, da LA. Long Isiand Tome Ls mer by G. A. Goedecker, Pre: dent, on wed other part, for the collection and removal ra offal, dead horses, &c., to and trom the city of New York. The com mapication af the said compan; Bourd, dated Jaly 1, 73, 10 freference thereto, gonstrued as an Sacuse mibrel the validity of eet t Board of ag. boy 2 facts before fk, will judge fe 7.8 telion on of the Board is necesstal ere! The privileg Fred to the party of the first part in the acas yh of the sal frecinent is not Oblga: tory upon the or the, Boag of Health. I am of opinion that the oftice and daty of providing for the re- moval of offal, dead ani 4c. have devolved upon bie Bo Health by the terme’o! the ‘act to reo) gan ygovernment of the etty: of New York.” ah Fil airs taf nd the sets amendatory thereof, The or the ctor of clearly defined this pte section 6 rise rt aid act, £0 be ander aay contract n je by the eg napa in providing for this servic oe Board of Heals th may exerchae its general powers mnder the acts by which its authority has been established and maintained J have also to report my opinion upon the ste taken to terminate the sforeaald contract, and ereby fd oor aThat upon proj roof of the non-compliance the New York Paes Gompatn with the terms of the said contacter ae the order of the Board notice be given a that the contract is terminat and = that Dower authority thereby conferred ‘tae Becond—That notice be also give 2, (ee re menor of the o city ‘Baverninent of ‘acti ni oper depart- i oct ae ne toot of Thir- tyeignia aire Stivers te obiained for whe ‘agents Ferg repentatig® eaita a a Met Pe REN TCR ae MURDEROUS AEFRAY IN BROOKLYS, Attempted Wite Murder and Felonious Assault on an Gflicer. Last night George Dongherty, a stalwart fellow, returned to his home, at 89 Steuben street, in no enviable frame of mind, from some cause, and pro- ceeded at once to quarrel with his wife, Margaret, Tne woman made some sharp answers, when Dougherty seized a club and beat her over the head with nt by A @ number of cuts and bruises. from he: her apartments and ran inte the street park “Marder!” at the top of her voice. oe | others Officer oa of the Fourth peat: wae attracted by the and hastened to her protection. Ashe did s0 was met by ‘herty with a formidable *uile and pistol. made an attempt stad the officer and a the aed and fingers or the officer badly. @ latter, fi ag por: himself cor- pee, used is club to the oat of 18 ability, and powerless. When the prisoner reached the station house it was found that he had some severe wounds on his head, and bis arm was broken. A Surgeon was call and dressed his wounds, aiter which he was locked up to answer. THE MORRISVILLE (PA). MYSTERY STILL UNBAVELLED, The Morrisville (Pa.) myatery still remains on- ravelled, The Coroner’s jury, strange to relate, have not yet taken any action in the matter, and the Coroner's indifference seems unaccountable. This functionary residea in Bristol, about fourteen miles from where he empanelied the jury, and i not been tothe latter but once since that time. The remains oa + Ghats RPA datas 8 ‘was com| ¢ the ing inquest, a factory result might on fue. The longer the circumstances are kept under cover the Mysterious the matter become: course, and the ResHien. la/asked, Ie Stanley ve or was he the vic DEATH OF TWO NOTED NEWARKERS. At his home in Newark late on Thursday night, from the effects of @ fall, died ex-Street Com missioner David McCardy, a well known Irish- American resident of Newark, who had rs considerable local fame by his inventions rubber bust and coating of percussion capa, Mr. McCurdy was born in Derry, Ireland, and was Alty-four years of age. este’ mares in Newark also died Dr. John F, Ward, one of the wideat known medical men of New Jersey. ‘The Doctor was born in Bloomfield, and was in his Ofty-eighth year. He was greauy beloved by the poor of Newark, LIGHT AT LAST. The Goodrich Murder Mys- tery Solved. CONFESSION OF KATE STODDARD. The Story of a Dis- carded Woman. ASSASSINATION RATHER THAN DESERTION The Causes that Led, to the Tragedy. The Murdcress in the Midst of the Police for Three Months—Finally Caught by a Wo- man—Recovery of the Murdered Man's Property—The Inquest To * Be ‘Continued To-Day.’ The axiom, “Murder will out,” was never more fully veritied than in the present instance, when the press iscailed npon to.chronicle the confession of tbe woman who took the life of Charles Good- rich, who was found lying cold in death, with three balls through his head, in the basement of his residence, No. 681 Degraw street, South Brooklyn, on the morning of March 21. Almost four months have elapsed since the crime, which was enveloped im mystery, Was perpetrated by unknown hands, and the case, which for a few weeks attracted such uaiyersal attention, was beginning to fade trem the public mind as other heinous crimes passed in panoramic succession upon the stage of events, when chance aids the “ends of justice,” and the murdertes, ‘Kate Stoddard,” is suddenly brought within the clutches of the law. The vell of secrecy with which the police auchorities have endeavored to shield thelr movements has at last been raised, and yesterday the President of the Board of Commissioners, General Jourdan, re- quested the members of the preas to take down his statement of the mysterious case, STATEMENT OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF POLTOR, The General gave the subjoined narrative of the police work in the matter and of the finding of the murdered man’s effects in Migs Stoddard’s trunk :— GENTLEMEN—Since the murder of Charles Good- Tich in March last, on Degraw street, near Fiith avenue, the police of Brooklyn have continued steady gud unremitting in their search for the per- petrator of the crime, With what result up until within the last few days the public know, with what skill the press has from time to time decided. Amid discouragements and disappointments, however, the work has gone persistentigy forward, uo effort being spared. Not only has Brooklyn been searched, but New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Baltumore, Washington and a countless number of other smaller places, which need not now be mentioned. In every direc- tion men and women have been sent out following clews that weve sometimes slight and at others promising. Many of the intimations acted upon promised little, but, feeling as we did the necessity of procuring even the slightest information touch- ing the cage, nothing promising anything at all was neglected. There were times, I am free to say, when the department seemed to be left completely tm the dark, and there were others when it appeared to be on the brink of important dis- coveries, That we employed secret agents is well known, as is the fact that ali police departments are under the necessity of doing that at times, The primary object of our search was thie woman, Kate Stoddard; but so little was known‘about her personally, and 80 totally ignorant were we of her habits and surroundings, that at the commence. ment there was next to nothing to work upon. There were people who hai seen her and others who imagined they had seen her; but the descrip- tions obtained were notof a kind always calculated to facilitate capture. Finally, however, we ob- tained definite information concerning her of a descriptive natare, but how vague even the best instruction of that nature is may be judged of by the fact that, although I had been given every fea- ture of her face and body a dozen times over, to- gether with the tone of her voice, her peculiarities of walk, &c., and, in addition to ali that, got a photo- graph, I could not identify her even in the station house. The photograph obtained was, to be sure, an exceedingly poor one, but we made the most of it, and had duplicates placed in the hands of all the officers engaged in the case, (Here the General exhibited the photograph, which represents Kate as a pleasant-looking blonde of thirty, with moder- ately full face, sparkling eyes, lightsome expres- sion and buoyant manner.) That photograph in- dicates @ woman .in good condition, while Kate Stoddard as arrested waa about as thin and emaciated as anybody you ever saw. In this connection let me say that I think the press hag been exceedingly unfair to the police in this matter. They have expected More of us than men could reasonably be ex- pected to perform, and, so far as Kate Stoddard was concerned, we only succeeded, after patient search, in finding one person who knew her posi- tively; bué for more than six weeks after the murder that person was laid up in bed sick. Until the termination of that period, therefore, her knowledge was of no service tous. That person ‘was Miss Mary Handley, and immediately upon her recovery we employed her on the search. To make ® long story short, however, Kate Stoddard—the name she is now generally known by—was met by Miss Handley in the street on Tuesday Jast, Miss Han¢ was going to New York and Kate jard was evidently coming from it, when the meeting by accident took place. As soon as she met her Miss Handley recognised her and followed her until she met a police officer, whom she inauced 0 make the arrest. I have been told that our agent cried, “Kate, Kate,” upon seeing her, but whether that is so or not I don’t know, Lonly know she followed her until she met @ police officer, whom she asked to make the arrest, 4, bas upon i who the fe Ee ag AL oy Bustedy. "Kote was tion ho and phed tor He at woman. Now, untea or the more ecpcapaly, work out this far as possible, Ke rn pin! it kept back. by a device adopted iyfihe pollen we obtained vhe desired infofma- Hon. We it in this way:—The entire cit was searched rm o 2 for a house bist a histo J on maeeing since Poy resulter in CS ry that in @ house in yin ign wee Dee tween Jay and Bridge streets; a tyrants been at fe bad the woman that house on to the station house, an bo her voice, “nent, seein ane ve » * itis hi ere is no allusion to the crime 7 ters found in her fact that , during since the commission of she bas not came of one cent’s worth of the booty taken from the dead man, but has on the 3 Te Wes deen ascertai pee parece of wearing opparel’ Pr 4 pale OF OF LOVE AND RTION. The follow yen mich beat recounts her wrongs, vi se ie angry pasai which satiated itself in the blood of her seducer, a worthy Of perusal, as it comes from her si Baooxzrs, Pebruary, 187% Goopmen I pr to tel troth, Will you listen? Fe qe Heras eee rie “the second teat ibe ble pk Of nev ee ings on aay riceck, .' pitt have lived there unl nown to any, one except C basi About one year ‘o 1_was inartied to him secretly, for I trusted, I loved a0 truly thathis word was law'to me, aurd ho wishe ar pe one Med our marriage unt some future time, on the reason cognected with it he dia mot ana panna: T was very foolish, for I was alone in New with no friends omly him. I have learned since then that tho clergyman who married us Yias.Ho minister at all. only a Irend of fis, Reuben Sipithy.a dootor, I think, who mo ves ta thet mat Ago, abi Before that andl ange thee ‘Charts tid the utinost ‘cruelty, disowning alt phan genta me Sev. galdiys agg a woinan with Fogle the hotises after @ stove T'was at the wine dow and noticed the sonvernattog mane reen them. ‘when Charley az canes into the bi Aba a gee tft Jove; he acknowledged that. Gh, it pellets he any be the same world to ‘meow, ail iso dark and sha acre te mn umecs ander gn I rie i, and ao wor! it. jouse Worn ieyt this ner Toni myo Bere to thy rig pene gaa me Nat 1 Jouel; home, and man Just as 1 wi unto oi wished tosee Mr. ¢ aj oh tone en cares and, asked that he ha * ai "Deon pmol mpiere wi owatch ‘pe, ball ag and i my tri tnd oer t been tae! 9 nto 8 air on. treat me in thi “tclowes the # ean into cx house and saw all my ‘ee mas like evel ray re. To-morrow Is what will ldo? I gue Bab ns fone: am seated on my trunk, ng wii ‘Gre eo still with the ue T bi 3. for that reason it may you to dec! cipher som x ANY hurried writing. pki dap ss Februar. “A ‘amy Snow” and ‘Kate nsoadend Were the Vorite aliases of the prisoner, it will be remembered, and the foregoing communication, which was written in the presence of a man named Green, a watchman ¢mployed by the deceased, in the basement of one of tie Goodrich row of houses, the cold, bleak night on which it dated, was duplicated and spotes were sent by “Kate” to the brother, Williain joodrich, and the father of the murdered man, The. letter Was read beiore the Coroner's jury in May last. During the investigation Dr. Keuben Smith, named in the letter, while on the witness stand testified that deceased had expressed & wish that he~the Doctor, should perform an opera- tion upon a certain woman, whom he, the witness, had once seen dnring a visit to the Degraw gtreet house. He declined to officiate in the delicate pro- fessional capacity, even to oblige Charles Good- rich, but he subsequently paccmcod that an op oreeah had been performed on Ler by a New York piel A and that she had again returned to her quarters in Degraw street, uch to the annoy- ance of “Charles,” who was exceedingly anxious to get rid of his companion, whom he regarded ag a@ very VIQLENT-TEMPERED AND DANGEROUS WOMAN, The “Doctor” recounted, as also did the witness “Green,” several instances in which she had dis- played a very violent temper, which was greatly excited because of the fixed determination of her pated to cast her off atser having deceived her, here is nothing on record, however, to show that she had ever threatened to take his life, THE PISTOL THAT DID THE DEED been @ source of conflicting opinion among the officials. This matter of mystification is now dispelled. She admitted that the revolver feund in. fer trunk with three barrels discharged was the one which she had used. This weapon was one. of two which deceased had in bis possession shortly before his death. The other pistol, also ‘a six-barrelled revolver, Was foun by he side, and iad tliree = chambers has lon | empty. The latter weapon was: identified on the inquest by William W. Goodrich as Ri one his brother was in the habit of carr; bout six weeks ago the father of deceased visited the Coroner’s ofice, inspected the Fevplyes and 4 | marked that the weapon “Chari white ivory handle, while the one ta the Coroner's posession ty tat @ black handie, UEST WiLL BE RESCMED. 7 before. "Goroner Whitehill and tle rjary, Me which Alderman Willtam Richardson is examinution, which will be held in the oon ot the Court of Sessions, County Court House, will com- mence at half-past twelve o'oook. The Coro- ner states that the prisoner denies having had any knowledge of the Spaniard Ros coe im the case. She says that she wonders that Roscoe has not come forward before this and given himself over Mt custody of the police. The only cause she assign for his remaining in the dark is the tact that his name was coupied with some charge of counterleiting, made by Lucette Meyers, The prisoner is kept under the watohful eye ofa constant jemale attend- ant inthe private office of Captain McConnell, of the Second precinct station house, corner of York and Jay streets, from whence she willbe taken to- -day before the Goroner’s jury. THE PROPERTY RECOVERED Leper of $40 in a pocketbook and a double cased vindig. watch, anchor movement, stem pendant win nineteen lines, nickel works [rosted, No. ire Faies Jurgensen, maker, Copenh: ‘ne finger ring was oi gold, slightly ceased, and fo which a bloodstone was set. The chain at tached to the watch was a plain ome, the links be- ing large and heavy, and at the end of it wasa seal with @ red. stone. The seai, which was de- tached, was an old fashioned one, the gold attach. ment being of serpentine paitern, amd holding ap agate by pivots. The te waa polished on one side an nad the letter Gin old English cut out in it. HOW THE CRIME WAS COMMITTED. According to the statement pee @ police oficial the prisoner was to have left the house on Thurs- day morning; bat when besought him not to cast her off. hearken to her appeal and grew very angry. De- pent the stairs to the front Imsement %Ge the house he proceeded to light a fire in the Baltimore heater. While stooping in thie act she exclaimed “Onarley ?” and he looked up. Then she fired the three fatal shots into abo head. She next washed the blood from the face of her victim, and re- mained by the body until the ae porning, when she fled the ecene of the awful tr: LIFE AS A LODGER IN HIGH STREET, The house of Mrs. Ann Taylor, 127 High greek, where the prisoner lived from the spore Ate April last up to the day of her pares, ages story brick structare, between J: and Bi hige streets, Mrs, Taylor is a widow. Her'< daughter, who resides with her, stated yesterday toa reporter that Kate Stoddart (or Minnie prisoner gregh herself) 4 Dished room in the house about in April, She said she was e din New York during be day, as desired ve a iurnighed room, had never been in the habit of feng ‘ay. iy: her rooms, but as the applicant in this appeared to be a lady she deviated {rom secs and consented to let hy occupy room, without board. Miss Waltham sed to bring her meals to her room and eat there, She was 61 d at work on light straw (making hate) in New York, and for the first month or so Went to work every morning and returned every evening reguiarly. For about @ month ding her arrest, however, she was in the habit of working at home, and then when ene had finished ber work she would take it over to New York. One thing noticeable about the lodger was the faet that she never had any visitors there, and, in fact, ahe was never seen or known to associate with anybody, eae Race 8 spoke about = a oe Fapor he, ba nerf father lived ae -— ane” and her mother wae Y iniated father on the 4th of ae pond ne ala net leave the house that day. did not appear to those at the house A Mt cheerful disposition, and the wig low ae th the opinion to her euguter a LK. ought Minnie “had some trouble on latter, however, never nied ore or oven intimated that she was ford mir, a Dever was actually in , Was frequently caponasat wah mwas ot Qttendant at ow AL. and e¢: as it for listening to Mr. ‘She was sue eet very fond ef ba and of listening to other read, and with this tance at the time. ‘habite.” “1 should Judge,” paid Mies ‘Taylor, ‘she is from five t Ewenty: Sronty sig are of arsine her and was Lag 5 very ts alaye Ay and ity et, an, 68 Roscoe’s Capture. Roscoe's captare last night was considered cer tain by the police, as there was @ Jarge force 10 searen of him. The Police Commissioners are un- aer the impr mn that Kate Stoddar ibe aya | the responsibility In order to shield another, that person is, jn believe, Roscoe. They were in possession of in! formation. cS aterday which they believed would place him in their custody, and hia capture was hourly expected.