The New York Herald Newspaper, August 23, 1873, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, NEW YORK HERALD ———_.—__— BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Velume XXXVIMM.......::00: sees eeee NOe 235 —- AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING, RE THEATRE, Union square, near pet oad For Pais Bintapar Matinee, "8 GARDEN, Broadw: between Prince and ausone ne. Tus Buack CROOK.” Matinee at 1g. RAND OPERA HOUSE, Eighth ay. and Twenty-third rE EO Dene Wetows tee METROPOLITAN THEATRE, 585 Broadway.—Vanierr ENTERTAINMENT, Matinee at 24. . WALLACK’'S THEATRE. Broadw: and Thirteenth stroct—Mint, Matinee at lig. i BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Tux Sxxeton Hanp— ‘Tax Money Bor. Pe ‘WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth st.— Povwuty Fiat. Afternoon and evening. Entertainment. Matin TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— Vanisty ENTERTAINMENT. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN.—Svumuen Nicurs’ CERT. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, No. 618 Broad- ‘way.—ScIENCE AND ART. DR. KAHN’S MUSEUM, No. 688 Broadway.—Scrnce anp Art. New York, Saturday, August 23, 1873, THEATRE COMIQUE, No. 514 Broadwav.—Varisrr ee at 23g. Con- THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. “THE FALL CAMPAIGN! MOVEMENTS OF OUR POLITICAL PARTIES! THE STATE OF NEW YORK"—LEADER—SIXTH PaGE. A STEAMER WRECKED IN THE RED SEA! ALL HER OFFICERS AND A PORTION OF THE CREW PERISH! THOSE WHO REACHED LAND CAPTURED BY THE SOMAULEES AND HELD PRISONERS—SEVENTH Pace. SIXTEEN WORKMEN BURIED IN A FALLEN WALL! EIGHT INSTANTLY CRUSHED TO DEATH! SOUL-DISTRESSING SCENES AND INCIDENTS AT BELLEVUE AND THE MORCUE—TENTH Paaz. MURDER IN A TENEMENT! A FATHER, CRAZED WITH RUM, KILLS ONE SON AND TRIES TO KILL ANOTHER! DIFFERING STORIES OF THE DIREFUL TRAGEDY BY THE MUR- DERER AND OTHERS OF THE FAMILY— Firti Pacs. VAULTING AMBITION IN THE WHITE HOUSE! AN INTERESTING RETROSPECT! F, P. BLAIR, SR., ON THE INSIDIOUS ADVANCE OF IMPERIALISM IN THE AMERICAN UNION! LINCOLN’S DESIRE FOR A THIRD TERM—TuIRD Pace. EXECRABLE TREATMENT OF A GIRL BY IN- HUMAN FIENDS IN THE QUAKER CITY! TIED, BEATEN AND LEFT IN A GARRET TO DIE OF STARVATION! THE VILLANY FULLY PROVED IN OPEN COURT—SgEvENTH PacE. CARLIST INSUBORDINATION REPORTED FROM MADRID! ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF DON ALFONSO! PROSECUTING REVOLU- TIONARY DEPUTIFS! GERMAN ACTION AGAINST THE PIRATE CAPTURER—Srv- ENTH PAGE. REVOLT OF VALENCIA AGAINST THE MADRID GOVERNMENT! THE ALMOST DESERTED CITY AWAITING CAPTURE! WHAT A HERALD CORRESPONDENT WIT- NESSED—FirtTu Page. TWO MISCREANTS LESS IN MARYLAND! EXE- CUTIONS OF LEVIN PALMER AND JAMES WEST! THE LATTER CONFESSES—Texta Pace. THE TREASURY GOLD DEFICIT! PROMINENT + OFFICIALS INTERVIEWED! THE SYNDI- CATE—THIRD PAGE. DOMINICAN REVOLUTIONARY OPERATIONS— VENEZUELA AGITATED—SEVENTH VaGE. GERMAN CLOSING OF A CATHULIC SEMI- NARY—FRANCE AND THE BOURBONISTS— SEVENTH Page. BUTLERISM IN THE BAY STATE! THE GUBER- NATORIAL STRUGGLE WAXING WARM! WASHBURN’S CHANCES! THE’ SUPPORT- ERS OF THE PROMINENT CANDIDATES— E1gHtH PaGB. ° A BONAPARTE ELECTED PRESIDENT OF THE CORSICAN COUNCIL GENERAL—IMPUR- TANT GENERAL NEWS—SkVENTH PaaeE. SAVE ROME D FRANCE! THE NATIONAL PIL- GRIMAGES OF THE FRENCH! THE MIRA- CLES DONE AT LOURDES CONFOUNDING THE WOULD-BE WISE MEN! LITTLE BER- NADETTE AT THE GROTTO—FourtH Pace. MENNONITE EMIGRATION TO AMERICA| THE “ QUAKERS OF RUSSIA REFUSE TO BE CONSCRIPTED—ELEVENTH PAGE. SECTARIAN SCHOOL APPROPRIATIONS CONSID- ERED IN THE EDUCATIONAL BOARD! THE | LAW! 4 COSTLY GAS BURNER—THE WEST | POINT VISITORS PRAISE THE ACADEMY | AND DENOUNCE “HAZING —Elcutu Pace. PINANCIAL OPERATIONS AT HOME AND ABROAD—THE DISMISSAL OF THE BROOK- LYN POLICE CHIEF—A MONEY MYSTERY— DROPPED DgAD—Nintu PaGE. THE Tae Grams Sprcutatons ts Catcaco occa- sionally overreach themselves. They are as keen at getting up a corner in grain or corn as our Wall street men are in stocks or money ; but in this they sometimes gct cornered. It Sppears that some large dealers have made con- tracts to deliver barley of a certain quality at a fixed price. These contracts were predicated | upon a favorable crop. Now, it seems, the crop is not so good as expected, and the dealers gre ‘short’ and unable to fulfil their obliga: tions. In this extremity they appeal to the Board of Trade to change the grading of bar- ley, 80 that No. 3 may be inspected as No. 2, in order to save themselves. This proceeding thas created considerable excitement on *Change, and is denounced as dishonest. Tax West Port Visrrrso Boarp report very favorably upon the condition ur national military school. Encomiums are scattered as profusely as prize books at a third rate private schoo] commencement, but we may hope with infinitely greater justice. The pleasure which the Board experienced from the «always impressive scene” of the graduation of the first class of forty-two young gentlemen was heightened, we learn, .by the presence of the President, who handed the young men The Fall Campsign—Movements of Our Political Parties—The State ot New York. The season is fast approaching when our various political parties and factions will take the field for the active work of our September, October and November State elections. The August elections-of North Carolina and Ken- tucky are over, and as they were without politi- cal significance in either case they may be dismissed without farther remarks. Nor will there be any very remarkable political revival or agitation in any of the elections still to be held, inasmuch as this is what the late lamented: Mr. Greeley would call ‘an off year” in our political affairs, when, there being no national offices at stake, except here and there a Congressional vacancy to be filled, and when, as we shall have a lucid interval of three years yet before we are again involved in the noise and confusion of a Presidentiat contest, national questions and issues will now hardly make more than some passing rip- ples upon the waters. Nevertheless, as the elements of political disintegration and recon- struction are constantly at work, and were never more actively fermenting in dull sea- son than at this time, wo anticipate some de- velopments in these approaching elections which will toa considerable extent foreshadow the organization of our political parties’ for 1876. The State Conventions appointed for Au- gust still to come off, and for September and October, are as follows: — of | National Temperance Convention, at Saratoga Springs, N. Y., August 26. Wisconsin Republican State Convention, at Madi- son, August 27. Minin . Repopliees, State Convention, at Jack- son, . Pennsylvania Democratic State Convention, at Wilkesbarre, August 27, Texas Democratic State Convention, at Austin, September 3. Massachusetts Democratic State Convention, at Worcester, September 3, Massachusetts Republican State Convention, at Worcester, September 10, Maryland Kepublican State Convention, at Fred- erick, September 12. Mississippi Democratic State Vonvention, at Mer- iden, September 17, New York Republican State Convention, at Utica, September 24. New York Colored Republican State Convention, at Utica, September 24. Minnesota Liberal Democratic State Convention, at St. Paul, September 24, New York Colored State Convention, without dis- tinction of party, at New York city, October 2, adjourned over irom recent meeting at Saratoga Springs. It will be remarked that in this schedule there are no liberal republican State conventions, and from therecent movement of the ‘‘third party’’ in Ohio, to abolish both the regular republi- can and democratic parties and to establish in lieu thereof a ‘‘people’s party,’’ on liberal ideas and democratic principles, and favor the return of the Ohio democracy to their old party altar, we infer that the democrats throughout’ the country will go back to their venerable church and leave the liberals to shift for themselves. We know what the ro- publicans will do in their approaching State conventions. They will endorse the admin- istration of Gencral Grant; they will glority the achievements of their party; they will cast atub to the whale of cheap transportation; they willreaffirm their Philadelphia platform, barring women’s rights; they will ignore Cresarism, mildly repudiate the ‘‘back- pay grab” and whistle the democracy and liberals down the wind. But while we beliove that the democratic party will generally follow the example of their brethren of Ohio and dismiss the liberals as an unknown quantity, we shall await with some degree of interest the proceedings upon the question of the coming democratic conventions. The first to speak upon the subject will be that of Pennsylvania, which meets on the 27th inst. at Wilkesbarre. From the promises and co-operation of the Curtins, the Forneys, the McClures and other leading liberals in behalf of Buckalew for Governor, and from the active exertions of Mr. Greeley, great ex- pectations of success in their Inst October election were entertained by the democrats ; but from the disheartening general October | result they simply threw up the sponge in No- vember. It is hardly probable, therefore, that the democrats of Pennsylvania will be | persuaded to repeat this profitless coalition ; nor is it likely that the liberals will venture to disclose the poverty of their battalions in a third party movement. Their manifest des- tiny appears to be the abandonment of their feeble organization as a balance of power and the merging of their forces into the two great parties of the country. We expect from the democrats of Pennsylvania such action as will leave the liberals no alternative, and we anticipate from the New York democracy an equally decisive dropping of the Cincinnati and Baltimore experimental fusion of protec- tion and free trade. The republicans of this State meet in coun- cil at Utica on the 24th of September. The selection of Utica as the place for this'‘Conven- tion involves a compliment to Senator Conk- ling at the expense of Senator Fenton, who, if a candidate for another Senatorial term, will evi- dently have no party to back him except the | small party of General John Cochrane. The | administration republicans have unquestion- ably resolved upon sending Fenton to the | political limbo of Trumbull, Cowan, Doolittle | and Dixon, while the New York democrats have too many choice pieces of timber of their | own for the Senate to listen for a moment to ' any overtures from or in behalf of Mr. Fen- | ton. Outside of any hopeful organization, and cast high and dry by the ‘tidal wave’’ of 1872, his political career is ended, we appre- hend, and a graceful abdication or retirement to the shades of private life at this time would at least save him from any further mortifying rebuffs and disappointments, Our State officers to be chosen in the elec- tion of November next are: — A Secretary of State, in place of G. Hilton Scrib- | ner, republican. A Comptroller, in place of Nelson K. Hopkins, re- publican. ATreasurer, {n place of Thomas Raines, liberal republican. An Attorney General, in place of Francis C. Barlow, republican. A State Engineer and Surveyor, in place of William B. Taylor, republican, A Canal Commissioner, in place of John D. Fay, democrat, and A State Prison Inspector, in place of Solomon Scheu, democrat, their diplomas, and of General Sherman and Secretary Fish, who made “brief and appro- priate addresses.” The enly shadow resting on the minds of the Board is that of the want of care in choosing youths for this honor ex- ercised by those whe nominate the candidates. A great proportion fail to pass the preliminary examination, and so lose their opportunity of ® magnificent and gratuitous education. The Board cannot recommend that the standard of examination should be lowered; hence the primary or preparatory schools of the country 07 rebuked for their ingSiciency, This list of State officers will give consider. able activity to the canvass, and, in proportion to the popular strength or weakness of the ticket, republican or democratic, the party will gain or lose in the election. It is under- stood that Mr. Scribner and General Barlow have had enough of the small honors, the poor pay and the cares of State in their re- spective offices; that Mr. Raines, as a bolter, will be thrown out by the republicans at Utica, but that Messrs. Hopkins and Taylor are willing to serve each another term. They with other men whose names and public repu- tation will be calculated to attract the public confidence and support. And it is a good thing for the interests of the State when the party in power begins to feel that its position is somewhat precarious, and can only be re- tained by evidences of good fuith and good works. The main fight, however, in our November election will not be upon the State ticket, but for the Legislature, upon which will fall the election of a United States Senator in place of Fenton, and some matters of reconstruction in reference to our city government and the public plunder involved. Between a Custom } House clique and an anti-Custom House clique in the republican camp, it is said, a deadly feud from the last Legislature still prevails, and that it will demoralize and weaken the party in many Assembly and Senatorial dis- tricts. It is reported’'that Mayor Havemeyer, in his administration of our city affairs, has become as obnoxious to the republican party as was President Johnson in undertaking without the advice of Congress to carry out his own programme of Southern reconstruction and restoration. Nor do our city democrats entertain any encouraging admiration for the extraordinary ideas and experiments of independence and city reform which have, so far, marked the course of our venerable Mayor. His administration, then, will be a stumbling-block to both parties in the im- pending canvass; but to the extent in which it is a dead loss to the republicans it will be a clear gain to the democrats. General apathy, which invariably most seriously affects the national! party in power for the year or two immediately succeeding a Presidential con- test, will operate in these coming elections im favor of the opposition. But from the pre-” vailing public impression that the State of New York will probably be carried this year by the democrats, we conjecture that-they will be united and will make a vigorous effort for success, while from the discords and cofiflict- ing cliques.among the republicans they will certainly have no easy task before them to save the Legislature. The Pilgrimage to Lourdes. +All the religious world is questioning itself as to the meaning of the awakened fervor in France, which finds demonstration in the remarkable series of pilgrimages’ taking place there. The wonderful French people seem to the outside world to be perpetually presenting it with problems of force that astonish and puzzle. It has struck many before now that it was difficult to finally de- cide the ethical, psychological or political con- dition of the French nation, so as to be able to construct the ‘‘average Frenchman” or the «qdeal Frenchman” with none of his attributes stricken out. An activity which springs fully armed from brains unsuspected of being in Jupiter-like throes comes forth; the land blazes with a novel excitement and great deeds aresperformed under the pressure. We are all agreed that the French are excitable and can become enthusiastic on apparently slight cause. We remark, however, that tho differing exciting clauses take hold of special classes, and that there is, despite the appear- ance of change, @ constancy or conservatism in the object for which each class struggles. United at any moment in the cause of France, they are the most factious people in the world. When the tide of French fortune is at its highest or its lowest we see all the warring elements at strife; but in the flowing or the ebbing thereof the spectacle is one of a mighty nation assiduously acting together and sweep- ing all opposition in its common direction. Here the philosophic student of history and of peoples can lose himsel! effectually in ingenious maze& and ever deceive himself with the idea, that he is on the right path. The surly philos- opher who declared the Frenchman to be ‘‘half monkey and half tiger’’ looked upon France as it fought all Europe, guillotined, drowned or massacred thousands of its own. children with feline ferocity, and danced the carmagnole in its sacred places, or mummed and mimed round the feet of an Emperor with the fantastic deviltry or the gravely ludicrous imitativeness of the ape family. With the lower empire and the Commune men thought the picture true that had been sketched ina phrase. To look back behind the Revolution we find that the Frenchman was recognized in England, at least by the popular mind, as a vain, friyol- ous, grimacing creature, with a leaning to cookery and a taste for 6 theatrical style of war. “There is nothing salique in France ex- cept the monarchy,"’ said Sterne, with a bit- terness that conveyed an effeminacy in its men which the monkey-and-tiger creation utterly ignores. The letters descriptive of the late pil- grimages to Lourdes and other shrines, a por- tion of which, referring to “Our Lady of Lourdes’’ herself, we print to-day, have been particularly interesting. The pilgrim masses and the full-toned belief which they utter form a phenomenon that should find no exhibition in the French mind, | if the critics of a year ago were to be believed. That all this piety of the strong masculine order, however puerile its outward form may appear to other religionists, should exist hidden but unquenched under all the wreck- ing of opinioms and changing of beliefs, is passing strange. Itis simply, however, the old way in which the wise deceive themselves. The elements were actively working all the time; but the wise were looking at something else that glittered more. The spectactor at a prestidigitateur’s show constantly finds himself 80 deceived. He might become master of the mystery if he did not follow all the fuss of the magician. The strength of this religious feeling has been no secretin Rome.at least. “Peter's pence” told the octupant of the apostle’s chair, as surely as possible, its value. When some bishop or archbishop went to the Vatican and laid solid proofs of the devotion of France to the Pope the fact was always published, but no one outside a certain cleric circle seémed to muse on the force of faith that lay behind the francs, sous and centimes. It did not take a very exhaus- tive inquiry to learn that the clergy did not | love Napoleon, and only served him because } they could not help it. The monarchy was | their darling. As the pressure of the Empire was removed and the misfortunes of France | paralyzed the energies of some political classes, the time found: the clergy ready and | able to serve their friends. So the Right was fortified in the Assembly, and under its pro- | tection the clergy arose to lead the faithful to @ renewed and loud expression of France’s AUGUST 23, 1873—TRIPLE SHEET. of the Sacred Heart” became the prayer, the battle hymn of the new crusaders. Weare not here discussing whether in the liberty to go on pilgrimages, to magnify the spirit of devotion and lead France to the altar, is the limit of their desires, or whether they will make these in turn a cause to produce a foundation for the monarchy in the hearts of the people. We can only say it would be very unlike France to let such an accumulation of force end in prayer only. ‘The story of Bernadette Sou- birons, who saw the visions in the grotto of Marsabielles, is beautifully told, and is as pic- turesque as the old, gray legends that charm us in the antique, while possessing its greatest value from its living fruits, The Cry of the Italian Childgen. An exposure which has long been threat- ening has at last taken place. We allude to the traffic carried on in this cityin young Italian children and the tyranny exercised over them by their kidnappers. The chief wonder is that these cruelties and other enormities did not sooner come to light; for, notwithstanding the reign of terror maintained by the ‘‘padrone,” it is natural to suppose that at least one or two of the more spirited and audacious in his keeping would venture to brave his threats, and, by seeking to escape the accomplishment of them, be the indirect means of making his villany public, The length of time which the Crosby street kid- napper has-been “allowed to ply his business without interference is an excellent satire upon the humanity of the age. Ata time and place where sympathy is given—and very rightly given—to the tortured turtle and the overworked beast of burden the public apathy to the suffer- ings of foreign children, enticed from their parents and slaves to the brutality of self- appointed masters, offers a strong and not very grateful contrast. The hour for redreas- ment, however, seems to be at hand. It would be pleasant to be able to believe that the public has never entertained suspicions that all was not well with these little Italian vagrants. We are all familiar with them in their dirt and picturesqueness. They have furnished subjects to more than one genre painter, and the writer for story papers has several times employed them with all the de- sired effect. But the public is not given to scrutinizing very deeply the private lives and secret sorrows of juvenile waifs. If it ever bestows thought upon them at all it is to hope that they are more comfortable than they look and quite as happy in their way as the children of rich parents. Still some man of excessive sensibility may from time to time have stopped, and, gazing into the dark cyes of some little Neapolitan, wondered how he lived and where he slept, and whether he was treated kindly, and what his surround- ings were in that dismal place he called home. Fortunately tho gentle illusion in- dulged in by those whose selfishness makes them take a pleasant view of other people’s misery is now dispelled, and, thanks to the hearing had before Commissioner Osborn in the United States District Court room, there is no excuse for any one not knowing that the kidnapping and slavery of Italian children are reduced in this city to a system. From the testimony given by one of the boys it appears that he was enticed from his home in Italy ; has been obliged to work and beg in this city in support of the kidnapper who brought him hithex, and has been habitually beaten and otherwise ill-used for failing to bring in ‘as much as his master de- manded of him. We pass éverall such in- cidentals as bad and insufficient food and clothing, vile associations and wretched sleep- ing accommodastiens. These, inhuman as they are, are overbalanced by the two great wrongs of kidnapping and cruelty. We hope that the benevolent gentlemen who have been instru- mental in exposing this’ outrageous traffic, having done one good work, will not suffer themselves to rest there, particularly since they declare that in Crosby street alone ‘there must be one hundred and fifty children in a predicament similar to that of the child from whom the above facts were gleaned, and that in the entire city there are not less than eight or ten thousand. Now is the time to punish the offenders and remedy the evil—a reflection to which we hope Commissioner Osborn will not fail to give due weight. Weshall not be accused of lavishing sentiment upon a trifling subject if we close these remarks by quoting, in reference to just such a case as this, from a writer who is as much celebrated for the depth of his human sympathies as for the heighth and breadth of his genius. He says :—‘I take some miserable child here in this city, equalid in dress and look, ignorant and wicked, too, as most men judge of vagrant vice, made so by circumstances over which that child had no control, I turn off with a shudder at the public wrong we have done and still are doing ; but in that child I see proof of another. world—yes, heaven glittering from behind those saddened eyes.’ The sooner men sympathize in a sentiment like this the sooner will a great public wrong be swept away: Ovr Morvan Frienv.—The quarrel between Mr. Winston, of the Mutual Life Insurance Company, and Mr, Sheppard Homans, its late actuary, has broken out afresh, and bids fair never to come toanend. The latest addi- tion to the controversy is‘ the letter of Pro- fessor Elizur Wright, published in our adver- tising columns yesterday. The Professor is severe on Mr. Winston, and supports Mr. Homans’ position fully. We understand Mr. Winston is about to reply to the Professor's letter. Very good. But to outsiders it seems passing strange that this controversy is not settled in the only way that will ever satisfy the public. Why don’t the trustees, who are men of respectability and high standing, com- mence a thorough and impartial investigation of the allegations made by Mr. Homans against Mr. Winston? They owe it to themselves as swell as to the publio that these matters should be cleared up, so that the guilty may be pun-.| ished and the ipnocent upheld. A whole ton of correspondence, with signatures, genuine or not genuine, will fail to meet the case. Tas Gattows rm Maryann vindicated the law yesterday by the strangulation of Levin Palmer and James West, the first for an out- rage, the second for wilful murder, Ac- counts of the executions,,which took place at Towsontown and Baltimore respectively, will | be found elsewhere. Both prayed after the usual happy murderer's fashion before suffer- will, dowbtlegs, be xenaminated ang apggciaud s faith in Gad, Te “save Kyongo in the name | ing the dread penalty. a | distinguished Masons . Killing « Son for a Button. The Walworth parricide shocked the com. munity, and now its reverse, in an humbler class, in the shape of the murder of ason by @ father, comes before us. The particulars will be found elsewhere. They will cause a thrill of horror; for the crime is unnatural, no matter what the provocation. Michael Brode- rick, the murderer, sobbing at the Tombs,, half-excusing his horrid sin and then bitterly ‘lamenting the frenzy which reddened his hands in the blood of his boys, is a picture which the rude walls that have framed so many episodes of heart-breaking remorse havo never, perhaps, enclosed with so many concomitants of nature outraged and ashamed. The stolid boy who shot down his father and believed himself a hero left to the world the pointing of the heinousness of his crime. The wretched creature Broderick by tarns blames the son that may escape death from his father’s stabs, and even mingles his protestations of love for the lad he murdered with a slight. Brutalized human nature in agony has some ‘elements of the man left in the very possibility of remorse. Shuddering, we must turn away from the picture in the cell, and wish that the gallows could wipe away even the memory of the creature and his deed. ‘All for a button!’ he groans, as he wrings his hands. Not so. Drunken, demoral- ized, stripped of all the good of his humanity, this man hid familiarized himself with the thought of murder. Hounded, perhaps, by a glib-tongued scold, he may have rushed on the eve of his crime to the human brute’s refuge—drink. Angered by the thought that others could enjoy themselves abroad, it is more likely that he vented the degraded envy of his nature by an orgie at the dram shop, Whatever his im- pulse, does it not force itself upon the mind that he went sullenly to his drunken sleep with a moody, vague hungering for revenge in him that the missing button furnished him with a pretext to assuage? We cannot very well at present, out of the con- flicting statements, exactly gauge the dis- ordered state of the family relations. ‘The mother, the two sons and two daughters had been to a picnic. The man and his mother- in-law were left at home. The goodness or badness of the sons we cannot estimate; but that the demon of hatred poisoned all the feelings of parental -love on the father’s side and filial affection in the sons, or at least one™ of them, is evident. The bloody knife, the corpse, the wounded young man in the hos- pital, the grief*and terror-stricken family, the father whining and groaning in a prison, tell the rest of the tale. Not toa missing button can the man lay his guilt, It lies on deeper and broader’ grounds of moral perdition which, we fear, are widespread in the midst of our boasted civilization. What: long reckless- ness of conduct and example could make a father so despised and feared in his house? What moral contagion could strengthen that disrespect in the son until it bubbled from his lips in foul speech at a moment’s warning? Lay the blame to a brutal nature, to a lack of moral surroundings, to vicious temptations, to drink, or wherever in tho ar- cana of human turpitude you may, but do not accept for a moment the wretch’s plea that it was all fora button! Let.those surrounded by similar promptings to crime remember the eve of the murder as well as the murder itself. Tae Mennonite Imunonation, which is not the first instance on record of a population leaving their homes, in obedience to the dic- tates of religious feeling, will be found fully elucidated on the eleventh page of the Hzratp. The story of these Germano-Russians in their ‘Crimean settlements, their thrift and the cov- enant under which they went to Russia in the last century, is very interesting. They were to be forever absolved from military service, according to the terms of the treaty. The new Russian military law exempts no one from setvice, and the Mennonites have asked and obtained leave to emigrate. They are coming to the United States, where men of peace and men of industry are at a premium, and we bid them welcome. ‘Te Faut or an Orv House ry West Exxy- xntH Street, while undergoing repair, re- sulted yesterday in the death of eight work- men and the severe wounding of as many more. We want to know in this case who is to blame? It rests with the builder and the Superintendent of Buildings to answer this question, and we demand that they do so, THE CAMPAIGN IN VIRGINIA IND, Va., August 22, 1873, The Gubernatorial campaign, on the part of the conservatives, opened here to-night by a grand mass meeting in the theatre. Governor Walker presided and made the opening speech.. He was followed by General Kemper, candidate* for Gov- ernor, Colonel R. E. Withers, Mr. R, M. T. Hunter and other prominent conservative leaders, All the speeches were received with great enthu- siasm by the immense audience which filled the building. IOWA POLITICS, . Drsvgor, lowa, August 22, 1873, Acall ts published in thé Telegraph this morning fer a State convention of democrats, liberal repub- Hicans, anti-monopolists and other political ele- ments opposed to the republican party, tube neld at Cedar Rapids during the State Fair week, on the 9th of September. > A COLORED CONVENTION IN OHIO, CINCINNATI, Ohio, August 22, 1873, A State Convention of colored men organized at Chillicothe to-day by selecting John Booker for President and eleven Vice Presidents. : Mr. Booker on taking the chair said he regarded the colored people as politically oppressed. He regarded it unfortunate for them that the party which made them voters might feel that it had a right to expect their co-operation. t. Booker in the course of his remarks used the words “the party to which we belong,” when he was interrupted by-Peter H. Clark, who suggested instead “the party to which we are attached.” About one hundred delegates irom diflerent parts Of the Stale were present. Peter H. Ulark made a speech, in which hé charged that colored men were ignored in the Norviwest in the bestowal of federal offices, and that tn municipal oftices in Ohio and tn labor on the public works they were aiso ianored, He said the demands of the colored men were expressed in the Philadelphia platform last year, but that platform had not been observed. He thought now Was the time to claim redre: A % A MASONIO MEETING. . MANCHESTER, N. H., August 22, 1873. The Lafayette Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, of Washington, D. C., were received by Mount Horeb Chapter, of this city, this afternoon, A collation was served at the Masonic Temple this evening. | Joseph Kidder, M. £, High Priest, delivered an ad- dress of welcome, aul Hon. Lewis A, Clark cied = a8 toast = master, among. the resent were J. F. Miller, M. W. Grand Master of Texas; David R. Munri W. Grand Master of New Brunswick; Day s. W. Jones, of Washington; Past High Priest, and N. Camner, M. W. Grand Master of New Hampshire, The visiting brethren start for Newburyport and | Boston w-morsow sh aixorciock 4. My THE BANK OF ENGLAND FORGERS . TELEGRAMS TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Lonvon, August 22, 1873. The plot said to have been concected is New York, for the escape of the Amers can forgers Bidwett and McDonough, was discovéred by the intercepting of a letter te the hands of a warden, who was passing it io che confederates. ' The wardens of Newgate were, it is satd, orived with £100 each. WEATHER REPORT. War DEPARTMENT, Grrice oF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OrFIoRR, WASHINGTON, D. C., August %3—t A. M, Probabiltties. For New Engiand and the Middle Atiantic coast, falling to sing barometer, light, varia ble winds and posasibly threatening weather; for the lake region and thence soutnward te Virginia and the Onio Valley increasing pressure, lower temperature, variable winds, increasing to brisk in the lake region, and partly cloudy and clear weather; for the Northwest generally clear weather, with light to fresh easterly and southerly ~ winds during Saturday, followed by increased cloudiness and threatening weather; for the South Atlantic States, light southwesterly to northwest _erly winds, continued high barometer and gene rally Clear weather; for the Gulf States and north ward to Tennessee, less pressure, higher tempera- ture, light southeasterly to southwesterly winds and areas of rain, The Weather in This City Yesterday. The following record will show the changes in the temperature for the past twenty-four hours in comparison with the corresponding day of last year, a8 indicated by the thermometer at Hudnut’s Pharmacy, HERALD Building :— . : 1872, 1873. AN ABSCONDING COLLECTOR. He Takes $3,000 and Leaves for Parts Unknown. Westport, Conn., August 22, 1873 For the third time in -her history Westport be- - comes the victim of misplaced confidence, one of her agents, in the person of George G. Goodrich, collector, duly ejected, having retired with the modest sum of $3,000. For some time he has been the agent of the *town. and, up to the present, had fulfilled the duties incumbent on him. The town’s grand list aggregates $2,500,000, and the tax, at the rate of ten mills, ylelds $25,000, This amount annually passes through his hands to the treasurer. At no time, however, is it possible for the collector to have in his hand more than eight or ten thousand dollars, and his bonds, as a consequence, are based upon this supposition. The people of the town had the greatest confidence in- Mr. Goodrichs one of its wealthtest citizens, Mr. Edward H. Nash, becoming his bondsman as collector. Mre Goodrich was proprietor ofa grocery store in the village, and had done something in the coal trade. In adaition he held the office of Town Constable, and plied a profitable business in the detective line, Taking things allin all his prospects and tn- come were better than most young men of his age. For some time he has been engaged in serving papers in the Alden divorce case, which has en- tatled a very complicated species of litigation. His rofits from this must have been quite a littie sum. Up to August 1 nothing wrong had been discovered in regard to his accounts, nor would there have., been now but for his cool walking off with the amount named above. Proof sufficient of the defalcation is produced, the fact of his removing bis trunks and chattels from the town, and his non-appearance among us forten oars being sufficient. In all probability, no tidings wi at present be heard of him, although strenuous efforts will be made to discover his whereabouts. The affair creates the greatest excitement, memory of the games of Mr. Salmon Sanford, Treasurer of the town in 1858 and 1859, being ae fresh in the minds of citizens. By that affair town lost $6,000, MRS. YOUNG NO. 17. Jadge Emerson Gives an Important De cision Against the District Court—Mrs, Eliza Webb Young Her Minis terial Adviser. Sat Lake Ctry, August 22, 1878. Judge Emerson to-day sustained the defendant? demurrer, in the case of Anne E, Young vs. Brig ham Young for divorce, against the jurisdiction of the District Court. The Judge held that the Pro bate Court and not the District Court had jurisdio tion in the case, This is in direct opposition to thé opinions of Judges McKean and Hawley, and vir tually of the Supreme Court of the Territory. The case again comes up before Judge McKean, at _the October term of the District Court. The Rev. 0. C. Straton, Methodist minister here, offers a vindication of himself in a long card ig the newspapers to-day in regard to the charge of influencing Anne liza Young to enter the divorce suit and join the Methodist Church. He makes grave charges against her law- yers and asserts that they attemptea to fleece their client. He admits acting as confidential adviser, and vindicates himself from the old eh fr of scandal in the ministry tn Oregon. He gives a history of hts connection with the e: to compromise the case, which is somewhat tm ortabe. He defies the world to sis that his min- isterial character is impaired. He isnot ashamed o} his action and will not be badgered out of a cor- rect or {nto a false position. It is understood the legal advisers of Mrs. Young will give their state- ment to-morrow. Great interest is displayed by the community in the discussion, which promises to be warm. CORONER'S VERDICT IN THE MARIETTA AND CINOINNATI RAILROAD DISASTER. CINCINNATI, Onlo, August 22, 1873, The tnquest on the bodies of the men Killed by the Marietta and Cincinnati Railroad accident was held at Montgomery, the scene of the accident, to. day. The verdict of the jury was that the deceased came to their death yr the criminal neglect of Con- ductor Puett and Engineer Smith, both of the freight train, in running out of time, and recom- mended prosecuting them for manslaughter. THE MAILMAN MURDER IN NOVA SOOTIA," Havirax, August 22, 1878. Farther particulars of the Mailman tragedy at Bridgewater have been received. The body of Mrs. Mailman was found in the forest, a mile from her own house, covered with moss, ander the root ofa tree. The murder was evidently premeditated, and the woods were set on fire in two places in op- posite directions, A post-mortem examination and Inquest were held to-day. The verdict returned was that Mary Ann Matlman died from biows of a heavy, biunt instrument on the head, fracturing her skull. The jury believes that the said instru- ment was the hands of Pee ra Peter man. Mailman was captured at Annapol mit two of the youngest children, on Monaay, whilé hinted to escape, amd taken back to Bridgewater. Duriny the inquest yesterday the Court was crowded, and there was the most Intense oxcite- ment among men, women and children. Had the prisoner appeared it would have required a strong, armed force to prevent his being lynched by the excited and infuriated people. : A BOILER EXPLOSION IN DETROIT. Derrort, Mich. August 22, 1873. A boiler in. J. W. Grisweid’s stesm saw ana shingle mili, in Spencer, Kent county, exploded last night, instantly killing James Dooley and two others and badly wounding five more, whose names have not yet been ascertained, F MOVEMENTS. OF NAVAL VESSELS, The United. Sgates frigate Constellation arrived at Newpert yesterday arternoon trom Halifax. The United States steamer Ida has arrived at Kingston, Canada, The officers are the guests of the garrison. * SAD DROWNING ACCIDENT. Two boys were sitting on the Broadway bridge, at Paterson, yesterday -afterhoon, Oshing, when one of them lost his balance and fell into the river, | The boy who fell in was named George Smith, about eight years of age, and whose parents live in. Broadway. The other boy Jumped tn to give tum Assistance; but young Smith did not make his appearance alter falling tn, and was rapidly carried down the river, the water in which is high and the current swift. Although the search was joined in by a number of persons, the littie boy's, WABOL, recovered Yostergay alterna,