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THE RED SEA. ‘Wreck of a Steamship Bound to England from Asia. Loss of Many Lives—The Survivors Held Cap- tive by Mohammedans. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD, Lonpon, August 22, 1873. Despstches from Alexandria give particulars of vthe logs of a freighting steamer, bound from Singa- pore and Shanghae to London. ‘The vessel was wrecked in the Red Sea, near the eastern entrance. ‘The Captain, officers and some of the crew were lost. ‘Thirty-six of the men succeeded in gaining the fand, but feliinto the hands of the Somaulees, a ‘Mohammedan tribe, on the shore of the Gulf of aden, by whom they are held prisoners. “(THE BONAPARTES. ‘®rince Napoleon Elected to a Legislative Presi- : dency. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Paris, August 22, 1873, Prince Napoleon Bonaparte has been elected ‘President of the Council General of Corsica by a majority of thirty votes. Sui In accepting the position he delivered an ad- ress to the Council recommending that its pro- ‘teedings be confined to matters of departmental Materest, SPAIN. abinet Report of Carlist Military Demoraliza- tion—Don Alfonso’s Life Assailed by an Assassin—Legislative Action Against Parliamentist Reactionists, TELCERANS TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. MApRID, August 22, 1873, THE CARLISTS’ CONDITION IN THE FIELD. Advices irom the North, which the government deems trustworthy, report that the Carlist troéps ‘are discouraged and insubordinate, DON ALFONSO’S LIFE IN DANGER. Intelligence has reached this city that on the 16th Anst. an unsuccessiul attempt was made upon the ‘Uife of Don Alfonso, the brother of Don Carios. The ‘Would-be assassin, whose motive is not stated, w: taken and executed, ¥ UBGISLATIVE ACTION AGAINST PARLIAMENTIST SE- CESSION, The Cortes have authorized the prosecution, by ‘the tribunais of justice, of nine Deputies who tave beer arrested for participating in the Communist and cantonal! insarrections. . Prussian Naval Proceedings in the Cartagena Capture Case. LONDON, August 22, 1873, ‘The London Hour states that the German govern- ment contemplates proceeding against Captain Werner, who took two Spanish war vessels from he Cartagena insurgents. The question Of trying Captain Werner by court ‘Martial is understood to be now held in considera- ‘tion by the German Cabinet. ®ilbao Retaken by the Republican Forces. < MapRID, August 22, 1873. The republican army under the command of General Sanchez Bregua, numbering 12,000 men, thas entered Bilbao. The Carlist forces occupying the city withdrew ‘withoat offering battle. ENGLAND. Bumor of an Effort for » Covert Release of the Bank of England Fergers—Bullion and the Rate of Discount, TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Lonvon, August 22, 1873, Arumor is carrent in the city this morning that ‘an attempt to release the Bank of Engiand torgers, Austin Biawell and his confederates, from New- gate, by corrupting one of the prison officials, has been discovered, and that the keeper who had Deen éampered with is now under arrest. If true, the details of the affair are carefally sup- pressed by the authorities. - BULLION MOVEMENT AND MONEY QN 'CHANGE. The amount of bullion withdrawn from the Bank of England on balance to-day was £46,000, The rate for money at the Stock Exchange on government securities is lower than the Bank of Engiand rate oy one-half per cent. TIMELY WARNING TO TURFMEN AND BETTERS, The London Times this morning calls attention to ‘@0 advertisement im a New York paper of a firm ‘which offers “systematic vurf investments, in con- ‘ection with the English turi,” and warns the | public against these “so-called betting agents.” THE IRON MASTERS’ “LOCKOUT” POSTPONED. ‘The threatened lockout by the tron masters of ‘Manchester of a portion of their operatives has ‘been postponed for the present, a proposition hav- ing been made to submit the difference between employers and workmen to a committee of arbitration. . FRANCE. Pazliamentary Party Fusion Against the Mon- archists. TELEGRAM 10 THE KEW YORK HERALD, Paris, August 22, 1873. At meeting of the members of the Left to-day it was decided to seek the support of the Left Centre te prevent the success of the plans of the fasionists and legitimists for the re-establishment Of the Boarbon monarchy. GERMANY. Prussian Ministerial Action Against a Roman Catholic Seminary. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. BgeRuin, August 22, 1873, ‘Dr. Falk, Minister of Public Instruction and ‘Beclesiastical Affairs, has ordered the Roman «@athalic Seminary at Posen to be closed. ‘ ST. DOMINGO. ‘@itizen Discontent and Division in the Army— Public Plander and Murder. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Havana, August 22, 1873. “By advices from St. Domingo comes news—con- firmatory of advices previously reported direct to the HeRaLp—that the Dominican government troops met with heavy losses in recent encounters ‘with the revolutionary forces on the frontier. A general discontent seems to prevail among ‘the people, and dissensions have arisen between Generals Casseres and Garcia, the chief com- manders of the Dominican army, owing to the par. tality shown by President Bacz towards the former, to whom he sent $10,000 for the payment Of his troops, which Casseres pocketed. . MURDERS are of dafly ocpurrence and political arrests are frequent. ‘ MONEY (A Smogemnely pcarce And DUsINCOR ata MAB AATLL, ~ . yee A DEADLY CRASH, The Gable Wall of an Ancient House it Course of Repair. Falls and Buries Six- teen Workmen. A FEARFUL FATE. Death without Warning to Eight Pitiable Victims. CRUSHED AND SMOTHERED IN THE RUINS. Terrible Scenés at Bellevue Hospital and the Morgue. Mashed Bones, Dreadful Wounds and Corpses Sickening to Behold. WHO IS TO BLAME? An accident, as it is called, occurred yesterday forenoon, at No. 321 West Eleventh street, which resulted in the death of several persons and the injuring of several others, The building in which the death and suffering occurred had been a private residence, and was being fitted up for the purposes: of a tenement house, and to that end an extension was being put up, on which several workmen were engaged. The interior of the house had been completely gutted, nothing remaining but the beams, At about eleven o’clock the first alarm of the accident was given, and of course the news was at once conveyed to the precinct station house in the neighvorhood, and officers were despatched to the place. Tne police describe the scene on entering as frightful. The unfortunates were mostly laboring men, who had been at work in the cellar or carrying mortar from the cellar to the mechanics in the upper part of the building. As seen by the police the dead and wounded were in positions indicating that their fate had seized them at a moment not expected, and showing that their end of life, or their terrible bruises, as the case might be, had come upon them in A MOST SHOCKINGLY VIOLENT MANNER. One poor fellow had a beam piercing through his stomach, another had his head literally flat- tened, a third man was bruised almost beyond identification. A catastrophe like this, occurring in the short space of time.it took for the walls of a building to fall, can scarcely be described other- wise than to state the consequences as they were gradually developed, The following are the names of the killed and wounded :— NAMES OF THE KILLED. John Foster, aged seventeen, residence No. 453 ‘West ‘hirteenth street. Deceased was taken home, Jeremfanh Driscoll, aged thirty-tive, residence No. 125 Greenwich avenue. Taken home. Martin Fahays, aged twenty-five, residence No. 4 Horatio street. Taken home. Jacob Ryder, aged iorty, residence Sixty-fourth street and Eleventh avenue. Taken to the Morgue. Michael McTweed, thirty-eight years of age, resi- dence 577 Greenwich street. Send to the Morgue. ‘Two others not identitied, send to the Morgue. . INJURED AND SENT TO BELLEVUE. John Riley, age forty-three, residence No. 150 avenue 0. James Burns, aged fifty-two, residence No. 456 West Eighteenth street. John Fingar, aged twenty-nine, residence No. 266 West Twenty-filth street. French Reth, aged forty, residence No. 242 West Forty-filth street. Martin Gerathy, aged twenty-five, residence No. 687 Washington s' Cornelius Cronin, aged thirty-four, residence No, 187 Mulberry street. Frank Reilly, aged thirty-five, residence No, 248 West Tentn street. INJURED AND TAKEN HOME. Richard Ramsey, aged twenty-seven, residence No. 450 West Thirty-second street. Thomas Eire io) atwenty-four, residence Filty-tourth street Second avenue. ‘Timothy Driscoll, aged twenty-seven, residence No, 125 Greenwich avenue, ‘THE ASSISTANCE RENDERED. The dead and wounded were extricated from the débris by Hook and Ladder Company No. 5, com- manded by Captain Vanordan, with the ald of the ice. a li Cucken, who happened to be in char; of the station house desk, sent all the reserves the scene. A section of police was sent by the Sixteenth precinct station house. Sergeants Smith, Bird and Wilson were soon also at the place of disaster removing the dead and the wounded. THE BOSSES, The owner of the building is Mr. Holfyderba, who resides at 25 Greenwich street. ‘The ‘boss’ mason is E. Crawford, who resides at 48 Bank street. The boss carpenter ts Jesse Newman, who re- sides at 163 Christopher street. THE SCRNE AFTER THE ACCIDENT. Shortly after the sad occurrence Warden Bren- nan arcived at the fallen house and rendered vai- uable assistance in securing the transfer of the sufferers either to their homes or to Bellevue. As «the news spread fn the vicinity crowds of men and women—tnhe latter especially—flocked to the piace, and were loud in expressions of sympathy for the unknown upfortunates, and were eager to ascertain whether any friends or relatives were among the nugnber of the killed or wounded. When the dead were being removed the crowd became hushed in its noisy uproar; but a few moments sufficed to set the tongues of all sightseers agoing, and in a very short while no one wouid have ever thought that there had been in that particiiar block such a scene of death and suffering as had occurred, NIGHT SCENES aT THE MORGUE. Between the hours of eight P. M. and midnight & HERALD reporter was specially detailed to “watch the Morgue” and report upon the scene at that place, and also keep a wide-open eye to the ere and moribund patients in the adjacent hos] apse tron gate of the weird Morgue, over whose threshold so many anxious and miserable persons have passed, Warden Brennan stationed bimself— seeed inet ‘on dese Saat of sorrow and custodian of ate Wee f A Puls sion to view the terrible anxiety depicted on the faces of those who came to view the bodies, with a knowledge that thelr husbands, sons or brothers were “in the trade,” sud who were in ignorance of the exact place at which they were pur- suing their professional avocations. Well-dreased women, Clad in silks amd lace, as they passed up from the*Twenty-sixth street ferry, paused for a moment or two to gaze or the pale aud mangied corpses stretched upon tie marble slabs, over whom the falling water murmured as it fell upop the saphalte floor a sad and monotonous requiem. Poor ignorami, lured thither by sympathetic feelings, satisfied their mor- bid curiosity by viewing the Visages of tae LUCKLESS BREAD-WINNERS who had fallen victims to this feartul accident, and whose mangled forms yet remained unidentified. Children, toa, unsteeped in the maystert of any severer trouble than the loss of toy or the ailment caused by a tumble down stairs came upon the scene; but these latter were Isa | chased away oy the Warden and his satellite. ‘arden Brennan gave to all friends of sufferers who had been’ conveyed to the hospital and who called at the Charles street station house free permits to visit, and, if they cbose, remain with their injured rela- tives all night, and did alf in his power—which was great—to ameliorate the sufferings of the afflicted end assuage tue grief of the bereaved. Calm, cool, collected and prepared in every emergency, Mr. Brennan stands as a peer among his fellows. Jacob Reuter, aged forty years, a native of Ger- many and a married man, resident in Sixty-sixth street, between Tenth and Eleventh avenues, was recognized by his wile about eight o'clock. The poser woman was stoical and resigned, though des- titute. Jeremiah Cronin died within five minutes after bis ryan oe Stet net bo! leg ir broken, he wi e the other fellow: er! rad ae CRUSHBD TO DEATH.” wand Later on there came into the chili charnel house anumber of men and women of respectable appear- ance, who, on viewing the dead, fancied they re- cogpized in one the body of a certain Francis Don- nelly. His wife was sent for, and it was found the messenger that the mourned-for man was wel home. the poor little apprentice, John Foster, who was killed, lived at No. 443 West Thirteenth street. He was only fifteen years oi age. Only three of the -8lain remained unidentified when the reporter left the sad scene, waich was ata late hour, for the kindly Brennan refused to close the Morgue fates while any chance remained of triends being relieved from. suspense Or any unclaimed corpse being identified, AT THE HOSTAL, The following is the Hospital Surj the state of the sufferers at midnight :— Francis Keit, aged forty-two, marr Reem Germany i No, 06a Weak, n'a report of Street. General contusions, of no serious charac- ter; domiciled in ward No. 10, Jonn Kelly, aged forty-three, married, Ireland, pamerer: residence, No. 150 avenue U. Suffering ‘om & compound fracture of the leg. Not very serious. The patient is in ward No. 12. John Finger, aged twenty-nine, married and & native of Geri , @ laborer, residing at No, 356 Fifty-second street, Suffering from a number of sug t contusions. licmael Garrity, a married man and native of Ireland, ‘twenty-five, resid: at No. 157 Washington street, is located in ward 16, This un- fortunate man is suffering from a very severe con- tusion and laceration of the jaw, and it is very doubtftil whether he will survive the reception of his injuries many hours. The scalp wounds of James Burns, aged 50, mar- ried and residing at 456 West Eighteenth street, are pronounced rather severe, The patient lies in od thirty-five, native of ly resident at No, 248 West Tenth et, alaborer by calling, is badly injured in the abdomen, though he wasable to walk to bis bed in the ward he was assigned to, The scenes in the various wards to which the sufferers were detailed were affecting in the ex- treme. By the bedside of nearly every injured man there sat one or more gad, red-eyed woman, patient in her bitter artiiction, Kind and true unto death, as even those of tne gentler sex, whose stern natures and vitiating assoctations have done much to harden, always are. Never was more fully exemplitied the immaculate wruth of the poet's words— When pain or anguish wrings the brow, 4 ministering angel thou— than in the cleanly bat dolefui wards of the Belle- vue Hospital last night, THE SCENE AT THE LATEST HOUR. As the night wore on and the night keeper of the Morgue lighted his pipe and blinked his weary eyes {ew persons came to visit the remains of the still cold victims of the morning’s disaster. A slight shower of rain from a passing cloud drove away the curious and morbid minded, and, knowing init well that it was not likely the friends of the unrecognized would approach “the avenue of death” at that late hour, the Warden shut the gates and wearily ploded his homeward way to brighter and happier scenes. This terrible catastrophe ought to be a caution to careless builders, and a bitter warning to those who think to save money at the risk of honest men’s lives, as this is both unnatural and very false economy. THE PRESIDENT. Safe Return of the Chief Magistrate te Long Branch—Joyous Seasiders Sére- de the Kxecutive at the “White Cottage.” Lona BRANCH, August 22, 1873, The President arrived here at a quarter before twelve o'clock to-day. Those who interest them- selves in his private movements may like to know that at that hour a close coach, with a fine, power- ful pair of carriage horses and two stalwart colored servants, awaited him at the Railroad depot, while another sturdy fourteenth amendment sat in a handsome donble-seated basket phaeton, drawn bya splendid pair of black cobs, awaiting the Princess Nelly. But the inevitable cloud gatuered and the rain fell just as the train arrived, and so Miss Nelly, hike the wives ofthe Three Fishers, looked at the rock and looked at the shower, and while casting an affectionate look of disappointment at the cobs concluded to ride in the carriage. The President, Miss Nelly and the inveterate destroyer of boot toes, young Jesse, got quickly into the carriage, and in a very democratic fashion took in with them Miss Nelly’s maid, with ner inevitable bundles, Another son and @ gentloman, who was the only outsider of the party, jumped into the basket phaeton and drove oi through the rain, apparently enjoying the fun, Tne party went home. Whetner they took u bite and a sup as soon as they had ar- rived and passed amliy greetings Jenkins has not reported, but am hour afterwards the President Was enjoying tis cigar in the favorite northeast corner of its balcony. General, Babcock returngd by the six o'clock ae J The rumors of an intended grand celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of Presideot Grant’s wedding I find after all are unfounded. Some time ago, however, several friends of the familly proposed @ large reuhion on the happy day, but Mrs. Grant at that time positively reused her assent, prefer- ring to enjoy the anniversary in the privacy of her own family circle. The subsequent death of the President's father would, under any circumstances, have prevented such a celebration as that reported to be in con- templation. As tothe attendance of Cabinet Min- isteTs, not one is here at the present time, and the few presents made to Mrs. Grantas a remembrance of the day are so strictly of a personal and family ceeaowee that it would be an impertinence to refer em. LONG BRANCH. Present Prospect for the Races at Mon- mouth Park—The Weather, Gossip and Amusement. Loxa Branca, August 22, 1873, After all the interruptions by the weather to- morrow the races at Monmouth Park, the first day of the extra meeting, promise to be a great success, and excite much interest, The Postponement has enabled a larger number of horses to be sent forward, and there have been fi:teen entries since those fully reported in the HERALD, many of which are of established reputa- tation, and will take part in to-morrow’s contests, The hurdle race, for mile heats and the Cottager’s Cup, are much talked about, and pools are selling this evening frecly. The storm and heavy fall of rain have greatly raised the repu- tation of the Monmouth Park track, fer since the last shower passed away, about three or four o’clock, @ number of men were set to work to sponge up all water pools and harrow the track, and about two hours afterwards it was compara. tively dry; and while it will be somewhat heavy to-morrow, it will be in first rate order, as the weather is quite clear at the change of the moon to-night. The weather pro- phets predict a settied fine day. The fiat has gone forth that the race is to come off rain or shine. There will also be races, certain, on Tuesday and Wednesday of next week. < The report in New York that a man named Peter Dempsey had been murdered here cannot be traced to any foundation. The poiice, the Coroner and the people know nothing about such an occur- rence, . Life and gaiety have returned to the Branch with the fine ‘weather. Thurston’s great picture of Niagara is attracting handreds of spectaters to- night. ‘Kime. Bredelli, Nelson Varley, the tenor, Whit- ney and Patterson, the pianists, gave a concert at the Ocean, with a very large attendance. To-morrow there is a subscription complimentary bop F the Ocegn to Keating's band and an open ai ress hop ai q the West End. There has been revival of arrivals to-day. At eleven o’clock the guests and proprietors of the Ocean Hotel serenaded the President to-night, with Keating's bana. The masic called forth a lghting up of the But, of course, mo response was made‘to YACHTING. The Race for the Douglas Cups=— Competing Sleeps and Schooners, Newport, &. L, August 22, 1873, There has not yetbeen any change in the weather, and we are still favored with easterly and south- easterly breezes, accompanied by fain and fog. To-day we have had fog and rain all day, and the most of the yachts remained in harbor. A meeting of the captains was held on board the flagship at 12:30 P, M., It was then decided to sail the race for the cups, given by Vice Commodore Douglas, to- morrow. The yacnts will start at 10 A. M. across an imaginary line between the Oe buoy on the Reef and the Brenton’s Reef light ship, sail around the Sow and Pig’s lightship, and return. There are two prizes, one for schoeners and one for sloops, and they will be awarded to the first yackt in, irrespective of time eallowance. The captains also agreed to start for Martha’s Vineyard on ‘Tuesday, and on their return the squadron will e 6 disbanded. The ir the wi robabl, Josephine, Tidal Wave, Foam, haps the Tarolinta, The sloops Visto Ariadne comprise the sloop entries, he schoon- ers Tarolinta, Eva and Clio went up to Rocky Point to-day and returned this evening. There are no HERALDS to be had here this evening for love or meney. They were all snatched up half an hour after the arrival of the train. The following yachts passed Whitestone yester- day:— Yacht Gracie, N.Y.Y.C., Mr. Waller, from Green- port for New York. Yacht Psyche, Mr. Dickinson, from Whitestone for Greenpoint. A WHOLE FAMILY BURNED TO DEATH Lovisvin.s, Ky., August 22, 1873, At an early hour this morning several frame buildings, once used as government stables, and a Tope walk adjoining, three miles south of this city, were fired and almost entirely consumed. A negro Ramed Willis, his wife and four aie, living tn One of the houses, were enveloped in the as O18 in PHILADELPHIA BARBARISM. An Innocent Girl Condemned to a Living Death. Miss Sailor’s Stepmother Stepsister in Court. and DAMNING EVIDENCE. Revelations by the Detectives and the Victim. Confined in a Garret with Tied Hands, -Beaten, Abused and Starved. HOW THE DYING CAPTIVE ESCAPED. PHILADELPHIA, August 22, 1873. I have held this oitice during all administrative changes fora term of thirty years; 1 have seen crime under all its aspects and in all 1ts phases, but no case has ever passed beneath my notice in which was shown the cruelty and the inhumanity of this. Mr. J, H. BUCKLEY, Clerk of the Police. To-gay has been @ day of horrors. With the coming Of the dawn there rollea from the printing presses of New York and Philadeiphta hundreds of thousands of sheets, carrying to every quarter of our great country a tale of sorrow,and woe— the story of a drowned body and the main features of a mystery deeper yet—and to-morrow will these same journals bear another, darker, fouler and more incredible still. There are but few human beings in the world, no matter in what degraded ranks you find them, who would not divide their last crust witha friend, or who would not, were their enemy starving, give him food. Thefe is no cry swelling up from the wretched hovels of humanity that will so blanch the cheek or cleave in twafn the great heart of the world as that made for bread. There is a pathos in it that we cannot resist, ‘There is a terror in the note which cuts us to the very soul, which for the mo- ment suspends our breath, and which we will seek, no matter how great the distance from which it calls, nO matter how stupendous the obsta- cles which intervene. We are living under one of the most periect forms of government that the world has ever seen—in a land ef freedom, of charity, of wealth; and yet from out the heart of this very city, from out one of its most densely populated quarters, from the midst of the whirl of its business and from underneath the shade of its towering church spires 1s dragged a creature who FOR THREE LONG AND WEARY YEARS has been starving her child, and who, during all that dreary season, has been withholding from a young and spotiess gir), not the luxuries, but even the simple bread and the water of life. There are dozens who testify to the fact. The culprits them- selves render no denial, They have tied her, starved her, lashed her until the blood gushed frum her back in streams, and, under the guise of human beings, have played the part of devilish and incar- nate flends. To be beaten, to be robbed, to be murdered, are things which constantly crop out under all forms of government and beneath the glories of every civilization; but to be starved— this is @ penalty which even the heathen seldom inflict. The story of the long and dreary season is dreadful. The cries which went up from that inno- cent but siowiy dying spirit were fearful to hear. “TI closed my ears and ran away,” said Miss Hol- gate to-day at the hearing, “they cut me so deeply to the heart.” The story of the prison, the plan and the escape are wonder‘ul, and, after three years’ suffering, were revealed this afternoon, HBARING BEFORE ALDERRAN BEITLER, In answer to a complaint made by a certain Mrs, Weyl, Sailor Detective Henry arrested two parties, Damed respectively Josephine Rowland and Sarah Baptist, mother and daughter, on a charge of starving and beating a young sister of the com- plainant. ‘hese partics had a hearing’ at five o’ciock P. M. on August 13, but the hearing was postponed till this afterneon fora very peculiar reason—namely, that the party in whose behalf the arrest was mude, though only nineteer years old, was entirely too weak to appear on the witness stand. To-day aH parties interested appeared be- fore Alderman Beitler. THE DETECTIVE’S STATEMENT. Detective Wool made statement to this effect :— When I went down alone the first day I found the room empty, and whitewash was scattered all over the fivor, and irom its freshness 1 knew that it had been recently placed there; the odor which pro- ceeded from the apartment was terrible -in the extreme, and Was equal to that of the Morgue; there was no furniture whatever in the place—no bed, nu table, not even a chair; upon my second visit | went in company with Captuin Heins aod Detective Wood; the room had suffered a complete transformation, and the stench which had before proceeded irom deposits of human matter was now relieved by _ stron: odors of rosin oi; the lime in a grea measure had been removed, and in auswer to an inquiry made by Captain Heins, an old lady said that it had failen down while the cetiings were being whitewashed; the ceilings were thereon ex- amined and they were tound covered with cob- webs; the floor was nicely carpeted and there were articles of furniture standing around; the old bed clothes and the carpets were lying in soak, and the neighbors said that the stench arising from thence defiled the atmosphere for y: around; on my third visit I made an examination of the yard and found that every precaution had been taken to prevent outsiders from looking in; the cracks between the boards were closed up with Tags and every,crevice had been provided for. The two arrested parties denied ill-treating the young girl, and id that they were both church members of good standing. Mrs. S. A. McCormick said in her evidence—I have seen the young girl Mary Rowland barefooted in midwinter; have seen her in the closed yard in the snow, with naked feet and thinly clad, and while I pitied her I could render her no aid, The statement of Mrs. 8S, A. Jolnson was as fol- lows:—I have known the starved girl for several years; Ihave Pg seen her wandering in the back yard with scarcely any coe to her frame; I have seen her grope her way to the slops of the garden and pick trom.them pieces of bread em nd unwhojes eet, aud Rave seen her eat fiom: the Hist tones ‘opt me from taiking, and they bad forbidden her to speak to me; but at night Lused to creep up beside the high boards and throw her tood, such as I had, THE YiOTIM’S CUTTING CRIES. The lady mentioned in the introduction of this letter in giving her testimony said:—I have heard feariul criea coming from that house; I have shut my ears and ron away, they cut me so to the heart; the garments they kept upon her were nothing but rags, and the poor thing grew weaker day vy day. Caroline. Rosevelt, who lives next door, tes- tified:—In the Winter season I haye seen the young iady dig scraps of food out of the frozen snow und ice and eagerly eat them. Mary Scott said—l saw her over the fence last Summer, and saw that in all her necessary eut- goings she had a boy to guard her. HER CAPTIVITY AND ESCAPE, Then Mrs. Wilson, in whose hospitable house she found shelter after her escape, came forward, and the following is the true and marvellous history of the girl’s cay ty hes escape. The eirtior now under arrest Rave starving this girl for three years, and when het arance in the back yard @roused the sym) and consternation of the neighbors, they ti r hands behind her back and kept her confined im the room described by Detective Weil from Christmas to Easter, and gave her but two meals a day. You could not call them meals; the food was bad and served on a broken plate, whiles her drink was muddy and impure ‘water, handed in to her by means of a rusty tin piat- ter, Aiter the dawn of Easter Sunday tey gave her but ope meal @ day, and that was ali she re- ceived up to the hour of her escape. From that date up, antil last Sunday a week, she was not even permitted to go to the yard. THE ESCAPE, “NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, AUGUST 23, 1873.—TRIPLE SHEET Whirled before ner and she fell. A post extending above the caves was the only thing that kept her from tumbling into the gutter. This post also sup- ported the fence below; but alas! the fence was to her in her weak strength miles -underneath. Imagine the mental anguish of the hour. Her form was like a thread, and her terroy lest she should be discovered cannot be conceived. For several minutes she laid motionless, and Providence alone gave her strength to finally arouse from her prostration, She raised her trembling and shiver- ing form, clothed in its dreadful tatters, stainea with the fith of her prison, and each effort was a Pang, while the increase of her progress was by inches, She reached the fence ; she fell from it the next instant on the pavement. She laid there, she knows not how long. When she gained her feet, her ideas of the neighborhood were confused. She clutched the palings with her thin and bloodless hands, and then, steadying herself, wandered away for three squares. She reached a gate there. It was FIVE O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING. The gate swung back with a bang, and the next moment she feli with the cry, “O, God! 0, God ! they have killed me at last !” From the house came a woman. This woman was Mrs. Wilson, who gave her testimony this afternoon, and from whom proceeded the narrative I am now relating. This Woman picked ber up. Ske could not stand. Mrs. Wilson supported her and, affected to her heart's core, tenderly bore her into the house, She revived her and slowly fanned into life the almost expired spark. Then she gave her toast and tea, and in the udy house of Mrs. Wilson the poor, friendless girl opeued her eyes with all the wonderment of a mortal within the corridors of heaven. Then the lady washed her and put her in a clean bed. She left her soundly sleeping. She then sent for the irl’s sister, Mrs, Sailor, who had never been olerated to approach the house in which the un- fortunate girl was confined, and who had. of course, been entirely unaware of tie poor girl’s treatment. She came to the police station, when Captain Heines immediately ordered @ warrant issued for both Mrs 8S Rowland and Miss 8S, J. Baptist, the stepmother and stepsister of the creature whom they had starved. They were arrested at once. When the giri was confined after Christmas the neighbors thought she had gone away, because they did not see her, and after her escape the cruel creatures who had confined her made no efiort to learn of her whereabouts, ‘They have never seen her since until to-day. THE REASON THE PARTIES GAVE for tying the girl's hands behind her back was that she had a tendency to indulge in unnatural prac- tives, Whereapon Dr. Samuel Creadock testified that he had examined her and that there were no indications that such was the case. They then said that the girl had been confined because she would steal, Whereupon another gentleman (Mr. Nitzkey) swore that he knew her to pe per- fectiy honest, for she had at one time been uader nis employ: THE MOST TERRIBLE EVIDENCE - against the parties were the clothes found upon her by Mrs. Wilson, which this noble and generous woman showed to the Court to-day, They cannot be described. Their stench penctrated every part of the room. The Pa oad assembled there turned away their .aees. The outer garments were a tlithy mass of rags—dirty rags, fliled with vermin. ‘‘he un- dergarments were nothing but shreds, stained all over witha scaly substance of the most noxious character, and when that poor girl caine to give her testimony every cheek was ashen, for it was with difficulty that she said a word. Her emacia- tion was terrible, She was a wavering, bloodiess skeleton, and that was all. Never have I seen an audience so atfected. Almost every soul, I really believe, felt an impulse to arise and crush the in- human fiends who had brought an innocent girl to such @ wreck, and I believe every soul would have regarded such an act tuily justified tn heaven. She was very, very Weak; she could scarcely speak, and there had already been so much evidence to prove the purity of her character and the extent to which she had suffered that the Alderman rendered her examination as brief as possible, afier which she returned to the home of her sister, and her per- secutors were securely locked up. Such 18 the outline of the terrible affair, and upon what page of history will you find recorded a similar crime? My communication, written ata late hour at night, has been necessarily hurried, and [I have had no time to dwell upon the poor girl’s anguish. The strongest officers were affected at the recital this afternoon, and at the sight of those garments all veiied their eyes. Where is the punishment of such a crime and of what nature is tbat etermity which must at some The window, to prevent escape, was nailed. She was not only starved, she was beaten also. The condition of that room must have been indescriba- bles it was to her all the accommodations in the world. At last she made an effort to escape; she began to pull out the nails; her strength was so faint that it took @ long, long time to pull outa nail Days slowly passea, and one by one the nails were with pain removed until but one was left; this she pulled out with her teeth. She raised the win- dow—it was early morning; she dragged her form upon the roof,-a shed which sianted down towards the stroet, When she reached the eaves her strength WOAAO UK Was the aixaets apa the hour sarround these fiends’ NEWS FROM VENEZUELA . 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To Taé Epiror OF THE HERALD:— AD advertisement has lately been inserted in several of our leading newspapers, the intent o! which is chiefly to injure the Equitable Life Assurance ees Inasmuch as reference is made to the last report of the company, as its Actuary I feel it my auty to notice it, The advertisement, commencing with some on Temarks on life insurance, soom enters into a comparison of the mutual and joint stock systems, much to the advantage of the for- mer, and then goes on to a comparison of resulta, taking the Mutual Life [Insurance Company of this city a8 an example of the mutual system, and the Equitable Life a8 an example of the joint stock pled making it appear by necessary implication that the Equitable is subject to all the evils which have just been asserted to belong to the joint stock class of companies. In reply to this, it may be stated that in the year 1853 the lature, in their wisdom, and after ex- perience of dangers attending the simple mutual system, passed @ law that no new life insurance company sheuld be started without first depositing with the State $100,000 as a guaranty for their olicies. This in effect prevented the formation Phereatter of any purely mutual company, and. no company has been founded since in the State with- out a stock capital. When the Equitable Society was founded this law was in force, and its promoters had to raise the amount named by the State by means of a stock capital; but, to make it clear that preat on their stock Was not their motive in starting the pany, they adopted the principle in their charter—a principle not adopted by any company previously formed, and by very few formed since—that the dividends upon their stock, whioh, in obedience to the enacted wisdom of the rh pledged as a guarantee of their good ould draw legal interest only (which by in- a INSURANUE, annem nn the Mutual. Let us consider the standin Posults of tha two companies when each had in operation about thirteen years. Total Annual Premiums after 13th year Interest » ae Total tncome oe ‘Assets Ce Amount of Risk...... Again, the ratio of nditure nses to total income for the first fifteen years of he Mutual was 40.27 per cent, while in the Equita- ble for thirteen years and five months, to the 1stof January, 1873, 16 was 34.95 per cent, being @ differ- ence of 632 per cent. and equivalent te a ving in expenditure of $2,205,020—the calculations being made on the principles adopted in the article now replied to. ft may further be said that the stated premiuns receipts of the Mutual, from which most of the ratios in the table are drawn, are not the amounts actually received in cash, but include @ vast amount of hypothetical recetpts, balanced by other Estee amounts of out-go in the shape of dividends, so that an ordinary reader is deceived, _ and gets an idea of the cost of doing the business very diffrent from the truth, and all ratios like those tn the advertisement, founded on these hypo- thetical receipts, are grossly erroneous and in- tended to deceive. Moreover, there are other mistakes, some of which may be alluded to, to show bow fittle de- pendence can be placed on the comparisons made. ‘These mistakes are made apparently (or the pur- ¢ Of misleading. Thus, the Equitable is said to avelenta large amount ($107,558) on personal security only, while, in iact, the amount stated ia the amount of personal property mentioned in its report, ‘The amount of rents received is stated very mach less than the truth, as it was reported to the State. Again, the comparison states that the Equitable has, in “premtums over due, more than three months,”’ a large amount, while the Mutual has nothing, when, in fact, the report to the State makes this the amount of premium due not more than three months, the word ‘not’? be- ing a very material word in such statements: be- sides which some of the ratios are grossly mis- stated. Whether these materepeceantacione promote the cause of life insurance | leave for others to decide, In conclusion, | give a comparative statement of the Equitable at the end of 1872, and of all the New York companies in 1859, when the Equitable com- menced business :— Excess of the Equitable over ¥.008, N'Y 008. Equitable AUN. ¥. .¥. 1872, 1859, combined, Cash Premium Receipts $7,426,862 $1,772,259 $5,654,603 8,420,045 2,722,185 5,697,369 19,695,053 11,839,024 7,855,120 51,911,070 14,325,116 37,585,963 Amount @ 171,443,315 70,052,936 100,790,415 No. of Policies outstanding. 43,135 23,278 19,857 No. of Policies written during the year. °. 12,491 4,734, 1,107 G. W. PHILLIPS, Actuary Equitable Life Assurance Society. A.—Kearncy’s Extract Buchu Cures more diseases of bladder and kidnoys, gravel, diabetes, female weaknesses, dyspepsia and nervous debility tham all other remedies combin: Depot 104 Duane street. Asthma and Bronehitis Effect! lieved by the use of DATURA TATULA; for fearful ‘attack of asthma Lord Dunsany had smoked the Datura Yatula for more than & minute or So when the symptoms abated, and in ten minutes more he was relieved wondertully." He told me he had used i6 for years with the most perfect success. Certainly the inhalation had the ‘most magical ellect T ever wit- nessed.""—Dr. J. McVeagh. “I are and cigar- astilies for inhalation in boxes, by Poise Sale ee tobacco in tin: ttes in boxes, and as. SAVORY & MOORE. 43 New Bond stroes, Loadon, and by.all chemists, druggists and storekecpers throughout the States, A.—Heraid Branch Office, Brooklyn corner of Fulton avenue and Boerum street. ‘ Open froin 8 A. M. to9 P. M. On Sunday from 3 to 9 P. M. A.—Corns, Bunions, Fail &c., Cured .. CORN CURE by mail, 50c. iigonec ese 2, 208 Broadway, corner Fulton street. Springs, the Pitiless Iron dangerous wire springs aggravate rap- ture, enlarging the breach. But these cases dre gradualiv cured by ihe RLASTIC TRUSS, 683 Broadway. A.—Wedding Cards Latest Paris Styles. English and French Note Paper. JAMES EVERDELL, vestment it reproduces), thus cutting themselves of from any large dividends thereafter, and secur- ing to the policy-holders all the benefits that could arise from the mutual system, with the added ad- vant of an outside amount pledged for their pre y and the prudent management of the ety. In respect to the numerical comparison made in the advertisement, it is to be remembered that ratios of income and expenditure are affected ver; materially by the comparative age, extent of busi- ness, and other ainstances of the two companies compared. Tbe Equitable Society bas for several years tt done more new business than any other company in the world, and its expenses should be larger, com- paratively, than those of other companies wiose new business bears a much less proportion to their old. 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