The New York Herald Newspaper, September 2, 1873, Page 4

COESARISMN. cece ¥Ex-Covernor Horatio Seymour on the Question of the Hour. A STATESMANLIKE VIEW. ithe Dangers That Threaten the Life of the Republic. EVILS OF OUR ELECTIVE SYSTEM. How the Country May Drift Into Anarchy and the Empire. Urica, N. Y., August 80, 1873. Bx-Governor Seymour is residing quietly at his pleasant home in Deerfield, near this city, Though very quiet on political subjects he has lost none Of his old-time interest in public affairs, and is ‘watching them with great concern, Your correspondent found lim in the enjoyment Of excellent health, and quite willing to comply with your request to give his opinion of the third- term policy. Rerorrer—Recognizing the value of your ex- perience in public affairs and the interest with which your opinions are always looked for, I am delegated by the HERALD to ask, “What do you think of Cesarism?” Governor SEyMovR—When you ask me what I think of Cxsarism I suppose you refer to the ques- tion of a third term for General Grant. I know nothing about his views and wishes, and it is prob- able he is in doubt himeelf, It will not entirely depend upon him to say what shall be done in 1876, Ho is only one of a vast army of office-holders, nd the question will be what their interests will call for. The aspects, spirit ana action of our government have been revolutionized within ten years. This fact is shown not only by the charges made by democrats, but more clearly by the bitter denunciations of republican orators and journals of the constitutional views of the party which governed the country down to 1860, The increase In the number of oMctials, the relationship of the central government to taxation, debt and finance, railroad and otner subjects, have made A PRACTICAL REVOLUTION IN THE AFFAIRS OF THE COUNTRY. Even if it is admitted that all these things have been done within the limits of the constitution the factual change is none the less real and effective. The election of a President for a third term, in ad- dition to ail this, will be an overthrow of maxims and usages so strongly held heretofore that the people of this country and of the world at large will look upon it as a proof that we have accepted @ change in the character of our government. Many things can be done which do not violate the letter of the constitution, but which may effect- ually change the spirit and tone of public affairs, RerorrER—Do you believe that General Grant or the republican leaders mean to bring about sucha revolution? Governor SEYMoUR—No; I do not think they have any such purpose at this time, but I do be- lieve they are acting upon principles which in the end will lead to great and huriful changes. Parties, like individuals, take steps which force them to go on in directions and to results they did not intend at the outset. Look at the condition of the repub- lican party to-day. Itis alarmed at the state of affairs at the South, but it does not see any way of changing the policy which has wrought ruin in one third of our country. The republican leaders de- apise the men who rob and devastate the South, but what can they do? These fobbers are at once THE SLAVES AND MASTERS OF THE ADMINISTRATION. The slaves; for if they were not upheld at Wash- ington they would be punished for their crimes. Its masters; for if the administration should drop them it would lose potitical control in the Southern States. So it goes on yn its hateful work, hoping it will find a chance to throw overboard the wretched crew of which it 1s ashamed; but it finds no such opportunity, and so, like erring individuals, it goes ‘on from bad to worse and is now mixed up with a mass of vile crimes and intrigues of which it is ashamed but of which it cannot clear itself. RevorTeR—You said you did not think that Grant and the republican leaders wished to overturn the government of the country. What do you fear, then, in the future? Governor SeyMovR—The evils of the world do not flow so much out of man’s intentions at the outset as they do from thelr entanglements when they enter upon many courses. Men do not mean when they begin life to become thieves or murderers, but many of them become such, because one false step forced them into others. At this time the Interests of @ Vast army of ofice-holders, of persons in- terested in contracts, in various financial schemes, lead them to resort to desperate measures to hold their power. The question is not do they mean to violate the constitution, but WILL THEY VIOLATE THE CONSTITUTION rather than give up their advantages. They may not go any farther than their necessities demand, and they will try to keep up a semblance of legal- ity; but after a time they will ne afraid to give up power. They will not dare to show the books, Fear makes more revolutions than courage or ambition; affairs get toa point where men are afraid to go back. itis said the ambition of Cwsar led him to cross the Rubicon. I have no doubt, if all the facta were known, it would appear that the des- Perate condition of his adherents at Rome and the demands of his iriends in his arm¥ pushed him for- ward. Such conditions have always made “Casar- ism ;"' will always continue to doso. Ido not say that Grant is unreasonably ambitious, but I do not Bee any stopping place ‘or his (riends. The repub- lican party is doing many things reluctantly and 1t Fepents many things it has done, but it cannot stand still, and it dare not undo {ts own work. Many of its members deplore its action, but NO POLITICAL PARTY CAN PURIFY ITSELF WHILE IT 18 IN POWER. What we have to fear is not so much the imme- diate results as the inevitable and uitimate results of the policy of the administration. REPORTER—But Will the people consent to a rev- olutionary policy? Governor SkYMOUR—Not if the question is fairly puttothem. The troubleis that ali that is involved fn public action is not clearly foreseen. Most elections turn upon feigned issues. The real points are kept in the background. A revolution may be made inevitable a long time belore it comes about. ‘This is usually the case, RErokTER—But the people can elect any one they see ft to make President and reject others, Governor SEYMOUR—Oh, no; as parties are or- ganized a few men name candidates, and the peo- ple are, in fact, limited to the choice of one of two men, They may not like either, but they must take one of the two party nominees. I think in 1868 the people did not want either Grant or my- seif, but they preferred him to me, PRESS OPINIONS. [From the Washington Sentinel.) The New Yorx HERALD has for some time enter- tained its readers with specalations as to the effects of « third term of General Grant upon the political institutions of this country. It has pre- dicted in the event of Grant’s re-election that we Will pass into Cesarism, and that Grant will be a kind of dictator or emperor hereafter, A great deal has been said avout Julius Cesar, as if he were the prototype of Grant. ‘The HERALD, as well as many other papers that have treated on this subject, have forgotten that Julius Cwsar did not sacceed in carrying out his plans. Personal ambition alone has not always been successful in establishing Usesarism, as in the case of Napoleon the Firat, when he Opset the government of the Council of the >a sea a Cwsarism, or the government ‘Man. follows usually when republics become (GRECRRY. 10. NP 105 eine them te government nave been loosened or entirely cut asunder, and when the government nus been taken from the bands of the people by an oligarchy or aristocracy too strong and too power‘ul to be over- turned. Those were the causes which led to the downfall of the Roman Republic. The same agencies are now active in this country to briog about the same result. It i# not Grant througn whose influence the country is now drifting into Cmsarism, tor if he were not there or willing some- body else would quickly take his place, It is tho circumstances in which we fini ourselves, created by the rotsenness of ali our affvirs, our want of love of liberty and free institutions, and more than all that, the greediness after riches and power and consequent yenaliiy and tmmorainty hat will hasten on that event of which tho HERALD now wants to warn the people. Last year, when the democratic party surrendered and left the realms of constitutional ttberty, this country Ceased to be a popular government or & demo- cratic republic, We then stcpped into the second stadium of republics—an olgarcoic or aristocratic form of government. How long that wil continue depends simply whether it will make Itself slowly or fast odious in the eyes of the people. ‘The more odious and hated it becomes the sooner it will be followed by the government of ove, whether a dictator, president for life, or ap emperor ora king, In no case have larg republics ained their lost popular sovereignty alter it once assed into the hands of an oligarchy. Tho latier usualiy followed by @ monarchy and after a | monarchy—such 1g the rotation in history—the people will come into power again, Ibis our firm belie: that Grant will never leave the White House alive, except he desires it him- self. It to-day he shouid.deciare that he does no Jonger want to be President the people trom ail parts of the country would beseech him to stay, and the Sentinel, though certainly as liberty-loving as any paper in the country, would be among the number. For Grant would be followed by that Puritauical temperance tanatic Wilson, and, of course, under lis administiation hypocrisy, cor- ruption, intolerance and fanaticism wouid be the order 0: the day. Such is the force of circum- stances. ‘There 1s no nan in the country that can replace Grant. The opposition amounts to nothing if it comes to a Presidential elec- tion, In fact, the oligarchy, composed of our great monopolies and rich men, is too powerful both North and South to be overcome. | It controls all the elections, and if there are still a few democratic States permitted to exist, 1t is only because they are not dangerous, and because thereby at least a semblance of political opposition 1a preserved, Being unable to change the present state of affairs, it is best to make as good terms as possible with the ruling element, As the oligarchy can just as tile rid itself of Grant, it will be a goed Policy for all those that are oppressed by ‘he same to induce Grant to throw out the bad, currupt. puritanical elements of the republican party, thus permitting the honest democratic masses to come in, Heis destined, as everything indicates, to be the Augustus of the American Republic. Indeed, there are some great similarities between the downtalls of the Roman and the American Re- ublics. The end of both of them was hurried on By amurder, Tue killing of Julius Cwsar was to Rome what the murder of Lincoln was to the American Republic. Without the death of Ciesar, Octavianus Augustus, the grand-nephew of the murdered tmperator, would never have been able to destroy the Roman Republic. Without Lincoin’s murder the Republican party would never have become what it is, and nobody would now speak of Grant's third term, Both Augustus and Grant have also great similarities. Both were underesti- mated by their enemies, and both were nothing but creatures of events and circumstances beyond their control, although Augustus certainly seems to be the more ambitious of the two, though we cannot say as yet what Grant will turn out to be hereaiter. [From the Louisville Ledger (democratic), Aug. 29.) Radicalism makes Cwxsarism plausible. The possibility of radicalism not only makes Cxsarism possible, but probabie. The New York HEsALD has evidently analyzed radicalism with the utmost care and precision, and while it has not thought proper to give the results of the analysis to the public, stating particularly each component part, the conclusion is inevitable that 1t has found in the mass the ingredient out of which Cesarism can be manulactured, The agitation of the subject in the form it has taken is due to the HeRaLp. Itrequired persistency. An article once a month, however ably written, would not answer the purpose—nothing less than a continuous bombardment with solid shot, hot shot, chain shot and bombs would be likely to arouse the people, and this the HERALD has done, The result is just what was anticipated—the press inevery section of the country has been and is still discussing the possibility of Cesarism in the United States. It is worthy of remark, that Cesar- ism means the consolidation of power and a third term for Grant. Radicalism from the first con- templated the wiping out of every vestige of State sovereignty and oi creating a central power which should control every interest and decide every question and make every citizen a subject amen- able tolt, It has never cuanged or modified its policy; on the contrary it has driven Straight onward. If obstacies have inter- vened they have been removed, or the ma- chinery has been put in operation by which they are to be removed at the earliest practicable riod. It is worse than folly to deny the facts; ‘hey are written on every page of the records of the radical party record since it obtained power. In every act of legislation, in every specch of its prominent men, supreme power has cropped out, ‘and those who bave given the surface indications any attention have become satisfied that radical- ism is incipient Cesarism. The radical papers may, a8 & matter of policy, disguise the intentions of the arty, by hooting at the possibility of Cresarism, but it would be an impossibility to find one of them ready and willing to denounce a policy which in- evitibly leads toit, The party 1s now in power, the sword and the purse of the country are in its hands, and if the contingency arises whether it will surrender them or inaugurate Owsarism, there need be no hesitancy in deciding what course the radical party would pursue. The past jurnishes a suficient guarantee. It would appeal to the “higher law,” and Seward’s “little bell’ would sound the death knell of liberty in every nook and corner of the land. The quesiion is often asked, “Would Grant accept a third term?’ Who can answer such ac nundrum except Grant himself? Those who feel anxious on the subject should in- terview him and ascertain, if possibie. If it is done, our word Jor it, he willbe as dumb as the Egyptian Sphinx, a gravestone ora lamppost. If he should refuse the Presidency of thy United States for a third term it would be the frst time in his history that he ever refused anything valuable that has been offered to him. No one be- lieves he would refuse tt, and we are confident that the New YoRK HERALD is advised that he would not only accept the Presidency for the third time, but foriive. It is possible that in the radicai party there are aspirants for the office who will oppose Grant in his aspirations for a third or a life term, but when the time comes for action Grant will be able to find means to curb their enthusiasm and close their moutis, The fact 1s, the agitation of the subject has not been prematurely commenced. Cvesarism has al- reaay commenced, and whether it shail develop to maturity its horns, teeth and claws until it is able to confront the American people and dictate the terms upon which it will aceept the surrender, is a question of commanding importance. Let the discuseion go on. A DEAD MAN'S COURTSHIP. Martin Kalbficisch’s Breach of Promise Case=The Suit for Damages Pressed Against the Esta One year ago this month the community was somewhat surprised, and nota little amused, by the announcement then made that ex-Mayor Kalb- fieisch, of Brooklyn, a septuagenarian, a very wealthy man and the widower of three wives already, was involved ag defendant in an action for damages in the sum of $150,000 for breach of promise of marriage. A widow lady named Mary Frances Wade was the platutif,, and she was generally reputed to fine looking and highly accomplished, and was only thirty years of age. The suit was never brought to trial in incnce of dclays sought by the defendant, and meantime, as is generally known, the “honest old Dutchman,” as he was called, was taken ill and died, and this, it was beileved, put an end to the suit, Yesterday, however, an application was made belore Judge Neiison, in the Brooklyn City Court, to have the case reopened and the action continued against the estate, the executors of which are the late Mayor's sons, Charles H,, Albert M. and Frank- lin H. Kaibfleisch, These gentiemen will uow be the defendants in the action. The counsel moved tor an order to compel the executors to show cause why the suit should not be brought against the estate, and the Judge granted it, making it return- abie on Saturday next. This will be tue first suit wee kind which has ever Leen brought in Brook- a PUGILISM, George Rooke and Jim Coine signed articles yes- terday to fight a prize battle according to the new rales of the English ring, within 250 miles of New- ark, N.J., for $1,000a side; the Aight to come of three months from date. The men are to weigh the day before the fight and are not to scale above 142 pounds, Rooke and Coine are both publicans in Newark, and there is a great rivairy between them, their patrons being anxious to know which fe the best man. Rooke is a good fighter, but he has been unfortunate in ais matches. He beat the Cast Iron Man on one of the isiauds of New London, but was robbed out of the fight by the referee, who ‘was paid to give the fight against bim, when he had whipped the Cast fron Man senseless, In his fight with Rocky Moore he proved himsela game man and @ good fighter, but Rocky was his equal on the ht and fd jast just a little bit longer. Coine ‘Will have to take 8 good thras sing betore pete, a cba BaDebd UnLs Wate Sine ES KINGS COUNTY CASARISM. Brooklyn Getting Ready to Ewallow All the Small Towns—The “Little ’Uns" Don’t Want to Share Too Much of the Burden of Taxaticn. There was another session of the Commiasioners appointed to consider a plan to be submitted to the voters of the county towns, looking to the con- solidation of the suburbs with the city of Brook- lyn, hell in the room of the Board of Supervisors yesterday afternoon. The chalr was occupied by Judge Lott, President of the Commission. The Clerk, Mr. William Bishop, stated that Comptroller Schroeder had been unable to furaish the report of the fnancia! condition of the city of Brooklyn owing to press of business during the past week. The President vacated the chair, which was taken by Commissioner Fox. He said that in his judgment the city and the county towns should each assume the control of its own property and each pay tts own liabilities, The City Hall prop- erty should belong to the city as consolidated, and each ward should bear its share of expense, as it would be common property. Schools and such property should belong to the respective local tiesi in whioh they ars situated. The proposed condi- tions of consolidation were then read, as fo!- lows :— TERMS AND CONDITIONS AnmicLe I.—SEcTION hi 1 Brook! TIC1.I SBC" 8 of Brooklyn and each n and oueh town, Shai soho! district in as between each ocher, be liable only ior its own debts and labilities exis ot incurred at the time ot such union aid consolidation, and shall severally be entitled y there owned id possedsea by them respectively, ana to the pro 4 and moome there except as hereinafter provided; and pay such debts and Habilities ‘and t interest thereon shail be levied and coliected of the city, town or district 40 indebted oF liavle as ato: esai. No sale of any real estate so owned or possessed shall be made, unless authorized by an act ot the Legislature, ‘Ske. 2—The trangular viece of land bounded by Fal- n street, Court street und Joralemon street in the pres. ent city of Brooklyn, with the City Hall thereon and all the fixtures and furniture contai the raid Oi Hall, now owned by the said city 2 mated to te worth the sum ot union and consoli ation be ve v of Brook. lyn, thereby founded and created, and the said sum shall Become a debt payable out of the general tax to be raised and collected in ihe said new city in the year 1874. 1he proportional part thereot leviable and :oltectable out of the property embraced and included within the bouns of the present city of Brooklyn shall be credited on count of the general tax to be collected therein, and tl residue thercof shall be ruis:d and collected asa por:ion of the poneral tax collectable in the residue of tho said new city, Sc. 5.—All the property owned by the present olty of Brooklyn and by the said several towns and dustricts Fospeetively shall be controlled and managed by the said new city of Brooklyn for its common and general use and beriefit in the same manner asifowned by tho sald new city, except that the income of such portion thereof, if any, as sbali produce income shall belong and be credit: ga to the locality owning the property from whioh It is jerived. ‘Suc. 4.—For the purposes of taxation the real estate included within the boundaries of the Twenty-sixth, ‘“wenth-seventh, Twenty-eighth, Tweath-ninth and Thirtieth Wards, as herein abo ablished (except Coney Island, included in the twenty-ninth Ward), shall be taxed and at-essed ax agricultural land, in the’ ward within which it is situated and not elsewhere, on the value thereof for such purpose only, unless the same has been ac the time ot such unton and consolidation, or may thereafter be divided up into buitding lots, and a map thereo: flied In the office of the Register or the Clerk of the County of Kings, or in the office of the Clerk of the City of Brooklyn, and’ a sale or sales shall have been made, reterring to such map, or unless the same shall have been otherwise sold as & building lot or low, or used as such, Sze. 5.—All property liable, to taxation in the several wards shall be charcenble with and taxed for the ex- penses incurred in udininistering the government of the said new city and for the payment of its debts and liabill ties, except (hat the expense of establishing and main- tainlug the Fire, Police, Dock, Water and Health Depart- ments shall be horne by such only of the Twenty-sixth, venth, Iwenty-eghth, Twenty-ninth and Thir: tleth wards as shall be made expressly chargeable there- vith or shall become liable therefor, as hereinafter pro- vided. Sc: &—The rate of taxation on the property tobe taxed and assessed for the different ob/ects and purposes above mentioned shall be uniform, according to the assessed value of the proper.y liable to be taxed therefor, as here- inbefore specially provided. BOUNDARIES, ‘ Sorrow 1.—The city of Brooklyn, created by the union and consolidation of the present city of Brooklyn and the towns of New Lots, Flatbush, Flauands, New Utrecht and Gravesend into‘one muuicipal corporation, shall be divided into thirty wards, consisting of the twenty-five wards of the present city of Hrooklyn as now provided by law (except that the dividing line between the ihir- teenth and Nineteenth wards shall be the centre of DI vision avenue and that th) Twenty-second wari £0 bounded as to include the whole of Prospect Park) and five additional wards, composed of New Loty as the ‘Twenty-sixth ward, of Flatbush and Franklin avenues on the southerly side of Prospect Park, and extending east- erly to Flatbush avenue as the Twenty seventh ward, of New Utrecht asthe Twenty-eighth ward, of Gravesend ne Twenty-ninth ward, and Flatlands as the Thirtieth r ward. Commissioner LowBER was opposed to dividing the accounts and urged that the debt be madea general one and that the county towns take their share, as they are equally interested in the depart- ments. As for the parks and water they were specially provided for and would take care of them- selves. The entire value of the property of the clty as assessed was, according to the last report of the Mayor, $6,000,000, more than the whole in- debtedness, Mr. KINSELLA sald that the plan involves an en- tire change under the plan presented from the Committee on Consolidation. It would make the city responsible for the debt of the city, which would be unfair, Ten million dollars of the t3 ent debt of Brooklyn is for local improvements, a matter in which the county towus will be ver; largely interested, as there will be so muci needed by them in the perfection of improvements by which these suburbs will be matertaily bene- fited. Consolidation under any such exemption would not be desirable to Brookiyn, Commissioner BENNETT remarked that the dis- arity between the wards of the city and the towns is very great, to which Mr. Kinsella replied that the towns have security in the plan which takes them in as agricultural lands, and arranges their taxes proportionately according tolaw. Tne county towns will want docks when the city is built up, and it would not be right to have the city to bear all the expense of constructing them, Commissioner BERGEN offered a substitute to the effect that the parks, water, fire, police and docks shall remain the property of the city, and that the city shall bear the expense thereof—the city pay all existing debts. He argued in favor of the sub- stitute (which was eventually lost) ; that the towns derived no benefit trom these departments, and should not, therefore, be assessed for them. Mr. KINSELLA objected to this view, as the towns would come into the several local boards and vote upon questions in which they had no interest, ‘Mr. BERGEN said he was willing that they should not vote upon questions relating to water, fire, police or docks. Let the city pay all the bills and manage these departments as they pleased. A war of words ensued between Messrs. Kinsella and Bergen touching their respective knowledge of the wants of the municipality and the county tow! when the former gentieman decried the spirit o! locality mantiested by the latter, and remarked that he towns must come in fairly if they would, but otherwise if ‘they must be.” Judge Lorr spoke at length in favor of his plan of consolidation and the Commissioners adjourned to meet on Monday next. JUSTICE VINDICATED. Michael C, Broderick, the Son-Slayer, In= dicted for Murder in the First Degree Turning Laughter into Tears—The Cor- @ner’s Jury a Nonentity—The Mother- in-Law’s Testimony. Another wonderful exemplification of the uncer- tainty of justice in New York took place yesterday, Readers of the HERALD are well acqaainted with the case of Michael C. Broderick, which has already been fully reported in these columns. It now ap- pears he may possibly suffer for his crime. The Coroner's jury brought in at the inquest a verdict which was virtually ap acquittal, saying that Brod- erick had kilied his son in self-defence, believing his own life to be in danger. But neither the HERALD nor the District-Attorney could see things in the same light as the Coroner's jury, and the District-Attorney decided, in consequence of the HeraLp’s exposé of how the thing was done, to prosecute tne case to the turthest, and at all events not leave for bagi condemnation a loop- hole so large by waich @ criminal could creep out of the mesies Of the law, It was, unfortunately, too evident in this case that the family had banded to- es feeling they could not bring the dead son back, 80 at all events to save the iather, Commenda- ble as this pian was in the family, Which united to condemn one of their number (the son John) in order to get Michael Broderick off, the ends of justice could not ve served by such @ proceeding; 80 that when Coroner Young went to the District Attorney and asked how m ich bail he should take, the District Attorney reiused to take any, and sai he should pay no atveption at ali to the verdict of pe Coroner's jury, but should afford the Grand jury A MORE THOROUGH OPPORTUNITY of examining all the jacts of the case, and then bring in what indictment it pleased. Betore this indictmeot he should take action, but would not consider the question of bail beforehand. Upon this the Coroner retired, and there the matter lay. The District Attorney then, noticing the great discrepancy which existed between the newspaper account of the crime and the evidence of the family concerning it, decided to find out where the reporters got their (acts as published, THE REPORTERS, therefore, on two or three of the more promi- nent journals were subponaed to appear before the Grand Jury on Monday (yesterday). After the members of the family had given their evidence—ss already reported—vefore the Grand Jury yesterday morning, the reporter of th HERALD was called, and testified that on the mor Po of the murder he heai the wha NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1873.—TRIPLE SHEET, attached to a morning paper, testified to the same effect, and that the accounts given of the crime by the members ol the jamily in the house and tho srory told by the prisoner hum (Green) in tae Tombs the same alternoon were substantially the same, but that nothing was said by any ove as to the sons attacking the father with @ knife and a loaded club, All accounts agreed in giving the same version, and it seemed to be the impression that the whol thing was an afterthought on the part of t family and the lawyer. OLD MRS, WALDRON, the mother-in-law of the prisoner, was conveyed to the Grand Jury room in @ carriage, her advanced age reudering it impossible for her to move about in any other way. Even in this manner it was found dificult to secure her attendanve. There is no doubt that she isa dery old woman, and that the HERALD bande in on that her tes- timony would tend stro! convict the prisoner, It would appear that Mra. Waldron did not enter into the arrangement to seoure Michael Broderick immunity for his crime, Had she been Sousne before the Coroner's jury the verdict at the in- quest would not have been what it was. When taken into the Grand Sury room Mrs, Walaron refused to be eworn, and it necessitated ail the terrors o: the law to make her consent to this formutity. After taking the oath Airs, Wa'dron gave a distinct story of the murder, which totally difered from that of any of the other parties who had testified, but which agreed with the first newspaper accounts pablished, Her testimony most probably seitied the fate of Broderick, and after a few moments’ deliberation tho Grand July ordered @ true bill, lndicsing Michael C. Broderick tor the crime of murder in the first degree. The indictment was given in with others in the Court of Oyer and Terminer yesterday aiternoon, The news was received by the family of the pris- oner with signs of the deepest distres and by Broderick himself with an emotion bordering upoo insanity at finding all his bright dreams of ao- nittal eneney to the ground by this action of the rand Jury, It is certain that, had not District Attorney Phelps interfered, as he did, to prevent so mon- strous @ farce as the acquittal of Brouerick by the addle-pated Coroner's Jury being enacted, Brod- erick would have escaped ‘scot (ree and have been to-day at large. The District Attorney believes he can convict Broderick of murder in the second de- bites Coroner Young seems to believe, however, a BRODERIOK OAN NEVER BE CONVICTED. He.bases his opinion on the fact that the family is united in their endeavors to secure the acquittal of the prisoner. Hepretends to believe that Mrs. Waldron is demented, and that her testimony will therefore be of no valve. Her actions yesterday, however, despite her age, were sorting. but those of a demented person. Broderick therefore re- mains in the Tombs, His trial will not coine off for some two months, those of Scannell, Simmons, Stokes, &o., by necessity, preceding it. THOSE ROTTEN WALLS. The Eleventh Street Catastrophe—Oficial Inquiry by the Coroner—The Building Old and Rotten in Many Places—How Tenement Houses are Erected—Mortar Which Melts When Moistened. Coroner Herrman yesterday commenced an in- quiry into the facts of the terrible accident which occurred on August the 22d by the fall of a tene- ment house in course of erection at No. 321 West Eleventh street. Considerable interest was manti- fested in the case, as was evidenced by the large attendance at the Coroner's office. It was also evident that the inspectors of buildings “lo not feel quite comilortable in regard to the matter, for Commissioner Adams and Inspectors Robert McGuinis and Dudley were promptly on hand in order to watch the case in the Interest of the department with which they are connected, The relatives and triends of the dead and the injured men also appeared in considerable bumbersa, anxious widows, mether and orphans evincing a vivid desire to learn the whole sad par- ticulars of the catastrophe by which their loved ones lost their lives. According to tne formula the inquiry was for the purpose of taking evidence “in regard to the manner in which John Foster, Jere- miah Driscoll, Martin Fahey, Jacob Ryder, Michael McFee, Cornelius Cronin, Francis Donnelly and Michael Mullin met their deaths.” Coroner Herrman on taking his seat intimated that he intended to confine THE DAY'S PROCEEDINGS to the examination of the owner of the house, the contractor and the Inspector of Buildings. ‘The first witness called was P. J. Holzderber, the owner of the building at which the accident took piace. He testified that he had owned the propeity Nearly five months, and wishing to convert it into @ five-story tenement gave the contract to J. W. Crawford, a mason, and Jesse Neuman, a carpen- ter; the house was originally a two-story one, with basement and attic; he was uot present at the time of the accident. J, W. Crawiord, on being sworn, said that he was the mason in charge of the building, having the contract jor the work in that department; the building was formerly a three story and attic, ex- tending twenty-two feet to the rear; the whole front was to be removed and anew one put in; the first story of iron, stone and Philadelphia brick, with iron trimmings; the work on the building had progressed to the third tier of beams on the new portion, and it was ready for the fourth tier; the masons were levelling the third tier of beams when the accident occurred; was not present; the west wall which fell was twelve inches thick, ex- ceptfor about three or four feet, which was only eight inches; this was to have been taken down, could not say why it had not been done; wit- ness thought that the heavy storms were partly THE CAUSE OF THE ACCIDENT; there were some old beams with the third tier of new ones which had been removed on the morning of the casualty; was unable to say by whose orders. the wall projected about seventeen feet over the third tier, and was supported only by purlines ex- tending from the cast to the west wall; saw the Inspector of Buildings a few days prior to the acci- dent. Edward Callagher, of the Ninth precinct police, testified that he was standing on the corner of West Eleventu street and Washington street when the accident occurred; he heard @ heavy crash andsaw clouds of dust uprising from the ruins ran to the scene of the disaster and helped to ex tricate the foreman and a laborer from the débris sent an alarm to the station house, and then re- turned to the wrecked building; rescued another man, who died shortly afterwards. Benjamin Mallen, of the Ninth precinct, gave similar testimony to nis brother officer,and modestly showed that both had done their best to rescue the woundea workmen, flenry O’Hagan, on being sworn, stated that he was @ mason, and was ewployed on the building the time of the accident; was on the northe corner—the new building no part of which tell; heard a part of the old building fall, ana with a few others escaped by way of the roof of the adjoining house; the new beams fell with the old portion; the gable ends in falling crushed the beams and the Whole structure came down. Witness’s opinion as to the cause oi the accident was that the wall was not stayed, and the old wall was not sufictentl stable to bear, any great weight; it was rotten, and the bricks could easily be pulled out by hand; no zaaene should have been entrusted on it, as it D.| BUILT AGAINST ANOTHER WALL ‘was thirty years old, and lost its “stay” when the beams were cut away, several days before the casualty occurred; the roof was all taken off by July 30. The iourth tier of beams was cut away some weeks before; there were then aboot 18 or 19 feet of wall standing above the third tier of beams, Witness considered that if the old wall had been taken down there would have been no loss of life; the beams were rotten, and he mentioned that fac! to Mr. Hewlett. ‘The testimony of Jacob Van Norden, the foreman o1 Hook and Ladder Company No. 5, merely tended to show how the wounded were rescued and the dead disinterred from the débris by the exertions of his corps. Augustus Stevens, who resides next door to the falien building, gave some unimportant Cael gta Margaret Hendrickson and her son Augustus, who live opposite, deposed that the; Ww the beams on the west side of the building give way, and then the front fail in. Sergeants Smith and Bogart were next called; but as they were not in the immediate vicinity at the time of ba their testimony was nat- urally unimportant. FREDERICK HEWLETT ‘s mason and foreman for Mr. Crawford; com- menced to alter the ile | SPN $5 the work was commenced two or three days before; excavated the cellar; worked day aiter day and saw the stones laid for foundation; the girder was twelve juches square, rested on beams and in the wall; worked up to second tier and third without dis- turbing the front; then got instructions to com- mence taking down the front and use the old brick on the extension; always supposed the building ‘was perfectly secure; not a word was ever said to me of any danger from the old building; between the trimmer ms there were six leet; between the others, sixteen inches from the centre; the beams were four inches in the wall, just the width ofa brick; some of the holes for the beams were cut out the morning of the accident, about ten or eleven o'clock ; some the day before. ‘Thomas Trainor, a mason, whose wrist was dislo- cated by the accident, was the next witness, He thought the js were QUITE AS SOUND AND SAFE as those in the generality of old buildings; he was employed on the new extension at the time of the ualty. ont Johnson Purdy, Inspector of Buildings in the Sixth district, testified that he had examined the building every day while it was in course of recon- struction; he thought everything was gale on his jast examination (the day previous to the acci- dent) (ad oe special attention to the gable end to in Whether it stood plumb; then con- sidered that the easterly would support the west- erly wall ander any circumstances; thought that the juent rains had softened mortar, and active operations on the wails directly afterwards had caused the accident, which he not think Ist pee happened if work apon the structure " Coroner adjourned the inquiry rv hae tan Gnttane a hours, an gales toda, HOME FROM THE HAUNTS OF NATURE, —— + The Fashionable Swallows Homeward Fiy—Summer Tr: Beginning to Set New Yorkward—The Grief of the B: The well-to-do New Yorkers who make it a yearly Practice to desert the city in the heated term and seek recreation, rest, amusement and health on the coast where the cool sea breezes cool them to repose, and in the mountains and glens oi the in- terior, where nature provides abundant means for enjoyment and health, already begin to turn their wistfui eyes homeward, and sigh for the luxury of their parlors and drawing rooms in the great, busy, noisy city of man’s construction. Two or three months’ communion with nature in the hills and lakes that the Creator has so bountifully distributed ailover the eastern part of the Continent dnally becomes monotonous, and even the most enthusiastic devotees of nature and fash- lonable life at the seaside finally tire 0! mountain climbings, sea bathing, ramblings in the woodiands, nightly bops, constant dressing and mineralaater drinking, and jondiy turn home- ward ior rest aud a renewal 01 sociaities that are yearly severed ior a season, THE COUL DAYS Of last week have had the effect o/ hastening the de- arture of many families irom the Wuite iountains, he Adriondscks and the Catskills, where fires, overcosts and siawis are tius early in dewand, and every train arriving at the depots and steamer making last to piers brings back wore or Jess 01 the popu On Of Gotham, Wio @ iew weeks ago packed Up and took unceremonious departure. the surly baggage s#masher now looks surlier than ever when the mammoth Saratogus come crowding 1a upon him, and he inwardly curses the clerk oi the weather for hurrying home the Flora Mcilimseys us he gives each trunk an additional kick in his evlorts to vent his spleen upon sometuing. The steamboat colored porters, on the ovatrary, are in eostasies, and rejoice at t.e arrival upon their piers of fash- jonable wardrobes, knowlng well that itis the Opening of their harvest, when iathers and hus- bands who look atter the trunk checking rarely fail to drop two or three “bits” into their paims as they hurry away to secure staverooms for their respective charges. INE CALCULATING DAREY dreams of new aresses ior Chioe and her little ones, gilt jeweiry jor his yirl, trilled shirt fronts with which to appear in society during the winter Months, anda suficient balance to stew away in the bank to pay bis board during the long winter while the fuating palaces are frozen at the piers in the meen ins element practically styled “the corpses of the ocean waves.” Note how irequently Jeflerson Africanus liits the gigantic trunks and soitly pines. them one upon anotoer! See how criti- cally he compares the checks, rubs off a spot of dirt with his coat sleeve or brightens a strap! And with what a serene smile he turns to “papa” with “Dar all right, sab. Here's yer checks |! What a contrast between Jefferson of the steam- boat pier and Jack Smith of the Grand Union depot. Every trunk brings to the former money— cents, dollars aud happy thoughts of joyous real- izations; to the other aches, strains, fatigue, vexa- tion and sore distreas, but no dollars as @ healing salve, Happy steamboat [sea wretched, un- happy baggane Smasher | ho would not be an Alrican rather thaa the white slave of a Cornelius Vanderbilt or Tom Scott at this season of the year when the fashionable SWALLOWS HOMEWARD FLY? There are, wherever the eye turns, evidences to be seen of the “coming back” of the fashionable population, Houses are being placed in order, car- penters lead the brigades of workmen with their planes, saws and hammers; plumbers pars into cellars and dark, musty nooks to ply their vocation ; servants rub their slothiul eyes because “master 1s coming home,” and make war upon dust, cob- webs and vermin, grocers, coal dealers and trades. people are on the qué vive to catch their old cus- mer in short, there is nothing but animation and sensation guing on ail over the city in couse- quence of the BREAKING UP OF FASHIONABLE COTERIES in the mountains and by the seaside, Those who are now returning, however, are not the cottagers, but rather the boarders, who Mit about from mineral springs to mountain, moun- tain to lake, lake to seaside, und who are not “anchored” to one particular locality, Those who select @ lavorite spot, there to remain the season, are not easily driven out by the chilly breath of a north wind whirling over @ mountain slope ora cold, damp iall fog driven in trom Old Ucean. Their time to return Wilf be a month hence, when the forest trees are tipped with golien iringe and the breath of Autumn plays hide-and-go-seek through their cottages by the cold blue sea. PUBLIC SCHOOLS OPENED. End of the Long Vacation—A Most Grat- itying Attendance at All the Schools— The Childre: Looking Well and Happy—Congratulatiens Between the Teachers and the Scholars—An Inter- esting Day to the Little People. The public schools were opened yesterday, after the long midsummer vacation. This is an event that always creates much excitement; for, whether among teachers or scholars, the renewal of labor, alter along rest, becomes a matter of some mo- ment. Especially, however, among the children is the Ist of September a day of great importance; for the lives of the little ones are lor the most part centred in the schoolroom. Alltne grave and ter- rible annoyances which aMlict their little heads and produce extraordinary grieis and various degrees of impatience ate the work of the school room. On the other hand, also, all the pleasures and big triumphs which set ther excitable natures to the bounds of delight are tne o.spring and the growth of the scho®l. It is therefore only reason- abie that the thousands and thousands of juvenile New Yorkers should have beea yesterday im a scate ol very serious excitement, remembering the day it was. © Perhaps the busy men of calculations and money- getting never heed or notice the troops o/ children going to or coming irom school, nor stop to listen to their clatter as they file along the streets, wrapped up in the discussion of the ng! events ofthe school room. A must interesting sight 1s thereby lost. However, the people who like to study such subjects as school and scholars will not be sorry that in every waid of the city yesterday the little people were again to be seen and heard, morning, noon and aiternoon, making the streets merry With their gossip and provokimg comical thoughts by the highly ancient demeanor so many of them assume, A cursory visIT to some of the principal ward schools in the city yesterday showed that the public schools opened With @ promise of increased confidence, In every school visited the principal stated that his pupils all presented themselves with most gratiiying punctuality, and each school was abie to report that the registiy was well filled. During the day the ward trustees, with commendable zeal, visited the schools and informally congratulated both teachers and pupils upon their return to work under such favorable circumstances, The children yesterday Gowns a very pleasin; appearance, and seemed the very picture of heait! and happy contentment. The best of reciprocal good feeling prevailed between teachers and scholars, and all looked as if they were really glad tha! 001 Was in” again, and that the daily work of lessons or lecture was to take the place of the idle time the long vacation had afforded, The Seventh ward prides itself, and not unde- servedly, on the efficiency of its schools, and yes- terday morning there was some little ceremony in the formal opening of Grammar School No. 2. In nearly ail the uther schools of the city there was no iormality indulged in. TEACHERS AND SCHOLARS setting in to work simply as if they had all met the day beiore, In each sclool, however, the teachers said a few words of welcome to tne pupils as the classes were formed, but beyond this there was no display. Jn Grammar School No. 2, however, Dr. Hi President of the Board of ‘irustees, formal pte the school, he having been intro- duced by the principal, Mr. Francis Joseph Hag- gerty, who made a@ brief address. Mr. gerty congratulated the scholars on their return, in evidently such good health. Aiter giving an interesting history of tue school, @ promised that with the co-operation of his upils he would make the school second to no other in tl Dr. Hayes then made some remarks, the singing of the usual morning hymn the school declared open, Dr, Hayes and Messrs. McBarron and Boschen, school trustees, then visited the two other schools in the ward— No. 12, the principal of which is Mr, John J. srg and No. 31, which is in charge of Mr. Henry P. O'Neill. Both these schools were found to be no way behind hand. No. 31, wich in Monroe street, near Montgomery, increasing rapidly in attendance, DURING THE PAST TWO YEARS it has prospered beyond precedent under its able management. Those puptis who have remained to graduate therefrom have given ample testimony to the character of the inairuction imparted therein. In view of the continued progress o/ the School, the trustees have had the building thor- oughly overhanied and neatly painted. Several new scholars were admitted yesterday and all the boys looked unusually sprign Hy. In their efforts to raise this institution to the highest standard of excellence, the teachers hi received the co- Operation ot the local und general boards, Among the other schools that yesterday opened with a marked increase in attendance was Grammar School No, 26, Filth street, in charge of Mr. Robert H, Pettigrew. The First ward schools were sreree With an excellent attendance and were visited by Dr. Merrail, Mr. Mcintyre and Mr. Michael Duffy, but each of the thape school butidings is now undergoing repairs and the opening was somewhat marred on that account. Without mentioning particularly the names of other schools, it may be sald that one and all made & very fine appearance yesterday. TRACHERS AND PUPILS ike seemed to get into work with @ will and as [yay i it, In many cases there Waa no Hag- TAMMANYISM IN NEWARK Masterly Inactivity of City Hall Satellites. Honorable Gentlemen Waxing Wealthy Without Work. A Commi tee of Investigation Ordered—Queer Beal Estate Transactions—Commissioners and Commissions—The Public Funds Used for Private Purposes. “Cast thy bread upon the waters,” says the sacred book, ‘and thou shalt find it after many days.” Many, many days ago—aye, several years ago—the HERALD cast its bread of trath on the waters of public intcrest in Newark, and now it i beginning to find it, Ia tne fall of 1871 the HERaLp, revealed & sys- tem of wholesale fraud which had !ong been car- ried on between the contractors ana the official representatives of the city in the matter of sewer and street improve- Meat, whereby the city was robbed out of thousands and thousands of dollars. It was shown at the time by names, dates, locations and figures, that by the collasion between the Sewer Inspector and the contractor large sums 0 money were paid for “rock excavations” where not am toch of anything but “made ground’—filled in land—was to be found. It was shown that im- mense sums were paid for work which turned out to be quagmire; that inferior qual- ity and under quantity of materials of all kinds were supplied, but charged and paid for a3 being of the beat kind and fullest quantity. It was shown that so loose had the business of the city been conducted that in many cases involving payments ag high as $50,000 the jobs had becn pro- nounced completed and the money paid out of the city treasury without @ contract having been drawn up, let alone signed, although the law dis- tinctly requires that no work shall be commenced or no moneys paid out until a contract 18 Signed by tho Mayor and the contractors. Ia several cases contracts were made out and signed by the Mayor after the work had been finished (after a fashion) and the money all paid over te contractors. Last summer these matters were brought to the notice of Judge Depue, who stronu! charged the September Grand Jury to look we into the matter; but there the whole thing was smothered and has not been heard of since. Now, however, A NEW PHASE OF ALLEGED RASCALITY has been unearthed, and with it a petter pro of success, in the interests of taxpayers and citi gens. ‘This phase 18 mainly of the type which con- signed to the State Prison ior nine months, at least, one of the Jersey Oity thieves. It is using. if the siatement made be true, public pusitions ‘or pri- vate gain—oflicials finding out in advance what treets will be laid out, and then, in scandalous and injamous ways, geising third parties to any ie manner of “addi up and proceed after ti ton, division and silence.’ It has long been source of wonderment to those who take an interest in city matters how a num- ber of city patriots, past and present, could throw up their own legitimate business, devote all their time and attention to “the iuterests of the city,” and yet grow wealthy. In several noted instances these disinterested and public-spirited officials prove to have been bankrupts in their own busi- Bess before going heart and soul into that of the city. To come to BARB, BOLD, UNVARNISHED FACTS, it is alleged that Joseph E. Young, Chairman of one ofthe two Boards of City Commissioners, whose auty it is to map out streets, induced (to use @ mild word) acitizen named Alvah Van Ness to agree to sell to him (Mr. zoung) his property om Seventh avenue, a house and lot, for $1,800; but when the deqd was prepared it was made out in favor of ex-Alderman Spencer Scott, formeriy Chairman of the Finance Sonim ee md Van, Ness demurred at this queer proceeding; but as he got his money, of it_in cash, he supposed it must be all ht, Several months after- wards the lance was city treasury a the City Treasurer—a proceeding that is impossible to understand and yet co! ler square and correct. The land wi sequently bonght by tie city at an extrav: Be crease of price. It appears meanwhile that Mr. Spencer scott did not own the land, according to the county register books, un @ year after the make-believe sale to Yourlg. is 18 only one in- stance o/ many similar cases which could be cited. ANOTHER EXTRAORDINARY TRANSACTION was that of the city, through Mr, Youngs, Com- missioner, with a Mr. John Regan and ex-Alder- man Scott. Regan owned land on the corner of Seventh avenue and First street, in Roseville. The Commissioners gave him $300 for a small strip, but to ex-Alderman Scott, it is alleged, they allowed, for @ piece o! land on the same avenue no bigger, -the handsome sum of $3,400. These two cases, imsignificant in them- selves, are cited from @ batch of others, for every one of which dates, names, localities and the pablic records, it is allege in hown. It seems the brothers-in-law, the sisters-in-law, the sons-in-law, and the politiclans-in-law, ein these ways been feathering up nice little nosts for themselves at the expense of the people. As tt was in Jersey City 80 it appears to be in Newark; creatures weari tee livery of one party ar Just as corrupt as the other—the majority. THE MOST SIGNIFICANT, as it is the latest and most singular resolution, is an alleged statement of fact revarding the present Receiver of Taxes, John A. Broadwell. A few years ago, less than taree, Mr. Broadwell was te ot the City Hall—a position with a salary of less than one thousand dollars ayear. He lived in the attie 0! the building in a style suitable to his position and his salary, In January, 1872, he was appointed to his present position, the salary of which was first $2,000 and then $2,500 per anhum, with nota cent of legal commission or perquisite. Neverthe- less, inside of this time, Mr. Broad well, if the Count; Register's books mean anything, has saved enougl to purchase an $8,000 piec* of property in Plain- field ($2,800 cash down) and a $19,000 residence in South Broad street, the Filth avenue of Newark. His name gna in connection with several other lesser purchases. Of course, people have got talk- ing over these matters and putting to themselves such @ puzzling question as this—How could Broad- well do all this on his salary at the City Hall? ‘The upshot is that the committee is so worked up over the maiter that the Common Council has informally resolved to passa resoiution next Fri- day night providing for a committee of citizens to everythin; z, é make a thorougu investigation of af fairs around the City Hall, The Coun- cil has a twothirds republican majority and a complete set of republican oflicers from the Mayor down. Yesterday afternoon the two republican organs of the city announced the determination of the Council. One of them wound up its double leaded notice with the following paragraph :— The recent experience of other cities excites a sus- picion which we believe to be unjustifiable in the cae of Newark, but thero is No good reason why there shoul Not be a thorough insight into all the alleged trregulari- ties and why justice ould not be done to the accusers as well as the wecused, At any rate, let us have the in vestigation. Let the Commission be formaily appoint with power to examine books, papers and persons, anc then Tor us know whether any wrong has been intlicted upon us The commission is to be con largely of democrats. It is to be hoped it will look better alter the interests of the city than the committee which is responsible for the charter amendment, ‘with its $1,600,000 bonds and its Comptroller clause, HORSE NOTES, The Goshen Park Association commence theft horse fair, at thelr grounds in Goshen, Orange county, to-day, with two trotting contests—the first for horses that have never beaten three min- utes, and the second for horses that have never trotted better than 2:27. There are thirteen en- tries for the first and ocight for the second. On Wednesday there wil be two trots and a running race, and on Thursday a trot and a hurdle race. ‘The purses are liberal, and there is no doubt about the result in the minds of the managers, THE GOOD SAMARITAN IN TRENTON, WN. 2 A hospital is building in Trenton, N, J., under the auspices of the Sisters of St, Francia, which, when completed, will present an imposing appear- ance. Access will be had to it by ail classes of im- valids, without dis'inction of race, religion or color, and all patients will be treated alike, without favor or partiality, As there is no Institution of a simi- lar nature in that city, ta inhabitants take a deep interest in the success of the undertaking. A pice Bio Was held yesterday tor the benefit thereof, which was largely attended by citizens of every class, the members of the diferent Jodges of O€.. Fellows being most conspicuous. A JERSEY SQUIRE IN TROUBLE A Jersey Justice of the Peace (?) named Reichel was before the Mayor of Trenton receutly on @ charge preferred against him by a Mr. Arnold for keeping a disorderly house. The complainant stated that fighting had been carried on in the “Squire's” house jor two days In succession, and that the nelgnoots ware, much annoyed in conse~ quence. He had o' a to give Reichel $10 If he would change his residence. The latter ref ta accept the offer, saying that his better half was the cause of the tumult, and he exhibited some blood- stained Seale ware prove his piegasicn. a