The New York Herald Newspaper, September 15, 1873, Page 7

NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 1: WASHINGTON. ‘The President’s Endorsement of the District Ring Robberies Causing a Storm of Indignation. HONEST REPUBLICANS ALARMED The Fortheoming Pow-Wow with the Kiowas and Comanches---Crow Indians Talked Out of 6,000,000 Acres of Land, WASHINGTON, Sept. 14, 1873, The- appointment of Alexande? R. Shepherd, Vice President of the Board of Public Works, as Governor of the District of Columbia, vice Henry D. Cooke, resigned, was anticipated in these despatches a week ago. Since it has been formally announced the indignation of the people of the District is very great. No one ts censured but the President, and the question is asked on every side, Is it bis contempt for public opinion, his ignorance of the sentiment of the people, or is it his stolid indifference that nerves him to such action ? Undoubtealy loss would be said, or, rather, the in- ignation of the helpless property holders would mot be so well defined, were it not that the recent HERALD leaders on tke calibre of our public men and the evident want of concern tat President Grant has shown toward matters directly pertaming to the people have given widespread expression to views bitherto unre- fected. It ig stated on unquestionable authority thatthe resignation of Governor Cooke and the appointments of a man who has virtually been ‘Governor, whose reckless expenditure of govern- ment appropriations is commended by the Presi- Gent in accepting the resignation of Mr. Cooke, is but tho ‘beginning of a scheme to {cist on the government the entire indebtedness of the District of Columbia and make the credit of the United States responsible for not less than twenty millions of indebtedness contracted by the Territorial government, now Jess than three years in existence. To thisend the President will, in his next annual message, recom- ‘mend the abolition of the Territorial form of government for the District of Columbia and the appointment of commissioners, so that the cost of running so expensive a form of government may be saved to the people. He will further recom mend that Congress assume tne existing indebted- meas of the District, and perfect the compre- hensive plan of improvements inaugurated by the Board of Public Works, It ts proposed to vest the executive authority in three or five commissioners, appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate, who shall annually report to Congress, This, it is argued, will dispense with @ multitude of petty oficiais, Save the expense of annual registrations, elec- tions, salaries of delegates and materially lessen the rate of taxation. All this is to be done because the District is hopelessly sunk in debt and the government alone can save it. The features of the retroactive or prospective increase of Congress- man’s pay, or even the Crédit Mobilier scheme, are shapely and sightly compared with the audacity of this proposed shifting of an un- warranted indebtedness on the people of the coun- try. Thousands and tens of thousands of dollars already expended in laying concrete and wooden pavements on streets the grades of which had been fixed alter great expense and Inconventence to the property-owners and residents is to be Wasted by lowering the grade of interesting streets, obliging the Board oi Public Works to tear up all this expensive work and double the cost by relaying it. About the Inte- rior and Post Office Departments the most shameful waste of the public funds is going on. Judge Edmunds, the City Postmaster, told your correspondent that it cost the govern- ment $5,000 merely to grade the carriage way about the Post Ofiice building, so that the mail Wagons could leave and receive the mails. Now the grade is again lowered three feet, incon- veniencing the Post Ofice Department and treb- ling the cost ofthe improvement. But 1¢ is already announced that ifan attempt is made to change the form of the District government and make the government responsible for the indebtedness already incurred an investigation of the manner 4n which the affairs of the District government ‘have been conducted will be demanded, the result of whicn, it 1s said, will ecilpse the Crébit Mobilier investigation, and show how many members of Congress and promi- ment government officials have invested money “where it would do the most good.” The placing of a plank walk from the depot to the gate of General Grant's house at Galena has its counter- | part here on the most extensive scale in the paving Oi avenues and streets in localities where Senators and Representatives have invested and are anxious to realize large sums of money, And all this will be denounced by administration members of Con- gress more vehemently than the people have de- nounced back pay. But what Is most to be regretted ig that the President has, over his own signature, ‘warmly praisea that which the voice of the people 1s bound to condemn should-Congress attempt to whitewash an investigation, What could be more glaring than five prominent District oiticials, all officers of one bank, viz.:—Alexander R. Shep- herd, Governor of the District of Columbia and Director of the National Metropolitan Bank; Dr. John P. Blake, Vice President of the Board of Pub- lc Works, Shepherd’s successor, and President of the National Metropolitan Bank; Noses Kelley, Treasurer of the Sinking Fund Commission of the District and cashier of the National Metro- politan Bank, and John W, Thompson, member of the District Council and Director of the National Metropousan Bank, Y The action of the President in endorsing the conduct of the Board oi Public Works has done more to convince sceptical republicans of the truth of the HERALp’s course in pointing out the danger ahead than anything that could have hap- pened, and such isthe prevailing sentiment in Washington reflected to-night in the special despatches to nearly every leading republican paper in the United States, Further Light on the Burning of Colam- bia, 8S. C.—General Shernan Offers Proof that the Rebels Were the Incendiarics. The Daily Morning Chronicle of to-morrow will publish the following letter from General Sherman in relation to the burning of Columbia :— HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE UNITED ae} WASHINGTON, D, C., Sept, 12, 1873 TO THE EDITOR OF THE CHRONICLE:— DEAR Sin—When you applied to me some time for material caring on the controversy of 0 Burned Columbia?” I gave you two printed pamphlets which I had obtained from Judge Holt, containing all the testimony taken in the cotton cases growing out of that event, and submitted to tne mixed commission appointed to adjudicate these cases under the treaty with Great Britain. Judge Holt could have obtained the testimony of all the 8,000 or 10,000 officers and sol- dters who were at or near Columbia when the con- bo ch occurred, but he thought he had enough without putting the government to the expense of bringing more witnesses from a distance. | sup- pose he did not summon Colonel Stone, who com- manded the leading brigade of the Fifteenth corps, because he did’ not know where to find him. 1 surely did not know his whereabouts till he voluntarily published his statement. In my oficial Feport of the affair, pub- lished before the close of the war, when General Wade Lal was fighting And not when, as he alleges, he was a prisoner of war, I referred in- cidentally to a fact of which I had knowledge that A small detachment of the Seventeenth corps had passed over the Congaree, had entere: Columbia and hoisted @ flag on the new State House in ad- vance of the regular entry of the Fifteenth corps, which had made a@ circuit to cross the two branches, Solinda and Broad, which make the Con- garee. I treated the performance of this detach- ment as somewhat irregular, but the men who composed it new become important witnesses, and Therewith cnelose coples_of their written state- menta together with the oMcial reports which ex- plain the whole affair, ‘These witnesses go back to @ time three quarters of an hour before the entry of the head of Stone's brigade, and about two hours head of the tme I _personaily reached the piles of burning cotton, of Which there were many, and I in vite your careful perusal of théir statements, for they are positive that they saw rebel cavalry sol- diers rippi y heed the bales of cotton and applying fre. They also saw rebel soldiers pluudering the stores on Main street, which General Hiampton at- tributes to our men; and they further positively assert that Hampton had aiready gone out of Co- lumbia, so that he could not and didnot sce his men applying fire, Now Hampton admits that the cotton was rolled out streets “ ‘ ” bat that ue forbade the baru het toe ere extend to the houses; and [ reiterate, that no matter what his orders were, the men of his army, either bis rear guard or his’ stragglers, did apply the ire, and that this was a sufficient cause for all else that followed, With great respect, yours, W. T. SHERMAN, General, Postmaster General Creswell Baffled in His Scheme to Elect Himself to the Senate. The nominations of the Maryland Repiviican State Convention on Firday for Vomptrolier of the State Treasury and Cleré of the Court of Appeals were part of Postmaster General Creswell’s Scheme to control the Legislature and have him Sell clected to the United States Senate. The dis Sensions of the democratic party in Baltimore city and a number of the counties have been carefully cultivated with a view to this end, and they were expected to create such @ diversion as would as- sist in returning @ pliable Oreswell repub- ican majority to the State Legis‘ature. Mr. Creswell, however, has over-reached himself tn the State nominations, They ere exeeedingly weak, and the platform is the Shabbiest performance of any republican con- vention of the year, Its servile endorsement of President Grant was its only reference to na- Uonal questions, and Mr. Cresweli’s orders forbade it to condemn the back pay swindle. He has so many of the grabbers among ms Congressional friends that he will count it a triumph to show them that the republicans of his State endorse by refusing to condem them; but information from reliable sources shows that the republican party in Maryland will refuse to commit itself to Mr. Cres- well, and that all hopes of carrying the Legisiature were ruined by the action of the State Conven- tion. Ifthere is anything certain it is that the republicans of the State have lost their hopes of carrying the Legisiature by the action of the Con- vention. The Crow indians Persuaded to Give up 6,000,000 Acres of Land. During the last session of Congress an act was passed authorizing tue Secretary of the Interior “to negotiate with the chiefs and head men of the Crow tribe of Indians, in Montana, for a surrender of their reservation in that Territory, or of such Part thereof as may be consistent with the welfare of said Indians.” Under this act, a Commission, consistng of Felix R. Brunot, Chairman of the Board of Indian Commissioners; General E. Whittlesey and James Wright, with Thomas K. Cree, Secretary to the Board, met the Crows {in council, near Bozeman, in August. There were present on the part of the Mountain Crows, Iron Bull, Blackfoot, Thin Belly, Bearwolf, Old Crow, Goodheart and many other prominent cbiefs, and of the River Crows Little Soldier and Wolfs Bow. The Council lasted four days, during which speeches were made by the Indians who, after much deliberation among themselves, agreed to accept in lieu of their Present reservation a tract of country on the Missourl, Known as Judith’s Basin, the United States to set apart the sum of ¢1,000,000 to be held in trust for the benefit of the Crows, and to prevent wolflug and hunting of game in their country, it being expressly understood that their present position is in no wise changed by this agree- ment until the action of Congress shall be had upon it. No promises or inducements were held out to the Indians other than those embodied in the agreement, and no conferences were had with any of the chiefs except in public council, The councils were well attended, all the chiefs and head men = and many of the Indian men and women being present at every session. The commission feel satisfied this action of the council meets with tne almost unanimous approval of the Indians. if the Senate and House of Representatives ratify this agree- Ment, more than 6,000,000 of acres of valuabie Mining land will be opened up to settlement. The Commissioners speak very well of the Crows and their very good disposition towards the whites. Deep Sea Searches Rendered Easy. Since the bottom of the sea is wanted for inter- national communication the attention of in- genious men has been turned toa ficld of lavor hitherto almost entirely neglected. While tor years scientists have been striving to explore in every way the surface and intestines of the earth, but comparatively little is at the present day kuown of the beds of the wide oceans. Tne difficulties at- tending the examination of the bottom of tbe Seas appeared to be insuperable until, from neces- Sliy, means were invented to ascertain the physical condition ot the ocean beds for cable purposes. The sounding in the Atlantic by our naval vessels prior to carrying the cable which now connects the two continents, and sim- ilar undertakings by Great Britain and France, have since brought forward a number of devices for more successtully sounding at greater depths, This hemp line is being superseded by steel piano wire, which, from {ts smooth surface, its greater tenacity and elasticity and comparative lightness, is found superior to any other wire. -The problem of bringing up specimens of bottom, however, offers greater difficulties. The United States steamer Tuscarora, which is now engaged in searciing for a suitable berth for a trans-Pacific cable trom San Francisco to Japan via the Aleutian Isiand chain, has been fitted by the Navy Department, under special instructions from tne Bureau of Navigation, with a number of appli- ances for sounding in deep water, including the machine and dynamometer invented by Sir William Thomson, for the use of piano wire, which has al- ready been successfully tried about forty miles outside of San Francisco in depths ranging from 141 to 1,049 fathoms, Besides, Commander G. E. Belknap has made an improvement of the apparatus hitherto thought best adapted for bring- ing up specimens of bottom, of which he lias sent a model to the Bureau of Navigation, which is much admired by all officers who bave scen it. Bel- knap’s improvement ig the Brookes’ sel!-detaching shot apparatus for bringing up particles of bottom in quills consists of two cylinders, ixed one above the other when the instrument is set and descending through the water, and to close tel- escopically when the shot detachgs on reaching the bottom. The lower cylinder is fitted with a conical cup at the lower extremity for the recep- tion of parts of the bottom through an aperture, which, while descending, admits a flow of water upward through the cylinders by means of vaives which close hermetically by the pressure of the water when the apparatus is being hauled up from below. The upper cylinder covers the aperture in the lower one on detacaing the shot, 80 that the water cannot wash out the bot- tom caught in the conicalcup. Thus Commander Belknap has discovered a practical and unfailing method of not only bringing up safely a larger amount of bottom from the ocean bed than has hitherto been brought up, but also as much water as is caught between the two valves in the lower cylinder at the moment of striking the bottom. The Council with the Kiowas and Comanches at Fort Stil. Commissioner of Indian Affairs Smith will leave Washington toward the end of this month for Fort Sill, where he will join Secretary Delano and Goy- ernor Davis, of Texas, for the purpose of holding a conference with the Kiowas in connection with Big Tree aud Satanta, now at that place. Governor Davis proposes as a condition precedent to for- mally restoring these chiefs to their people, that both the Kiowas and Comanches deliver up or sell their horses, 80 that they may not have the means to go beyond their reservation to commit depreda- tions, But some other means may be adopted to satisfy Governor Davis, should the proposition be rejected. ’ No Tax on German Newspapers, With reference to the complaints which were re- cently made that newspapers printed in this coun- German language were subjected to tax When received in Prussia, the Post Office Depart- ment addressed a letter to the Post Ofice authori- ties of the German Einpire, and arepiy has been, received irom Berlin that for the newspapers in the German language coming tnder bona from ‘he United States of America, which are directed to the Kingdom of Prussia, @ newspaper tax is no longer collected from those to whom they are ad Greased by the Post Oillges OD that side, SPAIN. Parliamentary Preparation for an Important Debato—The Insurgent Navy After a Cruise—A Battle with the Carlists Imminent. TELECEARS TO THE REW YORK HERALD. MADRID,"Sept. 14, 1873. In the Cortes a debate on the suspousion of tue sitting is appointed sor Tuesday, 16th inst. THE INSURGENT NAVY AFTER AN UNEVENTFUL CRUISE, The insurgent men-o!-war Fernando el Catolico and Numancia, which sailed for lorrevega, have returned to Cartagena without making a landmg. Battle with the Bourbonists Imminent. Bayonne, Sept, 18—Evening. The republicans are reconnoitering the Carist positions at Vergara, in Guipuzcoa, evidently with the intention of making an attack. News of an engagement ts hourly expected, The republican force outnumbers that of the Carlists, but the latter are strongly entrenched. CHOLERA IN EUROPE. (TREE ERAN EE Quarantine Against Vesso's ‘rom a French Port. TELECPAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Loxpon, Sept. 14, 1873, Steamers from Marseilles are submitted to strict quarantine at Constantinople on account of cholera, Pea ON Oe OREM OCEAN TELUGRAPIY. eens Return of Cable-Laying Ships to England TLILCFAM TO TRE MEW YORK HERALD. Lonpon, Sept. 14, 1873. Hastern and Hibernia homeward The steamships Great passed Crovkhaven this morning bound, CUBA. Relief for the Sufferers by the Fire in Havana— An American Arrested. TELCERAM TG THE NEW YORK HERALD. HAVANA, Sept. 14, 1873, The subscriptions in this etty for the relief of the Sulferers by the recent conflagration amount to $200,000, SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST AN AMERICAN: An American, who lately arrived trom New York, has been arrested at Cardenas on the charge of attempting to circulate counterieit bills of the Spanish Bank of Mayana. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES. The Salvini season at the Academy begins on Tuesday evening with ‘Othello,’ which ts to be repeated on Thursday night. For Saturday night the play 1s to be “Ingomar.” Professors Pepper and Tobin, of the London Royal Polytechnic Institution, give the first of a Serlea of lectures on “Science Simplified” this evening, at Association Hall. The “ghost,” Frankenstein, &c., are to be introduced in the course, Both the Brooklyn theatres are now open. The initial performance at Mrs. Conway's took place on Saturday evening, when “Othello” was produced. This evening ‘‘Hamlet” will be the play. Atthe new Park Bulwer’s play of “Money” will be done this week, From this it will be seen that our Brooklyn neighbors are not wanting in ambition. Bryant’s Opera House is doing a good business in the old-fashioned negro minstrelsy and negro comedy business. This is well enough in its way, but it seems that an actor as accomplished as Dan Bryant should be able to elevate the standard of this class of amusements without detracting from the fun and merriment of the entertainment, He has a beautital little theatre, admirably adaptea to lighter comedy than the inevitable colored ar- ticle. The success of the Vokes family is an ex- ample for our minor theatres, ‘THE CALIFORNIA ELECLION. Enthusiastic Keception of Governor Booth in San Francisco. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 14, 1878, The reception to Governor Booth last night, on his arrival from the capital, was a perfect ovation. Thousands of people assembled at the boat land- ing and there were music and transparencies, and @ bonfire was kindled on Telegraph Hill. Houses on the line of the procession were brilliantly illu- minated. Governor Booth was escorted by the en- thusiastic multitude to the Grand Hotel, where he made a speech, congratulating the people on their complete victory over railroad hae He re- ferred briefly to Stanford's statement on Thursday, at Sacramento, that the bonds of the company cannot be sold in the Fast or in Europe since tie result of the election was made known, He said the bonds are worth as much now as ever, but if the credit of the company depended on pledgin; the manhood and independence of the people o! California, the sooner its credit was destroyed the etter. About 6,000 people formed in the procession ‘and listened to the speech, and the greatest enthu- siasm prevailed throughout. grand demonstration of the people witnessed in this city. ANOTHER BALLOON 10 GO UP, A Party of Six Preparing to Start Sky- ward from Buffalo. Burrato, N. Y., Sept. 14, 1873, Professor 8S. A. King has everything ready for a balloon ascension on Tuesday next, The process of inflating will commence early on Tuesday morn- ing. ‘Ihe ascension will take place at noon. The party wiil consist of six, including representatives of the local pres: ASSAULT AND ROBBERY IN PHILADELPHIA. PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 14, 1873. To-night, ad one John Griffin, a fourth oficer upon the steamship Italy, of the National line, was crossing a street running diagonally with Arch street, he was violently struck on the head by an unknown person, and, while in an unconscious state, was robbed of $53 in money and of mauy valuable papers belonging to his mate. He had ob- tained a leave of absence to return to his home in South Carolina, aud was passing, en roude for the residence of a friend, SUDDEN DEATH AT THE HOPPER HOME, Yesterday afternoon Coroner Keenan was called to the “Isaac T. Hopper Home," 213 Tenth avenue, to hold an inquest over the remains of Ellen Burns, an intelligent but very unfortunate woman, fifty years of age, who died suddenly a few hours pre- vious. Deceased was admitted to the Home on Saturday in a wretched condition, and doubtless death was hastened by the excessive use of alco- holic stimulants. The body was sent to the Morgue and will be buried at the expense of the city, SUICIDE, John Gerthais, of No. 214 avenue A, committed suicide last night at his residence by shooting him- in the hea self The Coroner was notified, - A OABD FROM MR. WALTER GIBSON, w YORK, Sept. 13, 1873, To THe Eprror or THE HERALD:~ My attention has been called to & card, published without my knowledge, a few days ago, in the HERALD, and signed “Sympathizer,”’ by a well-inten- tioned stranger who, apparently, supposed I was in- capable of earning my living because 1 have bp blinded by vitriol thrown into my righteye. La preciate his kindness and the humane emaLbns Promptness in opening its columns for a plea for charity. Iam, however, an unworthy object, as the Hartem Local, of which I am pul amie prospered during the year I have owned it, and the rospect this fall 1s extremely bers If the RALD would exhort the people of Harlem to offer $5,000 reward for tbe conviction of those en- gaged in vitriol throwing it would be just the sey. vice that Iand all other editors require to be dome for our safety. The generous impuise tha: induzed the HeaLp to undertake for me a@ service I, for: | Srna one f sorely need, tunately, did not require, will surel le it to vous $1,000 18 Slr gOST AER GIDSON, Publisher of Hyrlem Zocat Seldom was such a | THE LLOYD'S BEACH HORROR, Is the Social Tragedy of Hunting- ton To Be Revealed ? Who Will Turn State's Witness ?—New Links in tho Ohain of Evidence—Start- ling Developments Expected—New Facts and New Witnesses— Arthur Prime's Crime. Another Part of Kelsey’s Body To Be Traced. Hentrncton, L. 1, Sept. 14, 1873, The high state of feeling that now exists here in reference to the Kelsey tarring and feathering out- rage anu probable murder indicates that ere many weeks have passea there will be stirring scenes enacted between the hostile factions into wnich that crime has arrayed the community, 1t must be premised that in the whole town, and most likely in the whole county, there is not a man who has not actually taken a position of rivalry either on one side or the other on this qnestion. I have visited several townships and have never yet found @ man, to whom 1 addressed any remark on the subject of the crime, who was not at once ready to enter into an almost indefinite conversation concerning it. Invariably, too, people are very out- spoken and boid in the expression of thetr opinions, and the chances are great that the second or third sentence will leave you thoroughly informed as to the partisanship of the speaker, There is this dif- ference, however, that the Kelsey party is in the proportion of about ninety-five per cent of the com- munity and is generally flerce in its denunciations and inclined to be summary and uncompromising in all the measures it adopts to secure the detec+ tion and punishment of the perpetrators. This 1s essentially the “party of action,” The other five per cent are wary, apologetic and assume the air of in- jured innocence; but they will resort to desperate means in their own defence, if pushed to1t. They have, think, shown that already by the wholesale perjury which has been committed. Fancy an outrage like this was, perpetrated in the presence of twenty or thirty persons, in a small community, where EVERYBODY KNOWS EVERYBODY RISE, and yet of the nine persons who admit their pres- ence it is impossible to show that any one of them tad any part in handling or touching the victim, nor do they appear to know any one of the other fifteen or twenty persons who did the handling, although all knew who the subject of the outrage was, and several of them are shown by their own and other testimony to have known that Kelsey was to have been captured and treated in an ex- emplary manner on that evening. Now, however, that Arthur M. Prime has been sent before the Grand Jury on a commitment for perjury and will certainly be indicted to-morrow the fight is commenced in earnest, This is the first gun, and the chances are that within ten or fllteen days the developments will be startling. If in- dicted Prime'will be certainly convicted, and if he is convicted he will be equally certain to be sent to the State Prison for the full term of ten years, He knows, unquestionably, enough to put the authorities in full possession of the situation, and there may be great inducements held out to him to TELL ALL HE KNOWS, He is & young man, twenty-four or twenty-five years of age, and has been but a short time married. His prospects in life are Mattering, and his family connections are very good, he being Telated in the third or fourth degree of con- sanguinity with a distinguished New York family of the same name. He can ill afford to blast his future by going to prison for along time and be- coming a social outlaw thereatter. The chances gre ten to one that he can secure immunity by turning State's evidence, if he is himself implicated in the outrage, or by revealing the acts and the individuality of those who were. There is no question of the fact that some of those who were implicated are deeply alarmed on this point at present, and each one of them hag over and over again calculated the advantages to himself of being first to disclose the facts. Ihave been very reliably informed that already overtures have been made looking to such a result, and it need surprise no one to learn within the coming week that, excluding Prime altogether, one very important witness has confessed, In addition to this, I know positively that THE AUTHORITIES ARE WORKING QUIBTLY and skilfully with detective ald toward the solution of three vital points of proo!, one of which con- cerns the discovery of another portion o! the body of Kelsey. It may be interesting, too, 0 some persons to know that the clew upon which this latter pony is being worked up was obtained ten miles from this place, and is to be followed back to one or both of two women, only one of whom has as yet figured in tue case. and that but slightly, It is said, too, that upon minor points there hag lately been developed a jarge amount of evidence, ail of which goes to substantiate the proofs already submitted and to shed much new light on the whole affair. It may be usked, “How were the perpetrators to be identified when they were masked??? But the ey, is very pertinent, “Why did Dr. Banks and the Primes and Mr. Hurd and John McKay, who call themselv: @ of ‘the bos families in the place,’ assoctul emselves: will A BAND OF MASKED MARAUDERS assembled to do an unlawful deed. And why was there no remonstrance [trom Mrs, Oakley or Miss smith against the trespass of this disguised and unknown band of men on their premises ? On this point a witness is to be produced at the resumption of the inquest who will swear that he was told by Mr. A. T. Hurd that he himself (Hurd) had a handkerchie! over bis face on that night of November 4. This would seem to {dentify Hurd with the party inmask. And, while on this sub- Ject, ma! state that it has been ascertained that some masks were seen in the house of one of the persons implica- | ted @n the afternoon preceeding the evening of the outrage, Testimony on this point also will be adduced at the inquest. The most important new proofs yet to, be brought forward, however, are those relating to the discovery of the portion oi the body above referred to and of the discovery of BLOOD IN A SMALL BOAT on Lioyd’s Beach, where it is supposed the body was sunk, At that time there was a slooy beiong- ing to Albert Carter, of Greenpoint, on the Leach, taking in a cargo of gravel. Captain Carter states that on the morning of November 6 he found blood in the bottom of the small boat attached to his yes- | sel, and discovered proofs, in the manner of the tying of the boat and its changed location, that it had been used during the night by some one. ‘The story that two men were seen carrying @ large bundle into a boat at that time, and that they alter- ward returued without the bundle, is uniounded, Ihave conversed with James Good, 4 man who re- sides on the north aide of Lloyd's Harbor, and who is the only other man who kuows anything which he will tell about a boat being used in the harbor that night. He says he ween to be outin the yard about five minutes before three o'clock on the morning of November 5. The morning was very dark. His attention was attracted by the sound of oars in the rowlocks of a boat proceeding up the harbor toward Lloyd’s Neck, and he states that ti rowers were pulling with a rapidity of stroke that was Very unusual, a8 Was also tie fact still more unusual to find ‘A BOAT PASSING THAT WAY at all at such an hour, On returning to the house he looked at the clock ahd ascertained the tine, merely with a view to iearning how €oon the day- break would come, The tide at three o’ciock in that month was about full and the occupants of the boat could easily have carried it over the neck which, at high tide, would not be more than fitty feet in width, The assumption is that this boat went down to carry the body into the bay, and was making fast time to meet the wagon ip which, by another route, the body was being carried to the beach on the westerly side of the neck. Mr. E. K. Bryar, a respectable gentleman who lives * about two miles from the beach, on the Harbor roel, states that at three o’clock on the morning of November 5 he was out of bed, being from some cause unable to sleep that night. At three or four minutes besore three o'clock he went to the window and looked up the road. Shortly after- ward he heard @ wagon drive past the house at about a ‘four-minute gait’ toward the beach. The cigcumstance was very unusual, but he thougbt that it might be some one going for a doctor, or éhat the people were in some way engaged in elec- tion matters and found It necessary to ve asiir A early. Ue still remained sitting up and TAE WAGON RETURNED about fifty minutes later, whic would have given ample tinie to reach the beach, to have remained there twenty minutes or half aa hour, and to have returned as described. In passing his house the second time, also, the wagon wus driven at the rapid gait above mentioned, course it may he said that this was a country toad, and that Ynere may have beca wwouly 1873.—TRIPLE SHEET. Tawons, about, But ft 18 also to be {weed that if the wagon ha! been driven ti persons On legitimate business they won", gre this, have come forward gud acknowledged the a at they had ‘d the place {ndicated at the ind mentioned. lad they becn frieads of the tm- plicate Ag tbeg they would have coms’ forward and acknowledged it, so as to clear their hiends from tus suspicion ; and if they were iriends of rue Kelsey faction they would, or at least should, acknowle that they passed over the road at that time of it 80 as to take the legal authorities olf this trail, ifit be in this manner false. There is ething peculiar about the way in which It was noticed by Joel Seataey sey. ice ry Joel Scudder a short out from the village, and another man who resides near the beach heard it also. And still another Wagon story, this time having the appearance of Perspicuity, A citizen named Charles Hart is in possession of the names of some persons who Were returning {from @ spree or party of nome sort in the west end of the viliago & portion of the street known as “the Bowery.” It was about one otclock in the morning, and as they descended the Bowery Hii Shae saw & wagon and some person or persons in it having @ lantern. They suppose that the parties in the wagon detected their near approach, for the horges were at once turned about, retraced a portion of the route, and then turned off to the left (northward) into Wall street and were lost sight of. That wagon these morning roysterers have repeatedly declared to bo- long to the Primes. They state that they tdenti- fled it beyond question. Now, by following the Wall street route toward the muil, a person may reach Lioyd's Beach ALONG THE SHORE ROAD. Of course if that course was taken the testimony of Mr. Bryar and of Mr. Scudder as to the wagon they heard amounts to nothing. But I belleve that this same Wall street road, if followed @ certain distance, leads into the road on which Mr. Bryar lives, and in this way it may have been one and the same wagon which was thus heard or encoun- tered ai various points. Or, indeed, there was nothing to hinder the wagon from turning from Wall street back into Main street after eluding the tea party people and then proceeding by the Cold Spring road to Lloyd's beach. The place where THAT TRLI-TALB SUIRT, with the bloody front skirt, was found within a few yards of the post which mai four miles from Huntington village. There was also with it a boot. ‘They lay beside the road just acroga @ little rough, wooden bridge which crosses a small water course-| in the marshes. Mr. Bryer stated to me to-day that in the lalla 4 of that bridge there was, last fall, lank near the edge, which was elevated two inches above the level oi the roadway. The theory 1s that these articles formed a loosely rolled bundie in the rear of the wagon, and that as the vehicle was driven rapidly in the great haste and dark- ness over this unevenness on the bridge the con- cussion of the springs bounced the bundie out and it was lost. In connection with the assumption that this was the dead man’s shirt, it must be re- membered that the gang had stripped him entirely naked before they tarred and feathered him, and to explain the FINDING OF BUT ONR BOOT it need only be remembered that as he was leaving Mra. Oakicy’s yard, with some of his clothing in his arms and with his jeering tor- mentors at his heels, he threw one of his boots at Dr. Banks, who, it will be remembered, was courteous enough to the ladies on the stoop and to the murdering rufians in the yard to pold up a lantern which he carried several times 60 that they might see tho wretch who was the cowering and AU ay Sn Fly ange mplaiing subject of their vengeance, And Royal Sammis, the now successful aspirant for the hand of the young woman, who fulfils the old adage of being “at the bottom of all the trouble,” was gallant enough to le Smith out to see THIS EDIFYING SPECTACLE, And at one time Kelsey was actually standin, between Sammis and Banks in the yard, wit Banks politely holding up the ant to Keisey’s ear. ‘This is the sworn testimony, and yet Royal sammis told me ten days ago, in New York city, that he was not present when the tarring and leathering was done, and that he only reached the yard of Mrs, Oakley’s house just as Kelsey was leaving. The fact 1s that he knew all about the contempla- tion as well as the Carrying O08 of the pilot, and the weight of evidence favors the presumption that he gave personal assistance, and Dr. Banks is in the same category; and when all of these people. whose names are known, deny that they know any of the individuals who pot on the tar and ie aud handled Kelsey they utter wilful false ods, ‘There is much more that could be written and which never has been written which tends to show the enormity of the manner of the outraze on Kelsey and of the identity of the probably guilty parties. The first is not fit to be put in rint, and the last is of such a nature that its pub- Hosubn would, porters, defeat the’ ends 01 justice, On the whole, however, it may be relied on that the toils are SLOWLY BUT SURELY BRING DRAWN around them. There will be many new points de- veloped ut the Inquest, and as soon as the town meeting, which hag been called tor Tuesday, bas been held, and some requisite funds subscribed, the work will be pressed ruthlessly. Prime will certainly be indicted to-motrow at Riverhead. Justice Monfort, Coroner Baylis, and Claudius B, Prime, the prisoner's father, have been summoned'to appear before the Grand Jury. The first will produce the record and verify the identity of the prisoner as a witness in the @ Cor- procesalogs last fall. oner will produce the record and vertfy the iden- tity of the prisoner as a witness before Lim, on Tuesday last, when PRIME SWORF POINT BLANK against his former testimony, and swore also that he knew hia first testimony was false at the time he was testifying. His father also is in the embar- rassing predicament of having to swear against his own son and sustaining the evidence which is to make him a convict and deprive him of the rights of citizenship. If that is not retribution tt would be etal to understand what the meaning of the word is, Trial of Two of the Alleged Terrorists Postponed. The September term of the County Court and Court of Sessions of Suffolk county will commence at the Court House in Riverhead to-day. The most Interesting case on the calendar was that of Messrs. Sammis and Banks, who are charged with riot in being engaged tn the tarring and feathering of Charles G. Kelsey on the night of the 4th of No- vember last; but this case, by an order of Justice Barnard, has been transferred to the Circuit Court, which will not assemble until the 27th of October. It is probable, however, that the recent revelations resulting ‘rom the discovery of the supposed re- mains of Kelsey will ierd to further investigation by the Grand Jury, which will meet to-day, and that other indictments of a more serious character will be found agaimst the prisoners popularly supposed to be connected with the outrage. A Reply to “Lawyer.” SEPTEMBER 12, 1873, To TRE EpItoR oF THE HERALD :— The letter in your paper this morning signed “Lawyer” is evidently from @ close and tnter- ested intimate of the “tar party’’—very prob- ably one of them. No lawyer would or could write so incautious and at the same time so illogical a letter. Let the accused persons offer a sufficient reward and the outraged Kelsey will certainly put in an appearance ifalive. He needs money, and 80 do is people, and he will then have an oppor- tunity of facing those men whom he unmasked at tho tarring. Had there been the slightest idea in the world in the minds of the “tar party” they would have long since scoured the couutry for him and offered say $10,000 reward rather than be accused of his murder. Independent of the reward there will be many other imducements for Kelsey to appear again. where “aoane “tar party’ get that keen sense of shame ana delicacy which, they say, now oper- ates on.Kelsey and keeps nim away trom Hunt- ington? Surely such a sense of shame never could have emanated from so indecent a gang. Sone one else has suggested it. Do they not know that by attributing to Kelsey such a feeling they place themselves much lower than he could be? They walk the streets without a solitary blash on their faces and brave public opinion—they members, too, of @ Christian church, According to their optnion of Kelsey he is @ man of too much delicacy and refinement to come within @ thousand miles not identified.” Did Charles Kelsey nimee! | fe legs, and then clothe them yin pe drawers and pantaloons, watch chain and brokem comb, and then place them in the water? If hé did Hot, then some One of his family, who had control oof these articles, must have done so. His orother tesUfles that he Knew nothing of the outrage untit the Next day, and has not Moved in the matter until ‘ese “legs”? were cast up by the sea, [i the brother’ did purchase, ‘ciothe and deposit these legs, theQ be tas committed perjury, that's all, The physiVans testify the leg’ must have been in the war months, the extremities betn, entirely eaten’ ana worn away. I very much doub any living crea¥ure ¢ould manage this part of tle ease, as it has bven proven. The work must have been done soon axter the 4th of November, and the knowledge of how Joug a time would be required to eat away the extremities, and the superhuman knowledge as to currents and the set of tides § fear no Kelsey nor other man possessed 30 as to return these Mangled remains ost to the place Where the offence is charged to have been eom- mitted. If these “legs’’ were bought and used tise nahin rennire here predict, if the par- suspected of the outrage upon Kelse! Will offer a moderate reward, the seller wil noon appear and convict the guilty, The greatest objec- tion to the “Lawyer's” argumentia the assumption 4 proven of facts which the evidence, as I read tt, oes not sustain. The doctors testify the “may- hem” was done before death, There is no proof that Kelsey “walked to and’ reached his home.’ If Kelsey did “recognize and threaten two of his tormentors,”” does that prove “he was not gagged’? or stopped from making any outery. Alterward: and a) rfect Q. KE. D. to his argument, “Lawyer” adds :—‘He was exhibited to the ladies as a Mam who had been tarred and feathered.” God save us, from such ladies, who looked on this poor wreten, in quiet at least, if not withapproval | ‘The wit= ness, who was ‘within fifteen feet” of the outrage. makes @ very pertinent statement as to the condt tion of Kelsey. Icannot give the precise words’ and the evidence 1s not before me, but I believe £ am correct—that witness testitied that though at fitteen feet distance he “held up his hands to prevent the poor wretch piling upon him as he staggered of what Kind of clay are these men and women of Huntington made? Modoo earth, possibiy. Is it not straining a conclusion to adopt “Law- yer’s” theory that Kelsey hides himself so as to pooh his enemies? Had he not sense enough to now that lis oath and recognition of two, at least, would effectually do this? Were not his words that he knew them and would punish them? Were not the Biogas shirt and one (not two) boot and necktie placed where they were found by the men about.” who carried the large bundie in the boat and re- turned without {t for the purpose of and to con- ouverte the idea of suicide ceal the murder? Had Kelsey ‘money to go where he pleased,” as I remember the proofs? He had only some $70, out of which he had paid some $25 or $30, If he was 80 indifferent to the slights and rebuffs from women—so indiflerent to the opinions: of men, 80 dead to all Hse on pe 4 feeling, as ia sought to be established as his character, would a Moderate coat oi tar and feathers have 80 over- whelmed him ‘with rage and despair" as to inauce him to run away that he might “take deadly ven- geance on his enemies?” I did not propose writing but a few words, and I stop, when much more remains behind, Let nie simply say, this is my theory:—Originally, nothing but tarring and feathering was contemplated; some one or more went outside tle programme and committed the “mayhem;’’ the poor wretch died near the scene; his body was carried to the bay and sunk, to rise, in part, to “plague its inventors;’’ some one of the party entered the house of Kelsey's brother, left the watch there, the chain and comb being forgotten, There was no tar found in Kelsey’s room, on the walls or within the passage, as there naturally would have been had he returned to his room. Now, one word for myself. I do not know a singie person in Huntington, Never was there, nor ever expoct to be, and £ think Iam without prejudice or undue interest In eae neal caso farther than that justice may e done, 1am sorry to think that thus far the case on tha Coroner’s part has been hac 8 meanly contested. I trast the future may prove better than the past. As yet no one has been implicated, save tho two Witnesses who know much, but admit lttie, Iam inclined to believe a clever, sharp examin- ation might have induced them to Kuow more 60 as to save themselves; perhaps not. Tsend this hasty note, assuming the HeRap is not a partisan in this more than in other cases, and although their reporter did come to the con- clusion that oor Kelsey “deserved to be tarred and feathered,” and that the lady, the cause of all this trouble; her grandmother and all their friends were “whiter than snow,’ and Kelsey meriting alb he recetved—yet, although the reporter's letter was published, the editor of the paper ts not pound by it, at least not so far as not to hear all the truth or all suggestions, You and I, Mr. Editor, well know that oe pe are but mere men after all, prone to be influenced by a pretty face and pleasant attentions, 1 ao not question the Echt ol your Ly a bad ger “1% was he not a little premature and a ie blasse : ANOTHER ATTORNEY, JEFFERSON MARKET POLICE COURT. The Stabbing of Officer Gannon. 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Hevana Lottery.--We Sold the $500,000 of his native village. oe JERSEY, Another Attorney Keplies to “Lawyer.” To rug Eprror or THE HERALD:— The Hera.p of Friday, September 12, contained aletter from “A Lawyer,” introduced editorially thus: “ls Kelsey still living ? Some strong reasons for believing he is. A letter worth perusing.” The writer of the above letter claims expericuce, and that he is without interest or prejudice in the mat- ter, and then comes to the conclusion that Kelsey should have been “iocked up” or horse-whipped: that he never was maimed: that the legs found were not his, and that probably Kelsey might be still living. To sustain these ‘views ‘“Lawyer’’ cites proofs and makes bis argament. Let us. see how far these conclusions ar® sustained by the proofs in the case. 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