The New York Herald Newspaper, September 29, 1873, Page 3

on GROWTH OF CARLISM. A General Letter Descriptive of the Military and Political Situation as Seen from Madrid. {| GUERILLA WARFARE. Effict of the Successes of the Monarchists. ‘Gradual Decline of the Re- publican Cause. THE RESERVE OF 80,000 MEN The Rise and Fall of the Various Car- list Insurrections. HIDALGO! HIDALGO! ManRMD, Sept. 6, 1878. ‘What Maine is to the United States, as regards population, the old Basque kingdom of Navarre, with its population of a little over 400,000, is to the Spanish peninsula, with its population of nearly 16,000,000, But neither Maine nor all New England together could conquer the rest of the United States, though the little kingdom of Navarre is very likely to conquer Spain, if things continue here as they are now. Carlsm, indeed, never appeared with such bright prospects as to-day. From all points of the peninsula the telegraph and the post bring news of Carlist successes, and the republican troops have been able to do nothing that can be said to be encouraging. 1 could fillcol- mn aiter column of the HEKALD with Carlist victo- ries and republican defeats; and, considering that Carlist generais are not superior torepublican gen- eras, this is wonderful success, Spaniards take a long time to improve them- welves, to become habituated to change, while the Carlists adopt the guerilin system of warfare, which may be carried on with 10,000 men as easily as with 1,000, providéd thejr leaders under- stand how to doit. The Spaniards meet these ir- regular, wary, ubiqoitous, stealthy foes with regu- lar lines, column formations, alter the recognized military system. The Carlists, ighting on their own soil, with the richt of choosing their own ground, have, and maintain their advantage easily enough against a nation so adverse to improvements as the Spanish. Against the French or the Germans, or the plastic Americans, such a style of warfare as the Navarrese adopt would not an- ‘wer, a8 they would be met by a people keenly Alive to the necessities of a stern war and capable of meeting them after their own style and of con- quering them long before they could be organized. Warriors would be met by warriors, energy by en- ergy, retaliation by retaliation, revenge by re- venge, and ubiquity by ubiquity. Spaniards, how- aver, are slow to adopt such a course as would in s short time terminate what now may be dignified trom its importance with the name of “civil war.” The Spaniards make herculean efforts, considering their depleted treasury, and vast sacrifices, con- dering their means; but these herculean efforts and vast sacrifices are void of effect, because they tre net utilized in the proper way, Forty years ago THE FIRST CARLIST WAR inaugurated. History tells us how it was car- on by Espartero and otiers against Cabrera, tumala Carregut and Elio. The officers wio now wy their hands against the present Don Carlos and his followers were then cadets, lieutenants or ca} tains, studying the art of guerilla war under Espartero, Dake of Victoria and Prince of Vergara. Serrano, Duke de la Torre and ex-Regent of the Bpanish Kingdom, ended his futile attempts against the Oarlists last year with che dishonorable treaty of Bilbao. Moriones obtained a short-lived tri- amph at Oroquileta, later, and displayed a little Strategetical talent im the Amescuas Mountaing, Pavia, the conqueror of Seville, relieved him, but his mission seemed to have been to open communica- von between Spain ard France. His command was Wo short-lived to exhibit great results, and he was replaced by Lieutenant General Nouvilas, who an- mounced that he would surround the Carlists with bands of iron, but who, instead, took to burning and destroying bridges, as if the small rivers of the Pyrenees would impede the agile Carlists, NOUVILAS ebtainea some advantage at Monreal, Allogoyen and Irurzun; but on the other hand might be placed to the credit of the Carlists the trtumpas of Braul, Pefiacerrada and Miranda. On the resigna- tion of Nouvilas, the government, warmed into en- . thusiam by the plans of the man oi formulas and system, General Sanchez Bregua, sent him to take command of the Army of the North. Bregua never saw a@ battlefield, and upto this day has not geen one, though he has been nearly two momtns \n command. At the same time that Bregua appeared in Navarre Don Carlos VI. crossed the Pyrenees and enterea Navarre from the north; but whether it is Bregua’s inediciency or the en- thusiasm of the Carlists at seeing their King in th pele, it 8 certain that the Carlists have obtained ense and ever-increasing advantages over Bregua and his troops. They have besieged Bilbao, take and ure now so far advanced into mn Es the ray that Dorregaray, with 5,000 men, Is within three miles of Logrofo, the capital of the Lanes Que step more and the passes o1 the Rioja will admit them into the piains of Castile. WHAT THE CARLIiSTS SHUULD AVOID. I hope however, ior their own sake, that the Cariista will not do any sucii foolish thing as enter Castile beiore they have quite conquered Navarre. The capital of the uncient kingdom, Pampeluna, and its citadel, is yet in the hands o1 ‘the repubilcans; Tafalla, Tudela and Sanguesa—important cowns— are not taken; the railroad irom Saragossa to Pampeiuna is stil open, and wile it remains in working order the Carlists cannot be said to be on the high road to Madrid. It is not necessary that } Pampeiuna or to captureVivoria; but if they divided their forces, one-half to destroy the railroad from Saragossa to Pampeiuna and the other half to in- | utilize that from Burgos to Vittoria, and then in a march across Aragon towards Madrid, the bitterest pessimist would have to confess that Don Carlos would have a "gaa chance of wearing the crown o! Fernando VII. That Don Carlos has obtained signal success lately may be gathered from the fact that Santa ‘who met him so vigorously near Dicastillo, Esabecn obliged to save himself by @ persistent \ fight towards Talalla to take the Saragossa Rail- road for Castejon, and thence to Logroiio, possibly, though he has not arrived there yet, according to acceunts, Santa Pau’s flight to Tatalla with his weakened force left the road to Logroio open for Dorregaray, and what that porten: jay be learned irom @ bee geome which the gov this morning received irom oe ‘me UP, GUARDS, AND AT Locrono, August 30-10 A.M. Thave the satisfaction of anuotncing to Your bxcel- lency that since the arrival of the Carlists in the neigh- bortiood of this capital all the liberals, of whatever opinions, have resolved unanimously to resist, at all cost, ig entrance of {he enemy in ‘town. t ‘The illustrious Duke who, thirt to-day, # the Treaty of Ve utting anend to che ited seven years, is tions of love and ct trom ail the inl Logrono, and has been repeatedly requested to abandon sae Passnndunced ah heroin ie aie 67s ran has reiers wo remai de of the brave Kiojanos “wesk NEARING ESPARTERO, This proves that the Carlists are within a very short distance—some say two miles, others a mile— {rom the home of ee ae Logroiio, the capital of the Rioja; and if their artillerists are any ways superior to those of Martinez Cai 8, before Car- tagena, we may expect to hear to-morrow that \ their shells have fallen upon the retreat of their There is no fort to take at Logro- but the Carliste, once having ely to leave dobariess, as they will probably exact a contribution of from $40,000 to $0,000, the Prince of Vergara himsel{ not ex- cepted. There is great discontent here at the non-arrival { of Sanchez Bregua to the rescue of Logrofo, but this morning it was reporved that he was within a day's march of the ital, having come from Bil. jf bao by way of Vitoria and Aranda, To-morrow of the day after this master! gel | be found face to face with Don Carlos and Dorre- ad ancient enemy. fio, like at Estella; | entered, are not lik | garay. He is gaid to have 10,000 men with him, in | which case, if he is worth anything, he ought to | eucircle Don Carlos with & fi Kedge of ateet they should delay their movements to besiege | } M@n out ot him; but this reserve busine: |. The River NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1873—TRIPLE SHEET. ane into the be premature; he has simply sent a the civil governor of the -town fo: Year's eontribution from he ingustital aud agri- cultural classes, with the alternative that, if w’ he demands is not paid, “ways of communication” and stop the disaffected of the provinces of Valencia Castellon. He has it ail hisown way now in the important towns of Maestrasgo, tellon and Morelia, and purposes, 88 soon as he finds time, to fall upon Cas) pe. ‘The government has hed to the authori- tes of Castelion to resist the demands of the Car- lists by all the means in their power, adding that the column of Villacampa was route to thelr succor and that ne had 300 muskets for the volun- teers of the menaced town, Villacampa, howev: Thave reason to know, from intimate knowl- edge of him, is of the school of ‘tinez Campos— slow to act, dull of thought and a procrastinator of the firs. water, No man ever found himseli in his position, with his authority, who was more of an ene than Villacampa, Four months ago I met him, and he was then a8 sanguine as he is now that Carlism was in a state of dissolution. His OPTIMISTIC IDE8, I presume, have checked the proms. advances he shouid have made to the relief of Castellon, by in- iring him with the delugive hope that Cucala’s army of 8,000 men would finally surrender to the valientes 1) of Castellon and the rdral suburbs. Another important repert arrests the attention of your Sorseapond eae stating that Velasco, with 3,000 injantry and cavalry, is about to pen- etrate Castile on the east of the Ebro; and, if this chieitain is successiul, it 18 said that he is to be strengthened with a volunteer legitimist force from the cavaliers 108» News of a semi-o1 flavor has been received that the aitherto quiet province of Alicante is to be @ theatre of guerilla warfare, Carlism pcencnlly running the circie of the peninsula and closing the royal Castiles with audacious columns and mR nitas, disposed to wreak their utmost against the sick Republic, T have thus in brief informed you of the later Carlist movements whicn bave taken place and en- gage our attention at present, But, a ot the crossing of the Ebro, | shouid not leave you in the dark gg to the ultimate intentions ef the govern- ment Of Madrid in view Of this alarming state 01 things and the progress that Cariiam is undoubt- ba passing, . ‘ou have heard of THE RESERVE FORGE OF 80,000 MEN that Spain is preparing to launch into the field, in the hope that fickle fortune may smilie once more upon the defenders of tae Republic, The mustering is being conducted with jpateh, contractors are preparing the uniforms, and gun factories are at work upon the arms. Before going further [ should like to illustrate by @ story irom Gallicia, which I heard last night, how the mustering is go- ing on in the Peninsula, ‘The scene is at a small village not many milles trom Leon. The Alcalde of the Aldea—a sweet, charming spot in the Galliciam mountaing—came to me one y and said :— “My triend, can you advise me? I amin agreat strait; indeed, I know not what to do, Te- serve, you know, 18 @ terrible thing for us poor people. lhave ason; he 18 my only one. I doto on him, he is so clever and intelugent, and he holds a very good office as superintendent of the telegraph on the Venta de jos and Santander line. Now, just think—he is to go on the reserve; they have draited him, aad I should like to optain your advice.’’ A peat who stood by said:—“It is im ‘ible, my friend. Your son must gO, because the govern- ment will not exempt him.” “But do you not (pink said the anxious Al- calde, ‘that I might do something with the doc- tors?’ I would be willing to pay something to get him off.” * ‘t “Perhaps,!” said IL “Try; there is nothing like rying.” ‘fhe next day the Alcalde took his son with him to Leon. I saw him the gerd he returned, and me began to give me @ history of what he had one. He said:—“You know 1 took an ounce or two with me, thinking | could do something about my poor boy; but before i could offer any — to the doctors a complete change took place. They had been oie: it on too far with the young men of Leon. About torty or filty strong, lusty young fellows had been deciared unserviceable by he ductors, When the intransigentes, seeing that things were not quite Tight, demanded that a new exaluining eommittee shou'd be appointed. Those exempt were called back, re-examined and found periectly sound and at for service. Of course, when | saw that, it was nouse. I fear the boy must go; there is no help tor it.”” A priest who has xdopted a young fellow, and reared and educatei him, also cume to me one day, and with a sorrowiul tone said, “It is very, very hard; { have trained this boy since he was a child, and have seen him grow up,. with pride in my labor and care. and « expected to make a good is very cruel. ‘The government tears him away from me, and | don’t think that the boy is very strong in the chest, either.” “! tell you what,” said my iriend, ‘most of those fellows in Gallicia say they would prefer sending their sons to fight ior the Carlists, as they say they have law, while this government has neither law nor order. The Carlists have sometning definite to fight for, but this government only desires to en- Tich its members? pockets.” This will give an idea to you of what she people generally think of the reserve and the poor Al- scalde and priest whose adopted son was ‘not very strong in tue chest’ disclose the feeling of those subjected to the act of the Assembly calling out the reserve. Confirmatory of what I have just related is the following, which I have extracted from the Eco de Espana :— ‘The calling out of the réserves does not appear to pro- ceed as well in all the provinces as the government would desire. The enrolied offer much resistance to the otlicers, and a great many youths have boldly declared fo them that they would “prefer. to enlist in the Carlist ranks rather than belong to an army #0 disorganized as that which exists. The government, while «uarding the strictest secrecy upon this subject, takes good-care to let it be known that the quintas are proceeding without any disturbance. These 800,000 men will be sent into cantonments for instruction and discipline), which are to be sta- tioned along the line of the Ebro—that is, at Vi- toria, Burgos, Miranda, Logrofio, Tudela, Sara- ossa, Caspe and Tortosa—by which they shut out renean Spain {rom the rest of the eerie bro 18 like @ patural deep ditch, flied with water, running parallel] with the Pyrenees, from north to cast southeast, at a distance from the Pyrences of not more than 30 leagues, or 90 miles. A straight line from Vitoria to Tortosa, on the Mediter:unean ea, would measure 80 leagues, or 240 miles, Itis thus A NATURAL BOUNDARY between the Pyrenean portion of Spain, and the major part of the peninsula, and iH pe td de- fended would be an eflicient safeguard against any further advance o! the Carlists. Of course tois plan is the same as that which was adopted by the governmental generals in the Seven Years’ war. GENERAL ESPARTERO ig said to have told Sanchez Bregua that, to “dominate’’ or suppress th> Carlist insurrection, the government requires 40,000 men of three arms, cavalry, infantry and artillery, periectly armed and disciplined. The Hidalgo question, which was the cause of the resignation of King Amadeus, is again on the tapis and threatens to produce a crisis in the Ministry, That your readers may thoroughly understand this question, I siiali have to take them back to the SPAIN OF O’DONNELL’S TIME, and remind them of the first insurrection of Prim. It was agreed that Prim should raise the banner of revolution ip Madrid, I believe it was in '66, and that the artillery to a man should pronounce ior him. When the day came the artillery pronounced as agreed, and oue of the refractory sergeants was sent by the rest to inform the officers ot the corps, who were at their quarters, that they must con- sider themselves under arrest, whereupon an officer, wno was lying on @ sola, rose up, drew his revolver and shot the messenger dead, ‘The other sergeants outside the door, on hearing the shot, rushed in and with their carabines massacred every officer in the room but the gullty one. who had thrown himself on the sofa, and who escaped sub- sequently to give the information of the deed. lidaigo was one of the officers who sided with the mutineers, and who gave the order after- wards, when all the officers of the corps, who were outside in the city, came to the barricades to com- pel the mutineers to their duty, to fire on them, which was done, and @ number lost their lives through him. It ‘is a matter of history that the in- surrection that time failed; that Prim did not join the artillerists, as he had promised ; that he had to fly for bis life, and went to England. It is also his- torical how O'Donnell served the sergeants of the artillery; how he shot them by sixes and tens and twenties; how, in short, EIGHTY-FOUR SERGEANTS WERE SHOT altogether. Hidalgo appeared once more on the scene, side by side with Juan Prim, at Alcolea, but his jormer brotuer officers were with Marquis de Novaiiches, and the battle of that day and the biood that was shed were mainly due to these same officers, who were imbued with other feelings than merely loyalty 1o the Queen, who had revenge agai: Hidalgo to gratily for the death of their comrades. ‘This same Hidalgo is now Captain General of New Castile, of which Madrid is the capital, and was in high favor with Don Amadeus and with the Cortes, vut the artillery oMcers have pursued him with the hate which savors of the relentless hate of the vendetta. They have upset one throne in their endeavors to gratify their revenge and are now endeavoring to upset a republic. They refuse to do their duty, and have been, and are yet, excessively contumacious. They hive their adherents, newspapers which toady to them, &s they make a respectable number of subscribers. ‘They nave their friends, who are generais of the army, and who make it a point to complain of the lack of artiliery—instance Martinez Campos, at Va- lencia, and to-day, before Cartagena. They have also & lew deputies (moderados), who constantly heave a dolorous sig! ey | the state ofin: discip! im which the army ts found, and bewail the artillery question a8 one of the causes which promote insubordination, The artillery question A LONG-THRRATENING, UGLY-LOOKING ULCER. come to # head. The jollowins show how far it threatens the it S ean peace of afictalidad ageuer 30, 1873. ‘The day before yesterday the Captain Sefior Bidaige, sentan order by military courier ty ‘cach of officers who were destined by the Mit of War to cer the regiment.‘ of Bejar,” commanding them to appear before the military authorities of this facet in the evening, or at the military prisons of San Through several causes the meeting did not take place noon yesterday. At that per ‘hey ere found ay bled in the office of General 0, and they were at once ordered into his presence, who, without loss of lime. gave them to understand that {t was the govern, ment’s wish that they should lend their services to the line in Gatdlonta, aud ne hoped they would exhibit pat- lon: e ‘wot e » riotism without vactflation. A Heutenant, stepping forward, asked the Captain Gen: era's permission jo speak, and, this being granted. sal that a little time azo he had been an officer in regiment in Catalonia when it mutinie changed some shots with his own soldiers; that he could not return uniess the military ordinance was lished with all its primitive severity. (This was & Hidalgo. —Corr a oh Hide at once ordered the bold lieutenant unaer ar- rest, to be conducted to the military prison of San Fran- cisco, and on further asking the other officers if they were inclined to obey orders, they replied in the affirmative h that bight for :% and promi mare! talonia. A ral's presence the officers we together by their lieutenant colonel, who deranged to, RRGw the 2 1 those who intended to Catalonia. large majority at once pro- Binlined thelr: willingness to proceed, 10" that province, provided the military ordinance was established, while & small group declared their unwillingness to go anyhow, ‘The eutenant colonel conducted the two parties bick to the presence of Genoral Hidalgo, who began to abuse them in terms that might be called derogatory to their Personal diguity, and ended by arresting Ywo. more ieutenants, On leaving the office of Hidalgo the officers determined | to call upon the Minister of War, General Sulogia | Gonaalez, of Iscar. Gonsalez told them plainly that they must obey orders | and proceed to Catalonia, for such was the will of the government, and, if not, he would take such steps as Would compel them to comply. He also talked to them with considerable warmth, but was a little less recrim- inatory than Behor Lidaigo. The Ueutenants arrested are Villamazares, Ayala, Talavera, : As 18 natural, the entire press of this city is oc- cupied with the events of that night, La Politica declares that Hidaigo toid the officers who required the re-establishment of the military ordinance that their swords were sufficient to make THE SOLDIERS SUBMISSIV and that he called disloyal, unworthy and cow- ards all those who refusea to go to their duties unless they were protected by the iron rules o! the military ordinance, and finally aays:— The conduct of the Minister of War is not verv clear ‘om biame. At first he threatened to take six War, bu Hidalgo with hi exceeded his authority, and bade them rest assured that the ordinance would be estab- lished; but he ended by saying that those unwilling to proceed to duty would be conducted thither by civil guards. ‘The gives the number of the colonels and | officers cited by the Captain General as eighty or ninety. The Correspondencia intercelates this paragraph in the account of the affair:— The General, Gonzales, listened calmly, It appears. to what the officers had to say, and afterwards gave orders thatthey should defer their march to Catalonia for a while, until a clear understanding should be arrived at. The officers, who deem themselves insulted by Hidalgo, have signed a protest against his course, which is signed by 500 names, and they propose to meet together to-morrow in the saions of the Capellanes Club, after which we shall probably know what they intend doing. But this is as far as the matter has gone as yet. It may be guessed, of course, that these insubordinates are the triends of the artillerists. SANDWICH ISLANDS. Condition of the Health of the King=— The Question of Territorial Cession to America—Cabinet Anticipation of a Coming Crisis—United States Navai Survey—Russians in Port. _ Honoxvty, Sept. 6, 1873, During a-month past His Majesty the King has been quite unwell, at one time alarmingly so, and, a8 a matter of course, speculation has been in- dulged in as to what might happen if he should go the way of all flesh without nominating a succes- sor. The advocates of territorial cession to America say we shall have no more kings; in fact, one has been 80 bold as to write to this effect to a San Francisco paper, and, as a matter of course, the paper came back to weaken the cession cause, The writers and speakers, and those wio have His Majesty’s ear, always urge that cession will guarantee the independence of his Kingdom, and itis particularly untortunate that they should not hold to this text in their foreign corre- spondence. The King, chiefs and people are more strongly opposed to the cession of Pearl River lagoon to the United States than ever, and the newspapers ‘advocating the measure have had but | Uttle to say during the past month, the Gazette breaking silence in this week’s issue, for the eamer, With an article intended for toreign con- sumption. ‘The triends of THE MINISTRY fee] somewhat concerned about tenure of office; for if tne King refuses to go on with the neyotia- tions the Ministers favoring cession will be in a position rather perplexti to consider. Lf, how- ever, the King should cdnsent to go on, relying upon the Legisiative Assembly to put the finishing blow to the scheme, as he is somewhat inclined to do, the position of the Ministers 1s stili anything but agreeabie. The only hope that the Ministers now lave is that the reply from the United States | will be unfavorable; in that case they can shuitle on, leaving it to time to heal the breach they have | made in the confidence of the people. The Gazette and Kuokoa are both waiting for an opportunity to take a back track, already talking about a lease, not a cession. It is unfortunate that the corporal’s guard who started this project should have so deeply implicated the American Minister Resident in the scheme. THE NATIVES. These are led to believe that the scheme is of American origin and it will take time to undeceive them and restore their contidence in America and her institutions, The ill-advised course of aiew persons leads the native to believe that America ig waiting, like a cormorant, to swallow their little Kingdom, They compare the conduct o1 Great Britain in surrendering the sovereignty of the islands, after Lord George Paulet’s seizure, and her refusal to take the group on one or two Otner occasions, with the persistent efforts of America, very much to the disadvantage of the latter. UNITED STATES SURVEY. The United States surveying ship Portsmouth has remained with us the past month, and her officers have been busily employed ina survey of the harbor. The new map which they have pre- pared is said to be the most accurate and reliable yet made. One thing has been established, that there are twenty-three feet of water on the bar at low water, while spring tides will give twenty-five or twenty-six leet. As there is but little swell on the bara vessel drawing twenty-three Jeet can ba on a tull tide, fhe RUSSIAN WAR SHIP Askold has also remained with us, overhauling and refitting for a cruise, CONDITION OF THE CROPS AND RATE OF MONEY EXCHANGE. Reports from the other islands of this group give a bad account of the effects of drought. The plan- tations on Maui feel the dry term most, and re- ports ot fires in the cane fields are received. On the Haiku plantation twenty-five acres ef cane have been thus destroyed. The crop of sugar for the first eignt months of the year foots up 18,573,701 pounds, quite an increase over the same term of 1872, The export of sugars for the month of July footed up to $230,607,even at the low rates ob- coe During August the exports fell off to 95,159. ‘The scarcity of gold coin in our currency has attracted the attention of the Chamber of Com- merce, and in order to remedy the evil and insure the requisite supply the government is asked to raise the standard of value of certain gold coins as follows : Present Rate, Propose. English and Australian sovereigns 475 su) At nhalf sovereigns. 2 8734 250 Ventral American ye seceeee 1600 16 0 79 800 375 400 187 200 378 400 1s7 200 . $1 40 VOLOANIC ACTIVITY. Our volcanoes are quite a@tive at the present time. The summit crater of Mauna Loa and the lateral crater of Mauna Kea are both sending forth lava in abundance. The sight obtained at either crater is said to be most grand and well worthy a THE KING CONVALESCING. A “bulletin,” issued this morning, states that the King is much’ improved in health. The Advertiser calls upon the Ministers to give the country the Guarantee of safety and independence that the settlement of the succession to the throne alone can give, “ART MATTERS, Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, No, 128 West Fourteenth street, will be opened on Wednesday Several changes have been made in the manage ment. The price of admission has been reduced to twenty-five cents; Monday will be a free day; the hours of exhibition will extend irom ten to five o'clock, and any one subscribing $10 wili receive @ season ticket admitting one, and eight additional tickets, transferable, and each securing one ad- mission to one person. The whvle of the Di Cesnola antiquities will be on view; a collection of paidtings by old masters has been hung in a new jn ‘which forms a wing’ of the building; the oan exhibition has been enlarged, and @ partial catalogue is ready. The following passed Whitestone yesterday :— Yacnt Geanie, N.Y.Y.C., Mr. Haight, irom New York to Greenport, to lay UP Steam “oy Mystic, N.Y.Y.C,, Mr. Chapin, from New York jor the Eastward, CATHOLICITY IN JERSEY. Imposing Demenstration at East New- ark Yesterday—The Cern Stone of a New Church Laid — 25,000 Persons Present. Since its incorporation as a town Harrison, N. J., just opposite Newark, never witnessed such an imposing religious demonstration as that attend- ant yesterday on the laying of the corner stone of the new Roman Catholic church of St, Pius. It 18 eatimated that there could not have been fewer present, spectators, processionists and cele- brants, than 25,000 men, women and children- The Chief of Police of Newark put the estimate as high as 30,000, The processionists alone num bered over 6,000 persons, and included the Ancient Order of Hibernians of Newark and Jersey City, the Mutual Alliance of New York, having in their rauks a company ec! sixteen stalwart Galiow- glasses, garbed in ancient Irish warriors’ costume, bearing battle axes, and ranging in stature from over six ject to seven feet high, There was also a large turnout of the T, A, B. Society of Newark. The procession reached from Broad street in Newark dow Bridge street across the river to the location of THE NEW CHURCH, which is on the coruer of Harrison avenue and Lodi street, he church will cost considerably over $100,000, and is expected to be one of the very finest churen edifices in the State or the country. It 18 to be built In pure Gothic styie, with a founda. Uon rising several jeet above the ground, of rough face brown stone. The chureh proper will be built of brick and brown stone iaciugs, ‘The measure- ment 18 Té4ieet by 176. A fine tower and spire will be reared irom tae centre. ‘The three main en- trances will open on Harrison avenue. The church will seat in pews 1,800 rsons, ‘There will be no galleries. Vv. Father MeGahan, the pastor, first celebrated mass in Harrisoa ou May 8, 1siI. Yesterday, owin; to au attack of lever and ague, he was prevente froin oficiating, his assistant, Rev. Father Wil- ams, acting 10 Lis stead. Beiore the ccremonies some 200 chiidreu were confirmed by Bishop Corri- gan, About four o'clock the clerical procession | formed, headed by the Bishop, supported on one side by Very Rev. G. H, Doane, V. G., and on the other by Monsunor Seton, and proceeded to make the usual circuit of the foundation, accom. | panied by the customary solemn ‘and im- pressive ceremonies, chuniing, &c, The corner stoue was laid by the Bishop with the same mallet and trowel used at simuar ceremonies connected With St. Nicholas’ Hospital, Newark ; Si, Columbus’ church aud St. Pius’, ‘The ceremony proper over, the clergy and attendants took positions on the | platform and received the lay processiouists, after which Monsignor Seton delivered a sermon ¢ Planatory of toe origin, institution and symboli Of the corner stone laying ceremontal. [twas |i past five o'clock belore tne celebration concluded and the immense assemblage dispersed, In the corner stone, along with other apers, Was placed @ parchment bearing the follow: 4 inscription in Latin:—To d, the Muster of All. In the year of salvation 1878, on the 2th day of September, with Pius the Niuti as Pope; Ulys- ses 8. @rant, President of the United States” of America; Patrick Keely, architect; James J, Mcdahan, pastor. The most illustri and Rev, | Michael A, Corrigan, with sacred ceremonies, has consecrated, blessed ant laid the corner stobe of | the church to be built in honor of our Lord Jesus Christ, unuer the patronage of saint Pius,” AN UNFORTUNATE INCIDENT of a rather unpieasant nature occurred among the processionists, One of the society men, it scems, disgraced himself by imbibing too ircely, ‘The | ofiicers in charge saw bis condition, and at once stripped him of the regatia he wore.’ Tnis action caused a misunderstanding. A considerable row ensued, but, happ! nobody was serlodsly hurt. This matter flew t) Newark, and was mag- nifled intoa terrible aftair by the busy tongues of persons not over iriendiy to the cause of Roman Catholicity, and especially Lrish-Ame: of that fait n members AN IN GENIOUS CUNVICT, en Extraordinary Developements at Sing Sing Prison—Discovery of a Unique Whiskey Still in Full Gperation— Spoiling a Jatibird’s Hopes of Amass- ing a Fortune in the Liquor Busines: A singular discovery, illustrative of the extraor- dinary iertility ef convict ingenuity, has just been made at Sing Sing Prison, being no less surprising than the finding of a whiskey still, which had evidently been in operation tor months, to the pecuniary advgntage of one convict atleast. For some time past convicts have ocvasionally been noticed to be under the influence of strong drink, but all efforté on the part o! the officials fatied to elicit from them where the liquor had been ob- tained. A couple of nights ago, however, an incident trauspired which ultimatety led the prison authorities to the fountain oi convict bliss, A night guard while noiselessiy pactng one o! the aileries, When all the jaulbirds were supposed to e slumbering, had his attention attracted to a cell, occupied solely by ‘A COMICAL CHARACTER, known in the prison as “Irish Tom.” This indi- vidual appeared to be taiking in a conversational sort of way to some person near him, whom he alternately chided and caressed, usthy such terms of endearment as a man, under circumstances of @ convivial nature, might address to a bosom friend or benelactor. On opening Tom's celi the guard found him in a glorious state of in- toxication, givin, some affectionate advice to a black bottle, tye contents of which had almost evaporated through his dexter- ous manipulation. Next morning on being toid, under penalty Of severe punishment, that he must say where he procured the liquor, Tom at first hesitated, but finally sald that ne had obtained it from another convict named John Shert, who was working in one of the marble quarries, DISCOVERY OF A WHISKEY STILL. Without informing Short a search of the quarry was immediately instituted, where in a secluded corner, sheltered by a 1ew rough boards, was found one of the most remarkable contrivances on record for the manufacture of whiskey. A couple of the rison tubs, holding perhaps twelve or fifteen gal- ions each, contained the mash, which was com- posed of potatoes, scraps of bread, a sprinkling of tomatoes, witirsome corn ani oarse meal, col- lected in the prison stables. An iron kettle an- swered the purpose of a still, while a section of half-inch GASPIPE, ARTISTICALLY BENT, formed the worm, thus completing an apparatus which, it is understood, was capable of producing about five gallons of homespun spirits daily. This frightfal liquor Short, who constructed and owned the still, retailed to his fellow convicts in sarsa- parilia bottles at the moderate (one) price of $1 each. Belore Short nad received a notification of the seizure of nis distillery he was made to under- O @ search, when concealed on his person was jound belt containing over $600, being the pro- ceeds of sales from his illicit busin It is almost needless to add that time, at least, abandoned the distillery trade. hort has for a The question as to whether his keepers were cognizant | ol what was going on in that particular quarry need not be answered here. WANTED—AN ALPHABET. tittle Modern Progress in Japan—An Opportu- nity for the Philologist. {From the Pall Mall Gazette, Sept. 17.) With a people like the Japanese, by whom no in- stitution, however time-honored, !s considered sacred; who have brougnt their Emperor down from the skies to the level of a human being; who have dethroned their daimios; who have disestab- lished their national Church, and are now about to institute another formed ona conglomeration of articles collected from the creeds of the Roman Catholic, Protestant, Mohametan and Budahist religions; who have discarded their national dress, their national habits and their political coustitu- tion, we ought not to be surprised to find that they are now anxious to throw over their written character wholesale and to adopt a European al- phabetical system inits stead. Such, indeed, was the proposal embodied in a speech delivered at the recent international Congress of Orientalists at Parise by Samesima Naonoba, the Japanese Minister at the Court of France. “I beg,” said his Excellency, ‘to call yuur attention toa question of great importance to us. writing has, as you are aware, eerie ceased to be purely alphabetical, and has become, to a great extent, ideographic. As long as we kept to ourselves it sufficed for our wants, but we now find it quite inadequate for the expresion of the European words and ideas which we are begin- ning toempioy.” And he then proceeded to urge the Congress to throw some iight on the subject by discussing the question. According to the French papers, along debate followed, which led to no definite result and gave rise to the expres- sion of many opposite opinions, the result appear- ing to point to the impossibility of arriving at any universal orthography jor the transcription of Japanese characters by means of European letters. But the startling fact remains that the Japanese are willing to tag ad any alphabetical system of writing which will be approved by, and be intelli- gible to, the nations of Europe. And these are the people who, sixteen years ago, would have made very short work of any loreigner who dared to show his face on the sacred soil of Japan | Coroner Herrman will hold this morning an in- quest on the body of an unknown man, aged thirty- five, who was found at pler 17 East River yester- day morning. Height, five feet eight inches; sandy complexion, mustache and goatee, blue flannel blouse, black cloth vest, brass buttons, striped calico shirt, plaid black and white undershirt, brown trousers, with dark stripes; low-cut shoes es woollen socks, The badiv was taken to the Japanese | ) Was tarred and feathered on that “pitchy night,” | and that he had left his wateh in nis bedroom, | would be ordered lor the purpose of o1 THE TAR REGION. What Has Been Done and What Is Un- done in the Kelsey Case. THE DRIFT OF EVIDENCE. The Implicated Parties Trying to Break It Down. MONEYLESS AND METHODLESS. Fred Titus, the Negro, Goes Back to the Sammis Family. Huntington’s Twenty-five Years of Tar and Feather History. Oysrer Bay, L. L, Sept. 28, 1873, To-morrow the inquest !n the Kelsey case will be resumed here, and, from allI can learn, there is every prospect that the investigation will close during the present week. Thus far, it must be conceded, comparatively little has been adduced in the way of prima facie evidence to inculpate the actual physical perpetrators of the outrage which resulted in Kelsey’s death. Of course there are some persons who deny that Keisey is dead—but as | A rule this class ignore many of the little particles | of natural proof which go so far to establish the identity of the remains found in the bay as those of the missing poetaster. Lately strenuous efforts have Deen made by various individuals—friends of the persons implicated in the tarring and feathering— to show that William Kelsey admitted within @ few days after his brother's disappearance in No- vember last that Charley had been home after he with @ piece of the chain hanging to it. It will be remembered, of course, that the only evidence to show the identity of the Noating legs was the dis- covery of the complete chain and traces of tar and feathers still adhering to the flesh. They also strove to show that William stated at some time that the bloody shirt and boot found on Lloyd’s Beach were not his brother's. Now, whiie there is every reason to believe that this evidence is wholly manufac. | tured, it 1s only fair to admit that the shirt is not, perlaps, positively identified for the reason that such ® garment may very Readily resemble a thousand others. But that smirt was found tucked into a boot, The implicated parties admit that Kelsey threw one of his boots at Dr. Banks, in the yard oi Mrs. Oakley's house, at the time when le was leaving, ciad in his hor- rible attire and with his clothing in his arms. That boot was found near the yard gate next morning, and at seven o’clock on that same morning, four miles distant, two little boys found the shirt in @ boot, ‘These two boots are a pair; | they are both patent leather; are right and leit | respectively, and are positively identified as Charles G, Kelsey's. It is therefore unimportant whether William Kelsey dtd or did not recognize these articles, The boots at least identity them- | selves, With regard tothe chain it may be said | that its identification was completed by the watchmaker who had once repaired it, and that its condition was such that it must have lain | for many months under the waters of the bay with that oozy, decomposing corpse. It was coated, and the links were filled with the same sickening slime that enveloped the rewains, and some thread that had been use d to fasten @ portion of it had become so rotten that when the chain was | lifted its weight, though very light, broke tie threads asunder. And although Constable ‘Trainor and at least twenty-tive other persons visited the Kelsey home within @ tew days alter the out- rage it does not appear that any cne of them saw either the watch or chain at that tim ofthem. If he spoke of the broken chain at that time it was onls to one man, and he singularly (?) | omitted to mention it to any of the others, There aye three persons who have thus testified te Wil- liam’s remarks concerning that fragment, the other two being persons who claim to have methim in the village and conversed with him concerning it, One of these latter says William was elone when he talked with him about it. William will now be brought forward to show that the conversation | did not take place where that witness (Theodore | Hall) says it did, and that there were other per- | sons present at the time and in the place where | the conversation occurred who can testify that no such remarks concerning the brokeu chain were uttered. ABOUT THE TAR, This is as far as the implicated persons have been able to proceed in destroying the evidence clicited, But, on the question of retaining their own coun- sels, they have been success/ul in a degree seldom, if ever, equalled by any band of conspirators in the world. ‘they swear with and for each ovher with marvellous uuanimity. About ten of them have been calied to tne witness stand, but they can give no information whatever to show where that tar was heated, who obtained it, where or by | whom the leathers Were procured, who first. cap- tured Kelsey, who it was that undressed him or who daubed him, Yet some of them concede that they | had watched to capture him on previous nights, a8 | well as on the preceding (Sabbath) evening, doubt- less just after returning trom church. ‘They are willing to concede that they associated with, aided | and abetted masked people in the commission of a brutal outrage, andin the mext breath they will | speak of themselves as “the best families in Hun- tington.’? They all arrived at the scene of the out- rage too late to participate, but they arrived there (!) with @ singular coincidence of concentra- ton. 4 Royal Sammis is shown to have worn a disguise on the evening preceding the outrage, and to have | prepared a heavy kKuot-headed club on that same Sunday morning by putting a string on it. That club, it is proved, he took to the Oakleys’ house | with him on that Sunday night, when he ‘wore the | disguise and mask, and his conversation with the Iriends who returned with him shows that they had been hunteng for Kelsey; that they had seen him, but that he had eluded them. The next night most Of these same persons were tn the same lo- cality. Kelsey was captured and tarred and feath- ered, He has never appeared since, and this is a cursory outline of all that has thas far been proven, showing how Charles G, Keisey came to his death. The prosecution of this case has resulted in the indictment of Royal sammis and Dr, Banks tor riot and assault, and of Arthur M. Prime for pet- jury, in connection with the testinony he has given at various times, The Coroner's jury are | unanimous m the opinion that the remains found | are those of Kelsey, and what now remains to be determined is the manner of his death and at whose lands his death was effected, bs ‘There are sO many persons involved in the matter, and so long atime has elapsed since the disappearance of Kelsey to the time when those remnants of a body were found, that all the clews which Caf should have led to detection have been obliterated by interested parties, or have becn | lost in the shiiting sands of time, and cannot be recovered by the aid of such UNRELIABLE MEMORIES as seem Indigenous to these parts. Whatever there may be of jortuttous incidents in the afair | falis to the side of the implicated people. ‘They | are, Without exception almost, ‘well-to-do in the world.” Some of teem are rich, Ifany one knows | the real facts they do, and they seem disposed to keep thetr riches. rheir ineaus enable them to buy or bribe wherever available or necessary. They | know where the traces of detection were and have | buried them deeper. The country 18 comparatively poor and aas had to scramole in the dark every- where to find the lost or destroyed clews. If ever there was a case that needed fine detective ability to unravel it thia is toat one; yet there te no money to hire a single detective or to smploy any o} the meaus ordinarily necessary in the detection of great crimes, And, turtner, there appears to be no way in which an adequate sum can be raised, Twelve days ago @ special town meeting was heid to take action on the matter, It was assumed | that an appropriation to be raised by direct tax ring a good mnoney reward Jor convicting evidence and to de- fray the Lecessary expenses of a thorot cution of the case. ft app u Statutes ordain that money shail be raise win purposes oniy at the annual town meetings, It we suggested that this special imeeting should yote the appropria- tion, and that the actton should be remedi if iegal, by an “enabling act’ in the next Legis. lature. “fhe Supervisor representing the town of Huntington in the County Board of Supervisors was weak-kneed in the matier, and, being ap- pointed on the committee on resolutions at the town meeting, he brought up the statute and overawed the rest of the committee with “the law.” The result of the town meeting was that Supervisor Woodhull is authorized to especially | urge on the County Board the appropriation of junds to prosecute the matter and offer a reward, ‘That Board will not meet until October 7. A com- consisting of one citizen th each town: athorized meantime to — solicit scriptions for these objects. The appotnt- ment @ this committee was left to the Super- visor, and he very unadvisedly appointed on the committees some men who ure known to have no | action. though the watch was mentioneu by Willem to all | siderable money. list and anti-tar men first meeting of the waol ‘was held to canvass the ‘ of the members got together, but it was found that over Eom had thus far be ised with compara- tively little effort. Anotner week may show @ good result in subscriptions, and by that time the action of the County Board may be eagerly looked for, There is a manifest uncasiness, however, among the Huntington people at the apparent tardiness of the inquest proceedings. Coroner Baylis, of Queens county, is by no means a genius, either in executive force or expedient; and while the Suf- folk people have no ney and Queens has little ability to apply to tae it cannot be sxnectes that much will be achieved. In ali his promises to bring important proof the coroner has thus far failed, though it is just possible that he may to~ morrow reaeem the promise on that question which he mat to me a week ago to-day at Cold Springs, but falied to keep of the proceedings of ednesday last, THE NRGRO TITUS, who was formerly in the employ of the Sammis family, and who testified to all the circumstances concerning Royal Sammis’ club and diszuise, is the mgst important wituess produced lately. AsI Wrote last week, he was afraid, after giving that testimony, to return to the Sammis family, and Was at once employed by Titus Conklin, a resident Neck,, as a sort of farm hand, at the same wages—$14 per month—that he had received at Saminis’, On thursday evening last some of the Sammis family went to Conklin’s place, and, 1m the absence of Conklia, persuaded the negro to ree turn to their family, giving him as an inducement an advance of salary to $20 per month. It is fair to assume that they have no particular aifection fer this African, who is as repulsive im appearance and ignorant in mind as any of his race can wel! be, and who has so seriously implicated Royal. In the next place, it is equally Jair to assume that they are | apy by interest, and that the negro knows more han he has yet told, which they desire to influence him to withiiotd, or else that they mean to induce him to deny under oath all that, he lately testiled to, Of course that would destroy the validity of his testimony already in, which is all they rae could desire, and would render the negro able to indictment for perjury. This latter course wouid cancel the proof against Royal, and as the negro has already “gone back”’ on them they could, ki thus sacrificing .him, put him ont of the way of all possible future harm to themselves, ‘Titus’ tes- timouy in tact implicated Rudolph Sammis and James Conklin as well as Royal. The above general statement iilustrates fairly and on the actual testimony developed the maim facts elicited, without any question as to authen- ticity. The promise is great that the inquest, as already stated, will be closed this week, and Wf it be closed at this stage, without any new develo: meats, it will be, of course, a question as to wh ther the jury can hold Baoks, Sammis, Claudius Prime, John McKay, Hurd and the others on the charge of murder direct. But there is not a sha- dow of doubt that the Coroner’s jury—twelve very earnest men in this matter—wtli hold whoever can be held on whatever ground is aVailable, and that they will hold these parties as ACCESSORY TO THE KILLING, nefore the fact.” To some of these parties this would be a blow from which they would never recover, in spite of their wealth and social position, and there is every probability that some of them do not mean toincur so greata risk. That there have been advances made by some of them look- ing to the fact of turniug “State evidence’ I do know, and I think their scruples will be overcome during the present week and that they will be in- troduced as witnesses on the last day’s session. will do them the justice tosay that no one here supposes that they actually killed Kelsey or that they themselves committed the injuries of mutilation which resulted in his death; but every one believes that they know or can put the au- thorities on the track of the actual Td in the most direct manner, In ten days the wuthori- Ues Will have in their possession, beyond question, $9,000, With which to push detective inquiries ip his matter, and every one of these Roos will be “shadowed” in a way that will be extremely troublesome, and perhaps. very dangerous. This matter of money is, of course, largely dependent upon the action of the Board of County Super. visors, and upon the assumption shat they will at once make an appropriation. The Huntingtonians generally, though loud in denunciation, are slow in if they could only be made to understand that, us a community, they are disgraced by this outrage before the eyes of the world they would, perhaps, str themselve- into activity. The, will learn that 1act sooner or later, however, and first of all through the mediums of their pockets. I do not think that many New Yorkers would care to purchase country seats or summer residences in a Povaitty where they might be tarred and feathered or wiurdered by their neighbors, with the “best famities in the place’ as accessories, in the garden pilot of their own or thelr neighbors’ houses, ‘ THE HISTORY OF “TAR.” I have been ut much trouple lately to ascertain the tar record oi Huntington, and {i fnd that it is covered by four exainples, sv that it is no novelty in that region, About twenty-five years ago there resided at Long Swamp, three miles from Huntington es she ring committee on subscription tuation.” Only a lew @ woman bamed Millie Manney. At that time was the widow oj a man named Brown, and du: | their married lite the couple had accumulated con- After wearing for @ short time im solitude the weeds of her widowhood she con. cluded to try the jovs of wedded life once more, and became the spouse of & man named James Gordinier, James, it is said, was “not much,’ and Millie’s Jaimily and friends were opposed to the marriage. She was remoustrated with, but to no purpose, and when at last she defled all re- Mmonstrance the indignant people about Long Swamp took her in hand, They surprised her one evening, and, seizing her, threw her clothing over her head and applied a tar brush vigorously to the lower portions of her body. She was an elderly woman at the time, and the matter was never brought further than to the attention of the Sherif. It 1s Said that Millie offered to give Sheriff Brush ocular proof of the fact that she had been tarred, but that he declined, saying, “Never mind, Millie, never ming; Wil take your word.”” THE NEST CASE was only a proposed or attempted one. Aman named Walker, who resided on thee property now occupied by EK. K. Bryar at West Neck, was sus- ected of an unnatural offence, of which he un- joubtedly was never guilty, A party of fellows about tie Village actually got the tar and feathers ready and went to Walker’s house to apply the or- naments, but did not find him, They returned witnout accomplishing their object and never aiter attempted it. Jesse Conklin, the e driver, is said to know ali the parties to the affair, which oc- curred about twenty years ago, Three years since this fail aman named John Finch, residing in the village of Huntington, was seized 1p the Village, and a@ horse blanket with a girth or surcingle was thrown over him, The girth was tightened, andin this condition he was smeared all over with tar and then strewed with feathers. He was about fifty years of age at the time, and lam told made @ splendid, though in* effectual resistance. The offence laid at his door was incest, though no one vow believes he was guilty of it. He died last summer, and there are many persong in Huntington now who assisted at the outrage perpetrated on the old man, Kelsey's was the to rth and last case, and itis not @ little singular to know that none of the peo- ple tarred seem to have long survived the outrage committed on the: AUTUMN IN THE PARK. \Vood and Lawn in Rasset and Se: let Garments—The Pieusure-Seckers Thronging the Paths and Rambles Yesterday. Golden September days are these that seem to concentrate into a very smali space of existence the fall glory of the rounded year. Fields are tinted with the mature brown, whose richness seems to compensate them for the yellow bright- ness of the harvests of which they have been bereit, and forests wear proudly their varied ban ners ot red, crimson, scarlet and amber, rusting pensively in response to the mournful voice of the passing breeze. ‘‘I'ue melancholy days,’ however, bring to the purer and clearer atmosphere, that almost intoxicates the brain with its bracing inspiration— the very elixir of life. And even in the desert city precincts this influence is felt—this giddy stimuaius given by nature in her moment of brilliant spirits Just before she enters a long period of deep mourn. ing. Your biasé denizen o1 the metropolis rises from his couch at an earlier hour than usual, and ) olttimes hears, wita waking ears, the church clock across the way strike tne hour of seven. Unaccus- tomed sound! There 1s less especial need of din- ning invo his soul the Feproachtul, semi-mocking lines of Thompson's than formerly— Falvely luxuriant, will not man awake, And, springing trom the bed of sloth, enjoy ‘The cool, the iragrantand the silent hour He feels blest, for once in an age, with consctous- ness of the power of having such enjoyment, and, when leisure permits, you see him sauntering, driving or centering through the Park or slong me suburban road, looking a8 if his mind had been indeed released trom the prison bars of terrible cares and oppressive anxiety, YESTERDAY * the Mall, the Common, the Ramble and the lakes, and all te divers and devious paths leading there- to or therefrom Were pictures of rare brightnesa and human interest ior the philanthropic eye, Throngs of people of ai classes, comprising grown men and women, youth and maiden, nursed and in ante, were continually moving, chatting, laugu- ing, and even gamboling in great animal spirite and with seemingly @ tresher appreciation of ex- istence than ever they felt before. Trees and autumn blossoms and shimmering lakes seemed to welcome them in _ gar- ments of festivity donned specially for the occasion, and the lingering songsters chirped cheery music from unseen stations among the richly-colored leaves that are dying fast, but stil! cling With loving grasp to their old friends, the f sturdy branches. The vines which clamber over the rocks in the Rample were very beautiful in their gorgeous garments of crimson. ‘The clear sky, the dark green earth, the glowing woods and the genial sunshine filled many hearty with an unaccustomed gladness that had bitter mpathy with the objects of the prosecution. In shaving. it wok five days to get the subscription need ot math Telief from ‘the cares that infest the « Sal