The New York Herald Newspaper, April 19, 1874, Page 7

* OGEAN PERILS,| Herald Special Despatches from London, Paris and Brest. The Amerique Picked Up at Sea and Taken in Tow. ——-+-—— CONDITION OF THE CASTAWAY -_ What the Passengers Say of the Storm and Abandonment. THE FATAL GALE OF APRIL 33. | oe Leaking and Unmanageable—“‘In Sight a Sail Appears.” A French Arrow at the Eng- lish Shipbuilders. Lonpon, Apri] 18, 1874. The British steamer Spray, from Newport, bound for Gibraltar, and the steamer F. T. Barry, from Pomaron for Newcastle, have arrived at Plymouth. The Spray picked up in latitude 47 north, longitude 6 west, the steamship Amérique, before reported derelict. She took her in tow during thirty-six hours, and then fell in with the F. T. Barry, which gave assistance. NO APPARENT DAMAGE. The Amérique had sustained no apparent | damage, and was making no water except in the engine room. The cabin was in the greatest confusion, owing to the hurried manner of abandoni: the steamer. he greater portion of the bag- gage of the passengers was aboard. What the Passengers Say of the Dis- , aster. Panis, Apri! 18, 1874. From the passengers of the ill-fated steamer Amérique who have arrived here the follow- | ing summary narrative of her loss is made | out, Naturally the stories of the passen- gers are incoherent as to details, so that only , an outline of the general facts is given. OVERTAKEN BY A STORM. During the voyage the Amérique had fine ‘weather unti] the morning of April 13, when i she was on her tenth day out, and not far from the coast of France. At that time a strong westerly wind arose, which at two P. M. vecred to the northwest, and, increasing in fury, finally blew a gale steadily from west northwest. Au enormous sea broke on ihe roof of the wheelhouse. At abont 100 miles from Brest the Captain ordered the ship's head to the wind. THE GALE INCREASES. At seven o'clock it was blowing a hurricane. Early in the blow the heavy seas that con- stantly came over started the roof of the | engine room and made comparatively free | way for the water, which rapidly filled, not only the engine room, but other parts of the | vessel. From this canse the fires were put | out three times, but by great exertions this | difficulty was as often overcome and ‘steam was kept up. ¥IRES OUT AND PUMPS USELESS. During the night the weather thickened, but on the morning of the 14th the sea went down for atime. Everybody was then working at the pumps, and the utmost was done with them until ten A. M.; but vainly, for at that hour the engines stopped. L¥AEING AND UNMANAGEABLE, Although many heavy seas had broken over \ the ship at various times it became evident that the vast quantity of water in her and its | constant increase could not be accounted for in that way. In short, it was clear she was leaking badly; but all the attempts of the carpenters to find the leak proved vain. The pumps were worked by the donkey engine, but also without effect upon the water, and the vessel became absolutely un- | * manageable. 4 THE CAPTAIN RECOMMENDS LIFE PRESERVERS, At hal!-past four the Captain was compelled | to inform the passengers that the condition of | the steamer was hopeless, and that he pro- posed to signal an Italian ship in sight that had been gallantly holding her own in the gale. His statement was a startling surprise, for unti] then the officers had succeeded in | concealing the gravity of the case. He spoke | reassuringly to the passengers, recommending | every person to take a tife preserver and keep | calin. “ON SIGHT A SAIL APPEARS’ ONE. An understanding was readily bad with the Italian, and the transfer trom ship to ship by the boats was begun at five o'clock, the sea all the time raging furionsly. Thirty-nine pas- gengers and 143 of the crew were put on the Italian vessel. While the was in progress two other ships were sighted—the Norwegian Aladdin and the English sbip Michigan--each of Which re- ceived several boatloads. ‘The name of the Italian was Elisa Quierolo, All were safely | transferred by seven o'clock. There was | perfect order, and the only accident was the loss, hitherto reported, of Garay, the first | officer. Altogether, the escape of all these persons was scarcely less than miraculous. GUESSING AT THE CAUSR, ALL SAVED BUT transfer | | expecially | to move | Completely cleared from the shoals and free trom ‘lengthened her bawser until it was 100 fathoms | Was obliged to be sacrificea. | both her foremast and mainmast, and which had NEW in the ship cannot be accounted for by the heavy seas, various conjectures are induiged as to the origin of the leak. It is thought that the wheat in cargo, getting wet, swelled and started the rivets, and also that the ship’s bottom may have been previously injured. OFFICIAL REPORT, The Heraup correspondent at Brest sends | the official report of Captain Roussan, which | substantially confirms your telegrams from Paris. INCIDENTS AFTER RELIEF. The steamship company gave the passen- gers money for the relicf of their immediate | necessities—the sums being small when com- pared with their logses in baggage and valu- | ables. Many of the passengers are prostrated from fatigue and there is one case of par- alysis. HOW DID IT HAPPEN. The French company throws the blame on the British shipbuilders who lengthened and |‘ transformed the old ships of their line bearing | the imperial names—henco the necessity of | the alteration—but weakened the ships and | impaired their seaworthiness. THE COMMAND. All speak in the highest terms of the con- duct of the captain and officers. THE NEDERLAND, SBS A Bed The Steamer Towed Safely off Brigan- | tine Shoals, and En Route for Her Dock at Philadelphia. | ATLANTIC City, N. d., April 18, 1874. | ‘The storm raged until alter midnight, attended by | & bortheast wind whicn banked the sea so high that no wrecking boat could come ashore from the Nederland. Great anxiety wus felt by all parties, for it is certain that no vessei could stand tne dashing of the waves until morning. At two o'clock the wind suadenly veered around to the north, the ocean became calmer and before daybreak was | wonderfully quiet. The tug Relief, from New York, stayed out all night long in the tempest and storm, her crew doing everything to aid the | stranded ship, At six o'clock this morning, by | means of hawsers and @ wind that was most ; favorable, the Nederland was seen | tor the distance of about half * mile, and then suddenly stop, Alter the interval of an hour, durng which time numerous parties clustered around with | fleld glasses upon the beach, the ship moved | again, gave a sort of @ pitch forward, rolled heav- | ily from side to side and rested on the sea easily, danger. The little tug Relief then took her in tow, jong and started out for Delaware Capes. ‘The Nederland ts lielpless without her rudder and is not very Manageable ; she rolls heavily, and { 18" her hawser appears to be severely strained. Her progress is very slow, and the indications are thut | heavier seas will bank up before evening. The vessel has greatly eufflered, and more of her cargo She cannot reach | Philadetpiia, it ts thought, before Monday morn- mg. There is much rejoicing here at her relicf upon the part of all, A DERELICT, oe LS Stranding of the Ship Puritan Off Sandy Hook—Her Abandonment by the Cap- tain and Crew—4 Salwage Crew Board Her and Briog Mor Brooklyn. ‘The snip Puritan, Captain Doane, which sailed from Manila on December 24 last, and owned by Messrs. Elijah Williams & C0., of Boston, on Fri- day iast struck on the “Outer Middle,” a sand bar | about two anda half miles south-southeast from the East Beacon at Sandy Hook, and, as was pub- lished in the HkRALD of yesterday, was i abandoned by her Captain and crew, | their = opinion being that = the vessel must inevitably become a total wreck within a few hours after getting on the bar. As.this presents somewhat of an analogous case to that of the | Europe in 60 far as the question is concerned as to wiietber the ship became “derelict” so soon as she | was abandoned by the Captain and crew, and whether the prize crew, or sulvors, are entitled to & percentage of the value of the ship and cargo as | saivage after they had taken possessien of her, a representative of the HeraLp was detailed to obtain the facts relating to the canse | of the disaster, which affords, in another particular, a paralle) to the affair of the abandon- ment of the steamship Kurope, inasmuch as the | Captain, the morning alter the ship had been de- + serted by him ana after she had been taken pos i session of by a salvage crew, attempted to board her and regain his ownership. This, however, was not until the ship nad been got off the bar, towea | into the ‘‘Horseshoe” and anchored oif the Long Branch dock, ag will be seen by tne following | accoun BOARDED BY THE PILOT, It appears that the Puritan, alter a somewhat stormy voyage, !u the course of which ‘she sprung both to be supporten by spars and lashings, ar- Tived off Absecuin at seven P. M. on the 16th imst., | when she took on board a Sandy Hook pilot, | named Isaac «Campbell, from pilots boat No. 6, Mary Anne Catherine, All went well until the Lightship was sighted ana passed, | when the asual course, north-nortawest, was laid, | which stould bring the ship to the entrance of Gedney’s Channel. The wind, which was dlownig at this time a strong gale, was east by north, while the sea was, itis said, extremely rough and © heavy. It was raining hard also, and the weather was very thick, making it impossible to see any | land marks, The course, therefore, had to be steered entirely by the compass and buoys, WAY SHS WENT ASHORE. To this fact and to the similarity between the buoys which are placed to mark the bank is at tributed the stranding of the ship. The spot | where the Puritan went ashore is but a short dis- tance from that where the steamship Scotland, be- longing to the National Steam Navigation Com- pany, was lost cight years ago. The lookout on board the Puritan was cautioned by the pilot to keep @ sharp eye for the buoys, and, sighting one, | | passed the word, The two buoys, it appears, are both painted the same—-black aud white stripes— the only distinction beimg that they are slightly different in form, and one bears a spindle, which the other has not. The pilot, imaging that the | one sighted was that which he should pass on the starboard hand, thought he was all safe, when | ip reality be nad been drifted by the strong tide and the leeway made by the ship out of tis reck- oning, and instead of being in the channel wus | close upon the bank, which ne would, had be | known it, have given @ wide berth. In afew mo- , Menis aiter the sighting of the buoy the sip struck, and began to pouna heavily’ upon the bank ag she was strack by each succeeding wave. She had at the time her three low topsails set, her upper topsails slacked | down to the caps and her foresail set, together with her jib and foretopmasi siaysail.’ Tne ship after striking and thumping about for a few min- | utes commenced to make water, and in fifteen minutes had four teet of water tn ier, and shortiy afterward the “shoe” of her keel was torn off and foaicd up alongside. ALL WANDS DESERT THE SHIP. ‘Khe steamtug Cyclops, Captaim Charles Hazard, which was beating avout the “Hook in search of @ Job, Seeing the Puritan ushore steamed up to { her, but Was unable, owing to the heavy sea run- ning, to get aiongside. ‘The Captain and ptiot of ; the Puritan, at two o’ciock, believing thut she must break up shortly, determined to abandon her, and secing their chance of rescue by means of the Cyclops, decided to avail themselves of it, not Knowing when they might ootain such another. Accordingly they pré- red to abandon the vessel. The Captain gathered ogether the ship’s papers and chronometers, and ordered the boats to_ be lowered away. All nands brought up their effects irom below, which were placed 1m the boats, and start was made tor ti tug, which was reached in safety and a start made for New York. BOARDED BY THE SALVAGE CREWS, Abont half ap hour later the steamtuge Jacob C. As it @ conceded that the quantity of wator | Neatic, Vaptaia F, A. Cuoley, aud Jacob Myers, | consists of hemp and sugar, YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, AP Captain Charles Brooks, which were in the lower bay, sighted the Puritan asbore aud the sea break- ing over her, They, a8 16 were, simultaneously pointed tor the stranded ship, and arrived close to her about the same time. Captain Cooley, of the Neafie, lowerea ms boat in order to board her, but Captain trooks, in spite of the heavy sea rau up alongside, {t had, how- ever, been breviously arranged that both poats should share and share alike In any s@fvage OF money they might make, Bach took a hawser on board, and an éfort was made to drag her off. Alter sonie two hours’ work their attempts were crowned with success, aud she was towed inside the Hook and run into the mud off the Long Branch dock, a8 previously statea, Here al] hands weot on board the prize and set to WORK AT THR PUMPS, after letting go bot anchors. Finding, after a few hours work, that they were gaining on the water, Wiich was at this time over twelve feet deep, Ca tain Cooley, with bis oat, started tor New York in order to obtain further assistance, returning at about eleven o’ciock with Stevedore Roberts aud | twenty nen, Who at once commenced operations b furling the sails and working the pumps. ‘ork Was continued all night, and by early morning, soundings gave only four feet of water in the well, Both tugs then made fast and brought the ship up to Harbeck’s Stores, Krook- lyn, where she now lies. The pumps were kept in full working, and at seven o'clock last night she was entirely iree from water und still in charge of the saivors, The value of the ship and cargo is iN INEE REFUSKS INFORMATION, On calling upon Mr. Vernon H. Brown, the broker to whom the Puritan 18 consigned, that gentleman reiused to give any inivrmation in regard to the vessel, the names of the consignees of the cargo, tue msurances, or in fact any particulars whatever, repiying to every ques- | 1 can’t say.” | When asked if any demand had been made for | ton put to him, “1 don’t know. salvage money upon the ship and cargo, which tr. Brown said, “If decline to answer; there may und there may not have been,” At the same time one of the owners of the tug Neatle was standing at his elbow and | with whom 2 consultation had just been had upon the very Peete From this gentleman it was subsequently learned that the salvors had placed their case in the hands of Counsellor Benedict, of the Brooklyn Admiralty Court, who will look aiter their interests, It is thought that the vessel aud cargo will ol necessity have to be Ibelled, as no disposition {8 manilested to adequately compen- sate the prize crews for their risk and trouble. In | the meanwhile the vessel nas been en'ered at the Cr m4 House, and permission, under certain re- strictions, given to the agents to discharge the | cargo. THR CAPTAIN SEEKING THE WRECK. Captain Doane, the commander of rhe Puritan, yesterday morning went outside Sandy Hook in the same tug that had taken him off the day pre- viously to iook Jor bis. siip, and tis surprise can readily be imagined When, instead of seeing any vestize of a wreck, he saw his ship lying in com- parative sMlely mside the ‘Horseshoe. He ran alongside and ATTRMPTED TO BOARD BER, | and, like the Captain of the Europe, who says when he attempted to get into the Greece’s bout be RIL 19, 1874.—QU Laurence and Loritiard’s Shylock, bay horse, 5 | years oid, by Lexington, dam Keith, by sovereign. | Lady Bruce, brown filly, i years old, by Leamilg- | ton, dam Tendly Sherrod, by Lexington, | Hyder Ali, brown colt, 2 years old, by imp. Leamington, dam Lady Duke, by Lexington. | Liverpool, chestnut geiding. 4 years ola, by Planet, dam Novice, vy Giencoe. ” THOMAS? STALLE. R. W. Cameron's brown be 8 years old, by War- minister, dam Sophia, by Bonnie Scotland; and brown filly, 3 years oid, by Warminister, dam Lady Spang, by Gagan, James Thompson's chestnat Ally, 2 years old (full sister to Faimouth), by Pianet, dum fed Rose, by Glencoe; aud chestnut filly, 3 years old, by Austraiian, dam the dam of Meteor, Advices have been received that T. W. Hunt Reynolds, Jamex Walden, trainer, will be at Jerome with his stable about the lst of Nop. neXt, and shortly alter S. A, Grinstead, T. W. Tisdale, trainer, and D. 1. Crouse, together with strong stables irom St. Louis, will iollow. ‘hen the strong training in this section, such as those of Mr. Keimont, Nr, Frank Morris, Messrs. Hunter and Travers, Mr. Withers, Mr. Pierre Lorillarc, Colone! McDaniel, ©, 5. Lioyd and others will go to make Up & large representation and cause the track OD early mornings to be a busy scene. JEKOMWS SPRING MEKTING. | The American Jockey Club's programme for the | spring meeting has just been issued, and 1s of the most interesting character, ‘The ail will open on | Saturday, June 6, wich ® parse of $500, with aiden | allowances, three-quarters o! a mile. ‘Then comes | the Fordham Handicap sweepstakes, 0! $50 each, | half forleit, and only $10 if declared by the 20h of | May, with $500 added, one mue and a quarter. | ‘rhis has forty nominations, two more than it bad | mn 1873, Among them are many old acquaintances, | such a» Mr, sanfora’s Preakness, Millon, brigand | and Mate, the latter of whom won this stake last year, Carrymy 104 ponnds, uni Preakness, his stable companion finishing second. ‘Tubman, | Springbok aud Cora Linn, of Colonel McDanicl’s ; String, @re also in, and of Mr, Belmout’s stabie there are Gray Planet, Oakland and Periwinkle, | white Hunter & Travers will rely upon Straching, gohn F, Chanberiti’s Survivor, the winner ot the | Preakness slakes jast vear at Baltimore, and | Mary Constant, wil: aiso be found in tue hist. Cap- tain Moore has entered Foster, and will again uy hum alter a iong rest, There are many adaitional | | excellent performers, such as Mildew, Minstrel, | Loug Branch, Canboo, Lizzie Lucas, Artist, Vitiit- | | reas, Business, Fellowcrait, Wisard and others; | but as the weights do pot appear until the Ist prox., speciation as to the chauces of any wlll be | premature, | Next in order is the Withers stakes. for three- year-olds, of $100 eaca, haif torieit, with $1,000 added, Thus closed with thurty nominations, and among the number are Grimstead, Beatrice, Steel | | Eyes, Maccaroon, Weathercock. Batiieaxe and the Ste Washington colt, by Asteroid. Hunter & | Travers’ King Pin was in their company, but the | unlortunate accident which befel tim recently will, no doubt, keep nim out of the grand field, | though some of the admirers of the colt nope the | Injury 18 nob permanent, He never rap but three times, and Was carly withdrawa last season tor | the purpose of saving him for this year’s stakes. His preiimimary exercise belore the accident had | been confined io a mile in avout 2:10, Next in | precantion, | A Dash from New Orleans Was repulsed, the prize crew telling him they had | order, aud which will wind up the opening day's charge of the ship and proposed to keep it. The | sport, 18 Captain, finding he could not succeed in regaining | THE KIGHTH RENEWAL OF THE WESTCHESTER CUP, | command of the ship, made @ viriue of necessity | @ sweepstakes of $50 each, play or pay, With $1,400 and gracefully gave up the contest, and returned | added; two miles and a quaricr. ‘This closed with to the city to consult with the consignees, That twenty-six nominations, and it 1s considered one the salvage crew had an undoubted right to hold of the most interesting races of the . Tom Possession of the ship it is thought py Bowling, the pride of McGrathiana, is not engaged couipetent authority to be beyond a doubt, as the | in lt, a8 Mr. McGrath did not fancy tue imposed ship, when they found her was without question | conditions; nor ave Harry Bassett, Preakness and “derelict.” That the Captain had no intention, in | Mate noticed in the hsv; but yet there wre many this case, of “returning to his shipin the morning” favorite perforjwers among ibe number. Colonel is proved by the jact 01 his carrying off with him | McDaniel! comes to the front with Abd-ei-Koree every article that could be handlea belonging to | and Tubinen, and G. HW. Rice with Wanderer either himself, the ship or the crew. who Won the cup ast year, The other: The insurances on the vessel and cargo could | have ali made wher mark, but tew being in not be learned, owing to the reticence of Mr. | the ‘dark’ division. The cup was first won in 1867 Brown. tis, however, asserted that the Atlantic | with Loadstonc, by Lexington, and, wiih but two | Company have a risk of $100,000 on the sup and | exceptions (that of Local, py Liyutning, in 1868, cargo. : and Helmboic. by imp. Australian, in 1870), it nas ‘The followin isa, description of the Puritan, as | always been won by the ofspriny of tuat renowned taken irom Loyd’s Register: She was built in | sire, East Boston, in 1866, and is classed A134, 1,218 tons | burden, 187 ieet on deck, 37 feet. beam and 23 Jeet | depth of nold. She is built of oak, with copper | oo iron fistenings. She was surveyed jast in | SECOND DAY, | On Wednesday, June 10, the first race will be a | dash of oue mile, purse o: $600, with maiden allow- ances, Then Jollows & handicap sweepstakes, lor three-year-olds, of $20 each, if not declared out, | Wath $400 added, the winner to be sold at auction Jor $1,000; One mic and an eighih, Third on the + programme tk the Jockey Clab diein Sweep- stakes of $100 each, hall forfeit, with $1,000 added; dash of two mies, Here ure noticed Springbok, ‘Tunman, Abd-el-Koree, Preakness, Monarcuist, Foster, Survivor, Village Blacksmith, Wanderer, Boaster and others not so well knowD tolame. The stake will be well worth the win- ning. The fourth race will bea handicap steeple nee about two miles and # half, tora purse of RACING PROSPECTS. to New York. THIRD DAY. Saturday, June 13, opens with the Belmont Stakesg, vor thrae-year-olda, of $100 cach, half tor- feit, with $1,500 aaded by the Club and a piec plate valued at $1,000 given by Mr. Belmon Mile and a half. ‘Ths stake closed with iifty-three hominagons, and among taem are many noticed | above, quu seemingly equai in popular favor, judg- i ing by the betting already made. The con twill | vertamly be of u close and interesting cha) rm | Although there were gratifying reunions at | ‘Then comes the “new departure” at Jerome Charleston, Savannah, Macon and Scima, the | eg Woah ges ibe eaneniea ane get cad 4 ie. Heretol e sters ne “a racing season of 1874 was legitimately inaugurated , the October meeting. Iu ths there are thirty-two by the spring meeting of the Loutsiana Jockey , iominations, and among the Jot are many hign- Olub at New Orleans on the 11th inst, and isnow in | Pred ones, Mr. Morris is in the list with a fiily by The Spring Meeting at Jerome Park—Pro- gramme of Events—Improvements Com- pleted During the Winter—A New Attachment to the Course. | four days. ; agers of Pimlico track ts rich and varied, progress with more than anticipated success, True, the heavy raina which had prevailed there | Gladiateur coit and a filly and colt prior to the opening day interfered with the “grand preparation” of the horses, but the contests have been of the most pleasing character, Following New Orleans comes the carnival of the Chickasaw Jockey Club at Memphis, lasting five days, commencing on the 27th inst., When the meeting of the Nashville Blood Horse Association, which opens its gates on the 5th of May, will necessitate the rapid move- ment of the horses. There are many interesting events to be decided at the latter reunion, which continues four days. Prominent in the list are the Vandal and Sanford Stakes for tiree-year-olds; the former, mile heats, having thirty-five nominations, and the latter, two-mile heats, having twenty-nine entries, the flower of the Tennessee thoroughbreds of that age being engaged therein, ville to Lexington, then, the word will be, where on May 1 and tor five days thereaiter the major- | ity of the racers that are training in the bine grass regiou of Kentucky wili appear and take prom}- nenv parts in the sport. The Southern circle will be completed at Balti- more, May 26, when the spring meeting of ine Maryland Jockey Club will commence and continue The programme presented by the min- The sev- eral stakes filled exceedingly well, acd among the high bred youngsters that will come to tué post there Must naturaliy face the startera “clinker” or two. The Handicap Stakes, for four-year- olds, has eighteen entries, among tiem being Artist, Survivor, Lizzie Lucas, Cates- by, Satire, Cariboo ana Sallie Then there are the Gentlemen's Post Stakes, one and a quarter miles, nine subscribers, and the Steeple Chase Post Stakes, two miles and a hall, in which five, no doubt, wili answer the bell, Sweepstakes for three-year-olds not winners as two-year-olds, one mile, has twenty-five entries, | among which are Mr. Belmont’s bay colt Scratch and bay Ully Theodora. Besides these there are the Preakness St for three-year-olds, one mile and a half; the Chesupeake Stakes, for fillies three years old, one mile and a quarter, as well as other events of prominence which will please the crowds | that gather at Pimlico, WEROME PARK. The scene now chauges, and irom the Monu- Mental City the racing clans journey hitherward | vo Jerome Park, whose portals will be thrown open | on June 6, the reunion extending at pleasant in- tervals 10 the 20th of that month, Mr. Wheatly, the efiicient Secrevary o/ the American Jockvy Club, has not veen idle during the win past, as under bis superintendence many imp ments have been nade atthe Park. Promimentiy there is noticed that the original track has been covered with one foot of care‘ully seiected loam, Every precaution was taken to free it from sf aud gravel, 50 that the quality of the ground wil hereaiter be all that is desired. § sequentiy the number of horses ti has been very large. Another admirable improvement is the new attacbment to tne course, which provides & straight hali mile, starting at the southwestern extremity of the meadow south of the original course, connecting withit near the three.quarter post and ending at the judges’ stand, This addition Of little over & quarter Of a mile provides a starting Point oF 100 feet in width, in iull view of the grand ‘ained upon it Stand, and the straight ran of hall a mile wili not only ure speed, but will mach’ diminish he Ganger Oo: collision, especially in races for two- year-olds, and it wiil also afford a good starung | gine for the older horses in contests of one and & It and two and @ halt miles, is the result of the work, An excellent track The grading and draw. | age are completed, and the finishing touches have Just been given it. All about the inclosure the grass is growing Nnely and the several buildings have been thor- Ougily cleaned ior the approaching active work of the season. There are but iew horses as yet at | she track but it will not be jong beiore we num ber is greatly augmented. Those now ab the sba- bles embrace nine in charge of Mr. It. W. Walden, anda tour under the care oi Mr, Albert Thomas, the colored trainer, which are as foliows WALDEN’S STABLE, Mildew, bay grelaing, five years old, by Lexing- ton, dam Mudtred, by Glencoe, Utica, bay coit, four years old, by Lexington, dom Kitty Clark, by Glencoe. Long ranch, chestnut colt, 4 years old, by ba dam Moilic Jackson, by Vandal. . Carn’s Minmie Mac, chestnat filly, 4 years old, by Planet, dam Kina, By Raley of St. George J. O. Hare's Acroilte, bay colt, 4 yeary old, by Astoriod. daw Edith. by Sovereiun. From Nash- , Watson. | The | Charies | The course has ; always been Rept in excellent condition, and con- | Kelipse, dam Propictess ; Mr. Withers with a filly by | Marsyas, and Mr. Belmont is yepresented by a Kentucky. ; Australind, by Australiau, dam Dolly Carter, ts in the company, and will bear clo poservation. She | is # full sister to Joe Daniels. 8 filly isin Aun- | ter & Travers’ staole, who have also entered King ) Bolt, Gyro and Lagy Lumie, The stake will pay the winners, as it isof $100 each, hall torieit, with $500 added, | The third race is a purse of $600, for horses that never wou @ race, exceeding iu value $1,009 (matches and private sweepstakes excepted), one ) Iniie and a@ half, and then foliows a race oj mile heats jor & purse of $700. | FOURTH DAY. ) . Tuesday, June 16, opens with the Ladies’ Stakes, for fillies, three years old, 3100 each, balf lorie, with $1,000 added; one mile and a haif; closed | wits forty nominations. | ‘fhe second race is a parse of $600, one mile and | &quarier, the winner to be sold for $1,500. | The third race is # dash ef one mile and mree- quarters, for @ purse of $700, and the day’s sport will end with a handicap hurdle race, purse of WW, One mile and three-quarters, Over seven hur- dies, FIFTH DAY, On Tharsday, June 18, there are five races, ali of | Interest:—/"irst, purse of $500, jor maidens, one | mile and a half; second, purse of $700, one mile and three-quarters ; third, purse of $690, for thre year-olds; fillies 60 carry 100 ibs., beaten maidens allowed 6 lbs., the winner of the Withers Stakes to carry 5 lbs., and of the Belmont or Ladies’ Stakes 7 ibs, extra, one mile and a quarter; fourth, Members’ Cup, valued at $400, added to a handicap sweepstakes 0! $25 each, play or pay; three to start or ho race; one mile andan eighth; fith, handicap steeplechase, purse of $800, about two , miles and a bait, | WINDING UP. | Saturday, Jnne 20, the last day of the meeting, also has five races. ‘These are as lollows:—First, purse of $500, for two-year-vlds, halt a mile; sec- ond, purse of #500, for three-year-olds which have not won this year, one mile; third, tree handicap sweepstakes Of $25 each, with $500 added, one mule aud an cignth; fourth, free handicap sweepatakes of $80 each, With $600 added, one mile and five- | enghths; and fifth and final, a tree handicap sweepstakes Of $50 each, with $1,000 added, two miles and a half, In case of postponement the Executive Commit- | tee will annoance any consequent change in the | Ume jor closing, &c,, the several handicaps, The drst race cach day wil come of punctualiy at three o'clock. TOTAL PROHIBITION. aaron Preliminary Meeting for the Formation | of w Temperance Political Party. | Aslimly attended temperance meetng was held | last evening at De Garmo Hall, Filth avenue and Fourteenth street, C. 0. Leigh presiding and Stephen Merritt, Jr., acting as Secretary. This meeting was, however, not intended to be strictly &@ public one, the purpose at present being to hold a few prelimmary mectings belore inviting the public generally to attend," The object of the pub- lic meetings Will be to seek to form a political party which shall be pledged to secure legisiation in favor of the total prohibition of sale of all in- toxicating liquors, It has been found that the re- publican party has been quite as bad as the democratic party in its subserviency to the liquor sellers’ Influence, and the last plank, therefore, leit | vo the friends of temperance 1s that of legisiation | in favor of total prohibition. ‘The liquor sellers | having combined in @ powerful organization to | protect and advance their own interests it 18 now | round impossible to get any legislator in this State | to oppose them, for were any politician to do so it would be to him certain poltiical death. | Senators who last year opposed the bill incorpo- | rating the Liquor Men’s Association were all de- | feated when tney stood ior re-election, This unity | on the part of the liquor sellers is a tremendous power, and the only way to cope with it is to wry | to secure the balance of votes in favor of temper- ance. These were the views set forth in the ad- | | dresses made at the meeting last evening, the {| speakers being 0. ©. Leigh, Dr. Law, J. F. Hoey, General Bunker and stephen Merritt, Jr, The tour A DETECTIVE MURDERED, The Notorious James Brothers Assassi- mate One of Their Pursuers. Cu1caao, April 18, 1874. A special despatch from Kearney, Mo., gives the particulars of the killing of another detective by the notorious James brothers. ‘The victim was found dead, covered with biood, tn a road four miles east of Kikhoru, Ray county. A card crossed with biood was pinn to the coat and in- scribed :— énThlg will be the tate of all detectives who come to hunt ¢ James brothers. Ey EE A handkerchie! in the murdered man’s pocket Was marked “')’. I. Cole!” | chance has Tammany in the INTUPLE SHEET. POLITICAL GOSSIP. eB The Great Fall Contest ot 1874. Disposition of Parties—The Sales, Bargains, Plottings and Combinations of Leaders. Se Se The Great Fight Cver the Police Com- missionership and What May Come of It. a THE MAYORALTY AND COMPTROLLERSHIP The word “inextricable” has a very plain and definite meaning and is easy in a general sense of | application; but when intended to convey, as here sntended, an idea of the complication into which wbings political are just now involved in this city among parties, it is woak enough indeed. To be sure but very few of the leaders are vere just at present. Albany 1s the great battle ground, and there are decided the issues w arise from the combinations and bargains which in the next falt campaign will give over the governinent of the city into the hauds of whatever party is able to throw out the most tempting baits, and offers the strong- est inducements to the cliques and the individual oMcials who to a great extent bold the balance of political power in our municipal government. ‘That they are “all honorable men’? may not be doubted, and that their bargainings and schemings are all with a view to secure the greatest amount of good to the greatest number ought to be ac- | cepted with full confidence, but that they have most mexXtricadly mixed things political 18 an un- questionable fact. No doubt this may be a poliuc Mystery 18 dear to tue human heart, and the political leaders and wire pullers are ae- termined that the electors 0: New York shall have enough or it; that they, in fact, shaligo it blind ‘ even tw the last hour of votiag on election day. Political party strife between the lead- ers was never more bitter than at the present time. And, a8 one of the leaders explained, there was good and sufficient | reason for it, inasmuch as the party that plots and schemes most successiully now will have the {| deui on the aistribution of the spoils before and alter election, All thougnt, consideration or doubt as to how the voters themselves may look at shis | bargain and sale of their tranchises between this | aud November next is entirely ignored. “But we ure oi the people’s party,” said a prominent Tam- many man, “and we are compelled to fight the a@nti-people’s party—the Astor House riag—with their own weapons, whether on the floor of the Legislature @t Albany or by allying to us such high officials of bybrid stripe that we will help to maintain in ofice and thus give us strength at Albany, and thus insure us patronage in the de- partments.” THE CUSTOM HOUSE PARTY, under Murphy, Arthur ana Biiss, are bidding fair to gobble up the whole controlling political power of the city, with all the patronage and emoiuments of course, thereunto pertaining. They secured , the death of the bill to make the office of Comptroller elective, in which, to be sure, they were aided by Mr. Kelly, and the Tammany repre- sentatives through him; but it 18 now rumored that Green, notwithstanding this, has jomed Havemeyer and Uliver Charlick, and consequently @ coolness has sprung up between the two. Mr. Kelly, greatly to the chagrin of his party, sustained Greer all through bis Mtvle unpleasantness with the honest creditors of the city, but he cannot afford to | go turther in thatdirection. Why Mr. Keily saould Nave opposed & measure so ardently desired by the rank and file, and the demand tor which is based upon the first anderlying principies oi repablican- asm or Deeepeg the elective system, in opposi- uon to ring or clique appointments, may be seen furvier on in the utterance of one of his own friends aud supporters, Mr. Kelly, with all Lis welt simu lated Spartan firmness und Roman stoicism, tig expressed determination not to accept oifice, ‘that ali bis efforts are simply directed to (he purgation of the ‘tammany temple irom those who betore nim | had bought and sold within its venerated walls and made tne Wigwam a den of thieves, bas still some Seymourisin about him, and though all un- used to the melting mood, might at last accept, like the bride of young Lochinvar—‘with a smile on hia Iip abd a tear in bis eye’—the proffered position; what that is we will see, and will explain Mr. Kelly's opposition to the biil making the office of Cowptroiler elective. | will tell you What makes THE POLICE COMMISSIONERSUTP "in the present and the juture so important an ele- ¢ ment in our elby polity said @ Commission mag- nate. The weak point of Tammany is prescuted in the fact that the Custom House party have the in- side track of them with the Legislature, witb Governor Dix, with Mr. Havemeyer, the appoint- lng power, and strong in the confirming power, the Board of Aldermen. There is gow the long Standing Vacancy in the Board of Police Commis- sionere in piace of Henry smith, and then follows i May the retirement of Commissioner Russel. Should the Custom House party succeed ta whi etiorts to carry this posiuon, as everything imii- cates they will, securing two republican Com. missioners, they will certainly be in a position to control the result of the fail election through the appointment of re- pnbiican inspectors of election. And here comes in the pith of the rumor that is going the round of the City Hall among the politicians there assembled, that if honest Tom Murphy and | his more immediate colleagues deem it for the best Interests Of the party, taat instead, in fact. of a square hand to hand fight with Tammany, they should REVIVE THE APOLLO HALL PARTY, or at least a party which by any other name might smeil as sweet, so aa to divide between that party and Tammany the honors 01 Inspectors, | the Charlick policy of last tall of selling out Tam- many to Apollo Hall, or whatever the name the new party might go under, Tammany would be utieriy routed at the polls. The pres- ent and the coming vacancy in the Police Board are looked upon with longing eyes and particularly with some misgivings on the part of Tammany. it is said that the nomination of ex- dudge Howiand partakes something of the char- acter of the nomination of Mr. Andrews by the wily Chief Magistrate, and in the former case, at all events, is made in the interept e House party. oF the democratic side afed, no doubt from the can’t help themselves standpoint, that Howland’s appointment is en- tirely satisfactory to them. It is generally be- lieved, however, that the old man of the "Ss oftive {s throwing political dust in the eyes of Tam- many and iD tho mterest of Murphy & Company or the blissful party, till the rocks and shoals that le op legislative navigation are safely steered clear of, and that Flanagan will be talked of as the ad imterim appointee of the Ohtef Magistrate, and that then by a coup @Wéut Howland wili be confirmed for first piace or first vacancy, and that Star Chamber Little Jolin L. Davenport, the Fouché of the Custom House and administration, will be selected to fili the vacancy made by the retirement of Russell in May next. ‘This will give the republicans—Charlick acting with them—jour republicans in the Board against one democrat, Duryee, aud this ts how, in the language of ex-Boss Tweed, “the oid thing works.” With this array of republican Commis- sioners, interjected the tical magnate, what oming election? The inspectors of election will be all republicans, or of @ Chariick stripe, that precludes any chance of a lair suoW, unless, Indeed, that Mr. Kelly holds his party well in hand, and that the democratic masses of the citizens will respond to the call of party and principle and break through the political meshes that the leaders on both sides would cast around them. The republicans, from self-interest in their lar; Le of place- hojders and on their strong phalanx of hereditary opponents to the flerce democracie, are sure of making @ winning fight if the democrats allow their strength to be weakened by party divisions and opposing oliques—the political Thereadiers who subsist on the spoils of the vanquished, and of which brood the party is 8o pregnant in wil great election contests. TUE FALL RLBCTION OF 1874 will be of vital importance in its pohtical results, both in State and city. In the State a Governor fy to be elected. Bere in the city we are to elect he Vusiom @ Mayor, chief magistrate of the metropolis of the | country; we elect members of the Assembly, who, with the Upper House in the Legisiature, will elect @ United States Senator for six years in the place of Reuben K. Fenton; we elect Congressmen and a Board of Aldermen; tien comes the important and Incrative office of entis estimated at close on $100,000, rich plum for the special delectation of the win- ning party. ‘Who spills the foremost fooman’s life, His party eonquers in the strife. Coming-to the Mayoralty, spoken Of as & Candidate among his own of Tammany, is averse just yet to eng sonally in an election fight. Person of its leader as a candidate Mayoralty. A nominee of the party may be de> feated and the party still remain intact; but, de feated in the person of its ches. would be the it is Instinu- | Register, which at the pres- i Hereisa | DY ir Mr. Jonn Kelly is 1s party, and though it ts most likely he will decline it is rumored that it will be with an ooject. Mr. Kelly, Wito all his strength as the acknowledged leader ‘aging per- | The time is not just | yet ripe for an assured democratic trromph tn the re the 7 certain deposition of the chief, Then womnld arise the pressing necessity of 4 reorganization of the | Whole party, present recognized heads woud | bave to walk the plank a(ter ‘ueir chief, and the MOUPK THAT THE TRER JOBNS BUILT | would be razed trom “turret to foundation stone.)? “Mr. Kelly's tactics," sai) anotuer magnate 0! he | party, wuo spenks by the book but who declines the Nonor of being pained in the Heracn ty this connection, “ls to select a strong man for Mayor, one able and honest and popular, but devoted to the party through whose nomination he was elected—if such should be the resuit—and wh with the power vested in the Ohiet Magistrate, of appointinenis to boards, wiil be able vo change the whole political aspect of parties in the city, Lew | as see,’ said our City Hall Inend, “how this ts to | be done. Tsay, isto be done advisediy,” addea } j } | the magnate, ‘for tne whole programme 1s ‘cuy and dry.’ " WHAT VACANCIRS ARB TO BE PULLED. | Let us con mence with the Police Commission, | The first vacancy on that Board in the patronare | of the new Mayor will be on the retirement of | Darsea A well pronounced Faiamany ana party man will be nominated by a Tauimany Mayor in | his stead, and the piace that knew Duryea wit | know him no more torever. [tn not giving the | vacancies in the order of their occurrence, but ail occurring within the berm of ofilce of the next | Mayor. A vacancy in the Board of Charities and | Correction, in the piace of Myers Stern; a vacancy in the Dock Commission, on the rettremeut of W. | Budd; @ vacancy on the Park Commission, in place o: Commissioner Wheeler; a Vacaucy in the Fire Commissioners, tn place of Commissioner Van Cori; @ Vacancy in the Tax Commission, in piace of | Commiastoner Moulton, 2nd last, though Doi least, | @ Vacant Comptrollersiip, The latter may “po nt onr morai” 1/ not “waurn our tale,” said our face- ious and obliging political triend. Now wo tie | pomt. Mr. Kelly, in iguorme the well settle | policy of the democracy in having ali the hig offices within the wift of the people, by rtuht elective, bas, in the case of the Comptroliersinp— | the highest and really most uaportant office of the city, the custodian ol the public purse—opposed the ‘bill to abolish the appointing system ww than Oilice and making it elective, and thus perpetrated a wrong upon the taxpayers and voters of the city, with the single eye to the result that m the 1ul- ness of time the Tomimanay Mayor will appoints the Tammuny leader to that office, No better choice, | added our instructive friend, could possivly be ; Blade; and it is with no feeling in opposition or | initaica! to the dei that 1 show you the Tammany i hand belore the game commences. With regard to THE CONGMEASIONAL, ASSEMBLY AND ALDERM ANIC | CONTEST, it is pretty generally conceded that in a fair square fight the democracy, with its irom 40,000 to | 46,000 majority in the city, Would recurn a winning majority, legislative and municipal. The danger | to the democratic party lies in the Assembly and im the Gourd of Aldermen right in the composition | of the Board of Pouce Commissioners, and is one that wil) require Mir, Keily’s shrewdness, tear- lessness and indom:\able energy of character 10 | overcome. He nas fougut the Chariick figat nobiy, | and he may have taughi the police ring a lessow they wili not likely disregard when the time of uc- | tion arrives. The troabje with all the political tead- | ers is that they assume too much tO themselves, | 4nd overlook tue power that created them. Once in office the | GREAT MASSES OF TIIK PROPLE ARE FORGOTTEN. ‘They rely upon the subsidized aid of oMce-holders— | the polttical leeches that tive upon the body pei- itic, and who are ever ready to side with what- ever party offers the best chance of spoil, At pres- | ent there is no apparent widespread disaffection | With Mr, Kelley’s ruie, Js afiliations with Greca were not pain. to the democracy generally ; but as he Was really the only man that was able enougs, | and at the same time acceptable to the people. to | Seize the helm when the Tammany ship Was driit- ing sitattered, heipicss after its encounter with the great tidal wave of reiorm, these aifluations with Green were ovcriouked as matters ore per- svnal than political, | THE &RGISTERSHIP, as said before, will be a rich plum for the success- ful candidate. Ex-Justice Shandley, it 1 sald, looks With a somewhat covetous eye upon it; ; the mea who fight “iit Sigel’ are anxious that ,; he shouid be re-elected or ihat a prominent Ger- ; Man or real nnportation trom Faderiaud shall be | Bubstituted. ‘the German clement will have to be cousulted in this matter. Although they have had if one term they are opposed to rotation, in- the rotatory movement is all in their favor. iriends of General Patrick Henry Jones, ex- Postmaster, and who, it will be reniembered, so generously held the oitice, by appointment of Gov- ernor Fenton, of General Halpin’s (Miles O'Reilly) unexpired term, resigning uli the emoluments of the oillce to Generai Haipin’s widow, strongly ad- vocate bis claiins, Itis thought that the General Wao, though born here, 1s of Irish descent, is not, alter all, so pronounced an American but that ie may be eligibie to the oitice through the votes of the American people. The near approach of the adjournment of the | Legislature makes tie present political outlook a | matter of interest not only to the politicai leader and the greedy office-holder, but to the people at | large; and with the foregoing review of tue situa~ | tlon as itis and the probable results of we wire’ pulling and scheming and bargaining that will JoLow Whatever may be the action of the Lexi: | lature or the combination of parties, the proper Geduction is that the people ought to wa:en closely the iutrigues of parties and prepare them- Selves for the contest in the fall, in the result of which they are so deeply interested, CONGRESS. \ Proceedings in the House—Tribute to Sir | Lambton Lorraine—The Deficiency ; Bill-The Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation. WASHINGTON, April 18, 1874. Mr. HYNgs, (dem.) of Ark., offered as a question of privilege a resolution reciting that an Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms of the House, now in Little Rock, Arkansas, for the purpose of subp@naing witceases before committees of the House, is being thwartea and interfered with by the seizure of the telegraph office, and instructing the Judiciary Committee to report what measures should be taken to protect the rights of the House to free communication with its officers. | Mr. Woop, (dem.) of N. Y., objected, and the Speaker rnled that it was nota question of privi- lege. If the Sergeant-at-Arms {felt himself ob- | Structed in the execution of his duty i was his business to communicate that fact to the House through the Speaker. A MONUMENT AT LEXINGTON. | Mr. DONNAN, (rep.) of lowa, from the Commit. tee on Military Affairs, reported a bill donating ten pieces of ordnance to the people of Concord, N. ; H., for @ Monument to commeinorate the tirst re- | pulse of the British troops at the oid North Bridge on the 19th of April, 1775, Passed. RELIEF FOR THE LOUISIANA SU'FPERERS, | Mr. CopuR, (rep.) O/ Ind,, from the same coramit- tee, reported a bill empowering the President to direct the issue of food and disused army clothing jor the relief of the suterers by the overflow of tie Lower Mississippi River, Mr. Woop remarked that the people of Loutsi- ana had suifered enough irom the usurpation of the Ke] yous government to entitie them to con- _ sideration. | Mr. ALBRIGHT, (rep.) of Pa., was glad there wae something capable of moving the bowels Of com- passion of the gentleman from New York. The bili was passed, TRIBUTE TO SIR LAMBTON LORRAINE. | Mr. Cox, (dem.) of N. Y., introdaced the follows ' Ing resolution, which was thereupon, with @ letier irom Mr. Thurlow Weed, referred to the Commitice on Foreign Affair Resolved, bv the Senate and House of Representatives | tm Congress assembled, Thue the thanks of Conyress aro. eminentiy due and are hereby tendered to Sir Lambrom Lorraine, Commander of the British irigate Niobe, tor ‘ig humane and generous interposition at Santiago de Ouba in protecting the lives of the survivors ot te Vir- ginius expedition. The American p:ople recognize with admiration and gratitude bis prompt and emphatic ad- Monition, which aided to arrest the progress of buichery, and, so long as Leroism in detence of humanity is dete worthy of honor, the name of the gallant oificer shou! be cherished, LECTION OF POSTMASTERS, Mr. MONKOR, (rep.) of Olio, Offered a resolution instructing the Comittee on Civil Service Kelorm to inquire into the expediency of providing for the election of postmasters by the people, Adopted. THE ORFICIENOY BILL. Mr. GARPIKLD, (rep.) Of Ohio, from the Appro- priatton Committee, reported the Veticiency biil, which Was made the special order for next Wednes- day. The bili appropriates $3,257,168 The prin- cipal items are-for the War Department some | $750,000, being required by the Quartermaster General; $45,000 for the Signal Office and some $36,000 for miscellancous master, with about $1,250,000 ior the Indian Bureau, LEGISLATIVE, JUDICIAL AND BXECUTIVE APPROPRI- ATION. | The Honse then, at one o'clock, went Into Com. | mittee of che Whole, Mr. Scofield, of Pennsylvania, | in the chair, on the Legisiative, Executive aud Judi- clal Appropriation bil, and the discussion of yes- terday in regard vo the ciericai force of the Treas- | ury Department was resumed, | ‘The discussion, which was participated in by | Messrs. Holman, Kellogg, Dawes, Kasson, Beck, j Wood, Starx weather, O’Brien and Garfield, took & | political turn, and Mr. Clymer, of Penusy!vania, | made an arraignment of the republican party ot eyo or _ Pere corr and was replied to r. Kelly, of Pennsylvania, | Mar. KELLOGG, (rep.) of Conn., opposed the reduce tion of the satary of some of the principal clerks in | Ve Treasury Department, contending that & high grade 01 taient could nov be secured for Inadequate compensation. ‘This argument was controverted Dawes, who deciared tuat naiess the ead ol a department was inspired with some kind of business sagacity eilicievoy could Lot be secured by merely increasing the saiaries 0. subordinates. Finally some reductious of clerical salaries were made and an amendment Was adopted, on the mo- tion of Mr. Ward, of Munois, that male Btls oe shail hot be patd more ‘aan emule cmployés 10k the same services, then rose withont having dis- The comune ne ie paragrap Powed oi an (fop.) of lud., presented resointions of Board of Education, praying Congress ee ate © thas State the Arsenal grounds atin- | dianapolis for the purpose of @ polytecamic instis | Mies House then, at haltpast four o'clock, ade wourned, | { |