The New York Herald Newspaper, May 3, 1874, Page 5

WILLIAM VON KAULBACH. Death and Funeral Ceremonies of Ger- many’s Greatest Painter. The Painter of the “Reformation,” of “Peter von Arbuez,” &c. THE CHOLERA IN MUNICH. Munro, April 11, 1874. Whey-hore him to the grave yesterday—the great- @m-painter of the century and the greatest “@pponent in art that the Catnolic Church has had fi Germany—Wiitiam von Kaulbach, the painter ‘the “Reformation,” of “Peter von Arbuez,” the “@Destraction of Jerusalem,” &¢., &c. Nearly ‘@eventy years old, but stil! a man of vigorous ame and intellect, be was suddenly stricken ‘Gown with the cholera which clings to Munich like ‘ap awial judgment. Kaulbach’s residence was in ‘the Gartenstrasse, a region where nearly all the enolere cases of last summer occurred, and where- fom are recorded most of the cases now and the ‘@verage number of four of sickness and two of @eath per day. The great artist had been confined ‘to his house for nearly a fortnight with chilbiains on bis feet, and a few days before his death ho kept his bed, yet having no particular complaint, 4m the night irom Monday to Tu esday (6th-7th) he Bad aslight attack of cholera, which the medical attendants tried in vain to check. Kaulbach treated the disease lightly, and on the day before Mis death exclaimed, laughingly, “I believe I Rave got the cholera at last, Well, when I get ver it I shall be giad to know that I have gone @erough this disease too.” In the course of the forenoon of Tuesday tne artist grow so weak that the physicians gave up all hopes of recovery. Ata quarter past cignt o’ciock in the evening the great genius expired. A very simply worded announce- ment tells the story in the Augsburg Allegemeine Zeltung:— POLOROEOIOLOLILE DE DEDEDE LO DEDE DE DODOOE: TODES-ANZE.GE. This evening, at & quarter past eight, feil aatnep in death, calmiy and without pain, after a brief eee Herr Dr. WILHELM VON KAULBACH, Director oe the Royal Academy of Arts, in this Ce ‘nts announcement, so painful to us, is here- i nis friends aud ac- ‘with communicated 10 apatacen ces, The MOURNING RELATIVES. UNICH, April 7, 1874. OIC NSIC LLIE ROLLIE LODE REDON DON HI OO @) DEATH AMONG THE GERMANS. Thus one by one are the great minds of Ger- many dropping off into the grave, and more are to foliow. It is not long since we had to record the death of Schwind, the artist of the legendary lore, and of Baron von Liebig, the cnemist, both of Mantch, where King Ludwig has gathered so many ofthe best minds of Germany in his art schools and in his university. Dillinger ts long past his three acore and ten, and, with a weaker physique than Kaglbach and a mind as great in otner spheres, who knows but that he may be called at any momen:. We are reminded of Dollinger here Because Kaulbach, the Protestant, and Dvllinger, ‘the strict Catholic: (Olid Catholic) were firm friends in the one cause of batting against the Papacy in Germany. What Déllinger accomplished with his Distorical works and his teachings—the founding ofanew Catholic body in Germany—was sup- Ported by Kaulbach in most of his recent works, especially in his “Peter von Arbuez,” sentencing a Deretical family to the fames, which created an intense excitement in Catholic art and religious circles at the time. His recent pen sketches in “aquibs” directed against the person of His Holi- nega the Pope, the dogmas of Immaculate Concep- téon and Papal Infaliibility, are most of them un- ‘Worthy of the great mind that produced them. Nev- @ftheless, Kauibach was the strongest foe in art that tue Papacy had in Manich or in Germany; and to the.causeof Ui Ostholics he was an invaluable ald. Now that he is gone the Vatican can rejoice, and say, pointing to Germany :—“See, our foes are fall- tng like leaves in autumn. Tue enemies: of the Charch call upon themselves the terrible judgment @f God. Bismarck, the despot, the persecutor of the Church, 1s stricken down with a dire sickness 4m the midst of his presumption and his power; the Emperor, his master, is at the point of death; Doilinger, tne backslider, istottering to his grave, and Kaulbach is gone.” hus are the enemies of the Caurch dealt with, KAULBAGH’S PLACE IN ART. ‘The art critics treat the matter froma totally different light. They mourn in Kaulbach’s death the loss of one of the greatest German painters of the present century. Hermann Becker, im his necrology of the deceased artist just published in the Cologne Zeitung, places Kaulbach ‘in the ranks of the first arvists of modern times, indeed, of all times,” for not every century produces men like him, “Since the goldenera in which Michael Angelo and Raiael Mved, art history does indeed record the works of many grand, talented men, but only few whose genias was equal to that of the master who is gonefrom us, With and besides Peter von Cor- nelius, Kaulbach marks a0 era in German art, an era which bears a distiuct character, a thoroughly German national character. The fame of Ditrer and Holbein has prevailed undiminished in Ger- many for the past two centuries, and many, many years may pass before names of equal impor- tance can be inscribed alongside of the two great painters of the nineteenth contury—Corne- Mas and Kaulbach. This period, to which these twomen gave character and tendency, has had its fall development, and has already come to its close,” But the two painters are totally different im style, and can no more be compared with each other than Raphael with Michel Angelo in art, ‘with Mozart and Beethoven in masic, with Goethe and Schiller in literature—each being a brilliant phenomenon, whose importance cannot be judged individually, but together. Cornelius lacked the grand, all-iiuminating genius that Kaulbach pos- sessed, and which onabied him to grasp the legend, the epirit of the history he depicted, and surprise us with the immensity of his conceptions. Kaul- bach was an idealist im art, and, to the realistic critic, he is in Many cuses incomprehen- sible. People without brains and withont Knowledge {ail to nderstand him, just as our opera goers fail to comprehend the genius of Wagner in his grand musical con- @eptions; because they refuse to study his sub- jects; becanse he idealizes them, and, instead of a , Don Juan; who, being om our own level, we can comprehend his motives and natare, gives usa legendary Lohengrin, who, alter we have seen him a score of times ana heard his beautifal swan gong gush from bis lips, remains to us as incom. prehensibie as before, but always high and noble @ud beautifai—haif god and halfhuman. Future historians will perhaps be able to grasp the great- mess of this decade in German history aud depict the grandeurs of the men who rule atid have ruled am the various departments of hfe and effort, in politics and in war, in music and in art, LIFE OF THE ARTIST. William Kaulvach was born in the year 1805, at Arolsen (in the principality of Waldeck), the birth- place Of Christian Rauch, one of the greatest of modern German sculptora, His father was a watchmaker, goldsmith and graveur, @ half artist, Who never asked much in the prosperity of this itfe, When seventeen years @f age he had selected art as ‘his field in life, and went to Dusseldorf, where he en- tered ag student in the Academy, then ander the direction of Cornelius, and some works of that period, though sti and dry, compared with his later prvductions, show the young man’s unusual talent. I pelieve that one of Kaulbach’s first works—a cartoon representing the “Rain of Manna in the Wilderness’’—is still preserved at Ditssel- Gort, The inspiration to his celebrated painting representing the “Interior of an Insane Asylum” Gates irom bis Dusseldorf sojourn. One day the physician of the insane asylum at Dtsseldort Called upon the young artists of the Academy and told them that they might find room to display their talents upon the walls of the asylum church if they Mked. He could not offer them money, in- laced, bat an unlimited apantity of bread, putter, 4 scene of the Deluge. of eee NEW YORK HERALD. SUNDAY, MAY 1874.-QUADRUPLE SHEET. 5 cheese ana peer. The young artists accepted the invitation and soon filled every available wall im the church with frescoes, pir- itual and worldly, sacred and protane. When all was finished the director of the asyium expressed his great pleasure at what had been ac- complished, said he was sorry he nad not the Means to pay them for their work, but told them that, ifthey would ltke to, he would show them the inmates of his asylum, which he did. The sight made a deep impression upon Kaulbach, the result of which was the great picture which he completed some years afterwards, and which is 80 well known by the engravings of it that were sub- sequently published. KAULBACH IN MUNICH. Kaulbach accompanted Cornelius when the latter ‘was called by King Ludwig L, of Bavaria, 10 1825, to join the brilliant company of artists he had already gathered about him. He first of all assisted on the frescoes in the arcades of tne Court garden, and the symbohcal figures of the four Bavarian streams are from his hand, Then followed « cetling tresco “Apollo and tie Muses,” in the Odeon; then frescoes irom the myth of Amor and Psyche in Prince Max’s palace, and later fresco illustrations to the poems of Wieland and Goethe in the Koenigsbau. His wonderful composition, the “Battle of the Huns,” was com leted in 1837, hia subject being taken irom the Tantastic legend of a medieval chronist, This picture, whica was executed more as cartoon than ainting, commenced is fame. It is too well m the engravings to juire any de- scription here. After @ sojourn im Italy he com- plover ny Co bis first great oil paintii “rhe estruction of Jerusalem.” which King Ludwig ordered for the New Pinakothek, in Munich. This was tue first picture in which the artist develo} the peculiarities which have later distinguished all his works, Following this came his illustrations, “Reynard, the Fox,” the drawing lor the frescoes on the outside of the New Pinakothek, represent- ing the history of the Munich art of that period, wherein his satirical hints gave great offence to so many of bis contemporaries, THE PIOTURE OF THE REFORMATION. ‘The greatest works of Kauibach were made for Berlin. King Frederic William IV. called him to his capital in order to decorate the large hallway of the New Museum. ‘The alx large frescoes there are the master’s greatest glory. Therein he repre- sents in a symbs manner the great epochs of the world’s history—the Destruction of Babel and Dispersion of the Nations, Greece im her Prime, the Destruction of Jerusalem, the Battle of the Huns, the Crusades, and the Era of the Relorma- tion. ‘The execution of these works was carried out by Kaulbach’s pupils, Echler and Mihr. The icture of the Reformation Era must be considered ihe greatest work the artist has leit beniud him. Asa work of art it received unbounded prais>, even in Munich, from Catholic and Protestant critics alike. There ie no bitterness of feeling ex- cited by the picture, The great Reiormation Epoch 1a symbolical, represented in the persons of the reformers, leading up to and completing the work. in a book published some time ago entitied “Confidential Communications about King Ludwi, I. of Bavaria,”.an excellent story is told with ref- erence to this now celebrated work. One day the artist wasin his studio at Munich, busied in the design for the great. oeere. chalking, wiping out and smoking very indostriously, when KING LUDWIG approached from a roundabout way, as if he did not wish to be seen. The artist took no notice of hig visitor upal the King, evidently astonished, asked, “What are you making there, friend Kaul- bach?’ “Tne ot the formation picture, Your Majesty, de: as the sixth fresco for Berlin,” answered Kauibach, still smoking and. working on his pictare, “What! tue Reformatiun? and without my knowledge ? Who has given the order?” “Command from Berlin,” was the artist's auswer, stili calmly chalking \n his figures. ‘Lhe Reformation!’ cried out the old monarch, en- raged; “and such @ great master as Kauibach gives himself to the work.” “Your Majesty for- gets,” answered Kauloach, “that am a Protestaut.”? “Nay,” replied the King, good naturedly, “you misunderstand me, ale bach, I will not quarrel. with you about the confessional the subject, In my country the Protestants have always been tree, and I have even dd Luther in my Wal- halla. No, my anger rected to the artistic mission of the subject, And how willyou then paint a thought—how you artistically repre sent an intellectual opinion—paint the Reforma tion! And for Berlin! you know—and therein you see how impartial Tam—I have advised the Grand Duke of Weimar to glorify the Reformation and the reformatory era upon the Wartburg | There belongs its glori@eation. There it has at least historical ground. im thence it proceeded. And what do they wish with Reformation 1n Ber- lin? Who has brought the historical upstarts to the idea of the Reformation? How dare they ap- propriate to them its intellectual significance, order to lend glory fo their military State! Upon the Wartburg belongs the Retormation, or even to Wittenberg, ior anght I care! But to Borlin!’- King Ludwig grew deeply enraged, and, pullin: his hat down over his 8, leit the the studio without farther banging all the doors to as he left the be, TURES. After’ Kai made director of the Munich Academy, a position be held at the time ot biadgath, About twenty. ago he completed his gi picture, “The Battle of Salamis,” for the historical gallery of the M neum at Munich. Then-lollowed a Vast numberof smaller works—tue cartoon picture of ‘‘Oesar’s Death,” “Peter von Arbuez,” “Nero ana the tion of the Christ- fans,” the jus ‘* Fem: ies of Goethe,” a “Dance of Death” oycit Mmnumerable draw- ings, portraits in chalk and oll, sketches and de- signs. His last project for ® great painting was a late years, especially since the development of Old Catholicism, he delighted in issuing, in heliotype, carteatures directed for the most part jt the Jesnite.and His Holiness the Pope, in th we could mever see enough of satire and wit to justily ication, It-al- ways seemed to me es if ’@ unworthy of Kaulbach’s pencil. To note here, or even to mention the great nuader of other works by the dead painter, would too much spacc. Une thing mention here, and that is Kaainech' jug the Franco-German war his countrymen inthe abuse of France ed was French. He uttered at that time timents to a ‘Viennese artist-writer, an Taner the last days of Jerusalem to the gioomy of France in the winter of 1870-71. ‘Can ’ he sald, ‘find analogies between the of the Hebrew leaders, who in Ee war to the bitter end, and the bolt the gen- eral ruin of France, prese id hears in the right place, and dared t@) ce not only to our overpowering armi stilt more dangerous powers of revol famine and de- spair. JULES FAVE, THIBRE, GAMRETTA. “This earnest Jules Favre, care and anxiety for his beloved coun! an old man before his time; this aged begged all over Europe for compassion #8 aid for lus coun- try. Have they not our full iy? And, last of aH, this Gambetta may him crasy, & madman, _wko ruined bis fath All the same to » ne is nevertheless @ great man, asd he than all the rest calls to my mind ders of the an who preferred to buried eath the ruins of Jerusaem to giving themselves up to the enemy, And the power, the ene ived in this one man! What he Y worked | And what results! From from his pulse to those fearful efforte w which nce, blee from & thousand pores, braced hersels, Scrnguie of deupair, wen We shougat alc. was et ie ie Was thoroughly vanquished and deed. ® man! And ho’ trange—he by 4 ae isaJew * * for oe gent ness of our ‘We not) our ity we Gutta ties neues arabia! rene a at era vation a Mich, we ey mere. ou (a mit” Tess ‘Words prove Lhe aatvormany oo the dead painter's mind. -" eats r} It seems tnat even up to the directed in part it the od es ayy @ cartoon, man ‘5! Kaulbach Nearly finished, represen: ir “Bt. ‘dueuiles of cryilion onthe Papaoy, ‘te Napo: leonides and heathenism. It is vi re that Kauibach’s mind. me late ears against because of the irritat- ing attacks tnat the German, the fans ultramontane wa vt nes against him, espectall, “arbuez.” The inter picture 6, his feet, to the Names, the artist for choosi call np in all non-Cat! red of the Uhurch and recall an era which is r ever. THE LAST HONORS. Yesterday afternoon, about four 0’ mortal remains bo coal aed artiat were tnetr last resting piace in the Southern Oe; of Munich. ee lollowed id of persons lined ti Col puss. The opened by about a hundred members of ciety, bearing a draped fg; then the authorities, Many -OMcers, Minttors authorities, man: jeers, Pfenfer and Gengral Von der Tann as the sentatives of the Professor Moritz the phft er, delivered the funeral addresa, He spuke of Kaulbach as a paimter of the of culture and civilization, as # artist, such as mone before him. e length of his conflict with the and atcrib- utes a great influence to bis ‘ 1s” pictar destroying the hold of “Papal Catholicism” in Ger- many. But, in due deference to Professor Carriere, we are not inclined to accept this assertion in its full extent. Catholicism is strong as ever. Old Cathollcism, of which Professor Cal supporter, is jast now stagnant. live rather as the glorifier of the Retormation than as the destroyer of the Papacy. It is only six weeks since the Munich artists celebrated with great ¢ the twenty-fifth anni- versary of Kaaibach’s directorship of the Academy. Right music corps and 600 toron bearers asscmbied detore the painter's house to do him homage. The tera bearers accompanied him to his grave yes- 0 THE HOMESTEAD MASSACRE. Arrest of Ernest Ortwein, the Hired Man, as the Murderer. FULL CONFESSION OF THE DEED. The Children Slaughtered in Their Sleep— Killing of the Parents. A SKETCH OF THE FIEND. PirTssunre, Pa., May 2, 1874 The black hearted fiend who butchered and burned the Hamnet Jamily was arrested in Alleghany City this morning, and at present lies in Jail at this city. All day yesterday detectives were making untiring efforta to get trail of the mur- Aerer, A man giving the name of Ernest Ortwein was suspected op account of bis strauge conduct, and so nearly filling the description given by those who knew him, be was traced to various places in the city and finally he was beard of in Alleghany City. About six o’clock yesterday afternoon he made his appearance on ‘roy Hill. A number of men were talking about the murder and this stranger joined in the conversation. He said that he had worked tor Mrs. Hamnet. As soon as he said this he became alarmed and ran offat full spced. Officer Quirk, of the Alleghany police force, gave chase and soon succeeded in capturing him. His carpet sack was jound ata store on Obio street. It con- tained a@ lot of clothes, nearly new. In a vest was found an assessor’s notification of valuation, a plece of paper on which are pencil figures, a ten cent scrip and a railroad ticket over the Pittsburg, Virginia and Charleston Railroad. The uassess- ment paper is signed by ‘‘A. Behl, Assessor,” and 1s directed to Joun Hamnet, giving the valuation of his property at $12,720. The piece of paper with the figures evidently contains Mr. Hamnet’s esti- mate of value of bis property, being found in con- nection with the assessor’s valuation, The vest ‘Was doubtless one worn by Mr. Hamnet. When it became generally known that THE MURDERER HAD BEEN CAPTURED the greatest excitement prevailed, and the Tombs in Alleghany were soon surrounded by an excited throng. It was feared that efforts would be made tu lynch the prisoner, and it was found necessary to place a strong guard of police along the corri- dors of the Tombs. He gave his name as Ernest Ortwein, and his appearance was not calculated to impress one favorably. This flend, who murdered @ family of five for $15, is about five feet eight inches in height, heavily built and would weigh 175 pounds. He has a big, round, bulldog head, rather broad, flat nose, low forenead and smail eyes. His face is large, red, appears puffed up by drink and bears every evidence that he has been spreeing for a day or two past. He has a@ short, sandy mustache and & little tuft of nair in the dimple of ‘his chin. He was dressed im a fine black frockcoat, dark figured pants, white sbirt and small silk neck- tie. He has a very short, thick neck. A black slouch hat was lying on a bench beside him. His shoes are new, a3 is all of the clothing he has on. He said he was a native of Stuttgart, Wiurtemberg, and eame to this country about a year ago, and first worked as a farm hand with Peter Ramsey at Brooklyn, N. Y, It was no use, ne said, to conceal the crime; he committed the murder. He said he left Hamnet's dwelling just after supper on the night of the murder, and wens directly to the village of Homestead, He drank two glasses of veer in @ saloon by the wayside, which is all the beverage he had that night. After quitting the saloon he went to a some cigars, also grocery store, where he got me anny. for the Hamnet children. He then goes on tells the following story to the press representatives through en ioterprever:—*Just as Iwas leaving it came into my nead that I must have Hamnet’s money. I thought he had a great deal of money in the house, and as I felt so queer allat once in my head I thought I must get it. I went wine aE to the house, but don’t know now [ got there. Isuppose I must have been out of my mind, After getting into the house I found Mr. and Mrs. Hamnet haa not come home. It occurred to me that to get the money I MUST KILL THE CHILDREN, I found an axe im the kitchen, and taking that with me I went up into the room over the kitche! where Kobert Smith and myself slept. The be was in the corner of the room and | saw that Robert was sleeping soundly with his face toward me. 1 took @ position at the front of the bed, and with one blow killed the boy; he never moved. I can’t say how it was that the boy's throat was cut, I may havestruck him twice, but he never groaned. Alter tne boy was dead I went into the adjoining room, where Ida and little Emmie were sleeping. Toere were two beds in tus room. one in a corner and the other, the dite dééu- pies by the children, pear Y ie centre, Both of the ittle girls were sleeping. I crept ‘Aa cautiously to where they slumbered and [dealt Ida @ feariul blow which silenced her forever. She never Moved a muscle, she was dead in @ minute. I then ratsea the axe and struck at Emmie. She uttered a cry and I hit her the second time. She did not groat fain. After this I went down stairs and too! tion just inside the door of the room adjoining the kitchen, and WAITED FOR MR. AND MRS. HAMNET to come home. God knows my leelings when con- cealed here. I was desperate now and thirsted tor more blood, Aiter waiting @ long time I heard the footsteps of the coupie coming up the lawn. They came nearer and nearer, and I clutched my xe handle tight, At last they were here. Mr. Hamnet came into the room first. I was standing so that he conid not see me, and 1 struck him from behind, using the same axe, and he tell to the floor. Mrs. Hamouet then came rushing into the room, and as she pasnod through the door | struck her, but did not killher, She sntieked once 6r twice, “Oh Jonn!”” and then I struck a second blow, which killed her instantly. Mrs. Hamnet and baby were the only ones 1 strack twice; the others were killed with one blow. 1 used the axe all the time. I committed the deed to get Mr. samaet’s money. 1 searched Mr. Ham- net’s pockets and obtained his pocket book. IT CONTAINED ONLY FIFTEEN DOLLARS in paper money, I found Mrs. Hamnet’s pocket- book on the sewing Machine. Thore was only fifty cents in it. I looked over the house, but all the money I got was $15, The silver money 1 spent I brought with me irom Germany. I did not get it from the house. My only motive for doing this deed was to get the money. I never nad any ill feeling towards any of the Hamnets, I always liked the littte children, and I always bought tuem candy when | went to Homestead. ‘The boy Smitn aud I were good friends and I always iil Mr. and Mrs. Hamnet. I did not fire the house, and it Was not @ part of my plan to cover up the murder. When searching the house I put an ot! lamp in the sitting room, aad when rushing away from the building it was overturned, { thoughtit would go out, I did not think the house would burn, ESCAPING FROM THE SOENR. As soon as I left the building I proceeded at once to the railroad and walked direct to Pittsburg. I stopped at several places but don’t know the names of the places. I came over to Pittsburg ‘nd went to see my friend Baier, on Pennsylvania Street, Ithink. I don’t know locations very well. Iwas never in Pittsburg more than three times. Alter leaving Bater’s, I crossed over to Alieghany ity. ‘I crossed a covered bridge and went to several breweries to get work. I purchased a new suit of clothes yesterday morning and finally was arrested.”” It has been ascertained this evening that the parents of Ortwein, who live in Stuttgart, are well of. During the Franco-Prussian war he was drafted, but deserted and came to this country, BURIAL OF THE VICTIMS, One of the closing acts in this dreadful tragedy took place this afternoon—the coanigning to tne ve of the remains of the murdered family. ere were two coffins, the largest of wnich neld the remuins of Mr. and Mrs. Hamnet and the two children, ida and Emma. In another and smaller coffin lay Robbie Smith. These horrible objects ‘were kept enclosed until after the ceremonies were concluded in the church. The edifice was fled to overflowing with anguish-strickean men and ‘women who, ina great measure, were neighbors of the murdered family. An Insane Son Murders His Father with an Axe=He Remains Quietly at Home Until Arrested. BANGOR, Me., May 2, 1874, This morning, about eight o'clock, the wife of Silas Davis, an aged citizen of the town of Stetson. In this county, stepped into the dooryard and ais- covered her husband lying on the ground with the top of his skull split off, whlle over him was stand- ing his son, James P, Davis, holding a blooay axe, with which the murder was done. The young man has been considered of unsound mind ior some time, and was for & wiile confined in the State Insane Hospital, but was recently dis- ag ascured. He expresses no contrition for the deed and offered no violence to his mother, but at hey widding puletly out away the axe an remained about the house until some of the neigh- bors came aud took him into custody. The neighbors say that the murdered man had expressed fears of violence irom his son, and & daugoter says her brotner tad threatened to take ner life, and bid once driven her out o! the house with the game axe he used in committing the murder. Tbe affair naturally causes great excite- ment in the vicinity. ASSAULT, WITH INTENT TO KILL PaTEnson, N. J., May 2, 1874, Dr. Norton C. Ricardo, a homeopathic physician, now of Hackensack, but recently of Passaic, was arraigned in the Court of Quarter Sessions of this city this Boon upon an indictment charging him ‘With assault with intent to kill, The indictment sets forth that the defendant was called on to attend a boy for a broken arm, that through his blundering the boy’s life was endan- y and that Ricardo then, to conceal his junder, tried to kill the boy by prescriting over- doses of morphine. The boy’s arm was subse- quently amputated, having mortified. Dr. Ricardo sani’ “mot guilty,” and was released on $5,000 HOBRIBLE OUTRAGE BY NEGROES. BALTIMORE, Md., May 2, 1874. ‘The city papers this morning publish accounts of @ shocking outrage perpetrated by two negrues on @ negro boy named James Henry Woodley, aged fifteen years, in Howard county, on the 16th of April. According to the boj’s statement, the two men seared und branded his limbs in a most cruel manner with @ red not iron, and afterward poured spirita of turpentine over his naked body and lower limbe and set niin on fre, In this condition he escaped from his persecutors and succeeded in extinguisbing the Names, though in what manner he ts scarcely able to tell. Woodley now lies at the Lombard Street Infirmary, in this city, hie back and legs roasted toacrisp. His recovery is doubtful. 1 is reported this morning that the per- sone ta committed the outrage have been ar- reate: EXECUTION OF ANN HUNT. Augusta, Ga., May 2, 1874, The execution of Ann Hunt for the poisoning of Eliza Brawner took place at Elberton veaterday. The affair passed off quietiy, no attemnt being Made to rescue the prisouer, as was rumored, She died withou: making any coniessiun. ANOTHER POLIOE OLUBBING CASE. Last evening a diminutive boy of eight years of age was taken to the Park Hospital by his cousin, Miss Ann O'Brien, with his nether lp split in baly and his teeth loosened by a blow from the club of Poitce Officer Doyle, of the Third precinct. He was accompanied tc the hospital by an officer of the above Mentioned precinct. After his lip had been sewn up by Dr. W. B, Hall the boy gave the jollowing account of the clubbing :—“I was a sell- ing New: and Mr. Doyle wanted to hit go big boys and rs who was troubling, and I run again the stroke. He said he was very sorry, and to hit me. I live at No. 4 Caroline street. My fatner isa weigher for the Erie Rau- road at Onamoers street. Lain’t got no hard teel- ings against the policeman, ior he did not do ita purpose,” CORONER'S CASES. Suicide by Hanging. Jacob Bamberger, a@ Germun, twenty-six years of age, in the employ of a man living at No.6 Amity street, was yesterday morning found hang- ing to a Jadder in the stable No. 384 Bowery, wnere he took care of a horse or two. Deceased, who used a leather strap to accomplisn his purpose, evidently had been dead ior several hours when discovered by his employer, who went to look init orses. No cause was assigned for the act sisters in titled, erger, Who Wasa singie man, has two Philadelphia, Coroner Kessler was no- Fatal Mistake. Goroner Woltman was yesterday called to No, 9 Beaver street to hold an inquest over the remains of Mrs, Margaret Craig, « woman sixty-eight years of age and born in Ireland, whose death resulted the night previous from swallowing a quantity of oxalic acid in mistake for a dose of salts which she intended totake. Mr. Gaffney, living in the same nouse, Was @ witness to the occurrence. l . Found Dead. About half-past five o’clock yesterday morning Martha Russel, @ woman twenty-eight years of age, was fou; iytmg aead in the hallway of the remises Nb, 176 Mulberry street by Henry Black, ving in thesame house, An inquest will be helt im the case vy Ooroner Kessler, who was notified. Death donbtiess resulted jrom natural causes, A Drowned Body Recovered. ‘The body of James Jones, who was drowned on Thursday morning by falling into the dock at the foot of Seventh street, East River, caused by tne breaking of @ plank while at work aboard the steamship Ocean Queen, was yesterday mornin, oes the dock at the foot of Nin street By —— of Mr. John T. Toal, Secre- tary of the Board of Coroners, the remains were removed to the late residence of deceased, No. 577 Elghth street, where Coroner Croker will nold an inquest. The bodies of Thomas Gioney and Fran- cis Campbell, drowned at the same time ‘with Mr, Jones, have not been recovered. The Suicide at the Hastern Hotel. Coroner Croker yesterday partially investigated the case of the man registering himself as John Smith, who committed suicide by discharging a pistol in his mouth, at the Eastern Hotel. The fol- ores a@copy ofa letter found in his possess- Di Thirty-six thousand miles of travelling after happiness in the last laborious but truitiess twenty-three years failed to connect as yet, and the dreary winter of discon- tent of a hopeless lite staring in tace and mocking to scorn points to being able to cut a nightmare 0: life short, the unsurveyed beyond being more inyiting for a specn- lation than this hell of a desolation called ¢xisten: for if facts above do not tally with promises below e is Dot apparent good reason for a large part of humanity's creation, to Whom existence means suffering, deserving. wus Paes Sa the brain and see what is the matter. 0 The body was sent to the Morgue, A CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS, go Willtam Churchill, of No. 86 Madison street, fell from the front platform under car No, 102, of the Belt line, yesterday at Fulton and South streets, and had his foot crushed, He was removed to the Park Hospital. Charles Martin, of No. 118 Third street, had his foot cut off yesterday at tne packing house of koes & Co., at No. 533 West Thirty-sixth street. He was sent to Bellevue Hospital, Ann McCabe, three years old, of No. 533 West Fortieth street, fell from the third story window of ie Cahn house yesterday, and was dangerously injured. George Murray, colored, seven Feb old, of No. 94 Wali street, was run over at Maiaen lane and South street yesterday by a truck driven by 8S. 8. Murphy, of No. 281 Hudson street. The child, be- ing ey injured, was removed to the Purk josptt: Spnia Hammersmith, aged sixty-three, of No. 427 West Forty-eighth street, was run over bya horse and ves esterday, belonging to Haas & Son, of No. est ‘thirty-seventh street, Her lett, shoulder was broken. William T. Ryer, nine years old, of No. 27 Marion Street, was dangerously injure qesterdey by a runaway horse belonging to James R. Mniry, of No, 23 Rutgers street. Mulry was arrested by the police of the Fourteenth precinct, James Carr, aged nineteen, of No. 86 Chrystie Street, was seriously injured yesterday by tailing through @ hatonway at No. 143 Chambers strect. He was taken to the Park Hospital. Louis Gardilier, aged twenty-four, of No. 56 Mul- berry street, was badly hurt yesterday at pier 18 North River, throagh a piece of machinery Jalling on him. He was removed to the Park Hospital. STABBED HIS WIFE. Thomas McGuire, of No. 97 Washington street, stabbed his wife in the hip last night while under the influence of liquor. ‘the wound was not serlous, She was sent to the Park Hospital. FELL FROM A FERRYBOAT, About half-past six o’clock last night a German cabinet maker named Paul Rhein, residing in Ala- bama avenue, Kast New York, while under the influence of liquor, fell overboard from the ferry- boat Nebraska while in the middie of the river, He was rescued with diMcuity by some employés of Havemeyer’s sugar refinery, and given in charge Of the police and brought to the Filth pre- cinct station house. OU FIRE IN WILLIAMSBURG, At about five o'clock yesterday afternoon a fire broke out im the oll works of Sone & Fleming, on Kingsland avenue and Newtown Creek, Willlams- burg, caused by the bursting of a still. Owing to the ample means at hand to extinguish fires a Serious conflagration was averted. One oi the workmen, named Philip Whalen, residing at No. 637 West ‘twenty-sixth street, New York, was se- verely burned about the head and arms. He was taken to his home by his fellow workmen. The loss on buildings and stock will be bout $2,000, on which thore Js Ro insurances TY AND STATE POLITICS. Close of the Legislative Session--- Party Mancnvring. Preparations tor the Fall Campaign. An Ex-Party Leader's View of the Situation. The learned Solons who composed the Legisla- ture 01,1878-4, baving concluded their labors, have retired from the arena where they so lately exercised themselves in devising and carrying out mesures for the good of the great constituency whose representatives they were—the electors of the imperial State and city of New York. Their works, are they not inscribed in the Capitol? Whether the result redounds to their credit as legislators and patriots, however, is a question for the people to determine in the inture. Few, if a@ny one amongst them in fact, if threatened with deieat at the polls in seeking again for re-election vould like the Roman of old point to the capitol jor a verdict in their favor. It was the oid legisla- tive history of the State repeating itself—the same contest of parties for the spoils and for politcal supremacy, utterly regardless of the trne interests of the people. The legislative halis closed, the would- be arbiters of the political destinies of the people have retired to their several districts, there to Prepare for carrying out whatever combinations and schemes the leaders may devise and enter into to secure the great prize to be contended for in the coming fall campaign. But during the past session i¢ 18 undeniable that the party leaders directed and controlled the action of the people’s representatives in all the measures that were pre- sented for legislative action. It was the usual Programme of ground and lofty tumbling and Political legerdemain, with the puppet dance and bow thrown in. The principal actors were, how- ever, behind the scenes moving the puppets at their will; and while it was now Punch and now Judy that spoke to the audience it was all the time either Honest Tom Murphy, of the Custom House Party, or Grand Sachem John Kelly, who was be- hind the drapery putting their words into the mouths of the political automatons. It was, indeed, &@ “raree show,” enough to make the grouudlings laugh but the judicious grieve, Mr. Murphy and Mr. Kelly fighting as if determined to make a “ghost” one of the other, yet both ready to make compromises if a division of the spoils could only be agreed upon. This was, of course, the bone of contention over which they set their henchmen and heutenants to growl and snarl. Mr. G. Biiss did the “heavy” business for Mr. Murphy, while Mr. John Morrissey enacted the same réle for Mr. Kelly, asststed by General Frank Spinola. THE POLICE COMMISSIONERS’ BILL alarmed both sides. Neither could, or were will- ing to, trust Mayor Havemeyer should the bill giving him the appointing power to heads of de- partments without confirmation bs passed as at first framed, The Mayor, with an eye to a renomi- nation, played tho rdle of the disinterested and self-sacrificing magnate that disclaimea against being clothed with greater powers than those which rightfully belonged to the ofice when he entered upon it. He was just in that strait when he could not boldiy go over to eitner party. He was in the middle of the stream—a dangerons time to swap horses—and so he went quietly with the cur- rent, which left him on his feet, high and diy, wituout the necessity of an open Pleage to either party. The Police and Park biti! conferred upon him the power to appoint to ali vacancies in the heads of departments, but in view ot his term of office now expiring leit bim NO VACANOIES TO APPOINT TO; and thus the balance'of mains statu quo, It is the City Hall and Inspectors of Election Dt ene between the tw ir. Kelly can succeed in keeping in their traces some of the baiky team hitherto belonging to the Tammany machine that now threatens to bolt altogether. On this will greatly depend the iare ot Tammany in the {all contest. In an interview with the great ex-secessionist and ex-Apollo Hall leader, EX-SHERIFF O'BRIEN, | this once powerlul opponent ‘of Tammany de- clared that he not tue contest either attempt to head bimeelf to any party in revoit inst many. He weighed, ne bays, Mr. Murphy and his ring in the balance and found them wanti and be will not have anything more todo wi! them. He adds that there never was more wide dane dissatisiaction within the Tammany ran! than at present. which, however, is pretty wi balanced by a general defection in the Custom House party. THE MALCONTENTS IN THE TAMMANY CAMP are old and reliable leaders, with a strong array lollowers, one and all injected with the same 1 ing of hostility to the present chiels on account of. the arbitrary and coercive rule to which all muss bow who expect to have a voice or representation in the councils of the Wigwam. Mr. Keily, they say, is so much uuder the secret infueace a Co present or al Comptrolier Green, Mr. J. Morrissey and a City Hi clique that he ignores the counsel and advice life-long Tammai mocrats Who Joughi end com- quered under the Tammany standara in the past. The ex-Sheriff, m reading the political pe with the signs of which he Is so famitiar aad whi he fo propitiousiy cast for himself last pre dicts a troublesome time forTammany. The nan-Loew-Waterbury-Roosevelt elements com- bined, he thinks, will compel the Grand Sachem to come down irom his pedestal of sphinx-like reeqpe and act with the whole party, instead of witha Star Chamber junta of them. LOOKING INTO THE REPUBLICAN CAMPS, with the tactics and discipline of which he is9o conversant, he say: s there are uomistakable of disruption—that the solid masses ot the are not with Messrs. Pine A Bliss and Dave 4 8 The cry of political reiorm no longer a leth round waich to rally the electors of the city, ‘Tammany has been thoroughly reiormed, so faras the overthrow of the oid leaders and their e; sion irom the political arena is concerned, out what tangible benefic has resulted to the therefrom? ‘The most important omicial and politi- cal offices are filled by mea, not of their own choos- ing, but seiected by THE POLITICAL RING MASTERS at whose beck and nod they wield the vast powers delegated to them. ‘he general fecling is @ new departare must be take 1; that the ‘ipe ior it, and that @ ticket for with the name ofa citizen that would rally to support the masses mdependent of part; be sure to he elected. The ex-Apollo Hail leader's horoscope in this regard is a hopeful one, and it will boots depend upon the electors themselves whether they will verily it or not. THE CONTEST AS IT I8—THE MAYORALTY— is what we have to deal with now. Under the aew Police bill the Mayor is clothed with powers that render him independent of the Board of Alder- men, and he must, in the very nature of ti political, drift under the lee of one party or other, He is invited to teast in the Wigwam. 1e great chici Mr. Kelly will not bea candidate Mayor, and if Mr. Havemeyer gives 41 pledges to do the behest of the purty faithful all things he may get renominated as the many candidate. There is some gnashing of over this last move. Ex-Congressman Smnith Ely, dr., notwithstanding the back pay was looming up prominently as & date. He, with the other aspirants, Roosevelt, Chanler, and Abram B. Hewitt have for the tired to back seats to await events. of the wise men of Tammany, however, not fractify as intended, Mr. Murphy i | would be good to secure Mr. Havemeyer for self and bis party; 80, between the two, Mr. Ha meyer is in the delightful situation or the swain who thought— ithe appy could I be with cither Wore ett dear charmer away. This is the present aspect of the Mayoral dacy, and, however bright 1t looks for the, a incumbent, between the two stools he the ground—a consummation not to be se! deplored, “i TRE GOVERNORSHIP, The most important feature of the political as- pect of the any is presented in the coi eon- test for Governor. Here the field of polit ©x- pands into proportions that embrace the py tho next Legisiature of a United Sen- tor an rospectively, the election le of protident of the Unitec 5S HJ combinations of parties will be made to ve round this centre point of interest. Goveror. is looking for a renomination from the republican party, aud assuredly the republican le: are looking to him as the only man that can Minne and consolidate their strength throughont the State. The leaders also kuow {ull well that uf they tatied to renominate Governor Dix the democratic party, a8 one man, Would invite him to candidate, So it may be accepted asa. conclusion that the present Chie! State will be again the stand: Joey who elected him to his present tis also pretty certain that Judge Ri I) OX> State Senator, will be on the Dix ticket ior Lieu- venant Governor, On the democratic side of the their ne house there are tnree candidates held serve, one of whom will te te aeons bearer of the party for Governor should General Dix be we can of the republican party. These Baosord £. Chureh, Samuet'y, “Tien and 30. Whitehouse, Congressman from Dutchess county, The later hamed gentieman was triumphantly poe lh Ee politiens liberal tickets, and erefore T as Avatlabuir: Feokoned he stands square on that pativey, 5d nile fo voluntarily atering’ while averse ‘upon a a natorial contest, has declared that if the poh aya of the party demand it he will hold himself in readiness to enter upon the contest as the cratic standard bearer. The question of States Senator to fill the vacancy upon Mr. Fen- retirement is myoived in the @ next incumbent may be, tou Rew York sate: Snourd Uni States Senator from New Le. uid Chureh be the fret Bae choice of the the ticket ressm an Rouse, rhe iocepta wil be the candidate of the party tor Lieute! Governor. "nor, whoev fteally certain THE NEWARK TRIALS. Sceme im the Newark Common Council Chamber—The Persecutions of Public Men. The usually dull routine proceedings of the New- ark Common Council were interiarded on Friday night by ap intensely dramatic scene, in which Alderman William Stainaby, one of the Newark ity officials, now on trial ior aleged conspiraagy to defraud the city in the matter of the Springfeld avenue pavement, was the chief actor. Im pre- senting to the Council some final estimates for work done by contractors on Central avenue, Mr. Stainsby expressed the wish that a resolution would be passed providing that the passing of final estimates upon the certificate of the City Surveyor and Street Commissioner should be done only alter Presentation vy the President of the Council. The Alderman hoped also, ne said, that no otuer Alder- man would ever be placed in the trylag ordeal he was passing through before the Court, and then proceeded to explain what he considered the up- Justness of hoiding the chairman of a.committee responsible for any mistakes which might be made by the paid city officials, whose duty it was to see that work was done properly and then certify the bills, During the past month he had been placed, he said, in the t MOST HUMILIATING POSITION because of having signed estimates as other Aldermen had done, Sometning should be done to prevent the possibility of other Aldermen being placed in the disgraceful position ne founa Dimself in. Mr. Stainsby spoke with great emo tion and was followed in a similar strain by Alder man Reynolds, who said that, in his opinion, s great deal of injustice had been done Mr. Stainal by the public prints and even by the cou Aldermen couid not be expected to take visual potice of every brick and stone used ior tne ci It was the paid officer of tue 7 who should held responsibie, noc the unpaid Aldermen, of whom were just as liable as Stainsby to } sgh in a humiliating position, He seconded . Stainby’s suggestion Stainsby again arose, visibly affected, and said that he was tue first chairman of the Street Com mittee who caused final estimates to come beiore his committee first for signature for a better safe- guard. No Alderman had ever witnhela nis a ture from a contract or estimate when certified by the paid officers. Still he nad been brought be- fore the courts and subjected to all sorts of com- ments and suspicions. He supposed he would have to sit in court next Wednesday, he said (reierring, doubtless, to the summing up of the prosecution! and hear for hours “a man biackguaid nie,” an all because he had dove what other Aldermen had done—“paid talinful attention to the interests. of the city.” He hopea sincerely that no man would. be disgraced as ne had been, and not only him but his famuy. The Alderman wes greatly affected throughout his remarks, and by the time; he closed completely broke down, sunk into his Seat, covered his lace with his bands, and sought relief in @ flood of tears. There was a pause-when he got throngn, tue other city fathers seem! to be affected consiierably. The silence was broken by Alderman U’Uonnor, who echoed the sentiment of Alderman Reynolds, sympathising wita their colleague on trial, Mr. O'Connor said in his of haw way, amid puch laughter, that he could not see why any charge shouid be made against an Alderman for signing estimates. It was wrong to bring such charyves, and he would say it “whether tae Court liked it or noi.” ane a was takea on Mr, Stainsby’s sugges- jon, THE TRADE SOCIETIES. | Comvention Last Night at Germania Ae sembly Rooms. A mecting took place last evening at the Wer- manta Assembly ,Rooms, Twenty-sixth street and Seventh avenue, of the various trade societies interested in the enforcement of the Eight Hour law. ° It appears that lately the bosses of the building Societies havo been making repeated attempts, as already published im the HeBALD, to get the ma sons, plasterers and carpenters to come down to the ten hour system. This the various trades have strenuously resisted to the extent of ebeo- lately rejusing to work im this manner, and threat ing @ strike if it is imaisted upon. This was the ee of the meet last t. Mr. R. Walsh, oe ter, occupled the chair. re Seder sain evidentiv the boat as, which not only were composed of the trades at tacked, but of the othera, Resolutions were and |‘ whanimously passed. The resolutions in substance stated that OB no account Would the building societies re way to the demand o¢ tue bosses, because representations were in every manner jalsc. It was already proven that in working eight hours the r market was already crowved and that more work was supplied than was wanted, and that in matter or price the men received no more than was demanded. tor tne absolute necessaries orlile, The men iad stood by the Bight Hour law thus long and they would not give way at this time, when the market is over ded with work and woen it iy wel! known that trade is in sucha Condition that the enforcement of ten hours ts not in any ‘way necessary. The various aces fherelore, determined Yo adhere to the Eight ‘Hout we ¥ Affer these resolutions the done was of @ miscellaneous and somewhat rderiy char- acter, and vhe meeting adjourned. THE NATIONAL GAME. pavers Match for the Champtonship—Zostens ve. Mutuals. Boston, Mass, May 2q: 1874. ‘The first championship game of base balbom the Boston Grounds was played this sfterngom) he~ tween the Bostons and the Mutaals, of New York. ‘The weather was cold, and the faicsray Bot in very good condition. Both Clubs ietaed very well. The score is as fullows:— pai Clube, Int, 2d. Sd. Mth. BO Ged," a. Bostons. -o 1 8 8 0 $ y 818 Mutuals. 7h CS o v wes The Athictics and Philadelphians. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., May 2, 1874, The second championship: game of base ball be- tween tho Atnhictics and Putladelptias, which was e been played this did not take , O8 account of the unit won, of the und, and it Was postponed until ia May 10 the Hartford Ciab wilt start on a tour and play a8 tollows:—Atiantic, May 20, at Brooklyn; Philadciphia, May 21, at Philadelphia; Baltimore, at Baltimore, May 22; Athietics, at Philadelphia, May 28; Ohicago, May 27, at Chicago; Chicago, May 2%, at St. Louts; Chicago, May 29, at St. Lous; ‘at Onicago, May ‘o-morrow, 4, the Baltimore nine toes) trill Ping tae Philadelphiae ; Tuesday t GITY AND OOUNTY TREASURY. Comptrolier Green reports the following die bureements and receipts of the Treasury yester- day :— ounting to...... ‘ammo unting to. ‘0. of Warrants 6, pald—.o. of warrants From taxes of 1878 and interest From ars of tiXes, Assesameats and intel From o tion of Asvessine! interest. From market rents From water rents. om sewer rmit. From sales ‘of viteiticd scone ee From commissi RRCRIPTS. = 2 = =a Sse THE CHAMBEBLAIN'S INTEREST. City Chamberlain Lane reports interest on de- posits for April, collected 1rom banks, $10,803 42. April so polanes of cash “ea ipte to 30th