The New York Herald Newspaper, June 20, 1874, Page 8

8 THE LABOR STRIKE IN ENGLAND. A Visit to the Scene of the Trouble. MISERIES OF THE LABORER’S LIFE Peasant Life in Rich and Happy England. THE HERALD AND ITS INFLUENCE. Bury Sr. EDMUNDS, May 26, 1874., A slight ray of sunshine bas just broken in upon the disastrous jabor dispute now causing such widespread suffering throughout these Eastern | counties, In Lincolnshire, the farmers, listening to the wise counsels of one of their number, have | thrown their jealousy of “union dictation” to the winds, and have met the accredited representa- tives of the laborers, Messrs. Morley apd Dixon, members of Parliament, with whom they have en- gagea in friendly conference. After a short and sightly animated discussion, they have unani- mously resolved that thenceforth, so far as the eounty of Lincoin is concerned, the lockout shall immediately cease. The dispate in Lincoln, how- ever, has been a milder one than that in the coun- ties of Suffolk and Cambridge. In Lincoln, the men were locked out because their em- ployers objected to three rules of the Labor League, which, as the farmers understood them, linked the laborers in a conspiracy totuke advantage of their masters during harvest- ing. These three rules have now, on the recom- mendation of Messrs, Morley and Dixon been moai- fied by the adoption of a phraseology less open to vague and captious criticism. The farmers, on the other hand, and by way of reciprocity for the wil- Mnguess shown by their men, declare that they now recognize the right of the laborers to com- Dime and will not hereafter fight with them on the abstract issue as to whether or not the agricul- tural laborers have the same right to unite for their social amelioration which artisans in towns, mimers and most otner workmen already exercise wamolested. This concession, on which the men gre very jubilant, is, after ail, a rather suadowy one, inasmuch as the farmers, while admitting the right of combination, claim the power of revising and altering the rules of the organization. How- | ever, both the men and the masters seem heartily Pleased with the arrangement, and there has been, im consequence, 4 general resumption of work througuout the county of Lincoln to-day. In the shires of Suffolk and Cambridge, however, it i the simpie right of combination which is alone the apple of discord. Tne farmers there have sworn to extirpate the union. Unionism per se has been and is the sole object of their attack. It is clear, therefore, that any con- vession similar to that made by their breturen in Lincolushire would be an absolute surrender of their position. Anything so ingiorious they declare they cannot for a moment entertain. Messrs. Mor- sey and Dixon have been politely told to “mind their Dwn business” and that any furtner interference will be resented as a piece of impertinent inter- meddling. So matters are at present in gs unsat- islactory a position as they were ten weeks ago When the general lockout gommenced. It would be impossible to exaggerate the stubborn dogged: | mess of these East Anglian farmers, Each of them is in his way @ typica) John Ball, as you see that bucolic individual depicted from week to week in the pages of Punch. “Yield to these fellows,” said one of them the other day. “No, sir; although every crop in the country should go to ruin, | we wont ban! down our colors.’ As most of them, are either wealthy or backed by wealthy landlords it is easy to see how stern a struggle may yet be waged before we havean end to the lockout. The men themselves do not to-day present so undi- vided a front as they did a few weeks ago. Weariea with waiting and demoralized by a long stretch of enforced idieness, some of them talk doubttully of Meir prospects, while a few have given up their umion uckets and resumed work on the old condi- tions. Others have grown testy and ill-natared, and say very rash and seditious things about the land and the landowners. Their delegates are | daily spiriting them on to continued opposition, | but they are rapidly tiring of empty deciamation. | It is hard, say they, eking out a subsistence on | Qine shillings a week. Hangry men in this coun- | sry, as in others, soon become desperate men, ana trave stronger excitement than that derived from fistening to the stale platitudes of hack orators. | Yesterday evening I visited a wayside public, | Roted as one of the leading resorts of the ‘docked- out.” This rendezvous is a plain, unpreten- tous hostelry, picturesquely set amid beech trees, and close to where “four roads meet.’ There is | nothing very remarkable about its exterior save the gigantic signboard suspended over the door, nd whose unmelodious creakings in a high wind are excruciating enough. A creamy-colored Quadruped, with elongated limbs and ispro- Portionate body, painted on th wooden banner, irresistibly recalied another “White Horse,” to be geen at Ipswich, in this county, which Charlies Dickens in his immortal “Pickwick” styled “a ram- Pagious animal, with flowing mane and tatl, dis- tantly resembting an insane cart horse.” Here, in | a long, low-rooted, poorly furnished room, 1 found | about two dozen laborers seated at rough deal tables, which had evidently been subjected to much ingenious whittling, aud were indented with the initials of many village rusties, who have chosen this cheap method of procuring immor- tality. Glasses filled with a red, muddy looking | gle were on the tables. The liquid did not seem an inviting one. It was cheap enough, however, cost- ing only three cents per glass. There was a tum- bdle-down air about the whole surroundings which imparted a melancholy aspect to the assemblage. The chairs were rickety, the stone flooring was Jagged and aoneven, the window panes were patched with brown paper, and one ef the two 4 | | | | solitary candlesticks was bandaged with a | piece of whip cord, The men kept tne. furniture in countenance. They looked gioomy and dispirited. scarcely a word passed, and the drinking was ile most fmnereal tippling I ever wit- nessed. Three and sometimes four men were sharing a singie glass between them, sipping its contents with the utmost parsimony, and oniy placing the liquor to their lips after 1ong intervals. | Poor fellows, the pinclied condition of their purses Prevents aby more extravagant debauchery. The foriorn aspect of the scene reminded one or the | celebrated French picture of “The Last Cartonche,”” Tecalling ali the intensity of its despair and the hope- Jessness of the sler exhaustion that painting so vividly portrays, Fortunately, a “new arrival’? bronght animation to the scene, although he did not atfirst seem a likely man to bring either life or hope to the gathering. The new comer was a tall, thin individual, over sixty years of age, with gray, Srizzied hair and a most morose expression of | countenance. He was hanited in the seediest of snuff-colored suits tong since been brushed away bulky black leather y ween much service in {1 with great heartines rom which all the surfa e had . and he carried a which had evidentiy day. He was received It soon transpired that he was an itinerant tea pea) Be. always well posted | in the. “Lunnun” news, ever willing ¢o read | the newspapers to the men, and wio haa alreaay | donated on sundry Occasions sinaii tea packages to the more needy of many sorely » families. As the evening wore on I took more kindly to Robbins. His big black valise | observed was stowed with equal quantities of tea packages and newspapers, each careially and methodicatiy “done up” in trim \ittie bundles and ted with black ribbon, ‘Lads,” said he cheerily, “there's a gooa article in the Union Chronicle (the laborers’ organ) this week which | am going to read to you.” A general rub-a-dub of horny fists on the fable saluted this intelligence. Unfolding bis peper and | donning bis giasses, he read in tones as sprigMtiy, I | dare say, a8 he could command, a lugubrious atvack on the English aristocracy. So soon as he had con- Cluded a dangssion pf the contenss of the article | Master, but I won’t give up the union.” | tenances. | current of their social and political opinion is followed and it was interesting to watch the in- cipient Communism which cropped up all uncon- aciously to the surface in the course of the debate. I suppose not one of them ever beard of Proudhon, yet his famous maxim was freely reiterated | in English in as incisive and epigrammatic a form as the original French. “Robbins,” said one keen-eyed square-bullt little fellow whose matted red hair was in keeping with tne rouge tint of his politics. “I want to Know who made all this land, if tt waren’t God Almighty, and whether He ever intended that one man should keep it all to his- self and lockout and starve them as was born on it as well ag himself.” Ropbins replied with much solemnity that it was God Almigaty who made tne land, but it was his Satanic Majesty, the prince of evil, Who Nad founded the jurispradence of Eng- land, the entail jaws being the special bit of his handiwork on which he most congratulated him- self, The red-iaired man rejoined that he ccuid well believe it, Another laborer, sitting in the shadow of a remote corner, chimed in that he was sure “there would be an uprising soon.” Two or three others murmured in muttered chorus, that they “didn’t care how soon.” “Starving us here and sending us to be shot at by darkies in Africa won't do any longer,” said a stalwart young fel- low, Whose superb physique showed that so far as muscle and sinew went he was the sort of stuil of which good armies are compoved. 1 do not know how long this discussion would have continued or to what depths of incen- diarism it might not have descended had not a young lady, the neighboring squire’s daughter, just then reined in her palirey at the porch in order to make some trifing request of the landiord’s wile, She was in rtding habit, a vigor- ous, spirited girl, whose vivacious ways reminded one of Lady Gay Spanker in “London Assurance.” She seemed full of fun, ana somewhat recklessly and imprudently dashed right mto our club room, riding cane im hand, stopping before an old, de- crepit iooking fellow, who began tugging at his tangled locks, and seemed very uncomfortabie under the searching scrutiny of her keen dark eye. “Now, Adam,’’ said she, after a pause, dur- ing which she surveyed him narrowly from head to loot, “to fancy an old man hke you keeping company with such a pack!” Then glancing at the huge blue cockade he wore in his button- hole she burst into a merry fit of laughter. “On! who would ever, have thought of seeing you wearing those horrid Union colors. Why, man,” she continned, “it has been charity to give you twelve shillings a week. Pa will never give it you again.” ‘Well, yon see, Miss Alice,” rejoined the poor old fellow, still tugging awkwardly away atagray lock on the centre of his lorenead, “I am locked out. Iam on strike. I don’t complain of master’s wages bat I won’t give up the union. T have lived a long time and it’s the best thing as Isce that has ever come to us chaps. And you Would think so too, Miss Alice, if you could only see things aright as you will one day do, for you are a good young laay and bas always been very kind to Mary and me. I don’t want no quarrel with “But Adam, who has been kindest to you—Pa or the union? Who has supported you for forty years? Why should you be so ungrateful now ?”? “Iam not ungrateful, Miss Alice; 1 would do anything for master, but I can’t give up my union. It’s a prin- ciple, you see, Miss, and master will by and by see it so, too.” Then Miss Alice, clenching her cane in her hand, as if she wished to whip some- body, said—‘‘It’s all the doings of these idle dele- gates, Adam. You never used to talk about ‘prin- ciple’ until they came among- us. They sbould stay in their own parishes and not come annoying us here.” Changing her tone to one of kindly persuasiveness she continued, “Adam, onty give me your union ticket and I pledge you my word pa will see you cared for till the end of your days; then stil more persuasively she added, “Won't you?’ Here wasa crisis, The old man was confused. He was struggling with himself, and it was very evident that the mental confict was a hard one. Noboay interfered with him, All were silent. The tableau was effective and strik- ing. The bright young girl all impetuosity and kindness; the wrinkled old fellow ali stormy doubt and indecision, which showed itself m the wavering worklugs of his furrowed countenance, ‘The tssue came quick. Looking up in Miss Alice’s face he said in a low, kindly but determined tone, “No! Miss Alice, no! J cannot give up the union.’’ There was but one look on these laborers’ coun- Describe it I cannot: but they seemed one and all of them seized with a sudden inspira- tion of joy and to have heard the tocsin of freedom in the old man’s words and a prophecy of the in- evitable and ultimate triumph of the Agricultural Laborers’ Union, The girl turned quickly on her heel, bit her lip, and, looking a little sad and dis- comfited, jeft the room. This little incidc + in the humblest of Suffolk hostelries is no tneignificant | episode of the strike. It poiats its own moral. | As your correspondent rose to leave Robbins, flushed and elated as if with new wine, was leading | the company in song, the words of which I make no apology for appending to this letter because that | trite old saying of old Fletcher, of Saltoun, is as true to-day as ever, “Give me the making of the | ballads of a nation and I care not who make tts laws.’ These songs of the laborers show how the aritting. AND BY THE UNION. Stand by the Union! All through the land ‘The sons ot the soil are waking ; Join heart to heart ana hand to hand, The rusted chains of bondage breaking. CHORUS. A For the poor man is weak, thongh his cause be right, But the weak grow strong when they ull unite. Stand by the Union!—the great may frown; We'll be their serts no longer; ‘Though they are strong who tread us down, The God-given rights of men are stronger, cHoRts. For the poor man, &c. Stand by the Union!—stick to it now, With & strength no power can sever: e've put our hands with a will to the plough; We'll never look back, boys, never! never! cnoxus. For the poor man, &e. [From the Spalding (Lincoln) Free Press.) THE New YoRK HERALD ANP THE LaAgor AarTa- | TION.—There is perhaps no more convine¢ng proof of the interest that attacnes itself to the present stroggle among the laboring classes than that now being displayed by the enterprising proprietor of THe New York HERALD, a thorough exponent of American views upon all national and important questions, and a hearty supporter of all movements rd working and skilled laborers journas is using every possible saversant WIth the ieelings inw America. means to make itsel of agricuitural laborers in ali parts of Great Brit- ain. An Interest, scarcely rivalied in England, is being taken by our American cousins in this gr agitation, and a staff of repo: is kept ec stantly employed visiting the local where th question seems to be most stirrir ¢ minds of the people, in order that the latest and most ace rate information may be from tiine to time trans- | mitted. | The above is a spontaneous paragraph by the editor of which I knew nothing till I read it, “ALL HAIL, THANE OP CAWDOR\" {From the Harwich (Mass.) Independent.) We have ‘ailen upon troublesome times and the country needs a leader of peculiar ability. The times demand a Chief Magistrate who is fixed, firm and steadfast in his opinions, conscientious, of good common sense and with the broad views of @ statesn All this Ulysses 8. Grant has moze than proved himseli to be. He is in every sense the man of the people, by whose voice he has ever been guided. As a result the people trust him as they trustno other man in authority. In their opinion he isthe strong bulwark against which | the tide of corruption, inflation and anarchy strikes in vain, and if he wil allow bimseli to be presented for the suffrages of the people for a third term there is no doubtabout the result—the man does notlive who cowd be run successiully agamat hua. THE KIND TEAT STIOKS, | To THE EpIToR OF THE HERALD :— The London Patly News compares Napoleonism in France to couch grasé,,and says it “has not struck deep into the soll, but has taken possession of the superficial stratum,”’—Herald, June 19. Just so. Couch, orkutch, grass takes “pos- session of the superficial stratum’ and ever- | lastingly spitces and piaits its roots into indestractible sinnet. It cannot be rooted out: | In India and Persia, where every blade is Scorched by the biazing sun and hot winds | o! the dry season, horses and cattle are fed on the succulent roots, One rain shower covers the arid, baked, fissured plains with emerald verdure. 50 will one streak of good luck show Bonapartism revivified to the France it blessed with weaith, | prosperity, and the “greatest good of the greatest | bumber.” baw HADJI NICKA BAUKER KUAN. New Youre. June 19. 1d, BRAZIL. ‘The steamship Merrimack, Captam Weir, ar- rived at this port on the 18th inst., with the mails from South America, She brings news from [uo Janeiro to the 26th; Bahia, 29th, and Pernambaco, Sist of May, and trom Para to the Sth of June. Had also a full cargo of merchandise and a large number of passengers, The Public Situation in the Brazilian Empire—The Bishop of Para Consigned to Prison—Treasury Imposts and Im- port Dues. Rio JANEIRO, May 25, 1874. Don Antonio da Costa, Bishop of Para, arrived here on the i9th in the steamer Mernmack, and was fnmediately lormally arrested upon a war- rant of the Supreme Tribunal of Justice and taken to the Arsenal of Marine, to the apartments pre- viously occupied under the same etreumstances by the Bishop of Oliada. There a namber o/ ultra- montane gentiemen and clergy got up a little scene by casting themselves on their knees in the dust to kiss his band. But his arrival as a prisoner has created very trifling interest and has hardly been noriced outside these circles. in fact, for the general pub- lic, at least of Rio, the “martyr”? business has be- The a come a greata bore as the Hoosac tunnel. government has not yet made any stateinent reference to its further course in the ecclesiastical question. It has, however, put in force an au- thorization which had laid dormant and unused for several years, has taken the registration of the births, marriages and deaths from the priests and has handed it over to the justices of the peace, who are elective judges. This measure will be a serious blow to the clerical emoluments and iniu- ence, but will permit completeness in the recor(s for, of course, the priestly registrars never deigned to enter the unsacramented baptisms and legalized concubinage of heretics upon books intended for the births and marriages of the children of the church, CABINET PROSPECTS, ‘The life of the Cabinet is very precarious, and I am sorry to have to say it, for the Visconde de Rio Branco has done much tor Brazil during his Premiership, and would have done more had the oppositions let him. But he bas alreaay had six continuous years of office—four as Premier—and his enemies have accumulated as political enemies do in such circumstances. The first blow to tne unity of the conservative party was caused in 1871 by his Free Birth bill, when a talented minority of Deputies separated from his leadership on the ground of the untimeliness of the. measure, and were joined in inducing hostility in nis Cabinet by several whole hog abolitionists, together forming the ‘Dissident’? opposition, Then last year six liberals appeared in the Cham- ber of Deputies, and this year the sum of hostility has been increased by the ultramontanes and by seceders on various personal grounds, in addition to divergencies in the government minority on the Electoral Retorm bill, some opposing and some supporting the government in maintaining in- direct election of representatives and Seuators. ‘The President of the Deputies bas also passed over to the opposition, and resigned the Presidency. In the senate the Premier 1s tolerably sate, and, with one exception, the liberal Senators do not ive systematic opposition. In the Chamber oj Heputies, bowever, the Cabinet has but a smail majority, and, owing to sixty-one members being needed to make a house, when the whole number ot Deputies in Rio ts only 108, the oppositions can stop progress in legislation by merely staying away, In the Cabinet itself, also, there is disunion, two of its members belonging to the ultramontane party, and disapproving o! the course taken with tae bishops. Owing to the heterogeneity or the conservative opposition, the groups of which have no measure in common, and to the smallness of the liberal opposition, there isa kind of political deadlock at present, from the extreme difficult; of imagining a new Cabinet which could stand, and the solutions of the political quidnuncs are numerous and very varied. The liberals believe thatthe Emperor will solve the question by call- ing them in again, allowing them to dissolve the Chamber immediately, if the present oue will not work with them, and in the other case, and if an Electoral Reform bill pass, dissolve and hold a new election next year under the new electoral law. FALLING OFF IN THE REVENUE. The Minister of Finance reports that owing to bad crops and low prices of sugar and cotton, waich caused @ serious Jalling off in some of the northern provinces, the revenue of the current fiscal year ending June 30 will be only )104,000,000, or ||2,000,000 ($1,000,000) less than estamated. The wtai expenditure, including ||11,817,861 on account of railroads, will amount to /!117,831,501. For next year he reckons it at |/i17,144,431, counting 113,381,000 to be borrowed for railroads. As re- gards 1875 and 1876, whose estimates have to be voted this session, he calculates the revenue at 106,060,000 and the ordimary expenditure at 102,634,055, leaving @ balance of 13,365,944. But this surplus will probably disappear by the grant- ing of extraordinary credits, and the ordinary es- tumates dq not include ratiroad making, for wiich ingney wiil have to be borrowed. A MONEY CRISIS EXPECTED. The borrowing for railroads by the government is pressing very heavily on this exchange, and we expect a monetary crisis soon, more being wanted about this time. The government has already raised the rate paid by it on its ‘‘ireasury bills’? to six per cent, and will probably have to advance stili more. Altogether the money market is not in a good state. Gold and foreign exchange have risen seven to eight per cent within a month, chiefly trom the almost complete stoppage ot the shipment of coffee, owing to the great ialis which have occurred in the prices abroad. The enormous fall in the price of coffee has caused very severe losses among the Be aed the iall amounting to $5 a bag in many shipments, An association of planters, got up to protect them from the middle- men, being unwilling to accept prices, snipped very largely just before the news, and four-firths of its $500,500 capital is lost, greatly to the delight of the sackers and exporters. Notwithstanding the losses, the country 18 prospering, though the sugar industry can hardly struggle aiong. SLAVERY DISAPPEARING. ‘The slaves have decreased fifty per cent since the year 1850, when the slave trade was completely stopped, and the registration of the slaves last year gave the number at 1,016,262, EXPORT DUTIES. ‘ro aid the planters who grow sugar and cotton, products whose value has become very low, the Minister of Finance proposes to reduce the export tax on them from nine per cent to seven per cent, and he also proposes to abolish the tax on various small exports. The loss to the treasury from these changes he reckons at $2,000,00, He also proposes to subsidize banks senaing money to planters by paying to the banks two per cent annually for twenty years on the money they lend at @ rate not exceeding eleven percent annuities for repayment, within twenty years, c# the joan and interest. The maximum Tate of interest will be six per cent a year, patd hali-yearly ; but froma being reckoned aiways on the original sum, altuough this will be diminisned every year by five per cent instalments, the real rate Will be nine per cent, which the government sub- sidy will increase to eleven percent. Besides this the bangs will have power to issue “hypothecary bis” to ten times their capital, if they can float them, and loans of them to planters will receive the | government subsidy. PUBLIC DEBT. total debt of the [mpire, ingluding 16,000 of paper money, is $616,769,000, against 65,000 Jast year. The foreigu debt was re- during the past year £49,500, and now amounts to £15,053,200, THE NAVY. An iron-clad frigate, named the Sete de Setem- bro, has been Jauncned from tie Rio Arsenal, Soe will carry six $00-pouand rifles. URUGUAY. ee Failure of the Uriental Loan in Europe=— The Relations with the Confedcration Broken=Dipiomacy at a Critical Point—Commercial Report. MONTEVIDEO, May 15, 1874. ‘The fears entertained in Europe of a rupture be- tween Brazil and the Argentine Confederation pro- duced a notable fall in the prices of River Piate bonds on the London Exchange, This depreciation appears to be the principal cause which has para. lyzed the efforts of the Uruguay Commissioners who were sent to England to negotiate a loan of The £6,000,000, destined, if realized, to convert some ot | the debts of this Repuplic. Tue return of one of the Commissioners 1s announced, which has dis- heartened our commercial community, for it 18 feared that some time may yet elapse before the monetary dificuities of the country can be relieved, THE WAR IN PARAGUAY. The latest advices from Paraguay are to the effect that revolution and anarchy still prevall. | ‘The Brazilian forces were sustaining Vice Presi. | dent Joveilanos, The Argentines trated im the disputed Chaco ter matic relations have been broken o; Argentine Republic and dave concen- ivory. Diplo this government, the | origin of the rupture being a question of the clos- | ing of the ports, a8, When tne cholera appeared in Bnenos Ayres, our heaith authorities svat off com. munication with all ports of the Argentine terri- | tory. This decree was, however, repeated when the decline of the disease was announced, and only remained in force as regarded intercourse Argentine | oetween the | with Buenos Ayres. President Sarmiento took umbrage at this and retaliated by closing all the ports of the Arzentine Coniederation sels trom this side. This act was unjustified, as it was Well known no contagious disease existed in any part of this Republic; but the most offensive thing of all was the word: ing of the decree—‘ihat the Oriental government was incompetent to de- | termine i1 tt Was convenient to have intercourse | With some of the Arwentine ports while maintain- ing tts Intereommanieation with Buenos Ayres” This Was lollowed by an energetic PROTEST from the Oriental representative, who, by instruc- tion Of his government. requested an explanation of the umriendly gonduct, which the Argentine Executive cluded glving. ‘Meantime the total dis- appearance of the epidemic induced our authori- ties bo decree the opening of its ports, which was followed by a like decree on the part of the Argen- tine government; but the latter stiil persist in eluding the demand for explanation, even going 80 far gs to reiurn the Consul General’s note. In view o1 this new aggravation the Oriental government resolved to declare diplomatic relations sus- pended, thus ending the quarrel Jor the present, COMMERCE. The Oriental Consul at Buenos Ayres and the Argenune representative here conunue their re~ spective functions as regards commercial affairs, so at least the mercantile interests will not be alfected, Business in every branch is completely paralyzed. Ouc dealers only provide themselves With what they require for immediate consump- tien; and the bigh rates of interest, together with the limited tacilities offered by our banks to the commercial commanity, tend to depress transac- ious of every description, ‘ LITERARY CHIT-CHAT. a PROFESSOR GETKIE’S latest scientific book, “The Great ice age,” will shortly be reproduced by D. Appleton & Tue NSW PUBLISHING house of Asa K. Butts & | Co., New York, will soon issue a book on crema- lion, containing the essays by Sir Henry Thomp- son, Rev, 0, B, Frothingham ana others, “THE STORY OF THE HovsE,” by Me great French writer on architecture, furniture. and decoration, Viollet-le-Duc, will be issued by J. R. Osgood & Co., with illustrations by the author. A Nrew Book on sewerage and drainage, by Julius W, Adams, will shortly issue from the press of D. Van Nostrand, New York. THE ENDLESS SUBJECT Of Spiritualism is to be further illuminated by the publication of Protessor F. R. Marvin’s lectures on “Mediomania,” before the New York Liberal Club, Iy 1873 UrwWaRbs of 400 printed books, magazines and pamphlets were suppressed in Austria by the government. Miss ANNA DICKINSON’S forthcoming book 13 not a novel, but a series of sketches of her lecturing tour experiences. MR. PARTON is collecting material for a history of caricature, in which its influence on American politics will have prominence. THe “CALENDAR OF THE CAREW MANUSCRIPTS,” just completed, m six volumes, by the British Rolls Office, contatns much curious and valuable lis- torical information regarding Ireland and Irish affairs in the time of Elizaneth and James I. UNDER THE TITLE of ‘The Gentleman Emigrant,” his daily life, sports and pastimes in Canada, Aus- tralia and the United States, Mr. W. Stamer has written a lively book of description, anecdote and injormation. He found the lands of Virginia highly cheap and attractive, and recommends the Oid Dominion to emigrant Englishman. MR. FRANCIS GALON has assembled some curious facts about the ‘Nature and Nurture of Men of Science,”’ in a lecture before the Royal Institution. He reckons the proportion of scientific men to the Test of mankind at about one in 10,000, fle has generalized the conclusions from 100 living Feliows of the Royal Society that men of science ure apt to be vigorous, independent, heretical, taborious and simali headed rather than large. HABwPER & BROTHERS Will soon print “The Arctic Expiorations of Captain George E, Tyson,” in- cluding the voyage of the Polaris and the rescue, CHARLES BRADLAUGH’S “Essays on Questions of Rehigion and Politics” will shortly be published by A. K. Butts & Co., of New York. THE Bibliotheque Universelle et Revue Sulsse, pub- lished at Lausanne, Switzeriand, claims to be the oldest review in existence." It was founded in 1796. : A CORRESPONDENT of the Boston Pilot, writing from Rome, says that out of the forty-seven libra- Ties of that city but three are to be left. These are to be enriched by the consolidation of nearly all the books in tne other libraries. MARK Twaln is reported to be at present en- gaged in writing an account of English manners and customs. AT THE RECENT SALE Of the property of the ven- erable Boston publishing house, Gould & Lincoln, the stereotype piates brought low prices. James’ “Church Member's Guide” brought $15; Professor Hitchcock's ‘Plurality of Worids,” $26; Masson’s “British Novelists,’ $17; Hague’s “Christianity and Statesmanship,” $25; Baxter's ‘‘Saint’s Rest,’ $20, and Loomis’s Geology, $30, ST, JAMES’ ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. Archbishop MeCloskey and Bishop Me- Neirney Confirm 1,300 Children. Impressive services took place yesterday at St. James’ Roman Catholic church, of which the Rev. Felix H. Farrelly is pastor. The occasion was the confirmation of some 1,200 children, male and female. At eight o’clock mass was celebrated by Father Farrelly and communion given to the chil- dren. At the conclusion of the first gospel the reverend gentleman delivered an eloquent and ap- propriate discourse, dwelling upon the import- ance and biessmg of the sacrament which the children were about to receive. After mass Bishop McNeirney confirmed the boys, who were brought up to the altar steps in twos, with sashes across their shoulders and white gloves. For two months, three times a day, the zealous astor, assisted by severai other clergymen, has en engaged in preparing those children for the important grace which their Church, through its sacrament of Confirmation, was about to confer upon them. e ceremony of confirming the boys, about 500 in number, waa concluded at eleven o’clock, when Bishop McNeirney, with the assistant clergymen, retired from the altar to the pastoral residence. | The female chiidren, to the number of 800, were then ushered into the churcn, ‘They were all dressed in white, with wreaths of flowers upon | their heads and Sigs iad veils depending tnere- | from. Archbishop McCloskey arrived soon after | the children had been ranged in the churcn and | completed the services of the day. St. James’ church Is located in one of the most populous districts of the city, and this accounts | for the large number of children who were con- firmed yesterday. A parocial school, accommo- | dating ‘over 1,500 children. bas been bulit, and is resided over by the Christian Brothers and the isters of Charity. This scnool can compare with any educational institution of its Kid in the city in point o/ proficiency and advancement among the pupils. its construction has cost about $120,000, Attached to it is an industrial school, where poor and starving children of the parish re- ceive one meai per day and two suits of clothes in the year. Tuese excellent institutions and the ad- vancement of the parish itself are mainly due to the untiring exertions of the Rev. Father Farrelly. THE PLYMOUTH CHURCH TROUBLE, Mr. T. G. Shearman, the clerk of Plymouth church, writes as follows to the Independent in ref- | erence to the recent meeting of the Congregational | Councll :— ‘The action of the church in this case was in no | material respect diferent from tts action m about forty other cases, Some members have becn dropped irom the rol ‘ause they had joined | fpixcopal or Roman Catuolic eburches, ‘which would Hot take letters from us; some becuse they | have become permanent absentees, and some be- cause they have distinctly notified the church that they would not remain in membership. The church cannot, by the terms of tts rules, accom pany this act of dropping with any censure. The withdrawal of a meiner by uniting with the copal Church may be even commendable. Certainly the hundreds 01 Baptists tn our church will never condemn any of our people jor joming a Baptist charen, Yet it oiten happens that those charches will not receive letters of dismission from Piedo- Daptist churches. And we deal with such cases just as we deal with permanent absentees or vol- untary departers. One rule applies to all, unless a formal trial ts had, The church has not evaded and does not evade investigation into charges against any member, high or iow, its officers have in the proper way, without parade, Pin every facility for investi- gation that could reasonably be desired, even by the most captious critics. They have simply, de- clined to take an indirect and insincere method of | investigating one man under the false pretence of | muvestigating anotuer, Why was not an explanation given of these mat- ters to certain inquiring churches? Simply ve- cause it Was not asked, except in a letter of dis- tinetly hostile spirit, tureatening excommunica- tion in every line. To have submitted to such | compulsory questioning would nave established a precedent fatal to the independence of smail and weak churches. Meantime other churches did re- quest an explanation in a Cnrisuan manner and ri pppaivea is promptly apd accepted it as Vs NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 1874.—TRIPLE ' SHEET, EXRCUTION IN ARKANSAS, Cass Matlock Hanged for Murdering the Richardson Family. A REVOLTING CRIME. ‘he Plunder Obtained Be- trays the Assassin. Discovery of the Victims Three Weeks After Death. LrtTLe Rock, Arg., June 19, 1874. The cold-blooded murder of the Richardson famity, for which Cass Matiock, a negro, was exe- cuted to-day, stands preeminent as the most brutal and wanton butchery of human neings which has ever taken place in this State, already too well known abroad for the number of crimes perpetrated within its boundaries. On tie morn- ing of Monday, November 24, 1873, an emigrant wagon, drawn by two black mules, two others being led behind, containing George Madison Rich- ardson, his family, consisting of wife and infant daughter, and hie “little ali” in household goods, tollowed by a yellow dog, sed through this city, en route for the emigrants’ El Dorado, the State of Texas, They leit their home in Gasconade county, Missouri, during the first week of Noveimber; trav- elled slowly down through Southern Missouri and Northern Arkansas, On Friday, November 21, they stopped ata house eighteen miles from here, on the other side of the river, remained there that might, and as it rained all day Saturday they re- Mained until Sunday; then started once more on their weary journey, little thinking of the jate in store for them. On Sunday night they camped out and early on Monday morning passed on, crossing the Arkansas River at this place near nine o'clock. Passing through the city they took the Hot Springs road, About midday the same day, Monday, Novem- ber 24, tney passed a small grocery at the Russ place, four miles out, and must have arrived at Rock Creek Ford, five miles from the city and the scene of the murder, about hall-past twelve, probably stopping to water the mules and take their dinner, After passing the store they were never again seen alive by any one except the negro, Cass Matlock. He passed the Brown place, three miles ont, on foot, ten minutes after the emigrants. On arriv- ing at the grocery he was only five minutes; here he stopped. He remained at the store twenty minutes and then walked on alter his victims. THE MURDER. About half-past twelve a horseman neared the Rock Creek Ford. When about half um hour’s nde from it ne heard a shot. He thought nothing much of this, supposing it was some hunter. On arriv- ing at the lord, at about one o’clock, and crossing over he saw @ wagon, with two black mules hitched to it, two others hitched behind, standing near the creek. Noone was near, He rode on and soon heard a wagon coming behind. He stopped to adjust Mis saddle; the wagon also stopped and the yellow dog came up to him. He rode on, the dog following him. Soon alter the wagon, which had started again as soon as he «id, turned off along a byroad toward Matlock’s place, the dog now leaving the rider and following it. He could not see whether the man driving was white or black. The Richardsons were now thought by all who had seen and conversed with them to be safe in Texas. On December12 a man was walking « towards Little Kock. On coming to Rock Creek be turned down a stream to look ; for a foot log, and about thirty steps irom the crossing discovered the body o1 Richardson lying | in the water and lodged against a sapling. He Was shot through the head, the ball entering just behind the base of the bramm and coming out be- hind the leit ear. He must tave died iustantly. His pockets were turned inside out. Near the body a Woman’s shaw! was found; a@ little above a blanket, near the water’s edge two bottles, one containing medicine; shreds of clothing and a child’s apron were also found near the body. The man who first discovered the body then went for a neighbor, and both went back to the creek to con- tinue the search. Further down the vranck they found the body of Laura Elten Richardson lying in the water inst some bushes. She had been struck by a club or stick across the leit eye, crush- ing in the superorbital bone. Another large wound was founa on top of the head, cutting it down to the skull. Marks of blows were also seen over the right and = there were bruises on tne and neck, as if she had been rudely grasped. The bodies ap- peared to have been in the water two or three weeks. The two men now sent for the Coroner to Little Rock, The body of the child was found soon after the Coroner’s arrival a good way from tne other bodies; it had been Killed by a heavy blow, breaking in the right side and top part of the skull. All the bodies, after death, appeared to have been thrown into the creek by the murderer, ‘yhe bodies were brougnt into town and exposed for identification, but nobody knew who they were. ‘the murder created an immense excite- ment in this city; crowds viewed the bodies and excited groups discussed the latest bits of evi- dence obtained. SUSPICION DIRECTED AGAINST MATLOCK. From certain circumstantial evidence, which will appear further on, suspicion feli on the negro Casa Matlock, who lived near the scene of the tragedy. His house was searched by Deputy Sheriff counts and others, and he was arrested. Matlock took the matter Mats coolly and protested his innocence. At Matlock’s place were found a lot of clothing, a breastpin, earrings, knives and forks, @ Wagon sheet, with words “Wagon and mules jor sale’? written on itin pencil. A small photographic album was found—under one portrait was writien the name “William 8. Byles,” and had been taken in Washington, Mo.; another had written under it “Lucy Flannagan.” also a picture of the mur- derer’s child. taken at Rolla, Mo. In &@ pocketbook found at Matlock’s was a certificate of a road over- seer, district No. 12, in Missourt, made to George Richardson, signed Vasco Creide, dated March 25, 1871, Other articles found were a two loot rule, bloodstained; a water Keg, with initials G. J. K. cut on one end; a couple of empty boxes, one marked G. M. R., Cuba, Mo. HOW MATLOCK LIED TO HIS WIFE. Matiock’s wile testified as follows, and the way she told ber story suowed she told the truth :— My husband came home on Monday, November 24, With the wagon, mules and other property: he told me he bought them; he had lett home that morning about three o’ciock for town; he walked im, and bad no team then; ali the mules he had | betore bad died some time ago; he brought back | that night a wagon, jour mules, alot o1 boxes, bedding and clothing; my two young sons were at home when he came back; he said, “I have come, and got a team at last; he said be bought toe whole lump in a trade; he came tn and ate his supper; I wanted to see the things; he said, | “After supper we will go out and look at then; aiter supper he handed the things to me out of the | wagon; We took them into the house and exam- med them; 1 saw no biood; 1 wondered at such @ lot; he said the people he bought the lot of wanted to take the cars ana sold ail; I asked him i they took nothing; he said they took two trunks; I asked him about the yellow dog; he said he bought that, too; my husband never kept any money at nome—always took 1% to town, | so tdid not know if he nad movey enough to buy | the things or not; we went to bed that night about ten; about tuis time I saw him have a large | roli of money; since the time he brought tne things home he has acted as usual; gone to bed regularly, and sleeps, Alter giving the above testimony Matock’s wife | Was released; it Was further elicited that Matock brought the wagon and mules to town on the 12th of December, and that at his request they were | sold by an auctioneer, Matock told him tiat he bought the two black mules, the wagon, harness and two other mules ior $600. THE YELLOW DOG WAS OFFERED FOR SALE with the team. The team muies and dog were identified by diferent parties as having beeu seen ir Richardson's possession. Matlock, however, made the jollowing statement. to the Coroner’s jury, though iuformed by the Sherttf and magistrate that he need not say anything if he thought best:—I was at Fulton, Ark., in No- , Vember, about the Ist, looking out for a team. There Tfound a man moving Irom Texas to Mis- | sourl, and bs beet to buy his mules and wagon. [ found that had not enough money with me to pay ior sending them on the cars to Little Rock, and so [ arranged with the man for him to drive the muies and wagon to Little Rock, as he was gomg that way, ana | would pay him there. He agreed to this. I met him here on his setting in near the Cairo and Fulton depow I fo! a man in town to make out @ bi ot sale jor me on ‘Thursday, November 27, at about four o'clock; I paid $600 for the wagon and mules; | had them about two weeks; bought | them at Fulton, of Joun Henderson (bill of sale was here introduced) ; that is the bill of sale, signed by him, The man who wrote tne bill of sale for Matlock satd he did it on the 24th of No- vember, and that he had never seen John Hender- son, On the conclusion of tuis testimony the | at Leland’s Ocean Hotel, Long Bran Coroner’s jury rendered a verdict that the ian cuine ¥o hie deaeh hy 4 halle ab the HANDS Of (agg 0n orabont the 2th of November, 1873.. was then taxen to jail to await bodies or te Bisharas on ramiiy rare ison family were buried in the Potter’s Field on December 18. The ‘Wagon waa made in Rolla, Mich., und led to the discovery of who the murdered iamily were. The maker, on receipt of & ‘aphic inguiry from hie son, who happened to be here at the time of the murder, answered as followa :— Rout, Mo., Dec. 17, 1873. Man who is murdered is ‘ Gmcconts coqniy, Mer tie Miata Ly wagon of me on the 3d or 4th of Noveinber, and was gol fexas with wite and child. Heard'trom him at Salen, Ark, the last thne. ALMOND GERRIDH. On the person of Matloex, when searched ulter his arrest, the following was found, together with ver watch and a half doliar:— St. Louis, May 30, b Recetved of Gray & Patnter $161 76, (or acreunt. GE W. RICHARUSON, He Sheriff Uliver recetved the following on Decem- er 20 :— Rota, Mo., Dec. 3 To Surnirr, Little Rock :— relied I will start to-norrow. Hold property, Tam Richarde son's brother. J. J. RICHARDSON, Mr. Byles, the \ather of Laura Ann Richardson, the murdered wile. and two brothers of the mur- dered man came fo Little Rock soon alter the: finding of the vodies, The podies were exhumed aud recognized by all a8 the son-in-law. daughter and granddaughter of Mr. Byles. The uiules, Wagon, dog and eifects were also identified, THB TRIAL, The trial of Matiock jor the murder of the Richardson fatnily was set down for March 2, 1874,, in the Crimipai Court of this county, Judge Red- mond presiding. Attorney General Yonley and prosecuting attorney Harrall and Judge Allen con- ducted the prosecusion jor the State, Colonel Barnes and Mr, Cherry defended Matlock. The jury were all white and exceptionally intelligent, ‘There had been three indictinents found by the Grand Jury. The prosecuting attorney note prossed. the first mmdictment by leave of the Court as the name mentioned was Joho Madison licuardson, instead of James Madison Richardson, He was then arraigned upon the indictment tor the mur der of the two-year old child, Laura Ellen Kichard= son. The evidence was substantialiy the same as that given before the Coroner’s jury. The identif- cation of the album, the clothing o! the iather and mother, ana especially of the littie cuild, by Mr. Byles and the iichardson brother: was very affecting; the witnesses, attorneys and spectators: could hardly refrain from weeping. ‘the photo- graph of the child in the album was {dentiiied as being that of the murdered Laura Ellen. The wagon, mules, dog and harness anda gun were also . identified, the deence finding it m- possible to shake the testimony by cross+ examination. One of the brothers teste ded to having accompanied the imurdered Jamily several miles on their way. During the trial it caine out taat Matlock wore when arrested a bine overeoat belonging to his vicum, and stained with lus biood, The course: jor me defence objected to questioning # witness a6 to whether “the yellow dog” recognizau in any way Mr. Byles. ‘The biil of sale was the snuject ofa good deal of discussion, It was proved that the words “Join” and “Henderson” bad been written at the bottom of the bill of sale, witi room be- tween; “this” had been written above and the mark below. ‘The words “iis: mark” had bee scratched out, being a rude attempt a maki document read as ! signed by John Heude Matiock’s son, ten years old. Was put in. ihe box facing his father On the tenth day o! ihe trial; he did not understand the nature o! an oath, but he had a sufficiently vivid idea to suit the lawyers aud Judge of what would bappen to timu he did n66 tell the truth. Lils testimony corroborated that of his mother, given before the Coroner’s jury. He stated the Jollowing im addition, tiowever, as to what Matlock said:—‘“Just after tue murder he said to ma, ‘I’ve got the mules;’ ina said, ‘Did ou? fatuer said, ‘Yes, I've nit the wail on the head to-day.’ *? During the time he was on the stand the boy cried silently, but ab last broke down and could go no further. He was taken out of court for a lew minutes, until composed, and then resumed ius testimony THE DEFENCE called but three Witnesses, who testificd merely as- to locaiities, aud rested their case witout calling any more; this created some surprise. ‘The tne of argument of the detence seemed ty» be to try and destroy the testimony of the prosecution wit nesses, Without producing any of their own. On Monday, March i6, the case Was given ty tue jury, who remained out au hour and brow: in @ ver. dict of murder in the first degree. An application was immediately made for new tria! und arrest of judgment upon technical points. After due consideration, Lowever, Luis was re: Darin the trial, which lasted foarceen days, the chiet counsel for the deience and the Juage had ma tilts, Colonel Barnes taking endless septions,? The attorneys on not 28 lost them temper sev spectators, Tie court room was perie with negroes during the triai, and the timent among them seemed to be that Matlocl was guilty. Matlock on the conclusion of the trial was takeo to the Penitentiary, and was brought into Court @ few days alterwards and sentenced to ve hanged on Tuesday, May 26. On May 26, however, he wat respited untii to-day. Matlock was a line spect men of a genuine pure blooded A/rican—one of those perfect types of the negro who some+ times turn out to be excepttoually gov'l men. He is of medium height, solid head and aquiline nose, large, piercing cyés and wears a juli heard, He bas been very sullen since his sen:e nce, and would answer ho questtons. He has made several attempts to escape, thougb he to the las: moment rotested his innocence. The scaffold was erected In an open jot near the Penitentiary. Deputy Sheriff Counts managed the execution, which too! place at eleven o'clock precisely. A jarge crow ‘Was present, the negroes being out ¢n suisse SEASIDE AND COUNTRY. The Saratoga Sentinel appears daily now. The Orawaupum Hotel, White Plains, is open. The Rip Van Winkle House, Catskills, is open, Mr. August Belmont is expeeted ai Newport next week. Six hundred guests arrived at Saratoga hotels last week. The Quakers are holding a meeting at Newport this week. Dotted grenadines will be the afyrnoon and evening dresses, At Fire Island Beach the Surf House offers pleas ant accommodations. Ex-Chamberiain Bradley will occupy Mr. Peter B, Sweeny’s Lake Mahopac villa. Count Corti has reached Newport, as has alsa Peterson, the Philadelphia publisher. The National Hotel, Far Rockaway, is ready te receive all guests with plenty of moncy. York, Me., “will be happy,” &c., “now and hereafter.” ‘There are several hotels there. You can spend the season at Astoria for $12 per week, and have a mosquito concert each evening thrown in gratis. Le Marquis de Clairemont Formere, Secretary of the French Legation, has taken Mrs. Steéman’s cottage, on Pequot avenue, New Lonaon. Now the black boys hie away to the coast for their summer narvest. Nearly every one is armed with a whisk broom and a “stunning” wardrobe, “The fog was so great at Long Branch 'ast week that people only knew when it was morning by the obstinate iteration of persistent roosters and the monotonous strikings of clocks,” says an ex- change. / Imitation Modocs have put in an appearance at Niagara and Saratoga. It is a fact worthy of ‘note that the articles they sell, represented to be their own workmanship, are made by the inmates of the Blind Asylum. nd Dr. @. W. Lawrence and Paymaster Battoni, of the navy, have had a misunderstanding at the | Arkansas Hot Springs that is likely to end ip @ duel, All because the paymaster denounced Law- rence a & quacl “Fresn fields and pastures new” are to be found in Lake Village, N. H. The most undisguised fun and frolic will be sure to be the lot of all who are | 80 wise as to gaze at Lake Winnipiseoyee and the mountains from (his town. M. Charles EF. Morrell, Mr, John de Cardenas, Mrs, Joseph de Uardenas and family, 0! New York, and E. Hazard Aikman, of Brooklyn, lave arrived 1. Saturday’s Newport News says:—‘In the last two days the steamer Eolus has brought 100 New York passengers to this city. The hon, ¢ Bancroft is expected to be at his residence in this city in the latter part of the season.” “Beg paraon, sir!” said a colored waiter toe Stranger atthe Gregory the other “but Mr Crittenden am undevoidably obtained wid a tran- sum guest inde exception room.” That dowery darky, says the Lake Mahopac Hergi¢, must have come from Florida, Messrs. H. G. Marquand, Frank Squire, Jonn Paine, Mrs. E. T. Potter, H. W. Bruen, Eugene Ket> tletas, Loring Andrews, Mrs. R, Woodworth, Mrs. Stewatt Brown, Mr. James P. Kernoelian, Mrs. J. N. Coles, Professor J. 1, Huntington, Mis. J. Me Caulley, Messrs, W. W. Gammell, E. 1. Snelling. Be J, Herrick and Arthur Willing have ail arrived at their Newport cottages, Among the civil righta hotel keepers should guarantee to every guest is the right tu choose how many colored gentlemen sha!i brash him down alter registering, Two or three will do; bub when a man gets into the clutches of the half dozen persistent Africans who last year charged the guests at Long Branch, he feels like charging them at the point of a pocket knife or kicking them into quietudg,