The New York Herald Newspaper, June 25, 1874, Page 5

“LITERATURE. Until the HERALD sent a correspondent to Cuba to ascertain the condition and prospects of the in- gurrectioa in that country no certain knowledge of thé struggle seemed to be attainable. Mr. O'Kelly, however, succeeded in revealing the mysteries and dispelling the doubts which over- hung the Cuban rebellion, In spite of a Spanish Captain General and the dangers which menaced um onevery hand he penetrated the insurgent hues and finally reached the camp of President Cespedes, the revel chieftain. The information he brought back with him was invaluable, because it proved what the worid had all along doubted, that the patriot insurrection in Cuba was actual War, and that the claim of its frends that it could be prolonged til! Spain was com- pelled to yield irom sheer exhaustion was true. The facta which led to this conclusion, together With the story of Mr. O’Kelly’a adventures in in+ surgent Cuba, part of which first appeared in the HERALD, form the subjects of a tresh book of which has from the press of J, B, Lippin- cott & Co, of Philadeiphia, The name chosen for the book is “‘Mambi Land,” a very happy title.tor a travel in one hahdsome volume, just come ‘Work which deals with that mystic and shadowy aistrict generally spoken of as Cuba Libre—free Cuba, The word “mambi” is@ term of reproach conterred by the Spaniards vpon the Cubans. It is Similar in meaning to the name of ‘‘beggars,” which Alva’s soldiers neaped upon the recalcitrant subjects of Philip IJ. in the Netherlands, and the Cubans, like the Dutch, have adopted the oppro- brious epithet, so that it has become one of the Most eflective weapons against Spain. The mambi ‘will yet make the Mambl-land entirely their own, and this gives pecullar interest to Mr. O’Kelly’s book as the first permanent contribution to tue literature and history of the young Republic, We need not follow Mr, O’Kelly in his adven- tures in Mambi-Land from the time he left Havana, “at his own risk,” to seek the headquarters of President Cespedes until he returned to the Cuban capitol a prisoner, carefully gaarded by the frousy soldiery of Spain, Much of this has already ap- peared in these columns. But these handsomely Printed pages will well repay perusal, Cuba is the gem of the Antilles, made so by Airican and Chinese slavery, and those excellent customers of Spain the people of the United States, Without slavery and without the trade with the Americans, in which there 1s no reciprocity, Spanish dominicn (nm the West Indies would long ago have died out. The war which Spain is now waging in Cuba iso war to preserve slavery and the industries which depend upon slave lator. When this war is over the Yankee will bave his opportunity for trying new experiments in raising sugar and tobacco with free labor, and Spain, whose greedy officiais have systematically robbed both the American merchant and the Cuban planter for years, is determined if possible to prevent so happy @ consummation. It is a part of this expiring siruggle which Mr. O’Kelly’s book Feveals and illustrates. It is in this view that the slaves and the coolies, “wretched beings, ignorant and degraded to the last degree, without a spark Of that manly independence which is so marked a Jeature of the working classes in iree countries,” become such an essential part of the Cuban insur- rection whether they have guns in their hands or still writhe ander the whips of their masters. It is true Mr. O'Kelly does not attempt # philosophical treatise on this subject, but bis graphic reterences Ww these wretches as he saw them in the towns and cities, at the railway stations and on the cars while travelling, in the caneflelds and the slaves’ quarters on the plantations and with the armies of the dons and of the patriots, shed nearly as much light upon the subject as if he had carefully elaborated it. The same thing 1s true of the in- sight he gives into the condition of the insurrec- tion. Never dull or heavy, bis book is at all times suggestive and instructive. The facts he has brought together are not the mere ephemera of the hour, but matters of thougnt as well as enter- tainment. Every page of the book ia full of inter- est, and though it is a history of personal expe- rience and adventure it is far from being a per- sonal history. It is a book written to tell what ‘was worth preserving, and it contains nothing that was not worth telling, A more entertaining bit oftravel has not been published this season, and the readers of ‘‘Mambi Land” will rise from its perusal with a fecling of great satisfaction. LITERARY CHIT-CHAT, Fy i HonaBie of Sir William AT THE LATE SALE in ‘Tite's library a copy of the first iolio Shakespeare, | Of 1623, was sold for £440, Mr. ALFRED WALLACE, an eminent naturaist, has written two articles in the Fortnightly Review On the religion of Spiritualism. He thinks the | facts of intercourse with another world through the mediums are made out. Mr. Tuomas H. Dykn’s “Ancient Athens; its His- tory, Topography and Kemains,"’ is a work of ref- erence of the highest interest and value to the student of Greek history and literature. THAT OLD LITERARY PRIG, the Hon. Grantley PF. | Berkeley, bas written two more volumes, this time | ou the “Habits and Treatment of Animals.) He cails things by droll names, and talks of “the damaable doctrines of Darwin" In one place, while in another he consigns people he does. not | ike to “Darwin ond the Devil.” MR. BELLAIRS has prepared for the ase of Eng- lish investors 4 little book on American and Cana- dian securities, in which he shows the terms and prices of railway and pubic: toansin the United States. A New Woxkk on the Book of Ee jastes will siortiy be bronght out by Mr. Thomas Tyler, M. A. A Turrp Mrss of sensational trash in the guise oi sermons, by the Rey. T. De Witt Talmage, is just out, It bears the titie of “Old We.ls Dug Out.” PRovesson Levsivs, the newly appointed Libra- rian of the Royal Library at Berlin, has been seni, | in company With an architect, om @ mission to m- | spect the most perfect modern libraries in Europe, with a view to adopting all the really valuable un- provements im the new building that is to be erected at Berlin, Mr. Roach SMirH, F.S, A., has sent to press wn enlarged edittoa of his essay Mlaustrative of Shake- speare’s extraordinary knowledge of raral life. AMONG Messns. LONGMAN’s books preparing for publication Heer's “Primevai Life in Switzer- jund,” by James Heywood, and a work on “The Rights and buties of Neutrals,” by W. EB. Hail. Proress0u HiBAM CoRsoN, of the Cornell Univer- rity, has just pemted privately 200 copies of some «Jottings on the Text of Hamlet, First Folio versus Cambridge Edition.” Professor Corson 18 a well Known supporter of the First Folio, Dr. Gasquit has reprinted from the Journal or Menta Science some papers ou the madmew of ihe Greek Theatre. AFTRA aN INTRRVAL of More than @ year, the appearance of anogher volume of the “Pichler Muskan Biography,” by Ludsnitia Assierg, has again drawn the attention of the read!uy public to the life of that eccentric man. A Cory of the tamons old “Cocker’s Arithmetic,” printed in 1678, brought £14 10s. at a late book sale | mm London, Ix SiR WILLIAM Trre's library was @ copy of the first edition of Milton's ‘Paradise Lost,” printed in 1667, which brought £22 sterling. AT THE RECENT annual meeving of the trustees of Shakespeare’s Birthplace and Maseum, at Strat- ford-on-AVOn, It Was stated that the building had been visited daring the past year by 10,250 per- sons—a strong proof of the interest that is main- tamed in the birthplace of the great poet. JonN BULL hears that @ new paper is to ve started In Paris with the view or regarding tho Napoleonic claims from a religious point of view. THE VoryniGiT of the anpublished works of the jate Wilham Kaalbach has been secured by Mr. Freaerick Buekmann, the publisher of she well known “Goethe Galiery.” This collectton will con. sist of some 200 varleties. Tue Spenerache Zeitung, with an eye to possible | contingencles, has, with grin f; jousneas, in- serted a epeciigen of the cremation apnounce- NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, JUNK 25, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET. menta Which doctors genersl'y anticipate will be 0} erdimary occurrence among the coming race. The sampie announcement ts as follows:—‘'To- Morrow, at three P, M. | shall burn my motner-in- Jaw. August Feuerhase,.” THE ELSCTION FRAUD CASE. = Trial of Police Commissioners Charlick d Gardner for Alleged Misde- meanor,. On the opening of the Oyer and Terminer yester- day morning the indictment against Oliver Char- lick and Hugh Gardner, Police Commissioners, for @n alleged misdemeanor tn violating tne Election Jaw of 1872, which had been set down by Jadge Brady for trial, waa at once taken up. The court room was filed at an early hour, apd within the bar was gathered a fair representation of the men +} who work the political machine of Manhattan Island. Mr. John Kelly, the Tammuny chiet, was Present as the representative of the commit tee of citizens who have urged the prosecution, Mr. Uharitck, Who was too ill to be in attendance the previous day, came in looking thin and pale, a8 he sat beside nia counsel, ex-Mayor Hail. Mr, Gardner, who, besides being One Of the persons in- dicted aud a Police Commissioner, is President of the Republican General Committee, sat bearby, ap- parently littie apprehensive as to the result of the prosecution. Ex-Judge Fulierton and United States Commissioner Jonn I, Davenport were asso- clated with Mr. Hall as counsel for the detence. For the State appeared Assistant Attorney F. Fair- child, Mr. J. B. Fellows and Mr. George W. Win- gate. Mr. Fairchild moved the case and Mr. Win- gate called the iist of the people’s witnesses. Then commenced the tedious empanelling of the jury. A large majority of those called were absent. Of those who answered a few were excused by the Court for reasons; others were peremptorily 4 challenged by one or the other side. Two were objected to because they did not Know Coroner Croker, Three or jour hardly knew enough English generally. One was dismisged by Judge Brady because he did not know the meaning of the word “aMhation.” Mr. Hall thought nis pres- ence on the jury might be a beneficial restraint upon counse!, inducing the use of simple Saxon phraees in their addresses. Most of the candi- javes for jury service affirmed that they took no interest in politics and pelo to no political clubs or societies. Only afew had read or heara anything about the case, and only one would ad- mit he was biased in regard to it, He considered the defendants gullty, and as he pro! 1d to have Prejudged the case he was allowed to go without learning its details 1p the jury box. After two hours’ close work and when Mr. Sparks, the clerk, had nearly e: the names in bis box the requisite twelve were secured and sworn, as follows:—Phillip B. Lowe, No. 437 East 119:h street; Horace V. Sigler, No. 426 West Twenty- Dinth street; Frederick G. Renner, No, 108 West Thirty-ninth street; Dudley M. Milla, No, 189 Grand street ; Maurice Werner, No. 613 Broadway; Edward @ way; Duncan Macarti No. 64 Wail street; Charles k. 5; Sixty-third street ; Charles G. East Sixty-second street; William B. Whittaker, No, 218 West Thirty-fourtn street; Joseph W. Kay, Chol: Maiden lane, and Henry Biunt, No. iy. way. At the sompletion of the jury panel the Court took @ recess for halt an hour. On the expiration of that time the jury soon came in, and the prisoners and counsel were in their places, OPENING THE CASB. ‘Mr. Wingate opened the case forthe prosecu- tion, proposing to prove against the two Com- missioners heinous offences inst the purity of the ballot box, militating against the peace and dignity of the people and tending to destroy the sacredness of the elective franchise of the citizeo. He cited the law giving to the Police Board the ap- intment of election inspectors, and charged that in the transactions of the Board all power was ex- ercised by President Henry Smith, now déceasea, and the present deiendants, while Commissioners Russell and Duryee, whom he eu! , were powerless, being ontvoted. Under this general charge of malfeasance he specified, as charged in the indictmeut, that the Board, by the action of Messrs. Gardner and Charlick, had illegally re- moved {rom office as inspector of election, on the 8d November last, John Sheridan, whom they had before appointed as & representative 01 the demo- cratic party, without the notice required by the law. Mr. Hall, for the defence, admitted that the Board of Police Commissioners was constituted as ee and that one John Sheridan was re- moved, THE TESTIMONY. Daniel D. Hasbrouck, Clerk of the Bureau of Elec- tions in tue Police Board, produced and proved the appointment and oath of office Of Jobn Sheridan 8 inspector of elections jn the Twenty-third Klec- tion district of the ith Assembly district on the 26th of Septem! and the appointment in his oon of Bernard Cunningham on the 3d of No- vember. On cross-examination by Mr. Davenport witness sald the notices ot sppoliitment were sent by the Police torce, addresaea to the appointees at tueir Fesidences, John Sheridan, called for the prosecution, was examined by Mr. Fellows. He lived at.No. 40 East Thirty-second street; was appointed inspector of elections last tall; tuok) the oath of office betore Mr. Hasbrouck and signed the record here pro- duced; he served jour days at the sessione of the i Registry Board; on election day he went to the | pointed in his stead; he. then went sway; had been an inspector beiore; did not know Dr. Willard Parker Wooster at that time. Cross-examined by Mr. Davenport—My name is John Henry Sherridan; I live on the second Noor ; | John Charles Sherridan, my cousin, then lived on | the thipd floor; 1 was born in New York; am twen- ty-seven years old; I seldom use my middle name ; sometimes I put in the G., as I can writé it. hand. somely when I feel lice tt; my father’s name is | also Joho; he does not now live in the house, but did for many years; I usually open letters brought to the house for John Shberridan, unless in cases where We know by the John C. Sherridan, who usually uses name; 1 don’t know on what day I registered; my brotners live also in the same house; cannot say if | Lregistered same time they did; cannot say what became of the book of registry I kept; I got pay the four days’ service; am attendant at the Sixth District Court—have been for three months; betore that was in the Tax office three weeks, under Mr, Green; had been there before, near a | year, under Mr.’ Connolly; have never had two places at once. Redirect—Had been Taspector of Elections before twice, and Inspector of Primaries; my name was { sent tm to the Police Boara by Coroner Croker; John C. Sherridan last fall acted as Supervisor of ; #lections under the United States law, by an ap- | pointment from Commissioner Davenport; L went ) with him to the office, and aiterwards saw ium writing tn Second avenue. | “ Recross-examination (registry books dnced)—Witness poimted ont certain which looked like bis handwriting. Join C, Sherridan, ander the head No. 40 East ‘Thirty-secoud street, looks like mine, but [did nov | writ Ireiand” after 11; kmow Spencer Kirvy, who also served on the Klection Board with wit. | ness; did not have a communication with him i} mot placing ty name ou the register as Jonn Charles Sherridan, The prosecution here rested. Mr. Hall addressed the jury on the case as pre- sented for the peopie, Characterizing it as a strug: gie lor power between the various branches of the | democratic party as represented by Tammany and Mozart Halls. He thought the indicted Police Com- Missioners very imnovent public spirited mea, sorely puzzled to keep step With the political mow- ing machine, Striving hard to obey the law and and acreén the ballot 00x from such “stuvers’? as he considered the witness John Sherridan, who Por Bis H. on convenient occasions, He pro- posed to show that the Commissioners acted with- 1p the spirit, if not upto the letter, of the law in putting anotner inspector im Sherridan’s place. counsel lortified hts law by Soke nage au. thority and garnished his logic with abundant scriptural allusions and quotations rom Shake- speare aud Artemus Ward, - | THE JURY CACTIONRD. { | Sudge Brady, before adjourning the Court, ad- | dressed the jury. He said thatim view o! the im- ' | portance of the case, and, perbaps, the important | Interests involved, he had been thinking whether be should permit the jury to go to their homes ior | the night or keep them together in such @ place as he might designate, fis object woula be to pre- ' vent them from being subjected to any outside tn- fuences m connection with the case. On re- flection, however, and after consultation with the entieman representing the Attorney General, he had determined to permit them to go to their homes for the night, but in full reiance on their honor and intogrity that they woulda not | permit any one to approach them or hold any con- versation with them as to the trial or its results, and that they would refrain from reading in tue | newspapers apy reports of or comments on tie case, Hie begged to say, farther that he would consider it @ duty they owed to the Court—a very | bigh duty they owed to the administration of jus- tice—that they should inform him should any one, directly or indirectly, Make any approacies to any one of them in reference to their connection with the case. With these remarks they were dis- charged Util this morning. The Court then ad- journied till eleven tis morning. FIRE IN WILLTAMSBUKG. | About half-past three o'clock yesterday alter. pro- entries S, noon, the frame stable, No. 195 Muwer sireet, Willamsburg, owned and occupied by J. W. Doug: | lass, Was totally destroyed by fire, A valua- ble team of horses and @ sleigh and a large quan- | | tity of barness were also lost. Mr. Douglass | estimates his loss at $2,500, on whicn there Is aa | Insurance of $600 in the Germania insurauce Com- | pany. The flames extended to the two story frame dwelling, No. 197 Manjer_ street, owned by Patrick | Shea and occupied by W. H, Bartew and Wiiliain | Barnes and was damaged about $2,000; fully m- place and found Mr. Cunningham had been ap- | ee mark that they are for | 10 his middle | ‘this name, | ) anved, The origin oj the fy ja wok WL, HAPPY DOGS. Yesterday's Slaughter Postponed Until To-Day—A More Humane Death Appa- ratus To Be Used. Some 200 dogs at the pound would have rejoiced yesterday with loudest bark and whine if they nad only known how near they came being killed. Owing to Mr. Marriott’s engagement in court yes- terday their lives were spared for another twenty- four hours, The new method invented by Professor Doremus (and for which he deserves the thanks of every humanitarian) is to completely fill the tank with carbonic acid gas before putting the dogs in, so that they will be rendered insensible as soon as they are dropped § in. By holding @ lighted candie im the tank it will be easy to tell how fall it 1s, for the gas would extinguish it immediately. The old method of exhausting the air after the dogs had been placed'in: the tank, and, introduc- ing about half the quantity of gas ni wary to fill the box, effected a much slower, and, therefore, a more cruel death. A barrel has been placed at each side of the tank tm which the carbonic acid o be generated by diluted sulphuric or iB fyarocntoric acid acting on carbonat2 of lime (marble dust) or bicarbonate of soda. The barrels gre connecied with the tank by large pipes descending to its bottom. Yesterday morning about seventy-five dogs were brought to the pound, go that there were, all in all, over 200. About half of these will be killed this morn: Proteasor Doremus, Who wag a the pound yes- terday, having been requested by Mr. Bergh to supervise the new arrangements, deciined to give his views On the dog ordinance, but made the Valuable BI tion that the Board o1 Heaith should Investigate whether deaths by hydrophovia had incre: during the interregnum of dog- killing. bie was @ question of facts and statistics, the Professor said, and could only be settled by in- vestigation. The Dew ordinance adopted yester- day has excited @ greatdeal of discussion, the Lag sath being genera'ly regarded in a favora- le lig! BERGH AND THE DOGS. Examination of Captain Marriott's Case—Conflict of Testimony Between the Police and the Officers of Mr. Bergh’s Society. ‘The case of Captain Marriott, the poundmaster, ‘who was arrested on Saturday night at the in- stance of Mr. Henry Bergh, came up for examina- tion yesterday at the Jefferson Market Court. The charge against Captain Marriott was a violation of the law for the prevention of cruelty to animals gn June 19, 1874, when ninety dogs were put in the tank and asphyxiated. Mar. Bergh himself appeared for the prosecution, and placed one of his officers, a Mr. Fields, on the stand, Mr, Fields testified that he was present on the day mentioned, saw the dogs put in and considered that it took half an hoar to get them all in; that they were piled in one on top of the other, “How high ?” asked Mr. Bergh. “About a dog and a half nigh,” he answered, He further said that he saw the gas, which was carbonic acia gas, turned on from two ‘different retorts. The gas was on forty-eight minutes. For the first eleven minutes he could hear the dogs howling very plainly, and it,was an hour before all signs of life had disappeared. They were in the tank one hour and six minutes before they were taken ont. Mr. Bergh—Did any gas escape from’ the tank during this time ? “Bither gas or air escaped from either side of the tank.” Mr. Bergh—What are the dimensions of this tank? ‘Twelye feet aincbes long, 6 feet4 inches. wide ,8nd 8 feet 4 inches high.” q Mr, Bergh—According to my calculation, then, the tank can contain 216 cubic feet of and Mr, Marriott has injormed me that he’ furnished only Counsellor McCielland—But you forget about the ninety . ‘They certainly occupy some space. Superintendent Hartfield was tho next witness. He was present on the 19th of June, and noticed that the tank was , and as much as twelve minutes alter they were put in he could hear the dogs howling. He had seen eto killed in twenty seconds by means of prussic acid. The prosecution then rested, and counsel for Captain Marriott called Captain Charles McDonnell of the Twentieth Precinct. Captain McDonnell’s testimony was totally at variance with that of Mr. Bergh’s officers in regard to the howling or the dogs. Hesaid he was present on the 19th of June, saw the whole operation, and put his ear three or four times to she tank, afver the gas was tarned on and everything was still as death, and furthermore he “I looked in the tank four times while the door was open, and th were not piled on each other. There was pleaty of room for them, nearly ali small dogs; ten-pound dogs; from that to twenty | 2. pound: ¢ ha sure you did not hear any Mr. Bergh—Are sound in the tank Captain MceDonnell—Yes, Mr. Bergh, I am eure; and [defy any man on this earth to distinguish a | sound inside the tank if he stood two feet away from ft, on account oi the barking and howling and yelping of the 200 dogs that. were outside. art Beran, (rather augry)—Are you a police captain aptain McDonneli—Yes, sir. Mr. Bergh—Do you know it is your duty todo ali in yonr pofWer to assist in carrying out this law? (Here Mr. Bergh read the section in refer- ence to the assistance of the 5) Captain McDonneil—Yea, nd I always try todo my duty. Mr. Bergh—Have you ever made av arrest for crgelty to aoimalsy jptain McDonnell—Nothing of the kind has ever come under my observation, or I would certainly have done so, Mr, Bergh. \ Mr. L. Richardson was called. He said he was a | reporter on the Tri , and Was present on the | occasion mentioned, Mr, Richardson corroborated | Captain McDonnell in nearly every particular. | Officers Joyce, Murphy and erty, of the | Twentieth precinct, were then examined. Their | testimony Was suvstentially the same as Oaptain McDonnell’s, and, notwithstanding Mr. Bergh’s | severe cross-examgination, they were positive as to not hay heard the dogs howi, nor did they see | them piled one on top of the other. | Officer Haggerty, in response to a question from the counsel, said—"I listened at both ends of the | tank and at the centre five minutes after the dogs | were put tp, and | sung out to one of Mr. Bergb’s | men, ‘I don’t bear any noise,’ and he said, ‘I don’t | neither.’ Counsellor McClelland then called Captain Mar- | riott, ‘The Captam stated that he was familiar with dogs for twenty or thirty years; that he re- ceived his appointment a8 Captain of the pound from the Mayor, and disposed of the dogs sent there Boonen to instructions received irom Alderman Morris and Inspector Walling. Mr Bergh—What is your business? Japtain Marriott—I am an arinorer, Mr, Bergh—Were you ever in the dog fighting busineser Captain Marriott—I was, sir. Mr. Bergh—How long? Captain Marriott—I could not teli bow longi have been fighting dogs. Mr. Bergh kept piying the witness with ques. | tions in regard to the length of timg he was thus | engaged ; but Captai Marriott deciined to answer | any further. | Mr. Murray, who supplies the carbonic acid gas, Was put upon the stand by Mr. Bergh and exam- | med as to the quantity of gas he put into tue ' tank, its quality and how it was made. His answers showed & thorough. acquaintance with bis business. Counselior Mcclelland and Mr. Bergn then summed up, and, after having listened to both gentiemen tor over half an hour, His Honor said he would rese his decision. THE DEATH ROLL, Active Work for Coroners. A German pedler, named William Tieste, strol- Jed through Central Park on Tuesday last, and, re- tiring toa shady nook, swallowed @ quantity of oll of vitriol. It appears that Tieste was acon. | sumptive, and had been recentiy informed by a physictan that he would de within a year, Be died within a day. August de lw Grandier, a Frenonman, forty- ven years of age, residing at No. 46 Bleecker street, died suddenly yesterday morning at No. 48 i of the same street. Coroner Kessler ascertained that he committed suicide, and the remains of the | deceased were sent to thy Morgue, where a poat- | mortem will be made by Deputy Coroner Leo. Grandier was an artificial eye maker. Coroner Woltman held ao inquiry into the death of Mrs. Margaret Traimor, late of No. 140 Sullivan street, whose death, it was said,was caused by the violence of her husband. There were no external evidences of ill treatment. nor were there any in- ternal injuries found on @ post-mortem exaiina- tion, The cause of death wae found to be inflamma- lon of the stomach. A vel@uct to tals effect was rendered aud the hasband was honorably dis- charged. Martin Halley, aged twenty-eight, white grossly intoxteated, hired a room at the Putnam House esterday morbing at twoo'clock, An hour or #0 jater he either pitched himself or feil out of the window to the sidewalk and was instantly killed. Julia Green, aged thirty-five, fell from the roof of No. 502 Canal street, where sne was employed as a | servant, aud was instantly killed. On the 25th of last November Judge Sutherland | sent a young man named William Blair, aged | seventeen, to the Penitentiary on Blackwell's | island, to remain there tor two years. A few dass | ago, Whiie endeavoring to escape from his keevet by swiming across to the Long Isiagd shore, Blair was drowved in the East channel. His body was recovered on Tuesday and the Coroner was notified yesterday to huid an inquest, NEW YORK CITY. Our death rate is lower now than before for five years. ‘The last boox sales of the season will be held this and to-morrow evenings, at Clinton Hall. Ofiicer Ganley, of the First prectnet, killed a mad dog that had bitten a girl on the Battery yesterday. James Dowden, aged 22, of No, 71 Henry street, was prostrated by the heat yesterday in Peari aureet. It is proposed to close business in the Produce Exchange hereafter at hali-past one or two o'clock each day, Nearly 100 members of the Young Brokers’ Aeso- elation enjoyed their first annual dinner at the Alberganti House Tuesday evening, At the monthly eale of Scranton coal yesterday the average price was eighteen cents per ton higher than last month, Sale#25,000 tons, Thomas King, a colored porter, looked out of a car window at the wrong time, yesterday, at 122d street, Fourth avenue. He collided with a signal William Shea, aged nineveen,.of No. 58 York street, Brooklyn, fell aown @ hatchway at No, 540 nen? aa, yesterday and received ‘dangerous wou The usual Thursday evening reunion will be held at the Free Training Schools No. 47 East Tenth Street, at eight o'clock. The entertainment will be varied and attractive. At noon to-day the Cotton Exchange will con- sider the question of adjourning from July 2 to 6. Arrivals yesterday, 1,690 bales. Stock at all ports, 260,867 bales; in this city, 128,496, Bids were received yesterday by the School Trustees for alterations, repairs, painting, furni- ture and heating apparatus for the public schools, to be furnished in July and August, Comptrolier Green reports the following dis- bursements and receipts of the Treasury yester- dav:—Claims paid—Number of warrants, 36; amounting to $669,003, Keceipts, irom various sources, $32,619, Mary A. Brennan, while crossing Wall street, near Broad, yesterday, was. knocked down and trampled by a team of horses attached to a coach. Three of her ribs were broken. The driver was arrested and arraigned at the Tombs Police Court. The Italians number 10,000 in this clty. They are an inoffensive and taw-abiding people, who-do not frequent the police stations or lodging houses, and they are Willing to work, A school building for bet te Leonard street, near Ventre, will soon be inished. The first battalion Massachusetts light artillery will be received here by the Twenty-second regi- ment this morning, at ten o’clock, They will march up Broadway, be reviewed by the Mayor, march — through rent Madison and rth avenues, Thirty-fourth and Thirty-eighth streets, They go to Creedmoor this afternoon, and to-mor- Tow noon will parade in Tompkins square, BROOKLYN. sa a There are 670 paupers in the Kings County Almshouse. In the County Hospital there are 317 patients. There are 357 children in the nursery. Inthe County Sessions yesterday William Man- sell was convicted of carrying a slungshot. The jury recommended him to mercy. He was remanded for sentence. ‘The incorporators of the Elevated Silent Safety Railroad Company have held a meeting and have organized a board of directors. The read will be commenced at an early day. ‘The Sunday school of the Puritan church, corner of Lafayette and Marcy avenues, enjoyed their annual picnic at Eres Park yesterday. About roe dren and adults took part in the festivi- es, The city is about to take iegal steps to resist the assessment Of $62,000 tor the éxtension of Ocean avenue by the Park Commissioners. The line of the improvement extends from Franklin to Flat- bush avenne. The skeleton of a man was unearthed by some workmen who were excavating at the corner of Hamilton and Prospect avenues yesterday. The skull of deceased was punctured, and Coroner Jones is of the opinion that the man was a victim of foul play. No clew. ‘The firms having the right to sell certain brands of champagne wines aud‘braudies are endeavor- ing the trade in the bogus articles. To this end roinpdcss have been obtained against a number ael Brookiyn liqnor dealers restraining them from the stuff, and further pro been instituted to include other dealers. The Commissioners of Appraisement in the mat- ter of land taken from the east side lands for the enlargement of Mount Prospect reservoir unde filed their report yesterday in the office of Comptroller. The thereat awarded }214,000, which sum will be placed in the Sinking ind to the credit of the Park Commissioners, ‘The spécial committee of the Kings County Board of Supervisors authorized to examine the lawa in relation to Alling the vacancies in the office of the convicted Charity Commissioners—Messrs. Wills, Ferguason and Powell—reported yesterday alternoon at the meeting of the Board. They found that the offices were vacant as soon as the Commissioners. were convicted, aud it was tne province of the Governor to declare the oMfces va- cant The'Board resolved not to audit any bill passed by the convicted Commissioners or to recog- nize their oficial acts. LONG ISLAND. °. William Vanderbilt, residing 10 Fourth street, Hunter's Point, while bathing at Jack’s Creek, at une crossing of the Flushing and North Side Rail- road, was seized with cramps, and betore assist- ance could be given was drowned, WESTCHES/ER. id aM My The new Board of Excise Commissioners met at White Plains yesterday, and granted eight liquor licenses, mostly to applicants living in the north- ern portion of the county. This ts the first busi- nes# transacted by the Commissioners since tue act under which ‘they officiate hag been pro- have | nounced entirely valid by @ prominent lawyer, whose written opinion they had sought on the subject. At White Plains yesterday, the usual rontine of public business was varied by the presence at the Cvuuart House of the Board of State Assessors, com- posed of Messrs. Fowler, Hadley and Briggs. The object sought to be attained by the ard is a more equitable average of assessments through- out the county, as it is asserted that property in numerous instances is asseased at irom one fourth to one tenth of Its value instead of at one third as the statute requires. In the Court of Sessions yesterday, among the cases disposed of was that of Patrick Swift, the Sing Sing robber, against whom the grand jury bad returned three indictments for burglary and grand larceny. The prisoner wisely pleaded guilty, and Was tuercupon sentenced to ten years at hard labor in the State prison. George W. Hawkins was Placed on trial for having ‘woman, named Emma Kitzinger, at New Rochelle, White attempting to perpetrate a criminal assault upon her. fhe counsel jor the prisouer an- bratally beaten @ young | qcucves that the defence would be “insanity.” | he case was still om @t alate hour in the aiter- noon. STATEN ISLAND. ~ A number of prominent Staten Islanders have recently petitioned the Union Ferry Company, of Brooklyn, to run two of their boats to the new dock at Tompkinaville, one ferry being tnadeqnate to accommodate the constantly increasing tramc. The reply was that the Com- pany’s charter restricted them from doing so. In this emergency it is proposed to bring the matter to the attention of the North Shore Ferry Com- pany, which has recently taken possession of the new slip at Whitehall. NEW JERSEY. oie ig. ‘The quarterly meeting of the New Jersey State Agricultural Society was held in Elizabeth yeater- day and was attended by gentiemean from ail sections of the state. George, alias “Fatty,” Gray. an alleged noto- rious burglar, has been captured in Newark and is held as one ofa which committed numerous depredations in that city last Marce. Public school building No. 1 of Jersey City ts pronounced to be in am unsafe condition. The Board of Publis Works spent thousands of dollars im repairing and enlarging it and now tne walls ure steadily “settling.” The latest Newark sensation wil; not turn out to be a sororicide, Miss Huber has had the ball ‘ed from ner head and is now considered in wiair way of recovery. Her orother fs still held. it seems he was semi-demented through @love disappointment when he Blot his sister, THE SCHUFTENFEST. Any one who might have ie.t the train om the Northern New Jersey Railroad which stopped at Homestead station would have beheld scattered taverns alongside of the track and a liberty pole from which was fying a very ragged and scraggy- looking American flag. To the left the eye could range over the valley of the Hackensack, with the bige coned hills beyond and the smooth river, meandering in and out of the broad salt meadows and to the left was the old manor or demesne of the Wright family once the home of a princely and hospitable proprietor; and now the strains of a waitz came whispering through the treee, indicat- ing that this bower of refinement has been turned into @ lager beer garden. Here King Schuetzeniest holds high command, and here to-day the Piatt Deutsch is spoken with pecuiiar zest and richness. Through the green foliage the music breaks into a mild rythm on the ear and the white drapery of the women, who go whirling around, is seen fitfully at times from the main platform. There are groves and bosky dells and little sheets of Water, upon which foat small boats, bearing Ger- man and American fags, and there are long graperies and arbors, under the cooling shades of which may be seen happy couples, eating ice cream, dvinking lager beer and eating clam chowder; and this is German clam chowder, which bas a taste brittle as broken glass and saw- dusts. Two hundred yards off are to be seen the rifemen, all burly, large-headed men, in en stuff blouses, and wearing yager hats, wich are sarmounted with cocks’ feathers, The gold stars on the shoulders of some of these people would denote that they held the rank of major general, at least, but this is only an illusion created to de- ceive the groundiings, Here, on the open green sward, are fifty or sixty young girls, all dressed in white, with wreaths on their fair neads of lignt hair. There are two little ladies who are to crown the Svhuetzen King, who 18 to hold office among his peers for one year. A small platform hag been built, and is draped wita the American and German fags, and a very adi- pose German holds jorth in choice Hanoverian from this platform, and tells of the beauties of the Freischutz, winding up witha few solemn jokes, that are laughed at heartily among the bystanders, Crowds of riflemen and their friends atand ‘among the alcoves trom which they have been shooting all day, and then converse about their markmuanship and drink beer. It 18 almost in- credible to believe the amount of beer which is posed down these manly and lusty German ‘hrouta. Now @ loud huzza rises to the sky as @ young lady, Miss Emma Gerats, of Hoboken, vances and raises the green Oak-leaved crown and places iton the head of Peter D, Volckmann, who has done the best sioot- ing at the Eagle. He receives the crown with pe- coming modesty, and this act of reception marks the close of the seventeenth annual Schuetzenfest, Besides the crown he also gets medals and money to the value of $150, and there are twenty other prizes delivered to the riflemen who are named in the tollowing order, the lowest prize or namber (21) being valued at $10. The otner prizes are in- licated by the numbers:—G. Luerrssen, 2; Her- mann Landwehr, 3; George F. Luerssenn, 4; G. Doeble, 5; P. D. Voickmann, 6; @. Menken, 7; Phillip Klein, 8 Prizes 9 and 10 were not snot tor. John Stelling, 11; J. H. Ficken, 12; D. Hedenkamp, 13; Jobn Rein, 14; 'L. “Morrisse, 15; 0. Mahnken, 16; Henry Hunken, 17; Henry Knebel, 18; A. Brosny, 19; H. L. Meyer, 20; H. D. Rottmann, 21. The festivities did not close at the Schuetzen Park until a late hour last night. THE EASTERY DISTEIOT SOHUBTZENFEST. The aunual festival of the Eastern District Schuetzen Corps, Captain William Kohimeir, was inaugurated yesterday at Myrtle Avenue Park, Bushwick, and will continue to-day and Friday. The corps, accompanied by Captain Kreuscher’s mounted troop of cavairy and’ members of the Western District Association and a large number of invited guests in carriages, paraded the prin- cipal streets of Williamsburg, and about noon ar- rived at the park, where the shooting was com- menced. Besides a large number of valuable prizes to be given for the best shooting the one making the best shot will be crowned king jor tne ensuing year. THE NATIONAL GAME, Boston Against Chicago. Boston, Mass., June 24, 1874. A game of base ball was played here to-day be- tween the Bostor and the Chicago claba. The for- mer were victorious, the score being 10 to 2, CRICKET, The first elevens of the St. George and Man- hattan Cricket clubs will play a match at Hoboken ou Saturday next, Game called for eleven A, M, OPP FOR ICELAND, There was a large and distinguished gathering of the friends of Dr. I. J. Hayes, the Arctic ex- plorer, on board the Cunard steamer Abyssinia yesterday morning to bid the famous traveller bon voyage. Dr. Hayes sails for England, accompanied by several gentlemen, and the entire party, in- cluding Cyrus W. Field, will charter a steamer at Glasgow or Dundee, whence they will depart for Iceland. It was the original intention of Dr. Hayes to leave New York by aschooner with a party of gentlemen who had expressed a desire to be pres- ent at the millennial celebration; bat it was found that there was a great divergence in the views of the applicants, and she chief obstacle appeared to tination owing to such impedimenta as icebergs, bad weather and the general uncertainty of human lite, The Doctor therefore changed his plan. He will represent the American Geographical Society and other scientific societies at the sete and bear credentials to the University of Iceland, ACOIDENT ON THE HARLEM RAILROAD. A Car Smashed While Going at the Rate of Thirty-five Miles an Hour, but No Lives Lost. About half-past four o'clock yesterday afternoon the engine of a Chatham mail train on the Hariem Railroad, which leaves the Grand Centra! depot at the Jerome Park crossing, stunning the animal and knocking her up an embankment. As she rolled down again she struck the track between the two trucks of the rear car, thereby throwing the last truck trom the track. ‘The train was noving at the rate of about thirty- five or forty miles an hour at the time, and the car side of the track, knocking down telegraph poles, breaking fences and otherwise doing damage. As soon as the train could be stopped Conductor Hammond hastened to ascertain the amount of damage done and to rescue the occupants, who were found piled up in the centre of the car pro- miscuously. Fortunately, on investigation none of the passengers were ound to be seriously tn- jured, though a larger portion of them had sus- tained slight bruises and the rest were badly frightened. Travel on the road was suspended jor about two hours, RAILROAD DISCOURTESIES. New York, June 25, 1874, To THe EDiTor oF THE HRRALD:— valuable journal to an occurrence of ratirgad ingo- lence, mismanagement and injustice to travellers, Depot of the Hudson River Railroad, The facts are these: Madame Pauline Lucca, who was going to Cleveland, Ohio, to sing at u festival, tad wit weveral others taken peatage, aud checked her baggage by the 8 o’clock train. tne depot there were No seats in the cars tor them, all being filled, and the railroad employes refused to put on another car. Thus these people, atter having purchased sueir tickets, were compelled venience and aimoyance and may be great loss, Can not the railroads ve made to deal iairiy with the public ? . CAMILLA KARONESSE PERGLASS. ARMY INTELLIGENOS, ‘alry Regiments to Change Stations. WasttxuTon, June 24, 1874 Ageneral army order ie issued requiring the Fifth and Sixth regiments of cavalry to exchange stations by marching. The march will be made vy detachments of #1X companies each, the second de- tachment of each regiment maoving when relloved by the drst of the other, BHAVAL INTELLIGENOR. Assignments and Detachments. WaskINGTon, June 24, 1974 Captain E. R, Calhoun on his arrival at San Franctaco is ordered to proceed to Panama and assume command cf the Richmond, relieving Com- mander Gherara!, who ts ordered home. cetving ship New Hampshire. laced on Waiting orders, | Cola, Fla, Dot having one of bis rank on board be that they were afraid of not reaching their des- | ten minutes to four P. M., struck a cow opposite | Was thrown and dragged about 200 feet along the | Permit me to call public atteution through your \ which I witnessed last night at the Grand Central | On their arrival at | to remain till the next morning at great incon- | Lieaten- ant Commander 3}, FP. Day is ordered to the re- | Lieutenant Jonn 0. Kennett is ordered to the Brooklyn. Lieutenant | Commander 5. R, Watsou will be detached trom | the Saranac on her arrival at Sen Francisco, and Lieutenant E. N, Kel- jogg 18 detached from the Brooklyn and ordered to the command of one of the monitors at Pensa. | 5 THE TILTON-BEECHER SCANDAL. In the Golden Age for this week appears a long statement over the signature of Mr. Theodore Tilton, covering the whole ground of the celebrated ecclesiastical scandal, involving the Christian character of Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, It ts ad- dressed to Kev. Leonard Bacon, ex-Moderator ol the Brooklyn Congregational Council. Mr. Tilton gives a history Of the case, and, after referring with studied vagueness to the recent scandals, continues :— The rules of Piymontti church afforded me a choice between (wo methods of retirement—one fo ask fur a formal letter of disimissal; the other, to dismiss myself less iormally by prolonged absence. ‘I chose the latter. In so doing my chief desire was to avoid 6 curious Inquiries into the reasons for my aba eharch in which ! had been brought up from bo} and, therefore, | did not invite attention to the subj by asking tor a dismisso: tter, but adopted the native of silently saying away—relying on ti & prolonged abseuce would finally sec missal invoiviag no publicity to the case. Mr. Titon enumerates various consequences of this act, and adds:— Atlength, after many calymnious whisperings near and far (since evi! tales mawnily asthey travel) a weekly paper in New York, in Novem! wicked and horrible scandai—a pul Persons in the church iguorently attributed in ite 0 and animus to me; whereas bad previously. spent many months of constant and unremitting endeavor to suppress it; an endeavor in which, with au earnest mo- tive but @ foolish judgment, T made many ill-direct sacrifices of my reputation, positioa, money and fair Prospects in life. For all ‘of which losses of things Bo ament since mine alone was the folly, let mine alone the blame, He then states the church proceedings which brought about the council of which Dr, Bacon was the chief oMcer, and corrects a statement of that gentleman that im retiring from Plymouth church he haa given no notice to the proper oiicer of the church. He quotes an interview published in a Brooklyn paper, in which Mr, Shearman, Ulerk of Plymouch church, refers to Mr. Tilton as “out of bis mind—off nis balance,” and Mrs. Tilton, “who had occasioned the whole trouble waile 1n a balt- crazed condition. She had mediumistic fits, aod while under the strange power that possessed her often spoke of the most incredible things, declared things ble that were impossivie, and among the rest had slandered Mr. Beecher. Mr. Milton himself had acknowledged that all the other things she had told him in her mediumistic trauce were false and impossible; then why, asked Mr. Shear- man, should the scandal on Mr. Beecher be the only truth in her crazy words?’ He says:— My attention was not called to the above paragraph until after the council had adjourped sud its members had gone to their homes. At first I was not willing to believe that the clerk of Plymouth chureh—the same officer whose name had been officially signed to all the documents which the church had just been sending to the council—could have been guilty of so great an our Tage against truth and decency as the above paragraph contained—particularly againat a lady whose devout re- ligious taith and life are at the furthest, possible remove from spirituslisin or tanaticism of any kind. In proof of the Socuracy of this statement he Produces the aMdavit of the reporter who wrote it. He then states his offer, dated May 4, 1874, to Plymouth church to waive his noo-membership and give the pastor an opportunity to vindicate his fame in achurct investigation. ‘To this he re- cetved a letter irom Mr. Shearman declining the offer, r appeals against the injustice of Dr. Bacon’s allusion to him as one wno has brought dishonor on the Christian name. He says:— Do not misunderstand me. 1 will nov say that in my BAsuccessiul management of tai anhappy scandal, have brought no ,dishonor on the Christian naine”—the gne name which, of all others, { most seek to honor. With infinite sorrow I look back through the last few ars, and see instances in which, by the ry of my se position, 1 brought peculiar “dishonor on the Christian’ name’—all which I freely acknowledge, and hope yet to repair. But I solemniy aver—and no man shall gainsay me—that the reason why Plymouth church avoided an Investigation into the scandal with which I was charged was not because I, but anoth man, had “brought dishonor on the Chrisiian name And yet this other person, # clergyman, permitted hi chureh to brand me betore the Council with an accusa- sation which, had | been in his place and he in mine. T would have voluntarily borne for myself instead of cast- ing on another. Alter arraigning Plymouth church and its clerk, Mr. Shearman, for prevarication and sharp practice, poring him in @ false position before the public, r. Tilion quoves Mr. Beecher, saying :— J am at last forced to the di ble necessity of bor Towing a reply in his own words, as follows “BROOKLYN, ! 1, 1871. “Task Theodore Tilton’s forgiveness, and humble my self before him as [do before my God. been a better man in been. T can ask He would have my circumstances than IT have thing except that he will remember would ache. { wil} not plead that I were de: Cm, Se “H. W. BEECHER,” ‘The above briet extract from Mr. Beecher’s own testi- Mony Will be sufficient, without adducing the remainder of the document, to show that] have just ground to Teaist the imputation that Iam the creature of his mag- nanimity. Mr. Tilton concludes by asking Dr. Bacon, as the historian of the case, to correct what he considers a false and injurious presentation of his actions and character in connection wita his rela- tions with Ply CUSTAR’S INDIAN EXPEDITION. It will Start for the Black Hills To- Day—Details of the Expedition—A Bat- tle at Fort Bertho! A correspondent of the Winona (Minn.) Repubd- lican writing from Bismarck, D. T., on the 15th, gives the following regarding his visit to the headquarters of General Castar, whose expedition against the hostile Indians in the Black Bilis, ten days’ march distant from that point, is to start on Thursday next:— He was busily engaged in his preparations for the expedition to the Black Hills, which will start on the 25th. and we were assured by the General himself and many of his oMcers that they ex- pected “hot work.” The Sioux have ever jeal | ously guarded these hilis, a8 yet untrod by the white man, but trom what motive it is yet uncer- tain, It ts believed that there are rich mineral deposits which are known to the Sioux, who also Koow that if discovered by their enemies the pale faces, they would be swept from this Tich reservation by the avarice and cupidity® of those sortuve hunters. The scouts who revurned | last week report between 8,000 and 4,000 of the | young braves gathered in the netghborhood of the his. General Custar goes amply provided with an adequate force to repel any attack which may be him. Besides bis cavairy, of which pauies go with him, two companies of imiantry accompany the expedition to act as ar- | tillerisis and to guard the train. These latter will | be commanded by Lieutenant Cuance, of the | Lwentteth Infantry, who will have in vate two | Gatuin, une. und possibly a Rodman, for the pur- | eof clling the Indians at long range. ae | Ree and Mandan scouts accompany the expe tion, and there will also be a number of practical miners, assayists, metallurgists and other acientiic men, who go out under employ of the government. General | dan’s staf will be represented by General | Forsythe and Lieutenant Golonet Frederick Grant. The aghting Jorce of the command will number 1,000, and the entire party will not be far from 1,100 souls. We conversed with a number of the ofi- cers and with Mr. Girard, the Indian interpreter, nnd all expressed a confidence In the ability of the commander to repel any force which the Indians might hurl agamst them. The Seventh cavairy (Custar’s regiment) are a fine ag of men, and | have had long experience with the Indians, They | Dave many an old grudge to settle with tue red- | skins, and are impatient for the order to march. | The expedition wiil be gone two months, The country it will traverse has long been considered the redskins’ council ground, and is littl known to the white man, Whether it will prove valuable as @ mineral, pastoral or agricultural region. soon to ve populated after betng put in commanication with tue rest of the world, will be Solved upon the return of the expedition. ' | The Bismarck 7ribune of the 1ith speaks of the H objective point of the expedition as tollows:— The Provessor of Geol at Yale College, together with mineralogista and other scientists sent Out by the government, and several practical miuers aud explorers will accompany vie expedi- tion. The hills may be seen ata distance of seventy-hve mules, rising several bnnurea ieet | above the level, their sides covered with dense forests of pine, Which gives them their biack up- | pearance irom which their name is derived. The | valleys at their fect are Known to be heavily tum- dered, with bere and there & prairie; the soll is very black and rich. A score or more of streams, | rise tn the vicinity, leading into the Cheyenne and | other rivera, Mm the beds of all these streams, gold is found; even within ten miles of Bismarck, in the bed of the Little Heart, which comes | from that vicinity. These hills are avout 200 miles | from Bismarck. They can be reachetl from Bis- | marck better shan irom any other point. From Mismarck to the Black Hills is only a tive days’ ride of @ ten days’ march. The route ts over a splendid country, good grazing, plenty of timber and water, and will be well guarded by the mili- | tary. The Indians may make some trouble this summer. The young men from all the tribes tn the country are gu there, possibly to tniercept | and harass fre expedition ; possibly. as of old, for | their apnual sun dance; ly to offer up their adoration to the God of the Indians anc ley plans for 1uture campaigns, | The Tribune was the following :— On Satarday @ large body of Indiaus approached | Fort Berthoid, and, nding themseives venind } some Sere out a small Ee caariaenas | agency. party, as was expec | emmall force from the agency, who attacked | Sionx, routed them aad gave them chase, follo' ing them into an ambuscade, in which tive of the ageucy Indians were killed, one mortally wounded amd one seriously. The attacking force is sup- posed to be the Sioux who left Cheyenne some time ago. The news was received at Bismarck | about he sane time that Major Sperry arrived with his delegation, which had been to look at | lands in the iudian Territofy. The Indians w } Coutented anu williug to settle down to a whit man’s We and engage in farming; but this news Set thea Wild, and ail they could think of was re- vyenge. Shout the tndian War, whieh seems tm. mincul, come upon us, these Indtans will do good service tO (he government; for they bate the Siouxgwitn a hatred more intense than tat felt by the Shux towards tha winte Mat