The New York Herald Newspaper, July 27, 1874, Page 5

SPAIN. SUDDEN AND FATAL CALAMITIES, A Village Destroyed and Hun- dreds of Persons Killed. & CARLIST MAGAZINE EXPLODED ‘Grave Hints to the French Gov- ernment. MADRID, July 26, 1874, ‘A terribie iandslip occurred at Alarra, in the ‘Province of Navarre. The overhanging rocks fell ‘upon and utterly destroyed the village. ‘The disaster was so sudden that few of the in- habitants escaped, Two hundred corpses have already been re- covered. EXPLOSION OF A CARLIST MAGAZINE. A Carlist magazine exploded !ast week at Quiza. Thirty men were killed and a large number were wounded. A Solemn Warning to the French Gov- ernment, " Lonpox, July 26,1874, The Imparcial, in a strongly worded article, denounces the avowed complicity of France with the Cariists, and declares if diplomatic repre- Sentations prove ineffectual “Spain must adopt a Cool attitude towards France and seek more con- genial alliances.” WHAT THE FRENCH PAPERS SAY IN REPLY. French journals assert that the Spanish frontier 4 weil guarded by the French authorities, and that the contraband of war which reaches the } Carlists is imported by sea Irom England. FPRANCE. An Exciting Struggle of Par- ties at Hand. The Question of the Dissolution of the Assembly. Parts, July 26, 1874, To the Assembly to-morrow, on the presentation of the report o1 the Committee of Parliamentary Initiative on the motions for dissolution offered by MM. Leon de Malieville and Duval, the Left will move that the Assembly do not separate until the question of dissolution is decided. The conservative journals to-day earnestly appeal to the absent Deputies of their party to re- turn, THE BOURSE DEPRESSED. Fears that dissolution will be carried are preva- | lent and tend to flatten junds. ENGLAND. Republican Protest Against Prince Leopold’s Pension. LONDON, July 26, 1974. AM extensive open air demonstration against the money grant to Prince Leopold was made by | the ropublicans in Cierkenwell to-day. IRELAND. Nationalists’ Compliment to John Mitchel. Desi, July 26, 1874. The nationalists of Limerick propose to give a inner in honor of Jonn Mitchel, who recently ar- rived from America. It is reported that a home role memver of Parliament will retire tu order to | give Mr. Mitchel an opportunity of being returned to the vacaut seat, Detectives are watching Mr. Mitchei’s move- ments. CUBA. Severe Fighting Between the Spanish Troops and the Insurgents—A Number of Men Killed and Wounded—Guerilla Raids and Robbery. Havana, July 26, 1874. A fight recently took place cetween the Spanish Sroops and a band of insurgents nambering trom eighty to one hundred. The latter stood fire well, ut were finally compelied to disperse, with a loss 1 six Killed and many wounded. The Spaniards had one oficer sligntlyand four @oldiers seriously wounded, PRADO'S SON TAKEN PRISONER. A few days aiter the insurgents’ attack on Baire the Spaniards surprised the band of Silverio Prado, Several of the rebels were killed and twelve were captured. Among the prisoners is a on of the chief Prado. BAIDING AND ¥OBBING. Minor skirmishes are reported in the Santiago district, in which ten arme? mer have been raid- ing on and robbing the dweilings aud plantauions, 10 THE ISLE OF PINES. The Captain General has decrecd the removal of the House of vorrection to te Isle of Pines, Thitner all political and civil prisoners trom the Eastern Department will be sent to serve out the ‘terms of their sentences. THREE TRAGEDIES. avging, Drowning and Insanity. rry or Kinaston, N. Y., July 26, 1874, A man named Snyder, aged seventy-six years, committed suicide by banging, at Stamford, Dela- ‘ware county, yesterday. No cause ts assigned for the act. Mrs, Einhaus, of Williamsburg, L. L, while visiting iriends, at Andes, Delaware county, Jumped Into a mili fume and was drowned. ‘She ‘was temporarily insane, Charles W. Bowles, aged about twenty-two ears, employed on the schooner b. Waterman, of | ‘ew Bedford, Mass., was 4 DONALDSON'S BALLOON LANDED. Saratoga, N. Y., July 26, 187s. Professor Donaldson and his balioon, with the representatives of the Sun and Tribune, came owned here yesterday. down about eignt miles north of this place, in the | town of Greenfield, at six P. M, last evening They had some narrow escapes from catching in the pines in passing over the Catskills, The party came to Saratoga to-day and left for lew York at four P, M BXCURSIONISTS (N VIRGINIA. ForTRESS Monxox, Va., July 26, 1874, The steamers Wenona, from Baltimore, and Lady of the Lake, from Washiugton, with the | Young Men’s Cathoiic Benevulent Union on board, arrived here this morning, Tne passengers at- tended mase, after which ¢! to Norfolk, Where they remained an hour and re- ‘turned Lome, OOTTON CATERPILLARS IN SOUTH CAROLINA, CHARLESTON, 8. C., July 26, 1874. Cotton caterpillars nave made their appearance 4m force (0 Orangeburg county, in the interior of the State, as on the coast. The unfavorable Weather and lateness of the crop make planters @pprehensive that the worm will do serious harm, atuers proceeded | NEW YORK HERALD, M WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON, July 26, 1874. The Mission to Austria. Sonn Jay, Minister to Austria, who recently re- turned to Vienna, is not expected to mach longer occupy that position, his family (as he said ween in Washington, several weeks ago) desiring bim to resign, Our Relations with Spain—Pretexts for the Delaying # Settlement. No official intelligence has been received from Madrid since the instructions to Minisver Cushing concerning the unadjusted questions growing out of the Virginius affair, which gives promise of an early settlement. The unsettled condition of Spanish affairs affords a standing pretext for non- action by the Madrid goverament on this and Kindred subjects. Spatn is at present without a diplomatic representative at Washington, Admiral Polo having returned to Spain several weeks ago, and Mr, Potestad, the Chargé d’Affairs, being absent fromthe city. It has been privately circulated within the last week that Secreiary fish is engaged on masters of importance concerning our affairs with Spain; but there is good reason to say that business gene- rally, Which has largely accamulated, requires his close attention at present, and the probability is that in a short time ho will again absent himself for a few weeks’ rest at his home in New York. There are no questions whatever between the United States and foreign countries that may not be adjusted in the course of time by peaceful ne- gotiations. Condition of the Mints. The thorough examination into the condition of ali the miuts having been concluded, occupying about three weeks, operations have been fuliy re- sumed at allof them. The examinations, under agents appointed by Dr. Linderman, Director of the Mints, show the affairs of those institutions to be wellconducted in all their departments. ‘The San Francisco and Carson mints are running to their full capacity coining the trade dollar. The Mint Bureau will not be able to meet all the de- mands until next fall, The capacity of the new mnt at San Francisco, will be 15,000,000 of the trade dollar annually without interfering with the other coinage. About 4,000,000 of the trade dollar have already been cotned, Under the act of Congress authorizing coinage for foreign governments, two of them (South American) have already sent communica- uons making inquiries and expressing their desire that our government shail coim jor them. The matter 1s now under consideration by the Director of the Mints. An oficial letter from Calcatta shows that duriug February, April and May last 233,000 American trade doliars were received at the Calcutta Mint, ‘The assay snowed them to be up to the legal standard. ‘These dollars are re- coined into the coinage of India, The Assignment of the Cadet Gradu- ates. The assignment of cadet graduates was recently published, The general reguiations allow three months’ leave of absence to the graduates of the Military Academy on entering service. In accord- ance with this regulation all the graduates will report in person at their proper stations on the 30th of September next. The graduates are re- quired immediately to report, by letter, to the commanding ofticer of their respective regiments, who will assign to companies those who have not been so assigned by this order. If the station of the regimental commander be not known their report will be forwarded, under cover, to the Ad- jutant General tor transmittal, In advance of the performance of the journeys’ upder the orders, each graduate will ba paid two months’ pay. THE PRESIDENT AT ATLANTIC OITY, ATLANTIC City, N. J., July 26, 1874, The Presidential party enjoyed a quiet time to- day when compared with the bustle attending | their reception yesterday. The President at- | tended the Episcopal church this morning, and | this evening the party, including the ladies, en- Joyed a quiet moonlight drive along the beach. | General Babcock, the President's private secre- tary, being compelled to return to Washington, left on an extra train this afternoon, with a large Dumber Of Philadelphia excarsionists, ‘The President will leave to-morrow, on his re- turn to Long Branch, by @ special. train. MACHINE WORKS DESTROYED. Large Fire in Newburg—Loss About $75,000—All Insured. NeEwsur, N, Y., July 20, 1874, A fire at noon to-day destroyed the pattern and machine shops and damaged the moulding shop of the Wright Engine Works, formerly the Washing: ton Iron Works, in this city. The bulldings, fix- tares’ and heavier tools were owned by Homer Ramsdeli, whose loss on buildings is $20,000, and on fixtures, patterns and tools $35,000, The losses are fully covered by insurance In thirty-two com- panies. The names of the companies are not ob- tainable now. ‘The loss of William Wright & Co., proprietors of the Wright Engine Works, on tools, parerns, &e., 48 $20,000, covered by insurance lollows:—Gar- den, of London, $5,000; London, $5,000; Fireman's Fund, $2,500; Pennsyivanta, $2,500; Atlantic and Pacific, $2,500; Equitable, $2,500; People’s, of Tren- ton, $2,500; Franklin, of West Virginia, $2,500; Franklin, of Indianapolis, $2,500; St. Joseph, of Missouri, $5,c00; American Central, $2,500; Im- pertal, of London, $3,000. ‘he origin of the fire ts not known. Eleven patternmakers lost their tool chests, valued on an average at $200 each; partially msured. Some pieces of a marine engine, being built for a gov- erument gunboat, were damaged. DROWNED IN THE COEAN, Squan, N. J,, July 26, 1874. Joseph McCarron and @ friend, whose name is unknown, of New York city, were bathing at hallf- past eleven o’clock this forenoon, and when about fitty yards from the beach McCarron cried for help, as did also his friend, who was rescued by Charles Height, of Squan village. A boat was sent to, McCarron’s assistance, but before it reached iim Jife was extinct. His body floated on the sur- face for 200 yards, Three physicians did all in thetr | power to resuscitate him, but to no avail. ‘The sad occurrence was witnessed by the unfortunate man’s wile and sister from the beach. ACCIDENTAL DROWNING OF TWO SISTERS. PORTLAND, Me., July 26, 1874. Two sisters, named Aghes and Hannah Weich, aged nineteen and fourteen years, respectively, were drowned in Presumscot River, at Cumber- land Mills, on Saturday afternoon, while bathing. The younger ventured beyond her depth, and the elder went to her assistance, and both sank. DROWNING IN THE HUDSON, Newsvna, N. Y:, July 26, 1874. A colored boy, whose name was not ascertained, fell into the Hudson here this morning while fish- ing and was drowned. | OBITUARY. Rev. Henry du Fort, 8. J. The European mail from Rome brings intelli- gence of the death of the Rev. Father Henry du Fort, S.J., at Zi-Ka-wei, Kiang-nau, China, He was born May 17, 1838, and in 1860 entered the ; Pontifical Army, He took an active part in the | defence of Spoleto, and was sent back to France | alter the capitulation, but rewurned to Rome and became a Zouave. in 1866, tis term of service | having expired, he entered the Jesuit novitiate of | Angers, and in 1868, at his own request, was sent | to China, where he has crowned five years of apostolic labors by a saintly death. Right Honorable Abraham Brewster. A cable telegram from Dublin, under date of yesterday, July 26, reports as follows:—“Right Honorable Abraham Brewster, formerly Attorney General, is dead.” Mr. Brewster was born in the county Wickiow, Ireland, in tbe year 1796, He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and was called to tne Irish Barin the year 1810, He at- tained a very extensive and lucrative practice, and was promoted @ Queen’s Counsel in 1835. In the month ot February, 1846, he was commissioned Solicitor General for Ireland, and was subse- quently, in 1853, sworn in Attorney General and a member of the Privy Council. When Lord Chan- cellor Biackburne resigned office in 1867 Mr. brewster was appointed Lord Chancellor of Jreland. He was a lawyer o! great eminence, hav- ing been engaged in some of the mos' ortant cases of his day, Bold in expression, fearless in heart and of the very strictest integrity in all his dealings, professional and private, Mr. Brewster ‘was universally reavected and trated, x THE MISSING CHILD. A The Theories Regarding the Move- ments of the Abductors. ROSS SPEAKS. MR. Records ot the Crime ot Abduction, PHILADELPHIA, Jety 26, 1874, There are many interesting thoughts sugeested during @ trip over the route along which the kid- nappers passed. Each change of direction and every bend in the road ts to be considered in vhe light of indicating the iutention and the destina- tion of the men who held the retps, It is obvious, a8 any one can see by consulting the map and fol- lowing the route indicated im my letter of yes- terday, that either the men who drove were ut- terly ignorant of the roads they travelled or they were thoroughly familiar with the way and adopted the most roundabout course in order to mislead pursuers and confuse the children, ‘The lormer supposition does not seem tena- ble for @ moment. The fact remains that these men were sven in the neighborhood by se¥- eral persops some days previous to the stealing. ‘They were in every instance noticed coming down the road across the railway. Of how much the country towards the northward of the Limekiln pike has been looked over by the police the people will, of course, be Kept in utter ignorance untila HERALD currespondent penetrates the region, A COOL, DELIBERATE PURPOSE, The strange fact is: tuat wherever the horse was seen the animal looked tresh ana free irom dust. The horse might have beew curried at a half dozen points on Fisher’s lane. i traversed this part of the road again to-day, and 1 am satisfied that the men were actuated by a deliberate purpose in choosing just the route they did. This is ou the hypothesis, of course, that the route as given is not mythical, Whether this buggy was driven over this identical road to and irom every visit to the Ross mansion or whether it came down from the country to the north, [am not inclined to say at present; but this is an important potut which the police may afford to overlook, but a newspaper correspondent cannot, WHERE ARE THE HORSE AND BUGGY? It 1s an easy thing to disguise a man or to hide a child, Little Charlie Ross, dressed as a girl, could be secreted tn a fall room in almost any uninquisi- tive boarding house. That be is in the city there 1s little doubt, Strange children are at once objects of curiosity im the country, In small vil- lages everybody knows everybody else’s bustness, the number of persons in each (amily and the age of each member. The child is, then, very near at hand or very far away. There is no middie ground, At present, then, tne officers, who admit to the parents and the public that they have noclew, mignt as well devote a little of their time to the discovery of the buggy. It is of peculiar shape, anda drawing which [ had prepared of the vehicle by the man who was mainly instrumental in farnishing all the mformation regarding tae buggy aua its occupants, convinces me that the description givea In the Mayor’s proclamation 1s exceedingly CRUDE AND INDEFINITE, The shape of the body of the buggy ts such that if ouce noticed tt would be remembered by any man who Knows one Kind of vehicle from another, ‘fnis buggy must be in existence somewhere. It isan easy thing to hide a child and there are plenty of dark bay norses, but it is reasonable to Say that there are very few such one-seated con- veyances ag this in the State of Pennsylvania, The eJigree of every one such should be overhauled. Rne name of the maker ot each should be ascer- tained. It should be known to whom every oue has been sold for the past ten years, Mayor Stokley, im the meantime, should issue a proclamation, commanding the police of the entire city and suburbs to search every barn, shed, ceilar or outuouse where a buggy could be housed. Just such an espionage as Chief Campbell, of Brooklyn, instituted by means of his otherwise worthless police should be inaugurated here. That velucle snould be found though the heavens tall, There is nothing on the earth or under it which it is tmpos- sible jor an efficient police force to know. STOP FOOLISH ARRESTS. A thousand men cun be /ound to answer the de- scription given of either of the kidnappers. Tne principal witness through whom, besides the hoy ‘alter, the desperadoes can alone be fuund, Mr. Gardiner, doing business at the corner of Richmond and Paimer streets, declares to this moment that he believes ‘Worcester, the individual arrested and discharged, to be one of the men. Strange, wasn't it, with this testimony, tnat neither Dr. Walker, Mr. Ross or the boy Walter were ever contronted with this Worcester? ‘The statement of Gardiner shows con- clusively that men may look very much alike, Let the police, then, give up the kidnappers and by tracing the conveyance, learn of their place of former residence. One hundred dollars would open wetnehes of the most trusted stable boy in the land! . I have a theory in regard to the ownership of this horse and buggy, aud the route it followed alter leaving the vicinity of Richmond street, but [ want further investigation before | venture to propound it. AN INCIDENT OF THE RIDE. AS anexample of the efficiency of the average Philadeiphia policeman I may relate an anecdote. I avoid stating the precise locality in order to save the man’s head. I was driving along the road yesterday, when I was accosted by a policeman, who suddenly made his appearance {from the shadow of a neighboring house :— “Say, are you Wildy” “Not very much so,’ I retorted, indignantly. “J mean is your name Wild?” satd the police- man, half apologetically. “That is not my name,” [ answered, “I didn’t know but you might be him. I ‘want? Wild, I do; 1 was told that he would come along this road about this time. Sorry I bothered you, Sir,” said the oiticer. He then retired to his resting place, and your correspondent drove on. This incident is char- acteristic. AN INTERVIEW WITH MR. ROSS. A correspondent to-day had an interview with Mr. Ross, the father of the avducted child, and found that he was aware of all the untoward re- ports that were in circulation concerning him, Although @ very reticent man he explained eacu position presented to him by the reporter in a “very plausible, if not entirely satisiactory, manner, He said that late in June Mrs. Ross was some- what unwell, owing to the fact that she had been much troubled about the cares of her housenola and about Mr. Ross's business difficulties, and she was advised by her physictan to go to the sea- shore, Accordingly sue repaired to Atiantic City, where she Was when. her little son was stolen. ‘The child was leit with his brother in the care of a housekeeper, and must have been playing avout the premises when he was enticed into tne wagon with his brother by the abductors. It Was not un- tievening that Mr. Ross discovered his mistor- tune, and his first thought was to look alter the little one himselr. ‘Vhis he says he did, He searched in all directions, and only gave up the hunt tempo- rarily in the vain hope that some friend or relative had him. Subsequently he lodged iniormation with the police auihorities of Germantown. They telegraphed to ali the city suburban stations, but could get not the slightest clew to tne chila’s whereabouts. At the instance ofa friend Mr. Ros day, July 4, aout @ placard, giving ¢ tion of the child and his apparel, and o: ward ot $300 for bis restoration. he was persuaded, would be ample. ‘The offer of a reward was printed in all of the Sunday and daily papers, and the handvilis were posted in all parts o1 the city. In auswer to this Mr. Ross received on the 7tha communication with what is supposed te be a fic- titious signature offering to resture the cnild tor the immense ransom of $20,000, None of this intelligence was communicated to Mrs. Ross av first. for fear it would drive ner to. distraction, and Mr. Ross still hoped to find nis child and restore him to the mother wituout her knowledge of the awful affair, ‘The news got to her, however, and she returned home at once. From that time until the present her physicians, husband, relatives and friends have naturally en- couraged her to hope that her child woald cer- tainly be returned to her, and she is very hopeiul on Satur- descrip- ing a re- Such a reward, et. . Mr, Ross denies most emphatically that his rela- tives have offered to give him the amount of ran- | som money demanded for his child, but he says ne has been enabled to raise it and will pay tt for the recovery of his lost darling. It has not been ran- somed yet because the negotiations with the kid- nappers has been temporarily suspended, possibly vhrough the fear of detection ad He also denies any knowledge of or collusion with the kidnappers, and says that all such stories are the cruel inventions of wicked men. The primary error in the description of the child’s clothing was chargeable to the excitement and alarm caused by the child stealing. Mr. Hoss thinks the potice have done everything in their power to aid Mim tn the recovery oj his chila, and he looks upon their failure as only an- other chapter in his terrible tale of misfortane, | He says he has not the shghtest clew to tne where- abouts of bis babe or his abductors, but he vas an abiding hope that, through the intervention o1 a mercital Providence, he will recover his;nissing Save that darling. He to no one for ah A ich must well up in “he heart of ‘48 every one of appt sympathy wht them to heip him to dnd hj C'yiid, if thay can, every parent in the land, and he ONDAY, JULY | He wants to have the kidnappers caught, but above and over ali in bis beart is his pavernal love for his little ove. Whatever of mystery there may ve surrounding the Case Mr. Ross says he 13 in no way responsible for it. ‘The only ooject he has in view {8 Nts baby boy—the only prize he ia seeking ts his safe retura to the arms of mother and lather. CHILD STEALING. A Crime Common to All Ages of the World—Kasper Hauser, the Germa Mystery—Eleazer Williaa: the Ameri- can Bourbon—Many Missed, but Few Found. From the carliest ages the crime of child steal ing has existed and been severely punished when the thief has been bronght within the power of the law. At first thought the mind 1s not apt to recog: nize 4 motive suMctent to lead to its perpetration with incident risks, but on reflection it ts obvious that there are many reasons which may Make it as natural as the theft of money, horses or jewels, Among the rude, savage and barbarous races chil- dren were stolen both to increase the numbers of the robber tribe amdias revenge upon the parents. Later on children were stolen trom motives of gain, which was meade by selling them into slavery. ‘Thus Joseph, son of the patriarch Jacob, was in- famously entrapped and sold a captive to Egypt by his jealous brothers, Victor Hugo, in the ‘Man who Laughs,’ paints graphically the nefarious trade of the outlawed Comprachicos, whose devilish tratic led them to torture and disfigure their victims so that even the mothers who bore them could not see ta their dis- torted features or dwaried forms the sembiance of the children of their affection and pride. A devil- igh singeing converted an intelligent face into a feering mask, or a straight-backed boy intoa sprawl- img squat hunchback. Severe penalties were enacted against these heartiess scamps, who ior money trained the human form into hideous shapes, as the gardener trains a tree as an espalier against a wail. Still, in those rude ages there were oiten urgent reasons why a particular child should disappear, and, with ample rewards, the savage Comprachicos flourished in spite of the rigors of the law ana the canons of the Unurch. In more MODERN TIMES the system of large estates in European. coun- trtes, with {aws of inneritance, whteh still retain many features oi the olden times. haa led to the strange disappearance of many a child, either done to death at the hand of the assussin or delivered to the child stealer for the advantage of some en- vious relative, I'hese scenes have formed the theme 01 many a stariling novel or life-like drama, in which sometimes the stealer is made to consign his own oOvispring to death or hopeless loss, and remorse thereat has played the Nemesis of his last weary years. Even in our own country, where the property motives for wishiug to put any particular child out of the way are certainly small, there nevertheless exists the tendency to steal children, ‘ag Will be noted by all whose memory retains the news which daily meets the eye in the all-reporting ress. Below will be found some of the most nota- Ble cases or chtid stealing in modern times in Europe and America, from which it will be seen thas the recent Philadelphia sensation is not unique :— KIDNAPPING AS A CRIME. ‘There are many old severe laws against this offence. It was Irequent ata comparatively late period in Scotiand and Ireland, where, on ac- count of the feebleness oi the law and the geo- graphical facilities, severe laws were directed against itin vain. By the act of tenth of George 1V., chapter 34, it was made punishable with death in Ireland. This was mitigated to transportation by the acts of the flith ana sixth of Victoria, chap- ver 28, the same punishment which had been as- signed in England to it fourteen years earlier by sir Robert Peel's Consolidation act. It ts provided by the act of ninth George IY., chapter 31, that if any person shall maliciously, either by iorce or fraud, lead or take away, or en- tice or decoy away, Or detain any child with in- tent to defraud the parents or others having iaw- ful enarge of such child, or snail detain or receive and harbor any child so stolen or enticed uway, shall be held guilty of a felony to be punished by transportation for seven years, or by imprison- ment, with or without hard jabor, for any term not more than two years, and, it a male, to ve whipped if the Court tnink fit, Under THE SCOTCH LAW, as laid down by Sir Archipald Allison, tn his “Principles of Criminal Law,’ the stealing of a child 1s held a capital offence, a crime of the very greatest atrocity, from she unequalled agony and distress which {t necessarily inflicts upon the un- fortunate parents, who ure in tois cruel manner deprived of their offspring. From the earliest times Scotch law punished this crime with death. Nor was it accepted as a defence, or as reason tor the soitening of the penalty, that the motive was affection for the child and not the hope to secure pecuniary profit. It was held a theit, and being positively prohioited, it was not required that tne prosecution should show any motive in order to fix the responsibility upon the abductor, The Mystery of Kaspar Hauser. Kaspar (or Gaspard) Hauser, a mysterious boy, was found by a citizen in the streets of Nuremberg in 1828, utterly destitute of all the common senti- ments and attainments which distinguish hu- manity from simple animal life. He was almost utterly unacquainted with speech, but, when asked his name, wrote in fair characters, “Kaspar Hauser.’ He bore in bis hand a letter addressed to an officer of the garrison, saying that the bearer was born in 1812, and that his father had been tn the military service of Bavaria, in the same regi- ment as the officer addressed. On being relieved by public charity and instructed by a professor of Nuremberg, he was, through the influence of Lora Stanhope, placed in @ subordinate position tn a bureau ol the Court of Anspacn. Here his assas- sination was repeatedly attempted by persons to whose identity there was no clew obtainable. Finally a person with whose features he was not familiar came to him, and, under pretence of a message from his Knglish benefactor, Lord Stannope, decoyed him into an apcocnces place, and then stabbed him in the side. Kaspar escaped, and, though weak from the loss of blood ‘was able to relate the story o! the attack. He die the next day, and his murderer was never dis- covered. This boy's dim recollections of bis life, which, from his subsequent rejations, was passed, trom infancy till his sixteenth year, in a cave or cellar almost void of light, ted and tended at tong intervals by @ person whose face he never saw, who spoke to lim onfy in the tersest terms, and. who finally, Just before releasing him, taught him vo write the name by which he was aiterwards known, have formed, with speculations un his parentage aud estate, and philosophical deduc- tions irom the tendencies of his mind, brought thus, late under cultivation, the themes of several volumes by some of the aolest pens ot Germany, and were fifty years ago an admirable theme tor & standard newspaper sensation, only that at that dateithe popular newspuper had not been created, but waited for American enterprise, The American Bourbon. When the people of France, stung to desperation by long and cruel wrongs under the monarchy, which for 800 years had ensiaved and humiliated them,.in 1793 deposed and put to death their sovereign, Louis XVI., and his queen, the beautiful Austrian, Maria Antoinette, they left alive the Dauphin Charles Louts, a boy eight years old. Him the reigning republicans consigned to the cruel care of one Simon the Cobbler. Him the royalists proclaimed King as Louis XVII. Simon’s care made the bey an imbecile, almost an idiot. He was grievausly afflicted with scrofulous sores in his legs, especially about the kuees, This boy was an elephant in the hands of the chosen democratic leaders of the French people. He had done naught to merit death, and though the. “fierce democracie” were not scrupwious in regard to taking Of heads of men whowere or might be in the way, it is quite easy to understand | that they scrupled at shedding the blood of this in- | nocent Who played with straws, Still he was in | the way. He was equally worthless rubbish among | the properties of the royalist adnerents. A cnild, and especially an tdiot child, as king, Would have necessitated a regency. This ts a poor resource at any time ; doubly so when royalty ts exciuded irom. the throne aod must wait and fight for its crown. Robespierre fell and his minjon Simon lost nis nead. 1n 1794 the Convention decreed that the Committee or Government should “find means of sending the son of Louis out o1 the Republic.’ But he was sick. It can readily be supposed there was an agreement made between the two hostile lac: tions to both o1 whom he was an eyesore to’ re- Heve themseives of his presence. On the 9th of June, 1795, It was reported to the Convention that he was dead, and three surgeons testified that he was the victim of scroiula, He was no more In the way o1 Louis XVILL and the royalists, aud his case no further troubled the republican rulers of France. Much about the same time there appears at Caughnawaga, N. Y., in she family of Thomas Wiliams, a haif-breed of the St. Kegis Indians— @ branch of the Oneida tribe—a boy about ten ears old, Who ts of weak intellect—almost an Thor All the other children of the family, eleven im number, had distinctly marked Indian charac- teriatios, like their mother, @ full blooded Iro- quois, ‘the other, Eleazer, had the face and figure ot a European. In about 1799, when the idiot boy rock into the Water, was rescued insensible and aiter some time resumed anuuation, From that time he was 00 jonzer an idiot. He was sent with nis brother Jonn to school at Long Meadow, Mass., with a Mr. HA whose vOOKs show that the bills of Eleazer Williams were promptiy and regalarly aid, while those of dohn Williams, his reputed brother, were not. Eleazer was still at his siudies } atthe breaking out of the war of 1814, when he | was twenty-seven years old. He was then, by th Lconcurrent authogity of the na 21, 1874.-WITH SUPPLEMENT. vernment, made Superintendent (ieneral of the Roreuerm lodian Department, took up arms, joined in the battle of Plattsburg "and others and was wounded. He continued 10r several years to oc- cupy confidential relations between fhe govern- meut and the Indians, by whom he was recog- nized as one of their number. I 1826 he was ordained as @ clergyman of the Episcopal Churca, He resided at intervals with the froquois, about Green Bay, Wis., and with the St. Regis band im the northern of New York. Iu 1s41_ he met the Prince de Joinville, son of Louis Phillipe. Alter long conversation with the supposed Indian the Prince announced to him that instead of being. the son the —balf-breed ‘thomas: iiiams he was bovis XVII. of France, the supposed dead idiot boy of Louis XVI. Alter this communtcation the Prince, who had sought Williams irom the time of his landing at New York, pluced belore him an elaborately en- grossed parchment and written to paraliel col- umns, in French and English, over the seal of Louis XVi., wherein the Dauphin Louls XVEL was to abdteate anu relinquish in favor of the then reigning sovereign, Louis PiMippe, his right and title to the throue of France ; and in consideration of which relinquighment the King was to provide the Dauphin with a princely establishment etther in Europe or America, as he should choose. ‘Thrs document, evidently prepared at Paris, the Prince asked Williams to sign, 4s Charles Louis, tne dead Dauphin, whose death the Temple at Paris was beleved to baye occurred nearly tivy years before. He revused, A Canadian Case. Hannah White, a spinster, resided im the family of her brother, af Sandwich, Canada, near De- troit, in 1853, Im the Jamily were a little boy, Joseph, three anéa haif years old, son of Mr. and Mrs. White, and Sarah Jane Sladden, ten rears old, daughter of Mrs, White by a former husband, a re- tired East India sea captain, Mrs. White one day went to Detroit for marketing. During her ab- sence the sister-indaw, Hannak White, disap- peared, and with her tbe twochildren. The motner advertised extensively and travelled far and near, searching in vain for four years for her lost dar- lings. No reason could be imagined as influencing Mass White to carry olf the ehlidren, unless it was an envious, spiteiul revenge against her sister-in- law, or the hope to get possession of a legacy belonging to the little girl relative of her father in Engiand. ears later Mrs, White discovered that amnah, who had oeen married at Hadaxe, Wis., Was residing in Detroit, having the boy Joseph with her, Alter suarply contested legal proceedings the mother got posseesion of the boy, ut Could get no information 4s to the whereabouts ofthe girl. In 1862, White, the grandfather ot uke voy and father of Hannan, came to the house of the mother, and atter expressions of contrition for the aid he had giveu Hannah in secreting the chiidren, was received iuto the iamily, He soon aiter tried to abduct the boy the second time, but tatled, and Joined Hannah in Detroit, where she was tnen liv- ing. having attained a prominent position ina Jeading church, rom which she was Subsequently expelled as an arrant hypocrite. In 1866, some lurther imformation came to the mother of her long lost daughter, who, during an interval of thirteen years, had'grown to woman’s estate, and on account of the ill treatment she received ‘from her aunt bad been forced to take service tn the tamily of a larmer at Liberty Pole, Wis, from 3 Seven Stealing a Child to Rescue Her from a Cruel Mother. A few days previous to March 14, 1867, a tele- gram was received by Police Inspector Dilks, of this city, from the Mayor of Baltimore, informing him that Carlos J, Barlero, a Spaniard, had sud- denly left Cuba, taking with him, secretly and without consent of her mother, 4 girl eleven years old, named Adela Aleman. They would probably come to this city. Detective Wilson and Onicer Strauss discovered Bariero and the child in Four- teenth street, they having been shopping. she called bim ‘father,’ and he at first statea that she was his child, He subsequentiy, however, con- fessed that due Was no relative whatever, but as- serted that at one time he had lived and co- habited with the girl’s mother, and that he had abducted her irom her home out of pity for her til- treatment by her mother, He was thirty-nine years old, @ merchant, and had been private secre- tury to General Prim, He did not seem to be ac- tuated by any evil motive in kidnapping the child, who appeared ioud of him and coutented to re- main under his protection. A Missing School Girl. On Friday morning, April 12, 1867, a Mary Tins- dale, a littic girl of fourteen years, and small for her age, ielt her home, No. 233 Thompson street, to go to the public school in Twellth street, near Broadway, about half-past eight. When near the corner of University place and Eleventh street sho was accosted by a well dressed lady, who asked her it she would not like to learn a trade. Whiie | ‘was called fourteen years old, he sell froma high | ‘anal and State | sided ip Now the stranger Was speaking to Mary a stage sep- arated them irom anotier girl who ‘was with ner, and when the latter turned round her friend was nowhere to be seen. The case was at once re- ported at Police Headquarters, and a vigilant search promised for her; but so lar as the public were informed the child was not found, Stealing His Own Child. In the month of December, 1869, Dr. Willlam, of Boston, kidpapped his little daughter Corinna Lewis, seven years old, from the care and custody of her mother, to whom she had been assigned by order of @ Massachusetts Court in @ divorce suit brought against Lewis oy his wife for cruelty and infidelity. Having stolen the child from her home and escaped from the city without detection, Lewis took her through Canada in order to elude pur- suit, and then having, as he thought, baffled the officers, he came with the child to this city. About the same time tae motner caused the insertion of an advertisement in the HERALD offering a reward of $1,000 for the recovery of the child, appenaing her description and that of Dr. Lewis, the sup- posed kidnapper. On December 19 the two were discovered in this city and taken before Judge Hogan, at the Tombs, At the ciose of tue prelimi- nary examination the child was placed in the charge of an oillcer, Some days later, on a de- cision of Judge Cardozo, before whom the case came on habeas corpus, she was sent to Massachu- setts aud redelivered tu the suelter aud protection 01 @ loving mother, A Woman Child Thief. On Saturday, May 27, 1871, while James Murphy, five years old, was playing in the streets of Savan- nah, Ga., near his father’s boarding place, ne was accosted by @ woman, @ former acquaintance of his deceased mother. She took him to a store, bought him a pew hat and jacket and gave him candies, thus enticing him to go with her on board the steamer Magnolia, then about to sail for New | York. His iather, a longshoreman, on returning to bis boarding place after his work was done, being unable to find the boy, searched tne whole city through that night, aided by friends and the puiice, without getting any clew. On the next day, Sunday, ao old negro carman was found, Who knew the boy and said he had carried bim the day before with » woman to the wharf, and saw them embark oa tie Magnolia, She said she was the only friend the boy had left. Mr. Murphy at once telegraphed toa friend here, who had kuown the child, to wateh ior the steamer | and arrest the child tyiel, and he would come by the next steamer to claim the boy. But the iriend jaited to reach the steamer till the woman and child had gone ashore, leaving no trace by which they could be followed. When the heartbroken father arrived here he only found his search hope- lesaly bated, He knew only the Christian name of the woman who had stolen his boy, haying seen her but few times, and lis hopes of recovertug his boy were utterly destroyed. He described her to Superintendent Kelso ae an lrishwoman, about forty-five, sma)l, thin and turning gray. ‘he boy was large of bis age, had light hair and a scar like aletter N on his forehead. fe has not since been heard from. A Boy Stolen in Brooklyn. On Saturday, June 27, of this yeax Henry Win- nie, a bright, intelligent boy, eight years old, who resided with his parents at No. 203 Skillman street, | Brooklyn, was playing in front of the house, when he was accasted by a negro, who induced him to go with him to the junction of Bed‘ord and Myrtle avenues. Here a horse and wagon were found, the horse tied to a lamp post. The colored man. lifted the boy into the wagon and drove rapidly toward East New York, Henry tried by cries to attract the attention 01 passers, but was suenced by threats. At length the vehicle stopped in front of ashanty in a locality strange to the child, when he was lilted from the wagon and ushered into the hovel, where ne rematued a prisoner till Sun- day morning, when, While his jailer was asleep, be crawled noisclessly out of a window in the rear and escaped to the fields. After some time he met a citizen, to Whom he told his story, and was con- ducted home, The Brooklyn police promised to clear the matter up, but Mt still remains a mystery. Tue case in Pailadelphia, now exciting general attention, ts the last which is to be added to these curtous events. SUDDEN DEATH AT BELLEVUE HOSPITAL On Saturday night a young man, who gave his name as Renry Henke, was brought to Bellevae Hospital, sulfering, as was at first supposed, from acute diarrhaa, It subsequently transpired that A dose of medicine had been administered to him by some one, and Dr, Steurer, the physician haw ing the case in charge, sent for a Coroner to take me aute-martem statement in the event of it being deemed necessary. “tne unfortunate mace peas hank yo Joroner appeared, An i iron a nue mete that the cause of death was rev peritonitis, Deceased was a native of Germany, ag twenty-eight yoara of age, singig aud had re~ Maed p Ne Ore cut years, se § MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES. —>-—_——— On dit that Mile. Albana will shortly view America. i Signor Farial, the opera baritone, has returnee to New York from Engiand. “Don Carlos’? will be one of the features of the NeXt season at the Academy of Music. Wagner, thanks to his friend Liszt, secured @ favorable recognition for his *fristan and {solde,"* at Weimar, An Ltalian translation of the “Misanthrope” ts being performed at Rome with great success la the Mausoleum of Augustas, Mr.J.L. Toole, the English comedian, arrived from Europe yesterday in the steamship Republic, and is at the Westminster Hocel. “the North Star” (La Steiia del Nord) has beem given at Covent Garden, with Adelina Patti, Sinico, Bettini and Faure in the cast, Mr. P.S, Gilmore has secured the valuable ser- vices of Messrs. M. K, Botsford and G, Weingartem for the Twenty-second Regiment Rand. A concert of Russian music, latety given at the Sydenham Crystal Palace, was an entire succesa, Mme. Essipotf being the ptanist of the occaston. Mme. Nilsson’s concert for the Westminater Training Schooi and Home for Nurses was a greae success, resulting in a net profit to the charity of £1,000, “Evangeline, or the belie of Acadia," an Ameri+ can extravaganza, wili be produced at Niblo's to- night, Both the music ana the libretto are by Bostonians, Meyerbeer’s “L’Etoile du Nord” has been re- vived for Patti at Covent Garden. Her Catarint te unanimously declared, like all her impersonations, to-be perfect, At the recent competition for the Grand Prix 4@ Rome in Paris, the various candidates, six {n nume ber, had to set to music a cantata entiled ‘Aci and Gaiatea,’’ the subject of Handel’s great work. Mr, William Uandidas,. formerly solo tenor of the Arion Society of this city, lately appeared in the opera of “La Dame Blanche” at Munich, and achieved a signal success, He is another addition to the band of American artists who are winning lyric laurels in the opera houses of Europe. Mr. Mapteson starts for his provincial tour through England in September or October, his troupe being formed of Mile. Titiens, Mile, Singelll, Mme. Sinico, Mile. Marie Koze, Mme. Trebeili, Mile. Macvitz, Mme. Démeric Lablache and Mlle, Bauer- meister, Signort Naudin, Bentham, Campobelto, Perkins and Agnesi, besides the usnal subordi- nates, and possibly, for a short time, Sig. Campa- nini. M. Garnier, the architect of the New Opera House, Paris, has declared the “National Academy of Music’ will be ready for inauguration on Jana- ary 1, 1875. A French composer, M. Victor Massé6, is said to be working on an opera likely to be ace cepted, whilst M. Gounod is expected to be ready with an important work. ‘Two or three new ballets are being composed. Scenery and cos tumes are already in hand. The theatrical luxurtes of our aay are to be indulged in most extensively. The Erie company recently sent a cable despatcn to Mr. W. J. Florence, the comedian, at Ema, Germany, offering him the Grand Opera House at a merely nominal rent, to which Mr. Florence responded that, having made engagements for San Francisco and other places for the next season, he waa obliged to decline, It ww now understood that the early proposition of Mr. P. S, Gilmore to convert the place into ® grand music hall will be accepted. The ovjection to it has been that it involved such extensive alterations of the interior of the Opera House that it would entirely lose the appearance and fail to serve the purpose of a theatre hereafter. Mr, Gil- more’s efforts to raise a jund of $100,000 for the en- terprise were last week crowned with success, During the past season, at the Royal Opera, Berlin, from August 15,.1873, to June 9, 1874, tt ap- pears that Richard Wagner figured in the bills 28 times with 4 works; Meyerbeer, 26 times with 4 works; Mozart, 24 times with 4 works; Rossini, 13 times with 2 works; Verdi, 13 times with 2 works; Gounod, 12 times with 2 works; Weber, 11 times with 2 works; Ambroise Thomas, 10 times with 2 works; Flotow, 7 times with 2 works; Auber, @ times with 3 works; Beethoven, 6 times with B work; Halévy, 6 times with 1 work; Boildien, @ times with 1 work; Gluck, 5 times with 1 work; Nicolai, 5 times with 1 work; Lortzing, 5 times with 1 work; Méhul, 4times with 1 work; Coeru- bint, 4 times with 1 work; Spor, 4times with 2 work; Kadecke, ¢ times with 1 work; Kreutzer, once with 1 work, and Donizetti, once with & work. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. The United States steamer Gettysburg, Lieuten- ant Joseph E. Jones commanding, saus this aiter- noon for Washington with the steamer Nipsic ie tow for repairs. It will be remembered that the Gettysburg was the vessel selected by the Navy Department to convey the experts chosen to de- termine the relative merits of the Nicaragua and Darien interoceanic canal routes. It would seem that the Gettysburg has indirectly been the means of restoring to its proper place a relic which will be highly appreciated by those who take an inter- est in American history. Many years ago, whem the frigate United States, better known as the “Old Wagon,” engaged in contest with the British war vessel Macedonia, deleated her, and was taken in tow by Commodore Decatur to Boston, her figurehead, representing Philip of Macedonia, was missing some tine aiter her arrival. Recently, while paying a visit to the New York Navy Yard, Captain Luce came across a singalar looking affair resting on the top of a shiphouse. 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