The New York Herald Newspaper, July 28, 1874, Page 8

| archives of the older families, now resident upon BROOKLYN YACHT CLUB, | 4G are full Of interesting Mustory of the cownial and | revolutionary periods, Derring’s Harbor affords tive egked anchorage for yacnts in trom two to | five faubor Third, Fourth and Fifth Days of the | | This .overy saboath day hes heen’ one of much } bys eg rr) tne eeu There was the ploawant ab ‘a i] : e ol revelry on rd the yachts, while a Annual Sail Eastward. yac PRC: cieven o'clock divine service was held on board THE CLAMBAKE AND THE HOP. the dagship Madeleine, the services being con- a tuctea and sermon preached by the Rev. Marvin K. Vincent, D. D., of the Presbyterian church, The Run Across the Sound to New London. Fourth avenue and Thirty-tifth sireet, New York: One hundred yachtsmen and jadies, gathered on weck and under awnings. listened to the praise of God, A chuir was turuished from the sioop White Wing, the guests of which yacht are the vocalists o! the squadron, Mr. C. D. ns, with his violon- cello, furnished the necessary music, and the grand old hymns that were readered foated | &cross the harbor in pleasing unison, A pup | was improvised on the binnacle, which was 08: ered with the Union Jack, and surmounting all was the Holy Brble, After prayer the eighth bymn, commencing— Another six days’ work ix done, Another Sabbath is begun— was sung, when the ninety-filtn psalm and that part ot the thirteenth chapter of Matthew | referring to the parabie of the sower were read; | aga prager, the thirty-8ixth hymn— | Before Jehovah's awful throne } Ye nations bow with sacred joy, a thé Segmon, the text of whch was Ma thew il, 4,408 gain the kingdom of leaven is hike unto a Merchas “Wan seeking poodly pears, who, when he had found Me pearl of great pric | went and sold ail that né Dad and bougnt 11.) | Yacht Club one of pleasure. That they have suc. | About 100 were present, and tnd Aervices proved | | of the most pleasing and solemn character. } darn as attested by the smiling faces of the mil- | ane Mave me cutter Jeft the haroor &¢ dasiignt | buttoned yachtsmen, who each and every one de | tnis morning, and the Sloop Playiul aA i Clare their stay has given entire satisiaction, and , three o'clock this aiteruoon. The schooner Cl | that Greenport is to be recommended to the ciuds | HOW lor the Brst time, really begin the cruise, dp | coming through Heil Gate in endeavoring to reach Of the country as a fitting place to visit while crnis- | the rendezvous at. Glen Cove last Wednesday, she Greenrort. L, L, July 23, 1874, Since yesterday morning the residents of this village and surrounding country have been treated | (0 4 pretty picture Of nautical veauty—a neet of vachts of grand design and perfection of lines, resting quietly or imperceptibly welding over the ralm mirror-like surface of this Pleasant harbor, and the people have appreciated it, as trom the moment the neat sloop Qui Vive let 0 ver anchor bu Friday evening until now, there has beep an earnest desire to take the visit of the Brooklyn ! 5 pstimot Was run into by a tug and injurea, but not badly, eee £0) Lg MANE Saspe, They teedny | BOE Tere iomemnhi following :— of uninterested observers can be added | SCHOONERS, that of the choice spirits who have | Name. Owner, partaken of the superb hospitality of we a jeine, er eee a Tope ae afillagers, First, the harbor is very accessible and | Vernea, Senerai Santord. A periectiy landlockéa, 8¢ that if old Ocean’s foam 28. J. A. Aldrich, William Langley. capped waves should be lashed into fury by merci- Ketone eek Jess winds a feet could were find sale anchorage | grounds, Second, yachts can lay within easy call | trom the shore, on which are railways where re- | Q ; as ce ah fix :M. T. Davidson, eairs and cleaning can be well, gong And at low | Recreation. -Mr. Webber. rates, while ship carpenters, sailmakers and spar. | Wtute Wing. . A. P. Bliven, makers abound who will work ten hours a day and | Helena “PF, M, Flint, aries k. Williams, Saile xo | Emma ‘John J. Treadweit. | | not require exorbitant wages, ‘The owners of the sloop White Wing and schooner Clio, both of which have been repaired here, were delighted at the MACRO HENRUInIe RT Bane Didlacme ehereie near facilities offered. Then every character of stores gcnooner Estelle, of Norwaik, and others will ve ean be obtamed one block from the steamboat | found to augment the number. | "8 pocketbook eae w#ock, and it does not take a man’s pocketboo! Fifth Day of the Crutse—Leaving and contents to purchase a few hondred weignt | Fit Rosgtes one gh pre a of ice, so greatly needed at all times py yachts | peebcer abt eae pcan when cruising, Across Long Islan 5 the 4 y Lonpon, July 27, 1874. ee fe re a geet it ane tars Ope At an early hour au cneraiae ae: harbor or ered for boating and picnicking, 3 : Teta tos Batok are roomy, vail kept aed not ex- | Greenport wore an animated appearance. From | travagant in charges, From the Pecomic to Clark’a | the yachts the sounds of preparation for the run | peel ve tn Greenport to that of the Manbauset | @cToss the Sound to New London were distinetly House, on Shelter Island, opposite, there is ample heard, and the poys and girls on shore had waited oom for the yashtsmen, their guests and friends, | t@ them the odor of [ried ontons and broiled bee!- | iD, breakiast. The Made- Se the Brooklyn Yacht Club are pleased with their | §t¢a&, denoting an eurly breal visit, and a8 one jolly tar would say a good word | Playral...) [R. J. Holmes. The squadron will leave for New London to- Satie ut 8100 that their sister clus will come and see for them- | otis tae Teas een tenatote Sue y t asanter | © é selves. They will warrant there ts not a ple: rj her deck trom the Comet, whose sides spot on the Sound for such excursions, and stake their nautical reputation on the issue. THE CLAMBAKE AT THE PECONIC. The clambake given to the club by Mr. Smith, of she Peconic, was a success in every respect. The vachtsmen and the ladies of the village gathered at three oclock, and, in good time, consumed innu- . ms, or tw merable bushels of cla: @ tuodred 0.4 tng gun set the feet in motion. waters, ‘The balance of the fleet were in good po-/ sitions for the start, and the hearts of the Jour y tars beat high as the moderate breeze from fF ne “prepare to get under way'’—startied the’ g) ‘The ne at s rh pairs of spring chickens, several bushels oj. je marked out the course for the 8.99 Ne i OF BAD BRO, BH net Cite nexz, while the Comet, being t¥.e} | attendant savory dishes that our non- | Cillle nex2, whi! ©) pst han- est and excellent Long Islanuers can introduce mto such 4 bake. Well, this particular bake was superintended by an excelient and honest mindea ividaal, and the way that the Brooklyn laddies | Beac! q s uter,” them and dethroned and devoured the crimson- | Beach, which pinged op steamed lobster would have astonished an ordi- ce * AR, lemme lay near the upper shore, with the white- | Vite E te | for another, herald the fact to the world, and hone | bed Sea Witch broadside to her. Tne seda looke@ like a bank of Bnow rising ‘rom the gull } “sr died of the larger crait, Was aWaY in) sayanee, | Then tame the White Wing, Clio, Yami ga T, Sea Witch and the balance dancing *alor g in a merry | bunch, the Madeleine bringing W) th’ grear, stana- - Aemolished tbe beautiful structures laid before | ME down the harvor and passin g th ¢-peint of Hay | Meet, which indeed looked very handsome in the blazing sun, A meeting of tie captains will be | held on the flagship this afternoon at balf-past five o'clock to consider the question of deparung from | this quiet city. 1 am iniormed upon the best authority that Mr. | George Dunning, of the Sadre, walked from Green- pert to Orient Pomt yesterday a8 a part of his | training practice for the coming boat race, aud | while there indulged in much athietic exercise. Many in the squadron who have staked | ‘heir money on Dunnmg and Sawyer | jin this battle «of urs at Newport | are of the opimion that the former in the matter of his diet is just a littie too generous, and hat he should have been more careful and ‘fitted himsell | as well as possible Jor the pitiless task of pulling | | three miles under a broiling sun. But weorge 13 | the key of the Sadie’s | confident, and still carries locker, Yachting Notes. | The following passed Whitestone yesterday :— Yacht Rambler, N.Y.Y.C., Mr. W. H. Thomas, from Vineyard Sound tor New York. | © commence firing at CREEDMOOR. ety-sixth Regiment at the Rifle Ranges Yesterday—Defects that were Noted and Reforms that are Needed. In obedience to orders from the state Adjutant General's office, the Ninety-sixth regiment, Second brigade, First division, N.G.S.N.Y., Colonel Staum commanding, proceeded to Creedmoor yesterday for ball practice. The roll was called at half-past six o’clogk A. M. and alter being furnished with am- munition and a day’s rations the regiment marched out of the rendezvous, reaching Creedmoor in time the 200 yards butts by ten o'clock, There were 231 officers, non- commissioned oMcers and rank and file reported on the ranges, of whom 111 went back from 200 Yards to the 500 yards distance, The followin summary shows how the men were distribu’ ae Yacht Triton, A.Y.C., Mr. G, A. Th: yer, from e nt — 4 } Gien Cove for New York, a) among the companies of the regime! pa i |. Yacht Scud, Mr. Lindsley (no club), trom New Yar oy York, cruising eastward, Field and stan. ee | ptacht Agnes, A.¥.C., Mr. LS. Smith, from a | Company A fc 6 | cruise eastward, for New York. Company B so (1 aw a a % a Vor oan i THE NATIONAL GAME, ompany sano ae | eat Mine T Company H.. Wit : The Base Ball Champtonship—The Prog | (witvany 6 8 fewsional Arena, rata The question of the professional championship Aft ee ifs 224 bod er a a Goes not appear to be thoroughly understood by Hnishing heir scores 9, Ue 200 ‘yards the general class of the admirers of the national game, and with a view of on the subject we give below a few facts in relation clubs entered the arena, cach having to play ten { « games with every other club, which would be | seventy for each and @ total of 280 for the season, the latter closing October 31. Of these 130 w* have been played up to the close of July, teav 150 to be played in the ensuing three montt average of fifty games @ month Th 4%)! 4 MOE requires that each club should + ¢ cove least five games of their ten wi A@y -at other ciub before any of their gar 8 every counted in the record, Of this nur @@8 can be ser four have _ wo have tour which wins the veceive ue cham- 48 in the race, as far @ance with the record ar the Bostons lead with atetics being second, with afnvuals third, with twenty. 2 and, Achietic clubs will be yet to finish three of these quotas, and two have five. As the club greatest number of games is to pionship pennant, the positio” as run, are given in accor of won games, and thus! thirty Victories; the At twenty-three, and the Inasmuch as the Bost absent in Eurepe v tember, and that will count in th seen that the * cellent oppor ing position only three score of * | figures amyya* | Me ‘wntil then none of their games £ championship record, it will be Aviual Club will be aiforded an ex- @roity to pull up their score to a lead- « ‘Even now the New York nine has 4 games to win to equal the Athletic ‘tories and but ten to reach the Boston -"rd if they can do the latter they will to their September contests with , ‘Yetarning clubs an interest that 43st Make the professional business of that | Month wery remunerative from the additional at traction that wiil be imparted to the contest, For #| fourth position in the race the Chica; PDila- south was treshening. At 7h. 18m. the first gr ip go and Phila- <~ | de!phYa nines are now struggling, the former at am. | bering echoes, and fifteen minutes later tly» * part Present having the advantage. This week our | two metropolitan nines are out West, and their sittle | Bankes together will not be renewed until the lat- #s, the | terpartot August. In the interim tne Philadel- Phia, Baltimore and Hartiord nines will occupy | the attention of the public of the Atlantic cities, | There is, however, bat ttle doubt that the strug. gle lor the three front positions will be between the Boston nine, the two Phiiavelphia nines and the Mutuals. The latter can be close to the win- ning post i they choose. But the questicn is, | Will they not be tempted to swerve from the | track to suit outside betting interests? It ts the donbt of their legitimate efforts to win which has range an hour'e allowed the me posting our readers up | putts it was 4” n | sequently Mtil the second week in Sep, | «vest im the beat of the day was - Upon going’ bel sre the 600 yards , tound that ®mm'gnition had unac. to Jt The rules governing championship con- phe iy 20% vo be short, and A, couple of officers teste’ jn the professional areua emanate from | more, «to the range kee'yer to negotiate for the N@donal Association of —Protessional | gome —_—*A# TAINeA & QUEST Zon ag Lo What had be- Base Ball Players, & special code being | on + _ ! vhe 3,000 rounds "hich had been brought | prepared each season, ‘his year eight | ay «= #2 fleld, Upon calc Mating the number of shota Mlurged It was disCavered that over 600 rounds bali cartridge ammunition coula not be ascounted tor. Calouel staut! iniormed the {*tBRaLD reporter Uaat ne would form up the regi- ‘ment alter ihe shyvoling in-order to find out sowe- thing aboet the missing material, No notice of | this having been done reached the reporter. Sub- @ Adjutant said that, upon opening the ammunition boxes on tne ground, a large num- ‘ber o1 the cases were pardy filled with empty cart- ridge shells, and that in this condition they had been received irom the Ordnance Department at the State arsenal. 20) THE SCORES, Ranges, Naines, oe g7Seores.— Totals. Sergeant Dunsing, Co. B....424) 3 3 Private Schroeder, Co. H... Ji) 3 isckatacc mw 0 Private Wieckels, Co. A.... $5) 9 3 Sergeant Schmitt, Co B..... $38 2 : Private Holthauer, ine ae Captain Monring, Co D.....}50) 3 3 | Sergeant Dewitz, Go, D.....12.9 2 8 Lieutenant Engel, Co. B.....} 70 8 3 | Private Krener, Co, fem (3 Private Blumber, Co. F...... } 23 4 Adjutant Eblen.. rn H Private Harmann, Co. A..., } 38 3 3 0 0 3 2 SA SROM SSS SONU CHE SOC CHE Ete OREN TUNE OM NEEM IS COLON ORM HOKE RS CoRR ROC RDN PENNE SWS CENNCCONBUONESCOCRET SEN E NUNCHONCE NR NONE RONG WUEEROKEM a 0 t 0 0 3 3 | Private Senilling, Co. D. moO 149 | much care and precision as ir Broadway and the | - 34 , 200 2 Stig | Park were the place, not this litte rural resort. Private Siepke, Co. K. 3 9 gous 19 | The excellent time oliserved tn the inusieal portion | Private 8. Scroeder, Co. H. - of the ceremonies and the sweetness of the sing- eshte tin as gas {39 | ing throughout, under the leading of Rev. D. i Sergeant Oppermann, Co. D. } Sy) 40 4-1) {38 | Maciarlane, were especially worthy o! notice. Privad® Halusbachy 08: D:-toyy, agra faints Ska CLIFF, L.1., July 27, 1874. Private Ramm, Co. F.. F io 3- {18 | This may be termed the “om day” in camp. The Captain Kiefer, Co. F, 3 N rex {a7 excitement of the Sabbath seems to have unfitted Private Wollheim, Co. G.. aa 2 Bt 17 | the people jor to-day’s exercises. Bishop Doggett’s Ghd Foal }_, | Sermon yesterday was one ot great power as well Drummer Manes, 93 4— 9517 | as or great length—about two hours were given to Private Aguer, Co. A...... tay "7417 | ats delivery—and was of that emottonal sort that Private Buchman, Co. A....}20) 2 3 ez S{17 | Touses Methodist folk to a high state of enthusi- | Private Bernet, Co, # }3 42 2-124), | asm, His theme was “The Lamb of God who taketh i a ante go3$ away the sin of the world.” It was both logical and | Captain Burckard, Co. A.... 32 27417 | theological, and ig the topic of comment to-day | Private Berlinghof, Co. D.. a i016 | among the people, ‘The Rev. Mr. Thomas, % {00 22 3-4 of India, who is now recruitin; his Private Wagany, Co. G...... preety A 4 te ig A Cok 200 Oa 2-9 health in this country, preached a foreign mission- Pely aie Beltane Cor R025. temp a $= 7516 | ary sermon this morning from the apostolic com. : ae yuo 2 2 pat) : | Private Eggers, Co. E....... 1a 00 0— 446 | mission, Mark xvi, 15. He dwelt on the impor- NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JULY 28, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET, oh SEA CLI gp, itu beg Sunshine and Ation—Praise and bc bene Thou .ngy Thronging the Two hours’ pleas scenery of the Sour York to the char bers of the Met present relig’ choice of p The taper buildin Y .t sail through the enchanting 4 brings the voyager Jrom New @ing spot selected by the mem- ehodist Episcopal church for their sous vileggiatura, No more judicious sition could possibly have been made, Macie, @ large, commodious, substantial stan’ 4 SAPable of holding about 7,000 persons, po #iorth prominentiy on the most elevated + anv at Sea Clit; ity cupola yisible at a great dis- ance. Numerons villas, the Majority Of pretty j eehttecture, surround the central place of at- traction. Here and there appear amid the groves or the = Association grounds the snowy canvas of — invitingly — coahlooRing tents, @ peep im to some of which disclosed a scene of almost luxurious comfort, showing that means are | adopted here to render camping out a form of out- "i." Looking iniand the sight meets a pleasing panorama or varied lovelness—wooded bill points, shady groves and green, reireshing fields, smiling in the sunlight and breathed over by the gentle, fragrant summer breeze. But, fairest of ali, the eye turns unwearied to gaze upon the sun-kisser, rippling blue, the “sapphire spangled marriage ring,” with which beautiiul Hempstead Harbor surrounds this favored Aa ys abd its dis- tant woous on the leit, the far off shores of West- chester county and Connecticut lengthening out veiled in the morning haze upon the right, and the bay dotted with many a white-sailed pleasure boat. The hotel was crowded, over 500 guests being at present in residence there. Its position is excellent, and commands a most extensive Prospect. ‘The fervor of enthusiasm which was aroused by the soul-stirring discourse of Bisuop Kavanaugh and ably sustained by the eloquent exhortation o! Dr. Sargent in the evening, seemed, if the evidences of yesterday are @ test, to have not diminished, but even furtuer stimulated the ardor of the camp in religious reunion. From an early hour venicies arrived at the Tabernacle, bearing visitors trom Various quarters outside the camp, and the morning services could not have been attended by less than 3.000 worshippers, ali intently earnest and devout. A quiet Sunday calm overspread the entire local- ity, disturbed, if such can with propriety be called disturoance, by the occasional sound of the | “chureh-going” bell, Qoating over the verdant | Knolis and deep-lying valleys out to sea, or, closer to the house of praye;, the earnest, impassioned utterance of zealous prayer or sermon, the occa- sional burst of hallelujabs wafted to heaven from thankful hearts, or the sweet songs of praise and joy to the God of all mercy und goodness, At six A. M, the exercises of the day commenced With @ prayer meeting in the chapel, succeeded at hall-past eignt A. M. by @ testimony meeting iu | the tabernacle, This latter was quite an iterest- lng feature in the day’s services, several members, | ladies and gentlemen, detailing for the spiritual advantage of their hearers, their various struggles and sorrows, their wrestlings with sia, but all ex- | ultant that the grace of Gou had at length entered their hearts, enabling them to conquer the enemy, become true soldiers of Christ and anxious lovers | of their fellow men, Eleven A. M. was the hour | appointed ior the regular preaching, and by that ume the vast building had a goodly throng. The | numerous congregation were ail quiet, steady- | going people, of highly respectable appearance, | and with hardly au exception dressed with as door enjoyment very far the reverse of “roughing | THE SING SING MURDER. A CONVICTS FATAL REVENGE, Stabbed to the Heart for an Al-: leged Insult. STATEMENT. THE MURDERER SS —<~—_ According to whe sworn statement of partiey who witnessed, ‘Whe tragedy enacted at Sing Sing Prison on Sdivday morning the slaying of William ) Bentte; Dy William West, atellow convict, can only be regarded in the light of @ cold-blooaed, atro- | clous murder, ‘The murderer and his victim oc- | Cupted adjoining cells on Gallery No. 21, and, as | will hereafter be shown, were not on the most | amicable terms. Apart from other trifling causes ; of provocation which, according to the statement of we prisoner, the deceased extended towards him, was the circulation of an assertion, proclaimed in the nocturna! | stillness of the prigon on Saturday, that ne (West) | had “worked for Ave years on a canal boat.” This | rankled like a barbed arrow in the bosom of West, who had hitherto endeavored to pass himself oft asa high-toned thief among the most exclusive of his fellow criminals, Securely lockea in a sep- arate cell, THE EXASPERATED CONVICT could but bide his time for the revenge he was de- vermined to have, and, after uttering, in a voice hoarse with concentrated rage, “lll send you to the hospital in the morning,” preserved an unbro- ken silence during the remainder of tne night. He was as good as his word, for when the men were in the act of leaving their cells for the parpose of being marched to prayers to the chapel next morning, West met his victim as the latter was stepping on the gallery, and after asking him to repeat his assertion of the previous evening, buried a radely-fashioned knife in his breast, tom the neo of which death ensued shoruly ‘alter. wards. THE CORONER’S INQUEST. An inquest was held on the remains of the | murdered convict at the prison last Sunday after- noon by Coroner Bassett, when the following tes- Uimony Was elicited :— dames P. Kirby testified—I am a keeper on Gal- lery No. 21; was on duty at ten minutes past eight o'clock this morning; saw deceased, William Bent- ley, struck by William West; saw West strike the blow, but did not see the instrument in his hand at the time; the weapon (knife produced) now shown. is the one I took from West; deceased bled very little; he fell over on the gallery in about a minute | after he was struck; heard no threats made by | West before the blow was given; it was a back- | hand blow that the prisoner gave deceased; West stood to the leit of the deceased, at his own door, and deceased stood at the door of his own cell; the right arm of Wess was raised as he struck; was about three feet from deceased when he was struck. Daniel Clark, @ convict, having been sworn, said—i am a prisoner in this prison; deceased was | my room mate in cell 1,001, on ery No. 215 | was springing the latches this morning, and just | atrer I came down deceased came out of his ce}! this was about ten minutes past eight o’clock William West came over and called to deceased; he said, “Scnaeter, I didn’t do five years on a canal | boat;"" Bentley made no reply, and West steppea back one step and gave him 4 BACK HAND THRUST with ail his might; his right arm was raised on a | ne with his breast; did not see anything in West’s band when deceased was struck ; deceased did not make any outcry, but put his hand ap to his breast and then Jeil on the floor; asked bim {f | he was hurt, and he said he was dying; neard | quarrelling between the parties last night; West } threatene: Vnat he would put veceased in the hos- | pital in the morning; saw West have tie knife | shown yesterday; he has had it since here first, about four months since; he got it of a man | who has been @ prisoner; it was made from a@ file; the prisoner was in the habit of | carrying the Kniie; he drew it Out to strike one of | the prisoners be/ore, but did not do so, as the man. | told him he would ‘knock nis head off; West aud ; Bentley worked in the same shop, but at some dis- | tance apart; never heard Bentley say anything to | West, and never heard them quarreling before last iw Jomet went along Wiibar Aary appetite. Ithas often been given out that see ve ‘he wane We do a, em ‘B° | ot inte u6 lnepely Comnoed the neetidance at then | the “Brooklyn Boys” did not care for clambaxes, | 4 NE posiwon, 'ag second aud the | club matches, ‘Cho third, showing that she, meant to be some- out henceforth such @ yarn will not be tek in | +. Greenport and be believed. Of course, yachtsmen, | Where at *the finish, fa tye slow at the siart, There was no sign of Pret lepton or intoxica- | tance of the commission trom considerations of al ae 3 need whee _ tion among the men ol the Ninety-sixth yesterday | th cial condition of the heathen as tre | Was Schaefer; West commence lackguarding and yeta lack of discipline and want 01 Know? | withthe fnuabitanes of this CORRES Bentley as soon as he got into his cell on Saturday se edge of the use of arms were plainly visibie. | from @ contrast ot the morai condition of each as | evening; witness told Bentley that West might be There was altogether too much familiarity between | relatea to the depsliy of poyulauion. He gave | Stubborn enough to hit him, and that he had bet- the officers and mea. Ofiicers passed’ sentineis | many affecting imecidents of missionary and ter look out for him; saw Mr. Kirby ask for the Har- | wao did not sulute tiem, or, Ul they did, this token heathen je in india, and called upou the Wealthy | knife, and then saw West give it to num; West for | of respect due to the State’s commission Was dis- | men of the Church to cousecrate themselves ani | denied having it at first. surprise of | regarded by the hoiders of it. Guards and sen- A SINGULAR WRAPON, | might; have heard that deceased's proper name THE COLLEGE ARENA. ‘The question of the college championship for 1874 has veen settled, and Yale, for the first ume, bears | Of the honors of the “University nines,’ Princeton being second and Harvard third. Up to 1872 vard had monopolized the leading position years; but last year Princeton, to the ‘The Qui Vive was daw that 18, Most yachtsmen who Nave their-own folus | Been ae ad, ang dole she ete bead " each, arid, ear th Ww ‘on board as guests and are not “voarmag” for the | " ie ” asi vompet to i summer hal! a dozen individuais they only meet | aade: slippery compet’Avwr to the little fellows. bn such occasions, and care vat little for them | when they do meet them, always have a “shot in the iocker” and usually indulge im mxunes and vomliorts not generally attaigable; yet with wil this they like occasionally to leave their own Com- missary and their own stewards to indulge in such shore lospitakues as were extended them yester- day, aud they never forget the courtesy. INTERCHANGE OF COURTESIES. At the beke were invited as weil the oflicers of the revenue cutxer Samuel! Dexter, Captain Deane, and the revenue scuooner James Campvell, Cap- tam Moore, beth of which arrived in the barbor during the forenoon. ceediugly weld pleased with ihe attention shown them, a0 fwMy repaid the cempliment. Captain Deane asked many Oi the yachtsmen on board the cutter to examine her. ‘This vessei has been in commission ‘but Little over a month, being a sister ship to the cutters Rush and Dallas, tue two first havimr been constructed in Hast Boston and the third in Portiand. Upon examipation of the crait goud judges, aong whom were Mr. M. T. David- son, of New York. and owner of the yacht © pronounced the Dexter an excellently built vessel, Doth in bul! and machinery, while her ventillauon and accommodations are of the first character. She is of 325 tons burden, has a complement of wirty men and is provided with two 20-ponnd vifle gus forward, The trials given her in the few weeks sbe has been commissioned bave proven These gentlemen were ex- | ne, | The Dexter's station is trom | All stogd on a ciean lay for Plum Gut, | the lig/at on Long Beacts Point the Comet was still the Kv/ading craft, ben Ging gracelully to the wipd | under great spread of canvas. The Clio came thuy dering along second, the Sadie the first o! the slveps, then the White Wing, the Fleur-de-Lis, ‘nd passing Qi Vive, Sea Witch, Madeleine to leeward, witht her light sails, the Cite, Recreation, Fung T., Helena, Piaytu) and others, Now the Schcpners set Uvelr staysaila, which helped the m materially, and, careering to the freshening Wilad, dashed the snowy spray from their bows | lik & mermaids in buoyant glee. To add zest to the SC éne Lue elegant scheoner yacht Sea Witch and a fine modelied working schooner, Millie Frank, | Yath a band of excellent gentlemen musicians and (harming vocalists on board, accompanied the racers, Wtibg as a fitting convoy. The Comet held der own handsomely, as did the Sadie, of the | sloops, though the Qui Vive was rapidly picking ap her leeway and bid fair soon to become dangerous, Ail Ue bouts stood over under Pium [sland to get the strengt of the tide, and they went Mashing around the western point on which the lighthouse 18 situated as annexed :— very satisfactory. » Me HOM, S. Nantucket to Stonington, while that of the Rush 1s Comet + 9 05 00 at Portland and the Dallas is to ve sent to Samy Cho +9 05 20 Francisco. 9 05 40 THE ROP AT THE MANHAUSET. -9 10 12 1 have already told you that the club acoeptea étakans Me imvitatien of Mr. Fred. H. Gould, of the Man- hauset House, on Shelter Island; so, immediately alter eight bells last evening the little steam yacht Cambria, piying as a jerry boat between tne island avd Greenport, was taxed to her utmost ve carry the Rugerous yachismen and the ladies of the vil- Jage across the harbor. The Invitatious were peatly gotten up, and, in addition to ine proprie- tor, bore the names of distinguished gentlemen. The young ladydom of Greenport Was nearly crazed vy the anuouncement, and their mammas, big brothers and beaux were argued into going, and they were all there. At nine o’clock the hop was im Iuil progress, and a jollier crowd I never saw, Yacnt clut e enjoyed many similar scene: hever belore has sucti entire ¢elat attended hopicular arrangements. The gold-banded marine aaventurers were simply ecstatic iD their lis and were bent on enjoying th tume te the very yun. It would seem that rybody, his wile and daughter were there. uty and fashion, Particwarly lashion, flaunted anou rooms and halis, to we despair of the y ac hismen, Who were Juli Of “femininity,” and the e.avy of tue outstuers, who couldn't get’ any. The elegantly apd in good taste. ‘adies were Suc dressed 1 arrangements of silks and laces were never \voven in the imagi« nation Ol any Oriental story teller. Entirely uula- Miiiar with the mysteries of \eminine tuggery, 1 ean only say that ‘all the ladics were dressed robes of exceeding lightness, joo King as though the Vouch of a single match would send the roomtul into =the realm of fire dnd smoke iw a second, A tinder box was noting to them, It remains ouly to say that the bali passed of with Kreat salisiaction to the ladies anu to the yacur men, and at twelve o'clock the goodbys were said, and | opine more than one pretty creature, as she stood on the broad baiconies and lvoked up to the firmament, glowing with a myriad of stars, asked the question of her couipanion :— When shall we meet again~ Meet ne'er te sever! SHELTER ISLAND PARK, Shelter Island, or, in the Indian gibberish, Man- Nauset-ana-cuosha-Wommuck"—literaity, “an isiaud sheltered by i#lands’—is a charming spot. tt con- tains about 9,000 acres, and the suriace Is undulat img, the soll rich and productive, white boulders of great size are found. The remains of primeval forests still eXist—grovee Of gigantic Oak, inte: sperser with cherry trees of unusal size; @ greens and locusts are on every hand, while native vines and creepers abouud apd irom the iorest trees Laug in a thousand artistic forms. Two hun- dred acres of the northern portion of the tslaud bear the appellation of Sheiter Island Park. The surface ls varied auc undulating, risteg in the in- terior to @ height of sixty feet apove the water, sloping gently down to the shore op Derring’s Harbor and terminating in an ebrupt biwd and fre. guentiy broken by picturesque ravines. feu iront the Maphauset tiouse is located, 200 feet long, with an L of 200 eet, along which are verandas filteen seet ip wicth, bovb of which command a view of the boat landing. ‘The place is situated in the taidst of a beautiinl open grove, Jroma which radiate walks and drives, A BIT OF HISTORY. Shelver Island was included in the crown grant to Karl Stirling im 1636, apd was vestuwed by hum asa giftto bis agent, James Farrett. He sold it 4p A641 to Stephen Goodyear, Deputy Colonial Gov. ernor of Connecticut, and be conyeyed it to Cap. tain Nathanie) Syivester and his'brother Conrad Sylvester, of Boston, and Thomas House and Thomas Middieton, merchants of Boston, for “six- een hundred pounds of good merchantavie mus- covado sugal Through an act ol confiscation by the Dutch Governor of New York, Anthony Culve, the whole fel) into the possession of Nathaniel sy! ter, and was bequeathed by him $0 equal shares to his fve sons. It Was mainly sottied irom New England abont 6 Wy. , On the | It is | k 30 Piayrul, +Not taken, oF Hl ‘Witch, which held her own nand- the feet, rounded to, and, firing a somely with Salute in parting, returned to Greenport, where her owner, Commodore Stott, and his family re- side, Now the wind tell very light, and some of the smaller yachts boomed out their balloon jibs, | and ali thé boats rose and (ell to the gentie swell of the ocean which met tnem here, ‘The leading craft, leaving the racks on Plum Island, stood across the Sound i tue manner be- fore named, the wind hauling to the eastward somewhat, and at this time there lay under the jaud three 0: the sioops that Were having @ pleas. aut time together, the Sallie, Recreation and Cimie, Each endeavored forge ahead of the other, but the seamanship displayed on the Ciffie proved the better, and sue Walked by her friends in fine style. Alter this brush was decided the Recreation stuod away for the lightship on Bartlets’s Reet in the wake of the jeaders, aud trom which beacon the squadron was ‘to leave in a body for | the city. Behind these were the Helena, Emma and the Playtui bringing up the rear. Now the wind feil sull lighter, whicn gave (ue smalier boats an advantage over their larger companions, and for a while those in the rear picked ap the leaders in pretty style, but haif amie irom the lightsiup the wind hauled to the eastward, and, increasing to @ moderate bre the schooners Were sent along merrily to the end of the race, Which Was at that beacon, Tne SADIE AND THE QUI VIVE, old time competitors, were still continuing their merry brush, which commenced when they stood across the Sound, and it had become quite ex- citing, but the Sadie could not beat her dainty oppo- beLt, as the Qui Vive Would saucily show her heeis to the former despite ail exertions, Now the end of the run Was approaching and all the head boats were doing quite well, but the course Steeved by the White Wing, which seemed to be np the harbor for “a snort cut,” deprived her of an excellent position at the finish, instead of being tird she was filth, All the way down tue harvor of Greenport and across the Sound the Cho danced along in @ mauner that surprised every yach(sman in the fleet, as it no doubt was better than she bad ever done before. She :ounded to @t the outer mark second, and though eighteeen minuces betind the leader did well, and her owners can be proud of the pull and the finish sie made, Just betore the lightship was reached the Sadie took in her jibtopsail; but if this had been carried lo the end the tweuty-seven sec- onds ste Was beaten by the Qui Vive Mmght have been greatly reduced, The yachts, as annexed, | reached the | LIGHTSHIP ON BARTLETT'S REEF. Name. He M.S Naine, A, OM. 8, 36 40 oF 00 57 00 | a7 0 68 03 Madeleine. . 59 45 | Fleur-de-Lis 00 | With the yachts together the flagship assumed the lead, aud tue squadron salied up the harbor, making @ prevty show and calling torth numerous salutes from shore, Off the Pequot house were noticed the schooners Wanderer abd Phantom at anchor and the sioop Kgeria sailing about the | taken, howeve the English cricket fleids, between the eighteen | | elevens ail, stepped to the front and bore Whip peinant—an idea! emblem, by the way. This year Yale adopted a system of thorough training | With the proiessional nine of Hartrora, and, play- ing under the professional code of rules, they be- came SO Weil Verse iu all the strategic points of the game and so skilled in the strong element of fielding as to out play all ot their opponents with ease, their final triumpt betng their noteworty victofies over the Harvardy at Saratoga, the pase ball players carrying a Yale by this seli-same victory. It is worthy of re- mark that while the collegians cannot successfully cope with the better practiced professional nines they find no difficulty in defeating the strongest: amateur teams the country possesses, their better | practiced and more educated skiil giving them a decided advantage over the reguiar amateur nines. \ THE AMATEUR ARENA, ‘There is no official code of rules for any United States chatmpionship 0! the amateur class of the pase ball fraternity, but several of the States have State base vail associations, which frame special codes 01 rules for their own State clubs, and these, | in some instances, inclade championship rules, a8 in the case of the Pacific Coast Association, the Louisiana State Association, and the Massachusetts Association and some others. New York, how- ever, has no such organization, and the’ state championship of amateur ciubs ts, therefore, | merely a nominai thing, governed by no rule other than that of genera! custom, which seems to award the title to the club winning the most series of games “best two out of three.” There is, there- fore, no State championship, but only a contest as | to which cub of our promiment metropolitan or- ganizations shall take toe lead of the ciubs located within @ thirty mule circuit of the city; and of these the prominent clubs and Arlingtons, of ew York; the Name- jess, Chelsea and Nassau, of Brooklyn; the Staten Isiand | Club and’ the Confidence of New Rochelle. Thus tar the battle is pretty even, with the Coniidence now confident of victory; the Staten Isianders looming up as a winning team and the Fiyaways and Chelseas close up with the jeaders in the race, the Chelseas thus far having the lead. This week the New York nines Play the brooklyn team, and the latter the Staten Island, and the contests excite considerable mterest in amateur circles. The Nameless Cinb, of Brooklyn, entered the lists very toperully aud they made good progress early in the season. Of late, how- ever, their iosses have placed them in the reat. there 18 time to rally between now and Thanks- ing day, the ciostug day.of the amateur season, and they have the material wherewith to regain their lost ground. The Staten Island nine have re- cently loomed up as promising champions, they having @ nine which includes the short stop af the Princeton nine, tue right fielder of the Boston Red Stockings Of 1873 and five of the old Star nine of Brooklyn. THE AMERICAN GAME IN ENGLAND. The adveut of the American base bali players on Engush ground has recently been a topic of inter- estin the English sporting journals, considerable curtosity veing manifested i regard to the “Yankee game of ball.’’ The principal interest 8 in the promised trial of skill on. base bail representatives and the selected elevens of the different cricket localities of England. The first exhibition of the American game of pase ball in England, given by representative experts from America, wili take place on the grounds of the Liverpool Cricket club, at Liverpool, on Thursday next, July 30, and the interest taken im the afair the two weeks preceding the ap- pearance of the nines gives promise that the attendance will be unusuaily large. Another exhibition of our national game will be given in Manchester August 1. But the first really grand Match Of the tour will be that named to take piace on the celebrated Lord's Oricket Grounds, London, on Monday next, on which occa- sion eighteen American base ball players will play a game Of cricket against the “American Twelve,” as they are called in England, wno visited te States in 1872, it will be remembered, defeated every twenty-two in Canada and the States they encountered, ex- cept in bos'on—the twenty-two they piayed there including the Boston base ball players—and there the game Was drawn, Lvery American twenty-two of resident cricketers which played with Engusa in 1868, 1868 and ‘1872 were de- feated, so that if the eighteen base ball players should lose in ringland they will have done ho worse than our twenty-twos ol cricketers have done here. But should they happen to win it | will go to show that base ball affords @ better training school tor cricket, as far as felding goes, than cricket itself. It is therefore the cricket matches the eiguieen play in Bugiand which will be the centre point o} interest to Amenean read- } ers generally, except in regard to the suceess OUT American gate may meet with in Epgiand when exbibjted, as it will be, by the leading nines of the | States. Our special correspondent will Sema Us Jul! reports of the games as they take place, and harbor. The schooner Haze, owned by Mr. Mott, telegraphic announcement of the resuitof the of New London, and member of the Brookiyn | grand ericket match in London on August’ 3, 4 Club, came out of the harbor and, agg | into line, , and 5. a sailed up to the city with the fleet. From here ihe rest ol the sail Was devoid of incident, and | Postponed on Account of the Rain. at 1lb, 33m, the Madeleine fired a gun, BALTIMORE, Md,, July 27, 1874, Ween ree ran acres ie eet id Hike” | The game ‘of bane bail between the Philadelphia | been an enjoyable one, but hardly possessed spice ; enough to make it exciting. Many of the cil ne} BAG Sablly GON Le WM eck nd waced IULOL ab Lue ed sau and Baltimore clubs, Which was to be played here to-day, Was postponed uLtis Wednesday op account balm to the “rowtsts" of are the Fiyaways | These twelve “gentlemen players,”? | om the college | tries were relieved irom auty not after the form Prescribed by the army regulations, but like the | recalling of a few schoolboys trom play. The firing ol mauy of the men was simply preposterous, | Some held tueir pieces at the leit shoulder and aimed across the line of fire, while @ number Of others persisted in their rifles on the head ot and rule laid down tor wilitary shooting. The re- porter observed also that at target No. 8 a man Who was shooting from a rest on the top ofa range ost, Was Making misses, wuich were in his score. any way he liked. A more serious fault, however, a 7 ae recorded | ihe score Keeper (an oMicer), whose | brotuer could attention was drawn to iis littie piece of amuse- | vite ment, indignantly asked if the man couid not fire Was incurred by some over zealous score keepers, | which there 1s no doubt but Colonel staud would | have prevented if it came to his knowledge. it | weir wealth to God, and especially to heip | Preacher) has founded. | SOUTHERN SENTIMENT ILLUSTRATED, Notwithstanding the frateruization theory that appears so much on the outside here, there is an resting | inside view which has just received an illustration the range stakes, a thing which 1s directly contrary to every priuciple ol another sort. Acolored brother missionary on ; the camp ground came up | though, as ] aim informed, there were several spare | beds in the preachers’ lodging house and at least | eight spare rooms in the hotel, such ence to the Southern visitors here that this good not be accommodated with the white ministers, but be was given a cot in a tent and had to make the best of @ hard fate. | @ little sore about it to-day, One Of the most interesting objects or study on the camp ground is Vid Ladies’ Summer Home, close by the Tabernacle. It 18 slowly but steadily Was that of tampering with and doctoring assuming an appearance of finish and tixedness. the scores. For instance, Colonel Staun, | ‘There are bineteen old ladies and two old men | Who made littie, if anytning, at either | there at present, and @ few more are expected Tange, was credited with thirteen pomts | here within a day or two. Mr. and Mrs, Adams at 200 yards and ten at 500 Again, Surgeon Schritt was credited with nineteen points, which he did not make. Members o1 the press who saw Colonel stauil shoot are prepared to prove that he did not make what was marked on his score ucket, and the same parties state that Surgeon Schritt did not shootat all. A few other scores | were treated in the same ingenious manner. with either by the consent or with the knowledge ef Colonel Staui or Surgeon Scuritt, or that the persons who marked the regimental record had any idea of the enormity of the military fauit which the; were committing, that enough was doue to throw discredit upon the | whole score oi the regiment. For tne above, and @ multitude of other equally cogent reasons, it | , Must be apparent that if the State miintia is to fully ) Profit by the annual rifle practice which bas peen commenced, a staf of reguiar army oficers must superintend the details of the dring, and rigor- ously entorce an obedience to the regulations laid down for the carrying on of ball practice, if any Stich reguiations are known to the military author- ities who go on duty to Creedmoor. One thing might be done speeuily, that is to make company ollicers certily on honor to the correctness of ré- turns from their respective commands. The am- muaition furnished to the troops at Creedmoor ig deiective and bad. Cariridges are frequently miss- ing and hanging fire; some go off uke a squib be. | cause of the damaged powder with which they are fillea, while others are strong enough to blow the head out of the metalic shell, to the manilest danger of the men’s eyes that are liable to be blown out by the escape of gas, A sheil stuck in a man's gun at target No. 6 yesterday, aud he had to empioy his wiper to force it out, Auiong those present were Colonel Gilon, Fifty- | fifth regiment; Colonel Budke, ‘Third cavalry, N, G.; Colonel Roehr, Thirty-second regiment; Lieu- | tenant Colonel Rouger, Thirty-second regiment; Captain Dougias, Inspector of Musketry, brigade, First division; Lieutenant vrew, Acwn; Assistan¢ Adjutant General, Second brigade, First division; Captain Miller, Urdnauce Department, and 4 number of otners, | | Relerring to yesterday's report of Satarday’s | jong ee shooting a typograpnical error made je targe | been just the reverse—that SIX feet nigh, ceaaae A ROWING CHALLENGE, George Brown’s Offer to Sadlier, English Champion Sculler. HALIFAX, N, S., July 27, 1874, Ata meeting of the committee of the Rowing i8, twelve feet wide by the | Challenge Sadiier, the English champion sculler, to | @ five mile race, with one turn, at any place except the Thames river, 1f Sadlier will come to America he is to be allowed £00 sterling tor expenses. If | Queenstown or Cork be chosen by sadier, Brown will go there without any allowance jor expenses, The contest to be for £600 a side, The necessary docuinents will be sent to Bell's Life ofice, togetner | with @ first deposit of £60, by the English mail leaving here Tuesday next. NEW RECEPTION HOSPITAL IN TREMONT, A new reception hospital will be opened in the course of a lew days for the accommodation of the citizens of the annexed wards of the city. The | Commissioners of Charities and Correction some | time ago were petitioned to open sueb an institu- tion, aad Lave authorized the rental of a suitable building on the corner of Third and Locust ave- nues, Tremont, which is now being fitted up for the purpose, The new hospital is very desirably ‘Tremont, containing twenty-three ur more rooms. The grounds are sarge and the rent jess than $800 a@year, The Commissioners, however, itis under- stood, are pledged to give up the building when- | ever the property is sold, pew reception hos- ' | eden in some central portion of the aunexed dig- riet very desirable, and the Commissipners a Rave aston Wisely ip takns this etep, Itis | | not charged that these scores were tampered | but the fact remains | second | twelve feet high by six feet wide, | Whereas, a8 every one knows, it to ought have | Club last night it was decided that George Brown | located, being at @ point of the highest ground in | | have charge of the Home here, as they have in New York also, and everything around it is kept in excellent order and taste, From the upper rooms may be obtained one of THE FINEST OUTLOUKS TO BE FOUND in all the camp ground, and the purity o! the air seems to give the old folks a new lease of life. Visi- ‘tors would be surprised to see the agility with which some of these septegenarians run ap and down the stairs and the interest they take in pointing out the beauties of their summer house in sea Cif, It Was a sublime thought that first led to Such an Institution for the dear old people, whose declining years are thus made comfortable by a | few weeks’ residence in the country amid reli- gious surroundings, and where tie feeble ones can receive the benefit of all the services in the Taber- Dacle without leaving their own rooms, GERMAN CATHOLIO FESTIVALS, Yesterday was a gala day for the congregations of the German Vatholic churches of New York, | The congregation of St. Alphonsus’ chureh, South | Floral Park, Union Hill, where they beld a grand | Plenic. Fathers Linderfeld, Henning and Gross | Superintended the exercises. A band of music Was present. A large number of Germans from | eae City and hovoken attended the celebra- | tion. | ; The party was a select one | great feature of the occasion. The pastor pro | fem., Rev. Dr. Schrader, and the assistant pastor, | Father Deneimer, were present, @ well as many Members of the leading orchestras of New York. | A delegation of the Schutzen Park Association cept their hospitalities at the park. THE EIGHTH NATIONAL BANK. A meeting of the stockholders of the Eighth National Bank was called by four of their number, to be held at four o'clock yesterday afternoon, at street. This bank, it will be remembered, ceased business over a year ago, its affairs were some- what mixed up with the suspension of the Bowling | Green Savings Bank, the late Henry Smith being rominently conbected with both institutions, Mr, | Man, of No. 3 Mercer street, has charge of the books | of the Eighth National. At the hour named } 10 the cali Dr. Burras’ parlors were well filled with the stockholders, those present being repre- | Sented as the holders of a large share of the stock. Reporters of the press were iniormed that the | —s Was, a8 far as they were concerned, pri- vate; bot alter the adjournment a representative | Of the HERALD learned that it was faily agreed | Upon among those present that they would resist ; the payment of any further assessments upon their | Stock to cover the jiabilities of the bank: and that, | moreover, energetic action shall at once be taken count Jor whe use of its funds, REAL ESTATE, The opening attractions of the week at the Hx- change salesroom yesterday were as follows:— Messrs, Dingee, Porter & Co, sold, by order of the Supreme Court, under the direction of Andrew | Fordham, Westchester county, and Mr. William | Kennelly disposed of vy the same order, under the | direction of William Sinclair, referee, a plot of ground situated on Fort George avenue, being a | Portion of the estate of the late Isaac byckman, ‘nown as the Fort George” property. Subjoimed are Juller particuars :— AY DINGEER, PORTER AND CO. 1 plotof ground on n. @. corner Jacob and Hoffman s8., 09X124, at Fordham, Westchester county; Ku- ben Mapleston....,. ” $2,000 | AY WILLIAM KENNEL | plot of land on Fort George ay., near 10th av, | Pa Wie the Fort George property, 70.7x403.10; He sustain the orphanage in Barcilly and the tne- | | Ological institute lor native converts which he (the | on Saturday, ‘and ; Was the defer- — He feeis | | | Fifth avenue, to the number of 1,500, proceeded to The choir of the Chureh of St. Nicholas, in Sec. | Ond avenue, held a picnic in Elm Park, Uuion Hill, and the music was a | visited the party and tendered an Invitation to ac- | the residence of Dr. Burras, No, 48 Great Jones | | to bring the late officers of the imstitution to ac- | | Van Voorhis, referee, a plot of ground located tu | The so-called knife {x a diminutive weapon, and certainly the last mstrument that one would think | could be made available for the almost insiantane- | ous killing of a human being. That portion which represents the blade 1s scarcely two inches long, and 18 simply a small three cornered file, sharpened at the angles and afterwards clumsily inserted in a | shapeless plece of wood, the length of which is even less than that of the blade. [his latter, as ap- peared from the medicai Feeney be Wasdriven with ! great force through the breast bone of deceased, and into the pulmonary artery at a point about an | inch above its origin in the heart. The wounded | Man was carried to the hospital, where he lingered | in an alm pulseless state for perhaps twenty minutes, when he expired. , | STATEMENT OF THE MURDERER, | Having been cautioned as to the importance of | any statement he might wish to make, tue pris- ; Oner was Sworn, and deposed that he formed the acquaintance of Bentley in the cabinet shop, ana that deceased had occupied a cell next to him; had a quarrel with him last Thursday in the caut- net shop, when we came to blows; we {had another quarrel on Saturday alternoon, in the same shop; no other person was present at the time; we quarrelled about a book the first | time, and Bentley struck mein the back with a ; hammer; the bast time we quarrelled, on Saturday afternoon, he insulted my folks and mysel!; he made a strike at me with ihe knife, and I took it ; from him; never made any threats towards Bent- ley at any time; the knife I took from deceased’ | Was the one I gave to Mr. Kirby this morning; he said he would have revenge on me for taking’ his Kpile away trom him; when] saw him this morn- ing 1 asked him if he meant what he said last night; at this time | HE ATTEMPTED TO STRIKE ME, | but he did not, as 1 warded off tne’ blow; the knife shown ts the one I had; Bentley was the owner of the knife, which I never saw until yes- | terday afternoon. | _A verdict was rendered setting forth “That | deceased came to his death froma knife wound in the breast, the said wound having been in- fictea by the hand of Wihiam West.’? The pris- oner was tuen placed tn solitary confinement to await the action of the Grand Jury. Deceased was sentenced by Recorder Hackett on June 27, 1874. to Sing Sing prison, having been convicted of attempted burglary in the third de- ree, He was twenty-five years old, born in New fork, and was generally regarded as a peaceable man, The prisoner is serving out a term tor grand larceny. He is a surly, sinister looking fel- low, Of about twenty-one years of age. THE POOR SAILORS REDRESS. The manner in which justice is admintstered tn | New York and poor men are imposed upon, the | aiMeuities with which the representatives of foreign governments have to contend in secking redress at the hands of cheap politictans, ts fairly represented by the following correspondence :— OFFICE OP THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS oy LICENSING SAILORS’ BOARDING Houses, ) No, 40 BURLING SLIP, New York, July 27, 1874, EDWARD SHERER, Esq., Acting Turkish Consul :— Sir—Your letter to Commissioner Duncam bas been referred to me. I regret that, owing to the inaction of the District Attorney, Mr. Phelps, of this county, I cannot aid the sailor tu getting ‘his clothes, as the sailor boarding house hag not taken out any license, and 1 have no control over tt, As it how stands the satior must stay robved or em- ploy aiawjer. Yours Fespootially GEORGE W. BLUNT, President, OONSULAT GENERAL OTTOMAN, New Yor«, July 27, 1874, TO THR EYITOR OF TAR HERALD :— A case of flagrant roopery on the part of the keeper of a sailors? oerne house having come iv my knowledge, | referred it to Captain Duncan, | and it was vy him referred to the Board of Com- missioners for Licensing Sailors’ Boarding Houses, lenciose the reply of the President, G. W. Binnt, | and beg to be informed to Whom cases of this kind ; Should be referred. The police declined to act in | the matter and the man is without redress. Yours respectfully, EDWARD SHERER, Acting Consul. QHASING A PIOKPOOKET. Yesterday afternoon William F. Buckingham, a real estate broker, hauling from Nashville, Tenn, whiie riding up town on the rear platform of an | overcrowded Fourth avenue car, bound for tne | Grand Central depot, was rudely jostied by a | fashtonably dressed young man. This was followed by a series of sudden jerks in the region of tho pocket containing his wallet, in which was @ cou« siderable sum of money. His suspicions were | aroused, and he determined to watch the would-be pickpocket, He distinctly saw him elbow is way into the centre Of the car and then insert tis hand into the pocket of an elderly lady, but, seeing that | the eyes of Mr. Buckingham were upon him, ho. | supped out by the front platform and jumped off at | East Twenty-tnird street, closel: followed by the, gentleman from Washvilie. But the pickpocket, | Was @ taster runuer than Mr. Buckingham, aud after sundry turnings of corners he was lost sight ol In the crowd of pedestrians, while his contestau! | mn the race was left breathless in the vicinity soreses A010 | UMD syuare, No noice pMficor was in sigab