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

THE BRUSSELS CONGRESS. Spanish Repubhean Hint for Recognition, Lonpon, August 2, 1874, Advices from Brussels report tuat the Spanish delegates to the International Congress have been instracted trom Madrid uot 0 participate tn the deliberations, because the government is yet un- recognized ty the Eurupean Powers, SPAIN. Policy of the Enropean Great Powers Toward the Nepublic. LONDON, August 3~5:30 A. M, The Standard says the report that Engiand, Germany and Italy have agreed to watch the Spanish coast is denied. Germany has uot proposed tntervention to Aus- tria; but the latter {8 ready to join the other Powers in an acknowledgment of the Spanish Republic. FRANCE, _ Police Search of Bonapartist Dom‘ciles. Pants, August 2, 1874. The police are again searching the houses of prominent Bonapartists and seizing documents. " BISMARCK. eeaeeenee KISSINGEN, August 2, 1974. Prince Siamarck, whose health has greatly im- Proved, wiil leave Kissingen in a fortnight, ~ ENGLAND. Counsellor Konealy’s Difficulties from the Tich- borne Tria’, Lonpon, August 2, 1874, ‘The London Odserver reports tuat the Beuchers Of Gray’s [un held anotner conference yes. erday to consider the case of Dr. Keneuly upon the is- sues arising out of the late Tichvorne trial, and for articles published in the Engitsiman, Ib was decided to deprive Dr, Kenealy of his benchership, andto herewiter consiaer the question of expel- ling him from the Bar if the publications in the Englishman are coniunue Arrival of the Steamer City of Chester at Queenstown, QUEENSTOWN, August 3, 1874, The Inman steamer City of Chester, Captain Ken- nedy, irom New York July 25, tor Liverpool, ar- Tived here at one o’ciock this morning. BASE BALL IN ENGLAND. — ‘The American Playcrs Arrived in London, LONDON, August 2, 1874, The members of the American base ball clubs ar- tived in London yesterday. They Wiil take part in a game of cricket to-mor- tow at Lord’s agaist one o1 the famous English clubs. AUTRES SERIE RUNDE A Haying Purty Attacked in Wyoming Territory and Unc of Thom Killed. wy SaLt Lake City, August 2, 1874, Reports from Rawlins, Wy. T., state that a party of fifteen Indians attacked !atche’s hay party of four men yesterday afternoon at Pine Grove Mead- ows and killed one man, Swede named Johnson, and run off tueir herd of loose stock and one mule and two horses, Johnson’s budy was brought in last evening. Captain Wessel and a cavalry com- pany leit here at nine o’clock this morning to look viler the Indians, THE PILTSBURG FLOOD, Body of a Babe Drowned in the Freshet Found in a Cellar, . Prrtspura, Pa., August 2, 1874. Another body #18 fouhd Aindng the ruins on Butchers’ Run to-day. lt was that of a female child, and was discovered in a celiar, where it bad -been waslied by the water. A GREAT SUNDAY SCHUOL GATHERING, “Exercises to Take Place on Chautauqua Lake—The Preparations for the Chil- dren—Sermons Preached Yesterday. FaisProint, Chautauqua Lake, N. ¥., August 2, 1874. ‘The great Sunday School Assembly will open on Tuesday evening. The grounds are nearly ready. The heavy rains on Friday and Saturday delayed | operations somewhat, but an eXtra force of labor- ers will be put on to-morrow. The Park oi Palestine is finished. It is 300 feet {ong and about 125 feet wide, representing in | miniature a section of the Holy Land of 60 by 150 | miles. Dr. Wythe, of Treacville, has had charge bl this part of the Work. The Sunday School and Biblical Museum was | erected yesterday. It is in charge of H. H. Otis, of Buffalo, and John Middleton, of New York. The inauguration services will take place on Wednesday morning, when vr. Vincent, Mrs. Jon- nie F, Willing and Bishop Jaues will speak. John B. Gough will lecture on friday on the “oes We Fight.” 7. DeWitt aimaze, ot Brooklyn, will preach Wednesday, August 12. Sermons were preacued to-day by Dr. Vincent, of New York; Dr. Perrine, of Michigan, and Dr. Whitney, of New Jersey. A Suniay scuool session was held in the large taberaacie uuder the direce tion of Lewis Miller. ANOTHER CATHOLIC REVOLT. Wather Degen Opposed in an Attempt to Change the Hour of Vespers by | His Congregation—Great LInudignation Against the Priest. Care May, N. J., August 2, 1874. Sacred concerts were this morning assailed from the altar by Father Degen, at the Vatnolic church, He said that in the Catholic Caurch alone could sacred song be with propriety chanted, and de- nounced the Stockton, Congress Hail and Columpia House concert guests in unmeasured terms. His argument was that only music composed tor sea- side concerts shouid be used, and that Catholics ‘were obliged to attend vesper service, which he fixed tor eign: o'clock P.M. After mass tne Philadelphia, Baltimore and New York Catholics iniormaliy met in iront of St. Mary’s church and denounced th+ priest as in- truding on Catholic usave vy having vespers at night instead of in the a ternvon, as ordered by the statutes of the diocese. indignation runs | high, and the case is to Le reported to Bishop Cor- rigan at Newark. The indications point to the fact that Father Degen «desired to .orce Vesper at- tendance at an unusual hour, and was chagrined at seeing thonsands assembled .o enjoy the vocal concerts at the hotel. As jar as cun be ascer- tained the rubrics of the diocese ot Newark pre- ecribe hali-past three o’ciock as vesper vour, ‘The action of Father Vesen is regarded as post- tively against Catholic usage, and the entire Catholic commanpity ts in revolt. Father U'Netll, of the Philadelphia Cathedral, celebrated late mas» tu-day, but made no remarks. The visiting priests here condemn Father Degen, and tne bishop's formal condemnation ts looxed for, A FREE LOVER MOZBED, One of s Tar and Feather Party Shot and Killed by Their Intended Victim— A Kelsey Who Carried a Revolver. Boston, August 2, 1874. A special despatch from Oak Blut says:—For some weeks there has been a good deal of scandal {n connection witn one Mr. Vinson, of Edgartown, and 8. K. Elitott, o1 Worcester, who have occupied & cottage in company with two married women belonging to Edgartown. These men have been threatened with a coat of tar and leathers, and Vinson, tearing trouble, left the isiand some weeks Ago. it night at abont eleven o'cloek a party of Men went to the cottage and ealled out Eliott. alter @ considerable struggle they torced him into & Wagon, in which was a pot ot tat anda bag of feathers. Kliott drew a revolver and tired twice, the second shot killing Caleb Smith, a brother of the two women. The report of the pistol ingnt- ened the horse, which ran away, and threw the ‘whole party irom the wagon. Elllott escaped and sarrendered himseif to the authorities. Intense rhe NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 1874.-WITH SUPPLEMENT. WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON, August 2, 1874. New Lands Open to Settlers in Kansas. Just privr to adjournment Congress passed a law for the sale of the lands of the Kansas tribe of Indians, in Kansas, which will enable persons of limited means to establish themselves in that State. The law gives to every bona side setticr, heretofore reported as such, on any of the trust lands of these Indians the privilege of making payment of the appraised value of their lands at the local land office, at Topeka, in six annual tn- stalmeonts, the first payable January 1, 1875, and the remaining instalments to ve paid annually, with six per cent interest. Provision is made in the second section of the act that the remainder of the trust lands and tne undisposed portion of the diminished reserve shall be subject to entry at Topeka in tracts not exceeding 160 acres, by ac- tual settlers, one-fourth of the appraised value thereof to be paid at the time of entry and the re- mainder in toree annual instalments, with six per cent interest, All the lapds not taken within twelve months sre to be sold at their appraised value. Rules aad regulations for the disposition of these lands, amounting to 215,774 acres, will s00n be issued by the Commissioners of the Gen- erai Land Onlice, The Steam Boiler Experiments—Satis- factory Results. resume in September, at Sandy Hook, their ex- periments as to the causes of boiler explo-ious, and aiterward at Pittsburg. They have ample means, Congress having appropriated one hun- dred thousand dollars for this purpose, The re- sults thus far have been satisiactory, many old theories having been shown to be fallacious, It has been proven by experiment that thicker tron on the inside than om the outside makes a safe high-pressure boiler. This had for years been a Matter of discussion ou the western waters, Appointments tor the New Lighthouse Districts. Major W. E. Merril, Corps of Army Engineers, has been assigned to duty a8 Lighthouse Engmeer of the Fourteenth district, headquarters at Cin- cinnati; Major Charles R, Suter, Corps of Army Engineeis, has been assigned as Engineer of the Fiteenth Lighthouse district, headquarters at St. | Louis. These officers are assigned ander the act of Congress extending the jurisdiction of the Lightiouse Board over the Mississippi, Missouri aod Ohio R.vers. A Digest of Treasury Decisions, J. F. Evans has been directed by the Secre- tary of the Treasury to prepare jor puolication a digest of the decisions of the Treasury Depart- ment as to the ratzs of duties chargeable under {| existing tariff’ laws of the United States, Mr. Evans is attached to the Secretary’s office, and has been selected owing to his peculiar fitness for the performance of the work. Renovating and Adorning the Capitol. Ali the furniture of the Senate Chamber has been removed, and also the chairs and desks of the House of Representatives, with a view to reno- vation. The rotunda of the Capitol exhibits a like innovation, Trumbull’s celebrated pictures having been taken from the panels tor repairs and to be strengthened to prevent them from decay. Workmen are employed on the grounds around the Capitol beautifying them in accordance with the plans of Mr. Oimstead. The citizens generaliy are satisfied with the acts of the District Commis- | sloners, who not only show a capacity for business | but act in the interests of jastiee and economy. Transfer of the Business of the Conten- nial to the Interior Depirtment. Since the official business pertaining to the Cen- tenrial Exposition has been transferred from the Department of State to the Department of the Interior, the correspondence has largely increased, All communications to and from foreign govern- ments go through the Department of State. Recently about 20,000 copies of the revised reguia- tions of the commission have been sentto our | Ministers and Consuls for general distribution, These regulations have been printed in four languages—Erghsh, French, Spanish and German. | Not quite a month has elapsed since the Secretary at State, COT eo With the joint resolu tio, of Sonate Rae ai ee tae the ‘Sedretury o} the Interior, sent a circular to the diferent foreign governments, extending @ cordial invitation to take part in the Exposition, and, thereiore, a suf- ficient time has not passed for responses. Unof- ficial intormation, however, shows that much in- terest in the Exposition is manilested abroad, which insures ample contributions trom ail parts of the world, including China and Japan; the latrer contentpjating a special commission. In response to many inqlirtes the correspondents have been informed that thé traggportation, receiving, un- packing and arranging of thy products for exht- bition will be at the expense of the exwivitor, The Swedish society for the promotion of tle pFoduc> tion of tron hag appropriated 25,009 crowns in order to have a fine display of that metal. The | society appropriated only 10,000 crowns tor the tate Vienna Exposition. Sa of Gold Authorized for August. The Secretary of the Treasary has directed the Assistant Treasurer at New York to sell gold dur- ing the present month as follows :—$1,500,000 on the first and third Thursdays, and $1,009,000 on the second and jourth Thursdays each, making in all $5,000,000. THR ARKANSAS See eae OONVEN- UN, Lrrr_e Rock, August 2, 1874 The Constitutional Convention yesterday adopted the franchise article of the new constitution. It provides that every male citizen of the Unitea States, or who has declared his intention of be- coming a citizen, twenty-one years of age, and who has been @ resident of the State twelve months, of tue county six montns and of the pre- cinct one month, shall be & qualided elector. The Issue of the Oid Style of Uniforms to the Soldiers Unsatisfactory. WASHINGTON, August 2, 1874, In the Army Appropriation bill passed at the late session of Congress 11 was enacted that “none of the money thereby appropriated shall be used in the purchase of hats, uniform caps, forage caps, uniform coats, uniform jackets, flannel sack coats and unlined coats, which articles the Quartermas- ter’s Department shall issue from the supply now on hand, known as the old pattern, and none of the articles abave euumerated snall be purcnased until those now on hand are exhausted. Captain Heury W, Closson, commanding at Savannan, Ga., in a lester to the Quartermaster General, requests that none ot the forage caps of the old pattern be issued to his command, a8 the men will not con- sent to Wear them, but preier to purchase others of more respectable appearance irom their own private resources, BRAKEMAN KILLED, New Haven, Conn., August 2, 1574 Joseph Stewart, a brakeman, living in Hart- ford, was knocked off @ train by @ bridge, at West Haven, and killed, His body was teariully mangica, ASWITOHMAN KILLED, KOSTON, August 2, 1874. James Maguire, & switchman on tue Old Colony Raliroad, fell off @ train, near the Dover street bridge, to-day, and Was run over and instantly killed, His body was terribly mutilated. A SATURDAY NIGHT STABBING AFFBAY, SPRINGFIELD, Mags., August 2, 1874, Aserious, and perhaps fata! stabbing affray oc- curred at Westfleld about eleven o'clock on Satur- day night, Joseph McClure, a mechanic, being stabbed oy Kigin Sonbadger, an assistant sur- veyor, Sonbadger escaped, A FATAL PALL. BaLtimorR, August 2, 1874. * John Hughes, a coal trimmer, tell into the hold of the schooner Henry iorwall, at Locust Point, hides h and died in @ tew hours from tne injuries received. “QUT OF MONEY AND TIRED OF LIFE,” St. JoskrH, Mo., August 2, 1874, Reed Thompson, supposed to hail from Litch- fleld, Conn., committed suicide yesterday by shoot- ing himself through the head, He leit letters to citement prevailg here in cousequence o1 the f° his mother and brother, sayi was out of noee and urecacie.’ Treat The Board of Steamboat Inspectors expect to | THE SEASIDE CAPITAL. innaetonsuglitie igs Long Branch a Scene of Busy Life— Saturday Nights Entertainments— Sunday a Day of Rest—Excursionists— The Knights of Pythias Next in Order— ‘The President and the Prestidigita- teur—Opening of the Working Women’s Summer Retreat at Asbury Park—Mr. Thomas Murphy’s Opinion of the Com- ing New York State Election. Lona Brancu, August 2, 1874, Last evening, the first Saturday night in August, Long Branch, trom the East End to the West End Hotel—that 1s, from the northern to the southern terminus of the line of our seaside inns, a line ex- ceeding two miles in length—was a scene of busy lle, The alternoon and evening trains from Philadelphia and New York brought in large acces- sions of guests and visitors, including scores of the working bees of the hive, our welcome “hub- bies’” and ‘-papas,"! returning to the bosoms of their famules for a share in the reunions o! Satur- day nignt and the rest of Sunday from the drudg- ery of stocks snd brokerages, and dry goods, groceries, hats, shoes, gas fixtures, confectionery ana “old clo’.” The people who arrived here yes- terday numbered about twenty-five hundred. Paterjamilias in our entertainments of Sat- urday evening, however, isin most cases a wail flower, a deserter, or & drone, and Saturday night and Sunday to him at ‘the Branch’ are only so much time lost from business, In fact, our people Know nothing and enjoy nothing but business. It crops out in all their amusements and recreations, and it will take them yet perhaps a bundred years to divest themselves thoroughly of business even for a day in the ceuntry, ora night. It 1s in this voluntary or involuntary servitude to business, in which there is no cessation from drudgery, that you may find the secret of the restlessness and comparative stupidity of our business pushing Americans at their summer resorts. And with the younger people as with their elders of both sexes, Long branch, hardly less than the shop or the promenade on Fitin avenue, means business, Hence our Satur- day night hops, though at each hotel we have good music, dashing young men and han women, are not half so interesting as th from one house to another to learn who ha’ in and who have goneeut by the evening traius. And the two unportant questions to every visitor at “the Branch”’are, “When did you come tn?” and “When vo you leave # tor 13 not all the rest awaste of time? Aud here the thought ts sug- gesied that When we sball have learned more than we now know Oi the fine arts of relaxation and recreation trom business there will be a marked reduction of the uumbers of our summer birds of passage to Europe. Hops were given last evening in tue Ocean, West Kad, Mansion, United States and lauch’s hoteis. We like crowds, a rush and a hurry, and here we have them, ‘here were not less than eight thou- sand Visitors at Long Branch lastuight. the bovels are jull and tue largest of them 1s ranumg over. At allot them uiave more or less O1 that delicht- ful contusion of a su" which we all so Much ad- mire, and yet we are uncouiortauie, In the avail- abie and de-irable enjoyments of our summer tur- loughs we have yet much tu tearn; but then you Know that “itome was not built iu a day.’’ Of all the days of the seven wiic; make up the Christiau Week Suuday at Long Branch 1s the most “tedious and tasteless’ to the average Loug Branch Christian, If 1 were not for the sunuay papers he would sleep allday. General Grapt, on the other hand, an nunest believer in the tairh ac- cording to the Gospel as expounded by John Wes- ley, enjoys his Sunday sermon, and he enjoys, above ail things, the peace of his domestic sanctu- ary anec hearing an abie disvourse on the all- suilicteut sacrifice of the Saviour of mankind, ‘the General sometimes drives 8X oF eight miles to hear a goodsermon. Though not tegulariy in com- munion with the Gourch, he may be truly set down as iu his faith and practical life a good Methodist. Vhig moruing he attended the Methodist church in the village with his iamily. ‘fhe President will leave Long Branch oo Thursday morning for Bor- dentown, N. J., where he willbe the guest o1 tne John Hill, whose extensive factories he will X<cursion parties to this place are the order of the season. in bands of many hundreds we have deiegations irom day to day, On fonday) a large body of the Knights hias are coming ior a day at ‘the Branch,’? and henceforward to the end of August excursion parties here will be more and more the jashion. Numerous colored excursionisrs from ali the coun- try Found avont will be drawn to-day to the Alri- can camp meeting in West's Woods, where even the whites may learn something o! that salvation, without money ana without price, which was first proclaimed by the meek aud lowly Nazarene. ‘Tae “Old Guard,” numbering one hundred and Tit; "7 beFs, ger the command of Major Mebean, will arivé here on Thursdy next and will proceed to Pleasure Bay, where they will en- joy their annual “clambake.”’ They wiil be accom. panied by Grafulla’s Seventh Regiment Band of fifty pieces. pe a Tomorrow pucniay) évening, at the Presl- dent’s cottage, M. Le Tort, a French prestidigtta- teur, 1s to give, by invitation, one of his diavotical soirées (sotrces yabotiques). He will show Gen- eral Grant how a basketiul of eggs may be takél trom an empty bag; how rabbits and poodie dogs may be turned out trom the leaves of a portfolio, and, petudventure, how Louis Napoleon was put down and how the Republic was set upin j ari: ea our he ae Natiqnal Se peotion of will come gut peal Ht woOMAttsx Court House. Atid Wtiat 5 ri qd not King Saul in nis gay consult a witch, and wiy, thei, may not Ergsigent grpat consult a wizard, even though & renciimian, in reference to suture events ? she summer boarding house for poor women established at Asbury Park, six milcs below Long Branch, on the seashore, under the auspices o/ tue Women’s Christian Association of Philadelphia, will be formally opened on ‘Tuesday ol this week. In the afternoon religious services, connecied with the dedication of the honse, will be held in the adjoming park, and Bishop Simpson, of the Methodist Church, and others will address the meeting. AS we have stated heretotore, poor women, With proper recommendations, will be boarded at ths house dui ing the summer for $2 60 and $3 a week, the object being to give poor working women alittle season of rest and heuith- ful recreation by the sea at the lowest possible raven Success to this Christian enterprise, say we all. We are informed that Mr. Thomas Murpby, one of the chief and one of the shrewdest managers of the republican party of New York city and State, nas given tt as his gatos that our State election in November next (4 1ult Congressional aelegation and a United States Senator and Governor of the State being involved) will bring out Lbe full strength of the republican party, and that they will carry the State by thirty thousand, wrether the cemo- crats be led by Cox or by Fenton for Goveruot; and that there wil be no troue among the republi- cans in reference to @ third term for General Grant, because that question in due time will settle itself, Mr, Murphy thinks that silence meantume, on the part of General Grant, is the highest wis- dom, because peace and harmony are thus main- tained among all the republican leaders aspiring to the succession and througaout the Fepublican party. We inler that the President will not issue @ pronunctaniento defining bis position on this question of a third term ‘or some time to come. oP: WEATHER REPORT. War DEPARTMENT, | OFFICE OF THE CHIRF SIGNAL OFFICER, Wasuinaton, D. C., August 3—1 A. M, Synopsis for the Past Twenty-four Hours. The barometer has risen over New England, the Middle States and the lake region, with tailing temperature, winds veering to northwest and northeast, and in New York and New England light rains. Light rain has talien in Alabama and on the Carolina coast. The rivers have continued falling at Pittsburg and St. Louis, and rising at Clocinnati, Louisville, Nashville aud Cairo. Probabilities. For New ENGLAND, THK MIDDLE STATES AND THE LOWER LAKE REGION THE BAROMETER WILL OON- TINUR RISING, WITH NORTHWEST TO NORTHEAST WINDS AND GENERALLY COOL, CLEAR WEATHER, EX- CBPT POSSIBLY LIGHT KAINS ON THE COAST. For the South Atlantic and East Guif States, ris- ing barometer, lower temperature, northwest to northeast winds and partly cloudy weather, with light coast rains. For the west Gulf States east to south winds; partly cloudy and warm weather. For Tennessee and the Ohio Valley, rising, fol- lowed by falling barometer; winds veering to cast and south; generally clear, cool weather. For the upper lake region and southwestward tothe Lower Missouri Valley falling barometer, rising temperature, winds veering to east and south; geaeraliy clear weather in the former sec- tion, but partly cloudy weather, with light local rains, from the Upper Mississippl Valley westward. The Weather in This City Yesterday. The following recurda will snow the changes in the temperature for the past twenty-four hours, m comparison with the cortesponding day of let year, as Mj othe by boohoo at Hugout’s pharmacy, HERato isutlding:— wa. 1 Average tempe! Average temperature last year. LITTLE CHARLEY R088. Additional Perplexity of the Wooden Police. THE MYSTERY OF THE WAGON. The Allentown Route Fur- ther Verified. AQUESTION OF REVENGE OR MONEY. PHILADELPHIA, August 2, 1874. Despite the promises of the police, the prayers of all the motiers in the land, and the hopes of every citizen of the nation, there ig uo news of the missing child. As usual, groups of anxious, sympatnizing faces pass the store oi Ross, Shott & Co., but seeing within the same sad shadow, move on with heavy hearts. The poor father, lor whom there are a thousand sympathizers to each one who speaks ill of him, goes about the streets with the look of a broken-hearted man, I saw him to-day, and I telt thar whoever was to blame for this sad calamity he could have had no hand in the transaction, He now visits Police Headquar- ters but seldom, as he has had nothing to encour- age such visits alter a month's anxiety. 1 have made two visits to the Central office this alternoon, and now see no more hope of find- tug the child, in anything that the detectives are doing, than 1 did two weeks ago. I have heard so much avout “running out clews’’ and “‘shauowing’? this ar. that man that I am getting tired o¢ the slang of this political mactine. 1 have not yet been able to discover that the man who can carry his district for a certain candidate is the most discreet and knowing pulice captain who can be found, Such may be true of Phila- delphia, Dut 1 am sure it is not so in New York, MORE ABOUT THE ALLENTOWN ROUTE. The Allentown theory datly receives jurther cor- roboration, ‘he following letter, purporting to come irom @ reliable gentleman in Mauch Chunk, appeared in a Suaday paper this moruing:— Sin—On the 9th of July a well-dressed stranger revistered himsell at oue o/ our principal iivtels. He stopped over night aud acted in suca a strange manner that he attracted the atieution of tac guesis of tue house. He had wita tima hittie curly -headed, ringle.ted youngster, Wao was so un- hke the geutlesuan that # boarder approacied the latter on the subjec'. In rep!y to inquirtes tha mun said he had come 2,000 mies, and cuat When about starting he had made uy his mind to bring the chia with nim, and that he had nov time tochange bis clothes or to pack others for tim, ‘The httie one’s appearance spoke for tue truth of ths sta‘ement, He was so dirty that be might have travelied 5,000 miles since he was wasted and a ed. On the 16th, the man and chid returned, but the latier was scarceiy seen by (he puolic, They leit in a short time, and have not been heard 01 since, Last week one of our citizens called on the ciiet of detectives in Philadelphia, thinking that possibly tie little ielow might have been Curley Ross, ‘The detective at once wrote toa gentlewan uere, inquiring as to tue miputest particulars in reier- enve to the strange gentleman aud tis charge, Tue answer Was sent giving all the iaiormation desired. Whether or not chis will give your detec- tives a clew to the missing voy, | do not know, but there are a good many people in Mauch Chuuk who canpot, for the lve of them, imagine why a man should bring a child 2,000 mules from home withoat a change Oi clothing, and not be able to expiain his business when he xot to tis destination. your detectives are im possession of every fact, and 1 Suppose will “work up’’ the case, MavcH CHUNK, Pa., July 30, 1874, 13 THE BOY'S STORY CORRECT? The apparent doubt which seems to possess the mund of the elder boy, Waiter Ross, as to whether the buggy Which carried him away from his home was driven in @ northern or southern direction on Washington lane puts & new phase upon the story of that trip. It wil be remem- bered that the route, as descrived by the family and the detectives, was mnorrh- ward from the Ross mansion along Wash‘ngton lane to the Limekiln pike. Tils seemed to me to have been a very unnecessary part of the plot of the kidnappers to cover up their tracks, and I so stated it, after a careiul inspection of the whole route, The statement which Mr. Peacock makes regarding the route as described by the boy 18 so Strangely @t variance with the story as It came to my ears from Mr. Frank Lewis and other persons, that I am now in great. doubt as whetner any part to of the line travelied by tha kidveipers is knows, save the stars and the finish, So sure did little Walter appeit to be that ho was traversing a part of the route foliowed by the kidnappers in the © morning that he several times remarked to Mr. Feacock, who was taking him home up along Ger- mantown avenue, “I remember this piace very well? piste boy’s statement to Mr. Peacock be true, why was this other story ever startea? The route by q@ay of Germantown avenue down to Kising Sud might readily have had the same objectivd point as the trip a@way around by the Limekiln br Tt ts certain that the abductors knew of thé absence of Mis, Ross. Such veing the case, with 10 gue to give the alarm except nurses, why should the men make this three miles of extra journey toward the north? Why should they not have driven the children to the nearest railroad station and have lett Jor parts unknown? Way shouid they have used a buggy at all uf the boys knew them? the theories and suggestions to be conjured up out of these two diametrically dittereut stories of tirat memorable ride are number iess. THR WAGON. Ibegin to think that even the story about the frequent appearance of the wagon in Germantown ig correct. Lt will be retnembered that tne car- riage was described as having a “yacht ody,” while it was also stated that it had been seen “in the neighborhood for five or six consecutive days. Some time ago in connection with this strange abduction 1 communicated the tact that an arrest of two sneak thieves had been made in Germantown, and chat the parties arraigned hud used a cairiage to remove their “swag.” These two men driving in f& Wagon Were seen repeatedly npon the road. It | has subsequently turned out that this vehicle had a yaciut body, which exactly corresponds wi'h the description given Of the wagon in which the kid- nappers carried off Charley Koss, Now, here is @ point oj interest. The sneak thieves were seen several days in succession, aud it was during the tame they were traversing the neighboriood that the abcuction took place. As soon as littie Walter's story of the wagon was re- | peated @ great many parties remembered having | seen it, Sut 1s it nut highly probabie that they | saw the carriage of the “sneak thieves,” aud not that in which the boy was taken oi? Presum- ing at this moment that the boy was stolen ior a ransom, 18 it probable that gh ad manifestly playing a dangerous game would shadow a neigh- bornood duy after day in the same carriage, wien tuere were 80 many Who could watch their move- ments and perhaps lay hands upon them as suspt- | cious persons? Ni Theretore I think all une circumstances warrant the conclusion thut tie wagon which carried off Charley Ross was not seen frequently in the neighvorhood, and that the resi- denis of Germantown, woe tney believed ti were describing the vehicle tu Which the kidnappers made away, Were really describing the wagon of the sneak thieves now io prison, A NEW THEORY. Now, after expressing this presumption, what ts the natural sequence Walter says he had seen the men several times belore they carried his brother off. He states, moreover, that t ey had ‘iven him candies, toys and other triding tuings. [his, of course, seems to iavor the gen- eral theory that the kidnappers came aay alter day. But t) must be remembered that Walter is a very young lad, hardiy of sufMicieut age to either hold or express clear ideas. It may have been the sneak thieves who gave him the cundics that they might juifll some unknown desi of their own. I consider this tguly provable, since the men who gave Walter the sweetmeats and those who suducted bis brother, according to Walter’s own story, did not “wear the same clothes,” and, yery probably, not the same tva- tures. 1 am inclined to think that the real ab- ductors came Only once, What need was there of their coming oftener? I believe that the men who kidnapped the little one laid their plans and secured their prize within twenty-iour hours, WHAT JOSH TAGGARY SAYS. By chance I met Detective Taggart in the Con- tinental Hotei this morning and | asked him what he thought avout the aoove theory. I asked him if he had heard af the and whether, he | their wagon, He answered me in the atirmative, 1} then put the question whether this wigon did not correspond exactly with chat ot th triage said to have been used by the abductors, This question be answered also in the af_lirmative, Ithen asked him whether he did not think it probabie that the people had been misled, and had described as the kidnappers’ carriage the one which had been seen often in the neighbornoood—i, —e., of the «sneak § tuieves. He said “Yes,” [n fine, during my conversation with him Tatated all the pots gone over above, and he med {O regard each of them as highly presum- able, The onlyobjection to this theory is that it involves the cme in deever mystery. 1t afurds BO Opportunity tor # ciew, out throws the police machibes entirely oul of gear, It leaves them in the dark as to the kind of wagon Jie kidvappers actually had, and leaves them do ignorant of the personal appearance of the mew themselves. Mr, Taggart, in his peculiar, abrupt and business-like way, when I was speaking to pl the wagon, made the following observa- “1 know @ case where & man who moves in the highest society ot this city actually loaned a car- riage to a crowd of thieves, aware at the time that they Were such, and shared their spoil, Such may lave been the circumstance in this ab- duction.”” THE WHOLE OF IT, The police have overturned ali the stables in the city. The only wagon they found that was any- thing like the one described was that of the sneak thieves, There 1s uo other wagon to be found any- where that is like it. it was used by tne sneak thieves and by no one else, and hence the kidnap- pers’ carriage must have been of an entirely aifferent pattern tf they procured it anywhere In the city of Philadelphia, There were only two questions to be asked in the first place “Was the child taken jor revenge or was it taken for money !"? lt it were taken for revenge it will probably be kept until that revenge 18 fully gatified. If it were taken for money, the pbegouauions must needs be carried on on Canadian shores, since itis only there, by virtue of a devect o1 our treaty with Canada, that the blackmairr can possibly rest se- cure. If the boy were taxen for revenge, ihe police must reach the cause of so great a Vengeance and tae person who is guiity oi dealing ic out, Tit weie stolen for money the police can never secure the child by lounging with bootbiacks and pothouse DOU SR DEAT ORS the corner Of Futu aod Chestuut streets. THE BOY'S PORTRAIT. The public demand to see the oi! portrait of the missing boy, which was described in one of my last week's letters, bas been so great that Mr. Street, the artist, has placed 1t in one o1 the most cons; wous show Windows on Chesinut street, just west | o: Ninth, Ast write a great crowd vu! persons can be seen congregated at that point, eagerly gazing at the child's 1ace, As I was passing the place this morving | heard an old, smock-sttined laborer Siy,ashe started to move on, ‘Just to think, there's a boy worth $20,000.” Mr. Street declares to me that the picture is his own property and that he never receivea a goilar irom any newspaper 1D Philavelpmia tor painting it, in order that @ wood cut might be made fromit. J state this be- cause f bave been charged with doing a mean ac- on “in giving the first description o1 this por- trait when it Was ordered and paid for’ by an es- tablishmeat in this city, Tois Mr. Stree: desires me to publicly announce as faise. If the truth must be toid, 1t does annoy the Putladeipiia news ()) pagers terribly to find themsel\es beaten day aiter day in news irom tier own city, Ldou't blame them tor being indignant. It is humiilating for them to have vo copy column aiter column from the Herat. BUFFALO DRIVING PARK, BuFFALO, N. Y., August 2, 1874, The remainder of the horses entered for tno races commencing on Tuesday next at Buffalo Park arrived this morning, making the list com- piete. Go'd-mith Maid and Pallerton also came in Unis Morning and stubled at the track. It 18 be+ lieved the directurs, in response 10 & universal desire, will arrange an independent purse or Goidsmith Maid and Fullerton, to trot. toward the ciose 01 the week. Crowds Visited the tack tus morning and aiternoon to see the horses veing ex- ercised. Owners, drives und “knowing ones’ generally say everything indicates the most eater taining raves ever held on any track. TROTTING AT MONTREAL, MontREAL, August 2, 1874. Atrotting match of fifteen miles, lor $1,000, be- tween Girda and Quebec Boy, takes place on Wednesday next, at vecker Park. PIGEON SHOOTING IN OHTO, CLEVELAND, August 2, 1874. A pigeon shooting touruament, uuder the mane Agement of the Buckeye Shooting Club, of Cieve- jand, will be heid at Rocky River, near this city, commenciug August 4, and continuing tour day: Cash prizes amounting to $1,000 will be ome A number of noted shots are expected. LARGE FIRE IN NEW ORLEANS, NEW OBLRANS, August 2, 1874, Asquare of small houses, bounded by Music, to-day. {ne ioss is avout $15,000, on Which there 1 au insurance of $8,000, FIRES IN WESTERY NEW YORK. Burra.o, N. Y., August 2, 1874, At four o’clock this morning a large frame dwelling, owned by Alvin Salisbury, near Ham. ' burg, iu tis county, together with vatuable furni- \ ture and $1,000 in greenuacks, Was destroyed oy | fire. The family bad barely time to make thelr escape, It Was the Work 0 aq incendiary, near West Seneca Were destroyed by au incen: diary fire on sAlurday, ~ pines IN NEW Hav) New H. Mt Jonn., Angust 2, 1874, Morales, Spain and Urquhart strects, was burned. | ‘Three barns, with their contents, hay abd grain, | nr EE MR. AUGUST BELMONT’S LOYALTY, —-__— SARATOGA SPRING:, July 31, 1974 To THE Epiror oF THE TRIDUNE:— My attention bas been called to two articles ta your paper, in which you state that the Messra Rothsenild did not invest in our government loans during the war because they were infuenced by my unfavorable opinion of the security, You even assert that the head of the London house said as much to & prominent public man of this country ouly a month or two ago, You are entirely incorrect im your statements, and [tis impossible that Baron Kothschild coula have given utterance to such @m assertion, 30 diametrically opposed to the facts of tue case, I have from the very first issue of our loans tm 1862 up to the present time on all occasions recom- mended our federal bonds to the Messrs, Roth- schild in London, Paris and Frankfort-on-the-Main a8 a most desirable and safe investment, and £ know that these gentlemen have held ana do hold very large amounts of our bonds bought through me tn Europe during the war. Jn a conversation with Mr, Sanford, oar jate Minister to Belgium, some nine years ago, the late Baron James de Rothschild in Paris showed him by his books, im my presence, that he was one of the earliest and largest Investors in our securities during the war. Though the Messrs, Rothschtld undoubted'y judged for themselves when they made toese investments, yet 1 can claim, without jear of contradiction, that in all my letters and verbal communications to them, even at the dark- est hour of our national struggle, | never faltered In my couviction of the Ultimate success o1 the Unton arms aud che undoubted security of our puolic debt, lu the Messrs, Rothschild ever expressed an apprehension that my political position mignt Uterfere with their negotiations with our government they must have come to such an erroneous conclusion by misrepresenta- tious of an iuberal varty press, of which the ar- ticles tu your paper are such glaring instances, although they can hardly have suspected such men as Chase, Fessenden and Boutwell to be swayed by political prejudices to the detriment of the public interest. Besides, the Messrs. Rothschild were aware that, during ail these trying times, J was honorea by the confldeace of our Yresident and the prom- fient members of Mis Cabine!. I hold in my pos- session letcers of the lamented Lincvin, as well as of Messrs. Seward and Chase. all written during and after the war, expressive of their apprecia- tion of my devotion to the Union cause, aud ol my active exertions ior its success, both at home and abroad, Mr. fhuriow Weed, the friend and ad- vier of these departed patriots, knows the trust which they placed in me. you allude to my oficial position as former Chairman of fhe democratic party in order te prove your unfounded assertions. 1 challenge you to point out one single act or word of mine during the whole period of our national troubles whicd was not dictated by patriotism and devotion to our be- loved Union, it is late inthe day for you to try to stir up prejudices against a political opponent, and it is only from a feeling of what I owe to my trends, my children and myseli that} consent to notice your article, in order to repel ita accusations as Unjust and untrue. Yours respectmily, , sv BELMONT. ART NOTES. A marble bust, by M. Corporandi, of the late M. Saint-Marc Girardin, has just been placed in one of the rooms of the French Institute, Astatue of Berryer, by Barre, is about to be erected at Marseilles on the square before the Palace of Justice, The Swedish landscape painter Wahlberg has two pictures now being exhibited in the Salon, with which the French critical press 1s unusually delighted. A fae work ofart, “Le Mur de Tib8re & Capri," painted by M. de Netdertceusern, a Genevesa artist, which has attracted much notice in the French Salou 0: this year, has been purchased by the Frencn government. The remainder of the engraved works and a few akeiches of tue late Sir Edwin Laudseer, and alse Many of the contents of his studio, were sold by auction by Mesats. Daniel smitu & Co., at the artist’s late residence in St, Joan’s-wood road, London, ou the 28th June. Mr. T. &. Potter, M. P., has offered to the City Council of Manchester a bust of Cromwell. Is 18 proposed to piace a memorial stone over the grave o1 John Steriing, in Bouchurech graves | yard, Isle of Wight, At present the last resting | place of Carlyle’s blero is, like the Brave of | Churchill. the “nunrblest of afl sepulenres.’? | Mr. J. F. Lewis, R.A, has, it ts stated, so'd his | four pictures at the Royal Acadamy ior £10,000, An exnlbivon of patitangs of Hans Holbein and Friedrich Dieters has {oop pened im the large hall of the Cantowas einen ol Soleure, Switzer land, | rer 7 PROBABLE MURBDE Yy John Frowley, of No, 137 Baxter street, was stabbed in the neck last night and dangerously ‘The barn of S. R. Smith & Co., cual dealers, on Bast street, was set on fire {his Morutag at one o'clock, and was wholly consumed. Tell horses, ; Witch Were inside, were saved, | $1,500, diaries fired the spar shop of H. H. Hanscomb, on | the corner oi Ferry and River streets. ‘The buid- ing is a total loss, witn its contents: Loss §2,v09, PROFESSOR WISE’3 NEW BALLOON, STRATFORD, Canada, August 2, 1874. The balloon Ontario is finished and in first class | Condition, It ts expected that Professor Wise will here, which is expected to take place duesuay alternoon, at five o'clock. BOZ DROWNED AT PROVIDENOE. PROvipENCE, R. I., August 2, 1874, Elisha Austin, aged lourteen years, was drowned Saturday, while bathing ta Long Pond. DROWNING AT SORANTON. SCRANTON, Pa., August 2, 1874, Peter Garrety, aged seven years, was drowned in Roaring Brook, near the rolling mills, this after- noon, z ARREST OF A WOULD-BE ASSASSIN. ScRanton, Pa., August 2, 1874, Dennis Sharkey, one of the party who aitempted the assassination of A'fred Queen, at Jermyn, on Tuesday last, was arrested at bis home, at Dun- moie, on Satugday night and taken to Wukesbarre jail. Suurkey has @ bullet-uole through bis leit ankle, received at tae time o1 tue dificuity. _MUSIOAL AND DRAMATIO NOTES. Mile. De Bellocco's Muan engagement begins next month Mile. Cervantes, a Spanish harpist, has met with favor in London. “La Fiancée du Roi de Garbé” will be shortly brought out at the Folies Dramatique, Paris, It is a three-act opéra boufe. Hans Von Biiow has retired into temporary se- clusion atter the storm which his ili-auvised re- marks on Verdi's “Requiem” called forth, Great efforts are being made to induce Liszt to visit this country, One manager offered nim 1,000,000f. for one season, but the Abbate politely declined. Mile, Albani (Miss Emma La Jeunesse) is a Canadian by birth. It is very probable that the opera habdituds ol the Academy wili have an oppor- tunity of welcoming her Duck irom her London triumphs. Miss Blanche Davenport, a young American prima donna, recently made & most successful début in “La Traviata” at the Teatro Communale, Alex- andria, She is the daughter of the well known dramatic artist, Mr. &. L, Davenport. A musical and dramatic periormance of unusual attractiveness wili be given at New Brighton, S. 1, on Satarday next, in which promineat members of the Futh Avenue Tneatre Company, the Ninth Regiment Sand and many celebrated vocalists will appear. On next Saturday evening a performance of ex- traordinary imterest will be given at New Brighton, S. 1, in the large hall of the Pavilion Hotel. “My Uncle's Will’ has been selected tor presentation by the following members of the Fifth Avenue Theatre company :—Miss Sara Jewett, Mr. George Clarke and Mr. Owen Fawcett. To be fol- lowed by @ grand operatic concert, at which will appear Mile, Clara Peri, Signor Orlanaini, the re- nowed baritone; Mr. F. Fritsch, tevor, and Mue, Julia Rivé, a pupil of the great composer Liszt: who has just arrived from Vienna, The Ninth The loss is | Halfan hour after thé barn was fired the incen- | \ take a southeasterly direction and strike Pennayl- | , Yanta about three bors atier his ascension irom | wounded by Anthony Randolid, of No. 200 Hester | street. Frowley and a iriend were leaving the | liquor saloon of Daniel Fitzgerald, at No, 217 | Hester street, when Frowley ran against Randotid, | An apology was offered, but the Italian wouid not receive it. He immediately drew a huge razor and cut Frowly across the neck. He made hia | escape, but Roundsmaao McUonnell, Who happened | tobe near, started in pursuit, aud succeeded, alter much dimMculty, in capturing the ftalan. Buoownd APFRAY, John Donovan, of No. 15 City Rall piace, was shot in the neck last night by Owen Kerigan, of No. 35 Park street, and slightly injured, daring an altercation tu the Sixth Ward Hotel. Douovan was sent to the Park Hospital, where his wounds were dressed. Kerlgan, alter firing the shot, made his escape. DISORDER DISTURBED. The police of the Twenty-seventh precinct made a descent last night on a disorderly house at Ne. 96 Greenwich street and arrested eight women and twelve men. The prisoners were all locked up atthe station house aud wil be arraigned a& the Tombs Police Court this morning. THE MAING STATS COLLEGE, Bancor, August 2, 1874, The commencement exercises at the Maine State College of Agriculture and the Mechanicat Arts, at Orono, began last evening with an exhlot- ton by the sophomore class. The baccalaureate sermon was preached this evening by tue Kev, Di Allen, President of the college. PRINT CLOTHS MARKET, Provipexce, RC, August 1, 1876 The print cloths marxet during the past wees was heavy’ and prices were weaker at the close. 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