The New York Herald Newspaper, August 4, 1874, Page 3

ee THE THIRD TERM, President Grant at Length} Breaks Silence. THE MYSTERY SOLVED. BO Moving for Another Term on a New Departure. Reported Overtures to a Liberat Repub- lican Ambassador. A NEW OPPOSITION. An Alliance Against the Republi- ean Party for 1876. Se Is Conkling To Be Eclipsed by Fenton ? Lone BRANCH, August 3, 1874, Write down General Frank Biair as also among the prophets. It is and will yet long be remem- bered that in the opening of the Presidential cam- paign of 1868 General Blair, with al! the emphasis Of an earnest conviction, deciared that, in his judgment, if General Grant were put into the White House he would never be put out while he lived, or in words to this effect, That we are ‘on the way to the fulfilment of this remarkable prophecy will presently appear. The absorbing ‘and most perplexing question which you can now put to a regular republican who believes first in his party and next in the national administration, 4s the feariul question, ‘Does General Grant desire and expect to be nominated and elected for a thira Presidential term?” You cannot from any repub- lican who still believes in the loyalty of General Grant to the republican party get an intelligible answer to this question. Mr. Thomas Murphy, hitherto known to be and still widely sup- posed to be among the highest in the confidence ef General Grant, cannot answer tt. Nor can Sen- stor Conkling, or Mr. Speaker Blaine, or Senator Morton, or Senator Logan ; nor can any republican Spostie or disciple who believes frst in his party | snd next in the administration, They cannot | sngwer, because Generali Grant no longer confides in them. His interests and his confidences hence- | forth, as it now appears, lie in another direction, and for this simple and all sufficient reason: he resolved, nay, he has entered upon a new de- parture. We can tell our republican aspirants for whe succession who are impatiently looking for some sign from the silent man at Long Brancn— | who are still hoping that be will reuure from the Presidential fleid, under cover of a powerful broad- side m favor of the perpetuation of the republican | party, that they are all adriit—we can tell them, and from an intelligent source, that General Grant does “sire and expect a nomination and an elec- | tion for athird term; but not as the candidate | ‘and standard bearer of the republican party. We | iy that he has entered upon a new departure, ‘and here, as given to us, is | HIS NEW PLAN OF OPERATIONS, General Grant has discovered that the idea of a third term 1s exceedingly distasteful to the re- | publican leaders, for it sets them ali back and breaks up all their calculations and expectations, | He has discovered that thé’ idea of a third‘term even to General Grant is distasteful to the great pody of the republicans throughout tne country, and that they do not entertain 4 serions thought of being called upon to vote third time for him for the Presidency. More than this, the Presi- dent bas discovered that if nominated for a third term by the republicans he will, in all probability, Bot only be beaten, but dieastrously deteated. Sti) intent, then, upon another election, how ts he | to secure it? The plan said to be adopted dis- loses something of the admirable strategy and tactics of his Chattanooga campaign. He will first deceive the enemy as to his movements and then crush him in detail. In plain terms, General Grant bas entered upon the dariug enterprise of an elec- tion fora third term by the anti-republican and enti-administration forces of the country, and upon the liberal republican and democratic platform of 1872, including, particularly, a gener- ous policy of reconciliation towards the Southern States and-of absolute non-intervention in their | Jocal affairs, and including the new plank, full length, of cheap transportation. The argument | submitted in favor of this new departure 1s as fol- | Jows:—On the platform indicated, as an inde- pendent candidate, General Grant will be sup- ported not only by the combined opposition forces bat by the grand army of office-holders, five { legions strong; by the Grand Army of the Repub- | Me and by the still grander and more powerful political army of capitalists, bankers, brokers and | bondholders. This is the calculation, and that | | | | | General Grant’s thoughts have, since last fall, been running in this direction, may be reasonably in- ferred irom bis allusion in his annual message of | December last to the breaking up of party lines of distinction in the recent elections; from his de- cisive repudiation of the republican would-be Gov- ernor Davis, of Texas; from bis snabbing of the would-be Governor Brooks, of Arkansas, and from his unexpected veto of the pet Currency bill of Senator Yrton and of the inflation majorities of tie two Houses supporting him. Nor can it be doubted now that in that 1m- portant matter of the appointment of Chief Jus- Sica last winter the President’s purposes and the purposes of tne republican magnates of the Sen- et Were widely different. These are but pre- ‘yumptions and inferences touching the new de- parture suggested; but they will go far ta Strengthen the evidence directly to the point which follows. THE EVIDENCE. A few days ago a leading liberal republican of the West, encouraged by instructions that Presi- dent Grant was strongly inclined to a new political movement for a third term, came to Long Branch ana called upon the President at his cottage to obtain his views upon the subject. The results of this conference, as given to the writer from a third party, an intelligent and responsible man, were these :—After the usual introductory formail- ties, the liberal republican ambassador hav- ing stated the object of his visit and Bis desire fora free interchange of thought and Suggestions, the President suid that the country bad manifestiy haa enough of the rule of the re- Publican party; that the party had fulfilled its Mission and outlived ite usefulness, and that the people, tired of the corruptions and demoralize- tions of the republican party in Congress, and tired of its extreme sectional measures, were Yeady and anxious for a change, Next, in the course of the conversation, the President sug- gested that if the liperal-republican party would take the lead in nominating him upon the plat- form we have indicated he had no doubt of the success of the movement. The liberal republican negotiator submitted, however, that bis party was but @ handful of men, and ghat of themselves, a8 & party, they could do nothing. THE PRESIDENT REPLIED that they were a respectable body of independent men, that their principles were acceptaple to the people, and that in moving for his re-election in Opposition to the regular republican party they would first bring over the democratic party, and that in the next place all the Southern States Would support the movement; and, again, the moneyed interests of the country, desirous of evoiding any dangerous changes or experiments | received by them in previous ip our Gvancial system, will suppor, @ new party Whtcn, while aiming to displace the republicans, will support the President for another term as the national standard bearer of this new organization. The President also submitted that the Executive patronage would prove an element of considerable Weight m this new party undertaking, and that, with all the forces to back it which he had Indl- cated, defeat would be impossible and success cer- tain, Furthermore, We are informed that when these hign contracting paities separated it was with the promise on the One part that the liberal re- publicans, so far as directly represented in this conterence, will move in behalf of General Grant jor a third term, and with @ promise on bis part that to strengthen this movement the President will veto the Civil Rights bill if passed at this coming session of Congress; will insist upon civil service reform, NOtWIthstanding the objections of this Congress; will urge @ universal amnesty in his next annual message, and to the extent of his power and resources will clear out the carpet- | baggers and prove himself a true friend of the South and of Southern rights under the consti- tution. We have this information, we repeat, from an intelligent and responsible man, who says that | these things are true, and who believes that under the programme we have onatlined General Grant can, and probably will, be elected for a third Presidential term as the candidate of the combined opposition forces againat the party in power, We learn further that the leading republicans of the country—and of New York most prominently—are not only distressed but indignant at this continued and mysterious silence of General Grant in refer- ence to a third term; that they suspect there is mischief in it, and that they are prepared to adopt | and play the liberal republicans against him io our November State election, At ali events the liberal republicans are pow in the position of the Men who hold the gap, and Mr, Conkling may well doubt whether he or Senator Fenton is now THE NEW YORK FAVORITE of the administration. An active party politician, who pleads the plea that his mouth is sealed, says :—‘‘Only see how we are tied up. If the Presi- dent would only gracefully retire {rom the Prest- dential course we could, under the banner of Sen- ator Conkling as vur first choice, sweep New York in November. But what can we do now? Nothing, because we don’t know where we stand; and Mr. Murphy ts all wrong, if what the Henan says are bis opinions is true. The President ought to know that in keeping silence on this momentous question of a third term he 1s playing the part of an armed neutral, armed against us; and ne ought to know that the example o1 Washington in fixing the Presidential limitation at two terms has be- come as strong as the constitution.’ Without any party predilections or motives or designs in these matters, and with a respect for the great public services and personal character of General Grant which cannot easily be shaken, your correspondent nevertheless gives you the in- formation embodied in this report, under a strong impression that it is essentially true and of the highest importance to the republican party, to the opposition elements and to the country at large. President Grant’s Movements. MORRISTOWN, N, J., August 3, 1874. President Grant bad accepted an invitation to visit this section of the country on Thursday, the 6th inst., but a despatch received irom him to-day states that he has postponed the projected visit | until next week. He willcomeon a special train, * stopping for a few minut t Newark and Orange, and reaching Morristown at noon. He will remain here one hour and hold @ reception at Washing. ton’s Headquarters. He will then proceed to Dover and Mount Hope, visiting an iron mine; thence to Newton and back to Boonton, remaining ot ENS ERS, latter place asthe guest of John iil, ALLEGED REVENUE PRAUDS. | A Question of False or Faulty Gauging. For some time past the Internal Revenue De- Partment o/ this city has bad strong suspicion that iraud, by means of false gauging, was committed on the department by.Western distillers, Infor- Mation from private sources reached the office about a fortuight ago that several barrels of high- | wines bad come from a well known distillery im lilinois to their “qgents in Broad street, and that their bargels contained more than Was stated in the permits, amination, that some of these packages contained four gallons in excess of the amount marked on the labels, The liquor was immediately seized and jnagment against the owners was entered be- fore United States Dissrict Judge Blatchiord, This discovery set on foot immediate investigation as to the extent the government had suffered from false gauging, and tne result bas been to find that upwards ot 1,500 barrels snipped from tiis Western firm to their New York agents and stored in digerent parts of the city, have been “detained.” Examination made by the revenue officers of the suspected goods at these places has resulted in finding an average excess dis- Lreclapsand of something over three galions per Package. The Supervisor who caused the detention has made application to Washington to be allowed to seize anc confiscate the guods already detained. An attempt bas been made to investigate the books of the Broad street agency to discover what amount of highwines had been Pe and they were, in addition, accused of falling to make bitin returns of said liquors as demanded by the Internal Revenue Department. Qne of the mem- bers of the present firm was arrested, put on showing that from 1872 to 1873 he was not a partner in said frm was discharged, Another partner, stating that he was anabie to produce | the required accounts, was bound over by the It was found, on ex- | { THE SEASIDE CAPITAL, A General Inspection of “a King- dom by the Sea.” Long Branch Lounging, Flirting, Danc- ing and Bathing. Lona BRANCH, August 2, 1874, Long Branch 18 a “kingdom by the sea,’ five | miles long and two hundred yards wide. | It varies im height from four stories in the ambitious hotels to the elevation of an ordinary chicken coop in the beach shanties and with the venders of minor merchan- dise, Its shape is an objection to it. If one walks across town he finds tho country inconventently near, and tumbles upon @ desolate and terrible solitude such as is only to be found io the sandy paris of New Jersey, He incontinently abandons his purpose to ‘‘see the place’? in that direction; but as he does not care to turn short around and acknowledge that he has no taste for rural felicity of that sort—for this might offend the just stsceptibilities of the natives— he saunters away with the secret inten- tion to recover the main street further up or further down. And so he wanders by the World's back aoor, which, if not the least pictu- resque, {8 certainly the least prepossessing part of any place, On the other hand, If one takes a ‘*con- stitutional” lengthwise of the town he presently discovers that it would take a constitution much better than that of the United Staes to carry him | through. He would need numerous amendments with appropriate legislation and might at last learn to his chagrin that he had cut his journey too short and left out ten hotels which ata little way off he took for rows of bathing houses, It ts a@ridiculous distance to everybody, and a friend who would live just around the corner if the town were doubled up as it should be, lives far enough away to be visited in the train, just on account of this habit of making all the new streets at the end of the old street and runningin the same direc- tion. ‘There are, to be sure, the queer country wagons and open carriages, drawn by teams of scraggy yet jaunty looking horses, whieh are the accepted hacks of the place, But the writer of this always has a scarcely controllable and ill-concealed im- pulse to kill every hackman who disputes about the fare, Hv 18, therefore, under a conscientious obligation to avoid such disputes, But you cannot ride in a vehicle hired on the street anywhere in the world without a dispute avout the fare, Wherelore he is deprived of this resource, THIS SHAPP OF TRE PLACE ig ita great characteristic feature. That is why it is “Long” Branch, Visitors religiously give it this its proper designation; but the intabitants of the neighboring sandy wastes, who live on soft crabs and sour apples, and have peculiar habits, simply call it the Branch, Its length has become so fa- millar @ feature that they no longer notice it. | Moreover, as they go down the avenue peddling their wares and picking up what cash they may, they seem often to find it sufiicientiy short, Nobody knows exactly where the Branch begins or ends, but it cannot be further | north than Sandy Hook nor further south than Cape May. Between these points it is almost any- where you please. There are several intervals not filled up, and there are building lots for sale at these places, The longest gap ia between the spot where Iwrite and that part of the line which is temporartly called Atlantic City. When that gap is fled up the whole sea coast of New Jersey will be fringed and the ocean be faced with small cot- | | tages and hotel piazzas. There will be, counting the secoad stories and the bits on the third stories, not less than six hundred miles of hotel piazza. From this vantage ground the weary New Yorker will gaze out on the sea, He will excifiim at more or less regular intervals, ‘Roll on thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll,” and thus instructed the | ocean will rollon accordingly, but will stay there United States Commissioner to appear before the | United States Grand Jury. It over $50,000 has been advanced by the Broad street firm against the whiskey now detained. SBIZURE IN BROOKLYN. It 1s reported that the “detention” of forty bar- rels of whiskey by an internal revenue officer of the Filteenth ward, in Brooklyn, who declined to have something to do with the foregoing matter, though this liquor has since been released, “EXCELSIOR,” Steeple Chasing in Old New York. Fashion bears sway as well in architecture as in dress. A close obeerver of buildings in this city can almost certainly teli on looking at a church or dwelling, bank or factory, in what year it was erected, without reference to the marks of time upon the solt sandstone or badly baked brick. Fach season or group of seasons has its faygrite Architectural features of construction or Otmaiccatasn, and | our fagades pear thelr.45.%4 v>on them though the Vuilder may GgVe calteed to piace the year of grace in figures at the highest point of the gable, with his noble name, for the benefit of posterity. Just now the motto of ambitious builders is that of our State, “Excelsior,” and one might believe that the chief end of the present crop of buildings is the observation of comets, Trinity church wi in this respect a prophecy. Its lofty spire, which certainly points the heavenward way, was the Work of & man many years in advance of nis time. Now “higher” is the aim of every architect. Thus the newspaper which was once ‘founded by Horace Greeley" 18 erecting an edifice of many stories’ height, whose cupola will be admirably adapted for meteorological observations, Its neighbor, the slowly growing Post Office, will afford an excellent eyrie from which its oficial designer can overlook the country far and wide to discover other locations tor the profitable erection of his majestic derricks, But this high lookout will be beaten in the steeplechase by the clock tower of the Western Union Telegraph Company, whose dial piate1s intended to denote the time of day for the Continent from Portland to the Golden Gate. Til now the Signal Station on the roof of that modest structure to which the policy holders of the Equitable Insurance Company look with com nt satisiactio seeing in its evident and eminent economy an sohd simplicity an assurance to those who wait for @ competence for their erasure from the list of premium payers, has been thought lofty. But the aspirations of its neighbors b to make this in- dicator of coming weather to departing mariners feel low and-indistsnguishable in tne brick and mortar mass, It must.rise to the level of the aita- ation. Accordingly itis to have two stories en- graived betow it, which will carry it forty feet nearer the stars. Then the list of tall structures in the lower part of the city will stand as follows :— Trinity chureh. Union Telegrap Brooklyn Bridge ‘Tribune buildn Shot Tower, nea St. Paul's church, Post Office, dome and observatory. Equitable Lise Insurance building INSURANCE OOMPANY DISCONTINUED, Haseiseung, Pa., August 3, 1874, J. M. Forister, State Insarance Commissioner, has given the Safeguard Insurance Company, of Philadelphia, notice to discontinue business in this Staye until » Fe-eX@minavion jn ite affairs, reported that | | gathere | Make Kuown the name of the firm implicated, may | Something, just the same, THE PROPLE AND THRIR AMUSEMENTS. Having observed the structure of Long Branch Inaturally looked around to see how the people amused themselves. Here I found again that the Jacts grouped themselves on the main fact of the shape of the place and were in character with it, People are compelled to move up and down the main street, and, as the distances are great, they are compelled to have vehicles, and thus the im- pulses of human activity resolve themselves into @ current that moves to and {fro on wheels from one end of the place to the other forever and for- ever. Necessarily you move, and quite as neces- sarily you move in the line of least resistance; and as’ you are shut in by the hotels on one side and tne sea on the other this must be up or down the one avenue. If you go up you go op, still led by the hope that there may be something to see further on, and thus you come to the sandy wilderness; then you turn and repeat the experiment in the other direction, By the time you have done this twice you nave falien into the habit of the place, and you keep on mechani- cally, you cannot stop. It is a sort of moral tread- | } | | | | \ | | NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, AUGUST 4, 1874.—TRIPLE discretion, this great amusement ts also ther- oughly sale, ‘he other day a oathing man on the beach said to @ iady of rather diminutive figure, “Come, little girl—dou't be afraid; let me take you in.’? Tnis the lady’s lady friends thought @ goot joke; but her husband accountea tor it, He said, “Well, sne 1s @ Jew-venile person.” This 18 the first time I ever heard # man of the Oriental race use ths term, but whatever terms they may use they evidently approve of Long Branch as a watering place—and there are no better judges of comsort. e A Yacht Capsized. Lona Branca, N. J., August 3, 1874 A-sloop yacht belonging to Dr. Vanderpoel, the Health Officer, was capsized last evening outside of Sandy Hook. The boat contained three men, | who Were picked up in an exhansted condition by | the yacht Eugene and brought safely ashore. SANITARY SHORTCOMINGS. Disgustingly Filthy Condition of the East Sid-—“The Barracks” Described, SHEET, | The Case Still Shrouded in | Darkness. THE POLICE INACTIVE | Another Interview with Little Walter Ross. PHILADELPHIA, August 8, 1874 | Another long day in Germantown. Its hills | seem just as steep, its roads just as dusty as they While police and sanitary oMcials consume their waking hours in discussing our Mephistophelean | Mayor and grim Gardner, the ungrateiul Dia- | becker and the Gubernatorial Dix, and the—well, | the one thousand and one small questions that agi- | tate sidewalk politicians eager for or unwilling to lose political pap, tne city itself 1s unswept, un- | cleansed and rapidly becoming pestiferous, This is | @ grave and solemn acccusation; yet the (acts of | the case entirely warrant it, That this densely Populated island is not decimated by the pestilence that walketh in darkness or scourged by epidemic | in the form of fever or cholera is certainly not ow- | ing to any safittary precautions that municipal | wisdom has Inaugurated, It is no figure of speech | to assert that asa | MIASMATIC PARADISE the east side of New York, from Fulton to Forty- | | trees and in close proximity to the Washington | | desolate. did ten days ago when [ last visited the place, Tne residence of Mr. Ross, nestied among the avenue station, on the Germantown branch of the Reading Railroad, seems quite as lonely and I was bound to this honse, to once more | see itt. Walter and talk with him regarding the | circum-tances of that memorable ride whteh re, sulted in the loss of his brother. After waiting a Jew moments the little fellow came out on the porcn w'ere I was seated. Inreply to my ques- tion as ty whether he knew of anything which he had forgotten to tell me before he saia:— “Yes, Idid not think to tell you that in the morning of the same day in which we were taken away! saw the two men in the neighborhood, They drove around into Chew street, and after going into an ale house at the side of tne road they came out, one carrying a black bottie. It ane ! mg was now left for the officer except to take htm THE LOST BOY, _ | witte centrat omee, wnich ne aid, and intrusted ° him to the care of the matron in charge of the jost children's department. Here he said his name was Frank Phelps; that he was six ope of age, had no father, did not know anyth ng about his mother and had been living with a Mr. Fisk in Springfeld. He does not appear 4s old as he saya he is, and if there was any possibility of his haix ever baying been curly, he would answer very well the description given of Charley Ross, He has @ very hight complexion, light, straight hair and was neatly dressed in & sult of black and white checked cotton goods. Every article of clothing, irom bis hat to hig shoes and stockings, are quite new and were evidently made for ti oceasion. He will be kept at the Central OMce until called for, KIDNAPPING IN BROOKLYN. | Abduction of a Little Girl by Negroes. The Brooklyn police are now engaged tn search- ing for.a kidnapped child, and their prospects of success are not believed to be very brilliant. The case was bronght before the notice of the authori- ties by the father of the missing child, one Sebas- tian Miller, a German in comfortable ctroum- stances, residing oc Liberty avenue, near Wash- ington, East New York, a suvurb of Brooklyn. Mr. Miller, who has a wife and two children, aged Tespectively eight and six years, states that apout one o'clock on Sunday alternoon his oldest child, Annie, asked him for his permission to go to the Catholic Cemetery to strew flowers over the grave of her grandfather. He at first declined to grant her request, but as she persisted he complied with the child’s wishes, She proceeded on her mission, vecompanied by severai schoolmates, and promised to return about six o'clock. As the little one failed to return the father grew alarmed and started out upon a search lor Annie. He visited the cemetery and wandered about its gloomy confines unti! @ark- Ress set in, but found no trace of his child. Ap- Piication was then made at the Twelith precinct Station house to Captain Leich, but that officer second street, has no compeer in Europe or Amer- | tea, In their worst days, twenty years ago, the | squalid regions of St. Giles, Seven Diais and Petti- | Coat lane, in the English capital, never could com- bare with our Cherry, Water and Hamilton streets | at the present writing. There are stenches to be | ) | inhaled ; there are nauseating cesspools to be | winced at; there is, in fact, a diversity and prodi- | ganity of filtn to be experienced—yes, expe- | Tienced—in these streets that it never entered into the heart of man to imagine or the olfactorles of man to conceive, This sweeping statement ar- raigns the Health Board and the constituted an- | thorities. Let them be arraigned. travel from Printing House square, say down | Frankfort street and along Vandewater. In | | this short march, within three minutes of the | City Hall, they will see sights and smell smells that Shall test the toughest stomach of the hardest | Political bummer that ever talked obscenity on a | Street corner or obstructed a gin-mill sidewalk, | In Vandewater street there is a public school which happily at present has a holiday; yet the milk distributing agency situated in the lowest | and filthiest portion of the biock 1s a perennial | fount whose rivers need the early attention of the | | | headquarter’s chemist. But why linger by the way? Franklin square and Oak street are within | ha 1l—the latter graced by Police Precinct No. 4, | | and whose adjacent gutter yesterday was only half cleaned and supremely odoriferous, ‘the | Whole of Oak sireet Jorms a yearning fleld for | brooms, shovels and carbolic acid. At | | present it is the home diphtheria, and the happy, but often unremunera- | tave, hunting ground of medical graduates and | the hoc genus omne of quacks. Roosevelt and New Chambers are seething with filth and strewed | | with decayed vegetable matter in an advanced | of | stage of decomposition, the stench of which must | | be ‘sniffed to be appreciated. Yet, although neither shovel nor broom seem to invade these re- treats sacred to the DEMON OF FILTH, a watering cart bearing the iegend, “J. Buckbee, | 93 Allen street,’ was threading 1ts weary way along Oak street, Watering the ilith and reducing 1t to Saponaceous mire instead of removing it. IfJames street has not been heretofore men- | thoned it is because no one who had become ac- | quainted with its unutterable foulness would will- ingly essay the task of describing it. The reporto- rial nerve is supposed to be strong; but there are in James street sights and smells to Which it 18 unequal, Opposite St. James’ Roman Catho.te church is a glum, tall, sodden- | lookmmg tenement house, provided with fire es- capes, comprehending densely populated yards | behind and rets above, Several hundreds of | human beings cram the dingy floors of this | wretched caravansary day and night and overflow | on the sidewalks and into the gutters. The build- | Ing is known as +708 BARRACKS,”? and from the base; it of the “parracks” a dense, and smites him with sudden loathing and satnt- ness, “You mustn’t mind it yet, Sir,” says the smalk Pox marked guide to the reporter. “Wherever are you going?” asks the latter, as he sees the man descend a damp, slimy, spiral staircase immediately under the sidewalk. “Come On, sur,’’ he saya. The descent is wet, jetid and disgusting, dare, loathsomeness of the scene revealed. All the walls | ; and floors are wet and stained, and a ieeling of | | Sickness and loathing are superinduced by a single munute’s contemplation of the place. j “Yes, sur; 1 Kipt @ place there wunce, an’ it was all we nad,” Catharine, Cherry and Hamilton streets were | next visited. The gutters of all of them are filled | here and there—sometimes for several rods—with | green, unctuous slime, giving of an odor that 18 offensive in the extreme, Hamilton street is inexpreasibly filthy. The pavement ia bad; | heaps ef garbage are everywhere to be seen; | mull, From this there is but one principal rettef, | vegetable decomposition ts everywhere going on}; which is to take ® position ona hotel piazza and | the atmosphere ts filled with stench, and the only contemplate the other people moving to and tro, | panacea irom the atmospheric poison seems to be | These are the main occupations. Pretentiousiy there sre others, but they have relation to these, There is croquet, for instance, which ts done on | the lawns between the piazzas and the procession, but this is # mere variation of the process of standing on the piazza. Itis contrived to enable the young ladies to look at the carriages and be seed in return. Lounging in the summer houses on the biuff comes to toe same hoor 2 Further amusement is turnished by that intiner- ant group of humanity which everywhere takes advantage of the circumstance that peopie together as people are here are under obligation to Kill time aod must look at and will, rather than fail, look at a small boy turning somersets or a strong man throwing up _ hundred pound shot, and catching them on his shoulder as they come down, and suddenly holding up his right hand to show where the laugh comes in. ‘There are Indians here, who are amusements also, An elaborate interview disclosea that none of them knew Pocahontas, and they had never even heard of Captain Jona Smith, One of the popular amusements is having your photograph taken, FLIRTATI which taken altogether is perhaps the most thoroughly satislactory of watering place amuse- ments, seems adt to foarig nerer and 1 should tremble jor my beloved country If forced to be- Neve that ti¢ Branch wasa lair example of oar ‘WaceTiig places in this particular, 1 should say let Cesarism come when it Will, it can do us no harm. Now we are out of fortune’s power, For he that is down can be no lower. _. With a view to observe aocurately tht state of the firtation market, I glanced into ‘the ballroom last night. it was @ melancholy spectacle. They were dancing at the moment. Ali the geutlemen were dressed in our national costume—badly cut pantaloons of any color and black cloth frock coats—and seemed impressed with the serious- ness of the occasion. All the ladies were not so pretty as Ihave seen them. All their plain rela- tons sat on the sides of the room and on the piazza by the open windows, and contemplated the scene with solemn and speechless interest. There was an incident which indicated that the terrible cru- sader is at large. He came in the guise of a cant- ing rogue, ina long straight coat of the form evi- dently required +by extreme piety, with a broad- brimmed hat trom which he had rubbed all the nap with the cuff of his coat as he told bis religious ex- periences in conventicles and ne had the snarp nose snd hollow cheeks which indicate a mortified spirit and dyspepsia, This person wanted to pray. ‘here was the whole State of New Jersey outside, and in the several hotels there are ai least 10,000 cubbyholes of bedrooms. But the only place that seenied to him suitable as a praying point was the middle of tue balirbom at the Ocean House, and he tried it there. He was ejected of course, for people who go seriously to dance know their Tights; but his advent was of no advantage, ina better organized society tt would not ot have broken the ice, it would ha ulverized it, and the redasuring of the young ladies in the corners and short promenades in the corridors would have been the beginning of thee The gather! here is too large lor one societ; up well into minor circles, All the people one another too well or not eer, Appar. ently, also, the continually increasing freedom of Manners 18 destructive to the spirit of flirtation. With young ladies whom it needs only boldness to address and who are not to be daunted firtation has no field. The atmospuere in which it could thrive is gone, Bari INO is an entertainment for which Long Branch has admirable facilities. With the sea at the right point at the present season one can have a sea Dath as fine as it is possibie to have it anywhere in the world, for the sea as wet here agit is at Biarritz and as ampie at Brighton, while the Deach ts better than at either of those places. With the presen ngements it is diMcult to see how any person c manage Ww get drowned. Good cords, always taut and well fastened, extend a8 far into the ocean as any person need go, and there are plenty of boats and men ready if an acci- dent should occur, So thet, with anly reasonavie found in a “‘distiliery” near, where halt a pint of | benzine can be procured fur five cents Tne moral influences of this and sur- rounding streets are feariul to contem- plate. Sell-respect under such circumstances | ig impossible, aud every sentiment and iustinct of | | decency must be a hideous mockery—smotuered | @8 soon as born. A general ail-pervading stench | permeates the streotd of the east side as Stanton, | | Essex, Monroe, Clinton, Broome, Houston and | | Fourteenth street, are reached. With few excep- tons the gutters are flitby, and the atreets bear evidence of neglect from the broom brigade. dames, Clinton and Hamiiton streets are the worst, but in such a disgraceiully filthy neighbor- hood as the whole east sive, irom Hulton to Twenty- | third street and from the Bowery to the East | River, comparisons are almost useless. Imme- | diate action on the part of the sanitary authorities is imperatively needed, THE DEATH OF VAN BHTEN, The Forger Van Ecten Zies in a Prison Cell trom the E%ects of Poison. Touts Maximulan Vin Eten, the forger, died yes- terday afternooy, about nalf-past two. It will be Tememberei hythe readers of the HERALD that Van Eeven tok an overdose of laudanum on Satar- day afternoon, and though great exertions were Dade to save his life it was doubtful then whether Yhe slight recovery that he manifested would be | lasting. When Van Ecten was captured by Detective Sampson he gave him his watch, letters and a few dollars, He steadfastly refused, however, to state where he lived while in New York. In spite of Van Eeten’s protestations that he was about to reform and leave the country te accept a position as clerk In an American tea house in Hong Kong, itis thought that he was about concocting some new scheme of forgery with several curbstone brokers in Wall street, with whom he has lately been scen in egrnest conversation, He has evidently had some hiding ae which he would not reveal to Detective Sampson, for when he was placed in prison in New Jersey he had no clothes but those he stood up in, and the letters, &e., he gave to Sampson gave no clew as to where be had been sojourning, Some curious develop- ments will be undoubtedly made public when the dead man’s papers are brought to light, which they probably soon will be. When he was sent to State Prison in 1871 hia wife obtained her divorce from him and has since shown no sign of recon- citation, She has @ family of three children, Tue Bank of California, which was desirous of re- imprisoning Van Keten in San Francisco, tor the $10,000 forgery committed upon it in 1871, will now have to console itself witn the loss of ita money. 4 PERFORMING BEAR EXILED TO AMERICA, [From the London Standard, July 23.) A periorming bear has brought hrs master into trouble at Wandsworth. The Italian, not under. standing police instructions to move on, was taken before & magistrate, who declined a con- stable’s suggestion to have the bear brought into court. Jt was explained, through an interpreter, that the bear was not @ proper subject tor going at large, and its master undertook to have him shut ap antl they could proceed on their journey to America, Nw BeprForD, Mass., August 3, 1874, The verdict of the coroner’s jury in tne shooting case at Oak Blue was that Samuel W. fitiott shot Caleb C, Smith in self-defence, Kiliott is released from custody, and the other parties concerned in the assault upon him have been arrested op o Charge Of aggravated asco | Was the same men, Let them | ; Linquired, | Saloon not far from that place, | to vecail the visit of the men. Walter turned to pubgent and searching odor salutes tne wayfarer | The | avernii is dark; the atris heavy with the odor of or- | Nothing tn Dante's “inferno” surpasses the | had beard uothing of toe missing youngster. Finally, the anxious jather called at the house of a German family named Husted, on Washing- ton, near Atlantic avenue, ‘There he waa tu- formed by George Husted, a boy eleven years of age, that, about ten o'clock at night, while looking out of the front windows on the second floor, he . | saw four black men put Annie Miller in a wagon | and drive of. The boy satd be knew Annie, as they went to the same school. Annie cried, “Watch |’? when one o! the negroes put his hand on her mouth, and she could not shout any longer. The ruMans, according to George’s account, then drove off rapidiy down Atlantic avenue. The boy | and cried for. something to eat; so they stopped, | a ee to Police Hentagasient | | and there repeated his strange story of the wagon |-Sadione man:ger ony and) bougns nimisome ener | scene before the Inspector. Captain Leich was We stopped further on and got a drink or water.” | engaged in questioning the negroes and others of “Were the men drinking liquor along the route?” | the suburbs on his side of Broosiyn yesterday, but | failed to eheit any injormation that could throw ligut upon the whereabouts of the child. so far as is known, I know tt, because I followed | them and watched.” “Can you tell me where this place is?’ I asked. “Ob, yes; I will waik round there and show | you,” he replied. “Do you remember any other place that the men stopped att” “They halted in front of a tavern down on Broad street. At just what corner it was I cannot | now remember. Poor Charley was very hungry, | “Yes, they brought out the black poftle fre- | quently. Idon’t know much about such things, { but ] thought the large man acted as if he was | drunk, He might have been fooling me.’ | “Did you say to the man who brought you home OITY OONTRAOTS, A decision was rendered last week by the Gen eral Term of the Supreme Court, Justice Davis de- that your parents knew the men who had driven | livering the opinion, which ts the cause of much you down town f’ I asked, | comment and interest around the City Hall among “1 don’t think I did; I was so frightened that I | contractors and officials generally. The cause waa don’t know what I did say,” reptiea Walter. “The | an appeal made by the city from a judgment en- men took us up northward and around by the pike. | tered on the report of a referce in favor of William They stopped again, I forgot to say, near the old | McDonald for materials furnished for repairing tollgate. One of them gota drink of Yaquor in a | certain streets, The leading points of the opinion The gate 1s free | are as follows :— There is no question but that the materials were A GERMAN’S IRISH VROW, furnished and used; nor that the recovery is tor | their fair value; and there seems to be no douvt After some other conversation we jelt the house | tnar the plant, who delivered them, and the to go down to the tavern where Walter said he | officers, woo ordered and received and used had seen the men go on the morning preceding | them, Cay in go eth We reverse the re- . | covery under stich circumstances seems a barsn {ne abduction. Walter led the way up Washing- | noasare of justice. But it must not be torgotten ton lane to the corner of Chew street, and after | that oflicers of the Corporation and ot its several a snort tramp we reached a large stone tavern | departments ay under well detined boaigea tae : authority, and can make no contracts binding covered with stucco. It was presided over by & | Quon thé city except within the authority cou large German, who, on my declaring the object of | jerred and in conlormity to the mode prescrived. my visit, conducted me into the yard and intro. | A ete tts ai heed rue would leave the a? | Drey to the discretion of tis numerous onicials, by duced me to his wile. This lady was quite tall, | whom unlimited liabilities might be created. Ail With an unmistakable Irish brogue. Questions | persons dealing With such officers are bound to imnumerable failed to elcit any imtormation, { pad = toga cenmeone age ting their | authority and to see to it that the power to cou- although little Walter himself narrated an incident | trace no. only exists, but that its exercise sub- | Stantially conforms im tue particular inscance to 8 escribed by st te or ord Ue. to cobain puey Me pera tye ta wi tvas | the Several cargoes as’ separaie items, the Super- pout leaving. wien wn ico cream wagon drove | Mtendent of Koads 1as no authority to make tue Show oe Waite nen An tr ntl to 1S Mg contracts of purcaase without the necessity there- Denae te s pie eon Goa dave rhs cone | for being first certifiea by the head o! the appro- | Aud Mwoetments, ‘He began “to philosophazee’, | Priate department to the Common Council and toe 2 foot toe bc philosopiize:— | expenditure beiug Upon sucit certificauon ordered ‘Now if I spend this ten cents for ice cream | will by the Common Couucil Laws 1s5i, cha spied oR yeti egy ot Pie Tweces. As Tcan't | 446, sec. 38.) ‘nis objectian was distincuy ma the one easiest lo part Withy Here, youn wcue | before the reterec, and it could not be obviated oy reauttne u ualt eb Vanaian ibid ties coy ny | May Presumption. It Was elementary in ihe wu- Be RBRGdEL DIAbaIt Cite atone if irony ag | thority itself, and where it docs not appear either bie Stee inoneuberiaresarmontitconmen tates of y proof or admission no presumption trom ot going len (one came satisfied | the acis of the officer can supply the omission. that ap uncommon desire for candy iy existed in "i c both the boys’ natures. The kidnappers, tuereiore, | 1Re #bsence of sucn prool was fatal to tne re- now, but used to be a toligate.”” me and satd:— approached the children on their most vulnerabie bois f8 Serine Bs ree be Matar da via: point. | those constituting a single item exceeding A MOST MYSTERIOUS PERSON. “Have you heard,’’ said a merchant on the main | street in Germantown, after he nad taken me back | into his private office and closea the door, “that about a week ago a Very mysterious person was seen going up Washington lane to the Ross man- sionr “No, Ihave not heard of 1, What about ity’ I asked, quite interested, “Well, the great secret of all 1s that, althongh apparently a woman, ‘she’ Was a man dressed in woman’s clothes.” “What, @ man disguised in woman's clothes! Who vaw this?” [ exclaimed, “I did, aud go did my clerk, My brother-in-law | Met the person on the street and sent a mun to iollow ‘her’ to the house, But we were all sure that ‘she’ must have been a man.”? “Did this person go into the nouse ?” I asked, “She did; but | maintaim that she was a mau in disguise, and should have been arrested,” said the storekeeper, most mysteriously, “The deuce you do!” I exclaimed. ‘How do you know? Teil me at once; give me some clew.” “Weil, I will tell you,” continued he in deep earnestness, ‘You see we watched ‘her’ very closely, and my brother-in-law saw black trowsers below the skirt 0/ ‘ner’ dress. The dress she wore evidently belonged to some smatler person, tor it was very short—too short lor safety as @ disguise.” “Well, a8 1 was saying, we noticed the bottoms of a pair of black breeches showing below tue akirts of ‘her’ dress. Then the strange actions of the person! ‘She’ did not act like a woman, but appeared to want to put her hands into ‘her’ breeches pockets. This was another mistake. The “make up” aso Woman Was very poor. 1 never Was on the stage or in the Kianapping business, but I think I could beat that job. ell; “ste,” as the person looked, or he, as 1 maintain, went down to the Ross mansion, hung around the place awnile ) $260, the objection that the contract was not made upon sealed bias Or proposals invited vy public adverusements, is equally fatal. (Chap, 446, sec. 88 See Laws 1853, volume 1, page 886.) Tue authorities on this subject are numerous and decisive :—Brady vs. The Mayor (20 New York, 312) ; | Hodges vs. Buffalo Dento, 112); Appleby vs. Tne Mayor (15 Mow., 428) ; Supervisor of Kensseluer vs. Bales (17 New York, 242); Smith vs. The Mayor 227-6 Geid., 508); Dillen on Municipal Corpora- tions (sec. | 372); [ills vs. The Mayor (I Daly, 102), The judgment must be reversed and new trial ordered, with costs to abide event, THE CAPE MAY CATHOLIC “REVOLT,” What the Diocesan Authorities Newark Say. Yesterday alternoon, with a view to having fur- ther light thrown, and from an oficial souree, on the parochial “revolt” reported as having broken out the preceding day at Cape May, between the pastor of the Catnolic church there, Father Degan, and bis flock, @ HERALD representative called at the Bishop’s residence, ao exceedingly modest looking building on Bleecker street, in the rear of St. Patrick's Cathedral. It was stated in the first report that the case was to be reported to Bishop Corrigan, but 1t was found that that dlg- nitary was away from home, had gone to visit Bishop W. A. McCloskey, of Louisville, and would not return until next Monday. Very Rev. George H. Doane, Vicar General, was, however, at the episcopal residence, and im response to inquiries and then disappeared. ‘She was not arrested, | S'ated that he was unabie to give any positive In: which I claim Was avery great mistake, as I am | fea eriten Fei tieweh — fan sure he or “‘she’’ was one of the “gang.’' { hac pte. Knew. nothing statement of. the case, hadtoek gredumily breaking Wri pactigeen of it beyond what he had read tn the HERALD, On ing the identity of this mysterious person. Ke- | !ts face the rqport bad many errors, bs haggis straining my risibility with great difficulty unt #fatr, eas eee tg) ae be ph 8 eee the well-meaning sitizon of this quiet a ae Ps ordinarily prndent. it Mtwat be Mate peg foacneor which. insted, for, several auinatees es “sacred’! concerts Which appeared to have been | 5 r at the bottom of the matter were far from being the rst lucid interval { barely found breath t0 | sien in reality. ‘The Vicar General said there waa He or 9? | no statutory law in the diocese about the hour of 18a eee ek, con teatinividuatsad could | Uolding vesbers, At the cathedral they were held i see What she ‘had to do with the Ross case. | generally at half-past seven. The ciergy throughout th ‘are & great many who think just as does tius | ‘We diocese arranged the hours as suited them best. tan Gardenia vender oruerchaadine Besides, it was not compulsory on Catholics to go bart T POLIOR HEADQUARTERS” to’ Vespers, as It was to go to mass, Attending everything inoves ‘on in the same languid order. | Vespers was purely & matter ol desire and option Licutenant Crout 4s still very much interested in | With heey Be ne Led Nd vadise Doane siveene working out the identity of the boy who was seen he wou 1 ve io om me J i je adi iNet at Allentown and regarding whom your corre. | Case would, No doubt, vet ges Aegis aes ayl se odent gave such a detailed and circumstantivi | Stated In i's connection as a tact that in the arrative. lam told that the police are about to Catholic Church ali innocent enjoyments of a make a grand Strategic move, put as I have, pleasurable or recreative character are fully per- daring the last month, passed some very anxions | Miltted after service some time during Sundays. hours waiting for the developement of Central ReUaRRRRSORETS Office theories, I shail not borrow anxiety in this | THR WIPE OF A JEBSEY EX-SENATOR SHOT, Inatance, Tue, trath Mares no one.” gays the old maxim, and, if so, the trath in-this case may | A singular accident nappened recently to the be plainly stated when I declare that tue police ‘ . have et clew nor theory. The case practically wife of ex-Senator John G. Trusdell, of New Jer- stands just where it did five weeks ago. Sey, at their home in Kast Orange, Her husband | was away and the coachman said he thought there were burglars in the house, The lady told him ere to get a pistol. He got it, but was unable Todischarwe i Mrs, Trusdeli essayed to instruct the dumb Jeba, but uniortunately shot herself through the finger. The wound is, juckhy, com- paratively trifling, but ‘the racket raved was considerable. There were no burglars about what- The Kidnapping C: To THE Epiror ov THE HERALD:— Have you any imiormation as to the market value of boys out West? Could the mysterious kid- nappers ot Charley Ross be agents of the Child- ,Ten’s Ald Society? The Brooklyn branch of it got ‘into court and mulcted in fines and damages to | ever. Jehu shot of when the pistol dis the cane of over $350, in 1872, Jor a gisposition of s | charged, He thougt ne bad committed murder, child without Cnt LA le Maher es -— = and but two weeks ago the How: lef people RAN here were similarly involved, ‘This might oe THE WHISKEY WAR IN GE, worth looking into. revival of the WHOSE OHILD I8 IT? H A Singular Case at the Central Office. ‘The eastern train which arrived at the Grand Central depot at six o'clock last evening brought @ bright eyed, intelligent looking child, about five years of age, arouna whose neck was & tag, upon It seems something like a ti em de SLAVE TRADE. ‘The Orange authorities se termined to put a stop to the practice of dealers selling liquor without @ license, and bave ior weeks past been prosecuting such persons. Yesterday jadgment was rendered against a number of persons, who were fined $20 and costs, A JERSEY CORONER STABBED. Last evening a row occurred in Bennett's saloon, one side of which was written, “Ulara Scully, 62 Jones street, Now York,” and on the reverse side, “Mother to meet this boy at Grand Central depot.” ‘The child was put on the train at Springfield, Mase., by a man who paid his fare to this city, and Tequested the conductor to look alter him, On arriving here @ mother for tne child could not be found, and after asonable time for her to put in an ap- faarauee. te was turned over tothe police. An oticer took the little fellow to No, 62 Great Jones street, but the people there knew nothing of bim, He was then taken to No, 62 Jones street, which runs from Bleecker to Fourth atreet, but here, tuo. the good people kuew aothing of the child. Noth- on Newark avenue, Jersey City, in which Jona Mahan, one of the Coroners of Hudson county, was stabbed bya young man, who made his Mauan received medical attendance; his w not of # serious character. AN AGED PRINTER DECEASED, Utica, N. Y., August 3, 1874 John Cooley, Sr., the oldest printer in this State, died in this city yesterday at the age of seventy four years, He was apprenticed in Cork, Ireland, in 1813, came to Utica in 1851 and bas worked at the cage almost continuously more than sixty-on@ Tarte