The New York Herald Newspaper, August 6, 1874, Page 3

= ‘see THE LOST CHILD, | cepreersisamccses atin t A New Phase of the Strange Mystery. THE UNPUBLISHED LETTERS. The Thieves Escaping While the + Ransom Is Discussed. What Is the Real Cause of the CrimeP The Offer of Restoration a Means of Deception. PHILADELPHIA, August 5, 1874. ‘The Rose mystery is now rapidly assuming 8 new phase, It is admitted by the police that had the only object in the minds of the kidnappers been @ question of dollars and cents this child would bave been found long ere this. The offer of Mr. Taggart has aiso remained open so long mow that it may be taken for granted that $5,000 will not bring even a clew. This is almost proof positive that the child has passed out of the hands of the original captors and that the third person who now has the boy is able to command more money for defence than is the attacking party, composed of both the city of Philadelphia and the Koss family. This adds immensely to the general curiosity, which grows with each hour, to know what motives could actuate any man or set of men to sacrifice a fortune to blight a household, and bodily and mentally ruin a man’s life. In the most sensa- tional of novels and on the boards of provincial theatres we read and witness such manifestations of hatred, but they are very rarely found in real life. Here, then, is a case in which @ stubborn heart, added to great power of will, is boldly arrayed against the peace of the family, the greatest feature of social life; arrayed against the treasury of arich city and the private means of @ score of honorable men of wealth who clamor for the life of the offender; arrayed against the combined detective ability of the Jand we live m and having the co-opera- tion of ten millions of tts citizens; and lastly, though by no means a trifiing matter, the power of vhe Almighty, who established the family and set the ties of affection deep in human hearts, is apparently defled and justice mocked. This state of things has now existed for five long weeks. A long, dreary month to every mother in the land, who trembles for the safety of * berown child just in proportion as the nopeless- meas of little Charley Ross’ fate grows more patent, “Money will do anything,” the old motto, is 9 mockery to her in her unhappy condition It has accomplished nothing, absolutely mot one tuaing, and about all hope of success in that direction is gone, Justice or injustice to all parties concerned, right or wrong in theory, Ican state for a fact that this | Which of necessity would furdish us with many ig the settled conclusion to which every officer in apy way connected with the case hascome. This case has ceased to be @ matter of a few thousand dollars. Twenty thousand dollars has not found Charley Ross, and it is datly becoming the convic- | grew more and more cruel, until at last the tion of every citizen that twice that sum would have no better effect. ‘ THE RESULT OF POOR ADVICE. Nothing short of the capture of the miscreant Qnd the child can ever clear this caseup now. It has gone beyond the limits of an ordinary larceny. The “Arabian Nights” may be searched in vain for parallel. The slave trade on the African coast is trifing compared with the ultimate results of this ew species of crime. The utter helplessness of the case, as it stands to-day, induces the feeling on the part of the whole people that every particle of the correspondence which has pagsea between the abductors and the police or the father of the chitd shall be published. These letters have utterly failed to furnish one clew to the few detectives who, under @ very incompetent leader, have been intrusted with the case, Tms the police admit god the imends of Mr. Ross confirm. As they have, then, proved utterly value- Jess to the police, there exists every reason why they should be published broadcast over this land, In order that all may read them, and that there may be.a million of opinions advanced upon each Clause instead of on two or three worthless clews. As there is to be no compromise, and as the threats of death to the littie innocent have been olten ana ireely made, there should be an end to ah oe shameful shamming and detective tom- toolery. LEY THE WHOLE TRUTH BE KNOWN. To be sure, there may have been some reasons for iorbidding the pubiication of these letters, but such reasons have now passed away forever. The suggestion was based originally upon the advice of @ mao who has acquired # mortal hatred to the newspaper press of the because the Philadelphia journalists (?) him in pubdlisting the Ofice was | “shadowed.” fist calied upon this gentleman about this cause I found that he hated the HEeRaLp because the journals of his own city were abusing him. ‘This was motive enough jor him to turow every obstacle in my path toward doing my duty, and I uctually believe up to this moment that the only great act of strategy which this great crime hus called forth trom tnis man’s brain has been to de- Jude the news(:) paper bh of this city into the idea that he knew all about the case and would not tell anything jost for revenge, An aggravated case of this kind of malice often costs people years | of repentance. JUSTICE DEMANDS PUBLICITY. ltis proper at this point to take up the asser- tion tiat ‘the publication oi this entire corre- spondence would defeat the ends of justice.” ‘This tg the principal arguwent advanced tn favor of the gow clearly fatal policy of suppressing tue letters. it certaimly is the question nearest to | ‘she heart of every man who wanw to gee the sconndre] or scoundrels punished. The correspondence which was opened with the “original parties” on the 3d of Jaly has been closed up long since. For the truth of this i nave the words of the police and two members of the ‘arm of Ross, Shott & Co, The great bulk of corre- spondence, ‘amounting to more than 300 letters, comes from confidence men, silly soothsayers, syn pathenc mothers and romantic scnool girls, They een all sorts of theories, from the far- | sighted Connecticut pedagogue who advises “that | the payment be made in marked money, and after that the subsequent watching of every grocery store and banker’s counter in the laud,” to the confident youth trom North Carvlina who declares that “with a peach tree sprout, @t the place of Chariey’s disappearance, he can foliow him to his present abiuing place.” One 1d all conciude, with a few notable exceptions :. ‘is is of any Value,” or “I am @ poor woman,”’ or “It I had the money to go on to Philadelphia and talk with you about the clews.” In short, all auch are appeals for the loan oi a few doliars, HERE HANGS THE MYSTERY, But the few letters which came from cither the @bductors or the custodian of the child were of a far different nature irom this. They are of such a nature, 1am now aware beyond & doubt, as to convince the parents of the child that the person ‘who penned the letter had the boy. The proofs, such as a piece of the stocking, with the darning | in 1%, & lock of his hair and the mention of several | birth marks on the child’s body @re convincing. As long a8 the father was in communication witn that individual it was right and proper that he ahould keep the letters, not only from the press, but irom even intimate friends. Ii they had been kept irom the police the father might have haa his boy to-day. But that is all past now. This correspondence naturally ceased when the author of it found that it was being made a means to track him. The miscreant admitted, by the very act of ceasing to write, that there was a clew to be found through his own letters. He suddeniy stopped wri More than three weeks ago, and #ince that time the Post Office Department nas not | Jurnished the slightest clew regarding the where- abouts of the missing boy. Not that have ceased to come purporting froin the custodian of the child, bub the one fact that renders them all worthless is that a dozen letters, ali mailed on the same day irom as Many widely diferent localities, declare ‘that “1 the $20,000 ts deposited in a bank and the check made payable to bearer 80 that tt can be drawn in sixty days thereafter the oblld will be turned up.” sc. it is clearly settled in the minds of all members of the detective bureau that the negotiations with the real captors are ended; that that book is closed and will not be opened again. ‘The strange theories growing out of this and the proots tending to show that tne demand of $20,000 ransom was meroly @ taunt, not expected to answered, I will, deal with in another letter. Indaee it has jong been @ auestiog in poy min fact that tle When Dd, broke faith with | Post | | Rumor hath it that the celebrated statesman in NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 1874.—WITH SUPPLEMENT. nent net At A = conjure up doubts as to whether @ ransom was even comsempiated. The demand for this sum, addressed to a ban: t Man, is like telling a beg- gar he can ride if he will pay jor the carriage. INTERVIEW WITH A VETERAN. ‘Thad a long interview this morning with an old wellknown veteran detective. My sole perpons in going to him was to ascertain whether the pub- lication of the correspondence would or would not defeat the ends of justice. I asked Mim the following question :— “You are interested in this case, and you have nt mach money to antangie it, You know ail about these letters now in the possession of Mr. Ross and are aware precisely what suey contain. J want to ask you @ plain, simple, straightforward question. If | should secure these letters and | publigh them would such action upon my part ren- der additional security to tie tuleves f” “By po means,” he ‘answered me. ‘There is Do man in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania that has this case more at heart than! have. There la no man that has spent more cash to galo informa- | tion than myseif; bat i have always argued from | the outset that these letters coming from the kid- nappers to the father should be made pabhe, I have always sald that lithograpuic copies should be Made Of all of them and that they should be scatcered broadcast throughout the country. Each moment the father conceals these letters he is rendering the recovery of his little one more and more uncertam, He has no reason whatever for concealing them, There 18 neither consistency nor common sense in such action upon his part. It only tocreases the terribie suspicion entertained against him by many in the commu. nity, which, 1am sure, are unjustly founded, and have been irom time to time most cruelly advanced, These letters, beyond all ques- tion, would furnisn much light upon what just’ now is dark, and would lead to many new tueorles, me one of which would be almost certain to lead to the discovery of lus Jost one. 1 cannot imagine for @ moment why he guards them so strictly. In doing this he must certainly be working under the guidance of very ignorant and Mcompetent men,” ‘THE ULSIMATUM OF HUMAN SORROW. “Well,” Lapswered him, “the father says some of the letters are very cruelly worded, and if pub- lished would seriously interiere with the peace of mind 01 his wile.’” “That is simple nonsense,” he answered me. “[ have no douvt the fatuer gave you this as his reason, but to people oi my profession any such excuse as this 18 regarded as devoid of common sense. Surely in this loss of her child the mother is afilicted as much as any parent could be, and I am sure that she would be willing to be any additional. sorrow which tne exposure of their correspondence wouid give, provided any such temporary sufertug would render this child’s recovery more immediate. Let us take It upon the very broadest grounds that the mont imaginativ’ fight of Mr. Ross’ mind could seror induige in. Suppose, for the moment, thacl am not aware of the contents of these letters, and suppose that all the knowledge I Dave of the same comes through the mouth of Mr. Ross imself—suppose, in fine, these letters of the kidnappers hurl the bitterest malo- dictions upon the mother’s head; suppose they outrage and insult her pure character to a degree beyond AA YCHIEE that mortal eyes haye ever read. Suppose all this, and what does it amount to? Ii parties capable of stealing a child choose abuse an upright and honorable woman, {8 any one some to place conf dence In what they say? If a set of men surouge, the impulse of despicable characters and brutal instincts commit an unheard-of crime, and aiter committing it turn their attention, for the sake of money, to the abuse of an eatimabie lady, is any one in the Commonwealth of Philadeiphia going to believe them?” “How do you regard the refusal to publish these letters?” I asked. “Jt ig mudness for thts father to withhold from ublic scrutiny anything that would furnish a clew o the recovery of his child, as the publication of these letters would do, {tis also foolish tirat he should give a8 @ reason for such action the excuse that the correspondence would hurl abuse upon his wile, when the source from which that abuse came would be so vile that the community, to an individual, would condemn {t as a lie, 1 admit that the father committed a fearful error, in | the first place, when ne allowec the fact of their correspondence to be made public; but more fatal is the error he commits now in keeping dark a number of highly important letters tuoportant points, Some one of which maght solve this otherwise hopeless mystery. WHAT THESE LETTERS CONTAIN. After the first Personal which was published by the father the letters from the kidnappers poured in upon him very rapidly. Each letter thieves stated that unless their terms were at once comphed with the child would meet with total annibilation.” I was somewhat surprised at the manner in which these letters were written and the way in whicn they were spelied. I found after exumination that the simplest words were grossly misspelled, while words of more than three syllables, like “annimla- tion,” the identical word they used, were spelee correctly, This led me to imagine | that the parties who were writing the letters were not experienced blackmaitlers, the correspondence it was periectly evident to me that the police were fearfully in error, and that the kidnappers were perfectly aware of all their movements. I will prove tnis by quoting the contents of anotuer letter which was probably the most bitter that Mr. Ross nas yet received, and which has been cautious! guarded Irom the public. It stated that the ki Rappers were acquainted with the fact that their former letters had been shown to the police; that they (the thieves) understood what the father was trying to do, and that he had better hesitate before he acted, They informed him that he was dealing doubly with them, and that as they had his child in Cepnicle2 session he bad better not attempt foul piay, ney stated that they understood ls “game” perfectly, that they were prepared for any emergeucy, that they appreciated the danger of their situation and that they were under aby circumstances able to All through | watching ite approach. EXPERIMENTAL AERONAUTISM. —.—- Professor Wise Still Demonstrating tne Easterly Current—ascent of Mr. Charles E. Wise from Stratford, On- tario—A Successful Voyage and Safe Landing. STRATFORD, Ont., August 4, 1874, Towards noon to-day your correspondent ar- Tived at tne lively Canadian town of Stratford, and, after a drive of two miles along a highway thick with suffocating dust, alightea at a hospit- able hotel, where Professor Wise was busily en- gaged ip preparing ior bis ascension in the balloon Ontario, He stated that he had already made 447 aérial voyages and anticipated, in the present in- stance, to accomplish the most successful ever attempted in the United Provinces. He com- plained of indisposition, but said he would be better when once he was in the air, his proper element. A VISIT TO THE FIELD where the balloon was did not give a very full assurance of the success of the ‘intended fight. The inflation had just commenced, Instead of the mammoth canvas there was seen on the ground one far short of the ordinary dimensions, ‘The car, which it was rumored woold contain five persons, had, by some unaccountable means, dwindled to a wicker basket, which was certainly not more than thirty inches in diameter and about fourteen in depth, THE CAPACITY OF THR BALLOON did not exceed seven thousand cubic feet, and, in addition to the netting and basket, the gas would not sustain a weight of three hundred pounds, A greater part of the after- noon was spent in filling this smail structure, which bad a perpendicular height of forty-five feet and a transverse diameter of twenty- five. At twenty minutes after five everything was announced to be in readiness, It was found im- Possible to assign to the HERALD correspondent a place in the wickerwork; but, apart from space, the balloon would not raise two persons, even had the basket been of proper limits. Professor Wise was prevailed upon by his son, Mr. Charles E, Wise, to allow him to make the trip—a request ren” dered exceedingly acceptable, as the Proiessor had not regained the usual buoyancy of his spirits, With a few pounds of ballast the balloon rose grad- ually from the earth and took a southeasterly di- rection, The spectators greeted the aight with prolonged applause, and the ‘fearless avronaut, standing upon the perilous edge of the basket, re- echoed their welcome cheers, THE ASCENSION ‘was made at an inclination of about forty-five de- grees. A lew scattered fleecy clouds lay around the sky, and against one of these the balloon ad- vanced until in the clear light it stood out in beautiful relief, Passing the cloud it rose into the biue unclouded deep, and, going eastward, finally dwindled almost away. As it was departing Pro- Jessor Wise, whose commanding appearance elicited many a remark of respect, arose on the gas tank and delivered ashort but INSTRUCTIVE ADDRESS upon the wonders yet to be achieved by aérial navigation. About seven o’clock the balloon, look- ing like a snowball in the eastern sky, was seen tg rapidly descend, and was lost behind a dense woodland in the far horizon. With many specula- tions upon the adventurer the crowd, which num- bered several thousands, quietly dispersed. Tow- ards ten o’clock at night intelligence was received tbat Mr. Wise HAD SAFELY LANDED Some nine miles distant and was on his way to town. On his arrival he showed how he had risen steadily to an altitude of 13,000 feet, had passed through several eddying winds and had entered | the great eastern current, In this he remained | tor three-quarters of an hour, until the balloon, tilling out in the rarefied atmosphere, lost a large quantity of gas and began to descead. Without ballast the arrest of the downward progress was impossible. On nearing the earth the grapple was | thrown out, but catching too suddenly broke tha cable. A short distance farther on the balloon dashed against a tence and was almost imme- Gtately secured by several persons who bad been | THE VOYAGE ‘was without incident. Mr. Wise and the balloon only acientific result associated with the adventu- rous flight is the confirmation of past views— that it is possible toreach Europe by keeping in the great eastern current. CREEDMOOR. The Sixth Contest tor the Team to Shoot the Match. ‘The members of the Amateur Rifle Club met yes- lection of a | International | Meet it. Of course this letter surprised tue police. It consumed in writing four pages of foolscap. It | was eyident that no movement, no matter how Secret, made by the police was unknown to the writers, while the point they made, | thut the father was trying to _ lead | them inco @ trap under the guise of false promises, | was fally dwelt upon. Again the chirography and diction of this letter surprised me, Parts of tt were clothed fn the slang used by knglish thieves, and other parts were written im a low Yankee | dialect, which seemed to indicute a tack of lore- sight upon the part of the writer so great that I could not help thinking again that ali the letters were written simply for a “‘blind,’’ in order to de- lay the aetectives in Lr oye yp while the actaal thieves, who had carried the child of for some other purpose thaff for money, could easily effect their escape. PETER B. SWEENY, His Advent Shortiy Expected by Tam- many Braves—The American Colony To | Be Forsaken—No Indictments Against Him. Chief Minister of the Tweed Cabinet and late City Chamberlain, Peter B. Sweeny, may be ex- pected back in the city at any day, he having re- solved to temporarily iorego the pleasure of re- siding any louger in the American colony at Paris. question, seeing the existing muddle in New York Politics, 18 about to enter the political arena once more, as he did when commandant-in-chief of the Tammany forces, His appearance at the present moment among the sachems and braves of Tammany woula oe the signal for the wildest demonstration around the council! fire, He can boldly assert that no indictments are to be found against his name, either pigeon uoled or iu District Attorney Phoips’ keeping, and he can speak with Kind sympatny over departed mutual iriends—some having gone to prison ana others to parts where extradition treuties are andreamt of. Indictments for conspi- racy und fraud against Hugh Smith, P. B. Sweeny, W. M. Tweed, James M. Sweeny and Bibeit A. Wood- ward were all quashed on December 2, 1872, Thus was provably done on the Pcie enunciated by Burke, when he exclaimed in the House of Com- mons, “Mr. Speaker, you cannot indict a whole nation.” Subsequently fresn indictments were found against Tweed and others. Elbert A. Wood- ward, jt may be remembered, folaed up bis tent, like the traditional Arab, and stole silently away, and has not yet returned, QITY HALL GOssiP, There was & regular powwow held at the Comp- trolier’s office yesterday afternoon. First ap- peared Police Commissioner Voorhis, who was closeted with Mr. Green for some time. Then the financial magnate came out of his private office to speak to his major domo, Colonel Tom Dunlap. While so engaged in walked Sheriff William C. Conner and shook hands with the Comptroller, upon which some of the bystanders remarked :— “Green is shaking hands ever the bloody chasm. Tom Duniap is the chasm.” Jackson 8, Schultz, Commissioners Latmbeer and Stern and numer- ous other “statesmen” put inan appearance, and tor some time there Was @ regular picnic in the Financial buread. ‘The cierks of the Board of Aldermen were made happy yesterday by receiving their warrants for the montn of ga, ‘The employés of the Commis- sioner of Pablic Works, however, are not quite so elated, as they are still waiting, with a prospect of ‘no near suture” of their last montn’a salary. ‘The Sinking Fund Oummissioners were called tomether yesterday to transfer the intereston city funds to the credit of the city. His Honor the Mayor, the Comptrolier and Chamberiain Lane were the only members present. His Honor Recorder Hackett being engaged in Court sent ‘word that he was unable to come, and Alderman Van Schaick being in Europe no quorum was resent, Whereupon the meeting was declared ad- journed. Mr. David C. Wendell, Mayor Havemeyer’s chief clerk, transmitted yesterday a certificate of ae- it for $287 26 to Mayor Wiltz, of New Orleans, Boing the varions amounts received at the Mayor’s omMce for the Louisiana gudercrs since the lasy | statement terday on the grounds of the National Rifle Asso- | elation, Creedmoor, for the purpose of shooting their last maten for the selection of an American | team to shoot the coming international match. The ehooting was pretty fair considering the gusty wind that blew fitiuliy across the range. The | weapons were of the pattern prescribed by the rules of the club, and the ranges shot at were 800, 900 and 1,000 yards, The Oring commenced at ten | o’clock by the gen lemen who had not completed thetr scores last Saturday, finishing them with the following result :— Last SATURDAY’S SCORES COMPLETED, rot James. ames. H. Fulton. G. W. Yak J. & Conlin. +1 i Backer, , A. Anderson. . ieut. Col. A. V. Cantiei. L. M. Balla: | L. L, Hepbarn. J.T. B. Collins E. H. Sanford. Gen. Dakin. SCORE OF THE AMATEUR RIFLE CLUB. Ranges, Totals, asdiseoe. fo] 80-3 434334 33 4 M4 94433444433 bali 1000-4 83333290302 Sane LIEUTENANT! COU B00-2 B8RS4ZI2294 43 O44 BS3R44 4844 2 a9 1,004 S3RZIS3S340 css ‘A.V. CAN 38433344435 47) 90-2 38944.33 343953 49 61:5 | 1,000-2 30333043384 av) 3. B0-258G33423424264 4%) | WU-3 302442244 53334 44 (139 | 1,000-3 33332303335304 “0 | 1, HRP | mO-2 330434445 19040. | 90-4 3330334 0453432. 1,00-$144053320304834 7, & GARDN! M02 23233480222224. 90-3 332403343344 1,000-0 403434424233 3. TB. CO 800-3 3342844008933 900 3400323543334 1,003 820308283433 43 BACKRR, 800-434344804843445 9-0 SUO00348443443. 1,000 324040285032 44 E, H. BANFOI 800-2 32443034422333. U4 V0304004439434 1,005 43008343303380 GENERAL DAKIN, 30-42 4484R03320008 W0-0 0034343443338 100-3 0033430343203 G, W. Al G04 0033333483334 QO—4 4333443445303 1,003 4030240035040 1b, Me BALLA 800-8 $8443334522030. OW-234038243332004 14,0002 202333442202300 3. WHITE 800-3 0448333403334 8. 9000 04344240335 533. 1,00-0003400023220004 A. ANDERSON. 0-008 ROOZSS RAGES. w0—-000240300383084 1,00-2 003330084625222 Ww. W. SKIDI 0-802080308 244304 wO-3 00083432439430 1,000 0020004000000 } The First battalion iniantry of the State National | Guard will proceed to Creedmoor to-morrow and | occupy the range. The German Saloon Keepers’ Central Organiza- tion, composed of the delegates of the different ward organizations lately formed for the protec- tion of the trade, held a meeting at the Germania Assembly Rooms, yesterday, where tt was reported that the organization is now composed of more than two thousand members, Delegates of sev- eral newly formed ward organizations were ad- mitted, and it was found that nearly every Gistrict in the city has organized, A resolution was passed directing the Kxecutivo Committee to co-operate with similar committees of the Brewers’ Association, the Liquor Dealers’ Association and other orgenizations, in makin; arrangements for a State Convention, to be hel this fall, in the interest of the Hacat, brewers’ and lager beer retail trade, with @ view of influencing the result of the election, and to exert a counter- acting influence agaimst temperance and class were taken into the town late in the evening. Tne | | unique design, legislation, CRICKET. St. George, of New York, vs. Manhattan. The St, George cricket fleld at Hoboken was yeaterday the scene of the return match between the Manhattan ana St. George first elevens, the result, as before, being a victory for the St. George club, Wo had out an excellent team, though one not a8 strong as they can present. Play was THE THIRD TERM. Letter from Ex-Governor Hebert—Views of s Representative Southerner—The One Great Question with the South, New Yorx«, August 4, 1874, To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD: — I have read with attention and regularity the series of editorial articles in which the HeRaLp called at noon, at which time the St. George sent | for more than a year past bas been discussing the in Messrs, Bunce and Cushman to the bowling of | candidacy of General Grant ‘or a third term of the McDougal and Greig. Before these two batsmen were parted the score had been run up to nineteen, of which Cushman contributed ten, Sieigh fol- Presidential office. With the gift of prescience the HeBaLD, more than twelve months ago, ap- peared to divine the circumstances that might lowed, and while in with Bunce the bowling was | lead to the re-election of General Grant, Through changed, Errington going on at one end and | the South, especially, have these articles been Gilbert at the other, belore tne second wicket fell, sieigh, alter get- ting thirteen in good style, giving place to tue veterau Gibbes, Bunce was not disposed ol until thirry runs had been placed to his credit, the third wicket falling for sixty-five. came ip, and he broke the run of scoring, Erring- ton’s first ball to bim taking his bails off neauy. Jones now | Forty rons were scored | read by thinking wen with deep interest. In that | section of the country there ts bat one question with the people, aud that is their peace and their material reconstruction, All the great issucs that hitherto divided parties, and about which the | democratic ana republican parties “chop logic” at Moeran, tov, laid a duck egg, Hayward beg his | the North, are as dust im the balance in compari- stumps, the first over he had, Aiverwards Palmer got in and played the prettiest innings of the Mmatcb, his twenty being obtaiedin fine style. Carpenter alterwards ran up thirteen, and thus ending the douple figure scoring, the inings closing lor the grand total of 121, of which 112 were off the bat, Tucker Jong stopping finely, while but few extras were allowed. Heyward bore off im in boWling, Atter luoch the Man- went in to the bat, Hosford and McDougal facing the bowling o1 Jones and Gibbes. Through bad judgment in running tue first three wickets jell tor two runs, aud this seemed to have & demoralizing effect on the Man- | son with the vital issues of domestic tranquility and their pecuaiary rehabilitation, The tariff, the finances and our foreign relations attract but little attention at the South. As for the public debt, her people would engage to pay their share of it in diamonds, instead of gold or greenbacks, provided they could have home rule and their quiet and prosperity once more restored and as- sured. These questions of their future peace and reconstruction sink out of sight all other issues, hattans; for, though Errington, Cammell and Gil- | and they yearniugly ask, How can they be se- bert scored double figures, the others were easily disposed of, ‘The Mannattans finally scored enough rung to gave them {rom following their innings, and as it was too late to complete the game wien the innings ended the score oi the first innings decided the contest. Gibves took the majority of wickets. The score is as follows:— et. GxoucK, MANHATTAN, Players, e. _ Players. Cashinaa, © Errington, ° Hostord, run ont b. McDougal. ti bes, c. Cammell, ‘b. Hey pes uiee Lemmor, b. Errington Carpenter, c. McDougal, BGM R ac <stass6 A. Earnshaw, not out... Erri Jones, ¢. Cash Harcomb, ¢. He Moecran.. Byen' to; leg’ 'b: ye: leg Me nett a Total... ates ‘SCORE AT THe VALL OF KACH WICK: ‘Vet, 2d. Bo 4th, Sth. th. 7th, 8th. WA. Oh, w 6 66 87 87 9 96 12h 1zi—121 2 2 27 38 57 5B 60 BU 6S Umpires—Messrs, James Smith and D, Cooke. On Augast 16 the Syracuse Cricket Club will visit ae to play &@ Match with the St George eleven. : BASE BALL NOTES. Fred Waterman, of the old Cincinnati Club, has organized a base ball nine in Cincinnati known as the Olympic Club, and on the 29th ult, the team played their first match, they visiting Milford, Oho, or the purpose, The contest proved to bea very close one, the score at the end of the tenth inning standing at 12to12 In the eleventh inning the Milfords got in six rons, chiefly by errors, and won by 18 to 12, The Mutuals, of New York, had quite a reception at Louisville on July 29, they being taken round the city m carriages. In the match played the same day they considerably “let up” on the Louis- ville amateurs, and won by 15 to'6 only. The next day they gave the Eagles Mathews and Higham to pitch and catch for them, taking the Engle pitcher and three fielders, and the Matual side won by 9to7 ‘The finest amateur game ever played at Pros- pect Park, Brooklyn, was that which took place on the 3d inst., when the Nassaus, of Brooklyn, de- feated tne Keystones, of New York, by @ score of 4 to 1, the Keystones escaping a “Whicago” in the last inning by getting tn a single run. ‘The old ball field at Irvington, N. J.¢ the scene of 0 many interesting matches between the Irving- tons and the Mutuals, Atiantics, &c., some years ago, is being enclosed as a proiessional ball ground for the use of the New Jersey clubs. The emblem of the amateur championship of the Btate of Connecticut, formerly held by the old Charter Oak Club, of Hartford, is to be awarded to the amateur nine of Connecticut, which tnis season bears off the palm. The Hartford amateurs and the Bridgeport Club are to play the first game for the embiem on Saturday, the Stainst. The prize is a beautifully mounted miniature bat, inade of a piece of the old Charter Oak tree. The finest amateur game thus tar played was that which took place in July between the Robert E. Lee and Lone Star clubs, of New Orleans, the score, at the close of the ninth inning, being 3 to 0. Previously the Harvard aud Princeton match of 3 tol, of 1873, bore off the palm. ‘the Lees, how- ever, now take the lead of all our Northern clubs, Three interesting amateur contests take place this week on the Union Grounds, Brooklyn, viz:— The Fly Awuy, of New York, vs. Coniidence, of New elie, to-day; the Nassau, of Brooklyn, vs. Fly Away, to-morrow, anda the Nameless, of Brooklyn, vs. Keystone, of New York, on Satur- day. ‘Tne latter match isnot fixed yet, but the Nameless Ciub‘are ready to play the Keystones on that big 2 Tne Bridgeport Clnb—amatenrs—have an en- closed ground at Bridgeport, and they are desirous of playmg the Nameicss and Nassau nines of Brooklyn, not to make gate money, oi course, but Just for the iun oj the thing. The Grafton, Howard, Chelaca ana Live Oak clubs, of Boston and vicinity, are the leading ama- teur nines this season in the Bay State. The Graiton had won the lead, when the Chelsea beat them on the 80th ult., 15 to 13, A tournament for amateur clubs is to commence on August 17, at Adams, Jefferson county, N. Y., at which prizes 0! $600 in amount are to be given. YACHTING NOTES. The Hudson River Yacht Club will have their annual regatta Thursday, August 13, Fast sailers from Yonkers, Peekskill, Cornwall, Newburg ana Poughkeepsie, will compete for the prizes. The course is from Newburg up the river ten miles and return, There will be a regatta at the Isles of Shoals on Thursday, the 20th inst., for the Uceantc prizes, consisting of solid silver pieces of much value and The first race will be for sioops and schooners measuring 38 feet ana upward on the water line, the second race for centre-board and keel sloops and schooners of 2 feet and less than 88 feet, and the turd race for centre-board and keel boats of 20 feet and less than 25 feet. The start will be a flying one, and the course as fol. | lows:— First class—-From the judges’ boat, moored between Star Island and Appledore, to the red | buoy off Kitts’ Rocks, southeast of Whale’s Back, leaving the buoy on the starboard hand, thence to Boon Island, leaving it on the starvoard haad; thence, leaving Appiedore or Hog isiand on the ort, and back to starting point. Second class— from the same line, Jeaving Lunging Island on the port hand, to the black buoy, about one mile north of the North Breakers, off Newburyport, leaving the buoy on the port hand; thence back to starting point, leaving White Jsiand and Lung- ing Island on the port hand. Third class—From the sanie line to red buoy off Kitt’s Kocks, near Whale’s Back, leaving it on the starboard hand; thence, leaving Eastern Rocks and Appledore or Hog island on the starboard and Smutty Nose on the port, and back to starting point. The jadges will be Benjamin Dean, Charles Levi Woodbary, J, Jettries, Jr.; A. H, Rice and E. E. Prebie. ‘The steam yacht Lurline, N.Y.Y.C., the property of Mr. Philip Paenix, naving broken her shait and Jost her wheel, on Sunday last, in the Sound is now on the dry dock here undergoing repairs. She sails to-morrow for a thirty days’ cruise, she bd a the “meet’? at Newport, on Thursday, the 1th. Mr, Thomas P. Ramsdell’s new steam yacht tne Fannie 1s approaching completion. She is to be jor service on the day of tue regatta in Newburg yachts Wille Rieintz and Al Dager, of Giou- cester, sailed from Thompson’s wharf, at the latter Jace, to the Chester Isiand buoy and retarn, on the Heiaware, distance twenty-five miles,on Monday last, for a purse of $500. The contest was very ex- citing until the Dager capsized of Clem El Point, ‘This unsatisiactory termination has led to another match of $300, which was to been sailed esterday. The next open race at Gloucester will ake place on the 17th inst., when many of the crack boats of the Deiaware and Sohuykill will participate. Yacht Scud (no ctub), Mr. Lindsley, from New York for Gien ve, passed Whitestone yesterday morning. “PIVE POINTS” PARK, It 18 @ source Of great gratification to be able to announce at last that the long talked of improve~ ment of the notorious Five Points has been fairly begun, This section of the city, so long the very nest of filthiness and degradation, has, for many years, been an eyesore to every respectabie citizen who might by cuance bave found his way into its uriteus. By degrees the influences of the churches the nelghboruood and the charitable institutions ratsed up in the very midst of aif the wretchedness had begun to pe tte and yesterday the first loads of the accumulated rubbish were removed, and ground may be therefore said to nave been broken jor the new fountain, surrounded with oryamental lamps, Which 18 to gladden henceforth the deui- zene of the neighborhoud, who are unused to sco such things hourly beiore theireyes. A handsome park wi) he laid out in the whilom iithy locality. cured ¥ "The democratic party as an organization is pow- erless to assist them, On the great questions of cheap transportation, the restoration of their levees, their transcontinental railroads and the opening of the mouth of the Mississippi they find tueir democratic triends at the North advancing HIDE-BOUND THBOBLES of constitutional construction and opposing these measures of Southern rehabilitation. No wonder that im their extremity they turn an ap- pealing look to the soldier President, who ¢ their surrender at Appomattox returned to their great leader his tendered sword, and who remembered then that the hour of tn- Uumph was the hour of magnanimity, That the Southern people shouid look Kindly on General Grant and favor nis re-election is not unuatural. ‘ney see in him the representative of a great force, such a8 no Man has typed in this country since the days of Jackson. They aee in him a power over the negro element at the South greater than the contro) of all the white repubili- Gans there put together, They see in nim o Presi- dent who has conducted the affairs of this country with infinite success for now over #1x years. That General Grant should bave made mistakes at the South was a necessity; circumstances made him powerless to do anything tor the true wellare of our peopie. Deluded by the appeals and assur- ances o1 Northern democrats, our people plunged helter-skelter into the political méice, and Gen- eral Grant was forced to use a8 pis {riends aud supporters just such material in each of the Southern states, not as he would, but as he could, I have no doubt he trted to cull it over and select the best_men he could find ADONE. his party friends for office. This of itself was 4 M not impossible task. It was expecting a ltt too much of human nature for him to take for his office-holders people Who were consorting with the enemies of his administration, The Southern ople did not ask it or expect it, and would have jooked with disfavor on any of their number ac- | copting office at his hands, in consequence of the bitter party feeling tea by the appeals of the Northern democracy. They had allied themselves ‘with @ party hostile to General Grant’s administra- tion and had no claim to be consulted in regard to the oMces, They have never yet, however, made an overiure that has not been met WITH KINDNESS AND A CONCILIATORY SPIRIT, General Grant, I have reason 10 believe, feels that mistakes have been made by his administra- tion in regard to the South, and has tried to make bo more, His course in Arkansas and Texas and is late refusal to. comply with a partisan demand jor troops in Mississipph show, better than words, the direction of bis mind, I have no snowledge of his views on the Civil Rights bill, 1 do not believe anybody has, He keeps his own counsel on public questions, and acts aiways on his own deliberate judgment, 1 have no doubt he favors and will sign a bill giving certain civil rights, not enjoyed now, to the negro race; but I have grave doubts whether the present bill, grossly interiering with the police powers o! the States, will ever re- ceive his sanction. I have seen but little of General Grant since we were at West Point together; our lines have laid | {a different places; but I know his character and appreciate jt He nas good seuse, courage and Mantulness, united in a degree unequalled by any | one since “Oid Hickory.” These sterling traits | made him the hero of the jederal armies and | enabled him to save the Union. I doupt whether | without hum the North would have ever suvceeded in the struggie. He had those qualities as a leader that command success. No wonder that he 1s STRONG WITH THE NORTHERN PROPLE. They would, indeed, be ungrateful i{ they did not always cherish him in loving remembrance. He preserved the integrity of the country, and it would not be unnatural if be should now desire to compose and pacity its people. 1 have no in- Jormation about his wishes in connection with @ third term; but Ibeleve that if any considera- tion could induce him to serve again in the Presi- dential office, it would be @ desire to tranquilize a country he did so much to save irom dismem- berment, and to retrieve any mistakes that cir- | cumstances might have induced his administra tiou to make ta the South. He has certainly a ood opportunity, one that seldom ‘alls to the | lot of man. If he should desire to embrace and unprove it, 1 trust and believe he will be seconded by the great body of the American people, with- | out regard to party. P. U. HEBERT, THE NORTH CAROLINA ELECTION TO-DAY. | The election that occurs to-day in the “Old | North State” is for Superintendent of Pablic in- | ! | struction and members of Congress. The tickets | are as follows:— FOR SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION, ratio. Republican, emrocr’ Thomas R. Parnell. Stephen D. Pool, FOR MEMBERS OF CONGRESS, Dist. . Clinton L. Cobb. Jesse J. Yeates. . John A, Hyman, James Blount, Neill McKay. Alired M. Waddell. James H. Headen, Joseph J. Davis. Wm. F, Henderson, Alired M. Scales, ©. L, Cook. Thomas S, Ashe. — Witham M. Robbins, Plato Durham. Robert B, Vance. | Messrs. Waddell, Vance, Cobb, Ashe and Rob- bing are membets of the present House of Repre- | sentatives and the State’s delegation now stands | three republicans and five dem.crats, the former representing the First, Second and Fourth ais- | tricts. Mr. Hyman, the republican nominee in the Second district, is a colored man of some ability, PPSP EF didates of his own color. This will probably so split the colored republican vote as to insure the election of Mr. Blount, the democratic candidate, ' and thus secure for the democrats a hitherto re- publican district. In the Sixth district E. 0, Davis is running as a granger candidate against Messrs ; Cook and Ashe, Mr. Plato Durham fs running in | the Bighth district as an independent candidate, | and, it is believed, will be generally supported by | the repa»licans, At the last election for Presi- dent Grant polled 94,304 votes and Greeley 69,474. In August of the same year (1872) the vote for Governor was:—Caldwell (republican), 98,630, and Merrimon (democrat), 96,731. Colonel Pool, who | heads the democratic ticket, 18 @ veteran journal- | ist of Newoeru, an ¢x-Coniederate officer and gu- tnor of @ work on the services rendered during the war by the North Carolina troops, and it is sate to say that he will poll the fall conservative vote. The canvass has been very spirsted in the State, the race issue having been raised in some districts, and the prospects look bright for the conservatives gatuing one, and, perhaps, two dis- tricts, in addition to the five that went demo- cratic in the last Congressional election in the State, THE FIRE DEPARTMENT. The National Convention at St. Louis. The Fire Commisstoners were in session all day yesterday. They were mainly occupied with routine business, which is of no general interest tothe public. It is somewhat singular that the | members of this Board meet in secret and do not allow representatives of the press to be presont at their sessions. Secrecy of tuts kind is apt to create unfavorable comment, and in this case tho criticism scems to be particalarly well founded. Commissioner Perley, who tssued trom the secret session, stated that the Commissioners bad only transacted unimportant business. He said the Chief of the Chicago Fire Department bad written to the Board, asking them to detail the instructor ot the corps of sappers and miners for @ short time to Chicago lor the parpose of originating @ | etmilar corps there, and that the instructor, | fessor Stritenger, held the matter now under ad- Visement. He was unaie to give any information in —— to the convention of firemen which is to be held at Oswego, except that 16 19 calied for the Pirnoee of o1 izing AN association representing his State. This city will not be represented, ‘The national convention of fremen which {3 to meet at St. Louis in October will be attended by Chief Bates as delegate from this city. At this meeting various matters bearing upon the beat interests of the service Will be discussed and re- commendations will be made in reward to the best construction of buildings, who has us opponents two self-annoaonced can- | —a. SARATOGA GOSSIP. The Distinguished Visitors of the Season. VICE PRESIDENT WILSON. Divers Views on General Grant, His Character and Purposes. RACING AND ROWING. Sanatoaa, August 5, 1874, The season at this place is now at ite height, August is the great month for Saratoga. Whom do we have here? Well, we have the Vice President of the United States, that biue- eyed, larged-bodied, dne-iooking Henry Wilson. It is easy to like this man, for with all hms desola- tion he 1s ruday and cheerful spoken. He draws the best audiences, 1or we are all, more or less, warm lovers of our governing men. Nothing that Henry Wilson ever did incited hate, The soft word that turneth away wrath he has always been first to speak. His history of “The Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America,” of which he nas written one-third of the third and last volume, has made him @ permanent mark tn the annals of that great contention, which probaly exceeds in moral importance any act which has happened since Constantine declared tor the Christian religion, Mr. Wilson, above any of our public men, has been @ mingler with the common people. It is said that more babies are named for him than for any man in and out of Massachusetts, George Washingtom not excepted. Not avery bold type of man, averse to contro- versy where it will antagonize some useful man, Mr. Wilson bas led @ life so quiet and acceptable that only man-haters think it constatent and duti- ful to brand him, He bas had the great merit of being always forward and yet right in the general regimen and direction of the republican party, while powerfully protesting against the acts of persecution visited upon opponents of the adminis- tration. His birth is humble, but his bearing is that of A MAN OP RECORD. Fate has fatefully dealt with him. His wife died of cancer; hig children died one by une. His mouth 1s clear of slander. He never berates an absent opponent; he generally restores com- Piaigauce with a present one? Yet, who ever heard of him abandoning a broad leading posttion for mere controversy’s sake. He serves the greater cause by refusing to be prominent for some mere adjunct to the final solution of that issue, He dignifies the great victory by refusing’ to fall out on the way with a mere disputant. Men like Garrison are hard, severe and splenetic Men ike Phillips are caustic, violent and erratic. Men like Sumner forget the great principles of their demre by reverting to little personal affectations, which only drag down a bign thing tothe gutter of the scramble. Henry Wilson has been cogent and co- operating with his party, feeling that for one man to fall across the path of so vast a party 1s mere egotistical sacrifice, with the effect to excite diversion and propel nothing usetul. He is to-day THE TYPICAL PUBLIC MAN of Massachusetts. A sick Vice President, witn no great admiration for General Grant's perveraities, he has not intended to break up the entente cor atale of the party, and it 18 to such men that we owe the superior unity, vigor and, perhaps, in- vineibility of this great and greatly organized party, which has fought the greatest war of mod- ern times, carried all its moral purposes up to vic- tory, and so raised the status of man that we are ail trembling in lear that ne (weak promotion) Wil not be avie to keep himself pure in this great exaltation of trusted citizenship. THE PRESLDENT'S VISIT. We have had the President here, too, That mys terious, successiul man, Grant, stopped at the Congress Hall, where Wiison stops, He was not specially noted or honored here. Saratoga is 80 btn anes that it does not muck bucage op residents or Vice Presidents. General Grant avoided committing himself, by the advice of thoughtful iriends, to household relations which would raise invidious queries. He deparied irom Saratoga without a scandal of any kind, without 4 coalition. which would give bim a qualm. I asked Mr: Perry, of New Jersey, why the Presi dent had built @ Rouse in addition to that he al. ready owned @; Long Branch. The Perrys, ol Newark, are well housed @t the Branch, “Well,” said Perry, “we ali think down there that he built the second house in order to get rid of the imputation that the first was presented to him. ‘rhis showed then a rising desire for indepen- dence in the President’s mind, He is still aman oi superstiti a werlul competitor for the presidency again, With or Without bis own assent. Mr. Farau, an editor of Omcinnati, recently wrote vo bis partner, Washington McLain, here a8 fol- lows :— “The sppearances ail favor Governor William | Allen a8 the next candidate of the democratic j party. He ts another Harrison. The repabditcsos will Dominate Biaine or Wasnburne unless there be 4 War ol races in the Soutu, whic seems more and more imminent every day. 1n that case Grant will be the republican candidate or tue democratic candidate. UU upon him.” THE POWER OF GENERAL GRANT is in hts safety—a quality which means renebittty as toaction in the moment of military peril it the country can,come to that state where mil rary sagacity and decisive action in the. battle fel wil be requisite, Grant “will be jate perforce—perhaps & democratic candidate. hid pe the Southern men here he is already an object o! tion and superstition, Above all other candidates he 1s surrounded with men who will put their money up to aid him. it ts generally un- derstood in the inner circle that bis semily and connections Wish him to run again, but that his Own mind is averse to that action for the present, Senator Anthony, of Rhode Island, avers that hé will, 10 No event, adopt such a course, Mr. Anthony has been @ large part of the season at Saratoga. He 18 timsell, without saying @ | word, @ possible candidate. He says of Grant, and hts opinion 18 not to be ughtly pussed over:— “He is be td smari, but @ mysterious, Man, | He staggers the judgments of meu. He stands oy bis friends 80 that they must stand by him; yet, io Notte emergencies he always mits the popular pide.’ Mr. McLain, before referred to, ls of a different opinion from the President on the currency ques- tion, He thinks the Western peonie are deter. mined upon more currency, but he also has a deep idea of Grant's deptn of resources and character. GOVERNOR OURTIN, UF PENNSYLVANIA, who Is here, shows some disposition to go over to the democratic party, in order to arrest the 4nd vareiaced evils of democratic politics im bts native State. He says the peopie there demand instant and mere currency aud a less monopolised system Of banking, ‘The better class of democrats deplore the de- fection of Governor Hendricks, whom they think to have ruined his chances for the nommation jor the Presidency, and to have ven led into a heresy repulsive to his nature by Morton’s tactics, Of course they reier to the Indiana platform, On the contrary the strong influcnce and decided ter of race White, operating mn Movormick, the reaper man, have given tue Lilinois democrats & ard money platform, reconcliable with demo- cratic traditions. It is generally believed among the many. democrats at Saratoga that the currenc, democ Wil be spewed oat of couvention an the independent republican press will then su port @ bard money democrat ior the chief mi Baile. against either Grant or Washburne, or 1aine. Ww hi ‘rw ud amatent ste in e are to have @ gran Fogel Springbok on the days of Augast 24, 29, 8) There Wii be not jess than twenty crews, irom all parts of the South and North, Next Saturday, Acgast 8, the second great Sara- toga meeting will begin, stopping not until She 208) with nine racing days. Tio stables o: Morris an Sanford have departed, but the bark of the great horses will run, and for the four mile it is ie i thought that Springbok, Jack Frost, Arizoi 7 feaudt and welomeraté wit stare” There Wil else be a great race next Saturday. Three handred thousaid dollars changed hands in the Arst tget- ei 2 ft 19 ramored that Sanford’s horse, Preakness, Was benten for ene, {hres Mules race by ill traiming an i of oO} a bears Upon Springbok as the superior horse, DROWNED WAILE BATHING, Coroner Woltman yesterday held an inquest in the case of yohn Dann, of 109th street and Second &veaue, Who was drowned several days ago while bathing at Mart’s Island. Patrick and Thomas Ryan and Joseph Chartress, companions of Dunn, were bathing with him when he lost his lif. For some reason Hot developed an uncle of Dunn's caused the arrest of the turee young Men OD & charge of causing his death, and were each inacing | held in bali answer. Noth 4 dnving & Maree were the evidence elicited oa thet \ them im the least, and the Jur; verdict of accidental drowning, discharged, onarac- .