The New York Herald Newspaper, August 8, 1874, Page 2

2 —— : ‘00D's MUSEUM—TWO PERFORMANCES. N aT B 7° AT 8, | EOF da 3, t= 9 son | __uv wife warm THEATRE. GLOBE Los! Sak he ‘Brealey pre To Riad é Ki en ee eM ot a, varied Dature—Sparkling eran Jeauritll Ballets Glorious Farcos, ‘iietines, Oracorical Efusions, Graceful Qym~ ‘Ventriloquial Boones, Ovigiaa ceomegne, OS fr Rotor Specialties, crac! ef as, ai toni ator BOB HART, NRLSE SEYMOU ope HOSA, Miss PHILLIS GLOVER, ing MAGGIE GRAY AND 1b OTHER ‘AR A Migs MAGEE AICS, 2% CENTS, 50 CENTS AND 61. Fveuings st 8 Matinees Wednesdays and Saturdays at ‘1BLO'S THEATRE. C. R. THOR! MANAGER. Ne esis Renata PENA LO Bove, American 2 soe! ra Oh must be withdrawn for the bi —_ GRERYTTH GAUNT, on MONDAY EVENING, Augast 10. QyIBLO'S THEATRE. Nias Night Last Matinee of RYANGELINE. GRIFFITH GAUNT ON MONDAY, 1's THEATRE —EVANGELINE, THE BELLE bs tharetie Of fot ON fionpay. ((0L0SSKUM. SSUMMER SEASON, 50 CENTS. J OLD LONDON BY Day. Magic Entertainment in Lectoriam. ‘Open daily trom 10 tall dusk. ETROPOLITAN THEATRE, 585 BROADWAY. STANDING BOOM ONLY EVERY BVENING. Mme. VIOLETTE PICAUT'S PARISTAN es CAN (4 CHAHUT DANCERS. IN THE GREAT LU LU SENS A‘ One Bu STAR PERFORMERS. One Hundred INTRANCE 585 BROADWAY. MATINEK WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY. 8 PE TE re at GLOBE TH: ATRE TO.De ONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE. THE VERY LAST OHANCE, LAST NIGHT LAST NIGHT of the CAN CAN ai THE PEMALE MINSTR! THIS. (SATURDAY) EVENING. Fey not miss the last chance to see this great sensa- tion. panes AND CHILDREN’S MATINEE AT GLOBE THEATRE, AT 2, __ BEST ENTERTAINMENT IN ‘THE WORLD. RoBiNsox HALL, _Mateenta sireet, between Broadway and Fifth avenue, LL OP! ith Mile. M. SEIS, DELACGUES am Pi will le. Al CU) CANCAN-TROU ee AND MME, RENTZ’S FEM. MATINEES TUcSDAY AN. “BOS OFFIC NOW OPEN. OBN HART AT GLOBE THEATRE, narch ot Ethiopian Comed! at MATINEE TODAY. at 2 Pe TUMOR! fe. SECOND REGIMENT BAND. LMORE, M. K. BOTSFORD, AGENT, LEADER AND DI R. | OF FICK, 841 BROADWAY. THE VERY BEST baker esau POR ALL OC- qrnrs BEAUTIFUL BALLET, MATINEE TO-DAY, at2 P. M., ___ at GLOBE THEATRE, 728 Broadway. TPSKRACB GARDEN THEATRE, JOHN KOCK, ope with Pauline Canisss, Wassmann, Habel Weinlich, Schultz, Hubsch and others, MARIHA. ANNI WEINT UND HANSI LACHT. GRAND ORCHESTBA—ED. HASEA, Conductor. Admission, 50c.; Reserved Seata, S0c. extra, at Terrace Garden ticket office. GPNATOR BOB HART, BILLY YOURTWRIGHT, NELSK SEYMOUR and Miss PHILLIS GLOVEB, at GLOBE THEATRE MALINBE TO-DAY, VENTRAL PARK GARDEN. NY CYTuis narURoay) + VENING, AvGUgE a A a” LODORE THOMAS? ONCERTS. RAND COMEDY AND MUSICAL PERFORMANCE | atthe large hall of the PAVILION HOIEL, NEW BRIGHTON, §. L, on SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 8, by members of the _ FIFTH AVENUE | HEATRE COMPANY. ITALIAN AND GERMAN OPEBA COMPANIES and the NINTH REGIMENT BAND. Reserved Seats $1, at New Brighton and 114 Broadw: MATsz8 TO-DAY, AT 2 P. M., at the GLOBE THEATRE. All the STAR COMPANY appear. (pHE T EVENING TELEGRAM. ALL THE THEATRICAL NEWS OF THE DAY EVERY KVENING, 667. REAT SOUL IN A SMALL BODY.”—BEAUTIFUL httie Book, entitled “Do You Love Music? given | away, or malied free. Address PRIVATE MUSICAL UNIVERSILY, 24 West Fourteenth street, or THE -_ PIANOFORTES, ORGANS, &O. A’ @] UNION SQUARB—UAINES BROTHERS WILL otter their fine assortment of first ciass Pianofortes at prices which cannot fail to suit the times. New Pianos to rent and rent applied toward purchase if desired. Old Pianos taken im exchange. A SACRIFICE FOR CASH. INSTALMENTS OR to rent beautiful rosewood {ull7 octave Pianoforte and Stool; fully xual GOLDSMITH’: STEINWAY & SO teed. 6 lee cker street, near Bowery. S$’ PIANOPORTE, EVERY IM- provement, great barvuin for cash. A rosewood | Piano, roany corners, carve lesa, only $100, __J. BIDDLE, 13 ‘Waverley place, near Broadwa; STEINWAY PIANO, 74 OCTAVE; CHICKER) Piano, $90; Piano with organ attachment, $150; 7 stop Orgam, cheap | PeCK & SON, Al Clinton Place, Kighth street, near Broad wi MAGNIFICENT ROSEWOOD PIANOFORTE POR sale—Four round corners; celebrated maker; used Py Devt a inciuding Staal, Cover; Parlor, | Dhamber, Dining Furniture; sacritice; property famll leaving city. 36 West 1oth st. near Sth ay, mY | PIPE TOP ORGAN—COST $325, NEW, FOR $100; 7 octave overstrung Piano, $150, or rent; $4. GORDON & SON, 1 Eust Fourteenth st, near Pifth av. MAGNIFICEND F, C. LIGHTE & GO, 7% OCTAVE tovewood Pianoforte, all improvements, fall agratfe, | Garved case, tour round corners, made to order: cost 31.00, $90); also elegant 7'g octave, Broadway maker. for $200. ° Cail at private residence 1g) West 23d fear 6th av. N. B.—Box tor shipping. NEW. YORK HERALD, SATURDAY. AUGUST 8, 1874.—WITH SUPPLEMENT, AMUSEMENTS. Boor THEATRE, OPENING NIGHT. Messrs. SARRETT & PALMER thot enagerne ent will octer on) wabllshment if NEXT MONDAY EVENING. when they will present a new and three aca), ented Le LAMAR, n the anepisode t1 late American conflict, written ex- reaaly Mr. JOHN McCULLOUG! ss for Me ON BOUCIGAULT, gl in whic! Mr. souN’ McCU, UGH Miss K. ROGERS RANDOLPH will sustain the leading parts. Ui , mel in Unites - mandin; jae Whtestone Gap. Mr. JOH. AOU an foal play da Marston Officers ; + Mr, PF. B. : ix OWEN MARLOWE = vu, Satay. ee GES FAtOLTON riz... General Thomas J. Jackson, command: federate troops, known “as “Stone Claiborne held: {Jackso D rn ‘ac! Rem Shea Soltiers in Marston { ..Mr. C. LE CLER! Pat Dwyer...) Pike's command, (Mr.J.W. BURTON! Uneie Dan, an old Negro Siav Mr. J. B IRVING Isabel ing! ay Lady. Miss ROGERS RANDOLPH attached to Bligh's service and fol. lowing hi iment. .Miss MAKGUERITE CHAMBERS: (The play will be produced under the immediate super- vision of the author.) The scene Is laid at and in the Shenandoah Valley. Time—Sprit 1862. of | Act I.—Scene 1—Ihe Banks of the Blackadder: the Contederate Plot Act I1.—Mount Lamar; Stonewall Jackson Moves Across the Blackadder. hitestone Gap; the Passage of the Shenan- Act —Wi Mow Somnory by VORGTLIN w Music by CONNOLLY. «fi New and Appropriate Uniforms, rimy | 3 sto Honor Metuee B ies SALE OF SEATS! (1 “The Box office will be open THIS (Saturday) MORNING at EIGHT O'CLOCK and up to 5 P. M. Seats can always be secured six days in advance. PRICES, ADMISSION. -ONE DOLLAR Dress Circie B0c. Reserved 0 iL 50 Reserved Baicony FOR SALB. SHOE STORER, STUCK AND FIXTURES FOR sale.—Oldest and best stand on Grand street. JOHN BOUNDEY, 15 Murray street. FIRST CLASS SALOON AND LIQUOR STORE for sale at half its valuc; established 14 years: a chance tor @ smart man to make money; would ake a first class chop. house or lager beer saloon. F. J. BYRNE, No. 4 Spring street near Bowery. ‘A. FIRST CLass WINE AND LAGER BEER SALOON for aale, doing a good business: satisiactory reasons for selling. inquire of JOHN MEYER, 72 Grove street. N OLD ESTABLISHED OYSTER AND DINING Saloon, with upper Part of the House, which leaves an income, as well as rentiree, situated in the Kighth ward. It not sold this day will! be sold on Monday at Buction. - Avply to WILLIAM ABBOTT, 5) New Bowery, A FIRST CLASS ESTABLISHMENT, DEALING IN. f hats, caps, umbrellas and travelling goods, well situated in a beautitul city within 2 hours of New York ; stock trosh and desirable, with low rent; the only reason for selling 1s family sickness; no better chance to pte = ary mee oF cee with small embry ca] requir . App! ersonally or Syrtause is Pk, WOSTHLEY BP KING. Greens street, New York. FoR SALE—IN A GOOD LOCATION, THE OLD Grocery, with Lease of the house 76 Carmine street. ® SALE—OWE OF THE OLDEST AND BEST Grocery and Liquor Stores down town, with » food Stock on hand. Don’t miss this chance. Price $1,600. Inquire of D. SIMPSON, 78 Nassau street. OR SALE—A_ FIRST CLASS LI dowg town. Inquire of FRANK Gi of liquors, 39 Peck slip, New York. OR SALE—A BARE CHANCE FOR BUSINESS—A well stocked Fancy and Millinery Goods Store; fix- tures and all complete; might take a lot, balance cash. sna % Stamford, Conn., or apply at Union ‘use. OR SALE—IN THE COUNTRY, A GOOD BAKERY, Confectionery and Ice Cream’ Satoon, thoroughly furnisned throughout with the best of material: good in ‘and out door trade. For er particulars a8 J, A. G., Heraid office. Foe SALE—A FINELY FURNISHED HOUSE FOR any business, wi! sree years’ le. rent only per month. Apply to ERNST, 357 Bowery. Fe SALE—A FIRST CLASS ALE AND BIQUOR ‘Vault, No. 9 Duane street, west of Broadway; doing @ goed business and nicely fitted Al on rem- ies, 94 Buane street, New York. nhise f Fok, 4b FIRST CLASS BUTCHER SHOP; MUST be sold, or will be sold at auction on Monday. ENGEL, 395 Highth st., betwoen Av. D. and Lewis st, OR SALE—PATENT OF A NAIL MACHINE, CAPA- bie of maxing 300 nails per minute, from 1% to 1 inch in length, without changing die or cutter; tour machines can @asily be attended to by one boy. For particulars inguire of D. GUGISPERG, $i avenue B. POE GALE—A MILE STORE AND ROUTE, WITH | & good Horse and Wagon. Inquire at 5% East ‘Thir ty-eixth street, between First and Second avenues, | in the saloon. OR SALE—AN OLD ESTABLISHED LIQUOR Store on West street, in a good business location. Apply to F 0" OR SA P ;_BAR GA Stand: well located, down town; proprietor sick and cannot attend to it. Apply to ABE VOORHEES. 49 Cortiandt street. Fo! SALE CHEAP—A FRUIT AND COUNTRY | Prodnce Stand, No.7 Country row, West Washing- | ton Market. Apply to T. H. K Y, Nos. 2 and 4 Coun- try row. ILK stree! RA AND GROCERY STORE FOR SALE.—AN ES- tablished trade of $1,000 per week: yea cheap; a IDDLETON, great bargain. Wh. M. No. 4 St. Mark's place, New York. $750 GASH.<:DOWN TOWN RESTAURANT, WITH OU sar. near a present ferry; averages daily $25 to $40; good ebance for's begiuner. ‘Apply to HACKER, 283 East Tenth strect. MACHINERY, a LARGE LOT OF NEW AND BECOND HAND EN- gines, Boilers, Tanks, Steam Pumps Caldrons and Jacket Kettles. FINNEY & HOv FMAN, Manufacturers, 2? to 225 Water street, Hrooklyn. LITHOGRAPHIC PRESS TO BE SOLD—22X23; IN good order. OH. WILLIAM, 111 Bleecker street. ‘NONSTABLE’S SALE.—THE ENTIRE 8TOCK OF Machine and Blacksmith’s Sbop, at Nos. 76 and 76 Newark street, lioboken, N. on Saturday, at l0 A. M. OR SALE—THREE SECOND HAND BOILERS, IN | good condition; 20 teet long, 444 feet in diamete: two flues in each, with dome. Apply at CLAR THREAD CO., Newark, N. J. {OR SALE—BOILERS AND ENGINE OF & HORSE wer. Shatting, Pulleys and Seltiug. all in pertect Tunning order. Building torent Adaress W. K. M., 253 Brosdway. (OR SALE—ONE SANBORN LEVER PAPER CUT- ter: cuts 28 inches; in first class workin order: Renag R-3 ct _THITCH ER & GLASTAETER, 14 and 16 Vesey st. UOR STORE VER, importer OUTE FOR SALE—CALL AT 159 DELANCEY t. PRIVATE FAMILY WILL SELL THEIR ELE- gant Decker & Bro. Pianoforte ata sacrifice; a richly carved. rosewood case. 746 octave plano, hay- ing all improvements; full agraffe, overstrung, &e. : cost $975, for $250: stool, cover. N.B.—Has box for shipping. | Call today or Sunday at private residence, 210 West Zlat street. CHIGKERING ROSEWOOD PIANOPORTE,_ IN perfect order, sweet and powertul tone, for $125; Stool and Cover, 28 Third street, near Bowery. CO. EASE. & CO.'S 74 OCTAVE PIANOS, FOR | J. the present wholesale trade, are the best low priced instruments in the world. 244, 246 and 248 West Twenty- seventh street OFFER THIS MONTH A SPLENDID ASSORTMENT of first class new and second hayd Pianos at aston- ishinly low prices for cash, on instalment, or to rent. Don't fail to call before buying elsewhere. D. KRA- KAUER, warerooms 352 Bowery, near Fourth street. IANOFORTES—SECOND HAND, IN THOROUGH order, for sale at low prices; also Pianofortes to rent, by CHICKERING & SON, 11 Bast Fourteenth street, between Broadway and Fifth avenue, WATERS NEW SCALE PIANOS ARE THE BEST made; prices low tor cash or on instalments. Send for catal pays tor mz: ues. Instruments rented until reat money em. | Agents wanted. HORACE WATERS & SON, 481 Broad MUSICAL, NARD.—PIANO, ORGAN, VIOLIN, GUITAR, SING- ing, Flute, Hi Harmony. Private lessons only. Day and evening, 2 West Fourteenth street. Circu'ars malted tree, Address MUSICAL UNIVERSITY, or call. R SALE—BAXTER ENGINE, EIGHT HORSE power; Todd & Raterty Engine, 8xl6; two upright Dritis, iron Planer, Shaping and Milling Machines, Lathe, IB inch swing by LE foot bed ; Power and Screw Press. TULLY & WILDE, 20 treet, —WERKLY A 'THLY PAYMENTS FOR sVurniture, Carpets and Bedding, at B. M. COW- PERTHWAIT & CO.’s, 155 aud 157 Chatham street An iunmense stock and low prices. LARGE ASSORTMENT OF CARPETS, FURNI- ture and Bedding, at lowest cash prices, by week] instalments, at O'FARKELL'S house, 410 wigneh avenue, between Thirdeth and Thirty-first strects, MAGNIFICENT DRAWING ROOM SUIT, COVERED silk brocade, Grand Duchess style, cost, $400, tor $200; do., $100; do. $50; Pianotorte, Paintings, Bronzes, Mirrors, Silverware, Ohamber, Dining Furni- ture \erifice ; property tai leaving city. LIVINGSTON, 36 West 15th st, near Sth av. —39 EAST THIRTEENTH STREET.—FURNITURE, + Carpets, Parlor Suits, Bedroom Sets, Dressing Bu: Teans Mattresses, Extension Tables, Grand and Square c., at private sale, at auction prices. URNITURE AT A BARGAIN.—A GENTLEMAN leaving Fifty-sixtn street for Europe will sell, on very moderate terms, his Furniture, consistiny sites for the parlor, dining room, bedroom: each article priced and will be sold sep sele on Monday next, August 10. at European Library, corner of Fit Sixth avenue, A? de EVENING—A_ LECTURE ON NERVOUS | geum. Remember ie Beatin ene nr, GPsCHAL LECTURES EVERY NIGHT AT EIGHT atthe New York Museum of Anatomy, 613 Broadway, between Won and Bleecker streets. FESSOR LISTER, S . 0 SIXTH ractice, 27 in ni_nend for Jtiars, box 4,829 New York Post avenue; 43 years’ ciroular. Addregs all letters, ofttice. TTENTION|—CONSULTATION ON BUSINESS, loses, enemies, law suits, absent friends, love, m: ang, sickens a d death. Pay refused unloss satished. jo, GI Sinth avenu Mme. SINGHI, Clairvoyant. Fe par eae greta Names; was EL marriages: cathadand jo. _MEDICAL. _ —MME. MAXWELL, PHYSICIAN inc A. Ls Kast Tenth street, near Tet t snc abort —DR. AND MMB, GRINDLE CURE | A. Piaints; 2 years’ practice. Tan Went bth at boa M, MAURICEAU, M. D., OFFICE ix) Ay Shion Mar Greenwich ra Aka Pui: “MME RESTELL, PHYSICIAN SINGR 144, NO. A. IBast Pifty-second sureet, first door from Pifth ay, TPENTION.—DR, PRANKLLN, LATE OF PRUSS! A consultation tree, Private office, 161 Bleecker ty HAND AND MIS¥IT CARPETS’ atterns and fine qualities; Engli a ua very cheap, at the old place, lid Brussels and Fulton street. A STANDARD AMERICAN BEVEL TABLES AND « the Phelan & Collender Combination Custions for sale only by the eaientes, H, W. COLLENDER, suc. cessor to Phelan & Collender, 733 Broadway, New York | body else meant death. THE FELON’S FATE. Death of the Negro Boy, Ernest Smith, on the Seaffold. CONVICTED OF A REVOLTING CRIME. Singular Composure of the Prisoner Dur- ing Trial and Condemnation. THE SCENE OF EXECUTION. Easton, Talbot County, Md., August 7, 1874. The crime for which Ernest Smith, a colored lad, about eighteen years of age, was executed here to-day, is, in the eye of Maryland law, more heinous than murder. The law of this State pro- vides that the outrage of a white woman by a negro shall be regarded as the highest crime known to the law, and out of eight cases that have been tried in Maryland during the past three years not one of the accused has escaped the death penalty. The story of the condemned man’s offence is the same told of the other wretched negroes who have suffered death for this crime. In this instance the flend would have added murder to the other Glabolical deed had he not been discovered in time. THE HORRIBLE CRIME. It was Sunday, the 19th of April last, that the community in and about Trappe, a small town in Trappe district, Talbot county, Maryland, was thrown into great excitement by the most daring and villainous outrage ever perpetrated in that vicinity. Miss Kate Bartlett, about sixteen years of age, very attractive and prepossessing in ap- pearance, 1s a daughter of Mr. James Bartlett, of Trappe district. She resided with her fatner, about two miles from the town of Trappe, On the occasion in queston she was going to a Suuaay school held i0 a church about a mile and a half from her home, When about half way on her jonrney, and near a place know as Manasses, Smith, who had been watching for her, emerged from bis hiding place, and seizing Miss Bartlett, forcibly dragged her to the road side and attempted his brutal assault. Though but eighteen years of age, his great strength and achietic build made him master of the girl, who, with all the strength of her womanhood, resisted desperately the purpose of her assailant. She, foo, was stronger than most giris at her time of life, and the struggle to free herself from the grasp of the black devil completely ex- hrausted her. Smith finally throttled her, threw her to the - ground im the middle of the highway and succeeded in accomplish- ing bis purpose. In the struggie all the poor girl’s underclothing was torn from her person and injuries inflicted which rendered her perfectly helpless and unable to move. In the moment of triumph two citizens were seen by Smith a short distance down the road, and he made his escape without doing further violence to his victim, When they reached Miss Bartlett and @iscovered her terrible condition they secured help and removed her to her father’s house, where she received proper medieal attention. THE ARREST OF SMITH. Before sundown the country for miles around had been apprised of the crime of Smith, A neighborhood so free from the more grievous crimes was doubly outraged at the assault on the daughter of an estimable citizen, and all the feeling of honor among the descendants of the Calverts was at once aroused to fever heat, The men turned out en masse, on horse, in vehicle and on foot, determined to visit summary punishment it Smith could be found. Constable Stmpson, hearing of the crime, and Knowing the indignation which the report bad aroused, wes fearful that lynch law would be enforeed. He, with his posse, was on the elert, and toward evening traced Smith to a colored meeting house, where he was arrested. It was with the greatest difiiculty the enraged citizens were prevented from executing him upon the spot, but ultimately the counsels of some of the more conservative in the community prevailed, and Smith was safely lodged in jail in Easton, the county town of Talbot, THE TRIAL, At the May term of the County Court the trial of Smith took place, and was very brief, The sullen nature of the depraved criminal was apparent thronghout, He heard with unconcern the direct and overwhelming evidence which was certain to result in his strangling on the gallows. The story of bis victim was corroborated by the two citizens who saw Smith running away. During the trial the deepest interest was taken by the citizens of the county, and at the recital of the girl’s story of the prisoner’s crime only respect for the Court pre- vented them from hanging Smith before a verdict had been rendered. His counsel saw how hopeless ‘was the case and not one word could be said in defence of their client. Tne jury were hardly in their room before a verdict of guilty was reached, and on the afternoon of May 26 that word fell upon the indifferent ear-of Ernest Smith which to every- A few days after he was brought into court and SENTENCED TO BE HANGED, and from the Court House he was conducted to the dungeon in jail, his friends knowing how atterly hopeless was hia case. In Maryland the Court sen- tences, but the Governor fixes the day of execu- tion, and on the 27th of June Governor Groome signed the death warrant of Smith, fixing the 71h of August us the day of execution. On the 1st of July the death warrant was re- ceived b> the Sheriff of Talbot county and the prisoner brought from bis cell to the Sheriff's apartments, where, in the presence of a number of citizens, the warrant was read, Following the reading the Sheriff impressed upon the condemned the brevity of nis earthly ca- reer and the importance of an early and an ear- nest preparation to meet hisdoom. The Rev. Mr. | Newnam, of the Methodist Church, offered a prayer im behalf of the young man’ssoul. The plain announcement that on the 7th day of | August, before the hour of two o'clock, he would die a felon’s death brought out all there was human in him and he wept violently for several minutes, ‘this onusual exbipiuon of feeling, however, being followed by his accustomed demeanor and look of indifference, Rev. Mr. Newnam continued to visit ’ him, and of Smith it can be said, as of others of hia Yace sentenced to death, that the gallows has been to him THE ROAD TO PARADISE. He has of late listened attentively to the exhor- tations of his spiritual adviser and professed that he had found peace with nis Maker and said he ‘was ready to die. During his imprisonment he was treated with the utmost kindness by the Sheriff and his family and appeared to be grateful for their consideration of his wants. If there is anything the Maryland law abhors it 1s a private execution, and with the exception of Baltamore the gallows is always erected In the A. SATISPACTORY GUARANTEE OR NO SALES— | Most conspicuous place, on a site where everybody Great American bevel Tables, with Delaney's Rutent wire cushions, nt reduced prices; endorsed by judoiphe, Garnier, Dion and others W. HL GRIFSSTH & CO, 4 Vese: 33 ROSEWOOD BILLIARD rt WO FIRST ‘ABLES, in complete order, for sale of to let; Sharpe's make, Inquire at corner of 135th street and Third avenue. Mrs. ELLA WEURKEMP, MATRIMONIAL, MAN RESIDING IN ONE O¥ THE LARGEST i of Calitor in a fair financial conditior ind 40 years of ase is desirous to correspon young lady trom 17 to 28 years old, with a view to matrimony, mast be respectably connected, be fa- ‘With g000 looks, enjoyed & sound:and solid educa- tion and be scquainted with the necessary household duties, by which woman only knows how to make a home * i x LO one, Uhbhetade oh Rear ma: ‘nse Te) ut no other; a’ photograph solicited. ad- Breas EARWEST, Herald of MARBLE MANTELS. KLABER, 1% EAST EIGHTEENTH STREET, A. near Third avenue, is selling and manuiacturing all kinds of marble and marble! Mantels aud oth Marble Wore ‘at greatly reduced prices; Marble Turning for the tr: Anke VAN BUSKIRK, PHYSICIAN, 1 EAST . Twenty-eighth st.. between Md and Le: ONBI OR MMB. WEST.—ALL COMPLAINTS CO Sared; aavies tree. 46 Bleecker et, near Broadway. REATLY REDUCED PRICES, A An extensive stock pf 8 can have @ full view of the whole acene, In this case it Waa erected on alot belonging to Mr. Frank Wright, on the Point road, and every facility given to the populace to witness tne execution, To-day was really @ holiday throughout the county, for an execution 18 s0 seldom witnessed in these parts that white and black, women and children, con- sidered it a duty to come tothe county seat and bear witness to tne death of the unfortunate negro. PRESENCE OF THE MILITIA. The male clement of the colored population of Talpot county is not the most orderly, Several years ago, when it was attempted arrest @ hegro for breaking the peace, the whites we overpowered and the prisoner released. Sheri Fitzgeraid, a clear headed officer, was not disposed to borrow trouble, but several weeks ago deemed it pest to request Governor Groome to send two companies of infantry to this place to preserve order and protect ‘him in the discharge of the unpleasant duty of today. ‘Thia fact was not generaily known until Wednes- aay when the most respected citizen of Easton waited on the Sheri? and asked bim to countermand tne order for outside help. Gov- ernor Groome was telegraphed to accordingly, stock of Slate and Marble Mantels, Ly Slate description. ‘ash Trays and Tork of every ¥i Union square, Fourth avenue and but two companies of the Sixth Maryland National Guard nad already been ordered here, and artived tols morning (rom Baltimore, ander command of mse. CONDEMNED BOY for those who have known him lon; sayhe fs only sixteen years old, maintained a sullen silence upto the last mipute, answering questions in monosyllabies and evincing aversion to talk. He hed ne message for his father or his mother. Last night the odist clergyman spent some Ume with him, leading the devotional exercises and the prisoner slept soundly tll awakeued this morning. He ate & hearty break{fas: of bacon, biscuit and coffee furnished by the Sheriff's wile. His spiritual 4onsoler arrived at hall-past nine and gave him the sacraments of the Methodist Church, Long and fervent prayers for the happy death of this boy were indulged in by several colored men, who had known of the ungovernaple conduct of the lad when he roamed about Talbot county, ‘The religious exercises over, the Sherif, in a fal- tering voice, told young smith that the hour was near at hand when he must die. Tue lad heard the awiul announcement as he heard the verdict of the jury, composedly and unconcerned. There he stood, readily yielding bis arms to be pinioned, In this attitude his face Was a study. Jnere was nothing brutish in the expression of his teatures, ‘His compiexion was that of an Indian, with large, lustrous black eyes, and an absence of the anim. cast. Not a word was spoken by him, nor did he seem to realize tue ieariul death he was about to suffer, in the meantime the town of Easton had become @ mass of humanity, carriages and Wagons pouring in by the hundred, preceding an army of civilians, of all ages and color. The shell roads yielded a dusty coat of white to man and beast, who cen- tred about the Court House, 1orming & caravan wonderiul to behold. The jail door was the centre Of attraction. FROM 'MHB JAIL TO THE SCAFFOLD, At eleven o’clock the National Guards, com- posed of the Easton Zouaves, formed in line in tront of the jail, The prisoner stepyed nervously on toa platform wagon, where he was seated on @ stool, supported by a colored man on either side. Slowly the proceasion moved to tne sceafold, to the music of muMed drums. ‘Ine boy locked atthe brilliant upiiorms of the militia, his eyes beamll with wonder as the glistening bayonets aased belore him. What did it oll mean? Flank- ing the armed guard was the multitude of citi- gens. The regimental colors were juried as the doomed boy neared the gallows, erected about three-quarters of a mile from the Court House, in @large open field. About thts the military, with fixed bayonets, formed a hollow muare, the citi zen guards controlling the line of the spectators, The scaffold was well up in the world, butlt a la Maryland, 80 that the assemblage of 5,000 had a complete view oi the scene, THE TRAGEDY. Tne boy was assisted up the steps by the Rev, Mr. Newham, and immediately took his piace on the drop, the rope dangling over his head. Atter whe hymn, “Kock ol Ages,” had been sang, prayer was offered, and the condemned was left to the sher, who speedily adjusted the noose. When asked if he had anything to say he answered, ‘'No,” but that he was prepared to die. ‘ihe biack shroud was then drawn over the body, the legs pinioned and ‘the cap placed on his head. ‘The Sheriff descended a Jew steps, cut the rope and at twelve o'clock Ernest Smith was his own involuntary execu- tioner. The fall was four ieet, and was sufficient to break the neck. For some time nervous convulsions followed. After hanging twenty minutes the body was taken down, placed in a pine coffin ana removed to Pot ter’s Field, The crowd retarned to town and lin- gered about the square; put as the Local Uption law was strictly in force there was no rioting nor fighting. THE FIRE FIEND IN NEW HAVEN, Eight Incendiary Fires in Two Weeks— Uneasiness Among the People—The De- tectives at Work—A Roward Uffered by the Mayor. New Haven, August 6, 1874, The Fire Department of tnis city bas repeatedly been called out recently by incendiary fires, which have become alarmingly frequent, On the 24th of July, at ten P. M., the barn of Case & Alling, coal dealers, was fired and barned, and on the following morning, at hali-past two o'clock, ® policeman, returoing home from duty discov ered a fire, evidently but just started, in the barn of P. B. Foster, on Orange street, which he ex- tinguished without assistance. At three A. M. on the 25th of July AN INCENDIARY FIRE occurred in a shed on Huwwilton street, owned by Lawrence O'Brien, which was extinguisued wito slight loss. On the morning of August 2, at half ast one o'clock, @ similar fire was discovered in e barn of S. RK. Smitn & Co., coai dealers, on Railroad avenue, The barn was partially burned before the fire was subdued. The loss was about $1,500, At ten minutes to two the same mornin, & like fire Occurred at the spar shop of Howard ie Hanscomb, on River street. The shop and con- tents were consumed. The loss was about $3,000, On the 3d of August, at a quarter-past one A. M., the sixtn incendiary fire was discovered in the Tear addition of the house of Patrick smith, on Putnam street. AN EARLY DISCOVERY prevented serious ioss. ‘This dre was set by thrusting a ball of waste saturated with oil through a hole in the clapboards and then fired, On the 4th of August, et twenty minutes past one A. M., @ bay stack was set on fire in the rear of James Maloney’s house on East Uhapel street. A fire occurred yesterday morning among some re- fuse in Spencer & Matthew's premises on State street, which is believed to have been an incen- diary one. This would make eight incendiary fires io two weeks. ‘The police authorities are making efforts to dis- cover the incendiaries, but as yet without success, There is a good deal of uneasiness occasioned by these jrequent fires and the failure to detect the parties who set them. BABY FARMING, The Comm{'ssioners of Charities and Cor- rection as “Farmers”=—Seventy Chil- dren in Westchester Homes—The Course To Be Pursued, The Commissioners of Charities and Correction have at present under consideration the serious subject of baby farming, but as yet nave reached no final conclusion as to the course they will pur- sae in regard to it. There are at present about seventy children ‘farmed out” in Westchester county under the direction of the Bureau of Chari- | ties, but not a single child belonging to the Ran- dall’s Island institutions is in this city. In a con- versation yesterday with Commissioner Laimbeer the HERALD reporter was informed that 1t is the unanimous wish of the Commissioners that the children now being cared for in Westche-ter homes should not be disturbed; but, yieldin; to the present temper of the public mind created by the abuses exposed in the HERALD, the Commissioners see no other course open to them but to cause the return of the children to Ran- dall’s Island. The children, the Commissioner says, are very well cared for by the peopie to whom they are confided in Westchester. One doctor, belonging to the Bureau of Charities, has entire charge of them, and no child is sent to any bome for care except this doctor has previously examined the facilities for the perlormauce of the duty and recommends tie iamily who may have made application, The expense ver month is on an average $8 for each child, but when the child needs eXtra attention, on account of its being delicate or crippled, an extra compensation is given. Commissioner Laimbeer says that if these seventy children are returned to Randail’s Island 1t will be very diMcult to make room for them, but he supposed it would become necessary to crush people closely together in order to give the chil- dreu & department for themselves, The number of children arriving on the island for a consider- able time past has been steadily increasing, so Much 80 tnat it became nncessary some to In sending them out West when good opt tunities offered, and this is an additional reason why the Commissioners would prefer leav- ing the children in Westchester county for tne resent. In this connection Commissioner imbeer stated that seven months ago some of the authorities of the Catholic Institutions requested the Commissioners to afford the Catho- ica @ chance of prvperia for the reception of Catholic boys into Catholic institutions rather than that they should be sent out West. Six Months were allowed by the Commissioners for this perce, but. though seven months have elapsed, the Bureau of Charities has received no intimation of the completion of the preparations or of any turther Intention to relieve the crowded Institution on Randall’s Istand of those boys whose parents belong to the Catholic Church. ST. JAMES’ LITERARY UNIO. At the regular meeting of this organization, held at their rooms, No. 91 Madison street, on Thursday evening, 6th inst., the following boards of officers and directors for the ensuing term were elected :—President, Rev. William L, Penny (as- sistant pastor of St. James’ church); Vice Pres ident, Jonn McCarthy; Kecordin: pet on Thomas F. Carey; Tagicial Seoretary Jobn F, Coughlin; Treasurer, Ed. G. Byrns Directors— donn T, Grady, T, W. Stapleton, M. F, MoCabe, Stephen Collins, John M. O’Brien, ©, P. Denehy, P. a og t fg J. ae ae ‘was organized by the Rev. F, Farrelly, pastor of St. James’ church. ‘1’ io Dow some 170 active members, They bave hand- somely furnished parlors and a large library and reading room on the first oor, while on the base- ment floor tney have a billiard room and also rooms jor other amusements. The association is very flourishing. in their parlors they give select readings every Wednesday evening, and these are interspersed with vocal ana. instramentai music, They supply the tables of their reading room with the best daily and weekiy papers, also the choicest of monthly and yaa reviews. The associa- tion ofters every inducement to good young men who desire a nice place to spend @ sociable even- ing with profit chemacives. ago Dor- THE SARATOGA SPRING The Great Railroad Conference and Its Results. THE INTERESTS ASSIMILATED. Facts About: the Various Min- eral Fountains. Saratoga, August 6, 1874. The great railroad assemblage which met bere ‘st the Grand Union Hotel contained about all the really remarkable, frst class managers in the United States, Strange indeed was it to see Van- derbilt, Scott, Hugh Jewett and John King repre- senting the four trunk lines of the country and long rivals to the last extent, In fact opposition could only goon while the several ratiroad sys tems were levying on each other’a territory. The main fight, of course, was between the Pennsyl- vanta and the Garrett company, the latter to pass through Maryland to Washington and the South, the former to build tn to Pittsburg and get hold of the mighty freight business at that point. Both Were disappointed, Although the Baltimore com Pany crossed the Allegnanies a second time and proceeded down the Youghiogheny to Pitts. burg the freights did not leave the old established route. The Connellsville road has been @ disap- pointment to Baltimore, In the same way the Pennsylvania's intent to be @ great Southern line has iatied at three several Points. Building South from Cincinnati, the panic struck them and stopped work. They began to extend their Cumberland Valley roaa down the Shenandoah Valley, but the Baltimore concern got the start of them, and is already at Staunton. Trying the same thing from Washington City to Richmond, they got no tarther than Quantico, and are suspended there in mid-air, utterly unable to capture the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Baiti- more road, So have their designs to run up the Monongahela and take the State of West Virginia, which 1s one of Mr. Garrett's pocket boroughs, from his grasp tailed. They have tapped the Baltimore and Ohio system at Baltimore, Cumberland and Martinsburg, but have failed at Wheeling and more vital points. They have struck the New York Central at Buffalo and its alias, the Lake Shore, at Erie, Ashtabuia and Cleveland. But these many partial advantages have weakened the centrai su- Perstition of this road in men’s faith, The Scott design has been too wide, wild and spidery for prudent men to understand its merits. It goes by double routes to Cincinnatt, St. Louis and Chicago, thus rivalling itself—a self-competitor—ranning out arival at the added expense to itself. Van- Gerbilt’s and Garrett's roads, plain, powerful and lucid, yet command the conservative judgment of men, THE ERIB ROAD. And now we have all these people apparently coinciding in the settlement of the Erie railway under Hugh T. Jewett. The Erie has been puiled and hauled between those delectable people, Gold- schmidt and Bischofishetm, Gould and Fisk, until has got to be a stock manufactory and the terror both of “the street” and of its rivals. Wide and wild in range, yet the straightest of all our highways to the great West, and essentially a New York cor- poration by geography and aim, it seems hard to see it pass into the Presidency of an Uhio man. Jewett has just passed out of Congress from Columbus, Ohio, The battle he gave the District government at Washington will subject him to eqnally cool and searching investigation in his management of this great railroad. He is by the slow growth of time a man of prudent judgment and strong accumalativeness, Oold, austere, with a strong Visage and capacity to listen as well as to be emphatic, he looxs as if he would be the best President the Erie has ever baa. THE ORIGIN OF THE CONFERENCE. ‘Tnis conference, which will probably lead to a long truce both personal and commercial, be- tween the great belt lines, grew out of a small | local fight between the Philadelphia and Baiti- more roads over the matter of the passage of their trains between Philadelpbia and Baltimore. The Scott interest owned a rather devious line by Columbia and York to Washington. They could not make time over this road and finally agreed, after bitter years of contention, to divide oppor- tunity and run two full express trains per day over the short intervening road which neither owned. About this time Mr. Garrett, literally worn out with railroad work, was ordered to Europe for along stay. He was @ man of poweriul intensit; ol character and a long hater. After he departe his representatives, Join King and Mr. Keyser, jound no dificulty in the disability of J, Eagar Thomson, who had somewhat of tne obstinacy of Mr. Garrett, in coming pacificaily together and arranging many things more virulent than vital Mr. Scott has an Casy, sugges- tive nature, rapidity and despatch, and he clearly saw that the Baltimore and Ohio road was and would continue to be sove- reign over its own belt of country. Rather than carry On the business of a pursuer of the legiti- mate railway over its own ground, he desired to finish competition at the spot it had come to and roceed no further in a ruihously anomalous war. Heretofore, as is well known, the Baliimore and Ohio Railroad has been compelled to seek its con- feaerate in the Grand Trunk of Canada, a road | ostracised from the American nationality and laying dulldummy to the St. Lawrence system. t hag been the belief of the three great American systems that if tiey could neutralize the Cana- dians and compete, like countrymen, they would at last come to @ spot where fares and freignts | would be abiding and the current political ferment agamst all railroads would cease to annoy them in common. By getting Jewett, John King and Tom Scott to act in concert + THE LONG FEUD HAS BREN SETTLED. The great Commodore was himself anxious to Teduce the speculative Erle to terms, ana go the internecine annual feud was settled by the | Moral despair of the railroad men. The Balti- more road, through its water freight lines, carried goods far cheaper westward than the rivers. No Toad in America occupies so commanding an influ- ence. it is far above the needs of money or in- dorsement, and borrows in Europe at four per centa year. It is the only railroad at present doing any building of consequence. It is building straight to Chivago from Shelby and irom Wheel- ing to the Connellsville branch, and down the val- Jey of Virginia to Covington and Salem, and has Just finished its branch irom Lynchburg to Dan- ville. It is all potential in Maryland and West Vir- ginia. Its bridges at Parkersburg and Beiair are among the long drawn monuments of our time. Yet before the war this railroad was thio and lean and ragged, paying little or no dividends, provin- cial and a discouragement, its directory have never watered stock, and therefore have had few exactions to meet, their vast surplus calling for no dividend. United States Senator Henry Davis was formerly brakesman on this road, as Tom Scott ‘was station agent on the Pennsylvania, The United States Hotel, the vastest establish- ment in thts world for the entertainment of man on equal principles, will, at the end of the present season, be supplied with ali its gas from its private gasometer. Having 3,000 burners, it pro- poses to save seventy-five per cent upon the gross gas bills of the place. THR EMPIRE AND CONGRESS SPRINGS. The annual meeting of the Congress and Empire Spring Company was lield yesterday. ‘This puis- sant concern owns two great springs—the Uon- gress and Empire—catnartic waters (and the Con- gress was never equalled by any cathartic in the world for pleasant taste, while the Empire to peo- ple of & taste ior drastic waters is yet greater), and he huge giaes blowing works for botties in the environs Of the village. These three properties are stocked at $1,000,000. The springs and park were developed by an old resident, Daniel Clark, who had tained some experience in the use and abuse of soda water. At the meeting yesterday the Hotchkiss family—great merchants in drugs and medicines—carried off the Presidency for B. B, Hotchkiss, of New York, who spends most of his . time in Euro) ©, Sheehan was made Vice President. le is the son-in-law of Daniel Clark aforesaid, the ancestor of Saratoga as @ great spa village. W. R. Johnson, re-elected as he as been for above @ quarter of a century, is® sigantio Yorkshire man, the cicerone and hospi- lier of the springs, The amount of 7,367 shares ‘was represented in the election. The Congress and Empire Spring Company, al- though the most valuable in Saratoga, is capital- ized too high to cottle enough water at the market rice in order to fetch above five or six per cent. ie other springs get frequently into debt :or bottles, and are threatened with the Sherif The tonic springs, of which some are very ble, ‘Will not bottie without @ sediment. The Hathorn, Geyser and the Star Springs are said to let their notes for bottles ran and ve eae, = vested sior Spring is the property of Qu 5 Weg tin fee poll if carefully and receive eir money in retarn, The Hatton Spring has been stocked ap to a large amount and must make @ great advertising venture to come out solvent. Three or four good springs, as the Orystal, tme Hamilton and the atnam, scarcely find @ market St all ough dalectapie waters, Around the Geysers there are now half a Gozen delectable fountams, newly opened, of which the Vichy is admirable to te stomach. The Geyser men were bolt, ay sepated So hore sequmned enjerprise, advertising the "High Rock ‘cost The Congrees haga been Tibed ‘ou tinea, ‘THE THEORY OF ALL THESE SPRINGS is tne same, Tne water fows down from the ‘Lanrenttan hills, and seeking 8 geol “fault” to find an outlet. 1% percolates tl 4 neaian limestone and a fo: om fom C former of which It gots its mineral i ‘ties, from the latter ite carbonic acid gas. It is deteriorated by supple ites, turned into a tonic by partic! of iron, Hence, all this part of the State is full Ratore’s medicines, gnd they can bore rom Ballston Spa eastward and find some variety excellent mineral water at almost every square furlong. enti THE CONGRESS whieh disposes of half of the water on the ground, has often threatened to shut off the sap- Ply to visitors and bottle servants and sell it out Tignt, through the medium of a great hotel om the premises. They here @ lawn of many acres, the chief park of Saratoga, and in the hears of the city. They bottle 600 dozen a day for nine months in the year, and then bestow the park and waters upon visitors, But being genial men of large interests in Saratoga the: property in the town and are loath to disturb the summer tourists. Hence, for three months they s bottle at all. Some people think that the bess epinas, in Sai gre at the unpopular end of the village, the High Rock, Empire, Red and Seltzer, and that agreat new hotel there would get a splendid patronage. MILITARY AFFAIRS. + The Eighth regiment, First division National Guard, has been ordered to parade in fatigue uni- form on the 20th inst, for ball cartridge practice at Qreedmoor, The annual picnic of Company O, Twelftn in- fantry, First brigade, First division National inst General Orders No, 101, dated on the ist inst., Drovides that hereafter all moneys collected on ac- count of ordnance or ordnance stores stolen, damaged or destroyed shall be covered into the national Treasury and piaced to the credit of the Ordnance Department, Surgeon Juseph B. Brown has been appointed President of the Army Medical Examining Board ordered to assembie in New York on the 4th inst., and for this duty has been relieved from his post ag Medical Director of the Department of the Platte. The Ordnance Officer of the Department of Texas has been ordered to issue Oolt’s revolvers to Oom- panies I and M, Ninth Untted States cavalry, and to Company E (mounted), Twenty-fourth in- fantry. A general court martial which convened at Fort Sill, LT. on the ist of July inst, convicted First Lieutenant Charles KE. Nordstrom, Tenth cavalry, for disobedience of orders and conduct unbecom- ing an officer and.a gentleman and convicted him to be suspended from rank and command for the space of six months snd ordering him to forfeit $75 8 month of bis pay as weil as to be confined daring that Lies LB ag limits of the post where mene reorel tin a rendezvous at Sacramento, Cal, has been closed by superior orders and the office and property transferred to San Francisco. A circular letter trom the War Department pro- vides that until the army shall have been reduced £0 25,000 enlisted men those who be reported ts hubitoaiy Wworthlegs to the service are tobe Vevieeh noe Captain Henry W. Closson, who commands at Savannah, in a@ letter to the Quartermaster Gen- eral, says that bis men will rot consent to wear ‘the old pattern forage caps, preferring to purchase others, and requestg the antiquated article not to pe a on, eee ls insubordination on the part of Closson’s troops, There is a sailor named Karatchew, of the Rus- sian navy, Whois undergoing a term of Leg ment at ‘Schiusselburg for not shaving his beard. Although under sentence he still retuses to shat dant wants to know what he do ebousiy }o about The torpedo boat Intrepid, which was lately finished in the cota § Yard at mp, made 8 trial trip in the narbor there on the 8d inst, Her engines are reported a8 working well, but the rate of speed attained 1s below what was expect In the Paris Museum of Artillery, at the Hotel des Invalides, the famous Americsn breech-load- ing Remington rifle is not to be found, where nearly every other kind of offensive and defensive weapon of war is represented. Has jealousy Rnverioan ogress anything to do with this sin- gular fact The Army Medical Examining Board held their first meeting on the 4th inst, at the rnd Head- quarters, New York, to examine the qualifications of applicants ior tions on the medical staff, of which positions there are sixty vacant, The se ite Troop Cavalry (N.G.S.N.Y.) are about to lose the services of Lieutenant Gottfried Meltzer, who is going to resign bis commission. Colonel Berger requests @ court of inquiry to investigate the conduct of his regiment at @ re- cent bail practice parade at Creedmoor. since its late rife practice at Creedmoor the Eleventh regiment (N.G.S.N.Y.) has recruited forty men. Dr. P. Mude, of this regiment, has re- signed, and Dr. H. Kudlich been appointed in hia place, Major John H. Berger, of the Fifth brigade staff, is President of the battalion court martial which has been appointed to try certain offences in the Seventy-eignth battalion, N.G. The same officer presides over a court appointed for a par- pore in the Thirteent! iment, N.G. A committee of captains belonging to the Sev- enth regiment, N.G., held @ conference on Friday last, with the President of the Board of Under writers, in order to adjust the regimental losses | caused by the recent fire, On the First brigade staf, N.G., Maior and Engi- neer John T. Denny has beev promoted to the rank of lieutenant coionel, and Assistant Adjutant Gen- eral, Captain and Commissary of Subsistence Kop- ert Lenoox Beiknap is promoted to be major and engineer, and Uharles Warous becomes Captain and Commissary 01 Subsistence. On last Monday evening a meeting was held at Kingston, N. Y., for the be ony of Me oe | the Seventieth battalion, when Captain Oliffor Coddington, of East Kingston, was elecced Colonel. Company officers were also elected, Burgher Cadets and a number of other Indepen- dent military organizations intend going inte camp on the 29th inst. at Ridgewood Park. Tney are to march through Dutchtown in a mimic style ol war. Orders have been issued by Brigadier General Cranford, of Connecticut, for the encampment at Niantic of the Second and Fourth regiments be- longing to that State, irom the 24th to the 29th inst., inclusive. ‘ A sensation military trial has come to a close in Paris. The house of Cahan-Lyan, army contract- ors, was charged with furnishing inferior material and of bribing officers. Kighteen of these, most of them wearing the Legion of Honor, were placea at the bar. Pendiag thelr trial this order of knighthood was removed from their breasts. After @ searching investigation they were acquitted. Lieutenant General Sir Charies Hastings Doyle, at a late brigade parade in England, presented @ medal of military merit to Private Thomas eo of the Forty-second Highlanders, tor distingnisi services in the Ashantee campaign. In his re- marks the Lieutenant General referred, in a com- jg eet | manner, to the correspondence of the ww YORK HERALD upon the matter of Adama? distinguished services. At Sealkote, in India, the native workmen can make soxer cartridges or convert Enfield into , breech-loading Snider rifles with such accuracy and effectiveness a8 to equal the government ‘Works in every wa: Colonel Norgaie wanted to convert by this me: ny number of muzzle load- ers into breech-loaders at two rupees apiece. The ier cadet considered the work good and che: ut thought it best not to Cpa this bran’ of industry among the natives. ‘the government observes tne same policy in Ireland. The Seventh regiment will parade in fatigue ant- form (black belt), with knapsacks and one bag rations, on Thursday, the 13th day of August, Tifle practice at Creedmoor. BLASTING IN YORKVILLE, om To THs Eprron OF THE HBRALD:— There 18 @ contractor at present engaged in blasting 9 mass of rock situated in Yorkville, be. tween Third and Fourth avenues and Ninety-thira and Ninety-fourth streets. If there is any person in the model reform city government charged with the daty of protecting Ife and property in York- ville, that mysterious personage would do well to look after the said contractor; he needs looking after very badly. His idea of blasting is based on the principle of the least ble expenditure of money company property, No precautions are iife ani ye 8 are Sod revent tragmonte of rock irom fying in irections. lt 18 no uncommon thing to have feces driven through windows and shutters, aad it is really wonderful some lives are not lost I believe this model contractor’s name is Driscoll. Is there law or authority enough in our ay c ernment to suppress him ? YORK VILL! ’ THE OLD UNION LEAGUE ASSEMBLY ROOMS DEMOLISHED, ‘Tne old building known as the Union League As- sembly Rooms on Broadway, corner of Twenty- third street, 18 being torn down to make way for more spacious and costly improvements. The old hall has been the scene of many a lively political ting, in which both local and national politi+ chi have had a say, and in which numerous caa- cuses have been held in days gone by. Until re- cently Rev. Mr. Garnett’s colored con elon, worshipped in the building, and the hall used for a tecture and ball room from time to time. With the demolishment of the structure passes) away enother of the old landmarks of our prosper> ous and growing city, L ‘ Guard, will take place at Reenz’s Park on the 24th « ‘ |