The New York Herald Newspaper, August 13, 1874, Page 8

“FIGHT FOR A CHILD. Exciting Sequel to “a Mother's Sorrow”— A Pive Months’ Search, STOLEN AT THE “DEAD OF NIGHT.” Struggle Between the Mother and a Nurse at the “Home.” FOUND AT DANBURY, CONN. Arrested for Kidnapping and Tried at Night— | A Narrow Escape from the “Blue Laws” of Connecticut—Flight to New York. In the HBRALD Of July 2, ult., there appeared a sad story of domestic unhappiness and maternal affection, under the caption of “A Mother's Sor- row.” The particulars of an unhappy and ill- advised marriage, its subsequent misery and | sorrow and final desertion of the husband, who | seized his child from its mother’s bed at the dead hour of night and fled, no one knew where, are given there, and are doubtless fresh in the minds ofvery many. It was on a cold, bleak night in March last that the husband, Adam Caidwell, crazed with drink, sprung like a maniac upon his wife and dragged her over the floor to the dining | room, where be bound her tight and fast ina heavy chair. Unmindful of her screams, the in- | furiated man rushed to the bedside of the little | gir, caught the sleeping innocent in his arms and | hurried out of the door into the darkness. Unable | to extricate herself, the mother passed the night | tm mental agony madescrivable. Two visitors to | the house in the morning released her. A momen- | tary pause at the side of the empty bed, where | on the previous nightfall sue had laid her child | w sleep, sudiced to awaken her to a full reatiza- | the “kidnappers,” while he who conducted (f) the | tion of the dreadful state of affairs, Although | @ mother, she was utterly childless! Her own | husband, the cause of so much former misery, | had now gone so far as to carry off the only object dear to her in this world, Leaving the house just | as it stood, hastily donning her wraps, witnout | means, friends or counsellors, this mother walked out of that home to travel the country over in | NEW The whole house was in kes rushed down stairs street to call the move seneriants ved the “kidnapping” A her heels, and, gaining thé 5 ‘alk, started to climb into the carriage. Misa Stokes, seeing this, nerved herself for a last grand effort to gn the escape. She sprung to Mrs. side, and seized her just as she waa stepping into the vehicle. Instantly Mrs. U., the who accompanied Mrs. Caldwell, caught her by the hands and pulled her away. A moment more and both ladies and the child were in the carriage and bowling down the street ag fast as & fleet horse, urged on by a frigavened darky driver, could carry them. A five minutes’ drive brought them to the Wooster House, whieh they entered as quickly as Possibie, proceeding directly to their room. in | 48 than two minutes two officers, panting ‘or breath and nervous with excitement, burst in at ae 4 =o demanded to know why they ‘‘stole cl “You both under arrest,” sald one of the officers, “and will probably bave to go to jail.” Outside the hotel a crowd was Jast collecting. ‘The story that two women from New York had stolen # child and were trying to make away with it, was on every tongue. Danbury was.excited, ‘The news of the “terrivie outrage” spread like the measles in a ioundling asylum. Mr. Jeaee Sands, the courteous eneneiesen: ‘of the Wooster, beard the story irom the iadies and then went out and told tne crowd, who ry soon became quiet. While this was going on a lawyer (f) was drawing Up a charge against THE “INHUMAN MONSTERS who had kidnapped a little chila.” He charged them with abduction and kidnapping, and luted Ba? ‘ropgly at three or five years in the Penk Things began to look brue for the “kidnappers.” They did pot know a soul in town, could uot tele- graph for iriends until the next day, and e: ted apy moment to be marched off to the lock-up, Through the kindly interposition of Mr. Sands they were allowed to remain in the hotel, bat would be guarded all night by two officers, By one o'clock the town Was compuratively quiet, althouga groups of men could still be seen here and there under awnings—tor the rain was falling beavily—earnestly discussing the ‘situation.’ ‘The “kidnappers” passed a sleepless night, and were greatly annoyed by one of their guards—a | fellow named Reardon—who seemed feariul that they might attempt to escape by jumping irom the Winaow to the street below. At last morning came and Mrs, Caldwell tele- graphed to New York for assistance. A gentle- well KnoWD 1n journalistic circles touk the three o’clock train and reached tne scene of ex- citement about six. On the train with bim was tbe man Caldwell, the unnatural father of the child in dispute. He iad been boy, ince ior by Miss Bull ana was gomg up to endeavor to once more wrest the child from its mother’s arms. The services of Colonel White, one of the most eminent lawyers in Connecticnt, was procured in behall of case for Miss Bull was—weil, let Dickens describe him:—‘‘Hle was a lantern faced, satiow complex- joned man of about five and jorty, or—as the novels say—he might be fiity. He has the DULL LOOKING BOILED BYE which is often to be seeu in the heads of people Who have applied themselves during many years to @ Weary and laborious course of stady. His hair was thin and weak, which was principally at- tributable to bis paving never devoted much time toits arrangement. The marks of hair dye on his YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET, A BOY-SLAVE’S TREADMILL, OCEAN GROVE ENCAMPMENT. 'The Sable Successor to a Newfoundland | Real Estate and Religion—Prepsrations Dog—Cider Ground Out with a Colored for the Great Mecting om Friday. Boy’s Life—A Broadway Store tne Scene Oocgan Grove, N. J., August 11, 1874, of the Inhumanity—Bergh Hauls Off | To be rocked in the cradle of the deep, as the the Dog, But the Boy Grinds Away | poet puts it, is not half so pleasant as to be hushed stil. Y to sleep with the lullaby of old ocean, a8 I was at The negro crops up again as a sensation. | tis place last night. Though the camp meeting Beecher and all that crowd made the most they | Proper has not yet begun, and will not before next could out of bim long ago, so he bas been going | Friday, yet there are meetings held here every day down in the scale, as a “means wheseby to kcep | three or four times, For instance, @ prayer and the ball a’rolling,” until at last we find him sup- | experience meeting begins at half-past nine planting a Newfoundland dog in the daily toil of | o'clock A, M, and lasts au hour and a half or two life. If this successorship was caused under the | hours. A young people’s meeting starts off then and was a matter of domestic arrangement only, or was brought about to amuse the children But that time is past. Even Wendel! Phillips dues made their big or littie pile of reputation out of the “slave.” The taithful Bergn still holds out, however, and though he long ago reached the zenith of humanitarian celebrity he still holds on 80 fast to bis duties as president of the animals’ protectory that it looks as if he was by no means quite abumbug. When BERGH SAW 4 NEWFOUNDLAND DOG tolling daily in a store in Broadway at labor which he (Bergh) judged to be a little too severe for the brute, he put astop to it at once, He came and saw, and it was on 8 very hot day, too, that he paid the visit, As soon as the great “Isay s0”” noticed the tongue of the animal lolling about in front of its nostrils, the order was given imme- diately to remove the dog, and nut to put him to such work again. That settled it, A police court warrant was made out, the proprietor of the cider store was arrested, and the case brought up for trial, but was postponed until September next. The proprietors then secretly swore at Bergh. business how they worked their cider mill, What was & dog good for anyhow if he wasn’t put to do something? Was he only fit to bark, or be patted on the crown of his head, an? oraerea to “Lie down there” or “Come up here, sir.” It was an outrage upon & Broadway store- Keeper to be thus treated by such a fellow as Bergh. Tbe proprietors cooled down, however, alter berating the ustrious “1 gay so,” for a good Tound sixty minutes, and then they propounded the question, ‘Well, how are we going to fix it?” 10 BRIBE BEKGH WAS AN IMPOSSIBILITY. dently alone. So there was nothing leit out to be kept arunning and the wheels turned by some sennsational agency. A Lappy thought struck one protection of Theodore Tilton or Frank Moulton | simply, the blood of every anti-slavery man in the | land need not get away up to 109 Fahrenneit. | not bother now, nor any of the old fellows who | ‘They could not see how tt was any of his | Stop the waterfall at Niagara just as soon. | Search up his relatives—Bergh stands resplen- | devise some other means by which the mill might | at four P, M. for another hour and @ half, and in | the evening again at eight o’clock @ third meeting opens and continues until ten o’clock, at which hour usually everything is as still as the grave ex- cept the luilaby of the ocean, There are about | 4,000 now on this encampment, living in tents, cot- tages, hotels and boarding houses. The meet- ings have, however, lost much of their vim aad power, and the cause that] have heard most as- signed there/or is that DR. J. M. WARD, who has been the life and soul of them, has been in a sense ostracised by the association and keeps himself very quietly in his own home, taking litue or no part in any of the meetings. .[t 1s hoped, Dowever, that at the next meeting he will come | out of bts voluntary or involuntary retirement and | take the prominent position which he has hitherto | held in this grove and in its meetings. It will be remembered that at the Union Conven- | tion for Holiness hela here last month—a gather- ing, by the way, which last year and this year owed its origin ana success to Dr. Ward—it was | cat short by the hasty action of some of the Doctor's colleagues on the Kxecutive Committee, ‘There were some zealots On the ground who pre- tended to have power to impart the Holy Ghost to | others by the laying on of hands, and it was | deemed proper to check this by a public protest, | at A MEETING OF THE COMMITTRE | @ paper was drawn up, which, alter due considera- tion and prayer, was to be read from the preacn- | er’s stand at ove of the public services. Alew | members of the committee, more in haste than the | rest, would not watt for the intended prayer and | conierence, but took the first opportunity to read | the paper and to denounce the practice and the | parties against whom it was aimed. The Doctor | thereupon withdrew {rom the conauct ol the meet- ing, and the committee, as I am injormed, have | prohibited him from holding meetings in his tent or cottage or elsewhere on the ground. This asser- | thon is, however, partly denied. He may hold pri- | vate meetings in his own cottage, but the prayer | tent m which he used to have such excellent meetings for prayer and experience, tuough originally the Doctor’s and usually called by 1s name, was, l understand, by him donated to the association two years ago. It 1s thereiore their property and its use without their consent is pro- | mibited. 1 did not see the Doctor at any of the search of her lost girl. For days and weeks her | coat collar and the illwashed and worse tied neck- search was fruitless. She visited neighboring vil- | €Tchie! rouna his throat showea that he nad not f found leisnre since he left the court to make am dages in New Jersey, on Long Island, in Westches- alteration in bis dress, while the slovenly style of ter county, as well as every place in the metropo, | the Tees of his Lope warranted ae an | ference that his personal appearance would no! lis where she imagined the slightest chance bave been mach tmproved Phenad” existed of finding her child. Almost penniless, | .,tle case was to be tried at a quarter to eight ebe sought the help of o'clock that evening. Some time before that hour POLICE AND DETECTIVES a large crowd gatnered anon tho potel corridors u in vain, The admonition of New York’s Chief of | Aa eee te HAC R EEE areat necsatiom: Onlonel Police to one of his most experienced officers “to | te ae barber wht renin eel with a well developed head and ge face, entere' work up the case ior humanity’s sake” met with | the a easy ley ‘Waa to coe off im one of the of the millowners, and, with a transcendeptal | meetings yesterday, So that there is a color of aposwophe, a young man cried out, “I have it. | truth to the stories that | hear talked over on the Let us get @ negro boy; he’li draw ten times as | ground. Among well as che dog!” } THE PROMINENT MINISTERS A little negro boy was hired. He cannot be more | now at this encampment are Coaprsin, Hibben, of than about eight years of age. In order to ex- , Brooklyn; Rev. Mr. McKane, of ‘Troy Conierence; piain what his duties are it is necessary to say | Revs. C, P. Master and Thomas X. Orr, of Phuladel- that in the store is the upper machinery by which | pila; Rev. Mr. Thomas, Rev. Mr. Meeker, Rev. J. a cider mill beneath is worked. A smail inciined | H. Alday, the spirituai director of this encamp- | floor of about three feet by one anda fourth is ment; Kev. Libert Usporn, Rev. Mr. Ingrabam, of | Kept in motion by the constant action of the little | West Philadelphia; Rev. J, H. Thernly, of West | negro’s jeet. In other words, the boy’stabor is | Philadelphia; Key. £. H. Stokes, Rev. S. K. Russell that almost exactly simiiar to the convict’s pun- | and some others ishment on a treadmill, The boy’s appearance is, | in anticipation of the coming crowd on of course. an invitation to passers by to step | Friday some enterprising real estate specu- an indiferent receptiov. Lawyers told her that it | rooms occupied by the ladies—with arms fail or | #24 drink cider at the bar. would be kidnapping for her to take her child, should she even find the little one. Three months passed away and still she could obtain trace of her darting. At last, however, she ob- tained the advice and assistance of an excellent | lawyer, and at the same time met friends who were willing to render whatever help they could io the matter of discovering tbe whereabouts of | the child. A warrant of arrest for abandonment ‘Was obtained from Justice Sherwood, it being the | mother’s intention to procure the husband’s ar- rest, that she might serve him with a writ of habeas corpus compelling the production of THE ABDUCTED CHILD im court, where the question o! its custody could be definitely settled. But if it was easy enough to procure a warrant it was no easy matter to serve | it, for the desired party went over to New Jersey | and thus eluded the oMcers, four of whom were at different times searching for him. Most thorough search was made for the child. | Every public instituttop im the city and county | ‘Was visited, but all to no purpose. At last, when despair had well nigh claimed the broken hearted | mother for its own, and she was overwhelmed -| with grief at*her non-success, a letter came | informing her that her little one was at, an institution for children in Danbury, Conn. No | one can ever know the joy that at this moment | burst like a fooa upon this poor woman’s soul, It was with dificuity that her friends could restrain her. To Danbury she mast go at once, and every hour she was kept waiting hung like jead upon her bounding heart. The letter above referred to was received on the afternoon of Tuesday, the 4th inst.; but for certain reasons the mother could not go to where it pointed until the afternoon of the following day. ‘Chen, accompanied by the wife Of one of the most prominent lawyers of this city, she took the quarter-past three train at the Grand Central depot, and arrived in Danbury at six o'clock. The ladies went to the Wooster House, where they procured a suit of rooms, had their supper and then took a carriage to the institution which contained TRE LONG LOST CHILD. ‘The place is about @ mile trom the Wooster House, and when the ladies reached It it was quite dark, The presiding genius of the “Home,” as it is called, is & Miss Ball, a lady of very uncertain age—after you get above filty—and a—well, itis aiMcuit to say what kind of a face she has. At all events, she is not over beautiinl. Fortunately for the two Jadies, this person was not in when they | called, else what ts now about to be written would never be chronicled. Not that Miss Bull has a superabundance of muscle, but that she doubtless | has a temper and a will of her own. Alighting from the carriage, the mother, Mrs, | Caldwell, stepped to tue door and asked if Misa Bull was in, A female, stout and buxom, and answering to the name of Miss Stokes, replied that Miss Bull was out, but would probably return snortly. Wouid not the ladies step in? ‘This invitation was just what they were watting for, #0 into the “‘Hiome” they both tripped. Tue: had come to ask about the price of board for | procured, the ladies and the child, accompanied | present Board and appointing another is | ehildren—smail children; dia th y two determined men, seated themselves LA Winns ones? ey take any very \ within and drove rapidly toward Brewster's sta- | the jealousy which exists among the professors of They did; bad one with them then—a beantifal | tom, on tae Harlem road. This action found | the University and the College of Physicians and lttie girl, with meilow biue eyes aad a periect | billow of golden curis. | The mother’s heart began to beat faster ana faster, till it seemed as tuough it would break through its frail tenement. That the description just given by Miss Stokes was oi her own dariing she could not doubt. But how was she wo get the ebild tn her possession | Ppring. the course of the conversation Miss Stokes had led the way to the foot of tue stairs Jeading to the chamber where slept THE LITTLE ONE. The mother tried desperately hard to calm her- | well and display no emotion, jest the suspicions of the attendant should be aroused, She knew she | was as pale as death, but their only light was a | jamp which Miss Stokes carried in her hand, and | ‘which burned so dimly that the color of one’s face or the absence of it could not readily be discerned. “How old is this 'ittie beauty you speak of?” In- quired the mother. “About two years and a hal/,”’ was the reply. “What did you say jis name was” the mother asked in a tone of volce that was #0 Rieady and, one unconcerned as to actually astonish “Jessie ; Jeasie Caldwell,” was the reply. ‘The mother’s hears was now wilder than ever. There was no longer a doubt of it—she was once more under the same roof with her baby, whose childish prattic and giadsome features she had not heard or seen for almost five months; bat she must heeds be calm, for the child is not yet in her ee and Miss Stokes, who volunteers to the ladies up to the sleeping apartments,” has been reinforced by two others, eituer of whom is oe and stronger than those who seek to ob- en little head bearing that “‘billow of golden “Little Jessie is over here in her bed,” said Miss Stokes, as she led the way to oue corner of t room, Where stood a crib. whole party moved in the direction indi- ated, and the mother of the child vent over the erib and turned down the clothes, Sure enough, | there lay her jong lost darlivg. The decisive mo- | ment bad at last arrived, but the mother seemed to te. 6 your child, Mrs, Caldwell; take it,’ said ‘Mise Stokes rushed to her side, but was too late; for the mother had aiready SRIZED THE LITLE SLEEPER and was her close to her breast. A break door, and Miss Stokes, seeing | it out, The mother aud her com- | to the emergency, however, jor | the position of the doorway ana Meanwaile a | yyo, papers and jegal documents. It was fuil twenty minutes past eight before the prosecuting party came upon the scene. First, Miss Bull, with ber no head nigh to the air and her mouth oan down | in, fol- | to a peculiar pucker, tripped gayly lowed by Miss Stokes and the man Caldwell. | Next, the counsel jor the prosecution, smoke- | dried and taaed, dwelling among mankind, but not consorting with them, aged, without experi | ence of genial youth, and so lopg used to make | his cramped pest ip holes and corpers of human | Dature that he bas forgotten iis broader and bet- | ter range, comes sauntering in. After afew min- | utes’ delay the trial begins, and such a tria!! A mother arraigned before the bar of justice, with a period of not less than three nor more than live years | IN THE PENITENTIARY staring ber in the face because she dared to take | her babe that haa been stolen irom her at the dead hour of night five months ago! The name of | the magistrate, which was Green, belted him. 18 ap intelligent gentleman, with a heart full of tenderness and compassion, and by no means dead to the natural mstincts of a parent. Under | these circumstances the indecent appeals of the | ‘berry lor the prosecution to send to a common | feion’s cell a woman who would ‘steal her own | child trom go good and pure a place as that kept by Miss Buil’’ had no other effect than to create a feeling Of deep disgust in the mind 01 him wo sat | im judgment upon the case. The prosecution proved that the child was placed in Miss Buil’s charge on the 1st of April, and that | 1% was taken away, a8 above described, by its | mother. The defenvte proved tgat the pereconos told the truth, and they were glad of it, But the | charge against Mrs. Caldwell and her lady com- soe was one of kidnapping and abduction, and e it Known that under the laws of the model | State of Connecticut they were gullty, notwith- | standing the child alleged to have been “stolen” | ‘Was carried away by its own mother. The Justice, | Other view of the matter, but now a happy thought | strikes Colonel White. He proves that the prison- ers were acting under eminent legal advice in go- | ing to Danbury and taking the child, They hadbeen | assured by the lawyers of this city that they had a | syed right to take the child wherever it could e jound, and therefore their action was robved of the intent tocommitacrime. This point carried the day, or rather the night, for the tria:, which gau at twenty minutes past eight o’clock on Savurday night, had jasted until a littie past tweive on Sunday morning. The “person’’ who acted as | COUNSEL FOR THE PROSECUTION raved like a mad man. ‘These two women had | come up here,” he said, “and forcibly carried of a | chud, with the alleged intention of carrying it out | Of the State. They claim to be ladies, but would | ladies steal’ | 10 this way he went on till even his own friends Must have been disgusted. While Colonel White was arguing the case he took occasion to handle the man Caldweil rather roughly. Caidwell, who is a big, coarse, sensual- | looking piece of namanity, became furious. He threatened the counsel with all manner of dire | things, but did not succeed in frightening any one. | _ At last the trial came to an end. Justice Green said he would discharge the ladies, as | they had not intended to commit any crime. Caldwell looked fierce as a demon, and, Judging o1 his weli known disposition, it was Teared he would make an effort to forcibly take possession of the child, which ali the while during the proceedings slept qwetiy in an adjoining room, wholly unconscious of the importance it had so suddenly attained. Several guests of the Wooster House offered their assistance should It be | needed, but happily it was not. Mr. Sands kindly | Ca ig hee the liberated prisoners irom the rooms they had occupied to others ina more secluded | part of the house, and by two o’clock in the morn- | ing everything was quiet about the piace. Alter | breakfast on Sunday morning a close carriage was necessary, as there js no train irom Danbury on Sunday, and it was feared that the man Caldwell would occasion them trouble should they remain over till Monday. At Brewster’s a train was taken for tnis city, where the p mig arrived at eight o’clock in the ere irs. Caldweti is still in New York with her child, and intends bringing the matter sae the courts at the earliest possibic moment A FILTH PARADISE. Thompson Street and West Broadway as Sanitary Neglected SpoteA Sweep- ing and Disinfecting Reform Needed. There are many intelligent, well-meaning peo- Pile in this city who regard the Board of Heaith as @ moribund bureau—an filustration of red tape, | Uselessness and circamiocution. The Board meets | once a week, and gives to the press a brilliant | record of its hebdomadal splurges; yet, somehow | OF other, the shovel, the broom and the disin- | Jectant seem Never to appear in certain of the dirtiest districts of this filth-potsoned city. Take, for example, Thompson street, which it may be neces- | , Sary to inform aristocratic New York extends from Washington square to Canal street, aud is citefly meen ap by i — and negroes of the lowest 0" es—this sium is simply @ gigantic ex- | posed sewer of nameless flith. rhe Seventh ave- nue downtown car passes through it, and the | transit, is not easily forgotten, The gutter is a | Succession of pools of viscid, slimy filth, inter- spersed with garbage and odorous deposits, pre- cipitated on the street at mianight. The tenement ‘ard known 48 “Africa,” 18 usaally in @ active Mith-fermentation, yet tne purifying influence of the Sanitary Board doesn’t seem to reach it. West Broadway and the streets avuttin; on it from the west are also disgracefully an odoriferously dirty. A PAMOUS BANKRUPTCY, [From the Liverpovui Post, July 28.) A celebrated bankruptcy was before the London Court yesterday—that of the bankers Strahan, Pauli & Bates, which took place in 1855. Debts were proved for over half @ million ef pounds sterling ($260,000), and eight dividends have beea paid, amounting to 68, 6d, in the poand., Thera are now funds in hand for a farther and final divi- im that direction. Miss Stokes and ber were thoroughly demoralized and ‘offer no sabstential opposition to the carry. | dend of seven and A quarter pence in the pound, Which J to be paid accordingly, nis 18 A CURIOSITY, AND A CROWD gathers round to see lim. As everybody knows, crowds follow prisoners from the Tombs to the General Sessions Court, and will wait for hours Thousands and thousands would spend three hours and more in sleet and snow to see & hanged to death on a lows. fundreds of | people walk into the cider store on Broadway | to see the poor litte negro boy laboring | with all his little streugth to keep the {| mili ranoing. Let him make @ talse step and he must full; let him wince or weaken and the wheels lag behind; he must keep his tired feet in mouon,-though his limbs are wearied and his head is reeling. It matters little that lis back is pained and that the sweat crops course down his sable cheeks, blinding his eyes. He must keep | his balance and iorce tue wheels into motion. If | words of pity strike upon bis ear and somebody | cries out that it is a shame to use a boy so, he | must remember that he 1s only @ negro boy, and Watch that his teet keep tn pace for the mill. He does a deal more work than the dog did. The pro- | prietors feel at ease; there is an increasing busi- | ness done, morbid peopie liking to look at sul- ring. For the benefit of all concerned these few ques- tions may be asked :—First, did there not around the court to see a condemned man pass, | ir wretch | | lators have arranged for @ free excursion from | various points to attend a great sale of Jots appointed for this place on Thursday after- noon. ‘This is combining the useiul with the orna- mental, business wito religion, What will come of it 1 can’t say; but if real estate business should monopolize a large share of attention it will be nothing surprising and will be only in the line of camp meetings throughout the country. ‘There are 550 tents on this ground and between 300 and 400 coutages. GORDON-GORDON’S SUICIDE. British Warrants Employed to Get Gor- don to New York—Coroner’s Inquest and Particulars of His Death. The Manitoba Free Press of the 4th inst. con- tains the evidence at the Coroner’s inquest in re- gard to the arrest and death of ‘Lord Gordon.” It fills six columns of that paper, much of it being irrelevant and uninteresting to the general reader, The most important fact developed is stated by | the Free Press as follows :— ‘The evidence 1n this last affair shows that the 4 LAW COME INTO FORCE ON JULY 1 which pronidtted the employment of any child un- | der ten years of age in any manuiactory or me enanical shop, or at any manuiacturing work within this State? Second, did not another section of the same law pronibit the employment of any child un- der the age of fourteen years in any mechanical or manufacturing shop, or at any manufacturing moving spirits were New Yosk lawyers. They made all the arrangements, paid all the ex- | penses and promised all the rewards, a se- ries of circumstances very doubtful in the’ pur- | suit of British justice. The popular and | not unreasonable theory 1s that by some | means or other British Warrants were to be employed in facitating the crime of kidnapping; work in this State for more than sixty hours in | and that instead of Gordon fetching up in Toronto, one week? Itis stated that this negro boy is un- | New York was to have been his destination. There | stench that salutes the nostrils, even in this hasty | | der ten years of age, and that he can be seen at all hours at the store, thongo this assertion is mot quite correct. The proba- buity is that the boy {3 used at every hour, | though the hours per day May not be so many as ing, no little boy of that age could, with regard to decency or health continue to run the treadmill upon which he labors in this store. It is an out- rage upon youth, and, perhaps upon the boy should be allowed to.wear bis little body out, im acting the part of a dog, There is plenty of prattie about humanity and consideration for the negro and ali that sort of thing; but who is going to take this boy of the treaamill and put him in a better job? NEW. HOSPITALS. Pavilion Hospitals To Be Erected on Blackwell's Island—Trial of a New System—Large Hospitals To Be Discoun- tenanced—The Troubles in the Medical Board—Reason for the Changes. The changes which the Board of Commissioners of Charities and Correction is making in the mem- | bership of the Medical Board are not as yet com- pleted, and the Commissioners have announced | their determination not to appoint the full Board | before the 1st of September. The subject has | caused the greatest excitement among medical | men in this city, as the eminence of all the gen- | tlemen belonging to the Medical Board had, it was supposed, guarantecd a life tenure of the office— Which 18, of course, a non-salaried one—but the Commissioners have decided this to be otherwise, | and there appears to be no doubt of their power in the matter, The impression among phy- Sictans is that the main object in removing the | Surgeons against the more successtul institution | known as Bellevue Medical College, which latter | has at present a majority of the members of the | Medical Board. On the other hand, it is certain that the old Medical Board, which has the power of | approving or disapproving the appojutments of | doctors in the various institutions under the care | of the Commissioners of Charities and Correction, | has not been very doctie within the past year to | the will of the Commissioners, but on the con- | trary bas offered no small opposition to many of | the names proposed. That the Board of Charities | and Correction nas felt nettied at thts is generally | believed, and therelore this measure o! revenge. The Commissioners put quite anotner lignt on the whole matter, For some years past the sub- ject of hospital reform has been tncreasing im im. portance, and the belie( has gained ground with great Many eminent medical men that the day of large hospitals is past, and that human cure and medical success depended to a great extent upon smaller buildings being used. Keaders of the HEBALD will not forget the discassion during the Was hot poisoned by the exhalations of disease, | aNd that any residence in it, however shor tended to excite sickuess instead of alleviating I | Matters were leit in a very unsatisfactory cond | tion after this-tempest of discussion among the | medical men and tire Commissioners are about to try the new and generally recommended system of Small hospitals instead oi large ones, To try th system or experiment with any degree of sacce: | some changes in the existing Medical Board were necessary, as there was decided opposition among the members to any new plan | of hospital practice being introduced. Therefore | the determination to do away with some of the old | Men and the appointment of others in thgir places. | The Comfnissioners atate that they intend reap- pointing the most eminent of the old Board, but Men who are willing to see a new order v1 wings. Shorty after September 1 new hospital pavil- ions will be begun on Blackweil’s Island for the reception of patients. These will be in every WAY comniodior ud well ventilated and of only one story in height, and a8 necessity aemands these wiil be adaed to, while tie Charity Hospital will not be employed +o the extent it has been io the past. Ali these changes will, of course, take place with the consent of the new Medical Board, and a fair vest will be given toa subject which nag been auitating medicai men of Europe and America, AS far as the system has been used already on Black- Sites tha posse note’ eae ne Smallpox Hos- e been benei @ Warrant more extended trial, pelea «hug latter | Kind hearted man though he was, could take no | and ‘at ali hours he eani help in making money, | | ten. But even if it were only three hours an even- | tetas’ that | is year of the question whether Bellevue Hospital | | can be no two opinions but that nearly all the cir- cumstances favor this conclusion. In favor of it we | nave, besides those aiready cited, the intention to | horry him out of the Province, without submitting the matter to magisterial inquiry—an illegal act | Of itself; the facilities with which he could be taken across the iuternational boundary at Lake ) of the Woods, or perhaps secured by regular pro- | cess by the United States authorities in passing through tbe Sault Canal; the undernanded manner im which the arrest was attempted; the sudden | departure of the Americans, Hardy and Reid, so | soon as they heard of the result of the attempt to | make the arrest, and an apparent absence o/ that | Irankness, on the part of the principal actors, which usually characterizes honesty, GORDON’S DEATH, Alexander Munro, a member of the Toronto ope wre. bad an warrant for the arrest of Gor- jon, testified as lollows:— I told Gordon fina att come to arrest him and | that 1 had @ warrant; 1 showed bim the warrant ; | he said it was all right—just glanced over it; don’t | think he read it at all—and he said he was ready to go; gave him a few minutes to put on warmer clothes; he wanted to know if I intended taking him through the States; I told him I did not; ne got dressed and was allready to go, with tne ex- ception of a Scotch cap; he called ior 1t; he made @ sort of rush into the vedroom; where he got the revolver I do not know; I was‘ standing in the door within four feet of him; the next thing I saw was his turving around with his back against the wall, with the revolver in his hand; I made a rush towards him to prevent his shooting; I expected it Was meant for myself, and as | was about getting | hold'of him the gun went off; he made some re- marks whiie holding the revolver in his band, but I did not catch their meaning; he sunk down against the wall just asi got hold of him; | saw the blood coming out of his left ear; that was the first | noticed; afterwards saw the wound in nis right temple; 1 believe he was dying fast and was dead immediately; 1 intended taking him out of Winnipeg that night, and had made arrangements to that effect; the particular object 1 bad in view in maki the arrest on Saturday might was Gordon could pe ee out of the country without his getting any legal advice; am not aware that Gilbert McMicken knew that our intention was to take Gordon out of the country in the way we in- tended; was actin through Hardy’s advice; Hardy, 1 understood, was a lawyer from New York; don’t know who Reid was except that ne was from New York; believe these were their right names, but don’t know; I have only their word for it. Other witnesses present testified to the particn- | | lars of Gordon’s death, the manner of his arrest, &c., all agreeing substantially with the evidence | of Mr. Munro, and all sustaining in @ greater or less degree the theory of the Free that the real object of Gordon’s captors was his abduction, under a British warrant, to New York. THOMAS HENRY PENTLAND testified that he had lived with Gordon for the last fon and to the refusal of the officers to allow jordon to see his solicitor at Winhipeg, and then continued as follows :— I waiked out of the room, and think Mr. Gordon followed me, but am not sure; I walked into the dining room, and on returning saw Mr. Gordon in the bedroom; the policeman was standing between me and Gordon, at the door o1 the bedroom; | saw | Gordon then standing facing the policeman, with the pistol pointing very near tne policeman; Teried | “don’t,” or something like that, and ne turned the | i ey round very sharply shot himself in the | { lead; | do not know him as any other than Gor- don-Gordon; I know nothing of his past life ex. | cept what he has told me of his school days at | Cambridge and his career in New York; I do not know that he has any bonds, stock or scrip here, but he said that he had a large amount tocked up | In the American courts; he has given most of his | Jewelry away; he has not made any investments 10 my knowledge in this country; ne bas spoken of | having @ sister Somewhere io Europe; he has said | that both his father and mother were dead; I am Dot aware that be leit any will; he has now some | silver plate which he gave to me when he was going | out on the prairie; he had very little jewelry lett; | the stiver 18 solid silver; he nad no money in his pease: Lid thirty-seven cents, and which @ handed to me tn presence of Mr. Bain; when he | first came in irom the prairie he had $1,600, and | that he made spin out until now; be had writ- ven @ letter on Friday night toa Mr. Westiall, banker, Minneapolis, the contents of which 1 am not aware of; the letter isin the house now; he very seldom wrote to any one; I do not know (hat he had invested any amount in lands by way | of mortgages; I have heard him say if he did die | he had no one to leave his property to, as his brothers were all dead; I have no idea what the value of the jewelry left may be; he had no dia- mounds or watches; he was working Mrs, Corbett’s land for her, ana had a good cropin; he had in his posseasion three horses, one of Dr. Brown! the other two were mine; he gave them to me it ago or thereabouts as 4 iree gift, as I had ‘n id to him and served him; there are @ifferont coats of arms on tho allver. bat aniv anq motto that I know Wagons; Las 6 cutter gaa barnes. ad in. the county of ro\ on the night of the ist day of A been arrested 8) = pates Sons oD arres' of Toronto, ‘inder tre. warrants said to have been issued by Alexander McNabb, Police or Btipen- diary Magistrate for the city of Toronto, im the Province of Ontario, and while Jaboring under the malt suicide, by shooting lusseit ithe "head With jooting nimse & pistol, causing death. © AUTHOR VERSUS MANAGER. Messrs. Rebert Johnson and Charles R. Thorne, Sr., Before Judge Kasmire— Dramatie Scene in Court. About half-past ten o’clock yesterday morning Judge Kasmire, sitting at Eesex Market Court, was called on in bis judicial capacity to adjust the unfortunate differences which have recently sprung up between two well known members of ‘the theatrical profession, Mr. Robert Johnson, the complainant, was an actor of repute for many years in the Ola Bowery Theatre, and is now a dramatic author, He is 9 man of splendid phy- Bique and hercutean frame, and for many years de- lighted the Bowery audiences in heavy tragedy parts, and, as was particularily noticeable yester- day, has not lost any Oo! the force which character- ized his periormances on the Bowery boards. Ap- proaching the Bench yesterday with majestic and lordly mien, he saluted His Honor Judge Kasmire with @ grandiose Wave of his arm, “4 have come here, Your Honor, to aemand jus- fice Irom this tribunal, I aman author, have been inguited and degraded, and Fask the power of the law to interiere for my rights as @ citizen and a Judge Kasmire—What is the nature of the offence? Mr, Johnsopn—On last Saturday 1 went to the otfice of Charies KR. Thorne, Sr., Manager of Nib- 1o’s Garden Theatre, and demanded from him three Manuscript plays which 1 had leit with him ior perusal He offered two of them and asked for a receipt. I took the package and was proceeding out of the office when 1 was grasped violently by tne arm, and, vn refusing to sign a receipt unless L received ail, I was thrust out of the ot with force and violence. Mr, Thorne here interposed—‘Judge, one of these plays that Mr, Johnson speaks of, the author- ship was claimed by anotuer person, and by ad- vice of counsel I retainea it. no undue violence, but tried to induce Mr. Johuson to 3! @ receipt jor the two plays he was taking away.” Judge Kasmire—Mr. Johnson, how much do you weigh one bow oa are you? I r. Johnson—I weigh 290 pounds and I am forty-three years of age. Poke Thorne last Sat- urday that, & it were not for bis age, I would thrash him within an inch of his life, Mr. Lhorne (suddenly brightening up)—Yes, and 1 told you that you need not mind my age. 1 was ready at any time to meet you in mortal combat. Judge Kasmire—How old are you, Mr. Thorne? Mr. Thorne—i am sixty-two years of age, and I Weigh 137 pounds, Mr. Jonson (excitedly)—I wish to explain. Your Honor, 1 wish you to understand this case, Judge Kasmire.—There is no necessity for avy further explanations. I consider the complaint altogether too trivialand dismiss the case. All parties then lett the court room, Mr, Jobnson seemingly supremely disgusted with his vastly di- minished importance in tue eyes of the law when off the mumic stage. THE DOG NUISANCE, Notwithstanding the continually recurring re- ports of dog asphyXiations at the pound, there seems to be no diminution of the canine yelpings that vex the midnight air and render sleep an ex. asperating farce. Eighth and Nintb avenues, from Fourteenth to Fifty-third street, maintain an in- termittently vicious chorus of barkings from sup- down to the dawn. Crashing sounds of bottles and other creckery hurled at the nocturnal dts- turbers may be heard everywhere, yet the police- man pursues his lazy way with sublime indiffer- enoe to the manifestations. Why snould not chronic yelpers be incontinently quelled at once by the revolver or the locust of policemen? Be- tween a@ wretched beast tnat renders sleep a mockery and @ prowling cur that exhibits symp- toms of rabies there ‘is littie difference 80 far as human discomiort 18 concerned. They should both be destroyed.” Why should peaceful people be nightly at the mercy Of dog fanciers, whether or no they secure the sleep 80 necessary alter their day's jabor? It seems to the minds oi many high time tnat both the dog and the cat nuisance should be abolished. Alderman Morris bas more important work before him, An Enterprising Dog Catcher. James 8. Church, of No, 300 Pearl street, a youth of some twenty-two summers, yesterday called at the City Hall to see His Henor the Mayor. Mr, Havemeyer just happened to come out of his pri- vate office and kindly asked the young man what he desired. Church said that he had started on a capital of seventy-five cents a few days ago catch- ing dogs; that at present he had gathered seventy- five canines, which were fed by himnow, Learn- ing that in his (the Second) Assembly district there was a vacancy, he came to apply for the same and hoped His Honor would confer upon nim the Ces The Mayor, who espied Alderman John J. Morris in bis office, referred the young man to him, and it is needless to say that the genial and benevolent Alderman at once recom- mended the enterprising youth, who was then and there duly qualified and installed into the office of oficial dog catcher of the Secona Assembly dis- trict, Belore night this enterprising official had Teaped the fruits of nis industry and pocketed $87 50—a profit of $36 75. This is not bad on an investment of seventy-five cents, RECKLESS DRIVING, James 8. Dunn, of No. 137 avenue D, was severely injured on Tuesday afternoon on the corner of Grand street and East Broadway, by car No. 23 of the Grand street line and car No. 87 of the Dry Dock line coming in coilision. Charles Turpin, driver of car No. 23, and William S, Cotter, conduc- tor of car No, 37, were arrested by UMicer Kelley, of the Eleventh precinct. They were arraigned be- fore Judge Kasmire at Essex Market Court yeste.- Oay and held to await the result of injuries. TERRIBLE TRAGEDY aT SBA, “An account has just arrived,’ says the Journat Opicrel of Paris, ‘of a frightful drama on the high seas. On the 8th June the Italian vessel Napoleon Camarero sailed from Macao with @ crew o! forty men, snd having on board 663 coolfes tor Callao, and 8,000 packets of fireworks. After a lapse of | two days, the interpreter discovered 9 plot among the emigrants to seize on the stip. The Oaptein immediately ordered one-half of them to be con- finea in the hold, but the next day those who remained on deck armed themselves with knives, belaying pins, pieces of wood—in short, anytulog they could lay their hands on, and attacked the crew, who defended themselves with muskets and revolvers. The coolies then massed themselves on the forecastie and set fire to the vessel, hoping that the crew would set to work at the pamps to extinguish the ames. During that time they had also treed their comrades and murdered the jew sailors they could get hold of. The Captain, seeing what they were doing, ordered the boats to be lowered and leit the ship with the remainder of his men. Some satiors who remained on doard, with the doctor, the magazine-man and the inter- preter, were unable to prevent the flames irom Teaching the fireworks, and the ship blew up, scat- tering the iragments of tne wutineers in every Rk a under the very eyes of the escaped MURDER IN DUBLIN, A Trusted Official Killed—His Throat Gashed Frightfally; [From the Irish Times, July 30.) A horrible discovery was made yesterday morn- | ing in the house No. 41 Lower Sackville street. The body of the porter employed by the Law Life Assurance Association was found almost in a state of nudity on the first two stairs of the second flight, Not a drop of biood seemed to have been left in the body; it had owed out through five wounds ou the throat, one of them a perfect chasm. The bedroom of the dead man, two fights higher up, Was found Ina state of the utmost disorder and Uteraily flooded with biood, There was blood everywhere—on the walls, on the floor in pools, on the bedclothes, on tie furniture, Olothes drip- ping with water and blood were piled up tna corner, There had evidently been ao attempt made to wash away the blood stains, 1t is dim- cult to conceive how a man, gashed 80 fearfully, could have piled up the clothes or moved down two flights of stairs. There are other suspicious cir- | cumstances counected with the cage which will be investigated thoroughly by the Coroner to-day. The body ana the room presented appearances of the most revolting and sickening character. HON. 4, H STEPHENS ON SPEAKER BLAINE, [From the Washington Star.) Hon. A. H, Stephens remarked to a friend during the late session of Congress that “Speaker Blaine was more prompt, efficient and energetio in the despatch of business and possessed & more thor- ougn knowledge of the complicated rules of the House than aay one he had ever seen in the chair.!” As Mr. Stephens bas been familiar with all the Speakers smce James K. Polk, and personally served under Winthi Cobb and Bai this com- blimant to Speaker is one Worth THREE TIMES A PRESIDENT. Tho Breeze That Has Been Stirred Up by the Third Term Discussion. Opinions of Various Journals Upon the Position of Parties. Below will be found further expressions of opinion by joucnais who see in the silence of General Grant an evidence that he really desires @ re-election to the Presidency :— Many Believe He Would Carry th: ‘Whole South. : {From the Atlanta (Ga.) Herald—conservative.} Three: years ago the writer met General Frank Blair in the presence of several gentlemen at Wil lard’s Hotel, One of the party said “General what do you think of Grant?” He replied promptly, ‘Grant, sir, is no fool, as many thought- leasly allege. While he 1s not distinguished either for his Mterary attainments or his oratoricat powers, he has @ vast fund of common sense. Besides this, he has as intrepid @ heart as ever beat in the body of any man on earth. If he had not had he would not be where he is to-day. Any other man but Grant would have fled across the Continent at the battle of the Wilderness. He could not have stood the slaughter inflicted by Lee, but Grant stood as unmoved as if he had been witnessing a game of billiards, and his only order was, ‘Send the men in.’” “Do you think, General, if you had been elected, that you could have been inaugurated without trouble “No, sir, I do not, and I say to you to-day that the man who turns Grant out of the White House will have todo so at the head of an army. bas rieked nis iffe for a much emalier state.’’ Every one pres- ent¢thought these were very extreme views, and. #o they were, and one or two expressed the opinion that when Grant’s second term was: out he would quietly retire, as ail other Presi- dents had done before. Blair quickly replat. “] will bet a thousand dollars that run ior a third term, and, turthermore, I will ‘wager another thousand that, whether elected or not, he will count himself in.” “How will he do it? “Easy enough,” replied the General. “Fhe President of the Senate will be on bis side; pega count all the votes that are for him, and if there are not sufficient to elect him there will bea thou- sand affidavits from States that voted against him. that the election was unfairly held and many of his iriends were kept from the polls. Did not Ben Wade refuse to count the vote of Georgia withont any better reason than could have been given fer. New York or Massachusetts ?? The crowd sepa- rated, and one or two remarked, ‘Blair 1 treme map, and he speaks more from feel- thao judgment.’? The writer thought s0, but recent events give an importance to ti off-hand conversation that otherwise wouk not attach to it. We publish to-day @ report of an interview of a NEw YORE HsRaLD cor! at Long Branch, that foreshadows very Clearly a determination on the part of Grant 10 cut loose from all parties and go before the country as the people’s candidate. So far as the South is con- cerned, it matters little to us whether Grant or some other man occupies the Executive obair. If General Grant should veto the Civil Rights bill and overthrow the carpet baggery and corrupt gov- ernments which we are enduring in Soutl chro. lina, and, in fact, in every Southern State e: ie Georgia, many bejieve he would carry the whole South, We merely state this a8 our opinion. The status of political parties im the country ts, too undefined for any man ‘to say where be will stand two years hence. The at pres- ent, is decidodly for a straight ous ocratio nomination on @ clear democratic platiorm of free trade, hard money and home rule. We tried: Greeley, and while the experiment convinced that sectional hatred and the embitrered feelings, growing out of the war were stil rank! al Controlling the Northern heart, it also convince us that a ence com promises of principle would surely end in Let tne democratic party keep aloof from aS Dolly. Varden complications. In the language 0! Governor Palmer, of Illinois, who has heretofore been among the ablest and most active of the re- publican ‘leaders, ‘the pouaey has become dis- gusted with the corruption and sectional legisla- tion of @ republican Congress,” and if the demo- cratic party Will bomtinate good and trae leaders, upon @ clear and distinct enunciation of constita- tional [pleas ee success in the next campaign is. assure Grant and a Third Term. {From the Troy Whig—republican.] The ‘“‘Cmsarism” of the New YORK HewaLp never had any foundation in fact. The articles on the wubject were put out as feelers. The HERALD wanted to test the health of the body politic by feeling its pulse, The newspapers were shy and made few and feeble respohses. But reporters and interviewers drew from very prominent in- dividuals thetr private opinions. No man of any influence was found in favor ofa third term. But the HERALD has got'up a talk. It has forced this subject upon public attention. We think, from what has been said by General Gordon and others, after having been in Washing- ton, that the President has given them some assurance tuat his sympathies are with the whites, And ye we confess tbat our opinion does not tally with Grant’s CN port of the Kellogg and otner factions tn the Sout -bor with his conduct in entorcing the laws against the Ku-Klux. Nevertheless, it is very certain that suca men as General Gordon, Governor Kemper and others, wbo are lor a White man’s party, write and act as ifthey have had some encouragement from Grant. Would the Northern democrats agree to support Grant? Why not? They swallowed Greeley. After such an act of deglutition no mouthful could be too bitter and nauseous for the democratic stomach. The sabject Is growing interesting and we await further developments, No Doubt About Grant’s Purpose. (From the Galveston (Texas) News—conserva> tive.) But there can be no doabt about Grant’s pur pose to go in, if possible, for a third term, and, perhaps, an indefinite series of terms, and there can be very little doubt that te will have the repubiican nomination a third time if he de- Sires it, If the conservative Interests of the South were obliged to choose between imperialism em- bodied in an absolute Congressional majority and imperialism embodied in a permanent Chief Ex- ecutive we shouid unhesitatingly pronounce in favor of the latter; for the Congressional majority heretofore, in its acts of arbitrary power respect- ing affairs at the South, as = proved & hard and bitver masver, But it is not certain that such a choice is to be pre- sented. It is hardly probable, supposing imperial- 1sm 18 to be established, that Southern conserva- tives will be able to determine its form. Hence we abide in the prudent opinion which was some tume ago espe in these colamns, and which it is not irrelevant here to repeat:—“Until it is known what form of centr power 1s indis- nbepiy. to prevail, it will certainly be extremely has lous for any weak community in the minor- ity section of the Union to place itself in decided antagonism to the embodiment of either form, The one-man power, if established, might prove an invaluable friend, But the power of an ab- solute Congressional majority, inflamed with the inexorable animosity of a preponderant and over. shadowing section, Would be the most fearful of enemies.’ “What Will We Do About It?” {From the Galveston (Texas) Mercury.) If President Grant concludes to run fora third term the question, “What will we do sbout 18 is quite important, We are on the eve of sending members to Congress, One of them, ex- Governor Throckmorton, proclaimed himself in favor of @ division of our State six or seven years ago. He isastanch friend of the railroad interests of our State, and is, perhaps, more con- Versant with the actual wants and necessities of our peopie than any other pablig or pri- vate citizen now in our State. The next congressional term will witness macy jm. portant changes, Its members, beyond all question, should be picked men. Changes in the internal construction of our government are Sure to be agitated. Will President Grant, if elected, be satisfied at the end of his third term, or will he not try to establish himself in the Ex. ecutive chair for life? There are to be found in the country people who, at first, were startied out of their propriety at tne bare announcement that Grant might, by any possibility, become the life President of the United States, woo now think that if he Were once firmly seated tn the Execu- tive chair the State governments would be abok ished, and with their abolition would end the occupation of the crowd of politicians who now flood the country and create periodical excite. ments during primary meetings, conventions, ; elections for members of Legislature and the thou- sand and one other political manwuvrings that are common during each canvass, Like a European Despot. [From the Cairo (ill) Bulietin—democratic.] So much for the latest on the third term quem tion, Itis worthy of note that President Grant has never denied that he would accept the nomk nation for @ third term, a silence which may hat several different constructions pat upon it. ‘arent elther Wants & third term or he does not want If he wante it iience {8 castly understood, he does not want it he i; a the tango ma manner Sore becet Se eon the Prasigent of ree Amartom,