The New York Herald Newspaper, September 13, 1874, Page 5

GENERAL BUTLER, The Essex Statesman Announces Him- self a Candidate for Re-election. —_>—_— HJS MISSION NOT YET FINISHED. Southern Outrages and Murders the Text of the Campaign, Exposition of Our Financial System. GLOUCESTER, Masgs,, Sept, 12, 1874, The future of Ben Butler's political aspirations ts Bo longer an uncertain secret, He ts out flat footed for a re-election to Congress and for the time being will conceal all ambition for guberna- terial honors, He wade his anauval début in the ‘canvass line in the heart of his district this even+ ing and was greeted by a respectably large num- ‘ber Of his fellow-citizens, There was an absence, however, of the crowds and enthusiasm of former years, which shows that there is a notable falling off 1 Butlerism in Cape Ann or else that it has not yet openly stirred up to the surface. The boay of the hall was not full and the galleries where there were many ladies had also many empty seats, On the platform were twenty-five or thirty o1 the most elderly and sedate of the General’s admirers, Who were clothed with the dignity of presidents and secretaries, The village band was also upon the stage and gave the invitable “HAIL TO THE CHIEF” When tne General walked up the aisle ana the @udience indulged in a few demonstrations of ap- Plause. The General wore a serene and happy Smile and returned his acknowledgments with a Grateful bow. The jolly and rotund form of Col- lector Babson was conspicuous on the platform, and in a moment he had the meeting called to order, In the work of organization Councilman Gilbert was chosen to preside, and in taking the chair he took occasion to urge the Geueral’s re- nomination and re-election to Congress, and the General, when ne was introduced, Promptly an- Rounced himself ready to again serve his con- stituents if they wanted him. He sata:— SPEECH OF GKNERAL BUTLER, My Prrenps anv Neicusors—I owe you anapology be- gause of not preseuiting myself belore you earlier {0 an. Bounce again my candidature for your suffrages. Severe Aliness in the early spring warned imy physicians and my- seit that Lmust cease, in a large part, from uly iabors— certainly until my health was restored—and I was advised “instantly ‘to stop all work, notwithstanding which I selt it my duty to remain at my post as your representative until CA ther! had adjourned, leaving the Vacation with its partial rest to have its effect betore I should accept the inedical advice io go abroad i rest and health, in search 1 now velieve that the fresh air of e sea which I enjoy with you has so tar restored Me, that, laying aside other occupations and other am- bitions, T'shall be ubie to do my duty to my coustituents fn the future asin the past. My gratitude for your past Cordial support would impel mé, if such be the desire of the people ot the district, again to serve you at what- ever risk to health or loss of professional emoluinent. Let us pause here a moment, The king ofa barbarous tribe in Africa took five Englishmen prisoners, woo Were peace/ully trading in his country, marched them wo his cupital and there held them ag such. ‘h mal- treatment, but when asked to release them refused. What is the protection which England gives to her citi- fens? The whole English nation was aroused, war Was declared, an army was transported halt way across the globe, the army of the Kiug of Abyssinia was over- powered in batule, his capitol was assaulted und demol- ished, and its treasure brought away by the lenglish sole diers as loot and taeir countrymen, freed trom im- prisonment. | And shall it be said that Union men—good, Ouest, peacetul men—pursuing the ordinary vocations of live upon an American soil, protected by our fiag and our constitution and onr laws, where they should be un- molested, cannot have that protection and satety and redress ior (heir wrongs which England can give er ’ izeus even when subjected only to im. Fisonment a wild jungles of Africa? Is the Red Cross of ‘St. George’ so powertul to protect and save its subjects and the stars and Stripes 80 Powerless in our land, upon our country’s soil, in one Of the richest and What ougnt to be the most peacelul State ofthe Union ? Let me be just to the men of the South and give the excuse they put forward in justifica- fon of this outrage, They say the government of the State of Louisiana has been seized from the ola white residents by the votes of the negroes and a State govern ment set up of whites and blacks, which is corrupt and ‘euting up their substance. We need not stop ioargue or deny the truth of this justification, and that, too, not be- cause the corruption of the government is no justification Of the murder of the citizen by armed violence, because other and nunberiess murders too well autheniicated to be demed have been committed in the States of Ten- Ressee and Kentucky, in both of which the negro has no power in the governnient nor any power of seit. protec- tion, but which are wholly under democratic rule. =o that'it is clear, white men’s leagues have sprung up all over the South as lawless and murderous in the S.ates where the negroes are powerless as where they have power in the State government, und as. these wrongs are done openly and continually in these States, it clearly appears that they are parts of the plan to new the war, crush out the negro and deprive him ot his lical rights. Indeed, I read in a southern paper a Motice served upon the negroes that they must either be deprived of all political rights or the State spall be a military territory. This, then, is war, and the men of the 17th of April, it need be, will again he country from traitor hands en I rming condition of things in the South, when I heard of this most terripie wrong r redress, { said to myself, “My mission in the service of my country is not ended. ‘the war waged to establish the just right, ot the citizen is not yee | over. Whatever have of remaining health and strength must be devoted to putting this matter right.” And, therefore, laying agide all con- siderations of ease or personal advantage to myself, I am here asking again for your suffraves, that I ‘maybe $n 4 pouition to carry out your declared will that every foot of American soll shall be trodden by an America citizen, undisturbed and unmolested, with entire to his life and property, under oar flag and protected by our laws. And | here take leave to say to you, what you Know and believe, that I have done, and can do, as much in that direction. if in no other way, as any man who ‘will present himself tor your votes, be he whom he may. General Butler next took up the question of @nance, going into an elaborate explanation and defence of his views on that subject. He denied emphatically ever having been in favor oj repu- @iation or anything but @ sound currency, He opposed the resolution of Congress adopted in 1869, alse that all the bonded debt should ve paid in gold, because he thought it unwise and wrong; bui the contract Daving been made, he had never, either publicly or privately, expressed an opinion otherwise than that the promise must be kept. iter referring to the immense amount of bonds held 1n foreign hands, and the interest required, the General continued :— The effect tet us has been an overstrained business, ‘over-sumulus to importation crippling manutactures and increasing the value of our bonds until that bond which was bought for thirty cents gold is now co ee to 106, until the rate o/ interest, which up to that time had not exceeded in this Commonwealth six per cent in Jarge or extended investments, has now come to be on an average nine to twelve per cent, even when you mortgage your farm and house to your savings bank. Taxation has become near! an one-third of the earnings $ of ordinary business enterprise. Moan ein of national banks, with their notes by the government, and our legai tenders, validity has been estublisued by the opinion of all the highest judicial tribunals of every Siate and of the United strates, ha’ become the best currency any country ever saw. upon. the faith of the nation, secured by pledges of national bonds, a portion largely in exeess of the market vulue, a dollar of United States Money at par passes trom hand to hand, in exchange for all commodities at the same Value, over a larger ex, tent of country than the currency of any other nation in the world, not excepting gold and alvor, without deduc. tion of exchange: Ii T could stop here in describing our financial condition nothing would give me greater pleasure. No statement could be mace ot reater pro: erity or greater success of a government In establi: ing the finances of Its people. but from causes which it q@ould not be profitable to take time now to examine the business of banking in this country has paid. the highest rate of returns, while ot ail others banking ightly man- divider should yield the lowest prefit, because if agea the most safe. No business in this country for the last fifteen years— ai iven such enormous jug their dividends, rise of their ares, NO mi railcoad beside them, no @o business enterprise but what has paid them, The curse of the country to-day. in my judgment, tthe rate of interest for business purposes, At the Kaat it ts from eight to nine per cent, in the West twelve to fifteen per cent and at the South eighteen to twenty- four per cent, and so great are these rewards of money lending that many of our shrewdest capitalists have withdrawn their money trom business enterprises under- taken by themselves and loaned it to others on such securities that the business men of the country are taking ail the risks and the money lender is reaping All the rewards of their enterprise. ‘The situation was tiis:—In endeavoring to relieve the distressed condition of us country and in answering the demands of the banker: and the demands of the people for money and to 7 fay all claims against the government, tor which in their disire: rushed upon tt, the Treasury h en ob: $44,000,000 of legal tender ry, leaving 14, 00U,000 still in reserve ¢o make up the $40,000.04) qtnewering this so ar ent, ib southern portions of 6 CO! Feported &. bul Wwiied should ue of this $18,000,000 currency, up 000,000, and also providing for qualified ang limited free banking. This bill, after considerable discussion and amending in the fiouse and Senate, passed by a very considerable majority in the House and in the Senate by a propoytionaily much smalier one. On that bid I voted with the majority of the a perty and a majority of the House and but In | opposition “to my colleague Indeed TI beueve I ‘stood as the bt rity «0 W. from the western ary, the commuatt allow a still further to its limit of one man in New Engl: Suite Lepublican party of the Ration ia both house: Congress upon tins measure dt finance, and for that yote my republicanism has heen challenged before you, If your representative cannot vote with the majority of his party An be a republican pray with whom should he vote and be held to be acting with the republican party? Should he voto with the minority, or should he vote with the opposition and still be counted a good re- publican in Massachusetts, provided that vote accords with the fina But 1 have others; such never has been m own views, as instructed and conscience, upon all alone. I pelioved then, and voted in the interest of ‘the Yauettionsy ity Tbelleve’ still, ton, my political party and Massachusetts, Let us look the situation in the face; however it may humbl pride, it ts nos wo be Ajeruised that phe political pow basaed west | itengendered more sectional strite in Congress, which | enthusiastic echo in the minds of his hearers, and | his detining of NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, SEPTEM gpx 13, 1874—QUADRUPLE SHEET. the Alleghantes, and New England mast depend ne: ron ‘or pergencn er) in the counciis of the nation uw the statesma: tatives and the wisdom they took to the inter- ot to the number of her pon THE POLITICAL OUTLOOK, seis aisha ante esis of the whole count 0 Yotes, It seems to me, re, to be the part of wis- dow, it your representative was to have any intiuence in shaping the legislation of the nation, that wien he toand the whole political power of the country as represented in both parties Was desiring a national Incasure, to yield to that desire, and uot by stopping to Combat provoke @ contest in which his section must be powerless and without remedy. T saw that Massachu setts had more of ber wealth Snvested in enterprises west of the Alleghanies than, leaving out her reat estate she had invested east. T saw these enterprises 1a en. ins ‘hu'none. of tiem imakine any Tyna, {ey | THE, CHANCES OF THE DEMOCRACY The Liberals and "’46 Nemocrats a8 % Family. those inves: ments in e bh the Western ople and iargely depend focal political action —- or ty hagrstt 3 OF PIoae tuture, = had to oi sen! ein! JASHACH Use tts. hat was it w 7 . for me to dot The Western and southern people, awong | The City Politicians and the Cffices—The Alder- whom thst investients were made, said that manic Ticket a Bone of Contention—The Probable Results of the City Campaign. ney Were ruined, unless relief could be afforded by a greater issue of the currency, AD organization was springing up all over that wart ot the country, “having tor its object to destroy these investments by hostile legislation, Should f yield to the demand tor the the $15,00,000 “already authorized by the law, whi they claimed would be a measure of relief to Now that the much talked of Liberal Convention them, and by which there could not be any possibihty of an’ injury to my ‘State or to the currency? What | 2&8 had its conventional talk and squabble, and seemed to be well for the nation also seemed to be best | nas obeyea the behests of Governor Fenton and Tie ree re enaend itself fo mY | nis friends, the democrats feel somewhat relieved for my section. own judgment. OR AE why Miele. 2 Ud he etel aoe ot | Ol @great burden. It cannot be doubted that the noxey Will, De Folieved, in” a given section | Uberals held the winning card before they met at by alfowing a bank to be established by de ing bonds | a Re S costing Il? cents on the dollar, togct a bower fo jue | Albany, Fenton feit himself strong. So did currency Deo wel benoens, or, in other words, how | Merritt, and so did that smallest of the small currency is to be incre in & given sense to the people . ; by" depositing $10 tor the privilege of issuing gro), | 1¥, Thomas E. Stewart, Fenton, tt will be slenou he Penk gets in erate 8 ee bonds and cael borne in mind, three weeks ago had an r loubied, and still doubt, whether, under | aay the circumstances ‘onideratie canna of capital idea that he could make the aamimistration wire- would flow from the Kast to the West and South to es- | Ww: tablish their banks there with the limited priviteges a: | Pullers go down on their marrow bones and cail sordea by A . ee free" bankiag: nee ree, yith | him biessed. But his prayers and his winning all these disadvantages pported the bill and di 3 #8 what'T might that it “should become a" luw | WAYS Jt seems, have failed to melt the ada. so that oe ee AF Gonsrees epee Basoaes | mant in the administration heart, and he was there- uestions_m be settled and the business of the . ast W, country tight start 6 ‘ain in the spring upon such basis | £0Te compelled last Wednesday to go it alone, And and hope of relies asi aera Lf \oked upon the me he went it alone, He dia not appear, itis true, asa as affording present extension of the currency with is {uure contraction, I hongne this exmaton. by'teliey= delegate to the Convention. He was nowhere to ing the fears of business men and exciung their hopes, 7 Would tend to. a revival of business enterprises, while | 2 found when the Convention was called to the rospestive contraction | worm ve hhrety order. When the wildest liberal in the whole uf olders of ea nt their ge- Gite weceae rendered “less valuatie | CfOWd arose in his place and cried out aloud that by any proposed expansion. | 1 wish to say here and now that that bill was not my bill, It was not one wnat I would have trained. | It was not one that compeiled my | judgment. But I looked upon it as the best thing to be | ‘one under the circumstances, The President, yieldin to pressure and arguments of the bankers of the country, vetoed the bill That veto. 1 thought then’ and think now was a mistake, but | decause of it {saw no reason why I should make war upon the republican party or the republican adminis- | tration, The effect ot the veto was that the spring busi- ness oF the country was wholly lost to itaud there was | no revival, A subsequent financial measure was passed which differed from the other in that it provides, as 1 in- terpret it, tor present contraction with future inilation, At anv’ rate it ‘has given. no financial reliet and there has been no revival of business because of it | straight and smooth, Candidiy, Mr. Fenton isa or under it. 1 saw and predicted that for the year 18/4 there was no business prospect tor the country, and | Usappointed man. Despite ail avermenta to to-day your mills are idle; real estate in the city of | the contrary, te has, it is well known, done his Fearige In the same situations: stores Sud Unciness |, Dest to make peace with the administration; | somebody should be nominated for Governor and somebody else for Lieutenant Governor, there was, If not a dead silence, at least @ calm that the old managers knew betokened disaster. But it ia all over now, and it has gone on the record that the liberals are no more nor less than a piebald but who atthe same time want to do the best | they can to make tueir FUTURE PATHWAYS IN OFFICE Pitices are ,uuocoupled; the greatest muanuiactur- | rather, to put the matter more clearly, the ing interest in this’ State—shoe eather— | ' is spuch de; ressed s the woollen and cotton interests are inner circle irtends of the administration crippled: thousands of Workmen are out of employment e 9 aid go about the streets idle and winter 1s coiing on, | UAVe done their best to reduce the Couid anything happen worse trom any possible inda- coming campaign to a nominal fight fon of the currency, aaitis called? And with allthese | necween friends, The action of the Liberal Con- truits, this distress all this ruin, are we one cent hearer specie values than we were a year ago to- | vention in the eyes of some enthusiastic demo- day? Nay, are we not further off ” Does any | i crats is looked upon as a patriotic one, but the majority of the party fight shy of it and regard it as noting more nor less than a bid for favors and office. It cannot be denied that the liberals had a glorious opportunity to cut out a new line in poli- tics for themselves, and that they could have easily brought one or other of the two great parties to their way of thinking had they seen fltto adopta proper policy, It was in their power, strong as sane man believe that the way to bring up the currency of the country in value so that both may come to & specie standard, 4s to cripple the resources of. | country, stagnate its business and have its labor idic? For one, Ido not. Nothing could have been more dis- astrous’ upon “the interests of New — England m Congress, than ,this banding together of her representatives, undef the tear, by many of them that they would be broken down at home it they did not | Vote in accordance with home sentiments, as revre- sented by the press, That throwing herself in the ince of the great West by what was deemed a sectional vote, will surely break out, than has existed’ there Since “the” North and South divided on ‘the they really were in convention, to nominate a Question, of slavery. | The ST mmbdiati*t | good ticket after drawing up a sound platiorm, to h Vote of the New. England delegation was immediatel y seen. I have said to you that here came into my charge the Dill for the distribution of the Aiabama claims. | ‘That money was to xo, soine $15,000,00—to New England and New York, to thé East and not to the West; and | Western men Said to me, “Why should we take this Money trom the Treasury and distribute it to the shipowners and capitalists ot New Engiand, while the West is paying the taxes trom the sale of our'products. > And a leading republican. from Wisconsin made # speech Against the distribution of the mon sed on this idea. | Ayear ago he voted for the bist, pain, but not with astonishment, I saw a vote, y in point of nuinders, against’ the of that award at all. even to the a to side with them, But it was the old story of PETTY POLITICAL JEALOUSY over again, Cochrane, when he went to Albany, , Only thought of Cochrane and his nice litile plan Jor norhinating Church, in order to tack on Fred aeaneats game was such a dangerous one in the opinion of su a andl was glad to | reat it despite themseives, And thus the fleld now accept an an act could be elle “the law, so | Temains aiter a week's work witn a pretty good ny h Passed to distribute any portion of it under the law, 80 hat a precedent was set that might save ‘the | platiorm lor any party and no candidates for any- fost of if to those aay, fie hig ay pe, mcered bouy to vote or. Fenton’s hand withal is seen in all | loss In their commerce upon the in eng there tins mice arrangement. From now till the 29th declare my belief that had [ voted with the majority of Abe me my delegution upon the question of finance {should 428%. the administration Wirepullers can calmly coyltate on the tuture, and if by the time the Uuca have been powerless in my advocacy of the bill tor the is Convention is @ thing a week old no more shail distribution of the Alabama jaims, and you, fisher- men of Gloucester who lyst by the Tacony have been made by the Custom House toward a Florida, who had your vessels burned plain policy with the liberals, there will be war to ost in sight of your Harbor, who will now | Pie'knbien Fenton then may uncover his batteries and in certain districts ‘in the western part 01 the State show just What nis power and that of his iriends really amount to. Some well posted politiciaus think it will amount to nothing; others receive your just remuneration tor your great losses, you woul have been obliged to put vour tosses with those of your tathers’, in the ‘French Spoliations Claims,” which will never, never, in my judement, be paid, and certainly tne I not, if the representatives: of Massachusetts Choose set themselves upinabody think it will amount to a great cteal. eis all questions against the political power of the | alone Cauteil. Just here, in speaking of this con- beat | viction, it might ve well to give something of the public ieeling as to the stand Mr. Jonn Kelly has seen fit to take in regard to TILDEN’S NOMINATION. lis position on the finan- | gut the matter has been so thoroughly canvassea cial question was also met with warm tuatit seem almost aneeuless task to discuss the applause. The General's speech referred | question, Mr. Kelly, it 18 conceded upon all sides to bis arduous labors in Congress in behalf by the city deimocrats, bas made a very great mis- of the special needs of his constiiuents, and he take, and has shown himsel! au utter jailure as & took occasion to repiy sharply to some statements | poitical leader by the open way he talks to any- Which had peen made against him by tie Boston body who takes @ notion to gabbie politics with Advertiser, all of which ne branded as him. Last year, it is true, he acted just in this Holes iy eal tM) i) same open and above board way; that in conception, in general and in detail, On the | he epoee aloud just what he Yineunty contrary, he defled any person in the Uniled gna ‘seemed not to care Who Was olen States to say a word against his political tutegrity | so Jong as he elt he told the truth. He won a or to point out a single act of hs which could 1 grand victory im the eng, aud he may by this same any way be construed into official corruption, He : had always been Jaichiul to his constituents, ana | Ped Policy gain another oue this year. “Wat it Is while he knew there were still many good men in the district, yet he claimed an advantage of ex- rience, and he hoped his fellow citizens would just bear in mind that he knew THE ROPES OF CONGRESS as weil as anybody, There had been, he said, @ disposition in some guarters of the State to ran | matters in this district, and he wished to say to such as these that they could not only take cure of their own affairs here, but of the affairs ol the State if they set out to, all of which attracted ap- piause, and made many think that the speaker has not even yet given up the idea of some time being Governor, This time, however, he will be con- tent with going back to Congress, and a lively campaign here 18 tmminent during the intervening time between now and election. THE FLUSHING MURDER. Inquest in the Case of Rocco Frederico, | the Italian Laborer on the College Point Water Works. | The Coroner’s inquest In the case of Rocco | Frederico, the murdered Italian, was held at une | Town Hall, Flushing, last evening, before Coroner Reimer and a jury, Dr. Badger testified as tol- lows:—I made a post-mortem examination of the | dom and metropolitan trickery wiil once again, as body of deceased, assisted by Drs. Bloodgova and _ in 1872, be arrayed, the one against the other, and Reimer; 1 made the following minutes of the | tHe Odds strongly tn lavor of the country, examination:—Head and boly uninjured except | ‘ @ lacerated and punctured wound vt the right aint hd Peedi jostle carte are slow, elbow, on outside of joint, two and a hail inches | #0 hotiing Rew of a very decisive characier has deep; slight punctured woutd ot chest over first happened in any of the various districts. ‘The aspir- rib, on right gide, three-quarters of an inch | ®%ts tor the various Congressional honors remain wide and half way from sternum to shoul- #?0Uut the same, with the exception of a slight der; oblique puncturea woumi on lett side, over change in the Fifth district, where D, P. Conyngham the’ heart, two inches (rom sternum, between 28 come outin full bloom’ as @ strongly backed fourth and fifth ribs, three-quarters of an inch candidate lor Colonel William R. Roberts’ seat. It long and three inches deep, extending in the di- | '$20W more than probable that Mr. Duncan will get rection of the heart; heart natural size and | tHe Tammany nomination tor Mayor if he will ac- bealthy in appearance, with wound of same width C¢Pt, all other candidates having been told, it 18 a6 external wound; ‘thougnt the wound inthe Widerswoad, by the powers that be to stand ‘aside heart the only Jatal one; all of ‘hese wounds were | UutI! Mr. D. says yes or no, tion would be equivalent to an election on an made by a rough instrument, ticket, and y The General’s plain language about the Southern outrages and What ougu? oe done Jound a most time to attack some of the strongest men in the party, and as he 1s @ delegate to Syracuse himself it is pretty certain that bis presence there will re- sult in @ fight in tne Convention. Just now a | squabble in Conveution is the thing the democrats should seek the most to avoid, ior the final result will be disaster. Mr. Kelly has thrown down the guuntiet to his country colleagues, and there can be no doubt that they will take it up in dead | earnest, Out of all the squabbing the general opinion of tne democrats 18 tuat one resuit will follow—Tilden’s deieat, if not in Convention, at least at the polis by the hands of country deino- crats, And thus the situation stands at present, WISE COUNSELS may prevail between now and Wednesday next, and questionable compromises may be dragged into the quarrel to make the democratic field an open one in the coming campaign; but if wise counsels do prevail Mr. Kelly and Mr. ‘iden will have no great cause for rejoicing; for they have voth, by ib stand of iate—the one by his deter- mined advocacy of un unpopular man’s candidacy and the other by his stubvoruness to run against | all odds—wasted their own strength and built up in their pathway Obstacies tnat cannot be over- come in the race jor the Governorship, The Con- vention will meet on Wednesday, and then we will have the full story. But it may be premised be- Jorehand that the gathering of the patriots wtil not be a harmonious one, ana that country wis- : as @ successor to the pecul ici orcmiae ALA rate oe antes Havemeyer he would indeed be Welcome they searched the boarding louse, but foundit , '0, Citizens of all parties. Mr. Kelly 1s “ d by ‘the wi | strongiy in favor of his nomination, and it SON gaincardocOreretne Durderers theres? | Would seem that ail that remains now’ to make mony of a party of boys was tothe effect that they | 5! sure of the chief magistracy is his acceptance were on the stoop of & house ui the vicinity of the Of the office, The Assembly districts are still ina boarding house on Thursday tvening, when they | 8004 deal of @ quandary about the transactions, a fight between two Itallins on the stoop of 224 the situation in all the districts is about the the boarding house; ultimawly both men ran | *4Me as it was last week, The resuits of the Con- Sway. The prisoner, Vincenzio namorata, was not , Yeutlon on Wednesday may change the entire positively identinied as one of tem. complex! jon of Fh nico The Aldermanic ticket pare most important vestimoly was that of Cono So oeer ee WRG $0 ITIGIANS ertucco, aroommate of Vincaizio, the prisoner, | i who testified through an interjreter thecetne pris: no small amount of anxiety. The squabbie as to Who ought vo be elected at large and who from Oner std deceased Nad 8 dissete at noon avout | Tetiictas is still as acrimonious as ever, in the | Seventeenth district Andrew Biessing’s fate has | been decided. His popularity is such that he can | either get on the “at large” ticket or go as one of | the three irom his Senatorial district. {t 18 | beiteved he will go. from the district. Plunkett, | Wao Was once an alderman, and Masterson, whois alter the office, too, ave seeking to get the nomi- Ee one Keily is dead against Plunkett, | and deceased are from the sam village in Italy. \ prson is comparatively @ new man on ‘The deceased man was buried in-he Catone pes the general committee oi the district, Blessings etery in Flushing yesterday afernoon. District | 488¢mbly record wil doubtless fetch him throug. Attorney Downing Was present aul assisted in the | At any ere he will be able to poli more votes tuan examinadon of Witnesses, The inquest was ad. Uy Other man in the district, and as Mr, Kelly journed until seven o'clock on Londay evening, | S¥% (ive Want our strongest men out in all the | When @ number of Itailan witneses will be exam. | Strict this time,’ there can be no doubt of the | ined. result. Tammany is determined to secure, it may | be said just bere, the Board of Aldermen as weil | | as the Mayor, and the’ six gentlemen who | | will be at large on the ticket will be chosen this year not so much for their “respectaniiity,” 80 called, as for their individual strength in thelr lo- | | cate Lysaght, Plaunigan, Blessing, Gilon and Relliy are already mentioned tavo: oly as probable | | “at large” candidates, with the chances in iavor of ; &itveral candidate for the sixth man. However, a | Great deal depends upon the settlement of the the ownership of a pocket kniie; the prisoner, on arriving at the boarding house ia the evening, ex- hibitea @ wound in his bead, statng that Freuertco caused it, and exclaiming, “1 vill fix him: the prisoner then leit the house and-eturned in about {teen minutes and remarked ttt he had “fixed him,” meaning Frederico, The prisoner interrupted, sayhg that five min- utes was not time enough to killa man, Prisoner THE MAHON MUB)ER, Verdict of the Coroner's tury—A Wit- mess Indicted for Prjury. MORRISTOWN, N. J,,Sept. 12, 1874. ‘The Coroner’s jury in the case ¢ Mahon, found murdered, have rendered a verdicithat the killing was done by persons unknown. 3ome portion of squab pies in the various Assembiy districts. Healy the testimony warrants suspicbn against two fot gpesy and Senator Fox Wdemoores), in the | asylam men, who have left for pris unknown, | First, are yet at loggerneads with the anomaly of Mr. Calloway, a witness in this cae, has been at- | Shed Shook (republican) backing Healy. Denny | rested for perjury, in having falsey sworn about some Dloodstains on his clothing,and in giving other fadse testimony. Bdward Keogh 1s in custody in Newark on sus- picaon of being implicated in the Merietown mur- der. He was arrested for drunknness. Some scars.on him and his saying thathe had lately been employed on tire new asylui near Morris. town, as wel! as admitting that h was eugaged Burns (democray has left the course clear Jor Kirk (democrat) in the Sixth ward, Denny being anxious to get the crvil justiceship, The trouule {n Tim Campbell's district is yet in fall bloom, for he and Patton are determined to beat one another, Which makes the fight teresting, there being no show for a republican, whether one runs or not, 48 an Irishman would say, Dan O'Callaghan, away Up town, is still on the high horse, and insists 4 Leggatt was one of the first signs of his new set of out-bidders, who wish well to everybody, | make it an object for the democrats or republicans | Conkling as the tail to the liberal kite; but the | tral uniysured tosses | Merritt and his rural backers that they had to de- | ‘The tuture | Mr. Duncan’s nomina-: | 00a Work of last year for the workingmen. It ‘Will thus be seen that PRACE AND HARMONY do not generally prevail in the Tammany ranks. So long a8 the Aldermanic ticket is unsettled just so long will the places of the candidates jor the other oMices be uncertain until after the Conven- tion, AS tor the repuviicans, they are still lying low, determined to give the nomination for Mayor to George Van Nort, who, they believe, Will be able to carry the city against any democrat on the single ground of his opposition to Comptroller Green, As for the latter, he is already bargaining with the Custom House for future support in the Legisiature. His forcing out of office of A — he Is, In fact, ready to trade with the republicans, and will, for exchange of possible votes to sustain him in the Legisiature the coming winter, sacri- fice, 80 Jar 48 lies in his power, some of the best democrats in bis ofMce and not a few o! the demo- cratic Assembly men of the city. So itis trade and bargatn all around, and between now and election tume the others had better think twice before they vote for anybody for the mere sake of party. The Registership contest presents no new fea. ture, Hayes 1s yet ahead on the democratic si‘le, with Sigel looming up on the repuvlican side, only, it may be said, to be slaughtered in Javor of an: | other and better natured German when the time comes for nominating people generally, DEMOCRATIC DELEGATES. 7 BINGHAMTON, N, Y., Sept. 12, 1874. The Democratic County Convention met here to-day and elected delegates to the State Conven- | tion, whom they instructed to support Samuel J. | iden for Governor and General Edward F, Jones, of this city, for Lieutenant Governor. ALBANY, N. Y., Sept, 12, 1874, The following delegates were elected to the Democratic State Convention from the First dis- trict of Albany county:—John H, Gardner, Hamil- ton M. Strevel and Joseph Hilton, Alternate dele- Daniel L, Walley and | gates, George D. Healy, Samuel Moak. Morrisanta, N. Y., Sept. 12, 1874, At a Democratic Convention of the First Assem- bly district of the county of Westchester, held here this afternoon, John B. Haskin, John Hana- | gan, Orrin A. Bills, William H. Davis, Joun Hunter ; and James J. Mooney were elected delegates and alternates tothe next Democratic Stave Conven- tion, Lockport, N. Y., Sept. 12, 1874, The Democratic Conventions of the First and Second Assembly district of Niagara county were | held to-day. The following delegates to the State | Convention were elected:—First district, Oliver | C. Wright, G. L. Juda and L. A. Spalding; Second district, George P. Eddy, 8. Park Baker and Jessie H, Gladuing. NEWBURG, N. Y., Sept. 12, 187: The First Assembly district of Orange county to- | day elected Chauncey M. Leonard, George A. | Price and John P. Dears delegates to the | cratic State Convention. PougukeEnpste, N, Y., Sept. 12, 1874, Charles Wheaton, Cyrus Swan and Howard H. | Moore were to-day elected delegates to the Demo- | cratic State Convention, They favor the nomina- | tlon of Sainuei J. Yilden tor Governor. Y., Sept. 12, 187 | CARMEL, ‘atic State Cony | The delegates to the Dem en. tion Irom Purnam county are J. H. Perry, Morgun | Horton and Edward Wright, LirtLe VALLEY, N. Y., Sept. 12, 1874, | At the Democratic Republican District Conven- tion, held here to-day, Thomas A, Heller, Charles W. Blackney and Hon. John P, Daring were elected delegates Lo tue State Convention, GLOVERSVILLE, N, Y., Sept. 12, 1874, At the Democratic Convention ot Fulton and | Hamilton counties to-day Me Daniel B, Judson (liberal), Hez, Sintth and lsaiah Betts were elected | delegates Lo the Democratic State Convention, SYRACUSK, N, Y., Sept. 12, 1874. The Assembly District Conventions of Onond } county to-day elected delegates to the D State Convention as follows:—First distri | Griswold, Alexander Hammell and Thomas Ryan; | Second district—Patrick Corbet, Calvin G. Hinck- ley and Horace K, King; Third district—Jobn F. jaynor, Sylvester D. Keller and J. Henry Danziger. Che First and Second District Conventions | passed resolutions expressing their preference ; Jor Saniord E. Church for Governor. ALBANY, N. Y., Sept. 12, 1874, The democrats of the First Assembly district of this county, at a convention to-day, called by tne Terrill Commit elected the tollowing delegates to the State Convenuon :—t judge Jacob i. Clute, Hon, William D, Murphy and Colonel Fred Andes. | WATERTOWN, N. Y., Sept, 12, 1874, ‘rhe delegates to the Democratic State tion trom the First district are—G. V lower, liberal, of Watertown; J. E, Green, of Bllisburg, ana A. W. Hadsell, of Champion, | The delegates trom the Second district are Wil- liam C, Thompson, hoeral, of Watertown; J, Cooper, of Theresa, and George Bartlett, of Cape | Vincent. MEETING OF TAMMANY DELEGATES, The delegates selected trom Assembly districts | 1m this city, to represent the democratic voters at the Syracuse Convention next Wednesday, came | together yesterday afternoon.at Tammany Hall, | in pursuance of a call. The object, as stated in | the notice, was to select a chairman and secretary | for the delegation, and transact such business as | might come belore the assembled delegates, The at- | tendanee was very large, and previous to being called to order the delegates conversed together ‘in groups, and She prospects the several candi- | dates named tor the Governorship had of receiv- { | seemed to be a decided opinion that Mr. Tiluen would be the nominee and it is sale to say that those assembied were a unit for him. On being called to order at !our o'clock the transaction of business was immediately com- menced. On motion, it was unanimously resolved that Mr. John Kelly should act as chairman and Mr. John A. Foley as secretary of the New York delegatton to the Democratic State Convention. No resolution calling for the support of any cer- tain person belore the Convention was brought | up. DROUGHT IN CONNECTICUT, Thirty-five Days Without Rain—The Effect Upon the Crops—Supply ot Water Running Short. New Haven, Sept. 12, 1874. Since the prodigious rainfall on Saturday, Au- | gust 8, just flve weeks ago, scarcely a drop of rain has fallen in this State. descended unceasingly for eighteen hours, ratsing the streams, tearing up the roads and deluging the | flelds, On the 9th there was slight rain, when | the clouds lilted, and since there has been almost | Uninterrupted clear, dry weather. The streets and highways here and throughout the State have | been prolific sources Of annoyance trom aust which could not be laid. Growing crops have felt its effects, though corn had become so far advanced as to bid defiance to its blight. Pasture lands everywhere are brown and sere, Wells are be- ginning to fail ana STREAMS RUN LOW. Thus far the water supply of this city holds out, but unless rain visits us soon it must be aifecced. Already in Bridgeport, Norwalk and Stamford is , &sbort supply anticipated. The sources in each of these cities are of a character to withstand gn ordinary drain, but if the present condi- tions continue there must be | As usual, farmers are putting in their wiuter grain, hoping for something to their advantage in the arrival of the autumnal equinox and its ac- | Companying storm. | THE WEATHER PROPHETS, | Not losing faith in a wise representative at the | Weather Bureau in Washington, predict no | changes in the clouds or winds full aiter the moon's | | full, September 25, when tne cycle will be reached, | and nature again assume sway. THE COTTON CROP, | Reports from Various Points Through- | out the South—General Falling Off in | the Average, | Aveusta, Ga., Sept. 12, 1874. | The best authority here says that the cotton crop of Georgia will be of 100,000 bales {rom last year. The whole crop is eqtimated at 3,500,000 to 3,700,000 bales. Galveston and New Orleans esti- mates do not run so biga, The following despatches, dated to-day, were re- ceived by President Herring, of the Augusta Cot- | ton Exchange, in response to inquiries :— \ MOBILE.—The crop in the territory trinutary to Mobile ts better than last year. ‘The receipts here , are estimated at 50,000 bales increase. (Note— The crop tn Alabama was almost a total failure last phd in the territory tributary to Montgomery and Seima.) MEMPHIS.—The crop 18 poor throughout the Memphis ict, It Cannot make over five-cighths Of last year’s crop. | New ORLB4NS.—The crop in the territory tribu- | tary to New Orleans is at ieasi tweuty-iive per, Cent leas than last year. GALVgsTON.—The drought has greatly Uplands, Lowlands wiil do wel. The crop is 000 pales short. (Note—Some correspondent estimated in July that the Texas crop would ex- ceed year’s by Over 150,000 bales.) ‘The above despatches are from retiable sources. ‘STABBING AFFRAY, An altercation took place last night, at No. 7 Mulberry street, between Richard Costello, of the | sbove number, and William Singleton, of No. 68 Eldridge street, when Mrs, Costello, mother of the former, interfered and was stabved in the right arm and severely tnjured by Singieton, who was arrested and locked up in the Sixth precinct damaged in # scrimmage near there, are th points’ upon n his German candidate, and even Coughlin ‘Which be is hela q) (Qemocrat) is threatened with disaster after bis sta house. Mrs. Costello was taken to the Pax Hospital, where ber wounds were dressed, | emo- | onven- | On that occasion rain | inconvenience, | | brothers, and | might, and be remarked that, as he had ween in SENATOR BROWNLOW, Opinions of the Eminent Tennesseean on the Recent Troubles. The Ciyil Rights Bill the Prelude | to a Military Despotism. THE SOUTH AND TH# THIRD TERM. KNoxvinie, Tenn., Sept. 10, 1874. This morning your correspondent called at the residence ef Senator Brownlow on Cumberland street in this city, It 18 proper to state that his heairh has been much improved by his protracted sojourn in his old home. He enjoys a joke keenly and laughs heartily when a good story 1s told in his presence, the course of political events closely, and now that ‘Tennessee is a unit, the whole white population having accepted his opinions as these afect the Civil Rights bill, the Senator is deeply interested in the course of events in Alabama and other Southern States, In Alabama the fiercest political conflict that has been waged since 1840 is now pending, and the very results predicted by Senator Brownlow in December last have super- vened, The Civil Rights bill has shaped the issue, and the contest is one of races and not of parties. It is not only political but soctal and personal. The white man who votes with the negro becomes, in the eyes of the populace, a negro and is assigned @ negro position in social iile. It may be wrong or unwise or absurd, but such is the iact and states- men must recognize 1acts. 1 need hardly state that he watches | 5 THE GREENPOINT ABDUCTION. Lizzie Munger’s Statement—The Post- Mortem on the Stolen Baby. The manner and cause of the abduction of the Infant son of Mr. Jacob Hager, of Franklin street, Brooklyn, E. D., 18 not yet cleared up, nor is it Possible to tell whether Lizzie Manger, the nurse Who stole the child, inflicted the injuries upon him from which he died, or whether he was hurt alter sbe had left him where he was found in the lumber. pif “at “the foot of Nineteenth treet. The woman Munger is now in @ cell at the Central Police station in Mulberry street, having been taken from Greenpoint yesterday morning to the Brook- lyn Police Headquarters and there etven up to our police authorittes—the crume of manslaughter, of Which she i@ now accused having been com- Initted, if at ali, in this eity. She was interro. @ated again on Friday by Captain Rhodes, of the Seventh precinct of Brooklyn, She admitted placing the cbild in the lumber yard, foot of Nine- teenth street, East River, New York, but denied most positively that she had in any way injured tt When questioned as to the truth of her former statement she answered reluctanuy, still adhering to that portion tn which she described her trip to Jersey City with the two unknown men, On her arrival at the Brooklyn Police Head+ uarters she was questioned in German by jommissioner Jeusen, to whom she tod a story that varies greatly from ali her previous Statements. In it she said nothing about naving been taken by rufMflans to Jersey City, as she pre- viously declared she had been, Her latest state. | ment is, in brief, as follows :—She crossed over tne | Greenpoint ferry, and Was not assaulted, as she previously pretended to have beeu, on the boat, She wandered up one street and down another, not Knowing what way to turn, and as even- | Ing Was setting in she finally made her way | toa lumber yard, where there were a lot of tce wagons starmding, at the foot of Nineteenth street, She got into one of these wagons with the cnii and while resting there two men came along -an made an indecent assault upon her, Just as day was breaking she got up an PLACED THE CHILD WHERE IT WAS FOUND, When I entered Senator Brownlow's apartment I found him lying on a sofa surrounded by gentle- men irom different arts of the country. They were engaged in «discussing the very questions which now engage popular attention everywhere. | HERALD’s editorial of the 4th inst., defining the condition of the South, He answered tiat he had, and that he was deeply interested tn this admirable exposition of ihe condition, Jortunes and feeling of the South. Moreover, he said, “the philosophy | of the srtcle 1s mainly sound, and as a whoie it is very just.’” I then asked, “To what, Senator, do yon ascribe the frequent recurrence of collisions between | whites and blacks?’ | Senator BRowNLOW—Plainly enough the number of these deplorable incidents have been taultiplied | ovlate, and they have their ortgin in the ivi Rights bil, Negro speakers and newspapers and | dishonest, unscrupulous adventurers in politics ; Wave fastened On the negro mind the conviction that the Civil Rights bili will make biack white | and destroy the Jast barner between the races, j Hot only investing the negro with every social | | privilege he would enjoy, but obliterate every dis- tnction made by the God of nature and by negro Instiucts aud habits of ie, shaped and crystalized through countiess centuries, CORRESPONDENT—In View of the fact that hos- tility to tu 1 Rights bili ts universal among | wuites of the South what wiil provably be the con- | duct of the North? SENaTOR—Tihere is but one of two courses to be pursued, Either the North must recognize the pal ie t that the social relations of the races st be lei intervention of the law-making power, or the Civil Rights bil, becoming the law, must be en- forced at the point of the bayonet. In other words the enaciment of tue bill is the instant | transiormation of our republican system o! gov- | ernment, and that of the Sourh must be a military despotisin, Mow soon the North would lose its | liberties alter those of the Southern States were | annihilated would be a question for one wan—a | | president in name, a dictator in fact—to deter- | mine. While Presideut Grant ts incapable, in my opinion, of such conduct, yetu President wteld- mg the army and having it distributed over the South to preserve the peace, Would have absolute control over elections in | firteen States, | and elections would be farcical. fortunes of the South, but those 0. the North, involved in the deieat oi te Civil Rights yu CORKESPON DENT— What do you think of the third term and of Grant’s assent to a candidature ? DSENATUR—Much nonsense has been written out the dauxers of this proposed elevation of Yresident Grant in point of honor above Not only are tne | his predecessora im the high office” he , has administered most wisely and well. |; Do you Know that Andrew — Jackson Id have held a thir been impaired by is residence in the White House by the wound inflicted in a duel and by his grow- ing old age? tei in conversation (aud Mr. Bell was iucapable of faisenood) long after Jackson died, that such were the intentions and suci the ambition of the hero of the Hermitage, and Jackson was not the | less @ patriot or hero or statesman. His third | term would have been nothing more than an ex- tension of the first two and popular itoerty as periect alter as betore the event. Such would be the tssue of Grant's third term, and 1 can only ; vay that i Grant vetoes the Civil Rights bill he an carry each Southern State having a white very doubtiul. He has gone out of his way this | 1 the nomination were discussed at large. There , majority, enator Brownlow severely denounced the out- ages pean é committed in Gibson and other counties of Tennessee, and said he was well pleased to find that Governor Brown had gone in Person to the scene Of these outrages to assure te | arrest of the murderers, THE SOUTHERN OUTRAGES, | Prominent Republicans | Denying the Stories of Lawlessness and 'Tcrrorism— A Judge Arrested, Charged with Aid- ing the Escape ota Felon, Montcomény, Ala., Sépt. 12, 1874, | Ex-Cnited States District Attorney J. A, Minnis | and ex-Congressman Buekley have written letters, and United States Deputy Marshal Randolph, | Probate Judge Ely and City Clerk Hughes unite in | a card, denying the stbries of lawlessness and terrorism which have been circulated in the North to the prejudice of Montgomery. All these geullemen are republicans, Not jong ago #, M. Keils, Judge of the City of Lufaula, reieased from arrest, without bonu, a negro, charged with an assault with in- tent to kill. ‘The negro fied and has not been heard irom since. Certain citizens of Kulauia thereupon proceeded against Ketls for aiding and ubetting the escape of atelon. He was arrested, and in deiault of bail committed to jail. Kiel sued outa writ of nabeas corpus and gave bati here yesterday. He had the said cittzens arrested | nd brougit before United States Commissioner | Burke tor trial on the charge of violating the En- | forcement law, The deiendants gave bail for their appearance for trial on Monday next. MOULTON'S STATEMENT IN BOSTON, | Boston, Sept. 12, 1874, The Boston Advertiser says of Moulton’s state- ment: The heavy the is be df a aie appears thatthe | ere Is ammunition had ran short. 1 iothing here but mulignity. ihose who have always inciined to be in the xulit of Mr. Beocher will take itas new evidence. but, in factyitis old, und the temper in which Its pre: sented willthrow fresh discredit on its author. H On the contrary the Post says:— | It is the most damaging document yet presented, and the thought wall suggest Itselr to many minds whether it would not be more decorous for Mr. Beecher, pending the ve I asked the Senator whether he had read the | to reguiate themselves, without the | The white people would not vote | quite as deeply are | rm tf bis health had not , Hon. John Bell, of this State, used io | among the planking in the lumber yard, and went out In quest of foou, Lizzie says she couid not | find her way back again, so she became | lightened and went to tell her brother-in-law. | Tue woman was seen leaving the vicinity of the | lumber yard on Weduesday morning by @ | private watchman, Commissioner Gensen 1s of the opinion that she never intended to go back to sevrcn for the child, but that she left it there for the purpoge of revenging herself upon Mr. Hager, As lor the scars on her breast, ne asserts that she inflicted them herself to gain credence for her story. | Several physicians familiar with cases of mater na] paroxysm think that the woman Munger, bereaved oi her own child, experienced a violent attachment for the infant, which, to all intents | and poner filled the place in her afection ren- dered void by the death of her own bavy; that | when Mr, Hager «ischarged her she couid not bear to part with the child and 80 carried it away with her; and that, fearing detection, she either abandoned it or, actuated by a determination that no other woman should supplant her, deliberately inflicted the contused wound on the head and bruises on the body that resulted in the chilc’s death, Those cynics, the police, believe, however, that the woman got drunk and leit the child in the lumber yard upon a pile of boards, and that the injuries were occasioned by the chtid tossing to and fro, as it Was a strong, healthy infant. POSTMORTEM BXAMINATION. Deputy Coroner MacWhinnie made a post- mortem examination of the body of Mr. Hager’s infant at the Morgue yesterday morning. He | Jound that the skull of the infant was iractured, besides which there was a large quantity of blood between the scalp and skull, and also blood be- tween the skull and brain, which had been caused by external violence. Some day next week Coroner Croker wii make a thorough investiga- tion of the case, H APPEARANCE OF THE NURSE. | The woman who ts charged with kiliing the child is not one likely to stir the most amorous with passionate desire. She appears to have had de- Signs upon the heart and purse of Mr, Hager, and, when she found that he would have her neither for wife nor servant, became inspired with toe purpose of revenge. She is about twenty-eight years old and a stupid and very homely woman. She is not a concealed diamond, rough only on the outside, but an extremely unhandsome being in person, mind and manner. | YACHTING, Regatta of the Seawanhaka Yacht | Club for the Ladies’ Prize—The Entries | and the Winners, L OysTER Bay, L. L., Sept. 12, 1874, A Splendid regatta for the Ladies’ Prize (a set of colors for each class) was sailed to-day by the Sea- Wanhaka Yacht Club of Oyster Bay over their usual course. The following are THE ENTRIES. First Class.—\dler aud ‘Ariel. Second Clas Adidie aud Alert, Third Class.—W. ¥, Lee, Myrth, Fr. Seen and the Undine. a Fourth Class.—Gelta, Alcyone, May and Mary Emina. fhe Idler won in the first class, the Addie iu the second, the W. F. Lee in the third and the Gelta in tne fourth. The steamer Osceola, of Harlem, was chartered by the ladies jor the accommodation of themseives and friends, and accompanied the yachts around the course, The race was one of the finest that ever took place in these waters, The Addie and Undine were slightly disabled, and the Aicyone withdrew from the contest when victory was almost within her grasp. j Yachting Note. ; Yesterday at noon the British yacht Marcia, | Schooner rigzed, belonging to the Royal Thames Yacht Club, owned by the Earl of Charleville, of King’s county, Ireland, passed Whitestone, Long Island, ani & couple of hours later | came to ap anchor off Twenty-eighth street, East | River, opposite Bellevue Hospital. The Marcia is commanded by the Earl of Charleville, his sailing Jbaster being Captain Warder. Among the guests on board were Hon. Mrs. Bury and Dr. Durnam, of Bugiand. The vi in question was built at Portsmouth, England, in 1866, and was formerly owned by Brinsiey Sheridan, member of Parliament. She ts 108 feet tong, 21 feet breadth of beam and her tonnage is about 78 to: Her appearance Is not Siiggestive of great speed, although her cap. tain claims he got eleven knots an hour out ofher while crossing the Atiantic. She has been ip the Mediterranean and on the Norway coast for severai ‘ous summers, She bas no racing sails with her, and previous to crossing the Atlantic her spars were shortened three and a hall feet. She leaves her present anchorage on , Moncay and proceeds to Tompkinsville, Staten Island, which place she will leave in a few days for a cruise in the West Indies. In 1871 she waa | owned by the Earl of Carnarvon, who transterred her to her present owner tn that year. The Marcia. arrived at Halifax, N. S., om the 27th of June, and then proceeded along the coast to Boston, and | subsequently made her Way to Newport, where she haa been for three weeks previous to her arriva) iu this port. “ THE OHARLOTTE BEGATTA, Sailing and Rowing Contests, CHARLOTTE, N. Y., Sept. 12, 1874, The first regetta of the Ohsrlotte saiting and Towing fleet took place to-day. The yacht Setn Green, of Rochester, took the first prize for satk ing vessels, and the Ontario Rowing Club, of Oharlotte, won the first prize for rowboate, beat- Ing the his Genesee, and the Riversides, of fica urse two and @ haif miles. Time, trial im public, to intermit his pulpit services, or, a8 le Sugwested in one of his letters, to “siep down and out.” Astor Hlymouth church it is literally shut up, t A NEW YEAR'8 OSLEBRATION, Four Israelites, who had been spending the New Year's day {n a mauner contrary to the Mosaic code, became engaged in a fight, about stx o'clock yesterday aivtetnoon, in a lager beer saloon at No. 154 Ewen street, Brookiyn, which resulted in the arrest of the party. Samuel and Jacob Baer, two Isador and seibold Cohen,’ also | brothers, were the parties engaged in the métWe, the former using Knives and the latter stuols as weapons, The fight lasted several minutes and attracted a conslderabie crowd. uDtil the entry of the police put @ stop to \he iracus and the cum. bative quartet were arrested, Tne Coheus were both cut, seibold receiving a severe scalp wound and isudor @ cut through the nose, Both the Buers were badly braised about the tead and suiouders with the stoo.s, anu after their wounds * were dressed by Police surgeon Lowenstein they were wii jocked up. THE GYMNAST’: ACCIDENT, Frank A. Gibbons, the gymnast, who fell while trying to do blindfolded the fying ieap at the Metropolitan Theatre on Friday night, was not | hurt 80 badly as he was at first thousut to be, He | was stunned, but bis injuries, except a severe | shaking concussion of bis lambar regions, , amount to almost noting. Instead of failing en leet, as Mt fist reported, he teil fully twenty. | fe He was seen at the Kevere Honse | Yestervny alternoon, und fe then said that he expected Lo periorm agai to-morrow night. He | seemed to think lightly of fis mishap on Friaay | the havit of taking desperate chances, he 1s pot yet trigntened. Altogether he has fallen tourteen | times wile performing, and he nas had broken by | the sudden stoppages he tas undergone on the ground his jaw, lis arms, his leg and several other OAKONS [OTMAMOLins 35 | 1, not to have a regatta this ye: BOATING ON THE PASSAIC, An Interesting four-oared shel!-boat race took Plage on the Passaic River at Newark yesterday iu presence of quite a large crowd of people, the Tacers being @ crew from the Onelda Boat Club and another from the Triton Rowing Association, both of this city and vicinity, ‘The hour ad- Vertised for the start was three o'clock, but from some ange not explained it | waa ‘nearer six o'clock before the start was made. At first the Oueidas took the lead, but the Tritons Soon gained, and for the first mile or 80 kept ahead. Ou reacniug the bend tn tue river, however, the Onetdas gained rapidly and rounded the vridge ahead, he run baci w the Oneidas still eal and by the time the stake. boat was reached they Were full @ dozen or eighteen boat leogtbs ahead, The winners were greeted with rousing cheers. Quite a large party started with the racers ‘rom New York on board the steamer Ouly Son, The course was three miles, The race yesterday ts the only one of note Which bas taken place on the Passaic this season, and 1s not likely to be eclipsed, as, 0 few days since, @ meeting Of wie Various cinos of Newark took place, when tt was decided, by a vote of 4 ta Was appointed to arrange for’ the’ easton 0 or a Passaic River navy, birmiibes ea om anaemia THE ARMY OF THE JAMES, The third trienntal reunion of the Society of the Army of the James wit) ve held tn this city on the 2ist of October next, The Executive Committee have completed arrangements for the reunion. itis announced that the business meeting of the Society and the triennial exercises will be hed Curing that day in the Union League Club Theatre, Where the banguet wili also occur in the even.ng. The headquarters of the society during Jts session in this city will ve at the St, James Hotel. The names of the poet and orator will be announced at @ future day, Governor J. R. Hawley, 01 Con- hecticat, is President of the society, aad o larger meeting is expectod thau any before.