The New York Herald Newspaper, October 4, 1874, Page 7

y——__ / present an accurate 1a¢a of the shooting mate C y the riflemen, S The Righy Targets. “the Conclusion of the Second Annual Mecting of the National Rifle Association. BATTLE OF THE RIFLES. Breech-Loaders and Muzzle-Leaders on | Trial---Diagrams of the Results, | ~ ---e---—- | SPLENDID PRACTICYK. | came viral | ; | Presentation of Prizes Won at the | Creedmoor Meeting. SHOT. A RICOCHET According to the resolution of the executive committee the marksmen who had been unable to complete their scores the previous day fired yes: | terday morning their remaining shots, and so | brought the second annual meeting of the Na- | onal Rifle Association to an end, Several marks- men took advantage of the permission to fire again their last five shots, bub a protest | Was entered by Mr. Rigby, on the groand | that such =a proceeding «was unprece- | dented, In the decision allowing competi tors to fire a second time their five ; Yast shots Colunel = Gildersleeve, hap. | pears, did not take any part, constder- ing that, bemg a party directly interested, he had no right to vote. The trouble tn reference | to Mr. Fulton’s score was amicably sett.ed, that gentleman not wishing to assert any c!aim as against Mr. Rigby. As soon, therelore, as it be- | came patent that the Canadian team could not | win, Mr. Fulton withdrew from the contest, This graceful act leit Mr. Rigby in undisputed p #lon of the first piace in the Bennett mateh, with Mr. Fulton as second, The members of the Irish | team will therefore have the co! dng back with them to Ireland a trophy as some compensation for the defeat they sustained in the Toternational maten, MUZZLE VS. BREECH, AS soon as the competitors in the Reunett match hd compicted their scores the match between the muzzie-loaders and the breech-loaders was begun. Mr. Rigsy’s chalienge to tho turers of breech-loading arms was accepted by the Sharpe and Remington houses, the iaiter making the demand that their marksmen should | be ailowed to load m any way e8- solation of yring- manus hat shoutd seem | best to them, AS this mvolved zilowing to load from the muzzle 1% was not acceded to, The, match was therefore con- fined tothe Sharpe and Rigby rites, The con- aitions called for (our mena side to fire twenty- five shots each without wiping or blowing. The walter condition was a.terwards abandoned, and | both parties avuiled themselves of the permission to blow through their barrels. On the side of the muzzie loaders there shot Dr. Hamilton, Mr. Wil- — son, Mr, Jonson and Mr Rigoy, the | four making a remarkably strong team. Mr. Rigby, though whe has not made the | Bighest scores, has proved himself the most reliable shot in either team. During Ins wisits 10 Creedmoor he fired im all 210 snots with. | out once Missing the targets. The performance of , the other gentlemen showed them to be steady and | Teliable shots. Sharpe's rifle was flrea by three of the gentiemen who took pari in the international | rife match—Mr. Yale, Colonel Gildersieeve and , General Dakin, With them was Mr. Collins, In Ppo.nt of skill thts team could not hope to compare with the four marksmen who used the Rigby r bat the experiments were made not to test skill of the riflemen, bui to solve the question whether a breeeh-loading mfe could be fired twenty-five times in succession without leading or touling, The average skulof the con- tesianis would allow this question to de settled dudependeut of the scores made, for these de- pended almost wholly on the greater or iess skill oithe marksmen, The diagrams whch we publish to-day will enabie the reader to sve at a giance | the quality of work that may be expected from the | two arms, Although the highest scores were made by the Iris ridemen, the practice made with the Sharpe Froved thatin point of accuracy it did not fall | much, if anything, below we muzzic-loader, | ‘This trial of the vaiue of the tWo weapons was Orst suggested by an article iy the Hrxaro calling , attention to the ‘act that trovps armed with muz- wte-oaders that did not reqrire cleaning would be | able to fire with greater efect than could antago- | iets armed with breeen-vading weapons requir. | ing to be constantly cleared out, the skill of the | contending iorees being equal, In Europe it has | been 1ound impossible to combine the accuracy | of the muzzie-loadey With the rapidity of the breech-loader, Yo save been absolutely satis: | factory the test should have been appicd | under different @nditions. The rifles shoulda , have been placl on fixed rests and firea | simultaneously, 0 that the projectiles would be | exposed to exadly the same atmospheric pressure, ‘The same caus§ then acting at the same tavument | would haye produced similar results, and we would be in / position to decide whether the de- i viation of #7 given shot was due to the defects in | the weap or to external influences. In the match yaterday these conditions were absent. The still of the marksmen was unequal and yolable at diferent moments, It was, there- tore, mpossible to decide as to the absolute merits o: tre twoarms. So far as the Sharpe breech- foqer was concerned it fully demonstrated that | itcouid be fired with accuracy for a number of | punds without cleaning out and without leading, he difference in the aggregate scores not affecting | tue scientific question which it was sought to solve. The Imsh team shot better | than did the Americans, bunt the ac- curacy of the Americaa breech-loader was duily proven by the splendid score made ; by Mr. Collins. This gentleman is a good, reliable Biot, Vut cannot be ranked either in perience | or skill with Mr. Rigby or Dr. Hamilton, yet he | succeeded in making within two the same num- ber of points as were made by Dr. Hamilton and | Within nine of what Mr. Rigby made. The | @iagram will sbow thas the deviation ot the shots | iu Mr. Collings’ target was mot perceptibly | greater than on those of the insi, Neither | was there any failure of accuracy on the part of the rifes toward t close of the match, General Dakin’s score shows five puis eyes and two centres tm tis | Jast eight shots, Had the teams changed rifles the resuits would have scarcely been | altered, the Jrisi four owing their victory more to their own greater skill as marksmen | than to any superior accuracy in their weapons. ! Lad the best shots of the Avierican team engaged in the match there would not have been anything ke the difference in the scores which we noti to-day, Mr. Yale, who nosed a rine having very light grooves, found that the bardened ball slipped through the barrel without taking the rifling and atonce stopped fring. The trial also | 4ouk place at the Most udlavoradle period of the day, as wel) as under Atmospheric conditions eal uated to ‘impair the efficiency of the breech loader ky eansing drv joniinv. The diaeramg | NEW YORK: HERALD, § RIGBY, Score—3 443344454393434532334 2 54-8. JONSON, 2452455341342 MAMILTON, Score—3 4303 353443344144041343403-77 The Sharpe Targets, COLLINS, DAKIN, 3303084002 3$234800 30022 2-49 Score | Phe Irish Four (Righy Muzale-Loader). as others interested in the pract'ce of Mine shoot- | ing. Upou the wpnouncewent that Mr. Rigby, or | the Irist team, bad son the “Bennett Long Range | | Coamp.onship,” open to aii comers, a deaieuing ) coeer arose. Colonel Churen present the trophy | Mt in uppre priate terms ano, in respon e, Mr. Kisby | -3I-120 | graceloly rewrred to the hospratity which had been extended to the Irish iidemen since their | vistt to this city, He was not wed ty making ree Gem ace AD "4 speeches, He was used to making gis, (Ag 8-129 and he would rather tee vary 4 ‘ 53 | thaw the large audience now assemo.ed; By s AB | bot ne could not sit down without expressing Wis 3 0 ‘ regret that the captain of the irisn team, Major 4 Bis i Leech, to Whom fle giea’ pleasure of visiting ins 4 3 , r chy Was mawly aticibatabie, was Rot present. } 30 0 Dv. feu7 | OW to Lt heulth, brougnt about by the lavor te Hid EXciteMent incident to the reegnt mateh, he 4 44 8 boat AS unable to attend, gad he (Me by) to0k oc % “4 44 ’ CASIOD LO UpOlUgiZE ior lis aosen¢ conelusio $ lg Oo 4. Mr ig vetrnined Ma Warmest thanks ioc th WS: kivdness with Wuich he aud bis associates bad a one heeu received. 2 ‘The names of several members of the Irish team were s bsequently ¢ we winners OF x 1% and in every instance selerous cheers haned : ibe anon cement, ‘ihe triborton As w= 13, IWarked oy ail the good Dature and enti | leatures oj such occasioas. A Ricochet To rag Eprtox or rng HeraLy:— I was one of the many competitors in the “Ben- nett maten”? who were competed to tire some halt Shot. 4 ‘ j—L2 1, BACKER. jane and iimpotint conclusion, This alternoon, when too late to reach (reeamoor, | learn thavif 1 bad camped on the field alt mighe I might have fired my five last shots over again this momml ig. itaving lost that opportunity Lask your permis sion to fire them now, The “elevation” of my ins diguation may be a little too high, and the “wind- 2ge” of my wrath a litde tio strong, but Lere goes Snor No. 1.—The Bennett match was open to all comers, and ali comers should wave beeu treated i SHO? No, 2,--Owing to inequalities in the ground theve is considerable chotee ta the lous largets at Crecdioor. Way were (he | and trish t lowed to sieot on the vest Largets, OVE und on Watcu they have nad t Whe insh ana American (eamMs Mist MdIVIduai CoMpel.tors a8 Leas, WiLL fee of 10 bg 2% advantage snd all possivle coaching, while 00.0006 8-8 ae putsiders’? Were hudaled and croweed on the 0, GORISTANG. Tyets, W.th evident maues ajore hougur, eer Re pa as AL IPISuMeN are gn NY Way Co Obes lor 0 3 228 00 Look (he positions allotted tuemt and did | 340003000380 OSI1OUS 10 (iis ated Should have been he gentlemen who took advantage of the by it, mot t ores. ibe Most eision of executive comiuittee ay to the X,erienced of the “team? suots would have sh of the last ve shots, made on Frivay, roken had he fl ed in uber contusion Wien were ditnes Wilson, Edmund Johnson, James prevaiied on Waal cae of ihe 1aage ofticials Aavm, Joseph Mason, Capttin Mason, A. V isively classed as une ragitg aud boviail Hel, I. Saniord, A. V. Davis, £3. ind 1. Me Balland, ‘the joliowing table wilt Who lost aud gained by the arrangement:— Grand Grand | “AVR ie 1 prey: ites, Med ut the unubie co fh S and coniusion wa Tuat Mite | CDd OL the wmateh the rea fags homed by tue The Five Shots The Five Shota un ¥est as sigvals to coue Uring were claimed 0) Friday, ed COMpCUILONS AS Centves alld Were so Tee 440 030 v- The contest o. rid atch, Ita maten, then aistribute ccording to thescures, [1 no maien, 6 antiett, J 4 yoush be shot over ue ‘The Wea or auowing Auras tn 0 five shots to be fired the day aiter 1s Loo riaicuwus Bk Gerdnca: vee {ii co need comment. Loa Balu, 000. is Ug | Suor No. 5.—In addition to the handsome pres- "ents Major Leech nas aiready mace te Creed- |} movur experts, Will he mot be af \iem @ copy'ot the Wiibleden rules a ons? DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZES, | i As each of these shots is likely to raise a little The Scene t the State Arsenal Last | dust Lsuppose | may as Weu mark myseil down | Night—Cordiat Reception of the Irish YEW Yutky Uct, b, 187d. | Feam—Speeehes, Trophies and Con, The Position for Rifte Shooting. gratuiations. h | New Yons, Oct. 3, 1374. | The crowning effort of the National Rite Asso- | yo gy Eprron ov Tae HER. | lation for the year took place lust might at the | mateur’ is right. Les the’ marksmen of the State Arsenal, un er circumstances well caicnlated | two teams stand up like men, take the natural iis to make its energetic 2ud enterprising members | position of a ritteman, hold the rite with a steady eral) | feel prond of their past labors. Without at all, aommand fire aw 1,00) 34493444443534368829425 4-84 | entering into gratilying statistics im connection | ,,Tlil# Is the ouly proper test of food marksman. HAMILTON, | Sep pO a ship. Almost ans pecson wrltt a good eye ean hub 1,003, 430338344 4444046543403. | With this ereditable organization it is enough to | 4 target i the rifle is tirmly axed i a vice to WILSON, | Know that the highest auticipations of its sanguine | steauy it. Yours, &¢ MAG, 1,000.,..4343343 30234232564 1,000 4326324332 254385 aases The American Four (Sharpe Breech- Loader). GILDERSL VE. 1,00.... 3330305400 430030022 2-49 = 48445432 DAKIN, oasoorad 100... 24432002344 YAL d alter making a small score ‘This gentieman ri in bis ¢ pening lusion of this trial of rif Dakin, of the American team, der at 1,000 yards, 7 With the ‘otlowing resuit eral Daki . challenge was a « +0340 0-7 Mr, Rigby... Prd sateen 4036 Cr This magnificent shooting wlicited lor from the assembled riffemen, The Rennett Match, 18s eneral chauenged Mr. | could send to the front, the Rigoy to shoot a seore of five shots irom the shoul- | | it is mdeedno fi B9SO3ESNI4G OZ | 440-86 | snevess, sas showing an extraordinary improve. | Vit) twelve feet by six fe pied, | applause | piomoter ve been more than realized. The ex, | ne gat hibition last night wasin every way a triumph, and Stange uuse a stem. are of speech tosay that through | TO THE Eprror of tits Heaton :— | the instrumentality of the men who, withinacom. | Permit me to present to your correspondent paratively recent period, have popu'arized target | “Amateur” a plece ol information, and. at the pracitee in this country, a new era.in the history of | S#™me time, to olfer hint a suggestion. rifle shooting has been opened on this side of the | The target used by riflemen at the long ranges, Atlantic. | 43 all true amateurs know perfectly wei, is not Ne iall meeting was unquestionably a great | ‘Welve tect square, but exactiy half that size— and the “butl’s eye,” | Menton last year’s shoorng on the part of the | Which, by first class marksmen, js hit much | compet:ng teams of tue National Guard. By means | O!tener than any other part of the target, ts only of liverat ducements a generous rivalry was cre- , ‘ree feet square—bv no Means an easy object to ‘ pa i | nit at a thousaud yards, as “Amateur” would ated among the best marksmen that each regiment | sound out sor mused betore now had he ever tried result being keen aud | to accomplish the .eat. So much or the tmormation, Now, the sugges- tion 1s this :—Let “Amateur” try witat te niuseit can do in the Way o1 shooting at a thousand yards, either lying down, or (us that position appears to | him so “eminentiy ri iealous”) in any other att. tude which may sirike nim as the most craceiul aod “manly.” Teen, when he is abie, with the assistance of all the “vices’? he can cail to Mis aid, score anywhere near a Rigoy ora rulton or at | exeiting contosts, 10 say Nothing of the practical | Yalue and importance of such competition, ‘rhe | { matehes given under the auspices of the Assocta- tion were virtually brought to a te: mination on | Friday and last night was set apart tor the dis- | position of the honors that, through merit, fell to | the jot of those who had distinguished themselves The prizes in this match were thirty-four | Guring the ride campaign, ‘Tie drill room of the ay vatandinar Tip to ahasee buena i be Ae Oe oe ay ol Of | arsenal was, of course, crowded to the doors, the | that time ariives | Would adviso Min’ to let his solid silver, value 250, | is eighteen ei hanes ci . | silence on the sidjec aS couspicaous as his inches in height, and at MS base there | janes ae ee AeSireren eee ee, Ignorance. AN TRISUMAN (uot oue of the Cean). are raised figures im gold representirg marks | iormed omicers and men were in attendance by | — men in the various attitudes pecullar t0! tne score, but Ferhaps the most conspicuous a Foreigner? sharpshooters iu the field while shooting, | ana attractive feature of the place was the grand TO THE Eprrort or Tm MenaLps— and a range in the distance. On one side of | g the dish at the pase (here 18 an exquisitely Wrought | ed on the ground, with his | figure of an Indian s bow and arrow lying at his feet. Oppoaite to ti on the other side of the base, is the fgure ot a All the other prizes are | 1 the way irom #1G0 to $6, The 1ollowing is the correct score of the leading hunter, with his rife. cash prize, ranging 3 contestants in the match: — Yord JouN Ry 3 44 aeeas 44 a4 435444 8 4 a4 S442 54 43. HENRY PULTO! Bae tee tcaga 44. ee oe Oe ee ee ee 10v4 494249 4 38228 ve R MILNER, a ee ee ee BIB¢E AAS LAE 3452344620263 44 CAPTAIN MASON, 3 Ey ‘ 4 4 4 7 4 34 8 0-4 4 ed ‘ £0. 434 & 8 100-5 44 4 3 5 ‘ . OY 8-3 443 3 4 3 a4 0-3 342495435 4 43 1Ww—4 2b 4 8 404 34 MES WILSON, B283 9832434448 33 43 BR44404 2444 33343430 +8. DAKIN, 4343 wawe ee) aaa pas SRR4 4303 28804383 SHER, $444 44443 8344 24344 04534 OLMANS. 4404 ‘ 443 4 3434 2 $433 4 333 4 #45 3 $42 43444434 3 4330000 JOSKEH MASON. | ton, | to lace—once at | last year, te In your issue of the just. a party siguing himself “Amateur” criticises the sboouing of the American and trish teams. This criticism 1s quite array O prizes, which, prominently exposed upon | atavle, won the admiration of all who inspected ; then and ar the same time gave encouragement for luture competition when similar and doubtiess | Unnecessary, and certainly retlects no great credit richer gifts should be contended for, The yie- | ouits author, I, however, torlous teams ef the different regiments, in iull | to Creedmoor and try the practicability of shoot- uniform, marched into the arsenal about eight | ing, in a standing position, at a 1,000 yard range, j o'clock and drow up in line to await the omeml | {ONts would go over amt Nor at Tike tee Anuouncement of the result of the contests, Each | ‘The conditions of the miateh were that each | detachment upon its entrance was greeted | Man would shoot in Ms own (‘o htm eastest) post- with loud applause by the spectators, As Colonel | My ahowed tHat he ee nenntiaer ven Church, of the Army and Navy Gazelte, President | an Ainerican, am proud of 11, and can only sey of the National Rifle Association, accompanied by 4 inthis question. But, to end the cont ms Licutenané Colouet Gildersleeve, the secretary, | PA" mateur go to Creedmoor and. try hie mek ; Colouct Wingate, and several members of the | at the 1,000 yard range. Provaviy he will come to Irish Rifle Association, including Dr. J. B, Hamil. | the concinsion that it he would stand on tis head ee ‘i 7 aud pull the tigger with Mis toe he would do bet- of Her Pritannic Majesty's Thirty-tourth | tor shooting than mM a standing or manly postion. regiment; Messrs. Rigby, Wilson, Milner, Jonn- | Yours, s WM. i, MAYER, son, Doyle, Keily, and several officers of the Na- New YORK, Uct, 3, 1874. tional Guard, proceeded toward the table where | dees 7 oe the prizes were on exhibition, acheor arose chat | THE DEATH OF LIEUTENANT DE SOEST. Coroner Croker yesterday held an inquest in the made tse weikin ring, THR PROCEEDINGS. case oi Lieutenant Charles F, De Boest, late of tne proceedings with & neat address, in the course of which he called attention to the fact that there ult. by being crushed between @ caro: the Flu-n- ing, North Shore and Central Railroad Comyany | Were but two occasions during tne year on wh.ch | and the platiorm of Creedmocr station, L. 1, as the ome ors Of the essociation were brought face the annual meeting in January | and ‘again at the distrioution of prizes. When previously reported tn the iirraLp, Mr. De Rohan deposed that on the 26th ult, he was at Creedmoor, and in the evening he got on board a train which right to congratiiate them on the results of the several cars, but owing tothe heat, great rust Maetional Kit vclation. While attention was | and [is inaotiity to get a seat he le t and sat down ealicd to the iaet that much tad been accom. | in rout of a suloon; heard that a man tad oeen plished, 1% Was oO stated that mach more w kitted, and having some knowledge of medicine expected to | Biph hed during the ye if ve had any reason to went to see him, and found fit suderme from shock; he complained of pain abouc Is ribs, arms and back; he was removed ge room and received the best possible aitention, and ata Jater hour the way hither, James Weir, a police officer, of Long Island City, deposed that he was at Cree.moor s/ation on s urday evening, and heard that a men had been © beyond the most sanguine anucipations, Choreh then adveried to the Work in which the association had been @n- gaged, and called attention to the wonderiml im- | Provemen’s which Nad been made on the groyuds at Creeamoor, and in the course of his remarks ing bats id & handsome trivute to General Shaier, the Vice mjure' ailing between a car and the depot plat- ) President, aud other members of the assoctation, | form; there was @ great rush to get aboard the | for the zeal and energy they had displayed in | car, some people crawling through the window: forwardilig the Interest Of the organization, as | jonnd deceased wed:ed between the car and pla Show th the splendid range, which Was weredit | form, and lad to rip up some planas to get him Wh to apy association, t General shaer had = | ot; Supposed that the man fe | While attempting |THE GRAND JURY lage | Amer can | | that il “Amateur” is a loreiguer, he is a prejudiced | Without much ado Colonel Church opened the | Seventy-first regiment, who was kiiled on the 26th | they met last year he thought be had a good . was to have leitataquarter toseven; entered Mean... brought to ths cily, bal died on | } | reflect in the remotest Way on my brotaer jurors, UNDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1874.-QUINTUPLE SHEET. WHITEWASH. What Some of the Minority Think of the Commissioners of Charities and | Correction, Iv was intimated tn these columns a few days since, under the head of “Grand Jury Junketings,” | that there would be an attempt made to white- wash the Charity Commissioners, Who were be- lieved to have been guilty of pepotism and corrup- jon in the administration of their oMece. A former Grand Jury bad p nied them; a coum'ssioner of accounts—Mr. Lindsay J. Howe—had arraigned them betore the Common Council and the bar of public opinion as being grossly incompetent and having their books in a state of such confusion that jraud would only be a pastime and systematic rob- bery easy of accomplishment, When, therefore, the last Grand Jury were investigating tieiramairs, and it was discovered tiat the meulpated Com- mussiouers were the hosts of their judges, and a nd of ple ursions indulged in, it was very prope feared that the memory of good dinneis, ne wines and fragrant cigars would pal- liate in the unnds of the Grand Jury any lite shortcomings of generous entertainers as 2444423 48844 er 3 t f ‘of Ci 1 443 5045430 4 dozen shots in the dars, On the uuderstanding the Commussioners of Chariues and Correction | R20 4 CS ae 43 HO that everybody else was being hurried up inthe proved themselves to be. That this fear was not % WN Ae oid @: & » same manner IL blazed uy into the hering without foundation received a proofon Friday, a4 ooo De gloom and brought my thousand sards' score toa when ‘ie Grand Jury came mo court and presented to Judge Sutheriand a report which indorsed the purity ofthe pnolic character of the Commissioners, extolled with fulsome eulogy the “institutions,” probably including especially the excursion bo: under their charge, aud generally laying on suc a thick coat of whitewash that al of tue opened by Commissioner of Accounts Howe were covered from the pubilc eye, But in the most pleasant picture some vaports ds are apt to Moat, All of that sapient Grand Jury, it seems, had not been seduced by the salad, ruled by the regailas or conquered by the champagne, and THERE WAS A MINORITY REYORT! It proceeded in agentic vein of satire to state that t egentemen signing it could not conscien- tiousty judorse the sentiment of the majority as to tne Commissioners having endeavored “to per- Jorm thelr v: best interests «1 the pubic.” This was signed by the lolowmgz members of the Grand Jury—me whose names have wetsuit in the communtry:— Nd. Haines, No. 27 Union square; J. W. Campbell, or, No. 06 West Fonrt rivon, No, 3.0 West Vivier, No. 9 Whitehall streét; EF, Coigate, Bast I'wenty-sccond streer; Shepherd Knapp, Jr, No. 35 Broad sare t One of the HE ) representatives in convers- ing wita Mr. Kuapp, yesterday, Was informed tnat tae facts upon wWhiea tue mimority report was d Would provavly not be made public for the bMS Signature to the document rly bis Opltion as to the charges Commissioue: It the allegatious ould have sigued the Un street; Robert Mor- pave very nst ‘the nunority report, ‘ur, Dun Viv.er, No. 9 Whiten: could not be sound at his place of pusia had bee Situne Up oll Dight Wiha sick Inend, but itis un Gerstood Wat Ne Was toialiy opposed to giving ambeer and iny Whitewash wlat- u Tne thinnest of coats nec ary to re. os whicu hang heavy and black on “of No, 20 East Twenty-second street, thousut it better for the present to remam ilent, aS there had been a quast agreement to af e@ifeecs out, upon being questioned by the smil-s and headshakings 3 To Mis opAuiONS as spoken ye been. Mr. Ne , Wio is President of the Dime Savings Bink, w.d one of the firm of Haines bros, ano muna aeturers, could HOL be ound; bub oF his colleagues, W. Campoell, an au honeer, of West broadway, Who res.des at No, 40 West Fourteenth siveet, assured the HERaLp represeniatye that the ' WAS A COMPROMISE, it fe. beluw rather than exagverated the tra m regard to the Comuussioners, | *Way,’? said Mr, Campben, “E had no idea what T had io vontend auainst When T went on that jury, and even pow {do bot wish Lo sity one thing tual will and ¢ cracks | ous duties faithfully and for the | 7 A STRANGE PROCEEDING. eee Bingular Action of the State Prison In- spectors—How Notorious Convicts are Retransferred to Sing Sing—What Dees It Meant A new feature of State Priton mismanagement and one the meaning of which jt would be perhaps aiMeult to explain on any hypothesis creditable to the inspectors, is the frequent retransferring of notorious convicts to Sing Sing from Auburn and Clinton Prisous, It is only receatly that on the oc- | casion of a draft of fifty men from the former place, which, in compliance with the law, ean only | be ordered when the cells are overcrowded, the keepers who took them to the interior of the State, broug with them thirty-five other Jailbirds who had previousiy been transierrea on he ack Various Occasions irom the more desirable quarte ers to Which tuey were there and then returned. Among these latier are many who stand high om the calendar of crime, and whose terms of sen- tence vary from five to fifteen yea Withia | the past “few days another barca of eight Jailoivds succeeded in — having reconsigned to Sing spending months or yeu the almost hopeless atmosphie penal Institutions at Auburn the number jast mentioned i mm. Ont of years men, two serving terms or fiiteen y eh and the other undergotng a sentence of imprisonment for life, Taken tozetner, they arc be the Ad bee | Worst and most desperate kang | found in the three prisons ot the | the twenty years nien 1s “steve | ter Known as the bateher thie’ | and who, it may be recollected, suot and killeda deputy sherif who attempted to arrest lim 4 Kalamazoo. Mich, tle ned to New York and ther perpeirat a borglury, ior whieh be was con. | Vieted and sentenced to Sing sing for th named, while the sword of justice 4s ! penaed over his head in relition to gan murder, Anotier of the gang thus sent di to pleasant quarters, trom wheuce their gotung away 18 only a question of time, is the notorious Patrick Finn n, Who Suortly after bis | arrival during jhe past Wees, made a der effort to escape ina smail boat, and only dered when the proximity of two ri Is to Head had admouisced bim thata third ot might produce adead convict, Atthat time he, wilh another, nad rowed two-thirds of tue distance across tne Hudsoa River i the direction of Rock- land county It 18 apparent that the reason for transferring mien WhO have been sentenced tu lengtuy terms of yined surren- Ainprisonment from Stog Sing to AUDE Land Cline ton prisons, when adrait becomes necessary, 18, that the chance tor escapme irom the two latrer places are proverbs poor, as the ermal ciasses of the community know muMately, Qhap- ter 451, section il, of the Laws of Is74, reads that the removal of convicts trom one prison to an. | oflier shall be orde.ed “wueu i the judgment of the Boura the interes's of the stite or the health or mprovement ot ¢t con- viet or conviers demand it, or whea ipis otherwise maverial or in lurtherance of jus. tice.” Since this law was enacted list January it 1s said that more toan 100 hardened convicts have been retransterred (rom the prison mentioned to that at Sing Sing, and it ts generally beteved that the requirements of the stature quoted ao not justify the changes in scarceiy a single instances, in the neighvoriioud oF Sing Sing th tlon of the Inspector's is being severely criticised, it being conser ensible ob any ground Compatible With oficial intogrit TRAVELLING AGENT ROBsBD. PovcuxeeEpelr, N. Y., Oct. Mr. J. € Fellowa, travelling ageat for tt Willlam Ruil & Co., wholesale jewel! d York, was robbed in this city, this morning, of a carpet-tag containing tine jewelry to the Rmount of about $3,0.0, The bag was of bluck leather, with the letter * the bottom. It had b lett at Charles Bat eweily store ol EYL pegit, and an pressman Was orde to take it down to te depos for eight o'clock A.M. train south, on the Hudson ot the wrong River Ravroad this morniig. On deliver bag there Mr. Fe lows discovered tt to be a | one, and on opening tt found it fallot trait, with some tools, tie whore packed with New kK pa- pers ot Frijay, How tue exchauge was made is & mystery. Detectives are at work, but with no | success as yet. Among the stolen property were ) 400 ran erghteen cable coains, twenty coral : 2 | neckiaces, 10) gentlemen's stone iockers, two 0 ° pnee, ery, J ugh r ren ¢ ri but the influence, cajolery, Xe, proughy 10 Lear | Hack onyx lockers set with pearls, a lot of lied, 1 believe the power of | chains, ke. s: Pz 1 ce men m ihe © himission of Charities and 7 > ction 14 scarcely second to the gover. | A MURDER IN CHICAGO. ment at Wastuncton, 1 do nok tink = sail nee anybody can exateine the figures of |” CUTCAGO, Oct. 3, 1874, Commissioner Howe, or even the evidence ad- | A shocking murder was committed {9 the nortite Duce PalOre Meds eat Havemever, with: western part oi the city to-night, John Despeciere, ont being convinced there have been great Wrongs | 4 peigian, engaged im peddling on the streets, and woeful extravagance. Vornell supplies the meat Stet ‘acta alone, 13.8 Intend of Mr, Thurlow Weed, ithe commisaon, | believe, b: Mr. Uharhek, and he 4: aS placed rhoice of M We Stern bach 18 a s0n-in-laN ‘ome relative is | and Gooakind, the purchasing agent, has vaughter Who m ed son of Stern, ‘here seem to be revolving Wheels within wheels. Wueu J co nmenced the investigation as a determined to muintain my independence. 1 haa no GROCER: FLOCK OR LIME TO SELE. 4s @ business man [| Know the affairs of the de- partment are urried on in a loose man and f believe the stacements ot the Commiss! of Accounts, WO eXpeses them, to be vertible. One thing more. Ja the answer jorte by the Commissioners, their nuMUer) is Made to say as lollow: ner put The undersigned fully accords to Mr. Howe all that he elas for mumseit=-that he has in endeavored to disehar ‘ science, “Now, althongh the last word, appears in Mr. Bowen's mannseript, he assured mie it should read ‘consequence, wen ma Yust difference in the meaning of the paragraph, aud robs Messrs, Laumbeer and Stern of the com- Jort of its apparent Msinuation.”? BOWE, Amateur” would go THE WEATHER IN THIS CITY YESTERDAY. The following record will show the changes in the temperature for the past twenty-four hour: in comparisen with the corresponding day of fast yea indy pharmacy, HERA » Building :— 1878, 1574. 18) AM 6L 390 P. M..... 5 A. 49 OBL Me ceseeeee OT 62 9AM o2 9 P.M. + 60 OL yw M. 6) 1 69 8% Average tempera‘ure yest » 8g Ave: ase temperature for corresponding date last \ Average temperature tor the Week. “3260 2-7 Average temperature jor the corresponding Week last ye +. 68 6-7 | CENTRAL PARK METEOROLOGICAL OBSERV. | ATORY, Abstract of Report ior the Week Ending at 1 BP. M., October 3, 1874. BAROMETER, Tachi Mean... sees Maximum at nine A.M, Sevtember Minimum at nineP, M,, Sepremver Range..... seee THERMOMETER, 107 Deqrees. 8.0 tires 'P. Me, “Ovrover Saxton Ie, Miniunum at six A. M., October 1., 46 Range......... te veeeeee eoeee 23 Inches. September 29, rain fron half-past three A, M. amount of To & quaiter past ten P.M wate! Total amount of water lor week... Distance travelled by we wind during the week, miles. 1, PROBABLE WIP MURDER IN JERSEY ory. About midnight last oght Thomas Cannon, Louk at the meat con- and he the influence of | n, m | AM jatl and Juror meonutro- Bowen (one of “conscience,” ated by the thermometer at Hudnut’s | ¢ | Tesisuing the law | Guarrelied with Joseph Vanacker, a fellow coun- | tryman, also ® pedaier, when woe latter drew a atcher knife and stabbed Despecierc im tie leg, ering an artery and causing death i a lew uiputés. ‘The murderer was arrested and confined RUILAND, Vt, Ort, 3, 187%. In the ease of John P. Phair, tried hore tor the murder of Mrs. Anna Freeze, the jury this even- ing, at twenty ties to twelve o'clock, after five days? trial, -rendeved a verdict of marder in the tirst dee f IW eS @ prostitute, and was murdered by is for her money, Phair had been w tre guenter of her Norse. The evidence was wholly citeumstantal aad ilty-five withesses were examined, UNCONSTITUTIONAL LiGUNSes. ICMMOND, Va., 0 ists. In the ease of Moure & Goodson, charged wilt: violating te state enue laws, by conducting | business without takmg outa license as required by the act of Assembly, passed las in the Hostings Court, imposition of a heense tax 0,00 qoerchants is not wiritin the powers of ibe Legis lature under the present constitution. (th monweaith Actoraes pted to this decision, and will appeal to the Supreme Court, A PRESIDENTIAL WARRANT, | LOvISVILLE, Ky., Oct, 3, 1874. United States Marshal Wyatt to-day brougne | from Owen county seven men on a warrant irom the Pres ting and dent charging them with obs URE DISSOLVED, x, Oc) ha NEWFOUNDLAND LEGISLAT Hatter The Newfoundiand Legislature been die { SOlved, It is not a year since last elccttoa. | ances aA RAED: ! THE CINCINNATI EXPOSITION. i CINCINNATI, Olio, Oct. 3, 1874. | The fifth Cincinnati position closed to-nigut, after twenty-eigut days exatbition, Five hundred aud fifty-four thousand persons visited the Expo- sition during that period, and the recetjts nave | been $69,000, exclusive of the receipts trom the sales ot privileges, Which amounted to severai thousands more. Tue Commissioners passed a resolution to hold the Exposition again next year, the Board of Trade 1oliowed with 4 like reso.ution, | _ Steps to secure addtional groanc permanent barding have deen tuken and | are now pending. Tne receipts this y and alarce dans wilt leave a balance of $10,009 or $12,00) ‘ov: h r deficl penses, wh will cancel the snmuil carried since 3872, and reduced last year, The public sentiment is almost unanimor | favor of making it a permaneut tustituuon | GEORGIA STATE FAIL, ATLANTA, O | The fMnal arrangements are compteted tor the Georgia State Fair ab Atianta on October 19, Hatt ) fare tickets will be Issned @om Baltimore and a Southern and Western cities to AUant ~ $ | complished was done Ireely and without reward, | (o get aboard the cart tl i si tNo, 413 First street, Jersey © 33 r; i! t If n ’ thout ard, » get aboard the cary te train had not tuily residing av No, 413° Firs ‘eet, Jersey City, re luis thonght that this Agricuitural o 3 143 | Wd he had been acttated solely by the desire to | stopped When the witness heard of the accident, — pyrnor aay 3 | ‘ ‘ gids sition ae ¥ W-3 | see what He undertook itily “carried” out. | No wiinessos could he fonnd who saw the deceased , WHed Wome under tho influence of liquor, He | wili be the grandest ever seen in the South. 4335 4 Having referred to the excellence of the | fall between the platiori and the ordered his wile to get him something to eat, when | re Oe Oe ee, 4a ‘ rile practice, which had mwarked the fall} "Deputy Coroner MucWuinuie, who examined the she procured lis supper, which was cold. ie | THs RULE CP THE SEA, 32038 ‘ meeting, the speaker paid a nigh com- |) body of deceased, deposed tat rapture of the quarreed with her, when she said something | . 44aa4 ‘ ‘ piiment to the distiugnisned rifemen trom | right kidney was the cause of dean. Which so exasperated him that he seized abeayy | Shall Steamers Respect the Rights of 2420 3 4 | lielond, and observed Wat Wf they aid not carry The case Was then given to the jury, Who rene Chi and dealt her a terr.flo blow on the head, Small Crastt sage 4 Ey | pies viel emg tigles they came to win, the | dered a verdes of accidental death, reling ner warren hd ie floor, and it is Bostoy, Oct. 1, 1874. AND mertoun tein had much more reuson to be if i thought iractured her skit, He was arrested and | ia ays ee ees ee | thankial than exnltant. (cheers). ‘the American | WESTON'S WALK, | locked up, Medical aid Was antnmoned and fis | TO THK Epiror ov tHe Kerany:— 4 3 _ : 4 ¢ : : | teat bad learned bo vespect their prowess, while | | wiie's injuries, Which are considered dangerous, | noticed yome time ago a fetter tn the MERALD : orn. } eae WE Einsmied Hed leerned. toreapeot, aes of Weaton 18 (0 begin his attempt to walk 500 mites | Were dressed relating to the damaging of a small yacnt by a $4 1833544 | heir opponents. There was reason lor general | 219 «x consecutive ds we Kr ma 4 ; §¢ -ongra ‘ y 1 SIM secutive days at the Hippodrome to- u no, v f ic da ne vi y ; 433 B48 congratiiation in the fet Chat throughout the " rr ferryboat, and though £ have carefuily 803 8 4 42.00 039—197 | contest the ahmost good feeling had prevalied. | morrow morning, at fve minutes past twelve ee Soe aur | scanned" the paper ever since I regret EKSER, reland had scat gontiomen, tot only dist aishe: ere e t . 3 Yaak. for thelr skth intmesnuoune, butsnowinieall those | OCOcK He is now tn tho best possible condition | z to say that 1 see nothing of the of j Peer 5 | high qualities winch caded Lor the respect of every | Of health, And says he ts bound vo successtuily ac. | To THE Eprror or tTHh HERALD: fender having been called to accomnt. Uf we are MICH ARE, | Leng yore 8) iene recohection J) Hd visit to cormplish the waik, The track Is to remain the Itis desirable to disavuse the public ming of | to feet any safety while on the water for business ses B24 6 82432 8 43 Mts hury Would remain as one of the pleusant- | game as on the last occas Weston walked, e very prevalent 331 0 tone OF pleasure, We Must have the assurance that the m4 $244 De ce 8 O..a Femunscences of this the greatest fall meet. | He hoen de eeanee Whee Weston Waa My ii afer hamish nese that the attending | putes prescrived for the guidaace of vessels shal lua 5 a3 Ce oe on el u-19 er hela un auspices of the tional | at havin deemed better to let it be so than physicians at the large city aispensaries are paid | be observed, and the only Way to secure their obe ee we auion Hoped that the recent | to alter it, which might possibly have given | oficials, ‘fhe fact ought to ve generally known | Servance ts to make a% example of thuse Who Wil+ bs we 4 5 contest might be only the beginning of similar ex- | rise to Some question, ip fas been resutveyed | aiwong those who seek such medical aid as is | fully offend. 1,00 H 20 4 a7 | poe weber the ridemen of tae Old wad New re ; erat yd Surveyor Stauth, Who given at tne hal ot yong bing Ma attending { venture to suggest that the clud to which the . 5 ore cheers) cortifles that itis 734 Jeet 34g inches i cireum- | phystelans are not patd, but give their services ag | yacht fujared belongs shoud take the matier op, sont 244 433 Lieutenant Coivne) Ciidersieeve then proceeded ference, requiring seven circuits to be Walked cor their Dost Way of contrivating to the general | A lew prosecutions would sova bring these raseally gn-3 0 3 8 i 9 5 | to read a inst of the prizy nd as each Victorious — each mile, and 3,6 ibror the whole distance sum of benevolence and charity. G. Be Pllots to their senses, and one couid then feel Jer LIW—3 SU 4 3 | marksman stopy he 8 hated with | of 500 miles. A mawber of prominent citizens | New YouK, Oct. 1, 187 | hain that if We duiy observe the rule of tne sea pa $46 [rsonene, RDproDation: Fie eialiy wes, his a Have sigatied their tnrention ft alery with - ————_— | We shat have nothing to fear, At present, when yous 4 aya sk yen vi rimental teams Were summoned | eae! other in watching the walk, among Whom are +3 POLITICA sailing in small cratt, we canwot feel aay assur. il § $36 126 | ty vecoive the kewards of #icit prowess. | Several WW. 1. Astor, W. Hl. Magston,, Dr. Huremus, Kutus BISMAROK’S POLITIOAL OFPORERT ance that steamers and coasting vessels will ive sentation it ss Were deivere: ny. Anarews, hn Bryan, Erhan Aven, General ‘ 1 he Ia o | 8 the right of way, and Ut is sourotinies cmibarrass> sw—n 2 2 494 Bee Bt | Cownel church, General MeManon and. others, | Kekert, General Hancock, Ins rick Atiornay Puelys | _ COUae Arnim, the lave Ambassador of Germany | [Ite TENY Ot may. wit ties ‘ ‘ Ue eee aud altogether the occasion was of an and animuer of others.’ Iti aso expecied lias | 8% Paris, is ae ndidate for a seatin the German | ‘Tne occurrence reterred to, ifeorrectly arated, 2 ’ * . exceedingly joyons characte Several ofl. the Lord Mayor of Dubin, the Mayor and Common | Pariiamenut, Né 18 strongly opposed to Prince | affords a capital opporcunity te slew oe ‘ 3 O8 B.....46 cers ot the United states Army = and | Connell oF New York and te Irish and Amercaa | Bistiares's ecclestastion, ; oli aud itis with the | that they cannot do as (rey please, and | sine , Hi Lehane Navy were present, among thein beig Licutenant rifle teams WU visit (he Hippodrome oa Alon | View Of giving edect to 118 Vows that ne is seek: | bo,e it WH!) Mer be allowed 66 pass ain en. 4 ‘ A234 win |. d. Keliy. of mieroceame cana fime. as weil) ment to witness Weston's eforia, Jog AdMASIOn to fhe Pariauents ° SMALL YAuu