The New York Herald Newspaper, May 4, 1875, Page 3

THE MECKLENBURG. CENTENNIAL ee Arrangements for the Grand Celebration on the 20th of May. PREPARING FOR THE VISITORS No Intention of “Making Treason Respectable.” “THE HORNETS’ NEST OF AMERICA.” CuaRLotTs, Mecklenburg county, N. oo} ‘Aprit 29, 1875, 1 find the worthy people of this pleasant North Carolina city excited over the approaching fommemoration of the one hundredth anni- versary of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence. I am now convinced that the Mecklenburg Centennial will attract a AQumerous attendance, An unaccountable degree Df reticence on the part of the managers has hith- erto prevailed; and outside of the extending of in- vitations soliciting the presence of sundry notavle individuals and organizations, and of efforts more br less success{ul to raise funds for the celebra- Hon, they appear to have followed quite closely the Fabian policy of ‘masterly activity.” There \s certainly no lack of patriotic feeling, at least in \ts local development, among the masses, and they seem fond of the traditions which have given re- hown to thelr revolutionary forefatuers. But While those forefathers furnished, in both toeir brave words and deeds, materials for his- tory equaliy. abundant and valuable with the contributions to our wealth of national glory Si their Northern compatriots, the lacter haa the Sreat advantage of more numerous and diligent tontemporary scribes, who sedulously gatherea apevery iact and circumstance connected with their achievements, had the testimony perpetu- Ated, as @ lawyer would say, and thus weaving their annals as they-went along, at every step of the whole coionial struggles, made sure of posthu- mous fame. The more negiectfal and less shrewa Bouthervers, on the other hand, seem to have been unminuful of the very important truth that the pen is the best ally of the sword. They were, it appears, content with doing heroic actsand making equally heroic utterances, and they lett the record of them to take care of itself. Hence it now rurns out that the surict and formal proofs whien #0 abundantly fortify New England's claims Bre sadly wanting to confirm those of North Caro- lina, and the genuineness of even the Mecklen- burg Resoives is challenged with impunity. THE ALKANGEMENTS, The managers of the Centennial to be observed here on the 20\h of May are somewhat reticent Bbout the contemplated arrangements, and tt is dif Acult to learn much of anythtng definite from them @t present. Eitber the plans are not yet matured, or those who have the affair in hand do not want & premature publication of them, in which they are right, perhaps, though itis not altogether so agreeable to a correspondent a8 a more com- Municative disposition on their part would be. PREPARATIONS FOR A CROWD, It is Claimed that wu tremendous crowd will be here on the 20th; in faet one enthusiastic gentle- man goesso farasto predict the attendance of 80,000 people, if not more. Where they are all to be stowed away at night surpasses my skill at solving conundrums. The Centra! Hotel 1s enlarging its accommodation: by aa addition of 100 rooms, and there are several otuer hotels, besides the board- mg houses, The citizens, 1 am told, will very g@enerally open their hospitable doors to the inflox of pilgrims to this new Mecca. But even then I am unable to see how this @xXpected swarm of visitors, numbering five or six times the resident population of the city, isto be lodged, unless two-thirds of them take iton tne floor, The visiting military com- panies will bring their tents, and the civilian eomers may catch the idea and camp out also, at least @ partofinem. If Barnum would oniy loan bis big canvas for the occasion 4 solution of the problem might be arrived at, Or Lexington might | Bend along the monster tent under whose wid Spreading canopy the Centennial dinner was ais. THE DATE OF THE DECLARATION. The Oharlotte Odserver, the Bulletin aud General D. H. Hill's Southern Home take a lively interest im the coming celebration, as do the Journal and the Siar, published at Wilmington, the Raleigh Bentinel and neariy all the other papersin the Btate, The impeachers of the authenticity of the Mecgienvurg Declaration bave no newspaper Organ, @t least not just at this time. They main- tain @ discreet silence, and we hear notbing irom them. By the way, 1 find the following paragraph in the Southern Home, which supplies an important piece of iniormation touching the mooted mat- ber:— We learn by @ private letter from Boltv: Uhat phe distincuisced <ernoene of Colopel Thoi Poik (Colonel Horace M. Polk) of Revolationary fame, has some importent iactsin regard to the Mecklenburg Declaration. Among otuer things, Qn extract irom a Raewn pe Of 1809, giving a speecu celivere:! at Chapel fu cloguent ailasion to the great event of the 20th OI May, 1:75. ‘The silly notoriety nunters object that oot wutil 1819 did the Deciaration attract pub- Ne eteption, But Colonel Polk can snow by the Fecora that 1en years before that, and in tue lile- time of the actors in that grand movement, a big at the University of ine State claimed for Meckleuburg the honor of frst proclaiming in- dependence. A GENERAL HOLIDay. ‘The press of the State join heartily 10 the sugges- ton that the 20th of May be generally observed as @ holiday througnout North Carolina, Io the event it 18 80 observed, there will beany number of little Centennials ali taking piace simultaneously in every part oftho State, Why isn’t the Twentieth of May as good as the Fourth of July? Is never Was thought necessary to go to auy particular Place to celebrate the Fourth, The aay is the main thing-—not the locality; which refiection Ought to console the stay-at-homes. Tne great fire at Charlotte on the 16th inst. will notin any Way interrupt or ioterfere with the Centennial preparations. THE SPRAKERS, General Joseph E. Jolinstou, who surrendered to General Sherman in this very oity ten years ago, will act as Chici Marshal on the occasion of tne Seledraiion; and John Kerr, one of the very best public speakers lo the State, will be orator ofthe day. It is proposed to erect a monument to tie memory of the immortal twenty. aix—some accounts say twenty-seven— signers of the Declaration. To have certain smount for this monument, and to properly carry out the programme at the Oentensia the sum of $25,000 is considered nec- essary by the Committee of Arraagoiment: or this amount $4,000 is assigned for Onarlotte to make up, and the balance is expectea from the remainder of the State, The money ia duly com- ing in, A few days ago Mra, Cloero W. Harris, of Wilmington, forwarded $100 she had collected ia that city, and the ladies of Millsboroagh, ta Orange county, are to give a festival in that old historic town during court week, which begins to-day, the “proceéds of whion will be applied to the sane ob fect. The towosnip committees in Iredell will Reid & meeting on the Sist, to make Up the quota 01 that county for the Centennial fund, On May 1 & Mase meeting Will be held at Concord ior the Sane Parpors, Among others, Robesoa county te iso at Work in the same direction, Her Centen: Vial Bxeoutive Commities recently met at Lum berton, Wien & sub-committee of three Was ap Pointed for eacn township. THE MILITARY. Aaloigh wil send her artillery company to the eelevration Wii two guns, ana the Raleigh Light Inlantry expocts to bring wither some forty mombers, The steam firs engine com- pany of Wilmington wWili attend, ‘Th class Dd! OFganizations Will undoubtedly be large represented, Soldier boys aad “BoyA who yuo With the meomne” are oligo expected ili, 1 which there 1s | NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, MAY 4, I18i0.—LKIPLE from Virginia and South Carolina, ‘ne procession will no doubt form an imposing street pageant, such as is rarely witnessed in this section of the country, Tnere will be visitors here from Canada. Twenty Canadians, residing at Belleville, Ontario, will accompany Dr. Palmer, of that piace, formeriy of Raleigh, who bas accepted an invitation to be present. PRESENTATION OF A FLAG, The ladies of Charlotte are to presenta flag to the “Hornet” Fire Company iu season jor the Centennial, One of General Vance’s sons has se- cured # huge lornet’s nest for the occasion, This | is intended by way of aremembrancer of the Mor. | nevs Nest, @ doughty little patriotic paper, | claimed to have been published in Charlotte | ® hundred years ago, Its name nas | @ twofold origin:—First, an allusion to ‘the buzzing and stinging of the formidable in- sect after whieh 1t was called, and second, from the remarkably close resemblance in the grayish hue of its printed pages to the peculiar neutral tint of the hornet’s nest. The first revisul of the colonial laws of North Carolina made in 1762, was @ small follo volume with a yellow binding, and was, for a similar reason, popularly culled the “yellow Jacket.” A REVOLUTIONARY CUP. Captain W. A. Cumming, of Wilmington, has a somewhat remarkable cup, or rather mug, which he wants to have usea to quench the thirst of tne speakers at the Centennial The following is a description of the cup:— It 18 made of horn, is lined with silver and banded near tue bottom with a narrow strip of the same metal. The inside !s much worn and battered and a@ crack, extending nearly trom tie top to tue bottom, is nowceable, It is also some- what worm-eaten at the bottom, but itis stili in a condition to be used. in dimensions it is about three and ® half inches in height, one aud one- halt inches in diameter at the bottom (which is narrowed down) and two and a halt inches atthe top, ‘this cup bas had a very strange and eventful existence. Iv was used tbrough the Kevolutiooury War by William Cumming, the grandfather of Captains W, A. and J. D. Cumming, and Mr. Preston Camming, Who Was un officer In the Continental service, fn nis custody it passa through the battles of ‘renton, Princeton and Brandywine, and also figured in the Southera campaigo at Camden, Cowpens, King’s Mountain and Gailford Court House. 1m the war of 1812 it also played its part, being used at the mouth of the Cape ear River by James F. and John R. Cumming, sons of Whilam Cumming, and | duriug tne jate war William H, Comming, another of the sons of William Cumming, iuto whose bands it had faileo, carried it lor a | short time, but owlog to his advanced age was | compelled to reure from the service, when it ae- Scended to bis turee sons, by whom it Was borne throughout tne late flercely contested siruggie. What 1s considered as @ remarkaole coincidence connecied with the cup 18 the Jact that a grand. lather of its Dresent owner, his two sons aud lhree grandsons, ali successively held it in three Wars, in the same place, viz.: at the mouth of the Cape Fear River. If this relic of the olden time is made servicea- bie in wetting the whistles of the Centennial ora- tors, another notable link will be added to the chain of historical events, in which it has figured. Remarking on this offer of the ancient mug. the gifted but waggish editor, Jo. Turner, of the Ra- leigh Sentinel, innocently says :— We should do everything in order and celebrate with the nicest decorum and propriety, tha: on the next Centennial, in 1975, our posterity may be proud of us and glad to acknowledge us as their reat greal-granddaddies, Who knows, but a pipe hat some good ot Mecklenburg jarmer will smoke at the Charlotte Centenatal shall be carried back there a hundred years trom now and shown to “the boys’? as a relic of 1875? And it will be car- ried about under the wing (for Reople wii fy in those ays) a8 a great curiosity. Yes, let’s do the thing right. I fear Turner lacks faith, The preceding extract looks like making light of the subject. But ne al- Ways was charged witha proneness to inoppor- tune levity, Another controversy has arisen in connection | with the Centennial. It is no less an enigma than | the question whether or no; General Grant was really invited to attend the approaching ce!ebra- tuon. The President's letter of declination, turough | Mr. “Levi P. Lucky, Secretary,” would indicate | that be wasinvited. But the Southern Home, pab- hshea here, denies this, Theeditor asserts that it is all @ mistake; that the presence of General’ Grant has not been asked officially, and that if he ‘was invited at all it was by somebody having no authority, He Jurther intimates that the attend- ance of the President at Charlotte is not espe- cially desired. REFUTATION OF SLANDERS. I neither see nor hear anything here, unless General Wills’ article just reierred to may be cun- sidered as smacking of ‘disloyalty, which gives any color Whatever 16 the charge recentiy made by toe Washington Repudiican, ana echoed by other administration journals, that ‘the Mecklenburg celebration promises to be a close communion, idebound and con- celtedly se:ect amair,”” whose conductora have | been chosen with regard solely to their state | rights, Southern, aemocratic and Confederate Lecedents, and that the object is “to make | treason respectable.” | know that the Repudtican’s | statement, that ‘all the ex-Confederate military | compantes of North Carolina aad the adjoining | States will be on hand,’ and that there will be “about forty ex-Confederate generals as assistant | marshals,” is & monstrously absara exaggeration. The idea that the whole Confederate army— what | there is left of it—is to assemble in Charlotte on | the 20:h of May—or om any other day—is ridicu- | lous in ite very face. The ceiebration will be no such “big thing” as all that, It wouldn’t pay. ‘The Southern people are poor, and trayeiling ex- peuses, it is well known, are enormous in ali this | section. These facts will keep many at home who would giaaly come. The South is ured of war and by no means in & mood, notwithstanding tne in- Juries and indignities tiey have borne, to renew the conflict with the North. The exact reverse of the allegation made by the Republican is trae, ‘The Charlotte celebration will be purely a patri- otic Occasion, and patriotic not in @ sectional sense, but in @ large, liberal, cathoilo—in one word, American—import. It is the erection of a mew memorial day. It 18 an abandonment of the narrow reminiscences and observances which tend only to perpetuate the animosities of the late War between the sections; it is a return to the nobler recollections of that early ana better era when the Northman and the Southron stood side by side in @ common contest, and when the men of Mecklenburg answered the heroes of Middlesex ucenvylogly and witn glad acclaim. The Char- lotte declaration was @ sequel and a response to Lexington and Concord, The 20th of May was a resuit of the 19th of April, These two dates, with we great evens they signalize, are indissoiabiy convected in our history and form a part of our joint national inheritance of renown, THE HORNETS’ NEST OF AMERICA. Charlotte was designated by Lord Cornwallis “The Hornets’ Nest of America.” This appellation Was not very provably intended as a compliment; but tue “whirligig of time,” which brings about so many historical revenges, seems, as in many similar lostances, to bave coaverted the designed opprobrium into @ badge of honor, The hornets’ hest is now the embiem in this portion of North Carolina of Revolutionary zealand araor, and now, after the lapse of @ hundred years, Meckien- burg, though her capital town, is reveiving with @ giad pride, irom nearly every county in the State, the voluntary tribute of any number of hornets! nests, Which she accepts, not us you orl Could a last year’s bird's nest ag @ possibie slur Upon our dignity, but 4s the welcome, significant insignia of her confessed priority in patriotism, Some of these hornets’ Nests are oi huge dimen- sions. Iam happy to state that so far as my ob- servation extends none of thom seem to ve tenanted at preseat by the lively insects which constructed them. Itis due to the govd citizens of Cnarlotte ad vo the public thas thts fact shoula be made generally knowa, less timid ioteading visitors gioulu slay aWay for fear that, at some preconcerted points in the programme of the Ven- tennia!, several mil lous Of Loewe “humming birds wito hot jeet might be sidaltaneou-ly turned loose among the crowd. 1, therefore, nasten to that DO such Vivacious entomologioal exposi- tion is deaignod, but that the display ja to be the entirely Darimioss one Of the discarded havitacions of Migrating swarms, Oferiay an oppor- tunity seldom presented for the sale study of «this «variety «of =inéect = architecture, togetuer with the morai lessons and! the local traditions wbiod it symbolizes, ib has been alleged that @ paper cailed the Hornet's Nest was pricted in or if Obarlotte during Ravo- lution, I can, ROWever, £00 uo soeh ancient news | symptom of compression oO! the brain; that the paper, nor any proof that it existed apart from mere rumor and vague impressions, without the Welght even of tndofinite recollections, It is cer tain that a journal calied the Hornet's Nest was published at Murfreesboro during tue war of 1812, | being one of the eight newspapers then issued in the State. Thia circumstance t#, perhaps, the source of the error, which tilustrates how a fiction, not necessarily wiliul, however, may by mere | lapse of time become a suppoaititious tact. A paper | of that name was printed at Charlotte, in 1850, by | L, 8. Badger, but twenty-five years lacks a good deal of being acentury, The material of which, ihe hornet constructs his nabitation very much resembies, and, perhaps, actually ts, paper. It 13 alive paper, too, whose contents are decidedly sensationa! sometimes. I conclude, upon the | whole, that the issue of the Hornet's Nest, in Revo- Intionary times at least, was exciusively from the ofice of the unmetaphorica! ‘original panel.” WHAT THE LADIES ARE DOING, ‘The ladies of Charlotte, as elsewhere, perhaps everywhere tn North Carolina, are actively at work raising money in aid of the Mecklenburg | Centennial fund, A hundred dojlars was realized for this purpose from a fancy dress ball and sup- per given last Tuesday evening by tne ladies of Line im, the capital of Lincoln county, adjoin- ing aud originally a part of Mecklenburg. ‘To-nignt the Charlotte ladies will give a cantata for the same object. In this connection, permit me to insert an historical item eviaencing the patriot- ism of the women of North Carolina a century ago, The South Carolina and American General Gazette of February 9, 1776, contains the following para- graph:—“The young ladies of the best families of Meckienourg county, North Carolina, have en- tered into a voluntary association that they will not receive the addresses of any young gentleman | of that place except the brave volunteers who | served in the expedition to Sonth Carolina and | assisted in subduing the Scovalite insurgents. The ladies being of opinion that such persons as stay loitering at home when tue important calls of the country demand their military services abroad must certainly be destitute of that noble- ness of seotiment—that brave, manly spirit— which would qualify them to be the defenders and guardians of the fair sex. The ladies of tue adjoin- ing counties of Rowan have desired the plan of a similar association to be drawn up and prepared for signature,” The following record from the American Archives (4th series, vol. 1, 891) indicates that the ladies of Chowan county, in the extreme eastern section of North Carolina, were equally enthu- siastic in the cause of liverty with their sisters of the west, It was signed by fifty-six ladies, Epsnton, N. C., 25th October, 1774. As we cannot be indifferent on any occasion that appears to affect the peace and happiness of | our country, aad as,it has beea thougit necessary for the pubiic good to enver into several particu. jar resoives by a meeting of the members or the deputies irom the whole province, itis a duty we owe, not only to our near and dear relations and connections, bus to ourselves, Who are essentially interested in their welfare, to do everytoing as far aa iics in our power to testify our sincere ad- herence to the same; we, therefore, do accord- Jogly subscribe this paper as @ witness of our fixed intention and solemn determination, lt is also matter of history that the Edenton la- dies bad a meeting and “destroyed toeir tea | (their iavorite beverage), when taxed by the Eng- ish Parilament.” A beautifully executed picture of this meeting, enamelled upon glass, was found } at Gibraltar many years ago. It came into the | possession of a United States naval ofiicer, who | went it to Edenton, where it fas been seen by many persons now living. Mrs. Ellet, in her “Women of the Revolutiou,” has shown that the spirit of patriotism in tye South was by no means confined to the men, They knew dow to use that austisctively female weapon, the tongue, to good purpose, as the lollowing traditionary avecdote will show. Colonel Tarieton was wouuded in the battie of the Cowpens by a sabre-cut delivered by Colonel William Waswuington. | Tarleton was speaking opprobriously of Wasbingtoa as an illiterate, ignorant fellow, hardly able to write lis name, when Mra, Wille Jones, of Hailfax, N.C,, who was present, ro- marked, “Ah, Colonel, you ought to know better, jor you bear on your person proof that he knows very weil how to make his mark.” On another | occasion Tarleton induiged in similar cisparage- | ment of Washington, saying he ‘would like to see him” on account of his notorious ugliness of per. | son, To tbis remark Mrs, Asoe, also @ Halifax | lady, retorted, “If you had looked bebina you, | Colonel Tarleton, at the battle of the Cowpens, you could have enjoyed that pleasure." BRITISN TYRANNY. It is no wonder that the women of North Caro- | lina hated the British when the royal governors | allowed the county court clerks to charge $15 | for a marriage license. This heavy tax on matri- mony amounted to a prohibition among tue poorer } | classes, and its moral influences were not at all | salutary. Charlotte is a very turifty city, with a population of about 6,000—a little less than that of | Raleigh. 1s 1s situated on rising ground. I am | told that the town consisted, im 1775, of about 40 | houses, One stde of the village was an open com- | mon, the other was coverea with underwood, | The two main streets crossed each other at rignt | | | | | | angles, the Court House being in the centre. This Court House, by the way, is of immortal memory, Inasmuch as it witnessed the adoption of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence. The upper part of the building was occupted as acourt | room; the under as & market house. ‘his very spot saw the deflant challenge to Great Britain, sent from within its walls in May, 1775, made good by one of the most heroic actions of the Revolu- tion, when, on the 26th of September, 1780, General William R, Davis (then @ major) with three cav- airy companies, one of which he dismounted and stationed under the Court House, dared to attack and hold in eheck Lord Cornwallis and his whole army, fusbed with their recent victory at Camden over the American forces uoder General Gates, and then making & triumphal progress. This was a deed equal in valor to Thermopylae. THE SHERIDAN TRAGEDY. DR. MGILL’S TESTIMONY REGARDING HIB AC- | TION IN THE Cass. ‘The inquest on the body of Philip Sheridan, who Gilead from a fracture of the skull, indicted by Jo- seph Doyle, was commenced last evening at Bra- dy’s Morgue, Jerscy City, before Coroner Lynch. ‘The first witness examined was Dr. Joho McGill. who testified: —1 was called on the 26th of April by Mrs. Sherican to see her husband; found s com- pound fracture of the skull over the frontal bone; finding that the man’s condition was good for the injury, and no symptoms of compression of the brain appearing, [directed tiat he be keptin a recumbent position, with cold water applied to the head; I then left him; next day found him iu ® good condition; saw him azain the fol- lowing day; he was sitting up with a pitever of ale beside him; 1 nad probibited aicogolie drink and finding tuat ho disobeyed my orders and se ing the wretcned surroundings of the piace Irecom- mended that he go to the Onarity Hospital: I ga: & permit and leit, and was not called upon alter+ ward; the wife refused to let him go to the hos- aly the Man wax perfectly wile Ta tended oim; T ordered him to the hospi because I feared tat meningitis mignt supervene and an operation might be necessary, The Witness wos quostioned Coroner, who asked him why be @ patient to go to the hospital on Monday, The wi ness apswored that he did not then see any dan. | gerous symptoms. He decitned to periorm an operation, acting on y reliable medical aa. thorities. The operation wa {t should not be perform urgent symptoms of compression or infla of the brain. When asked if he retused to id the Case of Advanced aby roason ior refusing to the witness stated thet be tola Mrs. ous ti wi } nes, guickly replied the Corone witness surtl stated that le did not care, if be could heip it, to become muplidated In police cases and be Oblged to attend at court, to tae deiriment of lia patients un and to ni ¥ Joi to Mr. W, who Was present a8 counsel for the prisoner, the witness stated that at no time durlog nis visits was were auy < e rl fatwi result might be intuenced to 4 great degree t 4 the iracrure of the 88 Gia not think the Wound Was necessarily iatal at aoy time; meniugiiis ensues 1D O Majority O) Cases, ‘The inquest was tien adjourped. The Poet Commissioners eid @ MeetIOg, VUE IL Was Tenoly! mee ths case till the inqueg’ is gon ude ue ty | Barbary, | association begins to-day. THE NATIONAL GAME. GAME BETWEEN THE BOSTONS AND MUTUALS ON THE UNION GROUND. The announcement that the Bostons and Mutu- als would play yesterday afternoon drew together on the Union Ground probably 1,500 persons. The occasion Was iuccher graded by a lady, who seemed to take @ great interest tn the play. Long be- fore the game was calied the Mutuals were on the fleld, batving ‘‘fungoes’’ and otherwise work- ing of the stiffness of their joints. At three o’clock the Bostons arrived, and forthwith there was @ rusii for seats behind the catcher’s position. Befure the play began the Boston men were very busy answering anxious inquiries as to how they had enjoyed ther South- ern trip. At Petersburg, Va., they played the Old Dominion nine, famous fur its discipline, The captain of this august body astonished the Bostonians by shouting in amiurary way, when be won the toas, “Old Dominion, to the feild!” The Old Dominion did not go the Held, batstood a solid phalanx, waiting tor orders, As each name and position was called off they trotted, with soldierly alacrity, to their places, and the game began. The Red Stockings made filteen runs in tne first inning, which stows how atterly demorahzed they were ny the wonderlul order of thelr oppo- nents. While the men were velling of their trip to the Soutu an umpire had beeu chosen by tne captains and game was called, with the Mutuals to the bat. They went out in one, two, three order, and the Bostons followed suit. ‘The Mutu. als on the next inning were whitewashdéd again, apd the prospect ior an interesting gaine was good. When the Bostons went fo the bat the prospect was spoiled, lor they scored six runs, most of them tarouga errors by the Mutuais. Ib the third iuning neither side counted, and in the fuurta the Mutuals scored their only rap, the Bos- tons tallying two, in the fitth the Mutuals made an0Qand the Bostons made two, the score stand- ing 10-1. For the next three tunings no runs were made aud inthe pinta the Bostons scored one tun and the game was over. O’Rourke’s play on whird base is a decided jm. proyement on Schaffer’s, Holdsworth’s play at Short siop for the Mutuals was very feeble and the our runs scored agaist him did much to swell the Bostons’ score. Hicks played very poorly in some respects, Passed balls were few, but his throwing to the basemen was very bad, ‘Tne following is the score:— MUTUALS. BOSTON Players. RAB POAE | Players. ‘RAB. POA.E Start, Ist b. O 115-12 @ Wiightss.2 10 2 2 Holdsworth,ss 0 1 0 5 4 MeVey,c. f sz2000 2 ou230 10530 700100 os140 OL 2 6 2 sie 24300) -0 01 0 6 White, c. Las 3 4} McGee, &.f....0 0 2 0 0 O’Kourke, 31d. 0 LO 1 0 Gedney, L f...1 8 3 0 2 Lapham, ‘Ist b. 1 213 0 0 Mathews, p. 023 1 Manning,r.f..1 8 200 0 Totals. wee. 1 6271816 Totals......-Mb 17 27 18 6 NNT Clubs, Ist, 2d. Sd. 4th, 5th, 6th, Ti Sth. Othe toe ee O° v1 06 0 8 2 0 0 O@ ttl y joston, 2; Mutuals, First base by errors of opponen Boston, 6; Mutual, 2, ‘xine of game—Two hours. Umpire—i Mr. Blodyeti, of the Arlington Club. SALE OF THOROUGHBREDS. A STRING OF YEARLINGS DISPOSED OF AT BELLE MEADE. NasSBvU.LE, Tenn., May 8, 1875. The annual sale of thoroughbred yearlings at Colonel W. G. Harding’s breeding farm, Belle Meade, six miles from this city, took place to-day. The weather was fine, tne attendance large and the bidding quite spirited, The following sales were effected :— FOALS OF i874, Bosworth, gray colt, by Bonnie Scotiand,dam Me- wor, foaled March 2; Vierre Lorillard, New York. . Beusiho, bay colt, by Bounie ~co tana, dam jociue, aied February re Lorillard; New York... 76 Elle by isngoirer, “daw ‘Minda, to! 22; fer Win Mississippi. Belle Isie, bay fly, by Bonnie scotland, dam foaled Marcu 27;'H. B, Douglass, Tennessee. bazine, brown tilly, by Bonnie -covand, dam Nubia, foaled March $* Pierre Lorillard, New Yore 870 Bombast, brown cult, by Bonme scotland, dam Ben- fein, igtled ebraury 26; Pierre Lorillard, New YORK. eves , Bonute Lace, . da eliadouna, foaled . RAMEY bay oul by: Bounie ‘icotiand, daa aed abate, co! ly S ‘Yaltom toaled Maret 19; 1d, Moreton, Tennosseo, 220 ange by jie Scotland, dam Collo- dia, foaled March 23; ss. ¥. Carr, Yennossec, Byyouae, chestuuc colt, by Bonnie reotland, Di March 23; Porter trothers, Arkansas bay ‘lly, by Bonnie Scotland, dam Tallulah, May 6; a a Douglas, Tennessee. gaia ~ the Meade, bay filly. py Bonn! of dam Woodbine, foaled March 29; Peter Wimme: u ppl. Boumie Pied, bay coi Samine, ioaiea aprit’s0; Pierre Loritiard, Sow 4 Bink Bonnie, bay filly, by Bounre Scotland, dam Livadme, tosled April '22; Pierre Lorillard, New Brocndor bay ai, rounds, ; Beare omdes ceaat uly, iy Bonnie Sect , by Bol Beplau: foaled April 29 Charles Peine, Wississipl. 890 Beraboo: bay als oy onl Scouiaia. dam tome rll 65 We irownD, (ie! Bias Gown acer ally’ by onnie Scotland Bluette, foaled April 30; Peter Wimmer, Mi The following, tae property of Colonel Geor, M. Brunner, of Knoxville, were ofered and sold:— Bettie Jain, yyy mace, by Emu, dam Ainderby, Oray colt, by Jack Malone, dan Battie Maria, foulea Isis " hs Billeen. Tenneases. Che: by vandal dam ode Island foaie Belle ot 0% i f Mr. Jeremiah Waiter: ditaay. Ga, wore ofered, but withdrawa, = NASHVILLE RACES. ‘The spring meeting of the Nashville Blooa Horse Pools were sold in this city last evening on two of the three events | sot down for decision, SkCOND Racg.—The Brace Stakes, for three-year olds; mile heats. Rice’s Vo.cano. Rice's Bayonne Cadwaliader’s Vicksbvarg. Barne’s Goorge Graham Haraing’s Bounding Doe..... Hunter's Anole May Hunter 2 Lewis’ Verdigris.. “Ts Wilhams’ Wooster. id Gordon's Gath..... Ta1xp Rack.—Association Purse ef $300, for ages; mile heats, Eaypt...-e Granger. Joan Val Jean. Hazum } Field, Pair Pi First Rack,~—Young America Stake for two-year- olds; dash of bali a inile. Probabi riers— Mayo’s Woodland, by Brown Dick; Wil & Ow- ing’s Creedmoor, by Asteroid; Swigert’s Ceylon, by Asteroid; Punk’s bay colt, by Virgil; Costriil’ Mediator, by Daniel Boone and Mills & Co.'s Di Saxou bp to nine o'clock no javestments were made on these youngsters. HORSE NOTE. On Sunday, 2th ult., the jast day of the spring racing meeting over the Bay District Fair Grounds track, & mos} exciting contest of two-mile eats fora purse of $800 took piace, which 4 record among the best. Three came totne post— Messrs. Henry Weich's bay colt Woodbury, four years, by Woodburn, dam Moss Rose; neo. Winter's gray colt Waterford, four years, by Lona- ford, dam Alargaretta, and J. 0. Simpson’s chestnut colt Huckhockiug, iour years, oy Kingmaster, dam Young Fashioo, in the with Waterford second choice, Wood- 16 SHEET. i} | | ing. | quite extinct in his dear ones, | cilog to a straw in our Rayo } The City of Hartford Runs} Down a Scow. 2 aE | FOUR LIVES LOST.| 7 Statements of the Captains of | the Steamer and Scow. DETAILS OF THE CALAMITY. | All day yesterday a curious throng could be seen at piers 23 and 24 East River. An awtul accident | had occurred and everybody bad run, of course, to | gaze on the débris. Four lives were lost, but the | faces of tne lookers on betrayed no horror, no | anxiety, oniy mere idle curiosity, But little sym- pathy was expressed for the father whose beart bled for the loss of nis four children, He was but | @ poor, ignorant Portuguese sailor, captain of a | small scow which had been run into by the City of | Hartford that morning, The collision had de- | stroyed all his furniture and clothing on the barge, | had killed four of his six cntldren, had brougot his | wife to the verge of death and ne was almost | crazy with grief. In a few brief seconds how | conipletely had life changed all its colors to him. | NOW IT OCCURRED. | The collision, as all eyewitnesses agree, oc- curred at a quarter-past elght o’clock in the morn- The accounts as to the causes of the acci- | dent differ. The City of Hartford was trying to | make her landing, as usual, at pier No. 24. Being | caught ima strong current she passed the Brook- | lyn Bridge pier. The captaim, William Miner, saw that sue had passed her landing place. Her helm was put bard to starbord, the captain expecting to run astern of the Hamilton Fish, which wes | lying at pier No. 23, Unfortunately the scow used | aaa ballast barg> for the Hamilton Fish lay along- side @ canal boat, which separated her from the Hamilton Fisb, the scow being on the outside and facing the stern of the City of Hartiord. Captain Miner, seeing thas he | had come in dangerous proximity to the scow, | Tang the bell to back, but, eriven by the excep- tionally strong wind and tide, the large steamer | atl went ahead, and Captain Miner then rang | the signal bell to “back hard.’ Alas, it was too | late. Tue huge craft—buge in comparison with the tloy barge tnat lay helpless before her—bore relentiessly down upon the acow, upon which wei ight precious lives. THE CALAMITY, ‘The effect was instantaneous. Scarcely had the steamer struck tho scow in the side ere the water burst through the breach and the barge was com- pletely overturned. A second belore tue captain or the barge had stood on the deek engaged in his usual duties. He had jumped upon | the canal boat to save his life, his | wie was helplessly struggling in the water and there were four of ms children in | the cabin drowning. Captain Cosia—that is the poor man’s Dane—behaved With great sel!-posses- sion, Seeing the steamer bear down upon his | boat, he instanuy comprenended the danger. His | irst thougnt was to save his wife and children, | who were in-the cabiu, He piunged into tne cabin, seized his wite, liited ner to the deck, bat 18 | Was too late to save the children. The boat was | capsized. He leaped upon the canal bout, while | hi? wife siipped from bis grssp and fell into tie river. As the barge turned over the peipless father cried out—as the captain of the City of Hartiord testifies—“On, my children!” What a | World of anguish must have been crowded into | these three words! | * COMING TO THE RESCUE. | What human aid could do to save life and to | Stay sacrilice was done, ‘The steward and several | nessed the distressing acciuent. They jumped into a small boat tosave Mrs. Costa. She was tll | and sadly in need of the gentiest care and the | kKlodest protection, Luckily she was saved—sared, at least, lor a wile; for, although she had reco’ ered irom the sock yesterday witernoon, her life | ‘Was not out of danger. SEARCHING FOR THE CHILDREN. The most trying moment to the father's heart | haa arrived, While the steward of tne James | Gorcoa Bennett wus taking care of Mrs. Costa and trying to revive ner (no Woman's tender hand Was bear to admioister to her in this awful pred: ament) with brandy and other stimulants, while Captain Costa was frantically mourning the loss of his children, Captain Williams, of the Oak | | street poiice station, had been sent for, and he, with the ald of several policemen and otnere, | commenced searching ior the children. It took fally twenty miouies before @ bole could be cut in the bottom of the scow, whea it was found that | in the towing the barge had been turned round, and thus the work dad to be done over again. At last anotaer hole was cut—the father trembling | all the time lest by some miracle life might not be | (dow iondly we | DEA Several of the men plunged their arms through | the aperture. They felt a Woman's dress, which was envangied in several pieces of furniture. After # chair and @ table nad been brought iorto, the boay of the eldest child, a blooming girl of sixteen, was pulled up, She was completely dressed, but the sleeves of her jrock were rolied up, 48 though some domestic task had engaged her When the collision occorred. Her arms were Tai-ed aud bent over her head, the inference veing that death came upon her as she was struggling— ' r , 20 | men on ‘he pilot boat James Gordon Bennett wit | Sought # more “genial ” clume. | hands of Gadney, proper motion. “I was on deck—Iif I was below had to go like vhe rest; I naw her come; I ne took no notice, jor the boat every minute and never take no notice, Weil, 1 rushed to ¢ chiidren in the cabin, but too late: so 1 pal Our my Wile; as Soon as steamer ssrucg, that sé cose—suminersault (he illustrated it with big hands 1u Dis mapassioned way) and all over.’? Somebody remarked that he ought to be thank. ful for paving saved nis wile and two children but he said, “That's very voor hope when four are dead, and my wile she not know ber four ciiidrem dead; woen slie know she die,”” It was true, ‘They haa kept the death of her fone eniluren from her, a8 a relapsé was jearede Mrs, Costa 13 a fine, splendidly developed womam of the geunine Portuguese type. Iv ts fervently te be hoped that she may recover. THE NEW POLICE BOARD. GUNERAL W. F. SMITH ELECTED TREASUBER OM THE BOARD, VICE DURYES The new Police Commissioner, Genel WF, Smith, called at the CentrabOMice yesterday morue ing, accompanied by Mayér Wickham, who for- mally introduced him vo Messrs, Matsell, Dis« becker and Voorhis, by whom be was cordially re~ ceived, The General appeared in excellent spiritay and Dis tall, commanaing iorm and jovial, goods natured countenance made a favorable impressiog | upon all Who saw bim, After the exchange of greetings amd well wis! the Mayor consigned nis companion to the merci of his {Uture colleagues aud took nis departure. Shortly aiter two o’clock the Board met in sem sion jor the purpose of organizing and electing ‘freasurer, vice Duryee, President Matsell took ¢; chair and called the meeting to order. Mr. Vooruis arose and ina low tone referred the fact that by the expiration of the term of ofk of their late collvague, General Durye vacancy existed in the office of Treasurer of the Board. H¢ woull, therefore, nomiuate General W. F. Smita for the position, ‘The nomipation was seconded by Commissioned vecker, and the President was about to put th question When the new Commissioner, withoa! arising, said ne hoped thatthe board would pot take such action. The fact was he (Mr. Smich) bi no qualifications a8 @ financier; imdeed, he scarcely competent to manage his individu money affairs, aod while he did not shrink from the work entailed upoo the incumbent of that position, he thought 1/ More to the imterest of the department that some other Commissioner be elected to the place. air. Voornis hoped that their new colleague would reconsider nig refusal to accept the ulfices The qualifications need Jorm nv ovstacle, as tae Boara felt assured that they existed. The ree sSponsibilities were not so great as the gen: had, perhaps, imagined, aud the details wer atvended to by subordinates, it was eminen fitting that one general should succeed another—< (laughter)—and he trusted the gentleman would not decline. Geueral Smnith again begged to be excused, if no other Teuson than that he was Not acquain’ with the Working of the department, and that it wanid take bim some time to become properly posted. commissioner Voorhis yeassured the 2entiemam toat le overestimated the reaponsivilities of the position. “Take It,” he said, “at least porarily, and 1 you do not find it suitable why wd can make octber arrangements,” ‘Yhe question was then put, and General Smity was declared elected ‘Treasurer of the Board. Alter the transaction Of some roatine businest the Board adjourned. TRIAL ‘OF CAPTAIN KILLILEA ANOTHER ADJOURNMENT. ‘The case of Captatn Killitea, of the Eleventh pre cinet, was called up for trtal before the full Board of Police Commissioners yesterday afternoom Counsellors Brooxs and Fellows appeared for the defence and Chief Clerk Hawley for the prosecu tion. Mr. Hawiey asked for an adjournment, two of his principal witnesses not being on nand. He called the attention of the Board to the letcer of resignation of Patrolman Gaffney, of the Twenty« second precinct, which had just been received, Upon the evidence of this officer hi yd the prosecation to a grea, extent depended. Ha Would frankly admit that tne evidence taken thu far Would not warrant his asking toe conviction of the defendant. Gaduey’s lester resiguing his position on the force was then read, and ted, by its uuique style of composition, no Littl mient. init tue writer states that he excedingly regretted being compelied to resign, but bis healta imperatively demanded it he sorrowiully The testimony taken at the previous trials traced the meney irom Koch Brothers, the pro- prietors of the Central Park Gardens, toto the The theory of the prosecution has been that Gatney was bus the agent oj tein Kilutea in the transaction, while the d a ence have claimea that the Captam had no cognizance of Watiney’s acts, and bad Bever received a cent Of tue money. Counsellor Brooks opposed the motion to poste pone on the ground that the case was virtually a8 anend, the Board naving no jurisdiciion owing to Li Fecent dissolution ald tne imcroductioa oO: & new member, General W. F. Saito, There was, in the contempia'10n of law, no come petent body before whom iv make ihe motion. President Matsell, after cousaitation with bia colleagues, adjourned the case two weeks, and the deienee took an exception. THE BROOKLYN COMMISSIONS, DEADLOCK BRIWEEN THE MAYOR AND COMMO® couNnor, The leaders and members of the democrati¢ | party in Brooklya assembled in full force at the City Hall ) esterday, in anticipation of the nomina- tion by Mayor Hunter and the confirmation by tn¢ Board of Aldermen of candidates for the vacant Commissionerships of Police and City Works. Il is doubtrul If the Oity Hall over contained 4 ereatel crowd. The lobbies, hallways and the front step | Were thronged, while the Common Council Onam- | ber waa packed. In the office of the Corporations ——— poor thing—to torce her Way out, Her nate Was Qounsel the most influential leaders held a consub | Stove. Woodbury was the favorite | bary Won the frst heat im 4:36%, Waterford second | and Mockbockiug third, Pue second beat was cap. tured by Wateriord in 8:37, Woodbury second aud Hockbocking distanced. Tne iatter was disabled, the account oO the misfortane being that Le “showed signs of distress in the backstretch oj the last mill@, aud, aiter given the whip, he retired be- hind the distance » With One Of Dis Hols split up to toe Bair of che leg.” Wateriord distanced Wooabary in the third sploming Onder the wire iD 9:89 This is One of ‘best two-mile heat cou teats ever run, A CHANGE OF NAME. ‘The Lycenm of Natural Mistory of this city held 6 business moeting at thoir rooms, No. 4 Madison Avenue, last night, and resolved to chanze tue tion to the Now Yorg Avadomy of Sciences, Tue following members have been appointed to obtain the sanotion of the Legia- lmture:—Professors Chatlos T. Uhanadler, LD, 5 Martia, aad J 8. Newberr, THE WEATHER YESTERDAY. The following record will snow the changes in the temperature fur we past twenty-four vours, im comparison with the corresponding date of last year, a3 indicated by the thermometer at Hud Lae re pulang i— i be 2 M.. 5 Average ‘emperatnre ee: Average tomperatu.e for eorcosponaing wate WAS FOOT ree eves: se resceeevesesscnwans ULM | lather, | etraimed from claspiug the lieless Belts, and the father looked at her with an ex- pression that would wave moved @ heart of And soon the other three were disen- tangled; Julia, @ girl ot sevou; Teresa of turee, Sud Joseph, tue youngest, twenty months oid— wll dead, At the sight of tne lost named tne who had with great dificuity beeu re- fort of his seven-year-old daughvéer in his trembiiog arms, | was completely overcome. It must be added that | George, aged eight, aod Michael, aged thirteen, | had beeo saved. George Wow on the deck of | the scow, and being Warned of the daoger Jumped | 1,0 the coal boat, and Michael was on some other | Vessel near vy. | DISPOSING OF THE BODIES. ‘The bodies were promptly removed to the Oak | Street police station, brother and sisters velng | laid sige by side, aud the father, who seemed | speechiess and senseless with griei, jollowed the | wagou. At the police station the bodies were jaia vat. The colidren were undoubtedly remark- | pbiy fine in point of physique, round, healthy {aces, almost chubdoy, with stout, | wel: rougded iimbs, which atiested their | strepgth while living. ie faces, wita the bali-opened eyes, retained a most lie-like ex- pression, If they had been a rica man’s -children Whataiuss there would lave veea to deck them | oOuc beautifully in the cerements o1 death; but | there toey lay on the coid rougao stone just as they bad been rescued! Perhaps some seusitive lauy among the upper ten thousand might dave been | Shocked at tie conversation Whicn eusacd ia tue Police Captain's room betweeu Captain Willams | and Lhe beart-prokeo father :— “Have Fou money to bury your children?’ the | mau Captain asked, } e s000k bis head, ‘I bave not gota cont,” said the father. “Well, are you willing that they shall be re- moved io the Morgue?’’ } He winced. “If {can take tnem out again,” he | finally said, when pressed for an answer, “wien . have procared the money to bury them, 1 arm,” “All right,” sala the Captain, in ois loud, lasty Votce. Ad turning to the Sergeaut in the ower room, he shouted, “sergeant, call tue dead wagou!"’ ) ACTION OF THE CORONER. | Ata quarter past eleven o’c.iock Coroner Wolt- | Man arrived ac the police station, in company with Deputy Oorouer Cushman. A jury was em- paueliea, Who Viewed the vodies aud them ad. journed, as the inquess is to be leid on some future day when Captain Miner is at liberty vo | atioud. The latter aud the pilot of the Uity of | Hartiord, Mr. Strickland, bad meanwhile beea are | rested as being responsivie—or presumably ree Sponsibie—by tue oraer of the Coroner, woo con- cluded \o hold them in $4,000 bail, which was jurnished by Giles Wrieht, merch of No. 40 Powk silp, Woo resides Ot No. 10) Vivisiou avenue, Brockiya. in answer (o the question whether ne thougnt he Was to blame, Captain Miner said, “Cercauly not,’ and that if be Were bow in the same situa | tiod he could not act diferentiy. There was no | crasai at the colilsion, he auded, scarcely Mure | than the sound Of a sught orack, ana if the Bcow | had vad been a ‘sound Craft’ the steamer Would have only caro litte hove in ler side, Captain Miner expressed his regres at the 1088 of lie, rays | ing, at the same time, that if the steamer id out | the acow in two the cuildren of Captain Cossa miglt yet bo alive, @od that it was toe capsizing | which rendered the coilsion so fatal. Captain | Miner is & FORDeCiadle looking Man, With dark | beard, dara eyes Bad dark compiesion, He saya he Daa been eiiployed oi tho Martiord sveamere for eleven soars, CAPTAIN COSTA'S ACCOUNT. Captain Costa spoke broken Enguan, Te ina | littie man, avout 36 years oldu, with tite Diack eyes, @ litte biack mustache comple Xion. “i Was iying there sin¢e lost Friday,” he sald— | he haa beea sixteon years in thin couuitry—“vever | in forecionnre—A fo: OO gocident ocourred; | Waa in tis Very same | story browa stove front, Uriok Mas ho geet, iB 'et pisce, sud ne come in thie potent ond ron ma WroGgh ond thorough.” He gestieula Whaly as | Be said tals, BocOmponying Guen Word With ihe | men was called to order in the Cor | Confirmations. The Aldermen ti | those Whose nam: tation, early in the afternoon, m refer ence to the probabie action of the Alder men oo the nominations, “Boss” McLaugh- lin presided, and it was decided th the Aldermen snould confirm none bus ‘cous democrats, and that no concessions shv' be mace to the tadpole reiorm element. There was much speculation to the probaoility of the confrmati f the Names on the “slate.” Accords ing to the — Board of City Works—Generai Joun B. Woode ward, President; Tnomas W. Adams ana William Tiny ie ra) Hane Boa ‘ol Slocum, Presi Cy Daniel De Brigg: soci a This siate had been the party leaders, tion ot Mr. Fow app! jor r the exce| appolntmen: to the Board of City Works. The jeadets refused to throw hi Overbourd, and a municipal deadioc! Mayor Hunter naving made a deck change In tie “siete” orginally snbmitied. Soom aiter tue close o! the caucus tue Koard of Alder- jon Council cChamoer by President Jacoo L. Berge’ teen members present, The Boar inaedieng jourped for hall an hour, ana the Members ‘ McLauguiio in the Corpora- @ caucus with “Bo tion Counsei’s office. They decided to make 00 reassembled, Au envelope containing the Mayor’ Was banded to Pre ut Bergen, Who place: i bis pocket, When toe Board, On motion vi Alder ancy, adjourned, aiter tWansacting some Toutine busin The iollowing are said to be the names sent in Mayor Hunter oad taoled (or pocketed) by the sermen Boa Works—J, W, Gilbertson, Thomas W. B. dard, ra of City W. Adams and Dr, Pyburn ana Daniel D. brings. The men beamed eed Police Oo! maneneee fof howioees ior th: tory to tae “lead condrmed by the Aldermen. Th toat Mayor Hunter woud calla spectal mevtti of the Board ui Aldermeu to take setion on t Alderm will 4? ga * a nee ae another Ww or tro, ‘not probalie that @ compromise be elected for several days, REAL ESTATE. At the Exchange Salesroom yesterday the opete ing attractions of the wees were as follows Messra. BR. H. Ludlow & Oo, sold, by order of the Court, in joreciosure, ander the direction of George P, Smito, referee, the premises No. 1,968 ‘Trird avenue and No. 188 Bast 124th street, Moasra, B, A. Lawrence & Oo, by the some order, sold, under the directto: . N Selita REY itoproved property on Lizta etre avenue, SALES OF KEW YORK PROPERTY, By E. Bi. Ludiow & Co., 10 ToresiosureA. sroed, pies tecement none, with jos 11. t uns aVeoUe, 125.10 SOUL LOsth stress, beg = v olfera, fot $9,100, ¢ 480, 10 suro—A two oot! wita plot ooxvuemaixtsivieiy aorta aioe iad sireet, JvO feet east Fourth avenue, resernng therefrom and upoa the aieriy aide aro ry avout 25.6 feet, to be devoted te! Lexington avenae, to TI ses te $4,000, y & A. Lawrence & Co., Clan 90%100.10 foot, Horth wide iiuta 6 of Lourtd avenue, to 4 BOL Lage, OF 64,808