The New York Herald Newspaper, June 14, 1875, Page 5

ALABAMA. Financial Mismanagement Attributa- ble to Both Parties. vil Working and Outrage of the Enforcement Acts. THE POLITICAL SITUATION. \A Hopeful Future, Socially and Politically. MONTGOMERY, May 16, 1875, The Mnancial condition of Alabama is bad, but at might be woree. ‘The State debt is heavy and ‘will probably have to be scaled, Itsexact amount is as yet unknown, Matters have been managed mo loosely that the Governor told me the other Gay it would take Lim several months to discover the entire State invebtedness. Auditors and treasurers have kept their accounts with such Jack of method that their reports are untrust- worthy. The Governors since reconstruction— two republican and one democratic—seem to have spent, invested, exchanged and generally manip- Dilated the State funds and bonds wilh extracr- dinary carelessness. So tar as ascertained, it 18 believed the debt amounts to about $28,000,000, The condition of the counties Is not bad, Ip ‘only a few has there been serious financial mis- Management. There has been no such wholesale plundering as was suffered by tie people of Ar- Kansas and Louisiana. Generally I tind the ma- jority of supervisors have beev white men and property owners, and this has oiten been Drought about by persuading or even by bribing Megroes to give up their oflices—this in the black counties, But in at least @ wird of the counties the whites have the majority. THE FINANCIAL MISRULB NOT ALL REPUBLICAN. The democrats complain unreasonably, as it gecems to me, Of republican misrule, Tue truth is that the State has been misgoverned and the \Btate debt increased under democratic as well as ‘under republican administrations. From 1868 to 1870 its Governor was William H, Smith, repubil- can. Him followed, 1870-72, Lindsey, democrat. Lis successor, 1872-74, was Lewis, repubitcan, followed mow by Governor Houston, who strikes me a8 & moderate and well-meaning man, who is deter- mined to keep the peace and to restore order to the finances. Now, so faras I can discover, the | @emocratic Lindsey was little, if at all, more economical than either his predecessor or muccessor. The democrats say he was an honest bluuderer, but the republicans say that Smith and Lewis were also honest blunderers. All, by the way, were Ala- bamians, and the State bas suffered less from aggers,”” so called, than either of te other three [ have seen. The native Alabamian, ‘under the tuition of Spencer, who is a cirpet- bagger, bas shown himself very capable of iuis- rule, and particularly of the most unscrupulous political trickery. It must also be said that where conspicuous financial jopbery took place democrats bave, ojtemer than not, been parties iu interest, For fostance, in Dallas county, which has a large negro majority, complaint 18 made that the Diacks, who do mot pay $1,000 of the total yearly tax, by their voies saddied tbe county with a subscription of $140,000 to ® ratlroad; but some whe complain of this jail to tell you tuat the directors of the ratiroad were a!l prominent democrats; and that they advocated the subscription, and even paid ‘he railroad fares of negroes to bring them to Beima to vote for It. Again, while (he finances of Dallas county have been mismavaged and the assessment and collec- tion of taxes have been for years iraudalently per. formea by republican omcers, you find that in the adjoining county of Montgomery defalcation which has occurred in recent years ‘was by 8 democrat appointed by the democratic | Governor Lindsey. This collector robbed the county of $35,000 and the State of $15.000, and, I am told, BOW conducts ademoc. alic newspaper in Texas. REPUBLICAN POLITICAL DEMORALIZATION, It ts not fair, thereiore, tor the democrats to Diame the financial mismanagement entirely on the republicans, or to speak of these as having Fedbed the State. But there ts 00 doubt that cis honest repubiican leaders have been guilty of ost flagrant and sbameiess political deoauchery, 1a & previous letter | gave you some account of how they carried cto 2 Bat the character of can- didates was often of the lowest. For instance, in Dalias county, last year, Haralson, colored, tim- seif candidate jor Congress, was President of the Repodiican County Nominating Convention, aud renominated for Tax Collector ® man who was then under eleven indictments stor malfeasance in office; he was “triumpnantiy” re-elected, and the Grand Jury, composed of 1x Fepubicans aud ten democrats, with a white republican foreman, an excellent citizea, have just brought in ten new indictments agaimst this republican Tax Collector, who wi at the same time County Superincendent of Eaducation—but as removed for drunken- bess—and was also member of the Common Council of Selma. Haralson, himseif a “smart.” negro, who holds the certificate of election as Congressman from the district, which includes Mobile, was indicted in 1872 for stealing a vale of cotton, and the man from whom the property was taken in a civilsult actually proved ownership and got the bale, which was found in faralson’s cotton house. Tne criminal suit was dropped by a republican solicitor (Mr. Viggs), WhO is now Lim- self under indictment. There is a good deal of complaint of bigh taxa- tion, but 1 doubt if the democrats, now fh power, will be able to reauce it much, and their Revenue billof the jest seasion is very unpopular in the State, and some of its features have been declured whoonstitutional by their own Attorney General. Unaountedly there have been Bumerous abuses in the State and local governments, such as—to give an instance—the letting out of convicts to their own relatives; the needless increase of petty officers, and a generally wastelul administra ton, But most serious charge that can be brought against the re- publican leaders in Alabama is that they ave secured power by corruptin the ne- groes, and enjoyed it without enforcing aws. it must be added that tney appear to me two have systematically and grossly misrepresented the condition of the State as to peace and order, with the view of getting the use of United States troops and Courts for the punishment of offences which the State government ought to have taken in hand, or, oltener yet, Jor the intimidation of the only | | might. white voters, and with the object of keeping np | irritation aud a division between the whites and | Diacks. BAD EFFECT OF TUE ENFORCEMENT ACTS. Alabama 18, 1D parts, still @ frontier State, In some counties there are bad and lawiess men, bat they do not preponderate; they are nowhere so numerove that the State could not, bad they beem energetic, re- pressed disorder an@ maintained peace. Unfor- tunately, the readiness of the federal autiort- tes io interfere -demorakzea the republican State rulers, who, when @ disturbance took place, supinely turned the matter over to the United States Marsiai and federal troops. Here, as in veovery otver State I have visited, Ihave found the faderai interiereage under ti Enfor nos only Unnecessary, at least for we ast two years, but Sbaolate and grave injury, because it demeralized the State governments and ied them to abdicate tueir proper functions, Asan example take the Barbour county riots of last year. 1 jublican Governor at the time took, so sar as I have been able to hear, no measures at all to punism the thors of a very cruel outrage—the shooting into a bewae at Sormg Hull, by which a iittie hey nt acts | authorities | | few negroes, and where the democrats propose to | my oath of office, which snail be @ seai to my NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JUNE Hi, 1875. —TRIPLE SHEET, was killed—or to Investigate the riot at Eufaula. On the contrary he acted ag though it had vecn none of his business, The whole matter has been turned over to the Unitea States Court, and, as Judge Broce has chosen to put off the trial of , avoused persons until the Supreme Court | decides upon the conatitutionallty of | the Eniorcement acts, if any one 18 ever punished for those crimes it will be more | than a@ year after their commission, A more recent instance has been treated by Governor Houston (democrat) in a different way. in kt- tawan county three masked ruflans broke Into the jail some weeks ago at night, took a negro out and shot him, The people of the county, who are | mostly democra's, mot at once and called for a | special term of (he County Court to investigate this murder, and asked the Governor to olfer a Teward for the Giscovery and conviction of the criminals, which he did immediately. REPUBLICANS OPPOSED TO THE ENFORCEMENT ACT. ‘The better class of repuvitcans in the State, 80 far au Ihave seen them, without exception, told me that the Enforcement acts were needless and ought to de repealed. In their opinion, federal interference irritates and embitters feeling be- tween tne races, makes the republican party odious, and ts used mainly by corrup? politicians to intimidate the whites and to encourage the worst black as well as white demagogues, There is @ different opinion, which you hear freely uttered by some republicans; but these men are disappointed politicians, and im Alabama I have found this class to be men of iow character, who are demagogues rather than politicians, These wouid like to see the Enjorcement acts retained, and they univer- sally praise General Grant ior his readiness to send troops and to allow of federal intervention, Also these people speak dolorously of the ‘poor negro,” and in general they resemble those Arkansas poilticians Who haunted Washington last | winter, and who swore solewnly that they would not dare to return to Little Rock unless Garland were overthrown and the Force bill passed, but whom 1 found two weeks alter the adjournment of Congress waiking about Little Rock, with cheer- ful faces, declaring that everytuing was lovely and peacesul, | | | THE CIVIL RIGHTS BLUNDER. The sgitation of the Congressional Civil Rights bill did more, even, than repudlican misrule, to give the State to the democrats last fall, Ala- bama bas a large population of whites—small far- mers, collected in the northern counties, where there are but iew negroes. These people, Wuo had preity generally voted the republican ticket, be- came alarmed at the prospect of ‘negro equality,” which has greater terrors, it seems, the less likeiy | itis to become a fact; and last fal, usder the representations ot adroit and earnest democratic Speakers, they went over ina body to the demo- cratic party. The passage of the absurd Civil Rights bill by Congress has probably allayed thetr tears, because it is now found to be substan. tiaNy a dead letter. The blacks do not attempt to | have It enlorced, and it is probavie that its only use will be to annoy the republicans in Northern | States and in regions South were there are but arouse the race prejudice by hiring negroes to board at hotels and to otnerwise insist on the en- forcement of the iaw during the next year’s can- vase. RESULTS OF THE DEMOCRATIC VICTORY, The democratic victory brougat to the victors, Teuspect, more cares than pleasures, The refor- mation of the State’s finances is not an easy task; the Legislature proved to bave among its demo- cratic members some embarrassing simpletons; the republicans did not fail to annoy their oppo- nents, a8 only Gemagogues, solicitous tor party success rather than for the good of the State know how to annoy; some imprudent prom- ises made by the democrats, such as a reduction of taxation, could nob’ be julfiied; aud allogetuer the democravic party does not stand so weil in the State asit did | immediately after the election, The Governor ts & guod wan, with experience in legislation and administration, and it is at least probaole that he will be a Governor and not 4 mere poliicai figure- | head. 1n his maugural address he said :—“With a firm deteruination to respect ond maintaia conscience, I unhesitatingly undertake to perform such duties as it imposes, and Iwill regard it as one of my highest and most | sacred obligations to See that the laws ‘are faitn- | milly executed’ and the rights of all citizens, ‘without regard to race, color or previous condi- | tion,’ duly guarded and protected.” Governor Housion assured me that these were not empty | words, but that he was solemnly determined to enforce the !aws and to Maintain peace and order , and protect alike all the citizens of the State, The immediate results of the democratic success in Alabama are:—First, @ strong tendepcy im the | white polticians to rearrange parties and to split | in Such manner as to break upcompletely the | color line. You must understand that the demo- crats, fs is bat natural, resist this wita all their They want to keep together the white | vote and to attract to themselves some part of the colored vote, But there are naturally two factions among the whites, The line cetween Whigs and democrats is not 60 strougly drawn in Alabama as in Louisiana ana Arkan- fas, but it exista, and beside there are more ambitious men than there are offices in the gift of one party. At several piaces in tne State the local elections this spring wave de- | veloped differences among the democrats, At Opelika the resait was ofd enough, the ceme- crauid candidate recetving @ majority of the black vote and the independent maa a majority of the wh At Moutgomery over 400 colored votes were cast for the democratic candidate, who was chosen over his independent competitor, but we Jatter was not a favorite with the peopie. I hear, however, that i this place democrats boughs up, at $2 apiece, the registration cer- tificates of colored men to the numner of over 200, aud these were carefully re- tained, except 1 cases where it was quite certain that the original bolder would vote the democratic ticket. Under the new law a voter Inust produce his registration paper, so that if parts With ithe loses his voto. In Seima, as | wriie, two democrats are in the feild jor the office of Mayor, and the election of the independent is thought certain. At Opelika, by the way, 1 am told, the democrats managed to capture a whole | colored churcs, minister and all, by ® moderate sabscription to the church fund. [t Wasa repub- lean politician who told me this, on the author. ity, a# he explained to me, of a “colored man, a member of the Legislature, whose brother lives here and keeps a bar aud a gambling piace. legislator @ gambling man himsell, but a honest fellow so far as his politics are concerned.” This description gives one @ curious notion of Alivama colored jegisiators, The republiean party in this State has some ex. cellent men among Its members, but they are, un- fortunately, men of littiec infuence im the pary eounciis. If they could get rid of most of the federal office holders toey might hope to reorgan- ize and become one of the partics in the Stare. But the present repablicam leaders are in the | main Wen Of little character or power. There are but two insignificant republican newspapers in the State, both owned by one man, and appa- rentiy published for the sake of the Post Omce | and other governmental advertising, which ts their pap, without which they would perish, aud which Spencer secares them, THE NEGRO VOTE AND COLOR LINE. Seconad—The democratic success has had a good effect on the colored voters—or rather on tm demagogues Wo controiled th It has moder- ated their ambition, The negroes themseives be- gin to think of “splitti the vote,” In two places I was told that the proposal had heen made by TO leaders, a8 am act Of prudence, to divide their vote hereaiter. Immediately after the elec. tlom ignorant colored people were much alarmed, they would be deprived of some rights, and perhaps even redaced to slavery. Ths fear is dying out, It grew out of the aeciaratio: made before the élection by republican a gogues,q Who appealed to the fears of the poor negroes in order to secure their votes to the republican ticket, But now that they find themselves wmharmed and justly trea they begin to Jone sheir fear, | aga | | jury gave a verdict for Lim. | great numbers mm this State; | short, all the results of the war. even to tnink of 2 ot Wpttee with the demo- crate. While I was in Selma, a colored man was defended in a suit in court by one of the best law- yers in the state, General Petters; he pad stx biack witnesses; bis opponent, who was white, produced six white witnesses; the jury was all white; but the colored man gatnea bis case; whe It produced a great effect upon the negroes, who saw that juatice was done regardless of color, aud this after a demo- cratic political victory, | NEGROES DISGUST4D WITH REPUBLICAN MISMANAGE- EI T. I think {t probable that the negro vete in the next election will fall off heavily, and this not through intimidation, but partly because the baser white men who have lived off the negro vote are discouraged, and will not take so much pains to “organize” the black vyoterg #nd simulate them by inflammatory addresses and the exhidi- tion of United States troops; partly because in many counties the blacks nave been ior some time disgusted wits tieir republican leaders, who bave promised many things—such as the famous “forty acres anda mule,” which have not come to pass; and partly also because tue new law whieh requires @ voter to yove in the precinct in which he lives, ana no longer allows him to vote everywhere tn the county, makes the election day @ comparatively tame affair, Formerly ali the negroes of the county used to march inte t county town to vote, where they saw b other and made agramd holiday. No doubt, too, the democrats will do their beat to persuade those negroes who would vote the republican Ucket to abstain from the polls, and there are legitimate ways todo this, In Louisiana colored laborers on the railroads, who lose a gay’s pay if they go off to yote, oftenest in 1874 did nét vote at all. ‘The check which ali this Will set to the negroes’ ambition to hold office will be an undoubted advantage to him and to the community, in the jast Legislature there were three colored mem- bers who could neither read nor write. In some counties the majority of the supervisors are illt- erave blacks. Matters are not neatly so bad in this respect in Alabama a8 1n Mississippi; bat, of course, @ lawmaker or @ tax levyer who is illit- erate 18 not fit Jor his responsibilities, Some of the republicans complaiued to me of a law adopted by the last Legislature obliging office holders to procure the proper bondsimen in the counties in which they serve; and 1+ was said that ip Dallas county, for instance, there are not more than a dozen republicans who own property and can become bondsmen, Bat it seems to me thatthe rule 18a 90und one, and can inconvenience mainly only # class of men who ought not to hold im- portant offices, At any rate, itis of no perman- ent Importance, because when tne color line is broken, property holders will be found in both parties, Ido not think that I have anywhere /ouad the | negro vote more wickedly or thocougnly manipu- lated than it was in Alabama, It was systematic- ally compacted. A “‘bolter’’ was not merely de- nounced, but held to be no betver than a criminal. in the biack counties there were colored dema- gogues who bad a clicatage of voters whom they controlled, and more than one republican told me that such fellows would go about in the beginning ofa canyass and “coax a@ man to ran for office, in order that taey might seil him the vote they could carry.” Such fellows were bired to make the canvass ofacounty, A republican politician said to me, “b have sent @ negro on a hired horse, payng him day’s wages, over the county, to advocate a measure, aud when election day came every colored vote was cast tor it.’? Perrin, a republican manager, defeated Sheats for Congress by simply teliing the blacks that be was “not fit.” Negroes testified that they would have voted the democratic ticket if Perrin bad told them 10, SCHOOLS. Alabama was not im the old times famous for schools, but itis now better provided than Mise sissippi or evem Arkansas. ln Mobile, Selma ana some other places an admirable school system is found for both colors. In Selma ten per cent ol the | city revenues are set apart, by a democratic coun- cil, for school purposes, and divided among both colors. Mobile, Montgomery, Selma, Birming- ham and Huatsville ail have graded schools for bota colors, and at there 18 & colored normal school, ‘The Stato school iund yields $1 124 per head for all the chil- drea in the State; and vesides thts, the poli tax is giveu to the school fund in each county, Unfor- tunately the poll tax has not been fully collected. in Lowndes county, for instance, not @ dollar of poll tax was collected last year; and the Tax Uol- Huntsville | | lector, being a candidate for re-election, urged aa | @ point im nis favor that ‘he bad not troubled them about the poll tax.” The State Superin- tendent told me that fewer black than white cbil- dren attend scaoo), in proportion to the popula- tion. INDUSTRY—HOPEFUL FUTURE, It is the universei testimony of men of dota parties that the colored people are working better wis year, more steadily and effectively, than ever they are requiring smaller advances, which means that they bave corn let over irom last year. It may be said that the people generally, white as well as black, in all paris of the State, are more steadily laboring than in previous years. AladDama bas had three successive poor crops and the planters and farmers are geverally poor, Thia year, 80 far, promises well, aad @ good crop would put both parties in good humor. The State has lost a considerable part of its F -—__—_——__——4 hg i gil ng ne The New York, Brooklyn and Atlantic Yacht Clubs’ Regattas. The Schooner and Sloop Races of the Sea- wanhaka Yaeht Club. +————_ PROGRAMME OF THE EVENTS. For the next ten or fourteen days the harbor and lower bay will present an unusually gal appearance, as some half a dozen regattas are on the programme of events to take place. There is certainly a steady advance im the popularity of yachting as year by year new clabs spring up and blossom into prominence while the old tume- honored institutions are also getting new blood instilled into them every day. During the coming week two events are to take piace that would have rather astonisned our ancestors—namely, the Corinthian sloop race of the Seawannaka Yacht Olub and the steamer race of the New York Yacht Club, The former ts a0 importation from English waters, where it became very popular to have races for yachts of smajl tonnage manned entirely by members of the ciub, Steam yacht racing is something new (bis season, altnough tt has been talked of for the past two years, It wilt probably become very popular if two or three races can be made without anexplosion, In reality there is little or Bo danger, a8 each yacht ts restrieted to the government allowance of steam and wood and coal for fuel. There willbeno firing up with fat pork and placing @ darkey on the safety valve. There has not been any very large increase to the yacht feet tnis year, although several handsome sloops and one magnificent schooner have aiready been launched, The season may properly be said te begin to-morrow with the CORINTHIAN RACR FOR sL00Ps, given under the management of the Scawanhaka Yacht Club, The Regatta Committee are Messrs, Frederte G, Foster, M. Roosevelt Schuyler, James Hi. Eihot, William Krebs and I, De Forest Woud- ruff, By the rales, yachts must be manned ex- clusively by amateurs, whose names are subject tothe revision of the Regatta Committee, and steered as far as possible by ber owner, Each yacht will be ailowed in addition to the owner oae amateur to every five feet of length on deck, Yachts will be restricted to matnsails, beadsalis amd working gafftopsails, The start will be @ flying one and the time o! each yacht will be taken as she passes between the club steamer and the Stapleton landing, Staten Isiand. A preparatory gun will be fired on board the steamer, and ten minutes later a second gun, wilh the cluo fag lowered, will give thom the sig- nal to start, THE COURSE wi® be from the above starting point to and arouud buoy No. 10, on the Souibwest Spit, keep- ing it on the port hand; thence to and around the Sandy Hook Lightship, keeping it on the star- board hand, and returning on the same course, A steamboat for the use of the members and their friends will accompany the yacuts round the course. The steamer will leave the foot of Thirty- third street and East River at nine A. M. sharp, There will not be alarge feet of starters im the avove race, as the great drawback has been in ob- taining amateur crews for the yachts. Gentlemen of these days appear to think yachting” can be enjoyed to greater advantage sitting on the shady eide of the cockpit, sipping a mint juiep, than banging on by your eyelids stowing the flying jib. There wil! be & xood race anyway, as the Vision and Addie are both certain to Bart, aud Will provably give al eXciting cou- test. THE NEW YORK YACHT CLUB bave decided to hold their annual regatta on Wednesday, June 16. The Regatta Commitiee— Messrs. Wiliam Kreos, W. b. Bend and R. K. Cooke—nave issued a circular giving full imstrac- tions and particuars. There Will be five prizes given, for frat and second class sc! and second ¢.a88 sioops and for coarse for sailing yachts will ye from tne staring point, of the new club nous® Stapleton, Staten a, to. aud around buoy Nv. 10 oa tue South- Spit, keeping it om the port nand, thence to around tne Lightship, keeping in on starboard id. Yachts must Keep to tue eastward o: ouoys Nos. 9, lL and 13 on the West Bank, to the south- ward of buoy No. 835 on the Southwest Spit and | outside ofbdoy No. $34 on the poiat of Sandy Hook, going and returning, and will pass between the Judges’ boat and tue club house on coming Lome, THE STEAM YACHTS tricted to the government allowance of , AS per certificate, to (ne use of Wood and coal only ior fuel and to steam power alone tor propulsion, Tae course will be irom off tue club | bouse through the Swash Ch: i, keeping to the westward of the Stone Beacon om the Dry Romer, to and around the Lightship, keepl it on the starboard hand, and retura over the same course, passing within fifty yards of the fagboat, anchored bear the starting point, apd irom Walca their ume will be taken. ‘ne steamer Willlam Cook. furnisned for tne exclusive use of the memuers of the club and their guests, wil! leave the Erie Ratiway pier, foot of Twenty-third street, North River, on the moraing of the regatta at wast nine A. M. Ti, Nor ver, tem A. M., and the cluo e, Stapleton, at ball-past teu A, M. ‘entries for the regatta close to-morrow at noon. ‘The probavle contestants in the two schooner gaces.will be the Madeleine, Tidal Wave, Alarm, Wanderer, Rambier, Pam liypsie, Idier, Clio, Comet and Peerless. In tae sleop race there will be the Arrow, Vision, Addie, Active, Dudley, Alert and tome few others, The steam yacnis competing will probably be the Ideal, the new | steam yacht lately vailt for Mir. Lorillard, and | colored population by emigration to Mississippi, | Arkansas and Texas, Now that its political afaire are settiod—as I believe they are—it is possivie that the tide may turn. Its immensely rick min- eral resoarces in coal and tron are as yes almost untouched; but it is @ siugniar fact that iron is already sent, not only to Unio, Missouri, Kentucky and other Western States, bateven to Englaod, where the tenacious, sott irom of Alabama bezins to be used in the manufacture of car wheels. (af Digh protective duties had mot caused the ertabiisument of too great a number of troa Works and av over-supply of iron, the Alabama iron region would be rapidly develope: if the tariff? on pig tron should be considerably lowered fa tne next few years, farmaces would be set up in finest quality can be prodaced at so cheap a price auother, THE BROOKLYN YACHT CLUB have arranged to sail tue annual regatta on eu the 19to ist. Tnere will be our ne nooners and three sloops—and two | he course for schooners | s Will be from anchorage to stakeboat at Southwest Spit, passing it from west- | rd to southward, thence to Ligntentp, turning pe on the starvoard 4 retara home to akeboat of Bay Ridge WOOK. he second classé sloops sali (rom anchorage to stakebout at South- West Spit, passing it (rom the westward to south- | wara, thence around stakeooat at outer bar buoy | | Madeleine, Tidal for here iron of the | tnat it requires no duty to protect it against | foreign competition, Asin the other States I have visited, cotton and corm are usually planted on share receiving @ moderate share of the crop as rental on bis iand. This plan i* satisfactory to the colored people; but they as yet lay by but little of their earnings, and show a very siigDt disposition to buy land. In coneiasion, as Alabama has been greatiy mis- represented, | think it right to add that the waite iversally and in good faith accept t jonai amendments, the political and civil, but not the social, equality of the biacks—in Tt is absurd for any one to assert the contrary. Alabama is to-day at peaco, and Nerthern mem and negroes ate @) sale there as Southern men and whites. OBARL a NORDHOFF, ESCAP B ~ OF LOUGHLIN, NARRROW BISHOP Shortiy before ten o'clock yesterday morning, as Bishop Loughlin, of the Brooklyn diocese, was on his Way in a coach to attend the dedication of St. Anthony's church, in Greenpoint, the spirited horses drawing the vehicle took fright as they wore passing over (he Washington avenue bridge. They dashed away madly, and (heir driver, in b vain endeavors to restrain them, was thrown from his seat to the grosnd and verely injured, In their course the animals brought the coaca tnto | contact with @ street car, thereby wreckir ‘They Were finally stopped a the corner of First and South Second streets and Bishep Lougbiin ‘Was helped out of the coach. He had been slightly Burt on the head at the time of Cg collision, bub ely went on to Greempoin petty To-day and to-morrow Battery K, First division, will be under arms for artillery practice at Kast New York, The battery will form at the corner of png OOM, at half-past turee o’elo practice ground, where the cu 8 Wh ve perked for the DIDI , the plaater | | buoy im Gedney’s Channel and then bom tn @edney’s Channel, rounding same trom south- ward to eastward, and then home. Tae open boate Sail from anchorage to Southwest Spit aud revarn. A steamer Will accompany the yachts round the course, carrying the members of the club and = guests. yachts will prol ly ta! Cho and Gypsy; is) , Perel, Ua- dine, W. T. Lee, Lizzie L. screamer, Playful, Vie- toria, Brook!; jorence, Maggie B., Livvie &., Euzabeta and BE T THE ATLANTIC YACHT CLUB ‘Will hold their annual regatta on Tuesday, Jone 22, and offer prizes for one class of scuoouers and | three Classes of sioops. This ciub is in a Very condition and has oer increased ia p since leat season. course for Ss sloups will go Southwest Spit duoy, from hag a Lttie open voais wil Spit aad returi by the club to ace yackts arou The following | ph is will prewaniy” var- pate im the regaita:—Schouners Peerie: Agnes, Triton, Idler, ariel, Sea Witce, Vision, and | toe sioops Undine, Orion, Kaiser, Wilzeim i., | Alert, Libole B., Josopuine and others. | THE SCHOONER OCBAN Race aka is another event thst will | rativeiy young ciud into of our yacht clubs. It will o@ sailed on June 24 for prizes presented by the vi adore and Vice Commodore of the clab. is epen to ail schooners be: ging to the New | York, Eastern, Brovkiyn, ton, Atlantic and Seawanhaka Yacht clubs, and wit be governed by the iling reguiatior of Wanhake Yacat Cab, with time sliowance, aad will ve under the supervision of its regatta committee. Toe schooners will de divided into two class those measuring more than 90 feet over ail and those measuring 90 fect and under. The priz: Are Valued at $500 each, but there will be mu ra unless there are at least three entries class. The course Wul be from bue: iogward and between the j out aud coming hom will be The start be nals Will be given from th foliows:—For preparatory steamer as rity prolonged biast of the whistie and lowerlug of the club fag; fiteen minutes later the same signsis Will be repeated for the start. Fifteen minutes Will then be aliowed for the yachts to cross the line, atter which no time Will be takeo, Entries can'be made 0 noon on June 23, to Mr. Reoseveit Schuyler, street. ‘The judge’s steamer will office at seven A. M. on the morning of the r: and ac. CLUBS have also been ‘pusy ta king their arrangemen for theit annual regi ne Columbia Yacat Cinv, the Jersey City Yacht Clad, the Long Island Yacht Club, the New Jersey Yacht Club pave all J Melecied dates and Will hold toew aquatic festival | | after that had during the present month. The Knickerbocker Yacut Cluo, # reorganization of the vid dariem Yacnt Chup! 18 in a fourisaing eye) and antic. Ipaves quite @ lively se aso ‘The oMecers of the club are: Commodore, Edgar Williams. oj the sloop ir Dualey; Vice Commodore, William Potter, r., of the a yacht G. M. Potter; Secretary, E. | the PickantnDy ; us0n, Bi0Op yacht The urer, G. Mt. Potter, owner of the sioop yacht A. Varian aud Steward, Thomas Mark, 0/ the sloop yacht Crab, The grand opening clambake and regatta will be beld atthe 0 house, Port Morris, between toe 15th and 20¢b of June. One of the most interesting excorstons of the season Wil be made oa tue 1st of July, when the New York Yacht Club sail down in squadron to take part in the Cape May Kegatta, Vice Com- modore Garner's beautiful new schooner Molawk Wil probably make her first appesranee on that geome ‘There wili be two aays’ racing at Cape May, afer wich the feet wilireturn to New ¥ YACHTING NOTE. | Yacht Columbia, N.Y.Y.0., Mr. Wallack, from Stamiord, passed Whitestone yesterday, en rowle tor New York, THE SCHILLER. OFFICIAL INVESTIGATION, OF TBE CAUSES WHICH PRODUCED THE LATB TERRIBLE SHIPWRECK—ANGLO-GERMAN INVESTIGATION | IN LONDON—THE TESTIMONY TAKEN, The oMcial inquiry ordered by the British Board | of Trade, with the acquiescence of the German government, into the loss of the steamer Sebiller was commenced on the lat of June, at Greenwich Police Court, before Mr, Paiteson, who was as- sisted by Captain Harris and Captain Pryce, nautical assessors, Mr. Charies Bowen, instructed by the solicitor for the Board of Trade, appeared | for the Boara; Mr, Mansel Jones, instructed by Messrs. Freshfields, for the German Transatlantic Steam Navigation Oompany of Hamburg, owners | of the Senller; Mr. Batten, instructed by Mr. Leonard, for the relatives of the Captain, Dr. Mihiberg, tbe German Vice Consul, and Mr. A. Dorrien Smith, of Tresco, occupied seats upon the bench, THB TESTIMONY. ‘The first officer of the Schuler, Mr, Heinrich Hilers, Was examined, and according to his evi- deuce there were lifeboats and life belts enough to save every soul on board; he admitted that the vessels of this company signal at Scilly in order thas their arrivai may be telegraphed to Plymouth, but ne said that lo nis experience the signals used were one rocket, one blue light, one fire ball; th Schiller was out of ner reckoning; they thougn: \hey were twenty-five miles trom land; they ha@ had fog tor three days, had been upable observations apd had bot once cast tue lead; there was a moderate breeze; he coutd not see | anything of the rock on Which she struck; directiy after she struck she turned balf round Irom west to east, and so abe lay, about east and weat; wit- ness went immediately after the vessel struck, by order of the captain, 10 clear the boats; tne sec- | ond ofMcer came on the bridge as ne was going | and asked the captain what was to oe done; wit- them said anything about wuere the ship was; he | heard ihe etorekeeper teil the second mate that | the iore part Of the vessel was full of water; ene had seven water-tight compa: tments; the second oilicer went to the engine-room. THE BoaTs. There were eight boats, all abaft the bridge— four on each side, all om daviis; six of the boars were coustructed to hold eignty or eiguty-live meu eacn in tine weather, the Other two'to’ hod about forty; they were all Itreboats, even the lier ores, the gis he Went Orst to boat No. 5, ch Was the secoud from kod ern On the star. tae out-board, wi ay ie which raised ‘the Doat, the alierpart uuhooked and the boat went straight up; Many oO: the people jell mio the wate: and one of the sullors cus the boat adrift; the boat fell into the water; Be then went to No. 4, which they swung out-board, but did not lannch it because the sea was too high; he only suc- ceeded in launching one boat—No, 7, which was one of the gigs; the other beats were successively knocked out of tne davits; ofmicer 7 was the boats wain, Janse No. 7 was lowered ‘at was the only boat that was | by Temained near tho sulp during tue nwot and in she morning picked upsome people fro all the boats had Officers assigued; he wa stationed at No, 1, but that hoat was knocked away, and be was saved by @ fisher-noat; the second officer was saved by No. 7 boat in the morning; No, 8 voat was hed on iand without anybody im it; Its oMcer was the Becond carpenter, and he jumped ont back into the ship a8 it Was struck by @ Beavy sea woica | sweptit away. THE BISHOR’S ROCK LIGHT AND THE SIGNALS OF DISTRESS. The tide was by tus ume (between ten and eleven) about one-third food; did see the light irom the Bisbop’s Rock a@iver they struck; he could not say at what time; they saw It adout half an hour alter they struck, but only for a short time; he did not hear auy bell = all; Cannon were fired trom the ship and roc ‘ere tarown up, and fireballs balf an boar siter she struck; they bad to bring the canaons Out to get new into proper order. THE LIFE-BUOYS AND DECK DISCIPLINE. ‘There were twelve circular iife-buoys on board; the the lileboais were made lifeboats by cork; number of their crew Was painted on the: the total number they coal they were capable of carrying Was @ guess of bis; he himself had been a master; he assented to Mr. Jones’s suggestions that the crew was good crew, 2201n Dumber, that the captain was steady, sober and weil-conducted, @ud tuat discipline was maintained up to the lash TESTIMONY OF MR. POLLMANN, THR SECOND MATE. Erdwin Polimauo was the next wituess, Lie was Second mate of the Scailler, and had been in the company’s service since Janvary, 1874, ail that Ume in the Scuiller under Captarn Thomas; on the aiternoon o/ the 7th he was on éeek from twelve to four and from x to cight; shoruy afier six o'clock be made @ compars observatio and the result was ad am error of west; it was the ong clock be went bee wo what ba pened” ia cain came up from supper; shortiy jock in the afternoon of that day witness had a conversation with the Captain to the position of the ship; he went down with the captain into the cnart room to consult the chart, amd the cap- | | tain sowed witmess upon the chart the position of the ship at noon; that was 49 deg. 60 win. nora | tivude, and longitude 10 deg, 2} min. west; they | thea took the compass measored up bo whe Bishop, and witness asked the —— how many | 1 hi about 150; they | ould take them to ed of the ship then Was about fourteen ts; they calow upou seeing ligat about nine o’ciock the weather | was tbe! red,” but not foggy; he explained | “covered” a sovercast,” “cloudy toe captain } oxpressed no anxiety or cofivt; * © he thought he distributed forty lile-belts; all he saw Mie-beits op; after that he to boat No. 5; tue captain sang | out and oraered witness to go in the boi the captain was standing close to the boat; witness id it was DO use; people so crowded in; the Captain =. qitne o | rig! got in and gave orders to | ‘ower aWay, Sud in jewering @ Wave got hoid of | the boat and the afier tackle pas | and the | fore tackie got foal round ® ma! man Was carried up to the davit them hanging down sad ¥ witness was thrown inte | after wai pe peed % clear from wt 3 they had sto’ un | of the tweive seven were ef the | one was himself, there were three yengers and one lady; the boat was thea rull of water; they Dad to stand in her, ana the | to his breast; tne o | when he leit; UNS to be fired as he was comi By Mr. Mansel Jones—The o| | Was @ bag about two hend breadtos; it ‘would Take @ very considerable report; they ‘nad the In- ternational Code of sigaais on board and used | that; they, had other codes besides—Marryatt’s they had deviation cards, which were kept im tne | chart room, hangiag aod he bad access te them at ali tim By Mr. Batten—The captain sometimes lay down | im tne Chars room, thoagh he nad a cabin of - he was during the last few day im the chart room in jand att jdm saying that at nine o'clock they would have to look out for the Bishop they meant that at that time it would be visibie; he had seen it ten miles of in fine weather; they made 3 deg. allowance for current, ByCapvain idgtm g himseif commanded a bark on the China coast from Hambu: he knew English Channel; assisted lations in this voyage, work: ira before the suip left; ther very little error; there had been m obser for three days, but on the afternoon of the 7 @ got an azimuth which he found to agree with their oeet aa, ey %, bead set of current, an jus steere with the Yariavions added. it Was an 87 deg, Comraa, : ness aid not hear the answer; the captain had.not | excursion down the Lower r | and had kicked ner wito his boom, The only ex- | avenge, have visited e' THE EXCURSION SEASON. UP THE HUDSON, ON THE SOUND, DOWN THB BAY AND OUT ON THE OCEAN. The sprite that presides over the weather mast certainly be @ twin sister t» Dime Fortune; that is, if the quality of belns fickle is any sign of re- Jationship. Only @ few days ago and the resi- dents of the metropolis were sweltering under the rays of a san of almos' tropical fervor, while yesterday the ure of the atmos- phere was and - invigorating as though the br of winter had not yet been dissipated by the advent of “leaty June.’ Notwithstanding the fact that one could very well puss tho day with com- fort within th limits of the city tho suburban retreats and resorts were crowded Thousands upon thousands left the scene of their daily toil and troables, and, shutsing ont for the time the busy hum of the wheels of trade and tommerce, hela “converse with nature’s charms and viewed her stores unrolled.’ New York 1s be« coming, year after year, more cosmopolitan is its habits, and it almost seems that the time is not far distant when the Savbath will be almost ani- versaliy devoted to the pursait of rational pleas+ ure, One of the most successful pleasure trips | yesterday was the excursion UP THE HUDSON on the steamer Plymouth Rock to Iona Island, West Point and Newburg. The steamer started shortly after the time advertised from the foot of Murray street, North River, and, stop- ping at the foof of Twenty-third street, took on board what passengers there was room left for. ‘The sail was, pernaps, & little too cool to suiG the more sensitive of the passengers, out it was dehgutiul nevertneless, runnmg by the noble Palisades iriaged with tail treea shat 1 the dis-' tance looked like shrubbery, past old Fors Lee whieh revived Revolationary momories; farther om the Ramapo Mouataias, looking like spectre: fo the distance, ustil at last the mountain Dun. derberg looming up told of the near approach t lona Isjand. A short stop was made here to a low the poetically inclined To sit on rocks. to muse o'er fleld and fell, To slowly trace the forest’s shady seouc. And then, gilding by the lofty scenery for which the Hudson is famous the World over, an- other lauding was effected at West Point. ue curiosity of the pleasure seekers having been sat- isfled they were taken ‘ull aboard” and the Gaal stop Was made at Newburg “a city oa a pill.’” At @ reasonable hour in the evening the execur- sionists were landed in New York, having speas | @ thoroughly enjoyable day. ‘OUT ON THE OCBAN WAVE. But the tastes of the peopie vary. and for those who seek pleasure “by the deep sea and find! music ia its roar’ a pumber of excursions were provided, The pretty saloon steamer Metamora carried a large party of enthusiastic ishermen to the Fishing Banks; bat, to use a panical expres~ gion, tt was too “breezy” to fish with comiort. The music and refreshments, however, were used a8 3 means to pleasantly pass the time away, The steamer William Cook was well ene Fomine on its Bay, owt beyond sandy Hook to the ocean and return. The Seth Low aiso Carried dowa a large party of deep sea Haher- men, Many of Whom, if put on the witness stand, couldn't tell @ said porgie trom a brook trout. Rockaway Beaco and Voney Island received only) | ajar compiement of Visitors, Batning was, of course, imduiged tn ouly by @ very limited number, Tue steamer Neversink ran to Rockaway, while the Arrowsmith made trips to Coney Island, The crowd at the latter place was considerably augmented in the alter- noon by the arrival of a larg rty, Who drove, from MeNaily’s and the Captain’s om the Coney Island road. Apropos of Hudso: e were other excursions than vb @ firs’ menuoned, Tne Fort Lee, Pleasant ey and Shady siae boats le({t almost hoarly, and were, in every in- Stance, crowded, and the steamer Long Branch made @ special trip to Newburg. THROUGH HELL GATE, Points of interest om the East River and on the Sound were not by any Means negiected. Toe weil known steamer Seawanhaka left early in the day ior a voyage as far as Gien Cove, stopping at lyn, City Isiand, Sands’ Point, Great Neck and other places, The only ‘back to the day pieasure was the fact tha boat was compelie to pass the Hariem flats, the odor thereirom bringing down a storm of maledictions on the bead o! The t River boats Shady Side, Merrisant and Hariem, as well as their rivals, the Sylvan Stream and Sylvan Gleo, were thronged every trip, and the gardens and slopes or the river in the Vieinity Oi tigh Bridge were crowded anti long ater nightfall. ‘The Olyphant, jor Keyport, ana the Twilignt, for Sandy Hook, also ran om their seuedule time and were weil patronized. lsogether the rush for suburban retreats may be considered as only a type of tl exodus Which will surely take place every pleas. ant Sayvath during (ke excursion season, CRIME IN BROOKLYN. | ANOTEER “CASE OF A HUSBAND'S DRUNKEN BRUTALITY WITH FATAL RESULT, Coroner Simms has another case of wife mur- der awaiting bis investigation, and the roster of some penitentiary will doubtiess shortly bear the name of John Deihan, the culprit, The case was brought to the attention of the Coroner by Dr. Bodkin, of Sands street, on Satarday night, Tne victim was Ann Deihan, aged forty-two years, and a oative o: Ireland. Mrs. Deitan was brutally beaten and kicked about the head, face and body by her nusband on the night of Taeaday, June I, and lingered till two o'clock yesterday morning, when she died. Dr. Bodkin, in speaking of the case to the reporter yesterday, said:—‘d w called a week ago last uicht to see Mrs. Deihan, woo, I was told, had.recetved @ very severe beating at the hands of her husband. Ho came home, she told me, drank on the Tuesday evening previous, and beat her with bis fists and Kieked her. Her face was very much bruised had bad tno to biacken between the Interv: the beating and the occasion of my visit. She Was in a very weak condition, and was andouvt- ediy suffering from the effects of the beating. On eXamining her bedy Loud that she bore all the evidence of most inhuman treatment, around her chest and rids especially. [| wondered that had not seat for medical assista vised her attendants to give ment po.sidle. J went away, and heard notuing furtuer of tne case vill last arday night, whea I was again seat for. The house is No. 250 Front street—a tenement house. She occupied @ bi room on the tuird floor, an apartment which bore all the evidences of misery and dant was her dauguer, who had left her situation as servant to attend her mother. When I entered the piace last night { found the patient on her Knees, leaniag against a chat, breathing heavily and her extremities cold. vidently sinking fast. | inquired if she had hi rgyman, and she satd that the priest had just been there. On leaving I went to report the case to ja, but he was net in when [ called. some of her acquaintances calied on for @ certificate to bury her, and [ told them that the case bad passed out of my care and the Coroner alone con: ern the imter- ung mrt would come ‘in drunk again.” Coroner Simms visited the house im company wits Detective fam Paci tn OM On entering tee room ney, found aman seated by @ table in the body was laid “et, tue Te- | feeims ss nearing the hap ge ry ates of violence, to the cane of ty supposed by v7) replied, “Oowh then inquired tf their band of the dead wom: was. He was (nen arrested sed take precinct station koase, wh was locked > e He wild Captain Worth that he bad beaten & cuse be had to give was, “We both drank too much i He ts an Irishman, forty-five years of age. THR TOMPRINS £72NUR - ‘The moonted squad of the Brooklyn police Teturned to the city alter am unsuccessiul search of the Long Island woods for the burglar who si shot Mr, Aaron men at his resid: th im in Queen's coun the fugitive could hav x conconed-rittag over the felds and d paring through the groves, SS = jon to mtg a peg on jn great abundance were faraished by the farme: anu villagers throughout the Island, who are ina State of great excitement. At almost every farm- aad oo mts vitaliy ot 4" information’ of the Characters, The pay td wandering = with biooa if shirts, Trees Wee vent from door to “Toor begging for food or seek! ployment were transiormed, in the of the excited ito desperad t lng. ieee Be fen es eatly improved yesterday, and phys. iclans entertained confident hopes of his recovery, Detective Sergeant Frost, who did n0t approve o} whe chase on Isi — hay oA tne omcers. arenow searching Brooklyn (or ‘he midmieht Marauder,