The New York Herald Newspaper, June 23, 1875, Page 7

THR RIPLEMEN IN IRELAND, Satisfactory Practice by the American “Team at Dollymount. Splendid Reception at the Theatre Royal, Dublin. The “Star Spangled Banner,” “John Brown’s Body.” (SPECIAL DESPATCH TO THE HERALD BY CABLE.) Dvnurs, June 22, 1875, The members of the American rifle team practised at the ground at Dollymount, where the international match is to be contested, to-day. ‘THY SCORES SATISFACTORY. The scores made by the Americans are highly satisfactory. & GRAND ECHPTION IN A METROPOLITAN THEATRE. A splendid reception was given to the Americans at the Theatre Royal, in this city, to-day. During the concert the performance of the “Star Spangled Banner’’ and other American airs was heartily applauded. “*JOHN BROWN’S BODY.” “John Brown’s Body’’ was sung, the au- ilience accompanying the orchestra, WME ORGANIZATION OF THE IRISH TEAM COM- PLETED. Dusum, June 22—Evening,. Ata rifle contest in Belfast to-day to com- plete the Irish team Johnson and McKenna defeated Rigby and Fulton. Johnson scored 218 out of a possible 226, ANOTHER ACCOUNT OF THI DUBLIN FETE IN HONOR OF THE AMERICAN SHARPSHOOTERS. DUBLIN, June 22, 1875, ‘The members of the American Rifle team were engaged in practice shooting to-day at Dolly. mount, Their scores were extremely satisiactory and surprised the spectators, THE CONCERT. r | To night a promenade concert in honor of ine Amerioan riflemen took place at the Theatre Royal. The visitors were enthusiastically received “upon entering the building, and a number of | American airs, which were played by the band, ‘ere loudly applauded, WHAT THE AMERICANS CANNOT ACCOMPLISH, It is impossible for the team to accept more than & small proportion of the invitations sent to tnem, | THE AMERICAN CENTENNIAL, FRENCH NEWSPAPER AID TO THE NATIONAL DELEGATION TO THE UNITED STATES. Pants, June 22, 1875, The République Frangatse (newspaper) an- ounces that 18 will contribute one thousand francs to afund for the purpose of sending dele- gates to the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition. THE MOODY-SANKEY REVIVAL, THE ETON BOYS REJECT THE WORD WHICH ‘WINDSOR 18 TO HEAR. Lowpoxs, June 22, 1875. At the last moment Messrs, Moody and Sankey Dave been notified that they will not be permitted | to hold tneir services at Eton. Accordingly they have given up their appoint. ment there and will go to Windsor and preach in the Town Hall there, at half-past two this alter. Boon. RELIGIOUS RIOTS IN ae PRUSSIA. A GERMAN TOWN CONVULSED BY THE CHURCH FACTIONS—THE BURGOMASTER STABBED. BERLIN, Jane 22, 1875. Serious riots, caused by the ultramogtanes, oc. — curred yesterday in the town of Rhein, East | Prussia, The Burgomaster was stabbed and dan- gerously wounded. | FRANCE, LEGISLATIVE SUPPORT OF THE GREAT MEASURE OF THE EXECUTIVE. Panis, June 22, 1875. The Assembly decided at to-day’s sitting to pass the Pablic Powers bill to a second reading. MINISTERIALIST EXPOSITION OF THE PUBLIC POWERS BILI—NO AFFILIATION WITH BADI- | CALISM AND NO ANALOGY WITH THE UNITED | STATES. | Pants, June 22—Evening. In the National Assembly to-day M. Buffet, Min- | ister of the Interior, expressed his astonishment at the attack upon the government yesterday by | MM. Blanc and Montjau in the debate on the Public Powers bill, He pointed to the tact that the government put forth its pro- gramme upon coming into oMce and that no dis- | approval thereof was then manifested, He chal- | lenged its opponents to bring forward a resoiu- | tion condemning that programme, bat not to | challenge the government upon the question of | organic laws. Buffet added that he would preserve the pro- gramme inviolate while he continued im omce. acknowledged that the Supple- mentary Constitutional bills were con- trary to the principles of MM. Bi ond Montjau; that they did not intrast the President oi the Repudlic with the rdle of American President, wi would render neces- Bary the alteration of all French laws. He in- stanced the law which empowers the President to Gx -the number of the military contingent, | There was no analogy betweea France and the United Siates, The Minister conciaded ganiging & govern ‘t for France we did not start from an abstract point of view. Woe asked for the conditions neces- sary to place the Executive in harmony with French customs and traditions, Even if you could prove that the Public Powers bill was 1) compatible with the Repuolic we think the coun- try would sactifice abstract principle and prefer & government more im harmony with its own jaracter.”” The Right cheered the speech from beginning to end, WuAT A LEGITIMIST SATS OF MAOMAMOM AND SEDAN. Genera Temple, @ legitimist Deputy, er treat contusion by some intemperste remirks, in e course of which he insuited Minister butet id the Muc d’Andiffret-Pasquier, Prestuent o: the Assembly. | Mle declared “MacManon equaily guilty with Napoleon Ik. for Sedan,’ The speaker was calied te order and slieuced by the interposition of the House. as follows:—"In or. | | ENGLAND, ech ihiasit | 4 LARGE MANUFACTORY DESTROYED BY FIRF. | Lonpow, Jane 22, 1875. | Fmery Dyson’s mill, at Preston, Lancaster, was | burned last nignt. One hundred hands are thrown ont of employment, The loss by the Are is $190,000, | NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 23, 1875.—-TRIPLE SHEET. THE MONEY CRISIS IN ENGLAND. | TEE BLACK HILLS. | THE EXCITEMENT ON THE LONDON ‘CHANGE TERMINATED FOR THE PRESENT—REVIEW OF THE CAUSE WHIGH PRODUCED THE PANIC— AMERICAN SECURITIES UNHARMED AND LIKELT TO RISE. [SPECIAL DESPATCH TO THE HERALD BY CABLE.) Loxpow, June 22, 1875. The principal American bankers in the city report that the financial crisis is over for the present, THE CAUSES WHICH INDUCED THE PANIC ON 1CHANGE. The crisis arose from speculating in tes and silk, with both of which articles the mar- | ket was already overladen. | DISCOUNTS. \ Also the English banks are too full of dis- | counted paper. TOO MUCH OPIUM. Opium was also overdone as an article of \ traffic. AMERICAN SECURITIES UNHARMED, LIKELY TO ADVANCE. No harm has come to American securities, which will, probably, rise. MEXICO. Crry oF MExico, June 16, } Via HAVANA, June 22, 1875, The railway between Vera Cruz and Jalapa was opened for public trafic on the loth inst, THE CHIEF JUSTICE TO REMAIN. Chief Justice Iglesias bas withdrawn his resig- nation, THB COLONIZATION LAW APPROVED BY THE PEOPLE. The new Colonization i:sw which has just been Promulgated 1s regarded as favoravie to tne | future prosperity of Mexico, | EARTHQUARE. | A shock of earthquake has been felt at San ChristobaL. THE LOSS OF THE SARANAC. A VESSEL DESPATCHED TO THE RELIEF OF THE OFFICERS AND CREW—CHARACTER OF THE LOST STEAMER. WASHINGTON, June 22, 1875, The Seoretary of the Navy this morning telo graphed to the Commandant of the Mare Island Navy Yara, to send immediately the United States steamer Benicia from that place to the relief of | the officers and crew of the wrecked steamer Saranac in Seymour Pass, | | Lieutenant Commander Sanders, who was executive officer of the Saranac, was also on board the United States steamer Suwanee when that vessel was wrecked tn Shadwell Passags, on the 9th of July, 1868, in the same locaiity aa the | Present disaster. ‘The Saranac was ® stanch side-wheel steamer and was regarded as one of the strongest of tne | smaller class in the navy. THE BENICIA EN ROUTE FOR VANCOUVER'S ISLAND. SAN FRANCISCO, June 22, 1875. The corvette Benicia, Capt Hopkins, goes atonce to Mare Isiand to coal and then will | proceed to Victoria ior the officers and crew of the Saranac early to-morrow morning. Mean- while Rear Admiral Cochran, commanding the English squadron, will care tor the crew, Con- siaerable money was jost in the paymaster’s ate. | ANTICIPATED ARRIVAL OF OFFICERS AND CREW aT VICTORIA. SAN FRANCISCO, June 22, 1875, | Adespatch from the United States Consul at Victoria to the Herald, of this city, states that the British Magship Repuise, Rear Admiral Coch- rane, is expected there late to-night, withthe | aranac’s officers and cre | THE CAREER OF THE SARANAC, | The fate of the Saranac involves our govern Ment in but very little loss, The Saranac was very old and of a very imperfect model, belonging to that class of side-wheel steamers which tne avy several years ago atterly abandoned, She was vuilt by Naval Constructor Delano, at the Portsmouth Navy Yard, in the year 1843, her dimensions, tonnage and displacement being as lollows:—Length, 272 feet; beam, 38 feet; depth, 23 feet; tonnage, 1,238 tons; displacement, 2,150 tons. The Saranac thirty-two years ago was bulit as anexperiment, At that time great discussion arose arose Concerning the relative merit of the screw propeller and the sidewheel steamship. A committee appointed by the Secretary of the Navy ordered two ships to be constructed on precisely the same model, the one to be propelled by a screw and the other by paddle whesis, The sorew propeller was built | atthe Brookiyn Navy Yard and was callea the San Jacinto, whlie the side-wneel steamer, of precisely the same proportions, was put together at Ports- mouth, N. M., and was named tue Sarai Alter the two vessela had been completed it was fonnd that the side-wheeled Saranac amounted to but very little when compared with the San Jacinto, but at the same time both ships were of such in- ferier build that neither was cailed into ser vice during the last war. The San Jacinto was wrecked In the year 1863, When the war opened the Saranac was in the Pacific, and, though as good a ship as one of her awkward class conid be, | tne Secretary of the Navy did not seem tu place suMcient confidence in either her sailing or fight- ing qualities to recall her to aid m the civil strug- gle. Since the war the Saranac has been utilized for varions purposes, but has been used prin- crpally for guarding our coast. She carried eleven small guns. Only one of her kind yet remains in the United States navy, viz. the Powhatan, | MAINE DEMOCRATS. | ‘THE DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENTION—A PLAT- | FORM WITH A PRESIDENTIAL ONE-TERM RESO- | LUTION—NOMINATION OF STATE OFFICERS. | AvaGusta, June 22, 1875, | The Democratic State Convention met nere to- | jay. Thore were present 639 delegates, General Samuel J. Anderson was chosen permanent chair- man and addressed the Convention. Committees on resolutions and on credenti: were ap- Pointed; also a State committee. A somewhat confused debate ensued on a motion that all rex0- jutions be re.erred to the committee without de- na it Was finally carried. | sonvention adjourned till two o'clock P. M, | the wfternoon session resolutions were read and adopted embodying the iollowing deciara- tons :—Ihe constitution is the pevpie’s oniy safe- guard; the rigits of the people and the States | Must be Sacrediy preserved irom the towea of mit- tary or Congressional usurpation ; civil snpre in times of peace; equality o. rights under the law; a svund currency—coi or its equivaieat; @ tariil for revenge only; the gvvernment economically administered; an hoaest preservasion of the paoiic mith to the public creditor; ‘a return to econum in the adminis'ration of government—nati Stat® and municipal; the avo.ttion of unne offices and the redacron oF salar One term for Presidents, With a Salary Of $25,000, The resolue tions arraign the republican purty for the aban: donment of principles, profieacy dad corraption; condemn the administration im strong verins jor the responsibility of tue Louisiana naw pation and the attempt to suspend the writ of habeas corpus by the last Congress, and pronouncing it no longer saie to trust the reins of government in snen hands, The administration ts pronounced Fesponsiiie fur the present depressed condition of the country’s commerce 1 ail sections, for e ling of the shipburding trade and for the driy ngotthe American mercantile marine irom ine | ocean. The peuple of Maine, suffering under the burden Of oppressive taxation, demana reform, aud appeal to ail men, without regard to party names or past diflerences, to unite with them to secure this trimmph. An effort made to incors porate tne financial resolutions of the Olo Demo- crate Convention tailed, General Charies W. Roberts, of Bangor, was nominated for Governor by 462 votes, fou. Juan ©. Talbows réceiving 41. Tie nomination | Was then made unanimous, and the Convention adjourned | different Intelligence Received from Mr. Jenney’s Expedition. GOLD FOUND IN ABUNDANCE. Large Number of Miners Taking Out the Precious Metal. Fort Laramie, Wy. Ter., Jane 22, 1875. A party from the Black Hills arrived here to- | day, bringing the toliowing intelligence:—Mr. | Jenney’s party and the expedition under Colonel | Dodge have formed a permanent camp on French Creek, near Haraey’s Peak, which they have eslled Camp Marney, and close by the stockade built by the miners whom Captain Mix brought in, Gold seoms to have been tound tn abundance, | Nearly 100 miners were found there 1n | camps, who have made claims and done consideranle work in building sluices, digging ditches, &c. Some of the party report that the soldiors in the command Rave panned out gold dust of a rich quality, The command is reported In good condition, A DESPATCH FROM COLONEL DODGE—CUSTER'S REPORTS FULLY CONFIRMED, OMAHA, Nebd., June 22, 1875. The following despatch has just been received from Colonel R. J. Dodge, wno is in command of the escortto Mr. Jenuey’s Black Hillis Exploring Expedition :— HAnNey’s PxAK, June 19, 1875. Gold has been fonna in paying quanuties on Frenen Creek. Custer’s report bas been confirmed in every particular, The command is well aud in fine condition. Private advices received here say that the com- | mana fousd 100 miners at work jn Custer’s Gulch, | taking out gold at the rate of from $5 to $25. pan. | ‘The evidences are strong that there are many more | miners in that country, The gold found is coarse and scaly, buteastiy pounded, Quartz mines are | abundant, but no one has prospected them, No | Indians were seen by the command, They are | north of the Peak. A BI-CENTENNIAL, THE TWO-HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE SETTLEMENT OF THE TOWN OF SWANZEXY— ORIGIN OF THE AMERICAN BAPTIST CHURCR— INCIDENTS OF THE WAR OF KING PHILIP WITH THE MASSACHUSETTS COLONY. Swanzey, R. 1, June 22, 1875. A bi-centenntial celeoration of no insignificant | interest and importance took place in this little town toeday. The settlement of the place was an unusual occurrence in the history of the colonies. | The lands occupied by the town were a part of the territory purchased by the Plymouth colony | of the great indian Sachem, Massasotr. The first | settiers were tne Rev, Jonn Niles, a Baptist clergy. | man, from Wales, and a smail body of his inends, “Who, coming to this country, sought @ 8,0¢ | where they could exercise entire ireedom of con- | pane science.” This they found in the Plymouth colony alone and thereiore purchased lands and placed themselves under the jurisdiction of the Plymouth | court, They named the town Swanzey, fron the | home of Mr. Niles, in tne old country, Here the Baptist Church of America found tts early foothold, | and here seven years alter the settlement of the town, Philip, oi Pokanosxet, grandsos of the great Sachem Massasoit, commenced that war whic Taged through the colonies of Massacnusetis Bay and Plymouta and # part of Connecticut ior more than a year and at oue time threatened to desiry: the entire Hoglish settlement in New Engiaud. ‘The incidents o1 tuis war fi some of the mo: tragic caapters im our early uisiory. Lt was this time vhat the colonisis first developed that martial spirit wnich served them su goou a pur- | pese in the old French war and in the War of inde- | pendence, | THE CELEBRATION consisted of a procession, formed at 11 o'clock A. M., on the arrival of the train trom Providence; a dinner, oratioa ava speeches, The line of march Was taken tp at Col’s Station, uader command of General Natoun Got, J1., of Warren, RK. L Yne Warren Artillery periormed escor: duty, tne American Band 0. Providence furuistiug music jor the occasion. The ciuzens 0: Swanzey and Somerset, Mass, und o: Warren and iar- rington, RK, L (all of them forming the oid town- ship ot Swanzey), joined in the procession. Among THE DISTINGUISHED GURSTS Present, besides Hou. George . Loriug, of Salem, Mass., the orator o! the day, were Govervor Gas- ton end stad, vi Massachusetts, and Gevernor Lip- pitt and staff, of Ruode isiand, ine wreac gather- Muy Was heid 1a Pearse’s Grove, Swanzey, where a tent wad b erecte paul: of voiding 1,600 persons, anu hanusomely arranged for tue vcca- sion Under Lhe Mauagemient ol tie Swaozey Agri- culiaral Ciub, ‘The assembly was large and ep- tuusiastic and the celebration Was a great success in every iespect. ‘Tne dinner commenced at 12 0 clock, and at its close the literary exercises were opened by De, Loring, Who spuke wore than an dour, giving a sketen of the setth there, Hes of the terrivle contict known as King oS War. Reterring to the uttack on the town, Which Was the Imitiation of the great war, he said: Jt was ona day ol tasting anu familia. tion and of prayer to Almighty God that He id avert the horrors vi the im vlog war, the 24tn of Jane, 1675, that the savage made nis Second atick on the town. her people here had veen fuiled into confidence and repose by a consciousness of their own honest intentions, aud by duily familar in .ercourse with the aboriginal occupants of the Wigwams which crowned these fila and Sought seclusion and protection tu these valleys. ‘Lae old members pad taught themsetves to be- lieve that tnetr gray hairs were sale and re spected; the young men had confidently appit tuelr strengti to a better service than the Work | ot War; the mogner had long since a aside ail fear jor toe saiety of her cutia; te caild had not yet learned that the red-skinned maiden was ner natural loc; Waen the mask fell irom tne lace uf the savage, an M13 CRUBL AND INFERNAL DESIGNS became mauiess. ‘Tne doors of the httie church bad just closed and the Worshippers Were retuin- ing to thelr homes, heavy with the thought of the danger whicn suddenly hung over them like adark tnreatening cloud, When the attack was | made. We are told that oue was killed and others | wounded; two men were kuled wao were sent Jor & Surgeow, and near Burn's garrison six men | were murdered, upon whose bodies the savages | exercised more than brutish oarbarities, benead- | ing, dismemvering and mangung them, and ex- posing tem in the most muouMan manger, which gasned ana ghastly objects siruck a damp ou ali beholders. The war became general throughout the Maasa- chusetts ‘and vivmouth colomes, Pnilip, subtio, vindictive. ambitious aud avsperate, united aii the tribes [rom the waters of the buy to the Coonee- ticut River, in whott be catied a desperate struggle for the land of his fathers. ‘This was the school in which our fathers wero taught und where they learned the jesson wich served the people so weil in the great wars which followed. Dr. Loring sketched the military ex- perience derived irom tis and the French war, and showed how It appeared at Lexington and cord and Bunker Mill He conciaded by en- larging upen the honoravie and patriotic manner in which Swanzey added to ber beroie record during the civil war, THE BORDER RAIDS. USELESSNESS OF NAVAL VESSELS IN OPERATING AGAINST THE MEXICAN BANDITS, WasttneTon, June 22, 1875. No orders have been issued by the Secretary of the navy detailing any vessel to follow the Piy- | mouth to the mouth of the Rio Grande. As there 1s @ sand bar at the mouth of that river, with but four feet of water on if, 1t Would be Impossipie tor any vessel of tre navy to ascend the river, be- sides, there are shifting sand bars In the river; and were it possibile jor a vessel to enter the mouta, it Wout ve dangerous to attempt the ascent. Four or five steam launches, however, can be carricd tu the mouth of tue rive. on eaci ves#ei ordered there, and they, wits competent crews, may be sent up the river to co-operate with the army im the suppression of Mexican raids. LEGISLATION IN NEW HAMPSHIRE. CoxcorD, June 22, 1875, | The Legislature, n convention this alternoon, | elected the republican nomin for Treasurer, State Printer and Commissary General. In the Iiowse the syecial order of the day, the Tesolution condemning the encronchment of the Executive on the jeislative branen of the gov: ernment, and asserting the constitutional rights | of the House im filing Senatorial vacancies, was called for and diseased till the time of adjourn. ment, It wili be taken up again to-morrow, GOVERNOR TILDEN’S WORE, THE RECORD OF THE LEGISLATION OF THE BSESSION—STATISTICAL PARTICULARS OF THE GOVERNOR'S ACTION—LIST OF BILLS SIGNED AND UNSIGNED. ALBaNyY, June 22, 1875. The following is a record of the legisiative work performed by Governor Tilden upaer the pro- visions of the amended constitution, which allow him only thirty days after tne aijournment of tne Legislature in woich to examine and pass upon ill Number of hills received at Executive Chamber. Number of bills returned jor amendment. Leaving. . Dumber of bills signet di Number of bills that heeame laws b: Number of bills vetoed during the session Leaving on hand at aajournment. ft whieh were signed Unsigned........ Number of bills yetoot 16 Dumber of bills unsigned. Bt Tieins in supplies bil, vetor 2 liems in Keappropriation bill Items in the Vewed kxtraordinary Kepair bill Whole number of vetoes.. UNSIGNED BILLS. ‘The following 18 a correct list of bills left over | unsigned by the Governor, ana therefore fail to become law :— Vroviding for the improvement of the navigation of the Huusou Kiver. {this wns the bill which authorized the men who throw cinders in the river, noar Albany, lo receive some $50,000 for removing the Amenaiy th tice and proceeding Supplementary to the usible Material act. Kegul iting the tiremen's rund. Providing tor the recording 0: certain decrees in partl- ton suits An relation to Railroad Commissioners in the several counties of the State. wis” he payment of certificates issued to the militia of ry ng and abridging the prac | uurts Of Uuts SLAte. blishing Fire Commissioners, tor, West Troy. Relauve to armories in tue eity of New York. Assembly bill So. 422, uppoimiing Commissioners to de- elve upon the ty of expired leases, An reiaton to Wweiwlts and weasures, Providin¢ tor the payment of awards to the Brook- Iyn Fark Commission Tor Lrospect Park lands taken for reservoir pir poses. + preservation of fish in the St, Lawrence River. Commending the act for the aunexation of the towns of Morrivamia, &e., ty New Yora. Kezulaung ‘te ‘pllotage i Sew York Harbor and re- ducing off shore races Incorporat ng the Manhattan Trust and Loan Com- pany, : xtending the operation ot the General Manu/actur- | mg Law, Regwiating the use of docks in®New Brighton, Rich- mond counwy. gitar the projection and tmprovement of the *encea In- tans. Reducing the rates of ferriage on the Houston street and Greenpoint ferries, In relation to the police justices (Mr. Fox's bill tor the Appoiniwent of two Hew Jtistices). Providing for the ent for, and occupation of, ar- Mories and tor the appotutment of Commissioners to | decide Upon cera n questions of back rental, and for | duraito &o. Amending the act to supply Rochester with water, Incorporating the Betitiewem avutual Insurance Asso- cixtion. Jn relation to fa lroad commissioners in the several counties of the State. An relation ty the [nebrintes’ Home, Kings county, Amending the act proviuing redress for words im- puting anchastity to a temale. Supplementary wo tue act for the incorporation of nt and sc entific associations. or Of bills relating to the fish and ‘There are also a nu! game .aws. BILLS SIGNED, Governor Tilden has signed the following bills, which completes the list of bills he will sign :— Authorizing the city of Kimira to use a portion of the Chemung Canal tor a Dublic street, To make iurther provision for the payment of turther expenses of the local government of ‘tue city of New OF. To authorize the recovery at law for repairs heretofore made to the pavement of broadway, New York. 9 provide ways and ine: jor the support of the gov- ernment. ‘Lo provide for the organization and regulation of cer- tain business corporations, To amena the Fast Chester Creck law. ‘To authorize the formation of safe deposit compantes, Ameuding the charter of the American Institute of New York, | ‘1 reduce the ferrimge rate on ferries between the city of New York and the seventeenth ward of Brooklyn. Amending the act relative to the Supreme Court and election of Judge of the Court ct Common Pleas in the city and county of New Yors. ‘Yoimprove tlyrtle avenue, Brook]; a, the Department of | °. rk. inquests in New York and pro- vide tor scientific servic To legaiize, ratily and confirm the official action of the Boaid of Assessors of Sew York city in designating te New York Journal to publish certain notices in 18/2. Relative to the construction of sewers im a cervain dis- trict of Brookiyn, ‘ Tacreasing the powers of the Common Council of rouklyn. Amending the Brooklyn Fire Department act Relative to courts ot Tecord in the city and county of New York. . Relating to the powers and duties of the Board of Com- missioners of Charities or Kings counts lative to the Inebriate Home in Ki elative to the Dale Cemetery Assoc: Westchester county Authorizing the Mayor and Commonalty of New York to pay Westchester county claims and demands growing out of the annexauon, | In relation to the prepayment of the fees of sheriffs | upon execution. | Amending the charter of New York passed J573, To autuorize @ revision and cdrrection or ssments | for the outlet sewer in Eightieth street, and other streets in New York. Amending the charter of Brooklyn. The annual sup- ply bill, To provide for opening and improving Lewis avenue and Downing street, Brooklyn. | | reel, Brooklyn, | THE CANAL INVESTIGATION, | | | Burrato, Jane 22, 1875, The Joint Commission of the Legislature, con- sisting of Senators Vole, of Orleans; Booth, of New York, and Jacobs, of Kings, and Assembiy- | men Seward, of New York; Faulkner, of Ltving- ston, and Sherman, of Oneida, appotnied to in- vestigate the alleged canal contract frauds, held | their first session in this city to-day, | Messrs. Henry Smith and BR. W. Peck ham. of Atbany, are the counsel to the Commission. At ten o'clock this morning | the Commission, accompanied by Canal Commis- sioner Jackson, Comptroiier Hopkins, Collector Flock and T. ©. Davis. made a tour of the canal to look at the Black Rock improvemen’s recentiy made and in progress, The condition of the Bird Island pier eXtension was also ciosely_in<pected, A meetiog was held at the office of T. C. Davis | this afternoon for the examination of Witnesse%, | THE TRIAL OF WILLIAM 8 KING | POSTPONED. WASHINGTON, June 22, 1875. In the Criminal Court to-day the counset of Will- lam 8 King, accused of perjury in connection with the Pacific Mail Steamship subsidy, asked that an early day be fixed for his trial. The Court | sald the case Would be continued to the October term, unless in the meantime the government could secare the attendance of R. B. Irwin, the principal witness, which is not provavie, as Irwin is now in Europe. THE HAVANA DUEL, ABRIVAL OF THE WIDOW CORTEREAL my Tats | CITY. | -Among the passengers who arrived in this city | in the steamer Columbus, from Havana, was Mrs. | Sarah Frederica Cortereal, the widow of the Spaniara Salvador Cortereal, tormerly of this ct'y, who recently fought a duel in the suburbs of Havana with Dr. Algernon Sydney Cartis, a New York doctor. Cortereal shot Curtis, who still sur- vives, and then, thinking he had killed bis adver- sary, Cortereal biew his brains out. iis body will arrive here by the next Havanasteamer. Mr. | Theodore BF, King, the brother ol Mrs. Coriereal, wert to Havana to bring fis widowed sister home. The cause of the duet, it may be remem- bored, was f. 187 On the part of Cor- tereal ‘the for_ participating mn the adel, will s in Havena, M Cortereal is a native of Kiyn, where she ha relatives residing at the present moment. She is of small size, with gfay cyes and olack hair, and of somewhat plain features. Soe is about twenty- cignt years of age, and is now stopping with air, Van Dyke, a iriend of her husband's, im the neiwwh- voraood of LoLumbia College. ANEURSM OF THE AORTA. | William Begge, the German who has been a pi tient for some time in Rocseveit Hospital, suifer- | ing irom aneurism of the artery of the aorta, died yesterday morning, at hatf-past fiv o'clock, having lived the remarkable lemgth of time of s1x- t¥-one hours atrer the rupture. At the autopsy, which, at the request or the friends of the aes coased, Was hela imme tiarety, & tumor was tia. covered avout the sz% of a chtid’s head in imme- diate apposition to the heart. The rupiare oc- curred just underneatu the junciure of tne first rib and caritiage. The immediate cause of death was osthemia, OF weakness, as the patient had not eaten anything for two tla: THE WEATHER YESTERDAY. The following record will show the changes in | the temperature for the past twenty-four hours, in comparison witn the corresponding date of last year, a8 indicated by the thermometer at Hednut’s poarmacy, Meracy Boliding 1874, 4875. SAM. . 65 OF 6AM. ot a 9 A.M. Averitge temperatare Jor corres: JASE YOUT. sees SPROONRS END. TREE APORRE HE 10, RALBITREOD>: | various parts of the Ward tad received little at- house | sion that it Was thought advisable to ciose tue | means of knowiag Woat compiainis were inade | Versation at her own room with a Frenen girl | | one of offence, THE SUPPRESSION OF CRIME, Session of the Legislative | Committee of Inquiry. Remarkable Statements by | a Police Sergeant. HOW PANEL HOUSES ARE RUN The Legislative Committee, who were recently | appomted in Alvany to inquire into the alarming | increase O! crime in the cfty of New York, again met yesterday aiternoon, at three o’clock, in the Aldermen's old room, City Hall, The members of the committee present were Messrs. Campbell, Dessar, McGowan and Hess, General Husted was absent, and Mr. Campbell took the cnair, Tne subject of investigation was ‘Ilouses of prostita: tion and such like dens of vice.” The beat of the day being sensibly felt by tne | | Memoers of the committee, these gentiemon did | not put M an appearance until a good nalf-hour afer the appointed time for opening the prececd- | ings, Yesterday there were more spectators on hand than at either of the two former meetings of this committee, As the Investizations proceed | public interest cousiderably increases touching the unexpected revelations made by some of the witnesses, pointing to the disagreeable tact thate the Municipal Police are more or jess idirectiy concerned in, and cognizant of, many dens of crime that ought to be avolisbed at once, Among the people present were noted the Hon. | Jonn K Kennedy, Alderman Gon, Mr. Dilion and Mr, Power, of tue Marine Court, Mr. Townsend, counsel for the committee, upon | being informed that Ambrose J, Kingsland, who was to have given evidence to-day, was iil, cailed to the stand Police Sergeant Jonn R. Groo, of the Sixteenth precinct, This officer proceeded to tcs- — | Uy to the sollowing effect:— He joined the police on the 26tn of October, 1868, and has been for two and a half years a ser- | geantin the force, Had served under Captain Edward Tynap and also with Captain Williams, of the Kighth precinet, where there were three ser- geants besides the witness, He knew 4 certain ‘Terwilliger, Who Was aspecial ward detective, When the deponent served in the Eighth precinct there were in it, to his certain | Knowledge, both panel honses and dens of prostitution, In January or February, 1874, the Police authorities classified these resorts of crime | 1nto “parlor houses, houses of assignation and | room houses.” The witgess testified to having | Seen a report of Sergeant Brown, in which it was oMetaliy stated that there Were 345 girls of bad | morals in the precinct, occupying the whole or | part of eighty-three houses, This report wa made for the information of the Police Commis- | sioners; and @ copy of it was sent to them, and | one also to the District Attorney. After the ren- | dering of ihis report houses of i)l-fame were sup- | pressed on only one biock in the disreputable neighvoruood, This closing of these blotches of | iniquity was effected through tne efforts of tne | Oty Board of Education, Bat the women and | their friends only moved ont of one block and into an adjoining street, where they renewed their disorderly and sinful mode of iife. The withess repeatedly 1.formed Captain Willams, both verbally and in writing, of the frequent com- plaints that bad been made by various persons Who nad been robved in these low houses. The randa of these matters, and had the notes now in | his pocket, From the paper in nis hand the de- ponent read to the iollowing ef: November 29, 1873, a complaint against the house No. 75 | Greene street was made by two young men, These were detained in the station house and some of- | ficers, dressed in plain clothes, sent to “puli the | house” and arrest its inmates. On this ocasion the Captain came out of the room in the station | house and conversed with the complainants. Tne oficers who bad been sent to the house did not go in the vicinity where it was situated, butin the upper part of the precinct. Some girls of | the class who walk the streets were | brought in, They Bad no connec- | tion whatever with this particular robbery, | buc were now locked up on a charge of soliciting | male passers-by. Febroary 7, 1874, two panel | houses Were opened in the precinet (the Eighch), and witness afterward conversed with a girl, who told him that $50 had been paid to Detective Ter- williger (a8 hush money) oa the alight of the open- ing, A complaint was made to deponent about a robbery committed In Greene street. The matter was taken in charge by Terwilliger or the Captain, and was not heard of any more. On February 9 @ man was robbed of $50 in No. 75 Greene street; no arresis were made. February 21, 1874, a rob- bery was cummitted in the panel nouse No. 143 Mercer street, but no arrests followed. February 22 deponent saw Terwilliger go into tne same | panel nouse at halt-past ten o’elock at night. In | eddition to the above still another com- plaint was made against the house No. M43 Mercer street, but re rt Was not sorwarded to Police Headquarters. braary 28 @ Mau was ropved of fis Watch and chatu in the den No, 143 Mercer street. The de- ponent reported tais, but no arrests were mace. On Maren 2 Fred, Byen was 1ovbed of $50 in No. 143 Mercer street. He was willing to enter a | format complaint. The deponent informed Ter- williger of this, but he made no arrests. A maa, who DECLINED TO GIVE HIS NAME, was robbed of $70 on the 5th of Marca in the same place as that mentioned above, and, althougt | vetective Terwiliger wus promptly toformed, ne | made bo arrests, Un the 13th of Marca a man was robved of 335 in the house No. 143 Mercer street. Terwilliger was informed, bus no arrests Jollowed., March Il, a man irom Cleveland, Ohio, Was robbed of $1,400 im the house No. 75 Greene street. Ine perpetrators escaped with impunity, although the house was “pulled” or broken up, | aud on the the same mouth the inmates of it removed to No, 75 Wooster street, In this place Fred, Lewis was rovved of $140 on the 19tn of | Mar nd the case was turned over to ferwil- | liger, W however, ciused no arrests to be | made, A man from Caicago was robbed of $150 1n No, 62 Wooster street on the z4tn of Marca. Tie usual report Was made to the aetective and the ustial absence of arrests fellowed. All tne rob- veries followed each other in such quick succes. | Wooster street (No. 52) and No. 175 | Teet until the excitemens’ which t.ey oc- | subside, The witness had no | house 1 Merce’ casoued shonla by the other sergeanta of (nis precinct, Tne deponent left the Eighth precincts on tue 10th of Maren, 1874, about a moni and a half alter the last roboery felerred to in ns notes had been committed. In tairty-four days seven | les were committed in’ one panel house | aioue; this was No. 134 Mercer street. No arrests lied been made in any instance. By geueral un+ rstanding among the oMcers of the precinct xerions complaints whien Rad been made | Tst ihe severai houses med were not forwarded to Polite Headquarters, Important iooveries are always reported immediately to Headquarters, The robveries how mentioned by aeponent Were not entered upon the viotter or | any of the oficial books kept for tols purpose in the differeut preemects. ‘Ine witness had con- about her giviug money to the police olticers. ihe Geponent wentan the course of tis duties to see the girl She sald that she nad to pay $5 week to Ferwilliger; (hat clus Was very hard, as BUSINESS WAS EXTREMALY DULL, and she did not always have the money to pay. | She said that verwilliger had reluctantly received $3 instead of $5. Terwilliger told her that naif of the money was for himself and the reat for tre captain ol the preemet. ‘Phils conversation took piace at No. 107 eone street. Tike xiri's name | is Anna fHay my she aiso stated that every Saturday nigat Terwtihger came to her for tne | . The captain of the preciact, Wiitiams, ven on terms of intimacy wiih Police Com- ner Gardoer. Tie Commissioner came very | irequentiy, perhaps five out oO. seven night every | week, to speno the evening with Wiliams, Tao depon Tt stated that be employed What infuence | his mien: moved from the highta precinet, cer promised to inve the deponent relieved from duty there and seat somewiere else rhe reagon Why he wanted @ change was that the Wey in whieh police matters were managed about the old precinct did not suit him. The Mat Gas Company also put In a good word for the wit- ness, ‘The memoranda which Witness had jnst read were kept a8 a4 weapon of seli-defence, not rhe copy now in his hand was made from the original notes, still in his posses+ gio. He Was fluaily removed from the precinct upon Mr. Spen- tram | THE COMPLAINT OF CAPTAIN WILLIAMS, on the 23d of February, 1874 He was enjoying at home with the jamily his day of duty, when his | the | When deponent | the blinas hati cl | don’t know uw | aesk tor Wali an vour or so ata tim | sala that ve “must Invke @ livelihood,”? | an enamel but a meaicins for the skin. could commana in order to get re- a i 7 Mttle boy fell suddenly til. During the consequent | exctlement about the house witness had no time | to report in person at the precinct, but tele | grapned the cause of bis absence, Next day, a¢ | three o'clock I’. M., the witness Went to the pre= inet, Was courteously received by the Cap- tain, but fined five days’ pay for absent without leave.- De was fually transtel to the Thirteenth pri Last veara complaint had been made by Geponent’s superior oificer In Thirteenth precines ior conduct unbecoming The compiaint originated im depor to @ house near the pre- offee, The oficer, instead as he sioula have done, sit down and “reireshea” himself in une lag beer saloon, und neglected to return; the officer wus flacd five days’ paz for Luis dereliction and Witness sutieced @ similar punishment to the ex: tent o| ten days’ pay, The witness remembered that a reporter named Cochrane called ats alten: tion on tae 28tn of February, 1874, to & robbery commitied at the corner of Houston and Mer- cer streets, Witness went tnere with Cochrane, woo had called tim, A man came out of ine house as two approached it, Cochrane said, *Phere’s the man now,” Cochrane jollowed the parcy to investigate the extent of saying, “There goes the inan who Lost Bis ‘und chain in that house.’ ‘The witness e to Captain Willams, and aad conversation With this oMlcer about bt. in charge of the desk 1m the Ppreeinct, about twelv ‘lock On the nignt whem inis theft tovk place, Willams came iu and asker What man vad lost bis watch and chain, ‘The d Pouvent responded that ne did not know. Wil- items said that a report snould be made to Head. quarters against wilpess, WLO replied tbat Cocky rave told tim o} the rovvery. Williams taen sald, “YOU TELL WIM HE'S A LIAR; you attend to your own vasiness; | want you to an ofticer, nents sending an ome: ¢luct to get nim some of returning promptl some | Undersiand that t am captain of this precinct.” Willaims then went into his room and slammed tue coor alter him, Te witness remembered cere tam charges that pad been made by Loaisa Smith @gainst Captain Williams. He conversed witt Louisa Smitn the very day belore Lae (rial was te ake place, and theu sae seemed determined to prosecute. Witness could not teil why she sul quently declined to appear as prosecutor, Dee ponent did pot come belore this committee of his owl option, butin obedience to a subpwaa. No otter reea lad ver been preferred against him eXcepung those just spoken of He lived on &@ iim URE «ts siXieenth year; had taught school two winters; was tn the army two y sand nine Months, He was eupioyea fortwe yn House, and now Is serving unuer Captain E. Tyan, Wao ts au eMicient police: Man und acourteous gentioman, ‘Lerwiulliger 1 uptown serving In One OL tue recently annexed disiricts asa patrolman. ‘Lhe deponent vestuied taut he had never received from Terwilliger any money collected from houses of Ut fame. The wit- ness BOW described the pouuaaries of the Aighta police precinci, aud stated the dures of bight ofiicers Winle on their peats. He suid that ine present stunding of certam houses in Greene street is unknown to him, Passes there frequently Ob the cars wad sees girls at tue Winduws, Wit sed, in the avtitude of SOLICLTING M ASSERS BY} som* Of these girls were dcessed and obners “nos quite so much; he has Anown Captain Willams Ty come out ol ms room When statements of Too. beries were being made by him (the Witaess), at under slick Circumstances ho arrests Were mad tue proprietors of panel houses were Knowo, DULCAN state that the house No. 75 Green street Was 1 operation when aepovent Years in the Cu | Went to the precivct; the occupants Of it re No. 62 moved afterwards to No. Wooster street; polwemen are abie to judge that & house Spey to the class Galied panel irom the way im winen met are rooved in tuem and tae Class of women kept there; the Women usually “pick up” men Who are past the middle age; ater the last gamed house had. been complained of witness looked abit oiten, but never went in; be had sometim stopped men irom going lutoit; panel houses could NOt EXISt lorty-eLcnt hougs in any precinct and the police not know oft; the first man | rol i woud oriug It to the kuowledge of the pu- hee; Was the duty of & sergeant to act upon any complaint being made; the witness reported complaiuts whea made to Captain Wiiltams; oh Captain came sM occasionally vva sat bemiad the ; the Captain never gave any reasons for not proceeding against the panel no the deponent inferred from tae Captelu’s acv'oa hat If Was Bot customary to enver complaints of tals mature in the blotter of the precinct; the result of omitting such come plaiuts (rom the plocter Was toat they were not jurwarded to Heauquarters, TESTIMONY OF JOUN B, IRELAND, John B. Ireiaud, a member of tae Fifteenth Ward Citizens’ Protective Association, was next called to tne stand, He isa respectabie looking person, over flity years of age. ile said that tae object Of the association 10 Whica he belongs is to,oreak Up houses vi il Jame in toe Filkeenta ward, Complaints against disorderly houses in tention from the police. Ireland owns tir ho. Amity street aad jet it for ala salvoa to one Captain Unger, the present tenant, He (tne tenant) has inusic and dancing in hig huuse, The witness complained of this, house 18 rented ior $101 per month, and the sec ond and fourth floors are unoccupied. The ad- joing house, No. 55, occupied by respectable Tenants, reuts’ tor $1,500 annually, and has rented to tae same person iom the last set | years. WILLIAM H, JONES TESTIFIES. William H. Jones, a man about torty years oid, was nex: called to the stand, and, in substam stated toat tae Cicizens’ Protective Association the Futeenta Wara, of which he 1s @ member, 19 composed of forty or fifty respectable resia that part of te j tue house No. 57 Amity street, rented for a lager beer saloon, 16 keptin @ disordery manner; tne peaceinl citizens are ane noyed by singing, rapping on tables, masic in the basement and other nightly irreguiarities; prom litures are harbored there; the witness nas lived jor twenty-two years in Amity street; the bases ment of No, 6015 the resort of prostitutes and thieves; withess c mplamed to the Board of Ex+ cise, stating tuat No. 57 Was an unlicensed house, which Was the train; jue Comuissivaers said they would inquire into the acis, but notuing ever 3 Atvorney had irequentiy came of 1; the Dis'rict been writien to on the suvject of disuraeriy houses; the documents presented to the authori. ties by the Fitreenrn Ward Association contained several pages giving the names of prostitutes and bawdy-house keepers; Witness remembered the cuse of Sarah Myers; there Were foarteen indict. menis pending against hep; she was sent & prison for jour mouths, and when reieased boas! that she possessed iufuence which could be brought to bear in ner favor. Samuel Hanna sworn :—Koows Sarah Myers; she grossiy insutted him and his ‘amily while coming out or charen im University place, by tirowing dirty door Mat In his Jace; 1t also struck his little boy; alierward tne same Woman came to tn business piace of deponent aud grossly insulted bim by making an mdecent exposure of her pers son, putting her finger to the Up of her nose and sach like. Ai this stage of the proceedings the committee agreed to adjourn ontil mext Friday, at three o'clock in the aiteraoon. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. Harvey M. 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