The New York Herald Newspaper, August 23, 1875, Page 3

{ * nothing. ~NEW YORK HERALD, MON A UROEROUS” BURGLAR A Citizen Assailed, Robbed and Left to Die in His Store. A BRAVE WOMAN'S FEAT Bimilarity to the Nathan Murder, a “Dog” Be- ing the Offensive Weapon, Yesterday morning, about nine o'clock, a burglary “was attempted on the premises of Mr, J. H. Noe, of No. 275 Greenwich street, The attempt was attended with violence to Mr. Noe, by which his life has been placed Jn great danger. Mr, Noo’s place of business is near She corner of Fulton street, and is easily distinguish- able from the adjacent stores by a series of pendant brushas whieh at once strike the eye of the passer by, Next to his store is a building now in process of con- Struction, approaching completion, the scaffolding. in- side of which runs up to within about twenty inches of the party wall dividing the premises, Ladders reach Trom the ground up to the highest portion of the Beaffolding, from which access to the roof of Mr. Noe’s Blore may bo gained without the slightest difficulty. Lhe roof of the storo is covered with iron sheeting and, bn the further side from the new building, is provided with # trapdoor, or seuttle, from which a ladder leads down to the top floor of the premises. This scuttle is secured by two slight hinges and a padlock, and would jeld to the strength of any ordinarily powerful man. ue immediate proximity of his store to the new build- ing, and the slender nature of the protection from the Toof, seem to have made Mr, Noe anxious, and accord- ingly he left his residence, No, 21 King street, yoster- day morning at about eight o'clock, in order to-assure himself that everything upon his business premises was af, He removed the padlock from outside the door, entered his store and placed the padlock on the counter, He then proceeded to examine the premises. Every- Shing was found undisturbed on the first and second Boors. While going up the third staircase, leading to a kind of workshop, his attention was arrested by a noise Proceeding from the scuttle, He had not long to wait, The weak fastenings gave away very quickly and MR PERCEIVED A MAN much younger than himself about to descend the lad- Ber, He immediately went on to the roof, confronted She burglar, and after a short scuffle secured him, Mr, Noe has the reputation of being a powerful, resolute Jnan, and, although about sixty years of age, is no mean Antagonist, ‘The room below was at this time in dark- hess, with the exception of such light as came through the open seuttie. The burglar was taken by his cap- turer down the ladder into the top room, a task which, considering the darkness of the place and the narrow- ness of the ladder, speaks strongly for the skill and herve of the unfortunate proprietor. As soon as they were below the burglar thought there was no time to lose, and he dealt Mr. Noe a blow on the head witha.‘jimmy.” Just at the bottom of the ladder, near a small tank, lay several “dogs,” shaped like an ordinary copper ingot, with two holes in cach of them, and furnished with a handle about nine inches in length, tapering to a point, They fare used, when heated, for burning the paint hard on new brushes, Mr, Noe, upon being struck, attempted to seize one of these, but was anticipated by the burg- Jar, who dealt him another blow just above the left temple, In Foster's case it was decided that a car-hook is a deadly weapon, In the present case, if proportions Gre to be observed, the adjective “deadly” would have iho be much intensified to convey a proper idea of ‘THIS FORMIDABLE IMPLEMENT, Two more blows rendered Mr. Noe powerless. His vessailant then robbed him of a watch and chain valued Bt $500, and of $25 in money. He then got a stout cord, which was lying near, and proceeded to tie his Victim's legs at the ankles and knees, fastening the ‘knot sagaciously under the knees. It is probable, too, Bhat he gagged the unfortunate man, because, when found, two silk handkerchiets and a check aproh were found tied round his neck, Mr. Noe was not ‘reduced to unconsciousness, inasmuch as he states that, when the burglar had completed bis work, he went to a tap Fanning into a small tank, on the other side of the oom, and washed his hands. The wounded man asked him “for God’s sake,” to give him a drink of water, Tho villian know the*value of time in his peculiar posi- Yion, and rejoined, “No, no, sir, 10'S TWENTY YRARS FOR ME 4f I'm caught; Pll send somebody to untie you, but if you make a noise I'll come back and finish you,” | Thereupon he made off, and, up to the time of writing, | had not been arrested. As soon as the fact of the burglary became known, a ‘HERALD reporter at once proceeded to the premises but ound them locked. Captain Sanders, of the Twenty- geventh precinet, was then waited upon, and gave sub- $tantially the same account of the affair as detailed pve. He stated, however, in addition, that a police. Man on his round near the ‘place was informed of Uh cries proceeding from one of the houses near, but deem- ing it probable that they were merely the’ results of | Bunday morning boarding-house amenities, he thought | {t prudent not to interfere until his services were called | for. The unfortunate man might have died where he | ‘was, had not the burglar, by a lucky oversight, left the | scuttle open, as will subsequently be seen. ‘The reporter then proceeded ‘to the Chambers Street Hospital, which occupies the old police station. At the door he met some of the surgeons of the hospital, and was courteously informed by them that only the diate relatives of the wounded man could be adn . Upon inquiring into the nature of the wounds of Mr. Noe, he was informed that they were of avery grave char- acter; that there were three deep incised scal Yunning across the left side of the skull to and that the skull itself was fractured, Baid one of the doctors, “is a very critical one; but no definite opinion as to the chances of Mr, Noe's recover can be given for three or four day's, when his case will, probably, reach a crisis.” Mr, Schultz, one of the hos: Pital trustees, informed the reporter that a consultation Of surgeons had been summoned. ‘The reporter then visited Mr. was shown to a desk at which the vietim’s brother-in- Jaw was seated, In the main his statement coincided with the one above given, He only added that, upon bhaking some things on the floor, he found a gold ring, @ penknife and a pair of spectacles belonging to his brother-in-law. Mr. Noe, he stated, is about sixty years of age und hus six children, four of whom are married. ‘The writer then went up stairs to the place where Mr. Noe was found. He was immediately struck by the ovidential oversight on the burglar’s part, to which | r. Noe owes dis rescue and, possibly, bis life, The building runs back trom Greenwich street about a hun- dred feet, It was on the top floor of the building, in the extreme rear, with all the shutters closed, that THK MURDEROUS ASSAULT ¢. Had the scuttle not been left bie that the wounded man would have friends “had become serious! ala Mr. Noe was found in the left hand corner of the room, with his head resting upon a kind of old chair cushion and a pioce of sacking. ‘These were saturated with blood, ‘The floor near was drenched with the lite fluid, which had been covered up with tine shavings. An inspection of the scuttle ut ‘once showed its Weakness. It had been wrenched off at the hinges and had evidently g y little trouble, The reporter next called ‘upon Mrs, Harris, to whom ir, Now owes his rescue, She is a bright, intellig ‘oo's premises, He Middle-aged woman, and gave the following stor: “My daughter was getting broakfust ready this morning, when she heard cries of “Murder! help!’ Tran to the back window and heard the cries, but couldn't body. Then T went to the front, but 1 then went to the back window again, and told my husband, He said, ‘I guess it's in the boarding house,’ 1 then heard cries of ‘Murder! help! for God's suke, help!’ T then went up to the op floor, thre the ‘bkylight, and across the roc It may be Bard that) = Mrs, Harris must be a of uncommon nerve, for the roof which she went is’ a slate — one, At an angle of 35 deg., and there can be wm had she missed her footing she would 1} e over intu the yard below and probably have been kil The reporter asked ber if she was not afraid when crossing tho roof, ‘To this she replied, adverting to t effect produced upon her by the cries of “Murder?” “No, sir; Twas TOO FRIGHTENED TO WE APRATD."? Mrs, Harris thus continued ber account:—"L then looked over into the new building, thinking somebody might be hurt there, but didn’t sed any one, and called toa Woman in the opposite house, but she + tell me anything, I then hallooed ‘out, ‘Who are you!” ‘Where are you?’ ‘What's the matter? IT then ‘heard the voice come up the scuttle, a It was pitch dark in the — cor seo a pair of hands ap inthe air, 1 thought perhaps it was a watchman that had been hurt or beat He paid :—'Por wis sake untie m shall T untie with?’ He answere a knife,’ Tsaw a large pair of scissors that they use for cutting | the tin used in brushmaking, [took it, but his hands Were so dreadfully swelled that 1 was airaid of cutting At last I Cut through the cord and then seraped jotted blood off his face. It was not till then that : - e twas Mr, Noe, IT asked him what was the mat. er, ¢ an, awand heard t that ‘What | bein, | of | in the afternoon Officer Lundy appeared defo for the outside, When the door was opened we husband, who had gone to look for an officer om account of the cries of ‘Murder!’ When he got outside he wanted to come into my house to get washed and dressed. He wus covered with blood from head to foot, He said he ‘was well able to pay for attendance and ted to be tuken home; bot the officer, seeing his condition, re fused to let him go and ‘took him to the Chambers Strect Hospital.” ‘This ended the account of this brave woman, Mrs. Harris, Before he left the premises of Mr, Noe one of the employés told the reporter that as late as Saturday night last he and a friend were saying how dangerous that new building was to them and how easily a burglar might get in. Mr. Noe, upon beimg questioned, stated that there was but one manon the roof. Inquiries at the police station this evening elicited a fact which would seem to justify the inference that Mr. Noe’s as- sailant had at least one coutederate, Previous to Mr, Noe’s arrival at his store a barber oceupying a basement nearly opposite noticed a man sitting in’ the new build. ing reading a pewspaper. As soon as Mr, Noe was inside he whistled several times loudly and sharply, ‘The barber suspecting nothing at the time, went on with his work, and it was not until the injured man was helped into the street that he connected the whistling of the man across ‘the street with the Durglury and assault. OMicer Johnson at first thought the cries of “Murder!"” rocceded from the bourd wuse of Mr. Jones; but, being informed to the contrary, went on, “Up to the time of going to press there was no change in Mr. Noe’s condition, The doctors seem te think there is a chance for his life, although his injuries are of a desperate character, ‘Tt need not be said that, with the exeeption of the victim being discovered dead in the latter case, this one very much resembles the Nathan murder. It force of this city. So" far the police do not profess to have any clow to the identification of the burglar, who will perhaps have to be soon spoken of as itlso & das: tardly assassin, A GENERAL ALARM. A general alarm Was sounded last night shortly before twelve o'clock, and an order issued for the ar- rest of all known burglars in the city, — It is supposed this was done in order to give the unfortunate Mr. Noe an opportunity of identifying his assailant, RUM ‘AND RIO! A DRUNKEN MANIAC CUTS AND STARS A MAN IN SEVEN PLACES AND THROWS A WOMAN DOWN A FLIGHT OF STAIRS. About half-past two o’clock yesterday morning Will- ian Doyle, of No. 543 West Fifty-sixth street, went into & hallway ut No, 494 Greenwich street to lie down. While lying there Samuel McMurray, who resides on one of the upper floors of the above mentioned house, came down stairs in a drunken, riot- ous manner, and pitched against Doyle in the hallway. Doyle sprung to his feet, when MeMurray suddenly pulled out a large dirk knife and stabbed hin three times in the neck, and also cut him about the face and head, Doyle was found by an officer of the Kighth precinct, lying moaning in the hallway, and when taken to the Prince street station house he at first refused to tell in what manner, or by whom he was assailed, Ambulance Surgeon Hathaway from Bellevue Hospital informed Doyle, how- ever, that it was probable that he would not recover from his wounds, and Sergeant Riley prevailed on him to make his statement, which is substantially the same as above. Detective Murphy arrested McMurray in his own rooms shortly afterward, and took him to the sta- tion, where he was locked up. Mrs, MeMurray called at the station house after the arrest of her husband and informed the Sergeant that Doyle was a thief and had er husband, and he had attacked him h story isnot believed by the po- as MeMurray had nothing that would tempt anybody to "steal ‘The same night, previous to” the stabbing of Doyle, MeMurray, in a drunken fit, threw Mary’ Hamilton,’ who was also living with him’ at No. 494 Greenwich street, down a flight of stairs and broke her collar bone. Mary Hamilton was removed yesterday afternoon to Bellevue Hospital, where she is now lying ina dangerous condi- tion, Doyle 1s also in Bellevue Hospital, and his eondi- tion is such that the Coroner has been notified to take his ante-mortem statement. A BRUTAL POLICEMAN. A RESPECTABLE CITIZEN OF BEATEN ALMOST TO DEATH BY AN OFFICER, One of the most brutal assaults ever committed within the vicinity of New York occurred on Saturday afternoon in the town of Union, Hudson county, N. J. It will, without doubt, result in the death of one of the most respectable and wealthy citizens in the northern section of the county, It seems that about five o'clock of weiss beer on the old Bull’s Ferry road, was stand- ing in his doorway when he observed 4 policeman on the opposite side of the road, with a pistol resting upon his arm, in the act of firing, Mr. Brueck’s house is in the town of Union, | Oppdsite side of the road is in the town of Weehawken, the policeman being a member of the police force of the latter place. Mr, Brueck, ou louking out, at once ob- served that the officer, one Nathaniel Lundy, a young man about twenty-three years of age, was trying to shoot his (Mr. Brueck’s) dog. He immediately called out to the officer not to shoot the animal, Lundy, however, fired, but missed the dog, which, upon hear- ing the report of the pistol, ran into the yard, Mr. Brueck remonstrated with Lundy, While the officer and Mr. Brueck were talking over the matter, a Mr. Philip Koch, a very respectable citizen, about fifty years of age, undertook to remonstrate with the officer for his apparent delight in killing all the dogs he met, At this Officer Lundy took exceptions, and THREATENED TO LOCK Koen UP. Words passed between them, when Lundy seized Koch by the arm and startedgvith him for the station house, Koch said he would go with Lundy, but objected vo his holding so tight a grasp upon his arn to pull away, when Lundy drew his club « Koch over the head; the latter staggered from the effects of the blow, bat Lindy followed up the assault, intlict- ing five terrible cuts on his prisoner’s head, knockit him senseless upon the street, ‘al ran out and picked up the wounded and conveyed him imto the brewesy, where was found that his skull had been und that his brain was protruding from two of the wounds, Dr. EK. Echhardt and two other physicians were immediately sent for, and upon their arrival pro- nounced Koch to be ina dying condition. Lundy fled and was not found until yesterday afternoon, when his father, who is one of the township conmmitteemen of Weehawken, called upon Just Kaprbart and inquired if he had issued a warrant for the arrest of his son. On told that he had he wanted to know what amount il was -required. He was informed that he would require $1,000. About four o'clock he above named justice, his father and another citizen be- pricy i bondsmen. As Lundy started to go home Con- stable Brown took him into custody, and conveyed him before Coroner Reinhardt, who committed him to the County Jail to wait the result of Koch’s injuries, The wounded man has bgen in an unconscious state ever since he was beaten, dnd the physicians last even- ing did not think he could hve till this morning, Mr. Koch is said to be one of the most respectable citizens on Union Hill, and the eitizens talk of holding an indig- nation meeting this evening to express their feelings relative to the outrage, FIGHT IN A BARROOM. James MeCabe, twenty-four years of age, residing at No, 953 Fast Thirty-first street, while in the liquor al struck Mr, Se 2 it ‘was travelling on ‘his muscle and who claimed that he could wrestle any individual in the place. McCabe, who claims to be somewhat of a pugilist and wrestler, chal- lenged the unknown to a rough and tumble. After several rounds in the back room the unknown man claimed a foul aud at once attacked MeCabe in real earnest, knocking him down and inflicting several se- vere wounds upon his seaip. The unknown man then passed out of a side door and escaped, — Mec ns sent to Bellevue Hospital by the police of the Eighteenth precinct, THE NINTH AVENUE MURDER. ANOTHER TRAGEDY GROWING OUT OF THE sHooT- ING OF JOSEPH LANGAN, ‘The mystery of the murder of the young man, Joseph Langan, who was found with a bullet bole through his and Ninth avenue on Saturday, appears to be as far from being cleared up as whon the crime was first discovered, The police authorities, however, profess to have a c which, for prudential reasons, they decline to reveal Time alone can tell whether they are on the right scent or not, Yesterday the letter which is given below was received at the Heratn office in connection with the case, and & Henaup reporter was despatched to investi- gate the truth or falsity of the statements made therein; — New York, Angust 22, 1875, ‘To, thw Eprrox or tm Lbiwan ” Seeing in your issue of this mornit ard to the deceased Joseph L ons report in wot shot In amis: your statement of the 22d inst, you will ceased und the community, as he was never a perado, as every person that knew bin is ett JAM there informed that no clew had as yet been obtained to tho murderer of Langan, The deceased was not known to the police as a professional thief, but the company be a GLAR HAS ROUBED AND BEATEN Me, but 1 don’t care about that; save my lite!’ He got up, but was dreadfully exhausted, He managed to get down stairs with iny help, He then undid the door on tho inside and I wont, by his Wish, to get the padiock kept was of tho most dissolute kind, James Shanley, who signed the letter given above, keeps a liquor store on the corner of Fifteenth street and Yenth avenue, It is not the resort of the best people of the Sixtoonth Will afford another test of the sagacity of the police | on Saturday ufternoon Mr. Otto Brueck, a manufacturer | and the | fractured, | store at No, $63 East Thirty-first street, met aman who | heart in a lumber yard at the corner of Fifteenth street | ‘The reporter visited the Sixteenth precinct and was | Koch attempted | | } | | | cian thinks will prove fatal, | pital. | 80 UNION HILL | John Minet, a gunsmith, who is a father-in-law of Aben- ward, There seems to be liftle doubt that Langan be- longed to the light-fingered fraternity. AN IMPORTANT WITNESS, The reporter also ascertamed that a man named Lee, who is employed in a marble yard in Fourteenth street, between Ninth and Tenth avenues, was able to give the most important evidence. While on his way home to dinner on Saturday he met a well-dressed young man, apparently in @ great state of excitement, running through the marble yard to the street. There does not seem to be the slightest doubt that this was the murderer, for, as he — encountered Lee, he exclaimed, “For God's sake don’t stop me!’? Lee, not knowing anything about the tra- gedy which had just been enacted, did not attempt to detain the man, although he could ‘easily have done 80, Lee is able to give a description of the murderer. ‘There is also a theory that the gaurderer was a car conductor who, having fallen out with the gang of pick- ts which infest the Ninth avenue railroad, shot gun out of revenge. - A SEQUEL TO LANGAN'S MURDER. As a sequel to the murder of Langan a homicide was probably committed late on Saturday night by an | officor while in the discharge of his duty. The fuets of the case, as reported to the police station in Twentieth sircet, between Seventh and Eighth avenves, ure as follows:—George Dennison, an officer on the special service squad, was dewuled to work up the Langan case, Shortly alter midnight he entered the liquor store of Peter Dunning, No. 9 Tenth ay ne, near Sixteenth — street, He was im search of Charles © alias “The Frog,” who was with Langan just before he was killed, ‘he saloon isa resort of the most desperate charac and the crowd, suspecting the objcet of the officer's visit, im- mediately set upon him, He ordered them to disperse, but they continued the assault, A inan, whose name was subsequently ascertained to be Michael Gatfhey, strock Officer Dennison in the right eye, and anot mun, named John Hannon, followed ip. the assault. | Oblicer Dennison backed out’ of the suloon to the side- , the erowd =m while following him. The odas | ust him being too great, and knowing that his life was in danger, ‘ UE DREW HIS REVOLVER 1d two shots, one striking GafMey in the left shoulder, causing a wound which the attendin, bf Hannon in the right shoulder, inflicting a slight wound, | the bullet glancing off and inflicting a slight’ Wound in the shoulder of Jobn Kennedy, another of the gang. Hannon was arrested’ and — locked up, Guithey was to Bellovue Hospital and Kennedy left for home, Last evening Kenne was seen in the saloon of James Shanley, boasting of the fracas of the previous night, He was still under the miluenee of liquor and evidently ready for nother yht. Donat Coroner Thomas C. Knox yesterday made an | autopay on the body of Langa, and the following is his rh | Pistol shot in the third intercostal space, an inch and ahalt to left of meridian line, The ball passed through anterior mediastium, piercing aorta and was found in left pulmonary cavity, Perieardium was. filled with blood; all other thoracie organs found healthy, Cause | of death’internal hemorrhage, the result of a pistol shot wound, The following is a description of uhe murderer of James Langan sent out from the Central Office on 4 genera) alarm on Saturday night inches in height, light complexion and mustache, light gray suit and straw hat. . ROBBERY AND ATTEMPTED MURDER, Five feet five or six | On the evening of Sunday, the 15th inst,, while Mr. Peter Smith, of No. 56 East Seventy-ninth street, was passing through Fifty-ninth street he was attacked by a gang of ruffians, who endeavored to rob him of his gold | watch and chain and diamond stud. Mr, Smith fled and took refuge in a lager beer saloon on Seventh avenue, be- tween Filty-eighth aud Fifty-ninth streets, He was pur- sued by his assailants, and in the saloon they knocked him down and took his watch and chain, He drew his | revolver, but one of the gang, Thomas Flood, a power- ful young fellow, took the weapon from him, Mr. and Mri. George Hunt, of, No. 158 Grand street, who were in the saloon, theh interfered, when Flood fired Hunt, One of the shots struck Ki dus Janssens, who was passing on the opposite | side of the stree nd intliet wound upon bis di. He has since been © St. Luke's Hos- Flood then hurled soi beer muys at per- = in the saloon, One of the inissiles strack Mr, Smith upon the head and prostrated hit. —Ofticer Me- Dermott, of the Fifteenth precinct, arrested Flood after adesperate resistance, He was yesterday committed for trial in default of $4,000 bail, “He admitted that he had served a term of three years in State Prisoh for grand larceny, but pretended to be ignorant of the assault and robbery tor which he was arrested. The other members of the yang escape WHERE IS HE? Charles Osborne, the discharged soldier from Willett’s Point, an account of whose disappearanee was published some days ago, has not yet been heard from, and the suspicion that he met with foul play is strengthened, He got his discharge papers and left the Point on the 19th of June, having in his possession an order on the battalion paymaster for $196. He called at the suloon of Julius Beckman, on the Bayside road, where he became intoxicated, and slept off the effects of his pota- tioys. Beckman says that Osborne left his place about five o’el in the afternoon by the back door after borrowing $100, for which he left his order on the pay master as security. Since that tine inquiry in all diree tions has failed to reveal his whereabouts, if alive, of whch there is great doubt. It is alleged that Beckman | Tuy (told several contradictory stories regarding the | matter, and the paymaster relused to the | order which he holds. A WIE BEATER. Aman named Michacl Mayer, residing at the corner of Lush street and Thirteenth avenue, Newark, was ar- rested on Saturday night, charged with beating his wife in a most cruel manner, About ten o'clock Mrs. Mayer | | to horse raci: DAY, AUGUST 23, 1875—TRIPLE SHEET. FRENCH LITERATURE. The Young Journalist of the Revolution. A GROUP OF NEW BOOKS. CamitLe DesMoviixs, Lvcie DesmovLins; Les Daxrosisres. By Jules Cluretic. Pion & Co, ETUDE SUR Paris; Lucile, is one of the most romantic and sad of the great Revolution, Not that Camille Desmoulins was a blame- less character, or that his career as a politician and Journalist calls for much admiration; but to judge bim fairly one must make allowance for the excited times it which he lived, and for the intrepidity of his death, by which he effaced many faults, He was born in 176 and was consequently twenty-nine when the Revolu- tion broke out. His father a judye at Guise, held Joyally for the King, and there is something touching in the letters of this upright old gentleman, who warned his son that the world could not be altered ina day for the glorification of sophists and the benetit of mobs. But Camille Desmoulins was too hot headed to hear reason, Like most middle-class youngsters of the time he joined with ardor in the revolutionary move- ment; and, happening to be in the garden of the Palais Royal on the afternoon of the Mth of July, 1789, when the news arrived that Necker, the popular Minister, had been dismissed, he sprang upon a form in a fine frenzy and made such # speech as drove off his enthusi- astic hearers to capture and raze the Bastile. From this time Camille Desmoulins became the people's hero and darling, receiving as much credit as if he had eap- tured the Bastile by himself, whereas, in fact, he had prudently kept outof gunshot while the populace were fighting. He was soon elected to the Convention, At the same time he continued to publish an incendiary little while before the Bastile business, and for the next two years he distinguished himself by an icono- clastic rage not less furious than fobespierre’s and Marat’s, When the King had Ygen beheaded, however, and the old monarchy overturned, Camille Desmoulins, who was the intimate friend of Danton, found himself installed ina high post at the Ministry of Justice, and his views then underwent a change. To do him justice, his marriage with Lucile Duplessis, in 1790, had done much to bring his softer feeling into play; but the | real truth of his moderation lay in the fact that, | | having got out of the Revolution all that was to be got, he was anxious to retain his post and lead a quiet life, He started anew journal, Le Vieux Cordelier, for the purpose of advocating the cessation of blood- shed; but Robespierre, who considered that the guillo- tine had not yet done its work, took offence at this and resolved to suppress Desmoulins before the latter made | many proselytes, At the end of March, 1794, Danton, Hébert, Camille Desmoulins and others were arrested on the charge of conspiring to overthrow the Republic, and on the Sth April beheaded; two days later Lucile Desmoulins carried her pretty head to the scaffold for the crime of having tried to save her husband, In the present admirably written book M. Jules Claretie has compiled all the documents throwing a light upon the public and private life of Camille Desmoulins and his wife, and the work is a valuable contribution to the his- tory of the Revolution. M. Claretie does not succeed in making us like Camille Desmoulins and brings us to pity him; he also excites the most genuine sympathy those women whose devotion, goodness and beauty may be accepted as a proof that heroines do not all belong to the world of fiction, LArriqve Eqvatortat—Ganoxals, PAHovry-GaL.ors, Par le Marquis de Compi¢gue. "Paris: E. Plon et Cle. The exploring expedition to the western coast of Af- rica recently undertaken by the Marquis de Com- | book. gentlemen of competent fortune, much x or polo. tacks of cannibals, and all those moving incidents by | flood and fell which make travelling in Africa so excit- ing and attractive to adventurers who are bold of heart | and strong of limb, They took a road directly opposite | to that which had been followed by Livingstone, and they have thus penetrated further into the interior than | any of the English or Gorman explorers who preceded them. The record of their journey is an extremely went to a saloon in the neighborhood of her residence, where her husband was drinking, for the purpose of in- | ducing him to return to their residence. Mayer became | exceedingly angry and followed her to the house, where | he got a thick hickory stick and began to beat her, | his blows being principally aimed at her head, Sergeant | Caddon happened to be in the neighborhood, and, hear- | } wal a found to be suffering trot of wounds head, which may prov Her right eye fearfully bruised, a dreadful wound was on her left t temple, and several other of her injuries were of a ge- rious nature. | INCENDIARISM IN BROOKLYN. | AN ALLEGED DASTARDLY ATTEMPT TO BUEN A | ‘TENEMENT HOUSE, | Detective Thue, of the Sixth precinct, yesterday ar- | rested John Abendorf, who keeps a shooting gallery on | Rockaway Beach, on a charge of arson. ‘The prisoner is | charged with having set fire to the two story frame house No, 92 Bushwick avenue, near Boerum street, owned by ex-Captain James Mullen, of the Sixth pre- cinct, The lower part of the habitation was occupied by | | dorf, There was a bitter enmity existi two men, and it is alleged that the prisoner on several occasions threatened to take the life of Mr. Minet. The | fire was mu k of the gunshop, | and just bt the old man and | his son were usleep at the time the work of the incendi- ary was discovered. The upper part of the house was | tenanted by a Mr, Rowe, his wife and six children, ‘The | Rowes were the first to discover the fire, about ten min- | utes before one o'clock in the morning, They broke into the room of the Minets and found them overcome | by the smoke so that they were obliged to drag them from the apartment, It is said that some time ago Abendorf sont aman named Hartman to “set the old man drunk” in order to rob him, The prisoner was seen in th rinity of the house about two hours be- | fore the dis of the tire, wid he was also seen in | the hallway soon after it broke out, A YOUNG INCENDIARY. Fire Marshal Keady caused tho arrest of a youth named Edward Me) ghteon years of age, on charge of setting fire to St. Vincent's Home tor Boys, | No. 18 Poplar street, on the night of Noverber 7, 1874. Je by Roundsiman Ferry, of the Third oner, it appears, had ‘set fire to the | for having been ex. | The origin of the tire was tof the institution, subsequently, the accused had conided the secret, tion, by boys to wh He is held tor ex FIEND IN HOBOKEN. By a singular coincidence three fires broke out simul- | taneously in Hoboken between nine and ten o'clock last | evening, One of them originated in the firing of a | mosquito net ina house at the corner of First and Clinton streets. The members of the Fire Department turned out in foreo aud saved the dwelling from total destruction. The second (ire took place in a bakery in Fourth st Bloomfield, and there, too, the fire- men, Who were speedily on hand, arrested the progress | of the flames before material damage could be done. THE FIRE | ‘Phe most alarming of the contlagrations was that which | suddenly burst forth in the upper stories of the three os, 62, 54 and 56 Hudson stre | n First and Second, ‘The fire spread with re- | | frame dwelling houses bet rapidity and the steam fire engines wi ght into requisition, Four or five thousand dollars vas done before th f quelling the conflagration, as imu from water as from fire, ‘The singu last fire was that after the firemen had gon flamos were again heard crackling in the apper stories, and the alarm: was again sounded. The department once more hurried to the scene and effectually drenc! the burning floors without much further injury, The | buildings belong to the Van Buskirk estate and the loss | jg fully covered by insurance, LS | ple | clerks | Arnim overcame them again and again in argument. | will act justly by them, 1) view. t book, very different from the notes of ordinary travellers, inasmuch as there is nothing pompous or dreary in it, It is very well illustrated and has an ex- cellent map. Lx Proces p’Ansim, Recveit Comper pes Documents Pourigess. Par E, Figurey et D, Corbier; introdue- tion de M, J. Valerey. Just at the moment when Count Arnim’s appeal against the severe sentence pronounced upon bim is ayuin attracting the attention of Europe, a collection has been published of the political documents relating to this famous state (rial, Itis preceded by an inter- esting introduetion from the pen of M. Valfrey and it explains much that was hitherto unintelligible to out- siders in this complicated affair, It will do no good, however, to Count Arnim, who may now be considered as hopelessly beaten in his struggle with Prince Bis- marck, He might, indeed, have come off victorious had he taken a franker and bokler course und had he told the simple facts of the dispute wherein he was not | im the wrong; but from the moment when he suffered | | the fight to become a battle of wits and legal subtleties | | it was plain that he was no match for his adversaries, Prince Bismarck himself slipped out of the dispute and left the ex-Ambassador to squabble with the of the Berlin Foreign Office. Count His answers would have been satisfactory to the minds of any impartial men who had been called upon to pro- | nounce judgment without fear or favor; but there is | this peculiarity in official persons that they never know when they are cohfuted; neither do they care, They pursued Count Arnim with their usual stolid and dogged obstinacy, like long-winded hounds, and they have sue: ceeded in hunting him down. The last news of him who was a few years ago one of the most brilliant and influential statesmen in Europe is that he was sick and in exile, after having been muleted in heavy law costs, tantamount, it 1s said, to a fine of at least $100,000, His case should be a warning to all politicians who get into ‘wrangle with a public department. They should make clear statement of their position and affairs to the public by means of the press, and there let the business rest as fur as they are concerned, steadily refusing t6 go to law or appear before tribunals, which neither can nor Hisrors® DirLomariqer® DR LA GCERRE FRANCO-ALLR- MANDE. By M. Albert Sorel, ‘The author of this valuable book is professor of the free school of political science, and his work is an explanation of the diplomatic proceedings between France and Germany, from 1870 to 1873, During the Franco-German war M. Sorel was attached to the delegation from the Freneh Foreign Office to the govern- ment of Tours and Bordeaux, and he was an eye-witness of many of the events which he relates, He is a man of considerable talent and energy; so that it is under- | stood that he became a more prominent personage than he was intended to be by the chiefs of his department, | and therefore he resigned his commission, more or less willingly, and has since devoted abilities whieh might have done good service elsewhere to the study and teaching of history. His book is worth buying, and stil better worth reading, by all who take a serious interest in European politics, M, Sorel, indeed, knows tore than he says, or could dare to say just now; but, nevertheless, What he does say is more than was known, even by well informed people, Srore.er et La Venpek. Par M, Edmond Stofflet. ‘This 18 a very curious book, It is @ compilation of precious documents and unprinted memoirs, which de- seribe some of the most striking episodes of French history from an entirely new and interesting point of The author has written not only a delightful biography of his ancestor, General Stoitiet, who had once & name 10 conjure With, but Le has algo told she stirring | newspaper, which had brought him into notice some | | and admiration on behalf of Lucile Desmoulins, one of | pidgne and M, Marche has occasioned a great deal of conversation in French society, and the account which | LITERARY the Marquis has just published of his travels has met | with a proportionate success, und it is a very good It is by no means the work ofa hack literary | man who is bound under contract with his publisher to | Which he suppressed. | produce a certain amount of copy at a stipulated price | for every page. The Marquis and his companion are | vacity, consilerable enterprise and a very cred- | table thirst for information. They had no | other object in their journey than that of | acquiring distinction by fair means; and they seem to | of Assyria and Babylonia, with translations by Mr. have taken up science as lighter men devote themselves | George Smith, will be published by Bagster, in London, eluded in the co! They pursued their journey | Dr, Julius Meyer has written a thorough and admira- | | with unequalled tenacity, in spite of hunger, fever, at- | political and military history of La Vendée in language | which is at once clear and terse, 1 whieh calls up in a | picturesque manner the memorable battles of what was | called the War of the Giants, A map, which is pubs | lished with this work, enables the réader to follow the march of the royalist and republican armies without labor or difficulty. Poxtkarrs $v’ Historme Monate er Pourriger PU Teas. Under this tithe M. de Mazade, a French writer of some note, has published a critical aud a literary study of great merit, Itisa work on contemporary history, written ina lively and dramatic manuer, and gives pen- | and-ink sketches of the most celebrated personages of the generation which is Just passing or has passed away. Pére Gratry, M. Michelet, Mme, de Gasparin, Mine. Swetehine, M. Taine and Alfred Tonnelé, M. de Mazade’s brief biographies may be especially commended to the | are disposed to study that branch of composition, The curiosity of the public becomes naturally excited about eminent people, and details respecting their lives, habits and manners are always well received by pub- thing like good sense or talent; but the art of penning short and good biographies is among the rarest and | most difficult in literature. Anglo-Saxon writers are | | very apt to tumble into clumsy personalities, German | writers are too minute and philosophical; the French alone are consummate masters of the craft, | IEsPaGyk, SPLENDEURS RY Miskees. By M, Imbert. | iis is one of the best books which has recently ap- | | peared on the Iberian peninsula, It sparkles with wit; | | it is full of picturesque descriptions, brilliant anecdotes | and extraordinary adventures, which carry the aston- | | ished reader from one surprise to another, as though he | | were perusing a fairy tale made up of wonders and en- | | chantments, It is admirably illustrated by M. Alexandre | Prévost, an artist whose peneil is as graceful as exact, | LAxcrey Oniuxt, Par Léon Carré. Michel Lévy, | Freres, Paris, | The third and fourth volumes of M. Léon Carré’s | noble work on the East have just been issued, They comprise historical, religious and philosophical essays on ancient Egypt, Ching, India, Persia, Chaldea and | Palestine; and they are very learned commentaries on | the sacred writers, from Moses to the date of the dis- | | persion of the Jews, M. Léon Carré k is an honor | | to Freneh lite and a book of a kind which bas | been hitherto very rarely published in France, The | English language how a large collection of theo. logical writings; and there is lly any part of the + history or chronology of the Old Testament which has | not Been satisfactorily treated by them, To M, Léon Carré, however, belongs the honor of haying almost in- | troduced his subject to modern French readers, who | | were entirely unacquainted with it, and he has cer- | | tainly succeeded in arousing their attentio | Hisronigues ser wWOniise py Rovavwn | Docoments | pe Beraiqusx. By Lieutenant General A. Eenans. | C Muquardt, Brussels, | ‘The military’conspiracies of 1831, which ended in the | féundation of the Belgian Kingdom, have just been | treated by one of the most distinguished soldiers who | took part in them, and the work of General Eenans has | Deon discussed by all the press of Europe. His narru- ‘tive extends from 1813 to 1830. He describes { the sojourn of the Prince of Orange at | Antwerp, and justifies the conduct of the | | Belgian officers for having taken arms at the call of the government of their country. He tells the tale of the Orange plot to restore the House of Nassau and of | the persecutions to which the ollicers inculpated were subjected, Ho relates the revolt of the Second rifle battalion at Ghent and of the riots at Antwerp, Brussels and Malines, His object is to clear the Belgian Army from the shame of their defeat in the spring of 1831, | which, the General maintams, was brought about by | political causes and not by want of soldierly courage | The book is published by subscription and at the rather wo of the subject and from unusually good sources of infor- | men, because it is written with a competent knowledge | | mation. CHAT. Bishop Hampden supplied to the Encyclopedia Me- tropolitana sketch of Aquinas, the republication of In the Catholic world there seems a desire todo honor to “the an; doctor.”? slic common use “The Life and La- Thomas *Acquin,” by Archbishop Vaughan. Acollection of all the historical and chronological materials which exist in the cuneiform inscriptions j bors of Dr. ble life of the great Italian painter, Correggio, which Macmillan will publish. Another valuable palimpsest has been discovered in the Monastery of Grottoferrata, It isa manuscript of Strabo, the Greek geographer, written under an old | Testament text of the eleventh century. | Sir John Lubbock’s work “On British Wild Flowers, Considered in Relation to Insects,” is a most valuable | guide and stimulus to young students of natural history. | Mr. John A. Symonds has produced a remarkably | good book on the Renaissance in Italy, | results of varied and curious reading, and sets the | art and literature of Italy clearly in the frame of those social and historical surroundings in which they belong. Dr, William Smith’s “Historical Atlas of Ancient Geography, Biblical and Classical,” has been finished, and is the first complete set of maps of the ancient world on a scale as extensive as the best atlases of mod- ern geography. | | | | | | Birth-Countries of Christianity with the late Henry Thomas Buckle” is at length out, and has little of Buckle but much of Mr, Stuart Glennie, | man isa Spiritualist, who totally rejects existing creeds, rhapsodical pattern, A monumental work on the ancient architecture o¢ Ireland, by Lord Dunraven, with autotype plates in folio will soon appear, ‘The Athenwum, of London, praises the poetry of Eliza- | abeth Stuart Phelps, which, though not unintluenced by English models, it finds possessed of “lyric force anda measure of absolute inspiration.” Mr, James Parton, in an article on “Recent Carica- | ture in England,” in the September Harper, speaks of | the Cruikshank etching at the head of his paper asa portrait of the etcher, The etching was made for Mr. Cruikshank’s friend, Mr. J. W. Bouton, and is not in- | tended as a portrait of any one. | an old bibliomaniac at work in his library, THE HERALD TRAIN A _ SUCCESS. {From the Niagara Falls Daily Register.] The running of the Sunday HeRatp train is proving to | be av | reflects more and more favorably on the sound judg- | nt of the projectors of this innovation in journalism. | Instead of nearly paying expenses, as it was expected at | the commencement, it is now really proving a source of profit. On Sanday last thirty-five through passengers arrived at this place, and quite a number besides, who got on at | diferent places along the ii Tho Wagnor car, under the ge of Conductor Corlett, was full before leaving New York, and at Albany an additional coach to be put on to accommodate those who got on at that point, | on time at the Western terminus, We understand from Conductor Lowry that the con. stantly increasing popularity of the train renders its continuance till the middle of September and possibly till the first of October a probability, If the rapidity | with which the Hkratp js sold here to both guests and citizens is an index of sales along the route we should consider it advisable to extend the termination of the trips beyond the time agreed upon at the commence ment of the season, [From the Rochester Post.] ‘The Naw York Hxnanp’s lightning newspaper train, on Vanderbilt’s steel rails, made the astonishing time of seventy miles an hour the other day A HORSE THIEF. his horse and wagon while he was making some pur- chases in a store on Central avenue, Newark, On Saturday Patrick Burns was sent from the Tombs, whore he was confined for boing drunk, to Newark, on the requisition of the Chief of Police of the latter pla who believes tht Burns stole Mr, Burgesser's property | Another ebarge of stealing a set of harness has also bee | preferred against him by Mr. J. H. Eldridge, residing as No, 141 Boyden stroot, Newark, | Among these are portraits of Victor Jacquemont, M. | | | ‘The story of Camille Desmoulins and his pretty wife, | Guigor, af. de Montalombert, le Pere Lacordaire, Ie | attention of young American and English writers who — lishers, and well paid for if they are written with any- | | their appearance at the Metropolitan Theatre. high price of $2, but it is worth the notice of military | Canon Vaughan, a monk of the Benedictine congrega- | vie | tion, has abridg It presents the | Mr. Stuart Glennie’s “Travel and Discussion in the | That gentle, | and constructs the universe anew after the writer's own | It merely represents | y successful enterprise, and each successive trip | As usual, the train arrived | ‘A fow days since aman named Henry Burgessor lost | COULISSE CHAT. * ‘The Vokes play this week in Philadelphia, The Tivoli Theatre continues to draw good houses, Howes & Cushing’s Circus opens in this city to-day, ‘The Plantation Minstref Slave Troupe will be reorgan- ized under Lew Johns Daly scored a big success in San Francisco with H. J. Byron’s ‘Weak Woman.”” | Miss Kellogg will probably produce | opera, “La Dame Blanche,’’ this season, | Miss Minnie Conway's marriage will not interfere with | her promised appearance at the Academy of Music. ‘There will be considerable reopening of theatres to- | morrow, The prospects for the season appear good, Joseph Jefferson reappears at the Princess’ Theatre, Lou ‘ovember, in the character of Rip Van | Winkle. | Mr. Collier, of the Julia Mathews troupe, is a marvel of suppleness. His gambols are well relished by the | andiene | “Big Bonanza’ reappears on the bills of the Fifth Ave- | nue Theatre this evening. We thought it had gone to | Salt 1 One of the most successful features of the Julia Mathews Comic Opera Company is the French song by M. De Lorme. The full season of the Carl Rosa English Opera Com. pany opens in London, at the Princess’ Theatre, September 11. Saturday night the light-hearted Vokes family with- drew from the Fifth Avenue Theatre, after a very suc- cessful engagement, A “Cent Philadelphia; the music by Adam Geibel and the words by Samuel C. Upham. Lord Newry, the freeholder of the Globe Theatre, London, took an action against H, J, Montague and ob- tained a verdict for $3,500. The Emerson Minstrels made a great hit at Cincin- nati, The house was nightly filled to overflowing and numbers were turned away, Mr. Edward Arnott, who played the part of Corry Kinshella in “The Shaughraun,”” is engaged as leading man in one of the Chicago theatres. Violetta Colville lately had a narrow escape from drowning, She fell from a pleasure bout at Lackawanna, and sank twice before she was rescued, ‘Yo-night the Jack and Jill Pantomime Troupe make ‘The bill the delightful at this house will be otherwise interesting. ‘A The ballet performed at Wallack’s on the opening night caused some comment, Canean is very good in its way, but féerique cancan is a little too strong. Mrs. W. J. Florence is shortly to appear in a new char- acter, which she will create—Mrs, General Giltlory, im the new American comedy, “The Almighty Dollar.” The Olympic Theatre opens on Monday under the management of John F, Poole, which 1s a sufficient guarantee that it will continue to merit public favor, Instead of the charming Mrs. Rousby we are to have George Belmore, the eminent English actor, at Booth’s next September, He appears in Boacicault’s “Flying Scud.” The rehearsals for the “Ring of the Nibelungen”” | have commenced at Bayreuth under the personal direc- tion of Wagner, It is not stated whether the singers are insured or not. | A Yorkshire viear has published a description of Pocklington nightingales “pouring forth melodies far | surpassing those uttered” even by Tietjens or Salvini.”? | He meant Sankey. ‘The preparations for the production of “Around the | World in Eighty Days” at the Academy of Music are | being pushed on with great energy under the direction of the Kiralfys. _A gorgeous spectacle is promised. | Miss Mary Gallagher, who plays the part of Nancy, | sweetheart of Jean Passe-Partout, at the Grand Opera House, is well known in fashionable amateur circles in | Washington. She possesses a good deal of dramatic | talent. Wachtel’s engagement with Manager Neuendorff for { the United States extends from October 1 next until | the 15th of June, 1876, as well as in Philadelphia during | the Centennial Exposition, He is to receive half the | gross receipts of each performance, | Yneodore Thomas will give his hundredth concert at | Central Park Gurden on Tuesday night next. A gula per- formance will be given, which will bring together the beauty and fashion of the metropolis and all lovers of food music who have not been tempted to leave the | city | There will be a grand reopening at Dan Bryant's | old minstrel home this evening. Henceforth it will ‘be known as Darling’s Opera House. The entertain- | ment will be supplied by Cotton & Reed’s New York Minstrels. Several of the old time favorites are in- ny. ‘The great musical event of the year will be the ap- | pearance in the fall of Hans Guido Von Blow, the | marvellous pianist, His arrival is important, not alone ‘on account of the great executive power possessed by him, but also because he is a brilliant representative of the progressive and liberal school of music. Mr. Sullivan gives but twenty-one impersohations at | Boot His engagement with Jarrett & Palmer, how- ever, is for 100 representations throughout the United | States, ‘The announcements for his first week are Ham- let, a, Richard II, and Claude Melnotte. The sule of seats begins on next Wednesday morning. | The residents in the viciaity of Gihnore's Garden ara about to get up an humble petition to the hero of the, Jubilee for the cessation of the national air with which his band nightly terminates the performance. There must be some “secesh’? sympathizers about, What if Gilmore tried “The Bonnie Blue Flag” for a change? } ‘The Princess of Trebizonde” will be produced im | English garb at Robinson Hall this evening. The cast will include Miss Clara Fisher, Miss Nellie Lar- kelle, and Messrs. Woodfield, Allen and Atkins, Matt | Morgan has lent the aid of his brush, having painted | three new scenes, The chorus has also been strength- | ened. | Messrs. Cervantes and White, well known musiciang | of Havana, who were banished by the government of | Valmaseda for political reasons, will give concerts im this city during the winter. They are certain to give | great pleasure, as both are honored students of the Paris Conservatoire and musicians of rare powers of | execution, | George Rignold has been playing the part of Clancarty, in London, and has met with immense The critics speak in the highest terms of his | acting of the part,gand, what is better, the people fill ‘the houses, Rignold has made another popular suc cess, This may account for his withdrawal from the cast of ‘Julius Cwsar” at Booth’s, Mile, Leonora Rita, a young Florentine prima donna | of considerable talent, will appear in concert here next | month, ‘This lady made a great success a8 Amina om | the occasion of her début in Milan at La Scala, Sinee | then she bas studied under Mme. Sainton Dolby, and | has become proficient in English oratorio and ballad singing. She made agreat success in England, Colonel Sinn’s Brooklyn Variety Theatre opens om Monday. A remarkably strong company has been en- gaged and the management promises to be as spirited this year as last. The season's programme involves @ weekly change of bill and of stars, This is the kind of | enterprise that insures success, and Colonel Sinn may be looked on in future as an established feature of suc Brooklyn, The gallant Colonel still holds the direction of th imore Front Street Theatre, The tre Comique opens for the regular season this evening, under the management of Colonel During the summer the Comique bas undergone a thorough overhauling and now presents an attractive appearance, In addition te a dramatic company for the performance of sensational plays Colonel Brown has secured a number of first clase specialty artists for the opening night, among whom may be found Little Mae, Delehanty and Cummings, Jonny Wild, Larry Tooley, Johny Allen, Seanton and Cronin (whose forte is Irish sketehes), the Bolsset Comet Family, numbering eight gymnastic and acro | batic performers; Billy Barry, Hannah Birch and Nelly St. Jolin, | “Boulotte’”? has made an unqualified hit, and Wal | lack’s was well filled at every performance last | week, Miss Mathews i gradually recovering from @ | severe attack of inflammatory rheumatiam, which seized | her shortly after she arrived in this country and threat | ened to lay her up for some time, As her health im- proves she acts and sings with greater ease, ‘*Boulotte”’ has proved such an extraordinary success that it is dilfi. cult totell when the “Grand Duchess’ will be brought | forward. It will tollow *Boulotte,”’ The scenery for it is alrewly being painted. Miss Mathews introduced T, Allston Brown, | the “Grand Duchess’ in English to the London publig | seven yours ago, The press of that city was unanimow® in its expressions of approval of ber representation @ the charueter, and the piece bad @ run of 200 consecutive hights at the Covent Garden Theatre :