The New York Herald Newspaper, September 26, 1875, Page 8

8 “TMB POLITICA UI —_-—__——_ The Democrats and Republicans Getting Ready for the Campaign. "THE ANTI-TAMMANY COALITION. Possible Influence of the Labor Question on Local Issues, ‘THE SENATORIAL DISTRICTS The two Conventions having done all that they could to make the road clear for the politicians in this city, the local leaders and wire-pullers generally have Begun, if not to work, at least to look around to see ‘what is to be done. Somehow the republicans, so far ‘as outward preparations go, have not, as yet, taken the ‘first step looking to the nomination of their local can- idates, This may be accounted for im two ways. They have such a small chance of electing anybody for Jocal offices, with the exception of a certain number of Aldermen under the minority system, that they think that it is just as advantfgeous to trot out their men a ‘week or two before eleciion as in a month or more, (But this reason, though it applies the same to heir city canvass almost every year, is not probably, judging from all accounts, the chief cause at present of their apparent inaction. The fact is ‘hat, in spite of the bitter recollections of the campaign ‘of November, 1873, when they were routed horse, foot and dragoons because of their combination with the anti-Tammanyites, they are quietly making their prepa- rations to repeat the experiment, hoping, of course, this timo to succeed better than before. It is known that Beveral conferences have already been held between the men behind the scenes who have been instrumental in putting the new play of ‘The Road to Fortune; or, The Downfall of Tammany Hall” on the political stage and the republicans who manage the details of their party machinery, and that thus far the result has been found to be mutually satisfactory. It is the rdle of the repub- licans, therefore, to keep at present perfectly quiet, so that they may not be quoted as being to eager to GRASP AT A STRAW to secure even a small portion of the spoils which Tam- many threatens to gobble up without sharing with any | outside organization. It seems to be certain thatsolong as their candidate for District Attorney is heartily in- dorsed by the anti-Tammany party, with a possible small judgeship thrown in to balance the gcales a little evenly, there will beno surplus of conscience on the part of the republican managers to prevent them from joining hands with the democrats opposed to Tammany in order to secure the election of their candidates for Burrogate, City Judge, Recorder, Coroner and two out of ‘the nine Civil Justices, as well as the candidates for the Court of Common Pleas and one of the Marine Court Judges. It may be, however, that before the final set- Vement is made by the combinationists the plans of the dealers will have to be changed somewhat in the matter of the Surrogateship, Bs strong efforts are being made to have 4n out and out republican put in nomination for the place, It is more than probable, too, that this will be pasily conceded by the anti-Tammanyites if they be- Bome satisfied that the republicans mean to “do the ‘Square thing” by the other candidates; and, if report speaks truly, jhe fact that the engineers of the Von Shafer faction have not succeeded in obtaining the con- sent of a certain candidate for Surrogate whom they Yesired to run, and who they fondly hoped would sub- scribe some twenty odd thousand dollars for the good vf the cause, will only hasten the consummation of the wishes of their republican allies, Since the Conven- Mon at Syracuse, of course the anti-Tammanyites have been compelled to make some outward show of their plans, but the details they have pretty well kept to \hemselves—that is to say, while it is undeniable that Ahey are only too WILLING TO PLAY SECOND FIDDLE othe republicans in combining on local candidates Whey are loath to reveal the exact methods by which Ihey intend to roll up a respectable vote in the various districts, and until they can show the republicans that they will really have as much strength in certain wards om election day as they now parade on paper there will be still possible danger of a “‘hitch” in the general pro- | framme. A great deal of confidence is expressed by some of the Custom House chiefs in the final triumph of all the elements opposed to Tammany on local issues, if the Germans stana together as solidly as they did for Dttendorfer last year, However, as Ottendorfer will Aot be a candidate himself this time for any office, they pave grave fears that the great mass of those of his | pllowers who stood by him in (1874 simply because be was.a candidate will go over to Tammany this fall ‘tow that he is only @ common worker among a thou- jand. There is another thing the combinationists do ot lose sight of in their calculations in reference to the Berman vote, and that is the terror (and it is being en- youraged by the Tammany men) which the lager-loving fentons have of a more stringent Sunday liquor law ind which they believe will be brought about if the re- publicans win. True, this would be a matter which the members of the Legislature would alone have to deal with, but the mere suspicion that the republican party, mee again in power in Albany, would be in favor of surtailing the existing lager privileges will of itself, it is thought, turn a large German vote heretofore republi- tan against all the republican candidates for local wfices, knowing as they do that these candi- lates will be im sympathy with and exert themselves to elect candidates of their own kidney ‘o make our laws. Tho chief hopes of the anti- fammany democrats are centred in the laboring classes, they feel confident that the great mass of the working- men are really in earnest in the denunciations of the party they have an idea Tammany Hall asa body took {a the matter of THE REDUCTION OF THE LABORERS’ WAGES, They have no offices now in hand to promise in ex- Change for their services to active wirepullers in the districts, whose loyalty to a party 18 ever measured by the length of the party purse or the value of its prom- Issory notes, and no general patronage that is certain which they can pledge to the workingmen. Their only ehance, then, of being able to counteract this very weakness of theirs, which 1s to offset Tammany’s | strength in the way of patronage, is to keep the la- | | for the regulars beforehand. This evidently can never | borers who are at work and whose wages were cut down, as well as the workingmen who have been unable ali the sumener to get any , though promised plenty, last November, when their votes were wanted, in a ferment of excitement ver the question by showing them tRe injustice of bheir deprivations and how it will be€o their advantage to put in power a set of patriots who, unmindful of themselves, will unsetfishiy put every idle man to work M the highest wages at the shortest notice, There is fo use of Tammany’s legging the question about the ‘issatisfaction that exists among the laboring classes, Gud arguments on the part of the Wigwam chiefs to show that as an organization Tammany had nothing 2o do with the reduction of the wages are mere waste Of breath, Every well informed polttician in the city Knows in hig heart and soul that Tammany had no fetual part in the reduction of the laborers’ wages, Bod if Mr. Wickham was brave enough to say be could tell how Mr. John Kelly entered is etnphatic protest against the — reduction bt about by the heads of departments, the med he got wind of it. But the fact is recognized y the politicians that the workingmen, taking the {ll- viged action of the Tammany General’ Committee on 9 Clancy resolution as their basis of offence, hold Mr. ell and Tammany responsible for the reduction, and @hat their tre, in a close political contest, when rich Bpoil@ and immense power for the future are at stake, thing that must be appeased or wrought into greater Intensity just according as it will suit the wishes of Lue friends or " icone = WiGwaM, it ts Possible that the workingmen, now in the employ of the various department’ of the city overnments, Oo Matter how bitterly they lament heir forty cents @ day reduction, will vote against ‘ammany with the fear before their cyes of a prompt in case of Tammany's wore than provable But as the unemployed who sought employment and found it not, as well as the ‘thousands de yp rte — a work bat not under governmental control, bave taken up the quev. tion of the reduction of the wages of the city laborers Bs a personal matter, it follows that those who are pctualy at the mercy of Tammany are but a very small minority. How to weld these discontented elements so that they may be thrown against Tammany ning effect, is naturally the study of lam. Yoany’s opponents. | That they have succeeded in fomenting an aimost universal feeling of revenge Baainst her among this class no one can deny who has Made it bis business Lo weil the eforts of thew owen | oui to Malt, There are. it is true. a Lost of “caudi- | the renupncaas on Lue Mouday NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1875—QUINTUPLE SHEET. fama andergrouna plans co myie ene workingmen to vote as one man against whomsoever is known to be favored for any office by Mr. Kelly; but as to whether this feeling will be positively e: at tho ballot box is @ question which, as Lord Dundreary says, no onecan find out, The anti-fammanyites, full of the idea of SERVING TH DRAR PEOPLE, by gotting into the snug now oceupied by Mr. Kelly's friends, firmly believe that the workingmen “mean business’ in all their talk about i ‘am many; but the opinion, widespread as it 1s, i8 not con- fined to the Tammany men alone, that when election day comes the workingman, who has always in the past, when not tied band and foot by the “technical observations’’ of & democratic Governor or the mistakes of a democratic Mayor, found Tammany his best friend when in want of work, will, as of old, forget his personal griefs, fall into ine and vote the straight ticket, im- pelled to do so by the thought that at the very best no change of party managers can give him a er hold on a new party than he has upon ¢l Certainly, the workingmen who are dem the great mass of them are, have, say many ers, that has for its main object the triumph of republicans over the democrats, and, consequently, the giving of the spoils to vietors, who will keep all democrats ont in the cold. But this labor question, doubtless, must remain an open one until election day, although the peaceful citizen who does not mingle among politicians need not be surprised to hear of the demagogues on both si making it their football and sport for their own benefit during the campaign, in spite of the promises and pledges made by some of the delegates who went to Syracuse from this city. The harmony brought about at the Convention, by the way, was only a surface harmony at the utmost; and, though it was a necessity in a party point of view, it is believed that the country districts will alone have the exclusive pleasure of showing up its falsity and the real sentiments that their delegates felt but were in- duced to smother, The delegation from New York city were not in this category, happuy for the Wizwam; though, bad any considerable portion of the anti-Tammanyites been recognized by the Convention, it is certain that things at this end of the State would lave been in a bad mix on election night, when the Tilden ticket would have been found to bave been ‘cut everywhere by Tam- many. Asaresult of John Kelly’s bold stand in Til- den’s house on the Tuesday night preceding the Con- vention, when, though the old gentleman had already promised his friend, Comptroller Green, that a goodly umber of bis pet delegations from this city should be supported by the Governor’s country friends. in the ts, the nothing to gain by ‘voting a ticket | Convention, he suddenly saw the danger he was in and promised that nothing, 80 far as he could help it, would prevent the Tammany delegation from being admitted, ‘There will be no trouble among the “regular” deomo- erats in THR SENATORIAL DISTRICTS here, and every effort will be made by Tammany to elect the five Senators as the Governor desires she should. The prospects of success in this particular are good, it may be said, despite the fact that some of the anti-Tammany democrats are so reckless as to be willing to aid the republican candidates rather than have Tammany win. The Fourth district is certain to send a democrat, no matter how the battle will close, for a republican in running in the district would have no chance of getting elected with even four democratic competitors in the field. But the contest in the district must inevitably be a bitter one, and since the appoint- ment of the new State Committee things have been so shaped in the district that there is great likelihood of a big time all round for the “boys.” In the first place there is a host of small fry candidates who, like flies round @ molasses cask, have already begun to do a great deal of buzzing, all for their own good, and to whom no one outside of the range of theit limited flight pays the slightest attention. In reality there are ba three candidates in the district of any strength, and each of whom has considerable of that desirable sine non, which the politicians call ‘“back- ing? These three are ex-Senator. Fox, Assemblyman Nicholas Muller and Assemblyman T. Je Campbell. The drawback to Fox, in the opinion of those who were made strong by the reorganization of the First district last fall, is that he has been out of Tammany too long to be of beneiit to the party; but this is off- set by his frienda, who point to the fact that he took Tammany’s affront last year “like a litte man,” pocketed it seriously iustead of going about blubbering over his fate and asking his friends to hold a wake for him, and quietly bided his time when he could in an effective way show Morrissey and others, who had shoved him ‘tothe wall, that he had a hold on his Senatorial district that was not all TAMMANY'S PRIVATE PROPERTY. ‘This time, they say, came when his friend Hogan ran against Meade for Congress, and only fell short 175 of a majority out of a total vote of over 18,000. Again they | point to his run for the Seuatorship in 1873, when he | had the police and the Street Cleaning Department machinery against him, and when Jones, bis opponent, | was supported by all the anti-Tammauy elements, whom, | he beat in his own (Jones’) Assembly district by 549 votes, Inthe Third district, where James Hayes was supposed to be all powerful and who was against him in the fight, he gota majority of over 1,409 votes by dint of his knowledge as an active politician how to | turn everything, good and bad, to good account. It is conceded that he and Hogan,’ working together in the Senatorial fight, would be an ugly team to | beat, und report bas even had it during | the’ week, that Morrissey’s s friends are | exerting themselves to preveut his nomination, while | all the time giving it out that if Fox ‘“dares’’ to run Morrissey will oppose him, feeling that if he does not | ron Morrissey will have @ good chance of getting alto- | gether out of a race ne has no stomach for, particu- | fas if Fox is bis antagonist. Still, with the politi- cians Fox is not popular in the district; they seem to | have taken a remarkable aversion to him, and the very | fact that it is known that if he were nominated he | would roil up his sleeves and go to work in the canvass himself, is | GALL AND WoRMWOOD to them all. One act done at Syracuse during the Con- | vontion seems to have got the district completely by the ears on the Senatorial question, and that 1s the ap- | pointment of Nicholas Muller on the State Committee from the Fifth Congressional district instead of William Walsh, Fox was at Syracuse for two days before the | Convention met and on the meeting day. People suid he wasafter that place on the State Committee, though his friends denied it. Muller was known to be aiter it too, and it was generally felt that whichever got it would have the inside track for the Senatorship; 0, when Muller was piaced on the committee his triends threw up their hats and declared the Senatorial nomi- tion as good as made, On the other hand, it was said | that Muller’s appomtment was made to bridge over the { difficulties in the Senatorial district, so that in cage the | Senatorship should be given to Fox, Muller could solace his disappointment in the thought ‘that he occupied a place in the party as « State Committeeman, where his \borough experience as @ sharp, observing politician and bis weil tried qualities as an organizer of victory eould be brought into play to the best possible advantage to the party and to linmself in '76, while he would be elected to the Assembly this year with scarce any oppo- sition, Still bis friends believe that he will, even though he is on the State Committee, yet SECURE THE SENATORS ey are working hard for him. He has, beyond a doubt, already obtained the full pledge of the Sixth Assembly district’s twenty odd yotes, and if the fight | should be narrowed down as between him and Fox, and | Muller's delegation should be favorable to bim and Jon Kelly should not interfere, the plain rule of addi- tion would make him the nominee of the Senatorial | District Convention. Morrissey is the great bugaboo of | | the friends of the three aspiring candidates for the | regular nomination. He has already been put in nomi- Nauon by three or four clubs im the district, but thus | far no word has been extracted trom him which cau be | taken a8 @ guarantee that be consents to be an anti-Tammany candidate. Indeed, since the conven- tion was held, where bis courteous way of arguing tho claims of this delegation won for him not only five but the good | Teal esta | votes of the Committee on Credenti | feeling of the Tarnmany leaders as well, the impression has gained ground that he will still persist in consider- | ing himself a regular Tammany man, and will not, | therefore, oppose the Tammany candidate, This im- | pression,’ however, has all along carried with it the | proviso that if John Fox gets the Tammany nomination | oppose him, not so much on anti-Tammany grounds ag to get everl with his old foe for the part he took in helping to defeat his friend Hayes for Register, and to be considered as the representative of the work: ing classes, So it will be seen that it will require the exercise of the utmost prudence and ingenuity on the part of the Tammany leaders to make the contest in the Fourth district, as of old, a certain one be done if the matter is left entirely to the ward dele- gates, and the Wigwam Magician wili doubtices wave his little wand in a week or two, and then there will be unanimity where now everything is AT SIXES AND SEVENS. The other Senatorial district tions point at present, will not afford much of a field for politicians who delight in bitter strife where the chances are nearly even for victory and defeat. In the Fifth, Senator Booth (republican), backed by Comp- troller Green's gratitude for past favors received and all the anu-Tammany faction, will be renominated by the republicans; but his defeat is considered almost cer- tain if Sidney P. Nichols can be induced to take the Tammany nomination, a8 the popularity of Mr. Nichols with the democrats, a8 well as with the liberal repub- licans in the district, who are many, added to the bad feeling that exists against Booth’ in certain fac- tions of hig own party, will be rather formidable obsta- cies for the present Senator to overcome. In the Sixth, Aesemblyman James Daly is sure of the Tam- many nomination, and as the district is strongly demo- cratic bis pomination will be equivaient to an election. ‘There will undoubtedly be @ lively conwst in the Seventh, where Ledwith was two years ago pitted against kverard, the coalition candidate, and wou UNDER TH TAMMANY BANNER, Against the criminal manipulators of the election districts lying within the control of ex-Senator O'Brien and friends. James $. Thayer will be the Tammany nominee, and Everard the candidate of the anti-Tain- many coalition. As to the Eighth there is considerabie difference of opinion, many democrats believing that if Senator Moore was able to get in 1873 on 264 plurality | in a district that ought to gi trong democrat, who | is not a target for the same prejudices as the present Senator, fully 6,000 majority, he is not exactly the man to tan this year, However, by some of the proin- inent democrats of the district he is considered the strongest possible candidate, and, thouglf he himsectf says he does not want a renomination, he may be forced by his friends into the contest. Opinions differ very widely among the leaders as to the proba bility of his eleetion if nominated; bat tm thd™present condition of aflairs it is believed that it would undoubt- edly be a very risky thing for Tammany to take up any other man if the present Senator should not be favor- able to him, especially as the republicans are deter- mine? to pub upafiras class man as their candidate, and work day and night to get him elected, TIE ASSEMBLY CANDIDATES As yot, the Assembly uominatious are, for the most part, is thig shotl, and until the incach of the five districts has been satisfactorily Settied, but few of the roal candidates will be brought re. Mr. Campbell's friends, too, are likewise hopeful, and | so far as the indica- | Seuvatorial question | dates” in each Assembly district, whose names are being bandied about, bui, a8 they have nominated themselves, and if they run on election day will prob- ably only obtain their own votes and be recorded \gpomniniouaty as “scattering” by the canvassers, their names may as weil rest in oblivion, But the same thing may not be said of ‘THR ALDERMANIC CANDIDATES, for it is more than probable that all the presont dem- ocratic members of the Board will be renominated. Assemblyman Hess, a8 a republican, is after Simouso: luce from the Eighth Senatorial distriet, and Van Jott, ex-Fire Commissioner, is determined if he can to succeed Alderman Morris,’ republican, Mr, Billings, republican, is booked for the at large ticket, where Morris will have to f° for refuge if hard pressed in tho Fifth Senatorial district for the district nomination. Mr. Vance is not to be a candidate, but Mr. Southwark will possibly Ye renominated front the Sixth Senatorial district as the lone republican star. The belief is that the at large ticket fo be nominated by Tammany will be Samuel A. Lewis, John Reilly, Magnus Gross and Henry Purroy. If the question of nationality is to have anything to do with the success of this ticket it is hard to seo how it can be defeated, in view of the fact that Mr. Lewis is a Hebrew, Roilly an Irishman, Gross a German and Purroy “a’ native, and to the manor born.’’ The candidates for O1VIL, JUSTICRS in tho nine districts that are to elect justices aro as thick as leaves in Vallombrosa, In the lower district Justice Quinn, who stands well with the Wigwam lead ers asa fwithiul follower, and will get the cordial sup- port of Mr. John Kelly if he stends in need of it, will probably be the Tammany candidate if things do not get so mixed in the district on the Senatorial question “8s to leave every wirepuller there out high up on the fence until it will be too late to get down on one side or the other without being detected. William H. Maloney, it 18 said, would get the nomination if his district alone had the full say about the matter. Judge Kane will be renominated in his district, and if things turn out as well in the district as they have thus far since it was organized he will not be defeated, In the Seventh district candidates are as plenty as shillelabs at a Donnybrook fair. The list comprises, on the Tammany side, Mr. L, G. Dessaur, Mr, Bernard F. MeCahill, a pres. lawyer; Mr. Max Moses and Mr. Ambrose Mouell, It is said that in case Mr. Moses fails to get the Tammany nomination he will become the candidate of the opposition democracy, ‘The republicans will nominate Mr. Walter Pinckney. It looks at present as if there would be a close contest in this district. Mr. McGovern is backed by the young men of the district, led= by William A. Butler, J. Joseph Scully, Thomas Carroll and others, ‘The “outsiders” have got Frederick Thileman “slated,” but if Mr. McGovern consents to become ® candidate, there will be no opposition. The republi- cans have not as yet settled on a candidate, ORGANIZING FOR WAR. The action of the Democratic State Committee in making its headquarters at Albany instead of, as usual, in this city, has created a great deal of talk among the democrats,’ The general opihion is that it was done at the request of the Governor, 80 that he himself might havea hand in the canvass, If he should make lum- selfan ancillary member of the committee and can- vasses the rural regions in his peculiar way with tho same success that attended his elforts last year, the party that wishes the Tilden ticket well will have little to complain about, INDEPENDENT DEMOCRATS. A meeting of citizens of the Twentieth Assembly | district last night, at No. §44 Second avenue, or- | | ganized tne “Independent Democratic Pioneer As- | sociation No. 1,” with the following officers:—Presi- dent, Charles Brandess; Secretary, Edward Kelly; Treasurer, Felix Darwin. Nearly 300 members were enrolled, and resolutions were unanimously adopted endorsing Governor Tilden’s measures of retorm and urging his election to the Presidency, condemning the | nomination of an active republican for Secretary of | State on the democratic ticket, and pledging the | votes of the Association for that office to Mr. Frederick | | W. Seward; also stigmatizing as an outrage and insult the action of the Syracuse Convention in relation to the true democracy of this city. BROOKLYN'S POLITICAL ANXIETY. | BOSS M'LAUGHLIN Vs, JUDGE DELMAR—A PO- LITICAL TALE OF NOMINATIONS, WITH A WORD ABOUT EX-CHIEF FOLK. That the leaders of both of the regularly organized | political parties in Brooklyn, and particularly those of | them who give special! attention to political party con- cerns in the southern portion of that city, are now grievously pressed by ominous forebodings concerning the success of their several politicalchargés in the coming November election, is a well recognized fact among all who take interest in local affairs, To THE CoursipERs,” such machine workers as Hon. J. 8. T. Stranahan on the one side and Mr. Hugh McLaughlin, better known as the Boss, on the other, are either sternly reticent or amusingly jocular when the present can- vass is mooted; and in either their stern or jocular moods they are as non-committal asa heathen god when there is nothing of value held up to induce ittoopen its mouth, Through what may be called | the assistant engineers in the working of the party | engines, however, there is a tendency to leak out | such information as may have been confided to them, | the pressure of the peculiarly exasperating conditions being beyond their capacity to bear with ease. First of all, in the southern locality named, comes the query as to whether, on the democratic side, Boss McLaughlin will permit the nomination of Judge Delmar for the office of Sheriff of the county of Kings. It seems to be believed on all sides that the Boss 1s not | favorable to the progressing of Delmar beyond his present | SPHERE OF DIGNIFIED USEPULNESS, | provided his advaucement can be avoided with safety to the ticket generally. But the judges, captains, heuten- ants, sergeants and corporals are all particularly and persistently anxious to have the question of his prefer- ment settled immediately and definitely now, so far es that nomination is concerned, in order that the other aspirants may understand that their “goose is cooked”? for this occasion and that they may as weil get out of the way. In making this request of Judge's friends are tree ind can leaders contemplate the presentation of the name | of ex-Chief of Police Folk, with the manner of whose | retirement trom oflice there was very general republi- can dissatisfaction, and that because of the method ne powers that be the ring that the republi- of Folk’s retirement the Judge is the only | man in thé opposition who can head off the | veteran chief. And there are many other | strong forms in which the-claim for the Judge is pre- | sented, without, as yet, eliciting any more detinite re- 8 al conventions are held 80 | near to the day of election, it is still too early to be une- | quivocally definite touching the position of any candi- dato on any ticket for local offices, This conclusion has determined the Judge's friends, it is declared, to. main- tain a threatening attitude toward the Boss touching that portion of the ticket until the Convention meets. They dociare that Mr. McLaugiilin does not incline to deal fairly with the Judge; that he is watching care- fully the eff of ‘the local cries concern- ing a nearly four per cent rate of taxation on the present depressed and almost entirely unsalable of the city; of the wordy war aguinst what is now called the inter-party Ring and ali its known sub- ordinates; of the feeling aroused in the Bighth and | Twenty-second wards because of the war of some of the recognized leaders of the party apon Assemblyman ! Talmadge, for seeking to have Prospect Park lands paid for with the money to be obiained trom the sale of the | east side lands, rather than by a heavy assessment upon an already impoveri and overburdened dis- trict; of the cry against levying end placing large sams of money in the sinking fund for favored banks to use for years at three per cent, while they loan back this very Bame sinking fund money to the city at seven per cent, and will beable to do so fur years to come; of the grows ing ery for A “SRW DEAL jes, and that when he shall have usion concerning the eifect of all these yout canvass he will ma e one of wing decisions in relation to the nomumation for Sheriff on the democratic side :— If it shall seem certain that, with the democratic State ticket in the ascendant here and the democratic yarty in the ascendant in other States, the cries which ave been raised render a democratic success in the cal offices exceedingly uncertain, then will he give the pomination to the Judge, leaving him to shoul- al! around on both s arrived at a conc cries in the pr | the foil dgr the biame as he goes down in defeat. This course, it is claimed by even more than the Judge's friends, would move for Mr. McLaughlin to mak nditions be right, for the reason that the ly, if it must come at the next election, could be made vo appear as vharge- able to the Judge’s account, thereby relieving other shoulders; and, besides, that defeat would place the Judge where he need uot be feared for several years to come, But should ‘TMK PROSPECT OF SUCCESS for the local ticket seem fair, or should it seem to be | simply evenly balanced, the declared beliof is that the Jucge will be set aside, and then, if tlefeat follows, the friends of the Judge can be blamed for it still, on the | ground that they failed in their duty to the whole ticket in revenge for the failure of the Conyention to recognize the Judge's claims, c These are the declarations that are about to be handed down to the furtively ambitious young men who gather at the corners in South Brooklyn on pleasant evenings, aod which are now being canvassed freely by the u non-partisan gatherings which have within the past few nights become a somewhat exciting phase in Brooklyn politics, COUNTY CONVENTIONS. ‘The Democratic and Liberal Republical Conventton | for the First Senatorial distriet, which comprises | Queens, Suffolk and Richmond counties, 18 called to | meet at the Town Hak in the village of Jamaica, om | Monday, the 11th of October, at one o’clock P.M, The | Provable nominco is James Ma Oakley, for the last four | years member of Avsembly from the Second distsiet of | | Queens. The Republican Senatorial Convention, which | will probably meet on the following Wednesday, will doubtiess nominate the Hon, Lx Bradford Prince, for several years member of Assembly from the First dis- trigt of Queens. e democrats of Queens county will hold thete county convention on, Fridays ther 8th of Ocbotme, ud Vo Weta — ine Ea IMPORTS AND EXPORTS. MERCHANDISE, SPECIE AND BULLION IMPORTED AND EXPORTED DURING THE MONTH OF AUGUST—FOUR MILLIONS DECREASE ON COR- RESPONDING MONTH OF LAST YEAR. i Wasurnoton, Sept, 25, 1875, ‘The following statement of the imports and exports of merchandise into and from the several ports of the United States during the month ending August 31, 1875, is furnished by the Chief of the Bureau of Statistics :— h aoe meee Imports. is. 4 “Gold lized” Gold Districts. Values, Values. Values. Alexandria, Va, $2,009 — - Aroostook, Me... 1, = Baltimore, Md.... 22,632/003 $2,459,576 $6,047 Bangor, Me... 4,008 25,919 - Bath, Me. 8,838 15,079 - Beaufort, 8. C. 416 80,840 bo Belfast, Me. ......5 539 — Boston, &c., Mass, 8,312,405 2,028,024 78,996 Brunswick, Ga, . — 33,774 — Bullalo Croek,N.¥. 191,875 94,803 308 Cape Vineent, N.Y. 18,518 7,343 7.906 Coamplain, N, Y. 222,456 121,212 - Charleston, 8. 0. 1.052 | 22h.924 = Chicago, Ul. 42,591 95,490 36,082 Cuyahoga, 0 9,222 133,850 Delaware, Del... 1,168 —_ — Detroit, Mich. 88,471 29,464 Duluth, Minn. — baud Erie, Fi 42 re Fairlield, Conn, : 467 eg Fali River, Maas, 8,147 - Fernandina, Bla.. — - Galveston, Texas, . 28, — Genesee, N.Y. 225,576 425 Gloucester, Mass 11,614 = Huron, Mich by, 142,913 Key West, Fi ca Machias, Me. pa Marblehead, Mass. 522 _ Miami, Ohio. 60 - Milwaukee, Wis. 2,384 - Minnesota, Minn 127,77 - Mobile, Ala. 2,926 - Newark, N. J. Last ni Now Bedtord, Mass 2)209 230 Nowburyp't, Mass, 435 pa New Haven, Coun, 97,295, _ New Loudon, Conn ‘387 pa New Orleans, La. | ° 782,589 20,206 New York, N, Y.. 31,745,762 638,833 Niagara, N. Y..... 52 5,360 Norfolk, &., Va.. 2,270 ; — Oregon, Oregon... — 44,062 a Oswegatchie,N.¥, 112,715 28.050 40 Oswego, N. ¥ 318,752 183,463 al Pamlico, N.C... = a = Paso del Norte, Texas and N. M. 6,691 sk fi Passamaquoddy, Me.. at 60,767 53,022 - Pearl River, = 27,379 - Pensacola, Fla. 1,231 56, 4. — Philadelphia, Pa,, 1,714,016 2,795,219 11,054 Portsmouth, N. H. 1,629 — - Providence, R. 1... 11si2 ay ee Pugetssound, W.T. 5643 18,094 ig Richmond, Va. V1L376 858,214 ea , Mass: 1,347 cs aa Saluria, Te 89,357 11 San Diego, Cal. 85,753 = Sandusky, Ohio... 9,570 By: San Francisco, C 2,656,453 62,718 Savannah, Gi . 15,453, _- St. Jolin’s, Fla, 8,033 jus St. Mary’s, Ga, 7,600 =- Vermont, Vt.. 20,401 _ Waldoboro’, Me, pat Williametie, Orog. 20,011 25 Wilmington, N 175,053 pa Wiscasset, Me..... 11,301 - TOTALS. Total, Angust, 1875, $44,425, 131 $35,487,930 Total, August, 187: ‘38,755,863 Total’S months, end- ing August 31, . 1875....... 360,554,438 353,409,199 8,897,385 Do,. August 3i, 396,384,270 415,699,229 10,360,408 ECIE_AND BULLION. August, 19) + $1,103,473 $4,335,245 $273,037 ‘August, 1874...... 1,600,5 7,817,525 667,548 Eight months, end- ing August 31, 1876..... 14,506,223 G0f459,244 6,042,889 Eight months, ing August 31, 1874... 9,422,898 43,587,543 GOLD VALUES OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS. August, 1875 ‘August, 1874. Eight months. 1 Eight months, 1374. NEW RAILROAD TO YONKERS. 873,816,537 TEN MILES OF THE NEW YORK, BOSTON AND MONTREAL RAILROAD TO BE COMPLETED ON MONDAY. In the early part of the past week Andrew McKinney, treasurer of the New York and Boston Railroad, was appointed receiver, the road having gone into liquida- | tion with a view of reorganizing by wiping out the sec- ond mortgage bonds, and thereby enabling the holders of the first mortgage bonds to subscribe more capital and complete the road along the whole line. This rail- way is a combination of railroads, consisting of the line | from the city to the junction of the Dutchess and Co- | lumbia, the Harlem extension and the Vermont Central. The originator received from the Messrs, Bischoffsheim & Co., the Erie bankers, $6,000,000 to build the road, and an additional promise was given that $6,000,000 more would be subscribed when the first ap- propriation was expended; but during the panic these bankers, who are acting in the interests of English cap- italists, refused to make a further advance, con: quently the road had to be sold out under foreclosure Gnd a receiver _sppointea. A representative of the Hrraxp called on John G. Hoyt, who has leased from the receiver that portion of the ' road which runs from the city to Yonkers, and was informed by him that trains will be run on Monday from High Bridge to North Yonkers in connection with the Harlem River Railroad from their depot in Forty-second street, and also in connection with the Harlem line of boats from Fulton ferry and Peck slip, at Harlem. Mr. Hoyt is the Vice President of the New York, Boston and Montreal Railroad, and, in connection with a number of yominent New York capitalists, owns a large tract of jand in the immediate vicinity of North Yonkers, and the completion of this ten miles of road has been made with a viow of developing this section and bringing it into the market. The bulance of the road is now under process of foreclosure on the first mortgage divisional bonds, and, as the company owns considerable real estate’ at Pine's Bridge and Lake Mahopac, where they intend to organize a large ice company, every eflort will necessarily be made to complete the fity miles of road from the present terminus to Chatham Four Corners, in Dutchess county. Ail they require to raise is about $300,000, as the road to that point is almost completed, many miles of the track being laid. The ten mile section of the road will be open to passenger traffic next Thursday, An ami- cable arrangement ha’ been made with Commodore Vanderbilt, who permits the use of his Forty-second street depot by the comp#ay for a small percentage of the receipts. country lying between the Hudson River and Harlem roads, and, in the event of rapid transit in the city, an extended speculative movement will take place in real estate along the whole line, OCEAN RAPID TRANSIT. THE FASTYST OCEAN PASSAGE EVER MADE, The fastest passage ever made across the Atlantic was accomplished yesterday morning by the new steamer City of Berlin, of the Inman line, James Kennedy, com- mander. The City of Berlin left Liverpool on Thurs. day, September 16, at twenty-five minutes past six P, M. at Queenstown and waited for the mails, At ten min- utes to five the steamer got under way from Queens- town on her voyage to New York, taking a more southerly course tha the usual’ line of steam- ers. At four o’ciock erday morning she made Fire Island light” and at half-past six A. M. Sandy Hook. The steamer arrived at Quarantine a: seven minutes past twelve oclock A. M., making the passage, allowance of four hours and twenty- | two minutes being added for difference of time, in seven days, eighteen hours and two minutes. This is the fastest time ever made by any vessel across the ocean, The fastest previous time was made by the steamer Germania, of the White Star line, in seven days, twent: three hours and seven minutes, or five hours and five minutes longer than the trip of the City of Berlin. It will be seen by the following abstract from the log that she made over 360 miles every full day except the first since starting or over fifteen knots an hour:— Date. N. Lat. W. Lon. , 1875, Distances, Deg. Min. Deg. Min. ‘Thursday, 16, «+. From — ia cal a Friday, 17. Queenstown, — — = = Saturday 808, 60 45 (16 (68 Sunday, 19.. 307 0 8t 19 Monday, 2 876 430388485 | Tuesday, 21... 368 6 18 43 | Wednesday, 22, 380 4369) OL Thursday, 23. m4 42 8T 69 49 %. oat 60 52 67 (66 eee 2,829 arkal ‘esult is most entirely due to the admirable steam motive power of the vessel as only light wiads or calms prevailed during the voyage. GRANT'S COLORADO VISIT. [From the Denver (Col.) Tribune, Sept. 29) Tho proposed visit of General Grant to our city’ can. not be otherwise considered than as a speeial act of consideration on the part of His Excellency, It is @ well known fact that he is and always has been a par- ticular friend of both our city ad Territory, and has even taken pains w omke tii® friendship mani« fest by the most friendly references to us in his Con- grossionat mosisages. We bespeak for him and his party ome e ‘his road will develop a large section of | At half-phst eleven the next morning she arrived | ‘ccepliow Corresponding Wo his great dignity and use | NEW YORK CITY. ‘The police arrested 1,045 persons during the past week. ‘The body of an unknown man was found in the water at pier No. 33 North River yesterday, ‘There were reported 568 deaths, 454 births, 116 mar- riagos and 36 stillbirths in this city during the week, Officer Shaw, of the Ninth precinct, found the body of a new-born babe in the lumbor yard at No. 95 Horatio street yesterday. ‘The number of admissions to the Cooper Union free night classes aggrogates in the art classes 930, and in the scientific O80, making a total of 1,610, Burglars entered the bedroom of Charles Metz, at No. 234 Fast Fourth street, on the night of the 24th inst,, and stole property valued at $271, with which they escaped. James Gately, aged seven years, of No. 317 West Twonty-fifth street, had his left leg broken yesterday by failing from acoal cart in Twenty-fourth street, He was sent to Bellevue Hospital. Christopher Plohsterb, thirty-five years old, residing at No, 277 Spring street, while intoxicated yesterday afternoon, fell from a truck at the corner of Murtily and Church streets and receives severe injuries about Ma baer, He was taken to the Chambers street Hos- pi BROOKLYN. ‘There are 40,422 children in attendance regularly at the Sunday schools of Brooklyn. Mayor Hunter stated yesterday that the total amount of city indebtedness was $38,871,613 61. A watch valued at $115 was stolen from the house of M. Brockett, corner of Atlantic street and Third ave- nue, yesterday, William J, Boalter, the English seaman who died at the City Hospital, of yellow fever, at two o'clock yes- terday morning, was interred in Evergreen Cemetery yesterday afterneon. The epizooty having attacked the horses of the mounted squad, Police Inspector Waddy has ordered that they shall not perform duty after six P.M, duri the prevalence of the disouse, - on James McDonough and Cornelius Speer waived exam- ination before Justice Riley yesterday, to await the action of the Grand Jury, on the charge of keeping a policy shop at No. 76 Raymond street. ‘The expected formal visit of Vice Admiral Wellesley, of the Bellerophon, will not take place, owing to the fact that it is not considered safe to take her over the bar. The Adimrial visited Admiral Rowan on Friday, however, and was received with a salute. Mrs. Isabella Lockhardt, the widow who was to hay been married to Mr. Bailey, of Fort Lee, but who was disappointed in her matrimonial engagement, has been missing from her place of babitation at East New York since the 14th inst, aud fears for her safety are enter- tained. Judge Pratt, of the Supreme Court, in the matter of the People vs. the Fiske Pavement’ Company, has granted the application for the dissolution of the com- pany, on the ground that it failed to complete its arti- cles of incorporation. H, H. Wheeler has been ap- pointed receiver, ‘The police arrested 520 persons during the past week. At a meeting of the members of the Hanson place Baptist church on Friday night the doctrine of close communion was reaffirmed by a unanimous vote of the | sixteen trustees and deacons. Fourteen’ have ex- pressed themselves in favor of the resignation of Dr, Fulton, the pastor. The carpenter shop of Thomas Donnelly, in [the rear of No, 1,100 Atlantic avenue, was set on fire acciden- tally yesterday afternoon, and was totally destroyed. Two adjoining frame houses were also damaged by fire, involving a loss of $2,000; insured tor $500. ‘The build- ings were owned by Matthias Govin. A blacksmith shop owned by Bryan Garland was damaged to the amount of $300. LONG ISLAND. Mr. Theodore A. Carman, of Hempstead, is to bore for good water on Barnum Island, the location of the | Queens County Poor Farm. A new public school building for District No. 1, Bayshore, has just been completed. It is two stories high, 32 by 54, with rear extension, 16 by 16, and three story tower, 16 by 18. Cost, $8,000. Gideon Frost, a well-to-do member of the Society of Friends, living at Greenvale, has purchased three acres of land, near the Matinecock meeting house, upon which the foundation is being laid for a large boarding school, which he proposes to build at his own expense and endow handsomely, being determined, if possible, to sve what good some of his money inuy do beiore he ies. The Rod and Rifle Association of Jamaica will be well represented in the 200 yards off-hand match at Creed- moor on Tuesday next. Among those who purpose to compete are Messrs. 8. Elmendorf, L. R. Jaggar, John M. Crane, George W. Damon, George H. Creed, Theo- dore Rogers and Thomas Fish. Messrs, Elmendorf and Creed have been successively wfuners of the associa- tion’s gold badge. The schooner Louisa Francis, of New Bedford, loaded with 4,600 bushels of corn, was driven ashore a short distance east of Southold in the gale of the 16th inst, She was unable to beat to windward; her two anchors dragged, and she was finally thrown upon a bed of rocks, Where she soon began to go to pieces and her cargo to run out. The cargo, tian, was consigned to parties at Newport, R. 1, is'a total loss; but an | effort will be made to raise the wreck and tow it round | to Greenport. No lives were lost, Mamie Duryea, daughter of Thomas Duryea, of Istip, bas been afflicted with fits for several years, | PA which have rendered her incapable of taking care of herself, On Thursday evening she, by some means, escaped the surveillance of other’ members of the family, and, getting on the Southern Railroad track just as a train came along, she was caught beneath the locomotive wheels and’ so terribly mangled that she died almost instantly. Every effort was made by the engineer to avoid ranning over her, but without avail, A Coroner's inquest was held the next day and @ verdict rendered in accordance with the facts, STATEN ISLAND. erations ‘The Staten Island Railway Company will make some changes in their schedule time on the 3d of next month, both in trains and boats. The Excise Board of the town of Southfield has re- ceived for licenses the sum of $2,100, which has been Pig in the hands of the County Treasurer, and will handed over to the School Commisioners for the benefit of the public schools, Staten Island now seems to be overrun with tramps of all nations, many houses being visited by no less than seven or eight in a day, each one making demands for something 10 eat. In some cases they will not leave unless driven away, and they frequently indulge in petty pilfering. Aday or two ago asewing machine shop at Stapleton was visited by several of these scaimps, who stole a uumber of valuables, The Richmond County Board of Supervisors, at their meeting on Friday last, held at Richmond, balloted several times for a Police Commissioner in place of ‘Mr, Barrett, whose term of office expired some time ago, but withgut result, Mr, Barrett still holds over, an appears likely to continue to do so, The Board passed @ resolution authorizing Mr. Corry, President of th Board of Trustees of Edgewater village, to issue bonds to the amount of $1,000 for fhe purpose of maintaining and farther macadamizing the Richmond road; and an | additional amount of $3,000 for building and opening a boulevard irom Richmond avenue, Clifton, to New Dorp. The boulevard, as projected, will constitute one of the finest drives on Staten Isiand, and the oxpendi- ture of the money will prove of special advantage wo a cousiderable number of workmen, NEW JERSEY., A milkman named J. Henderson, while driving near the Weehawken ferry on Friday evening, was thrown from his wagon and sustained a dislocation of the shoulder, besides other severe injuries. As Mr. Young, of English Neighborhood, was passing along the Bull’s Ferry road, near Guttenberg, on Fri- day evening, he was stunned by a blow witha stone in the hands of a rough who was secreted by the road- side, The injarea man, after recovering from the shoc! searched for the murderous ruillan, bat could not tin | him, PUBLIC SCHOOL SCANDALS. INVESTIGATION OF THE CHARGES AGAINST THE JERSEY CITY BOARD OF EDUCATION. ‘The investigation of the charges preferred by Mr. Hol- ling against certain members of the Board of Education in Jersey City was commenced last evening in the meet- ing room of the Board before Messrs. Mercein and Sanborn, the committee appointed for the purpose. Many prominent citizens attended by invitation of the committee. Among these were Congressman Har- denbergh, ¢@x-Mayor Manners, James Stevens William Harney, Henry A. Sooraem, 8. B. Ransom, Henry Wild, James Fleming, Johnson Durant, ex-Polico Commissioner »Prit- chard, Atderman Case, William Floming, ex-Alder- man Cable and Clarence Stecle, Several members of the Board were also present. No public notice of, the meoting was given, one momber of the Board stating | that it was desirable to have the investigation as pri- vate as possible, Mest 1) might roach the Naw Voue d | | Italian and sad (if he NEE CES SSE Ca Eee ee Hrravp, It leaked out, however, that the investiga tion was to commence on Thursday evening, Then a delay foHowed and uo public notice was afterward given of the time when the investigation would take place. The efforts to suppress publication of the pro- ceedings, however, were unsuccessful, ‘Tho Grst witness called was Mr. Hollins, who read his charges, He was then interrogated on the charges sert- atim by Mr. Sanborne, The examination was so tedious that Mr. Hardenbergh objected, He wanted the charges reduced to a narrow compass and to be specifically stated, There was no Ising ear 4 for so much verbiage. Mr. Booraem also objected to the analysis of the charges made by Mr. Sanborne, Mr. Durant said that the most serious charge of all was that the public money was frit- tered away, and that the appropriation for the public schools was sufficient if honestly LF brags After along debate, in which it would appear Mr. Hollins was on trial, the Caper veg i Mr. Hollins read from the minutes of the rd @ report presented by him as far back a8 last February, showing that the ex- travagance of the Board, if continued, would lead to the closing of the schools before the ena of the year. In spite of all his waruings, however, the voted. large sums for Parnes | purposes, In one — instan Mr. Lyon, ‘resident of the Board, moved to increase an appropriation of $30,000 to $51,000, which was adop' r. Holling alone voting in the negative. Mr, Hollins then pre- sen! financial stateraent showing that at the present day the appropriation has been overdrawn by the sum of $26, When asked who wore tho members that expressed themselves in favor of spending the money in violation of law, and, when the appropriation would be exhausted, to close the schools, he named Jonn W. Pangborn’ and Witham J. lyon, adding that the other members, excepting Mr. — Scher- merhorn, gave effect to this scheme by their votes. ‘The other charges we's read, and Mr. Hollins affirmed their correctness. The most racy developments were in relation to the bargain and the sale of yotos by which Mr, Chapman was elected president of the Board last year. One member offered to voto for him in con- sideration of being appointed chairmau of the Commit- tee on Heating and Ventilation, Mr. Durant kept upa running fire against the tedious system of examination and the technicality hich werd thrown into the case. Mr. Booraem stated that the vital issue iu the case was how the people’s money was spent, as 1b was clear the money was gone. Mr. Hollins’ straightforward and direct replies created a very favorable impression, espe- cially when he said that in every effort he made toward economy he stood alone, all the other members of the Board voting against him, THE KNIFE. ———-——— ANOTHER ITALIAN VENDETTA, Astabbing affray occurres yesterday in one of the cells of the Workhouse on Blackwell's Island, which, though it does not differ in the particulars from hun- dreds of like events, is yet worthy of more marked mention from the fact that one of the principals is a man whose history, If properly written, would make a good novel. On the 19th of November, 1874, a man who gave his name as Lewi Salterelli was arrested in this city on two charges of felonious assault and sent by Judge Bixby on the first charge to the Penitentiary for six months and on the second charge for one month. He served out his time, though he gave the Warden of the prison a great deal of trouble and had often to be punished for his badness. On the 7th of July last he was again arrested for assault and sentenced to six months on the Island, Some time since he was trans- ferred to Hart's Island, but was soon afterward re- turned, as his conduct was so bad that he could not be borne with, Upon his arrival again at the Workhouso he was placed in cell No. 8, im which he had the company of another Italian and an American born citizen named Baird, The latter is a man of forty-two years and is confined for no crime, but being unable to obtain work he was committed to the Work- house at his own request. On Friday night the Italian who is now confined at the Island under the name of Michael Maccaroni began to sing and disturbed Baird, and this he kept up all night. At seven o'clock on Sat- urday morning, while the latter was making his Mighael began to sing again, when Baird put his hand over his (Michael’s) mouth, Michael at this grew an- gry, and, drawing a knife which he had hidden beneath the folds of bis blankets, stabbed Baird in two places. Through the courtesy of Dr. T. Herbert Allen, rest- dent physician of the Island, and Deputy Warden Edward McDonald, with the consent of Warden Keen, the Hera.p reporter was enabled to get at all the facta in the case. The prisoner is unable to speak a word of English, and Joseph Benetta, one of his cell mates, after being made by Deputy Warden McDonald swear that he would tell tho truth, interpreted the would-be assassin and gained the following statement:— My name is Michael Maccarini. I did not want to hurt the man I cat, but be got mad because I sang im the cell, and when he spoke to me about it [ told him I would sing if I wanted, Baird then hit me twice in the mouth and I got mad and stabbed him in the back and side. I hope he won't die; I did not mean to kill him, The following statement was then made by Joseph Benetta, his cell mate:— About seven o’clock on Saturday morning, as we were getting ready to go to work, Patrick Baird waa making his bed, the prisoner was at the time singing, as he had been doing all night, and it seemed to disturb the wounded man very much. Patrick made some remarks to him in regard to his conduct and finally I saw him put his hand over the prisoner's face, but { do not think he did it with such force that ou could call it a blow, The prisoner then jerked k and spit in the wounded man’s face and then caught hold of him. I got scared then and ran out of the cell, the door of which was open, As soon as I got into the ssage I saw the prisoner get a knife out from under, the blanket he had wrapped around, and though [did not see him cut Baird, | heard Baird say ina few sec- onds afterward. “I am stabbed.” On iny oath this is all | kuow, and I swear I tell the truth, Dr. All made the following statement:—At seven o'clock ou Saturday morning I was called to see a man in cell No. 8 who had boen stabbed by a per- son known here as Michael Maccaroni, but whom [ bet- ter knew from prison records as Levi Saiterelli. 1 found the wounded man to be a self-incarcerated person, as he had not at the time of his incarceration the means of living. He is known to me as Patrick Baird. When [ got to the man I found that he had lost about one pint of blood from two stab wounds—one in the Jeft lumbar region one and a half inches deep and one inch from the crest of the ileum, and one in the internal surface of the axillary region, penetrating the ploaral cavity, the lat- ter wound one inch in length. The man came here on the 15th of July, for three months. Ihave pnt him under the influence of narcotics, and perhaps may be able to save his life, as he is now much better. He seems to be entirely free from the great pain from which he suffered early this morning. Tho great dan- ger is that pleurisy or pneumonia may set in, and in that case I greatly fear the man may not cover. The Coroner has been sent for to take his ante- mortem statement, but as yet has not arrived. STATEMENT, ‘The wounded man deposed that he had been kept awake ail night by Maccaroni singing in the coll, and that at seven o'clock, as he was making his bed, Mac- caroni began to sing again. He then spoke to the remembered right) that if he did not stop he would strike him, when the oor, Italian, Benella, said, ‘No, you won't.” The prisoner then caine toward me, muticring something in Italian, when | put my hand over his mouth to stop it, but I did not strike him. He then pushed me into | the corner, and, drawing a knife from under his blanket, stabbed me twice. A further interview with the prisoner through another interpreter, Vezzi, revealed the, following fact cts — 1 got the knife I stabbed the man with on Hart's Isl- and, 1 found it and sharpened it to a point, and I cur- ried it to defend myself with, Ido not know why I am here, nor do I know why I was sent to the Penitentiary some time since. Ithink I cut the man because I did not know at the time what I was doing, because | was #0 mad when he hit mé, (Here the prisoner showed his lip, which looked a little swelled, but the doctor said there was no abrasion of the skin, and the swelling, he thought, was a natural one. The Hxraup reporter then paid @ visit to Warden Fox, of the Penitentiary, conducted by Deputy Warden McDonald, of the Work: house, and through the kindness of Warden Fox the Penitentiary books were examined. The record reads ‘Louis Salterelli, November 19, 1874, foloni- ous assault, six months; November 19, assault, ono month.” Vezzi, the interpreter, gives the 1olOwing history of SALTERELM. Salterelli is the right name of the prisoner. ite ia forty-four years old, and was born in Italy—t do “not Know exactly where, He 13 unedu- cated and is a very high tempered man. He, when quite young, went to sea, finally joined the command of General William Walker, the filibuster, and was with that man when he was cap- tured and shot in Nicaragua After that he wont to Greece, and, as far as L can learn, he joined with a lot of Suliots and went to the East Indies, where he was pirate. He afterward went to Cuba, but I think he got into some trouble there with the authorities and had to leave, I do not know if he fought in the war or not between the Cubans and Spaniards, or if he did on which side he fought, He never took ny partin the American war tha: iknow of. When e came wo New York he started on a bad career, and & think he bas kept it up. 1 have known him to be sent to the Penitentiary some tiie since for assaulting peo- Je. Ido not know the names of the people he abused, do not know if he always went armed, The prisoner is closely guarded, and will no doubt be | placed uuder arrest by order of the Court ou Monday. INFANTIOIDE. Elizabeth Doronan was arrested by the police of the Riveteenth precinct yesteraay for having thrown her now born babe into a sink at No, 382 East Forty-cighth street, where it was suffocated. The unfortunate but cruel mother was sent to Bellevue Hospital, whore she will be taken care of until she recovers, when she will be turned over to the action of the Grand Jury. Cora. ner Kessler will hold an inquest on the hody af tha ahild during the coming Week,