The New York Herald Newspaper, March 24, 1876, Page 6

6 WATCHING THE DEAD. at his office last evening. It ap} ment of Dr, Sch ik that Mrs, Jackson, of No, 70 Smith street, Wilsou to the hospital in acarriage, about thi on Tuesday afternoon, and the inv accompanied Mrs. id was renoved to | the sick Ward, The ladies, when questioned by the and Edward Young's Story of His Wrongs Cruel Treatment. | A MIDNIGHT VIGIL AND 4 CORONER'S CRUBLTY. A REMARKABLE NARRATIVE. “Can you tell me where Mr. Young, the watchman, | lives?” inquired a Hexatv reporter of some urching | Playing on the sidewalk in tront of the long tine of | dreary looking storehouses on Furman street, Brook. | lyn. “Yes, sir,”’ was the reply, “the funcral’s just come home. He lives in that little frame house around the | torner.”” The reporter foliowed the child’s direction, and | Jound the sorrow stricken man surrounded by a few | frieuds, who were caressing his four children and try- Ing to divert them from the sorrow they could scarcely | understand with kind words and bright promises. “What paper are you from?” asked Mr, Young, when told the nature of the visit. On being told, he said, ‘I owe that paper a debt of thanks tor the man- ber in which it exposed the shameful treatment I re- | eeived; but no one knows but myself what I have suf- | fered during the past three days.” Without stopping | Bmoment he continued with the following story of | troubles ;-— | On Monday afternoon my wite came to me and told | we sho was about to visit some friends im New York, | and I gave her some money in case sho should wish to | make any purchases while there, When I came home Mhat evening the children had prepared supper for me, | Ss instructed by their mother in case she was delayed, Tlighted my pipe after supper, as usual, and as the Right wore on began to iook for her coming. The | FM without grew heavier, and 1 made up my mind | er triends had detained her. At twelve o'clock next | day one of my children brought my dinner to the river | Bhore, where I am employed. ‘Is mamma home? I | asked. ‘Notyet, papa,’ she answered, aud I began to | feel uneasy. i I knocked off work and started for the New York | Police Headquarters, where some friends told me was | the vest place to get information, On the Way atriend | Biso told me that the body of a woman had been | Found that day at the Wall street terry, 1 paid | bo attention to the remark, aud never for & moment | Associated it with my wile’s absence. On crossing | the ferry 1 saw a crowd on the pier, and my fricnd’s | emark came back to 1 mode my way to the spot, | he body was lying lace down, but 1 recognized the | bat and shawl of my wife. Alera great deul of coax. | ing the policeman in charge of the body turned 1 over 3o that i might see the face. 1 asked if 1 might take it | Up on the dock, but he THREATENED TO ARKEST ANY ONE } who would touch 11 before the Coroner came. I then | Bterted in search of the Coroner. At the New street Btation the sergeant gruftly told me to go to the Harbor | Police; he knew nothing about it, [then wentto the | Doroner’s itive, but it was closed, 1 was told I had no | ehance but to wait till morning. I went back to the pier and waited, watching the floating bedy of my dead wife that I dare not touch, ull alter midpighi, | jn the hope the Coroner might come, My mind went | back to the little ones I had ieft at home, and L was | Yompelled to leave her to go to them, Next morning | barly I was at the pier with « wagon ready to take dway the body, but they would not jet me, The samo Yeply, the Coroner, the Coroner; but no Coroner to be found. A crowd of men around offered to assist me Jo take away the body by force, but I refused, preter- Ying peace even under the gross injustice L was receiv- ing. 1 went again to the Corouer’s office up in Mul- berry street, but he had notcomeyet, I lettasharp Bote there, and returned to the pier. I was almost Histracted, aud could get no satisfactionanywhere. The lead wagon camo alter a while, and the body was | Jaken out of the water and carried away, 1 asked the Men in charge where they were about to take it, The only reply 1 got was, “Ask him; he’s got the per- mit,” and from one to another I’went without tur- ther satisfaction, They drove away to Bellevue, and I followed in my wagon. There | met the same reply; pothing could be done before the Coroner came. In fespair, I went again to the Coroner's vlfice, but he | Was not in. They told mo he was attending a case | jomewhere, I think in Thirteenth street—I don’t re- hember new—but I drove thers aud found him holding an inquest on a burned child. 1 was put on the jury gnd delayed some time. 1 called the Coroner one’ sid and told bim my story, and bexged bim, tor Gods | Bake, to hoid au inquest that day, that 1 inight take | the body of my poor wife howe, ‘He told me it was Impossible, and that I must wait ull ten o'clock the next morning. Al! sir, those men have uo | feeling about a deat body. With tears in my eyes, | fnd @ heavy heart, 1 went home to find my | friends awa'ting my ival, Yoward evening a man ith # Dioated read lace came to my house with anote | tating I might have the bouy at once by sending tor J gave the note to an undertaker, but he told me it as 100 late to get a permit Luat evening to remove it, Tgot it this morning and have just come home from | She burial. Some triends of mine advise me to take the | matter bofore the courts and olfer to pay avy expense | it may cost, but Lam a(raid | would find one Jaw for the rich and another tor the poor. A maninmy | Station of life cannot look for even justice, | The reporter asked Mr. Young who the coroner waa | who refused his req His re was that he was Bot sure, but thought 1 was Coroner Croker FHE POLICE COMMISSION! RS ON THE OUTRAGE. The disgraceiul neglect attending the case of the body of Mrs. Young, permitted to remain in the water | at pier No. 15 & er for twenty-three hours, was | 1 } i i made the subject of investigation by the Police Com. | missioners yesterday. | As it caution to the force in the future Commissioner | Erbardt ui { the Superimtendent to send out a | general order requiring the finding of bodies to be im. mediately telegraphed to the Coroners’ vitice under | pain of severe punishment. To THe Epiron ov tie Supposing Mr, Youhy vad removed the body of his drow put the brains of any policeman who atempted to prevent him—what could have been fone with hin’ Let us see what wiil be done with + Selinquents in this ease. The Governor wiil here hi pxamiple of the cold blooded is brutal outrage, Makcu 25, 1876. ANOTHER FLOATIN bopy o WITH THE TIDE. k man, about thirty- y | bo persons, vir., twelve ana wife, SS UAEOWS man, about thiry-four years Of age, | Tees crare ts be the ae ol.th 4 nam, Captain Flemming, on a voyage from Bull } was found drowned yesterday afternoon at the foot of | Dorlears street, The body was discovered by two boat. | en, Thomas Dunn and John Wall, They made the 1y fast to a spiie and informed Officer Willian Green, of the Tweifth precinet, who reported the facts, The oceased was about 4 feet 10 inches high, dark com- plexioned, wore whiskers, and hud on a’ aark tro toat, dark pants, white shirtand caliskin boots. The Coroner was notified and the body ordered to bo re- whoved to the Morgue. JANE WILSON'S F. Yesterday morning a telegram was received from Dr. P. L. Schenck, Superintendent of the County Hospital, Flatbush, by Coroner Simms, requesting bim to hold an inquest upon the body of Jane Wilson, who died at E. | that institution from the effects of Paris green. The despatch also set forth that Jane Peterson, of No, 08 De Kalb avenue, was an fmportant witness. Acung Upon this information the Coroner and po'ice proceeded to mvestigate the case, The body was ordered to be taken to the Morgue, and Mrs. Peterson was sumnoned by an officer to altend a consultation between the Superintendent of olive and the Coroner, She stated that Jane Wilson was her second cousin, and thoy had always been vpon the most intiniate terms. Mrs. Wilson had resided in the same honse with her since Jast December. Before coming to live with her Jane Wilson lived at the Hoffman House, corner of Broadway | and Lafayette place, Williamsburg. The husband of | Jane isa stonecutter, He is now lying ili from erysip- elas at the residence of his brother in Flatbush. On last Monday = week called to Mrs, Peter. son to come down stairs into their as she was wanted in haste, entering the dour she saw Mrs. Wilson standing in th middie of the room, and she exctiedly intormed h i taken Paris green by mistake. Two powerful emetics were administered at once and she threw up quantities of t powon during the day, During the week she was very ill and exceedingly weak, and on Sunday a physician was summoned, but he said he could veo of no assistance to her, thatshe was beyond the reach of human aid. She sank so rapidly that on last Tuesday she sought for admission to the | institution in which she died at ten o'clock on | Wednesday night. Shortly after Mra. Peterson had de- | ted from the Police Headquarters Oflicer Corr, of | e detectwe squad, reported that ho had visited the | house where Mr. Wiivon was lying sick, and that while | there a woman cailed who gave her name as Mra | Heath. She said that she lived at No, 320 Decatur | Street; that she is the lawful wife of Mr. “Wileou,” the alleged husband ot Jane Wilson, whose real name | is William Heath, She claims that they were married | Several years ago and that she had borne him six | children. This information gavo greater zest to the | inquiry, and Mrs. Peterson was again summoned to ap- | pear before the Coroner. She said that she knew | Rothing about the claim of Mrs Heath upon | Fane's husband, She was present at the marriage teremony which united deceasod—whose matden name was Jane Bolios—and Wilson as man and wife. New York, six years ago, and knew that Jane two children by him, ove of whom is now living, She bad not heard of an abortion being performed on de- teased. The Coroner having been informed that a post- mortem had been heli at the hospital, whieh devel- oped the fact that an abortion had been performed, the Ubrsigans in aliondanve were requested to meet | feit it Fort Chester, White Plains and other parts of the | 1870, master of | a we | Myssxs. Hansteap & Co. | road track, near Elizabeth, He wa: doctor, said she was suifering from an overdose of Paris green, They subsequenly said she had taken the poison accidentally, She was too weak to talk, and the antidotes adminisiered seemed to have no eflect upon her. On Wednesday evening it was discovered that the woman was also suifering from the eilects of an abortion, She died during the night. The post-mortem revealed the evidence of malpractice, Death was caused by the combined effects of the abor- tion and the poison. Deceased, who was about thirty- eight years of age, is suid to be most respectably con- | At noon Mr. nected in Ireland, where her relatives are now living. Heath, who 1s fifty years of age, 1s in business at N Fulton street, New York. He has not been Jiving with his lawful wife for several yoars post, Yesterday Mrs, Heath, on learning of the death of Jane Bolles, repaired he side of the man who had so jouy neglected her hildren and waited upon him, He is extremely ill, being specchiess, Mrs Heath is highly respected and is in excellent circumstances. Up to within the t three years Jane supported herself by working at lacemaking in New York. She is represented as hav- ing been quiet and unassuming. A child, six years of age, survives the unfortunate woman. ‘The autnorities are searching for the person who 1s suspected of having the operation which, no doubt, drove the ‘he commission of the culmupating act ofa son—suicide, THE FATAL EXPLOSION. CROWDS VISITING THE SCENE OF THE DIS- ASTER—-TWO MORE OF THE VICTIMS LIKELY TO Dre. The scene of the nitro-glycerine explosion at Wash- ingtonville, Westchester county, was yesterday visited by a large number of people, many of whom had tray- elled by rail from Connecticut and elsewhore to gratify their curiosity by scrutinizing the site of the demolished factory. Constable William Watts, who was | Placed in charge of the premises by Coroner Hughes on Wednesday evening, had to repeatedly warn some of the more rustic visitors against stumbhog over | and even ignorantly kicking the cans of nitro-glycer- | be ine, which were scattered on the ground floor of the storehouse, by a general stampede on the part of the sight-seers. It now appears that 1,800 pounds of the explosive com- pound above named were rémoved from the packing house on Wednesday forenoon, and taken to New York in a wagon used by Huber, the manufacturer, for that purpose, as tho article would not be transported on any terms by the Harlem Railroad Company, Had this additional quanuty been in the building where Wiiliam Diebl essayed to light his pipe, the force of the explosion must have been correspond- ingly increased. As it wax the shock was distinctly county distant ten or fifteen niles from the scene of the disaster. Human remains, consisting of an ankle, a kidney and portions of the ‘intestines, supposed to be parts of the missing man, Charies Ben- heim, were found yesterday afternoon in tho Bronx River, near the powder mill. The condition of David Huber, the foreman, and William Westfall, one of the workmen, is changed considerably for the Worse, The head and body of the former haye swollen out of all proportions to their former size, and he is believed | to have sustained internal injuries which must prove fatal, Westiall is shockingly burned ail over, and was reported to be in a dying condition last evening. The verdict of the Coroner’s jury was strictly in accordance with the facts of the explosion, as published in the HERALD of yesterday. j SECRETS OF THE SEA. Captain Allen Harris, ot tho schooner smack C. M. Harris, which yesterday arrived at this port, reports that on March 20, when twelve miles off shore, in front of Little Egg Harbor light, N. J., ne picked up a trunk containing clothing, a pistol and aslung shot, some books and letters and memoranda, that show the owner to be William J. Simpson, master at various times of vessels, including the steamship Havana, the schooner Henry P. Russell, the schooner 8. ¥. Maddox, the schooner General Knox, the brig Chillianwallah, the schooner Silvan Spray and the brig Loch Lomond. Anumber of letters, the book in which Captain Simpson recorded his ‘accounts with the owners of the above named vessels, a number of letters from rela- tives, an old 'y of 1864, in which he has made entries as late as March 13, 1873, were sent by Captain Harris to this office. From theso records it appears that Simpson was in June, | the schooner Henry P Russell, | im the Southern const and West India trade, that early the following year he was master of the steamer S. F. Maddox, and later in 1871, from July to October, master of the schooner General Knox." His | commissio master of this latter vessel isdated | New York, July gigned by Barrone | Davis. In October, he was ‘master ot the brig Ciiilian , in the sugar trade between American and Cuban ports. In January ana May of the same year and previous to his appoiitment to the | mastership of the Chillanwailah, he was shipkeeper of the brig Lincoln and the steamer Relianee, From a letter dated *Sherman’s Mills, Me, November 28, 1875,” and signed by his tather, Noah Simpson, it | seems that his residence then was No. 194 Hudson ave- | nue, Brooklyn. A letter {rom his son, W. J. Simpson, | dated Brooklyn, November 18, IS74, relating to family | aflairs, was also found, as wellas areceipt trom Enrique | Barrora tor 640 barrels of potatoes, per brig Loch | Lomond, from New York. This receipt shows that he | was in December, 1874, master of the Loch Lomond, | Tho records found give no further clew to the move- | ments of the captain until December 9, 1875, when ho was looking for employment, as will appear from the | following document, which does not give the hamo of o'clock | The bare intimation as to what the harm- | | tess looking vessels contained was invariably followed | Men because they helped to build churches, schools MOODY AND SANKEY. Yesterday, undoubtedly, the Hippodrome held the largest audiences that it has since the advent of the evangelists, At noon 5,000 people were present, and in the afternoon the number in the Madison avenue | hall approached 8,000, three-fourths otf whom were women, Fully 2,000 bad to leave the doors, after vainly secking admission, every available inch of spaco in the hall being filled before four o'clock. Many of these went around to the Fourth avenue hall, where it was expected there would be an overflow meeting. Moody spoke on the necessity of the early religious education of chilaren. He thought that parents could not commence to teach their offspring the knowledge of God too young. As soon as they were able to lisp they should be tanght their prayers, ana as carly as possible be sept to the Sabbath “school, The parents, though, should not neglect the home e nin Teligious matters, aud buld teach them Christ by example as well as by precept. For the religious lessons learned in child hood leave a lasting impression; and often the pra} learned at a mother’s kuee in childhood come back in qmaturer life and keep manv a man and woman out of the way of temptation. In the audience were a large number of young children, and Mr. Moody, in one por- | love of Jesus for ttle ones, | _ Phe discourse at the four o'clock meeting was on | “itow to Study the Bible.” During Mr. atoudy’s ex- arked that the Bible was the greatest the world, for it not only ut what was going to happen. at Christ was not mentioned inthe Old Testament, for Philip found Him in the ninth chapter and fifth verse of Iswiah, “But,” sud- dently broke out the preacher, “what is the use of reading out the text; there is hardly any of you that have got your Bibles with you.” “Mr Sankey snug | “Nothing but Leaves” asa solo, and the meeung dis- | porsed. | in the evening both halls were used, there being | about 12,500 people in the building altogether. Mr. Moody, who presided over tho Madison avenue hall mecting, spoke on the subjec ot being brouztt | out of Sodom. He thought Lot was hke many men prominent in the wo day—he was of the world, | worldly; and though he knew Sodom was the abode of iniquity, he remained tn it to the ruin of bis family, uso’ it was a goud place to make money and be- | came very rich therein, The speaker wished the | Church of God would learn to do without Sodom’s money and to make much of worldly and unbelieving | told what had happened, | He said it was not true t and colleges. The Church could get along without this |, money, aud it ought to make the effort DREW THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY. logical seminary which bears hi name baying been | secured only by his note the interest, amounting to $17,600, now due, is not forthcoming. It had been | Suggested by many parties interested in tho institu- | Taised by subscriptions, and that the professorships should be permanently endowed. To devise means of accomplishing this a meeting of tne trustees of the seminary was held y erday at the office of Judge Fan- cher, No. 229 Broadway. Bishop Joues presided. Pres- ent were Trustees Bishop Foster, Rev. Dr. C. C. North and Dr. Currie, of the Christian’ Advocate, beside Rey. Dr, Dashiel, A, V. Stout, J. B. Cornell, Dr. Crawford, Hon. George J. Ferry and Dr. Hurst, President of the semivary. The latter gentieman stated the object of | the meeting. ‘The annual revenue necessary for the support of the institution, it appeared, is $20,000, aud arrangements were made yesterday Jooking toward the raising of this sum by annual indi- Yidual subseriptio: the present and later to restore the original endowment of $250,000 by means of con- tributions from the general public, The following statement of the money expended by Mr. Drew on the ipstitution was read:—Main building and seminary land of 100 acres, $100,000; two dormitories, $75,000; four professors’ ‘houses, $84,000; library, ’ $25,000;" nine years’ intorest on a proposed gift of $250,000, $180,000, ‘otal, $464,000. Annbual subscriptions to the amount of $6,000 were obtained from those present at the meeting. A. V. Stout was elected a trustee in place of J. H. Ocker- shausen. Dr, Hurst was requested to undertake tho management of the subscriptions, and Judge Fancher was appointed attorney of the justitution in relation to Drew. ‘The annual meeting of the trustees will be held on the 20th of May next. TO-MORROW’S ECLIPSE OF THE SUN. The almanacs announce that an annular eclipse of the sun will occur to-morrow afternoon, which will be visible throughout the United States as a partial eclipse, being annular in the northwestern region of British America, minutes past three P, M. and ends attwo minutes be- fore five, The time has not always been when an eclipse was regarded only as a subject for calculation by astronomers and an object of curiosity even to the public, It was considered an event that bad a great influence on the interests of the moral worla, but the superstition was excusable in {ts origin and innocent in its effects, Now the realization of the predictions are looked for as a kind of test of the exactness of sct- ence. Eclipses are of considerable practical utility as they serve to correct and increase the perfection of our solar and lutiar tables, and they aro highly usetul to geography because they aiford a sure and accurate method of determining the relative situation of differ- ent paris of the globe. An eclipse of the sun being caused by the interposition of the moon between that luminary and the earth it can, therelore, never happen | atany other time than at new moou. ’ The appended table shows the time when the eclipse begins and ends at various places in the United States :— Place, i Begins, M, the place where it emanated :— | “Captain Johnston, of the brig Virginia.—Dear Sir— | Tho bearer, Captain Simpson, is in search of employ- | ment, and if youcan do something for him you will oblige, yours, A. MONTON, “Dalcknmen 9, 187 AHenatp reporter called at No, 194 Hudson ave- nue, Brooklyn, yesterday, and found there a son and daughter of Captain Simpson. They said theie father was the mate of the bark Frank Clark, which was sunk k ago in a collision with Alcott at ” wrnegat Captain Simpson was about sixty | years of age. | RESCUING A SHIPWRECKED ChE’ Tho following letter has been received by Messrs. | Halstead & Co., No, 200 Forsyth street, from Cap:ain | James McKee, of the brig Mary Knowlton ;— MARY KNOWLTON. j No. 200 Forsyth street, Now | ening of Februury 27, at eight | 1 discovered an object in the " to ni he ship's course t we love the ve ed for Ler, J took on | jf London, which sunk jrom under the: town! Jug of February 23, in latitude 32, longitude 71 20 cestk- mated). On receiving such a large additional number of | people n board, and w schooner being in company with us, pound the sim ¢ three miles distant, at shav mat towing astern until sii . Pebrnary aor Yessel in sight, which proved to be the brig Antelope. from | Now York, toward Curcenas, whose captain kindly con- | sented to relieve us of xix of the shipwrecked crew, FUNERAL OF WARD CHENEY, | The funeral of Ward Cheney, of the firm of Cheney Bros, sk manufacturers, Hartford and South Man- chester, Conn, aud President of the Silk Association | of America, who died of pneumonia on Wednesday, | will take place this afternoon, at three o'clock, at | South Manchester, Conn, A special train jor the ac wili be run from Hartford on the arrival of the top o'clock fast express from this city this morning, and on the conclusion of the funeral obsequies will return in season to reach New York in the evening. At a meeting of the Silk Association of America hold yesterday aiternoon, called to take action express- ive of the loss sustained by the decease of Mr. Coeney, | appropriate resolutions were unanimously adopted in | memory of the deceased, THE WOMEN’S CENTENNIAL UNION, | ‘commodation of triends To rux Epiror or tae Heraiy:— | The ladies of the Dramatic Committee of the | Women’s Centennial Union regrot exceedingly that many persons entitled to seats were unable to obtain them in the Union League Theatre on the evening of | March 2h. ‘Tho ladies were careful not to sell more seats than the theatre would hold, but they are credibly informed more than 100 persons forced themselves in and thus deprived the owners of tickets of their rightfai places. the ladies have taken every precaution to prevent this happening again | dirs, JOHN SHERWOOD, for the Committee, A LIFE LOST BY CARELESSNESS, | Yesterday morning an unknown man, probably a tramp, Was seen walking along the Pennsylvania Rail- | warned to clear | the track by a Mr. Buck. He disregarded the warning and was soon afier run down by a train and imstantly kuled, The corpse was romoved to Elizabeth, AN UNNATURAL SON, On Wednesday night John Muschide, a young ruffian residing at Union Hill, N. J., made a desperate attempt to murder his aged father, whom he has before often beaten and iifused, On this occasion young Muschide entered his father’s honge, and without apparent provo- cation knocked him down with a chair and kicked him brutal son: the schooner Adelaide | y Washington. | Detroit chi KR Charleston, at can happen in © are of the sun and | two of the moon,’as tn the year 1787. ‘The least num- tion of his discourse, spoke to them directly of the | Daniel Drew's endowment of $250,000 to the theo- | tion that a maintenance fund of $250,000 should be | the amount due the seminary from the estate of Mr, | In New York it begins at thirty-six — | AMERICAN TROTTING HORSES. THE BREEDERS’ FIRST UNITED EFFORT AT IM- PROVEMENT—CENTENNIAL MEETING AT PHIL~ ADELPHIA FOR COLTS, FILLIES AND STALL- IONS—THE RIVAL TRIBES AND SECTIONS JUDGED BY THE RECORD. | The first general united effort of the breeders of trot- ting horses to come to the front with their stock and show it in direct competition will take place at “The Inaugural Breeders’ Centennial Trotting Meeting,” set down for the last week in September, at Phila- delphia, For this purpose a programme has been ar- ranged suited to the class of stock usually found in the hands of breeders, and the oid Suffolk Park track, one of the safest, fastest and best in the world, has been secured for the meeting. Under new and ablo Management it is being rapidly refitted with a com- modious grand stand, club house, stabling aud all the Tequirements of a thoroughly organized troiting cen- tre. Already the horsemen who expect to locate and do most of their season's trotting about Philadelphia are scrambling to make sure of boxes ard stalis at Suffolk Park, in order to have the advantage of the best training ground the vicinity affords, and the place is well chosen for the mceting of youngsters that at the present time is the all absorbing subject of conversation and contemplation among breeders trom Maine to California, The novelty and conspicuous feature of this meeting rests in tho fact that it is s to bring together for the first time delegations of the best colts from rival sections of the coungry. This has never been accomplished in other than a limited | degree by the local stakes. Now and then a single colt | from the South and West is brought oa here and parti- cipates in stakes, but such instances are rare. A few years ago Mr. Dorsey, of Eden Stock Farm, near Louis- ville, Ky., Sent on some of his Gold Dust colts and with them did excellent trovting. Mr, Thorne, of Thornsdale, Dutchess county, N. Y., purchased the colt Nicotine, in the olue grass region of Kentucky, and brought him North. He woa one of hia 8 and was beaten by Socrates in another, Last ‘year Blackwood, Jr., came on from Nashville, Tenn., and | made a clean sweep of every colt stake in which he | was entered, in both the East and in Kentucky; but he did not mecet as high class fields as frequently uppear. The last week of September will bear witness to a | | different gathering, national in character and arranged for a series of colt races, instead of a single stake. The | opportunity afforded by the Centennial Exhibition at | Philadelphia has opened the door for securing this do- sign withoat exciting any sectional feeling as to loca- | tion, and with one accord the whole breeding interest | of the country has signitied its readiness to participate | at Philadelphia, Louder and louder, year by year, the | rival cocks have been crowing defiance each from his ; own hill until the land has rung with their clamor, | but neither has ventured to storm the citadel of any rival orto engage in more than a little skirmishing. Hambletonian, of Orange county, N. ¥., with his de- scendants, Volunteer, Edward Everett, Messenger Duroc, Happy Medium, Middletown and others, have striven among themselves in gallant competition, but never sent achampion into the blue grass region of | Kentucky to try the mettle of the get of Mambrino | Patchen, Almont, Ericsson, American Clay, and the other prominent series of that district, The | West, with its Blac Balls, Bashaws, Alham- | bras, Magna Chartas and Mambrino Gifts, has been content to remain within its own borders, 80 far as its colts and fillies are concerned. And the East, with its Foarnaughts, Jeffersons, Patchens, Mor- ills, Idols and Lamberts has preferred to keep its youngsters in Now England atmosphere, But this will | no longer answer. The appointed time has come and the arena is provided, No pride of blood nor sec- tional claims to superiority will hereafter weigh against the test of equal and general competition, Kentucky and Tennessee will be there in numbers; New York | State will meet them horse tor horse; New England | will be there too, strong in quality and numbers, The West cannot remain outside, nor will sho, ‘That part of the programme which is already an- | nounced provides four races, to commence September | 26. Each is for $2,500, and the entries are required | to pay five per cent forfeit at the time of closing, which is April15. The first of these is the Revolution Race for three-year-olds, mile heats, m harness; to be fol- lowed by the Republic Raco for four-year-olds, tho Independonce Race for five-year-olds and the Continen- tal Race for stallions that have never beaten 2:40, each mile heats, best three in five, in harness. A final five per cent is required from non-forfciters September 1 to entitle a horse to start, There is no branch of stock breeding or agricultural interest in America that is sustained by a class of men | more thoroughly business like in their habits, more respected for their social worth nor more admired for their brilliant successes in the various pursuits of life than the trotting horse breeders comprise within their numbers. Many of them are our most prominent merchants, bankers, lawyers, agriculturists and states- | men, The millions of dollars that these men have seen proper to invest in the outfit of farms, buildings, tracks and breeding stock, under the guidance of the same care, energy and business talent as noted in other | callings, has raised many of them from moderate cir- cumstances to opulemt wealth, This fact is working a great influence upon the character of our trotters, and through them an improvement in the general horse stock of the country. Commencing ut New York city | as acentre wefind such names as Robert Bonner, A. | | B. Darling, Charles H. Kerner, Harrison Durkee, Almon | | W. Griswold, Charles W. Griswold, Lewis G. Morris and NEW YORK HERALD, ERIDAY, MARCH 24, 1876—WITH SUPPLEMENT. the colts would fail to show am equal capacity to those of warmer climutes, granting equal breeding. No races will be provided for younger than three-year-olds at the Breeders’ Centennial Meet- ing, and it ts certain that in the case of Northern entries no pains will be spared to bring them to the Post as well conditioned and fully matured as those that come on from Kentucky. The struggle for su- premacy will be exciting, and no series of races could have been organized that will create so widespread and earnest attention, not only with the spectators, but by thousands of breeders and farmers ail over the country whe will anxiously watch the arrival of the newspaper reports. Messrs. Kellogg & Cooley, of this city, who are delegated to conduct the meeting, report its success already secured by the numerous expres- sions of approbation and promised support from all directions; and if no untoward nt occurs to mar this prospect the last week in September will be the sensational event of the trotting season of 1876. TURF NOTES. Two more betting books on stakes will be opened to- day by the bookmaker atthe American Jockey Club rooms, They are on the Westchester Cup race, two miles and a quarter, and tho Contennial Stakes, two mutles and three-quarters. The odds offered are as fol- lows:— THR WESTOUESTER CUP—TWO MILES AND A QUARTER. Offered. oO Kildare... Big Sandy. Sangara . Relorm. Lelaps . Retriever . Jenipher. STAKES—TWO MILKS AND THREX-QUAR- EI Big Sandy. ...6 Nettie Norton, Stampede , Shylock. Duran: The chestnut colt Bengal, by Brown Dick, dam Sadowa, has been scratched from all his engagements the coming season, the colt having broken down and becomp incapable of ever again appearing on the turf. He was a fine runner as a two-year-old, being a good second to Vagrant in the Belle Meade stakes at Louis- ville last September, We saw Bengal about six weeks ago in tho stable of Mr. Jennings, at the Louisville race course, where he was wintering finely. From his appearance und the good opinion of him expressed by his trainer we were satisfied that he would be a danger- ous horse in any of the stakes for which he was cn- tered, He was the property of John Morrissey. The famous trotting gelding Cooley, with a record of 2:24, 1s now doing service in a carriage m Kalama- 700, Micn, He is twenty-one years of age, and is said to be as frisk$ as a colt At is officially announced by Major J. D, Ferguson, Secretary of the Maryland Jockey Club and of the run- ning meetings of the Point Breeze Park Association, that the entries are closed and the following nom: inations made for the Centennial races:—Inaugural Sweepstakes for all ages, 21; Reform Club Stakes for three-year-old filies, 21; Grand EF. ition Stakes for colts and fillies three years old, for two-year olds, 20; Philadelphia Ci stake for all ages, 23; International Handicap Stakes, 81; Association stakes, 10; Centennial Stakes, 17; La- dies’ Stake, 16 Total, 179 ‘The first meeting’ will occur June 24, A NEW TURF CLUB. A turf club, to be known as the West Side Driving Club, was organized yesterday in the Turf Exchange, Barrow street, Jersey City, Twenty-eight gentlemen signed the roll, which still remains open, The mem- bers will have the privilege of driving on the track at the West Side Park except on racing days, and can aye free admission to the track at all times, THE SCOTTISH RIFLES. The following official communication has been re- ceived from tho Secretary of the Scottish National Ride Club:;— , 58 Groncr i ; Guascow, Mi Dear Sin—Roferring to my letter and dates 10th and 20th of January, respectivel, timate that the Council of the Seottivh Nat! Lhave jonal Rifle Club have, on behalf of scotland, accepted the invitation of the American Association to send a Scottish team to Ameriea to compete for the championship of the wi in cou with the Centenni: ‘bration. Tmay mention ths by elub considerable corres) taken place regarding « oe United Kin, of ter from England, Seotland and Ireland respectively, and at the desire of phemesporae captain of that team the Council of the Scottish National Club reconsidered the matter, but definitely revolved to adhere to their former resolution, which was telegraphed to you, accepting the challenge on behalf of Scotland. I e xlad to know how soon you can send me a pro- gramme and other definite information of the arrangements, a , most respectfully, See et ee eee B RRNTON, Seoretery, Colonel GitoKnsiunve, Secretary American National Hite Association. NAVAL AQUATICS, UNITED STATES SAILORS’ FRIENDLY CONTESTS IN THE ASIATIC WATERS—MEN FROM THE SACO ROW AGAINST TARS FROM THE FLAGSHIP | ‘TENNESSEE—A VICTORY AND RECHALLENGES— A “CORKSCREW” RACE, WITH TRIUMPH FOR THE BIG SHIP. [From the Rising Sun (Nagasaki), Feb. 3.) Since the arrival of the United States flagsnip Ten- nossce her crew, between practising and boat racing, have managed to keep the harbor in a continual state of mirth and excitement, First came the victory of | eight | dark night, and stars of the second and third magni- | will be invisibie | Theatre. Thero were avout 300 present, A variety till be was unconscious, Neighbors came to bis ald, aud by escaped, ] bo ber is two, and then they are both solar; this occurred in 176%, 1781, 1786 and 1792, Genoraily in the space of n years their are seventy eclipses—iorty-one of the sun and twenty-nine of the moon, Total eclipses of tho sun daring which the day will resemble a very Henry H. Smith included in tho list of trotting horse breeders. Widening the circle in all directions it takes in those of Charles Backman, Edward Thorno, | Erastus Corning, David Nevins, Jr., H. 8. Russell, A, | J. Alexander, Amasa Sprague, R, P. Pepper, Benjamin appear in unwonted splendor, are caica for K. Bates, A. J. McDowell, J. C, McFerran, C. 1. Dole, rato perytben ths prety i pcb { and any number waar bot men neptigeea and eclipse of the sun on the 17th of September next, It | ability in the social and businoss world, with the repa. the United States, | tation of doing well whatever they do at all. Others roe | not properly identified with breeding but interested | in the sport of trotting, which in its tone and associa- tude will be visibie and the planets Venus and Mercury, GYMNASTIC EXHIBITION, Professor James O'Neil, a woll known teacher and | accomplished gymnast, will give a grand exhibition at | Wood's Gymnasium on Saturday evening next, when Protessor Miller anda number of protessional and at Will assist, —¢ ‘oman wrestling, club swinging and ail the Various feats and exercises of the gymnasium will be shown by competent practised men. socking entries by purchase, and coit trotting bids fair to become one of the most fashionable as well as most interesting of public amusemonts. Strangely enough | this great interest of breeding has never before acted | in concert; but in now coming forward for the initial | movement it may be inferred that no pains will be spared a: 5 ; to have ench tribe of horses represented to the best PRESS BILLIARD CONTEST, | advantage that monoy and talent can provide. No | prominent strain of blood can any more afford to be | lett out than ean any breeding section of the country. New strains or sub-divisions of strains will also seize upon the opportunity to push themselves. into noto- riety by favorable competition 1a noted company. Every owner of a stallion of merit wil lot the greatest of all opporiunitics slip it he does uot cause him to | be represented in sume one or more of the above an- , Bounced clusses, | Already much +peculation is on foot as to which esc- trou and wiieh strain of blood is likely to carry of the greatest honors. The possibilities of success, un- der favovable circumstances to ench, lie within the | powers of a great many families remotely separated. | The dest records for three-year-olds are, first, Lady | Stont’s 2:29; she was got by Mambrino latchon and | raised in Kentucky. Next comes Biackwood's 2,31; he ‘was got by Norman and raised in Keatacky. The third dest is Girl F. Queen's 2:33%%, she was got by Mam- | brino Patehen and raised in Kentucky. Fourth, wo Ata meeting held yesterday afternoon at Rudolphe’s Bilhard rooms, No, 810 Broadway, arrangements were made for the press tournament, which is to commenco next Monday, The prir y Mr. Rudolphe aro & gold medal, goid mounted cue and a leath for the man that does not win a game. T ve 100 points French, p CHESS. & by ten At the tournament at the Calé International the a journed and Alberoal will be played to-day, M n-thand Delmar and Perrine and Becker will 4 contend. The games hotween Messrs. Wiiland Bird and MeKenzie ana Hind are next on the list mes between Mason CROKER'S BENEFIT. Peter Croker, having been tendered a complimentary Donefit, it came off yesterday afternoon at Hill's entertainment of an hour was followed by a display of boxing, whieh proved extremely creditable, First to oblige Were Fioids and McUarthy, when Joba Rielley | Ofange county, New York, On the four-year-old reo- and Young Mutien next stepped upon ithe stage, tho | ord we find, first, Allio West's 2:2934, a Kentucky colt, former making it lively for his opponent | t t Bi "82: Y through three rounds. “McClellan and fadaen | ahomareeihlntenchmbirieatitex tthe Bb deb ion | tonian, raised in Orange county, New York; third, | Pledmont’s 2:3014, and fourth, Eriesson’s 2:0034, the | latter by Mambrino Chief, of Kentucky, Tho fastest | five-year-old time is Lady Maud’s 2:22. She was treated the spectators to a set-to deservedly applauded for its science, after whieh Ledwith and MoLaugblin made a tine digplay, the latter making good use of his ouog Bowles and Jobany i “Seddons’ Mouse” aud George Macarthy determined opponents, when Hill introduced | got by General Koox and raised in Maine. Next comes : i ryt owe a the eng boxers, Miss Rose | Ailie West's 2:25, due to Kentucky, and third place 1s ariand and iss D Saunders, hese “champions” | were prettily and appropriately costumed, And had a | sWarded to Tattler, by Pilot, Jr, out of thoroughtred rattling bout of three ronnds anda “wind-up.” It was “all of @ most friendry nature,” ns Harry assured the en- thasiastic crowd, but the exhibition was slightly moro | than a light spar. Both the giris have improved since | their frst appearanee, ond if thoir progress in acquiring | the “points” and ‘tricks’ in the art of seif-detence 1s as rapid in the future as it has been in the past i will not be long belure they will show to great advantage, Tolltale, also of Kentucky, his record being 2:26. probibitory disadvantage to the North in respect to chmatic influence upon early development. The South- ern colts are broken and bandied as yoarlings, and trained for throc-year-old races in greater numbers ‘than those in the North, but it does not appear that this arises so much from any greater ability on their part to pertorm as upor established custom, probably arts. ing from an eagerness to market them early npon the strongth of sensational achieyements. Occasional races take place there where yearlings contend m har- Ness and two-yoar-olds trotting is frequent. At three they aro all trained as a rule, while here it is the rare exception, Were the same effort generally made to pat thom forward young at the North there ts no deducible from the abova instances thet ENTERTAINMENTS FOR WOMEN, | | A series of lectures, concerts and readings will begin | on Monday next, at the Cooper Institute, for the | amusement and instruction ot the working women of New York. These entertaiaments have beon organized by the New York Women’s Guild, and aro expected to do a great deal of good. Well known artists have Yolunteered, and tickets can be procared at Cooper Union, Chickering Hall, No. 7 Kast Fifteenth street, » 17 Rast Fourteenth street, and as Van Nostrand’s 0k BOLO, NO, dd MUZTAY BIT vol | {ion promises to take an elevated position, aro already | | have Prospero, by Messenger Duroc, 2:334%. from | | Thus taking the best of cach ago, tho list shows no | { Admiral Reynolds’ fine barge the Magic over the Kear- | sarge’s racing catter, followed by the gig match ar- | ranged between the same crews, which unfortunately | fell through, a disappommtment which the Tennessee’s | “boys” more than compensated for im their “scrub races” ou New Year’s Day. But just as they were con- | gratulating themselves on being masters of the situa- | tion in came the little Saco, the smallest ship of the | American fleot, but full of pluck. Then began a series | of contests between the two crews literally verging from the sublime to the ridiculous. The first tussle was between the Magic and the Saco’s twelve-oared whale boat Resolute—the winner of several races in European and Chinese waters. The Saco was defeated, THE RACK WAS TARELY FINISHED ere the defeated Saco men manned their gig and | tossed oars under the Tennessee's bow as a challenge to | the flagship’s gig. The gauntlet was eagerly taken up, pd, alter a few days’ hard work in practice, the race | was rowed at eleven o’clock Jast Tuesday morning | over a straight two-mile course, commencing in tho | lower harbor and finishing near the two ships. In this aduir the Saco’s gig, having already won a reputation in the . Was @be favor! the result fully justity- | ing the confidence of her backers, for, after a close and exciting race, she tossed oars at the finish forty-five seconds ahead, té the great delight of the Saco’s “boys,” whose turn it now was to crow at the big ship, which’ they did lustily, when, lo! } THE TENNKSS®E’S FOUR-OARRD DINGY | Pet appeared under the jibboom with a chal- | | lenge to row against the Saco’s dingy over | | @ ‘corkscrew’? course of one mile, the race | to start within two hours, The ttle slip would not | be “backed down,” and at half-past four P.M. the | boats met aliead of the Saco, and after a brief delay the word ‘go’’ was given and the harbor was again in an | | uproar. Some of the regular racing crew of both sb) contested in the dingies—Willis, the Coxswain of the Magic, taking stroke oar in the Pet, while Frick, of the Saco’s gig, led the music for the other crew, j THE COURSE Jed round all the war vessels in port with many aturn | and twist, and for the first 600 yards the boats bung | well together, but the Pet soon bade goodby to her | rival and ¢: home a minute ahead, scoring another | Vietory for the flagsbip's crew, who howled with joy over the result, They were busily engaged dividing the spoils wien Jack Tailblock reporter a ‘piratical | looking crait bearing down on the port bow.” Ail | hands were on the alert to “repel boarders,” bat on a | close inspection the stranger proved to be the Saco’s CATAMAKAN ORPIAN, | & scow used for scrubbing the ship's side, propelled by | coal shovels inthe hands of four heroic alterguards, | who had been sent out as a forlorn hope to make a inst | effort to balance the score an wrost the laurels from | tho Tennessee, ere the big ship sailed away beyond | | their reach, Bob Lindsay, the coxswain of the Orphan, | soon appeared over the port gangway and, voice | husky with emotion, demanded one more chance. “Gentlemen,” sad Bob, brashing away a not aumanly | tear, “the Saco’s the smallest full rigged crattin the | Service, but we won't give in @ peg, even to the Great . | Eastern, so trot ont your catamaran anu if this don't | turn the tables we'll hare to try something else." “Dash my gallant eyevrows,” cried Tatiblock. “1 | S'pose you'll want to race us in a skouse-kettle next; | but all might, my flower, we'll h’ist out the Light- ning Bug and if we can’t get atead of you ‘on the water we'll take the air for it next and wy you & balloon race with Japanese umbrelias!” The a ning fag was soon overboard and manned by a catch crew who were ral juated in | the Tennesseo’s ti THR TUSSL® COMMENCED. But, alas! for the Saco, The stroke oarsman(shoveller !) of the Orphan “caught « crab’ ut the start which completely demoralized crew, while the geome Bug, with Willa at the helm and her trained crew shuvelling 160 strokes per minute, went over tho | Svurse ou 4 spart around the Saeo, tatning Inside the bee ire Jw or the Lie fy F, coming | “lin a coal mine and gi -room, and | town, biting several 4 —————————_—_—_- an A FORGER CAUGHT. CHARLES RALSTON FOUND AND HELD FOR TRIAL-—~ HIS ANTECEDENTS. Charles Ralston, allas Walter Sheridan, alias Walter Stuart, who is well known to the police as connected with many of the most noted forgeries in the country, has been at last arrested. For years past he has do fied the police of this and other cities, but » Nemesia was on his track in the shape of a woman, and to her, im no smail extent, he owes his betrayal and subsequent capture. “Charlie” Ralston formed part of the well known gang of Gottlieb Engels, Andy Roberts, Spence Pottis, George Wilkes and Ed Hale, who are alleged to be iesponsible tor the forgery of bonds to the extent of millions of dollars, as follows:—Buffalo, New York and Erie; New York Central, Chicago and North- western, Central Railroad of New Jersey, Cali- jornia and Oregon, Central Pacific, Union Pa cific, Allentown (Pa.) school bonds, Erie water loan bonds, Western Union Telegraph Company and the Tebo and Neosho Railroad, On the 2d of Septem. ber, 1872, the Hxxaup published the fact that this greas “gang” had flooded Wall streot with begus shares of Buffalo, New York and Erie, New York Central and Western Union Telegraph stock. Ralston was givena e quantity of New York, buffalo and Erie Railroad wee and by hts address and assurance he succeeded in borrowing $70,000 irom the New York G and Indemnity Company, giving as collateral $102, of the forged bonds. ‘The National Trust Company was aiso victimized by him to the extent of $30,000. “After the exposure Ralston went to Europe, and finally turned to this country afew months ago, with 5 Perry, alias Morgan. While in Europe Ralston lived like & nabob in hotels and gambling houses, His cureer, as given toa Heraxp reporter last night by Mr. Robert Pinkerton, the detective, who captured him, was as follows:—Ralston was born in New Or ears, of American parents, and received a education. In 1860, when about twenty-two years of ‘ago, he appeared in’ Missouri as a horse thief, and be came well known. Previous to this he had been a sneak thiet and had beeu in prison with an accom; 4 “Joo Moran,” at Ayon Penitent *, Ulinois, for a hot robbery at Chicagd. After his ration from prison he was acontidence man, and hundreds of unsophis- ticated victums wore defrauded out of money by him. THE BLATCHFORD ROWBERY. Tho veperable father of Judge Blatchford, while buy. ing an apple at a fruit stand some years ago, in Liberty Bu left his box, containing bonds, on the fruit tand. Ralston seized the box and escaped, Subse- quently Neaman, alias “Dutch Hemrichs,” was arrested for the theft, but ultimately discharged. Cooper, a friend of Ralston, offered some of the bonds for sule at Washington, D, C., and was arrested, but finally discharged. Charles Hicks, it is bo- lieved, belped Ralston in this robbery. Subse. quently Philip Pierson, alias ‘Baltimore Philly,” with Hicks and Ralston, robbed the First National Bank at Springtield, iL Hicks was arres.ed and sen- tenced to eight years’ imprisonment, Pierson escaped, while Ralston was arrested at Toledo, Ohio, by Williant Pinkerton and taken to Springfield for trial. Bes aad was ‘‘Oxed,"’ however, and Raiston, after paying expenses, left the court room a free man with $20,000 in his pocket. Another celebrated robbery in which he participated was that of the Maryland Fire Insur- ance Company at Baltimore. He an: engaged a clerk in conversation whil bers of the gang crowded to the vault and made their eacape with a large amount of money without being discovered, Another robbery and of a similar charac- ter was carried out by him at the Merchants and Me chanics’ Bank, Scranton, Pa., with Little George Cor- son, where they “sneaked”? out $37,000 in money. T! bank in question is better known in Pennsylvania aa Hawley’s. THE BANK OF ENGLAND FORGERIRS. Ralston, with Roberts and Gleason, put up the orig- tnal capital for the Bank of England forgeries, which were carried out by McDonnell and Bidwell; but, as the two latter showed too much gallantry for’ the fair sex, Ralston withdrew his money. Roberts and Gleason, it may be mentioned, are now in Ludlow Street Pog! while McDonnell and Bidwell are now in prison for life. Ralston was also implicated in a $40,000 bank robbery at Cleveland, Ohio, with Jes Allen and “Joe Butts,” both of whom were imprisoned for ten years, Ralston escaped, and went to Sandusky, Ohio, and Hudson, Mich, MIS ARREST. On Wednesday night Detective Robert Pinkerton went to Jersey City with Counsellor W. Wirt Hewett to capture Ralston, as he was expected to arrive by the half past ten P. M. Philadelphia train. Ralston ar- Tived, and went onboard the Now York ferry boat muftied up to his eyes, Upon his arrivg) in this cit; Detective Pinkerton slipped his arm udder Ralston’s and said, “I want you tocome tothe Church Street Police station with me, as I have a bench warrant for your a hod abe h 1801 peared to be much as- tonished, and said that t must be a mistake some- where. When he saw the bench warraut, issued for his arrest by District Attorney Phelps, dated in 1873, he nodded his head sorrowfully. He gaye his name t¢ the Sergeant at the desk as Charles Keane. In hit pockets fitty-five cents in tnoney were found, and ap address ‘Joseph Wi Oliver and South streets.’” Ralston looks about thirty-eight ioe of age, is well built, weighs about 165 id, sendy. beard, wears no jewelry, nor and has a refined 1s very geuteel in appearance, has anything flashy about him, address. It is said that be has only been once in prison, feomiay *2 he has pursued # career of crime for many years. He remarked to Pinkerton, *‘Lord, what reavmiya money I’ve got through and how lucky I have D. ‘The gang to which Ralston belonged may now be fairly considered to have retired trom active business, Roberts, the chief, who used to live in grand style at No, 206 East ‘I'wenty-tirst street, is shut up, as before stated, and his colleagues, Abijah Richardson, Colum. 1 and H. P, Bunster, are scattered. Gleason, the former wealthy printer engr is also in jail. Williamson, lately arrested in Bi street, is to be tried next week, and the rascality of the gang 1s now at an end. 3 < HELD FOR TRIAL. There are above 100 indictments pending inst Ralston, but he was only calied upon yesterday to lead to eighty, and to them he pleaded not ‘Re: Kis is now in the Tombs in default of bail. rge Olmstead, of Staten Island, now out on bail, engraved seals for the fraudulent bonds, while Gottlieb Engels and Georgie Wilkes are allege to redone all 1! “writing’’ or forgery. Dr. Blaisdell, also out on bat! of Bardell murder notorioty, stated that he received his bonds from Gottlieb Engels, who is now in this city. WILLIAM C. BARRETT, A CARD FROM JUDGE BARRETT. Tar Avwaxr, March 23, 1876 _ To Tux Epiror or Tax Heranp:— In view of the editorial article in to-day’s World | have felt that it was due to myself to send to my agod qunts for the facts with respect to W. C, Barrett’s an cestry. They have responded substantially in accord anco with the memorandum inclosed, which these la dics have signed and voritied, Respectfully, GEO. C, BARRETT. THE BARRETT FAMILY. Judge George ©. Barrett’s grandfather was Mr, George Barrett, of Aunackeen, in the county of Gab way. Ile was a private ogre of no profession and | on his means, io married an English lady named Miss Barnwell. At the time of the marriege he took the middie name of Carter (after his uncle Mr, eorge Carter). The object of this was to distinguish the family from other families of the name of Barrevt—that being a common name in their section of the country. Mr. Geo Barrett the mid- Carter had two brothors who at the same time too! dle name of Carter, The eldest was Captain Jobi Barrett, of the Seventy-first regiment, English army. ‘The other was Dr. Wilkam Carter Barrett, who was attached to the Galway militia, Mr. George Barrett had six children—the Rey. Gilbert Carter it, of the Church of England (tather ot Judge ©. Bar- rett); Dr. John Carter Barrett, still living abroad; George Carter Barrett, who died in early life; W. GC. Barrett, who has just left this country, and the Misses Mary and Alicia | two maiden ladies who are now residing with the Rev. Ferdinand ©. Putnam and his wife at Bergen, New Jersey, and trom whom these facts have been obtained, ‘These Jadies have in their possession the family coat of arms, and Judge George C, Barrett has seen old Dublin newspapers giving accounts 8 es made at the rowunda by bis uncle, George ter Barrett over thirty-five years ago. Judge Barrett's sister, Juli has married the Rey. J. T. Webster, an Episcoy clergyman, and is now living at Detroit, Michigan, MR. BARRETT AS A SURRTY, Among other disclosures mado yesterday it wag stated that in 1875 W. C. Barrett was entered as one of the sureties of Chamberlain Tappan in tne sum of $200,000, Comptroller Green opposed his acceptance, and the name of Mr, Barrevs was removed from the bond, MAD DOGS IN MASSACHUSETTS, {From the Boston Post.) The hydrophobra excitement appears to be on the in. crease in Western Massachusetts, and tho astonishing crop of mad dogs that has sprung up in soveral of the towns and cities there has effectually disposed of the notion that canme madness is confined to dog days, ‘The details of the recent death from hydrophobia in Belchertown seem to show that thege is ample cause for apprehension on the part of the people. solon Bri sixteen years old, son of Giliord Bridgman, was taken down with hydrophobia from a mad dog bite received seven weeks ago Saturday, and died on Mon- day morning. He wus first noticed acting queerly, and when the physician arrived from Amnerst, Sunday, he expressed no doubtas to the disease, The night before the poor boy it took three men to hold him. A number of othe bitten by the same dog, which started out about Wo miles east of Hadley, bit Edward Cham. berlain at South Amherst, then Dwight Thayer, then Bridgman and his faiher’s two dogs, which were im- mediately Fiiled. He next passed through Beicher- gs and ove fifteen-year-old girl. One of the dogs is known to have since gon soe nbd the girl is sick and the jast report is that Mr, Thayer shows symptoms of the terrible malady. The 10%, after jumping into the lap of a schoolmist who fortunately dropped him betore he tried to bite her, finished bis career by dying under a barn. Al a general muzzling was ordered some time since, a Many canines are running loose and others are im- Properly muzzled, The sad dev ents will sol emuize several Western Muassachosetts towns where doxs have also run mad and give opportunity for some ped isan vlieapaet pitane cause of the UnSCAsORe » t wy