The New York Herald Newspaper, September 17, 1876, Page 6

SESS NEES he ct OS RNS a Pa THE COMING. CAMPAIGN Preparations for the Struggle Over Local Oandidates TAMMANY’S — TRIBULATIONS. Tow a Coalition Might be Damaging to Both Tammany and Anti-Tammany. THE PROBABILITIES IN THE ASSEMBLY DISTRICTS The Shrieyvalty and County Clerkship, Now that the democrats have secared, a head for their State ticket the loaders of the party in this city are actively preparing for the local campajgn, and tor A few woeks to come Boss Kelly and his staf of syco- phantic pap hunters will be busily engaged im making up the city and county slate. As to just what “active” preparations they will make to swell Tilden’s majority In this city it would be very difficult to predict at this early stage of the campaign, Thus far no definite plan of action to get out tho full voto of the party for tho vencit of tho party's candi- fate for the Presidency has been decided upon by Tammany; not a single effort has been put forth by any member of influence in the organization that can be regaracd, even by the wildest stretch of the im- agination, asa friendly act toward the Governor as a candidate, Indeed, it isa fact that admits of no dis- pute by any one conversant with the true situation of affairs that the members of the Tammany General Com- mittee whoare outspoken for Tiiden are a mere cor- poral’s guard comparod with thoso members who, while not daring to speak out boldly against the Gov- ernor, are heart and soul as bitterly opposed to him as & candidate as the deepest dyea repub- ean in tho city. Mr, Edward Kearncy, who, a couple of weeks ago, resigned from the General Commitieo rather than ve looked Upon as a supporter of Tilden, asserted a few days be. fore ho did resign that eighty per cent of the commit- tee would vote against the Governor at tho polls. The Matement was genorally credited at the time, and even those who were not willing to believe that Mr, Kearney ever made the assertion do not deny that if tt was mado tt would have been far from the truth, Under the circumstances it 1s easy to understand why Tain- many, even when sho bas made an attempt at getting up ward incetings, ostensibly to rally democrats to the support of Tilden, has tailed to throw any enthusiasm into her work or to go out of her general routine way ot doing business in advocacy of his election, At tho bottom of all this apathy of the leaders there ta a cause which bas only selfishness and a greed for power for its basia, Dofeated at St, Louis in his efforts to secure the nomination of some other man than Tilden, Boss Kelly, who, after ali, 1s Tammany Hall, oat his crow like a little inan even before the Coavention adjourned ; but he was not for ail thata convert at heart to tho cause of Tilden, 1t suited his purposes then to cover up his real intentions by a humitating acceptance and in- dorsement of the candidate who he had declared a tew minutes before could not possibly carry bis own State, When he came home he brooded over his sorrows and Went about with such a melancholy face that all the Patriots who, in return for the petty ollices they bold at his good pleasure, are oniy too glad to do ° THE WIRE-PULLING WORK in their wards that is considered essential to big reten- tion in power took their cue accordingly and learned 46 look upon Tilden as a man for whom it would not be healthy to hurrah over too enthusiastically, Tne State Couvention was an opportunity for the Boss that was hot to be despised, and so the word Was passed around that the Tammany delegation should through thick and thin supporl a certain candidae for Governor who it was known was not acceptable to the Governor. Mowever, anti-fammany’s success in securing u pretty full representation on the delegation spoiled ail the Boss?’ well laid p jor he was unable to throw the full vote of the delegation according to his own sweet will, and though the Governor's candida Dorsueimner, Was not uominated Tammany’s caugidare alsy camo to gril, thanks to the evginesring of the wnu-Tammanyites und the delegates trom ihe 1uterior immediately Under the controt of the Governor's wan- agers. The triumph of Mr. Tilden in securing the homination of Lucias Robison aud the active part the anti-lammany delegates took jn bringing about that Tesult Was the last feather that broke Tammauy’s back. Tt gave the Boss new cause for his secret opposition to Tilden as a candidate, and has made wider than over the breach which divides the anti-Tamtoany from Tamimany or, If, then, there 18 to be a couit- tion betwee n the election ior local officers 4 will be brought about despite the wishes of Mr, Kelly fud those the Tammany maguates with wo: bw Winx isas good as bis nod, The tactof th jatter is, as the HkkALD has already pomted out, Tammany Huli does wot desire tho election of Mr. Tilden, ior it Would be ter destruction as a ical political ‘power, len, with the Custom House and other federal ottiters as lever dina mouth after he takes pos session of the Witte House Uulld up 4 democrasie or- Funization in this city betore Whose entrcing snuggeries Of well paid offices Tammany would melt away into and no one would be Jeft so poor as Boss the simplest houor, With a republican iGeus for the wext tour years Tammany would still ‘ve, as she ts to-day with a republican in the Presideu- ital chair, a power m this city, aud Boss Kelly would romain the chie! dispenser of patronage. This being the actual situation i} Deed vot be wondered at that the followers of Mr, Keliy who hold office or who ex- pect favors at Lis hauds siiould be so lukewarm in we Support of the man Who, If elected, would be certain to overlook them when the time came for rewarding those who tought the good fight well—on the right aide. THERE BR A COALITION f ely, look.ng at wnatters in their pres- amapy aud anti-Tammany will unite, poen taken looking to that end, all the hed to the contrary notwithstanding, bor does ex-Sepat t, wind It is very uni ent light, tbat No step has y reports pad! Ira Sater knows of non or BE. B. Hart, the chairman of the anti-Tato ny Ex- ecutive tee, who certainly would be likely to know if there was any plan on foot for a coalition, and Mr keliy himself emphatically denivs that Tammany has asked for of entertained auy proposition looking to a union of forces. ‘The Tammavy leaders declare Wat the auti- Yammanyiies will uot dare ina Presidential year to make any bargains wit repabheans, Such a they thivk Would send every democrat over to the sup- port of Tammaay, and it must be confessed that #1 is somethiig tn ihe argument. Ou the other hand the Auti-Tammanyties, having steadily from St. Louis to Baratoga supported Mr. Tilden, contend that they oc- bupy the vautage ground, and that if iuey should in- dorse a republican nominee for lvcal office in return tor a republican imdorsemont of ‘heir nominees, the thurge tuat they were working io the interost of the republican candidate for Governor or President would fall fat and unprofitable. But even if Tammany and anti-fammany should take the hotion 0 unite their forces on the strength of what the politicians call an “equitavie Mistribution’? of local offices, the coalition would be damaging to both, inasmuen as the Gi prasic organization, While declaring against Tammany all dictation, Lave also buidiy aubounced that they Wal be no party toa union secured for no other pur pose than to Satisty the longings for ollies of t (Uhroe men in Tammany and antlammany, Aw based on principle they are ready to stand by; but they have said it as plainly as words coud that bo two Of three mien tn either of the rival organizations can fontroi at will the German democratic vou. Who, in the face of all the dillicuities that beset ihe of the local le of the democratic party is ardy enough to 4 the result of a unton of lorces as decided upon for sweet office sake, or the re- Bult if uo union ts bad at all? THR SURIRVALTY. The principal local office to be flied at the ensuing Plectiog is that of Sherift, and as te does not per- Bit of the election of a Sheriff for two suecessive terms Mr. Couner has to step down and oat. Bernard Reilly, of the Fourteenth Assembly aiserict, i the most prominent Tammacy candidate, and it is que probabie (nas he wiil get the pumination, Three years ago a majority of the Conveution whic finally nomi- nated Mr. Conner were ready to vote for him vatl M Kelly gave the delegates to understand that Mr. Cr ner was bis candidate, Relliy could bave made a Btrong fight, but he and Mr. Kelly being good triena| he quietly submitted to his It is believed tha this aeuon on bis part will go a great way toward se- curing hint the coveted hovor at the hands of the next county convention, and that Mr. Kelly will show his titude by throwing his influence openly in Bor- vor, Ex-Senator O’Brien would certainly be the candidate if Tammany and anwi-Tammany decided upon a‘-union of bearts and a uniow of ban Js,” as be tinims that, if a coalit takes place, the Shrieyalty the apti-Tammany organiza- tion, the consideration by resery. ing ‘the County Clerkship for herseli, Mr. O'Brien's friends assert that, coalition or no coalition, he will be acapdidate, aud that if nominated by anti-Tammany, Bs they feel certain he will be, he will receive the 10- @orsement of the German democratic organizations and the reprblican tndorsement as well. Jacob Patterson, {t appears now, will be able to secure the republican Bomination ithe wants it—that is if be can give assure Roce of meeting with better jess than he had when be ram for County Clerk iuree years ago, ‘The present County Clerk, Mr. Walsh, is @aid. and 20 the smi raremaaay people will bave to look | =panow candidate, ‘The ght for this office promises to be more hotly contested at the polls than that for any other office, provided the two leading = candiduies now in the tleld we cure the nomination of their respective par- ties. There are two candidates on the repubiican side, ex-Collector Tom Murphy and Alderman Jacob Hess. The former for aloug time past bas been pulling all the nec mr! secure the prize, and it is uow gaid that be has ide track. Coloue! William R. Roberts will be the ‘Tammany nominee; and it there should be a third candidate in the field tho race be- tween the ex-Coliector and the ex-Congressman will Do one of the liveliest ever scen in this city. CONGRESSMEN, It i# understood that ali the democratic Cougress- meu from the city will be renominated by Tammany, not even excepting Mr. Hewitt, for whom Mr. Kelly entertains Bo particular love since the St, Louis Con- vention. Mr. Willis may possibly tind some difticulty in getting repominated, but the aspirants tor his place are of such little tmporiance in the “zrasshopper dis- cl’ that if he sets bis mind on a renomination it will bo bis im the long run. THE COBONEKS, Coroners Woltman, Eickhoil and Croker, whose terms expire on the Slat of December, are all anxious to succeed themselves. It is possible that oue of the threo will be gratified, but Croker, in the opinion of those whose opinion ‘is of weight iu the Tammany councils, will Bot be that one. ‘I'he difficully he got iuto on election dey two years ago and hus trial for mur- der are yet too fresh in’ the public mind to make it politic for Tammany to renominate him, In the words of one of the leaders, “His notwination would draw \oo hot a fire from the enemy.”” Nicholas Muiler is a can- didate, and bis triends are working hard for bim, It 1s believed that George W. Morton will pat in his claim for one of the three vacancies. His strongest ciaim will probably be that be was defeated fur Coroner lust year and is entitled to a second chal Alderman Slevin has a hankering for the honor of sitting ou dead bodies 1n an ofijcia! capacity, but as he bails from the game Senatorial district as William KR, Roberts he will bave no chance of a nomination if Mr. Roberts 12 nomi- nated as County Cierk. THR ALDERMEN. All the Aldermen, democrats as well as republicans, are candidates for re-election. Jeremiah Keunetick is secking & bomination in Fourth Senatorial dis trict, desirous, doubtiess, of suceveding Slevin, who was clected by the board tw dill the vacuney occasioned by the death of Lysaght. UK ASSEMBLYMEN, As yet very little is kuowu as to what will be done in the various Assembly districts, so far a8 the nomina- tions for the Assembly are concerned. Iu some dis- tricts the democrats Will try to concentrate their strength upon one candidate instead of trittering it away as they did in many instances at the last elec- tion, and thus alding in the election of the republican candidates. 1t is pretty certain that the following democrats will be renominaied:—Jobn Galvin in the Third, Matthew Patten in the Sixth, Shepherd O'Hare in the Kighteent id Joseph Fallon inthe Twenty-first, Michuel Madigan, James Healy and Colonel Michael C. Murphy, democ are candidates tu the First, and sa stroug probavilty that if Murphy, who ts an \-Tammany tan, rung he will be indorsed by the republicans, which would secure bis election, it ts more than probable that he could carry the disirict against Tammany Hull without republican aid. Dr. Hayes, of the Seventh, Charles A. Peabody, of the Eleventh, Robert H. Straban, of the Thirteeuth, aud William 8, Grail, of the Seventeenth, republicans, will, in all probability, be renominated. Tueir nominauon will be cquivatent to an election, though if the demo- cratic faction In the Seventeenth reconcile their ditler- ences, a8 they are job of it In the Eignth, Tenth and Twelfth, whieh ‘were represented by republicans last — session, the republicans are casting about rather wildly for good candidates, as the record of the three geutiomen trom these districts in the last Legislature ‘Was not exactly such as to entitle them to a renomina- tion, If they should be renominated they deverve to be defeated. The knowiedge of the past will, po doubt, in the long run, induce the republicans in the districts in question to put up their very strongest men. In the Sixteenth George Y. Whitson, anti-Tammany, will again run. It is doubtful whether the individual who represented the Fifteenth last winter will be reuom- iuated by Tammany Hall, As things look now, Joseph Biumentoal, who, in 1573, was the chairman of the Committee of Seventy tu the Legislature, will be the democratic nominee. It ia yet an open question who will bo the nomineo for Senator in the Fifth district in lieuof Mr. Booth, lately deceased. THE MUNICIPAL COMMISSION. the The Municipal Commission, of which Wiiliam M. Evarts is chairman, which was appointed by Gov- ernor Tilden on the 1st of last November, and whose duty it 1s to digest and report plans to the Legislature for the better organization and government of the mu- nicipalities of this State, is approaching the completion of the important work confided to its cnarge. Several of its committees. among which the main work of tho commission was divided, have already reported to it, and the others are expected to report when the com. mission reassembies, Which will be on the first Satur- day of October. It ‘is thought that the report of the comm:ssion will be presented mm the early part of the coming session of the Legislature. SCHURZ AND ‘THE. REPUBLICANS, A CONTRADICTION 48 TO HIS WITHDRAWAL FROM THE CANVASS. A CoLvuanrs, Ohio, Sept. 16, 1876. General A. T. Wikol, chairman of the Ohio Repub- Mean Central Committee, denies the report that Cari Schurz’s name has been withdrawn from the list of republican speakers. He says that tho ex-Senator Will speak at Steubenville next Monday, and at other points of tae State during the pending canvass. Gen- eral Wikoif, when asked what could be the origin of the reports, said it was simply a democratic 110. REPUBLICAN NOMINATIONS. Sanatoca, Sept. 16, 1876, Isanc Noyes, Jr., was renomlnated for the Assembly by tho republicans of the Second district to-day, Irnaca, N. Y., Sept. 16, 1876. The repubilcans of Tompkins county to-day made tho following poininations:—Assembly—S. Ro Wickes County Clerk—O. P. Hyde; District Attorney—D. Dean; Superintendent of the Poor—lruman Spaulding ; Coroner—W. C. Gallagher; Clerk of Sessione—J. ki, Emory. . « NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. THE “MAXYFLOWER—A MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEAR- ANCE. Wasuixeron, Sept. 16, 1876. Th wy Department has received information of the arrival of the United States steamer Mayflower at Annapolis. yesterday, with the cadet engineers on board, having returned trom thoir annual cruise on the Eastern coast, The officials of the Navy Departmont aro som: alarmed as to the safety of Passed Assistant P John Breese, who hag been on duty in the Asi tion for the past four years, bat returned bome in tue United States seamer Saco, Island in July. He promptly reported bis arrival to the department and anvounced that he would proceed to his home at Newport, RL On the 7th of August he was ip St Lous ea route to his home. and since that ther his friends at home nor the officials of the ent bave been able to learn anything of his bouts, He bad $2,000 or $3,000 with him, and it 18 feared he may have been robbed and murdered, THE BROOKLYN NAVY YARD. The officers of the Netherlands frigate Neerlaudaise visited the Navy Yard on the 14th inst., and were re- coived on their arrival by Commodore Nicholson, Com- mandant of the Navy Yard, who accompanied them through the varions departinents of tao yard. Adwiral Porter, Vice Admiral Kowan, Kear Admiral Charles H. Davis, Chiet Engineer J. W. King and Naval Constructor J.C. Easby, United States Navy, the members of the n board authorized by Con- gress to examine whetber any of the navy yards can be dispensed with are expected at the Brooklyn Navy Yard on the 2d of Octover to commence their labors. Lieutenant John T. Sullivan, detached from ordnance duty aud orderea to the Essex, at Koston, and Lieuten- ant Wilham Watts, ordered to ordnance duty at the wy Yard, Gunver Charies il. Venable ro- uty on the Swatara on the 1th just. vice Neil, detached. The Shawmut jaily expected at the yard, where she wiil be put out of con mismo, as she is leaking badly, It is about six years since she was newly plated ab the yard, after wich she received new boilers at Washington. The United States schoolstip Supply arrived yester- Gay afternoon at four o’cluck oi the Battery, (rom Now London, At the time of sailing she ran on a reef in the harbor, strippiag off her copper frow stem to siers. After striking the ree! she remained fast for two hours, but her signals of distress being seen by the United States revenue cutte Jie Grant that steamer towed her off on the rise of the tide. The boys trom for the purpose of trainin) Yesterday morning, before her arrival, feli through the forward hatch and broken, THE CUSTER MONUMENT. one of t bad bis erm Tho following contributions to the custer monument fand have been received from Santa Barbara, Cal, ;— L. J. Gutierrez from N J. G. Prince... Total. .....+ BROOKLYN'S WEEKLY ARRESTS. ting the past The police of Brooklya Lave made ‘week 530 arrests ig to, Graff may have au uphili | whieh arrived at Maro | _ NEW YORK HERALD, | | 4 GRANT AND THE MONARCHS, HIS REPLIES TO THE ROXAL CENTENNIAL GRATULATIONS, [From the Loudon Times, Sept. 5.] President Grant has been sending replies to the let- ters of congratulation which he received from the rulers of Europe to mark the hundredth anniversary of the day which witnessed the Declaration of American Independence. His Message to the Emperor William. a summary of which we published on Saturday, is & dignitied acknowledgment of the goodwill which bas always Dound togetber Germany and the United State: The Emperor's lettor is declared to have been all the more welcome because it came {rom the sovereign of a great Empire, “with which the American Kepublic during the whole period of its existence has Leen on peaceable and friendly term ‘The reply to the Em- peror of Austria could scarcely say as much, because during the Hungarian rebellion the United States gave some umbrage by showing too great haste to recognize the pational existence of the Magyarsa. But that was merely a trivial cloud on a bright retro- spect. Indeed, there ts pot @ country in Europe, ex- cept our own and Spain, with which America has not been on fricudly terms during the whole course of its republican existence, The cause of this uniform friendliness is, of course, that the United States havo rigorously kept out of all Europewn quarrels. The wars of the French Republic and the Empire, the war Jor the liberation of Greece, the contest between Me- hemet Alt and the Sultan, the Crimean war, the bat- tles tor the independence of Italy, for supremacy in Germany and for the first place among the military nations of the Continent—all these struggles America could sufely survey from the other side of a mighty ecean, The only Power which has come into serious collision with her has been our own, because between ug we divide a great continent, Yet the goodwill of no vation could have been more heartily expressed than that which accompanied the letter of congratula- tion sent by our own Queen to President Grant Ali of us have come to see that the Americans did good to this country as well as to their own when they con- quered their independence. In the tory Ministries who tried to tax (hem without their consent we have learnt to sce the champions of a despotism which, if triumphant in Awerca, would have reacted in Eng- Jand; and We admit that the coionists were fighting the Dattle of liberty for us as well as jor themselves. ‘The Chict Magistrate of the American Republic uow addresses the proucest sovereigns in Kurope as equals d brothers. He is, indeed, as great u potentate as any of them, although he himpelf will soon sink back into ihe obscurity of private lite, His couuteym muy be excused if they boast that @ good many things have happened in Europe since the United States be- came independent, and if they think that the effects of their political experiment have. been jelt on this side of the Atlantic. The men who bduilt the Union were pioneers of principles. which are now the commonplaces of wvery Parliament No doubt they did but apply doctrines which were already floating about the Old World as well ay the New. It was pot so much the misrule ot Kugland us the growth of those doctrines, and therefore of new hope, Which awoke their anger, At an earler time tho wrongs set forth by Jefferson would have provoked little more than murmuré. But in America, as in France, all reverence tor old institutions was crumbling uway uhder the suvtlo criticism of 4 new political phi- losopby. So far from being coufined to France the revoluifopary teaching had begun im England vetore 1 Was beard of in that country, aud, in truth, a gréat deal of 1 was Wafted from London to Puris on the light wings of Voltaire’s wit. Here it proved to be barm- less because Wo knew bow to widen our institutions Without the wrench of revolution; bet France had robbed herself of that power by drying up the springs ot porltical hberty. Our colonies, on the other hand, were peculiarly able to prolit by ull that was good in tue new teuching. They bad no social institutions to keep them in the Ways of Conservatism by the immense to- nacity of personal interests. They were a democracy in all but the name. Hence, in doctrines which the conser vative lawyers of Kugiaod held to be alike absurd aud unarchical the most thoughtiul of the colonists saw little more than the commonplaces by which they themselves had long been practically guided, * * * Hence the tory statesmen of Euglaud and the philo- sophical lawycfs of America never really occupied the same ground, Even Chatham did uot see the immense sweep of the consequences latent in the demands of the people whom he beiriended, The French were mor clear-sighted. A sure instinct told their radical party to jom hands with the people who had dispensed with tbe machinery of a court, ‘The French Revolution was more social than adminis trative. Destroying movarchy, aristocracy, Church, administration, the !aws of ingeritance, a whole sys- tem marked by a thousand years of growth, it replaced everything by arrangements tresh from the brain of the legislator, It Was the greatest experiment ever attempted by human audaeity or skill, and it may take France at least another generation to recover trom the violeuc? of the wrench. This country bas beeu more fortuaate, Substantially, our institutions are suili the same us they were Uuring the struggle with the colonst Crown, Lords, Chureb, and the laws of property ure still untouched, although tuere has been beneath the surface a change in the distribution of political power, Of all highly civilized countries Gormapy, perbaps, contains tue largest ieaven of the feudalism which wus still the ce- meut of European society when the United States set up for themselves, Even yet her aristocratic caste is wore like the old noblesse of France than our own no- bility was even in its wore exclusive days, Proud of iw Hneage, and contemptuous of ail callings save that of war or the service of the State, it forms an adinirable class of military loaders and ap expert bureaucracy. France felt the want of such a class when she went to war with Germany in loose democratic array. So did the Northern States of America when they had to beat down a rebellion led by the planters ot the South, who were au aristocracy in all but the name. President Grant, however, may console him- self with the retiection that such a military caste as the aristocracy of Germany bas not ulways proved the greatest source of strength in contests so prolonged dud exhausting as to put a pressure on every unit of the community. There are lew better exampivs of national tepacity in the face of disaster than the wars waged by France against the whole of Lurope at the end of last century, and by the Northern States of America against the South. Those contests show that soldiers may be hammerod by defeat into as fine fight- ing stuil as ever the world saw, if, instead of being animate machines, they are knit together by a com- mon cothusiasin for a great ideal. THEATRICAL MANAGER SUED, com COLONEL SINN, MANAGER OF THE NEW PARE THEATRE, BROOKLYN, SUED ¥oR $20,000 DAMAGES, A suit for $20,000 damages has been begun by William Holland against Colone! William E. Sinn, lessee, pro- prictor and manager of the New Park Theatre, Brook- lyn, It ts claimed by Mr, Holiand, who is a gymnast by profession, that he was engaged by Colonel Sinn to give gymnastic performances at the Park Theatre for one fortuight trom February 21, 1876, and that while per- jorming On the trapeze on the evening of the 24h he fell to Lhe stage and sustaimed permauent injuries, He further aileges that Colonel Sinn failed to provide or allow plaintif to provide a netting to guard against accidents, Colonel Sinn was served with the sum- mons and complaint yesterday, STRANGE DISAPPEARANCE. Ellen Vangha, a young woman twenty-four yoars of age, who has been living for some time past with ner sieter, at No, 2,226 Fulton street, Brookiyn, started on ‘Thursday last to go to the Brooklyn Savings Bank, at the corner of Fulton and Concord streets, to draw the sum of $200 therefrom, As she failed to return her sister instituted inquiries concerning her, but all to bo purpose, and, bowithstanding the police have io- terested themseives, no trace of Ellen can be found further than that sbe dri nO noncy from the bank as she inteuded. The paying tolier was unabie to 6: whether there Was any one with her at the time or ve met her brother Johan at the arrungement for his return to ireland, is alleged; but when Joba was found, on Thursday night, he said he kuew nothing of her where- abouis, Soon alter he was arrested for’ drunkenness, | aud upon examivation was Commuited to jail for ten days, THE POLISH CHURCH RAID, Nxw York, Sept. 16, 1876 To tux Epitor or tux Heratp:— Being a regular reader of your very valuable paper I hope you will allow me space to say a few words in re- gard to the raid on the Polish church last Thursday evening. Captain Clinehy, o/ the Thirteenth precinct, being informed that the place was a disorderly house and without investigating the matter, made a raid on it when the place was full of respectable young men and young womtn, who bad gone there to enjoy a picasant evening, never thinking they were doing any- thing wrong, and arrested all the old Tegardiess of respectability or anything else. Now, Mr, Editor, supposing thata few of the rougher element were there at the time, there was nothing in their conduct one could take offence at. Upward of lity re- -tive young ladies eets to the station house, protesis of the yi men and = the pleading of" the young ladies, and locked up. all night In’ the morning they were taken to Essex Market Court anid the hoots and yells of a motiey crowd that had sombled. Now, Mr, Editor, was this right? Theso parties tad paid an admission fee, the sane as though they had gone to a theatre, Why did not Captain Clineby station some of b iu there if Many an anxious mother waited up all mi a or daughter to come home, and wi t bave been ber ieelings when saformed that by she had been locked 4 in a felon’s coil all night? Hoping that you will show this matter up to iis trae light and that you will exeuse me for trespassing on your time and space, | remain, Fospesinily svete SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1876.-QUADRUPLE SHEET. HARLEM BATTCE PLAINS. A Civic and Military Celebration of the Event. HON, —JCHN «JAY'S CENTENNIAL ORATION. Looking Back on One Hundred Years of History. A Peaceful Contrast to the Revo- lutionary Days. Yesterday at one o'clock there was a mocting of the Cominiitee of Keception of the Aistorical Society of the State of New York at the Filth Avenue Hotel, The guests received were Governor Henry Lippitt, of Rhode Island; Colonel Charles Warren Lippitt, chief of the personal staff; Colonel Edward Eames, Colonel Theodore M. Cook, General Hever Lefavour, Adjutant General of the State, and Colonel Jabers C. Knight, Paymaster Geveral. ‘The reunson, it is hardly neces- Sary to state, was for the purpose of arranging the pro- ceedings to take place later if the day on the site of the battle of Harlem Plains, on which historic spat Hon, John Jay was to deliver an oration, On arriving at the place of celebration a scene of un- Tivailed beauty was unfolded. Upon a large plateau upon the edge of a bluff extending {rom 115th to 125th street, was erected two {large covered platforms festooned in an elaborate manner with American tags; tents were pitched upon the ground from which floated the national colors, the fences and trees were likewise decorated, and {rom every point—not excepting tho Bloomingdale Lunatic Asylum—there seemed to be a spontaneous display of red, white and biue. In front stretched the lowlands, now teeming rich with the autumnal vegetation; to the left, the low brick houses of Harlem, soeming almost a pro totype of that anciont city in Holland from which it takes its name, Far in the distance the | Sparkling waters of Long Island Sound laved the dim | shores and city-ward the spires of the churehes pierced | ihe dull September sky like lances. ‘The only glitter- ing object, however, thintng through tho ether was the growt Cathedral in distant Filth avenue, whose marble fretwork seemed to be mirrored against the heavens and reflect its glory on the jandscape. In gazing west- ward the winding Hudgon was seen washing the feet of the Palisades, and way beyond steamers were plying from shore to shore as peacefully as it never battles had been lost or won. THE CEREMONIES. About threo o’clock the Historical Society arrived upon the grouud and took possession of the main | stand. They were accompanied by tho following gen- tlemen:—Governor Lippitt and staff, Mayor W. H. Wickham, Charles O’Conor, Judge Larremore, ex- Mayor Daniel F. ‘Tiemann, Licatenant Gardner, United States Army; Rev, Dr, Morgan Dix, General Kilbourne Knox, Senator Beekman, Colonel Warner, Major George W. McLean, of the **Oid Guard;” Rev. Dr- Richard 8, Storrs, Rev. Dr, Adams, ex-Commissionor Van Nort, County Auditor Earle, James Russell Lowell, Benjamin H. Ficld, Hosea B, Perkins, Ford- ham Morris, Henry A. Oakley, W. H. Moore and F. Do Peyster. ‘The exercises of the commemorative anniversary were opened with prayer,by Rev. Dr. Morgan Dix. He supplicated Alnignty God, the everlasting King, whose power is inguite, to have mercy on all the people, to the end that they might yield obedience to all in au- thority. He thanked che Giver of all good for the sig- nal manifestations of His mercies, especially evidenced in those days when faith in His power made for this people an tavincible bulwark of their libertios, Mr. Frederick De Peystor then introduced the orator of the day, Hon. John Jay, who spoke substantialiy as follows :— Our centennial year, fraught with cherished _memo- ries, bas brought Us to the aniversary of the spirited evgagements which took place on the hoights and piuns around us a hunured years ago between some of the Continental troops under the command o! Wash- ington and @ part of the British army under Sir William Howe, The action for the American army aud the American cause had a great significance, Our troops engaged in 1 represented ali sections—Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York and New Eng- land—indicating the commop ties that have bound us ja a common destmy, and recalling the generous thought of Patrick Henry, when he said, ‘I am nota Virginian—i am an American.” 1t was the first sue- cess of the Americans tn the New York campaign, aud it occurred ata moment when both officers and men were discouraged by disaster and retreat, and mortified and alarmed at an exhibition of panic the day beiore, which had wounded their — self-respect and impaired their courage and their hopes, It de. veloped the bravery and spirit of our newiy- levied troops and their ability, when noe jed, to mect in the open field the flower of the Englis! | army and the trained veterans of the Conunent, lt inspired with new ardor the Commander-in-Chiel, b officers and men, and it thus became aa imporiuot link | in that chain of events, military und civil, which, by the wisdom of Washington and the holp of God, estal- lished, alter a seven years’ struggle, our Union and our independence. ‘THE OCCASION 18 FITLY GRACED by this brilliant assembiage, including our distinguishea aud welcome guests, and by our gallant Seventh regi- ment, of which New York 1s justly proud—that school of soldiers which in our late War furnished more than | 600 officers to the army aud avy of the United Siates. | Practical muy be the character, active as is the life of our countrymen, theirs is not the trigid philosophy devouncea by the English moralst whien might comduct one unmoved over ground consecrated by wisdom, bravery and virtue, If as Dr, Jobnson observed, that man 18 little to be envied Whose patriousm would not gain force upon the piains of Marathon, or whose piety would uot burn brighter amid the ruins of lona, the American, could he be Jound, would be sill ives to be envied, whose patriotism at this Ceutenniat season would not be re- freshed on the battie-fields of the Revolution, where our independence was won under the lead of Wosb- | ington. 1€ Marathon and Lona inspire touching memories of a dead past, our Revolutionary Bcenes, while they also remind us of ages that are gone, linked with a hving present, and TUE BRART OF THE NATION may well beat high with joy and thankfulness as our Cetitennial sees the gatuertng of the mations at Phi deiphsa, not to sivg our requiem and divide our herit- age, but bringing their congratulations and their treasures to lend maguiticence to the birth-year of ie Republic. Having disnussed to their homes her army of a million, and retained for the protection of the Republic some tweniy-tive thousand meu, less than the garrison of a European capital, she cordially greets in Irieudly rivairy her weicome guests in a ‘ay to assure them that’ if “westward the star ot Ctupire tukes its way,’? our star of empire is the bar- binger of peace. Our Centennial is teaching us the untiy of history by the most striking of lessona, ag Sgypticads the throng, mother of civilization, with Fuatold ages of hour antiquity—the land of thé Pharoahs aud the pyramids; of the Nile and of the j Sphynx, with scriptural memories of Abrab d Sarah, of Joseph and his brethren, when the great pyramid bad been standing some 2,000 years; of the sccond Joseph, the mother and the ebild, recalling Mem- phis aud Thebes Rameses and Cambyses, with dim thoughts of Tyre, and Sidon, and Babylon, as shadowed | forth by kzekiel and J tah, = =Egypt, Which ja her rewote origin Was a sphynx to the aucieut Grecks, brings from the East, with her oriental couriesy, her eoting and her git She salutes us as of olf the wiatue of M m greeted the rising sug; gud as read the m written on her portals at Fairmount, “The oldest uation sends her morning greeting to the youngest nation,” we feel that our youthful Republic, Child of the brightest centuries of European develop. ment, is okin to ail the nations and heir to the culture of all the ages. ‘Touching the dispute between Engiand and ner colo- nies the idea was combatted that the colonists at first wished for separation. Tbey contended vot for rights which they considered new, but which Were sacred and traditional, The speaker adverted to the non-certainty of foreign aid at the outset Of the struggie, observing that we had not yet received the galiunt, who afterword foeked to our standards, ucbec, the arrivai of two British sti e coming of Highianders and Hessians were duly mentioned. The disastrous battle of Long Island, Washington's reireat from Hrookiyn to New York, and the Jantinug of the first division of tho Brivish army under sir Henry Clinton were next reviewed, ‘There is one incident, said the speaker, connected with Putnam’s retreat which, although oiteo related, cannot propesly be omitted in a Centennial mention of that eventiui day. Sir William Howe, in his letter of September 21, to Lord George Germaine, after describ- ing the Innaing at Turtic Bay, sald: ¢ British im- mediately took post on the commanding neight of In- clenberg; but Sir Wilisain omitted to advise His Lord- ship of the disposition of bis staf ou their arrival at that * point, to whieh the Ame nm Of ficers were accustomed = to —attribi the safety of General Putnam's command, the loss of which at that stage of the war might bave had « ferious iniiuence on the military situation, On “the commanding height of Incleuberg,” now kuown mor modestly as Murray Hill, resiaed wile, Mary Lipaiey Murray—all honor to ber niewory— he absence of her puaband, invited sir Willian ollicers, as they approached er resi lobert Murray, whose | top for luneb, A halt was ordered tation aecepted. The unaccustomed orning’s work scom to have prepared -io-Cbtet and his officers, who were accompanied by His Bxeellency Governor Tyron. to enjoy the proffered rest and In cheerful mood atter their successtui lauding, and refreshed th the generous wine, they bantered their hostess ith British biuntess on her revel ssespeibien, and Mra. Murray res; led with such graceful tact and pleasant humor that two hours or more were whirled away before they bad finished their regale. During that precious time Putnam and his command, in their straggling and disorderly retreat along the Bloomin; dale road, had passed in safety within a mile ol t comfortable parlors where the illustrious generals who Were to conquer America quaffed with appreciation the old Madeira, jested complacently at the discomfiture of the rebels, and unconsciously measured the military prudence of the royal staif with the patriotic wit of an American woman. KELATIVR POSITIONS OF THY FORCES. Tho headquarters of the British Commander General, Sir Wilham Howe, wero at the house of Mr. Apthorpe, which stands near the corner of Ninth avenue and Ninety-lirst street, and is now known ss Kim Park. The eheampment of the British extended from the Fai River, wuere General Howe's right rested on Horen's Hook, near Eighty-ninth street, to the North River, where his left was at Bloomingdale, the distance being about two miles, and both flanks beimg covered by his ships. The encampment extended {rom tbe fourth to the eighth imile-stone. The division of the army | near the Roger Morys# House ex- tended “ southwardly to near the Hollow Wa Tunuing from Harlem Plain to the Hudson iver at the site of the present Manhattanvitle, a natural vreak between the Harlem and the Bloomingdale beighis Between the Point of Rocks, the southern extremity of the Hariem Heights, now being cut away, the property of the Conveut of the Sacred Heart, and McGowan’s Pass, at the northern extremity of the Centrul Park, and lying on the eastward of Bloomingdale Heights, inter- vened a low ground known as the Harlem Piains. The Point ot Rocks, at 127th street, was the advance post of the Ameri¢an army, and on the hili slope below Mc- Pass, at 109th street, a mile and a half , Was tho advance post of the British army. The picket line of each army extended beyoud these points into the Plains ana along the ridge whicn overlooked them. ~A8 night closed around the two armies on the opposing heights, a cold driving rain succeeded to the sultry heat of the morning, and the contrast between the thorough equipment of the Brit. ish troops and the half-clad, unsheltered condition of the Americans, without tents or blankets, might have extended, perhaps, to the temper of the two armies, ‘The events of the day had tended to confirm the im- pression made by the battle of Long Island; to in, crease the betief of the British io their resistless supe- riority, and to lower the confidence of the Americans in their officers and in themselves, OPBNING THE BATTLE, On the morning of Monday, the 1sth of September, Washington couciuded aljetier to Co! affair at Kipps’ Bay with the remark, *‘1 sent out gome reconuoitering parties to gain intelligence if pos- sible of the disposition of the enemy.” From the con- tomporaneous authority of an officer ongaged in the afluir, it appears that a scouting party of the regiment of Rangers, a body of picked men under the command of Lieutenant Coionel Thomas Knowiton, set out before - daybreak with instructions to ascertain the position of the cnemy’s advanced passing over the ridge which we have described as the Bloomingdale Heights. Wash- ington, Jearning that the body of the enemy, who kept themselves concealed, was about 00, ordered three companivs of Colonel Weedon’s regiment, trow Virginia, undor the command of: Major Leitch, and Lieutevant Colonel Kuowiton, with his Rangers, to try and get In their rear, while adisposition was made as if to atuick them in front and to draw their attention that way. Knowilon, who was familiar with the ground, scema to have guided his. party by the ieft flank of the enemy through the woods of the western slopes of the Bloomingdale Ridge, in which he -had fovght in tho moraing, in order to fall upon thetr redr. Leitch, with bis Virginians, unacquainted with the field, was put under the guidance of Adjutant Gen- eral Reed. Meanwhile at ten o’clock a demonstration or feint was made on the front, whieh bad the effect intended by Washington. The British troops immedi- ately ran down tHe hill to the round meadow at its foot. Here, iu the words of General Clinton, who was in the action during the greater part of the day, and whose report to the New York Convention t# the most detailed and intelligible account of it, they were, opposed with spirit and scon made to retreat to @ clear field ubout 200 paces (suo feet. distunt) southeast of the = fiy or meadow, where they lodged themselves behind a fence covered with bushes. In this fight, in which, inthe words of Genera! Heath, there was good ‘inarksman- ship on both sides,’’ Colonel Knowlton fell avout noon, The officer of the Rangers, whose account of the early moruing skirmish we have freely quoted, caught bim in his arms, and sent him off the field by two of his men, and he taken to our lines on the horse of Adjutant General Reed, probabiy by the road we have described, which, in fact, is the only road laid down on the maps‘of the period, and the only path practicable for a horse. Knowlton behaved with the greatest courage and accepted his lato with brave composure. ‘He seemed,” wrote one of his otlicers, “as ubconcerned as thot nownng bad bap- pened to him.’’ His last inquiry was as to the result of the action. ‘Tho Americans having silenced the British fire in a great measure, Washington judged it prudent to order irgat, fearing the enemy, as ho afterward learned ‘Was really Lae case, were souding a large body to sup- port their party, Which would have involved his draw- ing supports from his strong position on the Harlem Heights, and bave brought on a gencral engagement, which ho was determined to avoid. TUE BRITISH VIKW OF IT, The British order for the 17ih, the day after the battio, while expressing the highest opinion of the bravery of the troops, Who, it remarked, had yester- day beaten back a very superior body of the Tebels, , returning thanks to (ho battalion and the olficers and men of the artillery that came to their support, expressed the ,disapproval by tho Commander-in-Chief of the hight company in pursu- ing the rebeis without discretion, without support. in the Ameri ranks were the descendants of the Hollanders and Walloons, who, in the Netherlands, lad fought under the Prince of Orange against Fhiiip of Spait andthe Duke of Alva; of Frepchinen who had served under Coligni and Henry of Navarre, whose kinsmen had fallen in the massacre of St. Bartholo- mew’s Day, or had passed through the siege of La Ro- cnelle, Waiting in Vain for the assistapco promised by Elizabeth and never brought by the Ear! of Leicester. There were the descendants of those who had fought for Denmark against Tilly and Wallenstein, following the banner of the great Gustavus; of the stout Englishmen who had batiled for the parliamentarians at Naseby, and who had brought the king to the block at Whiteball; of the Swiss, who with pikes in their hands, and stirred by the hornsof Uri and Unter. waldep, had dofended the freedom of the cantons in the deiiles of the Alps against the trained soldiers of Austria; of the stardy bargers who had maintained against the Duke of Burguudy the liverties of Ghent und Liege; of the heroes of diflerent nationality but similar vigor whe fought under Sobieski aud saved Vieuna from the Turks; who stood ith Wilham of Orange or with the partisans oft James at the Battie of tne Boyne, which piaced ou firmer foundation the unity, strepgth and freedom of Great Britain; with the Durch at La Hague, or with that advepturous warrior, Charles XII of Russia, against hts victorious rival, Peter the’ Great of Russia, Misty a8 may be to us the more distant periods keen through the cloudy mediam of imperfect annals, we may still trace the transatlantic sources of our varied civilization, which, as developed in this Western conti- nent in our hundredth birth year, make the American traveller, as he sets foot in parts of Europe, feel as Ticknor suid when he crossed the Pyrenees, ‘‘as if he had gone back two centuries jn time”? AN RXAMPLE WORTHY OF IMITATION. The example of Washington, whether at the head of the army or in the chair of State, stands alone in his- tory, and there 1s scarcely an event in our aunals in whiet that stately figure is conspicuous from which wo may not learn a lesson, Should the opening gen: tury have in store for you as the sovercigns of the land triais or difficuliies like those which Washington encountered st Kipp’s Bay; should pow chance upon emergencies calling’ for the ighest courage and devotion to protect tue honor of the country, and should you, Siding cowardice and treachery Where you looked jor bravery and truth, be moved to exclaim, ‘‘Are these the men with whom wo are to defend America?” learu from the action of the Father of his Country, as he rode down those heights 4 looked upon those plaing, how to inspire with cour- e your demoralized torces, and to wrest victory from deteat, CONCLUDING EXERCISES. On the conclusion of this eloquent address Rev, Dr, Richard S. Storrs made a few stirring remarks, in whieh bo adverted brieily to the Revolutionary stories that had been told, aud paid a glowing tribute to woman, giving much of the credit of the American vietory to the Quaker lady, Mrs. Murray, who by her charms and graces beguiled Clinton, Tryon and other royalist commanders who had hattod in their advance at her residence until their co-operation was of no va'te to the British leader. Ex-Senator Beekman foliowed thé reverend gentle- man and proposed the following:— Resolved, That the thanks uf the society are herby ton- ered Exevil-ney the Governor of the State of Kuode Island and His Honor the Mayor of New York, for the signal honor they have done us this day by their pros enee on the batiie teld where the sous of the sister Colonies stood shoulder to shoulder with those of New York a cen- tary ane. jesolved, That the thanks of the society b hereby, totidered to tho Hon. Joum Jay tor bi ona instractive address of this day in commemorati ore events 1 Look place on this spot 100 find Uist & copy be requested for publication, . sg iy at Resolved, iat the thanks of the soci e and are hereby tendered to the reverend clergymen for their cordial and gracious presence on this oceason. Resolve . That the th: of this socrety be and the; to the nguisied assemblage who nded to its invi its commemoration of a day ful in New York aanais and glorious in the history of the sirnggle for independene ‘The resolutions were adopted by tho acclamation of nearly five thousand voices, constituting the immense assembly congregated on the old battle ground, A medal Was distrioated on the fleld in commemorns tion of the day, bearing om its face an inscription as foilows: =""The centennial year of our national inde- pendence, 1576." In the centre was the head of the immortal Washington, The reverse of the medal bore the words :—‘Hatiie of Harlem Plains, New York, Sep- tember, 1775.” A detachment ef police from the Twenty-second, Thirtie ‘Thirty-frst, Thirty-second and Thtrty-fAfth precincts, under the command of Inspector Speight, maintained excellent order on the grounds during the ceremonies, A WRONG ADDRESS, Nuw Yorx, Sept 16, 1876. To te Eprron or Tue HeRaLy:— I beg to say that the man Green, arrested for theft, who gave his residenee as No, 15 Pike street, was not an inmato of my house, The statement, if allowed to 5° Cageconge se reat harm, Theretore, 1 (wus: you wi ya jweclaimer. x 7 M. T. HUSSEY. are ave ad HELL GATE. Description of the Method of Making a Simultaneous Blast. INGENUITY AND CAUTION. Apprehension of Damage to Neighboring Property. THE DANGERS OF DYNAMITE Half-a-dozen watchmen, each armed with a stout axe handic, will stand guard at the government works at Hell Gato to-day, and woe betide the obstreperous visitor who insists upon admittance within the grounda A mine filled with 35,000 pounds of nitro-glycerine 4s not to be tampered with, and the instructions of the sentries are imperative. Mayor Debevoise, of Long isiand City, with Chief of Police Woods, of the same place, visited General Newton at the works yesterday and signified his willingness to detail all the men he can spare to preserve order on tho day of the blast The superintendent of a gas houso on Manhattan Island opposite the reef to be blown up, also called upon the General yesterday, and, alter a long talk, went away satisfied that there would be no occasion to empty his tanks on the momentous day, Many brewers, the buge chimneys of whose factories tower above the Harlem heights, were very uneasy about their lofty piles of brick until reassured by the Officiais in charge of the excavations, In order to pra- duce a quake suilicient to do any damage an explosion must be suiliciently yewertul to break up the strata of the earth. ‘That anything of the kind should occur in the presont case Is utterly out of the question, and the shock 200 feet from the excavation wiil be only similar to that producedy the rumbling of a heavy truck over the pavement of a street. ‘bere is still grout delay on the part of tae contractors in supplying (he explosives, aud the workmen engaged in charging the holes wero obliged to quit work at three o’clock yesterday after- Doon for lack of material, These continued delays will probably postpoue the explosion watil Saturday next, if not longer, General Newton has lost pauiencd with the deinquent contractors and yesterday ordered from Sir, Warren several thousands pounds more dy Damite, upon that geutieman’s assurance that Le could deliver the stufl to-norrow morning. This compound will probably be used instead of the rendrock aud vulcanite Which bave uotarrived, While itis ovident ‘rom this ugtion that General Newioa thinks that “it it were done wien ’tis done ten Ytwere well twere done quickly,” he has no fears of anything like # premature explosion, “My mind is perfectly at ease,” said be, yesterday, ‘‘when the cart ridges are in the holes, They le as comfortabiysthere as babies do im their cradics, Cool and damp as they are, you could not exploue them if you tried.” The explodent cartridges or primers aro nearly al They are tiled with dynamite in four shedt er a distance of several hundred yards from each other aloug the shore, aud not more than twenty+ five pounds of the explosive 1s perinitted to be kept in any one place at one time. The method of preparing tho primers is very Yugenious. Upon the scow an- chored beside the shaft some forty men are busily engaged, under direction of Mr. Julius Striedinger, 10 completing everything that can possibly be done before taking the apparatus into thetuunels, very. thing has been calculated to a nicety, and atable of figures lying upon Mr. Stricdimger’s desk gives the precise length of every wire, the dimensions of each primer and every other detail necessary jor the expeauious and easy execution of the work. A piece of wire is cut off for each group of hules, jast long enough to reach Rround the group aud back through the shaft to the battery. Along tue wire are theu attached the diifer- ent cartridges at such distances that each will just come opposite its appropriate nole wheu tho wire is carried below. Each seu of cartridges, with its wire is then packod into a box made for the purpose, with Dandies uitached, couvenient for carrying, aud the Jong leadmg ends of the wire which are to reach to the batiery are cotied upon a little reel in one side of the box. When the work of eharging begius tuese boxes, with their consents, will be carried each to its own group, the cartridges will be piaced in the holes, where th.y will be secured not only by brass springa attached to each one, but also wif white pme wedges driven tightly between the cartridges and the sides of holes. When all the cartridges of tue groap have been inserted acounection is made between the local wire and the ene leading Wire on the reel, and the latter if then carried up to the battery, paying out the wire ag itgoes, When all the groups bave been com; in this way it will only remain to connect the wires in cireait with the batiery trom which the exploding spurk will besent. It has been customary im tormct Works bearing any resemblance to the present to have but one wire make the circutt of all tae poles, aud thea explode them by bringing the two ends of tue wire together in circuit at a safe distance from the scene, ‘the present work, however, is of suen magnitude, and the Dumber of holes to be dred g0 tar exceeds’ that of any former biast, that it was deemed unsafe to trust ta tingie wire. Hence the grouping arrangement de- scribed. This having been decided upon the problem ot forming circuits around twenty-tive different groups simultaneously presented itsell. To accoimplioh this result a very ingenious contrivance calied a “connect. ing frame” has veen invented. 1 consi of a tripod Of pine wood about four icet high, on tue top of which ig Urmiy fixed a disk of wood (wo feet in diameter, Lying upou this desk is a corresponding one wuieh slides up and down in grooved uprights. The idea ig to attach oue end of each pair of wires to the bok tom disk and the other end to the upper disk in a direct line, 80 that when the Jatter ts lowered down into contact with its fellow the ends ol each pair of wires will touch simultancously and complete the circuit, As it would be impossivie to bring the bure euds of the Wires into coniact with absolute certainty the bouom Wires wil be fastened in bunches of eigit and brunt Pins driven down through the disk, tue top ends of which, projecting above the wood, ‘are holiowed inte cups und filled with mereury, ‘The ends of the upper wires in like munuer are fastened, each in line with itt feliow wn to brass pins driven through the wp disk, These pius are go fixed that when the disk in which they are iustened is lowered their points will drop tuto cups of mercury below, thus insuring per- fect circuits. Connection will be made, of course, be- tween each pin, above and below, with the battrry. When the time of firing the mine arrives the upper disk willbe held up from contact with the lower by a cartridge of combustible powder. At the proper inoment the cartridge will be fired by a spark from a smali battery jocated on rising ground about a quarter of a mile cast of the shaft, ana the diek tall with its combination of pins aud wires will con a the twenty-five circuits with absolute certainty and as the same moment This connecting frame is to be located on the top of the bumb-proof structure near the shaft { and in which the battery is placed. The lattef cousisis of forty. eight smali batteries of ten cells each. The cells are filled with electro.paion, a solution of bichromate of potassa in sulphuric acid, and the plates are of zinc and carbon, four inches wide and six inches long. The cells are connected in groups of abcut iorty to inere: the inteusity. This sort of battery—which ts kno’ as single fluid—is of wonderful intensity, but the gal- ‘Yvanism generated is of very short duration, so that te wilize, its greatest force it must ve used very soon ‘after its formation, To arrive at this auother ingenious arrangement has been contrived, The oatteries have been arranged in two horizontal rows in tWo massive wooden Iraines, and the 150 gale Joas of fluid necessary will be poured tuto the boxes. Meanwhile the plates are suspended uirectiy above cach set in line with its box. When all 1s ready for the Diast tne plates will be lowered imto the liquid by a crank attachment, aud them while the battery is exert iug its most intense power the circuit will be com. pleted aud the end of seven years’ thinking, exper- imenting and working will be aciteved. THR DANGERS OF DYNAMITE. A prominent manutucturer of dynamite was asked by the reporter of the HxuaLw yesterday whether ut Were not constantly in dread of luis jie, The gentio man laaghed as be replied io the negative, “i have never once,” said he, “been so much atraid of dyna. tmiteas | have been of gunpowder on a dozen occa- sions, Why, 1 have had a dogen bairbreadth escapes irom gunpowder in fue old days before nitro-giycerine aud its compounds were thougnt ot 8 superintenvent of a copper explosive materiat was rock. The structure waa intended to be tire proof, and to insure that qualitica- tion its iron doors were made to cloze down upon solid rock, Which was not unirequently covered with scgtiored grains of powder, The miners used to come there with orders from the foreman tor powder, aad when aman presented bis order he was permitted to Knock out the head of a keg—if there was not ono already open—and iii] his can without ceremony. The floor was covered with rough, dry boards, and was al- tly covered with the powder spilied by careless miners In fact, the crevices were so (illed could pot have swept it One ditter cold winter miered and presented an order of powder, Ag there were 2,500 kegs stored in the magazine atthe time be bad po difficulty im getting his order off with one keg under each arm, He had gone'but a few yards when an employé af tho place seized my arm and cried, ‘Good Gud! Look there!’ I followed the direction of his glance and saw that our departing miner had deposited is two kegs of powder upon the ground ond was at that Instant xing wo old clay pipe in his mouth with one hand, while with the other he had just ignited a friction maten by drawing 1t across his trowsere, Dazed fora od with fear I looked at bim in sileace while be appliedthe binging match to his pipe and began to puff. 1 dared not out to him for iear be would be sturtied and throw the fire upon the powder strewn floor, and my only hope was to catch his arm before he should drop the match, Starting forward, with my hand outstretched toward bim as il requestiag him to save the light until I should ignite my cigar, my beart almost ceased to beat, while the thougnt of the 25,000 kegs ran through my brain like lightning. Just asl reached the fellow's side he very deliberately ex ished the mateh ve- tween his thamb and finger, and then dropped the charred remains upon the floor as he emitted a pull of smoke and turning picked up hés burden. Need L,tel! ‘ou he never recei jog A Ved affy moro powder frora that up if morning a a)