The New York Herald Newspaper, January 14, 1877, Page 6

“THE POWDER RIVER EXPEDITION The Progress and Finish of the Last Indian Campaign. THE FIGHT WITH THE CHEYENNES Faithful and Gallant Conduct of the Indian Allies. THE OLD STORY OF A WANT OF SUPPLIES Sufferings of Men and Animals on the Return March. TELA EAUCY Fort Laramie, Wy. T., Jan, 4, 1877. ‘The days of the Powder River expedition are num- dered. Its campaign against the northern hostiles Dpened and cloxed with one fight with the Cheyennes Inthe Big Horn Mountains, After that it drifted pomewhat indefinitely along the north tork of the Belle Foarcho until its head was turned buckward toward home un Friday, the 21st of December, What it has done Dail Knife’s thieving band will a long time re- member; what hus beeu left undone will doubtless ne- tessitate the organization of unother expedition within eshort time, Experiences connected with its opera- tions have taught some useful lessons to the officers Attached to the column, and its attuck on the daring Cheyenves hag taugnt them that they may not con- tider themselves from the avenging pursuit of the white wan, even in their most remote and inaccessible fasinesses, That the punishment they received w: severe no one will question who witnessed the battle, ‘and yet there aro very few, if any, oven of those who participated in the fight that feel now that this chas- tisement was at all equal to their deserts or propor- tioned to what our power over them would have been gndor shghtly different circumstances, Unaided as it was, the cavalry did well, though ignorant ot the situ- ation, to carry by storm and bold against their flerce epemies the villuge and all its contents, entering in ihe dim, uncertain light of the opening dawn as vil- Jepous a spot as nature could have afforded any band Of savage outlaws for their fortress and hiding place. DIFFICCLTIRY OF INDIAN WARPARM. To fight your Indian you must first find him—tbis way is ever so much preferable to bis finding you—and only those who havo experience in such work can ap- preciate the difficulties that attend the hunt. In such & search the Indian has on his side decided avantazes, one of which 18 found in his superior knowledge of the country he inbabits. His mode of life, too, permus him with his goods and chattels, his wife and children, to move more rapidly than the bulk of acolumn of white soldiers can pursue him. That he can discern sod distinguish distant objects better thana white maa isan undoubted fact of which the slightest ex- perience will convince any unprejudiced observer of the ways of both, and his habits naturally, without the additional caution inspired by the knowledge of bur upceasing pursuit of him, make 1% a matter of ex- treme difficulty to approach his haunts without giving him notice of‘such approach. All this was apparent im the campaign just closed, as was also the fact that | bhe instinct to aiscover Indian haunts is strongest in the Indian nature, m BEFORE THR MARC. When the expedition set out the surmises as to its probable effectiveness Were not unmixed with a cer- tam vague dread of disasters to be apprehended from the presence of so many Sioux, Arapahoe and Cheyenue auxiliaries, The column, it was generally admitted, wos well organized. No better appointed command had ever started after hostile Indjuns in the territory wo were to traverse, “But, but,” Surmise whispered, with a knowing wink, ‘those enlisted In- dians will make troubie;” and, indeed, tor & time it looked as if General Crook had placed too much con- Gdence in their loyalty, Even among officers of the fommand oné heard many murmurs of disapproval, With other Indians, it was said, bis confidence might be all right, but the treacherous Sioux were not to be ‘rusted, If they failed to cat tho throats of halt the sommund they would at least quarrel with their old enemies, the Pawnees, also of the auxiliaries, The Grst meeting of the members of these two tribes tended a little to strengthen theso notions, Among the representatives of both there were impetuous young braves, who, cherishing the traditional animosities of their respective people, indulged at Bret in litte taunts and innuendoes, They soon learned, bowever, not only to avoid quarrels, but grew to be fast friends before they parted, even to the extent of presenting each other with horses and having friendly pow-wows while we camped on Belle Fourche, CONDUCT OF THE INDIAN ALLIES, Of their conduct during the scout nothing can be gaid but in praise, They put forth every effort to aid ue and indulged in every scheme known to their eraity and untiring natures, and from first to last were wholly and zealously faithful. indeed, no better op- portunity could possibly be afforded them tor ven- seance had they thirsted for it than on the morning of pur fight, It would have been the simplest matter tn she world for any one of them to have slipped into she bostile camp half an hour ahead of our column aud g:ven word of our approach, Had they doue so there would bave been a different story to tell of eral Mackenzie’s engagement with the Cheyennes, But not a man was fuithless, All were eager ay our own men to make the surprise complete. It wasa Stuy to wateh the workings of Sharp Nose’s features as be rushed up to General Mackenzie just before the order to charge was given, and, with flasbing eyes snd the impulsive gestures of a heroic leader, urged him to make buste. The only man who desert# us Was our captive Cheyeune, and he was only missed ome bours after the fight, so we do not know whether be was killed or fled to the enemy, nor has any o: troubled himself to find out, as he was not expected to sympathize with us in our pursuit of his brothers, INDIAN METHOD OF FIGHTING, To bo sure the management of the Sioux and Arapa- hoes during the fight was a natter of a0 little difficulty, we ther chief, Lieutevaut W. P. Ciark, discovered alter leading them into tue hostile village. He had them instructed as to what was expected of them, however, before entering, and (hey went to work with 8 Wil ip obedience to his orders but according to their own notions of how the business should be done, leaving him and the oiler oilicers with them to look out for themselves at the opening of the ight. Their ideas of warture are comprised ip the general order “every mun for bimseif,” while at the sate time all sombine for a commen purpuse. Asa result of their method of fighting Lieutenant Clark found bimselt sone with Lieutenant DeLany, just beyond the village, even when wost comfortably clad and liberally sup- plied with food, Scant strriixa. Still bus very scant 8 neither pro- into service any con: 0 forward supplies. bout Decem- ber 20, we were some seven or sight days" mareb trom Fort Fetterman the most direct return route we could select, with only halt foi for about that number of days and rations to the or 2d of January. We had not yet beard trom the guides seut to the encies nOF irom the spies sent (o Crazy Horse, and so lor the ume being were in something of a maze. Soon unger and the weather began to tell on our untunals, and wo inconsiderable propurtiqn of them looked as if about to he down and let their bare bones whiten on the lonesome wilds the wolves had icked off them the last tough morsel of their flesh, it was ‘vellous to see with what avidity they de- voured every shrub and blade of grass they came ; Upon, the bark of the cottonwood boughs being a choice morsel, Wo cut down hundreds of these trees on our line of march and fed the bark to our animals, When one tinds himself ip the midst of such 4 coun- try, wholly dependent on hi ry ho is very glad of the opportunity to engage bimsel! tor their venest, and consequently wvodchopping became tor a while quite a fashionable sort of entertainment, in which the best people in our commonity assisted, AN INDIAN AND A WOODMAN'S AXH, une afternoon, while General Crook was cutting away ata stout cottonwood which Licutenunt Clark and myself had determined to secure jor a uight's for- age, ‘Keeps the Battle,” a stalwart Sioux chief, came upon the scene, and, Loy pe second axe, showed us how the red man cou d wield it. With every blow he vuried the biade nearly up to the handle, as if de- sirous of excelling the Geveral, Just before the treo fell he rested, and holding the axe in bis left band, with his right motioned to us in the sign language that when the Sioux and the white man worked together the stoutest tree would soon fall Perbaps be meant to imply something more than the mere falling of that tree. He certainly essayed to look importaft enough wt the moment to imply a “heap’? more than he said, COMPELLED TO RETURN, With many of our horses in the condition described a week's urd travel after the enemy, without In- creased forage, would leave » very large proportion ot the command dismounted. To have gone huntiug for Crazy Horse's village, ignorant as wo were thon of its provable situation, m'gbt have entailed much more than a wWeek’s murch outward, not counting for tne return home. General Crook concluded, therefore, to start homeward at once, his situation compelling him to take that course. On tke morning of December 21 we were to start for home, and though there nad not been much suffer- ing among the troops up to that ume, there was con- siderable rejoicing at the announcement, The morn- ing broke gloomily enough, and, while we were well aware thut the day was the shortest of the whole year, we found it long enough belore gotting into cump that evening. Thesun was scarcely visible through the dull, cold imst that enveloped it, aud when sven its hight and warmth seemed to have been extinguished, Flakes of dry, cold snow niled the air at times, but the tem- perature was no low that the impending storm seemed to be held tn trozen stillness in its fall, The story of this day’s cold and dixcomiort wns intensified each suc- cessive march until the climax was capped on Christ- mas eve aud Christmas morning, When ‘THE MERCURY FROZK in the bulb of Dr. on's thermometer and of every thermometer on the expedition, Building one’s house at Dight to pull it down the next morning is cold work in such weather, but we were glad to have the material lor sach ao abode as our tents afforded. 1t 1s not easy to picture the intensity of such cold as we then expe- rienced. AS a result, the noses, eurs, checks or fingers of nearly oue-half the com- mand have “been trosted, not severely, it 18 true, but enough to show unmistakably the imprint of the fingers of old King Frost, who appears to hold Undisputed po: on of the territory bereabouts; and, indeed, so far as most of us are concerned, he 13 quite welcome to do go, for we shall never again ques- tion his title--if not forced to such au extremity. To be sure we return witn peeled poses and checks in- dicative of our incursions into frigid latitudes, budges of our sufferings of which we ehould be proud per- haps, only there is so little poetry in savage Waurlare that one cun put it all in his eye, AP?KARANCE OF ‘4 8UN DOG. During our secona day’s march on tue return home we all witnessed a phenomenon indicative of the ap- proaching cold. As the aliernoon advanced there ap- peared at cither side of the dechuing sua a bright column hike the shafts of a rainbow. As the sun be- gan to set these shalts of cold flume increased i bright- ness and presented the singular spectacio of a seeming descent of three suns below the western horizon, This ig what 1s called a ‘sun dog,” and 18 taken as a certain indication of the approach of very cold weather. In this instance, at least, 1t was no false alarm, Next day the ssmeo thing Was again noticed, and we made most vf our march that day with the thermometer below zero, A TRYING MARCH, about seventy Crow Indians, jomed us, having lett Old Fort Reno two days previously, Major Randall hada very trying march. From the. first he was sur- rounded with difficulties not exsy to surmount, The Crows had been frightened a good deal in the Rosebud fight and were not Very eager for another contest with the Sioux. Hebad some troubdie, therefore, in per- suading them to join him for a winter campaign, und expected no jess than a general desertion us he pro- ceeded on his way toward as. There were a great many impediments, too, 1m the way of his auccessfut pro- ress iu the direction he was obliged to tuke. he snow wus very deep on the moun- taing, and, his supplies veing limited, he was “tong”? on experience and ous. Fortunately he had bad , and was ready to devour his meat, bot, too—biood hot—when kilted, and hunger taught him to mble tor first cut of uncooked liver, &c. Review- ng such an experience us Major Randall has had one is very glad to be alive, and is ready even to jost on past trials, however rough, though he may noi crave vo live over again the life just pa Marching through snow from one to five fect deep 18 not pleas. ant, no matier how bright the suo, if you are bun- gry and there docs notg@uppen to be a supply depot ‘within 100 miles of you. Nor does a bvivouac at night with scant wood beside a irozen stream help ono much, To keep warm you must herd closely then, and Major Randall did herd very closely, but—well, he has throwu away three suits of unuderclothing since. obliged to.’ operal and “‘short” on pro THE CROWS. The Major is with us, but the Crows have been sent ‘back, and though they had no chance to tight wiih us their scout toward us Was not without its advantages, Any movement of friendly Indians through the hos- tile country helps the work in band, Our vew sioux recruits have also returned home, and will doubiless be ready for the next burst. When Major Randall joined us we were fortunately in a position to give hima colerably good dinuer. It was Christmas Day, atd even if it bad not boen LI think we could have rejoiced his heart with a turly acceptable feast for the place, tor our Commissary Department, thanks to Lieutenant Rockwell, was very well supplied, ‘To echo the opinion of un experienced officer! need only say of it, with Colonel Dodge:— “It was the best provisioned command that has ever operated against hostile Indians 1m this Territory, winter or summer.’” RETURN OF THE SPIk3, Since our departure from Fort Fetterman the two spies sent to look up Crazy Horse’s camp came into the post and reported that they could not find any ns of hostiles onthe Rosebud or Tongue rivers. 8 Crook's arrival at Cheyenne he sent word to Major Mason to send out another party of Indians to try and get Crazy Horse to como in, or at ‘od out where his camp 1s, In view of revent killings near the Red Cloud agency and on the Black Hills road some action seems neces- ry to put a quictud on the savage war parties there- abouts, SECOND | AVENUE BURGLARY. Mr, J. A. May, of No, 100 Second avenue, notilied Superintendent Wailing yesterday that on Wednesday last his house was entered by burglars. It appears that on the day mentioned and between two and three o’clock in the afternoon the burglars obtained access to the house and entered the back parlor on the tirst floor. Here they rifled a bureau and succeeded tn car- rying uway a large quantity of jewelry, valued ut about $4,500. Among the jewelry taken was av old family heirloom, which haw been handed down through the family tor neurly 200 years, This valued articie con- sisted Of a white camea locket, both sides deing stud- ded with diamonds, It was valuod at about $600. The Other articles taken consisted of fluger rings, watches, diamond earrings, necklaces, &c,, all of which wero held in esteem by the family on account of their long residence with them. Detectives were at once placed on the case, OUR FILTHY STREETS. afew ininutes before the cavalry column entered, ‘and bud sharp work for the time being to save limseif | from the bullets of the fleeing bostiies. His position, | however, enabled bim to give ‘ai Mackenzie, when | be entered, some Valuable information respecting the | situation, and he did 40, | PURSUIT OF CRAZY Hons. | Viewed at a distance our march vlong the Heilo Fourche may veem aunless as contrasted with our pro- | in ibe Big Horn Mountains, and in a certain | Measure it Was so, though we could not have done | Uiflerently under the circumstances. General Crook | Jucgea that Crazy Horse, on hearing of our fight, | we ud leave tue Rosebud and move toward the bad at thi | head of the Lituie Missourt, u favorite re. | hief When apprehenuing pursuit, and one | which affords bim opportunities of harassing the broops aod alvo evading them by passes kvown only to . The best approuch to these tastuesses was Wed lor the expedition, but our advance was iy controlled by the elements, by the quan- applies on band aud pable of being tor. | warded ond tbe effectiveness of scouts sert out to | deter mine the exact jocation of the tiostile camp. As | mattors have turned Oat it Would have veen abont as | well jor the column to have returved to the point of waveiy after the Big Horn ty But then no one could have toresecn ail the ditioutts that encompassed us. From old Fort Keno scouts were gent buck to the Red Cloud and Spotied Tar agencies | to enlist as many more indians as would be found willing to join us, Word was sent also to Colouel Musou, post cormander at hed Cloud, to despaich two un spies tv axcertain Jecation of Crazy Horee’s camp, with jusiructions to report back to | Geueral Crook where they tound the hostules, Mean- time arrapgemenuts were made vy oar quartermaster, Major Furey, w huve forwarded additioual supphes of grain forour stock, aud we moved by slow marches alvoy the Botle Fuurche, stoppiog in some places two oF turce days where we could obtatn a litle grass and suimalx, Gradually tho time puxsed | we saw, would svon be severe | wudurance of men aud avimals, | tity of | with Broadway. Yesterday morning thu Street Cleaning Bureau noti- | fled Captain Ganner that he must commence to clean the stroets to-day, They also authorized him to en. gage 600 workinen aud 500 carts, and to commence The news quickly spread, and in an hour & bumber of men quarters to ascertain i! they could obtain a day's work, ‘Tue laborers engayod will commence ut sx u’clock this morning, at the Battery, and it is expected that by sunset lo-night Broadway will be thoroughly cleaned as far as Twenty-ibird street. During the week the other streets are to be cleaned, the most prominent receiving the first attention, “OLTER SKINS. Detectives Williamson and Reilley, of the Central Office, arrested yesterday alternoon Ernest Schmidt, a cigar maker, residing at No, 168 Canal street, on sus. pieion of baving on the 6th of December last stolen from the express wagon of Adolph Brownsky, of No, street, « trunk containing forty-one standing in iront of No, 43 The detectives, on searching tho buse- of the prisoner’s house, found conceated in a barrel thirty nine of the stolen skins. Schmidt was locked up in a cell at police headquarters and will be arraigued at Court this morning. THE RABER SUIT. The suit for slander brought by Carl Bachmeyer, late organist of the Church of Port Maurice, against the pastor, the Rev. Father Raber, brother of Commis. sioner Raber, of Brooklyn, the full fucts in relation to whicu lave already appeared in the MEwaLD, Will be tied west Weduesday iu ibe Brookiyu City Coury Christmas night Major George M. Randall, with | wbled at Police Head. | | | | | AN INJURED INSURANCE, AGENT. Owing to the crowded condition of the news columns of the HenaLp the publication of the following letter has unfortunately been delayed. It is given now in connection with a few explanatory remarks :— New Yor«, Jan. 11, 1877. To tue Epiror oy Te HeRatp:— fu an articie published in your issue of to-day the subject of the New Jersey Mutual Lite “The writer, ton, authori! u munagi "s middie department, wos negotiating for a transfer of bis ser toanother concern.” Io answer I wili say:—For eight years 1 have been con- nected with the New Jersey Mutual; for the next etynt yeurs I hope to remain with said company, and shall, unless the attempts of the wreckers now attempting to undermine the company are successful. Should they succeed in ruining our corporation for their own selfish ends und personal gains 1 then probabiy will “negotiate’’ quickly tor a transfer of my services. The Hexatp ip former times oad the reputation of fairly presenting tacis, but in the matter of the New Jersey Mutual it has studiously avoided giving any room to uny statement pot to the detriment of the company. One word more and I have done, in this same article Fs say, “at the same time articles costing so much 4 ine appeared in the newspapers.’’ Do you expect the reading public to believe that all articles in our favor iuat us are written by honor- The readers of aro paid for and thogo aga able men thut refuse to be bought? morning papers are not fools. Apply the ariicles on the one side that you Ifyou mean to charge that the Graphic, Mail, Express and various other papers are paid by this company or their trien@s i# it reasonable to suppose that the HERALD writes upon the other side from its innate sense ot duty? Yours truly, HENRY W. BALDWIN, 18 HE REALLY IXJUREDY In the aboye communication It will be observed that Mr. Baldwin makes but an evasive deniul of the state- ment published in the Henan concerning bis intended departure from the New Jersey Mutual. Stil, he deayors to convey the impression that such intorma- tion was untrue, and that a change of bai on bis part was a matter of remote consideration, ‘To avert such a misconstruction of facts, it will now be necessary to affirm, in a more explicit manner than before, the statement referred to, Sumo tew days ugo Mr. Baldwin did make overtures to more than one company with a view of translerring lis services and influence from tbe New Jersey Mutuul to some organi- zation ot more assuring Vitality, Mr. Baldwin opened th egotiations in written lorm, id in one of his letters stated that he had been connected with the New Jersey Mutual for more than eight years, and that more than two-thirds of the company’s business was upon bis books. He di d that he could control the better part bf the agents of that compuny und also the more desirable ayenta of the Continental. “Do ‘ou want me?” wrow Mr, Baldwin; “it so, what am worth??? and he concluded with an invitation tu call upon himany evening atthe Glenbam Hotol, not or- getting to discourage delay, as he devigred his inteu- tion of forming such an ussvciation within a fori- night’s time Mr. Baldwin is also the only officer of the New Jersey Mutual who, to the knowledge of the Hrrawp, has acknowledged that company’s inability to weathor an examination of its affairs. GLAD TO GET HOME. A BROOKLYN BOY'S EXPERIENCES—A WARNING TO RUNAWAYS, Last Wednesday morning Harry Winne, a bright, handsome ud of twelve yeurs, left his home at No. 783 Lalayette avenue, Brooklyn, ostensibly to go to sebool, and nothing could be learned, of his where- ubouts for several days antil Friday night, about eleven o’clock, when he returned home, footsore, weary, frightened und hungry. TNE BOY'S PILGRIMAGE, He started on his way to Philadelphia on foot, On the rst day he managed to get across the Jersey ferry by begging his passage money of a gentleman who was crossing over at the time, pleading the loss of tis money us an excuse for begging. On reaching tho Jer- sey shore he started on his tramp to the Quaker City, without a cent in hispocket, His object 10 going to Philadelphia does not seem to have been very clear, He manuged to steal a ride on the steam cars on Wednes- day tor a tow miles and in the evening slept under a car seat in a freiht depot, His teelings on that vight were perfectly horribie aud he never wants to go through a similar experience. On the second day, Thursday, he tramped several miles along tue railroad track until he atijast got a lilt on @ passing freight car, After riding a few miles he was again com- polled to take to the road, and just na darkness was setting in he dragged his weary limbs into New Bruuswick. Hore be struck up ac- quaintance with a colored mau who took him home and gave him something to cat and a bed to sleep on. When be arose on Friday morning these colored people, whose name the boy does not remember, drew from him his history. They udvised him strongly to }, although at frst be was loath to take , When they pictured the distress and grief mother and her anxiety to know of his whereabouts he burst into tears ana promised them to start for home, Firm in hb new Tesvive he turned hig face homeward, and, alternately riding and walking, reached his home at Brooklyn fate last night, where bis appearance gavo* almost as great a shock to his sorrowiug family as did his my terious disappearance. It sems that young Harry had had some disagreement with his school teacher, and, di: Ing 10 goto school, resolved to seck his fortune in Philadelphia, where he had heard his paronts say they had relatives, EVOLUTION. ‘The second of a sertes of four lectures uvon “Evolu- tion’’ was delivered last evening 19 Cooper Union by Protessor Edward 8. Morse, of Salem, Mass, The sab- ject. was well bandied and thoroughly explained by blackboard illustrations, The Prolossur spoke at some Jength of the great maltitade of animuaisz, the large number of birds, of elephants, of fishes that were all the time increasing and yet depleting. Fishes de- posited 13,000,000 eggs atatime, At such an increase the ocean would be crowded if they did not live on each other, The very moment eggs were deposited other fishes began to cat those eggs, and those that were successfully hatched out the very moment they began to be active their activity made them conspicuous ond they were seized by some flsh who wus watehing for them, Spiders, too, lived on each other, It would often happen that there would be tifty or sixty little tiny eggs inanest. If they batched out you could only count per! thirty-five or forty. In speaking further upon natural evoluuon the Professor ilus- trated the different species of beetles. While he wus taiking the audience were surprised to sce with a few motions of the hand a natural looking beetle blossoming out on the blackboard, ‘Tho surprise ended ina burst of applause. He spoko of insects that were colored nke the surface about them, Crickets, butterflies, grasshoppers and cater- pillars took on such und such colors to protect them- selves from birds, 1t was a singular tact that birds fed upon those insects which were protectea by their color and would not touch those that were not. The caterpillars that birds most delight in were those which hid themseives, The Professor's remarks were listened to with great interest and attention, WILLIAM TELL IN TROUBLE, William Tell, captain of a lighter, and Rufus T Bush, merchant, were arrested yesterday on a war- rant issucd by Justice Walsh, Brooklyn, on charge of grand Jarceny. The complainant 1 Mr. David M. Munger, who ulieges that on Thursday lust a barge belonging to bim was loading with cotton on the whore at Staten Isiand. The ice caused the boat to “careen,”? aud the bales fell imto the river. Four hundred bules were recovered by the somplain= ant’s workmen, but twenty-three bules floated up the river and past the oll refinery of Mr, Bush, at the foot of Twenty-iifth strect, Gowanus. Captain Keli picked up the cotton, acting under the orders of Mr. Bush, Mr. Munger states that when he demanded the revurn of the cotton thus saved it was refused. Mr. Bush says he did not refuse to give up the cotton until the complainantobjected to pay the usual iegal salvage on it. The examination was set down for Wednesday next, AN IMPORfANT POINT, John Knox was taken before City Judge McCue yes, terday on a writ of habeas corpus granted on applica. tion of Counsellor Shorter. The latter gentleman stated that his client, who had been sentenced by the Police Juatice on December 23 to the Penitentiary for six montus on a charge of assault and batiery, was entitled to his discharge, The prisoner had been illegally com- mitted, as the statute prescribes that an inter- val of twenty-four hours shall elapse between the arraignment and triai’ of @ prisoner, Assistant District Attorney Snell said that the pris. over waived the twenty-four hours’ time when the case was velore the Justice, The Court allowed the t@ stand over until Monday to allow a thorough ination of the points of law presented by the The gentioman s d that application could me legal grounda tor tho discharge risouers now in the Penitentiary, Yosterday morning Detectives Short and Holland while patrolling Grand street, Williamsburg, observed a man steal a roll of flannel valued at $15 from in front ot George B. Smith’s dry goods store, No, 250 Grand street, Afterashort chase the thi was caught and vas in the Peniten sentence, ELEMENT OF INFLUENCE. Dr, J. C. Zachos, of the Cooper Union, will deliver a lecture this evening, at eight o'clock, on “The Philosophy of Self Sacrilice a8 av Klement of Iuflvence ia the World,’ be.ore the Society of Hutwanity, ab Scwuce Hail, Eighth strovt, nour Broadway, NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JAN UARY 14, 1877 HEATING THE CARS. WHAT WILL THE ALDERMEN DO?—CAN THE BAILROAD LOBBY DEFEAT THE PEOPLE'S IN- TERESTS?—PLANS FOR HEATING. ‘The Aldermanic committee, Messrs, J, W. Guatzer, Bryan Reilly and Rufus 8. Cowing, will meet again at the City Hail to-morrow afternoon, Rumors that the lobby influence will be brought to bear upon the com- mittee flew thick and fast yesterday. A HmkaLp rep- resentative came across @ former member of the “Third House,” at the City Hall, who spoke bis mind freoly about them. To use bis own language, “He did not exactiy wish to ‘give things away,’ but he was willing to leak a littie.’? “Can you tell me,” he was:asked, “how it is thatthe railroad companies seem to have everything their own way, both here and in Albany??? Well, this is not a very diMloult problem to fathom,’’ he answered, ‘* ‘Shug? does it.”” “How about the present Board of Aldermen f”” “Well, I cannot tell you anything about the present Board, ThereareMgreat many new members in it, Queer things, howev: have been done in the past and may be done again. : “Do you expect that our city companies will at tempt to control the Kailroad Commitice und other members of the Board of Aldermen, so as to prevent the passage of an ordinance compelling them to heat their care?” ig ‘the “Third House”? member here looked contempla- tively out of the window at the sparrows in the City Halt Purk, while a broad grin spread itsell over bis bighly intellectual countenance at the same time. ‘ihat question requires serious consideration,” be replied. “Probably you, a8 an moocent journalist, may think there 1s bo precedent for it, but 1 beg to ditfer with you.’ PLANS POR HEATING * All sorts of plans have beeu submitted to the Board of Aldermen tur heating (he cars, It 18 the easiest thing iu the world to devise a simple and economic method to secure so necessary a reform Jn our city ratiroa travel, The Aldermen or the presidents of dillerent railroad lines need not aitempt to turow obstacles in the may by quibbling over a proper method of heating the cars, Several good propositions have already been made, Among thetn are the tollow- ing:— One system js described in the placing of two iron boxes under the seats of the car. These boxes hold ubout ten gallons of water each, and are connected by wrought tron pipes, running under the car in such &@ Inanner that a flexible Lose can be eusily attached on the outside of the car, This hose is connected with a pipe running under ground to # stationary boiler jvcated at tho office ol the railroud come pany. When desired to be heated tho steam bose ig ut- tached, und steam 1s loreed into the water by opening a valve placed vear the car, the water in the boxes be ing heated to 212 wegrees in from twenty to thirty Kec ouds, [tis stated that these voxes warm the cur with agradual, radiated heat, uot ouly during the applica- tan of steam, Dut for two hours afterward, und the temperature will be pleasant for» ride of several miles, Another plan submitted is this:—-A simple coal stove, coustructed expressly tor the purpose, 1# bolted fast to the floor of the car under the seat and near the centre. ‘The pipe from the stove or beater pusses niong under tho sets to one end of the car and then up ww the back corber through tue roof, Tho grate 18 on a line wib the floor, so (that only the “heating parts’? of the stove are above the iivor. The ash pan is under the car, aud is urrauged with anair slide, veld securciy in place when adjusted by a pinch screw. The stove is fod through the (op by liting @ lid in the seat of the car, Which needs to ve done only once in two huurs, upd can be uttendod to at the end of the route beloro taking passergers, Pussengers seated directly over the stove are protected from excessive neat by a double sheathing of metal extending about three icet im front ol and over the stove, ‘The smoke pipe is provided with a check dumper near the roof, which is also held securely by a pinch screw. A protection piece surrounds the smoke pipe above tho seat, so that passengers may lean against the pipe with sulety, DISCOMFORTS OF HORSE Cans, New York, Jan. 13, 1877. To tux Eviror or THs HekanD:— I have read with terest your comments relating to the heating of the cars on our city railroads and trust your efforts 1n agitating this question will be crowned with success. But would it not be well for the man- agers of the various lines to inspect their cars and dis- card for the winter season such of them asare really unfit for uso from age? 1 was obliged to ride yesterday on ono of the cars (No. 10) of the Grand street, avenue A and Wost Thirty-fourth street line, and it was at the risk of my Hie, The car was fitted with a false slat floor, wiich was reeking with black mud, lomg ¢ whole bottom of the cur, und 1 was evident that this car had not been cleaned for days. 1 wus compelled to ride from Grand street ferry to. Thirty-fourth street, next to the front sash of the car; said sash was split oll four inches at the top and two inches at the bottom on one side, The bottom ot tho sash rested on two round screw heaus und a streak of daylight was visible under it, Added to allthe misery and risk of this journey tho car was provided with the open or slut ‘seats, with no covering over them. I strongly recom- mend the Board of Health to inspect this car, as it is ciearly a detriment to bealih to any person who may chance to ride on it, aE B A COMPLIMENT TO THE EX-MAYoR. The following letter has been addressed by the offl- cers of the Ninth regiment National Guard to ex-Mayor | Wickham ia recognition of bis veto of a resolution detrimental to their interests :— New York, Jan. 8, 1877, Hoo, Witttam A. WicknaM: Dear Sik—At a meeung of the Bourd of Officers of the Ninth Regiment on Wednesday lust the Mayor's Message accompanying his last veto was read und elicited # unanimous and most enthusiastic vote of thanks to the Hon. William H, Wickham for the ge erous and manly exercise of i# prerogativ holding bis approval from a resoiution det tually to work the destruction of one of the largest regiments in the State, Al! the companies in the regi- ment at their monthiy meotings during the first week ot the year woanimously indorsed this veto, T have the houor of voig charged by the Board of Officers and the regiment with the pl ing duty of expressing their appreciation of this token of the con- sideration which the National Guard bave ever re- ceived ut the hands of the ex-MayoF during his entire tenore of office, The regiment feel all the more grate- ful irom being dependent entirely upon their own in- herent organization, maintained by hard work and good will, aud not vy the wealth of active members and the pecuniary support of organized veterans. It ts the happy experience of all who have relations with | the National Guard that the organization is slow to | forget a benefit, and it is with a cheerful contidence that I convey to the ex-Mayor the assurance, on behalf of the regiment, that, as they have been with bim in | the past, our good wisnes will fullow him to any posi- | tion he may hereatter uccept, Very respectfully, THOMAS D, COTHNAN, Captain Commanding Company A, Committee, THE OLD GUARD BALL, On the 18th inst. the Old Guard will give their ball at the Academy of Music, It is to be the only mili- tary ball of the # mn, and # jarge number ot our local militiamen are expected to be there, From all the large cities wo hear of numbers of miliary officers that intend being present. Our citizen soldi expected to make a fine display, especially of the regiments bave lately adopted new uniforms, We understand that most of the promenade music has been aedicated to the diflerent regiments, which will be one of the attractive features, unitorms and dancing mugic the ladies will have a line chance to indulge in the mazy waitz On chat evening there will be many a daughter of the regi- ment adopted, if notin realty, yet for the mind in some future time to dwell upon, Already have a gation from Charleston, 8. C., vignitied their tnten- to be present, Boxey have ured in behalt of Ministors of foreign countries, The supper will ve served (to Keep up with the times) d la carte, which | will give at upportunity 10 ali to refresh themselves ere daylight dotu appear. Altogether we know that, with a fair night and the Old Gaurd’s past record, the ball will be un elegant and stylish affair, AN UNFRIENDLY TURN. Niccolo Mattolo inveigled one of his countrymen, Guiseppe D. Jorio, intu the belief that he could got work for him dt $150 a day if the latter would go to Newark with him, Jono paid him $275, which ho wus the fare to Newark, and they went to Newark, Mattolo left his credulous comrade at the depot, pre- tending to go im search of the agent. He did not re- turn, When brought before Judge Bixby yesterday he said that he had given the money to an agent in Greenwich sireet, He was discharged for want of sul lictent evidence to convict, SHQPLIFTIN G IN BROOKLYN. ‘Detectives Folk apa Corwin, of the Police Central Office, Brooklyn, yesterday alternoon arrested Elien Kelly, William Riley and Edward Fisher, who claims to reside in this city, on the charge of sboplifung The store operated upon wi tof Bernhard Schellen- berg, Nu. 99 Myrtle avenue, and the lour couts found tn the possession of of the prisoners were identi- fled by tnat gentioman as his property. The prisoners were held for examination. MALO.E COMES HOME, Edward Malone, who escaped from the Penitentiary on Blackwell’s Island about one year ago, was recap. tured last evening by Keeper Michaoi McKer ~ at the eornel Recior and Washington strect.. 4° taken unck to that Institution A HARNESS THIEF, John Conuell entered a bie at No, 24 Cherry street, On the 6th inst,, and stole a set of harness be. longing to Jobo Wolff, ot No. 20 Dover street, Justice | Kubreva yosteraay bela bim in 61,000 bail to answer, What with the | QUADRUPLE SHEET. THE MOCTEZOMA BURNED. Her Cuban Capturers Foreed to Aban- don the Old Slaver. ZULUETA’S CONNECTION WITH HER Sketches of the Capturers and Other In- teresting Details. Wasurxetox, Jan. 13, 1877. Atelegram from Havana dated yestorday, received in this city, says tat the former Spaniah merchant steamer Moctezuma, captured by Cuban insurgents and converted into a pirate vessel called the Cespedes, bas been burned by the Cuban pirates at the near ap- proach of the Spanish war steamer Jorje Juan, that was giving ber chase. Before the Jorje Juan reached the burning vessel the Pirates bad fled in bouts to the nearest coust, which is believed to be that of Honduras The Jorje Juan picked up and took on board twenty-four of the for- mer crew of the Moctezuma, captured and kept as prisoners by the Cubans. THE VESSEL AN OLD SLAVER. The Moctczuma was formorly euployed tn the slave trade and owned by Sefior Zulueta, of Havana, whose importutions were always marked with a ogy? on thelr left breast. Her old Biscayan name was the Nada Temas In 1863 Zuiucta was arrested for land- ing trom heracergo of siuves near Zapato Swamp, near Cocbinos Bay, on the south side of the Island of Cuba, und Jocked up in the Puata at Havana, Cap- tain General Dulce allowed the affair to be com- promised, and Zulneta went on a.visit to Spain, The Nuda Temus was subsequently sold to Colonel Her- rera, of the Havana volunteers (who gave orders for the Tacon Theatre and Louvre Coffee House massacres), who ran the old slaver, afterward the Moctezumu, in his postal limes between Cuba, Porto Rico, St. Lo- mingo, &o, The capture, it may be remembered, took place by the Cubans on the 7th of November. The cargo vonsisted of about $4,000 in specie, 2,000 bags of coffee, a large quantity of cocoa, 1,509 bags of corn, dry goods, 87 head of oxen, 1,500 live fowls, the whole ofthe estimated value of $180,000, The vessel was worth as much mone. Tho whole dotails of her capture by ten Cubans and one Peruvian were given im the Heranp of the 23d of last month. It is not known if the cupturers dis- posed of her cargo. lv 18 supposed that when cap- tured she was short of coal. The Cubans are expecting te receive telegraphic despatches in cipher from As- pinwall on the subject within a day or two. The plot for the capture of the Moctezuma was concocted at Kingston, Jam., and the capturing party proceeded first to Hayt! and thence to8t, Domingo, Below will be found a sketch of the ten notable capturers of the Moctezuma, commencing with Leoncio Prado, of Peru THK COMMANDER OF THR EXPEDITION, Leoncio Prado, twenty-three years of age, is the son of the President of Pera, and grandson of General Prado, of revolutionary fame. During the Spanish- Peruvian war of 1966 young Prado, then thirteen years of age, Was an ensign inthe Peruvian navy, and at the marine engagement on May 2, 1866, between the two fleets showed so mach bravery in arm to arm fighting with some Spauvish marines who were attempt- ing to land im sinall Dboats that he was promoted to ‘a hieutenancy on the spot He also distinguished himself on this same date by saving trom drowning tive Peruvian sail- ors, who had been knockea into the water by the Spaniards, ‘the Spanish fleet subsequently abandoned the Pacific. Young Prado tound the life of a sailor mopotovous and went into the army with toe grade of Heutenant in an artillery regiment, In 1868 he resigned ‘his commission and retired into private life. In 1875, alter visiting this city, he went out asa “passenger” on the English steam F brass Octavia (also called the Uruguay). While the Octavia was being pursued on one occasion by the Spanish wan-ol-war Tornudo young Prado told Colonel Pio Kosado, in charge of the Cuban vesse!, that be would go to the Tornado ina rowbuut, 28 if to cupitulate, and take with him a ton of powder which he would expiode when he got along- side, which would in ail probaotlity have sunk the Toruado, Fortunately the Spaniard gave up and Prado lived. In 1876 he came to this city empanied the venerable General Aguilera in his attemptto laud in Cuba The enterprise failed, and Prado proceeded to Jamaica, where he placed himself in communteation with the government of Cuba Lfbre, One of his broihers is now in Cuba, He is much be. loved by ali who know bim, Captain Manuel Morey, second commander of the Cespedes, is twenty-eight yeurs of age, and born in bt in the Cubun army under Brigadier General J Perez, He was on the stuff of Colonel Aguerro when the Edgar Stewart landing was effecied. He bas veveral times ruo the Cuban viock- ade—the last time being with C lor- merly of General Jobn Cochrane’s staff, in May, 1876, anda month later he was buck at Jamatea with de- spaiches from the government of Cui a, Lieutenant Domingo Vélez 1s 4 native of Havana and son of one of the largest mapuiucturers and ex- porters of tobacco of that place. He is now twenty- Dine years of uge. At the commencement ot the Cuban revolutiva, in 1868, he was » medical student at the Havana University. In March, 18@9, he went trom Nassau, N. P., om the Salvador expedition to Cuba, and fought with the patriots under the command of Gen- eral Agramonte, soon obtaining the grade of lieuten- ant. Afler the capture of the Moctezuma, on the 7h ut last November, be was istructea by Commander Prado to proveed to Peru with despatches, and was ee on the coast of Jamaica, and has since arrived t Lima. Lieutenant Pedro Cestero (mulatto), born in Havana, thirty-one years of age. Welore the revolution be en- joyed the reputation, 10 the cigar manulactories, of be- ing the best cigarmaker in the city, He was oue of the bold nn who, im April, 1869, captured the Spanish mail steamship Commanditario, Subsequently be went out to Cuba from Nassau on the Salvador, He was first appointed drill sergeant for a colored reg- iment, and was subsequently promoted to the rank of heutenant by ral Agramonte, He was on board the Virginius when she was captured by the Spanish war steamship Tornado, aud to avoid recognition he wave his ¢ as Raimundo Prado, but his assumed name was overed, and he ouly escaped execution at the hands of Barriel, the butcher, by the opportune arrival of the Britizh gunboat Niobe, Ho 18 weil ed neated, very brave and intelligent. Miguel Gutlerrez, a native of Holguin, Cuba, about twenty-nine ye: f uge, came to this country with the late Brigadier General Julio Grabe Peratta, and re- turned him to the war, on board the steamship. Fanny, © iu G. W, Brown, in 1872, Ignacio Zoldiver, native ‘ot Puerto Principe, is twenty-eignt years of age, and sou of a wealthy rest- dent of that city familiarly called “El Buey de Uro,”? At the commencement of ‘the revolution he joined the | putriots and received a commission as captain trom | the Jute General Bernabe Varona, In 1872 he was sent by the patriots in the arigua’? to reside in Havana to urge forward the insurrection in the Vuelto ‘Abajo district. He became suspected by the authori ties, and, to prevent arrest, cume on to this city, Leonardo Aivarez, aged twenty, of Santiago deCuba, was on the Steumsuip Virgiwius When captured by the Spaniards in 1873. He 18 known as a brave young fellow. Kduardo Datjens, of Santiago de§Cuba, is of French descent, and has fought in the revoluwon under Gen- eral Jesus Perez, Manuel Bianco, thirty-two, a nativeof Manzanillo, is cousidered the best pilot on the southern coast of Cuba, He was formerly in the division of General Jesus «1 nccumpanied Colonel Aguerro, ot * fame, to this country. Casimir Brea isa tative of Santiago de Cuba, and has yet got his laure Yo win, A Nie “EXTRA? The Spanish paper #l Cronista, published in this | city, brought out an “extra,” or propunciamento, on the subject yesterday, It stated:—“The predictions of the Cronista have been fulfilled, and the Moctezuma has been captured. Of the complicity of some of the crew of the Moctezuma with the Cuban pirates there is nodoubdt, We bave assured our ship owners and others that there was nothing to fear froi the M , for her capture was inevitable by our navy. oliows a quuntity of Quixotic bombast.) The not have time to sink her; they burned her—{the last three words im capital Jetters}, All told, there were at least forty or with officers and er on board, and now but twenty-four of them aro counted for. The others have doubtiess gone with the pirates. Thus ends this miseral cowardly a shametul affair, Tho hero Leonciw Pravo and his col Jeagues have now finished their spectacular display.”” HELP FOR CUBA YROM PERU. A committee hax been appointed at Lima, Peru, to collect $60,000, which is to be invesied in Remington cartridges, to be landed in Cuba, ‘the proceeds of a bull tight exhibition and a concert by the Lima students have been promised to the cause of Cuba Libre. A subscription in the army 18 also talked about, likewise a mass meeting at the ‘Dos de Muyo’’ monument. THK SYANISH AND CURAN ARMY COMPARED, In 1875 and 1876 53,729 Spanish soldiers bad arrived in Cuba. Previously there, say 30,000, the volunteers, militia, &c., number $0,000, making grand total of 163, The Cuban patriot army numbers about 1,000 men and has been fighting sinco 1863. THE SEMINOLE LIBELLED, ' Bostos, Mass,, Jan, 13, 1877. In the United States District Court this morning a libel was flied by the counsel for Joun Maguire, of New York, owner of the steamer Monigomery, Against the steamer Seminole, Damages were laid at ) began to talk about the folk ot Claddagh, —————_— sree 064,000 10:20. 008, The libel is to recover for the Of the vessel by collision with the Seminuir off Cape May on the morving of the 7th inst. The charge ts that the accident was caused by negligen on the part of the commander of the Semivole, An attachment was placed on the Semipole, which 1s still ‘at this port. 2 i THE IRISH CASTAWAYS. AN EMBELLISHED. STORY OF THE ADVENTURE OF THE HOOKER 8ST. PATRICK IN UNVARe NISHED ENGLISH—SMITH’S NIGHTMARE OF LOVE AND MORAN’S RAW POTATO, “The grace o’ God was wid us,’’ said old Patrick Moran yesterday alter be bad finished telling the story of bis turilling adventure on the hooker St. Patrick. “When I lift America five and twinty years ago sorrs one o’ me thought it’s this way 1’d be comin’ back again, 1s hard tellin’ what'll come 10 a man afore and the old man shook his head in a ‘‘wirra, wirra”’ way. ADRIPT IN MID-OCKAN—THR ANCIENT MARINER'S TALE, AS the complete story of the adventure of Moran und his companions has not yet been told it may be well Just here to give it in full, as it fell trom the lips of the Galway ancient mariner yesterday. The old man wat sitting on a low stool near the bright firc of his board. ing house, in Hamilton street, when the reporter met Lim. The dreadful ordeal through which Le has #0 ree cently passed has left its mark, and old Moran ia now, indeed, a wreck. During the four days of exe posure off the Irish coast he contracted a severe cold on the Jungs, and now be coughs most violently. Io boing transferred irom the hooker to the Swedish bark Gorgian be was hit against the rail and injured “qnside,’? as bis son expresses it, When the reporwer accosted the old man be oxpressed great delight, and Elciting ne very intelligent response {rom the scribe the old mun shaded his eyes with bis haud, alter the fashion of Mr. E. Arden under the palm tree, and alter a seurche ing look said, with a sbow of irritation, “Hang th man, 1 thought you were trom Galway.” Afier the disappointment of this crue! revelation wad passed of the old man again became communicative, and as ¢ token of goou feeling utlered the reporter the calume! of peace, The reporter declined the dhudeen and (ue ‘old man began the recital of the adveature on the Sh Patrick. 8ST, PATRICK AT SEA. “The first nignt we wur out,” he began, “the weather wus always good, and we set the nots peur Sline Head. That was on the furth of Novimber, aud that same night the wind began to blow, and blowed always trom the east, We tried to work back agin, but ulways the Wind thron ug out to tne wist, We let go the mainsail, and she wint afore the wind wid coubie reef in her fo'sail, We cudint git sight or siga ’ the sun, and we sailin fornint the wind always to the west, ‘ihe second night we saw plinty lights, but thoy was jack o’ lanterns, and kem to draw us out iuto the ocean, The third day the sea was so high that. the water all came aboord the hooker, und we were kilt bathn her out. had a @pan and = young Smith had a gallon measure, but we cudint keep her impty, In the night We wasail buggin’ unonother be the way we'd get warm. On the mornin’ of the fourth day—God bless the light that brought it—we saw a bark, and they tuck us aboard,” Here the reporter questioned the old man as to what he bad eaten during the four days, and tue story con- Unued. KAW PYATIES, “We bad pyaties and fish, but the fire was put out be the water and we cuddint cook thim. I tried a ruw one, but shure raw pyaties is no atin’ fora workin? man. We wur famished, and sorra ope o’ me knows what ud a happined if we dido’t meet the bark. You wur axin about me brother aud now be was kilt, We dunna where be wint, We all tell asleep for want of sleep, and when we woke he wasn’t abourd the boat, I think be was drownded.”” A AWRDM FROM DUBLIN, Just aa the old mav had arrived at this very prob- able conclusion Michuot Moran and Michael Smith, the | otner two survivors of the crew ot the St. Patrick, cume into the room. ‘I'he story o! tho lise of the party while Oo the Swedish bark was then euterea upon by oln Moran, and he spoke in warm terns of the kind- ness of Captain Ulsen, vf the Goruian, Wuile eugaged im this work of gratitude sioran tho younger, aged for.y-tive, chimed in with, ‘That's so, futher; ue waa a kind hearted man, I tuink he was reared In bapna.” ‘A CLOUDEY HONEYMOON, Smith, who is a comely young muy ubout nineteen, and who was married abous two months vefore he leit Ireland, here asked the reporter, with muth embar- ragsment, Do ye think ill they lit me go bome on the Satur. day sieumer ?”” “Why, thio bad cess to you Michael, can’t hop over to Ireland widout a ma young Moran. “Maybe th’ould woman hus a man agin this”? Michael blushed, twirled his hat in his hands, looked at the floor, und scemed the picture of embartaus- meus, 's too bad you 7 gad new 4 NIGHTMARE OF LOVE, . This gave the native humor of Moran en oppore tunity to dispiny ttsell. Said he, “bat same lad there is out of bis inind about a gurl ab home. At nigh, aboard the bark, he’ll shout out for nary Aub a3 joud as a whale would Liow; an the divil a one of Lim woud wake himself, but be’d wake us all always, | One night, ay’ be dreamin away, about his owo Mary Ann 1 coddint stand the noise of him, so 1 gave him a __ clout and woke him up. Says I, ‘Michael, you know the ould woman 1s alive, so what the divil are you whining about, an’ you know yon’re alive yourseit, and whas more ure you axinf? ‘Au’ then ne gave w grunt and turned over an’ begin to how! agin... He’s afeard sowe one of the lads in Claddagh will be walkin’ of wih bis own Mary Anu; but the divil a fear.” ‘This last remark was delivered with a peculiar Irish drawl, and seemed to make Michael nervous, His anxiety will soon be over, ‘or he sailed yester- for the ‘‘ouid durt’? where be iutenus to continue the honeymoon s0 rudely broken off. FATAL COASTING ACCIDENTs, Since the first heavy fall of snow, a month ago, there has scarcely been a day that one or more serious coast- ing accidents have not occurred in Newark. Yester- day was no exception to the rule, Besides many minor mishaps there were four dreadiul accidents, one of which bas already proved fatal and two others will, probably, result fatally also, About half-past two o’clock, while two youngsters, named Hugh Mc* Clemment and Thomas Fryley, of No. 62 Pacitic street, were flying dowu Spruce street, they shot iuto 4 lum- ber'wagon, uriven by Alfred Colton, Fowler had his sknll tractured and MeClemment one of his legs broken, ‘The i*tier resides at No, 46 Jobvson street, but with Fryiey was removed to St, Bar: Hus- pital, Fryley’s bri were oozing through frac tu He was atten luet bight by a clergyman aad was not expected 20 survive the wight. Within @ couple uf hours alter the Spruce sireet accident a young man of about twenty-two years of age, residing ob Charlton street dashed into a miik wagon at tue coruer of Court and Washington streets, He struck bit face against the wheel, but with suct force fo sipash his Jaw and otherwise injure bim #o wat ho will probably die, He was picked up by Mr. Auatin Mc- Powell and another young geutleman, and removed store, Whence he wus conveyed to his home, k Doremus, the milkman, was arrested, but sub- ently discharged, Colion, the other driver, is held, ANOTHER VICTIM, Still again, last evening, about half past six o'clock, aboy, uamed Frederick Kekerlin, sixteen yo uge, residing at No, 78 Nesbitt street, bad both ley oll by a train at the Nesbitt street crossiug of the Mor- ris wand Essex Ruijroad, He was uvable to stop bus sled before he dashed into the train, He was re. moved to his home, where he died soon after, CRUSHED BY AN sLEVATOR, Coroner Croker yesterday held an inquest regarding the death of Catharine Dirago, au Italian, residing io Crosby street. The evidence showed that on the va Inst. the deceased was picking up rags and paper near the elevator of Tonde & Co., whose storage warehouse i# in the Hudwon River freight depot in Hudson street, when the elevator in its descent struck ber on the from the effects of which sue e Chambers Street Hospital, diod the same “day in The jury retarned a verdict in accordauce with the bot censured the company ior not haviug of the elevator in proper running order, and i that proper precautions should be taken to prevent accidents of a similar character, BURNED TO DEATH. Sarab Osborn, ap Unmarried woman, forty-five years of age, In attempting y Tday morning to start a fire with the aid of kerow oll, at ber residence, No, 43 Clermont avenue, Brooklyn, had her dress ignited by the flames, She ran frantically into the street, where the fire was extinguished vy several of ber neighbors, The upper portion of her body, as well her tace, was found to be horribly burned and tb tending physicians say that sne cannot live, ACCIDENTS IN THE OITY. Early yesterday moroing Thomas Carr, of No, 140 West @e7vonteenth street, a driver of an cart, fell run over by bis cart. ° red fatal, " ore ry lempatead, L. L., 1 sidewalk and broke bis leg. . wrist James O'Neil, of No. 149 Chatham stroet. fol! on the sidewalk in Roosevelt street yesterday } oid is Jeg broken, “DRESSING UP.” Minnie Authes, twelve years old, was sont to the Juvenile Asylum yesterday, by Judge Bixby, for steal- ing $14 from a bureau drawer in Mr. Goorge 8. Can- non’s house, No, 701 Ninth avenua With the money she had bought a wax doll, pair of bracelete, owe! and yaady finory.. She had been going to Wound sehvol and hor classmates made tun of ber because qi bob hot nae as hey A yee tak She took tuemouey nae