The New York Herald Newspaper, June 9, 1877, Page 3

Eleven Men Killed by the Falling Wall of a Factoryin Flames, CRUSHED AND BURNED. Heavy Loss of Property but Partially Covered by Insurance. —--+—— NAMES OF THE DEAD. Brivoxronr, Conn., June 8, 1377, © Groin this city at an early hour this morging ‘Was one of the most disastrous confegrations that bay ever occurred im the State, but sever before nas the feast of the grim King Death been so ampic. Hearth- Stones that were happy yesterday ure now the scenes of the most poignant sorrow. ina moment of tine eleven human beings were hurled into etornity, their bruised and binckenod bodies leit umong the desolate waste made by tho foarinl fre, ‘here is a general mourning all over the city aud knot of citizens stand for hours on the strect corners discussing the fre, TAR KILLED. The following fa the list ot the killed:— 0. J. Acker, aged fifty; cartman jor Glover, Sanford & Sons; ongaged at the safe trying to open the door when the walls fell; body horribly crushed and legs burned to the knoos. Charles Ackor, aged twenty; son of 0. J. Acker; employed by Glover, Savford & Song; crushed, but ‘Bot badly disfigured. Chorlos H. Dart, aged thirty-eight; a married man, and leaves a wife and two children; was a butcher on East Matu street; arm crushed and log burued off, Jobp Gallagher, aged toirty-Gve; leaves a wife and Uhre smali children; was a buker on Arch street. J. Tomlinson (or ‘Tomlin, aged thirty; single man; worked in, the Japan roum of Wheeler & Wilson's, for Botstord Brothers, contractors; belonged in Brooklyn, N.Y. ; recognized by watch aud ring; remains horribly burned, Hugh Smith, aged twenty-six; marriod, and leaves {wo children ; remains not much burned. James Coyne, aged twenty-six; singlo; body terribly burned, Edward O'Toole, aged thirty five; leaves a wife and children; body badly mangled. William (or George) Mcfutyro, aged twenty-two; a butcher, of East Bridgeport; single; identified by cards in pocket; head severed from body. Jon Mulloney, aged twenty-eight; belonged iu Now Britain; came hore trom that city to work for the cut- lery company ; one leg and a band were gona Unrecognizablo; head cut off trom the body vy the falling safe and horribly mangled otherwise; thought to be a young man named Swoency. SCENE OF THK TRAGEDY, ‘The scene of the tire was in that part of the city known as East Bridgeport, The buildings wero located on tho west bank of Pembroke Lake and close beside tne railroad track of the New York and New Haven Railroad Company. The main bullding was 260 fect in Jongth Uy 60 feet in width, while the additions on either end, east and w made tho entire frontage toward tho railroad about three bundred teot, The butiding was ocoupied by Glover, Suntord & Sons, wool hat mapafuctarers, who were carrying On a large and prosperous business, fhe tuc- tory was one of the finest in the couutry, being tur- tisbed with the mest nuproved machinery, The build- wig was a four story brick structure, handsomely built, having been crected in 1864 by the Walliains Silk Company. ‘the present occupants who are called pon to sustain so heavy a loss wore hat mavufactur- ra in tho town of Bethel, having removed to this city mm 1869, since which time they have added many build- ings und improvements to the premises. } York ard New Haven Railroad. New Pembroke Lake. A—Two story extension, H—Coul house. C—Engine and botter, ORIGIN OF THE CONFLAGRATIOS, The origin of the fire is still indoubt. It was frat @iscovered in the weet end of the main building by the empioyés of the Bridgeport Horse Katiroad Compuny, whose barn !@ located nearly opposite the scone of the disaster, on the north side of the railroad track, On discovering light in the foyrth story of the hat tactory at that hour of aight (balf-past cieven) they called the attention of the watch:man of tie Metailo Cartridge Company, whose works are ‘near the scene, so the light Mr. Beibel, the watchman for the cart. Tidge company, stepped over to the office of the hat factory, where he touod N. B. Durfee, we watchman of the premises, readiag a newspaper, he having made his hourly rounds ut cleven o'clock, sume twenty min- Utes Detore. The alarm wae at once sounded, aud tho Fire Department respunded promptly. Duriee, after bemg notified of the tre by Leibel, at once went to the third foor of the main ba:lding, valled the mixing Foom, where he tound the fire started in three ditter- @ut places, This part of the builuing was used for we storage of the woul Irom Which the bats are manufac. tured, and around the sides of the room bins were coustructed tor holding tho different grades of wool, POTILK KYPORTS OF THK FiRKILY: On the arrival of the Fire Department was made to stay the flames, but the iusuftie: and, gradually Unding its way down through the hu way’ on the lloors Which were left oper, and tue ele- valor, running from the basement to the garret, 1 tuurth story. To add to the headway of the fire there were two Violent explosions, which seemed to add new tue! to the already sweeping tlames. SAVING PROPERTY. The spectators secing that the building must be totally destroyed, there was a general rash to get out of the lower stories such yoods as were within reach, Bom ered the basement and succeeded in removing quite a large quaotivy of halt-noished hats. Some ff- teen or twenty men entered the office at the east end of the mata building, where there was a considerable stock stored ready tur stiipment. VATAL FALL OF WALLS. At twenty minutes betore one o'clock the spee- tators and firemen heard a low ramble, then a crush when the top of the trent wall quivered and fell ow ward with a feartul crash, When the front wall fe it curried the east gable cod with it, and the brick aud mortar forming that division of the wali were pushed outward and fell upon the root of the ofico, where some fiitcen moo were at work wying to rewove the safe contuining the books of concern, The erash Was heard by the crowd vawiue, and there was a general rush to see what damage bad been done, wall ag it deseendea crashed easily through tho slight rool of the othce, caus ng death to jose beneuth, The announcement that there were ersons in the building thus crushed sent a turd! of Rorror through the crowd, and although Lhe débris was so hot that it scarecly could be bandied with the naked band, yes operations were at ouce begun to reach those who had met such a sudden death, Nothing could bo done to advantage until four o'clock in the morbing, for the bricks were so hot and the steam $0 great that the firemen were able to do litue toward the rescue of those buried beneath the biack- ened, smoking ruins, SAD SIGHT IN THE MORNING LIGHT, It was mnv,o'clock this morning belore the just body of tho victims was secured, und the painiu nye of the Hives Of the dend was enough to 0 the stoutest beart sympathize with thom in their sore afliiction, Wives and ohildron tan trom place to piace, eugor to get & glimnpso atthe bodies as they were takon out, in hopes to recognize some dear ince that wus thought to be among the Victims ; but, as the blackened and burnod corpses were one by one laid on the grass, jn irout of the ruin, they lost ali hope and gave way to the most b weeping. None could be recugoized by their foatures, the only means of iiontitication being the aruicies found on the persons of the several yictuns, Tho iass bowy taken irom ibe rusus was that ery effort | the | | ward their goods purchased, and agents are soliciting nome ee A betes, ers ert Jase together around the safe which were tryin, tc The others were found ‘ome undoubtedly it im the act of rumping from the spot when the wall fell. They were fuund 14 various wongand presented a very | sickening sight as the fremen removed thd débris and | | Dicked up the remuins | LOSK OW PROPERTY AND INSURANCE, ‘The estimated loss, as yiven by one of the firm. is a whiob thore ws the lollowing iusurauce, Sees toes the agency of EB. G Mh, of this etty:— Guaranty, New York. 2,500 Atlantic, Providen + 2,500 Fire Association, Philadelphia, 8,900 Atlas, Hartiord, Con! 8,000 8,000 2,500 8,000 National, dartiord. , 3,000 Lycoming, Muncy, 7) * Manuattan, New York Westchester. Northwestern Natioual Republic, Atiautic, New York Scottish Commercial, Lancashire America People’s, Rechoster Germ: 000 3,000 2,500 8, 2,000 Amazon, Cincinnati 1,000 Liverpool, Louden and Globe. 6,000 Totals... s.s.screesenscemnees ses ees ee $OU, 900 | Besides the above there wre $33,500 insurance in a Now York ngeucy un the tools and stock, leaving a loss for the company to bear of §160,U00, GREAT FIRE IN GALVESION. THREE SQUARES OOVERED WITH BANKS, STORES AND HOTELS DESTROYED —LOSSES PROM TWO MILLION TO THREE MILLION DOLLARS. @arvusron, Texas, June 8, 1877, | At half-past throo o'ciock this morniug a dre broke | out in the kitchen of the New York sestauraat, on | Market, near Twenty-second streot, aud, spreading north and cast, was not extinguished nntil {t bad de- stroyed neariy nll the bulluings hetween Market street | and the bay and I wenty-tirst and Twonty-accoud stroots, Alter cousuming a uumber of shops and retail stores on Market street the tire crossed an alley and attacked the Grand Southern Hotel, Murphy & Brocklemao's bardwure estublistment and several frame buildings on the south side of Mechauic strect. Crossing Mechanic street the old Washington } Hotel, Oad Fellows’ Hall, Seeligson’s Bank, the Firat. National Bank, Marx & Kempner's wholosule grocery house, Jacobs & Beck. hardt’s wholesale clothing house, T. ©. Thomp- son & Co,’s wholosale drug house, J. 8. Brown & Uo.'s Wholesale bardware house, Banlett & Co.'s ship stores, George Sounetder & Co.’s wholesale grocery house, all on the south side of tho Strand, were destroyed, Crossing the Strand, L, & H. Blum’s wholesale dry gouds house, A, ©. Crawford & Son's crockery bouse, G. Scengson & Co.'s grocery house, Friburg, Klein & Co.'s liquor store; D, I, Ayres’ grocery, tho Cotton Exchango and osuer buildings were destroyed, LOSSKS AND INSURANCES, The total number of buildings destroyed ts twenty. six aod the loss is estimated at trom $2,000,000 to $3,000,000, It is impossibie, owing to ‘the excitement and contusion, to get details, Lt is said that the leading houses ate fully covered by tusuranve, of which only $160,000 ure in Lome companies, Eastern ond Nortbera compauies lose heavily. L. & H. Bium Jose on stock 2690,000, and oa walling sb ue $150,000; insurauco about $650,000, Marx & Kéimper’s loes on stock is about $107,000, and on building $22,000; fully insured, ‘Tue Firemen’s Fund, of San Francisco, loses $75,000 by to-day’s ire here, The statewents of the foreign insurance, which amounts to $800,000, are in the vault of Soriey’s Ble 4 cabDot be obtamed to-night, PURTHNR STATEMENT OF Los¥Ey, ‘Tho list of business losses and imsurance by this morning's fire, careiully prepared by tho commercial __ :y ia R Dun & Co,, including stocks and buildings, at their proseut yaiue, aggregutes 1,525,000, aad the Insurancs $1,299,000, bid loves hot inctuded ip this ligt will, 1 lz thought. exceed $50,000. ‘The Galveston insurance companies ugerogate $127,000, distributed us follows:—Merchants, $37,000; Toxas, $35,000; Union. Fire aud Marine, $33,000; Home, $12,000; Galveston, $10,500. FORMIGN INSURANCES, Ib ts {mposaiblo tw give a detailed lst of the losses of foretga companies, tho offic d and their books of severul agencies were destroy en taken irom the vaults, not yet ‘The followmy are ali the insurers | that can be obtained = to-night:—Queen, of — Liver- pool, $38,000; Phonix,..$50,000, Royal Canadia $44,000; Amazon, $100,000; Under writ 312/500; Amperial rand Norther og 000 Commercial Union, 0005 cashire 000; Munhat- tun, . ‘$6000; Si Joseph, of | Sissouri, ” $8,000; Franklin, of St. Louis,’ $12,000; Kquitavte, of Loursviilo, $10,000; lritish American. 317,600; Fire Assogiation, $15,000; Commorecial, $5,000; Mill. ville, ot New Jersey, $5,000; Enst Texas, $3,000; Cit. gens’, $5,000; Planters and Merchunts’, $3,500; West- ern, $2,500; Willamsburg City, $8,000; Wostdhester, $3,000; United States, $2,000, NO SUSPENSIONS LIKELY, {By TELEGRAPA TO THE HERALD.) GaLvRstoN, Texas, June 8, 1877. ‘Tho loss by the fre will amount to $2,000,000; In- guranco over one-hall that sum. All the heavy losses are well covered. No iinportuot suspensions or failures are probable. | Local companies lose but $130,000, and the balance is woll distributed in toreign and domestic companies. No lives were lost. ‘Iho burned distr'ct will be rebuilt this summer, number o! contracts are aiready signed, SALE OF RUBBER GOODS. S| HIGHER PRICES OBTAINED THAN ON THE | PREVIOUS DAY—BRISK BIDDING, (bx TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD,1 Bostox, Mase, Juno 8, 1877. Tne auction salo of rubber boots and shoes manufac- | tured by tbe Combination Rubver Shoe Companios | was resumed this noruing, The buyers were promptly | in their seats, securing, if possible, ihe same positions which they held on Thursday, iu order the more roud- ily to Gx the attention of the argus-eyed auctioncer. | Western buyers who held back on Thursday, hoping to | get the goods cheaper to-duy, were disap pointed, as prices advanced toward tho close | of the saie, and they were compeled to Pay from. fivo to ten per ceut moro for tho | Saino claeses of goods shun they brought at the opening | of tio sale Prices to-day ruled about filteen per cent below the combination price hist, a result eminently Sutistactory to the munulaclurers, who prouounco the sale a great success, PRICES PAID. Some idea of the prices obtained for several varieties of gouds may be derived from the following quot tions :—Hayward Company—Misses’ Arcilcs, I 76 cents per pair; men’s kuee boots, pure gum, D. W., $3.60; meu’s short boots, pare gum, f. & F $8 47)¢; ladies’ Arctics, F., $1.05. Meyer Company— dien’s imitation Hy Ki, G2 cents; ladies’ ro, M., single sizes, tw 6, 35 cunts: imitation sundals, N., hgt, 4234 cents; Misses’ jou sanduls, F,, 284 cents, National Com Men’s «hort boots, F., $2 79; ladies’ wou! Alaska | | | 4 70 cons n’s wool Alupkas, F., 8% cents. New | auties’ Light imitation sandals, ver heavy kuco boots, ¥., $2 74; youths? Jadies’ Centennial butwo bor Lil. Woonsockot—Sten's higut hunting boots, M.. | 3b Big; boys’ short boots, Bt 9238; | men’s lizbt ki M., $250; men’s light knee — Men's ip Voots, F., pure es? Broadways, M., us cents; ladies’ F, gum, $4 10; la buck r Aretics, $1.05; youths’ short boots, ¥., £1 4 Candee Company—Ladies’ beavy initation sandais, F regular, 37 Conta; ditto, solid, sizes 245 1u 7, BY cents; | ladies’ "Queen City croquet, 'F,, regular, 1255 cents; ditto, M., regular, 41 cents. Goodyear—Men’s imitat sandald, M., 40 conte; ebilds? toitation eandals, ¥ ccuts; men's cottou Aluskas, 3., act M., 60 cen MERCHANTS AND BIGHOLT AGKNTS. A grout mauy wuts io the shue and leather | trade and otners are attracted to the sal ports Wiel go ONL of the rapidity wi goods are disposed of Among those who bat qneuted the avetion rooms wre the ageuts of the Gu meruns freight despavch lines, Who seek these opportu. nites to make comtracts with Southern and Western pa ers tor the transportation of their goods, lant year contracts were mide on tbe basin of wwenty-ive cents per tundred to Chicago from July 10 January and thirty cents per hundred trom January to July, whieh eoutracts will expire ia a few weeks, By an agreement entered into by the tour weok lnes ww the West—the Now York Central, Eric, Pennsyivania Cenwal and Baltimore and Ubio railroads—these contracts will not be re- newed, and ail frieght will be charged ab the rate ot weveniy-tive cents per hundred to Gbicago, It there- fore behooves the bayers at this saic to hasten fore | ton | p 345 | | ! sbipmouts and Competing tor the business, Mayor Prince gave the Visiting buyers & Harbor excursion into this afternoun. % THE MALLS, Wasuixaroy, June 8, 1877. Tho mails for Haliiax,N. 8, and Princo Kaward Island will, during the summer months, and until ' iF notice, bo sent from Purtiand by rath Tho mai by sea 16 discontinued Im consequence of the Changed dates of sailing. ‘The Post Office Depurttnent bas to-day made arrange. tents jor temperary service on the mail bee tween Yawktoa and Fort Sully, Dakota, whien puts aa end to the serious interruption of service oa two of the routes to the Biack Aills, NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, (> | mutual accounts might bulan | latter raising his arm to fend it off, | of the jail, and was conducted tu the most quiet and | Mary Murray, Who was wayiaid, Outraged abd mute THE GALLOWS. | u | curred they did nothing in a seamanliixe manner, A White Man and a Negro Pay the Penalty of Murder. -—— WILLING TO DIE. ee Louis Rousseau, After Committing Seven Mur- ders, at Last Overinken by Justice. —- --——-- {LY TELEGRAPH TO THES HERALD.) Prersuune, Va., June 4, 1877, To-day, at Dinwiddie Cours House, fifteen miles from thia city, Jack Pleasants, colored, suffered the extreme penalty of the law for the murder of Ano Lundy, also colored, in Aprilot last year, Pleasants was forty-five years of age, about six feet bigh dod weighed, say one hundred and guventy-live pounds His countenance was strongly sensual in every line— alinost of the brute order—and wikhout one single ray of intelligence to relieve its gloom. He was formerly » slave of the Major estate, THe CRIME, Pleasunts had becn paying bis addrosses to Ann Luudy and it was commonly rumored thas their rela- Mong wore improperly imiimate, Alter a while the woman tired of the affections aud attentions of Pleasants, He pressed bis suit, and beenme jealoug. On the Th day of April Pleasanis revairea, gun in hand, tothe farm of Daniel Wells, in Dinwiddie county, where Ann ws employed as a ficld bund, Ho found ber at work im the corn field with other negroes, and again besought her to mary im, which sho then deciured sho would never do, He fol, jowed ber dowa the corn row she was working, the othor negroes falling back tm order that they might converse unboard, Aun turned from nim, whea Jack discharged an old Enfield rille at ber, and tho load ot Hucksbot taking effect tu'tho back of the head killed ‘ber inbuantly. Pleasaote fled at escaped, notwith- Standing that he waa at once puriuedoy the mon in the Gold, oF CAPTURE AND TRIAL, "Governor Kemper issued a proclamation offering a reward tor his captare, wuich wi it length effected on the 20tb) of last September, by five negroes tn Meckienberg county, Ho waa tried at tho April cir- cuit, Judge Woesegir presiding. ‘tho jury rendered a verdict of murder in tho frat degree, aud the Court @catenced Lin to be executed om this the 8th day of June, No eflort {or pardon or commutation of tho senience was made, ince his condemnation his conduct has been most quiet und orderly, seemed thoroughly sensible of bis situation, and received spiritual cousolation with marked attention and earnestness, Ho bad no hopo Of pardon or reprieve, and looked forward with eagert- ness to the termination of his earthly trials, THE ¥XECUTION, At eleven o'clock 1nis morning the press representa- tives were admitted (0 ine prisom and found Jack robing for the gulluws. He declared that the suooting of Aun Landy was accidental, and was caused by his gun catching ina gamo bag that he wore, Just ‘aiter noon he was led forta to execution. The galiows was er 4d Just in rear of the juil, and near the spot where Epps suitvred in 1849 for the murder of Muir, Artiv- ing at the guliows the condemaoed was assisted by Sheriff Cousins aud his deputies up tho steps leading to the scaffold, In response to the donth warrant he exhorted all present to be warned by his fate, He expressed his willingness to dio, aud upnounced his perlect peave with his Maker, The large crowd of negroes preseot were greatly affected and respooded with shouts and Minutes to one the religious The Sheriff abd his at- a tendants and bis officiating miniators bade the con- demned farewell aud left the scafold, In a minute alter, while the deomed man waa praying, the drop fe, and be was lauoched tmio etorniiy. His neck was instantly broken and the snap of the spipal column was distinctly heard. His death must have boon painless, not. a moveiment of the body or linibs boing seon, After hanging twelve tninutes the atteadunt physicians pro- nounced him dead, aud the body was lowered ond placed in obarge of his relatives, It was enciosed in We collin furaishod-by the county and borne oil by bis iriende, fol owed by a majority of the colored persons resent, All tho arrangements for the excoution were periect. Thore was no baugting’or unnecessary tor- ture tnilleted, EXECUTION OF LOUIS ROUSSEAU. (BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.) New Onveays, La, Juno 8, 1877. To-day, at Opelousas, St. Tammany parish, was launched into eternity by the ban;man a man namod Louts Roasseau, tor the murder of Cyrus Brignac, on the 13:h of March, 1875, Tho murderer was vern and raised in the parish of this Stato where he met his doom, and though of good family was known to be of the most vindictive temper, having committed sigce the war no less than seveu murders, though, owing to the Uuseitiod stato of the country, he had always tll now escaped un. punished, Tho marder of this latest victim took placo in a small saloon in Ville Platte, a smail town in the lower part of © the parish. Brigoac was a butcher by occupation and lived in the same town, ‘They had mutual accounts and ono day Roasseat said w Brignac that he wished bim to settle, ‘the latter stated that ho thought ther and a fow aopleasant words ensued, ‘Theso were, however, oppureciiy uictod, und the two men hud a drink, After ono rink Rousseau insisted they should have more, wu Brignac dechned, fearing the former wished t get him under’ the iniluence of squor so as to obtin the better of bim, Upou — this | rejusal Rousseau struck Brignac a sught blow, the Chis soemed to rouse the dewon in the former, who, drawing a pistol, excluimed, “If you don’t want me to sirike you Vil stout you, by God!” and fired, the ball passing through his head, sing instant death, The murderer imuie- dintely fled, VURSUIT, CAPTURE AND TRIAL. He was banied for threo months by the Sheriff, Mr. ©, G, Duson, who followed him to tho Indian Territory, | where ho bad had a dificaity with an Indian ana beon Shot through the arm, and was captured without Posmiance and brought back, His tral took place to «April, 1976, and he wus convictedyahe murder being so atrocious and the proof so plain thas it was impossible to eseape conviction. Governor Nicholls signed the death warrant on the ceuy ot day, and his execution was considered u relief | by the community. | ROUSBRAU'S VICTIMS. Among the Vietlws who had previously met death at Rousseau’s Lauds was Henry Maxwell, « former parte her of Lis in the liquor business, Avother was D, Fontenount, who was engaged with bin ta horse stealing, and was shot to prevent his turning State’s evidence against him, TH MANGING, Rousseau was the first white man hanged ta the parish St. Tammany since 1545, and the affair was wit- ed by an W@mense crowd, both white and black, The execution took place in the open square in front orderly manner. YH WRONG MAN BANGED, CONSEASION OF THE RLAL MURDERERS AND DE- TAILS OF THE CRIME, (SY TLLEGuAPH YO THE HERALD.) Cuicado, Jane 8, 1877. Tho commuulty living at Pontiac, this State, are in @ fever of exciioment owing toa contession Just mado by two eriminels now confined in the Onlo Peuiteu- lary, whieh, i true, proves thatthe wroug man has been banged forthe murdor of a young girl, nained dered wear Pontiac io the year 1800. A young man named Wiley L, Morris was arrested, tried and con- | vieted of the crime, bat solemnly swore to bis inue- cence to his last moments upon the scuftold, REDUCLION OF WAGES. | BALARIES OF RALLNOAD RMPLOYES CUT DOWN— | NO STLIKE ANTICLPATED, (vx “eLeGRarn TO THE HERALD.) Haktrorn, Conn, June 8, 1877. At a meeting of the trustees of the Hartford, Provt- | dence und Fishkili Railtoad Company, to-day, i was decided, on accoant of the depressea condition of traie geuerally, to make reductions of from ten to wonty per cout over the salaries of all employés, ox- cepting the switebmen and others recetving lees than 9 #8) per month. ‘Tho ten per cent wild mainly aitect | engineers, coniiuctors and brakemen, while the larger | figure wil reach tho higher salaried otlicials No strike 18 anticipated, THE CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO, 4N INQUIRY INTO THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF HER SINKING, Sax Frascrsco, June 8, 1977. Ap investigation of the circumstances attending th loss of the steamship San Francisco ia now proceeding Delore na board of inquity, James Riddell, a etecrago passenger, who has been a sailor and shipmaster, Stated his opiuion 10 tho bourd that tho shiv, at the | sian, by tho proper Stu | plainull alleges, has been « | dead, of, if not you ox! | of goverawent vy wilRary itimdation, aw ing on the rock, was about six miles from | cvlor of the water had changed just betore ) Ws It shoal te guid the discipline of | soemed good, but the Chinumen composing | erew Were bo sulora, and alter the striking oo time of strik: sboro. Vb CAPTAIN WADUELS'S STATNMENY INDORSED. Beujstmus Craig, tor fiiween yours master of coastin: vessels In the Atlantic, contradicted the testimony ol Kiddeli that the steamer was only six or seven miles from shore When she struck. He estimated the dis tanee at not less than ten or twelve miles, which cor. res} lé nearly with the testimouy of Captain Wad+ Pa and other ‘officers and passengers thas fur exam. c ANOTHER DELINQUENT ‘OFFICIAL, SENSATION IN HARP ORD OVER THE DEVALCA+ TION OF THE CITY AND YOWN COLLUCLOR oF TAXES—A HIGHLY HONORED AND POPUL:B OFWICER COME 10 GRILY—TRE EXAMINATION AND 128 DIScCLosunES, (bY ZELEGRarH TO THE HERALD.) Harvronn, Cono., June §, 1877. ‘The announcement of the discovery of largo dis crepaucies in the aceount of the City and Town Col- lector of Taxes, Mr, Johu Fruney, occasioned a genus | ime seuéation tn tus city this afternoon, Implicit | confidence hus always been expressed in tho integrity of the delinquent eMlcial during the seven oF eight years of his incainbency, and to such un extent has Wiis Coulidence oxisted that until recently 1b bas been fegarded us wholly unnecessary to make any examina- tious of his accounts, 4 Porcnar ovvictan The Collector 18 8 gentleman of wide pupu- | larity, an old resident, and tn auecesmve elections has been again and again Bominated aud elected on tho democratic ticker, and on the occasion of bis lust election received the com. piiment of being placed on the ticket of the opposition party. The suin of nearly §1,000,000 has passeu through big bands annually, THR ViRST INDICATIONS, Lawe tail the Towa Auditiny Committee experionced d@ificulty io their examination of bis books, owing to tho practice in bis office of mingling ttre towa and city Gecounts, and the audit was postponed until a joint examination could by made, Finaily the City Cou neil, in Januury, directed a semi-annual warit ol the city's part ol the buoks, aud the Ways and Means Committee Jutned the towa audiors in the Work a lew Weeks ago. RMSULTS OF TMK EXAMINATION The result of the examination was asivunding. ‘The books were discovered to be in bad cundition, but it ‘Way sutistuciorily ascertained that discrepancies to the Qmount of probably $30,0U0 existed in the town ac- counts, and $10,000 or more im those of the euy. ‘These rosuils wore reacued three weeks ago, but out of respect to the excellent reputation of the Coliectur Btrict secrecy was observed, and efforts were made fo obtuin trom bim some explanutiou of the watier. Alter long waiting the auditors to-day received a Ment propared by the Collector's clerks, admitiing the deficiencies tu port, Whereupon the town auditors promptiy laid tue case beiore the aushorities for thor action, ACTION OF THR KXAMINERS, ' ‘The examiners on the part of the city will report to | the Council next Monday evening the tucts in the case, wWing the nature of the discrepancies discovered and reconimending the preparation ut a new of books, by which alone the actual losses can be ascer- (ained, “At this time nothing can be leurned {rom tho Cuilector, He has been tll tor some months past, and within a few weeks hus tndulged in liquor so trecly as to induco deliriuin tremens, with which be was to-day afectcd, | CAUSE OF THE DELINQUENCINS, Real estate cmbarrassments are alleged a3 the causo of his irregularities, the public money luving been used With 4 view to warding off forvcloaure. Hts bonds are $50,000, which may cover the losses, but ubis eau. not be defaitely known anti! a complete exanimation 19 made. A WELL TMKD DISCOVERY, Ibis regarded a rather fortuuate that the discovery Of Franey's regularities wag made at this time, for the reason that severul hundred thousand dollars of faxes would be paid into his bands iu July, His Iriends ask a suspension of public opinion, on the ground that much of the trouble muy be found to ve due to clerical errors in the books und that Franey may be able to expluin away the worst of the matter, However, tt is spicious circumstance thut during the three wevks that have elupsed since the irregulari- ties wore discovered the auditors bave been unable to get dircot trom the Coliectwor an explanation. DECISION OF THB STALL AUDITOR coNnTRST— NO JURISDICLION IN THE COURT, New OuLsans, Juno 8, 1877, SIudgo Billings, of tho United States District Court, fu his decision yesterday tn the case of Jotinson, repup- lican Stato Auditor, against Juimel, who took posses- sion of the oilicu April 25, dismitesing the petition jor Au injunction resiraining J umel {row acting as Auditor, said:—T'he petitiover hus got alicged that he was de. prived of an election, but ho retained his office four months; that tho attompt to deprive Him of it was de- foated by the action of the Returning Board and effect given to every voto. Thus ho was secured of an elec. tion, and bas been deprived of an oilloe to which ho was clocted, and declared elected, not by tho exciusion of votes for any reason, but by revoluciun, The statute limits the Jurisdictiva of the Court i the sole question arising out of the denial of the right to vote. Its scope | extenus from the Oirst act to (ue ual cauvasa 11 the preiimipary exelusion of yotes hus been prevented, or the result declared, whtnout rimiuation or exclu. authorives, then the statute closes the doorway upon the jurisdiction of this Court ‘The dofeat must be aucomplisiod by the machinery of | an clec.ion. An election from exclusion, the inplished, and (he Fesult | arrived at under the statu.e decial Ib mives no | jurisdiction over a causo werely to physically rogata uu ville, The question by which the Court could tuke Jurisdig¢iion is not presenied. This loss of olive ts as independent of any right to vote as if ho had been ejected by @ government set up by @ loreigy Invader | claiming wuthority by the right of conquest, AN EX-OFFICIAL ARRESTED FOR EMBEZZLE- | afternoon from Nyack through the mountain JUNE 9, 1877.—W1TH SUPPLEMENT. acannon, NY ‘UNS. | | THE DEAD FID ROCKLAND LAKE GIVES OP (78 DEAD—THE vish DYING BE THOUSANDS —INTRRVIEWS Wi7H THE WAVIVES ON THE SUBIEOR. The song of tho locust Was heard on the bitls as the EkRALD reporter made & picasant journey yesterday that line the fudson to tho shores of Rocktand Lake, whieh, like tho Passaic river, bas lately Qud a fish plague As the reporter proceeded around the lake, which covera about three handred and sixty acres, ne found the shores in places ued with dead fish, while here and there on the bosom of the waters migut be acen a | shoul of pucrid fish dritting to the shure, they were thicker on the soutuern sido of the lake, toward whieb the wind wus Blowing, Taking a ooatat that side, the reporter venturea upon the lake. The gentle zephyrs that played across the Waters brought with them a tainted sinel! of decaying fish, PIKE MORDID MANIK, ‘The fish that ceuld be observed were mostly small | Perch or minvowa Lach of them was marked with « curious secur about the body or bead, as though they had beex sealded. Tbe tat!s of some of the Ashes ap pevred to have been partly enten away; but thia might | have beew caused by tho bites of other tishes. ‘The | water appoured to be as puro aud clear as crystal in | some parts the bottom of the lake appeared slightly | colored, The lake was stocked about throe years | ago by tho Knlekeroovker Ico Company, who have | veral rge tod houses there, A largo numbor ol black | base wera then put into the pond, Strange to say, these black bass do not seem to be affected vy tho dis- ease, ‘The mallet, cattisn, yellow perch and goluts! or shiners aro the principal kinds of fish that suffer, WHEN Tr MEGAN. Mr. Walter Ackerson, whose houso isat the north- ernendot the lake, said that he had no tdea of the | cnuse of the unusual phovomenon, Great nambers of | the ish bad beea dying for some time back; but this mortality bad considerably devreased during the presont week on accountof the rains. The water bad wed ono hotter thay usual In sume places he bad noticed that =the = bottom ~—s was Slightly red colored, The epidemic was first notiad ubout two weeks ago, The death rate forthe first three days Was much greator than ulterward; at prose ont very few, if uny, were dying. AL one place he hoew of their being picked up by the barrelul. They were trkeu aWay wud buried ae fast as possible. There | hud been uo tisning of avy account since the epidemic begun, Now that it was enced, nowover, the ishing aeason would be wore lively than ever, FivH AGE Queationed as to the uppearanve of tho dsh when | about to die, Mr, Ackersou continued bis narrative us follows hey go right along o3 nice usa pin, and the tirst thing you know they come up to the top, full over, die and go to the bottom, Such a thing has hever boen known belore, There are men here etghty> seven years old who , they never heard of such a | thing in all their lives. Each fish seems to have a littl sore about the siza of your finger nail on their sid or Leads, Soon alter dying they turu bluckiy! water of the poud was ‘ormerly used asdrinking water, but now no one drinks it, and itis no longer given to the cattle, & WHAT FISH ESCAPRD, Returning along the pretty shore tho reportor met | Dauiel Tremper, a Usnerman, who hag lived on tho border of the lake Jor over thirty years, “The tish ibut die,” said he, “all svem to bo | marked with a tittle gore like a seatd, IT have caugnt sume cela, aud Of opening boeuw found their turvat swelled and tho color was bot natural-like. ‘The cas Osh sutler worse than the rest, but the litte black vase and pickerel were not ailocied.? THE “WORKING! OF THE LAKR. At the southern end of the pond was situated the bouting house of Mr. Charles Smiih. He told the Her- aLD reporter that for the last three days thera ha been no fish dying tn that part of the poud. He couid | not account for the death of so many fish. Ho had hoticed, huwovor, that a low Weeks azo, and betore the fish began to div, the lake “worked,” purilying {tseit | as it docs iu summor, Mr. Smith bero oxplained that | every sumwer, irom about the middle ef August to the 10th of September, the waters of Rockland elves by w sort of fermentation, The veayed vegetable mass at the bottom be. comes decomposed and Oiled with gusee. This causes | the green subsiance to risy bubbling to the surtuco, | preventing the appearance of fermeniation, Tho | gascuus matter escapes aud the barmiess residue sinks again to tho bottom, thus puritying the lake, The smaller fish vot being tn a Condition af this time of tho ear Lo eadure such & commotion of Lhe walors poss!- tiy vecoine diseased. Wishing to use be had | written to Mr, seth Green, of the State Fishery Com- | Orrick OF THe SveHmINTENONNT, { | ocnestHa, N.Y, Mi 07, nfs cecvived. There aro several causes | OPISIONS AB ARK OPINIONS, vro himsvit ot the ca ¥ mission, aud received the following reply :— Naw Yous State Pisueny Comassion, jay 31, 17. Ht, Kesey. co | Cuances F. Sur sf that the cau: but to get at the exwct cause w Possibly thors may bo some emptying liow in the lake or asing giant powde may have iveuption in thi pt the lako cause! by gives, 1 hava kuown af fled dying In luhes, but os at this particalar time of the yoar, We boar of théw tu the winter sometiines whon the takes wre fru over, and ulso along in Augtst, whew the water be very'warm, From some of the hints [have wtven you may bv possible tor you to lind out tho cause. Yours, SETH GREEN, Mr, Smith remarked tn rogard to this letter that no been used anywhere near the lake, had been ttrown into it to his The trruption of gases trom the bottom fthe Ush dyiug iwicht ve attributed to, be quite aifiguit. alkane kaowiodge. of the Juke might account tor the tish dying there, bat | this theory would in count tor the prevalence of the epideinic elscwhere, The cause, therefore, atili remains a mystery. CREEDMOOR. THE NINTH REGIMENT'S THIRD CLASS MARKS | MEN AT RIFLE PRACTICE, ‘The third class marksineu of tho Nintn regiment, | Second brigade, First division of tho State Natwual Guard, wont to Croodmoor yesterday for ball practic ‘The troops turned out io light marching order, and | were provided with a day's rations. There were alto- gether S15 oflicers, nou-commiasioned officors and | MENT, NEW ORLEANS, Jane 8, 1877. Ex-Judge Henry C, Didble, late Assistant Attorney | General, Was arrestud this moruing wad vrougut betsre | the Superior Criminal Couri, on information tited by | District Attorney Finnyy, which charges Dibbie with | alloy $12,500 of Stato funds, 14 is stated that on | dvi ov Dacember hist Assistant Atworney General | Divbie received irom the Auditor two orders to Land | over the amouut mentoned to the State Treururer, | which the uccused, it Is alleged, tailed to do, Divule | was released on $7,600 bail. | GOVERNOR YOUNG NOL A CANDI-| DATE. Cdesues, Ohto, June 2, 1877. Hon, J. F. Gowsy, Urbana, Obio:— My Dean Sin—Your |avor of June 1 received, and, in reply, 1 beg so stato juat I have, atter mature deliv. eration, concluded not to authorize the presentation | of my ame to tho Rejublican State Convention as w candidate for Governor, Iu reaching this condusion, I was not impelled to it | by any want of coniideive in the success of the re- | publican party in the doming fail campaign, but bes | cause my private und grofessional business needs, at present, my whole altdtion, ant the poor--I should say prtiavie--compensttion allowed the Governor ot this great State does pot warraut me in holding the office longer than the #maimder of the preseat term, Lavsure you, howe that L tect grateful to tne republican pary tor Yoat 1 has done lor me, aud |b would bo glad to reply it if 1 eonid by any service for Whe goud of the cause 1 vin capable of portorain, butt reully caunot dlord to be Governor anon term. t | aro ip our Stab, sv prolific of great men, many worthy aspirants who are ambitious tur the hdnor of | the position, From aboug then we can certainly jvet one who will curr} uur oid tlag—the flag of equi ity, iraternity and pedo—through tbe coming tight, aod, a8 usual, plant iY sufely aud Ormly on the ram paris of victory. | To the next campo there will be none of the old | time issues, Phe leadng men of both parties wisely | agree Of thé Levessit} ul remonetizing the old siiver dollar, “thy doliar of dur daddies,” Lue mouey of our mamimites, too, Tollut®u by paper money aud those | who auvucated it pe you well Know, politicaily uci, the picking the ribs | of the rag baby and hving ou wind and hope, The Hayes poley o pacttication will ve enthast- | avtically indorsed by Ow convention aud made a plank ih ouf Plattiorm ; te amusing feuvare of thik sab- Jvot is that tha’ dewockwy care hot fud bault with it, For years their speaktrs inouracd over the bayoure rule ja somo Of the Soujhern States, and potmeed with | agitated fuger to the distraction of republican torime | under the pare of cover ot th Mey Ustrpation’’ 0 the federal govoratnent the Must avrucious desussina- | tions of helpless black abd wottes, tou, for opimon's | Were perpetrated.) And now ‘hut’ the “bloouy | Ft blae couts,’’ Who nevyr did an tudisereet uct nor took o hfe wantonly) duriug the voccupaion of the Gold of duty usdaned to them, nave doen withdrawn by a repulgcan President vo the novle southron 4 ehaco to yovera himself, aud show to the world the ubterial of which be 18 made, and because at present the experiment 18 deemed & success tho siunali iry Pirticuns of the democratic party of Ohio ery out, “hb, the repubiicuns are fog Our prineipl mast in good tine and £ or we will lose them ail corded 10 time, and the on declare thei Lo be ours, | Theit pateot was not re he Wil suy a0 most Cun | phatieally next October, But alter all is said, mn my Lambie opinion, the nexteampaign will ben Nght tor Inon rathor than red tri bovest admigistration rather than the greed torpifice, and in these partic lata wo WFO @ Lundrod-bid stronger than oUF ap | ponents. in conclusion, Lthank you for your sincere expres. | sions of pereynal whieh are tally reeipros cated by. Very truly Yours = THOMAS L, YOUNG, | in person; Major Orvis, the brigade inspector of rifle | should sce that o | | MEETING oF | Win mon belore the butts, Colonel Hitcbeoek commanded | practice, had charge of the ficing points | fhe medical stall oilleers wero = Surgeon Major Powell, assisted by Des, Tucker aud Root, At the tuird class targets—100 and 190 yards ranges—162 | men oO! all franks qualitied to shoot in the second éluss, upd atthe second class butte—v00 aud 400 yards dis- | tances—06 Ineo quatificd to shoot in the first ciiss, tor | the Marksman’s Badge This 1s a large percentag nud credit dao to the rifle instroetors ior the evident cure Which Lad beeu bestowed un the meu 1D suoWwing | them Low to handle their pieces, TU BEST CORKS, WW Private Deeker 45) Sergeant D ey 44 Private Boone, Private Launo, Sorgeunt Stok, - Major Powell. Captutir Wedd Diajor Urvis. Colouel Van Wyck. ALyor Seat, Caw Gilsey Licutenant Alien Sergeant Ward Private Weyrieh, f Corporal Burahan. an RK AMMUNITION greatly aunvyed by the wretched | ammunition. They said that the tnade up of old shells ‘Vho men wer quality of the sreater poritou of it wal filed. Tue writer ex sole of these au that what appeared vo be a false head had been Jn tho sheil botore priming and Uiling it The conse | queuce Was that this cireuiar piece of brass, whieh had asmall hole in the centre of it, was frequently blown out with the burning powder and tho meu ran great risk of accideut thereby. One man did get his | hand slightly imjared m this way, Very oiteu, too, the sheil #tuck in the chamber of the rifle wed | great inconvenience tn extracting i, The Ordnance | Department, under General Wylie, 18 responsivie and y serviceable cartridges aro Issued, pias on the grougds was admirably maine | The disel tained, | THE INTERNATIONAL RIVLE MATCH. | SHk COMMITIER OF THE KINLE ASSCCIATION—-PLANS FOR TAR ORGANIZATION | OF THE TRAM AND CONDUCT OF THE CoNTESE. | A meetng of a comuities of tho ditectors | the National Ritle Awsvelation was held | evening at the arsenal for the purpose onsidering the method im whieh the ot tant a © | Members of the new team for the Interpational mateh bo chosen, and ether matters couaceted with the coming contest, There were present Colonel G. W. 10, ehuirinan; General N, 2, Stianton, Judge | Gildersieovo, Ki. ord, General Woodward, | Major HL, Fulton and Mr, Georga & Sehere Several plans in writing were pive discussed, and the best points of cach beng tod, the report will be made to the | ourd of Dirveiors, which meets this evening, Among other Wings Ib Was agreed that a committee of tures shall be appointed by the Board of Directors to curry OWL the pluns devived for the selection of the Louni; tat there shall be four compeutions of (wo duys euet, commencing Ou the Lith of July and couunuuig every Tuesiay and Wednesday watil the Sth of August; that there shall be tiftecn shots euch day at each distance; coughing wud spotting to be allowed; that nu person | shall be uliowed to revive trom any competition alter ho has commenced to shoot without consent of the commitiee; that six members of the team stall be selected in the order ot merit, as shown by age gregating the best Ubreo of their seures, wand that Hext two men inthe order Ol merit stall constitute the resorve, Jt was alvo agreed that the expenses of the huccesmiul competiiors approved by the com: wha! mittee be relunded to the extent of e200. wlso Deen taken tbat none but meu of character avd jategrity suail have a placo iw th ho matter what may ve their cxeellence wa Inere Th Jerence Was continued Uni Bearly midnight, Enutes lor compenstion may be made until July 16, | appropriation of $500 would be sufficient for that pur. | an ad 3 WEST POINT. Brilliant Battalion Parade of the Cadets, PROMINENT ARRIVALS AT THE POST bates Final Examination of the Grad- uating Class, S$ OF THB BOARD OF VISITOR —_-—__— T Point, June 8, 1877. A wore beautiful sight hos seidom been witnessed than that presented to visitors here this evening 1a the shupe of @ “school of the battalion’ parade of the cadets, The weather was cool aud clear; uot a leat rastied, and the mighty lawn oa which the mapwuvres wore executed shone after tho recent rains green as an emerald, Cuder the inst rays of the suu the gray coats aud white trousers of the young soldiers formed @ marked aud berutiful contrast with the feld, and aa they moved bither and thither tu sod columns iu single Hes or in companies, with the precision of automata, the eflect was simply magnificent, The most picturesque and Interesting portion of the drill was the | skirmish tactics, when the cadets were advanced across | the fleld, line after hue, as if in trout of an enoniy, lying down, Oring, moving up reserves to support, aud all the wovements incidental tothe beginuing of a battle, As they fired volley after volley and were bur- | ried by the caila of tho bugles at a double-quick trom point to poiut the lads warmed up to the work and ¢ar- ried the afuir through with a vim that indicated their thorough enjoyment of the work, Several hundred ladies and gentieinen were present as spectators. COURTESIES TO LORD PaGur, Lord Clarence Paget, of Fngland, was shown about the Acadewy (nis moraing and alverward attended the parade of tho cadets, Ho was delighted with all he saw, “Why,” said the old gentleman, under the impres- sion that the whole body wes composed of graduates, ““ustead of 390 a year you ought to send out 1,000 such young men overy year throughout the country.”? His Lordship and Miss Paget tctt for New York to- day. OAIL HAMILTON PuESENt. “Gail Hamitton” (Miss Dodge) arrived yesterday with Senator wad Mra. Blaine and daughier, There is a hotel clerk bere who 18 quite up to the standard of the craft in good looks and empressement, but who speaks with a slight German accent, and whose oars bave a prejudice iu sympathy with his promuncia- tion, “Register Miss Dodge,’ said Senator Blaine to this tudividual last evening. The clerk did so 1m bis Way, and the author of “A Thousand Miles From a Lemon’? Stands on the book as ‘Miss Starch |)? TAKEN TO TABK. Hou. Henry B. Bauuing, of Obio, arrived lage might and Joined his teliows on the Board of Visitors to-uay, | Scurcely Uad the ganilemun set toot upon this side of the river, when he was met by ove of the offic who asked lin what he weant by stating thut the oltleers at this post hud their houses furnished at the govern- tept expense and in the most luxurious mavoer, Mr. Bunning did not revollect ever having suid that in any speech in the House, ha said. Lelore ho reached the hotel be was spoken to about that muatier and about his oppo. sition to the army in geueral by some gentlemen who rode with bim in the stage, and when he got here he wag accosted 1m the sume manuer by some of Lis follow memovers. “Why,’’ be cried, as Seuntora Ilaine and Maxey begun to talk the matter over with him on the piazza to-day, “Lam beginning to think 1 have been bull dored! The army bas no beer triend than | am."’ Til KXAMINATION. Ordnance and gunnery was the study in which the first class Was examined to-day. The first three sec- | tious wore rigidly questioned by Major Allred Merdecat aud his assisiaul, First Lieuteuaut Charics Shaler, a laghly creditavle proficiency was manifested by the cadets, and those who got through could searcely contuin themselvos, for this 18 the just study ia which thy class 18 to be examived, Probubiy by to-morrow night the “immortals”? a4 those lowest in standing are called, wilt have passed through the erdeal, aid he Guise Wilk bo teady tor the reveption of dipiomay aud commusivns. These, howover, will poi ve ais tributed unt Thursday next. THE UNPINWHED HOSPITAL Buudiogs and Grounds of the Board of Visors, are. Port upon tho condition of the anfnished Lospital was to-day furpished by Cuptain O. M. Ernst, of the En- giveer corps, From his statement it appears that $44,009 have already been expended upon she struc- ture, which 18 uf granite, cat from the gov quarry. Tho floor arcties for the secoud fleur been Constructed, itis probebic that it they ara exposed another winter it will be necessary to replace thom, To do this would cost $530, besides the oust of removing the vid oues. ‘The second story walls will last loner in thelr present cond: the work of destruction with — theui slower; voteach year that they are left exposed will add to the amount pecessary to Compictethem. About $48,000 would be sufficient to tinish the walls and about $21,000 to root tho structure, The total cost of the building would be about $117,000 Lt 1s recom. menued that the edifice should be at least roofed over temporarily at 0 Curiest possivle moment to save it from the desintegrating influence of the weather JORe. x All the members of the Board, 1 believe, agree that tho bo-pital should be completed at once. Mhey regard it as highly dungerous that several hundred young men should be peuned up here with hospital accom- modations for only a dozeo. What,” they say, “would be the resalt if an should occur in their midst?” THY CADETS’ BARRACKS, Tho commimitteo will also reconmnend the building of ditional wing to the cadots’ barracks. Three young meb are vow frequently crowded ute arcom barely large enough for two. lo going (hovgee the barracks to-day te coutlomen wore vory uulavorably ‘pressed by the existing custum of having bus one wasn bowl in each room. They taqaired of the of- fcials whether each cadet could not be provided with, separaie toilet factities, aud wero told in repiy epidemi | this the rooms Woro so crowded that it Was hécessary to placo as low articles as possibl in thet The oc co think that if tha Wwoeat Wing of the barracks were extended about one hunured feet to the soutu it would provide ample re- Lef tor the present overcrowded cadets Another trouble 1s that the supply of water is input. licicnt, [tt wt present led through pipes from @ res« ervuir made by Ulocking a natural water course upon | 4b adjacent bill—or mountain as they call it here, tor Maxey proposed to report in favor of building au ample, hunisome und permanent reservoir at a Of $100,000 or less, upply of giv also very insufficient end in- tn quality 01 to the primitive cuaracter of varaas by Whtwh 1b 1s manutuct not rupplied by tho governigecnut, but euch officer pays bis shave of Uo expense, Now it ia proposed by tha comin itieo to build a weat Ite gas manulactory at a cout of $26,000, KO that the lizbts in the bouses and quar- tors about the post shall hot be everlastingly winking aud bhaking aud causing the junior oflicers to wonder whether they bad vmitted to drink water cnouga with their weals, BXAMINATION OF THE LOWER CLASS¥A, Mouduy Academic Bourd, whica has boom ate tending the exemipation of the gradquting class in a body—spending six boura per duy ia that service — Will separate into three commitiees, which will sit siinultuncoadly to facihtaw te examination of the three sower classes, The first committee, to be eoin- peers oF Prytessor of Mutuematies Albert BE. Ohurcn, ‘rfessur of Eoginvetiag Livatenant J. B, Wheeler, Professor of Law Major Rea B. Gardner and Professor Of Vractical Mitary Kugineering Capiain 0, H. Ernst, will sit in the tivrary and examine the third aud fourth classes in mathematics, The second commutiee, composed of Professor ot ormisiry wud Mineralogy Houry L. Kendrior: jant Colonel Thomas H. Ne Cadets; Proiessor of Pitlosoply Key, Joun Forsyth, Chaplain and Nowinal Professor of Ethics, will examine the second class in chemistry, navural pullosuphy and tactics, Proiessor of Spaumh Language Patrice de Janoa, c with Vrotessor of French Guorge Andrews, Vrowwseor of Drawing Charles We Larned a Major Allred Mordecai, loatruct in Ordnance and Gunnery, will coustitute the Chird committee to investigate tho proticieney ot the third aad fours classes in French, the third clase 10 Spanish, and the second and third classes in draw. First Lioutenant Kayar W, Base, Corps of Kugi- and Sevogd Licutenante Thomas N, Baile Corps ot Bagmeors, faskor H. Bliss, Piest artic lery, afé appotnted second and mialions inw, neluted next Wook, or WAR TO ATTEND Ta AMINATION. Wasitxorox, Jane 8, 1877, ‘Tho Secretary of War will leave here next woek for f& briof visit to the Military Academy at West Point, to Witness the annu: exercises at that inst will probably bo ov THN SECKETARY THE SACI RED HEART, The feast of the Sacred Honrt of Jesus was Coles brated yestorday and last evontng in St. Stepheo’a, St. Vincent Verrer's, St. ‘Teresa’s, St, Paul's (West Six. teenth strect) und most of the other prominent Ro- man Catholic aS of this cily, special sotvices being Leid in neaPiy including benediction of tue biewso: sacrament iu the cvoning ln St Francis Xavier's the blessed sacrament was oxposed all dey, tho altar being decorated tn a marked Way,