The New York Herald Newspaper, October 20, 1878, Page 7

NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21 , 1878 —QUINTUPL* SHEET. e a COURTNEY ON. OATH How Hanlan Won the La- chine Boat Race. THOSE CIPHER DESPATCHES. [ndignant Denials of the Alleged Bargain and Sale, Since the recent Hanlan-Courtney race at Lachine there has been much cagerness to learn the real pxplanation of the peculiar circumstances which Tendered the reseit somewhat suspicious, Very pertiaent questious have been asked about the threatened foul at the finish and tho seeming fresboess of Mr, Courtney when ail was over, and more especially 18 an explana- tion required of the singular despatches which e sent by one of his backers sbortly before he yowed, These despatches caused the betting to change so suddenly that many of Courtney’s iriends lost their previous confidence and became panic- stricken. Members of the press have constantly be- set bim for the real facts, and he bas suffered greatly from excitement and from the stigma which bas seemed to fasten upon him AS he had re- cently said that ho would be glad to submit to an examination under oath by the correspondent of the HeRALD about anything connected with the Fuoe, the latter spent last Wedoesday with bim and obtained from bim the following sworn responses to the severai questions which were propounded to him. Alter answering some preliminary questions about the statements he had made to his friends about bis ability to compete with Hanlan, Mr®Courtney was aske COURTNEY'S DESPATCHES. Q During your stay in Canada aid you at any time telegraph any one anywhero? A. Yes, 1 telegraphed bome, and I’ve got the messages here now, Mr. Courtney produced the following :— Lacuixx, Quebec, 24, 1878, N.Y. 2720 P.M. e written. Teil folks have CHARLSS E. CUUKTNEY. Lacuine, Quebsc, 9226, 1878, Received at Union Springs, 12 M. 1. F. Courter :— ‘send drait by mail, quick. Make it larze as possible, Don’t disappoint. ‘Telegraph where you send it. CHARLES &. COURTNEY. Q@ Are these two all the despaiches you sent any- where while you were in Canaaa? A. I think they are. I don’t remember any others, If there were any they didn’t amount to aoytbing, @ Did any part of this message refer in any way to Detting on the race or your prospects? A. No; nota thing. Q What money was this you referred to in tne de- spatch to him? A. It was money John was to sena it be could raiseany. The despatch was in answer to this o: Received at Union Spring: Everything ail righ written them, Addressed to Lowry. Union Springs, Sept. 25, 1878, i, Is there any chance to invest? Parker wants to know. Answer, J. F. COURTNED. @ Who is Parker? A. It’s Lowry. Ola Parker here, It’s bis nickname. Bo then testified thas ne mvered sending no ether despatches from Canada than these two; that Be asked no one else to telegraph for him; that ail is party—namely, Webster, Brister, N. B. Eldred, Robert Larmon and Burt Browo—1 all messages sent or received by him; that said Burt Brown, in- Stead of being, as the newspapers nad it, ‘a Union Springs banker,” was a colored servant, who took sare of the boats, and that ho was not in New York sity ebortly before the race, @ Report said ne wasin Now York city just be- fore the race betting against you Is this true? & Ikoow be wasn’t, THE REPORTS ABOUT SELLING THE RACE. @ Dio any one in Canada ever tell you that he was going to telegraph to Union Springs, Auburn, N York or elsewhere that Hanian was going to win, or words to that effect? A. No, sir, never beard any such remark made, @ Did J. H. Briater send many despatches from Uavada? A. I didn’t see uim send any; | think he told me be sent ove to George Watson, but i’m not sure, Q. Do you know what this despatch said? A No. Q. What other despatcnos did J. H. Brister send from Canada? A. 1 don’t know. Q. Do you know of bis receiving any despatches Shere at all? A. I do not, Courtney then testified that he had seen no other fe: We call him u poi tfter he got home, nor did he know of bis writing any eters. ‘4X A SCRAPE,” BUT CONFIDENT. Q Did you write avy letter from Canada? A. Yes, two; oae to my wile, makiog fun of the cooking ptner to Lowry, but it was of no account; | told nim A thought we uad got ourseives in a scrape on that course, but 1 thougnt | couid win. ey then said tbat since coming home he Perry rove, of Auburn, York vetore tne race, dut that bi Perry bet, nor had y comm: "tell you w been des- patches sent irom Montreal with my pame signed to them. Q. Did you aestroy any letters er despatches re- eervea by you while im Canaua? A. No, sir (em- phatically). Q. Where are those you received? A. They are here, jurtoey produced aboat ten jetters, all {ri ly and containing uotuiog seemingly suspicions, ) Q@ These ali, are th A. inose are all, I x; I Lbave any others chey are ai! 10 the same NEVER ASKED TO SELL, Q. Did you ever nave any oiler irom any person Whatever, of auy persous together, of any money or y other inducement i you would jose the race? NO, wii I've never beu any offer of any mouey or ise to lume this race. Did avy one ever come to you betore the race Bnd bintas any such tuiox? A. On, yes, hundreds ? A. Well, they didn’t dare They said how macu I could make if 1 would jose it Q. Tell me one such person who came in C ? A. Weil, Were wus novody ever came uear me in Canada 1t came up bere at home just in ordinary conversation, but no Miat was mado of any ofler. I mply mean general talk, not ouly on this race but 0 every o.uer race L . into, Q Hod you ever any purt or the whole of 7 $6,000 put up by the ciliaens Montreal? A. 9. met out on the river aud talked abo: how well they carried us, but oever where pienty Couldn't see us. We were always right un theceurse, you kaow, Where we coaia see every move. @ Did he ever say anything to you about allowing Diw vo win or worus to thaceifec:? A. No, he never asked me to let bim win tue race or ever talked about wicoing 1%. ibe litle o he thougut could beat me easy. @ Nor any bint trom bim to that direction? A, No. Nor trom any member of the Hanlan Club? A. o. Q Vid Hanian ever tell you that he thought you eould outrow him, or words to (wateffect? A. Nu, sir (with empuasis), fe nover dtd, aud 1 dou't ve- Hieve be ever (hougut so either, what's more, Courtney continued taat be bet $1,350 1m all, $800 of which Was bis own; that $500 weut as aiteaay wed and thy rest jo\0 a pool vox Q Woo patitin? A. Jamos H. Beister. Q. Where was this pool vox? A. In Monte 0 idido’t seo it Y pools ibere at ail, Hew vo you koow he pat 1 in? Buow. I've got bis word for it; that’s all, baven’t got it back. Q. How much were you offered to sei) the Saratoga race? A. 1 Wns offered @ suira of the money that was Ip toe pool box. @. How mach was that? A. I heard $150,000 or more, or Ll aidn’s see 4. 1 don’t I koow L ho mace you this offer? A, I don't t to C7 @ Did you have any other offer it you woula that race? A. No; | tniok now, Q@ via y' ¢ know James A. Briaver to hedge? A. No, oi Q How much did be bet on this race with Hanlan? think he bad vetween only kuow what he tells if | saw nim make any ber I’ve torgotien it. Hanian party that wero (hore hud (housanus of rs where we did pot have a big copper cent tried every way Luey cuuld to muke me the ta- rs irom id back from betting A. 1 coulun’ teil you. 1 $4,000 ana $6,000 in ali. wwe. ters, come back and vet only eve Did you know the names of 1 know one Reeves, a catsie dealer; be 000 at such odds? p $6,000, 1 think Joun eveu mouey. o y supplied with a poor cook, do you? jh. Dessing heavily ue at you you ka jebous it, mignin’s shey A. 1 don’t beueve it (indig- mapily). I don’t believe they could have done anything of the king, ‘THE CIPHER DESPATCHS. Q Dia you ever see a despaicn reading as fol- lowst— Lac: Sept, 28, 1878, tarted? Tell him Biack oy ag J. H. BRISTER. A. No, I never saw any such message. | have heard of it since I got home, but never knew a word about it till I got here either, Q. Did you ever bear bim say that he would call “Black,” and Hanlaa the opposite? anything about Q. Had you any knowledge before the race that Sam riney stock und bal! anlap ip or pear Al telegram irom Mr. Grant bad so fect, Ldou’t koow, though. I! | dia hear tt that’s the way | beard it, Q Then that telegram did name Sam Brister, after ai, A. No it dido’t, Q. How do youknow? A. Weil, 1 don’t know now. L kind of thibk there was something in it avout Sam Brister. Q. Can you recall wnat itwas? A. No, I gol, 1 was completely upset woen they commenced fring those messages at me tuore, 1} kuocked me out of time, Q ye you any agreem press or implied, Witn any oue ciuv of men ander which you are to receive any money 10 tue jutare? A. No, You mean in any Way counected with losing tuis race—ao, not a far. thing. 3 ‘Nor any person or bank to receive any for you? A. No, understanding, ex- ith apy ir ROWING THE RACE OVER. Q@ Whotossed? A. 1 uon’t know, I Juuges did. Q@ Wnat advantage bad itoverthe other? A, Had ppose the we both rowed on & ight line there would prov- ably bw been no advantage. But Dixie isiand, a mile aod wift down current, Siruight line to uvoid the current somewhat, and get under the lee of this istand, It made my Grst bait inile Very Dard, and thea | ooticed that be was very wide of me, 4s much a8 200 Jeet, and | shoered out toward bim, as | ‘ound the water where | was very hurd to ges over. vT ay was no central line of buoys? A. been oue he’d pave ept Out of the curr 10 gO Up BMack against it, Q Ail reports agree toat your Very ciose Logetber throughout the race. i the outer, then, have goue him much good? A. For tne reasons | bave just siatea—to keep us ciose Lo bim as | could, While a stranger would think a straight course the shortest, aud wonder why | worked over close by him, it was really to keep ia be- bind the island golug up, and so avoid the current. Q@ Did you cver converse with Hunlau velore tho to how you would distribute your work in the and where you would force the pace? a. No (with empbasis.) Nor wita anybody else. bim or — one about ended to row the race? ‘io get away with tue jead and bold 11? A. No; 1 didn’t intend to foree tue pace. I wanted io turn the stukebust with bim, if 1 could; but 1 couldn’t. He had tbe best of me going up on that up irip, because bis course, close to the vorth side of the islands, took bim directly up to bis own stake, civse beside Dim, found 1 had to work away ay’ tug boat, all of whien hundred be baa torow. Q@ Did you ia jot bim lead? A, No; 1 dido’t care much about toast anyhow. Q@ You bavo goneraily ivd in your races with Plais- ted, Kiley and others about as you liked, getting one stroke avead and then stayin: thore. Why didu’ you do that this time? A. Well, I couidn’t do it Warmly.) Gad, that fellow is 4 steamboat now aad e! I couldo’t get the lead of nim. id you try to get th oi bim? A. Not par- ticuiariy. 1 worked bard though. Wuy, those tei- lows are no more to be compared to Hanlan than nothing iu the world, “AWFUL PAST TIME.’? Q When aid Haolan tret spur? A, I don’t know. Couida’s tell, We bow did some preity tall rowing up vebind tout isiand, and we went fast, too 1 tell you the wmewe mage coming bomeon that two iniles und a bulf, considering the conuition of the was awful time. Q. Were you pulling your very utmost at tho time be begun to draw abead? A. Where was that? Go- 1Dg up? Q Yes; on theoutsuetch, A. No; nor he netther. It was so rough that we couldn’ ¢ im our tuil strength. Sometimes we would pone short bail stroke to catch tne water . was uiraid | would go into the lake, and I guess he was, two, lteil you 1 came darned near uoing it once, too, 1% swamg once right broadside across the course. Q. Inthe first Balfof the second mile you caught Haeulup und passed im till you had almost drawn your stern clear. At or just alter passing Dixie lsiand be caught you agais, How do you ex tus? A. 1 don’t know uniess he had more sicam than [ had, @ Why aid you a stay in your o you got to Dixie island aud irow there to tb ef A. Because l’a nave pad jace such a current be could buve beaten me baif a mise. Q Could you not bave kept abeud of him every inch of the way Up the course bad you chose to? A, No; i dov’t kuow as I could. Q Throughout the iourth mile be is said to bave maintained tuis lead of one-fourth of a length, Why aid you aut bimheref A. Because | couan’s, Q. Couidn’t you nave spurted up and drawu level A. Iaidao. Wheol be and thei to say whieh ied. Q On this last 1m bis own course? re DOLD ste: boat house, jor that big British flag 1 was, aod tniak be was, but dou’s know. Q Did you ever have any understanding with bim thas yoo woulu steer tor is? =A. No. Woat made you aim for it? A. A man pamea »salivond agent mere, advised ide, THX MISTAKE AT TRE FINISH. Q This boum he ‘iy ran into was bow far {from the Guisn? A, About sixty feet, Q How much aid he lead you there? A. I think the uose ol my boat was Up pAst Dis outrigger. Q. Did ne seem to know where be was guing? A. No; but he turned neatly off that boom woich pro- jected into bis course auu was 5! path fora moment. 1 stopped half a ry with my leit tili L cieared \) ban bands followed nerd aiter pim. . Toe Lachine Dost house mast bave been sbifted 50u ieet or more, as S20" diagram, you say? A. Yes; ana al ebink it did vim, Q Du you Oo bbe boom, aud them turned sharp purposely, knowin: tuat you must give way wide, of, 11 you toucned bim, he would bave you sure for touling ovm io bis own lane? A. No; | dou’s think so. @ Have you any reason to think that O'Flaherty told to sell you to sigbt the Srisisn flag on the Lachine boat house parposely to misiead you, it being arrsoged beioreband (0 suilt the Dost house during tue race? No, becaas the sa eo he told me both the boat huase ir one, apd be couidn’t neve tue w Q What was the parpose ot jog that beat house? A, Do get tbe peopic om it ro Lhat iney could see the face. .bey cuarged them $5 exch. THEIR CONDITION AT THK FINISEL Q What condition were you int A, 1 was tired. I was tirecor a0 Gour alter the race tuana 1 was woen 1 got out of my boat. @ Had you any feeling that you could not take a fail siroke ah falls bout A. was three times «6 bad at the Howb as at any over piace in the race. Q. You stopped rowing belore you got to the Ani dia you? A. No; 1 oumly siackened to keep irom rua. ning into big. Q Could you have cot him in two belore he crossed the finish Lae wen be turned out irom shat project- ing buom? A. Yes (with empuasis). Beiore ne’a four feet T ight do nat day and that track? better track, A Cayuga Connty, as. Charles B. Courtney, being duly sworn ry wers to the foregoing t Union spri Node dt will be rr publisued jast ugly iook, W: fa irom following affida very lew words, Jobn’ rt} betting ireely on ois vrowuer he pubiicly offer bet ou him ail that aay one would joau vim on pis jouse aud workshop :— S y, wit and De ceived no. messaze oF commu oral of wren, trom him durt Focent stay at Lacnine. JuiN F. COURTNEY, Sabserib: = 4, Uetoder, 1878.—U Tose king started ? Your black is good tell hi Has hy eA acl im. rameds J. M. BulSTER Lacninn, Sept 30, 1878. To 8. Baten Call at house for tat Dinek is Tell bim dospaten on arrival. Charles will call, Your did. Tell him look tor J. A. BRisTRR Lacnimn, Sept, 30, 1878. To Samont Brisren i Deposit coeck at bank for General Answer Knapp tro vd, JH, BIS Th 1878, To Samvet Brister:— Have you deposited check? What time did Chartie start? Answor. J. HK. BRIS TAK, Lacninm, Vet. mo ith. Koagh Wenther plessant meant Courtney, weather smooth “opposite” Hanian, Hinek, Goucuiey. J. King, White, Han For Unarles —-—I had told him that anv word that g like favorable, referring to water, really rtney, and the contrary to Manian. jatches about acheck reier to # check tor $500 wn on ihe Cayuga County tank. I lett the check in my store with a memorandum thet Sam was to band it al Knapp as 4 part of the maim stekes, asl had to Lachine. to have my brother talk op Hanlan. but Watson had money to place, ends. bo ly and squarely as fri betting one on. tim. So on Hanian to $100 on Courtney as 5 enlied it, and then went to Montreal and bi Courtney; bought pools on bim there just to hedg whut they were out here. When k his hei compured with ho n Kerr ht aud telexrapue: 1 am told, ke with whom id buat the ourtney to © was any trash in this story We said that these reports culated and it was our right to kno He it s0 far us he k were being that thes was just as he had a I do not bei e of William mee AUBURN, Vet. 16, 1875. THE ALLEGRO’S TRIP. HOW THE CREW OF THE CRAFT LEARNED ALL ABOUT CLAMS—A NAVAL JUNK SHOP— REMINISCENCES OF THE WHALEMEN'S TROUBLOUS TIMES IN THE LONG AGO, Port Wasuixeroy, L. 1., July, 1878, It 1s fortunate that all men do uot feel tne irresisti- ble charms of early morning on the water. Il! they did potatoes would be more rare than poems, Little Neck Bay was beautiful this morning as the sun rose, The still water was like a sheet of mother-ol-pearl set in the deep green bills, A hundred boats rippled its surface and many sails gleamed in the bright lignt. ‘The boats eoon anchored here and there and the fish- ermen began their work. A gentle breeze soon blew, and then the sloops came in irom the Sound and trawled near the shore, They moved about with motions, weaving their courses like the muzes of a dance. I paddled about the bay for an hour to enjoy the scene, Themen were merry at their work and cbafled one another, or sang in joud voices that ran far over the water. I came at last toan old man who seemed consecrated to tne sea, His wrinkled sun- tipped with shags of gray brows and beard. He worked his rake witn th sy swing of Jong habit, and all bis metions nad the roll of the sea Asi drew nearhe scanned the sky under the sun, whei thick mist was gathering, A CLAM CHAPTER, “Do you think we'll have a storm to-day?” I asked. : “Well, sir, we may net to-day, but to-morrow we'll get a nor’easter, I’m thinkin’.”” His voice rose siowly te the word to-morrow, and thea fell, As a swell comes up, breaks on the point, and then runs quietly back, so the old man’s voice rose and fell 1m short, but easy periods. “These are the celevrated Little Neck clams, are they? How many of them are taken out of this bay in a season?” ‘Now you’ve gone too deep for me. But I guess there’s about one hundred and fifty boats fish here every day, and they get about three bushels a day, and thore’s the sloops besides, Maybe five hundred bushels a day come out of this littie bay.”* “Are they replanted? or does any one protect them? “No, sir; they just grow of themeives, and they’ve never give up yet these forty years I’ve follewed clammin’.”” At the Oriental Grove any sensitive person seeking a0 emotion can obtain, it by regarding the rocks about the landing. Tbe honest beach rocks, whore soars and colors were mellowed by a long liie, nave been whitewashea. This isa mournful mistake; the man who did it held the wroog end of the brusb. Further on I found asmall yacht anchored on the ree! at Hewlets’s Point, A gentleman put off in the yawi to some rocks and held a sh line in his hand od an umbrelia over nis head, 1 voarded the yacht and found the party to be from near Milford, and out like mysel! on Xcursion, Some pleasact banter about tne relative merits of the Allegro ana the yacht oniy increased my contentment with the tidy, com pact, independent and beautital canoe, MANHASSET. Manhasset Bay isa deliguiiui bitot scenery. The long, narrow sheet of water rans inland betwoen rolling bills, diversified with flelds anu forests, villas abd Villages, beach od meadows of tall grass mevt- tpg the wa Here and there the bille break off in bigh bivflsor vanks of sand audoiay; or descend from @ commanding beigut to the salt meadow by Jopes, displaying old 1 houses, orchards and rows of cherry So you go on, floutin ot ‘coarming quiet narrows and finally sto} @ winding creek and the hills close around, The jittie Village 18 a scattering of plain houses along the nar- ‘he tT row valley of the ‘mill stream and quiet ponds place 18 about two hundred years old = Duri volution Mapbasset suffered trom the depreaat: of the wialeboatmes, The old Morrel House, oeur the road crossing the creek, was visited by these ma- to the vay to capture oop lying A part ot landed down ¢/ nd proceeded along the 6: while their beat kept opposiie tnem. Jobo Morrel, oue of the guard that night on the sloop, heard the noise of their approach aud red in its direction. Ho found himsell at once betwoen two fires, out jackuy escaped injury. As the sloop happened to be aground the men wade their expeuition for notning. fut they proceeded to Jobn Morrel’s house for satista Mr. Morrel, maktou tus Lest of the matter, se 4 w flask 01 wpiriis, wi The whule p: bumored, aud the whaievoatmes, finally departed without duing any mis: 4 MARAUDING REMINISCENCE. Alter Visiting tho Foot Othee auu grocery store i ed to the Aliegro at the wharf and rosumed my y by following down the easiern sbore of iue by exceptien, ob vay. Another poiat of Kevoiuuonsry interest is the old mill, where the shore road crosses a cove, 1\ was Lendiog @ hundred yours agu, A orutal place serves woaleboatmen, to antl Mivcuel. They crept aoa there jay concealed thas protected bim had the faumuy bad retired, hen t broke open the door with a large stoue and cutered the hal, Whew they pusued inet the door ot dir. ‘se room be ured ugh she door aad jou & mun. robbers fired, vut missed, at lemgth forced the door, aud thea beat Wy with (he butt escape wou run the left tue house, and guard y Went to the house, 6 to a neigubor’ were piuadering the reom. Mr. Mitchell's young son, Benjamin, came down stairs wud ivokeu in at the door, One vl the robbers, nemed Jackson, wuo had lived 1m the fainiiy, seized the boy and asked u he kuew nim. Benjamin said, “Yew” **Phea you never suall again,” suid Jucksun, leading bim out of 16e root door, Jacksou then sot ihe voy U (broagh the body, Walle an accomphes eid tu aithougo she hela wn iolaut a fainted. Tue ratte But Jackson was there couies ¢ being lorgiven toe bis crime, sou despair ot © murder of Beojamin Mitenell. A NAVAL JUSK SHOP. A naval junk shop is quive au interesting sight. As 1 paddiea wioug ciose to the shore | suaueniy found the beach piled wiib dismounted wheeivouses, win- dowless cabins, heavy anc light spars, piles of oid plank tuli @ Lolee, capsized capstans, knees ting with jong rasy ie torm vi vid sbip ma anchor neur th Now and thou a wan ei pried uver ver black side a Wueeibarrow loud ut itou, jnvera Her Dow nad Leen chopped square 4 ver Hull reduced 10 4 Jow lowg sueli of UiacKk . i Wo men vO the beach were pounding id { copper that had been twisted and ia off tue bul, IT asked the man perintendent of tne ’tcome hero to surrender my ship for de- struction,’ | thought it pradentto explain, “but to Jearu something of thie uestructive imdusiry; now you go to Work to dostroy old ships, what they are Worth, and so on.” id nothing but continued hui, f paddied Cautiously among the suuken tim- bers Juil of old ifon and beached the Allegro at We vow of the bul While specuiating What Kiud of man and work | had met. He bad come half way ashore om (he gangpiank and now stood silently watouing my boat. Lie a littio aporeneasive at bis grasping, ¢ look, coupled with such ungracious # er, L to make him taik ab with confidence close bim and tae baik ONDER pirFICeLT! ws that & Veusel a 10 bo de mroyeat” “The inspectors,’’ be said, waiking down the plank and (hen stopping aod running ois hands iu bis spectors of what?’ ‘They reiuse ner a certificate, then she’s Advertised aad suid.’ “What's the Grst thing you do im destroying a ves- sei?” | said moving up to bis side, We tow her inte port aud beach her.” He moved "pe out ber macbinery, decks, joiners’ work, spars and everythin, He stoppea short and bard, as though that were the icst word, aod moved of agaio and turved bis back to ma, 1 went up bohind and said miidly confidentially over his shouidet What do you cur’? He turved around in some astonishment and re- plied, with asbude more suavity, **We break up ber machinery into pieces tbat cap be bandied; if beavy Bbaftiog 16 to be broken we use uitro-glycerine.’? Then do you set her on fire ?”? “No,” he sala, moving off again and closing tho porthole after a discharge of tobacco juice, “Weil, spent” ow will float on the ?s bura and put on mo Alter a while all and we cau get at them ai “Whatdo you get out work ?? “Well, some old jumber; and I! she’s a government ship alot of copper, such as volts and Gittings and sheet copper off the bottom, ine iron ian’t worth mucb now,” pick them up.’? ww that pays for the it up tor paint un Ni “How long does it take to destroy “1 don’t kuow.”? “Well, guess’? “That depends; some a month, others two,” “How mauy sbips have you vruken up bere?” “Lo the last tour years we’ve Durot tne Goria, Albany, Nevada, Rising Star, Macedvnian, St, Law- rence, Potomac, wud now the Henry Chauncey, She Was just a> rotten us dirt, Look atthat!”? The piaok- ing crumbled under bis bee! “What de you pay lor old abipr ??? “| don’t Know that; any whero from $5,000 up to $3u,000, During the war, wh2n cop; nd iron were tign, there Was money in them, Cspecially in copper fastened government vessels.” Pwalked up the gabg plank to lovk into the bull of the Heury Cuaoucey. 1) wus agreat black shell of charred heabere, all vristhing with iroa boits and braces. When I returoed to the Allegro the mao was examining ber tn silence, but he was evidently sotivued by ber graces, for bo very kindly anu ten- derly helped me curry ber down to the tide, ut he said never a Word as | paddled uway, OLD CAPTSIN BAXTER’S GUN. Port Washington is & quant little village on a bill overiooking its bay Hiled with Ushing smacks and along 4 milipond of pure spring wacer, It ie entirely given over to the pursuit of the oyster. 1t is a place Of quiet Ways and modest appearance. The houses arc neat littie cottages With houeysuckles and roses climbing in an orderly way over the porcues, and tue gardens ure properly laid out 1m geometric pusterna Wits brick Walks covered With groeu moss, The fsn- ermen are almost all imdustrious and thriity, very many have made a competence und some have gath- ered quite congideravie suins, ‘lwenty-five years ago there were not a dozen houses in the piace toat hid scarcely moved for u bupdred years. But during the last Wur the profits of the oye ade built up quite a Village, aithougn 1t is W.tuout either vout or ruiiroad communication with New York. But this tsolation gave 16 4 quaint and rurai air not Common so near the city. The early history ol the place, then called Cow Bay, bas some ipterosting episodes connected with the whaleboatmen. Israel Baxter kept Uis sloops in the little bay since made into the milipood, Toe landing Was On the point on the eastsnore of the poud, vow built up witn o sto: ll, His vessels were much exposed to m: re; yet he oiten saved ious devico und w spirited do- bis sloops by u fence. One night the pirates came in force. The lide was high, so that they entered the cove with their boats and boarded the sloop. No one was on guard; they silently sipped th cabie and commenced to tow her out. she ‘cume @ certain distupce and then siopped. They pulled the baruer to get ber off, but at that moment Pacy were surprised by the discharge of @ swivel into their midst irom the vank overiooking the cove, See- le to free the sloop they landed to cap- ture their assailauts and the 5 suid they Came within a lew 1 ot him. But they 8000 retired to their boats and leit the cove wituout discovering either the gun mounted on a stump, or the captain, or knowiug that the sloop was moored Ly « chain fastened at low tide to ber keel or rudder. The oldest house in the to sulil stands turther up the pond, tuough it hus very neurly succumbed to its 200 winters. 1 met there a yuung maa oi tue town quite given to historic m: quite :mpres- sive with bis 8 ol responsibi! of his race. showed me an old fami cording the wi Twelve Hessians occupied one charming spot in the place is a pi the house, unger an old veech, A century ago the top ui the tree was kept closely cut to permit a n, Captain Baxter view of the cove from the house when 1, Was necessary to keep a guard oa watch, The side limbs grew thick and Jong, cieau, sodded bauks c! The childrea trom scho the villagers oft watperea tb e revurn oft men. initials to ite burk. igus pot with tw stiff stalks growing up and the letters “I. D., 1 on its side. Tue oid treu ie weird, with gnaried Koi and strong arms, brooding low over the spring und brook. Lt seems bowed with its loude—its svorets of moonlight aigots uud the many human experieuces told or Jelt under its abeitel REAL ESTATE, made on the Rea Estate The following sales w Exchange October 1! rook. rete! 25-3x126"25.6x130. inning throuxh to Bloomingdal 1 OS wt, to plaintiff. Bdward 8. Dakin, referee rors four story brown ft 20.9100, No. 50 of 6th av., to Dai house, with lot Foreclosure sale of ont house, with to ach 20x100.5, No. 23¥ bust GOsW ob., mw, . w. of 2d av., to Mary A. Brugan + 18,250 OFFICIAL BEAL ESTATE TRANSFERS. The following is a statement showing the real estate neactions recorded in the Register’s office October 19, 1878:— 8.8, C. foliaud to Timothy 4 375 th. ©, of th av.. 17.10x99.11; Piszpatricw.... 8.9298 ; Jo ‘B2d st., m. 8, 186.118. w, of 9th av., 2 MeGuire and wile to Martin Furiong Kinzebridge road. w. E ‘Ul telily and wile to 280 Og *, Aus fe. ius Gilsey. + Ml 1 Madison ay,, 20x100 5; ra 4 wile tv Harriet A. Clarkson wi 131s J. Fitapaw ‘Timowny apa 1,000 3,000 43,000 Nom. M 80x 159.6 (2itu ‘A. Ward, Ere 00.11 4 to Joseph P. Murray ty a 4.918 25.3 1b. nm. of LUSth st.. 2582100; W. Y. ee) to Muiual Life Iusurance Ge." 1,000 Bilaapeth st, (x0. 180), Z9xv4: F. Smyth (referee) to Dry Dock Savings Bank tu 6,800 ow Morris, Henry be 11 of Mitt ay. n. of si to M Asst Bishop, Anna L., to Jonn M. Pinckuey Garuner, Join, to Wiliam i. Bred Guygentiouncr, Llina, to Clarkson & € ‘600, a lox, to Bertha A. Dea 1,760 Popuam, Lowis O. (executor, 6). to westort, 10,000 Schoopousr, John, to Hie Spoffurd, susan and others (trast ‘Mutual J THE KID GLUVE CASES, Ta the statement regarding the Collector's decision in the kia glove cases which appeared in yesterday's papers two errors occurred. These are in giving two should read as follow were auy Charges nade f ost, rent, | eudeuce anu Olber goueral expenses, a to for Whion Would be ten per cent, or 8.791, Which, added 10 the other treme, brings the bare goat of manuiacture to 41.741.’ STATE POLITICS. Parties and Candidates in Old _ Erie. A MOST UNCERTAIN COUNTY The Congressional Nominees and Their Prospects. POSITION OF THE GREENBACK ELEMENT Republieans United on Conk- ling for Senator. Buvrato, Vet. 17, 1878. Entoring New York from the West just after the Ohio, Indiana and Lowa electi 1 purpose op my journey eastward to send you sume studies of the ‘State canvass preliminary to the November vote, KIN COUNTY, Next to New York and Kiogs Erie county is the most populeus aud important inthe State, It has a Population of very nearly 200,000, and a voting strongth of 60,806. Itsends one Representative to Congr and as: or and five members of the Assembly to the State Legislature, The beautiful and enterprising city of Buflaio, third of@he cities of the State in sizo, fa scareely second in intelligence and political influ- ence, and no party or uspiring candidate for State hon- ors has ever omitted to regard it as a political battle- field of the Orst, because porhaps decisive, impor- tance. The wholecounty of which it isa part is a scene all the more interesting on the eve of every election from the fact that neither party can posi- tively claim itas its owo, lo 1875 the republicans elected a State Senator by a majority of 3,500, In 1876 the democrats elected a member of Cougress by a majority of 409, while the r»publican vote for Morgau againat Robiasen for Goveruor excoeded the demo- cratic vote by 695, ‘the republicans eleoted toeir State Senator last year by 2,882 majority, but this was ascribed to peculiar reasons. The State ticket tne same year was curiously treated by Erie county voters, Tremain (rep.) receiving 18,000 votes for Attor- ney General to Schoonmaker’s 15,000, At the same time Seymour (dem.) got 17,000 votes for State Engi- Beer aud Surveyor to Soule’s 13,000, These figures show how uncortain the vote of Erie county really is, Buffalo would probably give a democratic majority at any election where no special interests outside of Poiitics were involved, but the ouside towns are rated as republican, GKPUBLIVAN ORGANIZATION. There has never beon any strong, autnoritative republican organization here, nor evon the nucieus of One, except the federal office-holders and their asso- whe are in some degree united by a common interest Yet the republican party bas generally pulled together ip emergencies and fought tur State and national tickets without reference to local squab- Dies. it has some able and distinguished men, such as Elbridge G. Spauiding, banker aud ex-memvor of Carlton T. Sprague aud ovuers. lis local press, how- ever, is weak. Tbe obrilliant editors like Chamber- lain, Seaver id Sanford T. Hunt, who once made it u power in the State and nation, have departed, leaving none capable of maintaining their hold on the public interest. The old Commercial Ad- vertiser, which, when it was in charge of Dr. Fovie, used to be inthe very front rapk of American poiiti- cal journals, has greatly declined in influence, and the Morning Express, formerly conducted with consider- abie Vun aud energy by the present head of the gor ernment printing office at Washington, Almon M. Clapp, 18 ander its present feanw eunorsnip i thought of as a political guide, THE DEMUCRACY. The aemocratic party in Erie county, especially in Buffalo, bas on the other hand alweys been pretiy strongly organized coutdently led. Its frst and most poweriul chief—who was chief vesides of the party in ihe State, aud oue of its principal national counsellors—was Dean Kichmond, Alter bis death the leadersnip was uodertaken by several but conceded fora time to none. Dean Richmond’s son Henry was looked to by many as bis fatne! gradually the party vegan to acknow! sway of wi te Josepu Warre: of the Buflaio Courier, oue of the brightest mau: over conuecied With the politics of tue Empire state. For years sir, Warren s0 maiatained bi:nseil as to be recoguized as the ret guide anu phiiosupher of tue Westeru New Yorw demecracy. Hv was likewise geaneraliy esteemed jor bis pubite spirit, and bis popuiarity attained such & beigut (bat some Lime belore bis death the foremost citizens, velo: presenupg 10 4 Maguilicent The party divisions State at tne tine of Gove: Usual Kiog extended io y, where a bedy o1 ultra-liideu demovrats ied by Henry ad a yvung lawyer Damed Cochran mave eth Apparent und secured some ioval cum- promises But tue cau Ol disagreement gradually dinappeared, wud singe the deato vi Air, Warren the party has become practically reunited io sympathy With tue Wise aavocacy of the Buulalo Courier, whose publisher, Mi memver of the Demo- ed: Mr. vavid ry wwility ry Gray, conducts the paper with extiraor wud kill, OFFICERS TO BK RLKCTED. The State ticket having veow uominated, both Parties here, us iu the vtuer districts of the Stace, are to sirive tu elect 1, A member of U 2 Members of the State Assembly. we jer, in Erie, there are to ve elected a County pubiicaus bave y Mave put Up 10 ree Whow they vppositiva to Judge George W. Ciniou, ou most Hiusinious of New York’s puoic me Pivroe 8 the celebrated “purgative polie eho has recently built the Tourists aud luv Howel here, woo bas made ouuureds of theusaucs wud perbaps & willion uF more vi duilars oUt ol his at Meuicines, Aud Woo was reporied to ry by ul Acoouns vi the Judge's patent right aud tne Patens pill ume tue democrats have hominated a Maw (the present memoer from Erie), David N. Lockwood, wuo 1s uot tikely to juse his elec two irom jack of vigor, Ho has al Feeord, aud is au abie wud popular candidar: gee, aud formerly Oiiriet atiwrney of Hifst rave reputation by b: rendered Lim unodjesti PUL CaUus As Wo, Wau Can fod nothing eit Lo Urge wgainst Lim, These two canada (he present member, but the Kepublicaa Convention Ju sue Second aiwiries wu be lu the Third uistries (he repuvire: have nol ed Dir, Roveris, and the democrats, L told, eXpect to mowing arvey Huru, who Againot Him the democrats josen Timothy Jackson, who uad uireuay veen by the ureeuvuckers of the district, but who 16 @ stanch democrat, wnat mean. Che Frith district ts ws yes without a uumines, except Obaries A. Rithbun, Who has beeu selected by tbe greonvackers or nationals, Tespeciive nonin The initrd bad Deco & republican district, though Jost year) e Davia F. vay, wemocrat, a majority of 1,831, 6 (His Your estimated as doaotl 0 im 1875 aod 1 The Fourth district was democrs 1876, Last year it wae Of the wemucrats to elect The Fit y. of the most w York—nameiy, popular dea ents ¥, Allen, whom tue dem- Ocrats nave just nominated for yy Judge It Went republican the previous year, democratic ti year beiore aud republican the year prior to that, the nominations to ve made will decide which way » shall go this (all. 1k UNKNOWN QUANTITY. The chances iu the five assembiy districts are in fact avout evi J between the democratia b no show lor the Dation- idate of their own. or thy “eo party ibe very 1 ‘Poor ting th withered tuem, jocrats over the action of their purty ite tine-bonored hard money principles im order to affiliate with so unstable a political ephemera, while repuvlicans everywhere are buoyed up with confidence in the efficacy of their plattorm amon, bonost vovers. Still, having more or jess commit: themselves, democratic cunvassers will do their beat to hola the nationals to their side, while repude * Hieans will emulate the examp) t them to Ohio and Indiana, and Ogot gi or quarter in have ring Iriendly cowntions with th the iact of the defeat of the nationals in the West te use io preventing any lurther desertions to the na Monals trom their own party. 70 VOTE FOR CONKLING, As to the United States Senatorship, which depends on the result in the several Assembly districts, it is a safe prediction that in Erie county, a8 all throu Westcrn New York, every repuolican Assemblyman will be chosen jd elected on the understanuing it he 18 to vote for Mr. Conkling, There has been apti-Cookling faction, woich resent events enced. Mr, Conkling’s speecn at the Saratoga nVention, togetuer with t! tof the proceedings of that body, effectually settied the mi The republican purty is not divided; it is no Jo disturbed by serious internal coutentions, Democrats have not yet beguu to discuss the names of possible candidates for the Senatorship. The fleld is clear, No bargain has been proposed. No dnder- standing has been suggesicd. There was a time wheo { Lieutenant Govervor Dorsheimer would d with tnstent and geueral favor bere Jatter, ana fF even dispel the not very considerable unpopularity into which it bas grown among some members of the party, whose requests he baa found it impossible to Tully sauefy. But there is no telling now who will win the epiendid or barren prize of a nomination next winter in opposition to Roscoe Conkling. PINCHBACK INTERVIEWED. THE EX-‘‘CONTESTANT” ON THE POLITICAL SITUATION IN THE SOUTH—BE 18 ¥OR GRANT AND HARD MONEY. {From the Loaisville-Couricr Journal, Oot, 16.J Ex-Lieutenant Governor P. B. S. Pinchback, of Louisiana, has been in the city for the past three weeks, with bis family, stopping on Chestnut street, He was driven away between Eleventh and Tweilth. from Louisiana by tne yellow fe tends revurping as soon as the dan; Soveral mouths ago a number of bis colored con- stituents cailed on him to make tne race for Congress, He accepted the call, mado a thorough canvass of the district, and, beimg convinced of the utter hope- lessness of his cause, he has written a let ter declining to run. Since bis arrival in Louisville be bas appeared very reserved and uncommunicative, refusing ‘al times to be in- terviewea. Yesterday morniug, however, he was found at leisure, Unless bis countenance is closely scrutinized scarcely a semblance of the colored race can be discoverad. When the Courier-Journal reporter ontered Pinchback laughinuly remarked, “We suppose you waut me to help Ul your cow umos for you.” “Ig tho greenback craze gaining headway in the Soutu ?’? asked the reporter. don’t think \he greenback movement will seri- ly uffect either party. Tue Soush is diffe t froin the North im that the political parties so-called simply mean, unfortunately, white ve. Diack, and for some Lime the iseues wiil be fought upon the old basis, the whites to maintain tue supremacy which they have obtained apd the colored bere aud there for a representation 1m locul effices, The great misioriune from the tirst bas been tnat the Di: organized as republicans, and, constituting the re- pubiican party of the South, nave been ou one side; end the whites, organized as the democratic party, the other; and out of this condition of wffairs ha: row allthe trouble, It 16 tras auipulated and contr fact i# political parties in the South wer Faces instead of principles. Added to the ex: incident to election times we bad race autagonisin, and hence some of our campaigns huve been quite sanguioury, but l nope the aay 18 approacning wuen questiol uch ug are now ciaiming the attention of the people vt the North—xreenvacks, honest mongy d econumical administratioa—will form tue divid- itnation of the South be Con; os ‘ibat question mai mesumile, [be South ii democratic unit. Republican Congressmen irom thal Bection of the cuuniry ior some time to come will be av scarce as angels’ visits. I prediet a solid demos cratic delegation, not only from Louw but irom every Soutuern State, with possibly two exceptious— one irom Mr. cboroburg’s district, in Tennessee, and possibly one from Souta Carelina; but the latter re- ward as very doubitul, 4 1 puneatly entertain this opinion may be inf Avanduned the Congressio: 6 ict ia Louisianu, where 1 | mwjority of not Jess than lour thousand colored voters. iu a pre. Jimivary canvass just prior to my departure trom the State | saw euouga to convince me ti aw full vote ceuld not be relied upon, i knew itl were deleated the republicans would charge the dew fewt te my candidacy, anu so | have given theme clour felu, leaving with them full respousivility.’? “Will there be # solid South for the democracy in 1880?” ‘1b 18 possibi Fence with tho democracy leads me to beliey they are avout the 61 offices, It will be im, ible to sat: of the democratic twitnial i to sure by 1880 there will be a large Outs ready to break off und Join any party that gives promise 01 place for them. "I'he colured voters Ol the South could, by the exercise of « little rT good managem -nt, create qu 8 of the South who constituie the democratia dt they would only organize and 8 10 Ov-Operate with tne iat but scarcely probable. My expe- nas as Fopubiisans, All wane ry intlaence in Southern polities in 189 Wuo wiil be the comiog man tur gation ne South ?”” cos Governor Wade Hamp- ton, of South Curolius, But we have a young mac im Our State who 16 a coming man—Lieuteuant Goveraor Witz. If ne bad o few more years on him and a hue more experience he would be heard from, 1 am sure. ‘hat will be the attitude of the colored vete in 1880, und can their trated on the republican nomi 4 largely upon the person nomin- ace in nomi public record would guarantee tno betiet that their friend, | tuink he would receive 99 out ut every 100 co.ored votes. ibe colored people redly ai. tached (o the national republican party, and, while thoy havo been sorely disappointed in some of ite lead with the (reatweut they bave received at ud ite tl cling by them, 18 nemy What do you think of Hayes’ admii the policy he has pursued toward the South “f himk 1 164 Laman institution, and, like all bas manity, is looking out for No. 1, By tue wa: wad very careiully the lettor of Senator itil, pul tn exlenso in your journal, Tucre were sume bard bits in 16, aud, 1 am afraid, bordered tou bree upoa i] jor ine some thin be comiortan! imi stratiog.’? do you think of Denis Kearney?” the country hag ‘u my opiuton bas done the nj au ho classes, Dat has atterty to improve u.”" wilt ‘at Butler be the nest Governor oF Butler io bis present contest has my pluck, 4 paviiean nominee, | wish wod, however, that L um not ‘witu uit financial views, 1 am al bara money man,’ What is your opinion of the recent State ele ons?t"’ confirm my belief in the good sense of the jeupie, and show cot iveiy that all irredcemavle paper cute ocratic partyin Ouie mighest auticn would Lave awept tuo country tu 1880. As the republicans & little better vo the next Presidential ra the great money powe! eute,”* What is your opinion of tho ehanees of General yandidacy tor the Presidvotial race in 1880?" wavy the choles of more of tbe couuury Ae pbiiag of assiou of potent iu all couutries, on ite tb a twou nied of tue repubi approaches jor un entiow, wnd tue du begin, We Caunos toll What eflect 11 will Dave, tire democratic press und tue Independent pre serve (o Open Up these mud valvos, and, as General Butler says, ‘“nrow fiith at General Grant with @ Hon of the Curistiau sta ment In Lhe Fepubs Hoan pariy, may render bis wominativa impoutie at Jorce the HOMINALION Ol & less prominent candidat at tuey have some claims iv toe Their triends very pavuratty the whole | a ruuger bow than Dea year hence, Voo tummy | regard « eX Couvention Will not fail to nomi of Whe party because he nas a record,’’