The New York Herald Newspaper, November 8, 1878, Page 8

8 BUTLER. Massachusetts’ Great Greenbacker Reviews His Defeat. “I AM SATISFACTED.” “Officials, Bankers, Clergymen, Capitalists, Newspapers, All Against Me.” ISHMAEL NOWHERE. “{ Will Show Them the Liveliest Corpse Ever Seen at a Funeral.” {BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.] Bosrow, Nov. 7, 1878. Anybody who happened to call at General Butler's office in Pemberton square yesterday or to-day and succeeded in gaining admittance to the ssnctum sanc* torum would at once decide that the defeated candi- date was not only au adroit politician but something of aphilosopber. He talks as calmly of the result of ‘Tuesday's election as though he bad no personal in- terest whatever in the struggle. He has carefully studied the causes which led to his defeat, and looks at them just as a mathematician regurds the solution of a problem. He is busily erigaged in the prosecution of his law business in the square, and # stranger could not get the slightest impression from a chat with him that anything unusual had happened. The HxnaLp correspondent has visited the office a few times since the election, and this afternoon, in company with another gentleman, was granted an interview on the recent political battle in which the doughty General ‘was vanquished, 4 TALK WITH BUTLER. Your correspondent opened the conversation as follows :—“‘I have called, General, to have a talk with you concerning the political campaign.” General BuTLER (raising his heag and looking slyly, as he knows so well how to do)—You mean the last campaign. ConrEsPonDENT—Yes. General Burien—Well, sir, I hope that everybody is as well satisfied with the campaign and jts results asilam. You who were with me during my canvass reporting my speeches remember that I said very early that the happiest on election night would be my- self, if, perchance, my opponent was elected by a small majority,, while I had a large vote. Precisely that result has cope about. Mr. Talbot received of the Faneuil Hall democratic vote from ten to fifteen thousand votes, probably nearer the latter figure, and about the same num- ber of prohibitory votes. Take them off Mr, Talbot’s vote and add one-quarter of them, which [had a fair right to expect, to mine and I should be elected, which I now repeat I am very glad I am not, so far as Lam personally concerned, because it would entail upon me a hard and arduous duty in the ser- vice of the State, and for the same inadequate pay- ment, as I could earn more than the Governor’s salary in a single law case by fees paid to me by willing clients. Cool reasoning would have assured @ne that \t was next to impossible to win. WHY HE WAS DEFEATED. Cognesrorpent—Upon what grounds did you base your expectations of defeat ? General BurLEn—Well, every federal office-holder, including seven Custom Houses and their dependents there; every postmaster, with all their clerks and dependents; every State officer, amounting to more than one thousand, and all drawing pay from the Btate; every county officer and every city officer of the eighteen cities, with two exceptions, and thelr retain ers, employés and dependents; nesrly all the com- ‘bined press of the State, including: the religious weeklies, one of whom, at least, I know had been subsidized previously against me; a large portion of the clergy, especially those located over churches highly ornamented with painted windows; nearly or quite all the higher graded schoolmasters, whose salaries, made high in flush times, have not come down, but would in case of reform; all the treasurers sand superintendents and agents of manufactories, of whom the same may be said; all of the colleges which are dependent on the Btate, and the hired officers of nearly all the railroads, whose salaries are enormous, while.the dividends of the stockholders are small, were all combined against me. Of these all who had men in their employ or control were advised to use civilized bulldozing upon their employés and workmen against me, strongly, urgently and Witterly. And these men, holding offi- cial places, would nearly, if not quite, be equal to Mr. Talbot's majority, especially if we reckon their imme- diate relations, which it is but justice to say woul not increase the vote largely, as mos of them were in office. Added to this was the whole force of the ad- ministration and two Cabinet officers, one of whom was brought here to speak to the men of his own race, sn organization of both of the old political parties, the combined organized capital ‘ani the State ang national banks, the managers of the savings banks controlling $240,000,000 of capital, many of whom did not desire that their stewardship of the money intrusted to them should be looked into, some of them old gray headed men, who ‘were found so zealous as to bear torches in the night in ion, and the best orators of the party brought Fiom the scveral States, A willing Presidential can- flidate, a willing Senator with Presidential hopes from New York, the two Senators from my own State, without any hopes at all, except to save themselves; with eight Representatives in Congress speaking to save themselves against me; with neither of the other }wo saying a word in my behalf, with many mem- bers of the bar of Massachusetts, some of whom rarned more fees for their services in the campaign than they have earned during the year, together with the Collector of the Port of Boston and a large gum- ber of Custom House officers, made an oratorical force which shonld have been competent to annihilate any cause less just, less dear to the people and less im- portant to the safety and welfare of the nation. These Hutte demonstrate that the people were with me at heart, and the majority of the people not holding office, or their relatives not holding office, voted for me. This is shown by the fact that I received more votes than any other candidate for the office of Gover- nor ever received who was defeated, and more votes than any candidate for the office of Governor ever had in this State except in a Presidential year, and ga than the total vote of all fog the years 1861, 1863 and 1865, which years were not Prosidential years, Nearly one hundred and ten thousand of the voters of the State stood for me, in spite of all this, and it ought to more than satisfy the reasonable ambition of any man. ABUSE STRENGTHENED HIM. ConnzsroxpEst—Do you think the personal abuse heaped on you by these speakers injured your chances? General Butten—No. I feel very certain it has strengthened rather than weakened my support. I have had a dozen men come to me and say that thought of not voting for mi ‘personal abuso which I had suffered had determined them so to do. For myself, I never said a harsh word (and you gentlemen of the press, who were with me during my canvass ahd reported all my «peeches know this personally), of any man, except two, the Collector of the Port of Boston, Mr. Beard, and his coadjutor in slang, the janior Senator, Mr. Hoar, who could not fin@ words defend the fair name and great fame of Massachu- setts in the Senate, when she was attacked by Mr. Blaine, and both of those men made personal, violent and virulent attacks upon me, and upon those who mp me, and exhibited caricatures of me be- fore I turned upon them. STILL THE GREENBACK RULES Conaesvoxpent—In your judgment what will be the fesnit of the campaign with reference to the future of political parties ? Gone: leaders of the two partion, the republican and demo- cratic, are to be found together hereafter in favor of their supposed common interest in the money quea- tion, and they leave out the older principles which have heretofore bean the recognized principles of their parties, the republicans having given up the broadest and noblest plank of their platform, équal rights of all men, equal protection under the laws to all men, and the democrats having also abandoned the platform.of | Jefferson and Jackwon to become the defenders of the theory that the issue of bank notes is the only honest money. The masses of both parties sooner of later will desert their leaders and coalesce in the opposition to them, as did the masses of the whig and democratic Pg ig a unite against slavery. iat shows that the money for the use of the and sustained by the people, and founded on wealth and credit of the country, receivable for all dues to the government,” snd tender for all debts, public and private, will be the money in the immediate future, ‘That is established, in my judgment, beyond ali controversy. Four-fifths £ ti ople are united upon the qwertion that wo longer issue currency, They are de candidates | Botien—The campaign indicates that the | NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1878——TRIPLE, SHEET. vided only on the question of whether there shall be a currency made uncertain in value by being redeem- able in gold and silver, which will be carried out of the country as a commodity when it is more valuable to other governments for other uses than it is to us as acurrency. But the failure of the experiment of re- sumption, which, in my j) is sure to come, will settle that division of ion, but not until the trial has worked infinite mischief. MONEY THE ONLY I58UE. In answer to a question as to why he did not dis- cuss the financial question on the stump more fre- quently, General Butler :—"I confined myself that capital had played favo urrenging the cufency t capi Pl in 80 ne) as to cause the present distress, without own to the question of whether that money was hard or soft, as it is termed. And then I confine myself to State issues, because in my letter of acceptance I had called upon all men, without distinc- tion of party and without agreeing with me in my financial or other opinions, to come together to sus- tain me in reforming the extra’ and peculation of the State officials of the republican y, and I felt myself bound to follow out that line of the campaign, However, the leaden of the republican party and of the Faneuil Hall party to take those issues, and by their pry ape declared that the only issue was money, and brought their orators from other States who could not have known, of course, one word about our State issues, to discuss that question, ‘This necessitated my asking two gentlemen of national prominence to come into the State to aidme and others who had discussed the financial question in Maine. gad wie ee versed in the nae oe bn te, to meet in as a degree as possible financial question and mine republican orators and their allies upon that topic. The real question of finance has not yet been seed in this State, but will be hereafter when it becomes the proper issue be- fore the people. ARE REPUBLICANS AFRAID OF REFORM ? CoERRESPONDENT—Do you believe that the repub- lican party will take the cue and institute the reforms you demand in the State government ? General BUTLER—By no means. They cannot do so. There is no one source of corruption in the govern- ment they can dry up without throwing off their ad- herents, who, when that is done, will expose others. ‘This will render the party so odious that they will not be able to carry out any reforms. There will reap be some attempt shift taxes from the tate on to persons or corporations, but that will be only changing the taxes from the ple and putting them on to comporaions. Aone &@ change of the burden, but affording no relief at all. READY TO FIGHT AGAIN. CornresroxpENT—Do you mean to keep up the fight or retire from politics? General BurLER—I have already said in the little address which Idelivered to my neighbors on the night of the election that I proposed to devote the re- mainder of my life to the service of the people if they demand it, Icame forward in this cam} at the demand of the people, and I should 6 same thing again and I some of " see the republican say: am ‘dead’’—politicall; Gale en sian oy. think so. If they do they wi &. on in their career of oppressing the by go both in he State and in the nation, and if they do I will show them the liveliest corpse at a funeral they have ever heard of. Personal success or defeat to me is nothing. Resurgam. THE “SUGAR HOUSE” PRISON. ‘NEW JERSEY REVOLUTIONARY BEMINISCENCES— THR NEWARK MARTYRS, HEDDEN AND CAMP. Though Jerseymen may not know it, there was ® time when the old sugar house in Rose street, this city, which was partially destroyed by fire on Tues- day night, had as deep an interest for their ancestors as Andersonville and Libby had during the late war, Among the New Jersey patriots who were confined in the old building were those noted men, all of whom lost their lives in conseqnence of their incarceration. They were Richard Stockton, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence; Judge Joseph Hedden, and William Camp, the latter s leading Newark mer chant. Hedden also belonged to Newark. He was of a family noted for courage snd firmness, and was especially obnoxious to the Tories for having been chosen by the New Jersey Council of Safety as a “commissioner for the county of Essex for signing and inventorying the estates and effects of persons gone over to the enemy.” A BRITISH RAID. . On the night of January 25, 1780, 500 British red- coats, commanded by Major Lumm, left New York and crossed over on the ice—the North River being frozen solid—to Jersey City, or Paulus Hook, as it was then called. Thence they marched out to Newark. Another marched from Staten Island to Eliza- beth and burned down the church, of which Caldwell, “the rebel high priest,” was pastor. Lumm’s party burned down the old Academy and committed other depredations in Newark. On the way back they took with them Judge Hedden, whom perme 5 had ng from a sick bed, driving him in his nightclothing fore them at the point of the b&yonet. Barefooted and almost naked, the Newark patriot wes by the.brutal soldiery across the frozen river and cast into the Sugar House Prison, where he was kept for three months. In Le pire! beri the terrible treatment he received on the it of the raid S he was sub- jected in prison, his Jimbs mortified, and when it was apparent that he could live but a few days longer his friends were informed that they could remove him. They did so under a fiag of ‘and Judge Hedden was taken back to Newark. In spite of the tendercst care, he died on September 27, and was buried in the old burying ground in that city. J Hedden’s father lived to be ninety-#ix of age. He had thirteen children, 176 grandchiliren, rel idren and three greut-great-grand- ANOTHER VICTIM. William Camp was 4 prosperous ‘merchant. His dfather was one of the original settlers of New- ark, and his brother Nathaniel was an esteemed officer of the Jersey Blues. During the latter part of the year 1776 Mr. Camp, like Hedden, was seized by the British during s raid to Newark. carried to New York he was flung into the Sugar House, and died afterward from the cruelties and privations he there suffered. His body was removed by his friends under a flag of truce and buried in Newark. No traces remain of the graves or tombstones of either Hedden or Camp. ‘The ease of Richmond vs. Palmer, in which \the latter was charged by the former with having stolen a silk@ress at Richfield Springs last August, was finally dispoked of by Justice Otterbourg yesterday. The de- fendant was called by ex-Judge Dittenhoefer, com- plainant’s counsel, and asked if she knew anything that implicated Mrs. Richmond, Morse, Schimmel or Mr. Weed in the diss) of any diamonds or any’ else at the Springs last sum- mer, and answered in the negative. ‘Chen,” said ex-Judge Dittenhoefer, “I desire to state openly that while I am satisfied that the complainant acted in ood faith in prosecuting this defendant on what she ieved to be proper evidence, Iam now prepared to say, after examining the case, that in my judgment the prosecution shofild not proceed. I hardly believe ‘that the evidence, though {it may be true in every particular, was enough to go be fore a jury with, and I state now that the complain- ant is not desirous of proceeding further. An under- standing to that effect has been arrived at with a brother of the defendant.” . Judge Otterbourg in reply said that no such under- standi would determine his action, although it made {t easier for him to dispose of the case. As he did not believe the offence had ever been committed by the defendant he discharged her. , FORTY DAYS OUT. Considerable anxiety was manifested in shipping circles yesterday owing to the non-arrival at Antwerp of the steamer Herman Ludwig (Captain Durt), which left this port September 28, The vessel, which is of iron, wae built in Scotland in 1870, is 1,500 tons regis- ter and {sone of the White Cross line of steamers sail- ing between this city and Antwerp. Messrs, Funch, idye & Co., her agents, had not received any news of her arrival out up to the close of business yesterday. When the Ludwig sailed she cme on yr three — passeng amor whom was the captain’s wife. C ‘and crew all told num- ber about thirty mon. The cargo included about 200 hogsheads of tobacco, 16,000 bushels of wheat, 19,000 ela of oats, 800 barrels of flour and 200 tons of provisions, “The vessel was duo Ootober 12 or 1: id a gentleman representing the firm last evening, ‘and I suppose her machinery has broken down and she now is making ber way slow! to port by means of her sails. A steamer going ens! ward under sail and resembling the Ludwig was ken October 12. I do not believe she has gone own, a8 she was an exceedingly strong steamer, with #ix compartments. Anumber of vessels of the same line, which left port since the departure of the Ludwig, have ‘made their trips in the customary time. WHAT CAME OF AN ARREST. Mrs, Wallingford, of Delancey street, who was found in a starving condition on. Broadway last Mon- day and taken into the Grand Central Hotel, was yes. torday before Indge Kilbreth in the Tombs Police Court for au attempt to throw herself from pier 1 into the East River. She repeated the sad story of her | husband's Cer by ay By Orleans, pny charged with a purse of hastily mad court room. Judge Kilbreth contributed s five-dollar note and his intention to sid the women in procuring work. He will receiw and forward any contributions for her present relief. LOOKING OUT FOR THE WAIFS. ‘The regular monthly meeting of the Board of Di- rectors of the New York Society forthe Prevention of | Cruelty to Children was held Wednesday afternoon, | at the roome of the society, No. 60 Union aqnare. ‘Tho secretary reported the work for the month of Oo- | tober as follows:—Complaint received, 62; com- plaints investigated, 61; compiaints upon which ad- vies wna given, 1; cases prosecuted, 24; cases con. vieted, 20; chil relieved and sont to homes and { institutions, 29, z MR, BONNER'S NEW PURCHASE. EDWIN FORREST, ANOTHER TROTTING PHENOM- ENON—RECORD 2:14}. Mr. Robert Bonner purchased last week from Charles 8. Green, the well known trainer and driver of trotting horses, Edwin Forrest, the trotter, for $16,000, and he is now at Mr. Bonner’s farm in West- chester county, where, as the Spirit of the Times said of his great performance at Hartford last summer, he is “exhibiting a flight of speed such as wae never be- fore seen.” Edwin Forrest is @ bay, a trifle over six- teen hands high, being nearly an inch higher at his withers than he is behind, He has good legs and feet; he does not seem burdened with muscle, as he is most gracefully finished from muzzle to tail, He trots with his head well up and makes @ grand ap- pearance when in action. His gait is rapid and as square and level as ever was witnessed. He trots with ease to himself and is easily handled. It is certain that he has trotted half miles in 1:03 to 1:04, and quarters in 30 seconds, Edwin Forreit was foaled the property of Mr. James Haddock, at Harrisonville, Cass county, Miss, He was sired by Brannock’s Edwin Forrest, Jr., and he by Joe Down- ing, who was the sire of Dick Jamicson, the dam of Edwin Forrest, Jr., being by the celebrated four-mile horse Wagner. The dam of Edwin Forrest was by Flight, by Leviathan. His grandam came from Tennessee, but his dam waa, foaled in uri. Edwin Forrest was fouled in April, 1871; broken to saddle when four years old, and previous to this he had never struck a trot nor a pace; he was a natural yacker and “fox trotter,” as his breeder stated it. He was broken to harness and con- verted into a trotter by G. H. Conkling, trainor, of Kansas City. He was converted by shoeing with one pound shoes in front and twelve ounce toe-weights. Last year, 1877, he was entered through the circuit of Michigan, His career was very unsatisfac- tory, as he was distanced in every race he started in. After the circuit he was placed in the hands of A. T. Miller, of Georgetown, Ky. Miller entered him in a race at Lexington, where, after showing a half-mile in 1:08, he was shut out in the race. He afterward, at Lexington, trotted another race, where he got @ record of 2:253¢—2:25%, with which he closed his six- year-old career, Edwin Forrest was placed in the hands of Gus Glidden at the early part of the past tretting season, whose superior skill in.the manage- ment of horses of@mixed gaits is universally ac- knowledged. Glidden used pound shoes, with a six ounce weight on one foot and four ounce on the other, and he soon was able to count upon the horse for comparative steadiness as well as speed, and he was entered in all the purses for which he was cligible in the circuit, At Toledo he won in straight heats, best time 2:23, and people awoke to the fact that Edwin Forrest was a trotter. At Cleveland the following week, in a race with eleven starters, he won the last three heats of the race in 2:19}{— 2:2034—2:1834. At Buffalo, soon afterward, he won in straight heats in 2:20—2:20!,—2:20%. In the fourth heat of a race at Utica Edwin Forrest came from the rear to the front with a burst of speed that amazed all beholders, and caused Charley Green to make arash for the owner and secure a refusal of the horse at $16,000 within five minutes. This bargain was con- summated at Hartford soon afterward, and Mr. Green became the sole possessor of this wonderful trotter. Mr. Green wisely did not start him in his class at Hartford. He had not time to learn the ways of the horse, and he did not like to trust him with his old trainer after what He had seen at’ Utica. Mr. Green, however, on the last day of the meeting at Hartford, immediately after Rarus had trotted against time and made three heats in 9:16—2:18}4-—2:13%—wiping out Goldsmith Maid’s 2:14—brought Eawin Forrest out on the track and gave him 8 trial before the immense concourse of people there assembled. The Spirit of the Times gives the following account of the perform- ance of the “beautiful bay”:— Scarcely less interest attached to the exhibition of speed by Edwin Forrest than to the. performance of Rarus himeelf. Such tales had been told of the won- derful of the horse, his career had been so brilliant for a month previous, while, in addition, the dis fal use that had been made of him in Utica and his purchase by Charles S. Green for $16,000 cash, Nous of everybody, and all felt intenscly interested mou everybody, ly in what he would do, althou, tion, with no record attach it was a mere exhibi- He labored under the disadvantage that his driver had had scant time to be- come acquainted with him, and as he bore‘the reputa- tion of being a ‘peculiar’ horse and a very bad breaker many horsemen had discounted a failure for him. Under these circumstances the success of the exhibi- tion was startling, shows that has a formid- able rival and a probable conueror. It was @ mere exhibition, with no record attached, but the time was taken with the same care as if it were race, and can be relied upon as correct. The first trial followed the 2:15 of Rarus, and the mile was trotted without s break. He went ag gots le in 34 seconds; from there to the half 8) was terrific, making the second quarter in 3214 seconds, and reac! the half in 1:06%. The paco was slower durffig the last half, but he went to the’ three-quarter pole in 1:40, and finished the mile in the splendid time of 2:14}. His second trial, although in slower aggregate time, developed still’ more astonishing speed, and was sage performance, The quarter was reached in 44 seconds, and up the backstretch he exhibited a flight of speed such as was never before seen on any track. If ever a 2:00 gait was struck by a trotter it was by Edwin Forrest during this = r, and he would inevitably have reached the half-mile pole in 1:04 had he not his feet when within about one hundred and fifty yards of that point, As this was noted a sym} ic “Oh” was heard from nearly every spectator, who expected to see the horse, in accord- ance with his reputation and previous performances, come to # standstill and lose eight or ten seconds be- fore he would again got in motion. Green, as he sub- on confessed to the writer, expected nothing leas, the of the horse being as much a béte noire to him as to the public, but he used his skill to catch him, and to his surpgise and the surprise of all he was under full headway again after the break had lasted some twenty yards, and flew by the half in the as- tounding time of 1:05%4, trotting the second quarter, with the break, in 31% seconds. Grogn knew he had. not lost much by that break, but when another oc- curred before the middle ‘of the third quarter had been reached he gave it up and had no expectation of beating 2:20 in the heat. He caught the horse again nicely, but did not hurry him, the tl jnarter ‘pole in 1:40, and was quite 8 distance down the homestretch when a friend, who had run up.there, motioned him to go on. From that point out Forrest was sent sone and finished the mile in 2:16, and there can be little doubt, -if Green had been aware of the terrible rate at which he had travelled during the first half, and had kept him up to his #) , that he would have trotted the full mile, incluc the two breaks, as fast as 2:13, He is only seven years old. This is his second season on the turf, and when he becomes fully hardened and his owner and driver learn to detect the indications that he ia “on his toes” there is no apparent limit to his possibilities. The strife between him and Rarus is now fairly inaugurated, and whenever they appear to contend against cach other the spectators will flock in by the tens of thousands, The above performance is the fastest ever trotted by a horse seven years old, which is the age of Edwin Forrest, and is the fastest mile trotted this season, which has been so prolific of fast trotting, except by Rarus. Mr. Bonner first heard of Fawin Forrest a year ago, when he was in Kentucky. Then it was claimed that he was the fastest horse in the world, although it was his first season's handling. The horse will be seen no more on the track in public races, but may be shown on some special occasions with others of Mr, Bonner’s fast horses when that gentleman feels 4’ th’ vein.” NARRAGANSETT PARK. EXTRA NOVEMBER MEETING—GYPSEY AND DEX- TER BOY THE WINNERS, [BY TELZoRAPH TO THE HERALD.) Provipesce, R. L, Noy. 7, 1878. The meeting for Rhode Island horses was continues to-day at Narragansett Park, having been postponed yesterday on account of bdd weather. The attendenco pala d of good, and the two trots of the aftergoon aro considerable interest. They wore cach taken in three a heats, but there were some very earnest struggles throug) which made them en- Spe ‘The trot for 2:43 horses wae taken by boo ay mare Gypeey, and the trot of 2:50 horses, to ro wagons, waa captured by the bay gelding Dexter Boy. Following are simmoarion :— NARRAGANSETT PAnk, Cranstoy, Rt. 1, Nov. 7, 1878.— Purse of $50 for 2:49 Rhode Island horses; $30 to first, $15 to second, $5 to third; mile heats, best 3in ay heeta bs @ 1% Carpenter's b. m. Gypaey. 1 (. Stowe's bik. m, Pamanda, 9949 F. Brown's m. f, John How: 334 james Kee's b. g. King Bird... 443 ime, 2:43—2:40—2 43 14, Same Dat—Purse of $50 for 2:50 horses, to road wagons; $20 to first, $15 to second, $5 to third; mile heats, best 3 in 5. LA "b. g. 111 M. A. Wright's ch. m. Gypsey.. 992 James Carpenter's sp. m. Madeline. 3338 ‘Time, 2:58-—2:58—2 “HORSE NOTES. ‘The tamons trotting filly Maud 8., for which Mr. ‘W. H. Vanderbilt gave $21,000 4 fow days ago, left Mr, stable yesterday for Carl Burr's, on Long Island, where she will be wintered and fitted for next season's campaign. The writer asked Mr. Vanderbilt what in- structions he had given Mr. Burr about the filly. Mr. V. replied :—‘*None, except that I told him that Maud 8. would belong to the public for at least a year, and the public would held him (Carl) resonsible for her care and condition,” Carl expressed the highest apprecia- tion of her form and beauty, and will do his best to have her in the best form before the cam- paign opens next summer, m Monday last Mr. John H. Harbeck drove his white mare Fannie Atwood @ full mile on the Fleet- wood Park track to 4 road wagon; on and driver weighing 80814, in 2:324. The half mile was made in 1:1244. ‘is is a fine performance, and we would ad- vise all persons who think they can beat it to make the trial before the track becomes too heavy for the ‘wttempt. Few road horses in the country can equal the performance of Fannie Atwood. It was Mr. G. Hudson's brown gelding Teaser, and not Mr. Burlew’s bay mare Nellie Rose, that was 7, 5, 4, 7, 5 in the 2:26 trot at Fleetwood Park on the 30th ult, The mare was not at Fleetwood Park during the *PIGEON SHOOTING. MEETING OF THE SEASIDE GUN CLUB NEAR LONG LENT SCORES, b Lona Buancu, Nov. 7, 1878. There was some remarkable shooting done this afternoon at Cook’s Station, on the Freehold Railroad, at the meeting of the Seaside Gun Club. The shoot was arranged to come off at Spring Lake, but the air was too keen and the wind blew too strong to insure good scores, and Cook’s—a neat clearing in the woods, more inland—was chosen as better ground, It was the day for the monthly contest for the club's championship badge; but more interest was, felt and many lovers of the sport were attracted & the spot on account of # prospective match between Dr. Ellis, of the Seaside Club, and ‘Theodore Hamilton, Captain of the Philadelphia Gen- tlemen Pigeon Shooterg, Captain Hamilton did not put in an appearance, but sent his lieutenant, T. B. Owens, one of the crack shots of the club, to compete with the Doctor for the prize, # handsome rifle and set’ of Bogardus glass ball traps. Thero was # good deal of excitement over the contest, and in the pools Dr. Ellis brought $60 to $50 on Owens. Some of the New Yorkers felt con- fident of their champion’s success and backed him ogee f Ce the Philadelphian after the New Yorker hi eight straight birds. The match was at 20 birds, 28 yards’ rise and Log aig Uy fo Se opantnent 6 tenth round Dr. had kill in fine form nine straight birds, missing none, sin- gular to say, with either barrel, while Philadel- phia representative had missed two birds and had re- peatedly used his second barrel to kill. At the four- teenth round the betting began to wane on Dr. Ellis, as he had changed his gun and missed two birds in five rounds, Neither scored on the next inning, and the Doctor called for his old gun. On the seventeenth inning Dr. Ellis again mi and the men werenow even. The greatest excitement revailed, and as each Spe brought down his ird he was lustily cheered. When Mr. Owens before the traps in the last round he exclaimed, “Now, boys, be quiet!” when he killed his bird, and it looked as if it was to be a tie. The Doctor's last bird, however, was a rattling driver that esca} notwithstanding both baarels were used, and the ‘was de- clared the winner. SUMMARY. Coox’s Station, N. J., Nov. 7, 1878—I] m shoot between Thomas B. Owens, of Philadelphia, and Dr. Ellis, of New York; 20 birds each; 28 yards rise; Eng- lish rules. T. B. Owens. 1*111011 Dr. N. Ellis. 11111111 *Dead out of bounds. MATCH FOR CLUB BADGE. ‘The next event was for the club's badge. There were ten entries, ten birds each, handicap rise; ties shot off bird and bird, miss and go out. Dr. Ellis, the opponent of Mr. Owens, as above, entered for the trophy, which at the time adorned his breast, and™ ain won it, killing nine birds in the score, tieing Mr. Hastings, the capiain of the club, and gtassing five straight in shooting off the ties. SUMMARY. Sasre Day.—Contest for club's bad ar 30 bird onc; handicap rise; 80 yards ; Hurlingham rules. Ye BAB Killed. 111111141 9 111011111 9 *#11011111 8 111100101 1 110121011 7 *10110111 7 101011100 6 101101010 6 10011100 5 1*1100110 6 Seeeet 5 [110 -3 *Dead out of bounds. LONG ISLAND SHOOTING CLUB V8, NASSAU GUN’ CLUB, For the fourth time selected teams of the Long Island Shooting Club and the Nassan Gun Club met at Dexter’s Park, yesterday, to compete at pigeon shoot- ing. The match this time was for five men from each club to shoot at fifteen birds each, from five traps, thirty yards rise. Better birds were never put in a trap. They were fast and a contrary wind puzzled the shooters, and it-is not too much to say that the best professional could scarcely have beaten the score of the best amateur yesterday, the conditions being the same. The shoot was commenced at two o'clock, Mr. Wynn, of the Long Island Club leading with a well killed bird from the first barel. Seover, captain of the Nassau Gun Club team, followed with a “miss.” The shooting went on with Long Island steadily lead! until they had shot their th round when the Long Island Club was sixteen ahead. That more birds were not killed was owing to their being very wild and fast flyers and many falling dead out of bounds. The traps were ‘well handled by Mr. C. E. Doxter, and the birds were well trapped and retrieved by “Billy,” the retriever of, the Long Island Club Grounds. 2 ‘The following is a summary of the shoot:— Dexter's Pan, L. L, Nov. 6,—Match at Pigeon shooting between five members of the Long Island Shooting Club and five members of the Nassau Gun Club, shot for at 15 birds each from 5 traps, 30 yards rise, 80 yards boundary. Long Island Shooting Club rules. o barrels. W. Wynn. Hughes... Ble nae * Fell dead ont of bounds. Referec—Mr. E. H. Madison. Time of Shoot—Two hours and 45 minutes. BASEBALL, ‘The eighth game of the silver ball tournament on the Union Ground, Brooklyn, was played yesterday afternoon in the presence of a small and shivering audience. The contestants were tho Hudsons, of Brooklyn, and the Alaskas, of this city. The Hud- #ons were short of two of their best men, Marsland and Barnie. McCord filled the place of ome and the other position remained vacant. The game was one sided and not very interesting, the Alaskas batting Schonck’s pitching with perfect case. The heavy bat- ting of the Alaskas was the main feature, Troy layed a beautiful fielding game at second base. This ives the the tournament trophies to the Alaske Club, following is the scoro:— HUDSON. 1B. 0. A.B. RAB. O. AE. Farrell, 2b..0 0 2 0 11000 Doescher,3b0 0 4 3 1imio0 o46 $1000 010 0 e333 8 o1t 23601 023 32 g 40 010 a1 10 000 11101 ---— 34042 0213 —_———— 1816 2411 4 Aine Clubs. Ist, 2d, Bd, Ath. BUA. Cth. TH. Bth. 000000 0 O06 8.5 2 0 1 18 Umpire—Mr. Clinton, of the Flyaway Club. Seorer— Mr. J. Moore, Runs carned—Hudsons, 0; Alaskas, 8. First boxe by errors, Hudsons, 3; Alaskes, 6. Total loft on bases—Hndsons, 2; Aloékas, 6, Total base hite—Fiudsons, 22; Alaskas, 0. Struck out—Hudsone, 9; Alaskas, 2. Time of game+One hour ond thirty- five minutes, BILLIARDS. Cmcaco, ML, Now. 7, 1878, In & fifteen ball pool match Inst night between Wahistrom and Sloseon, the besbin forty-one games, Wahlstrom won eighteen and Slosson twenty-one, the Jattog receiving the odds of the fifteen YACHTING NOTE. Schooner Ambassfdoress, -Y.0., Mir. William Astor, from City Island, passed the Henatp Telegraph Station at Wintestono, L. 1, yesterday forenoon, en route to New York. ATHLETIC SPORTS IN BOSTON. * Bowron, Mass., Nov, 7, 1878. ‘The fall meeting of the Athletic Association took Place yesterday, after being twice postponed on ac- count of rain, The following is a list of the con- tests :— One Hundred Yards Dash—First prize won by Eaton, ‘80, Time, 12 seconds. Fales, 79. Time, 60% Quarter-Mile Run—Won by seconds. Mile Walk—Won by Klinghammer, "79. Time, 37/4 seconds. ‘Mile Run—Won by Gowing, ’81. Throwing the Heavy Hammer—Won by Perry, '79, making 64 ft. 1 in, Potato Race (distance twenty-five yards)—Won by Donovan, ‘80, ‘Time, 2m. 5 Kicking the Pootball—Won by Hall, '81; distance, 14 ft. oi in, Throw ft. 6 in. . ‘Three-legged Race—First prise, Hall and Mack, ’81. Timo, 14 seconds. Hee High Jump—Perry, '79, was victor, clear- 4 ft. 10 in. itanding 1g Jump—Hall, 81, was the winner; dis- tance 9 ft. 1 Runnin, Lon Jump—Perry, the winner; dis- tance, 15 4t 2ine big Hop, Skip and Jump—Porry, "79, the winner; dis- tance, 35 tt Oe in. 2 Wheelbarrow race—First prize, Donovan, ’80. GREENPOINT ATHLETIC CLUB. The annual fall games of the Greenpoint Athletic Club will take place to-morrow afternoon on the Grea of the Manhattan Club, Fifty-sixth street and ighth avenue. The pro, me includes, as open events, runs of 100 HO yards and a walk of one » all handicaps. For the there are runs of 100 and 440 jump and walk of three miles. WHO KILLED M'DERMOTT? MICHAEL ROFLINO DENIES THE CHARGE OF MURDER--ANOTHER ITALIAN ARRESTED ON SUSPICION—WHAT THE NEIGHBORS SAY. Coroner Ellinger was notified early yesterday morn, ing of the murder of Thomas McDermott, which took place Wednesday night at No, 18 Roosevelt street, and yesterday, at the Fourth precinct station house, where the body now lies, several witnesses were examined, but the formal investigation of the case took place in the Coroner’s private office. Captain Petty and De- tective Garr took Michael Roflino, who is suspected of the murder, before the Coroner. The first witness examined was John McDonnell, of No. 422 Pearl street. He said that as he was psesing the alloyway at No. 18 Roosevelt street he heard cries for help; the outer door was locked, but was opened a minute later by Roflino; witness then saw a man lying on the floor and Burke was standing by him; he heard McDermott gasping for breath and discovered that he was stabbed near the heart. McDonnell also stated that McDermott died before Officer Barrows srrived, but this was not so, as lie died in the station house. i club championships yards, running high BURKE'S STATEMENT. William Burke, of No. 81 Roosevelt street, who was with McDermott all the evening and at whose house deceased lodged, was the next witness examined. He and McDermott, he said, had been drinking together, end #8 they were about to leave the hallway found the alleyway door locked. It was soon opened and he passed out first, followed by Roflino and McDer- mott, He did not see what took place between the Lanta but’ heard afterward that McDermott was stabbed. Michael Roflino told a very plausible story, intimat- on ae it was not he who stabbed McDermott, but urke, ANOTHER ARREST. ‘The police of the Fourth precinct were busy yesterday working up the case. From a statement made by one Bosy Rocanti, of No. 16 Roosevelt street, an Italian icker, who boarded there, and whose name is Michael Meee eae strongly suspected. The woman stated that she saw the accused away from the scene of the murder. His story accords with one told by a young man on Wednesday night, who said that he Saw a tall Italian run out of the hallway toward the river. The police traced him to Brooklyn, and about noon yest 1y ca] him in o barn in Adams street. He and Roflino were committed by the Coro- ner to await theresult of the inquest, and Burke was sent to the House of Detention Yesterday forenoon an Italian boy, who lives with Marmora at No. 16 Roosevelt street, was caught by the police and sent to the House of Detention. He sa; that he saw his companion stab McDermott in hallway and then run off. SCENX OF THE MURDER. No. 18 Roosevelt street is a two s' brick build- ing, the first floor Delng occupied by Italians named Guadegie and Roflino. former makes plaster of Paris images and the latter keeps s grocery store. The second floor is ge et ‘talian pickers and stale beer venders. way in which the murder was committed leads from the street to the yard in the rear and is dark even in, the daytime. About twenty feet from the hall door is a rickety pair of stairs, down which Burke and McDermott ed arm in arm. They left Burke’s house at about eight o’clock, and half an hour later entered the hallway and went up stairs to the tt room. An Italian named Casse, who sells stale beer in this room, says that when the two men came in they were intoxicated. McDermott bought apps of beer, for which he paid two cents, After drinking both went down stairs, and Casse says that ho heard no row. The Italian who works on the plaster of Paris images stated to a HERALD reporter that at about nine o'clock on Wednesday night two men staggered down. stairs, and a minute or #0 later he heard a row in the hall- way. He did not fo out, as fights were of frequent occurrence in the building. few minutes later a boy whom he bi ord ag that he heard some one groaning andcrying for help, but even then he did not go out, as he thought it must be some drunken Tow. “4 STRAIGHTFORWARD FELLOW.” Mrs. Burke, wife of the man Burke who is held as @ witness, stated that she knew McDermott to be a straightforward fellow, and that he hdd three little children, two of thom living with the Sisters of Mercy and the other in a house on Lexington avenue. She said that he used to visit his children once a month, and would always take them some little pres- ent. McDermott came with Burke at about six P. M. on Wednesday and sat down in chair. rs. Burke was not in the room at the time,but she said her little boy told her about McDermott’s “talking strange and imagining that he saw a man outside the door.” Mrs, Burke an interview with her hus- band yesterda; The inquest will be held next Saturday at two P. M. MURDEROUSLY ASSAULTED. John Morris, of No. 555 West Thirty-second street, ‘was brought into Jefferson Market Court yesterday and held on a charge of having, with another man, at- tempted to murder Nicholas Leahy, of No. 520 West ‘Thirty-ninth stroet, on Wednesday night. It appears that the prisoner had fallen out with Leahy some time ago and rere Pod Prat whenever anes him, On W ie was 0: ‘Tenth avenue, and when on the block bet a Pinte: second and Thirty-third streets he waa set upon be- hind by Morris and the other man, both of whom hac] him unmercifully about the head with a knife and beat him with some heavy instrument. Morris ‘was captured and the wounded man taken to the hospi- tal in a very precarious condition. MERCY TEMPERING JUSTICE. “six months,” said the Fifty-seventh Street Court magistrate yosterday to a wretched drunkard who Degged to be let off ‘just this once.” Then, from the centre of the courtroom, came a pale-faced, neatly dressed little girl, with tears in her large blue eyes, but firm resolve in her childish face. She made her way quickly to the prisoner's side, and, standing thero with her small, white hand in his, and addressing tho ra etete hind, Judge; he je my fith may “Forgive him, Judge; he is m: er. He seem low and a drunkard to you, bus he has been ood to me—very good. He has a home, a wife and fives little children besides me. Do let him off, sir, and God bless you.” She could say no more, for tears interrupted fur- ther utterance. Suddenly the drunken prisoner had becomes man again. His eyes were cleared, he stood erect and pressed his little ono to his heart. Then he bent over her, pushed the hair from her ferchead, kissed her gently on the cheek and wi werMecnrthy,"" fala. the trate, free. ws ys” sa is are Your child has saved yar Lig MAD WITH DRINK. - ‘The neighbors in the tenement No, 415 East Tenth street were startled on Wednerday night by loud out- ories from the apartments of William Vaites and his family. “Murder!” “Murder! waa shouted four or five times by @ woman, and the people down stairs be- coming alarmed summoned Officer O'Connor, who hastened up stairs to Vaites’ rooms, and entering found the man wild with, — holding s table knife is in his hand and wife crouching in a corner of the room, her and clotht covered with blood, while four children shriek and screamed with terror, Vaites was secured in- stantly and the woman was taken to the Eleventh pre- cinct station house, where the Mone, the ‘was told to the sergeant at the desk. Vaites been drinking, came home in ® passion, and, after be come oe he his wife, lpr bron —~4 and hacked ut the head and face, nearly c ting her nose off. Her wounds were dressed by the surgeon at the station house and she was sent $o Bollevas, Hospital, pens pl Th arket Police Court yt sooenia y judgo Duily to awalt the result of the woman's in- juries, ON THE BRINK OF RON. Nellie Potter’s Rescue from a Life of Infamy. WHAT SHE TOLD TIIE JUDGE. —_——_-—_—_ Singular History of a Young Female Trapeze Performer. Noone could guess her age. Her short cut hair, blue serge yachting suit, boyish manner and laughing brown eyes made her seem, younger than she really was, As she leaned against the railing in the Joffer. son Market Police Court yesterday, with her hands stuck in her jacket pockets and her hat cocked jauntily on the side of her head, she never would have been taken for a prisoner charged with a serious crime and who had spent the previous night in a cell, “I'm only twenty-four!” she said to Judge Otter. bourg in a clear, melodious voice, and then bowed her head lest he should detect the falsehood in her eyes. “You are not twenty-four! When were yqu born ?* “I don’t know,” answered the girl. “Well, sit down until the Court is clear and I have time to investigate your case and hear your story.” With a hop, skip and jump the strange hoydenish creature left the stand and seated herself at some dis tance from the Bench. HER CHECKERED CAREER. While she aat kicking her heels coolly against the Jeg of the stool a Hxnaup reporter accosted her and succeeded in getting from her a strange account of her adventures during the past year. “Your name is Nellie Potter?” satl he mildly. “Is it?” said she, with a glance out of the corner of her eyes at him. “I think you,told the clerk it was!" “Well, I reckin’ you think wrong! My name tf Lizette Ripley, Mile. Leona or Nellie Potter!" b “How! Have you three names?” “More’n that! Four! Five! All depends upon the town I show in!” added she nonchalantly. “Are you an ” , “Guess I be!”* pail your line?” sida sm » com singing, circus business, pew ene © «What were you last?” i “Do yon mean when the detective took me?” “No! In the profession!" “I was a ‘blue stocking blonde’ in Montreal.?* “But you're not a blonde!” “Yellow wig, powder and s dash of paint and there Tam, as blonde as ty bas Thompson.” Vhere were you born ?”* “In New York.” Bee part ?”” oa “In Washington square. “When did you prcry the stage ”* “Some months ago. Iran away from home and be came a trapeze performer.” BECOMING A GYMNAST. “How did you manage that?’ “Easy as rolling off a log. You see I was a cloak- maker in Bond street, and took sides with a girl who fell out with the boss, and_helped her to recover $25 from him. Of course I lost nity place, and didn’t know what to do. My mother wasn’t very well off and depended in a great measure on my eldest sister, who is # saleswoman in @ store on Sixth avenue, Well, I needn't tell you, I suppose, that a irl like me couldn't keep and de- ent long. So I used to read the advertisements the papers every SE OS finally stumbled over a card which read “Young girls were wanted to learn the trapeze; tuition free. Professor W. Z. Ripley, No. 8 Bond street.” I answered it in person; saw Mr. Ripley, and found him quite willing to take me as his Fag i wes I could pay, bim $1 a lesson. disappointing,” to say the Jeast, as I had only $3 60 in moncy. I couldn't learn much for that, you know. After a while, however, I induced ‘the Professor to consider my slender means. He did so. And the short and ‘the long of it was he d to give me seven lessons for nap Herr apiece, He took me DP. stairs ht away his little gymnasium on the top floor went to business ‘atonce. He made me put on tights, and when I w rigged Beonans me out to the low ropes and show me how ‘to do the angel.’” “The angel ?” “Yes! Don’t you know what that is? Pshaw! How ignorant you are! Then he made mo bend crab, lock on the side rope, hang by m; do the long drop and short drop, and a lot things. Well, sir, I was a success from The Professor was enchanted, and I liked ness considerable myself. and made a hit at that conclusion that we had. better go regularly into the profession as trapezists.”” SHE FLOATS THROUGH THE AIR, eon ard’s novelty theatre, in Philadelphia, and I tell ee) rusting her hands deeper r “we made the hit of the season as sure as you live, ‘We were the whole show. For the first week we along splendidly, gether still if Ripley had kept resi But nothing would do him but that we should pass ours selves of a8 man an wife, but I wouldnt have it at all. It was well enough to appear on the bills as “the Ripleys,” but on the hotel register it could not be done. made Binley, wid, and he abused me awfully, and finally pocketed my week's salary, up my clothes and left for New York, abandoning me in Philadel- phia. There I was without arag to my back or cent in my pees I might have starved if it hadn’ beon for the good-natured people in the company, who sertt round the hat for me and got me enough pane on my fect for a time. Honry Martin, who jceps the House in ay came@ aloi about this time, and, being want of , engaged me. I played four weeks with him and then returned to New York. I was not ten hours in the city when I was offered a position in Mile. La Fevre's Blue Stocking Blondes, and, as I told went to Montreal with them, thence to Quebec, w! Icaught the brain fever and had to be returned Montreal, where I went into the English hi wry I put up at the Springfield House, where thi letor k us charge. At to x kept me two weeks withot he expiration of this period I returned New York, being passed through by a good natured conductor.” to 4 TALE OF INFAMY. “Nellie Potter!” shouted the court officer et this moment, and the girl sprang to her feet and hastened to the bar. “Now, Miss, tell me your story,” said Judge Otter bourg. “I only got back to New York last month,” said the trange creature, after outlining the history given ve, “and my sister put me in furnished apart ments, as I _was in bad health and unable to work. Gradually I recovered = health, Judge, felt that I could no longer be o@ burden to my relatives. I was not able return to gymnas- tics, owing to my weak condition, so F the advertisements in the papers in the hope of seein, something that would suit me. At last, uta ago, I read that a Mra, Myers, of Greene street, wanted a vg ts of young girle to do light chamber- work, and hastened ither with a friend in quest of a job. We were received by Mrs. Myers, who sat down and began to explain to us the nature of ae duties she wanted us to form, was an awful So ad sition, Your Honor. - She kept ® me: much disco t there was another of ill fame. We fled. I was ver, Not so my friend, who told me lady down the street who was really in want of girla to help her. We went to her house, It was an of the same sort; but after I had got in there my own clothes had been taken away ro the lady furnished me with some of silk, trimmed with fur, and then * tried to make me act and behave like the other girls in her establishment.” She remained in the den from, Saturday to Wednes- day night, because she could not get away. She told the Ju that she had no clothing to wearin the streets, should she get to them, which was at all times impossible, and she incurred the displeasure of the . keeper of this bagnio by steadily refusing to comply wit! er pga of the bags c She - another young git! 4 prisoner, pe by sealing ihe fence in th@ back yard. The one girl succeeded, but she failed and was caught in the at- tempt by the barkeeper, who, with curses, drove hor back into the house, ry On Wednesday evening she was at the front windo' and called ® man into the house, who turned out to be adetective, She had been to speak to him by the housekeeper. He urrested her, and she was ze deleranors Denes ers oe Se prostitution. What ia that woman's name?” said the Judge. “Mme. Laura Barmore,” answored the girl. “Make your affidavit of the facts you havo related ‘and I will attend to her case. Meanwhile you shall‘ romain aa the guest of the matron of the prison for the night.” ‘Tivo aflidavit was mado and the girl retired, RIPLEY DENIES rt FAIRS, Professor Ripley was visit by # Henanp rer th the ovening, and while ho adinitted having taught a Potter the trapeze business and hevia travelled as her partner to Philadelphia, he denied having ever treated her ill or having wanted her to wae as his wife, or having cajoled her into being Ris pupil. Ho is's married and reputable man, ho claims, and was conipelled by the girl's eccentric and bad conduct to dissolve the partnership between [ng charges her with being untruthful and dis+ jonest After the girl left Jefferson Market Police Court Judge Otterbourg issued a warrant for the arrest of Mme, Laura, sent two officers to execute it imme- diately, Lest any information or notice of his action should unaccountably reach tho woman before the officers, the Judge forbade any one leaving the court for some time after the policemen’s departure, Leura Barmore waa last night arrested and confined in the Jefferson Market Court Prison.