The Sun (New York) Newspaper, August 6, 1870, Page 2

=: 1A Shines for AIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 6, 1870, Amusement! jery Theatre Grand Cow! retoma—Krie Railway, aril 80, ewan a0 follorre : Money... 16,900 Thursday Besse ES ‘Aggregate daily circulation 679,400. ing the during the pre 116,500. ii week, last Average daily cireulation dur- 234, jous week, ending Daily average July % week Shall Criminals be Promoted or Pune ished ¢ Under this title the Tribune expresses a just indignation at the failure of the proper authorities to bring WiitteMone of South Carolina to justice for the offence of taking bribes to procure the appointment of cadets. It calls for the enforcement against him of the law providing that any member of Con- grese who sells an office in hie gift for pay shall be fined $10,000 and go to the peniten. tary for two years, “Mr the Tribune, “ae an WINTTEMORE,” individual, is in as a criminal at large significant ; untried and Lent upon securing # place of honor and trust, he assumes importance But what 6 Tribune of the ease of Jons Baxcnort Davis, who took a bribe $60,000 to betray and defraud th ente who had elected him to office and the cliente who confided in his legal honesty ? He ie now “at large. untried and bent upon securing a place of honor and trust.” In fact, he occupies that place already by the appointment of President Grant. He is Acting Secretary of State, and President Gnaxt and the Republican party and Mr. GneEvry stand before the world in the atti tude of approving and rewarding his vil- Jniny by retaining him at the head of one of the great departments of the Government. Why does not the Tribune take up this ease with the same zeal os that of Wiitre- monet The crime is more flagrant; the criminal is more conspicuous ; hie offence is greater; and os Acting Secretary of State he has opportunities to obtain bribes for betray- ing the United States, such as Wu1TTEMORE never dreamed of. Hae Mr. Gremiry one rule for Wiirrr. MORE and another for a greater criminal like Davie? Can he condemn the one and up hold the other? 8 the constitu ee eeeeanees Certificate of Good Character. Benator HAKLAN of lowa, who is a clergy. map a6 well as a politician, and came to Washington poor, but has somehow got rich enough to dwell in an elegant brownstone front end keep a carriage with servants in livery. has. in @ recent missive to one SAUN- pene ot Florida, given the Administration a general letter of recommendation. His eer- tificate of character, however, contains some curious qualifying phrases. He admits that the President has not called around him any men of great talente, but insists that this is not necessary to success, and that medium talents, eupported Ly honesty and industry, are quite sufficient for these times and for Gen. Grant. Coming from Haran, this je invaluable ; for who better than he can certify that men of very small calibre can succeed in reaching their aim, provided it is not too high, quite as well as statesmen of superior attainments? And who is better qualified, except it be Pecksnir¥ himeelf, to @iscourse upon the paying qualities of hon eety, or ite counterfeit, than HanLan, who has been able to roll up a fortune empower. ing him to purchase a sumptuons mansion in Washington ond sport an equipage on Penn eylvania avenue! After all, Mr. HARLAN cannot aesure his friend Sacxppns of a cloudless future for the Administration, Personally he is satis. fied with it; but be ie compelled to admit that there are shining l'ghts in the Republi tan party who are doing their best to break it down; and he impliedly intimates to Baunpens that the sky is overcast, that there are breakers ahead, and that every Re. publican had better look out for himself, for the d—] will be very likely to teke the hind most, Half a dozen euch letters as Senator Han Lan’e wonld ruin Gon, Grant if there we mything left of him to ruin: and the Pre Gent should not hesitate @ moment in shut Hing his mouth by accepting # small present from him, or conferring a fat office upon Senator I wave of his relatives - ——— --— A Famous Murder Cas In murders perpetrated by the relatives Mf the vietim in order to get his m destroy his will, the facts wm coming out, Of this class was the mse of Joskru Wuirr, an aged, wealthy, and respectable citizen of Salem, Mass., who was killed by hie young kinsman, Rrcnanp CkrowNINeHIELD, forty years ago. Crown. BrenreLp, who sprang from one of the most distinguitled fomilles of Massachusetts, en fered into a conspiracy with his brother Groner and his two cousins, FRANK and Josurn Kyavp, to kill the old gentleman in order to destroy a will which ent them, of from the inheritance, At the @<94 of night RicuARD gealed the roar of Mr, WuiTe’s welling, /n which there was no one except bie victim and an infirm housekeeper, stole Wow hie sleeping apartment, and murdered him in his bed. The will was ina bureau w the room, but was not carried off. The public mind was shocked when the feed became known, large rewards were offered for the discovery of the assassin, and for two months all Massachusetts was in a flame of excitement, The ChowNINSHIELDE and the Knarrs were not suspected until two letters, written in @ disguised hand, were received by the Committee of citizens in- Balem who bad the case in charge, the evi dent object of which was to put the Com mittes on a false scent, These letters wore finally traced close home to the Knarvs, and led to their arrest and that of the ChowRINeHELDS, RICHARD ~ ChOWNIN ion house, sight of pL Tadley nell Ricw anv had entered, and of the chamber Rar Pastor's Opere Weose-creed Geaviotee, aatun, | Where tho old man lay, atic Tunnel—Open to Visitors It was the intention of the prosecution to Th Wile a het try Rictannas the principal, and his brother = = and the two Knarrs as accessories. But The daily cireitation of THe SuN during | Ricard knew that, according to the law of fhe last week, which ended on Saturday, | homicide, accessories could not even be put money which point bo the assussins have often been very #low *1118LD was then indicted as principal in the murler, and the other three as accessories, In the various triale which subsequently took place, the proof showed that Kreuany alone perpetrated the dreadful act, while Frank Karr was at the same time skulk: from it, in which 800 feet through and about the windows on their trial until there had first been a con vietion of a principal, While in jail under the indictment as principal, Rrenany, know: ing that his case was hopeless, committed suicide, intending thereby to save his three confederates, His death frustrated the plan of the prosecution, and made it necessary to recast their programma, Frank I then indicted as principal, and the others as his accessories. Frank was put to the bar, and the great struggle commeneed. Daxter WernsTer led for the Commonwealth and Frankiin DexTex for the prisoner, several other of the lending lawyers of the State being engaged on both sides of the case. The contest is memorable in criminal jurisprudence. To convict Karr asa princi pal, when the proof showed that he was not prevent at the murder, but was remote from the house when it was committed, taxed the highest powers of Wrnstr ‘The common law and the statutes of Massachusetts pro vided that to be a principal in a murder a party must be actually present when the i was done, and commit the act himself, id and abet him wi Knarr was tried twice, the jury disagree. ing ot the first trial. Mr. Westen con tended that Knapp was in the adjoining sireet for the purpose of emboldening Crows INSHIELD to strike the blows, to keep watch, and ready to aid him, if need be, in case of extremity ; and he was able to convince the jury at the second trial that this was, within the meaning of the law, being present and assisting CROWNINSHIKLD in the murder, Mr. Weneren’s address to the jury is pub- lished in the earlier volumes of his speeches, and isa model of ite kind. His cominents upon the term “ being present” are subtle and eloquent, but are believed to strain the law to ite utmost tension. ‘The suicide of CROWNINSTIELD was in vain. Kwarr expiated his crime upon the scaffold. But it has been the opinion of many able juriete that the law did not warrant hie con vietton, and that he fell @ victim to the ex cited state of the public mind and the over- powering eloquence of DanieL WerbsTER. Hie brother, Joserm Kxarr, was afterwards convicted as his accessory, and executed. Thero has never been any question, however, that it was the foolish attempt to mislead the Salem Committee by false information through simulated letters which led to the detection of Fuank Knapp and his fellow- comspirators. Their hearts were not suf- ficiently schooled in crime to enable them to Keep their fatal secret. was o did The celebrated linguist, Professor Max MULLER, delivered last winter before the British Royal Institution a series of lectures on the Science of Religion, which are now in the course of publication in various maga zines. The learned Professor treate the sub: ject with the same breadth and fullness, and the same richness of illustration, which ren- dered hie lectures on language so interesting ; but he geems to ue to proceed, as do many other seientific men who have undertaken a similar task, upon a radically unsound as sumption Professor MULLEN aeserts what is undoubt- edly true, that the verious forms of religion which have prevailed and do prevail upon the earth may be classified like languages; and further, that there are family likenesses between certain religions and classes of reli gions end certain languages and groups of languages, Hence he infers that because language is of human invention and elabo- ration, veligions are also of human origin, and he proceeds to discuss them accordingly The theory that there was cne primeval reve- lation to the ancestors of the human race, which has been corrupted and distorted into many forme, he disputes, as having no better foundation than that which makes language to have been similarly revealed in a single primitive form, and afterwards broken up nto the languages of the world. Without going o far ae Mr, Banino GouLp and ascribing religion to the secretive action of the cerebral glands, he none the less believes jit to have been contrived out of an ingenious and poetical interpreta tion of natural phenomena. The idea of a supernatural revelation he scouts as entirely worthless in a scientific point of view, and more than hints that it reste only upon fraud and delusion. It is not demonstrable by actual proof, that without revelation mankind would have no conception of God, of the life after death, and of religious matters in general, because as far back as history extends, and as widely as the explorations of modern travellers lave extended, the world has at no time, and in no locality, been left without such a reve- lation more or less perfectly preserved. T,. oldest authentic records in ©; srence are those of the Jewish nation ; and tliey are known to embody fragments of still more ancient writ Inge. Ag tothe sacred books of the Asiat- os, they nay or may not possess the antiq’ ty assigned to them; but admitting them to be as mach older than the Hebrew Scrip: tures as it is asserted they are, still they too professedly embody ideas which have not been invented by men, but which were travs. mitted from a higher source. The heathen who have no written books have still oral tra- ditions of a supernatural revelation ; andeven the savages of America and Afriea point to a time when their ancestors received instruc. tion from supernatural beings. But eo far as this universality of o belief in revelation proves anything, it proves that belief to be true, What le so generally credited is not likely to be the fabrication of interested de- ceivers, Dut further than thie, observation teaches Ulat the unassisted faculties of the human mind do not saggest the theory or the prac. tices of religion, There never was a child God and his relations to Him. In the few instances in which children have grown up like wild animals, away from instruction of all kinds, they have shown no traces of re- ligious development ; and in no case have savages, withou! the help of missionaries of Senne pee eeany cn as coy taipreventinnt upon their hereditary superstitions. What- ever changes have occurred in their notions have been for the worse—from a moro in- telligent form of belief to one less so. Putting the matter to our own individual experience, we shall find that nothing inthis world— all theorists to the contrary notwith- standing—suggests the existence of any other world or any other class of beings or state of existence than those of which our senses inform us, We might go on forever learning the properties of matter and the wonderful uses to which natural force can be put ; but no experiments of science or art would ever prove to us that there is a God. In fact, the most learned natural philosophers have often been the sturdiest atheists. No amount of acquaintance with the wonders of creation suggests of itself the thought of a cre ator. Given the conception, indeed, and science can abundantly corroborate and illustrate it After Co.umnus had shown how to make the egg stand on its end, all who saw the performance could repeat it. So, in the light that revelation gives, the book of nature tells of God ; but without that light its pages are devoid of any truth higher than their own phenomena. It is true that the common notion that one single revelation was made to men once for all, and that oll religions have Leen derived from that, may be crroncous. It would be presumptuous in any mortal to undertake to limit the operations of Providence to £0 nar row a method of manifestation. In showing the unity of design in the various types of revelation which have been made to man k.nd, Prof. Mvnien’s labors may prove val uable. If the eame influences of mind and cir. cumstances which have affected the develop: ment of language can be proved to have affected that of religion, it will, so far from destroying our sense of obligation to the Divine Being, increase it. But to attempt to make out that He has never interposed by revelation to lift his children out of their mental darkness, is to impeach his benevo- lence in a manner offensive to the devout, and unsatisfactory to the truly rational in- quirer, It is at once more edifying and more in accordance with reason to believe that He who made us has also communicated to us information eoncerning Himeelf and his re lations to us, than to conjecture that He has abandoned us to the exercise of our own feeble powers. Our readers will remember the case of the Rev, Joux B. Crank, D. D., of sburgh, who was tried by the Presbytery of Allegheny for having dishSyorably broken an engagement of marriage to Miss Littis Hawxes, The conclu- sion of the tribunal was not favorable to Dr. Cuank. It appeared that he had made love to Miss Hawkes in avery ardent manner, and that he had broken off the engagement upon a very frivolous pretext, For this he was sentenced to be publicly reprimanded by the President of the ecclesiastical court which tried him, and the reprimand was administered on the spot amid tears and sorrow. It seems, however, that this trial and reprimand did not settle the business, and that a committee of (bree was appointed by the Presbytery to make some further inquiries respecting the facts of the case. This committee bave recently made their report. They find that there is evidence to justify a new trial upon the charge that Dr. Can} was guilty of duplicity in being engaged to be married to two ladies at the me time. The committee are also of the opin- ion that he was guilty of Sabbath-breaking writing letters to Miss Hawxes on Sunday, and also in paying ber a lover's visite on that day Upon this question of Sabbath-breaking, the Preabytery adopted a resolution formally ap- proving the action of the committee, aud ex- pressing their decided disapproval of Dr, CLanx’s conduct in this respect, Accordingly, all p under the authority of this Presbytery will henceforth do well not to write any love le'ters on Sunday, or pay any visits of affection on that day to the women of their Learts, As for the crime of duplicity in being engaged to be mai ried to two ladies at the same time, the Presby- tery refused to endorse the report of the com- mittee or to institute any proceedings. While their condemnation of Sabbath love letters and ay lover’s calls is earnest and uncompro- mising, they are not prepared to express them- selves in the sume unqualified manner with re- gard to forming engagements of marriage with two lovely women at the same time. And yet to ordinary apprebension it is the more damnable in of the two, ——E The Hon, Hmam Revers, United States Senator from the State of Mississippi, is entitled to special credit among all classes of men, He voted against the recent act of Congress im- posing an income tax, This shows that he un- derstands and realiy believes in the doctrine of the equality of ali men before the law. The in- ¢ tax being essentially unjust, in fact a mode legal larceny, and being based upon @ viola. tion of the principle of equality, Mr, Revers did right not to vote fur it, All honor to the Sena tor who adheres to his principles! How far is such a man above Senator Suraman of Ohio, who advocated the income tax on the ground that the persons subject to it are able to pay? This is the same rule that is adopted by a Greek brigand in levying ransom upon his victims How fortunate the country would be if it could exchange Surm+y for another man of principle like Revers in the Senate, ——— ‘The most important witness in th case of whom we thus far know anything is un: doubtedly Officer Maxcam, He was the first to appear on the scene of the murder after the alarm hed been raised, Had he been possessed of a keen eye, the murderer might already have been detected. The appearance of the inmates of the Naran mansion, the blood-stains on the walls, the floor, the stairs, and the hall, and, in short, the condition of things in general about the house, might to an acute observer have revealed much that was irrecoverably lost @s soon as others rusbed in and filled the rooms, But Offi. cer Manaam is unfortunately the very reverse of acute, It is doubtful whetber in the whole police force of this city amore stupid man can be found, That this is so has been shown at the inquest, The simplest questions the man at times took a quarter of an hour to answer; and when it came to difficult questions, he was utterly bewildered, and replied almost at haphazard, According to own testimony, when he entered the house he looked at hardly anything but the body, and al- lowed Mrs, Kexty to remain unquestioned in the basement below, and Mr, Faspenicae Natuan to examine the dead man’s clothing instead of doing it self, Did the footsteps on the stairs look like those of aman running ov walking?’ was one of the questions arked, “I think they were those of a man walking,” replied Maxaam, but in such o eo ATHAN who, of himself, discovered the existence of } way, and with so much hesitation. as to deprive * STE "SUN; “SATURDAY:- AUGUST ~6,~1870, his answer of all value, The questions, Were the bloody footsteps descending or ascending? were they fresh or dry ? how far did they extend? did you see any returning footsteps? what was the ap- pearance of the blood on Mr. Freonarce’s shirt? and several others which, if answered positively hy @ keen, observing men, wond nave a wemen- dous influence on the issue of the case, were answered in an equally unsatisfactory manner by this poor, weak fellow. Fortunately, keen de- tectives, like Mr, Brnnert, may yet have som: thing to say at the inquest; and to them we must look for testimony that will more than make up for Maxoaw’s dullness ————__— Are the Police Commissioners wilfully imperilling property in the Fifth Ward by order- ing the transfer of Capt, Jenearam Perry? The respectable tradesmen of the ward will unani- mously petition for his return to the place which he has so long and so creditably filled. Honest men down town will ask the sagacious Judge Bos- wortn to insist that Commissioners Brenxan and Swirn shall not make the Fifth Ward unsafe by putting in command such an incompetent person as sleepy old Joun Wintawson. ——————— THE WESTCHESTER MYSTERY, father Saye—The Girl's Ine tion for Osceoln—The Young Queen's orance of ber Death, Mr. Reuben Merritt, father of Sarah, the late wife of the so-called King of the Delawarvs, avs that on the 16th of May, 1869, bis daughter, without the knowledge of her family, was married to Os- cools, a balf-breed Indian, Sarah was at the ti nineteen years of age, sprightly, intellizent, and Wwandsome, and her marriage excited her friends indignation. A year ago last winter she desired to visit her father, and her husband bade her go and stay all winter, promising that he would give her en dollars, She raid she did not wont the money; all wanted was that he shoald write to ber, and this he promised to do. Day after d Queen went to the post office, but no letter reacted hier for a f One cate at lost, containing two dollars, and Sarah re. turned home, She was devote ped to ver Lusband, In Moreh last her two brothers went to see her, and found everything packed up for removal, They asked her where wae and abe ren! to her sister dagen ine’s, When she arri there, she wae asked whit! her Lushand was remori She burst into tears, and eid she darat not tell Ste went away. and thac 1s the last her family saw or heard of Ler until they were told that she was buried. Last. March Sarah's sister, Josephine Merritt, wanted Ssrah to co to Nonsekceping Osceola said he would hire « room and bedroom for her, and Visit her every two weeks. Sarah oljecied, saying that she wanted to be where he was. He told her ever to ask him 'o go to houseke: ng aga n; he had made her one offer, and would uever make ber another, Sarah's body was found on Sunday morning at daybreak. Her busbaud and those about him never told any of ner friends of her death until 1A. Mon Monday, when they informed her brother that ber faneral ‘would take place at? P.M. The first in- timation they had of her death was ia a letter from Mrs, Coover, the mother of Osceoln, written to Mr. Merritt, Sarah's brother. The suspicions of the Merritts have not been removed. —— NEW YORK'S MAN MILLINER. — ‘The Mysteries of Wot Placked from the Modistes—Nome of Clothed by Moschcowitz. Three doors west of Broadway, on Ninth street, is the flourishing establishment of @ man dress- maker and costame designer, Monsieur Moschcowitz, © young Hungarian, His place is elegantly tur- nished, 094 on your arrival Miss Russell, an Ameri can and the junior partner in the house, receiver you and takes your orders, or gives you informa tion, Very few dresses are to be seen; none are on exhibition, But those thas are in the makers’ hands are executed in astyle equal to Worth's own de- fiens, for Moschcowite was ® pupil of taat world: renowned man-miltiner, and his father also followed the budine’.) at WOrtemberg. ‘The second and third floors are the workroome of the operatives who execute Moschcowits's de- figns. They are ail burly, strong men, Germans, Prassians, Poles, and Hungariane. ‘They sit on stools, not chairs, and their scissors, thread, wax. and other work appliances are deposit- ed on the for by their sices. They work by the piece, and earn from $2) to $30a week. Only the basting is done by Lund; the sewing machines, of which they have a variety pone room, wora the serms. work, when finished. has a most elegant and artistic precision, being superior in appearance ‘The piping is made by’ an ingenious inachine invented by Morcucowits, as an attachment to the sewing m1 chine, One is shown attached to a Willeox & Givbs's eingle-thread mael ine, but it is said to Work just es wei! on the doubie-stitchers, Another invention of Mescheowits's, the frizgling machine, Also i seon. It payv out the bias edee of a piece of ‘silk, anc at the same time secures it by a stitch trom further ravelling. ‘This is also a sewing macuine at- tachment. Beth inventions have been patented Moschoowlts fe knows oll aver the United States by the lenders 0° we: and some of his cos tomes have gone t in tie outtits of the wives of ministers and a “s to foreign courts. The elegant Mre. Lore Anders of Cincinnati, now at Sara- toga, 18 one of the patrons of (his New York worth, So ie Mrs. Tibbects of New Orleans, now at New Port, She is the wigg of Tibbetts, the snecers/ul Atlantic cable man. er bevatitul daughter, Mre. Consiaot, also orders ner dresses here. Mr-. Lau. renw Andrews, of 18 Fifth avenue, has the elegant mourning shy how wears executed bere; aud indeed none but tho-e who ean afford to pay the best prices for work avil desiens can go to Morehcowitz, One Hundred dolisrs is trequently paid for the making of & dives, and $25 is the lowest price taken, —— = OLD TIMES AND NEW. — Street Bu ptivt Chai There is trouble among the members of the Laight street Baytist Chureh in this eity, growing out of the devire and efforts of a few of the most active and wealthy members of the elarch, under the leadership of Blanghai Pyle, the O. K. soap man, to sell the church property and unite with the members and congregation of the Forty-eecond street Buptist Church, Both churelicy are considerably in debt, and the up-town chure) has no pastor, but has a laree debt and congregation, while the down-town church has A small debt aida small pastor, with a large family and salary and asmal) congregation, and the Pyle or up-town party, who have recently moved their residences to the neighborhood of the up-towa church, under the Jeadership ef the worthy brots Pyle, who is one of the best and tallest members of the chareh in proportion t0 bis size, are in tavor of selling the down-town church and paying the debt of the uptown chureh with the proceeds, and upiting the pastor with the Jargo salary and amily and small congregation with the Iargely Indebtod Pastoriess uptown congregation, and thas by har. moniously blending all of these incongruous ma- terials, create a stil! larger church and congregation with @eimall pastor with a large salary, family aud congrogation entirely out of debt very’ near to hiv own Up-town palaiial resiieuce, frou Ww could gaze with delight upon bis Napoleonic achieve. ment of reliious cam But it reeis thot the down-town members, who sre Mu more numerous thon the up-town members, object to this nice Jittle arraucement, and greatly dislike the notion that their dear little church, where they were born, baptized, and raised, should Ye sold and turned into a tavern or stabie for the purpose of paying of tne debt of snother congress tion larger and richer than themselves, and thus lose their property and. iientity in the up-town con. Kregation, and be put to the trouble and excense of colng (Wo miles out of their way to attend divine rervice, which ix now in thelr own immediate Weigh! orhiood, 7 ‘They wre circulating a protest, which will be rigned by & Jarre majority of the members, witere 1 they pledge themselves to apply to the Courts for pro tection and rediess in care the trustees attempt to sell the property, which they were directed to do some time ago by ‘the voles of only #iatcen members of the church and congregation, while over a huudred of the members who were absent at the time, und had no notice whatever of the odjert, in- tentions, und doings of the up-town party, are utierly opposed to it, oe Tho Escape of the Leipz Wasmyaron, Aug. 5.—'The steamer Bremerhaven on the i7eh of July, and rea more yesterday, On arriving st South view of the declaration of war between Fran Prussia, the captain dropped anchor. On the night of the Bist of July, secretly in tie darkness, he started (or Baltimore, risking eapture by the French loot, Gen, Lee's Sword Sheathed Forever. Wire Surenur Seanos, Va., Aug. 5.—Gen, Robt, FE, Lee has not tendered bit services to France, The tender of iis servic a rejection by the French Government, a# ragorted in the London Daily News, wan gratuitous aud unfounded, He has sheathed his sword forever, ——————_—_— The first dollar in « savings bank is often the foun @ation’of a fortune. Begin at dpe Mutual Benet Wavings Bevk, located io Tam ® ding, — Ade THE COLD SPRING MURDER. THE ATTACK UPON THE TELLER OF THE FISHKILL BANK. —-— Highwaymen at Work by Da -A Brave Mon Mardered-A Vigilance Committes Throatened—Interview withthe Murderer U nete jel Drew in Old Putnam, Correnpondence of The Sun, Canwet, Putnam County, N. Y., Aug. 4— Twenty-six years ago, the beautiful little town from which J write was the scene of an execution for murder. One George Denny lad been proved guilty of killing Abraham Wanzer, and on the %6th of July, 1844, the erimina} was launched into eternity from the jail-yard in Carmel, This was the first and only execution within the limits of old Patnam county; Dut it is more than probable that at the October Oyer and Terminer sentence of death may be pro- nounced upon another mansiayer, and that in due course of time he may be hanged by the neck until the physicians declare him to be dead. THE noDDERY. And this is the brief story of his erime, A litte more than week ago, that is on the after: noon of Wednesday the 27th ult,, Mr, Browning, the teller of the National Bank of Fishkill Landing, was engaged in receiving deposits from business men at Cold Spring. ‘The money and checks that he had collected were in a little satchel whieh he car ried in his hand, After calling ot ‘eral stores be stepped into the establishment of Charles Boyd, on Main street, where he arranged his accounts and prepared to leave for Fishkill. On reaching the poreh he was met bya stranger who threw a hand- ful of red pepper into his eyes, seized his satchel, and attempted to make off with it. This, however, he did not succeed in doing without a severe strug: for, although blinded almost to madness, Mr. hold avon tie the ground by a flerce blow from the highwayman’s fist THe FLIGHT, enred the eatchel. took to bis roveing Main of Mr. Munseli’s v had snouted ive rushed over ¢ ‘The thief, having heels and made tor id entering the grow y residence, 1 atily for help , wil lawn al least « doze reuilt, W ward the river, In the centre of th confronted wilh anew obstacle. Elijah Jo Munsell'« coachunan, having heard Mr, Browning’ cries, ond seeing a strance inan hurrving through his eraployer’s grounds, two eirenmstances that, taken in connection with the preseace of a crowd 4 in pursuit, led him to believe that mischief had heen done, at once sought to seize and detain the fugi tive THE MURDER. ‘The latter called to Jones to clear the track, fol- lowing up the demand with a m his revolver, atranzer, more trough: t to the risk he ‘anger and held h who acain fired. es now been ly in earnest. Seemingly inditte was rennine, he rushed upon th him fast. Maddened by his failare to escare w Me booty, and cursing, the thwarted him, the desp a, belore Jones could pr the third load into the # A wiles resulte later ol one at the wet, dis: of his captor, in death jast HARILY SECURED, for n'ter eucceeding in disabling Jones he made no further atiempt toeseape, In reply to the quextions to bim on bis arrest he said that bis name was n Smith, and that be liad no intention to kill ee, je was taken before Justice Ferris, who commit- ted him to. i, Later in the aflernoon he was tuken to Cormel by Sheriff Butler, and at once locked up in one of the iron celle of the jail, JONES REMEMDERED, ‘The vietim of the highwayman's boilet died on Thursday. He was a Pole, without friends or kin in this country, a faithful ‘servitor, au inteilieent, honest, and brave man. On hearing of the result of Jcnes's effort to aave their property, the officers of the Bank of Fishkill sent ekittal physicians to his bedside; but all cheir skill was in vain. When he aied be was borted at the expense of the bank. a special car baving been chartered to convey free of charge all who wished to attend the funeral. And ina fitting manuer the bravery of je man, & monument to be erected over hie grave by the President and Directors of tive bank. ‘On Wednesday I landed at Cold Spring, where, although a week had elapsed since the murder, it till the absorbing topic of disenssion among all Classes of the people, More than onee during the uiet evening | heard expressions w satisfied me iat bead a leader is wanted to make the organiza- tion of VIGILANCE COMMITTRE an established fact, and the violent taking off of the murderer a certainty. That might I tound Sherif! Butler in the village, aad this moruing, having pre- yailed upon him to go with me, I rode over to Car- mel ond sought an interview with the murderer, ‘The jail of Putnam county is under the roof that covers the Court House, and occupies the rear of the building, There are but eight celle, two of which are of iron. These are in the centre of the cround floor of the jail, and stand, ax it were, back to back, one opening to the east, the other to the west. ‘The walls of this part of the jal are orna mented with various rude attempts at painting, the Work of an artist rot unknown to fame, agenias of Whom I shall have something to sey presently ‘There were but three prisoners in the jail when T called, One was a young Brookiynite confined on the charge of stea.ing a horse from Sheriff Butler a few weeks ago: the sec was an amiable gentle. man who had beaten his wife: and the third war THE MURDERER OF RLIJAH JONES. His right name I found to be Trumpler or Trump: bauer. “Wheu I entered the hall be was lying upon the bed in Lis cell, but jainved up when he beard the kindly voice of the Sheriff, and eame to the gra to salute him, A TALE WITH TROMPDAURR When he came from the bath, L entered into a long conversation with him, [found lun very ip telligent, but there was something in his fuce indi cative of cunning and erueity. and bis voice Was that of a man much given to prevarication Correspondent—Is your name Smith or Trump bai rt Prisoner—Trawpbauer, 1 did n't know that any knew my right name until this morning, jad you ever met Jones before * er. —Had you seen Browning before the day of the ihesitating)—Yes ; but 1 didn’t know him C!—Was the robbery of Browning premeditated, or was the plan formed suddenly P.—I never thought of committing the robbery until that day: T knew there was money in the satchel, and 1 intended to passess myself of it; I vid not wish tw do violence to Browning cr any one else, Why could you not have escaped from Mu '# rounds without using your pistol > P.—Because Jones blocked me ; 1 DIDN'T WANT TO WORT MIM; he stood in my road and tried t uly to frighte oc to bith effect; Tfired ux 1 Hot to be s it Tred into hi is Your ome f ing)—My giather lives in Germantown. lave you lived in Newburgh t I know a lew people Were at was your Dusivess when you worked for a living? pt wae 9 Eustman’s Colic my knowledge 0 C.—How are yo P.—Oh, about think it is poll the people I studied bookkeeping at elikcenie, DUL never put yject Lo amy Wee here ¥ deserve, Bot Tdon't eto Sly much about that, If 6 should know that Pam not treat ed with unkindness, they would ¢ for a uew administration, By the way, | FURY WANT TO LYNCH MB, Maye you heard any talk of that kind ? Yes; but I don't thivk any attempt will be made unless you seek to break at ease, OF in the event of your friends trying to rescue you, your life would hot be worth an hour's purehase ‘May questions which [asked the prisoner he re colved in perfect silence, He rurely oozed into uny face when he evoke, und although showing no signs of repidation, was nervously cautious aud weighed his words well before replying Tis CHARACTER, A few years ago, #0 the Sheriff told me, Mr. Henry Krusty of Cutexill, atopped at Cold Spring at ine Sherif’s request, and afterward visited the jail where Trumpbauer was confined. Before the prisoner, and befor that his nam otter than John Smith, Mr, Ernst gave the follow. ing information : “TC 1 am Inistaken this fellow. John Binith, belongs to Catskill, (‘Then followed & per: sonal description, which Uullied exactly with that of the prisoner.) His rit name is ‘Trumpbauer, or awit is pronounced sometimes. ‘Trumpler, For several years, indeed irom his very ebildhood, he lias been regarded as a thief, The community’ in whien he lived was always troubled with burglars, Horse thieves, and other law breakers, and » worse gang of malefectors never lived. Mony of them are Tick men, and the uncle of this prisoner is known asone of the worst of them, 1 believe that your prisoner is another, His father is @ well-to-do farmer, and, F think, an honest man, ‘The boy was Drought ap by hie grandfather, who, a few years 0, a8 I have heard, gave his’ grandson $1,000, ‘winieh be wan not long in equandertug. “Tt i# hinted in and around Catskill that $20,000 will be expended in rescuing the criminal from the hands of the law. The gang baye the mone), and Uiey are all desperate men.” Here the Sheriff remarked that the prisoner could not be taken from bis custody by any power short of that of the Court, He bad two men watching the cell day and night, and neither vigilance commit tee wor outlaw Kang could remove tiie map without adehs. ‘The question having been raised that none of ‘Trumpbauer's confederates had appeared in Spring on the day of the murder, tt was that on thres enceesnive Wednendaye be an nter in ihe # ‘One oF two companions from Newburgh had watch- ed aad followed the teller of the bank, and that when the robbery was commitved the tic! had two friends waiiing for him ina boat not far from Mr. Munseil’s, It wae suggested that the first (wo shots fired by Trampbauer were intended o@ the signal for tem to be ready, and that the third ‘warned them that }e was in great danger, and that they should harry off. A RESCUR THREATENED, certain, that among the residents of lief i« strong that an attempt to rescue ootemplated, and will be made. ‘To ard against a surprise, Mr. Robert Wileon live een sent up from Cold’ Spring to act as Special ‘Warden, and he will remain with the prisoner ontil the day of trial. Every precaution has been taken to render lis confinement secure, and a simple but effective plan for arousing the citizens In the event ofan assault on the jail has been devised, A gentleman told me to-day tat, the reason why Mr. Wilson was added to the rezular force on du! at the jail was because the Cold Spring people Wished to be assured that Trompbauer should not be allowed to escape, Two years ago the artiat of whom I have hereinbefore made mention—one Hed- den by confined in the Carmel jail, in company with one Conroy, for burglary committed ‘at Cold Spring. two ‘burglars remained long enough to establi most friendly relations with the jailer, and then they departed one night, with: Out upvenling to the law for enlargen Hedd who bad left several specimens of hi walls, bad also amused himself with the MANUFACTURE OF PASS-KEYS, Which he made of lead and pewter kindly furnished by the jailer, and when the proper time came he walked out deliberate! wh, and gave it a lon the coldest night of the wince ## thinly clad. He wade his of «maiden lady who at that very hour was receiving the midalght of her c bachelor lover in t well. lighted and sy parlor, Flanking the house the fying burglar ploughed his way to the stable, where he found buffalo robes, blankets, horse covers, and other warmth-producing gurments in quantities to answer the demande of a dozen freezing men. After himself in a soft heap of the welcome coy cast about for means to annihilate space running the risk of being starved with cold, Being now well warmed, he left uis impromptu bed, barnensed to the old maia’s sleigh, kets piled about him ty on, and in two or th sleepy steed in mo- © hours WAS safe at Cold Spring, Leaving t yrse in a lane, he w oot to the ruilroad or to a bout in the riv vanialed. " WMAN'R PARADISE, Carmel is 8 wnd (1 believe) the tery, Ray now lie Chauncey Weeks, a son-in- and also well known aa ina tine mansion surrounde James Washington Ho da few years ag Ray mond erie, 18 one of bis neignbors; and not far dwells E, Howe, of » Cireus fame. I THE DREW FAMILY. One of Daniel Drew's country residences lies « few miles from the town, in the direction of Croton and within a short distance is the mansion an hus an abiding faith in fast trotters, stadle always fall of them. Although wiles of a railw station, he never takes the car for the city, but alwaye driver himself behind a pa of beasts that land bim in Wall street in w litle over four hours, It i# aid that he will not trust himself bebind a locomotive. He and his erand- father and oth relatives are very fond of “swapping” bouses; and Lam told that more than ouce the families have exchanged homer without removing anything but clothing, toothbrushes, toilet articles, and horses. CARMEL DETERMINED. Ail of the good penple in and around Carmel, and, indeed, from the whole country side, are in: ely exeited over the Jones mi jer; and many of them do not hesitate to advocate the carrying out of extreme mensures in case any attempt is made to reseue the priso1 the Nathan Innocence ~The Murder tted by a Wandering ike J Prom Wilkes’ Spirt. All the deteetiv ve that the crime the work of a prof burglar, Tt touches of art.” No t such a weapon as “the iron de burgiar woul have tent the dog" was not ared for any burgianriogs 5 fe hea been regularly ‘opened with ey. » chest or closet had been pried. Tt was ‘simply used for the firet of murder, uoxt of welf-defence, pal should the aessenin be intercepted from escape ! and when no Jonger necessary for the latter purpose, wes forgotten at the There are other theories wuieh we need not ulate, though one, among the rest, we icel bound to notice, and that is—the inclination which & portion of the city press Lave shown, to Ox the horrid deed upon the younger Mr. Nathan, W frankly recognize the impossibility of their being actuated by any malignant or improper motives ii puting forward such a theory, but we cannot, for the life of us, see how they first conceived, or why they now support It, In the first piace, there is an utter lack of motive on the part of yoane Mr. to commit the mard He bas bimseif a comfortable business ; his father's root gave him a free support; and it ap- wars that the buik of the wealth belonging to tie Nathan family is located on bis mother. His needs uld not Lave driven bin to the extraction of the birt-studs from the shirt-busom or to th ing of his murdered father's watch, It is young Mr Nathan had blood upen bi ‘ ‘obtained by contact with bis iead father’s body. It this is true, and there was biood upon bis shirt, that sign in itself be taken a8 a conciu five proof of innocence. His father bad been murdered at balf-past two, and = the tory of all murders for a thousand year ned by Couris, hat chown that every murde drawn the blood of his victim upon lis jas been governed by an irresistible and Almost forious desire to cleanse his clothes—in oiher words, Wash away \bat portion of the murdered man which bowls in his ears and fieeges him to the heart, With the Worst sense of his atrocious crime, here we have young Mr. Nathan, if the avove dreadiul theory true, wearing his father's blood the live-tong might, and, after @ sound gleep in the robe which bore if, tossing the garment aside among his other clothing Ib the morning. No evidence is shown, moreover, by examining the pives avd condaite that the setual mur: Gerer had cieansed bimeelf of any of his guilty stains within the house ; while no reasonable theory. of any sort has yet accounted for the possession by the young man of such an unvsual and vulgar weopon as the © iron dog,” or for his Killing his lather with it, without first Killing We housekeoger, who slept in the next room, We find, therefore, nothing but absurdity ip the iheory which points w Washington Nathan ae the murderer of hie father; and we dis miss it With deep. regret, that the Journals which have patit fort did not content themselves with Aniesatiog it quietly Wo the Superintendent of Po. i jeory is nearly identical with that of the de. Itis reported to be thelr opinion that the deed was d by wome sneak thief, who had had his D the « fox sume time, and who obtained to Tl with a wight key, or through an o nder the impression that few if any of (imily were in town, and that he might eo over the ous, prying open drawers and elovets with bis rude iron Wool, without foar of iuterraption, We rather in cline to the b fhowever that the mar rT was one © those idle, lose: foreign vugabonds, who sleep in field® or lumber yards, who are conatanily loatin ¢ Where they ean pik up. serap trou or stray touls ih shipyards or workshops, and who. frequently avy in basements arking for ale, takmg every chance tuey find to slip into an unguarded honed, Such Bien we these arg Urvally friendiens, Ixolated, lonely wretches, With no one 10 consort With, and’ conse quently 10 one to betray Wiew, Tewak quite easy fora wolf ofsbie sort 10 io the Nathan man. tion and secrete himselt; and from what we learn As to tne conduct of the house, he might have slept there ip security the entire ¢ oe Buch a wretch us this, being interrupted in his plunder by the murdered map, has, of course, kiven him battle, and at lengtu found it wecessary to aKsis- tinate him In order to escape, The same. scene Would have takeu place if the murderer had been the sneak thief pictured by the dytectives: an the only ting in which ihese two low kinds of robbers resembied a thorough burglar was their readiness to kill to effect their own escape. Having slain the victim without giving alarm to any of the other inniates of the house, it Was perfectly easy for either en to have escaped in tae manuer in which it putting on the shoes which had probably been left at the door before en- tering the room, the monster has grasped his tool of death a8 @ Weapon of defence, and warily descended to the hall, ‘Then laying it down, in order to undo the fastenings of the door, be has succeeded in slip ping out {oto the darkueds of the night, forgetting It io bis retreat, ‘Taking the centre of the street, and always cross ing to the other fide when any one appeared, he hae succeeded in reaching one of his customary lwir tere, #till d by the darkness, be has. bu is plunder, aud in’ some foul neighboring pool Washed off all traces of his crime relat THIS MORNING'S TELEGRAMS, eines ‘They are hoarding silver in France, ‘The Japan Smith Company's works on Fountain meet fe, Trovigenee, were burned last night, Loss ‘The Freneb Municipal Patriotic Committee asks for the opening of «credit of fve millions for the as- ‘sis tance of soldiers’ families, ‘The colored People of Cineinnath leat night organ ined @ Central Poiitieal Cluo, for the purpose of di ating political information, aud the forwarding of the polluces tntereete of colored new, The Michigan Senate yesterday passed the Omnt. bus Railroad Bill reversing ite previons action, ‘Tho ‘ased the bil wiieh provides that all bonds oF er evidences cxliieas vowed previous to May legal and valid, York Campbell (colored) was hanged tn Calpeper tectives seces Court House yerteraay, for the murder of ap oi wad Warm man, Polley Patek, on the ath of Decembar Tv exrcntion was tn an oben field, aud was Witucsse d thousand persons, POSTSCRIPT SUN OFFICE, AUG, 6-4 A. M. THE MOVEMENTS NEAR SAARBRUOS, rs’ Miciemiah= oure Neutrate the Garde Mobile Loxpox, Aug. 6.—A correspondent with the French forces senda the following account of the affair at Saarbruck, under date of Tuesday, 4 A.M. T have just come from the railway sation. Mo xpected. Marshal Le Bout iis just ved towards Gen. Prosaard’s lieadqaarters om is way Lo the heights of Spieheren. A Kreneh officer gave me a place in his carrince, At half-past nine we reached the advanced posts, as & lieutenant and captain of the Sixty-ninth of the line were busy bucklin their men's knapaacks, They only know * forward. At 10 o'clock «| idettes of Barroul's brigade were wo the front, and the infantry were steadily ad- der cover of the woot, Following the lel line, the artillery and nding the Will, Reaebing the pl infantry rapidiy deployed, and skirmishers were thrown well out. and battal fs massed in the rear, rtitiery in position on the heigl kKirmishing line traversed the valle the buttalions, and keeping at th The heights from the other sive without opposition, rbrack, the artillery opened fire ae he Brussian batteries on the opposite side of the river replving vigorously, ‘The division of Ba taille, massed upon the road from Forbach to Saar: moved up, and the attack bezan in eirnest, At twelve the Emperor arrived and tae cannonade was brisk all along the line. Tho Prosaian. battery At the entrance of the wood near the eillage of Arne- val, finding it too hot, Iimbered ap and moved away. A Battalion of Prussian infantry retired at the same time rae order by the quay of Saar, Ata the troop wera, in advance aiuin, and the ground just held by the Prussians was occupied with. out further resistance, Here and there were a Prossians dead and miny wouaded. ‘There was can, onaling towards Saarloula, but it was growing or, this battalion the first experiment was made the mitraidleura, and wit! jecide | effect; the on Was broken, aud disappeared behind the ver, fol kame were Overlook. r A correspondent writes from Motz. Angust @: We had six killed, and one hundred and seventy wounded. Toe Prussian loss is not known, bat is reckoned at two hundred and fifty, In the traim with me from Soarbrack come one hundred fourteen prisoners, among tiem fifty of the Prog. shin Reserve. One is Sell, ason of the KEx-Grand Chamberlin of the Duke of Nassan, A staf! oficer sent by the Emperor has arrived from Forbach to tion the prisoners, and with orders that they shail be kindiy treate, ALY strong columns of intantry, with cavalry and artillery, leaving Spleheren,took ® position betwoew the village of Arneval, the Hablberg, and the slopes, of Saarbriick, , This movement was sustained on the left in front of Forbach by the First Division of te Second Corps, the other division supporting the risht, and the whole body numbering twenty-five thousand men, The Sixty-seventh Regiment, forming the lead of the column of the Second Division, opened fire in skwaishing order on the enemy, Who were very weil busted in the upper part of the valley where the French had deployed. ‘The struggle was brief, within twenty minutes the Prussian infantry was in ‘full retreat, but tie enemy's artillery, ported at the edge of the wood in We rear of taarbruck opened on the Frencli troops, wuo ade vanced ander this fire und establisned several bat- tallons on the heights above the Baar. ‘The canonade then stretched along the eatire line from Ladwigswold, a mile and a halfto the rieht of Saarbiuck, to the ‘extremity of the forest of Arne in the reur of the village of the same name. Firing Was continued with violence tll half-past 12, when the enemy's fire gradually diminished, and’ theis forces tell back. The French sdvaucing picked up two dead and seven wounded. During the action the Prussia blew up the bridge over the Saar, which the Frencd now repairing. The Prussian forces numbered thousand. A’ sharp cannonade was heard t- ward Grosblidersdorf, occupied by the Third Dive sion, A correspondent writing from the King’s beads quarters at Mayence on Tuesday, says: ' ‘There was unbroken enthusiasm on the journey from Berlin. Prinee Cari, Bismarck, Moltke. and Von Rooni, the War Minister, are all’ here. Every #iation on’ the way was crowded with people to catch a sight of the Kine. He was received with tears and shouts by the soldiers, and welcomed eve- rywhere with gifts of beer, wine, and fruits and provisions. ‘The feeling of the troops and people everywhere fe the ame-—devotion to the King, who arvived a6 Mayence at 5 o'clock on Tuesday morning, and oc cupied the castle of Prince Radziwill, correspondent at Frauktort on Tuesday writest The public mind ts Aied with distrust of English neutrality. Nothing will satisfy Germany unless coal is ‘made contraband lke gunpowder. It is Delieved the French are buying, also, cartridges and horses largely In England, and the utmost irritation ts felt. These complaints almost neutralize the gratitude drat felt at the attitude of the Euglisn prew and veople rday evening I learned some particularg about the German army, which are at sup prising and satisfactory, From one reg! eight bundred men had been sent bac fort, F presence at Mayence being unnecessary, Another reginent mareued into Mayenc hundred meu unarmed and {u their ordinary dre ‘The services of these men were at once dispensed with, and the men retarned to their homes, I men- tion ‘these {wo cases as having fallen withtu wy own observation, but Iam told oo good authority ‘that they are not exceptional. It constitutes a complete and gratitying answer to the asser.ions in tie French newspapers Wo the eflect that the Landwebr are faintbearted, reuctant’ to obey the summons to action, and disposes to shirk their duty in every possible way Newspaper seizures are common line recording the m trevial movement of a reg ment suMces to excite the ire of the police and in- sure the confiscation of toe paper. A Correspondeat at Copenhagen on writes, The Duke de Cadore was expected daily ons special mission and with instructions for (« Preven th Only two Freveb vessels are yet ly the ‘Thetis and Cassindra. ‘The Danian press arc almost ananimous that France can have Denar» assis- tance if it is Wanted. Lowpon, Auy, 5.—No French account of the W senbourg defeat was received Here ap to one th morning. A correspondent telegraphs Paris that he bus the official desovteh in his poesesriou, bat permission to telegraph It is refused The Prussian vicvory has made a great impression here, A correspondeat writes from Paris, evening: There was almost a mutiny at Chalons Camo, among the Garde Mabille, when Marshal (.arobert inspected them yesterday ind asked the usual of- cer's question, “any complaints? —to which the regulation answer is * none sir.” These young soldiers made inany compliin's, and in @ very stardy way. One section, [ do not know re. Asingle Sunday, Vhureday how numerous, signified that they were s) kof the service already, and cried out, Bucs (0 Paris Marshal Canrobert, bursting with rice, (od the mutineers Luey were unworthy the wait " men, and forthwith proceede’ to mane lear 4 of the fact, ‘They hardly weomed to resiize Uaty thouzh not regular troops, they were subject Lo the utmost severity oF martial kaw Tleurn that he had (40 ringleaders broaght to drum-head court-martial and shot direetly It is known that the com lat of the Garde Mobile Ie very vad, and they want shelter and food There is great lamentation at Metz from the Pras. sians hiving loosed the Sarbruck coal mines, whieh prov 4,04 tons of coal yearly, one-halt of which Was consumed in France, ——— ‘The French Difticulties in Rome, 8, August 5.—The Papal Nuncio waa d yesterday by the as, bat hi presentations had no effect. Cauloia save 7 written a very bitter letter to the Empress, pressing Joubte of “Italy's protection ot Rome, umber of deputies to the Corps islatif have losted agvinst the evacuation of Rone, but the Will of the Emperor has re vainea unaltered ee ees A Fass over the Qaven's Cup Race. Lonnow, Aug. 5.—In the regatta of the Roral Yacht Squadron yesterday the race for the Queeh * cub Was Won by Cupt, Hughes's cutter Vans tons, by tine allowance” Her victory by Goant Batthyany’s schooner Flying tons, on the ground of unfair sailing. The Freuch Evacuation of Rome, Panis, Aug. 5.—Transports left Civita V to-day with the last regiment, and ail th troops late in Maly are expected 40 be man frontier by the 10th inst, ——— Clow Fre A DEPAULTER FOR $500,000. aa hs ment in Fini Circtes tn Bale re- 20,000 Shares of Baltimore an Obio Railroad Steck Hypothecated, dpectat Despatch (0 the Brening Lost Wasninaton, Avg. 5.--There was much ex in Baltimore finan: citement yesterday cirelet over a rumored defaleation uf one of Cie oMivers ol the Baltimore and Obio Railroad, Mr Crawiond late Secretary to the Company, has uset a0 of the Company's stock, worth gir) \K), and ed from diderent. persons Biv)! liye pothecating the stock at #19 per oliale us secur for loans thus made, ‘This sum he iis | vested partly tn the purchase of @.c'aim anon thy Geren Government and ming avec ation I ‘War bel ad boo ') fait went ed in New Ne fact—that it hus all y 1 Baltimore, The r «Of stork of t! Deas a ys holding the it be losers, the Al luipression eins Ula ue y is Hable for heur the genui Becretary of the Commanty