The Sun (New York) Newspaper, August 29, 1870, Page 2

Prevent the emission of sparks is certainly within the bounds of human ingenuity. Aud such smoke stacks ought to be in use on every railroad if necessary in order to stop the wholesale destruction of our forests. ' Not only do these conflacrations result in lose of life and property and the misery con- sequent thereupon, but they will ultimately affect the climate of the country, The Amer- jean forests are disappearing already too fast before the woodman’s axe, Add to that these annual ravages by fire, and it is inevi- tab that the country should grow hotter and dricr year after year ; and with the removal of the tree vegetation which acts as a dis- tributor and conservator of moisture and as a powerful equalizing agent in our climate, will come the terrible droughts, violent freshets, and exhaustive heat of New Mexico Mooth's Theatre Kiy Van Winkle, Ere Railway. Little Fawit. rela $65 Broad Mouse —Comic Pa el Ope we Visitors rman, Weed's Museum Speris! Auirations, Matinew The daily circulation of THE SuN during Me last week, which ended on Saturday, Aug. 27, was as follows : 4, Our Contin Weta oe sold 900 Thureday vo - 121,300 | and the region about the Great American Weduenday 121,600 Sacurda 116,500 | D. sert. Aggregate daily circulation last week —_ 4,600. Areraye daily civevlation dur. |The Spanish Mission to the Cuban ing the week, 120,767 Daily averaye Patriots. dur'ng the precious week, ending August 20, | Mr. A2CANATR, injudiciously we think, 527,050. denies, in a letter which we publish below, the statement which has been The War News, MacManton hae reached Stenay, by way of Mézidres, The Prussian outposts have fallen back to Dun, ten miles south of Stenay, on the road to Verdun, and on the eastern bank of the Meuse river. At the same time, they have summoned Longwy to surrender. Longwy ie on the Belgian frontier, about twenty-five miles east of Stenay, on the rail pretty generally circulated by the press, that he has an official mission, or that he is the Learer of any proposition from the Spanish Government. He furthef tates that “he regrets the misunderstanding between his countrymen. He is a Cuban, and believer in modern Spain!" He is confident Spain can still conquer Cuba. Mr. AzcanaTe is of course entitled to his toad between Longuyon and Arlon, Accord : ‘ belief; and it would be strange if a one ing: to present appearances, the fate of Mac r ad. 1 fresh from Madrid, the eapital of modern Mattos may be decided within a few hours pay : ah he 1 3 Spain, aud from the office of the Colonial The French despatches say that 10,000 Ger yal} ‘ : s Minister, should know much of what is go tans hay le an unsnec ful attack on ing on in Cuba, Even Frenchmen in Paris, Verdun, A Paris despatch from Ta Sox's torrespondent says that th stu of | thanks to the enterprise of the American Bazatxe, through a want of supplice, is | NTC are better Informed ree sad duis eared movements of the French army thon the he Kine and the Crown Prince are | People of Madtid are about Calin teadily advancing upon Paria, ‘The main | Mf Azcattate left Madrid witha Gov body of their army is west of Chalous, A | ¢Tmment commission—a foolish one of course Brusscle despatch says that the German | Whose obicet was to atcertain whet Cuban representatives here could not be in duced to urge the patriots n the island to lay down their arms on Spanish promises that they should have autonomy and all sorts of nicethinge. It is possible that in AZCARATE having fool. scouts have made their appearance at Meaux, twenty-five miles east of Paris, It is certain What the Prussians have captured Vitry-le. Frangois, atuwn on the Paris and Strasbourg ralroad, nincte n miles southeast of Chalons Bixteen cannon and nearly 1,000 prisoners consequence of Mr. A inl on fexsed ing ia very limit- » the fruits of their vietory. : i sontenns i care ae es ; Hy " , ‘ ia, the object of his The appearance of the Prussian gcoute at | “4 Stay in Paris, tho’ olject of hk mission, the Madrid Government may have withdrawn this commission. Moreover, a frank offer to treat with their enemies, be- sides being utterly ant!-Spanish, would just- ly be regarded by Spaniards in Cuba asa virtual recognition of the Cuban Republic. However, Mr. Azcanatr is welcome to the Jesuitical position—if he selects it—of Dijon, on the Paris and Lyons railroad ows that the great German army waich was formed between Mulhouse and B san gon are moving to join the Crowa Prince un der the walls of Paris, Dijon is 160 mikes Boutheast of Paris — Fire in the Forests. The destruction of forests by fire is be. | being a man able to bind a Government from coming too common an occurrence. Such | which he holds no authorit If modern destruction is, in the majority of eases, suid | Spain can furnish no better proof af her re to be due to accident ; in re entirely to carelessness. laws in every State for the punishment of this carelessness; and the laws ought to be rigorously enforced, The ¢ sive heat and dryness of th present summer keem to have made the woodsin the North unusually inflammable: The forest conflagration in Canada which has raged for sometime past has not only threatened Ottawa, the capital city, with de- etruction, but has rendered some two thou. eand persons houcless, and destzoyed a num Der of lives in addition to the amount of property consumed. other fires elsewhere ; notably, one in the White Mountains, the heat from which is suid to have greatly diminished the comfort of the summer visitors at North lity it is owing neration, her case is lamentable indeed There ought to be ig that Td . bor do I bear offic erone sind 6, a8 a Coan. T deplore that a ioleunderstanding un rymen and modera betwen t ny ol my ee ous wars Whil Wiost ees Way whieh | pro: sment hake to couquer, f ever, Lor dol shonld neepu Taphod ¢ ional waity, bene 4 while vith & am vot the’ f ativ propose to meddle Iw the qv Theret re beg of you, in bebalf of the truth, to pub- Lau these Lives And bericve me, your obedient tervant, MICOLAS AZCARATE. Gramercy Pann Hovst —— Are Republicans in Favor of Bribery? The Globe, an evening paper, makes the following comments upon the case of BAY. crort Davis, Acting Secretary of State, aud his sixty thousand dollar bribe: Te SN has dee immense We hear of Conway for a longtime charging Bax. and the neighboring resorts, Another | cpopr Davie with swindling sixty. thousaml dollars immense fire ix still raging in the woods | in the pe ofa bribe, our of the Erie Railroad Comp, and his appealed to. Mr know whether he endorsed Mr, Davia in his alleged re GREELEY siys there is no evidence that he ix sequainted with to prove that Davis is guilty, at alevents, to the full extent set down, But perhaps Le did uot swindle quite so much as sixty thousand dollars, but Let the company off for Aity thousand, which also 1 @ good round figure, «tired of . GREELEY to near Lake George, after bur weeks cver a very extensive district On Monday of last week the passengers on one of the lake steamers were obliged t teek shelter from the burning cinders and z for four 4 Reiter ease acm becamen ct canouer ae) bark which the wind blew dowa onto the aud, Why was he not. prosecu A felon in the frst instance? and how is it possible that ne deck ; and several ladies on board who did | could ver, unter such a stain of guint upon him, b ups on enough found their gowns | 2ominated and appointed to the high wflice whick b dot goin soon enough found their gowns | Uolaer Why tot end it all at oneo aud bring the man epoilod Ly holes which the flying sparks had | to tran? Crercey eviden ly shirks the question a present, althone1 Le will do right in the e in or Davis's punishment if be be fouud There is a mistake in this 61 Davis's bribe of sixty thousand dollars was not obtained the Erie Railway Com barsed threy ow these disastrous fires can be prevent td. ‘They do not Lelong to the category of events ch them roinst which man is powerless t from protect himself, Any lightning rod inthe | paay, but from the Boston, Hartford: and world, forinstance, may prove ineffietual to | Erie, another corporation estab! in guard a house or n against a thun Massachusetts, bolt; but forest firea belong to aclass of | Our contemporary inquires why, if Davie casualties very different from tempests and lightning shocks, ‘There are precautions eapable of adoption which would certainly preclude the possibility of any such confla grotions as these we have mentioned, Many of those great sine ifort ‘Le a man of dishonor and fraud, he was not prosecuted as a felon in the first in stance?” The author of this inquiry is apparently not aware that Davis's fraudu lent transactions, thoagh committed three years since, were not known until the 24th € March last, when the ev fires or'ginate in Hones: kind purpose of 1 lence proving ing Jand by Lurning the underbrush on | them was published by the Logislature of It, In this way have begun most of thos | Massachusetts, ‘That I ture had oe. Ly which the timber on the plains of Long | casion to investigate the affairs of the Bo: more than on Hartford and the atmosphere of this city has been darkened and the sun obscured go that by th Long Island, ov Island has been burned, In Instance ton, Erie Company, The ation was condueted by the Joint Com mittee on Railroads of the two Houses, In amin'ng the account books of that Com pany they found an entry of sixty thousand lollars paid to J, C. B. Davis, Joun 8. ELpnipar, President of the Company, was put under oath and interrogated in regard to this payment, and he testified that it was made in order to induce Davis, who was a Director of the Erie Company, to carry through certain contracts with that Company, which contracts Eupripax had previously endeavored in vain to get carried through, The proof that Davis reeeived the bribe of sixty thousand dollars was thus brought out incidentally, and not upon any rect investigation into his doings. Besides, the bribe, though enjoyed in New York, was paid by a corporation of Massachusetts ; so nvest it locked like a red moon #moke fron rexty n there fires on away In this State the burning of brush has been usually sulject to statutory regulation ; but the statutes have frequently been changed, at one inercasing and at anotier relaxing the severity of the penalty fora violation of the regulations preseribed Farmers, however, have paid little attention tothem, But in all cases of a disregard of the statute, and in every instance where a Jogal Labiicy » be enforced against the originator of the fire, no effort should be spared to secure the remedy which the law provides for the party injured. We are glad to hear that suite will probably be brought rainst the persons on whose time andes or vated the great Long Island fires of the present year, There is a curious coincidence in regard dho beginning of the fires now burning in New Hampshire and near Lake George, In tach case, a party of young mon from the tity, having ascended a mountain, desired to inform their friends below of the height to which they had climbed, It being night time, they ligited @ fire; and this spreading Into the dry underbrush and thence to the high timber, thousands of acres have, in both been burned over and the wood upon them destroyed. Sparks from locomotives ere a fertil of woodland fires along railway rou however, it has that it might be a nice question whether the criginal criminal act was committed in one State or the other, Moreover, the proper party to prosecute Davis would be the Erie Railway Company, or some of ita stockhold ers, who might sue him to compel the pay mentof the damage which his fraudulent conduct line eaused to that corporation, As yet, however, no one has taken such action against Lim; but it i@ by no means impossi ble that it may yet be done, The man, however, who ought instantly to act npon tl revelations concerning Davin, is the President of the United States. ‘ore the fact of the bribe was known, he had appointed Days to office as Assistant ry of State; rT iuatances, can ae and now that the bribery prove, possible to make n proved, it is hisduty to dismiss hun Brokoconsurming engines, the constrnetion | from that important placo of honor and # Wlocowotive cliuiey 80 mrrauued a8 tof power, But Presidont GkANT doce nothing of the sort; and no organ of the Republican party has called upon him to turn out of office this man who has been proved guilty of sell- ing himself for a bribe. Apparently the whole Republican party and all the orators and journals that reprosent it are firmly con: | vinced that bribery does not constitute a dis qualification for the possession of the high- est office, provided the man that gets the Dribe is a Republican. — Mr. Greeley and the British Mission. It is reported in the Boston Post that Pres- ident Grant has resolved to appoint Mr. GneEELEY as Minister to England in the place of Mr. Motrey, and that Mr. Fist, Mr. Ropeson, and Mr. Cox, all members of the Cabinet, warmly approve of this appoiut- ment. If this report be truo, it shows that Pree. ident Gnanv has at last come to the conclu tion that it would be better to have a few friends, When, before his inauguration, we urged the appointment of Mr. Gnerity to this office, the idea was scouted by the President and most of his special advisers ; but now that his Administration is a worse failure than any that ever preceded it, and it is too late to do any good, he begins to understand that our counsels were wise, and that it would have been better to have fol- lowed them, Well, we have no objection to Mr. Gner- LEY’s going to St. James's in the garb of a farmer of Chappaqua, or any other garb, though we are sorry to understand that his health has of lite been serioutly affected, so that he could not enter upon the duties of thie important mission with the same encrgy as at the time when we originally nominat Gon, Grant's Administrat however, neither this appointment nor any mn can be made will b it is gone beyond remedy ; it has st low ever to come to the surface again, — We are informed that some two or three nomination of Mr, Morver's successor as Minister to England was sent to the Senate, the Secretary of State addressed a letter to him saying that his resignation would be accepted. No notice whatever having been taken by Mr. Motier of this communication, an official telegram was sent to him asking whether Le had received the despatch referred to, Here upon Mr, Morzer telegraphed to the Seeretary of State that be had received the despatch, but that he declined to resign his place, We ate also informed that since Mr. Fretixanvrsen bas refused to ac- cept the office, Mr. Morter has taken the ground that he cannot, under the provisions of the Ten- ure of Office Act, be suspended during the re cess of the Senate, This, then, is the attitude of Mr. Motiey before the country, and it is nota pleasant attitude, But has not the Tenure of Of- fice Act been suspended, and is not Mr. Moruey under a mistake? of any use; nk too weeks before the a 3 It is creditable to the sense of honesty of the people of this metropolis that the name of Joux Russert Youse, the notorious k News Thief, has even been taken off from the editorial columns of the Thieves’ Own — The absenteeism of President Grant and his Cabinet is imitated in their small way by the magnates of the public departments of this city. We chronicled some days ago the departure o Commissioner Maxtenne for Europe; Commis sioner Sairm is at Saratoga; Superintendent Journay is off on sick leave; and on Saturday night, according to the Improved Zimes, Comn sioner Boswouta was reported to be at Long Branch, Commissioner Brexnan was missing— probably away arranging some part of the ma- chinery for making himself Sheriff next fall; Inspector Ditxs was at the White Mountains; In- spector WaLtixa was coufined at his house with an abscess, leaving Inspector Jamison alone on duty. As Sunday is notoriously the most dis- orderly day of the week, this abandonment of the city on that day strikingly demonstrates how completely the department bas become am litical machine, and how htile ats superior cers care fur the public welfare. Aedes ahha M, Gatianprr, in his Paris despatch to the Courrier dis Etate Unis of Saturday last, says: “The prospect of a siege—perhaps a bom- burdment—has suggested to the Government a useful measure, Yesterday th need re- moving to a place of security ® portion of the chifs-d'auvre of the galleries of the Louvre. The precaution is good, for have not barbarian aders been always disastrous to art and its finest productions?” Undoubtedly they have, History records that something more than half a century ago a nation that would be very unwilling to be called barbarian, the victorious march of its armies through many climes, rifled the galleries ot Europe, and brought the spoils to its own capital and dis- played them aa legitimate trophies of war on the walls of this identical Louvre, And if our memory does not fail us, it so happened that when the first Naroueoy, surrounded by an in vading army, visited the tomb of the Great Frepewcx, he descended so low as to file there. from the sword of the illustrious Prus: and carried it off to Paris, If the armies of ¢ within the walls of Paris, we do not believe they will copy such infumous examples, anes . The Tribune desires that the result of t coming election in this State should " strengthen the hands of Guanr’s Aduy me of its hinds are very strong ali y comm n soldier, many should soon eneamp Gen, nistration,”” dy; for , those of the Acting Secretary of State, Who got €10,000 in one single bribe, ——_ To view of the imminent danger of the siege or capture uf Paris, the taking of the new Government loan by the inhabitants of that city may be perhaps looked upon as not so much owing to their patriotism as to their desire of putting their money where it will be safe from pillage, The loan is certain to be recognized, whatever may become of the Navounon dynasty; whereas any gold or bauk notes which chance to fall into the hands of ma. Prussian or Freneh—will be lost be yond question, The loan in fact is a national savings bank, more secure than any privat place of deposit, tan rauders: i Mr. Epwty Brown writes us from Lock port, N.Y, that our comments oa Jouw Bax cnort Davis are in very bad taste, in fact un- gentlemanly.” We understand Epwin Baowy accordingly to be in favor of bribery and of de frauding his partners and friends, The people of Lockport had better look out for him, ttle The Washington Court Journal announces the return of fat Mr, Rongsow to bis post as nom- inal Secretary of the Navy, and is authorized to suy, for the ratisfaction of Tum Sun, that be will remain there for the rest of the summer, The ap- pointment of Poren as Admiral, is also gazetted, in place of the dead hero Fanrac He will succeed him, itis true, but in the sense that night succeeds day Congress at the last session terminated the of. fives of Gener) ond Licutenant-General in the army With the Lives ef the present incumbents id & corresponding rule was propored for tb wrades of Advoiral and View Adiinal in the payy, THE SUN, MONDAY, By one of the tricks which the Na ‘al Ring #0 well understand, it was defeated, just like other legis- lation intended to stop theif corruption at home and abroad, But the thing will not stop where it is, The country demands justice, and that the two arms of the service shall be put at least upon on equal footing. Certainly the conduct of the navy under iis present management, with its glaring frauds, collusions, and loss of character, deserves no favor above the army, which is the pride of the netion. —— The Elegant Evening Post and the Im- proved Times both humbly acknowledge their offence in appropriating without credit our ac- count of the evidence in the City of Boston libel suit, and profess sincere repentance, Under these circumstances, with the magnanimity which bas always characterized us, we pardon the offenders, All is forgiven aud forgotten. Bless ye, my children! mun COLORED CADET ON WIS MUSCLE. He ts Grow Sallen-Objects te Delng Dirty Work-Breake a Comrade's t rade's Eye— Dip: ad—Cuten Gash en. Upton r over a ever n Com= Interviewed on the Sabject—P on Hand The Colored Cadet to be Looked Afier, William Smith, the negro cadet at West Point, ie getting into hot water, Me is naturally sensitive, Jealous, and resentful, and hia environment in the Military Academy is such as to kill everything in him that would tend hearenward, and to foster all those elements which lead to hell, This is not his fault, nor the fault of his comrades, except to a limited extent; it i# fundamentally the futt of the situation, and of human nature iteelf, SMITH TAKES THINGS TAN) ‘The cadets have to do many things wh! h offend their prige and try their manhood to the utmost For examvle, while in camp, as they now are, they inturn have to do what Is called police duty, on function of which is to go over the ground with a wheelbarrow and gatier up the bits of orange peo’, peach Ktonet, quite of tobacco, elgar stun other unsightly things wich have accumu! z the preceding day and evening. Every West Point cadet, from Py t Grant and ¢ min down to William Smith, has had to perform couble duty, and all of them except Wil jam Smith have dove it without rebellions or mu ous mutterings and grumblings, But the colorcd boy takes it excoedingly hard. He in tact taxes everything hard, es we predicted he would when he first entered the Military Academy is it un- natural that he should take things harder than the whi'e boys do, It is in the nature of the case for uit to think that disagreeable matters which are put upon him, are put upon him simply because he isa colored boy, and tor the purpose of annoying ading him, Consequently he is sullen, in clined to Le disobedtent, and quick to quarrel, T lutter tendency bas at last got lim into serious dit culty. n. Sher. this disa: HOW THE FRACAS OCCURRED, The other day while he was on cuard duty, he went to the tank for water for the gurrd, and there found other cadets abead of him. It is customary foreach cadet to take his turn at the tank, and when many meet there at the saine time a line ts formed for that purpose, When Smith cam» up, he at tempted to push away a cadet who was ahead of him, at the same time exclaiming, “LT want water for the guard.” “Take your turn,” ssid the cadet thus addressed, alittle fellow named Wilson, not near ‘Smith, The colored boy again attempted to crowd out of his turn, whereopon Wi Smith then struck Wilson on the head with his dipper, so bard as to break the eap portion from the handle. Then, with the handle, b again, cntting a gush over bis eye. moved to the hospital and bis wound then he was pisced onder arr Sm pieced under arrest, daconrt of inquiry is to in Yeatigate the matter, ‘This secount of the fracas w gathered from the cadets. We were not Hii, although we made spec o ty Gen. Upton, the officer in weeded Col, Black. GEN UPTON'S ¥IEW OF Ins DUTY. On being conducted to the front of Gen. Upton’ tent by un orderly detailed for taat purpose oy th officer of the cuard—everything is on @ war footing in tue camp—that gentleman came out to nicet us, and we at onee &: * General, 90 many conflicting reports about the recent fracas between the colored cadet and & com: rade have been sent down to New York, that Mr. Dana, not wishing to publieh anything in Tne Sun exact truth, has sent me up here on purpos to get the precise ficts of the matter.” “That is a praisworthy course for Mr. Dana to take, most cert: * said Geo, Upton Mr. Dana isa friend of mine, and I should be glad to oblige Nm; but 1 exnnot hold official communication with iuy one on thia subject. Whenever the court ot inquiry shall Anish its investigations, its proceed Auge will probably be pudlisned, But Tean give no information, nor buzaid any conjectures on the #ub- ject, im advance.” ‘Can you direct me, General, n and Will give me the tniormation I No, sir; no one can give it to you.” “Ww is Smith f" “He is under arrest.’ Can I see bigs GEN, UPTON THINKS PUBLICITY WILL INJCKE SMITH. No, sir; nobody can be allowed to see him ; nor would it be to bis interest for you tosee him, It will notvromote his interest to have anytuing pad- large us iteon struck at him, to any one who eck 1"? lisied about him in the papers.” That may be, General. 1am not here in the in- terest# of Stith, Lut in’ those of the public and of Tne SUN, The public want to know the truth about this inatter, aad Ths San will do its beet to give it to the “Yes, T understand, But everything that's said about Sinith in the newspapers. hurts hin with bis atiers worse.” Jo the b en an Abie ur Ii you publis ake it wor Wonld be better to say nothil We left Gen, Upton, and did tue best we could among the cancts, wid Heard the story of the fray ay we havetoll it. We thing it 1s essentially correct, but would have preferro | to have Smith's Own state ment of (he case in addition Gen Grant, Mrs. Grant West Point Hovel. “The General went to dinner ut Mr. Pierrey terday, acrowe the river, aud hureh with Gen. Pitcher, ost eure to mirades ; it and Nellie are at the n i an exceedingly brilliant ava - —_ The Western Mun who Saw the Ovenn, From @ letir by G@. Alfred Townsend in the Chicug Tiibune. T saw aman at Newport coming out upon the clit Ly Kaston'e hs whiere tho ccvan all at ove and v to face wi tie gazer, ove 1 was pouring in long waves between QOcare I 4 and Kastor drumming under Forty 8 Dower iid Wh cness Une beach, ‘The man's tace wus 4 nd bis look so affve'ed me that I loo: mys seam and ‘elt more than e ghry of it. He gage sway a little white, and pc bserving me wear bir feet, he recovered himself Ts that the sea, sir 7” he sald—"' the ccean 2” “Its nota bay, oora channel; but it's the whole thing, the geuine Athantie f ting past that but Rurope." for som: t expected to be the It's mi, T never saw it be'ore * What part oc the world are you from?” * Born in Olio, wir, Moved to Kansas, Always a Westeru man. Teame East on purpose to lok at the sea, und vow that Lm bere, 1 guess 1's enjoy an dour of it, So lie sat down on the grassy elif, and looked, and looked, and there I left him, a dea zhted wo: siapper He will, perhaps, go home’ to tell his Boye how 4 sounds, how it oars, bow the boats gallop on it, how the hint on its verge Weare & Baked lvok, as 4 smitten by its gales, ————_—___ ‘The Great Republican Senator of Lilinoin, From the Loubspie Comune clad Mr. Trumbull is 4 learned lawyer, who served with distinction on the bench, He has bad long perience 4s a Senator, ts thorougily conversant with hationai politics, and While never @ Vivleat partisan or active in party management, understands the re lation between the stitesmanship which should guide a national administration aud the party sup port which can only make It elective, ation recogniaes hit is familiar with Man qualifed to fil worthily amy position towhieh our form of government enables its cit zens to aituin ; and bis entry in'o the Cabinet would rive i On popular respect and favor which i! cks In some respects now, and which few men 1a the nation could give it (o the same extent, Tammany True Democr; Prom the (Mtien, When Mr. &. S, Cox was delivering an oration in thin city, he stated that be had possessed the in estimable privilege of voting for twenty years, and be was proud to add that in that tine he bad east twenty Demoorutic votes. A gentleman in the aud Hee — Whi oubt Would be warmly endorsed he Demorrat—was {to mutior auaibiy, *O pehow 1 twenty votes in twenty yours I—whiv, Thay Voted tic Democratic ticket twenty Uues’ at on vivghion.” AUGUST 29, 1870. TRAGEDY AT ALLEN’S POINT THE SANGUINARY END OF A SATUR- DAY NIGHT'S SPREB. —— An Old Quorret Settled in Rte! } Swimuniss Cathe The See rious Mur. o timouy Hel The murder on Saturday night of Thomas Connolly, at Allen's Point, Fifty-fifth street, Bast River, lus ereated a profound sensation in the neigh ood, Burly yesterday morning hosts of sympa- crowded around the Filty-ninth street police tation, and eagerly discussed the stories relating to the tragedy. ‘Tbe victim is well known in the neigh borhood, and was one of a large family, who are hich ly respected by all acquainted with their steady ef- forts to secure an honest living. Thomas Connolly was born in the county Cavan, Ireland, and eame to America with is parents about twenty years azo, when in his infancy. For the past even years he worked at his trade of japanning, with Messrs Hebreiber & Co, in Fifty-sixth street. Mr. Seliret- Dor sveaks very highly of Connolly, as a hard-work- ing, industrious man, whom le never kuew to earry a weapon of any kind, Connolly was in his twenty- fourth year, and leaves a wile and two children. After a careful examination of the various stories afloat the following facts have been gathered, About Ue first of July, some triend of Connolly's went down to All x Tene ALLEN’S SWIMMING BATHS, and attempted to pass the gates without paying, and was put out by Mexwell, Humbrecht, and Charles Puff, Germans engaged by Richard Allen to take charge of (he baths, On the 4th of July, Connolly went down to Allen's, accompanied by some others, and hada row with Humbrecht, About six weeks ago, Connolly, Tim Quinn, and « man known a8 Crookedy aguin, poid a visit to Allen's, and after toking a drink went away peaceably, On Saturday night, Connolly, Jeremiah Lynch, and Thomas But- ler metin a soleon at Eichtieth street and Third uvenue, Where they drank several glasses of beer, ‘Then they went to a lagerbecr saloon in Fifty-fourth er and drank acain, Their next rendezvous was in Mann on in Pifty-thted street an! quor sul First avenue. There they met Matthew Garrett, who, at the invitation of Connolly joined the party, and the went down to Allou's. By this time the BUTLER WAS PURTTY DUNK an? the others of the party with had more than wa tering the barroom CONNOLLY C\LLRD FOR DRINKS whieh were furnished by Allen, and a cigar war given Garrett. Lynch, who was standing at the ad of the bar near the entravee of the parlor, looked into that room, which was then occupied by M the exception of Gorr good for them, On en Alien, Mrs, Mary Kelly her daughter-in-law, Katy Cunningham the tervant, two children of Mrs, Kelly, Morris, Eddie, and Katy Allen, and Morris Powers. Charles Puff was up stairs out of the way, Mra. Alle. resented the action Lynch and called him ‘a loafer, and some other pretty hard words followed, which led Connolly to take his friend's part, Tuen, if the Allen party are to be believed, several gl: and bottles were thrown at the entrance to the pars lor, where they were coneregated by Connolly's party, ‘The Allen party add that Connolly MANDED A PISTOL TO LyNXcn, who discharged it at the door where they were, but there scems jittle foundation for thie charge, Then Alien took his gun and standing in the dotrway be- tween the two rvoms, told Connolly to get out or be would level him, Powers then discharged a revol- ver through the door at Connolly's party, aad as they retreated followed them, firing two additional shots, after which Allen stepped out of the barroom or and fired the fatal shot, The testimony of oung Powers on the inquest was suspected, as he t after be bad fred bis on-in-law said to him, * Why are you firing re, When the men went this direction!” when Powers answered that he did not WANT TO MIT ANY ONE. When Kelly wos examined and contronted with Powers, he dented that he tad spoken to him at al Agsin Bowers testified that it, was so dark he cou not fee any one when be fred, and when Put was examined he ewore that jooking out of the win dow up stairs he saw two men rua off up the shore road toward Fifty-tourth street, and saw the men who was running fell Immediately alter the report of the last shot, Kichard Alen testitied that he saw Powers discharge his second shot into the river, al tough he was standing at the time in the doorway between the two rooms, and could ree out of the left aye only, and that very dimly, while Powers was outside the house; Allen also swears that he did not fire until ten minutes after Powers bad Gnished Oring, ang then he SOT RIGHT INTO THE RIVER, which in entirely contrary to all other testimonygiven Bouth street, A ance t parlor. ar youl. 89 feet from door C Lira: Ce into parlor, secured by glass door, wh re Alich stood with F. The sida wal vee M. Deut 10 the wail, £ THE SCENE OF THE MURDER, A short walk from the Pifty-niut@ street po!) station down First avenue to Filty-eixth street, then turning to the left is the direction of the river, takes you ro the spot through which Avenue A is to be cut, Bearing to the rizht across an open lot doited wil dencee of sundry squatters, lead the visitur to tle top of a smalt hideck, oF what i# to be the easterly cud of Futy-Gfth sircet Descending thik eminence in the direction of the Fiver, at about Afty feet trom the summit Detec Hamilton called the attention of the SUN reporter to the spot where the body of Connolly had Leen tound Toe incline at this point war very sleep, probably au elevation of three iy Live, ond the body Nad resved lw a slizht gully, perhaps worn away by the act rain, Contuily Was discovered lying on bh J down und feet op the tll, witu a large i blood Waieb bud aripped trom the Wouad in the back k slowly trickling down the bil, A few ston wer is the dwelling in Which the disturbunce Urs cate toa bead tino hong, lo land jutting foto ¢ building, located on w posi t of iver, With w gateway ¢ suore Which is) alized @ printed sign “Swimming Baths.” This is the dence Uf iienard Allen, bath keeper, boat le bar pro privtor, guardian of the udmarine telegrph frou Backweil's Island, lessea of Seotsiau’s Head. ius point of land ‘is known as Alien's Point, and oes WoL bear (ue Most enviable reputation, as some tive years wou pent Was found there witl his thro.t cut, The doorway adjoining the river leads into the Darroom, an aparduient With a low hing and Waving whogetior a rather disual ap pearauce. THE INQUEST was conducted yesterday afternoon in the Filty- bint street station by Coron Kollins, Suon aiter °o Mio, Jury was “tmpanneilnd: Ou, strevcher on the Moor lay We murdered man, With uncovered face, He was of medium beisht, light complectioned, aud Sinai, Sandy moustache, aud dressed ia tue ordinary cloties of @ workingman, Seated in chairs acaimst the wail and bes: Un boay were Intimate (rieuds tives, biel two brochers, who were of ve ab) nd very neatly dveased tue ron Lot oceny ied by the jury aud of filed b a great rong, Wich Capt, Gunger att = found IeuiMlcuit to Festruia from) conversation aud not suMciently to render the testimony vudit.e. The first wituess was Mrs. Aunie Allen, wile of Hiehard Alen, @ rather toll, slender woman, about Bity-tive years old, Who testified as folly MHS, ALLEN’S TESTIMONY, I wasinthe bar when Connolly and three other men came in, fF was Kivi Vat a ec t uw them 1 got the Out of le {0 go up stuire: heard ouv of the men Wisat he wa ited wa srting-roum woere L ant, be of tein eh what ‘ho. wanted wht bis girl was there,” 1 told Keepuirit there, and. ho. tien suid be dodge pert there Was sorue dancing, and av should like to ly a jig. by Coroner Kollins~ Would you know that mau if yon were to seo hl P Witness Foe, LYNCH AND BUTLER of the others ths ineaming In the were brought up from the cells, and Mrs. Allen pointed out Lyach as the vae Who Cail Lo the sit ting room, Testim. ny resumed—Juit after this tumblers ana'hot Hes were thrown thioaih the gluse dor between th Vetting ron, was Rand We AL THAL Tilney 4 Hoctanay then Oc leat taree tires taibere ant Hes wid ove Ored w shot yt Whe 80 Mrightened Lio Ait on, the Moor, seme ees tie knelt dante th Wy glnes dane sd whether f was > 1 how the eta. Myante= 6 ft to 8 man with sieht hat, oume through the flue tt wis the vame man whe sine into my Foom—this Toan here ( arnt saw the gan in my hnsband’s Alter they leit the house, for I was saa ‘Tie SERVANT's TRATIMONY. ‘The noxt witness was Kate Cuoninglauy, a rather nice looking girl of about 2), whose story was main- ly corroborative of the foregoing. L live with Mr. Alten: last niaht Tommy Connotty came jn with three others, aod saw he said to one of the others, © the what we’ ‘Aner —20 for him; Leaw one of the men take two beer glasses and hide them under his coat. A joror in hie ehirt-sleeves here interrapted the testimony, saying, “IL want these peotie remored toey're tr nd making remark: estions 4 a8 Jurors to | injadicious report had lot mentary in the hearing of but the coroner did not think the offence serious enough to remark upon it, Test mony continued : Mr. Alten went round and took one glass away from the ia he then ordered Connolly to leave the hi sald th one 5 Fee lines, For Godt saae art ont of iy ler threw the firet g and itetrack (th e door, auariny ® piciare'which hung there | man With light clothes THREW A ROOT BERR HoTTH fn hanced hin a rusty pistol : Taaw it: vinebody Aired it into the was broken: thea they ake in the front doors they doc Geran ontside acd T ran ip stairs. MATINEW GaRnETT, of 1,071 Second avenue, Who was at Allen's on Sat urdiy night in company with Connolly, Lynch, and Butier, was next Met Connolly at Fifty anid went to Allen's with hi ni A street ‘di ned over Mra. AL ead: You d—-d stlukine to: ing ju here for?” Lyneb did not g 4 Firat avenite Allen (interrapting witness)—"0, tell the You know he had the glasses, doa't you 1" Resnmed—I told deceased to come awa take a clase out of Nutter Au the back room, aid tol were getting hot and went out; Connoliv Her me : did Hot see any pistols oF any tumblers fired ; lind got 100 fect from Allen's when { heard (hh fist Phot fired; 1 saw Allen come out the door with Kuny Counolly was 40 oF & feet behind me: the #hots Were one a'ter anotier—searcely avy tine betw them ; thought [ heard romething ay if the shors were comin In my direction, and ducked my tead: koow Connoliv was etot, and did hot heat ¢ Tate AC HigaL y there Was Horhow fired Mr. Allen come out with the gun, Charles Paff, woo attends to the bath room ofice, thein to leave: T and regarding whom tie trouble or wore! Mre, Allon told me to t ' comes at wal Kil te i ¢ window: | enw the fo 7; au uv tally 1 could Bee as tur dows a: F ity t dor na boy ving with Mr, Alien, pointed toland Buier as tie one who turew ele i sail Le rau to ie station, and, on © c iil dead foninlaw, denied ha atthe affair, #4) 1 1 Fat the tine, RaW ing Of It, and that when he got back the whole ting as over, audtin elled to the stand, but he re tier testi ony, and the two irrec ons stand cach equally *trongly sworn to, JEREMIAT LYNCH, after telling the story of their meeting and ¢vinking during the evening, said Tiooked tuto Mra. Altea’ back room ; dla nat go in: she what 1 wanted, and began cabling me fiamens told hee she Youre not think Unng wrons, bur he called me a loaf rt. aud told her Lw ting mad, aud wal Un. ahd told Conuolly "oF romeshing of thi nnoliy d © o for r; Lsaw she tien brow, “it be didn’t leave ne’ at wort y did ot hand me ® ptatol Patt; tere wer ne di ho tumblers n called ap, and thouch the fined in Heparate cells, he told e we story, He ADMITTED THAT HE WAS DEMNK, but sald he knew he did not throw anything. Neither be nor Lynch knew of the murder wuttl Very late that nigiit, Mr. Allen's story was othing more than a com- Vination of his wile's end Kate Cunningham's testi mony. He insisied tat he tired the gun into the water, and not te direction of Connoliy's retreat. He did uot know who reloaded the gun and revolver toat night, Dr. Beach deserived the wount, and sid it wi too large to have been made by’ the revolver. must have come ‘rom the bull fred ont of the gu After brief deliberation the Jury found a verdict that Connolly caiwe tv bis death at tae nauds of luchard Allea, —— THE NEUTRALITY PROCLAMATION ually the How could Fish and Grant Sign tt at Wa ington when one was at Long Bro and the Other at Garrison's ¢ Wasiixatos, Au —It seews to ba caped pubic attention that the reeent wordy pre ation of neutrality, exceeding in length all former experience, though dated here and ostensiolv given out as executed at Washington, was a fraud to that extent upon the country; for the Presideut who signed it, and the Scerctary of dState who counter. signed the document, were both absent from the capital on the 224, the dute used, and had beca for a long time previous: ‘This is the firet instance inthe history of the Govern. ment where fo deliberate @ falsification of au im porsant paper has becn made, But it is quite we thy of those who committed the (rand, and entire consisteat with their previous record, That proelamatioa reculates our neutral relations toward two great nations, now unhappily ot war with each other, Many questions of great delicacy are involved, and in the possib vent of a breach f neutrality a nice istue might be raised upor falaely-sizned paper, which was not done at Wa ington, as ix stated, for Gen. Grant was then at Long Branch and Mr, Fisk at bis couniry seat on the Hudson If anything was wanting to establish th temptuous neglect of public duty, and taeir th disregard of all official propriety, it would b b © es. ir con uished by this Impressive fact, The President and Secretary of State, woo are hired servants of the people, sid large ralories for service wile demands thelr coustant presenee at the seat of G rotent, not only defy ecerey by wa Ff poblic opinion and outrase sion of exe ptioual nntry, but upo us consuitation in Cabinet, F ora single da t than disturb their pleasure, a document which on its very we carvies the proof of a concerted fraud What confidence can be reposed in public officers who are cupable of so grossa deception? Ii the will falsify one document, why will they not betray Irust as to tiery This loose system of moral resuit and fruit of the avarice, ve. shiess which have invaded the tit » occ, whieh ¥ use to € uty, and, rather me Lere to diselur persons isaue ate bas to say in over the arn: nin Bis nonina: ‘ 0! §1340) & year until now SPECTATO on Pott after MacMahow bad ched Thirtyesix MU 1 he Neve York Tine 2y—1 have just seen a lett atitutionnel, vo Wis fatoer, and dated wt r quarters of Maral MacMalion, Ret shout thirty-six mites worth ww army has never Prussians wit q to vais in the atternoon, and tike the Jivection of Meg. Beyond that We hive no hid jon of What the real route will he Rest assured you Will Fecelve uews that wil oe The parties interested in getting up in this petition 10 Cocoa Inland to sarc £0 sure have not, ss wa up abuidoned the enterprise, Me eld recently and plans of future agreed upon. The schooner Francia § pected duliy to arrive from the tshind pos been eis OX Parties wt Went on the list expedition assert that they found the monuments whlch are described in tie oll Parchment manuscript on which they depend. On the next trip the eevooner will down cars ani other mater‘ als for a tram railroad tor excavating the place where the treasure vaults are supposed to be situated, Provisions and othur supplies, «uf cient to last & year, Will also be shipped, snd the parties declare their purpose to mak Anal and complete search. All previous expeditions have been ‘in enrnest this i# essentially eo. —— Money deporited now in the ings Bans, in Phe from Sept Ade this tine w Mutual Benefit Sas un Huliding, will receive interest OBLLUAKY, - The Hon, Linus Child " \ n 1 Gore toon tor ' SUNBERAMS. — ome =A Western merchant sdvertines war maps.” Professors of swimming give lessons on the Newport beach. London is said to be overrun with skilled workmen out of employment. —There is woalth enough in Boston to give, on An equal division, every man, woman, and child R09 each. —The State Geologist of Ohio declares that there are ten thousand square miles of coal deposit um tint Stat —Prussia has 859 associations for the improve. ‘Ment Of the soll by drainage, irrigation, aad the builds ing of dikes. —Nearly all the strikes in this country and the disturbances cecasioned therevy are led by foreign birth, —There is not one sailing ship owned in Porte land, Maine, and there are not now so juany arrivals as twenty yenrs azo. —It is said that the custom of placing a whole loaf of bread upon the Drenkfust table was lobsters one of by Queen Victoria, =A German clergyman in Cincinnati was so excited over the War news that he toos © vhing The range of age in the hig rs of the rman taf runs from fifty-Ave to over Keveuty, ab Which age Steinmeta takes the fleld —A New Orleans court has decid A man “aimall potatoes" doesn't rend knock him down wilh a waterm a, —Henry Ward Beecher refers to 0} Tespondents asa perkon evidently wh called the * hyper-Calvinistic mocalation.” =A temperance barber is sai A that eotling al to f hiscore what ie to have estabe lished himself in Meredith Village, NW Hes called * temperance” becaure he uses no bay rom. —Culifornia papers are trying to Wu ke the weather endurable by publish ng an a Colhowa man there has heen frozen to death tn A ewt —Many damscls who act in wint i . marn," tear their Wearkd tra t by WetINg we Waiticesce at fue MON HLA Bichop Willams of Conncericat, wh bai : wed, fort =—A J man ¢ y ed ‘ reply, wot ail tae i Vhere is ove State in the t 110 body ewn even net out expres ber =In Northampton, tie Ciap Famby Festival h b of the kin, that one cuties oupiet —A New England who went ont te Nevada about a year og nye ta de has ab ready ‘+n bust and and a pair of twine, aid ta une got acqnainted yee —Four hundred Gatling cannon are to be mady at Colts Armory, Hartford, for tae 4) Turkish and Evyptian Governme its, Whey are netic ot Test thin the mitinilieurs so much tito Jurt now. —Itis said that the mitrailleur is mue's the same machine as that which inepirod a Texas Hon. Ate louta to offer to stand off atuadred yard ait wet the anventor turn the (lug nose at bhi for six weese at $2.08 day, ye-witnesses of the battle of Wis o ubourg State that the Pruolun intantry sok pais'e warty te Dex off the enemy's offers, for wh + Je ised marksmen to the right of exch Pravies)l. oon are specially instructed to reserve their “re —Twenty-eight ont of the thirty no ogi cal professors of the University at Mra \ Hing protest not only aga nit th . > but alust the @ounionicity of the Vali —The great fires in the Canada wo ts we said to be the most exiended ant awinl ey lever Witnessed by Mh ee Livang hy the Peat 5 en tly swent over near 1 ait s, barns, and most oi tue hy: Fo Coa med. —History repeats itself, Hin N. ¥., to ines cet anasrecerve wlaige que t b rifles Which have been purchare King of —It may not he rally knowa that the last sale of @ slave in th had just reached Arh fron Pervre, slave to aa of Augusta county ing, the bargain was closed vy ba: if f01 100 capbage plants, —Though Germany has her at preseut, ele has yet Lime to ic ters, for mstauce, us vere ta V Vai betng nearly closed now, proferso having gone either to fight or bind up wounds, the F gular prozramnmes for the lectures tn the (riheow ing winter term are issued wud pushed aus cab —A German named Stodivan, who resides near Philadelphia, wnd happens to bave fo: a domesue artner a Fresnel woman off ttrong -yin quar: cliod With her w few nights aso over the war pews. hey were im the act of resorting to Wie We or a rusty sword aud a breat-Anife, when ‘he nue a 1 the attention of a police officer, who arr © voll ge cau. —A talented young African, of the bvot-black persuasion, observed & nelghoor porte Wiviy over a BewA)aper, Whereapen he addzessed hut | Julius, whut you looking at dat paper for An's read." Teanvead, I's mail ior dat." i rr a —A fox in Randoly is kuvwn to havo Was uj on the 4th of July last, when tl Wis in vain, for although ax sols were rol at he escaped, aud is yet b vocation, Y engaged i v1) Mg As a preliminary to his coronatin, the Mas G the god diate buted nun f The 6 poop A few days ago a Ne Iedord wha The Prosident of the French Chamber ears to haye a sboCkiug bad hat. One oF t ‘i There appeared recently a sala 0 ope hud tut ake the Ae vt ‘ —At a lute meet h Mi dical As. rociation at Newcastle, Or Johu Musray prove ae that an habitual smoker seldom or ever died of com Suinption, and that the progress of eonsunption frequently arrested by practising (he haoit of enum taking, Shufltaking, i sceme, is bot cnly of great one ju curiug catarrl, bot ot 18 an admirable expedient fof preventing it altogether, LU," when ou # jouey you experience # rnceerston of chills, In due tine you may expect ap attack of broneulils, ais Infltestion of puew mone OF CHU teular plaain’ OF tigers i some other form, each tending to retuce the powers of hfe, ath consequently, Hab es up Eonsumplion in thoes preaispored.” Under there elrouimstane s ir Munay stongly recommends enutt to be taken ts petal es. Tobucco, in fact, 8 now sir a i Lp fon to ha ’ sites The majority of ductors, Dr) b woovertng from a ¢ J uN Lucueylvne bo hasten Uinir recov ory