The Sun.
London, England, 1869-02-17 00:00:00

TIM SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENINo, FEBRUARY 17, 1869.

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THE TURF A. ND THE DEEED OF 11011SEF4.

The letter of Admiral I3ous to the Times has
attracted a fair amount of attention. Its obvioul
defect is that it is written " in the interest of the
racing world." " 13. II." very neatly sums up the
arguments against the Admiral and those who hold
that the racehorse has not deteriorated. " They
think, speak, and write of our blood-horses as if they
were dcsignel not for our personal use, but to shew
fleetness for a few yards at two or three years old;
and this not even in sport, but in commercial specu-
lation. And while the present system of racing con-
tinues, the single quality of fleetness will overcome
all other considerations." A horse is good •if it
has" pluck " enough to hold on at a killing pace for
about ten In in rtes ; bad if it cannot do this,

through which a thief knocked a hole, thrust in
his hand, grasped a bundle of greenbacks ($4,000),
and skedaddled. In the street he transferred the
booty to an accomplice, but the pursuit was hot,
the bank clerks hating taken up the running.
Edward C. Penton, the man who took the money,
was captured, though he tried the dodge of dropping
some of it as he ran along, perhaps remembering
the interesting tale of the wolves. Nevertheless he
was grabbed in Nassau-street, and committed for
trial at the General Sessions, though his companion
has, for the present at least, got off. The window
was smashed by a thick iron instrument weighing
some 101 be., expressly made for the purpose, and
considering it was done is broad daylight your
readers may have some idea of the state to which we
are approaching in this city. A lot of counterfeitors
were lately arrested. A box containing cheques
and certificates of stock to a large amount have also
been stolen from the office of the Pacific Mail
Steamship Company. The sentence was pronounced
on the 25th inst. against Blaisdell, Eckel, and
M‘Laren. The first, awarded three years of Sing
Sing, received the intimation with a grim smile ;
Eskel made no sign when consigned to three years
of the Albany Penitentiary ; but M‘Laren,
who only got four months, seemed to rejoice
thereat. The antecedents of the latter were not of
the purest character, as he was indicted with Mrs.
Cunningham for the murder of Dr. Harvey Bur-
dell fifteen years ago. Your readers are aware
that these culprits were found guilty of defrauding
the revenue of the tax on whisky, and great efforts
were made to get them off, the District Court being
thronged with men well known in the whisky ring.
The sailors are on strike for a rise from $l6 per
month to $3O; and the job printers are also on
strike for 50 to 54 cents per 1,000 " ems." The
sailors had a great procession, with banners in-
scribed " Free Trade" and " Sailors' Rights," but
they were very orderly, and included all nationali-
ties. They did get up a groan for the owners of
the ship Brooklyn, but beyond this they only lis-
tened to a few speeches in Franklin-square, and
resolved not to engage under po. An island of
Long Island Sound, containing 11,000 acres, is to
be turned into a hunting ground, having been pur-
chased for that purpose. Our supply of water was
interrupted by a break in the main pipe, and it is
extraordinary the inconveniences New York suf-
fered during the few hours the Commissioners were
working the necessary repair. Tom M'Gibney,
whose arrest I announced as the murderer of
Rogers, has been discharged, as it appears certain
that he is not the man. A lawyer states that some
years ago he had to defend three ruffians who were
committed to the State prison, but after serving out
their time they were discharged last month, and his
clerk had seen them about Twelfth-street near the
spat, and that one wore a coat similar to the piece
torn from that of the murderer. Cols. Augustin,
Ricardo Pimental, Capt. Lorenz) Jimenez, Abelari
Vreco, and Jose Antonio Cintra, met their friends
this morning at their headquarters, the Metropoli-
tan Hotel. Their object is to purchase arms and
munitions, which on securing they will return and
take part in the war for independence in Cuba. We
ought to be careful with the Alabanvz case before
us how we countenance such breaches of neutra-
lity. It makes a wonderful difference how I regard
the robber whether the stolen property be mine or
yours. I will give Sou any information I eau
gather about the Rogers murder case, as more will
be known before I close my letter.
Three men lately arrested have been examined,
James and Michael Logan, and James Tallant.
The former is evidently a simple, hard-working
man, but against the latter suspicions are enter-
tained. Indeed, it is said, that a woman named
Martha Clearwater, can give information which
will fix the murder on him. On the fatal morning
she assisted him in exchanging his torn coat for
another, together with a bat. They remained in
her apartments in Green-street for two days. As
I write more information is expected, Lut the
authorities are convinced that this woman can pro-
duce the coat. The public are disappointed I now
learn at the evidence given by her, the most
important part of which is as follows :—" Between
seven and eight o'clock on the evening of December
31st, Logan called again at 171, Green-street, and
was dressed in the 8...n0 blue undercoat, pants, and
a heavy black overcoat, and wore a different
style of hat—a soft Alpine hat. I asked him
what had become of his other overcoat," and
he answered that since he had seen me on
that morning he had lost his other overcoat in
jumping the fences escap ng the police. Logan's
right hand was at the time bound up with rags ; I
noticed it, and asked him what was the matter
with his hand, and he answered that he had hurt it
on the fences. tie remained with me all the night,
but he did not undress, only took off his overcoat
and lay down on the bed, and left the house next
morning (New Year's day) at about eleven o'clock,
and I have not seen him since." The assistant Dis-
trict Attorney then subjected her to a close cross-
examination, the substance of which was as fol-
lows :—Question
—That undercoat he had on when
he came back—was
it a blue coat? Answer—Yes.
Q. Similar to the one he had on when he came
before. A. Yes. Q. You cannot tell whether it
was the same ? A. No ; it was a blue cloth coat.
Q. But the overcoat had been changed from a
white coat to a black coat? A. Yes, sir. [The
part of the murderer's coat shown her]. Coroner
Flynn—Q. Does that look anything like the coat?
'
A. No, sir, that is not the coat. Q. That is not
the coat he had en the second time? A. No, sir,
nor the first time. [The murderer's felt hat
shown]. Q. Is that the hat A. No, sir ;I am
. sa
sure that is not the hat nor You the coat that he wore.
District Attorney--Q y he had his hand
bound up with rags ? A. Yes, sir. Q. Which
hand ? A. His right hand. Q. He said he had got
it jumping over the fences? A. Yes. His hand
was not so the first time he came ? A. No, sir.
Q. Are y
battliok.mce he left you that first
morning?o u sureA. w
Sc
t.en o'clock.
Q. He said he had
to go up town? A. Yes. Q. Did you see any
letter in his pocket ? No, sir. Q. You did not see
A. No, sir. Q. How do
ywohua what
know was
clock in the morning
when he left ?
in
thathi si
tpo was cket?
seven
A. Because I heard the whistles
blow. I know it was seven o'clock for I went down
stairs and shut the front door. Q. Did you see the
hand, whether it was cut or not ? A. I didn't see
the rag taken off. Yesterday the case was again up,
and it does not reveal any new or important fea-
ture, except fixing the exact time of the murder and
the declaration of Mr. Rogers that his murderer
was a small man. The biggest of the Logans is
certainly exculpated by this evidence, as he could
not have been at the spot at the time, nor does he
answer the description. Two Custom-house clerks,
Messrs. Korn and Laidlaw, have been arrested for
alleged frauds on the Government, extending
through a period of two years, by which they rea-
lized $500,000, through false claims for drawback.
One name borne on the papers was Fear, a brokerwho
lately fled from the States carrying away a large sum :
a third clerk was arrested on Thursday, and there is
great excitement in the Custom-house as others are
believed to be implicated. Indeed yesterday John
0. V. Wilson Was committed in default of bail.
Some negroes were yesterday assaulted at Brooklyn,
William Edwards and a number of other coloured
persons being attacked by rowdies. Edwards and
Horsey were conversing when some white men-..
Hopkins, Gauley, and others—pushed them into
the gutter ; then Gauley knocked Edwards down,
and Horsey corning to his assistance was asaulted.
The negroes on this fled, but were surrounded by the
gathering crowd, when Horsey drew a knife and
stabbed Hopkins, amid by this escaped further
molestation. Edwards was not so fortunate, for
be was pursued by the mob through Canton-street
to Myrtle-avenue, and into a crockery store at the
corner of Ramond-avenue, the pursuers yelling
" Kill the nigger!" and struck him senseless with
the earthen pots. Gauley was then arrested, af-
terwards rescued, but again recaptured. The
negro Horsey Wee also arrested, and identi-
fied by Hopkins, who had been carried to hos-
pital. The sailors' strike is considered to
have ended, by the shipowners agreeing to the fol-
lowing terms :—To all ports of Europe and east of
the Bay of Iliac ly, $3O a month and $3O advance ;
to any port in the %Vest Indies, Spanish Main, East
Coast of South America, or West Coast of Africa,
$25 a month and sess in advance; to any port
around the Cape of Good Hope or Cape Horn, js2o
a month and c
.010 in advance ; coastwise, $2O a
month and $l5 in advance; foreign vessels, $35 a
month and V 5 advance. The journeymen printers,
however, have not yet settled matters. At a meet-
ing of the employers it was resolved that they can-
not accede to the scale of prices recently presented,
and it was announced that the firms that had
agreed to the terms only did so conditionally, and
would abide by the decision of that meeting. The
strike is confined to the book trade, and it has be-
come evident that the business of stereotyping,
printing, and binding should be removed from the
centre of the city to a more accessible locality,
where the workmen can get cheaper and more
healthy quarters.

THE STAFF OF LIFE.

A spirited attempt is being made to bring us
back to the consideration of first principles in the
constituents of so much of our food as is repre-
sented by the wheaten loaf. At present the wheat
and straw are brought together from the harvest
field, and, after separation, the wheat is sooner or
later passed to the miller. What the miller does
with it is well known. It is ground by him (1) into
best flour, or pastry whites ; (2) into whites ; (3)
into households ; (4) into seconds ; (5) into thirds ;
and (6) into fine middlings. A simpler classifi-
cation would be (1), into the flour which is sepa-
rated from the dressing machine, and is best on
second flour, according to the quality of the wheat
used ; (2) into the middlings, which
through the bolting machine to become fine mid•
dlings, coarse middlings, and third flour ; (3) into
the refuse or offal which is made over to the jumper
or frame of wire gauze that turns out superfins, pol-
lard, fine pollard, coarse pollard, and bran ; and
it may be remarked, as throwing light on the value
of some of the varieties, that sailors' biscuits are
made from fine middlings, and that pigs are fed
from second middlings. As for the pollards they
enter largely into the food of market poultry, and
as for the bran it is given to horses. Of the baker
this only need be said that he makes the dough from
two weights of flour and one of water, but he gets
his sponge from yeaet and salt; that generally he
only mixes potatoes to the extent of 81bs. to the
sack of flour ; that he submits to the prevailing de-
mand for white bread, and sometimes may give
tenacity and colour to inferior flour by the use of
alum ; and that he excludes bran from household
bread. Such being the prevailing treatment of wheat
and bread, a set of questions arise that it will be
well to answer. Is this treatment of wheat such
as science would suggest? Is the present manu-
facture of bread satisfactory ? Is it possible, with
our knowledge of wheat, to make a short crop go
farther ; and that an average or full crop might
reduce the price of bread below the common level ?
This is the series. Taking it as it stands wheat is
composed of an outer and inner part, the inner
consisting of starch, the outer of gluten, and of the
earthy and the alkaline phosphates. The gluten
is flesh forming, the earthy phosphate bone and
teeth forming, the alkaline phosphate is healthy
blood forming. Starch, on the one hand, main-
tains animal heat, being totally wanting in flesh
and tissue forming power. Thus the present ma-
nufacture of flour is as unsatisfactory as it well can
be. It makes offal of the outer part of the wheat,
and apparently for no better reason than that it is
white and pleasing to the eye, it accepts the inner
part. It rejects what, in truth, is the better
part of the wheat ; as if it were indifferent
what is taken and what is left. But, ob-
viously, there ought to be no indifference. The
object of bread eating should be broadly looked
at. For inasmuch as the inner part neither forms
bone, muscle, nor flesh, its exclusive use in bread
leaves—unnecessarily leaves—those parts of the
body to be nourished by other flesh, muscle, and
bone forming elements. When such elements are
eaten in approximate proportions to those present
in entire wheat, no injury is done ; but when they
are not partaken of, there necessarily is the inferior
development so often noticeable in the poor. The
chief dependence of the poor being bread, the 3 , in-
deed, are presumably unable to make good the bone
muscle, and flesh forming deficiencies of bread as
at present sold. With the rich it is otherwise. At
pleasure they command whatever appetite or the
necessities of their bodies may require ; and that
the rich are not always fine specimens of muscular
development is no answer to what is now affirmed.
Among the rich, as with others, there are numbers
incapable of great physical development; while
some, as with others, from indifference or igno-
rance, or even from perverted choice, accept of
starch as their chief nourishment. No wonder,
therefore, that such, both among the rich and poor,
should lose their teeth at an early age, and
even at the best have imperfectly formed teeth.
The special nutriment of the teeth, as of bone,
muscle, and flesh, is in the outer part of the wheat,
which, being neglected, cast aside as offal, in other
words used for the bone and flesh development of
horses, market poultry, and pigs, man, generally,
has an inferior physical development to that which
he might possess.
The first of the series of questions is thus answered
—the prevailing treatment of wheat is not such as
science would suggest. Nor is it marked day the
intelligence of the early Egyptian mortar grinding ;
or the equally rational modes of corn grinding
throughout Brazil and the River Plate countries at
the present day. The second question, whether
the present manufacture of bread is satisfactory,
stands in need of little more being said than has
been suggested by implication. No mere manipu-
lation of the inner part of wheat, by whatsoever
name it may be called, will invest it with the pro-
perties of the outer part. The raw material of the
baker's craft must itself be changed. Then, as re-
gards the third question, whether it is possible,
with our knowledge of wheat,to make a short crop go
farther than we are likely to do at present, implica-
tion, too, has already helped us. At present consump-
tion is largely borne by the inner part of the wheat.
The outer part is rejected. Consequently we have
only to utilize the outer part to secure a large prac-
tical increase in our available supplies.—Anglo-
American Times.

SZTTLEMENT OF THE NOVA SCOTIAN
DIFFICULTY.

The Canadian papers announce that the dispute between
Nova Scotia and the remaining portion of the Canadian
Dominion has been finally disposed of. It will be
remembered that Nova Scotia was averse to enter-
ing the union of all the British American provinces
on the ground that the terms of the arrangement were un-
favourable. It has now been agreed that an increase of
money appropriation shall be granted to Nova Scotia,
and that no change shall bo made in the tariff. Sir
John A. Macdonald has agreed to bring a measure be-
fore Parliament to provide that the Nova Scotia debt, on her
comingintotheUnion,shall be fixed at a fraction 0ver9,000,000
dollars, being 2,000,000 less than fixed bythe constitution. An
annual subsidy is to be paid Nova Scotia from the com-
mencement of the Union, for tsn years, of about $BO,OOO
per annum. The Province Building in Halifax, which
cost $250,000, is to be taken possession of by the Do-
minion, and Nova Scotia paid for the expenditures on it.
It appears that a despatch from Mr. Gladstono's Govern-
ment informed the Nova Scotians that they need not
expect any better terms, and thus the dispute was peremp-
torily terminated.

MADAME RACHEL AND HEE SOLICITOR-

At thefudges' °bombers, -yesterday morning, before
Master Bmith, the adjourned application in the motet
of " Madame' Rachel v. Haynes, an Attorney," came
up for hearing. Mr. Norman said Mr. Haynes, the de-
fendant, was appointed in 1862, and up to the time of the
trial of Madame Rachel, and during that trial he received
large sums of money from her. There was a sum of £3,401
received about August, 1862, from Madame Rachel per-
sonally, for the purpose of paying up a mortgage due
where she carried on business. He received other
sums amounting to about £6,000 subsequently to that period,
and which it was represented to her by Mr. Haynes had
been invested in securities for certain trust deeds.
There was a further sum of £4,500 received from
Madame Rachel. Ho was, in fact, her banker,
and ho represented to her that he bad invested this
money for her benefit in certain shares in a
mining company. Then there is another sum of
£4,000 which he represented to her that ho had
invested in shares in ono of the London gas and coke
light companies. Other moneys in his hands he represented
he had invested in her behalf. The Master said—This is of
the nature of a criminal charge, and Mr. Haynes ought to be
hero. Mr. Lewis—ln fact it amounts to a charge of embezz-
ling Madame Rachel's money. Mr. Norman continued his
statement. There is a further sum of £4,000, which he
(Mr. Haynes) received from Madame Rachel. The Master—
If you prove this charge against Mr. Haynes, the defendant.
he will undoubtedly be struck off the rolls and ruined for life,
Therefore you must prove the misappropriations specifically,
it is very easy to make charges against an attorney, and it is
difficult to prove them. At this period the reporters were
ordered to retire, and the remainder of the business was
transacted with closed doors.