The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-08-27

The m ain facts connected Win tue 'os' ~--f'
an Atlantic telegraph cable, the dihcui'e' sa'.ou
in the progress OF the work, the nna' parting '
wire ana the subsequent attempts TO recover H. nave
.,rs.av .,naarea in our columns; but, - the most
,rr,a ,arcnars I'm regard TO this important enter
, ore exceedingly interesting to hundreds OF thous-
nd ~ rea,ers we this morning publish complete ana
s,aisd account of the laying OF the cable, OF the re-
covsrv at different times OF Its lost Insulation, oil
| its final parting the "a inst, and OF inc
hssouent graphing for it, down to and including the
oar ,ns, The waer where the cable lost is about
two miles and hreequarters deep but notwithstanding
this the broken end occasion brought within
twelve hundred yarts Of the surface and would have
been again restored to he deck Of the Great Eastern had
not lis great weight ben much for the strength
Of the graphing rope lne Of correspondents at
Hearts Content Newfoundland also gives account OF
the closing scenes there the arrival Of OF the
great misfortune A
Al late hour Friday afternoon detectives Gilmore
and MacDouga effected the arret OF the defaulter Ed
ward b. Ketchum, whom they took into custody at
houss in West Twentieth street. where he was known
under the alias Of c. r. Lowry, of Cincinnati He has
not been out Of the city since the discovery Of hts defa
cations In the possession Of the accused were i'und
three letters forty nine thousand done-s Treasury
notes. and forged gold certificates Tho prs-
ouer was at once taken che Police Headquarters and
vesterday afternoon District Attorney A. Oakley Hall,
representing the people, appeared at the Tombs Police
Court and prefeyd against him charge Of forgery in
| the third degree
The dof~raton swinding and forgery developments
continue military as well civil financial circles having
now become field Of disclosure, and alleged romen.
! dous frauds among army paymastcrs are now being
| brought TO light In fridays HERALD was motto tho
fact that Colonel Amos Bnncy Chief Paymascr n the
Department of Virginia and North Carolina, had been
| odn
| thirty or forty thousand dollars by paying the
| soldiers in seven-thrty bonds and sharing the
| profits Of buying them up at heavy discount
| by the Virginia banks II is now stated that four
teen other paymastcrs in that department implicated
with Binney and the whole matter is under investiga
! ton
An ocer of the army has been arrested in this city,
and is now under examination, charge OF fraud and
forgery the Payr~ascrs Department and with having
been engaged in the business Of procuring discharges for
soldiers by forging papers and other criminal means
| This case also will shortly be investigated.
defacation to the amount of sixty -four thousand
dollars recently been discovered n tho accounts of
bookkeeper large wholesale establishment in Boston
II appears that the young man Gladwin, now in tho
Tombs charge Of forgery in the cases OF the New
| Haven check and tho procurement Of two hundred
thousand dollars worth of Western railroad bonds from
the safe of the st. Nicholas Hotel illustrated previous
to his arrest the position of the bitter bitten After pro-
curing the money the four thousand dollars check he
gave nineteen hundred dollars of It TO whose
acquaintance he had made with the understanding that
they were live together but she kept the money and
cloped with some she liked better and 1t was while
searching for her that Gadwin arresed The girl
whose name Casey, Of Hartford is supposed to
have fed with her paramour TO Chicago, ana ponce ON
| GERS are now on the track Of the Ngitivc pair
"a sI,.t tJ,e a
broker of one of our Singing firms discovered
Thursday last The arnr though small in itself, gives
reason for suspicsn that there may be other similar
cases bill duties altered from $3 100 to So 900
by chauqips the figure one into cypher There Is to
be an Investigation of the matter.
A young man named John Leach aims Morris
agent on Hudson River Railroad yesterday
mted 10 the Tombs charged with stealing six thousand
dollars in bonds and from Mr. George Douglass Of
70 Beekman street. on board Of the trains of that
road ALI the stolen property was found in possession Of
the accused when he arrested.
A named Bartholomew Connors, alias ''Flaxy,'
yesteaday required 10 give thousand dollars bail
TO the charge OF being the leader OF rotous
demonstration which took place In the vicinity OF -Four
teenth street and avenue on Friday evening After
the first Of Connors he succeeded in escaping but
recaptured, when number Of his companions as
sembed and underworld to take him out OF the hands Of
the police The dsordery crowd followed the officers,
throwing stones and other missiles at them and severely
inurng policeman Coughln but did not succeed in get
ting possession Of the prisoner
Fritz Trotter yesterday arrested and locked up in
the Fourteenth precinct station house for examination
on charge Of severely stabbing Edward Williams
during quarrel between the two yesterday forenoon 10
Broadway, near Houston street.
coroners inquest commenced yesterday, but not
concluded in the Of the death Of Mrs. Catharne
Cleeves victim OF the fire Friday afternoon 10 the
pyrotechnic establishment No 10 John street. has
not yet been ascertaned that any other lives lost
on the occasion.
The city Of Pittsburg Pennsylvania, has been very
much excited for the past few days by disclosures Of
murders committed there. On Thursday last the re-
mains Of man. with the throat cut and the body shock
ingy muatod found lying some vacant ground,
and on tho following day Mrs. Grinder arrested
charge Of having been for time engaged in secretly
and systematically poisoning persons who visited her,
without any apparent motive II is said TO be known
that three Of her victims have died. and fourth is not
expected 10 live.
sailor named Smith, belonging TO the Portuguese
ship Abodeen lying at Of the Hoboken piers, was
shot and severely wounded Friday by the mate Of the
vessel named van who alleged that tho sailor was con-
Quoting himself in dsordery manner. Vain was re-
aured 10 give one thousand dollars bail 10 answer the
charge.
Major General Marccllus Crocker, OF Iowa. died in
Washington yesterday aged about thirty+six years.
General Crocker served throughout the for the sup
preston of the rebellion.
Some OF the secession organs Of Halifax, Nova Scotia
are much exercised and express great disgust at the
fact Of Mr. Rtchic the only Union editor OF that city
having been invited 70 New York TO receive the
thanks Of the loyal merchants Of this metropolis some
hats hal fOr
United States government during the past four years
The secessonists order offset this movement have
ex,smporized presentation supper 10 one Dr. Almon,
who has been leader Of the rebels in Halifax and who
made himself notorousy conspicuous In the steamship
Chesapeake Affair." and who also aided the escape Of tho
pirates after they had been arrested II will be remem
bered that the captain of the pirate Tallahassee publicly
thanked Dr. Almon for assistance rendered shat craft
while there after being ignored bs the British admiral