The New York Herald Newspaper, January 11, 1850, Page 6

mer Another Astounding Developement of Crime. SEQUEL TO THE TORPEDO. [From the National Police Gasette Jan 12] SINGULAR CONSPIRACY TO MURDER MR. FOSTER, TO PRESENT CLAIMS AGAINST HIS PROPERTY—EXTEA> ORDINARY FRAUD OF GENERAL JAMES ARLING LON BENNETT ON JOHN ANTHON—THE PROCTOR MORT- GAGE, AND HIS SUDPEN DEATH. | We notified the public, at the time of our arrest of Samue! 1 Drury, the Powder Fiend, that we had a developement inreserve, that would equal the hor- ror of the * Infernal Machine,” and prove an ava- lanche to those who were endeavoring to work up a st us in the Drurys’ favor. Io this, as in every thing else, we are prepared to keep our word, and 3 while we another lesson to the marketable rascality abo do it, we are also prepared to fur the Tombs, that when it sella itself against usin the future, it must alweys go into the bargain on the calcol and alway With this task, and ution that we never relax our vigilanee, sunderstand everything we widertake. preliminary, we will now proceed to our request that patience from the reader, that will enable him to appreciate all the minutie of the account. As the mystery opens to a broader scene, and involves some persons whom we have mot yet in- troduced, we thall be obliged to commence our re- lation in a method that wili make it plain. There have lived for Island, four idividue character, who by, a chance a THE CONSPIRATORS 1 few years upon Long st extraordinary singular as their genius, have become to a great extent conjunctive with one are Samue terrible at apother. The names of these persons 1 Drury, known to our readers for his tempton Mr Wamer’s life ; Joseph C. Ashley, now under indiciment tor passing counter- feit notes “One By Arhogton manufactured by Drury ; William alas ¢d Thompson,” the chemist, and James Bennett, otherwise General Bennett, of the Mormon Legion. The first of these cha ers alrew forty-five ture, acquired by « long series atrocious SAMUEL DRURY- ters, ws most of our read- viishman by birth, about sor of a large for crimes of the most He resided at Astoria, L. 1, 'y know, is ap Years of age, uod posse character. in a fine mansion, built by himssif, over the ruins of a fom fraud the ver house which he burned down to de- underwriters. This building 1s surround- ed by eut-houses, in some of which he carried on the various processes of coin and counterfeiting, and in others stowed his piuuder, in the shape of stolen goods. ledge, was an attempt. ts by charg was the fi His first eflence within, our know- wurder a former partner, nga lime kiln with powder; his second riog of his house for the insurance; his third, a plan to murder a young man at Astoria, who retused to perjure bhimeelt in his defence; an his fourth, the attempt to destroy the Thomas Warner, of 18 Cr fernal machine, on the 4h of May last. offences will appear in another category. mily of nm ine other Such is Hall Place, Samuel Drury, the first of the above quartette. Joseph JOSEPH ©. ASHLEY. C. Ashiey, the second party named, re- sides in Brooklyn, in a fine house, at Nq 7 Collon- ade Kow, singularly procured. which he claims to own on a ttle most He was formerly a journey- man beckbinder; subsequently kept a fruit store near We has, ina shington Market; and, more latterly, he sort of spirtt ot retaliation for his numer- ous arrests, taken to the practice of the law. Ash- ley first attracts our atteution during the period while he Was in the fruit bustwess. At that time, the widow of a sea captain, who owned a house in Grand street, of this erty, fell sick, and Ashley be- came a visitor to her bedside. Christian, tion, she cutor of b of ma; fee. some res their e Being a professing , he prayed for her, but, despite his unc- died upon bis hands, and left him an exes her efluirs. Io a short ume, by some sort 5, he became possessor of the property in he dav Dters of the deceased widow made but as they were simpietons, istanes se fel through, and Ashley, confirmed in his title, disposed of the property, and put the pro- ceeds in bis pocket. Shortly etill more there di wealthy gentlemen, named Proctor. after bis sioner ot whom he in Collon. after this, he figured in a transaction of mysterious character. Ia the year 18 ed suddenly, at the Carlton House, A few days death, there appeared betore a commis- deeds in Wall street, two perrons, one of id in his hand two mortgages ef buildings ade row, Brooklyn, to the amount of five thousand dollars each. These mortgages were signed Willum Procter, the date of the day was filled up, verything Was ready for the mere ne of the coi issioner. The inan who held the morigoues called himself Roberto de 'a Vacea, and wien t!e commissioner asked the other if he were Mr. bond wer ‘The commirsioner the ler snees of men in his bass kaew ho ture was . P octor, and if the name uiceady to the ¢ his signuiuse, he nodded acquiescence. woh the customary care- 3, subseribed that he n to be Mr. Proc that of his own (Proetw ) proper haad Roberto de la Vacea and the spurious Mr. Proctor thereupon lef. the offiie, and “hea they got to their own strument, Water and biack sand, weeks ehear, toe ve “ Asnley housts in had lived sion ot the other. cen, they rubbed off the dete of the in which had been put oa merely with glue nd iseried « date some wi rn to the period when Proce eto de la Vacea then vanished t time Joseph C. tie , « as found in posession of one of the Collonade row. Another pers who in the Carlton Houre, was also in posses- When, however, the lawyers of Mr. Proctor’s estate eeme to eecutinize the trans- action, they knew thet a traud bad beea commit- ted. ‘They saw it Was absurd, that a man as rich as Mr. Proet e wealth was nearly all in ready means, habit ut Wes to loan oa the property ef oth iH atem,( to rawe money on bis (Wn oeredings Were therefore com- menced eguinst Achley tor the restorauon of the property to the heusot Mr. P's estate, Ashley, of Course, resisted this iovarvon of the mortgage ot his fread, Roberto de la V at not daring to produce the do paper etend himsell, he resolved to destroy it, in order that t Ht was le ply it plac operabion disreputable are oblig son for ull questions with a v original n plaint #¢ to a seer an outcry that be popers, on carried off emong the rest when the to the per moined in bis poserssion. Suis for perjury were subsequently imetituted ioet him, but, sustained by his ronetity, and a bebit of praying for all the tick in his neighborhood, tis character shook them off. He held on the property till last week ; but, encoureged by his recent indictment for pase- ing counterieit money, heirs renewed their uit, end sveeeeded. the week betore lat gr iting jedpment agemet bom, on the oberte 1 Vacca © fale personag’ the #'g of Proctor a torgery. Astley hi apoeelec whieh position he om ’ hy of the honor of inery u me coulederate wih the Powcer Prene avetive ta many of his plans. When he rans, Drury furnished nd when I a ad, Ashley was Wussteady With comethung more practical than ES ARLINGTON There come at ie 0 the plaus of this pair, a third porty, quite as tormidable as ether of the other two, ead gifted with an au- daeity of mine ting that Was equ u dating, and to Ashley's persevere Thier ) Wes the proprietor of @ fine estate and magniheent mansiwn, near New Uirecht, L mm | the Hath reed, and Known to fame ww 0 lees a title thon General Jomes Arhing tt, of the Mormen Legion. He is eo itisthmen of obscure erly a teae st, and allow the copy on rec ec. This would have been a very simple with a mun of good character, but the ito produce a special rea- le neta, Ashley, theretore, lew 0 & secreily instigated a poliee com. just Dimself, avd se subjected h When the offi had been reboed of valuable nd that the mortgage of Proctor had been The result was, that case come on, be was allowed to reter feet copy on record, and the property re- by on overweening Vanity, between his orginal of neble b He keeping tm this neon exodus f 4 at the time of th this quarter, he took up his stafl with the res the saints, and turmed his feet rds the p Caneen et Nauvoo, Our readers know that the Mormon communt'y was not the field exactly tor the culivetion of the high branches of morals, and they are entitled ne inference that @ man Who went ane 4 rogue enough to be a hypocrite, tigt short time improve enongh tobe a very finshed wilain. James At Benwett remained ly long ame 4 inference may sfor he beenme a G yuarter in ISB, OF therenn and the est latitw ed to with his Mermon New Utreeht * while the picion, by means disposed mo pitebed this ety, him a tee thie, how them offered toh Bennett then Mr Te veierd his t threaten Benr on community ve thie principle, wed in ite large ul turn ered 00 tyle of his ti thd its evicence of the abundance ef t His extravagant babies, however, soon of his eurplus funds, «nd ever, Jame 140 Bond ot Bennest, ett Anthea and gave for inte rasements thathe fellin with Drury and Ashley, and became a party to many of their plans. Ben- nett, however, had an advantage over the other two. He lived in good odor with the world, aud none would have dreamed of looking underneath nis princely style for the figure of atelon. What plans, What projects this trio performed together, itis not now for ustosay. They were emiaenily capeble, but snl they lacked some ports to_rea- cer them accomplished to every subject. They lacked science and chemistry for a system ot tor- geries and bank note alterations which had been conceived among them, and these accomplish- ments were possessed vy Wiliam, alias. i: ONE*EYED THOMPSON. | Bs This man was of a most singular mind and dis- sition. He was an American by birth, and had been bred a printer, and a love of reading, impro' ing emore than common mind, had made him, in good sense, an educated man. Unsocial and mo- rose from an early disappointment, he had ta- kena gave against mankind, and studied them only from their shadows, as monuments are known at moonlight. ‘hus disposed, he soon ger to hate them for the gloom which they reflected on his mind, or to despise them from a sense of the great inferiority of the mass of them to himself. Fond of abstruse pur- suits, he devoted himself to the study of chemis- try, and in the course of his investigation, evolved some rare secrets from hie crucibles. He produced a medicine which was purchased by Doctor Mil- nor, of this city, and largely approved of, and there were many cases where his treatment of cu- taneous diseases was rewarded with extraordinary cures. In these pursuits, however, he did not seem to bend his mind on profit, but, Tike all eathu- siests in science, followed. his, Fancy until driven from it by the actual wants of life. It was at such times as these, he would turn upon the world, and, hike a wolf, snatch from it enough te supply hi need. With a genius capable of the most stupen- dous plans, this has been his unprofitable course for years, He never would offend while he had a dollar left to enable him to mope in the laboratory, or pore over his books. : Driven beyond measure in 1840, he became in- volved in several charges of burglary, but, owing to some fault in the complaint, and in considera- tion of some assistance to the authorities in cer- tain matters of great importance, he eluded all the dangers that encircled him. From that tume ull 1846 he was not involved in any accusation, but rupported himself mostly by keeping a drug store; thowgh it has been ascertained that during this en- tire period, he was in the habit of receiving the visits ef the most renowned felons of the country, and counsellor, 1f nothing else, became cogni- zant of the most important crimes that were com- mitted inthe land. But he made no arrangement by which he cen Wet by these disclosures, and he thought he owed the world too little to put it on its guard. In 1846, at a period when desperate- ly in want, he became implicated in a burglary, and was arrested, in connection with a person named Johnson, perilous situation. Johnson procured a lawyer, and was convicted. Thompson aseumed his own defence, battled with Mr. Mc- Keon, appealed to the jury with a rival eloquence, was acquitted, and subsequently procured John- son’s pardon. Here was a man for such people as Drury, Ashley end the great Mormon General to admire! They did admire him, and after a brief acquaintance, he received an invitation to reside ina litle house on Bennett’s estate. Now that this party are ll gen and that the character of each is underst we will proceed to develope what we have immediately in hand. THE INTENDED MURDER OF MR. FOSTER. Immediately after our errest of the Drurys, on the torpedo charge, it beeame evident to us that we had frustrated some design of impertance ia which Bennett and Drury were concerned, and we were further confirmed in this idea, by ascertaiming that it was the plan of Bennett to produce himself, with bis apparent show ot respectability, in Lrary’s de- fence, as the sustainer of a theory that Thompson had made the torpedo box, at the instigation of Warner, to kill Warner's wife. They got so far advanced 1 the theory, that they were actually in treaty for a negro, who was to swear he carried the box to Warner’s house, at Thompson's direc- tion, and Bennett was to swear that Thompson told him he had made it. By making some rapid moves, however, we crushed this intention in the bud, and drove the great Mormon General from the scheme. Things remained in dormant coa- cition until the 6th of December,when we received the following remarkable letter:— New Youx, December 6th, 1849 Respected Sit—A few days ego | wrote te His Honor, the Mayor, !nformi very unfortu- hope you will in. My busband jw and to show that he owes them large sums of mopey just as Mr lroctor was served « long time 1 write to you also because you have had one of perties taken and putin prison, which | was in hopes would have broken up the plan, but it is not so, to my great sorrow, as they have commenced their Nap, and ray if they stop now, L his perrom is, | learn. @ Mr. Foster,a rich man, and [has on office in Wall street. If! wrong my husband in writing this, may God forgive me for doing, for | am acting from pure and just motives, and wish,to save my | burbaud the sin aswell as anything else. If you take to rave Mr. Foster, please state in pour paper esof Mrs. L is complied with and relieve xiety | endure. me frem the To Groncr Wickes, Eeq., Editor of the Police Gazette. ‘e called upon the Mayor, but he had laid his | | letter amide without one it, In consequence of | 1's anonymous character. Upon finding, however, that its statements corresponded with the above, his Honor consented to send for Mr. Foster, an show him the missives. If there were nothing in | them, po harm would be done; if they were in | ee taith, Mr. Foster would be upon his guard. | rhe Mayor followed this course, and Mr. Foster, | impressed by the evident sincerity of the letters, | sought an interview with us, We met hum at his pee, and talked over the affair. It was plain that the letter to us reterred to our arrest of Drury, and its allusion to the Proctor matter called up yd ley In the picture. At length, after having deve- loped to Mr. Foster the nature of the connection between Drury and Ashley, we remarked that there wes a third person connected with their designs, whore neme was one of the secrets of the Drury cate, and which we would mention, on the condi- | tien that it should not be repeated. * This pergon,” said we, “who is likely to be a perty to the general design against you, is General James Arlington Bennett Mr. Foster leaned back in his ehair, and seemed | astounde Are you sure,” said he, aftera pause, | * thet Bennett 18 one of them!” | , “ Certain; was our reply. “Do you know | nm * Yes; I hold a mortgage against his property for | six thousand dollars, and, lately, | have had a great deal of trouble to get the interest ‘The mystery had bursted open, and we both saw the whole subject ata glan: The recent mur- | der of Doctor Parkman lent an additional horror to our imaginations, and both of us rapidly gather. | ed several confirmatory thoughts. Our personal | mend, however, travelled to more advaatage than | Mr. Foster's, as it was better posted, and we im- | perted to him a fact that bore upon our joint suspi- cicns with great significance. Im searching Drury's house,we had found two second-hand gold watches, wrepped ina piece of letter paper, which bore the memorandum of “$35 to Ashley for Bennett.” We had pursued this item, and learned that Ben- nett, driven fer means to meet his insurance, ac- ng to the conditions of the Foster mortgage, d to Ashley to raise him $100 on his two Ashley had but $65; but, giving that | amount to Bennett, be took the watches to Drury, | and cbtsined the other $35 upon them from that quarier. ‘This circumstance showed the desperate state of Bennett's circumstances, and showed, too, | thet Poster wes the phantom which, as in other | cases of “property murders,” continually flitted ah the debtor's mind, and inspired him to an | ecquittal of blood. We tet Mr. Foster, with the promise to take the matter actively in hand. When we saw him again, | our inquiries had produced fruit, and we asked | him of he hed any notes out. He answered, “ No, not one in the world " We then acquainted him, to his great astonishment, with the fact that a law. | ly ed Byrne, in City Hall Place, had in his yor a note of $9,600 egainst him tor collec. | ten. This mterview between Mr. Foster and our- seit took place m the Mayor's office, December Ish. Upto thie time, no one knew of out move- | ments but ovr two selves; but it might now be ne Cessary (0 te8ue process to obtain the note, and the Meyer, w hed received the firet indications of | the bue " lat his house. It would not enewer for evher Mr. Foster or ourself to | the «fice of Mr. Byrne, as Ashley hada de | | the Dennett, who knew Mr. Foster, « vie rt. Byme, asactient. The k wever, relieved us of our Mr. Byrne, and informing him a e 4 see him on im, siness at | or's office. We did hhold our jmr y enspicion of Mr. Byrne's sategrity, wv wey he this opportunity to say 18 } ) bot to prevent our name from } re of Ashlgy, of perchance of Be, d trne arrived, we recognised a gen- teee had long been familiar to as, tm at onee to Mr Foster, explana t Me. Foster wae the geatleman * held. ae we had underet * Was taken by surprise at | ‘ « eter, but, after seneat’s y edmit at he did el t owing te manner ir h | 2 EE TRE AY TE TT NOR waMBe he bad received it, he bad regarded it as suspi- ciows, and forebore to present it for collection Mr. Byrne further explamed, that a month or so plevious to his receipt of the note, a person who wes his client, had inquired of him if he should receive threugh the post office a note for collee- on against a Wealthy gentleman of this city, who, perhaps had given it to get out of a serape with a woman, whether he would preseat and col- Jeet it?) Mr. Byrne rephed in the affirmative, and on the 18th November, the following letter, enc! ing the note, and also a tailor’s measure for a suit of clothes, was put in his hands by the mail carrie: Fox Riven, Near Ottowa, Ill. Francis Byrne, Esq.—Sir; On the recommendation of your friend. Mr. Dorsey, I enclose you the note of Mr. Foster. of w York. for coliection, together wita my mearure fore suit of black clothes, of the best quality, which you will be so kind as to procure He gent, several tracts of land in dif. my dir 4 7 fers ites, at 1 am seldom long fame place, £0 you will please to send the cloth e best line, to my address at St. Louts, Mo When you deduct your commission, &c , you will leare to deposit the balance in any of the New York janke, and rend me the cashier's receipt AS ith Mr. Foster have been of a very ry , 1 don’t apprebend that you wili D pres the neve. or lodge it for ction, $9,000, With great estee: am. mr, Your very humble HENRY L. . 600) New Yous, Nov 6, 1548. onths from date, | promise to pay vir He ry Inman, or order, nine thousand eix huodred dollars, value received. & a sane FOSTER, | D HENRY INMAN {Envelope} “ Francis Esq , Counsellor at-Law, City Hall Place, New Y: towa, Nov, 10. The discrepancy between the amount of the note and the sum mentioned in the letter, would aloas have excited surprise in the mind of Mr. Byrue, but connecting it with the hypothesis which had been put to him some days before, he saw plataly it wasa fraud that wascalculated to make himtake all the risks of a criminal position. With this view, he on the second day after its receipt, as One-eyed Thompson entered to call on Asniey, pulled it out of his desk and showed it to T., whom he knew to be then in aero to the person who had tirst suggested the arrival of sucha note, aod asked him what he thought of it. Thompson at once de- clared that the whole business was « fraud, and advised Mr. Byrne to go at once to Mr Foster, and expose it. Byrne, thereupon, indignant at being thus abused, turned suddenly upon Ashley and accused him with having a hand in the affair, but Ashley protested his entire ignorance 8 stoutly that Mr. Byme for the time was convinced A day or two after this occurrence, the pers who had first suggested the prospect of the note, inquired significantly of Mr. Byrne, if he had got a letter from the West ; but Mr. Byrae, well upoa his guard, replied carelessly, that he had not. ‘When Mr. Byrne had got thus far in his explana- tion, we requested the name of the person whe had suggested the collection of the note, and also the note itself. Mr. Byrne, however, declined either, until he should have a day’s reflection, to satisfy himself whether such a course on his part could be considered a professional betrayal of his chent. Agreeing to perfect secrecy, however, he left us, to meet at the same place and hour the nextday. On the next day, Mr. Byrne came, and assoon ashe met us, delivered up the ubove letter and note, and informed us, that the person who had inquired about it, previous to, and after its myste- rious arrival, was no other person than General James Arlington Bennett, of the Mormon Legion. Upon examination, it was pl that the signature of the note was genuine, and that it had belonged originally to the bottom of a letter which Mr. Foster had written to Bennett, and from which the ink had been extracted. As a further proof of this, Mr. Byrne stated, but a day or two ago, that Bennett had left one of Mr. Foster's letters lying on his desk, in order that he might compare the signature with that of the note. cs The papers were then duly marked, enclosed in an envelope, directed to the Mayor, and accom- ge by a letter of explanation from ourseit ‘his was carefully sealed up, and put in charge ot the acting Mayor, with the explanation, that the proceeding, though a public one, was directed to the Mayor in his peivate character, that the secrets it contained might not be subject to exposure, by any one breaking the seal, who did not understand it.” Mr. Byrne, seeing this deposit, then departed; and Mr. Foster, with our conseot, went to Mr. Authon, his lawyer, to explain all matters as far as they had progressed. Betore leaving us, however, he informed us, what the interest of the interview had before driven from his mind—that of late, a suspicious-looking man, of large size, had been seen hanging about the rear gate o' premises which leads into Great Jones street, and that oa two occasions a gentlemen, who resides in his houee, and who, like himself, always takes that egress to the Opere, had been accosted with the inquiry if he were Mr. Foster! | Matters had now arrived at a point where it was necessary to communicate them to some active authority, and we opened the business to the Dis- tnet nore je poutment for a en ole ing at the May of Messrs nthon, Foster, A.M. C. who had prose- cuted some of our inquiry rt. McKeon, and ourself. This meeting took place, but instead ot Mr. Anthon, came Ogden Hoflman, Esq , on the part of Mr. Foster, Mr. F. explaining that Mr. Anthon, having himself loaned Bennett the sum ot $5,000, within afew days, on the New Utrecht property, was afraid to enlist against him, tor his je. or's of ith, TUE ANTHUON FRAUD. . This communication puzzled us. Without know- ing why, we telt convinced that a new fraud had been perpetrated, and informed Mr. McKeon and Mr. Foster that we would go and see Mr Auihon on the subject. We learned from Mr. Aatnon at our interview, that Bennett had once conveyed the New Utrecht property to his sop, and that, for the purpose of the Anthon mortgage, the son had con- veyed it back, in order that his father might pledge it. At this point in the conversation, it struck us that we had heard Bennett's son was « boy. If this were the case, he could receive but not convey the property. Mt would still adhere to him, and the mortgage of the tather would be a fraud. We asked Mr. Anthon if he knew how old Mr. Bennett's son was. h Yes, he was somewhere in the neighborhood of thirty. “ Have you ever seen him?” **No,” said Mr. Anthon, evineing a slight un- ‘no, but my son has. My som weat to Bennett's about three weeks ago, to look at the property in relation to my mortgage, and was there introduced to his son.” m here? he can give us a personal But the lawyer's son was out, and with the ra- mark that we were |, but still believed there was a fraud in the we left. _ This aflair haunted us all the afternoon, and at night we called on Mr. Foster, to leara, it ia his business intercourse with Bennett, he had ever seen his son. But he had not. The next morn- we sent a message after “ One-Eyed Taom eon,” whom we wished to see about the Foster and communicated the object of our inqae ries, in relation to the Anthon mortgage. Tr son was then himself surprised, and, indeed, little alarmed. a the mortgage to be a fraud, and stated that Bennett had evideutly sought to implicate him im it, in the same manner he had endeavored to mvolve Mr. Byrne in the matter of the Foster note. He had induced him to personate his son, during the visit of a young gentleman, who, he said, came to view the beau- house, and his pretence was that he did to offend the gentleman by an extibition of his son's stupidity. Taking this for the mere vagary of an eccentric ma hompson had con- sented, and thus yous, Anthon was deceived Our ders will now see the philosophy of this combination of felonious spu Like a set of vipers, they had been twining among each other in pernicious convolutions against the rest of the world, and from what we have already shown of their transactions, it 18 fair to presume that every now and then a life = have been stifled out tor edvancement of their schemes. Except Thompson, all were the owners of magnificent mansiwas, Iso fair to presume, that he was the least bi. ot the four. Besides, he had supportea hi by leqitmate operations, in the employment of a celebrated druggist of this city, for three previous ears, end his recent conduct in the exposure of the band, entitles his explanations of his couarction with them to a fair consideration. They believed him to be a hater of maok and when they ap- plied to his eeience for the acids for the extraction of inke, and communicated, in his presence, their nefarious conceptions, they felt that they piaaged them ina well whick ewned no link with tne r world by which they might be withdrawa to yud- N . This is bis story, We neither codoree nor repudiate tt. His cular misanthro: py makes it possible, and the discriminating may receive or reject it, as they please. Certaia it is, | he has broken from them, legaliy unimpliested in their latter schemes, and if we decide the worst net hum, we must at least give hum the eredit of crushing them by his siagalar superiority, when everything seems to have been ec d for his destruction. As far as Ashley is erned, we have not been able to define the exact degree of bis connection with the three great scheme+ which we developed We have related only actual circumstances against him, sad each nuod muet draw ioterences for itself But, as to Ue { Drary vad Bennett, there can be nove faete, sutlietent as they are have been considered aniple gentlemen who were culled Ws 1© Consult Hyon the exer, and upow ay, the Grand Jory have found trae bills ot te pt. What ier the great Mormon 2 well as the Pe tody it ve 10 be hope mm with t the awthorities who have charge of the prosecution wall prove as successful in their duty a= we have been in ours, which being done, the public will have the satisfaction of seeing etifled trom tarther mischief a band of viul- lains, whose unexampled daring and powers of evil have written misery on many a heart, and whose ostensible positions in society have, ull now, defied and discouraged every attempt to break them up. Itmay be a subject of congratu- lation, moreover, that we moved in proper ume, for itis apparent to the view, that had we not al rested Drury as we did, the arrival of the nine thousand dollar note from Illinois would have been collected against the estate of a dead man, and the $6,000 mortgage obliterated by a Proctor ope- ration, By Drury’s arrest, however, all the pla wgainet Mr. Foster were disjointed, and the cond great conspirator, General Bennett, tell a view h blow. * ‘We teel the peril we have incurred, but we will abide it; and shall rely for our compensation upon # just appreciation by the public of the service we have rendered to the cause of justice. The only thing fer which we now feel called upon to apply toran excuse, is for the length of this account; but the nature of the subject makes it necessary, and it ur doctrine, that every man who acts for the publi tsk, by a full report. When other public autho- rities follow the same rule, the community will know more about its own business, and have less to complain of in the way of maladministration and corruytion meee For a further report in this matter, we refer to our johce column. Dr. Antiseil’s Lecture en Geology. Dr. Antisell concluded bis course of lectures on ge, ology. at the Hope Chapel, im Broadway, on Monday evening lat. According to the manuer into which he divided bis subject, the medern epoch of the world’s formation was that which he lectured upon last, an epoch which, be suid, although not so rich im mine- rals,is more embellished by the animal creation than any of the ctbers He then passed on to a description ot the tertiary beds, conmsting of chalk. clay, sand, limertone. and marl deporiis ‘hese tertiary beds are not ail 0 parts of the they contain formation, by the r imbedded ip them other, aud there are fewer remains i efound ip Paris depots, 1d pipe clay are of tertiary formation. aiso found in these beds. as well ‘The large boulders or de- tached rocks, which are seen in this neighborhood und im otber parts of the country, were then re- ferred to by tbe lecturer. ‘Those boulders have if wee they belong to parent stones i '¢ fivd the ‘ders on the eastern extremit, Irland came trom Rhode Isiand ; those whic! e centre of Lopg Island came originally from Connecticut, uch as we find in Brooklyn, &o. the Highlands. There are in teeland,and they can be to Greenland and the coast of eu fiud tain chains, the boulders seem to diverge from centre, like spokes in wel. Professor takes a different view. He thinks they were by the wetion of glaciers. Not afew of the teebergs coming from the north pole are seen at thie dey and they frequently stick en the Banks of explain. too, why boulders are found on the highest land, because, whi jest land was, there would * 6em, the shallowest wa- lace to obstruct the icebergs. find deposits of gravel and T to the tertiary period character as those of the sec: . were very few. Of quadrupeds. there were serene the carnivorous obaracter — the wolf, &e. There were pbent, &e.. of the paces Gam Those delopged to the class termed thick-skinned, ge . jverous. the avimals of the present day resemble those of that period. The kant does in some d the borse. bas dirappeared since hin An was Zealavd, aud presented to Charlies the Second, tate, of which there are none now living aud portrait. lecturer of developement, we jones, We are led to otion that the world w abor gives im intellect world may be wade for on of man—that ie. tha peared. we may ave to make room for ith nobler ends and greater ta Movement, ‘There is no abatement in the rush for Ualifornia, as ore vessels have de} ed during the past two wooks jortaight of December, On Mon- ndid rteamer Empire City, Capt Stoddard, | left her pier. No 8 North Kiver, on Thursday for Cbagres direst. | t list ®as as well filled as usual e steamebip Falcon is to leave this city om inet, for the Pacitic, via Rio Ja Pe 12) Baltimore. New York. 1p Ree land Pp Rleiny re . bip Plymenth Steemer lotag by the way of 55.000 who during the past | Dagres ts memily 260% left for San Fran rep momihe 1p ab ‘alifornia Gold Fleed, the London Observer, It appears 4 # doubt that the California goid floed po) al aflected the woney market of the world, There depial of the immense mass of that as af present iu existence; on the ly confirmation of the autbentioity te made on the subject, together witb frequent oncements of new discoveries which throw the pr vg entirely into the shade Every steamer from the pew world bripge # large quantity of tilver or gold op freight, and those veseels—H. M 8. Pandora fer instance - who comw round by Cape Horn, on their way to this country from the northern shores of the Pacr6c, bring slong with them immense quan- tities of that precious cargo. The Pandora had nearly a million’s worth of California gold on board; and the West India packets from Chagres rarely arrive at Soutbempton without a cargo of the same or of @ close approximate value, Under there circumetances, and astuming that not less than three millions of Valiforuia gold has found its way into England. no one cau doubt that some grave and mighty change in at band in the monetary value of all property, if not in the pecuniary condition of the Engil-h people, At this moment the smount of the precious metals ip the cellars of the Bank of England is little short of sixteen millions and # haif—(£16,380.175 ) Where did that rum come from if @ large proportion of it be not the produce of California? ‘hen the continent was copvulred to the centre in 1848. when thrones and do- meisl aovoun ooptrary. there of all the state » thould show his hands, at the end of his |-ospions toppled to. their overthrow—when ~ the feur of obange perplexed monarchs” high and low—there wae peace in England. sod security also; and couse. quently, the money capital of Europe, which was not buried im the earth or otherwise hidden by its owners, found its way bither in vast quantities heaping up apd encumbering the subterranean deporte of the bank. But there is peace on the contivent now; order bas reigwed for seme time under the auspices of its “ guardian angels,” as Baron Haynau styles the Croat soldiery; and it isonall bands admitted that by fer | the greater proportion. if not the whole of this fugi- tive treasure has found its way buck to its original | receptacles. In the period of atest “flash.” as regerds money, sinow 1844 at which date the Bank Charter Act was revised and passed in ite present form, there was not by much such an abundance of the pre- cious metals in the bank cellars as there ia at this mo- mont. thongb it is well kaown that boards which had not seen the light for haif a century were then dis- | ereed and combined with the geuerai circulation of be countr; The tank of England has reduced the rate of die- count from 3 per cent to 25 per cent ; andin Lombard street it is certaia that almost any sum can be bad * upon call.” as it is termed — that is to say, for imme- | jate return when required by the lender—at 1 per evt lees, But there is no improvement in the general rade and buriness of the country to warrant this 16- cuction ip the value of money lent cn loan; manufac- turers do not allege that ‘ orders” are more frequent than betore, merchants are no busier in making ship- ments than usual; while the mass of the community not engaged in or commerce, are no better off in @ pecuniary point of view, than they were twelve months ince, when cash could command six cent foran indeterminate period. Whence, then, is this immense increase in the bullion of the bauk derived. if it be not from Call ? What gives still greater counte- nence to this copclurion is the fact, to be found in the weebly ret of the bank made on Friday, viz : that the silver bullion deporited in the cellars only amount- ed to £277,077, while the gold coin (foreign) and bul- lion was £16,293 348, [From the London Daily News, Deo. 6 ] From eeveral private letters we have seen Pacific. as well as from the accor recently returned from thence, California fever—that thirst for ‘a8 by no means even yet at its height. The gs and warhings of bundred and fifty thousand powerful apd greedy men who have pounced upon the 8 of exhaus' in, auriferous yn. had shi T old boart vA enough for ade by. the ‘hree of “gold e a dey is the ave pounds sterlii tropg men's He map. 0 get prizes with no great amo: stunsble on what they call « pocket of ties of the rock, who thus repay labor and anxiety of months, That the face of California is, however, no bed of reses, becomes sufficiently apparent from anziety of even the most ry d fortunate individuals to quit it ass mot a fortune, but the bare thousand dollars thinks it bigh ti till euch insecurity of however enormous the penres to any approach to comfort even them. From forty to one hundred thousand dol- lars a year is the common house rent. Comm are, indeed, abundant and cheap, if one could store them—cloth to be bad for an old song. but costs its weight in gold to be converted rs Commerce bas ured fleet of from three to hundred ves sels into the of San Francizco, aud improvieed a very Liverpool {n this so lately desert nook of the Pa- cific; but not one cargo in twenty bas tound profitable eale Yet there have concentrated all the nomad popula- Z aro tion and all the resources of the Pacific. orate! —_e has deserted thi end the Canton River; shepherd from ‘Australie, the malecontent from em b= yes ey New Zealand. have bied to the new Fl Do: Forty thousand Americans are expected trom over the Rocky Mountains, The French go termined on its deportcat0 the Meryueset . . a ix weeks after the! Dg , they will be all capital is concerne jevertbeless, the political effects of this great dis- placement and subsequent concentration of ail the ad- turous spirits of four a parte of the world are not the treaty be overlooked, When with Mextoo was con. cluded, it was impossibie to foresee that the most ag- find unscrupulous and beige wat portion of a ‘his, however, has taken place. And it has become utterly impossible to hope that the fronti line, as drawn by the negotiators, | any time be respected by the great popular body now ip persession of ( aliforpia ed, as we are informed, the labors of t! Americ hk out the frontier be turned from their course by jon arcund th It fact, come to the ledge of all in California, es well as to th rities, that the province of Sonora. just on r side of the Gulf of California, is as rich in auriferous if not more so, than ( alitornia iteelf, 4 from California is alrendy of the Apaches ts for the but to set about jem of gold im this n: en the territory ite! jad for by bestow on th for our part, we consider that pai bes chown iteelf so imbecile and go effete as to fail Jal subjection to the barbarous | io: Ameriean advances by right as y belther word to «ay, nor feel- making tremen- sat. to bestride en. their ad- these seme he Anglo- Ai vary are certainly dous adv m. like ¢ | Seen ae ‘mppeal was di: Count or Arreacs. Jan —The court convened at Albany, at ten o'clock, A.M. Present—Green C. Bropeon. ¢ hief Judge. Charles H. Ruggles, Addison Gardiner. Freeborn G Jewett, and Elisha P. Huribut, Ire Harris, Daniel Pratt Judges Ex-officio. Abseat— Judge Maynard, who (it is uuderstood) will be unable, from til beaith to attend the tera Tne Court pro- ceeded in its usual course of bu-iness, and heard mo- tone in the Oret instance O. Doty, appellant, agaiast Brown. re«pondent, No. 148 on the calendar, Motion by respondent to strike the cause from the calendar, and to dismiss the appeal, granted, with c-rts, Maria. ‘Wieting. respondent. agaiust Daniel N. Kesler, appel- Jent (not om the calendar). Motion by respondent to dismiss the appeal, granted. with costs, unlees the uy- pellent apply to the Supreme Court for leave to tara the case toto @ bill of exemptions, or special verdict. &e. Daniel Groff respondent, against Peter G. Sharp and otbers, appellants (mot on the calender). Motion by respondent to dirmiss the appeal; granted. with ooste, without opporition. Carpenter, respondent, agaian! Sheidon, appellant, No. 175. Motion by appellant chat he have 40 days after settlement of the bill f excep- tieps ip the court below, to prooure the return to be filed and to serve copies of the case; and that in the mean time all proceedings on the part of the respoud- ent be etayed; granted by default, Two other motions were made. which are beld under advisement, ause No, 66 op the calendar, was. on motion, at No, 83, Un taking up the calender, the Chief Judge re- marked that he observed a number of causes marked “ return pot tiled,” 1p all such cases the causes would not be beard. unless @ certificate of the Clerk was pro- duced that the return had been filed And, hereatter, the Clerk will pot be allowed to put any cause upon the calender where returns are pot filed fhe argument of No } wae commenced, but not concluded at the hour of adjournment (8 P M). This cause was argued in Sept 1048. and a re argument ordered in Deo , 1643. Jan 3 —The arguement cf No. 1 was oon- morning No 2 was called, and passed. No. ‘and reserved, om acoount of the illness of Jed efgument of No. wur of edjoura- —This being regular motion day. several mo- made. h remain under advisement, ex- cept the toilowing:—Horace Dresser, appellant, agt. Benjamin F. Brooks. respoudent, No. 174. Motion by ail procesdings on the of the re @ including the L4th of August. 1N49, jowed under che 7th existing a@ide. &o. denied, without yy appellant that the remit- Fule of the Court) be costa No 38 Motior titur and all subsequent proceedings be vacated. dew nied. with costs, anced Theargument of No 6 (com pawed) was until one P.M. [he Court hereafter. commencing to day, two ourt will be held, # recess from two to ov Arreats, Jan, 7.—Saturday evening, No. 1 cluded NO. 11 cailed und reversed, (loss 0° care To-day, No 12, Argued. No 13, Called and mo- tion by appellants to postpone the arguinent to eaadt Tapte Soyeed. No 8 This was @ reversed ne argument continued uatil the hour of adjout men’ Jan, 8.—Yesterday afternoon session—No. 1i—Called and judgment reversed by default. The argumentof No. 3, « reserved cause, (commenced last evening) con- cluded to-day, No 16—Argued Nos 16 and 17—Chese causes (involving the same questions) were called, aad the question ef jurisdiction of this Vourt ever the sub- ject matter of the appeal having been raised, thy causes ‘Were reserved in order to give the respecttive coaasul and the Court an opportunity of examiaing that quss- tion, No 18—Lhe opeving argument this canse continued to the hour of reeves 2 P M. The arga- ment of No. 18 continved uatil the hour of adjourm- ment in the evening and coacluded. To-day. the argu- ment of No. 19 continued until the hour of reovss, 2 P.M , not concluded. Scrreme Court oF tHe U: 17. HW. Ladd vs. J. B. Ladd et al.—4ppeal from the Cirouit Court United States for the Dist of Columbia, Mr. Justice Daniel the opiuion of this court. delivered, decree ef tbe raid Circuit Courtin this caure. withovrts No 105. BP ve. pel a et fs Gears of she United States im motion, fy was docke seed with conte ie win No. 13, Samuel Veaste vs Nathaniel L. ijame and al.— frem the Vireult Court of che United States for Muine. Mr. Justice Woodbury daii- vered tbefoploion of the court, reversing and aunulling the decree of the raid Circuit Court in id deereeing that compiainant shall retal ety the peice ‘of $20,000 feiniy bid by him, that defendaace refund all moneys patd, and caucel notes aud +e ourities for any excess over that sum und that thoy pay sil corts No. 21. Aster M Nathan ve, the Siate of Louiiana—|n error to the Supreme Court of L» ere. Mr. Justice McLean delivered the opinion of the ourt. the judgment of rald Supreme Cours in this cause, with costs No. 31 Charlotte Taylor, appellant, vs James Taylor and ai.—The argument of cause was continue Jarvany 8 —Mareius L. Cobb, Ey » of New York was admitted an attoroey sod counsellor of tui cours. No. 04 Anpa Fufts ve. Charies Tuite et.al opeat from cireuit court United States for Marsio'a< The decree of the cireuit courtia this ed upen the terms filed by the parties. No 6! lotte Taylor, appellant, vs. James Taylor et al it of this canse was conciuded by Me Lol tor the lant No 36. EB. b. Caideei 5 United States. This caw by Mr Fallon for the pleiottif ot error, a: torney General Johoson for the defi Adjourned oll to morrow, 1L 94. A. Tufte cult Court of decree of raid Cireult Court terms filed by the parties, al. The Taylor a E Cabteetl pleiatitt ia e States — This cause was argued, % semvserts.— Thomas P Hart vs. George W Hart.--This was an action of assau pelt to recover @ balance of accourt due the late firm of «it Hart & Co., of New York, of which the piaintif iv the rurviving partwer. |t appeared thut the late Hil Hart, ot York, « mercbaut i large basiaess hariag rons. Dad assisted liberally hi nephews the piain- tiff and detepdant. who are hers. rhe piaintil took inte partnership wite hi jo his geawrai Dasi- ent the detendaut to Chicago. where he dealt jpmenis to Eli Hart & afor lerge amounts. Cho t's dratts exceeded his coosiguments and toe wn every year, until in January, (84) tne ba net Dim in the books awouated to $19,W01, per, 1646, Bit Hart died leaving a widow and of New ou eI Marrivieg partner, Thowss P. Hart. being uuable to wind up the extended affairs ef the firm, made, the esus-at of the betre ef Eli Hart, no assignment to Larnost Fiedler of ail the property avd claims of the tiem fm trast. to jo Bee and collect dues. and to divide the finsl oe between (he parties in interest. This « and the defendant war a it, but it did not ovntaia aay & Afr some oortespondeues bet form the defeudams this sait was boaght tb the awe of the eurviving partner. bit for the bang. fit of the trust was brought, the pu Ui gave. as surviving par'ner. the defendant 4 reire ip full from ai ot the tate firm Chief Jus- theo She 7 was not power of attorney. or @ con or on the happening of & coutin curred. but was @ copveyance of all the property and cleims of the firm. vesting the tithe in “ir. Fiedler, trust and divesting the piaintlG of all te and ia: ert of ereditors, and of the heirs of Eli Hart. x well of the piatntt. that after this conveyaoge. the sould not release a debt, nor comld the defeude . who kuew of and had reengoized the conreynacd, receive a release which wouid be valid against the in the namecf the pisintif Tne jur; turned @ verdict for the piaintif for the Vith interet amounting to forty t a hundred aud ninety three dollars, en We Emigrants and Apecha © Gaudaape Our fellow citizen, Major 8. W Gilloek who tet: uate OD the Zist vit cm express to Major Smith's trata rex turned on the 11th fort from the Mecos river. having Jeft tbat stream on the Sd toast He had reached there op the Ist tnat. About half an hour before viajor (ile look left the Peoos, om express arrived from a train of twelve wagons. loaded with corn. ehich were ou their Woder Major Smith. Mr Coons, who it will be yorite Et Paso fhe We learn by the Cam- er of England, died Tre tate Qvess Arian Drie, that Adelaide, Queen 2d of December. The it neverthelen tiemel bame was Amelia, She was m este virtaes, the year after teath of the ote the late K vate domestre life reepeet of all Phiterey hia B in the gay cirelos ¢ £ the court — Cuma =T tana Dieria of De that nine Spenich vearel craet of Havana from Bw | ebtp of the tee Seberano, frigate Heperanre. corvette Vilia Ge Biibes, brig \ alder, am Coon thts yeloferorment willeaable the Spa vermwent ty assume romething like nu importent witivude ta the Weet indies, Oa reaghing the lus, about #0 miles this ide eho bed onty about Siteen m im, was attacked by @ party ot Apsohes m Tv tos0 Mr. Coons and bts party charged the tad to bare Killed some of them, ba diately the number sould not be a OF the © killed Me certaiped one wae riding #@ Ade emid te be worth $h00. was tan ‘Thompron, 8 eel kaowe expr hes torn almost entirely frow hia ba Coops’ train then returned towards bt tem enit lake, rept am expre: panies of the eeorted Cc mountains the leoor tome of them baviog six shoorera hei lity # w eribed to the attacks om thew ty pare Americans te the empleymen! of the tre Mesion, principally thone under ¢ valle ard Glavtow, formerly of th Jebos. hie way from bi Paro, j Gosdalupe mountains, lost t Oiane—Sclom ef enly one ie rerurn to this place ov the 4oh apt Jobe. waa to take bis departure for El Paso tue come Gay, Sen sIntento Western Texan, Leo Wb. fr mesietance 4 Iefantry came out from £1 train co thie etd Rev Moses S$ Morris wae shot dead recently, new Decatur Albena by Dr Delong. Parton M obseret him spprem bing ith & gon. on horsebeck, stopped bis boree, threw notte bis DlawRet, Bad Dated hie bree.t, cupporing be was searching for ® pistol, wn vt bem dead cy the epot Parcon Mortis was anteer wy Wloved No defer e weapon was found on his boay when the Inquest was held r