The New York Herald Newspaper, January 5, 1865, Page 8

peal Paw M " ‘ ’ t " NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, JANUARY ..6, 1965, JAMES RIVER THE ‘DUTCH GAP CANAL: se Br 7 te EERE wie Bi HL iat i if if i ef i Ff - History of the Project from the Beginning. i Een l : x 8 i i i i "Fhe Obstacles Against Which | .the Work was Prosecuted. i F 1 i! BBE: it | ie Ly ite f 7 EE | i B F ty fl an : ‘Interesting Geological 'Reve- |. lations. y Fs i JENCIDENTS ‘OF THE | WORK, | Gescra) Bi street, tenth ran , Sse fifteen miles, has BD “The Finishing Touches and the Exple- | feried isthe ino eae aes trong ion of the Bulkhead, Baile as stounded eae. Fry, om cusanatlon sf tng of made on Tues ny ; Es gi “BRAGRAMS OF ‘THE. WORK, |" ec. Me. ue. THE DUTCH GAP CANAL. vais. William H, Merriam's Despatch. , I. Faont or Ricumonp, Jan. 1—Evening. . AWAITING THR EXPLOSION, \iluded; the appliances of military engineering are. re- | posted that the work would _fgovem from the vast chasm; the rails ever which thou- of sands of tous of Virginia’s sacred soll bave been trans: }° perted,.es the historic excavation bas preceeded, are. re- meoved;. the tents of the. working details have beon struck, and the dredge and steam mills are silent and motionless. Such a quiet.as the contending.armies have ie if 8 eel fH ate §. iid ae i : ] i 2g. i! i E i i i Hl rf & 1 iE Al GA ial 8 $3 5 we arene of one of TE ifee ize eeees 22breel, F monary artery; the ly were crauty healthy? in my etalon teats was the rosult of rhage, consequent upon the severing of the exter- nal carotid and interior maxilary arteries. | 1 got known since they sat down by the side.ef their guns my door, she said— : hs spe < ; To the ey he od of wo ; RY ' . a he doa, ond Harry ‘The case was then submitted to the jury, who rendere: are, to,.be. seen only e Monitors as they that wa : 'g dead; he’s been stabbed in ” desity upon the placid river, or the beavy guns a i S g AN ET ai ‘got out of bed and went arou: by Bernard Friery on — pacing: oo me ag the to shore, not yet drained ; to f'Yt, of carte and i i a = \ ‘and awoke him up; I then went up to Harry’s 12 |. The Papacy Wingate tothe Tombs to = anpon ferent : H ZZ y ‘Houston street; T found him there, dead; Captain Wil. | *¥alt his trial for murder. their deadly duty. To the right and to the left | sitions. #8 Qi Niji /, liameon gave me permission to convey the ‘body ‘down to Coroner Collin required the most important witnesses eros, river,and hill and ravine, stretching for miles K ; \ Fo RR ET A ig 2 Bo eaten vention. «way, & vast army in all the panoply of war, restaquietly | ‘ con : y ; ‘ onry ROUMnATD being aby i emorn, cence pe a Deceased was twenty-six years of age, and. em its arms, To the rear, just beyond the reach of the 1 9 Z tween Crosby and Mulberry eae: Tam barke-per for | England. Friery is twenty-one years of age, and @ <tharpshooter’s rifle, on the bank of the James, yppn his tion. fi . ol Harey Lazarus; I was at the house No. 12 Houston atreet | Dative of this city. cherse, and gumppunded by « brilliant and gallant staf, dar rb peor i a oe OE a, Oe acer wan iting | ‘The Passport System on the Frontier. «Mite the commanding awaiting the consummation , , abou! ng ; im he had better go; I was INTERRUPTION OF TRAVEL. im part of. bia, him, upon this partiqnlar |. A < trying to kick me on {From the Toronto Globe.} -acene, all these neers and soldiers possess tm EB 5 t ij Barney Friery then The Detroit papers had given us reason to hope t following errr ‘there extraordinary significance, The conceptions of genus, | m: the A ; ind deceased we enforted. But Saturday’s proceedings told a Me indomitable energy that scorns opposition, all wait tale. At Detroit and the Suspension Bridge ever pon. the magnificent illustrationsof the hour. Below a ; hepa oe peg te poolnoer sgt ion ~ \ ° hi ‘tie the fleet—shipewbich, crowded with adventurous and { versely to bouh theit and present z ant Rex’ | were stopped and tacit passports demanded. Mary were neroic life, seem hardly to be less than animate creatures ORNERAL _——— 136, z A & unprovided with the phn: tehediantcony and were toned PARTMENT OF V31 iy a === > back. If this ig continued there cap be 0 doudt aa tbey move hither and thither in the hot and irrepressi- Be Algane Canouinge or 4 , 9! that the iupeorer tis of the Grand Trunk and Ureat ‘te excitament of what may prove impending battle. Western will receive a serious blow, and Canadian i GRFERAL BUTLAR'R FIRST INTIMATATION OF THE WECESEITE | Wingy TIP TINT my HAN SS OF THE PRESENT WORK. bg the Some time before the war General Butler attended in from Libby Prison ; ; hi ron is now issuing twenty sports per , for ‘@ighmend the inauguration of a monument to the me- aie nemy’ vi vata : Crone f . ; which he Sen yn potas fr 50 cc Under the ‘mory.af the immortal Washington, The affair was one | in General on, ang oe oy 1 Y) and told | new regulation these must be vieed by the cone ‘Agent of Bxchan, trage being yp ; lar agent here, Mr. 1, who charges $1 for bi of great magnificence, and during ® speech upon the ntormed ‘mn that unas : trouble’ so thatthe man whe wants to ef A tipi eccasion, General Butler Aret intimated the necessity of | | wae opps ‘States. D ; | Buflalo must pay two dollars and a balf in addition to he very work in which, during the past few months, he oe Friery t predecessor ag aarti ad as. qngaged much of bis snergy and attention. It was “No, I don’ business. We may note here that American cilizcns re pred = ions-~simpeeap ce eel 9 yet an, they Sderign: to pay © vis 40, the Unit labor 10) nm a L) ‘ae ee sree eee Fy heaping pa document'can on Ne iasuge, by. & full consu}, one ‘canal from ite very down to the day of the ex- ro wee acer di 0 the MSOF August, 1866, Mr. Martin Winch, who meyis em, ir. See agieene ot tbe port ak Polat Lookout, received ek oped agent telegraph then chief quar- we who {s a full consul, returns to Toronto, he Qemmaster of the. at of Vi ” 1 will issue passports. aang report to oa a S ‘We cannot help regarding the introduction of the pars» “yep a 1 cae we S . eet as a piece of aig ona the part of the . verve b sar sng Colonel } . ; ashington government. Mr. Seward will not be able L adler made Mr. Winch acquainted with the nature of + ; pes coated Cy tr a Wg a tm. Vduties Be deed Europe even by Austria and France, it having boem wa ‘ready a (A oot \ you; utterly inoperative to prevent the transit of politt- = Ve Gel om ry . F cal Cre ney o igor on our front or a eral . + = hands utterly useless; we our men Upon ey tore paaemeer cen He | Al. vee ped ‘ee take’ immediate stepa fo. represent the matter conte: a = de pod : . cigars | t0 the government at Washington, ami have conclu. should be exim be instan' | ‘ont of Harry’ it abolished. If Mr. Seward will’ not be reasons peta @ James to the scene ble on the subject, it will be necessary for var 2 a ound, ‘ S od government to re other steps. We find a score of waya ols P, Of making the Americans feel the advantage of treating Desides 'y 2 us fairly. We hope that no such warfare may arise, bat goer Ww meg ad Smell spe nenany a 5 a ooman: that Mr. Geward will see the propriety of sbolisin oa, tiations are a serious iry to our people, pe god Winch bad examined the Mwy the ir yom henge Boos they are of no benefit to their neighbors. Our govern, grennd ond otetercict hoe Gocemmnemaeen oe. a Sreabepanvans, ‘ \ :. awe eee ee ite r to prevens ART NET = q raids from our shore: ere reason to doul Be curtace, De wes introduced to Genceal Grunt end | nas UP - , " Lope that they Will be successful, At all, events the parspors General Bera, Wa 10 whom be communicaled bis views ding Confederate y { : system will not help them; and we have full right to de- a9 te the feast ity, o ergs Spe ol epee sto {hie rey ZY " policemen t 7 mand that while we are dolng our duty in’ the premisea Seiya, Wa hasnt Bel oes | tae | plat" secat ater e wean: ul Siected tek ‘iach id ecute bis part of the News from San Francisco. work to the speed \est completion, Mr. Winch, at the close Saw Francisco, Jan. 3, 1465, ef the interview, \, “mtr » Wed pond sone ‘The United States steamer Saginaw has arrived here jg ge 5 Temaster's Department | 10 prose. with the seven rebel pirates of Hogg's party, who were @uting the work. The General re + “When arrested on the steamer Salvador off Panama in Novem. want anything come to me. im the 12th of | Genes that ber, and whose transmission across thé Isthmus wap ‘Mr, Winch ha. @ soother interview with General | Pigg tick: =! and Major Mich \, 4 which the plans were agroed | De'sent get ‘epon. The ground ha a been broken = the eal oes preegers o ‘en Gunee ‘5 he was of work of excavation con oS oe see ae Me ee | i commensal. Major General BUTLER. r here by the colored ‘with great imy ens, taking c of the wor ‘\ougeeer ot Dateh Oop. ‘Spon W, Sure, Assistant Adjutant General. or five Arrived, steamer er Jonathan, Oregon and = on ail’ minor operations were laid . Geary, Assistant Adju pg Vancouver's Island, with $175,000 in gold, all but $4,000 roe: ibe ‘of exc. wating the canal commenced From + Andy : id of which was from Portland, fa the usual way by means "@ "AG0DS, carte, scrapers cheerful despite the continually dying 4 ” Frery ; Obituary. Deuehe cm RYEMY OPENS ox THE WORKING PARTIES eo fed beck | Sawvas H. Ganoxan, Into United Staten Collector of 1 from FINISHING TOUCHES—PREPARAT): < OF THE MUNB. : Frie ni Ox the 13th of August th ‘ Are shell came from tho in little fello ¥ Revenue for the First district of Missouri, died at his ree ak (ig sad havoc in the One Hundred and Sixty-ninth N. *W York Volunteers, killing Lieutenant Norman Crippen and plun, it into Harry's neck, just below the ear; the sate ae eteas nine aches Ing; ht wane dirk Laite | idence in 8t, Louis, on Christmas day. His iliness wae and double Seat Friery walked over to the bar and | Drief, and his death an event for which his many friend his pock: Lisutenant Wm. Swartwout, A ing Adjutant of the Qne | oir bags of - t tho knife fa his pocket; Iran out to get a policeman; | were scarcely prepared. Mr. Gardner was for many Hundred and Sixty-ninth, an @ wounding severely Dr, eas rs ome : E ut tho Knife la hie pocket; T'ran out toget a policeman; | we iy P . Hsncevit, ain Suri “Se ached tr a — >A hnman ee andrea for tata nvr ten | Tt fr tec ant wedge of if cans ® small no was in- s . came; I went inside with the policemen, and I saw the the first discharge for nearly two days. P | Sorted in w water tight wooden box, several of them Vs Speonbed igtnig. on” belo bask on the Seor, dent, inh pool | Rete Sed the Bomesty ond, sincerity: of bis conmie® Of blood; the blade of the knife appeared obs Pool | He was the first Collector in the St. Louis district und six or PROFILE VIEW. feven aches long; judged ito be «Knife Oat didnot | fatal and mont execu Of law fall of pe 9 fections. He leaves a circle of friends who esteem’ Ks ating heer os duly sworn, de} and says ed him ag a citizen, an officer and a man. Date: wail four and a balf inc easterlies OP thoes teens ‘tinued for some three | being placed side by side in the same chamber. weeks, our battery of cochorus, Situated south of the @anal about one hundred yarde, oc Mtinually shelling the ‘memy. et: the der was contained in bags, 7 I reside in Ninetieth street, between Third and Fou From that time on there was tut {Ute varie enemy | taing avout eight hundred pounds All the ‘mines were < CAPTAIN EDWARD B. HARNET?. Saling Wen ‘eight-inch mortars, a 64 shelled cs most | simultaneously exploded D7 meand Of the, Comet with , We went into | captain Rdward B. Harnett, tate of Company A, Third 8 i ~ P . e Fariously for several day. | iio ¢, wy,.and again but | the amaging velocity of a mile In four seconds. The dif. pi 2A $ , We then went next Lazarus’; | egiment, Excelsior Brigade, New York Volunteers, dag At Sey, peg Byte Brown) nigh tel | sbont the time & mines being st different distances from the point in Mi place Friery and two | parted this life on Sunday morning. Captain Harn the re Dn he ‘nition, this instantaneous Gomez fuse was necessary } - f ‘riery isa partner of M it shot was coming before hearing whe re, Mtr OUNNe ich | in order to ignite the different mines at the same instant, : et : Peery Breage ag By in RTT ne mp me AT Paced rirsvergnerael ite wach ty! gwed month of September our canal thes worogress Of the | The Gomes fuse waa ignited by a time fuse barning at 4 — : Ss in with us; he went in before us; when I was in there | 8 Second lieutenant, and participated with it in itt man Breater than at any other time during the OETA tye | mauel slower rate, to enable the oficer (Major Michfe) and ate eee va ‘aw Triery and Lazarus wrangling and talking about | Bard fought battlés and arduocs campaigns. Ho ws eee ectmot penetrate, cauring the @x,ph sion to take | the force to.cafely retire. : . at dhe wea , fighting; the next thing I saw was Lazarus cut in the | "tnd grat battle tho brigade waa In, and in which the shell would not penetrate, cousin ‘bv icialat period the m FIRING OF THE FORE. neck by Friery; after the man was stabbed I saw the | covered themselves with renown that remained uni gate on Were really miraculous, Fc shell | 48 prageentions wore, cong a pelt as aes knife in Friery's band they then all left the house but Sisued while they were in the service, Captain Harn pane oy y vie ¢ . C cope! je intoxi- 7 gould explode ja the midet of a body of tte doer | fuse and crossed from the north to the south side of the eee tab uiines Laid Hot see ‘Lazarus do anything. to | WS good soldier, and was highly esteemed by his pit. Planned sud lying vty would remult in a hearty laugh, | Fiver, the fusebaving been cut tobura twenty minutes Friory but Jawing., I then sald his wan is murdered en nl re a co @ ani yen Batya nd smoke ‘THE EXPLOSION, t and ju Jeigh with Cl all the supposed dead : Caan rea’ | At ten mimuiee to four o'clock the explosion took TRANSVERSE SECTION. Hery Jumped in a toweien § GROROR KELLY. bad passed away, pro teak with qual omotic tae jun aad patriotism, | Place, and was followed by @ sh rumbling ; 1 told him that he had better go home Private George Kelly, of Company D, Bixty-cighth New oe, San Meee | Sound. "A dense black smoke at first immediately ae ee 7 ba aay, 7 ar arrested, as the man was ‘York Voluntocrs, was, by mistake, killed near Chatied , Tum TROOPS RMPLOTEL ents « following the upiwaval of the earth, which was going to Harlem with our sl The following co sa Lat tne renmnaais em ane, owed ty, 8 dente ceed GF wie, Om ioe aes ma ter he ah nooga, Tennessee, on the night of December 2’ fed on the work fresn fret re One Husarod | hich entirely filled the Gap, and effectually eon: ap LE S ust ¥ Union picket, at my solicitation; the sleigh belonged in Harlem and Fireside in Yorkville; be had not been with us previously ; Ice on the Sidewalks. Thad not seen him before on that evening; I and Mr: TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. Clark were arrested about, four o'clock yesterd noon; Friery was with us when we wae Please call the attention of the proper authorities ta had been with us from the time of the murder; we were | the too long tolerated nuisance of little hills of ico a lager beer saloon on Third avenue and 117th street ‘cross the sidewalks, not only in front of vacant when wo wore arrested. ‘ John Dwyer, bel aly sworn deposes and says—I am | Corners of streets and up stairs occupants of buildings 0 a patrolman of the Twenty-third precinct; there was an | Broadway, Cortlandt street and othor great thoroug! alarm sent up to the Station house about twenty | fares, but in front of hotels and first floor morehants, minutes after four o'clock, from the Central office, | the police do their duty, give the city the fit of ordering the arrest of a party of four men, in asicigh | fines, and have them removed It will save many bro! with gray horse, who had committed a murder in Houston | heads and suits against the city. street; myself and or were patrolling together THOSE WHO CANT AFFORD TO RIDE. Sixty ninth Now York nth New | cealed the dabris of tho explosion. lifting of the Alden, commane Sionb, 8 Thiet th th caused @ rush of water out of the canal to the main p Aad be ape */ One Hundredih United States colored | stream of the river below. This explosion was based y-eighth and upon eight thowannd pounds of powder, all of which was f LARORS OF THR MEN consumed. construction the Mr. 8, Cadwalia der’s Despateh. Airy Porn, Jan, 2, 1866. EXPLOSION OF THR BULKHEAD OF DUTCH GAP CANAL ‘The mine at the head of the D.utch Gap canal was ex- ploded at twelve minutes before 1 our o'clock youterday of Ne leven. and a : afternoon, in the presence of Majo.’ General Butler and * ] ae DIMENSIONS OF "Gap canal i¢ five hun- | gta; General Ludlow, who has haa’ cbarge of its con- : 2 about twenty minutes to fe o'clock ; I stop) leigh in bay tay Se ty 4 * ¢ Central horse, with a party of two men foot; the yrvntent width of the (opof | struction; Brigudier General Collis, S.*nator Clark, of ‘ ‘ , te asin he L hate che mah Whe Grove the. ooigh Personal Inteliiges e+ t vadred au | bWenty (v0 tet tic, | New Martpshire, and myself, ae the sole representative 4 not be Nes: E lied my 9 wi of Lieutenant i eatont dey width fs fort, ! ~ : gel relierbd i of the rebel steamer Florida, arrived in y, ‘the canal at th foot, aim’ at th ora forty | of the press. Eleven in the forenoon had been fixed as [oa ; 4 4 Fulton, She ie on bor way to join her husband ia high wal aval is aixt&en feet ed for 1 del » jcers fort ee eas 1. 4 Gooner a tae the time for fring the train, but the usua jays 00: house and notified me that Barney Friery had comm! Jand. Cea cccomps shed by means of vermne curred, and we were subjected to nearly hve hours the murder; I knew Barney; I saw the sleigh go by in o — ab vaarone anxious waiting in the bleak wind of a New Yea"* Day. the morning with two horses; I did. not think they were MISCELLANEOUS, The goological (oa work hive proved ex. | The result of the explosion was hardly what w.'s et: AY the “eg Ace grr the sleigh and horses ce at the NO, 1 BRAUTIEUL OR BOM a rata gremely_jareresi Feet I" | pected of it. ‘The mass of dirt was heaved up by she | METER im , MINE: bridge, and the djiver; we mado some inquiries of the | Ab,(0 p10 st mre BOF year, powery.., Top Parent of scientific First of | powder, but fell back substantially into the same pos. -_—— —> cr fig " MN belonged to Mr. Fa mtn) at | Flowers, io, furnlahed. Grecian! La all 3 may, bo + tion. A crater was formed, into which the water ran } GHROLOGICAM FORMATION. bg p- Mags; oe hae eae’ p , 8008 ON — Se ice nar teas tune the orttan % | stovely from the canal below, ‘This extended about t 4 ancl 2—Common Virginia rod clay. } Gand 7-—Nar< clay, quite hard, containing fragment | Hill's, Soventy-first str ind Third ProrRseON OR eate ta ee Ra I red?) soll. This is between t thirds of the distance from the head of the water in 3—Rew * ravel, with vog tor. of petrified and carbonated woos ‘and made Inquiries there; the barkeeper said he fistorienl meenery, Re.; algo storeopticons enemtent, ep. immediately wader thi 4 a stratum of | canal to the edge of the water in the J: ,4 gravel, 8 and @—Thio asta of ® sand and white olay. seon them, that he had shut np at nine o'clock tures, 46, Address Henry Johnson, agent, 246 Canal Spliow aand from iwo to four fort doep, in wh te | nection between the canal and the river wai G—Coare bit ron eh ove, opened at boven or eight in the morning; I parted with | New York