The New York Herald Newspaper, May 2, 1867, Page 5

NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, MAY 2, 1867—TRIPLE SHEET. Sstore which the Stuarts plantation, FRENCH SLAVERY IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC, | stove whit, tee Stuarts nave on they eve The overseers employed Frenchmen. There is one American, who ‘been on the island a feng time, and who has charge &c, These Mt is Aided and Abetted by French Government | Fined or alowed io rman tion, "Stuart tout from Authorities and Vessels. Aincarged solder, wi We ta bo hardened enouge to perform the work them. But they revolted at it, and for thei were sent Chinese and Pacific Islanders the Vic- pesepe oot same err ar sare eee tims of Revolting Cruelty could, for the avowed were too ad Ou hamane. These things are known on the island, and bry a Under the Puloot & miliary, Geopotinws which tet a &. &, &e. ested in the nefarious ness, The tanaagers of J she cotton commanz yale Mie sient, snd hare fh in their be oF Te suse: or. Poole hating ne nny with the American SPECIAL CORRES ——~! ‘ ‘some French Seizure and Rule ef the Seclety { em} referred to, spent’ the ‘best tee a Islands—An Anglo-French Cotten and Coffee | there, until seen by: Williaur’ ordered him off Planting and Where ony ag if he not go at once, to Slaves are Get and Kept—French Gevern- ae hey = sation.” He hed Beard ment Authoricies and Vessels Engaged in the too much of the power of this man notte obey, A Criminal Trade—Revolting Cruelty of French | thorough French aysiom of spies, &c., ia kept Taskmasters—Chinese Warning to Their | up. Upon leavin; ‘hls pore Ma Poole was subjected Bellow Countrymen—Contract Labor in | 8 minute snd the loters which he brought to French and Engiish Hands, &c. BAe ME rie ete eee OF San Faancioo, March 22, 1867. ‘To supply labor for the Altimona plantation and others From Mr. William Poole, who arrived at this port on hich have lately been commenced, a trade in slaves is | ‘Monday from Tahiti, I have received am account of a syelem of slavery existing on that island, with the con- | {frat stored oons will attain tages eae and @ent and encouragement of the French authorities, | completely depopulate those islands, It was carried om Which for systematic barbarity was never equalled on | 10 some oxtent for the supply of the Peruvian demand, aay Southern plantation, and which should be known by has been nearly stopped. Now iv isthe Fretel shovare ‘the civilized world. Mr, Poole wan old Californian, a | carrying it on, although some time they made a Feaxdent for some time past at, Six Mile Bar, Calavoras | great show of virtue. by: ene Danan eran county, Cal,, and a gentioman of intelligence and relia- | to'Tehiti aud condotaued and thelr eros inonianceas Bot DBility. ‘His statements are moreover corroborated ‘by they stopped the Peruvian slave trade only to engage ‘others who have visited the Sootety Islands, and by let- ip. le themeslves, and {Bow look to It as the sole source tere in the Chinese language which he brought from un- oad. Now, Galepania, cry, tae oeieaipal Seteesenthesndnatelr evtateriveni tm Aen Brsaees: islands pA ee rele A Farting loft this city in December last, with the intention of - ve a 3 settling upon the islands if he found the climate favor- | tote, “rom, the Marquesas are loss robust and more able to his health, Dut was so disgusted with the legal- | of the same race, being black, with ir and thick ized tyranny existing there that he returned as soon as | ips, and having other characteristics of the negro. This . crag ite a ree tenn a on for supply. cargoes have already been landed in Tabiti, and vessels are now e in procuring more. Some of these vessols are mer- chantmen, owned by the company or in Tahiti; but ves- sels belonging to the French government have been and which is ‘steamer, possible. In accordance with the policy of aggrandizement by ‘ny means, which has been pursued by the French in the Pacific, they some years ago established what they were Pleased to call a ‘protectorate’? over the Society Islands; or, to speak in English, took complete posses- ston of them, disregarding in tol the rights of the de- fencelees natives, The government is an unmitigated military despotism, whatever laws the French com- mandant chooses to enact being supported by a sufficient force of French gens d’armes and marines, 6 only courts are military ones, and from their decision there is practically no appeal. There are a number of smail plan- tations on the island owned and cultivated by individuals, ‘mong whom are one or two Americans; but the great Plantation is that of “‘ Atimona,” owned by the Tahitian Cotton and Coffee Plantation Company, Limited, the ‘stock of which is held in London and Paris, and to a Jarge extent by French officials, It has principal offices 4m both of those cities, This. plantation has been under Galtivation for about three years and is very successful, as the soil is fertile and the climate well adapted to the Zrowth of the best varieties of Sea Island cotton, the Plants being perennial and the picking season lasting all the year round, It covers anarea of about four miles Square, nearly all of which is under cultivation, and is well supplied with machinery of English make for ginning, pressing, &. ‘The chief manager and superintendent of this planta- tion is one William Stuart, a native of the North of Ire- Jand, and last from Sydney, Australia. Hoe, together with his brother James, represent the company and twansact all its business, These men virtually govern he island; their will is law, and in all they do they are [protected by the French, using their ships and troops to enslave their laborers, carry out their nefarious system, Gand intimidate or punish ali who are moved by common humanity to protest ageinst it, A force of gens d’armes 4 maiptained constantly on the plantation to suppress any aitempt at revolt on the part of the slaves; and any ‘white employé or too curious stranger is sent at once to Papeiti in trons to be tried by a military court. A public woad traverses part of the plantation, but any obnoxious (Person travelling it is ordered back at once, andjmust bey or brave the danger of a French prison and por- haps the galleys. ‘To supply the labor necessary for this large plantation, game 1,600 or 1,700 laborers are required, and the way in ‘which they are obtained and worked can nowhere be paralleled for horror but im the annals of the tender in the Black Sea di French tran: é since, bound to New Caledonia, for a cargo which is not a new use for her, as she had previously brought up a cargo. The national character of these vessels of course gives them ties for the business, as and Sbips seeking laborers coast about the istands and endeavor to entice the natives on board by promises and presents. Sometimes Tahitians are dressed up in all the finery and trinkets which have so irresistible a charm for the sav: indéand en they are ironed and As s00n a8 no more can be induced to “contract,” kidnapping parties, it is said, are landed at small villages and the cargo is thus made up, when the veseels sail directly for the plantations, Written con- ‘tracts in French are drawn out and the om ea of the chained parties of the second part affixed to them, by maktng as many pothooks and handles as are necessary. Mr. Poole states that when on the Antimona plantation & small vessel had just arrived with some fifty or sixty. The women and children had been landed, but tne mev, he was told by one of the overseers; would be kept in pes oy he Soot ~~ = ee as their spirit was yet sufficiently subdued, and they might attempt to ‘ebol if landed at once." eee és ‘This large cotton company or its agents, as before stated, rule the island. The previous Governor, under whose rule it was started, was larcely interested, and compelled the natives to sell their land to the company for merely nominal prices, The present Governor is as obliging as his and several French offi- cers are employed by the company. The company has the privilego of importing free of duty everything needed, which enables the Stuarts to monopolize busi- ness, as they keep a store which is stocked with goods brought in duty free. Other parties intending to engage anting have been refused a hike privilege. nileman, an Englishman, had ordered geome $60,000 worth of machinery, but was compeiled to pay duty upon it, In fact, the whole machinery of govern- ment is worked for the benefit of these heartless specn- Iators who are monarchs of all they survey. This ionopoly grievance, however, is affecting only the resi- dents of Tahiti themeclyes and the government which allows it ; but as to the of charges, the whole civilized world has an interest. The slave trade, which has been almost annihilated on the African coast, must not be allowed to be revived under another name in the South Pacific, and such cruelties as those which it is alieged are practised on the Altimona plantation should provoke notice which willat once end them. This contract busi- ness at best is but a lezalized slavery, and should at once be suppressed by the maritime Powers, or only allowed under the most strinent restrictions. Cotton raising by. ‘‘contract” is a profitable business, and the cl here mad? will no doubt be Aatim maces... These are nominally paid laborers, | denied by those Interested, Just as the of cruel hired for @ term of years, and apparently pro- | in Jamaica wore deniod by the cotton io Liver- ‘tected by "ogal contracts "bat tm realty ‘they are | Fveu are believed ly your earesepondent to be veracions Glaves, obtained by spurious representations, or Kid- | ang 10 with no Interest or prejadice jo distort by actual force; m the mercy | their sta The Chinese letters were transiated of their drivers, and worked for the solo aim of coining ay. Man rarta sank ppc peters ofthe fame Fey money from their blood and sweat, without the slizhiest pany, one of the great companies or guilds wh! for their sufferings or their lives, The contract manage Ch: irs in California, and were written are made for them, in order to give some show Reese ally keown to him. The Sam Degatity to their enslavement, are pA Company send copies of these letters to the H ly to be up as a wi it to grants. Your correspondent saw the letters before ai after they were pogineray and heard them translated as are completely in the power of thei before stated. they were iotrusted to Mr. task masters, © first laborers. were Poole was as follo expressed his detesta- ‘Ohinese ports of Hong and Macao, whence several ghiplosds were brought; but the treatment to which subjected and the labor which they were com- H used them up very quickly, and the 1 Took 10 otber sources any ‘There are some to leave the and a reward of Sn hier of pate, 4 enn ‘the’ name of les, sanads tun tt soon it sa ua neal calae oe 4s notorious all over the isiand for fiendish and re- | limits, The Kanakas are always landed from the slave famed crucity. These overseers go armed, and always | sbips in irons, and kept chained until thoroughly sub- earry whips or which are constantly in use. | dued. The tyranny exercised over the European em- pane, Metin eg n are kept onthe | ployés is almost as great as over the laborers. No atten- wan, the overseer jog with ey tion is paid to the contracts made with them, and any them on. ad ot aeode Veluamees ot Femonstrance against the cruelty practised is sedition. down by tnsufficient food, of | Upon asign from one of the Stuarts or the head over- eletbing, and backs oyvered by sores from the | seers they are liable to be handcuffed, beaten and Fotson so work they aro tues tote. prigos ofthe | he tats maay o¢ hem, No proacon whetarer to can piaptaticn, ieee ee ee cnci eek the hands, | be had from the officials who carry out in every respect end flogged #0 wickedly that death ly ensues be- | Stuart’s will, Every week a grand dinner is given at Pedy There ts cone, Le the mansion on the plantation, to which all the ‘armet Plantation, and, even if they succeed officers are invited, Reaving poe AN ag Og} beck. {t ig to be hoped that the attention thus called to the Beane eae Sac en | PS Ge ae ag oa il 4 e ‘one drops to distance | Pacific. FATAL RAILROAD ACCIDENT IN OWA. One Person Killed und Ten pooped wor said petition and libel, and show cause why the libellant should not be divorced and separated from the nuptial ties and bonds of matrimony, contracted as afore- said with-the said Mary Ann O’Neiil: and he will, &e. ‘APRIL 17, 1867. J. B, O'NEILL, Mr. Paniel O'Neill, referred to in this JEALOUSY AND MURDER. A PITTSBURG SCANDAL. Killing ef a Hotel Propricter by a Jeulous Seermnmaran Husband. The tg os Brrenee. Case—The Petition and [From the Wilmington ) Gazette, April 29. an whatic Personal Statement. About nine o'clock morning Bs [From the Pittsburg Leader, April 21. } were by, There was a great deal of excitement in certain Mr. Joseph W, Pratt, in this city yesterday, growing out of developments 5 of the {ndian Pleas for s 1 eaten “me a ean orce. e anne: Savor the house. No obo then noticed. this, ne filed in the Court of Common yesterday, gives the blood was issuing wounds on bis person and mark- | names-of the parties to the proceedings now pending, ing the pavement every few ‘a8 appeared after. | and the alleged cause of the divorce asked for:— on some distance he | To the Honorable the Judges of the Court of Common on aatep and called for assistance, Thosewho | Pieasof Alleghany county :— went to him him bleeding, and asked who stabbed The petition and libel of James B. O'Neil! respectfully him. He replied, ‘Joe Pratt,”” and asked to be taken fepresents thats marriage was contracted and celebrated home, e sleeve of his left arm was full of blood, petmeen. the Ubellant Mary Ann Cordell, (now Mary which he had apparently been endeavoring to | Ann O’Nelfi) on the 22d of July, 1964, and al by keep from dropping. They assisted him across the | the law of as well as their natural yows in this street. when he became so faint that they took Pee a ST ane ONeill ana the libellant were eta Er sigiemt Ygota for soveral physi- er ae nen lonee to, the: maneriage cians, Smith’s w was on the left arm near yet so it is that the said Mary Aun O'Neill, ip shoulder, the arteries being severed. He died in ‘of said law and her vows as aforesaid, has com- about half an About 10 o’clock the oMeers pro- | mitted/adultery with one Daniel 0’Neilt within one year ceeded to Pratt’s house and took him to the City Hall | last past; wherefore the libellant, showing that he is a cells. Ho made no resistance, but had to be supported by | citizen of this commonwealth, and has resided therein for the officera. They then returned to the house and accom- | one whole Previous to filing this his petition and panied Mrs, Pratt to the Mayor's office, Thecircum- | libel, @ subpens may issue from ‘said court to stances, as we learned them before the inquest was held, | the Ann O'Neill, commanding her to appear at wea : There were paper-hangers in the house at | the next court of common pleas of said county, to an- owned some trouble between them, went upalso, After she petition, is a ecg kcal ye palace Ta an effort to prevent | member of the Common Council from the Second ward, she received a severe cut in one of her fingers. | and has considerable local reputation as a journalist. have been in circulation for several years in | is a first cousin and brother-in-law of the applicant for Smith is said to be visiting Pratt’s house in his | divorce, rn married his sister some twelve years ago absence. About two years ago Pratt became interested | in Ireland. This lady died in June last, and her husband in an oil company in ia, and he returned here two | was again married last Thursday to a voung indy of Alle- ‘weeks He then an interview with Smith, | ghany, and is now absent from the city on a wedding tour. We have further details of this scandalous affair, but withhold them until the y upon whom the great weight of public odium must fall returns to the city, and has an opportunity of being heard in his own defence, {From the Pittaburg Dispatch, April 24 We have received the following car cy Mr. D. on ited hee Aenea of this Paper, now tom- which, in consequence of the publica- tions made in relation to the case of J. B. O'Neill va M. A. O'Neill, in divorce, we deem it due to our absent partner to give to the public CARD TO THE PUBLIC. Sr. Nicuonas Hors, N. Y., April 22, 1867, Thave just received a despatch from Pittsburg in- it that the Leader publishes an application for Coroner's ji Jjourned nntil two P. M. Mr. Pratt is about fifty years of age, and Smith, we think, was about the same. Mrs, Pratt is about forty, Smith stood well as a business man and hotel keeper, being active and energetic. He leaves @ wife and four or five children. . Pratt is a gentle- house. In the interview Pratt asked Smith “what he ; would do to a man who had prostituted his witet”” Smith | divore om the part of James B. O'Neill, on the ground replied, “I would kill him,” It is presumed the knife his wife. As. I am, probably, the mn referred to, I ros, then used. | It is-also said Pratt got information in | take the earliest opporuunity to declare that there is not ‘ork, ata hotel where Smith and Mrs. had | oven the: shadow of jon for this complaint, so far as I am concerned, and to pronounce his statement a falsehood so malignant, so atrocious and improbable in its character, that no one, save's Innatic or a scoundrel double dyed in infamy, would have had the temerity to utter it, Not having yet seen the Leader I am, of course, ignorant of the precise nature of the com- plaint to which it refers; but the fact that my name ‘should be at all used in such a connection does me such wrong that I have not the patience to wait for details, Pelt ge Pama avail myself of the first mail to give the story the fullest, flatiest and most positive contradic- tion. And in this connection a few words in explanation of my associations with the vile author of this charge may not be out of place, Passing over the eariier years of his residence 1m Pittsburg, during whioh I had, in a measure, to clothe and support him, we come down to 1862, when I took a house on Smitbileld street, whither he came to live with me. It was in the summer of that year, I think, that an officer came to my residence and arrested this J. B, O'Neil for fornication and bastardy on oath of his present wife. He was taken to Alderman Taylor’s office, where I went bis bail, but afterwards (when through my advice he made the girl the only reparation in his power, by marrying her) the suit was withdrawn, and the parties, having no other hom, came to live with me as man and wife, They rewained in my house some two years, during whico I have net haps, exchanged two dozen words with this woman, Tam charged with having seduced. Naturally forbidding and cold in her manner, my aversion towards her in- creased through her having had him arrested, and for othor reasons not necessary here to name. During their residence with me their relations were anything but pleas- ant, He married her to escape the-county jail, and even thus early h» would have got rid of her if he had bad only 2 plausible pretext, He was continually complaining to my wife of her coldness, ignorance, £o,, and often de- clared that but for his chiidren he would leave her right away. I —— add here that so objectionable did their presence in the house become that I turned them out in 1863, but after mach begging on his part, I took them back the succeeding April, when their presence becoming more and more obnoxious, the ‘putting out’ process was again resorted to, and they left me for good some time last spring. Previous to my leaving for Europe last sim- mer borrowed $1,000 from me, for which T now hold bis note, and as, when breaking up housekeeping, Thad given him a considerable amount of property, he used e did. The physicians say that Smith’s life might have ‘been saved had immediate attention been had. At the Coroner’s inquest a number of witnesses were examined, and the following verdict was returned:—‘That J. Pasoy Smith came to his death from a wound inflicted by a dirk in the hands of Joseph W. Pratt.” DEFRAUDING THE REVENUE IN PHILADELPHIA. Violence to Government Watchman—De- fe nts Held for T [From the Philadetphia Ledger, May 1.} Before United States Commissioner Smith, yesterday, Leon Rhinestrom. Walter Maguire, Adam Scibla, Charles Ackroyd, Gabriel Baum, Emanuel Lehman and L. Keiper, were charged with defrauding the revenue, and also with rescumg property that was in the possession of a government officer. James Brooke, special agent of the Treasury eh ment, testified that he visited the distillery of W. H. Maguire, near Front and Dickerson streets, and that id consequence of the discovery that the distillery adjomed & rectifying establishment, and’ that there was a com- municatien between them by which the whiskey was drawn from one to the other, the piace was seized and handed over tothe custody of Mr. Collector Diehl, Wit- ness had acted upon information In regard to the place, When there he saw defendant, Maguire, who made no explanation in regard to the hole in the wall, but attri- buted the wetting of the soil to leakage, Roger M. Ford testified as follows:—I was appointed @ watchman of these premises om Friday night, about seven o'clock; saw Mr. Maguire and several others; after Mr. Brooks had gone away man came in and said he wasa friend of Mr. M: ; he left, and Mr. ire came in in about ty minutes; he asked me if T was getting sleepy, and I said I wag not: he said it would not do me any to remain; he said he did not believe [had any right to be there; I said that Mr. Brooks hed placed me there asa watchman; Mr. Ma- guire lett and returned soon; said he was going to close the place; wished me to leave; told him I would not do it; he said he'd see about it; told him it was my duty to remaio ; he said, ‘Why can’t you go into the office ?”” and T reptied, “1 can’t conscientiously do it; he told me I must leave, and I refused, saying would not $e Cs | ee. terset oti. k anid 1 Ge, Bat WIBK | felt tie was under some obiteations 40 me, #0 on my" Te- about arter “ turn. to Pittsburg, in November, he volunteered to take beck by four Selock; the ena of Mr Maguire, abe || my little boy to his house to board. In January last he had there previously, said that he (Maguire) was | moved to a house on Smithdold strect, and once a week carrying on business for other parties; that he had beon | oF 80 L used to call there and see my boy, There was no @ major in the army, and I ought to let him up; he | parlor or dining room, and, as the family onty occupied asked if I had ever bad a chance to make money asa | the second floos, I always went up stairs to back Feichues, and I said Bois ee said pe would ike ie have or at = bd A. dyn oan Saat bared such an opportunity; T said I would not do it; he sa Q . if I would go pin th» office I could make. hundred | made in road daylight, and 1 do not believe dollars: shortly after Maguire left, as I was stand. | that I was there three times that I did not meet him in wri atten noes rar tard | PS, ge an ees ocd n orey es ak .|| for dinner, cCUpy Repraifie distliery agit eapmbes of Map, ten ye room as ‘a sleeping apartment and take my meals at the ing; 1 stepped out two or three paces, and saw six or seven sorts 5 woe || shovel. Tnever once saw his wife alone in the, house, ‘had inckjac! ered “a on oe "him? ey ira leeechabitnete en never they grabbed me and took mo through y, || oven ae: touched her hand, He knew, and must aa they were carrying “ 4 ORS G0 Geib ares ed an scram to her, for I him down there and ‘anien “him they hare legs ment of it. and what-it can be, short of very badty ; four or five: down to-Mioenea' |] the wost fiendiab mali plete aberration of mind, all left me except two; took me towards the that prompts him to. ainst me now, ‘and then sald, Ewen an |, we shall, bat if you make.a | {8 something I cannot ly in March tast, noise we'll murder you;”’ they 'at ashort distance, ||.1 intimated to him I intended getting married. His and I heard the men al the tietliory making a noise; 1 | wife was by, and Instead of offering some pleasant ro- taken back to the distillery, to Reed and Fron: | mark, ax I expected he would, he received the announce: ment in dogged silence, Heafterward, at my room in streets; a man came from the distillery and said, ‘‘All’s the hate!, ito mesgainet that step, om th “It we @ nh lown neieae i sateen 9 a aemechiaes ware ‘and failing to win me to bis views, his _bear- one coming after me, and I ran until I saw a policeman; | ing towards me assumed such a marked change that I afterward mentioned the matter to a us showing how fool- In the fatter part of number of my friends ish and selfish he was March we were still good friends, a4 may be inferred from the fact that he rented a house on Fourth s:reet, ‘on the Lat of April, for the rent of which ($600) he got me to go his security, and tor which I am to-day liable, Moreover, he made an agreement with me then to keep my boy by my paying $200 of the rent; and, further- more, wanted me to take the front room and sleep there. This, to a man who had seduced his wife. was verv kind, and will hardly tally with his story, But, though he spoke to me lees warmly than of old, which I attributed to his objection to my getting married, our relations con- tinued friendly to Tuesday, the 16th inst,, when, having called at his house to take my little boy out to get his hair clipped, he invited meto sit down to dinner with him. His wife was at the table at tho time, and I ngineer; went there in February; it ew distillery; remained until the iSth April; saw the cistern room open at night and whis- beg Sorine, which was put in barrels and rolied into a k ‘building; saw Rhincstrom, Maguire, Lehman, Baum, ‘Ackroyd Scibia and Ketper engaged in this; saw it done every night for the last three weeks of my employment; there were one or two exceptions; the door of the cistern room was always unlocked; in the back part of the ahs oe was a loose board, covering a », through which I was told whiskey was run into the rectifying room; Scibla told me there was ahole through the wall, through which the whiskey to the rectifying tub by means of a hose; rao eighteen barrels of whiskey : made the arrangeme! supporo if I had accepted his invitation, it would have which po did not think would be ob py nt, | formed another count in his indictment against ‘On the cross examination the witness said that he had | me. I visited his house in Fourth street al- been discharged from the employment of the firm. together bat case times ig By 5 ho was . others 5 visits were ie ie, ™! tile $000 each Seth eae - Gay, never Tasted over five minutes, and on iss cueiaion! 4 did Teven sitdown there. I wil! here mention another fact to show that the wretch canoot and does not believe SUICIDE BY A JAILOR, the sory to which he sobecriben Buta few days before =—— cal o ‘The Jailer of Menrec County (N. Y.) Shoots | (he, visit last referred, fo. ne came other complained Himself. about my lewing the Second ward, ‘that he only the Rochester Union, Apri) 30.) rented # house there that he might be able to work for a ing tragedy was enacted this moraing, about | me on election day, and adding that now, as I was going twenty minutes to seven o'clock, at the Monroe County | to ine First ward, he had no ipterost in having a louse Jail. Harry B. Dutton, the paper | com- | there, and that he wished he had nevertaken Subse- mitted ide by shooting him: in the with a | quent to this he came to my room again, pleaded with Fevolver.. He arose at his usual time and proceeded to | ino to take bis house at Perrysville off his hands, that he the barn, sitoated within a few feet of the prison. His | wasa ruined man if I did not, as he could not sell it and absence attracted the attention of his wife, and, ascer- | had no money, eitber to meet the payment almost due taining that he had gone to the barn, she proceeded | on it or pay me. I told bim it was too far out for me, thither and there found her husband stretehed on the | and ring bim that I would not trouble him for floor, gasping in his blood. Help was obtained, search | what he owed me for some time, he jeft the room ex- made, and the fatal weapon found lying on his | pressing feolings for me very unlike what might be ex- SEE, - Dip ball, entered the. shall. qm, He ree if be believed that I was guilty side, near his ear, and penctrated the in. | wretch which he would now make me appear, ly ge Spam a Ego eee ae ae Robb, who was notified. Surgeons, on seeing our arm J ‘ight o'clock. Soroner Robb wil he man at bold ant the suicide was a deliberate one | believed or I had dishonored his bed. When s from the fact that the deceased bad rolled | the of which the application referred to by the an old placed it on the floor, whereon to yo 0 offspring, was hatched, I cannot say; but bis and laying himself straight on the | from some facts communicated to me by a friend I ‘took his life, the | maul infer that it had been for some one temerme Yesterday soon after Mr. Dutton arose, sideration, and as Aye an na- bh er wy heard proceeding from the office tare of the material of which it is built will permit. The ‘the ‘and op Mrs. Datton inquiring of her husband | proper mode of rebutting the atrocious charge the of told her the weapon had been ac- fae which bs pplcauon covers Tbary”kiow at T The ball was found on the floor gy ed mgr td will give me the of the baseboard subse- | opportunity. for this miserable man informe some vory sme that I will not be permitted 10 take any part ta the day _Dut- | case, oither in vind! of my own character or other- years of | wise; friends ‘After Mr. seo her : HB it ‘ F236. years of age and was a gy AE branch of result. Nay, | Lem forpe: att ~ ‘ailor BY fore Lbs teat hav ever aid 6 Baee on her 1a tay 1’ Chapman. he was re- Fr poken en indelicate word. to her, I will admit mysel ines Carano, gf Benen te rs the veriest seoundrel living, and him what repara- thecteling tum SC hatatiog Ne fie ae undoub tion be may require... Thi i Soak portage, tate <> & cause : ‘undoubt- | tails too much, and, writing in igmorance of the c from aberration for some mon! Pr ae: pal pane Abang 1 pr ee ae a that be come to be Anat from e pistol son Sied by bis reply, and have written ‘than I other- own banda, wise would. Seen oie ‘out of the whole soon econ Spats wien Er ber aa ved TERNAL ORTON. Py apend thelt jadgment tm Ube matter wptil elt the facts pees Winns Democrat, } ‘are out, I remain, &c., D, O'NEILL. aoa tie sortie Z An Insane husband No. 1, and married to busband ry Bite. while’ she. applied for and obtained bivorce:} Tes rates, and was divorced ‘third hosbaad Eo caer f f i River Railroad Rupture iu the Radical Ranke at Pough- keopsle—A Nevel Row Boat, &c. Povauxsersm, April 30, 1867. Yesterday was ‘Founder's Day’ at Vassar College, a Gay set apart by the several hundred lady pupils to do honor to Matthew Vassar, Sr., the founder of the college, ‘The attendance was very large indeed, over seven bun- dred invitations having been given out. Triumphal arches, formed of flowers, were everywhere outside the edifice, while inside mirth and hilarity reigned supreme. ar nag from all parte of the United States were there, and‘ice bon bons, coffee and other luxuries were stowed away im a manner fearful to behold. In the er , at half-past seven, the rush to the college by city folks was immense, while the evening trains and boats also brought largo bers, The programme in the evening consisted of literary exercises, music, &c. A work bas recently been written by one of the mis- chievous pupils of the college after the style of St. Mat- thew's el, which ts brimfull of sarcastic hits at mat- ters and things about the college, and which the Faculty have vainly endeavored to get hold of, Reports from the interior of Dutchess county intimate that the fruit crop this season ‘will be fe, It is thought that peaches will be numorous. Cherries may have been injured by the recent untimely frost, The prospect for graas is certainly good. . The story which has been going the rounds of the newspapers, to the effect that a Hudson River Railroad conductor while on his death bed recently confessed that a number of his brother conductors bad been dealing = im coupon tickets, is thus authoritatively Orricy or tur Hunson River Raiiroap, New Yor, April 22, 1867, Dear ‘ou eall mv attention to an article in one of the city papers, copled from the Troy Times, which you thin} reflects on your deceased brother. Tam happy to state ha 80 far ax he is concerned it is without foundation. Nt Mr. George Webber, the deceased conductor spoken of, bad many frieads, who will praise this kind but. just act of the Superintendent of the Hudson River Railroad. The radical radicals of this city are indignant over the fact that avowed democrats who were members of the Johnson Club in the last campaign are retained as clerks 1a the Post Office here. It is boldly asserted that lead- ing republicans, pullers of the party wires, advocate thelr retention, and, as a consequence, the radical radi- cals aforesaid will, unless a change ts soon made, break the slates made ont for the fall election, and go in fora change. Many charge the presont stato of affairs upon Hon. John H. Ketcham, member of Congress from this district. Certain it is that trouble is. brewing, springing entirely from the Post Office difficulty, A new style of row boat has just made its appearance on the Hadson, and in it a man has been navigating Rondout Creek, 1t is a curious looking craft, and re- sembles a ladder, with pointed ends, It is composed of two tin tubos, air tight, about twenty feet fong, each fastened about eighteen inches apart with light iron bars. ‘The rower sits in thecentre and skims over the water wich areas speed, guiding his odd lookitfy craft with much ease, ANEW WESTERN SENSATION. Haunted House at Zagesville—Strange Noises in a Parsonage. [From the Zanesville (Ohio) Courier, April 22.) The resid No, 71 South Eighth street, corner of South, occupied by the Rev. William Granville Pratt, pastor of the First Baptist church, has, for a few nights past, been the scene of some strange noises, which have thus far been unaccounted for. Mr. Pratt and family commenced occupying the dwelling on or about the 1st of April. Nothing unusual occurred anti! Wednesday evening of last week. About half-past nine or ten o'clock of that evening, while Mr. Pratt and family were occupying the front room, in the second story, a low but distinct sound was heard at regular intervals, apparently as if some pégrson was striking the earth with @ pieco of timber, resembling very much the souad made by driving earth around a__ post, The sound apparently came from the cellar of the buiid- ing, and coutinaed for something over baif an hour, when Mr, Pratt went down into the front parlor on the first floor, where the sound could be distinctly heard, seeming apparently just underneath in the cellar. He then started to go into the collar, and on opening the door leading to the cellar stairs the noise changed posi- tion, and seemed to be neur the centro of the garden, in the rear of the dwelling. Search was made there, when tue sound changed position, and again seemed to be in the celiar, and so continued to move about from vo lace as he approached the scene of the noise. It could heard in every room in the house, seeming to come oe rooms — most most distinct. The from the cellar, and = in th distant the noise could be heard nowe was kept up until daylight, when it ceased, On Thursday evening, about ten o’ciock, the noise again commenced, and seemed to be in the cellar. A search Was at once commenced by the family ; also a lady friend remaining with them over night, but with no bet- ‘The noise would change position or cease altogether aa they ap- n and continued until daylight, when it ceased, On last night the family retired early to rest and no noises were beard, since the first evening, ter success than on the preceding evening. proached the place where it seemed to be. kept up to a late hour, but without any discovery. Friday and Satarday nights the samo noise was l. These sounds or ni Scemence Sic aw acto ec ‘ota antl 280 y ve become vs ine to tl i especially to Mmm Pratt” Mr: Pratt fa ttual, but he ts unable to Ai ELOPE! IN HIGH LIFE IN VIRGINIA, {From the Richmond Dispatch, an 80.) An elopement occurred in Staunton a few days since, the particulars of which, as we learn, are that Mrs. Lashbaugb, a young married lady, endowed with rare beanty and high literary attainments, ran off with a Mr. Gukie, a gay Lothario who had been sojourning ® month or more in that town. — He is young andsstrikingly hand- some, with most pléasing manners, and has visited nearly every clime on the globe. He was ly at the house of the. outraged h bat 6. never given him the slightest cause to suspect that he was making any improper advances or proposals to his wife, Having arranged all the preliminaries for their aeparture, the heartless woman, at the mid hour of night, a a devoted husband w travel with a mere adventurer to parts uoknowo. The husband pursued this loving twain to Washington City, but finding it impossibie to overtake them or to learn in which direction they had gone, con- cluded to abandon further puravit, and returned to his home with a grief stricken heart. irs. L, was taken by ‘an old gentieman of staunton when but an infant, and an the most indigeat circumstances. and 9s sent to the bess female institutions im the State until she was thoroughly educated, and until this sad occurrence was to the circle seventy engaging nn geen About av hour before the train wi arrived here this morning at 1:35 from Niagara Falls left that aeoe teeny, ie ts the bt a ror named = fl Hi fi t bl was " i H 3 a f # i Bal : f fr H z 7 A est He bas a wife Sega, ie “ah pine he arr “es aw. Woavesnay, about u % ‘ame morning, y eating ie “ Grove, town og obeying ord ames Bottom, seized an pile, raised it and went towards bim, eases ee Me Seee secured a walking door, Mr Bot tant, and with toe, betweeo them The : Ths i I i “iy Fs z : i ZS. tech ‘wound tobe Min Tecelved a Bole ie Sin coat The ‘Wes then eisicnbly saiuegs Mr. Pratt says ho fovls eatistod that they are not produced by mortal, netther by spir- discover their cause, rE Execrion ov Vuerrrmen.—The following persons were lected as Vestrymen of Grace Chureb, at Jamaica, for the ensuing term:—John A. King and Wm. Coggewell, Wardens; J. L, J, Valentine, J. J. Brenton, J. B, japier, N, Vandeverg, 8, Killman and M. G. John- pag oh One vacancy was created by a tic. ‘ Merrenaurris,—It ts thought by those who are famil- jar with this dreaded and fatal disease that Hiram Wood. jeaths ranged as follows:—Howe, Mareh 10; W. {sor MeCormick, April 21. The Jar to those have died reaction takes place, and the patieat dies, generally fatal, F AxotaeR AccipENT on Tie LONG I8LAND RAILROAD. —~ On Tuesday last an accident occurred on the branch’ réud" leading to. Hempstead village. . While. approsching: the! station around the curve, and while rupning ata rate of speed, the engine leaped from the track. passenger car folowing and comp! over the engine, General coofusion followed, but luckily no one washurt. Great indivnation was felt by the passengers ry the engineer did not run at the proper speed around e curve, Dean or ax Op ann Resprcren Ortizen’ or JAMaioa.—' Rev. G. H. Sayres, an old and much esteemed citizen of Jamaica, died at his residence in that village on Satur- day, 27th inst., at tho advanced age of eighty years. Aw Arpotytunyt Dectixsy.—Mr. Henry W. Eastman, ‘the late Assessor of tho First district, Long Island, re- ceived a few days since an appointment, as General Agent for the government to travel South and instract the assessors of internal revenue as to their duties, He has, however, declined the appointment, notwithstand- ing its large cmolaments. Quarter Exxction.—The charter election for the, vil- lage of Jamaica took place on Tuesday. There were several tickets in the field; 176 votes were cast. which resulted in the selection of the following:—For Presi< dent, Alexander; Trustees, John H. Brinckerhotf, B. H. Creed, Isaac C. Hendrickson; Clerk, Pierpont Potter, Troasurer, Hiram U. Rider; Gollector, Harvey Powell ; Assessors, Benjamia J. Brenton, Hendrick A. Hendrick- son, Isaac Amberman; Superintendent of Higiways, John Gracy; Overseer of Poor, Charles Berry. FUNERAL OF REAR ADMIRAL RINGGOLD. The funeral of the late Rear Admiral’ Cadwalinder Ringgold, United States navy, whose demise was an- nounced in the Heratn of Tuesday, took place, yester~ day. The remains of the deceased haye lain in state at the residence of Mr. Vernes, 33 Union square, where the Admiral breathed his last, since Monday evening, and have been viewed by hundreds of our prominent citi- zens, The coffin in whieh the- body was placed was of mahogany, coverod with black velvet, and having around the border of the lid a fringe of silver ince. The corpse was attired in the undress uniform pertaining to a rear admiral’s rank, and the features were excoedingly lifelike. On the lid of tho coffin was a silver plate with aenove.rorerene re) the following inscription :— eoaeneneee ee rne-2600. ‘CADWALLADER RINGGOLD, eonenccece nese. REAR ADMIRAL, U. 8 N. ; DIED APRIL 29, 1867, AGED 64 YEARS. ROLOLO ROLE EOE REDELDLEOEDEDOLIIOIELEDELE LE DELETE: At baif-past ten o’clock four companies of United States marines, from the Navy Yard, under the command of Captain Collyer, accompanied by the Navy Yard band, marched up Broadway to Union square, and drow up in battalion line in front of Mr, Vernes’ residence, in readi+ ness to escort the remains of the deceased to Trinity church. After they had remained ‘‘at ease” for wbout an hour the: rain, came pouring dowo. in torrents and gave the battalion a thorough drenching, which they bore most unconcernediy. The arrangements for the obsequies were placed in charge of Captain Ryan, U.S..N. At a few minutes past twelve o'clock the re- mains were placed in @ hearse, and, preceded by the military cortege, were taken down Broadway to Trinity, the band playing the Dead March. The following was the order of procession: ~ ‘Twenty-ninth precinct police (four ranks). Band of the United States receiving ship Vermont, Escort marine guard (four ranks), The Hearse, 2 attended by twelve sailors of the United States Navy (two deep). Carriazos with pall bearers. Officers of the United States Navy. Officers of the United States Army. Fyonds of the dece: At one o'clock tats the cortége reached the church, and the coffin was borne through open ranks of the officers and marines into the sacred edifice, whence it was taken down the main aisic and deposited in a low catafalque in front of the altar. At the principal door of the church the corpse was met by Rev. Dr. Cooke, rector of St. Bartholomew's church, and the Rev. Mr. Leacock, of Trinity, who, preceding it down the aisle, commenced reciting the solemn ritual for the dead, be- ginning “Iam the Resurrection the Life.” The regular burial service of the Episcopal Church was then carried out, the Rev. Mr. Leacock reading the lesson— the fifteenth chi of St. Paul's First Egistie to the Corinthians, 1 wero no musical serv’ save @ phony on the organ, when the remains wore brought into and again when removed from the church; neither was any eul Pronounced over the remains. The congregat i attendance was: not very indion, baiog doubliese kept away joubtless kept ai On the comin wore placed tl |, cap and epaulets of the deceased, wreaths of tonmortelles. ¢ burial service | the church, where it remained, m_ charge ‘taker, until it was conveyed, via Adams Express, to the city of Baltimore for interment. There were present at the obsequies the most prom!- nent offiers of the United States navy now on duty here, among whom were Adinifa! Fai Admii and was SScics by tne rain storm w fragt, Bell, commandmg tho Navy Yard; Admiral Stringham, Captain Pennock, Commodore e, United States navy, and Sargeon Peck, Unt mavy. Bow inthis harbor, were also represented, all in. Ryan, ited States The officers of the French naval ist Lupio, and Colovel Hall of the army. The remains of the late Rear Admiral will be interred in Green Mount Cemetery, Baltimore, near those of bis brother, the gallant Major Ringeold, who met his death on the bloody field of Palo Alto during the Mex'can war, ALLEGED MURDER ON BLACKWELL'S ISLAND. On the last day of the past month two men, named Patrick O’Rorke and James MoGeary, appeared beiore well’s Island, which, if true, throws light upon the com- mission of a most fearful and revolting crime. Both men were patients in hospital at the time, and were actuated to make the disclosure from a conviction that the circumstance was of such a nature, that they consid- ered it would be criminal in thom to withbold the facts up Rige Shey sekomal swear came undor their immediate “notes. ‘the affidavit of the ~ Hendorson g Hh 2 i 3 F 23 HH H te (i ue i 8: t ; s i d his eves: Henderson puiled the h namie the nai oes sete Ga oa ith te intent to hasten ‘asath Kasten death of to ald ‘whe by Seu ae Pee GRANTING LICENSES, A The office of the Inepector of Ruciee was again be- evening by liquor dealers destivous of renewing their Nicenses or sung out new liquor, 80 far ‘applications tor $260 pant yr jnation