The New York Herald Newspaper, December 12, 1867, Page 4

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EYS OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Eratorux Missracisy, Battaps axp Buruuseves, * NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Proadway.— Beuncz ap Aur. + New York, Thursday, December 12. 1867, cHB NEw Ss. EUROPE. Too Howe report by the Atlantic cable m dated yester- day eve Deceraber LL. | The London “mes is of opinion that. the American People may “uccept' President Johnson's dofinition of | the rights of citizens av expressed in bis Mes: Tho Aiverpooi Fenian demonstration, intended for Sunday, is perempterily forbidden by the government, Stormy Webates took piaco im the Italian Parliament, It was thought the vote of 1861 claiming Rome would be Repeated. The French governmont will uot negotiate a loan, Yrince Gortschakoff has, it is sald, resigued the Cdauceliorstip of Russia 1 Nowand serious rebet outvrenke have ta¥fen place in China. Tho insurgents were marching on l’ekin. Tho steamship Russia, at this port, yesterday Casnicbed mail reports in detail of our cable despatches to the 30th ef Novomber CONGRESS. » In tho Sonate, yesterday, @ resolution directing elect commitico of the two houses to equalize the pay and reduce the number of employés of each house was edopted. A bill declaring the acts of the late rebel Rovernment nuii and void was referred to the Committeo onthe Jud Cousiderablo debate ensued on the ditt directing that certata money accruing from the sale f captured or abandoued property shall be paid into the Troasury, and the sabjert was fualiy postponea anti to-day. The adjournment resolution of the House Was read aad taid over, Mr, Morrill's bill to raiso the Value of iega! tonder notes to par was taken up, and Mr. Morrill made aspeech 19 its favor. Farther con- pideration was then postponed until Friday and the Benate adjourned. In the Houre Sir. Julian, andor leave fo make a pers Sonal explanation, spoke in favor of the timpeachment | Of the Prosi@ont. Several other porsonal explavations | Of alike Ouoracter were also permiited. A bill provid- fog that brevets shall only be conferred ix time of war And for gallant conduct was passed, A bill providing for the restoration of castlored officers only by confrin- ation of the Senate was referred back to the Commitios On Miltary Affairs, In Committee of the Whole, Mr, Washburne made aapeech against paying for the new poesessions in the Northeast aud tho West Indies, and Mr. Broomat!, on the question of the payment of five- twenty bonds in gold or curreacy, Soon after the House @djournod. MISCELLANEOUS. The wloamer Morro Castle, Crptain Adams, from Havana Decou.ver 7, arrived at this pore yesterday. She Dring? Olee a spatches from ost Indies and Moxicc ows has beer anticipated by our spe Cial Cuba cade iclograms. The firm of Paris, Balift & €o,, of Havana, are reported to have failed, The lis. Dilitios are almost coatined to tho Treasury for dutiow, ‘The cholera r>port fur eleven days in that city eading Novomber 25 abows that out of 872 cages thero were 431 eatus The Whiskor Dealers’ National Convention roaz eembied in Weshington yosterday and adoplod a long netion of the tax on motres to Wat eraruent, afior esterday ant decided upon oxt, a8 the time end pinoo for be ofa Nanioat ag Convention * N. EL, by three hundred majority o, @ New Yorkor, wae hanged at dbiontvenl, day, for the murder of Cornelius Deizcoll to st f oMcers appointed to experiarcat and re- och-loading arms for the use of the State rvoed ecasion at the State Arsenal io Soventh held am adic Ayeane, The dey was devoted to testing the penetrative Toros of on with referoace to their point of ox. Plovion urov and Berdan cartridges were the Only ones presenved for irial, ‘On the relet Fe merits of cack will be g feport. The Comwmissovors of Emigration held a regular Moetlag yesterday afternoon at Casiie Garon. The ly appointed to coufer with the Com- Biissioners of Public Charities and Corr m, Toh e ore em- ea ina future to the exchange of fands op Ward's isan, Powored to direet the removal of th there. arrived to da ial ground Roports of the sumber of emizra during tho year, tlie treasure as of the Labor Exchange were read opal Convention yesterday 8 commu- recoived from Colone! Emuadne Clark, ten. ing the use of the Seventh regiment armory for the sessions of tha Convention after the Logistature meets. On the streng'h of thie the motion to secure « hall in petbod of collect, | A Westoa, democrat, bas been eleciot Mayor | The decision of the board | Albany was reconsidered, aud a rosotution to accopt Col- One! Clark’s offer was introduced aud was in decided favor, but Mr. Alvord, by judicious firbustering, warded Of ® vote upon it until the Convention adjourned. Tom Sharptey, & brother of Sam Sharploy—a per’ former at the Thédtre Comique, Broadway—~was shot dead ia Twenty-fourch street, near Broadway, yesterday @fernoon, by Kelly, of Kelly aud Leoa's Minatrets, during o Oght which occurred between the Sharpley Drowbe: Kelly and Leon, Kelly received a very ad wound io the head, caveed by a shot from are volver in the bands of Sat * ley, ’ Joremiah Horton waa tried yesteFlay ia the Court of Gehoral Sessions, for tho Rilened manslaughter of Ae- diow Arent in April last, No evidence of a Positive charactor was bronght ocalnst him, and the Our Natlenal Finasces-The Teachiogs ef yo eo Bhiatorre A considerable portion of the sesslons of both houses of Congress yesterday was devoted io tho consideration of the im- portant question of the national finances, If those who clamor for the immediate resumption of specie payments would study history they might learn the danger and impract§eability of their course. But they are | for the most part mere theorists, superficial, people of one idea, and incapable of learning either from history or experience. The more ignorant they are the greater their pretensions, and the more noise they make. The news- paper organs in this clty of both political parties, and a portion of the press elsewhere, kept up @ constant ery until lately of on to specie payments, Though some of them have abated their tone, and show signs of change since public sentiment and the represeniatives of the people in Congress have deciared against their theory, still the radical Chase organ here keeps up the sensele=s cry, just as it did the “On to Richmond cry” which resulted in the Bull Run disaster. Strange to sey, these resumptionists take their ideas, such as they are, from the same class of theorists in England who brought that country to the verge of | revolution, and who have burdoned it with a stupendous debt that can never be paid. The same causes operated in this country ,, | sad in England in causing a suspension of * | specie payment, | was the cause. A gigantic war in bot) cases The great revolution in France that began in 1789 soon set Europe in a blaze, and England was plunged into a long and exhausting war as the consequence. Pitt com- menced the anti-Jacobin war in February, 1793, and in February, 1797, a Cabinet meeting was called in London to deliberate on the financial difficulties of the country, and she result was specie pryment was suspended the next morn- ing. Paper became tho currency, and re- mained so for twenty-eight years, “This admir- able system (of currency) arose from absolute necessity,” the historian Alison says, and “ it brought England victorious through the war.” No serious efforts were made to rewrn to specie payments while the war lasted; for that was an impossibility. The war ended with the battle of Waterloo, in June, 1815, Then the bullionists,- backed by the bond- holders ond great capitalists, eommenced to clamor for resumption. They insisted that it ought to take place six months afier the war closed. The government, yield- ing to this pressure, fixed the day of resump- tion in July, 1816. In 1815 gold rose to forty premium. We have not sufficient data to state what the amount of paper circulation was—Bank of England notes, country bank notes, Treasury notes and all—but there could not have been much less than we have now in circulation, The efforts to force specio payments, therefore, immediately after the war necessarily proved disastrous, Soon after the Bank of England began to } contract, in accordance with the action of the government, agricultural and commercial dis- tress of unprecedented severity commenced. Mr. Tierney stated from his place in the House of Commons that “the people of England were suffering more intensely than at any period since the Norman conquest.” The bankrup!- cles in 1816 were two thousand and cighty- nine, being an increase of fifty-five per cent over those in the preceding year. The manu- facturing, commercial and agricultural inte- rests all suffered aiike, The consequence was that the government had to bring in a bill to postpone the resumption of specie payments for two years, till July, 1818. Under this reprieve industry revived and the downward course of the country was arreste 1. In the first of these years—1817—the bankrupt- cies were nearly fiity per cent less than in 1816, and there was @ still farther decrease in 1818, | she year following. Trade, commerce and in- dustry of every kind revived when contraction ceased. But the resumptionisia were not con- tented with this encouraging state of things and the Bunk of England made another effort in October, 1817, to resume spocie payments, But this experiment soon failol, aiid the gov- ernment was then convince! thit it wonld not do to attempt to resume at the timo fixed in | 1818; consequently a bill was brought into Parliament and passed oxtending the time to duly, 1819. Then, again, as tho Prince Regent said to Parliament, “the commerce and manu- factares of the country were in the most flour- ishing condidoa.” The government being dis- posed to act upon the principle of letting well enough alone, wished to posipons the forcing procoss of resumption; but the bullionisis were powerful and carried a resolation in Parliament, which was introduced by Mr. Poel in Moy, 1819, providing for a partial resump- tion in Febraary, 1820, and for a total resumption in May, 1821, Imme:liately on the passage of Peel’s bill severe distress and fear- ful riots began.. To uso Mr. Alison’s ex- pressive language, “the industry of tho nation was speedily congealed as a flowing stream is by the severity of an Arctic winter.” The government felt sorely the effect of contrac- thon, a8 well as the people; for the revenue fell tar short of what had been anticipated. It was not, however, till several years after- wards—that is, till 1824—that specie payment was entirely resumed. Eight years England had been passing through this struggle, and then in the end what was ti consequence? The terrible revalsion of 1825, when the most unprecedented saffering ocearre], The rain was universal, except among the bondholders andthe very rich. The foundation of that appal- ling pauperiem which pervades Great Britain, and has pervaded it ever since, was then laid. Revalsioa afer revulsion succeeded for a long period, and even to this day England reaps the bitter fruit of her mistaken policy. Indeed, ehe will reap it forever through her frightful incubus of national debt and her millions of Such, briefly, is tho hisiory of British resamp- tlon—of forcing specie payment before the fen at was for it, and before » por tion OF least Sf Tte enormous dobt was liqui- dated. Yet this is what our crazy resumption theorists and stupid Secretary of the Treasury would bring us to. But Congress, we are Jor., without icaving their seats, rendered a verdict of | happy to say, shows more wisdom; for it seems acquittal, whereupon the prisoner was A\scbarged, + The Tennessee Senate yesterday reltused to concur in the House jornt resolution avking Tennessee Congress fon to support Thad Stevens’ comtiscation policy. evonstruction Convension im Virginia eld no ders Suvaior Wissen was precont and advised mo in counct!, favoring an extension rather than ® restric. fon of the f.anchise privilege # Tho Conv gption of V.rginia conservatives met ia Rich pond soso t,, A. H, UL, Beuart was siectod Provident. determined to stop contraction of the cur- revcy and to give relief to the industry aod trade of the country, which Mr. MoColluch was fast paralyging, Still, there is a mighty power, as there was in England, in the bondholders and capitalists to overcome, They will move heaven and earth to force specie paymonts in order to increase their wealth, no matter who oullers, The currency is the lifgklood of the | paris,” would have been very interesting. The P npr i pice htt tai Pe SE ES ES ES ESS RE entre SRNL SEO ea ed ee NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, nation, and if that be reduced we shall suffer all the evils that England suffered. With our increasing population, wealth and demands for an extended circulating medium we sball grow up healibfully to specie paymei.ts in the course of afew years. Let well alone, then, should be our motto. All we want is « littic time and healthful exercise to get well, aud not financial quackery. Mr. Dickens ve. Miss DickinnayesMrs. Gummidge vs. Breakers Abead, Mr. Dickens and Miss Dickinson, a lon and & lioness—the one at Steinway Hall, the other at Cooper Institute—both appeared before the public the other evening. The gentleman presented himself in what would have beén properly the lady’s part (the reading of cer- tain romances), and the lady assumed the character of s man, on the political dangers of the country—a réle, however, in which the gen- tleman in question, as “a stranger in these tender-hearted man gave his delighted audi- | ence some masterly recitations of his own | populor fancy sketches; the strong-minded | woman, dealing in the stern realities of our | political siination, atartled her hearers with | her flerce denunciations and terrible prophe- | Mr. Dickens transformed into Frederica Bremor, hor soft, benevolent face and Quakerly cosinme, and Miss Dickinson changed into Black Hawk would have been exactly right—scalping knife, tomahawk, war paint, beads, bear’s clawa, feathers and all. The reading programme of Mr. Dickens was the mild metheglin of “David Copperfield” and “ Bob Sawyer’s Party,” and the lecture of Miss Dickinson was “Breakers Abead,” o trenchant political discourse. Tho heroes and heroines of Mr. Dickens were father spooney and imaginary, while those of Miss Dickinson were chosen from our actual living eaters of | beef and potatoes, The gentleman detailed | the ideal virtues of his old kind-hearted sailor, Peggotty, while the lady took strong ground against the Presilentia! nomination of General Grant. The amiable Charles dwelt upon his old sailor’s anxious efforts to recover his “little Em’ly,” while the indignant Anna declared that “it is one of the marvels of the age that those men who were deepest in the rebellion should now be impudently demanding of us rights a thousand times for‘eited by treason and perjury.” The gentleman reader amused his hearers with the imaginary sorrows of Mrs. Gummidge, whose complaint was that “every- thing went contrairy with her,” while the lady lecturer protested that “these disloyal ones must be bound hand and foot” and compelled to obey the laws. Mr. Dickens revelled in ‘he cheering hope of Micawber that “something wll turn up,” while Miss Dickinson avowed that “there are gome men, even in Massachu- sella, who would rather vote for rum than free- dom.” What # contrast! Bot, again, wh le the gone reader at Stelnway Hall was repeat ing tho assurancs of Mrs. Micawber to her un- lucky spouse, “I will never desert yon, never,” te bolli, nt lec'urer at the Cooper Instiinte ! Was venting her wrath upon the republican | party in Congress for letting Andrew Jobnsou | Bo ecobfr-e, Binsliy, while Mr. Dickens was muking his friends perfectly ai home with Bob Sawyer, Miss Dickinson was expressing” her belief that it was not aliogether safe to shout for General Gront without kaowitg exactly where he stands, Our case is made out. We have shown that the readings of Mr. Dickens would be the ap- propriate réle for Miss Dickinaon, and from those “American Notes” we judgo that Miss Diekinson’s “Breakers Ahead” would be the very thing for Dickens—barring, perhaps, ber objections to General Grant. Considering thus the filness of things, what o sensation they would make if we could only have for a single night Mrs. Gummidge and Bob Sawyer from the lady aud “Breakers Ahoad” from the gen- tleman ! . eles, The Late Poisoning Case in Brooklyn. One of thos» extraordinary causes céldbres that now and then wake ip public luterest to tho fact that something more horrible than the events of yesterday has transpired to-day, has just occurred in Brooklyn, im ihe shape of a supposed suleide or probable murder. The victims—for that is the accepted phrase ap- plied to people whe die olther hy the care- lessness of railroad directors, the hands of assassins more amenable co law than railroad men, or the explos.on of aiiro-glycerine, or by poison, the knife or the pistol—wore in thie in- stance a mother and daughter, who retired to | bed in health, as far as anybody knew to thr conirary, and were found next morning clasped together in the ghastly embrace of death— clasped in each others’ arms, the mother with her face towards the child, the child with ber face towards the wall, thereby indicating a siruggle in their last moments. If the curtain | could he lifted from this mystery, which it | probably never will be uatess somebody offers heavy fees (o the detectives, we might get a elue to many of the mysterious deaths that baffle coroners’ juries and beget stupid ver- dicis, We might wasts pages in propounding theories or making hap-hazard guesses, but we can hardly be far out of ihe way in setting down the canse of (his tragedy to the old story | of M-reqnited or abused love, | The testimony of the druggist who siaggered | and buffeted his way out of the house, half | biinded and bewildered hy the effects of a narcotic, would suggest the suspicion that his | life, too, was endangered, but for what reason does not appear, That the mother and daughier died from the effects of strychnine bas beon sufficiently established by chemical tests which appear to us to have been unnecessarily cruel, inasmuch as the ordinary process of sub- mitting the stomachs of deceased to a chemical analysis wae substituted by using tho contents upon a dog, throwing the unhappy Sieataie Hate Fighstal oom fa which he died. A skilful physician, We should tink, might arrive at conclusion without provoking the interference of Mr. Bergh, the humane gen- tleman to whose especial care, as pret of the Soclety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, the well-belog of the brute eres tion i entrusted. The death of the dog, however, although brought about without any justifiable reason known to medical science in this age of civilization, is « small matter com- pared to the death of the two human beings, and itis to be hoped that the whole matter will be sifted thoroughly. Thatitwaean caso of suicide js not exactly an acceptablo theory, and ft behooves the anthorities to continde thetr investigations until @ rations! selation of the mystory [y reagbod, : Rl « 4 & vy The New Beard ef Directers of the New York Conttnl Railroad. The election of directors of the New York Central Railroad took place in Albany yester- day, and resulted in the of all thé last year’s board, with the exception of Mr. H. H. Baxter, of this city, who has recently filled the position of president of the zoad, The Vander- bilt interest carried the election, and at a subsequent meeting of the new board Vander- bilt was made its president for the ensuing year. Last December the express companies and the Wall street brokers made up @ pool and obtained possession of the road, in open opposition to the Dean Richmond and Vander- bilt pariy; but their triumph has been of very short duration. Under the new management there will be a thorough consolidation of the Central with the fludson River and Harlera roads, which cannot fail to prove advantageous both to the stockholders nnd the public. The difficulties heretofore existing in relation to | the equalization of freight will be settled, and, for oli practical purposes, the ceniral route between Buffalo New York will bo asone. The new dirceiors ore practical rail- road men, and not mé@re Well strect operators, and will run the road accordingly. This great railroad iriumph of Vanderbilt points him out as (be proper man to take hold of the now bewildered, disorganized democracy, half crazed by their recent accidental sucecssos, | and to thoroughly reform the party and put it into proper shape for the next Presidential contest. He can step at once into Dean Rich- mond’s old shoes and push aside all the pigmy politicians who have been aspiring to fill that leader’s place. It will only be necessary for hie to make arrangements with Peter Bismarck Swecay, who holds Tammany in his pocket, and the New York Central Railroad and the New York democracy can again be consoli- dated and run as one machine, as in the good old days of the Albany Regency. The Butchers and the Beard of Health. A very important decision has been made by Judge Barnard, of the Suprem2 Court, in reference to the interference of the Board of Health with the slaughter “houses of the butchers of this city. He is+of opinion that the Board bas ao right to interfere with them, giving as one reason because “there ia nota building in this city, not a business pursuit followed thercin, over which they may not ex- ercise precisely the same jurisdiction and con- trol ;” and, furthermore, that “the Metropolitan Police alone can inspect, control ant regulate, within certain well known and well defined limits, auy business pursuit carrled on in this city.” The action was brought by the butchers to restrain the Board of Health from closing up their establishments below Fortieth street and destroying their business, To remedy this confiict of authority between an organization appointed by the Legislature and a court of law, « thorongh revision of the law from which the Bowrd of Mealth derives its powers is neeled. Tts provisions are vague, and may be arbitrarily construcd to the detriment of busi- neas people, and to render it subservient to the public weal it must be made more definite and explicit. Another remedy would be the es- tablishment of abattoirs at different points of the city to accommodate the waats of tae com- tunity, ‘There is no use in depriving people who live below Fovtieth girest of necessary business o#tablishmenis, and at the same lime there should bo a rigid supervision exercised over business pursuits that may degenerate fato nuisences. ‘Tho present provisions of the law under which the Board of Health acts do not reach either of these poinis, and they are, there- fore, practically null and unsatisfactory. The increased accoramodations on the railroads may result in the entire removal of slaughter houses trom the city, as the butchers will find it more profitable and convenient to bring their cattle here by the car loud, ready dressed for market, an tp ke subject to the interference of any board in this city, egal or arbitrary medns of disposing Will not be tolerated. a The sudden Freezing Up of the Canals. We lave intelligence that the Evie canul has | been frozen up wad probably closed for tho season. in one siretch alone on this main artery of interior navigation—viz, from Syra- cuse to 'Troy—-it is eatimated that not lesa than four million bushels of grain, besides a vast amonnt of other produce, will be locked in until spring. We also learn that the Delaware and Hudson canal is likewise closed by ice, | locking up over twenty thousand busbeis of coal, in transity tor this market, from this sourse alone. Taking advantage of the stoppage of these intportant avenues of supplying this great mart with breadstuffs and tnel, the specnla‘ors bave already begua their work of imposing upon the necessities of the commanity, Flour and wheat have already advanced a consider- able figure, and we may now look for | winter aad frmine prices for fuel. These evils in a great measure might be avoided and our citizens relieved of additions to their already tertible burdens of taxation, at a most un- seasonabls tim» of year, by the construction of lines of railroads especially designed for the transportation of freight. ‘There are not enough, if any, of these lines in existence In this part of the country, and our oapitatists | coult not moke betier investments than in en- conraging enterprises of this kind, Tt is all very well to talk of widening the Erie canal; but make it as wide as Tappan sea, and yet it will, in moat of the winter seasons, be frozen up and navigation closed as at present. Freight railroads, aud plenty of them, bringing to tide water the ever increasing stores and crops of the great West, will keop our markets well supplied with tho necessaries of life and frustrate the operations and proven? the ex- actions of speculators, STEINWAY HALL—ORATORNO, Dickens mado way fof "Rémeon” lest $ £ : rE H : its i a ne 3 Fy ee eit ui) ; lute : an the Y rT) walt (ue Feat OC oe Coromes*s Ina . DECEMBEL 12. 18 Fk. question, it seins, ; which crime, like fevers of a malignant type, becomes epidemic, or, otherwise speaking, that when- ever some fearful decd of blood is done im one part of the city or country, for a week or so afterwards crimes the mere mention of which makes one’s blood run chill with an tpexpressible terror, fellow, one the other, In quick and awful succession, The detail of borrbie crimes that oocur 40 oftea in ml cannot fail to impress the attentive observer of eventa and things with this fact—that there 1s only too good ground for this theory, i eas days ago there had been for a mouth tho usu unbloody lull in the affairs of every-day life in this city. 0d Brooklyn; but the lull ceased on Monday last, whem” the door of s bedroom in a house fn the latter place was throwa open, aad the distorted fuozs of « mother and daughter, locked in the embrace of Goath, siru horror to the souls of the affrightod bebolders The oxcttemout occasioned by the mystery adel this etrange occurrence, which is still fresh In the mi reader of the Henan, bas not whol! yer a more fearful, mi and more revolting, because of its sul roundiega and tho manner and means used accomplish it yesterday took pleco in tho up| portion of this city. The facts are as folto ‘Yoaterday afternoon @ matinée was given the Ley | Avenue theatre, which i situated in Twenty-fourt! street. near Fifth avenue and just adjoming the Fitth Avenue Hotel, Theatrical matingea in the metropolis, generally speaking, are siways well attended by a ierge number of actors and actresses or other performers on the stage, who, being themselves employed at night at the:r thoatres or mi bails, are auabie to go beyond their own foo'lignts to find theatrical amusement otherwise than at the day perlormances given at covlain theatres. In the audience which “assisted,” as the French would say, at the matiase performance held at.tho Fifth Ave- nie theatre yesterday there was a large nomber of actoré Spc aniamrels—amete gener Sam Sharplevy, of she. fe Aire Comique, aud Mesars. Kelly and Leon, of way. ay wat Lap £0 THE MURDER. I appears that thers has been for some time past an intense fecling of rivairy between those persons ia re- gard to the relative morits of the ‘“busiwess’’ of their respective establishments, which was far from being ified by aramor which reached Sam Sharpley’s ear since hia eatablishment in New York to the effect that Leon bad becu slandering bim in the vilest manner in various ways, When Sam Sharpley, therefore, porcelved Kelley acd Leon sitting near bim—the width of the narrow aisle of the thoaire alone separating th ata of the former from that of the latter. determined, as he rays himself, to give Ieon a iece of his mind” as soon as th» perfurmance had come to an end, and the audience had dispersed into the street. With this benovoloat iatcn~ tton strongly fixed in hts mind, Sam went into the street whon the people began to lcave the house, and as Kelly and Leon passed him, he tapped the latter on the shoulder to attract his attention, Leon wheeled round and >am then exclaimed:—‘“You've beon talking sbout and saying that all the property I had wasmorigngod. Now, T tefl you you're adamued liar.” Leon flared ie 3 at this complimentary remark. ‘earth replied in equally polite language lesigaating m aS @ very comet Tho latter retorted by cariag Leon to repeat his abusive remark, at the eame time taking off his overcoat and placing hrmaclf in a fightine attt- tude, Leon ted the remark, and immediately Sam strack at and, as tho latter ssid, was then at once set upon by both Kelly and Leon, Tue unequal fight had bardly lasied @ minuto, whon, oven to the sarprise of Sam, his brother who hed beon present at the matince unkuown to him, and who bad been attracted to the Reed by tho melée, appeared upon the scone and proceeded to assist Sam by endeavoring to pat Keliy hors de comiat “You take caro of him, Tom,” cried Sam, a3 soon a8 be ‘was mi aware of bis brotier’s preewes, aud desig ating y ag he spoke; “You take care of him and T'ligettle ths fellow," pointing to Leon. Tho latter, however, fot appearing to like the took of things, made up his mind (hat the better part of valor undor the clroamelauces, as far as he was conceraed, would be in precipitate flight; a0, suiting the action to the thought, he turved from Sam’s biows and ran at the hetght of bis towards Broadway, with Sam in hot pursult, Oa nearing tho corner Leon faced aboat, and squad, and the vicinity eseing that there was gome disturbance {a the midst of the excited orowd, that surged wildly about in the Street, made bis oa towards ‘Bara Sharpiey aed Leoo, and succooded, after a short s ruggte, in separating tho two men, fis: THE MURDBR. Just at this moment the report of a firearm resounded y etrost, — proceed! evi Joudi: tu hous the iy rougl where, duet and ie sais: pr at oaniay brother fail heavily, as if silewaik’ and Kelly waik up to his revolvor at the prostrate form conteate of one of its varsole, A DOUILE MURDER, ALMOST Sam took the wholo eoeno in at a glance, and drawing his revolver, ruched madly toward Ke one Of tho barrela as he approsched him, ing effect just behind his :alended victim's let var aud loaging over tho temple. Ho agnin quickly’ cocked revolver and again atmed at Key, but ‘was discharrec offic or Froese hac seized bold uf hs arm, and by wrenching it upward the direction of the bullet red, i¢ pass ng, however, through the indox was Gogor of ‘2 teft band as causing an ugly vor we ou Nee EN A It would be impossibis (a pariear tha bectat fasion that reign. Stago of tho terrtbte affray. As soon ag Tom Sharpley a tonto f the firet bullet from bo Ain ghd the multiu women and ch! the i} en of ‘tom bad just it sped trom its chamber, come from {ho theatra, . w numbers were veieg at Second attg- mented by the poopie coming ait ot the bouse by and senor g” Mesarze= eiicest ta mrdtrectioas, spicBond | Be MMUUdAGa eivite ‘Guicraucd lo Ibe mitot pioehon shrieks of terror. The mon fora time Footed to the spot by the sudden horror of the ecene, and bit thrae or four dared to advance rd Koliv, or evon toward the where the body of ‘Tom Sharpley lav weltoring tn blood. The epetl was but motentar: ever, and as officer Freese soized hold of Sum =! and stroggied with Lim for the pagsession of bis ré- voiver, several men rushed forward to his assistance; others: led to iift the body of rom Sharpley, and others to look alter Kelly, who bad suddenly dirap- = in the crowd, but who was finally found by oMfcor ennedy cf the Iwenty-ninth precinct, after a ditireut search, near the drug siore, corace Twenty-fourth street ew, whore he had been conveyed by bu frie TMM MURDERED MAN, Tom Sharpley, whon |)! ted frota the gutter, was found to be dend, tho boy Laving been pierced by Lwo bulet: the one, It is believed, in the région of the heart an tho other inthe head. The corpse was carried iuto the vestibule of the theatre end laid upon the floor; wtrauge to say, the crowd that bad hustled aod noisily urged about it before maintaiuing, as if by common consent white the body was being carried through their midet, a silence that was pantal im the extreme, so snd- denly did the bush of voices and the subsidence of the confused Doteo of many fect om the pavement fal! upon ‘every One present, SOmNRG IN TING TMA, ners, or ley was brought into fie presence of tho dead, The to work apon him most pows , and It was ay much as hie frends could do to quiet him aad Y oe se out Kelly to avouge death of bus brother, Hoe became more q however, as tho a‘ter- noon wore or, and when the of the deat man was Morgue and himself to the station house, the moro seriously to realive tho awful and, perhape, | 2Ee Faas 3 Hg HL i Hae i ; i aH ie i Hl i geet" "ia ag ven STATEMENT SmARPLeT. I wont to the matinéo at the Fifth avene theatre this was od | She agg having somne business to attend to with Mr, and, Aad On GRIering. On WAheT ForORRIRla Me, | the ground, Sam suerpiey then rushe@ . fore Tooud stop him shot Kelly, and was lee! a! Dally dake among the crowd in the —_ at ey ze I fi ‘ EES i B I went and separated them, aud just they a Of a firearm in the direction uearer the theatre, I oF coc: bis revolver to fire again, when I seized hold of his arm end change the direction of the shot, STATEMENT OF LEON. I was coming out of the theatre, justatier the matl- née, wien fam Sharpley cawe up dehind me and u+ed the most abusive language (ome. I had avt int with him in any mauner. We then got tnto when Sam Sharpley struck mea blow in the face bis brother attacked Kelly. Tue shooting then took place, and I beiiere Keily shot ‘fom Sharploy in solf-de~ fe nce, Tom Sharpley, the murdered mao, was thirty-one yours of age; followed mercantile pursuits as a vooa- ton; was married, aud lived in Twenty ath hdc near Filth avenue, He was a stoutiy built, finely fc “Moan, and itis said by by friends was not over given te getting into diMlcultios with other men, He loaves @ "hea bering. io hot Kelly, is thirty-six yoarvet ley, who a Iv. age, Smlapren ot the Toeatre Comique, is married aad has one child. He resides at the Revere House, Kelty ic a stoutly built man, a litiio over the medium: size, and ts a jolat proprietor of the minstrel bail com- ducted under the tirm uame of Koliy & Leon. Aa inquest will be heid on the body of the murdered man to-day. THE SCAFFOLD. Excention of Ethan Allen nt Montreal. {From.the Evening Telegram of yesterday.) Monranat, C, W., Deo, 11, 186%, The oxecution of Ethan Allen for the murder of Core nolius Driscoll took place here to-day, Tho facts of the murder are as follows: — On Monday, Soptemper 22, Driscoll, a watchman at Morton's brewery and distillery, was found dead neas his post, with @ wound above the eyo, crushing ia big ekull, aud another, bebind his ear, imbedding a proce of tho skull in the brain, with othor severe wounds Tho body had been brutally bruised and kicked, The doath struggle had evidently beon @ protracted. ome from the marks of bloody fingers on the throat. The safe had been opened by a sledge hammer and chisel, &nd $2,600 in silver abstracted. The tootstops of fout men were tound in the vicinity. Tho pablic were mendously excited, and civilians joined the auth io pursuit of the mardorers. The wood? ia the neigh. borhood were searcl and two glepdsors eee along the coast and the otner ‘incent. Tuo murderers took baat, ede <3) Wolte Tsinady carrying a carpet bag with them, and there deseried the boat and took t» the woods, They were seca to iamue from the woods without the bag, having divided bouty. One of the party, who was wounded, took gene’ ferry at Cape Vinceat, A telegram from that formed to authorities that the murderera had left acarriags. The American police were scat out in chase, aud traced thom to Brownsville, theace to W where three of them wore arrested at dinuor, ~ fourth es aped, but acter some dodging, was found Ceated bebind sume logs 10 a bush, almost starved : F He sieis ta # ee ff if z i ti 3F i igi The other prisoners ulso tufned evidence and all agreed "hat Allen struck the fatal blow, ou the 23:4 of October, di an was sonienced to be hung and the it to tho Peat for various terms, * ahs baeeronceaiian as behaved pospe tip ne 0 : # the government for & commutation, based on the gr. of former good conduc: and tbo others, Bat tir Joho A. law must take Lis course, ‘On Friday last the Sheriff taformed Allen that be Prepare to die, He recet the news cal spiritual sdvigor, Father Damard. Ser anata by Lo pnt on him, aad the sondeneed Gan. z tasay persons, whom speak CoOduet Atien was famiilariy known as sarie, rhe muscular tao, with 4 i F Hi 4 therszcel 'y piisou was tolied, and the prisoner summoned mae He made his last toilct without any assis:agoe, then drank a cxp of coffee, bade good-bye to the officials and proceeded on foot to the scaifuld, which was erected carly this motor About threo thoussad people wero fresent Lo witaess the scone. Tne scaffold was not guarded by miiary, and the poopie were unusually orderiy, A sentiment of was expressed for the prisoner by how onaw id Ria: bearing aod brive comeaoor attrac od genoral He objected to having the black cap over face, saying. os be bad frequently said, “I will die with axmile on my face.” His arms, however, were pin- joned, Hood he bad sothing to say, but handed a sealed paper to his counsel, the contents of which have ‘not yet transpired, Too priscuer then thanked the officials and attendants for their kindness to him and took his ctand om the rop, declining all easietance, The drop felt ites past eleven, The body fell with a the neck was brokea immedwtcly, Death was inetantanceus and panies evidentty, for, as he his feco was wot distorted, but woro a smile. Hie touk part in (he Fenian raids of jast yoar, THE PRIZE RING. Arrival of O’Baldwin, the Irish Giant, Jack Hicks, also n Noted Pugilist, trom Knginad. A gact of vig feet Nve yesterday came to New York, no less a character than O'Baldwic, tho “Irish Qtant,” who was somo time since matched to fixht Jom Mace, the champion of England. He was accompanied ot his compeers, who has also figured in the ring, Jack Hicks to wit. Theso two noted pugii the English prize ries, arrived ta thie city morniog by steamer from Bugiand, and were reosi: by a deiegation from the sporting community of ork, whom were Jee Coburn, the chamj Moore, £ the championship of land, stopped Dy the acthortien Macs jovi not o fight in ‘Tax Mysteniovs Powoxmwa Cast.—Coroner Lynch was engaged mearly all day yesterday {a making prepe> rations for the inquest over the bodies of and hor daughter, who ware found dead te thee ao their residence, No. 307 Atlantic street, om ‘a of County, Hou An ter of witammen hayy’ See among whom is the wife of Mr. Joel the who is now Prisoner, locked x) the Forty-first’ preeinet station house @ ibe sult of the Coronor's invest! . "he prone, confident that he will be to hie Ina cence, Martin Hulburd, residing at the corner of end N orth Second E. D, was her N girl of eloven Pe oe Ad she held in her band su only enveloped the chitd and : sizise out of the Window, and the deatruction,