The New York Herald Newspaper, February 3, 1869, Page 4

4 “THE DANBURY DISASTER. BURSTING OF THE RESERVOIRS. Fall Particulars of the Loss of Life aud Pro- perty---Scenes and Incidents. Rarely has the usual quiet of a New England town been so suddenly and fearfully disturbed as was Danbury on Sunday night. The brief outline of the | of t terrible disaster which appeared m the morning papers yesterday told the tale of ruin; but no de- scription, however vivid, could properly portray the fearful scene of desolation in all its sickening details, Like most of the calamitous accidents which are chronicled from time to time this was eaused by the most criminal neglect. The town offi- ciala who have direction of the water supply are not paid by the borough, but are merely honorary officers, Some four months ago a break was dis- covered in the upper dam and the matter was in due ‘time reported to the authorities. There was some talk then of drawing off the water and mending the rent, but whether the expense was too well considered or that the officers were unwilling to un- dertake the trouble and responsibility of the act nothing was done, and the fissure through which the water constantly flowed increased in width until Sunday night, when the whole front part of the dam suddenly gave way, The sixty acres of water it contained rushed down on the lower reservoir which Nheld ten acres and swept it with it also, the whole forming a deep and wide volume of water. Both dams were built of loose stone and earth, and the water was twenty-five to thirty feet deep in each. The distance from the upper reser- voir to the city is nearly five miles, and the elevation above the level of the river, which runs through the town, is nearly 250 feet. The connection between the upper and lower dams was by a twelve inch pipe, The pres- sure of water in the feed pipe was ninety-six pounds to the square inch. The velocity of the water, rush- ing from the upper dam, taking the lower one with it aud sweeping through the narrow gorge that leads down to the town, was therefore very great. THE DISASTER. rhe horrors of the night will long dwell in the minds of the citizens of Danbury. Just as the bells ceased to ring the people to eveningjworship a low, watilag sound floated on the air, and soon after a note like distant thunder was heard, followed in a few seconds of time by a proionged roar, as if the mountain had parted from its moorings and was rushing on the «devoted town. Many persons in the.r houses were iy frightened that they dared not go out, n those who happened to be in the streets await- ed with painful anxiety the approach of what each feit to be an unpending calamity. Suddenly cries were heard ia the direction of the river, and al! whom fear had not paraiyzed rushed to ascertaim the cause, AT WHILE STREET BRIDGE the scene was terrific for the short time it lasted, The water came upon the village through the gorge above Fiini’s dain, cringing with it huge masses of stone and lumber. It came with fearful veiocity, airiking the houseson Main street, near the river bank, sweeping them from their foundations in an instant. Kushing down the tats along the north stream and cast of Mam street it carried cdestruc- tion to everytuing before it. fFuily fitteen feet above the ved of the stream the water bubbled and foamed with a roaring noise, While huge stones that had lain deep in their rocky bed were sent whirling beiore the torrent. Pieces of ice of immense #ize which covered the water In the resery tumbled and ciashed together, impelled by the force of the surging water. Like dice tung from a box, the white, gieaming masses cumbied over fields and fences. The noise of wrecking houses, the scream of drowning men, women and children, caught in the wild whirl of rushiag water; the creaking of Jumber, dashing madly to and tro; the darsh roar of ihe triumpaant waves dashing madty forward on their errand of death and destruction, appuiled the spectators who stood upou the high grouad unable w render assistance to the untortunaie persons caught in the maelstrom. THE SCENE BY MOONLIGHT. The terrible roar of the water merging into 9 low, humuung sound still lingered in the vaile; the moon, rising above Clabbord iudge, ci ed (ce deep gloom Which hung like a pall over ravine aad Gan, and broughé out into tuil relief we week of ie and rock the impetuous water had thrown together. The moon’s rays, slanting down wvough ur and bush, at frst toucaed the {the oppusite hill, with long Gnzers of wiite bow giancung light; {iluuunuied the’ dark recesses of the rocks tiat hung over the crest of the ridge and brought out in strong relief against the stariight sky reaching urm of the hoary oaks, whica apectrelike, over the scene of ruin, As the moon rose the valley of the Koi wiittes in the hight. From the blocks own twenty feet above the ievel of river’s head, prismatic colors in muilion Jes of light tated the ragged rocks and monnus Looking down from the crest of the ridge in the valiey was one of wid but grand Blocks of ice from 600 to ive tons in mbered the ground. In some places of frozen water and stoue, welded stood bolt upright, or stretched aloug the nig: e in the mudde of the valley, while m wide cavities of the rocks, through | wich the ronnig stream murmured a ino fat mel ghostlike bodies of disturbed ice lay I r. ¥ the moou’s rays were a bh dark shadows etretc! Obst fs tcl , aading more solemnity to this ing beauty. To people wao were at- vin tae neighboring farm houses by ¢ air faent was on its wérch weird appearance of the eacefal valey was truly ap- a the scil.ess of the nicht, when tne overwacimed wicn the sense ofa sadden fo calauniiy. the thousand white objects ia the gat of tue moon, the low murmar- ain aad tue sighing wind, did not sux. igut that the spirits of the dead siuer to mourn over the scene of as Lecause the patches of white, in %, as regularly placed as if laid out with pa-s aud im others thrown carelessly i Use headstones in acewetery, In {the valley, on a ridge of rock, a maple d and shattered, spreads it braaches O uuge pieces oO: tee, wich lay like tomb- \¢ is Pot and gitstenes in the moonlignt, stood, part of earth. acros acene of tracted the re NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1869.—TRIPLE SHEET. known who the other was. The body of one or SUBURBA™ INTELLIGENCE. of Mr, Clark’s'chtidren, @ boy of ten years, Was re- covered frou the adbris of Chase's carriage factory ? * L088 OF LIFE AND PROPERTY. NEW JERSEY. ‘The entire loss of property by this appalling calam. ity is eit Jersey City. perty was damaged tent i Laoy, joyt & Co. suiler in $1,475, and Frederick Starr 4 Tae Horse RAILROAD QUESTION.—The Common $1,000, It is Known persons have lost | Council have passed an ordinance, which was duly ec liree hy ie Serial oaent ‘The bodies of | spproved by the Mayor, fixing the terms on which 080 a! ve and tore, It is the opinion ‘a large | the dispute between the Bergen and the Hoboken fee doce megesergecemicas | mam moses id ne ees, Te Ses eat! een ; but the Jersey City and iD Workmen are now engaged in removing the piles of monbpoly now refuse to concur, and tireaien to sue lumber, stone and ice that block the-streete h | out an injunction, At present they monopolize which the flood poured, and the town bells were | every line of railroad Tunning to the ferry, and have rw somianiay ay search for the bodies | practically crushed | out the E oboken | line alto a iil is in preparation and wi ry an The folowing named persons perished in the | by Mav by hur. Lesson, of Hoboken, witca wil flood:—-Mrs. Liuested, an old lady, mother-in-law of | ‘break down the power of the monopoly. body recovered; Mra. Edward Clark (a body suj GuRMAN EpucaTion,—The question of employing posed to be her’s, badly disfigured), also recovered; | German teachers in the public schools has 80 agi- three children of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Clark, bodtes | tatea the public mind within the past three weeks not recovered; Mrs. Brothweil, body recovered; Miss that the Board of Education has consented at lengtn Fanme Humphries, body uot identifiee. . te INQUEST. to refer the whole matter to @ committee composed Charles E. Andrews, body recovered; Edward Clark, A coroner's Inquest was called yesterday, at nine | of some members of the Board and some prominent o'clock; but, in consequence of the nce of | German citizens. The grounds on which several important witnesses, whose testimony con- | members of the Board oppose the proposition are cern the sccnaition of the dam at the | tnat the German language should be considered like time of the accident is considered essential, | the Frencli, Italian or Spanish, where parents pay an adjonrnment until Friday td on. ‘The following named persons constitate the jury:;—Almon C. Hiekok, Harris, Charles T. Cornwall, William H. Clark, Samuel ©. Holley, Henry Robinson, Daniel B, Menly, William H. Guthrie, senty Fauton, William Mansfeld and Benjamin Nor- by extra, and ‘hat tt 1s neither just nor expedient to tax everybouy indiscriminately for the teaching of a lan- guage otier than the language of the country. Tue committee are expected to report at the next meet- Hoboken. PRECAUTION AGAINST FERRYBOAT ACCIDENTS.— THE LYON ALLEGED MAL-PRACKIOE CASE, | Tue Hoboken Ferry Company have just introduced a contrivance on the ferryboat James Rumsey which will preclude any possibility of accident by jumping TORE Re psp ton of H 2g bofaiak taut off the boat. When the boat ts about to start a num- lentes: ber of iron rails, constructed on the sliding panels, An inquest was held yesterday by Coroner Keenan, ws M0 form two sides Cy} AX gate, with spi ed! tops, at No, 4 Centre street, in the case of Phebe J. Lyan, | are lown from two pi ‘set at each side ie the colored woman who died in the basement of the | Boat. One of the deck hands immediately tastens both gates together by means of a clasp, and when Shiloh church a few weeks ago, under circumstances | the boat has reached the bridge he opens tie cias) of considerable mystery, as fully narrated at the | and pushes the gates upwards, when the7 fall bac! time in the Hzratp. ‘The following is an abstract of | 10,tt¢ pillars by means of welghts, which descend the evidence presented yesterday:— ‘The contrivance is simpie, and yet it appears the most eifectual safeguard against Sarah FE. Green, of Rye, Westchester county, tes- | accidents, tfled—Deceased was my sister and was employed DgspgraTR AFFRAY ON THE MEADOWS.—Several a8 a cook in the family of Mr, Carr, in Bast Twenty- | boatmen congregated in the liquor saloon corner of fourth street; about the middle of October last she | Fourth and Clinton streets on Monday night and came to my piace and said she was pregnant by a | commenced playing cards, when a dispute arose be- colored man who lived in Philadelphia, and she re- | tween two of the party and a severe fight ensued. A mained with me; on the 15th of December she gave birch to a male child, of tull size; the babe appeared | large crowd collected and the men walloped each strong and healthy; she left my house on Januaty | other like professional bruisers till the police arrived. 16; she said she intended to take the cnild to the | ‘The following persons were arrested and conveyed Poorhouse and then go back to Mr. Carr; she toid | to the police station:—Michael Muilen, Joseph Jacket, me that neither Mr. nor Mrs, Carr knew of her con- | Martin McNamara, Daniel Carroll and W! Sta- dition; 1 got a letter trom her some time afterwards, | nard. Several other persons were brought up as wit- Stating that she did not feel quite so well a5 wien | nesses, McNamara was so badly beaten that he ap- she leit my house; about a week besore she left meshe | peared to be dying and Coroner White was sent for. complained of a pain in her side; she took no medi- | Whon the fellow recovered, however, he tively cine of any kind, nor had she any operation performed | declinea to implicate anybody, but said he was to bring on the birth of the cliild, as far as | know. | quite willing to assume his share of the conse- Elizaveth ‘'ripp, residing in the basement of Shiion jaences, Carroll hails from Pottsville and Stanard church, testified—I was acquainted with the de- ‘rom Port Carbor, Pa. Anthony McGowan, who was ceased; I heard that she went to Rye from Mrs. going along First street, got into the mélée, and said. Carr, who told ine that she went to her sister’s to be 6 Was & policeman from Wasiiington village; but cured of a tumor in her side; the next | heard of | when he went to the police station he denied this, hershe was very sick at Airs. Carr’s house; 1 was | John Bogart, of Meadow street, and Melvin Cort- requested to tase ler to my house, which i did on | land (supposed to be an assumed name), a boatman, the 2zd wit; she did not complain of any pain, but | trom Phienix, N. Y., also got mixed up in the aifray, only seemed weak aud short of breath; the Urst I | and tue latter was held asa witness. Jacket, who Knew of her having a child was aiter tae post | comes from syracuse, was fined ten dollars, as well mortem examination. — as all the others, except McNamara, who was pre Barnesh, of oper mee igark Sy ae allowed to go ta search o/ plasters for his wounds, ed—{ am a physic Le egular gracuate , 4 Of te Women's, stedical College of tits city; 1was | 4 84° BLowN Orex—Tum Surroszp Bunowen suminoned oa Thursday moruing, tie 2ist ult. to | CAPTURRD.—About tour o'clock yesterday morning see aeceased at Mr. Carr's’ house; the respiration | the safe iM the ofice of John Kamena, in Bioomfleld street, was blown open. Among those who were was short, abdomen distended, but no tenderness on startled by the explosion was a lady who resided on pressure, aod slight fever; I heard that she had had an operation for a tumor performed on uer, but the opposite side of the street, and who,gn looking out, SAW @ man run out of the ofice an@ start of saw po marks of it; f examined her with a speculum and discovered that sue Lad given birth to towards Fifth street. He had just turned towards Washington street when he encountered oficer #cnild, but found no evidence of recent delivery; 1 saw hertwice after that and found no tateriai Murphy, who struck at him, but missed. An exciting chase ensued, the stranger turving down Fourth cusage in her condition; | saw her last om Saturday, ‘ud ull, about eleveu A. M., aud she died the same afternoon; I supposed she died of ovarian dropsy, Fou and I gave a certicate of death to that edect, Sted TY cinta Hole Wine We aT ca Wooster Beach, M, D., tesiifted—1 aim a physician, and have made a post inortem examination of the body of deceased; the Lreasts were calarged and the nippie surrounded with a dark oreoia; there were no other abnormal or unusual appearances ex- ternaliy; on openiug the body evideuce of severe acute pertionitis was Observed; the uterus was en- larged and had the appearance of having vecentiy contained # foetus; death, in my opinion, resulted from peritomtis induced by the puerperal condition of deceased. | rhe jury rendered the following as thetr verdict in the case. ‘hat the deceased, ’hovbe J, Lyon, came to hee death by periionius, superinduced by tue birth of a cuild; bat whether by v at means or not they are unable to determine. They recommend the bourd of ieuita to exercise greater Vigilance in grantung permis tor burials, as they find that the management of said Board facilitates the burtal of persous dying under suspicious circumstances and may ¢ eu prevent @ judicial examination ta such 23,7 in vain to stand, dealt him a stingmy blow on the head, which brought him to terns. On arriving ut the police stanon he said his fname was John Bell, a resident of Canada, iron-moulder by rade, and wandered over from New York while he was tigit, He 13 about twenty-cight years of age, of respectable appearance, well dressed and sports a sandy mustache. The safe contained about,$300, which the be Sar had not time to carry off, as the noise was louder than he expected. A full set of burglar’s tools, a new stone cutter’s maliet and two diamond cut drills were secured av the scene of the explosion. The prisoner was recognizea at the police station by three oMcers, who had scen him prowling around during the nigut. Recorder Pope commited him to the county jai for trial, Weehawken. Dock ImprovEMENTS.—The Erie Ratlway Com- pany have ordered the construction ef several piers on the water front purchased by them from the Venango Oi! Docs Company. Two of the bulkheads have been commenced, ai piles will be taid for a third about the 16th inst. These piers are intended for the exclusive use of vessels trading with the irie xailway. A foating bridge for ie purpose of transporting freight cars to the New York side is also conteniplated. Hudson City. Poison Rerort.—The number of persons arrested during the month of January by the Hudson City po- lice was 143, The number of lodgers accommodated at the police statlou was 515, Oye® AND TERMINER.—John Neil, a conductor on the Morris and Essex Railroad, was arraigned yes- terday on an indictmont charging him with shoot- ing Patrick Devery, of Hoboken, with intent to kill. The prisouer pleaded not guilty aad the trial was set down for to-morrow. ALLEGED ASSAULT ON A WOMAN.—A Warrant was issued by Recorder Aldridge yesterday for the arrest ofa mean named George Kraus, who is charged with wickting an axe over the head of Mrs. Lewis and threatening to take her life, The accused was soon alter arrested and committed for trial. Newark. Convicrep.—In the Court of Quarter Sessions yes- terday two hackmen, named Mark Corbeli and Join Kelly, well known hangers-on at the Market street depot, were found lity of having robbed an in- surance agent named Kverts some time ago of $250. ‘The Jehus were rewanded for semence. &, The Dowa East Ice men are in good humor again. Absinthe 18 said to bea more subtie poison than Prussic acid. Rochester youths, to the number of 1,200, anunally spend $57,000 on billiards, What is the difference between watering railroad lorses and watering ratiroad stock ? A benevolent citizen of Orange county, New York, has been giving 4 sicigh ride to 1,009 cuildren. Two men and a Woman gave been arrested at Al- toona on @ charge of steallug $17,000 in Indianapolis, Josh Ward is getting up a crew to beat the Si, Jobn men nexc summer. Waiter Brown is counted among ihe crew. There is a great deal of sickness in Newburyport, Mass. Tairty seats were vacant in one pablic school on a single day. A “girl of the period” was recently detected tn Davenport, lowa, “shoving” couutericit money, and put a iuil sivp to, On the 19th uit., at his residence in Drew county, Ark., Thomas Brewster was murdered, i ts sup- posed, by a colored man. Quails are fast cisappearing from the pratries even as jar west us Kansas. ‘Tie Leztsiature ts called upon to pass @ law against catcuing them by nets. Pennsylvania radical politicians are strongly push- ing Governor Curtin for Grani’s Cabiuet, Bot tie ‘ " coaductor Grant bas put the breaks down oa that Sensine.—Late on Monday night Constable Cos- train, grove wanted to arrest Charles Denning, of No. 30 Pig nrg tiem intimates that ~~ couren, Belleville avenue, to answer @ charge of aasauit and 1 € ‘ar Veparunent and Gener v 4 of tue Water was evilently greaur | mt than at any other, limmense rocks ain imbedded in the stream were cast far uy on the ridge, and biocks of granite, of which a portion of tae were huddied ove upon another in picturesque con- fusion. ‘The earth, which formed the principal in- srediont of the dams, died the crevices, and, soon vecoming frozen hard as the rocks with which it mingted, covered every small object the torrent of | water had carried away. THE COURSE OF THE TORRENT was through the vatley of Kohanzie easterly to Fitnt'’s dam and from thence southerly to Sell river at tte jemetion of White street, where it spread and poured along the raliroad track for the distance of a mie anc Following the track of the desoiat ng ele * from the lower dam the character and extent of the calam! was plainty seen on the fences and which marked the voundaries of the litde farms into which the vatl as divided. ‘The scene at the lower end of the rayge of hills overlooking the town, by which the water rushed In impetuous force, was one of black desolation. Scarcely a tree had been left standing, and huge spurs of rock which stood in the path of tue current were swept away. There were not many buildings, fortunately, ta the vicinity of the dam, and the few houses that did stand near it were oullt on high ground. A_ little above and below . however, ® number of wooden houses tly im the track of the food, i murely demolished. What the force of the locks of ice from the ic force, apeediiy de- ing southward from Flint’s mili, to T raised to the second story, it apread meadow, and from thence, carrying wrecks and blocks of ice with It, lrond track, rooting up the ties and ytue ridge over Washing river, CENKS AND ENCIDENTE fifteen minutes after the first premonttory approaching torrent had been heard Thirteen person, Who were utterly unconscious of the near approach of death, were buried into eternity and the homes of many families were swept from their foundations and not a ttace of them remained. One building which stood alittle way from the track of the water was strack by pieces of ice and neaily demolished; another lyin: ssuth of Patch stfeet was wrecked in the frst onset of the destroying element, The Main, North and Whive street bridges were com- s= pic.ely destroyed and the Patch street structure | now the moter of mincteen children Witlout ever A building huried from ita | having had twins, tue youngest child bemeg t was badly shattered, position in Main street struck Chase's carriage mannfactory, on North street, and demoiisheu it Sunderland's a on, White sitee, Was whirled away Th some unaccountable manner stabled in one end of this built out and bravely breasted the waves, swam safely to land. ‘The stables of the We House were flooded early, and thirteen horses im had tueit heads above water when were fortanately rescaed, ‘Tlic office and builders’ ware slore of Ives Brothers wes consi Isaac W. Ive lumber yas was wiv Houded aud ® large lot of | Praket At is door, accompanied Dy & nove asking | Treadwell, of Newark, and James T. Hou Jumber swept away, When the water reached White street two women were seen to cling to & tree ‘and were to or; for help, but the huge cakes ice Masses of tunter surging between them and the spectators readered all attempts to res- cue them from their terrible position in- effectual, and after tue Iapse few minutes led my tala zis their hold of the tree: nd thert mai je Ue "lcs | eb a bs abutments of the dams were bultt, — art amoag tue desceudaats of the got officta! assistance. The accused was committed for triai yesterday forenoon, == VRRDICE AGAINST A RAILROAD.—The case of Pat- rick Dugan va. The Newark and New York Raiiroad, in which the plainti sued for a larger price than the commission allowed for his property, was de- cided in his favor io the Circuit Court yesverday, | The jury reported a verdict for $1,300, being $125 more than the sum allowed, ARREST OF AN ALLEGED BURGLAR.— Yesterday Con- abie Lesk, of Morristown, and detective Haggert, of tna city, effected the arrest of Charlies Egbert, near liv residence tm New street, and removed him to Morristown to answer a charge of having broken into the residence of Mr. William L. King, at that place, a few weeks ago. The prisoner ts said to have served A Southern paper says there isa common aunt to all chlidren born im New Logiand—ent-ipatay. Baby> Hon. Joshua Hill, curionsly termed by the Atlanta New Era (radical) “our senator in Congress,” is um Atlanta. According to tae record Mr. lil is neituer ® Senator nor 4 radical. The Coiarnbus (Ohio) Jovrnal showers the follow- ing compiiineat upon the new jnodiana Senator: “Gartett Davis has @ voice like a three-weeks’ fall Fala, but Pract cag wash hin high aud dry with one | squirt”? Seven persons contend for the republican nomina- tion to Cougress im piace of Afr. Pratt, elecved Sena- vor frora indiana. ‘The convention 1 to be hela on the 11th iastaas, and the electioa has been ordered on the 20th. one term in the State prison, aud the officers aay Colonel J. MH. McMahon, widely known as at dif- | they Dave abundance of evidence against him on the feront Limaee elliot of the Meuphis Bogle and kn. | present charge. quirer, Puli aud Ay ana uu out the war Prounsar C, 2G _ 4 88 an Oflicer of the Conlederate sentient A | ULIAR CASK OF ALLEGED ForagRY.—An exami. plus on the 200k uit. | nation in the case of Mr. Thompson, the Roseville It appears from the affidavit of the detective the accused dia some house building work for lim. ‘Shere was some dispute about the time it ti ought to wave been Anished, and # note was given fatner’s farm, premises | for elgity dollars, the residue of the stipulated price. against his order Carried tue threat Muioexecu. | A ‘cw days ago, on going to take up the nove, Mr, on. ‘ w s found it to be for eighty-five dollar. fle A country editor thinks the idea ot getting a city | 2OW, co that the word “five” has been added editor's lie Insured lor $100,000 and tak.ov to. and the Agure 0 altered io a5. The cane excites no of the podey (avout 37 per annum) « ite interest im view of the fact that Thompson is worth over $10,000, San Francisco's latest invention ta the way of a | V™ler, against whom has been preferred a charge bgp Ape od is @ two edged dirk, with tt "I | of forgery by detective George M. Williama, 1 gg eb yc done Rowell g | of this city, took piace before Justice Mills imeneet, 408 mses 7H ~y! wed straight f } day afternoon aud resulted in the holding of —_ ol gt oan Varough « ivan tu | accused to appear before the Grand Jury for Aman named Wi bear Lebanon, ened to kill tb ollard shot and killed two negroes & lew ’ He had tireat groes if b them ou bis e nade tistag sbout the same #8 a rural editor udveruming the business of au uuderlaser and taking wa puy Bloomfield, out tn trade. Provoso TOWN HALL.—A bill has just been tn- troduced in the Senate looking to the erection of a town hall and brary ot an early day, the cost of in Zanesville, Ohio, aman who had been marriea thirty years Without leirs woke up one morning ana found a full lunged uewbora fnfant in tis room, only | victory next April. glacdening the heart, do. ‘Tbe Columbus Journal | Will i not to exceed $50,000. The measure is Wants to Know whether the inan's wile wus with | Wi popular hereabous, Riu in this Wying hour. ‘Trenton. Mrs. Kelly, of Black Brook, N. Y., is thirty-el, REAL Estate.—Yest lot, aft, years old, las been married twenty-one years, a Ste feat wad feet by 100, situated in the Fourth ward, were sold by Mayor Napton for $3,600, Mayor's RePort.—According to the report of the Mayor eighty-four arrests have been made in | nt | dis | rteon months old. There t# but tea montha’ diverence jn the ages of her dirst born aud second born cali, The New Haven Register says the democracy of | tls city during the past month. They are classifica Connecticnt have opened the campaign wisi a better | g@ follow ‘Disorderly, twentsctive; areal thirty- Prospect of success than ever belore., Their pros | seven: assanit and battery, eight; larce three; 8 AYO $0 glorious that w chicken convention nas | murder, ome; WOIRtION Of sity eedinatoe, ROS Bs just been held in New Haven to make arrangements | picion, six; vagrancy, one; grand larceny, one. a supply Of roosvers to crow for tie democratic Unite Statas Distaicr Court.—Quite @ large humber of witnesses were examined by the Grand Jury yesterday, among the number being Colonel A Virginia gentleman was aroused from «lcep one Night last week and found a bouncing voy baby tn a of Jer- ing. He proposes | sey City. to make An siterpt to comply with the reyuent by | Hadson’ county att ea ee rearing it on the Dottie, as most of the bouncing | Cox, of this city, Jory is not ex to report Youths nowadays are reared, before Thursday. It is believed that somo one Will A life-size wax figure of a living New Oricans belie be indicted for the alleged election rrauds. has been set up in the New Oricaus M She ts Merorn County Counr.—in this court yesterday, eum. ® member of the m cl yoatiy distinguished tor before Chief Justice Beasley, a colored man, famed tured in New York, from an ambrotype sent for | William Sinyth, was convicted on # charge of man- fhe mianghter by aseauiting a colored wi named ' Aan Rie, 0 Violentiy thas gn glans Whiph she MunicrPaL AFFAIRS oF SING SING.—The Board of Village Trustees having ordered a warrant to be drawn for the amount of damages to be awarded in the Bowers suit, instructed the Corporation Counsel to commence an action against tne party who placed the obstruction on Croton avenue, Counsel was also ordered to take immediate measures for the sup- pression of the many ly houses known to exist in the village. BURGLARY IN MOUNT PLEASANT.—Last Sunday morning, while the family of Mr. Henry Yerks, re- siding near Unionville, were at church, the house was broken into and property, consisting of siiver- ware, sloshing, &c., to the value of $200 carried away. Suspicion strongly attaches itself to a stranger of Teutonte origin who was seen prowling about the neighborhood a few hours before the bur- lary was discovered, The fellow has succeeded, owever, in obliterating his tracks up to the present, INTERESTING! CEKEMONY AT YONKERS.—On Mon- day evening the new Village Hall was formally opened by the officers of the Corporation, in presence of many of the citizens. Besides a highly appro. priate address delivered by Justice Lawrence, Presi- , Suitable speeches were made by agg and Thayer. The new hail 1s neat in appearance, [ts furniture, pattern, bas mainly been used in the old manor dent of the vill: trustees Getty, commodions an which is of a handsome fashioned out of building. ALLEGED VIOLATION OF THE HeALTH LAW.—A ped- ler named John Clark, who gave Morrisania as his place of resiaence, was arrested in Yonkers on Mon- day by Officer Weston, while in the act of selling mutton, which i¢ is alleged was almost in @ putrid state. The accused, with palpable reluctance, ac- companied the officer to the station house, where he persisted in the protest that his arrest was “uncon- stitutional.” After securing the meat and femniog Clark below, the police authorities yesterday notitic the attorney for the city Board of Health, who has signified his intention of prosecuting the case to-day. IMPORTANT AND SINGULAR ARREST aT WHITE PLAINS.—The circumstances of a rather singular burglary at Harrison and of the more singular arrest on Saturday last of two of the suspected parties were made public yesterday. It seems that at some time during the first part of last December a Mr. Coggs- well, residing at Harrison, went to visit some friends living in New Jersey. His family accompa- nied him, and his residence, left vacant, was locked up and barred to gnare it agamst unwelcome intru- sions. During absence, and as is supposed during the time intervening between Chnist- mas and New Year's, the premises were en- tered by burglars and many articles of household furniture ana of wearing apparel re- moved from them. There were no indications dis- cernible poimting to the manner in whici an entrance had been effected. Mr. Adams, a farmer residing not iar from the residence robbed, was the one who first discovered the condition in which. the burglars had left it, According to the testimony given by him yesterd at the examination of the iies charged with the cominiasion of the crime, e went to the premises on thegsth of January last w.th some stock to feed, and observing while there that the back door of the house was cpen went into it, He found,the doors all through the house open, bureau drawers ransacked, beds thrown trom their proper placed upon the floor and the house in other respects in the greatest confusion. There were ail the indications of @ recent visit by thieves, but an examination of the windows and doors disclosed no trace of the manner of their entrance. Intormation of its condition was sent without delay to the tenants of the house, who immediately returned to it. From Unat time diligent eifort was made to get some ciue to the perpetrators of the crime, but up to Saturday without successful result. Nor would any result have yet been reached but for @ series of the most fortuitous circumstances. The circumstances of the arrest of suspected parties (against one of whom at least the evidenee of guilt is clear and conclusive) make up 9 story little less tacredible than romance. On Saturday last a man named John Leary, somew nat under the influeace of liquor, engaged in one of the saloons at White Plains tn the very en- joyable pastime of Nourishing # valuubie revolver about lis head aud of declaring that no man in the country could arrest him. So boisterous were his demonstrations that the proprietor of the saloon ‘Was obliged to send ior an officer to remove him. By the time the officer arrived the noisy drunkard had relapsed into silence, and the officer did not con- sequently touch him. His lence was of but short durauion, however, and the services of the oficer were again called into requisition, Accordingly constable Hartman, accompanied by another onicer, repaired to the saioon aud took the man ito cus- tody. They ica him out upon the street, re- lieved hitn of the revolver with which ‘he had made himself so obnoxious and then attempted to handcuff him, This they succeeded in doing after much difficuity and after the constable’s assist- ant had received one or two heavy blows. As good jortune would have It, one of the witnesses of this effort to handcuif the arrested inan Was the daugh- ter of the gentieman whose house had been robbed. While standing by she Observed that the boots which he wore were very much like a pair which her father haa owned before the burgiary. She told the oficer of this, aud that she would not scruple to swear to their identity if, npon examination, it was discovered that they were lined with fur. The leg of one of the boots was turned down, a far lining revealed and the arti- cles fully identili She afterwards recog- nized the pistol which Leary had so freely flourished as having also belonged to her father. The man was carried to the station house and Mr. Coggswell novi- fled. He immediately proceeded to Waite Plains, had @ search warrant issued aud the premises occu- pied by Leary and his wife searched. The result was that many of tbe articles stolen from Mr. Cog; well’s house, besides many other vainables, ev dently stolen, were found concealed about ihe pre- mises. A lormai charge of burglary and grand lar- ceny was then preferred against Leary and his wife, who, it was thought, might have been implicated, by the robbed man, and the two were on Saturday last committed for examination. ‘The examination of the parties coramenced on Monday evening, before Justice Pauiding, in the Court House at White Plains, and aiter the testimony of Mr. Coggsweil and his daughter, which revealed nothing new, had been taken the cage Was adjourned to yesterday morning. The ex- amination elicited no new facts. It resuited in the discharge of Mrs. Leary (who had been so blind and otherwise so enieebled during the last six weeks as to preclude any doubt of her innocence) and in the commitment of her husband to awatt the ac. tion of the Jury. it is understood that Mr. Coggswell is not the only party whom this Leary has robbed. There are others in the county who identify him as the party whose crimes have Worked loss to them aiso, 1t was ascertained before golug to press yesterday that John Leary, while pleading ‘not guilty” in open court, does not in prisate deny his gulit, So far from doing this, he charges two other parties with complicity in this and other robberies in which he has been concerned. ‘The officers are now in quest of these participants aud hope soon vo ve able to secure therm. mK POUGHKEEPSIE. lon Loa?ING.—The ice boatmen are in ligb gice over the splendid ice boating, and another race is to come ctl soon for a eilver cup. INTERNAL REVENUE AYPOLNTMENT.—Therov 1, Stark. of Pawling, has been appointed Assistant As- sessor of the Sixth division, Twelfth district, in place of James Craft, deceased, THKEK CARD MonTr.—The three card monte men are in active business on the cars of the Hudson River Ralroad. The conductors on the trains go through jhe cars notifying the passengers of their presences but the show goes on. Tue WeRaTHRe ALONG THE, HUDSON.--Intense cold prevaiiedat all points along the Hudson yesterday. ‘The ferryboat at Newburg pursues her reguiar trips with mudi dificuity. The ice men are ali hard at work anduearly all of the tce crop is harvested, Last evening i clouded sky gave token of an approuci- ing snowstorm. A CAS OF FORGERY.—A well-to-do farmer of Dntchess ounty, hitherto occupying a good posttion, has been @rested in Putnam county, and lodged im jail at Carhel, on a charge of forgery. His name is Erascus Suailcy. He sold a pair of cattle tog man for $220, receiving from the purchaser a check for the amount on a New York bauk. Smalley ited the check at the Croton River Bank, afte! having made it read $3,020. The asiter- ation was jo badly executed as to aitract the atten- tion of thetashier, who immediately telegraphed to Mr. Holcorb, the parchaser of the cattie, that Uemen reply which convinced the cashier that the was @ fraud, whereupon . Smalley was ari , aa stated He has an interest ing ‘amilyaad is in comfortable circumstances, | THE NEW JERSEY LEGISLATURE. ‘This wek’s legisiative proceedings commenced on Mondoy night. Both houses met at eight o'clock. In the Sjnate Senator Cobb introduced a bill to in- the Boonton Iron Company, with » capt- tal stock sf $1,000,000, to be increased to $3,000,000. pny ed little import were acted on and the In the Assembly on Monday night the bill em- powering the Water Commissioners of Hoboken to introduce water into that city was reconsidered and afterwards laid on the table. The bill ereating Rast Essex county, into a new ward, to ve mas the Fourteenth ward of the city Newark, was withdrawn. Tie following bills ‘were gtrodaced:—To tacorporate the Frankia Horge mines in the county. A great many unim- tant bills were acted upon aud the House ad- In the te the following Trai’ of Newark ith a capital ptoek of, $28,000; £0 with @ capital stock o! ,000; establish a Me wn for the benefit of (tis- abled firemen and their 3 to rate the National Stock Y: pany, with a capital stock of $1,000,000. ‘This bill provides for the maintenance of and slaughtering manufacturing of some ions of them into articles of commerce. This 1 also empowers the company to hold real estate Ct ee Re ee necessary for such & purpose, was algo introduced for the out of a tors timony elicited in the contest tween Thomas Hooper and John Torrey, Jr., the sent Senator from Ocean county, was received in Senate and referred to the Committee on Elec- tions. ‘The calender being then exhausted the Se- nate adjourned to this morning, In the House yesterday @ petition was presented from the manufacti commercial and agricul. cural people of the Stat sey ie Tok 8 Seca csion of the #1 it on the Camden Amboy Railroad. A was er from Pos rela- lay forenoon, fable to the road companies on passengers or goods oe rail pee across the State by way of Trenton, New runswick and Jersey City, siall not exceed the or goods. by "way of Bordentown. Camion or y way Oo vamden and Amboy. ‘me Bul also provides that on and after the ist January, 186%, the transit duties by either of these routes shall be as tollows:—For all ton, five cents per ton; for all other coarse and low priced articles two cents ton. The bill likewise provides that the companies shall be entitled to the same immunities and privil with regard to taxa- tion (and none other) as if act were not passed. ‘The act is not to take effect unless accepted by the di- rectors of the united companies within three months after its The bili was referred to the Com- mittee on Corporations, <A bill was introfuced to incorporate the Perth Amboy and LKiizabethport Railroad Com: ', With a capital stock of $200,000, ‘The following bills were To enable the Board of Chosen Freeholders of Mercer county (trenton) to borrow ig and issue bonds, the sum not to excee’! $75,000; further supplement to an act incorporating the Board of Education of Cam- den. This bill Hunits the amount of tax to be raised for educational purposes to 31x mills to the dollar, It was clearly ventilated in the House yesterday that “snakes” abound in the insurance pills, of which there are many now awaiting action. After some deliberation it was proven that the bills in question were framed so as to make it pt r to the public that the capital was immense while permis- sion was wanted to be allowed to issue policies with a capital stock of only $10,000. It 1s the decision of the eager to provide for the accumulation of the entire stock before a single policy be issued. To effect this object a bili is in the hands of a commit- tee regulating all future insurance corporations, and all bills of that nature have been laid over till this bill is definitely acted on. in the afternoon a bill was introduced supple- mentary to the one incorporating the Newark Road Board. It provides that the Board of Chosen Free- holders of Essex county shall appoint a commission of five from different townships to assess the value of the lands taken for improvement, the amount ex- pended jor such improvement to be levied on the property benefited. A bill was introduced providing that for three years no more game shall be killed in this State. The bill to enable a husband or wife to be witnesses for or against each other or in matters concerning each other was passed and the House adjourned at five o'clock in the afternoon. THE PRINTERS’ STRIKE. The strike of the book printers still continues, Several of the smaller offices have agreed to the terms of the journeymen, 80 that now but a few of the heavier employers continue to resist, ‘The journey- men appear to be quite confident of ultimate suc- cess. Almost all the trade societies have proffered pecuniary assistance to the strikers; but these latter vhink that they will not be obliged to have recourse to the proffered aid, as they think they have funds enough of their own to pay the men a long as the strike continues. Preudo “Justice.” To THe Eprror or Tur HRRALD:— Your correspondent “Justice” this morning be- wails the number of “botches” among the com- positors, and adds that “no good system of manage- ment can ever be produced until the ‘Union’ con- trois the apprenticeship to the business;” and, after proposing a mo st absurd and impracticable plan of hisown, closes with an earnest appeal to “fellow typos” to join the “Union,’? That is the very thing typos should not do. The thing each typo should do, i#, whatever job he has, to do ag well as he can and as much of it as he can, That is the very way those who are honestly succeeding in this, as in other bustneas, have come up. The experience of compositors who take the work as it comes and make themselves as valuable and as indispensable as they. can will show that employers—with an occasional mean exception— are as ready to advance their wages as they are to ask. But what can employers do with men who rely on the “nion” to guarantee them $18 or $20, while they don’t try to earn but $10 or $12; who can't do any better work than @ smart girl with three months’ practice and five oul of six of whom get “sick” with the first take of lean copy? The -Printera’ Union” can’t reverse the course of nature; they can’t make the better workmen accept the $20 when they are profitable hands to an Co og a at 22, $25 or $20, otherwise they immediately become themselves employers, as they ought; and they can- not keep the work where they enforce the claim of unprofitable men to any definite sum. No, Mr. Editor; let every tub stand on its own bottom. Mechanics do not need ‘4 * from unions more than clergymen, lawyers or doctors. You and we employ professional men as we choose and pay them as we agree. Why not compositors also! We do not think they would fare any the worse at least than now. Do you? When compositors shall give ‘the time and strength to making themselves worth an advance that tl Beh do in compelling one they will wotider at such foolishness as “Justice” coun- sels. Yours truly, JOHN A. GRAY & GREEN. FRB. 2, 1860. FITZ GREENE HALLECK. - A Paper by Wu. Cullen Bryant. A regular meeting of the New York Ilistorical So- clety was held Jast night at their rooms, corner of Eleventh street and Second avenue, Mr. Hamilton Fish presiding. More people were present than could find seats. Several new members were elected, and the first on the list was Governor Hoffman, who was made an honorary member. A letter from Mra, Elizabeth Oakes Smith, accompanying the original copies of the Major Jack Downing letters, which were presented to the society, was read. Wiliam Cullen Bryant was next introduced and Tread a very Interesting paper on “The Life and Writings of Fitz Greene Halleck.” The speaker said when he was invited to read the paper that he lesi- tated becanse the subject had been treated by othora; but consented, as the personal fnend of a man who was agenial companion apd an admirable poet, as it seemed in an im fect manner to prolong his memory. The speaker then adveried to the beauty of the scenery of Connecticut bordering on Long Island , in the midst of which leck was born, His father was af of at mind and @ tenacious memory. His mother was of the Elliott family and @ descendant of John Elliott, who translated the Bible into the Indian tougne; a non-conformist, who J eg and prayed ogainst wigs and tobacco. Halleck, like his fliustri- ‘ancestor, Was & non-conformist. He would aston- ian nis (riends by declaring himself in favor of a mon- arch a bo gee —) by oe ship o* ‘wou , managed ine” other ship. What would become ee ow if the crew had to be 6. lec! ie qua ph vy int ‘an eminent degree. After ie had been reistency fiiteen years he told the speaker that he few i ertne same house that he when he years ago, Th fran listened to throughout with great iotoreet nad n vote of hauke Was givon Mr. Lfvaus atite NEW PUBLICATION, Tue POETICAL WoRKS OF CHARLES G. Hare Kew York: Harper & Brothers. rele Whatever of fame attaches itself to the name of Charles Graham Halpine will, probably, depend upon the merits of his poetical works, His geniality agg companion, career as @ politician, kinduess of heart and the many amiable qualities which marked his nature can only be remembered in the future when connected with the poetry he wrote; for it will be readily admitted his prose writings are no better than those of numerous other journalists in this country. What opinion, then, can we give of the poems con- tained in the elegantly printed and bound volume which the Messrs. Harper have placed before the public? Halpine was no great poct. Although he possessed the genius of one, he lacked the stability of mind and studiousness of habits which are essen- tially necessary for the production of great works. And yet nis poetry will not be soon neglected or forgotten. There is a charm about his verses which must make them ever welcome, ‘Tenderness, sentiment aud humor abound in them; the absence of malice or bitterness ts characteristio of the writer's whole-souled nature, The poem “Om Raising @ Monument to the Irish Legion’’ is Quciiop of more than ordinary merit. Tie! a depth of pathos in stanza which breathes the true poetic spirit, “Philadelphia,” commencing Be merciful to the South, Not with the empty word in your mouth, But merciful be—let your actions teli— To the men who were beaten, but fought so well: ‘Be merciful to the South— of notice for the generous, even it conveys, “Stamping Out,” @ of Ireland, {s a fine production. last stanza:— ea on the 'e give the end Our hate, thor fn a pationt hate— And your prbet rid nh tine en stand tho scepure 1s {rors you sli ping 4 But stamp away with your ‘bratal is ‘While the fires to scorch you are upward cleaving; For with bloody shuttles the warp au. woof Of your shrot ud the fates are weaving. “To the Chief Justice” is a fine, calm and dignifiea chaps too many, of Halpine’s poems uitical sulbects Some of his humorous productions are exceilent. ‘lack Loyalty’ of those serio-comic poems with just a suficiency of satire in it to be effective. In ‘‘fo Azra” we have an pi pig in new language and gaining by the The lip that quickest wings the in teat to Oreative the ascrot The garments of the gala aight We return now to the first three poems in the volume, which are undoubtedly the best. “A Vesper Hymn” is full of sentiment and religious fervor. ‘The last stanza, which we give below, is ine:— ‘Descends on folded While, silent as the volceluss to:nb, Above them rol! the midnight hours; To-morrow's dawn, and thelr perfume Again will fill thelr glowing bowers. Lord, ater death so bid us bloom ‘Where no frost chills, no tempest lowerst “After the Bath” is an exquisite littie gem, fall of warmth and imagery. This poem has been criti- cised as being too extravagantly worded. We think not. Had the language mn tamer it would have but littie value. But, perhaps, the Least thing that Halpine ever wrote ia ‘On tiaising a Monu- ment to the Insh Legion.” It begias with appro- priate tenderness:— ’ To raise a column o'er the dead, ‘To strew with flowera the graves of those Who long ago, in storms ot leat, And where the bolts of ba:tie ape Beside us faced our Soathera foes; ‘To honor these—the unshriven, unhéarsed— To-day we sad survivors come With colors draped and arms reversed, And all our aoula in gloom immersed, With atlont fife and muilled dru.a, Again— O ye, the small surviving ban Brirish race, wastovet cosy With wailing voice and wringing hand— And the wild kaoine of the old dear land, ‘Think of her Legion's countless dead ! Speaking of the widows and orphans of the heroie dead, he says tenderly:— But at their woe our fields were And plous pity for thelr lous In streams of generous aid should run, ‘To help them say, ‘Thy wil be done!” ‘As bent in grief they kiss the cross. Had Halpine written less and written more care- fully he would have taken a foremost position among the poets of the day. His geulus was versa- ile and prolific, and too much 80. But even as it ts the book of ms before us will hold no opscare lace in poetic hterature. That the author, in these jays of son, Longfellow, Brown:ng, Whituer, Swinburne, Bryant and other poeta, could rise abot mediocrity and become widely known is the beat recommendation for his works. If we throw aside the severity of the critic and look upon these poems with the interested eye of the reader but one con- clusion can be arrived at—they are, like the author, both brilliant and erratic. Yet, withal, we caanob resist aregret that so gifted a man as ilalpine ua- doubtedly was should not have left benind some- thing with which to link his name to tramortality. He was @ true poet, as his verses attest, iad lived for a few yeara longer, we foel certain that he would have produced @ poem far superior to aay- thing he ever wrote. His last poem (On liaising a Monument to the Irish Legion”), which 18 un- doubtedly his best, show that as lus lateilect ma- tured its inspiration became grandor. As tt is, we must thank the editor and pubisuers for the gift they have offered to the literary worid. Pew can Tead the poems without pleasure, nowe can read them without inter ‘THE OLD WOMEN OF THE CITIZENS’ ASSOCIATION ON THE: FINANSIAL QUESTION, A Flan for the Regulation of the Currency in a Way That Will Not Derange the Basi- ness of the Country and Will at the Same Time Secure the Most Ruplid Return to Specie Payment. To THE EpiToR or THE HERALD:— The confict of opinion that prevails in rela- tion to the changes deemed necessary to bet- ter the condition of the currency of our country and the unmeasured importance of the subject would seem to demand that every thought be lieved to be important should be gladly contributed to aid in a wise settlement of a question that lies at the foundation of all the great interests of our com mon country. In the settlement of this tion especial reference shouid be had several The power of ess to borrow money credit Bethe United's States eae the neat and issue the evidences of a debt that takes hoid ol aed of the country. These evidences of di bind the government to make their cae a tender will enabie those who hold them thelr debts, a8 no amount of even gold will to pay his debts without le @ person the stamp of government upon it. Our government, bound as it was to iate for a whole country, found itself compelled borrow money to save the nation’s life oy forced loans or by the issue of such @ paper currency as would bind the whole property tire country 1D an inviolable obiigation to pay the amount in exact accordance with the provisions made and impiled when the people farnishod the means nesessary to maintain the government and took these obligations for the same. ‘These evidences of debt, having been made and used by the wovern- ment people as the currency of the coun since the commencement of war, have, in the mull plied exchanges that have takeu pi: exceeded in value the amount of all the property of the co thereby creating the most soleina obligations Ing the government to defend these ie; Promises to pay, and to Sesto it that n vernment saall in any way lessen the power of these legal tenders to pay the debis creaiet during their use, ‘The great question that now demands tho most profound consideration of the: goverument is w determine What arrangement of the currency will best sustain tue business of the country, as tie bus ness of the country is the only source out of whtea money can be drawn to matntain ‘he goversment and to pay the debts created by ihe war. I: is no in the power of the government to preserve and gt stability to the best currency the country and got ernment have ever ‘This can be done by legalizing gold contracts, witr 8 provision that no increase slat! be tauce in the present paper circulation of the country and that the whole present circuiation shall be mate a legal tender, with power to pay all debis due the govern- ment and individuais by adding an amount of cur- rency in all contracts to pay goid equal to (he ave rage premium that gold has borpe durtg the moute preceding the payment or maturing of tue debt. This course will bring gold down to tie sinaltest Possible premium without disturbing tue Vusiness of the country, It will lessen veg pte 4 of mca to ime Crease or diminish the price of guid, and this wut soon the paper circulation on par with specie, by the Increase of our popaiation and the growing business of the country, as it will be foade tue interest of all. to pay thie dobls wish the ‘smallest possible amount of cafrenc I. Petisn COOPER. DRATH OF A DAUGHTRR OF GOVERNOR CLAPHIN.— ‘The nee daughter of his Bassiioaey Governor Clatin died on Saturday in the city of Homo, Italy. A cable despatch was Feoeived announces sreeniy The yoang lady ‘iS aee igo ivorsaily beloved, particularly in Newion, where the Governor has resided. She went w (inly tase summer and soon was attacked wilh cousuup- tion, which term! her existences afver an tiness Of six mouths, Her married eider siswer has boon th her and no attention that weaith could pe chase or could suggest was wanting soothe comfort the weary child till her pure Ga toe heavenly home. —Buston Traveler, —— SS ee = anceps ccs |.