The New York Herald Newspaper, November 18, 1869, Page 5

THE ONONDAGA GIANT. nnn What He Is and What Appears of His History. In October two men were employed by a farmer in te Onondaga valley to dig a well, They were in the first hours of the lavor working back to back in ‘an excavation already tree or four feet in depth, when one struck what he at first supposed to be an oi drain pipe, but what a moment later he saw was @ foot and leg. He said to his comrade, “I’ve struck some old Indian’s foot.” The other, without turn- tng round, sald, “Has he got any corns?” Such Is the simple story-of the first uncovering of what 1s called “the Onondaga Giant, a wonder thai will perhaps long Femain a mystery as well, for the antiquarian, ready fo entertain and welcome anything that promises a clue to the ancient worid, as for the man of exact aeience, too eager sometimes perhaps to annihilate Wonders and to reduce all evidences to the level of the positive kuowiedge of his day. It is al Jeast o4 tain that the mystery will never bo solved while the cause of it remains In the hands of showmen wio ean make a market of the curiosity if exelies, for 1 49 the especial business of these people to prevent and defeat an ingulry that may solve tie proviem of tho origin of their prize. ose It seems for the pre: evident that the so-called giantis an aumistakable apuiqnity, of the real history aad origia of whieh the Then in wioke hands it now ts Know at least ay hittic fg other iv ys PRION OF THY SPATUR, Tn Its extreme length this woode,-stoae ds ven fect four inches, and represents a gure thay i! supposed Blanding erect would be nearly ww 4 high The proportions of the figure wre all ais. rand ia Ms expression it conveys tt worel y, there 1 not a general and proportionate wiont of that elegance of Jimb and form) that we assoouce m our thought of ihe periectiy made man, Weare reminded rather of “iarge-limbed Og? dad Apolo Tho heavy head, the great rouncde louidera, the ample ciest, the ponderous hand, tie t like thigh and, tee and te broad, s'rong foots all theso, af wanting in grave, ave not w oniar dout an impressive fidelity in tone that suggests wieantic mo tole rather than the enlarvemens of tyves with wich we are hore familia, The thgure Hes on tts dack mam atl- tude intended to represent pp or death, aud we pee no poiut Init that can di vhich, ‘th eyes are closed, the wihoulr touch the eardh evenly, but the weight of the lower part of the body, is thrown (0 the right hep, the Jett hip boug raised by the miterposition of ihe feft hand between ib and the eaith, ‘Tho left arm and hand fault to this piace with the natural ease of sleep. The re'ation of the tegs to each otner 18 a mosi remarkabie point, The outer surface of (ue ght leg hes againsc ‘the earth, so that the Whole ouser side of the right foot froin the nee! to the little toe touches the earth, The knee of thatieg is siighty bent and the foot slightly extended from the ankle jomt. ‘ais leg also is nearly im a jing with the might side of the body, The left leg on the contrary, inclines from its elevation toward the right side, ‘The line from the trochanter of this thigh to the corresponding Knee is not the general line of the body. The leit kuee Anchives to fal ito the hollow under the right knee, and the lett foot rests on the immer aspect of the Tight foot just behind the great too joint, while the deft heel ts at least six uiehes beyond the right beel. Wiile, therefore, the left hip is higher up than we right one anil the jeft hee! iower down, tie left leg has a greater bend tian the right, aud, therefore, describes a longer tine, Tuis is a position more fre- quently geen 1a hospitals than in art galleries, In Mab It is scarcely possilile, save wien Une head of the thigh bone is oat of it3 socket aud res.s on the rurface of the hip bone two or three inches below dis proper place. ‘The employment of the haads might be supposed to have relation to tis hip. ‘Pre leit band 1s behind #nd uuder the body, 80 that that side and hip rest upon and are supported and litted up by the hand and ara. ‘The paim is co the earth, | ‘the Pint hand Js (hrown across the abdomen, 80 that the tlogers press into the hollow between the gro and the uigh, The ease in the expression of tais hand is singularly inconsistent with the roughness of Its execution, . The forearm and the fall of tne hand drom the wrist present a startling piece of crude art. The face may be cailed Caucasian for went of a Detter name. The nose Is moderately aquulne— starting from a decided depression at tue eyebrows; the lips are large ana firm; there is an ampie iower Jaw aud rounded, prominent chim. ‘Phe check bones rise softly from the ouler margin Of the orbit and are not prominent. With features thas far Ro- man there i not the wide, depressed Koman fore- bead. On the contrary, the foreheed is narrow and rather high, If it auswers w any known type ab is that of Grecian sculpoure, it is not rounded, rather square and perpendicular, with a alignuy protruding supraorbital arch, This face we might cail Malian, for it 13 neither Roman nor Gre- cian, though it possesses points Of relation vo ea of those types; but it is « face not uncommon among modern Italians. {ts features are such as are fittest to present the calm dignity of an ele- vawd mind, apd in the absence or obliteration of the fine lines with which the sculptor may have engraven some particular mood tis geueral charac- ter of expression remains. ‘{he ears are well forined and in proper propor- tion to tlie head, that of the rigut side being ueuriy perfect, while that of the leit side ts in great part gone, There is no hatr, nor does the upper part of the head indicate any action that wouid lead (o the supposition wuat tiis had Leon wora away. The digure was cut with the upper, part of the head bald, ow it may have been with the sides and occipital region tt 14 not possible to say. There is no beard, ‘rhe neck is short, ae the protusion of the laruyx (Adam's apple) quite strong. At eitner side where tie neck and shoullers run into the same line there 4s an appearance o1 some deposition of mineral mal ters. Aitogether the sharpness of line that would indi. cate fine points 18 loat—perhaps by the disintegra- on of & ceriain part of the Whole surface. ‘The material 1s much more dense than may be gen- erally thougit from the staements hitherto made of Us character. [t13 not unlix2 a coarse marble. 1 43 a crysuullized sulphate of lime, Its densiiy may Ve judged by the fact that the stamme weighs 3,009 pounds. The color 18 nearly that of tho smoot outer suriace Of & common boulK . NOT A PECRIPACTION. A In the argument that it is not a petrifaction there are many points, any one of witich Is sudicient. Lor tue statement that ihe solt parts o1 uninal bodies are never found in the petrified siate there Is abundant support. To controvert this siatement some wileged msiances of petrifaction of bodies are wiven, Wilh names of the parties having cognizance o1 the facts, Tf any ove endeavored to hunt up these partes he would have a troubiesome tine of it no douvt, ‘There is no petrified human body in any scientific museum, despite the vast number of dead en that have been disturbed in thelr graves for ages; yet we are asked to believe that at least five hamai bodies nave been found completely petritiea, and buried again 1 different parts of this State. There is, perhaps, @& misapprehension as to What petiifaction is. Hodies are irequentiy pre- served from decomposition by the properties of the soil in whica they are buried, aud sometimes they are converted to unchangeabic substances. In the museum of the College ol Vityst- clans and surgeons in this chy there is a body that has undergone such change. ‘Tbis body was buried m a pit, With imany overs, in 1862, and in 186%, when taken up, was found to be changed to a waxy, fauiy maceria! called adipocere, The general foria of te body 13 preserved, but abundant post-morcein change is evident, This is a very diferent thing from petriaction, and especially irom petrifaction that preserves exactly the contour of the limbs and ali the jines of the body, Such a change ts certainly impossivie. Petrifaction cau only occur whea a #ubstance is sacurated with water holding in solu tion mineral substances that may be cacareous, ferroginous OF silicious. In some eases Of volcani: actiod, and where there are springs of a boll mg temperature tulsa change may occur sad. denly, but im all other circumstances it takes place gracnally; and the simple reason why buman Dones are found fossilized witle iuman fest ts not ig thal the jatier withdraws Itsell froin the fowsilia- Jog Action by decomposition, Wii.e tac bones endure, For @ human body to be foast!izod with such pertect preservation of all its roundness of lint) and general Jorin that we argue whetler or ho It 1s a sciptared statue the provess of petrifaction must have been completed before the rigor mortts Lad passed away and even while the contracted muscle hed the lower Jaw firm: tn opposition with the upper. ‘The cartilage of the ear stands out distinetly from the head, wuien it could scarcely do it there were petriiaction, Inthe carth, pressed one way or tie other, such a member could not bear to tlie body Wie sane relation thar it bears in the ar, and ft St agg Hecessarily be potriticd with some dix- ‘Tuo Most positive argument that it is not a petri. faciion is that very evident strata intersect ail the Jines of the Myure. Mast not stratification be neces- sarily inconsistent with petrifaction’ Can we reconcile the two? Strata, as they appear in stone, signify that the different parts have a ditterent com: position and have beon 1mposed one upon the other ut diferent periods of time. Each stratum repre- sents a layer of material covering ali the purines exposed to its action, We must suppose for perfect sirasitcation that a surface was more or Jess level When a fluid mud Was poured upon tt, Hatiouing itself out according to the extent of space exposed and its own tonacity, and subsequently hardening, just as we see plaster harden in the air, Upon this comes at another time another layer, at B00). Ji any ove spot contained within tae area the sdrfaée 18 completely ixolated from the peeled geht e from the action by other sub- blanco it is . quite mnpossivie that such spot sboula show the strata, and above ail impossible that it should show the several strata at tue same level. Now, having regard to this argue ment alone, 1t ts furposstbie to escape tie conclusion that the figure was carved Irom a siugie biock of stone, As the figure lies on its back, a little inctined to the right side, 1t8 highest points are theteit eye- brow, tie Up OF the Huse and the leit breast, and these several points ali show, at exacuy (ho same level, the line of one stratum. Between the eyebrow: and tue nose is a hollow space, between the face aud the left breast 1s all the depth of the Hollow for the neck and ule ciavicular region, Wath a body buried in the earth these points would, therefore, have been separatert from gne anotier by a mass ol mould or mud, and Uiey, thereiore, could not indicate at the same height the action of the same cause, unless ail the earth be Ween invticated 1k also, and 1h thal case there would have been uu aduereave of the mater vetween. CHARACTER AS A STATUR. At the first glance we are strack by something almost a8 obvious ag the stratiiicavioa lisell, and thAL seers AS Strong against sKculprure as That tact against petriaction, ‘This 18 the mMlensely realistic character of the firure, Art always seems to pro- uuse to itself some ideal, There is no Meal here, Verhaps the rarest thing mM stove is a preseutiment of meve humanity, This 18 true, whetuer we have In view tue art of Greece or the art of Central America, In Central Amer as among obier peope Ol a similar intelectual level, lacy appealed to the imagination with sculptured forms: hifinitely below — bumnusity ia diguity and grace, while In Greece they made the sane uppeal, with @ departure on the other side, represeuting Dgures superior to humanity 11 80 far tuat they combine in one the graces tat are fouud In many. It would seem as af in tue inianey vf sculpeure te thought the buwen iorm above 1s reach, and by the Ome it had acquired suiicient sonulidence tO essay the human form i had also acquwed a pride of skill anda Migit of thought Droupliag it wath the taney thal it migit do some- Ming vecer. lathe figure before us {5 seen the skiil that could give any form with fidealy withous the thought chat woukl endeavor to express an ideal It hus tae Ungatuiiness of baumanity, What sculptor ever wade his ligase aWisward in ordey to minke 1b ttue ¢ Any ‘hignia Ugureimay be theowa ito atticudes tar from i. Uhide is Cagagiug, DUC Luese are sedom preserved ins is point is the grea sents us, Heres the puszzie of all the stone uu endeavor at thigh. save 10 We ahs eonbeclion With dome fable oF h trates, DUK NEIGMHORING COUNTAY. Yhe place at wich tie stacue was found rather due interest that aitaches Uo if, inasmuch 8 (o Cucourage Lhe Lugugil that (his stavue, ike (ic “stone gianv? that tures im Onondaga traditions, muy not be without tts fellows. ‘ihe district might weil becomo in wuy age a seat Of pov empire ani civilaaon to an naceminE people; and wo know that sider the yeneral designation 0: tbe vaondaga wiry this very section was, buta lew gundsed 40, te stromzhold of the lroquois, tie most rutand advanced Ol all tue races Of North Alberivita indiaus. No counuy WW ike World tias dno.e remarkable or beautuul waler system than Gott Of These Numerous laxes are communicating by an ainpie river will Ontario, and separated from one auviter by a country tineiy diversified of nil aud vauiey, Wilhout any of the elements of the in- accessible wilderness, Atl the valleys of the section wre depressivas between ails of moderate elevation, ery Valley is @Coid rapid, stream thai either feeds one lake ofits communicavon with another, Onondaga creck, @ main feeder of Onoadaga lake, rans direcity north for about sixteen mies, draining a vailey varylag in widit froma mile to live miles, ‘Througa the whoie leugth of Uns vailey there is a jew eet above the level of the creek a mch botiom land; further toward the nitis at enor side there are In many places terrace-iike elevations, with steep sides and ievel tops, and un these plateaus are tine jarms. Bellind tuese are hilis, aad in many cases the smail hills have a peculiar conical and even pyratnival Character. Inis is so marked tit itis duticnt: to suppose their original form Das now been artitcially modified, and it is emimently probable that many of these will prove to be sepul- eval mounds, contuming human pones of the sume gigantic race of whitch iany skeletons nave hitherlo been found in tie neighboripy vali WHERE ILS WAS FOUND. The statue was found in the bottom Onondaga vaiiey, ab the toot of Olisco Hulk The valley here opens out into a wide Oi peasant country, of which the grea rath is On tae castern side Of Lhe stveain. “ihe village of Cardi is at the foot of the hills at the eusi s.de of te valley. The summit of Otisco filil is several hundred yards west of the line of the siveaia, and the slope Of the hill is perceptibie to wie Very spol at Which (he statue Was 1ound, Rot inore Luan a Luadred yarus frou the waier. At this point, just beyond the last grade of the hilt slope, there has been from tune laimeworial a wet, y plice. ‘Tus character of the place is due to tie Tact that the and between tais poiut and the rewn 18 & luttle higher than 16 is ust were, and the vze Of Wie Dill must accuMuULLe Lere Somewhat elbescupes. I is, perhaps, Miso due in a mea- sure to (ie tact now apparent that some sub- terranean veias of water mt ther course dowu the mountain issue here. An oid ditch loug since made to dram this spot is sUIL perceptible, At this wei place the figure was found lying, im the im- mediaie ueignboriood of the clay bed of We Valley, which 18 Well igh as ancient as the lil3 wed. seives, In ancther age, perhaps, before the lakes lad setiled in taeir present piaces, the stream that is HOW a KWiit litte river of Variable depth brawied over the greater width of the valley and worked a gravelly covering for the ciay from the tragments of stone it found in its course. At that time, perhaps, the statue Was placed where it Was receutiy found, for all the time sou in its neighborhood has bee deposited upon it, How many ages docs It tal such a soli to form?’ How insensibie, often, is tue addinon of a hundred years, in cumutes, espectaily, where the operetious of nature toucl no ex- treme, All the alluvion m_ that bottom came down from the neigbboring lls, aud the suies of Olisco show yet iu their form the ancient guiches. Yeu the large tuber las grown up since the solicame down, ‘The Jesuits of the Onondaga unssion were feliows of yesterday to this giant. he Was not put in the bog. Lie may have vcen the cause of the bog. In his days a lite water came dribbling along the hillside, was interrupted by mis bulk, and as the dead leaves settled yound bis Titantic propor tions, adding constantly to the obstruction, age after age, the Water Was still stopped, and accimu- jaced the mud by the decay of the dead leaves, wade around him the soil rich In carbon Uint muy be stl seen at the place whence he was taken. ANOTHER ANCIENT, Touching the possible antiquity of a thing found in such a position we have the mstance of vue yreat mastodon found In Orange county, He also was found in a boggy place in tie bottom land of a plea- sant valley. For many years the farmers of that neigibornood had poiiced that Uieir heavy aniioals occasionally became mired and perished at thatspot, and some of them endeavored to draia it. One of them, taking advantage of a particularly dry season, when the place was couparatively free from water, ditcued ils way to the worst spot, and tere cis- covered, near the suriace, the bones of some fabu- jously moustrous antmal, Careiul excavation suowed the complete skeleton of a great animal, a suca a position as to justify the thought that he iad veen mired there, too, Ile bad juin there just near the surface for a geologival period, witle his kind have been extinguished irom the face of the earin. We need not hesitate then, to attribute untiquity to dings no! found a thousaud feet down. So far as any evidence to the contrary is now ap- parent this statue may belong to an aye when tue country near it Was peopled by the race whose bones have been taken trom nimerous tum in our own time; when perbaps the further side of this valley was the site Of actly and the peopie made thelr processions to a tempo on tie Mill, at tae foot of Which thia statue was found. If auy‘olior stones were associated with this one they are hereabouis, ay higher on the hillside, When the tompic eli the heaviest stone rolled furthest dowa, NOT PUT THERK LATELY. Against the argument that the statue was planted only to be found nere is & fact Wiicl seers to prove that te was not recently deposited in the place trom which he was taken. All the actritiou of tae water ocourred in that very place. Lart of his head is washed away and mich of his back, all the way down, and his iegs, aud the stream that wad de- stroyed these parts coursed througa the ground lie lay in. Hits nead lay In the course of a tittle stream 80 as to Interrupt and divide it force, and this scream thus parted ran down at either side of his head and so along ander his whole body, Some things cuanot be contrived, aod here Is ofe, Cun. ning fellows night prepa e a statue, and even etina- Jaco on It evidences of Ue action of Water. bat they could not his upon @ stream four feet Lencacn the Surface to iay his head in so apliy CHat tao samo streain showed fill ail the indications of one might Lave Wort tHe stone away, of the aerial af the Statue and the JTanner of its Formation. Professor J. J. Brown communicates to the Fulton (N. Y¥.) Gagetle an tuteresting account of his visi) to aud examination of the stone giant, from which we quote the following passages; EVIDENCES OF ANTIQUITY. Let me now nottce some of ihe evidences of antiquity it presents. The situation of the body, restiag ol a bed of gravel aud covered to the depth of two or tivee fees with silt or aluvial mud, whien, to my eye, presented Mmdlcations of having been deposited ab irregular and perhaps remote ods. La this slit, from apout two icet below surinee, and also from directly beaeata the body, { obtained pieces of wood. These | haye subjecied to tie microscope with powers of from twenty to three thousaod dianeiera. The upper pleco, Which seemed to have exieuded compictely ross the body, shows cleariy the pitted cells characterstio of the conifrue. The lower piece, Which 18 much carbonized (not burnt, but in the form of lignate), much resembies in cellular struc. ture the Willow. Jts carbouized condition indl- cates plainly that it muss have been in this situation a long time to haye producedd this condition. e Tue erosion of the body, be it statue or petritac- tion, i# another marked indication of age. The body from the middie of the back down to the knee, in ome places Lo the depta of several inches, has beea disso.ved and washed away by the action of the Wain, THE MATRNIAL OF THR STATUR The following are the results of careful analysis:— ‘The water that I obtalped frow @ live rill running The along by the body, and that seemed to havo perco- through the earth close by, I found when ana- lyzed to contain only, 0,023 per cent of free carbonic acid in solution, If the solution of the body tn its resent mineral condition depended on water con- ning HO more acta than this, it must m my judg- ment have been there along time, | brought away wita me a fragment of the body which, by my ava lysis, does not prove to be carbonate of lime nor gypsum, but a compound of limestone, alumina and Aypeums a kind of stone, | ehould think, much more didicalt of erosion then pare limestone. Carbonate of Lime (limestone) dissolves In pure water in tho proportion of one part vo 10.601, HOW THM STATOR MAY HAVE BEEN FORMED. ‘The geologist frequentiy meets with the fossilized forms of bodies, some of whicn have been of A soit and delicate kind, such ior exaimpie as pupy iratt the tender buds of plants and the soft bodies of t moiusks and delicate portions of those of firmer te: ture as the eye of te Wilobte. ‘The metas by which (nese toring have been obtained appears to be this: ‘The substance of the animal or pliant has been alte- gether removed, 80 that merely an impression of tts external suriace, or # mould of tts form is Jeft tn the TOCK that enciused 1, In the same manuer tat the deuGst tikes an impression in wax of parts of the mouth, or as the stereotypist forms a mould in plaster o/ the plates lie wishes to cast, After a mould Nas beea foriied of the animal or piant tt may be- come so tied with the mineral matier, Iniiitrated Uirough the pores of the rock, as -to present a per- fect Cast of the object originadly imbedded, Beautiful exanipics of this mode of obtatning casts of ine human form may be seen in operation, we are fold, at tho present time in Pompei, In opening tuis entombed cliy to the light of day eavi- ties are trequeutiy found tat have contained # human form, On (ling these moulds wilh plaster of paris wonderful accurate casts of the body that orginally oceupied them are oblained, showulg also the style of dress worn by 18 former occupant; Ue Manner la which the hair was worn, aud even the delicate hair aud indentations of tie shia upon the hands and arms, May not tie “Caraiif Giant’ have been a human body preserved in an analogous mannery Suppose the man to have Veen drowned by a food, wich aso buried the vody in sit or mud furough this silo water charged with miner matt per- colated, as it does at the resent day. Be- fore decomposition would bezin under such circuimstauces possibly a thin film of mineral matter may have been Jovmed around ine body, recaining 1 tie ouddines at least of the exterior suriace. ‘Then as the body decomposed the cavity was subse- queutiy filled with minera, matter by the slow pro- ess of inilitration, My reasons for tiis hypothesis (! can hardly dignity it with the name of theory) are these:—1 weut to tie Spot where tue body was exposed expecting to tiad iva statue, and such Were my unpressious ab lirsl sight, But by appiying a Cortnzcon lens to tie sur dace of the mgut aria, irom the hand tothe elvow, t Was astoaisiied to find a strong resemblalce to the papilia usually seen on the suriace of the body. 1 culied the atiention of some of the genliemen pre- sent to titis appearance. Sgme oF these gentle- men expuined ib by supfosing it tae mark of a peculiar chisel uscd by the artist, Dr. Boynton thought it a form of erystalization. 1 think these explauavons ingenious, but by no means sat- isiactoyy. Itinay be asked, Why is nol this peculiar A@ppeafance seen On other parts Gf the body? For the simple and obvious reason that the surface o1 the body for the most part bas been dissolved, and, as [ have said, in some parts particulariy ex the action of the water, ihe solution has extended to some Incnes in depth, ‘This typothesis accoun.s for the want of hair, This being in fila therefore easily alssoived, it has disapp Mosi Of the skin, or ab least of the ‘the ticie, surauitication of tie body 18 a8 easily accounted for on this hypothesis as the siratification of rock in general, and, mdeed, in the same wey. And may Ot this explain the reported appearance of human bodies IM many cused On Gisentombinent, It cer- tainly requires Move than common hardihood to alirim that all these cases of apparent petrilaction under such cireumsiguves are eiluer furgeries or de- ceptions. The Onondzga Ginnt Nowhere’ Man One Hundved and xty acd a Weman Guo Hiundsed and Seven Years Old. {Yrom the Franklin (N. 1.) Union.) ‘Thero 13 a maa living i the town ol Ossipee, in New Hampshire, namea Joshua Kannock, wito 13, according to the (eat information, 150 years of age, Jie is extremely imbecile, and takes the simplest kind of food, He moved to Os: from the State ol Maine some thirty years xgo. He isa native ot Scotland, where ho lived until he was about forty years ofa Ne marricd and jost pis wite in his native Tle had one daugiiter, who came to tuts cov and with whom and her descendants he has ed ever since, The fauily who we the care of iim now are middic agea People, and are his descenda Von, He served inthe old & a Hogers ia hts campaizn up about La Champiain, and on bis return recoliocts seeing Go ernor siirley and his secretary, Willlaia Alexande near Albany. ie was also out in tae Revolutionary War, and his recolicetions are quite distinct as iar back as that, Ie speaks of Colonel Aaron Burr as being a young, art otilcer about W York; also oj seemy Washington and Lafayette, and especially recoliects Colonel Alexander Tlami!ton as one ot Washington's aids, and that he used oveasionuily to bring orders to the officer mm command. tHe ‘has used topacco from hls youth, and has probably chewed aud smoked more than a ton in his lifetime. He says thinks it has burt him, and that its use will shorten his life many yea inthe titi genera. war was with ud The Oldest Person in Delawae (From the Wilmington (Del.) Comm Nov. ‘Three score years and ten is gen ly considet @ good old age; four score 1s looked upon as the Lemost Hint ol a ripe old age, and every year in ex- cess of the latter period is generally considered added by the almost spectal interposition of Divine Providence. The Revolutionary Leroes have passed away; none are now left who took an active part in the stirrmg times that tried men’s souls. Their brillaat achievements are fresh upon our memories, but the forms that wielded the arms of moxtal strife upon the plains of Lexington, the helgits of Bunker Hill, at the surrender of Cornwallis, at Yorktown, have passed away, Tradition onty feils of their achievements upon the battle feld, which led the glorious Declaration of Independence on tie 4th of July, 1776. Here and there lives an old veteran who has passed au octogenarian age and clatts to be as old as our nation’s viriuday, Dut none are so old she who is the subject of this article and who Nves, hearty and well, ia Velawure City, im the State of Delaware. Hanuah Fennimore was born on the Ith day of December, wt Amsterdam, Germany, 14 the year of our Lord 1761, aud will on the 11th day of next De- ceinber be 108 years old. She revioved to tis couniry ta the eyrkih year of her age, and has © Sequeutiy been in the country of her adoption 100 years, arriving here seven years bevore the Declara- ton of Independence, and wien the oid bell was sending forth the p mation Of liberty thronghout the land and to ali the Inhabitants tuereof, she, in the maiden blush of “sweet sixieen,”? was living al the mouth of Mantua creek, ta New Jersey, where she Was soon aiterwacds wooed and won by Mit- thew Bigger, a young Revolutionary soldier, wiom she married when she was twenty-one yoars of age, aad by whom sie had ele ea chtidvoa, the youngest of whom is now fiity-iive years old, and the oldest, it now living, would be eighty-fiv she 1s how living with her son, Charies ©, Rigger, who, with one exception, is the youngest of her children, aud Who Is aixty-three years oF ag Her husband dying when her youngest child was an iifant, she remained a witow a short time and married a man by the name of Mennimore, wih whom she lived unl lis death, which ocearred in 1846, since which she las lived with her son before mentioned, She is remarkably active and goes from house to hou-e caliing Upon her uelybbors and talking of old Uines, when she Wasa girl. Like most oid people she recoilects events thal trauspired eighty or inety years ago more distinetly than events of a more recent dale Sue distinctly recollects tue tre: quent visits of Geueral Wasiiagion to the house where he lived and his often dining there, aud until recently she recollected all the principal events of the American Revolution. Gn Wednesday of last Week she tripped right lively down the main street of Delaware City to a daguerreotype galery and iad her likeness taken. From present appearances she bids fair to live for @ number of years yet. This remarkable old jady ts tndeed a connecting link wiih a past aye, Only twenty-nine years younger than Genera: Wasmington, fouiieen years old when the battle of Lexington’ took piace, and twenty-one yours oid at the close of the Kevoluuon. She firet lived in the Kingdom of Holand, eight years from tha time of her birth, in 1761 to 1760; thien in the British colonies, under the reign of King George, 8 period of seven years, until the Declaration of In: dependence, when the coronies became a iree and independent vation, under which she las ever since resided, Deni Lady Ono Wundred and Two Years of Age. The Hagdretewa (Md.) Herat records tho death of Mrs. Rosanna stake, at the residence of her son, Mr. A. K. take, aved’ 102 years and 3 moniha. | The Herald 3a Her descendants living at the ume of her death number over 100 persons, and embrace the fourth generation from her, she was the mother of ten children, four of whom survive her, to-wit:— Messrs. BE. G. W. Stake, A. K. Stake and Mrs, Seibert, Wile of Joseph Seivert, of this county, and Mrs. Syeater, of Towa, the mother of A. K, Syester, of tits place, ‘The eldest of her living children is feventy-four years of age cond her youngest fifty-one, Tier eldest child, Mrs. Andrew Kershner, died in thts county in 1860, aged Kixiy-eight year ‘twenty. eight grandchildren survive her, of whom tie eldest Is fifty-one years of ago, residing ig Onio, Most of her descendants reside i the Western States, and ge frequently visited them up to her eluhty-fifte ia" making the journeys wituout any escort, She ad attained her ninety-ninth yoar before any per- ceptible diminution of imental or bodily powors was observable, ofa SAvigarion of gm Onto River.—There never Was a tiie when @ full river was more necded than how. ‘the warehouses of the different milla are full to overflowing with nails and Miers and there is no means of {tipping them. Having nearly used up their stock of ore, and being unable to obtain more, the mills do not work more than baif time, and eved this will be reduced if there is not a considerable rise within the next two or three weeks, Shouid the river close while it 1s 80 low there would be au tm- mense amount of destitution among the tamiiics of ie id men. Wheeling (IV. Va.) Register, a iy NEW YORK CITY. THE COURTS, THARKSGIVENG DAY. Tn accordance with the recommendation contained in President Grant's proclamation all the United States courts and oifices will be closed to-day. UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT. Condemned Property. Before Judge Biatehford. The United Slates vs, Kighty-one Barrels of Dis- e properly wasfound at No, 150 West Thirty-third eet, and was clauned by Nathamel Heppwan. ‘The jury found a verdict for the government, Important Quesiiou of Citizenship. Before Comuissioner Osborn, The United States vs. Christopher Nelson , alias Madden,—Tne defendant was charged with desert- lng the Danish ship Forengen, It appeared that the defendant, a Dane, fouglt im the late war, under Farragnt, on board the Franklin. Me was dis- charged and re-enlisted in the navy and was again honorably discbargea, Subsequently he shipped at Philadelphia on board the Porengen and artuicled for @ voyage to London at thirty dollars per month. Arrived at that city the defendant, as alleged, entered into a new contract to remain with the ves sel until sue reached Copenhagen, no ume being specified, The vessel sailed to Cardiff, thence to Kio Janeiro, and lastly to this city, Here the defendant clatined his wages and proceeaed to the Vanish Const to lay his grievances belore him, and subsequently evidencing tat he inteaded to quit the ship ne was arrested for desertion. U to the present ihe defendant, though having served io the war, had not taken out lis naturalization papers, bat aiter his arrest he clammed bis privilege aud was admitted a@ citizen of the United States On the ground, therefore, of his being an Almerican citizen bis counsel claimed yesterday, when brought up for examination, that he siould be protected and was entitled to his disenarge. On behalf of the Danish Consul Mr, J. D. Reymert contended thst the couiract entered into by the defendant at London was sui in force, out Gaat he violated tt by leaving ihe sip in his ‘city, More over, the defenlant Was aot an American citizen at the time of tus d ton. ‘The Commissioner stated that while he sympa: Uuized with the) defendant to some extent he was clearly a deserter. lrior to tins occurrence he had not renounced Ns allegiance to Denmark, aud had not become an American citizen wpiil after the pro- ceedings had commenced, He was a Dane when he shipped at Philadelphia, The desertion im tre present cuse consisted of a Violation of the contact. Although he was how an Aierican citizen be must be handed over to the enstody of the Marshal as deserter; yet, according to the courtesies which generally prevailed in sach cases, it was in the power of the Danleh Cousul to determine what course migit be pursed, After saine discussion the Consul consented to the prisoner's release, stating tat the derondant wad brought before tue court iu order to have the ques tion settled, Alleged Smugaling. Before Commissioner Shields. The United States ve, Schroder & Bon.—The a feudants were charged wiih smuggling cigars, The case has been several times belore the Commis- missioner. Kheinarit Stetvacker, on being recalled, testificd that Schroder & Bon had been in the habit of buying ¢)gara i this market, Adolph Plate testified that he knew of cigais being bought of one John Alban in October, 1868; had occasion to examine the cigars im- mediately after ther arrival; received the cases containing tie clzars; saw them un- packed, and a3 ¥ as he could remember they had a green stap upon them; Bon sold the cigars; Was present at the sale; Schroder was not in the city at the time of the purchase of those ciga by Bon; hroder had nothing to do with the sale of the cigars; witness made sale of the ct AW a stamp on every box; did uot KuoW Whetuer Ail bad | s the same stamp, | Gustave Sciieistein that he knew Schroder & Bon; bougit cigura from them, whic were all statuped, Joun Westberg corroborated previous witness. There bei ho evidence to sustain the charge Jey, Comunssioner Shields ordered hi jarge and Bold Bon bo await the action of tie | and Jury. the evidence of the ed Revenue Frauds. ihe United Slates Michael Stach g.—The defendant was charged with removlug cigars from a manufactory without being properly packed and branded, az required by laws ieid under gouu to await exatuination, Alieced Bounty Frauds. The United States vs. John 8. Blis e defend: tb A Felonioas Assnult—The Case of NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1869.—TRIPLE SHEET. COURT OF GENERAL SESSIONS. Marv? Alien Postpowed till Monday. Before Gunning 8. Bedford, Jr., City Judge. + | The frst case disposed of yesterday was an in- dictment for felonions assault against Alfred Mellon, Who on the 8th of October, wiitle in a state of intoxt- cation, wilfully stabbed Cornelius Boyle in the sido) He pleaded guilty to an assault with with a knife, dude Bed three years, Tho Assist ease of aack, W Alle stated tha Judge Bec he would € Later in th Judge Be after liste’ Jare tivo twenty ¢ he was pay by @ nui uncer th disreputable showed tn JA of Octobe tue prison chain valued mony that t they went to Keve they arrived acthe saloon in Ut Tug Wear thermome A Lavy stove, ms that Greene str to & resented to have been quite a ant, charged with defrauding ove Thomas Meehan, @ Cuion soldier, of lis bounty, Was held to awa t action of the Grand Jury, in the cases of Ison and Johanna Bates, before Commissioners Osborn aud Betis re-pectively, charging Buss with committing bounty trauds, the Disitiot Attorney bas ordered the examinations to be suspended pending the decision of Judge Bene- diet, before wha & MOON Was brought to quash an maictuent, SUPAEME GUURT—CHAMBERS, other Gold Trausuction. Betore Judge Ingraham, Sinith, Jones, Martin & Co, vs, Livermore & Alen. — ‘This was a motion to vacate an attachment issued against tue property of defendants for the sum of $64,700, claimed Lo be due plaintiffs on a transaction which occurred in Wall street on the memorable uth of September, Mr. Livermore haying gone 10 Eurepe lis property was attached by the plaintits, on the gronnd taat he iniended to delay and defraud | nig creditors. Decision reserved, Application for Alimony—A Novel Case. Before Judge Ingraham. Int D. Payne vs. Margaret Payne.—This was an | application for alimony by the defendaut, who alleges hac the platuthyY Is in recelpt of about $2,000 a your, Plainud replies that she Is a notorious courtezan, keeps a house of prostituiion in Provi- deuce, lins horses and dresses extravagantly, having | her house fitted up in the first style, &e., and that she derives @ lucrative income from her -business,”? ite further alleges Uiat Whe is compelled to pay her | alimony he will be forced to abandon Nis suit; that | le is engaged In the San Fruicisco minstrels, where his position is very precarious; (ha! he canvot atiord Easri OLATIO} was slim. “Our Organ: dispersed. au ini cetved in, of + and > ‘not pienson, vo while unde to pay alimony, and that, moreover, he has not colahited with her since his marriage to her some | SIX years ago. Decision reserved, | Decisions Rendered. iy Judge Ingraham. Floyd rs. Cope et al.—Motion granted. | Bower etal, vs, Baindridge,—Motion denied. | Tithe Maller of Vie Applwoditon of Wiiliain J. Gor | don eval, for an Account, ée.—Motion denied, with leave to renow on other papers. | Liou 88 on granted. i Ration et Wood etal, | Muller vs. Woourer @ ne Oxyood et al. v8, Weld et ai,—Mouon granted for second Friday tu Decowber. | Burton & Maostleld, of No, 281 Madison street, who Keys va, Hoge! et ai,—Mo.ion granted wii ten dol- | enarge hin with havmg stolen, on the Lst day of lara costs. | Noven a quantity of cloia, sewing silk, piited Bridgeport Shirt Company va, Waterhouse et al.— | jewelry and other wiaterial, amouatiug 1a value to Motion granted on payme vata, &e, | g610. He was locked up ac ti niral oles, Fowler vs. Lowen —Motion denied with leave | to renew on other pay Nationa Park Ban Bank.— Motion denwed without ¢ Michael Sampler es. Deuis Keily With leave to renew on addiuonw abide argumen SUPERIOR COURT— 4 Nation ~Monou denied AYeIK; COSTS LO TERM Salt for the Killing ef a Child, Pefore Judge Jones and a Jury. | Christopher Max, Admnistraior of Prederivk | Mas, vs. The New York and Harte Railroad Coyne. | pany. —This action was vrought for the recovery of | damages for the killing of @ boy seven years old, the | child of the piaintit, On the 17th of November of | last year, a8 appeared hy the testimony, the chiid | made an attempt to run across the street in frout of & Fourth avenue car, wien Le fell onthe track and was killed by the car before its speed could be checked, Tho questions in the case are whether the clilid Was Not jruilly of carelessness and Whether tue driver Was negligent in his duly of stopping the ca Damages were laid at $5,000, and tae jtury Wore o up to a4 late hour last evening deliberatiag ou their | yerdiot, CIAL TEAM. isions Rendered. By Jndge Fithian, Secige Drown vs. Jo K. Sprowt.—Motton grante) and cause referred. James ¥. Schenck ve. Mary Menna, &e.—Mowion | granted, Henry 7. Jones va. Richord N. Wewnan.—Motion denied, with ten dollars costs, Wiliam Connolly va, Patrick Watlace.—Report ot referee confirmed and clerk directed to pay over the moneys deposited with lim in this case, John @. Brown v8. Cyrus Peck.—Motion Revecca Baird vs. Third Avenue Savings Oraer settled and filed, Bawin Bolitho va. Sarah Lewis.—Mouon granted, Charles F. Gtlmor vs. award Bedell et al,—Motion denicd, without costs. In the Matter of the Petitton af Anna Adams to de Discharged jrom Custody on Habeas Corpus,—Pria- oer discparged, De ranted. CT ad | Mason. iu the m died. AN ALLEGED FU an, @ native of Cunada, Was ari i toy New Ye afternoon by officer Stott, of Roct rant issued by dustica 5 ComMfonore® HIGGENs AND THE preliminary mvestigation was euter day as regards the coal of tho Commodore Higgins alleges puteing into Cape Fear river was t Experts and engineers were pal Was his coal. seems the nu complete vindie: Tun DRA veloped y: no new phraseology, pected nli to. tion will b ‘Yhe Unite days be them, but aie fuuad by Ga TH twenty-second annual election by the stockholders | of the Pactiic Mall Steamsitp Company for nine | 8 Was heli yesterday between the hours of and resulted in the re- brown, Howard Potter, Abel A, Low, Frat than Thorae, William f One hundred and seve | hundred shares of stock were represented at tie | election, which was & very quiet due, Womrn’s 'CYPOGRAPHICAL Union, Typographical Unton No. 1, of New York, met iu | their rooms, No. 22 Duane street, last night, for the purpose of transacting busin Jone ay, the organtzat year were 6 bein, tuire Duane street, cordially avi Tae New Onrnan Asyiow.—This new edifice, THE Swis | the petition of Francis M erick W. ant F. Howe moved fi Alten; and to support his 1 rd eee! days he woud t. Mr. Fellows arg clent to warrant the Court in grant ord poid that he thousat i only right, with or witout U & postponement. Thora Murphy was tr yy. Mana tue 16th of June he went into he Aoosevelt street and while there the a ol ¢ I we twenty dollar bill he gave My DIL to Lhe persons ta tie Larroo! hat it was a ten dollar bill. verdict of nob guilty. Frank Louw was tried ny, Patrick Donohue while iad r LOOK Trom his p appearel a he CY INTELLIG eR is ‘Aagé ‘temperature y Avernge temperature lor corr last year... COUNTY CANVASSERS. and completed the eany teenth and Twenty-second wards, and then taken unui Friday morning, THe PEAWODY MONUM this fund were not large yesterda to the severe storm, names were added some 700 or 800 influential citizens. Kur the ty AMOUNLS Lo ADOUL $50,000, cK 18 about 970,000, atly by water, A CHILD Paraur yesterday called to hold ai iaqi ‘Twenty-eighih street, on the a cnild fiv of scalds tub of boiling water. 3 jt i Who killed the p Lark did bot auoot Sergeant brett, there in ihe cause of freedum, wud Jor tat couse le wk, | who testified that the and the result of the investigation, atte AC onda, ts Lor aud two P.M, | direc twelve M. election of the Allan Lean, 10n lee! ted, 13. District r a post Was notin court, and th tb he would ¢ manding the forfeiture of his bail, which was placed | al the sum of $10,000, neuer uid that ag Al teriain no motion in thy day Mr. Howe renewer i h, and ard J that the to the afidavit ated to try witness, to up Peters swore rv bills out of or some drinks, y of Witnesses that tie induence of liquor and came im with ynan, He ch npo 200, It mM laibant v drinking p Y BRDAY, willshow tho changes in the tewperatu past biventy-four hours mi comparison witit tie cor responding Gay of last yea rat Hudnues Puariacy, ing, coruer of Ann sir 63, ass in oars Some RNED 1O DEA will hold an inquest on tie body of ny. Who died from the ¢ vd on Monday Charles street, ber bt ab her Siri estima d by the fire on Monday night last owned by He years of ap: celved on TRADITION arged from ion. When he ou, KILLED BY A FALL.—Yesterday afternoon Coroner Schirmer received information froma the Board of Health that John Nevins had died ou Monday, at 933. t Thirty-erghth street, and a request made thet {be weld on the body. ries by falling from his ea ago, Which recuited im lis deatu, held. Deceased was forty-eight years of age, bat his place of patiyity did not appear. Excrsp TRIA' dence agaiust liquor dealers, the licei-e of Valentine Halunan, No. 470 Eighth avenue, and Vatrick Har- 0, 10% Gold street, Brooklyn, were revoked, Louis P. tioiter revoke .— Yesterday Dexneine & Bolimer, Nos, 204 and 208 Spring giveet, and Ficet, of Brooklyn, were dliimissed, Her INJURINS.~-Mrs. Mary Gormiey, a woman (wenty-3ix years of age, on ine lub ult, ¢ the init roof of her residence, No. s44 West t lo the ground and taken to bellevue Hospital and lingered uli Tuesday, when death ensued. to hold an inquest on the bedy, | w native of New Li attended irom } ‘THE MANCHESTER ManTryR.—A relative of Larkin, | the Fenian who was executed at | land, for complicity in the killing of a policeman | during the riot about threo years since, says that the EHALD report Of the Jol Mitchell ie day evening was erroneous tu stating (hat he was liceman, and that Mica nce of was terri ort Moore str ARRE TIVE and brought astel th of coal depe ton of Cor: K Fraups y In the inv e made, and, a dies non, nothing further may be ex. Ww, Waen the judicial resumed before Commissioner Osbd tates Grand Jury ha a kept busy with the evidence laid velore oe tia is exceediz ent based on recent disclosures has yet been We MAIL STREAMS: oid board, ce Willan Den Ofilcers to serve for the ensulig 1 and installed, and the annual re; orts of the president and treasurer were read. The report of the jatter shows that the flnancial condition of the Union ts nearly $400 on hand, Wednesday of each month im the rooms it to Which ail female compositors are Te Attorne v? Alien, Henry Jackson to the list, already ‘The The damage was doue The complaint against Pillip Coroner Keenars wen, Coun, 4 dangerous weapon with tnient to de bodily hari. rd scatenced him to the State Prison for of the trial of an attidavit | y material aT. proseeating olicer | the question of de- | ren showiug that Emma French was a v withers and that she cannot be found at pres lea was not in court rae, his motion in ‘ase Was put | abit t nidavit was not sni@l- | the amotio! and Mr. i tne e@ on Monday grant the motion for | pon a charge of grand | that on the meh liquor stor cused his pocketbook whl Tlie devence showed colt t was ot | a 1 ph it was a | ¥, but the acensed | who | ered The jury re: na charge of grand v tut on the 2utin 1 in the E met the acoased | places, and that waea | Lowery Donoiuc | was “seepy drank,” The jury, being unable to upon verdict, were discharged. As the wer ints recently been sery term in the vrison the prosecuting ofticer moved to hay, anded, and sad te would uy Mn ai an carly day noxt month, The follow: ora the ree jor as ind y un He. 46° Board met yesterday the Eleventh, seven- a recess Was UND. ‘The receipts of owing probably -two additio OUprISt thar vu.—Coroner Rollins Cohnieid, 1 Me oF Coroner Keenan waz est, ab No. 211 West hody of Joseph Mark who died trom the nday lust by tailing ‘Lhe occurrence fs rep chlental. ASE.—In the matter of ‘arez, the allogea fugitive forger trom Switzerland, for a writ of habeas corpus and to be dise | ford, after wearing testimony and’ gr decided that the papers on which the were taken were entirely insuficicnt, aud bas charged Fave: NS Brasco YOUNG M&N’s CuRIsTIAN ASSo- .—There was a meeiing of tits body evening at No. 473 Grand street, E, Abbott delivered an address ou 7 He navocated the more sysie- Mave metiod of organization, and entered at large upon the dety custody, Jndge Blach- ument, has proceedings re inst Tue attendance cluded the company Mr. Nevins had re- rt some days duiquest will be at the hearing of evi- r, I0¢ West Houston 200 Third avenne, liquor, fell from the enih sireet, biy Injured. She was was uolifled Mrs, Goriniey was ‘The funeral will be ect. Manchester, but he waa ren—Timothy Sal- ested at Roches. to this city yesterday ester, on a war. don the conmplan CUBAN JUNTALA—A 1 Into yest Cuba or Hornet. the cause of his 1 bad quailty of pxauived it for any steanier, npon waich tt nds, Will result in a odore Higgins, thing new was de- gation of thes frauds; , ag to-day is, in legal nat examt e for the last three y Voluninous, BO In. ute CoMPANY.—The ynsisting of Messr nistoan, James M, 3 Ski Webb and Sidaey en thousand one he Women's 6 of importance to te flourishing, there | etings are held every | pices | Justi | THE GRAND § ure on Tues- | | of and Thirty-ninth street, under the direction of th@ Church of St. Vincent de Paul, 18 now approaching completion externally, aud the fair under the aut of the congregation, at the Thirty. seventh Fegment armory, is nighlly crowded by @ company of select and benevolent aympathizers with the cause, The articles on gale are of the choiwest vartely aud quality, and at “air? prices, and it is hoped that the result of the enterprise may be such a4 will resect credilably to the Mberaiity and philanciropy of the city, POLICE INTELLIGIXC Tiiauway Rowvery iN ELEVENTH STRE men, Hamed Johu Calman and Patelek Kerrigan, were yesterday charged, before Justice Maasfleld, at ex Market Pollee Court, with highway robbery, he complainant, Thomas Connolly, who resides at —Two } Kast Blevcnti street, stated that on Monday night he bad been drinking at a saloon in’ Eleventh street, and that he went out of the saloon into the back yard. Winle returning to the saloon knocked down by @ man whom he r UIZER Aa the prisoner, Kerrigan. Oflicer Reddy, of the Seventeenth p: rrested Caiman, having In lis possession a wateh and & vhich Connolly recognizes ag his was stolen froia tilm atthe eb i down by Kerrigan. Calman Ales that he bought the of Kerrigan, and errigan denies uaving stoleu the watci and cham, Mangileld held’ both men to answer, refus- ing to take A Goup Ca bi tan Tr TOTALE Among the rank and jie of drankards brought before Judge | Howan y tay corning was ainiddie aged, in- tellive nian, very decently attired, wh had been take: 10 Cusle by wu rourta Ward oiic or mioxieation, The v passing tls man house found three wo giris and 7 ¢ eight and tive, int 1a ire fouseless; on gong into oy baby and the motuer all tar Han Intoxicated, iiorail comnrut u ‘ Yombs, and hate nd the eh ren to the f Charthies 1 Corree! a. a e out ot the ustal “run? and crowd of Who come up Jor Judgment daily al the Tombs, our refior ‘ celis and kad a : tion Who was qiute had a oftt ot his roll, I had been a cierk it to public otices in Broad wa, up tothe time of Lis list debanch he waza clerk ab jioward Mis id he didu’t care what ie aud t them but his fi tached for hi sid he was: uly Keep ww RURY BOMILEDL of Jury—The Pri to Await the William Keane Vere Pally Come the Grand oue jou of mlited Jury. | Coroner Keenan y teenth ward station erday afternoon, at the ‘Thi. Ouse, held an inquest on the body oi Wilhant K who Was Kiled in a saioon 1 street last fouday. The following tx the taken on the occasio: BYGINNING OF THE AFFRAY. nee E. Hill, of No.8 Columbia street, being as follows:—On Monday morning, , Pstepped into the Bank Cofice House, 398 Grand strest; the first T aaw was the de- ceased and prisouer quarreling; deceased bad the prisoner by the hatr; I thought chey were only sky- lavking, aud went up lo them and told chem to stop; as I said this I placed my hand on deceased's arm, and just then I heard some one ery out, “Look out— in Gran eviden La sworn, testifi about nine o'eloc he’s got a pistol; whoever said this did not say who had the pistol; I then turned and ran toward the door, intending to go for the ed the door I heard the pistol go off; 1 looked about to see if I could see a policeman, | and while Twas standing on the sidewalk the de- ed ran out, bareheaded and with his coat olf; Teaught hold of hia by the urm aud said, with we, Biliy, aud don’t go in there any more; pulled away irom me and went toward the curb and caugat hoid of an ash box, which he tried to pail (Kick co pleces; be Wien turned round and rushed | into the saloon again; 1 at once ran down Grail street to look for a pollcenu; on the corner of Nor- folk and Grand cols Lmet LWo sanitary policemen; thei to hurry to the Bank Uo. How was a difiicuily ¢ aud somebody mig hurt; We went to the saioon, and when we found the deceased iving on floor, wiih a pool of blood under his head and a peg gt We 1 the services of the doctor the poll his jorelead; iat once procur W L'was gomg oat fc men took the prisoner oat; the latter aud the de- | ceased were under the influence of liquor, the prisoner yery much so, so al he appeared te have great diliculty in standmg steadily on nis ieet; © Saw © pistol when I was in the saloon first; it was, L think, In the prisoaer’s hands, aad pointed dow ward, toward the floor, A STlOT WITHOUT SMOKE. John C, Sinith, of No. 54 Norfolk scirect, sw —T am barkecper al 693 Grand street; about a quarter past sevea o'clock on Monday morning the prigoner and deceased came tuto the saloon — to- getuer sud asked me for @ drink; they bota dank, and appeared to be ta good humor; in about half an hour they returned, in company with another man, named Thomas Brady; they again aeked for a drink; one of them took a cigar, and Brady soon ; the prisoner's lp, I noticed, was cnt, aud | heard bin say to the deccased that he had not usea him right; Keane replied, “Haven't always been a friend of y ‘3?’ prisouer replied, "1 always thought you were; I believed they were comtng to biows and L went round from the counter’ 'y to put them out; \Wo acquatatauces of te sed just then came in and put their hands on ihe prisoner just as the deceased took hold of bim; the deceased said to these two acquaintances, “Search him—be'’s got a pistol,” referring to the prisoner: they satd they «aw no ptstol; there them ensued some Words, When the deceased struck the prisoner four ov tive times; the prisoner made no resistance whatever; | heard him say, “Go away— leave me dione,’ they then struggled together in the centre of the room, the deceased having the prisoner either by the collar or the hair of the head, I don’t recollect now which; | then tried to separate them, and just as Twas getting rowud the counter to go near them L heard the report of a piatol; when I heard the report they were standing together, che deceased, as I feaid before, having hold of the prisoner's coat collar or hair; his (the latter's) head } Was bent over and was bowed down as though ke | were on his knees, but of this T am not certain; when the shot was ited the two men ran into the bulard room, the prisoner first; the deceased then Jumped through a window tuto the barroom and then ran out into the street; shortly afterward he caine back and picked up a tumbler and fired it at prisoner, Who was then tn the barroom, bear the bilifard room; the tumbler did not hit the prisoner almost immediately alter this | heard a pistol show; W the deceawed. veel and fall; I ran over toward him and saw blood oozing from & wound im nis lead; when the shot was fred the prisoner and the ased stood about in the middie of the barroom, about six feet from one another; 1 did not see the prisoner fire the shot, nor did I see any smoke at the time I heard the report; his hands were down at his side; I couid not swear where the shot came | from; Ido not think there was any person in the barroom when the slot was dred but mysell, the prisoner and the deceased. Ky @ Juror—The windows of the saloon were closed; the deceased, when he fell, was icing we juterior of the saloon. SHR END OF THE AVFRAY, Arthur Melcon, of No. 277 Delancey street, aworn—Mysell aud man Mabhoa named Peter went to the Rank Coffee House oa Monday morning, about eight o'clock; on entering we saw the dc- ceased and the prisoner there, wrangling; the de- ceased on seeing me said, “Arthur, this fellow’s got a pistol;’’ T asked, “What do you want to quarrel for—you're both friends?” U didn’t make an exam- ination Co see Whetler or not the prisoner bad a ph tol; Lonly looked at him and didn’t see any; on ing Keane on the sidewalk afterward, apparent! bewildered, and Mr. Hill trying to get him away, £ went over and followed the deceased into the barroom; as | entered Keane had a giass in hia hand and Tsaw htm fire tt at the prisoner: 16 went close by the latter's head without uitting him; the prisoner then put his hand dowa belind lua aud pulled out a pistol; he raised 1 up, staggered @ little, looked at me a white and thea at Keane; le then said, “You want fight, do your’ av the same tine atming it at Keano; fearing he might make a inistake, [ tarned my head and I at once heard the report of the pistol and Keane drop; L saw him lying on the foor; { pointed the prisoner out to the ofileer as the man Who had siot Keane, aad they arresied nim; I looked at Keane and heard him preatiing very hard sud saw the blood running out of a wound tn Nis head Julla Phillips, of 249 Elizabeth street, sworn—L saw Keane and Lee in the Bank Coftee House; wien they came in the second ume | heard Lee Keane to take a drink, and the latter replied, cailing Lee @ Villanous name, that if he (Lee) badu’t a pistol in his pocxet he would break his “snoot;’’ the deceased made the first attack on the prisoner. (ilera the witness corroborated the evidence of (ho previous Witnesses, who testified that the deceased in tag struggle had the prisoner by the hair of the head and was hitting him in the jace atthe same time, the prisoner all the time making no resistance.) The cose Was then given to the jury, Who vroughs in the followmg verdict aller al woscave of five minaies:— VERDICT, Witllam Keane came to his death on the 16th of November, 1 8 Grand street, rou & pistol shol wound, at vie hands of James Lee, THE PRISONER COMMITTED, ‘The prisoner was thereupon commitied to awalt the action of the Grand Jury, His counsel requeste tic Coroner to consider the propriety of allowing nis client out on ball, but Mr. Keenan satd tho papers would be sent to the District Attoraey and the ques tion of ball leit entirely with hin. During the tnquest the large room of the station. house In which It was held was crowded to suifoca- Uon by the friends of the deceased and the prisoner, and the entire proceedings, notwithstanding the presence of #0 many conmietny elements, passed off quietly and without the least disturbance, thanks to = tie admirable taste and dignified manner which Coroner Keenan displayed on the occasion, and bow being eregted at (ke corner of Seventh avenue | which certam over coroners Would do well to copys