The New York Herald Newspaper, March 16, 1871, Page 5

KU KLUX KLAN. Appalling Record of Murder and Crime. Four Murders, Thirty Whippings and Sixteen Other Horrible Onirages. Summary of the Outrages Proven in the Court of Impeachment. Origin and Present Aspect of the Chester Troubles. Raion, N. C., March 11, 1871. The testimony for the Governor still continues to ‘unfola the most startling records of crime ever known tm the annals of a civilized community, Even the most extrene democrats acknowledge that the state of affairs in Alamance county, as developed by the *estunony, is horrifying end appalling beyond con- ception. One tact is, however, noticeable that will operate agalust Governor Holden—that all the long Ust of crimes now developed were perpetrated a considerable length of Ume prior to the date of his first procitamation declaring Alamance county in A STATE OF INSURRECTION; and not a single outrage occurred between that date, March 9, 1870, and the 20th of June of the same year, when be brought Kirk and his troops into that ¢ointy. ‘rhe courts were open, the civil authorities dn the juil exercise of thetr functions, and the com- Wunity in the most peaccfi state it had been since the close of the war, when Kirk and his lawless rabble irom East Tennessee were preciptiated upon them. This looks bai for his Excellency, and gives color to the change that the whole insurrectionary programme, Kirk war. and the arrest, tortures and impri-onment of the citizens of Caswell were all a part of @ conspiracy to throw the State ito actual ansurrection, by which the President would be called upon & Jeclare martial law, and thus defeat the August elections, when the conscrvatives gained such a signal triamph, About nincty of the Gov- ernor’s witbesses have been examined so far, and FOUR MURDERS by the Ku Kiuxes of Alamance have been proven. Besides these there were four others, the testimony in regard to which has been excluded because they did noi occur within the limits of the counties Gileged to have been m a state of insurrection. Those proven are:—Wyat Outlaw (colored), hung by the ncck the night of the 26th of February, 1870, by a@ band of disguised mounted men, numbering about forty, in front of the Court House at Graham, the feat Of Alamance county; William Puryear, a half witted negro, was drowned one nigit in March, 1870, a large stone being tied to his fect, the charge against him being that he said he witnessed the hanging of Outlaw and knew the men who were present; Thomas J, Morrow and his brother-in-law, both colored, were taken some time in the fall of 1869 from their homes and families, and hanged by the neck, for alleged barn buraing. THE WmIrPINas ‘and mutilations are numerous and now foot up the umber of thirty. Jack Petillo, a negro, was badly Whipped in December, 1869, and disabled for two weeks, during which tune he was under the con- stant treatmeut of a physician, Hta house was aiterwards torn down, and a gallows, grave- stones and a placard were placed near it, as a threat agamst all coiored republicans. ivison Warren (iegro) was wnipped about the same tume, though mot so badly; but his sxin was cut and bleeding. Wiltam F. Simpson (white) was whipped until the blood ran down irom bis back, for allowing a negro to live on his land and for cursing a party. Donald- son Worth (colored) was taken jrom his house on the last Saturday in January, 1870, tied vo a tree and severcly whipped; samuel’ Garrison (negro) was forcibly taken from lus house, was caught and struck seyeral blows on the head while trying to escape, Was bucked and then badly whipped, No- vember, 1569; Daniel Jordan was severely whipped in the jal of 1569; William was whipped tn Oc! 1869, receiving as many as seventy-ive or eighty blows; Carter Cossy colored) whipped in bis shirt and drawers for atleged stealing Of hogs, 1869; Casweil Holt (colored) whipped De- ber, 1:63, und his house was broken open and he ol at December, 1869; Leonard Ripley (white) 1p, ed in Caswell county for living with free Jake Brannock (colored) was stinilariy chastised in same county: George Riply (colored) was Whipped some two years ago ana died soon al- terwards; Simeon Whiie (colored) was whipped March, 1870, for assertiug his equabty with the whites; Jonn Durmai (white) bad his hair cut of and was whipped for keeping another woman, hav- ing a wile already; James Cole (white) was whipped January, 1870, for alleged insolence to white people: Henry Holt (colored) and wife were whipped in the fall of 1869; Green Lantford (white), seventy-one years old, was, with his wife, dragged fro. bed and whipped in his nakedness; James Corliss (white) and wile were whipped unt! both were all bloody their night clothes; John Guy (white) whipped twice, January, 1870; Porter Mebane (colored) was stripped and Whipped severely about same time tor marrying a white woman; George D. Buon (white), whipped severely, Marci, 1869; Andrew Troilinger (colored), Whipped 1m his own yard 29th October, 1869, lor voting ; his wife was whipped the saine for tuteriering with Dr. Coble’s practice; Jacob Murray (colored) Whipped and his child killed by one of the Ku Kjux, who tramped on it, about December, 1369; Damon Hoik (colored), Whipped about sane time; Green Freeman, Johu Lynch, Jonn Basou, Millie Alston, Joseph Harvey, Nelson Strond, Hamilton Brien, John Suidle and Sandy lars complete the whippe: and scourged victims, eact of whose tale would farnish a coiumn of horror. Besides these there were sixteen others shot, beaten, mutilated and OTHERWISE MALTREATED, whose names are as follows:—Heary Holt (colored) shot at three times the night Oullaw hung; £1 Vutiaw and family, shot at and a nm from their home, having to spend the night in the woods; Andrew Murray (whit:) ran off from his home by Uireats of death; John Shatterlo’s house was shot at repeatedly; Jemima Phillips (colored), beaten and stamped when Gutlaw was hung; Joseph McAdams (white) found cofiin at his door with threatening placard on it; James c Reinstatt threatened with death if he did not ‘eave the county visited the second ume and again threatened; Senator Shotiner tireatenead with death and his murder attempted: George D. Boon, postmaster, & tureatened by tree cons with horribie m- scriptions; Join Alred’s house was visited and he was vhreatened to have _ his throat cut if he did not change ms politic: Mary Gatiins, a lewd white woman had her house pulled down io tie bottom log; Alfonsu had a withe put round his neck, and he was mace to pray. These are neariy ail the oul es ye. proven. ‘Tne follow- ing 18 a continuation of the testimony of some of the most important Witnesses yet examtued :—William X. Albright, the most respectable of the Governor's witnesses, Who Was a magisirae in Alamance couniy testified to the unsetticd and alarmiug state of atfuirs in that county during the Jatter part of 1868 and 1869; he was intunidated in the discharge of his official duties by the mysterious operations of the Ku Klux; he appealed to the Governor for troops to protect the lives of repubii- cans, aud the Governor sent a force of militia, under command of one Capiain Boster; these were afterwards relieved by United States troops; witness Was appointed a brigadier general of mulitia tor the purpose of forming one of tho MILITARY COURTS MARTIAL which was ordered by the Governor to try the citi- gens arrested by Kirk at Yanceyville; witness issued several papers exeinpting certain perso 8 from ar- rest under the authority of his commission as a brigadier general, bat when Bergin came to the county he did not regard these papers, and witness ceased to issue them}; witness was initiated into the Union League by Governor Holden before his election as Goveruor; Wyat Outlaw, the negro who was hung at Graham, was present at the meeting when he was initiated; John Stockard, a member of the Ku Klux, told wit- ness he had once ridden twelve miles to save his tre, and for that reason he demanded that witness would do bis best for him when he needed it; on this account withess, in his capacity as brigadier, tsenied him papers exempting him from arrest, but Bergin arrested Stockard notwithstanding. AN OFFICIAL K. K. ‘The Sheriff of Alamance county, Albert Murray, testified that he had been @ member of the White Brotherhood, but that he dissolved his connection with itaiter the passage of a law prohibiting per- sons g: ing in disguise. J. A. J. Patterson, a witness for the Governor, testified that he was chief of an organization in Alamance county known as the Constitational Union Goards—a separate though a similar 01 ization to the White Brotherhood, He tuitiated Soutn Com ugust the commanders had a tneeting and dec!ined to disband the organization; witness received a letter that SHOFFNER Was TO BE RUNG on @certain night; there was nothing ip the paper about the aay: Dab Be thought the messenger who ‘brought the letter sald it was to be boxea up and sent to Governor Holden (Shoffer was a republican member of the Legtsiature and supposed author of ‘Me insurrectionary act); the order for Shoffner’s execution was signed with two letters ana one figure, “Chuet of Orange; witness aid not know what those figures were; the oath of the organiza- lion required them to resist any forcible attempt to deprive them of their constitutional or legal rights, by force if necessary; bat It did not require as fa Bed hed ted Jae otherwise the State or i oe 4 4 measures, or the fourteenth or Afteensn NEW YORK HERALD, after tho passage of the legislative acts prohibiting bersons golug in disguise, THE KU KLUX DISGUISE. Join W. Long, a most notorious character In this State, a witness for the Governor, testified that he | resided in Alebama, but had leit Alamance county, | mm this state, last summer, He had been a member of the White Brotherhood, and produced in the Senate chamber the usual disguise worn by members of that organization when on their midmght raids, This consisted of a long white gown, reaching near the ankles, and buttoning tight round the neck, with loose sleeves, Then vhere was a while cap, which, when drawn over the face and down to the neck, had holes tor the eyes and mouth, Round the eye- holes and mouth were red marks, and it had a long protuberance or snout, which was colored, for the hose, while it towered far above the head, with two projecting horns from the forehead and a spiral tassel, which shook with each movement of the per- son. ‘The witness put it on and made one of the MOST HIDEOUS Spectacles ever witnes-ed, and one which was well | eulculated to terrify timid persons at night out | of their very senses. The testimony of this wit- | ness, which was, however, impeached by himseif, confiicts materially with that of other witnesses ‘with regard 10 tue OATH OF THE ORGANIZATION. They were required under all and any circum- stances to keep the secrets of the body, to prevent negroes froin elevating themselves to an equality with white men, to overthrow the republican party, to go around disguised and frighten the negroes and keep them away from the poll: Members were to be protected at all hazards, and they were, it pos- sible to get on the juries and bring in false verdicts whenever @ inember was on trial, and when on the Witness staud they were required by the obligation to swear in favor of a brother and to obey all orders of he camps. Witness was present, In accordance with the instructions of the camp, at the whipping of Tom Sellars, They gave him TWO LICKS APIECE, which was their orders. When we got back to the camp after «disposing of Sellars we talked about Corsay, WhO Was a member of the organization, but he had been talking too much, and it was proposed to put bim out of the way, as DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES. Another member said he should be talked to, which was at length agreed to; Jim Albright tas there that night, aud he brought an order from bis Camp to whip Caswell Holt (colored) and we were to do it; | he was whipped as the order directed; the next meeting witness attended was a county meeting, held near aw river, when some two or three hun- dred men were present, aad ALL THE CHIEFS: the object was to find out tne strength ef the order | in the county; there were between four hundred and six hundred men in the county im the organiza- tion, probably seven hundred; it was then deter- mined they should make raid through Granam that nigat, which they did. though they disturbed nothing; the object of the meeting succeeding was to determine what should be done with Caswell Holt finaily; 1t was first proposed to whip him, Which was voted down, {to hang him, but this Was objected to as Causing too much excitement; then It was agreed to DROWN TIM, and witness was selected to carry the order for his execution to Camp No. 10, of which Fawcett was the chief; he gelivered it, and Fawcett said it should be done the following Friday night, but he saw him, and Faweett said that Jacob A. Long had ordered it to be stopped; Long was chief of the organization in the county, and he, for some reasons, p.evented the killing of Caswell Holt; about February or March there was a county meeting held at which afew of the chiefs were present, and 1! was then decided to have no more wuippings and not to interfere with lmuatters 5 TOO SMALL FOR HANGING ; when we were to take hold of a case in the future it was to be either hanging or drowning; after that Daniel Worth's schoolhouse was burned; George ‘frollinger told me to come to his barroom that night, as he had sometning particular on hand, and he wanted some inen who did not have so much cow- ardice as others: witness did come back, and he sald we must burn the schoolhouse; witness ob- jected, bus Trollmger said that he must do it—the | Camp had decreed it; and — and myself then got a | can of kerosene oil and some matches and went over; witness was put to watch while others set the | honse on fire; betore he put the oil on the house wit- ness said, “For God’s sake, do not burn that house!” and he replied that he would do it in SPITE OF GOD OR THE DEVIL: he then squirted oil over the cetling, floor and walls of the house and struck & match, but 16 went out; witness again asked him not to burn the house; he replied that he would. struck another match, ap- pled it, and the building was SOON IN FLAMES} we ran back to Trollinger’s barroom, and soon the crv of ‘ire’? was raised, and we ran back and helped to pull down the fence round the house. It | was burned because 1t was a colored school. An- drews and Fogleman told me they carried the cortin to McAdams’ house, and that they got Nathan Trollinger to run his kiufe through lis privates several times. Witness did not know how long the organization lasted. He only remained im it about one year, when he got in a_1uss with Andrews, after which he was bluffed out of it. He made an expose of the order last summer, and then had to leave Alamanve county for fear nis lite would be taken. Witness left ine organization in May or June, 1839, and all the outrages he mentioned occurred prior to that time. After some further cross-examination, in which the witness impeached himself ana acknow- ledged that he compromised a theft suit the court adjourned, ORIGIN AND PRESENT ASPECT OF THE C2 ER TROUBLES. The Town Patrolied Regularly at Nicht by Armed White Citizens—How and Why Arms Were Placed in the Hands of the Nearocs— Singular Organization of the MilitineThe Officers Without Commissions—War of the Ku Klux—!he Outrage at Rock Hill—State Arms Broken Up—Whipping of Militia Man—Political Persuasions of the Ku Klux—the Kecent ‘Troubles—Conflicting Statements of the Number o: Killed and Wounded—The Route to YorkvilleThe Dis- arming of the Negrocs. CHESTER, S. C., March 12, 1871. There is still a great deal of excitement in this community, resulting from the recent nostiie demon- strations made by the negro militia upon this village. Armed patrols guard the town and suburbs at ment, questioning every one found out after a certain hour as to his or her particular basiness that required them up when all good citizens shouid have retired. These patrols are composed exclusively of whites, armed with revolvers. Last night L took a stroll through the town as late as eleven o'clock. I iad not proceeded far when I was accosted by two men with revoivers in their hands, who said:— Where are you going this time of night #” “Where I please.” “Are you a stranger here?” “Yeu “Well, then, you must know that it ts against orders for anybody to be abroad a‘ter ten o’ciock, uniess on important business,”’ “My business ts to see the state of the town, and satisfy myself whether there js auy civil law or order here. Lam a Northern man.” “Then, if that be the case, you can go along.” I nad scarceiy walked 200 yards betore two more armed men accosted me and a similar con- versation ensued, my first interrogators never losing sight of me until I had reached the second party, and they likewise keeping me in view until the beat of another watch was reached. Tms will serve to show the state of alarm and uncertainty that prevails here owing to the unsetiled state of affairs that exists, which has, bevond a question of doubt, resulted from the armament of the negro militia. These arms were placed in the hands of the negroes by the Governor and State radical authorities prior to the fall elec- tions, and for the purpose, it 18 said, of enabling the negroes to defend themselves at the polls, where it it was anticipated intimidation and violence would be resorted. to py the whites. In view of this action large quantities of the same kind of arms, known as the WINCHESTER SIXTEEN SHOOTER RIFLE, were also purchased and brought her by the whites, who, though.they did not carry them openly to the polis, had them conventently located in case of an attack by the negroes—the latter having them in companies stacked io fall view of each voting place A strange feature, too, in connection with this armed militia organization is that, though the negroes are regularly organized, armed and equippped, with their captains, lieutenants and non. commissioned officers, none of these officers can be tound who have authenticated COMMISSIONS from the Governor, and it 1s almost safe to say that no official record of the organization of the militia can befound. It appears that the arms were sent here to be used for political purposes, placed in the hands of tne negroes with supplies of ammunition, and they allowed to 01 ze, elect thetr officers and carry out the orders of such white men as became attached to the radical party purely from mercenary motives. The excitement of the elections ever, it ‘was belleved the negroes would be disarmed, but count had tts negro militia CORDA. ‘With tts irres] 4 ble and. in the majority cases, ignorant officers, who drilled them and had thelr reguiar public parades, & STANDING MENACE to the whites. Outrages by these armed bands be- came of such frequent occurrence that life and pro- perty in most neighborhoods where the negroes were controlled by bad and unprincipled men were unsafe, and consequently @ coumer organization ‘Was gotten up among the whites, which many take to be @ branch of the weil-known. KU KLUX KLAN. 18 O1 ization, irst one having for its object fety and the defence of life and property, as it grew older beeame gradually aggressive and it; We disbanded | more dangerous t0 tke Dublic peace than were the a Negro | negroes. Itis sald to have been first introduced here from East Teunessee or Western North Caro- lina about one year ago, and since then, as the umes became exciting and political feeling ran high, it has grown to be a most formidable and extensive order in this State, Investigations of an unoficial character made to the present have Ul- terly failed to show which of the two—the negro milua or the Ku Klux—are respon- sible for the recent troubles apd __ pitched batiles in this and adjoining counties, Both pollti- cal parties charge it on the other, and both make out | such a clear case that it is almost impossibie to de- cide which 1s culpable short of a regular official ex- amination of all parties concerned. The negroes, with some degree of credibility, state that the whole of the troubles originated in the WHIPPING AND BREAKING UP ofthe arms of members of the militia companies. For the past month or two, and since the outrages in Union county began, 1t seems to have been @ de- termined object on the part of the Ku Klux to wage war on the militia and to destroy their arms whenever and wherever found, Every place where arms of the State were known to have been stored has been visited by this band of midnight marau- ders, habited in their mysterious and hideous cos- tume, and the arms either carried off or destroyed. At Rockhill, at a depot on the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad, adjoining tuis county, a body of disguised men, numbering some seventy- five, came there about three weeks since and leit five cases of State Winchester rifles A MASS OF DEBRIS on the floor of the storeroom., The watchman says he was aroused by a loud knocking at the door, which he opened, and was at once seized by a man, who commanded him, wiih a pistel at his breast, to remain quiet. About twenty-five men then rushed im, all wearing disguises, and they asked him where were the State arms, In a state of per- fect terror he poimted out five cases piled one on top of the other. These were quickly broken open with an axe and as quickly broken up, the accoutrements being cut in pieces and thrown over the fleor, ‘The captain of the bund then com- manded him to go to the barroom of the place and bring them whiskey, but before he wenton this errand they left the depot, locked the door and gave him the key. He returned with @ gallon of whiskey and they arain entered the depot and completed their work of spoliation, Though there were barrels of whiskey and large quantities of provisions and goods th they never touched anythg but the arms, When these were all destroyed they left, and commanded him to follow them. He Went, and was almost terrified lest they should take anotion to hang lim, When about five hundred yards from the depot they came to another targe body ef men, who were stationed across the rovd, and horses were tied along the lence for a considerable distance. Iere they drank the whiskey, after which the captain or leader gave the order to mount. He was then ordered to return to the depot, and to whistle as he went. This in- junction he strictly obeyed, and the last words he ard came from ‘the captain, who said, “Now, poys, hurry up; WE MUST BE ACROSS THE LINE by sun up.’ From this latter expression it 1s in- ferred that the Ku Klax engaged in this outrage were from North Carolina, vhe county of York, where it occurred. adjoins Mecklenburg county in that State. Certain it is that they came from another county; but whether from Union 1in_ this State, or from this county, or from one in North Carolina, cannot be definitely settled. It 18 strongly surmised, however, that it was the same band that has since taken so ‘prominent a part in the diiicul- ties in this county. Abner Holly, a powertully built and stalwart black negro, who is one of the most intelligent among them I have seen, states that he was brutally whipped on Thursday night last, two weeks ago, just’ previous to the recent dis- wurbances, and that the BLOOD SPIRTED FROM HIS BACK every lick. In his own graphic langu: they came in and dragged hin out of the bed where his wife was and hallooed ana cavorted around like so many devils. There were twenty-five of them. They took his Winchester rife down from where it was hang- and asked nim, “io you see this ?” and with that shed the breech off on the hearth, The man then picked that up and said, “Do you see where this is going?’ and he threw the breech behind the The barrel was then mutilated ani broken. spoke to him and said they had nothing against hun, but that he was a d—n radicat and a melish, The principal one whooped and shook his horns in his face, while he presented a pistol at his breast and told him tiat he had voted for that D—N SCOUNDREL SCOTT, AND Grant, too, and they would show that he must do so nv more, or they would put him up the spout, “We paid for your damned Winchester ries, and we have the right to destroy them. We don’t want any more of the damned radicals you put in office, who oniy want to make mouey oui of your votes. You must vote the way the white people vose, ur not vole atall, We have to pay the taxes, and we want men who will make honest and fatr laws and levy taxes under which we can live, and if this is not done we will make the county HOT AS HELL for every d——d nigger of you. This the negro re- lated with a good deai of humor, and he seemea to enjoy it ashe went on, He sald the men must have known him well from the way they talked, for one of them said, “Let us hurry up; SIN THE FAMILY WAY, re her, and perhaps hurt her,’? meaning his (Holly's) wife. Nobody could have known that fact unless they were quite intimate with Holly and his family; but he could recognize none of them, even by their voices, which were well disguised, Jim Wilkes, who is another ropust black young man, not so intelligent as Abner Holly, was the captain of the militia company at Carmel Hill, which caused all the recent dimculties, He made a statement of the whole affair to Captain B. B. Keeler, Company I, Eighteenth infantry, and your correspondent. ‘Of ‘course he charges the first alta to have been made upon his sentinel, instead of ;as has already been reported in the IMERALD) the sentinel firing upon a party of passing whites. He proved himself a BAD OFFICER, for he frequently admitted that in the main en- rement which cecurred on Wednesday last Katon Rouge township, near New Hope cl eight miles northwest of here, he did not see “de inimy, but dat de privates did.” His account of the serie: of disturbances does not materially differ from thas already reported inthe HERALD, except tat he does not show how many were KILLED AND WOUND in the several engagements that ensued, of his own command, notwithstanding that he did command on the battle field. This remains still an unsettled question. Various reports cuming from both sides state that few men were killed in the fight on Wed. nesday, but that in the route and pursait that fol- iZ4 lowed a large number of negroes were “lost by the wayside,” How true this 1s I cannotsay. The at some five or six, while I that they are satisfied as en were Killed and buried near the scene of Wednesday's battle. Out of about one hundred negroes under arms and all of whom were furnished ammunition by one Major Reister, the county clerk and comman- dant of the militia, about twenty reached Yorkville, where they were required to lay down their arms, and, for safety to themselves, the Sheriff put them 1m jail On the next day they were taken to me United States camp and there ‘they remained until yesterday, when they left and returned here, with- out any molestation whatever, iverybody, both neeroes and whites, state that the above-mentioned Major Reister, an ADVENTURER FROM BALTIMORE, of German origin, 1s the main troubles. He has repea ly ridden into office on the vot r has been their com- mander- ounty for a long period, and, by infammatery spe and bud advice, has’ kept the negroes constant the verge of a colliston with the whites. His wife’s family here admit that he 1s & most disreputable character, with whom many Mount Hope church, they exceedingly regret their connection. Twice he broke faith with the whites during the late troubles, and instead of allowing the negroes to go home = ang dispand he bhept them here, furnished them ammunition and finally brought on the collisions that took place. The hotel where I now write 1s riddled with bullet holes from the fire of the negroes, Who were intrenched at the turn-table near Reister’s residence on Tuesday morning last, THE DISARMING OF THE NEGROES has been progressing under the supervision of one Captain Kennedy, an aid of the Governor, and to- day a squad of United States troops were despatched to Rossville to have the moral ald of their presence where a large company were to be required to sur- render their Winchesters. There are now three companies of United States troops quartered here, under command of Brevet Major B. B. Keeler, a3 follows:—Company 1, commanded bv Captain Keeler; Company H, Captain McLaughlin; Com- pany B, Lieutenant Durham, all of the Eighteenth infantry. Company D, under command of Lieuten- ant Canton, Is at Rockhill, Everything is quiet, but there 1s still some excitement, STREET CAR SLAUGHTER, A Child Three Years Old Run Over io Fourth Street. Coroner Young yesterday morning commenced an investigation in the case of Honora Leahey, the ttle girl (whose parents live at 186 West Fourth street) who was killed corner of Barrow and Fourth street on Friday iast by being run over by car No. 39 of the Bleecker street line of cars, of which David D, Long was conductor and James Ashile; driver. It is alleged that while the child, only three years of age, was at play in the street she attempted to cross in front of the horses and in doing so was knocked down and ron over hetore the driver could stop the car. There was sume misunderstanning as to who removed the child from under the car, the condactor claim- Ing to have done so, while two others said they ‘Were the persons who took the little girl from under the wheels. In order to procure further tesumony Coroner Young adjourned the investigation till next Saturday morning. CARBOLIC ACID AGAIN. Another Poisoning Caso—Fata! Result. It ts only a few days since that the Heraup con- tained a report of the fatal poisoning of a@ lady in New Chambers street by swallowing a quantity of carbolic acid in mistake for brandy, and now an- other case has been Feu to light. Sergeant Tynan of the Twenty-first lee yes- terday informed Coroner Hermann that Annie Rider, | Battery Railroad Company.—This was an action COURTS. Sentences Upon Counterfeiters—Letter Stealors, Perjurers and legal Voters — Fraudulent Bankruptcy—Diamond Smuggling~Rid- ing on Car Front Platforms-Cap- tain Peabody Again in Court. UKITED STAT'S CIRCUIT COURT. Sentences Upon Prisoners. Judge Woodruff sat yesterday mormng at the usual hour, Counsel for the government moved that the pri- soners who had been convicted should be brought forward for sentence, PERJURY. James O'Neill had pleaded guilty to an indictment charging him with perjury. It appeared that he | committed the offence for the purpose of procuring | the discharge ofa prisoner accused of crime, Judge Woodruff remarked that perjury, he was sorry to say, Was of frequent occurreuce and had become a erying evil in the community, The efforts of the | onicers of justice to detect and punish it had been eiten frustrated. He would do all he could to sup- press this class of crime, The prisoner, ne under- stood, had a large famtly—nine children—and this | consideration welghea with the Court in passing a | lighter sentence than might otherwise have been | the case. Sentence, two years in Albany Peniten- tary at hard labor and to pay a fine of $100, FRAUDULENT VOTING, Wiliiam Quirke, found guilty of fr: for @ member of Congress in Westches the last election, Was next sentenced. It was stated that the prisoner had been drugged, and while in that condition was inauced by some per- sons to vote, utterly unconscious of what he was doing. He had servea in the war on the Unton side without apy complaint being made against him. | Judge Woodruil suid that the offence committed by | the prisoner struck at the freedom and foundation of | our national institutions and deserved to be punished severely; but, in consideration of tie facts stated, the sentence upon the prisoner would be only six months’ Lmprisonment, with the costs of the prose- | eution. EMBEZZLING LETTERS IN THE POST OFFICE. Wroch dosavlywitz, pleaded guilty of embez- zling letters trom the Post O:tice. 1t appeared that on the breaking out of the civil war the prisoner Was a first leutenant in the Austrian service, With the aid of Mr. Motiey, Who was then Minister to the | Imperial Court of Vienna, Kadosaviywitz obtained his discharge and came to this country, bringing with him 426 recruits. With these he jomed the army of the Union and was soon captaincy. In consideration of th pronounced the mitigated sentence of three years’ imprisonment, John T. Lawrence, embezzling letters in the Post Office; sentence, two years’ imprisonment. Joseph Hartnett, embezzling letters in the Post Ontice; sentence, ten years’ umprisonment. COUNTERFEIT MONEY Lewis Meyer, tor having had in his possession counterfeit money with intent to pass the same, was sentenced to tiree years’ imprisonment at hard la bor in Albany Penitentiary, and pay a fine of $100, Lewis Selner, found guilty of he in counter- felt money, was next sentenced. ‘Tue Judge said he had received a letter from the sister of the prisoner | asking for mercy upon her brother. He was sorry that considerations tor his sister had not operated upon the prisoner’s mind before he cominitted the otrence for which he was now about to be punished. The sentence of the Court was that the prisoner | should be imprisoned eight years at hard labor and pay a tine of $500, INCITING TO MUTINY ON BOARD SHIP. Peter Johuson, John Pet mn and Charles Thomp- son, found guilty of inciting a revolt en board the ship Shatainuc, were each sentenced to two vears’ imprisonment at hard labor in the Aluany Peniteu- tary. julent voting er county ab COUNTERFEITING. The Court resumed the tial of Alexis Nicolal, a Rusalan, who was indicted for engraving, or caus- ing to be eugraved, a lithographic stove, and print- ing therefrom fraudulent difty cent curre: stamps. ‘The prisoner Was convicted and remanded for sen- tence, which will be pronounced to-day. ‘The Court then adjourned. THE INDICTMENT AGAINST GENERAL JORDAN. Mr. B. K. Phelps, counsel for General Jordan, wn 0 1s indicted for fitung out an expedition in thus city for «id of the Cubans, contrary to the neutrality laws, having applied to the Couri to know when the General could be tried, the Judge said he would not sit longer in the present term; vut a jury would be in attendance on Menday next, and if a ) udge could be got from some other district the trial mught come on thea, UNITED STATES COM! HONERS’ COURT. Alleged Frauduient Bankruptcy. Betore Commissioner Betts, The United States vs. Adolph B. Herman and Her- THURSDAY. MARCH 16, 1871.—TRKIPLE SHEET. determination to see fall and ample sustice dens the unfortunate seamen, and, at a late hour, the case Was adjourned until this morning, when a@ de- cision will probabiy be arrived at, Decisions. By Judge Joachimsen, Braughman vs. Hoven,—Judgment tor plaintiff for $105 50, costs and allewa: Badger vs, Leland, igment for plaintiff? for $977 85, costs and allowance. Calwellisn Manufacturing Companu vs Judgment for plaintif for $¥9 16 and co: Siyt vs. Buell,—Judgment for defend coats and allowaxce, Buckman vs, Wresler,—Motion denied and case ordered to trial. Raynor vs. Valentine,—Judgment for defendant, Orders Granted.—Hilton vs, Witt, McAdam vs. Campbell, Ritter vs. Ordernell, Phillips vs, Briggs, Mareubotaur vs. Figure, Capen vs. Baxter, Muwern.— ts, lant, with COURT CALENDARS--THIS DAY. Supreme Court—Circuit—Part 1,—Nos, 259, 2692, 21, 51, 57, 81, 1883, 95, 205, 355, 647, 105, 45, 99, 571, 109, 118, Part 2162, | 1338, 202, 5222, 2622, 1262, 192, 3 36, 1442, 208, 228, 268, 646, 1992 COMMON PLEAS—TRIAL TeRM—Part 1,—Before Judge Loe w.—Nos. 68, 657, 788, 825, 249, 604, 193, 618, 638, 783, GT1, 157, 548. Court OF COMMON PLEAS—GENERAL | TERM— Daly, Robinson and Larremore,— 9, 10, 11%, 40, 51, 65, 91, 94, 97, MARINE Court—Part 2—Befor Nos, 5236, 5238, 5418, 4732, 5122, 5) 530 04, 5306, 5339, 5340, 5360, 6429, 5430, 5451, 5452, 5454, 5455, Part 3—Before Judge Joachinsen, SEEING THE AUDITOR. Buying a Claim Against the United States and Getiing One’s Digits Burned—Relief So in Court, but Denied. A case developing a queer state of facts, and in the development giving potent contirmation of the old apothegms regarding diamond cutting diamond and the necessary detllement ensuing from touching pitch, came up yesterday before Judge Sutherland, of the Supreme Court. The hinging point of the case was a claim against the United States, in which one party, evidently strongly doubtful in his own mind as to its ever being allowed, and which was its final disposition, made another party believe that it was going through all right, and succeeded in selling it to him tor something over half its face, the latter party to pocket the diference in consideration of cash down. The PARTIES TO TUE SUIT were Mr. John M. Shedd, a gentleman very well known in ceri political circles in this city, who was the plain, and the defendant, Richard Kk. Montgomery, aiso well known in certain circles in the national capital. ‘The plainti? set | complaint that on May 11, 1866, in tne city of Wash- ington, D. C., the defendant called on iim and Stated that he knew of a certain CLAIM AGAINST THE UNITED STATES for impressing into the service of the government, and joss while in such service, of the steamer Blue Wing No.2. his claim was then in the hands of the Third Auditor and amounted to $20,000. It conid be pought at a large discount, He proposed to the plaintiff to avail himsel! of the opportunity to make a good sum by ts purchase. He urged this purchase strenuously, alleging that he had INFLUENCE WITH THE THIRD AUDITOR, and could get him to adjudicate upon the claim within ten days, and would guarantee the payment to him of the $20,000—the full amount of the clatm- withm a few weeks. All he asked the plant? to pay for the claim was $11,500, After the defendant had told this part of the story the plainuit MADE A PROPOSITION that he would pay over the requn $11,500, tf the defendant would call and see the Third Auditor in person, and get him toexamine the case of the claim thoroughly and carefully with him; and, atter such examination, that the ‘Third Auditor would assure him that the claim was a gooa and valid one, and further, that all the evidence was in his posses- sion that possibly could be necessary to secure the payment of the claim, and still further, if the Au- ditor would promise him to make the claim a mat- ter of special business and pass it with his approval within ten days and recommend its immediate pay- ment, and finally, if the Auditor after these promises would allow him to take cure of the claim, after having passed it to the Second Comptroller of the “United States Treasury, and get the warrant for 1ts payment. With this proposition terminated their lirst interview. On the succeeding day—so runs on the plaintit’s sworn recital of the facts—the defend- ant called on him again, and stated that he had SEEN THE AUDITOR, and that the latter had examined with him the claim, and promised to comply with all the proposi- tions embodied in hts (the plaintitl’s) proposition. Believing these statemehts to pe true, the plaintitt, on the 23d of May, paid $11,500 to the defenaant. And now comes the FINALITY OF THE STORY. man Herman,—The defendants had been chargea with cencealing a portion of thei assets in a pank- Trupicy proceeding, and also with swearing falsely to astatement to tne eifect that Herman Herman had lost about $61,000 in Wall street speculat ‘The examination into the fucts of this case has be going on at intervals during the past ten months. Yesterday the Commissioner rendered a decision, holding the defendants to await the action of the Grand Jury. The Alleged Diamond Smugeling Case. It will be remembered that some few months ago @ young man—Angustus Charles Rad- clitfe—was arrested In this city on a charge of smug- gling diamonds, worth $25,000 or £30,000, from Lon- don, where his father is sald to be extensively en- red in the diamond business. Yesterday Raa. lite, with his counsel, had an interview with the United States District Atiorney. Subsequently Rad- clifle appeared betore Com:nissioner Davenport and gave bail in the sum of $1,500 for his liberation. -Marshal Sharpe's Office. Mr. George B. Purvis has been appointed one of the deputies in Marshal Sharpe's office. |EAS—TRIAL TERM—PART IL Caution to Front Platform Riders. Before Judge Loew ani! a Jury. Henry Tregar vs. The Dry Dock, Broadway and ih brought to recover $10,000 damages for an injury sustained by the piaintift while riding on one of the defendants’ cars under the following circum- stances:—The plaintil, who ts a journeyman hatter by trade, between seven and eight o'clock on the even- ing of the 28in of April last, got on the front plat- lorm of the car on the corner of broadway and Grand street for the purpose of procee ing to the Grand — street fer on his wi to his home in Brooklyn. The car was crowded anda heavy ran storm prevailed at thetime. A few minutes after the car moved from where he got on he was force! by the crowd off the front platform and under tie fore wheel of the car, which crushed his right hand in such a way as to render ainputation of three fingers necessary, and totally unfitting him to iy his avocation of hatter or to use bis hand at all, he defenlants’ counsel moved to dismiss the com- plaint on the ground that no negligence on the part of the company had been proven, and that contribu- tive negligence on the partof the plaintiff in getting on the front platform of an over crowded car was clea ly shown. Judge Loew granted the motion and dismissed the complaint, COURT OF COMMON PLEAS—SPECIAL TERM. Decisions. By Judge Robinson. Chase vs. Higgins.--Motion granted. McParlin vs, Leavitt.—Motion granted, with ten dollars costs. Mulry vs, Mason,—There does not appear to have peen any wilful contempt, except to pay a debt, &c. Motion denied, with ten dollars costs, By Judge Joseph F. Daly. Mali rs, The Hudson Rwer Railroad Company.— Judgment for plaintiff. Parish etal, vs, Mur'ston.—Motion granted, in the Matter of the Lien af Richard H. Ung.—Jndgment ordered. Dor- an Engilshwoman, thirty-two years of age, employed as domestic in the family of Mr. J. R. Lee, living at No. 104 East Thirtieth strect, had died haan ‘was believed irom drinking @ solution of sarbolic ‘acid in mistake for liquor. Benedict vs, The National Bank af the Common- wealth.—Order seitied. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS—SENERAL TERM. Dectsion. By Chief Justice Daly, Judge Larremore and Joseph F, Daly. Caranagh vs. Meehan et al.—Judgment affirmed asa personal judgment against Meehan, and judg- meut reversed as against defendant Johnson, Miller vs, Newman.—Judgment reversed, Carman vs. Carman.—Judgment reversed, with- out prejudice to her right, to renew her application | bees hereafter. Fallen vs. Bartine,—Order affirmed. Crowell vs. Crispin.—Judgment afirmed. MARINE COURT. A Caution to Car Conductors, Before Judge Curtis, Kezta Fleetwood vs, The Central Park, North ana East River Railroad Company.—This was an act.on to recover $1,000 for alleged damages incurred by the plaintiff while riding ou the cars of the corpor- ation sued. Mrs. Fleetwood was, on the 12th of Sep- tember, 1870, thrown down from the rear platform of a Central Park car through thé negligence of the conductor, who failed to stop the velticie at the pro- pet time and was severcly injured intevally and ex. ernally. The defendants dented all the allegations | ia the complaint. | After a protracted trial before & } jury a verdict in favor of the complainant in the | sum of $325 was returned. was granted the defendants. The Neptune Case Again. The negro seamen, whose sufférings on board the Neptune have been fully detatled in these columns, ; appealed for jnagment against Captain Peabody, ! 6 Me A stay of thirty days ‘The plaintiff had parted with his money, as he al- leges, on wholly fraudulent representations made by the defendant. On the 9th of July the said clatin | Was rejecied by tne Third Audicor as unjust and in- valid, and has not and never will be paid by the | United States. The next thing was for the plalntit | to make efforts to get his money back, and he there- | fore brought suit against the defendant for its re- | covery, on the ground of fraud, with iterest from | the date of payment. WHA? THE DEFENDANT SAYS. His story has one merit at least—brevity. He de. nies, in the first place, each and every allegation set forth in the complaint charging fraudulent repre- sentations on bis part; secondly, he avers that the plaintiY purchased the clan in violation of the laws | of the United States, and Knowing such purchase | Was In violation of such laws; and thirdly, he de- aes that the claim is a good and valid one. ; The i PROCEEDINGS | Were short IN COURT sharp and decisive, The plaintiff's counse sdwarda and Fielt—urged, with | all the legal ingenuity at their command, that there was just and legal ground for the complaint, and that the defendant should be compelied to pay back the money he had fraudulently obtaimed irom the plaintiff. They presented the affair as on a par with ordinary and common business trans- actions. The plaintit beheved that the parties holding the claim were willing to submit to heavy discount for ready cash. It was Known that the government was proverbially slow in passing upon claims, and for this reason it was a very common practice to sell them, Defendant's counsel, Mr. ‘Thayer, insisted that his chent was blameless, and | that the wrong, if there was any committed, was committed by the plaintm, The Judge listened p; tlently to the argument on both sides, and then or- dered the DISMISSAL OF THE COMPLAINT. The dismissal was ordered on the ground that it was clearly evident that the negotiation for the pur- chase of the claim grew out of irregular | influence of an omcer of the Unite ates siilung in @ quasi judicial capacity, and as such was against Public policy. and that both were equaliy wrong, and that reiief could not be asked in court. BOARD OF HEALTH. Smallpox Slightly on the Incrense—Prema- ture Veal Made Into Sausages. The Board of Health met yesterday at the usual | Place and hour, President Bosworth presiding, and Messrs, Mullaly, Gross, Barr, and Drs. Carnochan, Smith and Ceccarini being present. Considerable routine business having been transacted, the follow- ing report.of Dr. Charles P, Russell, Register of Records, was received:— I have the honor to report 524 registered deaths for the past week, being an increase of 10 over, the previous week, there were 20 deaths trom measies—an increase of ly and 14 from scariatina—a diminution of 6. There were 7 deaths from typhoid fever, against 4 the preceding week. There were $4 credited to phthisis pulmonalis—a decrease of 8. ‘The mortality from bronchitis and pneumonia rose from 15 and 40 respectively to 23 and 44. ‘Twenty deaths were oc- casioned by violence, among which there were 2 suicides. ‘there were reported 16 fatal cases of smallpox, being a fall: incoft Trom the two previous weeks, in each of which 20 had been registered. ‘In London, during the week ending February 2, the deaths from smalipox amounted to 227—the greatest weekly mortality trom that disease within a period 3. of thirty-on In Liverpool, during the same week, smallpox caused 129 deaths out of @ total of 452, and iu Brussels, during the previous week, 41 out of 154. The report of Dr. Morris, the City Sanitary Inspec- tor, Makes the following exhibit of CONTAGIOUS DISEASES for the week ending March 11:—Typhus fever, 1, same as last report; typhoid fever, 4, a decrease of one; relapsing fever, 7, an increase of five; scarlet fever, 80, decrease of eight; smallpox, 51, an increase of ‘ten; measles, 87, an increase Of forty- two; diphtheria, 10, a decrease of two. The report also states that— Although there appears an Increase of ten cases reported of smalipox during the letter over the former week, there is ho evidence of an increase of the epidemic generally. Thie Increase Is largely duc, to the fact that several caies have mn discovered by the Healtn Inspectors which had been sequestered by thelr friends, Laving no medical pectors are dally dis cases. The thorough system of house to house ‘Dow instituted by the Board will have the effect to further spread of this disease. There is scarcely any opposi- tion mantiested towards vaccination whenever it is oflered to the people at their own homes, At the present time this is In marked contrast with former similar e(forts. The Sanitary Committee in their report to the Board recommended that the City Sanitary Inspec- tor be instructed wo enforce sections 131, 132, 133, Is4 and 135 of the Sapitary Code. The sections relate to the arrival of ships at this port without clean bills of health. Section 132, which is the most important of them all, ts as follows:— That no owner, agent or consignee of any vessel or cargo, and no officer of any vessel Cia reapeet o either of witek vessel or cargo a permit, accor Feceiation, sal oF "should. Eaves Eent"? ordinance oF obtained to pass Quarantine or to come up to tl Trout of the chiy of New York) shall wnlade or land: or cans to be unladen or landed, such cargo or any part thereot in said city, without bi fait sity, without Baring fret received the written permit of In connection with tne smallpox question Dr. Car- eae rocaeal ne i continue, to arrive here rT don, and tat such cases sent to the West Bank Hospital. a ba A communication was received from Mr. H.C. Hail, of Litue Falls, N. Y., which states that parties in that vicinity are constantly buying up “prem: the commander of that The case was hear -* considerable length, the Judge expressing his | ture veal,” which they pack in kegs and ship to the city, where it 1s made up into sausages. . 5 ARSON UPON THE HIGH SEAS Sentence of Death Pronouneed Upon @ Ship Burner, An Unusual Scene in the Federal Courts. The United States Circuit Court room was crowded yesterday morning, as it was understood that the prisoners convicted of various offences at the present term, including Charles Perdue, found guilty of burning the ship Robert Edwardes at sea, 800 miles from land (the punishment for this offence being death), would be brought up for sentence, Judge Woudruff took his seat upon the beach punctually at the usual hour, THE BURNING OF THE SHIP ROBERT EDWARDES— SENTENCE OF DEATH UPON CHARLES PERDUE. Charles Perdue was brought forward for sene+ tence. A hush of solemn siience reigned through the court room as Judge Woodruff began his re- marks to the prisoner in the following terms:— You, Charles Perdue, were heretofore charged With @ most heinous erime—the burning of a shi on the high seas—unmindful of the horrors of suc uscene; regardless of the destruction of property you were bound to protect and preserve; reckless of human lives brougut into feartui peril, Upon dae eXamination and inquiry before the proper oilicer tne PROOFS OF YOUR GUILT were such In his judgment, required that you be held a prisoner wo answer. A grand jury, selected with care from amoug citizens of high enaracter— intelligent, impartial, just men—upon hearing the evidence tending to extablish your guilt found it their duty to present you for tial, Your tral has been nad. ‘Twelve fair and impartial men, having no motive and no purpose but to learn and deciare the truth, were selected by your own counsel, under the liberat provisions of our laws, which entitled you not only to exclude any ers from the jury, but with large fr -edom Lo reject any who were not satis- factory to you in every respect. Twelve sucn men were empavelled to inquire Whether you were guilty or not of the offence, and after @ full investiga- tion, @ patient aud a careful and cautious scrutiny of the evidence they, upon their oaths, pro- nounced you quinty. Able counsel appeared and conducted the trial for you; the evidence was subjected to THE MOST SEARCHING CRITICISM; every fact and circumstance im your favor proved or reasonably inferred from the testimony was urged With zeal and power; and yet the proofs of your guilt were convincing, and the jury were compelled, On their consciences and before God, so two declare. All the forms of procedure designed to protect the innocent agatnst unfounded charges and Ww secure to wn accused A FAIR AND IMPARTIAL TRIAL have thus been observed; careful instructions upon the law pertinent to the case and to the testimony were given to tue jury in a manner which gave to you the benefit of every reasouable dcubt of the truth{ulness of the witnesses, of the fact of crime or of your own guilt therein. And yet you now stand before the court convicied—convicted of AN OFFENCE SO FLAGRANT that it finds scarcely a paraliel in the catalogue of crue. The Court’ at us point asked the prisoner what he had to say why sentence should not be pro- nounced upon him. ‘Tae prisoner repited:—I thank your Honor for the privilege, but I have nothing to state now on my own behalf, My counsel has sald ail that I desired to say. Judge Woodrui? continued:—On the loth of Ma; you satied with more than thirty mariners (offl- and seamen) on a voyage to continue, as sup- posed, for several ye: Harmony and good will apparently prevailed among all on board. No il-treatment from the officers of the slip appears to have awakened anger, pas- sion or revenge. No provocation to inojure any one connected with the vessel seems to have been given. Nevertheless, within less than three Months, {or NO Apparent reason, save @ restiess de- sire to termiuate a voyage which did not, you thought, bid fair to yield the hoped for proiits, you conceived and on the night of the 20th uf July you carried into executiun your PLAN TU BURN THE SHIP, ai the imminent peril, nay at almost a certainty, of the loss of the Itves of all on board. It is suggested by your counsel, and it may possibly be true, thas you had at the time an expectation that your own life and perhaps tne lives of the others would be saved—that all might reach the land. If true, that neither excuses the offence nor affects the punish- ment prescribed, You burne t the sup. You mpe- Tilled humau lives; even the expectation, u you felt it, had no just foundation. In fact, ON A FAK OFF SEA, eight handred miles froia shore on a burning ship there Was to your companions in human judgment of what was probable only the alternative of DEATH BY FIRE OR DEATH BY WATE! If malignity dict not aim at this a determined reck- lessness, littie less heinous, impelled you. And had the changing elements been moved from the quiet of that night, or no vesset had Providentially passed aud seen the laboring boats In which refuge was sought from the Names you kindled, veither you nor your fellow mariuers would bave ever told the fate oL fog or them. He who holdeth the wind in His right hand and who can bid the waves be still has saved them aud you from the death which seemed lpending. They live to ted the story; you yet live to sulfer the penaity of the law, and by your fate to warn all men to beware of crunes like this, Jadvert to the fearful nature of your crime, not for the purpose of giving you pain, but | would have you realize the guilt that rests upon you tu all its enormity repentance may follow; that, be fove it 18 too late, vefore the few days reuiaining to you on Earth shail pass, KEVENTANCE MAY COME, and avail with Him who can save you from a more fearful doom—that death which 1a eternal. There is no crime aguinst man so great, no offence against human law so heinous, but it may be forgiven by Him. Seek that forgiveness, MERCY. The law denounces your crime and declares you deserving of death. ‘The jurors by whom you were tried, in their pity for you Im your gnilt, have recom- mended you to mercy. That recommendation will be communicated to the President of the United States, who alone has power w extend mercy to you: but I cannot, in view of the greatness of your otfence, in view of suffering such crimes to pass without their Just, though teartul, puuishment, en- courage lor a moment the Lope that any inier.erence with the course of the law will be lad in your be- half, I urge you, therefore, to prepare to inect the death to which the law consigns you. Yon can, at Be have the advice, the counsel and the THE MINISTERS OF RELIGION, such as you may select, and God grant’ that, alded by their counsels, your preparation may be ‘saving and sure. ‘To you remains a short time in which to make your peuce with God. On me is devolved the painful but inexorable duty to pronounce the sen- tence which the law has declared, and which is— ‘That you, Charles Perdue, be taken hence to the place from which you came, that you be detaiued in close custody until Friday, the 12th day of May uext, and that on that day you be taken to the piace of execution, and there, between the hours of ten o’clock In the forenoon and four o'clock in the after- noo, be hanged by the neck untii you shali be dead. ave mercy OL your soul, (Murmurs art.) » conciuding words of the sentence were pro- by the learued Judge in a slow and solemn manner, and after they were uttered Perdue re- mained standing, apparently stupefled. Pe kept ms eyes downcast, and Onaily was removed by the om- cera, It 1s several years, provably seven, since there has been a capital conviction aud sentence In the federal courts of this city, ‘fhe execution of a pirate on Bedloe’s Island and of Gordon in the Tombs dur- ing the war were the last under the United States Jaw in New York, Efforts will be made to save Bue life, as the jury strongly recommended him ‘o mercy. Frederick Allen and Charles Meredith, who had pleaded guilty of an attempt to set fire to the ship, with intent to burn or destroy her, were next brought up for senteuce. The captain of the ship, Mr. Pease, was, at the request of Mr, B. F, Russell, counsel for the prison- ers, called to the stand. He stated in reply to ques- tions that he had been part owner of the ship Robert Eawardes; that these men had done him alk the injury they ever could do to him, and he hud no. desire to have them punished at all. Mr. Russeil—So far as yon are concerned you are not opposed to a mild punishment? ‘The Captain—I am not, sir. Mr. Russell then made some remarks to the Court im mitigation of punishment. Judge Woodrum sentenced the prisoners to ten ears’ imprisonment each, at hard labor, in Albany cnitentiary, remarking tat the feeling expressed. bv the captain of the ship, who said he had no de- sire to see punishment imflicted, was creditable to. him, and was @ strong expression on lus part of freedom from passion and from any deaite for re- venge or even to retaliate for wrong. The Judge adverted tn fecling terms to the fate of their com: rade, Perdue, and after stating that the object of the law was to punish crime, and not seek revenge, ae pronounced the sentence as above. A SPRIMGFIELO BIYSTERY. A Well-to-do Carpenter Comes to Thia City on Business and Mystericasly Disappears. Last Friday morning, between eight aud nine o'clock, Mr. James White, a respectable carpenter, of Springfleld, New Jersey, camo to ins city to collect certain subscriptions for the church with which he was connected. He was ex- pected wo return home cn we evenmg of the same day, but did not, and as he has nos been heard from since nis wife and fimily have for several days past veen :n @ fearful state of anxiety about him. His pastor, the Rev, L, Schuel-« der, was In this city yesterday gniteavoring, to fatnom the mystery, but beyond ascertaining the missing gentleman had called ata house to Waveriey place on the day of his disappearance, ana ‘cred a sinall sum money, noth. “ Ser dressed in & dark suit and wore side whiskers, rave apprehensions are ente Ae rained im regard se