The New York Herald Newspaper, October 4, 1872, Page 5

THE PATENBURG RIOTS, ‘Pho Result of the Post-Mortem Examination om the Bodies of the Negroes, TROUBLE ABOUT RAISING THE IRISHMAN. CONTINUATION OFTHE INVESTIGATION. HOW THE RIOT COMMENCED. Fiemmaron, N. J., Oct. 8, 1872. Late last night the two doctors who had been pentto make post-mortem examinations on the Dedies of the murdered men came into town, hav- Ig succeeded in exhuming the remains of the three megroes, With the body of the Irishman, however, B®. was different. When Dr. Sullivan with ® posse of men proceeded to have it raised, Father O'Neill, the priest of the district, appeared japon the ground and asked by what authority the Boctor was acting? He answered by the authority of the State of New Jersay, whereupon Father O'Neill demanded to sce his papers. By some over- pight the Doctor had not deen provided with the necessary credential# by the District Atrorney, who did not think it‘was necessary, and the priest absolutely refused to let the body be ex- fumed ubtii ho was forced to do so, alleging that uch an act was contrary to the canons of his Church, Dry Sullivan immediately telegraphed to Fleming- fon for instructions and authority, and an order ‘was sent to him, signed by the District Attorney gud Justice Dunham, but it arrived at Patenpurg to late for any action to be taken upon it, and the were forced to return with their busl- ese but half fulfiljed. The conclusion to which they have come after examining the bodies of (Me negroes is that death in only one instance was the immediate result of a gunshot wound. All three were shot, but the wounds from clubs or blunt instruments had caused the death of two. It has been stated that the Irish had used Duckshot, but none was found in the dead bodies. Dr. Sullivan’s business prevents him from returning to complete the work to- @ay, and the matter will probably lie in abeyance for some days. So far as the Irishmen are con- @erne_ the law is being prosecuted vigorously enough, but no exertions have been put forth to gapture the negroes who were among the RINGLEADERS AND ORIGINATORS @f the bloody fight, The warrants to be issucd for the arrest of Perkins and Warren, the black men who had the first tift, have not been placed in the Rauds of the Sherif, and ne is powerless to act Without them. ‘Now that Governor Parker has commenced to fake decided steps in the matter, the people of this istrict express the opinion that he should go fur- ther and insist that no partisan principle or judice against a class should prevent justice mm being fairly and impartially dealt out. Not taking warning by the example of Patenburg, @ number of negroes and irish have been set to werk on the New Jersey Central road, within a Mhort distance of each other. With the feel- ing that exists between the two parties at present rupture, sooner or later, is inevitable, “William Mcliroy was the first witness called this morn is his evidence :—I am a blacksmith, The followin; ing in Paten have lived there three years} nine railroad hands boarding with me at the time of riot (the names were given): I know John Coyle, one Of the prisoners; he Kept a boarding shanty; he lived ¢ 400 yards trom me; know David Collage; he also @ boarding house; I know Barney McFadden; he en a pate over a gang of white men; he lived near ‘the tune! with his father: on the night of the riot ‘WAS HOME IN BED; cannot are 1 tell where the men who boarded with me now ey are all quit but John Kelly, one of the pris- the: went to H m; ‘none of them returned; on the night of riot I a rifle and pistol in my possession; ‘ifle was not loaded; one of the beth Simon Haley, e pistol; the ritle was not taken out at the 3 was returned; we repaired an old gun once for ey McFadden; it was about a month ago; on the 4 ing of the riot I saw the gun in the hands of rew in _; this was before the raid on the Carter ; ‘he was right in front of my_ house; half-past_ eleven o'clock on Saturday ht I heard a_ nol an some men paaing past my house ;, t jumped out of bed and looked but saw nobody; I turned around and was going tobed, when Theard somebody going around the ase they were three men going past with dinner pails cfr hands; they were walking very fast; in ten or Been minutes I saw a black man coming from the corner ‘of the shop and a white man coming the other way; the k man knocked the white man down with something his hand; the white man, I thin A n; I cannot tell who the black man w: him; there was another m: a k man, ran along by the prostrate wi meth! of the ground and - hit ying the ground Bye the with what his hand; saw another man fall; he was a black in, but I cannot say who hit him or knocked him I saw two or three white men come trom the r where Quinn came from; Quinn was getting off Sind he went off; 1 looked down and saw two men sit Sa oop’ ‘think they were black men; I was up 31 thin! THE BLACK MAN WHO WAS KNOCKED DOWN red in and sat down beside the other two; about e there were two shots fired from a pistol I think; ‘cannot tell which side fired; I do not know whether Say person was hit; they seemed to all get away from the 3 they went in different directions; one back man to the other, “Come on, Charley; the black men the ‘bridge and the ir boarding houses; ¢ fight, but cannot exact did not white men went I heard them talk remember wh: at the; did not aes yee and we will ki bb get went down John Kel ral 3 about land rapped at iti d Know who he was ‘and he wanted Kell; mw been six or seven; the: ey ties i oe on + pe faded the to 0 bac! ras rs em. not tell who ‘were there and saw that the SHANTIES WERE ON FIRE; ick at Kelly’s persuasion; I think a little before ime 16 the tunnel; I was so excited f 41 went upon my scaffold they, saw a number of along line near the 1 wi the men Kelly; I think they were pursuing no more until about six o'clock in the ig some guns ; I an iron scraper in sawno other weapons ; a Uttle halt and went on; they talked about the “negrocs alling the Irishman Coll: Quinn hada gun; he see tobe kind of leader among them; Michael ‘Kelly had a ; it 8A i) ‘fo hie boarding how Seer Ele i Rite TRG Rai aN yt w" Nufurn? afer the crowd “tind passed’: use, he took his 8, but chuinot tell wien with wheth or another way John Finity I ier Boots ‘and from the 5 i i i 1H in that whei the saw the crowd, 4 1do Any one else e: ave name vou did he go? A. Wel & ki ;1do not remember ha seen iy" cal where Keil; boarder, wei at my house the time the of afterwa' wae, at ht until him my. hot ola and a itele ie aAter ine woe thncens break A was see him £ the houge atall r, to the best of my knowledge: when the amongst then; ae incites Seeee: fae mie i 4 1 don’t eae whether Kelly wae spoken to the second or not; I knew ue before — that 3 I did notsee Joun Coyle go with the crowd in ; after IT eat my breakfast I went up tothe anties, where Coll was I did_not lea house fore this, poly {0 go fo Andrew Streeter i road e Methodist church: me! Kfast did not say anything about what had at Carter's fariay Fi i he" Dut they didnot enter into particuleres that wi oc pee at an: place: t had ca a ae reel, Set led Anderson, the Sustice of the Peace, when the inquest; the before only ume ling "about Rit aight pace Bete ing was when the aro going to kill them ail;” Theard some of m Ree are aces Sector not know of any of thy boarders elu down atthe Hungw ‘whether they went tone fice or mere oe Seoemala rat bar car fk lot for coming back trom the ‘The evidence of Mr, McElroy was attentivety lis- @ good impression In Court. Proved that the negroes in ere the and this seemed to be the prevailing im} m_in Court. His examina. tion was so tedious and protracted that a general Reine of relief was experiencea when he con- clude John Gallai ‘stand. ty reluctant ne re Nett vy 8 Bear the sce at of ra st Pant Gia Sa nde tan dq disturbane i, as oh Pat ta wa Mi tay det, Satna NEW YOURK HERALD, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1872.-TRIPLE SHEET, PES on Te te Sy hang; when T Arst saw thems Ary Oe te what they ry T not " hing i ia ot seem to hae Pon iigs witht mes he lived wit aaa eae eet etoat tne on lives wien mer t ‘since Monday; Patrick MeCoy was boarders; I did not know anythii raid untll I saw the men passin; RDERS WERK HOME THAT NIGHT, th the exeeption a; they were home all night; not tell any one that Patrick MeCoy was not home night; Ieould not do so without telling a lie; when raiders came past in the morning the board- were all in bed with the exception of Pat McCoy, washing his eyes; the men made no noi my house; they shouted in the woods to each othe: me on!” that Was all I heard; I was in the Kitchen when they were Papsing 1 was kindling a fire at the timo; I hot hether they - were coming for myself or not; Barney McFadden and four other men paseed after the shanty; I did not know crowd, and they came into any of them ‘bud Barney; 1 had never ren the other four men before, and have not seen them since; they are m 5 ed Barney what was the mat- 3 aut he said, i sng pa Milled st the Segpel Foes, crowd were gol if follow’ them him what retoned I ask him there; he said he could not help it, he was forced to come; he said his life was threatened, or any man’s who would not come with the crowd ; { told him to go no fur- ther, and then I went into the kitchen; the men then wenton after the crowd; the men who came in along med with pickaxes and clubs; when they left { went to work to get breakiast; I went out some time after; 1 found Barney McFadden, Pat McCoy and James Burke sitting on the bridge near my house; Burke Spa mason he haggone, and hag not since come back; lett all his clothes behind bim, and inten urn; EF went down to the bridge; rett was there I saw a man ranning out of the turn- rowd after him; I saw him fall; he must have lack man, asI saw him lying there dead two or three hours afterward ; 1 wasdigtant about200 yards; when he came out of the turnpike his pursuers were close by him ; thei t fired, and the smoke of the gun came from the middle of the turnpike; the body was lying at the side of the turnpike; there must have been about forty or fifty pursuing tle man when he was shot: he tell there were a few of them around him; f didn see any of them but him with clubs; when thoy lett they went in the direction of Stockton’s, whence they first came when they passed my house earlier ;I had heard the report ofguns before this, but could not tell from what direction it came; after I left the house, Baruey McFadden and icCoy sat upon the bridge about ten minutes; f wanted McFadden to stop for breakfast, and he said,"No,he would ‘0 home an nore it with his mother; he then went in the direction of the turnpike after the crowd ; McCoy and Burke came in and had breakfast; McCoy and Burke were not away trom my house that morning; I could not tell who was the man who fired THE GUN THAT KILLED THE NEGRO, and have never been told; I don't know any of the men who were in the riot that morning ; Happer, the crooke: nosed man, is down at my shanty yet; J saw the men r turn from the Carter farm; I suppose « was they who Killed the man at the turnpike; the bridge is on the road near the Baptist church, George W. Rea wag next sworn, but before testifying Charles: Yates, ‘one of the colored prisoners, was brought into Court, He took a seat near the Lrichmen beside his counsel, and listened attentively to the evidence, On his fingers he wore two large lead rings, but had no coat on. Mr. Rea said :—I live near the scene of the rlot, but did not licar of the riot untilgoiug to church that morning: Theard gun shotsin the morning, but did not, think this strange, as the negroes were in the habit of practising at a mark; they had fireams; I heard of the riot down at Patenburg from Charles Yates, the prisoner now here; he came to the house about # quarte: Sunday morning he was hallooing for Mr, Vailely, who was his boss; then he called me; he called me more than ¢ dozen timds; X did not get up, aftor he told who he was got up and looked out; 1 did not go out to speak to him, but one of the boarders’ was talking to hiu; he said the shanties had been burned up at the tum THAT THERE WERE FOUR OR FIVE WiLITR HEN KILLED, and that there were four colored men In the shanties drunk, and he sponeRS they’ were burned up; the man in hi who Was talking to him told him to go to town and no gue, would | distur phn; he went there Vand 1 found him there *the next morning; Yates lived in one of the shanties on the Carier farm; he was a team driver aud kept his team at my place; Lasked him at daylight what had place, but he was so excited { could not tell whgt h it was pay day the Friday before, and the day lier was a general holiday among the whites and blaéks, John Vallely sworn—I was at the house of Mr. Rea duritig the rots; 1 knew nothing about them; Charles Yates came to Mi. Rea’s about two or three o'clock on Sunday morning; he said the negroes and the white men had been fighting, and that some men had been killed; when he saw the shanties on fire he lett and came down to Mr. Rea’s; he did not say what he wanted; he said all the colored boys had gone up and had a fight about the tunnel; I went in and went to bed; I told him betore I went in to go to the barn; I don't know whether he went to the barn or not; I saw him at Mr. Rea’s the next morning when I went into breakiast. George Cratsey sworn—I live with Mr. Kea; I don’t know anything about the riot personally; 1 have heard eople talk about it; when I got up in ihe morning I Peak Yates say that there had been fighting up at the tunnel; 1 did not hear him say he had killed aman; I did not hear him say he saw another man killed; I was at the Patenburg store on the Saturday night; I left there about ten o'clock; I saw or heara no rioting or fighting While I was there; Yates was alone at the barn when | talked with him, James Stockton, sworn—I reside within half a mile of Pattenburg, on the road to Pittston; it is half a mile from my place to the Carter buildings; the negro shanties were nearer to my house than Carter’s house; on the night of 22d of September I was at home ;I heard nothing about the Saturday night’s riot; about twelve o'clock my dog barked, and I got up, and, looking out, saw about twenty or thirty men running past my house and go towards the tunnel; 1 did not hear them say anythin did not see them have weapons; I did not Know of them; about two o’clock they came back again there were more ne back than there were going; they mado no noise goimg back; I should not heard them go through it the dog had not barked; I saw or heard no more until about sunrise the next morning, when my wife roused me and told me there were a lot o1 white men coming down the road; they stopped at my house and asked my boy to ‘let them have thi gun; he would not let them have it and he called to me; came down and saw thre standing by the pore! ong asked mo tor my gun; I did not know any of them, and would not let thi jave my gun; I have ‘seen none of them since ; they told me the colored people had killed one of their men down at the tunnel and they were GOING DOWN TO HAVE REVENGE; bo or ema had guns, one faa ammer in highend whole crowd came up as the four men were r whine there were about a hundre with me; I I saw wage guns in the crowd, and two axe: they on when they could not get my gui the report of a gun some time after; the report came from where the man had been shot on the turnpike road; it was only a few minutes after that the last man came up. The Court adjourned at half-past four. This af- ternoon the Sheriff came in from a trip into the interior and re ae @ rumor which was in circula- tion that the jail had been set upon by Irishmen last night and two men killed. It is needless to say the report is without foundation, but it caused great excitement, THE SUFFOLK OOUNTY FAIR, Mr. Greeley’s Visit to Riverhead—An Ag- ricultural Address. Mr. Greeley left as early as seven o'clock yester- day morning to deliver another agricultural ad- dress, this time at Riverhead, Suffolk county, L. I, The ride over the Long Island Railroad was an un- usually quiet one for the Sage. Except for afew Wee at Jamaica, Jerusalem, Farmingdale, Gnd afew other stations ‘along the route, te. was entirely undisturbed, and read his papers until the tooting of tne inevitable brass band announced Riverhead. Here a concourse of people, num- bering about five hundred, good-natured but not more demonstrative than the burghers of Kutztown, had assembled to meet the Sage, and as he des- cended amid a magnificent rendition of “Hail to the Chief” by rustic musicians, the crowd indicated its approbation by a general scamper in his direc- tion anda patting of hands. The Chief was taken in Ret ye by Mr. Wells and Mr. Nichol, the Presi- dent of the Fair Asssociation, and driven at once tothe Fair Grounds. There was a crowd of about three thousand people engaged in viewing the curiosities and wonders of this bucolic show—a class of people naturally to be found living so neap to New York, ople with country homes and city business, Di Vernons in riding skirts on and whips in their hands, with fresh country faces and fine city manners, strapping young lads, long and lank, with city clothes and country freckles, and fat old Squire Westerns, with hearty voices and jolly noses. These exhibited a curiosity to see Greeley, such as OG Raed! does, but it was evident that nearly eve! ly had seen him before and were not going into hysterical enthusiasm over him. Mr. Greeley inspected the Fair and then returned to Mr. Wells’ to er. At half-past two o’clock he came back to the grounds and delivered his agricultural address to tout one thousand five hundred people—all who could gather near enough to hear him. He remaineé. all night at Mr. Wells’, and will return to the cit; this morning. NEWS ITEMS, The dogs outnumber the children in Williams- port, Pa. It is prophested out West that the coming Winter ‘will be very severe. Caterpillars, the newspapers say, are destroyin, the onic timber in Tennessee,” ‘fad The wheat crop of San Joaquin Valley, California, is 90 lacge this year that not half of it will reach the mai A man in Wheeling recently caught a rat, satu- rated it with kerosene oil, set it on fire and let it run, The house not being insured the loss fell en- tirely upon the owner, incy, Tlumas county, Cal., was visited by an eatth tke on howd ty * lnstant, Mbt ead bd sidera rem ong Movable articles an made timid people shake in their shoes, John G, Hale, of Boston, was recently arrested in have cane eee eee se ie wi aw: awardee of ship Southern iguis, ‘They ha’ a ital Farm Community” in chester ounty, ray which does not seem to thrive to the extent that its projccwie antict- meeting of the olub recently decided that pated, A of the cro} the fe of the Bre ‘owing to the DeatH.—Mrs. Warrin; - Sea Dy none ke aren ae te son, Lp her Anderson's s cr and apparently went She was immediately and every ib} effort made to revive her, but she was never ful awakened, and died in the ‘which 80 came over her. Harrington to this cl Ohio in 1810, on a keel boat with her first ni and bearing in her arms an Infant child,” This child was dim Porter: aiterwants the famous Kentucky glamt. The death of ihis venerable lady will be widely —Lowisvile Courier-Journal, Octover le THE COURTS. Interesting Proceedings in the New York and Brooklyn Courts, Criminal Cases in the United States Circuit Court—The Appointment of Election Super- visors—Cases in Admiralty—A Patent Pavement in Court—The Lunatic Asylum Murders—Decisions. UNITED STATES CIRCUIT COURT. Criminal Cases—Conmviction of a Dealer in Immoral Books and Pictures. Before Judge Benedict. In the United States Circuit Court yesterday Judge Benedict preceeded with the trial of David Massey, alias “Profeasor” Silaa Rogers, late of 737 Broadway, in thiacity, who was indicted for send- ing obscene publications through the Post Office. General Davies, United States Assistant District at- torney, conducted the prosecution, and the pris- oner was defended by Mr. Charles 8, Spencer, The principal witness for the prosecution was A. F. Comstock, who deposed that he had, under feigned names, written to the deiendant from different parts of the country requesting the latter to for- ward speciinens of the goods he had to sell. Mr, Comstock did not keep copies of his letters to the prisoner, but he preserved the letters and their enclosures which the prisoner sent in reply, lt was _conceded, both by the prosecution and by the defence, that the enclosures in question were of an indecent character, and the only point for the jury to determine was whether Massey had mailed this, immoral stut! or not. A letter carrier deposed that he had taken Massey's mening for one o! the letters, which was registered, and which letter Comstock stated was one of those he had written in a feigned name to Massey asking for specimens of his goods, In the course of the evidence it came out that Mr. Com- stock has already seized no less than thirteen tons weight of immoral books and piccneet and that ten tons of these abominable articles are this moment deposited in the cellars of the Tract Society await- ing the judgment of Recorder Hackett in the Court of General Sessions. The jury, after a brief consul- tation, found the prisoner guilty, and he was im- mediately sentenced by the Judge to one year’s imprisonment and @ fine of $500—the highest pen- alty of the law, Alter fixing days for the trial of other cases the Court adjourned till tlus morning. The Appointment of Election Super- visors. Judge Woodruff sat yesterday in the United States Court to hear and determine objections to the appointment of persons named on the list of Supervisors of Election. The Chief Supervisor is already engaged in swearin; those against whom do ections have been made, and 8 days must elapse before a com- plete and perfect list of those who have been ap- pointed can be furnished, UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT, Admiralty Calendar for This Day. Before Judge Blatchford, John Ryan vs. Richard Heckscher. Mary Thomas vs, Steamtug General W. Me- Candiless. Commercial Steamboat Company vs. Ferryboat America. New Jersey Railroad and Transportation Com- pany vs. The Propeller John Taylor. The United States vs. Two Trunks containing fringes, &c. Pe Nae! Ludlow vs. The Brigantine Monte risto, The New York Lighterage Company vs. The Steamtug E. Levy. SUPREME COURT—CHAMBERS, A Reminiscence—Patent Puvements. Before Judge Leonard, In 1869 the Common Council resolved to pave Fourth and Fifth streets, from the Bowery to Man- gin street, with Robbins’ patent pavement, and directed the work to be advertised. Mr. R. W. Twendy being the only person authorized to furnish that pavement, put in a bid at $5 go Rer square yard, and his bid was, after the usual delays, ac- cepted; but meanwhile the Common Council had decided not to go go far as Mangin street with the experiment, but to stop at Lewis street. New laws and last year’s politics interfered with the conclu- sion of the contract. Mr. Twendy, under the law ap- panne S board to inquire into contracty, applied fo that board, of whic: ex-Judge Sutherland was the teres | Member, and obtained from that board a certificate that there was no fraud in lis proeeers paving to Lewis street. Mr. Twendy hereupon applied to Commissioner Van Nort, ‘and he refusing to entertain the case, to Mr. Justice Leonard in the Supreme Court, Chambers, for a mandamus to Mr, Yan Nort. to have the contract executed, and the argument on that application came up yesterday. On the part of the Commissioner of Public Works it was argued that the relator proposed to lay down a “patent pavement; that said pavement could not be laid down except on the petition of a majority of the property-hold- ers, and that no such petition had ever been made; that under the statute this invalidated the pro- ceedings of the Common Council; that no bids had ever been put forward for a contract for pavement to Lewis street, but to Mangin strect; that the con- tract approved by the Board of Contracts was the contract to Lewis street, which had never in any way been authorized, and that at most their ap- Bore! merely removed, the objection that the bid 1 not been properly advertised. On behalf of the motion Mr. Develin urged tgat the {pagment of the Board on Contracts negatived all ideas of fraud and irregularity; that the contract, therefore, stood as an honest and regular contract pep sa execution, and that the question of origi- nal right to lay such pavement, when the Mayor had approved the action of the Common Council, had been settied in favor of the municipal authori- ties and of the relator. Decision reserved, The Lunatic Asylam Murders—Applica- tion for the Discharge of Farrell. An application, was made yesterday to Mr. Justice Leonard, in the Supreme Court, Chambers, for the release of Thomas Farrell, whose brutality is alleged to have hurried two patients in the Blackwell's Island Lunatic Asylum to the grave, on Mr. Howe, his counsel, claimed that the accusa- tion against Farrell was unfounded, and in part an effort by Dr. Echeverria to save himself from blame, and that on cxamination Farrell's inno- cence would be fully shown. He would not make this application but for the fact that the crowded state of the calendars would delay Far- rell’s trial, The application was opposed by the District At- torney on the ground that the charges, if true, pre- sented an Bauataly brutal case of murder, and that the sessions of hoth Oyer aud Terminer and General Sessions presented an early opportunity for the trial of the criminal. The Court reserved its decision. Decisions. By Judge Leonard. In re Jane Murphy.—Application denied and writ dismissed. The Hercules Mutual Life Insurance Company vs. Manheim et al.—Injunclion dissolved, with $10 costs of motion. Mary Frances Maine vs. Peter Maine,—Report of referee confirmed and judgment of divorce granted, COURT CALENDAR—THIS DAY. Supreme CourtT—CHAMBERS.—Held by Juage Tee ata Tao 140 169, 154, WoT 10, 14, 105, 108, or of 7, 168, 169, 170, 172,174, 17) BROOKLYN COURTS. LAT Re I CITY COURT—SPECIAL TERM. Decisions. By Judge Neilson. Clement Trimble va. Gilbert Sayres et al.—There wing been two trials of this action, I feel con- strained to deny the application fora new trial bo approving of the verdict given on the last i Benjamin E. Valentine vs. John Leit.—Jadgment for plaintiff, removing cloud {rom title of the land conveyed. . ee bere Frederick Elke gee to set aside com: ag not coufurming sum- oy denied with costs. Memorandum of opinion Henry Boyson vs, James Lothicn.—-Order for pay- of part of sum claimed granted, Memoran- ite _vs, Archibald G. Hall.—Motion to ‘eeekeaes 0 if conditions accepted. memorandum 9 filed. 2 be . vB. TN Connelly. —Order tobe entered pursuant to memorandum filed. Alexat Van Vi vs. Kate Van Voast.—Judg- sient of alvores granted to piaintid. Sg COURT OF SESSIONS, Plckpockets at Work on « Prison Warden. Before Judge Moore and Associate Justice. Mr. John Orr, @ Warden of the Tombs Prison, New York, went to bay Islana by the dummy route on the 10th of August last, and on his return got aboard a car for the Fulton ferry at the Fifth avenue depot. As he was in the act of stepping an the car he wasaboved by two young men, and in in as supervisors | &@ moment thereafter missed his gold watch, which unscrewed irom the chain, It seems that Capt MeKeilar and Sergeant Lloyd, of the Fifth avenue police station, had been wat the ope- were pickpockets, and,apon seeing them were et ay Orr ot iis watch, immediately relieve Mr. eae them. prisoners gave their names as William Cook ai lenry Thomas. Cook, who took the watch, threw it over into Greenwood Cemetery, where it ‘was recovered. The defence on the trial was a total denialy The prisoners swore that they were strangers to each other; but this testimony went for naught, as Ser- geant Lioyd and others testified that they had seen them ether for some time previous to the rob- bery. th were convicted. In passing sentence on Cook Judge Moore ob- served that the eaeee Penalty the law allowed him to inflict i this case was imprisonment for five yeara, It was very seldom that he regretted being unable to sentence prisoners for longer terms than the law prescribed, but in_ this case he did 60 regret. He sentenced Cook to the Penitentiary for four years and eleven months. When was arraigned for sentence Judge Moore said:: ‘ou have heard my remarks to Cook. They apply also to you, The sentence of the Court ia that you be imprisoned in the Kinga County Penitentiary for the term of four years and eleven months.” The Charges Against District Attorney Britton, The Grand Jury are now engaged in investigat- ing the charges preferred by a local paper against District Attorney Britton, to the effect that he cor- ruptly entered a nolle prosequt in the case of Paddy Keenan (the Mayor's messenger), who was in- dicted on the charge of forging the names of sure- ties fo a contract bond. The Grand Jury appeared in court yesterday afternoon and stated that they had had before them an attaché of the journal in question, who declined to answer certain questions and eenly protested against testifying. They inquired of the Court, therefore, whether they could compel the witness to answer the questions puttohim. In reply, Judge Moore stated that they could compel him unless he said that his re- plies would criminate himself, The jurors then re- tired to continue their investigation. It i# under- stood that the witness is one of the proprietors of the paper. COMMISSION OF APPEALS. . ALBANY, N. Y., Oct. 3, 1872. In the Commission of Appeais to-day there will be an afternoon session. Nos. 612 and 620 will be added'to the day calendar for Friday. The Court will adjourn to-morrow sine die. ARCHBISHOP BAYLEY. pS The Clergy of His Late Diocese Bidding Him a Formal Farewell—Presentation of a Cross, a Watch and an Addre As announced in last Sunday’s HERALD the clergy of the diocese of Newark, which includes the whole State of New Jersey, assembled yesterday, to the number of about one hundred, in the hall of the Ca- tholic Institute, in New street, Newark, to bid their late pastoral chief, Archbishop Jas. R. Bayley, a for- mal farewell, preparatory to his departure for Bal- timore, and to substantially express their deep and affectionate regard for him. When all had assem- bled, the new Primate included, the Very Rev. Dr. Corrigan, President of Seton Hall College, ad- vanced, and, addressing himself to Dr. Bayley, read the following :— FAREWELL ADDRESS, Most REVEREND ARcHBIsHOP—On the part of the clergy, both secular and regular, of the diocese over Which you have so long presided, I approach your grace to give expression to the feelings of af- tectionate homage and veneration which animate us all, and which seek an outlet now, in view of your eraronshing dal arture from our midst. The occasion instinctively leads our thoughts back through the course of your long-continued and suc- cessful labors to the state of religion in the diocese when the voice of sovereign authority called you to be its first bishop, to give it life and symmetry and vigor. The record of the first year of your administra- tion reports the diocese of Newark as containing thirty-three churches, thirty clergymen and one charitable institution, a modest home for the orphan in this cathedral parish. Since then nearly all of those churches and chapels—the first fruits of a sparse and struggling population—haye disap- eared to give way to others, larger and better, fairer to the eye, more worthy of their destiny, and withal their number has increased from _thirty- three to over one hundred. In like manner the clergy of the dioc’se at the same time have multi- plied neatly iourfold. More than this, we have the consol of believing that this increase will be perpeti 1; for, a8 becomes THE WORK OF A WISE BUILDER, the foundations of future success have been laid deep and solid. Besides providing for the training of young Levites for the katate feel future priests of the diocese—you have judiciously called to your assistance to share in your solicitude for the chi the sons of St. Benedict and St. Fran- cis, of ul of the Cross, St, Ignatius Loyola and the venerable La Salle; the daughters of Mother Seton, the devoted Sisters of the Poor, of Mercy, of Notre Dame, of St. Benedict and St. Dominic; so that by their esi efforts and self-sacrificing lives you have been able to stud the diocese with noble institutions of arto with hospitals and asylums, and, more than ail, by their aid co-operat- ing with your own zeal, of which we have had such luminous proofs in your numerous Pastoral Letters on the ec in your fervia exhortations to us in our an! retreats, and in your encouraging pas- tors individually to spare no effort in so good a cause, you have accomplished vast results in the ALL-IMPORTANT WORK OF CHRISTIAN EDUCATION, 80 that. mow you leave a diocese where, by God's grace, there scarce exists a parish without a parish | school—a diocese where your own burning words of zeal have sunk into our hearts and stamped there the motto :—‘‘A parish without schools scarce deserves the name.” But, your Grace, besides these external fruits of zeal and piety patent toal!, we have learned to venerate in you other qualities no less precious in our sight. We all know that unwearying spirit of devotion. in the Master’s work, that alter nineteen years of labor can say that in all that period never Was an appointment coanected with the functions of your high office broken or neglected, save but once or twice and then through sickness; so that we may Say of our piabop, vere serous servorum Jesu isti; we know of that devotedness to busi- ness that with failing sight, nay, with its total extinction, even threatening in the distance, yet persevered in a large and arduous corre- spondence, in the continued discharge of duty, in personal attention to those hundred «e- tails of administration that in a missionary country MAKE A PRELATE'S MITRE BRISTLE all aronnd with thorns. Nate further still, if for one moment we may recall our private and intimate intercourse with you, we all remember how cheerfully you drew of the treasure of your experience to advise us in our perplexities; how we have been reminded of that a your patron saint, the holy Bishop of Geneva, of whom it is said that they who were neces- sarily denied favors departed better pleased than if they had received benefits from others; how you ruled us, being made a pattern of the flock from the heart;” how gentl. uu consoled us in our trials, bidding us raise our hearts and souls on high “Sursune Corda,” Hence, when it was rumored abroad that the first see in the United States looked to you as its future occupant, as long as we could “we hoped against hope’ that you might still be leit. to us, And as soon as it was evident that you must leave us, the clergy of the diocese with one mind and heart sought for some manner in which they might most appro- priately manifest their respectful and affectionate regard. An wd yet cross was suggested, emblem at once of the dignity of and of the source whence you will derive strength and light and comfort. “dn cruce Salus, in cruce vita, in cruce in fusts supurnae suavitatis,” this Cross, the ensign of your office, we have added, as @ personal gilt, this watch, which we beg you to accept. Owing to the shortness of the interval between the news of your appointment and your departure we have not yet received the cross from Paris, where it was ordered, but we be- lleve it to be on its way. It remains, Your Grace, but to express from the bottom o1 our hearts the hope and the prayer that you may long be spared to adorn by the gifts that God has given you a see already rendered illustrious by the prestige and the sanctity of @ Carroll aud a Kenrick, and now that you are about to enter on your new pastoral duties to wish that “when the Prince of Pastors shall appear you shall receive a never-fading crown of. fii Os . Corrigan then presented the Archbishop with aia gold watch and chain, gotten u) i fany, o' New York, THE REVEREND RECIPIENT was visibly affected. and in a few feeling sentences expresse ment which had been so generously manifested towards him by his clergy and for the many many acts of kindness which from the first they had et him, ing hands, after which the distinguished assem- 5 , in the rear of St. Patrick's Cathedral, where ired to the Bishop's residence in Bleecker a@ handsome collation had been prepared. Among the ments on the table was a fine representa- tion of the Cathedral. The occasion was strictly DP none but clergymen being present. A great deal of anxiety is felt among the Catholic of Newark as to the exact day of the Arch- shop's departure from ois | them, but his reve- rence it inexorably silent on the subject, THE DEAN RICHMOND, Investigation as to Cause of the Fire by United States Inspectors. An inquiry was commenced yesterday at 23 Pine street, under the direction of United States In- spectors Hill and Mershon, into the circumstances a a A fire on the Hudson River steamboat Dean mond, Several witnesses were exam- ined as to the condition of the boiler, and whether it was fit for use or not. i ia ‘was adjourned patil ten o'clock 10» “not domineering over the clergy, but | en new position | his heartfelt appreciation of the senti- | Then followed a warm clerical clasp- | THE WARD'S ISLAND. HORRORS, Another Side of tho Story and What ’ Farrell Says About It. Is Dr. Echeverria Guilty of Conspiracy !—His Course Critically Reviewed—What He Did to Save Himsolf—A Surgeon’s Opinion of Corden’s Death—Brutal Cru- elty to a Dying Man, On Monday the HERALD reporter went down to the Tombs to see Thomas Farrell, the alleged mur- derer of an indefinite number of lunatics in the Insane Asylum on Ward's Island, Mr. Finley, the acting warden, showed proper courtesy to the re- porter and passed him into the prison. Farrell's cellis onthe second tier, It is No, 57, and is dl- rectly in front of that of Edward S. Stokes. This gentieman kept his cell studiously closed as long as there were any visitors in the prison, Farrell came to the grating as soon as the HERALD reporter stated that his mission was to interview him, ‘The reporter passed him in & copy of the HeraLp containing the letter of Dr, Echeveriia, Farrell read it at- tentively, smiling at times as he came to certain portions wiich apparently seemed to him droll. He read it with a quick eye, and evidently under- stood it at the first glance, Farrell is an intelli- | gent man, and would possess a handsome face but for the protruberance above his left eye. He was dressed in simply a shirt and a pair of pantaloons, but in spite of such a state of deshabilie did not appear to possess the same rough exterlor which characterized the majority of the men around him, “What do you think of that document, Farrell?’ asked the HERALD reporter, “1 think,” replied the prisoner, “that it is A CAREFULLY WORDED DOCUMENT, but gives the skle of the question which Doctor Feheverria would natufally wish the public to be- lieve.” “Is it a tue statement of facts?” “Tam not prepared to deny that,” said Farrell, for it states things in such a manner that one can hardly deny anything init. I think, however, it is liable to give a false impression, You see the let- ter hardly mentions me, but confines itself mainly to a d.scussion of the lunatic Corden’s disease, en- deavoring to prove that bringing him to the inquest did not accelerate his death, Now, I have very Jittle to do with the Corden part of the matter.” “Corden, however,” suggested the HzkaLp mas, | “was in your ward, was he not ?? “Oh, yes,” answered the prisoner. “What was your experience of him ?? “Corden was @ man,” said Farrell, “who was simply insane on one point, He believed that he ‘was always being attacked by a crowd of people. He thought he had always to fight five hundred people. He used constantly to pull open his shirt and say, “Don’t you see the marks of these hellish darts,” at the same time pointing to his breast. ‘Then he would sometimes make assaults upon other patients in the ward, I remember once he threw a chamber at a man named Jimmy Devine, a patient, and CUT OPEN WIS ARM from the front of the elbow almost to the shoulder, The wound bled profusely, and it required surgical aid to stop the bleeding. Sometimes Corden in his assaults upon other patients in the ward would get the worst of it. upon his person 7" “Why, yes,” said Farrell. “He used sometimes to get a pretty bad licking befere we could prevent it. ‘This'was his: mania, you see.” RerorTek—Did his mania continue as strong up to the time of your trouble ? FARRELL—Well, perhaps not as strong as it was at first; but still 1t was pretty strong. A few days before I left the asylum he was still talking about those hellish darts, " Rerorter—Do you think, then, he was sane when he was discharged ? FARRELI—I do not think, he was, 1 considered him loony up to the time I left. At times he would act pretty sensibly, but mever altogether like a sane man, RErorTER—Did he testify like @ sane man ? FARRELL—He testified atthe inquest as if he knew what he was saying pretty much, but witha total ignoratice of tacts which had happened. He evidently had NO RECOLLECTION OF THINGS which had happened when he was in the asylum. ReEPoRTER—Do you think he was in a fit condition to testify when he was brought to the inquest ? FARRELL—All 1 know is—and the reporters who were there will bear me ont in it—that he looked as if he were dying. He was threatened that un- less he were willing to remain in the asylum until the day of the inquest he would be put in prison. ‘This threat, to a man who was suffering as he was at the time, was enough to frighten him into testi- fying to anything. He was taken from the City Tiogpital in a ergy! condition to testify. Dr. Eclie- verria says that he is not responsible for what treatment he received when in the hospital, yet he put him there. Toa person in Corden’s weak state of mind this being dragged to and fro was enough to make him testify ag he was told, and not as he thought. If I had been allowed to say a few words I could have | disproved all he said; but they wouldn’t let me. Some of the papers criticised me because I laughed, but some of the things. he said were so funny that Tcouidn’t help laughing. Anybody in the asylum could have disproved what he said; but it all A ONE-SIDED AFFAIR, ‘Those who dia not agree with what Dr. Echeverria chose to advance were discharge¢, REPORTER—You mean Wall and McLaughlan? FARRELL—Yes, These men knew what they were saying. They were not lunatics, Aud yet these were tle very witnesses whose testimony was not taken into account, and when they got back to tie | asylum they were discharged because they did not testify as they were wanted to. Yet these men told the truth from beginning to end. RePonTER—How do you account for the discrep- ancy in their statements with that of Dr. Echever- ria as to calling them up one by one, and Ornell saying you were the man who beat him ¢ PARRELL—Very simply. Ornell was lying in bed sick. Dr. Echeverria stood at the head of the bed, and we three keepers—myself, Wall and McLaugh- lan—stood some feet away. Dr, Echeverria pulled me forward and said, “Is this the man, Ornell 7’ without any other question. Ornell said, “Yes, that’s the man,” and then closed his eyes. Wall and McLaughlan were not brought forward at all, as they testified on the inquest, Dr. Echeverria then drew a 2 ag Sg from his pocket and read it to us and asked us atteravarda to sign our names, which we did. The paper he read to us did not say that each one in his turn was brought before Ornell and the question asked, If Dr, Echeverria says he read this tous HE PERJURES HIMSELF, read had an entirely different construc- further at it, lon’t suppose I Tr implicating ir. Echeverria What he tion, and naturally, without looki we signed our names to it. You would have signed my name t« 4 pay me in @ murder. Yet this is what tries to make tne public believe. ReEPoRTER—Did ihn further occur then? Farreti—Yes. When Echeverria left the room Isaid to Ornell, “How could you say that I beat you?” and he answered, “Didn't you beat me one night down in Fourth street and jump ou me?’ Tis shows how much idea he had of what he was saying. Nutoerer—You deny, then, altogether that you were gulity of any cruelty’ to the patients 7 FARRELL—Of course Ido, I never laid my hand on one of them in anger. And yet they often gave us provocation. But THE RULES OF THE ASYLUM WERE SO STRICT that we were forbidden ever to strike a patient when he assaulted us, Rerorrer—What, then, do you take to be the rea- son why you have been treated in this manner ? FARRELL—Well, you see, Dr, Echeverria was away during the whole month of August, Warden Burke was away for only two days, but when he was away he was telegraphed that Dr. Echeverria haa returned and was making wholesale discharges of keepers in consequence of some alleged cruelties, Warden Burke immediately returned, and Dr. scheverrla had his story all ready for him. Dr. Echeverria had found when he returned that some of the prisoners had bruises and other marks of vio- lence on their persons. He was naturally afraid that | unless he found some one on whom to put the blame that the Commissioners, Frear and Bowen, | who constantly came through the wards, would see | these marks of violence and would hold him to an account, perhaps discharge him, for not properly attending to his duties, He wanted a victim then on whom he could cast all the blame. I was se- lected as the victim. Dr. Echeverria had hake | ready, and you can casily see by the way in whic things have been managed how easy it was for one in his position to cook up a story against a subor- dinate and then CORRCE PROOF OF 118 CHARGRS. ‘He followed mg up, bad me arrested, made the “Was he sufiiciently injured,” asked the HeraLp : | man, “to account for the marks which he showed { 5 mag against me, and, when once my name into the papers, accused of these crimes, half gel battle was won by Dr. Echeverria, yu can gee the manner in which the inquest was mai giving him every opportunity and refusing sagiv me even a chance to say & word, that it wasn’t to make the verdict go against me. sacrificed to save him. ReEPoRTER—You belleve yourself, then, the vice tim of a ear vos Farreti—Certainiy; and I think on trial I shall easily be able to prove it, Iam very sorry for Cor« den's death, because | think on cross-examinatiog his story might have been EASILY OVERTHROWN, ; Tam anxious to get ont of here, and I hope the, will hurry up the trial, My wile 13 tn a very crite cal condition and T want to get back to her. She came to see me here, Shongh ig hardiy able to stand, so that I wish the thing was settled one way Or another, I know I am an imnocent man, and even if the thing goes a t me (and who can tell what will be the resnit with. tl werlul pers secution I suner under?)- »Feshall, at all events, have the consciousness. jocence, Farrell spoke earnestly when he said these last’ words, and it was impossible not to believe that what he said he meane THE DRATH OF CORDEN, The public will readily remember the cireume stances attending tho death of Corden at the Centre Street Hospital and the letter which Dre Echeverria wrote concerning the strictures which were made upon him at the time. The HERALD reporter called at the Centre Street Hospital to learn trom Dr. Vandewater, the House puree , What treatment had been prescribed im Corden’s case since ‘'uesday, the day peo which’ he had first been admitted tothe hospital. Tha following conversation shows still more clearly that me cane 18 one which demands the strictest inves- ation :— REPORTER—Doctor, I have called to-ask for the HERALD what treatment you puranem in the case of; Carden, the inmate of the Ward's Island be Asylum, who died here on Saturday morning. Yo doubtless have seen Dr, Eeheverria’s letter to the’ HERALD. Dr. VANDEWaTER—Yes, sir, I have; but T have ni desire to have ny name mixed up in the case. Dr. Echeverria had called here before he wrote) the letter he might have learned the character of the treatment Corden received, and formed an I was then ppmibn an) accurate opinion—s to the cause of deatl As an ofiicer of the Department of Public Charities and Correction himself he might have presumed that the deceased received proper, treatment at this hospital, £ would not wish to appear in any other than @ friendly professional relation towards Dr. Echoverria.”” , “I merely want your formal statement of thd treatment Corden received here: “On Tuesday night week Corden was admitted to the hospital, He was them suffering from ex- travasation ofurine.”” “Was it a bad case, doctor?” “T never saw \ 7 “Was he in imminent danger then??? “I considered so.” Dig yoy consider that absolute quiet was necege sary 7’ “Most decidedly.’? “What treatment did you pursue in his case that night “We gave him hot baths to make him urimate, His body was frightfully toflamed. The baths had a slight effect, and eased him a little during the - night.’? “Did you see him next morning ?"” “Yes, [saw him taken from the hospital to the Coroners’ Om “When did you next see him ?? “Tsaw him that evening when he was brought back to the hospital.” “In what condit.on was he then??? “T believed him to be in a dying condition.”? “Did his symptois become worse during hig absence?” “So much so that another organ hecame Involved * by the extravasation of urine, and it becaime neces« sary to incise.” “How often did yon incise, Doctor??? “Several times did in several places. When he'was brought in the 1m s body was swolien to an extra- ordiuvary, in fact, to a monstrous degree, | sent for one of the consulting piysiclans of the hospital, and Dr, Mott came herve and examined him, He approved of the treatment and advised two more,- incisions. In short, the man's death was a ques- tion of time.” “Now, Doctor, one question more. Was Corden in a dying condit'on wien he was brought here on ‘Tuesday for the first time?” “T believe he was, sir. “Do you believe that standing and that he nev “Yes, sir.”? “Do you belleve that his removal to OMce developed still worse symptoui “Yes sir; as I told vou above, when he returned here he was ina most frightful condition and past all hope.’? A gentleman connected with the Coroners’ OMice, informed the HeRraLp reporter that he never saw a human being in such @ physical condition a8-Col den was at the inquest. + The Lunatic Purgatory. A former inmate of the Insane Asylum on Ward's, Island writes the following incoherent account of his wrongs. The charges which he makes, if true, will deepen the infamy which already attaches in the minds of the public to the name of that institue tion :— To THR Eprron oF THE HERALD:— having had an experiance in Ward's island Lunatic Asylum ican corroborate Corden’s state. ment of Treatment of inmate, as 1 was consigned to that institution without any examination By Warners or commitment by any justice i claim to je a competant witness. thepurpose ofmy Deten- tion Being to Rob me of my Property and effects at my Place of Business, which object Being accome plish 1 was Dicharged. Resptfully, WILLIAM WHITE, 1am at 127 Worth st. Wa. S. ToaL, machinist, my attorney George S, Thompson has my case in charge. The following scrap 1s enclosed in the above let~ oi probably intended as an eulogy on poor Core en disease was one of 1 could have recovered??? CORDEN. He to gone where the woodbine twineth, His body is withered away His soul as a seraphim shineth In God's celestial day. OBITUARY. Francis Lieber. Dr. Francis Lieber, the well-known publicist and Professor of Political Economy, dicd at hig residence, in this city, on Wednesday evening, tha. 2d instant. He was seventy-two years of age, bud remained in such a vigorous state of health until few wecks since that his demise may be classed as sudden. Francis Lieber was born in Berlin. entered the Prussian army when a youth, serv in the fights against Napoleon the First and par- ticipated in the allied pursuit of the French army, from the fleld ot Waterloo, He studied subsequently at the University of Jena, served with Lord Byronin Greece and emigrated to the United States in the year 1827. He settled in Boston after landing. Thence he went to South Carolina under Lg i ment ag Professor of History and Political Econ-| omy in the Coliege at Columbia. In the year 1668 he assumed a_ similar U3 ow ed in Columbia, College, New York, and for several years occu) his leisure by contributing to our periodical litera- ture and preparing essays on questions of interna-! tional law, prison discipline, &¢, Oliver R. Strong. Oliver R. Strong died at Syracuse, N, Y., paralysis, yesterday. He was over nein years of age. Mr. Strong was one of the pionee! of Onondaga. county. He was a native of Connecs ticut, but ie to the State of New York seven: years “He was at one time Sheriff, and was County Treasurer. He twenty-two years . also ‘Tana vt for the state for and fourteen years was President of the First Nat 4 Bank in ‘Syracuse. Meanwhile he was a) Judge of Common Pleas and served in tl v Assembly of 1834, when he secured the reduction the tax on salt from one shilling to six cents, Judge Strong was the oldest Freemason in the county if not in the State, having joined that order in 1305, He was a lite-long democrat. Ludwig M. Feuerbac! The Occurrence of the death of the German phi> losophical writer, Ludwig Marte Feuerbach, Frankfort, which has been already announced to u briefly by cable, has given rise to many reports an allegations concerning his peculiar system of teach, ing and his life-history. Ludwig Marie Feuerbach was & philosopher of thé so-called younger Hegelian school. He was son the late Paul Joseph Anselm Feuerbach, @ tinguished writer on criminal Jurisprudence, y died in 1833, He was born at Anspach, Bavaria, Jul; 28, 1804, studied — theo. and philésop! y at Hefdelberg and = Berlin from 1822 to 1825, and became a@ tutor at the University at Erlangen in 1828, retired int private life soon afterwards, occupying himsel! solely with literary labors, In 1844 he delivered q brief course of lectures at the University of Heide! berg. He subsequently retired to village { Franconia, when he directed an lishment, - Sexasea his wasre hours. sul leading pris o' Pinionopby is the ident of or dealized essence of man, nature. His own statement ts estab, to literary as ws —"4 theor, be in two w and han’ That Veiner walen, mny opinion, iB Gol marina eect nueta vi jenn! but nature, the otner d, that in which nature becomes conscious man. True, it follows from m sarees there No God; that Is to say, no t ng ciate from nature and man, which the untes of universe and at ite tion ; but this negat! the most important :—"Abilard leschionte der neuren Philosophie,’t Bayle,” “Das Wesen des Ohristenthums,’ Wesen der Religion” and “Theologl¢,* ~