The New York Herald Newspaper, October 31, 1872, Page 3

THE HORRORS OF WARD “M” ‘A Terrible Story from the Resi- dent Physician. A Patient Putina Cold Bath for Punishment— “Kicked Scientifically”—Death Brings Relief—Anocther Patient's Nose Broken—Farrell’s Successor. At ® late hour yesterday afternoon notice was received at the Coroners’ office that another in- mate of the New York. Insane Asylum, on Ward’s Island, had died early on Tuesday morning, and that Dr. Escheverria, the resident physician of that in- stitution, believed his death was the result of vio- Jence at the hands o: one of the keepers named John McDonnell. ‘The deceased, whose name was Louis C. Sam- uels, resided in that portion of the institution KNOWN AS “WARD é,’? which has recently acquired an unenviable noto- riety in connection with outrages perpetrated on ail unfortunate, mindless inmates. It was stated that he had some very rich relations and a large number of friends in the city— being a Hebrew and a Mason—who would Goubtiess take & very great interest in his @eath and demand a rigid investigation. The Notice sent to the Coroners’ office said that the de- ceased had complained of his treatment to Dr. Escheyerria on Sunday, and that he died somewhat suddenly during Monday night. It further stated that another inmate of the institution, named Cas- sidy, had recently been PATALLY BEATEN by this same keeper, McDonnell. Later in the evening a HERALD reporter was hanging on to the rear platform of a crowded Third avenue car drawn by four jaded horses, and a (weary ride of nearly two hours brought him to the foot of 110th street. Groping his way through the slums near the river side he was soon seated in a itiny little skiff that could barely hold two persons, ‘which shot him quickly across the surface of the dark, silent stream, With its magnificent setting of countless Jamps. A few minutes’ walk under the ‘trees and he reached the entrance of the gloomy ‘building, over which may now be well written, “NONE BUT THE DOOMED ENTER HERE." “Doctor Escheverria was from home, and would Not return until late.” Another weary wait, which ‘would have been intolerable but for the courtesy of ‘Dr. Dwyer, the eminent surgeon of the Emigration Department; and at last the doctor of the Lunatic Asylum arrived. The following conversation wil! ‘no doubt carry a thrill to the hearts of many of the bit readers, and will eventually have the eflect IBRALD of procuring the ¢ form in the government of OuF butlle BRieagd re apy REPORTSR—Doctor, I have come all the way from the HeRap office to-night to get from your own Hipe the ces attending the death of one your patient nice was reported at the Coro- this afternoon. ners’ office | Dr. EscHEVERRIA—I don’t care for giving any : alars in the case until the formal investigs- yn takés place. It may place me in a false light, ‘and I don’t wish that the people here shonid think ‘that I had any jpterest in the matter other than Ty duty de! mande: “But, Doctor, the investigation may take place to-morrow, and the publication of the plain state- i mee pee yor ey, ot in case ory mnvertere f e ends 0! jure you al ody’s estimation.” A BiG, ¥ A iets sd Doctor at once relaxed and quickly re- :—‘-Well, I will tell you all I know of ny te though. the HERALD has pefore treated fie balers him and he began the last one of the patients in uis O, Samuels, who had August last, came to been very badly treated named McDonnell. 1 asked to him, and he said he had LD BATH. at that time was perfectly blue. I dant and asked him why he had ven him the bath. and McDonnell said that he did to wash him. BE I then ordered him hot tea at “This Lilia Be could not have hurt him very much,” nazarded the reporter. “The man had had chronic diarrhoea for wecks before, and was REDUCED TO A PERFECT SKELETON. He wae frighttully emaciated, and a cold bath in that, co dition Was destructive to him,” rejoined e ctor. + “Had the attendant the power to order or give the patient a bath, Doctor?” “No, sir; not all, No one but myself could order him a bath. occurred on Sunday morn- Ing. On Monday morning I made my usual eed cas of vee through “ three aif ’ I no loors—of wiich there are ling © the warj—was locked. This at- tracted my attention, as Samuels was in that part ofthe ward. I went in, and I found him groaning and complaining of very great pain. I asked him what was the matter, and he replied that McDén- nell had beaten severely. lasked him how did he etrike him, and he said that he KICKED HIM IN THE STOMACH with his ane knees and beat him across the shoulders face. He had the marks of the blows on his faee and shoulders when I saw him. I left him and Theard no more about him until Tuesday ae when I was told that he had died during the night. ‘asked McDonnell the circumstances of his death, and he told me that at ten o’clock the night be- fore the deceased asked him for a glass of water and remarked, ‘Give it to me, for it is “THE LAST YOU WILL GIVE ME.’ This I considered all humbug. This morning I re- ported the case at tie Coroner’s Ollice, as 1 con- midered it my duty.” ht I ask, Doctor, did you report the case on Tuesday or to-day toythe Commissioners of Chari- ties and Correction?” put in the reporter, “No, sir, and for the reason that another charge was pending over the head of this man, McDonnell, which was being investigated by the Commis- Bioners. I did not care to report this case until the investigation was concludcd, lest it may be thought that I was persecuting him.” ere was the other charge against him, Doc- r “He was charged with breaking the nose of another patient, named Cassidy.” Wag give me the particulars of the case, ir “This man Cassidy is an imbecile, but can give a succinct account of what occurred himsell. He told me last week that McDonnell attacked him, strack him in the face and broke his nose. 11 Ported the case to the Commissioners.” “Was his nose really broken 1” “Yes, sir, it was.” “Has Mcbonnell been arrested?” “1 do not know, sir.” “Has he been dismissed?” “1 presume as I have not seen him around the Asyiam to-day. “Now, Doctor, do you really believe that the mMab’s death was reaily the result of violence at the hands of this man McDonnell, or, in other words, do you believe that he was murdered?” “I do, sir, conscientiously, I believe that in his emaciated condition from chronic diarrhea a cold bath and the subsequent kicking in the stom- ach with the knees caused his heath. These men are more brutal than either you cr { have any idea of. This mode of kicking with the knees is vei much in vogue and is doue on scientific principles.” “How do you mean, Doctor?” “It leaves no external mark, and the ventilation of the fact by that man, Charles Reade, in his book, ‘Hard Cash,’ has done more harm than good.’ “You don’t mean to say your attendants have ead ‘Haru Cash?” “No, but it always has been ‘A FAVORITE MODE OF DOING VIOLENCE with brutal keepers all over the world, ‘The marks of violence will be found on this man's body wnen the post-mortem examination is made to-morrow, and We will see what interual injuries the deceased ‘has received.” “How long has McDonnell been a keeper at the ‘anstitution?”’ “He succeeded Farrell in ward M.” (Farrell is ‘the man who is indicted for the murder of a luna- ‘tic @ few weeks ago in ward M, at the Insane His trial comes on in a few days.) , Doctor, how ts it that such men are ap- ited to such positions? «The politica! exigencies of the times demand it, sir! We are on the eve of an election, and it was commary to make and fill ull the places posstble."? sf. ‘And the remedy?” -j . “J have no interested focling in the matter or eowarde the Commissioners, but unt our insane asylums are put under the charge of physicians aud until they have power to remove attendants or at least make them obey orde; we may expect better things. In Europe and all over America, in the case of our two institutions in New York, medical men are in entire contro! of insane pus we must in time come vo the same Here the reporter took his leave of the Doctor and his terrible domain, and midnight found him on @rear platform again, profoundly convinced that there & more Widespread canker among ua abd more likely todo harm than the epizooty, | the ep aed the com NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, OUTOBER 31, 1872—TRIPLE SHEET. s _—_—_—o BErthusiastic Grant Mass Mecting at Cooper Institate—Speeches by Secretary its utmost capacity. ‘The speakers were Secretary Boutwell and Speaker Blaine. Secretary BOUTWELL having been introduced, he proceeded to explain the financial condition of the country during Grant's administration. In speak- ing of the national debt he said that taxation had been reduced by $160,000 a year, the revenue having been increased to that amount. As to Gefalcations, out of $600,000,000 collected not a dollar had the Treasury lost. There had been, of course, some defaications, put in nearly every instance the money had been reimbursed. The conduct of the government in this respect had been to trace the defalcators and when possible to bring them to justice. Of $2,000,000 of defalca- thons $900,000 were to be credited to nominces of Mr. Lincoln, $1,700,000 to nominees of Johnson, and less than one hondred thousand dollars to nominees of President Grant. The speaker then ridiculed Mr. Greeley’s notion of the way to resume specie payment, and in this connection spoke of the great fire that occurred in Chicago, which, had the government not stepped in, woula have caused a terrible calamity to the business of the country. The volume of paper money, he said, was too large now to make it of equal value with coin. He Was not, however, prepared to reduce the volume of paper money, because the consequent incon- veniences would be greater than the service gained. He wanted improvement in the extent of cotton manufacture. It was not righ that 400,000 laborers should be driven from the South merely to please a few thousand men. In speaking of protection, he said he was not much of a protectionist. ‘The price of lavor in England was coming up to our standard, and would continue to go up as long as emigration continued to increase. The aker concluded by saying that nature did not fit Horace Grecley for the Presidency of the United States. Speaker BLAINE Was next introduced. His speech dealt m: with the amendments to the constitu- tion, which were the fruitof the war. In tracing the history of the constitution he said that the eleventh amendment to the constitution was added at the suggestion of Mr. Jefferson, and was lormerly known as the bill of rights. ‘I'weive years after, when Mr. Jefferson was a candidate for the Presidency, that amendment was not found to work well, and in 1802 the twelfth amendment was adopted, and from then to the time of Abraham Lincoln ho chan; in the constitution of the United States had bech made. @ framers of the constitution made it dificult to change it, & vote of two-thirds of the Senate and two-thirds of the House of Representatives being Teqaliod even to propose a change, while a vote of three- fourths of all the States was required for the adop- tion of any change. It was the fortune of this gen- tleman to add other amendmeats. These were the fruits of the war. The thirteenth amendment abolished Slavesy. But it was found that it was not enough to déclare slavery abolished, but it was found also necessary to declare the former slave a fceman, and it was for this purpose that the four- teenth amendment was introduced, declaring that every person born in this country, or naturalized, was a citizen of the United States and of the State in which he resided, and was entitled to the pro- tection of the Federal government. When the war closed it could nét hive been expected that law and order would have at once prevailed. Some allowance was to be made for the chaos ee yee 4 Gaal country seats . Hut it was on nd that n jount of charity could cover ing Mhiditade Mt falquities that were being erpetrated, An 0! conspiracy held the jouth, whose aim was to ruin every man who had porn. Joyal to the Union. In the archives of the Roverninent might b un ie cord which Would show that than nea, bérsons victins of this conspiracy, and of these more than six thou- sand were murdered. It occurred to General Grant that it was time to stop this, and a bill Known as the Ky Klux bill was acco ingly ee There ‘was @ longer debate BO ie bill than over any he ie Tender bill. The pe ak except ecanet 5 e lemoc! oppored took away States Tights, The fourteéntn amendment destroyed States’ rights, was meant to do so, We ‘wanted t0-have it so that if people in the South wae to, murder OF, to ruin. there was some piace to go redress besides to the localities in which the crimes Were committed, We were always willing enough to bry i the wrongs of rs; it was time we should come nearer home. Mr. Blaine thea spoke about how in 1849 a Hungertan re! who had declared his intentions here to become a citt- gen, but who on a tem} ‘y gojourn afterward in his own country was arrested and thrown into rison, had to be released ; algo how more recently r. Houartl, whose father was a citizen of the United States, but who had been himself absent so long trom this country as even to forget his mother tongue, was released from Spanish chains. He then went on to speak of Mr. Greeley’s nomination at Cincinnati and Baltimore, giving @ most humor- bee! description of the wirepulling on these occa- sions, The audience was enthusiastic to the close of the meeting. BRIBERY MUST STOPPED. ened aeons The Chairman of the Democratic State Exccutive Committce Calls Upon Dem- ocrats and Liberals to Report All At- ems at Bribery for Immediate Pros- To me Democratic AND LissraL Bepusiican Execrors OF THE State oy New Yorn :— The leaders of the radical party in this State and nation base ail their ¢xpectations' of success on the following Foun rPiret—The efficiency of their organization, made solid and compact by a band of office-holders extending into every school district throughout the land. iting all the colored voters in the country, who, having just had the privileges of the franchise con- ferred upon them, are cosy misled into casting their votes for @ party which shrieks freedom in their ears, while by its legislation it has fastened the chains of slavery on all jabor interests, whether represented by white men or pet - ode Third—By the intimidation of voters, and the unlawful arrest of citizens through the agency of tederal supervi- sors and marshals, ‘ourth—By the corrupt use of money at the poils, to de- bauch and demoralize the people and to purchase elec- tion officers to make a false return of the votes cast, and it is to this that we desire to call your parcicular atten- ton, for if you would you could not, and if you could we would not have you, meet these men by ‘using money Against money. it is well known that every representative of incorpo- rated wealth, every holder of obligations created by legislative enactments, and every man who would yield to the entreaties or submit to the demand of these men, has already contributed towards the fund raised for the above purposes. We therefore entreat every dem crat and every . liberal State to constituie himself a vigilance to see that this money is not used for the corrupt obj for which it was raised. Let it be seen to that every who offers to bribe a voter is immediately arrested punished to the full extent of the law. Mark every who accepts a bribe for his vote, and see that he is pu ished according to the crime he has committed, and for- ever after denied the privilege of voting. The laws of this State make the offering or accepting of a bribe a crime punishable by fine and imprisonment Arrangements will soon be made with the chairman of every county committee to vigorously prosecute every person go offending, and every known case should be im- mediately reported'to the chairmam of your county com. mitteg, to the end that it may be prompily prosecuted and mnisted. Paik to those likely to yleld to temptation; show them the folly of accepting $5 or $10 for their vote when given by @ party that takes back in taxes each year four times that amottnt on the bread every man eats and the cloties he wears. Point out to them how, by receiving bribes, not only forfeit the respect ‘of the community ini the which they live, but their own self-respect, thereby dis- gracing themselves and their families. ‘Tie time has come when this question must be met; for when a party whose leaders are known to be cortupt, whose levislation has all been against the best interests of the people, whose folicy is centralization, and whose practice is to plunder the many for the benefit of the few, nunite the representatives of wealth, with the most norant ant depraved in society, bring to its ald the junds and officer. of the nation to intimidate voters, and by such means perpetiate its power, then our free insti- tutions exist only iti naine. We again appeal to cit a lovers of your country, as admirers of its free institutions, todo everything in'your power to arrest these crimes agamat its laws, in carry- ny out these recommendation: and exercising the visi- lance herein urged, no private or personal feelings should control your action. Let stern duty take its course, for there is nothing more ‘certain than ‘that this people “must either have liberty and cast have corruption and cast out bea out corruption, or EN ©, BEACH, Chairman Democratic Executive Committee. THE SEVENTY SPARTANS. Candidates for the Remaining Districts Endorsed. The Committee of Seventy continued session last evening at the Everett House, Seventeenth street and Broadway. The fol- lowing members of the committee were present:—Mr. Oswald Ottendorfer, Mr. Bundy, Mr. Shermao, Mr. Wheeler, Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Bliss. The chair was occupied by My Joseph H. Choate. After along discussion on the candidates presented to the committee by dele- gations from each Assembly district the following names were endorsed :—» CANDIDATES YOR ASSEMBL™ For the Fifth Assem! district—Austin Lake. For the Twelfth fecal? district—Frederick H. Hahn. Sixteenth Assembly district—Peter Woods, Kighteenth Assembly district—John P, Moai Nineteenth Assembly district—James Monteith. For Assistant Alderman—Henry A. Lindon, This completed the endorsements by the committee, After the Adjournment of the po! General Jack: made a protest against the pro- e,in the name oi the re- ‘ganizations of the city. He did #0 because ittee were conducted their ELECTION DAY EXIGENCIES. and Disposition of Deputy United States Marshals to Preserve the Peace om the Sth of November—Instruc- tions. From the office of the United States Marshal has been issued the following order appointing and dis- posing the deputies on the day of election, the 5th of November :— Unitmp States Marsnat’s Orricr, SovmisNnw Youn, Oct. 0 162." ew York, ‘The following instructions are issued with reference to howing Chior Sepaties are avi bead (eye Assembly districts, and Pee obeyed and respected they will accordingly :- 1—Col. Michael W. Burns. 12—Mai. C. H. Southworth. W3—Noble McDonald. 2—Henry G. Leask. 3—Captain John E. Dowley M—John H, Brady. 4—Capt. Chas. N. Bracke 15—Hugh Turner. 17—Wilson Berryman. 5—George B. Purvis. 18—Joseph C. Biglin. iy—Richard H, Greene, Ay 6—Renry A. Smith, 7—Coloniel B, T. Morgan. John J. O’Brien. 9—Colonel E. M. L. Ehlere, 20—Aibert Bogert. , 21—Neison Crawford, M—Robert Utley. Colone! Robert Des Acnes is Chief Deputy Marshal as- sisting at this office, and all directions received through him will be obeyed: ‘The deputies acting in the several Assembly districts will report to the Chief Deputies above designated and be subject to their orders, and the Chief Deputies are hereby authorized to remove, at their pieas- ure, any of the deputics acting within their districts, ‘thé Chief Deputies will detail the deputies to the several Klection districts, placing over them such subordinates as they may deem proper, and they will retain to patrol the saine @ sufficient reserve near tho centre of their dis- triets, “Every deputy marshal and special deputy will be provided with @ badge and with a cominis- sion signed by the Marshal. Such deputy marshals and xpeclal deputie: ig others, the following duties and powers : tend at the Diaces of roxistra- tion, eleetion an nd there preserve order and protect and support ipervisors appointed by the Circuit Court of the United States, t AUTHORITY TO ARREST, They are authorized to arrest, without a warrant, in the following eases, when the act ik committed in their pres- ence or in that of the Supervisors 1. When any person registers or attempts to register, or Votes cr ut.cinpts to vote, ima name that is not hi name, o1 or attempts to register or yote more than ene ster or vote in an clectiom district where he docs not reside, or register or vote when he will not on election day be'a voter in the ward in which he aticmpts to regisier or vo.e, or it of foreign birth resisters or votes, or att to register or vole, without liaving been duly naturalized. Itshould be noted, however, that unless the depnty or special deputy has a warrant’ he cannot arrest om clec- on day tor an offence committed on registration day, even though it was then committed in his presence. Ifa pergon registered illezally, he may, however, be arrested on election day without a warrant'it he attempts to vote. 2, It should be a flagrant case in which an election offi- cer should be arrested without a warrant while in the actual performance of his duties, Such an arrest should only be made as a last resort, where obvious fraud is persisted In and repeated after vemonsirance, As, how- ever, a fraud in counting the ballots, if not stopped, while in process.of execution, may accomplish its object_be- Yond p'actical remedy, an arrest of an election officer My yoy ad @ Warrant should be mide without hesitation if ne is found, gaged in an, thé Canvass. aifectng the during the counting of the votes, to legal acs which could have an effeet upon Mere trivial and formal irregularities not nase may be lett for puniguinent aiter an Mt, -eara ner mee iN tnduces or compels any officer of clec- eive an illegal vow, or to refuse to receive a cant Illegally, oF to re: o be registered. | ** + 4. It Any person duces an officer of election to give a false sore ficate or statement in writing in respect to he election, S. Jf any Inspector of Election shall refuse to put a chailenge law/uily made or to mark any name tor chal- lenge when requested so to do by any citizen. 6. Ifany person, inspector or otherwise, places illegally @ name on the registry or 4 ballot in any box. 7. If any inspector of election retuses to receive the legal vote of a cilizen.on the ground that some one has belore voted in that citizen's name. The right of the cit- izen to vole is not taken away if some one has wrong- fully voted on hig name; but he should give convincing evidence of his identity. . If any person allows ballots to be put or remain in the box betore voting commences, or puts any buliots un- Javvfully in the Dox. - ‘This is the olfence commonly called “stufling the pallot box.” 9. If any person, by foree or threats or bribery, hiuders or delays or attempts to hinder or delay a citizen from Fegisloring cF voting: v. Hany one hinders or prevents free ingress to and egress from the rooin in which the registration, election or canvass is going on, unless the root already full of those authorized to ‘be there, te wit:—Inspectora, Poll clerks, supervisors, marshal in jiniform, and, during registration of vi s Glectors Wig are in line and duly authorized watchers and challengers =” UL, If any canvassing ofticer makes or attempts to make false tificate or return in regard to the nuunber of be en- = 1 2. Ti connection with the canvass, the offence specially to be guarded against is the intentional miscounting of votes. When this is elesrly attempted, the deputy mar- or special oapaty, pica be prompt and energetic in the discharge of his duty, li @ person purposely interferes with a deputy marshal or special deputy when the latier is execaling any writ, or is attempting to arrest any person for an offence committed in his presence or in that of any super- visor, or it any person attempts to rescue any person ar- re any deputy shal or spocia) dey Q HOR cbt ot Electon beth eheer or per- son, unlawfully overs, Or AUOMpis to Temove, OF tO cause fo be reine from the room where the registra- tion, election or canvass is going on, any supervisor uit Courc, or any deputy marshal ed by tie C al deputy, or if any such person prevents, or attempts to prevent, any sich supervisor from taking and retaining such position, with reference to the books of registry, ballot boxes and baliot, as will in his judg- ment best cnuble him (c scrutinize the manner in which the registtation, votlug or canvassing 1s conducted. 15. If any person, oficer or otherwise, shall prevent, or attempt to prevent. any supervisor trom inspecting and scrutinizing any register, or from affixing his name to any register, or kecping a copy ol, or from affixing his ature to any certificate or return of election, or mak- statement thereon in writing in regard to'its truth person shall hinder or molest, or aid or abet ng or molesting any supervisor, depaty mar- shal or special deputy in the discharge of his duties. 17, Ifany person prevents or attempts to prevent any supervisor, Who desires so to do, trom personally seru- tinizing, counticg and canvassing every ballot in every OX. 18. If any clection officer makes any distiction founded upon the color of the applicant or voter. NMA UTIONS—RATKS OF PAY. GRNKMAL LRSTHUC i Ttiarotto be understood Wat the above embraces all the offences for which deputy marshals and special dep- Utiex may arrest the offenders without warrant. The Ngrshal and his general deputies and such special dep. utieds a8 he thay authorize, under his hand aud seal, sisted i inaking an arrest or in the pex- his or their dutios, call on all bystanders to ist, ane ey, must so do or are themselves Hable to arrest. All persons arrested, whether with or without « warrant, must be at once taken before a United States judicial officer, with the witness to the offence. Persons arrested undera warrant must be taken the officer Who issued the warrant, Every deputy shal an! special deputy, after acceping his off. to arrest for any neglect or violation of his These powers of the deputy marshals an’ special depu- ties are to be prudently but energetically exercised. should be remembered that the odject of the law is— Firat, to secure to every person entitled by law to vote the free exercise of his vote: second, to prevent voting by any person not so ontitled; third, to secure a fair count and return of the votes actually cast. Solong as these objects are not interfered with, or” willully at- tempted £0 to be, no arrest without a’ judicial warrant should be made for any trivial infraction of the law, nor poqule, any. frrest be imade upless the evidence of crime s Fesonabl fh to y concinsive. Care should be taken not mere opinion for tacts or evidence of facte. shals and spectal deputies will in ail cazes hict Deputy of the district. Un- e noified, depuly marshals and special 1 be expected to be present at the places of ion and election in the district to which they are assigned on October 8, 16, 25 and 20, trom cight A, M. to nine P.M... and on cleetion day irom’ six A. M. to the final completion of the canvass. Absence of half an hour at noon and at night will be allowed for meals, No Marshal will be paid for any day on any portion of which he is absont without authority, Deputy marshals and special deputies will. be paid $5 per day for each day of actual authorized service. Payment will be made as soon after election as the accounts can he prepared and tel. No oy Will be pald unless he returns his com- ssion and badye. L respectfully invite ail persons to make known, in writ ing, immediately, to this oMcc, any instances of official impropriety on the part o: deputy marshals which may come to thelr personal Knowledge. And, in order that ti g crime may be forewarned and offenders Il citizens of all parties to assist the eniorcing the proper observance ‘of the acis of Congress relating to elections; and I call upon all citizens and upon all civil and icipal authorities to co-operate with the officers of the United States in securing an honest vote, an honest count and a satisfactory elec party results. GEORGE nited States Marshal. REPUBLICAN GONVENTION COMMITTEE. The committee authorized wy the Republican County Convention held on Monday met in session last evening in the office of Charles 8. Spencer, No. 8 Beach street. The meeting was altogether a business one, the duty devolving on the committee being to make arrangements for the ratification meeting tobe held on Saturday evening next in and around Republican Hall, Twenty-third street and Broadway. The sub-committees reported that music, fireworks, speakers and resolutions were already secured, Mr. Spencer was nominated President by @ unanimous vote. The chairman, Dr. Wilder, Suggested a number of vice presidents, whose adoption and whose invitations to attend the meeting were to devoive on the secretary, Mr. Langbetn, The meeting adjourned until to-morrow aiternoon, when all arrangements will be com- pleted, sub: FAIR PLAY, The Manner of Printing the Tickcts for the Congressman at Large—Honorabie Agreement Between Messrs. Tremain and Cox. The two well-known and honorable candidates for the office of Congressman av large from New York, with characteristic candor and good faith that are rare in politics, make the following agree- ment signed by both Tuasmuch as the Election law of 1872 for the city and county of New, York requires that, all the officers to be voted for in which a!) the voters alike participate, ex- In certain cases designated, shall be upon one ballot, which shall be endorsed, “General—Number Two,” it is hereby mutually understood and recommended that the candidates for Representative in Congress at large be printed inthe city and county of New York upon the ickets endorsed ‘Al—Nimber Two,” and not upon the ballot endorsed ngress,” asin the other counties of the State, LYMAN TRENAIN. THE VOTE OF SENECA COUNTY. To THe Eprtor or THE HERALD:— The correspondence that appeared in your paper es dated at Utica, October 27, and purport- ing to give an estimate oJ the political result im the county of Seneca, is Dot correct. The estimate given to ce correspondent by Mr. Baker is far. wide of the mark. Old Seneca, ‘imatead of leaning towards Grant and radicalism, will give a rousin majority for Greeley and Brown, for Kernan and Depew and the whole of that ticket. Yours re- apectfully, D. BE. SLAUSON, Vhalrman Democratic Ceumby Vummuiier, THE POLILICAL CAMPAIGN. ‘The Liberal Headquarters. Among the cheering letters received at the Glen- ham headquarters yesterday was one, of which the following is an extract, from a business man in this city:— Aiter a business through Ohio and Indiana I tee) retty sure you ahr path States for Greeley and rown. oy pany, republicans who voted against Bendricks an the Ohio democratic ticket will vote ior Greeley in November. Another from Alabama, signed W. T. Hatchell, Gokmen of the Liberal Republican State Commit- @, BAYS — I merely wish to say that the prospects in this State are cheering for our success, so much so that Senator Spen- cer and hig eateliites have ately thought it necessary to have troops brewsht into this State to Keep white men from the polls, and have also secured Hon. John A. Bing- ham and others to make speeches among us, for fear we won't go right. Count Alabama for Greeley and Brown on the Sth of November. Among the visitors during the day were James Scovel and F, H. Snyder, of New Jersey; Judge Smalley, of Vermont, and Robert Craney. The Republican Headquarters. There was no news of any importance whatever at the Fifth avenue headquarters yesterday, Among the distinguished visitors were Speaker Blaine, Secretary Houtwell, Postmaster Jones, General W. 8. Ulllyer and E. Webster. KINGS COUNTY POLITICS. aeseceens Mise Swayze at Brooklyn Hall—Mass Meeting of Demoecrats and Liberal Re- publicans—Grant’s Administration and Sudden Wealth—How He Got His First Uniform. A large and enthusiastic democratic and liberal repubiican mass meeting was held last night at Brooklyn Hall under the auspices of the Constitu- tional Union Association, Miss Minnie C. Swayze was introduced when the meeting was called to order and received with loud applause. She then proceeded to review the administration of General Grant during the past four years and point out the reasons why he should not be re-elected. Grant was a candidate, but in ail justice to ourselves he should not be placed in the Presi- dential chair for asecond time. The government of three hundred thousand soldiers was a very dil- ferent thing from governing forty million of free- thinking, argumentative people, for he had none of the quatities of the statesman. He had con- duoted tie government as he conducted the war, utterly regardiess of expense or right. No man ever went to Washington who had taken less in- terest in public affairs than this same candidate for the Presidency. Instead of calling statesmen about ninr-— HIS _ASSOCLATIONS were with the rich who made him costly presents. Money was of more interest to him than the wel- fare of the country. His great wealth wag casily accounted for, He was compelled to borrow the money for his first uniform, and now he was worth not leas than three and a quarter million dollars, and the real estate transfers in the various counties would prove what she said, Misa Swayze then read the report of the transiers of real estate made to him from time to time since his election to office. Most of this property was purchased from Russell Jones, two months after Granw’s inauguration, for the small sum of $1, ‘They should not shut their eyes to these facts. Grant had PROVIDED WELL FOR HIS RELATIVES, and if there were any in the family who had not been looked atter he was yet to be heard from. Even Grant's friends admitted that he was not fit at first to be President; but they now say that he has had experience. If he was an apprentice uring the firs term he would not graduate asa Seay tt rth head: Re Koa not the taste or ability for the high office which he now held, Miss Swayze then proceeded to speak of THE ABLATY OF HORACE GRERLBY, whose long experience as a journalist made him familiar with the affairs of the government, who Was an honest man, who would go to the White House with clean hands and would leave it with an unviemished reputation. He was not a man who would shove the responsibility of the government upon others while he amused himself at fashionable watering piaces, Miss Swayze was frequently ap- plauded ing her remarks, The Jeffersonian Nominations—The Com- mittce of One Hundred. The Jeffersonian Democratic Committee have nominated the folowing ticket Jor election :— Shertg—Thothag 8, Faron. ty Judge—Dasiel P. Barnard. Justice of PoliceeJames Eachewege. Tustices of the Peare—Virst district, John Delmar; Soc gnd district, David , Lynch; sixth district, Henry M. 5 Gage ond district, William E, Robinson ; Fourth district, an. Sustice ‘ess—Bee Stephen D. Col of oesione-Jouin Dowling, Reerintesioners Of Charitiee—J. J. White and George inkel. ‘Supercisors—First ward, F. H. McGiniss; Fitth ward, Andrew Reynoids; Seventh ‘ward, H.R, Madden; Nintli Ward, K. D. Newman; Seventeenth ward, Thomas Devy: Niueveenth ward, G. i, Fisher; Twenty-Arst- ward, L. H. jariing. Aldermen—Fourth ward, A. D. Hpekey. Tenth, J. H. O'Rourke; Twelfth, Daniel Qriely kighteenth, Mur- tin Kalbiicisch; Twenty-first, T. V. P. Talmage. The following nomivations have been endorsed by the Committee of One Hundred K{Vinmiasioners of Charitier—deorse A. Bell and George inkel. Assembly—Third district, 8. B. Vreeland; Eighth dis- teen kane ie Police J ance Hechewoge. Lustice of Pence-tenathan Nortoii, Aidernen—Becond ward, F. Markey ; Dorion; Sixth, Thomas H, O'Riel; Kierer ne Fourth, Rodman ; Twel'th, ‘ourteenth, Samuel Wande! lixte Henry heenth, M. Kaibileiseh; Twentieth, A. Whii- enth, C. H. Trowbridge. reisors—Thitd ward, D. Johnson: Seventh ward, W. L. Steers; Ninth ward, K.'J. Newman ; Eleventh ward, KE. 8. Fowler; Thirteenin ward, E. Darbey; Nineteenth ward, George H. Fisher. The Louis “Itai” Association have endorsed Jus- tice Delmar. The “One Hundred” had hoped that the regniar republican candidates, Messrs. Taylor and Roberts, would withdraw from the contest in favor of their nominees, Bell and Kinkel, Mr, Roberts declines to acquiesce and declares that he will abide the result of the popular verdict in his case on Tuesday next. A Greeley and Brown banner was raised last evening, bearing the names of the local regular candidates, at the intersection of Hamilton avenue and Henry street, Twelfth ward. Fireworks, music, bonfires and speeches formed the attractions, ‘The assemblage was both enthusiastic and numerous. Republican Torchlight Procession. The republicans of Kings county had a grand torehlight procession in Brooklyn Jast night. The various ward organizations assembled in their re- spective club rooms at an early hour, aud at eight o'clock they marched to the corner of Clinton and Lafayette avenues, where they joined in the line of march and proceeded with torches, bands of music and transparencies through the principal streets of the city, CHARLES SUMNER. The Invalid Senator's Letter Declining the Nomination for Governor of Massa- Korron, Mass., Oct. 30, 1872. Charles Sumner, in a letter from Paris declining the coalition nomination for Governor of Massachu- setts, says :— In acknowledging your communtcation I beg to repeat this declination, most sincercly desirmyg that no person should vote for me. Beyond this personal wish, which I trast will not disre- garded, is the consideration that if chosen I couid notserve. At the same time I express my grate- ful sense of the trust reposed in m2 ey the conven- tions which united in this nomination. My ac- knowledgments are especially due to the conven- tion representing fellow citizens to whom for a Jong time I have been opposed on important public questions. 1 beg them to believe that i am not in- sensible to their good will, which is enhanced by the sign it affords that past differences are ab- sorbed in @ common desire to secure for our coun- try the incomparable blessings of peace and recon- ciliation, under the safeguards of ce govern- ment and with the principles of the Declaration of Iydependence as our rule of conduct. BOSTON'S FINAL REPUBLIOAN RALLY. Boston, Oct. 30, 1872. ‘The final and crowning outside demonstration of the Grant and Wilson supporters, en masse, took place in this city this evening, All sections of the State were represented, and the line of procession was five miles long, and in numbers there were probably not less than ten thousand. ‘The line of march was chiefly through the streets of the South End, and illuminations and fireworks were numer- ous all along the route, VIRGINIA, Meeting of the Straight-Outs in Secret Session. RICHMOND, Va., Oct. 30, 1872. ‘The straight-out democrats met again this morn- ing, but as only six persons were present they had @ private conference and adjourned without mak- ing known the result of their deliberations, The Association of the Army of Northern Vir- ginia meets here to-morrow (Thursday) night. py J, B, Gordon will deliver the annual ad- ress. The annual falr of the State A; ie proving a success Only as to the number of visit- ors, the exhibition and@arrangements being far in- forior to that of any previous year, The failure is attributed to bad management, The weather is ine, avd the glty is crowded cultural Society Her Long-Continued Tlness—Seenes at the Death—Relief at Last to a Life of Pain— Biography of the Deceased. After tem years of almost unremitted sickness and pain Mrs. Horace Greeley died yesterday morning. For two weeks her death had been hourly expected. Her chronic disease had assumed adropsical tendency, and the consumption of so many years had otherwise given evidence of the general breaking up of what was left of life. She made a trip to Nassau, in company with Mr. Gree- ley and their daughter, about four years ago for her health, but the air there failed to do ber any good, Again, last year, she went with her two daughters to Europe and sought recuperation in the balmy air of Southern Italy; but, while the climate benefited her, it failed to eradicate the disease which had seized upon her. She returned with her daughters from Kurope in June last, and stated that no air was so balmy to her and no water so sweet as the air and water of Chappaqua, She remained in this city for some weeks alter her return, too unwell to be removed to Chappaqua, and, as an instance of her fondness for the water of that “peerless” spring, Mr. Greeley was constrained to have jugs of the pure water itgeli brought in to her from the farm. She was finally removed to her “House in the Woods,” and there passed the heat of the sum- mer, which in her case was doubticss ag- gravated by the even greater heat of the political canvass, She remained here confined to her bed almost continually, varying her life only by visits to her friends at Tarrytown, where the breeze was stronger than at Chappaqua. On one other occasion she ventured to rise from ber bed and take a carriage ride in the open air—when the members of the Democratic National Committee, among whom were a number of ex-rebel chieftains, called upon Mr. Greeley after tendering him the nomination at Baltimore, and picniced under the evergreens, She then said that nothing could pre- vent her shaking hands with those life-long ene- mies of her huspand, who had now become such devoted iriends, “for,” said she, “I hardly hoped to see such @ Millennium,” She was even then pale and exhausted, her skin was almost trons- parent in its whiteness, and her dark eyes seemed to burn with a fitful light. She was compelled to recline in the carriage, covered with shawis, and her friend, Mrs. Stuart, who ciosely attended her through her sickness to her death, had continually to warn her against the volubility of her tongue and her prolonged stay in the open air, In Auguas she ventured to the seaside et Fire Island; but the weather proved stormy and boister- ous, and Mr. Greeley was compelled to return wit her to New York, During tlie tithsil < v herd } tO) ey ti hem, and ts Hain Hloum avertgok them, and its etect may have sted fer disease, At any rate on returning to Chappaqua she found herself growing so mech worse that at her urgent request she was removed to New York. Here, at the residence of Mr. Alvin J. Johnson, on Fifty seventh street, she lingered in agony, sinking perceptibly until yesterday morning, when, at four o’clock, she quietly and peacetully breathed her last. Mr. Greeley and his daughter Ida, Mrs, Lamson, an old friend of the family; Mrs. Stuart, and Mr. 4nd Mrs, Johnson, were at her bedside as she died. For days her voice had been inaudible, and even her sick cough could not be heard across the room, and her life ended without any further sign than the | hardly perceptible throes that accompany the death | of those long exhausted by disease, ‘The calumnies of the campaign, tiat had not ceased through the illness of his wife, had lost their sting for Mr, Greeley in the great grief that cast the shadow of its coming over his home, and he le‘t the bedside where now lay only her inanimate dust to com- mune alone with his sorrow, while the daughters | piende knelt in the presence of the dead and prayed ihe kind friends that had attended lier through her ten years of sufieving took charge of her 1e- mains, and by noon they were laid ont in the parlor, bedecked in a white robe, the hands clasped acroes the breast, while the kindly offerings of friends had already bestrewed the corpse with nowel On ‘riday the funeral will take place from the residence of Mr. Johnson, the sermon being reached at the Fourth Universalist church on forty-fifth street and Iifth avenue by Dr. Chapin. Mrs. Greeley’s maiden name was Mary G, Cheney, and she was born in this city. Her only relative is a brother living in Connecticut. Mr. Greeley first met her at the Graham House, an in- stitution erected m New York by Professor Gra- ham, the originator of the bran-bread diectctic philosophy, and conducted on those very frugal prin- ciples, Miss Cheney was at that time a schoolteacher, an ardent believer in the vegetable and brai-bread system, tags care searcher after the knowledge of books. Mr. Greeley was investigating the new philosophy, and thus formed an acqnaintance which ri legit into life-long affection, le sturdily pressed his suit to success, although he had to foi- Jow the object of his a‘fections to North Carolina, where she went to pursue her school teaching. On the 15th of July, 1886, the New Yorker, which he edited, contained the following marriage notice at the end ofa long string ofslmilar advertisements :. In Immanuel church, Warrenton, N. C. morning, 5th inst., by Key. Willian Norwood, Mr. Horace Greeley,’ editor ot the New Yorker, to Miss Mary G. Cheney; of Warrenton, formerly of this city. Seven children blessed the marriage, of whom two alone remain—Ida and Gabrielle. A DEFERRED EXECULION. Martin Baynard’s Escape on the Morn- ing When He Was To Have Been Hung—A Devoted Wife and Surprised Jailer. HENDERSONVILLE, N. C., Oct. 25, 1872. Over five thousand people were assembled here to-day for the purpose of witnessing the execution of Martin Baynard, one of the murderers of Silas Weston and his three children, but they were doomed to be wofully disappointed. It will be remembered that two criminals have already been executed for this crime, the details of whici were fully reported in the H#RaLD, both at the time of its occurrence and at the time of the execution of George Baynard and Goven Adair. Martin Baynard was also to have suffered the - BXTREME PENALTY OF THE LAW when the other two were hanged, but he was re- spited from time to time, to be used as a witness on Tuesday | against the elder Baynard and another, who were | also implicated in this horrible murder, under a | statute of this State which provides that a con- demned felon can testify as @ witness against other parties tothe same crime. All the prepara- tions were mate, the scaffold was in readiness and the crowd had been arriving from all quarters ior several days TO WITNESS THE TRAGEDY. During his imprisonment the wife of the con- demned man was faithful, constant and devoted in her attendance upon him. A day did not pass that she was not in his celi for several hours, and, at the last moment, with a heroism worthy o/ a more noble cause, she saved him from an IGNOMINIOUS DEATH upon the scaffold. The night that was to have been the last of Baynard’s earthiy existence had arrived, and upon the earnest, tearful and sor:ow- ful entreaty of his wife the jailer compassionately allowed her to pass the few remaining hours of his life with him in the cell, Morning broke clear and bright, and already the assembied multitude were ast, eagerly awaiting the arrival of the hour when the executioner and tie scaffold would do tielr terrible work. About six o'clock A. M. the woman came to the jail coor to be let out, with her bonnet drawn down over her face and a@ handkerchief pressed over her mouth, through which HER BEART-DROKEN 8053 burst athe jailer passed her through the outer door of the prison. She waiked slowly otf with a feeble gait, bowed figure, and wailing piti- fully, giving vent to her great grief, and she was soon lost to the sight of the gaping guards aud morbidly curious spectators. Breakfast time came ateight o’clock, and the confident and compas- sionate jailer, with @ meal—the last the doomed man was to have eaten—comprised entirely of tempting delicacies, repaired to the ceil. ‘The bars were removed and the heavy iron door was swung back, and the jailer entered, when a sight that made him shake like an aspen leaf met his aston- ished gaze. In the further end of the ceil, instead of the condemned man, crouched up in a corner, was a WOMAN IN HER NIGHT CLOTHES, The plate; and dishes with the breakfast fell from the jailer’s hand to the floor and were broken in fragments. He tried to speak, but could find no words for utterrance, and as he stood in actual despair the crouching figure arose and, in the tones of & woman who thinks she has doue @ praiseworthy action, said, “Well, as Martin is gone, I reckon I had better eat the breakfast,” and she forthwith be; picking up the scattered por- tions of the meal. Baynard had escaped in his WIFE'S CLOTHES and was doubticss by this time far beyond the reach of the county officers. The Sherifi, as soon as apprised of the circumstances, set out in pursuit of the criminal with a , but in vain; for, after scouring the country for miles, they returned with- out their Ercoet. ‘The assembled crowd gave ex- ression to their chagrin in various ways, none the least of which was an anxious desire on their part to see the woman hanged in the place of her hus- band, and, indeed, many of them were firm in the impression that such would be the case, Having come to see ‘a hangin'’’ they were not particular as to who the victini was, whether guilty or inno- cent, as long as their morbid curiosity was grati- fied, It is believed now that Baynard will never o¢ recaptured: a foul conspiracy on tho part of Proctor, Denning, Foley, and Mrs. Devereux. The defeadunts enti.ted to the! | benefit of any reasonable doubt, and if, att reful sideration of the whole testimony, you have a doubt, you are bound to acquit thém. Neither syt Hh | mother went inside the ralltn, | Th THE JERSEY BANK ROBBERY Argument of the Attorney. General. mae eS JUDGE DEPUE’S CHARGE. oe The Jury Ont Twelve Hours and No Prospect of & Verdict—Saunders To Be Prosecuted for Tampering with the Jury— Affecting Scene in Court. Yesterday was the last day of the trial of Chief McWilliams and Detective Doyle in Jersey City. The Attorney Gencral resumed his argument for the State. He alluded to the accused in a very delicate manner, and a stranger entering the Court would be likely to set him down as counsel! for the defence. He concluded as follows: deliver the community from eri liver these nilary, Th mt dispassionately. h. against these defendant c all Tcoutd. Tdo this on It is your this matter in charge, se you have ch public inierest, the public proparty y duty is done, A look of mute amazement could be seen on every countenance when the Attorney Generaf resumed his seat. The c.an who won laurels for himself in the Bumsted case forfeited them in ona day. There was a murmur) of astonishment throughout the Court which was only checked by the gavel of the Jude when he commenced to a liver his charge to the jury. } Judge Depue in nis charge urged the following points to the jury Although in the crime of eonspiracy two persons a least’ must be convicted, still you ‘can find ove these men guilty and acquit the The contested question in the case is whether and Doyle or either were parties to for that th Wis & Conspiracy between Donning, Proctor and oliets to break First ational Hauk is undisputed in the ease. An accomplice is a competent witness on the trial of an aflezed associate, It becomes the dutys of the Court to instruc JUFY not to convict on the, testimony of an accomplice tess the testimony Db wt tha principle. the and the public life, core roborate nd tiie necessary when the cons sequenegs to the geeuscd arc serious. Corrobovating tes thnony may be direct or it n be circumstantial; but whetlier it bo one or the other connect the defendant with the crime alleged, and must be of such weight a (0 make probabie the criinc charged against the defendants, | It will not do to prove simp that a crime has been eommiited; but that the deren fe ants were eng: ere several are indicted 1 the testimony of an accomplice corroboration agains one of the parties will not avail as against the other, There is no dizect tesiIMeny {6 ColvoboFate the testimony gfithe mplices in this case. You are to weigh cares Tally thc civeumstaaital evide adduced ‘0 corroborate, the testimony of the three Witnesses in this case, Deeau! they are men of evil repute. If you flnd that the rem ness of these detendants was for the purpose of aiding the’ conspiracy it will be strong evidence in this cage, ‘The letter from Proctor to his sisier 1s compe:cnt evidenc that McWilliams was a party to the conspiracy to brea jail; but it is noi competent evidence to coun Hams with the conspiracy to break Into the ben’ by the accused to avoid prosecution for crim of guilt; but itis open to explanation, An inn | charged'with a crime may he so overwhelmed with th magnitude of the charge that he may flee. If the state ments of the defendants be. true they are the vietie of it must he such as to init, wr a Consideration of the enor: the crime should influence your verdict, but you are approach this case with the tll sense ot the convietio that the law oniy demands that punishment shall be, meted out to the guilty, AN APFECTING SCENE. The jury went out at half-past eleven o'clock, and had not returned up to a late hour last night, As soon as they went out McWilliams’ wife ‘aud. and threw them: selves upon him. The scene which followed w: most affecting. Poor McWliliams, with all hi faults, lias a beautiful wife and a good mother, Ww! loves her erring son with all o mother’s love. His brother-in-law, Join FE, Scott. the City Clerk, had watched the progr of his trial with such an anx< jety that the Chie/ obtained sympathy trom quarte! wience he could not reasonably expect to fine any. The accused man was 2 pitiable spec tacle as he sat weeping between his wife and his mother, both of whom were wruug with anguish, as if he were to be torn from them ford ever. His true friends earnestly hope that if the be a favorable termination of this tmal he wil mend his ways and abvandon such disreputabid haunts as Platt's and Dodge's, resorts of notorio thieves, and that he will cnitivate in the futui decent associations. Ii he give promise of amends ment it is not at ali likely that any of the othe! four indictments will be preferred against him, TAMPERING WITH JURORS, TY soon a8 the jury had retired Judge Depue Bald :— During the progress of this trial au afidavit was py sented to the Court that efforts had been made by a thir purty to influence one of the jurors. The Court withhel this afidavit till the case on trial was given tw the i le: for the defendants The Court will now hand it to the prosecutor, and his judgment, after # caretui reading of it, the matt onght to rovecuted, the Court will fx a day to hear motion for a rule to sbow cause why that person shou The Courts in this Sta not be attached for contempt. are determined to break up this business of interferin, with jurors, 11:30 P, M.—The jury have now been out twelva hours, and there is uo prospect of an agreemen t one time there were seven for conviction ol both defendants, and five for acquittal; at another, ten for conviction of Doyle and two tor acquittals ltis most improbable that the jury wiil find both muilty, and the result will be a disagreement. The charge of Judge Depue was regarded as a plea for the ‘deiendants, aud yet the circumstantial evie dence secms to the public to be overwhelming. ANGTHER SHOCHING RAILROAD ACCIDENT. rs The Result of a Conductor's Alleged Carelessness—An Albany Lady Killed and Many Lives Jeopardized—An Ind vesiigation To Be Had. KINGSTON, Oct. 30, 1872. Yesterday Mr. and Mrs, Jolin Nube, two chil« dren and niece leit Albany in the 10:05 A. M. train for Khinebeck, They were on their way to High Falls, Ulster county. When the train! stopped at Rhinebeck station all the party except- ing Mr. and Mrs, Nube aligited. The last two, having @ number of packages, were unable to reach the rear platform of the car until the train had started. Mr. Nube, eager to get oi, threw hid vaiise to the ground and then jumped, It was only by the mereat chance tiat he esvaped being thrown under the car and killed. Mrs. Nube preparca ta follow her husband's example. Several gen- tiemen at the depot, seeing the peril attending it, warned her not to ATTEMPT TO LEAP FROM THE TRAIN. She paid no heed to their remonstranc throwing her puckage from the car, jum) ‘The train bad by this time acquired consi headway, and when Mrs. Nube struck the ground she was thrown off her feet, She fell on the rail and the cars passed over her right leg and left foot and ankle. The train was stopped, anti a board belng procured the mangled woman was placed upon it and carried into the Rhinecliff {Hotel. Surgeons were telegraphed for at Khinebeck vil- lage and Kingston, across the river. In about an hour Drs. Lansing and Van Vliet, of the former place, and Drs. Abraham Crispell and George C, Smith, of the latter city, arrived and made an ex- amination. They fouud tae right leg irom the knee to the aukle LIYERALLY GROUND TO POWDER and barely hanging by a thread. Part of the left foot was cul of and the ankle fearfully mashed. The surgeons conclided no operation co hem be made, The patient continued to sink until twenty minutes to four erday, When sie died, ¢ deceased Was a delicate wouian, of about forty- She was a native of Albany, whither sent for interment. verstou of the accident, Others claim that the o was caused by THE CARELESSNE*S OF TILE CONDUCTOR, tiat the train did not stop more than two or three seconds and that there was ho tite for all the pas» sengers to get off, some them being carried by. Aiter Mrs. Nube's death Coroner Noxon, of Rhine+ beck, held an inquest. Several witnesses were sworn, among them Mr. Haight, chief engineer of ihe West Shore Railroad, who witnessed THE FATAL OCCURRENCE. He testified that the accident was caused Med the carelessness and want of proper attention of the conductor, Harry Stevens. Mr. Haight foresaw there would be an accident, and motioned to the conductor not to start the train; but he signalled the engineer to f°, ahead, and, without lookin, back to see i all the passengers were off or not entered the car, After heaving the evidence the Coroner ad- journed the investigation for two wecks. The, adair will be thoroughly investigated, as much feeling on the subject has been aroused, Ey five years. her remains we} ‘the above Is o1 ACARD FROM MB, JOHN DEAN, TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— A sensational story, containing the most cruel) and slanderous aspersions upon myself and my{ family, has lately been going the rounds of the press, 1 beg that, as a matter of common justice, you will lend me a brief space in your columns to say that this story {s false in every particular, ang that its inventor and promulgator will be held the strictest accountability. 1 am net conscious having done anything at any time to forfeit own hy og ‘or the good opinion of my fello men, aud I do not propose that these cowardly and veer eaten Le my spanned shall go any jonger vacont or . IQHN DEAN,