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ati , Sime HQONSEQUENTIAL” REDIVIVES, ——-- + Secretary Fish Vindieates the American Commissioners, Sir A A Point-Biauk Denial of the British Commissioner’s Assertion. eter Chargé. © 4 Attorney General Williams, Judge Nelson, Judge Hoar and Minister Schenck Support the Secretary. me. THE “MISUNDERSTANDING” IN ENGLAND, A Ghost from the Joint High Commission. Wasntnaron, Oct. 31, 1872, » Beeretary Fish has issued a blue book, entitled “Tne American Commissioners and the Statement ‘of Sir Stafford Northcote at Exeter,” in relation to an alleged promise of exclusion of the indirect claims of the United States. This pamphlet contains extracts from Sir Stafford Northcote’s @peech; at Exeter on the 17th of May last while the disagreement was pending between his government and Great Britain over the in- direct claims; an extract from an unpublished @espatch of Secretary Fish to Minister Schenck, Tepelling the assertions of Sit Stafford’s speech and the diplomatic use attempted to be made of ‘it by Lord Granville in the controversy with this government es to whether the indirect claims were ‘within the scope and purview of the treaty; a cir- cniar letter addressed by Mr. Fish to the American members of the Joint High Commission in relation to Sir Stafford Northcote’s statement of the alleged understanding of the British members that a promise had been given to them that the conse- quential Claims should not be put forward, under + the treaty, for arbitration; the several replies of the American commissioners to Mr. Fish’s letter; an extract from the protocols of the con- ferences of the Joint. High Commission; an extract froma speech of the Marquis of Ripon in ‘the House of Lords, correcting a prevailing opinion that Her Majesty’s Commissioners had been coaxed by means of a secret misunderstanding . dAnto the. use of language in the treaty that admit- ted the Indirect claims, and a letter from Sir Staf- ford to Lord Derby correcting a misrepresentation of his Exeter sptech. ‘This compilation has been withheld from publi- cation by the Secretary of State until all the ques- tions arising under the treaty framed by the High Commission have'been ended, and is now put forward in vindication, first, of the conduct of the American Commissioners while the treaty was in process of formation, as showing that they did Not either waive or neglect any part of the claims that our government believed itself to hold against Engiand, and, second, in éspecial vindication of Mr. Fish from the unavoidable imputation of Sir Stafford's speech that he had, first, as a Commissioner to nego. tiate a treaty, knowingly allowed his col- leagues on the other side to derive a promise of a certain line of action from what passed in confer- ence, and then, as a ministerial oMcer, attempted to uphold and enforce a totally variant line of ac- tion with respect to the same subject. It will be Yemembercd that Sir Stafford Northcote, in de- fending the Gladstone Ministry from the censure 80 plentifully heaped upon them by the conserva- tives for the dilemma in which Great Britain was Placed by our enormous claims, made use of the following language :— SIR STAFFORD NORTHOOTE'S CHAKGE. Two questions have been raised—one the de sonal tion as to what was the understanding between the Commissioners at all events, and per- haps between the two governments, at the time the treaty was concluded; the other as to the general merits of the question which been raised wird to what are called consequen- or the indirect claims. low, with to the personal eet 1 will only say this—that we, the Commissioners, were dis- tinctly responsible for having represented to the Sopra a Eetverd ol YS atone antedton. Hast boo, hop eet gia course, brought into painful sara ana a ane eaten arise, bes hh our American colleagues upon tha’ Commission. tad nf FISH ON IIS METTLE. Mr. Fish took notice of thesc remarks in his in- structions to General Schenck of June 3, 1872. He therein said :— In Peed to myself and my colleagues on the American side of the Commission I must take this occasion, the first that has pre- gented itscif since I have seen the ‘of Sir Stafford Northcote, to sa that no such promise as he states that the British Commissioners represented to their government as having been understood by them to be made by the ican Commissioners was in fact ever made. The official communications between the American and the British Com- missioners, as you are aware, were all made by or to me as the first named of the American Commissioners. I never made and never heard of any such promise, or of anything resembling it, on the subject referred to. None was ever made by me, formally or informally, officially r unofiicially, and I feel entire confidence in mak- the assertion that none of my colleagues ever made any promise or any declaration or Sige dg Cchaptnte | to a promise on the subject. Y ve been the understanding of Sir Statferd Northcote or his colleagues, I cannot un- dertake to say; but that the American Commis- sioners gave him or them any unds t® under- stand that such a promise was given ashe says they ted to aoe government as having been made, I am boun iost ‘¥ BUT MOST EMPHATICALLY TO DENY, §-gonnot conceive from what he has imagined it, as @he only divect allusion to the three classes of “glaims called the indirect claims was that made on ‘the of the American commissioners on -he eth day-of March, is get forth in the thirty-sixth Ghigo in the era ry eng was mene, nfl yond e statement approved by the Joint Commission furnish the substou ian part of What passed on that occasion. Jam at a loss to eonceive what representation, outside of the state- ; @ent made inthe thirty-sixth protocol, Sir Stafford Northcote can have made to hia government. He Yi hge question,” something ‘the time of his address he and his been under oMecial restraint from 3 but the protocols and the statement to Wwe referred had been before the public, oth in Great Britain and in the United States, for ay @ year before his declaration. It is only om a vee two that the journals containing ‘ais address have reached me. T have this day addressed a letter to yourself and 0 each of our colleagues on the commission, calling tention to Sir Staflord’s stetement, and in due may make public the correspondence. The letter he addressed to his colleagues on the American side of the Commission was the Jol- towing :— I beg to ask your attention to the enclosed ex- ‘tract of an addrem made by Sir Stafford Northcote ¢o the b,xeter Chamber of Commerce, contataing an extraordinary charge that ‘a promise had been ga to the British Commissioners that what called heh hi claims could not be brougiit, asp of wesntgtont Inds tae eat . individually Lnever heard ‘\of any sech promise. As one the Amerjcan \gortod' anything of, the, Kine have wo ve 10 @ecollection of ger, question of the kind 10g Hy or unomeialy, What the understanding of n'l propose to enters It'is enough thah they, enter. a at they, - tibdae os that they had o certain under: Sir sy Thornton tells me that he, with bis. col w that the “indirect claims” were waived. He er says that his understanding on that point was derived entirely irom the presenta- ton ag nA sal complaints and claims op the Sth of March, as set forth in the protocol, and he disclaims knowicdge or tea of any’ ‘AD: “promise” or of anything subsequently said on the n el @ dell- cacy 10 bear any public teartony on the -ques- The charge of Str Stafford North. dock not state specitically by whom ‘the promise was made, but as the oMmeial Munlupicavop and intercourse of the British Com- NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1872.—TRIPLE SHEET. missroners confined to the A’ fruich . implies, iapuiation ot i é ncnons Pylventure, therefore, to oy Pe ies mediate Ss famest, On the matter. |, IN REPLY, SAID, my attention at the ‘The ex! tracted time it Mi , but I was inclined to regard hee ee of his understanding rat wad fact, My very great respect for Sir from our intercourse du: the n in id me to this conclusion. My is distinct that nosuch P ise was in fact made, and, further, that the oi y éeting of thé Coutissioners at which indirect injury or were thestioned* that of the sth of March, ‘the fects. ia Teapetto wich are truly set f HOAR SAID, “I cannot, of course, undertake to say what any tleman ‘understood,’ nor does it appear by Stafford vanderstond? that the} bs Mya tal that ¢ ‘ Wen, T can only say I never ade Waa e SF Soon promise, either individually or in conjuntion with fray That no such promise was ever made in my to ee my knowledge; that I never —, or ad that any such promise ex- isted, or was understood by any one. On the con- trary, I always thought and suspected that those claims, though incapable from their nature of computation, and from their magnitude incapa- ble of co) lon, were to be submitted to the of arbitration and urged as a reason why & gross sum should be awarded, which should be an ample and liberal compensation for our losses by captures and burn- ings, without going into petty details.” Judge Williams, now Attorney General, an- swered in the following terms:— I have no means of knowing what the British Commissioners understood upon that subject, for an understanding wg SAP ary upon an infer- ; ence or an 1 ir Stafford Northcote means to say any promise as to said claims not found in ty or protocol accompanying it ‘was given by the American Commissioners, I am pre- respectfully to controvert the assertion. 1 was never a party to any such promise, nor did I hear of any! of the kind; and the probabilties that it was made are not very strong, for the British Commissioners must have known that any promise er the treaty would have no vaiidity if not subnilt to and approved the Senate of the United States, which, of course, could not be the case with — such romise, of the existence of which here is no written evidence. I presume if Sir Stafford Northcote used the language imputed to him that he was betrayed into an inaccuracy of ex- a and that he only intended to say the ritish Commissioners understood that the claim for consequential damages was not to be put for- ward, not that any promise to that effect out- side of his construction of the treaty and protocol ‘was given by the American Commissioners. General Schenck’s answer came last, but it con- firmed what the others had said. The Minister saysi— In reply. to your appeal to me on the subject, I have no hesitation in saying distinctly and em- hatically, as one of the American Commissioners, ever hat if any promise of the kind mentioned by Sir Stafford lorthcote was given, had no it whatever; nor do I pecweete of believe that any such promise was made by my American colleagues of the Joint Commission, or by either of them individually or collectively. hat ht have been the “understanding” of ‘the British Commissioners it is impossible for me to say. Their high character as honorable gentle- men forbids my OUD rE, for @ moment the asser- ro tion of eithe hem when he states that such an impression existed in his mind. The American Commissioners can only answer for what they themselves may have said or done to give just or sufficient occasion for any understanding of that sort, I would comment further on the psneg ans cepa’ by Sir Staffora in connection with his statement, and on what that language, as reported, seemed to imply, but a letter of his afterwards addressed to Lord Derby, which, it seems, you could not have seen when you wrote to me, has been read in Parliament and published, etying quite a different view of the matter. It is not left now to be suspected that the British Commissioners were misled or deceived by some private communication made to them. Inthe letter to Lord Derby—a copy of which I send you _ herewith—Sir Stafford explains that the ground of his “onderstanding’’ was the statement made by the American Commissioners at the opening of the conference on the 8th of March, and which is set forth im the protocol, but that he did not rely even upon that, or on anything outside of the treaty itself, to support his conclusion. How this opinion, founded on the terms of the treaty and the words. of the tahoe! which are open for interpretation all the world, should bring the British Commissioners into painful relations with their American colleagues,” and cause “pain- ful questions to between them,” I do not comprehend,’ It 1s enough to know tnat the proof of the ohn rea is claimed now to be derived in- ferentially from the langui of the treaty and pretovol, and I am sure that differences of opinion as to the Tearing. i be sesigned, to those docu- ments ought te and can discussed with- out any need or poner oF making the controversy “~” NAL QUESTION.’? The thirty-sixth protocol, which Mr. Fish pub- lishes as the finally admitted basis of Sir Statfora’s “understanding” about the waiver of the indirect claim: an account of the conferences held on the ath, 9th, 10th, 13th and 14th days of March, 1871, and was prepared jointly by the two sec- retaries, Lord Tenterden and Bancroft Davis, and submitted to and approved by all the High Com- missioners. It opens witha statement ofthe na- tional grievances Tapio England on account of her conduct, and after alluding to the direct losses due to the operations of the Alabama and other cruisers the “indirect inyury”’ brought for- ward and described, The amount of the airece losses was next 2 ed, after whic’ acco) rotocol, the Commissioners rains “That in the here f an amica ent no esti ] fe SO The Tndlicee Loaiek, Winget Peaudes, however, to the right to indemnification on their ac- count im the event of no such settlement being made.” The Marquis of Ripon, who, as Farl De Gray, had presided over the British Commission- ers, spoke as followsin the House of Lords at about the time Mr. Fish was making his inquiry of his side of the At- Lema Commissioners on ic :— , My Lorps—There seems to have got abroad an opinion that Her Majesty’s Commissioners at ‘ashington last year relied on what has been de- scribed as a secret understanding subsisting be- tween them and the American Commissioners that these indirect claims would not be brought for- ward. I distinctly deny, on the part of those who ‘were engaged in these negotia- tions, that that was the case. We may ee Shee f2 we mal Ma seers in emplo language which excludes these clamor Twit not detain your lordships now by entering into any elaborate argument on that sub- 406 so fully stated in the correspondence on the bie ; but, whether we failed or whether we suc- ceeded, we were not induced to employ language which we considered would admit those claims by euy consideration of that kind, and which, in this Steeepecenee, is described as a waiver, .On the 8th of March, as referred to in the L apeeiy these claims were mentioned by the inited States Commissioners, mentioned in a man- ner which, in substance, is described in that pro- tocol on your Lordship’s table, and throughout the course of the subsequent negotiations these claims were not again brought forward. These remarks were in reference to certain ut- terances of the Earl of Derby the night prerians, and with reference to which Sir Stafford Northcote himself addressed Lord Derby in the following any » Leg him to read it in the House of Lords, which was done;— SIR STAFFORD'S CORRECTION. 86 HARLEY Street, W., June 6, 1872. Dear Lond DeRsy:— T observe that in your speech in the House of Lords last night you referred to a recent statement of mine with regard to the negotiations at Washington im & manner which shows me that you, well a8 many * other rsons, have misunderstood my meaning. Pras been sup! nd you seem to have sup- sed, that I an understanding existed Botween the British and the American negotiators that the ciainis for indirect losses stiould not be Srought forward, and it has been inferred from this that we, relying upon that understanding, were leas careful in framing the treaty than we should otherwise have been. This isincorrect. What! said was that we had re- sented {to our government that we under- stood a pro to have been given that no claims for indirect losses should be bronght forward. In so 38 I referred to the statement voluntarily and formally made by the American Commissioners at the opening of the “Conference” of the 8th of March, which I, for one, understood to amount to an engagement that the claims in question should not be put forward in the event of a treaty bis Page on, 1 will not enter into @ discussion of the grounds upon which I came to that conclusion, but will simply say that we never for ®& moment thought of relying upon {t or om. any other ter outside of the treaty itscif. ‘e thought, still think, that the li e of the treaty was suffictent, ac- cording to the ordinary rules of interpretation, to excl the claims for indirect losses, At all events, we certainly meant to make it so. T remain, yours very, ae nealy, AFFORD i, NORTHCOTE. Tux Fans of Versy, A RAILROAD SMASH-UP, Colifsion om the Penmsylvania Rall- road—One Engineer Killed, Another Engineer Several Firemen Badly Injared. Borpentown, N. J., Oct. 31, 1872. A collision occurred at six o'clock this evening between an empty coal train and a passenger train near Jamesvurg, Am! division of the Pennsyl- vanla Railroads’ fhe engineer of the coal train, daceb Tyndall, was instantly kilied. Both of the firemen were seriously injured, The engineer of She pomeenee train had his arm and leg broken. J iger cars ran over tl reaking ent" Dad ~ None of th ere im: jared. Anat the cK engine 668 of the ines 8 coal train exploded Glowing the housy of the en- gine over uit the felas, HANGED FOR WIFE MURDER. Execution of Jenkins, the Mu- latto, at Washington. A BRUTAL CRIME AVENGED. Eiath abestiins stb scat BE Story of the Deed---A Knife, a Cleaver | and a Corpse. q are FAILURE OF THE INSANITY PLEA. The Culprit in a Religious Ecstasy Before Death. LAW TAKING ITS COURSE. WASHINGTON, Oct. 31, 1872, George W. Jenkins, a young mulatto of about twenty-five years of age and lately employed as a cook at a fashionable private hotel, was hung in the jail yard of this city to-day for the murder of his wife, Lavinia Jenkins, a good-looking, bright mulatto woman, twenty-one years old, to whom he had been married about five years and by whom he had two children, aged respectively three and a half and two years, Themurdered woman bore an excellent reputation for chastity and industry, but her husband, besides being exceedingly quick tem- pered, was of an insanely jealous disposition and somewhat addicted to intemperance, which caused him to ill-use his wife. The latter separated from him eighteen months after marriage and supported herself and children by sewing during the separa- tion. SIX MONTHS BEFORE HER VIOLENT DEATH she rejoined her husband and was regarded in the neighborhood as an excellent wife and mother. Both she and her busband were members of vari- ous colored societies, and they had both belonged to one of the leading Methodist congregations, but the murderer’s connection had become severed, while his wife rematned a member. The tragedy occurred on the morning of the 14th of May, on I street, close by the Arlington Hotel, and in the square where Major Russell, of the Marine Corps, cut his throat, in 1864, and a young lady named Goins jumped from a window and killed herself during a fit of insanity three years later. The weapons used were a cook’s knife and @ butcher's cleaver, by which, conjointly, six fear- ful wounds were inflicted upon the face and throat of the victim while still abed and in her night- dress, The criminal fled the house, and THE BODY OF THE DEAD WOMAN Jay for three hours or more in the bloody pool fed through her wounds, and with only her little chil- dren near her, till her brother-in-law, Robert Jenkins, passing the house and hearing the cries of the children in the back part, mquired the cause, and was told by the elder that their father had gone away and their mother was up stairs dead, with her throat cut. The startled man ran at once to police headquarters to tell what he had heard, and word was at once telegraphed to the nearest precinct to take charge of the house and to all stations to be on the lookout for the mur- derer, who was, however, supposed to have got out of the city in the hours of grace between the deed and its discovery. At the Coroner’s inquest the little girl of three and a half-ycars said, in reply to the questions put to her, that her papa killed her mamma in bed, and pointed tothe cleaver as having been used, she, herself, being in the room and witnessing the act. Other evidence went to show the borrowing of the knife from a brother hotel cook the night before, and of the cleaver, for the alleged purpose of open- ing @ box, on the morning of the murder. It fur- ther appeared that Jenkins had been arrested a little over a month before, on compiaint of his wife, for threatening her life, and that three nights before the murder a policeman passing the house overheard one of two men sitting inside say that he “WOULD OUT HER D—D THROAT."? The next morning the oMicer asked the deceased the meaning of what he haa heard the night pre- vious, when she said that she supposed they were referring to some of their old girls. The officer, knowing the reputation of her husband, asked her if George would hill her, to which she answered that she did not know what he would do when he got mad. The Coroner's jury found that the de- ‘Thad come to her death by a cleaver in the ands eh her huabepas the ne ee surrendered toher friends and thé children taken. in charge by relatives, while pe seareh {or the muyderet went on in the city and about the surrounding country ers a agitt But ayout sg ab the S one of ing, the ve, driven by hunger and lo: reat, and haunted by the decd of bi Wehad committed, entered a youce station and, giving his name to the sergeant in charge, announced his voluntary surrender to justice. He was takcn to headquarters and put in the hands of the detec tives for examination. He maintained that tne whole affair was a blank to him—that he had been drinking for some time and knew nothing till he saw the bloody corpse of his wife before him. Then he left the house, and only remembered that he found himself in Gorcoran’s woods, that he wan- dered thence over to Meridian Hill, and pondering upon his crime as sunset caine on, he resolved to surrender himself. While in jail awaiting his trial the prisoner’s conduct was that of INDIFFERENCE CONCERNING HIS CRIME or his fate. He always maintained, when ques- tioned, that he knew hothing of the occurrence that had brought him to his then situation. His trial began on the 3d day of October, the Assistant District Attorney opening with an allusion to the extraordinary number of homicides lately com- mitted in the District of Columbia, but reminding the jury that they were to try this case wholly by itself, and that, while they should be charitable with the prisoner all through the trial, he asked for a verdict free from fear, favor or affection. The testimony for the prosecution was substantiall; that given before the Coroner‘s jury, with the addi- tion of that of the policeman who served the war- rant upon Jenkins for threatening the life of his wife, and to whom he sald that he expected he would kill his wife yet, unless he left her. The ning defensive argument orged upon the jury t they were to judge, not of the act, but the mo- tive—to look, not at the hand, but the heart of the doer. Several witnesses were introduced for the oe of showing that at about the time of the murder THE ACOUSED HAD BEEN ACTING STRANGELY and in an insane manner. Counsellor Hidde, Washington’s foremost criminal lawyer, made the final argument for the prisoner, and was followed te the prosecuting attorney. The Judge charged the jury that if they believed the prisoner to have been abie to resist the temptation to commit the act, he was guilty of murder; but if they believed his will to have been totally incapable, they should find him not gullty by reason of insanity. The jury were absent ten minutes, which interval the wae ben with ts children, who were taken ‘0 him. e Verdict of guilty was announced with- out visibly affectii the now condemned man, upon whom sentence was deferred for a couple of days, and he paused on bis way back to his cell to light acigar. « On being arraigned for sentence he replied to the usual question of the Judge that he had nothing to say except that he was not himself at the time of the occurrence. ‘"¥ IT 18 POSSIBLE TO SAVE MY NECK,” said he, 1 hope you will do so; but if not, let God's will be done. 1 Will be satisfied.” The Judge then sentenced him to be hal by the neck until dead on Thursday, October 31, between the hours of ten in the morning and two in the afternoon—the in- Novation wy the old traditional usage that has set apart jay a8 the hangman’s day exciting more interest in the court room than the sen- tence, which was but a matter of form. The pris- oner was not affected by either circumstance 4 ed bidding Rooahy, to some relatives of his murder wife, he iit the inevitable cigar and retired from the presence of justice. During the interval between his sentence and its execution he became resigned to his fate, cheerful in his bearing and hopeful of his fature. Under the influence of pious le, both ministers and laymen, he bent his thoughts upon religion, and strove to oes himself for the mtous change from lil death. He per- aisted.in his innocence of any intention to commit the horrid murder, and-on that sore ue somewhat his hi of the future life. tomed petition to the President for a commutation of sentence was gotton up by those interested in the doomed a ferred to the Attorney General, who the District Attorney for an opinion. stating that he The latter, honestly knew no reason to for interference with the sentence, left the Attorney Gencral no alternative but an unfavorable recommendation, and the President declined to stay the inniction of the death ty The prisoner knew of the effort Made in his behalf, but wisely abstained from dl- verting himself from his impending fate. THE SCAPFOLD ERECTED FOR JENKINS and other expectauts of the gallo ow on trial or under senience stande upon the spet where the Irish boy, Jim Grady, was hun; ago—the last infrequent victim of an eft-offended law. As if to intimate that hanging, like other abnormal manifestations, may become epidemic, the new has a capacity of five and can be aken down and set up many successive times without trouble or expense. At six o’clock this morning the prisoner arose, after a sound sleep of a few hours, and, ir wash- ing and dressing, MADE A HEARTY BREAKFAST, Re he took leave o1 his fellow prisoners, includ- ng yy Other murderers, in some friendly words, and was removed to a cell in another part of the to be nearer the door leaditig out to the scaf- ld, and was taken in charge by colored ministers and other pious friends, with whom he spent the remaining time Fs a FRAYING, SINGING OF BYMNG AND RELIGIOUS CON- 4 4 ERSATION. By the wise s1 stion of friends or hia own fore- thought the painful parting with his mother and other relatives had taken place yesterday, and Jenkins was spared the added emotion of such a scene to-day. His brother was the only relative seen this morning, and he brought a neat black suit, im which the prpaner dressed himsell for exe- cution, Though visibly excited, HE WAS IN AN ECSTATIC CONDITION, -and had taken such firm hold of belief in a blissful future, under the earnest ministrations of his spir- itual comforters, that the frequent fear of male- factors of their suaroaeins, doom gave place to longing to be cast loose from earth. Half an hour before noon the warden of the jail appeared and reminded the prisoner of the niul duty he was required to perform under the law, He then read the death warrant, commanding him IN THR NAME OF THE PRESIDENT to do execution of sentence upon Jenkins. The latter thanked the warden and prison officers for the kindness shown him in imprisonment. The prisoner’s brother stood, a bowed wit- ness of the scene, in one corner of the room, until espied by the prisoner, who threw his arm about his brother’s neck and ut- tered some impassioned words of invocation to the Creator for his brother’s welfare. The bystanders were much affected by the emotional character of the proceedings, and none were calmer than Jen- kins himself. As soon as his brother left the room the guard stepped forward to pinion the prisoner's arms, the latter jumping up and exclaiming, “ALL THINGS TO HOPE; NOTHING TO FEAR}? At ten minutes it noon the procession passed through the door into the jail yard, Jenkins being guarded on either side, followed by the attending ministers. He walked firmly up the steps to the Scaffold and placed himself upon the drop, where he stood while the hymn ‘Father, { Stretch My Hands to Thee,” was given out, and took part in the singing. A prayer was next offered by one of the ministers, commending the soul of the doomed Rod Peper ACUI ot oP prone 8 their Maker, loud voice le fare’ all, and invited them eh a TO FOLLOW AFTER HIM TO JESUS. His legs were tied while he was saying this, and then, amid the awful silence of the great throng in the yard, the black cap was drawn over his face, A moment of painful, suffocating suspense to every one followed, and then, in obedience to a signal silently given, the trap fell and was nolaily caught in a metal spring arranged to prevent its rebounding against the prisoner. The knot slid rapidly its briet distance upon the greased rope, and the victim was firmly caught. His shoulders shrugged once or twice and his legs quivered for a few moments, and then he GAVE NO FURTHER SIGN OF LIFE. two years The platform was deserted by those who had | stood upon it, and the body left hanging for thirty minutes, It was then cut dowa, examined by several physicians and delivered to the undertaker, who placed it in @ neat coftin and conveyed it to the colored burying ground, followed by the brother of deceased and the clergymen. A STATEMENT OF THE DECEASED is Darla this evening, in which, while still maintaining his former assertion of unconscious- negs of performing the deed for.which his life has been forieited, he urges that suspicions of the im- proper conduct of his wife drove him into intempe- rate and frenzied jealousy, the last occurrence being at a late hour on the night before the murder and ending in As leaving the house and recklessly taking to drinking. His memory goes no further till he found himseif in the woods as before stated, and @ gradual realization of what had been done came tohim, The prisoner also prepared a farewell ad- dress for publication, in which he EXCUSES HIMSELF AT THE COST OF HI8 WIFR, and partly screens herby throwing blame on med- dlesome miscalled friends. He closes with an ex- hortation to husbands and wives quoted trom the Bible, and with assurances of his hope of im- mortality. The occurrence of the day, with the ae emement and address, is an exciting weme for our large colored population, who swarmed about the jail during the execution, THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN. SRT Sane The Republican Headquarters. There was no news whatever at the Grant head- quarters yesterday, Mr. Chandler having virtually shut fp si until the returns come in. There re- mains Anthing to do or to be done but lay on oars and await the result of the balloting. o The Tam: my General Committee. At a meeting of the Tammany Hall General Com- mittee arrangements were made for the distribu- tion of tickets at the election and for the mass meeting to-night. A priated list of instructions ‘was read and submitted for the guidance of voters. The Liberal Headquarters. At the Glenham the spirit of Mark Tapley holds cheerful — Letters come in daily, and indeed by every mail, giving the most encouraging news of prospects in other States. The following are a few of them:— Cacao, Oct. 29, 1872, A great change has come over the people of this county, and it looks now as if we could carry it (Cook county) for Greeley and Brown. I have only one doubt, and that is our German friends will cut the electoral ‘wise the sspect Of affairs looks most en- and I shall not > astonished if we ‘olitics oa in ae Yee P P< 4 may make a change ot 5,000 votes. I sawa letter last ening. oc trant ot ming from, an apaeet Rio An inate eat te State by “All the thtin hah rey and b: rant men in Chieago admit to me, that. things are ‘awfully mixed, mn the Irish republicans’ vote here. every day in county, The Sunda; rant men attempt to put in force, 5 ne magic for us upon the Germans. This week's work will save us Chicago, and through it the whole State, “Be of good cheer and send the news to a Rrcwwonn, Va., Oct. 29, 1872, From the silence of the press I fear you did not under- stand me as saying in my last letter to your Committce that Virginia was entirely safe o. Greeley and Brown. I meant to be so understood. We will ca and gain one Congressman. We are very gind to see that your people are yet working for success and feel that everything is not lost. Our committee, of both wings, are actively pushing Matters, and no fear need be entertained for Virginia, Yours truly, ‘W. C. NEWBERRY. Sax Fraxctsco, Oct. 23, 1872, We shall carry this State for Greeley and Brown and alzo elect our four members to Congress. | Very rewpect- fully, E. T. HULL. The following is from the colored orator, Saun- ders, who is now stumping North Carolina :— Warnenton, Warren county, N. ©., Oct. 28, 1872. The documents forwarded by express are this day re- ceived, and will be used to the very best advantage. “Our prospect is brightening and our friends becoming inspired With new courage. The apathy created by the Oclober elections is rapidiy disappearing, and if we poll nearly as full a vote agin August we will carry the State. I am hooked for every day up to. and inefuding November 2, and shall render a g account of myself, and I trust add lustre to the cause {tis my pride and pleasure to bat- tle for. I have the honor to be, Colonel, very truly, yours, W. U. SAUNDERS, THE CITY JUDGESHIP CANVASS, Jadge Bedford Denies the Rumors His Withdrawal from the Contest, City JUDGE'S CHAMBERS, 82 NASSAU STREET, New York, Oct. 31, 1872. TO THE ELECTORS OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK:— In justice to myself 1 deem it proper that Ishouid state to the public that there has been a rumor scattered broadcast throughout the city that I have withdrawn from the canvass and am no longe! candidate for tho City Judgeship. I desire to state, in denial of this and malicious rumor, that [have not withdrawn from the canvass, but still am and will continue to be a candidate till the closing of the polls on election day. And 1 tur- ther to say that my is my platform, on it I stand and with itl expect to win. At this late be iam in me to make a single reference to my jal life, covering a period of eight save that I have ever, to the best of my ability and conscience, protected this commu- nity in their lives, liberty and pro; . And pow in return I i to every law-abiding citizen of tH tive of party or politics, to sustain me by their votes inthe coming election, GUNNING 8. BEDFORD, City Judge. Judge Bedford Endorsed. Ata meeting held on Monday, October 28, of the Eleventh Ward Independent Campaign Club, the following resolutions were offered by F. W. Schu- macher and unanimously adopted :— ved, That this club will at the coming election sup- of Resoly Pekerited fate yi sla aiport or present. nob ; ony Bedtore, Yor re-clection aim" Pets W. Schumacher, Secre: + John Felshung, Treasu rY, THE OOMMITTEB OF SEVENTY. The Committee of Seventy resumed.its session last evening at the Everett Hotel. Mr. Wheeler occupied the Chair. The other members present ‘were :—Messrs. Ottendorffer, Choate, Bliss, Bundy, Roosevelt, Sherman and Bears. Although the can- didates for Assembly, Aldermanic and Assistant Aldermanic offices have been already endorsed, the Committee were busier than usual receiv- Ing delegations from the diferent organiza- tions of the city, about twelve of which were fairly represented, ‘The most important was that of the People’s Municipal Association, repre- sented by Mr. Smith E, Shaw, General Joseph 0. Jackson and nine other delegates, These heida long conference with the committee 1D session, and finally succeeded in having their organization represented im the boxes on election de , in con, a werk x soldateers authorized to assist- . im ranning the boxes of the Commit- tee of Seventy. Mr, ith E, Shaw tendered to the committee a let ed candidacy for nee ad gy “Si ae cit it itood e's Municipal Associatiot n dorsed him for that office, There remain abort eight districts for which no candidate has been yet end the committee having failed to agree on the suil sons to fill them. The Apollo Hall and other reform es received the intment of captains in different wards to assist in running the boxes. The committee adjourned at eleven pidieck P.M, to meet this evening at the regular LT at , ° The Number Admitted to Citizenship Since 25—Thetr Birth- of Registration— Tarks, Negroes, Chinamen and Assy- Clothed with the Franchise— Natives of Alsace ai Lorraine Object to Betng Considered German Subjects. ‘The total number of aliens naturalized in this city since the 25th September was 4,361, This is greatly in excess of the number admitted to citi- zeuship during the corresponding period in 1871. ‘The difference is accounted for by the fact that this year there isto be chosen a President, Governor and Mayor, and the committees of the different parties having been actively at work to increase tne number of voters for their respective candi- dates. The Superior Court has had most of the work to perform, in which 2,542 persons were in- vested with the rights of citizenship; the Court of Common Pleas comes next, having naturalized 1,496, and the United States District only con- tributed $23 to the total given. The rules estab- lished by the judges were rather more rigid than on former occasions.’ For instance, in the Court of Common Pleas applicayions had first to be made to the Clerk or one of his deputies; the necessary al- fidavits were required to be taken in his office, and all the evidence as to the qualifications of witnesses prepared beforehand for examination by the sudge. These duties were strictly carried out and served to revent imposition or traud if apy was intended, All the j adees of the Superior Court gave a certian portion of time to naturaliza- tion, but in the Common Pleas a general term was held last month, occupying three judges—one was engaged in the Supreme Court and one at Cham- bers. Only one judge was available for naturaliza- tion, which accounts for the lesser number of per- sons who were admitted to citizenship in that court. The United States District Court, it would appear, was not much patronized, There were no certificates of citizenship issued by either the Su- preme Court or the United States Clreult Court. DUPLICATE CERTIFICATES, In consequence of the registration officers re- quiring the production of certificates of foreign born citiziens before entering their names on lists it became nesessary for many thousands to obtain duplicates or copies from the Clerks’ offices of the courts in which they were naturalized, It imvolved the examination of books as far back, in some instances, as 1830, to find the original records, The parties applying had to furnish names of witnesses and the date as near as possible. This was owing to the similarity of names. ‘There might be filty named ‘Michael ely”? and as many named ‘Henry Hoffman’ naturalized the same year, and the necessity of giving the names of wit- hegses was therefore necessary to proper identi- fication. No other persons than the clerks of the Courts were allowed to examine records or indices, There were about four thousand duplicate certif- cates issued altogether, NATURALIZATION OF CITIZENS’ MINOR CHILDREN. Ii became necessary also to naturalize a number of minors who were entitled to all the rights of citizenship when they attained their majority by reason of their fathers having been naturalized while they were minors, The registration officers Were not satisfiea with the sworn declarations of the applicants, They required the production of the parents’ certificates, This it was found impos- sible to do, and recourse had to be had to the courts in the same manner as if they were aliens. Many of the class mentioned had resided in other States and did net know to what tribunal to make application, They could only state that their fathers being citizens bad exere.sed the privilege of voting, and that the law was clear as to their ment to do the same thing. The registration officers were not to be moved, and a large num- ber took out at once final papers, having arrived +? big United States when under eighteen years r) NATIONALITY OF APPLICANTS, Over four-fifths of those admitted to. citizenship since September 25 were of h and Germiun birth, the former being the greatest in number. There were some Russians, Greeks, Turks, negroes, and even one Chinaman is recorded as haying renounced his allegiance to the Brother of the Sun and Moon. An applicant who represented himself as @ native of Assyria, an ancient empire which ceased to exist before the epoch at which the authentic history of the East is usually considered to commence, forswore fealty to the Grand Seignor and became a free and independent citizen of the United States. There was some difficulty with the Alsatians and Lorrainiers.who applied for naturalization. They could nately tolerate the idea of considering the Emperor of Germany their sovereign, and felt bitterly that any act of theirs would involve his recognition in that relation. They would renounce allegiance to Napoleon, to Thiers, or even the devil in prefer- ence, but the Kaiser never if they could help it. As there was no other way of obtaining the boon of citizenship they had to swallow the bitter pill. ‘The avpended tabie shows the number and _nativi- ties of the persons natarslized in the Courts men- tioned since September 25:— Superior Common U.S. District ourt, Pleas.” Court, Total. 127 78 182 2a 896 489 Ey 1479 102 38 wy 179 86 39 8 133, 28 19 4 ci 4K 18 - 6 17 2 - 199 2 ig = ro) 36 a - oT 25 7 = 2 Yel a4 » i = 3 tionalities.. 26 19 16 61 Total .. AZ 2 1,496 323 4,361 Natives of the Austrian Empire, Holland and Belgium are included among Germat POOLS ON THE ELECTION. Vie ER TT Great Excitement at Johnson’s Club Rooms Last Evening—O’Brien Slightly in Advance. A motley assemblage gathered at Johnson's Club |. Rooms, corner Twenty-eighth street and Broadway, last evening, to attend the pool selling on the re- sult of the approaching elections. There were about one hundred chairs arranged in rows in front of the auctionecr, and these were filled at an early hour, Back of these stood a solid phalanx from ten to twenty feet deep, profoundly intent on the business in progress, but generally devoid either of the in- clination or it may be the wherewith to bet. These gentlemen made the most noise, while those who stood ready to back their opinions with their cash were content to simply nod in response to the auc‘ioneer’s call, or utter a monosyllable by way of indicating their choice, The faces were mostly those so well known to the habitués of the race- course, with a sprinkling of a few fashionably dressed young stock broke! ig to look blasé at twenty-five and assuming air of noncha- lance which is the accepted attribute of the man of the world, The fringe of the crowd consisted of still another class, who were mostly loud talkers, well dressed, with jewelry of some sort plentifully pedechipe their exterior, and with a decided flavor of the County Court House or its opposite neigh- ber, where pany and Davenport hold high revel and marshal their host to victory at home or abroad. Most of them talked knowingly about O'Brien's chances, while those who may have entertained different sentiments, overawed by the’ magnificent get-up and pompous eloquence of these youthiul Politico-economists, ventured naught in Ly aig) It cannot be said with a great degree of justice that the countenances of any betokened the highest in- tellect, though be may secured the most cli- gible partners at a French ball. ‘Through the crowded benches the burly form of one well-known betting man swaggered to and fro every now and ther, singing out in a shrill, asthinatic voice his challenge to all comers :—“One thousand dollars no man can name the winner!" “Three hundred to a thousand on Lawrence!" “Five hundred dollars no man can namé the win- ner!’ which last bet was piomptly covered by one James O'Kelly, who na O’Brien as the man of destiny. John, however, soared too high, for the majority were satisfied with staking tens and hundreds, "aad did not care to embark in larger ventur he following pools were sold :— ON GREELEY REORIVING TWENTY THOUSAND MA- JORITY IN THE CITY. On 20,000. $100 8 100 (100 Under 20,000. - 85 90 to ON THIRTY THOUSAND MAJORITY IK THE STATR YOR GRANT. Joo 86100 «100 100 : 110 10H THR. MAYORALTY. $100" 100 150 «100 120130 7% 85 125 105 120 116 22 9628 + $100 100. 1001 « 8 9 100 GREAT FIRES IN MICHIGAN. p Dprroir, Oct. 31, 1872, A fire at Grand Rapids ast night destroyed three blocks on Pearl amd Canal streets. The loss is 200,000, and is mostly covered by insurance. Sone millon ade half feet of hember owned by Jerome & Co. was burned at East Sagmaw iast pight, Jone J $20,000; no IDsUFED CG, prooeeita <—enoooeni iasialieeetais THE EMPIRE STATE, o—_—_ The Aggressive Policy of the Republicans. es Its Effect Throughout the State—Half-Hearted Warfare of the Democrats—A Good Old Knickerbocker Democrat and His Hat with the Hedgehog Nap—Talking the Wisdom of Bunsby for Fun—ihe Fight in Albany and Dutch- ess Counties—The Demo- cratic Stronghold of Columbia—A Very Mized Canvass, Hupson, N. Y., Oct. 30, 1872, 1 travelled down as far as thia point through the’ counties of Oneida, Herkimer, Montgomery, Schenectady, Albany, Rensselaer and Columbia. From what I learned [am satisfied three of these counties—namely, Schenectady, Montgomery and Rensselaer—can be carried for the liberal ticket byt any kind of a reasonable effort. 1 found some democrats imbued with that spirit of indiferent- ism which in religious matters we call scepticisny and in politics general apathy, It might be as well here to remark that this canvass has been. carried on with twice more pluck, earnestness and I might add bravado by the republicans than by the other side. Even in places where | have found republicans numerically weak I have re- marked their during aggression, ‘The liberals and democrats have been doing more or less of ROSEWATER FIGHTING in this campaign. Here and there they have taken/ the initiative and attacked the enemy's works; but they have acted to an amazing extent on the, defensive. The repablicans are defiant, saucy, abusive; and, by the bold course they have pursued from the beginning of the canvass, they have kept back 10,000 recruits irom Greeley and filled many a democratic mind with despair of the success of hist party. “PAINT HEART NEVER WON FAIR LADY" is not more true as a maxim in love than in poli» tics, Courage and aggressiveness have been want- ing on the side of the party opposed to Grant. DU can trace the effects of the October elections ail! across the State. They have left their impression, because the faith of the liberal party in its own snc- cess was nelther firm nor earnest. Had it been one or the other, that October tornado would have passed over and shaken but a few leaves to the ground, leaving every tree and branch of tha liberal forest waving in in and secure defiance, ONE OF THE RARE OLD STOCK, At Fonda, Montgomery county, a good old demos erat named Colonel Van Anden, @ comical genius of the Knickerbocker breed, remarked to me that when he took up his country paper and compared it with the republican organ he felt like giving up the fight. “Why in hell,” he emphatically asked, “don’t they pitch in? That radical sheet abuses every liberal and democrat as if he was a pick- pocket, a thief, a murderer; appeals to ail sorts of prejudices, tells the damnedest lics, does everything for its party, while our democratic paper contains nothing but milk and water stuf about the princi- ples of Jeferson wud all tat rubbish, Here,” con- tinued the Colone), “is where votes are made ina great political campaizn. Men will go to that side where they think the power and brains are, Thou- sands of people wuo know no better think that that party Must sweep C' thing before it that uses he loudest thunde: Nothing, sir, like humbug and a good, stiff outside appearance nowadays.” TALKING A TRIFLE BUNSBYISH, “Well, Colonel,” | inquired, ‘what do you think of Kernan’s chances?” The Colone! paused for a few moments, brought his right eye veitically over the shoulder seam o} his coat, and having covered with an imaginary rifle the bung-hole of a beer burrel on the opposite side of the street, replied in a slow and oracular way, as if the fate of the nation hung in the balance, “ldo rayther truly and sincerely believe that if Frank Kernan be not our next Governor nobody else Ought to be, I don’t say,’ followed op the Colonel, speaking in atone of voice much like Jolin Owens looking tor his “barrel of apple sass,” “that Francis Kernan Is por. sure of bein’ elected; but if he hain’t elected, then, by gosh, there’s No 18 @ tryin’ to-tap, & bulternus tree for mpple sngar—that's certain. ‘But’ said 1, “what has that P to do with the question as to your opiniono! Kernan’s chances?” “Well,” he answered, taking another dead sight A barrel, and at the circular aperture in tl throwing hits voice into a d possible ten times more lazy than Mark ain's, “it has. J don’t go to get peach brandy from pumpkins, PRANK KERNAN, GOSH, is fit to be President of these United states, includ. ing New Jersey, and it we can’t make him Gover- nor of New York State by virtue of the people's voice, then we had better shut up shop and cuttin’ ‘sparagus tops for a livin’. fow, sir, you want toknow what I think of Kei nan’s chances? Well, 1 dont think at all. I feel a: sure of his election asf do of leavin’ my store clothes behind me when I go up Jacob's ladéer tu salvation. It’s all nonsense to think the people will run wild about Dix because of that buncombe order of his some years ago. I got off @ darn sight better things myself; but I never sent them to the newspapers, If you just drop down to Sharon some day I'll show you orders of mine tbat take down Dix and don't tonch the American flag,’® saying which the Colonel and his wonderful hat with a pap like the fur of a hedgehog disappeared. NEWS FROM ALBANY COUNTY, Republicans in Albany county talk of carrying that stronghola of democracy for Grant. ‘They talk of a strong democratic defection in Watervliet township, in Cohoes und in the Tenth ward of Albany city. I find nothing of an alarming demo- cratic secession. On the contrary Albany county has been, perliaps, the most thoroughly canvassed of any in the State, and the democrats there are Jess likely to stay away from the polis than in any other county with which I am acquainted. The total vote of Albany county this year will be, if fully polled, 26,500. You may caicniate of tais a majority of 2, even for the liberal ticket. A CLOSELY-CONTESTED COUNTY. Dutchess county will be closely contested. Jt is among the liveliest debatable ground in the State. Grant carried it by about eight hundred in '68. There are fully three hundred jiberals in the county. and the democrats are all for Greeley. Then, the Congressional fight is exciting an un- wonted interest, and that will serve to bring out a full vote both in Dutchess and Columbia. Jgnn H. Ketcham ts the republican candidate for gre dis- trict and J, O, Whitehonse the democrat. The latter has an advantage over the other in ng the employer of some three or four hundred hands in a shoe factory and having the reputation oi being kind and liberal taskmaster, A DEMOCRATIC STRONGHOLD. In this, the county of Columbia, the democrats have almost always been in @ majority, and I ree no reegon to apprehend that any change of sides will occur. Certainly, after seeing the great meet. ing held in this city iast evening, at which Francis Kernan, William E. Robinson and General Thomas F. Bourke spoke, I cannot imagine that the repub- licans lave the Icast chance of making even the slightest impression on the democratic majority of the past. It was among a tewof the thoroughly rot democratic meetings I have seen in the State. The street leading up to the City Hall was rendered impassabie by the crowds that made the weikin ring. A MIXED-UP CANVASS ALTOGETHER, All things are awry in this extraordinary can- vase, It would be odd, indeed, shoula Generat Grant carry the State and bear away the proud laurels of victory while he left General Dix to flounder in the mire of defeat. Yet this result, so Strange are the elements of the canvass, is by no Means unlikely. ‘Things is mixed’ with a ven- rc, If Greeley carries the State it will only be y @ full poll im his favor of the democratic vote in the city of New York. John Cochrane and his committee should see that this is done, or it will be impossible to answer for the conse- quences. As for Kernan his strength lies exactly where Greeley’s weakness is—namely, witn the thorough-paced democrats who for twelve long age haye been marching into the jaws of defeat Re le. That sectarian school cry raised ry ernan has proved a far weaker bugbear thand thought it would be. It only goes to show that the of bigorty is on the wane, and that the American people have more practical sense and f eligence tam the politicians give them credit for. DARING ESOAPE OF OONVI Rhode Island State Prison Broken—The Watchman and Baker Knocked Down and Gagged—Successful Escape of the Prisoners. PROVIDENCE, R. 1., Oct. 81, 1872. In the State Prison, about tWo o'clock this morn ing, Elisha E. Peck, a convict, got out Of his cell, knocked down the watchman with a plece of gas pe and bound and gagged him, He then tiberated qi aries Williams, another con’ ‘and unsuceess- fully tried to berate. pets alley mur- derer, and Calamity, a burglar. ing in this, Peck aud Williams took the watchman’s pistol, watch and money, and at four o'clock, the hour for the baker, they. rang his bell, as js usually aone e watchman, aud when the baker ap- peated they fa him down and escaped ‘Oneof them had six years and the other eight Years WO serve