The New York Herald Newspaper, December 11, 1872, Page 3

NEW ORLEANS The Carpet-Bag Tangle Becom- ing More Intricate. Warmoth Serves an Injunc- tion on Pinchback. KELLOGG FIRM BEHIND THE BAYGNETS. A Mass Meeting of Mournful: and In- dignant Citizens. eal wis Military Rule Preferred Bofore Political Rowdyism. & New ORLEANS, Dec, 10, 1872. ‘The meeting of citizens held here to-day was a ‘very imposing one, all the bank presidents, ofl- ‘cers of insurance companies and avery large num- ‘Der of leading merchants taking part init, It was held in the open air, notwithstanding the day ‘deing a very inclement one, with a slight rain fall- dog at the time. Its proceedings lasted only about ferty-five minutes, and, with the exception of ‘@heenng the speakers, was otherwise almost mournfully quiet. No disposition was manifested fowards violence, the speeches being very con- @iiatory and dealing only in generalitics. The ‘wommittees have since met, and, as material aid bas been abundantly offered, a committee of leading citizens will visit Washington to lay a memorial before Congress as soon as the signatures @f the people can be secured to it..y The bitterness ef feeiing is constantly intensifying, and Kellogg’s people are now anxious to appease the public “sentiment. Mr. Kellogg is especially active in this work. The Legislature is also directing its atten- tion toward various reform measures, which are Deing hurried through with the same object. Dur- ing the proceedings of the meeting all the banks, Ansurance companies, and most of the prominent stores were closed; otherwise affairs are progress- deg ag quietly as though nothing out of the usual youtine had occurred. The memorial is a well written document, and sets forth the grievances efthe people very nearly to the same effect as you heave already been advised. THE PROCEEDINGS AGAINST PINCHBACK. Gevernor Warmoth filed tue following petition in the Eighth District Court this morning :— The petition of Henry C. Warmoth, of the parish ‘of Orleans, respectiully represen that he is Gov- ernor of the State of Louisiana, and that he is, and has been since the year 1868, in porn of said omMce and in the discharge of its functions, and that he is entitled to discharge its duties until he whall be legally removed, or until a successor shal) ‘be duly qualified. That one P. B. 8. Pinchback, of the parish of Or- leans, has, this 9th day of Deeember, 1872, at- tempted forcibly to take possession of the rooms ed to the Chief Magistrate of the State at the State House, during the absence of the peti- thoner therefrom, and to assunie the duties of Governor, That the said Pinchback holds no office under the constitution and laws of Louisiana; has no right to attempt to take possession of the said office; nor $0 assume any of the duties of the Governor, but i#amere wrongdoer and trespasser in his acts aforesaid. ‘That to preserve the rights of the petitioner an injunction is necessary. herofore the petitioner prays that said Pinch- back may be duly cited to appear and answer this petition; that an injunction may issue perpetually Festraining him ‘rom committing any of the acts heretore te at foyth; that he may be summarily re- Btrained during the Hendeficy of thid Buit, ke. ORDER OF COURT. “Let an injunction issue as prayed for and ac- cording to Jaw on Bone ‘iving a bond of #600."" A. ELMORE yadge of the Eighth District Court, parish of Or- aus a. The following is a copy of the writ served on the a@efendant :— ‘THE WRIT SERVED ON PINCHBACK. You are hereby enjoined and restrained from interfering or attem, ting to interfere in any way ‘with H. C. Warmoth in the discharge of his. duties a8 Governor; from taking possession or attempting to take ssion of the office assigned to the Whief Magistrate of the State of Louisiana at the ‘State House; from keeping possession or attempt- ing to keep possession of said office or rooms, or from in any wise sellers or attempting to exer- elee the functions and duties of the Governor of bouisana. ACTIVITY OF THE KELLOGG MEN. The Kellogg Legislature in joint session to-day counted the vote for Governor and Lieutenant overnor. Mr. A. P. Field has received his commission as Attorney General, and was directed to telegraph to Washington and have the suit instituted by the Attorney General, H. N. Ogden, stopped, and to wotify the Supreme Court that he had been com- miasioned. A bill for the same purpose passed the Senate. Mr. Pinchback stated that, having been duiy returned, he will receive his commission us Con- gressman at Large. PINCHBACKS'S PROCLAMATION. Actiag, Governor Pinchback to-day sent a me: e to the Legislature. He recommends prompt ym in the case of the impending impeachment against Governor Warmotn, and a vigorous and wearching investigation regarding the election Srauds, with the view of punishing the guilty, The reclamation concludes as foliows:—‘The people we lel lta of oppressive laws. I would recommend. that all laws which are justly obnox- ious or which bear oppressively upon any portion of the pe le of this State, whether political or economic, modified or repegled; and that all your legislation be conducted, not in the interest Of any class, but with a view to protect the rights and Toate® the interests of the whole people of this State.’ MERTING OF THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, A preliminary meeting at the Chamber of Com- merece was held this morning and a large declega- tion of bankers and leading merchants were pres- ent. George Jones, W.S. Pike, F. H. Summers and W. Baker were appointed a committee to pre- pare & memorial to be submitted to the City Hall meeting. PROCEEDINGS OF THE CITIZENS’ MEETING. ‘Tuomas A. ADAMS, President of the Crescent In- surance Company, called the citizens’ meeting to order jn front of the City Hall, and said:— God bless you all for the manner in which you have responded to the call for the purpose ot resist- ing this tyranny which has been placed upon us, and i hope tne will be successiulin this your peace- able protest against the invasion of your rights as American citizens. Colonel JoHN McENny then made a brief speech. He said he was not there to make a political speech or use inflammatory remarks, but only to take counsel in the present state to which tyranny and sraud had reduced them, REMARKS BY GOVERNOR WARMOTH. Responding to loud calls, Governor WarMorn fook the stand. Ile recited the incident connected with the elections and returns, He asked:— it not known the sworn returns are in the hands of the Governor’ How thencan ¢ ide whether or not this or that officer is elected ? He sald that seven or eight counties lad been counted out without evidence; that the Governor been impeached, the State House placed in possession of United States troops, the Legisiature enjoined and every man denied admittance to the Capitol who was not on the infamous rolls of the enemics of the State. He concluded by advising a Fecourse to Congress for redress. The memorial prepared by the Committe of the Chamber of Commerce was then read and adopted. St is a lengthy document, setting forth the history @f the contest for the past two weeks in full. A series of resolutions were adopted protesting againut the usurpation of the State govern. ment by a party of unscrupulous adven- turers aided by federal bayonets, and authorizing the appointment of a committee of one hundred to prepare an address to the President and Congress setting forth their manifold grievances. The com- mittce shall visit Washington and lay it before the wational authorities, and ask that the federal gov- ernment remove from the State Capitol the federal droops in order that the duly elected representa- tives of the people may have free access thereto to a@wemble, organize and exercise their legitimate davies, or, in the event of the unwillingness of the suthoritics 10 to do, that they be requested to establish a military government in our midst. @eowing the latter a8 infinitely preferable to the NEW YUKK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1872—TRIPLE SHEET. present trresponsible, illegal and usurping role, which is supplemented and sustained by the bayo. net. THE MATTER IN WASHINGTON. The United States Supreme Court Wil! Hear an Argament in Favor of a Writ of Prohibitio: Wasuineron, Dec. 10, 1872. In the case of Kellogg’vs. Warmoth, which wae before the Supreme Court of the United States on Monday, the Court to-day gramted leave to file the petition, and ordered that argument on the motion for aruie to show Cause against Judge Durell be heard on Thursday. REPUBLICAN PRIMARIES. The Elections Last N fm All the Assembly Districts—The Delegates to the Central (CommitteeA Bloody Row im the Pistrict. In te the call of the Union Republican Central@emmittee for 1872 the various Assembly district: amseciations met last evening at their respective headquarters to elect delegates to form the Central Committee for 1873, thie election result- ing as follows :— N. Ki Ney, 81 ; Joho Haine Atehit 1a Melt e, |. Kingsley, Sr.; al jclntyre. p. F, Fellows, Orrall Nichols oo Meconnelt SECO! DI ND Morris Friedsam, Henry &. ik and Pierre C. Van Wyck, 7 THIRD DIsTRICH. Thomas F, Geary, Francis Donfellan and Jacob Vreeland, FOURTH DisTRICT. E. 8. Newins, D. H. Crowley, Charles N. Brackett and Aug. Shediel. PIFTH DISTRICT, A. Lent, F. Earie, J. K, Butler, J. K. Lewis, A. Leake, W. Vanderholf, A, H. Keech, G. C. Christo- pher and C, Carl. SIXTH DISTRICT. Robert Moore, Henry Theoyotd, Eneas Hlliott, | Frederick Singer and Michaelsmith, 4 SEVENTH DISTRICT, John D. Lawson, George W, Clarke, Edward Buss, George Morgan, Jacob H. Gumble,’ B. 'T, Morgan, Bey c, Overin, Francis F, Resch avd George W. reed, EIGHTH DISPRICT. John N, Lanthier, Samuel A, Roberts, Matthew Davis, Samuel Engel, Carl Gellman, George Sher- pan, John E, Marren, John 8. Strand aud John e. NINTH DISTRICT. James Farr, Richard M, Collard, Gilbert J. Hunter, William H, Housner, Edward Taylor, P. J. Holzderber, George B. Deane, William H. Gedney, Willian Drummond, Gilbert Jackson, William H. Corsa and George B. Deane, Jr, TENTH DISTRICT. William H. Lockwood, John V. Mayer, George 8, MeWatters, Daniel Sullivan, Andrew Steinmutier, Charles S. Strong and E, M. Rosenbaum, ELEVENTH DISTRICT, George Bliss, Jr.; John H. White, Benjamin J. Levy, Marshal B. Blake, Robert Utiey, James Me- Afee, Cornelius D. Van Wagenen, A i dage, John Murray, Alfred F, Pui Acton and Samuel ©, Reed, TWELYTH DISTRICT. Frederick Hahn, Fre , Samuel G, lerick Klein, Richard Smith, ©. H. Southworth, George W. Coflin and John J. Cashman, THIRGEENTH DISTRICT. Charles §. Spencer, ugh Gurdner, Samuel B, H. Vance, Joseph McFarland, John A. Meek, George Gardner, John D, McLean, William Aibertson, William Schiege! and Philip Jorda\ FOURTEENTH DISTRIC’ | Joseph C. Pinckney, Augustus welsmiann, John | H, Brady and William H. Falconer. FIFTEENTH DISTRICT, Howard A, Whitticid, Jom 8. Warner, Hugh Turner, Robert Bateman, Jerry D. Hull, James 1. | Martin, Richard Kromm, Jobo M. Fisher and Jogeph Hatch, SIXIBENTH DISTRICT, William Laimbeer, Frank E, Howe, Douglas Camp- bell, tlias E. Disney, Pxcepela Rance, W. M. Heag- erty and Theodore P. Kelly. SEVENTEENTH DISTRICT. Benjamin K. Phelps, Edward 0. Jenkins, Alex. R, Martin, James Ache, Jr.3 Philip Schwartz, P. Harwood Vernon, David B. Mellish, Benjamin F, Finley, Leonard Hazeltine, dy. ; Charles A. Flammer, Henry Helmerich and Clark F, Whittemore, EIGHTEENTH DISTRICL, Thomas Murphy, Edmund Stephenson, Horace M. Ruggles, D. D. ‘T. Marshall, Henry &. Howland, Alfred R. Whitney, George W. Lyon, John Pullman and Joseph O'Carroil, NINETEENTH DISTRICT. Thomas Hagan, David Clarke; Andrew Bleakley and John B. Ityer, TWENTIEVE DISTRICT, William A. Da ling, Join 3, Russell, James Millward, Willard Bullard, Nathan’ J. Neuwitter, George H. parce: George Opdyke, Henry E. Davics, Jr.; Thomas Frecborn, Hermen Cantor, Severn D. Moulton and Alexander Blumenstiel, TWEN*Y-Piget DISTRICT. Simon Seward, Benjamin Bey«a, Isaac T, Recves, Clarence Heidelberg, Swauer Lackey, Joseph Muir, Ktitus B. Cowing, George W. Jewitt, Henry C. Robinson, Anthony Allaire, Joseph M. McDonald and David Bartley. .Row in the Third District. In the association in this ¢istrict there has long been a contest, and at one time three men each claimed to be President of the association. ‘The one having the largest following was James L. Cos- tello, and he was the ruling spirit at the primary last evening, which was held at 160 Hester street. Two tickets were run, one headed by George W. Olmstead and the other by James Fieming. Cos tello was on both tickets—on the Olmstead ticket for a delegate to the Central Committee and on the Fleming ticket for First Vice Preside The ad- herents of the candidates on both tickets were ex- tremely disorderiy and promiscuous fighting was continualiy going on, resulting in an indiscriipinate pummeliling of each other, the desk on wiich the ballot box was placed being literally covered with the blood of the combatants. Finally the police took possession of the room where the balloting Was going on, excluding but the tellers and a representative ty who were watching the count. The counting of the ballots commenced at about nine o'clock, although, under the call it was the duty of the Pe a to keep the polls | open until ten o'clock, the disorder was so great that it was useless to attempt voting alter nine o'clock, Costello, who was one of the tellers, an- nounced that the Olmstead ticket received twenty- nine votes and the Fleming ticket filty-three. On being asked by a reporter whetber these were all the votes that had been cast he replied in the atfirmative, The defeated party announced their intention to contest the election, on the ground that a fair opportunity was not given up to the time of the closing of the polls for all those to vote who desired to do so, and that the polls closed at least one hour before the time set by the Central Committee. WEATHER RE — PORT, | Wak DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER, WASHINGTON, D. U., Dec, 11—1 A. M. Synopsis Jor the Past Twenty-four Hours, Over the Lower Lake region and the St. Law- rence Valley, northerly to westerly winds, rising barometer, cold and cloudy weather prevail; in the Middle and Eastern States, southwesterly to north- westerly winds, high pressure and low temperatures with generally clear weather; for the Gulf and South Atlantic States northerly and northeasterly winds, cloudy weather and rain, with high barome- ters and low temperatures; on the Upper Lakes, in Wisconsin, and thence to Tennessee, cloudy weather; northerly winds, low temperature and light snow in the latter States; in the Southwest southeasterly winds, cloudy weather and diminish- ing pressures, Probabilities, For the Northwest and Upper Lake regions southeasterly winds and partiy cloudy weather, with higher temperatures and decreasing pres- sures, extending to the Ohio Valley; in Tennesse and thence to tie Gulf and South Atlan- tic coasts northeasterly winds, occasional light rain, cloudy, but clearin; Weather; on the Lower Lakes and in the St. Lawrence Valley west- erly to northerly winds, p: ¥ cloudy and cold weather, with higher barometers; in the Middle States and New England partiy clondy weather, northerly and easterly winds, bigh pressures and low temperatures, On the 15th inst. the display of cautionary sig- nals will be suspended at the lake ports during the Winter. The Storm. WASHINGTON, Dee, 11—1 A. M. The Signal OMice, at thirty-flve minutes past four on Tuesday afternoon, reported it sleeting at Mobile, Ala., thermometer 33 degrees; Shreve- port, La, thermometer 30 degrees, and Vicks- burg, Mias., thermometer 30 degrees; snowing at Memphis, ‘Tenn. ; thermometer 23 degrees; St. | Louis, Mo., thermometer 22 degrees: Keokuk, and Breckenridge, Minn., thermometer 13 degrees; Rochester, thermometer 18 degrees, and raining at New Oricani The Weather in This City Yesterday, ‘The following record will show the changes in the temperature for the past twenty-four hours in comparison with the corresponding day of last pA indicated by the thermometer attudnu ‘8 harmacy, ay! nD a 71. 2, 1871, 187: 15 3:20 P.M... 36 '% 16 6P.M..... 22 16 9PM 21 f +. 86 21 12P, 21 Average temperature yesterday. 9.56 Average temperature ior Jawt year, sorar 2046 | evidence, both betor | the sentence stayed he has endeavored to proiit A LIFE FOR A LIFE. Execution of Charles Johnson for the Murder of His Wife. Sateen THE STORY OF ANEGRO’S INHUMAN CRIME A Colored Citizen Improving on White Example. AN EXTRAORDINARY STATEMENT BY A JUDGE The Murderer’s Invitation to the Unblessed to Meet Him in Paradise, “AND MUST I LAY THIS BODY DOWN?” WASHINGTON, Dec. 10, 1872. Charles Johnson, colored, who was convicted on ‘the 26th of October last ior the murder of his wife, Jane Johnson, on the night of the 28th of Septem. ber, in Georgetown, expiated his offence on the gallows to-day in the presence of four or five hun- dred spectators. Johnson was born in slavery, and while a slave married the deceased, Upon being freed during the late war, he entered the army, and during his absence he says she became enceinte by another man. He, however, took her again to his bosom upon promise to do better, Again he enlisted in the cavalry, and, according to his statement, made provision for her support. She was unfaithful a second time, yet, returning to Georgetown last Spring, he again provided her withahome. On the night of the 28th of Septem- ber, returning home he found the house deserted and the rooms impoverished, It was a Saturday night, and he began making preparation for Sun- day. HE TOOK OUT HIS RAZOR, and, while getting ready to shave, she came on the premises, Johnson went out to meet her. They had some words, a quarre} foliowed, and in his snd- den frenzy he mficted five wounds with the deadly | weapon, The case was tried before Judge Hum- | Pbreys, of the Criminal Court, beginning on Ovto- ber 24, and the evidence for the prosecution showed that Johnson, who is about thirty-five or thirty-six years of age, had threatened his wife early in September, was arvested on a peace war- vant and gave bonds for his good behavior. On the night of the murder, about six o'clock, Mrs. John. son went home, and shortly after he took her to the back of the yard, and, holding her head across | the palings, cut her throat from ear to ear, The principal wound was from side to side, the knife reaching to the spine, nearly severing the bead Srom the body. There were wounds on the right hand, back of the neck and on the cheek. Adued to THE HORRIBLE MUTILATION | was the evidence that she was enceinte about six | or seven months. During the aflray she cried for | help, and resisted with all her might, but in the | hands of the enraged husband, who claimed that | he was blinded by jealousy, she was as helpless as | achiid. The shrieks of the dying woman attrrcted | the neighvors, and the police were informed of | the deed. Officer Trunneil followed him up, and | arrested Dim, Johnson made no resistance, con- | fessed the murder, and said he had thrown away | i | the razor. The prisoner was locked up at the Georgetown station house, and the following day search was made avout the yard for the mui derous Weapon, and it was found in the locality indicate | by the prisoner. The home of Johnson was desti- | tute of furniture. There was nothing in the premises but a stove and trunk. For tue Coro. hers use a table and chais were borrowed. The | u Was such as to Jeave no dowst in the minds of the jurors. He had admitted that he did the deed, instigated by THR GREEN-RYED MONSTER; that in spite of all infideli-y he could not forsake her; that he had spent $1,000 in providing for hei, ye ae all his Kindness, she would noi be con- stant. ‘The trial jasted but one day, and, on the 25th of October, the case given to the jury, The num- ber of trials jor murder which preceded this one had wrought a morbid desire in the minds of the illiterate spectators to see how the accused would take the verdict. The wal rered about the } court room, and the usnal chatter (which is barely | suspended during the session of the Criminal Court) set in with unusual volnubility and made the court | room for a while a Babei ol tongues. Th not long to wait, howev ‘The dudge had charged the jury that the malice of the deed was implied, from the weapon used and tne facts connected with the case; so aft the jury appeared, and the verdict 3 dicted” announced. An effort was made to sei a second trial, but Judge Humphreys promouy overruled the motion, Whereupon the counsel | then tried to obtain a postponement of the judg- | ment, inorder that they might get evidence to show Johnson's mental imbectlily, which they thought was well exhibited by the fact that he had | taken care of her as his wile when he knew her to nother Tius did not strike be enveinte by man. | the Court asa reason for postponement of sen- tence, While admitting that there were strange circumstances in the c , yet they wv similar to circumstances in other cases which } been decided upon. tls case the evidence | showed tit JOHNSON HAD AN ORDINATY CARE OF HIMSELF and jamily, going regularly about his business and making arrangements for his family, Huumplireys here took occasion to say that had every Wwomnan been slain who, during the way, had lived with other men than their husbands the: would be almost as many kilied as fel in batti He regretted that it was his duty to pass sentence ; but he could not set aside the verdict, and duty impelled him to proceed. ‘The sentence was accordingly pronounced, Judge Humphreys addressing the culprit in a few re- marks, in which he dwelt on the enormity of his ce. he Attorney Genera) yesterday decided not to interfere with the sentence of the law, and Warden Crocker compiected the arrange- ments for the execution to-day. Since Joinson had learned that there Was but little hope of having in by the religious visits of several of the col- ored clergymen of fhe District; his time has mainly been passed in pra: and he yesterday stated that he had made his peace witn God and anxious to be ireed Irom eurthly care. \ he scaffold is the same on which George W. Jenkins was hung, on the sist of October, tor the | murder of his wife, and on which Barney Woods | suffered death on Friday last for th | Mr. S, M. Cheeseman, ‘The p past week occupied the cell in which Jenkins spent | bis last hours upon earth, and from which he was | to-day led forth for execution, { THE EXECUTION OF THE MURDERER. | | | murder of | Johnson comparatively quiet during last night and arose this morning ia a cheerful mood about eight o'clock. The irous were removed and @ substantial breakfast iurnished him, He said he wanted to fx up and be all right, that he was ready to go, and he wanted to be buried alongside | of his wife in Mount Zion Ground, near orge- town, where he had a ciild and friends interred. Shorty aiierwards the Key. Dr. Draper, of Bethel, and stibsequently Rev. Messrs, Gibvons and Pinck: ney, arrived and engaged with the prisoner in spiritual exercises, He attired himself for de- ‘jail aud Was removed to the room, ‘where devotional exereiscs were continued. During all this te appeared | more cheerful than sny of the others present, | At past eleven ‘the undertaker arrived with hearse and pluin coMn, the latter being cod immediately under the s bitter cold, yet jail yard were crowds of people, While irom every red! top and | window commundiag the scene of the execution were hundreds of anxious eyes peering upon the instrumeut of death, WITHIN THE JAIL YARD, surrounding the gallows and building, was a detail | of shivering policemen, more anxious to be re- | lieved from this duty than to witness the execu- | tion, The morbid sightseers were on hand, and | those who had been Without it resent On many such occa- sions compared notes, one or two asserting tha this would be the twenty-sixth hanging match wit- nessed by them. Ten minutes before one o'clock the solemn procession was marshalled by Warden Crocker, assisted by his guards, and approached the doomed man. The Warden announced that it was his painful duty to carry into extcution the sentence of the law. THE DEATH WARRAY was read, after which the cler; ed the prisoner if he was prepared to die, to which Johngon re- sponded with fervor that he was prepared to go “through the dark valley of the tA i of death.” The Warden said he was glad that he was so full of hope. The prisoner’s arms Were then pinioned, and Goneral Crocker, with one of the guards, passed out, followed by the prisoner between two other guards, his lips moving in prayer as he passed along with the ministers, de walked up the steps to the gallows with A QUICK, LIGHT TREAD, im advagee of the quarde by his pide, He wae im- ¢ Coroner and at the trial, } ; tion. | Noor 1, in Twent mertiately placed In position beside the fatal noose, When he turned his cyes upward, engaging still in prayer. Rev. Mr, Draper lined out the tint verse of the bymn— Jerusalem, my happy home, in which the condemned tnan joined as heartily and Jervently as the others, ‘ihe Lord's prayer was re- cited and merey implored that the Lord would aid this soul in passing throogh the dark valley of the shadow of death. The guard proceeded to tie the legs of the prisoner, who said in a loud voice :— “¢ yy, friends; goodby, everybody. 1 am going home to Jesus. You must come and meet me.” ‘The ministers them turned their faces and sung, And must I lay this body down 1 tie Diack oF mote drawn over Johnson's face in the meantime, The prisoner joined in singing until the signal, THE WAVING OF A HANDKERCHIEP, Was given at two minutes past one o'clock, and the etay was sprung and the body fell. For a moment there was Not a movement of the body; but subsequently for four or five minutes the limbs moved convulsively, and the shouiders were drawn up several times. The pony was allowed to hang twenty-one minutes, when it was examined by a number of physicians. The neck was not dis- Weated, and the Pee ns found that the victim of the law died of strangulation; but they were of the opinion that he was insensible immediately alter the fail of the drop. The body was placed in the coffin and taken to Mount Zion, a number of the jail guard acting as the pall bearers. ‘There still remains one more victim—ex-Police- man O’Brien, who killed Samael Cunningham, at Green Spring, mear Georgetown, on the 15th of July last. He is sentenced to be executed on the 2ith of February next. MURDER. Fas A Woman Shot and Almost In- stantly Killed in Neilson Place Last Night. At about a qnarter to four o'clock yesterday afternoon a young woman Known as Maud Merri! was shot and instantly killed at No. 10 Nelson piace by aman at present unknown, but who is supposed to be her uncle, This man pulled the bell at the street door shortly aiter three o'clock and was admitted to the house by Frances Coul- son, a hairdresser, He asked if Mand was in, and being answered in the amrmative, semanded to know where her room was, On receiving the information he went up stairs to the third floor and calied out for the girl Annie Clinton, who was lying ill in the front room on the same floor, heard the voice asking for Maud, and cried ont, “Who's there? Just at the same moment Mand, hearing the noise, opened her door and the » went into the room in which she had been resting on a lounge, and remained there, the inmates of the how uppose, about twenty min- utes, Duriug the time the man was in the reom no noise or any {disturbance was heard, but just be- Jove his leaving it the woman Annie Clinton heard three distinct reports, that sounded to her like the breaking oflaths or a dull, heavy thumping upon wood, The two first reports alarmed her so much that she partly opened the door, and almost at the instané of pushing it out the third = re- port broke upon her x and she saw the fash of the weapon. Beeoming rensible of what was taking place she made an effort to see the man’s face, but was unsuccessiul, as he immediately Walked down stairs. Before he had arrived at the street door Mrs, Stevens, an inmate of the house, who had been disturbed by the noise up stairs, met him and asked what was the matter, The man very coolly replied, “I have shot my niece, and am going Yo give inyseif up.” Mis, Slevens Was 80 com oly upset by the an- nouncement that she wade no movement to stop hiw, and he gained the strect without interrup- Anme Clinton, finding she could not get a jook at hin in the honse, determined, if possible, to see him as he got into the street; she flung up the Window of the room in the front and watehed the man ashe passed up through Nelison place, ‘The women in abedy then rushed to the seene of the shooting, and they found the doubly un- jortunate Maud lying dead on the foor just inside the door, The face was tuned to the ground; the feet were a little be- yond the threshold, and the body close against the wall, ‘They placed the body on the bed, and one of them went to the station house and in- formed ihe tice. Captain Byrnes immediately Started to ti@0use, anc on arriving there exam. ined the reom, He found a small pistol bullet on the hoor at the fuot of the lounge, almost on the | ested when her | spot where the woman's head companions found the body, Another was imbedded in the wall about twelve inches from the Maud, aud was the o1 which had killed her. The ball found in the wi police think was the sec- ond fired, for the reagon that it was mach nearer the frame of the door than the indentation made by the first, and the conclusion Captain Byrne comes to from this is that the woman was try- ing to escape when the man flung her upon the and then fired upon her. From = the osition of the furniture in the room he must have peen close to her all the time he was im the apart- ment, and the position of the body was discovered in wonld lead to the concinsion that he had man- iat to get between her aad the door beiore fired THE THIRD AND FATAL SKOT. Detective Carr was placed in charge of the body in the room, and Captain byrne proc \ to make inquiries respecting the woman among the inmates, He jearned that Maud bad only resided in the house a fortnight, and the people among whom she lived knew very little about her, Previous to going into this honse Maud had lived in West Twenty- sixtu street. There Captain Byrne ascertained a man had been in the it of calling to see her, who represented he was ber une! She had lived xth street about eight months, but very little of her history was known in that local- ity. £mding it impossible to unearth any clew that would lead to ap unravelling of the mystery that ensbronded the tragedy, the poiice | | made a close e amination of the room in which the murder occurred, A large number of letters were found, and an Irish newspaper printed in New York. From the letters Captain Byrne Jearned the giil’s name was Mand smith and that she had some relatives living in the city. The newspaper & detailed account of the suicide of mother, It was dated New Y Ni el 1872, and said that No er 23, Charlotte Smith, the wil ie of Charles Smith, had committed suicide bj utting an artery in the left arm, about three weeks previous to the date of the journal, at Waterford, Ireland, Smith had been imprisoned for a month for having attempted the ife of her husban On her release from jail she became very much addicted to drinking, and in a fit of delirium tremens had taken her own life. This newspaper was left, with a letter, at 10 Neil- son place for Maud, on Friday last, by her sister, a very nice-looking and thoroughly resp« able girl, tivii in the outskirts of Brooklyn, W) tho sister ¢ = i, but Jeft the letter and paper for her, girl wanted to see the other, The sister promt the woman who took the commands from her at the door to go back o’clock, but instead the an and the | result of the visit is already known. Captain ; Byrne discovered the sister last nicht and she will be detained at the station house until the uncle rr od. Dr, Steele, on being for by the police, exatnined the wound in the vody of the woman, and gave it a8 his opinion that death re- suited irom a pistol shot. The ball had entered the Joit axillary region seven and a@ hal inches from the k bone, and had perforated the heart. Coroner Young wil! bold an inquest in the case to-lay. RIVER NAVIGATION, The Great Water Ways of New York | Being Frozen Over=—A Thrilling Dis- aster — Twenty-eight Loaded Coal Barges Break Away from a Steamer and Are Sank, Kingston, N. Y., Dee, 10, 1872, The intense cold of yesterday and to-day is fast closing up the river at and about this point. The Albany steamers encountered a great deal of float- ing ice to-day. The steamer Murtin, of the Albany and Newburg line, made tie last trip to-day, The | lerryboat between this city and Rntineclif found great dimcuity in crossing op account of the ice. ‘The New York steamers stili make their trips, but if the weather continues as severe as at present they will make but one more trip. Reports this evening from all aiong the river to Poughkeepsie indicate the river full of floating ice and the cold inc! ing. A heavy northwest wind has been blow- ing ali night and day and adds to the dificulty of navigation. ‘The steamer Norwich, of Cornell's Wadi | of this city, met witha serious disaster to-day. While passing through Warregat, West Highlands, With a tow of thirty vesgels, twenty-eight of which were coal-laden canal boats, owned by the Penn- sylvania Coal Company, ihe Norwich encountered a terrific gale. The hawser to which the coul boats were attached parted and all of the twenty-eight boats were sunk. ‘The entire amount of coal lost Was 3,600 tons, the vatue of which, toy ae with that of the boats, must exceed $26, fo lives are reported lost, but full particulars have not id been received here. ‘The scene in the stormy Highlands must have been awtul and thrilling. Boulevard, from 160th street down, the wages due shem to December, amounting to $20,000 line, | | floor; a third was in the heart of the unhappy | open air. fen | much precions time bad led at Neilson place on Friday she did | THE RPT AVENUE ROPEL ON FIRE Flames Bursting Forth in the Top Story Late Last Night. Thirteen Persons Supposed to Be Burned and Smothered in the Smoke in the Upper Chambers. PARTS OF THEIR BODIES FOUND. The Guests Turning Out Derobe. + Intense Excitement and Immense Orowds at the Oorner of Broadway and Twenty- Third Sireet-Costly Carpets and Purniture Ruined—The Fire Almost Extinguished. - LUGGAGE AND LODGINGS LCST. A little after cieven o'clock last night one of the servants whose duty it is to “watch” all night in one of the upper hallways of the Filth Avenue Hotel discovered smeke issmng from the stairway inmediately beneath her, and on running down to fee what was the eause was confronted by a dense cloud of thick, blinding amoke, that came np through the Openings in fitful gusts one after another in quick succession, Realizing the danger iu an instant, she ran down stairs shrieking, ‘Fire! fire!’ at the top of to the right a! 1 to the Jett, and the already ened guests rushed out hal-elad, all elamoring know what had happened. But the girl ian on, still shrieking, “PRE! Pre! n every hallway she met who, having already | Noticed the smoke, joined her in waking up the guests, The smoke Dy = this ume had spread itself in every part of the hotel and had = becowe = stifing = enough to alarm even those wio had not been awakened hy the onteries of the servant, A Hpnaup porter, happening te be passing the at the time and inge the curling out into ntreet ve- hotel smoke little otic the m bine clouds under the doors, ran In to ascertain Withont, us he got off the car, there than the cause. was nothing People were pie from of | amusement in couples, laughing — gayly, and carriages were standing at the curb and Inen stood on the corner chatiing as usual, no one’s attention aving apparently as tracted to the smoke. Once inside the vestibule it became evident that something out of the ovdi- nary had occured. ‘fhe clerks looked anxious and a group ofm ter pestering Ul going on more nsual. Mm With questions, UESTS OV YHH HOTEL and to everyone the clerk made the same | “There i8 nothing to be reaxed | only @ little fire in the laundry.” | to say, the maoriy of the men | fo take mattere# very easy and one of them very cooily remarked, “Well, my folks areallon the parioy fieor. I ean easily get at them.” Meanwhile the smoke became more and more denee, and down stairs, in the neighborhood of the billiard room, sound as of rushing water ominously echoed in the halls. The reporter at once made his way | below, and, following the course of a huge India rubber hose pipe that lead from the fire engine room at the foot of the stairs to and out of one ot the wincows going to the area at the west end of the billiard room, was soon between the two walls of the wings of the building in the ‘The noise of the rushing water as it fell from one of the upper stories was almost dealen- ing, and the smoke was positively suffocating, Above They weve all reply = whouts its hee neemed THE DIN AND CONFUSION could be heard the sereams of women and the ery- ing and loud weeping of others coming irom the direction of the girls’ attic on the top story on the Twenty-third street side. Retracing his steps the reporter again reached ~— the —_ office By this time there was qnite a crowd of people in the vestibule, all asking one another whether there was any danger, and no one seeming to know anything about where the fire was, oughly alarmed, The hall leading from the Twenty- third street entrance was darkened with trunks, boxes and bagrage of all description, and every step one took amid the now blinding smoke, which prevented one person at one end of the hall from seeing another ut the other end, he was sur to run against some — hali-frantie — guest, who, carpet-bag in hand, wes making the | most violent efforts to reach the dog The hallway was drenched with water, which poured down in a periect stream trom the upper floors. During all this time, be it knuwn, nobody had been sent out to GIVE AN ALARM to the Fire Department, ani fully halfan hour was allowed to go by without any one connected passing by noticed the confusion in the oiice, learned its canse, rushed ont and gave 1e alarm, and in @ minute the engines wer thundering in front of the house, Bu been lost, and all appearances the fire on the Tweniy- third street side on the upper stories had gained serious headway and everything was confusion in every part of the building. On the parlor floors the guests were all assembled in shivering groups, their baggage all strewn about in confused masses, trunks, valises, hat boxes nd baskets = being = piled ss up)shere”—s and there whichever way one turned. Many of tie ladies were in THE WILDEST STATE OF EXCITEMENT, and were crying piteousiy through sheer fe: horror, The men, at least the greater por them, appeared as frightened as the women, and ran about here, there and everywhere in the huiis, not exactly knowing what they wanted, and yet afraid to jeave the floor for fear of something worse below, The carpets were soaking with water, and as one dashed his way through TUE AFFRIGHTED CROWDS the water was splashed about as if from a road puddle, “Come here,” said a gentleman who met the reporter on his way to the third floor, isn't this terrible?” And the sight that met the re- porter’s eyes was realiy heartrending. On the wet carpet in the haliway, just of the main parlor floor, lay a poor servant girl half clad, writhing in torture and presenting the most hide- ous appearance. She was covered with burus and = braises from head ‘to foot, and looked as though she had been smeared with blood. It appears she had been found by the firemen in the attic and was carried down and leit where the reporter beheld ber in her agony, Some kind person, in the absence of a doctor (none could be found at the time), had attempted to assuage her sufferings by pouring sweet ofl over her body, It was truly A SICKENING SIONT. “Are you suffering?” she was asked. The lips of the poor creature opened slowly, the head was half raised ‘rom the carpet, and a6 it fell back heavily a groancscaped the swotlen lips as she ut- tered the words— “MY GOD, BUT THIS 18 HORRIBLE!’ And indeed it was horrible. Fancy the picture! The body writhing on the carpet; the busy crowd bout. each one jntent only on his own ealety, y | er voice. At every step she took doors were opened | en Blood around the marble coun. | ‘The guests, too, had now becowe thor- | with the hotel thinking it worth his while to call for the firemen. It was now | very near twelve o'clock, and a policeman to} 3 and no one near but a few young men, at® tracted by curiosity to the horrible scene, and a little boy, who, pale and affrighted, held ae¢andig over the body, so that the girk might not b@ trampled upon by the passers-by. Ke A pillow was procured for the poor thing final); by the gentleman who first called the reporter’ attention to the mnfortunate creature's conditiony and there she was left at midnight, Once the firemen and police had arrived the h was immediately dragged ap the stairs, and the; went to resume work. And serious wor it was, In the neighborhood of thi attic the smoke was #0 dense tha for a time they were unable to make their wi through the hat Meanwhile the shrieks of th servant girls in the upper stories were heartrend. ing. Cry after cry of distress rent the air an the firemen, redoubling their exertions, dragge: their hose after them, bravely fighting their wa: through the dense smoke, one relieving Loar a8 fast as the foremost man was overcome an had to fall back to SCAPF SUFFOCATION. It was a bitter fight, and the nearer the firemery got Co the top Noor the louder and shriller becam the shrieks of the servants in the attic. It w Teached fnatly, but when it was reached no 4 i issued forth from the blinding smoke. Al! was sti af death, the splashing of the water from the host alone breaking the deartt-like silence. Ard it wast the silence of death, for, as the light off the lanterns for a moment bamied th smoke, there were descried the dead bodies of thirteen men and women, The fire had done it: awful work before the ery of agony could b@ answered, AT TWO O'CLOCK the excitement in the vicinity of the hoiel hadt somewhat subsided, but still a throng circled x line of police that stretched from the corner of Twenty-third street to that of Twenty-fourt and extended about a hundred feet fro | the portico, The hose were laid throug! | the corridors, which were literally flooded, and u | the long mights of stairs and throngh th | halis which were all with ne carpets, but were nevertheless soake: with water, In the lower vestible th groups of guests and strangers were all a sembled condoling with one another with hal grim humor on the misfortunes of the occasion, some of which were indced possessed of a quit laughable tint. Bat there were stories of death: which occurred in the smothering smoke of th rooms np stairs that chilled the blood and quickl, extinguished the brief smiles that were excited b3 the merriment of light-headed “sports” who talke of the frights and fates of others with questionabi | nonchaience, | Ontside the extent and condition of the fire could he ascertained, at this time, in the strect, At th covered | southwest corner of the building the flames wer | svill crackling through the root with an ominou ved glow; but on this spot there wer concentrated six or cight streams of water, wed effectually did thelr work of slowly quenching th fire, ‘The Juried light was vividly reflected on tha, empty windows of the Nathan mansion oppos, site, which had so long been closed to the gieant the since on t of people, whose fae Names. Occasion on the wm beaving shawls, bags and other tae rudely snatched fiom their rooms, passed by tie policemen, and went off toward other Hy | tions of the he engines were still workin; ut for the time there was ape tiy no prospect of further damage, WASHING Tor. WasmiNnaron, Dee. 10, 187% ¢ nt on St. Domingomw Kaez and Scevetary Delano to Werk thet Oracie=the i Likely to Pighd it Cot AM Summer, The Dowiniwan Republic has again made its a pearance among the topics of the day here, Fae! some of the gossips have made up a rather ine teresiing scheme which imay, after all, be carriv® out, They say that General Rufus Ingalls has ane rived here from New York with assurances that wealtiy capitaiists of your metropolis have sent to Baez a suMicicnt amount of money te defray the indebtedness of his government, and that when‘ this shall have been dor % Will secure the pase sage of an act asking for annexation, under the name Of the State of Samana, to the United States, sident will simply follow the example set when Texas applied ior admission in the Union, and will submit the question, as he declared in his last message on the subject that he shouid, “to the judgment of the American people and of their representatives in Congress as= sembied.” As his conduct on the St. Domingo question was bitterly assailed before and during the recent canvass, and as he has received the endorsement of tle American people for what he has done, he will doubtiess {cel encouraged to | carry out his opinion, “that the interests of ourt | country and of Domingo invite the annex- | ation of that Republic.” To ensure success it | will be necessary for the President to have @ | confidential representative in the vieinity or ate Domingo, and the gossips fu er declaré that this is the real destination of Seeretary | Delano. That the Secretary is not in il healue is evident to ail who see him, and he has issued autograph invitations to a dinner party which he gives to-morrow to leading friends of the adniins istration. The next day, Thursday, he will leave here, accompanied by his iriend Governor | Brown, the President of =the ~— Georgiag | Central Railroad, for Savannah, Now the railroad has not yieided large dividend on the capital invested in it, but it hardly neea@ Mr. Delano’s personal supervision, and it is knows ingly declared that he will be joined at Savannaly by a proper staff, d cross the Caribbean Cuba or even to St. Domingo, that Baez may | have powerful support. Such are the salient points of the rumors of the day, which have terribly ex< | cited some of the diplomatic corps and caused! | them to expend large sums for cabie despatches , that their respective governments may be posted, Itismore than probable that before the nex national anniversary 4 new State star will have been added to the consteilation on our fag, and that next winter we shall see General Baez ta the United States Senat : An Awfal War Averted. In October last a paragraph was published in the’ newspapers of this country stating that one of the sina! rman states, the Princt ity of Keuss,’ had pardoned two criminals upon condition of their emigration to the United States. ‘There is the- best authority for saying that no such names as those mentioned in the ‘agraph can be found, neither the name of a German newpaper in whieh it was alleged the account was published. Theres fore the story was purely an invention, The Boston Relief Act, A bill was hurried through the House last weer,’ similar to the Chicago Relief act, for the reliet of | the sufferers by the Boston fire, but It did not ex- empt lumber, and it extended the drawback ta such goods used in rebuilding as shall be in ware- house on the day the act goes into effect. These additional ciauses to the Chicago bill_one-half of the members of the Finance Committee refused t@ report, so the chairman of that committee, John! Sherman, had to report back to the Senate tha Honse bill amended by striking them out. In other, «lays Sumner could have put the bit! on its passage’ and had the objectionable features retained, bat as it was the amended bill went on the calendar, Wil< son intends, however, to make a strong effort to have the bill taken up and enacted in some shape, before the Christmas holidays, The Prohibitory Liqour Law. ‘ A debate on the reference of a probibitory liquot law bill in the Senate this afternoon reminded | those who beard it of the man in Maine who wad | ‘for the prohibitory law put against its execu« tion.” Several Senators thought Mat the bill wa# an excellent one, but they didn’t want it referred to the committees of which they were the chairmen, and 80 after the bill had been tossed to and fro the Finance Committee was told to take the bit], which 1s virtually eptombing it, terrivle episode in it > was crowded a dense mass reflected the flicker of th y a lady, supporte: a gentleman, ee A Plank Mowe | St.