The New York Herald Newspaper, January 2, 1873, Page 3

DIGGING FOR THE BRAD. —_——-——— The Bodies of Five Victims of the Centre Street Fire Recovered from the Ruins Yesterday. IDENTIFYING THE REMAINS. Margaret and Mary Donoho, Charlotte and Margaret Bi". and Bridget, McGrath Beeognized by Thelr Friends. ——— Seenes in the Sixth Pre- einct Station Mouse. eae Another Horror—Two More Girls, Margaret MoOarty and Elizabeth Hartfreed, Reported Missing. THE BODIES REMOVED FOR BURIAL. ‘Tho search for the bodies of the victims of the Oentre street fire was resumed yesterday morning athalf-past seven o’clock. The weather was more favorable for the work than it had been on any previous day, the intense cold which prevailed on Sunday and Monday having greatly abated, The laborers, seventy-five in number, arrived prompt te time, and business was immediately commenced, There was ne extra force of police employed, the men in the precinct being found amply suMctent tosupply all emergencies. Pedestrians and ve- hioles were allowed uninterrupted passage through Centre strect, but one or two policemen carefully @narded the approach to the ruins and excluded all who had no motive but curiosity to attract them. Some half dozen men from the insurance patrol were present to see that dve care was taken of al property. This action was rendered neces- @ary by the thieving propensitics of some of he workmen, who on the previous day had been detected in the act of carrying off copper. A force of fremen were also onthe ground anda Bose carriage, It was fortunate that they were, forthe ruins more than ence during the day broke fato Names, which were, however, extinguished without much difficulty by asingle stream of water. The spectators were more numerous than on the preceding day, but this might be accounted for by veasen of the day being a holiday. Admirable order was preserved by the police, and no obstrac” ‘tion was placed in the way of the workmen. ‘The Jatter exerted themselves to the utmost and did their part conscicntiously and well. ‘The men on yesterday morning wore concen- trated in one spot, near the centre of the ruing, WHERE TUB IBAVY STENCH had come from on Monday. They wero under the Ammediate charge of Sergeant Douglass, who with his own hands sct an example of hard work which ‘wae generally imitated, The first work done was foremove the huge piles of paper which were stored in the cellar, There were tons of this, all more or less burned, The task of removing it was ahard one, as it was so saturated with wet that it was trebly increased in weight; but the men worked with a will, and a large gap was soon made, When this gap was mide the task waa rendered easier, and in a shert time a great quantity of débris was exca- wated. Some of the paver was printed upon, among the bound books being a considerable num. ber of copies of “Etiquette, or The Rulen of Soci- ety,” “Lives of the Dramatists,” and ‘rhe Mer- cantile Directory.” A little after nine o’clock Sergeant Douglass found a portion of an arm, with the band attached. Mtmight have been mistaken for a piece of a stick were it not for the strong smeli which proceeded from it. I¢ was rolled up in a piece of cloth and ‘went to the station house. On DIGGING A LITTLE FURTHER ashovelful of débris was thrown up by a work- man, Something rolled out of the dirt, and this was found to be a human foot. The bones had een leit bare, the Mesh having entirely disap- geared, The toes clung to the foot, which was the nly means of showing what it was. When the fragments were found a great sensation was caused 4p the crowd around, and as the police were now certain that bodies were somewhere in the vicinity the search was prosecuted more vigorously shan ever. All the men were directed to clear away as fast as possiblo the paper ‘and timbers, and in a short time an exclamation trom Sergeant Douglass proved that the work had mot been fruitless. Imbedded in frozen earth lay the blackened trunk of a human being. It looked 0 like the burned wood that lay thickly around that it was almost undistinguishable, but some - fragments of clothing clung to the fearfully disig- ured mass, and every one knew that it was the body of one of the women. Sergeant Douglass got down, and with one of the men raised the re- mains up. A_ sickening stench proceeded from them, which almost made the Sergeant faint, but he held on until a stretcher was procured, and then the -body was borne to the station house. The surging crowd of specta- tora, animated by a morbid curiosity, eagerly pressed forward, and, being joined by reiniorce- macnts from the side streets, the police bad extreme MMcuity to keep the track of the cars clear. When the lifeless form was placed on the stretcher it was followed to the station house by bundreds of people, but none were admitted but the relatives of the missing girls. The remains were taken to the same apartment in which tbose of Jane Stuart lay during Sunday, The body of the latter had no offensive smeli while in the room, but ‘the instant the first body was taken in yesterday the atmosphere was which proceeded fro! When the remains had been taken from the acene of the ruins the i ig Was resumed, and in an hour after another body was found. ‘t's was also vo burned and broken that its recognition as etd ofa human being was almost impossible, but smell that proceeded from it left no doubt as to what it was, In a few minutes after three more vlackened trunks were sighted by Sergeant Doug- faes. Though almost overcome by the alekty @tench the workmen did not slacken in their endeavors to extract the remains, and befere twelve o'clock all the bodies were recovered and removed to the station house, where they were followed by the distracted relatives, whose long agony of waiting has been at last rewarded. The workmen dug on, expecting to find the body of the boy Burnes, IN THE STATION HOUSR, Many as have been the sad sights which have been presented in the Sixth ward precinct house It never was the scene of so lamentabie and terrible & spectable as it was yesterday. In the office and the mner room the friends of the dead giris were congregated. The great majority were women, the mothers and sisters of the victims, and the picture of their grief was heartrending in the ex- weme, The mother of the Donaho girls, the mother of bridget McGrath and the sister-in-law of the two Bells were among those present. Michael MeGrath, Who has assisted in the work of excava- tion with all the energy that love and despair could afford; the invalid brother of the Donohos, the brother of the Belis and the brother of Jane Stewart were also in the room. The men wept aloud in their sore agony, and.well they might; for it is rare that the ties o1 affection and Kinship have been so suddenly and horribly shattered as they have veen by this latest disaster of a season pro- Mfic.of tragedies on both sea and land. A number of the working girls who escaped from the building were among the spectato they having been ad- mitted by order of Captain Kennedy. IDENTIFYING THE REMAINS. In leas than an bour after the last body had been sent to Lie station house all the remains had been identited, The five bodies were placed upon the ‘ound aud then the relatives were admitted, The jv which lay nearest to the door was identife aethat of the elder Donoho, Margaret, only six- teen years of age, The mother of the giri, after caeiin her eyes over the terrible group, dooked at this body. Some fragments of & skirt clung to the lower part of tie body, and on the breast, fasiened to the burned fesh, were some bright buttons, This was suMcient for recognition, Bursting into an agony of teurs, Mrs, Donoho recognized her ciuid. Her ga Was terrible, but being nerved by the ‘hougltt at her youngest child’s hody had not yet been identified sho boresnp wonderfully. Tie youngest girl, Mary, who waK pny fourteen years oid, was i009 iWeutised by tbe swother by ulcans of Some charged with the deathiy odor | ma 16. NEW. YORK, HERALD, THURSDAY, JANUARY. 2, 1873... ich remamed. When psc aemearcoming Tie ted as ee to her grief, and Donoho gave wa: “re teh esse amen RECOGNITION OF BRIDGET M’GRATH. ‘When living she was a strict adherent to the rites of her Church. She was in the habit of wear- ing 6 scapular around her ni and this she never parted with night or day. By it she was recog- ment had ‘all. gone, Que tue seapular remained e . Steck, When the mother’s eyo dunghter, Oly Bridget, Bridgett” % jaughter, The son of the “oll woman also recognized the Mrs. McGrath had to scapular and the identity. be carried from the room by her son in an insen- sible condition, and every éye was moistened look- ing at her sofferings, The paceman, used as they are to scenes of sorrow and sadness, were greatly moved, and some of them almost wept. ‘Three bodies had now been Waent hea—Margaret and Rig Donoho and Bridget McGrath, Alexander H. Bell, brother of the two sisters of that name, goon after eame in, accompanied by his wife, Ile soon picked out the body of his cllest sister, Char- lotve. She was also identified through fragments of clothing, and in addition by. ber Blze, as she was the tallest of any of the girls. The younger sister, Margaret, had a piece of @ hoop skirt clinging to the burned bones, and her sister-in-law by this means was enabled to Ox her identity. “No one expected when the bodies weve first taken out that any of them would be known by their friends, bat the fortunate cir- cumstances of the fragments of clothing and the scapular were suillcient for the eyes of love. When they had all been identified the station house was cleared of all but the relataves and reporters, who were arordea every facility by Captain Kenned: - his men in the execution of their unpleasant luties, TRE APPEARANCE OF THE BOD'KS. The bodies layon the boards in the following order, Next the door was Margaret Donoho, then Bridget McGrath, Charlotte Bell, Mary Vonoho and Margaret Beil. The firsi body was frightful to 100K upon, as were the others, e recent horror at the Filth Avenue Hotel ts exceeded by this latest one in many details. ‘The bodies of the vic- tims of the hotel fire. were, it is true, #0 dis- figured that two of them could not be recognized, but they preserved some shape and had not been crushed by falling floors and walls. Those who erished in the Centre street tire were suffocated, urned and brutsed, For six daya they lay buried beneath tons of stone and rubbish, snow and ice. It is not wonderful, then, that they should be so distigured, From the manner in which they lay in the ruins itis evident that they were attempting to eseape by means of the stairwi ‘Their hor- rible situation can be easily realized, The lames were on euch side ef them, beneath them and in the rear, ‘The avenue of escape, & wooden stairway, was all that remained to them. ‘To this they rushed, got partly down tt, clinging tocach other, when a deaiening noise is heard, and the fumes burst up the stair- way, ‘The walls give way, the staircase falls and the unfortunate girls are precipitated into the Dlazing ruins to meet with the most awful death that the human mind cxn imagine. This theory that the girls were ina cluster when the disaster curred is borne out by the appearance of tne remains and the portion of the ruins in which they were piekod up. THE FIRST BODY. Both legs had been burned off below the knee, and only portions of the arms remained, The flesh was in most cases burned to @ crisp, and when touched by the hand portions of it: would crumpie The sides had been hollowed out by and the breast and hu- The nto ashes, the action of the fianes, sboulders had lost all manity, Features there were — none, skull had been partially taken awa one side, leaving a cavity within, 'T was brought to a level with the neck,the nose and mouth could pot be distinguished, but where the eyes were two vacant ant ghastly holes exposed themselves, ‘The backbone and part o} the thigh bones were visible, white and glistering in feariul contrast to the blackness of the other portions of the remains. The jleah was taken clean of the bones as pare aed it Jad heen dope wii & sur HeOus Kntio. “he fragments of clothing by which the body was identified were probably caused by the unfortunate girl falling upon them, and which shielded then: trom the Mune, Seme sherp por- tions of bones were atiached to the ruins, and these were also wmte and bare, WHE SECOND BODY. The second body was that of Bridget MeGrath. If there could have been any degrees of suilering in deaths so tragic apd dreadiul Bridget was appearance of apparently the greatest swiferer of the fre. A man present, who had been a soldier in t British army during = the Indian mutiny, and who witnessed the fearful atrocities perpetrated hy the Sepoys upou men, women and children, tolu the H&raLD reporter yesterday that he had never inall his experien witnessed the remains o! @ human being 80 dis- figured as those of Bridget McGrath. Both legs were, like those of Margaret Donoho, pik bul, 1 the case of the second girl, they had been muti- Jated from the waist | down, Her arms with the exception of some bones, — had disappeared ; oulders were burned off, tie head was sh:ttered into pieces, and every portion of the breast and sides was burned and shattered, The scapular ined on ti 5 Were it not so Bridget McGrath would have been interred in @ nameless grave. No wonder that her poor mother nearly lost her son when brought into contact with the remains of her child, The hearts of strangers to both of them were saddened ana shocked heyoud measure by the contempiation of the fearfl sight. THe THIN & The next body in the o jay was that of Bilon Bell, Vrom the appeorance of the remains the girl must have been, while living, a fomale of a powerinl frame. Even in death—and death so awful—there were some few tokens to de- note this, She must h: before dying, made a des- erate struggle. ‘The rigit arm is raised above the head, as if the uuortunate woman had, while in her death ial, attempted to clutch at something to bear her Dp ‘The portion ot the leit arm which remained was tightened into her waist, and in this position | she lay when found in the ruins by the working- n. Like her companions, the lower limbs were Mutilated, but not fo such an extent as those aret Donoho and Bridget MeGrath. The bones were burned bare as those of the others, and the right side was nearly all consumed. The | back portion of the head had been reduc to ashes by the flerce Hames, butsome slight traces of the face could be discern: ‘The nose, or a part of it, was not eutirely taken off, and a part of the chin still remained. ‘The whole appearance of the body, however, suggested the idea that hefore the girl had been thrown into the sew furnace of flame she had made one last effort but it, alas! proved futile, and she was I to her dreadiul end, THR FOURTH BODY. | of the remains of the young giri, Mars Donoho. Mary was only fourteen years old, and was just emerging trom childhood into womanhood when death overtook her and she was taken from earth to heaven, She was of slight frame and medium stature, enough of the body remaining to judge of i‘ this, he poor girl must have suficred untold | agony before death mercifully interposed and took | her. Her two knees were tightened and contracted somuch that they were drawn up aimost to her chin, The feet were burned off, and the hand of one arm, ‘The right arm was tightly clasped | around her neck, and the other arm was thrown out as if she had attempted to fold her sister, to whom she was tenderiy attached, in a last em- brace. The skull was entire, but was charred and blackened. The hair had disappeared, the nose ‘was gone, and the place where the mouth had been could note seen, The teeth had dropped out, the chin was cut off, and the bones were | exposed in the back and shoulders. Mary was her mother’s favorite chitd, The beloved daughter of a widowed mother, summoned to her final account while the notes of Christmas preparations and the heard and seen in the great cit, such as few mothers have ever hac and the touchin, were verified by Mrs. Donoho when she said her gray bairs would go down in sorrow to the grave. THE FUT BODY, is a calamity to encounter, The fith body, the last which had been | found, lay in the’ quilt in which it had been | ied in to the station house. tt was | that of Margaret Bell. As with the other bodies so it was with this, The legs and afms were wholly or partly gone, the body trom the waist to the neck was nothing but a charred cinder, look- ing like anything but what it was, the form of a young Woman who one week ago had, in the flush of hope and expectation, put on her clothing to hasten from her work and join the home circle, and participated in the humble pleasures of the festive season, one of the wreen spots in the lives of the hard-working, Beil was devotediy attached to her sister, and death found them together sido by side. On the night of the fire, when they were first missed, their brother, while in search ot them at the station je said cies if oe aes Ma lost the other was Jost also, as they would cling to caci Y wee team fi stele hepei ania hese five comprised the ghastly list, anc be hoped thata reporter will never again hive o chronicle so fearful a spectacle and so sad a scene, Many calamities and disasters have been crowded into the annals of the last three months. Accidenis on railroads and steambeats have been the order of the day, The sea struggled with the land to see which would furnish the greatest number of victims as @ tribute to the dyimg year, but the Fire King triumphed and crowned the climax of horro' Standing in the rear of the apartment of the Franklin street station louse yesterday the records of the post-mortem describing @ similar holocaust flashed upon the mind, Sure ful h of grief and woe Thi earth has been, since the world begin ht was seen, ARRANGEMENTS FOR THR BURIAL. Immediately after the bodies were found Coroner Herrman was telegraphed hurried to the station how After viewing the bodies he gave a permit for their removal, and supplement this by @ eh of $60 to Mrs. Donoho to assist in the barial of her two giris. In addition to this Captain Kennedy gave the poor woman $25, she being the greatest sufferer of all the relatives of the deceased. Justice Dowling, when informed that the bodies were found, sent $100 to the zation house a8 @ contribution towards funeral expenses, and Morgan Jones sent @ similar som. ‘Site policemen in the precinct were deter- mined t& pot be behind in the noble work of charity, aud every Man Of them gave #3 each to crowdes ve ny Perhaps the most affecting sight of all was that | sounds of joy aud gladness could cverywhere be | words of the patriarch oi old | Margaret | r, and he instantly | help the Jast rites. An undertaker was sent for and i a short time FIVE COFFINS were brought to the station house. In them the five bodies were placed. The coffin lds were closed down and blackened remains were forever hidden from human sight. ‘The bodies of the two Donoho girls were taken to the undertaker’s sho; on Chatham street, where they will remain until Fada. when they will be conveyed to Calvary Cemetery for interment. The brother of Bridget took the remains of his te: me, y will also be interred in vary Cemetery on Friday. Alexander H. Bell” had his two sisters’ remains taken to his resi- dence, 337 East Ninth street, where they will re- main until Friday morning, until ten o'clock, when the funeral cortége will proceed to Greenwood Cemetery. Mr. Beil is not yet decided as to whether the funeral services will take place in his own house or atthe Seventh street Methodist church, of which one of the deceased was a member, He thinks, however, that they will be held at his residence, By four o'clock all the bodies were removed from the station house, While they were being taken out nothing could be heard but lamentation and weeping, but everything got quict when the last traces of them had disappeared. The room was carefily swept, but the smell still remains, apa when it has passed away the memory of the disasfer wiil forever ng to it. Asif the cup of horrors was not snfMiciently fll, inqutries m: at the station house yesterday a(ter- noon show that two girls, whose names have not hitherto been mentioned, are missing, and are sup- posed to be buried in the ruins, In the aiternoon hands of James A, Carroll, February 16, 1872, The jury believe the prisoner had no intent to take life, Philip Lambreeh: fi Sanit years old, New York; fracture of skull by ‘ing struck by a piece ot marble at the hands of George Lavery, ruary 26, 1872, in Fifty-fourth street, near First avenue, MARCH, Samuel Calvert, forty years old, Ireland; stab wound with a knife at the hands of Justus Dann, baad House of Refuge, Ward’s Island, 44, 2, Thomas Doyle, thirty-five years old, Ireland; compression 0! braip by a fall from a blow received during a dranken quarrel on th it of the 17th of March, 1872, in Washington street, supposed at the hands of a man names! Murphy, at large. RIL AP’ John Hallissey, twenty-two years old, Ireland; n-shot wound of head at the hands of Jobn F. lenken, at the corner of William and North Willtam streets, April 2, 1872, Jury finds that said ienken tired said shot in self-defence. Unknown man, about thirty-flve years old; com- pression of the brain from fracture of skull, the re- sult of violence at the hanas of some person or per- sons unknown, on or about the 3d of April, 1872 Found in an alleyway opposite Batavia street, in Roosevelt street, Wilitam Buran, thirty-five years old, Germany; injuries by being struck on the head by a missile thrown by Nicholas Gallagher, in Delaucey street, near Ridge street, April 27, 1872. David ay twenty tyr old, Ireland; pistol shot wound of head at the hands of David Murphy, in Sixtieth street, corner of Sccomd avenue, Agr 17, 1872, ohn ‘Halloran, forty-nine, years ob, Ireland; @ respectable looking man presented himself at tie degk und inquired at a girl named ELIZABETH HARTFU! who worked in the bookbindery at the time ef the fre and has not been heard from since. ‘The gen- tleman lives in Philadelphia and is a relative of the girl He was telegraphed to by the girl’s mother, who is bedridden with sickness, to come on and make ingniries,and he came right to the station house before he proceeded to the home of the gar, im Brooklyn, He did not exactly remem- ber-the street in which she lived, but thinks lt is Franklin street, Inquiries were also made about MARGARET M'CARTY, - a young girl of seventeen, who resided in Green- wich street. Se was a skilful bookbinder, and as she was in the habit of changing her place of occu- tion and her residence very frequent- her absence was not noticed until was. ascertained tbat she was not employed in aay of the catablishinents where she had been accustomed to work. A search was instl- tuted, and 1¢ was found that on the day of the fire she was employed in Centre strect. There is a faint hope that these two girls are not lost, but if they were employed in the building at the time of the fire, and have not since turned up, their relations and friends may be prepared for the worst. Captain Kennedy is determined to set all doubts at rest, and will thoroughly expiore every portion of the ruins before he concludes the excavation. Jn all probability there are more bodies conceaicd beneath the rubbish, many working girls bar log, few friends who woud mniss them, no matter how long absent. ‘Yhe search was continued up to tive o’clock, and strong hopes were entertained tiat the body of the boy Bevins would be recovered before night; but it was not. It is, however, confidently ex- pected by the police that it will be found this morn- Ing. Six out of theseven who were reported missing are now found, and if the last alarm about the two girls be false only one remains buried, The potice did their disagreeable work weil, and no credit that can be given to the captain, the sergea the roundsmen and the other members oi the fore can be overestimated. Work will be promptly resumed at half-past seven o'clock this morning. THE WORK OF THE CORONERS, eS Statistics of the Year 1872—Death by Homicide, by Heat, by Drowning and by Strangula- tion—A Complete Tabvlar List of the Sndden Taking-Off of Fourteen Hun- dred and Seventy-one of Our People. Below will be found a complete and cireumstan- tial list of the work of the Coroners? oiiice for the past year, prepared by Mr. John ‘. Toal, the clerk of the Board of Coroners, It will be found very interesting, particularly the circumstantial ac- covint of the extraordinary death roll of homicides, It shows a large increase over previous years. The sudden death, hy, heat, which reached the number of 209, although very large, will hardly surprise apy one who remembers the past Summer. Kerosene oil, as usual, has also added its destruc- tive powers in disposing of some thirteen poor mortals,.— El ara cttee rent! pu nay woy pr smoginy “aw, SMOREDA 9p at PUPIL 82400) —8 LHL a0 2700 pio semony Ny parang, Buoy DU Ad Aa ‘ex | PAD) MHOPADA HAT —LONDIOIVS, Bl lowwnawewmow! Bil comm reremnom cosmo! Bol arcoms nonsense, va git 1220 Slonim Si eunies (An + van.) nay 7 lingiaD,) nig Uno — NAT woos MT ren PMO Bl nerammwown mene! Blinn ecemrocem aver! Bllerlel rare! Ell wansiovenwn! Pee (5 iD | rom eansenae| nom ini oy Pin YOR fy ayo 990) | apy wag) Guy imor peng) arom 2M Waa) WHO on) emonyia wee ome em cam | HHOMY. Bl ton | contme brent ZL ewehe sal eel” [UL lwomoewnnt Tewelet ttl = | Sti bewelet Bal mre | tome Bl enowemoel mee! BI] luwmomn nul | Ellen! eeweaenl nro mwen | Te seaquinag Suicides. NATIONALITIES, hermany, 66; United States, 36; Ireland, 19; England, 11; Seotiand, 4; Austria, 4; France, 3; 40. | The agea ran as follows:—Under twenty, 9 | under thirty, 36; under forty, 40; under iity, 29 under sixty, 20; under seventy, 6—140. | The poisonings were 48, as follows :—Paris 26; narcotics, 18; prussic acic arsenicw# 1: nide of potassium, 1; yellow wash, 1, Males, 35; fe- | males, 15. | Homicides, 1872. JANUARY. Me., William H. Harris, fourth street, Jan }. 1872, se James Fisk, Jr., thirty-six years old, Vermont; pistol shot wound of abdomen at hands of Bdward S. Stokes, at the Grand Central Hotel, January 6, 872. William Mass, thirty-four years old, Germ any; compression of the brain by fail on the sidewalk in front of 2}, Monroe street, January 9, 1872, said fall being the result of a blow in the face at the hands of Daniel Marrow. Victor Clemens, ued years Germany; Pyemia, from a blow on the head with a lager-be r at the hands of Joseph Rech, at $24 Kast J old, nty-eighth street, December 40, 1871, and died wary 9, 1872, joun Murphy, thirty-seven years old, Ireland; pyemla, from pistol shot wound of left knee at the bands of James Larkin, at 201 avenue 0, December 17, 1871; died January 21, 1872. Herman Hepner, seventeen years old, New York: istol shot in head at the hands of his father, Henry Hepner, January 27, 1872,1n Grand street, near Ridge strect. Father commi Ing himself at the same time. Thorhas Bell, thir PRBRUARY. compression of brain tyeight ‘years old, Ireland; violence at the hands of Hi McGloin, at 477 Pearl street, February 4, 18% John J. nak rf years old, New York; wounds with a knife at the hands of James Costelio, January 22, 1872, at 109 Nassau street, Giovanni Petrelli, torty-three pee old, Italy; stab wound with a knife at the hands of Michaci Rosa, 37 Mulberry street, February 22, 1872, Thomas Perry, thirty-two years old, England; Sracture of skull om a blow of @ at the | Jackson street, ‘ js Sweden, 3; Canada, 2; Italy, 1; unknown, 1. Total, | Samuel A, Hasson, twenty years old, Rockland, | sailor; stab wound of heart at the hands of | the foot of West Twenty- | itted suicide by shoot- | pericarditis, the result of a pistol shot wound of chest at the hands of James Burns, at the Gotham saloon, 298 Bowery, on the morning of the 23th of Apri, 1872. MAY. Patrick Kiernan, nineteen years old, Ireland; pistol shot wound of neck at the hands of Christian Cordes, at 611 Greenwich street, May 12, 3872. Jury find that Cordes acted in self-defence, believing his own life;to be in danger. Mary Ann Gallagher, pss aac years old, England; peritonitis from rapture of the bladder caused by kicks from Patrick Clifford, in Elizabeth street, Dear Hester, on the 11th of May, 1872, JUNE, Bryan O'Connell, fifty-six years old, Ireland; fracture of the knee, blow of a chisel thrown by Henry Dugan, June 2, 1872 Jury believed that prisoner had no intention to injure deceased, Augustus Brown, twenty-five years old, Ger- many; biow on the head at the hands of Joha Smith, onthe night of June 8, 1972, tn Divis'on, near Attorney street. James Tully held as an ac- cessory, William Morrissey, twenty-six years old, Ireland; fracture of the skuil by a blow {rom a paving stone at the hands of John Connors, Martin Connors, John Clancy or Richard Ahrens, on the 9th of June, 1872, From the contlicting testimeny the jury are wane to say which one of the prisoners threw the stone, Daniel Donohue, forty-seven voone old peritonitis by stab wound at hands o1 ki tella, at No. 2) Marion street, June 9, 1872, Brown held as an accessory, Mary Dunnigan, lifty years old, Ireland; violence to head at the hands of her husband, William Dun- br at No, 612 West Thirty-third street, June 1, Treland; Rocho At- John Carlos 8, Maggiorl, thirty years old, Italy; pistol shot wound of chest and abdomen at the hands of Louis Margraf, in louston street, pear Coluinbila street, June i0, 1872, Leonie P, Andrie, thirty years old, France ; shot wound of head at the hands of her husband, Emil Andrie, in it Kiiteeutn street, near First | avenuo, June 18, 1872, George Wood, thirty-one years old, Hamburg; | hemorrhage from stab wound ip the abdomen by knife in hands of Augustus Wood, at No. 376 Water street, June 14, 1872, Louis Maigret, twenty-one years old, German; pistol shot, at hands of ©: D. Maggiori, in Houston street, near Columbia, June 10, 1872, Died | June 25, 1872, at Bellevu istol ¥, -eight years old, Ireland; he result of violence at the hands of s Cobb, July 3, 1872. en years old, New York; 2 of her mother, Mar- 1872, while in an unsound 3 Margaret Cobb, thirt exhaustion, f) a garet Eliott, July 6, siate of mind, Jaines Cloonan, twenty-six years old, Ireland; stab wound o! thigh, infieted wita a knile or sharp instrament im the hands of James Finlon, at No. 729 Second avenue, July 13, 1872, James Sinith, twenty years oid, New York; hem- orrage from pistol shot wound at the hands of Nicholas White, at rner of Rivington and Lewis streets, July 1872. Mark McDonald, twenty-one years old, New York; stab wound of abdomen with a knife, at the hands of James Lamb, July 23, 1872. Matihew Burke, forty-two years old, Ireland; hemorrbage and peritonitis from stab wounds o} abdomen by knife at the hands of Jacob Bender, at 635 Grand street, July 22, 1472. AUGUST. Richard Coleman, thirty yeare ota, Ireland; pistol shot wound of abdomen, at hands of Charlies Re- gan at 551 West Forty-second street, and jury find that Regan trod roe in self-defence. Patrick Branilf, nincteen years old, New York; injuries received by a blow of apitcheron the head at hands of Timothy Collins, at the corner of Washington and West Twelith streets, July 29, 1872; died at Bellevue, August 11. Catharine Flanagan, forty-two years old, Ireland; hemorrhage uy, stab wound at hands of her hus- band, Mark non dora August 15, 1872, at 405 East Seventecnth street, Margaret Fritz, four years ola, New York; frac- ture of skull py a blow of a stone thrown by John Goery, August 19, 1872, in West Fiity-second street. Margaret Dykes, sixty years old, Ireland; blows aud kicks inflicted py her son, Joseph Dykes, on or about the 15th of August, 1872. Died at Bellevue, August 24, 1872. Robert G. Dunn, thirty-four years old, Maine; pistol shot wound at hand of William J, Sharkey, at ‘ e Place,’’ No. 288 Hudson street, September 1, S72. John Ornell, tifiy years old, Sweden; disease of brain, hastened by ill-treatment at hands of Thomas Farrell, on or about September 56, 1872, at the Lunatic Asylum, Ward’s Island, Horatio Seymour, colored, forty-five years old, United States; injuries by violence at hands of ‘Thomas Farrell, at Lunatic Asylum, Ward's Island, on or about September 10, 1872, Stephen Quail, three years old, New York; in- juries by being struck on the head by a brick, thrown by Catharine McGuire, at No, 612 East Four- teenth atrect, September 8, 1872, Jury believe that prisoner had no intent to take life, Edward Wellington, atlas “Indian Ned,” thirty- eight years old, New York; pistol shot wound of head, hands of Danicl ©. Perkins, at 698 Broadway, September 14, 1872, The opt ea ak that Perkins was perfectly justiflabie in tring said shot in de- fence of bis life and property. Martin Stamford, twenty-nine years old, New York ; abscess, the result of a stab wound received at the hands of Arthur Quinn, allas James Johnson, Awgusi 18, 1872, Jury exonerate Henry Adams, | conductor of car 122 of the Belt Railroad Company, | irom blame in ejecting deceased from his car. Joseph Burnett, thirty-five a ears old, Sweden; palr of scissors or sharp in the hands of Landers, a quarrel 76 on the evening of September 22, 1972; and further, from the testimony, Garrett Landers heid a8 an accessory to the crime. ovTODER, Sarah Leavy, forty years old, Ireland: blow with a saw at hands of her husband, Patrick Leavy, Sep- | tember 30, 1872, at 628 East Ninth streot, Jury be- lieve said Leavy to have been ingane at the time of committing the decd. NOVEMBER. ‘Thomas Donoghue, thirty-six years old, New York; pistol shot wounds at the hands of Jobn ‘annel, at Johnson’s saloon, Broadway, corner | Twenty-eighth street, on evening of 2d of Novem- | ber, 1872. John Strothman, thirty-seven years old, Holland ; injuries by blow on head with a piece of wood or some blunt instrument, at the hands of Lewis teichmegar, November 4, 1872. | Anthony J, O'Neil, thirty-two years old, Wales; jstol shot at the hands of James C. King, at No. 42 | Pine street, November 18, 1872. William If. Lee, twenty-two years old, New York; | peritonitis; the result of stab wound of abdomen by | a knide at the hands of some person or persons un- known, ou the morning of November 24, 1872, in Cherry street, between Pike and Rutgers street. Anihony Baton, fifty-eight years old, New York; | fracture of skull, resnit ol violence ; hands of Jame: | | Fitzpatrick, November 21, 1872, in Thirty-fourth | street, near Madison avenue, and Jolin Lyons held as an accessory, stab = wound = with other | ‘Timothy DROPMBER, Mary Ann Foley, alias Maud Merrill, twenty years | old, Ireland; shock and tnternal hemorrvage, re- | sult of pistol shot wound at the hands of Robert P. FINANCIAL ANB COMMERCIAL, ie aommemnapiioneiomen The Rosults in Wall Street During the Year Just Closed—The Course of the Gold Market Since the Suspension of Specie Payments— Relative Fluctuations in the Stock and Money Markets and in Govern- ment Bonds—Compariason of the Condition of the Banks Now and a Year Ago. WALL SPRPET, Wepnespay, Jan, 2, 1573. New Year's Day has been celebrated as a holl- day, legally, finaneialty and socially. The first day of the new year suggests reminiscences of the stock, gold and monetary movements of the past year, and we have accordingly prepared tables of the leading statistics and comparisons of prom- inent changes and fuctuations in the several de- partments of Wall street during the twelvemonth now gone into the past, ‘Th PROMINENT FEATURE of the nancial situation has been the heavier ex- port of specie, which In 1872 was $71,500,000, against about $60,000,000 im 1871—an increase of over $11,000,000, ‘The larger drain of the precious metals to Europe the past year was the conse- qucnce primarily of a heavier importation of foreign goods, but im view of the fact that we ex- Ported. less of our bonds and securities, orproin- mises to pay, in settlement of the balance of trade, we closed the year with a healthier situation of our foreign trade relations. COURSE OF THR GOLD MARKET. The following table shows the extreme fuctna- tions in the price of gold each year since the sus- pension of apecte payments :— Highest, Lowest, Highest. Lowest, 1862 +137 100 + 160 18245 1863... 11235 19s 285 0 B44 10835 167% 108 '— STOCKS IN 1871 AND EN 1872. Tho following table shows the prices of the lead- ing stocks on the last businesa day of the year 1871 as compared with those made at the close of 1872:— New York C Dee, 30, 1871, Dee, 24, 1872, 10014 ‘entral Northwestern. Northwestern preferrs Rock Island. St. Paul... . St. Paul preferred,. Ohio and Mississippi Union Pacific. ©, C, and I, € Western Uni Pacific Mall, GOVERNMEN1 BONDS, The following tabie itiustrates the modifications of the prices of government bonds during the year:— United States currency sixes, United States sixes of 1681. . - 118! United States fi wenties of 1862, 11054 United States five-twenties of 1864, 110% United States five-twenties of 1865, 11214 United States five-twentics of 1907. 1164 United States ten-forties........... 10s : 100% Tn perusing tiis comparison the reader should make aviowance for the higher range of gold at the close of 1872, ‘The currency sixes are also quoted differently from 1871, the price at which time was “fat,” while the later price includes the accrued interest, amounting to 34 per cent. MISCELLANEOUS, ‘The following were the contemporaneous quo- tations of the money and gold markets and foreign exchange :— Dee, 30, 1871, Dec. 31, 1872. . 1095, 112 Gold,..... Money (on call) 7 1-16 a 3-16 Prime pages 8 10 al2zp.c. Sterling, 60 days... 109%; a 1093, 10914 @ 109° Sterling, 3 days.... 110° a 110% = -110% a 11015 STOCKS DURING 1872, Recurring to the course of the stock market on the 2d of January, 1872, we learn that it “led of with @ brilliant beginning for the January rise, and prices up to the last board were strong, with an advance of 4 a3 percent.” We give the opening prices of the year as compared with those subse- quently reached during the course of the year:— Subsequent pacacnt 4 2, Prices in iz. 1872. New York Central. 95% 10334 rie. 34 Lake 8! ed 38 Wabash. 72), 80 Northwe: 68% 23 Northwestern 926 doz Rock Island 108 118 it. Paul. 66% 65 St. a ++ 80%g 88 Ohio and Mississippi. 46'4, 55 Union Pacific, 30 ay Oy, O. AMDT. Crs eeerecceresccens 20% 42 Western Union Telegraph..... 703% $214 Pacific Mail. sreescvcccccecs GONG 10314 THE BANKS NOW AND A YEAR AGO. A comparison of the closing bank statements of each of the years 1871 and 1872 shows no impor- tant variations except in the item of specte, which is nearly eight millions lower, the consequence of the heavier specie export of the past twelvemonth. The loans are four millions greater, the deposits two millions less, the legal tenders @ miilion more and the circulation & million less than at the close of 1871, A year ago the banks held $8,006,400 in excess of the legal reserve. Their surplus is now reduced to $) },70—a further consequence of the specie export already referred to. The following are the two statements, side by side; Dec, 90, 1871. $270,534,000 1872, Dec, 28, ’ 2,400 25,049,500 241,800 28,542,800 27,043,000 Deposita,... 200,400,800 198,529,600 Legal tender: 41,119, EUROPEAN MARKETS, Panis Bounse.—Pants, Jan, 1.—Rentes. 53f. 20e. Livenvoot Breapsrurra Maxaxr.—Livanroor, Jan. 1.— Breadstuffs quiet. Livenroot. Provisions Marner. Pork, 62s. Liverroor, Jan. Bee, 97s. 6d. Por . 6d, — SS ee __. FINA NCTAL. TLANTIC SAVINGS BANK, A Chatham square and New Bowery. New Youn, Deo. 2% 1072, TWENTY-FOURTH DIVIDEN ‘An interest dividend at the rate of six (6) per cent p pum will be paid to all depositors entitled thereto on and after Monday, January ae Dividends not withdrawn will be added to the rincipal. * MONE DEPOSITED NOW WILL DRAW INTEREST AS FROM JANUARY 1. HARRISON HALL, President. R, Ses Yy J. P. Coornt cA A re ast —MONEY TO LOAN IN BROOKLYN, NEW YORK and Queens county, [. J.; also for the purchase of first ana second mortage: SAWARD & LEAVITT, 5¢ Wall streot, NITIZENS’ SAVINGS Lf cITy OF NEW Yor U , 4 e 0) i. 187}—JANUARY. INTEREST. : The twe fifth semi-annual interest at the rate of six per cB per annum on all sums ot $5 and up- wards, which have been on deposit for one or more | months ext previons to January 1, will be credited and miiary J | Bleakley, at 10 Neilson place, December 10, 187: | _ Nicholas W. Dor: thirty-eight years old, New York; stab wounds at the hands of John BE. Sim- | mons, in Liberty street, near Broadway, on the night | of the 16th of December, 1872, | John Dan, fifty-three years old, Germany; pyemia | | stab wounds by knife at the hands of Charies Cordes, | | during a quarrel in the saloon at 179 Duane street | | on the 26th of October, 1872. Died at No. 2 Lis- | penard street December 18, 1872. | Join O'Hara, about thirty-five years old, Ireland; fracture of skull by being struck on the head with a hatchet at his residence, No. 303 East Forty-sixth street, December 24, 1872, Jolin Fitzgibbons ar- rested to await inquest, RECATIDULATION, 137 | the 2lst of Jai led tor wili_ remain as princi- ordingly, and will be entered on the depositors’ books any time When presented atter ary. Hank is open every Gay for, the reception and paymentof money from 1A, M. to P.M., and on Mondays and Satunlays trom 10 A. M. to 7 P. Deposits made on or before January ¥ will draw interest from the Ist ol January, Bank books in German, French and Rnglish, k 53 Bowery, southwest corner of Canal st NTARD, President. Seymour A. Bunce, Secretary. {LEVENTH WARD BANK, NEW YORK, DEO. 2%, EK 1872.—Dividend.—The directors of this bank have this day pete a © i ge bye at thi per cent, free of al x, payable on and after the 2d. « of January next, # Gas’ E. BROWN, Cashier.” AST TENNESSEE, VIRGINTA AND GEORGIA RAIL road Coupons, due January b M7, will be paid on n Nat and after 2d proximo, by Gatlati VAST TENNESSEE AND GEORGIA RAILROAD COU- 4 pons, due January i, 1878. will be paid on and alter ad proximo, bv B. t. WILSON &CO,, 4 Broad street, ional Bank, } | | 872, 1871, 1870, | Infants found dead in the streets, Alleys rivers, Ac. Beess.secsc0s0 WBE 126 169 | oats nett Acerdental shootin, 31 731 | Effects ot | Drowning 179 167 | Suicide... 18 ie | Homicide 42 a | Abortion 2 = | Total wis 10 i ‘A PAUPER'S. DEATH, Rosanna Ferry, who lives at 202 Mott street, dis- covered the body of Mary Wire, who has becn for years in indigent circumstances, lying in the upper hallway of the above number. The night previous she had lodged with one Mary Sherman on the second floor of the same house, but whether 61 met her fate at the hands of some unknown party, or whether her dim lamp gently flickered out with the dying year, instill a mystery, {LORIDA BIGHT PER CENT STATE BONDS. Notice is hereby given Fei) on and after the Ist of Janu- ary, 1873, the undersigne ay. th ns maturing on that date on are yared to com ¢ Florida eb Be Y foxcept: | State bonds, numbered from 1 to 3,776 Inclusive (except ing Cy ope on bongs nqmbered 442 and 1,736, which ave been lost, unnegotiated). THE NEW YORK STATE LUAN AND TRUST CO., (Per F.N. ve onda line Bm State of Florida. New Yor, Deo. 30, 1872 YALVESTON, HOUSTON AND HENDERSON Ge foat or isi the coupons due RAIL. 1873, of id Hen. Janaary 1, veaton, Hous Rattle her bones over the stones, bhe'g aly # RaNHOr, WhgW )gholy OWDS me mortgage bonds Company of 1871 will be paid in gold by AMES & oon 4 Wall street, New vi ork. + W, PARWOK, Pieslde ny ree and a half | FINANCIAL, ‘OWES & MACY, BANK#R3, 0 WALL STREET, NEW York, offer thé samme (acilities to depositors as incor. rated banks, and allow interest on dailv balances at rate of four percent. Ovilec tons made on any polat at current rates, with immediate returas. Special atten- tion paid to chol Stocks, Bonds, ke. toe Investors. MzCHaNios: AND TRADERS) Sav No, 28 Bowery, near Houston sirest, INTEREST. A semi-annual dividend a8 INSTITU. be credited January Lon » six months and three able on and atter January 2), 1873. Interest not withdrawn will be credited as a deposit, ey deposiled now will draw iuterest (rom Jana- Open daily from 10 A.M. to 3P.M. an Mor and Wednestays trom it) 7. Liseeertine riers ALYRED T, CONKLIN, Preside: Bawny 0. Pistna, Secriaey. Lege tleaeenaere f ANHATTAN § x. i 4 ‘O14 AND bi » CORNER BLeKe New You, Dee. Forty-fourth § ‘The trustees of this insti fourth semi-annual div per annum, oi alt sine for three of six months able on and artex the third Mons c Alldividends not withdrawn will receive ¢ a8 a deposit, mameuscearee as FE, J, BROWN ,—The interest maturin: January 1, 1873, 1) Bonds of the Noetotk a Petersburg, South: inja and Tennessee Rail- roads, payable will be pail (less the State of Virginia tax) at the ing Hose of Mesers, Duncan, Sherman & Uo., New ¥: signed, CULEBERT, Treaarer. RS TO one hs ni Atte No z fet run met pal ar tite For sale b; GWYN ie BDAY. 16 Wall str 4 (PER OF TIE CANADA SOUTHERN RAILWAY AY, Company, 13 Willlam street, New York, Dec, 24, ‘The semi-annual Interest maturing January 1, 1873, on t ¢ honds of the Canidae Southern Rali- way Company will be paid ov and afer the 2d prox, at the Union Trust Company of New York, 73.troadwuy- M. OOUBTES aut, ‘AL SAVINGS BANK, 436 Grand sireet. TPHE ORIGNTAL SAVINGS BANE, 430 Grand street. Interest at the rate ol six per cent per annum ts this day due on all sims of five dollars or more which have been on depo: months since July 1. Amounts of int nt any lime after the 21st in Je eredit ed to individual ac Jaxvany 1, 1873. date, rv, YO 20 PER CENT INV Stocks and Bonds at the current market rates, For saie ALBERT NICOLAY & CO., Pe ‘ert, New York, N, B.~Jnvestment Seeuritic s. i ? a specialiy tor 21 ye $50.000. mA per cent RAILROAD FIRST ona payabic in Now York, bonds at $95; Ate tAXES; aye $6,000 per mile, and has bee lor twenty years “Apply to Ut }, Va, dend payin 5 BRANCH Richmond COPARTNERSHIES. , OTTO WITTE HAS THIS DAY BECOME A ember of our firu be continued ofore. GE A Wall street w Yor, Jan. 1, 1873. NTS IN CHOICE SBURG a ati MAL mort Yr ion. hind strect, YLOMON GANS, Purvavenrina, Dec. 31, 157. NOTICE OF © P The undersigned have thiv day ed @ eopartner: | ship for the transaction of the Wholesale Clothing Busi. ‘orth Third street, in the eity ot Philadeiphia, 1 Co, janie and style of Gans Prtnar Joseph ea etadam uiterest sn ont firny from, tii = has in interes bts intraday GANS, ARNOLD & CO. date 3 Pureaneventa, Jan. 1, 1 , Mr. TH. Goss retires to-day from our firm. Mr. John Henry lor, of Hamburg, has transtes rd his interest in our houses to is flem, Messrs, Jot Ber berg, Gosster & Co., of Hamburg, ‘Tho business will he carried on in tutu Messrs, John Berenberg, Gossler & Co,, of Hambu Ir. Thomas M. Devens, of Heston, a of New York, who is ad. Mr, T. Henry Gowler zed io sign our firm by GOBSLER & CO. Jan, 1, 1873, rocuration. Boston anp New York, EW YORK, DEC. 31, 1872. Dissonvtiox.—The' copartnership heretotore exist ing between the undersi under the tirm name of | Arthur & Co., expires this day by limitation, The out- standing business of the firm wili be liquidated hy. K, Covert. € RTHUT K, COVER) Coranrnersnir.—Referring to the above notice the un- dersigned peepectfally announces that he has this day as sociated with himselt in business his son, James W. Arthur, with whom he will continue t!@ i GENERAL STATIONERY BUSINESS in a}! its branches under the old tirin name WM. H, ARTHUR & CO, New Yous, Jan. 1, 1873. WM. H. ARTHUR. NUARY ARTNERSHIP ” partner of the ndery, whieh for 1, criber, the sen! w York Book is passed under the name of FE. the last two vears Walker's Sons, retires this day from the said establish ment All claims against the Now York Book Bindery, up to January 1, 1873, will be settlud hy EDWARD WAL. E Dey sirect. . 1, 1873. med, having this @ay purchased the TH. McGowan, his copartner inthe firm Co., will continue business as a wholesale liquor dealer, at'o7 Warren.sireet, in this city, CHRISTIAN A. NICOLAI. JOSEPH SULZBACHER TAS THIS 3, 1873. LANGENBACH & CO, VFICE OF G, G. HAVEN & CO.,17 WALL STREET New York, January 1, 1473.—-Mr; Herman ®. LoRoy becomes a partner in our firm from date. Very respect lly. , Ed GG. HAVEN & UO. OPECE OF BABCoCE BROTHERS & CO York, Jannary 1, 1 Mr. Henry D. Bai become a partner In onr frmand in thatof B. F. Bab: | cock & Co., Liverpool, BABCOCK BROTHERS & CO, HE BUSINESS RERETOPORE CONDUCT! the firm of N. L. Ely & Ramsay will be tinued after the Ist inst. by the undersigned, in & Kamegay. re! New Yon, Jan. 1, 1873. 14 BROAD STREET, NEW YORK, JA) 5 1873,—We have oo day formed a under the firm name of Charles Martin transaction of business as stock brokers. for the MARTIN, NOKE, & 8 t Meeting of the New Board of Inspectors— Changes in the Prisen Management, The new Board of State Prison Inspectors met at Sing Sing prison yesterday, and organized by electing Inspector Scheu President for the ensuing year, Asa majority of the Board is now repubii- can the old privon oMcials had everything in readi- j ness to give place to their fortunate suc- | cessors. The resignation of Mr. Henry | 0. Nelson, late Agent and Warden, was received and accepted, as. was also that of Mr. C. C. Childs, Jr., who has oceupied the position of Clerk for some years past. To fill these vacancies the inspectors appointed Mr. Gaylord 8, Hubbell, of Sing Sing, Agent and Warden, and Mr. George B. Gifford, of New York, Clerk of the prison, The | appointees subsequently fled the necessary bonds, and at once entered upon the «duties of their respective offices, In the = appoint. ; ment of Mr. Hubbell the Inspectors have | made an eminently judicious —_selec | as that official brings to his aid the experience gained during two years while filing the same position at the prison tormeriy, He has also beeu | a close observer of prison management both here | and in Europe. There were no other appointments de yesterday, but as it is well known that nearly | all of the oMcials who have held posittens under the democratic régime will have to find employ- ment elsewhere, the number of applicants for place which hovered around the prison was truly amazing. | A NEWARK MYSTERY. About eight o'clock yesterday morning a man | named Charles Beckham was found dying in a back | room of a saloon in Bank street, Newark, formerly kept by Mike Gauloy, and now conducted by Arthur mbers, the light weight champion prize fighter. Beckham died shortly aiterwards, and, it having been stated that he had met witn foul play during | a fracas in the place on New Year's Eve, the | Conaty Physician ordered Coroner Vreeland (to hold-an inquest, which will be commenced this + morning. detective made an investigation of | the matter yeaterday, but feels warranted in say- hat deceased died from the effects of # jail found on his ng sustained last week, Bruises were body. poate | THE WILLIAMSBURG SCISSORS’ GRINDER'S HOMIGIDE. Coroner Whitehill and jury have at last reached | a verdict in the case of Henry Sexier, a New York } scissors’ grinder, who was fatally injured in a | drunken brawl at the residence 22 Cuok street, Willlamsburg, on the bs of the 28d nit. Full | parti 8 of the fatal a ay were published in the HERALD at the time. ‘fhe following is the ver- | dict :—''We find that Henry Seigler came to hia death from the result of a wound in the forearm from ® Weapon in the hands of Edward Weir, and that Jahn Welk Waa am accessory belore the aot