The New York Herald Newspaper, June 22, 1873, Page 13

4 “THE WARD'S ISLAND QUESTION, SS aa Jave Christians the Right to Worship Aceord- ing to Their Own Forms of Faith? (HE CATHOLIC EMIGRANTS’ CHAPEL. Beasons Why It Should Be Maintained—It Was Contemplated by the Laws and Sanctioned by Custom. A Legal View of the Whole Matter. Correspondence Between Richard G'Gor- man and Ex-Judge Porter. The following highly interesting correspondence concerning the rights of various creeds to their places and jorms of worship at the Emigrant De- pot on Ward's Island is self explanatory, and will oe found thoroughly aualytical aad of deep inter- est to all who feel concerned in the sudject:— To Tak Epitor OF THE HERALD:— As the subject of tue new Catholic chapel on Wara’s Island has received much attention re- cently in the columns of your paper, I wish to cor- reot some misapprebensions which seem to exist on the subject. : Enclosed 1s a correspondence between the Hon, Richard U’Gorman, President of the late Board of Emigrant Commissioners, and the Hon. Joba K, Porter, giving the iegal aspects of the case, to- gether with an extract irom the last annual report of the Board, showing that ali the eng pemtent without distinction of creed or party, acquiesce in the establishment and continuance of separate Catholic and Protestant chapels. In £0 do- ing they* only perpetuated the precedent which for twenty years has been followed by every Board of Commissioners, and the wisdom and propriety of which have been guaranteed by the concurrence of such men as Gulian ©, Ver- lanck, Robert B. Minturn, Cyrus Curtiss, Edwin , Morgan, John A. Kennedy, Frederick S, Winston, 4 A. Low end Wilson G, Hunt. Perinit me to say that not to give the Catholic inmates o:; Wara’s Island a separate place of wor: ship is practically to deny them any, since their creed forbids them to commune in any religious matter with those of another faith. “When the room formerly provided fur a Catholic chapel be- came unsate and insufficient, and no other room couid be spared for tie purpose in the buildings of the establishment, a resolution was olfered to erect a Cathclic chapel, and upon those facts the resolue tion was passed. In a sitailar emergency I would. advocate the building o1 a Protestant chapel ora synagogue, be- cause 1 believe in the fullest sort o1 religious toleration, though not of the kina which seeks to vindicate itself by violatgng the convictions of its beigubors. THE QUESTION PROPOSED to the ola Commission was just this, The Protestant tumates of the island were already provided with @ suitable and adequate chapel. ‘The Catholics had either to go without one or have one bull for them, Those Commiss:oners who thought with me bedeved At to be their auty to build a Catholic chapel, as in the reveise case they would, with equal alacrity, have buut a Protestant chapel. It should not be forgotten either, tnat these emigrants, Catholic or Protestant, have been used to separate houses of retizious worship. Except where the civil law interferes with tho free exercise of religion the Catnoiic especially has worshipped all his life in edifices solemut dedicatetl and exclusively devoted to his owa fait and open to no other, and finding so universal a rule apparently disregar‘ed in this cotntry, would lead him to suppose religion tn America @ looser creed and tend to render him inaiderent to lis faith. The same is measurably true as to the Protestant emigrant also; and I cannot consider indifferent- ism in any form a result to be desired by gvod citi- tens, whatever their religion. As to the legality of the Commissioners’ action the correspondence speaks for itself:— To Hon. Jonn K, Porter :— My Deax Siz—Will you kindly give me your opinion and advice on the following subject, which “has troubled my mind a good deal ot laic A question has been raised by the Commissioners ot Emigration whether they have ay power or authority to use the tund entrusted to them in the erection of a Church tor the vse of the Roman Catholic inmates of their institutions at Ward's Island. For the consideration of the subject the foliowing state- ment is necessary :-— The Commission was created by a law of the State of Now York, passed 5th May, 1347, and though some of the fetails of that act have been altered by subsequent mendments, it remains in principle the same. (Laws 347, chap. 195.) For each alien passenger landed in this port the owner or consignee of the ship in whieh he ar- ives pays to the Commission $1 50, witich is called “head money.” This constitutes the tund which the Commis- sion administors, and no contribution hi made thereto irom any State or county fund. ‘The duty of the Commissioners is to provide for the “maintenance and support of emigrants,” when they are in need of support, until the expiration of five years alter their arrival (Chap. 195, Laws 1817, sec. 4)" For these Purposes LARGE AND EXTENSIVE POWERS are conferred on the Commission. They may employ such ollicers aud agents as they deem necessary, buy real estate and crect any buildirg they may deem necessary, purchase or loase docks, examine witnesses under oailt fis to trauds, Sc. on emigrants, compel support of bas. tarda, (ake charge of certain’ eflects of deceased emt. grants, Kc. ; designate places ior aale of railroad ticke fo cmigrants, & ind out emigrant children to service, dc. In acccrdanice, with those powers they have pur- P Chased 120 ‘acres of land on Ward's island and erected thereon valuable buildings, hospitals, schoolrooms, dwellings for physicians, &¢ Among’ the rest, th Comunis. toners many yenrs ‘ago provided two lar Apartments for the “purpose of public worship— one for the Catholic, the other fur the Protestant inmates Of the island, and these apartments have been each suit. ably titted up and furnished tor public worship, As eurly a3 1807 a Jegal provision was made for t of Catholic and Protestant ministers, a ment to them of suitable salaries, (Chap. 516, ‘A PROTESTANT MINISTER AND 4 CATHOLIC PRIEST are now, and have been for twenty ene residing on Ward's island, and have regularly eclebrated public wor- ship in the said rooms appropria‘ed for that purpose. The room used for Protestant worship 18 xuituole, con venient and sufficient, being on the second floor ot the building and easy of access, ‘The room applied to Catholic, worship, however, is on the fourth story of a large buil ling used partly tor hospi- taLand partly for school purposes, and was formed some years ago by adding a Mansard roof to that building. The Aocess to it is dificult and dangerous, being by a narrow and tortuous wooden staircase, and the ascent exceed. ingly Inconvenient to aged and sick persons. The averago number who attend services therein on Sunday is about four hundred, and that number is increasing. Kecenily an examination of the building was had by a cowpetent architect, and he reported it unsufe, and the Soor used tor public worship as liable to break down. Tnpressed by this danger, (he committee of the Board aving special charge of the institution on Ward's sland resolved that a duilding should be erected suitable for Roman Catholic worship, having regard to the num- ber of persons. needing the use of it, and that the room heretofore occupied tor Roman Catholic worship, and which was dangerous and unsuitable for that purpose, should be used as ® echoolroom, for which use it was adequate. Tu pursuance of this decision, A SEPARATE BUILDING HAS BEEN xRECTED yp asa Roman Catholic church, and the room iy, used tor that purpose has been recently turned ‘over to the use of the school. Inthe annual reports made from time to time by the Commissioners of Emigration to the Legislature of the State in obedience to aw, and which must state in detall the sum of each appropriation and the purposes for which the same have been made (chap, 244, Laws of 1353, sec. 3), the Legislaturo has been iniormed’ that suitable apart: ments tor public worship were provided according the Catholic and Protestant forme. in the report of Amos Pilsbury, Superintendent at Ward 5 Island, which torms part of the aagual report of the Commissioners of Emigcation (o the Legislature of the year 130; be tound the iollowing passage (p. 319) :— “The moral and religious instruction of the igmates has beon confided by vous Board to two chaplains—Rev. Thomas Cook (Protestant) and Kev. A. Manahan (Catho- OF ces haye been held on each sunday in the two chape's, and in the Protestant chapel in both the Eng- lish and German languay ‘the attendance has been large and constant. The chaplains have also visi various wards and other 7 rtments of the inst! Sunday and other days of the week, distributing book CHEERING AND CONSOLING THX SICK and dying, by their advice and ministrations, The Prot- estant cnildren, trom forty to sixty, are collected twi on every Sunday in the chapel, as a Sunday school, under the charge and instruction of the matron (Mra. James) wid Mr. Malignon, who, though not now con: nected with the’ Island, has kindly continued to mstruct the German children in reading, amging, 4c. The Caiho- He children, nambering from ohe hundred to one hun- dred and fifty (able te attend), are assembled in the Uathollc chapel every Sunday morning, under the c: and instruction of the assistant matron (Mrs. Brown) a others. Several of the nitraes have also rendered valu. able assistance in conducting the Sabbath schoo!s, The Babbath on the island the past year has been ot: day of quiet and order—emptiatically a ay of re In The report ot the Board tor the year 157! das was relorred to thu renovated during the 5 accommodation to mmates of that religious belies, but the ic chapel has prove: re to erect a large wever, & member or th hether the legat powe ction of @ church Jor the ase of jomina- ristians, and upon that question T want your vice. If the action of the present Commission in expending a art of the funds in their charge on the erection of # hurch necessary for the separate worship of one con- FrteMion be mira vires, so al-o, has been the action of the joard tor many years past in expending the find for aliorations and additions to the apartments which they iso provided tor separate worship. The principle in each case is the same. Will youdo Me the favor to give the matter your consideration? Thave the onor to be President of the pre: ad. and am desirous that our action in the matte! In all respects justifiable and proper, I remain, my dear air, yours taithiully, HOHAKD O'GORMAN. Naw Youx, January 18, 1873, JUDGE ronTER’s ni A Hon, Rictann O'Gonway, President ofthe Board of Com: isstoners of Emigrati 'y Dean Sin—t hi tho series of statutes de- Board of in 1 the il have given to th stiona am the Consideration dive to thelr inter and impor. tance. Tn my judgment itis entirely clear that the i. ploners of tint ration acted ‘within the limits rite ower and in the discharge of their plain official duty In roviding and maintaining chapels for tho wse of tho migrants, ‘The fund administered by the ‘Board Is Hee trom the head money oxactod under State from the emigrants gene support of such of their n jed in your . age. hess, blind: other disability. The law cha the Vommissioners with the trust of applying the fuad in the appropriate modes to the just and beneficent pur- poses for which it was designed. issuch asto render the fund thus provided abundantly sufficient, and the Betenciarte of the trust are entitled t to ats bekedts in the domicile assigned to them. b; Ty ovities. In a Christian country the right of ce and support, with the provi«don of adequate can hat purpose, Jingles @ ht to the customary rivilezes of re! us Wor! PNG one can fora, moment ‘suppose that the State of New York would tolerate the exotusion from such privi- consisting mainly of unprotected children of persons cntvebled by sickness and age. It would be difficutt to present # stronger claim to the religious training so necdtul to the young, or beneficent ministra- ¢ the infirm, the distressed and the destitute. The emigrants, trom whom the fund is 6: acted, are chiedy trom Europe, and they commonly ai here fo the form of religious taith im which they were ed- ucated at home. As a large proportion of them are from Catholic coun- tries the Commissioners, at an carly peri s VERY PROPERLY PROTIDED TWO OUAPKLS for the accommodation of the emigrants, in one of whi the services were conducted by a Protcatani clergymat and In the other by a Catholic priest. The action of the Board was annually reported to. the Stare Legislature, ui the acquiescence and approval of thas body through & period of over twenty years 1urnishes the highest evt- dence of the propriety of the provision thits made tor sofemerants, The obligation imposed upon in the execution of trust is one 2! humanity; and a {Catholle, and ke are requ rT fun. the poor of ner Fase ‘are entivied 1oshare in the nefits It was designed to secure. There can be no question as to the authority of tho Commissioners to A MAINTAIN BOTH TUR CHAPELS, and the circumstances adverted to in your letter made it the plain Gury of the Board ,when ome oi them became fMciont unsale, to provide a suitable structure rt t would be matter of general regret ‘and Just reproach if the large body of cmigrants now domi ciled on the Isiand, or any considerable portion of them, were now to be deprived of the religious privileges which they have hitherto enjoyed, with the concurrence of all the public authorities aid wi:h tho general approval of he community. er, incere! our: Naw Voux, January 21873,” "JOHN K, PORTER, Three weeks atter this correspondence, with the whole subject thus tuily before them, the lave Beard in February, 1873, reported to the Legisla- ture on this matter in the following specific para- graphs (Annual Keport tor 1872, pp. 10 and 11) :— The chapel referred to in the last annual report was completed lust weccmber and is now in use. | The erec- tion of Unis bulluing 1s due to the tact that the room formerly occupied for the use of @ Catholic chapel was found 10 be unsate and ill adapted for the purpo besides being inaccessibl to aged or infirm person ‘This room had been obiained betore the present Comm: sioners came in.o office, by adding a Mansard rooi to the top of the three story irdme structure erected in_ 1549, and known as the’ Nursery Building, The Commis- sioners, being apprehensive of some calamity resulting either irom the giving way of the floor or stairway or from fire have substituicd auiother aud more commodious, aswell as sater, building tor thi . This new building, while being a substan’ is built 10 the ptaimest style and most economical manaer. Protestant chapel, which is on the second floor of one ot ‘o story brick buildings, is also fitted up for that purpose, and” has heretofore furnished. ample ac- commcdation for persons of that religious belief. This report was approved, signed and sworn to by the following named gentiemen, as Commission- ers of Emigration, constituting the full Board, with the exception of Mr. Henry L. Hoguet, then absent in Europe :—Kichard O'Gorman, E. B. Hart, James B. Nicuoison, Willy Wallach, Alexander Frear, Andreas Willmann, George J. Forrest, Sam- uel S. Poweil, Mayor of Brooklyn; James Lynch, President of the ish Emigrant Society of the city o! New York, and Sigismund Kaufman, President of the German Society o! the city of New York. THE POLICY THUS SANCTIONED has been the policy of the Commission for twenty yeurs, ‘That its own records show. ‘Ihe very para- graph above cited reiors to the chapel, as @ matter which had been considered at a previous time, and by this report the policy of separate chapels re- ceived auew the deliberate and unanimous en- dorsement of the whole Board and of every mem- ber of that Board who remains @ member of the present one, Fromm this policy it 18 now proposed to depart, If, with all these facts before tt, the Commission choose to take (bis new departure, of course it has the power; but what I wish to make clear is that it will be perpetuating 4 grave tnnovation on an established and successiul policy, approved by the best men of New York and cemented by the ox- perience of its wuole corpurate lifetline, Iam, very truly, yours, JAMES LYNCH, President of the irish Emigrant Society and Com- missioner o! Emigration ex officio, New York, June 21, 1873, LITERARY CHIT-CHAT. Mr. RicHaRp Proctor, author of “Other Worlds than Ours’ and other popular scientific books, and Secretary of the London Astronomical society, will lecture in the United States trom October to February next, A New Story by Anthony Trollope will be com- menced in the London Graphic on July 5, entitied, “Phineas Redux.” In Ivaty there are now published 1,120 journals and periodicals, of which 1,098 appear In Italian, fourteen in French, 8ix in Buglish and two in Ger- man THe Discoveries OF DR. LeiTNeR in Central Asia are proving still more important than at first announced. In a list of Leitner’s forthcoming pub- lications eleven languages of a heretofore terra tn- cognita are accounted tor, and maps and photo- graphs of the countries and men whose histories and language Dr. Leitner has introduced to the world of letters are given. The countries between Kashmir and Badakshan are treated of in his last publication, which gives us @ translation of tne songs and legends of the races of Dardistan. HvGo von Mont, a learned German, who wrote more than ninety papers on vegetable anatomy and physiology, died at the University of Tibingen on the 1st of April. Mr. Morsarty, barrister, is preparing for publi- cation an account of a Spanish claimant's cause that has becn progressing in Spain concurrently with the notorious Tichborne suits, After all that has been said of the dilatoriness and cost of the proceedings in the English claimant's case it may prove interesting to see how the Spanish law deals witn a somewhat similar affair. A History or Dramatic Music in France, by M. | Choquet, has been published by Didot, of Paris. Mx. Pree’s forthcoming “History of Crime in England” will show that theft, forgery, poisoning and violence have steadily diminished with the progress of civilization. to a widely disseminated belief. 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Sharkey, who was charged with shooting Robert Dunn, at “The Place," @ liquor saloon in Hud-on street, on the Ist of last September, which was commenced on Mon lay, in the General Sessions, was brought to a close yes- terday. At an carly hour tu the morning the court room was thronged by the friends of the respective parties, who watched with latense interest the termination of a case which has created a great dval o! feeling among the pothouse politicians and gamblers of the city. The sum- ming up speeches having been made last evening, all that remained was ior His Honor Recorder Hackett to deliver his charge upon the law and the evidence. His Honor first read a number of legal propositions submitted by the counsel, must of which he charged ag requested. He then delivered the following interesting charge:— GENTLEMEN—This case now about to be Bub- mitted to you, aside irom 1ts importance to tie community’ and the accused and involving as it does the consideration of an alleged grave crime, presents to my mind but few considerations, and, perhaps, a fcoce one tor your deliberation, which, being resclved by you, will dispose of the charge. ‘The prisoner stands charged with the commission of a homicite, of murder in the first degree, in having, as is alleged, takep the lite of Robert Dunn, on the Ist day of September, 1872, at the city of New York, by shooting him with a pistol loaded with powder and Lall, and with the premeditated design to eflect his death, and o which shooting the said Dunn die That the deceased came to his death by tae physi- cal act charged im the indictment is not contro. verted, but is admitted by the counsel for the ac- cused.’ It is the legal quality of that physical act your verdict will and shouid determine, First, the prosecution claim that sueh act possesses the qual- ity of murdes in the highest degree. The prisoner denies that his act was murder in either degree or criminal in any respect, but claims that his act was | unintentional—was accidental, If you find that | Robert Dunn, named im the indictient, be dead, and died in consequence of a pistol shot fired by | the hand of the ;.risoner, then your inquiries will be, ishe amenable to legal punishment for that act, and it amenable, what is the legal character of his act of killing. If you do not determine to acquit him, then what crime can you, by your verdict, convict him of? ‘The Court is to instrinct you relative to the offence of which you can convict of, but you alone judge of wnat he ought to be convicted alter arriving at the conclusion that he should not be acquitted. Before considering the quality of the act of the prisover in causing Dunao's death you should con- sider the question of reasonable and rational doubt, Ifyou entertain any such doubt as to the killing you should acquit. ou have no such doubt as to the killing, and no doubt as to the kill- ing being criminal, then you may exercise any such doubt upon any one of the degrees of homicide, Every fact needful for the conclusion of guilt sought to be established by the prosecution must have been proved by competent evidence beyond a reasonable doubt; all the facts must be consistent with each other and with’ the main facts sought to be proved, and the Circumstances taken together must be of a con- clusive nature, and leading on the whole to a sat- isfactory conclusion, and producing in effect a rea- sonable and moral certainty of the guilt of the gore in any degree. I begin by giving you the legal view most favorable to the prisoner. Ican- not, in view even of the facts admitted or proved by the detence, perceive how you can wholly ac- quit the prisoner, yet this opinion should not have any weight with zou, and you have the physical right to acquit. The fact tlie the prisoner carried @ pistol was not an ilegalact., Pistol carrying is a a matter of taste—a precaution of which cach man must judge and be ready to take the consequences, of, if his carrying aids the development of any illegal But if you believe he pointed a loaded pistol at the deceased, or flourished it in immediate rartotty to the deceased, although not intending to harm the deceased in the slightest degree, and the pistol was discharged and killed Dunn, then you may de- termine whether or not such killing, considered in not whee ao in the fourth degree under the folowing statute, which I now read :— The involuntary killing of another. by any weapon or by means neither cruel nor unusual in the heat ot pas- fon in ai sother than such ag ure herein declared to be excus: homicide shall be deemed manslaughter in the fourth degree. Every other Killing of a huinan being by the act, pro- urement or culpable negligence of another where auch Killing Is not justifiable or excusable, or is not declared in this chapter under or in tho title manslaughter of some other degree, shall be deemed manslaughter in the fourth degree. Or gentlemen, you may, considering the prison- er’s act by the light of every circumstance In this case, determine whether the whole evidence does or does not adapt itself to the following statute :— ther in the heat of pi witbout a th, by adanserous on, in any rein the killing ot ble or excusable, nother is hereim shall be deemed deciared jus manslaughter In the third degree. It is agreed, gentlemen, counsel, that you need not consider either the ; crimes of murder in the second degree or that of manslaughter in the second degree as definea by | our statutes, as the facts and circuinstances of this between respective case do not warrant their application. The prose- cution claim that the Killing of the deceased by the prisoner was murder in the first degree. lt is thus defined, “‘When perpetrated from a premedi- tated design to effect the death of the person kilied.” In considering this statute the main ques- tion is, “Did the prisoner kil deceased with a pre- meditated design to kill’’’ <A design to kill formed on the instant of killing or immediately precedin; the act causing the dedth is within the meaning o! this word “premeditation.” Some ‘premeditation lasts with some people through hours, days, months, and with some persons may be aa quick a3 thought acts. There need only be such premedita-" tion In the mind as is necessary to form the design, The premeditated design, however, must exist, and of this you are the judges. All that is necessary for the prosecution to show on the subject of premeditation is that there was a design jormed, and this a design to kill prior | to firing the fatal shot, The defence claim against | the idea of premeditated Mies that the pri and deceased, prior to the killing, were and been tor a long time previews thereto intimate friends; that their friendly relations had not been disturbed until the night of the shooting; that there was no motive whatevér to induce the prisoner to seek the opportunities to take the life Of the accused; that just as the prisoner was pro- tessing his old affection for the deceased, and with his pistol cocked, held in his right hand, and mov- | ing itup and down from his outstretched and bent | left arm, but pointed at the deceased, it went of accidentally and killed him; but that the prisoner immediately exclaimed “Bob, 1 did not mean to do it.’ The proaccution claim in favor of the theory of a premeditated design on the pars of the prisoner to take the life of the deceased, | that some little time prior to tne killing and upon | an occasion when the prisoner was present with several others, some one said to the prisoner, “Bob | Dunn will eat Rete up,” and that prisoner replied, “that he would take him home on achip.” But | for the subsequent circumstances which attended | the killing this tact would be and may now be to | fe minds utterly unimportant; but it is for you consider whether it has apy bearing upon the s uent conduct of the pris- oner towar« the deceased in shooting at and killing him. The prosecution, however, claim tl on the night of the killing the prisoner charged the decoased with owing him money, which the deceased denied, and charged the prisoner with having lied; that the prisoner immediately applied the foulest language that can be conceived, but which, I regret to say, is the vernacular with many people. It it was the language of hatred, and there had been previous great friendship between them, the pris- oner’s conduct was an illustration of the pres “No rage like love to hatred tirned.” The Ke- corder then reviewed the testimony in the case at great length, and said that the jury should Judge of the prisoner's intentions on the night of the shooting. The premeditated design, the Re- corder said, or its absence, is to bo gathered from the prisoner’s acts. Men San dissemble, and their acts seem to diverge from real intent; but generally men do What they intend, and intend what they do, Mo- tive can only be inferred from acts. You have heard the evidence about these acts and declara- tions of the prisoner in thesaioon, Were they the emanations of grudge, ill-feeling toward the pris- oner, intending to have full vent, or of spasmodic passion ¢ If consistent with friendship and spas- Miodic passion then they go far toward reducing the offence into the low degree of manslaughter. If, on the otner hand, of hostile feeling an age, amounting in your judgment to premeditated de- sign to kill, then those acts and declarations, in- tenstfied as they seem to be, go far toward sustain- ing the prosecution of murder, matter of the Intoxication I have charged, as Piet: by the prisoner's counsel, but at the same time I read to ou what the Court of Pad said in the earney case (31, N, Y, R., 330) s— offender Is capable o} Conceiving @ design ho will bo presumed. im the nbeence “versed in unrestrained terms after the court room | the court room to witness his departure irom it to | been badly treated on board ship, and that the ship stgentoney, qrcots, fonave intended the natural conse- What was his conditton ag to sobriety? * * * View the case, gentlemen, by the evidence; reject whatever has reached your hearing from any source other than from the mouths of the witnesses who have testifled beiore you. Do your duty as your consciences dictate under the evidence, and ‘Qs your oaths demand, Nothing can be more hor- rible than the perjury of a juror, whether tt be perjury to set example to the community or whether it be perjury to shield from consequences of crime. Such perjury on the part of jurors in either aspect may not be discovercd in this worid, but it will be known to the Almighty and ever-living God, whose name each of you invoked in the solemn words which conclude the oath that you have respectively taken as jurors in this case, “$0 help us God.’? The jury went out at a quarter to eleven, and at half-past eleven re-entered the court room. Tho foreman stated that oae of the jurors desired to look at the pistol to sce whether it fired off easily or not. Assistant District Attorney Russell said he had bo objection to the jury inspecting it, Judge Beach, however, objetted to the jury ex- amining the pistol, inasmuch as it had been handled good del since the occurrence, and its present condition was no evidence of how it was when it was exploded. The Recorder said that if the counsel objected he would not permit the pistot to be shown to the jury, They were instructed to retire for farther deliberation, Ata quarter past twelve they inti- mated to the oMicer in charge that they had agreea upon a verdict, and they were browght into Court. A messenger was immediately despatched for the Recorder, who was not in the building, and in the meantime a deathlike stillness pervaded the court room until the arrival of His Honor, Those who professed to be good physiognomists read in the countenances of the jury a verdict of guiity of mur. der, while some o1 the iriends of the accused 1 dulged the botiof that Sharkey would oaly be con. victed o1 one of the lower degrees of manslaughter, The Recorder arrived ut hall-past twelve o'cloc and the Clerk proceeded to call the jury. In re. sponre to the usual question as to whether tbey bad agreed upon a verdict the foreman aaid:— “GUILEY OF MURDER in the first degree, with a recommendation to to mercy.” The jury was polled at the request of counsel with the same result, Mr. Beach then made an eloquent appeal to the Court to request the jury to state upon what ground the recommendation was made, in order taat the accused might have the full benefit of it, His Honor said that it would be estavirshing a bad precedent and refused to accede to the counsel's request. Counsel then asked that sentence might be post- poned till Monday in order té afford him and his assoctate time to make a motion for a new trial upon the ground of Tec ection to ete The Recorder granted this motion and directed the prisoner to be remanded til! Monday morning. THE PRISONER. Sharkey did not manifest much more feeling upon the solemn decision of the jury than he ex- hibited during the trial, Sherif Brennan and his assistance took him in charge, with whom he con- was cleared. Animuie! se throng guthered around the Tombs, where, in all probabilty, he willexpiate his offence upon the galiows. There were only two or three urifling exceptions takeu while the trial bia rogressing, none of which will invalidate the verdict, THE COURTS. Adam Danner, who is charged with having caused a newsboy to personate one Karl Danner, a minor, for the purpose of enabling bim, as guardian of Karl, to draw a pension to which the latter, as orphan ofa soldier, was entitled, waived an ex- amination yesterday before Commissioner Shields. The accused was held to awalt the actiou of the Grand Jury. Yestorday Thoodore Stork, who had enlisted asa landsman in tue receiving ship Vermont, was dis- charged on habeas corpus, in the United States District Court, by Judge Blatchford, on the ground of minority. The parents of Stork agree to pay the expenses Incurred by the Navy Department on account of the enlistment. UNITED STATES COMMISSIONERS’ COURT. Deserters fromthe Brazilian War Ves- sel Nicktheroy. Complaint-was made by two officers of the Brazilian corvette Nicktheroy to United States Commissioner Osborn that seventeen sailors of that vessel had deserted, The Commissioner, after examining the treaty between this country and the Brazilian Empire, informed the officers that tt was their duty, in the first instance, to state the | circumstances of the case to the Brazilan Consul, who would make out a requtsition empowering the Commissioner to act in tue matter, The officers coe Me went before the Consul General, Mr, Louis H. F. D'Aguiar, 13 Broadway, who, upon their statement, forwarded a requisition to the Commissioner asking the arrest of the deserters, The Commissioner at ooce issned his warrant for that purpose, and yester- day morning Sabino Francisco de Piedende, Antonio Joaquim do Nascimento and fifteen others of the crew of the Nicktheroy, Who had been taken into custoay on the evening before by Deputies | Croly and Purvis, were marched down to the United States Courts. 1t appeared that the men had got twenty-four hours’ leave of absence, and after the expiration of that time they did not re- turn. They alleged, in their defence, that they had was dirty and full of vermin, fhe Commissioner told them that if they had any complaint to make it was their duty to have stated it to the Consul, and this they bad not aone. ‘Tho prisoners were then turneg over to the cus- tody of the Marshal, who will place them on board the'corvette when she is about tosall. It ts re. | orted that one of the midshipmen, who had got cave of absence, has been missing for several days, and fears are entertained respecting him. BROOKLYN COURTS. SUPREME COURT—SPECIAL TEAM * Alleged Contempt. Betore Judge Gilbert. Charles 8. Schleier and Thomas Wellwood have for some time past been engaged in litigationcon- cerning real estate speculations at Breslau, L. L Yesterday they were before Judge Gilbert on the occasion of @ motion to have Schieler punished for contempt in not obeying an injunction restraining him from selling any more lots at Breslau. sSchleter claimed that the injunction had been obtained by faise representations, Judge Gilbert re: ed his decision. CITY COURT—SPECIAL TERM. Insurance Companten’ Litigation. Before Judge Neilson, The Continental Insurance Company are making preparations to erect a large building at the cor- ner of Court and Montague street’, The land on which they intend to build ‘was sold by a Mr. How- land toa Dr. Smith, some twenty-five years ago, with the restriction that a space six feet wide on the southerly side should be left open for light and air, but that upon the payment of 500 damages it might be built upon, the money to be paid to the owners of the property adjoining. The Phenix Insurance Company own the awoining Beak and object to have the space built upon, altnough the Continental Company offers to pay the $1,500. The question is whether this space is of the same value now as it was considered to be | worth twenty-five years ago. The Phoenix Com- pany have obtained a temporary injunction, and the case will come up on the 30th inst, SURROGATE’S COUAT. Last Week's Bui a8. Before Surrogate Veeder. Willa admitted to probate:—Anna (. Bartling, George F. Butler, Mary 8, Delamater and James Waterson, all of the city of Brooklyn. Will rejected :—William Madden, also of the city of Brooklyn. In the will of Mary S, Delamater appear the fole lowing legacies :—$3,000 to the Protestant Orphan Asylum of the City of Brooklyn; $1,000 to the In- dustrial School Society, on Bergen street, of which Mrs. Jesse C. Smith is Firat Directre: $1,000 to the Society for the Ald of Friendless men and Chiidren, on Concord street. Letters of tration were granted on the | estates of the following named deceased persons, viz, :—Loutsa Oates, of Chattanooga, Tenn. ; Robert McGlone, Francis A, Montague, Samuel Howes, Harriet R. Belton, Washburn H, Higham, William Wehrle, William Pb, Dexter, John Jewell, John Hawkes and Albert G. Bunker, all of the city of Brooklyn. Letters of guatdinship of the person and estate of Mary Ames and Anne Ames were granted to Michael Am of Samuel Smith and Gustavus Smith to Catharine Smith; of Mary Emig and Annte Emig to Michael Emig, all of the city of Brooklyn. CONTAGIOUS DISEASES, The following is a comparative statement of con- tagious diseases for the two weeks ending June aim * Typhout, Searles, Meast Ff Typhua, Typ! fear abea. ia, pow. June Wk fal 6 » June 31,, 3 4 « o a | and close observation, that | properly and completely control them, short of NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JUNE 22, 1873—QUADRUPLE SHEET. THE JERSEY CELESTIALS. Captain Hervey Heart-Sick of His “Heathen Chinese.” His “Sad Experience, Mentally, and Financially.” eee Morally John Chinaman a Failure ass Lannaryman— The Sins of the Bolleville Batch of Ah Sins— Total Unreliability, Utter Depravity and Lack of Conscionce—Opium Smoking and Immorality—Beaver Falls Emulating Belleville—Visit to the Latter Place—Captain Hervey's Trip te the Faderland and Its Object, One Summer's night, three years ago, between dusk and dawa, a@ large gang of Chinamen, from seventy-five to a hundred in oumber, were secretly conducted from the railroad cars by an untfre- quented way to the Hudson county bank of the Passaic River, opposite Belleville, N. J., aud quietly quartered in the extensive laundry there of | Captain Hervey, Theretofore the Captain had | been depending chiefy for help on Irish girls, mostly fresh arrivals. These, it appears, made ex- cellent laborers, but some of them would get mar- ried after awhile, and, of course, shave the dust of | the laundry from their feet, while others insisted on Getting better wages than he felt disposed to give and, therefore, caused dissatisfaction, A strike of some sort among the girls started their employer on the idea of searching out a substitute that would give greater satisiaction. Jobn Chinaman was the substitute hit upoy. At that time the sub- Ject of a general introduction of Chinese laborers | into this country was being pretty thoroughly agi- | tated, It was thought that the Celestial sons of | toll could be held better tn hand and at a much lower rato of wages than the stal- wart sons of Ireland, Germany, England Scotland, Italy and other European countries, Hence a very bitter feeling was manifested among the laboring classes towards not only the China- men but those prominent in agitating the subject | and engaged in the practical solution of the Chinese labor question. And hence Captain Hervey found it prudent, in September, 1870, to introduce his first batch of Celestials, fresh from San Fran- cisco, under cover of night, when the Celtic and other sturdy European laborers were quietly enjoy- ing their rest. As an instance of THE BITTER PREJUDICE AGAINST THR CHINAMEN which then existed it is worth while, perhaps, to refer to the proceedings of an immense political mass meeting which was held in the open air in Beljaville the month after the advent of the Flow- ery-landers at tae laundry. It was a democratic gathering. There were torches, bands, fireworks, @ procession, and, of course, the usual display of stump demagoguery, One of the speakers nade @ violent attack Ou the introduction of the Chinese, who, he claimed, in the presence of the | HERALD _ representative, were to be the means of making millionnaires of the bosses, but who would surely crowd out every hard-fiste laborer of foreign birth who had a vote. He tried to rouse his rough and ready audience to suche pitch that, bad tc been 61 thé samme weak mental calibre ag was the speaker, poor Hervey's laundry might have been razed to oe and tae Ve- lestials massacred or put to Might. While some few excitable persons swallowed all the speaker sald, the majority, fortunately, kept cool and said, “Hould on a bit, Wait till we sve for oursels.” Public opinion proclaimed sensibly that John should have fair play and a fair trial, a8 weil as any other foreigner. And so Join has had a pretty fair, fal and ample trial, but with no soon results, of course, as those predicted by the demagogues of the stump three years ago. Evidence is beginning just now to accumulate tending strongly to prove that, all things taken into consideration, Ah Sin in reai life is the same Ab Sin whose siaile was 60 | very beautifully aescribed to be “child-like and bland.’ To come pinmp to the point, itis getting to be @ settled conclusion, based on expertencs JOHN OHINAMAN 13 A FAILURE, at least so far as his fulfilling satisfactorily the ex- pectations and fond bopes of his admirers a few years ago, A visit eae made to the laundry opposite Belleville by a Heap representative, } together with other facts and data, fully bears out | this view. The managers spoke freely on che sub- | ject of their experieuce with the Chinamen duriug the last three years. They had in the beginning 178 of the pigtalied gentry in their employ. This figure 1s now reduced to 120. Ad interim they have had to fill up gaps in tho ranks, caused by desertion, dereliction, &c. Captain Hervey's representative—a most intelligent gentleman, who spent along number of years among the Chinese on the Pacific coast, and who has been in the | laundry nearly ever since they were introdaced | there—said that the Captain had had ‘a very | sad experience” with the Celestials, “mentally, | morally and financially.” The Captaln tried, his | representative sald, to make it as pleasant as | possible for the new iaborers, -and to make them feel as comfortable as they could desire, but it was the old story of ‘dove's labor lost.!’ While there were & few good, — square-dealin; Chinamen im cach of | the batches they had had, the majority had de- ; veloped into lazy, good-tor-nothing iellows, entire strangers to personal honor even towards onc another, totally unscrupulous and utter unreliable, They were apt to learn, but soon learned how to make haste slowly and to sbirk work every poa- sible opportunity, TOY CONTRACT they entered tuto with the latindryman was to rnno three years, They were to receive $23 per month the first year and $26 the second and thir ae wens in gold, besides lodging, wood and water. They were to find themselves in food. This contract they broke without any hesitation. One batch had been working but a few days when they struck for more wages. John, it appears, bet! @ Celes- tial and considering himself a superior order of being to us of the Caucasian race, considers no contract with us binding. He had been but @ short time in the laundry when he fonnd out that he was no sl-ve, serf or apprentice, “Me bossee meselt,"’ said one of them; ‘Melican man no good; he no Josh—barbarian.” He soon developed, too, the vices of his own land as well | a3 this—smoking opium, drinking and visiting low Chinese dens of debauchery tn the metropolis, and plete | with cyprians of the very lowest Strata, n effort was made, it appears, by some of their country people to establish in Belle- ville a couple of these vile dens of indecency, bat | the moral people of the village were quick to spot them and prompt to squelch them, ere they had even blossomed in their iniquitous tratfc. “Gam- bling, too, has been one of John's beactting ains at Belleville, just as on the Pacific co: Brother Nve would be slow to deny, it bas required great watchingand scrutiny to p: vent them even in the laundry, not only alter but during working hours from indulging in both opium consuming and gambling. The great dim- culty was the inability of any person or persons to continually using force, CHARLIE MING, the. interpreter, who came as the chief man of the first natch, Is one of the tew of his tribe ‘who, | the laundry men 807, has bebaved like a man from beginoing to end. He had hia men under con- trol for a while at first, but soon they refused to | acknowledge him as having any authority over them. Charlie has continued with Captain Her- vey throughout. He is juite fotelligent and speaks English toleradly well. ast | August he visited China on an err He them by the 3d of August, but the Captain had by this time had so for the Captain to bring on 100 picked mea. got as far as San Francisco wit! 13 Sixty newly arrived Germana, out nad little bet! experience with them. As soon as they leara: the business they wanted more wages and struck. As business was dull they were not pressed @ stay; but the Captain has not given up the Ger- man idea, He has but recently retarnedé from & nine weeks’ trip to the Faderland, accom- peciea by Mr. Jolin Otto, of Newark, as interpretet. ‘he Captain's representative aaid that his trip wi only one of observation, to see What could be done with the German peasantry, and that nothing posl- five had yet been determined tn the matter. Meanwhile there are 130 Chinamen in his place an@ ball as many girls or so, Peace reigns in Belle WATERING PLACE NOTES, ——_—-—____ Burglars, thieves, pickpockets, gamblers, ahge | sters, genteel loafers and all the confraternity tha lave by their wits are preparing for the grand Sum- mer exodus, and will drop down ag all the fashion- able watering places. Look out for them, General Francis P. Blair, Jr., is recuperating very fast at Cli ton Springs, N. Y. His father, Francia P. Blair, Sr., and aged mother visited him last week, Plainfleld, N. J., is desirous of being considered @ Summer resort. It is easy of access and ia cer- tainly a very pretty place, There is a hotel at High Bridge, on the Harlem River, which is very pleasantly located, Tn some localities ladies wil! wear low shoes wit® white stockings spotted with red, in order that mosquito bites shall not show. Tho Methodist Sunday afternoon meetings ia Truro Park, Newport, commenced on Sunday last, A band has been engaged to assist in tho exercises, which some of the citizens object to. A large number of fashionable Philadelphiang, who have heretofore made Cape May their Summet resort, will this season visit Long Branch, The story about the closing up of the windows of the hotels at Niagara Falls that look upon the oat aract, in order that visitors may be forced to @® over on Goat Island to view the falls, is not true, Oceanic, on Shrewsbury River, in New Jersey, offers rare advantages for boating, fishing, bathing and driving, All those who contemplate visiting foreign lands will find Oceanic the place for pleas ure, Far Rockaway must not be forgotten, ated It is site. On old Long Istan4’s sea-girt shore, and for sea breeze and surf bathing cannot be sage passed. The hotels and private boarding houses around Big and Littie Peconic bays, Long Island, antioi- pate a lively season, Yonkers, on the Hudson, will receive a goodlg share of Summer boarders, Sharon Springs ts getting into favor, and, tt gald, will thia season enjoy a full share of Summer sojourners, The exorbitant prices for board have not yet reached this locality. . The Overlook Mountain House, in the Catskilly, is entirely shut out from the extreme heat of the Summer months. For cool nights and pleasaag® days the locality is unsurpassed, The Red Sulphur, the Healing, the Buffolo, the Alum and the Warm Springs of Virginia will all be well patronized this season by Southerners, Business men, whose duties require their datig presenee in the city, will find Staten Island a very pieasant slesping place. There are hotel accom. modations at New Dorp which will be found agree. able. Commodore Vanderbilt bas rooms ongaged a& Congress Hall, Saratoga. THE CUBAN STRUGGLE The Republic of Costa Rica Declares for “Cuba Libre’—Official Commuans= cation on the Sabject to the Colombiana Government—The Apathy of the Cabé met at Washington to the Cubana Struggle for Freedom, ‘The readers of the Henan will doubtless remem. ber that on the 26th of September, 1872, the United | States of Colombia, by the hands of its Secretary of State, Jil Colunje, sent out a circalar letter te the vartous Republics of South America, requeat- ing, ta the most powerful language, their co-opera- tion in the matter of bringing about the mdepead ence of Cuba, and its consequent riddance from the tyrannical rule of Spain, At this period it is mot necessary to recall the language sed in said letter further thag to give the following quotation, taken from the Presidential address of General Grant, under date of December, 1869, which is as follows:—‘The people of the United States sympathize with all oppressed people struggling for Uberty and tnde- pendence,”” The letter of the Colombian govera- ment has produced a most encouraging result for the struggling Cubans, and it is believed that ere long a conference of the diplomatic representatives of the various Soath American governments will be held at Washington, when steps will be taken to wards bringing about the autonomy of the “Ever faithful Isle of Cuba," COSTA RICA FALLS INTO LINE, The Republic of Costa Rica, after noting the eas thusiastic manner tn which her various sister Re- publics of South America have received the Co. lomblan proposition, hes now fallen into line, an@ joined in the brotherly reunion, as the following official reply from the Secretary of State, Lorcuse Montufar, clearly shows:— Daratexxt o tue Sxcnerany ov State, Sax Jon, Costa Rica, April 29, 1373, ceiuency—I have the honor to acknowledge the re celpt of your valued communication of the 5th inst., ale luding tothe circular presented to this depariment an@ to other South American udlics from the Colombiam government, asking for oi ‘ation in the matter oF . bringing about the {ndepend nd autonomy ot Cubs from the hands of Spain, The remarks made in the com- munication in aa jon have been di Bj lng by the overnment of usta ica, and they caunot but. aden the ideas of the Colombian government in this matter: deep American interest. This government fully recog. nizes the advanced and philanthropic views of your government AVPINITY WITH TIE CUBAN RACE. Before replying at length to the views enunciated la the circular in quostion this governmont would, state K as October 23, 1470, It sent out ciroulars its own to th erniments of Nicaragua, San Salvador end Honduras, in which was cnunciated the followiag Propositions :—''The cause of Caba is ilentical wit of all the Latin race in America, and ifs rights aro as sacred a4 our own.” "Its victories are as glorious to es asthe victories obtal ed in this Continent by Bolivar, THE CONFERENCE AT WASHINGTOS Lucre and San Marti The Colombian government proposes that all the gore ernmeuts of Hispano-America shall decide, by the me. dium of their representatives at Washington, a un action to demand of Spain the recognition of the Cubam autonomy. THE APATHY OF THY UNITED STATED, The Great Ropubdlic, whose sheres are simost in of the {sland of Cuba. ‘powerrul at sea, and sustaining Monroe doctrine, could, with @ stngle word, have cla: the existing state of tings in Cuba as with wor drove Maxioillan from his Mexican empire. But t] word on behali ot Cuba has not yet been spoken cither the White House or in the Conaress at Washington. Of restdont atter, and itis difficult for tha to belleve that they must y Ure Washing- not. iso dificult to believe that the Span! fovginment will ston to the friend fices of the Rep . hes in question, which, in days gon oF, were their niet for the sarrender to the Cubans of the “Com of thy Antilles." certainty important reasons must sway the oe tinted ‘Stal , a deep influence upou ihe minds of the Bispano-Amerts can Republica, and they thought—but erroneously—-that the days of tyranny an 5 operestisp ‘a one eae f ed lest republics of @ matter of such Nea uestion, whieh is of tne decpest im- anil that a new cra of things w: Cuba, Costa a ica, une of the sm Cy much trouble with the Chinese, together with dui- ness in business, that Charley was inatructed to find employment for his crew in the Golden City and neighborhood. He did so, the Captain being at the loss of the cost of transporting them from China thither, It has cost the Captain an average of | $70a head for transporting the Celestials to his place. He bas had to pay an Cgtrnorainiary price, his rep- resentative averred, for the imformation that Chinese labor {s neither cheap nor profitable. A very few of the Celegtials have kept steady ny sober and have saved up ali their earnings, bat the most of them have an entirely Cuferent story. While they have been exceedingly Laan 4 about their persons they bave been the reverse iu their habits and haunts, THE GRAND ROW OF LAST NOVEMGER. It appears the managers of the laundry at Belie- ville bave had tue same experience pretty much that their fellow employers of Cainese bad recently in Beaver Falls, Pa, A number of slight dis- turbances have broken out among themsely between the followers or worshippers of rivi Josses ; but the Oe 9 Outbreak occurred last November, and ¢ known as “the grand row.” Tho Chinam got into @ quarrel among themselv and commenced sharpentny tl Koives ‘80d were about to make havoo wit each other, When Hervey’s overseers spran; among them with loaded revolvers and warne them through interpreters that if any butchering was going on there would be somo sharp shooting also, The Chinamen slunk like whipped curs to their posta and the trouble was ended, The only place whet the Chinamen have been used to advantage, the laundry managers 1s at North Adams, Mass. There they are sai tnolsted and away from contact with large towns and also from demoralizing temptations, JOUN'S GRRMAN SUCCESSOR, For some time past the Captain has been casting @bout in search Of some improvement ou John as & laundryman, Last Summer he awoleyed some ren anal can theretore only express her res in tho matior, Ss PrOrORITION. The governrueut of Costa Kica Is wilting to associate self with toat of Colombia in di of the Span be carried oD ag. wart aud ight ot rent cir own guys! t and obtaining emancipation. W# government Wl wiso co-operate with Colombia fixing the amount of indematty which may be sugges: Asa possible solution to the niatter, Vurther than thi the government of Costa Miea desires the happiness Spanish government, through the inde. pendence of tl and of Cuba, and the glory be iid p i Americanrepublics, With @clings of the highest cateem } nave tha Bonoe to remain, y RENZO MONTUPAR, To His Excellency General Don Bownarenruns Conne ie Ministér of the 080. United States of Colombia, THS LITTORAL OF TOR CARIBDRAN SEA. | Costa Rica possesses Port Lunon, in the Caribbeam Sea, which cao now be usod for Wiberating expe ditions and other objects by the patriot Vovaga, and the whole iittoral of the Caribbean, from Yace tan, in Mexico, down to Venezuela, now las ports open to ships And expeditions employed on behatt Cuba Libre, — GENTRAL PABK METEOROLOGICAL DEPART- MENT. Abstract of Report for the Week Kading atl P. M,, June 21, 1873. Barometer—-Mean, 20,864 inches; maximum a nine A, Me, June 18, "20,0805 miuiinum at iour A. My 1e 29,072; range, 306, sUitermoneter—Moad, $0.8 degrees; MAximinMe o& five P. M, Jane 19, 92; minimum at Jour A, ML, Juss Me ciharks No rain this week. 1 an 7 " Distance travolled by the wind daring the week, 1,100 mules,